Recaps

The Hun Clan stalled Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan while Gu Yang fled with the Ancient Jade. Xiao Yan searched the mountains with his enhanced soul power and exposed Gu Yang hiding beneath a peak.

• A messenger reported that Gu Yang had injured the ancestral shrine elders and stolen the Ancient Jade, so Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient Realm sealed and a search launched.
• Hun Tiandi blocked the Gu Clan searchers, and Gu Yuan attacked him while Nihility Devouring Flame confronted Yan Jin and Lei Ying.
• Xun Er sent the Black Annihilation Army to search the mountains as Gu Dao ordered the elders to protect the clan.
• Xiao Yan merged his soul with Little Yi and scanned the mountain range after learning Gu Yang was a late Five-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan struck a distant mountain peak, blasting Gu Yang out of the magma where he had been hiding.

Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan’s younger generation cornered the traitor Gu Yang, who revealed that a Soul Clan member had shared his body for a century. Gu Yang self-destructed to send the Ancient Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade flying toward the battlefields, leaving Xiao Yan and the others racing to stop it.

• Xun Er ordered the Black Annihilation Army to capture Gu Yang, but he broke free of their Spirit-Binding Net and fled toward the barrier.
• Gu Yang revealed that Lord Void had fused his soul with Gu Yang’s a hundred years earlier, then blocked Xun Er and the others’ attacks as he tried to escape.
• Xiao Yan struck Gu Yang and faced Hun Yan’s Withering Finger, while Gu Lie intervened and engaged Hun Yan in battle.
• Xiao Yan and the others surrounded Gu Yang, who self-destructed near the barrier and sent the Tou She Ancient God Jade streaking toward the distant battlefields.
• Xiao Yan spotted the Ancient Jade in the blood-red light and called for the others to stop it.

Xiao Yan and the Ancient Clan fought to stop the Hun Clan from taking the Ancient Jade, but Nihility Devouring Flame seized it amid the battle. Hun Tiandi withdrew after revealing that his forces might also have attacked the Lei and Yan Clans, then summoned Xiao Yan to the Burial Sky Mountain Range in half a month.

• Xiao Yan pursued the fleeing Ancient Jade but was forced back when Hun Tiandi attacked and Gu Yuan intervened.
• The Hun Clan unleashed its Destruction Seal, and the Ancient Clan countered with the Ancient God's Mirror; both attacks shattered, injuring experts on both sides.
• Xiao Yan spotted the Ancient Jade in the destructive storm and warned Lei Ying and Yan Jin that Nihility Devouring Flame was after it.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin struck Nihility Devouring Flame, but he reached the Ancient Jade and swallowed it before retreating with the Four Demon Saints.
• Hun Tiandi claimed the Hun Clan had taken advantage of Lei Ying and Yan Jin's absence to target their clans, then invited Xiao Yan to the Burial Sky Mountain Range in half a month.

Xiao Xuan revealed that the Heavenly Tomb had a soul formed from the remnant imprints of the dead, and that it had forced the energy bodies to devour one another. He confronted the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, leaving Xiao Yan and the energy bodies watching as Xiao Xuan began to burn with strange flames and demanded its Soul Origin.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb was a powerful being formed from gathered remnant soul imprints and controlled the space and its energy bodies.
• Xiao Xuan rose into the sky and promised the energy bodies he would fulfill their long-standing request to free them from the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb appeared as a gigantic face and accused Xiao Xuan of breaking their agreement.
• Xiao Xuan denied that the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb was the true Heavenly Tomb, provoking it to attack him with a massive soul storm.
• Xiao Xuan walked through the soul storm unharmed, ignited strange flames across his body, and demanded the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb's Soul Origin.

Xiao Yan reentered the Heavenly Tomb to seek Xiao Xuan’s help against the powerful Hun Clan. After reaching his ancestor, Xiao Yan recounted his experiences and asked if there was a way to revive him.

• Gu Yuan forcibly opened a rift in the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan entered alone despite Xun Er’s worry.
• Xiao Yan rushed through the Heavenly Tomb, where the Blood Saber Saint recognized him and offered to guide him to Xiao Xuan.
• The Blood Saber Saint’s warning that Xiao Yan was Xiao Xuan’s descendant frightened the powerful energy bodies into fleeing.
• Xiao Yan bowed before Xiao Xuan’s tombstone, and Xiao Xuan praised his strength and accomplishments.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan about his experiences and the Hun Clan’s power, then asked how he could revive him.

Xiao Xuan explained that Origin Emperor Qi was the missing energy needed to reach Dou God and that Hun Tiandi sought an Emperor Grade Nascent Pill in Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion. Unable to fight the Hun Clan himself, Xiao Xuan offered to transform into the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb to help Xiao Yan advance his soul into the Emperor Realm.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that he could not be revived and revealed that the Hun Clan had secretly obtained Nihility Devouring Flame and seven pieces of the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Origin Emperor Qi had vanished from the continent, preventing Dou God breakthroughs and Emperor Grade Pill refinement.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that Hun Tiandi sought the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill inside Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion, whose location and entrance required all eight jade pieces.
• Xiao Xuan offered to transform into the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and help Xiao Yan attempt to break through Heavenly Realm Great Perfection into the Emperor Realm of the soul.

After Xiao Xuan vanished, Xiao Yan preserved his life imprint, mastered the Heavenly Tomb, and returned to the Ancient Realm with an Emperor Realm soul. His emergence revealed that his soul fluctuation had repelled Gu Yuan’s attack, astonishing the gathered experts.

• Xiao Yan took in Xiao Xuan’s life imprint and resolved to keep it safe in the hope of restoring him someday.
• Xiao Yan tested his Emperor Realm soul, destroying a distant stone mountain and sensing that his power could reach across the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan realized he had become the Heavenly Tomb’s master and could control entry to its space, then opened a passage and left.
• In the Ancient Realm, Gu Yuan’s attempt to open the Heavenly Tomb was repelled by a powerful soul fluctuation, so the Ancient Clan prepared for battle.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the passage, and Gu Yuan asked whether he had repelled the attack; Xiao Yan admitted that he probably had.

Xiao Xuan burned his soul to defeat the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and extract its Soul Origin for Xiao Yan. With the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb destroyed, Xiao Xuan left Xiao Yan with the Soul Origin and said that reaching the Emperor Realm of the soul depended on his own fortune.

• Xiao Xuan burned his soul to overpower the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and trap it in a formation of fiery threads.
• Xiao Xuan pulled the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb's crystalline Soul Origin from its body despite its pleas and resistance.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb tried to burn its own soul, but Xiao Xuan struck it and fully extracted the Soul Origin.
• The energy bodies attacked and shattered the weakened Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, whose remnant soul dispersed.
• Xiao Xuan gave the Soul Origin to Xiao Yan and said that breaking through to the Emperor Realm of the soul depended on his fortune.

Xiao Yan refined the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb’s vast Soul Power inside the crystalline halo, while Xiao Xuan waited outside as his strength faded. Just as Xiao Xuan was about to disappear, Xiao Yan emerged with a powerful soul and knelt to bid farewell to his ancestor.

• Xiao Yan entered the crystalline halo and found an ocean of ownerless Soul Power within it.
• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and Little Yi’s cleansing power to refine the Soul Power, steadily strengthening his soul.
• A month passed in the Heavenly Tomb as Xiao Yan continued refining the soul ocean and his soul phantom grew immense and increasingly solid.
• Xiao Xuan waited outside the halo as his body grew transparent, and on the final day of the second month he began to fade away.
• A powerful fluctuation spread through the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan appeared as a thousand-zhang figure and knelt before Xiao Xuan to bid farewell.

Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and the allied forces gathered at the Burial Sky Mountain Range to confront the Hun Clan over the Ancient Jade. When Hun Tiandi arrived with his army, Xiao Yan ordered the alliance to attack.

• Gu Yuan and the allied experts arrived at the ancient battlefield and searched the mountain range for signs of a Hun Clan ambush.
• The Heavenly Mansion Alliance arrived in full force, and Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Chen, Cai Lin, and Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Yuan sensed the Hun Clan approaching as the sun reached its zenith.
• Hun Tiandi emerged from a spatial passage with Nihility Devouring Flame, the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan, and the Hun Clan army.
• Lei Ying demanded that Hun Tiandi return the three clans' Ancient Jade, but Hun Tiandi dismissed his threat and asked Xiao Yan what he planned to do.
• Xiao Yan ordered the alliance to make its move, and killing intent surged across the battlefield.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb with an Emperor Realm soul, but revealed that Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul had dissipated. He joined Gu Yuan’s plan to march against the Hun Clan, and the chapter ended as the allied forces prepared for war.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Heavenly Tomb with an Emperor Realm soul, astonishing Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul had dissipated, and Gu Yuan decided the three clans would set out the next day to reclaim or destroy the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan said the Heavenly Mansion Alliance would join them at the Burial Sky Mountain Range and that the Yan, Lei, and Ancient Clans had been placed on high alert.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xun Er and promised that his father would preside over their wedding after the crisis was settled.
• The next morning, powerful auras surged through the Ancient Clan as the great war began.

Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Gu Yuan led the Ancient, Yan, and Lei Clan experts out to confront the Hun Clan, while the Heavenly Mansion Alliance also mobilized its forces. Their departure left the Central Continent bracing for a great war.

• Xiao Yan and Xun Er left the bamboo house as Ling Ying wished them a triumphant return.
• Gu Yuan gathered the Ancient Clan experts and teased Xiao Yan and Xun Er before explaining that they needed to deploy their true strength against the Hun Clan.
• Yan Jin arrived with the Yan Clan’s elite, and Xiao Yan’s Emperor Realm soul dispelled Fairy Huoling’s Soul Seduction Technique.
• Gu Yuan opened a spatial passage, and Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the experts of the three clans entered it to depart.
• The Heavenly Mansion Alliance mobilized its forces toward the Northwest Region, and the Central Continent recognized that a great war with the Hun Clan was approaching.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Feng and confronted Hun Yuantian, who trapped him inside the Door of Silence. Xiao Yan used his Emperor Realm soul to erase Hun Yuantian’s control mark and emerged with the treasure, leaving Hun Yuantian stunned on the battlefield.

• Xiao Yan snapped Hun Feng’s neck, survived his self-destruction, and fought off Hun Yuantian’s soul net with his Emperor Realm soul.
• Xiao Yan attacked Hun Yuantian with a six-colored Destruction Fire Lotus, but Hun Yuantian swallowed the blast with the Door of Silence.
• Hun Yuantian captured Xiao Yan inside the Door of Silence and returned to the battlefield to attack an Ancient Clan Dou Sheng elder.
• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and his soul power to find and erase Hun Yuantian’s soul mark inside the door.
• Hun Yuantian lost control of the Door of Silence as it flew back to Xiao Yan, who appeared atop it and thanked him for the gift.

The three clans and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance launched a battle against the Hun Clan to stop Hun Tiandi from opening the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. As the forces clashed, Xiao Yan killed Hun Miesheng with the power of his Emperor Realm soul.

• Gu Yuan, Xiao Yan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the allied experts confronted Hun Tiandi and demanded the Ancient Jade.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the Ancient Clan unleashed their formations and attacks, but Hun Tiandi blocked them with a net of black chains.
• Gu Yuan engaged Hun Tiandi while Lei Ying and Yan Jin moved to fight Nihility Devouring Flame, and the allied forces clashed with the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Yan killed dozens of Hun Clan experts before Hun Miesheng ambushed him with Black Flame.
• Xiao Yan shattered Hun Miesheng's attack with his soul power, pursued him, and destroyed his soul with a finger strike.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Miesheng and seized Hun Feng during the battle between the allied forces and the Hun Clan. Hun Yuantian, an eight-star Dou Saint thought to have died at Xiao Xuan’s hands, appeared and attacked Xiao Yan after demanding Hun Feng’s release.

• Xiao Yan sensed powerful auras hidden in the Hun Clan’s black mist and headed toward Hun Feng’s position.
• Hun Feng killed a Yan Clan expert and tried to withdraw, but Xiao Yan arrived and revealed that Hun Miesheng had fallen.
• Xiao Yan defeated the four four-star Dou Saint elders guarding Hun Feng and caught Hun Feng as he attempted to flee.
• Hun Feng called for his ancestor, and Hun Yuantian emerged from the black clouds with the aura of an eight-star Dou Saint.
• Hun Yuantian asked Xiao Yan to release Hun Feng, then attacked him with a palm carrying a strange aura of death.

Xiao Yan seized control of Hun Yuantian’s Door of Silence and badly wounded him, but the Hun Clan revealed three resurrected experts and began forming a deadly array. The allied forces faced a sudden threat as Hun Yuantian admitted that Xiao Yan had taken the door needed to complete it.

• Xiao Yan erased Hun Yuantian’s imprint on the Soulstone and struck him with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, severely injuring him and many Hun Clan experts.
• Nihility Devouring Flame held off Lei Ying and Yan Jin, while Gu Yuan urgently warned them to retreat as sinister auras emerged from the black clouds.
• Three coffins opened to reveal Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and another resurrected Hun Clan elder, whose auras were stronger than Hun Yuantian’s.
• The three elders summoned three Doors of Silence and formed Four-Sided Annihilation, World of Death, draining the allied forces’ life force as they tried to escape.
• One elder ordered Hun Yuantian to sacrifice his Door of Silence to complete the formation, and Hun Yuantian revealed that Xiao Yan had taken it.

Hun Yuantian and three Hun Clan elders activated the incomplete Death World Formation, trapping the allied forces in deadly mist. Xiao Yan led the army through the formation’s weakest point and helped destroy the barrier, leaving the elders’ plan in ruins.

• Hun Yuantian joined the three elders in activating the Death World Formation after Xiao Yan seized one of the four Doors of Silence.
• The death aura trapped the allied forces and black spears killed several weaker experts as Lei Ying and the others searched for a way out.
• Xiao Yan appeared atop the captured Door of Silence and led the allied forces toward the formation’s weakest direction.
• Little Yi blocked a giant hand of death aura while Xiao Yan used soul sound waves to expose the barrier and reveal Hun Yuantian.
• Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the other experts struck the barrier until it shattered, dispersing the Death World Formation and injuring the three elders.

After the allied army failed to stop the Hun Clan from escaping with all the Tou She Ancient God Jade, Gu Yuan and the others planned to watch the clan and follow it to Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. The army settled at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, where Xiao Yan became its leader, as Central Continent braced for a greater conflict.

• Gu Yuan said the Hun Clan would search for Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion and promised to personally monitor its movements.
• Xiao Yan proposed stationing the allied army at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and destroying the Soul Hall's strongholds across Central Continent.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that leadership of the Heavenly Mansion Alliance had been transferred to him, and Xiao Yan accepted the role.
• The allied army withdrew to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, while news of its battle with the Hun Clan spread across Central Continent.
• Nearby factions fled the area, fearing they would be destroyed if the coming war reached them.

After the allied forces destroyed the abandoned Soul Hall, Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in the Star Realm. Worried about the Hun Clan’s search for the Tou She Ancient God Jade, he went to the Heavenly Tomb to refine the Nine Profound Golden Thunder sealed within Little Yi.

• The allied forces searched Central Continent and destroyed the Soul Hall’s branch halls, but Xiao Yan and the others realized the Hun Clan had already withdrawn its experts and Soul Origin.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li arrived in the Star Realm, where they reunited with Xiao Yan and told him the Yan Alliance had become the leading power in the Northwest Region.
• Xiao Yan decided to raise his strength before the Hun Clan found Tou She Ancient God’s cave dwelling, and set his sights on the Nine Profound Golden Thunder inside Little Yi.
• Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb and stood before the tombstone, while the energy bodies nearby kept their distance and regarded him with reverence.

Xiao Yan refined the Nine Profound Golden Thunder into a Nine-Rank Profound Thunder Tribulation Pill within the Heavenly Tomb. After nearly a month and a half of refinement there, he completed the pill while only six days had passed in the Central Continent.

• Xiao Yan told the Blood Saber Saint to guard him while he refined the thunder.
• Little Yi released the Nine Profound Golden Thunder, and Xiao Yan used his Emperor Realm soul power to crush it into golden liquid.
• Xiao Yan gathered medicinal ingredients and used the golden liquid as the main ingredient for a Thunder Tribulation Pill.
• Xiao Yan spent nearly a month and a half refining the pill in the Heavenly Tomb as thunder rumbled across the area.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes and saw that the Nine-Rank Profound Thunder Tribulation Pill had been successfully refined.

Xiao Yan realized the Tou She Ancient God Jade had reacted beneath Jia Nan Academy and led Xun Er, Cai Lin, and allied forces toward the Underground Magma World to investigate. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi identified the Black Corner Region as the likely location of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and ordered the Soul Hall to clear it.

• Xiao Yan learned from Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that unknown powerful figures resembling Soul Hall members had appeared in the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan recalled that the Tou She Ancient God Jade had reacted in the Underground Magma World beneath Jia Nan Academy and decided to investigate with Xun Er, Cai Lin, and ten Dou Saint experts.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao to alert Gu, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin while keeping watch for the Hun Clan, then departed for Jia Nan Academy with Xun Er and Cai Lin.
• In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi learned that the Black Corner Region's terrain closely matched the illustrated record of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Elder Hun You to lead the Soul Hall forces outside the Central Continent to the Black Corner Region and clear it out.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame assembled the eight pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade and used its phantom to reveal the location of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. They left the Soul Clan searching the unfamiliar terrain while Gu Yuan monitored them.

• Hun Tiandi praised Nihility Devouring Flame for reaching the Emperor Realm in its soul, and they agreed to seek the cave mansion and its Nascent Emperor Pill.
• Hun Tiandi combined the eight pieces of Ancient Jade with his blood essence, summoning Tou She Ancient God's phantom.
• Hun Tiandi's attack rebounded from the phantom, and Nihility Devouring Flame explained that the cave mansion's location was hidden in its eyes.
• Nihility Devouring Flame projected the hidden image, revealing an unfamiliar region, a vast underground magma sea, and the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan to record the terrain and search for it, despite Nihility Devouring Flame's warning that Gu Yuan was monitoring them.

Hun You and his forces began conquering the Black Corner Region, then arrived at Jia Nan Academy during its celebration and demanded that everyone leave within an hour. After spotting Xiao Yan’s statue and learning he had destroyed Soul Hall, Hun You ordered his men to slaughter the academy.

• Hun You led black-robed forces in wiping out the Magic Saber Sect and ordered other units to seize the Black Corner Region within one day.
• Jia Nan Academy celebrated its new students and Inner Academy promotions as newcomers learned that Xiao Yan had founded Panmen and Xiao Gate.
• Su Qian sensed an approaching threat, and Wu Hao placed the academy’s Law Enforcement Team and elders on guard.
• Hun You arrived above the academy and demanded that everyone withdraw from the Black Corner Region within an hour.
• Hun You recognized Xiao Yan’s statue, learned Xiao Yan had destroyed Soul Hall, and ordered his forces to kill everyone at the academy.

Hun You led Soul Clan experts in an assault on Jia Nan Academy, overwhelming its defenders and revealing a Dou Sheng among them. As the Dou Sheng struck Xiao Yan’s statue, Xiao Yan appeared and killed him instantly, leaving Hun You terrified.

• Su Qian sent a signal to Xiao Gate, but two black-robed experts swiftly slaughtered the guards who arrived.
• Hun You sent five five-star Dou Zuns against Wu Hao and the academy’s elders, and one of them defeated Wu Hao with a single attack.
• Elder Bai and Elder Qian arrived, but a Soul Clan Dou Sheng easily wounded them and declared that Jia Nan Academy was doomed because of its association with Xiao Yan.
• The Dou Sheng struck Xiao Yan’s statue with a gigantic energy hand, but the statue remained unharmed.
• Xiao Yan appeared atop the statue and killed the Dou Sheng with a gesture, prompting Hun You to flee in terror.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy, destroyed the attacking Soul Hall forces, and reunited with Su Qian and his old friends. After revealing that a major danger was coming to the Black Corner Region, he proposed sheltering the students in the Heavenly Tomb while the group discussed what to do next.

• Xiao Yan appeared at Jia Nan Academy, killed the Soul Hall experts pursuing the academy, and struck down Hun You.
• Mang Tianchi arrived with allied Dou Sheng experts, and Xiao Yan descended with Xun Er to greet Su Qian and Wu Hao.
• Cai Lin reported that her group had cleared out the remaining Hun Clan forces elsewhere.
• Mang Tianchi warned that a major event was approaching in the Black Corner Region, and Xiao Yan offered to shelter the academy's students in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan told the gathering in the council hall that Soul Hall had massacred factions across the Black Corner Region before its forces were cleared out.