Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan reunited with Qing Lin, learned that the Flame Alliance was thriving, and accompanied her and Zi Yan to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan. After capturing the clan’s Half-Saint experts, he left them in Qing Lin’s hands to absorb.

• Qing Lin explained that she had left the Black-Corner Region to grow stronger, and Xiao Yan comforted her before deciding to confront the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan that the Flame Alliance was flourishing under Xiao Ding’s leadership, while Gu He had become a seventh-rank alchemist and several others had left to seek opportunities.
• Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan entered the Nether Serpent Earth Vein, where Xiao Yan sealed the clan members at Dou Zun rank or above for Qing Lin to absorb.
• Four Nine Netherworld Python Half-Saints confronted the trio, learned Xiao Yan’s identity and Qing Lin’s secret, then tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan stopped the Half-Saints with a giant hand and captured all four.

Xiao Yan captured Yao Xiaotian and traveled to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to obtain yellow springs blood crystal for a pill that could weaken the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. At the springs’ deepest point, he found the imprisoned former clan chief Yao Ming and demanded that he either submit or die.

• Xiao Yan and his companions emerged from Yao Xiaotian’s spatial rift, and Xiao Yan crushed him, sealed his strength, and had Qing Lin imprison him.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin went to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs so Xiao Yan could seek the ingredient for the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill.
• Xiao Yan descended into the springs, suppressed the black snakes, and uncovered four chains binding a skeletal figure.
• Yao Ming begged Xiao Yan to free him and claimed he could make the Nine Netherworld Python Clan submit, but Xiao Yan told him the clan had been destroyed.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had destroyed the clan and gave Yao Ming a choice: submit to him or die.

Xiao Yan subdued Yao Ming, who acknowledged him as his master and gave him the Yellow Springs Blood Crystal before leading him to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet. Xiao Yan entered the tablet to challenge the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Remnant Soul for its inheritance and essence blood, and shattered the remnant soul’s opening attack.

• Yao Ming submitted to Xiao Yan, who planted a Soul Seal and Fire Lotus Seal in his soul and freed him from his chains.
• Yao Ming gave Xiao Yan the last Yellow Springs Blood Crystal and led him to the Yellow Springs Stone Tablet, where he explained the treasures hidden inside and the soul-power test required to obtain them.
• Xiao Yan introduced Yao Ming to Zi Yan and Qing Lin, then declared Qing Lin both his maid and his woman.
• Xiao Yan sent his soul into the tablet, dispersed its lightning and astral winds with his Heaven Realm Great Perfection Soul Power, and confronted the Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Remnant Soul.
• The Yellow Springs Demon Saint’s Remnant Soul accepted Xiao Yan’s challenge and attacked with a giant finger, which Xiao Yan shattered with an invisible force.

Xiao Yan defeated the Yellow Springs Demon Saint's remnant soul and received the Yellow Springs techniques and the Demon Saint's essence blood. He began cultivating beneath the Nether Serpent Earth Vein, where Queen Medusa arrived and witnessed a vast energy vortex gathering above him.

• Xiao Yan withstood Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint passed on the Yellow Springs techniques and his essence blood before vanishing.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan to return to Starfall Pavilion and seek news of Queen Medusa, then ordered Yao Ming to destroy the Heavenly Underworld Sect and seize its resources.
• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin one portion of the essence blood to cultivate with and another to save for Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan began cultivating with his portion beneath the Nether Serpent Earth Vein, and his Xiao Clan Bloodline stirred in response to the essence blood.
• Several days later, Queen Medusa arrived with Zi Yan and saw natural energy gathering into a vast vortex above Xiao Yan's seclusion.

After refining the demon saint essence blood, Xiao Yan returned to Queen Medusa and Qing Lin, then took Zi Yan to the underground magma beneath Jia Nan Academy. There, Zi Yan discovered Zhu Kun, the previous Dragon Emperor, who revealed that he was her father.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion with his cultivation at thirty thousand stages of Dou Qi and reunited with Queen Medusa and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan encouraged Queen Medusa and Qing Lin to cultivate with the demon saint essence blood before departing with Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan descended into the magma, where Xiao Yan killed the Lizardmen and collected their Blood Pearls.
• Zi Yan sensed her bloodline stirring near a hidden space, and Xiao Yan led her into Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.
• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan as his child, transformed into human form, and told her she had suffered over the years.

Zi Yan confronted Zhu Kun as her father, while Xiao Yan helped them begin to reconcile. Zhu Kun gave Zi Yan the Dragon Emperor Token to summon the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s scattered experts, and Xiao Yan revealed he possessed a piece of the Tou She Ancient God Jade that could help Zhu Kun escape.

• Zi Yan resisted Zhu Kun at first, but said she would reluctantly accept him if Xiao Yan approved of him.
• Zhu Kun heard how Zi Yan had become emperor of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and learned that many clan experts had left for the endless void amid internal division.
• Zhu Kun gave Zi Yan the Dragon Emperor Token and explained that it could summon the scattered clansmen, though its messages could not leave Tou She Ancient God’s cave abode.
• Zi Yan asked whether Zhu Kun would remain trapped, and Xiao Yan showed him the Tou She Ancient God Jade piece from the Xiao Clan.
• Zhu Kun recognized the jade and said he could escape once the complete Ancient Jade was found, then learned that the Ancient Eight Clans were clans with Dou Di bloodlines.

Zi Yan refined Zhu Kun’s essence blood and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit’s remaining energy, reaching the peak of Seven-Star Dou Saint before leaving the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion with Xiao Yan. She then used the Dragon Emperor Token to summon the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s scattered members back to Dragon Island.

• Zhu Kun gave Zi Yan his essence blood to help her grow stronger, and promised her and Xiao Yan what little support he could offer.
• After half a year of refinement, Zi Yan reached the peak of Seven-Star Dou Saint and told Xiao Yan she would protect him.
• Xiao Yan said he would go alone to the Gu Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, but Zi Yan insisted on leaving the cave with him.
• Zi Yan secretly left pills and a note for Su Qian, who smiled when he found them.
• Zi Yan activated the Dragon Emperor Token and sent a command through the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s bloodline for all clansmen to return to Dragon Island.
• Elder Zhu Huo and the other elders rejoiced as wandering members of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan began returning.

Zi Yan reunited the Ancient Void Dragon Clan under her rule, then traveled with Xiao Yan to the Gu Clan as his guest. At Ancient Saint City, Xiao Yan encountered Lingquan and drew attention from the Gu Clan and other powers as the commanders debated his reputation.

• Zi Yan used her bloodline power to raise the Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts and was acclaimed as their Dragon Emperor.
• Zi Yan teased Xiao Yan in the Dragon Emperor Hall, then overpowered him after he called her the Brute Force King.
• Half a month later, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan arrived at Ancient Saint City, where Lingquan recognized Xiao Yan and received his Jade Invitation.
• Lingquan’s subordinates identified Xiao Yan as the Pill Gathering Champion and a Ninth-Rank Alchemist, while Lingquan resented being ignored.
• Several Black Annihilation Army commanders discussed Xiao Yan’s feats but doubted that he had reached Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the Ancient Realm for the Gu Clan's coming-of-age ceremony, where Gu Yuan privately met them. Gu Yuan welcomed Xiao Yan as a future son-in-law and warned him about the Hun Clan, but Xiao Yan said Zi Yan could protect him.

• The Fifth Commander suggested that the Black Annihilation Army commanders take Xiao Yan down a peg, but no one volunteered.
• Two days later, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan joined the crowd entering the Ancient Realm, where Xiao Yan noticed Yan Zhi, Yao Xingji, and two Hun Clan geniuses.
• During their teleportation, Zi Yan offered to stop someone from warping space, but Xiao Yan recognized the intervention and let it happen.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan appeared before Gu Yuan, who thanked Xiao Yan for helping Gu Xun'er and accepted him as a future son-in-law.
• Gu Yuan warned Xiao Yan that the Hun Clan might attack him, but Xiao Yan introduced Zi Yan as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Dragon Emperor and said he was safe with her protection.

Xiao Yan openly claimed Xun'er before the Gu Clan, while the clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony began and revealed the strength of its young prodigies. After receiving an eighth-grade bloodline, Gu Yao challenged Xiao Yan to fight.

• Xun'er reunited with Xiao Yan, and he declared that he would make their relationship known throughout the Gu Clan; Zi Yan joined their embrace as Gu Yuan watched in anger.
• For three days, Xiao Yan took Xun'er around the Gu Clan and proclaimed that she belonged to him, while some clan members secretly resented him.
• Huo Xuan and a red-robed woman discussed whether Xiao Yan was truly a Dou Sheng before the Gu Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony began at Ancient Saint Square.
• Gu Clan prodigies received clan marks after testing their bloodlines, including Lingquan with a sixth-grade bloodline and Gu Yao with an eighth-grade bloodline.
• Gu Yao invoked the ceremony's challenge rules and called on Xiao Yan to come fight him.

Xiao Yan defeated Gu Yao effortlessly at Ancient Saint Square, revealing strength far beyond the Dou Zun the crowd expected. When Gu Zhen challenged him, Xiao Yan defeated the Two-Star Dou Saint with one finger, leaving the Gu Clan and its guests stunned.

• Xiao Yan accepted Gu Yao's challenge and revealed an overwhelming aura that made Gu Yao realize he was not a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan subdued Gu Yao with a tremendous crimson hand, defeating him instantly before the assembled crowd.
• Hun Ya and Hun Li recognized Xiao Yan's terrifying talent and decided to report his strength to Lord Void.
• Xiao Yan declared that Xun'er was his woman and challenged the Gu Clan to say who agreed or objected.
• Gu Zhen attacked Xiao Yan to discipline him, but Xiao Yan's crimson-and-purple dragon shattered Gu Zhen's black hand and struck him into the void with one finger.

Xiao Yan challenged the Gu Clan’s experts and defeated Gu Xiao and Gu Nanhai, shocking the Ancient Eight Clans with his strength. Gu Dao, a Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Saint, then stepped forward, and Xiao Yan began their battle by unleashing the Great Heaven-Creation Palm.

• Xiao Yan invited the Gu Clan’s experts to attack him together, and Gu Yuan sealed the battlefield after Gu Xiao’s Ancient Emperor Seal collided with Xiao Yan’s crimson version.
• Xiao Yan shattered Gu Xiao’s attack and defeated the Three-Star Dou Sheng with a single strike, prompting Gu Nanhai to step forward and test him.
• Xiao Yan activated the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and the Xiao Clan Mark, then overwhelmed Gu Nanhai in a fierce fight and won after hundreds of exchanges.
• Gu Dao, one of the Gu Clan’s Three Immortals and a Late-Stage Seven-Star Dou Saint, challenged Xiao Yan, who responded by gathering energy and unleashing the Great Heaven-Creation Palm.

Xiao Yan demonstrated overwhelming strength in a fight with Gu Dao at the Gu Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, then claimed his right to enter the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Xun’er. The Heavenly Tomb opened as they arrived at its entrance.

• Xiao Yan pierced Gu Dao’s attacks with the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger, then matched Gu Dao’s Great Annihilation Finger with his Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal.
• Gu Dao acknowledged Xiao Yan’s strength and ended the fight, while Gu Yuan warned Xiao Yan to treat Xiao Xun’er well and Xiao Yan promised he would.
• The Coming-of-Age Ceremony continued, and guests planned to seek closer ties with Xiao Yan after witnessing his power.
• Two days later, Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun’er went to reclaim the Xiao Clan’s place in the Heavenly Tomb, and Xun’er silenced the elders who objected to his entry.
• A Spatial Rift appeared above the mountain range, and the Heavenly Tomb’s gate opened.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er entered the Heavenly Tomb, killed Hun Ya and Hun Li, then hunted energy bodies on the third layer until Xiao Xuan summoned them. They reached the depths of the tomb and stood before Xiao Xuan's stone tablet.

• Hun Ya and Hun Li rushed into the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan secretly marked them with soul imprints before entering with Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan tracked down Hun Ya and Hun Li and killed them with a single attack.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er broke through the barrier to the third layer and passed through the Ancient Devouring Worms' crystal wall without disturbing the nest.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er hunted energy bodies on the third layer for a month, drawing Xiao Xuan's attention.
• Xiao Xuan called for Xiao Yan and Xun'er, and they traveled to the deepest part of the Heavenly Tomb, where they found Xiao Xuan's stone tablet.

Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan in the Heavenly Tomb, absorbed the Xiao Clan’s bloodline power, and mutated it into a bloodline that seemed to surpass divine grade. After months of cultivation, he reached the Crystal Wall at the third level as an energy storm threatened the others, but he did not immediately help them.

• Xiao Xuan welcomed Xiao Yan and Xun'er, recognized her divine-grade bloodline, and offered Xiao Yan the bloodline power stored in a pool.
• Xiao Yan entered the blood pool and absorbed its power, awakening a mutated bloodline that Xiao Xuan thought might surpass divine grade.
• Xiao Yan refined the pool’s remaining energy and, over several months, cultivated alongside Xun'er, giving her the Crystal Cores he could not use.
• Xiao Yan sensed his chance to obtain Heavenly Flames and went to the Crystal Wall at the entrance to the Heavenly Tomb’s third level.
• Xiao Yan found Gu Qingyang, Huo Zhi, Yao Xingji, and the others trapped as an energy storm approached, but he made no move to help them.
• Yao Xingji shouted at Xiao Yan to save them, then immediately regretted challenging the powerful Dou Sheng Expert.

Xiao Yan rescued Huo Zhi, Yao Xingji, and the others from the energy storm in exchange for their Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Nine Nether Wind Flame. He returned to Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion with both flames, then surprised Xiao Xuan by revealing his ties to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and admitting he had several beloveds.

• Xiao Yan demanded Huo Zhi's Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Yao Xingji's Nine Nether Wind Flame in return for saving them from the approaching energy storm.
• Huo Zhi and Yao Xingji agreed, and Xiao Yan melted the Crystal Wall, captured the Ancient Devouring Worms' Insect Queen, and brought everyone into the Third Layer.
• Huo Zhi and Yao Xingji extracted their Heavenly Flame origins, which Xiao Yan collected before leaving them behind.
• Xiao Yan returned to Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion and showed Xiao Xuan the two Heavenly Flames he had acquired.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Dragon Emperor was his beloved and admitted he had a few more beloveds.

Xiao Yan fused the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Nine Nether Wind Flame, awakening the resolve to create his own cultivation technique. Xiao Xuan then sacrificed his Soul Origin to seize the Soul Origin of the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb for Xiao Yan, and the two began their battle.

• Xiao Yan fused the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and Nine Nether Wind Flame, and the transformation made him resolve to create his own technique.
• Xiao Xuan offered Xiao Yan the chance to absorb the Soul Origin of the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb and advance his Soul Power beyond Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Xiao Xuan vanished from his Tomb Mansion and unleashed a surge of Soul Power that shocked the remnant souls and cultivators throughout the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan told the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb that he wanted its Soul Origin, then burned his own Soul Origin to overpower it.
• The Soul of the Heavenly Tomb attacked Xiao Xuan with a spear of gray energy, but Xiao Xuan caught it and charged at his opponent.

Xiao Yan refined the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb’s vast soul origin and reached Emperor Realm Soul, while Xiao Xuan’s burning remnant soul finally vanished. Xiao Yan revealed he had preserved Xiao Xuan’s Soul Imprint and could resurrect him someday, then he and Xun'er left the Heavenly Tomb as the clans discovered Hun Ya and Hun Li had died.

• Xiao Xuan killed the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb, claimed its soul origin, and warned the other remnant souls not to provoke him.
• Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yan to refine the soul origin, and Xiao Yan absorbed it for half a month until he attained Emperor Realm Soul.
• Two months later, Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul dissipated after Xiao Yan and Xun'er bid him farewell, but Xiao Yan showed Xun'er the surviving trace of Xiao Xuan’s Soul Imprint.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er spent the remaining two years in the Heavenly Tomb refining energy Crystal Cores.
• The Heavenly Tomb reopened, and the Ancient Eight Clans saw Hun Ya and Hun Li’s lifeless bodies emerge before Xiao Yan and Xun'er appeared.

After leaving the Heavenly Tomb with an emperor-realm soul and greatly increased strength, Xiao Yan warned the Hun Clan and met with Gu Yuan, who learned that Xiao Xuan had sacrificed himself to help him. Xun'er broke through to Dou Sheng, and she and Xiao Yan finally consummated their long-standing love.

• Xiao Yan drove off a Hun Clan expert, declared that he would come after the Hun Clan, and told the Yan Clan expert that the Red Lotus Karmic Fire was beyond recovery.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er met Gu Yuan, who discovered Xiao Yan had gained an emperor-realm soul and learned that Xiao Xuan had dissipated while helping him.
• Gu Yuan recognized that Xun'er had reached the peak of high-rank half-saint and accepted Xiao Yan's promise to protect her.
• Xiao Yan gave Xun'er a Ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill, and she spent a month in seclusion before breaking through to Dou Sheng.
• Zi Yan teased Xun'er about finally being able to be with Xiao Yan, then left them alone.
• Xiao Yan drew Xun'er close, and their love finally came to fruition.

Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Lao told him the Bodhi Ancient Tree had appeared and gave him the final fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map. After meeting the Purifying Lotus Saint, Xiao Yan decided to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree first, confident he could hide his true strength and withstand its effects.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er returned to Starfall Pavilion, and Yao Lao welcomed them with news of the Bodhi Ancient Tree's appearance in the Barbaric Ancient Region.
• Yao Lao handed Xiao Yan the final map fragment, and Xiao Yan assembled it with the other three pieces to summon the Purifying Lotus Saint.
• The Purifying Lotus Saint mistook Xiao Yan for a Dou Zun and offered to help him release and absorb the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame if it remained unruly.
• Xiao Yan told the Purifying Lotus Saint he intended to visit the Barbaric Ancient Region first, and the Saint warned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree fled from Dou Sheng Experts.
• Xiao Yan said the Bodhi Ancient Tree might not recognize his true strength, and he trusted his Blood Qi Power and Origin Divine Flame to protect him.