Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan cultivated in the Burning Flame Tianchi, broke through to Two Star Dou Sheng, and allowed the Netherworld Golden Ancestral Fire and Eight Desolations Destruction Flame to mature. He captured and devoured both Heavenly Flames, gaining the chance to advance further.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Tianchi’s golden radiance and fire energy as his two Heavenly Flames grew rapidly.
• After a month, Xiao Yan endured the Tianchi’s violent backlash and broke through to Two Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan continued circulating the Flame Mantra, stabilizing his cultivation while the two Heavenly Flames matured.
• The Netherworld Golden Ancestral Fire and Eight Desolations Destruction Flame erupted and tried to escape when Xiao Yan reached for them.
• Xiao Yan suppressed the two flames with his seven-colored Heavenly Flame, captured them, and devoured them with the Flame Mantra.

Xiao Yan devoured the Netherworld Golden Ancestral Fire and the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, then met the Yan Clan’s Crimson Emperor in a remnant vision and received a technique to use against the Spirit Devouring Clan. Nearly a year later, Yao Wan and Fire Spirit Fairy waited outside the Burning Flame Secret Realm, where Yao Wan began questioning Fire Spirit Fairy about soul aura.

• Xiao Yan devoured the Netherworld Golden Ancestral Fire and the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, causing the Burning Flame Tianchi’s energy to surge around him.
• Xiao Yan met Crimson Emperor, who explained that he was a remnant thought and questioned Xiao Yan about his bloodlines and the state of the world.
• Xiao Yan told Crimson Emperor that the Spirit Devouring Clan had returned and was entangled with the Hun Clan.
• Crimson Emperor gave Xiao Yan a technique, urged him to fight the Spirit Devouring Clan, and sent him back into unconsciousness.
• Nearly a year after Xiao Yan, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi entered the Burning Flame Secret Realm, Yao Wan and Fire Spirit Fairy waited outside and worried about their absence.
• Yao Wan asked Fire Spirit Fairy about soul aura and her progress toward the Emperor Realm Soul.

Yao Wan warned Fire Spirit Fairy to investigate the Yan Clan elder guarding the Tou She Ancient God Jade without alerting anyone, hinting that the clan may have been compromised. Xiao Yan emerged from the Burning Flame Secret Realm as a Three Star Dou Sheng, and he and Yao Wan left the Yan Clan after Fire Spirit Fairy gave Yao Wan a jade talisman for future contact.

• Yao Wan asked Fire Spirit Fairy who guarded the Yan Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade and urged her to investigate the elder quietly if she trusted the warning.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the Burning Flame Secret Realm as a Three Star Dou Sheng, crediting the flame pool and his two Heavenly Flames for his breakthrough.
• Fire Spirit Fairy explained that Xiao Yan had entered the Burning Flame Tianchi, one of the secret realm's three inheritance grounds, and Xiao Yan said Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi were still inside.
• Yao Wan accepted Fire Spirit Fairy's fiery-red jade talisman, then left Thousand Li Flame Mountain with Xiao Yan and departed the Yan Clan.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Wan whether she and Fire Spirit Fairy had been hinting at something, and Yao Wan confirmed that other people within the Yan Clan were involved.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed the Hun Clan’s infiltration of the Yan Clan and its plans to seize the ancient jade, then headed back toward the Yao Clan. On the way, Xiao Yan arrived just as Hun Clan attackers cornered Elder Lei Long and Lei Xiao.

• Xiao Yan realized the Hun Clan had planted an agent in the Yan Clan to obtain its ancient jade and might have infiltrated other clans as well.
• Yao Wan said she had awakened the Yan Clan to keep more ancient jade fragments out of the Hun Clan’s hands, while Xiao Yan worried that another path to becoming Dou Di might exist.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan crossed the void toward the Yao Clan.
• Elder Lei Long fled toward the Yao Clan with the wounded Lei Xiao, but Hun Qi and another Hun Clan shadow intercepted them.
• Lei Long urged Lei Xiao to escape while he held off their pursuers, but Lei Xiao refused to abandon him.
• Xiao Yan appeared and used scorching flames to drive back the attackers’ cold and darkness.

Xiao Yan intervened when Hun Qi and Hun Han attacked Elder Lei Long and Lei Xiao, revealing that he had reached Three Star Dou Sheng. Yao Wan ambushed the Hun Clan experts as they tried to flee and captured them, crushing their souls before they could escape.

• Xiao Yan arrived amid the Heavenly Flame and defended Lei Xiao and Elder Lei Long from Hun Qi and Hun Han.
• Hun Qi and Hun Han attacked Xiao Yan with their soul-lock technique, but his eight-colored flames vaporized the chains.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Three Star Dou Sheng cultivation, and the two Hun Clan experts decided to retreat.
• Yao Wan struck Hun Qi and Hun Han from behind as they attempted to flee, leaving them gravely weakened.
• Hun Qi and Hun Han tried to self-destruct, but Yao Wan restrained them and crushed their souls into fragments.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan rescued Elder Lei Long and Lei Xiao from two Hun Clan Dou Sheng, then suspected the attack was meant to silence them rather than being a chance encounter. Elder Lei Long revealed that he and Lei Xiao had stumbled upon Hall of Souls members preparing something near Ancient Dragon Island, leaving Xiao Yan and Yao Wan with a possible lead on the Hun Clan’s motive.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan killed the two Hun Clan Dou Sheng and brought the injured Elder Lei Long and Lei Xiao to the Yao Clan for treatment.
• Yao Wanzhu arranged for the Lei Clan guests to recover and informed the Ten Thousand Fire Elder.
• Xiao Yan questioned why the Hun Clan had targeted two important Lei Clan figures, and he and Yao Wan decided to ask them about it.
• Elder Lei Long said he had taken Lei Xiao to a Void Lightning Pool near Ancient Dragon Island and encountered Hall of Souls members preparing something.
• Elder Lei Long explained that the Hall of Souls discovered them as soon as they noticed the activity, but he did not know what the group was preparing.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan learned that the Hun Clan was behind trouble at a guarded location and decided to investigate before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended. As they left, Xiao Yan confronted Yao Wan about her recent distance and wondered whether she was struggling to accept their relationship, leaving her flustered and fleeing.

• Elder Lei Long told Xiao Yan that a One Star Dou Sheng and two Three Star Dou Sheng had guarded the place, and Lei Xiao promised to repay Xiao Yan for saving his life.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan left the guest room and agreed to investigate the Hun Clan's activity soon.
• Yao Wan accused Xiao Yan of thinking about intimate matters and blamed Nalan for leading him astray.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan that she had become distant since the events at the Bodhi Ancient Tree and challenged her for blaming him.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Yao Wan was avoiding him because she had not figured out how to accept their relationship, and Yao Wan denied it before fleeing to answer the Clan Leader's summons.

Yao Wan reunited with Yao Ling, praised her rise to Dou Sheng, and asked after Yao Tian before Xiao Yan caught up with her. At the Human Hall, the Celestial Lord sensed an intruder just as a round object rolled to his feet.

• Yao Wan fled from Xiao Yan, nearly collided with Yao Ling, and apologized by giving her a valuable material.
• Yao Wan learned Yao Ling had reached late-stage One Star Dou Sheng and praised her while urging her to protect the Yao Clan.
• Yao Wan asked about Yao Tian and learned he had reached the same cultivation level as Yao Ling, then dismissed her.
• Xiao Yan found Yao Wan and teased her for letting her imagination run wild, making her blush and protest.
• The Celestial Lord inspected the Human Hall at the Burial Corpse Mountain Range and sensed someone behind him as a round object rolled to his feet.

Yao Wan and Xiao Yan infiltrated the Hall of Souls’ Human Hall and killed Celestial Lord after revealing Xiao Yan’s astonishing strength. They captured Celestial Lord’s soul and began burning it with Ash Extinction Flame to extract what he had been secretly doing.

• Celestial Lord found You Gu’s severed head in the Human Hall and confronted Yao Wan and Xiao Yan as they arrived.
• Celestial Lord crushed a jade talisman to send a distress signal, but Yao Wan sealed the surrounding space and blocked it.
• Xiao Yan revealed he had reached Three Star Dou Sheng and burned Celestial Lord’s body to nothing.
• Yao Wan seized Celestial Lord’s fleeing soul and questioned him about the Hall of Souls’ activities.
• When Celestial Lord refused to answer, Yao Wan wrapped his soul in Ash Extinction Flame to use him as nourishment.

Yao Wan burned Celestial Lord into a pure soul orb, and Xiao Yan freed the souls imprisoned in the Human Hall. After the pair found and collected a Soul Origin but failed to locate the mysterious presence sensed by the Lei Clan members, they returned to Starfall Pavilion, where Yao Wan felt heat coming from her Storage Ring.

• Yao Wan burned Celestial Lord’s soul into a pure Light Orb and gave it to Xiao Yan, who fed it to her.
• Xiao Yan shattered the chains in the Human Hall and released the countless captive souls.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan uncovered and collected a Soul Origin beneath the hall, but they could not find the other presence the Lei Clan members had sensed.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, planning to search again after Xiao Yan advanced his soul power.
• After they entered the Star Realm, Yao Wan felt her Storage Ring grow strangely hot.

Yao Wan confirmed that a spy had infiltrated the Yan Clan and persuaded Fire Spirit Fairy to keep him under observation rather than act rashly. She revealed that the Gu and Lei Clans also had spies, leading Fire Spirit Fairy to identify the Hun Clan as the likely culprit, while Xiao Yan rushed to help an injured Nalan Yanran.

• Yao Wan received the Yan Clan's urgent message and left Xiao Yan to handle the visitors at Starfall Pavilion.
• Little Fairy Doctor returned with Nalan Yanran, both having reached High-level Half-Saint, and explained that Nalan had encountered a problem during training.
• Xiao Yan carried pale Nalan Yanran to the backyard despite her insistence that she was fine.
• Fire Spirit Fairy told Yao Wan that the Yan Clan Elder guarding the Ancient Jade had an unnatural soul aura and was likely an impostor who had infiltrated the clan a century earlier.
• Yao Wan advised Fire Spirit Fairy not to alert the spy, arguing that his focus on the Ancient Jade might mean he had avoided other suspicious actions.
• Yao Wan disclosed that the Gu and Lei Clans also had spies, and Fire Spirit Fairy concluded that the Hun Clan was behind them before Yao Wan asked her for help.

Yao Wan enlisted Fire Spirit Fairy’s support for a plan involving the Lei and Ancient Clans, while Yan Jin chose to verify her claims before acting. At Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan discovered that Nalan Yanran had let cold air from the Nine Nether Yellow Springs settle in her dantian and set out to treat her.

• Yao Wan asked Fire Spirit Fairy to help keep a man alive and support her negotiations, and Fire Spirit Fairy agreed to approach the Lei Clan.
• Yan Jin told Fire Spirit Fairy to contact the Lei Clan and decided to wait for confirmation before joining Lei Ying against the suspected spies.
• Little Fairy Doctor explained that she had combined the Nine Nether cold air with the Woeful Poison Fire to break through, while Nalan Yanran revealed her Nether Springs Sword Intent.
• Xiao Yan examined Nalan Yanran and found that cold air had collected in her dantian, though the Demon Saint Essence Blood had protected her Heart Meridian.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran he would heal her after she admitted she had been wrong to claim she was fine.

Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flame to suppress the cold energy in Nalan Yanran’s meridians, teasing her as he treated her while Little Fairy Doctor held her still and Yao Wan listened outside. Meanwhile, the Soul Clan discovered the Human Hall’s destruction and the loss of its Soul Origin, while Xiao Yan began preparing to refine that power and strengthen his stagnant soul.

• Xiao Yan gathered the cold energy in Nalan Yanran’s meridians and used Heavenly Flame to suppress it, while Little Fairy Doctor held Nalan Yanran down as she protested.
• Yao Wan arrived, misread the sounds from the room, and fled after becoming flustered by what she heard.
• The Soul Clan Deputy Hall Master found the Human Hall destroyed and its prisoners and Soul Origin gone, then checked that the Array Diagram remained unharmed.
• Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Soul Origin to raise his soul cultivation and bring it in line with his body and Dou Qi.
• Nalan Yanran complained to Little Fairy Doctor about Xiao Yan’s treatment, though the cold energy was being digested and her cultivation was improving.

While Xiao Yan cultivated in the Star Realm, Yao Wan spent nearly two months caring for Xiao Xiao alongside Zi Yan and helping guide the girl’s cultivation. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan breaking through to Heaven Realm Great Perfection as the Star Realm’s strange phenomena subsided.

• Yao Wan left Xiao Yan’s cultivation area and found Zi Yan playing with Xiao Xiao, who had gained control of her bloodline energy and reached Dou Zong.
• Yao Wan learned Zi Yan had taught Xiao Xiao to call Xiao Yan a rotten old man and warned Zi Yan not to encourage the child to become unruly.
• Yao Wan spent the next nearly two months looking after Xiao Xiao with Zi Yan and guiding her cultivation, while continuing to dwell on a troubling matter Xiao Yan had exposed.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Soul Origin until the soul pressure across the Star Realm gathered around him and caused thunder, dark clouds, and a vast Soul Fluctuation.
• Xiao Yan reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and the phenomena in the Star Realm calmed.

After reaching Heaven Realm Great Perfection, Xiao Yan sensed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and encountered the Hall Master of the Soul Clan, who tried to seize him. Yao Wan intervened and challenged the Hall Master, leaving the two sides poised to fight.

• Xiao Yan explored the Star Realm with his newly strengthened Soul Power while Yao Wan joined Xiao Xiao, Zi Yan, Little Fairy Doctor, and Nalan Yanran in the courtyard.
• Xiao Yan expanded his Soul Fluctuation across Central State and sensed a scorching presence near a distorted space that held the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Hall Master of the Soul Clan attacked Xiao Yan and revealed that he wanted to reclaim the Soul Origin Xiao Yan had absorbed.
• Yao Wan struck the Hall Master with a bell and appeared beside Xiao Yan, declaring that she planned to use his Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul to advance her own.
• The Hall Master prepared to attack, while Yao Wan mocked him for being little stronger than she and Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan returned after Soul Extinguisher was driven off by an unknown elder, then proposed a family banquet with everyone gathered. As Yao Wan prepared to cook, Xiao Yan revealed a jar of Phoenix Marrow wine, leaving her uneasy about drinking with him.

• Soul Extinguisher threatened Xiao Yan and Yao Wan, but an aged voice intervened and forced their Divine Sense back into their bodies.
• Yao Wan woke in the courtyard and complained that Soul Extinguisher had escaped, while Nalan Yanran resumed guiding Xiao Xiao in cultivation.
• Xiao Yan arrived, greeted Xiao Xiao, and suggested holding a family banquet instead of discussing other matters immediately.
• Zi Yan eagerly agreed to the meal and volunteered Xiao Yan to cook for Xiao Xiao, while Yao Wan decided to prepare food using gentle ingredients.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Wan a jar of Phoenix Marrow sent by the Yao Clan, and Yao Wan grew wary when he suggested they taste it.

At a family banquet, Zi Yan drank Phoenix Marrow wine, and Xiao Yan carried her back to her room after she acted drunk. Once she sobered up, she asked him to kiss her, and he did, leaving their relationship at an intimate but unresolved moment.

• Little Fairy Doctor, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Xiao entered training after drinking Phoenix Marrow, while Yao Wan left the courtyard.
• Xiao Yan refused Zi Yan more wine and promised to refine Grade Eight Pills for her, then carried her back to her residence.
• Xiao Yan helped Zi Yan clear her head with warm tea, and she asked whether he truly meant to repay her for what he owed her.
• Zi Yan cupped Xiao Yan’s face and asked him to kiss her, and Xiao Yan kissed her.
• Zi Yan said she wanted to taste the kiss more carefully later, and Xiao Yan rebuked her for saying that.

Xiao Yan visited Yao Wan late at night after Zi Yan fell asleep and found her tipsy and unable to sleep. As they sat together, Yao Wan grew flustered by their closeness, and Xiao Yan kissed her.

• Xiao Yan left after coaxing Zi Yan to sleep and went to Yao Wan's courtyard.
• Xiao Yan found Yao Wan sitting beneath the wisteria, dressed in a light inner garment and still smelling of Phoenix Marrow wine.
• Yao Wan said she could not sleep and admitted she was a little drunk, while rebuffing Xiao Yan's attempts to touch her cheek.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan repeatedly shifted closer and farther apart until Yao Wan had no room left to retreat.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan he was too close, and Xiao Yan replied by moving closer and kissing her.

Yao Wan admitted to Xiao Yan that she had recently been dwelling on troubling thoughts about their relationship, and Xiao Yan reassured her while holding her feet. The conversation left Yao Wan flustered as Xiao Yan teased her about having said their intimacy was too early.

• After kissing Yao Wan, Xiao Yan stopped when she held him back, and they joked about whether he was tired and whether they would sleep together.
• Yao Wan led Xiao Yan into her room, where he noticed her bare feet and she teased him about taking advantage of her.
• Yao Wan brought up their earlier conversation and admitted she had lately been thinking about messy things.
• Yao Yan rested her feet on Xiao Yan's legs, and Xiao Yan gently held them while listening.
• Xiao Yan reminded Yao Wan that she had once said their intimacy was too early, leaving her flustered as he began teasing her.

Xiao Yan teased Yao Wan while she hesitated about taking their relationship further, and the two bantered over his promise to wait and her supposed “desensitization test.” The intimate moment ended with Yao Wan asking to bathe, then questioning what Xiao Yan meant by desensitization.

• Xiao Yan caressed Yao Wan's feet and legs as she sat in his shirt, and her involuntary reactions revealed a more vulnerable, flirtatious side.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan he could wait until she was ready, while she admitted she could not accept taking things further yet.
• Yao Wan said Xiao Yan would not be stopped if he truly wanted to do something, and Xiao Yan reminded her that he still had desires and wanted her to be considerate.
• Yao Yan claimed she had only been testing Xiao Yan, and the two laughed about how she had started the temptation herself.
• Yao Wan said she was sticky and wanted to bathe, then asked Xiao Yan what he meant by calling her actions a desensitization test.