Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan entered the Fentian Ancient Treasure and seized a Jade Slip containing the first transformation of the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations. After learning that the technique was inspired by Xiao Xuan and that his inheritance could reveal its later transformations, Xiao Yan used its Green Lotus Transformation against the cultivators surrounding him.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao suspected the Soul Hall and Tian Ming Sect had reached a temporary agreement, then Xiao Yan waited for the first rush of people before entering the Fentian Ancient Treasure.
• Tang Huo'er grew concerned about Xiao Chen's conflict with the Soul Hall and offered him help from Blazing Flame Valley; Xiao Chen accepted her kindness.
• Xiao Yan sensed a strange resonance near a black-flame volcano and flew toward it, where he found a Jade Slip sought by the Blood Sect, Earth Flame Sect, and independent cultivators.
• Xiao Yan forced back the Blood Sect man and Earth Flame Sect elder, seized the Jade Slip, and learned it held the Green Lotus Transformation and pointed to Xiao Xuan's inheritance for the later transformations.
• As the cultivators surrounded him and demanded the Jade Slip, Xiao Yan activated the Green Lotus Transformation and rose from peak four-star Dou Emperor to Seven-Star Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yan used the Jade Slip’s secret technique to defeat the attackers in the Fentian Ancient Treasure and learned it pointed toward Ancestor Xiao Xuan’s inheritance at Blazing Flame Valley. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen’s journey was interrupted when he found Xiao Yi Xian besieged by Soul Hall and stepped in to protect her.

• Xiao Yan activated the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, defeated the Earth Flame Sect elder and the other attackers, and headed deeper into the ancient treasure.
• Xiao Yan resolved to visit Blazing Flame Valley to pursue Ancestor Xiao Xuan’s inheritance.
• Xiao Chen received messages from Cao Ying and Dan Chen, then sensed that Yun Yun’s Jade Slip had signaled trouble in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Chen detected a battle in a poisonous valley and recognized the besieged white-robed woman as Xiao Yi Xian, whose Calamity Poison Body stirred the Chaos Flame.
• Xiao Chen destroyed a Soul Hall attacker’s chain with Chaos Flame, landed in front of Xiao Yi Xian, and declared that her life was under his protection.

Xiao Chen protected Xiao Yi Xian from the Soul Hall and offered to use his Chaos Flame to control her Calamity Poison Body. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan followed a bloodline sensation deeper into the Fentian Ancient Treasure, as Cai Lin and Xun'er thought of the men they awaited.

• Xiao Chen killed the attacking Soul Hall Dou Zuns and burned the fleeing members who had come to capture Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yi Xian that his Chaos Flame might suppress her Calamity Poison Body and offered to try.
• Xiao Yan sensed a connection to Xiao Xuan within the Fentian Ancient Treasure, and Yao Lao warned him to keep the possibility secret.
• Xiao Yan felt the Tou She Ancient God Jade warm and followed the sensation toward a deeper part of the flame palace.
• Cai Lin sensed the life growing within her and worried about Xiao Chen, while Xun'er waited to reunite with Xiao Yan after her clan trial.

Xiao Yan opened Xiao Xuan’s inheritance chamber and began absorbing the upper half of the Fentian Art and the Flame Emperor Seal’s rudiment. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen restored Tang Huo’er’s fire seed, bringing him into a tense encounter with Cao Ying as romantic complications grew around both brothers.

• Xiao Yan used his blood essence to open the sealed stone gate and found Xiao Xuan’s inheritance within.
• Xiao Xuan’s will passed Xiao Yan the upper half of the Fentian Art and the rudiment of the Flame Emperor Seal, and Xiao Yan began accepting them.
• Xiao Chen used his Chaos Flame to devour and purify Tang Huo’er’s collapsing Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire sub-flame, then nourished its fire seed with Chaos Origin.
• Tang Huo’er’s fire seed recovered with improved quality, and she supported the exhausted Xiao Chen as Cao Ying arrived and reacted jealously.
• Xun’er learned that Xiao Yan had become close to a Snake People Queen and that she might have borne his child, and she struggled to contain her feelings.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen prepared to travel to the Gu Clan's Tomb, while Yao Lao was resurrected and Xiao Yan was appointed Starfall Pavilion's Young Pavilion Master. The brothers left Starfall Pavilion for the Gu Clan, where ancient secrets, danger, and Gu Xun'er awaited them.

• Xiao Yan comprehended the first half of the Fentian Art and the Flame Emperor Seal prototype, then learned that completing it required a visit to the Ancient Clan's Tomb and heard that Cai Lin might be pregnant.
• Xiao Chen declined Cao Ying's invitation to the Star Domain and agreed to accompany Xiao Yan to the Gu Clan's Tomb; he also used the Chaos Flame to temporarily suppress Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body.
• Cao Ying gave Xiao Chen a Soul Protecting Pill, and Tang Huo'er gave him a Red Jade Bracelet before he departed.
• Wind Venerate and Yao Lao led Starfall Pavilion's experts in a forty-nine-day ritual that resurrected Yao Lao in a body made from an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and restored him to the peak of Five Star Dou Venerate.
• Wind Venerate reinstated Yao Chen as Starfall Pavilion's Pavilion Master and appointed Xiao Yan as Young Pavilion Master.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen left Starfall Pavilion together and headed for the Gu Clan.

After two years of cultivation, Xiao Yan reached Four Star Dou Zun and rushed back to the Jia Ma Empire when Soul Hall forces threatened Xiao Sect and Cai Lin, who was about to give birth. Xiao Chen answered Xiao Yan’s emergency signal and joined him in battle, leaving the brothers facing the enemy together.

• Xiao Yan broke through to Four Star Dou Zun and received the Gu Clan’s invitation to enter the Heaven Tomb.
• Hai Bodong warned Xiao Yan that Soul Hall forces and neighboring factions were attacking Xiao Sect while Cai Lin was close to giving birth, so Xiao Yan postponed his trip to the Gu Clan and returned to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Chen sensed Xiao Yan’s emergency transmission and rushed from the Meteor Sea toward the Jia Ma Empire.
• At Xiao Sect’s ruined headquarters, Cai Lin fought a One Star Dou Zun from Soul Hall while Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian were tied down by the enemy forces.
• Xiao Yan arrived, shattered the Soul Lock aimed at Cai Lin, and attacked the Soul Hall forces with his Four Star Dou Zun strength.
• Xiao Chen appeared beside Xiao Yan, and the two brothers confronted the Soul Hall Venerable and the remaining enemies together.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan defeated the Soul Hall forces, then strengthened the Xiao Sect while Xiao Yan stayed with Cai Lin until their daughter was born. After naming her Xiao Xiao and securing the sect, the brothers departed for the Gu Clan's Heaven Tomb, carrying their resolve to save their father and restore their clan.

• Xiao Chen killed the Soul Hall Venerable with his Soul Fiend Palm, while Xiao Yan and the others routed and eliminated the remaining attackers.
• Xiao Yan comforted Cai Lin, and Xiao Chen warned that the Soul Hall might retaliate against the Xiao Sect.
• Xiao Yan reorganized the Xiao Sect and helped establish a Chaos Myriad Fire Array, while he stayed close to Cai Lin and Xiao Chen guarded the sect.
• Several months later, Cai Lin safely gave birth to a daughter, whom Xiao Yan named Xiao Xiao.
• Xiao Yan arranged the Xiao Sect's affairs and then departed with Xiao Chen for the Central Plains and the Gu Clan's Heaven Tomb.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen arrived at the Gu Clan, where Gu Yao challenged Xiao Yan to prove he was worthy of entering the Heaven Tomb. Xiao Chen began breaking through to Half-Saint during their confrontation, and Xiao Yan endured Gu Yao’s three attacks, earning recognition as the brothers drew the attention of the Gu Clan’s elders.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen returned to Starfall Pavilion to visit Xiao Xiao before setting out for the Gu Clan’s Ancient Realm.
• Gu Xun'er welcomed Xiao Yan, but Gu Yao and other Gu Clan youths challenged his status and demanded he withstand three moves to qualify for the Heaven Tomb.
• Xiao Yan matched Gu Yao’s first attack and endured the second with the help of his Heavenly Flames and Green Lotus Transformation.
• Gu Yao used his Clan Mark to strengthen his third attack, but Xiao Chen’s aura erupted as he began breaking through to Half-Saint, disrupting the assault.
• Xiao Yan used the resonance of his bloodline, Dragon Phoenix Origin Power, and Flame Emperor Seal to withstand the remaining pressure, while Gu Yao withdrew.
• Powerful figures within the Gu Clan sensed Xiao Chen’s Chaos Aura and discussed the Xiao Clan’s prospects as the Heaven Tomb’s opening approached.

After Xiao Yan entered the Heaven Tomb, his Xiao Clan bloodline awakened the long-lost Clan Mark, raising his strength to Six Star Dou Zun. When Hun Ya and Gu Zhen attacked him together, Xiao Chen appeared and killed them both, recognizing the return of the Xiao Clan Mark.

• Xiao Yan entered the Heaven Tomb after Xun'er gave him a jade fragment and asked him to be careful.
• Xiao Yan clashed with Gu Zhen over a Dou Skill scroll, then struck back when Hun Ya ambushed him from the shadows.
• Xiao Yan's Xiao Clan Mark awakened, surging his strength from Four Star Dou Zun to Six Star Dou Zun.
• Hun Ya persuaded Gu Zhen to join him in attacking Xiao Yan, leaving Xiao Yan badly pressured.
• Xiao Chen appeared, froze Hun Ya and Gu Zhen, and destroyed them with a casual wave.
• Xiao Chen noticed Xiao Yan's dim Clan Mark and said the Xiao Clan's mark had finally lit again.

After defeating Hun Ya and Gu Zhen, Xiao Chen discovered a Chaos True Spirit in the Heaven Tomb and left Xiao Yan to cultivate. Xiao Yan mastered more of his Clan Mark, found a legacy of Ancestor Xiao Xuan, and faced Gu Yao’s formation as Xiao Chen confronted the Chaos True Spirit.

• Xiao Chen helped Xiao Yan stabilize after his Clan Mark awakened and guarded him while he cultivated.
• Xiao Chen sensed a Chaos True Spirit in a Chaos Lake, left Xiao Yan a protective Soul Mark, and headed deeper into the Heaven Tomb to claim it.
• Xiao Yan stabilized at the initial stage of Six Star Dou Zun, learned the Heart Flame Transformation, and gained renown among the Heaven Tomb’s factions.
• Xiao Yan followed a bloodline summons to a stone monument left by Ancestor Xiao Xuan, where Gu Yao and three Gu Clan geniuses surrounded him and demanded his gains.
• Xiao Yan activated his Clan Mark, Green Lotus Transformation, and Heart Flame Transformation to face Gu Yao’s Ancient Emperor Formation.
• Xiao Chen faced the Chaos True Spirit, which attacked him with the energy of the lake and threatened him with Half-Saint-level power.

Xiao Yan used an incomplete Flame Emperor Seal to defeat Gu Yao and the others’ Ancient Emperor Formation, but the technique left him severely injured. Xiao Chen completed his breakthrough to peak Half-Saint, rescued Xiao Yan, and warned the gathered geniuses not to harm his brother.

• Xiao Yan fused three Heavenly Flames to unleash an incomplete Flame Emperor Seal, destroying the Ancient Emperor Formation and injuring Gu Yao and the other three.
• Xiao Yan collapsed from the backlash, and Gu Yao ordered the others to kill him while he was weakened.
• Xiao Chen emerged from his cultivation after absorbing the Chaos Energy and reached peak Half-Saint.
• Xiao Chen struck Gu Yao and the other three from afar, leaving them badly injured, then healed Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Chen warned the surrounding geniuses against touching Xiao Yan, and the Xiao brothers established their strength in the Heaven Tomb.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen awakened Xiao Xuan’s final remnant in the Heaven Tomb and received his inheritance, which strengthened their powers and gave the Xiao Clan renewed hope. After Xiao Xuan faded away, the brothers set their sights on leaving the tomb and facing the Soul Clan’s schemes.

• Xiao Chen healed Xiao Yan after their battle, and Xiao Yan reflected on the risks of unleashing the Flame Emperor Seal.
• Xiao Xuan’s remnant appeared from the Stele, welcomed the brothers, and recognized the hope they represented for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan passed Xiao Yan the Complete Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and guidance to reforge the Clan Mark, while he gave Xiao Chen a Chaos Dao Seed and his cultivation insights.
• Xiao Yan reforged the complete Xiao Clan Mark and advanced to Seven Star Dou Venerate, while Xiao Chen strengthened his foundation and began forming the Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal.
• Xiao Xuan warned the brothers about the Soul Clan before fading into the Stele, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen prepared to leave the Heaven Tomb.

After leaving the Heaven Tomb, Xiao Chen foiled a Soul Hall ambush targeting Xiao Yan. Yun Yun then told Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall had destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect, and he agreed to help her; the group headed back to Starfall Pavilion to plan their response.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen emerged from the Heaven Tomb, where Xun'er and the Gu Clan elders saw Xiao Yan's completed Xiao Clan Mark and restrained aura.
• A Soul Hall Elder ambushed Xiao Yan with a chain, but Xiao Chen destroyed it with Chaos Energy while Wind Venerate fought off another attacker.
• Yun Yun approached Xiao Yan and revealed that the Soul Hall had seized control in the Northwest Continent, supported the Poison Sect, and destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan promised to help Yun Yun, and Xiao Chen, Yao Lao, and Wind Venerate agreed to strike against the Soul Hall's Northwest Continent branch.
• Yao Lao proposed returning to Starfall Pavilion to plan, and Xiao Yan invited Yun Yun to accompany them.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan led Starfall Pavilion forces to the Northwest Continent to destroy Soul Hall’s branch, and Xiao Chen’s overwhelming power erased its leadership. After the victory, their names were poised to shake the Central Plains again.

• Yao Lao assigned Xiao Chen to fight Qinghai Venerate while Xiao Yan and Starfall Pavilion forces handled Soul Hall’s other forces in the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan brought their force to Xiao Sect, where Xiao Yan reunited with Cai Lin and their daughter, Xiao Xiao.
• The brothers led their forces to Heavenly Poison City and called out Qinghai Venerate.
• Xiao Chen crushed Soul Hall’s two Deputy Hall Masters with a wave of his sleeve, then killed Qinghai Venerate with one punch.
• Xiao Yan ordered Starfall Pavilion’s experts to eliminate the remaining Soul Hall forces and take control of Heavenly Poison City.

Xiao Chen helped Cao Ying defeat Xuan Mingzi’s Soul Hall-backed faction and secure the Star Soul Marrow, then accepted Cao Ying’s love and married her. A year later, their son Xiao Jin was born, while Xiao Chen’s mission to save his Father and confront the Soul Hall remained unfinished.

• Cao Ying asked Xiao Chen to help protect the Star Domain from Xuan Mingzi’s faction, which had colluded with the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Chen defeated Xuan Mingzi and killed the two Soul Hall Venerables with his Chaos Domain and Chaos Heaven-Opening Seal.
• Cao Ying collected most of the Star Soul Marrow, Xuan Mingzi’s faction was purged, and the Alchemist Tower formed an alliance with Starfall Pavilion.
• Cao Ying confessed her love to Xiao Chen, and he accepted her hand; they later married at the Alchemist Tower.
• A year later, Cao Ying gave birth to Xiao Chen’s son, Xiao Jin, and Xiao Yan visited with Cai Lin and Xiao Xiao.

Xiao Yan proved his strength to the Gu Clan by surviving Gu Lie’s palm strike, earning approval to be with Xun’er. Hun Miesheng then invaded the Ancient Realm to kill the Xiao brothers, but Xiao Chen arrived after breaking through to Dou Saint and attacked the Soul Hall forces with his Chaos Sky-Opening Axe.

• Xiao Yan returned to the Ancient Realm to face opposition from Gu Lie and other conservative Gu Clan elders over his relationship with Xun’er.
• Gu Lie tested Xiao Yan with a palm strike containing thirty percent of his power, and Xiao Yan countered with the Flame Emperor Seal, surviving despite serious injuries.
• Gu Lie declared Xiao Yan qualified to stand beside Xun’er, and Xun’er hurried to support him.
• Hun Miesheng arrived with two Dou Saint elders and threatened to kill Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen, while Gu Lie prepared to defend the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Chen appeared, collapsed Hun Miesheng’s soul domain, revealed his breakthrough to One-star Dou Saint, and swung his Chaos Sky-Opening Axe at the three Soul Hall attackers.

After Xiao Chen killed Hun Miesheng and two Soul Clan Dou Saints with one axe, the Gu Clan accepted Xiao Yan and Xun’er's marriage and shared a clue that Xiao Zhan might be imprisoned at the Netherworld Vein. The brothers set out for the Fentian Ancient Treasure to grow stronger before attempting his rescue.

• Xiao Chen erased Hun Miesheng and two Soul Clan Dou Saints with a single strike of the Chaos Sky-Opening Axe.
• Gu Lie formally approved Xiao Yan's marriage to Xun'er and warned that the Soul Clan might be pursuing a ritual connected to the Dou Di realm.
• Gu Lie told Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan that Xiao Zhan's aura might have been detected at the Soul Clan's Netherworld Vein, which was guarded by a Dou Saint and possibly a sub-flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan decided to train before rescuing Xiao Zhan, with Xiao Yan seeking the lower portion of the Fentian Art and Xiao Chen refining his axe technique.
• The brothers traveled to the Fentian Ancient Treasure to cultivate and pursue the next stage of their strength.

After three years of cultivation, Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen led an alliance to rescue Xiao Zhan from the Netherworld Vein, but the Soul Clan’s trap forced them to retreat without him. Xiao Yan was left unconscious and gravely injured, and Xiao Chen resolved to seek greater strength.

• Xiao Yan reached the peak of Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate, while Xiao Chen stabilized his One-star Dou Sheng cultivation, and the brothers agreed to plan their father’s rescue.
• Xun'er, Cao Ying, Cai Lin, Yao Lao, Wind Venerate, and others supported the rescue, and an alliance including Gu Clan elders and Xuan Kongzi set out for the Netherworld Vein.
• The allied forces fought through the Netherworld Vein and found Xiao Zhan beneath an altar guarded by a peak Five-star Dou Sheng Soul Clan Elder and four Void Devouring Flame Child Fires.
• The Soul Clan Elder revealed that Xiao Zhan was bait and trapped Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan in the Soul Refining and Soul Seizing Array as the fused child fires attacked.
• Xiao Chen forced an escape through space with Xiao Yan, but the Soul Clan Elder’s attack injured Xiao Yan’s soul and foundation, leaving Xiao Zhan behind.
• In the Spatial Turbulence, Xiao Chen held the unconscious Xiao Yan and resolved to gain enough strength to rescue their father.

After Xiao Yan was badly injured during the failed attempt to rescue Xiao Zhan, he slowly recovered at Starfall Pavilion and awoke months later with his strength greatly diminished. Zi Yan, the Dragon Emperor, offered him access to the Dragon Transformation Pool in exchange for his help finding the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, giving Xiao Yan a possible path to recovery.

• Xiao Chen returned to Starfall Pavilion with the unconscious Xiao Yan and told everyone that the Soul Clan had ambushed them at the Netherworld Vein.
• Yao Lao diagnosed damage to Xiao Yan's Soul Origin and Dou Qi vortex, while the Gu Clan, the Alchemist Tower, and Starfall Pavilion gathered treasures to stabilize him.
• Xiao Yan awoke months later, learned that Xiao Zhan was still alive, and began a slow recovery that left him with only newly entered Dou Zun strength.
• Zi Yan arrived at Starfall Pavilion, identified herself as the Dragon Emperor, and offered to take Xiao Yan to the Dragon Transformation Pool.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help Zi Yan find the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and she mentioned that clues might appear at the upcoming Space Trading Fair.

After recovering from his injuries, Xiao Yan followed Zi Yan to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Transformation Pool, where he endured its Dragon Yuan and Dragon Might to temper his body and soul. He emerged at the peak of Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate, ready to seek the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan.

• Xiao Yan recovered for several months while becoming more familiar with Zi Yan, and she eventually took him toward the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s territory.
• Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yan a jade talisman containing Chaos Power, and Xiao Yan said goodbye to his family before following Zi Yan through a Spatial Rift.
• Zi Yan brought Xiao Yan to the Dragon Transformation Pool in the Dragon Fall Mountain Range and warned him that entering it could be fatal.
• Xiao Yan entered the pool and endured its violent Dragon Yuan and Dragon Might, using the Xiao Clan Mark, Dragon Phoenix Balance Power, and his cultivation methods to withstand the torment.
• Xiao Yan emerged with his soul and foundation repaired and his strength advanced to the peak of Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan resolved to save his father and told Zi Yan they would next search for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.