Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian Ce faced Ao Tian and the Demon-Hunting Mercenary Group after killing Otto, while Xiao Yi Xian tried to protect him and negotiate. Xiao Tian Ce incinerated Ao Tian and his men with a golden flame, leaving Xiao Yi Xian and Huai'en shocked.

• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Tian Ce that Ao Tian would seek revenge for Otto, but Ao Tian and dozens of mercenaries soon surrounded them.
• Ao Tian demanded Xiao Tian Ce's death and threatened to force Xiao Yi Xian to marry into his family.
• Xiao Yi Xian stepped in front of Xiao Tian Ce to plead with Ao Tian, but Xiao Tian Ce told her to stand back.
• Xiao Tian Ce summoned a golden flame that swept through Ao Tian and the Demon-Hunting Mercenary Group, reducing them to ash.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Huai'en stared in shock as Xiao Tian Ce's golden flame returned.

Xiao Tian Ce gave Xiao Yi Xian a Heavenly Mechanism Token that would summon help twice, then traveled with Huai En through the Magical Beast Mountain Range. After reaching the Tagor Desert, Xiao Tian Ce prepared to seek out Qing Lin, Medusa, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li.

• Xiao Tian Ce gave Xiao Yi Xian a Heavenly Mechanism Token and promised to help her twice before reclaiming it.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Huai En settled by a pool in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Huai En grilled fish and Xiao Tian Ce said he would arrange for him to cook for one of his disciples.
• Huai En advanced to Dou Qi Second Stage while cultivating, and Xiao Tian Ce’s aura kept nearby magical beasts subdued.
• Xiao Tian Ce left the mountain range with Huai En and headed toward the Tagor Desert to meet Qing Lin and Medusa and potentially guide Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• After they reached the desert, Huai En asked whether they would cross it.

Xiao Tian Ce and Huai En crossed the Tagor Desert and reached Black Rock City, where Xiao Tian Ce refused to yield his table to He Kun and his disciples. When one disciple attacked him, Xiao Tian Ce sent him flying with a single slap.

• Xiao Tian Ce led Huai En on a three-day trek across the Tagor Desert to Black Rock City, using the journey to train Huai En.
• At a tavern, He Kun’s disciple demanded that Xiao Tian Ce and Huai En give up their table, but Xiao Tian Ce refused.
• He Kun identified himself as a third-tier alchemist of the He Family and asked Xiao Tian Ce to move, but Xiao Tian Ce mocked the family and threatened them.
• He Kun hesitated to attack and sat nearby, but his disciple ignored him and punched at Xiao Tian Ce.
• Xiao Tian Ce slapped the disciple’s fist and sent the Two-Star Great Dou Master crashing to the ground.

Xiao Tian Ce knocked He Kun and the others unconscious with his soul energy, then left Black Rock City’s He Family to deal with the aftermath. He Qian warned He Kun not to seek revenge and confined him, while concluding the incident was likely over.

• Xiao Tian Ce knocked He Kun to the floor with a slap, then used soul energy to incapacitate everyone in the restaurant.
• Xiao Tian Ce paid for the meal and left with Huai En.
• He Qian arrived with He Family guards, woke He Kun, and scolded him for causing trouble.
• He Qian deduced that Xiao Tian Ce was at least a sixth-tier alchemist or a Dou Emperor-level expert and forbade He Kun from seeking revenge.
• He Qian confined He Kun to the house for three months and took the unconscious men home.

Xiao Tian Ce explained why he spared He Kun and the others, then offered to train Huai En as an Alchemist. After Huai En revealed that he could sense Xiao Tian Ce’s awakened Dou Di bloodline, Xiao Tian Ce realized Huai En belonged to the Tunling Clan Imperial Family and promised to protect him; they planned to leave Black Rock City the next day.

• Xiao Tian Ce told Huai En that he spared He Kun and the others because they had not intended to kill him, and praised Huai En’s soul strength and Alchemist aptitude.
• Xiao Tian Ce offered to teach Huai En alchemy and said he would bring him to the Xiao Clan once he reached Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Tian Ce advised Huai En that personal strength, rather than bloodline, would be key to restoring the Tunling Clan.
• Huai En sensed the Dou Di bloodline within Xiao Tian Ce, and Xiao Tian Ce concluded that Huai En belonged to the Tunling Clan Imperial Family.
• Xiao Tian Ce promised to protect Huai En as long as he did not harm innocents or become an enemy of the Xiao Clan, and advised him to awaken his bloodline after reaching Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Huai En to rest before they left Black Rock City the next day.

After leaving Black Rock City, Xiao Tian Ce continued toward Desert City while Yao Chen and Xiao Xun'er considered the Xiao Clan's hidden connections and the expert watching it. Xiao Xun'er asked Ling Ying to keep their suspicions from her clan so she could remain near Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Tian Ce reflected on his plans to visit the Great Thousand World and left for Desert City after breakfast with Huai En.
• Yao Chen examined the Heavenly Mechanism Token, suspected Xiao Xun'er belonged to the Gu Clan, and resolved to help Xiao Yan cultivate the Flame Mantra.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Xiao Yan had a powerful soul body beside him, and she ordered him to leave it alone unless it threatened Xiao Yan.
• Ling Ying explained his theory that Xiao Tian Ce had survived, that the Xiao Clan had hidden, and that an expert connected to the clan was watching over the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Xun'er asked Ling Ying not to inform her clan yet because she wanted to learn the watcher’s intentions and remain with Xiao Yan.

Xiao Xun'er decided not to investigate the powerful observers watching the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Tian Ce took Huai En across the Tagor Desert and teased him with a painful body-tempering liquid. They reached Desert City, where Xiao Tian Ce sensed Hai Bodong in a map shop.

• Xiao Xun'er told Ling Ying to leave the secret watchers alone because they were too powerful for him to confront.
• Xiao Tian Ce gave Huai En body-tempering liquid that made his skin burn and turn red, then made him cultivate through the desert days and travel at night.
• Xiao Tian Ce and Huai En reached Desert City, where Xiao Tian Ce removed Huai En's redness and admitted he had enjoyed making fun of him.
• Xiao Tian Ce sensed Hai Bodong in a map shop, prompting Hai Bodong to wake and wonder if he had imagined the disturbance.

Xiao Tian Ce returned to the Imperial Capital with Huai En, received reports about the Gu Clan and Soul Hall, and urged Huang Min and Huang Lingyun to build a power of their own. He proposed that they unite the Beast Region through the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, leaving Huang Min unsure whether the ambitious plan was achievable.

• Xiao Tian Ce brought Huai En to the Xiao Clan's old residence and introduced him as a new clan member.
• Xiao Feng reported that Ling Ying might have discovered Xiao Yin, so Xiao Tian Ce ordered Xiao Yin to return from Wutan City.
• Xiao Lei reported that a Soul Hall Protector had met Han Feng, and Xiao Tian Ce ordered him to watch Han Feng without confronting him.
• Huang Min complained that Xiao Tian Ce focused on business after returning, and he suggested she and Huang Lingyun establish their own power.
• Xiao Tian Ce proposed using the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to unite the Beast Region and form a Magic Beast Kingdom, but Huang Min questioned whether the goal was too ambitious.

Xiao Tian Ce learned that Hun Miesheng had attacked the Heavenly Secret Tower and returned to the Central Plains as the Xiao Clan prepared to retaliate. Hun Miesheng refused to retreat, resolved to keep fighting the Xiao Clan, and vowed revenge for his family.

• Xiao Tian Ce sent Huang Min and Huang Lingyun to the Central Plains and assigned Xiao Yin to help Xiao Lei in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Feng reported that Hun Miesheng had destroyed the Heavenly Secret Tower branch in Fallen God Ravine, killing Xiao Tian Yun and leaving Xiao Tian Shan gravely injured.
• Xiao Tian Ce ordered Xiao Feng to watch Wutan City and the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, then rushed back to the Central Plains.
• Hun Miesheng thanked two Hun Clan elders for helping him seize the branch, while they warned him that the Xiao Clan would retaliate.
• Hun Miesheng refused to leave the Central Plains and vowed to make the Xiao Clan pay for killing his father and grandfather.

After Hun Miesheng’s ambush left Xiao Tian Shan gravely injured, Xiao Tian Ce ordered the Xiao Clan to strike the Soul Hall and seek allies while preparing for a possible war with the Hun Clan. He ended the clan’s thousand-year concealment, and news of its return reached the Soul Realm, where the Hun Clan reacted with surprise.

• Xiao Tian Ce healed Xiao Tian Shan and confirmed he would recover within an hour or two.
• Xiao Qing and the elders urged retaliation against the Hun Clan, and Xiao Tian Ce ordered attacks on the Soul Hall while preparing for a possible full-scale war.
• Xiao Tian Ce sent Xiao Qing, Xiao Wu, Xiao Teng, Xiao Fei, and Tian Ming to seek alliances with the Primordial Emperor Clans and said he would approach Gu Yuan himself.
• Xiao Tian Ce ordered Xiao Qing to announce that the Xiao Clan had returned, while Heavenly Net received the news and prepared to return to the Heavenly Secret Tower Headquarters.
• Huang Min agreed to handle the subdued Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and support Xiao Tian Ce, while Soul Hall spies carried word of the Xiao Clan’s emergence to the Soul Realm.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame debated whether to attack the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Qing and Heavenly Net prepared a coordinated assault on the Soul Hall. The Xiao forces moved out with powerful reinforcements and Ninth-Tier Spiritual Arrays, but Heavenly Net learned that efforts to visit the other Emperor Clans might have failed.

• Nihility Devouring Flame warned Hun Tiandi that Xiao Tian Ce might still be alive and strong enough to threaten the Hun Clan.
• Hun Tiandi decided to use Mie Sheng's killing of Xiao Tian Yun as an opportunity to test the Xiao Clan's strength, though he privately acknowledged Xiao Tian Ce's danger.
• Heavenly Net ordered teams of Heavenly Secret Tower members to attack the Soul Hall's Main Hall and Branch Halls, with Xiao Clan Dou Sheng assigned to support them.
• Xiao Qing told Heavenly Net that Xiao Tian Ce had prepared Ninth-Tier Spiritual Arrays for the Xiao Clan's high-level Dou Sheng and offered to face Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Heavenly Net asked Xiao Qing whether the effort to visit the other Emperor Clans had failed.

Heavenly Net explained why the other ancient clans were unlikely to join the Xiao Clan against the Hun Clan and revealed how Xiao Tian Ce’s campaign could raise the Xiao Clan’s standing. Xiao Tian Ce then met Gu Yuan, who lamented Xiao Xuan’s fate and the chance they had missed to defeat the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Qing reported that five clans had refused the Xiao Clan’s request for an alliance, while the Gu Clan had not yet responded.
• Heavenly Net predicted that the Gu Clan would also refuse because Gu Yuan deferred to elders who preferred peace.
• Heavenly Net explained that Xiao Tian Ce’s visits announced the Xiao Clan’s return and that victory over the Hun Clan could make the other clans submit to Xiao power.
• Xiao Qing realized that the Xiao Clan’s display of force could discourage resistance, and Heavenly Net urged her to learn before taking over the clan.
• Xiao Tian Ce met Gu Yuan, who asked about the Xiao Clan’s past, but Tian Ce said there was little point in revisiting it.
• Gu Yuan mourned Xiao Xuan’s fate and said that he and Tian Ce might have destroyed the Hun Clan if Xiao Xuan had not been consumed by his obsession.

Xiao Tian Ce sought Gu Yuan’s support for the Xiao Clan’s war against the Hun Clan, but Gu Yuan refused and chose to wait and see. After learning the other five clans had also declined to join, Xiao Tian Ce prepared to face the Hun Clan alone.

• Xiao Tian Ce offered Gu Yuan thirty percent of the spoils from the Soul Realm in exchange for the Gu Clan’s help against the Hun Clan, but Gu Yuan refused because he feared Hun Tiandi might escape.
• Gu Yuan discussed Xiao Tian Ce’s strength with the Three Immortals of the Gu Clan and rejected their suggestion to reconsider joining the war, deciding instead to monitor the conflict and intervene only if the Xiao Clan struggled.
• After leaving the Ancient Realm, Xiao Tian Ce criticized Gu Yuan for being indecisive and discussed the Gu Clan’s lack of ambition with Xiao Qing and Heavenly Net.
• Xiao Tian Ce announced that the other five clans had also refused to help, leaving the Xiao Clan to fight the Hun Clan alone.

Xiao Tian Ce’s forces returned from wiping out the Soul Hall, bringing back Soul Sources and other spoils, while Hun Miesheng escaped. Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame then confronted Xiao Tian Ce at the Heavenly Secret Tower, and Xiao Tian Ce prepared to reveal how he had killed the Hun Clan’s attackers a thousand years earlier.

• Xiao Qing and Heavenly Net warned Xiao Tian Ce that the Hun Clan might retreat into hiding, while Xiao Qing reported that their teams had secretly targeted the clan’s locations.
• Xiao Teng returned with Soul Source after Hun Miesheng escaped, and the other teams reported success and presented their spoils.
• Xiao Tian Ce distributed Soul Source to high-level Dou Sheng whose soul power had not reached heaven realm great perfection, and let each team divide its other rewards.
• Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame arrived with the Four Demon Saints after Xiao Wu was discovered, and Xiao Tian Ce and the Nihility Devouring Flame recalled their old grudge.
• Hun Tiandi recognized the Xiao Clan’s formidable strength and asked Xiao Tian Ce how he had killed more than a hundred Hun Clan Dou Sheng in an instant a thousand years earlier; Xiao Tian Ce agreed to explain.

Xiao Tian Ce trapped Hun Tiandi and his group inside the ninth-tier Nine Dragons Ascension Array, while Heavenly Net and Old Phoenix entered to fight the Four Demon Saints and test the Hun Clan’s Realm of Death Array. As Nihility Devouring Flame searched for the spiritual array’s weakness, Xiao Tian Ce directed Heavenly Net to seize the Gates of Dead Silence.

• Xiao Tian Ce activated the Nine Dragons Ascension Array, trapping Hun Tiandi, Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Four Demon Saints; the Four Demon Saints’ combined attack failed to damage the barrier.
• Hun Tiandi stopped the Four Demon Saints from wasting their strength and assigned Nihility Devouring Flame to search for a weakness in the array.
• At Xiao Tian Ce’s instruction, Xiao Qing released Old Phoenix, and Heavenly Net and Old Phoenix entered the array to challenge the Four Demon Saints despite warnings about the Realm of Death Array.
• The Four Demon Saints deployed the Realm of Death Array against Heavenly Net and Old Phoenix while Nihility Devouring Flame searched the barrier for a way out.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Heavenly Net to prioritize capturing the Gates of Dead Silence, and Heavenly Net struck Hun Shengtian’s gate without damaging it.

Xiao Tian Ce activated the Ninth-Tier Nine Dragons Ascension Array and used its attacks to injure Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan’s allies. As the battle continued, Shi Zhong Tian and Ling Hua arrived, and Heavenly Net threatened them after they challenged the Xiao Clan’s presence in the Central Plains.

• Xiao Tian Ce sent Heavenly Net and Old Phoenix out of the Death Realm Formation after they fought Hun Shengtian, then revealed that they had bought time for him to prepare his array.
• Xiao Tian Ce activated the Nine Dragons Ascension Array and attacked Hun Tiandi, the Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan.
• The nine dragons struck the Soul Clan’s group, injuring all six and forcing the Nihility Devouring Flame to search for a flaw while Hun Tiandi covered it.
• Xiao Qing and Heavenly Net confronted two newcomers, whom Xiao Qing identified as Shi Zhong Tian of the Stone Clan and Ling Hua of the Spirit Clan.
• Heavenly Net revealed his late-stage nine-star Dou Sheng strength and ordered Shi Zhong Tian and Ling Hua to leave within ten breaths; Shi Zhong Tian questioned Xiao Qing about the Xiao Clan’s attitude.

Xiao Qing drove Shi Zhong Tian and Ling Hua away after Heavenly Net struck Shi Zhong Tian, while the battle inside the Spiritual Array turned against Hun Tiandi and his allies. Xiao Tian Ce discovered that the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan had reconstructed their bodies like living corpses.

• Shi Zhong Tian provoked Xiao Qing, and Heavenly Net struck him down and broke both his arms.
• Ling Hua appeased Heavenly Net, then led Shi Zhong Tian away after Xiao Qing threatened them with three breaths to leave.
• Hun Tiandi was struck by a giant dragon while fighting four dragons, and the Nihility Devouring Flame burned one dragon before it reappeared and attacked him.
• The four dragons struck the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan, leaving Hun Shengtian and Hun Motian each missing an arm and riddling Hun Yao and Hun Yuantian with holes.
• Xiao Tian Ce recognized that the Four Demon Saints had reconstructed their bodies and realized they were living corpses.

Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame fought the regenerating dragons inside Xiao Tian Ce’s Nine Dragons Ascension Array, but Hun Tiandi revealed enough power to destroy the array. The chapter ended with the barrier cracking apart.

• Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed the injured Four Demon Saints, and he and Hun Tiandi took the remaining Gates of Dead Silence to restore their strength.
• Xiao Tian Ce strengthened the Nine Dragons Ascension Array as Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame discovered that the dragons regenerated after being shattered.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame struggled against the dragons as the array drained their Dou Qi, while Xiao Tian Ce expected them to be trapped indefinitely.
• Hun Tiandi told Xiao Tian Ce that he would break the array with a single powerful attack, then gathered his Dou Qi into a Blood-Colored Palm Seal.
• Hun Tiandi’s Blood-Colored Palm Seal dissolved the nine dragons and cracked the Nine Dragons Ascension Array’s barrier.

Xiao Tian Ce trapped Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame in multiple Ninth-Tier Spiritual Arrays and nearly killed them. Hun Tiandi escaped when Shi Zhong Tian’s surprise attack distracted Xiao Tian Ce, leaving Xiao Tian Ce furious and confronting Ling Hua over Shi Zhong Tian’s fate.

• Hun Tiandi broke Xiao Tian Ce’s Nine Dragons Ascension Array, but Xiao Tian Ce trapped him and Nihility Devouring Flame in the Ten Thousand Swords Divine Domain Array and Heavenly Fire Prairie Array.
• Hun Tiandi used a secret technique to regain Half-Emperor strength, broke the Heavenly Fire Prairie Array, and was then pierced by a sword of light as Xiao Tian Ce activated the Ten Thousand Ghosts Devouring Soul Formation.
• Hun Tiandi detonated the Gate of Dead Silence to shatter the formation’s attack and escape with Nihility Devouring Flame, but Heavenly Net blocked their way.
• Shi Zhong Tian struck Heavenly Net from behind, allowing Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame to flee through the void.
• Xiao Tian Ce seized Shi Zhong Tian and smashed his head apart, but Ling Hua arrived and pleaded for him to spare Shi Zhong Tian.
• Xiao Tian Ce rejected Ling Hua’s appeal and questioned whether Ling Hua had any standing with him.

Xiao Tian Ce killed Shi Zhong Tian after the Stone Clan patriarch disrupted the Xiao Clan’s attempt to finish off Hun Tiandi, then demanded compensation from Ling Hua and threatened both the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan. He left Ling Hua to carry the ultimatum home and told Xiao Wu that the Xiao Clan would focus on the wounded Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Tian Ce ordered Heavenly Net, Xiao Qing, and the Xiao Clan forces to attack the Soul Realm and wipe out the Hun Clan.
• Ling Hua pleaded for Shi Zhong Tian’s life, but Xiao Tian Ce burned away Shi Zhong Tian’s body and soul, then threatened the Stone Clan unless it gave a satisfactory explanation.
• Xiao Tian Ce demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade, one thousand varieties of high-tier medicinal ingredients, and three heavenly flames from Ling Hua’s Spirit Clan, giving it half a month to comply or face war.
• Ling Hua accepted responsibility for conveying Xiao Tian Ce’s demands and left to report to the Stone Clan and consult the Spirit Clan elders.
• Xiao Tian Ce told Xiao Wu that the Xiao Clan could handle the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan, but that the wounded Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame remained the greater threat.