Chapter Summaries

Yun Liu faced the rampaging Falling Heart Flame after it broke through the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower’s seal, using his Taiyin Divine Flame to fight it. He revealed the flame’s true form and prepared to subdue it after Su Qian assured him the academy would not object.

• The Falling Heart Flame erupted with greatly increased power, and Su Qian ordered the elders to retreat while Yun Liu said he would try to subdue it.
• Su Qian recognized the Taiyin Divine Flame in Yun Liu’s eyes and agreed that the elders would assist as the Falling Heart Flame shattered the tower’s energy barrier.
• Yun Liu summoned his Taiyin Divine Flame, endured the Falling Heart Flame’s attack, and broke through from five-star to Six-star Dou Huang before striking back with the Nine Yang Burning Heaven Art.
• The battle filled the tower’s lower floor with lava, forcing the elders to evacuate; outside, Liu Fei worried that Yun Liu had not emerged.
• Yun Liu detected and struck the Falling Heart Flame after it reappeared behind him, weakening its body until its true flame form was revealed.
• Yun Liu moved to seize the exposed flame and asked whether the academy would make trouble for him; Su Qian promised that subduing it would earn him merit instead.

Flowing Cloud subdued Falling Heart Flame in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and returned to its magma depths to cultivate and explore. Guided by the flame, he discovered a transparent barrier containing the remains of a Dou Zun and another Falling Heart Flame.

• Flowing Cloud seized Falling Heart Flame, endured its attacks, and suppressed it with the Nine Yang Burning Heaven Art.
• Falling Heart Flame tried to acknowledge Flowing Cloud as its master, but he rejected it and kept it subdued within his body.
• Su Qian congratulated Flowing Cloud and agreed that Jia Nan Academy would not demand compensation for the flame; Flowing Cloud promised to repay the Academy in the future.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the tower with Su Qian's permission and descended through the magma toward Falling Heart Flame's birthplace.
• Following Falling Heart Flame's directions, Flowing Cloud found a transparent barrier holding a Dou Zun's white skeleton and a formless, transparent flame.

Flowing Cloud battled Flame Lizardmen in the magma, collecting and devouring their Crimson Beads until his cultivation neared the Eight-star Dou Huang level. He entered the transparent barrier and confronted the illusory elderly figure that emerged from the skeleton.

• Flowing Cloud killed a Flame Lizardman and discovered a Crimson Bead whose energy strengthened his cultivation.
• Flowing Cloud fought off hundreds of Flame Lizardmen, collected their Crimson Beads, and advanced from Six-star Dou Huang to a level approaching Eight-star Dou Huang.
• A powerful Flame Lizardman leader attacked Flowing Cloud, but he killed it and took its larger Crimson Bead before the remaining lizardmen retreated.
• Flowing Cloud passed through the transparent barrier with the Falling Heart Flame, while several blood-red figures arrived too late to stop him.
• Inside the hazy space, Flowing Cloud addressed the skeleton, and an illusory elderly figure formed from its white light.

Flowing Cloud escaped the Lava World with the young Falling Heart Flame and gave it to Su Qian to restore the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. Back at the Myriad Beast Palace, he tasked Heavenly Fire Venerable with protecting his avatar during training in the Central Plains.

• Flowing Cloud discovered Heavenly Fire Venerable, learned how he had been injured by two Falling Heart Flames and the lava creatures, and secured his agreement to serve for half a year.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable concealed Flowing Cloud's movements as he escaped the Lava World, while a distant pillar of light opened like a pair of eyes.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the academy and gave Su Qian the young Falling Heart Flame, which could restore the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Flowing Cloud told Su Qian he would be leaving, then flew to a cave outside Peace Town and reunited with his true body at the Myriad Beast Palace.
• Flowing Cloud offered Heavenly Fire Venerable a pill to restore his Soul Power and ordered him to protect Young Master Yun Liu during training in the Central Plains.

Flowing Cloud consumed the Ninth-grade Cycle of Life-Locking Pill and survived its overwhelming energy by using a Dou Zun Experience Card, then began sensing Space Power. Meanwhile, his clone reached Dou Zong, traveled to Tianya City, and entered the Space Wormhole bound for the Central Plains.

• Flowing Cloud swallowed the Cycle of Life-Locking Pill, broke through to Dou Zong, and used a Dou Zun Experience Card to keep the pill's energy from destroying him.
• Mo Jiu, the Explosive Flame Twin-headed Wolf, and the Ice Flame Celestial Bull mistook Flowing Cloud's temporary Dou Zun aura for a breakthrough, and Flowing Cloud used the card's remaining time to sense Space Power.
• Flowing Cloud's clone rode Little Black toward Tianya City, reached the peak of Nine-star Dou Huang, and entered secluded cultivation to break through to Dou Zong.
• At Tianya City, Flowing Cloud ignored the flying-beast restriction and headed for the Space Wormhole, prompting the Luo family ancestor to intervene and then defer to him.
• Flowing Cloud gave the Luo family ancestor a jade bottle, entered the activated Space Wormhole with the Myriad Poison Beast, and adapted to the Space Passage.

Flowing Cloud refined pills while traveling through a Space Wormhole, but a failed Seventh-grade Pill triggered a dangerous encounter with a Space Storm. With Heavenly Fire Venerable protecting Little Black, Flowing Cloud reached the exit, though a pursuing wave of Space Power followed them through.

• The Luo family ancestor wondered where Flowing Cloud, a young Dou Zong, had come from as Flowing Cloud and the Myriad Poison Beast entered the Space Wormhole.
• Flowing Cloud attempted to refine a Seventh-grade Pill during the journey, but the pill exploded and shook the passage.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable explained that flaws in the spatial walls were more likely to blame for the damaged passage and warned that a Space Storm could appear.
• When a Space Storm formed, Heavenly Fire Venerable offered to protect Flowing Cloud if he abandoned Little Black, but Flowing Cloud charged toward the storm and told him to protect the beast instead.
• Flowing Cloud and Little Black raced for the exit as silver Space Power pursued them, and Heavenly Fire Venerable boosted their speed so they could escape through the passage.

Flowing Cloud and the Myriad Poison Beast escaped the Space Wormhole with Heavenly Fire Venerable’s help and arrived in the Mittel Northern Region. While Flowing Cloud refined a Form Transformation Pill for Little Black, Heavenly Fire Venerable attacked a Seventh-tier Magical Beast that threatened to interrupt him, but Flowing Cloud called for him to stop.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable used his power to speed Flowing Cloud and the Myriad Poison Beast through the wormhole exit, then admitted he had spent energy protecting them.
• Flowing Cloud promised to provide Heavenly Fire Venerable with a suitable body within three months and learned they had arrived in the Mittel Northern Region.
• Flowing Cloud planned to obtain the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body and headed toward the nearest city.
• Flowing Cloud stopped in a secluded valley to refine a Form Transformation Pill so Little Black could travel without attracting attention.
• A Seventh-tier Magical Beast approached the valley, and Heavenly Fire Venerable struck and wounded it before Flowing Cloud shouted for him to stop.

Flowing Cloud completed a Form Transformation Pill, arranged an auction in Bone Melting City, and tested his new ability to travel through space. He arrived above the city with Little Black and a captive Seventh-grade Magical Beast, where the Bone Melting Sect’s white-robed elder welcomed him.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable spared the captured Seventh-grade Magical Beast after Flowing Cloud asked him to, while crowds of humans and Magical Beasts gathered to watch the pill refinement.
• Flowing Cloud completed the Form Transformation Pill and announced he would auction it and other pills in five days at Bone Melting City.
• Flowing Cloud fed the pill to the Myriad Poison Beast, who transformed into a child named Little Black and gained strength comparable to a peak Dou Huang.
• Flowing Cloud opened spatial cracks to travel toward Bone Melting City, leaving Heavenly Fire Venerable and Little Black to follow with the captive beast.
• Flowing Cloud's group arrived above Bone Melting City, where the white-robed elder from the Bone Melting Sect flew out to greet him.

Flowing Cloud held an auction in Bone Melting City, where Little Black sold Qi Long, a Seventh-grade Shapeshifted Magical Beast, and the system rewarded Flowing Cloud with an Early Ninth-grade Crimson Flame Sky Bear. The bear appeared beside Flowing Cloud’s true body in the Myriad Beast Palace, and Flowing Cloud sent Mo Jiu to the Mittel Northern Region.

• Flowing Cloud inspected the auction site with the white-robed elder and gave his name as Yun Liu.
• Crowds gathered in Bone Melting City for Flowing Cloud’s auction, where Little Black presented the imprisoned Qi Long as the first item.
• Bidders competed for Qi Long until the Bone Melting Sect Master offered one hundred million Gold Coins and three Fifth-grade Pills.
• The system rewarded Flowing Cloud with an Early Ninth-grade Crimson Flame Sky Bear after Little Black completed the sale.
• The Crimson Flame Sky Bear appeared beside Flowing Cloud’s true body, and Flowing Cloud ordered Mo Jiu to go to the Mittel Northern Region.

At the Bone Melting City auction, Flowing Cloud traded several Seventh-grade Pills and sold five fire-attribute energy beads, receiving powerful returned rewards from the System. As bidding for the final Dou Zong Pill intensified, a mocking voice from the sky interrupted the auction.

• Little Black auctioned several Seventh-grade Pills, and Flowing Cloud received Gold Coins, lower-grade pills, and Magical Beast Cores in exchange.
• Little Black sold five crimson Flame Lizard Clan energy beads to the Lin Family head, triggering System returns that gave Flowing Cloud energy beads of much higher ranks.
• Flowing Cloud inspected a Ninth-grade energy bead in the System Space but decided to wait until his realm had stabilized before absorbing it.
• Bone Melting Sect, the Han Family, and the Lin Family competed fiercely for the Dou Zong Pill, offering valuable pills and cultivation methods.
• Little Black warned bidders not to offer pills that had just been auctioned, and an arrogant laugh suddenly sounded from the sky.

Black Robe of the Hall of Souls attacked Flowing Cloud’s auction in Bone Melting City, killing two Dou Huang experts and declaring Yun Liu his target. Little Black provoked him over the Dou Zong Pill, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable appeared to block Black Robe’s attack, leaving them poised to fight.

• Black Robe appeared at the auction and killed two Dou Huang experts, devouring their Soul Bodies with his chains.
• Black Robe announced that he had come for Yun Liu, while Elder Shen and the other guests refused to challenge him; the Bone Melting Sect Master offered to protect Yun Liu.
• Yun Liu said that a mere Heavenly Tier Protector could not cause much trouble.
• Black Robe demanded Little Black’s Dou Zong Pill, then attacked him with a black spear after Little Black refused.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable blocked Black Robe’s spear, and Black Robe revealed that he had expected both Yun Liu and a powerful Soul Body to be present.

Heavenly Fire Venerable fought the Black Robe while the Bone Melting Sect Leader rallied the experts in Bone Melting City to attack the Hall of Souls envoy. Flowing Cloud revealed his formidable strength and helped drive the Black Robe to flee, then sent the Falling Heart Flame to Heavenly Fire Venerable as the pursuit began.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable exchanged blows with the Black Robe, who tried to exploit his opponent's Soul Body.
• The Bone Melting Sect Leader persuaded the experts remaining in the plaza to attack the Black Robe, forcing him to defend against assaults from both the plaza and Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• The Black Robe filled the sky with black mist and vanished, but Flowing Cloud appeared behind the Bone Melting Sect Leader and punched the hidden attacker away.
• The Black Robe recognized Flowing Cloud as a threat and fled, promising to seize his soul the next time he came to the Northern Region.
• Flowing Cloud sent the Falling Heart Flame to Heavenly Fire Venerable, who vanished from his position together with the flame.

Protector Zhong and Protector Cui encountered Heavenly Fire Venerable while fleeing Bone Melting City, and the two Hall of Souls Protectors attacked him for his powerful soul. Protector Zhong abandoned Cui when Heavenly Fire Venerable unleashed the Falling Heart Flame, leaving Cui to be killed as Zhong escaped.

• Protector Zhong told Protector Cui that a Dou Zun Soul Body had appeared in Bone Melting City and refused to return there with him.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable caught up with the Protectors using space traversal, and Protector Zhong confirmed his identity as the Dou Zun soul.
• Protector Cui urged them to attack Heavenly Fire Venerable, and Protector Zhong agreed while secretly weighing the risk that Yun Liu might return.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable unleashed the Falling Heart Flame, and Protector Zhong fled while Protector Cui tried to defend himself.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable killed Protector Cui, collected his Storage Ring, and seized his Soul Power.

Flowing Cloud established the Heaven and Earth Alliance in Bone Melting City, gathering experts who had opposed the Hall of Souls. After Elder Shen was mocked and left, the Heavenly Fire Venerable returned from pursuing Black Robe without finding him.

• More than a dozen experts, including Fu Fan, asked to follow Flowing Cloud, who agreed and founded the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
• Flowing Cloud chose Bone Melting City as the alliance’s base and designated its central plaza for deliberations.
• Elder Shen arrived with Wind Lightning Pavilion members, but alliance members mocked him, and he left after Flowing Cloud ignored his complaint.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable returned after killing an Eight-star Dou Zong who had served as Black Robe’s scapegoat, but he had lost Black Robe’s trail.
• Flowing Cloud said Black Robe would likely seek them out again because of the Hall of Souls’ usual methods.

Flowing Cloud established the Heaven and Earth Alliance in the Bone Melting Sect’s former manor while Heavenly Fire Venerable refined Protector Cui’s soul with the Falling Heart Flame. As Flowing Cloud entered seclusion to refine a Seventh-grade Pill, reports spread that the Alliance planned to challenge the Wind Lightning Pavilion.

• Fu Fan placed the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s initial members in the Bone Melting Sect’s manor and replaced its gate plaque with the Alliance’s name.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable tried to learn about the faction behind Flowing Cloud, then began refining Protector Cui’s soul after Flowing Cloud warned him not to risk damaging himself.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable used the Falling Heart Flame to burn away Protector Cui’s resistance and started refining the remaining black mist into pure Soul Power.
• Flowing Cloud entered seclusion to refine a Seventh-grade Pill, and three days passed.
• News of the Heaven and Earth Alliance’s establishment and its rumored challenge to the Wind Lightning Pavilion spread through the Mittel Northern Region as conflicts between the factions mounted.

Lin Tianfu fought Wang Kui over the Lin Family’s Spirit Herb field and wounded him before a Wind Lightning Pavilion elder intervened. As the Heaven and Earth Alliance faced growing pressure, Heavenly Fire Venerable completed his refinement, and a silver-eyed stranger arrived demanding Lin Feng surrender Wang Kui’s attacker.

• Wang Kui brought two coerced elders forward to claim the herb field belonged to the Wang Family, provoking Lin Tianfu and his companions into battle.
• Lin Tianfu revealed his three-star Dou Emperor strength and wounded Wang Kui despite his Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Elder Mo rescued Wang Kui and warned Lin Feng that the Wind Lightning Pavilion would not let the matter go.
• Heaven and Earth Alliance elders complained about the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s growing aggression while Heavenly Fire Venerable finished refining and swallowed a mass of chaotic gas.
• Five days later, a silver-eyed man arrived above the Heaven and Earth Alliance and demanded that Lin Feng hand over the person who injured Wang Kui.

Tian Lei Zi demanded that the Heaven and Earth Alliance hand over Lin Tianfu, who had injured Wang Kui, but Fu Fan and Lin Feng refused despite his threats. As Tian Lei Zi attacked, Heavenly Fire Venerable appeared to confront him.

• Tian Lei Zi arrived and demanded that Lin Feng hand over Lin Tianfu for injuring Wang Kui.
• Fu Fan offered three sixth-tier medicinal pills as compensation, but Tian Lei Zi insisted that Lin Tianfu come with him.
• Fu Fan and Lin Feng refused to surrender Lin Tianfu, and Tian Lei Zi pierced their combined defense with a lightning attack.
• Lin Tianfu stepped forward and offered himself, prompting Tian Lei Zi to rush toward him.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable appeared between them and reached toward Tian Lei Zi as lightning gathered around him.

Heavenly Fire Venerable defeated Tian Lei Zi and pursued him after he fled, ultimately forcing him to use a jade token that destroyed his body and soul. Heavenly Fire Venerable found the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body Dou Technique in Tian Lei Zi’s Storage Ring and was pleased that Yun Liu would owe him a favor.

• Tian Lei Zi’s lightning spear attack was neutralized by Heavenly Fire Venerable, so he summoned a Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body and fled while the duplicate tried to delay his pursuer.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable destroyed the duplicate and gathered its scattered phantom lights before pursuing Tian Lei Zi.
• Lin Feng, Fu Fan, and Che Chunqiu discussed Heavenly Fire Venerable’s strength and praised the Alliance Leader and Elder Yao as foundations of the Heaven and Earth Alliance.
• Tian Lei Zi hid in a forest, but Heavenly Fire Venerable tricked him into revealing himself and trapped him with a Spatial Prison.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable struck Tian Lei Zi, who crushed a jade token that turned him and his soul to ashes.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable inspected Tian Lei Zi’s Storage Ring, found the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body Dou Technique, and said Yun Liu would owe him a favor.

Flowing Cloud completed a medicinal pill and entered its Pill Lightning to absorb the lightning with the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Art. After the clouds disappeared, he emerged having tempered his body and increased his Dou Qi cultivation.

• A silver-robed elder learned Fei Tian had run into trouble and led hundreds of Wind Thunder East Pavilion disciples toward Bone Melting City.
• Flowing Cloud's pill triggered Pill Lightning over the Heaven and Earth Alliance estate, and Heavenly Fire Venerable returned after claiming he had killed Tian Lei Zi.
• Flowing Cloud told Heavenly Fire Venerable to send everyone away from the clouds, then flew into the thunderclouds as the lightning gathered.
• Flowing Cloud grabbed the lightning python and absorbed its power, alarming the Heaven and Earth Alliance members and Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• After the lightning vanished, Flowing Cloud emerged with his body tempered and his Dou Qi cultivation increased, and the sky cleared.

Flowing Cloud explained that Heavenly Fire Venerable would need a higher-grade pill for a stronger resurrection, then decided to auction the Yin Yang Life Soul Pill and Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body. Two days later, Thunder Venerable arrived in Bone Melting City and clashed with Heavenly Fire Venerable, leaving Flowing Cloud rushing toward their battle.

• Flowing Cloud showed Heavenly Fire Venerable the Yin Yang Life Soul Pill and explained that a high-grade Eighth-grade pill could grant him a stronger new body than the Seventh-grade pill.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable chose to wait until Flowing Cloud could refine the higher-grade pill, and Flowing Cloud announced that he would auction the Yin Yang Life Soul Pill and Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.
• Two days later, a silver-robed man investigated Fei Tian's disappearance and headed to Bone Melting City, where Flowing Cloud recognized him as likely Thunder Venerable.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable confronted Thunder Venerable, admitted killing Fei Tian, and attacked him with a Soul Power sword infused with Falling Heart Flame.
• Thunder Venerable countered with a lightning sphere, and Flowing Cloud rushed out of the Heaven and Earth Alliance as their attacks collided.