Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Demon Puppets to turn the fight against the Soul and Yao Clan members in his favor, then challenged Hun Ya while Xun'er faced Hun Li. The battle continued as Xun'er struck Hun Li before he could finish boasting.

• Xiao Yan summoned eleven Heavenly Demon Puppets, which combined their power into one puppet that reached Nine-Star Dou Zun strength.
• Yao Xingji and Yao Li activated their Clan Marks and fought the Nine-Star puppet, while Xiao Yan and Xun'er took on Hun Ya and Hun Li.
• Xiao Yan clashed with Hun Ya and sent him flying, then explained that Ancient Dragon Essence Blood had strengthened his body.
• Xun'er confronted Hun Li and agreed to compete with Xiao Yan to see who would defeat their opponent first.
• Hun Li boasted about his secret clashes with Ancient Clan experts, but Xun'er slapped him before he finished.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er fought Hun Li and Hun Ya, revealing their strength and countering the Soul Clan’s techniques. Xiao Yan launched his Azure Sky Spear at Hun Ya, whose Soul Devour defense began to give way.

• Xun'er revealed that she was a Seven-Star Peak Dou Zun and attacked Hun Li with her Dark Gold Flame Long Whip.
• Hun Ya unleashed Ten Thousand Soul Heaven Lock, but Xiao Yan’s Fallen Heart Flame whips tore through the chain net.
• Xiao Yan fired Fire God Arm at Hun Ya, whose Underworld Dragon Return Burial clashed with the flame wolf in a draw.
• Xiao Yan formed and hurled the Azure Sky Spear at Hun Ya.
• Hun Ya used Soul Devour to defend himself, but the spear rapidly thinned his black mist and destroyed its souls.

Xiao Yan destroyed Hun Ya’s Soul Bag, then matched Hun Ya’s Clan Mark with his Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes. Xiao Yan unleashed the Great Heaven Creation Palm, and as Hun Ya fled its expanding black ring, another Xiao Yan appeared in his path.

• Hun Ya detonated the souls in his black mist to destroy Xiao Yan’s Azure Sky Spear, but Xiao Yan revealed he had spotted the Soul Bag’s location.
• Xiao Yan struck Hun Ya’s waist with the Sky Annihilation Seal, breaking the Soul Bag and releasing nearly all its souls.
• Hun Ya activated his Soul Clan Clan Mark to rise to Eight-Star Dou Zun, and Xiao Yan used the three changes of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes to reach the same level.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Great Heaven Creation Palm, whose expanding black ring disintegrated Hun Ya’s Soul-Shattering Underworld Palm.
• Hun Ya tried to flee the black ring, but another Xiao Yan stepped out of the space in front of him.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Ya, while the Wolf Spirit devoured Hun Li after Xun'er drove him to flee. Xiao Yan and Xun'er then reached the Yao Clan battlefield, where Yao Xingji and Yao Li had been captured by the Heavenly Demon Puppet.

• Xiao Yan's clone struck Hun Ya into the black ring of light, killing him before the clone dissolved.
• Hun Li used Life Soul Lock to flee Xun'er, but the Wolf Spirit's howl shattered his escape, and the beast swallowed him.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Wolf Spirit had eaten Hun Li to keep the Soul Clan from identifying their killers through the corpses.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er flew to the Yao Clan battlefield after learning that Yao Xingji and Yao Li had fallen out of their Clan Mark state and been captured by the Heavenly Demon Puppet.

Xiao Yan extracted the Nine Nether Wind Flame from Yao Xingji, leaving him mortally injured and stripped of his cultivation and soul power. After Yao Xingji died, Xiao Yan burned his body and left with Xun'er.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er subdued the Nine Nether Wind Flame and sealed it inside a jade box.
• Yao Xingji woke to find his cultivation, soul realm, and body devastated by the flame's extraction.
• Yao Xingji threatened Xiao Yan, then begged him for a life-saving pill as his remaining time dwindled.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Xingji that Yao Li was dead and revealed that his final five minutes had passed.
• Yao Xingji collapsed and died, and Xiao Yan burned his body before leaving with Xun'er.

After a month collecting Energy Cores on the Heavenly Tomb’s second level, Xiao Yan and Xun'er stopped hunting and settled down to cultivate. Xiao Yan swallowed the Nine Nether Wind Flame to devour it, while Xun'er pursued the Eight-Star Dou Zun realm.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er defeated a Level Nine Energy Entity, and Xun'er explained that such entities had lost some of their memories and combat instincts.
• Xun'er counted their Energy Cores, and the pair decided they had collected enough and chose a safe place to cultivate.
• Xun'er began cultivating with an Energy Core while the Heavenly Demon Puppet guarded them.
• Xiao Yan released the Nine Nether Wind Flame from its jade box and swallowed it, but found that the Yao Clan's many imprints and contracts were difficult to clear.
• Xiao Yan called on the Great Ming King to help and used the Flame Mantra, surrounding himself in a cocoon of azure flames as his aura grew stronger.

After refining the Nine Nether Wind Flame, Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er and prepared to seek Child Flames from the Yan Tribe before entering the Heavenly Tomb’s third level. When a Great Energy Storm swept toward them with two Yan Tribe members among the fleeing survivors, Xiao Yan decided to risk saving them, and Xun'er agreed to help.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Cyan Giant Cocoon after two months and seven days, having refined the Nine Nether Wind Flame and reached Seven-Star Peak Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan told Xun'er he wanted Child Flames from Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi, and the pair set out to find them within seven days.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er encountered members of several clans but failed to find anyone from the Yan Tribe before their deadline.
• As the pair prepared to give up the search, two Lei Clan members raced past and Xun'er spotted a Great Energy Storm approaching.
• Xiao Yan recognized two Yan Tribe members among the fleeing figures and decided to save them in hopes of obtaining their Child Flames, while Xun'er agreed to accompany him.
• Xiao Yan summoned Wolf Spirit to help them confront the approaching storm.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er rescued Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi from an energy storm in the Heavenly Tomb. After they reached safety, Xiao Yan admitted he had planned to create danger to make Huo Xuan hand over the Child Flame, leaving Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi wary of him.

• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er rode a giant Wolf Spirit toward the energy storm while the Shi Clan and Ling Clan members fled away from it.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi, low on Dou Qi after fighting a Nine-Level Energy Entity, prepared for Huo Xuan to sacrifice himself and pass the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame to Huo Zhi.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er arrived on the Wolf Spirit, pulled Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi aboard, and sped away from the storm.
• Xiao Yan led the group to the storm's flank, where Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi thanked him for saving them.
• Xiao Yan confessed that he had planned to create dangers to force Huo Xuan to give him the Child Flame, and Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi recoiled in alarm.

Xiao Yan obtained two Heavenly Flame child flames from Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi, then advanced to Eight-Star Dou Zun and traveled with them and Xun'er to the entrance to the Heavenly Tomb's third level. There, they joined the other clans and waited for the missing Soul Clan and Yao Clan members, unaware that those four had already died.

• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi agreed to separate their Heavenly Flame child flames for Xiao Yan, who gave them Tier 7 Instant Qi Pills while they recovered.
• The next day, Xiao Yan refined the pale black flame and red Fire Lotus, advanced to Eight-Star Dou Zun, and gave Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi Eighth-Grade healing pills with Seven-Color Pill Lightning.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi chose to go with Xiao Yan and Xun'er to the third level, and the four traveled across the second level for ten days.
• At the third-level entrance, Xiao Yan and Xun'er met members of the Xiao Tribe, Ancient Clan, Lei Clan, Yan Tribe, Shi Clan, and Ling Clan.
• Gu Qingyang said the clans would wait seven days before breaking through the Energy Canopy, hoping the missing Soul Clan and Yao Clan members would arrive.
• Xiao Yan suggested the missing members might have died in an energy storm, and the group settled down to cultivate while waiting.

Xiao Yan and the other ancient clans broke through the third layer’s closing crystal passage after discovering it was formed by Ancient Devouring Insects. Xiao Yan transformed into the Great Ming King and led the group out, unknowingly swallowing a pale red insect egg.

• Yao Lao sensed Xiao Yan’s Fire Seal and left to meet Zhu Huo and the Four Great Elders before heading to Jia Nan Academy, leaving Tian Huo to guard the Star Realm and Venerable Feng to oversee the Four Square Pavilions.
• After waiting seven days without the Soul Clan or Yao Clan, Gu Qingyang led the group in breaking through the barrier to the third layer of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan noticed the passage closing behind them and discovered that Ancient Devouring Insects were sealing the crystal walls.
• Xiao Yan transformed into the Great Ming King and smashed through the walls while the others supplied him with Energy Cores.
• The Great Ming King broke through the final emerald-green crystal wall and carried the group outside, swallowing a pale red insect egg hidden inside it.

Xiao Yan used the Xiao Tribe's Clan Mark to call for Ancestor Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb. Xiao Xuan appeared and welcomed him, while Xiao Yan realized his ancestor had witnessed his dealings with the Yao Clan and Yan Tribe.

• After the Lei Clan brothers and members of the other clans departed, Xiao Yan invited Gu Qingyang and the others to accompany him and Xun'er to Xiao Xuan's Cave Abode.
• Xiao Yan activated the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and revealed the Xiao Tribe's nine-stroke Clan Mark, startling Gu Qingyang and the others.
• Xiao Yan poured his Dou Qi into the Clan Mark and called for his ancestor across the third level of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan sensed the call in a mysterious hall, watched Xiao Yan through a pool, and vanished to meet him.
• Xiao Xuan appeared before Xiao Yan's group, welcomed Xiao Yan, and praised his conduct as a member of the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Yan realized Xiao Xuan had watched him kill Yao Clan members, take their flame, and threaten the Yan Tribe for its flames.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb, explained the Xiao Tribe’s current fortunes, and asked his ancestor to let him attempt a resurrection. Xiao Xuan doubted the plan because two rare treasures needed to restore his remnant soul were difficult to obtain.

• Xiao Xuan led Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and their companions to his Tomb Mansion and told Gu Qingyang and the others to cultivate outside.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that the Xiao Tribe had survived as a regional power, with Xiao Zhan planning to reach Dou Zun.
• Xiao Xuan explained that his extraction of the tribe’s bloodline had made later generations weaker, then offered to replace Xiao Yan’s blood with the preserved Xiao Tribe Emperor Blood.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he already knew Xiao Xuan’s history and asked to revive him, explaining that his Emperor Realm remnant soul could theoretically be restored.
• Xiao Xuan questioned how Xiao Yan could obtain the Soul Infant Fruit and Spirit Dragon Heavenly Ganoderma needed to replenish his depleted Origin Soul Energy.

Xiao Yan presented Xiao Xuan with the rare ingredients and resurrection materials needed to restore his body, and explained that Yao Chen would perform the procedure. As Xiao Yan contacted Yao Chen and Zhu Kun to arrange entry into the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yan and welcomed Xun’er as a future member of the Xiao Tribe.

• Xiao Yan showed Xiao Xuan two Soul Infant Fruits and three Spirit Dragon Heavenly Ganodermas to replenish his Origin Soul Energy.
• Xiao Yan shared Yao Chen’s method for reforging a body and presented Saint Creation’s remains, a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill, and Zhu Kun’s Essence Blood as resurrection materials.
• Xiao Xuan asked how Xiao Yan had obtained Zhu Kun’s Essence Blood, and Xiao Yan explained that he had requested it from Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Yan said Yao Chen would perform the resurrection and that Zhu Kun could open a spatial passage into the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan began contacting Yao Chen and Zhu Kun, while Xiao Xuan praised Xun’er’s Ancient Clan bloodline and teased her about marrying into the Xiao Tribe.

Xiao Yan coordinated with Zhu Kun to bring Yao Lao into the Heavenly Tomb, where Yao Lao began preparing the ingredients for Xiao Xuan’s resurrection. The chapter ended with the medicinal essences ready for the next stage of the process.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao and Zhu Kun that he had reached Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Mansion and was ready for the transfer.
• Zhu Kun and the five Ancient Dragons activated the array, using Xiao Yan’s Dragon Seal to locate the Heavenly Tomb and send Yao Lao there.
• Yao Lao arrived at Xiao Xuan’s Tomb Mansion and agreed to help resurrect him.
• Yao Lao used the Bone Chilling Flame to refine the Soul Infant Fruits and Spirit Dragon Heavenly Ganoderma into medicinal essences.

Yao Chen restored Xiao Xuan’s soul to the Emperor Realm and began preparing the Saint Remains for his resurrection. When the Blood-Melting Bone-Growing Pill transformed into a woman and pleaded for her life, Xiao Xuan killed her and left behind the pill.

• Yao Chen gave Xiao Xuan two masses of medicinal liquid, restoring his soul and allowing it to reach the Emperor Realm.
• Xiao Xuan gave Yao Chen a strand of soul power, and Yao Chen infused the Saint Remains with purplish-gold Essence Blood.
• Yao Lao used Xiao Yan’s ten-colored fire lotus to refine the Essence Blood into the Saint Remains while Xiao Xuan reacted with disbelief at Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Xuan to take the Blood-Melting Bone-Growing Pill and enter the prepared remains.
• The pill transformed into a woman and begged Xiao Xuan to spare her, but Xiao Xuan trapped and shattered her, leaving behind a dark-red pill.

Xiao Xuan completed the fusion of his soul and reconstructed body, returning to life after a thousand years. Xiao Yan then contacted Zhu Kun to arrange Yao Chen’s departure from the Heavenly Tomb, while Zhu Kun asked to meet Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Xuan used the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and the White Jade Puppet to rebuild his body as Yao Lao controlled the Heavenly Flames for a month.
• Xiao Xuan awoke, dismissed the Heavenly Flames, and announced his return, causing the Heavenly Tomb to shake and its inhabitants to fear his emergence.
• Xiao Xuan thanked Yao Lao and Xiao Yan, then agreed to help Yao Chen leave the Heavenly Tomb without being discovered.
• Xiao Yan sent Zhu Kun a message through the Dragon Seal to report that Xiao Xuan had succeeded and could bring Yao Chen out.
• Zhu Kun told the Four Elders of Zhu Huo to return to Ancient Dragon Island and asked them to tell Zi Yan to visit him after she awoke.
• Zhu Kun asked Xiao Yan to bring Xiao Xuan to meet him if the opportunity arose, having sensed Xiao Xuan’s great strength during the spatial passage.

Xiao Xuan revealed that he had regained Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng strength and explained why Xiao Yan needed to inherit the Xiao Tribe Bloodline to pursue the Emperor Realm. The chapter ended with Xiao Xuan transferring his bloodline into a pool, leaving him weakened to Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, while Yao Lao gave him a Primordial Pill.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and Xun'er that he had reached Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng and recounted how the Ancient Clan had once considered seizing his Energy Core and the Xiao Tribe's inheritance.
• Xiao Xuan explained that a God-Grade Bloodline was one of three requirements for reaching the Emperor Realm and said his remaining Xiao Tribe Bloodline could grow within Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan resisted taking the bloodline, but Xiao Xuan, Yao Lao, and Xun'er persuaded him to accept it for the sake of the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Xuan cut his palm and transferred the Xiao Tribe Bloodline into the pool, causing his cultivation to fall to Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Xuan a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill-level Primordial Pill, which Xiao Xuan accepted and swallowed.

Xiao Yan stabilized Xiao Xuan’s cultivation, and Xiao Xuan proposed combining Xiao Yan’s Xiao Tribe and Dragon-Phoenix bloodlines with Xun’er’s Ancient Clan bloodline. After Xun’er offered her blood and Xiao Yan stopped her before her bloodline grade fell, he entered the blood pool to undergo a blood exchange; Xiao Xuan then revealed he intended to take away the Heavenly Tomb and began explaining what he had discovered about it.

• Xiao Yan swallowed a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill, stabilizing Xiao Xuan’s cultivation at the late Seven-Star Dou Sheng stage.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that the current Dragon Emperor was his younger sister and the former Dragon Emperor was his uncle.
• Xiao Xuan proposed using Xun’er’s Ancient Clan bloodline to help fuse Xiao Yan’s Xiao Tribe and Dragon-Phoenix bloodlines, and Xun’er began offering her blood.
• Xiao Yan stopped Xun’er from giving more blood, healed her wrist, and gave her a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill; Xiao Xuan placed the collected blood into the pool.
• Xiao Yan entered the blood pool and began the blood exchange while Xiao Xuan warned him not to break through too many realms too quickly.
• Xiao Xuan announced that he intended to take away the Heavenly Tomb and explained its origins and how he had become an Energy Entity there.

Xiao Xuan revealed his plan to defeat the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb and take the entire Heavenly Tomb for the Xiao Tribe. As Xiao Yan began the painful blood replacement, Xiao Xuan attacked the Spirit while Yao Lao and Xun'er cultivated nearby.

• Xiao Xuan explained that he had gained control of more than half the Heavenly Tomb and planned to seize all its authority and take it away for the Xiao Tribe.
• Yao Lao and Xun'er agreed to keep the plan secret, and Xiao Xuan said the Ancient Clan would not discover the Heavenly Tomb was gone until it next opened.
• Xiao Xuan gave Yao Lao Energy Cores from dead Soul Clan experts and urged him and Xun'er to cultivate while Xiao Yan underwent blood replacement.
• Xiao Yan entered the blood pool, where a crimson vortex began extracting his ordinary blood and caused him intense pain.
• Xiao Xuan attacked the Spirit of the Heavenly Tomb with his Emperor Realm Soul to try to take complete control.

Xiao Yan’s blood transfusion fused the Ancient Clan, Xiao Tribe, and Dragon-Phoenix bloodlines into a new purple-gold bloodline, and he awakened after half a year of recovery. Xiao Xuan revealed that the bloodline’s sealed energy could push Xiao Yan toward Half-Saint, but warned that advancing too quickly would destroy his chance of reaching Dou Sheng.

• After ten days of blood loss, Xiao Yan’s blood began flowing back into his body, and the three bloodline powers intertwined around his heart.
• Over the following year, the bloodlines condensed into a purple-gold diamond-shaped crystal as Xiao Xuan fully took control of the Heavenly Tomb and gained Nine-Star Dou Sheng-level strength within it.
• Xiao Xuan saw the crystal enter Xiao Yan’s heart and watched the newborn bloodline begin spreading through his body.
• After standing guard for half a year, Xiao Xuan shielded Yao Lao and Xun'er as Xiao Yan awakened and dispersed two purple-red beams with his aura.
• Xiao Yan’s strength surged from Eight-Star Dou Zun to Nine-Transition Dou Zun Peak, and Xiao Xuan warned him that entering Half-Saint too soon would prevent him from ever reaching Dou Sheng.