Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan killed the North Dragon King and used the Dragon-Slaying Sword to end the rebellion and reunify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan. The defeated leaders were brought before her in the Dragon Emperor Hall, where Xuan Mo began to identify himself as a criminal dragon.

• Zi Yan rejected the North Dragon King's pleas for mercy, executed him, and stored his corpse at Xiao Yan's request.
• After Bai Xian sounded the Golden Dragon Bone Horn, the Ancient Dragon Army routed the Three Islands Allied Forces, and the surviving enemies surrendered when Zi Yan revealed the Dragon-Slaying Sword.
• Ancient Dragons gathered to pay homage to Zi Yan as their Emperor, and Zhu Li told Xuan Mo that the Emperor had always been there.
• Xuan Mo followed Zhu Li and Qi You to Ancient Dragon Island, where Great Elder Zhu Huo brought Xuan Mo, Zhu Mu, and Lie Shan before Zi Yan.
• In the Dragon Emperor Hall, Zi Yan ordered the three defeated leaders brought in, and Xuan Mo began his confession.

Zi Yan reunited the Ancient Dragon Clan’s four islands and celebrated the return of the unified clan. After Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan departed, Zi Yan returned to the Dragon Emperor Hall to handle clan affairs.

• Zi Yan and the Ancient Dragon Clan’s eight Dou Sheng elders performed the ritual that merged the four islands into one vast Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan announced the clan’s reunification and released the Dragon Emperor’s bloodline pressure, prompting the Ancient Dragons to cheer and take to the skies.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Xuan she would visit her father and deliver the Three Kings’ bodies, then promised Xiao Yan she would help fight Soul Hall after stabilizing the clan.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan left through a Space Wormhole, while Zi Yan returned to the Dragon Emperor Hall with Hei Qing.
• Hei Qing told another Ancient Dragon that Xiao Xuan had promised to help him advance to Dou Sheng once he reached Advanced Half-Saint.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen planned a preemptive strike against Soul Hall, using Wang Qinian, a hidden spy who had risen to become a branch hall master, to locate its branch halls. Xiao Yan summoned Wang Qinian while Soul Hall’s forces prepared for war with the Sky Mansion Alliance.

• Xiao Yan returned to the Star Realm and told Yao Chen that the Ancient Dragon Clan had reunited under Zhu Kun.
• Yao Chen proposed attacking Soul Hall first, noting that the Four Square Pavilions had gained several Half-Saints and Tian Huo had become a One-Star Dou Sheng; Xiao Yan added that Xiao Xuan would secretly send Xiao Tribe experts.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen agreed to use Wang Qinian, a Four-Star Dou Zun and Earthly Fiend Branch Hall master, to reveal the locations of Soul Hall’s branch halls and arranged to fake his death so he could escape.
• Xiao Yan performed a summoning seal in the Star Realm, calling Wang Qinian back from the Northwest Region.
• At a Soul Hall branch hall, a blue-haired old man told the white-robed hall master that the Earthly Fiend Branch Halls were recalling their affiliated experts as war with the Sky Mansion Alliance approached.

Wang Qinian, a Soul Hall branch hall master secretly serving Wangtian, received a signal from Xiao Yan after twenty years of silence. Xiao Yan summoned him to the Star Realm, revealed that Wangtian had become the Four Square Pavilions, and left Wang Qinian eager to escape the Soul Hall.

• The white-robed Hall Master told Venerable Qing Hai that the Soul Hall would attack the Sky Mansion Alliance in seven days and ordered the branch halls to gather their Soul Origin.
• After the Hall Master left, Qing Hai resented being outranked by Protector Zhi, who had risen rapidly through the Soul Hall.
• In his quiet chamber, the Hall Master, Wang Qinian, saw Wangtian's Green Lotus Imprint appear and used its secret technique to contact his lord.
• Xiao Yan summoned Wang Qinian's soul to the Star Realm and learned that he had infiltrated the Soul Hall as Wangtian's Chief Elder.
• Xiao Yan told Wang Qinian that Wangtian had become the Four Square Pavilions and appointed him an elder, but Wang Qinian still called him Wangtian and eagerly asked to leave the Soul Hall.

Xiao Yan brought Soul Hall intelligence to Yao Chen and Xiao Xuan, prompting the Sky Mansion Alliance to move against Soul Hall the next day. Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Tribe’s Dou Zun experts to join the fight under the identity of Four Square Pavilions elders, with Xiao Hong and others assigned to keep them alive.

• Xiao Yan learned from Wang Qinian the locations of Soul Hall’s Earth Hall, Human Hall, and twenty branch halls, then arranged for Wang Qinian to fake his death later.
• Xiao Yan informed Yao Chen that the alliance had located twenty-two Earthly Fiend Branch Halls, and Yao Chen moved the planned attack forward to the next day.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that Soul Hall’s soul-gathering might be supporting a mysterious person meant to restrain Gu Yuan, and Xiao Xuan inferred Hun Tiandi’s plan to pursue the Tou She Ancient God’s cave abode.
• Xiao Xuan ordered Xiao Zhan to lead the Xiao Tribe’s Dou Zun experts against Soul Hall while posing as Four Square Pavilions elders.
• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Hong and seven others to support the Xiao Tribe’s fighters and ensure none of their experts died.

Yao Chen and the Four Square Pavilions waited at the Star Realm’s Space Wormhole for the Sky Mansion Alliance’s leaders, and the Flower Sect and Pill Tower arrived. The gathering continued as Yao Chen reunited with Hua Qing and Xuan Yi, while Burning Flame Valley and Ice River Valley had yet to appear.

• Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian teased each other over which faction would arrive first, and Yao Chen punished them both after the Flower Sect arrived first.
• Hua Qing reunited with Yao Chen, while Xiao Yan held Yun Yun’s hand and the Flower Sect elders laughed at them.
• Old Monster Lin led Pill Tower’s delegation and remarked on Yao Chen’s rise to Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xuan Yi left the Pill Tower group to greet Yao Chen and exchanged a pointed greeting with Hua Qing.

Yao Chen gathered the Sky Mansion Alliance’s leaders to plan their final assault on the Soul Hall, while Huoyun and the Ice River Valley delegation arrived. Hua Qing challenged Yao Chen’s proposed division of targets, and she offered for the Flower Sect and Pill Tower to take on extra branch halls.

• Qing Lin called the tense exchange between Hua Qing and Xuan Yi a Shura field, and Yao Chen extended her and Xiao Yi Xian’s wall-facing punishment by ten days.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun and Tang Zhen arrived with Burning Flame Valley, followed by Venerable Ice and Ice River Valley; Yao Chen and Huoyun traded barbs about their cultivation and rivalry.
• Tian Shuangzi explained that Bing He had stayed away because Huoyun’s advancement to Two-Star Dou Sheng upset him, and Yao Chen revealed that he had once healed Bing He’s injuries.
• Yao Chen proposed that each of the four other alliance factions handle five Soul Hall branch halls while the Four Square Pavilions took seven branch halls and the Earth Hall and Human Hall.
• Hua Qing objected that the Four Square Pavilions would face too many powerful opponents and offered for the Flower Sect and Pill Tower to take one additional branch hall each.

Yao Chen finalized the alliance’s plan to attack the Soul Hall’s branch halls, with the Xiao Tribe joining the campaign. After the other faction leaders departed, Xiao Yan told Yao Chen that captured Soul Origin could help them advance their soul realms, and revealed that he had already approached others about it.

• Hua Qing and Xuan Yi accepted the division of forces, while Xiao Zhan arrived and Yao Chen assigned the Xiao Tribe to attack two Soul Hall branch halls.
• The four factions selected five branch halls each, and Yao Chen ordered a simultaneous assault before noon the next day with spatial barriers to prevent warnings or escape.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen about his progress toward the Emperor Realm, and Yao Chen said he had advanced only halfway toward it in twelve years.
• Xiao Yan explained that Soul Origin stored in the branch halls could help Yao Chen reach the Emperor Realm and help Xiao Yan attain Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Yao Chen realized Xiao Yan had already discussed the Soul Origin with others, and Xiao Yan confirmed that he had.

Yao Chen and Xiao Yan organized a simultaneous assault on all nine Soul Hall branch halls, with Xiao Yan leading the team against the Human Hall. As the attack began, five enormous flame beasts shattered the Human Hall’s spatial barrier and surrounded it.

• Yao Chen assigned the Four Square Pavilions, the Xiao Tribe, and their allies to attack the nine branch halls simultaneously at noon.
• Xiao Yan led his team to the Corpse Burial Mountain Range and concealed their presence until the appointed time.
• Xiao Yan signaled the assault, and the team advanced on the Human Hall’s spatial barrier.
• A giant wolf smashed through the barrier and crushed several Soul Hall Protectors, then a giant leopard and three more flame beasts joined it.
• The five flame beasts surrounded the black hall, leaving the surviving Protectors stunned by their immense power.

Xiao Yan led the Four Square Pavilions in a one-sided assault on Soul Hall, then confronted Great Heavenly Venerable and revealed he had reached Two-Star Dou Sheng. After Xiao Yan wounded him, Great Heavenly Venerable summoned a massive bone blade, and their fight continued.

• The Invisible Giant Wolf swallowed a Soul Hall Venerable Elder, and the Five Spirits attacked the Soul Hall forces alongside the Four Square Pavilions elders.
• Xiao Yan ordered his allies to stand down as he faced Great Heavenly Venerable, then revealed his Two-Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Great Heavenly Venerable attacked Xiao Yan with sharp bones, but Xiao Yan vanished and struck him from behind with Eight Extremities Collapse, injuring him.
• Great Heavenly Venerable summoned the Bone Emperor Sky-Splitting, a giant blade forged from bones and souls, and prepared to fight Xiao Yan again.

Xiao Yan defeated the Great Heavenly Venerable’s soul attack and battered him with Buddha Fury Reincarnation, leaving the Bone Emperor nearly shattered. The Great Heavenly Venerable fused with the blade and launched a stronger attack, but Xiao Yan’s black pillars of light struck back as the clash continued.

• The Great Heavenly Venerable sent the Bone Emperor’s soul attack at Xiao Yan, who countered with Yellow Spring Heaven Rage and sent the blade crashing into a mountain.
• Xiao Yan launched Buddha Fury Reincarnation, forcing the Great Heavenly Venerable to summon the Bone Emperor and fuse it with over ten thousand souls.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable used Soul Extinguishing Slash, but Buddha Fury Reincarnation blasted him backward and cracked the Bone Emperor.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable merged with the Bone Emperor, restoring it and enlarging it into a thousand-zhang blade.
• Xiao Yan ordered Buddha Fury Reincarnation to turn, and black pillars of light surged toward the Great Heavenly Venerable’s transformed blade.

Xiao Yan and the Four Square Pavilions annihilated the Soul Hall forces and freed the souls imprisoned in the branch hall. They recovered a vast Soul Origin, which Xiao Yan kept for his cultivation, rejecting the Wolf Spirit’s demand for a reward.

• Xiao Yan destroyed the Great Heavenly Venerable along with his bone blade, while the Four Square Pavilions defeated the remaining Soul Hall forces.
• The Four Square Pavilions reported few casualties and joined Xiao Yan, who led them into the Soul Hall branch hall to claim their spoils.
• Elder Liu severed the Soul Chains and sent the freed soul bodies deeper into the hall to escape.
• The Wolf Spirit dug up a massive Soul Origin and presented it to Xiao Yan, who recognized its value for reaching Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• The Wolf Spirit asked for a share of the Soul Origin, but Xiao Yan refused and kicked him for demanding a reward.

Xiao Yan’s group destroyed a Soul Hall branch, while Gu Ling led the Four Square Pavilions in overwhelming the Soul Hall’s Northwest Region branch. As the last five Soul Hall survivors faced capture, Wang Qinian secretly planned to fake his death and escape.

• Xiao Yan ordered Wolf Spirit to demolish the Heavenly Dipper Hall branch, and Wolf Spirit reduced it to scorched earth.
• A black-robed young man led more than a hundred figures away from the ruins of Human Hall and returned to the Star Realm.
• Venerable Feng, the master of Star Fall Pavilion, led the Four Square Pavilions’ assault on the Soul Hall branch in the Demon Soul Mountain Range.
• An Eight-Star Dou Zun reported that the branch’s outer defenses had fallen, and Gu Ling told him they were going to pick someone up.
• The Four Square Pavilions cornered Wang Qinian, Venerable Qing Hai, and three other Soul Hall elders in the deepest part of the hall.
• Qing Hai proposed that the five Soul Hall survivors self-destruct, but Wang Qinian argued they would be sent into spatial turbulence and privately resolved to fake his death and escape.

Venerable Feng rescued Wang Qinian, a Four Square Pavilions spy who had spent twenty years inside the Soul Hall, and ordered the Northwest Region Branch Hall destroyed. Three days later, news spread that the Sky Mansion Alliance had crushed most of the Soul Hall’s branch forces, leaving the Soul Hall severely weakened.

• Wang Qinian killed himself to conceal his identity, and the other Soul Hall Venerable Elders followed, while Venerable Qing Hai mourned him and then faked his own death.
• Venerable Feng revealed that Wang Qinian was alive and serving as a Four Square Pavilions elder, and Wang Qinian greeted Deputy Pavilion Master Gu Ling.
• Venerable Feng promised Wang Qinian a new body and identity, gave him an aura-concealing cloak, and ordered Elder Liu to destroy the branch hall and its evidence.
• The Four Square Pavilions army destroyed the Soul Hall’s Northwest Region Branch Hall, killing its experts.
• News spread that the Sky Mansion Alliance had broken through twenty-two Earthly Fiend Branch Halls and two Heavenly Dipper Branch Halls, leaving only three Soul Hall branches still holding out.

The Soul Clan punished Hun Miesheng and planned to attack the Ling Clan after the Sky Mansion Alliance crushed the Soul Hall. Xiao Yan and Yao Chen began using the recovered Soul Origin to advance their soul realms while Xiao Xuan stood guard.

• The Soul Clan recalled and punished Hun Miesheng, ordered the Soul Hall rebuilt, and chose the Ling Clan as its first target in a campaign against the ancient clans.
• Venerable Feng reported that the Sky Mansion Alliance's twenty-four armies had destroyed their targets, while Yao Chen warned that the Soul Clan would support the Soul Hall's recovery.
• Yao Chen presented Xiao Yan with twenty-three spheres of Soul Origin, but Xiao Yan urged his teacher to keep them for his own breakthrough.
• At the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Xiao Xuan agreed to guard Xiao Yan and Yao Chen as they began refining the Soul Origin.
• Xiao Yan absorbed Soul Origin to pursue Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and Yao Chen began cultivating toward the Emperor Realm.

After three months of absorbing Soul Origin, Xiao Yan reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection and advanced to Late Two-Star Dou Sheng, while Yao Chen’s soul entered the Emperor Realm. Xiao Yan then uncovered strange arrays beneath many cities in the Four Square Pavilions’ territory, suspecting a hidden threat.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the remaining Soul Origin, merged with his giant soul form, and broke through to Late Two-Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Chen’s soul absorbed twenty-three strands of Soul Origin and reached the Emperor Realm as the Bodhi Ancient Tree dispersed the tribulation lightning.
• Yao Chen shared the remaining Soul Origin with Xiao Tribe descendants, strengthening their souls.
• Xiao Yan used his breakthrough to investigate cities across the Four Square Pavilions’ territory and discovered strange arrays beneath many of them.
• Xiao Yan warned Xiao Xuan and Yao Chen that the arrays were not the Four Square Pavilions’ work and gave off an eerie feeling.

Yao Chen, Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Yan discovered that the Soul Clan had planted Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Arrays beneath cities across the Central Plains to gather energy for an Emperor Pill. They resolved to destroy every array before the Soul Clan could use the energy to help Hun Tiandi reach the Dou Di realm.

• Yao Chen and Xiao Xuan scanned the Four Square Pavilions' territory and found that nearly seventy cities had been infiltrated by Soul-Devouring Absolute Life Arrays.
• Xiao Xuan identified the formations as an ancient, lethal array, and Xiao Yan connected their locations to Soul Hall branch halls and the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Xuan explained how he had once assembled the Tou She Ancient God Jade, learned of the Emperor Pill Prototype, then split the jade into eight pieces to protect his clan.
• Xiao Xuan deduced that the Soul Clan planned to complete the Emperor Pill, while Xiao Yan privately realized Nihility Devouring Flame had revealed the secret to them.
• Xiao Yan urged the group to destroy the arrays, and Yao Chen left to organize the effort across the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan learned that the Demonic Lotus Flame Space would descend within a month and that Xiao Chen had likely entered it a thousand years earlier. Believing Xiao Chen could still be saved, Xiao Yan prepared to subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while Xiao Xuan gave him advice and a Space Jade Slip for emergencies.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Demonic Lotus Flame Space would descend within a month.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan concluded that Xiao Chen had secretly entered the space a thousand years ago to subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan reasoned that Xiao Chen had likely become a Flame Slave and promised to save him by subduing the flame.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yan about the strength needed to enter the space and explained that the Ancient Eight Clans would send no experts above Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan a Space Jade Slip and advised him to cultivate on the Bodhi Ancient Tree before entering the space.

Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Venerable Skyfire traveled to the Northwest Region after the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended. They reached the scorched area beneath the still-sealed Demonic Lotus Flame Space and waited for its seal to lift.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Demonic Lotus Flame Space had descended, and twin moons, nine aligned stars, and the Heaven and Earth Tide appeared over the Central Plains.
• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Venerable Skyfire from the Xiao Realm to the Northwest Region of Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan's group hurried toward the flame's location as factions across the Central Plains rushed there too, and weaker experts were incinerated by the flame's residual heat.
• Yao Chen identified the thousand-li milky-white desert as a former mountain range burned by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's residual heat.
• Xiao Yan saw that the Demonic Lotus Flame Space remained sealed and said they could enter only after the seal was partly lifted.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen waited for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Space to open as powerful factions gathered, including the Soul Clan and four other clans. After Xiao Yan provoked Hun Miesheng and learned more about the Soul Clan’s hidden strength, a voice corrected him that only the Yao Clan had yet to arrive.

• Yao Chen sensed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s power and felt the Bone Chilling Flame’s Fire Spirit grow uneasy as experts converged on the space.
• Hun Miesheng arrived with the Soul Clan, and Xiao Yan taunted him over the Sky Mansion Alliance’s destruction of twenty-four Soul Hall branches.
• Hun Miesheng restrained himself from fighting and told Hun Feng that he needed to conceal his strength to seize the flame while honoring the Pact of the Eight Clans.
• Venerable Skyfire identified Hun Feng as the Soul Clan’s Young Clan Leader, and Yao Chen suspected that Hun Feng and Hun Miesheng carried Child Flames of the same Heavenly Flame.
• The Yan Tribe, Lei Clan, Shi Clan, and Ling Clan arrived, and Xiao Yan noted that the Ancient Clan and Yao Clan were still absent.
• An unseen speaker corrected Xiao Yan, saying that only the Yao Clan had yet to arrive.