Chapter Summaries

Huo Xuan and his group encountered the Ancient God Cave Abode’s guardian, Zhu Kun, who revealed that he was Zi Yan’s father. Zi Yan reluctantly forgave him, and her reunion with Zhu Kun spared the group from being killed.

• Zhu Kun awakened in the cave abode and threatened to keep Huo Xuan, Huo Shuo, and the others there because they did not have the Ancient Jade.
• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan, transformed into human form, and introduced himself as the Dragon Emperor of the Void Ancient Dragon clan and her father.
• Zhu Kun proved his identity through bloodline resonance, but Zi Yan rejected him and cried over having grown up as an orphan.
• Zhu Kun explained that Tou She Ancient God had trapped him and that he had sent Zi Yan away to spare her from imprisonment.
• Huo Xuan and the others persuaded Zi Yan and Zhu Kun to reconcile, and Zhu Kun abandoned his intention to kill the group.

Huo Xuan struck a deal with Zhu Kun to help reunify the Void Ancient Dragon Clan in exchange for Zhu Kun’s help against the Hun Clan, while Zi Yan agreed to stay and strengthen herself. After returning from the cave mansion, Huo Xuan received the Sea Heart Flame and the valuables taken from the Black-Corner Region and prepared to return to the Flame Clan.

• Huo Xuan told Zhu Kun that the Void Ancient Dragon Clan had split into four Dragon Islands and that its civil war had weakened the clan.
• Huo Xuan offered to have the Flame Clan help East Dragon Island reunify the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, and Zhu Kun agreed to help the Flame Clan defeat the Hun Clan later.
• Huo Xuan persuaded Zi Yan to stay with Zhu Kun so he could help increase her strength.
• Yan Yang gave Huo Xuan the Sea Heart Flame after killing Han Feng, and Yan Ya handed over a Storage Ring containing treasures looted from several sects.
• Huo Xuan gave Huo Zhi Crimson Fire Pearls to help her advance and then asked Huo Shuo to take him back to the Flame Clan.

After returning to the Flame Clan, Huo Xuan gave the elders an infant Fallen Heart Flame and revealed that he had found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. He proposed an alliance with the Dragon Emperor to use the Hun Clan's search for the Ancient Jade to open the cave, leaving Yan Jin to investigate his claims and the Clan's suspected spies.

• Huo Xuan convinced Canaan Academy's elders that Zi Yan had died in the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, then returned to the Flame Clan with his group.
• Huo Xuan told Yan Jin that he had reached Four-Star Dou Zong after refining two Heavenly Flames, then gave the Clan Leader an infant Fallen Heart Flame for the elders to distribute.
• Huo Xuan revealed that he had found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath Canaan Academy and said the Dragon Emperor would help the Flame Clan oppose the Hun Clan in exchange for help reunifying the Void Ancient Dragon clan.
• Yan Jin agreed to verify Huo Xuan's account and ordered the Great Elder to discreetly inspect the elders guarding the Ancient Jade for signs of possession.
• Yan Jin told the elders to keep Huo Xuan's revelations secret.

Huo Xuan refined the Sea Heart Flame, raising his cultivation to Seven-Star Dou Zong, then made a Bodhi Seed and harvested valuable materials from a Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse. Meanwhile, the Yan Clan confirmed Huo Xuan’s warning about Hun Clan infiltration and began preparing to follow his plan, while Huo Xuan turned his attention to Yao Chen.

• Hun Tiandi learned that the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade was being kept in the Yan Clan Ancestral Hall and suspected Yan Jin was behind the Xiao Clan incident.
• Huo Zhen questioned Huo Xuan about his plan, and Huo Xuan estimated its chance of success at seventy percent before agreeing to proceed without harming the Yan Clan.
• Huo Xuan entered seclusion and refined the Sea Heart Flame, advancing from Four-Star Dou Zong to Seven-Star Dou Zong and improving the Flame Mantra to Earth-Rank High-Grade.
• Yan Jin’s Great Elder confirmed that a Hun Clan member had fused souls with an elder guarding the jade, and Yan Jin ordered the clan to search for Ancient Dragon Island and help unite the Void Ancient Dragon clan.
• Huo Xuan refined Bodhi Transformation Saliva into a Bodhi Seed, then extracted five drops of Ancient Phoenix Blood Essence, the Heaven Demon Phoenix’s bone wings, and its Magic Core.
• Huo Xuan finished processing the Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse and declared that Yao Chen was his next target.

Huo Xuan deceived Yao Chen into entering a prepared Dou Zun corpse and refined his soul into a puppet. The newly named Chen Venerable became Huo Xuan’s bound guard.

• Huo Xuan offered Yao Chen a prepared corpse and a fake Flesh Bone Regeneration Pill, claiming they would restore his strength.
• After Yao Chen entered the corpse, Huo Xuan used Strange Fire to refine it, and Yao Chen realized the pill and body had been tampered with.
• Huo Xuan revealed that he planned to turn Yao Chen into a puppet because Yao Chen’s loyalty to Xiao Yan made him an enemy and a potential threat.
• Yao Chen struggled and cursed Huo Xuan and the Flame Clan, but Huo Xuan refined his soul and fused its combat experience into the puppet.
• Huo Xuan placed a Soul Imprint on the puppet, named it Chen Venerable, and received its pledge of obedience.

Huo Xuan revived Heavenly Flame Venerable with a powerful new body, then led Flame Clan elders to East Dragon Island to help reunify the Void Ancient Dragon Clan. He revealed that the Dragon Emperor was trapped beneath Canaan Academy, leaving the elders uncertain how they could rescue him.

• Huo Xuan used a Five-Star Dou Zun skeleton, Ancient Phoenix Blood Essence, Strange Fire, and a Flesh Bone Regeneration Pill to restore Heavenly Flame Venerable, who rose to Seven-Star Dou Zun strength.
• Yan Jin assigned Huo Xuan, Huo Ling, and Yan Xuan to help East Dragon Island reunify the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Huo Xuan's group met Hei Qing in the void, learned he came from East Dragon Island, and followed him to the island.
• Huo Xuan told Great Elder Qing Shan and the other elders that the Flame Clan had come to help reunify the clan on behalf of the Dragon Emperor.
• Huo Xuan revealed that the Dragon Emperor was trapped in the Magma World beneath Canaan Academy, and questioned whether Zhu Li could rescue him when the Dragon Emperor himself could not escape.

Yan Xuan ordered the three Dragon Kings to submit to East Dragon Island, prompting them to join forces and march against it. The North Dragon King secretly relied on the forbidden Dragon Transformation Demon Array as his trump card as the combined armies set out.

• Yan Xuan ordered Elder Qing Shan to summon the three Dragon Kings to East Dragon Island and demand their submission within three days.
• The North Dragon King, South Dragon King, and West Dragon King each reacted furiously and ordered their armies to prepare for war.
• The three Dragon Kings invited one another to unite their forces and destroy East Dragon Island.
• Three days later, the three Dragon Kings assembled their armies at North Dragon Island and prepared to march.
• The North Dragon King recalled that his great-grandfather had secretly preserved the forbidden Dragon Transformation Demon Array and considered using it.
• The North Dragon King led his army alongside the West Dragon King and South Dragon King toward East Dragon Island.

East Dragon Island confronted the armies of the other Three Great Dragon Islands with help from the Flame Clan and announced that the Dragon Emperor had been found. The other islands submitted after their kings were defeated, and the Great Elder ordered the three kings imprisoned until the Dragon Emperor returned.

• Qing Shan welcomed Huo Ling and Yan Xuan of the Flame Clan as the other Three Great Dragon Islands arrived at East Dragon Island.
• Huo Ling killed Man Yan with a sudden attack and demanded that the Three Great Dragon Kings submit or wage war.
• Huo Ling and Yan Xuan revealed their high-level Dou Sheng strength, and Huo Xuan urged Qing Shan to announce the Dragon Emperor's decree.
• Qing Shan declared that the Dragon Emperor had been found and warned that those who submitted could be spared; the Savage Dragon Army, Dragon Armor Army, and North Dragon Island's forces knelt.
• The South Dragon King attacked the kneeling Savage Dragon Army, but Huo Ling crippled him, while Yan Xuan crippled the fleeing West Dragon King and North Dragon King.
• Huo Ling and Yan Xuan handed the three defeated kings to the Great Elder, who ordered them sent to the dungeon for the Dragon Emperor to judge.

After the Void Ancient Dragon clan reunified, Huo Xuan was sent to the Snake-People Tribe to resolve its conflict with the Gu Clan. He arrived with Yan Yang and four young Flame Clan successors, and saw that the tribe was on guard.

• The Void Ancient Dragon clan reunited under the Dragon Emperor, bringing the four islands together as one Ancient Dragon Island.
• Yan Jin assigned Huo Xuan the Flame Clan’s affairs and asked him to handle a dispute between the Snake-People Tribe and the Gu Clan.
• Huo Xuan agreed to visit the Snake-People Tribe, which he had subdued three years earlier and promised to protect.
• Yan Yang accompanied Huo Xuan, along with Yan Ling, Yan Liao, Huo Cheng, and Huo Yun, who were sent to learn from him.
• Huo Xuan’s group reached the Snake-People Mountain Range and was escorted into the heavily guarded tribe.

Huo Xuan arrived at the Snake-People Tribe and confronted its Great Commander before Queen Medusa explained that the Gu Clan-backed Chen Family was threatening her people. The chapter ended as fighting broke out outside the royal palace and someone shouted for Medusa to come out.

• Huo Xuan suppressed the Great Commander after the snake-man insulted the Flame Clan, then ordered him to report to Queen Medusa.
• Queen Medusa arrived, removed the Great Commander from his post, and led Huo Xuan and his companions into the royal palace.
• Queen Medusa explained that the Chen Family had abducted and hunted Snake-People after searching the tribe’s mountain ruins, and now sought revenge for its young master’s death.
• Queen Medusa revealed that the Chen Family had a Dou Zong and the protection of the Gu Clan, prompting Yan Ling to protest.
• Fighting sounded outside the palace as someone called for Medusa to come out.

Huo Xuan defeated the Chen Family attackers who threatened the Snake-People Tribe, then gave Huo Yun a chance to compete with Huo Cheng for the Great Elder’s successor position. Huo Yun left with a Child Flame and cultivation resources, while Huo Xuan planned to use the contest to build loyal support and counter Huo Cheng.

• Old Monster Chen led the Chen Family in threatening Queen Medusa, and Huo Xuan revealed that he and his companions belonged to the Flame Clan.
• Yan Yang killed Old Monster Chen, and Huo Xuan ordered the remaining Chen Family members killed for attacking the Snake-People Tribe and insulting the Flame Clan.
• Huo Yun asked Huo Xuan to lend him a Strange Fire so he could challenge Huo Cheng for the Great Elder’s successor position, but Huo Xuan initially told him to compete fairly on his own.
• Huo Xuan gave Huo Yun a Child Flame of the Fallen Heart Flame, Crimson Fire Pearls, and Breakthrough Pills to help him grow stronger.
• Huo Xuan reflected that he wanted Huo Yun to defeat Huo Cheng and become a loyal ally, while Huo Cheng had long resented Huo Xuan and coveted his position.

Huo Xuan explored a hidden chamber beneath the Snake-People Tribe’s ruins and discovered the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and several relics tied to the Hun Clan. He kept the Soul Refining Art but destroyed the Blood Devouring Art, and the final note revealed the dead Flame Clan exile’s wish for someone to destroy the Flame Clan.

• Qing Lin greeted Huo Xuan and said she had reached the Dou Emperor level before Huo Yun summoned him to investigate a discovery in the ruins.
• Huo Xuan and Yan Yang descended into a blood-soaked cave and found a vast chamber with a Blood Pool and a corpse on a stone platform.
• Huo Xuan burned the corpse and obtained the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, then found three Ancient Wooden Boxes.
• Huo Xuan destroyed the Blood Devouring Art, kept the Soul Refining Art after Yan Yang linked both arts to the Hun Clan, and read the dead exile’s demand that his heir destroy the Flame Clan.
• Huo Xuan cursed the exile and rejected his final wish.

Huo Xuan reflected on the Flame Clan’s role in creating a traitor, gave the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to Huo Yun, and studied the Soul Refining Art. After Yan Yang’s warning led him to reconsider his options, Huo Xuan decided to target Xiao Xuan’s powerful soul form.

• Huo Xuan condemned the dead traitor for allying with the Hun Clan, then resolved to examine the Flame Clan’s failings instead of simply blaming him.
• Huo Xuan gave the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to Huo Yun, who accepted it gratefully.
• Huo Xuan studied the Soul Refining Art and realized that its cultivation required many souls, while the known paths to an Emperor Realm Soul were out of reach.
• Yan Yang warned Huo Xuan that devouring ordinary people’s souls would damage his reputation and targeting powerful experts would be dangerous.
• Huo Xuan remembered Xiao Xuan’s soul form in the Heavenly Tomb and decided to try refining it.

Huo Xuan traveled to the Medicine Clan to seek help refining Xiao Xuan’s soul and arrived as Yao Tian completed a Sixth Grade pill. He criticized the pill’s quality, and Yao Tian recognized him with anger and surprise.

• Huo Xuan refused to return to the Flame Clan with Yan Yang and sent Yan Yang and the others back without him.
• Huo Xuan traveled for more than thirty days to reach the Shen Nong Mountain Range and entered the Medicine Clan’s domain.
• A Medicine Clan member escorted Huo Xuan by giant bird to the clan’s central mountain and plaza.
• Huo Xuan watched Yao Tian use the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame to refine a Sixth Grade pill as the crowd praised his skill.
• Huo Xuan called Yao Tian’s finished pill mediocre, and Yao Tian recognized Huo Xuan and reacted with anger and surprise.

Huo Xuan challenged Yao Tian to a pill-refinement contest at the Medicine Clan and won by refining a Seventh Grade Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill. Yao Tian accepted his defeat, while Huo Xuan claimed the pill recipe belonged to the Flame Clan.

• Huo Xuan agreed to Yao Tian’s pill-refinement challenge and killed two nearly Seventh Order Dragon-Type Magical Beasts to obtain their Magic Cores.
• Yao Tian displayed his Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, but Huo Xuan’s Eight Desolations Destruction Flame forced it to retreat.
• Yao Tian refined a Sixth Grade Imperial Zenith Pill while Huo Xuan completed a Seventh Grade Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill that summoned pill lightning.
• Huo Xuan sent Chen Venerable to absorb the pill lightning, though he found that it barely strengthened the Puppet.
• Huo Xuan explained the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill’s transformative effect, and Yao Tian conceded defeat.

Fire Xuan persuaded Yao Tian to join him in refining Xiao Xuan’s soul, then revealed a plan to improve their chances by completing a Soul Refining Grand Array. Yao Tian agreed to help adapt the Medicine Clan’s pill-refining formations, despite the danger and his doubts about whether the array could be completed.

• Fire Xuan asked Yao Tian about the Gu Clan’s Heavenly Tomb and explained that Xiao Xuan had possessed an Emperor Realm Soul.
• Fire Xuan proposed refining Xiao Xuan’s soul, and Yao Tian agreed to partner with him after examining the Soul Refining Art.
• Fire Xuan explained that the direct methods were too risky and showed Yao Tian his unfinished Soul Refining Grand Array.
• Fire Xuan asked to use the Medicine Clan’s pill-refining formations to complete the array, claiming it could increase the success rate of Ninth Grade Pills.
• Yao Tian hesitated over sharing the Medicine Clan’s secret formations but agreed to help Fire Xuan complete the array.

Gu Xun'er learned that Huo Xuan had spent more than half a year in the Yao Realm, while Huo Xuan and Yao Tian perfected the Soul Refining Grand Array but found it still too vulnerable to refine Xiao Xuan’s soul. Huo Xuan left the Yao Realm, promising to find a way to perfect the array within a year and inviting Yao Tian to the Flame Clan’s Coming of Age Ceremony.

• Gu Xun'er heard from Ling Ying that Huo Xuan was in the Yao Realm with Yao Tian and ordered the spy there to keep watching him.
• Gu Xun'er feared that attacking Huo Xuan would cause him to destroy Xiao Yan’s remaining soul, and worried about the approaching deadline to redeem him.
• After half a year of work, Huo Xuan and Yao Tian completed a Soul Refining Grand Array that could refine Soul Origin and draw in energy from heaven and earth.
• Huo Xuan identified a flaw that might let Xiao Xuan break the array from within and said he would find a way to perfect it within one year.
• Huo Xuan left the Yao Realm and invited Yao Tian to the Flame Clan’s Coming of Age Ceremony to discuss refining Xiao Xuan’s soul.

Huo Xuan was ambushed by two Gu Clan Dou Zuns while returning from the Pill Realm, but survived with help from his subordinates Yan Yang and Yan Ya. He concealed the attack from the Flame Clan and resolved to postpone his revenge until the clan grew strong enough.

• Two Black-Clothed Men attacked Huo Xuan, and he summoned Chen Venerable to fight one while battling the other himself.
• Huo Xuan unleashed the Five Round Separating Fire Array, and the clash with the brothers' Emerald Crystal Hand Seals devastated the mountain range and badly injured him.
• The Black-Clothed Men survived by escaping through space, but Yan Yang and Yan Ya arrived to protect Huo Xuan, and Yan Yang killed both attackers.
• Huo Xuan took the brothers' Storage Rings and ordered Yan Yang and Yan Ya not to report the incident to the Clan Leader, saying the Flame Clan was not ready to confront the Gu Clan.
• Huo Xuan suspected Gu Xun'er had sent the assassins to save Xiao Yan and vowed to remember the attack and seek revenge later.

Gu Xun'er learned that Huo Xuan survived her assassination attempt, while Huo Xuan exposed the Gu Clan’s history with the Xiao Clan to Xiao Yan and used his soul to create a puppet. The chapter ended with the puppet taking the name Yan Zun and calling Huo Xuan its master.

• Gu Xun'er learned from Ling Ying that Huo Xuan had returned safely to the Flame Clan and worried that Xiao Yan was in danger.
• Huo Xuan helped Yan Jin uncover Gu Clan spies, then erased the Soul Imprints on the two Dou Zuns’ Storage Rings and found the Emperor Seal Technique and Seventh Grade Pills inside.
• Huo Xuan told Xiao Yan that Gu Xun'er had approached the Xiao Family to search for its treasure and claimed she had ordered the Xiao Family’s slaughter, including Xiao Yan’s father.
• Xiao Yan rejected Huo Xuan’s attempt to turn him against Gu Xun'er, but Huo Xuan convinced him that she had sent someone to save him only to search for the treasure.
• Huo Xuan used his Strange Fire to refine Xiao Yan’s soul into a puppet and named him Yan Zun, who acknowledged Huo Xuan as his master.

Huo Xuan traveled to Burning Flame Valley to obtain the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame and used Tang Zhen’s search for an alchemist as a way to enter the valley. After proving that his Eight Desolations Destruction Flame could overwhelm Tang Zhen’s flame, Huo Xuan agreed to help refine a pill while preparing to claim the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame by any means.

• Huo Xuan told Yan Yang and Yan Ya to prepare to accompany him to Burning Flame Valley, where he planned to take the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame to strengthen himself.
• Three days later, Huo Xuan set out with Yan Yang, Yan Ya, and Huo Shuo, who opened Burning Flame Valley’s spatial barrier and agreed to restrain its hidden Dou Sheng if needed.
• Yan Yang claimed Huo Xuan was an Alchemy Grandmaster who could help Tang Zhen refine a pill, and Burning Flame Valley’s disciples escorted the group to the Valley Master.
• Huo Xuan identified Tang Huo’er’s severe injuries from a Heavenly Flame backlash, then demonstrated that his Eight Desolations Destruction Flame frightened Tang Zhen’s Nine Dragon Lightning Flame into hiding.
• Tang Zhen agreed to trust Huo Xuan to refine a High-Level Seventh Grade Pill and promised him a reward, while Huo Xuan discussed plans to obtain the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame with his companions.