Chapter Summaries

After fighting the Amethyst Winged Lion King, Zhang Tian returned to guard Xiao Yan as he refined the Purple Flame, then went to meet Dou Wangs drawn by the battle. He introduced himself as the Yun Lan Sect’s Second Elder, while the gathered experts recognized the sect’s growing influence and left wary of the empire’s changing balance.

• Yao Lao gave Zhang Tian Fifth Rank healing pills and marveled at his rapid cultivation, while Zhang Tian said he might reach Dou Zong within a year or two.
• Zhang Tian learned that Xiao Yan had begun refining the Purple Flame and discovered that the Amethyst Winged Lion King Cub seemed to have inherited a Beast Flame.
• As Xiao Yan endured the painful refinement, Yao Lao warned Zhang Tian that several people were approaching, and the two flew out to investigate.
• Zhang Tian met Yan Shi, Feng Li, Xing Gang, and other Dou Wangs, identified himself as the Yun Lan Sect’s Second Elder, and explained that he had fought the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• The gathered experts invited Zhang Tian to visit their factions and considered how the Yun Lan Sect’s growing strength might unsettle the Gama Empire’s balance.

Xiao Yan refined the Purple Flame and advanced to Eight-Star Dou Shi, while Zhang Tian and Yao Lao gave him a Dou Qi-suppressing Mysterious Heavy Ruler for training. Zhang Tian revealed he would soon leave the Gama Empire, and he and Xiao Yan planned to visit the Yun Lan Sect to annul Xiao Yan’s engagement.

• Xiao Yan refined the Purple Flame, advanced to Eight-Star Dou Shi, and raised the Flame Mantra to Yellow Rank High.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the Mysterious Heavy Ruler, which weighed a thousand jun and suppressed the Dou Qi of whoever carried it.
• Zhang Tian told Yao Lao that he might leave the Gama Empire for an extended time to handle some matters.
• Xiao Yan showed reluctance about Zhang Tian leaving, but became eager when Zhang Tian proposed going to the Yun Lan Sect to annul his engagement.
• Yao Lao reminded Xiao Yan that even if he had been a Dou Shi a year earlier, stronger cultivators could still have looked down on him.

Zhang Tian and Yao Lao trained Xiao Yan for half a month, improving his combat ability before taking him to the Yun Lan Sect. Xiao Yan announced that he had come to cancel his engagement, leaving Yun Yun stunned by his strength as an Eight-Star Dou Shi.

• Yao Lao and Zhang Tian began training Xiao Yan against third-rank magical beasts, and Xiao Yan lost his first fight against a Fire Salamander.
• Zhang Tian sparred with Xiao Yan and taught him to track an opponent's movements with his soul and mind.
• During the half-month of training, Xiao Yan grew strong enough to suppress a Three-Star Great Dou Shi with his Seven-Star Dou Shi strength, though his progress in sensing attacks remained limited.
• Zhang Tian brought Xiao Yan to the Yun Lan Sect, where Xiao Yan told Yun Yun he had come to cancel his engagement.
• Yun Yun looked at Xiao Yan in disbelief when she realized he had reached the Eight-Star Dou Shi level.

Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran’s attempt to revive their engagement and formally dissolved their marriage agreement with the Yun Lan Sect. Nalan Yanran learned Xiao Yan would enter the Life and Death Gate and resolved to train there too, while Xiao Yan left with Zhang Tian in good spirits.

• Yun Yun tried to arrange a marriage between Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, but Xiao Yan objected and asked her to dissolve their agreement.
• Zhang Tian offered a tier-six Magic Core and Symbiotic Amethyst Source as compensation, and Xiao Yan said they would return to borrow the Life and Death Gate when he reached Great Dou Shi.
• After Xiao Yan and Zhang Tian left, Nalan Yanran learned the reason Xiao Yan would enter the Life and Death Gate and decided she wanted to train there as well.
• Yun Yun agreed that Nalan Yanran could go to Zhang Tian for guidance after she reached Great Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan thanked Zhang Tian for supporting and guiding him, and the two joked about Zhang Tian’s age, relationships, and future children.

Zhang Tian began guiding Nalan Yanran’s cultivation after Yun Yun asked him to help, giving her Symbiotic Amethyst Source and Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid. He left her to refine them on Yunlan Mountain as he prepared to depart with Yun Yun for the Tagor Desert.

• Nalan Yanran visited Zhang Tian with bedding and nervously asked him to guide her, saying Yun Yun had sent her.
• Zhang Tian agreed to teach Nalan Yanran for a month and gave her a piece of Symbiotic Amethyst Source to improve her cultivation and aptitude.
• Zhang Tian prepared a bath of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and instructed Nalan Yanran to refine the Symbiotic Amethyst Source in it.
• Nalan Yanran struggled through intense pain as she refined the source, and Zhang Tian explained that the medicinal liquid would help repair her meridians.
• Zhang Tian told Nalan Yanran to continue using the liquid daily and left to find Yun Yun before their trip to the Tagor Desert.

Zhang Tian and Yun Yun searched the Tagor Desert for the Azure Lotus Core Flame, and Zhang Tian eventually found it beneath a magma lake. As he prepared to take it, the Flame Emperor Mantra and Strange Fire Plaza showed him an ancient vision of the flame’s origin and destruction.

• Zhang Tian and Yun Yun reached a frontier town near the Tagor Desert and followed the Flame Emperor Mantra’s faint reaction into the desert.
• After weeks of searching, Zhang Tian found firm ground, opened a cave entrance, and discovered an underground magma lake.
• Zhang Tian entered the magma and subdued a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, then located the Azure Lotus Core Flame at the lake’s deepest point.
• As Zhang Tian prepared to pluck the Azure Lotus Core Flame, the Flame Emperor Mantra and Strange Fire Plaza activated and showed him its ancient battle against a deep-red flame.
• Zhang Tian witnessed the Azure Lotus Core Flame’s source being devoured and its final eruption turning the surrounding land into scorched desert.

Zhang Tian captured the Azure Lotus Core Flame and later found Qing Lin unconscious in the desert, sending Yun Yun away with her while he confronted two pursuers. He left the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor badly wounded, but the battle was still underway.

• Zhang Tian subdued the Azure Lotus Core Flame, added it to the Strange Fire Plaza, and demonstrated the flame-enhanced Wave Splitting Seal.
• Yun Yun and Zhang Tian headed back toward the Yun Lan Sect after hearing that Medusa Queen was searching for a strange flame.
• A woman in green and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor flew toward the Tagor Desert, while Zhang Tian and Yun Yun found the unconscious Qing Lin there.
• Zhang Tian sent Yun Yun away with Qing Lin and stayed behind to face the woman in green and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.
• The woman in green attacked Zhang Tian with venomous snakes, but he destroyed them and severed one of the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor's wings with Azure Lotus Core Flame.

Zhang Tian defeated the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and destroyed its hidden Three-Winged Black Serpent form. He then considered the serpent’s potential for evolution and wondered whether an unknown Heavenly Flame had reached the Dou Di level, leaving Dou Di Space as a possible source of answers.

• Zhang Tian severed one of the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s wings, pierced it with the Dragon Yin Halberd, and nearly cut it in half with the Phoenix Cry Sword.
• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor attacked Zhang Tian with its maw and tail, but he tore its body apart and burned it to ash with Azure Lotus Core Flame.
• Zhang Tian recovered the serpent emperor’s horn and left the Tagor Desert, while a tiny Three-Winged Black Serpent emerged from the sand and planned to recover its strength.
• Zhang Tian returned and burned the Three-Winged Black Serpent, explaining that he had suspected it would survive.
• Zhang Tian reflected on the serpent’s possible evolution and the power of Azure Lotus Core Flame, then wondered if an unknown Heavenly Flame had reached the Dou Di level and could be found through Dou Di Space.

Zhang Tian reunited with Yun Yun in the Gama Empire, and they decided Qing Lin would become Yun Yun’s disciple. As they headed home, Yun Yun learned how powerful Zhang Tian had become, then teased him about marrying into her family.

• Zhang Tian caught up with Yun Yun and found Qing Lin awake, whose unusual eyes carried the Azure Serpent Three Blossom Eyes bloodline.
• Zhang Tian suggested Yun Yun take Qing Lin as a disciple, and Yun Yun agreed and comforted the girl.
• Zhang Tian teased Yun Yun about her age and slow cultivation, then revealed his Eight-Star Dou Emperor strength and astonished her.
• Zhang Tian warned Yun Yun to keep Nalan Yanran from distracting Xiao Yan and asked to be promoted to First Elder.
• Yun Yun proposed that Zhang Tian marry into her family, and he joked that she was after his body, making Qing Lin cough and Yun Yun protest.

Zhang Tian, Yun Yun, and Qing Lin were trapped in Bewitching Soul Valley, where Zhang Tian defeated the old ghost who coveted his Azure Lotus Core Flame. As they fought their way through the valley, Qing Lin turned the snake Magical Beasts against one another, and Zhang Tian spotted a Blood Dragon Fruit guarded by a mysterious pressure.

• Yun Yun and Zhang Tian sensed an ambush and stood back-to-back with Qing Lin as an old ghost's voice confused Yun Yun.
• Zhang Tian used the Azure Lotus Core Flame to reveal Bewitching Soul Valley, then located and killed the old ghost with the Phoenix Cry Sword and Vast Sea Seal, Ripple Calming Seal.
• Unable to escape the spatial passage, Zhang Tian led Yun Yun and Qing Lin down the valley path, where Magical Beasts attacked them.
• Qing Lin used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to make the valley's snake-type Magical Beasts fight one another.
• Zhang Tian spotted a Blood Dragon Fruit on a cliff, flew toward it, and felt a powerful pressure threaten his soul.

Zhang Tian, Yun Yun, and Qing Lin emerged from a spatial passage into the Shang Qing Spring Sect's forbidden grounds and were confronted by its disciples. When the sect's elders attacked after learning where the trio had appeared, Zhang Tian and Yun Yun fought back, leaving several elders injured as reinforcements arrived.

• Zhang Tian picked a Blood Dragon Fruit, then led Yun Yun and Qing Lin through a spatial passage into a valley belonging to the Shang Qing Spring Sect.
• Xue Qingfu and the sect's disciples accused the trio of trespassing, and one woman smashed Zhang Tian's offered bottle of fourth-tier pills.
• Gongsun Yuwen initially tried to resolve the dispute peacefully, but the disciples insisted the trio had entered the sect's ancestral forbidden grounds, and Zhang Tian and Yun Yun prepared to fight.
• Zhang Tian overwhelmed Gongsun Yuwen, while Yun Yun struck at him and the sect's Third Elder lost an arm trying to intervene.
• The First, Second, Third, and Teaching Elders attacked Zhang Tian, but he shattered their techniques, wounded the Teaching Elder, and forced the Third Elder to retreat after damaging his saber.

Zhang Tian killed Nie Tian and battled Shangguan Bubai, who lost an arm before drawing the Shang Qing Spring Sect’s cursed ancestral weapon. As Shangguan Bubai prepared to fight with the Dao Rule Ruler, Zhang Tian challenged whether the sacred weapon could function without Dou Qi.

• Zhang Tian tore apart Nie Tian’s beast-blood transformation and killed him with the Dragon Yin Halberd.
• Shangguan Bubai arrived as a Seven Star Dou Zong and attacked Zhang Tian, while he ordered Xiahou to capture Yun Yun.
• Zhang Tian and Shangguan Bubai clashed, and the Phoenix Cry Sword severed Shangguan Bubai’s left arm.
• The Shang Qing Spring Sect’s elders and disciples begged Shangguan Bubai to use the ancestral weapon, and he pulled the bloodstained Dao Rule Ruler from his back.
• Zhang Tian recognized the ruler as a cursed sacred weapon and gathered water-aspected Dou Qi as he challenged its power.

Zhang Tian survived Shangguan Bubai’s devastating attack and escaped the ruined Shang Qing Spring Sect with Yun Yun, while Tan Xiaofei revealed his revenge plot and fought First Elder Nie Cang. Tan Xiaofei was consumed by his Purple Flame, but a mysterious streak of light reached Zhang Tian as he slept.

• Shangguan Bubai struck Zhang Tian with the Dao Rule Ruler, but Zhang Tian pierced his heart with the Phoenix Cry Sword and unleashed seven seals against the ruler’s final attack.
• Zhang Tian emerged from the destroyed sect alive, then collapsed against Yun Yun and told her to use her Dou Qi wings to flee.
• As Nie Cang reached for Yun Yun, Tan Xiaofei attacked him with Purple Flame and revealed that he had infiltrated the sect to avenge the women and innocents its members had harmed.
• Tan Xiaofei disclosed that his real name was Tan Xiaofei and that he had found the Qingxu Dao Decree, but Nie Cang overpowered him in their fight.
• Tan Xiaofei tried to trap Nie Cang in his Purple Flame, but Nie Cang escaped as the flames consumed Tan Xiaofei; a streak of light flew from Tan Xiaofei to the sleeping Zhang Tian.

Xiao Yan worried that Zhang Tian had been missing for nearly a month and trained unsuccessfully with Eight Extremes Collapse. When Xiao Yan developed pain below his dantian, Yao Lao suspected it was connected to Zhang Tian being injured, leaving Xiao Yan anxiously hoping his master would return.

• Xiao Yan struggled to bring out Eight Extremes Collapse's full power, and Yao Lao said his troubled heart was affecting his training.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that Zhang Tian had been gone nearly a month and that he felt restless and had pain below his dantian.
• Yao Lao teased Xiao Yan about the pain before concluding that it might reflect something happening to Zhang Tian.
• Xiao Yan feared Zhang Tian and Yun Yun might have encountered the Medusa Queen in the Tagor Desert, but Yao Lao dismissed her as no threat to Zhang Tian.
• Xiao Yan felt another sharp burst of pain and tearfully begged Zhang Tian to return.

After waking in a cave near the Shang Qing Spring Sect, Zhang Tian found himself gravely injured and tried to rest while Yun Yun and Qing Lin stayed with him. Yun Yun flirted with him as she claimed to check his wounds, and the chapter ended with her drawing an Azure Longsword while Zhang Tian called for Qing Lin’s help.

• Zhang Tian woke in the cave, and Yun Yun and Qing Lin were relieved to see him conscious.
• Zhang Tian assessed his severe internal injuries and asked Yun Yun to gather firewood while Qing Lin rested.
• Yun Yun returned with fruit and firewood, then dragged Zhang Tian aside and insisted on checking his injuries, causing him pain and embarrassment.
• Yun Yun teased Zhang Tian about his appearance and clothes, and Zhang Tian kissed her cheek before pretending to sleep.
• Yun Yun wrapped her arms around Zhang Tian, then drew an Azure Longsword as he cried out for Qing Lin to save him.

After recovering from his injuries, Zhang Tian discovered that Cang Er had left him a mark containing a Nine Nether Wind Flame Child Flame seed and clues to the Endless Abyss. He and Yun Yun searched for directions, and the chapter ended with Zhang Tian confronting a surviving elder amid the destroyed Hantian Sect ruins.

• Yun Yun gave Zhang Tian a piece of Symbiotic Amethyst Source, but he revealed he already had a much larger piece in his storage ring.
• While helping Zhang Tian bathe, Yun Yun noticed a purple flame-shaped mark on his waist, which Zhang Tian identified as a key containing information about the Nine Nether Wind Flame, the Endless Abyss, and a high-grade Di-class cultivation method.
• Zhang Tian and Yun Yun traveled to the Southeast Continent and attacked Hantian Sect after finding no route to the Endless Abyss in the mark.
• Yun Yun destroyed Hantian Sect, while Zhang Tian killed its half-step Dou Emperor Supreme Elder with a fire lotus.
• Zhang Tian questioned a surviving Dou Ling elder, the father of Hantian Sect's sect master, for directions to the Endless Abyss.

Zhang Tian and Yun Yun questioned Wang Shunmao about the route to the Endless Abyss, then Qing Lin’s curiosity drew them to a waterfall in the mountain valley. The three headed toward the waterfall’s interior, leaving their journey paused for a detour.

• Zhang Tian helped the wounded Wang Shunmao up and asked him for the route to the Endless Abyss.
• Wang Shunmao explained that they needed to travel south about three hundred li to the Demonic Sky Swamp, then go deeper to reach the Endless Abyss.
• Zhang Tian told Wang Shunmao to collect the sect’s valuables and leave, while Qing Lin admired the mountain scenery.
• Qing Lin ran down the valley toward the waterfall, and Zhang Tian caught her when she slipped from a branch.
• Qing Lin persuaded Yun Yun to explore behind the waterfall, and Zhang Tian went along reluctantly.

Zhang Tian and Qing Lin discovered the dying Cang Er in a hidden cavern, where he gave Zhang Tian the last of the Nine Nether Wind Flame’s Child Flame and a key to a Heavenly Flame cave dwelling. After Cang Er’s death, Zhang Tian and Yun Yun crossed the Endless Abyss, and Zhang Tian emerged with the complete Nine Nether Wind Flame.

• Zhang Tian pulled Qing Lin through the waterfall and saw that the disguised Yun Yun was actually the gravely injured Cang Er.
• Cang Er explained that the Qingxu Dao Decree required a kind, steadfast heart and gave Zhang Tian the remaining Nine Nether Wind Flame Child Flame.
• Cang Er asked Zhang Tian to burn him with the Azure Lotus Core Flame, and Zhang Tian granted his final wish.
• A purple-black scabbard survived the flames, and Zhang Tian learned it was the key to a Heavenly Flame cave dwelling in the Demonic Sky Swamp.
• Zhang Tian and Qing Lin joined Yun Yun and traveled through the Endless Abyss for a month and a half.
• Zhang Tian emerged from the Endless Abyss with the Nine Nether Wind Flame and his Phoenix Cry Sword at his side.

Zhang Tian defeated the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast with his heavenly flames and took its Magic Core and Beast Fire. He fled south, while a powerful attack erupted from the Endless Abyss and a pair of enormous golden eyes watched from within.

• Zhang Tian summoned the Strange Fire Giant and fought the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast after it transformed into a Qilin.
• The Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast broke through the giant’s attack, but Zhang Tian trapped it inside a Heavenly Flame Green Lotus.
• Zhang Tian bloomed the lotus, unleashing an explosion that destroyed a vast stretch of land and turned the Fire Eyed Jade Hoof Beast to ash.
• Zhang Tian collected the beast’s nearly melted Magic Core and Beast Fire, then fled south using Control Sword with Spirit.
• After Zhang Tian left, a powerful mass of Dou Qi burst from the Endless Abyss, where enormous golden eyes watched from the darkness.

Zhang Tian, Yun Yun, and Qing Lin escaped the Endless Abyss and traveled through several countries toward the Gama Empire. After crossing a neglected spatial wormhole, they reached the Otto Empire, where Zhang Tian prepared to continue alone while Yun Yun and Qing Lin stayed behind.

• Zhang Tian reunited with Yun Yun and Qing Lin, and the three flew out of the Land of the Far North after Zhang Tian killed a Two-Star Dou Zong who attacked them.
• Zhang Tian drove back an invading army’s Three-Star Dou Emperor commander, then endured a nationwide celebration before Yun Yun took the group away.
• After traveling through the desert, Zhang Tian, Yun Yun, and Qing Lin entered a spatial wormhole and spent more than half a month crossing it.
• The group emerged in the Otto Empire, three countries away from the Gama Empire, and Yun Yun asked Zhang Tian to support the Yun Lan Sect in the future.
• Zhang Tian joked about parting ways, Qing Lin chose to stay with Yun Yun, and Zhang Tian flew off alone.