Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian Ce completed the Spirit Gathering Array at White Jade Capital and established plans to regulate access. Back at Heavenly Strategy Manor, Huang Jiuji hurried to inspect it, while Xiao Du Ming emerged from secluded cultivation and received the title Green Lotus Venerable.

• Xiao Chun proposed restricting cultivation in White Jade Capital and rotating Dou Sheng guardians, and Xiao Tian Ce agreed to put the rules to a clan vote.
• Xiao Tian Ce let the clan members explore White Jade Capital and its surrounding cultivation spots before returning to Heavenly Strategy Manor.
• Huang Jiuji asked Xiao Tian Ce about the thinning dou qi, learned about the Spirit Gathering Array, and rushed off to inspect White Jade Capital.
• Xiao Tian Ce welcomed Xiao Du Ming after nearly ten years of cultivation and learned that the Green Lotus Core Flame spirit had reached Peak Dou Zun strength.
• Xiao Tian Ce named Xiao Du Ming the Green Lotus Venerable, with the future title Green Lotus Saint if he reached Dou Sheng.

Huang Jiuji pledged his loyalty to Xiao Tian Ce and asked him to help hatch two clan descendants in the White Jade Capital. Xiao Tian Ce refined two Myriad Phoenix Blood-Nourishing Bone-Melting Pills, which tried to flee after surviving the pill lightning.

• Huang Jiuji admitted that he had exaggerated the need for a Ninth Grade Golden Pill and respectfully pledged himself to Xiao Tian Ce.
• Huang Jiuji asked to place his two juniors in the White Jade Capital and provided the formula for two Eighth-Tier Eight-Colored Pills.
• Xiao Tian Ce agreed to the request, studied the formula, and said he could refine both pills in three months.
• Huang Jiuji hurried to place his juniors in the White Jade Capital while Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Du Ming went to work at the Ninth Floor of the Heavenly Strategy Manor.
• After mastering the formula and sorting the ingredients, Xiao Tian Ce refined both pills, endured their eighteen bolts of pill lightning, and watched them flee in opposite directions.

Xiao Tian Ce secured the pills for the Heavenly Huang Clan and arranged the Xiao Clan’s preparations for Xiao Xuan’s attempt to reach the Dou Di Realm. As Hun Clan scouts gathered near the Xiao Realm, Xiao Xuan emerged from seclusion, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Xiao Tian Ce captured two escaping eighth-tier, eight-colored pills and gave them to Huang Jiuji, who agreed that the unborn birds would become sacred guardian beasts of the Xiao Clan.
• After three months of cultivation, Xiao Tian Ce reached the peak of Seven-Star Dou Saint and assigned Xiao Chun and Xiao Tian Ming to oversee Heaven Beyond while he and Xiao Qing went to the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Qing waited near the Xiao Realm entrance and discussed how they would respond if the Hun Clan attacked after Xiao Xuan’s attempt.
• Xiao Tian Ce spotted two Five-Star Dou Zun sent by the Hun Clan to monitor the Xiao Realm and chose not to kill them or alert the enemy.
• Over the next fourteen days, more Hun Clan scouts gathered near the Xiao Realm, and Xiao Xuan emerged in dark robes and taunted Hun Tiandi for sending only minor fighters.

Xiao Xuan began his attempt to break through to the Dou Di realm in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range while the Hun Clan prepared to attack the Xiao Realm. Xiao Tian Ce gave Xiao Qing a concealment-and-teleportation array to rescue up to five hundred clansmen, and Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough remained uncertain as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Xuan killed the Hun Clan Dou Zun spies at the entrance to the Xiao Realm and left to attempt his breakthrough in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Qing to wait rather than follow Xiao Xuan, explaining that the Hun Clan would hold back until his attempt was resolved.
• Hun Yuanpo arrived at the Xiao Realm with three other seven-star Dou Saints and a hundred additional Dou Sheng experts.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave Xiao Qing an eighth-tier Spiritual Array core and instructed her to use it to rescue up to five hundred clansmen while he stayed behind to confront the Hun Clan forces.
• Xiao Xuan crushed the bottle of collected Dou Di bloodline and absorbed its power as Hun Tiandi and nihility devouring flame watched from afar.
• Xiao Xuan drove his cultivation method to its utmost as the surrounding dou qi surged, but he still felt it was not enough to reach the Dou Di realm.

Xiao Xuan failed to break through to the Dou Di realm and was left gravely injured, allowing Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan experts to confront him. Hun Tiandi revealed that he had orchestrated Xiao Xuan’s pursuit of the Dou Di bloodline, and Xiao Xuan challenged him to fight.

• Xiao Xuan absorbed the violent Dou Qi in the Heavenly Star Mountain Range, but golden lightning struck him down and left him with irreversible injuries.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan’s eight-star Dou Sheng experts, intending to kill Xiao Xuan and destroy the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Tiandi taunted Xiao Xuan and spoke of Xiao Tian Ce, while Xiao Xuan accused him of ambushing Tian Ce and leaving him unconscious for a hundred years.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had arranged for Xiao Xuan to receive the scroll that led him to gather the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di bloodline and cripple his own cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan dismissed the past and challenged Hun Tiandi to test how much his strength had improved.

Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi began their battle inside the Hun Clan’s Realm of Death formation, with the Nihility Devouring Flame joining Hun Tiandi against the wounded Xiao Xuan. The fight intensified as Xiao Xuan unleashed another powerful technique against both opponents.

• Xiao Xuan challenged Hun Tiandi to fight, and Hun Tiandi accepted rather than let him leave.
• Hun Yuantian and three other Hun Clan experts formed the Realm of Death with four Gates of Dead Silence around Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi exchanged Heaven Tier Dou Techniques, and the formation withstood their attacks.
• Xiao Xuan drove Hun Tiandi back, while Hun Tiandi recognized his strength and called the Nihility Devouring Flame to help keep him occupied until his injuries worsened.
• Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame attacked together, and Xiao Xuan countered with Blazing Fire Shatters the Firmament, Million Mighty Soldiers.

Xiao Tian Ce prepared six eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays and summoned Huang Jiuji to trap and kill the Hun Clan forces attacking the Xiao Realm. Inside the realm, Xiao Qing secretly evacuated talented clansmen, and Hun Yuanpo realized that people were disappearing.

• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame's attacks failed to break through Xiao Xuan's defense inside the Realm of Death array.
• Xiao Qing entered the Xiao Realm under concealment and began teleporting talented clansmen to safety as the Hun Clan slaughtered the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce formed six eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays around the entrance, activated four of them, and summoned the peak Eight-Star Dou Saint Heavenly Demon Puppet Huang Jiuji.
• Xiao Qing evacuated about three hundred clansmen before a Hun Clan Dou Sheng noticed the unexplained disappearances and alerted Hun Yuanpo.
• Hun Yuanpo ordered his forces to stay alert and asked whether the Hun Clan members collecting resources had returned, but several Dou Shengs arrived with an urgent warning.

The Hun Clan attacked the Xiao Clan inside the Xiao Realm, and Xiao Wu ordered the surviving experts to cover the clansmen’s retreat. After witnessing the slaughter, Xiao Qing crushed the Spiritual Array’s core, revealed her Eight-Star Dou Sheng strength, and attacked the Hun Clan as Xiao Tian Ce prepared to end the battle.

• Hun Yuanpo learned that the Hun Clan had found almost none of the Xiao Clan’s resources and ordered his men to kill more Xiao Clan members instead.
• Xiao Tian Shan and the branch heads defied the Hun Clan, while Xiao Wu rallied the surviving Dou Sheng Experts to escort the clansmen toward the entrance.
• Hun Yuanpo blocked the retreat and launched an attack that Xiao Wu and the branch heads joined forces to repel.
• After rescuing 499 clansmen and seeing many others slaughtered, Xiao Qing crushed the Spiritual Array’s core and unleashed her Eight-Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Qing seized a Hun Clan Dou Sheng Expert by the neck, while Xiao Tian Ce sensed the array core’s destruction and declared that it was time to end the farce.

Xiao Tian Ce returned to the Xiao Realm with Old Phoenix and helped turn the battle against the Hun Clan while arranging the Xiao Clan’s evacuation. He temporarily assumed the role of clan leader and headed for the entrance as the trapped Hun Clan forces discovered they could not escape.

• Xiao Tian Ce entered the Xiao Realm with Old Phoenix and ordered him to kill every Hun Clan member there.
• Old Phoenix and Xiao Tian Ce attacked the Hun Clan forces, and Xiao Tian Ce reunited with Xiao Qing as Hun Yuanpo realized the earlier clash with Xiao Xuan had been staged.
• Hun Yuanpo crushed a jade pendant to send a message, but Xiao Tian Ce revealed that he had sealed the Xiao Realm’s space and blocked communications.
• Hun Yuanpo ordered the Hun Clan forces to retreat, while Xiao Tian Ce stopped the Xiao Clan from pursuing and gave Xiao Qing control of the array to evacuate their clansmen to Heaven Beyond.
• Xiao Tian Ce declared that he would temporarily lead the Xiao Clan, and the clansmen accepted him as clan leader before evacuating.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Old Phoenix headed toward the entrance as the remaining Hun Clan forces found themselves unable to escape.

Xiao Tian Ce trapped the Hun Clan’s surviving Dou Sheng experts in six Spiritual Arrays and steadily weakened and killed them. Hun Yuanpo began the clan’s soul-devouring secret art to sacrifice most of the survivors and try to escape.

• Xiao Tian Ce activated four eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays, killing nearly a dozen Hun Clan Dou Sheng experts as Hun Yuanpo ordered the survivors to find the formations’ cores.
• Hun Yuanpo realized the arrays absorbed the Hun Clan’s attacks, then gathered the survivors and formed the Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Soul Formation.
• Xiao Tian Ce activated two more Spiritual Arrays that drained the Hun Clan’s Dou Qi, leaving Hun Yuanpo to conclude they could not all survive.
• Hun Yuanpo persuaded the survivors to use the Hun Clan’s secret art to concentrate their strength and preserve a few people who could carry word back to the clan.
• Hun Yuanpo unleashed clouds of black smoke filled with souls and ghosts, while Xiao Tian Ce watched and remarked that the secret art had saved him trouble.

Xiao Qing evacuated the surviving Xiao Clan members from the Xiao Realm to Heaven Beyond while Xiao Tian Ce kept the Hun Clan trapped in his Spiritual Array. As the array’s attacks grew stronger, it killed one of the six Hun Clan Dou Sheng, leaving Hun Yuanpo and four others alive.

• Xiao Qing told Xiao Tian Yun and the other Xiao Clan survivors that the teleportation array would send them to Heaven Beyond in the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.
• The Xiao Clan members evacuated, and Xiao Tian Ce learned that they had all left as the Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Soul Array collapsed.
• Hun Yuanpo, who had reached peak eight-star Dou Sheng, ordered five other Hun Clan experts to search for and destroy the Spiritual Array’s core.
• Xiao Tian Ce taunted Hun Yuanpo and maintained the Spiritual Array as the Hun Clan experts battered its walls without success.
• An energy sword pierced a Hun Clan expert’s head, and yellow sand swallowed the soul, leaving five Hun Clan experts alive.

Xiao Tian Ce trapped Hun Yuanpo and the Hun Clan Dou Shengs in layers of Spiritual Arrays, while Hun Yuanpo sacrificed three clansmen to gain enough power to break one formation. When the Ink-Colored Jade Pendant warned that Xiao Xuan was in dire straits, Xiao Tian Ce activated five eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays at once, leaving Hun Yuanpo facing imminent death.

• Xiao Tian Ce continued attacking the Hun Clan Dou Shengs with the Spiritual Array, and another late-stage Eight-Star Dou Sheng was swallowed by yellow sand.
• Hun Yuanpo ordered the remaining three Dou Shengs to transfer their Dou Qi to him, and energy swords killed them after they finished.
• Hun Yuanpo reached the strength of an Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng and shattered the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array, but Xiao Tian Ce’s next formation stopped his attack.
• The Ink-Colored Jade Pendant indicated that Xiao Xuan was in dire straits, prompting Xiao Tian Ce to activate five eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays against Hun Yuanpo.
• Hun Yuanpo panicked as the formations drained his Dou Qi, while Xiao Tian Ce told him his death was near.

Xiao Tian Ce wiped out the Hun Clan force at the Xiao Realm while Xiao Xuan fought Hun Tiandi to the brink of death. Gu Yuan arrived with the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan, joining Xiao Xuan as Hun Tiandi realized his scheme against the Gu Clan had failed.

• Xiao Tian Ce used five eighth-tier Spiritual Arrays to kill Hun Yuanpo and the other Hun Clan Dou Sheng, then collected their corpses.
• Xiao Xuan killed Hun Yuantian after breaking the Realm of Death formation, leaving Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame badly battered.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Xiao Xuan with Living Soul Annihilates Heaven, and the two exchanged blows as Xiao Xuan's strength waned.
• Hun Tiandi realized Xiao Xuan was stalling for time when Gu Yuan emerged from the void with the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan.
• Gu Yuan told Hun Tiandi that trouble involving the Tou She Ancient God Jade had delayed him, and Hun Tiandi recognized that the operation against the Gu Clan had failed.

Gu Yuan stood with Xiao Xuan against Hun Tiandi, who fled after learning that the Hun Clan’s forces sent to the Xiao Realm had been wiped out. Xiao Xuan, mortally injured, thanked Gu Yuan and said he would visit the Gu Clan the next day to settle his final affairs.

• Hun Tiandi admitted to his schemes in the Ancient Realm and tried to persuade Gu Yuan not to interfere in the Hun Clan’s conflict with the Xiao Clan.
• Gu Yuan rejected Hun Tiandi’s warnings and prepared to fight alongside the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan.
• Hun Tiandi received news that the soul tablets of every Dou Sheng sent to the Xiao Realm had shattered, and Xiao Xuan inferred that Xiao Tian Ce and Xiao Qing had intercepted them.
• Xiao Xuan challenged Hun Tiandi to a fight, but Hun Tiandi seized the Nihility Devouring Flame and fled into the void.
• Xiao Xuan refused Gu Yuan’s healing pill, said he had about two days left, and arranged to visit the Gu Clan the next day.
• Gu Dao questioned whether Gu Yuan had been right to offend the Hun Clan for Xiao Xuan’s sake.

Gu Yuan prepared the Gu Clan for conflict with the Hun Clan, while Hun Tiandi investigated the destruction of his forces in the Xiao Realm. Xiao Tian Ce reunited with the dying Xiao Xuan in Sacred Pill City and explained how he had annihilated the Hun Clan’s invading Dou Sheng and relocated the Xiao Clan.

• Gu Yuan warned the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan that the Hun Clan would target them if the Xiao Clan declined, and they pledged to defend their clan.
• Hun Tiandi learned that more than a hundred Hun Clan Dou Sheng had died in the Xiao Realm and ordered the resurrection of four supreme elders using preserved soul power.
• Hun Tiandi found no survivors in the Xiao Realm, sensed a mysterious trace, and ordered the Soul Hall to investigate suspicious newcomers across the Central Plains.
• Xiao Tian Ce waited in Sacred Pill City, where Xiao Xuan found him using the Ink-Colored Jade Pendant and arrived gravely weakened.
• Xiao Tian Ce explained how he had sealed the Xiao Realm, trapped and killed the invading Hun Clan Dou Sheng, and relocated the Xiao Clan; Xiao Xuan praised him.

Xiao Xuan entrusted Xiao Tian Ce with the Xiao Clan’s resources and future plans before departing to die, while Xiao Tian Ce returned to Heaven Beyond and reassured Xiao Qing about her decision to save the clansmen. The Xiao survivors were settled in the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, but their morale remained shattered.

• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Xuan that over two thousand Xiao clansmen had died in the Hun Clan attack and the survivors had been taken to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.
• Xiao Xuan handed Xiao Tian Ce the clan’s resources and gave him instructions about the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, the clansmen in the northwest, the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan left after asking Xiao Tian Ce to turn his body into a Heavenly Demon Puppet once the jade pendant’s light went out.
• Xiao Qing apologized to Xiao Tian Ce for acting without permission, and he praised her for saving many clansmen and gaining Dou Sheng Experts for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce confirmed that he had killed the Hun Clan Dou Sheng attackers, and Xiao Qing reported that the surviving clansmen had been housed in Heaven Beyond but were still devastated.

Xiao Tian Ce ordered the Xiao Clan to remain hidden while he entered seclusion, and Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame speculated about who had destroyed the Hun Clan’s forces. The two set aside their suspicions to prepare for the resurrection ritual.

• Xiao Tian Ce refused to attend the memorial for the fallen Xiao clansmen and assigned the clan’s affairs to Xiao Qing and Uncle Chun while he entered seclusion.
• Xiao Tian Ce placed Old Phoenix and the Heavenly Demon Puppet under Xiao Qing’s command and ordered her to keep the Xiao Clan’s known members inside Heaven Beyond.
• Hun Tiandi regretted the Hun Clan’s losses, and Nihility Devouring Flame suggested that Xiao Tian Ce might still be alive.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reasoned that the simultaneous deaths of over a hundred Dou Sheng Experts pointed to a Dou Di-level attacker, while Hun Tiandi recalled finding unusual energy at the Xiao Realm.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame agreed the Xiao Clan had likely gone into hiding, then left to prepare for the resurrection ritual.

Xiao Xuan entered the Heavenly Tomb after asking Gu Yuan to look after any surviving Xiao Clan members, while Gu Yuan began searching for the clan and the Tou She Ancient God Jade. A year later, Xiao Tian Ce became a Ninth-Tier Spiritual Array Master and tested the power of his Nine-Dragon Demon-Subduing Array.

• Xiao Xuan separated his soul from his body, sent his body into the void's turbulent currents, and entered the Heavenly Tomb, where he quickly subdued its spirit.
• Gu Yuan promised to watch over the Xiao Clan's survivors and ordered Gu Dao to build Xiao Xuan a cenotaph and search for the clan and the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Tian Ce found Xiao Xuan's body in a secret chamber beneath Heavenly Strategy Manor and stored it in his Storage Ring while focusing on spiritual array cultivation.
• After a year of practice, Xiao Tian Ce formed the ninth-tier Nine-Dragon Demon-Subduing Array and tested its formidable attacks.

Xiao Tian Ce named two newly emerged Heavenly Phoenixes Huang Min and Huang Lingyun, accepted them as his first disciples, and gave them gifts. After they left, Xiao Qing reported that two Peak Nine-Star Dou Saints had died, leaving the causes unknown.

• Two Ancient Heavenly Phoenixes emerged with strength comparable to Early One-Star Dou Saints.
• Xiao Tian Ce named the children Huang Min and Huang Lingyun and accepted them as his first and second disciples.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave his new disciples Storage Rings, longswords, and Eighth-Tier Pills, then told them to study under Huang Jiuji while he entered seclusion.
• Xiao Qing told Xiao Tian Ce that the Pill Tower Ancestor and Burning Flame Valley's Burning Flame Ancestor had both perished, and that the Heavenly Secret Tower could not determine why.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Tian Ce heard Xiao Qing’s report on the changing powers of the continent and the Hun Clan’s movements, then decided how to protect the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade. He revealed that he had become a Ninth-Tier Spiritual Array Master, giving the clan hope of eventually ending its need to hide.

• Xiao Qing told Xiao Tian Ce that two Peak Nine-Star Dou Saints had died, four new powers had risen, and the Hun Clan’s Soul Hall was searching for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce ordered the Heavenly Secret Tower to keep monitoring events and told Xiao Qing to maintain Heaven Beyond’s restrictions for another three months while he refined a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Qing reported that Xiao Tian Ming had found the Tou She Ancient God Jade in the Northwest Continent and explained why the Hun Clan posed a threat to its guardians.
• Xiao Tian Ce decided not to retrieve the jade and ordered a Peak Dou Zun to protect its guardians in secret, while directing the Heavenly Secret Tower to destroy any Hun Clan or Soul Hall forces moving toward the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Qing realized Xiao Tian Ce had become a Ninth-Tier Spiritual Array Master, and he confirmed it as she celebrated the clan’s prospects.