Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lei returned to the Thunder Alliance as a Six-Star Dou Sheng, prompting the alliance to prepare a counterattack against the Soul Hall. At Fallen Peak, the two sides assembled for a decisive confrontation, and Xiao Lei rejected the Soul Hall’s proposed duel in favor of destroying it outright.

• Xiao Lei emerged from the Demonic Flame Space as a Six-Star Dou Sheng, and Yao Lao ordered the Thunder Alliance to gather its forces for a counterattack.
• The Soul Hall sent a blood-red challenge letter proposing a battle to the death at Fallen Peak three days later.
• Xiao Lei and nine other Dou Sheng experts arrived at Fallen Peak, where seven Soul Hall Dou Shengs appeared before a crowd of spectators.
• The Hall Master of the Soul Hall proposed settling the conflict with a best-of-three duel, with life and death at stake.
• Xiao Lei announced that the Thunder Alliance had already launched its full assault and vowed to kill the Hall Master and Hun Qianmo himself.

Xiao Lei revealed his early Six-Star Dou Sheng strength and defeated Hun Qianmo in a separate space. As the Soul Hall’s forces prepared to face him, the Hall Master released the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Xiao Lei’s strength shocked the Soul Hall’s Hall Masters, and Hun Qianmo appeared to taunt Xiao Chen about Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Chen attacked Hun Qianmo but was repelled, and the Pill Tower Ancestor arrived to warn that Hun Qianmo’s methods were strange.
• Xiao Lei asked the Pill Tower Ancestor to hold off the Soul Hall’s forces and entered a separate space to fight Hun Qianmo.
• Xiao Lei defeated Hun Qianmo, who emerged badly injured with his cane shattered.
• Hun Qianmo ordered the Hall Master of the Soul Hall to release the Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Hall Master summoned it.

Xiao Lei defeated the Soul Hall Master and Hun Qianmo, then led the Thunder Alliance as it took over the Soul Hall's territory. After receiving a letter from Yao Ming about the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan attacking the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe, Xiao Lei traveled alone to the Beast Domain, where Huang Tian had joined the siege.

• Xiao Lei's Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame overwhelmed the Soul Hall Master's Nihility Devouring Flame sub-flame, and Xiao Lei killed the Soul Hall Master and the Soul Hall Dou Saints.
• Xiao Lei killed Hun Qianmo while the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan watched from the void and withdrew under the ancient clans' scrutiny.
• Xiao Lei and the Thunder Alliance seized the Soul Hall's territory, making the Thunder Alliance the new hegemon of that part of Central State.
• A Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe expert delivered Yao Ming's letter reporting that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had attacked the tribe and disrupted the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Xiao Lei traveled alone to the Beast Domain and found the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan besieging the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe under Huang Tian's command.

Xiao Lei arrived at the Nine Nether Earth Python Tribe as Huang Tian attacked to seize Cai Lin, and he protected the Nine Nether Yellow Springs before confronting Huang Tian. The two prepared to fight after Xiao Lei claimed he had destroyed the Soul Hall.

• Yao Ming rejected an elder's demand to surrender Cai Lin and killed him for undermining the tribe's morale.
• Huang Tian gave Yao Ming one final chance to hand over Cai Lin, but Yao Ming refused and summoned the Coiling Serpent Grand Formation.
• Huang Tian shattered the formation and attacked the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, threatening Cai Lin's cultivation.
• Xiao Lei arrived, shielded the Nine Nether Yellow Springs with lightning, and destroyed Huang Tian's phoenix phantom.
• Xiao Lei told Huang Tian that he had destroyed the Soul Hall, and Huang Tian challenged him to prove his strength.

Xiao Lei fought Huang Tian and revealed that he had reached the early Six-Star Dou Sheng level. Cai Lin emerged from seclusion with the power of the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and defeated Huang Tian, then reunited with Xiao Lei.

• Huang Tian revealed his Golden Divine Phoenix form, and Xiao Lei unleashed his early Six-Star Dou Sheng strength to attack him with a Thunder Blade.
• Xiao Lei's Thunder Blade severely injured Huang Tian, who tried to flee after failing to fight back.
• A nine-colored pillar of light struck Huang Tian from beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and nearly destroyed his body and soul.
• Cai Lin emerged in the form of a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and defeated Huang Tian, then landed beside Xiao Lei.
• Xiao Lei took Cai Lin's hand and sensed that she had reached the Four-Star Dou Sheng level after receiving the inheritance of the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python clan.

Xiao Lei killed Huang Tian, then rushed with Cai Lin to Dragon Island, where the North Dragon King had used the Dragon Transformation Demon Array to devour the gathered experts and reach Six-Star Dou Sheng strength. Xiao Lei saved Zi Yan from his attack, and the North Dragon King challenged him to fight.

• Xiao Lei rejected Huang Tian's offer of information and killed him, then ordered Yao Ming to attack the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Lei and Cai Lin traveled to the Ancient Void Dragon clan and found the Dragon Transformation Demon Array surrounding Dragon Island.
• Zhu Li and the other survivors revealed that the North Dragon King had used the forbidden array to devour experts and greatly increase his strength.
• The North Dragon King blasted Zi Yan aside and nearly struck her with a fatal blow.
• Xiao Lei struck the North Dragon King, dispersed Zi Yan's Dragon Transformation Blood Qi, and learned that the North Dragon King had reached Six-Star Dou Sheng while Zi Yan was only Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• The North Dragon King recognized Xiao Lei and launched a bloody claw at him, demanding to see who was stronger.

Xiao Lei defeated the North Dragon King, used the Soul Capturing Technique to make him an enforcer, and absorbed the Black Demon Lightning and Nine Profound Golden Lightning. Zi Yan then allied the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe with the Thunder Alliance, leaving it as the strongest force in Central State.

• Xiao Lei destroyed the North Dragon King’s Blood-colored Dragon and dispersed the blood energy of his blood-colored pearl with lightning.
• Xiao Lei turned the blood pearl against the North Dragon King, severely injuring him and leaving him near death.
• Xiao Lei used the Soul Capturing Technique to control the North Dragon King, making him an enforcer.
• Xiao Lei absorbed the Black Demon Lightning and Nine Profound Golden Lightning from the sea of lightning.
• Zi Yan proposed an alliance between the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe and the Thunder Alliance, and Xiao Lei accepted.

Xiao Lei and Yao Lao traveled to the Yao Clan's Medicine Ceremony, where Yao Lao hoped to fulfill his wish of honoring his parents on the Clan Stele. After arriving at the ceremony grounds, they were confronted by an elderly man who mocked Yao Lao for being expelled from the clan.

• The Thunder Alliance seized much of Soul Hall's territory, and Xiao Lei promised to support Yao Lao at the Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Lei and Yao Lao left the alliance headquarters for the Yao Clan while the others stayed behind to guard against the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Lei and Yao Lao arrived at Shen Nong Mountain Range, and Yao Lao recalled gathering herbs there in his youth.
• Yao Lei announced their identities to the Yao Clan guards, who respectfully escorted the pair to the ceremony grounds.
• An elderly man appeared and mocked Yao Lao as someone who had been expelled from the clan.

Xiao Lei confronted Yao Wangui in the Yao Clan plaza after Yao Wangui denied Yao Lao the right to have his name carved on the Clan Stele. Xiao Lei crippled Yao Wangui and forced him to kneel before Yao Lao, while the Ten Thousand Flames Elder arrived and challenged Xiao Lei over his actions.

• Xiao Lei told Yao Lao to carve the Second Elder’s name on the Clan Stele and said he would handle Yao Wangui.
• After Yao Wangui insulted Yao Lao, Xiao Lei killed his followers and then slaughtered the Yao Clan Iron Guards sent to capture him.
• Xiao Lei revealed his early-stage Six-Star Dou Sheng strength and overpowered the mid-stage Four-Star Dou Sheng Yao Wangui.
• The Ten Thousand Flames Elder rushed in and asked Xiao Lei to spare Yao Wangui, but Xiao Lei destroyed Yao Wangui’s Dou Qi core and forced him to kneel before Yao Lao.
• The Ten Thousand Flames Elder confronted Xiao Lei, saying he had gone too far by crippling a Yao Clan elder and killing so many people.

Xiao Lei forced the Yao Clan to apologize for Yao Wangui’s actions, then joined Yao Lao at the Medicine Ceremony. The gathering began with Hun Xuzi’s arrival and a brief clash with Xiao Lei’s North Dragon King puppet.

• Xiao Lei admitted killing Yao Wangui’s man and crippling Yao Wangui, and Ten Thousand Flames Elder apologized and sentenced Yao Wangui to ten years of expulsion.
• Xiao Lei and Yao Lao went to the Medicine Ceremony, where Xiao Lei planned to participate and raise the Thunder Alliance’s influence.
• Yao Dan arrived at the ceremony, followed by Old Man Shennong and Hun Xuzi, whose presence angered the gathered alchemists.
• Xiao Lei’s North Dragon King puppet attacked Hun Xuzi, but Hun Xuzi dodged and stopped when Yao Dan warned that he would be expelled for breaking the rules.
• Yao Dan announced that the Yao Clan Medicine Ceremony had officially begun.

Xiao Lei competed against Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shennong, and Ten Thousand Flames Elder in pill refining at the Yao Ceremony Convention. With the others helping him overcome Hun Xuzi’s attack, Xiao Lei refined a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill, and Pill Rain signaled his success.

• Yao Dan announced that the contest’s winner would claim the title of the continent’s number one pill refiner, and Xiao Lei, Hun Xuzi, Old Man Shennong, and Ten Thousand Flames Elder entered the competition.
• Hun Xuzi revealed an Earth subsidiary flame of Nihility Devouring Flame, while Ten Thousand Flames Elder and Old Man Shennong summoned their own Heavenly Flames and Xiao Lei released the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The four began refining pills, and Xiao Lei tossed vast quantities of medicinal herbs into his furnace as nearly ten days passed.
• Hun Xuzi turned his flame cauldron into a black hole and absorbed the energy of the other refiners, but Xiao Lei’s fire spirit snatched the unfinished pill embryo from Hun Xuzi’s furnace.
• Old Man Shennong and Ten Thousand Flames Elder attacked Hun Xuzi and gave Xiao Lei their pill embryos, allowing him to gather enough energy to finish refining the pill.
• Pill Rain fell across the gathering, and Yao Dan declared that Xiao Lei had successfully refined a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.

Xiao Lei won the Medicine Ceremony and asked Yao Dan to have Yao Chen’s parents’ names carved on the Yao Clan’s Clan Stele. Hun Xuzi then revealed his plan to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade, isolated the Yao Clan, and launched an assault that left Yao Dan activating the clan’s protective formation.

• Xiao Lei refined a mysterious pill, subdued its Pill Spirit, and was declared the continent’s number one alchemist by Yao Dan.
• Xiao Lei asked Yao Dan to carve Yao Chen’s parents’ names onto the Yao Clan’s Clan Stele, and Yao Dan agreed.
• Hun Xuzi asked to borrow the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Xiao Lei secretly told Yao Lao to crush the Space Jade Slip and prepare.
• Ten Thousand Flames Elder attacked Hun Xuzi, but Hun Xuzi revealed his Seven Star Dou Sheng cultivation and sent him flying.
• Hun Xuzi blocked the spatial passages, killed the assembled observers, and unleashed black flames to destroy the Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan called on the clan to activate the Celestial Transformation Medicine Array, and the Yao Clan members poured their Dou Qi into it.

Nihility Devouring Flame destroyed the Yao Clan’s formation and consumed the remnant soul of its Medicine Emperor ancestor, leaving the clan at the mercy of the Soul Clan. As Yao Dan prepared to self-destruct, Xiao Lei offered him a sliver of hope.

• Hun Xuzi asked Nihility Devouring Flame to break the Yao Clan’s formation, and the black flames devoured its energy.
• Yao Dan refused to surrender and used the clan’s medicinal pills to summon the remnant soul of the Yao Clan’s ancestor.
• Nihility Devouring Flame defeated and absorbed the ancestor’s remnant soul, shattering the formation and crushing the Yao Clan’s resolve.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned the Tunling Clan, while Hun Jing, Hun Yan, and Soul Hall experts arrived to exterminate the Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan prepared to self-destruct, but Xiao Lei offered him a chance to try to survive.

Xiao Lei revealed that his trump card was the Thunder Alliance, then summoned the Ancient Clan Three Immortals and Gu Yuan to reinforce the Yao Clan against the Hun Clan. The battle’s balance shifted as Gu Yuan, a Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak, arrived to confront Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Yao Dan offered Yao Chen the Yao Clan Chief position and the Tou She Ancient God Jade if Xiao Lei and Yao Lao saved the clan.
• Xiao Lei confronted the Hun Clan army and called for Zi Yan to act.
• Zi Yan and the Thunder Alliance emerged from the void, bolstering the Yao Clan’s forces.
• Xiao Lei called on Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan Three Immortals, who appeared with the badly injured Hun Sha.
• Gu Yuan arrived and faced the Hun Clan, startling Nihility Devouring Flame and restoring hope to the Yao Clan.

Xiao Lei and Gu Yuan drove the Hun Clan forces away after Xiao Lei crippled Hun Xuzi, and the Yao Clan joined the Thunder Alliance under Yao Chen’s leadership. With the Yao Clan crisis resolved, Gu Yuan invited Xiao Lei and Yao Chen to the Ancient Realm to discuss how to deal with the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Lei struck Hun Xuzi with golden lightning that pierced him and devoured his Dou Qi, while Gu Yuan declared that the Hun Clan had lost and ordered it to leave.
• Gu Dao revealed that Xiao Lei was considered the Ancient Clan’s son-in-law because of his relationship with Gu Xun'er, and Nihility Devouring Flame led the Hun Clan army away after threatening Xiao Lei.
• Yao Dan thanked Xiao Lei and Gu Yuan, entrusted the Yao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade to Xiao Lei, and handed the clan leader position to Yao Chen.
• Yao Chen became the Yao Clan leader, had his parents’ names engraved on the clan monument, and brought the restored Yao Clan into the Thunder Alliance.
• Gu Yuan told Xiao Lei that the Yao Clan matter was settled and asked him and Yao Chen to return to the Ancient Realm to discuss confronting the Hun Clan; Xiao Lei agreed.

Xiao Lei briefed the Ancient Clan on the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan and learned that Gu Yuan supported his marriage to Gu Xun'er. Three days later, as leaders from the great clans gathered to discuss the threat, Gu Hua approached Xiao Lei with a request.

• Xiao Lei recounted the Yao Clan incident to Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan elders while concealing how he had learned of the impending attack.
• Gu Yuan invited Xiao Lei to call him Father-in-law and approved his marriage to Gu Xun'er after the Soul Clan calamity passed.
• The elders discussed the Tunling Clan’s abilities and the Soul Clan’s motives, and Gu Yuan arranged a meeting with the other clan leaders and Yao Chen.
• Xiao Lei stayed in the Ancient Clan, and three days later Gu Xun'er told him the leaders of the three great clans had arrived for a council.
• Xiao Lei and Gu Xun'er entered the council hall, where they saw Yao Chen, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying among the gathered experts.
• Gu Hua approached Xiao Lei and asked him for help.

Xiao Lei learned that Lei Dong had defeated Gu Qingyang and was humiliating the Ancient Clan’s younger generation, so he went to the Training Field to confront him. After striking Lei Yun and dismissing Lei Dong, Xiao Lei faced Lei Dong’s challenge and offered to give him guidance.

• Gu Hua told Xiao Lei and Gu Xun'er that the Thunder Clan’s younger generation had defeated Gu Qingyang and asked Xiao Lei to help defeat Lei Dong.
• Xiao Lei agreed to help and went with Gu Hua to the Training Field.
• Lei Dong and Lei Yun mocked the Ancient Clan and taunted Gu Xun'er, prompting Xiao Lei to slap Lei Yun twice.
• Gu Qingyang greeted Xiao Lei as Young Master Xiao, revealing his identity to the crowd as the Thunder Clan members questioned his reputation.
• Lei Dong gathered destructive black lightning and challenged Xiao Lei to a match, but Xiao Lei said he would merely give him guidance.

Xiao Lei easily defeated Lei Dong and revealed that he had reached the Seven Star Dou Sheng level. Lei Ying then challenged him to a spar, and Gu Yuan opened a separate space for their battle.

• Lei Yun and nine other experts attacked Xiao Lei, but Xiao Lei defeated them with a single finger.
• Lei Dong attacked Xiao Lei with his demonic lightning spear, but Xiao Lei dodged his strikes and stopped his blood-powered attack with one finger.
• Xiao Lei released the aura of a Seven Star Dou Sheng, and Lei Ying arrived and challenged him to a spar.
• Lei Ying asked Gu Yuan to create a battlefield, and Gu Yuan opened a space for the two fighters.
• Xiao Lei summoned his eight Strange Lightnings and unleashed his Seven Star Dou Sheng aura as the battle was about to begin.

Xiao Lei fought Lei Ying in a staged match while Gu Yuan prepared to expose Hun Tiandi, who had been hiding nearby. Hun Tiandi’s plan to steal the Ancient Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade was revealed, but the jade Gu Yang delivered to him turned out to be fake.

• Xiao Lei unleashed his lightning and clashed with Lei Ying, impressing the gathered experts with his strength.
• Gu Yuan sealed the space and called out Hun Tiandi, prompting the Ancient Clan’s prepared forces and Xiao Lei’s allies to appear.
• Hun Tiandi emerged with Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints, while Gu Qingyang realized they were targeting the Ancient Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• An alarm revealed that Gu Yang had attacked the Ancestral Hall and stolen the jade, and Gu Yang delivered it to Hun Tiandi while revealing he had been fused with Nihility Devouring Flame for a hundred years.
• Hun Tiandi sensed that the Tou She Ancient God Jade was fake and crushed it in disbelief.

Xiao Lei and the allied clans revealed that Hun Tiandi’s Tou She Ancient God Jade was fake and that his plans to seize the other clans’ jades had failed, triggering a battle between the Hun Clan Army and the alliance. After Xiao Lei reached Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak and fought Hun Tiandi to a standstill, Hun Tiandi withdrew and challenged him to meet at the Burial Sky Mountain Range in half a month.

• Xiao Lei revealed the Tou She Ancient God Jades from the Xiao and Yao Clans, while Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying displayed the jades kept by their clans.
• Hun Tiandi erupted in rage and summoned the Hun Clan Army, which attacked the Ancient Clan mountain range as Gu Yuan and the elders activated the Ancient Clan grand formation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Xiao Lei to seize his jades, but Xiao Lei gained Nine Heavens Jade Purity Lightning and fused it with his other eight Strange Lightnings, reaching Nine Star Dou Sheng Peak.
• Xiao Lei repelled Nihility Devouring Flame and clashed evenly with Hun Tiandi, convincing Hun Tiandi that Xiao Lei’s strength matched his own.
• Hun Tiandi withdrew with the Hun Clan Army and challenged Xiao Lei to meet him at the Burial Sky Mountain Range in half a month.