Chapter Summaries

After defeating Lei Dong and the Lei Clan youths, Xiao Yan faced a challenge from Lei Ying, the Lei Clan patriarch. In the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Xuan prepared to teach Lei Ying an unforgettable lesson.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Ancient Clan, reunited with Gu Xun'er, and learned that its leaders were discussing the Hun Clan and the Yao Clan’s recent losses.
• Gu Hua summoned Xiao Yan to the Black Annihilation Army’s training grounds, where Lei Dong and the Lei Clan youths were taunting the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan challenged the Lei Clan youths, revealed his peak Five-star Dou Sheng strength, and defeated everyone except Lei Dong in an instant.
• Lei Dong attacked Xiao Yan with Black Demon Thunder, but Xiao Yan dodged his moves and defeated him with a single palm strike.
• Lei Ying challenged Xiao Yan to receive a palm strike from him, while Xiao Xuan watched from the Heavenly Tomb and resolved to teach Lei Ying a lesson.

Xiao Yan accepted Lei Ying’s test and countered his Thunder Tribulation Palm with an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus, after which Hun Tiandi revealed himself with the Hun Clan’s forces. As Gu Yuan confronted Hun Tiandi, the Ancient Clan discovered that Gu Yang had stolen the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, leaving them to pursue the traitor and face Hun Tiandi’s scheme.

• Xiao Yan accepted Lei Ying’s challenge and used eight Heavenly Flames to form an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Lei Ying’s Thunder Tribulation Palm collided with Xiao Yan’s fire lotus, shattering the void and forcing Gu Yuan to repair it.
• Gu Yuan sensed Hun Tiandi, who emerged alongside Void Devouring Flame, the Four Demon Saints, and Hun Clan guards.
• Xiao Yan realized the Hun Clan wanted the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade and asked Gu Yuan whether he had it with him.
• Gu Xun’er revealed that the jade remained in the ancestral hall, then news arrived that Gu Yang had injured an elder and stolen it.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Black Annihilation Army to find Gu Yang and accused Hun Tiandi of luring the Ancient Clan away from the jade.

Hun Tiandi invaded the Ancient Realm to seize the Ancient Clan's Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade while Gu Yuan fought him without committing fully. Xiao Yan exposed the impostor posing as Gu Yang and tried to stop the jade from reaching Hun Tiandi, but after Gu Yang self-destructed, the jade flew toward Hun Tiandi as Xiao Yan pursued it.

• Hun Tiandi declared his intention to take the Ancient Clan's Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, and Gu Yuan attacked him while the Hun Clan's forces clashed with the Ancient Clan's defenders.
• Xiao Yan located the fleeing Gu Yang, struck him down, and learned that the real Gu Yang's soul had been devoured by Void Devouring Flame a hundred years earlier.
• Hun Yan attacked Xiao Yan, but Gu Lie arrived, shattered Hun Yan's Withered Fingers, and ordered Xiao Yan to reclaim the jade.
• Gu Yang chose to self-destruct, and Xiao Yan pulled Gu Xun'er away as the Black Annihilation Army retreated.
• The blast left the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade unharmed, and it flew toward Hun Tiandi as Xiao Yan gave chase.

Hun Tiandi defeated the Ancient Clan’s attempt to stop him and left the Ancient Realm with the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade. After learning that the Hun Clan had also stolen the Yan Clan’s and Lei Clan’s jades, Xiao Yan resolved to go to the Burial Sky Mountain Range to save Xiao Zhan.

• Hun Tiandi attacked Xiao Yan while Gu Yuan confronted him, and their clans’ formations clashed in a destructive but even battle.
• Void Devouring Flame seized the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade despite Lei Ying and Yan Jin’s attacks.
• Hun Tiandi threatened that the Hun Clan would claim the remaining clan jades, then told Xiao Yan to bring his jade to the Burial Sky Mountain Range if he wanted to save Xiao Zhan.
• Hun Tiandi led the Hun Clan out of the Ancient Realm, and messages confirmed that the Hun Clan had stolen the Yan Clan’s and Lei Clan’s jades as well.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin gathered to discuss the crisis while Xiao Yan decided he had to go save his father.

Xiao Yan reentered the Heavenly Tomb to seek Xiao Xuan’s help against the Hun Clan. Xiao Xuan explained that breaking through to Dou Emperor required Origin Qi, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan learning that the world’s limits might be overcome by creating it.

• Gu Yuan urged the ancient clans to unite against the Hun Clan, but Xiao Yan refused to hand over the final piece of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade because he needed it to save Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu Yuan whether Xiao Xuan could be revived, then requested permission to enter the Heavenly Tomb; Gu Yuan opened its entrance and warned him to return within a year.
• Xiao Yan reached the third level of the Heavenly Tomb and met the Blood Saber Saint, who led him to Xiao Xuan and Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong explained that the ancient clan leaders had rejected his offer of protection because they were unwilling to pay the price he demanded.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Dou Qi Continent lacked Origin Qi, which was needed to reach Dou Emperor, and said it might be possible to create that higher form of energy.

Xiao Yan learned that Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode held a powerful Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and considered how to handle the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade. He chose to swallow three Ninth-Grade Profound Pills at once to raise his strength, reaching peak Six-Star Dou Sheng as their medicinal power continued to surge.

• Lan Hong told Xiao Yan that the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill likely contained Origin Qi and possessed half-step Dou Di strength, making it dangerous for Hun Tiandi to obtain.
• Xiao Xuan warned that Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin would also pursue the chance to become Dou Di, so Xiao Yan could not simply let Hun Tiandi enter the cave abode alone.
• Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yan to focus on growing stronger and offered to help him refine the medicinal power of his three Ninth-Grade Profound Pills.
• Xiao Yan chose to swallow all three pills at once, reasoning that greater strength was essential to rescuing his father.
• Lan Hong restrained the pills' violent medicinal power as Xiao Yan endured intense pain and advanced from Five-star Dou Sheng to peak Six-Star Dou Sheng.

After breaking through to the middle stage of Seven-Star Dou Sheng, Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Xuan planned to fight the Heavenly Tomb Soul so Xiao Yan could obtain its Soul Origin and reach the Emperor Realm. The Heavenly Tomb Soul attacked Xiao Xuan, leaving Xiao Yan to confront the danger of losing his ancestor.

• Xiao Yan broke through the peak of Six-Star Dou Sheng and advanced to the middle stage of Seven-Star Dou Sheng, though Xiao Xuan warned that he could only contend with an early-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Xuan brought Lan Hong and Xiao Yan to his tomb and revealed that defeating the Heavenly Tomb Soul could provide the Soul Origin Xiao Yan needed to reach the Emperor Realm.
• Lan Hong explained that the Heavenly Tomb Soul was nearly invincible inside the Heavenly Tomb and that Xiao Xuan might have to perish alongside it to defeat it.
• Xiao Xuan confronted the Heavenly Tomb Soul and argued that it had formed from the gathered Remnant Souls rather than being the Heavenly Tomb itself.
• The Heavenly Tomb Soul attacked Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Yan realized that a single blow from it could leave him gravely injured or near death.

Lan Hong destroyed the Heavenly Tomb Soul and gave its Soul Origin to Xiao Yan, who absorbed it and broke through to Emperor Realm Soul. Xiao Yan gained control of the Heavenly Tomb, which no longer belonged to the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Xuan burned his Remnant Soul to suppress the Heavenly Tomb Soul, but Lan Hong stopped him and took over the fight.
• Lan Hong used the Bright Sword to destroy the Heavenly Tomb Soul and seize its Soul Origin.
• Lan Hong gave the Soul Origin to Xiao Yan, who began absorbing it while Xiao Xuan worried over his progress.
• After several months of repeated attempts, Xiao Yan broke through to Emperor Realm Soul.
• Lan Hong told Xiao Yan that he could enter the Heavenly Tomb at will and bring others with him, making it his domain rather than the Ancient Clan's.

Xiao Yan left the Heavenly Tomb with an Emperor Realm Soul and mid-Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength, then prepared with Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin to rescue Xiao Zhan from the Hun Clan. The night before their journey to the Burial Sky Mountain Range, Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er reaffirmed their plans for marriage.

• Xiao Yan bid farewell to Xiao Xuan and Lan Hong, promising to find a way to revive Xiao Xuan before leaving the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan and the others tried to open the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan's resistance made them mistake his arrival for an attack until he emerged and revealed his new strength.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin that the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill inside the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode had half-step Dou Di strength, and they agreed to leave for the Burial Sky Mountain Range the next day.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Xun'er he would rescue Xiao Zhan and have him preside over their wedding, and Gu Xun'er said she would marry no one but Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and the allied clans gathered at the Burial Sky Mountain Range to confront Hun Tiandi and trade the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade for Xiao Zhan. Xiao Yan rescued his father, but Hun Tiandi obtained the final piece of the jade and laughed triumphantly.

• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er met Gu Yuan, who explained that the Ancient, Yan, and Lei Clans had mobilized most of their elite forces.
• Xiao Yan repelled the Fire Spirit Fairy's Soul Seduction Technique, then traveled with the allied clans to the Burial Sky Mountain Range, where Yao Chen and Xiao Chen joined them.
• Hun Tiandi arrived with the Hun Clan and brought the imprisoned Xiao Zhan out from a Spatial Rift.
• Xiao Yan reunited with his father and angrily vowed to make the Hun Clan pay, while Xiao Zhan urged him to flee.
• Xiao Yan exchanged the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade for Xiao Zhan, and Hun Tiandi celebrated having gathered all the jade.

Xiao Yan and the allied clans fought Hun Tiandi and the Hun Clan after Yao Chen took Xiao Zhan to safety. The battle escalated when Hun Yuantian, an Eight-Star Dou Sheng Xiao Xuan had believed he killed, appeared to rescue Hun Feng.

• Xiao Yan sent Yao Chen away with Xiao Zhan, vowed to avenge his father, and joined the other clans against Hun Tiandi.
• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin activated their clans’ formations, but Hun Tiandi shattered them and began fighting Gu Yuan.
• Void Devouring Flame swallowed Lei Ying and Yan Jin’s attacks and countered them while the clans’ forces clashed across the battlefield.
• Xiao Yan killed Hun Clan fighters and seized Hun Feng, ignoring his threats and pleas for help.
• Hun Yuantian emerged from the void to stop Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xuan recognized him as an Eight-Star Dou Sheng he had once killed.

Xiao Yan overcame Hun Yuantian’s Gate of Silent Death and turned its power against him, but the other three Hun Clan elders revealed themselves to protect him. The Hun Clan’s hidden forces confronted the assembled clans in the Burial Sky Mountain Range and vowed to kill them all.

• Hun Feng self-destructed to avoid capture, and Hun Yuantian preserved his soul while attacking Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan matched Hun Yuantian’s strength with the Xiao Clan tribal pattern, Heavenly Flames, and his Emperor Realm Soul.
• Hun Yuantian used the Gate of Silent Death to swallow Xiao Yan and consume the souls of the Ancient Clan, Lei Clan, and Yan Clan elites.
• Xiao Yan found and erased Hun Yuantian’s mark on the Gate of Silent Death’s formation core, seized control of it, and emerged alive.
• Xiao Yan struck Hun Yuantian with Flame Fusion Sky Sever, but Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Shun intervened to block the attack.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin recognized the four Hun Clan elders as living dead, and the Hun Clan declared that everyone in the Burial Sky Mountain Range would die.

Hun Tiandi’s forces activated the Death Realm against the allied armies, but Xiao Yan destroyed the connected Gates of Silent Death and broke the formation. Hun Tiandi escaped the Burial Sky Mountain Range with Void Devouring Flame and the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade after four Hun Clan elders sacrificed themselves to delay Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun.

• Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Shun formed the Death Realm with three Gates of Silent Death, while Lan Hong warned Xiao Xuan that Hun Tiandi might sacrifice the entire Hun Clan to become a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan connected his seized Gate of Silent Death to the formation and detonated it, destroying all four gates and leaving Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Shun withered.
• Hun Tiandi blocked Gu Yuan and tried to leave the Burial Sky Mountain Range, but Zhu Kun ambushed him and sealed the space.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed a massive palm strike as Hun Yuantian, Hun Shengtian, Hun Yao, and Hun Shun charged Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun and self-destructed.
• Hun Tiandi and Void Devouring Flame escaped with the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade, and Gu Yuan acknowledged Zhu Kun’s help.

Hun Tiandi recovered and used the eight pieces of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade to summon a projection that revealed the location of the cave abode. As the three clans prepared to ambush him near Jia Nan Academy, Hun Tiandi sent the Hun Clan to search for terrain matching the projection.

• Zhu Kun joined Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin to discuss preparations after Hun Tiandi escaped with the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Xiao Yan reunited Gu Xun'er with Xiao Zhan, and Lan Hong revealed that the cave abode lay beneath Jia Nan Academy's magma space.
• Lan Hong proposed sealing the area around Jia Nan Academy, but Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin instead chose to bring their clans' elites there and wait for Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi recovered in the Soul Realm and activated all eight jade pieces, summoning a projection of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor.
• Void Devouring Flame deciphered the terrain shown in the projection, and Hun Tiandi ordered the Hun Clan to search for a matching location.

Hun Tiandi led the Hun Clan to the Black Corner Region to find Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, where Xiao Yan and the three allied clans ambushed him. The battle erupted across the region, and Void Devouring Flame searched for the cave entrance while fighting Xiao Yan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin.

• Hun Tiandi learned the cave's location was in the Black Corner Region and ordered the area cleared, but his subordinate warned that it belonged to Emperor Venerable.
• Hun Tiandi and Void Devouring Flame traveled to the Black Corner Region, where Hun Tiandi realized Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and the three clans' elites were waiting for him.
• Hun Tiandi summoned the Hun Clan army, while Lan Hong explained that both sides risked devastating losses and Hun Tiandi could still reach the cave entrance.
• Hun Tiandi fought Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun, while Void Devouring Flame battled Xiao Yan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin as the clan armies clashed.
• Hun Tiandi and Gu Yuan devastated the surrounding mountains, and Void Devouring Flame began laughing as he searched for the cave entrance while fighting.

Void Devouring Flame and Hun Tiandi raced to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, with Xiao Yan and the others following. At the cave gates, Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's projection appeared and took all eight pieces of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade from Hun Tiandi.

• Void Devouring Flame fled toward Jia Nan Academy while Xiao Yan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin tried to stop him, but Void Devouring Flame used his Emperor Realm Soul avatar to break free.
• Hun Tiandi formed a soul attack that wounded many fighters, then left part of his power behind and pursued Void Devouring Flame as Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun followed.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Hun Tiandi destroyed the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, revealing the magma passage, and he and Void Devouring Flame descended into it.
• Hun Tiandi and Void Devouring Flame fought through the Fire Lizard Clan and reached Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, but they could not find a way to open its gates.
• Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's projection appeared before Hun Tiandi, Void Devouring Flame, Zhu Kun, Gu Yuan, and Xiao Yan, then took all eight pieces of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade from Hun Tiandi.

Hun Tiandi and the others entered the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode, where they found the Heavenly Flame Plaza and learned more about the legacy's trials. The group encountered the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, who appeared in the form of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor and addressed Void Devouring Flame.

• Hun Tiandi and Void Devouring Flame rushed into the opened cave abode, followed by Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Yan, while Lan Hong spoke with the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor projection.
• The group passed through the Heavenly Flame Plaza, where Gu Yuan recognized the empty pillar marked Void Devouring Flame and asked if Void Devouring Flame had escaped from there.
• Lan Yi recognized the pillar marked Netherworld Lotus Fire, and Lan Hong comforted her before asking the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor about the cave abode's design.
• The Tuoshe Ancient Emperor explained that the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and Zhu Kun were trials, and that the ancient jades contained ways to counter pills.
• Hun Tiandi and Xiao Yan's group reached a giant statue, where the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill appeared in a physical body and asked Void Devouring Flame why he had come so late.

The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill fought Hun Tiandi, Void Devouring Flame, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun while Xiao Yan and the others watched. After Xiao Yan’s Medicine Transformation Palm failed, Void Devouring Flame trapped the pill with the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Pill Transformation Divine Art, and Hun Tiandi tried to protect him from Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun.

• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill rejected the group’s offer to take him out and attacked Hun Tiandi, prompting Void Devouring Flame, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun to join the fight.
• Lan Hong’s group arrived and watched as Zi Yan cheered for Zhu Kun and the observers discussed the vast gap between a Half-Emperor and peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan struck the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill with the Yao Clan’s Medicine Transformation Palm, but the pill wounded him and then forced all four opponents to withstand his Emperor Pill Palm.
• Void Devouring Flame surrounded the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill with four Pill Transformation Rings and began using the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s Pill Transformation Divine Art.
• Hun Tiandi blocked Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun while they tried to stop Void Devouring Flame, then detonated Ninth-grade Treasure Pills to buy him time.

Hun Tiandi swallowed the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and escaped the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode with Void Devouring Flame after fighting Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, and Xiao Yan. Lan Hong then questioned the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor about Origin Qi and learned that the ancient Dou Dis had sealed the Dou Qi Continent to protect it from the Outer Realm Demons.

• Hun Tiandi blocked Zhu Kun's Dragon Emperor Fist while Void Devouring Flame completed refining the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill.
• Hun Tiandi swallowed the pill, gained immense power, and attacked Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun.
• Xiao Yan disrupted Hun Tiandi's escape with an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus, but Hun Tiandi and Void Devouring Flame still fled through a Space Passage.
• Xiao Yan took a healing pill, while Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun reacted to Hun Tiandi's threat to their clans.
• Lan Hong asked the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor about the Origin Qi he had used to become a Dou Di.
• The Tuoshe Ancient Emperor explained that ancient Dou Dis had sealed the Dou Qi Continent to hide it from the Outer Realm Demons.

Lan Hong revealed Hun Tiandi’s plan to use the Spirit Devouring Absolute Life Array to sacrifice the Central Plains and refine the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, prompting the allied clans to destroy the Soul Hall’s preparations. Xiao Yan recovered and, still uncertain how to stop Hun Tiandi, went with Gu Xun'er to seek advice from Xiao Xuan.

• Lan Hong explained that the Dou Qi Continent was an abandoned land and warned that Hun Tiandi’s plan depended on the Spirit Devouring Absolute Life Array.
• Lan Hong sent Cai Lin, Little Doctor Immortal, and Qing Lin to alert the Central Continent Alliance, while Zhu Kun informed the Ancient Clan, Yan Clan, and Lei Clan.
• Gu Yuan, Xiao Yan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin agreed to destroy every former Soul Hall base, and the four forces spent a month attacking those locations.
• Xiao Yan recovered from his injuries and advanced to Late Stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, while Gu Xun'er told him that the Soul Hall’s preparations had been destroyed.
• Xiao Yan considered returning to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave Abode for its dangerous opportunity, then brought Gu Xun'er to the Heavenly Tomb to ask Xiao Xuan for advice.