Chapter Summaries

Xiao Se left Jianmu and learned that the Endless Fire Territory faced renewed threats from the Maha Ancient Clan and the Sumeru Alliance. As Medusa and the others prepared to defend the territory, Xiao Se agreed to protect Xiao Xiao, while Medusa held back from summoning Xiao Yan and Yao Wan from seclusion.

• Xiao Se saw the women discuss confirmed Maha Ancient Clan forces at the First and Third Passages and plan to abandon those passages while reinforcing the others.
• Medusa insisted that Xun'er remain in the Endless Fire Territory to protect Xiao Xiao, then asked Xiao Se to look after his Elder Sister.
• Xiao Se agreed to protect Xiao Xiao and the Endless Fire Territory, despite Xun'er's objections that he was too young to bear that responsibility.
• Medusa explained to Xun'er that she had prevented Xiao Xiao from undergoing the Snake-People Tribe's painful newborn soul fusion and wanted her daughter spared the burdens Medusa had endured.
• Medusa considered using a Jianmu leaf to call Xiao Yan and Yao Wan out of seclusion, but decided it was not yet time.

Xiao Se learned that Qing Lin and Feng Qing'er had been assigned by Yao Wan to protect him and Xiao Xiao as the Maha Ancient Clan threatened the Endless Fire Territory. Outside the territory, Zi Yan destroyed an invading force’s void passage, but the Heaven Supreme survivors could still return.

• Xiao Se returned to Xiao Xiao’s courtyard and sensed an ominous change in the Endless Fire Territory.
• Qing Lin and Feng Qing'er revealed that Yao Wan had sent them to protect Xiao Se and Xiao Xiao because the Maha Ancient Clan was preparing to return.
• Xiao Se asked Qing Lin and Feng Qing'er to prioritize protecting Xiao Xiao instead of him.
• Zi Yan collapsed a void passage carrying invading Earth Supreme elites, swallowing them into the void while the Heaven Supreme survivors escaped.
• Zi Yan warned a blond young girl to stay quiet as she remained concerned about the surviving invaders.

Zi Yan and the Endless Fire Territory’s defenders confronted Maha You’s forces at several passages, using coordinated defenses to blunt the invasion. The attackers suffered heavy losses at the fifth passage, while another force emerged into the path of an enormous monster.

• Zi Yan taunted Maha You over the Maha Ancient Clan’s earlier losses, then led the defense as Jiu Xuan charged the enemy troops.
• At the fifth passage, a poisonous sea killed dozens of intruders before Maha Hai tried to dispel it.
• The poisonous flames unleashed hidden sword light that wounded Maha Hai and killed many allied fighters below Heaven Supreme.
• Little Fairy Doctor and Nalan Yanran defended the fifth passage and celebrated after cutting down the weaker attackers.
• Another Maha Ancient Clan force fled a collapsing passage and was met by a gigantic monster that swallowed many of its members.

The Endless Fire Territory fought the Maha Ancient Clan and its allies on several fronts as Xun'er coordinated the defense from within the Sumeru Realm. With outside reinforcements blocked and the battle lines under strain, she handed command of the territory’s coordination to Yao Lao and went to the front line.

• Medusa, the Heaven Swallowing Python, a dragon, Gu Yuan, and Xiao Xuan blocked the Maha Ancient Clan’s advance into the Endless Fire Territory.
• Battles raged across the Sumeru Realm as Xun'er directed reinforcements, managed casualties, and rationed medicinal pills.
• Xun'er learned that the Maha Ancient Clan and its allies had stopped the Endless Fire Territory’s outside reinforcements, including forces from the West Underworld Hall and Great Spirit Mountain.
• Xun'er handed coordination of the Endless Fire Territory to Yao Lao and took responsibility for the front line.

Xun'er and Yao Chen responded to a Heaven Supreme breaking through the allied defenses toward the Endless Fire Territory, while the other defenders held their positions. Just as the intruder neared the territory, a mysterious figure appeared to stop him and protect Elder Sister.

• Xun'er arrived to help Nalan Yanran and Little Fairy Doctor, then told the wounded Nalan to retreat and heal while she took over the fight.
• Zi Yan continued holding off Maha You and two Heaven Supremes after learning that another Heaven Supreme had broken through toward the Endless Fire Territory.
• Yao Chen prepared to intercept the intruder, but Shan Shan told him that someone else would deal with the Heaven Supreme.
• The intruding Heaven Supreme approached the Endless Fire Territory, dreaming of capturing the Flame Emperor's children, until a figure confronted him and vowed to protect Elder Sister.

Xiao Se went alone to confront the Heaven Supreme attacking the Endless Fire Territory, alarming Yao Chen and Han Shanshan. As the battle continued, Xiao Se appeared amid a vast sea of distinctive flames, leaving Zi Yan to recognize him.

• Xiao Se blocked the Xuan Lord, who mistook him for Yao Wan before attacking him.
• Han Shanshan told Yao Chen that Xiao Se had gone alone to the border, and Yao Chen ordered the territory's guardian formation activated.
• Maha You questioned why the Xuan Lord had not returned, while Zi Yan realized his attack had likely failed.
• Zi Yan and the others saw a vast sea of yellow and blue-violet fire sweep through the void, with Xiao Se appearing amid the flames holding an object.

Xiao Se arrived at the Endless Fire Territory, defeated Xuan Lord, and revealed strength capable of threatening Heaven Supremes. As he flew to aid Medusa and the others, Maha You attacked him, only to discover Xiao Se's flames were devouring his spiritual energy.

• Xiao Se brought the defeated Xuan Lord to Zi Yan and explained that he had stopped the attack and placed a sea of fire around the Endless Fire Territory.
• Maha You recognized Xiao Se as the son of Xiao Yan and Yao Wan and was shocked that he could defeat a Heaven Supreme.
• Zi Yan asked whether Xiao Se could control his power, then sent him to help Elder Sister Medusa and the others.
• Maha You and two Heaven Supremes tried to block Xiao Se, but Xiao Se countered Maha You's Black and White Tornado with a blade of fire.
• Maha You lost control of his spiritual energy as Xiao Se's flames devoured his attack.

Xiao Se and Zi Yan fought Maha You as he attacked the Endless Fire Territory, and Xiao Se revealed a deadly flame technique fueled by his life force. The chapter ended with Zi Yan pursuing the badly wounded Maha You while Xiao Se followed, as Maha You refused to accept that the Maha Ancient Clan would pay for its actions.

• Maha You attacked Xiao Se with the power of his Undying Golden Body, and Zi Yan broke through the other Heaven Supremes to intervene.
• Xiao Se told Zi Yan to move aside and struck Maha You with a blood-red sword light that shattered his Maha Heavenly Bell and tore through his defenses.
• Zi Yan recognized that Xiao Se's flames combined his father's Emperor Flame with his mother's Calamity Fire, which consumed life force for greater power.
• Xiao Se's wounds began healing as Zi Yan pursued Maha You, and he followed her despite her warning not to run around.
• Maha You struggled to maintain his protection while fleeing and insisted that no one could make the Maha Ancient Clan pay.

Zi Yan nearly killed Maha You before Maha Tian, the Maha Ancient Clan’s Saint Grade Heaven Supreme, arrived and halted the battle. Maha Tian then turned his attention to Xiao Se, whose final attack failed as his vision and senses faded.

• Zi Yan knocked Maha You’s Black and White Mark away and pinned him down, but a giant black-and-white hand destroyed her Dragon Phoenix attack and rescued him.
• Maha Tian appeared above the battlefield, and his overwhelming pressure forced both sides to stop fighting.
• Zi Yan identified Maha Tian and defied him, accusing the Maha Ancient Clan of bullying the weak and declaring she would defend the Endless Fire Territory.
• Maha You urged Maha Tian to kill Zi Yan, but Maha Tian instead faced Xiao Se as he unleashed Blood Blade, Soul Sever.
• Maha Tian’s wind barrier shattered Xiao Se’s attack, and Xiao Se began to lose his sight and hearing before an unseen voice urged him to live.

Yao Wan emerged from seclusion and joined Xiao Yan to confront Maha Tian after Xiao Se and the others were injured. Maha Tian summoned the true Maha Immeasurable Body and attacked, while Yao Wan blocked his first strike and challenged him to bring out more of his power.

• Yao Wan healed Xiao Se and Zi Yan, then told them to rest while she handled the fight.
• Yao Wan revealed her Saint Grade breakthrough and confronted Maha Tian over the Maha Ancient Clan’s actions.
• Xiao Yan arrived after healing Xun'er, Xian'er, and Nalan, and declared that the Maha Ancient Clan’s unrest would end.
• Maha Tian summoned the true Maha Immeasurable Body and launched an attack at Xiao Yan and Yao Wan.
• Yao Wan blocked the attack with her Stone Hammer and challenged Maha Tian to bring out his Supreme Dharma Body.

Yao Wan and Xiao Yan overwhelmed Maha Tian with their attacks, forcing him to flee with Maha You as Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus engulfed the battlefield. The fire left no trace of the Maha Ancient Clan within their perception.

• Yao Wan broke through Maha Tian’s spiritual-energy attack while Xiao Yan sent a tide of fire dragons at him.
• Maha Tian shielded himself with the Maha Spirit Shell, but Yao Wan shattered it with repeated blows from Stone Hammer.
• Yao Wan burned her life to unleash Blood Blade, soul severance, and Maha Tian destroyed his Maha Sky Spear to block the strike.
• Xiao Yan formed a Fire Lotus and launched it at Maha Tian, who fled with Maha You behind a black-and-white umbrella.
• The Fire Lotus spread across the battlefield and swallowed everything, leaving no trace of the Maha Ancient Clan within Maha Tian’s perception.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan pursued Maha Tian and Maha You after the Fire Lotus forced them to retreat, while the armies outside the Sumeru Realm realized the Maha Ancient Clan’s leader had withdrawn. The Great Spirit Mountain monk offered the Maha forces a chance to end their stalemate, leaving the conflict to be settled between the leaders.

• Maha Tian carried Maha You away from the Fire Lotus, but the flames overwhelmed their defenses and continued pursuing them.
• Yao Wan sensed Maha Tian and Maha You escaping, and Xiao Yan decided to pursue them and settle accounts with the Maha Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan remembered the forces clashing outside the Sumeru Realm and turned his attention to the unfinished trouble there.
• The Maha Ancient Clan’s reinforcements recognized the black-and-white pillar as the radiance of the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle and realized their Clan Leader had retreated.
• The Great Spirit Mountain monk told the Maha Ancient Clan’s forces that their Clan Leader had returned and invited them to withdraw.

Yao Wan reached Saint Grade and subdued the Maha Ancient Clan’s forces after Maha Tian fled, then hurried to join Xiao Yan. Maha Tian returned to his clan, activated its protective formation, and prepared to face Xiao Yan, who arrived alone to challenge him.

• Yao Wan appeared before the Maha Ancient Clan’s forces, and the Endless Fire Territory’s reinforcements congratulated her on advancing to Saint Grade.
• Yao Wan pierced and suspended the Maha Ancient Clan’s experts with golden rays, then thanked the allied reinforcements and told them she and Xiao Yan would settle their old debt with the clan.
• Yao Wan left to catch up with Xiao Yan, while Maha Tian returned to the Maha Ancient Clan with Maha You and ordered the Clan Protecting Grand Formation activated.
• Xiao Yan arrived outside the Maha Ancient Clan’s formation and challenged Clan Leader Maha, while Maha Tian warned the Supreme Elder not to confront him rashly.

Maha Tian sealed the Maha Ancient Clan and sent a Supreme Elder to seek help from the Great Thousand Palace while Xiao Yan guarded the gates. Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed her distant attitude toward Xiao Se, and Yao Wan admitted his resemblance to the Spirit Devouring Saint King was part of the reason.

• Maha Tian ordered the Maha Ancient Clan's gates sealed and forbade its members and visitors from leaving.
• Maha Tian asked a Supreme Elder with ties to the Great Thousand Palace to seek its aid, and the elder departed while Xiao Yan continued guarding the clan.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Yan that Yao Wan had hung the captured enemies up, and Xiao Yan said he wished she had been more decisive toward Xiao Se.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Wan why she seemed distant from Xiao Se, and she admitted that his resemblance to the Spirit Devouring Saint King troubled her.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed their concerns about Xiao Se before receiving word that he had begun sweeping through the Sumeru Realm beyond the Endless Fire Territory. As they waited outside the Maha Ancient Clan, Qin Tian arrived, unaware of the full conflict and offering to settle the grudge.

• Yao Wan explained that Xiao Se's resemblance to the Spirit Devouring Saint King and his unusual temperament contributed to her unease about him.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan noted that a Saint Grade had left the Maha Ancient Clan, but decided to wait rather than risk forcing their way through its defenses.
• Xiao Yan received Xun'er's message that the Endless Fire Territory was recovering and that Xiao Se had gone to subdue territory beyond its borders.
• Xiao Yan resolved to give Xiao Se more guidance after returning, while Yao Wan acknowledged that his strength could help him conquer the Sumeru Realm.
• Qin Tian arrived and said the Maha Ancient Clan's Supreme Elder had invited him to settle the grudge, so Yao Wan warned him that the clan was the one that had attacked them.
• Qin Tian asked Maha Tian to come out and speak with him.

Qin Tian mediated the dispute between the Endless Fire Territory and the Maha Ancient Clan, but Xiao Yan refused compensation and demanded a harsher penalty. The sides reached a settlement that confined the Maha Ancient Clan to its territory for three hundred years.

• Maha Tian emerged with the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle as Qin Tian, Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan awaited him.
• Xiao Yan accused the Maha Ancient Clan of starting the conflict by trying to seize the Sumeru Realm, and Qin Tian agreed that first come, first served was fair.
• Qin Tian urged both sides to avoid a costly fight and proposed that the Maha Ancient Clan compensate the Endless Fire Territory.
• Yao Wan said she wanted the Maha Ancient Clan to pay a more painful price, while Xiao Yan asked Qin Tian whether he could make a binding decision.
• Xiao Yan planted an Emperor Flame that formed a destructive sea of fire around the Maha Ancient Clan and demanded it remain within its territory for three hundred years.
• Qin Tian judged the confinement acceptable, leaving Maha Tian to decide whether the Maha Ancient Clan would accept the settlement.

Qin Tian brokered a temporary end to the conflict between the Maha Ancient Clan and the Endless Fire Territory, then revealed he would travel to the Demon Domain to temper himself. As Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to deal with the aftermath, Xiao Se began forcing the Sumeru Realm factions to submit, while Xun'er endured painful treatment from Yao Wan.

• Maha Tian reluctantly accepted Qin Tian's proposal for a three-hundred-year truce with the Endless Fire Territory and left to stabilize his clan.
• Qin Tian told Xiao Yan and Yao Wan that he would go to the Demon Domain as part of the Great Thousand Palace's tradition for Saint Grade experts.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to the devastated Endless Fire Territory, where Zi Yan was helping treat the wounded.
• Xiao Se led the Endless Fire Territory's forces into the Sumeru Alliance lands and demanded that the factions leave or submit, threatening to turn them to ash.
• Xun'er cursed Yao Wan as she endured painful treatment for her wound.

Yao Wan treated Xun'er’s wound as they discussed the Maha Ancient Clan’s defeat and the future of the Sumeru Realm. The conversation ended with Yao Wan predicting that Mu Chen would challenge the Maha Ancient Clan for the Eternal Undying Body, prompting Xun’er to suspect she could see the future.

• Yao Wan soothed Xun’er’s wound, and the two bickered over why nobody had used the warning leaves to call for help.
• Xun’er asked about the Maha Ancient Clan, and Yao Wan explained how the conflict had ended.
• Xun’er accepted the settlement as the best outcome and said they could take control of the Sumeru Realm, while Yao Wan said she would let her son follow his own path.
• Yao Wan said Maha Tian could retrieve the Maha Ancient Clan members held outside, but hinted that someone else would cause trouble for him later.
• Yao Wan predicted that Mu Chen would fight the Maha Ancient Clan for the Eternal Undying Body and succeed, leading Xun’er to ask whether Yao Wan had a power to predict the future.

Several months after Xiao Se returned and brought the Sumeru Realm under the Endless Fire Territory's control, Xiao Yan welcomed him home and tried to connect with him as a father. Xiao Yan began telling Xiao Se about his own childhood, leaving their conversation just beginning.

• Xiao Se returned to the Endless Fire Territory after it had taken control of the Sumeru Realm.
• Xiao Se found Xiao Yan waiting at the gate and learned that his father had returned from dealing with the Maha Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yan wiped the blood from Xiao Se's face and asked whether he was hurt, while Xiao Se said his wounds had already healed.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Se that he hoped he could experience ordinary emotions and happiness, without judging him as wrong for being different.
• Xiao Se said he could feel what Xiao Yan wanted to convey and asked what other children unlike Xiao Xiao were like.
• Xiao Yan began telling Xiao Se about his own youth, when he had been cold and proud and distant from his grandfather.

Xiao Se spoke with Xiao Yan about how his father’s past had shaped him and learned that Qing Lin and Feng Qing’er were safe. He admitted he had once wanted to fall asleep alongside his elder sister, but remained conflicted about whether that choice would help either of them.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Se how his Grandmaster’s influence had changed his personality and said he and Xiao Se’s mother mainly wanted him to live happily.
• Xiao Se asked about Qing Lin and Feng Qing’er, and Xiao Yan explained that they were safe and that Xiao Yan’s mother had gathered them at the Medicine Tower to help.
• Xiao Yan suggested that Xiao Se visit the Dou Qi Continent and meet his uncles and grandfather someday.
• Xiao Se revealed that before the Maha Ancient Clan invaded, he had gone to find Xiao Yan and his mother because he wanted to fall asleep alongside his elder sister and grow with her.
• Xiao Se told Xiao Yan that he had reconsidered the idea because the Endless Fire Territory still faced hardships and his choice might affect it.