Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong fought Hun Yu in the Heavenly Tomb, while Yao Xuan watched and killed Hun Li after he attempted a sneak attack on Yao Ling. As an energy storm approached, Yao Xuan led his group toward the third layer, where Hun Yu planned to trap them all.

• Lei Dong stopped Yao Xuan from attacking Hun Yu and challenged the Soul Clan prodigy to a fight.
• Lei Dong used Black Demon Lightning Prison to counter Hun Yu's yin soul Dou Qi, and the two fought to a standstill.
• Hun Li slipped behind Yao Xuan's group and attacked Yao Ling, but Yao Xuan immobilized and destroyed him with ten-colored heavenly flame.
• As the energy storm approached, Yao Xuan led everyone toward the third layer, and Lei Dong broke off his fight with Hun Yu to follow.
• Hun Yu watched them leave and resolved to catch them all on the third layer.

Yao Xuan and his companions entered the Heavenly Tomb’s Third Layer, where Hun Yu led Hun Shang to attack them. As Hun Shang overwhelmed their Dou Saint puppets, Xiao Xuan appeared to confront the Soul Clan elder.

• Yao Xuan burned through the Ancient Devouring Worm barrier with his Ten-Colored Heavenly Flame, seized the emperor’s cocoon, and entered the Third Layer with his companions.
• Hun Yu followed through a passage he opened with a black flame, intending to find Soul Clan ancestors and have them kill Yao Xuan’s group.
• The Blood Saber Saint attacked Yao Xuan and his companions, but Hun Shang emerged from the void and drove the Half-Saint away.
• Hun Yu asked Hun Shang to eliminate the ancient clans’ young members, and Hun Shang’s Seven-Star Dou Saint attack forced Yao Xuan to summon four Dou Saint puppets.
• Hun Shang immobilized the puppets, but Xiao Xuan appeared behind Yao Xuan’s group, terrifying Hun Shang.

Xiao Xuan appeared as a projection and effortlessly annihilated Hun Shang, a Seven-Star Dou Saint. Yao Xuan killed Hun Yu, captured his soul and the Nihility Devouring Flame's Sub-Flame, then returned to Xiao Yan and the others, where Xiao Xuan finally met a descendant of the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Xuan appeared as a projection, and Hun Shang dismissed him as no threat despite his companions' shock.
• Xiao Xuan killed Hun Shang with a single finger, erasing the Seven-Star Dou Saint's soul.
• Yao Xuan caught the fleeing Hun Yu and attacked him with Little Dragon Man's dragon flame, but Hun Yu used the Nihility Devouring Flame's Sub-Flame to devour much of it.
• Yao Xuan struck Hun Yu with the Thunderflame Rakshasa Palm, killed him, captured his soul in the Human Emperor Banner, and sealed the Sub-Flame before storing it.
• Yao Xuan returned to Xiao Yan and the others, and Xiao Yan bowed to Xiao Xuan as an unworthy descendant of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan said he had finally waited long enough to meet a descendant of his clan.

Xiao Xuan reunited with Xiao Yan and Yao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb, learned what had become of the Xiao Clan and the Flame Ancestor, and began passing the Xiao Clan’s last Dou Emperor Bloodline to Xiao Yan. After hearing how Yao Xuan had been cast out of the Yao Clan, Xiao Xuan resolved to repay his debt to Yao Fang.

• Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Yan and Yao Xuan, then brought them and Gu Xun'er to his tomb mansion and asked after Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that the Xiao Clan had fallen, and Xiao Xuan explained his failed attempt to become Dou Di and his death in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan recognized that Xiao Yan and Yao Xuan had learned the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame, and Yao Xuan told him that the Flame Ancestor had also died fighting Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the Three Mysterious Transformations could help Xiao Yan cultivate the Xiao Clan Mark, then began transferring the clan’s remaining Dou Emperor Bloodline to him in a blood pool.
• Yao Xuan recounted how the Yao Clan had sealed his bloodline and driven him out, prompting Xiao Xuan to condemn the clan and vow to repay his debt to Yao Fang.

Xiao Xuan told Yao Xuan how the Yao Clan betrayed their ancestor Yao Fang, sealed his bloodline, and took the Nine Nether Wind Flame. Yao Xuan rejected any thought of returning to the clan, and Xiao Xuan began helping him reclaim his Dou Emperor bloodline.

• Xiao Xuan revealed that Yao Fang had been his friend, a peak ninth-grade bloodline talent, and a Seven-Star Dou Saint who had once promised to ally the Yao and Xiao Clans.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Yao Fang had risked himself to help him, but the Yao Clan later stripped Yao Fang of his claim to clan leadership and sealed his bloodline.
• Yao Xuan resolved that the Yao Clan deserved its destruction and said Yao Dan's offer of the young clan chief position could not make him return.
• Xiao Xuan recalled that Yao Fang had subdued the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Yao Xuan realized the Yao Clan had forcibly taken it from his ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan touched Yao Xuan's brow and offered to help him reclaim his Dou Emperor bloodline as repayment of his debt to Yao Fang.

Xiao Xuan removed the seal hiding Yao Xuan’s divine-grade Yao Clan bloodline, but its clash with Zi Yan’s dragon-phoenix blood essence threatened to destroy him. After Xiao Xuan added the Xiao Clan’s Dou Emperor bloodline to balance the three powers, Yao Xuan completed his awakening and became a Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Xuan unraveled the Yao Clan’s seal within Yao Xuan and awakened his divine-grade bloodline.
• The dragon-phoenix blood essence inside Yao Xuan awakened and violently repelled his Yao Clan bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan sent a wisp of the Xiao Clan’s Dou Emperor bloodline into Yao Xuan, allowing all three powers to stabilize and merge.
• Xiao Yan completed his blood replacement, awakened the Xiao Clan clan pattern, and rose from Five-Star Battle Venerable to seven-star battle venerable.
• Yao Xuan refined the blood crystals around him, awakened a unique clan pattern, and reached the Dou Sheng realm.

Yao Xuan broke through to the Dou Sheng realm, and Xiao Xuan asked him to help Xiao Yan and the declining Xiao Clan. Xiao Xuan then passed Xiao Yan two high Heaven rank inheritances before sending him out of the Heavenly Tomb, leaving Xiao Xuan alone in his tomb mansion.

• Yao Xuan reached the Dou Sheng realm, and Xiao Xuan asked him to look after Xiao Yan and help restore the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Xuan left Xiao Xuan's Curtain Mansion so Xiao Xuan could speak with Xiao Yan alone.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the clan's hopes rested on him and passed him the Xiao Emperor Cangyuan Formula and the Cangyuan Emperor-Suppressing Ruler.
• Xiao Yan vowed to restore the Xiao Clan's glory, and Xiao Xuan sent him out of the Heavenly Tomb to meet Yao Xuan and the others.
• Xiao Xuan looked toward the banner bearing the character "Xiao" and murmured that it was quiet.

After leaving the Heavenly Tomb, Yao Xuan learned that the Spirit Clan had vanished from contact and departed the Ancient Realm with Xiao Yan. In the Medicine Realm, Yao Dan discovered Yao Xuan had awakened a divine-grade bloodline and vowed to bring him back to the Yao Clan.

• Yao Wanhuo sensed that Yao Xuan had become a Dou Sheng and that his Yao Clan bloodline had awakened, while Yao Xuan promised Yao Ling he would soon ask the Yao Clan for her hand.
• Hun Lin learned that Hun Yu and Hun Li had not emerged from the Heavenly Tomb, accused the Ancient Clan of foul play, and left after Tong Xuan threatened him.
• Tong Xuan told Yao Xuan and the others that contact with the Spirit Clan had been lost, and ordered Gu Xun'er to remain in the Ancient Realm during the investigation.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan left the Ancient Realm for Starfall Pavilion, while Tong Xuan questioned Gu Xun'er about their gains in the tomb.
• Yao Wanhuo reported Yao Xuan's Dou Sheng breakthrough and bloodline awakening to Yao Dan, who concluded that Yao Xuan had a divine-grade bloodline and vowed to bring him back to the Yao Clan.

Hun Tiandi discussed the Soul Clan’s plans with the nihility devouring flame, then ordered Hun Miesheng to recover the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade. He left Hun Miesheng three days to find it and warned that Xiao Zhan must stay alive.

• The nihility devouring flame gave Hun Tiandi the Spirit Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade and proposed attacking the Stone Clan, but Hun Tiandi chose to wait to avoid alarming the other Emperor Clans.
• The nihility devouring flame reported that Hun Yu had died in the Heavenly Tomb, and Hun Tiandi showed little concern, believing Xiao Xuan had killed him.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the nihility devouring flame to watch the Stone Clan and attack when the time was right.
• Hun Miesheng reported that the Soul Hall had nearly finished laying its formations and collecting souls, but had not found the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Miesheng to find the jade within three days and keep Xiao Zhan alive, then blasted him out of the hall.

Hun Miesheng ordered Soul Hall to seize the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade, sending its nine Heaven Venerables to the Jia Ma Empire. At Starfall Pavilion, Yao Xuan refined the Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame, advancing his Flame Mantra to High Heaven Rank, before Yao Lao told him that something had happened to the Xiao Household.

• Hun Miesheng sent Soul Hall's deputy hall master to retrieve the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade, and the deputy instead dispatched all nine Heaven Venerables to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Lao was astonished by their cultivation gains; Xiao Yan then entered seclusion.
• Yao Xuan told Yao Lao he planned to refine the Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame, which he had taken from Hun Yu.
• Yao Xuan refined the Child Flame, adding its devouring power to his Ten-Colored Heavenly Flame and raising the Flame Mantra to High Heaven Rank.
• Yao Lao waited outside Yao Xuan's stone chamber and told him that something had happened to the Xiao Household.

The Soul Hall captured the Xiao Household, forcing Xiao Yan to confront its Heavenly Venerates in the Jia Ma Empire. After Xiao Yan killed two of them but exhausted his Dou Qi, Gu You attacked him, and Yao Xuan arrived to intervene.

• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan that all nine Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates had gone to the Xiao Household, and Yao Xuan headed for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan learned from Hai Bodong that the Soul Hall had captured his family alive, then confronted the Heavenly Venerates and raised his strength with the Xiao Clan Mark.
• Xiao Yan used the Great Heaven Creation Palm and the Cangyuan Emperor-Suppressing Ruler to overwhelm and kill the Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates while the Great Heaven Venerable refused to let the others help.
• After Xiao Yan spent most of his Dou Qi and tried to attack again, Gu You blasted him away and ordered him to surrender.
• Yao Xuan emerged through the void and sent a gigantic Dou Qi palm toward Gu You.

Yao Xuan arrived to rescue Xiao Yan and confronted the Soul Hall, revealing a clan pattern that raised his strength to Early-Stage Three-Star Dou Sheng. After defeating the Great Heaven Venerable, he captured his soul and held it for something he still wanted from it.

• Yao Xuan gave Xiao Yan a pill and told him to leave the rest to him.
• Yao Xuan crushed Gu You, seized his soul, and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Yao Xuan killed the Soul Hall's Heaven Venerables, leaving only the Great Heaven Venerable alive.
• The Great Heaven Venerable attacked Yao Xuan with a Soul Claw, but Yao Xuan revealed his clan pattern and reached Early-Stage Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Yao Xuan killed the Great Heaven Venerable and captured his Late Heavenly Soul Realm soul, intending to obtain something from it.

After Yao Xuan rescued the Xiao Household from the Great Heaven Venerable’s micro-space, Xiao Yan arranged for them to return to Starfall Pavilion under guard. Yao Xuan gave Hai Bodong an eighth-rank pill, which helped him break through to the Battle Venerable realm, while Jia Xingtian realized the Mittel Family’s influence in the Jia Ma Empire would soon eclipse his own.

• Yao Xuan opened the micro-space and reunited Xiao Yan with Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the rest of the Xiao Household.
• Xiao Yan asked to bring his family to Starfall Pavilion, and Yao Xuan suggested requesting guards from Uncle Chen; Xiao Yan sent Yao Lao a message using the spatial jade slip.
• Yao Xuan gave the injured Hai Bodong healing pills and an eighth-rank Kongjing Shengzun Pill to help him advance.
• Hai Bodong swallowed the Kongjing Shengzun Pill and broke through from half-step Battle Venerable to one-star Battle Venerable, becoming the new Ice Venerable.
• Jia Xingtian sensed Hai Bodong’s breakthrough and worried that the Mittel Family would dominate the Jia Ma Empire.

Yao Xuan searched the Great Heaven Venerable’s soul for the locations of the Soul Hall’s three halls, then attacked the leaderless Human Hall to seize its soul origin. After freeing the trapped souls and claiming the purified soul power, he prepared to use it to advance his own soul realm.

• Starfall Pavilion’s escort safely brought the Xiao Household’s members to the pavilion while Yao Xuan released and searched the Great Heaven Venerable’s soul.
• Yao Xuan learned the locations and defenses of the Soul Hall’s Heaven, Earth, and Human Halls, then sent the Great Heaven Venerable’s soul into the Human Soul Banner for refinement.
• The deputy hall master watched all nine Heaven Venerables’ soul tablets go dark and decided to act personally.
• Yao Xuan reached the Human Hall, broke through its spatial barrier, and killed every Soul Hall member inside.
• Yao Xuan destroyed the Soul-Locking Array, freeing the souls trapped there and revealing a sphere of purified soul origin.
• Yao Xuan claimed the soul origin, which he expected would help him reach the Late Heavenly Soul Realm.

Yao Xuan returned to the Starfall Pavilion with purified soul origin and entered seclusion to absorb it. The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master attacked the pavilion and overwhelmed Yao Lao, until Old Man Shennong appeared to confront him.

• Yao Xuan returned to the Starfall Pavilion, told Yao Lao he had destroyed the Soul Hall's Human Hall, and entrusted the pavilion's safety to him while he cultivated.
• Yao Xuan entered seclusion in the mountains and absorbed the purified soul origin to strengthen his soul.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master arrived above the Starfall Pavilion and demanded that Yao Lao hand over the Xiao Household members.
• The Vice Hall Master crushed Yao Lao's bone spirit cold flame attack, injured him, and threatened the pavilion.
• Old Man Shennong appeared as Yao Lao's injuries began to heal and warned the Vice Hall Master not to run wild.

Old Man Shennong intervened to protect the Starfall Pavilion, but the Soul Hall deputy hall master tried to exploit the continent’s pact against experts above Five-Star Dou Saint acting freely. Yao Xuan arrived before the deputy hall master could summon the Soul Clan, killed him, and revealed his tremendous strength.

• Old Man Shennong appeared above the Starfall Pavilion and declared himself its supreme elder, then blocked the deputy hall master’s attack with his life spirit flame.
• The deputy hall master revealed that Old Man Shennong’s intervention violated the pact restricting experts above Five-Star Dou Saint and prepared to summon the Soul Clan.
• Yao Xuan appeared behind the deputy hall master after refining the sphere of soul origin light and used the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal to immobilize him.
• Yao Xuan struck the deputy hall master with a ten-colored Fire Lotus, annihilating him before he could call for help.
• Yao Xuan demonstrated the strength of an Early One-Star Dou Saint with Late Heavenly Soul Realm soul power, and his clan pattern could let him fight Hun Miesheng.

Yao Xuan defeated the Soul Hall’s forces, seized the Earth Hall’s soul origin, and prepared to refine it to meet the Yao Clan’s conditions for marrying Yao Ling. Hun Tiandi spared Hun Miesheng and learned that Yao Xuan had killed Hun Yu, turning his attention toward him.

• Yao Xuan checked on Yao Lao after killing the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master, and Old Man Shennong explained that he had intervened to protect Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Xuan raided the Earth Hall, took its stored soul origin, and returned to Starfall Pavilion to refine it and strengthen his soul power.
• Hun Miesheng learned that the Human Hall and Earth Hall had fallen and that the Soul Hall’s experts and soul origin were lost, then obeyed Hun Tiandi’s summons to the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi confronted Hun Miesheng but spared him after the Nihility Devouring Flame argued that his work was unfinished, ordering him to accelerate the formation and leave the Xiao Clan alone.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame identified Yao Xuan as the thief of the Soul Hall’s soul origin and the person who had killed Hun Yu, prompting Hun Tiandi to take an interest in him.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame decided to target the Yao Clan so Nihility could obtain an emperor-realm soul, while the Yao Clan prepared to persuade Yao Xuan to return. Yao Xuan emerged from seclusion stronger and learned the final Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame fragment map would soon be auctioned, just as Old Man Shennong sensed an unseen visitor.

• Hun Tiandi dismissed Nihility Devouring Flame’s concerns about Yao Xuan and chose to attack the Yao Clan to help Nihility attain an emperor-realm soul.
• Yao Dan and Yao Wanhuo agreed to offer Yao Ling’s marriage to Yao Xuan on the condition that he return to the Yao Clan.
• Yao Wanhuo brought Yao Ling and Yao Tian through a spatial passage toward Starfall Pavilion to meet Yao Xuan.
• Yao Xuan completed his seclusion with heavenly realm grand perfection soul power and Mid-Stage One-Star Dou Sheng cultivation.
• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan that the final Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame fragment map would soon appear at the Space Auction and urged him to visit Xiao Yi Xian, who was expecting his child.
• Old Man Shennong opened his eyes and called for an unseen old friend to reveal himself.

Yao Wanhuo visited Starfall Pavilion to persuade Yao Xuan to return to the Yao Clan, where he could marry Yao Ling. After Yao Xuan proved he had fulfilled the clan’s cultivation requirements, Wanhuo revealed that the marriage still required him to return, leaving Yao Xuan angered by the clan’s broken promise.

• Yao Wanhuo, Yao Ling, and Yao Tian arrived at Starfall Pavilion, and Wanhuo asked whether Old Man Shennong would join the Yao Clan if Yao Xuan returned.
• Yao Xuan refused to return, but Yao Wanhuo brought up the clan’s promise that he could marry Yao Ling after reaching Dou Sheng and heavenly realm grand perfection in soul power.
• Yao Xuan revealed that he had reached both requirements, shocking Yao Wanhuo and Yao Tian and exciting Yao Ling.
• Yao Wanhuo announced that Yao Ling could not leave the clan and insisted Yao Xuan return to marry her, offering him the young clan chief position and the clan’s resources.
• Yao Ling protested that the clan chief had not made that condition, while Old Man Shennong accused the Yao Clan of changing its agreement.
• Yao Xuan recognized Yao Wangu’s shamelessness in Yao Wanhuo’s behavior and darkened his expression.

The Soul Clan prepared to attack the Yao Clan while Yao Wanhuo tried to force Yao Xuan back into the clan. When Yao Wanhuo struck Yao Ling and attacked Yao Xuan, Old Man Shennong intervened and vowed to protect his disciple.

• Hun Tiandi approved the Nihility Devouring Flame's plan to attack the Yao Clan while Yao Dan was its only remaining high-level fighter.
• Yao Xuan rejected Yao Wanhuo's demand to return, and Yao Ling declared she would leave the Yao Clan rather than let it force him.
• Yao Tian questioned the clan's conduct, but Yao Wanhuo insisted that his decisions served the Yao Clan.
• Yao Wanhuo slapped Yao Ling, prompting Yao Xuan to attack him in anger.
• Yao Wanhuo used the Nine Nether Wind Flame to summon a giant bell over Yao Xuan, but Old Man Shennong blocked it with his life spirit flame and vowed to protect Yao Xuan.