Chapter Summaries

Jia He defeated and devoured Hun Miesheng, gaining enough power to reach the five-star Dou Saint level. With Hun Miesheng dead and Soul Hall’s forces destroyed across the Central Plains, Jia He turned to the soul-energy sources gathered in Heaven Hall.

• Jia He used the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art to overpower Hun Miesheng’s Nihility Devouring Flame and trap him.
• Jia He devoured Hun Miesheng’s bloodline, vitality, and soul, breaking through to the five-star Dou Saint level.
• Hun Miesheng tried to self-destruct, but Jia He absorbed the gathered power and destroyed him.
• A Soul Clan altar guardian discovered that Hun Miesheng’s soul jade plaque had shattered and ordered the clan elders to be informed.
• The Western Dragon King and allied forces destroyed Soul Hall’s remaining branches, while Jia He examined the soul-energy sources in Heaven Hall.

After Soul Hall was destroyed, Jia He collected its Soul Origin and warned his allies to prepare for possible action from the Soul Clan. He refined the Soul Origin and broke through to the Di-Realm Soul, leaving Xiao Yan’s request to help Yao Lao refine a body for after his seclusion.

• Jia He collected the Soul Origin in Heaven Hall and left with the Western Dragon King, while an old man arrived at the ruins, destroyed Hun Miesheng’s remaining soul, and confronted a voice from Pill Tower.
• Jia He met with the returning fighters, including Xiao Yan, and warned them that the Soul Clan might retaliate after Soul Hall’s destruction.
• News of Soul Hall’s destruction spread across the Central Plains, while the Soul Clan remained silent and Jia He focused on stabilizing his Five-Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Yan gave Jia He Soul Hall’s Soul Origin and asked him to help refine a body for Yao Lao; Jia He offered the Northern Dragon King’s body, which had nearly reached Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• After a month of refining the Soul Origin, Jia He broke through from Heavenly State Grand Perfection to the Di-Realm Soul.

Jia He revealed that he had reached the Di Realm soul and explained the Soul Clan’s likely plans, then accompanied Xiao Yan and others to the Dou Saint Ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range. After secretly entering and strengthening the seal behind them, they began collecting the ruins’ treasures while Thunder Venerable’s attempt to break in ended in disaster.

• Jia He confirmed that he had reached the Di Realm and identified Nihility Devouring Flame as the Soul Clan figure seeking a Di-Realm Soul to help refine an Emperor-grade Medicinal Pill.
• Xiao Yan planned to find a Soul Infant Fruit for Yao Chen and refine him a body, so Jia He joined the expedition to the Skeleton Mountain Range to retrieve a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan.
• Medusa told Jia He that the Snake-People Tribe’s elders wanted them to prepare for the tribe’s next generation, and they spent three days together before setting out.
• Jia He broke through the spatial seal of the Dou Saint Ruins, entered with Xiao Yan and the others, then reinforced the seal so the experts outside would remain locked out.
• Jia He and his companions found a forest of rare medicinal herbs in the ruins and began taking its plants and seeds.
• Thunder Venerable tried to strike the strengthened seal, used a nearby Dou Zun as a shield against its counterforce, and was blasted into a mountain after spitting blood.

Jia He led his companions through the Ancient Ruins, collecting treasures and clearing its dangers while helping Xiao Yan obtain the Soul Infant Fruit for Yao Lao. After they emptied the ruins and left, Thunder Venerable greeted Huang Xuan and warned him that the outer seal had strengthened.

• Thunder Venerable admitted he had used the Earth Tiger Clan Chief's sworn brother as a shield, and promised compensation for the man's death.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao found the Soul Infant Demon Tree, while Jia He tamed its Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon guardian and told Xiao Yan to take the entire tree.
• Jia He dismantled the Beast Spirit Barrier, seized the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and destroyed the sleeping Heavenly Demon Phoenix beneath the plain.
• Jia He and his companions collected treasures throughout the ruins, and Qing Lin took charge of a rare pill beast that might eventually reach the ninth grade.
• Jia He destroyed the main hall's puppets and remnant soul, then stored the Dou Saint skeleton before leading his group out of the ruins.
• Huang Xuan arrived with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Thunder Venerable told him the ruins' outer seal had grown stronger.

Jia He weakened the Ancient Ruins’ seal after planting a false instruction in the Great Heaven Creation Palm, then helped Xiao Yan begin rebuilding Yao Chen’s body from Northern Dragon King’s remains. He left for the Nine Netherworld Python Clan while Yao Chen’s rebirth continued in the sealed cave.

• Jia He stored the Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon and led Xiao Yan, Medusa, and the others out of the Ancient Ruins.
• Jia He returned to the ruins, refined the Dou Sheng skeleton, and altered its spiritual inheritance so the Great Heaven Creation Palm would lack its essential tempering step.
• Jia He restored the puppets and weakened the spatial seal, leading Huang Xuan and Thunder Venerable to believe the seal was naturally fading.
• Jia He brought Northern Dragon King’s body to the group and began helping Xiao Yan prepare it for Yao Chen’s rebirth.
• Yao Chen swallowed the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and fused with Northern Dragon King’s skeleton as Jia He and Xiao Yan tempered it with flames.
• Jia He left for the Nine Netherworld Python Clan while Xiao Yan stayed to oversee Yao Chen’s final transformation.

Jia He brought Medusa and Qing Lin to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs so Medusa could pursue her evolution into a Nine-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python, then freed the imprisoned former clan leader Yao Ming. Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder rushed to the springs, where Jia He waited with Yao Ming.

• Jia He explained that Medusa’s purified Seven-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python bloodline could evolve through an inheritance hidden beneath the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Jia He took Medusa and Qing Lin to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and sealed them inside the Seven-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python nest to cultivate.
• Jia He found Yao Ming chained beneath the springs and offered to free him in exchange for his service; Yao Ming agreed and asked Jia He to help kill Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder.
• Jia He shattered Yao Ming’s chains, alerting Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder that the seal had broken.
• Jia He waited outside the Nine Nether Yellow Springs with Yao Ming as Yao Xiaotian and the Great Elder arrived, both one-star Dou Saints.

Jia He defeated Yao Xiaotian and the Grand Elder, helping Yao Ming reclaim leadership of the Nine Netherworld Python Clan. Yao Ming then brought Jia He to the Yellow Spring Stone Stele, where Jia He entered its remnant soul’s domain, leaving Yao Ming stunned by his immense soul power.

• Jia He restrained Yao Xiaotian and the Grand Elder, then crippled their meridians and cultivation after Yao Ming argued he was the more loyal and rightful subordinate.
• Yao Ming threw Yao Xiaotian and the Grand Elder into the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and agreed to serve Jia He as his clan chief.
• Yao Ming returned to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, where the elders supported him after learning of Yao Xiaotian’s betrayal.
• Yao Ming offered to show Jia He the Yellow Spring Stone Stele, which held the Yellow Spring Great Saint’s teachings and a remnant soul.
• Jia He sent a surge of soul power into the stele, and Yao Ming wondered if Jia He had reached the legendary Di Realm.

Jia He received the Yellow Spring Demon Saint’s inheritance, mastered Yellow Spring Heavenly Fury, and created the Yellow Spring Creation Palm. After sharing Demon Saint Essence Blood with Yao Ming, Qing Lin, and Medusa, he delivered the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan for Zi Yan and left her a message to join him after she broke through.

• Jia He met the Yellow Spring Demon Saint in his soul realm, learned that Source Qi was needed to become a Dou Di, and received the complete Yellow Spring Heavenly Fury cultivation method.
• Jia He quickly mastered Yellow Spring Heavenly Fury and combined it with the Great Heaven Creation Palm to create the Yellow Spring Creation Palm.
• The Yellow Spring Demon Saint gave Jia He his essence blood before fading away as the soul realm collapsed, and Jia He emerged from the Yellow Spring Stone Stele.
• Jia He gave Yao Ming a drop of Demon Saint Essence Blood, then gave two more drops to Qing Lin and Medusa before departing for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Jia He gave Elder Green Mountain the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan and asked that she join him after absorbing it and breaking through to the Dou Sheng realm.
• Elder Green Mountain woke Zi Yan and gave her the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Zi Yan was delighted to hear Jia He wanted her by his side.

Jia He returned from the Ancient Void Dragon clan with Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, then cultivated the Demon Saint Essence Blood while they traveled toward the Central Region. His breakthrough drew the Pill Tower Ancestor into their path, and the Ancestor revealed Soul Hall’s longstanding interest in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Jia He returned to Skeleton Mountain Range and congratulated Yao Chen on breaking through to Dou Sheng before the group set out for the Central Region.
• Jia He swallowed the Demon Saint Essence Blood and cultivated as Mu Qingluan flew them across the sky on an azure bird.
• Ten days later, Jia He's breakthrough shattered the surrounding space and pulled the azure bird into a spatial rift.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor arrived on a green ox, and Yao Chen recognized him as Pill Tower's mysterious ancestor.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor said he had seen Jia He at Heaven Hall and revealed that Soul Hall had pursued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for over a thousand years.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor sensed the Three Thousand Burning Flame within Xiao Yan.

The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Yan how to prepare for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and urged him to grow stronger. Jia He awakened as a Seven-Star Dou Sheng, revealed the flames’ connection to the Tou She Ancient God, and brought the group back to Pill Tower with the Ancestor.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor confirmed that Xiao Yan could seek the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but advised him to find the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s Heavenly Flame Map, prepare pills, and raise his strength beyond Dou Zun.
• Jia He awakened with the strength of an Early Seven-Star Dou Sheng and recognized the Pill Tower Ancestor as a Ninth-Grade Profound Pill.
• Jia He revealed that both the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Nihility Devouring Flame had escaped from the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, and said the Soul Clan might soon target the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Jia He urged Xiao Yan to go to the Ancient Clan and invited the Pill Tower Ancestor to return to Pill Tower; the Ancestor agreed and traveled with them to the Pill Region.
• Venerable Feng and Xuan Yi welcomed Yao Chen back after his recovery and breakthrough to Dou Sheng, then the Three Great Heads of Pill Tower recognized the returned Ancestor.

After the Pill Tower Ancestor affirmed the Pill Tower’s alliance with Imperial Prison, Jia He prepared to attend the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, where he intended to discuss the Soul Clan. He grew closer to Ya Fei and Xiao Yi Xian, and the chapter ended with Jia He comprehending the Yin Yang Dao Art during dual cultivation with Xiao Yi Xian.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor reunited with the First Elder, accepted the Pill Tower’s alliance with Imperial Prison, and said he would not be gone for long.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Yi Xian told Jia He that the Ancient Clan had invited Imperial Prison to its coming-of-age ceremony, and Jia He asked Xiao Yan to attend so they could make contact with the clan and discuss the Soul Clan.
• Jia He gave Ya Fei medicinal ingredients and Dou Techniques to sort, and Ya Fei spent the night with him while Xiao Yi Xian left to cultivate.
• The next morning, Xiao Yi Xian told Jia He she loved him and wanted to be with him, and he promised to spend the day with her.
• Jia He carried Xiao Yi Xian into a bamboo house, where dual cultivation triggered his comprehension of the Yin Yang Dao Art.

After Jia He helped Xiao Yi Xian break through to Nine-Star Dou Zun, he led a powerful group to the Ancient Clan’s Ancient Sacred City. The group entered the city as honored guests, while Ling Quan realized how dangerous it had been to challenge them.

• Jia He passed the Yin Yang Dao Art to Xiao Yi Xian, who credited their dual cultivation with her breakthrough and wanted to continue cultivating.
• Half a month later, Jia He, Xiao Yan, the Pill Tower Ancestor, Xuan Yi, and the Imperial Prison group traveled to Ancient Sacred City for the Ancient Clan’s gathering.
• Ling Quan challenged Xiao Yan’s right to enter, but Jia He sent the jade invitation toward him with enough force to make Gu Nanhai intervene.
• Gu Nanhai reprimanded Ling Quan and escorted the visitors inside, while the Fifth Commander warned Ling Quan that Jia He was the Imperial Prison’s Lord and had helped destroy the Soul Hall.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor revealed himself to Gu Nanhai, who recognized him as the Pill Tower Ancestor.

Jia He and the others arrived in Ancient Sacred City, where Jia He criticized the Ancient Clan for standing aside while the Soul Clan grew stronger and discussed Xiao Yan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade. Meanwhile, Xun Er learned that Xiao Yan had arrived, and the Ancient Clan elders heard Gu Nanhai report that the Lord of the Imperial Prison had killed Hun Miesheng.

• Gu Nanhai escorted Jia He, Xiao Yan, and their companions to the Ancient Clan’s residence and discussed the Soul Clan’s attention toward Jia He.
• Jia He criticized the Ancient Clan for failing to support the Xiao Clan and warned that its leaders had underestimated the Soul Clan’s strength and ambitions.
• Jia He suggested that Xiao Yan hand the Tou She Ancient God Jade to the Ancient Clan for safekeeping, and Xiao Yan agreed if necessary.
• Jia He warned Xiao Yan that Ancient Clan geniuses might challenge him during the coming-of-age ceremony, and Xiao Yan promised not to disgrace the Imperial Prison.
• Ling Ying told Xun Er that Xiao Yan had arrived and that the Imperial Prison had destroyed the Soul Hall and killed Hun Miesheng.
• Gu Nanhai told the Ancient Clan elders that the Lord of the Imperial Prison was extraordinarily powerful and was the one who killed Hun Miesheng.

Gu Yuan decided to return the Xiao Clan’s Sky Tomb slot to Xiao Yan, while Gu Yang secretly contacted the Soul Clan and revealed his infiltration. At the manor, Xiao Yan accepted a challenge from Yang Hao as Huo Zhi sensed unusual fire power in Jia He and went to meet him.

• Gu Yuan stopped the elders from disturbing the Xiao Clan and granted Xiao Yan the Sky Tomb slot that had belonged to the Xiao Clan.
• Gu Yang returned to the Ancestral Shrine and secretly informed the Soul Clan that Xiao Yan would enter the Sky Tomb and might possess the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Jia He and his companions relaxed at the manor, where Yang Hao challenged Xiao Yan to a fight.
• Xiao Yan faced Yang Hao, while Huo Zhi sensed powerful fire-attributed Dou Qi in Jia He and walked over to introduce herself.

Jia He revealed that his cultivated flame could make the Yan Clan’s Heavenly Flames submit, while Xiao Yan defeated Black Annihilation Army commanders at the Ancient Clan’s gathering. After confronting Soul Clan members and hinting at their plans against several ancient clans, Jia He arranged to explain the vanished Tunling Clan’s connection to Gu Yuan.

• Huo Zhi challenged Jia He’s cultivation and displayed the Red Lotus Karmic Flame, but Jia He’s Dou Qi flame made both it and Huo Xuan’s Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame show submission.
• Jia He discussed forging independent paths of cultivation with the Pill Tower Ancestor, who agreed that the ancient clans relied too heavily on their bloodlines and external power.
• Xiao Yan defeated Yang Hao and Lin Xiu, and Gu Xun stopped the Black Annihilation Army commanders from escalating the conflict.
• Jia He and Xiao Yan encountered three Soul Clan members, and Jia He suggested the Soul Clan planned to target the Spirit, Stone, and Yao Clans before mentioning Tunling.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor recognized Tunling as the name of a clan that had disappeared thousands of years earlier, and Jia He proposed explaining the matter to Gu Yuan in the Ancient Realm.

Jia He and his companions entered the Ancient Realm, traveled toward the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range, and encountered the Yao Clan and Xun Er along the way. Before the group reached the mountains, Xiao Yi Xian agreed to Jia He's proposal to have a child with him.

• Gu Nanhai announced the opening of the Ancient Realm, and Jia He and his companions entered through the spatial gate.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen saw members of the Yao Clan, while a Yao Clan man and woman disparaged Yao Chen as an exile.
• Jia He and his companions boarded an Ancient Clan Void Shuttle and traveled toward the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited Jia He in his room, and after he proposed they have a child, she agreed.
• The Void Shuttle reached the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range, where Xiao Yan spotted Xun Er and Jia He praised the Ancient Clan's strength.

Jia He met Gu Yuan in the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range and warned him that the Soul Clan might be harvesting other clans’ Dou God bloodlines and targeting the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Gu Yuan took Jia He to inspect the Ancient Clan’s ancestral shrine, where several powerful figures appeared to block their way.

• Xun Er welcomed Xiao Yan to the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range, and two Ancient Clan elders tried to suppress him before he forced them back.
• Jia He met Gu Yuan and declared that neither the Soul Clan nor Hun Tiandi could kill him without suffering his retaliation.
• Jia He told Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan might use the Nihility Devouring Flame to steal other clans’ bloodlines and could be preparing to attack the Spirit Clan.
• Jia He warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan coveted the Tou She Ancient God Jade and might have planted spies inside the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Yuan took Jia He to the ancestral shrine, where several powerful figures appeared before the ancient hall.

Gu Yuan and Jia He investigated a possible Soul Clan traitor inside the Ancient Clan’s Ancestral Shrine and grew suspicious of Gu Yang. Gu Yang realized he might be exposed and called Hun Tiandi for help, prompting Hun Tiandi to prepare to bring the Soul Clan elders to the Ancient Clan.

• Gu Yuan introduced Jia He to Gu Lie, Gu Dao, and Gu Feng, then warned them that a traitor might be targeting the Ancient Jade in the Ancestral Shrine.
• Gu Yuan ordered the shrine elders and anyone with access to the Ancient Jade to gather, while Jia He observed the Ancient Clan’s defenses and strength.
• Gu Lie reported that Gu Yang and Gu Xi remained at the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and the elders revealed Gu Yang’s past injury in a fight with a Soul Clan elder.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Ancient Sacred Mountain Range sealed and hurried with Gu Lie, Gu Dao, and the others toward the jade’s shrine.
• Gu Yang sensed something was wrong, contacted Hun Tiandi, and reported that he suspected his cover had been exposed.
• Hun Tiandi told Gu Yang to stall while he gathered the Soul Clan elders and headed for the Ancient Clan.

Gu Yuan exposed Hun Tiandi’s attempt to steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Jia He stopped Gu Yang’s diversion and killed him. Hun Tiandi warned Jia He and departed; Gu Yuan granted Jia He a place in the Sky Tomb, while the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony began the next morning.

• Gu Yuan sensed Hun Tiandi hiding near Gu Yang, and Gu Lie ordered the elders to capture Gu Yang.
• Gu Yang self-destructed as a distraction and sent his soul toward the Tou She Ancient God Jade, but Jia He destroyed his soul and protected the jade.
• Hun Tiandi appeared, warned Jia He that the Soul Clan would treat the Imperial Prison as an enemy, and demanded an explanation for the destruction of the Soul Hall.
• Jia He asked Gu Yuan for a favor, and Gu Yuan granted him a place in the Sky Tomb.
• Xun Er warned Xiao Yan to watch out for Gu Yao at the coming-of-age ceremony, which began the next morning.
• Jia He arrived at the ceremony plaza with Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the others, where Headmaster Mang Tianchi arrived with members of the Thunder Clan.

Jia He told Mang Tianchi that Hun Tiandi had tried to seize the Ancient Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, then discussed the Thunder Clan’s vulnerability and a possible visit after his trip into the Sky Tomb. At the Ancient Clan’s ceremony, Xun Er explained the bloodline rankings and Clan Marks as Ling Quan and other commanders received theirs.

• Mang Tianchi invited Jia He to visit the Thunder Clan, and Jia He said he could go after entering the Sky Tomb in half a year.
• Jia He revealed that Hun Tiandi had come to the Ancient Realm to take the Tou She Ancient God Jade but had failed, prompting Mang Tianchi to worry about the Thunder Clan’s jade.
• Jia He advised Mang Tianchi that the Thunder Clan’s jade offered little protection and that the clan would eventually have to face the Soul Clan.
• Xun Er explained why Elder Gu Dao’s presence at the ceremony was unusual, and Jia He suspected the Ancient Clan wanted to deter trouble from the Soul Clan.
• Xun Er described the Ancient Clan’s bloodline ranks and Clan Marks as Ling Quan received a golden mark, while Jia He teased Xiao Yi Xian about having a child after he became a Dou Di.
• The Ancient Clan’s commanders continued receiving Clan Marks, and Jia He anticipated that Gu Yao’s appearance would make things entertaining.