Recaps

Xiao Yan accused the Misty Cloud Sect of colluding with the Chu Yun Empire and prepared to destroy it. He let Yun Yun leave, but she chose to stand by her sect, so he offered its disciples and elders a chance to survive by killing her.

• Yun Yun accused Xiao Yan of destroying the Nalan Family, and he denied responsibility while telling Jia Xingtian to record that Nalan Jie had exposed the family’s treason and died to atone for it.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Misty Cloud Sect had also colluded with the Chu Yun Empire and shook the mountainside beneath it.
• Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and Xiao Yan’s subordinates fled, while Xiao Yan killed Misty Cloud Sect members who tried to escape with them.
• Xiao Yan offered Yun Yun a chance to leave, but she drew her sword and vowed to stand with the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan challenged the sect’s disciples and elders to kill Yun Yun in exchange for their lives.

Xiao Yan forced the Misty Cloud Sect to choose between Yun Yun and their own survival, then used their betrayal as a pretext to annihilate the sect. The chapter ended with Misty Cloud Mountain reduced to a sea of blood.

• Xiao Yan offered to spare the Misty Cloud Sect if its members killed themselves or killed Yun Yun, and Yun Leng urged them to sacrifice their Sect Master.
• The disciples and elders turned against Yun Yun and demanded that she die for the sect.
• Yun Yun cut her own throat, and Nalan Yanran tried in vain to save her.
• Xiao Yan used the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation to slaughter everyone on Misty Cloud Mountain, including Yun Shan, and annihilate their souls.

After the Misty Cloud Sect’s destruction, Xiao Yan spent two months with his loved ones before a passage to the Great Thousand World opened. He prepared to leave the Dou Qi Continent, entrusting the Xiao Clan to Xiao Xuan and promising to return for the people he left behind.

• The Misty Cloud Sect vanished, becoming an enduring mystery throughout the Jia Ma Empire, while Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion and prepared for his journey.
• A massive disturbance tore open a passage to the Great Thousand World, and Xiao Yan recognized the Origin Qi within it.
• Xiao Xuan declined to accompany Xiao Yan because he needed to guard the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan promised to return for him once he had established himself in the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xuan an Emperor Grade Nascent Pill for Zi Yan’s father, Zhu Kun, to help him reach the Dou Di realm sooner.
• Xiao Yan said farewell to Yao Lao, Xun’er, and the other women, promising to hold them a grand wedding after he established a new domain in the Great Thousand World.

Xiao Yan departed for the Great Thousand World through the Plane Passage, taking Qingtan with him. After Cai Lin revealed she was hiding her pregnancy from him, Ye Lingyu spotted Xiao Yan leaving and decided to follow his trail under the new name Youquan.

• Xiao Yan accepted Qingtan's decision to accompany him to the Great Thousand World and said farewell to his family and companions.
• Xiao Yan carried Qingtan into the Plane Passage, while Cai Lin watched him leave and concealed her pregnancy to spare him worry.
• The wounded Ye Lingyu recognized Xiao Yan as her teacher entering the passage and regained hope after believing he was dead.
• Ye Lingyu decided to investigate the Starfall Pavilion for traces of Xiao Yan and chose the name Youquan to hide her identity as the Blood Calamity Witch.

Xiao Yan and Qingtan arrived in the Great Thousand World, where unfamiliar spiritual power began assimilating their energies. After the Ancestral Stone Spirit explained the process, Xiao Yan stopped resisting, while Qingtan’s cultivation advanced toward the Supreme realm.

• Xiao Yan and Qingtan spent over a month traveling through the Plane Passage and passed other ascendants on their way to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan and Qingtan emerged high above the ground, and Xiao Yan used the Nine Nether Wings to keep them from crashing.
• Xiao Yan discovered that spiritual power was dissolving his Dou Qi and affecting his heavenly flames, so he tried to expel it.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit warned Xiao Yan that the energy was spiritual power assimilation and explained that resisting could endanger him and impair his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan accepted the explanation and let the Ancestral Stone Spirit use the Universe Ancient Formation to aid his assimilation.
• Qingtan cooperated with the conversion, and her cultivation rose as the barrier to the Supreme realm began to loosen.

After converting their power into Spiritual Power, Xiao Yan and Qingtan met Patriarch Tianhuang of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, who mistook Xiao Yan for a descendant of the clan. Xiao Yan accepted Tianhuang’s invitation to return with him, and Tianhuang agreed to bring Qingtan as his wife.

• Xiao Yan sensed that Spiritual Power was stronger than Dou Qi, while Qingtan had already converted her Origin Power and reached the Ancestral Realm.
• Patriarch Tianhuang appeared behind Xiao Yan and introduced himself as the patriarch of the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan.
• Tianhuang explained that he had come after a detection artifact found a Nine Nether Sparrow clansman who had ascended from a Lower Plane, and he invited Xiao Yan to join the clan.
• Xiao Yan accepted the invitation and asked to bring Qingtan with him.
• Tianhuang agreed that Qingtan could accompany Xiao Yan after learning that she was his wife.

Patriarch Tianhuang explained the Great Thousand World's cultivation ranks and clarified that Xiao Yan and Qingtan had not yet become true Supreme cultivators because they lacked Supreme Dharma Bodies. The group continued toward the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan, while Xiao Yan wondered how his Flame Emperor Body compared with the ranked Dharma Bodies.

• Xiao Yan asked Patriarch Tianhuang to explain the Great Thousand World's cultivation system as they traveled with Qingtan toward the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan.
• Tianhuang described the world's continents and ranks, explaining that Supreme cultivators ruled smaller continents while Earth Supremes and Heavenly Sovereigns held greater influence.
• Tianhuang judged Qingtan to have just entered the Supreme Realm and Xiao Yan's spiritual energy to be near peak fifth-grade Supreme, but said neither was a true Supreme without a Supreme Dharma Body.
• Tianhuang explained that lower-plane giant forms counted as the lowest-grade Supreme Dharma Bodies and that the strongest listed types belonged to ninety-nine ranks.
• Tianhuang said divine beasts used their own forms instead of Supreme Dharma Bodies, while Xiao Yan wondered where his Flame Emperor Body would rank.

Tianhuang brought Xiao Yan and his companion to the Nine Nether Realm and presented them to the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan as candidates for the Nine Nether Enforcement Team. An elder challenged the woman’s eligibility, but Tianhuang insisted she could join as Xiao Yan’s wife.

• Tianhuang explained the Great Thousand World’s professions and led Xiao Yan and his companion to the Nine Nether Continent.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Nine Nether Realm was the Nine Nether Sparrow Clan’s former lower plane, now protected by a powerful spiritual array.
• Tianhuang used a jade token to open a passage through the protective barrier and carried them into the Nine Nether Realm.
• Tianhuang brought the pair to the clan’s sacred mountain and announced that both could join the Nine Nether Enforcement Team.
• Elder Tian Que accepted the assignment, but a blue-robed elder objected that Xiao Yan’s companion lacked the Nine Nether Bloodline.
• Tianhuang defended her eligibility as Xiao Yan’s wife and said he wanted both of them in the team because they had ascended from a lower plane.

Xiao Yan faced Qin Wan'er in a trial to earn a place in the Nine Nether Enforcement Team, revealing his strength and enduring her superior attacks. The elders remained impressed by his potential, but Qin Wan'er’s techniques overwhelmed his defenses.

• Patriarch Tianhuang proposed that Xiao Yan and Qingtan earn entry to the Nine Nether Enforcement Team by lasting an incense stick against Qin Wan'er, and the elders agreed.
• Qin Wan'er challenged the pair, but Xiao Yan chose to fight alone and used his clan mark to raise his strength to the sixth-grade Supreme stage.
• Qin Wan'er attacked with her ice-based spiritual power and Gold-Patterned Ice-Splitting Spear, countering Xiao Yan’s flames and shattering his Yellow Springs Palm.
• Xiao Yan withstood Qin Wan'er's spear strikes with his Xuan Heavy Ruler, impressing the elders with his weapon and physical strength.
• Qin Wan'er broke through Xiao Yan's Six Harmonies Wandering Ruler defense and wounded him, then criticized his techniques as too unsophisticated to withstand her attacks.

Xiao Yan used the Demonic Lotus Formation and Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath to suppress Qin Wan'er, forcing her to reveal her Nine Nether Cold Sparrow Divine Beast form. As the onlookers expected Qin Wan'er to win, Xiao Yan summoned a dazzling multicolored Fire Lotus.

• Qin Wan'er broke Xiao Yan's Demonic Lotus Formation, but Xiao Yan struck her with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and wounded her with his powerful soul force.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, weakening Qin Wan'er and impressing Patriarch Tianhuang and the Nine Nether Enforcement Team commander.
• Qin Wan'er released the bone-chilling Divine Beast form of a Nine Nether Cold Sparrow, freezing Xiao Yan's soul sound waves and shifting the advantage back to her.
• As Patriarch Tianhuang prepared to announce the result, Xiao Yan raised a Fire Lotus with at least ten colors, startling everyone in the square.

Xiao Yan and Qin Wan'er fought to a standstill after he unveiled the Demon Fury Fire Lotus, and Patriarch Tianhuang ended their match before either attack could land. Xiao Yan and Qingtan joined the Nine Nether Enforcement Team and were told to prepare for special training in the Nine Nether Secret Realm.

• Xiao Yan formed a Ten-Colored Demon Fury Fire Lotus and hurled it at Qin Wan'er in her Nine Nether Cold Sparrow form.
• Qin Wan'er countered with the Ice Crystal Divine Art, summoning a vast blizzard filled with blades of ice.
• An elder stopped both attacks, and Patriarch Tianhuang declared the match a draw.
• Patriarch Tianhuang accepted Xiao Yan and Qingtan into the Nine Nether Enforcement Team.
• The black-robed woman gave Xiao Yan and Qingtan Nine Nether Tokens and ordered them to enter the Nine Nether Secret Realm with her in three days for special training.

Tianhuang explained the dangers and benefits of the Nine Nether Enforcement Team and told Xiao Yan and Qingtan they would enter the Nine Nether Secret Realm in three days. After learning they had been assigned the same room, Qingtan argued with Xiao Yan before they began preparing for the trial.

• Tianhuang explained that the Nine Nether Secret Realm was a deadly training ground for Supreme Realm members, and Xiao Yan accepted the risk.
• Tianhuang described the Nine Nether Tokens’ functions, including monthly Supreme Spiritual Liquid, missions, and access to the Nine Nether Hall’s exchanges and a free divine art.
• Xiao Yan wondered about the origin of his Nine Nether Flame and the mysterious palace connected to his rebirth.
• Tianhuang arranged private quarters for Xiao Yan and Qingtan, but they discovered they had been assigned the same room.
• Qingtan confronted Xiao Yan about pretending they were husband and wife, and Xiao Yan urged her to prepare for the secret realm trial in three days.
• Qingtan sat down to cultivate while Xiao Yan infused spiritual power into his Nine Nether Token to inspect the Nine Nether Hall.

Xiao Yan explored the Nine Nether Token’s stored resources and shop, seeking powerful techniques to strengthen himself and Qingtan. He found an incomplete divine ability called the Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art and asked the Ancestral Stone Spirit whether it could repair it.

• Xiao Yan activated the Nine Nether Token and discovered five hundred thousand drops of Sovereign Spiritual Liquid and a high-grade Nine Nether Divine Armor inside it.
• Xiao Yan browsed Nine Nether Hall’s listings, considered the Profound Ice Dharma Body for Qingtan, and noted that his Flame Emperor Body might serve as his own Supreme Dharma Body.
• Xiao Yan focused on the Heavenly Flame Divine Art, then noticed the far more expensive Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art came from an incomplete Primordial Divine Canon and could cause the user’s flames to backlash.
• Xiao Yan asked the Ancestral Stone Spirit whether it could repair the Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art.

Xiao Yan bought two divine arts and prepared to cultivate them before the Nine Nether Secret Realm trial, while Qingtan borrowed Supreme Spiritual Liquid to buy a Heaven-reaching Pill. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan beginning to practice the Heavenly Flame Divine Art inside the Heavenly Tomb.

• The Ancestral Stone Spirit explained that it could not restore divine arts without a mountain-sized amount of artifact-forging divine stone, though it could still assist with cultivation.
• Xiao Yan used his Nine Nether Enforcement Team benefit to claim the Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art for free, then bought the Heavenly Flame Divine Art and a Blood Jade Heaven-Mending Pill formula.
• Qingtan bought the Profound Ice Dharma Body and Ice Crystal Divine Art, then borrowed fifty thousand Supreme Spiritual Liquid from Xiao Yan to purchase a Heaven-reaching Pill.
• Qingtan began refining the pill while Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate the divine arts before the Nine Nether Secret Realm trial.
• Xiao Yan used the Ancestral Stone's projections to begin practicing the Heavenly Flame Divine Art.

Xiao Yan mastered the Heavenly Flame Divine Art and Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art, reaching Sixth-Rank Supreme, before learning that the Heavenly Tomb might still alter time in the Great Thousand World. The discovery suggested the Tomb had an extraordinary origin, and Xiao Yan decided to keep it secret as he prepared to visit the Nine Nether Secret Realm with Qingtan.

• Xiao Yan completed a month of cultivation, mastered both divine arts at a rudimentary level, and broke through to Sixth-Rank Supreme.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit warned Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Tomb's time distortion should no longer work in the Great Thousand World, making him fear he had missed his three-day deadline.
• Xiao Yan returned to his room and learned from Qingtan that the three days had not yet passed and they were due to visit the Nine Nether Secret Realm the next day.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit suggested that the Heavenly Tomb might have originated in the Great Thousand World and been created by a powerful Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan realized the Heavenly Tomb could be immensely valuable and decided not to let Qingtan or anyone else know about it.

Xiao Yan learned that Qingtan needed costly materials to cultivate the Profound Ice Dharma Body and that some could also strengthen his Eight Ancestral Symbols. After discovering the Nine Nether Cold Sparrows possessed nine nether profound ice, he asked Qin Wan'er about it, and she offered to give them some after they left the Nine Nether Secret Realm in exchange for a future favor.

• Xiao Yan asked Qingtan about her progress, and she explained that cultivating the Profound Ice Dharma Body required more than twenty expensive materials.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit advised Xiao Yan that ice-attribute materials could strengthen the ice power in his spiritual energy and his Eight Ancestral Symbols.
• Xiao Yan asked Qin Wan'er whether the Nine Nether Cold Sparrows possessed an ice treasure, and she showed him a crystal of nine nether profound ice.
• Qin Wan'er guessed that Xiao Yan wanted the ice for Qingtan, then offered to give them some after the Nine Nether Secret Realm in return for a favor.

Xiao Yan accepted Qin Wan'er’s invitation to join a level-five mission in exchange for three million drops of Supreme Spiritual Liquid per participant. Elder Tian Ling sent Xiao Yan and Qingtan into the Nine Nether Secret Realm, where they began its first trial under crushing gravity and a barrage of lightning.

• Qin Wan'er invited Xiao Yan to join her level-five mission, explaining that his fire-attribute spiritual power and combat strength made him a suitable partner.
• Xiao Yan agreed to meet Qin Wan'er after leaving the Nine Nether Secret Realm and earn the mission reward.
• Elder Tian Ling opened a portal in a mountain and sent Xiao Yan and Qingtan into the secret realm.
• Xiao Yan and Qingtan endured gravity more than ten thousand times stronger than normal upon entering the realm.
• Tian Ling ordered them to reach her atop a huge mountain within three days, then summoned purple lightning to attack them.

Xiao Yan endured Tianling’s Nine Nether Demon Lightning while Qingtan climbed the mountain, then began absorbing the lightning to temper his body and strengthen his spiritual power. As Tianling intensified the trial with a Nine Nether Lightning Sparrow, Xiao Yan recklessly drew in its power, risking his life for a chance to grow stronger.

• Xiao Yan urged Qingtan to climb the mountain while he stayed behind to withstand the Nine Nether Demon Lightning.
• Xiao Yan realized the lightning could strengthen his Unending Void Demon Body and spiritual power, so he used his devouring abilities to absorb it.
• Tianling observed Xiao Yan’s approach and formed a Nine Nether Lightning Sparrow from the storm clouds.
• Qingtan turned back at the sight of the lightning engulfing Xiao Yan, then forced herself to continue toward the summit.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the lightning’s essence despite the danger and called for the lightning to strike harder.

Qingtan reached the summit of the first trial, and Xiao Yan overcame the remaining distance in minutes with the Unending Void Demon Body. After passing the trial, they were sent to a poisonous, frigid ocean for the second stage, where Tianling ordered them to endure fifteen days on stone pillars.

• Qingtan reached the summit after three days of enduring the Nine Nether Secret Realm’s pressure, while Xiao Yan remained motionless in the lightning.
• With fifteen minutes left, Xiao Yan activated the Unending Void Demon Body and raced through the trial to reach the summit in minutes.
• Tianling announced that Xiao Yan and Qingtan had passed the first stage and explained that the Nine Nether Secret Realm had three increasingly dangerous stages.
• Tianling transported them above a vast ocean, where two stone pillars caught them before they fell into the water.
• Tianling explained that the ocean recreated the harsh Northern Netherland and ordered Xiao Yan and Qingtan to endure fifteen days on the pillars.

Xiao Yan and Qingtan began the Second Layer trial, enduring violent, freezing waves on stone pillars as Ice-Bone Spirit Pythons attacked them. Tianling revealed that the pythons would grow stronger and multiply, leaving them to face more than a hundred on the fifteenth day, but defeating them could provide powerful cultivation benefits.

• Tianling warned Xiao Yan and Qingtan that the Second Layer’s cold waves would test them, and Xiao Yan chose to endure the chill rather than drive it away with his Emperor Flame.
• A Sixth-Rank Supreme Ice-Bone Spirit Python attacked Xiao Yan, while a weaker one attacked Qingtan; both struggled to fend off the ice spikes and waves.
• Tianling explained that the Ice-Bone Spirit Pythons were formed from seawater and Spiritual Power, and would attack frequently during the trial.
• Tianling revealed that the pythons would grow stronger each day and double in number every two days, and ordered Xiao Yan and Qingtan to kill every one on the fifteenth day without falling into the sea.
• Tianling explained that killing the pythons would grant pure energy that could cleanse their meridians and marrow, and promised Xiao Yan extra Supreme Spiritual Liquid if he survived.
• Xiao Yan accepted the challenge, confident that the ice attribute in his Spiritual Power would let him benefit from the pythons’ energy.

Xiao Yan used the relentless waves of the second trial to refine an old ruler technique, combining it with other techniques until he created the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler. The chapter left him having unleashed the new technique across the sea, while Qingtan continued to gain strength from the trial.

• Qingtan adapted to the second trial’s nonstop waves and grew much stronger, while Xiao Yan gained little physical benefit from them.
• On the tenth day, Xiao Yan recalled the unfinished ruler technique he had created on the Path of Reincarnation and reshaped it using the waves’ movements.
• Xiao Yan combined the wave imagery with the Six Harmonies Wandering Ruler and the Light Wind Void Flame Slash, raising the technique to the level of a Divine Art.
• Xiao Yan incorporated another forgotten Dou Technique, gathered the ruler afterimages into one strike, and cleaved a vast gash across the sea with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.

Xiao Yan perfected a ruler technique powerful enough to approach a Divine Ability while he and Qingtan survived fifteen days of fighting Ice-Bone Spirit Pythons in Tianling's trial. After recovering, they entered the Third Trial separately, where Qingtan faced a graceful figure with her own face.

• Xiao Yan's final ruler strike combined his ruler technique with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, astonishing Tianling with its Divine Ability-level power.
• Xiao Yan continued refining the technique against Ice-Bone Spirit Pythons, naming its defensive and offensive forms Six Harmonies Wandering Ruler and Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Xiao Yan and Qingtan completed fifteen days of fighting, with Xiao Yan reaching the pinnacle of Sixth-Rank Supreme and Qingtan advancing to Third-Rank Supreme and grasping the basics of the Ice Crystal Divine Art.
• Tianling restored the mountain peak and told Xiao Yan and Qingtan to recover before attempting the Third Trial.
• After cultivating for nearly a day, Xiao Yan awoke in a vast white space with Qingtan and Tianling gone.
• Qingtan also found herself alone in the white space, where a graceful figure identical to her appeared.

Xiao Yan faced his own image, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen in the Nine Nether Secret Realm’s third trial. He held off their attacks and escaped Mu Chen’s God-Slaying Array, but the trial’s outcome remained unresolved.

• Xiao Yan saw three opponents appear: a Flame Emperor resembling his future self, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen.
• Xiao Yan charged Lin Dong and knocked him back with a blow from the Xuan Heavy Ruler.
• The Flame Emperor and Mu Chen attacked Xiao Yan, while the Flame Emperor and Lin Dong joined forces to keep him from pursuing.
• Mu Chen trapped Xiao Yan in the God-Slaying Array and fired a powerful beam at him.
• Xiao Yan countered the beam with the Great Flame Divine Orb, then used Primordial Heaven-Transforming Light and the Universe Ancient Formation to break down the array.

Xiao Yan faced Mu Chen, the Flame Emperor, and the Martial Ancestor as they summoned powerful Dharma Bodies and launched a coordinated attack. After his Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art was overwhelmed, Xiao Yan revealed the enormous black tiger of the Four Fiends Spirit.

• Xiao Yan broke Mu Chen’s Spiritual Array by scanning it with Soul Force.
• Mu Chen, the Flame Emperor, and the Martial Ancestor summoned their respective giant Dharma Bodies.
• Xiao Yan summoned his flame emperor body, but found its spirits unresponsive and its power weaker than expected.
• The Flame Emperor, the Martial Ancestor, and Mu Chen attacked Xiao Yan together with three powerful techniques.
• Xiao Yan’s Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art briefly delayed their attacks before he summoned a giant black tiger with the Four Fiends Spirit.

Xiao Yan used his hidden Four Fiends Spirit to disrupt the Flame Emperor, Mu Chen, and the Martial Ancestor’s combined attack, but the three opponents repeatedly increased their strength. He countered their assaults and prevented the Martial Ancestor from taking a lethal hit, then faced the trio after they reached the peak of the eighth-rank Supreme level.

• Xiao Yan used Evil Tiger Reverses Yin and Yang to throw the trio’s Spiritual Power into chaos and dispel their combined attack.
• The Flame Emperor, Mu Chen, and the Martial Ancestor raised their strength from the peak of the sixth rank to the peak of the seventh rank, while Xiao Yan used his Clan Mark to reach the seventh-rank Supreme level.
• Mu Chen struck Xiao Yan with two Seven Suns Heaven-Cutting Staffs, and Xiao Yan blocked them with Six Harmonies Wandering Ruler.
• Xiao Yan attacked the Martial Ancestor with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and Demon Flame Thousand Stars, but the Flame Emperor’s Fire Lotus shielded the Martial Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan countered the Flame Emperor’s pursuing Fire Lotus with one of his own, while the trio’s strength surged to the peak of the eighth-rank Supreme level.