Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han and the Xiao Family Ancestors visited Jiang Yu at the Ten Thousand Puppets Sect to acquire Battle Armors that boosted combat power and concealed their identities. Xiao Han traded Eighth Rank and Ninth Rank pills for the armor, leaving both sides satisfied and their cooperation open for the future.

• Xiao Wu Rui restrained the puppet Little Six when Xiao Han and the Xiao Family Ancestors arrived at the Heavenly Puppet Mountain Range, and Jiang Yu asked them to release it.
• Jiang Yu led Xiao Han and the others into the Assessment Space and showed them Battle Armors that increased combat power and changed the wearer’s appearance and aura.
• Xiao Han tested the Battle Armors with the group, agreed to the deal, and gave Jiang Yu a Storage Ring of pills.
• Jiang Yu accepted the payment without checking it and saw Xiao Han and the others off.
• Xiao Wu Rui asked what Xiao Han had traded, and Xiao Han revealed that the pills included Eighth Rank and Ninth Rank varieties.

Xiao Han organized Langya Pavilion’s campaign against the Soul Hall after its initial attacks found most ordinary branch halls abandoned. He assigned teams to destroy fourteen Earthly Fiend Branch Halls and promised rewards for outstanding service, while the forces set out and Sound Valley received protection.

• The Second Elder reported that Langya Pavilion’s attacks on ordinary Soul Hall branch halls had yielded little because the targets were deserted.
• Yi Huang displayed a map of twenty-four Earthly Fiend Branch Halls and explained their regional distribution, leaving fourteen for Langya Pavilion to target.
• Xiao Han ordered teams of Langya Guards and Dou Zun elders to attack the fourteen branch halls, with powerful reinforcements on standby.
• Xiao Han promised exceptional performers full cultivation resources and personal help reaching Dou Sheng, prompting the assembled members to pledge themselves to Langya Pavilion.
• Yi Huang confirmed that Giant Force Saint and Fairy Ling Yi had gone to protect Sound Valley, and Langya Pavilion’s forces advanced toward their targets.

A year into the war against the Soul Hall, Xiao Han prepared for the coming appearance of the Purification Lotus Demon Fire and asked Yi Huang to join the expedition while concealing her true strength. Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan infiltrated the Yao Clan unnoticed and hid in the Medicine World.

• Xiao Han reflected on the Allied Forces’ stalemate with the Soul Hall, the strain on Langya Pavilion, and the Xiao Clan’s growth to eight Dou Sheng experts.
• Xiao Han planned for the Purification Lotus Demon Fire’s appearance in half a year and realized Yi Huang could help provide protection despite her publicly understated cultivation.
• Yi Huang agreed to accompany Xiao Han to the Demon Fire Space after he assured her he would handle any objections from the Ancient Races.
• The factions reduced fighting as they prepared to compete for the Purification Lotus Demon Fire.
• Xiao Xuan reached the Shennong Mountain Range and infiltrated the Yao Clan without being detected.

Xiao Han set out with a small group from Langya Pavilion as the Purification Lotus Demon Fire emerged, while he planned to support them from outside the Demon Fire Space. He joined Gu Dao and other powerful observers in a hidden space, where Old Man Tianyun said he wanted to speak with Xiao Han after the Demon Fire matter ended; then the Demon Fire stirred, and Xiao Han sensed people arriving.

• The Demon Fire’s reemergence caused twin moons, aligned stars, and strange energy fluctuations to appear across the world.
• Xiao Han told Yi Huang and the two Xiao Clan ancestors to go fight for the Demon Fire and asked the ancestors to protect Xiao Yan, while he said his own battlefield lay elsewhere.
• Xiao Han left for a hidden space above the Demon Fire Space, and Yi Huang and the two ancestors set off after him.
• Xiao Han greeted Gu Dao, identified the Fire Spirit Fairy, and learned that Old Man Tianyun guarded the agreement between the Central Plains and the Ancient Races.
• Old Man Tianyun said he had something to discuss with Xiao Han after the Demon Fire matter, as the Purification Lotus Demon Fire erupted and scorched the mountains into a vast desert.
• Xiao Han sensed people arriving in the Demon Fire Space.

Xiao Han froze Soul Flame with his domain while the assembled experts discussed their plans to contain the Purification Lotus Demon Fire. Several hours later, the Demon Fire Space began opening through a milky-white vortex.

• Gu Dao complained to Xiao Han about Langya Pavilion bringing three Four Star Dou Shengs, while Soul Flame declared that the Purification Lotus Demon Fire belonged to the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Han stopped Gu Dao from fighting and froze Soul Flame into an ice sculpture with his domain, then promised to release him after the contest.
• Xiao Han asked the others why they had come, and Gu Dao explained that they were there as a final safeguard against the Purification Lotus Demon Fire escaping.
• Xiao Han and the others watched Yao Wangui confront Elder Yao and Xiao Yan, judging that Yao Wangui’s conduct had disgraced the Yao Clan.
• Several hours later, the Demon Fire Space trembled, its milky-white light expanded, and a vortex appeared before it.

Blood Serum of the Blood Demon Tribe attacked the Stone Clan, announcing that he served the Soul Clan and intended to devour the clan. Shi Qianren gathered the Stone Clan and visiting experts to fight back, but the clash with Blood Serum’s blood finger had only just begun.

• Xiao Han and the Fire Spirit Fairy discussed the chances of obtaining the Purification Lotus Demon Fire in the Demon Fire Space.
• Blood Serum revealed that he had come to wipe out the Stone Clan and used a vast sea of blood to drain and devour its members.
• Shi Qianren recognized Blood Serum as a Soul Clan ally and warned that he could control blood, absorb energy, and grow stronger during battle.
• Shi Qianren rallied the Stone Clan and its invited experts, while Blood Serum killed two fleeing Five-Star Dou Shengs and sealed the Stone Realm.
• Blood Serum launched his Blood Spirit Life Devouring Finger, and Shi Qianren formed the Bedrock Heaven Severing Formation as the other experts struck the attack with their strongest techniques.

After the Soul Clan destroyed the Stone Clan, Shi Yuan led the survivors toward the Gu Clan for protection. Xiao Xuan rescued the Yao Clan from the Soul Clan army, which withdrew, and Yao Dan prepared to honor his promise to him.

• Shi Yuan reassured the surviving Stone Clan members that the Gu Clan was their best hope and led them toward it.
• In the Stone Realm, Blood Serum noted that some Stone Clan members had escaped and worried they would expose the attack.
• Xiao Xuan appeared as the Yao Clan faced destruction, startling Yao Dan and the other Yao Clan experts.
• Xiao Xuan confronted Void Flame Devouring, and Yao Dan agreed to his decision to save the Yao Clan despite its past inaction during the Xiao Clan's destruction.
• Void Flame Devouring withdrew the Soul Clan army rather than risk a costly fight without Soul Emperor's support.
• Yao Dan thanked Xiao Xuan, learned that Xiao Zhan was now the Xiao Clan's leader, and sent Wan Huo to prepare to fulfill his promise.

After learning that the Soul Clan had devastated both the Yao Clan and Stone Clan, Xiao Han prepared to join the remaining Ancient Races in resisting them. Xiao Xuan brought back the Tou She Ancient God Jade and Yao Clan’s wealth, while Xiao Han planned to gather resources from the other Ancient Races.

• Xiao Han and Yi Huang read reports describing how the Soul Clan nearly destroyed the Stone Clan and inflicted devastating losses on the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan emerged and told Xiao Han he would give him a great gift when they reached the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Xuan displayed more than one hundred Storage Rings filled with the Yao Clan’s wealth, leaving Xiao Han and Yi Huang astonished by how little the Langya Pavilion possessed in comparison.
• Xiao Xuan handed Xiao Han the Tou She Ancient God Jade and said Yao Dan had invited him to discuss an alliance against the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Han said he planned to borrow resources from his Ancient Race friends, and Xiao Xuan left after hearing his get-rich plan.

Xiao Han agreed to have Langya Pavilion join the Ancient Races in an alliance against the Soul Clan, while acknowledging that he could not fight personally. He ordered the pavilion’s experts and allies to prepare, as Yi Huang departed for the Gu Clan and Xiao Han set his sights on the Soul Hall.

• Gu Dao invited Xiao Han to the Gu Clan to discuss resisting the Soul Clan, and Xiao Han agreed to send Langya Pavilion’s experts despite being unable to intervene himself.
• Xiao Han told Langya Pavilion’s Dou Sheng experts that an alliance with the Ancient Races was imperative and ordered the Deputy Pavilion Master to negotiate with the Gu Clan.
• Yi Huang left for the Gu Clan after Xiao Han warned her to be careful, while he prepared to attack the Soul Hall to advance his soul realm.
• Huang Jing Tian received Xiao Han’s letter and decided to join him, while Jiang Yu welcomed the chance to repay his favor.
• Xiao WuYe considered the forces he could mobilize, then slipped away to gather more support for the coming battle.

Xiao Han attacked the Soul Hall headquarters in the Corpse Demon Mountain Range, trapping its members in an icy formation and defeating Hun Miesheng. He captured Hun Miesheng to deliver a message to the Soul Emperor, then revealed that he was Xiao Han of the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Han entered the Corpse Demon Mountain Range and killed two Soul Hall members who tried to leave.
• Xiao Han sealed the mountain range beneath a white barrier and used icy threads to bind Soul Hall members and drain their Dou Qi.
• Hun Miesheng confronted Xiao Han, who crushed his defenses, smashed his body into a mountain, and captured his Soul Body.
• Xiao Han began telling Hun Miesheng to deliver a message to Soul Emperor and introduced himself as Xiao Han of the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Han revealed his Xiao Clan identity to Hun Miesheng and used the Medicine Tribe’s Tou She Ancient God Jade to bargain for the release of his junior disciple. After setting an exchange in Langtian City for ten days later, Xiao Han turned his attention to Heaven Hall and Soul Origin.

• Xiao Han revealed that he was a remnant of the Xiao Clan, and Hun Miesheng regretted not killing him when he had the chance.
• Xiao Han showed Hun Miesheng the Medicine Tribe’s Tou She Ancient God Jade and demanded that he exchange it for Xiao Han’s junior disciple.
• Xiao Han tortured Hun Miesheng with Extreme Cold until he could barely respond, then set an exchange at Langtian City ten days later.
• Xiao Han warned Hun Miesheng that he might give the jade to Xiao Yan as a betrothal gift for the Gu Clan Little Princess.
• Hun Miesheng fled, while Xiao Han considered asking the ancestor for help and turned toward Heaven Hall in pursuit of Soul Origin.

Xiao Han destroyed the Soul Hall’s Heaven Hall and cleansed the Corpse Demon Mountain Range, then absorbed its Soul Origin during seclusion. After five days, he broke through to an Emperor Realm Soul and prepared to leave seclusion.

• Xiao Han freed the souls trapped in Heaven Hall, collapsed the Soul Hall, and used Purifying World to erase the Corpse Demon Mountain Range beneath a snowy plain.
• Experts from the Central Plains later investigated the transformed land, which centuries afterward became a cultivation treasure site for an ice-attribute sect.
• Xiao Han returned to Langya Pavilion, compressed Heaven Hall’s Soul Origin, and absorbed it in seclusion to strengthen his soul.
• Xiao Xuan and Yi Huang sensed Xiao Han’s rapid growth, and Xiao Xuan reassured Yi Huang that he was safe.
• Xiao Han broke through the barrier between the Heaven Realm and Emperor Realm, allowing experts across the Central Plains to sense his new soul power.
• Xiao Han surveyed more than half the Central Plains with his Emperor Realm Soul and declared that he was coming out of seclusion.

After Xiao Han emerged from seclusion, he learned that his Emperor Realm Soul breakthrough had created a cultivation opportunity for Langya Pavilion. He revealed his Xiao Clan identity and arranged for Xiao Xuan to gather reinforcements and bring the Xiao Clan’s experts to Langtian City, while preparing a gift for the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Han saw Langya Pavilion members cultivating amid the energy tide from his breakthrough, while experts carried away those who had fainted.
• Xiao Xuan explained the breakthrough’s benefits and learned that Xiao Han wanted him to help exchange the Tou She Ancient God Jade for his martial nephew.
• Xiao Han revealed that he would no longer hide his Xiao Clan identity, and Xiao Xuan described how the Soul Clan had obtained the Ancient Jades from the Gu, Thunder Flame, and Medicine Tribes.
• Xiao Han asked Xiao Xuan to summon experts from the Ancient Races to Langtian City within three days and to bring the Xiao Clan’s experts from the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Han gave Xiao Xuan a Jade Disc and instructions for setting it up as a grand gift for the Soul Clan.

As Langtian City prepared for war with the Soul Clan, Xiao Han welcomed the Ancient Races, Xiao Xuan’s Xiao Clan forces, and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance. Their armies gathered ahead of the decisive battle, which was set to begin in two days.

• The last civilians withdrew from Langtian City, and Xiao Han discussed the coming battle with the Second Elder, who was confident Langya Pavilion would win.
• Ye Jianxin alerted Xiao Han to the arrival of Gu Yuan and the other Ancient Race leaders, who brought more than a hundred Dou Sheng experts ahead of their main force.
• Gu Yuan asked about Xiao Xuan, who appeared with ten formations of the Xiao Clan’s Judges.
• Elder Yao arrived with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, and Xiao Han recognized that he had become a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill alchemist.
• Xiao Han told the assembled leaders to focus on resisting the Soul Clan as they prepared for the decisive battle in two days.

Xiao Han revealed that Langya Pavilion had prepared jade tablets for the allied Dou Shengs, then faced the arriving Soul Clan and agreed to exchange the Tou She Ancient God Jade for Ye Shenghan. The exchange was completed, but both sides immediately attacked Blood Serum, who held the jade.

• Xiao Han insisted that Langya Pavilion would take the lead and presented jade tablets for the participating Dou Shengs, promising they would bring the Soul Clan a surprise.
• Two days later, Soul Emperor arrived with the Soul Clan army and confronted Xiao Han, accusing him of concealing his Xiao Clan identity.
• Xiao Han confirmed that the battered captive was Ye Shenghan and proposed exchanging him for the Tou She Ancient God Jade through Blood Serum.
• Xiao Han and Blood Serum exchanged the jade and Ye Shenghan, then retreated with their respective prizes.
• Both sides shouted for their forces to move, and a wave of Dou Techniques struck at Blood Serum as he held the Ancient Jade.

Blood Serum escaped the Allied Forces’ attacks by turning into blood, but Xiao Han trapped him inside the Northern Kingdom Killing Realm and summoned Ice and Snow Giants to attack him. Blood Serum was left surrounded while Xiao Han disappeared.

• Blood Serum turned into blood and returned to the Soul Clan camp with the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Xiao Han brought the unconscious Ye Shenghan back to the Allied Forces.
• Xin'er arrived with Heavenly Sound Old Man and took charge of caring for Ye Shenghan, while Ye Jianxin went to the front line to avenge his son.
• Xiao Han confronted Blood Serum and learned that Ge Xiusi had warned him about Xiao Han, but he refused Blood Serum’s offer to trade information for safe passage.
• Xiao Han struck Blood Serum with his Icebound Spear, then trapped his regenerating body inside the Northern Kingdom Killing Realm.
• Xiao Han vanished after summoning Ice and Snow Giants, leaving Blood Serum surrounded inside the sealed realm.

Xiao Han activated a hidden Spirit Array that changed the tide of the battle in Langtian City, allowing the Allied Forces to overwhelm the Soul Clan. Xiao Xuan recognized the array’s effect and prepared to unleash his full strength against Void Flame Devouring.

• Xiao Han crushed the World Cleansing Dust Removal Light Seal, and Blood Serum realized that Xiao Han had hidden powerful Spirit Array methods.
• Two minutes earlier, a vast array appeared around Langtian City and suppressed the Soul Clan experts’ Dou Qi.
• Ye Jianxin summoned a giant sword phantom and killed two Soul Clan Dou Shengs with one strike.
• The Allied Forces’ morale surged as Soul Clan experts struggled under the array’s suppression.
• Xiao Xuan sensed the battlefield’s changed conditions, understood Xiao Han’s hidden ability, and told Void Flame Devouring that the real beginning had arrived.

Xiao Han used the Grand Array and his rise to Nine Star Late Stage to overwhelm Blood Serum. After a prolonged fight, he sealed Blood Serum alive for research and completed his mission.

• The Grand Array suppressed the Soul Clan experts across the battlefield, and Blood Serum warned Xiao Han that it would not last long.
• Xiao Han transformed his hair to silver, reached Nine Star Late Stage, and attacked Blood Serum with Frost Mirror Image.
• Blood Serum used his Blood Doppelganger and Blood Shadow Battle Armor, but Xiao Han's physical duplicate caught him off guard and sent him flying.
• Xiao Han blinded Blood Serum, pursued him after he escaped into the space, and struck him into a deep pit.
• Blood Serum emerged in an explosive state and shattered Xiao Han's spear, but Xiao Han blocked his punch and sealed him in ice with Icy Seal.

Xiao Han defeated Blood Serum in the Icy Killing Domain and helped Xiao Xuan trap Void Flame Devouring, even capturing his flame dragon. As Xiao Han sent a Frost Giant Dragon to finish the fight, Soul Emperor intervened and rescued Void Flame Devouring.

• Xiao Han emerged from the Icy Killing Domain holding Blood Serum frozen as a sculpture, while the Soul Clan army suffered further casualties.
• Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Han to help trap Void Flame Devouring, and Xiao Xuan sealed the surrounding area with Heavenly Flame Prison when Void Flame Devouring tried to flee.
• Xiao Han bound and shrank Void Flame Devouring's flame dragon, then captured it in his palm.
• Xiao Han sent a Frost Giant Dragon at Void Flame Devouring, but Soul Emperor struck the dragon and carried Void Flame Devouring away.

After the Allied Forces defeated the Soul Clan, Xiao Han revealed that he knew secrets about the disappearance of the ancient Dou Di experts and prepared to show the assembled leaders evidence from history. The chapter ended as Fallen Thunder Crystal Ice and Nether Sky Glacial Crystal manifested their memories in two screens of light.

• Soul Emperor escaped after clashing with Xiao Han, Xiao Xuan, and Gu Yuan, and the Allied Forces celebrated their victory.
• Lei Ying and the others learned that Xiao Han and his companions had failed to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Gu Yuan confronted Xiao Xuan about the hidden plan, and Xiao Han promised to explain after they returned to Langtian City.
• At a meeting in Langtian City, Xiao Han offered to reveal ancient secrets or discuss the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, and Gu Yuan chose the ancient secrets.
• Xiao Han raised the mystery of the vanished Dou Di experts and summoned Fallen Thunder Crystal Ice and Nether Sky Glacial Crystal to show their memories.