Chapter Summaries

Hun Changqing revealed that Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s Cave Mansion lay beneath Jia Nan Academy, prompting the Gu and Soul Clans to rush there. As their armies arrived, a Soul Clan elder attacked the academy, but Hun Changqing stopped him and told Su Qian to evacuate everyone to the Netherworld Hall.

• The Ancient Emperor’s phantom revealed an image of the Cave Mansion beneath a Magma Sea, and Hun Changqing recognized the location as beneath Jia Nan Academy.
• Hun Changqing announced the location, and Gu Xun’er confirmed it; Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan ordered their clans to advance on Jia Nan Academy.
• The Gu and Soul Clan armies arrived during Jia Nan Academy’s ceremony, and a Soul Clan elder began attacking the academy to clear the area.
• Hun Changqing absorbed the elder’s black mist, stopped the attack, and ordered Su Qian to take the students and elders to the Netherworld Hall for shelter.

Hun Changqing evacuated Jia Nan Academy before Hun Tiandi destroyed it to expose the magma sea beneath the Black-Corner Region. Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan descended toward Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s Cave Mansion, overcame its Flame Lizardmen, and found a hidden space, where two Dou Sheng experts entered first.

• Hun Changqing stopped the Soul Clan Elder and ordered Su Qian to evacuate Jia Nan Academy to the Netherworld Hall; Su Qian led nearly ten thousand students and elders away.
• Hun Tiandi destroyed Jia Nan Academy with one palm, exposing the magma sea, then set off with Gu Yuan and the experts of both clans to seek the Ancient Emperor’s inheritance.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan encountered Flame Lizardmen guarding the area; Hun Tiandi defeated and killed them despite their warnings about a Guardian and divine retribution.
• A Gu Clan Dou Sheng discovered a hidden space in the reddish-black magma, and Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan recognized it as the entrance to Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan each sent one Dou Sheng expert through the hidden space, and both scouts vanished inside.

Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and encountered its enormous Tomb Guardian, who explained that the Ancient Jade could open the entrance. Hun Tiandi then revealed his trap, seized the jade with Nihility Devouring Flame's help, and started a battle between the Soul and Gu Clans.

• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan sent two Dou Sheng Experts through the space, and the scouts confirmed that the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion lay within.
• The clans flew through the dark space and discovered a vast stone gate bearing the words Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• A colossal Ancient Void Dragon awoke, recognized the Ancient Jade, and transformed into a middle-aged man who identified himself as the Tomb Guardian.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Gu Yuan and took control of the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Gu Clan to attack the Soul Clan, and Hun Tiandi commanded his clan to fight back while the Tomb Guardian watched.

Hun Tiandi used the Ancient Jade to free the Old Dragon Emperor from the barrier around the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion after Zi Yan was gravely wounded. The Old Dragon Emperor avenged her by killing and devouring the Gu Clan elder, then hurried to Zi Yan as the battle continued.

• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to resume its attack on the Gu Clan, while the Old Dragon Emperor watched from behind the barrier.
• The Old Dragon Emperor recognized Zi Yan as his daughter, then watched her suffer a grave wound from a hidden Gu Clan eight-star Dou Sheng.
• Hun Tiandi agreed to break the barrier in exchange for the Old Dragon Emperor's help and used the Ancient Jade to shatter it.
• The Old Dragon Emperor attacked the Gu Clan elder who had wounded Zi Yan, while Hun Tiandi blocked Gu Yuan and Hun Changqing kept Gu Xun'er occupied.
• The Old Dragon Emperor tore apart and devoured the Gu Clan elder, then flew to Zi Yan as she healed among the Ancient Void Dragon experts.

The Old Dragon Emperor reunited with Zi Yan and agreed to help her side against Gu Yuan, allowing Hun Tiandi to reach the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. Hun Tiandi opened its ancient gate while the Old Dragon Emperor continued to hold Gu Yuan back.

• The Old Dragon Emperor revealed his Dragon Emperor Lineage to the Ancient Void Dragon experts and confirmed that Zi Yan was his daughter through their matching bloodline power.
• Zi Yan confronted her father over his absence during her childhood, then asked him to stop Gu Yuan and help the Soul Clan Chief.
• The Old Dragon Emperor attacked Gu Yuan and prevented him from pursuing Hun Tiandi, who headed for the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Hun Tiandi used the Ancient Jade to open the cave mansion's stone gate, releasing an ancient fluctuation that disrupted both armies.
• The Old Dragon Emperor continued attacking Gu Yuan as the gate opened, insisting that Gu Yuan had no claim to the cave mansion.

The Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s Cave Mansion opened, and Hun Changqing, Gu Yuan, Gu Xun’er, the Old Dragon Emperor, Hun Tiandi, and the Nihility Devouring Flame entered its strange interior. Hun Changqing and the Old Dragon Emperor pursued the others to the Heavenly Flame Plaza, where Hun Changqing wondered how to keep Gu Xun’er from obtaining the inheritance.

• The ancient stone doors opened, and Gu Xun’er abandoned her fight with Hun Changqing to rush toward the cave mansion after sensing something inside calling to her.
• Gu Xun’er used a multicolored fire lotus to evade Hun Changqing, then joined Gu Yuan and helped drive back the Old Dragon Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi and the Nihility Devouring Flame entered the passage first, followed by Gu Yuan and Gu Xun’er; Hun Changqing and the Old Dragon Emperor entered after them.
• Inside the cave mansion, Hun Changqing sensed the other four moving ahead and urged the Old Dragon Emperor to pursue them.
• Hun Changqing and the Old Dragon Emperor reached the Heavenly Flame Plaza, where Hun Changqing considered how to stop Gu Xun’er from obtaining the Ancient Emperor’s inheritance.

Hun Changqing and the Soul Clan seized the Emperor Pill after Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to trap it, while Gu Yuan and Gu Xun'er were overwhelmed. As Hun Changqing prepared to suppress Gu Xun'er, the Ancient Emperor Stone Statue reacted to her true fire origin, freezing his attack and sending her flame into its heart.

• Hun Changqing ambushed Gu Xun'er and Gu Yuan with the Yin Soul Banner and spatial attacks, then told Hun Tiandi to pursue the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to form a Pill Transformation Ring and sealed the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill inside it.
• Hun Tiandi took the Emperor Pill and joined the Old Dragon Emperor in attacking Gu Yuan, while Hun Changqing relentlessly wounded Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Yuan urged Gu Xun'er to retreat, but the Soul Clan's attacks left them unable to escape, and Hun Changqing prepared to suppress her.
• The Ancient Emperor Stone Statue's heart began to shine, stopping Hun Changqing's attack as Gu Xun'er's supreme yang true fire origin flew into it.

Gu Xun'er received Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s inheritance, which protected her as Hun Tiandi and the others tried to stop her. After Hun Tiandi withdrew to refine the Emperor Pill, Gu Xun'er entered the inheritance’s sea of heavenly flames.

• Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s radiance forced Hun Tiandi, Hun Changqing, and the Old Dragon Emperor to their knees, then enveloped Gu Xun'er and began transferring the inheritance.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Gu Xun'er and threatened Gu Yuan, but Gu Xun'er used the inheritance’s power to deflect the attacks and protect her father.
• Hun Changqing advised Hun Tiandi to refine the Emperor Pill, and Hun Tiandi left through a spatial rift while Hun Changqing and the Old Dragon Emperor departed afterward.
• Outside the cave mansion, Zi Yan called Hun Changqing her master and husband, shocking the Old Dragon Emperor and prompting her to rebuke him.
• Gu Xun'er entered the spatial rift and arrived in a sea of heavenly flames, where the flames gathered affectionately around her.

Gu Xun'er began accepting Tou She Ancient God's inheritance, enduring repeated bodily destruction and revival through her Nirvana flame. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi activated his formation across the Central Plains to refine its living beings into power for his rise to Dou Di, leaving Cao Ying and the Cao Family facing death.

• Tou She Ancient God offered Gu Xun'er his inheritance, and she accepted the flame lotus seed despite its devastating effects on her body.
• Gu Xun'er's Supreme Yang True Fire and Nirvana Flame repeatedly restored her body, strengthening her as she continued through the inheritance trial.
• Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and activated the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation over the Central Plains.
• Hun Tiandi's formation transformed into a vast light cauldron and began killing people across the Central Plains, absorbing their blood and energy.
• The formation struck Cao City and the Cao Family, where Cao Ying watched her clansmen die and regretted that she could not see Hun Changqing again.

Hun Changqing rescued Cao Ying from the Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation after it killed the rest of her family, then took her back to the Soul Clan. Two months later, Hun Tiandi’s formation had turned the Central Plains into a wasteland, while refugees crowded around the Ancient Realm and Hun Changqing prepared for the danger ahead.

• Hun Changqing arrived at the Cao Family estate after the formation had killed everyone except Cao Ying, whose Jade Slip protected her, and reunited with her.
• Cao Ying mourned her family and chose to stay with Hun Changqing despite the danger of his plans, so he brought her back to the Soul Clan.
• Hun Changqing seized the Soul Clan’s treasury and refined its accumulated treasures to advance toward the peak of Nine-Star Dou Sheng, silencing elders who objected.
• The Spirit-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation devastated the Central Plains, and its bloody rays slaughtered most of the factions that tried to fight it.
• Gu Yuan extended the Ancient Realm’s protection into the surrounding mountains to shelter refugees, but overcrowding sparked clashes and he failed to stop Hun Tiandi’s plans.
• As the blood clouds grew more savage, the people of the Central Plains could only watch in despair, fearing Hun Tiandi’s emergence would bring their end.

Gu Xun'er gave birth to a daughter after completing her emperor body and vowed to bring Hun Changqing back for their child. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi emerged as a Dou Di, discovered Nihility Devouring Flame's betrayal, and faced an attack by the flame and Soul Clan elders.

• Gu Xun'er completed her emperor body and discovered that a life had been growing inside her for nearly ten years.
• Gu Xun'er gave birth to a daughter, nursed her, and promised to bring Hun Changqing back so they could have a home together.
• For seven months, the blood clouds shrouded the Central Plains while the Gu Clan's formations protected the remaining survivors from bloody attacks.
• Hun Tiandi emerged from the sea of blood as a Dou Di, and Nihility Devouring Flame told him that descendants of the Ling, Shi, and Yao Clans had been sacrificed alongside many Soul Clan descendants.
• Hun Tiandi detected Nihility Devouring Flame's black flames in the blood energy and accused him of betrayal.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Hun Tiandi with black flames as dozens of Soul Clan elders joined him in a strange formation.

Hun Tiandi broke through to Dou Di, seized control of the Sea of Blood, and defeated the Nihility Devouring Flame and the Gu Clan allied forces with ease. He set out for Jia Nan Academy to stop Gu Xun'er’s inheritance, leaving Gu Yuan facing him without access to the energy of heaven and earth.

• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had broken through to Dou Di and defeated the Nihility Devouring Flame, swallowing the black flames after immobilizing him.
• Hun Tiandi erased the Soul Clan elders and dismissed the Nihility Devouring Flame’s threat to destroy the clan.
• Gu Yuan led the Gu Clan allied forces in an attack and unleashed the Ancient Emperor Mirror, but Hun Tiandi shattered the attack and barrier with a gesture.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Gu Yuan and cut him off from the energy of heaven and earth.
• Hun Tiandi headed toward Jia Nan Academy to kill Gu Xun'er before she could complete her breakthrough.

Hun Tiandi overwhelmed Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan army, while Hun Changqing slaughtered the wounded forces to absorb their origin essence. Hun Tiandi’s attack filled the Central Plains with blood lightning, giving Hun Changqing enough energy to advance his supreme yin origin before he escaped through a spatial rift.

• Hun Tiandi cut Gu Yuan off from the energy of heaven and earth, wounded him, and shattered the Gu Clan army’s combined attack with Blood Lightning.
• Hun Changqing entered the Gu Clan army and killed its experts, refining their origin essence into supreme yin true qi.
• Hun Tiandi badly wounded Gu Yuan and unleashed blood lightning across the Central Plains, killing millions and turning the battlefield into a sea of blood.
• Hun Changqing endured the lightning, absorbed the blood and Dou Qi of the dead, and filled his supreme yin origin until it advanced.
• Hun Changqing stopped absorbing the energy, healed his damaged body, and escaped through a spatial rift.

Gu Xun'er arrived as a Dou Di just as Hun Tiandi was about to kill Gu Yuan, and she challenged him to a decisive battle. She gained the upper hand, while Hun Tiandi devoured the blood clouds over the Central Plains to strengthen himself.

• Hun Changqing escaped after absorbing enough weak water, while Hun Tiandi chose not to stop him and turned to finish Gu Yuan and the surviving Gu Clan elders.
• Gu Xun'er appeared and destroyed Hun Tiandi's blood lightning with a barrier of flames, revealing that she had become a Dou Di.
• Gu Xun'er confronted Hun Tiandi over the destruction of the Gu Clan, and he challenged her to a decisive battle.
• Hun Tiandi sent a towering blood wave and then countless bolts of blood lightning at Gu Xun'er, but she countered them with magma and a colossal flame manifestation.
• As Gu Xun'er's golden flames pressed back his blood lightning, Hun Tiandi swallowed the blood clouds over the Central Plains.

Gu Xun'er gained the upper hand against Hun Tiandi, who activated the Emperor-Slaying Array and sacrificed hundreds of millions of captives to strengthen it. As Hun Changqing joined the Soul Clan experts offering themselves to the formation, he survived Hun Tiandi’s Blood Blade and rushed toward him.

• Hun Tiandi absorbed the blood clouds and grew into a giant, but Gu Xun'er overpowered him in their battle.
• Hun Tiandi activated the Emperor-Slaying Array across the Central Plains and ordered the Soul Clan to sacrifice its descendants, including captives from the Stone, Spirit, and Medicine Clans.
• The Tianxuan Continent Tourists witnessed the slaughter, and Ling Qingzhu left rather than watch any longer.
• Hun Changqing returned to the Soul Clan forces and joined more than a thousand experts who offered themselves to the formation.
• Hun Tiandi used the Blood Blade to kill the volunteers, but Hun Changqing survived the strike and charged toward him.

Hun Changqing killed Hun Tiandi by disabling his Dou Qi and draining his blood essence, then used the blood to prepare for his own breakthrough. As he began ascending toward Dou Di, he took control of the Emperor-Slaying Killing Array to hold off Gu Xun'er.

• Hun Changqing reached Hun Tiandi, shattered the Emperor-Slaying Array, and killed him while an icy force consumed his body and mind.
• Hun Changqing drained Hun Tiandi's blood essence into a small orb, then explained to the Soul Clan elders that Hun Tiandi would have lost to Gu Xun'er and that his death served Hun Changqing's purpose.
• Hun Changqing crushed the blood orb, drew its blood into a vast river, and absorbed it with a powerful vortex as his aura surged toward the Dou Di threshold.
• Gu Xun'er sent a towering wave of flame at Hun Changqing while he attempted his breakthrough.
• The Emperor-Slaying Killing Array repaired itself under Hun Changqing's control and its Blood Blade split Gu Xun'er's flame and the earth, forcing her to contend with the array.

Gu Xun'er summoned the Heavenly Flames to break the Emperor-Slaying Array, but Hun Changqing survived her attack after completing his breakthrough to Dou Di. He refused to explain how he had killed Hun Tiandi, leaving Gu Xun'er to face him as an equal.

• Hun Changqing took control of the Emperor-Slaying Array while his aura surged toward the Dou Di realm, prompting Gu Xun'er to unleash her full power.
• Gu Xun'er summoned the Heavenly Flames across the continent and formed the True Flame Wheel, which shattered the Emperor-Slaying Array in a devastating attack.
• Hun Changqing emerged unharmed and revealed an ethereal aura, and Gu Xun'er recognized that he had become a Dou Di.
• Gu Xun'er asked how Hun Changqing had killed Hun Tiandi and broken through so quickly.
• Hun Changqing recalled secretly planting three-light divine water in people across the Central Plains to poison Hun Tiandi, then used Hun Tiandi's source energy and nihility devouring flame to complete his breakthrough, but he chose not to explain this to Gu Xun'er.

Hun Changqing revealed his Dou Di strength, drove Gu Xun'er to withdraw, and took command of the Soul Clan. Gu Xun'er focused on rebuilding the Gu Clan and reunited with her daughter Hun Gu'er, whose astonishing strength shocked Gu Yuan.

• Hun Changqing extinguished Gu Xun'er's attack, revealed that he was a Dou Di, and persuaded her to leave the battle to spare the Central Plains.
• Hun Changqing ordered the Soul Clan experts to call him Clan Chief and return to the Soul Realm.
• Gu Xun'er told the surviving Gu Clan elders to prioritize rebuilding and having descendants, while Gu Yuan relinquished the Clan Chief position to her.
• Gu Xun'er reunited with Hun Gu'er, who killed a Five-Colored Light Deer with her bare hands.
• Gu Yuan met Hun Gu'er and was shocked to discover that she had reached Peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

Gu Xun'er introduced Hun Gu'er to Gu Yuan and explained her extraordinary cultivation, while Lin Dong led humanity against the First Palace Lord on the Tianxuan Continent. Lin Dong defeated him, but the First Palace Lord self-detonated and announced a thousand-year creation that threatened to turn the war against humanity.

• Gu Yuan discovered that Gu Xun'er's daughter, Hun Gu'er, was a peak nine-star Dou Sheng, and happily met his granddaughter.
• Gu Xun'er told Gu Yuan that the Gu Clan needed to strengthen its younger generation and that she would handle matters involving Hun Changqing and the Soul Clan.
• Three years after Hun Changqing left, Lin Dong and the assembled human forces confronted the last remaining alien demon, the First Palace Lord.
• Lin Dong fought the First Palace Lord in a fierce battle and defeated him, leaving him kneeling and coughing blood.
• The First Palace Lord pierced by Lin Dong's attack self-detonated, filling the sky with demonic qi and blood.
• The First Palace Lord's voice rang out, declaring that the Holy Clan's thousand-year masterpiece would make humanity lose the war between heaven and earth.

The First Palace Lord's self-detonation summoned the revived Alien Demon Emperor, who overwhelmed the allied army and gravely wounded Lin Dong. Just as the Emperor moved to kill him, Hun Changqing appeared and revealed power equal to or greater than the Emperor's.

• The First Palace Lord detonated himself and unleashed a vast demonic silhouette from beneath the earth.
• Lin Dong and the allied army attacked the silhouette, but the Alien Demon Emperor's arm shattered their strongest techniques.
• The Alien Demon Emperor emerged from the spatial rift and killed Qingzhi and many soldiers with blood-red lightning.
• Lin Dong charged the Emperor, was struck unconscious, and faced a second attack as the army despaired.
• Hun Changqing appeared, shattered the Emperor's blood-colored palm, and revealed an aura matching or surpassing the Emperor's.