Chapter Summaries

Huo Xuan and his companions arrived at the Demon Flame Plains as factions gathered to compete for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. The chapter ended with Huo Xuan assessing Gu Xun’er’s hidden injuries and warning that another worsening could leave her with little time to live.

• Huo Xuan, Huo Yao, and Huo Zhi approached the blazing Demon Flame Plains and saw that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame had burned a mountain range into a desert.
• Hun Miesheng and Hun Feng emerged from black mist, and Huo Xuan recognized Hun Feng as a powerful Hun Clan heir.
• Yao Tian arrived with Yao Wanhua and another Medicine Clan member, and he and Huo Xuan exchanged greetings and learned that each had reached Dou Sheng.
• Gu Nanhai arrived with Gu Xun’er, who had also reached Dou Sheng, but she secretly coughed blood and swallowed a medicinal pill.
• Huo Xuan and Huo Yao concluded that Gu Xun’er’s forced breakthrough had left her with hidden injuries and that she lacked the strength of a true Dou Sheng.
• Huo Xuan warned that if Gu Xun’er’s injuries worsened while competing for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, she might not live much longer.

At the Demon Flame Plains, Gu Nanhai failed to persuade the Flame Clan and Medicine Clan to join forces with the Gu Clan against the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, as suspicion over the vanished Spirit Clan kept the clans divided. Gu Xun'er remained determined to claim the flame for herself and looked toward the shattered space where it would appear.

• Yao Ling judged that Gu Xun'er had damaged her health by relying too heavily on pills to raise her cultivation.
• Gu Nanhai proposed that the Gu, Flame, and Medicine Clans temporarily cooperate to subdue the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, but Huo Yao and Yao Wangui refused.
• Huo Yao and Yao Wangui said the Gu Clan and Hun Clan were suspects in the Spirit Clan's disappearance, and Gu Nanhai angrily left.
• Gu Xun'er rejected Gu Nanhai's concern and insisted that she would obtain the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to replace her Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.

Huo Xuan entered the Demon Flame Space and resisted the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s emotion-triggered illusions and flames. After the group escaped the Nightmare Mist, they reached a gate leading toward the Demon Flame, where an army of Fire Slaves appeared.

• Huo Yao warned Huo Xuan and the others that strong emotions could trigger the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, and the group entered the Demon Flame Space.
• Separated from the others, Huo Xuan recognized Gu Xun’er’s attack on his loved ones as an illusion and forced the demon flames out of his body.
• Huo Xuan found Huo Yao, Yao Wangui, and the others in the Nightmare Mist, where they recovered from their illusions and escaped the fog.
• The group reached a platform and a huge gate said to lead toward the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Cracks opened around the platform, and countless flame-wreathed Fire Slaves poured out carrying Flame Spears.

Gu Xun'er and the others fought their way through the endless Fire Slaves and faced Blood Axe Xiao Chen, whom four clan leaders killed. They reached the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s altar, where the white-robed figure offered them a choice: defeat him for the Demon Flame Source or remain as Fire Slaves.

• Gu Xun'er and the other experts broke through the Giant Gate and fought their way through successive halls filled with Fire Slaves.
• The group encountered a gaunt Four-Star Dou Sheng wielding a blood-red axe, whom Huo Xuan and Huo Yao identified as Xiao Chen of the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Miesheng, Huo Yao, Gu Nanhai, and Yao Wangui joined forces and killed Xiao Chen after he activated the Xiao Clan Tattoo.
• The group climbed the stairs to an altar, where they found a white-robed figure surrounded by milky-white flame.
• The white-robed figure told them to defeat him to obtain the Demon Flame Source or remain there forever as Fire Slaves.

Huo Xuan exposed the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s Nightmare Mist illusion and broke it with a Nightmare Breaking Rune, revealing the true Demon Flame above a Magma Sea. The gathered experts prepared to confront it, while the Demon Flame warned that breaking the illusion would not change the outcome.

• Huo Xuan told the others that the white-robed man and their surroundings were part of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s Nightmare Mist, and warned that fighting the illusion would leave them trapped.
• Huo Xuan used a Nightmare Breaking Rune to shatter the illusion, freeing everyone and revealing a vast Magma Sea.
• The freed experts gathered on floating boulders as the true Purifying Lotus Demon Flame appeared atop a magma pillar.
• Hun Miesheng, Yao Tian, and Yao Ling questioned Huo Xuan about his knowledge of the Nightmare Mist and the rune, but he offered an unconvincing explanation.
• Yao Wangui and the other experts prepared to confront the Demon Flame, which declared that they still could not defeat it.

The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame trapped the gathered experts in a fire prison and used its strange powers to kill many of them, then summoned ten powerful Fire Slaves. Hun Miesheng persuaded the rival clans to cooperate, and four Four-Star Dou Shengs prepared to confront the Demon Flame as the battle began.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame sealed the area in a prison of milky-white fire and began refining everyone inside.
• The Demon Flame triggered the deaths of panicking experts and then caused nearly eighty percent of the Dou Zun fighters to explode.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame summoned ten Fire Slaves, all of whom possessed Dou Sheng strength.
• Hun Miesheng called on the strongest experts to join forces, and the Flame Clan, Medicine Clan, and other groups agreed despite their distrust of the Hun Clan.
• Gu Nanhai checked on Gu Xun'er, Huo Yao was warned to watch for the Hun Clan's tricks, and Yao Wangui asked Yao Tian to protect Yao Ling.
• Four Four-Star Dou Shengs moved to face the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame as the battle began.

Hun Miesheng, Gu Nanhai, Huo Yao, and Yao Wangui fought the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame while the other Dou Sheng experts battled its Fire Slaves. After the four gained an advantage but suffered injuries, Hun Miesheng called for their strength to seal the demon flame.

• The experts divided up to fight the ten Fire Slaves as Hun Miesheng, Gu Nanhai, Huo Yao, and Yao Wangui confronted the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame summoned a Fire Demon Halberd and attacked the four Dou Sheng experts with a huge wave of demon flame.
• Huo Xuan defeated a Three-Star Dou Sheng Fire Slave with Yellow Spring Sky Wrath, while Hun Feng devoured the flames from his opponent.
• Yao Tian used a scheme to turn a Fire Slave against an unknown Dou Sheng expert, then killed the Fire Slave in a sneak attack as the expert perished.
• Hun Miesheng, Gu Nanhai, Huo Yao, and Yao Wangui wore down the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame in a vast battle, and Hun Miesheng called for them to lend their strength to the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Formation.

Hun Miesheng and the other experts used the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Formation to trap the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, but it broke free before Hun Miesheng could seize it. The Demon Flame then attacked Hun Miesheng, who called for the Demon Elder to save him.

• Hun Miesheng summoned the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Formation, and the experts poured their energy into it to seal the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• The Demon Flame struggled against the formation, so Hun Miesheng and the others sacrificed their blood essence to strengthen the seal.
• The formation shrank the Demon Flame into a cylinder, and Hun Miesheng reached for it while thanking the other experts.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame regained its human form, destroyed the formation, and blasted Hun Miesheng away.
• The Demon Flame conjured a Fire Demon Halberd and hurled it at Hun Miesheng, who cried out for the Demon Elder to save him.

Soul Demon Old Man intervened to help Hun Miesheng, while Green Ox Herdboy revealed himself as the Pill Tower Old Ancestor and confronted the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. Green Ox Herdboy displayed Six Star Dou Sheng strength and began countering the Demon Flame, which answered by invoking the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation.

• Soul Demon Old Man emerged and swallowed the Fire Demon Halberd’s attack, saving Hun Miesheng and urging the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to serve the Hun Clan.
• Green Ox Herdboy appeared on a green ox and explained that the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint had sealed the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to prevent it from harming the Central Plains.
• Green Ox Herdboy fought the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame with flute notes and space displacement, revealing that he had reached Six Star Dou Sheng.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame summoned the Demon Flame Divine Statue and attacked Green Ox Herdboy, who melted more than half of it with Pill Melt Heaven.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame threatened to refine Green Ox Herdboy and activated the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation.

The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame activated the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation and destroyed the passage out of the Demon Flame Space, trapping everyone inside. When his attack failed to kill them, Huo Xuan awakened with the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint appearing through him.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame revealed that he had mastered the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation and sealed the space with its Heavenly and Earthly formations.
• Soul Demon Old Man tried to lead everyone through the spatial passageway, but the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame destroyed it.
• Soul Demon Old Man, the Green Ox Herdboy, the Pill Tower Old Ancestor, and Gu Nanhai divided their forces to resist the formations.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame unleashed two destructive pillars of light, but a halo shielded everyone from the impact.
• Huo Xuan collapsed, and the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint appeared through him as his eyes opened with milky-white pupils.

The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint took control of the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation and opened a passage for everyone to escape as the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame prepared to self-destruct. Huo Zhi stayed behind with Huo Xuan, while Gu Xun'er broke free from Gu Nanhai and turned back to attack Huo Xuan.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame accused the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint of betraying him, then attacked him with the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint froze the formation’s pillars of light and wrested control of the formation from the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame unleashed Demon Flame Destroys the World, so the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint opened a spatial passage and urged everyone to escape.
• Huo Zhi refused to leave Huo Xuan, while Huo Yao and the others fled through the passage.
• Gu Xun'er struck Gu Nanhai into the passage, then turned back and summoned the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame to pursue revenge against Huo Xuan.

The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint used the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation to strip the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame of its memories and intelligence, believing its violent nature would cause catastrophe. After the Demon Flame resisted and attacked him, the two vanished in a devastating explosion, leaving the Demon Flame Source drifting over the Magma Sea.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint trapped the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame in the Heaven-Refining Ancient Formation and began drawing its memories and intelligence out of its body.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame cursed the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint and begged for mercy, while Huo Zhi stayed beside Huo Xuan.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint told the Demon Flame that he regarded it as his only child and had no resentment toward it, but the Demon Flame rejected his affection and attacked him with blood mist.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint activated the formations, and Huo Xuan led Huo Zhi away from the ensuing explosion.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame disappeared, while the Demon Flame Source drifted above the Magma Sea.

Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi found the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame inside the sealed Demon Flame Space, where Huo Xuan killed Gu Xun'er after she attacked him. Unable to locate the space after seven days, Huo Yao and Gu Nanhai prepared to return to their clans, fearing for the trapped youths.

• Huo Xuan explained that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame had become peaceful and decided to refine it inside the sealed space before trying to escape.
• Huo Xuan exposed Gu Xun'er’s hiding place, and she unleashed the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame and charged at him.
• Huo Xuan defeated Gu Xun'er and burned her body and soul, leaving the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame behind.
• Huo Xuan chose to leave the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame in the space until he had refined the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and could decide what to do with it.
• After seven days passed without any sign of change, Huo Yao and Gu Nanhai failed to locate the Demon Flame Space and prepared to return to their clans.

Huo Xuan began refining the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame with the Yan Cold Grand Array, Drunken Demon Saliva, and a Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill. As Gu Yuan and Yan Jin learned that their clansmen were trapped in the Demon Flame Space, Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi struggled to absorb the flame’s immense energy together.

• Huo Xuan weakened the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame with the Yan Cold Grand Array, Drunken Demon Saliva, and the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill before beginning its refinement.
• Gu Nanhai reported that Xun Er was trapped in the Demon Flame Space and her Soul Jade had shattered, so Gu Yuan ordered him to accompany him to the Flame Clan.
• Yan Jin rebuked Huo Yao for leaving Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi in the Demon Flame Space, while their intact Soul Jades showed they were still alive.
• Gu Yuan arrived at the Flame Clan, and Yan Jin ordered that he be admitted.
• Huo Zhi helped Huo Xuan withstand the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s overwhelming power as they absorbed its energy together.

After a year of seclusion, Huo Xuan emerged from the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s crystal egg as a mid-Six-Star Dou Sheng, while Huo Zhi reached Four-Star Dou Sheng and a new Heavenly Flame Spirit was born. Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi left the Demon Flame Space without taking the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame, which began absorbing the Magma Sea after they departed.

• News spread that the Shi Clan had vanished in the same mysterious manner as the Spirit Clan, alarming the Central Plains.
• Huo Xuan emerged from the crystal egg at mid-Six-Star Dou Sheng, and Huo Zhi woke to find herself at the initial phase of Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Huo Xuan discovered that the fused Heavenly Flame sources had created a new Heavenly Flame Spirit and named it Little Demon.
• Huo Xuan refused to take the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame, deciding its disappearance would risk a conflict with the Gu Clan.
• Huo Xuan took Huo Zhi through a rift out of the Demon Flame Space, and the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame sank into the Magma Sea and began drawing in its energy.

Gu Yuan confronted Yan Jin and Huo Xuan over Xun Er’s disappearance in the Demon Flame Space, but the Flame Clan denied responsibility and demanded evidence. Returning to Gu World, Gu Yuan ordered the Gu Clan to seal itself for one hundred years and sent Gu Dao to search for the vanished Demon Flame Space and retrieve the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.

• On the Demon Flame Plains, Gu Nanhai ambushed Huo Yao, but Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi appeared alive and drove the conflict into the open.
• Gu Nanhai reported that Huo Xuan had wounded him and that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame had fallen into the Flame Clan’s hands.
• Gu Yuan confronted Yan Jin in Yan World, demanding an explanation for Xun Er’s disappearance and accusing Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi of harming her.
• Huo Xuan said he had no memory of events while possessed by the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint, denied seeing Xun Er, and demanded evidence for Gu Yuan’s accusations.
• Gu Yuan left the Flame Clan without an explanation and ordered the Gu Clan to seal itself for one hundred years.
• Gu Yuan sent Gu Dao to search for the vanished Demon Flame Space and retrieve the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.

As the Gu Clan sealed itself off, Hun Tiandi dismissed its troubles and continued pursuing his plan to become a Dou Emperor. In Yan World, Huo Xuan refined the Pill Beast into a Half-Formed Mysterious Pill and decided to visit the Void Lightning Pool before the Medicine Ceremony.

• The Gu Clan sealed itself off after losing Gu Xun'er, the Four Great Commanders, and other talented members, leaving Gu Yuan burdened by internal succession problems and external threats.
• Hun Tiandi celebrated the Gu Clan’s decision, ordered Hun Yan to summon Hun Xuzi, and reaffirmed his plan to collect the Tou She Ancient God Jade and open the Ancient God Cave Abode.
• Huo Xuan checked on the growing Source Flames of three Strange Fires in Yan World’s crimson hall.
• Huo Xuan burned the restrained Pill Beast with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, transformed it into a Half-Formed Mysterious Pill, and captured it as it tried to flee.
• Huo Xuan planned to refine the pill to raise his cultivation and decided to visit the Void Lightning Pool before the Medicine Ceremony.

After reaching the Dou Sheng realm, Lei Dong accompanied Huo Xuan into the Void Lightning Pool to claim a treasure. Huo Xuan devoured Black Demon Lightning before leading Lei Dong to a gigantic golden dragon that appeared to be the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning.

• Lei Dong and Huo Xuan entered the Void Lightning Pool, where Huo Xuan revealed he had found a hidden treasure.
• Huo Xuan and Lei Dong traveled through the pool's depths, absorbing the Black Demon Lightning that attacked them.
• Huo Xuan used Little Demon to devour a vast amount of Black Demon Lightning, raising his strength toward the Six Star Dou Sheng Late Stage.
• Huo Xuan led Lei Dong toward a dark region at the pool's center, where they saw a golden lightning dragon surrounded by Black Demon Lightning.
• Lei Dong recognized the dragon as the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, the pill lightning summoned by refining a Ninth Grade Golden Pill.

Huo Xuan and Lei Dong discovered the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning as it attempted to gather spirit, but its effort failed under the violent backlash. Huo Xuan extracted nearly all its power after promising to help it gain intelligence, and said the person who would help it gather spirit would arrive soon.

• Lei Dong recognized the golden lightning dragon as the legendary Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, and Huo Xuan asked him to use the Spirit Gathering Technique from a safe distance.
• The Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning began gathering spirit, while Huo Xuan waited for the process to fail.
• Black Demon Lightning rushed into the dragon to suppress its internal backlash, but the explosions overwhelmed them and the spirit gathering failed.
• Huo Xuan entered the sea of lightning and absorbed the Black Demon Lightning that attacked him.
• Huo Xuan offered to help the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning gather spirit in exchange for its power, and extracted nearly all of it without resistance.
• Huo Xuan told the weakened golden dragon that the person who would help it gather spirit would arrive soon.

Huo Xuan gave Lei Dong the weakened Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, which Lei Dong brought back to the Lei Clan. Meanwhile, Gu Dao reported that the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame had escaped, and Yan Jin decided to attend the Medicine Clan’s ceremony despite Huo Xuan’s warning that the Hun Clan might attack.

• Huo Xuan stored the destructive power of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning in Little Demon and gave the remaining lightning to Lei Dong, who promised him a favor.
• Lei Ying examined the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, learned how Lei Dong had obtained it, and ordered Lei Dong to take it to the Demon Lightning Pool to absorb more energy.
• Gu Dao told Gu Yuan that the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame had wounded the Gu Clan group and escaped while they were bringing it back.
• Yan Jin decided to attend the Medicine Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, while Huo Xuan warned that the Hun Clan might use the Void Swallowing Flame to attack the Medicine Clan.