Chapter Summaries

Xiao Qing welcomed Little Qing, the newly intelligent spirit of the Flame of Life and Creation, and assessed his immense power after subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. When Hun Tiandi arrived to investigate, Xiao Qing chose to leave him alive so Xiao Xuan could settle their blood feud, then slipped away unnoticed.

• Little Qing thanked Xiao Qing for her name and demonstrated her healing, purification, and life-nourishing flames by repairing a spatial fragment.
• Xiao Qing examined his peak Eight-Star Dou Saint cultivation, six completed laws, Emperor Realm Soul, and Half-Emperor body, judging himself powerful enough to challenge a newly ascended Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Qing sensed Hun Tiandi investigating the collapsing space above the Demon Fire Plain, while Little Qing sensed danger and Xiao Qing reassured her.
• Hun Tiandi concluded that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had been subdued, searched for the unknown culprit, and wondered whether Xiao Qing was responsible.
• Xiao Qing considered killing Hun Tiandi but decided to leave him for the resurrected Xiao Xuan to confront, then escaped through a concealed spatial passage with Little Qing.
• Hun Tiandi sensed a fleeting disturbance but found no trace of Xiao Qing and did not realize he had narrowly escaped death.

Xiao Qing returned to the Star Realm and watched Xiao Chen teach the Xiao Family’s younger generation about their bloodline and cultivation. The chapter left Xiao Chen advising Xiao Yi Xian on controlling her Woe Poison Body as she approached the Nine-Turn Dou Zun realm.

• Xiao Qing arrived at the Star Realm and used his Emperor Realm Soul to observe the Xiao Family territory.
• Xiao Chen taught the younger generation about the Xiao Clan’s legacy, bloodline, and lost cultivation methods.
• Xiao Chen recalled how Xiao Zhan and the elders recognized him as their ancestor after he revealed his Five-Star Dou Saint aura and Xiao Qing’s message.
• Xiao Zhan and the elders welcomed Xiao Chen, and he spent three months teaching them about the ancient Xiao Clan and its history.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Chen she had reached the threshold of Nine-Turn and asked about fusing her Woe Poison Body with Dou Qi.
• Xiao Chen advised Xiao Yi Xian that controlling her innate Woe Poison Body could turn it into her greatest aid.

Xiao Qing returned to the Star Realm after subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and rescuing Xiao Chen, and reunited with his family and companions. As the Soul Clan’s movements stirred trouble beyond the realm, Xiao Qing prepared to protect the peaceful home he had returned to.

• Xiao Chen advised Xiao Yi Xian on harmonizing her extreme attributes and praised Qing Lin’s progress with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, while privately imagining their future children with Xiao Qing.
• Old Yao joined Xiao Qing and learned that Xiao Qing had rescued Xiao Chen, subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and advanced to the peak of eight-star Dou Saint.
• Old Yao reported that the Star Realm was growing stronger but that the Soul Hall and Soul Clan were making preparations across the Central Plains.
• Xiao Qing and Old Yao appeared in the Cultivation Plaza, where Xiao Chen welcomed Xiao Qing and celebrated the Xiao Clan’s growing prospects.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family disciples greeted Xiao Qing, while Xiao Yi Xian welcomed him tenderly and Qing Lin excitedly told him about her recent accomplishments.

Xiao Qing told Xiao Chen and the others that Xiao Xuan was nearing revival and would return at Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint strength. With the Soul Clan’s plans advancing, Xiao Qing then went with Xiao Chen to the Ancient Realm, where Gu Yuan sensed that Xiao Qing’s power had become difficult to fathom.

• Xiao Qing explained that he had rebuilt Xiao Xuan’s body in the Heavenly Tomb and that the ancestor would emerge within a few days to half a month.
• Xiao Chen rejoiced at the prospect of reuniting with Xiao Xuan, while Xiao Zhan thanked Xiao Qing on behalf of the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Qing estimated that Xiao Xuan would return at the Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint realm and reflected that the Soul Clan’s Operation Jade Collection was already underway.
• Xiao Qing and Xiao Chen arrived at Gu Yuan’s courtyard in the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuan sensed that Xiao Qing’s aura had become so powerful that even he could no longer see through it, then turned his attention to Xiao Chen.

Xiao Qing warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan was preparing to act, revealing the clan’s hidden infiltration and Nihility Devouring Flame’s recovered strength. As Xiao Xuan’s resurrection neared completion, Xiao Qing hinted that Gu Yuan would soon meet an old friend.

• Gu Yuan recognized Xiao Chen as the Blood Axe and reminisced about his past alongside Xiao Xuan.
• Gu Yuan asked Xiao Qing whether he had subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Qing confirmed it.
• Xiao Qing warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan might know about the Tou She Ancient God Jade and had infiltrated the ancient clans.
• Xiao Qing revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame had reached Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint and Emperor Realm soul strength, alarming Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Qing sensed that Xiao Xuan’s resurrection would finish within three days and hinted that Gu Yuan would soon meet an unexpected old friend.

Xiao Qing brought Xiao Chen into the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan had rebuilt the Xiao Clan Main Mansion and was nearing the end of his resurrection. Xiao Xuan emerged from a Blood Cocoon and reunited with Xiao Chen, who began recounting his thousand-year ordeal.

• Gu Yuan opened the Heavenly Tomb entrance, and Xiao Qing and Xiao Chen entered.
• Xiao Qing used Spatial Law to take Xiao Chen to the third level, where they found a recreation of the Xiao Clan Main Mansion built by Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Chen recognized the mansion and learned that Xiao Xuan had rebuilt it to preserve the Xiao Clan's inheritance.
• A surge of energy shattered Xiao Xuan's Blood Cocoon, and Xiao Xuan emerged from his thousand-year resurrection.
• Xiao Xuan recognized Xiao Chen, and the two cousins reunited emotionally after a thousand years apart.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Xuan about entering the Demonic Flame Space, being refined by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and being saved by Xiao Qing.

Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen faced the Xiao Clan’s bloodline crisis, and Xiao Qing promised to create a new Emperor Dou Bloodline. Xiao Xuan reunited with Gu Yuan and put their old grievance behind them, while a mysterious awakening began in the depths of the Nine Nether Yellow Spring.

• Xiao Xuan explained that the Xiao Clan’s Emperor Dou Bloodline had been exhausted, leaving the clan without its former foundation.
• Xiao Qing declared that he would create a new Emperor Dou Bloodline, and Xiao Xuan agreed to assist him.
• Xiao Qing led Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen out of the Heavenly Tomb to meet Gu Yuan in the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan greeted each other after a thousand years, signaling that their old conflict had ended.
• A dull roar sounded from deep within the Nine Nether Yellow Spring as something began to awaken.

Qing Xuan emerged from the Nine Nether Yellow Spring after awakening her Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline and completing Saint Qingling’s inheritance. Xiao Qing told them that the Soul Clan’s movements had made the situation outside dangerous, leaving Saint Qingling to grasp the threat.

• A nine-colored pillar and giant python phantom appeared above the Nine Nether Yellow Spring, forcing the Nine Nether Deepworld Python Clan to kneel.
• Yao Ming identified the phantom as a Nine-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and realized Qing Xuan’s legendary bloodline had awakened.
• Qing Xuan emerged and reunited with Xiao Qing, who recognized her as a late Four-Star Dou Saint with her inheritance fully awakened.
• Saint Qingling appeared from the mark on Qing Xuan’s hand and thanked Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan for helping stabilize her soul.
• Saint Qingling praised Qing Xuan’s progress, then asked why Xiao Qing had come; he explained the Soul Clan’s recent movements and the danger outside.

Xiao Qing returned to the Heavenly Court with Qing Xuan and Saint Qingling, whose awe at his Eight-Star Dou Saint cultivation grew as he recounted his recent exploits. After Qing Xuan noticed Xiao Yi Xian’s newfound intimacy with him, she quietly confronted Xiao Qing with what she had inferred.

• Xiao Qing took Qing Xuan and Saint Qingling back to the Star Realm, while Yao Ming and the Nine Nether Deepworld Python elders respectfully saw them off.
• In the Spatial Passage, Saint Qingling discovered that Xiao Qing had advanced from Three-Star to Eight-Star Dou Saint in just over a year, and Qing Xuan resolved to catch up with him.
• Xiao Qing described his experiences in the Heavenly Tomb and Demonic Flame Space, and Saint Qingling credited his progress to his own effort as well as his inherited advantages.
• Old Yao, Wind Venerable, Venerable Skyfire, and the others welcomed Xiao Qing and met Qing Xuan and Saint Qingling at the Heavenly Court.
• Qing Xuan noticed Xiao Yi Xian’s changed demeanor and closeness to Xiao Qing, then gave him a cold, knowing look after the others had left.

After returning, Xiao Qing promised to resurrect Saint Qingling and spent time with Qing Xuan and Xiao Yi Xian as they settled into a peaceful arrangement. He discovered that Qing Xuan was pregnant with their child, and the news delighted the Heavenly Court's core circle.

• Qing Xuan asked Xiao Qing whether he could reshape Saint Qingling's body, and he assured her that he could resurrect her after making preparations.
• Xiao Qing spent the following days with Qing Xuan and Xiao Yi Xian, while Qing Xuan and Xiao Yi Xian developed a tacit acceptance of one another.
• Xiao Qing sensed a faint new life in Qing Xuan and confirmed that she was carrying their child.
• Old Yao noticed Qing Xuan's pregnancy, and Xiao Chen celebrated the news after Old Yao confirmed it.

Xiao Qing and Qing Xuan celebrated the news of their child as the Heavenly Court gathered to congratulate them. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan erased the Spirit Clan and launched an attack on the Stone Clan, whose clansmen struggled against the Soul Clan’s overwhelming power.

• Xiao Xuan offered to raise and teach Qing Xuan’s child, while Old Yao offered to teach the child alchemy.
• Xiao Yi Xian took Xiao Qing’s hand, and Zi Yan and other Heavenly Court figures arrived to celebrate Qing Xuan’s pregnancy.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame confirmed that they had completely destroyed the Spirit Clan and taken its Tou She Ancient God Jade fragment.
• Seven days later, the Soul Clan attacked the Stone Clan, whose clan protection array and stone guardians rose to defend their territory.
• Hun Tu, Hun Sha, Hun Jing, and Hun Yan suppressed the Stone Clan’s formation as Nihility Devouring Flame incapacitated its leaders and began devouring the earth veins.

The Soul Clan annihilated the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan, took their Gu Yu, and spread blame toward the Ancient Clan and Heavenly Court. Xiao Qing learned from Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan’s devouring power was behind the attacks and that rumors were inflaming suspicion within the Yao Clan; he left the secret chamber as Qing Xuan approached.

• Hun Tiandi learned that the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan had been erased, bringing the Soul Clan’s total to three pieces of Gu Yu, and ordered Hun Xuzi to direct suspicion toward the Ancient Clan and Heavenly Court.
• Xiao Qing sensed distant spatial destruction while Qing Xuan spent time with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Rumors of the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan’s destruction spread, and investigators found that both clans’ spatial entrances had vanished.
• Gu Yuan told Xiao Qing that the annihilations bore the Nihility Devouring Flame’s signature and showed him Yao Clan elders accusing Xiao Qing and the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Qing warned that the Soul Clan was repeating the tactics it had used against the Xiao Clan and suspected the Yao Clan was its next target.
• Xiao Qing left the secret chamber and saw Qing Xuan approaching.

Xiao Qing refused to rush to the Yao Clan, while Yao Dan sealed the realm after suspecting the Soul Clan was sowing discord. Three days later, the Soul Clan cut off the Yao Realm and launched an invasion to seize its Gu Yu.

• Xiao Qing told Qing Xuan that going to the Yao Clan would play into the Soul Clan's hands and make the other clans less willing to act.
• Yao Wangui urged Yao Dan to accuse Xiao Qing and pressure the Ancient Clan, but Yao Dan suspected a Soul Clan plot, sealed the Yao Realm, and confined Yao Wangui.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used Heaven-Swallowing Earth-Devouring to sever the Yao Realm's connections with the outside world.
• Yao Dan sounded the alarm and activated the Heaven-Transforming Medicine Array as darkness engulfed the Yao Realm.
• Hun Xuzi, Hun Tu, five Soul Clan Dou Saint elders, and hundreds of Soul Hall Honored Elders appeared and demanded the Yao Clan's Gu Yu.

The Soul Clan attacked the Yao Clan, overwhelming its defenses and devouring the Emperor Yao’s remnant soul. Just as the Yao Clan faced defeat, Xiao Xuan appeared, and his return filled the Soul Clan with terror.

• Hun Tu led the Soul Clan’s assault, killing Yao Clan elders as the black flames weakened the Heaven-Transforming Medicine Array.
• Yao Dan summoned the Emperor Yao’s remnant soul with the Myriad Pills Transform Heaven array, but the Nihility Devouring Flame began devouring it.
• Yao Wanhuo escaped with Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and other young clansmen while Yao Dan, Yao Wangui, and four elders sacrificed themselves to hold back Hun Tu.
• Xiao Xuan tore through the Yao Realm’s sealed Spatial Barrier and appeared before the Soul Clan and the surviving Yao Clan members.
• Hun Tu recognized Xiao Xuan and recoiled in terror as memories of the Soul Clan’s defeat a thousand years earlier returned.

Xiao Xuan killed Hun Tu with a single touch and trapped Nihility Devouring Flame as he tried to flee. He then revealed a tiny azure flame that made Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin fire tremble, leaving its nature unknown.

• Hun Tu recognized Xiao Xuan, who dismissed him as pathetic before killing him with a fingertip.
• Nihility Devouring Flame sensed Xiao Xuan’s power and tried to escape to warn Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan sealed the surrounding space with sword intent, preventing Nihility Devouring Flame from fleeing.
• Xiao Xuan summoned a faint azure flame that caused Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin fire to tremble in fear.

Xiao Xuan used green flames to suppress and purify Nihility Devouring Flame, while Hun Xuzi secretly sent a signal. Hun Tiandi then arrived in the Yao Realm and confronted the resurrected Xiao Xuan, and the two began fighting.

• Xiao Xuan pressed a giant green flaming palm down on Nihility Devouring Flame, stripping away and purifying his origin despite his efforts to resist.
• Hun Xuzi crushed a Blood-Colored Jade Slip, sending a hidden signal through Xiao Xuan's spatial blockade.
• Hun Tiandi tore open the blockade and entered the Yao Realm, where he recognized Xiao Xuan and asked how he had been revived.
• Xiao Xuan eased the pressure on Nihility Devouring Flame and confronted Hun Tiandi, who judged that they were both Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saints.
• Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi attacked at the same time; Xiao Xuan's green sword light shattered Hun Tiandi's Soul Chains and freed the resentful souls trapped within them.

Hun Tiandi sacrificed Hun Xuzi to escape Xiao Xuan’s pursuit, while Xiao Xuan tracked him to the Soul Realm. Hun Tiandi arrived there badly wounded alongside the nearly destroyed Nihility Devouring Flame, as Xiao Xuan set out after him.

• Xiao Xuan’s swordsmanship gained the upper hand, so Hun Tiandi burned his essence blood to force him back and seize the injured Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Tiandi triggered a hidden restriction in Hun Xuzi, then hurled him at Xiao Xuan and escaped with Nihility Devouring Flame through a blood-red spatial technique.
• Hun Xuzi’s body exploded, and Xiao Xuan shielded himself from the blast before tracking Hun Tiandi’s essence-blood trail with his Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Xuan told Gu Lie to handle the Yao Realm’s aftermath, then pursued Hun Tiandi toward the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi crashed into the Soul Realm’s Holy Hall Square with Nihility Devouring Flame, both of them badly injured.

Hun Tiandi betrayed Nihility Devouring Flame and forcibly devoured his origin, using the Soul Realm Grand Array to suppress him. He then began refining the power on the ancient altar, and after hours of perilous cultivation, opened his eyes with a violent new power.

• Nihility Devouring Flame begged Hun Tiandi to stabilize his damaged origin, but Hun Tiandi seized him and declared that his remaining value would serve the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi used a strange power to extract Nihility Devouring Flame's origin, while the Soul Realm Grand Array bound the flame's attempt to destroy the square.
• Hun Tiandi tore away Nihility Devouring Flame's final core flame, and Nihility Devouring Flame faded after cursing him.
• Hun Tiandi sat on the ancient altar and used the Soul Devouring Spirit Consumption Art and the Soul Realm's accumulated power to refine the origin.
• After hours of dangerous refinement, Hun Tiandi opened his eyes and sent two beams of black light through the Holy Hall roof, tearing open the sky.

Hun Tiandi forced himself to Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint by devouring the Nihility Devouring Flame, but Xiao Xuan caught up with him in the Soul Realm. Hun Tiandi sacrificed most of his clan to break into a Pseudo-Half-Emperor realm, and Xiao Xuan faced him without retreating.

• Hun Tiandi survived the Nihility Devouring Flame’s final counterattack and reached Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, while vowing to kill Xiao Xuan and Xiao Qing once he advanced further.
• Xiao Xuan tore through the Soul Realm’s spatial barrier and confronted Hun Tiandi at Holy Hall Square.
• Hun Tiandi activated the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array, intending to sacrifice every living member of the Soul Clan.
• The formation drained the Soul Clan’s life force, souls, and bloodline; more than seventy percent of its members died within three breaths.
• Hun Tiandi absorbed the gathered energy and became an unstable Pseudo-Half-Emperor, then challenged Xiao Xuan to recognize his power.
• Xiao Xuan suppressed his surging blood and qi, stepped forward, and told Hun Tiandi that he had not changed since a thousand years earlier.

Hun Tiandi's Half-Emperor power overwhelmed Xiao Xuan until Xiao Qing intervened with a law-like Golden Emperor Finger and annihilated him. Xiao Xuan then killed the surviving Soul Clan members to settle the Soul Clan's thousand-year blood debt.

• Hun Tiandi used a life-fueled punch to overpower Xiao Xuan's Dao Severing sword strike and prepared a stronger attack.
• Xiao Qing's golden finger descended from a rift in the sky, immobilized Hun Tiandi, and destroyed him along with his Half-Emperor cultivation and Emperor Realm Soul.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame's origin was pulled into the rift before it closed, and Xiao Xuan realized Xiao Qing wielded power beyond the Dou Qi Continent's known system.
• Xiao Xuan saw the surviving Soul Clan members and used his Emperor Realm Soul to kill them all.