Chapter Summaries

Chen Xuan and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame saved the Nine Profound Golden Lightning Dragon and returned to the Underworld Alliance, where they learned that the Hun Clan had stolen several pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade. The chapter ended with the Hun Clan threatening to execute Xiao Yan’s father unless Xiao Yan surrendered his piece.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame drew the Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s power from its body, allowing the dragon to form its spirit, and Chen Xuan gave it a seed of spiritual energy.
• Chen Xuan and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame left the Void Lightning Pool after reaching Eight-Star Dou Sheng and Seven-Star Dou Saint strength, respectively.
• Chen Xuan learned that the Hun Clan had stolen the Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans’ pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade but had failed to take the Gu Clan’s piece.
• Hun Yuantian failed to breach the Underworld Alliance’s defensive formation and was injured, while Yao Chen rejected the ancient clans’ attempts to obtain the formation.
• The Pill Tower Grand Elder reported that the Hun Clan had demanded Xiao Yan’s piece of Tou She Ancient God Jade and threatened to execute his father if Xiao Yan refused.

Chen Xuan handed control of his body to Medusa, who discovered the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame could tell that they shared one body and two souls. After making the flame accompany her on a long shopping tour, Medusa finally headed toward the Gu Clan, leaving Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran astonished by how powerful she had become.

• Chen Xuan learned Xiao Yan was still in the Heavenly Tomb and told the Pill Tower Grand Elder to placate the Hun Clan until Xiao Yan returned.
• Medusa emerged from seclusion, took control of Chen Xuan's body, and agreed to visit the Gu Clan to warn them to protect their Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame recognized Medusa as the second soul in Chen Xuan's body, and Medusa defeated it in a fierce fight before ordering it to accompany her.
• Medusa spent two weeks touring Central Plains cities, making the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame carry her purchases and incinerate young masters who tried to approach her.
• At an auction, Medusa met Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, urged them to grow stronger for the coming battle against the Hun Clan, and then departed with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame toward the Gu Clan.

Medusa visited the Gu Clan and met its leaders, including Gu Yuan, while Xiao Yan had returned from the Heavenly Tomb stronger than before. She joined discussions about the Hun Clan’s threat and agreed that the allied factions should attack when Xiao Yan exchanged his Tou She Ancient God Jade for his father.

• Gu Dao escorted Medusa and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame through the Ancient Realm, where Gu Clan members learned that she led the Underworld Alliance.
• Medusa entered the Great Hall and greeted Xiao Yan, who had reached the peak of Five-Star Dou Sheng and attained an Emperor Realm soul after receiving Xiao Xuan’s final gift.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame briefly flared against Yan Jin, but Medusa stopped it before Gu Yuan introduced the leaders of the Lei and Yan Clans.
• Medusa told Gu Yuan and the other leaders that the Hun Clan had stolen the Lei, Yao, and Yan Clan jade pieces and was using Xiao Yan’s father to demand his piece.
• Lei Ying proposed that their factions attack the Hun Clan, and Medusa agreed to join; Gu Yuan decided they would strike when Xiao Yan made the exchange.
• Yan Jin warned that the Hun Clan had hidden strength and said the allies would need to commit their full power to defeat it in one stroke.

The Lei Clan’s younger generation overwhelmed the Gu Clan’s youths, and Lei Dong expressed interest in Gu Xun’er before Xiao Yan arrived to challenge them. Xiao Yan invited all the Lei Clan youths to attack him together, and they unleashed their strongest techniques.

• Lei Dong defeated Gu Qingyang, while Lei Yun taunted the Gu Clan and suggested Lei Dong should pursue Gu Xun’er.
• Lei Dong said he wanted to meet Gu Xun’er, angering the Gu Clan youths as Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi watched the confrontation.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun’er entered the training grounds, and Xiao Yan challenged Lei Dong to spar.
• Lei Dong accepted, but Xiao Yan told all the Lei Clan youths to attack him together.
• Lei Yun revealed his Two-Star Dou Saint strength, and the Lei Clan youths launched a coordinated assault with powerful techniques.

Xiao Yan blocked the Lei Clan’s combined assault with his emperor realm soul and defeated Lei Dong, prompting Lei Ying to challenge him. Medusa stepped in with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, and as their confrontation with Lei Ying began, the flame discovered it could control the Heavenly Refining Ancient Array within itself.

• Xiao Yan used his emperor realm soul to block the Lei Clan’s attacks and defeated Lei Dong after stopping his spear strike.
• Lei Dong admitted defeat and told the Lei Clan members that Xiao Yan was far stronger than them.
• Lei Ying appeared and challenged Xiao Yan to withstand his palm strike, but Medusa offered to fight him instead.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame unleashed its scorching flames, prompting Gu Yuan to shield the square and elders to worry about danger to the Ancient Realm.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame noticed the Heavenly Refining Ancient Array shining on its brow and realized it could control the array within itself.

Queen Medusa, Lei Ying, and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame escalated their sparring match until their attacks threatened the Ancient Realm. Gu Yuan intervened and revealed that an old friend had arrived, leaving the fighters’ confrontation unresolved.

• Medusa transformed into her Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python form and clashed with Lei Ying, whose attack shattered the barrier protecting the training ground.
• Gu Yuan contained the collision’s energy before Medusa and Lei Ying resumed fighting amid a growing thunderstorm.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame activated the Heavenly Refining Ancient Array and raised its strength to the eight-star Dou Sheng level.
• Lei Ying prepared Thunder Origin Annihilation while Medusa gathered power for her Nine-Nether-Underworld-Annihilation-Wave.
• Gu Yuan moved to stop the fighters and announced that an old friend had come to visit.

Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame arrived in the Ancient Realm, using a Gu Clan traitor and a disguised Queen Medusa to try to steal the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Chen Xuan and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame exposed the plot, and Gu Yuan and the assembled clan leaders began fighting the Soul Clan forces.

• Gu Yuan sensed Hun Tiandi nearby, and the Gu Clan, Xiao Yan, Medusa, and the other clan leaders prepared for his arrival.
• Hun Tiandi emerged with the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan, then taunted Medusa and confronted Gu Yuan.
• The disguised Queen Medusa ordered the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to activate the Heavenly Refining Ancient Array around the Gu Clan ancestral hall, where Gu Yang was trying to escape with the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Chen Xuan revealed that the Soul Clan's scheme had been discovered, and Gu Yuan accused Hun Tiandi of arranging Gu Yang's betrayal.
• Gu Yuan attacked Hun Tiandi while Lei Ying, Yan Jin, Yao Dan, and the others engaged the Soul Clan forces; the Nihility Devouring Flame blocked them as a new opponent appeared to challenge it.

Chen Xuan fought Nihility Devouring Flame in the Ancient Realm, matching its nine-star strength and capturing one of its child flames. The battle ended when Hun Tiandi intervened, then withdrew with the Four Demon Saints after giving the Xiao Clan boy half a month to trade the Tou She Ancient God Jade for his father.

• Chen Xuan unleashed his full power, split Nihility Devouring Flame’s black fire dragons with a halberd strike, and told Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Yao Dan to attack the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan.
• Chen Xuan trapped and swallowed Nihility Devouring Flame’s child flame, enraging Nihility Devouring Flame and beginning their fierce battle across the Ancient Realm.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Chen Xuan, but Gu Yuan blocked the strike, and both combatants’ allies gathered beside them.
• Hun Tiandi praised Chen Xuan’s strength and offered him a place under the Hun Clan, but Chen Xuan rejected the offer and claimed he might reach Dou Di first.
• Hun Tiandi brought back the battered Four Demon Saints and gave the Xiao Clan boy half a month to exchange the Tou She Ancient God Jade for his father before withdrawing with his forces.
• Gu Yuan declined to pursue Hun Tiandi because their advantage was not decisive.

After the Hun Clan’s failed attack on the Gu Clan, the leaders of five powers agreed to join forces against them. Chen Xuan proposed refining a Ninth Grade Golden Pill to increase his strength, and the group committed their alchemists and resources to the attempt.

• Lei Ying praised Chen Xuan’s strength, and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame revealed that it had enslaved the traitor Elder Gu Yang and recovered the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Gu Yuan retrieved the jade and summoned the leaders, including Xiao Yan, to discuss the Hun Clan’s growing threat and their plan to unite five powers against it.
• Chen Xuan said he could only defeat Nihility Devouring Flame if his strength advanced, and identified a Ninth Grade Golden Pill as the medicine he needed.
• Chen Xuan proposed pooling Xiao Yan’s Emperor Realm Soul, the Yao Clan’s alchemists, and his own skills to refine the pill, with Xiao Yan agreeing to help.
• Gu Yuan and the other leaders pledged their clans’ resources, while Chen Xuan said he already had the main ingredient and needed the five powers to supply the remaining energy and materials.

The major powers gathered at the Underworld Alliance to refine a Ninth Grade Golden Pill after Gu Yuan's full-strength strike failed to damage its Emperor Spirit Grand Formation. The refinement began with Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, Yao Dan, and Yao Wanhuo processing thousands of ingredients and preparing to use Nine Profound Golden Lightning as the main ingredient.

• The Gu Clan, Yan Clan, Lei Clan, Yao Clan, and Underworld Alliance assembled resources and arrived at the Underworld Alliance to refine a Ninth Grade Golden Pill.
• Gu Yuan tested the Emperor Spirit Grand Formation first with seventy percent of his strength and then with a full-powered attack, but the formation remained completely unharmed.
• Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders recognized the Underworld Alliance's formidable protection and considered how their clans would relate to it as it rose in power.
• Chen Xuan gathered Xiao Yan, Yao Dan, and Yao Wanhuo to divide the work of refining the pill, with himself and Xiao Yan responsible for the final stage.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame revealed a sealed mass of Nine Profound Golden Lightning, which Chen Xuan identified as the main ingredient for a Thunder Tribulation Golden Pill.
• Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, Yao Dan, and Yao Wanhuo began refining the ingredients with their flames and alchemical skills.

Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, Yao Dan, and Yao Wanhuo refined the ingredients and Nine Profound Golden Lightning for a Ninth Grade Golden Pill, then Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan formed the pill with help from the gathered experts. The Pill Tower Ancestor supplied blood essence to fill a flaw in the nearly complete pill, triggering a terrifying change in heaven and earth.

• Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan, Yao Dan, and Yao Wanhuo spent a week refining medicinal ingredients, then divided the Nine Profound Golden Lightning into portions and refined it into lightning liquid over ten more days.
• Yao Dan and Yao Wanhuo reached their limits, leaving Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan to combine the lightning liquid with the medicinal essence and draw in energy from heaven and earth.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, Yao Chen, the Pill Tower Grand Elder, and the others supplied medicinal ingredients as the golden pill embryo consumed them and became smooth and round.
• The experts saw a tiny line remain on the Ninth Grade Golden Pill despite the medicinal energy it absorbed.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor sent his blood essence into the pill, awakening it and causing black clouds to gather over the Saint Realm.

Chen Xuan completed a Ninth Grade Golden Pill and faced the formidable Pill Lightning it summoned, using the Nine Profound Golden Lightning to temper his body before the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame refined it into energy. The intelligent pill tried to flee, but Chen Xuan trapped it and took it in hand.

• A Golden Lightning Dragon formed from the Pill Lightning, and Gu Yuan judged its power comparable to an early-stage nine-star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Xuan transformed into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and fought the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, using its attacks to temper his body while Gu Yuan and the others protected the Saint Realm.
• After Chen Xuan weakened the lightning, the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame sealed and refined it, transferring its energy into Chen Xuan and strengthening both him and the flame.
• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill appeared and transformed into a woman resembling Queen Medusa, pleading with Chen Xuan before fleeing.
• Chen Xuan immobilized the fleeing pill with a formation, forced it back into pill form, and drew it into his hand.

Nihility Devouring Flame consumed the Soul Hall’s collected soul origins and advanced his soul to the emperor realm as he and Hun Tiandi prepared to seize the Ancient Jade pieces. Meanwhile, Chen Xuan broke through to nine-star Dou Sheng, and the Underworld Alliance prepared to confront the Hun Clan in three days at the Soulbreak Mountain Range.

• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured hundreds of soul-origin orbs and advanced his soul to the emperor realm.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame discussed Queen Medusa’s strength and planned to take the Ancient Jade pieces from Xiao Yan and the Gu Clan.
• Chen Xuan broke through to nine-star Dou Sheng after taking the Ninth Grade Golden Pill, and he claimed he could defeat Nihility Devouring Flame within thirty moves.
• Yao Chen told Chen Xuan that the Hun Clan had demanded Xiao Yan’s Ancient Jade in exchange for his father, with the exchange set for the Soulbreak Mountain Range in three days.
• Chen Xuan and the leaders of the allied clans agreed to fight the Hun Clan, and Xiao Yan agreed to hand over his Ancient Jade while the Gu Clan retained its piece.

The Underworld Alliance and the Gu, Lei, Yan, and Yao Clans gathered at the Soulbreak Mountain Range to confront the Hun Clan and recover the Ancient Jade. After searching the mountains and finding no Hun Clan forces, Chen Xuan and Gu Yuan sensed the enemy’s arrival as black mist opened a huge spatial passage.

• The Underworld Alliance assembled with the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then marched in full force toward the Soulbreak Mountain Range.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan arrived with their clans’ elite forces and joined Chen Xuan’s coalition.
• Gu Yuan directed the gathered forces to search the mountain range, but they found no sign of the Hun Clan.
• Gu Yuan asked Chen Xuan to defeat the Nihility Devouring Flame quickly so the coalition could overcome Hun Tiandi, and Chen Xuan promised to give his full effort.
• As the sun reached its zenith, Chen Xuan and Gu Yuan sensed the Hun Clan’s arrival, and black mist formed a vast spatial passage above the mountains.

The Underworld Alliance confronted the Hun Clan, and Xiao Yan exchanged the Tou She Ancient God Jade for his father, Xiao Zhan. After reuniting with Xiao Zhan and sending him to safety, Xiao Yan prepared to return to the battle as the confrontation began.

• Hun Tiandi revealed Xiao Zhan in a black-mist cage, and Xiao Yan recognized his father and swore vengeance on the Hun Clan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame displayed an emperor realm soul, and Chen Xuan assured Gu Yuan that she could handle him.
• At Chen Xuan's direction, Xiao Yan traded his piece of Ancient Jade for Xiao Zhan, giving Hun Tiandi his seventh piece.
• Xiao Yan caught Xiao Zhan and reunited with him, then explained that Chen Xuan was the Underworld Alliance's nine-star Dou Sheng leader.
• Xiao Yan took Xiao Zhan to Yao Chen for protection and returned toward the Hun Clan army as the battle loomed.

The allied forces confronted the Hun Clan, but Hun Tiandi revealed four resurrected ancestors and unleashed the Gate of Dead Silence formation. As the gates drained the allied troops’ vitality, Gu Yuan recognized the threat, while Chen Xuan remained locked in battle with the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Gu Yuan, Chen Xuan, and the leaders of the allied forces faced Hun Tiandi and demanded the Hun Clan surrender the ancient jade.
• Chen Xuan revealed that he had reached nine-star Dou Sheng and gained the upper hand against the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Tiandi summoned Hun Yuantian and three resurrected Hun Clan ancestors, revealing that they were living dead.
• Gu Yuan assessed the forces and saw that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame could help counter the Hun Clan’s death energy.
• Hun Tiandi and the four living dead summoned four gates, draining the allied troops’ vitality as Gu Yuan identified the Gate of Dead Silence and Realm of Death formation.

Hun Tiandi proposed that the Hun Clan and Gu Yuan’s alliance cooperate to open the Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, and both sides fused their jade pieces. After Tou She Ancient God’s phantom appeared, Nihility Devouring Flame revealed the cave’s hidden map, which pointed toward a place Yue Mei recognized as the Black-Corner Region.

• Hun Tiandi threatened the alliance with the Gate of Dead Silence, then offered to cooperate in opening the cave mansion, and Gu Yuan agreed after consulting Chen Xuan and the other clan leaders.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan combined their eight pieces of Tou She Ancient God Jade, summoning Tou She Ancient God’s phantom.
• Hun Tiandi attacked the phantom, and Gu Yuan joined him until Nihility Devouring Flame warned them that they were damaging the map hidden in its eyes.
• Nihility Devouring Flame projected the map into the sky, revealing unfamiliar mountains and an immense underground sea of fire.
• Yue Mei and the Black-Corner Region Sovereign King Hall experts recognized the location as the Black-Corner Region, while Chen Xuan appeared to recognize it too.

After Chen Xuan identified the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion as being beneath the Black-Corner Region, the Hun Clan and Coalition Army traveled there together. They arrived near Jia Nan Academy, where Snake Ji, Su Qian, and the academy's other Dou Zun experts sensed their approach and prepared for a possible attack.

• The image revealed the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath an unknown Magma Sea, and Chen Xuan identified its location as the Black-Corner Region.
• Hun Tiandi took the fused Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Chen Xuan allowed him to keep it as the Hun Clan and Coalition Army prepared to travel together.
• Hun Tiandi's Dou Sheng experts opened a Spatial Gate, and the army emerged in the Tagor Desert before Chen Xuan led the Dou Sheng experts toward the Black-Corner Region.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Snake Ji and Su Qian discussed the academy's students and the Snake-People Tribe's young geniuses.
• Black mist and powerful spatial fluctuations appeared near the academy, prompting Snake Ji and the other Dou Zun experts to rise and go on guard.

Dozens of Dou Sheng experts arrived at Jia Nan Academy to reach Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion beneath it, and Chen Xuan secured three days for the academy to evacuate. After Xiao Yan moved the students and instructors into the Heavenly Tomb, Hun Tiandi summoned the Tou She Ancient God Jade and destroyed the academy, unleashing the magma below as the cave mansion's entrance began to emerge.

• A host of Dou Sheng experts appeared above Jia Nan Academy, and Great Elder Snake Ji recognized Queen Medusa among the leaders who arrived.
• Chen Xuan agreed to wait three days before proceeding, while Xiao Yan warned Su Qian and the other elders that a battle could destroy the academy.
• Xiao Yan proposed sheltering everyone in the Heavenly Tomb, and Su Qian accepted the plan.
• Xiao Yan opened a spatial rift, and the students and instructors entered the Heavenly Tomb within minutes.
• Hun Tiandi summoned the Tou She Ancient God Jade and struck Jia Nan Academy, opening a vast abyss and releasing a flood of magma.

The Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion emerged from the Magma Sea, and the Hun Clan and Coalition Army prepared to fight over its secrets. Zhu Kun, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's former Dragon Emperor and Zi Yan's father, appeared as a powerful ally of the Coalition Army, while Hun Tiandi opened the ancient gate with the Ancient Jade.

• The Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion rose from the Magma Sea, and Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan prepared for a confrontation over it.
• Chen Xuan warned that something powerful was beneath the magma, and Xiao Yan sensed its approach before Zhu Kun emerged.
• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan and praised Chen Xuan for reaching Nine-Star Dou Sheng after receiving his essence blood.
• Chen Xuan identified Zhu Kun as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's former Dragon Emperor and Zi Yan's father, shocking Zhu Huo and the clan's elders.
• Hun Tiandi raised the Ancient Jade and sent its light into the stone gate, causing it to crack and slowly open.