Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan completed his cultivation in the Heavenly Tomb, reaching Peak Nine-Star Dou Zun and forming the Xiao Tribe’s Nine-Stroke Clan Mark before Xiao Xuan sent him and Xun'er out. As the other clans’ young geniuses emerged, Xiao Xuan prepared to take the Heavenly Tomb to the Jia Ma Empire with Yao Lao guiding him home.

• Xiao Yan stabilized his cultivation at Peak Nine-Star Dou Zun, and Xiao Xuan gave him an Ancient Insect Emperor Robe and the next cultivation method for the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes.
• Xiao Yan completed the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and cultivated the Xiao Tribe’s Nine-Stroke Clan Mark, while Yao Lao and Xun'er watched.
• Xiao Xuan explained that he would move the Heavenly Tomb to the Jia Ma Empire after it entered the void, and Xiao Yan planned to return to the Xiao Tribe after leaving the Ancient Realm.
• After the three-year period ended, Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Yan and Xun'er out of the Heavenly Tomb and asked Yao Lao to guide him to the Xiao Tribe.
• The elders of the Emperor Clans watched as their young geniuses emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, including Lei Luo, Qingyang, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er emerged from the Heavenly Tomb as it closed, while the Soul Clan and Yao Clan discovered their members were missing. After Hun Lin accused Xiao Yan of killing the Soul Clan members and attacked him, Xiao Yan defeated him with one punch, revealing that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Zun.

• Xun'er and Huo Xuan attributed the missing clan members to an energy storm in the Heavenly Tomb, and Elder Tongxuan accepted their explanation.
• Hun Lin accused Xiao Yan of killing Hun Ya and Hun Li, and Xiao Yan said he had never found them inside the tomb.
• Hun Lin charged at Xiao Yan, who struck him with Eight Extremities Collapse and knocked him unconscious.
• The elders recognized that Xiao Yan had advanced from Six-Star Dou Zun to peak Nine-Star Dou Zun, and Hun Lin demanded that Tongxuan open a passage so the Soul Clan could leave.
• Tongxuan invited the clan elders to stay in the Ancient Realm overnight, while Xiao Yan secretly asked Huo Xuan to visit him so he could discuss Huo Yao's Fire Cloud Water Flame.

Xiao Yan left the Ancient Realm after inheriting Xiao Xuan’s plans, then returned to the Jia Ma Empire to rejoin the Xiao Tribe. The chapter ended with the clan’s guards failing to recognize him as he emerged from the Space Wormhole.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that Xiao Xuan had entrusted everything to him, while concealing that his ancestor planned to return to the Xiao Tribe.
• Hun Lin threatened Xiao Yan as he left Ancient Saint City, so Xiao Yan sent Wolf Spirit and Leopard Spirit to kill Hun Lin and the other Soul Clan elder.
• Ling Quan let the beasts leave with their prey, and Xiao Yan departed for the Star Realm.
• Xiao Yan told Venerable Feng that Yao Chen and Xiao Xuan had gone to the Xiao Tribe in the Jia Ma Empire, then traveled there himself.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Wutan City, where three Xiao Tribe Dou Emperors failed to recognize him and asked who he was.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Tribe and reunited with his father, Xiao Zhan, and the elders. After learning the tribe had prepared for his return, Xiao Yan brought Xiao Xuan to meet them, and Xiao Xuan praised the tribe’s recovery and Xiao Zhan’s leadership.

• A Xiao Tribe Dou Zong recognized Xiao Yan and escorted him to see Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan, learned he had recently become a Dou Zun, and revealed that he himself had reached Nine-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan praised the Three Elders’ use of the Three Beasts Wildness Technique and asked whether the non-Xiao Tribe residents had been cleared from Wutan City and the tribe members summoned.
• Xiao Yan explained the Xiao Tribe’s history and Xiao Xuan’s return to Xiao Zhan and the elders.
• Xiao Xuan appeared with Xiao Yan, assessed the tribe’s strength, and reassured the descendants that they had prospered despite the loss of their bloodline power.
• Xiao Xuan praised Clan Leader Xiao Zhan as the Jia Ma Mad Lion, leaving Xiao Zhan overwhelmed with excitement.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Yao Lao planned to move the Xiao Tribe into the Heavenly Tomb so its members could cultivate for six years while only one year passed outside. Xiao Xuan revealed that eight deceased Xiao Tribe Dou Sheng remained in the tomb, and Xiao Yan set out to gather materials to resurrect them.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan agreed to seal Wutan City and draw it into the Heavenly Tomb in three days, while Xiao Zhan prepared the clan and the Jia Ma Imperial Family arranged a blockade.
• Xiao Xuan asked Yao Lao to stay because he wanted to resurrect several old Xiao Tribe allies, and revealed that eight Dou Sheng remained on the Heavenly Tomb's third level.
• Xiao Yan promised to obtain Soul Infant Fruit, Spirit Dragon Heavenly Ganoderma, Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pills, eight Saint Remains, and suitable Essence Blood for the resurrection.
• Xiao Yan left to request eight Saint Remains from Zhu Kun, while Xiao Xuan offered to help Yao Lao advance to Four-Star Dou Sheng during the year in the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Yan borrowed eight Saint Remains from Zhu Kun, and Xiao Xuan transported Wutan City into the third level of the Heavenly Tomb to rebuild the Xiao Tribe. Xiao Xuan equipped the clan with resources and ordered its leaders to produce thirty Dou Zun experts within six years, then met with eight old subordinates.

• Xiao Yan obtained eight Saint Remains from Zhu Kun and returned to the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Yao Lao opened the Heavenly Tomb and drew Wutan City inside, hiding the transfer behind a Space Barrier Mirror.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Tribe elders discovered that Wutan City had arrived on the Heavenly Tomb's third level.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Zhan cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, and Energy Cores, and ordered the Xiao Tribe to produce at least thirty Dou Zun experts within six years.
• Xiao Xuan met eight old subordinates, and one of them spoke about waiting a thousand years to see him again.

Xiao Xuan directed the Xiao Tribe’s Eight Sages to gather Energy Cores while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao resurrected the clan’s leaders. After six years of cultivation in the Heavenly Tomb, Wutan City returned to the Jia Ma Empire, leaving the Xiao Tribe to decide whether to stay or return to the Central Plains.

• Xiao Xuan ordered the Eight Sages to collect Energy Cores and warned them not to reveal the Xiao Tribe’s return to the Soul Clan.
• The Eight Sages slaughtered Energy Entities across the Heavenly Tomb’s first and second levels and gathered their power.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao used their Heavenly Flames to resurrect the Eight Sages over the following months.
• Xiao Hong and the Eight Sages agreed to guard the Xiao Tribe as Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao began secluded cultivation.
• After six years, Xiao Yan noted the Xiao Tribe’s gains in strength, and Xiao Xuan said the Heavenly Tomb could no longer contain Wutan City.
• Xiao Xuan moved Wutan City back to the Jia Ma Empire, Yao Lao returned to the Star Realm, and the Xiao Tribe faced the choice of staying or returning to the Central Plains.

Xiao Xuan planned to reopen the Xiao Realm and move the Xiao Tribe back to Central Plains, but Xiao Yan learned the Soul Hall would soon attack the Northwest Continent, so the clan agreed to fight it first. Xiao Yan prepared the Jia Ma Empire for war and ended up at a Mittel Family auction, where the red-clad host noticed him.

• Xiao Xuan explained that the Xiao Realm had survived and proposed transporting Wutan City and the Xiao Tribe to Central Plains through the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan received word from his Soul Hall spy that the Soul Hall planned to wage war across the Northwest Continent in one month to gather souls.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Zhan agreed that the Xiao Tribe would stay to defeat the Soul Hall, while Xiao Yan proposed making Jia Ma Empire its primary target.
• Xiao Xuan went to visit the Dragon Emperor beneath Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan traveled to the Imperial Capital to alert the Jia Ma Imperial Family and his old friends.
• Xiao Yan raised Yun Shan to Dou Zun, left Jia Xingtian and Hai Bo Dong pills to aid their breakthroughs, then secretly attended a Mittel Family auction hosted by a captivating woman in red.
• The auction host swept her gaze across the crowd and noticed Xiao Yan sitting below.

The Xiao Tribe arrived at Black Stone Fortress with more than forty Dou Zun experts, and Xiao Yan confirmed that they would leave for the Central Plains after helping the Jia Ma Empire. As the Lion Underworld Sect’s army began its assault, Xiao Yan killed its leader and confronted the Soul Hall forces led by Xue He.

• Yun Shan and the Jia Ma Empire’s leaders were shocked when more than forty Xiao Tribe experts arrived, each stronger than Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan told Jia Xingtian that the Xiao Tribe would leave for the Central Plains after the battle and promised help through a Space Wormhole at the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Hong watched from above, identifying Soul Clan experts and a formation beneath the battlefield while preparing to rescue the Xiao Tribe if necessary.
• The Lion Underworld Sect army advanced, and Xiao Yan instantly killed its leader, Shi Tian, when he called for the Jia Ma Empire to surrender.
• Xiao Yan and the Xiao Tribe experts appeared before the Soul Hall forces, where Xue He recognized Xiao Yan and revealed that the Soul Hall had redirected its attack to find the Xiao Tribe.

Xiao Yan confronted Blood River Heavenly Venerable and revealed that the Xiao Tribe had assembled a large force of Dou Zun experts. As the fighting began, Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders challenged the Soul Hall's Heavenly Venerables, leaving the Sixth and Seventh Heavenly Venerables facing an unexpectedly powerful attack.

• Xiao Yan told Blood River Heavenly Venerable that he had already killed Mo Yu and Qiudi, then revealed the many experts gathered behind him from the Xiao Tribe.
• Blood River summoned the Soul Hall's Venerable Elders, but Xiao Zhan led the Xiao Tribe's Dou Zuns to charge them.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerable pursued Xiao Zhan, and the two peak Nine-Star Dou Zuns began fighting.
• The Sixth and Seventh Heavenly Venerables moved to attack the Xiao Tribe's ranks, but the Three Elders stepped forward to stop them.
• The Three Elders used the Three Beasts Wildness Technique and unleashed a combined attack that alarmed the Seventh Heavenly Venerable, while the Sixth Heavenly Venerable responded with Poison Soul Devour.

Xiao Yan killed Soul Hall’s Fourth Heavenly Venerable, Xue He, with his Condensing Fire Finger, turning the battle’s momentum in the Xiao Tribe’s favor. After the battlefield erupted in cheers, Xiao Yan addressed someone hiding in an empty patch of space.

• Blood River Heavenly Venerable summoned the Boundless Blood Sea and tried to drain Xiao Yan’s blood with the Blood Transformation Heavenly Technique.
• Xiao Yan shattered Blood River Heavenly Venerable’s blood pillars and revealed that he was also a Four-Transition Peak Dou Zun.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerable began absorbing the Boundless Blood Sea, but Xiao Yan struck him with Condensing Fire Finger before he could finish.
• Xiao Yan’s flaming finger vaporized the Boundless Blood Sea and killed Xue He, Soul Hall’s Fourth Heavenly Venerable.
• The Xiao Tribe’s experts cheered and fought more fiercely, while Xiao Yan told a hidden observer to come out.

Xiao Yan recovered his Dou Qi and turned the fight against the Soul Hall's Third Heavenly Venerable, using the Ancient Insect Emperor Robe to withstand a devastating attack. As Xiao Yan battered the Third Heavenly Venerable, Xiao Xuan and Xiao Hong watched from the void and discussed Xiao Chen's disappearance.

• The Third Heavenly Venerable confronted Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan replenished his Dou Qi with the Flame Mantra and mocked the venerable for failing to reach the Half-Saint realm.
• The Third Heavenly Venerable struck Xiao Yan's chest, but the Ancient Insect Emperor Robe protected him and sent the attacker flying.
• Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Third Heavenly Venerable with close-range attacks and detonated thirty-two layers of hidden force, making him spit blood.
• Soul Hall experts watched in shock as Xiao Yan suppressed their Nine-Transition Dou Zun Peak leader.
• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yan's strength, and Xiao Hong compared his fighting style to Blood Axe Xiao Chen, whose disappearance Xiao Xuan linked to the Soul Clan's schemes.

Xiao Yan defeated the Third Heavenly Venerable with his Clan Mark and Five-Wheel Fire Disk, while Xiao Zhan continued fighting the Fifth Heavenly Venerable. After Third Heavenly Venerable died, the Fifth Heavenly Venerable revealed that he had been concealing his cultivation.

• The Third Heavenly Venerable tried to overwhelm Xiao Yan with his Dou Qi, but Xiao Yan summoned the Xiao Tribe's Clan Mark and raised his cultivation to Peak Eight-Transition Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan summoned five Fire Spirits and formed the Five-Wheel Fire Disk, which collided with the Third Heavenly Venerable's Soul Fiend Heavenly Demon Palm.
• The explosion left Xiao Yan pale and the Third Heavenly Venerable gravely wounded, and the Soul Hall experts urged him to keep fighting.
• The Third Heavenly Venerable's body exploded after his life force had already vanished, and Xiao Yan burned the remains with his Heavenly Flames.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerable stopped playing with Xiao Zhan and revealed his concealed Peak One-Transition Dou Zun cultivation.

Xiao Yan and the Xiao Tribe defeated Soul Hall’s forces and launched an all-out assault that shattered the Lion Underworld Sect’s army. After helping the Jia Ma Empire stabilize the aftermath, Xiao Yan and the Xiao Tribe left for the Central Plains.

• Xiao Zhan revealed his hidden Peak Three-Revolution Dou Zun cultivation, chased down Fifth Heavenly Venerable, and killed him.
• The Three Elders of the Xiao Tribe killed Sixth Heavenly Venerable, while Seventh Heavenly Venerable and the remaining Soul Hall elders also fell in the fighting.
• After Soul Hall’s forces collapsed, Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan agreed that the battle was decided and called for an all-out assault on the Lion Underworld Sect.
• Jia Xingtian ordered the Jia Ma Empire army to attack, and the Lion Underworld Sect’s forces crumbled after losing Shi Tian and Soul Hall’s commanders.
• The Xiao Tribe stayed for seven days to help secure the Jia Ma Empire, then Xiao Yan departed with the clan and left Yun Shan instructions to protect the empire.

Xiao Xuan led the Xiao Tribe from Wutan City toward Central Plains and planned to reopen their ancestral Xiao Realm near the Star Realm. He sought the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s help to conceal the disturbance, leaving the Xiao Tribe’s return backed by a powerful new alliance.

• Xiao Xuan praised the Xiao Tribe’s victory over Soul Hall and instructed everyone to prepare for the journey to Central Plains.
• The Xiao Tribe secretly departed Wutan City in a Heavenly Palace phantom, while the Jia Ma Imperial Family suppressed news of the city’s disappearance.
• Xiao Xuan told Yao Lao that he was confident he could reopen the Xiao Realm and agreed with Xiao Yan’s suggestion to anchor it near the Star Realm.
• Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and the others traveled to Ancient Dragon Island to ask the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to conceal the disturbance in Void Space.
• Xiao Xuan introduced his eight former subordinates as the Eight Saints, and Great Elder Zhu Huo enthusiastically offered the clan’s assistance.

Xiao Xuan summoned the Xiao Tribe’s ancestral Xiao Realm from the depths of the void and anchored it, allowing the group to enter the preserved homeland. Xiao Yan learned that a million Xiao Tribe descendants had sacrificed their lives to freeze time there, and the tribe’s return could begin.

• Xiao Xuan asked the Four Elders of Zhu Huo to conceal the disturbance as he reopened the Xiao Realm.
• After the group reached the void corresponding to the Tianquan Mountain Range, Xiao Xuan traced runes and summoned the ancestral land with the help of the Xiao Tribe’s Eight Sages and Yao Lao.
• The Four Elders of Zhu Huo transformed into Ancient Dragons and formed a Void Array to conceal the realm’s fluctuations.
• Xiao Xuan anchored the approaching Xiao Realm, then brought everyone inside to see its untouched landscape.
• Xiao Yan marveled at the realm’s energy and asked why it had not decayed; Xiao Xuan explained that a million Xiao Tribe descendants had used a forbidden art to freeze time before the tribe withdrew.

Xiao Xuan brought Xiao Yan and the others into the Xiao Realm and showed them the ancestral land the Xiao Tribe had lost for a thousand years. As the Space-Shuttle Boat reached the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range, Xiao Xuan excitedly planned the clan’s revival, unaware that he was crying.

• Xiao Xuan explained how the Xiao Realm had been hidden in the void and why a Dou Sheng expert was needed to restore it for the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Xuan summoned a Space-Shuttle Boat, and he led Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, the Four Elders of Zhu Huo, and the Eight Sages aboard.
• Xiao Xuan showed them the former divisions of the Xiao Tribe and described plans to use Wutan City as the clan’s future link to the outside world.
• Xiao Xuan guided the boat to the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range and proposed moving the clansmen there, rebuilding the Judicator Legion, and restoring the clan’s old titles.
• Xiao Xuan realized that tears were running down his cheeks, while the Eight Sages knelt and begged him to stop talking.

After learning that the Xiao Tribe had been destroyed, Xiao Xuan lost control in grief, then calmed himself and resolved to rebuild the tribe. He and the others crossed the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range and prepared to stabilize the Xiao Realm so the descendants could settle there.

• Xiao Xuan learned that the Xiao Tribe had been destroyed a thousand years earlier and unleashed his grief and power over the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range.
• The Xiao Tribe's Clan Protection Array activated and formed an ancestral phantom, but Xiao Xuan dispersed the formation once he regained control.
• Xiao Xuan admitted he had never forgotten the deaths of his tribe's descendants and vowed to make amends as the Xiao Tribe rebuilt.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the Clan Protection Array held the first Xiao Dou Di's power and remnant soul, though the tribe's weakened bloodline limited its strength.
• Xiao Xuan guided the group across the mountain range and proposed that the Dou Sheng experts organize the Xiao Realm's violent energy.
• Zhu Huo and the Four Elders chose to stay and help, while Xiao Xuan thanked them and promised to visit Ancient Dragon Island.

Xiao Xuan settled the Xiao Tribe in its ancestral realm and began connecting it to the Star Realm, while Xiao Yan spent time with his clan. Xiao Yan ended up facing a challenge from five relatives in the Martial Arts Arena as the tribe gathered to watch.

• Xiao Xuan and the sages purified the natural energy in the Xiao Realm while Xiao Yan cultivated for a month.
• Xiao Xuan released Wutan City into the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range and ordered Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders to move the tribe’s descendants there.
• Xiao Xuan took the Heavenly Tomb into the Xiao Realm and left with Yao Lao to open a passage between the Xiao Realm and the Star Realm.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li brought Xiao Yan to the Martial Arts Arena, where Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Mei challenged him alongside them.
• The Xiao Tribe’s young members crowded around the arena to watch Xiao Yan fight the five other Dou Zun powerhouses.

Xiao Yan tested the Xiao Tribe’s young leaders by having his lightning clone defeat Xiao Ding and four others in a single attack. Xiao Zhan explained that the lesson was meant to curb their arrogance and urged the tribe’s elders to keep striving as the Xiao Tribe prepared to relocate.

• Xiao Yan summoned a lightning clone to fight Xiao Ding and four other young members of the Xiao Tribe.
• The clone used the Thousand-Shattering Thunder Hammer to summon a Single-Horned Thunder Beast, which shattered the five fighters’ combined attacks.
• Xiao Yu spotted Xiao Yan hiding among the crowd, and she and the others chased after him as the watching clansmen looked on.
• Xiao Zhan told the Great Elder that he had arranged the defeat to remind the young members they still lagged behind the Central Plains’ top geniuses.
• Xiao Zhan vowed to challenge the Half-Saint realm within ten years, urged the Three Elders to keep pursuing sainthood, and said the tribe would begin relocating its one hundred thousand clansmen the next morning.