Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian Ce compensated Mang Tianchi for taking the fallen heart flame by promising Jia Nan Academy a replacement flame and a level three spirit gathering array. He also met Zi Yan, explained that he had helped free her father Zhu Kun, and gave her pills as candy.

• Xiao Tian Ce and Mang Tianchi recalled their meeting five hundred years earlier, when Xiao Tian Ce gave Mang Tianchi a high-grade Earth-tier cultivation method.
• Xiao Tian Ce offered Jia Nan Academy an infant fallen heart flame and a level three spirit gathering array, and Mang Tianchi had Su Qian gather the required materials.
• Mang Tianchi asked about the Hun Clan's return, and Xiao Tian Ce said he was tracking Hun Tiandi and the nihility devouring flame.
• Zi Yan confronted Xiao Tian Ce over her missing father, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Tian Ce explained that he had helped free him.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave Zi Yan over a hundred jade bottles of low-tier pills to eat as candy.

Xiao Tian Ce gave Zi Yan pills and built Jia Nan Academy a Spirit Gathering Array before heading to Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion. There, he trapped Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame inside and opened the Bronze Gate to confront them.

• Xiao Tian Ce gave Zi Yan a large collection of pills, then built a grade-three Spirit Gathering Array in the Inner Academy’s Back Mountain for Mang Tianchi.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave Mang Tianchi a Heavenly Mechanism Token and left, sensing that Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame had entered the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Tian Ce concealed himself near the Bronze Gate and overheard Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame discuss their plan to claim the Ancient Emperor's Inheritance and their betrayal of Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun.
• Nihility Devouring Flame discovered that Xiao Tian Ce had placed a Spiritual Array around the stone stele, while Hun Tiandi realized they were trapped inside the cave mansion.
• Xiao Tian Ce sealed the area outside the entrance with an enormous Spiritual Array, opened the Bronze Gate, and challenged Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame to try to stop him.

Xiao Tian Ce trapped Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame in the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, blocking their access to the Ancient Emperor's Inheritance and their escape. After their attacks rebounded inside his Heaven-Sealing Spiritual Array, he revealed that its seals were devouring their spiritual strength.

• Xiao Tian Ce revealed himself to Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame and let Hun Tiandi try to claim the Ancient Emperor's Inheritance.
• Hun Tiandi failed to commune with the stone stele or damage it, and Xiao Tian Ce admitted he had sealed it with a grandmaster-level Spiritual Array.
• Xiao Tian Ce disclosed that another array blocked the entrance, leaving Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame no way out.
• Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Xiao Tian Ce, but his Heaven-Sealing Spiritual Array enclosed them and rebounded their attacks, severely injuring them.
• Xiao Tian Ce revealed Spiritual Seals on their chests that were breaking down their spiritual strength, and the two realized the seals were devouring it.

Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame struggled to escape Xiao Tian Ce’s Fengtian Grand Formation, but their failed attempt to destroy it led to the Nihility Devouring Flame betraying Hun Tiandi. Hun Tiandi revealed he had secretly prepared a Soul Annihilation Stone, used it to destroy the Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul, and left Xiao Tian Ce watching from outside the array.

• Hun Tiandi used the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Dou Qi to enlarge and detonate three Gates of Dead Silence, but the Fengtian Grand Formation remained intact and Hun Tiandi was badly wounded.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame stabbed Hun Tiandi and revealed that he had long wanted to devour him and avenge the Hun Clan’s control over him.
• Hun Tiandi persuaded Xiao Tian Ce to suspend the array’s heat while he fought the Nihility Devouring Flame, then restored his strength by burning his Bloodline Power.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had secretly nurtured a Soul Annihilation Stone containing a sliver of the Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul.
• Hun Tiandi crushed the Soul Annihilation Stone, instantly annihilating the Nihility Devouring Flame’s soul.

Xiao Tian Ce killed Hun Tiandi, sealed the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Ancient Emperor's inheritance, and returned to find the Xiao Clan's greatest threat gone. He prepared to hand leadership to Xiao Qing and discussed the Gu Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan, then announced that he had summoned everyone for an important matter.

• Hun Tiandi thanked Xiao Tian Ce, asked him to spare the ordinary Hun Clan members hiding in the void turbulence, and self-detonated after Xiao Tian Ce agreed to spare them for ten thousand years if they stayed out of trouble.
• Xiao Tian Ce sealed the Nihility Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi's Spatial Storage Rings, reinforced the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion's Spiritual Arrays, and brought the inheritance into the Heavenly Tomb as a reserve for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Qing to succeed him as Xiao Clan Chief in three days, then gathered the Xiao Clan's top experts to discuss the Gu Clan, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Yan Jin.
• Xiao Qing reported that the Gu Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan had not joined the Hun Clan's attack, while Heavenly Net explained that the Xiao Clan had acted too quickly for them to intervene.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Tian Ce to spare the Gu Clan, and Huang Jiuji asked him to leave the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's affairs to Huang Min and her companions; Xiao Tian Ce agreed and said he had summoned them for an important matter.

Xiao Tian Ce laid out the paths to Dou Di, assigned plans for pursuing the Ancient Emperor's Inheritance and Emperor's Origin, and ordered the Gu Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan to surrender. With Xiao Qing's succession as Clan Chief set for three days later, Xiao Tian Ce arranged the ceremony and discussed the prospect of leaving the Dou Qi Continent with Xiao Tian Ming.

• Xiao Tian Ce told the assembled Nine-Star Dou Shengs that six portions of Emperor's Origin, the Ancient Emperor's Inheritance, and an Emperor Grade Pill offered three routes to Dou Di, and set plans for them to pursue those opportunities.
• Xiao Tian Ce ordered Heavenly Net, Huang Jiuji, Xiao Xuan, and Tomb Spirit to secure the surrender of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and the Gu Clan, giving them deadly spiritual-array pendants for Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Tian Ce advised Xiao Qing to keep the Gu Clan and Ancient Void Dragon Clan under the Xiao Clan's control, then assured her he would deal with Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun before ascending to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Tian Ce asked Xiao Chun to arrange Xiao Qing's Clan Chief succession ceremony in three days and invite major clans and powers, while Xiao Tian Ming arranged for the Heavenly Secret Tower and Dragon Soaring Army to help.
• Xiao Tian Ming asked Xiao Tian Ce to take him to the Upper Realm, and Xiao Tian Ce warned him that it was dangerous and that he could not guarantee his own safety.

Xiao Tian Ce agreed to take Xiao Tian Ming to the Upper Realm only if Tian Ming secured a descendant and obtained his father's permission. He then entered the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint’s space, confronted the purifying lotus demon flame, and summoned Xiao Chen, leaving Xiao Chen approaching as a Fire Slave.

• Xiao Tian Ming asked Xiao Tian Ce to take him to the Upper Realm, and Xiao Tian Ce set conditions involving a descendant and Second Uncle’s consent.
• Xiao Tian Ming threatened to have the clan elders pressure Xiao Tian Ce to marry, then immediately apologized when Xiao Tian Ce challenged him to spar.
• Xiao Tian Ce entered the Void Turbulence and broke through the seal to reach the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Tian Ce confronted the purifying lotus demon flame, revealed his strength, and demanded that it bring him Xiao Chen.
• The purifying lotus demon flame sent for Xiao Chen, who arrived carrying an enormous axe with crimson, vacant eyes.

Xiao Tian Ce rescued Xiao Chen from the Demonic Flame Space and learned that Xiao Yan had toppled the Misty Cloud Sect and returned to Jia Nan Academy. Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan and Tomb Spirit arrived in the Ancient Realm and demanded the Gu Clan submit, where Yan Jin attacked them over the destruction of the Yan Clan.

• Xiao Tian Ce subdued Xiao Chen, rejected the white-robed man's offer to remove the Nightmare Sky Mist, and took Xiao Chen out of the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Tian Ce learned that Xiao Yan had defeated the Misty Cloud Sect, reunited with Xiao Li and Xiao Ding, and brought the Young Fallen Heart Flame back to Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian showed Xiao Yan and the others the Level Three Spirit Gathering Array that Xiao Tian Ce had built for the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Qian to introduce him to Mang Tianchi so they could attend Xiao Qing's succession ceremony in Heaven Beyond.
• Xiao Xuan and Tomb Spirit entered the Ancient Realm, revealed that they represented the Xiao Clan, and demanded the Gu Clan's submission.
• Yan Jin attacked Xiao Xuan after learning the Xiao Clan had destroyed the Yan Clan, but Xiao Xuan repelled him and Tomb Spirit mocked his chances of revenge.

The Tomb Spirit gravely injured Yan Jin in the Ancient Realm, and Xiao Xuan demanded that Gu Yuan kill him as proof of the Gu Clan’s willingness to negotiate peace. Gu Yuan secretly promised to protect the surviving Yan Clan members, while Yan Jin chose to face the Xiao Clan himself; the Tomb Spirit then threatened the Gu Clan with invasion.

• Yan Jin charged the Tomb Spirit, who stopped his fist and blasted away half his body with a powerful Dou Technique.
• Gu Yuan rescued Yan Jin and refused to immediately accept Xiao Xuan’s demand that he kill his ally to secure peace talks.
• Gu Yuan secretly offered to help Yan Jin escape, but Yan Jin said his injuries left him no hope of advancing and asked Gu Yuan to protect the Yan Clan survivors in Peaceful City.
• Gu Yuan promised to shelter the survivors, and Yan Jin confronted Xiao Xuan and the Tomb Spirit rather than flee.
• The Tomb Spirit accused the Gu Clan of choosing to oppose the Xiao Clan and threatened to send its army against them.

Xiao Xuan and the Tomb Spirit confronted Gu Yuan over Yan Jin, then killed Yan Jin and negotiated the Xiao and Gu Clans’ reconciliation. Gu Yuan accepted Xiao Qing’s upcoming succession as Xiao Clan Chief and agreed to attend the ceremony in three days.

• Gu Yuan refused to kill Yan Jin, while Xiao Xuan explained that the Xiao Clan sought reconciliation but required Yan Jin’s death.
• Xiao Xuan revealed his identity to Gu Yuan and urged him to let the Xiao Clan deal with Yan Jin; Gu Yuan maintained that the Gu Clan could not betray its alliance.
• Xiao Xuan and the Tomb Spirit attacked, with Xiao Xuan holding off Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan’s experts while the Tomb Spirit killed Yan Jin.
• Xiao Xuan removed his mask, and Gu Yuan believed he had returned to life and agreed to restore friendly relations with the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan promised the Xiao Clan would spare the remaining Yan Clan members and announced Xiao Qing would become clan chief in three days.
• Gu Yuan agreed to bring available Gu Clan Dou Sheng experts and congratulatory gifts to Xiao Qing’s succession ceremony.

Gu Yuan persuaded the Gu Clan to attend Xiao Qing’s succession ceremony after Xiao Xun’er argued that the Xiao Clan posed no immediate threat, and he revealed that Xiao Xuan had been restored to life. Meanwhile, Zhu Kun welcomed Huang Jiuji and Heavenly Net to East Dragon Island and reasoned that their arrival meant the Xiao Clan was open to negotiation.

• Gu Yuan announced Xiao Qing’s succession ceremony and ordered Gu Clan members at Half-Saint or above to attend, prompting objections from fearful elders.
• Xiao Xun’er defended attending the ceremony, and Gu Dao, the Three Immortals, and Gu Lie backed her reasoning until the Gu Clan agreed to go.
• Gu Yuan assigned Gu Dao to prepare congratulatory gifts and told Xiao Xun’er that the clan’s future depended on her, while she urged him to reform the Gu Clan and praised Xiao Tian Ce’s leadership.
• Gu Yuan revealed that Xiao Xuan had been brought back to life and had accompanied the Tomb Spirit to the Gu Clan, explaining that Xiao Xuan’s presence had helped him accept submission to the Xiao Clan.
• Zhu Kun hosted Huang Jiuji and Heavenly Net on East Dragon Island, then concluded that the Xiao Clan had sent only two experts because it was still willing to negotiate.

Zhu Kun agreed to submit the Ancient Void Dragon Clan to the Xiao Clan and attend Xiao Qing’s succession ceremony. Meanwhile, Xiao Tian Ce sought ten-thousand-year Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to treat Xiao Chen, whom he left poised to help after finding the treasure near Jia Nan Academy.

• Huang Jiuji and Heavenly Net told Zhu Kun that Hun Tiandi was dead and the Nihility Devouring Flame’s consciousness had been erased, then secured his agreement to submit and send experts to the Xiao Clan’s succession ceremony.
• After the visitors left, Zhu Kun explained to Zhu Lu and Zhu Ku that submission was necessary to protect their clan, and ordered gifts prepared for the ceremony.
• The Lei Clan and Yao Clan accepted the Xiao Clan’s invitations, while Xiao Tian Ce examined Xiao Chen and determined that he needed ten-thousand-year Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and a Heavenly Heart Fruit before his mind could be restored safely.
• Xiao Tian Ming provided a genuine Heavenly Heart Fruit and offered to retrieve the milk, but Xiao Tian Ce took Xiao Chen to find it himself near Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Tian Ce subdued the Snow Demon Sky Ape, entered a hidden cavern, and retrieved two bottles of ten-thousand-year Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.

Xiao Tian Ce restored Xiao Chen, who awoke as an early-stage seven-star Dou Sheng and learned that the Xiao Clan had survived and avenged itself against the Hun Clan. The two headed back to Heaven Beyond, where the clan was preparing for Xiao Qing’s succession ceremony and Xiao Chun worried that Xiao Tian Ce had not yet returned.

• Xiao Tian Ce used rare medicinal ingredients and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to cleanse and strengthen Xiao Chen, who advanced from five-star to early-stage seven-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Chen recovered his memories, learned what had happened to the Xiao Clan during his thousand-year imprisonment, and praised Xiao Tian Ce for destroying the Hun Clan and guiding the clan.
• Xiao Chen asked Xiao Tian Ce to spare the Snow Demon Sky Ape, and Xiao Tian Ce released him and gave him pills to improve his transformation and bloodline.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Chen flew back toward the clan, reminiscing about their past and discussing Xiao Qing’s coming succession as Clan Chief.
• In Heaven Beyond, Xiao Chun fretted over Xiao Tian Ce’s absence before the ceremony, while Xiao Tian Ming assured him that his brother would return and Xiao Chun warned his son not to leave for the Upper Realm before having children.

Xiao Chen returned to Heaven Beyond and reunited with Xiao Tian Ming, while Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Xuan discussed the Xiao Clan’s plans for the succession ceremony and their departure from the Dou Qi Continent. Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at the Heavenly Strategy Manor, where Tian Ce promised to discuss good news with Xiao Yan after the ceremony the next day.

• Xiao Tian Ming reunited emotionally with Xiao Chen, who explained how he had escaped the Demonic Flame Space and then toured Heaven Beyond with him.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Xuan discussed Xiao Xuan’s regret over the clan’s past, the Gu Clan’s submission, and the plan to take Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun with them when they left the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Bieli announced that Xiao Yan and the others had arrived with Mang Tianchi, and Xiao Tian Ce invited them to meet him.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Yan that the clan chief succession ceremony would take place the next day and that he would discuss good news with him afterward.
• Xiao Tian Ce welcomed Xiao Li, praised Xiao Ding and Yao Ye as a good match, and gave them high-grade Earth-tier cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yi Xian thanked Xiao Tian Ce for the materials that helped Xiao Yan resolve her Woeful Poison Body, and Tian Ce praised her kindness.

Xiao Tian Ce approved the succession arrangements and reassured Xiao Qing as she prepared to become the Xiao Clan Chief. At the ceremony, the Xiao Clan displayed its overwhelming strength, and Xiao Chun announced that Xiao Qing would succeed Xiao Tian Ce.

• Xiao Chun presented the succession ceremony program, and Xiao Tian Ce approved it while allowing the visiting factions to attend.
• Xiao Tian Ce comforted Xiao Qing, affirmed her ability to lead, and told her he would begin breaking the seal on the emperor's origin after she took over.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Heavenly Net discussed Zhu Kun's submission and Xiao Min's determination to fight him again.
• More than three hundred Xiao Clan Dou Sheng experts, including several nine-star Dou Sheng, appeared before the ceremony's guests and shocked them with the clan's strength.
• Xiao Chun praised Xiao Tian Ce's leadership and announced that Xiao Qing would succeed him as Clan Chief.

Xiao Qing succeeded Xiao Tian Ce as Xiao Clan Chief, and the clan celebrated before the guests departed. Afterward, Yao Feng confronted Yao Chen, and Xiao Chun told Xiao Tian Ce that they had begun fighting outside Heaven Beyond.

• Xiao Tian Ce handed Xiao Qing the clan chief Token and stepped down, then Xiao Qing appointed him First Grand Supreme Elder.
• The Xiao Clan held a grand celebration, where Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Xuan drank together and Xiao Yan reminisced with Xiao Xun'er about the clan's rise.
• Xiao Yan left with Xiao Xun'er, angering Medusa and disappointing Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei.
• The guests departed, leaving Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan in Heaven Beyond, while Yao Feng insulted Yao Chen and threatened to confront him outside.
• Xiao Chun told Xiao Tian Ce that Yao Feng had started fighting Yao Chen after leaving Heaven Beyond, and Xiao Tian Ce said Yao Chen would be fine with Yao Dan there.

Xiao Tian Ce prepared to leave Heaven Beyond and seek the Emperor's Origin, arranging for Xiao Xuan and Heavenly Net to refine an Emperor Grade Nascent Pill for Xiao Qing. After checking on Huang Min and Ling Yun, he entered the terrifying void storm guarding the seal Tou She Ancient God had placed on the Emperor's Origin.

• Xiao Chun asked Xiao Tian Ce to take Xiao Tian Ming to the Upper Realm, and Xiao Tian Ce agreed while Xiao Chun insisted he keep the plan secret for now.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave Xiao Xuan the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and supplies to refine it with Heavenly Net, explaining that he would break the Emperor's Origin seal alone.
• Xiao Tian Ce visited Huang Jiuji and learned that Huang Min and Ling Yun had awakened the Heavenly Huang Clan's Nirvana Art bloodline talent and were nearing Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Tian Ce left Heaven Beyond and, ten days later, tested the void storm near the Emperor's Origin with heavenly gold chromium iron, which the storm quickly scarred.
• Xiao Tian Ce plunged into the void storm to reach the seal Tou She Ancient God had placed on the Emperor's Origin.

Xiao Tian Ce crossed the Void Storm and met the dying embryo of the Dou Qi Continent, which revealed that the emperor’s origin was its life force and that Tou She Ancient God had died within his seal. The embryo showed Xiao Tian Ce where to find the sealed origin and asked him for a favor, leaving him waiting to hear what it wanted.

• Xiao Tian Ce endured the Void Blades and followed an ethereal voice through the Void Storm to a calm, paradise-like place.
• The embryo of the Dou Qi Continent told Xiao Tian Ce that the emperor’s origin was its own power, and that exhausting it would drain Dou Qi from the continent and kill its inhabitants.
• Xiao Tian Ce worked out that Dou Di who left the continent could not return their origin power to the embryo, and the embryo confirmed his reasoning.
• The embryo revealed that Tou She Ancient God had sealed the remaining emperor’s origin to pursue his own goal, but had died inside the seal.
• The embryo told Xiao Tian Ce where to find Tou She Ancient God’s seal and explained that his golden emperor burning heaven flame would let him approach it safely.
• Xiao Tian Ce questioned why the embryo was helping him despite the risk to its life, and the embryo admitted it wanted to live before asking him for a favor.

Xiao Tian Ce questioned the embryo of the plane about its proposal to be refined and travel with him to the Great Thousand World. After learning the truth about Tou She Ancient God's betrayal and the embryo's efforts to sustain the Dou Qi Continent, Xiao Tian Ce agreed to help it recover its origin power and asked to see how Tou She Ancient God had made the seal.

• The embryo of the plane asked Xiao Tian Ce to refine it so it could enter the Great Thousand World with him and reclaim the origin power left by fallen Dou Di.
• Xiao Tian Ce doubted the embryo's motives because Tou She Ancient God had fallen after dealing with it, so the embryo explained how Tou She had deceived it and stolen its origin power.
• The embryo revealed that it had erased Tou She Ancient God's soul and altered his memories in the inheritance beneath the Heavenly Flame Plaza, and explained why it could not break the five remaining portions of emperor's origin out of the seal.
• Xiao Tian Ce believed the embryo's account, apologized, and agreed to refine it without enslaving it, promising to return it to the Dou Qi Continent when it wished.
• The embryo offered to show Xiao Tian Ce images of Tou She Ancient God making the seal so he could use them to break it.

Xiao Tian Ce learned how to break Tou She Ancient God’s seal from the embryo of the plane, named her Ling'er, and began extracting the emperor’s origin. Five years later, Huang Min and Ling Yun emerged from seclusion as Peak Nine-Star Dou Saints, while Xiao Tian Ce was still absent.

• The embryo of the plane showed Xiao Tian Ce Tou She Ancient God’s life and how he laid the seal, and Xiao Tian Ce estimated that breaking it would take about five years.
• The embryo of the plane asked Xiao Tian Ce to name her, and he called her Ling'er before they went to inspect the seal.
• Ling'er explained that Xiao Tian Ce’s golden emperor burning heaven flame could remove the emperor flame covering the seal, and Xiao Tian Ce began breaking it.
• Five years later, Huang Min and Ling Yun emerged from the Heavenly Phoenix Palace at the Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint level, delighting Huang Jiuji and the others.
• Huang Min and Ling Yun greeted the gathered Xiao Clan elders, received praise for their strength, and said they wished Xiao Tian Ce were there to share their joy.