Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuan explained how the Symbol Ancestor changed the Reincarnation Stage to fight the Abyssal Demon Clan, and he and his companions chose to remain on Tian Xuan Continent to attack the demons. He then abruptly asked Ling Hanyi to marry him, leaving her questioning his reasoning.

• Zhang Yuan explained that the Symbol Ancestor altered the Reincarnation Tribulation system to strengthen the plane’s defenders against the Abyssal Demon Clan, then sacrificed himself to seal the Demon Emperor and Plane Rifts.
• Zhang Yuan revealed that powerful Alien Demons and the Demon Prison organization still threatened Tian Xuan Continent, and he acknowledged they would target him.
• Xun'er suggested returning to the Dou Qi Continent, but Qing Yanjing said she could fight Demon Kings with spiritual arrays, so Zhang Yuan decided to attack Abyssal Demon Clan nests with his companions.
• Zhang Yuan asked Ling Hanyi to marry him, and she objected that he was the one who had seen her body and caused her loss.
• Zhang Yuan claimed Ling Hanyi's cultivation of the Supreme Induction Art made marriage necessary, and Ling Hanyi asked what he meant.

Zhang Yuan explained that the Supreme Induction Art required yin and yang to unite, and that Ling Hanyi’s feelings for him had made ordinary methods of sensing the Supreme impossible. Ling Hanyi left after rejecting his offer to marry her, while Zhang Yuan’s companions questioned whether his explanation was true.

• Zhang Yuan told Ling Hanyi that the Supreme Induction Art could sense the Supreme through the union of yin and yang, and that reaching the Plane Embryo’s Supreme Power required the Samsara Stage.
• Ling Hanyi realized her palace’s rule against Dao companions had hindered its palace masters, and Zhang Yuan said its cultivation effects caused practitioners to fall in love only once.
• Zhang Yuan insisted Ling Hanyi would fall in love with him because he had seen her body, and said she could either marry him and dual cultivate or kill him and continue cultivating alone.
• Ling Hanyi threatened Zhang Yuan with her sword, then left through a spatial passage after he opened it for her.
• Xiao Yu asked if Zhang Yuan had lied to Ling Hanyi, and Yun Yun wondered whether Ling Hanyi could forget him and sense the Supreme through another method.

Ling Hanyi tried to comprehend the Supreme Stage at the Xuan Yang Meteorite, but recovering her sealed memories triggered a desire that threatened to destroy her Nascent Soul. Zhang Yuan suppressed the flames and arranged for her to leave Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace in seclusion, learning that Ling Qingzhu had already been born.

• Zhang Yuan watched Ling Hanyi travel to the Xuan Yang Volcanic Range and begin cultivating atop the Xuan Yang Meteorite.
• After nine days, Ling Hanyi touched the Supreme Stage, and the breakthrough shattered the seal on her memories of Zhang Yuan.
• Ling Hanyi’s recovered memories and Supreme Power ignited heartfire in her Nascent Soul, leaving her ready to burn it rather than be with another man.
• Zhang Yuan used his soul force to extinguish Ling Hanyi’s desire and reassured her that he would not take advantage of her vulnerability.
• Zhang Yuan asked Ling Hanyi to tell the elders she would enter seclusion for several years, and she instructed them to have the Third Elder guide Qingzhu.
• Zhang Yuan learned that Ling Qingzhu had already been born and wondered how old she was.

Zhang Yuan took Ling Hanyi to the Great Yan Dynasty, where he confirmed that newborn Lin Dong carried the Symbol Ancestor’s life imprint and recovered the Ancestral Stone. After a year of traveling together and changing Ling Hanyi’s outlook, Zhang Yuan prepared to begin eradicating demons in the Great Desolation Commandery.

• Zhang Yuan brought Ling Hanyi to the Great Yan Dynasty and watched Lin Dong’s birth, recognizing him as the reincarnation of the Symbol Ancestor’s life imprint.
• Zhang Yuan left a Soul Imprint on Lin Dong and retrieved the Ancestral Stone, whose spirit Yan agreed to help him eradicate demons until it could return to Lin Dong.
• Zhang Yuan sealed Ling Hanyi’s cultivation and spent a year traveling through the Great Yan Dynasty with her, allowing her to experience ordinary life and grow closer to him.
• Zhang Yuan and Ling Hanyi arrived in the Great Desolation Commandery, where Zhang Yuan announced that their journey was ending and set out to kill a member of the Ninth Prince’s Hall.

Zhang Yuan revealed the Great Desolation Sect’s history and the Yuan Sect’s collusion with the Alien Demons, then used the Ancestral Stone and Devouring Ancestral Talisman to confront the Ninth Prince's Hall. He overwhelmed the demon and formed the Great Desolation Prison Heaven Finger, leaving its power about to be tested.

• Zhang Yuan told Ling Hanyi that the Great Desolation Sect’s Black-Eyed Elder had possessed the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and had been defeated by the Ninth Prince's Hall.
• Zhang Yuan revealed that the Yuan Sect had grown stronger by stealing Alien Demon corpses and ordered Ling Hanyi to expose and destroy it after reaching the Reincarnation Stage.
• Zhang Yuan told Ling Hanyi he planned to return to the Dou Qi Continent to deal with the Soul Clan before coming back.
• Zhang Yuan entered the Great Desolation Stele with Ling Hanyi and used the Ancestral Stone to attack the abyss where the Ninth Prince's Hall was sealed.
• The Ninth Prince's Hall escaped the failing seal as black mist, but Zhang Yuan seized the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and used it to trap him.
• The Ninth Prince's Hall realized Zhang Yuan was from the Great Thousand World as Zhang Yuan formed the Great Desolation Prison Heaven Finger.

Zhang Yuan destroyed the Ninth Prince's Hall, freed the Great Desolation Sect's lingering souls, and gained their gifts before returning to cultivate. A month later, Zi Yan awakened with a powerful new body and immediately threw herself into Zhang Yuan's arms, eager to reward him.

• Zhang Yuan crushed the Ninth Prince's Hall with the Great Desolation Prisoning Heaven Hand, then captured and devoured its surviving Nascent Soul.
• The Black-Eyed Elder and the other souls thanked Zhang Yuan, gave him an Ancestral Symbol mark and an insight into reincarnation, and entered reincarnation.
• Zhang Yuan sent Ling Hanyi to cultivate beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree and left new inheritances at the Great Desolation Stele.
• Zhang Yuan glimpsed a young Ling Qingzhu at the Nine Heavens Taiqing Palace before returning to the Bodhi Realm to refine his gifts.
• After a month of cultivation, Zhang Yuan arrived in the Heavenly Tomb world as Zi Yan awakened with Heavenly Phoenix Wings and a True Dragon Body.
• Zi Yan rushed into Zhang Yuan's arms and said she wanted to reward him.

Zhang Yuan refined Zi Yan’s Dragon-Phoenix essence blood into the Dragon Phoenix Wind Thunder Wings, a powerful speed-based divine ability, and prepared to return to the Dou Qi Continent to eliminate the Soul Clan. After three months of cultivation in the Bodhi Realm, Ling Hanyi awakened from a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation and reunited with Zhang Yuan.

• Zhang Yuan and Zi Yan arrived at Taixu Dragon Island, where she tested her newfound Dragon-Phoenix strength against him and told him about the changes in the outside world.
• Zhang Yuan refined Zi Yan’s essence blood and created the Dragon Phoenix Wind Thunder Wings, which granted him tremendous speed and wind-thunder power.
• Zhang Yuan took Zi Yan to the Bodhi Realm, where she reunited with Medusa and the other women, then joined them in cultivation.
• After three months, Ling Hanyi’s spiritual power advanced to the Half-step Great Rune Sect Master level, and she awakened from a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation.
• Zhang Yuan greeted Ling Hanyi, who invited him to find out whether she had become more honest.

Zhang Yuan and Ling Hanyi crossed the Triple Reincarnation Tribulation, reached the Reincarnation Stage, and comprehended Supreme Power together. After the other women opened their Sovereign Seas, Zhang Yuan and Ling Hanyi began constructing theirs as a breakthrough gathered strength above Taiqing Palace.

• Zhang Yuan and Ling Hanyi crossed the Triple Reincarnation Tribulation and entered the Reincarnation Stage after a month in an illusory reincarnation world.
• Zhang Yuan and Ling Hanyi joined their consciousnesses to seek the Supreme, and Zhang Yuan encountered the Plane Embryo and promised to defeat the Alien Demons and lead the world toward a higher realm.
• The Plane Embryo agreed to acknowledge Zhang Yuan as its master after he completed Nine Reincarnation Turns and reached the Supreme Stage, and it gave Supreme Power to him and Ling Hanyi.
• Ling Hanyi comprehended Supreme Power with Zhang Yuan's guidance, and he proposed that they construct Sovereign Seas using the Sovereign Liquid he had obtained from Alien Demon corpses.
• Qing Yanjing observed that the women had opened their Sovereign Seas, while Fire Spirit reached the Eighth-Grade Supreme without a Sovereign Dharma Body.
• Three months later, thick clouds of heaven-and-earth energy gathered above Taiqing Palace as Zhang Yuan and Ling Hanyi prepared to break through.

Zhang Yuan completed a major breakthrough, gaining a Sovereign Sea while retaining his Six-Turn Wheel of Reincarnation, and discussed his growing power and plans with his companions. After arranging for travel between worlds, he sensed the arrival of a woman carrying an infant in a Lower Plane.

• Zhang Yuan devoured vast quantities of energy and Sovereign Liquid, then revealed that his Sovereign Sea had formed without erasing his Six-Turn Wheel of Reincarnation.
• Zhang Yuan assessed his abilities and planned to return to the Dou Qi Continent to confront the Soul Clan, obtain the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, and later suppress the Demon Emperor.
• Zhang Yuan explained his Wheel of Reincarnation to the women, and promised Fire Spirit a higher-ranked Sovereign Dharma Body if she wanted one.
• Zhang Yuan said the Plane Embryo would reinforce the portal between worlds and placed its coordinate endpoint on Ling Hanyi.
• Zhang Yuan sensed a woman arrive in Azure Sun Town carrying an infant; the woman realized her spiritual energy had degraded and feared she had entered a Lower Plane.

Lin Xueyao explained how she had fled to the Lower Plane with Qing Tan after a Blazing Demon Clan attack, and Zhang Yuan offered her a way to survive as an energy entity in the Heavenly Tomb. The chapter ended with Lin Xueyao asking whether she would have to call him “Master.”

• Lin Xueyao left baby Qing Tan with the Lin family in Azure Sun Town and planned to return after her bloodline awakened, but Zhang Yuan appeared and questioned her choice.
• Lin Xueyao introduced herself as a daughter of the Lin Clan from Black Sky Continent, and Zhang Yuan explained the power of the Black Sky Ancient Clan and other Great Thousand World clans.
• Lin Xueyao told Zhang Yuan that a Top-tier Demon General of the Blazing Demon Clan had ambushed her sister and brother-in-law, leaving her mortally wounded as she escaped with Qing Tan.
• Zhang Yuan invited Lin Xueyao into the Heavenly Tomb and explained that she could become an energy entity and later be resurrected.
• Lin Xueyao agreed to consider the offer and teasingly asked Zhang Yuan whether she would have to call him “Master.”

Lin Xueyao survived by becoming an energy body bound to Zhang Yuan’s world, while Zhang Yuan discovered he could control the deadly Devouring Flame Qi extracted from her corpse. He then arranged for Ling Hanyi to visit the Dao Sect, where she announced that her dao companion wanted to give the sect an opportunity, astonishing Ying Xuanzi.

• Lin Xueyao split off part of her Divine Soul and accepted the world’s power to become an energy body, then met Zhang Yuan’s wives in the Nine Heavens.
• Zhang Yuan refined Lin Xueyao’s corpse and discovered he could control its Devouring Flame Qi, which he decided to keep secret until he became an Earthly Sovereign.
• Zhang Yuan told Ling Hanyi he wanted to visit the Dao Sect, suppress its sealed Alien Demon, and build an alliance against the Yuan Sect.
• Ling Hanyi contacted Ying Xuanzi and arrived at the Dao Sect before he could prepare to receive her.
• Ling Hanyi told Ying Xuanzi that her dao companion wanted to give the Dao Sect an opportunity, leaving him shocked and asking when she had found a partner.

Zhang Yuan revealed the wider world’s secrets to Ying Xuanzi, promised to save his ailing wife, and brought Dao Sect into Nine Abyss Mansion. He then told Ying Xuanzi that Zhou Tong had survived and was sealed by Yuan Sect, leaving Ying Xuanzi pleading for his rescue.

• Zhang Yuan introduced himself to Ying Xuanzi and explained the Great Thousand World, the Symbol Ancestor, and his own power.
• Ling Hanyi agreed to take Ying Huanhuan as her future disciple, and Zhang Yuan promised to help Ying Xuanzi’s wife survive her illness.
• Zhang Yuan invited Dao Sect to join Nine Abyss Mansion, and Ying Xuanzi accepted after Ling Hanyi described the mansion’s strength.
• Zhang Yuan revealed that Zhou Tong’s Nascent Soul had survived inside the Space Ancestral Symbol and that Yuan Sect had sealed him away.
• Ying Xuanzi asked Zhang Yuan to save Zhou Tong, and Zhang Yuan turned to Ling Hanyi to handle what came next.

Zhang Yuan negotiated an alliance with Ying Xuanzi, claimed the Great Desolate Tablet, and used the Great Desolation Scripture to eliminate its sealed Demon Kings while leaving Dao Sect a source of vitality. He reassured the Ice Master within Ying Huanhuan and then received startling news from Gu Yuan: Hun Tiandi had become a Half-Emperor.

• Ying Xuanzi agreed to help Ling Hanyi ambush Yuan Sect’s three headmasters during Ling Hanyi’s Reincarnation Stage ceremony.
• Zhang Yuan offered to remove the Demon Kings sealed in the Great Desolate Tablet in exchange for taking it, and promised Dao Sect a formation that would aid cultivation.
• Yan awakened the tablet’s artifact spirit, Desolate, and Zhang Yuan learned the Great Desolation Scripture and persuaded Desolate to follow him.
• Zhang Yuan used the Great Desolation Scripture to drain the sealed True Kings’ life force, produced a vitality-rich cultivation ground for Dao Sect, and took the tablet and a True King’s corpse.
• Zhang Yuan spoke with the Ice Master in Ying Huanhuan’s spiritual world, promised to protect her, and let her choose to grow up without awakening her memories yet.
• Gu Yuan sent Zhang Yuan a message that Hun Tiandi had become a Half-Emperor.

Zhang Yuan rejected the suspicion that Hun Tiandi had become a Half-Emperor and realized the Soul Clan might force the Emperor Clans to open the Dou Emperor Tomb Manor. After devouring most of his clan to strengthen himself, Hun Tiandi brought the surviving Dou Saints to Emperor-Treading Peak to confront Gu Yuan and the others.

• Gu Yuan told Zhang Yuan that Hun Tiandi had ambushed the Spirit Clan, suppressed Zhu Kun, and escaped after Gu Yuan broke through the Soul Clan's blockade.
• Zhang Yuan concluded that Hun Tiandi was at most a Quasi-Dou Emperor and warned that the Soul Clan might not need to be destroyed by the Nine Abyss Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had devoured the Soul Clan's weaker members but still lacked the Dou Emperor Origin needed to reach Half-Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi decided to make Gu Yuan and the others open the Dou Emperor Tomb Manor, where the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill held the Origin Emperor Qi he needed.
• Hun Tiandi hid the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then led the Soul Clan Dou Saints through a spatial rift to Emperor-Treading Peak.
• Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and the other leaders confronted Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan asked whether he was prepared for a death match.

Hun Tiandi confronted Gu Yuan and the other Emperor Clan leaders, offering to open Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion in exchange for cooperation. Zhang Yuan arrived with the resurrected Xiao Xuan, who revealed that he had become a Ninth-grade Sovereign and prepared to face Hun Tiandi.

• Hun Tiandi said he had refined Nihility Devouring Flame and removed the Tunling Clan's abilities to show the Emperor Clans he could negotiate.
• Hun Tiandi proposed gathering the Tou She Ancient God Jade to open the Ancient Emperor's Tomb, and Gu Yuan pretended to accept in exchange for Hun Tiandi's oath.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had hidden the Ancient God Jade, but Gu Yuan said they could abandon the tomb rather than compromise.
• Zhang Yuan arrived at Emperor-Treading Peak, and Hun Tiandi recognized him as the cause of the Soul Clan's setbacks.
• Xiao Xuan appeared, and Hun Tiandi sensed that Zhang Yuan had sealed the surrounding space and challenged Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun to fight him.
• Xiao Xuan revealed a towering Sovereign Dharma Body and declared that he was a Ninth-grade Sovereign, not a Nine-star Dou Saint.

Zhang Yuan broadcast the Soul Clan’s crimes across the continent as Xiao Xuan used his Glazed Dharma Body to overpower Hun Tiandi. The fight remained unresolved when Zhang Yuan revealed that the Fire Spirit would handle the Soul Clan Four Elders.

• Zhang Yuan activated formations across the continent, exposed the Soul Clan’s plans, and announced that Nine Abyss Mansion was purging the clan.
• Xiao Xuan entered his Glazed Dharma Body and unleashed the Glazed Demon Suppressing Pagoda, which absorbed Hun Tiandi’s attacks and trapped him.
• Hun Tiandi poured more energy into his black flame clouds, then ordered the Soul Clan experts to attack the pagoda and had the Soul Clan Four Elders summon the Gate of Silent Death.
• Zhang Yuan stopped Yan Jin and the others from intervening, saying someone else would deal with the Four Elders.
• The Fire Spirit appeared and sent four Fire Lotus attacks toward the Soul Clan Four Elders, startling Yan Jin.

Fire Spirit used her Supreme power and Soul Flame Red Lotus to defeat the Soul Clan’s Four Elders and capture their Gates of Silent Death for Zhang Yuan. Zhang Yuan then used the Devouring Ancestral Talisman to suppress Hun Tiandi inside Xiao Xuan’s Glass Tower and confronted him.

• Fire Spirit attacked the four Soul Clan elders with Soul Flame Red Lotus, but their Gates of Silent Death devoured the flames.
• Fire Spirit evaded Hun Yuantian’s attack, entered his gate through her fire lotus, and erased his Soul Imprint.
• Zhang Yuan claimed Hun Yuantian’s ownerless Gate of Silent Death and placed it in the Ancient Void Realm.
• Fire Spirit repeated her method against the remaining elders, breaking their formation and taking all four gates for Zhang Yuan.
• Zhang Yuan sent the Devouring Ancestral Talisman into Xiao Xuan’s Glass Tower, which swallowed the Soul Clan’s attacks and suppressed Hun Tiandi.
• Zhang Yuan entered the Glass Tower and told Hun Tiandi that it was over.

Zhang Yuan and Xiao Xuan suppressed Hun Tiandi and the Soul Emperor remnant, but Hun Tiandi sacrificed the Soul Clan and merged the remnant and Nihility Devouring Flame into himself. The chapter ended as his aura erupted and Zhang Yuan recognized the possession technique as Hun Tiandi’s final gamble.

• Zhang Yuan used the Glazed Demon Suppressing Pagoda and Devouring Ancestral Talisman to trap Hun Tiandi, who tried to tempt him with the promise of Origin Emperor Qi.
• Hun Tiandi summoned the Soul Emperor remnant using the Soul Clan’s blood and imprints, but Zhang Yuan and Xiao Xuan contained it with the Great Desolate Tablet.
• Hun Tiandi sacrificed the Soul Clan’s Dou Saints to empower the remnant, while the gathered experts lamented the lost Sovereign Liquid and Fire Spirit teased Yan Jin about her future cultivation.
• Zhang Yuan reinforced the Great Desolate Tablet with the Rune Stone and Yan’s Primordial Universe Array, weakening the Soul Emperor remnant.
• Hun Tiandi merged Nihility Devouring Flame and the remnant into himself, shattered space with his rising aura, and prompted Zhang Yuan to identify his move as a ghostly possession technique.

Zhang Yuan defeated Hun Tiandi and announced the Soul Clan’s destruction, then reunited with his allies and collected the Emperor Clans’ Tou She Ancient God Jades. He revealed that the jade was admission to a passage where they could cultivate Sovereign Seas, leaving the patriarchs eager to learn whether they could bring others.

• Zhang Yuan and Xiao Xuan used the Glazed Demon Suppressing Pagoda, Heavenly Flames, and Ancestral artifacts to force Hun Tiandi into the Ancient Void Realm, but Hun Tiandi detonated himself and escaped.
• Fire Spirit, Zhu Kun, and Gu Yuan blocked Hun Tiandi’s escape, and Zhang Yuan devoured his soul and stored it in his Sea of Consciousness.
• A mysterious scroll in Zhang Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness annihilated Hun Tiandi’s consciousness, ending his life.
• Zhang Yuan brought Zi Yan out of the Ancient Void Realm, and she reunited with Zhu Kun by calling him father.
• Zhang Yuan obtained six Tou She Ancient God Jades from the Emperor Clan patriarchs and told them they could use a passage to another Lower Plane to cultivate Sovereign Seas.
• The patriarchs asked Zhang Yuan whether they could bring more people with them.

Zhang Yuan explained how his allies could travel to the Tian Xuan Continent and pursue the Sovereign path, then prepared to seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. While refining the Nihility Devouring Flame, he discovered that it had originated among the Blazing Demon Clan of the Sacred Clan.

• Zhang Yuan told the Emperor Clan leaders that Nine Abyss Mansion would grant Nine-Revolutions Peak Dou Zuns access to the Tian Xuan Continent, where they could pursue Sovereign Seas and help fight the Alien Demons.
• Zhang Yuan explained the Great Thousand Palace and warned that gaining Supreme Power through the Plane Embryo was unsuitable for them, recommending reincarnation and cultivation in the Tian Xuan Continent instead.
• Zhang Yuan said he would visit Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion after handling other matters, gave the clan leaders rings containing Sovereign Liquid, and agreed they could join when the cave mansion appeared.
• Zhang Yuan told Gu Yuan, Xiao Xuan, and Zhu Kun that he planned to enter the Demonic Flame Space with Zi Yan and obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for Little Yan's inheritance.
• Zhang Yuan began refining the Nihility Devouring Flame and saw in its memories that it had been worshipped by beings of the Blazing Demon Clan.