Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian Ce confronted Xiao Yan for putting the Gu Clan’s interests ahead of the Xiao Clan and rejected his plea to intervene in the Heavenly Tomb Trial. Xiao Yan left chastened, having lost Xiao Tian Ce’s confidence and his chance to inherit the Ancient Emperor’s power, while Xiao Tian Ce suggested Gu Yuan would teach him a harsh lesson.

• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Tian Ce to hear his explanation about the Heavenly Tomb Trial, but Xiao Tian Ce directed him to Xiao Qing, the current Clan Chief.
• Xiao Tian Ce accused Xiao Yan of undermining the Xiao Clan by helping Gu Yuan’s daughter leave Heaven Beyond and asked whether Xiao Yan considered himself part of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan acknowledged his mistake and realized he had used up Xiao Xuan’s favor when he arranged to take Xiao Xun’er away.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained that he had once intended the Nihility Devouring Flame and Ancient Emperor’s Inheritance for Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan’s choices had destroyed his trust.
• Xiao Yan bowed and left, and Xiao Xuan lamented that Xiao Yan had lost his chance to become a Dou Di on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Xuan that Gu Yuan could teach Xiao Yan how treacherous people could be.

Xiao Yan warned Xiao Xun'er that the Xiao Clan planned to target the Gu Clan in the Heavenly Tomb Trial, while she concealed the political bargain her father had made with Xiao Qing. As Xiao Yan and Xun'er left together, Xiao Huai'en, a powerful deputy commander of the Dragon Soaring Army, attacked them and revealed himself.

• Xiao Tian Ce rejected Xiao Yan's plea to spare the Gu Clan, while Xiao Xuan reminded him that Xiao Yan was still a member of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xun'er that Xiao Qing intended to attack the Gu Clan during the Heavenly Tomb Trial and urged her to warn Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Xun'er hid Gu Yuan's concessions to Xiao Qing and her own promise to Xiao Tian Ce, then reassured Xiao Yan that she would stand by him.
• Xiao Yan regained his resolve after Xun'er declared her love, and the two prepared to return to his residence.
• Xiao Huai'en attacked Xiao Yan and Xun'er, then introduced himself as a deputy commander of the Dragon Soaring Army; Xiao Yan identified him and recited his achievements.

Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Huai'en would be his opponent in the Heavenly Tomb Trial, while Xiao Xun'er obtained the ancient emperor's inheritance and eventually became a Dou Di. Years later, five Dou Di stood on the continent, and Xiao Yan lived far from Heaven Beyond with Xiao Yi Xian's children, still remembering Xun'er.

• Xiao Huai'en attacked Xiao Yan as a test, then revealed he would participate in the Heavenly Tomb Trial; Xiao Xun'er warned Xiao Yan about his talent and power.
• Xiao Tian Ce approved Xiao Qing's arrangements with Gu Yuan, halted the plan to use the emperor's origin as bait, and entered secluded cultivation.
• During the month-long Heavenly Tomb Trial, Xiao Yan was repeatedly challenged by powerful geniuses while Xiao Xun'er reached the third layer and gained recognition from the ancient emperor's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan arrived gravely injured and discovered that Xiao Xun'er had obtained the inheritance, then left Heaven Beyond with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Over the next five years, Xiao Xuan, Huang Min, the Tomb Spirit, and Xiao Xun'er ascended to Dou Di, bringing the total to five Dou Di on the continent.
• In Qingshan Town, Xiao Yan watched news of the five Dou Di with two children and wistfully thought of Xun'er.

After five years of searching for Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er asked Xiao Tian Ce for his whereabouts and learned that Xiao Yan had settled in Qingshan Town with Xiao Yi Xian and their children. She found him there, and they reunited.

• Gu Xun'er learned from Gu Yuan that Xiao Yan had left the Heavenly Tomb early five years earlier and remained missing, so she decided to search for him herself.
• Gu Xun'er went to Heaven Beyond and asked Xiao Tian Ce to reveal Xiao Yan's whereabouts, promising she would accept him even if he had other women and children.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Gu Xun'er that Xiao Yan was in Qingshan Town and had a son and a daughter.
• Gu Xun'er traveled to Qingshan Town, where Xiao Yan saw her emerge from the void and acknowledged that she had found him.

Xiao Yan reunited with Gu Xun'er, who met Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and his children before taking him to Wutan City. After learning that he could once have inherited the ancient emperor's power, Xiao Yan rejected Gu Xun'er's offer to travel with her to the Great Thousand World, but agreed to see her off in five years.

• Gu Xun'er reunited with Xiao Yan in Qingshan Town and met Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Xiao Xiao, and Xiao Yao.
• Gu Xun'er sent Xiao Yan out of the room, then emerged with the others and took him through a space vortex to the Xiao Clan's Back Mountain in Wutan City.
• Gu Xun'er told Xiao Yan that the ancient emperor's inheritance might have been his if he had not promised to help the Gu Clan, but Xiao Yan said he did not blame her or Xiao Tian Ce.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had never truly considered himself part of the Xiao Clan and had accepted that he could not prove himself for the remaining emperor's origin.
• Gu Xun'er invited Xiao Yan to the Great Thousand World, but he agreed to go there separately so he would not accept further benefits from Xiao Tian Ce.
• Gu Xun'er said she would leave the Dou Qi Continent with Xiao Tian Ce in five years, and Xiao Yan promised to see her off before asking about his family.

Xiao Yan resolved to spend the next five years growing stronger and arranging matters for his family, while Gu Xun'er chose to stay with him. Meanwhile, Xiao Tian Ce prepared the group for the Great Thousand World, and after five years he opened a passage and led them toward it.

• Xiao Yan learned from Gu Xun'er that Xiao Zhan and the others were safe, and said he would not return to Heaven Beyond until he had repaid the Xiao Clan’s kindness.
• Gu Xun'er decided to stay with Xiao Yan in Qingshan Town for the next few years, while Xiao Yan promised to visit his family and make arrangements for Xiao Yi Xian, the others, and the children.
• Xiao Tian Ce gathered the clan’s leaders, explained the dangers of the passage to the Great Thousand World, and assigned Xiao Qing, Ya Fei, and Huang Jiuji to protect the Xiao Clan and Beast Region after the group departed.
• Xiao Tian Ce prepared spiritual-array jade pendants, and five years later he distributed two to each traveler before opening a passage to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Tian Ce widened the passage into a hundred-meter opening and urged the group to enter.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Tian Ce, and the others entered the Spatial Passage toward the Great Thousand World, while Xiao Yan left his family and friends behind with promises to return. As Xiao Tian Ce traveled ahead, Ling'er found the corpse of the ancient Dou Di Diwu Qing Hou and recovered an impure portion of Emperor's Origin, leaving Xiao Tian Ce with the body to study.

• Gu Xun'er sent two Jade Pendants toward Xiao Yan before entering the Spatial Passage, and Xiao Tian Ce gave her two more and explained that Xiao Yan could follow if he reached the passage in time.
• Xiao Yan said farewell to Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, his children, Yao Chen, and Venerable Feng before entering the passage with the Jade Pendants.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun arrived too late to see Xiao Yan leave, then agreed to travel together into the Spatial Passage; Xiao Qing and her group arrived afterward and found that Xiao Tian Ce and the others were gone.
• Several latecomers who entered the passage were crushed by its Spatial Power, while Xiao Tian Ce led the main group through spatial storms and went ahead after Ling'er sensed Emperor's Origin.
• Ling'er identified a corpse as Diwu Qing Hou, an ancient Dou Di who had died in the passage, and Xiao Tian Ce stored the body for later study.
• Ling'er extracted a tainted portion of Emperor's Origin and withdrew into Xiao Tian Ce to purify and absorb it.

Xiao Tian Ce and his companions struggled through a dangerous spatial passage, where Xiao Xuan’s group survived a spatial storm using Huang Min and Ling Yun’s Nirvana Flame. After reuniting, they continued under Xiao Tian Ce’s protection and encountered black lightning powerful enough to crack his spiritual array, leaving him preparing another array to test it.

• Ling'er focused on purifying and absorbing the Emperor's Origin while Xiao Tian Ce continued ahead and discovered that the spatial passage ground away his soul power.
• Xiao Xuan’s group faced a spatial storm, and Huang Min weakened it by combining spatial blades with Nirvana Flame so the others could destroy its eye and pass through.
• Xiao Yan narrowly survived spatial blades with Xiao Xun’er’s protective spiritual array, while an eight-star Dou Sheng behind him was killed and Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun avoided danger through Zhu Kun’s spatial sensitivity.
• Xiao Tian Ce returned to the group, learned how they had survived, and used spiritual arrays to neutralize further spatial storms and devouring forces as they traveled together.
• The group encountered terrifying black lightning, and Xiao Tian Ce’s grandmaster high-rank spiritual array cracked on contact, so he formed a golden miniature array to test the lightning again.

Xiao Tian Ce tried to contain the black lightning in a Spiritual Array, but his and his allies’ efforts accidentally freed the Chaos Demon King, a strange bird hidden within the Nine Heavens Black Demon Divine Thunder. After the bird attacked him, Xiao Tian Ce activated his Firmament Body-Refining Array and prepared to fight back.

• Xiao Tian Ce trapped the black lightning in a Spiritual Array and gave Xiao Xuan and the others Jade Pendants so they could find one another if they were separated.
• Huang Min and Gu Xun'er attacked the black lightning with their flames, but the lightning absorbed their power and began breaking the Spiritual Array.
• Xiao Xuan led the others away while Xiao Tian Ce set up another array, and the first Spiritual Array exploded.
• The black lightning transformed into a strange bird who called himself the Chaos Demon King and attacked Xiao Tian Ce.
• Xiao Tian Ce realized that his arrays and the flames had helped the bird escape and recover, then activated his Firmament Body-Refining Array to strengthen himself.

Xiao Tian Ce fought the Chaos Demon King in the spatial passage, then agreed to stop before their attacks destroyed it. After the Chaos Demon King warned him about entering the Great Thousand World, Xiao Tian Ce and Ling'er crossed the barrier, with Ling'er hiding inside him.

• Xiao Tian Ce overpowered the Chaos Demon King in close combat, and the two traded powerful attacks that cracked the spatial passage.
• The Chaos Demon King warned Xiao Tian Ce that breaking the passage would expose them to deadly raging void winds, so they stopped fighting.
• Xiao Tian Ce withdrew the spiritual arrays he had secretly set around the Chaos Demon King and refused his offer to become a subordinate.
• The Chaos Demon King led Xiao Tian Ce to the barrier and warned him that the Great Thousand World's spiritual qi would suppress the energy of anyone arriving from a lower plane.
• The Chaos Demon King entered the barrier first, and Ling'er told Xiao Tian Ce she would hide inside him to avoid the Great Thousand World's Embryo of the Plane.
• Xiao Tian Ce stepped through the barrier with Ling'er and entered the Great Thousand World.

Xiao Tian Ce entered the Great Thousand World, where his Dou Qi was suppressed, and discovered that he had landed in a forest of demon trees that produced spirit beast essences. After burning the forest with his golden emperor burning heaven flame, he reached a stream and sensed something valuable inside two fish.

• Xiao Tian Ce fell into a valley and found that the Great Thousand World had suppressed his ability to use Dou Qi.
• Xiao Tian Ce discovered that the forest’s trees were demon trees and fought off a giant bird that resembled a spirit beast essence.
• Xiao Tian Ce used his golden emperor burning heaven flame to burn the demon tree forest and its glowing essences to nothing.
• Elder Wu Yun sensed the destruction of the Heavenly Mist Sect’s Soul-Devouring Forest, summoned the sect’s experts, and set out to investigate.
• Bai Lan and Yu’er discussed the forest’s destruction and decided to wait for Wu Yun’s report.
• Xiao Tian Ce reached a stream, washed his face, and sensed something valuable inside two fish.

Xiao Tian Ce encountered Elder Wu Yun and the Heavenly Mist Sect disciples after destroying their Soul-Devouring Forest, then intimidated them into treating him respectfully. He agreed to travel with them to their sect to learn about the Great Thousand World and seek information about Xiao Xuan and the others.

• Xiao Tian Ce discovered spiritual qi in the fish he caught and learned that the burned forest was the Heavenly Mist Sect's Soul-Devouring Forest.
• Elder Wu Yun arrived with several dozen disciples and confronted Xiao Tian Ce, who demanded answers and learned he was in the Northern Heavenly Azure Territory.
• Wu Yun warned Xiao Tian Ce about the sect's backing, but Xiao Tian Ce used his Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to make the group fear him.
• Wu Yun apologized and invited Xiao Tian Ce to the Heavenly Mist Sect, hoping to recruit him for the sect's main power.
• Xiao Tian Ce accepted the invitation and followed the group to a Teleportation Array leading directly to the Heavenly Mist Sect.

Xiao Tian Ce arrived at the Heavenly Mist Sect after destroying the Soul-Devouring Forest and learned about the Heavenly Azure Continent’s major powers. He asked Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu to gather news about recent events and arranged to recover at the sect.

• Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu worried about the arrival of a powerful stranger, then welcomed Xiao Tian Ce when he reached the Heavenly Mist Sect.
• Xiao Tian Ce assessed the sect’s strength, and Wu Yun explained that Xiao had burned the Soul-Devouring Forest after its trees attacked him.
• Bai Lan set aside his grief over losing the forest and asked Xiao Tian Ce his name and what he wanted to know.
• Bai Lan described the Heavenly Azure Continent’s ruling powers and the Spirit Jade Academy’s role in the Northern Heavenly Azure Territory.
• Xiao Tian Ce asked Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu to investigate recent events and notable people across the continent.
• Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu agreed to gather the information and offered Xiao Tian Ce a secluded residence where he could recover.

Xiao Tian Ce began converting his dou qi into spiritual qi in the Heavenly Mist Sect, triggering a vast vortex and a series of tribulations. He endured flames that strengthened him and then lightning that finally injured him.

• Xiao Tian Ce asked Ling'er to locate Xiao Xuan and the others, but she could only sense the Northern Heavenly Azure Territory and believed they were elsewhere.
• Ling'er helped Xiao Tian Ce draw spiritual qi into his body, creating an enormous vortex that astonished the Heavenly Mist Sect.
• Bai Lan ordered the sect sealed and its disciples to protect Xiao Tian Ce, while Chu Jiaoyu wrote to her father to request help and report the spectacle.
• Xiao Tian Ce endured flames that scorched his body, spiritual qi, and soul, gradually converting his dou qi and increasing his strength only slightly.
• Xiao Tian Ce stored excess spiritual qi in his Jade Pendants, but lightning struck him twice, with the second bolt injuring him for the first time since awakening.

Xiao Tian Ce converted his dou qi into spiritual qi and recovered to the fifth-grade Sovereign Realm, then demonstrated his strength to Chu Changhe and the Heavenly Mist Sect. Chu Changhe reported that Heavenly Net Hall was pursuing a woman who had used a Spiritual Array Jade Pendant, and Xiao Tian Ce suspected she was Medusa and prepared to act.

• Xiao Tian Ce endured lightning and spent more than half a month converting his dou qi into spiritual qi, reaching the fifth-grade Sovereign Realm without a Supreme Dharma Body.
• Xiao Tian Ce met Chu Changhe, Bai Lan, and Chu Jiaoyu, then claimed that even below twenty percent of his former strength he could easily handle a Lower Earthly Sovereign.
• Xiao Tian Ce deployed and dismissed a grandmaster-level spiritual array, convincing Chu Changhe and the others of his power.
• Chu Changhe reported that a woman had trapped pursuing Heavenly Net Hall experts with a high-level Spiritual Array Jade Pendant and that Heavenly Net Yin had sent Sovereign experts after her.
• Xiao Tian Ce suspected the woman was Medusa, warned himself that Heavenly Net Hall would pay if she were harmed, and asked Chu Changhe for help.

Xiao Tian Ce repaid Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu with pills that advanced their cultivation and gave them a Jade Pendant carrying his Soul Power. As he prepared to search for his companions, he learned that Medusa had already been rescued by an expert from the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Tribe.

• Xiao Tian Ce asked Chu Changhe to contact Sky Dome Academy and ensure Heavenly Net Hall did not harm the woman he cared about.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu pills, then guided them as they converted the pills’ energy into Spiritual Qi and advanced a major realm.
• Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu refused Xiao Tian Ce’s offers of a level-six Spirit Gathering Array or a favor, so he gave them a Jade Pendant that could block attacks below the Earth Sovereign level.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu he would leave to search for his companions and might establish a force in the Great Thousand World.
• Chu Changhe reported that Medusa had been rescued by an expert from the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Tribe, who invited Heavenly Net Hall to challenge her there if it objected.

Xiao Tian Ce learned that Medusa had been taken to the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python clan’s distant homeland, the Heavenly Snake Continent, and accepted a Spiritual Map from Chu Changhe. After refining a Heavenly Demon Puppet as a gift for Chu Changhe, he brought out Diwu Qinghou’s corpse and began preparing to refine a far more powerful puppet.

• Chu Changhe explained that the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Pythons lived on the dangerous Heavenly Snake Continent, and Xiao Tian Ce accepted his Spiritual Map to locate it.
• Xiao Tian Ce asked Chu Changhe to guard the Heavenly Mist Sect while he refined, and Bai Lan and Chu Jiaoyu explained that his pills had raised their strength to the late stage of the Heaven Transformation Realm.
• Xiao Tian Ce used a Three-Star Dou Sheng corpse to make a Heavenly Demon Puppet capable of contending with a Fifth-Rank Sovereign, then bound it to Chu Changhe with a strand of his soul power.
• Chu Changhe gratefully accepted the puppet, while Xiao Tian Ce revealed that he valued Diwu Qinghou’s corpse far more.
• Diwu Qinghou’s corpse released a crushing pressure across the Heavenly Mist Sect, and Xiao Tian Ce prepared to refine it into a stronger Heavenly Demon Puppet.

Xiao Tian Ce refined Diwu Qing Hou into a powerful Heavenly Demon Puppet and left the Northern Heavenly Azure Territory to search for his missing companions. At Iron Sword City, he confronted Liu Yuansheng, the young hall master of Heavenly Net Hall, over the pursuit of Medusa.

• Xiao Tian Ce used a sliver of his soul and a Magic Core to refine Diwu Qing Hou into a Heavenly Demon Puppet strong enough to face a Ninth-Grade Sovereign, then renamed him Qing Hou.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Chu Changhe he was leaving to find his separated companions, and Chu Changhe asked him to visit the Sky Dome Academy if he had the chance.
• Xiao Tian Ce found that his Jade Pendant could not locate Xiao Xuan and the others, so he and Ling'er decided to search the continents surrounding the Heavenly Azure Continent.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Qing Hou arrived outside Iron Sword City and encountered Liu Yuansheng, who insulted the city and threatened Xiao Tian Ce.
• Xiao Tian Ce recognized Liu Yuansheng as a member of Heavenly Net Hall and asked whether he had taken part in pursuing Medusa; Liu Yuansheng confirmed that his group had hunted her.

Xiao Tian Ce confronted Liu Yuansheng and the Heavenly Net Hall Sovereigns over their pursuit of Medusa, but Wan Sui, the mountain lord of Spirit Sword Mountain, intervened to protect them. Xiao trapped Liu Yuansheng and his guards in an Eight-Level Spiritual Array while Qing Hou fought Wan Sui, whose swords could not harm the puppet; Wan Sui then launched a powerful sword technique.

• Xiao Tian Ce revealed his Eighth-Tier Sovereign aura and Qing Hou’s peak Ninth-Grade Sovereign aura, then demanded to know whether Liu Yuansheng had helped hunt Medusa.
• Liu Yuansheng’s white-robed protector said Liu had accompanied the pursuit but never attacked Medusa, and Xiao withdrew his pressure after rejecting their appeal to the Heavenly Net Hall’s authority.
• Wan Sui arrived from Iron Sword City and asked Xiao to spare Liu Yuansheng for Spirit Sword Mountain’s sake, but Xiao refused and challenged him.
• Xiao sent Qing Hou to fight Wan Sui and trapped Liu Yuansheng and the two Sixth-Grade Sovereigns inside an Eight-Level Spiritual Array.
• Wan Sui’s swords failed to damage Qing Hou, and Qing Hou broke Wan Sui’s sword with a punch before Wan Sui escaped and began the Ten Thousand Swords Divine Art—Moon-Gathering from the Nine Heavens.

Xiao Tian Ce ordered Qing Hou to battle Wan Sui after Wan Sui intervened on Liu Yuansheng’s behalf, and Qing Hou repeatedly withstood the mountain lord’s sword attacks. Wan Sui unleashed his Heavenly Sword Dharma Body and struck at Xiao Tian Ce, who answered by summoning the Dragon Elephant Suppresses the Prison Spiritual Array.

• Wan Sui used the Ten Thousand Swords Divine Art and attacked Qing Hou with Moon-Gathering from the Nine Heavens, but Qing Hou endured the moonlike strikes.
• Wan Sui offered Xiao Tian Ce a favor from Spirit Sword Mountain and the Heavenly Net Hall if he stopped pursuing the matter, but Xiao Tian Ce refused and told Qing Hou to kill him.
• Qing Hou struck Wan Sui hard and followed up, but Wan Sui’s three swords failed to break Qing Hou’s golden body.
• Wan Sui summoned his Heavenly Sword Dharma Body and used Sword Decides the Fate of All against Xiao Tian Ce and Qing Hou.
• Xiao Tian Ce dismissed Wan Sui’s attack and invoked the Spiritual Array-Dragon Elephant Suppresses the Prison.