Chapter Summaries

The Spirit Clan's Half-Saint experts formed a formation and attacked the barrier sealing the Spirit Realm, hoping to break through and send a warning. A crimson streak suddenly destroyed the formation and killed them all, leaving the Spirit Clan stunned and its attacker unknown.

• Ling Yuan ordered the Spirit Clan's Half-Saint experts to strike the barrier at the breach where Xiao Yan had entered, then pause and assess the result.
• The Half-Saints used the Spirit-Gathering Grand Formation to unleash a massive Bright Spirit Sword Slash at the barrier.
• A crimson streak shot from the explosion and struck the formation's core while the Half-Saints were recovering their power.
• The strike shattered the formation and killed all of the Spirit Clan's Half-Saint experts, leaving the battlefield in dead silence.

Yan Jin’s cross-realm strike killed the Spirit Clan’s Half-Saints and injured Ling Yuan, but the Spirit Clan awakened its bloodline markings and rallied against the Alliance. The battle shifted back in the Spirit Clan’s favor as Alliance fighters were forced onto the defensive.

• Qing Lin wounded Ling Yuan when Yan Jin’s attack left him stunned, while Ling Yuan struggled with injuries from the Alliance’s assault.
• Yan Jin told Mu Wei that he had exploited an opening to strike across realms, then dismissed Mu Wei’s warning to conserve his strength.
• The deaths of more than twenty Half-Saints left the Spirit Clan short-handed and convinced its members they were fighting for their clan’s survival.
• The Spirit Clan awakened its bloodline markings, boosting its fighters’ strength, and Ling Yuan launched a stronger spirit seal at Qing Lin and the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• The Spirit Clan’s renewed assault drove back Zi Yan, Yao Su, Fairy Qing, and Fairy Hua, restoring hope among the clan’s forces.

The alliance’s fighters activated their strongest abilities against the Spirit Clan, while Yao Lao stabilized a faltering part of the battle by sending He Ning to help. Xiao Yan kept Ling Qingbai under control and conserved his strength as the surprise attack continued toward its true climax.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor absorbed rare pills to replenish his Dou Qi and caught Ling Yuan’s strike, while Zi Yan’s dragon form healed and her flames shocked Ling Xuanmo.
• Qing Lin’s trained Nine Serene Deepground Python fighters slowed their opponents with icy breath, and Elder Qing Shan and the Fire Cloud Ancestor fought two Dou Saints with the Fire Cloud Ancestor unleashing Ninefold Crimson Tide.
• Yao Lao sent He Ning to reinforce Fairy Qing, Fairy Hua, and Mu Yaoyin, allowing the four of them to stabilize their fight against three opponents.
• Xiao Yan endured Ling Qingbai’s attacks after he activated his Clan Mark, then regained control with Ninefold Crimson Tide and Crimson Sun Pierces the Day.
• The Flame Glazed Beasts surrounded Ling Qingbai as Xiao Yan conserved his strength for the coming climax of the surprise attack.

The alliance’s attack on the Spirit Clan headquarters remained deadlocked as Yao Lao held back his forces and Ling Yuan struggled against the Pill Tower Ancestor and Qing Lin. After the Spirit Clan’s failed breakout and mounting losses worsened his clansmen’s despair, Ling Yuan ordered them to activate their clan marks.

• Yao Lao refused Huo Zhi’s request to join the battle, saying they needed to conserve their strength until the Spirit Clan revealed its trump cards.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor and Qing Lin continued pressuring Ling Yuan, while Qing Lin’s unpredictable attacks aggravated his shoulder wound.
• Ling Yuan realized the blockade had stopped the Spirit Clan’s forces completely, and more than twenty Half-Saints had died without finding a weakness.
• Ling Yuan recalled how the failed attack on the Pill Tower, the clan’s surrender to the Soul Clan, and Ling Fengzhui’s disappearance had eroded the Spirit Clan’s hope and pride.
• Seeing his clansmen lose faith after the failed breakout, Ling Yuan ordered every member of the Spirit Clan to activate their clan marks.

Ling Yuan broke the stalemate and called on the Soul Clan for help as the Spirit Clan’s battle grew desperate. Two Soul Clan Dou Sheng experts appeared, and Hun Mang agreed to intervene, leaving the alliance facing new opponents.

• Ling Yuan unleashed a Heaven Class Dou Technique, blasting the Pill Tower Ancestor and Qing Lin away before crushing a jade slip and calling for aid.
• Yao Lao sensed two powerful Dou Sheng auras within the Spirit Clan’s core territory and identified them as Soul Clan experts.
• The Soul Clan’s arrival stirred resentment among the Spirit Clan and disgust among the alliance, while Hun Mang told Ling Yuan that he should have sought help sooner.
• Ling Yuan explained that the alliance had struck fiercely and was difficult to defeat, and the Soul Clan’s Three-Star Dou Sheng said they had arrived in time to help.
• Hun Mang, the Soul Hall’s deputy master and the Soul Clan’s representative to the Spirit Clan, chose to intervene so he could help defeat the alliance and strengthen his control over the clan.

Hun Mang and Hun Wu joined Ling Yuan’s side and attacked the formation sealing the Spirit Clan, hoping to break through and summon Soul Clan reinforcements. Their combined Heaven Class Dou Techniques struck the barrier, but the chapter ended before its response was revealed.

• Hun Mang agreed to follow Ling Yuan’s lead while planning to break the seal and alert the Soul Clan rather than risk capturing Xiao Yan and the others alone.
• Ling Yuan asked Hun Mang and Hun Wu to attack the formation while he held the battle line.
• Yao Lao and the others watched without intervening, and Hun Mang decided to press ahead once he saw they would not stop him.
• Hun Mang unleashed Myriad Soul Calamity as Hun Wu fired Black Soul Annihilation Ray, and the two Heaven Class Dou Techniques surged together.
• Hun Mang and Hun Wu’s combined attack crashed into the formation separating the Spirit Clan from the outside world.

Hun Mang failed to break the formation sealing the Spirit Realm, so Ling Yuan ordered him to turn the battle against Yao Lao and the others instead. As Yao Lao moved to intercept Hun Mang, Qing Lin summoned a colossal Nine Serene Deepground Python to join the fight.

• Hun Mang and Hun Wu attacked the formation, but it remained completely undisturbed, and Hun Mang admitted he could not break it.
• Ling Yuan told Hun Mang and Hun Wu to target Yao Lao and his companion to gain the battlefield advantage and draw out the formation’s controller.
• Yao Lao told Huo Zhi to assist the others while he confronted Hun Mang, then launched his attack.
• Xiao Yan called for Qing Lin to act, and she summoned a gigantic Nine Serene Deepground Python with a jade-green flower on its forehead.

Qing Lin revealed her battle puppet Yao Xiaotian and thirteen Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python souls, shifting the alliance’s fight against the Soul Clan and Spirit Clan. Ling Yuan was wounded by Qing Lin and the Pill Tower Ancestor, then activated the Spirit Clan’s grand formation and called on his clan to empower it.

• Qing Lin summoned Yao Xiaotian, a three-star Dou Sheng battle puppet, and sent him to fight Hun Wu.
• Qing Lin released thirteen Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python souls, sending four to aid Yao Xiaotian and the others to attack Ling Yuan with her.
• Qing Lin struck Ling Yuan with Frostchill Slash, and the Pill Tower Ancestor followed with Sever Heaven, injuring Ling Yuan and forcing him back.
• Ling Yuan raised hexagram-shaped phantoms and altered the Spirit Clan’s grand formation, causing the ground to rumble.
• Ling Yuan urged the Spirit Clan members to pour their battle qi into the formation and help him defeat the enemy.

The Spirit Clan’s formation restored Ling Yuan while Yao Lao fought Hun Mang in a dangerous spiritual duel. Huo Zhi joined Xiao Yan, and together they unleashed a joint attack that strengthened Xiao Yan and gave him the advantage over Ling Qingbai.

• The Spirit Clan’s descendants poured Dou Qi into their formation, replenishing Ling Yuan’s strength and healing his wounds as the Pill Tower Ancestor called for another attack.
• Yao Lao trapped Hun Mang with the Soul-Shaking Mind Seal and followed with Myriad Soul Imprisonment, but Hun Mang escaped the assault and became more wary of him.
• Huo Zhi chose to join Xiao Yan, who had been waiting for an opening to break the stalemate by combining their strength.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi clasped hands and resonated through the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, allowing Huo Zhi’s Dou Qi to flow into Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan activated his Clan Mark, rose from the early to the late stage of the two-star Dou Sheng level, and empowered his Flame Glazed Beast’s blaze.

Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi intensified their assault on Ling Qingbai, but Ling Yuan replenished him with stored Dou Qi from the Spirit Clan. Xiao Yan broke through Ling Qingbai’s defenses with the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame and sealed his consciousness, leaving him at the mercy of the Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi trapped Ling Qingbai in a combined assault of Heavenly Flames, ruler attacks, and the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame.
• Ling Yuan sent a pillar of stored Dou Qi to restore Ling Qingbai’s strength and defenses.
• Yan Jin warned Xiao Yan that the Spirit Clan could keep supplying its fighters from reserves accumulated long ago.
• Xiao Yan recalled the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame to his Heavy Profound Ruler while Huo Zhi activated her clan mark and intensified her attack.
• Xiao Yan’s Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler shattered Ling Qingbai’s barrier, and the Soul-Sealing Consciousness Suppression overwhelmed him.
• The Heavenly Flames burned Ling Qingbai while he remained unable to resist.

Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi killed Ling Qingbai, while Elder Qing Shan and the Fire Cloud Ancestor gravely wounded another Spirit Clan Dou Saint. With the alliance gaining momentum, Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi joined Zi Yan against Ling Xuanmo to try to remove another Spirit Clan expert from the battle.

• Ling Yuan tried to aid Ling Qingbai, but Xiao Yan absorbed most of the Dou Qi pillar and replenished his reserves.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi combined their attacks to destroy Ling Qingbai's body and soul, making him the first Dou Saint to fall in the surprise attack.
• Elder Qing Shan and the Fire Cloud Ancestor gravely wounded the Spirit Clan Dou Saint they were fighting.
• Xiao Yan chose to reinforce Zi Yan against Ling Xuanmo, and Huo Zhi joined him.
• Zi Yan transformed into human form and continued fighting Ling Xuanmo alongside Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi.

As Ling Xuanmo came under pressure from Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and the Flame Glazed Beasts, Ling Yuan sacrificed his blood to activate the Spirit Clan’s protective array. The Spirit Heavenly Emperor’s Dou Di phantom appeared, bringing the battle for the Spirit Realm to its climax.

• Xiao Yan sent his five Flame Glazed Beasts to harry Ling Xuanmo while Zi Yan attacked him relentlessly, forcing him toward defeat.
• Ling Yuan, despairing after Ling Qingbai’s death and the worsening battles, declared that the Spirit Clan would fight to its last breath rather than surrender its legacy.
• Ling Yuan sent his blood into the protective array’s formation eye, releasing the stores of Dou Qi gathered throughout the Spirit Realm.
• Ling Yuan called upon the Progenitor as the array’s energy formed a vortex and revealed the Spirit Heavenly Emperor’s phantom.
• Millions of Spirit Clan members bowed to the Progenitor, while Xiao Yan sensed a faint connection to the phantom through the Spirit Clan blood he had absorbed.

Ling Yuan summoned the Spirit Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul to defend the Spirit Clan, and the remnant soul confronted Yan Jin. Yan Jin fought back with two Heavenly Flames and his Flame Spirit Fire Body, but the remnant soul pierced his first strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Hun Mang watched in awe as Ling Yuan summoned the Spirit Heavenly Emperor’s remnant soul and begged it to save the Spirit Clan.
• The Spirit Heavenly Emperor recognized the ruined Spirit Clan as his descendants and called Yan Jin out of hiding.
• Yan Jin paid his respects, then faced the remnant soul’s attack by raising it with two Heavenly Flames and forming his Flame Spirit Fire Body.
• The Spirit Heavenly Emperor pierced Yan Jin’s flaming hands with concentrated runes, scattering their fire energy.
• Yan Jin dismissed the damage and sent his strengthened flaming hands crashing down again.

Yan Jin battled the Spirit Emperor's remnant soul while the Spirit Clan poured its remaining Dou Qi into the protective formation to sustain their ancestor. Elsewhere, Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi waited beside Zi Yan's fight with Ling Xuanmo, watching for the opening Xiao Yan needed to help Zi Yan win.

• Yan Jin's Heavenly Flame attacks clashed with the Spirit Emperor's remnant soul, and he recognized the battle as a rare chance to study a Dou Emperor's techniques.
• Ling Yuan ordered every Spirit Clan member to feed Dou Qi into the clan-protecting formation, while the clan's stored energy also flowed into the Spirit Emperor's remnant soul.
• The other fighters avoided Yan Jin and the Spirit Emperor's battle and fought fiercely across the remaining battlefields as the Mountain and River Dragon-Trapping Seal stayed active.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi remained beside Zi Yan and Ling Xuanmo, with Xiao Yan waiting for a chance to help Zi Yan prevail.
• Ling Xuanmo's Dou Qi began to run low after he spent several ultimate techniques and activated his clan mark, leaving him unable to replenish his strength from the Spirit Clan's reserves.

Xiao Yan joined Zi Yan and Huo Zhi to launch a coordinated attack against Ling Xuanmo, but his body unexpectedly began transforming into a dragon amid the clash. After they took Ling Xuanmo’s Heaven Class Dou Technique head-on, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan emerged unharmed, leaving Ling Xuanmo stunned.

• Ling Xuanmo summoned the Profound Clear Golden Seal, while Xiao Yan told Zi Yan and Huo Zhi to join him in killing their weakened opponent.
• Zi Yan transformed into her Ancient Void Dragon form and used her purple-gold Dou Qi to hold back the golden seal as Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi reached her head.
• Xiao Yan unexpectedly began transforming, growing dragon scales and horns as his five Heavenly Flames ignited and his aura surged.
• Zi Yan’s resistance faltered, and she and Xiao Yan collided with Ling Xuanmo’s golden seal as Huo Zhi retreated from the shock wave.
• Zi Yan and Xiao Yan reappeared unharmed after surviving the Heaven Class Dou Technique, and Ling Xuanmo cried out in disbelief.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan combined their powers to form a purple-gold sword and struck down Ling Xuanmo. The sword’s force faded after the devastating blow, leaving Ling Xuanmo severed in half.

• Xiao Yan sprouted Heavenly Flame wings as purple-gold energy transformed around him and formed a sword.
• Zi Yan urged Xiao Yan to take the sword, and he grasped it, fusing their auras and approaching the strength of a five-star Dou Sheng.
• Ling Yuan replenished Ling Xuanmo’s Dou Qi, but Ling Xuanmo’s clan-marking enhancement was already declining.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan crossed the distance to Ling Xuanmo and unleashed a purple-gold sword strike that pierced through his defenses.
• Zi Yan and Xiao Yan returned to their normal forms, and Xiao Yan saw that Ling Xuanmo had been cut in half and was being eroded by lingering sword energy.

Xiao Yan killed Ling Xuanmo, while Yao Lao and Qing Lin seized an opening to badly wound Ling Yuan. Ling Yuan drove back his attackers, but his injuries and fading clan mark left him near his limit.

• Xiao Yan destroyed Ling Xuanmo's body and soul, ending the Spirit Clan deputy clan leader's life.
• Ling Yuan failed to reach his brother because the Pill Tower Ancestor and Qing Lin held him back, and he vowed to avenge Ling Xuanmo.
• Yao Lao trapped Ling Yuan's senses with Soul-Sealing Consciousness Lock, allowing Qing Lin to stab his chest with a blade of icy energy.
• Ling Yuan broke free, struck Qing Lin and shattered the souls of the two Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Pythons, then shattered the ice in his chest.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor attacked Ling Yuan, but Ling Yuan caught his sword and kicked him away as his injuries worsened and his clan mark's power faded.

Ling Yuan restored his strength with the Spirit Clan’s stored Dou Qi and turned his attack toward Xiao Yan, forcing Xiao Yan’s allies to hold him off. As the Pill Tower Ancestor shielded them, Xiao Yan prepared to continue his attempt to help Yan Jin defeat the Spirit Emperor’s remnant soul.

• Ling Yuan replenished his strength and chose to attack Xiao Yan, whom he blamed for the Spirit Clan’s losses.
• Huo Zhi arrived beside Xiao Yan and restored some of his Dou Qi, but Xiao Yan refused to retreat and asked Zi Yan to stall Ling Yuan while Huo Zhi transferred him her Dou Qi.
• Zi Yan fought Ling Yuan and was badly injured by his punches, prompting Elder Qing Shan to rush to her aid.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor intercepted Ling Yuan’s next punch and told Xiao Yan to continue his plan.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor used pills to replenish himself as he continued holding Ling Yuan back.

Xiao Yan prepared to risk a powerful attack against the Spirit Clan with help from Huo Zhi and Qing Lin. As Qing Lin gathered her strength, Hun Mang secretly traced strange patterns while fighting Yao Lao, leaving the chapter poised before both sides made their moves.

• Xiao Yan asked Huo Zhi to lend him the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, and Qing Lin offered to join his plan.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor protected Xiao Yan while Qing Lin withdrew her aura and prepared to unleash her strongest attack.
• Yao Lao suspected Hun Mang was hiding a plan as Hun Mang secretly traced patterns beneath the black mist.
• Yan Jin recognized Qing Lin's impending attack, while Yao Ming and Yao Su felt its chilling pressure.
• Qing Lin filled the surrounding area with silent, expanding snowflakes as cold spread from her body.

Qing Lin froze the Spirit Emperor’s remnant soul long enough for Xiao Yan and Yan Jin to unleash their Heavenly Flame attacks together. Their combined assault engulfed the battlefield, leaving the remnant soul under the effects of both Qing Lin’s lingering frost and the flames.

• Qing Lin used Momentary Frost and Snow to trap the Spirit Emperor’s remnant soul in a crystal prison and strike its core.
• Xiao Yan completed his Five-Colored Fire Lotus and supported the exhausted Qing Lin after throwing it toward the frozen remnant soul.
• Yao Lao warned everyone to prepare for the impact, while Yan Jin waited for Xiao Yan’s attack before acting.
• Yan Jin used Fall of the Fire God as Xiao Yan’s fire lotus reached the remnant soul, and the two attacks struck together.
• The combined Heavenly Flames swallowed the area outside the Spirit Clan’s protective formation, melting Qing Lin’s ice while its lingering frost continued to affect the remnant soul.