Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that the Nihility Devouring Flame had become the Tunling Clan, prompting the Ancient Clan to suspect that the Hun Clan had survived by consuming other clans’ bloodlines. Gu Yuan concluded that the Hun Clan posed an urgent threat and decided to summon the Yan and Lei Clan chiefs to discuss a response.

• Xiao Yan recounted the Nihility Devouring Flame’s emergence as the Tunling Clan in the Yao Realm.
• Gu Yuan explained that the ancient Tunling Clan had devoured other clans’ bloodlines before being destroyed, and recalled that the Hun Clan had killed its final chief.
• Gu Dao suggested that the Hun Clan might have secretly destroyed other ancient clans to sustain its bloodline, and Gu Yuan suspected the Nihility Devouring Flame had given it the Tunling Clan’s ability.
• Gu Yuan said the Nihility Devouring Flame could hide the Hun Clan by swallowing its entire space, while Xiao Yan warned that the Hun Clan sought bloodline power and the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Yan urged the Ancient Clan to act before another clan fell, and Gu Yuan ordered that the Yan and Lei Clan chiefs be invited to discuss their survival.

Xiao Yan reached Ancient Clan territory with Yao Ling while Hun Sha pursued him, and Gu Dao intervened to protect him. As Xiao Yan refined the Nine-Rank Profound Pill and advanced to Six-Star Dou Sheng, Hun Sha tried to seize him but was repelled by the Mysterious Golden Thunder, leaving Hun Sha to flee as the Ancient Clan approached.

• Gu Dao confronted Hun Sha and refused to hand over Xiao Yan, then Xiao Yan warned him that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Yao Clan, Spirit Clan, and Shi Clan.
• Gu Dao and Hun Sha fought while Xiao Yan retreated to refine the Nine-Rank Profound Pill with Little Yi and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Sha used Blood God Sky Splitting against Gu Dao, then exploited the clash as a feint to attack Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan completed his refinement and reached Six-Star Dou Sheng just as Hun Sha struck at him.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Mysterious Golden Thunder, piercing Hun Sha's palm and sending him flying.
• Hun Sha fled as a group approached, while Xiao Yan found that his arm had gone numb from using the thunder.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling reached the Ancient Realm after Hun Sha fled, and Xiao Yan warned the Ancient Clan that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Yao Clan. As the elders gathered to discuss the threat, Xiao Yan mentioned the Tunling Clan, provoking a fearful reaction that left its significance unresolved.

• Xiao Yan explained that he had only refined part of the Nine-Rank Profound Pill and credited Gu Dao with saving him from its dangerous medicinal power.
• Ling Quan and the Ancient Clan's experts arrived, and Gu Dao told them Hun Sha had attacked before scolding them for their fear and praising Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked to meet Gu Yuan and warned that the Yao Clan's destruction suggested the Soul Clan was targeting the ancient clans.
• Gu Dao brought Xiao Yan and Yao Ling into the Ancient Realm, where Gu Yuan welcomed Xiao Yan and acknowledged his relationship with Xun Er.
• Xiao Yan mentioned the Tunling Clan during the discussion, and the Ancient Clan's elders reacted with alarm as wine cups shattered.

At the Ancient Clan training ground, Lei Dong and the Lei Clan youths provoked the Black Annihilation Army and spoke crudely about Xun Er. Xiao Yan arrived with Xun Er and challenged Lei Dong, then asked the Lei Clan members to attack him together.

• Lei Yun mocked the Black Annihilation Army after Lei Dong defeated Gu Qingyang, and Lei Dong declared that he wanted to meet Xun Er.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi discussed Lei Dong’s strength and Xiao Yan’s reported victory over Hun Miesheng.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er appeared, and Lei Dong recognized Xiao Yan as the man rumored to have defeated Hun Miesheng.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward to answer the Lei Clan’s insults, and Gu Qingyang said Xiao Yan was Xun Er’s future husband and could be considered part of the Ancient Clan.
• Lei Dong unleashed Black Demon Thunder and accepted Xiao Yan’s challenge, but Xiao Yan asked all the Lei Clan youths to attack him together.

After Gu Yuan committed the Ancient Clan to confronting the Hun Clan, Xiao Yan stayed in the Ancient Realm to refine the Nine-Rank Profound Pill’s energy. He reached Mid Six-Star Dou Sheng, and the chapter ended as Xun Er told him the Yan Clan and Lei Clan had arrived and Gu Yuan wanted to see him.

• Gu Yuan’s decision spread through the Ancient Clan, which dispatched experts to monitor the Hun Clan and entered a state of alert.
• Xiao Yan asked Xun Er to guard him while he refined the remaining Nine-Rank Profound Pill energy, and Ling Ying praised Xiao Yan’s rise.
• Xiao Yan refined three pills and spent ten days using them and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to absorb the pill’s energy.
• Xiao Yan’s strength stabilized at Mid Six-Star Dou Sheng, nearly a full star higher than before.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan that the Yan Clan and Lei Clan had arrived and that Gu Yuan wanted him to come over.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er attended the Ancient Clan’s reception for the Yan and Lei Clan patriarchs, where Gu Hua told them that Lei Dong had defeated the Black Annihilation Army’s commanders. Xiao Yan agreed to confront Lei Dong and restore their side’s pride.

• Xun Er introduced Xiao Yan to Yan Jin and Lei Ying, describing their strength and their clans’ Heavenly Flames.
• Gu Hua told Xiao Yan and Xun Er that Lei Clan youths had provoked the Black Annihilation Army and defeated Gu Qingyang and the other commanders.
• Xun Er identified the Lei Clan’s rising genius as Lei Dong and revealed that she and Lei Dong had once been part of an abandoned marriage arrangement.
• Gu Hua asked Xiao Yan to fight Lei Dong, and Xiao Yan agreed to go meet him.

Xiao Yan accepted Lei Ying’s challenge to demonstrate his strength to the leaders of the ancient clans, then used his Six-Colored Fire Lotus to withstand Lei Ying’s Thunder Tribulation Palm. After Gu Yuan contained the resulting shockwave, he addressed Hun Tiandi, who had been watching from the void.

• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying appeared above the training ground as Xiao Yan’s earlier defeat of Lei Dong and the Lei Clan youths left them and the crowd astonished.
• Lei Ying challenged Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan accepted despite Gu Yuan’s warning, hoping to establish himself as an equal in future talks with the clans.
• Xiao Yan merged with Little Yi and unleashed the Destruction Fire Body, revealing an aura of an early Seven-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan attacked with a Six-Colored Fire Lotus, and Lei Ying countered with the Lei Clan’s Thunder Tribulation Palm.
• The clash sent Xiao Yan flying hundreds of meters and forced Lei Ying back, while Gu Yuan swallowed the spreading shockwave into a black hole.
• Gu Yuan praised Xiao Yan’s strength, then looked into the void and called out to Hun Tiandi for secretly watching.

Xiao Yan effortlessly defeated Lei Yun and the other Lei Clan youths, then stopped Lei Dong’s strongest spear attack and sent him flying. Lei Clan chief Lei Ying challenged Xiao Yan to take a palm strike at half strength, and Xiao Yan accepted.

• Xiao Yan rebuked Lei Yun after Lei Yun mocked him and Xun Er, prompting Lei Dong to order Lei Yun and the others to fight him.
• Lei Yun and nine Lei Clan fighters surrounded Xiao Yan and unleashed Thunder Dragon Execution, but Xiao Yan remained unharmed.
• Lei Dong attacked Xiao Yan with rapid spear thrusts, then used Demon Thunder Fall, but Xiao Yan stopped the spear with one hand and absorbed its black lightning.
• Xiao Yan destroyed Lei Dong’s spear and sent him flying with a palm strike, drawing cheers from the Black Annihilation Army.
• Lei Ying challenged Xiao Yan to take a palm strike from him at half strength, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame arrived with the Soul Clan’s strongest fighters, keeping Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders occupied while Xiao Yan realized their real target was the Gu Clan Ancient Jade. The ancestral shrine’s alarm sounded just as Xiao Yan warned Gu Yuan.

• Gu Yuan sensed Hun Tiandi approaching, and the Ancient Clan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying prepared for an attack.
• Hun Tiandi emerged with the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan, then confirmed the Hun Clan’s role in the ancient clans’ disappearances.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame revealed he had reached the initial stage of Nine-Star Dou Saint, and Gu Yuan warned he would seal him away if given the chance.
• Xiao Yan joined Xun Er, learned the Gu Clan Ancient Jade was in the ancestral shrine, and realized the Hun Clan had drawn away its guards to steal it.
• Xiao Yan warned Gu Yuan about the Gu Clan Ancient Jade, but the ancestral shrine’s alarm sounded before Gu Yuan could respond.

After the Hun Clan seized the Lei and Yan Clans’ ancient jades, Gu Yuan called for an alliance to oppose them and prepare for war in half a month. Xiao Yan confirmed that he held the final jade and asked to return to the Heavenly Tomb to seek Xiao Xuan’s help with resurrection.

• Xiao Yan learned that the Hun Clan planned to exchange his father for the ancient jade in half a month.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin received word that their clans’ ancient jades had been stolen by betraying elders and taken by the Hun Clan.
• Gu Yuan gathered Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin to discuss the Hun Clan’s strength and the need for an alliance.
• Yan Jin warned that the Hun Clan had seven ancient jades and could use the last one to open the Tou She Ancient God’s cave dwelling and pursue the Dou God realm.
• Gu Yuan urged the clans to unite their armies and reclaim ancient jades from the Hun Clan in half a month.
• Xiao Yan asked to enter the Heavenly Tomb again to seek Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan agreed to send him.

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.