Chapter Summaries

Iron Protector destroyed the Xiao Clan’s Dou Emperor Puppet and demanded the jade fragment from Xiao Zhan, while Xiao Yao hurried back with Xiao Yan and the others. The chapter ended as Iron Protector attacked Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders while they tried to help the clan members escape.

• Iron Protector emerged from black mist, destroyed the Dou Emperor Puppet, and revealed himself as the Soul Hall attacker targeting Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yao learned the Xiao Clan was under attack, then summoned Ice Dragon to carry him, Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran through the void toward the clan.
• Iron Protector demanded Xiao Zhan hand over the jade fragment and threatened to destroy the Xiao Clan if he refused.
• Xiao Zhan asked Iron Protector to let the clan members leave safely before he surrendered the fragment, but Iron Protector refused.
• Xiao Zhan ordered the elders and disciples to retreat while he covered them, and Iron Protector sent black chains toward Xiao Zhan.

The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King arrived to protect the Xiao Clan, but Iron Protector summoned more Soul Hall forces and surrounded them. Xiao Zhan ordered the clan to flee while he and the elders held back their attackers.

• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King appeared and revealed that Xiao Yao had asked it to protect the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Zhan brought out a Dou Zong Puppet and sent a Dou Emperor Puppet to escort the clansmen away as the Lion King prepared to fight Iron Protector.
• Yun Leng and three elders withdrew to watch from a distance, while Iron Protector summoned Xuan Protector and dozens of Soul Hall figures to surround the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Zhan urged the Xiao Clan members to flee and sent the Dou Zong Puppet to attack the Soul Hall forces, opening a path.
• The Xiao Clan elders defended the escape route as the younger disciples led the elderly and children away with the Dou Emperor Puppet.

The Xiao Clan evacuated its people while the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and the Dou Zong Puppet fought to hold off the Soul Hall protectors. Xiao Zhan said the clan was nearly ready to escape, but both defenders were pushed into increasingly desperate battles.

• Xiao Qing resisted leaving until Xiao Shan took her away, while the Third Elder urged her to find Xiao Yao for protection.
• Xuan Protector and Iron Protector revealed that a spatial barrier had sealed Wutan City and planned to destroy the clan’s puppets and crush its hopes of escape.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King attacked the Soul Hall members, then fought Xuan Protector as Xiao Zhan reported that most of the Xiao Clan had evacuated.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King unleashed Purple Crystal Seal against Xuan Protector, who countered with Soul-Seizing Claw.
• Iron Protector absorbed the Soul Bodies in his Soul Bag, empowered himself, and struck the Dou Zong Puppet with his black scythe; their attacks collided and shattered the surrounding space.

Xuan Protector and Iron Protector destroyed the puppets defending the Xiao Clan while Xiao Zhan and the elders fought to protect the clan. When they learned that an invisible barrier had trapped the clanspeople inside Wutan City, Xiao Zhan and the clanspeople resolved to fight rather than surrender.

• Iron Protector sent the puppet flying, while Xuan Protector defeated the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and turned toward the damaged Dou Emperor Puppet.
• Xiao Zhan and the elders held off the Soul Hall protectors and discussed fleeing after the clan members escaped, but Xuan Protector destroyed the Dou Emperor Puppet and joined Iron Protector against the Dou Zong Puppet.
• Xuan Protector and Iron Protector destroyed the Dou Zong Puppet, and Xiao Yao sensed the loss of his puppets and rushed to help his father.
• Iron Protector demanded that Xiao Zhan hand over the thing and threatened the clan, just as a messenger reported that an invisible wall had trapped the Xiao Clan members inside Wutan City.
• Xiao Zhan swore to defend the Xiao Clan, and the elders and trapped clanspeople rallied to fight alongside him as Iron Protector mocked them.

Xiao Qing returned to face the Soul Hall with the Xiao Clan, refusing to surrender the Ancient Jade despite Iron Protector's threats. Just as Iron Protector's chain struck at her, Xiao Yao arrived and burned it away, leaving the confrontation with the Soul Hall unresolved.

• Iron Protector demanded that Xiao Zhan surrender the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade and threatened Xiao Qing when the clan refused.
• Xiao Qing declared that she would rather die than kneel, and Xiao Shan and the returning Xiao Clan members joined her in vowing to resist.
• Xiao Zhan rallied the clan, while Iron Protector summoned a black soul chain and attacked Xiao Qing as Xuan Protector's pressure kept the elders from moving.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King was trapped by Soul Hall Protectors, and Xiao Qing called for Cousin Xiao Yao as the chain closed in.
• Xiao Yao appeared, seized the chain, and burned it to ashes with his purple-brown flames.
• Iron Protector abandoned the chain and cursed Xiao Yao, while Xuan Protector remarked on his strength and threatened the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yao rescued the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and reassured Xiao Qing and the Xiao Clan before confronting the Soul Hall. Xiao Yan arrived with Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and others aboard an Ice Dragon, and Yao Lao warned him to escape if Xiao Yao could not defeat their enemies.

• Xiao Yao drove off the Soul Hall Protectors restraining the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, which broke free and thanked him.
• Xiao Qing recognized Xiao Yao, cried in his arms, and asked him to punish the people who had bullied the clan.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Zhan and the elders to leave the fight to him, then faced the Soul Hall group as an enormous Ice Dragon emerged from a rift in the sky.
• Iron Protector identified the people on the Ice Dragon as Xiao Clan reinforcements, while Xuan Protector dismissed the dragon as a mere Dou Zong-level Magical Beast.
• Xiao Yan saw his wounded father, elders, and clan members, demanded to know who had attacked them, and learned from Xuan Protector that they were from the Soul Hall.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to escape with the Ice Dragon if the battle went badly, but Xiao Yan trusted that Xiao Yao would find a way to survive.

Xiao Yao killed Yun Leng and challenged the Soul Hall Protectors, who answered by summoning the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array over the Xiao Clan. As Soul Bodies swarmed toward him and the others, Xiao Yao used purple-brown flames to burn them.

• Xiao Yao seized Yun Leng from among the four white-robed figures and burned the other three to ashes.
• Xiao Yao reminded Yun Leng of his promise and killed him with a slash, then warned Iron Protector and Xuan Protector that the Soul Hall was next.
• Iron Protector and Xuan Protector invited Xiao Yao to join the Soul Hall, but he mocked their offer and refused.
• Xuan Protector ordered the Soul Envoys to form the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array, sending swarms of Soul Bodies toward Xiao Yao, Xiao Yan, and the others.
• Xiao Yao declined Senior Skyfire's offer to intervene and used purple-brown flames to burn the attacking Soul Bodies.

Xiao Yao used Fallen Heart Flame to destroy the blood-red Soul Bodies unleashed by Xuan Protector’s Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array, while Xiao Yan learned that the flame was the nemesis of Soul Bodies. Xuan Protector insisted the array could withstand Xiao Yao’s attack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Ice Dragon froze the Soul Bodies attacking Xiao Yan and the others, and Zi Yan charged in and pulverized more with her fists.
• Xuan Protector activated Blood Feeding, turning the array’s souls blood-red and sending them surging toward Xiao Yao, Xiao Yan, and the others.
• Xiao Yao summoned the wolf form of the Five Wheels Flame Separation Technique, and its Fallen Heart Flame destroyed the attacking souls without leaving Soul Force behind.
• Yao Lao identified the flame as Fallen Heart Flame and told Xiao Yan that he had not taught Xiao Yao the Flame Mantra.
• Iron Protector and Xuan Protector recognized the flame’s danger to Soul Bodies, but Xuan Protector claimed it could not break the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array.

Xiao Yao destroyed the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array, saving the Xiao Clan and freeing the trapped souls. As he prepared to move his family to his Small World, Xuan Protector summoned more than twenty powerful Soul Hall figures through a spatial rift.

• Xiao Yao sent his wolf-shaped fire spirit crashing into the black clouds, breaking the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array.
• Xiao Zhan remembered his late wife’s plea to protect Xiao Yao and Xiao Yan, and the Elders praised Xiao Yao’s strength.
• The freed Soul Bodies fled, while the array’s backlash killed the ordinary Soul Hall Protectors and badly injured Xuan Protector.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Zhan and the Elders he would move the Xiao Clan members into his Small World so they could leave Wutan City.
• Xuan Protector and Iron Protector crushed their tokens, opening a spatial rift from which Venerable Mu Gu, Venerable Qing Hai, and more than twenty black-robed figures emerged.

Xiao Yao sent the Xiao Clan and his companions into the Small World inside his Soul Storage Ring, leaving himself to face Mu Gu, Venerable Qing Hai, and the Soul Hall forces. After evading Mu Gu’s attack, Xiao Yao confronted them alone and taunted them as the people inside watched anxiously.

• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall had sent two Dou Zuns and more than twenty Dou Zongs, but Xiao Yan refused to abandon Xiao Yao.
• Xiao Yao sent Xiao Zhan, the elders, and the rest of the Xiao Clan into his Small World, then told Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, Qing Lin, and the others to enter as well.
• Mu Gu and Venerable Qing Hai declared that they intended to capture Xiao Yao, and Mu Gu fired a black stream of Dou Qi at him.
• Xiao Yao stored Xiao Yan and the others in his Soul Storage Ring and dodged Mu Gu’s strike, which destroyed a Xiao Clan residence.
• Xiao Yao warned those inside his Small World not to use Dou Qi recklessly, while Zi Yan and the others watched him through a light curtain.
• Xiao Yao rose into the air, faced Mu Gu and the Soul Hall group alone, and challenged them to prepare their last words.

Xiao Yao revealed his Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong cultivation and used the Three Thousand Meteorite Crystal Flame to kill more than twenty Soul Hall Protectors. As Mu Gu and Qing Hai remained, Xiao Yan and the Xiao Clan watched the battle, and Xiao Zhan said he would pass the Clan Leader position to Xiao Yao if he survived the crisis.

• Xiao Yao declared he would no longer hide his cultivation and revealed his Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong strength to Mu Gu and Qing Hai.
• Venerable Qing Hai ordered more than twenty Soul Hall Protectors to attack Xiao Yao, but Xiao Yao stopped their chains with an invisible force and scattered them with his aura.
• Xiao Yao summoned the Three Thousand Meteorite Crystal Flame and sent crystalline projectiles after the Soul Hall Protectors.
• The meteorite crystals pierced the Protectors' defenses, and invisible flames burned their souls before Mu Gu could stop Xiao Yao.
• Yao Lao confirmed Xiao Yao's strength to Xiao Yan, while Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders praised Xiao Yao and supported Xiao Zhan's plan to make him Clan Leader.

Xiao Yao battled Mu Gu and Qing Hai outside the small world, overpowering their attacks with his Heavenly Flame and Soul Force. As Xiao Yao began gathering energy for a powerful Dou Technique, Mu Gu and Qing Hai joined forces to interrupt him with the Great Soul-Splitting Mourning Palm.

• Xiao Yao taunted Mu Gu over Iron Protector’s death, and Mu Gu attacked him with ghostly blue flames.
• Xiao Yao’s purple dragon of Three Thousand Meteorite Crystal Flame clashed with Mu Gu’s energy claw, and Xiao Yao gained the advantage.
• Qing Hai tried to strike Xiao Yao from behind, but Xiao Yao blasted him away with Soul Force.
• Xiao Yao exploited Mu Gu’s distraction to injure him, then began gathering energy for a stronger Dou Technique.
• Mu Gu and Qing Hai moved together and unleashed the Great Soul-Splitting Mourning Palm to stop Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao destroyed Qing Hai and Mu Gu’s combined attack, but their jade tokens summoned the Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerables, who demanded that he join them and surrender the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade Fragments. Xiao Yao refused and declared that he would fight to defend his clan.

• Qing Hai and Mu Gu combined their palm seals into an attack that Xiao Yao shattered with Three Fingers Extinguish Living Beings.
• Qing Hai and Mu Gu crushed jade tokens and opened a spatial fissure, summoning a group led by the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Heavenly Venerables.
• The Seventh Heavenly Venerable absorbed Xiao Yao’s giant finger, while Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the weakest Heavenly Venerables had reached peak Eight-Star Dou Zun.
• The Ninth and Eighth Heavenly Venerables offered to spare the Xiao Clan if Xiao Yao joined the Soul Hall and handed over the clan’s Ancient Jade Fragments.
• Xiao Yao rejected their offer and declared that he would never betray the Xiao Clan, challenging the Soul Hall to fight.

Xiao Yao fought Mu Gu, Qing Hai, and Soul Hall’s Venerates, restoring his Dou Qi with an Instant Qi Pill as they deployed their Lifebound Soul Locks. He charged through the chains with a blue sword and severed several of them, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Seventh Heavenly Venerate ordered Mu Gu, Qing Hai, and the other Soul Hall experts to capture Xiao Yao.
• Mu Gu and the Venerates used the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Formation and attacked Xiao Yao with the Ten Thousand Souls Heavenly Lock, but his violet-brown flames melted the chains.
• Mu Gu tried to exploit Xiao Yao’s weakened Dou Qi, but Xiao Yao swallowed a Seventh-Grade Instant Qi Pill and rapidly recovered his strength.
• Mu Gu ordered the Venerates to summon their Lifebound Soul Locks, whose ghostly screams alarmed Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and the Xiao Clan youths watching from the small world.
• Xiao Yao’s Heavenly Flames failed to melt the Lifebound Soul Locks, so he charged at the chains with a blue treasured sword and severed several of them.

Xiao Yao battled Mu Gu and the other Soul Hall Venerables, dodging their soul attacks and striking at their Lifebound Soul Locks. As the Heavenly Venerables gave Mu Gu a quarter of an hour to finish him, Mu Gu began channeling crimson light through the chains.

• Mu Gu unleashed ghostly soul phantoms, but Xiao Yao used the Traveling Secret and Divine Sky Sword to destroy them.
• Mu Gu and the other nine Venerables sacrificed their blood essence to empower their Lifebound Soul Locks and attack Xiao Yao.
• Xiao Yao was knocked into a crater by the chains, then rose, exhilarated by the life-and-death battle.
• Xiao Yao dodged the chains and struck at them repeatedly, dimming their runes but failing to sever them.
• The Ninth Venerable condemned Mu Gu's group, and the Seventh Venerable gave them another quarter of an hour before the Heavenly Venerables intervened.
• Mu Gu suppressed his resentment, focused on Xiao Yao, and sent crimson light coursing through the chains.

Xiao Yao fought Mu Gu and the other Venerables until their Dragon-Binding Coil overwhelmed him and bound him in chains. In the Small World, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan tried to rush to his aid, but Yao Lao and Qing Lin stopped them, leaving everyone anxiously waiting.

• Xiao Yao dodged and severed many of the chains, but the relentless battle left him wounded and exhausted.
• Mu Gu ordered the Venerables to combine their chains into a black Flood Dragon, which broke through Xiao Yao’s lightning defense and struck his chest.
• The Flood Dragon turned back into chains and tightly bound Xiao Yao, staining the links with his blood.
• Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Small World to save Xiao Yao, but Yao Lao warned him that interfering could make things worse.
• Zi Yan tried to tear through the Small World’s barrier, but Zi Lin and Qing Lin restrained her and insisted they follow Xiao Yao’s instructions.

Xiao Yao remained bound and surrounded by Soul Hall forces while his allies held back from intervening. He revealed that his apparent surrender had concealed a breakthrough and a formation that summoned Tribulation Lightning, leaving the Heavenly Venerables and their followers trapped beneath the storm.

• Zi Lin and Qing Lin restrained Zi Yan from rushing out, while Xiao Zhan urged the Xiao Clan to wait and watch Xiao Yao’s fight.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerable offered Xiao Yao a chance to join the Soul Hall, but Xiao Yao appeared to give up resistance by putting away his sword.
• Xiao Yao revealed that he had reached the Dou Zun realm and shattered the Lifebound Soul Chain binding him.
• Xiao Yao summoned three formation flags and triggered a storm of Tribulation Lightning that locked onto the Soul Hall forces.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerable recognized that Xiao Yao had concealed the formation overhead, and Xiao Yao explained how he had hidden the flags in the Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yao’s Dou Zun breakthrough brought down Three-Colored Tribulation Lightning, forcing the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables and Mu Gu to brace for its next strike. Meanwhile, Jia Xing Tian and Yao Ye discussed the threat Xiao Yao’s and Xiao Yan’s strength posed to the Imperial Family and whether Yao Ye might marry one of them.

• The first bolt of Three-Colored Tribulation Lightning shattered the Ninth Heavenly Venerable’s defense and sent him flying.
• Mu Gu begged the Heavenly Venerables to save him, but the Seventh and Sixth refused; the Fifth promised to help if he survived the first bolt.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerable held back while he regulated his battle qi, and Xiao Yao resolved to test the Heavenly Tribulation without revealing Heavenly Thunder Son.
• Jia Xing Tian worried that Xiao Yao’s strength could endanger the Imperial Family, but Yao Ye argued that neither Xiao Yao nor Xiao Yan would act against them without cause.
• Jia Xing Tian asked Yao Ye which man she would choose to marry, and she said she would obey his arrangements while doubting either would accept her.

Powerful Tribulation Lightning near Wutan City alarmed Jia Xing Tian, Hai Bo Dong, and Yun Shan. Soul Hall's Wu Protector assured Yun Shan that their operation against the Xiao Clan would succeed, but Yun Shan remained uneasy about possible complications.

• Yao Ye left after Jia Xing Tian supported her choices and reminded her of her Imperial Family responsibilities.
• Jia Xing Tian and other experts sensed terrifying Tribulation Lightning near Wutan City, but they chose not to investigate.
• Yun Shan detected the Tribulation Lightning and worried it might disrupt the operation against the Xiao Clan.
• Wu Protector told Yun Shan that Soul Hall had sent over twenty Dou Zong experts and more than a dozen experts above Dou Zun to ensure the operation succeeded.
• Yun Shan accepted Wu Protector's reassurance but continued to fear that the Tribulation Lightning would bring unforeseen changes.

Xiao Yao used the first tribulation lightning to attack the Soul Hall forces, while Xiao Yao and the others watched from the Small World. Mu Gu survived but was gravely weakened, and the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables prepared for the next, more powerful lightning strike.

• Mu Gu formed Bone Armor, but the first tribulation lightning blasted him into a deep pit and destroyed his physical body.
• Xiao Yao used the Great Wilderness Heaven-Prisoning Finger to break the lightning bolt after it destroyed two of his three giant fingers, then took a medicinal pill to recover.
• The first lightning strike killed several weaker Soul Hall Venerables and left many others badly wounded, while the five Heavenly Venerables remained alive.
• Mu Gu emerged with a nearly vanishing Soul Body, and Fifth Heavenly Venerable collected him after promising to protect him.
• Fifth Heavenly Venerable warned the other Heavenly Venerables to prepare for the next strike as Xiao Yan and the others watched the tribulation through the light screen.