Chapter Summaries

Lu Mu and the other experts entered the space sealed around the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, where illusions and demon flame threatened those who lost control of their emotions. After escaping the Nightmare Sky Mist and reuniting with his companions, Lu Mu prepared to pass through a dangerous gateway toward the true Sealed Land.

• The experts plunged through the milky-white ring of light as the seal opened, and Lu Mu warned his group to keep their minds calm against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Inside the Demon Flame Space, Lu Mu was separated from Song Lao and the others and crossed an endless sea of milky-white fire.
• Lu Mu recognized an illusion of Xiao Yu, destroyed the false apparition, and escaped the White Mist that had trapped other entrants in their memories.
• Song Lao reunited with Lu Mu and explained that the small spaces led toward an entrance to the true Sealed Land.
• Lu Mu and Song Lao reached a suspended platform, where Qiu Lao and Liu Lao identified the White Mist as the Nightmare Sky Mist and warned that the flame had grown far more dangerous.
• Lu Mu refused to retreat and looked toward the gateway leading deeper into the Sealed Land.

Lu Mu and the three elders fought through successive halls of Fire Slaves in the Demon Flame Space, where each trial grew stronger. In the latest hall, Song Lao faced a powerful Demon Ape, and his opening attack plunged the entire world into darkness.

• Tens of thousands of Fire Slaves swarmed Lu Mu and the elders, who smashed through a giant gate to escape them.
• Lu Mu and the elders entered an inverted world, where they encountered enslaved magical beasts and prepared to fight.
• The group continued through increasingly difficult halls, destroying Fire Slaves until Lu Mu was injured and they reached a chamber with a single opponent.
• Lu Mu identified the seated figure as an early-stage Four Star Dou Sheng, and Qiu Lao sent Song Lao to fight it.
• The figure rose as a fierce Demon Ape with a Stone Staff, and Song Lao's attack plunged the world into darkness.

Lu Mu and the others escaped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist illusion, though they could not explain what shattered it. They emerged into a sea of lava, where the flame’s true body appeared and demanded to know how Xiao Yan had broken the illusion.

• Lu Mu recognized that the group was trapped in an illusion and explained that the faceless opponent’s strength depended on their own belief in it.
• The group resisted the illusion’s attack, and the space began collapsing even though none of them knew what had triggered it.
• Lu Mu, Song Lao, Qiu Lao, and others awoke on floating rocks above a sea of lava, with the Silver Ring hovering nearby.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared atop a magma pillar, while the black-robed Hall Master of Souls and other experts watched from the rocks.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame asked Xiao Yan how he had broken the Nightmare Sky Mist, and Xiao Yan denied knowing what had happened.

The Hall Master of Souls formed a temporary alliance to seal the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while Lu Mu and the Evergreen Gate refused to join. After the allied experts poured their power and essence blood into the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Formation, the flame was sealed inside a small black cylinder.

• The Hall Master of Souls called on the experts to cooperate, and Xiao Yan and the top factions agreed while weaker factions withdrew.
• Lu Mu refused to join the alliance, and Song Lao and the others retreated with him.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent ten Fire Slaves to attack the gathered experts, while Lu Mu moved aside.
• The Hall Master of Souls activated the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Formation and urged the other experts to feed it their Dou Qi.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame struck back and damaged the formation, so the Hall Master of Souls and the other six experts added their essence blood.
• The formation shrank the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and sealed it in a black cylinder.

The Hall Master of Souls betrayed the alliance and tried to take the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but Xiao Chen stopped his escape and revealed himself as a powerful survivor of the Xiao Clan. Hun Gui then emerged as another Soul Clan expert, leaving the gathered fighters facing a far greater threat.

• The Hall Master of Souls seized the sealed demonic flame and fled, revealing his strength had reached the early Five Star Dou Sheng level.
• The Hall Master of Souls blocked the others’ attacks and formed a Space Channel, but Xiao Chen cut it apart before he could escape.
• Xiao Chen revealed his Xiao Clan bloodline, reached late Five Star Dou Sheng, and wounded the Hall Master of Souls with his blood axe.
• The Hall Master of Souls called for help, and Hun Gui emerged from the void as a late Seven Star Dou Sheng who dismissed the agreement over the demonic flame.
• Hun Gui exposed the Small Pill Tower expert’s hidden position, found that the expert had fled, and addressed Xiao Yan with interest.

Xiao Yan and the others were trapped by Soul Ghost Old Man, but a mysterious black-robed figure intervened and killed the Hall Master of Souls. The figure stopped Soul Ghost’s escape and confronted him in the Sea of Lava.

• Xiao Chen tried to open a path for Xiao Yan to escape, but Soul Ghost Old Man froze the world and stopped them.
• The Hall Master of Souls attacked Xiao Yan, but an unseen force severed his hand and then destroyed him.
• A mysterious black-robed figure appeared, released everyone from the immobilizing power, and silenced the Vice Hall Master of Souls.
• Soul Ghost Old Man attempted to flee through a spatial rift, but the black-robed figure brought him and his companions back into the Demon Flame Space.
• Soul Ghost Old Man unleashed Blood Burial Sky and exploded both arms, but the black-robed figure calmed the storm and began to still the waves.

A mysterious expert expelled most of the gathered fighters, then exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s plot and stopped its attempt to escape. The flame refused to submit and summoned two enormous formations to battle, leaving Xiao Yan relying on the mysterious expert.

• The mysterious person killed a Grand Elder, ended the Demon Flame Space expedition, and teleported most of the crowd away.
• Xiao Yan asked why the mysterious person had kept a few people behind, and the expert revealed the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The mysterious person exposed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had allowed itself to be captured to provoke infighting and reversed its attempt to self-detonate.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame offered to follow the mysterious person, but he refused and declared that it had to die.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame transformed into a giant and summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and a second formation from the Sea of Lava.

A mysterious Dou Di destroyed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s formation and sealed the complete flame for others to claim through nine trials. Xiao Xuan revealed himself as a reborn life imprint, then went with Lu Mu to find the Sealed Land, while another man emerged from the void and vowed the Xiao Clan would survive.

• The mysterious figure dispelled the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, defeated it, and captured its Origin of Demonic Flame.
• The mysterious figure placed the fire lotus inside a space with nine trials, and Xiao Yan, Lu Mu, and the others entered to compete for it.
• Xiao Xuan reflected on Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan’s survival, then told Lu Mu that he was a new life formed from an imprint and no longer the former Xiao Xuan.
• Lu Mu said the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had chosen to approach Xiao Yan instead of him, and Xiao Xuan explained that Lu Mu’s master had sent him to find the Sealed Land.
• A disheveled middle-aged man emerged from the void, wept upon sensing its aura, and vowed that the Xiao Clan would not end with Xiao Xuan.

Evergreen Gate withdrew from the Dou Qi Continent, sealing the Dragon Gate and warning that a great calamity would descend upon all living beings. Its announcement left the Central Plains in panic, while figures above the ninth heaven identified the coming clash as one between Hun Tiandi and Xiao Yan.

• The Pure Lotus Demon Flame's lingering energy turned the Demon Fire Plains into a contested source of Demon Fire Stones.
• Evergreen Gate awakened, and the Dragon Gate opened as immortal islands, mountains, cities, halls, and Flying Ships flew into it.
• The Pill Hall and Commerce Hall vanished from the Central Plains along with the other structures drawn through the Dragon Gate.
• Evergreen Gate announced that it would no longer interfere in the Dou Qi Continent, would seal the Dragon Gate forever, and would guard its mountain gate against the coming calamity.
• The Central Plains' people panicked at the warning, and figures above the ninth heaven said the final calamity would be a clash between Hun Tiandi and Xiao Yan.

After months of uneasy calm, the Soul Clan confronted an alliance of three Ancient Races and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, then withdrew without being defeated. As factions fled the Central Plains in fear of a looming war, two mysterious young men discussed sealing the collapsing Lost Land and the evil trapped within it.

• The Heavenly Mansion Alliance's leader returned with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, greatly strengthened, and drove the Hall of Souls out of the Central Plains.
• At the Burial Sky Mountain Range, Hun Tiandi declared that he had gathered the Ancient Jade of the eight clans and would destroy the three clans and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance after advancing to Dou Di.
• Two unseen young men discussed Hun Tiandi's success, then decided to end the matter of the Lost Land by sealing it because it was collapsing and contained dangerous evil.
• The allied forces withdrew to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, and the Soul Clan retreated unscathed after the battle.
• Fearing a devastating conflict, clans, factions, and experts began leaving the Central Plains as warnings of a coming storm spread.

The Dou Qi Continent underwent a world-changing surge of vitality after an ancient continent appeared and vanished, while mysterious phenomena and powerful Magic Beasts emerged. An ancient stone gate rose from the Sea of Lava, revealing the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, and Lin Qingyun prepared to show Xiao Xuan the legendary Emperor Flame.

• An ancient continent briefly appeared in the northern sky, then vanished, and the Dou Qi Continent gained a surge of vitality that caused rapid growth and breakthroughs.
• A gigantic headless Magic Beast with seven-colored fur emerged in the Northwest Region, overwhelmed the wills of countless experts, and disappeared into the void.
• An ancient stone gate rose from the Sea of Lava, revealing the words “Ancient Emperor Cave Abode” to the gathered experts.
• Xiao Xuan recalled how he had searched for the cave abode in life and learned that Hun Tiandi had found it.
• Lin Qingyun said the experts would learn what was inside the cave abode and offered to show Xiao Xuan the Emperor Flame.
• Lin Qingyun and Xiao Xuan departed with Chaos, the seven-colored headless Magic Beast.

Hun Tiandi activated a formation that used the Central Plains and its people to refine the Emperor Pill, plunging the region into a bloody calamity. Elsewhere, a young man opened the Tou She Ancient God's inheritance with a Bronze Betel Leaf, while a new flame was born inside a fire lotus.

• A vast black light cauldron appeared over the Central Plains as experts realized Hun Tiandi was trying to become a Dou Di.
• Hun Tiandi activated his formation, sending pillars of light into the Central Plains and causing cracks and bloody light to spread across the land.
• A city was engulfed by a black pillar, and its inhabitants were destroyed as their blood flowed into Hun Tiandi's formation.
• Inside the light cauldron, Hun Tiandi declared the blood energy insufficient and vowed to kill Xiao Yan.
• A young man used a Bronze Betel Leaf to open the Stone Statue in the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode and suspected Brother Yun had sent it.
• A fire lotus bloomed within a massive fireball, drawing in its flames as a new wisp of fire gradually grew.

Lin Qingyun consumed Emperor Flame to restore the Chaotic Fire while Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi fought after both reached Dou Di. Hun Tiandi lost, then burned himself to unleash a catastrophe across the Central Plains as Xiao Yan tried to protect its people, and a mysterious sigh sounded as the disaster continued.

• Lin Qingyun swallowed Emperor Flame to help restore the Chaotic Fire, then invited Xiao Xuan to play chess.
• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Di and confronted Hun Tiandi while the flames protected the fleeing people.
• Xiao Xuan and Lin Qingyun watched the battle, and Xiao Xuan predicted that both fighters would suffer while believing Xiao Yan would win.
• Hun Tiandi admitted defeat, but Xiao Yan recognized the danger and tried to stop him as he began burning himself with blood flames.
• Xiao Yan formed a twenty-three-pillar fire formation, but Hun Tiandi's power engulfed the Central Plains and vaporized countless people before a sigh reached everyone.

After Hun Tiandi’s defeat, Xiao Yan slowly recovered from his grave injuries while the Central Plains rebuilt. Lin Qingyun reunited with Xiao Yan, and they exchanged wedding invitations before preparing to follow separate paths.

• Hun Tiandi’s self-destruction devastated the Central Plains, but a mysterious expert reversed the destruction; the battle left behind the Twin Emperor Abyss and made Xiao Yan the Dou Qi Continent’s strongest expert.
• Two years later, Xiao Yan recovered in seclusion at the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, using the Fire Lotus left by Tou She Ancient God to absorb special energy and heal his soul.
• Lin Qingyun visited Xiao Yan, and the two reminisced about their years apart and their shared past.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Qingyun exchanged wedding invitations and discovered their weddings were scheduled one day apart.
• Lin Qingyun said he would remain until his state of mind was complete, while Xiao Yan planned to roam freely; Lin Qingyun pointed out the cultivation realms beyond the Dou Qi Continent.

Lin Qingyun began his long-prepared advancement into the Grotto-heaven Realm in the depths of the starry sky, using the Cosmos Heaven Pearl to shape his path. His breakthrough unleashed a Great Dao thunder tribulation that shook the star river, and a vast eye in the You Sea identified him as an anomaly.

• Lin Qingyun’s wives, daughter, disciples, and Grotto-heaven observers gathered on a crimson meteor to watch him advance in the distant starry sky.
• Lin Qingyun sensed the Great Dao, revealed his battle intent, and prepared to advance with his perfected accumulation and the Cosmos Heaven Pearl.
• Lin Qingyun rose toward the Heavenly Ladder as his aura shattered nearby stars and astonished the watching experts.
• The Great Dao thunder tribulation descended, spreading across the chaos and alarming powerful beings throughout countless worlds.
• A vast eye emerged from the You Sea and called Lin Qingyun an anomaly.

Lin Qingyun created a vast universe within his body by splitting chaos and forming worlds, defying the established law of cultivation. The Great Dao reacted with a catastrophic tribulation, and Lin Qingyun sensed an eye watching him from beyond the unseen.

• Lin Qingyun entered the Tribulation Clouds as a giant formed within the chaos of his inner world.
• He split the chaos with the Black and White Mystic Light and the Crystal Grinding Mill, then used his million ancient stars to create light, wind, and nascent worlds.
• Lin Qingyun realized the worlds lacked a core, so a long spear shattered into Star Stones that helped heaven and earth take shape.
• He declared that he would break the law of one universe outside the body and one world within, seeking instead to possess a universe within his body.
• The Great Dao unleashed a vast tribulation filled with Thunder Divine Generals, Mythical Beasts, and palaces as Lin Qingyun sensed its malice and saw an eye in the unseen.

Lin Qingyun defied a devastating tribulation that manifested as an army and then as a figure born from the Great Dao. As he fought the Dao itself, onlookers realized his grotto-heaven was a starry universe and that he was an anomaly from outside their starry sky.

• Lin Qingyun’s lightning tribulation formed an immense army of Thunder Divine Generals, terrifying the powerful beings who watched.
• Lin Qingyun’s cultivation surged to the limit before the Five Signs of the Immortal’s Decline, and he called for the tribulation to fight him.
• Palace halls appeared deep in the starry sky, and a figure emerged, declaring that those who defied the Dao would be executed.
• The figure unleashed a vast Thunder Sea, and Lin Qingyun charged through it, enduring grievous injuries before restoring his body and striking back.
• The onlookers recognized that the tribulation figure was the Great Dao and realized Lin Qingyun’s grotto-heaven was a starry universe, making him an anomaly engaged in Dao Conflict.

Lin Qingyun fought four formidable figures in the Thunder Sea, including a wisp of the Great Dao and the Ancient King Sword Dynasty, while searching for what his unfinished inner starry universe lacked. As he learned from their attacks, he glimpsed the threshold of the Three Thousand Great Daos and called for the Dao to fight.

• Lin Qingyun struck back against a wisp of the Great Dao's power, destroying its hand but suffering the force of the clash.
• Sword Dynasty summoned a Purple Longsword and slashed Lin Qingyun, whose attempt to catch the sword energy left him badly wounded.
• A horned figure punched Lin Qingyun from behind, and a hidden figure followed by striking at him with an Illusory Cauldron.
• Lin Qingyun unleashed Thousand Dragon Patrols the Heavens and kept fighting as he studied the four attackers through the Dragonless Heart Method.
• Lin Qingyun glimpsed the threshold of the Three Thousand Great Daos, shook the distant heavenly palace, and challenged the Dao to fight.

Lin Qingyun endured the Five Sorrows of the Immortal and overcame them, but the Great Dao unleashed a devastating attack that began to erase him. As he summoned the power of his final ancient stars and Soul Power, a terrifying shadow emerged from a vast vortex, and he identified it as the Heavenly Emperor.

• The Great Dao offered Lin Qingyun a chance to leave the universe, but he refused and began undergoing the Five Sorrows of the Immortal.
• Lin Qingyun endured the decline of his flesh and blood, the loss of his spiritual power, the sorrow of years, and the decline of strength while remaining calm.
• Lin Qingyun overcame the tribulation, recovered his body, and declared victory over the Great Dao by half a move.
• The Great Dao unleashed overwhelming power that shattered Lin Qingyun's body and threatened to destroy the starry sky.
• Lin Qingyun used his final ancient stars and Soul Power to shake the Great Dao and summon a vast vortex, then named the enormous shadow emerging from it the Heavenly Emperor as his body dissolved.

Lin Qingyun’s main-body aura vanished after a catastrophic battle drew the attention of the Heavenly Emperor and other supreme beings. His black-robed avatar awakened, received a sect mission reward, and the Heavenly Emperor took notice of an unknown anomaly.

• A pale youth emerged from a buried stele, recognized the Heavenly Emperor’s projection, and found that he could not see the anomaly’s future.
• The youth and other powerful beings vanished into Chaos as the Great Dao’s avatar dispersed and the Thunder Sea faded.
• Black-robed Lin Qingyun sensed that the main body’s aura had disappeared, then decided to continue the original plan cautiously.
• The system announced completion of the Sect Mission: Third Stage and awarded Lin Qingyun an Inheritance Mountain Peak.
• In the Heavenly Emperor’s palace, those assembled asked whether dark turmoil had begun, and the Heavenly Emperor said it did not matter.