Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian Ce planned to build the Luo Network and Heavenly Secret Pavilion in secret while Hun Tiandi prepared to exploit Xiao Xuan’s failed Dou Di breakthrough. After examining the Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm’s spoils, Xiao Tian Ce discovered notes on Spiritual Arrays and wondered whether their methods could be practiced in this world.

• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Qing to expand the Luo Network and Heavenly Secret Pavilion secretly, then continued sorting the Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm’s treasures.
• Hun Tiandi learned that Xiao Xuan intended to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Di and discussed the plan with the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame explained that the world lacked origin qi and agreed to help Hun Tiandi kill Xiao Xuan after his breakthrough failed.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame privately recognized that Hun Tiandi wanted information about Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion and planned to grow strong enough to turn against him.
• Xiao Tian Ce found a Spiritual Array Grandmaster’s notes among the secret realm’s spoils and questioned whether their techniques could be cultivated in this world.

Xiao Tian Ce studied Fengtian Dou Di’s notes on Spiritual Arrays but learned that he needed a device to convert Dou Qi into spiritual energy. After water revealed the hidden instructions for making it, he planned to return to the Xiao Realm to obtain mithril and check on Brother Xuan’s preparations.

• Xiao Tian Ce read Fengtian Dou Di’s notes and discovered that mastering Spiritual Arrays on the Dou Qi Continent required spirit realm grand perfection and a device to convert Dou Qi into spiritual energy.
• Xiao Tian Ce asked Huang Jiuji about the notes, and Huang Jiuji explained that he and the clan leader had found the scroll in a secret realm but could not use it.
• Xiao Tian Ce returned to his residence and accidentally spilled water on the scroll, revealing hidden writing on its back.
• Xiao Tian Ce copied the method for making the converter and realized that only mithril was missing.
• Xiao Tian Ce decided to visit the Xiao Realm’s Treasure Pavilion for mithril and check on Brother Xuan’s preparations.

Xiao Tian Ce returned to the Xiao Realm and told Xiao Chun about the gains he and Xiao Qing had made in the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm. He asked Xiao Chun to collect mithril for an important plan, then welcomed Xiao Xuan, who noticed Xiao Tian Ce’s increased strength and the unusual thing within him.

• Xiao Tian Ce returned to the Xiao Realm and was greeted by members of the Dark Yellow Army before going to his Heavenly Strategy Manor.
• Xiao Chun visited Xiao Tian Ce, asked about Xiao Qing, and learned that Xiao Tian Ce had reached Late Six-Star Dou Saint while Xiao Qing had reached peak Seven-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained their opportunity in the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Secret Realm, and Xiao Chun celebrated their branch’s increased strength.
• Xiao Tian Ce asked Xiao Chun to collect several years’ worth of mithril from the Treasure Pavilion, and Xiao Chun left to retrieve it.
• Xiao Xuan arrived, remarked on Xiao Tian Ce’s progress and the unusual thing inside him, and Xiao Tian Ce invited him to sit.

Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Xuan discussed Xiao Tian Ce’s strength, Xiao Xuan’s plan to pursue Dou Di, and the Xiao Clan’s uncertain future. After Xiao Xuan vanished, Xiao Tian Ce received the mithril Xiao Chun had fetched and noticed that his uncle had been in a fight.

• Xiao Xuan recognized Xiao Tian Ce’s golden flame as a powerful child flame and praised his concealed strength as a Late Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Xuan said he would attempt to reach Dou Di and planned to leave Xiao Tian Ce the clan leader position, but Xiao Tian Ce admitted he could not protect the clan from a Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Tian Ce agreed to do what they could during the next ten years, and Xiao Tian Ce vowed not to waste that time.
• Xiao Tian Ce waited at Heavenly Strategy Manor, then noticed Xiao Chun return with mithril, damaged cuffs, and an unsteady aura.
• Xiao Chun said he had only exchanged a few moves with someone, and Xiao Tian Ce accepted the mithril and told him to rest.

Xiao Tian Ce learned that Xiao Tian Yun had humiliated Xiao Chun over a piece of mithril and sent his Heavenly Demon Puppet to demand that the brothers answer for it. Xiao Tian Shan agreed to apologize, but Xiao Tian Yun refused and went looking for Xiao Wu.

• Xiao Tian Ce reassured Xiao Chun, then learned from Xiao Bieli that Xiao Tian Yun had demanded the mithril and challenged Xiao Chun to withstand one move.
• Xiao Tian Ce sent his Heavenly Demon Puppet to Mountain Ghost Pavilion, where it defeated Xiao Tian Shan and Xiao Tian Yun in one attack.
• Xiao Bieli told the brothers to accept one move and settle the matter or come argue with Xiao Tian Ce, and Xiao Tian Shan agreed to apologize.
• Xiao Tian Shan scolded Xiao Tian Yun for provoking Xiao Tian Ce and warned him that the puppet had at least Seven-Star Dou Saint strength.
• Xiao Tian Yun refused to apologize and vanished to seek out Xiao Wu, while Xiao Tian Shan prepared gifts and waited for him to return.

Xiao Tian Yun visited Xiao Wu at the True Martial Academy to ask him to punish Xiao Tian Ce for injuring him and his brother, but Xiao Wu refused. He warned that Tian Ce’s past battle against Hun Tiandi proved his strength was far greater than his cultivation suggested, leaving Xiao Tian Yun unconvinced.

• Xiao Tian Yun reached the True Martial Academy and discovered that Xiao Wu was inside despite the guard claiming he had gone out.
• Xiao Wu allowed Xiao Tian Yun in, and Xiao Tian Yun complained that the guard had tried to stop him.
• Xiao Tian Yun asked Xiao Wu to teach Xiao Tian Ce a lesson and offered him a Bodhi Pill and a high-grade Earth-tier Dou Technique scroll.
• Xiao Wu refused, citing the clan’s restrictions and the danger of making an enemy of Xiao Tian Ce.
• Xiao Wu recounted how Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Chen had stopped Hun Tiandi during the Eight Clans' grand tournament, explaining that Tian Ce’s combat power had once rivaled Hun Tiandi’s.
• Xiao Tian Yun questioned whether Xiao Chen had done most of the work, while Xiao Wu insisted that Tian Ce’s strength made him dangerous.

Xiao Tian Shan and Xiao Tian Yun apologized to Xiao Tian Ce over the dispute involving Xiao Chun, and Xiao Tian Ce let the matter end with a warning to preserve clan harmony. He then told Xiao Chun and Xiao Tian Ming that he planned to move their branch and its remaining Dou Zun to a new base in the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, leaving Xiao Chun to oversee the clan.

• Xiao Wu warned Xiao Tian Yun that he and Xiao Tian Shan could not handle Xiao Tian Ce and urged him to abandon thoughts of revenge.
• Xiao Tian Shan took Xiao Tian Yun to Heavenly Strategy Manor to apologize and left a chest of gifts after Xiao Tian Ce declined to meet them and said the matter was settled.
• Xiao Tian Ce sent the gifts to Xiao Chun, and Xiao Tian Shan told Xiao Tian Yun to stop complaining and let the dispute end.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained to Xiao Chun and Xiao Tian Ming why he had intervened and said he had let Xiao Tian Yun off lightly to avoid revealing too much.
• Xiao Tian Ce announced that he would take Xiao Chun, Xiao Tian Ming, and the remaining Dou Zun to a new base in the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, while Xiao Chun continued overseeing the clan.

Xiao Tian Ce cultivated the Heaven Soul Art in seclusion, raising his soul power before spending two months refining materials into a device meant to convert Dou Qi into spiritual energy. He completed the Converter, but its first test only made one of its magic cores glow faintly, leaving its function uncertain.

• Xiao Tian Ce brought Xiao Tian Ming and the remaining Dou Zun to the Heaven Beyond space, then secluded himself to study how to make the Converter.
• Xiao Tian Ce cultivated the Heaven Soul Art for three months and raised his soul power to the mid-level Heaven Realm.
• Xiao Tian Ce used the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to refine the gathered materials for two months, despite severe exhaustion.
• Xiao Tian Ce assembled the materials and embedded three ninth-rank magic cores, completing the palm-sized Converter.
• Xiao Tian Ce fed his remaining Dou Qi into the Converter; no spiritual energy appeared, but its lowest magic core began to glow faintly.

After recovering from his long seclusion, Xiao Tian Ce learned that Xiao Tian Ming had advanced under Huang Jiuji’s guidance and sent him to the continent’s northwest to check on hidden clansmen. Xiao Tian Ce then went to visit Huang Jiuji.

• Xiao Tian Ce restored his Dou Qi and soul power, then left seclusion and learned that Xiao Qing had arranged for Xiao Long to guard his chamber.
• Xiao Tian Ming visited Xiao Tian Ce and revealed that Huang Jiuji’s guidance had helped him break through from Peak Three-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Tian Ming said the clan chief had asked him to check on clansmen sent to the continent’s northwest, and Xiao Tian Ce told him to conceal their traces and avoid detection by the other Ancient Seven Clans.
• Xiao Tian Ming set out for the northwest, and Xiao Tian Ce went to the Heavenly Phoenix Palace to greet Huang Jiuji.

Huang Jiuji joined the Xiao Clan as its supreme elder, while Xiao Tian Ce continued building his strength and influence. Nine years into Xiao Xuan’s ten-year arrangement, Xiao Xuan discovered he could no longer sense Xiao Tian Ce’s cultivation and challenged him to a spar.

• Huang Jiuji praised Xiao Tian Ce’s progress in the Heaven Soul Art and entrusted the Heavenly Huang Clan’s future to him.
• Xiao Tian Ce promised the Xiao Clan’s support for the Heavenly Huang Clan, and Huang Jiuji accepted the position of supreme elder.
• Over the following years, the Heavenly Net and Heavenly Secret Tower rose to prominence across the Central Plains while keeping their operations secret.
• Xiao Xuan visited Xiao Tian Ce in the Heavenly Strategy Manor and was surprised that he could not sense Xiao Tian Ce’s strength.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained that his spiritual array concealed his late-stage seven-star Dou Saint strength and that he had become an eighth-tier Spiritual Array Master.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Tian Ce to exchange a few moves.

Xiao Xuan challenged Xiao Tian Ce to a spar, and Xiao Tian Ce trapped him inside the advanced eighth-tier Immortal-Slaying Sword Array. As Xiao Xuan searched for a way out, Xiao Tian Ce added another array that drained his Dou Qi, and Xiao Xuan began preparing a Heaven Tier Dou Technique.

• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Tian Ce to spar, and they moved to a new space to avoid damaging the buildings.
• Xiao Tian Ce activated the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array and enclosed Xiao Xuan in it.
• Xiao Xuan blocked and dodged the array's endlessly regenerating swords while searching for its core.
• Xiao Tian Ce cast the eighth-tier God-Trapping Spirit Annihilation array over the sword array, causing Xiao Xuan's Dou Qi to drain.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Tian Ce and began forming seals for a Heaven Tier Dou Technique.

Xiao Tian Ce tested his eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays against Xiao Xuan, who eventually broke all four despite being injured. Afterward, Xiao Tian Ce explained that Spiritual Arrays were powered by spiritual energy and came from another world, leaving Xiao Xuan convinced that he was the Dou Qi Continent’s only Spiritual Array Master.

• Xiao Xuan used a Heaven Tier Dou Technique against Xiao Tian Ce’s two eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays, but the arrays remained intact.
• Xiao Xuan refused to surrender, so Xiao Tian Ce added the Nine-Bend Yellow River and Ten Thousand Layered Mountains arrays.
• Xiao Xuan’s Heaven and Earth Shattering Demon Palm clashed with all four arrays, and the attacks injured him before he broke the arrays.
• Xiao Tian Ce ended the fight and left for the Heavenly Strategy Manor, where Xiao Xuan soon joined him.
• Xiao Tian Ce revealed that Spiritual Arrays used spiritual energy rather than Dou Qi, and Xiao Xuan deduced that their methods came from another world.

Xiao Xuan decided to attempt the Dou Di breakthrough in one year despite the danger to the Xiao Clan, and entrusted Xiao Tian Ce with protecting the clan if he failed. They agreed to preserve selected children from the bloodline extraction and take them with Xiao Tian Ce’s branch.

• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Tian Ce’s Spiritual Array skill and said he would attempt to reach the Dou Di realm one year later.
• Xiao Tian Ce warned that he needed more time to protect the whole Xiao Clan, but Xiao Xuan refused to delay his breakthrough.
• Xiao Tian Ce suggested seeking help from the Gu Clan, but Xiao Xuan explained that the Xiao Clan’s pride and Gu Yuan’s reluctance made that unlikely.
• Xiao Xuan said he would finish extracting the Dou Di bloodline in three months and asked Xiao Tian Ce to take selected children and his branch’s clansmen if he failed.
• Xiao Tian Ce promised to care for the children and keep the Xiao Clan among the foremost clans on the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Chun that the Xiao Clan branch would soon move to Heaven Beyond as the Hun Clan prepared to attack after Xiao Xuan’s failed breakthrough. They planned to protect their own branch first, while leaving open the possibility of helping the other Xiao Clan branches later.

• Xiao Chun asked why Xiao Tian Ming had not returned, and Xiao Tian Ce explained that he had gone back to the continent’s northwest because it gave him a sense of peace.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Chun that the clan leader would attempt to break through to the Dou Di Realm in a year and that their branch would leave for Heaven Beyond within two months.
• Xiao Tian Ce warned that the Hun Clan would likely attack if Xiao Xuan failed and that the Soul Hall might assist them, though he considered the Soul Hall a minor threat.
• Xiao Tian Ce asked Xiao Chun to care for outstanding juniors arriving from the other branches, and Xiao Chun agreed.
• Xiao Chun asked whether they could save all the Xiao Clan members, but Xiao Tian Ce said the other branches might refuse help and suggested they reassess the situation a year later.

Xiao Tian Ce prepared for the Hun Clan’s coming assault while Xiao Xuan collected the Dou Di bloodline from the other five Xiao Clan meridians. The chapter ended as Xiao Xuan returned and challenged Xiao Tian Ce to fight, with the battle about to begin.

• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Chun that the Xiao Clan’s chance depended on whether Xiao Xuan could keep Hun Tiandi occupied after failing to break through to the Dou Di Realm.
• Xiao Tian Ce revealed that he could fight a peak eight-star Dou Sheng and planned to preserve the clan without risking a direct clash unless an opportunity arose.
• Xiao Chun urged Xiao Tian Ce to protect himself if he could not save the clansmen, and Xiao Tian Ce agreed to prepare for both outcomes.
• After Xiao Chun left, Xiao Tian Ce resumed studying spiritual arrays and spent three months in secluded cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan returned after collecting the Dou Di bloodline from the other five meridians and told Xiao Tian Ce they would fight.

Xiao Xuan and Xiao Tian Ce staged a public fight so Xiao Xuan could appear to eliminate Tian Ce and his branch while concealing their plan. After the Xiao Realm was sealed, Gu Yuan learned of the purge and chose to wait for Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough attempt to fail.

• Xiao Xuan and Xiao Tian Ce pretended to quarrel over the Dou Di bloodline, drawing Xiao clansmen to witness their confrontation.
• Xiao Xuan struck down Xiao Tian Ce, crushed his fleeing soul, and declared that Tian Ce’s branch would be executed.
• Xiao Xuan enclosed the branch’s members in a spatial sphere and crushed it, then warned the remaining clansmen that the Xiao Clan had only five branches left.
• Three days later, Xiao Xuan announced that the bloodline collection was complete, sealed the Xiao Realm, and began secluded cultivation for his Dou Di breakthrough.
• Gu Yuan rejected a proposal to attack the weakened Xiao Clan and ordered the Gu Clan to watch the Xiao Realm while waiting for Xiao Xuan to fail.

Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan elders discussed the report that Xiao Xuan had killed Xiao Tian Ce and destroyed his branch, then resolved to attack the Xiao Clan and seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Though several doubted the report was genuine, Hun Tiandi cited shattered life tablets as proof, and he and the nihility devouring flame prepared to wipe out the Xiao Clan.

• Gu Yuan wondered whether Xiao Xuan's reported attack on Xiao Tian Ce was a scheme or the result of his obsession with becoming Dou Di.
• Hun Tiandi convened the Hun Clan elders and ordered them to join him in attacking Xiao Xuan and taking the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• The nihility devouring flame, Hun Yao, and Hun Motian questioned whether Xiao Xuan and Xiao Tian Ce had staged the reported slaughter, citing Xiao Tian Ce's caution and strategic skill.
• Hun Tiandi asserted that Xiao Tian Ce's branch life tablets had shattered, convincing the doubters that the deaths were real.
• Hun Tiandi dismissed the elders and told the nihility devouring flame he would rely on him after Xiao Xuan was killed.
• The nihility devouring flame vowed to destroy the Xiao Clan to avenge Xiao Tian Ce's past ambush, and Hun Tiandi promised him his desires after conquering the continent.

Xiao Tian Ce discussed the Xiao Clan’s escape and future plans with Huang Jiuji, then learned from Xiao Qing that the Hun Clan could bring overwhelming force against them. He remained confident in his preparations, but the scale of the Hun Clan’s strength left the Xiao Clan’s survival uncertain.

• Xiao Tian Ce and Huang Jiuji reviewed how the Xiao Clan had faked its destruction by swapping and shattering Life Tablets.
• Xiao Tian Ce promised to seek a Ninth Grade Golden Pill from the Yao Clan to help Huang Jiuji’s two descendants come into the world once he mastered Ninth-Tier Spiritual Arrays.
• Xiao Qing reported that the other six clans had shown little reaction to the news, while the Hun Clan had mobilized as expected.
• Xiao Qing told Xiao Tian Ce that the Hun Clan had four eight-star Dou Shengs besides Hun Tiandi, along with the recovered Nihility Devouring Flame, and more than a hundred Dou Shengs overall.

Xiao Tian Ce explained to Xiao Qing why the Xiao Clan’s hidden forces could not openly prevent the Hun Clan’s attack and tested her judgment on how to respond. He decided they would secretly rescue survivors only after the clan had suffered defeat, leaving Xiao Qing to accept his plan for a baptism of blood and fire.

• Xiao Qing warned Xiao Tian Ce that the Hun Clan’s hundred-plus Dou Sheng Experts could overwhelm the Xiao Clan’s people in the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Qing argued that Hun Tiandi would prioritize killing Xiao Xuan and might avoid destroying the clan while Xiao Xuan remained alive.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained that Hun Tiandi could attack Xiao Xuan and the Xiao Clan at the same time, forcing Xiao Qing to reconsider the danger.
• Xiao Qing proposed that they focus on rescuing their clanspeople rather than assisting Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Tian Ce asked why they should not evacuate everyone immediately.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained that the clanspeople needed to suffer defeat to abandon their arrogance and that revealing their hidden force could doom the clan’s last hope.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Qing they would rescue the clanspeople only after their hopes were shattered, and that the Hun Clan must not discover their involvement.

Xiao Tian Ce unveiled the White Jade Capital, built under Xiao Qing’s direction, and activated an improved Eighth-Level Spirit Gathering Array inside it. The Xiao Clan discovered that it transformed violent ambient Dou Qi into a gentle, highly concentrated cultivation environment.

• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Qing to monitor the Hun Clan from concealment and said she could break through if she could no longer suppress her Dou Qi.
• Three months later, Xiao Qing presented the completed White Jade Capital to Xiao Tian Ce, Xiao Chun, and the returned Xiao Tian Ming.
• Xiao Tian Ce used runes to activate the Spirit Gathering Array, drawing Heaven Beyond’s Dou Qi into the White Jade Capital.
• After waiting for the array to stabilize, Xiao Tian Ce led the others inside, where they found gentle, directly absorbable Dou Qi and liquid condensed from it.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained that the White Jade Capital housed an improved Eighth-Level Spirit Gathering Array.