Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan helped treat the wounded Elders while Gu Xun'er prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy, then rushed to aid Su Qian and two mysterious Elders against the Fallen Heart Flame. With the flame temporarily suppressed, Xiao Yan proposed letting his Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame devour it, though he admitted he had only about a fifty percent chance of success.

• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er treated the aftermath of the Fallen Heart Flame's attack, and Xiao Yan realized the injured Elders might need Sixth Grade Pills.
• Gu Xun'er gave Xiao Yan a golden scroll containing a Gu Clan Dou Technique, accepted his Jade Slip, and departed.
• Xiao Yan saw Su Qian and the four Dou Emperors defeated or badly injured, then joined two Grey-robed Persons in suppressing the Fallen Heart Flame with his Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan proposed letting his Heavenly Flame devour the Fallen Heart Flame, and he estimated his chances of success at no less than fifty percent.

Xiao Yan retrieved the Seventh Grade Pill and used the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame to capture and refine the Fallen Heart Flame. With the Pill soothing both Heavenly Flames, he began erasing the Fallen Heart Flame’s intelligence, and his Soul Power unexpectedly made contact with its spirituality.

• Xiao Yan and Su Qian retrieved the Seventh Grade Pill Mang Tianchi had left in the Medicinal Herb Repository.
• Xiao Yan entered the Indigo sea of fire while the Thousand Hundred Elders forced the Invisible Fire Python to absorb Indigo Flame.
• The Fallen Heart Flame escaped from the fire python, but Xiao Yan caught it and swallowed it after taking the Pill.
• The Thousand Hundred Elders expelled the sea of fire into the void as Xiao Yan began refining the Fallen Heart Flame inside his meridians.
• Xiao Yan sent the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame into the Fallen Heart Flame, and his Soul Power unexpectedly touched its spirituality.

Xiao Yan erased the Fallen Heart Flame’s consciousness, imprinted his soul on it, and merged it with the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame to evolve his Flame Mantra. After a year of refining, he emerged with a new sky-blue flame and told the Thousand Hundred Elders that another young Fallen Heart Flame lay beneath the academy, then headed underground alone to find it.

• The Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame devoured the Fallen Heart Flame’s intelligence, allowing Xiao Yan to leave a Soul Imprint within it.
• Xiao Yan guided the Fallen Heart Flame into his heart and merged it with the Green Lotus Sea Heart Flame, creating a transparent sky-blue flame as he refined them for a year.
• Xiao Yan broke through the academy’s formation, and the Thousand Hundred Elders asked whether he had succeeded.
• Xiao Yan told the Thousand Hundred Elders that the Fallen Heart Flame’s memories revealed a newly formed flame beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Xiao Yan declined the elders’ offer of help and flew into the Underground World to find the newborn Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yan followed the Fallen Heart Flame through the lava beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and found the hidden remains of Yao Tianhuo. After the two introduced themselves, Yao Tianhuo was astonished by Xiao Yan’s cultivation and alchemy at such a young age.

• Xiao Yan used the Fallen Heart Flame to search for Yao Tianhuo while absorbing the lava to strengthen his Molten Earth Splitting Body.
• Xiao Yan followed the Fallen Heart Flame deep into the lava and entered a concealed space through a transparent ring of light.
• Xiao Yan approached Yao Tianhuo’s skeleton, where Yao Tianhuo appeared as an illusory figure and briefly restrained him with Space Power.
• The Sea Lotus Heart Flame broke Yao Tianhuo’s oppressive force, and Yao Tianhuo stopped trying to summon Xiao Yan’s Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself as a Four-Star Dou Emperor and Seventh Grade Alchemist, leaving Yao Tianhuo stunned by his achievements at around twenty years old.

Xiao Yan bargained with Heavenly Flame Venerable for the Fallen Heart Flame and his inheritance, then rescued his weakened soul from the magma. The chapter ended with Heavenly Flame Venerable asking Xiao Yan to restore him quickly, and Xiao Yan offering him a Soul Recovery Pill.

• Xiao Yan revealed that his teacher could resurrect a Residual Soul and offered Heavenly Flame Venerable a chance to return to life in exchange for the Fallen Heart Flame and his possessions.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable gave Xiao Yan his Storage Ring, and Xiao Yan found the Five Wheel Leaving Fire Method scroll inside.
• Xiao Yan questioned the method’s origins and suggested its claims about Heavenly Flames and power might imply it was designed as a formation or fire-control technique.
• Xiao Yan took Heavenly Flame Venerable’s skeleton and the Fallen Heart Flame, then sheltered the Venerable’s soul in a Jade Slip.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable used Space Power to conceal Xiao Yan as he escaped the magma, and Xiao Yan emerged after ten minutes.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable asked Xiao Yan to hurry with restoring his soul, and Xiao Yan offered him a Sixth Grade Soul Recovery Pill.

After containing the Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Yan arranged healing and breakthrough pills for Jia Nan Academy and his companions, then began refining several precious Seventh Grade pills. His soul reached the threshold of the Spirit Realm, and he set aside extra ingredients to use after becoming an Eighth Grade Alchemist.

• Xiao Yan returned with the Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian told him that eighteen Dou King Elders had badly damaged meridians and needed better treatment.
• Xiao Yan agreed to refine healing pills and asked Jia Nan Academy to gather soul-nourishing treasures in exchange for Supreme Pills that could help Thousand Hundred Elders reach Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan met Zi Yan, gave her Primal Qi Augmentation Pills, and accepted the medicinal herbs she had gathered apart from the missing Form Transformation Grass.
• Xiao Yan began a large pill-refining effort for Qing Lin, Zi Yan, Xiao Lan, the injured Elders, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Thousand Hundred Elders.
• While refining a Yin Yang Life Soul Pill, Xiao Yan discovered his soul had touched the Spirit Realm threshold, and the pill drew Silver Thunder that left him battered.
• Xiao Yan refined Supreme Pills with Thousand Hundred Elders guarding him and kept the spare medicinal ingredients for when he became an Eighth Grade Alchemist.

Xiao Yan left Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan, then traveled to the Beast Mountain Range to pursue several goals, including helping Queen Medusa evolve. The chapter ended as Queen Medusa, shielded by a Space Barrier and strengthened by Snake Shedding Grass, entered Xiao Yan’s Sea Lotus Heart Flame.

• Su Qian gave Xiao Yan seven Fire Pearls, which Xiao Yan planned to use to strengthen his Heavenly Flames, before Xiao Yan departed Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan.
• After reaching Feng City, Xiao Yi Xian stayed behind to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Ancestor, while Xiao Yan brought Queen Medusa along to the Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan’s group claimed a Seventh Grade Magical Beast’s forest territory, and Queen Medusa decided to attempt her evolution before Xiao Yan entered the Nether Saint Relic.
• Queen Medusa created a Space Barrier over the forest and swallowed a stalk of Snake Shedding Grass bearing more than ten grass fruits.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Sea Lotus Heart Flame, and Queen Medusa transformed into a Seven-Colored Giant Snake and plunged into the flames.

Xiao Yan used Snake Shedding Grass to sustain Queen Medusa's transformation as the Sea Lotus Heart Flame burned her body. She emerged as a Nine-Colored Giant Snake, broke the Space Barrier, and charged into the storm clouds to face the Thunder Tribulation.

• Queen Medusa's nearly lifeless body continued transforming under the Sea Lotus Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan discovered that Snake Shedding Grass could restore the energy driving her evolution.
• Xiao Yan fed eight stalks of Snake Shedding Grass into the flames, reviving Queen Medusa and becoming immersed in the transformation as his Soul Power spread across a thousand miles.
• Queen Medusa's charred body grew fresh flesh and nine-colored scales, and she emerged as a Nine-Colored Giant Snake.
• As storm clouds gathered, the Nine-Colored Giant Snake shattered her Space Barrier and launched herself into the clouds before lightning struck, leaving Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan stunned.

After Queen Medusa completed her evolution, she restrained and drained Xiao Yan before leaving him a Nine-Colored Beast Flame as compensation. Xiao Yan recovered, refined the flame into his Sea Lotus Heart Flame, and prepared to revive Heavenly Flame Venerable using his own remains.

• The Nine-Colored Giant Snake devoured the clouds and evolved, then transformed into Queen Medusa and restrained Xiao Yan, leaving a seal on his Storage Ring.
• Three days later, Queen Medusa mocked Xiao Yan, took six Dark Red Fire Pearls, and gave him a Nine-Colored Beast Flame that restored his strength and removed the seal.
• Xiao Yan refined the Nine-Colored Flame into the Sea Lotus Heart Flame, then absorbed World Energy and recovered by cultivating for a day and night.
• Xiao Yan released Heavenly Flame Venerable and discussed restoring his body, and Heavenly Flame Venerable chose to use his own depleted skeleton.

Xiao Yan resurrected Heavenly Flame Venerable, who agreed to guard Xiao Yan's family's space tunnel in Wutan City. Xiao Yan then entered the Nether Saint Relic's ravine to seek an inheritance, but the seemingly endless descent led him to suspect the passage had been altered by Space Power.

• Xiao Yan used the Yin Yang Life Soul Pill, a Seventh Grade magical beast's essence blood, and the Sea Lotus Heart Flame to resurrect Heavenly Flame Venerable over six days.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable accepted Xiao Yan's jade slip and agreed to guard the space tunnel in Wutan City until Xiao Yan took him to Central Continent.
• Queen Medusa returned the box of Fire Pearls to Xiao Yan after breaking through to three-star strength and offered to save him if he faced danger in the relic.
• Xiao Yan flew to the Nether Saint Relic and descended into its ravine with the black key, surrounding himself with Heavenly Flames.
• After descending for more than an hour through darkness and thin World Energy, Xiao Yan wondered whether Space Power had made the ravine endless and punched a stone wall.

Xiao Yan descended through a seemingly endless abyss in the Nether Saint Relic, struggling with isolation and dwindling Dou Qi before trying to awaken the spatial power in his Ancient Void Dragon bloodline. The effort stirred the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python aura within him, and a suction force from his heart absorbed the Dragon Might.

• Xiao Yan punched through the Stone Wall but found nothing unusual and continued descending until his Dou Qi began to run low.
• Xiao Yan fought off despair by reminding himself of his future as the Flame Emperor, then removed his wings and free-fell while trying unsuccessfully to contact Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan woke still falling, warmed himself with Heavenly Flames, and decided to use his Ancient Void Dragon Essence Blood to explore spatial power.
• Xiao Yan used the Dragon Qi from the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill to stimulate his bloodline, causing Dragon Might to distort the space around him.
• The Dragon Might awakened the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python aura, and a suction force from Xiao Yan's heart swallowed and absorbed it.

Xiao Yan harnessed the strange space to absorb the Ancient Void Dragon bloodline and evolve his Heavenly Flames, then reached the chamber at the bottom of the pit. There, he met the trial’s mysterious guardian, who questioned why Xiao Yan had never tried to escape.

• Xiao Yan discovered that the space had helped him absorb Dragon Might and Ancient Void Dragon bloodline power, strengthening him and altering his Fallen Heart Flame and Nine-Colored Flame.
• Xiao Yan fed Earth Fire Pearls to the Green Lotus Core Flame and Fire Pearls to the Fallen Heart Flame and Nine-Colored Flame, triggering their evolution.
• Xiao Yan reached the bottom of the pit, found a locked wooden door, and opened it with the black key.
• Xiao Yan entered a room containing three labeled wooden boxes and met a blurry-faced illusory figure who said he was the first to truly pass the trial.
• The figure asked why Xiao Yan had never tried to leave, and Xiao Yan replied that he would have called for help rather than expect a Dou Emperor to escape alone.

Xiao Yan passed the Nether Flame Demon Saint’s trial and broke the Nightmare Heavenly Mist illusion after experiencing a life in which he reached Dou Emperor. After hearing how the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame betrayed him, the Nether Flame Demon Saint offered Xiao Yan the Spirit Transformation Emperor Soul Fruit as an investment in his chance to reach Dou Emperor.

• The Nether Flame Demon Saint accepted that Xiao Yan had passed the trial and allowed him to choose one item from the wooden boxes.
• Xiao Yan opened the Nightmare Heavenly Mist box, entered its illusion, and broke free after only a few breaths.
• Xiao Yan told the Nether Flame Demon Saint that, in the illusion, he had devoured Heavenly Flames, taken Pills, explored relics, and broken through to Dou Emperor using Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance.
• The Nether Flame Demon Saint explained that he had tried fusing Heavenly Flames, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame turned against him after he suppressed its desire to devour the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.
• The Nether Flame Demon Saint gave Xiao Yan a chance to prove he could reach Dou Emperor without an inheritance and offered him the Spirit Transformation Emperor Soul Fruit if he succeeded.

Within the Illusion Realm, Xiao Yan found the Dou Qi Continent devastated and everyone he knew gone, then began rebuilding the Pill Tower and searching for a way to reach the Dou Emperor realm. As he started creating cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, the Nether Flame Demon Saint used his remaining Essence Blood to strengthen the illusion and watched to see what Xiao Yan would create.

• Xiao Yan asked the Nether Flame Demon Saint to make time flow faster in the Illusion Realm, and the Saint sent him into a world where a hundred years passed for every day outside.
• A hundred years after receiving the Saint's Essence Blood and refining two Heavenly Flames, Xiao Yan found himself the strongest person on a Dou Qi Continent emptied by war and catastrophe.
• Xiao Yan rebuilt the Pill Tower, found the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clan Small Spaces, and moved the Heavenly Tomb to the tower.
• Xiao Yan gathered several Heavenly Flames and began considering how to reach the Dou Emperor realm so he could use the Power of Time to recover the lost.
• The Nether Flame Demon Saint grew weary from maintaining the illusion and explaining away Xiao Yan's suspicions, then ignited his remaining Essence Blood to watch Xiao Yan create cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.

Xiao Yan developed methods to refine Residual Souls and control time, then built the Endless Fire Domain into a continent-spanning force that gathered resources and energy for his eventual breakthrough to Dou Emperor. After nearly a thousand years of preparation, he began mass-producing Pills while continuing to expand his influence across the Dou Qi Continent.

• Xiao Yan refined the Heavenly Tomb’s Residual Souls, absorbed their excess spirituality, and broke through to the Emperor Realm Soul, gaining limited influence over time.
• Xiao Yan devised a Formation based on the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, founded the Endless Fire Domain, and sent disciples across Central Continent to establish arrays powered by Heavenly Flame sub-flames.
• Xiao Yan spent nearly a thousand years locating the Flame of Life, Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, while the Endless Fire Domain grew into a force with at least three Half-Saints.
• Xiao Yan purified the Bodhi Ancient Tree, obtained its Bodhi Heart and seeds, and established nine great arrays whose use required Alchemists to provide Form Transformation Pills.
• Xiao Yan spread the Three Thousand Burning Flame into the sky to absorb starlight, took control of most natural resources, and began refining Pills at a steadily increasing rate.

After ten thousand years of preparation, Xiao Yan poured his accumulated spirituality, Heavenly Flames, and pills into an attempt to break through to Dou Emperor. He left the Nether Flame Demon Saint with the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame sealed in his chest and advice for his future cultivation.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Heavenly Tomb's vast spirituality, swallowed his stored pills, and formed a giant body from the Heavenly Flames.
• The Nether Flame Demon Saint warned Xiao Yan that the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame contained the Old Dragon Emperor's power and could devour him.
• Xiao Yan chose the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and the Nether Flame Demon Saint sealed it inside a lotus mark on his chest.
• The Nether Flame Demon Saint explained that Xiao Yan could use much of what he learned in the illusion and offered him a way to return for guidance.
• The Nether Flame Demon Saint told Xiao Yan to find the last piece of the map and decide whether the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame deserved to be spared.
• Xiao Yan said he would consult his teacher before accepting the Nether Flame Demon Saint as a master, then left to settle the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame matter.

After returning from the Nether Saint Relic, Xiao Yan learned what had happened during his two-year absence and began refining Zi Yan’s Essence Blood to gain control over the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame. The flame responded to his Dragon Emperor bloodline, and Xiao Yan set out to continue making it obey his Soul Power.

• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan that her father’s Essence Blood was inside the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and explained that the Old Dragon Emperor was alive but trapped as a guardian of the Tou She Ancient God inheritance.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Yan a drop of her Essence Blood after he promised to help her grow faster and warned her to keep her father’s situation secret.
• Queen Medusa told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi Xian had gone to the Central Continent, the Xiao Clan had acquired Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, and she had defeated opponents from Demonic Flame Valley and Heavenly Snake Manor; she also revealed that she was pregnant.
• Xiao Yan took Zi Yan’s Essence Blood with a Blood Fusion Body Transformation Pill, absorbing the pure Dragon Emperor bloodline.
• Xiao Yan’s Dragon Might caused the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to break through its seal and respond with a sense of closeness, leaving him to practice until it no longer resisted his Soul Power.

Xiao Yan refined the Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake’s remains and created a Heavenly Demon Puppet from Old Ghost of Earth Demon’s corpse, a Soul Hall Protector’s soul, and the snake’s Magical Core. After making pills for Queen Medusa and Zi Yan, he decided to visit the Black Emperor Sect auction for a suspected Eighth Grade Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse.

• Xiao Yan refined the Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake into Essence Blood, strengthened his bond with the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and stored the snake’s Magical Core.
• Xiao Yan obtained a Soul Hall Protector from the Black Corner Region, erased its consciousness, and used its soul with Old Ghost of Earth Demon’s corpse and the snake’s Magical Core to refine a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yan strengthened the puppet with melted Black Locks, metals, and jade, creating a silver-and-gold Heavenly Demon Puppet that he expected could contend with Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• Xiao Yan refined an Eighth Grade one-color Pill Lightning Heaven Soul Merging Blood Pill and an Eighth Grade two-color Pill Lightning Form Transformation Pill, while Queen Medusa swallowed the Pill Lightning.
• Queen Medusa took the Heaven Soul Merging Blood Pill, and Zi Yan used the Form Transformation Pill to transform into a purple young dragon before returning to human form.
• Xiao Yan recalled the Black Emperor Sect auction and decided to visit it to buy items, including a suspected Eighth Grade Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse.

Xiao Yan obtained the corpse of an Eighth Grade Heavenly Demon Phoenix from Mo Tian Xing and recruited him into the Xiao Clan. After preparing his family and setting out for the Central Continent, Xiao Yan discovered that the corpse still held a Magical Core and Essence Blood.

• Xiao Yan bought the Black Emperor Sect’s goods with pills, then insisted that Mo Tian Xing give him the supposedly worthless Magical Beast corpse.
• Xiao Yan recognized the corpse as an Eighth Grade Heavenly Demon Phoenix and warned Mo Tian Xing that its clan might send powerful experts to retrieve it.
• Mo Tian Xing offered to join the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan accepted him and directed him to report to Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City, used Heart Flame to help his brothers and clan members advance, and learned that an unknown Dou Zun had approached Heavenly Flame Venerable on behalf of the Lion Nether Sect.
• Xiao Yan left Qing Lin with Queen Medusa and traveled through the Space Wormhole toward the Central Continent with Zi Yan, Gu He, and Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• During the journey, Xiao Yan examined the Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse and sensed a Magical Core and Essence Blood still inside it.

Xiao Yan refined a Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse into Purple-gold Bone Tips for Zi Yan and began turning its hide into small, energy-rich treats. The chapter ended with him shaping more than a hundred phoenix cookies for Zi Yan, who had cried after learning the materials were being tempered so she could safely consume them.

• Xiao Yan refined the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's claws into ten Purple-gold Bone Tips, which Zi Yan eagerly took for her gauntlets.
• Xiao Yan extracted five drops of Essence Blood from the corpse's flesh, erased the will from four drops, and fed them to the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan used the Nine-Colored Flame to devour energy from the phoenix hide and skull before adding the remaining Essence Blood to the hide.
• Zi Yan asked why Xiao Yan had reduced the hide's energy, and Xiao Yan explained that she could not digest a pill made from an Eighth Grade Magical Core as a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan condensed the hide's energy with Source Liquid Fruits and Gan Mashu, then divided the mixture into more than a hundred tiny Heavenly Demon Phoenix cookies.