Chapter Summaries

Lin Yang devoured the Void Swallowing Flame’s soul and body, reaching the Emperor Realm in soul power and perfected late Nine-Star Dou Saint. As Lin Yang and Gu Yuan set out to bargain for the Thunder Clan’s Ancient Emperor Jade, Soul Tian Di received a system mission that promised him a powerful treasure for taking Nalan Yanran as his disciple.

• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan agreed that Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan’s Three Immortals would strip away and suppress the Void Swallowing Flame’s soul while Lin Yang and Gu Lie negotiated for other clans’ Ancient Emperor Jades.
• Gu Yuan and the Three Immortals sealed the Void Swallowing Flame’s Emperor Realm soul, while Lin Yang and Gu Lie obtained the Stone Clan, Medicine Clan, and Spirit Clan’s jades but failed to secure the Thunder Clan’s jade.
• With Gu Yuan, Gu Lie, and the Three Immortals supporting the array, Lin Yang devoured the Void Swallowing Flame’s soul and reached the Emperor Realm in soul power.
• Lin Yang devoured the Void Swallowing Flame’s body and advanced to perfected late Nine-Star Dou Saint, then agreed to return with Gu Yuan to negotiate with the Thunder Clan.
• Soul Tian Di grew stronger but chose to avoid confronting Gu Yuan and Lin Yang until he reached the Half-Emperor Realm, until his system ordered him to take Nalan Yanran as a disciple for the Immortal King’s Corpse Shroud.
• After learning that the Corpse Shroud could summon two Immortal Kings’ dharma bodies, Soul Tian Di set off for the Nalan Clan and vowed to attack the Ancient Clan once he obtained it.

Soul Tian Di made Nalan Yanran his disciple, then confronted Gu Yuan and Lin Yang in the Ancient Realm with an Immortal King's Corpse Shroud. Lin Yang revealed that he possessed the same treasure, surprising Soul Tian Di as their battle began.

• Soul Tian Di appeared before Nalan Yanran, offered to take her as his disciple, and gave her the Holy Spirit Nourishing Origin Pill.
• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan obtained the Thunder Clan's Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, bringing their total to seven, and Lin Yang planned a brief trip to the Artifact Emperor's inheritance site.
• Lin Yang told Gu Yuan he would leave for two or three days, but Soul Tian Di's aura and challenge interrupted them.
• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan confronted Soul Tian Di, who summoned the Immortal King's Corpse Shroud and unleashed Half-Emperor-level pressure.
• Lin Yang summoned his own Immortal King's Corpse Shroud, leaving Soul Tian Di shocked.

Lin Yang repelled Soul Tian Di’s attack on the Ancient Realm, then took Gu Yuan with him to seek the Artifact Emperor’s inheritance on Black Dragon Island. As they approached the hidden site, Soul Tian Di arrived in secret, intending to seize the inheritance.

• Lin Yang matched Soul Tian Di’s strength and fought off his attacks, then used the Mountains and Rivers State Map to protect the Ancient Realm from Soul Tian Di’s Hell Nether Palm.
• Soul Tian Di conceded and escaped, while Gu Yuan agreed to follow Lin Yang and join him in searching for the Artifact Emperor’s inheritance.
• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan traveled to Black Dragon Island, where Black Dragon Venerable identified the inheritance site inside the tallest mountain of the Black Dragon Mountains.
• Soul Tian Di secretly descended on Black Dragon Island after his system tasked him with taking Lin Yang’s inheritance and offered the Nine Nether Reincarnation Map as a reward.

Soul Tian Di ambushed Lin Yang and Gu Yuan after they broke the Artifact Emperor’s inheritance restriction, driving them away and entering the inheritance site himself. He overcame a golden puppet with help from his system, but a sound wave trapped him in an illusion as Lin Yang and Gu Yuan prepared to return.

• Soul Tian Di secretly watched Lin Yang break the inheritance restriction while Gu Yuan guarded him.
• After the restriction shattered, Soul Tian Di attacked, and Lin Yang and Gu Yuan fled when Lin Yang realized he was too exhausted to fight.
• Soul Tian Di entered the inheritance site and fought a golden puppet until his system revealed its weakness at the center of its back.
• Soul Tian Di disabled the puppet, stored it, and continued deeper into the site, where a sound wave plunged his consciousness into an illusion.
• Lin Yang recovered over thirty percent of his Dou Qi, and he and Gu Yuan flew back toward the Black Dragon Mountains.

Soul Tian Di escaped the Illusory Sound Demon Zither’s trial with his strength increased, then fought Lin Yang and Gu Yuan as they tried to stop him. Lin Yang trapped Soul Tian Di long enough for Gu Yuan to claim the Artifact Emperor’s inheritance and half a strand of Origin Qi, but Soul Tian Di broke free and attacked Lin Yang again.

• Soul Tian Di overcame the illusion, gained more than twenty percent strength, and took the Illusory Sound Demon Zither before Lin Yang and Gu Yuan arrived.
• Soul Tian Di blocked Lin Yang and Gu Yuan’s attack, so Lin Yang used the Saint Sun Heavenly Flame Transformation and Immortal King's Corpse Shroud to fight him.
• Lin Yang successfully formed and hurled a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, severely injuring Soul Tian Di and allowing the Mountains and Rivers State Map to trap him.
• Lin Yang urged Gu Yuan to claim the inheritance, and Gu Yuan obtained the Purple-Gold Glazed Hammer and an Azure-Gold Origin Qi Bottle containing half a strand of Origin Qi.
• Soul Tian Di broke through the Mountains and Rivers State Map, vowed to kill Lin Yang, and launched two Shadow-Splitting Thousand Souls Kills at him.

Lin Yang and Gu Yuan drove Soul Tian Di from the inheritance space and discovered a hidden treasure vault filled with powerful weapons. Soul Tian Di later attacked the Flame Clan to abduct Fire Spirit Fairy, but Lin Yang and Gu Yuan arrived as he threatened the clan.

• Lin Yang used the Purple-Gold Glazed Hammer to overwhelm Soul Tian Di, who fled the inheritance space.
• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan found a hidden vault containing Emperor-grade artifacts and Heaven-tier weapons, then selected treasures for themselves and Xiao Yan.
• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan rewarded Black Dragon Venerable and returned to the Central Plains, while Soul Tian Di went to the Nalan Clan and received a system mission to capture Fire Spirit Fairy.
• Soul Tian Di shattered the Flame Clan's protective formation and demanded that Yan Jin hand over Fire Spirit Fairy or face extermination.
• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan arrived at the Flame Clan just as Soul Tian Di threatened Yan Jin.

Lin Yang rescued the Fire Spirit Fairy from Soul Tian Di, then moved the Flame Realm into the Mountains and Rivers State Map. The next day, he brought Xiao Yan to the Ancient Clan to propose to Xun'er, while Soul Tian Di headed for the Tagor Desert to pursue Medusa.

• Lin Yang and Gu Yuan arrived in time to protect the Fire Spirit Fairy, and Lin Yang drove Soul Tian Di off, but Soul Tian Di escaped through a spatial rift.
• Lin Yang offered Yan Jin and the Fire Spirit Fairy shelter in the Mountains and Rivers State Map, then moved the entire Flame Realm into it.
• Lin Yang brought Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and the Fire Spirit Fairy into the map and went to refine the Lotus Lantern.
• Soul Tian Di returned to the Nalan Clan, received a mission to subdue Medusa, and set out for the Tagor Desert.
• The next day, Lin Yang brought Xiao Yan, Xiao Zhan, and Yao Chen to the Ancient Clan to ask for Xun'er's hand in marriage, while Ancient Clan youths resented the match.

Lin Yang brought Xiao Yan to the Ancient Clan to propose marriage to Gu Xun'er, where Gu Yuan arranged two trials to settle the younger generation's objections. As Xiao Yan began the first trial, Soul Tian Di set out to attack the Thunder Clan, and Lin Yang received a mission to rescue it.

• Gu Yuan welcomed Lin Yang, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Zhan, then explained that Xiao Yan would need to pass two trials to marry Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Xun'er joined the group, and after they discussed the wedding, they went to the plaza, where Gu Yuan announced the trials to the Ancient Clan youths.
• Xiao Yan and nine Ancient Clan youths began studying identical low-tier Xuan-class Dou Techniques in the first trial, while Lin Yang received a system mission requiring Xiao Yan to win both trials.
• Soul Tian Di, having controlled Medusa and obtained the Nine Nether Reincarnation Map, left the snake-people's holy city to attack the Thunder Clan.
• Lin Yang received an urgent mission to rescue the Thunder Clan, with Nine-Dragon Thundersteel Flame as the reward.

Lin Yang evacuated the Thunder Clan and ambushed Soul Tian Di, confronting him with the Lotus Lantern against his Nine Nether Reincarnation Map. Soul Tian Di withdrew after Lin Yang damaged his hell phantom, leaving the Thunder Realm to be destroyed as he escaped.

• Lin Yang warned Lei Ying that Soul Tian Di planned to attack and helped relocate the Thunder Clan to a nearby space.
• Lin Yang planted sealed Buddha's Fury Fire Lotuses around the Thunder Realm and waited inside its formation.
• Soul Tian Di attacked the Thunder Realm with the Nine Nether Reincarnation Map, but Lin Yang emerged with the Lotus Lantern and dispersed its black light.
• Lin Yang used the Lotus Lantern and Heavenly Flames to weaken the Eighteen Levels of Hell phantom, then damaged it with the Purple-Gold Azure Sun Sword and made Soul Tian Di suffer backlash.
• Soul Tian Di withdrew the hell phantom and launched palm strikes at the Thunder Realm as he opened a spatial rift to escape.
• Lin Yang let Soul Tian Di's palm strikes threaten the empty Thunder Realm and detonated a fire lotus as Soul Tian Di began escaping.

Lin Yang survived Soul Tian Di’s escape by self-detonating the Immortal King phantoms, then arranged for the Thunder Clan to relocate and returned to the Ancient Clan competition. Injured and needing time to recover, he watched as Xiao Yan prepared to display his mastery of the Through-the-Back Fist.

• Lin Yang badly injured Soul Tian Di, but Soul Tian Di detonated the Immortal King phantoms and fled while Lin Yang’s Lotus Lantern was damaged.
• After stabilizing his injuries, Lin Yang advised Lei Ying to move the Thunder Clan to the Northwestern Continent, and Lei Ying agreed.
• Lin Yang returned to the Ancient Clan, told Gu Yuan what had happened, and received a ninth-grade Mystic Pill in exchange for two Ancient Emperor Jades.
• At the end of the competition, Gu Dao began testing the youths’ Through-the-Back Fist proficiency, and Xiao Yan privately noted that he had already reached six sounds.
• An Ancient Clan youth produced two sounds, drawing cheers as Xiao Yan looked on with confidence.

Xiao Yan won the Ancient Clan’s first contest with six echoes, then escaped the Thousand-Illusion Demon-Eyed Beast’s illusion by realizing his father had called him by the wrong name. Gu Yuan declared Xiao Yan the winner of both rounds and announced that Xiao Yan and Xun’er would marry the next day, while Lin Yang received a new mission to take Medusa in the Tagor Desert.

• Xiao Yan produced six echoes with Through-the-Back Fist, taking first place as the crowd accused him of cheating until Gu Yuan silenced them.
• Gu Dao began the temperament round, and the ten contestants entered illusions after staring into the Thousand-Illusion Demon-Eyed Beast’s eyes.
• Xiao Yan found himself in a hospital on Earth with his parents and briefly believed he had returned to his original life.
• Xiao Yan recognized the illusion when his father called him by the wrong name, then broke free using his soul power.
• Gu Yuan declared Xiao Yan the winner of both rounds and said Xiao Yan and Xun’er would hold their wedding the next day.
• Lin Yang received his wood-element talent reward and a new mission to go to the Tagor Desert and take Medusa for the Devouring Ancestral Talisman.