Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the others failed to break the seal and gate of Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion with their attacks, so Xiao Yan used Extraterritorial Evil Clan Blood against the underground rune restriction. The blood began corroding Tou She Ancient God's runes, though the outcome of the struggle remained uncertain.

• Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Zhukun failed to damage the cave mansion's gate or the underground rune restriction with their attacks.
• Qing Lin said that only a Dou Di's power could resolve a restriction made with Dou Di power, prompting Xiao Yan to remember the Extraterritorial Evil Clan Blood.
• Xiao Yan explained the blood's origins and corrosive power to Zhukun, who chose to use it on the rune restriction rather than the cave mansion's gate.
• Xiao Yan released the blood onto the restriction and used Nihility Devouring Flame to burn away the foul aura it emitted.
• The blood and Tou She Ancient God's runes clashed, and the rune patterns gradually dimmed and vanished.

Xiao Yan and Zhukun destroyed most of the runes imprisoning Zhukun and escaped the Ancient God's Cave Mansion with Zi Yan and Little Scale. In the Magma World, they met Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Soul Clan’s four Living Dead, and both groups prepared to fight.

• Xiao Yan and Zhukun used the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s blood to destroy roughly two-thirds of Tou She Ancient God’s runes, weakening the restriction enough for Zhukun to escape.
• Zhukun gathered the dragon bones of his fallen subordinates, then left the Ancient God's Cave Mansion with Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Little Scale.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Soul Clan’s four Living Dead sensed Nihility Devouring Flame’s Child Flames and went to investigate beneath the Magma World.
• Little Scale sensed nearby Nihility Power, and Xiao Yan warned Zhukun and Zi Yan that the Soul Clan was approaching.
• Xiao Yan’s group and Soul Heavenly Emperor’s group met in the middle layer of the Magma World, and Xiao Yan recognized his mortal enemies.

Xiao Yan and his allies confronted Soul Heavenly Emperor and the Soul Clan’s four Living Dead beneath the magma. As Zhukun battled Soul Heavenly Emperor and Zi Yan went to protect Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin faced the Living Dead with Little Scale’s promise that he could help Xiao Yan seize control of them.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor recognized Nihility Devouring Flame beside Xiao Yan and sensed Zhukun’s immense strength, while Zhukun declared he would kill Soul Heavenly Emperor for his daughter.
• Zhukun and Soul Heavenly Emperor traded powerful attacks, starting a battle that churned the underground magma.
• Xiao Yan sent Zi Yan to protect Jia Nan Academy, then blocked Hun Sheng Tian from pursuing her as Qing Lin joined him against the other Living Dead.
• The four Living Dead were stunned by how much Xiao Yan and Qing Lin had grown since their last encounter.
• Little Scale told Xiao Yan that the Living Dead carried Nihility Devouring Flame’s Child Flame and that he might help Xiao Yan take control of them.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin held off the four Living Dead until Little Scale revealed his Nihility Devouring Flame form and took control of them. With the four Eight-Star Dou Saints now on their side, Xiao Yan and Zhukun led a seven-person assault on Soul Heavenly Emperor, leaving him under mounting pressure.

• Xiao Yan told Qing Lin to stall the four Living Dead while he used Star River Reversal to drain their strength.
• Little Scale transformed into the Nihility Devouring Flame, causing the Living Dead to stop fighting and bow to Xiao Yan as their Lord Nihility.
• Xiao Yan realized he could control the four Living Dead through Little Scale and called on Zhukun to help kill Soul Heavenly Emperor.
• Little Scale ordered the Living Dead to join Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, and Zhukun in surrounding and attacking Soul Heavenly Emperor.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor called to Hun Sheng Tian, Hun Yuan Tian, and Hun Yao to resist, but Zhukun kept him too pressured to break their control.

Soul Heavenly Emperor used three exploding Tier 9 Medicinal Pills to break through Xiao Yan and Zhukun’s blockade, then killed Hun Yao before escaping. Xiao Yan failed to capture him but gained Zhukun’s support and a drop of his essence blood.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor formed the Soul Transformation Demonic Spirit and detonated three tampered Tier 9 Medicinal Pills, disrupting the battle and creating an opening.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor rushed to Hun Yao, drained his energy with a spear formed from his demonic spirit, and escaped through space.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the remaining medicinal energy and realized Hun Yao had perished, ending his attempt to kill Soul Heavenly Emperor.
• Zhukun praised Soul Heavenly Emperor’s strength, asked Xiao Yan to call him Uncle, and gave him a drop of essence blood.
• Zhukun asked about the three remaining Living Dead, and Xiao Yan explained that the Nihility Devouring Flame controlled them through its Child Flames and a restriction.

Xiao Yan and Zhukun left the Ancient God's Cave Mansion, while Soul Heavenly Emperor returned to the Soul Realm and purged Nihility Devouring Flame’s hidden influence from the Soul Clan. He then captured Xun Er and reconsidered the failed plan to gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Xiao Yan told Zhukun that he would deal with the risks posed by the four Living Dead after they returned to Origin Return Manor, and they set out to gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor returned to the Soul Realm and summoned every elder at the Dou Saint level.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor examined the elders, removed Nihility Devouring Flame’s planted measures from powerful Soul Clan members, and restored control of the clan.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered Hun Tu to summon Gu Yuan to the Soul Realm.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor revealed that he had captured Xun Er on his way back and reflected on how the Soul Clan’s plan had unraveled.

After learning that Nihility Devouring Flame and the Living Dead had fallen under Xiao Yan's control, Soul Heavenly Emperor realized he needed the Ancient Clan's support. Meanwhile, Xun Er went missing, leaving Xiao Yan frantic and Origin Return Manor preparing to search for her and confront the Soul Clan.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor regretted not refining Nihility Devouring Flame earlier and recognized that his plan had suffered an irreparable setback.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xun Er had not returned and ordered his people to prepare to enter the Soul Realm if Soul Heavenly Emperor had captured her.
• Xiao Yi Xian took command at Origin Return Manor, summoned Elder Jin and Yao Lao, contacted the Thunder Clan and allied pavilions, and arranged for Qing Lin to search for Xun Er.
• Zi Yan blamed herself and went to Sumeru Pavilion to seek Zhukun's help.
• Xiao Yi Xian found Xiao Yan outside their daughter's room and reassured him that Soul Heavenly Emperor would likely keep Xun Er alive as a bargaining chip.

After Xiao Yan returned to Origin Return Manor, Xiao Yi Xian helped steady him and convened an alliance meeting to propose attacking the Soul Clan. She introduced Zhukun, whose overwhelming soul technique convinced the gathered experts of his power.

• Xiao Yi Xian comforted Xiao Yan as his grief and anger began to overwhelm him, and he eventually regained his composure.
• Xiao Yi Xian summoned allied leaders and experts to a meeting at Origin Return Manor.
• Xiao Yi Xian announced that the alliance would prepare to attack the Soul Clan, prompting Shi Kai to question the plan.
• Xiao Yi Xian introduced Zhukun as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Dragon Emperor and a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Zhukun restrained the attendees' soul power for ten breaths, demonstrating his strength and winning their respect.

Zhukun’s arrival gave Origin Return Manor a Nine-Star Dou Sheng Peak expert, and after a prolonged meeting, Xiao Yi Xian’s proposal to attack the Soul Clan was approved. Xiao Yan worried about the deaths ahead, while Yan Jin voiced his support and reassured him about his injuries, though his calm demeanor left Xiao Yan uneasy.

• Yan Jin and Zhukun silently acknowledged each other’s strength, convincing the gathering that Zhukun was a Nine-Star Dou Sheng Peak expert.
• Lei Qingyue and Shi Kai worried about what Zhukun’s arrival meant for their alliance with Origin Return Manor, while Lei Qingyue wondered about Xiao Yan’s strength.
• After a two-hour meeting with many objections, Origin Return Manor’s experts accepted Xiao Yi Xian’s proposal to attack the Soul Clan and began preparations.
• Xiao Yan told Yan Jin that he grieved over the sacrifices the coming war would bring, and Yan Jin expressed his support for defending the world from the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan asked about Yan Jin’s injuries from fighting Soul Clan experts, and Yan Jin said they were not serious, though his unusual calmness unsettled Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan showed Yan Jin the three captured Soul Clan Living Dead and explained how Little Scale controlled them through the Nihility Devouring Flame. Yan Jin recognized the control method as an ancient power of the Tunling Clan and warned that Soul Heavenly Emperor remained their greatest danger.

• Xiao Yan summoned the three Soul Clan Living Dead and reassured Yan Jin that Little Scale controlled them through the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan described Little Scale's three levels of control, and the Living Dead bowed to Yan Jin on command.
• Yan Jin recalled that the control method belonged to the Tunling Clan, an ancient power once defeated only by a coalition of Dou God Clans.
• Yan Jin judged the three Living Dead to be a powerful asset but explained that the missing fourth weakened their Gate of Silent Death.
• Xiao Yan understood why Soul Heavenly Emperor had killed one of the Living Dead, and Yan Jin warned that Soul Heavenly Emperor was their most dangerous enemy.

Soul Heavenly Emperor and Gu Yuan assessed the threat posed by Xiao Yan’s alliance, only for the alliance to attack the Soul Realm before the Soul Clan was ready. The Soul Clan’s formation held against Zhukun’s opening strike, but the assault had begun.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor told Gu Yuan that a powerful Ancient Void Dragon had become their enemy and revealed that the Soul Clan had lost Nihility Devouring Flame and the Stone Clan’s ancient jade to Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yuan and Soul Heavenly Emperor recognized that Xiao Yan’s alliance had formidable experts and the support of Xiao Xuan, leaving their prospects uncertain even if they joined forces.
• The Soul Clan’s protective formation activated as experts outside began attacking the Soul Realm, and Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered the defenders to hold the barrier and prepare a counterattack.
• Zhukun struck the formation with Dragon Emperor's Alternate Dimension, injuring its defenders and making the barrier ripple without breaking it.

Xiao Yan led Zhukun and the allied forces in an assault on the Soul Clan, demanding Xun Er’s release and accusing Gu Yuan of abandoning her. The Soul Clan’s formation fell and the battle began, with Zhukun engaging Soul Heavenly Emperor while Gu Yuan faced Yan Jin and Lei Ying.

• Xiao Yan confronted Soul Heavenly Emperor over Xun Er’s capture and reproached Gu Yuan for seeming to know nothing about it.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor admitted that Xun Er was a trump card he had intended to use, while Gu Yuan demanded to know where his daughter was.
• The allied forces shattered the Soul Clan’s protective formation, and Soul Heavenly Emperor urged Gu Yuan to summon the Ancient Clan’s reinforcements.
• Zhukun charged Soul Heavenly Emperor and struck through his black energy with a violet-gold attack.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying faced one another as the leaders of the Ancient, Flame, and Thunder Clans.

Lei Ying and Yan Jin faced Gu Yuan while Qing Lin and Lei Qingyue fought the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan. Xiao Yan stayed out of the melee, focused on finding and rescuing Xun Er.

• Lei Ying, newly advanced to Nine-Star Dou Sheng, joined Yan Jin to challenge Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Yan evaded the Four Demon Saints and left Qing Lin to hold them off.
• Lei Qingyue shot three arrows at the Four Demon Saints, breaking their encirclement of Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and icy attacks to restrain the Four Demon Saints.
• Lei Qingyue struck Hun Sha with a powerful lightning arrow while Qing Lin held the group back.
• Xiao Yan remained apart from the battle, intent on finding Xun Er.

Xiao Yan searched the Soul Clan for Xun Er while Gu Yuan overwhelmed Yan Jin and Lei Ying with his Imperial State Soul. When Xiao Yan intervened, he confronted Gu Yuan, furious over his apparent acceptance of Xun Er’s capture and past harms to the Xiao family.

• Xiao Yan used his vast soul power to search the Soul Clan for Xun Er, ignoring suspicious locations once he found no sign of her.
• Gu Yuan blasted Yan Jin and Lei Ying back with the Human Emperor Demon-Suppressing Hand and claimed they could not match him.
• Gu Yuan unleashed his Imperial State Soul and struck Yan Jin and Lei Ying with the Heaven-Tier Soul Technique, Ancient Emperor Thousand-Spin Light.
• Xiao Yan halted his search and appeared beside Yan Jin and Lei Ying to face Gu Yuan as the battlefield shifted against his allies.
• Xiao Yan recalled Gu Yuan’s role in Xiao Xuan’s fall and Xiao Li’s death, and confronted him with anger over Xun Er’s capture.

Xiao Yan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying joined forces against Gu Yuan, but their attacks barely affected him. As Xiao Yan unleashed his next technique with Little Scale’s help, six-colored flame lotuses appeared inside the void vortex, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Yan confronted Gu Yuan while Yan Jin and Lei Ying recovered and took their places beside him.
• Yan Jin attacked Gu Yuan with Earth Flame Sky Cloud, but Gu Yuan erased the flames with his dark golden Dou Qi.
• Lei Ying struck Gu Yuan nine times with Nine Thunders of the Thunder Emperor, yet Gu Yuan remained standing as his Eternal Indestructible Body spread across most of him.
• Xiao Yan enveloped Gu Yuan in Void Devours Heaven, but Gu Yuan used his Imperial State Soul to see through the void vortex.
• Little Scale appeared before Xiao Yan and formed six-colored flame lotuses using Xiao Yan’s other six Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan joined Yan Jin and Lei Ying against Gu Yuan, using Little Scale’s Fire Lotuses to trouble him before Gu Yuan broke through the Nihility Vortex and wounded Xiao Yan. The battle continued across the battlefield, where the Soul Clan held an advantage among the lower-star Dou Saints and Lei Qingyue’s sudden pause made his opponents wary.

• Little Scale created eighteen Six-Colored Fire Lotuses, which Xiao Yan sent through the Nihility Vortex to bombard Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan used his Imperial State Soul to find the vortex’s weakness and cut Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan healed the wound in his dragonized form.
• Gu Yuan declared his full strength as a Nine-Star Dou Saint Peak, and Yan Jin urged the others to keep attacking without pause.
• Xiao Yan joined Yan Jin and Lei Ying in restraining Gu Yuan while fierce fighting continued elsewhere across the battlefield.
• The Soul Clan’s Dou Saints gained an advantage in the lower-star clashes, while Lei Qingyue abruptly stopped his long-range attacks and left the Four Demon Saints wary.

Lei Qingyue used a lightning arrow to obscure the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan and create an opening for Qing Lin. Qing Lin launched her attack, leaving the Soul Clan experts braced against her while she secretly revealed Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame.

• Lei Qingyue fired a lightning arrow that burst apart into brilliant fragments, suppressing the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan's sight and soul perception.
• Qing Lin released the snake spirits stored in her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to distract the Four Demon Saints.
• Qing Lin gathered power into her blade as ice crystals and snow formed around her, and the Four Demon Saints contracted their formation and prepared their defenses.
• The Four Demon Saints saw Qing Lin emerge through the snow and unleashed soul bodies and black mist to stop her attack.
• Qing Lin faced the Soul Clan's defenses with her blade in hand and revealed Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame in her other hand.

Qing Lin used her Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flame to kill Hun Jing, forcing Soul Heavenly Emperor to respond as the Soul Clan began activating a vast formation across the Soul Realm. The chapter ended with the clan members pouring their Dou Qi into the formation.

• Qing Lin unleashed the Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flame and absorbed the Soul Clan's black aura.
• Qing Lin killed Hun Jing with a single Azure Frost Space-Severing Slash, but the other Demon Saints rescued his badly injured soul.
• Hun Sha warned Soul Heavenly Emperor that the Four Demon Saints could not hold out, while Soul Heavenly Emperor continued fighting Zhukun and assessed the battlefield.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor warned Gu Yuan that he would soon regret his indecision, then brought his hands together and darkened the Soul Realm.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor ordered the Soul Clan to inject their Dou Qi into the enormous rune and formation spreading across the realm.

Soul Heavenly Emperor awakened the Soul Clan Ancestor, shifting the battle against Origin Return Manor in the Soul Clan’s favor. Amid the chaos, Xiao Yan located and freed Xun Er, while the Soul Clan Ancestor’s powerful phantom entered the battlefield.

• Soul Heavenly Emperor summoned the Soul Clan Ancestor, strengthening the Soul Clan’s resolve and weakening Origin Return Manor’s fighting spirit.
• Xiao Yan lost focus after sensing the upheaval, and Gu Yuan struck him hard despite Little Scale reducing the blow’s force.
• Xiao Yan sensed where Soul Heavenly Emperor had hidden Xun Er and broke through the concealment barrier with Crimson Flame Pierces the Sun.
• Xiao Yan destroyed Xun Er’s restraints, embraced her, and told her he had come to take her home.
• The Soul Clan Ancestor appeared as a towering phantom with the power of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan offered Gu Yuan a deal to let Origin Return Manor leave the Soul Realm, revealing that he had planned a way out. He proposed trading the lives of the Ancient Clan Three Immortals for a clear path out as the Soul Clan’s summoned Dou Di Progenitor turned the battle in Soul Heavenly Emperor’s favor.

• The Soul Clan Dou Di Ancestor attacked Xiao Yan and Xun'er, but Yan Jin weakened the strike and Qing Lin broke it before it could reach them.
• Qing Lin abandoned the remaining Soul Clan Demon Saints to protect Xiao Yan, leaving Lei Qingyue to face them alone.
• Soul Heavenly Emperor gained an overwhelming advantage and focused on killing Xiao Yan to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade and Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Yuan to let Origin Return Manor leave, and Gu Yuan recognized that Xiao Yan’s plan was behind the situation.
• Xiao Yan offered the lives of the Ancient Clan Three Immortals in exchange for a clear path out.