Chapter Summaries

Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan elders launched their rebellion against Hun Tiandi, but his Half-Step Dou Di power let him destroy their formation and begin slaughtering them. Nihility Devouring Flame remained alive as Hun Tiandi continued his attack.

• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had drawn the rebels out and promised to spare the remaining Soul Clan clansmen after killing them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame led thirty-three Soul Clan Dou Shengs in activating the Black Flame Canopy Formation around Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed a Blood Sea that destroyed the formation and obliterated Soul Burial Mountain Range.
• Hun Tiandi demonstrated his Half-Step Dou Di power, crushed Hun Yao, and killed Hun Chuan before slaughtering more of the rebels.
• Nihility Devouring Flame retreated from Hun Tiandi's attacks, watching with excitement and mockery.

Hun Tiandi confronted Nihility Devouring Flame, but Nihility revealed that he had summoned the Allied Forces and Xiao Xuan to destroy the Soul Clan. With the foreign armies arriving, the Soul Clan gathered behind Hun Tiandi, and one of its experts demanded to know why Nihility had betrayed them.

• Hun Tiandi killed Hun Shan and confronted Nihility Devouring Flame over his role in weakening the Soul Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned the Allied Forces through a spatial rift, prompting Hun Tiandi to attack him.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the void, caught Hun Tiandi's punch, and joined the Allied Forces' leadership with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Soul Clan experts gathered behind Hun Tiandi to oppose the invading armies, realizing Nihility Devouring Flame had defected.
• A Six-Star Dou Sheng who had served Nihility Devouring Flame demanded to know why he had betrayed the Soul Clan.

Xiao Xuan and the Allied Forces confronted Hun Tiandi, who was revealed as a Half-Emperor. Xiao Xuan asked to fight Hun Tiandi alone to settle their thousand-year-old blood debt, and their battle began above the army.

• Nihility Devouring Flame reported that his infiltration had weakened the Soul Clan, and Xiao Yan welcomed him back as an ally.
• Hun Tiandi killed Nihility Devouring Flame's loyal follower with his Blood Sea and confronted the resurrected Xiao Xuan.
• Hun Tiandi recognized Xiao Xuan as the hidden force behind the Soul Clan's repeated setbacks, while Xiao Xuan did not confirm or deny it.
• Xiao Yan, Nihility Devouring Flame, and Gu Yuan joined forces to test Hun Tiandi's power, but their combined auras matched his Half-Emperor strength.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and Nihility Devouring Flame to let him face Hun Tiandi alone, and they withdrew.
• Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi exchanged formal challenges, vanished from the battlefield, and began fighting in the sky.

As Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi fought, Gu Yuan led the Allied Forces against the weakened Soul Clan army. Nihility Devouring Flame triggered the Bloodline Marks inside most Soul Clan fighters, crippling them as the Allied Forces launched a massacre.

• Nihility Devouring Flame questioned whether Xiao Xuan could face the Half-Step Dou Di Hun Tiandi alone, but Xiao Yan urged everyone to trust Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan turned their attention to the Soul Clan army.
• Hun Li told Hun Yuanhua to escape with about twenty young experts, then he and Hun Qing led the Soul Clan army into battle to give them a chance to survive.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that he had placed Bloodline Marks in most Soul Clan members and made the marks explode, causing fighters to die or suffer severe injuries as their bloodlines rampaged.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Allied Forces to attack, and the troops overwhelmed the crippled Soul Clan army.
• Hun Li watched the slaughter and lamented that the Soul Clan had been weakened through betrayal, internal strife, and bloodline manipulation instead of facing a fair battle.

Xiao Xuan fought Hun Tiandi above the Soul Realm while the Xiao Tribe and allied forces overwhelmed the Soul Clan army below. After Xiao Xuan stopped Hun Tiandi’s blood lightning with the Army-Breaking Dragon Hand, Hun Tiandi absorbed the Soul Realm’s blood clouds, and Xiao Xuan prepared to finish him.

• Xiao Jiu led Xiao Tribe experts through the Soul Clan army and killed Hun Li with a strike of golden lightning.
• Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and Nihility Devouring Flame went to watch Xiao Xuan battle Hun Tiandi above the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi called down the Blood Demon Heart-Eroding Lightning, but Xiao Xuan’s Army-Breaking Dragon Hand shattered the attack and stopped the blood lightning.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Zhu Kun had gifted him the Heaven-Tier Advanced Dou Skill after the Battle of the Four Islands, leaving Hun Tiandi confused about what he had missed.
• Hun Tiandi swallowed the blood clouds covering the Soul Realm, clearing its skies as the Soul Clan army continued to fall.
• Xiao Xuan told Hun Tiandi it was time to die, and Hun Tiandi answered with a ferocious challenge.

Hun Tiandi turned the Soul Realm into the Emperor-Slaying Array and sacrificed the Soul Clan’s final million descendants to empower the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade. With the blade fully awakened, he sent it down toward Xiao Xuan, who stood ready to face him.

• Hun Tiandi spread blood-red array lines across the Soul Realm and used the Endless Blood Sea as the array’s eye to form the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade.
• Hun Tiandi discovered the Soul Clan’s final million descendants hiding in a mountain range and sacrificed them to the blade, which cut through their barrier and killed them.
• Three figures concealed in the void watched the sacrifice and decided not to intervene, leaving the battle to Xiao Xuan.
• The Soul Clan experts learned their last descendants had died, and many broke down or abandoned the battle.
• The empowered Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade trembled with power as Hun Tiandi ordered it to descend on Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Xuan summoned the Xiao Emperor Bell to withstand Hun Tiandi’s Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, but Hun Tiandi sacrificed his heart’s blood to strengthen the attack until the bell cracked. At the brink of its collapse, Xiao Xuan merged with the Xiao Tribe Primal Ancestor and manifested the True Body of Emperor Xiao, meeting the blade in a clash of golden and blood-red light.

• Xiao Xuan summoned the Xiao Emperor Bell, which emerged from a spatial rift and surrounded him as Hun Tiandi’s blood blade struck.
• The clash sent an energy storm toward the battlefield, and three hidden figures raised defensive barriers while the Allied Forces hurried to clear the battlefield.
• The Xiao Emperor Bell weakened Hun Tiandi’s blade with its spinning force and the attacking phantoms of Xiao Tribe ancestors.
• Hun Tiandi sacrificed his heart’s blood to strengthen the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade and sent it crashing down again.
• The blade cracked the Xiao Emperor Bell, but Xiao Xuan merged with the Xiao Tribe Primal Ancestor and manifested the True Body of Emperor Xiao.
• Xiao Xuan’s golden light collided with the bloodlight of Hun Tiandi’s blade, producing a blazing sun in the void.

Xiao Xuan defeated Hun Tiandi, and Xiao Yan pursued and killed the fleeing Half-Emperor. The Soul Realm mourned Hun Tiandi’s death as Xiao Xuan joined the Allied Forces, who found that the Soul Clan had been wiped out.

• Xiao Xuan defeated Hun Tiandi, who fled after Xiao Xuan ordered Xiao Yan to kill him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and a wielder of the Ancient Emperor Mirror blocked Hun Tiandi’s escape routes, but he evaded them.
• Xiao Yan struck Hun Tiandi with Eight Extremities Collapse and burned away his escaping phantom, leaving two pieces of Ancient Jade.
• Blood rain spread across the Soul Realm after Hun Tiandi’s death, and Xiao Xuan said he could finally answer for the Xiao Tribe descendants who had perished.
• Xiao Yan and two others reported Hun Tiandi’s death to Xiao Xuan, then joined him as the Allied Forces searched the Soul Realm and found no surviving Soul Clan descendants.

After confirming the Soul Clan had been completely wiped out, Xiao Yan kept the two pieces of Ancient Jade the clan had held, while the Allied Forces destroyed the Soul Realm. The Alliance then disbanded, bringing peace to the Central Plains, until the Xiao Tribe summoned the surviving clans to a meeting.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, Yao Chen, and Nihility Devouring Flame searched the Soul Realm and confirmed no one remained alive.
• Xiao Yan revealed the two pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade taken from the Soul Clan, and the other leaders tacitly accepted them as his spoils of war.
• Xiao Xuan urged the Allied Forces to withdraw and destroy the Soul Realm, and Nihility Devouring Flame removed the Space Lockdown before joining them.
• The Soul Realm was swallowed by a black-hole vortex, and the Alliance announced that Hun Tiandi and every Soul Clan member had been killed.
• Three days later, the Alliance announced its disbandment, and the Central Plains returned to peace.
• The Xiao Tribe invited the surviving factions to gather in the Xiao Realm three days later to discuss important matters.

Xiao Yan prepared to negotiate with the four Emperor Clans over the Ancient Jade by offering them paths to Source Qi and the Dou Di realm. He arranged for Nihility Devouring Flame to take credit for revealing the secrets that supported his plan, and Xiao Xuan left the coming meeting in Xiao Yan’s hands.

• The four invited clans stayed silent about Xiao Tribe’s invitation while increasing their private contact with one another.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that he would trade an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill for Gu Yuan’s Ancient Jade and promise the others access to Source Qi after becoming a Dou Di.
• Xiao Xuan decided to skip the meeting in three days so the other clan leaders would feel less pressured, and Xiao Yan agreed to preside over it.
• Two days earlier, Xiao Yan had asked Nihility Devouring Flame about the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion, but Nihility Devouring Flame insisted he knew nothing about Source Qi or the Ancient Emperor Inheritance.
• Xiao Yan explained the secrets to Nihility Devouring Flame and ordered him to claim he had revealed them, including at the meeting with the other four clans.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reluctantly agreed to take credit for the information after Xiao Yan insisted he had known it all along.

Xiao Yan explained the secrets of the Tou She Ancient God Jade and offered the four clans a deal in exchange for their jades. After Gu Yuan questioned why Xiao Yan would receive the Ancient Emperor Inheritance, Xiao Yan said only someone who cultivated the Flame Mantra could inherit it.

• The leaders of the four ancient clans arrived at the Xiao Tribe for a secret meeting, and Xiao Yan said Xiao Xuan would stay away to avoid misunderstandings.
• Xiao Yan asked the clans to hand over their Tou She Ancient God Jade and promised terms they could not refuse in exchange.
• Gu Yuan described his failed attempts to advance to Dou Di, and Xiao Yan asked Nihility Devouring Flame to explain the secrets of Source Qi and the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained Tou She Ancient God's origins, inheritance, Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, and how Dou Di experts could draw down Source Qi.
• Gu Yuan questioned why Xiao Yan would receive the Ancient Emperor Inheritance, and Xiao Yan said the inheritance was exclusive to Flame Mantra cultivators.

Xiao Yan showed Gu Yuan and the other Clan Leaders a memory proving that the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion and its Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill were real, then proposed trading the Xiao Tribe’s information for their Tou She Ancient God Jades. The Clan Leaders left to discuss the terms, and Xiao Yan planned to attack if they had not answered within three days.

• Xiao Yan offered to let the Clan Leaders try the Ancient Emperor Inheritance and presented Xiao Xuan’s memory as proof of his claims.
• The memory showed Xiao Xuan collecting three Tou She Ancient God Jades, sensing the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion and Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, then splitting the jade into eight pieces to unite the Ancient Eight Clans against their rivals.
• Gu Yuan and the other Clan Leaders accepted that the cave mansion and pill were real, but said they needed seven days to discuss Xiao Yan’s proposal.
• After the four Clan Leaders departed, Nihility Devouring Flame questioned their delay, and Xiao Yan said he would strike if they had not replied within three days.

Yao Chen and Xiao Yan secured the Yao Clan’s and Ancient Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jades, prompting the Lei Clan and Yan Tribe to rush to the Xiao Realm with their own. All eight jades were gathered, and the clans assembled in the Xiao Realm ahead of a journey to the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion.

• Yao Dan offered Yao Chen the Yao Clan’s jade in exchange for returning to the clan as an honorary elder, and Yao Chen agreed.
• Yao Dan told Yao Chen that Yao Wangui had died fighting the Soul Clan and ordered Wan Huo to retrieve the jade.
• Xun'er brought Xiao Yan to Gu Yuan, who agreed to give him the Ancient Clan’s jade.
• Gu Yuan and Yao Dan arrived in the Xiao Tribe with their jades, prompting Lei Ying and Yan Jin to hurry after them with the Lei Clan’s and Yan Tribe’s jades.
• The Lei Clan and Yan Tribe groups met at Wutan City and entered the Xiao Realm, completing the set of eight Tou She Ancient God Jades.

Xiao Yan gathered the leaders of the major clans and Zi Yan to travel to Jia Nan Academy, revealing that the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion lay beneath its Inner Academy. The group arrived through a Space Wormhole, where two guards trembled at the sight of the powerful visitors.

• Lei Ying confronted Gu Yuan and Yao Dan for breaking their agreement to give the Xiao Tribe an answer after seven days, and Yao Dan and Gu Yuan explained why they had joined the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yan arrived, and Xiao Xuan told the gathered leaders to wait for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan and Hei Qing arrived; Xiao Yan welcomed them and congratulated Hei Qing on reaching the Dou Sheng realm.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion was beneath the Magma Sea under Jia Nan Inner Academy's Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, then led the clan leaders through a Space Wormhole toward Jia Nan Academy.
• Half a day later, the group emerged in Jia Nan Inner Academy, frightening the two Dou Zong elders guarding its Space Wormhole.

Mang Tianchi returned to the Inner Academy with Xiao Yan and several powerful clan leaders, and the group headed for the Magma World beneath the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. Before they descended, Xiao Yan awakened a Fire Spirit in the Inner Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame and left it to help guard the tower.

• Wang Dao welcomed Mang Tianchi, who asked him to summon Su Qian, Qian, and Bai; the three arrived and were introduced to the visiting clan leaders and Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan surveyed the Inner Academy and learned that Huang Hao and the other elders had advanced, while Zi Yan asked to see Huang Hao and Xiao Yan chose not to disturb them.
• Su Qian led the group to the tenth level of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, where Xiao Liu prepared to open the seal to the underground Magma World.
• Xiao Yan drew the Inner Academy’s juvenile Fallen Heart Flame from the Fire Gathering Pot and helped it form an intelligent snake-like Fire Spirit.
• Xiao Yan returned the new Fire Spirit to the Fire Gathering Pot, and Su Qian thanked him for strengthening the Inner Academy’s flame; the group then entered the Magma World.

Xiao Yan led Gu Yuan and the others through the Magma Sea to the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion, where a colossal creature demanded to know whether they carried the Ancient Jade. Zi Yan revealed the creature was her father, Zhu Kun, the lost former Dragon Emperor, who welcomed her and invited the group to the plaza.

• Xiao Yan warned the group not to travel through space as they entered the Tou She Ancient God's domain and approached the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion.
• Two Flame Lizardman Semi-Saints watched the group pass and wondered whether their arrival would bring fortune or disaster.
• Mang Tianchi spoke beneath the cave's sphere of light, waking a colossal violet-gold creature that asked whether the visitors bore the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan warned the group that the creature's strength might surpass his, but Zi Yan said they could enter without the Ancient Jade.
• The creature transformed into a violet-gold-haired man, and Xiao Yan identified him as Zhu Kun, Zi Yan's father and the former Dragon Emperor.
• Zhu Kun beckoned Zi Yan and invited the group to the plaza, and Xiao Yan led them down toward it.

Xiao Yan and the others opened the Ancient Emperor Cave Mansion, freeing Zhu Kun and entering the ancient space within. Nihility Devouring Flame explained that the weakened Heavenly Flames on the stone pillars were the remnants of those Tou She Ancient God had once devoured.

• Xiao Yan united the eight pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade, causing Tou She Ancient God's projection to appear before he dismissed it.
• Xiao Yan used the complete Ancient Jade to open the cave mansion's gate, and Zhu Kun celebrated his freedom and promised Zi Yan he would return to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan led the group into the cave mansion, where Nihility Devouring Flame guided them through the mist to a vast plaza and ancient stone hall.
• The group saw the Mysterious Yellow Flame atop the first stone pillar, and Nihility Devouring Flame explained Tou She Ancient God's history and the fate of the Heavenly Flames stored in the cave.

Xiao Yan’s group reached the Ancient Emperor statue and collected the Heaven-Tier scrolls, where the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill challenged them. Xiao Xuan overwhelmed the Half-Step Dou Di in battle, and the chapter ended as they prepared to clash with their ultimate techniques.

• Xiao Yan gathered the ancient scrolls floating around the statue and said the group would divide them later.
• The Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill appeared and demanded to know why mortals had trespassed into his Cave Abode.
• Xiao Xuan struck the pill elder, dismissed his strength, and fought him in the sky while Xiao Yan and the others watched.
• The Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill unleashed Emperor Pill Palm, and Xiao Xuan answered with the first move of Xiao Emperor Finger.

Xiao Yan used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to capture the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill after Xiao Xuan defeated its transformed guardian. Gu Yuan accepted the pill but agreed to wait for Xiao Yan to become a Dou Di and open the Source Qi Channel, while keeping the pill as a backup.

• Xiao Xuan struck the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill's guardian with One Finger Breaks Mountains and Rivers, leaving it badly wounded.
• Xiao Yan used the Ancient Jade's Pill-Refining Ring to trap and capture the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, then gave it to Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Xuan warned Gu Yuan that a Dou Di who advanced by consuming an Emperor Pill would have limited prospects and urged him to wait for Xiao Yan to open the Source Qi Channel.
• Gu Yuan agreed to wait one year for Xiao Yan's breakthrough but secretly kept the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill as a backup.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan tried to persuade Gu Yuan to give them the pill, but he refused and said he would have it ripened for the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yan proved that only he could activate the Ancient Emperor Inheritance, then moved the Ancient Emperor Statue and Heavenly Flame Plaza to the Heavenly Tomb. He entered the statue’s heart to receive the inheritance and attempt to reach the Emperor Realm.

• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and Gu Yuan each tried to activate the Ancient Emperor Statue, but nothing happened.
• Nihility Devouring Flame infused the statue with black flames, causing it to open and unleash a pillar of light that overwhelmed him and the nearby Clan Leaders.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra to break free of the pillar’s restraint and sever its resonance with his Heavenly Flame Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan arranged for the Ancient Emperor Statue and Heavenly Flame Plaza to be moved to the Heavenly Tomb, where Gu Yuan and the others later departed.
• Xiao Yan summoned Nihility Devouring Flame back into his body and plunged into the statue’s heart to receive the Ancient Emperor Inheritance.