Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan attacked the Soul Clan army and tried to learn the whereabouts of Hun Yuantian and the other hidden elders, but his captive killed himself. Xiao Yan drew Hun Yuantian out by taunting him, and Hun Yuantian attacked with Soul Devour.

• Xiao Yan killed a Two-Star Dou Sheng and defeated a Five-Star Soul Clan Dou Sheng with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Seal, but the captive committed suicide rather than reveal where Hun Yuantian and the others were.
• Xiao Yan shouted across the Ancient Battlefield to challenge the Soul Clan, prompting Hun Yuantian to leave the other three elders and approach him.
• Hun Yuantian revealed that Xiao Yan had killed his descendant Hun Feng and demanded that Xiao Yan accept death.
• Xiao Yan taunted Hun Yuantian, hoping to provoke him into using the Gate of Dead Silence, but Hun Yuantian instead unleashed Soul Devour and sent a wave of black mist and souls toward him.

Xiao Yan allowed Hun Yuantian’s Gate of Dead Silence to swallow him, then seized control of it from within. He emerged during the Ancient Clan’s battle and helped Gu Lie and Xiao Jiu overwhelm Hun Yuantian, whose fate was left beneath their combined attacks.

• Xiao Yan’s Yellow Spring Finger was swallowed by Hun Yuantian’s Gate of Dead Silence, and Xiao Yan walked into the gate after it.
• Inside the gate, Xiao Yan found Hun Yuantian’s black stone and expelled the soul power he had left in it, taking control of the technique.
• After two hidden Seven-Star Dou Shengs fell, Gu Lie and Xiao Jiu joined the fight against Hun Tu and Hun Yan.
• Hun Yuantian tried to ambush Gu Lie with the Gate of Dead Silence, but Xiao Yan emerged from the gate and struck him with Yellow Spring Heaven Rage.
• Gu Lie unleashed Great Nirvana Finger, Xiao Jiu threw his Thunder God Spear, and Xiao Yan fired Condensing Fire Finger at Hun Yuantian.
• Hun Yuantian recovered briefly and shouted at Xiao Yan before the three attacks struck him and an energy storm swallowed his figure.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Yuantian and revealed that the Soul Clan planned to use four Gates of Dead Silence to refine the Allied Forces. He and Gu Lie and Xiao Jiu ambushed the remaining three Soul Clan experts, exposing the plan and triggering a battle between six Eight-Star Dou Shengs.

• Xiao Yan used the Gate of Dead Silence to swallow and kill Hun Yuantian, then warned Gu Lie that four gates could form a deadly formation.
• Xiao Yan sensed three more Gates of Dead Silence overhead and entered his gate with Gu Lie and Xiao Jiu to stop the Soul Clan's plan.
• Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and their companion mistook the approaching gate for Hun Yuantian returning until Xiao Yan, Gu Lie, and Xiao Jiu launched a surprise attack.
• The three Soul Clan experts summoned their own Gates of Dead Silence, and all six Eight-Star Dou Shengs began fighting in the sky.
• The battle drew attention across the Ancient Battlefield, and both armies realized the Soul Clan's Death Realm plan had been exposed.

Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan began a battle to buy time for the Soul Clan’s retreat, while Lei Ying and Yan Jin struggled to hold back Nihility Devouring Flame. The fight left Nihility Devouring Flame furious at the Soul Clan’s three Eight-Star Dou Sheng for being discovered and tied down.

• Gu Yuan assessed the battlefield and told Hun Tiandi that the Soul Clan’s plan had failed and the fighting should stop.
• Hun Tiandi refused to stop, formed a massive black hole, and challenged Gu Yuan as the Soul Clan army retreated.
• Gu Yuan met Hun Tiandi’s attack with a giant palm, and the two began a major battle.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin combined their attacks against Nihility Devouring Flame’s black-flame beast and eventually destroyed it.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying realized Gu Lie and Xiao Jiu were occupied fighting three Eight-Star Dou Sheng, leaving them unable to hold back Nihility Devouring Flame alone.
• Nihility Devouring Flame cursed the three Soul Clan Dou Sheng after seeing them caught in battle.

Xu Wu tried to escape the collapsing battle, but a mysterious figure revealed as Xiao Xuan ambushed him and took him away with help from Brother Bodhi. Lei Ying and Yan Jin recognized Xiao Xuan’s aura as the Allied Forces began withdrawing, while Hun Tiandi noticed Xu Wu’s aura had vanished.

• After receiving orders to withdraw, Xu Wu prepared to fight off Lei Ying and Yan Jin, who unleashed their strongest attacks to stop him from leaving.
• A hidden attacker grabbed Xu Wu by the throat, crushed it, and was recognized by Xu Wu as Xiao Xuan.
• Brother Bodhi used an emerald branch to suppress Xu Wu’s black flames, then pulled him into the void as an ancient voice spoke of tasting Devouring Power.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin recognized Xiao Xuan’s aura and realized that Xiao Yan’s return to the Central Plains had brought the Xiao Tribe’s true power back.
• Gu Yuan ended his duel with Hun Tiandi and said enough time had passed for the Soul Clan army to withdraw.
• Hun Tiandi suddenly sensed that Xu Wu’s aura had disappeared.

Hun Tiandi discovered that Nihility Devouring Flame had vanished and, believing he had betrayed the Soul Clan, demanded a truce so he could hunt him down. Gu Yuan agreed, and both armies withdrew from the battlefield.

• Hun Tiandi realized the Soul Clan army had not retreated and that Nihility Devouring Flame was missing, then went to question Lei Ying and Yan Jin.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying told Hun Tiandi that Nihility Devouring Flame had abandoned the Soul Clan and fled to hide in an Ancient Realm.
• Hun Tiandi raged at the supposed betrayal and vowed to find Nihility Devouring Flame and refine him.
• Hun Tiandi proposed a truce to Gu Yuan, who accepted, and both leaders ordered their forces to withdraw.
• The Soul Clan army and Allied Forces ceased fighting and retreated from the Ancient Battlefield.

The Alliance drove the Soul Clan into retreat after devastating its forces at the Heaven Burial Mountain Range, then began planning an assault on the Soul Realm. Back in the Ancient Realm, Gu Yuan watched evidence of Nihility Devouring Flame’s abduction and recognized the mysterious attacker as Xiao Xuan.

• Hun Tiandi abandoned Soul Clan experts who failed to reach the retreating army’s spatial rift as the Alliance withdrew to the Ancient Realm.
• The Alliance assessed that the Soul Clan had lost sixty to seventy percent of its strength and planned to locate and attack the Soul Realm.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin secretly returned to the Ancient Realm and showed Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan leaders an image of Nihility Devouring Flame being seized by a mysterious hand.
• Gu Yuan repeatedly watched the image until he recognized the attacker’s aura as Xiao Xuan’s and declared that it was him.

Gu Yuan confirmed that the Heavenly Tomb had vanished and learned from Xun'er that Xiao Xuan had been resurrected there eight years earlier. Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan brought the captured Nihility Devouring Flame to the Heavenly Tomb, where Nihility Devouring Flame begged for his life and offered to help him obtain Tou She Ancient God's inheritance.

• Gu Yuan tried to summon the Heavenly Tomb but found that it had disappeared completely.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin suspected that the resurrected Xiao Xuan had taken the Heavenly Tomb, and Gu Yuan reasoned that Yao Chen and Xiao Yan had helped revive him eight years earlier.
• Xun'er confirmed that Xiao Xuan had been resurrected during her trip to the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Yan, and Gu Yuan ordered her to accompany them to the Star Realm.
• Gu Yuan and the others waited for Yao Dan, then took him with them toward the Star Realm to discuss Xiao Xuan's resurrection.
• Xiao Xuan brought the immobilized Nihility Devouring Flame to the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb.
• Nihility Devouring Flame denied responsibility for the Ancient Imperial Clans' destruction and offered Xiao Xuan help finding Tou She Ancient God's inheritance and Emperor Pill Prototype.

Xiao Xuan handed the captured Nihility Devouring Flame to Xiao Yan after learning the allied armies had defeated the Soul Clan. Xiao Yan began refining him, while Yao Chen led Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders to a guarded spatial passage in the Star Realm to meet Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Xuan refused Nihility Devouring Flame's proposal and said he would give him to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan reported that the allied armies had won and that the Soul Clan believed Nihility Devouring Flame had fled; Xiao Xuan handed the sealed captive over to him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame tried to bargain by offering a Heaven Child Flame, but Xiao Yan knocked him unconscious and began refining him.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan arrived in the Star Realm and asked Yao Chen to take them to Xiao Xuan.
• Yao Chen led the clan leaders to a heavily guarded, secluded spatial passage, where Sky Mansion troops greeted him.

Yao Chen led Gu Yuan and the other Clan Leaders through a space passage into the Xiao Realm, which they discovered the Xiao Tribe had hidden by sinking it a thousand years earlier. They arrived at the Xiao Tribe’s reception, where Clan Leader Xiao Zhan welcomed them and agreed enthusiastically to spar with Lei Ying.

• Gu Yuan and the Clan Leaders followed Yao Chen through the space passage into the Xiao Realm.
• Gu Yuan and the others sensed the realm’s energy and realized the Xiao Tribe had hidden the original Xiao Realm rather than opened a new one.
• Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and the other Clan Leaders reflected on Xiao Xuan’s thousand-year scheme and his capture of Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Zhan arrived aboard a Space-Shuttle Boat and welcomed the Clan Leaders to the Xiao Tribe.
• Lei Ying praised Xiao Zhan’s former title as the Jia Ma Mad Lion and challenged him to spar.
• Xiao Zhan accepted Lei Ying’s challenge, asking him to suppress his cultivation.

Xiao Zhan brought Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yao Dan, and the other Clan Leaders to the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range, where they discovered the Xiao Tribe’s formidable forces and the Bodhi Ancient Tree. The tree hid itself after Xiao Zhan tried to pretend it was not there, but Yao Dan pointed out that its Clear Spirit Qi and manifestations gave it away.

• Gu Yuan marveled at how much Xiao Zhan had changed since their earlier meetings.
• Xiao Zhan guided the Clan Leaders aboard a Space-Shuttle Boat to the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range and explained that the Xiao Tribe’s tens of millions of descendants had sacrificed themselves a thousand years earlier.
• Gu Yuan praised the Xiao Tribe’s Dou Zun patrols, and Xiao Zhan revealed that only four of the Judicator Legion’s nine divisions had been rebuilt.
• The Clan Leaders spotted the enormous Bodhi Ancient Tree, but Xiao Zhan signaled it to conceal itself and pretended nothing had happened.
• Yao Dan challenged Xiao Zhan, pointing out that the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Clear Spirit Qi and the ancient creatures formed from it could not be hidden.

Xiao Xuan welcomed Gu Yuan and the other leaders of the Ancient Imperial Clans after a thousand years apart, then met with them behind closed doors. Afterward, the Xiao Tribe announced its return to the Central Plains and its renewed commitment to the Alliance of Five Clans and One Mansion’s war against the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Zhan led Gu Yuan and the others into the Xiao Emperor Mountain Range, where they saw that the Xiao Tribe’s descendants had grown remarkably strong.
• Xiao Chen received the visitors and led them to the Ancestral Shrine Hall, where they recognized the Xiao Tribe’s former Personal Guard.
• Xiao Xuan opened his eyes, greeted the clan leaders, and met with them in the hall for three days.
• The leaders of the four Ancient Imperial Clans departed to inform their clans and prepare for what was discussed.
• The Xiao Tribe announced its return to the Central Plains, named the Tianquan Mountain Range as its ancestral land, and pledged to fight the Soul Clan alongside the alliance.

The Xiao Tribe returned to the Central Plains with Xiao Xuan, throwing the Soul Clan into panic because they believed their ancient enemy had died. The Soul Clan sealed itself away and spread claims that Nihility Devouring Flame would return, while Hun Tiandi privately knew the truth of his disappearance.

• The Xiao Tribe announced its return, and Xiao Xuan's presence shocked the Central Plains and the Soul Clan.
• The chapter recounted how Xiao Xuan had devastated the Soul Clan during the battle that preceded his death by self-detonation.
• Hun Tiandi recalled the Soul Clan's covert agents and sealed the Soul Realm, expecting the Alliance to attack.
• The Alliance and Xiao Tribe remained quiet, leading the Soul Clan to fear that they were plotting a greater plan.
• Hun Tiandi concealed Nihility Devouring Flame's defection and helped circulate claims that he was injured and would return.

Half a year after the battle at Heaven Burial Mountain Range, the Central Plains remained temporarily peaceful as the Xiao Tribe’s Five Heroes trained in the Judicator Legion. Xiao Ding and Xiao Li’s spar ended with Xiao Li gaining the upper hand by transforming his thunder dragon with Black Demon Lightning.

• Half a year passed during the uneasy peace between the Alliance and the Soul Clan, and the Xiao Tribe’s five young standouts continued serving as battalion commanders in the Judicator Legion.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li fought in the Martial Arts Arena while Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei'er, and Xiao Ning watched.
• Xiao Li proposed settling their closely matched spar with one decisive strike, and both brothers unleashed powerful attacks.
• Xiao Ding’s Myriad Wood Binding vines and Xiao Li’s Thunder Dragon Kill clashed in a stalemate.
• Xiao Li transformed his weakening Silver Thunder Dragon with Black Demon Lightning, prompting Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei'er to wonder how he had learned to control it.
• Xiao Ning warned that Xiao Ding was about to lose.

Xiao Yan returned after breaking through to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng and learned that Xiao Xuan already knew the Soul Realm’s location. Xiao Xuan explained how the Bodhi Ancient Tree had tracked the Soul Clan, while Xiao Yan revealed that he had learned the location from Nihility Devouring Flame, whom he had refined but kept conscious.

• Xiao Li defeated Xiao Ding in their spar after using a powerful protective technique, and Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei'er prepared to fight next.
• Xiao Xuan ordered Xiao Zhen to approve promotions for Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and three other youths, assigning them to establish the legion’s five remaining divisions.
• Xiao Yan surprised Xiao Xuan with an attack, but Xiao Xuan easily blocked him and confirmed that he had broken through to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that he knew where the Soul Realm was, and Xiao Xuan revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had tracked Soul Clan members to discover it first.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had learned the Soul Realm’s location from Nihility Devouring Flame, whose Origin Flame he had refined while preserving his consciousness.

Xiao Yan ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to return to the Soul Realm as an inside man for the Alliance’s planned attack on the Soul Clan. Nihility Devouring Flame reached the Soul Realm, resigned to the danger and preparing to resume his position there.

• Xiao Yan forced Nihility Devouring Flame to accept a mission to infiltrate the Soul Clan and help the Alliance attack from within.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that Nihility Devouring Flame’s Bloodline Marks gave him influence over much of the Soul Clan, but Xiao Xuan insisted the Alliance would destroy the clan and its descendants rather than accept their surrender.
• Xiao Yan said the Alliance would launch a surprise attack in one month, with Nihility Devouring Flame guiding them from inside the Soul Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame traveled from the Xiao Realm toward the Soul Realm, worrying about Hun Tiandi’s suspicions and how to explain his absence.
• Nihility Devouring Flame entered the Soul Realm and resolved to endure his assignment for one month.

Nihility Devouring Flame returned to the Soul Realm and found that Hun Tiandi had already explained his disappearance in the same way. Hun Tiandi, meanwhile, failed to reach the Half-Step Dou Di Realm even after draining the bloodline power of millions of Shi Clan descendants, and his composure collapsed.

• Nihility Devouring Flame returned to the Soul Realm and was surrounded by alarmed Soul Clan patrols before they recognized him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Yao that he had been ambushed, injured, and healed in a hidden place, and Hun Yao said Hun Tiandi had given the same explanation.
• Hun Yao took Nihility Devouring Flame to meet Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi drained a blood pool made from the Shi Clan descendants’ bloodline power but still failed to reach the Half-Step Dou Di Realm.
• Hun Tiandi raged over his failure and his mindset collapsed.

Hun Tiandi ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to sacrifice the Soul Clan’s descendants to help him reach the Half-Step Dou Di Realm, while Xiao Yan learned of the plan. A month later, the Alliance’s nine great superpowers swore their oaths and marched toward the Soul Realm for a decisive assault.

• Hun Tiandi welcomed Nihility Devouring Flame back and ordered him to send the Soul Clan’s descendants into the blood pool until Hun Tiandi advanced.
• Nihility Devouring Flame’s return restored the Soul Clan’s morale and gave its leaders hope of resisting the Alliance.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Soul Clan’s plan while with Cai Lin, but she distracted him before he could finish speaking.
• A month later, the Alliance’s nine great superpowers gathered in the Star Realm and swore oaths before the expedition.
• The Xiao Tribe brought nearly twenty Dou Sheng experts, including Lady Xiao, and the Alliance army set out through Void Space toward the Soul Realm.

Hun Tiandi sacrificed millions of Soul Clan descendants to pursue a breakthrough, while Nihility Devouring Flame secretly prepared to overthrow him. In the Xiao Realm, Xiao Yan summoned the Allied Forces’ leaders to begin the war.

• Hun Tiandi ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to sacrifice more Soul Clan descendants, hoping to approach the barrier to the Emperor Realm.
• Hun Shan challenged the sacrifices, and several younger Soul Clan leaders urged Nihility Devouring Flame to make a change.
• Nihility Devouring Flame implied that he would act, then secretly sent a message through space toward another Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Yan left seclusion and ordered a Xiao Tribe Half-Saint to summon the Allied Forces’ upper ranks for a meeting.
• Powerful figures from across the allied forces arrived at the Xiao Tribe’s Sacred Mountain.

Xiao Yan’s allied army waited near the Soul Realm while Nihility Devouring Flame led a rebellion against Hun Tiandi. Hun Tiandi revealed that he had reached the Half-Step Dou Di Realm and faced a group of Soul Clan experts who challenged his plan to sacrifice their remaining clansmen.

• Xiao Yan told the Allied Forces that Nihility Devouring Flame would open a passage into the Soul Realm after weakening Hun Tiandi’s forces, and Xiao Xuan ordered the army to wait.
• Nihility Devouring Flame urged Hun Tiandi to spare the final one million Soul Clan members, then revealed that he was leading the rebellion and attacked him.
• Hun Tiandi shattered Nihility Devouring Flame’s black-flame attack and disclosed that he had reached the Half-Step Dou Di Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned thirty-two powerful Dou Shengs, who formed a formation around Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Yao confronted Hun Tiandi over his plan to sacrifice the Soul Clan’s remaining direct descendants and said his actions had forced them to rebel.