Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his companions reached the ruin, where he killed a man who tried to attack them. Song Yue ordered the minor sect disciples away and led the super sect disciples through a passage to the sealed entrance.

• Xiao Yan’s group arrived at the ruin, where Xiu Qi explained that super sects had to join forces to open it.
• A fierce-looking man demanded that Xiao Yan surrender the women with him, but Xiao Yan killed him instantly without raising a hand.
• Xiao Yan warned his companions not to attack others unless they were attacked first, then led them to the ruin’s passageway.
• Song Yue appeared with Hong Qian, ordered unrelated personnel to withdraw three miles, and made the minor sect disciples retreat by displaying his strength.
• Xiao Yan and the other super sect disciples entered the passage and encountered an iron gate marked with a dangerous Bagua formation.

Hun Hao confronted Yu Qian, who revealed his Spirit Grade Blood Heaven Demon Ape Dou Soul and attacked with its Demon Ape Roar. As Yu Qian’s sonic wave closed in, Hun Hao sacrificed a pouch of soul bodies and sent a brilliant cyan attack toward him.

• Yu Qian suppressed the Dou Soul’s backlash and prepared to use its power against Hun Hao.
• Yu Qian revealed his Spirit Grade Blood Heaven Demon Ape Dou Soul, enveloping himself in its hundred-foot phantom and red lightning.
• Yu Qian unleashed the Demon Ape Roar, and the Black-Faced Tiger and Scarred Wolf retreated from its devastating sonic wave.
• Hun Hao released a pouch containing thousands of soul bodies, crushed them, and formed a cyan light cluster.
• Hun Hao launched the cyan light cluster through Yu Qian’s sonic wave toward him.

Xiao Yan reached the end of Hell and found the Spirit Devouring King imprisoned by the Desolate Ancient Heavenly Palace’s Son of Heaven. After learning the King was Xiao Yuntian’s sworn brother, Xiao Yan plunged toward the Hell Crucible to save him as the Son of Heaven summoned a powerful fused attack.

• Jialuo urged Earth Yin Siming to reveal the truth about Xiao Lingshan and use the imprint hidden in the Reincarnation Fire to avert Xiao Yan’s wrath, but Earth Yin Siming said the battle was unavoidable.
• Xiao Yan entered the Hell Pavilion and found the Spirit Devouring King restrained and dying, while a silver-armored stranger confronted him.
• The Son of Heaven revealed that the Spirit Devouring King had only ten minutes left and that his soul was falling toward the Hell Crucible above the Endless Fire Domain.
• The Spirit Devouring King told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yuntian was his sworn brother and urged him to leave, but Xiao Yan vowed to make the Desolate Ancient Heavenly Palace remember the Xiao Clan’s power.
• Xiao Yan plunged toward the Hell Crucible, while the Son of Heaven fused lightning, wood, and water energies into a massive attack.

Gifted young warriors from across Xuan Ling Continent set out for Ruins Land, each eager to test their strength or seek a great fortune. Their departures turned Ruins Land into the focus of the entire continent.

• Wu Yu left Martial City, determined to prove to Wu Die that he was the true chosen prodigy.
• A blind swordsman left Sword King City to find opponents in Ruins Land, naming the battle fanatic from Ning City and Wu Yu as worthy rivals.
• A green-haired girl and her ice-blue bird Xiao Han departed Myriad Beast City aboard a winged beast, looking forward to meeting powerful people.
• A battle-loving young man left his martial academy for Ruins Land after defeating its students.
• A seductive woman from the Snow Domain Aristocratic Family set out, joking that she would find her father an outstanding son-in-law.
• A pale young man rode in a white sedan carried by a hundred ghosts as geniuses across Xuan Ling Continent converged on Ruins Land.

Xiao Yan and Long Yi fought the Dragon Devouring Legion inside the Dragon Devourer Formation, which was draining Long Yi’s power. Xiao Yan broke the formation with a soul attack, leaving the nine legion members wounded and the onlookers in Blood River Town stunned.

• Yao Xin sensed a terrifying aura inside the Dragon Devourer Formation as Ye Mo and the other eight members prepared to attack Long Yi.
• Xiao Yan told Long Yi that defeating one member would collapse the formation and shared a plan with him.
• Long Yi transformed into a silver dragon and battled the multicolored dragon formed by the nine members’ combined power.
• Xiao Yan struck the weakened legion members with his Youming Tianhu soul attack and a beam of light.
• The Dragon Devourer Formation shattered, the nine members spat blood, and the onlookers in Blood River Town fell silent.

Su Xueying tried to take the Yin Yang Heart’s black bead from Xiao Yan, but he refused and fought back. She restrained him and discovered the bead had already been refined inside him, then noticed something familiar on his forehead as the Golden Dragon King sensed a strange fluctuation within her.

• Su Xueying confronted Xiao Yan about the Yin Yang Heart, then asked to borrow the black bead from his body.
• The Golden Dragon King warned Xiao Yan that Su Xueying might forcibly extract the bead and damage his foundation, so Xiao Yan refused her offer.
• Xiao Yan tried to escape through the bronze gate, but it stayed shut, and Su Xueying attacked him with green cords.
• Su Xueying overwhelmed Xiao Yan, bound him with green flames, and sent another flame into his body.
• Su Xueying discovered that Xiao Yan had already refined the black bead, while the Golden Dragon King sensed something familiar within her and Su Xueying noticed something on Xiao Yan’s forehead.

Xiao Yan subdued the Three Thunder Spirit Envoys and learned that the Southern Tribe was under attack after Xiao Yi fell into the Western Tribe’s trap. He rushed toward the tribe as its defenders retreated into the Spirit Island, where three Reincarnation powerhouses led the invading force.

• Xiao Yan used Gray Thunder and Dragon Transformation to repel the Three Thunder Spirit Envoys, then knocked them unconscious and bound them.
• Xiao Yan returned to Jiuxin and Ximo with the captives, and Ximo explained that Princess Alice’s Western Tribe had ambushed Xiao Yi and threatened the Southern Tribe.
• The Southern Tribe’s assembly signal sounded, and Ximo raced toward the tribe while Xiao Yan took Aisha and followed.
• The invading forces captured most of the Southern Tribe’s fighters, leaving Xiao Yi and two Reincarnation elders among fewer than a hundred defenders inside the Spirit Island.
• Three Reincarnation powerhouses arrived with a ten-member squad as the defenders struggled to hold the Spirit Island.

Xiao Yan absorbed the dense Emperor Qi in Xiao Yue’s cave, stabilizing his cultivation at the initial stage of Four-star Dou Di. Xiao Yue then asked for his help as an alchemist and offered a reward: a treasure on Yin Shi Forest’s third level, guarded by someone as powerful as Xiao Yue.

• Xiao Yan followed Xiao Yue into a cave where Ghost Qi was absent and began absorbing its dense Emperor Qi.
• Xiao Yue stood guard while Xiao Yan cultivated, then Xiao Yan emerged with his Four-star Dou Di strength stabilized.
• Xiao Yue asked whether Xiao Yan was a high-ranking alchemist and said he needed his help, which Xiao Yan agreed to consider after his competition.
• Xiao Yan negotiated for compensation, and Xiao Yue revealed that the reward could be the treasure of Yin Shi Forest, located beside a person whose strength matched his own.
• Xiao Yan hesitated at the danger, but Xiao Yue claimed there was a way to obtain the treasure and asked whether Xiao Yan wanted it.

Xiao Yan defeated the Spirit of Grudge and used its remnants to purify the liquid into Blood Spirit Ice Liquid, collecting seventeen bottles for his future attempt to devour Holy Flame. He continued exploring the Ghost Suppressing Well with Mu Feng and Yue Ru, and they reached what Long Yi identified as the Gate of Sealing.

• Xiao Yan destroyed the Spirit of Grudge and gathered its blood-red fragments before they could escape.
• Xiao Yan fed the fragments to the blood-red liquid, purifying it into Blood Spirit Ice Liquid, then collected seventeen bottles.
• Mu Feng and Yue Ru reached the bottom of the well, where Xiao Yan told them a mysterious creature had attacked him.
• Mu Feng agreed to help Xiao Yan explore farther into the Ghost Suppressing Well despite the danger.
• Xiao Yan led Mu Feng and Yue Ru through the passages toward the well's depths, where Long Yi recognized the Gate of Sealing.

The Demon Emperor confronted Pope Mefier, who had lured him into a trap to kill him. The Demon Emperor revealed his immense beast power and shattered Mefier’s Angelic Holy Blade, while Mefier transformed with six purple Angel Wings and prepared to continue the battle.

• Mefier attacked the Demon Emperor, and their clash shook and fractured the void above Tian Yu.
• The Demon of Light regretted being used as bait, while Xiao Yan noticed that both combatants’ power had unusual weaknesses.
• The Demon Emperor summoned golden-patterned green light and beast phantoms, then declared that Mefier would die there.
• Mefier invoked the Holy Sacrifice and charged with the Angelic Holy Blade, but the Demon Emperor’s beast phantoms and green feathers broke the blade.
• Mefier formed six purple Angel Wings as the Demon Emperor challenged him, and their escalating auras began collapsing the sky above the Holy City.

The white-robed figure left Xiao Yan and the Green Lotus Woman to compete for the ruin’s inheritance, revealing that the needed blood essence lay within the master’s remains. When two powerful beads appeared in the skeleton’s hands, Xiao Yan tried to claim them, but the Green Lotus Woman warned him to leave with Xiao Yi.

• The white-robed figure explained that the blood essence Xiao Yan needed was among the ruin master’s remains, then departed with the six Guardians after healing them.
• Xiao Yi emerged on Xiao Yan’s shoulder, and the Green Lotus Woman examined the quiet hall before directing her Dou Qi toward the skeleton on the throne.
• Two powerful beads, one black and one white, appeared in the skeleton’s palms, and the Golden Dragon King identified them as the Yin Yang Heart.
• Xiao Yan rushed toward the throne, but the Green Lotus Woman trapped him in a Dou Qi cage until Xiao Yi’s Milky White Flame vaporized it.
• The Green Lotus Woman told Xiao Yan that he and Xiao Yi could not defeat her and ordered him to take his Fire Spirit and leave.

Xiao Yan survived the Blood Demon Left Guard’s attack, but Kuángmù Immortal Master discovered that Blood Demon Golden Qi had entered his body and could not be removed. Yan agreed to give Xiao Yan the Holy Flame and used its power to temporarily seal the hidden threat.

• The Blood Demon Left Guard’s attack struck Xiao Yan, and the Left Guard vanished after Yan’s Holy Flame burned away his remaining storm and mist.
• Shan Ling supported the weakened Xiao Yan and apologized, while Xiao Yan reassured her that he had kept his promise.
• Kuángmù Immortal Master examined Xiao Yan and found a violet-golden mark on his chest, identifying it as Blood Demon Golden Qi connected to his heart and soul.
• Kuángmù Immortal Master explained that the qi would slowly erode Xiao Yan’s mind and could not be forcibly removed, while Yan agreed to give Xiao Yan the Holy Flame.
• Kuángmù Immortal Master warned Xiao Yan to hide the mark and avoid clashing with the qi, then used the Holy Flame’s power to seal it temporarily.

Duan Feng explained the Eastern Continent Tournament’s three stages, limited main-tournament slots, and rewards, including entry to the mysterious Thunder Valley. Xiao Yan learned from the Soul Devouring Master that Thunder Valley might hold the secret behind the Forged Blade Thunder Valley Master’s strength, then returned to the city lord’s estate to await the first stage.

• Duan Feng announced that the tournament had three stages, with each stage’s rules revealed on its day and its top ten advancing to the main tournament.
• Xiao Yan asked whether he could compete in all three stages, and Duan Feng confirmed he could claim multiple advancement spots and designate two companions if he placed in the top ten each time.
• Duan Feng revealed that stage rewards included a Tier 4 Immortal Artifact, Saint Grade peak Dou Technique methods, and qualification to enter Thunder Valley.
• The Soul Devouring Master told Xiao Yan that Thunder Valley lay beneath Yinhun Heaven and might contain a secret behind the Forged Blade Thunder Valley Master’s exceptional power.
• Duan Feng announced that the first stage would begin the next day, and Xiao Yan returned to the city lord’s estate with the two women.

Xiao Yan learned that Burning Incense Pavilion planned to search the Xuan Ling Imperial Family Underground Palace for the missing Holy Flame and gave Elder Zhu a trace of his Sacred Flame Origin Power to help track it. As the ruins’ opening approached, Xiao Yan returned to prepare, while news of Zhu Jin and the others’ exploration spread across Xuan Tian San.

• Elder Zhu told Xiao Yan that the ruins would open in about a month and revealed that Burning Incense Pavilion needed his Holy Flame for a plan to rescue Yan Chi.
• Xiao Yan said he had sensed the Holy Flame’s aura in the underground palace and believed it was on the seventh level.
• Elder Zhu asked Xiao Yan to provide a trace of his Sacred Flame Origin Power so they could track the Holy Flame, and Xiao Yan reluctantly agreed.
• Xiao Yan extracted the Sacred Flame Origin Power and gave it to Elder Zhu, then promised to make Burning Incense Pavilion’s name known at the ruins.
• Elder Zhu told Xiao Yan that Ye Meng wanted him to bring Leng Fuyao when the ruins opened, and Xiao Yan left to prepare medicinal pills.
• News of Zhu Jin and the others’ ruin exploration spread throughout Xuan Tian San.

Qin Tian battled the Undying Nether Sparrow and wounded it with his Life and Death powers, but the Sparrow escaped by unleashing a gray flame. As it tried to recover in the Manghuang Land, a mysterious black-robed man from the Ghost Realm confronted it and demanded its Dou Soul power.

• Qin Tian and the Undying Nether Sparrow exchanged powerful attacks, and the Sparrow tried to flee when its assault weakened.
• Qin Tian struck the Sparrow with his Five-Flavor Life and Death Ball and another palm, leaving it badly injured.
• The Undying Nether Sparrow summoned a gray Child Flame of the Life and Death Fire, forcing Qin Tian, Ye Mo, and the others to join forces against it while the Sparrow escaped.
• Two figures followed the Undying Nether Sparrow as it fled to a remote mountain in the Manghuang Land and began recovering.
• A black-robed man with a heavy ruler appeared before the Sparrow, identified by it as being from the Ghost Realm, and demanded its Dou Soul power.

Xiao Mu evaded the Eagle-faced Man in the Forest of Death and awaited help from the Golden Dragon King. The Golden Dragon King arrived with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan, and they sensed both Xiao Mu and a hostile expert nearby.

• The Eagle-faced Man tried to flush Xiao Mu out with a massive attack, but the Forest of Death swallowed the blow.
• Xiao Mu revealed that he had sent the Golden Dragon King the coordinates and moved to evade the Eagle-faced Man while badly injured.
• The Golden Dragon King brought Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan to the Forest of Death and explained why they could not sense their Xiao Clan ancestor’s bloodline.
• The Golden Dragon King detected Xiao Mu and a hostile expert nearby, prompting Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan to conceal their presence and follow.

Xiao Yan learned that Mu Yingying and Ling Xuan had been cornered by Tian Xing of the Xuan Ling Imperial Family and rushed to help. He blocked Tian Xing’s attack and unleashed a Domain, leaving Tian Xing stunned as Xiao Yan threatened to cripple his right arm.

• After Xiao Yan defeated Tian Yu and Tian Yu at the market, Ling Xuan arrived and told him that Mu Yingying had been cornered by a powerful Xuan Ling Imperial Family member.
• Xiao Yan went with Ling Xuan to find Mu Yingying, despite her warning that Tian Xing was a Peak Seven-star Dou Di.
• Tian Xing attacked Mu Yingying, who was already injured while helping Ling Xuan escape, and waited for her transformation to leave her vulnerable before striking with his Blood Hand Seal.
• Xiao Yan arrived in time and countered Tian Xing’s attack with his Holy Flame Palm.
• After Ling Xuan explained how Mu Yingying had been hurt, Xiao Yan threatened to cripple Tian Xing’s right arm and revealed his Domain, shocking Tian Xing.

Xiao Yan followed the Black-robed Man and discovered that he had sent the Soul Clan a map of the Forged Blade Thunder Valley, Thunder City, and the Thunder Realm. As the Black-robed Man prepared to attack Duan Qifei and Liu Qing, Xiao Yan waited to intercept him.

• After five days, Xiao Yan sensed the Fire Heart Sky Rock flame he had planted in the Black-robed Man and followed him toward a secluded cliff.
• Duan Tianfeng and the Thunder City Lord discussed Duan Qifei and Liu Qing’s arrival in the Thunder Realm before Duan Tianfeng received Xiao Yan’s signal.
• The Black-robed Man used a dark scroll to contact a Soul Clan figure and handed over a map of the Forged Blade Thunder Valley, Thunder City, and the Thunder Realm.
• Xiao Yan realized the Soul Clan and Ghost Kingdom intended to join forces against the Eastern Continent and suspected the Forged Blade Thunder Valley had let the map fall into enemy hands deliberately.
• Duan Qifei and Liu Qing climbed toward the Thunder Realm beneath the cliff, and the Black-robed Man recognized Duan Qifei and launched a fatal attack at them.

Xiao Yan refined and absorbed the Soul Origin, raising his soul to Emperor Realm Mortal Grade and advancing his cultivation to the peak of Three-star Dou Di. With his new soul avatar and its risks explained, he turned to the Golden Dragon King for the Dou Ji he had promised to teach.

• Xiao Yan inspected the Cultivation Room, sealed its entrance, and released the Soul Origin stored in his soul sea.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to refine the Soul Light Orb for several hours.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the refined Soul Origin over twenty days and formed a soul avatar as powerful as himself.
• The Golden Dragon King explained that Xiao Yan’s soul had reached Emperor Realm Mortal Grade and warned that damage to the avatar would rebound on Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan discovered that his cultivation had risen to the peak of Three-star Dou Di and asked to learn Dou Ji.
• The Golden Dragon King tossed Xiao Yan a scroll containing a Low-tier Immortal Grade Dou Ji.

Xiao Yan and Yue Ru entered the Ice Snow Mountain Range to seek the Moon Crescent Jade Fruit, which Yue Ru needed for her family's inheritance. After Xiao Yan clashed with Feng Yi, the two recognized each other's powerful souls, and Feng Yi chose to follow them.

• Yue Ru told Xiao Yan that she was searching for the Moon Crescent Jade Fruit, a crucial catalyst for her family's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan and Yue Ru followed signs of other travelers deeper into the mountain range, hoping to let them lead the way.
• Feng Yi attacked Xiao Yan with her silk ribbons, and he countered with emerald-green flames before their powers collided.
• Feng Yi introduced herself to Xiao Yan and acknowledged his strength after learning he had broken the Fenglei Pavilion's Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Array.
• Xiao Yan and Yue Ru continued onward, while Feng Yi ignored her family's instructions and ordered her companions to follow them.