Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan led the Ancient Clans’ Heavenly Prides to the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where they discovered the Bodhi Heart and five Half-Saint Puppets guarding it. He assigned the others to hold off two puppets and declared that he would face the remaining three.

• Xiao Yan and the others flew toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and he sensed an unsettling presence within it.
• Xiao Yan told the group to recover, and they spotted the pulsing Bodhi Heart in the tree’s trunk.
• Five Half-Saint Puppets emerged from the canopy, frightening the Heavenly Prides until Xiao Yan explained what they were.
• Xiao Yan reassured the group and assigned Hun Miaomiao, Yao Ling, the River-Sea Two Venerables, and the other Heavenly Prides to keep two puppets occupied.
• Xiao Yan said he would handle the remaining three Half-Saint Puppets himself.

Xiao Yan led the charge beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree and destroyed all five Half-Saint Puppets while the other Heavenly Prides supported him. With the guardians gone, he invited everyone to claim the opportunity they had been guarding.

• Xiao Yan told the Heavenly Prides to move quickly and flew beneath the Bodhi Ancient Tree to face the five Half-Saint Puppets.
• Hun Miaomiao, Yao Ling, the River-Sea Two Venerables, and the other Heavenly Prides joined the fight as Xiao Yan used his Fire Spirits to bind two puppets and battered the first to ashes.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the second puppet with his Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler and trapped the third inside the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Formation, where it burned down to a skeleton.
• The River-Sea Two Venerables and Hun Miaomiao restrained the fourth puppet until Xiao Yan smashed it apart, while the six clans' arrays kept the fifth occupied.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the fifth puppet, pulverized the third puppet's remaining skeleton, and told the Heavenly Prides they could claim the fruits of their victory.

The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Xiao Yan and the other Heavenly Prides into an illusion of the Great Thousand World’s war against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, where Xiao Yan and Shi Hao fought a doomed battle. A Bodhi Seed broke Xiao Yan’s immersion, and he found himself before a smaller manifestation of the Bodhi Ancient Tree as it showed him scenes in floating spheres of light.

• Xiao Chen watched the Bodhi Ancient Tree draw Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Prides into its trunk after their Dou Qi vanished.
• Xiao Yan witnessed a blood-soaked vision in which Xiao Xuan and Shi Hao urged him to survive as the Extraterrestrial Evil Race invaded.
• Shi Hao fought the demonic army, and Xiao Yan discovered he wielded the World-Purifying True Flame and immense Heavenly Sovereign power.
• Three Heavenly Demon Emperors overwhelmed Xiao Yan, and he unleashed Fire Lotus World Annihilation after seeing Shi Hao and the Endless Fire Domain fall.
• A Bodhi Seed broke the illusion and restored Xiao Yan’s awareness inside a green space before a smaller Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree trembled and sent spheres of light before Xiao Yan, showing him scenes within them.

Xiao Yan watched the Bodhi Ancient Tree reveal how a Dou Di expert slew a Demon Emperor and cursed the tree with Demonic Qi. He learned that the Hun Clan Dou Di was the Second-Generation Soul Emperor and looked exactly like the Nihility Devouring Flame, then received information from the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Xiao Yan watched images of his companions trapped in illusions before seeing a black-robed Dou Di fight the Bodhi Ancient Tree and get destroyed by a powerful attack.
• Xiao Yan recognized the place where the Dou Di fell as the Ancient Domain Platform and asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to reveal what happened next.
• Xiao Yan saw another Dou Di with the face of the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan's Clan Mark, who thanked the Bodhi Ancient Tree for helping him slay a Demon Emperor of the Heart Demon Clan.
• The Hun Clan Dou Di said he was going to the Upper Realm to aid his Master and promised to bring Heavenly Flames to purge the Bodhi Ancient Tree's Demonic Qi if he returned alive.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree told Xiao Yan that the Dou Di was the Second-Generation Soul Emperor and sent a stream of information into his mind.

Xiao Yan discovered that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been corrupted by a Demon Emperor’s demonic source and negative emotions, so he agreed to cleanse it in exchange for Bodhi Seeds. After refining nearly a hundred seeds, he weakened the corruption, and the tree seated him on an emerald meditation cushion to recover.

• Xiao Yan learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had sealed away most of its body to contain a Demon Emperor’s demonic source, but lingering negative emotions had warped its nature and caused its illusions.
• Xiao Yan asked what he would receive for clearing the negative emotions, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree offered him Bodhi Seeds after demonstrating how heavenly flames could refine them into pure qi.
• Xiao Yan complained that the tree’s illusions had trapped his friends, prompting it to give him enough Bodhi Seeds to bring his total close to a hundred.
• Xiao Yan refined nearly a hundred Bodhi Seeds and fed their pure qi into the Bodhi Ancient Tree, forcing black qi from its body and purifying its aura.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sensed Xiao Yan’s exhaustion, formed an emerald meditation cushion, and lifted him onto it with a branch.

Xiao Yan purged the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s negative emotions and entered it to receive its greatest opportunity, while the other Heavenly Prides emerged from the illusion and guarded him. He began experiencing a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, reaching a tenth life in which he ruled a prosperous empire but grew numb after attaining its peak.

• Xiao Yan refined all the Bodhi Seeds into pure qi and drove the final black wisp of negative emotion from the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Xiao Yan inside, and he entered a new world through its reincarnation opportunity.
• The Heavenly Prides emerged from the illusion, and the River-Sea Two Venerables warned them not to interfere with Xiao Yan.
• The gathered clans recognized that Xiao Yan was comprehending the Dao beneath the Bodhi Tree, a legendary opportunity said to offer the possibility of reaching Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan experienced lifetimes in which he built a business empire, endured disability and war, and died as an ordinary cultivator before reaching his tenth life.
• In his tenth life, Xiao Yan ruled a flourishing empire, but the emptiness of reaching the height of power gradually numbed him.

Xiao Yan endured a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation inside the Bodhi Ancient Tree and gained insight into the True Flame Emperor's inheritance. He emerged with his original personality intact, received Bodhi Seeds for himself and the other Heavenly Prides, and was finally expelled by the tree after asking for more.

• In his hundredth lifetime, Xiao Yan became a monk and realized that life had no inherent meaning, so people had to seek meaning through both hardship and happiness.
• Xiao Yan awakened from the cycle of reincarnation, understood the Jing Lian True Intent more deeply, and returned to the outside world after only a month had passed.
• Yao Ling and Hun Miaomiao showed concern for Xiao Yan, and he embraced them as he stepped out of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Yan more than twenty Bodhi Seeds, and he persuaded it to provide another batch for the gathered Heavenly Prides.
• Xiao Yan asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree for seeds for his many friends and people back home, but it expelled everyone and struck him out with a branch.

After leaving the Bodhi Ancient Tree with the Bodhi Heart, Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion and began secluded cultivation to attempt his Dou Sheng breakthrough. He warned Yao Lao that his heavenly flames might endanger the pavilion, then entered seclusion as his companions awaited the result.

• The Bodhi Ancient Tree sent Xiao Yan a message urging him to become a Dou Di and travel to the Great Thousand World, then sank underground.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he would prepare to attempt a Dou Sheng breakthrough, and Yao Ling and Hun Miaomiao chose to accompany him.
• Xiao Yan left the Barbaric Ancient Region with Yao Ling and Hun Miaomiao, then returned to Starfall Pavilion with Hun Miaomiao the next day.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to protect his seclusion and keep everyone inside if his heavenly flames erupted.
• Xiao Yan entered the secluded cave, while Yao Lao and Xiao Chen watched with anticipation for his breakthrough.

Xiao Yan used the Bodhi Heart to break through to Dou Sheng, but the breakthrough shattered the seal containing the Demon Emperor’s source and corrupted him with demonic qi. He retained his sense of self and realized that fully mastered True Flame World Purification could cleanse the demonic qi, which began to burn around him.

• Xiao Yan spent a month refining the Bodhi Heart, then absorbed its pure energy as it melted and rapidly advanced to the pinnacle of Half-Saint.
• As Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi overwhelmed the barrier to Dou Sheng, it also cracked the Mandala Flower seal containing the Demon Emperor’s source.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Sheng, and the shattered seal released demonic qi that corrupted his body and soul into those of a Fallen Evil.
• Xiao Yan held onto his consciousness, relying on the understanding of his true self gained through a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation.
• Xiao Yan realized that fully mastered True Flame World Purification could cleanse demonic qi, and a brilliant flame erupted to burn through the demonic sea.

Xiao Yan used his heavenly flames and Jing Lian True Intent to overcome the Demon Emperor’s demonic source after a five-month struggle. He destroyed the Star Realm while purging the remaining demonic qi, and Yao Lao recognized that Xiao Yan had finally become a Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames burned through the demonic qi in his soul as the Bodhi meditation cushion melted and its energy entered his body.
• Yao Lao and Venerable Feng evacuated Starfall Pavilion’s disciples and elders as Xiao Yan’s flames turned the mountain and Star Realm into a wasteland.
• After two more months of fighting, Xiao Yan unleashed True Flame World Purification and forced the remaining demonic qi out of his body.
• Xiao Yan formed nine Flame Dragons to bind and incinerate the demonic source, shattering the Star Realm in the process.
• Xiao Yan froze the space around the escaping demonic strands, and Yao Lao realized that he had reached the Dou Sheng realm after two and a half years.

Xiao Yan completely destroyed the Demon Emperor's Source and returned to Starfall Pavilion as a Dou Sheng, then began rebuilding the pavilion's ruined grounds. He planned to return to the Xiao Clan and pursue the path to Dou Di, while preparing to fulfill his promises to Hun Miaomiao and Yao Ling.

• Xiao Yan burned away the Demon Emperor's Source after three days, ending the threat that had plagued him for three years.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yao Lao and the Starfall Pavilion experts, then said he would seek a path to Dou Di and first return to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan told Hun Miaomiao to return to the Southwest Continent and Yao Ling to return to the Yao Clan, promising to visit them after securing his place in the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan began rebuilding Starfall Pavilion by melting the magma, gathering starlight into it, and raising one hundred and eight magma pillars.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to lend him his bone spirit cold flame.

Xiao Yan rebuilt the Star Realm by forging a hundred and eight mountains and carving out a powerful hidden space, then spent time with Han Yue and Han Xue. He left for the Xiao Clan after learning that Miao Miao had taken Hun Xin away.

• Xiao Yan made Yao Lao pour bone spirit cold flame over the magma pillars until a hundred and eight starlit mountains formed the Zhou Tian Starlight Array.
• Xiao Yan carved out a new Star Realm, infused it with starlight-gathering flames, and concealed it from view.
• Xiao Yan drew in and refined energy from across the region, causing a rain of pure energy that benefited the Starfall Pavilion members.
• Han Yue worried that her cultivation lagged behind Miao Miao and Yao Ling, and Xiao Yan reassured her before Han Xue joined them.
• Xiao Yan learned that Miao Miao had taken Hun Xin away, then departed for the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan as a Dou Sheng and met Xiao Xuan, who tested his True Flame World Purification and confirmed his progress. Xiao Xuan sent him home and announced that he would formally bestow the title of Emperor's Son in three days.

• Xiao Yan arrived at Xuan Emperor City and revealed his divine-grade bloodline to the guards at the Xiao Realm, who recognized him as the Emperor's Son.
• Xiao Yan crossed the Xiao Realm and entered the Ancestral Hall, where the Mysterious God Guard greeted him and Xiao Xuan awaited him.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan that he had refined the Demon Emperor's source after comprehending the first stage of True Flame World Purification.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated his heavenly flame, and Xiao Xuan tested its power and praised how close it was to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Yan home and said he would formally grant him the title of Emperor's Son before the Xiao Clan in three days.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Lin Lineage as a twenty-two-year-old Dou Sheng, reuniting with his family and celebrating with the clan. Three days later, a summons called him to his investiture as the Xiao Clan’s new Emperor’s Son.

• Xiao Yan revealed his Heavenly Realm soul and Dou Sheng strength, astonishing the clan elders who had initially tried to hide their treasures from him.
• Xiao Lin welcomed Xiao Yan home, and Xiao Yan reunited emotionally with his parents, Xiao Zhan and Yao Xian.
• The Xiao Lin Lineage held a lively bonfire banquet, where Xiao Yan met Xiao Mei and welcomed Wen and Wu, the Two Saints.
• Three days after Xiao Yan’s return, a voice from the Xiao Realm summoned him to his investiture as the Xiao Clan’s newly appointed Emperor’s Son.

Xiao Yan attended the investiture ceremony at the Emperor's Arrival Platform, where Xiao Xuan formally recognized him as an Emperor's Son and showed him the Xiao Clan's vast strength. Xiao Shaobei began introducing the clan's forces, including its powerful Emperor Lineages and groups of Dou Sheng experts.

• Xiao Xuan announced that Xiao Yan's Emperor's Son investiture ceremony would take place, and Xiao Yan traveled to the Emperor's Arrival Platform with Xiao Lin and his family.
• Xiao Yan arrived to find countless Xiao Clan experts gathered, including hundreds of Dou Shengs, and Xiao Xuan called him forward for his investiture.
• Xiao Lin withdrew into the crowd as clan members congratulated him, while Xiao Yan stood beside Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Shaobei to introduce the clan's forces to Xiao Yan, who greeted the two previous Emperor's Sons and the ten Emperor Lineage masters.
• Xiao Shaobei explained that the ten Emperor Lineages contained around two hundred Dou Sheng experts and began introducing groups such as the Seven Northern Dipper Saints and the Four Seas True Saints.

Xiao Shaobei showed Xiao Yan the Xiao Clan’s immense forces and many Dou Sheng experts, leaving Xiao Yan to consider the threat of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race. A formidable man then arrived at the Emperor’s Arrival Platform, prompting Xiao Shaobei to warn that trouble was coming.

• Xiao Shaobei introduced the Five Mountains Saints, the Punishment Hall elders, and the Xiao Clan’s powerful battle legions to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Shaobei presented the Golden Twelve Saints, including Xiao Lin, and Xiao Yan realized that more than seven hundred Dou Shengs were gathered in the open.
• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Realm soul to sense over ten thousand Dou Zuns and reflected on the Xiao Clan’s strength and the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• Xiao Yan looked toward Xiao Xuan as he wondered about the Clan Ancestor’s plans, and Xiao Xuan answered his gaze with a faint smile.
• A powerful man strode onto the Emperor’s Arrival Platform, and Xiao Shaobei told Xiao Yan that someone had come to stir up trouble.

Xiao Yan confronted the Xiao Saint King, a powerful rival who challenged his claim to the Xiao Clan’s Emperor’s Son position. Xiao Yan accepted the challenge and declared that he could defeat him within three years—or fight him even now.

• The Xiao Saint King approached Xiao Yan, and the gathered Dou Shengs watched as the two generations’ peerless talents faced each other.
• The Xiao Saint King showed Xiao Shaobei respect but only nodded to Xiao Yan, then questioned whether Xiao Yan could defend his Emperor’s Son position through challenges.
• Xiao Yan acknowledged the Xiao Saint King’s ambition and said he would make him concede wholeheartedly.
• The Xiao Saint King offered to challenge Xiao Yan at any time and promised to follow his lead if defeated.
• Xiao Yan said he would defeat the Xiao Saint King within three years and declared that he was willing to fight him immediately.

Xiao Yan challenged the Xiao Saint King to a fight in three years, then received the Emperor's Son Position from Xiao Xuan, whose power raised Xiao Yan's bloodline to the emperor grade. After the investiture, Xiao Xuan suggested Xiao Yan visit another place before going to the Gu Clan, and Xiao Yan guessed he meant the Heavenly Tomb.

• Xiao Yan accepted the Xiao Saint King's offer to fight in three years, while both men privately anticipated the match.
• Xiao Xuan began the investiture ceremony, and the Xiao Clan members gathered to honor their Clan Ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan named Xiao Yan an Emperor's Son and personally bestowed an emperor-grade clan mark, causing Xiao Yan's bloodline power to reach its peak.
• Xiao Clan members celebrated Xiao Yan's new status, while Xiao Zhan, Yao Xian, Xiao Lin, the Light Punishment Saint, and Wen and Wu watched with pride.
• After the ceremony, Xiao Xuan asked whether Xiao Yan planned to visit the Gu Clan, then suggested another destination first; Xiao Yan guessed it was the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Xuan revealed that he controlled the damaged Peerless Saint Relic known as the Heavenly Tomb, making Hun Tiandi no threat to Xiao Yan there. He sent Xiao Yan to retrieve Hun Xin, who carried the true spirit of a Heavenly Sovereign, while hinting at a plan to face the Demon Emperors.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that he had secretly allowed Hun Clan survivors to live and had approved Shao Bei's relationship with the Hun Clan Saint Daughter.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that he had refined the Heavenly Tomb and could control it, so Hun Tiandi could not harm Xiao Yan inside.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan to retrieve Hun Xin before visiting the Gu Clan, warning that Hun Xue might be awakening her hidden power.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that Hun Xin contained the true spirit of a Heavenly Sovereign Expert and promised to explain more after Xiao Yan brought them to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan said Xiao Shaobei would accompany Xiao Yan to the Southwest Continent, then worried that his plan might fail to stop the Demon Emperors from breaking out of the earth.
• One day later, Xiao Yan and Xiao Shaobei arrived on the Southwest Continent.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Shaobei returned to the Southwest Continent and found the Sacred Demon Sect slaughtering Gu Saint Sect disciples and cultivating with blood energy. Xiao Yan burned the sect to the ground, forcing Sacred Demon to emerge, and prepared to kill him.

• Xiao Yan spotted a Sacred Demon Sect member absorbing blood energy from dead Gu Saint Sect disciples and burned him to ash.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Shaobei traveled to the Sacred Demon Sect, where Xiao Yan set the entire sect and its mountain range ablaze.
• Sacred Demon erupted from beneath the burning sect, but Xiao Yan's heavenly flames began consuming his demonic qi.
• Sacred Demon recognized Xiao Yan and was shocked that he had become a Dou Sheng in only a few years.
• Xiao Yan declared himself the nemesis of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and summoned his black ruler to attack Sacred Demon with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.