Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan learned that Blood Essence from the Blood Sacrifice World's humanoid monsters could strengthen his bloodline, then ordered Hun Dan to find their locations. After cultivating, Yao Yan traced Hun Dan and learned that Hun Dan had joined forces with Hun Jue, who revealed that Yao Yan was reportedly competing for the position of Young Clan Leader.

• Yao Yan questioned Hun Dan and learned that Blood Essence from humanoid monsters nourished bloodlines and strengthened their foundations.
• Yao Yan absorbed the Blood Essence Hun Dan gave him, then ordered him to find the monsters within seven days.
• Hun Dan escaped to a concealed valley and decided to work with others to make Yao Yan and the monsters suffer heavy losses.
• Yao Yan spent three days cultivating, then used the Fallen Heart Flame to locate Hun Dan and hear his conversation with Hun Jue.
• Hun Dan confronted Hun Jue over the plan, and Hun Jue revealed that Yao Yan was likely competing for the position of Young Clan Leader.

Hun Jue arranged for Hun Dan and twelve Soul Clan experts to lure Yao Yan into an ambush at the Silent Death Plains, hoping to test his strength and possibly gain his allegiance. Yao Yan saw through the trap, easily killed a monster, and faced the ambushers, telling them to attack together.

• Hun Jue persuaded Hun Dan to help ambush Soul Yan at the Silent Death Plains, while privately considering whether Soul Yan could become a suitable leader.
• Yao Yan watched their plans through the Fallen Heart Flame and decided he might recruit Hun Jue as a steward.
• Hun Dan returned with a false story about finding a monster lair, and Yao Yan gave him a healing pill before following him to the Silent Death Plains.
• Yao Yan entered the plains, seized and refined an attacking monster, then revealed that he knew Hun Dan had arranged an ambush.
• Hun Ya arrived with eleven other Dou Zuns, and Yao Yan asked why Hun Feng had not come before striking their burly companion and challenging all twelve to attack together.

Yao Yan overwhelmed Hun Ya and eleven other Soul Clan Dou Zuns with his fused Strange Fire, powerful soul techniques, and Heaven Rank Dou Skills, trapping them inside the Silent Death Plains. As two fire disks crushed in from above and below, he unleashed a Destruction Fire Lotus, lighting up the entire plains.

• Yao Yan severely injured a burly peak Six-Star Dou Zun and flooded the Silent Death Plains with his Fusion Exotic Flame.
• Yao Yan summoned the Soul Dharma Idol of Dread Valley, crushed Hun Ya's soul Black Dragon, and stunned the twelve Soul Clan prodigies with a soul attack.
• Yao Yan formed a fiery formation with five Strange Fire Spirits and trapped Hun Ya and the other Dou Zuns inside the Silent Death Plains.
• Yao Yan created two Five Round Separating Fire Disks that pressed toward the twelve Dou Zuns from above and below.
• Hun Li and two Soul Clan Dou Zuns attacked Yao Yan, but their strikes left him unharmed as the fire disks wore down the group.
• Yao Yan crushed a Destruction Fire Lotus in his palm, and the Silent Death Plains lit up.

Yao Yan defeated Hun Ya and the other Dou Zuns, then awakened and subdued the Tunling Clan General beneath the Silent Death Plains. As he devoured the General’s power, his strength surged toward Dou Sheng, but the Evil Eye began overpowering his will and tempting him with even greater power.

• Yao Yan condensed the destructive flame storm into the Eight Desolations Burning Heaven Seal, killing six of Hun Ya’s twelve Dou Zuns and crippling the survivors.
• Yao Yan attacked the Silent Death Plains with the Eight Desolations Burning Heaven Seal and exposed the Tunling Clan General buried beneath the ground.
• Yao Yan used his Soul Dharma Idol and the Five Round Li Fire Grand Formation to suppress the Tunling Clan monsters and pin down the General.
• Hun Xuzi identified the creature as a core Tunling Clan General, and the Soul Clan elders allowed Yao Yan to continue refining it.
• Yao Yan absorbed the General’s power, rapidly rising toward Dou Sheng, while the Evil Eye began suppressing his will and offering him more power.

Yao Yan resisted the Tunling Clan power awakening inside him, devoured its hostile Soul Body, and attracted the attention of Void Swallowing Flame. Void Swallowing Flame left him to cultivate with its Heavenly Son Fire, which agreed to help him grow stronger.

• Yao Yan rejected the black figure’s offer of power, then fought and devoured the Tunling Clan monster inside his Consciousness Space.
• After absorbing the monster, Yao Yan’s vertical eye grew stronger and revealed Void Swallowing Flame watching him.
• Void Swallowing Flame explained that Yao Yan’s bloodline came from the Spirit Devouring King and needed nourishment to develop.
• Void Swallowing Flame gave Yao Yan its Heavenly Son Fire and told him to digest the monster’s power and grow quickly.
• The Heavenly Son Fire introduced itself as Lord Zi Huo, revealed it was a Three Star Dou Sheng, and offered to help Yao Yan cultivate.

Void Swallowing Flame gave Yao Yan the Heavenly Son Fire and planned to support him as the Soul Clan’s Young Clan Leader while the Soul Clan searched for the Xiao Clan and its Tou She Ancient God Jade. As Yao Yan transformed in seclusion, Hun Jue began gathering allies for him, while Yao Lao accepted leadership of the Pill Tower and resolved to seek answers from Yao Yan someday.

• Void Swallowing Flame told Hun Xuzi that he had given Yao Yan the Heavenly Son Fire, had crossed a major step in his plan, and needed the Soul Clan to locate the Xiao Clan and the final Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• The Heavenly Son Fire suppressed the power within Yao Yan as he absorbed the Tunling Clan General’s energy and advanced his soul power; it secretly hoped to use his body and devour his strange fires.
• Hun Dan and Hun Jue witnessed Yao Yan’s transformation at the Silent Death Plains, and Hun Jue decided to gather allies for Yao Yan and cause trouble for Hun Feng.
• More than a year after the upheaval in Holy Pill City, Yao Chen became Pill Tower Master, and Heavenly Fire Venerable left for the Black-Corner Region rather than take sides against Yao Yan.
• Yao Lao told Wind Venerable that he had accepted the Pill Tower position to grow stronger and hoped to meet Yao Yan again to learn what he planned to do.

After three years of seclusion, Yao Yan emerged from the Silent Death Plains having reached the peak of Nine-Revolution Dou Zun and neared the Dou Sheng realm. Hun Feng arrived to challenge him, while Hun Jue and his followers backed Yao Yan’s claim to become Young Clan Leader.

• Yao Yan’s transformation caused the Purple-Green Flames to erupt across the Silent Death Plains, drawing Hun Jue and other powerful Dou Zuns to the area.
• Hun Jue told his followers that Hun Feng would likely try to kill Yao Yan, but insisted Yao Yan would not lose or die.
• Hun Feng flew toward the Silent Death Plains and openly released his Six-Revolution Peak aura to declare his challenge.
• Yao Yan emerged and demonstrated his vastly increased strength by pulverizing a vast stretch of crystallized ground with a casual punch.
• Hun Jue and the others saluted Yao Yan and pledged to follow him, and Yao Yan turned to face the arriving Hun Feng.

Yao Yan defeated Hun Feng in their contest for the position of Young Clan Leader, revealing overwhelming physical strength and a peak fighting state. Hun Yuantian recognized Yao Yan as the victor and proposed that Hun Feng challenge him again after both reached Dou Sheng.

• Hun Feng arrived with his followers and challenged Yao Yan, who dismissed him as too weak to be an opponent.
• Hun Feng's Devouring Heaven Skill failed to absorb Yao Yan's power, and Yao Yan's strength grew as they fought hand-to-hand.
• Yao Yan overwhelmed Hun Feng and punched through his chest, leaving him grievously injured.
• Yao Yan revealed his full fighting state, and Hun Feng lost the will to attack after sensing the gulf between them.
• Hun Yuantian appeared, declared Yao Yan the victor, and proposed a rematch after both contestants reached Dou Sheng; Yao Yan agreed.

After defeating Hun Feng and becoming the Soul Clan’s Young Chief, Yao Yan met Hun Tiandi, who tested his views on spiritual qi and the Soul Clan. Hun Tiandi approved of Yao Yan’s outlook and began considering how to nurture him.

• Hun Feng accepted his defeat, and Hun Yuantian ended the contest for Young Chief before taking the badly wounded Hun Feng away.
• Hun Xuzi praised Yao Yan’s victory and promised to help him enter the Dou Sheng Realm and gather other clans’ Dou Di Bloodlines.
• Hun Xuzi brought Yao Yan to meet Hun Tiandi, who told Hun Xuzi to leave and invited Yao Yan to sit and drink tea.
• Hun Tiandi demonstrated how he controlled spiritual qi and asked Yao Yan about its nature; Yao Yan suggested that Heaven and Earth Energy had originated from spiritual qi.
• Hun Tiandi asked what Yao Yan thought of the Soul Clan, and Yao Yan said that the strong devoured the weak and clans needed resources to grow; Hun Tiandi praised his clear view.

Hun Tiandi explained the Soul Clan’s pursuit of Dou Di and entrusted Yao Yan with a Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment, declaring him the Soul Clan’s future leader. After Yao Yan left, Hun Tiandi revealed his plan to use the jade as a betrothal gift to propose to the Gu Clan, while Yao Yan returned to his residence unaware of the scheme.

• Hun Tiandi told Yao Yan that the Dou Qi Continent lacked Source Qi and that Soul Hall gathered Soul Origin to pursue the Emperor Realm.
• Hun Tiandi gave Yao Yan a Tou She Ancient God Jade Fragment and said he could lead the Soul Clan if anything happened to him.
• After Yao Yan left, Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame that he planned to use the jade as a betrothal gift and propose marriage to Gu Yuan’s daughter.
• Yao Yan asked Son of Heaven Fire to guard the jade in his Storage Ring, then Hun Xuzi took him back to their residence.
• Hun Xuzi questioned Yao Yan about his meeting with Hun Tiandi, and Yao Yan recounted their conversation before going to wash and rest.

After emerging from seclusion near the Half-Saint realm, Yao Yan learned that Hun Tiandi had named him Soul Clan Young Chief and planned a marriage alliance with Gu Yuan’s daughter to obtain the Gu Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade. Hun Tiandi revealed the scheme and ordered Yao Yan to win over the young Gu Xun'er, leaving Yao Yan wary but unable to refuse.

• Yao Yan assessed his progress toward the Half-Saint realm and worried about the vast resources he would need to reach Dou Sheng.
• The Heavenly Son Fire told Yao Yan that five days had passed and that Hun Yi had turned away visitors, while Hun Yi gave him their gifts and a list of names.
• Hun Yi told Yao Yan that Hun Tiandi had declared him Soul Clan Young Chief and would propose marriage to the Gu Clan’s Little Princess.
• Yao Yan asked Hun Yi to bring Hun Jue, but Hun Tiandi transported him to a cliff and explained that the marriage proposal was intended to secure the Gu Jade Fragment.
• Hun Tiandi urged Yao Yan to persuade Gu Yuan’s daughter to accept the alliance, and Yao Yan reluctantly agreed to do his best.

Hun Tiandi brought Yao Yan to the Gu Clan and proposed that Gu Xun'er marry him, offering the Soul Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade as the betrothal gift. He presented Yao Yan as a prodigy with five awakened Dou Di Bloodlines and urged Gu Yuan to choose cooperation over a future clan war, leaving Gu Yuan to consider the proposal.

• Hun Tiandi teleported Yao Yan into the Gu Clan Domain, where Gu Yuan confronted them and recalled Hun Tiandi's past battle with Xiao Xuan.
• Hun Tiandi proposed marrying Gu Xun'er and offered the Soul Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade, provoking Gu Yuan and drawing the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan to the scene.
• Hun Tiandi introduced Yao Yan as Hun Yan, a Soul Clan prodigy with five Dou Di Bloodlines, and claimed his existence could help the clans open the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Gu Dao and the other elders examined Yao Yan, confirmed his extraordinary cultivation and bloodlines, and judged that he had the potential to become a Dou Di.
• Hun Tiandi warned that the Soul Clan could ally with four other clans if the Gu Clan refused, while Gu Yuan recognized that Yao Yan was central to Hun Tiandi's proposal.

Hun Tiandi proposed a marriage alliance between Yao Yan and Gu Xun'er to pressure the Gu Clan into cooperating over Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, while hiding his plan to use a blood sacrifice to complete the Emperor Pill. Back in the Soul Clan Realm, Yao Yan began building his own influence by recruiting Hun Jue and ordering him to publicize Yao Yan's alchemy skills.

• Hun Tiandi offered Gu Yuan a month to consider a marriage alliance between Gu Xun'er and Yao Yan, and Gu Yuan ordered an investigation into Soul Yan's background.
• Hun Tiandi told Yao Yan to conceal the Tunling Clan's ability and avoid absorbing the Lei Clan's and Gu Clan's Dou Di Essence Blood while he worked to win over the clans.
• Hun Tiandi privately revealed that completing the Emperor Pill would require a blood sacrifice, and Yao Yan agreed to follow his arrangements while recognizing the scheme's potential benefits.
• Yao Yan returned to his residence, learned that Hun Yi had brought the person he requested, and went to meet Hun Jue in the main hall.
• Yao Yan recruited Hun Jue to help him build influence within the Soul Clan and instructed him to spread word of Yao Yan's Eighth-Grade High-Level Alchemist abilities.

Yao Yan refined pills and cultivated within the Soul Clan before Hun Xuzi gave him a Saint Spirit Pill to begin his transformation toward Half-Saint. The chapter ended with a scene in Wutan City, where Xiao Mei reached the Sixth Stage of Dou Qi and celebrated beside a prodigious young Xiao Yan.

• Yao Yan accepted pill-refining requests from Soul Clan city lords, earning rare ingredients and pill formulas while continuing his alchemy studies.
• Hun Yi delivered cultivation methods and Dou Techniques to Yao Yan, and Hun Xuzi gave him a Saint Spirit Pill suited to his powerful body and Nine-Revolution Dou Zun Peak cultivation.
• Yao Yan swallowed the Saint Spirit Pill and used the Flame Mantra and Fusion Exotic Flame to refine its medicinal power and transform his physique.
• Hun Xuzi warned Yao Yan to stay conscious and control the transformation of his physique, Dou Qi, and soul as the pill's power threatened to overwhelm him.
• In Wutan City, Xiao Mei reached Intermediate Sixth Stage Dou Qi at thirteen and praised Xiao Yan, whose clanmates recalled his exceptional progress as a young Dou Zhe.

At the Xiao Clan test, Xiao Xun'er reached seven stages of Dou Qi while Xiao Yan revealed he had become a two-star Dou Shi. Away from the test, Xun'er learned that the Gu Clan had agreed to a marriage alliance with the Soul Clan, and after her father explained the political stakes, she asked to meet Yao Yan.

• Xiao Xun'er scored seven stages of Dou Qi on the Magic Stone Tablet, and Xiao Yan offered to help when she attempted to condense a Dou Qi Vortex.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Mei he no longer needed to take the test because he had become a two-star Dou Shi.
• Aunt Hua told Gu Xun'er that the Gu Clan had agreed to a marriage alliance with the Soul Clan, prompting Xun'er to decide to return and question her father.
• Gu Yuan explained that the alliance concerned Yao Yan, a powerful young prodigy whose Five Clan Dou Di Bloodline could help the clans open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Gu Yuan told Xun'er that she could refuse the marriage if she gained enough strength, and Xun'er asked to meet Yao Yan.

Yao Yan completed most of his transformation into an Advanced Half-Saint with the Saint Spirit Pill, then ended his seclusion to pursue a special physique by gathering the blood essence of many races. Hun Tiandi approved his plan and sent him to meet Gu Xun'er in the Xiao Clan as part of the marriage alliance, while Yao Yan concealed his opposition to Hun Tiandi’s ambitions.

• Yao Yan’s bones, blood, body, Dou Qi, and soul transformed under the Saint Spirit Pill, bringing him close to becoming a Dou Sheng.
• After less than a year, Yao Yan stopped his seclusion as an Advanced Half-Saint and told Hun Yi and Son of Heaven Fire he wanted to gather blood essence from every race to develop a special physique.
• Hun Yi told Yao Yan that Hun Tiandi wanted to see him about the marriage alliance, and Yao Yan used his control over space to travel to Imperial City.
• Hun Tiandi approved Yao Yan’s plan but warned him to break through to Dou Sheng if it failed, then explained that the Gu Clan had agreed to the alliance and Gu Xun’er wanted to meet him in the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Yao Yan to win Gu Xun’er’s affection and marry her, revealing that the alliance served the Soul Clan’s plan to open the Dou Di Cave Abode; Yao Yan pretended to accept his instructions.

Yao Yan received a teleportation jade token from Hun Tiandi and traveled to Wutan City to meet Gu Xun'er, while Son of Heaven Fire demonstrated its abilities. He arrived at the Xiao Family and announced that he was Gu Xun'er's fiancé.

• Hun Tiandi gave Yao Yan a teleportation jade token and revealed his plan to use Yao Yan's marriage to Gu Xun'er to pressure the other clans for their Gu Jades.
• Son of Heaven Fire showed Yao Yan its abilities, including concealing his aura, evading attacks, devouring, and traveling between realms with accurate coordinates.
• Yao Yan used the token to teleport from the Soul World to the rear mountains of Wutan City, where he sensed Gu Xun'er and observed Xiao Yan training.
• Yao Yan went to the Xiao Family and politely asked the guards to tell Gu Xun'er that her fiancé had come to see her.

Xiao Yan practiced a powerful Dou Skill as Xiao Xun'er’s fiancé, Yao Yan, arrived at the Xiao Clan and offered Xiao Zhan a valuable pill. Yao Yan went with Gu Xun'er to speak privately, leaving Xiao Zhan to wonder whether Xiao Yan could bear the burden of restoring the clan.

• Xiao Yan mastered the first stage of the Furious Lion Blast and told Xiao Mei he planned to delay going to Jia Nan Academy until he was strong enough to enter its Inner Academy.
• Xiao Gu announced that Xiao Xun'er's fiancé had arrived, and Xiao Yan joined the clan members watching Yao Yan meet Xiao Zhan.
• Yao Yan offered Xiao Zhan a Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill as a gift, but Xiao Zhan initially declined it to avoid treating it as repayment for the Xiao Clan's favor to Xiao Xun'er.
• Gu Xun'er arrived and told Xiao Zhan to accept the gift, then insisted that she and Yao Yan discuss their private matter outside.
• Yao Yan asked to stay with the Xiao Clan and followed Gu Xun'er toward the back mountain, while Xiao Zhan reflected on the gulf between their families and the pressure resting on Xiao Yan.

Yao Yan met Gu Xun'er on the rear mountain, where they discussed their arranged marriage, their clans’ interests, and his past actions. Meanwhile, Gu Yuan questioned Hun Tiandi about what he would do if Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion held no path to becoming an Emperor.

• Yao Yan told Gu Xun'er that neither of them could easily escape the marriage alliance, though her personal decision still mattered and she should struggle before accepting despair.
• Gu Xun'er questioned Yao Yan about his views on the Soul and Gu Clans’ shifting interests, and he admitted he did not know what their future might bring.
• Gu Xun'er asked about Yao Yan’s impersonation and theft of the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and he explained that he had acted before the Bloodline Baptism deadline.
• Gu Yuan grew angry when Hun Tiandi said Gu Xun'er seemed satisfied with Yao Yan, but restrained himself from attacking him.
• Gu Yuan asked what Hun Tiandi would do if Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion offered no way to become an Emperor, and Hun Tiandi said he would yield his position and seek another path in the Endless Void.

Yao Yan held Gu Xun'er's hand as he led her around the Xiao Family, while Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi clashed in the void over his behavior. That night, Xiao Ning met the remnant soul in his Storage Ring, who offered to make him powerful enough to inherit its legacy.

• Yao Yan offered to help Gu Xun'er strengthen her foundation, then took her hand as they descended the mountain, prompting Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi to clash in the Endless Void.
• Yao Yan reassured Gu Xun'er that he would not go beyond holding hands before their marriage, then led her around the Xiao Family as Xiao Ning watched with jealousy.
• Xiao Ning drank himself unconscious over Gu Xun'er's engagement, then woke to an aged voice speaking from his Storage Ring.
• The remnant soul warned Xiao Ning that Yao Yan was far beyond his reach and claimed that the Xiao Family had once ruled the Dou Qi Continent.
• The remnant soul introduced itself as the Devouring Heaven Demon Saint and offered Xiao Ning its legacy, promising to improve his talent and teach him powerful techniques.