Chapter Summaries

Hun Wuji defeated the three elders and unleashed a black hole that drained the Seven Elders and threatened Lin Fengya’s forces. Lin Fengya discovered that his Devil Fruit was only half-filled, and Hun Wuji’s power swelled into a hellish cloud over the Tianyuan Mountains.

• Hun Wuji emerged after killing the three elders and summoned a black hole that nullified the Seven Elders’ attacks.
• Hun Wuji’s chains drained Elder Diao and then ensnared the Seven Elders, while Uncle Lin warned Lin Fengya that no news had come from the Emperor’s Palace.
• Lin Fengya revealed his Devil Fruit, but it cracked open to expose only a small amount of dark green liquid.
• Lin Fengya realized Gamma had tricked him by substituting a semi-ripened Devil Fruit for the fully ripened one.
• Hun Wuji attacked the three powerhouses atop the dragon corpses and then rose into the clouds, forming an immense evil cloud over the Tianyuan Mountains.

Xiao Yan fought Mekal, the Traveling Angel, as the two unleashed their powers across the firmament. After breaking free of Mekal’s Light Cage, Xiao Yan endured five Purifying Holy Swords without being pierced, while the Imperial Family leaders pledged to join the Endless Fire Domain if he won.

• Xiao Yan donned Demon Armor as Mekal formed a sacred Light Cage and summoned five Purifying Holy Swords.
• Mekal trapped Xiao Yan in the Light Cage and declared he would permanently suppress the demon.
• Xiao Yan shattered the cage with a surge of Demon Power, leaving Mekal shocked and angered.
• Mekal sent the five Purifying Holy Swords at Xiao Yan, who stood still and let them strike his armor without suffering injury.
• Lin Yunshu, Ji Xuan, Emperor, and the other leaders agreed that Tian Xing Continent and the vassalized Vast Sea Continent would join the Endless Fire Domain if Xiao Yan ended the battle.
• Emperor entrusted Tian Xing Continent to Qin Xin, and Lin Yunshu silently hoped Xiao Yan would win.

Xiao Yan entered the second layer of the Ancient Prison and discovered that the Gu Clan had been turned into a fiendish breeding ground by the Outer Realm Evil Clan and the Soul Hall. After learning that the Peerless Heavenly Emperor and the others were on the first layer, he resolved to enter its Asura Hell despite the danger.

• Xiao Yan searched the second layer for Gu Yuan and the others, then entered a passage leading deeper into the Ancient Prison.
• Xiao Yan found a vast hall where chains drained the life force of imprisoned people into a blood-filled jade vat.
• The Gu Clan Ninth Elder warned Xiao Yan about the energy barrier and asked him to save the Gu Clan.
• The Ninth Elder explained that a traitor and a scheme by the Soul Hall and Outer Realm Evil Clan had corrupted the Gu Clan, imprisoning over seventy percent of its experts.
• The Ninth Elder said the Peerless Heavenly Emperor and the others were on the first layer and warned Xiao Yan that it was an Asura Hell.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would enter the first layer regardless of the danger.

Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and the Peerless Heavenly Emperor entered the Gu Clan Holy Land, where they discovered signs of the clan’s ruin and learned that Xun Er was at the peak. As they climbed toward her, Xiao Yan awakened the Xiao Clan Mark, while a golden cocoon at the summit absorbed the power of the Holy Flame and Samsara.

• Xiao Yan and his group entered the Gu Clan Holy Land, protected by the lingering auras of the clan’s deceased seniors.
• Gu Yuan spotted a golden giant cocoon in an illusion, and the Peerless Heavenly Emperor recalled rumors linking the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to the Holy Flame.
• Xiao Yan sensed Xun Er’s faint aura at the peak and waited for the injured Snake-Scorpion Xue’er to awaken before questioning her.
• Snake-Scorpion Xue’er refused to reveal the Outer Realm Evil Clan’s numbers and claimed its king would destroy the Dou Yun Continent, so the Peerless Heavenly Emperor struck her down again.
• Xiao Yan and the Peerless Heavenly Emperor climbed toward the peak under the seniors’ growing coercion, and Xiao Yan’s Xiao Clan Mark shone as his bloodline surged.
• At the summit, a golden cocoon rested beneath a radiant sun and absorbed power identified as both the Holy Flame and Samsara.

Xiao Yan concealed his strength while winning six matches in the Eastern Continent Tournament’s first stage, earning a place among the top hundred. He met Mu Xiao of the Wood Pavilion, while Bing Ling of the Ice Soul Hall and a sinister, unidentified contestant also advanced.

• Xiao Yan battled a burly opponent, holding back as he tested and integrated his strength before forcing the man to concede.
• Mu Xiao warned Bing Ling not to underestimate Xiao Yan, while a sinister figure with an aura resembling the Outer Realm Evil Clan watched among the contestants.
• Xiao Yan defeated the burly man, and Duan Heng recorded his victory with a Crystal Ball.
• Mu Xiao approached Xiao Yan, introduced himself, and expressed interest in fighting him in a fair match.
• Xiao Yan won five more matches, giving him six victories and a place in the top hundred.
• Duan Heng announced that the top hundred would gather from the three war zones the next day, then escorted the five winners from the arena to the Rest Area.

Xiao Yan detonated Fire Lotus Seeds inside Martial City, devastating the city and injuring its leaders in retaliation for their attempt to blame him over Wu Huan. The survivors were left furious, while Xiao Yan suffered damage to his soul and watched the destruction from the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yan's Soul Clone exploded in the secret chamber, revealing dozens of Fire Lotus Seeds he had prepared before being captured.
• The Fire Lotus Seeds detonated in a chain, destroying the secret chamber and sending a pillar of flames high above Martial City.
• Xiao Yan watched the explosion from the Magical Beast Mountain Range, coughed up blood, and acknowledged that losing the Soul Clone had damaged his soul.
• Yue Yu, Yue Ru, the Third Elder, Bai Su, and Bai Ruo recognized Xiao Yan's Flame Force and discussed Martial City's losses and the approaching Xuan Tian San envoy.
• The blast left Martial City in ruins, killed Wu Huan, melted one of Muller's arms, and injured the Soul Steward, Mu Lei, and the Lord of Martial City.
• The Lord of Martial City glared into the distance and vowed that Xiao Yan would pay for killing his son.

After Xiao Yan cured Yue Yu’s Hidden Ailment, Yue Yu purged the family of corrupt elders and welcomed Xiao Yan’s request to enter seclusion. Yue Ru developed feelings for Xiao Yan and decided to pursue him as he began his breakthrough.

• Yue Yu teased Yue Ru for crying with relief, and she led Xiao Yan to a room where he slept after treating her father.
• Xiao Yan woke and found Yue Yu sentencing the Third Elder and his accomplice according to the clan rules.
• Xiao Yan told Yue Yu he had sensed a breakthrough and requested to use the family’s cultivation room, so Yue Yu sent Yue Ru to guide him there.
• Yue Ru said she would care for Xiao Yan’s exhausted companion while he cultivated, then asked whether the girl was his wife.
• Xiao Yan answered that the girl was probably his younger sister, and Yue Ru resolved to pursue him before ordering the family not to disturb his seclusion.

Xiao Yan prepared to help Qing Yuan absorb the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill by finding a Jadeite Stone Bed and attempting to configure the required Primordial Jade Liquid. His first attempt failed, leaving him to try again before Qing Yuan could take the pill.

• Xiao Yan carried the unconscious Qing Yuan downstream and found a Jadeite Stone Bed, which he inspected before laying her on it.
• The Golden Dragon King set up an energy barrier while Xiao Yan composed himself for the delicate task of making Primordial Jade Liquid.
• Xiao Yan refined the Earth Mother Stone and Blood Spirit Fruit, then combined their liquids with Earth Core Liquid in a jade bowl.
• The ingredients reacted and corroded one another, leaving mottled red liquid instead of the expected jade-green Primordial Jade Liquid.
• Xiao Yan recognized the mixture had failed as the icy silk covering Qing Yuan gradually melted, though she remained unconscious.

Xiao Yan and Yue Ru reached a supply station near the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where a green-haired girl offered a fortune for Xiao Yi. Xiao Yan refused to sell Xiao Yi and left the station as the girl decided to follow him.

• Xiao Yan stopped at a supply station with Yue Ru to buy provisions for Xiao Yi, who was disguised as a small beast using a Shapeshifting Pill.
• A green-haired girl approached Xiao Yan and offered five million gold coins and an Immortal-tier Dou Ji for Xiao Yi, but Xiao Yan refused.
• The girl’s Light Rune reacted intensely to Xiao Yi’s bloodline, and her ice-blue bird Xiao Han emerged and showed hostility toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi growled at Xiao Han, which caused the bird to retreat, and Xiao Yan warned the girl that Xiao Yi was priceless and would not be sold.
• Xiao Yan paid for his supplies and left, while the green-haired girl declared that she would follow him.

Xiao Yan struggled to refine a Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill as the Dragon Clan blood in its ingredients resisted fusion and weakened his soul power. The Golden Dragon King's roar suppressed the conflicting bloodline aura, allowing Xiao Yan to continue refining while Yue Yu and the elders watched hopefully.

• Xiao Yan added the Snow Cream Ganoderma medicinal power and blood-red liquid to the cauldron, but the Dragon Clan blood resisted and its dragon images attacked him, weakening his soul power.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan that only a direct method could overcome the bloodline conflict, then released a dragon roar.
• The roar made the dragon images and their pressure dissipate, and Xiao Yan resumed fusing the five medicinal ingredients in the cauldron.
• The Golden Dragon King returned to the ring, while Yue Yu mistook the roar for the call of a magical beast and said Xiao Yan’s attempt to refine an Emperor Grade Pill would be extraordinary.

Xiao Yan returned to the Yue Family after recovering from his recent battles and confirmed he would join Burning Incense Pavilion. When Xuan Tian San’s envoy arrived, he asked whether Xiao Yan was the youth who had gained great fortune in the relic.

• Yue Ru worried about Xiao Yan, and Yue Yu reassured her that Xiao Yan had survived Martial City’s pursuit and caused the explosion there.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Yue Family and told Yue Yu that he had caused the Martial City explosion as a warning and the destruction at the waterfall while testing a Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan chose Burning Incense Pavilion, and Yue Yu said its proximity to Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion would let Xiao Yan and Yue Ru look out for each other.
• Xiao Yan rested and cultivated until his soul power recovered to eighty or ninety percent.
• Xuan Tian San’s envoy arrived at the Yue Family, and the middle-aged man asked whether Xiao Yan was the youth who had obtained great fortune in the relic.

Mu Feng, Yue Ru, and Xiao Yan were evaluated among the fifth-grade talent newcomers, and the crowd questioned Yue Ru’s second-place ranking because of her apparent strength. The old man revealed that Yue Ru was an inheritor, leaving the square stunned.

• The old man announced Mu Feng as the third-ranked fifth-grade talent newcomer and explained that his aura had come to resemble that of a ghostly creature.
• Mu Feng returned to Xiao Yan and Yue Ru, while Song Cheng discussed rumors about the unusual top three with the other fifth-grade newcomers.
• The old man announced Yue Ru as second place, surprising Mu Feng and provoking jeers from the crowd over her apparent strength.
• The old man identified Yue Ru as an inheritor, shocking the people gathered in the square.

Xiao Yan stopped the wolfman's fangs from opening the coffin, then entered the secret chamber and investigated the strange Ghost Qi and black light pillar. After Golden Dragon King told him to insert the fangs into the coffin, a dragon roar sounded from the pillar and pulled them both inside.

• Xiao Yan intercepted the wolfman's fangs before they reached the coffin and stored them away.
• Yue Ru and Mu Feng woke up, found the passage Xiao Yan had taken, and went after him.
• Xiao Yan approached the coffin through a swarm of black wisps that corroded his battle qi, then used Spiritual Power to reveal that the wisps were guarding the coffin.
• Xiao Yan could not see through the black light pillar, while Golden Dragon King studied mysterious writing on the coffin.
• Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan to insert the fangs into the coffin, and a dragon roar from the black light pillar sucked them both inside.

King Xuan Ling learned that Zhu Jin had survived and ordered Solomon to target him while concealing his strength. At the Burning Incense Pavilion, Liu Ping and Mu Xuzi discussed the approaching sect tournament and Xiao Yan’s promise as Elder Zhu returned with him and two others.

• King Xuan Ling learned that Zhu Jin had survived and discussed the danger with Wen Zi.
• Wen Zi advised King Xuan Ling to shift blame to Solomon and focus on breaking through to the Dou Xian realm.
• King Xuan Ling ordered Solomon to encircle and kill Zhu Jin, claiming Zhu Jin had only just reached the nine-star Dou Di level.
• Elder Zhu took Xiao Yan and the other two toward the Xuan Ling Imperial Family through a spatial passage.
• Liu Ping stopped his daughter from leaving until after the internal sect competition, and Mu Xuzi agreed that members of the three halls could accompany her later.
• Mu Xuzi and Liu Ping discussed Xiao Yan catching Elder Zhu’s attention and watched the sky beyond the Burning Incense Pavilion.

Xiao Yan used Xiao Yi, a Fire Spirit, to refine the ingredients for a Shaping Pill during the Alchemist Association assessment. After refining the three ingredients separately, he struggled to fuse their incompatible liquids, and the chapter ended as he ordered them to be absorbed.

• Xiao Yan praised the assessment cauldron and summoned Xiao Yi to help heat it for the Shaping Pill.
• Yue Ru explained the nature and power of elemental spirits to the onlookers, while President Bai Su revealed that Xiao Yan possessed an Emperor Realm Soul.
• Yue Ru asked Bai Su to arrange a meeting with Xiao Yan after the assessment, and Bai Su agreed.
• Xiao Yan divided the cauldron's flames into three and refined the Earth Lotus, Blood Emperor Leaf, and Ice Snow Flame Fruit into separate pools of liquid.
• Xiao Yan tried to fuse the incompatible liquids, but their energy surged inside the cauldron; as the crowd feared an explosion, he shouted, "Absorb them for me!"

Xiao Yan pretended to give up the black Yin Yang Heart, then stole it while Su Xueying refined its white counterpart. After discovering the skeletons’ message about the Yin-Yang Twin Hearts, Xiao Yan realized the fortune required the union of yin and yang as power surged through his body.

• Su Xueying swallowed the white Yin Yang Heart and began refining it while Xiao Yan acted as if he would not interfere.
• Xiao Yan approached the stone coffin as a cover, then seized the black Yin Yang Heart from the throne skeleton.
• Su Xueying attacked Xiao Yan with green flames after realizing he had taken the bead, but Xiao Yan swallowed it and fled behind the skeleton.
• Xiao Yan spotted a glowing object on the throne skeleton’s spine and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan read that the two skeletons had become Yin-Yang Twin Hearts and that their fortune required the union of yin and yang, then felt power surging through his body.

Xiao Yan and Su Xueying discovered the Emperor’s essence blood merging with the Seven Star Dou Di’s skeleton, reviving it. The blood-red Emperor Skeleton confronted them and demanded they defeat it to live.

• Xiao Yan inspected the chamber and sensed danger near the Emperor’s skeleton, so he urged Su Xueying to retreat.
• Su Xueying threw a pebble toward the skeleton, and spatial spikes destroyed it when it struck an invisible barrier.
• The Emperor’s essence blood seeped into the skeleton, and traces of vitality returned to its body.
• Xiao Yan and Su Xueying prepared to face the skeleton as it rose amid bloody mist and approached them.
• The blood-red Emperor Skeleton told Xiao Yan and Su Xueying to defeat it to live, or lose and die.

After seven days of healing, Xiao Yan recovered and discussed his sudden increase in strength and the Soul Clan with the Golden Dragon King. The Golden Dragon King warned him to master his current power before advancing and revealed that the Soul Clan and Demon Clan might be plotting together; Xiao Yan then left the stone chamber to meet Qing Yuan.

• Xiao Yan healed with the Healing Spiritual Root and became more proficient at controlling his power.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan to master his peak Three-star Dou Di strength before pursuing further progress.
• The Golden Dragon King explained that the Dou Di Continent had eight great clans, including the Soul Clan, and that seven clans lived across from Xuan Ling Continent.
• Xiao Yan recounted the Soul Clan’s actions on the Dou Qi Continent, and the Golden Dragon King said the Soul Clan and Demon Clan seemed to be conspiring together.
• After seven days of treatment, Xiao Yan and the Golden Dragon King left the stone chamber to see what Qing Yuan was planning.

Xiao Yan learned that the Emperor Skeleton could serve as the foundation for a body capable of reviving Ancestor Xiao Xuan. The Golden Dragon King listed four required materials, leaving Xiao Yan with two already secured and two formidable ones still to obtain.

• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan that the Emperor Skeleton could form the foundation of a powerful body for Ancestor Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan wrapped the Emperor Skeleton in Milky White Flame and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan asked whether his Twenty-three Exotic Fires and First-grade Emperor Pill alchemy skills were enough to refine the body, and the Golden Dragon King warned that the materials were exceptionally rare.
• The Golden Dragon King named the four requirements: a Vitality Blood-Building Pill, the essence bloodline of an Emperor Grade Seven Magical Beast, the skeletal remains of a Dou Di expert, and the soul of the person to be revived.
• Xiao Yan realized he already had the Emperor Skeleton and Ancestor Xiao Xuan's soul imprint, while the pill and magical beast essence blood remained beyond his reach.

Xiao Yan tried to claim the Emperor's Vital Blood from the frozen skeleton, but learned that it was sentient and would respond only to Su Xueying. Su Xueying took the blood and offered to tell Xiao Yan about the Xiao Clan Pact in exchange, leaving their negotiation unresolved.

• Xiao Yan tried to break through the blood-mist ice to reach the vital blood, but Su Xueying explained that her Holy Flame's Ice Seal power affected everyone but her.
• Xiao Yan's hand passed through the vital blood, and the Golden Dragon King told him it was sentient and had created illusions to protect itself.
• Su Xueying reached for the vital blood, which settled into her palm and resonated with her.
• The Golden Dragon King urged Xiao Yan to give Su Xueying the blood and build a relationship with her for a future return to reclaim what was his.
• Su Xueying insisted she needed the Emperor's Vital Blood and offered to tell Xiao Yan about the Xiao Clan Pact as compensation.