Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan destroyed Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan, avenging the Xiao Clan’s thousand-year blood feud. In the Star Realm, Xiao Qing began restoring Saint Qingling’s body with a Creation Green Lotus, but the sight of her unfinished, unclothed form left her mortified.

• Xiao Xuan erased the Soul Clan’s four great elders and confirmed that Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan had been destroyed.
• Saint Qingling thanked Xiao Qing for strengthening her soul and promised to repay his kindness once she regained her body.
• Xiao Qing revealed a Ninth-Grade Creation Green Lotus and asked Saint Qingling to separate a thread of her Soul Origin to guide the restoration.
• Saint Qingling gave up a thread of Soul Origin, and Xiao Qing used it with the lotus and the Law of Life to shape a new body.
• Saint Qingling was embarrassed and protested when she saw her unclothed body taking shape, but Xiao Qing explained that clothing could disrupt the restoration.

Xiao Qing completed Saint Qingling’s new body and began her soul’s yearlong fusion in Secret Valley. Meanwhile, news of the Soul Clan’s destruction and the Yao Clan’s near-annihilation terrified the Flame and Thunder Clans, whose leaders feared Xiao Xuan might gather the ancient jade and become a Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Qing used a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill and Saint Qingling’s Soul Origin to begin merging her soul with her new body, then left her to recover in the Star Spirit-Nurturing Array.
• Reports confirmed that Xiao Xuan had destroyed the Soul Clan and that the Yao Clan had nearly been wiped out, spreading panic across the continent.
• Yan Jin concluded that Xiao Xuan and his allies might hold at least five pieces of the Tou She Ancient God Jade and could be preparing for another attempt to become a Dou Emperor.
• Lei Ying rejected surrendering the Thunder Clan’s inherited jade, but Yan Jin urged caution and called for the clans to learn Xiao Xuan and Xiao Qing’s intentions.

Xiao Qing prepared to refine a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill for Qing Xuan and their unborn child, planning to use the ruined Soul Realm as the furnace’s energy source. Three days later, the continent’s alchemists and powerful figures gathered in the Star Realm to witness the refinement, and the chapter ended as renowned pill masters and experts arrived.

• Xiao Qing explained that the Saint Vein Origin-Fusion Pill would strengthen the unborn child’s foundation while also protecting and nourishing Qing Xuan.
• Xiao Qing decided to refine the pill in the ownerless, collapsing Soul Realm so its remaining natural energy would not go to waste.
• News spread that Xiao Qing would refine a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill at Asking Dao Peak in three days, drawing alchemists and experts from across the continent.
• The Ancestor of Pill Tower arrived at the gathering and exchanged a greeting with Old Yao.
• Elder Shennong, prominent Pill Tower elders, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan also arrived to witness the event.

Xiao Qing began refining a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill atop Asking Dao Peak, drawing purified energy from the collapsing Soul Realm and using the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron. After eighty-one days, he devoured the pill tribulation, and the cauldron began releasing a pillar of light as the pill reached its birth.

• Xiao Qing tore open a passage to the collapsing Soul Realm and used the Laws of Devouring and Space to draw in and purify its remaining energy.
• Xiao Qing placed peerless medicinal ingredients into the Heavenly Emperor Cauldron and refined ten main ingredients at once with the Flame of Life and Creation.
• Xiao Qing continued refining for eighty-one days while auspicious signs appeared and the medicinal fragrance spread across the Star Realm.
• Nine Profound Golden Lightning gathered above Asking Dao Peak, and Xiao Qing devoured the entire pill tribulation to temper his body.
• The Heavenly Emperor Cauldron opened, and a pillar of multicolored light shot skyward as the Ninth-Grade Golden Pill neared its birth.

After Xiao Qing completed the Saint Vein Origin-Fusion Pill, its pill rain blessed the Star Realm and the pill nurtured Qing Xuan and her unborn child. He then prepared to refine Nihility Devouring Flame in the Heavenly Tomb, aiming to complete his Innate Spirit Body’s transformation.

• The Saint Vein Light Pillar dispersed into Spirit-Nourishing Pill Rain, awakening beasts and plants and helping Heavenly Court cultivators advance.
• Ancestor of Pill Tower praised Xiao Qing’s pill and declared the title of Heavenly Emperor well deserved.
• Xiao Qing gave Qing Xuan the Primal Chaos Golden Pill, which healed and strengthened her while further awakening their unborn child’s bloodline.
• After securing Qing Xuan and the Heavenly Court, Xiao Qing turned to the purified source of Nihility Devouring Flame and prepared to refine it.
• Xiao Qing created Double Spatial Restrictions in the Heavenly Tomb’s Quiet Room to conceal the disturbance from his breakthrough.
• Xiao Qing summoned Little Qing and asked her to command the other ten Heavenly Flames as they suppressed and merged with Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Qing fused the Nihility Devouring Flame with the ten other Heavenly Flames, creating the Chaos Flame and advancing to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint. His Innate Spirit Body reached Great Accomplishment and awakened the divine ability Immunity to All Laws, but a trace of his aura escaped and shook the beings in the Heavenly Tomb.

• Xiao Qing and Little Qing restrained the Nihility Devouring Flame and began fusing it with his Law of Devouring and the ten Heavenly Flames.
• The eleven Heavenly Flames fused into the Chaos Flame, and Xiao Qing broke through to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Qing's Innate Spirit Body reached Great Accomplishment and awakened the divine ability Immunity to All Laws.
• Xiao Qing sensed his new abilities and the heightened power of his body, soul, Dou Qi, and laws.
• A trace of Xiao Qing's aura escaped Xiao Xuan's Mansion, causing the Energy Entities in the third level of the Heavenly Tomb to freeze in fear.

Xiao Qing refined his mastery of time and space after breaking through to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint, and began combining the two laws into Spacetime Power. Just as he prepared to control the stabilized power, Spacetime Turbulence overwhelmed him and knocked him unconscious.

• Xiao Qing concealed the aura leaking from his breakthrough and judged that his strength had surpassed that of an ordinary Dou Emperor.
• After three days of consolidating his power, Xiao Qing began attempting to fuse his laws of time and space.
• Xiao Qing formed the embryonic Spacetime Power and spent the following months strengthening and stabilizing it.
• As Xiao Qing prepared to solidify the power, Spacetime Turbulence made it tremble violently and left him unable to move or circulate Dou Qi.
• Xiao Qing's embryonic Spacetime Power resonated with the turbulence, and he lost consciousness.

Xiao Qing witnessed Tou She Ancient God’s ascension to Dou Emperor and met his gaze across the continent. Tou She Ancient God approached him and questioned how Xiao Qing had fused at least eleven Heavenly Flames into one.

• Xiao Qing awoke in an unfamiliar forest as twin suns, nine stars, and a twenty-two-colored fire lotus marked the birth of a Dou Emperor.
• Tou She Ancient God emerged from the flames and became the source of the Emperor’s might, while Xiao Qing stood firm beneath the pressure.
• Tou She Ancient God sensed Xiao Qing’s presence and found that his fused flames made him feel like an equal.
• Tou She Ancient God crossed a million li and stood near Xiao Qing in the ancient forest.
• Tou She Ancient God said he had Devoured twenty-two Heavenly Flames and spent tens of thousands of years fusing them, then questioned how Xiao Qing had united at least eleven.

Xiao Qing and Tou She Ancient God sparred in the Endless Void, where Xiao Qing defeated the newly ascended Dou Emperor with his laws, Chaos Flame, and physical strength. Tou She accepted his loss but questioned how the Dou Qi Continent could have produced someone like Xiao Qing, then began to speak about what happened after his ascension.

• Tou She Ancient God recognized Xiao Qing's Dou Emperor-level body and soul and challenged him to a spar.
• Tou She launched a Twenty-Two Colored Fire Lotus, which Xiao Qing disrupted with space-time laws and Chaos Flame.
• Tou She transformed the lotus into nine flame dragons, but Xiao Qing's Immunity to All Laws weakened their attacks, and his punch cracked Tou She's flame shield.
• Tou She summoned his Dou Emperor Origin Fire Seal as a Giant Flame Stele, but Xiao Qing used a space-time sword strike and Finger of Nirvana to shatter it.
• Tou She admitted defeat, and Xiao Qing noted that Tou She's newly attained Dou Emperor realm had not yet stabilized.
• Tou She questioned how the Dou Qi Continent could have produced Xiao Qing and began recounting what happened after he became a Dou Emperor.

After defeating Tou She Ancient God, Xiao Qing remained in the ancient Dou Qi Continent to cultivate and grow stronger. He accelerated the growth of the Tree of Life seed in a pocket space, where it became a life-giving sapling as his mastery of space and time advanced.

• Tou She Ancient God gave Xiao Qing his comprehension of the Dao of Fire and left through a rift for the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Qing settled in an ancient mountain range, refined three Ninth-Grade Golden Pills, and advanced to Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Qing explored the ancient continent, gathered rare treasures, and observed its clans and magical beasts without interfering.
• Xiao Qing created a stable pocket space, drew in energy, accelerated time, and planted the Tree of Life seed.
• The seed sprouted and grew into a three-foot sapling with a Life Domain that held ten times the energy concentration of the outside world.

Xiao Qing returned from ten thousand years in the past with a World Tree Embryo and reached Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, then began breaking through toward Dou Emperor by harmonizing his six laws. As he released his accumulated power, a bloodline-deep tremor swept through the Xiao Family, leaving Xiao Zhan startled.

• The Tree of Life took root in Xiao Qing’s Inner World, awakening it into a World Prototype and helping him break through to Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Qing returned to his cultivation room in the Heavenly Tomb, where he found the World Tree Embryo formed and prepared to challenge the Dou Emperor realm.
• Xiao Qing used Chaos Flame and Power of World Origin to merge his six laws into a balanced cycle and crack the barrier between Nine-Star Dou Saint and Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Qing released his suppressed power to surge toward the final boundary.
• A tremor swept through the Xiao Family Residence, and Xiao Zhan dropped his brush and clutched his chest.

Xiao Qing broke through to Dou Di in the Heavenly Tomb, triggering the Xiao Clan bloodline’s ascension and transforming his relatives’ cultivation across the Star Realm. His imperial might pierced the Heavenly Tomb and spread across the Dou Qi Continent, where Gu Yuan sensed it.

• Xiao Zhan’s bloodline erupted, raising his cultivation to Three-Turn Dou Zun as Xiao Clan members across the estate experienced breakthroughs.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li rose to Peak Primary Half-Saint, while Yan Qian advanced to Late-Stage One-Star Dou Saint through bloodline resonance.
• Xiao Qing’s unborn child empowered Qing Xuan, lifting her cultivation to Six-Star Dou Saint, as Old Yao, Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Chen recognized the birth of a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Qing shattered his final barrier in the Heavenly Tomb, transformed his body and soul, and expanded his Inner World.
• Xiao Qing released imperial might that cracked the Heavenly Tomb’s Spatial Barriers and swept across the continent, causing Gu Yuan to turn toward the northwest in alarm.

Xiao Qing became the first Dou Emperor in ten thousand years, and his Imperial Might shook the entire continent. He returned to the Star Realm, saw how his breakthrough had transformed the Xiao Clan, reunited with Qing Xuan, and sealed their unborn child’s powerful bloodline; he then set out to visit his teacher and the others.

• Xiao Qing’s ascension to Dou Emperor sent Imperial Might across the continent, startling Gu Yuan, Gu Xun'er, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and countless others.
• Xiao Qing left the Heavenly Tomb and crossed the continent to the Star Realm, where the Heavenly Court Guard captain recognized him as the Heavenly Emperor and bowed.
• Xiao Qing surveyed the Star Realm and saw the Xiao Clan and its allies benefiting from the Emperor Dou Bloodline, including Yan Qian’s breakthrough to Dou Saint.
• Xiao Qing reunited with Qing Xuan and confirmed that he had become a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Qing discovered that their unborn child was being overwhelmed by its powerful bloodline and sealed that power until the child was born and ready to control it.
• Xiao Qing told Qing Xuan that he would go see his teacher and the others.

After becoming the first Dou Emperor in ten thousand years, Xiao Qing welcomed the Heavenly Court’s rise and prepared to rescue Zhu Kun from the Ancient God Mansion. He led Zi Yan, Zhu Kun’s Soul Clone, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan beneath Jia Nan Academy, where they entered the mansion’s hidden space.

• Xiao Qing reunited with Old Yao and the others in the Star Realm, accepted their congratulations, and declared that the Heavenly Court would set the rules.
• For a month, factions flocked to the Star Realm to pay homage, while Xiao Qing handled important affairs and planned the next stage of his rule.
• Xiao Qing summoned Zi Yan and revealed that he would bring her father back, then invited Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan to accompany them to Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Qing explained that Zhu Kun had been imprisoned as the mansion’s gatekeeper for several thousand years, and the group departed for the site beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Qing led everyone through the magma, reached the ancient spatial barrier, and opened the way into Ancient God Space.

Xiao Qing freed Zhu Kun from the chains that had imprisoned him for thousands of years, and Zhu Kun reunited with his soul avatar and regained his full strength. As the group prepared to open Tou She Ancient God’s stone gate, Zhu Kun revealed that the ancient Emperor had been a Heavenly Flame formed by devouring and fusing all twenty-two other flames on the ranking.

• Xiao Qing snapped the chains binding Zhu Kun, allowing Zhu Kun to regain his true body and freedom.
• Zhu Kun thanked Xiao Qing, then merged with his soul avatar and recovered his Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint strength.
• Xiao Qing led Zhu Kun, Zi Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan toward the stone gate to uncover Tou She Ancient God’s secrets.
• Zhu Kun told the group that Tou She Ancient God had been neither human nor magical beast, but the Emperor Flame.
• Zhu Kun explained that the Emperor Flame had devoured and fused all twenty-two other Heavenly Flames before emerging as Tou She Ancient God.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Qing about his own Heavenly Flame fusions, and Xiao Qing left the question unanswered.

Xiao Qing opened Tou She Ancient God's sealed gate, and the group crossed into an immense plaza where pillars displayed the forms of the Heavenly Flames. They found the two foremost pillars empty, as the Nihility Devouring Flame and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had already been subdued by Xiao Qing.

• Zhu Kun explained that Tou She Ancient God may have fought another Dou Emperor before disappearing, and Xiao Xuan suspected Xiao Qing was that mysterious expert.
• Xiao Qing opened the ancient stone gate with his chaotic radiance, unleashing a destructive fluctuation that he shielded the others from.
• Xiao Qing led the group through the gate into a vast, star-filled void, and they arrived on an immense plaza lined with towering pillars.
• Gu Yuan and Xiao Xuan recognized the small flames atop the pillars as the Heavenly Flames, arranged in ascending rank.
• Xiao Qing noticed that the two leading pillars were empty because he had already refined the Nihility Devouring Flame and subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Xiao Qing collected the Heavenly Flame remnants and Heaven rank techniques before confronting the figure guarding Tou She Ancient God's statue. He revealed the figure as an Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill and learned that the statue concealed Tou She Ancient God's inheritance and the last Source Qi; Xiao Qing then approached it.

• Xiao Qing absorbed the twenty remaining Heavenly Flame remnants into his Chaos Flame.
• Xiao Qing collected hundreds of Heaven rank cultivation methods and battle skills and stored them in his body's world prototype.
• Tou She Ancient God appeared on the statue's shoulder, but Xiao Xuan sensed that he was a Half-Emperor borrowing power from the statue.
• Xiao Qing imprisoned and crushed the grey-robed figure, revealing it as the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, then stored the pill away.
• Zhu Kun explained that Tou She Ancient God's inheritance and the final portions of Source Qi were likely sealed within the statue.
• Xiao Qing walked to the base of the stone statue.

Xiao Qing claimed the Origin of the Emperor and explained that he had traveled back in time to fight Tou She Ancient God. He revealed his plan to complete the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill in the Great Thousand World and break the barrier separating it from the Dou Qi Continent.

• Xiao Qing destroyed the statue of Tou She Ancient God and took the twenty-two-colored Origin of the Emperor.
• Tou She Ancient God's lingering consciousness recognized Xiao Qing as a traveler from the future and revealed that Xiao Qing had defeated him ten thousand years earlier.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Qing about the revelation, and he said he had accidentally traveled through the River of Time and exchanged pointers with Tou She Ancient God.
• Xiao Qing explained that the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill lacked the higher-level energy needed to become a true Emperor-Grade Pill.
• Xiao Qing announced that he would enter the Great Thousand World, complete the pill, and break the Ascension Barrier so future cultivators could reach the Dou Emperor realm.

After the Soul Clan was eradicated, Xiao Yi Xian became pregnant with Xiao Qing’s child, prompting celebration across the Heavenly Court. The news unsettled Gu Xun’er, who longed to have a child with Xiao Qing but had not yet reached the Dou Saint realm, and Gu Yuan came to speak with her.

• Xiao Qing returned from the Ancient God Mansion and postponed the World-Breaking Plan while the Heavenly Court spent six months purging the Soul Clan’s remaining forces.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested that Xiao Qing take Qing Lin as well, but she suddenly felt unwell, and Xiao Qing discovered that she was pregnant.
• News of Xiao Yi Xian’s pregnancy spread through the Heavenly Court, where Xiao Chen celebrated and urged Xiao Qing to have more children.
• Gu Xun’er heard that Xiao Yi Xian was pregnant and became distressed because her bloodline required her to reach the Dou Saint realm before she could safely bear a child.
• Gu Yuan entered Gu Xun’er’s quiet room and asked whether Xiao Qing’s new child was troubling her.

Gu Xun'er overcame her doubts about her God-Grade Bloodline and went to the Star Realm to tell Xiao Qing she wanted to have his child. Xiao Qing welcomed her feelings, and the story ended with him marrying Qing Xuan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Gu Xun'er in a grand Heavenly Court wedding.

• Gu Yuan reassured Gu Xun'er that Xiao Qing's power as a Dou Emperor and Emperor Grade Alchemist could overcome the difficulty of stabilizing her God-Grade Bloodline.
• Gu Xun'er left her secluded cultivation and hurried to the Star Realm to find Xiao Qing.
• Gu Xun'er told Xiao Qing she wanted to have his child, and Xiao Qing embraced her feelings.
• Xiao Qing married Qing Xuan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Gu Xun'er in a grand wedding attended by representatives from across the continent.
• Qing Lin watched the newlyweds from the guests, offering them her blessings and holding onto deeper anticipation.