Chapter Summaries

The Spirit and Stone Clans attacked the Hall of Souls, where Hun Xuzi and the Soul Demon Elder arrived with reinforcements and the armies clashed. Meanwhile, Fan Tian spent time with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, who offered him pills and invited him to join their trip to the Black-Corner Region.

• Ling Ya and Shi Pan arrived at the Hall of Souls with armies from the Spirit and Stone Clans and destroyed the Heavenly Dipper Hall.
• Hun Miesheng summoned Hun Xuzi, the Soul Demon Elder, and a large force of Hun Clan experts to defend the Hall of Souls.
• Ling Ya and Shi Pan’s forces fought the Hun Clan reinforcements in the sealed space.
• Fan Tian gave Cao Ying and Dan Chen a massage in the apothecary, secretly taking a fourth-grade pill to blunt the strain.
• Dan Chen and Cao Ying gave Fan Tian pills and invited him to travel with them to the Black-Corner Region, offering him a regular supply of pills.

The four-clan alliance fought the Soul Clan in a prolonged war, relying on supplies and attrition while Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan remained evenly matched. At the Hall of Souls, the Spirit and Stone Clans battled Hun Xuzi and his reinforcements as the fighting spread across the Central Plains, while Fan Tian cowered beneath his bed.

• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi fought in cycles, breaking off to restore their Dou Qi while neither gained the advantage.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin joined forces against the Nihility Devouring Flame, while the other Dou Saints fought and traded insults between clashes.
• The four clans' supreme attacks devastated the battlefield, and the Yao Clan supplied pills while its forces guarded the rear and prepared reserves.
• Ling Ya and Shi Pan pursued Hun Xuzi at the Hall of Souls, while the Soul Demon Elder and Hun Miesheng held off other Spirit and Stone Clan fighters.
• The fighting spread across the Central Plains and reached Sacred Pill City, where Fan Tian hid naked beneath his bed with two Pill Tower beauties.

The Spirit and Stone Clans and their allies unleashed a destructive battle across the Central Plains, dragging the Wind Lightning Pavilion into the chaos. Fan Tian fled toward the Black-Corner Region with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, then offered to teach them a technique for fusing heavenly flames.

• Spirit Clan and Hall of Souls forces emerged through spatial rifts above the Wind Lightning Pavilion and resumed their battle.
• Thunder Venerable called for Heaven Demon Phoenix reinforcements, but Huang Xuan was gravely injured soon after arriving.
• Huang Kun charged into the battle and ordered her companions to summon more Heaven Demon Phoenix experts.
• Fan Tian, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen escaped the Central Plains by Space Wormhole after Fan Tian sent word to Sound Valley.
• Fan Tian asked Cao Ying and Dan Chen whether they wanted a cultivation technique that could fuse heavenly flames.

Fan Tian explained that his cultivation technique could fuse Heavenly Flames and advance to high Heaven Tier, but Cao Ying and Dan Chen refused to practice it. He brought them to Black Seal City, where he crushed the Eight Gates’ defenses and declared that he would rule the city.

• Fan Tian told Cao Ying and Dan Chen that his cultivation technique could fuse Heavenly Flames and grow to high Heaven Tier, but they rejected it because of the danger.
• Fan Tian decided to remain on the Northwest Continent while the Central Plains factions fought, and he asked whether the Pill Tower had experts in the Black-Corner Region.
• Several days later, Fan Tian arrived in Black Seal City with Cao Ying and Dan Chen aboard his Spatial Ship.
• Fan Tian announced that he would rule Black Seal City and destroyed the Eight Gates’ protective formation and part of its entrance grounds.
• Yuan Yi, leader of the Eight Gates, surrendered to Fan Tian, leaving the city’s factions stunned.

Fan Tian renamed the Eight Gates as the Heavenly Mansion Alliance and arranged a seventh-grade pill auction in Black Seal City. Meanwhile, the six-clan campaign pushed the Hun Clan onto the defensive as Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi argued over the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade and the clans’ past intervention.

• Fan Tian asked Yuan Yi to rename the Eight Gates the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, and Yuan Yi and the elders eagerly agreed.
• Fan Tian told Yuan Yi to gather medicinal ingredients and invite the Black-Corner Region’s prominent powers to a pill auction in a month.
• Fan Tian pressured Cao Ying and Dan Chen with their earlier wager, and they reluctantly agreed to auction seventh-grade pills.
• Gu Yuan attacked Hun Tiandi as the six clans’ campaign forced the Hun Clan to retreat across the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi accused Gu Yuan of benefiting from the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade, while Gu Yuan recalled that the Lei, Yan, Yao, Shi, and Ling Clans had once prevented the Gu Clan from destroying the Hun Clan.

Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan launched their armies’ first major attacks in the Soul Realm, while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan became entangled in the Central Plains war. The chapter ended with a Spirit Clan Dou Zun self-detonating inside the Demon Phoenix Bell, shocking the battlefield.

• Hun Tiandi formed a massive Black Hole and sent it toward the allied army, while Gu Yuan countered with an enormous palm imprint and both armies activated their formations.
• Huang Kun killed two Spirit Clan Dou Zuns at the Wind Lightning Pavilion after mistakenly believing they had harmed Elder Huang Xuan.
• Gu You tried to recruit the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan against the Spirit and Stone Clans, but Huang Kun chose to withdraw.
• A Spirit Clan female Dou Zun blocked Huang Kun from leaving, and Gu You’s attack reignited the fighting between the assembled forces.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan used the Demon Phoenix Bell to trap the female Dou Zun, who self-detonated and shattered the bell.

The Spirit and Stone Clans attacked the Hall of Souls while its Heavenly Venerates discussed the Hun Clan’s defenses and the enemy’s war of attrition. In the Black-Corner Region, the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s Seventh-Grade Pill auction drew Jia Nan Academy and the region’s powerful figures, while Han Feng turned his attention to the Fallen Heart Flame.

• The Spirit Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan began fighting, while Gu You held the Hall of Souls back from joining the clash.
• Gu You explained that the Spirit and Stone Clans would drain the Hall of Souls’ resources and then gather supplies across the continent to sustain the war.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen’s pill refining brought fame to the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, and Jia Nan Academy’s Su Qian ordered the academy to suspend admissions and travel to Black Seal City for the auction.
• Han Feng and prominent Black-Corner Region figures discussed the rumored Seventh-Grade Pills and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance Lord’s Dou Zong strength.
• Han Feng’s yearning for heavenly flames intensified as he sensed the Fallen Heart Flame at Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy.

Fan Tian expanded the Heavenly Mansion Alliance in the Black-Corner Region while planning how to keep the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion sealed. In Wutan City, Xiao Yan displayed eighth-stage Dou Qi at the Xiao Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony and prepared to leave for training.

• Fan Tian recruited cultivators into the Heavenly Mansion Alliance with promises of pills, then killed a Dou Emperor who had tried to deceive him and displayed the corpse above Black Seal City's gates.
• Fan Tian rewarded Yuan Yi and the Eight Gates elders with pills, winning the loyalty of the faction's members.
• Fan Tian considered unifying the Black-Corner Region and taking action against Jia Nan Academy so he could prevent the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion from opening.
• Fan Tian headed to Cao Ying and Dan Chen's room after their alchemy and cultivation improved.
• At the Xiao Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Xiao Yan's Dou Qi reached the eighth stage, astonishing the guests.
• Xiao Yan spoke with Yao Lao about leaving the Xiao Clan to train and privately resolved to claim Xun'er and take revenge on Nalan Yanran.

Gu Xun'er rejected Ling Ying’s demand to abandon Xiao Yan and ordered him to protect Xiao Yan as he prepared to leave for training. At a Seventh-Grade Pill auction in Black Seal City, Fan Tian welcomed Su Qian and Hu Gan of Jia Nan Academy, whose arrival drew the attention of the gathered factions.

• Gu Xun'er received word that the Gu Clan wanted her to obtain the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade while the Six-Clan Alliance remained locked in a war with the Hun Clan.
• Ling Ying warned Xun'er to return to the Ancient Realm and suggested killing Xiao Yan, but Xun'er forbade him from harming Xiao Yan or revealing their childhood secret.
• Xun'er ordered Ling Ying to secretly protect Xiao Yan when he left to train and warned him she would hold him responsible if anything went wrong.
• Fan Tian greeted the Black-Corner Region’s experts at the Heavenly Mansion auction in Black Seal City, where a Seventh-Grade Pill was drawing a crowd.
• Su Qian and Hu Gan arrived from Jia Nan Academy, and Fan Tian welcomed Su Qian after sensing that his strength surpassed Su Qian’s.

Fan Tian used his high-rank Dou Zong strength to cow Han Feng and the Black-Corner Region factions as they arrived for the auction, while Jia Nan Academy’s elders entered the venue. At the same time, the Spirit Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan continued their bloody battle at Wind Lightning Pavilion, where Gu You ordered the Hall of Souls to attack.

• Su Qian and Hu Gan brought Jia Nan Academy elders into the auction, and Hu Gan’s aura checked the hostility of the Black-Corner Region factions.
• Han Feng arrived with Yan, Fan Lao, the Gold and Silver Elders, and other faction leaders, prompting Fan Tian to confront them and ask whether they had come to buy pills or disrupt the auction.
• Fan Tian revealed the pressure of a seven-star Dou Zong, intimidating Han Feng and the Gold and Silver Elders until Yuan Yi urged them inside.
• Fan Lao and Yan helped calm the confrontation, and Fan Tian quietly gave Yuan Yi instructions after Han Feng’s party entered.
• At Wind Lightning Pavilion, the Spirit Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan continued fighting as Gu You ordered the Hall of Souls to attack.

Fan Tian attended the Black Seal City auction with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, while Jia Nan Academy and Han Feng’s party watched from neighboring rooms. After Dan Chen’s soul power disrupted the auction house, Fan Tian promised her a heavenly flame and resumed their intimate encounter.

• A peak fifth-grade Dou Ling Pill opened the auction, and Fan Tian joked with Cao Ying and Dan Chen about the rising bids.
• Su Qian and Hu Gan hoped the Heavenly Mansion would offer a Sect Breaking Pill, while their comments about Han Feng angered the Medicine Emperor.
• Fan Tian recognized the Sea Heart Flame within Han Feng and promised Cao Ying he would kill him and take the flame for her.
• Dan Chen erupted with soul power after seeing Fan Tian and Cao Ying together, sending a Soul Storm through the auction house.
• Fan Tian sealed the room again and promised Dan Chen a heavenly flame, then she took Cao Ying’s place beside him.

Han Feng became fixated on capturing a woman from the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, while Fan Tian tried to console Dan Chen after Cao Ying mocked her. At the Heavenly Mansion auction, Fan Lao competed with the Heavenly Snake Mansion for a longevity pill, as a rumored Seventh-Grade Pill drew powerful bidders.

• Han Feng recognized a Spirit Realm soul and considered abducting the woman to ease his inner demons and advance his soul power.
• Dan Chen struggled with Fan Tian as Cao Ying mocked and provoked her, leaving Dan Chen in tears despite Fan Tian's attempts to reassure her.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi worried about their two disciples in the Black-Corner Region and discussed the impending escape of the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• The Heavenly Mansion auction offered an Azure Nether Longevity Pill, and Fan Lao bid three million eight hundred thousand gold coins for it.
• Elder Qing of the Heavenly Snake Mansion outbid Fan Lao, explaining that her group had come for the rumored Seventh-Grade Pill.

Fan Tian watched Elder Qing while the auction grew more competitive, and Jia Nan Academy used its wealth to win two Emperor's Extreme Pills. The auction ended with the rival factions confronting one another over the sole Sect Breaking Pill as Su Qian revealed his Dou Zong aura.

• Fan Tian recognized the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Elder Qing appeared to notice him watching before teasing him with a glimpse beneath her skirt.
• Fan Lao bid four million six hundred thousand gold coins for the Azure Nether Longevity Pill, and Elder Qing withdrew before the auctioneer awarded it to Fan Lao.
• Hu Gan raised the bids for the Emperor's Extreme Pills, and Jia Nan Academy won two of the three while the Black Skull Tomb took the other.
• The auctioneer presented the Sect Breaking Pill, and the Gold and Silver Elders demanded that the other factions let them have it.
• Hu Gan rejected the Gold and Silver Elders' demand, and Jia Nan Academy's elders faced them alongside Yan, Fan Lao, and other Dou Emperors.
• Su Qian rose and released the aura of a Dou Zong expert across the hall.

Bidding for the Sect Breaking Pill drew the Black-Corner Region’s major factions into a fierce contest, with Han Feng and Su Qian raising the stakes. Han Feng secured the highest bid after rallying funds from several leaders, though his whispered promises left his intentions unclear.

• Mo Ya of the Black Emperor Sect bid eight million gold coins for the Sect Breaking Pill, drawing attention from the assembled factions.
• Hu Gan, Mo Ya, Elder Qing, the Gold and Silver Elders, and other representatives competed for the pill as its price climbed past ten million.
• Han Feng bid ten million, and Qi Shan, Elder Qing, and Su Qian answered with higher bids.
• Su Qian raised the price to twelve million after Hu Gan withdrew from the bidding.
• Han Feng shouted a bid of fifteen million while the Gold and Silver Elders, Fan Lao, and other Dou Emperor leaders pooled gold coins for him.

After the auction, Fan Tian manipulated Han Feng into leaving Black Seal City, then agreed to refine pills for Jia Nan Academy and received a request from the Black Emperor Sect. Meanwhile, the Soul Realm war intensified until Hun Tiandi ordered the Hun Clan to form a formation and summon the Soul Emperor.

• Han Feng won the Sect Breaking Pill, then visited Fan Tian and discovered that Cao Ying and Dan Chen were seventh-grade alchemists and disciples of the Pill Tower’s Three Giants.
• Fan Tian told Han Feng that Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy was poorly defended and contained a heavenly flame; Han Feng then gathered his experts and left Black Seal City.
• Hu Gan and Su Qian asked Fan Tian to refine three sets of Sect Breaking Pill ingredients, and Fan Tian secured permission to visit Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy.
• Mo Ya and Qi Shan visited Fan Tian and asked him to give the Black Emperor Sect priority for the next day’s seventh-grade pill.
• In the Soul Realm, the Hun Clan suffered heavy losses as the allied clans pressed their attack, while Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan continued fighting.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Hun Clan to form a formation and summon the Soul Emperor.

The Hun Clan summoned the Soul Emperor’s remnant soul by sacrificing its members, and the ancient powerhouse returned at the level of a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint. Mistaking Nihility Devouring Flame for a threat behind the Hun Clan’s decline, he attacked it, leaving everyone stunned.

• The Hun Clan poured Dou Qi and sacrificed blood essence and souls to summon the Soul Emperor’s remnant soul.
• The Soul Emperor appeared with the strength of a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, and the Hun Clan’s members knelt before him.
• The Soul Emperor recognized that Nihility Devouring Flame’s black flames had spread through the Hun Clan and forcibly expelled them, injuring the clan’s experts.
• The Soul Emperor mistook the situation for an invasion by the Tunling Clan and pointed a devastating attack at Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame shouted for Hun Tiandi to save it as the Hun Clan and allied armies stared in shock.

Soul Emperor’s remnant soul attacked Nihility Devouring Flame after revealing its connection to the Tunling Clan, forcing Hun Tiandi to choose between defending the flame and protecting the Hun Clan. Hun Tiandi confronted his ancestor in the Soul Realm and survived the clash, while Nihility Devouring Flame called on the Hun Clan to dispel the formation.

• Soul Emperor’s remnant soul struck Nihility Devouring Flame with a giant finger, and Nihility Devouring Flame countered with its Spirit Devouring ability.
• The collision shattered the surrounding space, but Nihility Devouring Flame crawled from the rift badly wounded and accused Soul Emperor of targeting the Tunling Clan’s essence.
• Soul Emperor’s remnant soul attacked Nihility Devouring Flame again, while the Hun Clan members continued powering the formation and the Four Demon Saints suspected Hun Tiandi might sacrifice the clan for his plan.
• Hun Tiandi declared that he was the Hun Clan’s sole will and stepped in to block Soul Emperor’s attacks with a vast palm imprint.
• The clash drove Hun Tiandi back and left him bleeding, while Nihility Devouring Flame survived and ordered the Hun Clan to dispel the formation.

The Soul Emperor Remnant Soul seized control of the Hun Clan members and overwhelmed Hun Tiandi in battle, but Hun Tiandi used the Clan Leader Token to break the formation. As the remnant soul entered Nihility Devouring Flame and destroyed his spirit devouring origin, Gu Yuan struck Nihility Devouring Flame from behind and turned him into a mass of fire.

• Hun Tiandi ordered the Hun Clan members to disperse the formation, but the Soul Emperor Remnant Soul's roar made them continue supplying it with power.
• The Soul Emperor Remnant Soul struck Nihility Devouring Flame and severely wounded him before clashing with Hun Tiandi using the Great Soul Devouring Wave.
• Hun Tiandi was overwhelmed by the remnant soul's technique and then used the Hun Clan's Clan Leader Token to crack the formation.
• The Soul Emperor Remnant Soul entered Nihility Devouring Flame and destroyed his spirit devouring origin as the Soul Clan Grand Formation shattered.
• Gu Yuan struck Nihility Devouring Flame from behind, turning his body to ash, and accused Hun Tiandi of ambushing Xiao Xuan in the same way.

Hun Tiandi chose to lead the battered Hun Clan into a desperate fight as the allied Ancient Races advanced through the Soul Realm. Meanwhile, Han Feng and his companions attacked Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy and broke the seal containing the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Gu Yuan and the Ancient Races’ leaders confronted Hun Tiandi, while the Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed a Nine-Grade Profound Pill to recover.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Hun Clan to fight to the death and led its army deeper into the Soul Realm.
• Gu Yuan arranged the four-clan army with the Gu Clan at the vanguard, the Yan and Lei Clans on the flanks, and the Yao Clan guarding the rear.
• Han Feng and more than a dozen Dou Emperors stormed Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy and attacked the seal containing the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Fallen Heart Flame broke through the weakened seal and appeared as a giant flaming python, which Han Feng vowed to subdue.

Fan Tian negotiated with Elder Qing and prepared for Han Feng’s attack on Jia Nan Academy while plotting to take the Heavenly Flames and unify the Black-Corner Region. Meanwhile, the Spirit and Stone Clans battled the Hall of Souls in the Central Plains, and Gu You’s group gained the upper hand at Wind Lightning Pavilion.

• Fan Tian offered Elder Qing a Sect Breaking Pill and promised the Heavenly Snake Mansion a woman with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils in exchange for her help.
• Su Qian and Hu Gan hurriedly led Jia Nan Academy elders away, and Fan Tian concluded that Han Feng had begun moving against the academy to seize the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Fan Tian planned to defeat Han Feng, take the Sea Heart Flame and Fallen Heart Flame for Cao Ying and Dan Chen, and eventually unify the Black-Corner Region.
• The Spirit and Stone Clans killed roughly five percent of the Hall of Souls’ elite forces, while several Heavenly Venerates died in battle.
• Hun Qianmo killed numerous low-star Dou Senses before the Spirit and Stone Clans used a large formation to suppress him.
• Gu You and the others gained the advantage in the fighting at Wind Lightning Pavilion.