Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen coordinated the alliance’s response to the Soul Clan while Xiao Yan prepared to search the Scorching Fire Desert for clues to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Xiao Yan departed with Qing Lin and two Gu Clan elders, while Xiao Chen turned toward unresolved personal ties and an ancient legend about the Abyss of Chaos.

• Xiao Chen reviewed the Soul Clan’s growing activity, the blocked route to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and the Alchemist Tower’s remaining danger, then set the alliance’s priorities.
• Xiao Yan proposed investigating the Scorching Fire Desert, and Xiao Chen approved the journey with Qing Lin and two Gu Clan elders accompanying him.
• Xiao Chen shared a quiet moment with Cao Ying and their sleeping son, then received Dan Chen’s pastries while thinking about his feelings for Cao Ying, Yun Yun, and Dan Chen.
• Xiao Yan promised Cai Lin and Xun'er he would prepare for their wedding after returning from his journey.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan left Starfall Pavilion with Qing Lin and the two Gu Clan elders, while Xiao Chen focused on the alliance, his personal entanglements, and the Abyss of Chaos.

Xiao Yan’s group searched the Scorching Fire Desert for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and were ambushed by Soul Clan fighters in a deadly array. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen struggled with Anti-Soul Alliance responsibilities and unresolved feelings involving Yun Yun and Dan Chen before Yun Yun summoned him to discuss urgent news.

• Xiao Yan’s group encountered Crimson Refined Fire Pythons, and Xiao Yan burned them to ash with a controlled Heavenly Flame attack.
• Qing Lin detected a cold soul fluctuation, and Xiao Yan identified it as the Soul Clan’s aura.
• At Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Chen discussed his burdens with Cao Ying, who reassured him despite her pain over his feelings for Yun Yun and Dan Chen.
• Yun Yun arrived with urgent news from the Flower Sect about unusual movements by the Nine Nether Underworld Python Clan and led Xiao Chen to a discussion.
• Xiao Yan’s group reached a Quicksand Fire Hell, where Bone Venerable and two Soul Clan Dou Saints attacked them.
• Bone Venerable activated the Nine Nether Soul Erosion Array around Xiao Yan’s group, and Xiao Yan prepared to fight.

Xiao Yan broke Bone Venerable’s Nine Nether Soul Erosion Array with Qing Lin’s help, but the resulting collapse swallowed Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Gu Dao, and Gu Hua into the Earth Fire Nether Abyss and separated them. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen comforted Cao Ying and reaffirmed her place in his heart; Xiao Yan and Qing Lin ended the chapter lost in an underground cavern, searching for the missing elders.

• Xiao Yan drew Bone Venerable’s attacks while Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to locate a weakness in the array, and Xiao Yan blasted it open with a Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan, Qing Lin, Gu Dao, and Gu Hua escaped the broken formation, but the blast destabilized the Quicksand Fire Hell and a vortex swallowed them into the Earth Fire Nether Abyss.
• Bone Venerable ordered his people to guard the exits and search for the four fugitives after they vanished into the abyss.
• Xiao Chen found Cao Ying crying over Xiao Jin’s childhood garment, embraced her, and promised that no one would replace her as his wife and Jin’er’s mother.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin landed in an underground river, discovered that Gu Dao and Gu Hua had been separated from them, and set off to explore the cavern and find the elders.

The Soul Clan captured Xiao Zhan and demanded the origins of Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen’s Heavenly Flames in exchange for his release. While Xiao Yan encountered a Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus guarded by a powerful demon python underground, Xiao Chen mobilized the alliance and prepared to risk entering seclusion to seek power from the Abyss of Chaos.

• Hun Yan’s forces raided Starfall Pavilion, captured Xiao Zhan, and gave Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen three months to bring the origins of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Chaos Flame to the Grave Soul Mountain Range.
• Yao Lao warned the alliance that the Grave Soul Mountain Range was a heavily defended Soul Clan stronghold, and allied factions gathered to discuss rescue plans.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin discovered a Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus in an underground cavern, but a peak Half-Saint Flame Demon Python rose from the lake to guard it.
• Xiao Chen ordered the alliance to search for Xiao Yan and the missing elders, prepare for battle, and investigate the Soul Clan’s stronghold and formations.
• Xiao Chen decided to enter seclusion and seek a breakthrough by communicating with the Abyss of Chaos, while Xiao Zhan remained imprisoned above the Emperor Transformation Array.

Xiao Chen ventured into the deeper Abyss of Chaos, risking his soul to seek power to save his father. In the Earth Fire Nether Abyss, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin defeated the Flame Demon Python, leaving them exhausted but able to approach the Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus.

• Xiao Chen probed the Chaos Flame’s primordial memories and reached a deeper sea of Chaos Energy, where he fought to keep his identity while absorbing its power.
• Xiao Yan evaded the Flame Demon Python’s purifying fireball and raised his strength with all three transformations of the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations.
• Xiao Yan formed and launched the Flame Emperor Seal Prototype, clashing with the python’s attack and injuring its origin.
• Qing Lin restrained the wounded python with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils after Xiao Yan called for her help.
• Xiao Yan forced the unstable energy sphere to contract and explode, leaving the Flame Demon Python barely alive while he collapsed from exhaustion.
• Xiao Yan looked toward the unharmed Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus, whose flames had dimmed slightly.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Chen learned that the Soul Clan was tightening its defenses and accelerating the Emperor Transformation Array. He organized a dangerous reconnaissance mission to the God-Slaying Ice Plain to prepare for rescuing his father, leaving at dawn with four allies.

• Xiao Chen emerged from three days of seclusion with improved understanding of Chaos Power and cultivation stabilized at the peak of the early Three-star Dou Sheng stage.
• Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian each showed concern and affection for Xiao Chen, who set aside their feelings to attend the alliance meeting.
• Elder Gu Dao reported that Gu Hua was searching for Xiao Yan, the Soul Clan had strengthened security around the Grave Soul Mountain Range, and the Emperor Transformation Array was becoming more active.
• Xiao Chen rejected a direct assault and proposed sending an elite squad to investigate the Soul Clan's formations, patrols, and defenses on the God-Slaying Ice Plain.
• Yun Yun, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to accompany Xiao Chen on the reconnaissance mission, and he set their departure for dawn.

Xiao Chen and his companions infiltrated the God-Slaying Ice Plain and slipped through the Soul Clan’s outer warning formation on their way toward the Grave Soul Mountain Range. At Starfall Pavilion, Yao Lao used Chaos Origin Qi and a pill to advance to Six Star Dou Venerate, then began planning how to grow stronger for the coming war.

• Xiao Chen’s group struggled through the Soul Erosion Yin Wind, and Han Yue identified the ice pillars ahead as the Soul Clan’s Profound Ice Soul-Locking Formation.
• Xiao Chen asked Yun Yun to find a gap in the formation, and she opened a passage that let all five cross without triggering the warning net.
• The group rested beneath an ice cliff, and Xiao Chen sent the formation’s node and energy information back to Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Lao absorbed Xiao Chen’s Chaos Origin Qi and took Xuan Kongzi’s Nine-Aperture Soul Merging Pill, stabilizing his soul and advancing from Five Star to Six Star Dou Venerate.
• Yao Lao drew power from the Primordial Star Soul Core fragment to strengthen his soul and planned to seek help from the Alchemist Tower after stabilizing his cultivation.

Xiao Yan carefully refined the Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus to temper his soul and Heavenly Flames, while Xiao Chen’s rescue group entered a Soul Clan ice prison and was trapped in a poison formation. The group remained surrounded by the array as a powerful Soul Clan expert revealed the ambush.

• Xiao Yan recovered from his battle injuries before drawing out and refining a thread of flame from the Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the refined flame purified his Soul Power and improved his control over his Heavenly Flames, then continued the painful process.
• Xiao Chen and Yun Yun killed the guards at the ice prison entrance, and the five companions rushed inside in search of Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized that the apparent Xiao Zhan was an illusion and warned that the cell was a poison trap.
• The Ten Thousand Poisons Soul Devouring Array engulfed Xiao Chen, Yun Yun, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian as a Late Three-star Dou Sheng Soul Clan expert announced the ambush.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus and found a way out of the abyss, while Starfall Pavilion prepared for his wedding to Cai Lin and Xun'er. Xiao Chen destroyed the poison array with power drawn from the Abyss of Chaos, then sensed its call from across the ice plain.

• Xiao Yan completed his refinement of the Fire Spirit Demonic Lotus, stabilized his strength at the peak of the early Half-Saint stage, and raised his Soul Power to the peak of the great completion of the Heavenly Realm.
• Xiao Yan sensed airflow behind a rock wall, opened a passage with his Heavenly Flames, and left the cave with Qing Lin to seek a way back.
• Yao Lao and Wind Venerate discussed the betrothal gifts as Cai Lin and Xun'er waited for Xiao Yan's return and Starfall Pavilion prepared for their wedding.
• Xiao Chen drew power from the Abyss of Chaos and used Chaos, Return to Void to devour the Ten Thousand Poisons Soul Devouring Array, freeing himself, Yun Yun, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Chen and the four women fled the Ice Prison Fortress, and Xiao Chen sensed a call from the Abyss of Chaos somewhere across the ice plain.

Gu Yuan visited Starfall Pavilion and warned that the Soul Clan’s array might connect to the God-Slaying Ice Plain, pointing the alliance toward the Chaos Meteorite Pit. After receiving his message and news of Xiao Yan’s wedding preparations, Xiao Chen chose to lead his companions toward the forbidden land.

• Gu Yuan arrived at Starfall Pavilion, asked about Xiao Yan, and warned that rescuing Xiao Zhan from the Grave Soul Mountain Range would be extremely dangerous.
• Gu Yuan urged the alliance to find Xiao Yan and contact Xiao Chen, who might uncover clues at the Chaos Meteorite Pit; Yao Lao ordered a search for records and sent Xiao Chen the information.
• Recovering in an ice crevice, Xiao Chen told Yun Yun, Han Yue, Tang Huo'er, and Xiao Yi Xian about Gu Yuan’s warning and decided to seek the Chaos Meteorite Pit.
• Yao Lao’s message informed Xiao Chen that Starfall Pavilion was preparing the wedding for Yan'er, Xun'er, and Cai Lin, and Xiao Chen resolved to return safely.
• Xiao Chen and the four women set out through the blizzard toward the Chaos Meteorite Pit.

Xiao Chen and his companions discovered a Soul Devouring Altar in the Chaos Meteorite Pit, where souls were being sacrificed and their energy sent toward the Grave Soul Mountain Range. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin reached a vast magma chamber and found a Black Palace that seemed to contain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but a dangerous magma sea and spatial array blocked the way.

• Xiao Chen led Yun Yun, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian into the Chaos Meteorite Pit and used his Chaos Flame to disperse attacking Chaos Remnant Spirits.
• Xiao Chen sensed an ancient altar beyond the Chaos Mist and cautiously guided the group toward it.
• Xiao Chen and his companions found a Soul Devouring Altar that siphoned the souls of trapped beings and sent their energy toward the Grave Soul Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin followed a passage beneath the Earth Fire Nether Abyss into a vast chamber filled with magma.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside a Black Palace but found that a dangerous magma sea and spatial array blocked their approach.

Xiao Yan plunged into the lava with Qing Lin to escape the Flame Creatures blocking their path to the Black Palace. Meanwhile, Xiao Chen and the four women drove Hun Yan and his Soul Clan allies away from the Soul Devouring Altar, but an even more terrifying presence awakened beneath the Chaos Meteorite Pit.

• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin encountered a swarm of powerful Flame Creatures while crossing the lava sea, and Xiao Yan fought through them as Qing Lin tried to disrupt their attacks.
• Xiao Yan wounded and destroyed a Five Star Dou Venerate molten python with Fallen Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, but the growing swarm threatened to exhaust him.
• Hun Yan and two Soul Clan elders trapped Xiao Chen, Yun Yun, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian with the Three Souls Locking Saint Formation.
• Xiao Chen spent his essence blood to sever one chain, allowing the four women to strike the elders and force Hun Yan to retreat with them.
• The Chaos Meteorite Pit shook as a more ancient and powerful aura emerged from its depths, while Xiao Chen and the women remained beside the damaged Soul Devouring Altar.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Qing Lin and plunged into the lava, deciding to pass beneath the Flame Creatures rather than fly across.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin fought their way through the magma toward the Black Palace as Xiao Yan used Fen Jue to absorb its violent fire energy. At the Chaos Meteorite Pit, a Five-star Dou Sheng Chaos Fierce Soul awakened and attacked the weakened Xiao Chen, who answered with a forbidden technique as the giant palm descended.

• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin entered the magma, where swarms of Flame Creatures attacked them as they headed for the Black Palace.
• Xiao Yan used Fen Jue to absorb and refine the violent fire energy, replenishing his Dou Qi and improving his control of the Heavenly Flames.
• Han Yue explained that the Chaos Meteorite Pit might contain a Chaos Fierce Soul, and Xiao Chen realized the Soul Clan had been nourishing it through the altar.
• The Chaos Fierce Soul emerged at the early stage of Five-star Dou Sheng and struck Yun Yun, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Chen with a Soul Strike.
• The Chaos Fierce Soul targeted Xiao Chen, overpowered his Chaos Domain, and pushed through the four women's attacks.
• Xiao Chen used the Chaos Flame's forbidden technique, Chaos Finger of Returning to Silence, against the descending palm.

Xiao Chen used his Finger of Annihilation to cripple the Chaos Fierce Soul, then Yun Yun and the others carried his unconscious body toward safety. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin reached the Black Palace, crossed its Space Maze with a simulated flame lotus, and Xiao Yan pressed it against the gates.

• Xiao Chen struck the Chaos Fierce Soul with his Chaos Void Annihilation Finger, erasing its palm and part of its arm but collapsing from the cost.
• Yun Yun caught the unconscious Xiao Chen, and she, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian retreated from the crater while the wounded Chaos Fierce Soul pursued them.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin emerged from the magma into a space surrounding the Black Palace, where spatial repulsion and Space Rifts blocked their way.
• Xiao Yan studied the Space Maze and realized its movements were governed by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame totem on the palace gates.
• Xiao Yan imitated the totem's flame and spatial fluctuations with his Heavenly Flames, allowing him and Qing Lin to approach the gates safely.
• Xiao Yan pressed the simulated fire lotus against the Black Palace gates.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin entered the Demonic Flame Space, where they faced the first trial to earn the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s recognition. Meanwhile, Yun Yun and the others fled with the unconscious Xiao Chen but were intercepted by Hun Yan and forced into another chase.

• Xiao Yan’s simulated flame lotus opened the black gate, and he and Qing Lin entered the Demonic Flame Space.
• The spatial will of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame announced three trials and warned that the first required crossing the Pure Heart Flame Sea without Dou Qi or Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan stepped onto the Flame Passage and endured the flames and illusions attacking his memories and fears.
• Hun Yan and his two injured subordinates blocked Yun Yun, Tang Huo'er, Han Yue, and Xiao Yi Xian as they tried to escape the Chaos Meteorite Pit with Xiao Chen.
• Tang Huo'er shielded Yun Yun from Hun Yan’s attack, while Xiao Yi Xian released poisonous mist to delay the Soul Clan pursuers.
• Yun Yun carried Xiao Chen onward with Tang Huo'er and Han Yue as Xiao Yi Xian held the rear, but Hun Yan forced through the poison and pursued them.

Zi Yan rescued Yun Yun and the others from Hun Yan after he pursued them through the Chaos Meteorite Pit, and escorted them toward Starfall Pavilion with the injured Xiao Chen. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin completed the first trial in the Pure Heart Flame Sea and prepared for the next test.

• Zi Yan emerged through a Spatial Rift and used Dragon Emperor Space Bind to capture two Soul Clan elders while Hun Yan escaped.
• Zi Yan learned Xiao Chen had been injured using a forbidden technique, protected him with her Dragon Emperor Origin, and led the group through a Space Passage toward Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin endured Inner Demon illusions while crossing the Pure Heart Flame Sea and reached the Heart Refining Platform.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin recovered on the platform as the ancient voice announced they had passed the first trial and that Illusionary Fire Refines Truth would begin after an incense stick burned.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin faced the illusions of the second trial while Xiao Chen lay critically injured in Starfall Pavilion. Yun Yun and Wind Venerate went to retrieve a rare medicinal ingredient, and Zi Yan gave Xiao Chen some of her Dragon Emperor Origin to help revive his Chaos Flame.

• Xiao Yan rejected illusions of Xiao Zhan, Xun'er, and Medusa, while Qing Lin struggled to reach the wounded Xiao Yans in her own illusion.
• Yao Lao determined that Xiao Chen's backlash had damaged his life origin and Chaos foundation, and said a potent, vitality-rich energy was needed to stabilize him.
• Yun Yun offered the Flower Sect's Nine Orifice Dragon Saliva Ganoderma, and she and Wind Venerate set out to retrieve it.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Chen some of her Dragon Emperor Origin, causing his dormant Chaos Flame to flicker and bringing a trace of color back to his face.
• Yao Lao prepared medicinal liquid to support Zi Yan's offering as Xiao Yan's trial and Xiao Chen's recovery continued amid the Soul Clan's growing threat.

Xiao Chen remained unconscious in Starfall Pavilion as Zi Yan and Yao Lao treated his grave injuries, while his allies worried and prepared support. In the Demonic Flame Space, Xiao Yan and Qing Lin passed their trials, and Xiao Yan endured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s fusion and won its acknowledgment as its master.

• Zi Yan used her Dragon Emperor Origin to sustain Xiao Chen while Yao Lao prepared medicinal liquid to aid his recovery.
• Cao Ying brought calming medicinal porridge, Dan Chen worried over Xiao Chen, Tang Huo'er sought healing medicine, and Han Yue organized intelligence about the Soul Devouring Altar and Chaos Fierce Soul.
• Xiao Yan resisted the illusions by reaffirming his resolve to protect those he loved, while Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils gained the ability to see through falsehood and steady the soul.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame revealed its lotus form and offered Xiao Yan a petal of its essence, warning that failure to fuse with it would destroy him.
• Xiao Yan held to his convictions as the Flame Emperor Seal Prototype and Fen Jue helped him suppress and absorb the flame's Purification Power.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame fused into Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames and acknowledged him as its master, causing his aura to rise rapidly.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, broke through to the One-star Dou Saint stage, and escaped the Demonic Flame Space with Qing Lin. At Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Chen awoke from his injuries, weighed the feelings of the women around him, and resolved to recover while Hun Tiandi prepared to set his plan in motion.

• Xiao Yan fused with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, rose to the middle phase of the One-star Dou Saint stage, and formed a new dark-gold Flame Origin.
• Xiao Yan opened a Space Passage out of the Demonic Flame Space and left with Qing Lin.
• Xiao Chen awakened after Zi Yan's sacrifice helped stabilize his injuries, and she went to tell Yao Lao and the others.
• Yao Lao and the others visited Xiao Chen, who received their care and gifts while feeling burdened by their affection and his responsibilities.
• Xiao Chen resolved to recover quickly as he worried about his captured father, the continent's uncertain situation, and the alliance's affairs.
• Hun Tiandi watched Xiao Yan's success and Xiao Chen's awakening from the Emperor Transformation Array and declared that the feast was about to begin.

Xiao Yan and the alliance planned how to rescue Xiao Zhan and counter the Soul Clan’s scheme, while setting his wedding for one month later. Xiao Chen and Cao Ying reconciled over his complicated feelings for other women, and he left resolved to protect his family and defeat the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen warned the alliance that the Soul Clan might use Xiao Zhan, the Soul Devouring Altar, and the Chaos Fierce Soul in a plan to create a being with Emperor-level power or help Hun Tiandi become a Dou Di.
• The Gu Clan, Alchemist Tower, Flower Sect, Blazing Flame Valley, and other factions pledged support, and the alliance agreed to study the Emperor Transformation Array, strengthen intelligence and prepare an assault on the Grave Soul Mountain Range.
• Yao Lao set Xiao Yan’s wedding to Xun'er and Cai Lin for one month later, and the alliance members departed to carry out their duties.
• Xiao Chen met Cao Ying in a secluded medicinal garden, where she told him not to feel guilty about the other women who cared for him and asked him not to betray their sincere feelings or forget her and Jin'er.
• Xiao Chen embraced Cao Ying, thanked her, and walked home with her, resolving to rescue his father, resist the Soul Clan, and protect his family.