Chapter Summaries

Lei Qi checked on Xiao Yan and his family before learning that an Ancient Ruin had appeared in the Beast Region. He led Zi Yan, Cai Lin, Qing Lin, and others toward the ruins, intending for his group to conceal their strength.

• Lei Qi discovered that Xiao Yan had reached Nine-Star Dou Zong with a sound foundation, then visited Xiao Yu and assessed her cultivation.
• Lei Qi spent four days with Xiao Yu, Han Yue, Han Xue, Yao Ye, and Yao Yue before entering seclusion again.
• Hun Tiandi learned that the Ancient Clan had fought the Thunder and Flame Clans and decided to wait for Nihility Devouring Flame's soul to reach the Emperor Realm.
• Nearly a year later, Lei Qi learned of Ancient Ruins in the Beast Bone Mountain Range and set out with Zi Yan, Cai Lin, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Yang Ji, Zhang Yi, Lei Yun, Lei Xiao, and a Thunder Legion squad.
• Yang Ji reported that the ruins supposedly contained a Heavenly-Tier Dou Technique and lay in Nine Netherworld Python territory, and Lei Qi ordered his companions to suppress their cultivation to Four- or Five-Star Dou Venerate.

Lei Qi and his group traveled to the Skeleton Mountain Range to investigate the Ancient Ruins, while Qing Lin went to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan to gather cultivation materials. As the ruins’ seal neared its breaking point and other factions rushed in, Lei Qi held his group back, warning that danger awaited when the seal broke.

• Lei Qi sent Qing Lin to capture cultivation materials from the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and gave her a jade slip she could use to summon Elder Lei Yi.
• Lei Qi and his group reached the Myriad Mountains and traveled toward the Ancient Ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range, where many factions had gathered.
• Lei Qi’s group claimed a mountaintop from a Dou Venerate faction and waited as reports spread that a mysterious expert was controlling members of the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.
• Over several days, the space seal around the Ancient Ruins grew weaker and tensions among the gathered factions rose.
• When figures rushed toward the ruins at dawn, Lei Qi stayed behind and told Lei Yun that breaking the seal would reveal the ruins’ danger.

Lei Qi led Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and the Thunder Legion through the Bone Sea’s dangerous entrance and into the ancient ruins’ grand hall. After taking control of the silver Puppets and closing the stone door behind them, he sent his companions to search the hall for treasures and medicinal herbs.

• The Space Seal shattered, and its spatial storm killed many greedy experts rushing into the Bone Sea.
• Lei Qi led his group across the Bone Sea and found a colossal crimson grand hall.
• Lei Qi protected everyone with Heavenly Flames as they crossed the blazing Flame Passage and reached the hall’s outer square.
• Lei Qi quickly took control of the ten silver Puppets guarding a heavy stone door, then led the Thunder Clan inside and shut the door to delay other factions.
• Lei Qi sent Lei Yun and Lei Xiao with thirty Thunder Legion warriors each to gather treasures, while Zi Yan searched for medicinal herbs.

Lei Qi and Zi Yan explored an ancient hall and found a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit in a hidden Beast Spirit Barrier. Zi Yan sealed the legendary fruit within her body, which could strengthen her bloodline and bring the Ancient Void Dragon Clan closer to the Thunder Clan.

• Lei Qi led his group through the empty halls, where his warriors collected ancient items and Cai Lin, Xian Er, Big White, and Golden Eagle gathered medicinal herbs in a hidden forest.
• Lei Qi and Zi Yan found a lake with a Soul Infant Fruit and a Heaven-Connecting Flood Dragon; Lei Qi gave the beast a Transformation Pill.
• Zi Yan sensed something calling to her and opened a Beast Spirit Barrier using knowledge from her memories.
• Lei Qi and Zi Yan crossed a crimson plain to a giant altar, where Zi Yan recognized a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit growing on a gold-and-purple Stone Platform.
• Zi Yan noticed the enormous dragon and phoenix skeletons outlined in the plain, then plucked the fruit and sealed it within her body.

Lei Qi collected the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, then killed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members who confronted him and captured Feng Qing'er. After sending his companions away, he reached the main hall and prepared to take a Dou Technique and the rib containing a Heavenly-Tier Dou Technique.

• Lei Qi gave Zi Yan the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit to refine and left the ancestral tomb with her.
• Lei Qi killed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan group that entered the tomb, leaving Feng Qing'er alive and sealing her Dou Qi.
• Lei Qi handed Feng Qing'er to Cai Lin and told her group to wait outside the Beast Region.
• Lei Qi met Qing Lin, Lei Yun, and the others, learned Qing Lin had obtained a Pill Beast, and sent them away.
• Lei Qi entered the main hall, examined its High Earth-Tier Dou Techniques and Dou Sheng skeleton, and decided to take one technique and the rib containing a Heavenly-Tier Dou Technique.

As the hall’s seal vanished, Lei Qi and the other factions rushed to claim the relics, while Star-Plucking Old Ghost accidentally awakened the Dou Sheng Skeleton. The skeleton’s deadly roar killed many experts, leaving Star-Plucking Old Ghost blamed for the disaster and urging everyone to join forces against it.

• Star-Plucking Old Ghost arrived with Hall of Souls experts, and the factions stopped fighting as the seal weakened.
• The seal disappeared, the scrolls flew from the light spheres, and Lei Qi seized a box before smashing a charging Dou Venerate Puppet.
• Star-Plucking Old Ghost approached the skeleton, cut his hand on spatial spikes, and spilled blood onto its remains.
• The Dou Sheng Skeleton awakened and unleashed a roar that killed nearby Hall of Souls Venerables and many other experts.
• Tang Zhen and the others blamed Star-Plucking Old Ghost, while Lei Qi pointed out that his blood had awakened the skeleton.
• Star-Plucking Old Ghost admitted his recklessness and proposed that the gathered experts work together to suppress the skeleton.

The intruders faced the awakened Dou Sheng Skeleton, which attacked them after warning that all trespassers would die. Star-Plucking Old Ghost led the group’s fight, while Lei Qi discovered strange characters on a rib as the skeleton’s blood-red coloring began to fade.

• Star-Plucking Old Ghost warned the intruders that the consciousness would kill anyone who tried to leave, and the crowd stayed in the ruins.
• The Dou Sheng Skeleton rose from the blood mist, declared that trespassers must die, and revealed two ownerless scrolls above its head.
• Star-Plucking Old Ghost urged everyone to join forces, then attacked the skeleton and called on the Dou Venerate experts for help when its blows drove him back.
• Lei Qi joined the fight, struck a rib with multicolored flames, and exposed strange characters beneath its blood-red coating.
• The experts continued attacking as the skeleton’s red color faded, but more than ten one- and two-star Dou Venerates had already been killed.

The Dou Sheng Skeleton unleashed the Heavenly-Tier Great Heaven Creation Palm, destroying the hall and killing many experts before the survivors claimed its remains. Sixth Venerate Bai Liu arrived to avenge the Hall of Souls and demand the spoils, leaving Lei Qi and the gathered factions facing him.

• Lei Qi pulled Tang Zhen away as the Dou Sheng Skeleton prepared its Great Heaven Creation Palm, and Star-Plucking Old Ghost fled as well.
• The skeleton struck the floor, unleashing a black ring that erased the hall and annihilated experts before fading into a vast pit.
• Lei Qi struck Star-Plucking Old Ghost down, and the surviving Dou Venerate experts divided the skeleton; someone killed the wounded Star-Plucking Old Ghost.
• Sixth Venerate Bai Liu arrived with six other experts, and a Central Plains expert identified Lei Qi as the one who had wounded Star-Plucking Old Ghost.
• Lei Qi killed an expert who tried to blame him, while Bai Liu demanded the skeleton’s spoils and tortured a man to death when the factions resisted.

Lei Qi defeated and killed Bai Liu, the Hall of Souls’ Sixth Heavenly Venerate, and then killed the Fifth Heavenly Venerate with his five Heavenly Flames. After collecting the treasures and reuniting with Cai Lin and the others at Skeleton Mountain Range, Lei Qi led the group out of the Beast Region toward the Thunder Clan.

• Lei Qi blocked Bai Liu while the Central Plains experts fought the other Hall of Souls Venerates.
• Lei Qi overwhelmed Bai Liu and killed him after the Hall of Souls’ Fifth Heavenly Venerate failed to save him in time.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerate attacked Lei Qi with the Lion King Seal, but Lei Qi’s Five-Ring Separation Flame Technique killed him.
• Lei Qi collected the Heavenly-Tier Dou Technique, medicinal herbs, and pills, then left the ruins and met Cai Lin and the others at Skeleton Mountain Range.
• Lei Qi told Lei Yun he would copy the cultivation method for the clan and ordered everyone to return.
• The Golden Eagle carried Lei Qi and the others out of the Beast Region while Feng Qing’er followed, unable to resist.

Lei Qi returned to the Thunder Clan, arranged cultivation and surveillance, then went to Falling Star Pavilion with Xiao Yi Xian to seek a cure for her Woeful Poison Body. Gu Xun'er arrived to discuss the Heavenly Tomb, accused Lei Qi of manipulating Xiao Yan, and left Lei Qi defending his influence over Xiao Yan.

• Lei Qi arranged Zi Yan's secluded cultivation, distributed his harvested resources, and traveled to the Yao Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony with his companions.
• Lei Qi had Qing Lin deploy her Spirit Snakes throughout the Yao Clan before sending her into secluded cultivation.
• Lei Qi brought Xiao Yi Xian to Falling Star Pavilion, where Medicine Elder took her to the ancient tomb of a Woeful Poison Body expert for her final transformation.
• Lei Qi obtained Yao Chen's invitation to the Space Trade Fair.
• Gu Xun'er arrived at Falling Star Pavilion and apologized to Xiao Yan because the Xiao Clan had lost its Heavenly Tomb quota to the Thunder Clan.
• Gu Xun'er accused Lei Qi of controlling Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan defended Lei Qi, who said Xiao Yan followed him because of his personal charisma.

Gu Xun'er accused Lei Qi of interfering with Xiao Yan and attacked him, but Lei Qi swiftly defeated her. After threatening to use Xiao Yan as leverage, Lei Qi demanded to examine Xun'er's body, and she challenged whether he dared accept her offer.

• Gu Xun'er accused Lei Qi of harming Xiao Yan and admitted she had arranged for Elder Ling to secretly protect him.
• Xiao Yan expressed disappointment in Xun'er, then left the hall with Yao Chen after Lei Qi questioned her motives.
• Xun'er attacked Lei Qi with the Golden Emperor Burning Sky Flame, but his black lightning scattered her flames and drove her back.
• Lei Qi subdued Xun'er with a single palm strike and threatened to target Xiao Yan, prompting her to plead for his safety.
• Lei Qi demanded to examine Xun'er's body as compensation, and Xun'er called him a bastard before asking whether he dared accept.

Lei Qi pressured Gu Xun'er into leaving him alone by threatening to speak with Xiao Yan, then remained at Falling Star Pavilion to cultivate his soul while waiting for Xiao Yi Xian. He returned to the Thunder Clan after finding Xiao Yi Xian still refining her energy, while she sensed his concern and continued her secluded cultivation.

• Lei Qi intimidated Gu Xun'er, who agreed to his demands after he threatened to approach Xiao Yan.
• Gu Xun'er left Falling Star Pavilion with the two Ancient Clan elders, and Xiao Yan and Yao Chen later returned to the main hall.
• Lei Qi stayed at Falling Star Pavilion, cultivated his soul, and reached the Heavenly Realm over seven days.
• Lei Qi and Medicine Elder found Xiao Yi Xian surrounded by poisonous mist; Lei Qi returned to the Thunder Clan and asked Medicine Elder to tell her to join him when she awoke.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed Lei Qi's visit and his message, felt reassured by his concern, and continued refining the energy within her body.

Lei Qi traveled with Qing Lin, Xiao Yu, Huo Zhi, and Lei Tan to the Ancient Clan for the Heavenly Tomb, bringing the women to give them opportunities while keeping Xiao Yan away from uncertain gains. They reached Ancient Sacred City and settled into a manor, where Lei Qi assured the women that the Ancient Clan would not attack them there.

• Lei Qi chose Qing Lin, Xiao Yu, and Huo Zhi for the trip to the Heavenly Tomb, while Lei Dong and the others continued strengthening themselves within the clan.
• Lei Tan told Lei Qi that Ancient Sacred City was heavily guarded and could not be entered without an invitation.
• Lei Qi and his group passed through a spatial wormhole and arrived near the ancient city, where they approached on foot out of respect for its Dou God founder.
• The Black Annihilation Army received Lei Qi and his companions and arranged a high-class manor for them.
• Lei Qi told the women to rest, explaining that the Ancient Clan would protect its reputation rather than attack them in the city.

Gu Xun'er questioned Ling Ying about Xiao Yan after her encounter with Lei Qi, while Lei Qi and the other clan representatives gathered in Ancient Sacred City for the opening of the Ancient Realm. The spatial gate opened, and Lei Qi, Qing Lin, Xiao Yu, and Huo Zhi entered with him.

• Gu Xun'er asked Ling Ying whether Xiao Yan had changed since meeting Lei Qi, and Ling Ying suggested she ask Xiao Yan's teacher, Yao Chen.
• Gu Xun'er decided she needed to become stronger to investigate Xiao Yan without attracting the Thunder Clan's attention.
• Lei Qi's group met representatives from the other clans as they waited for the Ancient Realm to open.
• Gu Xun warned the gathered clans about the Ancient Realm's dangers before a pillar of light opened a spatial gate above the lake.
• Lei Qi, Qing Lin, Xiao Yu, and Huo Zhi entered the spatial tunnel with Lei Qi.

Lei Qi and the Thunder Clan attended the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where the younger members’ strength challenged Lei Tan’s assumptions. Lei Qi became interested in Gu Xin and proposed pursuing a marriage alliance, while Gu Xun’er began her bloodline awakening before the gathered clans.

• Lei Qi and the other factions arrived in the Ancient Realm and traveled to the Ancient Clan’s mountain range for the ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Lei Qi told Lei Tan that the Black Annihilation Army’s commanders came from collateral branches and that the Ancient Clan’s true younger generation was stronger than it appeared.
• The Ancient Clan’s younger members demonstrated their strength, and Lei Qi singled out Gu Xin, an Early-Stage Six-Star Dou Venerate with a Seventh-Grade Bloodline.
• Lei Qi asked Lei Tan to arrange a marriage alliance so he could take Gu Xin as a co-wife, and Lei Tan agreed to speak with Tong Xuan.
• Tong Xuan called Gu Xun’er forward for her awakening, and she placed her hand on the Star Disc as stars began appearing across its surface.

Gu Xun'er revealed a Divine Grade Bloodline, and Gu Qingyang challenged Lei Qi during the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. Lei Qi defeated him without serious injury, then sent Lei Tan to negotiate with the Ancient Clan as the group awaited the Heavenly Tomb’s opening.

• Gu Xun’er displayed nine stars and a Divine Grade Bloodline, then noticed Lei Qi and left after glaring at him.
• Gu Qingyang also reached nine stars and asked Elder Tong Xuan whether he could challenge anyone at his Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Gu Qingyang challenged Lei Qi, who accepted and quickly overwhelmed him with a kick and a lightning-powered stomp.
• A voice from the void stopped Gu Qingyang from continuing and declared that he had lost to Lei Qi.
• Lei Qi returned to his seat and told Lei Tan he had held back so negotiations with the Ancient Clan could proceed.
• Lei Qi and the others returned to their residence to await the Heavenly Tomb’s opening, while Lei Tan went to meet Tong Xuan.

Lei Tan proposed that the Thunder Clan’s Lei Qi marry Gu Xin and promised support against the Soul Clan, prompting Gu Yuan to consider an alliance that could help the Ancient Clan obtain the Ancient Jades and pursue the Dou God realm. Gu Yuan accepted the proposal and ordered his clan to avoid further conflict with the Thunder Clan.

• Lei Tan told Tong Xuan that Lei Qi wished to marry Gu Xin and offered the Thunder Clan’s support if the Soul Clan moved against the Ancient Clan.
• Tong Xuan reported the proposal to Gu Yuan, and the Ancient Clan elders debated whether to accept it.
• Gu Yuan explained that an alliance with the Thunder Clan could help destroy the Soul Clan, secure the Ancient Jades, and give him a chance to become a Dou God.
• Gu Xian suggested offering Xun'er instead, but the elders noted that the Thunder Clan had specifically asked for Gu Xin.
• Gu Yuan agreed to the Thunder Clan’s proposal and ordered the Ancient Clan to avoid further conflicts with them.

Gu Xin learned that the Ancient Clan had arranged for her to marry Lei Qi, and her unrequited feelings for Gu Qingyang deepened her despair. At the Heavenly Tomb, Lei Qi focused his attention on Gu Xin and entered with Xiao Yu after Qing Lin and Huo Zhi, leaving the gathered clans curious about his companions.

• The Ancient Clan informed Gu Xin that she would become Lei Qi's co-wife, and Tong Xuan made clear that she could not refuse.
• Gu Xin told Gu Qingyang about the marriage and asked whether he would react as calmly if Gu Xun'er were being married off; his response left her heartbroken.
• Members of the Dou God Clans gathered at the Heavenly Tomb, where Ancient Clan elders opened the spatial gate.
• Lei Qi noticed Gu Xin among the Ancient Clan members and asked Lei Tan to learn more about her.
• Lei Qi sent Qing Lin into the Heavenly Tomb with Huo Zhi, then entered with Xiao Yu; the other clans noticed that none of his companions bore the Thunder Clan's Clan Pattern.

Lei Qi led Xiao Yu, Qing Lin, and Huo Zhi through the Heavenly Tomb toward its third level, where they joined the arriving clans to break through an energy storm. The group opened a path through the light curtain and prepared to enter the third level.

• Lei Qi showed Xiao Yu how to absorb energy cores as they traveled through the first level and reached the second after three months.
• Lei Qi waited for Huo Zhi and Qing Lin, then led the four of them toward the third-level entrance and had Xiao Yu and Huo Zhi refine their collected energy bodies.
• Huo Zhi advanced to the Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Venerate and Xiao Yu to the Mid-Stage Eight-Star Dou Venerate while the group waited for the others.
• Gu Xun'er and the other clans arrived with an energy storm, and Lei Qi ordered them to work together or remain trapped on the second level.
• Lei Qi, Qing Lin, Huo Zhi, and Xiao Yu attacked the light curtain, then the other clans joined them until they opened a safe passage toward the third level.

Lei Qi and the others escaped the Ancient Devouring Insects and entered the third level of the Heavenly Tomb, where energy flowed directly into their bodies. After three months of fighting through the vast wasteland and collecting five Half-Saint energy cores, Lei Qi’s group continued toward Xiao Xuan’s tomb.

• Lei Qi discovered Ancient Devouring Insects inside the crystal walls and used his Heavenly Flames to burn through them while Gu Xun'er, Yao Xingji, and the others helped clear the closing passage.
• Lei Qi broke through the final crystal wall, and the group emerged onto the energy-rich third level of the Heavenly Tomb.
• The Ancient Devouring Insects poured from the passage after them but burst into powder under the Heavenly Tomb’s restrictions.
• Lei Qi’s group headed toward Xiao Xuan’s tomb with Qing Lin and Huo Zhi staying close for safety.
• After traveling for three months, Lei Qi’s group had collected five Half-Saint energy cores and fought through numerous energy bodies with help from the Puppet.