Chapter Summaries

After a month of cultivation, Lin Hai joined the Ancient, Flame, and Thunder Clans as their alliance assembled its forces. Gu Yuan ordered the army to attack the Soul Clan’s headquarters in the Heaven-Burial Mountain Range, leaving the alliance poised to strike the Soul Hall first and draw out the Soul Clan.

• Lin Hai emerged from seclusion with an initial grasp of the Mysterious Underworld Heaven-Covering Seal and brought four seven-star Spirit Saint attendants to the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuan gathered the Ancient Clan’s strongest fighters outside the Ancient Realm’s entrance.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying arrived with the Flame and Thunder Clans’ armies.
• The three clan leaders assessed Lin Hai’s four powerful attendants and the alliance’s combined strength.
• Gu Yuan ordered the alliance to march on the Soul Clan’s outer headquarters in the Heaven-Burial Mountain Range.
• The alliance tore through space toward the Heaven-Burial Mountain Range, intending to draw out the Soul Clan’s forces before attacking them.

The allied army destroyed the Soul Clan headquarters at the Heaven-Burial Mountain Range and captured Hun Miesheng. Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan’s elite forces then arrived, and the two sides began their decisive battle.

• Gu Yuan led the allied army in an attack on the Soul Clan headquarters, where Lin Hai’s forces and fighters from the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans overwhelmed the defenders.
• Gu Lie defeated Hun Miesheng, captured him, and sealed his Dou Qi as the Soul Clan headquarters fell.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with the Void Devouring Flame, the Four Great Elders, and the Soul Clan’s elite army.
• Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi, and the auras of both armies clashed as the great battle began.

The alliance and the Soul Clan fought across the Heaven-Burial Mountain Range, with the battles between Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi, the Four Great Elders and the alliance’s elites, and the lower-ranked fighters reaching a stalemate. Lin Hai gained the upper hand against Void Devouring Flame, leaving the Soul Clan under growing pressure as the battle continued.

• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi clashed beyond the Nine Heavens while Lin Hai used the Great Thousand Creation Palm and Mysterious Underworld Heaven-Covering Seal to hold Void Devouring Flame at bay.
• Yan Jin, Lei Ying, Gu Lie, and the Lava Giant Ape shattered the Four Great Elders’ Ten Thousand Soul Bone-Eroding Array, but the elders split up and engaged them in four separate fights.
• Elder Gu Dao formed the Ancient Emperor Array with the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan, while the alliance’s other fighters and magical beasts battled Soul Clan forces across the lower-ranked battlefields.
• Void Devouring Flame trapped Lin Hai in its Devouring Flame Domain, but Lin Hai opened his Mysterious Underworld Domain and blasted it apart with the Great Thousand Creation Palm.
• Void Devouring Flame split into tens of thousands of Child Flames to escape Lin Hai’s ice coffin, but Lin Hai tracked its true soul fluctuations and continued to suppress it.

Lin Hai sealed the Void Devouring Flame and joined Gu Yuan against Hun Tiandi, who detonated the Emperor Soul Banner’s three nine-star Holy Spirit Soul Origins. The blast devastated both armies and left the leaders too injured to continue fighting, bringing the battle to a halt.

• Lin Hai exploited an opening to seal the Void Devouring Flame’s Soul Origin in a black-and-white orb.
• Lin Hai joined Gu Yuan against Hun Tiandi, whose assault was pushed back by the Ancient Emperor Mirror.
• Hun Tiandi detonated the Emperor Soul Banner’s three nine-star Holy Spirit Soul Origins, unleashing a massive soul shock wave.
• The blast severely injured Lin Hai and Gu Yuan and swept through both armies, breaking their defenses and causing heavy casualties.
• The shock wave faded, and the wounded fighters on both sides stopped fighting as Hun Tiandi faced Lin Hai and Gu Yuan in a tense ceasefire.

Hun Tiandi used the Nether Soul Domain to evacuate the badly wounded Soul Clan after its forces suffered heavy losses, while the Alliance could not stop them. Gu Yuan ordered the Alliance to retreat to the Ancient Realm and recover, leaving both sides to prepare for another confrontation.

• Hun Tiandi judged that continuing the battle would cost the Soul Clan too much and announced its withdrawal.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed the Nether Soul Domain, obscuring the Soul Clan's retreat and disrupting the Alliance's ability to track them.
• Yan Jin's flames could not penetrate the domain, and Lei Ying was too badly wounded to stop the Soul Clan from escaping.
• Gu Yuan forbade pursuit and said the Alliance needed time to recover, while Lin Hai revealed that Void Devouring Flame remained sealed.
• Gu Dao, Gu Lie, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying organized casualty counts, treatment, and order across the battlefield.
• Gu Yuan ordered the survivors to return to the Ancient Realm, activate its highest defenses, and enter seclusion to heal.

After the battle with the Soul Clan left Lin Hai and his four beasts gravely injured, Gu Yuan treated them in the Ancient Clan’s Pill Hall. Lin Hai returned to Wutan City to recover, leaving Xiao Yan and Yao Chen to prepare for the Soul Clan’s eventual resurgence.

• Gu Yuan gave Lin Hai and the four injured beasts healing pills and salves, stabilizing their injuries.
• Lin Hai returned to Wutan City with the beasts and told Xiao Yan and Yao Chen that the Soul Clan battle had crippled the enemy for three to five years.
• Lin Hai said he had sealed the Void Devouring Flame and badly wounded Hun Tiandi, who escaped after detonating the reserves in the Emperor Soul Banner.
• Lin Hai entered a secret chamber with the four beasts to recuperate, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen resolved to use the time to grow stronger.

A year and a half after the battle in the Heaven-Burial Mountain Range, Lin Hai emerged from seclusion partly recovered and found Xiao Yan had devoured a Sixth-Rank Beast Fire. Lin Hai set Xiao Yan on a rapid path toward stronger flames, then acquired the Mysterious Yellow Flame and the Earth-Splitting Black Turtle for the plans ahead.

• Lin Hai emerged from seclusion with about fifty percent of his injuries healed, while the Western Beasts had recovered around sixty percent of their strength.
• Xiao Yan devoured a Sixth-Rank Beast Fire with Yao Chen's guidance and reached the peak of two-star Spirit Practitioner, advancing Burning Decision to Yellow Tier Intermediate Grade.
• Lin Hai ordered Xiao Yan to devour more than seven hundred Sixth-Rank Beast Fires within six months, then three Heavenly Flames within a year before marrying Xiao Xun'er.
• Haibodong reported that the Haiye organization had located the Mysterious Yellow Flame in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Lin Hai rewarded the organization and Yaoye.
• Lin Hai subdued the Earth-Splitting Black Turtle and claimed the Mysterious Yellow Flame, then ordered the four Holy Spirit Magical Beasts to capture beasts of eight attributes and an Eighth-Rank ice-type beast.

Lin Hai traded Yao Chen’s Eighth-Tier Pills for the materials needed to control Xiao Yixian’s Woeful Poison Body and ingredients for two Ninth-Grade Lightning Tribulation Pills. He returned to Wutan City with the treasures and planned to ask the Yao Clan to help refine the pills after rewarding Haiye’s members.

• Lin Hai returned to the Xiao Clan with the Mysterious Yellow Flame and Earth-Splitting Black Turtle, then asked Yao Chen for nine Eighth-Tier Pills.
• Lin Hai traveled to the Pill Tower Trading Center and traded two pills for a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast Magic Core and Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Lin Hai exchanged six pills for auxiliary ingredients for two Ninth-Grade Lightning Tribulation Pills, then traded a low-grade Heaven-tier spirit skill and two percent of the Void Devouring Flame’s origin for the two main ingredients.
• Lin Hai returned to Wutan City and gave Yao Chen the materials Xiao Yixian needed to control her poison body.
• Lin Hai settled eight sixth-tier magical beasts and the eighth-tier Polar Ice Ape in the back hills, then planned to ask the Yao Clan to help refine the pills after fulfilling his promised rewards to Haiye.

Lin Hai rewarded Hai Bodong and Yaoye, then strengthened the Haiye organization with sixth-rank Magical Beast blood essences. After ordering Hai Bodong to keep searching for Heavenly Flames, Lin Hai prepared to visit the Yao Clan Space.

• Lin Hai gave Hai Bodong a drop of Eighth-Rank Polar Ice Ape life essence blood to help him break through to the Spirit Sect Realm.
• Lin Hai granted Yaoye a sixth-rank Earth-Splitting Black Turtle as a mount and told her to form an equal soul contract with it.
• Lin Hai extracted life essence blood from eight sixth-rank Magical Beasts according to the Haiye members' spiritual energy attributes.
• Lin Hai gave Hai Bodong the blood essences to distribute among the Haiye members and ordered him to continue searching for Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Hai set out for the Yao Clan Space with the Origin of Nine Profound Golden Lightning and the Life-Generating Lightning Fruit.

Lin Hai visited the Yao Clan and bargained with Yao Dan to refine a Ninth-Grade Lightning Tribulation Pill. After Lin Hai paid with one-tenth of Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame, Yao Dan began refining the pill while Lin Hai rested in the clan.

• Lin Hai arrived at the Shennong Mountain Range and met Yao Dan, who recognized him as the powerhouse who had sealed Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Lin Hai asked the Yao Clan to refine a Ninth-Grade Lightning Tribulation Pill using two sets of medicinal ingredients.
• Yao Dan offered to refine the pill in exchange for one-tenth of Nihility Devouring Flame's source Child Flame.
• Lin Hai separated and handed Yao Dan the Child Flame, then gave him two Storage Rings containing the ingredients.
• Yao Dan entered seclusion to refine the pill, while a Yao Clan elder escorted Lin Hai to the guest quarters.