Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan persuaded Gu Yuan to support his plan to trade the Xiao Clan’s inheritance for Heavenly Flames, then went to Jia Nan Academy to negotiate over the Fallen Heart Flame and ask about Han Feng. He provoked the Yao Clan and flattered the Yan Clan, leaving the gathering amused by the dispute.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that the Flame Mantra might have been leaked and proposed trading the Xiao Clan’s inheritance to the Ancient Races for Heavenly Flames; Gu Yuan listened and agreed to back him.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er arrived at Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Courtyard, where Mang Tianchi and representatives of the Spirit, Yan, and Yao Clans had gathered near the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan greeted Mang Tianchi and asked whether Han Feng was alive, explaining that his master, Yao Chen, wanted to settle the matter and was close to becoming a ninth-grade alchemist.
• A Yao Clan member mocked Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan retorted that the clan’s refusal to provide its members with Heavenly Flames had held back their alchemy.
• A Yan Clan woman laughed at Xiao Yan’s remark, and he praised the Yan Clan’s Heavenly Flames and its Patriarch’s ability to fuse them.

At the Lava World gathering, Gu Yuan revealed Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra and negotiated trades for the Xiao Clan’s inherited techniques with the Yan and Lei Clans. As the Spirit Clan withdrew and Gu Yuan’s elder fought a Soul Clan intruder, Gu Yuan turned to Yao Dan to discuss the Yao Clan’s Heavenly Flames.

• Mang Tianchi accepted Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Tier Dou Technique scroll, mistook Gu Yuan’s involvement for a larger scheme, and handed the Sea Heart Flame to Xiao Yan’s companion.
• A Soul Clan middle-aged man released ten vicious souls as bait, but a Gu Clan elder destroyed them and attacked him while Gu Yuan sent Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and others into the Lava World.
• Gu Yuan explained that Xiao Yan cultivated the Flame Mantra, which evolved by devouring Heavenly Flames, and offered the Yan and Lei Clans trades for Xiao Xuan’s inheritance.
• Gu Yuan traded the Heavenly Earth Array for the Yan Clan’s Eight Desolations Destruction Flame and Fire Cloud Water Flame, along with the Flame Mantra.
• Gu Yuan offered the Lei Clan a bolt of Nine Profound Golden Thunder in exchange for its Inheritance Thunder Pool and agreed to include two Xiao Clan techniques.
• Gu Yuan reminded Yao Dan that the Yao Clan possessed two Heavenly Flames, opening negotiations with the Yao Clan.

Gu Yuan pressured the Yao Clan into staking two Heavenly Flames in a contest between the clans’ younger generations, then revealed that the Nihility Devouring Flame might have reached Nine-star Dou Sheng and swallowed the Soul Realm. He proposed joining forces against it, and the clans agreed to coordinate support through Space Tunnels.

• Gu Yuan confronted Yao Dan over Yao Chen’s mistreatment and demanded the Yao Clan’s Turtle Spirit Earth Fire, while Yan Jin demanded its Nine Nether Wind Flame.
• Yao Dan agreed to let the younger generations decide who would claim the Heavenly Flames, and Gu Yuan set the contest for his clan’s Coming of Age Ceremony before the Heavenly Tomb opened.
• Lei Ying asked Yao Dan to open the Pill Canon so the Lei Clan could gather Black Demonic Lightning, and Yao Dan agreed.
• Gu Yuan explained that the Nihility Devouring Flame had fought him a thousand years earlier and might now be a Nine-star Dou Sheng that had swallowed the Soul Realm.
• Gu Yuan proposed that multiple Dou Shengs join forces to tear apart the Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin, and Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Yao Dan accepted the idea of cooperating.
• Yao Dan asked about inviting Yao Chen back as an Elder, and the group agreed to establish Space Tunnels so the clans could support one another if a realm came under attack.

Xiao Yan captured the Fallen Heart Flame, broke through to Dou Zong, and refined it with Xun'er at his side. The pair returned to the Lava World to investigate a mysterious call and search for the Green Lotus Core Flame’s birthplace, where Gu Yuan discovered a tribe of two Half-Saints.

• Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus Core Flame as bait to lure and capture the Fallen Heart Flame, then escaped the Lava World with Xun'er before the Yan and Yao Clans arrived.
• Mang Tianchi took a thread of the Fallen Heart Flame to sustain Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Courtyard and gave the rest to Xiao Yan, who spent half a month recovering beside Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Zong and refined the Fallen Heart Flame in the Lava World, then sensed a mysterious call from deeper within it.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er ventured back into the Lava World with Gu Yuan following, intending to investigate the call and search for the Green Lotus Core Flame’s birthplace.
• Gu Yuan discovered a tribe of two Half-Saints in the Lava World and considered calling his main body to investigate.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er discovered a tribe of lava-dwelling Lizardmen and gathered their Fire Pearls before returning toward the Tagor Desert. Gu Yuan investigated the depths of the magma, then guided Xiao Yan to Queen Medusa to learn where the Green Lotus Core Flame had originated.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er fought and killed hundreds of Lizardmen, including one as powerful as a Dou Emperor, and collected their Fire Pearls.
• Xun'er compared the Lizardmen to Energy Bodies from the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan decided to report the discovery to the Gu Clan.
• Gu Yuan killed the five-star Dou Zun's Residual Soul, found the Five Wheel Leaving Fire Method, and descended to a dangerous hidden space without entering it.
• Gu Yuan directed Xiao Yan to collect the Green Lotus Core Flame's roots, and Xiao Yan and Xun'er traveled to the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Yan gave Queen Medusa a Dou Ling Pill and asked where she had found the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan infused the Green Lotus with the Flame of Life, Fallen Heart Flame, and his Soul Power, transforming it into a growing source of cultivation and Heavenly Flame power. As Xiao Yan’s Soul Realm broke through to the Spirit Realm, Gu Yuan appeared and recognized that Xiao Yan could reach the pinnacle without the Gu Clan’s support.

• Queen Medusa led Xiao Yan and Xun'er to the magma near Mo City, but Xiao Yan ignored her plan and entered the magma to find the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan fed the Green Lotus the Flame of Life, then connected it to the Green Lotus Core Flame and Fallen Heart Flame, causing the lotus to evolve and boost his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan merged his Soul Power with the Green Lotus and Heavenly Flames, triggering a major fluctuation throughout the surrounding lava.
• Gu Yuan appeared, contained the upheaval with a Space Barrier, and told Xun'er that Xiao Yan’s Soul Realm was advancing to the Spirit Realm while his cultivation and Heavenly Flames were evolving.
• Gu Yuan admired the Green Lotus’s potential and told Xun'er that he had acknowledged Xiao Yan as his son-in-law, while Xun'er affirmed her faith in Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan broke through to a Spirit Realm Soul after a year of cultivation, and Gu Yuan brought him back to the Gu Clan to prepare for reviving Old Yao and competing in the Pill Gathering. Xiao Yan resumed alchemy training, while Old Yao urged him to master Eighth Grade Pills before pursuing resurrection.

• Gu Yuan boosted the Spiritual Qi around Xiao Yan, who broke through to the Spirit Realm and discovered that his soul, Heavenly Flame, and mutated green lotus had formed a powerful trinity.
• Gu Yuan took Xiao Yan back to the Gu Clan and explained that Old Yao still needed to control three Heavenly Flames for his resurrection.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that a Half-Saint skeleton would be difficult to prepare, and advised him to first reach the Dou Zun realm and improve his alchemy for the upcoming Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan refined pills at Little Medicine Mountain, achieving high success rates with Seventh Grade Pills and beginning to practice Eighth Grade Pills.
• The Gu Clan supplied Xiao Yan with medicinal herbs, blocked the Pill Lightning from his trials, and gave him ten Dou Zun-level Puppets to help him withstand it at the Pill Gathering.

With the Gu Clan’s resources, Xiao Yan advanced to an Eighth Grade High-level Alchemist, reached Spirit Realm Advanced, and rose to Nine Star Dou Ancestor while preparing for the Pill Gathering. He arrived in Sacred Pill City to compete for the championship and the chance to capture Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xiao Yan spent two years cycling between refining Eighth Grade Pills, nourishing his soul, and devouring the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame’s Subordinate Flame, reaching Eighth Grade High-level alchemist, Spirit Realm Advanced, and Nine Star Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan tested Green Lotus on a Dou Zun puppet and damaged its defenses, demonstrating how the flame had transformed the lotus into a cyan-gold weapon.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao and a Black Annihilation Army Captain how quickly he could reach Dou Zun, then concluded that refining the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame could let him break through in a few days.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Sacred Pill City as a special contestant for the Pill Gathering, where Three Thousand Burning Flame was the prize.

Xiao Yan arrived in Sacred Pill City with a Gu Clan warship and met Xuan Kongzi to discuss a transaction. He asked Xuan Kongzi to arrange an introduction to Tang Zhen and negotiate for Burning Flame Valley’s Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire using six Green-Gold Lotus Seeds, then agreed to wait for the result while preparing to compete in the Pill Gathering.

• A Gu Clan warship emerged above Sacred Pill City, and Tian Lei Zi escorted Xiao Yan and his entourage into the Pill Tower.
• Xiao Yan told Xuan Kongzi that he was Yao Chen’s disciple and intended to win the Pill Gathering Champion title so he could resurrect Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan showed Xuan Kongzi a Green-Gold Lotus Seed, explained its potential to grow into a Green Lotus, and offered it as a gift.
• Xiao Yan asked Xuan Kongzi to help him meet Tang Zhen and admitted that he wanted Burning Flame Valley’s Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Xiao Yan offered six Green-Gold Lotus Seeds to purchase the Heavenly Flame, and Xuan Kongzi accepted them and told Xiao Yan to wait in Sacred Pill City.

Xiao Yan settled in Sacred Pill City and went to a trading fair with Gu Xing, where he bought a gift for Xun'er while showing off his extravagant version of keeping a low profile. He left the stall with a cracked piece of Warm Jade and the rest of the vendor’s goods packed away by Gu Xing.

• Xiao Yan agreed to visit a trading fair, and Gu Xing recommended Illusion Dream Ice Silkworm Silk robes and a Dream Crystal Butterfly Spirit Crystal for him.
• Xiao Yan learned that Gu Xing was a Seventh Star Dou Zong and Sixth Grade Alchemist, then sent him to obtain the rare materials and learned his name and brigade number.
• The Pill Tower gathered the silk and spirit crystal by the next day, and Xiao Yan went to a trading pavilion wearing his Eighth Grade Alchemist Medal.
• Xiao Yan browsed the first layer and asked a middle-aged vendor for advice on choosing a gift for Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan picked a cracked piece of Warm Jade for Xun'er, then told Gu Xing to pack up the vendor’s entire stall and gave the vendor a Seventh Grade Pill in payment.

Xiao Yan explored the Trading Fair’s first three layers, bought a mysterious Warm Jade, and encountered Yao Xingji on the third floor. He warned Yao Xingji about the dangers of competing for Three Thousand Burning Flame, then released him from a Soul Power barrier after teasing him.

• Xiao Yan bought a cracked Warm Jade on the first floor and decided to bring it back for Old Yao to inspect.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xing explored the second floor, where Xiao Yan bought and ate several Medicinal Herbs before proceeding upstairs.
• Xiao Yan greeted a Yao Clan man on the third floor and learned that his clothes dazzled him because they were made from Illusion Dream Ice Silkworm Silk.
• Xiao Yan warned Yao Xingji that the Soul Clan would target him during the Pill Gathering and that Three Thousand Burning Flame might bear an Ancient Void Dragon seal.
• Xiao Yan trapped Yao Xingji behind a Soul Power barrier and mocked him until Yao Xingji declared that he would remember the humiliation.
• Xiao Yan removed the barrier after a Gu Clan Dou Sheng Expert told him to stop teasing Yao Xingji.

Xiao Yan acquired a mysterious blood-colored cocoon at the Trading Fair while Gu Xing completed his spirit awakening and entered the Pill Gathering. In the second trial, Xiao Yan and Gu Xing headed to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, where a powerful beast guarded valuable herbs and a gathering of Alchemists could draw the Soul Clan’s attention.

• Yao Xingji fled the pavilion, and Xiao Yan found and took a mysterious blood-colored cocoon before giving its seller a damaged Jade Slip with his Soul Power contact.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Pill Tower courtyard and reflected on Alchemists’ standing while waiting for the Pill Gathering to begin.
• Gu Xing completed his spirit awakening, advanced to Eight-star Dou Ancestor, reached the peak of Sixth Grade alchemy, and registered for the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xing passed the first trial and entered the second, where Gu Xing reported that participants had gathered near the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range to face a beast he suspected had reached the Eighth Grade.
• Xiao Yan found a huge piece of Thousand Year Profound Yellow Marrow and gave it to Gu Xing, then put on Gu Xing’s concealing mask and set out for the mountain range.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xing reached the mist-shrouded Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, where Xiao Yan sensed a bear and medicinal herbs but could not clearly identify them.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xing watched the Soul Hall attack the alchemists in the trial space, then Xiao Yan intervened and turned the hunters into prey. After Cao Ying revealed that she was Xuan Kongzi’s disciple and had reached the Spirit Realm, Xiao Yan regarded her with unexpected amusement.

• Xiao Yan and Gu Xing concealed themselves among the crowd as Xiao Yan noticed Cao Ying’s Spirit Realm Soul and briefly made her suspect he was a Soul Hall expert.
• A Black-robed Man killed more than a dozen alchemists, and other Soul Hall attackers trapped the survivors inside a Soul Barrier.
• Xiao Yan revealed himself, killed the other Black-robed Men, and prevented the leader from escaping by maintaining the Soul Barrier.
• The Black-robed Man captured Yao Xingji while Xiao Yan watched and used ten Golden Puppets to keep him under control.
• Cao Ying apologized for mistaking Xiao Yan for a Soul Hall Venerable Elder, then explained her exceptional Soul Power and her apprenticeship under Xuan Kongzi.

Xiao Yan rescued the alchemists from the Black-robed Man but left them exposed as four powerful Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates approached. After fleeing with Gu Xing, Xiao Yan secretly returned with his Puppets and prepared to ambush Black and White Heavenly Venerates.

• Xiao Yan distracted the Black-robed Man with ten Puppets while a translucent spike wounded his soul, and the Man's strike badly injured Yao Xingji instead of killing him.
• Cao Ying offered to help Xiao Yan fight the approaching Soul Hall experts, but Xiao Yan recalled his Puppets, burned away the Black-robed Man, and fled with Gu Xing.
• Black and White Heavenly Venerates arrived and captured the helpless alchemists, while Yao Xingji lost consciousness from his injuries.
• Xiao Yan's mocking voice came from behind Black and White Heavenly Venerates as ten Puppets formed a powerful formation, and two translucent spikes appeared behind them.

Xiao Yan used his puppets, Fallen Heart Flame, and soul attacks to kill Black Heavenly Venerate and White Heavenly Venerate, but his powerful techniques left him depleted. Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates arrived expecting to capture him, unaware that someone had emerged from the Space Rift behind them.

• Xiao Yan concealed a soul attack behind the puppets’ spear and distracted the Black and White Heavenly Venerates with a Soul Hall-style laugh.
• Xiao Yan ignited Fallen Heart Flame inside both Heavenly Venerates and struck them with a soul attack, then redirected the spear to pierce Black Heavenly Venerate.
• The puppets trapped White Heavenly Venerate as Xiao Yan raised his strength with the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and killed him with the Heavenly Wrath Soul Breaking Finger.
• Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates arrived as Xiao Yan’s strength fell back to one-star Dou Zun and assumed he could not resist them.
• Someone emerged from the Space Rift behind Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates without their noticing.

Xiao Yan recovered after the Soul Hall’s attack on the Pill Realm and met Dan Chen, whose uncontrolled soul-devouring talent caught his interest. He offered her brother Dan Xuan a Soul Cultivation Method and showed Dan Chen the Fallen Heart Flame, and Dan Chen accepted Xiao Yan as her teacher.

• Xuan Kongzi arrived and killed the Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerates, then gave the contestants Space Stones as compensation for the Pill Tower’s failure to protect the Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yan recovered at the Pill Realm exit while the contestants returned, and he noticed Dan Chen’s talent for devouring Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Dan Xuan and offered to teach Dan Chen, then transmitted a Soul Cultivation Method to Dan Xuan.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Dan Chen’s condition would need more than a Soul Cultivation Method and showed her the Fallen Heart Flame as a way to develop her talent.
• Dan Xuan encouraged his sister to decide for herself, and Dan Chen called Xiao Yan her teacher, which he accepted.

Xiao Yan won the Pill Gathering and received the Pill Tower’s Soul Cultivation Method, while Dan Chen competed against Cao Ying and planned to study alchemy under him. After the exhausted contestants began resting, Xiao Yan accepted Dan Xuan’s invitation to visit the Dan Family.

• Xiao Yan persuaded Dan Xuan and Dan Chen to accept his offer, including a newly formed Fallen Heart Flame for Dan Chen, and told her to come with him after the Pill Gathering.
• The Pill Gathering’s third round began, and Xiao Yan, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and the other finalists spent weeks refining pills while the Pill Tower guarded against a Soul Hall attack.
• Xiao Yan refined a top-tier Eighth Grade Pill with Eight-Color Pill Lightning and won the championship; Cao Ying’s three-color pill lightning surpassed Dan Chen’s two-color result.
• Xuan Kongzi awarded Xiao Yan a Soul Cultivation Method scroll, and Xiao Yan gave the exhausted Dan Chen a Green-Gold Lotus Seed.
• During the contestants’ rest period, Xiao Yan accepted Dan Xuan’s invitation and went to visit the Dan Family.

Xiao Yan entered the Star Domain and used Gu Yuan’s power to subdue and seal the Three Thousand Burning Flame. He left with its Origin Fire Seed secured and agreed to trade its accumulated energy to the Yan Clan alchemist for the Nine Nether Underworld Fire.

• Xiao Yan and the other top Pill Gathering contestants entered the Star Domain, where they found the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the form of a massive purple-black dragon.
• Xiao Yan used ten puppets to keep the Pill Tower Elder and the Yan Clan alchemist at bay while he touched the dragon’s forehead and sent in his Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan summoned Gu Yuan with a Jade Slip, and Gu Yuan overpowered the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Origin Fire Seed and sealed it as a dragon-shaped tattoo on Xiao Yan’s arm.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan about Dan Chen’s talent and his plans for her training, and Gu Yuan approved his plan to have her refine the Fallen Heart Flame and fight the Soul Hall.
• The Yan Clan alchemist offered a Nine-Tier Beast Flame, identified as the Nine Nether Underworld Fire, in exchange for the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s accumulated energy, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Xiao Yan handed the Nine Nether Underworld Fire to Xuan Kongzi and traded the Green-Gold Lotus Seed for the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, then returned to the Ancient Realm. After successfully resurrecting Old Yao and helping Dan Chen begin a new cultivation method, Xiao Yan entered the Lei Clan’s Thunder Pool to refine the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.

• Xiao Yan gave Xuan Kongzi the Nine Nether Underworld Fire and accompanied him to the Pill Tower, where they met Old Ancestor Huoyun, Tang Zhen, and Tang Huo'er.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun removed the Blood Soul Mark from the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire and handed it to Xiao Yan in exchange for the Green-Gold Lotus Seed.
• Gu Yuan took the Three Thousand Burning Flame and the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire from Xiao Yan, then gave him the Fallen Heart Flame; Xiao Yan also brought Dan Chen to meet Old Yao.
• Xiao Yan used a skeleton, Monster Beast Essence Blood, a Pill Beast, and his Heavenly Flames to resurrect Old Yao over seven days and nights.
• Xiao Yan spent two months teaching Dan Chen to cultivate with a Heavenly Grade Cultivation Method, then entered seclusion in the Lei Clan’s Thunder Pool to refine the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.

Xiao Yan tempered his body in the Thunder Pool, broke through to Four-star Dou Zun, and refined the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire. After checking on Yao Chen and Dan Chen, he sought Gu Yuan’s advice about absorbing another Heavenly Flame, arriving just as Gu Yuan’s experiment caused a massive explosion beneath the sea.

• Xiao Yan followed the Heavenly Flames’ guidance deeper into the Thunder Pool, where the lightning tempered his body and helped him break through to Two-star Dou Zun.
• The Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire attacked Xiao Yan with scorching lightning, but he used the Flame Mantra and Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to devour the energy and advance to Three-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan boosted his strength with the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, pursued the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, and swallowed and refined its Origin Fire Seed.
• Xiao Yan used the newly refined Heavenly Flame to cultivate further, reaching Four-star Dou Zun while the Flame Mantra remained Heavenly Tier Low-Level.
• Xiao Yan visited Yao Chen and Dan Chen, then sought Gu Yuan’s judgment on whether he could safely absorb Three Thousand Burning Flame before the upcoming clan events.
• Gu Yuan’s experiment beneath the sea triggered an enormous explosion and a tsunami just as Xiao Yan arrived.