Chapter Summaries

Fan Tian, Sound Valley’s young master, worried about surviving the Hun Clan’s coming war and planned to disrupt its schemes while taking Xiao Yan’s opportunities. After choosing origin qi and the Tunling Clan origin from a system, he asked Luo Linglong for permission to venture into the Central Plains.

• Fan Tian considered the coming destruction caused by the Hun Clan and devised a plan to expose Hun Tiandi’s scheme and delay the final showdown.
• A system appeared and offered Fan Tian a choice of two cheats from eight options.
• Fan Tian rejected most options and selected origin qi and the Tunling Clan origin.
• The system granted Fan Tian his choices and immediately unbound itself.
• Fan Tian resumed massaging Luo Linglong and told her he wanted to travel through the Central Plains to broaden his experience.

Fan Tian left Sound Valley for the Central Plains after Yin Su warned him about its dangers and the ancient clans’ power. In Sacred Pill City, he entered a medicinal shop and suspected the beautiful, aloof girl inside was Yao Ling of the Yao Clan.

• Yin Su and the elders warned Fan Tian to conceal his identity and avoid powerful enemies, then Yin Su escorted him out of Sound Valley.
• Yin Su gave Fan Tian a Spatial Jade Slip for emergencies, and Fan Tian set off for the Central Plains.
• Fan Tian reflected on Spirit Devouring’s ability to consume energy directly, including energy from heavenly flames.
• After traveling through space wormholes, Fan Tian reached Sacred Pill City and visited the Pill Tower’s headquarters.
• Fan Tian entered a medicinal shop, saw a striking girl reading a medicine canon, and wondered if she was Yao Ling of the Yao Clan.

Fan Tian, posing as Ye Tian, met Yao Ling while seeking Seventh-Grade Pills, then clashed with the Spirit Clan's young clan leader, Ling Feng, over her attention. He left the shop after insulting Ling Feng and his companions, who secretly pursued him.

• Fan Tian introduced himself to Yao Ling as Ye Tian, and she offered to provide him with Seventh-Grade or even Eighth-Tier Pills.
• Ling Feng and two companions arrived, and Ling Feng warned Yao Ling not to trust Ye Tian while claiming Yao Tian had asked him to protect her.
• Fan Tian challenged Ling Feng's right to drive him out, then reconsidered confronting the Spirit Clan and prepared to leave.
• Fan Tian insulted Ling Feng and his companions as he walked out of the shop, provoking the two men to chase after him.
• Yao Ling warned Ling Feng not to disregard the Pill Tower, while Ling Feng denied that he would stoop to fighting Fan Tian.

Fan Tian left Sacred Pill City, but two Spirit Clan youths pursued him over his interest in Yao Ling and challenged him to a fight. He held his own against them after they awakened their bloodline, and the battle continued with neither side yielding.

• Fan Tian left the alchemists’ trading district and wandered out of Sacred Pill City while two figures secretly followed him.
• The two Spirit Clan youths confronted Fan Tian in a forest and revealed they were pursuing him because he had offended Ling Feng and coveted Yao Ling.
• The short-haired youth attacked Fan Tian, but Fan Tian’s strength forced him back and left him spitting blood.
• The two youths awakened their Spirit Clan bloodline, raised their cultivation to late-stage Six-Star Dou Zong, and attacked Fan Tian with high-level Earth-tier Dou Techniques.
• Fan Tian used the Sound Valley Secret Art to raise his aura and countered with the Heaven-Shaking Great Hand Seal, beginning a fierce three-way clash.

Fan Tian used Spirit Devouring to kill two Spirit Clan fighters, absorb their bloodlines and memories, and break through to Late Six-Star Dou Zong. He waited for Ling Feng, who arrived at the scene and summoned powerful help as Fan Tian confronted him.

• Ling Ruohai attacked Fan Tian, but Fan Tian awakened Spirit Devouring and drained him and his unconscious companion into desiccated corpses.
• Fan Tian absorbed the two fighters’ Dou Qi, soul power, bloodlines, memories, and combat knowledge, then advanced from late Five-Star Dou Zong to Late Six-Star Dou Zong.
• Fan Tian collected the fighters’ Storage Rings and devoured their five Spatial Jade Slips before waiting at the site.
• Ling Feng arrived, found the two corpses, and searched the area with his Spirit Clan mark.
• Fan Tian emerged from the void and threatened Ling Feng, who crushed a jade slip to summon powerful aid.

Fan Tian devoured Ling Feng after sealing off the space around him and preventing him from summoning the Spirit Clan’s experts. The next day, Fan Tian visited Yao Ling’s apothecary and gave her a Soul Infant Fruit.

• Ling Feng crushed several Silver Jade Slips, but Fan Tian’s power swallowed the spatial ripples before they could open a passage.
• Fan Tian attacked and devoured Ling Feng, then spent much of the day removing every trace of the fight.
• Fan Tian reflected that powerful clans rarely assigned high-ranking experts to guard their young members and explained how he had blocked Ling Feng’s summons.
• Fan Tian went to Yao Ling’s shop, where she questioned him about the Spirit Clan members who had been watching her.
• Fan Tian gave Yao Ling a strangely shaped fruit, and she recognized it as a Soul Infant Fruit.

Fan Tian gave Yao Ling a Soul Infant Fruit that had belonged to Ling Feng and persuaded her to travel with him to the Northwest Continent. Their conversation was interrupted when Ling Yi arrived looking for the missing Ling Feng and two other Spirit Clan youths, and Yao Ling realized the fruit in her Storage Ring could make her look guilty.

• Yao Ling recognized the Soul Infant Fruit as a valuable treasure and questioned Fan Tian about its origin, but he gave it to her in exchange for pills or a trip together.
• Fan Tian changed his request to have Yao Ling accompany him to the Northwest Continent, and she refused while teasing him about her ability to sense malice.
• Yao Ling told Fan Tian that she had met Ling Feng once and described the Ancient Races as fierce competitors rather than allies.
• Ling Yi arrived with one Half-Saint and five Dou Zun, accusing Yao Ling and the Pill Tower of involvement in the disappearance of Ling Feng, Ling Ruohai, and Ling Ruokong.
• Ling Yi demanded to search Yao Ling's Storage Ring, and she faltered because it contained the Soul Infant Fruit taken from Ling Feng.

After Ling Feng's death, the Spirit Clan confronted the Pill Tower and demanded help investigating his murder. Fan Tian covered for Yao Ling when Spirit Clan investigators questioned her, and she hid the Soul Infant Fruit while pressing him about whether he had killed Ling Feng.

• Ling Ya led Spirit Clan experts to the Little Pill Tower, accused the Pill Tower of responsibility for Ling Feng's death, and demanded an explanation within three days.
• Ling Ya warned the Pill Tower to cooperate with the investigation and left after displaying his Six-Star Dou Sheng power.
• Fan Tian vouched to Ling Yi that he had been with Yao Ling, and Yao Ling backed up his story to stop the Spirit Clan from searching her Storage Ring.
• After the Spirit Clan investigators left, Yao Ling asked Fan Tian if he had killed Ling Feng, and he denied having the ability to do so.
• Fan Tian asked for the Soul Infant Fruit back, but Yao Ling pretended she had never seen it.

Fan Tian secretly distributed three thousand leaflets exposing the Hun Clan’s strength and its plan to destroy the Ancient Races. The Pill Tower mobilized to investigate, and Xuan Kongzi and the others gathered at the Little Pill Tower to read the threatening letter.

• Yao Ling described the standards a future husband would need to meet, and Fan Tian promised to seek her hand if he became a nine-star Dou Saint.
• Fan Tian disguised himself with spirit devouring and a false face, then distributed three thousand leaflets around Sacred Pill City.
• Reports of the leaflets reached the Pill Tower, and Xuan Kongzi summoned the stronger Dou Zun experts for an overnight meeting.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other two Pill Tower leaders went to the Little Pill Tower, where Old Monster Lin read a letter claiming the Hun Clan had a hundred Dou Shengs and a thousand Dou Zuns and threatening the Ancient Races.

The Pill Tower learned from Hun Mieba’s leaflet that the Hun Clan possessed overwhelming strength and sought Dou Di bloodlines, prompting the Ancestor to arrive and assess the threat. Fearing retaliation from the Hun Clan and Nihility Devouring Flame, the Ancestor fled and ordered the Pill Tower to seal its gates.

• Old Monster Lin crushed a Spatial Scroll, summoning the Pill Tower Ancestor on a blue ox.
• Xuan Kongzi presented Hun Mieba’s leaflet, and the Ancestor was horrified by its claims about the Hun Clan’s strength.
• The Pill Tower members suspected the Hun Clan had targeted the Spirit Clan’s young clan leader for his bloodline.
• Xuan Yi warned that the Hun Clan might retaliate against the Pill Tower and seize its Alchemists.
• The Ancestor fled through a Spatial Passage and ordered the Pill Tower to seal its gates.

As Sacred Pill City emptied after the Pill Tower learned of the danger, the Spirit Clan uncovered the scale of its losses to the Hun Clan and prepared to rally the other Ancient Clans. The chapter ended with the Spirit Clan calling for an alliance before war began.

• Fan Tian dreamed of advancing to Dou Sheng and marrying Yao Ling, only for Xiao Yan to outshine him at the Yao Clan ceremony.
• The Pill Tower began evacuating Sacred Pill City after the Pill Tower Ancestor fled, while rumors drove other factions and residents to leave as well.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate passed the search for the Xiao Clan's descendants to Gu You, who was badly injured by a Gu Clan Dou Sheng and ordered other Hall of Souls members to continue the search.
• Ling Ya gathered the Spirit Clan's experts and learned that eight Dou Sheng, thirty-five Half-Saints, and many more members had died or disappeared over the centuries.
• A Five-Star Dou Sheng urged Ling Ya to form an alliance against the Hun Clan, and the Spirit Clan's Saints agreed.

Fan Tian and Yao Ling shared an intimate moment before representatives of the six ancient clans gathered to discuss evidence that the Hun Clan had become a second Tunling Clan. The meeting ended with the Spirit and Stone Clan leaders admitting that their bloodlines were nearing depletion.

• Fan Tian pinned Yao Ling beneath him and kissed her after she woke him.
• Three days later, Ling Ya convened representatives of the six ancient clans and asked Yao Dan whether he remembered the Tunling Clan.
• Ling Ya described the evidence against the Hun Clan, including its possession of the nihility devouring flame and the Pill Tower's decision to seal itself off.
• Yao Dan and Shi Pan explained that the Tunling Clan could devour other ancient races' bloodline power, leading Fairy Fire Spirit to accuse the Hun Clan of becoming a second Tunling Clan.
• Thunder Mountain wondered whether the Hun Clan had caused the Xiao Clan's bloodline to dry up before destroying it.
• Ling Ya revealed that the Spirit Clan's bloodline was failing, and Shi Pan admitted the Stone Clan was close to the same fate.

The Ancient Clans formed an alliance against the Hun Clan and agreed to attack the Soul Realm in seven days. Meanwhile, an engagement dispute erupted in Wutan City, and a Dou Sheng arrived outside Yao Ling’s shop in Sacred Pill City.

• Shi Pan revealed that Stone Clan experts had been disappearing for thousands of years and accused the Hun Clan of targeting their bloodlines.
• Yao Dan and the other clans agreed to form an alliance under Gu Yuan, with Gu Dao accepting on Gu Yuan’s behalf.
• The allied clans planned to build space wormholes, then agreed to assemble their armies and attack the Soul Realm in seven days.
• In Wutan City, Ge Ye asked Xiao Zhan to annul Xiao Yan’s engagement to Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Zhan faced him in a tense standoff.
• Xiao Xun’er quietly watched the argument while staying near Xiao Yan.
• In Sacred Pill City, Fan Tian and Yao Ling reconciled after their intimate days together, and a Dou Sheng arrived outside Yao Ling’s shop.

Yao Wangui came to Sacred Pill City and forcibly took Yao Ling back to the Yao Clan after nearly crushing Fan Tian to death for being with her. As Fan Tian began recovering and vowing to remember the insult, urgent messages warned the Hun Clan of a spy and an imminent assault on the Soul Realm.

• Yao Ling warned Fan Tian that Yao Wangui, a Four-Star Dou Sheng and chief elder of the Yao Clan's Punishment Hall, had come to take her home.
• Yao Wangui dragged Fan Tian downstairs and crushed him with spatial pressure, but Yao Ling used her soul power to protect him and threatened to die if Wangui killed him.
• Yao Wangui spared Fan Tian, scorned his lack of Dou Di bloodline, and took Yao Ling through a spatial rift toward the Yao Clan.
• Fan Tian began healing through his spirit devouring origin and vowed to remember Yao Wangui's contempt for him.
• In the Soul Realm, a Hun Clan Dou Sheng received urgent messages warning of an upper-rank spy called Hun Mieba and an imminent attack by the Ancient Six Clans Alliance.

The Soul Bell summoned the Hun Clan as it prepared to face a six-clan alliance, while Hun Tiandi investigated a mysterious figure named Hun Mieba and suspected a traitor among his ranks. He ended the chapter unsure whether Nihility Devouring Flame, called Void, was secretly behind the upheaval.

• The Soul Bell rang across the Soul Realm, and Hun Clan experts gathered while recalling their past slaughter of the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Tiandi asked Nihility Devouring Flame, whom he called Void, how Hun Mieba had learned the secret of spirit devouring.
• A registry official reported that no one named Hun Mieba appeared in the Hun Clan records, and the gathered Dou Sheng denied being traitors.
• Hun Tiandi set aside the search for the suspected mole and turned the discussion to the six-clan alliance attacking the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi questioned whether Void was orchestrating the crisis that had disrupted his thousand-year plan.

Fan Tian recovered in Sacred Pill City as major factions sealed themselves off amid the fallout from the exposed Hun Clan plan. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tu and Hun Sha convinced Nihility Devouring Flame that Hun Miesheng might be a traitor.

• Fan Tian cultivated in Sacred Pill City and planned to visit the Jia Ma Empire and Black-Corner Region when the situation became clearer.
• The Pill Tower, Flower Sect, Heavenly Underworld Sect, Burning Flame Valley, and Sound Valley sealed themselves off, leaving other factions searching for an explanation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame questioned the Four Demon Saints about who might have exposed his secrets.
• Hun Tu and Hun Sha identified Hun Miesheng as their prime suspect, citing his hidden strength, soul power, and failure to retrieve the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade.
• Hun Tu pointed out that the name Hun Mieba on the flyer resembled Hun Miesheng's name, further deepening Nihility Devouring Flame's suspicions.

Hun Tiandi confronted the Six-Clan Alliance as it entered the Soul Realm, and Nihility Devouring Flame admitted to consuming ancient clans and reaching the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm. The rival leaders faced off in Soul Saint City as Gu Yuan challenged Hun Tiandi’s confidence.

• Hun Tiandi rallied the Hun Clan against the Six-Clan Alliance and sensed Gu Yuan hiding nearby.
• The Hun Clan’s fighters formed up as Gu Yuan emerged from a Spatial Passage with the leaders and experts of the allied clans.
• Hun Tiandi asked where Ling Ya and Shi Pan were, while Gu Yuan insisted the alliance was prepared to face him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared beside Hun Tiandi and threatened the alliance, confirming that the Hun Clan had been behind the ancient clans’ disappearances.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that the six ancient clans’ bloodlines had helped it reach the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm, and Hun Tiandi challenged the alliance’s strength.

Gu Yuan and the allied clans launched a series of formation attacks against the Hun Clan, but the Hun army endured and Nihility Devouring Flame used stolen bloodlines to restore its strength. Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi while Yan Jin and Lei Ying moved to attack Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Gu Yuan summoned the allied armies, and the Gu Clan’s Black Annihilation Army struck the Hun Clan with the Realm of the Ancient Emperor, but the Hun Clan’s Seal of Destruction prevailed.
• The Lei and Yan Clan armies followed with the Thunder Hammer and Emperor Flame Staff, badly injuring the Hun Clan’s formation but suffering heavy damage themselves.
• Nihility Devouring Flame released black mist infused with stolen dou di bloodlines to heal and restore the Hun Clan members, shocking Yao Dan and the other clans.
• Enraged by the presence of Gu Clan bloodline in the mist, Gu Yuan attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, and Hun Tiandi blocked him with a vast black hole.
• Yan Jin and Lei Ying charged toward Nihility Devouring Flame, locking onto him as the battle continued.

Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the allied Ancient Races fought the Hun Clan in the Soul Realm as their armies prepared a clash that could decide life and death. Meanwhile, at the Apothecary in Sacred Pill City, Cao Ying and Dan Chen flirted with Fan Tian and plotted to spite Yao Ling.

• Lei Ying and Yan Jin attacked the Nihility Devouring Flame with high-level Heaven-tier Dou Techniques, and he countered with Devour Heaven and Earth.
• The Gu Clan's Three Immortals engaged Hun Tu, Hun Sha, and Hun Yan while Fairy Fire Spirit fought Hun Jing, and the other experts joined the battle.
• The Gu, Lei, Yan, and Hun Clans gathered their armies and summoned four enormous manifestations as Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi broke apart to watch the impending collision.
• At the Apothecary, Fan Tian discussed the Pill Tower's sudden closure with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, then entertained Dan Chen's flirtation.
• Cao Ying recalled how Yao Ling had defeated her and Dan Chen in alchemy, then climbed onto Fan Tian's lap and urged him to take her to bed.

Fan Tian and Cao Ying pursued their provocative encounter while Dan Chen followed them upstairs. At the Hall of Souls, Hun Miesheng refused to send forces to the Soul Realm, and two intruders suddenly appeared in the hall.

• Cao Ying tempted Fan Tian, and he carried her upstairs while Dan Chen ran after them.
• Hun Miesheng assembled the Hall of Souls' leaders and rejected calls to reinforce the Soul Realm.
• Hun Miesheng ordered the Hall's forces to remain in place, following secret orders from Hun Tiandi to guard the soul origin power and the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation.
• Two powerful visitors entered the Hall of Souls' headquarters through twisting space and addressed Hun Miesheng.