Chapter Summaries

Lin Ran recognized that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had trapped the group in a Nightmare Sky Mist illusion and found a way to weaken its power. He used a Nightmare-Breaking Talisman to shatter the illusion, leaving the group facing what lay beyond it.

• Lin Ran and Gu Nanhai attacked Xiao Chen with powerful techniques, but the Demon Flame puppet emerged unharmed.
• Gu Nanhai identified Xiao Chen as the vanished Blood Axe Xiao Chen, explained the Xiao Clan’s destruction, and Xiao Chen struggled against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control.
• Lin Ran stopped Xiao Chen’s trembling and flames, and Xiao Chen agreed to lead the group toward the Demon Flame.
• At the altar, the white-robed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame challenged the group to defeat him or become Fire Slaves.
• Lin Ran revealed that they were trapped in the Nightmare Sky Mist illusion, explained that their belief shaped the Flame’s power, and helped the group survive its flaming spear attack.
• Lin Ran formed a Nightmare-Breaking Talisman from his blood essence and used it to shatter the illusion realm.

Lin Ran and the others escaped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist, only to find themselves trapped in a fiery prison with the flame’s true body. As the gathered clans and Soul Hall agreed to cooperate against it, the Soul Hall Master asked Lin Ran to join the strongest fighters in confronting the flame.

• Lin Ran temporarily blocked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control over Xiao Chen, then watched as the illusion’s collapse brought more survivors into the magma realm.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame concealed the spatial passageway and trapped the gathered experts inside Flame Refining Heaven.
• The flame used people’s emotions to ignite them from within, then caused nearly eighty percent of the Dou Venerates present to explode.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned ten powerful Fire Slaves, prompting the Soul Hall Master to propose that the factions unite against it.
• Lin Ran agreed to cooperate temporarily, and the Soul Hall Master asked him to join the experts confronting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Lin Ran and six other Four-Star Dou Shengs fought the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves attacked the other experts. The Soul Hall Master's Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array began shrinking the flame, but the seven fighters were badly injured and had to risk their blood essence to keep the seal in place.

• Lin Ran joined the Soul Hall Master and five other Four-Star Dou Shengs in confronting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who overwhelmed them with his Flame Demon Halberd, demonic flames, and Great Compassion Hand.
• Lin Ran activated the Adamantine Glazed Body as the seven fighters unleashed their full strength, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves after the other experts.
• Xun Er, Grand Elder of the Little Pill Tower, Old Ancestor Huoyun, and Yao Chen engaged three Fire Slaves while the other groups faced their own attackers.
• The Soul Hall Master formed the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array, and Lin Ran and the others poured their energy into it to strike the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with a sealing beam.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame transformed into a thousand-zhang flame form and counterattacked, injuring the seven fighters and making them spit out blood.
• The Soul Hall Master and the other six sacrificed their blood essence to strengthen the array, which began rapidly shrinking the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

After the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was sealed, the Soul Hall Master tried to seize it, triggering a battle among the exhausted experts. Lin Ran intervened, but Hun Feng revealed the Nihility Devouring Flame and devoured Lin Ran’s attack, leaving Lin Ran to counter with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.

• The Soul Hall Master attempted to take the sealed Demon Flame Origin, but Lin Ran redirected the pillar and sparked a struggle among the gathered experts.
• Lin Ran gave Gu Nanhai a pill to recover while the Vice Hall Master, Hun Feng, and others fought over the Demon Flame Origin.
• Xun Er challenged Hun Feng, who used a strange devouring force to absorb her Golden Emperor Heavenly Burning Flame and fought her attacks head-on.
• Lin Ran joined the battle and struck Hun Feng with Great Sun Sacred Sun Palm, but a hidden force swallowed the attack.
• Hun Feng revealed the Nihility Devouring Flame, shocking the assembled experts, and Lin Ran summoned a massive soul phantom to unleash Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.

Lin Ran defeated Hun Feng’s Heaven Swallowing Mirror, but Old Man Soul Demon intervened and revealed the Soul Clan’s plan to seize the Demon Flame Origin. The Little Pill Tower’s ancestor appeared, revealed his six-star Dou Sheng strength, and exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s hidden scheme as the Demon Flame Origin.

• Lin Ran’s Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath shattered Hun Feng’s Heaven Swallowing Mirror, forcing Hun Feng to call for Old Man Soul Demon.
• Old Man Soul Demon rescued Hun Feng and declared that the Soul Clan would seize the Demon Flame Origin despite the ancient agreement.
• The Green Ox Herder Boy emerged from the void, and Xiao Chen and the Little Pill Tower’s Grand Elder recognized him as the Pill Tower ancestor.
• At the ancestor’s direction, Lin Ran took the Demon Flame Origin and tossed it to him, but Old Man Soul Demon tried to intercept it.
• The Green Ox Herder Boy used spatial transposition to evade Old Man Soul Demon, revealing that he had reached six-star Dou Sheng.
• The ancestor identified the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside the pillar and said it had deliberately let itself be sealed to make the others fight.

The Pill Tower Ancestor exposed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had let itself be sealed to manipulate its enemies, then fought it as it summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array. With the escape passage destroyed and Lin Ran’s strange orb beginning to awaken, the Pill Tower Ancestor called on allies to fight the array, but Lin Ran remained behind in pain.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor attacked the black pillar, prompting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to break free and reveal that it had allowed itself to be sealed.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame formed the Flame God Statue and attacked the Pill Tower Ancestor, who melted half of it with Dan Rong Tian.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, and the orb in Lin Ran’s mind began to tremble.
• Old Man Soul Demon and the others tried to flee, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame destroyed the spatial passage and trapped them in the Flame Space.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor asked Old Man Soul Demon to join forces and assigned Xiao Chen, Lin Ran, and Gu Nanhai to help him confront the heavenly array, but Lin Ran stayed motionless with his head in pain.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame attacked the assembled experts, but the Netherworld Lotus Saint emerged through Lin Ran and shielded them. As the Saint took control of the ancient array and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed his full power, the others escaped, leaving Lin Ran alone with the Demonic Flame.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to overwhelm the Pill Tower Ancestor, Old Man Soul Demon, and the others, but a barrier from Lin Ran protected them.
• The Netherworld Lotus Saint appeared as a phantom around Lin Ran, and Yao Chen realized the Gu Tu was likely connected to his manifestation.
• The Netherworld Lotus Saint halted the Demonic Flame’s next attack and seized control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed his power, killing a Half-Saint, while the Netherworld Lotus Saint opened a spatial passage for the others to escape.
• The Netherworld Lotus Saint reassured Xun Er through Lin Ran, and she joined the others in leaving; Lin Ran and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame remained behind.

Lin Ran used treasures from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to weaken the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then endured its power and began refining it alongside the Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame. As Lin Ran broke through to four-star Dou Saint, the Soul Hall attacked the Sacred Sect, where leaders of three magical beast clans confronted the Soul Hall Master.

• Xun Er refused to leave the Flame Space, while Gu Qingyang returned to the clan and Yao Chen stayed behind.
• Lin Ran cooled the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with Yellow Springs Yin Stone, Yellow Springs Blood Crystals, and a Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill.
• Lin Ran swallowed the Demon Flame Origin and endured its fierce struggle with the Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame as his body repeatedly healed.
• Lin Ran fused the two Heavenly Flames and broke through from peak three-star Dou Saint to four-star Dou Saint.
• The Soul Hall attacked the Sacred Sect, and Zi Yan, Feng Qing'er, and Yao Ming confronted the Soul Hall Master in its defense.

The Soul Hall and Sacred Sect continued their conflict as the Shi Clan’s disappearance deepened fears of an unknown threat among the Ancient Races. After two years in seclusion, Lin Ran emerged from the Flame Space with Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength and the newly named Pure World Saint Heart Flame, then reunited with Xun Er.

• The Shi Clan mysteriously vanished, prompting the Yao Clan, Lei Clan, and Yan Clan to form the Three-Clan Alliance and connect their clan spaces for mutual defense.
• The Soul Hall and Sacred Sect continued trading attacks while the Sacred Sect worried over Lin Ran’s continued absence.
• After two years, Lin Ran absorbed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, reached the initial phase of Seven-Star Dou Sheng, and named his fused Heavenly Flame the Pure World Saint Heart Flame.
• Lin Ran tore open the Flame Space and returned to the Demonic Flame Plains, where Xun Er had waited for him for two years despite Gu Yuan’s efforts to bring her home.
• Lin Ran apologized and embraced Xun Er after she turned and recognized him.

Lin Ran returned after refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and joined the Sacred Sect as it prepared for the Soul Clan’s intervention. The chapter ended with him revealing his new pink-gold flame to the assembled leaders.

• Lin Ran learned that the Shi Clan had vanished and told Xun Er to return to the Ancient Clan while he dealt with the Soul Hall.
• Feng Xian reported that the Soul Clan was sending Hun Qianmo, a Six-Star Dou Sheng who had once joined the siege against Xiao Xuan.
• The Sacred Sect’s leaders worried that they lacked enough strength to withstand the Soul Clan’s attack, while Xiao Chen reacted to Hun Qianmo’s name.
• Lin Ran and Yao Chen arrived at the great hall, lifting the Sacred Sect’s spirits.
• Xiao Chen recognized that Lin Ran had refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Lin Ran revealed the Pure World Saint Heart Flame.

Lin Ran accepted the Soul Hall’s challenge to a decisive battle at Fallen Peak, where both sides gathered their strongest fighters before a vast crowd. As the battle was arranged as three fights with two victories, Xiao Chen confronted Old Man Soul Demon, and the Soul Clan revealed the formidable Hun Qian Bai.

• After a week of near silence between the Sacred Sect and Soul Hall, Lin Ran returned from guarding Cai Lin when the Soul Hall’s blood-red challenge letter arrived.
• Lin Ran accepted the challenge to fight at the Falling Mountain Range three days later, and factions from across the Central Continent gathered to watch.
• The Soul Hall arrived at Fallen Peak with seven Dou Saints, led by the Soul Hall Master and Old Man Soul Demon.
• Lin Ran appeared with more than ten Sacred Sect Dou Saints, and he agreed to the Soul Hall Master’s proposal of three fights, with two victories deciding the outcome.
• Old Man Soul Demon stepped forward to fight, but Xiao Chen stopped his hidden attack and declared that the Soul Clan must be destroyed.
• Hun Qian Bai appeared before the gathered crowd, prompting shock at the Soul Clan’s decision to send him.

Lin Ran rejected the Pill Tower Ancestor’s offer to fight Hun Qianmo and declared that he would face all three Soul Hall opponents alone. After trapping them in a chaotic space, he revealed an early seven-star Dou Saint aura and prepared to fight.

• Hun Qianmo mocked Xiao Chen and defeated his axe strike, sending him staggering backward.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor arrived and offered to take on Hun Qianmo, while the Soul Hall Master and Old Man Soul Demon prepared to fight Lin Ran and Xiao Chen.
• Lin Ran refused to let his allies fight for him and challenged Hun Qianmo, the Soul Hall Master, and Old Man Soul Demon alone.
• Lin Ran forcibly pulled the three Soul Hall experts into a chaotic space and followed them inside, astonishing the witnesses with his spatial teleportation.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor judged Lin Ran’s cultivation to be above his own, and Lin Ran revealed his pink-gold flame and early seven-star Dou Saint aura.

Lin Ran revealed that devouring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had raised him to the seven-star Dou Saint realm, then faced the Soul Hall Master and his allies in battle. He withstood their strongest attacks without injury and prepared to retaliate.

• Lin Ran’s seven-star Dou Saint aura swept over Fallen Peak, astonishing the Sacred Sect members and the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• The Soul Hall Master, Old Man Soul Demon, and Hun Qian Bai failed to summon help because Lin Ran had sealed the surrounding space.
• Old Man Soul Demon sent a Soul Gu Frog at Lin Ran, but the Pure World Saint Heart Flame burned it away.
• The three Soul Hall fighters attacked Lin Ran together, and Hun Miesheng swallowed the flames protecting him to expose him to their strikes.
• Lin Ran remained unharmed as Hun Qian Bai repeatedly slashed at him, then declared that it was his turn to attack.

Lin Ran challenged the three Soul Hall experts to withstand his Great Sun Sacred Sun Palm, but Hun Miesheng used the Nihility Devouring Flame to absorb the attack. Lin Ran revealed that Hun Miesheng had not truly survived the blow, and his body erupted in a massive firestorm.

• Lin Ran unleashed his fused pink-gold flame and formed the Great Sun Sacred Sun Palm, terrifying the gathered spectators with its heat and power.
• Lin Ran fired the palm at Hun Qian Bai, Old Man Soul Demon, and Hun Miesheng, whose combined Dou Qi could not stop the flames from consuming their defenses.
• Hun Qian Bai and Old Man Soul Demon poured their power into Hun Miesheng, who absorbed the pink-gold flames with the Nihility Devouring Flame and appeared to withstand the attack.
• Hun Qian Bai claimed the three had blocked Lin Ran's palm and invoked Lin Ran's promise to end the fight, but Lin Ran said Hun Miesheng had not truly endured it.
• Hun Miesheng's body cracked and erupted in a violent firestorm that shattered Lin Ran's temporary space and left the gathered spectators stunned.

Lin Ran killed Hun Miesheng and Old Man Soul Demon, leaving the Soul Hall’s survivors facing the Sacred Sect’s rise as Central Continent’s strongest power. Hun Sha arrived as reinforcements and began a fierce battle with Lin Ran at Fallen Peak, which their attacks reduced to a valley.

• Lin Ran’s attack killed Hun Miesheng, and he destroyed Old Man Soul Demon after the latter tried to protect Hun Qian Bai.
• Lin Ran trapped Hun Qian Bai and moved to kill him, but Hun Sha emerged from a spatial rift and blocked Lin Ran’s palm.
• Hun Sha identified Lin Ran’s Pure World Saint Heart Flame and attacked him with his blood-red saber.
• Lin Ran exchanged blows with Hun Sha, transformed into a pink-gold giant, and raised his power to the mid seven-star Dou Saint level.
• Lin Ran used Sacred Origin Blood Burn to reach the late seven-star Dou Saint level and struck Hun Sha with the Great Sun Nirvana Palm, blasting him into the valley below.
• Hun Sha emerged disheveled, demanded another clash, and charged Lin Ran with his saber.

Lin Ran and Gu Dao joined forces to drive Hun Sha away after a destructive battle at Fallen Peak. The victory made Lin Ran and the Sacred Sect famous across the Central Continent, while the sect’s members increasingly revered Lin Ran as their shared object of faith.

• Hun Sha attacked Lin Ran, but Gu Dao appeared and challenged him to protect the Ancient Clan’s commander.
• Lin Ran joined Gu Dao against Hun Sha, and their combined attacks repelled his Blood God Splits Heaven strike.
• Hun Sha fled with the Soul Clan experts, and Lin Ran thanked Gu Dao by offering him a Ninth-Rank Bodhi Great Returning Pill.
• News of the battle spread across the Central Continent, establishing Lin Ran and the Sacred Sect as a powerful force.
• The Sacred Sect celebrated its growing influence, and its members’ reverence for Lin Ran became increasingly fervent.

Lin Ran learned that the Soul Hall was withdrawing its branches as he considered how to gain enough power to face the Soul Clan. In the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, Cai Lin completed her evolution into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and reached five-star Dou Saint; Lin Ran then ordered Yao Ming to search for the Soul Hall while considering Yao Ling as a possible route to an Emperor Realm Soul.

• Lin Ran discussed the Soul Hall's retreat with Yao Chen and asked him to coordinate with the Ancient Clan to investigate the Soul Clan.
• Lin Ran sensed a nine-colored pillar in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and arrived as Cai Lin emerged from her evolution.
• Yao Ming and the Netherworld Python Clan recognized Cai Lin as a legendary Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and Lin Ran learned she had inherited the remnants of Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Pythons.
• Lin Ran praised Cai Lin's five-star Dou Saint cultivation and gave Yao Ming a Ninth-Rank Pill before ordering him to locate the Soul Hall's branch halls.
• Lin Ran considered how to reach an Emperor Realm Soul and thought of Yao Ling of the Yao Clan.

Lin Ran and Yao Chen traveled to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Codex after the Soul Hall’s unexplained retreat left the Sacred Sect wary. They arrived at the clan’s territory and entered the gathering, where Lin Ran began courting the assembled master alchemists for the Sacred Sect.

• Lin Ran learned that the Soul Clan had emptied the Soul Hall branch halls of their Soul Origin, while Yao Chen reported that the Medicine Codex would begin in a month.
• Lin Ran promised to help Yao Chen fulfill his parents’ wish to have their names carved on the Yao Clan’s Clan Monument.
• Lin Ran handed the Sacred Sect’s affairs to Feng Xian and traveled with Yao Chen to the Shennong Mountain Range for the Medicine Codex.
• At the Yao Clan’s spatial gate, Lin Ran introduced himself and Yao Chen presented the jade slip that granted them entry.
• A Yao Clan member guided Lin Ran and Yao Chen onto a giant bird carrying hundreds of guests, and Lin Ran began recruiting the alchemists aboard for the Sacred Sect.

Lin Ran defended Yao Chen against Yao Wan Gui’s insults at the Yao Clan Medicine Codex, killing several clan members and defeating the Iron Guards who attacked him. Elder Wan Huo arrived, slapped Yao Wan Gui aside, and ordered him demoted and banished from Medicine Mountain for ten years.

• Yao Wan Gui mocked Yao Chen for returning to the Yao Clan, while Central Continent visitors defended Yao Chen as the Sacred Sect’s Pill Hall Master.
• Lin Ran confronted Yao Wan Gui and declared that Yao Chen would participate in the Medicine Codex and leave his name on the Yao Clan ancestral monument.
• Lin Ran killed several of Yao Wan Gui’s supporters and crushed the Yao Clan Iron Guards with the Power of Space.
• Yao Wan Gui unleashed his four-star Dou Saint aura and called on the Yao Clan elders to help seize Lin Ran.
• Lin Ran warned that Yao Wan Gui would die if he insulted him again, and Elder Wan Huo arrived and slapped Yao Wan Gui into a stone pillar.
• Elder Wan Huo ordered Yao Wan Gui demoted and banished from Medicine Mountain for ten years.

Lin Ran and Yao Chen accepted Elder Wan Huo’s punishment of Yao Wan Gui and went with the Yao Clan elders to the Medicine Codex. The gathering began with Yao Dan and Elder Shen Nong in attendance, but Hun Xuzi arrived, and Lin Ran realized the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan was still coming.

• Elder Wan Huo stopped the Yao Clan elders from pursuing Lin Ran and punished Yao Wan Gui, and Yao Chen agreed to let the matter end there.
• Elder Wan Huo escorted Lin Ran and Yao Chen to the Medicine Codex, where they took seats as guests and discussed the alchemy competition.
• Yao Dan arrived and acknowledged Yao Chen, then Elder Shen Nong appeared and greeted Lin Ran.
• Hun Xuzi arrived uninvited, and Lin Ran recognized that the Soul Clan still intended to attack the Yao Clan and judged the nine-star Dou Saint-level Nihility Devouring Flame a formidable threat.