Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan completed the Lightning Tribulation Pill after combining the Yao Realm’s energy with three Ninth-Grade Profound Pill embryos. He subdued the pill as it tried to escape, and the newly formed Ninth-Grade Profound Pill shone in his hand.

• Old Man Shennong and Great Elder Wanhuo gave Xiao Yan their unfinished pills, and he crushed them to add their energy to the cauldron.
• The cauldron released a golden pillar, and pill rain fell as the Lightning Tribulation Pill formed.
• Xiao Jiu offered to chase away the Black Demon Lightning, but Yao Chen told him to save his strength for later.
• Xiao Yan used Yellow Spring Heaven Rage to swallow the Black Demon Lightning and clear the sky.
• The pill tried to flee, but Xiao Yan caught and claimed it, completing the Lightning Tribulation Pill.

Xiao Yan won the Medicine Ceremony after refining a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill, but Hun Xuzi interrupted the celebration and demanded the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade. After Xiao Yan and Xiao Jiu defeated him, Hun Xuzi died, leaving the conflict with the Soul Clan unresolved.

• Yao Dan announced Xiao Yan as the Medicine Ceremony champion, and the Yao Clan celebrated his Ninth-Grade Profound Pill.
• Hun Xuzi revealed his Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength and demanded the Yao Clan hand over its Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Yan used Yellow Spring Heaven Rage to knock Hun Xuzi into a crater, then warned Yao Chen to flee when Hun Xuzi threatened Xiao Jiu.
• Hun Xuzi attacked Xiao Jiu, who revealed his Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength and struck Hun Xuzi with Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• Xiao Jiu thrust his hand into Hun Xuzi’s chest, and Hun Xuzi died.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Jiu confronted the Soul Clan as its army arrived to attack the Yao Clan. The Yao Clan joined forces with allied reinforcements, leaving the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints outnumbered as the battle began.

• Xiao Jiu killed Hun Xuzi, and Xiao Yan appeared beside him as the Soul Clan army arrived through a spatial passage.
• Yao Dan ordered Great Elder Wanhuo to summon the allied forces while the Yao Clan gathered to defend the Yao Realm.
• Xiao Yan threw Hun Xuzi’s corpse at Hun Jing, who shattered it and vowed to kill Xiao Yan.
• Yao Dan asked the Medicine Ceremony’s guests to stay and fight, and nearly sixty percent agreed.
• Gu Dao arrived with the Ancient Clan’s Three Immortals and four more Seven-Star Dou Sheng, giving the allied forces eight Seven-Star Dou Sheng against the Four Demon Saints.
• The Twelve powerful fighters clashed, and the outnumbered Four Demon Saints quickly fell back.

The Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints faced eight Seven-Star Dou Shengs in the Yao Realm, where Xiao Jiu used an illusion to catch Hun Sha off guard. The Soul Clan learned that Xiao Jiu was a high-ranking Judicator of the Xiao Tribe as the battle remained poised to begin.

• Hun Sha mistook an illusion in Xiao Jiu’s golden eyes for a lightning attack and nearly fought Hun Yan before recovering.
• Hun Sha warned Hun Yan that Xiao Jiu wielded lightning and could trap opponents in illusions.
• Hun Tu identified Xiao Jiu as a core Xiao Tribe expert by the Nine-Stroke Clan Mark on his sleeve.
• Hun Sha recognized Xiao Jiu’s vermilion ring as proof that he belonged to the Judicators, an elite squad of the Xiao Tribe’s Judicator Legion.

As the Soul Clan prepared to escalate its assault on the Yao Realm, the allied clans waited to trap its forces while Xiao Jiu revealed his identity among them. The chapter ended with the other clans badly overestimating the Xiao Tribe’s younger generation, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li struggled to reach Half-Saint.

• Hun Jing decided to summon Nihility Devouring Flame’s true body into the Yao Realm, and Hun Sha opened a scroll to deliver the message.
• The Yao Clan and the other allied clans delayed the Soul Clan while Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin waited at the spatial passage to spring a trap.
• Fairy Fire Spirit tried to use her Soul-Luring Technique on Xiao Jiu, but he resisted and mocked her after revealing he was an ancient Xiao Tribe elder.
• Xiao Yan explained that Xiao Jiu was his seventeen-year-old younger brother, prompting Fire Spirit to apologize for flirting with him.
• The other clans inferred that Xiao Zhan’s older sons must also be powerful, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li were actually struggling to break through to Half-Saint.

The Allied Forces launched their assault on the Soul Clan army in the Yao Realm, aiming to inflict heavy losses and kill Hun Sha. The armies clashed in a devastating battle as Yao Clan descendants took shelter underground.

• Xiao Yan proposed concentrating the Allied Forces into groups to target the Soul Clan's Demon Saints, with Xiao Jiu fighting alone because his strength rivaled an Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Dan accepted command and ordered the Allied Forces to attack, while Hun Jing and Hun Sha led the Soul Clan army into battle.
• The two armies' attacks collided, unleashing an energy storm that tore through the sky and collapsed vast stretches of space.
• Yao Clan experts activated barriers around important buildings and evacuated millions of descendants underground while the battle drew combatants into the sky.
• The Allied Forces and Soul Clan experts engaged in a brutal melee, and wounded fighters began falling from the sky to their deaths.

During the Allied Forces’ battle against the Soul Clan, Xiao Jiu confronted Hun Sha and revealed overwhelming control over Nine Profound Golden Lightning. The fight ended with Xiao Jiu tearing apart Hun Sha’s blood technique, while the other combatants realized the Xiao Tribe was far more powerful than they had assumed.

• The Three Immortals of the Ancient Clan trapped Hun Jing and attacked him before Nihility Devouring Flame could arrive.
• Lei Ba and Fire Spirit drew Hun Yan away, while Yao Dan and the Pill Tower Ancestor fought Hun Tu, leaving Xiao Jiu to face Hun Sha.
• Xiao Jiu struck Hun Sha from behind with lightning, and Hun Sha recognized the energy as Nine Profound Golden Lightning.
• Xiao Jiu transformed into a massive bolt of golden lightning and shattered Hun Sha’s Boundless Blood River.
• A stray bolt of Xiao Jiu’s lightning killed a Two-Star Dou Sheng of the Soul Clan, frightening both armies.

As Xiao Yan slaughtered Soul Clan Dou Shengs across the battlefield, Hun Jing self-destructed after being gravely wounded by the Three Immortals of the Ancient Clan. Xiao Jiu turned to face Hun Sha, who launched a furious attack at him.

• Lei Ba recognized Xiao Jiu's Nine Profound Golden Lightning but became distracted, allowing Hun Yan to counterattack until Fire Spirit scolded him.
• Lei Ba recovered his focus and unleashed Thunder Dragon Blast against Hun Yan.
• Xiao Yan killed Soul Clan Dou Shengs one after another, while the Four Demon Saints urged Nihility Devouring Flame to join the fight.
• Hun Jing self-destructed, severely injuring Gu Dao and leaving a black hole where the explosion occurred.
• Xiao Jiu gathered the lightning around him after learning the Ancient Clan's battlefield had broken through, and Hun Sha attacked with Blood God Heaven Splitter.

Xiao Jiu revealed his Golden Lightning Dragon form and killed Hun Sha, prompting Yao Dan and the Pill Tower Ancestor to attack Hun Tu. Nihility Devouring Flame appeared before they could finish Hun Tu and launched a devastating attack against the two leaders.

• Xiao Jiu transformed into a Golden Lightning Dragon and swallowed Hun Sha, killing the Soul Clan’s Seven-Star Dou Sheng and Four Demon Saint.
• Yao Dan and the Pill Tower Ancestor attacked Hun Tu together while Hun Yan tried and failed to reach him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame shattered their attacks, covered the Yao Realm in black flames, and declared that Yao Dan and the Pill Tower Ancestor deserved to die.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned a Giant Black Flame Finger and sent it crashing toward Yao Dan and the Pill Tower Ancestor.

Pill Tower Ancestor stopped Nihility Devouring Flame’s attack with Dan Rongtian but was left severely weakened as the Allied Forces retreated. Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and learned that Hun Jing and Hun Sha had been killed, leaving him shocked.

• Pill Tower Ancestor used Dan Rongtian to destroy the Giant Black Flame Finger and save Yao Dan, but the effort drained his strength.
• Yao Dan carried Pill Tower Ancestor away as the Allied Forces and Soul Clan forces withdrew from the battlefield.
• Yao Chen gave Pill Tower Ancestor a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill, which he swallowed to stabilize his cultivation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame emerged from the black flames, recognized Pill Tower Ancestor as a living Ninth Grade Golden Pill, and pressured him with his gaze.
• Hun Yan accused Nihility Devouring Flame of letting Hun Jing and Hun Sha die, and Nihility Devouring Flame searched the battlefield and confirmed their deaths.

Nihility Devouring Flame confronted Hun Yan and Hun Tu, who learned they had wrongly blamed him for the Soul Clan’s losses because Hun Jing’s self-destruction had delayed his entry. Facing the Allied Forces, Nihility Devouring Flame threatened to destroy the Yao Clan, but Yao Dan defied him and provoked his fury.

• Hun Tu explained that the Soul Clan had been ambushed in the Yao Realm, and Hun Yan and Hun Tu accused Nihility Devouring Flame of abandoning them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that Hun Jing’s self-destruction had broken his seal and delayed him, so Hun Yan and Hun Tu apologized for their mistaken accusation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame ordered Hun Yan and Hun Tu to withdraw from his sight and warned them to bring results to Hun Tiandi, who had gone to the Ancient Realm for the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Nihility Devouring Flame examined the Allied Forces, recognized Xiao Jiu as an expert of the same kind, and learned he belonged to the Xiao Tribe.
• Nihility Devouring Flame claimed the Yao Realm was sealed against outside messages and demanded the Yao Clan surrender or face annihilation.
• Yao Dan mocked Nihility Devouring Flame as a lowly thing, prompting the black flames to surge as Nihility Devouring Flame declared that he would kill them.

The Allied Forces' main army arrived in the Yao Realm just as Nihility Devouring Flame attacked, and Gu Yuan confronted the Soul Clan leader. Gu Yuan saw through Nihility Devouring Flame's attempt to distract him and launched a powerful strike, leaving the battle poised to turn against the Soul Clan.

• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed a rain of black fire against the Allied Forces, but a spatial rift swallowed the attack and brought the Allied Forces' main army into the Yao Realm.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin joined Yao Dan's forces, and Yan Jin credited Xiao Yan for predicting the Soul Clan's attack on the Yao Clan.
• Gu Yuan overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame with his aura and advanced on the Soul Clan army.
• Nihility Devouring Flame claimed Hun Tiandi had gone to seize the jade in the Ancient Realm and suggested the Lei and Yan Clans had also been attacked.
• Gu Yuan refused to be distracted and drew on the Yao Realm's energy to form an enormous hand that struck toward Nihility Devouring Flame.

Gu Yuan’s clone struck Nihility Devouring Flame and forced the Soul Clan army to flee, while the Allied Forces learned that Hun Tiandi had attacked the Ancient Realm instead. The chapter ended with Lei Ying explaining that he and Yan Jin could have dealt with Nihility Devouring Flame if the deception had failed.

• Gu Yuan’s devastating strike collided with Nihility Devouring Flame’s black-hole vortex, and Nihility Devouring Flame escaped with the Soul Clan army.
• Xiao Yan realized the Soul Clan had escaped, and Gu Yuan revealed that he was only a clone capable of one full-strength strike.
• Yan Jin explained that Gu Yuan had returned to defend the Ancient Realm and sent his clone to the Yao Realm to frighten Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Yan Jin revealed that Hun Tiandi had invaded the Ancient Realm to steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade, but the Soul Clan’s insiders had already been eliminated.
• Xiao Jiu questioned what would have happened if the ruse failed, and Lei Ying said he and Yan Jin could have driven off a wounded Nihility Devouring Flame.

After the alliance repelled the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan, its leaders assessed their victory and prepared for Hun Tiandi’s next move. The chapter ended with Gu Yuan and Gu Lie waiting in the Ancient Realm, convinced Hun Tiandi would attack them.

• Lei Ying questioned Xiao Jiu about his lightning power and tried to recruit him into the Lei Clan, but Xiao Yan protected him.
• Gu Yuan ordered Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Chen to reopen the spatial passages and guard against another Soul Clan attack before his avatar vanished.
• Yao Dan reported that the alliance had killed two of the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints and inflicted heavy casualties, while Yan Jin warned that Hun Tiandi would retaliate.
• Yao Dan thanked Yao Chen and welcomed him back to the Yao Clan before Yao Chen led the Sky Mansion and Xiao Tribe experts through a Space Wormhole.
• In the Ancient Realm, Gu Yuan told Gu Lie that Hun Tiandi would target the Ancient Clan rather than the Yao Clan.

Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi as the Soul Clan army entered the Ancient Realm, but let them withdraw rather than risk forcing Hun Tiandi to reveal his full strength. Hun Tiandi then learned that the attack on the Yao Clan had been disastrous and killed the messenger who reported it.

• Gu Yuan welcomed Hun Tiandi into the Ancient Realm while Gu Lie summoned the Black Annihilation Army and the Soul Clan forces emerged from a spatial rift.
• Gu Yuan told Hun Tiandi that he knew about the Soul Clan spy and its plan to steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan army to retreat, and Gu Yuan declined Gu Lie's signal to pursue them.
• Gu Yuan told Gu Lie that nearly forty percent of the Soul Clan's main force had been wiped out at the Yao Clan, with two of the Four Demon Saints killed.
• Hun Nai reported the Yao Clan operation's disastrous defeat to Hun Tiandi, who killed him in anger.

Hun Tiandi punished Nihility Devouring Flame for the Soul Clan’s defeat and ordered him to use the Ling Clan’s descendants to reach the Emperor Realm within three months, worsening the rift between them. In the Xiao Realm, Xiao Yan prepared to absorb the Lightning Tribulation Pill while Xiao Jiu arrived seeking refuge from their mother.

• Hun Tiandi questioned Nihility Devouring Flame about the defeat in the Yao Realm and accused him of failing to break through to the Emperor Realm.
• Hun Tiandi struck Nihility Devouring Flame and ordered him to use the Ling Clan’s remaining descendants to advance his soul realm within three months.
• After Hun Tiandi left, Nihility Devouring Flame angrily tore his arm from the mountain and departed, while Hun Yan and the other Soul Clan members worried about the clan’s future.
• Xiao Yan finished preparing to absorb the Lightning Tribulation Pill and aimed to break through to the Seven-Star Dou Sheng realm.
• Xiao Jiu arrived to help Xiao Yan absorb the pill, admitted he was fleeing their mother’s lectures, and Xiao Yan allowed him to stay if he kept quiet.

Xiao Yan consumed a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill and broke through to Early-Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, while Xiao Jiu received the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s help and reached Early Eight-Star Dou Sheng. After months of silence from the Soul Clan, a challenge letter to the Ancient Clan announced a deadly battle at the Heaven Burial Mountain Range in seven days.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the Ninth-Grade Profound Pill and used the Flame Mantra to absorb its violent energy as Xiao Jiu stood guard.
• Xiao Jiu followed a Bodhi Ancient Tree branch into the tree while Xiao Yan continued refining the pill’s power.
• Two months later, Xiao Yan emerged at Early-Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, and Xiao Jiu returned at Early Eight-Star Dou Sheng after receiving the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s benefits.
• Xiao Yan dragged Xiao Jiu to tell their mother about their breakthroughs despite Xiao Jiu’s protests.
• A month later, the Soul Clan remained hidden as the alliance kept watch, and a blood-red letter challenged the Ancient Clan to fight at the Heaven Burial Mountain Range in seven days.

Xiao Xuan revealed that he had returned to his peak and planned to capture the Nihility Devouring Flame during the Alliance’s battle with the Soul Clan, so Xiao Yan could refine it and reach the Nine-Star Dou Sheng realm. Seven days later, the Alliance and Soul Clan gathered secretly at the Heaven Burial Mountain Range as the battle was about to begin.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that the Soul Clan had challenged the Alliance to fight at the Heaven Burial Mountain Range, using their Tou She Ancient God Jade as a wager.
• Xiao Xuan dismissed the wager as a pretext for war, then revealed his restored peak strength and announced he would join the battle.
• Xiao Xuan planned to capture the Nihility Devouring Flame while Lei Ying and Yan Jin fought it, then let Xiao Yan refine it and advance toward Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Xuan said his actions would expose his survival, creating an opportunity for the Xiao Tribe to reemerge and open the Xiao Realm.
• The Alliance spent seven days preparing for the Soul Clan’s possible hidden plans, while both sides secretly scouted the Heaven Burial Mountain Range.
• At sunrise, the first guests arrived at the Heaven Burial Mountain Range, where the coming battle was set to take place.

The allied forces gathered at the Ancient Battlefield to confront the Soul Clan, whose army arrived under Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame. The Soul Clan launched a massive formation attack, and the allied clans countered as the battle began.

• Gu Yuan led the assembled allied forces, including Sky Mansion and the Beast World families, in searching the Ancient Battlefield.
• The Soul Clan army emerged through a spatial rift, led by Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame, while Hun Tianyuan and four Eight-Star Dou Sheng remained hidden.
• Gu Yuan warned Lei Ying and Yan Jin that Nihility Devouring Flame might have an Emperor Realm soul, and Xiao Yan kept the hidden Soul Clan trump cards secret.
• Hun Tiandi demanded the Ancient Clan's Ancient Jade, but Gu Yuan rejected the demand and called for battle.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to form the Seal of Destruction, and the allied forces answered with the Nine Dragon Heavenly Thunder Array, Burning Heaven Great Method, Ancient Emperor Mirror, and Star Fall Great Array.

The Allied Forces defeated the Soul Clan in the opening formation clash, then Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi went to fight while the two armies began a bloody battle. As Xiao Yan searched the Soul Clan camp for four living-dead Eight-Star Dou Sheng, the Allied Forces held a clear advantage among their Advanced Dou Sheng.

• The Ancient Clan, Yan Tribe, Lei Clan, Sky Mansion, Yao Clan, and three Beast World clans unleashed eight attacks against the Soul Clan’s formations, while Xiao Chen lamented that the Xiao Tribe could not join the formation contest.
• Hun Tiandi used the black mist and its Heavenly Net to block the attacks, but the Seal of Destruction exploded and the Allied Forces won the first round.
• Gu Yuan challenged Hun Tiandi to fight in the sky, while Lei Ying and Yan Jin confronted Nihility Devouring Flame in a separate area.
• Led by Gu Lie, the Allied Forces’ main army charged the Soul Clan as the Soul Clan counterattacked, and the armies began fighting at close quarters.
• Gu Lie and Xiao Jiu drew away two of the Soul Clan’s Seven-Star Dou Sheng, while Yao Dan and five other Saints attacked Hun Tu and Hun Yan; Xiao Yan slipped into the Soul Clan camp to find four living-dead Eight-Star Dou Sheng.