Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan inside the Heavenly Tomb and told him how the Xiao Clan had dwindled into the Xiao Family. After learning that Xiao Xuan could not leave the Tomb without dissipating and that reaching Dou Di was extraordinarily difficult, Xiao Yan promised he would one day bring his ancestor back to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Yan and asked about the Xiao Clan's condition, and Xiao Yan explained that only the declining Xiao Family remained.
• Xiao Xuan accepted the clan's fate and said its survival as an independent family was better than he had expected.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Xiao Xuan could be revived, and Xiao Xuan explained that his Soul Remnant could exist only within the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan recounted his failed attempt to reach Dou Di and warned Xiao Yan that great talent did not guarantee success.
• Xiao Yan assured Xiao Xuan that he would not grow arrogant and promised to bring him back to the Xiao Clan someday.
• Xiao Xuan decided that the aid he had prepared was unnecessary for Xiao Yan at his current realm.

After years of spreading Journey to the West across the continent and reaching immense strength, Xiao Yan investigated the hidden space beneath the magma and found the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. As he stood before its enormous stone gate, a voice greeted him, saying it had been waiting for him.

• After leaving the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan reflected on his lessons from Xiao Xuan and decided to pursue strength before investigating the Soul Clan or the Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Sheng three months later, then spent years spreading Journey to the West and reorganizing the Ancient Dragon Tribe.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and, after emerging from seclusion, reached strength that Hun Tiandi could no longer see through.
• Over nearly twenty years, Xiao Yan spread the scriptures and Dao across the continent, while Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan disappeared.
• Xiao Yan entered the hidden space beneath the magma and found a vast stone gate inscribed with “Ancient God's Cave Mansion.”
• A boundless voice sounded in the silent space and told Xiao Yan that he had finally come.

Xiao Yan found Zhu Kun trapped in the Ancient Emperor's Cave Dwelling, and the two fought before learning each other's identities and discussing the Ancient Jade. After they failed to open the stone gate, Zhu Kun asked Xiao Yan for a piece of jade so he could escape and help seize the rest, but Xiao Yan refused.

• Zhu Kun mistook Xiao Yan for the person he had awaited and attacked him when Xiao Yan asked who he was.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun exchanged several hundred moves before stopping to talk, and Xiao Yan learned Zhu Kun was an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Xiao Yan showed Zhu Kun the four pieces of Ancient Jade he carried and explained that other clans still held the remaining pieces.
• Zhu Kun urged Xiao Yan to seize the other clans' jade, but Xiao Yan said he ranked only fifth among the powerful figures outside.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun tried placing the Ancient Jade in the stone gate, but it did not open, and Xiao Yan sensed a familiar power in their interaction.
• Zhu Kun asked Xiao Yan to lend him a piece of Ancient Jade so he could escape and help seize the rest, but Xiao Yan refused.

Zhao Li reshaped the Dou Qi Continent’s resource system and entered the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Yan, where he used the Heavenly Tomb Soul’s origin to restore the remnant souls. Two years later, Xiao Xuan returned to life, and he and Zhao Li discussed what they wanted to protect and how Zhao Li had transformed the continent.

• Zhao Li let Xiao Yan pursue his path to becoming an emperor while the continent’s factions developed a cycle of resource use and growth.
• Zhao Li entered the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Yan and discovered that its accumulated origin could nourish remnant souls.
• Zhao Li neutralized the Heavenly Tomb Soul, ending the need for the souls inside to devour one another, and gave its origin to Xiao Xuan.
• Two years later, Xiao Yan created a new body for Xiao Xuan using Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and the Exotic Flame Origin.
• Xiao Xuan met Zhao Li and heard how Zhao Li had redistributed resources to help restore vitality to the Dou Qi Continent.

After the Dou Qi Continent’s origin was restored, Zhao Li sacrificed himself to avert its destruction and left his Dao for Ye Yunsheng to inherit. Eons later, she brought his remaining thought into reality on Blue Planet, allowing Zhao Li to return and confront the forces threatening the worlds.

• More than ten years after the Journey to the West, Xiao Yan, Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and the Old Dragon Emperor entered the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Dwelling and obtained the key to the Heavenly Evolution Grand Formation.
• The five Dou Di opened the formation, restoring the continent’s origin and causing its energy and cultivation opportunities to surge.
• A mysterious powerhouse attacked Zhao Li, who used the origins of the Dou Qi Continent and his Inner Universe to resist before realizing his defeat would destroy the continent.
• Zhao Li gave up his body and left a lotus inheritance behind; the newcomer sent the Dou Qi Continent back through time, where Ye Yunsheng later inherited Zhao Li’s Dao.
• After endless ages, Ye Yunsheng manifested Zhao Li’s remaining thought on Blue Planet, and Zhao Li reunited with her before reaching a realm beyond spacetime.
• Zhao Li learned that Ancestor Dragon’s world had sought the Dou Qi Continent’s Origin, sent Ancestor Dragon into Reincarnation, and prepared to return to the Origin.