Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun visited Dragon Island, warned the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to prepare for the continent’s turmoil, then entered the Void Lightning Pool to help the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning undergo Spirit Gathering. He sealed away most of its power and left the newly intelligent lightning dragon to recover in the pool, carrying the sealed energy with him.

• Xiao Yun rejected Elder Zhuming’s proposal to attack the Soul Clan and asked the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to prepare for coming turmoil.
• Xiao Yun refused Zi Yan’s offer to accompany him and traveled alone to the Void Lightning Pool.
• Xiao Yun entered the pool’s depths and endured the Black Demon Lightning until the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning appeared.
• Xiao Yun drew out and sealed most of the golden lightning’s power, weakening it enough to remove the danger of Spirit Gathering.
• Xiao Yun gathered spiritual energy to give the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning intelligence, then left it to recover while he departed with the sealed power.

Xiao Yun secured the accumulated Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning and headed for the Ancient Clan’s Heavenly Tomb to absorb it in seclusion. As he arrived at Ancient Saint City, Gu Yao confronted the visitor, only for an aged figure to warn him not to disrespect Master Xiao.

• Xiao Yun escaped the Void Lightning Pool with the golden lightning, which he planned to absorb to strengthen himself before Hun Tiandi’s fight over the remaining Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yun opened a spatial rift and headed toward the Ancient Clan, intending to cultivate in the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul nearby.
• At Ancient Saint City, Gu Xun told Black Annihilation Army members that Soul Clan threats had driven people from the Eastern Region to seek the Ancient Clan’s protection.
• Gu Yao arrived and ordered the soldiers to remain vigilant when a huge spatial rift opened above the city.
• Gu Yao demanded to know who had arrived, and an aged figure stepped from the void and told him not to disrespect Master Xiao.

Xiao Yun arrived at the Ancient Clan, where Gu Dao welcomed him with great courtesy after learning he had become a Dou Sheng. Xiao Yun revealed that he planned to cultivate in the Heavenly Tomb using a powerful pill rather than borrowing Xiao Xuan’s strength, and Gu Dao sought his help refining it.

• Gu Yao recognized Xiao Yun as a Dou Sheng and was stunned by how far he had surpassed him.
• Gu Dao introduced himself as the Ancient Clan’s representative and welcomed Xiao Yun, then ordered Gu Yao to apologize for his disrespect.
• Xiao Yun declined to make Gu Yao apologize and explained that he had come to cultivate in the Heavenly Tomb before the coming crisis.
• Gu Dao asked whether Xiao Yun intended to use Xiao Xuan’s power, and Xiao Yun instead showed him a Ninth-Tier Half-Step Profound Pill.
• Xiao Yun gave Gu Dao the pill’s ingredient list after explaining its effects, and Gu Dao promised to gather the ingredients and request a refinement.

Xiao Yun arrived at Ancient Sacred Mountain and entered the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate in seclusion for three years. Gu Yuan arranged protection for Xiao Yun’s allies and entrusted the sealed area to the Three Immortals, who learned that Xiao Yun’s alchemy talent was even greater than they had believed.

• Gu Dao brought Xiao Yun to Ancient Sacred Mountain, where Gu Yuan noticed Xiao Yun’s cultivation had advanced and heard about his opportunities with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Gu Yuan gave Xiao Yun all twenty-four Origin Soul Pills, allowing him to remain in the Heavenly Tomb for three years instead of about one.
• Gu Yuan opened the Heavenly Tomb and promised to guard Starfall Pavilion, the Pill Tower, and other places while Xiao Yun cultivated inside.
• After Xiao Yun entered, Gu Yuan ordered the Three Immortals to guard the surrounding area and forbid anyone else from entering or leaving.
• Gu Dao told the other elders that Xiao Yun had refined a Half-Step Profound Pill, convincing them of his importance and ending their doubts about Gu Yuan’s decision.

Xiao Yun went to the Heavenly Tomb to prepare for secluded cultivation, asking Xiao Xuan to seal the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning and help gather energy for his breakthrough. Xiao Xuan bound the lightning and sent Xiao Yun into his Tomb Mansion, then set out to hunt powerful energy beings.

• Xiao Yun traveled to the depths of the Heavenly Tomb and met Xiao Xuan, who recognized his late Three-Star Dou Sheng cultivation and Late Heaven Realm soul.
• Xiao Xuan warned that Xiao Yun could not safely absorb the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, and Xiao Yun explained that a Burning Flame Clear Profound Pill and energy crystal cores could help him advance.
• Xiao Yun asked Xiao Xuan to capture powerful Dou Sheng energy beings without provoking the Heavenly Tomb Spirit, and Xiao Xuan agreed to bring him suitable targets.
• Xiao Yun released the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, and Xiao Xuan subdued the Thunder Dragon with his Half-Emperor power.
• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Yun and the bound Thunder Dragon into his Tomb Mansion, then left to hunt Soul Clan and other powerful energy beings.

After recovering and preparing to seize the Ancient Jade, Hun Tiandi led the Soul Clan in an assault on the Ancient Realm while Xiao Yun remained in the Heavenly Tomb. Gu Yuan abandoned his plan to investigate Xiao Yun when the Soul Clan arrived, leaving the Ancient Clan facing an imminent battle.

• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame discussed the Soul Clan’s plan to use hidden agents to seize the Ancient Jade from the Ancient, Lei, and Yan Clans.
• Hun Tiandi dispatched Hun Sheng Tian and three elders to ambush the Lei and Yan Clans while he led the remaining elders toward the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuan learned that Xiao Yun had spent one year and two months in the Heavenly Tomb, equivalent to seven years outside, and decided to enter it to check on him.
• Gu Lie warned Gu Yuan that Hun Tiandi and a large force from the Soul Realm were attacking the Ancient Clan.
• Hun Tiandi’s forces appeared at the edge of the Ancient Realm, and Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan’s elders vanished to confront them.

Hun Tiandi launched the Soul Clan’s war against the Ancient Clan, prompting the Flame and Thunder Clans to mobilize in support. In the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yun continued absorbing energy while Xiao Xuan sensed that Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi had begun fighting.

• Hun Tiandi rejected Gu Yuan’s demand to withdraw, and Gu Yuan crushed the Flame and Thunder Clan jade pendants to summon their aid.
• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi exchanged attacks as their clans’ forces and allies clashed, officially beginning the Ancient-Soul War.
• Lei Ying chose to lead Thunder Clan elders to aid the Ancient Clan, while the First Elder organized the remaining forces and the Flame Clan prepared to join them.
• Xiao Xuan supplied Xiao Yun with his last Energy Crystal Core as Xiao Yun continued cultivating, despite the Heavenly Tomb’s growing efforts to expel him.
• Xiao Xuan sensed intense spatial fluctuations reaching the Heavenly Tomb and suspected that Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi were fighting.

The Soul Clan attacked the Ancient Clan to seize its Tuoshe Ancient Jades, while Hun Tiandi revealed his plan to become a Dou Di. As Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame prepared to escape with the gathered jades, Xiao Xuan appeared and shocked Hun Tiandi.

• Gu Yuan rang the Ancient Clan's emergency bell and summoned its ancestral hall elders as Nihility Devouring Flame overwhelmed Gu Lie.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying arrived to aid Gu Yuan, and Hun Tiandi revealed that he sought to become a Dou Di through the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• The Ancient Clan discovered that Gu Yang had taken its Ancient Jade, but the apparent Gu Yang was Hun Lin, a Soul Clan member who handed three jades to Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Tiandi blocked Gu Yuan while Nihility Devouring Flame escaped with the jades, then revealed that the Soul Clan had also targeted the Flame and Thunder Clans.
• Hun Tiandi used Soul Clan experts who self-destructed to cover his retreat, but Xiao Xuan appeared with a young man, leaving Hun Tiandi stunned.

Xiao Yun returned with Xiao Xuan and revealed that he had become a Dou Di, defeating Hun Tiandi and destroying the Soul Clan’s forces. He entrusted the remaining Soul Clan members to the surviving clans and left to find Xiao Yi Xian and the others.

• Xiao Xuan appeared beside Xiao Yun, shocking Hun Tiandi and the gathered clan leaders with his return from death.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Xiao Yun and Xiao Xuan with a Blood Sea torrent, but Xiao Yun dispersed it with a wave of his hand.
• Xiao Yun unleashed the Heavenly Flame Furnace, killing Hun Tiandi, Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Soul Clan forces inside the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin saluted Xiao Yun as a Dou Di, and he explained that he would bring Origin Emperor Qi back to the Dou Qi Continent so Gu Yuan and Xiao Xuan could advance.
• Xiao Yun gave the Tuoshe Ancient Jades to Xiao Xuan, assigned the surviving Soul Clan members to Gu Yuan and the clan leaders, then left to find Xiao Yi Xian and the others.