Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan studied the Great Thousand World's cultivation system and planned to cultivate a powerful flame-based Dharma Body, then interrogated the captured Maha Gu Clan Earthly Sovereigns for information. He sealed the survivors, seized their treasures, and began assessing the resources he would need to regain his strength.

• Xiao Yan reviewed the Sovereign Dharma Body rankings and decided he would need the World-Purifying True Flame to cultivate the True Flame Indestructible Body.
• Xiao Yan entered Sacred Artifact Mountain to question the ten captured Maha Gu Clan experts about their clan.
• Xiao Yan killed one Earthly Sovereign and tore another's Sovereign Sea from his body, prompting an expert to agree to talk.
• The captive revealed useful information but could not disclose the Maha Gu Clan's core secrets because restrictions would destroy his soul.
• Xiao Yan sealed the remaining experts in golden coffins, stripped them of their belongings, and collected their Divine Artifacts, Saint Relics, and Sovereign Spirit Liquid.

Xiao Yan gathered the Earthly Sovereigns’ vast wealth and learned how the Spirit-Gathering Bowl produced Sovereign Spirit Liquid. After his Dou Qi vanished, he began cultivating Spiritual Energy and reached the Spirit Motion Stage, stirring the spiritual aura throughout Luo Shen City.

• Xiao Yan collected roughly one hundred and twenty million drops of Sovereign Spirit Liquid and assessed the valuable saint relics taken from the Earthly Sovereigns.
• Xiao Yan gathered the Sovereign Spirit Liquid with the Spirit-Gathering Bowl and learned it could continually convert spiritual aura into more liquid.
• Xiao Yan returned from Sacred Artifact Mountain to his body and endured seven days of his Dou Qi dissipating as the Great Thousand World's energy eroded him.
• Xiao Yan followed the Flame Mantra to sense spiritual aura and easily reached the Sensing Stage.
• Xiao Yan began drawing spiritual aura into his body, causing the energy within Luo Shen City to erupt into turmoil.

After accidentally drawing in spiritual energy across Luo Shen City, Xiao Yan attracted the attention of Luo Shen Clan Chief Luo Tianshen. The two reached a wary agreement, and Luo Tianshen invited Xiao Yan to the clan to help him recover his strength.

• Xiao Yan began cultivating spiritual energy, triggering a citywide vortex that exposed his location.
• Luo Tianshen sensed the disturbance and appeared in Xiao Yan's room to investigate.
• Xiao Yan's killing intent and soul power convinced Luo Tianshen that he faced a dangerously powerful expert, so Luo Tianshen pleaded that he meant no harm.
• Luo Tianshen introduced himself as the Luo Shen Clan's chief and offered to teach Xiao Yan about spiritual energy and help him recover.
• Xiao Yan warned Luo Tianshen not to betray him, then accepted his invitation to visit the clan and use its Luo River Divine Water.

Xiao Yan accepted Luo Tianshen’s offer to stay as an outside consecrated elder of the Luo Shen Clan and received cultivation records to help him improve. He settled into the Spring and Autumn Pavilion, where he planned to study the records and cultivate through the Luo River Baptism.

• Luo Tianshen invited Xiao Yan to stay in the Luo Shen Clan as an outside consecrated elder and gave him a jade token and a scroll of cultivation experiences.
• Xiao Yan accepted the offer, refined the token, and moved into the Spring and Autumn Pavilion in the Luo Shen Garden.
• Other consecrated elders probed Xiao Yan with their auras, but he ignored them and continued to his pavilion.
• Xiao Yan learned that the token granted access to the Scripture Pavilion and the Luo River Baptism, which could temper spiritual energy and solidify his foundation.
• Xiao Yan decided to study the Luo Shen Clan’s cultivation experiences that night and cultivate by the Luo River the next day.

Xiao Yan used the Luo Shen Clan’s cultivation knowledge and the Luo River’s power to begin rebuilding his spiritual cultivation, aiming for the highest level of Heavenly Sovereign. As he refined his spirit wheel, the clan’s factions began seeking to win over the powerful new retainer.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Luo Shen Clan’s cultivation system and used spirit arrays to travel from Luo Shen City to the Luo River.
• Xiao Yan entered a white jade platform with his retainer Token and began cultivating beneath the waterfall, refining spiritual essence into Flame Mantra spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yan endured the waterfall’s force and began honing his spirit wheel while keeping his sights on reaching Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme.
• Luo Yu and other disciples watched Xiao Yan and planned to recruit him to Luo Hetu’s camp.
• News of Xiao Yan’s strength and possible Heavenly Grade Spirit Array mastery spread through the Luo Shen Clan, drawing the attention of its competing factions.

Xiao Yan advanced through six cultivation realms in six days but found that his powerful body and soul would require vast resources to complete the sovereign trials. After leaving the Luo River Baptism, he rejected Luo Yu’s invitation to join Luo Hetu’s faction, and a young clan member blocked his way.

• Xiao Yan entered the heavenly connection realm on the sixth day after rapidly advancing through six cultivation realms.
• Xiao Yan realized that his powerful body and divine soul would require enormous amounts of spiritual energy for the sovereign trials, so he planned to ask Luo Tianshen for resources.
• Luo Yu and the Luo Shen Clan’s young talents approached Xiao Yan and invited him to join Luo Hetu’s faction.
• Xiao Yan refused to take part in the Luo Shen Clan’s factional struggles and tried to leave the baptism grounds.
• A tall young man blocked Xiao Yan and challenged him over which faction he intended to support.

Xiao Yan faced Luo Heavenly Dragon at the Luo River Baptism Grounds and shattered both his Heavenly Dragon Fist and Heavenly Dragon Dharma Form with plain punches. After Luo Heavenly Dragon conceded, Xiao Yan left using a spirit array.

• Xiao Yan told Luo Heavenly Dragon to step aside, but Luo Heavenly Dragon challenged him despite Luo Yu's warning.
• Xiao Yan punched through Luo Heavenly Dragon's Heavenly Dragon Fist, astonishing Luo Heavenly Dragon and the gathered youths.
• Luo Heavenly Dragon manifested his Heavenly Dragon Dharma Form and attacked Xiao Yan with the Heavenly Dragon Vajra Fist.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Heavenly Dragon Dharma Form with another punch and injured Luo Heavenly Dragon.
• Luo Heavenly Dragon respectfully let Xiao Yan leave, then told the others that Xiao Yan had held back.

Luo Tianshen offered Xiao Yan access to the Luo River Source in exchange for three precious pills, after Xiao Yan’s request for Sovereign Spirit Liquid proved too costly for the Luo Shen Clan. He revealed that the Source held an ancient secret and promised its spiritual energy would meet Xiao Yan’s cultivation needs.

• Luo Yu concluded that Xiao Yan’s strength and spirit-array mastery made him a valuable talent and went to find Luo Hetu.
• Xiao Yan asked Luo Tianshen for at least two hundred million Sovereign Spirit Liquid, but Luo Tianshen said the clan could not spare that much without exhausting its reserves.
• Xiao Yan offered Luo Tianshen a collection of treasures in exchange for help and explained that he had taken them from enemies he killed after arriving in the Great Thousand World.
• Luo Tianshen offered to open the Luo River Source in exchange for two Dou Zun-Breaking Pills and one Tribulation-Crossing Pill, explaining that the Source was where the Luo River began and Luo Shen was born.
• Xiao Yan handed over the three pills, and Luo Tianshen promised the Source’s spiritual energy would satisfy his cultivation needs before revealing another secret.

Luo Tianshen told Xiao Yan about the Spirit Emperor’s Ancient Tomb, a vast store of Sovereign Spirit Liquid that would open in three years, and Xiao Yan decided to seek entry. After Xiao Yan returned to the Spring and Autumn Pavilion, Elder Zhongyu tried to recruit him into the Heavenly Terrace King’s faction, but Xiao Yan refused and confronted the men blocking his path.

• Luo Tianshen explained that the Spirit Emperor was a Heavenly Sovereign and leader of the Spirit-Gathering Clan whose tomb contained an immense amount of Sovereign Spirit Liquid.
• Luo Tianshen told Xiao Yan that the tomb would open in three years and that only Lower-Rank Earthly Sovereigns could enter; Xiao Yan resolved to try his luck.
• Luo Tianshen arranged for Luo Hetu and Luo Yu to take Xiao Yan to the source of the Luo River in seven days, and Xiao Yan promised the Luo Shen Clan a share of any tomb rewards.
• Elder Zhongyu invited Xiao Yan to a banquet on behalf of the Heavenly Terrace King, but Xiao Yan refused to join the clan’s factional struggles.
• Elder Zhongyu and four experts blocked Xiao Yan and threatened him, prompting Xiao Yan to order them to move aside.

Xiao Yan humiliated the Consecrated Elders who challenged him, then studied master-level spirit arrays in the Spring and Autumn Pavilion. Meanwhile, Luo Tiantai, Luo Tianzhi, and Luo Tianyu plotted to drive him away after his upcoming visit to the Luo River Source, and the chapter ended when a young man and woman came to his door.

• Xiao Yan struck the elderly Zhongyu and two other Consecrated Elders with Dou Di Slaps, then knocked Zhongyu into the ground when he attacked again.
• Xiao Yan ordered Zhongyu’s companions to take him away and entered the Spring and Autumn Pavilion to cultivate and study three master-level spirit array scrolls.
• Luo Tiantai, Luo Tianzhi, and Luo Tianyu learned that Xiao Yan had severely injured Zhongyu and worried that he would strengthen Luo Tianshen’s faction.
• The three Earthly Sovereigns planned to wait until Xiao Yan returned from the Luo River Source, then force him to leave Luo Shen City and surrender treasures.
• A knock interrupted Xiao Yan’s cultivation the next morning, and he sensed a young man and woman outside his door.

Xiao Yan joined Luo Tianshen and the Luo Shen Clan’s young cultivators on their journey to the Luo River Source, after studying three Earthly Sovereign-level Spirit Arrays. At the source, Luo Tianshen awakened the Luo Shen Sword and summoned the spirit of Luo Shen.

• Luo Hetu and Luo Yu introduced themselves to Xiao Yan and agreed to guide him, while keeping Luo Tianshen’s warning about his strength in mind.
• Luo Hetu promised Luo Yu that he would marry her after they both broke through to Earthly Sovereign, and Xiao Yan watched their affection from the Spring and Autumn Pavilion.
• Over seven days, Xiao Yan comprehended three Earthly Sovereign-level grandmaster Spirit Arrays, then teleported to the Imperial Palace to meet Luo Tianshen and the clan’s young cultivators.
• Luo Tianshen led Xiao Yan and the group upstream to the mist-covered end of the Luo River, where the Luo River Source lay.
• Luo Tianshen enlarged the Luo Shen Sword and summoned a thirty-thousand-meter-tall spirit from the river’s silver light.

Xiao Yan entered the Luo River Source with Luo Hetu and the others to hunt demon spirits and gather pure spiritual energy. After claiming most of their first reward, he demonstrated that he could swiftly destroy and refine powerful spirits, leaving the group to follow his lead.

• Luo Tianshen explained that the Luo River Source held demon spirits whose refined remains yielded Sovereign Spirit Liquid, then warned that the source would close in a month.
• Xiao Yan and Luo Hetu entered the source, while three conspirators planned to have Xiao Yan driven out of Luo Shen City and extort him after he emerged.
• Luo Hetu and the others killed a Seventh-Rank Sovereign-level demon spirit and spent two hours refining its demonic qi into valuable spiritual liquid.
• Xiao Yan proposed taking eighty percent of future rewards, and Luo Hetu's group reluctantly agreed to follow him.
• Xiao Yan destroyed an Eighth-Rank Sovereign-level demon spirit with a flick of his finger and refined it with flame, earning the group's astonishment.

Xiao Yan slaughtered demon spirits in the Luo River Source, earning vast quantities of spirit liquid for himself and Luo Hetu’s group while pursuing enough to overcome the lesser three tribulations. After seven days, an Earthly Sovereign-level demon spirit appeared, but Xiao Yan destroyed it instantly and continued gathering spirit liquid.

• Xiao Yan killed over two hundred demon spirits in one day and used his flame to turn them into pure spirit liquid, giving Luo Hetu and the others five hundred thousand drops’ worth each.
• Xiao Yan ignored Luo Hetu’s warning about attracting Earthly Sovereign Demon Spirits and led the group to keep hunting.
• After seven days of slaughter, Luo Hetu and the others had received the equivalent of four million drops of Sovereign Spirit Liquid each, while Xiao Yan had amassed sixty-four million.
• An enormous Earthly Sovereign-level demon spirit approached Xiao Yan, prompting Luo Hetu to form an array with Luo Yu and the others to protect themselves.
• Xiao Yan clenched his hand and instantly crushed the Earthly Sovereign-level demon spirit, which his flame then refined into hundreds of thousands of drops of spirit liquid.

Xiao Yan trapped an Earthly Sovereign-level demon spirit to lure in the others, while Luo Hetu and his companions concealed themselves nearby. Sixteen powerful demon spirits gathered, including one comparable to an Upper-Rank Earthly Sovereign, and Xiao Yan prepared to attack them with a Ten-Colored Fire Lotus.

• Xiao Yan gave Luo Hetu and the others streams of spirit liquid worth 1.2 million drops of Sovereign Spirit Liquid, helping prepare them for their Earthly Sovereign breakthroughs.
• Luo Hetu confirmed that Earthly Sovereign-level demon spirits could attract others, so Xiao Yan led the group onward to hunt more.
• Xiao Yan's killing spree left the Luo Shen Clan's other teams finding far fewer and weaker demon spirits than expected.
• Xiao Yan trapped an Earthly Sovereign-level demon spirit in a Dragon-Locking Array and hid Luo Hetu and the others inside a smaller concealment array.
• Xiao Yan tortured the trapped demon spirit until sixteen Earthly Sovereign-level demon spirits gathered, including one with Upper-Rank Earthly Sovereign power.
• Xiao Yan formed a Ten-Colored Fire Lotus, retreated on his Heavenly Phoenix Gold-Splitting Wings, and unleashed Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus as the demons converged on him.

Xiao Yan destroyed eighteen Earthly Sovereign-level Demon Spirits and gathered their Spirit Liquid, then shared some with Luo Hetu and his companions. The group reached the end of the Luo River, where Xiao Yan sensed a familiar aura beneath the sphere of light that birthed the river.

• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames and physical strength to defeat the remaining Demon Spirits, including the Upper-Rank Earthly Sovereign, and collected roughly one hundred and sixty million measures of Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Yan gave Luo Hetu and his three companions rivers of Spirit Liquid, then urged them to use the Luo River Source to improve their strength.
• Luo Hetu suggested they travel to the origin of the Luo River, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Xiao Yan and the group reached the end of the Luo River, where they found a white sphere of light pouring out the river's waters.
• Xiao Yan sensed a familiar aura beneath the white sphere of light.

Xiao Yan began the physical body tribulation of the Sovereign Three Minor Trials at the Luo River's source, using its abundant spiritual energy to temper his already formidable body. He endured the spreading bloodfire and continued drawing in spiritual energy as the trial intensified.

• Xiao Yan recognized the white light at the Luo River's source as a branch of the Great Thousand World's plane embryo and sensed a weak Demon Emperor sealed beneath it.
• Xiao Yan blocked the river channel with a spirit array so Luo Hetu and the other three could cultivate safely.
• Luo Hetu and Luo Yu swallowed their Dou Zun-Breaking Pills and entered secluded cultivation while Xiao Yan prepared to begin his physical body tribulation.
• Xiao Yan circulated spiritual energy until bloodfire ignited across his body, then used the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art and Emperor Flame to absorb more spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yan poured his vast stores of Spirit Liquid into the flaming vortex and endured bloodfire spreading across ten thousand zhang as his flesh and blood began fusing with spiritual energy.

Xiao Yan overcame the Physical Body, Spiritual Energy, and Divine Soul Tribulations, strengthening his body and divine soul to Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign level before beginning his breakthrough to the Sovereign Realm. Outside the Luo River Source, Luo Tianshen waited anxiously as Luo Tiantai and two elders confronted him about Xiao Yan entering the ancestral grounds.

• Xiao Yan completed the Physical Body Tribulation, gaining a body strong enough to contend with a Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan overcame the Spiritual Energy and Divine Soul Tribulations after consuming nearly a hundred and fifty million portions of Sovereign Spirit Liquid, transforming his soul into a divine soul.
• Xiao Yan saw that an array beneath the white orb imprisoned a weakened Demon Emperor whose demonic qi formed the Luo River Demon Spirits.
• Xiao Yan observed that Luo Heavenly Dragon and another young Sovereign had reached Ninth-Rank Sovereign, while Luo Yu and Luo Hetu remained in a mysterious state, then began breaking through to the Sovereign Realm.
• Luo Tianshen waited outside the Luo River Source, where Luo Tiantai and two elders arrived and questioned his decision to let an Earthly Sovereign enter the Luo Shen Clan's Ancestral Grounds.

Xiao Yan reached the First-Rank Sovereign level in Spiritual Energy, while Luo Hetu and Luo Yu broke through to Earthly Sovereign in the Luo River Source. As the group returned to the Luo Shen Clan’s Ancestral Grounds, three hostile Earthly Sovereigns confronted Xiao Yan over his presence there.

• Luo Tiantai, Luo Tianyu, and the third Earthly Sovereign accused Luo Tianshen of breaking the clan’s rules and vowed to make Xiao Yan pay, despite Luo Tianshen warning them not to provoke him.
• Xiao Yan completed his Spiritual Energy breakthrough, forming a powerful sovereign sea that he believed could let him contend with much stronger opponents.
• Luo Hetu and Luo Yu broke through to Earthly Sovereign, and they and the other young disciples thanked Xiao Yan for helping them.
• Xiao Yan led the group back through the Luo River Source, where Luo Hetu tested his new strength by destroying a demon spirit and other clan disciples realized how much the group had advanced.
• A day later, Luo Tiantai, Luo Tianyu, and the third Earthly Sovereign confronted Xiao Yan at the Ancestral Grounds’ misty entrance, accusing him of sneaking in.

Luo Hetu and Luo Yu emerged from the Luo River Source as Earthly Sovereigns, giving Luo Tianshen the advantage over the three elders who opposed him. When Luo Tiantai tried to expel Xiao Yan and seize his treasures, Luo Tianshen drew the Luo Shen Sword, and the elders feared they would be killed.

• Luo Hetu and Luo Yu rushed out to defend Luo Tianshen, and the three elders discovered that both had reached the Earthly Sovereign realm.
• Luo Hetu warned Luo Tianyu, Luo Tianzhi, and Luo Tiantai to stop opposing the main lineage and insulting Xiao Yan.
• Luo Tianyu proposed using the clan rules to expel Xiao Yan, and Luo Tiantai demanded that Xiao Yan leave and surrender his treasures.
• Luo Tianshen summoned the Luo Shen Sword and prepared to attack the three elders, while Luo Hetu and Luo Yu brought out their weapons.
• Luo Tiantai accused Xiao Yan of turning the others against their own clansmen, and Luo Hetu said the elders deserved to die for endangering the clan.

Xiao Yan fought Luo Tiantai, Luo Tianyu, and Luo Tianzhi to test his newly strengthened Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor and physical power. He left all three Earthly Sovereigns gravely injured, demonstrating that even their strongest attacks and defenses could not match him.

• Xiao Yan stopped Luo Tianshen from attacking the three Earthly Sovereigns and offered to fight them himself.
• Luo Tiantai, Luo Tianyu, and Luo Tianzhi attacked Xiao Yan together with their strongest divine abilities, but his Dragon Phoenix Ancient Armor remained nearly unscathed.
• Xiao Yan struck Luo Tiantai with half his physical strength, sending him through several mountains and leaving his fate unknown.
• Xiao Yan used forty percent of his physical strength to send Luo Tianzhi flying and break more than half his bones.
• Luo Tianyu raised the Luo River Divine Shield, but Xiao Yan's eighty-percent-strength punch cracked it and sent Luo Tianyu flying with limp arms.