Chapter Summaries

Lei Dong learned that Gu Xun'er loved Xiao Yan and was devastated, while Huo Xuan urged him to let go. Lei Dong asked to be left alone, and Huo Xuan departed after warning him against taking too many wives.

• Huo Xuan revealed that he had arranged for Lei Dong to witness Gu Xun'er trying to save Xiao Yan.
• Lei Dong lamented that Gu Xun'er had never truly accepted him and questioned why she loved Xiao Yan.
• Huo Xuan advised Lei Dong to give up on Gu Xun'er because she loved Xiao Yan.
• Lei Dong asked Huo Xuan to leave him alone and reflected that love hurt people the most.
• Huo Xuan left Thunder Valley after telling Lei Dong not to take too many women.

After the Lei Clan offered to renew its alliance with the Flame Clan, Huo Xuan advised Yan Jin not to accept too quickly and revealed a child flame of the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame that he planned to cultivate for the clan. Yan Jin agreed to store and nurture it, then offered Huo Xuan a method to stabilize his cultivation.

• Huo Xuan's mother, Huo Xi, visited him and urged him to stop pursuing dangerous plans, then told him Yan Jin wanted to see him.
• Yan Jin told Huo Xuan that Lei Ying had offered to stop opposing the Flame Clan and might renew their alliance, and Huo Xuan advised caution because the Lei Clan had not clearly severed ties with the Gu Clan.
• Huo Xuan showed Yan Jin a child flame of the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame and explained that he wanted the Flame Clan to cultivate it into an independent Heavenly Flame.
• Yan Jin agreed to have the Flame Clan nurture the child flame, and Huo Xuan explained that he would pause cultivation to stabilize his Dou Qi.
• Yan Jin offered to teach Huo Xuan a method to stabilize his cultivation quickly.

Huo Xuan reached the depths of the Infernal Flame Mountain Range and learned that Purgatory Volcano could stabilize his cultivation, though a recent eruption had filled it with fire poison and violent energy. He used his Strange Fire to cure one of the Flame Clan guards and ordered the two men to take him to the volcano’s summit.

• Huo Xuan traveled through Flame City and the Infernal Flame Mountain Range toward the opportunity Yan Jin had promised.
• Two Flame Clan guards challenged Huo Xuan, then recognized his flame jade token and confirmed his identity as Young Clan Leader.
• The guards explained that Purgatory Volcano could temper the body, but a powerful eruption half a month earlier had left it contaminated with fire poison and unknown violent energy.
• Huo Xuan detected fire poison deep in one guard’s body and used his seven-colored Strange Fire to expel it.
• After curing the guard, Huo Xuan asked the two men to take him to the summit of Purgatory Volcano.

Huo Xuan entered Purgatory Volcano to stabilize his cultivation and temper his body, then discovered and absorbed a newly matured Volcanic Rock Flame at the volcano’s bottom. With his cultivation stabilized and the Heavenly Flame in his possession, he prepared to return.

• Huo Xuan ignored the middle-aged men’s warning and entered Purgatory Volcano, where its energy gradually strengthened his body and solidified his Dou Qi.
• After ten days of cultivation, Huo Xuan stabilized his cultivation, but a surge of energy from below struck him and drew his attention deeper into the volcano.
• Huo Xuan descended through the increasingly dangerous magma and used his Heavenly Flames to withstand the fire poison and berserk energy.
• Huo Xuan found a dark red flame in a boulder and recognized it as the newly born Volcanic Rock Flame.
• Huo Xuan drew the Volcanic Rock Flame to him, absorbed it into his body without refining it, and decided to return.

Huo Xuan returned to the Yan World and gave Yan Jin the Volcanic Rock Flame, urging him to use it to break through to Nine Star Dou Sheng. Yan Jin entered seclusion, leaving Huo Xuan and the elders to oversee the Flame Clan as Huo Xuan prepared for the struggle over the opportunities in Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion.

• Huo Xuan returned to the Yan World after obtaining the Volcanic Rock Flame in the Infernal Flame Mountain Range.
• Huo Xuan offered Yan Jin the Volcanic Rock Flame, arguing that it could help him break through from late-stage Eight Star Dou Sheng to Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Yan Jin accepted the flame and entrusted the Flame Clan to Huo Xuan and the elders while he entered seclusion.
• Huo Xuan promised to keep Yan Jin's seclusion secret and reassured him that the Gu Clan was unlikely to make a major move soon.
• Huo Xuan resolved to pursue the Ancient God's Inheritance if he became strong enough, and otherwise to help Yan Jin obtain and destroy the Emperor Pill Embryo so Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi could not claim it.

Huo Xuan managed the Flame Clan in Yan Jin’s absence and encouraged Huo Yun, Yan Ling, and Yan Liao to become his close allies. Huo Cheng, furious at Huo Xuan’s growing influence, drove his followers away and decided he had to find a way to survive.

• Huo Xuan finished the day’s affairs in the Council Hall and met Huo Yun, Yan Ling, and Yan Liao after they emerged from seclusion.
• Huo Xuan praised their progress, asked them to call him Big Brother, and said they might manage much of the Flame Clan in the future.
• A furious young man secretly watched Huo Xuan and his followers.
• Huo Cheng vented his anger on his followers after hearing Huo Xuan planned to entrust the clan’s management to the three men.
• Huo Cheng’s followers left when he dismissed them, and he resolved to find a path to survival rather than wait for Huo Xuan to defeat him.

Huo Cheng and Huo Yi considered leaving the Yan World as Huo Xuan consolidated his control, while Huo Xuan questioned Yan Tian about Huo Cheng. That night, Huo Yi confronted Huo Xuan in secret and attacked him with the pressure of a Dou Sheng, leaving Huo Xuan bleeding.

• Huo Cheng pleaded with Huo Yi for protection, and Huo Yi admitted he was powerless against Huo Xuan.
• Huo Cheng suggested that he and Huo Yi leave the Yan World, and Huo Yi realized his son wanted to betray the Flame Clan.
• Huo Yun, Yan Ling, and Yan Liao brought Yan Tian to Huo Xuan, who questioned him about his ties to Huo Cheng.
• Yan Tian told Huo Xuan everything he knew about Huo Cheng and offered to spy on him, but Huo Xuan said he did not need a spy to deal with him.
• Huo Yi approached Huo Xuan in disguise, revealed his resentment, and unleashed Dou Sheng pressure that made Huo Xuan bleed.

Huo Yi attacked Huo Xuan but was stopped by Huo Ye, and their battle turned against him before Huo Zhen arrived to help. Meanwhile, Huo Cheng remained imprisoned and faced the consequences of his betrayal.

• Huo Ye appeared in time to save Huo Xuan from Huo Yi, then confronted Huo Yi over his attempt to kill his son-in-law.
• Huo Ye and Huo Yi fought in the sky, and Huo Ye gained the advantage as Huo Yi's desperation left openings.
• Huo Ye told Huo Yi that his son Cheng'er had probably already been captured, prompting Huo Yi to charge at Huo Xuan.
• Huo Zhen arrived and struck Huo Yi, leaving him convinced that he could not survive against both elders.
• In a courtyard, Yan Liao asked the bound Huo Cheng for his final words, while Yan Ling explained that Elder Huo Zhen's iron chain could restrain even a Nine Star Dou Zong.
• Yan Liao and Yan Ling reproached Huo Cheng for betraying the clan and wasting the promise he had shown as one of the Yan Clan's Four Heroes.

Huo Xuan punished Huo Cheng for betraying him, stripped him of the Fallen Heart Flame, and gave it to Yan Ling. He ordered Yan Ling and Huo Yun to execute Huo Cheng, whose body and soul were destroyed by Strange Fires.

• Huo Xuan confronted the restrained Huo Cheng and told him that his father had been dealt with.
• Huo Xuan pulled the Fallen Heart Flame from Huo Cheng, causing his cultivation to fall from Nine Star Dou Zong to Three Star Dou Zong.
• Huo Xuan erased Huo Cheng's Soul Imprint and gave the Fallen Heart Flame to Yan Ling, warning him to nurture it before fusing with it.
• Huo Cheng begged for mercy, but Huo Xuan rejected his pleas and ordered Yan Ling to finish him.
• Yan Ling and Huo Yun burned Huo Cheng with the Fallen Heart Flame and Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, destroying his body and soul.

Huo Xuan displayed Huo Yi’s corpse as a warning after the elder’s betrayal, while the Yan Clan discussed Huo Yi and Huo Cheng’s deaths. Six months later, Yan Jin returned from seclusion as a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, strengthening the Medicine Clan’s resolve to remain allied with the Yan Clan against the Gu-Lei Alliance.

• Huo Xuan ordered Huo Yi’s corpse hung in the central plaza and planned to use it after three months as a resource or for refining a puppet.
• Yan Clan members discussed Huo Yi’s betrayal and learned that Huo Cheng had died after being burned by two kinds of Strange Fire.
• Yan Jin emerged from half a year of seclusion and announced that the Volcanic Rock Flame had helped him break through to the Nine-Star Dou Sheng Initial Stage.
• Yan Jin and Huo Xuan agreed to keep the breakthrough secret from most of the Yan Clan and its allies.
• Yao Dan’s Medicine Clan chose to maintain its alliance with the Yan Clan after learning of Yan Jin’s breakthrough.

After Yan Jin became a Nine Star Dou Sheng, Huo Xuan learned that the Ancient Ruins had appeared in the Beast Domain and traveled to the Skeletal Mountain Range. When the spatial seal shattered, its backlash killed many eager entrants, and Huo Xuan reached the crimson Giant Hall with the surviving experts.

• Yan Jin emerged from seclusion as a Nine Star Dou Sheng, and Huo Xuan returned control of the Flame Clan to him.
• Huo Xuan heard that the Ancient Ruins had appeared in the Beast Domain and traveled to the Skeletal Mountain Range.
• Huo Xuan waited with gathered experts for the Dou Sheng seal to weaken, then watched it shatter after five days.
• A spatial storm struck the first people rushing toward the ruins, killing many and sending others fleeing.
• Huo Xuan entered the Skeletal Sea after the storm passed and found a crimson Giant Hall surrounded by cautious experts.

Huo Xuan crossed the deadly Fire Path by discovering that the true route into the ruins lay beneath the lava. He reached a plaza ahead of most entrants and found ten silver-skinned figures guarding a massive stone gate.

• The Giant Hall opened, and crowds rushed into the passage before lava and Blue Fire Pillars killed many of them.
• Huo Xuan entered the Fire Path protected by his eight kinds of Strange Fire, and he killed people who tried to force him to guide them.
• Huo Xuan realized the Fire Path was a trap and jumped into the lava, finding a hidden stone passage beneath it.
• Huo Xuan crossed the passage and reached a plaza where factions including the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan and Ice River Valley had gathered.
• Huo Xuan saw ten silver-skinned figures standing before a huge stone gate and wondered if they were Earth Demon Puppets.

Huo Xuan watched the crowd destroy the ten Earth Demon Puppets and enter the ancient ruins, then followed his memories to a hidden chamber. He opened its stone gate and found a primordial forest made entirely of rare medicinal herbs.

• The ten Earth Demon Puppets formed a strange formation, evolved into a Heavenly Demon Puppet, and wounded the Gray-Clothed Old Man.
• After half an hour, the crowd joined forces, destroyed all ten Puppets, and entered the opened stone gate.
• Huo Xuan entered the Giant Hall and headed down a left-hand passage in search of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Huo Xuan reached an ancient moss-covered stone gate, checked it for traps, and pushed it open.
• Huo Xuan saw a primordial forest filled with rare medicinal herbs beyond the gate.

Huo Xuan found a Soul Infant Demon Tree guarded by a Heavenly Flood Dragon and took its two Soul Infant Fruits after frightening the guardian away. He continued searching the Ancient Forest for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Huo Xuan searched the Ancient Forest for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and discovered a Soul Infant Demon Tree growing on an islet.
• Huo Xuan struck the lake to reveal the guardian, a peak Seventh Order Heavenly Flood Dragon.
• Huo Xuan intimidated the Heavenly Flood Dragon with his Peak Six-Star Dou Zun aura and a Five-Colored Fire Lotus, forcing it to flee.
• Huo Xuan made a wooden box from the Soul Infant Demon Tree's branch and stored its two fruits in his Storage Ring.
• Huo Xuan wondered where the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit was hidden.

Huo Xuan found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit inside a Beast Spirit Shroud but could not harvest it without blood from a Void Ancient Dragon or a Heaven Demon Phoenix. After discovering the remains of both beasts and sensing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan arrive, he left the altar to deal with them.

• Huo Xuan used Ancient Phoenix Blood Essence to open the Beast Spirit Shroud and entered the hidden plain.
• Huo Xuan found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit atop an ancient altar, but its force blasted him away when he tried to pluck it.
• Huo Xuan realized he had no remaining blood from a Void Ancient Dragon or a Heaven Demon Phoenix to harvest the fruit.
• Huo Xuan discovered the skeletons of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix encircling the plain and decided to refine blood from their remains.
• Huo Xuan sensed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan entering the Shroud, left the altar through a spatial crack, and prepared to deal with them.

Huo Xuan confronted three Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members seeking the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, defeated them, and claimed the fruit and the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's blood essence. He killed Feng Qing Er, Huang Xuan, and the white-haired man to prevent them from revealing what he had taken.

• Huang Xuan, Feng Qing Er, and a white-haired man arrived at the altar and recognized the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Huang Xuan explained that the fruit could transform a magical beast's bloodline, then instructed the white-haired man to use blood to pluck it.
• Huo Xuan struck the white-haired man away, defeated all three Phoenix Clan members, and sealed their Dou Qi.
• Huo Xuan cut off the white-haired man's arm, used blood from the captives to take the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and burned the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's corpse to obtain its blood essence.
• Feng Qing Er threatened Huo Xuan, so he killed her with a Flame Sword; he then rejected the white-haired man's offer of clan secrets and killed him and Huang Xuan.

Huo Xuan met Zi Yan again at the altar and explained why Canaan Academy had believed she was dead. He gave her the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit for the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, then chose to continue exploring the Ancient Ruins for the Heavenly Tier Skill.

• Huo Xuan waited at the altar after killing three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes and taking their wings, essence blood, and Magic Cores.
• Zi Yan arrived with Qing Shan and Hei Qing, became angry when Huo Xuan failed to recognize her, and confronted him about the grave he had arranged at Canaan Academy.
• Huo Xuan explained that he had faked Zi Yan’s death to keep Canaan Academy’s elders from searching for her, and Zi Yan confirmed they still did not know she was alive.
• Huo Xuan gave Zi Yan the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Qing Shan thanked him for strengthening the alliance between the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and the Flame Clan.
• Qing Shan offered to help Huo Xuan claim the Heavenly Tier Skill, but Huo Xuan told him to return to Ancient Dragon Island with Zi Yan to prepare to refine the fruit.

After leaving Zi Yan with the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, Huo Xuan searched the ancient ruins’ Pill Palace for treasures and sought a Pill Beast with the potential to become a Ninth Grade Pill. He found the white-furred creature on the Third Layer and recognized it as the Pill Beast.

• Huo Xuan left the Beast Spirit Shroud after telling Zi Yan that the Void Ancient Dragon corpse was for her clan to handle.
• Huo Xuan followed treasure hunters to the Pill Palace, where he searched its floors and collected pills, herbs, and Pill Recipes.
• Huo Xuan searched the Third Layer for a Pill Beast that had been tempered by Eight-Colored Pill Lightning and could potentially become a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.
• Huo Xuan spotted a round, white-furred beast in a pill chamber and realized it was the Pill Beast he had been seeking.

Huo Xuan tried to tame a rare Pill Beast by feeding it pills, but the Red-Haired Old Man snatched it just as it leapt toward an Eighth Grade Pill. Huo Xuan confronted him and refused to give up the Pill Beast unless the old man offered an equal treasure.

• Huo Xuan identified the Snow White Little Beast as a Pill Beast on the verge of becoming a Ninth Grade Pill.
• Huo Xuan fed the Pill Beast Sixth and Seventh Grade Pills, then offered it an Eighth Grade Pill tempered by Six-Colored Pill Lightning.
• The Pill Beast rushed toward Huo Xuan, but the Red-Haired Old Man suddenly seized it.
• Huo Xuan attacked the Red-Haired Old Man, who retreated after their palms clashed and admitted he was no match for Huo Xuan.
• The Red-Haired Old Man offered to exchange precious items for the Pill Beast, but Huo Xuan demanded a pill of equal quality or a Heavenly Tier Technique or Skill and warned him to return it.

Huo Xuan confronted Tang Zhen and the Burning Flame Valley elders over the Pill Beast, revealed he had stolen and refined their inherited Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, and killed them after extorting their treasures. He left with the Pill Beast and their souls, then set off for the Main Hall to take the Heavenly Tier Skill.

• Tang Zhen and the Burning Flame Valley elders demanded that Huo Xuan hand over the Pill Beast, but he revealed his Dou Zun strength and killed Wu Chen with one strike.
• Huo Xuan displayed the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame, allowing Tang Zhen to recognize him as the robber who had stolen Burning Flame Valley’s inherited Strange Fire.
• Tang Zhen gave Huo Xuan the Pill Beast, and the elders surrendered their Storage Rings to try to save themselves.
• Huo Xuan killed Tang Zhen and the two remaining elders, collected their souls in a jade bottle, and kept their treasures.
• Huo Xuan stored the Pill Beast and headed to the Main Hall to take the Heavenly Tier Skill.