Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong battled the Heavenly Evil God, exploiting his opponent’s weakened life force while trying to prevent him from reaching the concealed Xiao Yan. The Heavenly Evil God broke through Lin Dong’s defenses and tried to seize living beings as Blood Food, but Lin Dong and Xiao Yan’s formations stopped him, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Lin Dong seized control of the surrounding Spiritual Power and realized the Heavenly Evil God was powerful but weakened, then sent his two Clones to attack alongside him.
• The Heavenly Evil God blocked Lin Dong’s assault with a waterfall of Spirit Liquid and gradually grew more adept at using Spiritual Power as they exchanged blows.
• Xiao Yan spoke from hiding, revealing that Lin Dong’s three incarnations could merge, while the Heavenly Evil God grew suspicious and charged toward Xiao Yan’s location.
• Xiao Yan sent Lin Dong a Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array formation disk, but the Heavenly Evil God used the Nine Eyes, Realm Annihilation Curse to blast Lin Dong away and shatter the disk.
• The Heavenly Evil God tried to devour the people of a Super Continent as Blood Food, but Xiao Yan’s formation and a pillar of flame held back his attack until Lin Dong returned to stop him.
• Xiao Yan sent another Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array formation disk, and the Heavenly Evil God was left frustrated as Lin Dong continued to block his attempts to feed and reach Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong fought the weakened Heavenly Evil God while Xiao Yan prepared the Great Thousand World’s defenses and used the Sky Ranking to claim authority over its flames, pills, formations, and divine beasts. Xiao Yan then crushed the Heavenly Evil God, who revealed the Tian Yuan Realm and Zhou Yuan before dying, leaving Xiao Yan to guard the Great Thousand World and pursue further cultivation.

• Heavenly Evil God realized Xiao Yan had prepared formations across the continents and used Demonic Sacrifice, Nine Eyes to burn his nine evil eyes for greater power.
• Lin Dong merged his two incarnations into his true body, while Xiao Yan summoned the Sky Ranking and gathered divine flames from across the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan inscribed Flame Emperor and Alchemist on the Sky Ranking, then added Spirit Array Master and Beast God, establishing his authority over the Great Thousand World’s flames, pills, formations, and divine beasts.
• Lin Dong left to stabilize his realm as Xiao Yan used the Great Thousand World’s power to pin down Heavenly Evil God, who offered cooperation and revealed the location of another world.
• Heavenly Evil God refused to surrender and told Xiao Yan that his clan had come from the Tian Yuan Realm, where Zhou Yuan had defeated them fifty thousand years earlier, before Xiao Yan refined him into nourishment for the Great Thousand World.

Xiao Yan, whose Dou Qi cultivation had declined, relied on body training and prepared for his engagement to Nalan Yanran to be annulled. He dissolved the engagement himself before she could, then left the family hall with Xiao Xun Er to get juice.

• Xiao Yan reassured himself after testing at Third Stage Dou Qi and remembered how he and Xiao Xun Er had grown close in childhood.
• Xiao Yan trained with heavy metal weights, cultivated to ease his fatigue, and guessed that his father's distinguished guests included his fiancée.
• Xiao Yan met Nalan Yanran in the Xiao Family hall and handed her a signed agreement to dissolve their engagement.
• Nalan Yanran signed the agreement, and she and Ge Ye left without giving Xiao Yan the prepared Qi Gathering Powder.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Xiao Zhan for making the decision without permission, then comforted Xiao Xun Er and suggested they buy juice.

Xiao Yan met Old Yao, accepted him as a nominal teacher, and used his advice to earn money while rebuilding his cultivation. More than ten months later, Xiao Yan had reached Seven Stage Dou Qi and Xun'er had become a One Star Dou Zhe, though his intensive training had left her feeling neglected.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er visited a Xiao Family marketplace, where he bought her iced fruit juice before they returned to their routines.
• Nalan Jie visited Xiao Lin's grave, promised to look after the Xiao Family, and gave Xiao Zhan a Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Xiao Yan suggested buying the Jia Lie Family's marketplaces, but Xiao Zhan worried that fighting the Jia Lie Family would endanger their clan.
• Old Yao emerged from Xiao Yan's Relic Ring, admitted responsibility for absorbing his Dou Qi, and offered instruction and compensation; Xiao Yan called him Teacher and received the recipe for Foundation Building Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Yan used one thousand Gold Coins to buy medicinal herbs and discarded goods, then sold a Xuan Tier Low Dou Technique at the Miter Auction House for more than one hundred and ten thousand Gold Coins.
• More than ten months later, Xun'er reached One Star Dou Zhe and Xiao Yan reached Seven Stage Dou Qi; Xun'er showed resentment that his training had kept him away from her.

Xiao Yan trained hard after realizing that Xun'er's status made marrying into her family seem far beyond his reach, while Old Yao revealed the Flame Mantra as a cultivation path he could choose. After Xiao Yan reached Dou Zhe, Ya Fei visited to recruit him as an appraiser and possible Alchemist for the Miter Auction House, and Xiao Yan left the hall and encountered Xiao Xun Er.

• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao about Xun'er's cultivation method and what strength he would need to marry her or live off her, then learned that her Heavenly Flame aura came from the powerful Gu Clan.
• Xiao Yan doubled his Foundation Building Spirit Liquid dose and trained until he reached Nine Stage Dou Disciple, while Old Yao offered him a choice between staged Di Tier methods and the evolvable Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan bought medicinal herbs for Qi Gathering Powder at the Miter Auction House, drawing Ya Fei's attention and prompting her to bring a Second-Order Fire Attribute Magic Core to the Xiao Family.
• Ya Fei proposed that Xiao Yan appraise auction items and invited him to become an Alchemist for the Miter Auction House, while Xiao Zhan learned of Xiao Yan's Dou Zhe breakthrough and suspected he was an Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan declined to commit to Ya Fei's offer, left his excited father in the main hall, and soon encountered Xiao Xun Er.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Xun Er about his teacher and the Flame Mantra, while she recognized the danger of the secret and began arranging support for him. As Xiao Yan practiced alchemy and sold Blood Coagulating Powder, the Xiao Family gained ground in Wutan City and Xun’er’s people secretly searched for flames.

• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Xun Er to the back mountain and admitted that his teacher had given him the Flame Mantra, an Emperor Tier cultivation method said to fuse Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Xun Er warned Xiao Yan to keep the Flame Mantra secret, then realized he likely knew her identity and decided to prepare Beast Flames and investigate Heavenly Flames for him.
• Xiao Yan spent the night refining Blood Coagulating Powder, wasting many ingredients but producing sixty-four portions as he practiced.
• The Xiao Family Marketplace began selling Xiao Yan’s inexpensive Blood Coagulating Powder, drawing mercenaries away from the Jia Lie Family Marketplace and strengthening the Xiao Family’s position in Wutan City.
• Xiao Xun Er summoned Ling Ying and her subordinates to gather Beast Flames and search for Heavenly Flame news around the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun Er traveled to the Tagor Desert after Gu Yuan approved of Xiao Yan as a potential match, provided he survived refining a Heavenly Flame. Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame, which Gu Yuan’s people retrieved from Queen Medusa’s territory.

• Xiao Yan slowed his training after months of relentless flame control, while Xiao Xun Er offered to help him pursue news of a Heavenly Flame in the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun Er traveled to the desert after he refined more than ten thousand portions of Blood Coagulating Powder for the Xiao Family and reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Gu Yuan observed Xiao Yan’s flame control, learned about the Flame Mantra, and decided Xiao Xun Er could bring Xiao Yan to the Gu Clan if he survived refining a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun Er reached a rocky wasteland, where Ling Ying reported that Queen Medusa had taken the Green Lotus Core Flame; a hidden Dou Zong went to retrieve it.
• Xiao Yan refined an Earth Fire Lotus Seed, rising from One Star Dou Shi to Five Star Dou Shi, and then received the sealed Green Lotus Core Flame.

After Xiao Yan effortlessly refined the Green Lotus Core Flame, he left the Xiao Family with Xun'er for the Gu Clan's Ancient Realm. Gu Yuan recognized Xiao Yan's unusual talent and offered him resources if he could prove himself against the clan's younger generation.

• Xiao Yan refined the Green Lotus Core Flame in ten minutes, astonishing Gu Yuan and earning approval to return to the Gu Clan with Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City, said farewell to Xiao Zhan, and departed with Xun'er aboard the Gu Clan's warship.
• After a long journey, Xiao Yan and Xun'er entered the Ancient Realm, where its dense World Energy astonished him.
• Gu Yuan met Xiao Yan, told him he had strengthened Yao Lao enough to contend with a Dou Zun, and explained that other Flame Mantra users had struggled to refine even Beast Flames.
• Gu Yuan offered Xiao Yan an unlimited supply of Beast Flames and Medicinal Herbs, promising to obtain the Flame of Life if Xiao Yan could suppress the Gu Clan's younger generation.

After half a year of solitary training on Medicine Mountain, Xiao Yan reunited briefly with Xun'er and worried that the Gu Clan was pressuring her. The next day, Ling Quan attacked him after learning his identity, and Xiao Yan crushed the assault with his Green Lotus Core Flame and Heavy Black Ruler.

• Xiao Yan spent half a year refining pills and cultivating on Medicine Mountain, reaching Two-star Dou Spirit and peak Fourth Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Xun Er visited Xiao Yan, revealed she had reached Dou Wang, and trained with him before leaving to stabilize her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan suspected Xun'er faced pressure from the Gu Clan and wondered whether one of her suitors would confront him.
• Xiao Yan encountered a Black Annihilation Reserve Army squad gathering herbs and introduced himself as a Fourth Grade Alchemist favored by Gu Yuan.
• Ling Quan attacked Xiao Yan with a spear after taking offense at his remarks about the Patriarch, but Xiao Yan melted the weapon and smashed Ling Quan into the ground with his ruler.

Xiao Yan defeated Ling Quan, then spent a year cultivating in the Ancient Realm and broke through to Dou King. Before he could fully adjust to his new strength, Gu Yuan arrived at Little Medicine Mountain.

• Yang Hao admitted defeat after Xiao Yan overwhelmed Ling Quan with the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Ling Quan complained that Xiao Yan lacked a Dou Di Bloodline.
• Xiao Yan returned to the mountaintop worried about the Gu Clan’s strength and decided to cultivate with Medicinal Baths while seeking a stronger Beast Flame.
• Xiao Yan spent ten months reaching the Nine-Star Dou Ling Peak and two more months breaking through to Dou King.
• Xiao Yan began considering the power and uses of his new Dou King realm, including controlling World Energy and flying with Dou Qi Wings.
• Gu Yuan quietly arrived at Little Medicine Mountain before Xiao Yan had fully familiarized himself with his new strength.

Gu Yuan told Xiao Yan about the Xiao Clan and Xiao Xuan’s inheritance, then gave him a remnant of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame before preparing to open the Heavenly Tomb. He sought Elder Shennong and traded a Golden Emperor Flower for a strand of the Flame of Life’s origin to strengthen Xiao Yan’s foundation.

• Gu Yuan judged Xiao Yan’s cultivation and explained that the Xiao Family had once been the Ancient Race known as the Xiao Clan, whose ancestor Xiao Xuan left an inheritance in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan treated the Soul Clan as a common enemy of himself and the Gu Clan, and asked Gu Yuan to help him obtain Xiao Xuan’s inheritance.
• Gu Yuan gave Xiao Yan a remnant of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and told him to spend two days familiarizing himself with it before entering the Heavenly Tomb.
• Gu Yuan went to the Shennong Mountain Range and summoned Elder Shennong by revealing his aura and a Golden Emperor Flower.
• Elder Shennong exchanged a fruit containing Flame of Life origin for the Golden Emperor Flower, and Gu Yuan left him a Space Jade Slip and promised him a favor.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame Subordinate Flame and traveled with Gu Yuan to meet Xiao Xuan. After hearing about Xiao Yan and Xun’er, Xiao Xuan considered how their descendants might bring the Xiao family into the Gu Clan, then began to explain the Dou Di Bloodline he had preserved.

• Xiao Yan trained his control over the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and began refining its power inside his body.
• Gu Yuan took Xiao Yan to Xiao Xuan’s tomb and sent him inside with the Subordinate Flame of Life.
• Xiao Xuan asked about the Xiao Family, and Xiao Yan said he could inherit his father’s position as Patriarch.
• Xiao Yan recounted how he and Xun’er had grown close, and Xiao Xuan eagerly listened to the story.
• Xiao Xuan considered the possibility that Xiao Yan and Xun’er’s descendants could gain influence within the Gu Clan, then began discussing the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline.

Xiao Xuan taught Xiao Yan the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and prepared him to inherit the Xiao Clan’s remaining bloodline. After replacing Xiao Yan’s blood, he urged him to break through to Dou Emperor and refine the Flame of Life so he could develop Bloodline Power himself.

• Xiao Xuan explained the Xiao Clan’s defeat and placed his hopes for the clan’s future on Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Xuan taught Xiao Yan to control his three flames through the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations.
• After two years of training, Xiao Yan used all three transformations to reach the peak of Eight-star Dou Emperor strength.
• Xiao Xuan used the Flame of Life to protect Xiao Yan as he replaced his blood with the Xiao Clan’s preserved bloodline energy.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the blood energy and strengthened his body, after which Xiao Xuan urged him to break through to Dou Emperor and refine the Flame of Life.

Xiao Yan refined the Flame of Life in Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion, restoring the Xiao Clan's bloodline inheritance and greatly advancing his cultivation. After three years inside the Heavenly Tomb, he returned to Gu Yuan at Eight Star Dou Huang Peak, carrying Xiao Xuan's teachings and treasures.

• Xiao Yan used the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and the Flame of Life to refine World Energy and strengthen his bloodline while Xiao Xuan supplied his preserved Dou Di Bloodline.
• Over two and a half years, Xiao Xuan transferred the Xiao Clan's bloodline into the Flame of Life, turning it into a Bloodline Source that could preserve and strengthen the clan's inheritance.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame merged with the Flame of Life, and Xiao Yan endured the transformation under Xiao Xuan's protection while retaining his Pure Yang Body.
• Xiao Yan completed his refinement, reaching Eight Star Dou Huang Peak as his Flame Mantra advanced to Earth Tier Advanced and his heart gained a life-filled emerald membrane.
• Xiao Xuan passed Xiao Yan the Xiao Clan's cultivation methods, techniques, formations, soul arts, and pill recipes before sending him out of the Tomb Mansion.
• Gu Yuan caught Xiao Yan in the Heavenly Tomb Third Layer and was shocked by his progress, then said he would seek out more Heavenly Flames for him.

After leaving the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan shared Ancestor Xiao Xuan’s high-grade Pill Recipes with Old Yao and practiced a Soul Attack Secret Technique. He then tested his new strength by striking a Seventh-Tier Savage Fang Wild Boar, severely wounding it with a concealed Soul Power spike.

• Gu Yuan brought Xiao Yan back to Little Medicine Mountain and promised to call him Uncle if he defeated the Gu Clan youngsters who wanted to challenge him.
• Xiao Yan gave Old Yao three Ninth-grade and ninety-one Eighth-grade Pill Recipes inherited from Ancestor Xiao Xuan.
• Xiao Yan practiced using his Soul Power through a Soul Attack Secret Technique while Old Yao studied the Pill Recipes.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan concealed himself near a lake and formed a translucent spike from Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan sent the spike through space and pierced the Savage Fang Wild Boar before its defensive Dou Skill could activate, severely wounding it.

Xiao Yan tested his increased strength by overpowering the Savage Fang Wild Boar and began learning movement Dou Skills before Ling Quan arrived. The chapter left Ling Quan stunned by Xiao Yan’s overwhelming cultivation and strength.

• Xiao Yan struck the injured Savage Fang Wild Boar with a meteor of fused flames, severely damaging it.
• The Savage Fang Wild Boar armored itself with earth energy, charged Xiao Yan, and was knocked back by his flaming punch.
• Xiao Yan assessed his strength and began studying the Earth Tier Advanced Silken Play and Earth Tier Intermediate Explosive Flame Charge.
• Ling Quan arrived after breaking through to Dou Emperor, but Xiao Yan’s Eight Star Dou Huang Peak pressure left him shocked.
• Xiao Yan remarked that Ling Quan’s rapid breakthrough was impressive despite his unstable Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan confronted Gu Yao after overwhelming Ling Quan and accepting the commander’s challenge to last a hundred moves. Their battle began at the Black Annihilation Army’s training ground, where Gu Yao’s ice technique met Xiao Yan’s flames and three Fire Beasts.

• Ling Quan erupted in anger and attacked Xiao Yan, who struck him into the ground with a Flame Great Hand.
• Yang Hao delivered Gu Yao’s offer: Xiao Yan could challenge the commander, who promised to stop troubling him if Xiao Yan lasted a hundred moves.
• Yang Hao brought Xiao Yan to the Black Annihilation Army’s training ground, where Xiao Yan met Gu Yao, a powerful fighter nearing Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan attacked with a lotus of flames, and Gu Yao blocked it with his Long Spear and frost.
• Gu Yao unleashed Ice Sky Snow Land to sense intruders through the snow, but Xiao Yan hid behind three Fire Beasts, leaving Gu Yao silent.

Xiao Yan used explosive Heavenly Flame Fire Beasts to defeat Gu Yao in their test, then asked to challenge the Gu Clan’s finest descendant, Gu Qingyang. An old man stopped the fight before Xiao Yan’s final attack struck and told him to restore his Dou Qi.

• Gu Yao attacked Xiao Yan, but the Green Fire Beast exploded and forced him to abandon his Long Spear and retreat.
• Xiao Yan made two Heavenly Flame Fire Beasts collide, blasting Gu Yao with an explosion while the Life Lotus Core Flame protected him.
• Xiao Yan launched a spike at the exhausted Gu Yao, whose aura surged toward the Dou Zong realm before an old man appeared and shattered the attack.
• The old man judged that Xiao Yan had inherited the Xiao Clan’s final radiance, and Xiao Yan asked to challenge Gu Qingyang.
• The old man restored the training ground and told Xiao Yan to recover his Dou Qi before vanishing.

After defeating Gu Qingyang, Xiao Yan won the Gu Clan’s acceptance and spent several carefree months with Xun'er. Xun'er told him about the Flame Feast and the Fallen Heart Flame, and they departed for the Northwest Continent to attend it.

• Xiao Yan defeated Gu Qingyang, and Gu Yuan's acknowledgment ensured that the Gu Clan would not prevent Xun'er from seeing him.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Jia Nan Academy was connected to the Fallen Heart Flame and that Mang Tianchi had organized a Flame Feast for Dou Ancestors to hunt it.
• Xun'er revealed that she would not attend the Flame Feast because she had refined the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and she teased Xiao Yan by withholding some details.
• Xiao Yan spent several months with Xun'er, broke through to Peak Dou Huang, and then boarded a Gu Clan warship with her for the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City to find the Xiao Family thriving under Xiao Zhan, while the family heirloom jade remained unmentioned. In the emptied Black Corner Region, Xun'er explained Han Feng's likely betrayal of Yao Chen and worried he might have revealed the Flame Mantra; Xiao Yan told her to contact Gu Yuan because he might need his support.

• Xiao Zhan used his new Dou Ling strength to bring Wutan City’s rival families to heel, and the Xiao Family prospered.
• Xiao Zhan kept the Xiao Family heirloom jade rather than giving it to Xiao Yan, who chose not to ask about it.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er surveyed the cleared Black Corner Region and discussed the destruction of Han Feng's faction.
• Xun'er reasoned that Han Feng had betrayed Yao Chen to obtain the Flame Mantra and might have offered it to Mang Tianchi to save himself.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xun'er, then asked her to contact Gu Yuan because he might need him to back him up.