Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan revealed his identity and killed the three Dragon Kings who tried to stop Zi Yan from unifying the Ancient Void Dragon clan. He preserved their bodies for Xiao Yi to refine into puppets, and Xiao Yi stored them away after Zi Yan gave her approval.

• The Northern Dragon King tried to persuade Xiao Xuan to stay out of the Ancient Void Dragon clan’s internal affairs, but Xiao Xuan revealed that he was Xiao Xuan and said he had been entrusted with the matter.
• Xiao Yi asked Xiao Xuan to leave the three Dragon Kings’ corpses intact so he could refine them into puppets, and Xiao Xuan agreed.
• The Northern Dragon King attacked Xiao Xuan but was killed by a single golden finger beam.
• The South Dragon King tried to trap Xiao Xuan with Heaven-Burning Dragon Flame and flee, but Xiao Xuan killed him while preserving his body.
• The West Dragon King tried to escape, but Xiao Xuan bound him with Emperor Realm aura and killed him with a palm strike.
• Xiao Xuan handed over the three bodies, Zi Yan approved Xiao Yi’s plan to use them, and Xiao Yi stored them in his Cosmic Qi-Absorbing Ring.

Zi Yan united Dragon Island after Xiao Xuan defeated the three rebel kings, while Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yi departed to seek the vanished Xiao Realm. They arrived above Emperor Xiao City, an ancient city once inhabited by a Xiao Clan subsidiary branch.

• Xiao Xuan left the rebel kings’ defeated forces to Zi Yan, who sentenced their elders to atone in the ancestral tomb for life.
• Zi Yan declared Dragon Island united under her rule, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan celebrated her as Dragon Emperor.
• Qingshan and Zi Yan thanked Xiao Xuan and offered him and Xiao Yi refuge, but Xiao Xuan declined so Xiao Yi could continue growing and the Xiao Clan could rise again.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yi left Dragon Island through a spatial tunnel, and Xiao Xuan said he would return to the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yi emerged above Emperor Xiao City in the Eastern Region of the Central Plains, a city once inhabited by a Xiao Clan subsidiary branch.

Xiao Xuan brought Xiao Yi to the ruined Emperor Xiao City and opened the entrance to the Xiao Realm with Xiao Yi’s Dou Di Bloodline. Inside the collapsing realm, Xiao Xuan showed Xiao Yi an illusion of its former prosperity and began recounting how he had led the Xiao Clan to greatness.

• Xiao Xuan explained that Emperor Xiao City had once guarded the Xiao Realm’s entrance before the Soul Clan slaughtered its residents and the city fell into ruin.
• Xiao Yi resonated with the ruined teleportation formation using his Dou Di Bloodline, and Xiao Xuan opened a spatial rift into the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yi entered the Xiao Realm and found its palaces abandoned, its spiritual energy gone, and its space close to collapsing.
• Xiao Yi promised to help Xiao Xuan regain a body and restore the Xiao Clan, but Xiao Xuan warned that his soul alone could not defeat an equal opponent with a physical body and placed the clan’s future in Xiao Yi’s hands.
• Xiao Xuan used his power to show Xiao Yi an illusion of the Xiao Realm as it had been a thousand years earlier and recounted his pure bloodline, rapid rise to Nine-Star Dou Sheng and Emperor Realm Soul, and leadership of the strongest ancient clan.

Xiao Yi witnessed an illusion of Xiao Xuan deciding to stake the Xiao Clan’s bloodline power on a breakthrough to the Dou Di realm as the clan faced decline and pressure from the Soul Clan. After Xiao Xuan made his choice, the illusion shifted to the Heavenly Tomb on the border of the Xiao and Ancient Realms.

• Xiao Yi watched Xiao Xuan’s clan elders discuss the dwindling Dou Di Bloodline and the Soul Clan’s growing threat.
• Xiao Kong urged Xiao Xuan to attempt a breakthrough, while Xiao Hao voiced concern about the consequences of failure.
• Xiao Chen pledged his unconditional support, and the gathered Xiao Clan members called on Xiao Xuan to take the risk.
• Xiao Xuan agreed to gather the clan’s bloodline power and challenge the Dou Di realm.
• Xiao Yi reflected that the Xiao Clan’s decline had already been imminent and that Xiao Xuan’s gamble had not been an unreasonable choice.
• The illusion shifted from the Xiao Clan’s hall to the Heavenly Tomb, which had once bordered the Xiao and Ancient Realms.

Xiao Xuan brought the Xiao Clan to the Heavenly Tomb to stake the clan’s strength on his attempt to break through to Dou Di, and Gu Yuan agreed to safeguard the clan if he failed. The Xiao Clan’s assembled elites prepared to enter the Heavenly Tomb, with Xiao Chen absent.

• Xiao Xuan arrived at the Heavenly Tomb with the Xiao Clan’s experts, and Gu Yuan came with Ancient Clan members to question his purpose.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the Xiao Clan’s bloodline was dwindling and that he planned to use the Heavenly Tomb’s ancient formation to improve his chances of reaching Dou Di.
• Gu Yuan asked Xiao Xuan to entrust the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade to the Ancient Clan, and Xiao Xuan agreed to hand it over after the ascension ceremony.
• Xiao Xuan asked Gu Yuan to protect the Xiao Clan if he failed, and Gu Yuan promised to do so before leaving with the Ancient Clan.
• The assembled Xiao Clan included its top fighters, but Xiao Chen was absent, leaving him the clan’s sole surviving top expert if the others were lost.

Xiao Yi watched an illusion of Xiao Xuan activating the Heavenly Tomb’s ancient formation to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Di, only for Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan to arrive and attack. As the Xiao Clan fought for survival, Gu Yuan was held back outside, leaving Xiao Xuan without the Ancient Clan’s aid.

• Xiao Kong encouraged Xiao Xuan to proceed with the breakthrough, and Xiao Xuan activated the ancient formation inside the Heavenly Tomb.
• Hun Tiandi appeared with the Soul Clan’s elite forces and demanded the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Hun Tiandi warned Xiao Xuan that the clan’s plan could not succeed without the power needed to reach Dou Di, but Xiao Xuan refused to abandon it.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan had been intercepted outside the Heavenly Tomb by Nihility Devouring Flame and the Soul Clan’s forces.
• Hun Tiandi declared that only he could become Dou Di and ordered the Soul Clan to attack the Xiao Clan members.

Xiao Xuan unleashed his full power against Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan in the Heavenly Tomb, overwhelming their attacks and destroying the Spirit-Severing Barrier. As Xiao Yi watched the memory, Xiao Xuan continued cutting down Soul Clan experts while advancing toward Hun Tiandi.

• Hun Tiandi attacked Xiao Xuan, who activated the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and overwhelmed him with his aura.
• Hun Tiandi sent blood-red Dou Qi and Soul Clan fighters against the Xiao Clan, forcing Xiao Xuan to watch his clansmen struggle.
• Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan experts formed the Spirit-Severing Barrier to trap and kill Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan shattered the barrier with his Dou Qi and killed a Six-Star Dou Sheng Soul Clan elder in an instant.
• Xiao Xuan destroyed a One-Star Dou Sheng attacker with a glare and erased a Seven-Star Dou Sheng expert with a single finger.

Xiao Xuan began the Xiao Clan’s bloodline ritual while Hun Tiandi’s Soul Clan forces tried to stop him. After the clan’s bloodline and the Heavenly Tomb’s remaining Origin Qi flowed into Xiao Xuan, he emerged with the aura of a Dou Di.

• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to slaughter the Xiao Clan, forcing Xiao Xuan to defend his clansmen instead of focusing on the ritual.
• Xiao Xuan rejected Hun Tiandi’s offer to join forces and killed a Five-Star Dou Sheng Soul Clan elder, while Xiao Kong and Xiao Hao urged him to begin the ritual.
• Xiao Xuan entered the formation, and the Xiao Clan elders used their secret art to draw the clan’s bloodline power into him.
• Hun Tiandi attacked as Xiao Xuan’s aura rose, but the Xiao Clan members charged to protect their leader and were killed by Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan absorbed the Heavenly Tomb’s remaining Origin Qi and appeared before Hun Tiandi with an overwhelming aura, prompting Hun Tiandi to recognize him as a Dou Di.

Xiao Xuan revealed how his attempt to become a Dou Di failed and how he sacrificed himself to destroy the Soul Clan forces in the Heavenly Tomb. After witnessing the past, Xiao Yi learned that reviving the Xiao Clan required him to become a Dou Di.

• Hun Tiandi realized Xiao Xuan had failed to become a Dou Di when the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline did not return.
• Xiao Xuan opened a spatial tunnel and sent the surviving Xiao Clan members, led by Xiao Kong, away with the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Xuan fought Hun Tiandi with the Living Soul Heaven-Destroying Art, then detonated his three Heavenly Flames and Pseudo-Emperor power to destroy many Soul Clan experts.
• Hun Tiandi was gravely injured, Xiao Xuan perished with only a remnant soul remaining, and Gu Yuan left the Heavenly Tomb without investigating.
• A woman of the Tunling Clan later helped a fragment of Xiao Xuan’s soul escape, leading him to encounter Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Xuan finished showing Xiao Yi the past, and Xiao Yi understood that becoming a Dou Di was the only way to revive the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Xuan showed Xiao Yi the Xiao Clan’s sealed ancestral land and explained the inheritance left there by Emperor Xiao. Xiao Yi learned that he could seek a blessing to obtain a cultivation method or other opportunity, but he would have only one chance.

• Xiao Yi told Xiao Xuan that he believed the ancestor had been worthy of the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Xuan warned him about the Soul Clan’s ambitions and called him the clan’s last hope.
• Xiao Xuan said Xiao Yi had outgrown his current cultivation method and offered the Ultra Heaven Class [Ancient Heaven-Burning Formula] as a fallback.
• Xiao Xuan led Xiao Yi through a spatial portal to the Ancient Xiao Mountain Range and explained that pure Xiao Clan bloodline could open its sealed ancestral land.
• Xiao Xuan brought Xiao Yi to the Soul Guiding Stone and explained that Emperor Xiao’s inheritance could grant a blessing based on talent and fortune.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi that he was qualified to enter the inheritance ground, but would receive only one chance.

Xiao Yi entered the Soul Guiding Stone’s world and met a projection of Emperor Xiao, declaring his ambition to become a Dou Di through battle. Emperor Xiao tested his understanding of the missing Origin Qi and revealed the insight of using the body as a seed to nurture it, then began to explain further.

• Xiao Yi activated the Xiao Clan bloodline and resonated with the Soul Guiding Stone, which drew his soul into another world.
• Xiao Yi met Emperor Xiao’s projection and introduced himself as a Xiao Clan descendant seeking the ancestor’s blessing.
• Xiao Yi declared that he wanted to become a Dou Di through battle, despite knowing the continent lacked Origin Qi.
• Emperor Xiao asked how Xiao Yi might overcome the absence of Origin Qi, and Xiao Yi reasoned that the body could nurture it as a seed.
• Emperor Xiao praised Xiao Yi’s comprehension and began to continue his explanation.

Xiao Yi accepted Emperor Xiao’s uncompleted path to becoming a Dou Di and received two emperor-tier inheritances. After Xiao Xuan brought him out of the Ancient Xiao Mountain Range, Hun Tiandi appeared with a young Soul Clan man and revealed that the Soul Clan had slaughtered the Xiao Clan’s people and devoured their souls.

• Xiao Yi agreed to try Emperor Xiao’s path of using the body as a seed and nurturing origin with the spirit body.
• Emperor Xiao bestowed the Primordial Origin Myriad Transformations Method and Emperor Might Judgment Seal on Xiao Yi before his remnant soul vanished.
• Xiao Yi returned to his body with a fully golden Emperor Mark, while the Soul Guiding Stone broke apart.
• Xiao Xuan sensed someone nearby and brought Xiao Yi above the desolate Xiao Realm, where Hun Tiandi and a young Soul Clan man emerged.
• Hun Tiandi taunted Xiao Xuan about the destruction of the Xiao Clan and said he wanted to taste Xiao Xuan’s soul.

Hun Tiandi confronted Xiao Xuan in the Xiao Realm and demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Xiao Xuan vowed to fight him despite his weakened soul form. As Hun Tiandi attacked and Xiao Xuan tried to send Xiao Yi away, Hun Feng charged at Xiao Yi, who powered up and summoned the Dragon Abyss Formation-Breaking Spear to meet him.

• Hun Tiandi praised Xiao Yi for reaching Dou Zun and warned Hun Feng not to underestimate him.
• Hun Tiandi demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Xiao Xuan refused and vowed to settle the Soul Clan’s blood debt.
• Hun Tiandi and Xiao Xuan exchanged attacks, revealing Xiao Xuan’s strength as a soul remained below Hun Tiandi’s Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint realm.
• Xiao Xuan opened a spatial tunnel to protect Xiao Yi, but Hun Tiandi shattered it and Hun Feng attacked Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi activated the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame, raised his strength to Seven-Star Dou Zun, and summoned the Dragon Abyss Formation-Breaking Spear against Hun Feng.

Xiao Yi fought Hun Feng in the collapsing Xiao Realm but could not overcome his overwhelming strength. Gu Yuan arrived with the Ancient Clan’s strongest fighters and saved Xiao Yi, while Hun Tiandi stopped fighting Xiao Xuan.

• Hun Feng caught and tossed back Xiao Yi’s Dragon Abyss Formation-Breaking Spear, then destroyed Xiao Yi’s seven Eight-Star Dou Venerable puppets and nullified his Myriad Phenomena Converging Finger.
• Xiao Yi attacked Hun Feng with the Sea Heart Flame and Fallen Heart Flame, but the Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed both Heavenly Flames.
• Hun Feng charged at Xiao Yi, but a golden light burst from the void and forced him back before he could strike.
• Gu Yuan appeared with Gu Lie, the Ancient Clan Three Immortals, and Xun'er, then suppressed Hun Feng with his golden pressure.
• Xun'er helped Xiao Yi up, and Hun Tiandi halted his fight with Xiao Xuan and turned to face Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan.

Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan drove Hun Tiandi and Hun Feng away, then asked Xiao Xuan to entrust the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade to them. Xiao Xuan refused, and Gu Lie commented on Xiao Yi’s talent compared with Xun’er.

• Gu Lie confronted Hun Tiandi, and Gu Yuan declared that he would protect Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yi.
• Hun Tiandi warned Gu Yuan and Xiao Xuan that he would come for both clans’ Tou She Ancient God Jade, then freed Hun Feng and left.
• Gu Lie questioned why Gu Yuan let Hun Tiandi escape, and Gu Yuan explained that attacking him would start a war between the clans.
• Gu Yuan asked Xiao Xuan to let the Ancient Clan safeguard the Xiao Clan’s ancient jade, but Xiao Xuan refused and said he owed the Ancient Clan a favor.
• Gu Lie remarked that Xiao Yi had reached the Dou Zun realm at a young age but still fell short of Xun’er.

After Hun Tiandi’s attack left Xiao Xuan weakened and dormant, Xiao Yi resolved to grow stronger and protect the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi dismissed the Xiao Clan and revealed his confidence that the Soul Clan would eventually seize all eight pieces of the Ancient God Jade.

• Gu Yuan warned Xiao Xuan that the Soul Clan knew he had awakened and offered him refuge in the Ancient Realm, but Xiao Xuan refused and promised to hand over the Xiao Clan’s Ancient God Jade if he could no longer protect it.
• Xun’er left with Gu Yuan and the others after Xiao Yi promised to grow stronger and visit the Ancient Clan once he reached the continent’s pinnacle.
• The Xiao Realm’s barrier collapsed, and Xiao Xuan returned to Xiao Yi’s storage ring after burning part of his soul origin; Xiao Yi could not cross the soul barrier sealing the ring.
• Xiao Yi steadied himself and decided to cultivate beneath Jia Nan Academy, comprehend Emperor Xiao’s inheritance, and become strong enough to face Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Miesheng questioned why Hun Tiandi had not destroyed Xiao Xuan, but Hun Tiandi said Xiao Xuan was only a remnant soul and boasted that the Soul Clan would obtain all eight pieces of the Ancient God Jade.

Hun Tiandi ordered Soul Hall to capture Xiao Yi alive and dismissed Hun Feng after assessing Xiao Yi’s abilities. Xiao Yi began traveling toward Jia Nan Academy with Skyfire Venerable at his side, aware that the Soul Clan had targeted him.

• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Miesheng to arrange Xiao Yi’s capture alive and keep watch on him.
• Hun Feng told Hun Tiandi that Xiao Yi’s strength, techniques, and soul power were unimpressive, and Hun Tiandi sent him away to cultivate.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reminded Hun Tiandi of Xiao Xuan’s old injury, and Hun Tiandi insisted that he had ultimately won.
• Skyfire Venerable revealed himself to Xiao Yi, introduced himself as Yao Tianhuo, and offered to teach him fire-control techniques in return for staying by his side.
• Xiao Yi agreed to let Skyfire Venerable accompany him, then opened a passage through space and set off toward Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Yi arrived in Sacred Pill City disguised as Lin Yuan and discovered a sealed, unusual iron piece at a street stall. Just as he bargained to buy it, Chen Xian intervened with a higher offer and invoked his status as a seventh-tier alchemist, leaving their dispute unresolved.

• Xiao Yi and Skyfire Venerable reached the Central Plains, where Xiao Yi sensed Three Thousand Burning Flame near Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Yi concealed his aura, changed his appearance and name to Lin Yuan, and entered Sacred Pill City to rest and look around.
• Xiao Yi found an iron piece at a street stall that seemed to draw in his soul, though a seal kept him from identifying what it contained.
• Xiao Yi bargained with the stall owner for the iron piece, offering a third-tier medicinal pill after judging it not worth the owner's asking price.
• Chen Xian arrived and offered a fifth-tier medicinal pill for the iron piece, then claimed Sacred Pill City's highest-bidder rule entitled him to buy it.
• Xiao Yi challenged Chen Xian's claim, and Chen Xian introduced himself as a newly certified seventh-tier alchemist.

Xiao Yi clashed with Chen Xian over an iron sheet in Sacred Pill City, revealing powerful soul force before Cao Ying intervened and led him away. Cao Ying recognized the strength of Xiao Yi’s soul and asked what rank of alchemist he was, leaving their conversation poised for his answer.

• The shopkeeper warned Xiao Yi to give the iron sheet to Chen Xian, but Xiao Yi set it down and prepared to leave.
• Chen Xian insulted Xiao Yi, who mocked Chen Xian’s alchemist rank and paid for the iron sheet with a fifth-tier Purple Spirit Recovery Pill.
• Chen Xian’s two Dou Zong attendants blocked Xiao Yi, and Xiao Yi knocked them unconscious with his soul force.
• Cao Ying stopped Chen Xian from pursuing Xiao Yi and led Xiao Yi away, while Chen Xian ordered his guards to investigate him and his connection to Cao Ying.
• Cao Ying introduced herself to Xiao Yi and asked his alchemist rank after explaining that his soul force was stronger than hers.

Xiao Yi, using the name Lin Yuan, went to the Pill Tower with Cao Ying to certify as an eighth-tier alchemist. Xuan Kongzi examined his Heaven Realm soul power but remained uncertain whether he should take the demanding test.

• Cao Ying invited Lin Yuan to the Pill Tower after learning he had not certified his alchemist rank.
• Lin Yuan told the certification elder he wanted to qualify as an eighth-tier alchemist, but the elder said he could not assess that rank.
• Cao Ying offered to have her teacher, Xuan Kongzi, conduct the examination, and Lin Yuan accepted.
• Xuan Kongzi asked Lin Yuan to demonstrate his soul power, and Lin Yuan revealed that it had reached the Heaven Realm.
• Xuan Kongzi acknowledged Lin Yuan's remarkable soul power but questioned whether he truly wished to take the eighth-tier examination.