Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan rallied Origin Return Manor’s forces and led them to the Western Region, where the four major factions gathered for the decisive battle against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. With nearly three hundred Dou Sheng Experts assembled, the leaders began discussing how to attack.

• Xiao Yan urged Origin Return Manor’s fighters to battle to the death, then opened a Spatial Passage after seeing Liang Mengying among the disciples.
• Xiao Yan led Origin Return Manor’s forces through the passage, leaving the manor’s protection to its clan-protecting formation.
• Xiao Yan arrived in the Western Region and found the Soul Clan, the Ancient Clan, and the Lei-Yao-Shi Three-Clan Alliance gathered near the four pillars.
• Xiao Yan estimated that the four factions had assembled nearly three hundred Dou Sheng Experts and recognized that they had committed most of their reserves.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor called on the allied forces to win the battle, and Xiao Yan learned that the Ancient Clan’s Dou Di Progenitor could not help outside the Gu Realm.
• Lei Ying asked whether the factions should advance directly and attack.

The Continental Allied Army prepared to attack the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, but the enemy emerged with a vastly larger force and revealed that its leaders had temporarily overcome the world's restrictions. Xiao Yan and the other leaders faced the four named enemies as the allied army's prospects darkened.

• Zhukun, Gu Yuan, Soul Heavenly Emperor, and the other leaders considered attacking from a distance because the black mist threatened weaker experts.
• The Sky-Supporting Black Pillars activated, the black mist churned, and the Continental Allied Army cautiously pulled back.
• Four Extraterritorial Evil Clan leaders emerged and said they had temporarily shaken off the world's laws, then the child-shaped Sheng Huang summoned their hidden forces.
• The black mist revealed more than five hundred Dou Shengs controlled by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, causing the Continental Allied Army's morale to collapse.
• Xiao Yan, Zhukun, Soul Heavenly Emperor, and Gu Yuan flew forward to confront the four leaders, who introduced themselves as Sheng Tian, Sheng Di, Sheng Xuan, and Sheng Huang and declared that the allied experts would become nourishment for the world.

Xiao Yan ordered the Continental Allied Army to retreat while he faced the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s five hundred Dou Saints alone. He used his Emperor Realm Soul to disrupt their advance and sent four fighters from his Void Space in different directions, preparing to surround them.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor, Zhukun, and Gu Yuan confronted the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s leaders while Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Qing Lin charged the childlike Sheng Huang.
• Sheng Huang ordered Nine Phoenix to crush the Continental Allied Army, and Nine Phoenix sent hundreds of Dou Saint experts forward.
• Xiao Yan told the remaining commanders to retreat and face the enemy alone, while the strongest leaders held the front against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s top fighters.
• Xiao Yan’s Emperor Realm Soul weakened the five hundred Dou Saints’ advance, and he released three Soul Clan Living Dead and an unfamiliar Six-Star Dou Saint from his Void Space to move in four directions.

Xiao Yan stopped the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s assault with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, then used four Gates of Silent Death to trap and remove more than two hundred enemy experts. The gates remained open as their masters struggled to maintain them.

• Xiao Yan formed an Emperor Realm Soul and unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, shattering the attacks aimed at him and killing or scattering the enemy’s front ranks.
• Hun Sha and Gu Lie realized Xiao Yan’s attack would have caught their own forces if they had advanced as instructed.
• The Three Great Living Dead and the War Puppet opened four Gates of Silent Death, which resonated and surrounded more than two hundred enemy experts with gray mist.
• Xiao Yan ordered the gates closed, and the mist drew the trapped experts into the gates within four breaths.
• The four gates remained in place as their masters gathered together and strained to maintain the formation.

Xiao Yan trapped two hundred Extraterritorial Evil Clan Dou Sheng in a four-gate array, prompting Nine Phoenix to reorganize his forces as the Continental Allied Army deployed its own arrays. Nine Phoenix then raised the Thousand Saints Point to Mortals Array, giving the enemy a powerful formation of its own.

• Xiao Yan ordered the Continental Allied Army to attack after two hundred enemy Dou Sheng disappeared inside the four-gate array.
• Nine Phoenix spread out his forces, sent thirty fighters to target the four array users, and assigned his Ancestor to keep Xiao Yan occupied.
• The four great factions and the Origin Return Manor formed arrays to defend against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s assault.
• The Origin Return Manor’s Mystic Spirit Trapping Array held firm, powered in part by stored Dou Qi crystals gathered under Xiao Yi Xian’s direction.
• Nine Phoenix summoned black banners and formed the Thousand Saints Point to Mortals Array, merging the enemy fighters’ Dou Qi and black Qi.

Xiao Yan left the allied formation to confront Feng Ye, drawing him into the Void Space and using Star River Reversal to strip away his powers and crystals. As Feng Ye became vulnerable, he began a strange counterattack that threatened Xiao Yan’s soul.

• Xiao Yan and Feng Ye left their respective formations to settle their rivalry one-on-one.
• Feng Ye revealed that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan had taught him how to turn Xiao Yan’s control technique back against him.
• Xiao Yan pulled Feng Ye into the Void Space and unleashed Star River Reversal.
• Xiao Yan’s technique drained the area and drew Feng Ye’s crystals, soul power, Dou Qi, and black Qi out of his control.
• Little Scale appeared on Xiao Yan’s shoulder, and Feng Ye began forming seals as a strange soul-absorbing presence emerged from within him.

Xiao Yan killed Feng Ye by trapping him with his Emperor Realm Soul and crushing his body, then burned away the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's black Qi. He returned to the battlefield to find Origin Return Manor's formation nearing collapse under relentless attacks, including Dou Sheng self-detonations.

• Xiao Yan seized control of Feng Ye with Soul-Sealing Consciousness Suppression and crushed him with his Emperor Realm Soul.
• Xiao Yan used seven origin Heavenly Flames to burn away the black Qi that emerged from Feng Ye.
• Xiao Yan appeared on the battlefield, surprising both the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and the Continental Allied Army.
• Xiao Yan saw that the Pill Tower Ancestor was struggling to maintain Origin Return Manor's formation against the enemy's mobile fortress and corrosive attacks.
• Dou Sheng Experts charged Origin Return Manor's formation and began detonating themselves against it.

Xiao Yan returned to the battlefield after defeating Feng Ye and stopped the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s suicide attacks on the Origin Return Manor’s formation. He reinforced the formation and focused on protecting the Living Dead and their Gate of Silent Death, while Nine Phoenix realized Feng Ye was missing.

• Xiao Yan used his Emperor Realm Soul Power to kill two Dou Sheng attackers before they could self-destruct against the formation.
• Xiao Yan entered the Origin Return Manor’s formation and poured his Dou Qi into it, easing the pressure on its defenders.
• Xiao Yan found Xuan Kongzi and another surviving soul at the threatened section, then sent them to Wang Yun for revival.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan was attacking to free the Dou Sheng trapped inside the Gate of Silent Death.
• Xiao Yan resolved to grant the enemy’s wish, while Nine Phoenix searched for Feng Ye and realized Xiao Yan had returned without him.

Xiao Yan sent his four controlled death servants to destroy themselves and the Gates of Silent Death, turning the trapped Dou Sheng Experts into fuel for a chain of explosions against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's grand formation. As the formation began to collapse under the surging shockwaves, Nine Phoenix ordered his forces to release all their Dou Qi and hold the line.

• Nine Phoenix halted the self-destruction assaults and ordered his forces to stabilize the grand formation.
• Xiao Yan brought four controlled death servants out of Origin Return Manor and sent them toward the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's formation.
• Xiao Yan ordered the four death servants to detonate themselves and their Gates of Silent Death.
• The explosions killed the Dou Sheng Experts trapped inside the gates and fueled an expanding chain of destruction.
• The shockwaves cracked the formation flags and disrupted the grand formation, prompting Nine Phoenix to order everyone to release all their Dou Qi and hold.

Xiao Yan watched the formations collapse and the battle turn into close combat, while the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s forces continued fighting without retreating. As the melee spread, Xiao Yan sensed their behavior was suspicious and held back from intervening.

• Nine Phoenix summoned three hidden figures carrying pieces of a dark cyan incense burner and ordered them to break through the allied army’s remaining formations once they had gathered power.
• Xiao Yan recovered his strength as the Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed turbulent Dou Qi, while the detonation weakened the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, Ancient Clan, and Soul Clan formations.
• Xiao Yan warned Hun Sha and Gu Lie not to undermine the allied army again, threatening to kill them if they did.
• Yao Lao ordered the Origin Return Manor to attack, and the Continental Allied Army joined as both sides charged into close combat.
• The Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s fearless fighters held their ground against the allied forces, and Xiao Yan wondered why they would neither flee nor retreat.

Xiao Yan and the Continental Allied Army faced the spreading black mist left by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s self-destruction, which impaired perception and concealed deadly attackers. When a black mist monster ambushed Xiao Chen’s group, Xiao Yan trapped it in a prepared Nihility Devouring Flame vortex filled with Flame Lotuses, triggering a destructive explosion.

• Xiao Chen wounded a Five-Star Dou Saint of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan with his crimson axe, and the enemy fled through the Allied Army’s blockade.
• Xiao Chen intercepted three hidden attacks in the black mist and led two undead experts to safety.
• Xiao Chen observed that the black mist had spread across half the battlefield and hindered the Continental Allied Army’s perception and consciousness.
• Feng Qiu said Xiao Yan had likely been considering the danger of the mist, and Xiao Yan then moved to Xiao Chen’s group.
• A black mist monster suddenly charged at Xiao Chen’s group, and Xiao Yan trapped it in a Nihility Devouring Flame vortex containing numerous Flame Lotuses, causing a massive explosion.

Nine Phoenix unleashed two Mist Vicious Beasts against the Continental Allied Army, and their charges devastated four clans’ formations despite Xiao Yan’s warning. As the beasts prepared to withdraw after their remaining attack, a hidden figure inside the Origin Return Manor stirred.

• Nine Phoenix sent two Mist Vicious Beasts toward the allied army, while Xiao Yan warned the Lei, Yao, and Shi clans to scatter.
• The beasts’ first charge destroyed the Ancient Clan and Thunder Clan’s formations, killing more than ten Dou Sheng Experts and over two hundred Dou Zun.
• Lei Qingyue and Jiang Yunyan tried to stop a beast, but their lightning nets and sword attack failed to harm it.
• Nine Phoenix ordered the beasts’ handlers to launch another attack despite their warning that the creatures had power for only one more strike.
• The beasts charged through the Yao Clan and Stone Clan’s formations, causing further heavy losses as a hidden figure in the Origin Return Manor stirred.

Lei Jingxiao and Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames to counter the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s Black Mist, while Xiao Yan located the hidden controller and led an assault into the mist. The allied forces began clearing the battlefield as Xiao Yan pressed toward his enemies.

• Lei Jingxiao used the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to trap and burn the Mist Vicious Beast as it tried to retreat into the Black Mist.
• Xiao Yan struck the leader controlling the beast with Soul Power and discovered his position behind the mist.
• Xiao Yan ordered Xun'er and Lei Jingxiao to attack the Black Mist with their Heavenly Flames while the others supported them from the outer areas.
• The Heavenly Flames spread across the battlefield, with Lei Jingxiao clearing the mist rapidly and Xun'er and the other fighters attacking their assigned areas.
• Xiao Yan charged into the Black Mist, burning or swallowing it as he fought through the enemy ranks with his flames and flame beasts.

Xiao Yan rapidly destroyed the black mist and killed the three men controlling the incense burner, but a strange ripple touched him before they died. As the Allied Army closed in, Nine Phoenix faced a collapsing battlefield and feared that Feng Ye was dead.

• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames and emperor realm soul to find the three low-star Dou Saints controlling the black mist and trapped them after finding no sign of Nine Phoenix or reinforcements.
• The three men released a greenish-black ripple that reached Xiao Yan before he destroyed their bodies and the weakened black mist monster they summoned.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the ripple might have affected him in an unknown way, then joined Xun'er and Lei Jingxiao in clearing the black mist.
• Lei Jingxiao asked Xiao Yan whether he had found Nine Phoenix, and Xiao Yan reassured him that he would get his revenge that day.
• The Continental Allied Army watched Xiao Yan's group destroy the mist, while Nine Phoenix realized the mist was nearly gone and the army had surrounded him.
• Nine Phoenix feared that Feng Ye had died and recognized that Xiao Yan was the greatest obstacle to escaping the encirclement.

Xiao Yan sensed Sheng Huang pursuing Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Qing Lin with black threads that drained their life and Dou Qi. Xiao Yan freed Yan Jin and Qing Lin, but the last thread escaped his vortex, and Yan Jin threw himself in front of Qing Lin to block it.

• Sheng Huang chased Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Qing Lin, who were bound by rings of light, and sent black threads toward them.
• Xiao Yan used his control of the Nihility Devouring Flame to form a vortex above Qing Lin and rushed toward the group.
• Black threads entered Yan Jin and Lei Ying’s dantians, draining their energy and leaving them withered and near death.
• Xiao Yan used his Emperor Realm Soul to break Yan Jin’s bindings, while the final black thread escaped his vortex.
• Qing Lin tried to stop the thread with ice mirrors, but Yan Jin rushed in front of her to take the attack.

Yan Jin sacrificed himself to protect Qing Lin, but the black threads devoured him before Xiao Yan could save him. Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin to his side and faced Sheng Huang, overcome with fury as Qing Lin remembered Xiao Xuan’s sacrifice.

• Yan Jin blocked the black thread from reaching Qing Lin, and both threads devoured his body and soul.
• Xiao Yan arrived, but Yan Jin refused his help and tried to entrust the Yan Clan to him before dying.
• The black threads emerged from Yan Jin and retreated to Sheng Huang, while Xiao Yan found only an empty husk.
• Lei Ying escaped with his damaged soul and warned Xiao Yan that Sheng Huang had hidden his strength.
• Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin safely beside him, and she saw his cold fury and remembered Xiao Xuan’s sacrifice.

As the war against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan approached, Origin Return Manor’s fighters prepared for battle and made arrangements for what might be left behind. Several loved ones stayed behind or offered their support as the chapter ended with Yao Qingyu asking Wei Jiangyuan to return safely.

• Yan Jin gathered Yan Yuan, Huo Zhen, and Huo Zhi, entrusted them with a Flame Clan inheritance ring, and warned that the war could claim their lives.
• Xiao Le rallied the resurrected Heavenly Tomb experts to fight for Xiao Xuan and Xiao Chen, while Xiao Chen quietly readied his axe for battle.
• Xiao Yi Xian brought materials to Wang Yun, who promised to fight until he fell.
• Fairy Qing arranged for Fairy Hua to guard the Origin Return Realm, but Fairy Hua insisted on staying by her senior sister’s side.
• Wei Jiangyuan comforted Yao Qingyu, who asked him to be careful and prayed for him and their family and teachers to return safely.

After Yan Jin’s death, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin prepared to unleash their combined Dou Technique against Sheng Huang. Xiao Yan’s bloodline and flames surged as Qing Lin activated her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, leaving them poised to strike.

• Sheng Huang absorbed Yan Jin’s life energy and mocked Xiao Yan, who swore to kill him.
• Xiao Yan checked that Qing Lin was safe from being controlled again, and they agreed to attack Sheng Huang together with the Grand Splendor Yin-Yang Rotation.
• Xiao Yan activated the Xiao Clan Mark, and his bloodline power drove him to the Eight-Star Peak Dou Sheng level.
• Xiao Yan summoned his seven Heavenly Flames while Qing Lin activated her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and gathered the icy power of the Nine Serene Deepground Pythons.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin gathered opposing fire and frost energies to attack Sheng Huang, while the Continental Allied Army fought the Extraterritorial Evil Clan without the Black Mist barrier. The chapter left Xiao Yan and Qing Lin poised to unleash their combined attack as Mu Que killed his opponent with help from an unseen ambusher.

• Qing Lin and Xiao Yan joined hands and gathered increasingly powerful cold and hot energies as Sheng Huang watched, expecting their attack to backfire.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan she could handle the strain and wanted to avenge Yan Jin, so Xiao Yan prepared to attack Sheng Huang with everything they had.
• The Continental Allied Army regained hope when Xiao Yan confronted Sheng Huang, while the loss of the Black Mist barrier forced both armies into a deadly melee.
• Mu Que struggled against a stronger One-Star Dou Sheng and claimed his next move would kill his opponent.
• An unseen ally ambushed Mu Que's opponent, allowing Mu Que's saber strike to shatter his body before the chilling force destroyed his soul.

Mu Que recovered after defeating his opponent while Lei Jingxiao and Zi Yan waited for a chance to attack Nine Phoenix. Xiao Yan and Qing Lin completed their combined Extreme Yin and Pure Yang technique, forcing the weakened Sheng Huang to face its full power.

• Mu Que thanked Yao Huang for helping him, and Yao Huang vanished to find another target.
• Mu Que sensed Huo Zhi's Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and went looking for another opponent.
• Zi Yan asked Lei Jingxiao when they would strike Nine Phoenix, but Lei Jingxiao told her to wait for a safer opportunity.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin balanced their opposing Dou Qi with Xiao Yan's Soul Power and completed their combined attack.
• Sheng Huang realized he had to face the technique despite having recovered less than half his strength, and he grew furious.