Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan revealed Yao Wangui’s soul at the Yao Clan’s trade fair and claimed the elder had agreed to undergo a soul rebirth technique. He then had Wang Yun use the Source Spirit Pattern Crystal and rare medicinal herbs to create a new body for Yao Wangui, forcibly placing the soul inside it.

• Xiao Yan produced Yao Wangui’s soul, shocking the trade fair and enraging some Yao Clan members.
• Yao Dan demanded an explanation, and Xiao Yan said Yao Wangui had willingly cooperated with the rebirth technique.
• Yao Wangui confirmed Xiao Yan’s claim under pressure, while Xiao Yan relied on Xun Er’s judgment of the elder’s selfish motives.
• Xiao Yan instructed Wang Yun to perform the technique and supplied high-grade medicinal herbs.
• Wang Yun refined a new body around the Source Spirit Pattern Crystal and forced Yao Wangui’s soul into it.

Xiao Yan demonstrated his Soul Rebirth Technique by restoring Yao Wangui to life, then offered resurrection for a ninth-tier Treasure Pill or for free to members of Origin Return Manor. After the trading fair ended, Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Shi Kai invited Xiao Yan to meet them.

• Xiao Yan resurrected Yao Wangui, who regained most of his strength and hurried back to the Yao Clan's section.
• Xiao Yan explained that the technique took about two hours, required an intact soul, could be used only once per person, and restored roughly seventy to eighty percent of their abilities.
• Xiao Yan set the price at one ninth-tier Treasure Pill per resurrection and offered it free to anyone who joined Origin Return Manor.
• Xiao Yan ended the trading fair and said the invitation to join Origin Return Manor would remain open.
• That night, Yao Dan invited Xiao Yan to meet with him, Lei Ying, and Shi Kai, and Xiao Yan brought Xun Er along.

Xiao Yan negotiated with the Yao, Stone, and Thunder Clan chiefs over his resurrection technique, securing their agreement to his terms. The clans accepted the deal, leaving Origin Return Manor responsible for future resurrections in exchange for materials and other compensation.

• Xiao Yan made Yao Dan promise that the Yao Clan would abandon Yao Wangui, and Yao Dan agreed that the clan had been at fault.
• Shi Kai asked to buy Xiao Yan's resurrection technique, but Xiao Yan explained that only Origin Return Manor could perform it and demanded one ninth-tier medicinal pill per person.
• Xun Er reminded the clan chiefs that the Thunder Clan had previously refused Xiao Yan's request for its bloodline mark, and Shi Kai apologized for that refusal.
• Xiao Yan required the clans to provide resurrection materials, requested the Mystic Yellow Flame from the Yao Clan, and demanded that Lei Jingxiao receive all the resources due to him as Thunder Clan heir.
• Yao Dan agreed to give up the Mystic Yellow Flame, Lei Ying agreed to provide Lei Jingxiao's heir resources, and the three chiefs accepted Xiao Yan's terms.

Xiao Yan agreed to help the Thunder Clan and Yao Clan resurrect their dead, and Lei Ying chose to give Origin Return Manor two portions of Void Lightning. As Xiao Yan’s group traveled home, they intercepted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, whose members realized they had been lured into carrying a valuable skeleton into an ambush.

• Xiao Yan and Xun Er agreed with the Thunder Clan and Yao Clan on the resurrection arrangements, and Lei Ying returned Xiao Yan’s two Bodhi Seeds.
• Lei Ying decided to give Xiao Yan’s group two portions of Void Lightning, explaining that he needed to settle his debt to Lei Jingxiao and calm his mind before attempting to break through.
• Lei Qingyue agreed to arrange the transfer, while Lei Ying remained alone, uncertain whether guilt or his breakthrough attempt had motivated him.
• Xiao Yan’s group stopped the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan in a spatial passage after they obtained the clan’s precious skeleton at the Yao Clan trade fair.
• Wei Jiangyuan revealed that he had used Flowing Flame Sunflowers to lure the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan into exposing themselves, and Nine Phoenix realized they had taken the bait.

Wei Jiangyuan’s ambush of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was disrupted by powerful reinforcements, including Huang Tian and the North Dragon King. Xiao Yan chose to fight, and Zi Yan confronted the North Dragon King before she and Lei Jingxiao broke through their defenses, prompting the two enemies to plot her death.

• Wei Jiangyuan taunted the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s leader and ordered Old Xiao to kill them, but Yao Lao sensed powerful newcomers approaching.
• Xiao Yan saw that the reinforcements included the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s North Dragon King, and he ordered Origin Return Manor to attack.
• Phoenix rallied the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts into a formation, while Zi Yan confronted the North Dragon King and accused him of betraying their clan.
• The North Dragon King blamed Zi Yan for his defeat, and Huang Tian encouraged him by promising that he could lead the Ancient Void Dragon Clan if they killed her.
• Zi Yan and Lei Jingxiao combined their Dou Skills and shattered the defenses of Huang Tian and the North Dragon King.
• The North Dragon King and Huang Tian recognized Zi Yan as a mortal enemy and agreed that they needed to kill her.

Xiao Yan and his allies battled the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan while he prepared a Fire Lotus to defeat its chief, Huang Tian. With Zi Yan and Lei Jingxiao keeping Huang Tian occupied, Xiao Yan began fusing six Heavenly Flames, but the battle remained underway.

• Huang Tian ordered the North Dragon King to fight Zi Yan, but Xiao Yan’s War Puppet confronted the North Dragon King and overpowered him.
• Yao Lao, Elder Lin, Huo Zhen, and Wei Jiangyuan joined forces against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s experts and pushed them back.
• Xiao Yan asked Xun’er to lend him her Heavenly Flame and said he planned to use a Fire Lotus against Huang Tian.
• Xun’er summoned the Golden Emperor Incinerating Heaven Flame, and Xiao Yan began fusing six Heavenly Flames.
• Zi Yan and Lei Jingxiao kept Huang Tian from reaching Xiao Yan as the Fire Lotus took shape.

Huang Tian used Phoenix Feather Link to empower Nine Phoenix and stop Xiao Yan from fusing the fire lotus. Xun Er intercepted Nine Phoenix and struck him down, leaving Xiao Yan’s fusion undisturbed.

• Zi Yan and Lei Jingxiao fought Huang Tian together and forced him to reveal his true form.
• Huang Tian used Phoenix Feather Link to share his strength with Nine Phoenix, who then rushed toward Xiao Yan.
• Xun Er stepped in front of Xiao Yan and blocked Nine Phoenix with the Golden Emperor Incinerating Heaven Flame.
• Nine Phoenix unleashed Phoenix Feathers Fill the Sky, but Xun Er burned the attack away and wounded him with Emperor's Descending Flame Sword.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er turned the battle against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, forcing Huang Tian and Nine Phoenix to flee while Origin Return Manor’s forces defeated the remaining enemies. Xiao Yan pursued the clan chiefs, and the chapter ended with the survivors regrouping after Huang Tian’s apparent self-destruction and Xiao Yan recovering his essence blood.

• Xun Er revealed her strength as a three-star Dou Sheng, defeated Huang Tian’s reinforcements, and protected Xiao Yan as he completed the six-colored fire lotus.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the fire lotus against Huang Tian’s forces, killing one phoenix and badly wounding Huang Tian and the North Dragon King.
• Huang Tian told Nine Phoenix to take the clan’s remaining hope—the skeleton—and lead the clansmen away from the Central Plains while he covered their escape.
• Xiao Yan caught up with Huang Tian and Nine Phoenix, and Huang Tian sent Nine Phoenix ahead before confronting him.
• Origin Return Manor’s experts killed the North Dragon King and the remaining Heaven Demon Phoenixes, while Huang Tian and Nine Phoenix escaped.
• Xiao Yan told Xun Er and Zi Yan that Huang Tian had self-destructed and showed them the essence blood he recovered after the magic core was destroyed.

Xiao Yan returned safely to Origin Return Manor after defeating Huang Tian, while Nine Phoenix seized leadership of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and ordered its retreat. New intelligence warned that the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan were preparing another attack, likely targeting the Yao Clan or Thunder Clan for Gu Yu.

• Xiao Yan explained that Hurricane Qi let him catch Huang Tian without consuming Dou Qi, and chose to return rather than pursue the remaining Half-Saint.
• Nine Phoenix killed a questioning elder, proved his new Dou Sheng strength, and ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to retreat, slaughter captive Ancient Void Dragons, and recognize him as clan leader.
• Xiao Yan's group returned to Origin Return Manor with the Mystic Yellow Flame, power from the Void Thunder Pool, and new allies Lei Jingxiao and Wei Jiangyuan.
• Xiao Yan received a warning that the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan had made large-scale movements and gathered Origin Return Manor's core figures.
• Xun Er, Yao Lao, and the others discussed the clans' rivalry and concluded that the attackers would likely target the Yao Clan or Thunder Clan to obtain Gu Yu.

Xiao Yan prepared Origin Return Manor for a possible clan war while strengthening his resources and refining War Puppets. After absorbing the Mystic Yellow Flame and creating a weaker puppet from the North Dragon King, he decided to give it to Xiao Yi Xian for her protection.

• Xiao Yan treated the report of a possible attack on the Gu Yu as genuine, recalled Qing Lin and the scattered Dou Sheng experts, and ordered a measured warning to the three-clan alliance without exposing the Ancient Clan’s information.
• Origin Return Manor withdrew and consolidated its forces, while experts drawn by its resurrection method joined; the Dou Sheng who had traded Hurricane Qi also joined and revealed its full uses to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan absorbed Hurricane Qi again and learned that it granted extraordinary speed and could disrupt spatial ripples to conceal a user’s location.
• Xiao Yan spent three months in the Heavenly Tomb absorbing the Mystic Yellow Flame to strengthen his Buddha Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan refined a War Puppet from the North Dragon King’s body and soul, found it weaker than the West Dragon King War Puppet, and decided to give it to Xiao Yi Xian for her safety.

Xiao Yan was summoned from seclusion as Mu Yaoyin reached the end of her life, and she used her final Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique to seek a chance of victory against the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan. Before dying, she told him to go to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan when the time came, leaving Xiao Yan to entrust Mu Qianxue with the revelation.

• Xiao Yan learned that Mu Yaoyin's lifespan had ended and heard her warn him not to rely too heavily on Xiao Xue's limited Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique.
• Mu Yaoyin insisted on using her final casting to seek a chance of victory, despite Xiao Yan's objections.
• Mu Yaoyin used the technique and told Xiao Yan to go to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan when the time came.
• Mu Yaoyin's body and soul dissipated, and Xiao Yan vowed to protect the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Mu Qianxue appeared, and Xiao Yan relayed Mu Yaoyin's final message so she could help him analyze it.

Xiao Yan followed Mu Yaoyin’s final instruction to wait for a sign to travel to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan, while remaining anxious about the looming threat from the Soul and Ancient Clans. Six months later, he inspected Origin Return Manor and found Wang Yun overwhelmed with soul-resurrection work for their allies.

• Mu Qianxue told Xiao Yan to go to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan when the time came, and Xiao Yan continued to wonder why.
• Six months passed peacefully, but Xiao Yan and others at Origin Return Manor grew more wary of the Ancient Clan’s warning.
• Xiao Yi Xian assigned Xiao Yan to inspect a pavilion every fifteen days to keep him occupied and involved in manor affairs.
• During his inspections, Xiao Yan learned that Wang Yun was burdened with resurrecting soul bodies and helping the Yao, Stone, and Thunder Clans study his technique.
• Wang Yun continued complaining about his workload while cooperating with the allied clans’ resurrection efforts.

Xiao Yan inspected Origin Return Manor and learned how its newly joined Dou Shengs and resurrected Heavenly Tomb experts were settling in. At the Origin Talisman Pavilion, he encountered Refinement, who had been transferred there by Mu Wei, and asked what had happened.

• Xiao Yi Xian investigated Heavenly Yang Dou Sheng's many partners and found that they had joined him willingly, though she continued checking their identities and backgrounds.
• Xiao Yan met Zhou Yunqi, who explained that she had chosen to become Heavenly Yang Dou Sheng's lover for the benefits of his special Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan noted that the resurrected Heavenly Tomb experts were eager to serve Origin Return Manor, and Xiao Le and Feng Qiu thanked him on their behalf.
• Xiao Yan began his fifteen-day inspection by visiting the Origin Talisman Pavilion, where Mu Wei remained pavilion master and two formation-skilled Heavenly Tomb experts had been assigned.
• Refinement greeted Xiao Yan and revealed that Mu Wei had specially transferred him to the Origin Talisman Pavilion, prompting Xiao Yan to ask why.

Xiao Yan learned that Mu Wei and Jiao Xian had uncovered information about the Soul Hall’s collected soul bodies, but Origin Return Manor’s highest summons interrupted their discussion. After the Thunder Clan, Yao Clan, and Stone Clan reported attacks by the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan, Xiao Yi Xian organized an urgent rescue and defense plan.

• Xiao Yan visited Mu Wei and Jiao Xian, praised their work on Origin Return Manor’s defenses, and asked about their research into the Soul Clan.
• Mu Wei began to reveal a discovery about the Soul Hall’s collected soul bodies, but Origin Return Manor’s highest-grade summons called its leaders to the Star Pavilion.
• Xiao Yi Xian announced that the Thunder Clan, Yao Clan, and Stone Clan alliance had come under attack from the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yi Xian arranged for Yan Jin, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan to lead the first rescue team while other Dou Sheng experts prepared to reinforce them or guard Origin Return Manor.
• Xiao Yan and the first support team prepared to depart immediately for the three-clan alliance.

Xiao Yan, Yan Jin, and Qing Lin set out to reinforce the Thunder Clan and Medicine Clan, but a Soul Clan force intercepted them in the void. They faced a Nine-Star Dou Sheng wielding the Nihility Devouring Flame and four resurrected Eight-Star Dou Shengs.

• Lei Jingxiao asked Xiao Yan to protect Jiang Yunyan, while Wei Jiangyuan urged him to stay safe and look after Senior Jiang and Senior Shennong.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan might not have committed all their forces, and Xiao Yan left with Yan Jin and Qing Lin to reinforce the two clans.
• Halfway through their journey, Yan Jin sensed danger and stopped Xiao Yan and Qing Lin.
• The wielder of the Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and revealed that he had targeted them from the beginning, while four Eight-Star Dou Shengs surrounded them.
• Yan Jin recognized the four as Hun Yao, Hun Sheng Tian, Hun Yuan Tian, and Hun Du, whom he believed had died, and the Soul Clan expert explained that he had resurrected them as a hidden trump card.

The Soul Clan revealed that Xiao Yan was their true target and trapped him, Qing Lin, and Yan Jin with four Eight-Star Dou Sheng. Yan Jin fought to hold them off while Xiao Yan and Qing Lin tried to survive, and the chapter ended with a mysterious black figure disrupting Hun Sheng Tian’s attack on Qing Lin.

• The master of Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that Xiao Yan was the Soul Clan’s real target and ordered the four Eight-Star Dou Sheng to capture him.
• Yan Jin used two Heavenly Flames and powerful Dou Skills to resist the Soul Clan’s chain formation, then told Xiao Yan and Qing Lin to escape if they found an opening.
• Xiao Yan prepared a ninth-tier Mystic Pill and Hurricane Qi as the Soul Clan’s prison broke, but black ripples covered Yan Jin in mist that gnawed at his Dou Qi.
• Qing Lin fought Hun Sheng Tian with her Crystal Ice Blade and intensified her attack with the power in her green eyes.
• A black figure appeared between Hun Sheng Tian’s mist hands and Qing Lin, destroying one hand and breaking his attack.

Xiao Yan used Xiao Xuan’s Star River Reversal to weaken Hun Sheng Tian and unsettle him, giving Qing Lin an opening to wound the powerful enemy. Xiao Yan carried the exhausted Qing Lin through the gap and escaped the encirclement, while Hun Sheng Tian was left behind.

• Xiao Yan sent his War Puppet to aid Qing Lin as he gathered Dou Qi, but Hun Sheng Tian crushed half the puppet’s head.
• Qing Lin split Hun Sheng Tian’s soul body with her icy blade while Xiao Yan unleashed Xiao Xuan’s Heaven Class Dou Technique, Star River Reversal.
• Star River Reversal drained Dou Qi from Hun Sheng Tian and the other Living Dead, shaking their composure.
• Qing Lin used the Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill’s power to strike Hun Sheng Tian across the waist and tear open his Dou Qi blockade.
• Xiao Yan stored the damaged War Puppet, swept the nearly spent Qing Lin into his arms, and escaped through the opening.

Yan Jin stayed behind to protect Xiao Yan and Qing Lin, facing the Nihility Devouring Flame's master and four Soul Clan living dead. As Yan Jin unleashed his full power against the Gate of Silent Death, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin fled, but the Nihility Devouring Flame's master quickly caught up with them.

• Yan Jin drove Xiao Yan and Qing Lin away and shattered the black rings sent after them by the Nihility Devouring Flame's master.
• After Xiao Yan and Qing Lin escaped the space, the Nihility Devouring Flame's master ordered the four Soul Clan living dead to fight Yan Jin and pursued the fugitives.
• The four living dead opened the Gate of Silent Death around Yan Jin, trapping him while the Nihility Devouring Flame's master went after Xiao Yan and Qing Lin.
• Yan Jin burned with his fused Heavenly Flames and struck one living dead and his gate with an enormous pillar of fire.
• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin a breath of Hurricane Qi as they fled and said they needed reinforcements to rescue Elder Jin.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Nihility Devouring Flame's master approaching behind them and heard him taunt them for running.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin fled toward the Northwest Region while Nihility Devouring Flame's Nine-Star Dou Sheng master pursued them. Xiao Xuan learned of their predicament, but Xiao Yan still had to find a way to cover the immense distance before his strength ran out.

• Xiao Yan rejected fleeing to Origin Return Manor or the Thunder Clan and chose the Northwest Region as their best hope of survival.
• Nihility Devouring Flame repeatedly blocked Xiao Yan and Qing Lin, but they evaded its attacks, with Qing Lin's blade creating an opening.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin used their movement techniques, dragon transformation, and Heavenly Demon Phoenix wings to keep ahead of their pursuer.
• Xiao Yan's Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body told Xiao Xuan about the pursuit and the group's plan to reach the Northwest Region.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that Hurricane Qi should let him endure for half a day, and that his pursuer did not seem especially anxious.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin continued fleeing from a Nine-Star Dou Sheng toward the Northwest Region, relying on Hurricane Qi to stay ahead. As their escape energy ran low, Xiao Xuan finished preparing a plan and told them to slow down and gather strength.

• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yan that their chance to escape might be their last, then withdrew to make preparations.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin continued fleeing together, and Qing Lin used her power to reduce their Dou Qi consumption and refresh their souls.
• The Nine-Star Dou Sheng failed to catch them because their strange movements disrupted his spatial travel, so he followed and waited for their strength to run out.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin crossed the Black-Corner Region toward the Northwest Region, but their Hurricane Qi was nearly exhausted.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that his preparations were complete and instructed him to slow down without alerting their pursuer.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Lin to steady her aura and gather energy because they might need her strength.