Chapter Summaries

Xiao Nannan charged into the beast tide with the God-Beating Whip, killing ferocious beasts as she advanced. Her power drew the horde’s strongest beasts toward her, and the chapter ended with everyone believing she was about to be overwhelmed.

• A young man proposed that the gathered factions form an alliance to break through the beast tide, and the crowd agreed.
• Chen Xuan suspected the alliance leader belonged to the Soul Clan and began considering a sinister plan.
• The alliance attacked the beast tide while Xiao Nannan initially followed behind, waiting for the right moment to act.
• Xiao Nannan charged into the horde and killed a peak Dou Zun beast with one lash of the God-Beating Whip.
• Xiao Nannan’s advance stunned the crowd, and other fighters followed in her wake as she drew more beasts toward herself.
• The horde surrounded Xiao Nannan, and the onlookers feared she would be swallowed by the beast tide.

Xiao Nannan used Chen Xuan’s Heavenly Flame to break through the beast tide and reach the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where five Half-Saint puppets emerged to guard it. As the onlookers held back, Chen Xuan remained confident in her ability to face them.

• Xiao Nannan unleashed the Golden-Green Flame, incinerated the beasts around her, and forced her way through the beast tide as others followed.
• A young man summoned three Soul Clan experts with jade slips, and Chen Xuan noticed them without revealing that he had spotted them.
• Xiao Nannan reached the Bodhi Ancient Tree and saw a brilliant mass of light above its trunk that she suspected was the Bodhi Heart.
• Five Half-Saint figures emerged from the tree’s branches, making Xiao Nannan brace for battle while the onlookers kept their distance.
• Chen Xuan said he believed Xiao Nannan could handle the five puppets with her God-Beating Whip and Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Nannan defeated the five Half-Saint puppets and entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree, where she agreed to use her Heavenly Flames to clear a Dou Di’s negative emotions. Outside, Chen Xuan subdued three Soul Clan Dou Sheng experts and trapped the gathered cultivators while he waited for her to emerge.

• Xiao Nannan fought the five Half-Saint puppets, destroying them with her Heavenly Flames after her whip and nine-colored python failed to finish them off.
• Xiao Nannan entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree, overcame its illusion, and agreed to help it remove a Dou Di’s negative emotions with her Heavenly Flames.
• Hun Yu ordered three Soul Clan Dou Sheng experts to stop Xiao Nannan, but Chen Xuan crushed them and forced them to their knees.
• Chen Xuan declared that no one could leave, intending to keep the Soul Clan members captive and use a Puppet Jade Talisman to locate the Soul Clan.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree drew Xiao Nannan into its center, and Chen Xuan waited outside because she was not in danger.

After Xiao Nannan emerged from the Bodhi Ancient Tree as a One-star Dou Sheng, Chen Xuan helped her unseal the God-Beating Whip and took her back to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan. He then used the controlled Hun Yu to find the hidden Soul Clan headquarters and set out to attack the clan himself.

• Xiao Nannan left the Bodhi Ancient Tree after breaking through to One-star Dou Sheng, and Chen Xuan chose a Soul Clan Dou Sheng as a gift to her.
• Chen Xuan restrained the Soul Clan Dou Sheng, and Xiao Nannan pierced and drained him with the God-Beating Whip, unsealing the weapon with his blood essence and soul.
• Chen Xuan warned Hun Yu and the other Soul Clan experts that he would come for their clan, then left the Barren Ancient Region with Xiao Nannan as the other groups fled.
• Chen Xuan returned Xiao Nannan to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, where she had obtained Bodhi Seeds and gifts from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, then left to pursue the Soul Clan.
• Chen Xuan used his control over Hun Yu to locate the Soul Clan headquarters, disguised himself as a Soul Clan expert, and followed Hun Yu toward it.

Chen Xuan infiltrated the Soul Clan by impersonating Hun Qing, but Hun Tiandi exposed him after discovering Hun Qing’s soul jade tablet had shattered. Trapped in a formation, Chen Xuan unleashed his fused Heavenly Flames and devastated the Soul Realm, leaving Hun Tiandi facing the clan’s destruction.

• Hun Yu led Chen Xuan and the others through the Soul Realm’s hidden entrance, and Chen Xuan approached the Soul Clan patriarch’s palace disguised as Hun Qing.
• Hun Tiandi trapped Chen Xuan in a formation after revealing that Hun Qing’s soul jade tablet had shattered, exposing the impostor.
• Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan’s experts joined forces to attack Chen Xuan, who boosted his strength with the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and Berserk.
• The Soul Clan awakened the Ancestor Emperor’s remnant soul, which attacked Chen Xuan with a vast net of soul-power chains.
• Chen Xuan fused his Heavenly Flames into an eleven-colored fire lotus, destroying the chains, the formation, and the Ancestor Emperor’s phantom while setting much of the Soul Realm ablaze.
• Hun Tiandi realized he could not defeat Chen Xuan and prepared to flee as the Soul Clan suffered catastrophic losses.

Chen Xuan rejected Hun Tiandi’s offer of compensation and crushed the Soul Clan’s combined attack with the Godslayer Spear. Hun Ya arrived and revealed that the Soul Clan’s members were fleeing while its leaders held Chen Xuan back, and Chen Xuan prepared to attack them again.

• Hun Tiandi offered compensation and asked Chen Xuan to spare the Soul Clan, but Chen Xuan demanded that the clan disappear.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame joined forces with the Soul Clan’s experts to resist Chen Xuan’s attack.
• Chen Xuan shattered their combined assault, severely injuring Hun Tiandi, Nihility Devouring Flame, and the other experts.
• Hun Ya arrived and told Chen Xuan that the Soul Clan’s leaders were buying time for their clansmen to escape.
• The Soul Clan’s leaders realized Hun Ya had betrayed them, and Chen Xuan gathered power in the Godslayer Spear for another attack.

Chen Xuan wiped out most of the Soul Clan after Hun Tiandi escaped, then the surviving clan discovered that Chen Xuan had placed soul marks on several of its members. Hun Tiandi executed the marked clansmen and decided to seek an alliance with the Gu Clan against Chen Xuan.

• Hun Yuantian absorbed power from Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan experts, then self-destructed to let them escape Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan found the Soul Clan survivors gone and burned the Soul Realm, killing more than ninety percent of the clan.
• Hun Tiandi hid the surviving clansmen in a newly opened space and ordered an investigation into how Chen Xuan had found them.
• Hun Tiandi discovered Chen Xuan's indelible soul marks on Hun Li, Hun Yu, and the others, then burned them to ashes.
• Hun Tiandi decided the Soul Clan needed allies and planned to visit Gu Yuan at the Gu Clan.

The Ancient Clan gathered the Yao, Stone, Yan, and Lei Clans to form an alliance against Chen Xuan, whose power and control of the Beast Region threatened the human factions. Hun Tiandi arrived and secured the Soul Clan’s place in the alliance, then warned that Chen Xuan might have tampered with Heavenly Tomb entrants; Gu Yuan began inspecting the Ancient Clan disciples.

• Gu Yuan warned the gathered clan leaders that Chen Xuan’s united Beast Region forces could threaten humanity and that the Yan Clan’s Heavenly Flames might make it a target.
• The leaders agreed to unite against Chen Xuan, while Gu Yuan proposed waiting for him to leave the Beast Region before attacking.
• An elder reported that Hun Tiandi had arrived, and Gu Yuan agreed to meet him despite the clans’ suspicions of the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi asked to join the alliance and described how Chen Xuan had overwhelmed the Soul Clan, prompting the clans to accept his proposal.
• Hun Tiandi warned that Heavenly Tomb entrants might bear soul marks from Chen Xuan, and Gu Yuan began inspecting the three Ancient Clan disciples who had entered.

The clans discovered that Chen Xuan had planted indelible soul marks in their disciples and began planning to stop his growing power. They agreed to lure and seal him when the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged, while Chen Xuan continued cultivating in the Beast Region and preparing to expand his influence.

• Gu Yuan discovered Chen Xuan's soul marks in Gu Yao and learned that removing them would kill the marked disciples, so the Ancient Clan decided to dispose of them; the other clans reported the same problem and made the same choice.
• The clan leaders gathered in the Ancient Realm, where Hun Tiandi proposed gathering the Tou She Ancient God Jades to find Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Tomb and pursue the chance to become Dou Di.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that Chen Xuan's forces were growing stronger and proposed sealing him when he came for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which was expected to emerge in three years.
• Hun Tiandi explained that the clans could use the Heaven Sealing Rakshasa Grand Formation to trap Chen Xuan, and the leaders agreed to prepare the formation and its materials.
• Chen Xuan noticed that his connections to the planted puppets had been severed, then continued cultivating in the Beast Region and sent magical beast clans to gather intelligence while he aimed to reach Nine-star Dou Sheng.

After reaching Nine-star Dou Sheng, Chen Xuan set out to obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving Xiao Nannan behind while the ancient clans secretly prepared a trap. He entered the sealed Demonic Flame Space and realized the way out had been blocked, just as a light at his brow guided him toward the flame.

• Chen Xuan ended three years of seclusion at Nine-star Dou Sheng and learned that the Soul Clan and other ancient clans had vanished from public view.
• Chen Xuan found Xiao Nannan, who still had no news of Medusa, and ordered her to remain in the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan when the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended.
• Chen Xuan flew to the flame's emergence and entered the Demonic Flame Space ahead of the other gathered experts.
• Hun Tiandi led Soul Clan and Ancient Clan experts in activating the Heaven Sealing Rakshasa Grand Formation, sealing the surrounding space with Chen Xuan and the other entrants inside.
• Chen Xuan discovered that the entrance was sealed, while a light at his brow revealed information that guided him toward the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Chen Xuan followed the ancient map’s guidance through the Demonic Flame Space, overcoming illusions and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s guards. He reached a sacrificial altar, where a white-robed figure finally opened his eyes.

• Chen Xuan entered the foggy depths and recognized that an illusion of Medusa was testing him, then burned it away.
• Chen Xuan reached a plaza, destroyed the Fire Slaves that attacked him, and broke through the giant gate.
• Chen Xuan defeated the powerful fiery figures in a great hall and burned a Four-star Dou Sheng figure to ashes.
• Chen Xuan climbed the stairs to a sacrificial altar and found a white-robed figure seated on a throne.
• The white-robed figure opened his eyes and smiled faintly as Chen Xuan approached.

Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and the other clans assembled the Tou She Ancient God Jade and learned where to search for the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. Meanwhile, Chen Xuan broke through the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's illusion, only to find that the flame could also reach Nine-star Dou Sheng strength.

• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan gathered the clans to assemble all eight Tou She Ancient God Jade fragments and seek a path to Dou Di.
• The complete jade revealed Tou She Ancient God's phantom, and Nihility Devouring Flame uncovered an image of the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath a magma sea.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the major clans to record the terrain and search across the continent for the cave mansion.
• Chen Xuan confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside the Demonic Flame Space and revealed that he had seen through its Nightmare Heavenly Mist illusion.
• Chen Xuan unleashed his Nine-star Dou Sheng strength, destroyed the Fire Slaves, and used a Nightmare Breaking Talisman to shatter the illusion.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame transformed into a thousand-zhang flame form and revealed that it could also wield Nine-star Dou Sheng strength.

Chen Xuan overwhelmed and devoured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then absorbed the radiance that proved to be the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s remnant soul. His strength rose to the mid-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng realm, and a pink flame hidden within him transformed into an infant.

• Chen Xuan used his Golden-Green Flame and sixfold increased power to overpower and swallow the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• As Chen Xuan began refining the flame, the radiance between his brows rushed toward his soul sea, but he blocked and devoured it.
• Chen Xuan learned from the absorbed memories that the radiance had been the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s remnant soul, which had attacked him because he was a magical beast.
• After fusing with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Chen Xuan advanced to the mid-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng realm.
• Chen Xuan found a pink flame lotus within his body, and it transformed into a half-foot-tall infant.

Chen Xuan discovered that his Heavenly Flames had become a Fire Spirit, which he named Little Fire, and learned that it could create powerful fire lotuses for him to control. He then tried and failed to break the seal trapping everyone inside the Demonic Flame Space, leaving him prepared to use his final trump card, the Heavenly Wrath Fire Lotus.

• The Fire Spirit appeared after Chen Xuan fused with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and showed that it could use his attack methods, including creating and merging Heavenly Wrath Fire Lotuses.
• The Fire Spirit entered Chen Xuan's body, allowing him to control its pink fire lotus and amplify its power sixfold with Berserk.
• Chen Xuan named the Fire Spirit Little Fire, then discovered that a powerful seal blocked the exit from the Demonic Flame Space.
• Chen Xuan attacked the seal twice with the Godslayer Spear, including with his strongest Emperor Spear Art strike, but could not damage it.
• Chen Xuan decided to use the Heavenly Wrath Fire Lotus as his final attempt to break the seal.

Chen Xuan used Little Fire to bombard the grand formation sealing the Demonic Flame Space, but even four attacks failed to break it. With Little Fire exhausted, Chen Xuan turned his attention to the Central Plains factions, intending to devour them to grow stronger and escape.

• Chen Xuan summoned Little Fire, which fused twenty-five two-colored fire lotuses into one enormous lotus containing the power of twelve Heavenly Flames.
• Chen Xuan empowered the fire lotus with his Berserk skill and sent it crashing into the grand formation's seal, shattering the Demonic Flame Space but leaving the outer formation intact.
• Chen Xuan launched three more fire lotus attacks; the formation weakened, but Little Fire had to rest after the fourth round.
• Chen Xuan decided to devour the gathered faction experts to improve his strength, and his threatening aura plunged them into despair.

Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, and the other factions discovered Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion beneath the ruins of Jia Nan Academy and summoned it with the Ancient Jade. A powerful purple-gold-scaled creature emerged from the magma, surprising the gathered experts.

• Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi led the factions into the magma world beneath Jia Nan Academy and found the vast stone gate marked “Dou Di Cave Mansion.”
• Hun Tiandi took out the Ancient Jade, and Gu Yuan opened an abyss in the earth so they could summon the cave mansion.
• The Ancient Jade projected the figure of Tou She Ancient God, causing the stone gate to rise from the magma.
• A late-stage Nine-star Dou Sheng aura erupted as a colossal creature emerged from the magma and addressed the gathered experts.

Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, and the others entered the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion after Zhu Kun agreed to help deal with Chen Xuan if Hun Tiandi's claims proved true. Inside, Hun Tiandi found the Emperor Grade Young Pill, who became angry when Nihility Devouring Flame identified him.

• Zhu Kun revealed that he was from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and agreed to share a favor with the group, while Hun Tiandi urged him to target Chen Xuan.
• The Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion opened, and Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and the others rushed through its passage.
• Hun Tiandi followed Nihility Devouring Flame to an ancient stone hall, where they found a statue of Tou She Ancient God surrounded by powerful techniques and Dou Skills.
• An old man appeared and introduced himself with an ancient presence, but Nihility Devouring Flame identified him as the Emperor Grade Young Pill.
• The Emperor Grade Young Pill became enraged when Nihility Devouring Flame exposed his identity.

Hun Tiandi and the others fought the Emperor Grade Young Pill, but Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God's Pill Transformation Divine Art to subdue it. Hun Tiandi swallowed the pill and escaped with Nihility Devouring Flame, while Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun left to prepare against him.

• The Emperor Grade Young Pill rejected Nihility Devouring Flame's claim that he had come to rescue it, and Hun Tiandi attacked before Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and the others arrived.
• Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and their allies joined forces, but the Emperor Grade Young Pill overwhelmed them with his Emperor Pill Palm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used the Tou She Ancient God Jade to create a Pill Transformation Ring that captured and transformed the Emperor Grade Young Pill.
• As Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Nihility Devouring Flame fought over the ring, Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Grade Young Pill and gained a surge of berserk power.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame fled through a spatial rift after Hun Tiandi was injured, and Gu Yuan led the others away to devise a countermeasure.
• Zhu Kun took the Tou She Ancient God stone statue and returned toward the Beast Region, angered by the Ancient Void Dragon clan's subjugation.

Zhu Kun returned to East Dragon Island and learned that Chen Xuan ruled the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and had killed his daughter, Zi Yan. Enraged, he went to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan to confront Chen Xuan, where a young woman identified Chen Xuan as her father.

• Zhu Kun arrived at East Dragon Island, overwhelmed its defenders, and revealed himself as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s long-missing Dragon Emperor.
• An elder explained how the clan had split into four islands and become Chen Xuan’s subjects, then told Zhu Kun that Chen Xuan had killed Zi Yan.
• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan’s scent on her clothing and swore to kill Chen Xuan.
• Zhu Kun traveled to the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan and demanded that Chen Xuan appear, threatening to slaughter the clan.
• A petite young woman stepped forward, called Chen Xuan her father, and drew Zhu Kun’s cold glare.

Chen Xuan broke through to the late stage of Nine-star Dou Sheng and escaped the Demonic Flame Space, while Zhu Kun shattered the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan’s protective formation. The clan was left exposed to Zhu Kun and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan as Chen Xuan’s return remained uncertain.

• Chen Xuan refined the power he had devoured, used resources to break through to the late stage of Nine-star Dou Sheng, and activated the Berserk skill.
• Little Flame formed forty two-colored fire lotuses, which Chen Xuan fused and used to crack the seal before repeated attacks opened a fissure.
• Chen Xuan escaped through the spatial crack and arrived at the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan, where Zhu Kun had spent more than two months attacking its protective formation.
• Chen Nannan taunted Zhu Kun from within the formation, while Zhu Kun threatened to kill her and continued his assault with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan experts.
• A crack appeared in the weakening formation, and Zhu Kun ordered another attack that shattered it, leaving the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python Clan exposed.