Chapter Summaries

Yao Wan settled back into the Yao Clan, brought Qing Lin to her cultivation residence, and faced Yao Dan’s questions about marriage and Xiao Yan. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa entered the Magma World to deal with the Dou Zong-level Fallen Heart Flame, leaving their plan uncertain.

• Yao Wan took Qing Lin to her former residence, where the dense Heaven and Earth Energy nearly pushed Qing Lin to the One-Star Dou Zhe level.
• Yao Dan greeted Yao Wan and asked about Xiao Yan, her sealed bloodline, and whether she had considered marriage.
• Yao Wan rejected the idea of marrying Yao Tian, and Yao Dan assured her that the clan would let her decide her own future.
• Yao Dan worried about Xiao Yan’s connection to the Xiao Clan and the Gu Clan, and about how the matter involved Yao Wan.
• Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa faced the blazing Magma World as Xiao Yan held a small jade bottle and apologized for involving her in his plan.

Xiao Yan used a pill prepared by Yao Wan to turn the Fallen Heart Flame’s heart flame into energy, then drew on Queen Medusa to help absorb the excess. He grew stronger as the flame weakened and eventually absorbed it into his body, beginning its final refinement.

• Xiao Yan gave Queen Medusa a Purification Pill to suppress the heart flame, then swallowed the pill Yao Wan had prepared for refining the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan deliberately let a wisp of heart flame enter him and discovered the pill made it harmless while converting it into energy.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Wang but became overwhelmed by the immense energy, so he asked Queen Medusa to absorb some of it.
• Queen Medusa helped Xiao Yan take in the excess energy, and the two continued until the Fallen Heart Flame’s attacks weakened.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame into his body and entered the final stage of refining it, while Yao Wan’s pill remained effective.

Xiao Yan refined the Fallen Heart Flame, reached the peak of Dou Wang, and unexpectedly broke through to Dou Emperor during an encounter with Queen Medusa. Meanwhile, Qing Lin was accepted into the Yao Clan and entered its clan register.

• Xiao Yan devoured the Fallen Heart Flame, used its energy to reach the peak of Dou Wang, and let Queen Medusa absorb the excess energy so he could stabilize his cultivation.
• Queen Medusa suffered the energy’s aftereffects and approached Xiao Yan; their encounter ended with Xiao Yan breaking through to Dou Emperor.
• Yao Wan stayed in seclusion to cultivate while Qing Lin underwent the Yao Clan’s checks before joining.
• An elder formally accepted Qing Lin into the Yao Clan, entered her in the clan register, and welcomed her as clan daughter Qing Lin.

After Qing Lin joined the Yao Clan, Yao Wan began cultivating and awakened a bloodline power that stirred the energy throughout the Yao World. The chapter then returned to Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa, who woke after an unexpected night together and began arguing over what had happened.

• Yao Wan reassured Qing Lin that the Yao Clan would provide her with a teacher and cultivation resources, then returned to her cave residence to cultivate.
• Yao Wan set goals to reach Dou Venerate and advance her soul cultivation, while resolving to deal with Yao Wangui.
• Yao Wan's bloodline power awakened during cultivation, stirring the Heaven and Earth Energy across the Yao World and drawing Yao Dan's attention.
• Yao Dan instructed Yao Wanhua to arrange a suitable Qi Method for Qing Lin, who was taken to the Scripture Pavilion to choose one.
• Xiao Yan woke beside Queen Medusa, who recalled what had happened and grabbed him by the neck in anger.

Xiao Yan followed the Fallen Heart Flame’s reaction deep into the Magma World and found another flame beside the remains of Yao TianHuo. Yao TianHuo revealed that he had once owned the Fallen Heart Flame and asked Xiao Yan to help restore his soul in exchange for a fire-controlling method.

• Queen Medusa spared Xiao Yan, then left for the Tagor Desert after he asked whether he could repay her.
• Xiao Yan sensed a reaction from the Fallen Heart Flame and plunged back into the Magma World to investigate.
• Xiao Yan fought through increasingly powerful Lizardmen and crossed a light curtain into a chamber with a skeleton and another Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao TianHuo appeared as a soul attached to the skeleton and explained that he had died while seeking the Fallen Heart Flame and a Heavenly Flame seed.
• Yao TianHuo offered Xiao Yan the Five Round Li Fire Method in exchange for help repairing his soul and bringing him out.

After escaping the Magma World, Xiao Yan returned to Canaan Academy, learned what had happened during his absence, and reunited with Little Fairy Doctor. Their reunion ended with Xiao Yan suggesting they replenish the poison flame together.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Magma World with Heavenly Flame Honored One and told Su Qian that he had devoured the Fallen Heart Flame but found a Young Fallen Heart Flame for the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran had left, Little Fairy Doctor had stayed, and her retaliation had devastated many Black-Corner Region factions.
• Xiao Yan asked about Zi Yan and an unfamiliar Dou Zong aura, then went to Little Fairy Doctor’s residence.
• Little Fairy Doctor ran into Xiao Yan’s arms, and they shared news of the past two years and her rise to Two Star Dou Zong.
• Little Fairy Doctor said she did not want to be separated from Xiao Yan, and he promised not to leave her or the others behind.
• Xiao Yan asked Little Fairy Doctor if they should replenish the poison flame again.

Xiao Yan and the Little Fairy Doctor replenished her Poison Flame, then grew intimate after she admitted she did not mind his advances. Two years after the energy tide in the Yao Realm, Yao Wan had reached Dou Venerate and was summoned to the Clan Hall.

• Xiao Yan transferred Poison Flame into the Little Fairy Doctor and left a wisp inside her to protect the Poison Body Embryo Pill as her cultivation advanced.
• The Little Fairy Doctor leaned into Xiao Yan, and their teasing turned into a kiss and further intimacy.
• The Yao Clan prospered after the energy tide, which it attributed to Yao Wan, and she reached Dou Venerate within two years.
• A jade-green light shadow arrived to tell Yao Wan that the Clan Leader and Elders had summoned her to the Clan Hall, and she agreed to go.

Two years after returning to the Yao Clan, Yao Wan had reached Dou Venerate and Qing Lin had reached Dou Emperor. The Clan Leader revealed that Yao Wan was ready to receive the Progenitor’s inheritance, and she agreed to go at once.

• Qing Lin and Yao Wan flew to the Clan Hall, where Qing Lin wondered whether Yao Wan still cared about Xiao Yan and how difficult his future might be.
• Yao Dan and the Elders discussed the Yao Clan’s declining strength and their hopes for the next generation, especially Yao Wan.
• Yao Wan said the clan could arrange the Living Being Celebration without her, but Yao Dan said another matter had to come first.
• Yao Dan explained that Yao Wan’s Dou Venerate cultivation and body-refining training made her ready to endure the power of the Progenitor’s inheritance.
• Yao Wan agreed to go with Yao Dan to the Inheritance Land immediately.

Yao Wan entered the Yao Clan’s hidden inheritance grounds in the void and found a colossal Sky-Reaching tree surrounded by energy-rich water. As the pool began to boil, she prepared to face whatever was stirring while sensing that her sealed Black-Red Flame had reconnected with her.

• Yao Dan and the elders opened the secret passage beneath the Clan Hall and led Yao Wan through the void to a golden barrier.
• Yao Dan told Yao Wan to enter alone, explaining that she was the only qualified member of her generation to receive the inheritance before the Living Being Celebration.
• Yao Wan crossed the barrier and found a vast world centered on a colossal golden-lit tree, where she could not use Space Power or her Dou Qi Wings.
• Yao Wan walked through the water toward the tree and absorbed its pure energy without suffering the harmful effects that other clansmen had faced.
• The pool began to boil, and Yao Wan summoned her Life Spirit Flame for protection as the sealed Black-Red Flame reconnected with her and remained dormant.

Yao Wan awakened the Medicine Emperor Phantom in the Inheritance Land, where the ancient founder examined her abilities and warned her to learn to control the deathly flame within her. The Medicine Emperor revealed that the pool and tree were legacies left for the Yao Clan, but lamented that the clan had declined too far to protect them.

• A powerful surge from the Inheritance Land convinced the Elders that Yao Wan had triggered an extraordinary inheritance, and Yao Dan held back his celebration while they awaited the result.
• Yao Wan's bloodline reacted to the boiling pool, and the Medicine Emperor Phantom rose from the water and recognized her as a rare Heaven Realm Soul.
• The Medicine Emperor Phantom explained that Yao Wan's Life Spirit Flame had been nurtured with remnants of the Yin Yang Dual Flames, giving rise to a deadly counterpart that Yao Wan needed to control rather than flee from.
• The Medicine Emperor Phantom identified the pool as the Immaculate Divine Spring and the tree as the Azure Firmament Divine Tree, legacies she had left to the Yao Clan, and lamented the clan's decline.

Yao Wan met the Medicine Emperor Phantom, who gave her a seal formula allowing her to return to the Inheritance Land after reaching Dou Sheng. Her return convinced the Yao Clan to proceed with the Living Being Celebration, while she left the Yao World to retrieve what she had hidden.

• The Medicine Emperor Phantom rebuked Yao Wan for making excuses for the Yao Clan’s decline and explained the Azure Firmament Divine Tree’s connection to the Dragon Phoenix.
• The Medicine Emperor Phantom gave Yao Wan a seal formula for entering and leaving the Inheritance Land and told her to retrieve what she had deliberately hidden.
• Yao Wan returned to the Elders and Yao Dan, revealed that the Progenitor had chosen her and invited her to return after reaching Dou Sheng, and showed them the seal formula.
• Yao Dan celebrated Yao Wan’s recognition, and the Yao Clan prepared invitations for the Living Being Celebration; the other eight clans agreed to attend.
• Yao Wan left the Yao World and flew into the Shennong Mountain Range to retrieve the things she had hidden.

Yao Wan recovered the Soul Power she had hidden away and returned to the Yao Realm, while the Gu Clan prepared to send Xiao Xun'er and Gu Qingyang to the Living Being Celebration. After Xiao Yan reunited with Little Fairy Doctor, Zi Yan appeared and handed him a mysterious gray-white stone, saying she was returning it to its original owner.

• Yao Wan opened a formation in the Shennong Mountain Range, retrieved the Soul Pearl containing most of her separated Soul Power, and absorbed it after crushing the bead.
• The Gu Clan chose Xiao Xun'er and Gu Qingyang to attend the Yao Clan’s Living Being Celebration, and Gu Qingyang mentioned that Ling Quan and Gu Yao had been involved in a matter concerning the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan rested with Little Fairy Doctor before preparing to leave, and the two shared a kiss.
• Zi Yan visited Xiao Yan after learning he was alive and gave him a gray-white stone, saying she was returning it to its original owner.

Xiao Yan reunited with Zi Yan, who returned Han Feng sealed inside a compressed space cluster and asked about his strained relationship with Medusa. As Xiao Yan planned to return home and then travel to Central State, Zi Yan persuaded him to take her along to visit Medusa in the Tagor Desert.

• Zi Yan showed Xiao Yan that the strange object was Han Feng, whom she had trapped by compressing space mixed with the void after he repeatedly tried to bargain for his release.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that Medusa had returned to the Tagor Desert and threatened to kill him, and Xiao Yan admitted that their relationship had become too complicated to explain.
• Xiao Yan said he would return home before setting off for Central State, while Zi Yan asked to travel with him and offered to protect him.
• After Xiao Yan revealed he was a One Star Dou Huang and stopped Zi Yan from trying to bite him, she proposed visiting Medusa and persuading her to calm down.
• Xiao Yan agreed to take Zi Yan with him.

Xiao Yan captured Han Feng and sealed his soul so Yao Lao could judge him, then discussed leaving with Zi Yan. He reassured Little Fairy Doctor and persuaded her to return with him to meet his father and elder brothers, ending with the two sharing a tender moment.

• Xiao Yan captured Han Feng after Zi Yan undid the Space Cluster, rejected his offers, and sealed his soul in a jade bottle for Yao Lao.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan for more pills as payment and agreed to leave with him the next day or the day after.
• Little Fairy Doctor met Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan explained that Zi Yan was a magical beast who had eaten Transformation Grass.
• Xiao Yan told Little Fairy Doctor he wanted her to meet his father and elder brothers, but she worried they would reject her because of her constitution.
• Xiao Yan reassured Little Fairy Doctor and persuaded her to return with him to meet the Xiao Clan, then kissed her.

Xiao Yan, Little Fairy Doctor, and Zi Yan encountered a group creating an ominous demonic formation and destroyed it after discovering that it produced an evil energy unlike anything Xiao Yan had seen. Worried that the threat could endanger the nearby Gama Empire and the Xiao Clan, they hurried home and reached the empire’s pass.

• Xiao Yan, Little Fairy Doctor, and Zi Yan set out for the Gama Empire, bickering about their pace along the way.
• Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor sensed an intensely evil aura in a mountain forest and changed course to investigate.
• Little Fairy Doctor used her poison to kill the roughly hundred formation workers, while Xiao Yan examined their formation and found it converted Dou Qi into ominous energy.
• Xiao Yan collected samples of the formation and its energy, then burned the formation and its surroundings with his Four-Colored Strange Fire.
• Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor met up with Zi Yan and hurried toward the Gama Empire, reaching its pass after several days of travel.

As a sinister presence threatened the Gama Imperial Capital, Yun Shan and Nalan Yanran rushed there and joined Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong. Nalan Yanran spotted Xiao Zhan in the city just as the danger appeared before them.

• Yun Shan sensed an ominous aura from the imperial capital and set out to investigate, ordering Yun Yun to guard the Yun Lan Sect.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from the Life and Death Gate as a Dou Huang and followed Yun Shan despite his warning.
• Yun Shan and Nalan Yanran reached the imperial capital, where Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong were waiting beneath the storm clouds.
• Hai Bodong revealed that he had reached Seven Star Dou Huang with help from a young lady, surprising Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian.
• Nalan Yanran spotted Xiao Zhan in the city, then sensed an unusual aura and saw a detestable figure appear before them.

A Black-Robed Man and a second shadow attacked the Gama Empire, drawing its strongest fighters into a battle while the shadow targeted Xiao Zhan and Xiao Li. Nalan Yanran stepped in to protect them and faced the shadow alone.

• The Black-Robed Man fought Yun Shan, Hai Bodong, and Jia Xingtian, who could only restrain him despite their combined attacks.
• Nalan Yanran realized the battle might be a diversion and flew back into the imperial capital.
• A shadow entered the Mittel Family hall and subdued Xiao Li with his pressure while threatening Xiao Zhan.
• Nalan Yanran struck the shadow with a flying sword, giving Xiao Zhan time to carry Xiao Li away.
• Nalan Yanran stood against the shadow, who mocked her before preparing to attack.

Xiao Yan rushed back to the Gama Empire and found Nalan Yanran and Hai Bodong battling two Dou Zong sent by the Hall of Souls. He arrived in time to save Nalan Yanran and faced the Shadow Protector, while Little Fairy Doctor revealed that she was also a Dou Zong.

• Nalan Yanran fought the Shadow Protector and was badly injured, but refused to surrender the Xiao Clan member he sought.
• Hai Bodong tried to protect Nalan Yanran and Xiao Zhan, then urged her to take Xiao Zhan and the others to the Black-Corner Region for reinforcements.
• Half a day earlier, Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City, learned that Xiao Zhan and Xiao Li had gone to the imperial capital, and rushed there with Little Fairy Doctor and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Zhan and Xiao Li, learned that Nalan Yanran was in danger, and went with Little Fairy Doctor to support her and Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yan identified the attacker as the Shadow Protector of the Hall of Souls, and Little Fairy Doctor released her Dou Zong aura to confront him.

Xiao Yan joined Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian against the Black-Robed Man, then used his Strange Fires and Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to destroy the enemy. The shadow fighting Little Fairy Doctor withdrew, and Little Fairy Doctor hurried back to check on Nalan Yanran and the others.

• Nalan Yanran urged Xiao Yan to help Yun Shan, and he left her with Hai Bodong before flying to the battle.
• Xiao Yan arrived and burned away the Black-Robed Man's Demonic Qi, taking over the fight from Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian.
• Xiao Yan used the Five Round Li Fire Method to summon wolf- and leopard-shaped fire spirits, then gathered four Strange Fires into a fire lotus.
• The Black-Robed Man fled, but Xiao Yan caught up and struck him with the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, whose explosion engulfed him near the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• The shadow withdrew from Little Fairy Doctor, who returned to find Zi Yan and the others after sensing that Nalan Yanran might be badly injured.

Xiao Yan returned to the capital after defeating the Black-Robed Man, checked on his family, and brought the badly injured Nalan Yanran to the Nalan Residence for treatment. When Nalan Yanran woke, Xiao Yan greeted her with a joke about them being on the Road to the Yellow Springs.

• Xiao Yan returned to the capital, reassured Xiao Zhan, and asked Hai Bodong to care for his father and second brother.
• Xiao Yan carried the unconscious Nalan Yanran to the Nalan Residence, telling Nalan Jie and Nalan Su that she had risked her life to save Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan examined Nalan Yanran's injuries and prepared medicine for her, taking care not to damage her foundation or sword intent.
• Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan saw Xiao Yan carrying Nalan Yanran toward the Nalan Residence and reflected on how the empire's situation had changed.
• Nalan Yanran regained consciousness, and Xiao Yan joked that they were on the Road to the Yellow Springs.