Chapter Summaries

Hun Tiandi revealed his plan to use a blood sacrifice to refine the Emperor Pill Embryo, and his battle with Gu Yuan turned against the three clans when the Soul Clan’s Four Great Elders appeared as puppets. Yao Yan overwhelmed Lei Ying and Yan Jin with his Exotic Flame techniques, then unveiled a poison that threatened to consume them from within.

• Hun Tiandi told Gu Yuan that the Dou Qi Continent had no future without a Dou Di and confirmed his plan to refine the Emperor Pill Embryo through blood sacrifice.
• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi exchanged Emperor-tier attacks, but the Soul Clan’s Four Great Elders emerged as puppets and shifted the battlefield in Hun Tiandi’s favor.
• The Four Great Elders used the Gates of Silence to devour weaker fighters, while Yao Yan trapped Lei Ying and Yan Jin in a fire lotus fueled by twenty Exotic Flames.
• Yao Yan’s attack severely injured Lei Ying and Yan Jin, and the two recognized that his hidden tactics left them with little chance of winning.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin prepared to fight Yao Yan at any cost, but flames and a corrosive poison erupted inside their bodies and began consuming their Dou Qi.

Yao Yan withstood Lei Ying and Yan Jin’s strongest attacks, then revealed strength approaching Nine Star Dou Sheng as the Soul Clan unleashed its hidden forces. Nihility Devouring Flame arrived at the battlefield as a Nine Star Dou Sheng and sealed it off to destroy the three clans.

• Yan Jin recognized Yao Yan’s poison as a transformed Netherworld Poison Flame, which also consumed Lei Ying’s Thunder Power.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying combined their attacks, using Purple Firmament Extinguishing Divine Lightnings and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix feather against Yao Yan.
• Yao Yan emerged alive, absorbed the lightning’s power, and took Yan Jin’s feather before his aura surged toward Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Yan summoned twenty Strange Flame Spirits around Lei Ying and Yan Jin while the Soul Clan’s Four Great Elders opened their gates and sent the Tunling Clan army into battle.
• Gu Xun’er ordered the Black Annihilation Army to defend, and Nihility Devouring Flame appeared with Nine Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Hun Tiandi stopped Gu Yuan from reaching the main battlefield while Nihility Devouring Flame sealed it off and prepared to wipe out the three clans.

Gu Xun’er used the Ancient Emperor Mirror to break the Soul Clan’s spatial seal, but the armies remained under attack as Yao Yan fought Lei Ying and Yan Jin. Yao Yan devoured Lei Ying and stored his Soul Imprint in the Heavenly Tomb, while the battle between Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan continued.

• Gu Xun’er assembled the Ancient Emperor Mirror and used its three strikes to kill a Soul Clan Elder and break one of the Gates of Silence, exhausting the Ancient Clan’s fighters.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sent the remaining Tunling Clan and black flames against the armies, while Yan Jin burned his strength and charged Yao Yan, who evaded him with Ten Thousand Flames Avatar.
• Yan Jin then attacked Nihility Devouring Flame and held him back as Gu Xun’er and the remaining clan forces began rebuilding the Ancient Emperor Mirror with their bloodline power.
• Yao Yan revealed a purple-gold eye, restrained Lei Ying with Strange Fire Chains, and devoured his body and soul power before sending his Soul Imprint to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Yao Yan concealed his rising strength and returned to Eight Star Dou Sheng Peak as Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan fought their way closer.

Hun Tiandi used Yao Yan’s knowledge of the Black-Corner Region to locate and open Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, while Gu Yuan rushed to stop him from claiming the Emperor Pill Embryo. As Hun Tiandi began opening the Stone Gate and the clans resumed fighting, a powerful dragon-like presence emerged from the magma.

• Yan Jin detonated himself against Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame, but they emerged unharmed.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Yao Yan identified the cave mansion’s location in the Black-Corner Region.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame used the jade and Yao Yan’s Spatial Coordinates to reach the Black-Corner Region and summon Tou She Ancient God’s phantom.
• Hun Tiandi struck Jia Nan Academy, exposing a magma sea from which the Ancient God's Cave Mansion rose.
• Gu Yuan left the three clans to confront Hun Tiandi, while Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan’s three Elders tried to hold him back.
• As Hun Tiandi prepared to open the Stone Gate, a dragon roar sounded and a powerful presence burst from the magma.

Zhu Kun emerged from the Magma Depths and joined Yao Yan’s side as Hun Tiandi opened Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion. Inside, Hun Tiandi fought Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun while Yao Yan and Nihility Devouring Flame searched for the Emperor Pill Embryo, until Tou She Ancient God appeared before them.

• Zhu Kun emerged from the Magma Depths, rejected Hun Tiandi’s attempt to win him over, and revealed to Gu Yuan that he had agreed to help Yao Yan.
• Hun Tiandi used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to open the Stone Gate despite Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun watching him.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame entered the cave mansion with Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun, and Hun Tiandi attacked the two while Nihility Devouring Flame led Yao Yan and the Soul Clan’s Three Elders onward.
• Nihility Devouring Flame dispersed the mist around the palace, revealing a statue of Tou She Ancient God and hundreds of Heaven Rank Cultivation Techniques and Skills.
• An aged figure appeared on Tou She Ancient God’s statue and addressed the gathered intruders.

Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to trap the Emperor Pill Embryo in a Transformation Pill Ring, while Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Hun Tiandi fought over the chance to claim it. Hun Tiandi seized the ring and swallowed the Emperor Pill Embryo as Yao Yan watched without intervening.

• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the Emperor Pill Embryo, and Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun joined the assault when the Emperor Pill Embryo proved too powerful to capture alone.
• The Emperor Pill Embryo unleashed his Emperor Pill Palm, blasting Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Nihility Devouring Flame into the plains.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to create a Transformation Pill Ring that restrained and began shrinking the Emperor Pill Embryo.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, while Hun Tiandi held them off and was badly injured by Zhu Kun.
• Nihility Devouring Flame drew the Emperor Pill Embryo into the ring, but Hun Tiandi seized it before it reached him; Yao Yan chose not to intervene.
• Hun Tiandi grinned as Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun pressed him and swallowed the Emperor Pill Embryo.

Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Pill Embryo, gained tremendous but unstable power, and escaped with Yao Yan and the others to the Soul World. As Hun Tiandi began trying to suppress and refine the embryo, Zhu Kun revealed Tou She Ancient God's true identity and the inheritance that could serve as a fallback if Yao Yan's plan failed.

• Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Pill Embryo, healed his shattered body, and fought off Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun with his surging power.
• Hun Tiandi threw Yao Yan and the others through a Space Crack before escaping their attacks, leaving Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun trapped in the Ancient Emperor Space.
• Zhu Kun told Gu Yuan that Tou She Ancient God had been the Heavenly Flame Di Flame and explained that his inheritance might offer a fallback for Yao Yan's plan.
• Hun Tiandi returned to the Soul World, ordered the Four Demon Saints to seal its Space Passages, and said he would use the blood pool and a grand formation to refine the Emperor Pill Embryo with Yao Yan's help.

Hun Tiandi activated the Soul Devouring Life Extinguishing Array, slaughtering cities across the Central Plains to gather energy for refining the Emperor Pill and reaching Dou Di. Yao Yan took control of most of the array, but as Nihility Devouring Flame moved against him, Yao Yan prepared a counter with Nightmare Sky Mist.

• Hun Tiandi used the blood sea to reach Half-Emperor cultivation, then activated the array with Nihility Devouring Flame and Yao Yan ready to assist.
• A massive black Yao Ding sealed the Central Plains, and Hun Tiandi revealed his plan to refine the Emperor Pill Embryo using the land, its people, and heaven and earth.
• Black pillars slaughtered people in cities across the Central Plains, and Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun discovered the Soul Devouring Life Extinguishing Array beneath one ruined city.
• Hun Tiandi entrusted Yao Yan with controlling the array while he refined the Emperor Pill Embryo, but kept the array's core under his own control.
• Nihility Devouring Flame grew suspicious and moved to subdue Yao Yan, whose dormant Son of Heaven Fire revived as Yao Yan used Nightmare Sky Mist to construct a scene for him.

Yao Yan turned Nihility Devouring Flame’s attempt to possess him into a chance to suppress and devour him. As Hun Tiandi sacrificed the Central Plains and then the Soul Clan to complete the Emperor Pill, Yao Yan challenged him and claimed he was better suited to become a Dou Di and make the Soul Clan great again.

• Nihility Devouring Flame used the Son of Heaven Fire to invade Yao Yan’s body and began devouring his soul and the origins of his Twenty Exotic Flames.
• Yao Yan had Ling Er enter Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin, then suppressed him with the Flame Mantra and began devouring his memories and power.
• More than a month later, Hun Tiandi demanded that the Soul Clan’s descendants be sacrificed to supply the formation and complete the Emperor Pill.
• Hun Tiandi crushed Hun Tu and cast him into the blood sea when he objected, while the Three Elders sacrificed themselves and Hun Xuzi supported Hun Tiandi.
• Yao Yan told Hun Tiandi to sacrifice himself to complete the Emperor Pill, then declared that he was more suited to become a Dou Di and make the Soul Clan great again.

Yao Yan revealed his hidden Nine Star Dou Sheng cultivation and challenged Hun Tiandi, who had reached the Half-Emperor level. Their battle spread beyond the Blood Sea World, and Yao Yan used his avatars and Li Fire Grand Formation to push back Hun Tiandi’s attacks.

• Yao Yan unleashed his suppressed power, advancing to the middle stage of Nine Star Dou Sheng and declaring that Hun Tiandi must surrender the Soul Clan leadership.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Yao Yan, who countered with twenty Exotic Fire avatars, a Nine Profound Golden Lightning avatar, and multiple techniques to block Hun Tiandi’s Blood Blade strike.
• Hun Tiandi formed a massive Blood Hand Seal to crush Yao Yan, while Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Gu Xun’er, and others sensed the battle and watched with alarm.
• Yao Yan raised the Li Fire Grand Formation with his Exotic Flame avatars, and its fire lotus pushed back Hun Tiandi’s Blood Hand Seal as the formation’s flames evaporated its Blood Qi and Wrathful Spirits.

Yao Yan battled Hun Tiandi, using the Half-Emperor's blood-sea power to temper himself and advance to the late-stage Nine Star Dou Sheng realm. He trapped Hun Tiandi, severed his connection to the Emperor Pill Embryo, and began refining him as Nihility Devouring Flame joined Yao Yan and sent his power surging toward the Half-Emperor realm.

• Yao Yan swallowed Hun Tiandi's Blood Demon Heart Erosion Lightning and struck him into the blood sea with a punch.
• Hun Tiandi drew on the blood sea and slashed Yao Yan, but Yao Yan healed and used the battle to reach the late-stage Nine Star Dou Sheng realm.
• Yao Yan trapped Hun Tiandi inside a vast Yao Ding and used twenty Exotic Fire Origins to drain his power.
• Nihility Devouring Flame entered Hun Tiandi's body, but Yao Yan revealed that he had already refined it and poisoned Hun Tiandi with the Fallen Emperor Pill.
• Yao Yan used the Transformation Pill Ring to sever Hun Tiandi's connection to the Emperor Pill Embryo and grind him into energy, while Nihility Devouring Flame joined Yao Yan and drove his cultivation toward the Half-Emperor realm.

Yao Yan defeated Hun Tiandi and began absorbing his power to advance toward the Dou Di Realm, while the Central Plains formation dispersed and freed its survivors. With Yao Yan still absent, Gu Xun'er and Zhu Kun met Cai Lin and the others, leaving his allies waiting and tensions between the women emerging.

• Yao Yan overwhelmed Hun Tiandi, used evil qi to extinguish his consciousness, and began absorbing the Emperor Pill Embryo and Hun Tiandi’s remaining power.
• The Central Plains formation dispersed, and survivors learned that Hun Tiandi had intended to sacrifice the region to become an Emperor.
• In the Gu Realm, Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun concluded that Yao Yan had likely won and agreed to search the void for the Soul World.
• Zhu Kun brought Gu Xun'er to the Snake-People Tribe, where he told the anxious women that Yao Yan was likely breaking through to the Dou Di Realm.
• Cai Lin identified herself as Yao Yan’s woman, and her exchange with Gu Xun'er grew tense before Cai Die urged everyone to focus on finding him.

Three years after Hun Tiandi's defeat, Yao Yan emerged as a Dou Di and announced that the world could call him the Heavenly Emperor. His ascension shook the Dou Qi Continent and gave hope that he might solve its weakening Heaven and Earth Energy.

• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun concluded that the Central Plains' Heaven and Earth Energy could recover only to seventy percent, and hoped Yao Yan would find a solution.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun confirmed Hun Tiandi was dead while Yao Yan's Soul Imprint still flickered, as Xun'er and Yao Yan's other confidantes searched the void for him.
• A vast Space Crack opened above the Central Plains, revealing Yao Yan seated on a Green Lotus amid extraordinary phenomena as he declared himself the Heavenly Emperor.
• Yao Lao watched Yao Yan's ascension with mixed awe and unease over what he had learned about Yao Yan's past actions, while Xuan Yi comforted him.
• Su Qian and Heavenly Fire Venerable celebrated Yao Yan's achievement as the Dou Qi Continent reacted to the return of a Dou Di after ten thousand years.

After breaking through to Dou Di, Yao Yan discovered that his twenty-two fused Exotic Flames could produce Origin Emperor Qi and traveled to meet Tou She Ancient God's Remnant Soul. Tou She recognized their shared cultivation technique and offered Yao Yan the legacy he had left behind.

• Yao Yan ended the breakthrough phenomenon, gathered his Exotic Flames, and discovered that their fusion continuously produced Origin Emperor Qi.
• Yao Yan arrived at the Tou She Ancient God Statue, where Gu Lie, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun recognized him as the newly ascended Heavenly Emperor.
• Yao Yan confirmed that he had killed Hun Tiandi and asked Tou She Ancient God to appear; he then suppressed the statue's aura before it could force the others to kneel.
• Tou She Ancient God explained that the Dou Qi Continent's cultivation path had been severed and that his main body had left to seek a way forward in the Great Thousand World.
• Yao Yan asked for Tou She's legacy to strengthen himself for the journey ahead, and Tou She opened the statue's chest to let him take its vast reserve of Exotic Flame Dou Qi.

Yao Yan absorbed the Tou She Ancient God's inheritance and emerged as a Dou Di, then outlined plans for the Soul Clan and the future Heavenly Court. He promised to help Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan advance before leaving for the Great Thousand World, and privately tried to appease an angry Cai Lin.

• Yao Yan absorbed the Exotic Fire Ocean while Ling Er devoured its remaining energy, and the Tou She Ancient God's spirit disappeared after advising him to nurture her.
• After half a month, Yao Yan emerged from the shattered statue and reunited with Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, Gu Xun'er, Cai Lin, Cai Die, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.
• Yao Yan proposed secretly gathering the Soul Clan and Soul Hall into the Underworld while publicly establishing the Heavenly Court across the Dou Qi Continent.
• Yao Yan promised Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan that he would condense Source Qi for them and work to restore the continent's Heaven and Earth Energy before they went to the Great Thousand World.
• Yao Yan took Cai Lin to a Small World and tried to explain his relationships with Gu Xun'er, but Cai Lin remained skeptical as he flirted with her.

Yao Yan reunited with Gu Xun'er, took charge of the devastated Soul Clan, and offered the hunted Soul Hall a path beyond the Dou Qi Continent. He then reconciled with Yao Chen, explained his past, and the chapter ended with the two sharing tea as Yao Chen accepted that Yao Yan had become a Dou Di.

• Yao Yan spent several days with Gu Xun'er before leaving the Gu Realm to deal with the Soul Clan.
• Yao Yan arrived in the ruined Soul World and ordered the remaining Soul Clan members moved to a new world within the Heavenly Tomb, accepting the position of clan chief.
• Yao Yan found Hun Miesheng and the Soul Hall's surviving Heavenly Venerates in hiding, gave Hun Miesheng information about a wider world, and prompted them to leave the Dou Qi Continent.
• Yao Yan visited Yao Chen at the Small Pill Tower and recounted how Hun Xuzi had controlled his fate and placed his father among the Yao Clan.
• Yao Chen told Yao Yan he had initially resented him over the Yao Clan's destruction but had since let go of that resentment, then served him tea.

Yao Yan gave Yao Lao the preserved Yao Clan city, explained his plans for the Dou Qi Continent and the Great Thousand World, and married Cai Lin, Cai Die, and Gu Xun'er. Three years later, after establishing the Heavenly Court and searching the Void Sea, he found and devoured the dormant Demon Slaughter Emperor, whose memories revealed coordinates to the Great Thousand World and nearby worlds.

• Yao Yan entrusted Yao Lao with the preserved Yao Clan city, revealed that he had become Soul Clan Leader, and promised to end the Soul Hall’s reign of terror.
• Yao Yan told Yao Lao about the Great Thousand World and his plan to raise the Dou Qi Continent’s Heaven and Earth Energy and build the Heavenly Court.
• Yao Yan married Cai Lin and Cai Die in the Chuyun Empire, then married Gu Xun'er in a grand wedding at the Gu Clan.
• Three years later, Yao Yan ruled the peaceful Dou Qi Continent through the Heavenly Court and searched the Endless Star Region for a passage to the Great Thousand World.
• Yao Yan explored the ancient battlefield in the Void Sea, found the dormant Demon Slaughter Emperor, and devoured him to obtain his memories and spatial coordinates.

Yao Yan reopened the Dou Qi Continent’s connection to the Great Thousand World, unleashing a surge of energy that helped his allies advance and earned him immense Luck Energy. He then sent a fire lotus to the Tianxuan Continent, slipped past the Symbol Ancestor’s seal, and began planning to unify the world and find the Plane Womb.

• Yao Yan learned from the Demon Slaughter Emperor’s soul that the Different Demon Emperor had invaded the Tianxuan Continent and been sealed there by the Symbol Ancestor.
• Yao Yan sent a fire lotus bearing his Soul Imprint through the void to scout the Tianxuan Continent, then reopened the Dou Qi Continent’s connection to the Great Thousand World.
• Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Gu Xun'er, Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and others gained energy and entered seclusion, while Yao Yan placed the Heavenly Tomb at the spatial node to nourish the Soul Imprints inside.
• Yao Yan gained a surge of Luck Energy and brought Yun Yun and her disciple from the Misty Cloud Sect to the Heavenly Court so Yun Yun could cultivate.
• Yao Yan adapted his Chaos Qi to pass through the Symbol Ancestor’s seal and arrived on the Tianxuan Continent, where the Different Demon Emperor challenged him from his prison.
• Yao Yan told the Different Demon Emperor he would return in ten years, then set out to learn his location and begin a plan to unify the Tianxuan Continent and sense the Plane Womb.

Yao Yan studied the Tianxuan Continent’s cultivation systems and forced his way into the Reincarnation Realm, nearly consuming his Soul Imprint in the process. After the resulting Reincarnation Power drew the attention of the Eastern Xuan Region’s super sects, he prepared to meet Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master as they approached.

• Yao Yan absorbed information from Jade Slips in the Tianyan Dynasty Imperial Palace while Yan Tian served him and recognized his terrifying Soul Power.
• Yao Yan rapidly advanced through the Source Qi realms, entered the Nirvana Realm, and triggered a tribulation before comprehending reincarnation.
• Yao Yan’s Reincarnation Power spread across the Tianyan Dynasty and nearby dynasties, separating hundreds of millions of people’s souls from their bodies and alarming the Eight Great Super Sects.
• After the Reincarnation Power receded, Fu Valley’s Valley Master sent a Spirit Puppet toward the palace, but Yao Yan destroyed it, prompting the sect leaders to withdraw.
• Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master remained and headed for the palace, while Yao Yan reflected on his near-failure and prepared to receive them.

Yao Yan deceived and intimidated Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master with claims about the Different Demons, then offered to help them gain Reincarnation Power so they could confront the Yuan Sect. Back in the Dou Qi Continent, he began shaping the Underworld with the Six Paths of Reincarnation, planning to send it to the Tianxuan Continent.

• Yao Yan left Reincarnation Power in the sleeping old man's body and went to meet the newcomers.
• Yao Yan revealed to Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master that he came from the Dou Qi Continent and described the Great Thousand World and the Outer Realm Demons.
• Yao Yan claimed the Different Demon Emperor's seal would fail within a hundred years and exposed Tian Yuanzi and Ren Yuanzi as Yuan Sect figures allied with the Different Demons.
• Yao Yan offered to help Ying Xuanzi and the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace Master comprehend Reincarnation Power so they could deal with the Yuan Sect themselves.
• Yao Yan cultivated the Six Paths of Reincarnation in the Heavenly Court and began planning to integrate them into the Underworld before sending it to the Tianxuan Continent.