Chapter Summaries

Zi Yan defeated the North Dragon King with Xiao Yan’s help, reunited the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan, and named Xiao Yan its Honorary Grand Consecrator. After refining a Nine Dragon Breaking Saint Pill and advancing to Late Stage Three-Star Dou Sheng, Xiao Yan received Xun’er’s invitation to the Ancient Clan’s Bloodline Awakening ceremony and decided to ask for her hand in marriage.

• Zi Yan used the Dragon Slaying Sword to destroy the North Dragon King after Xiao Yan trapped his self-destructing Dragon Crystal with the Eight Types of Exotic Flames.
• Three days later, Zi Yan proclaimed the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan reunited and gave Xiao Yan the title of Honorary Grand Consecrator; Xiao Yan gave her the North Dragon King’s remains, and Zi Yan said she would give him a Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan refined the North Dragon King’s crystal core into a Nine Dragon Breaking Saint Pill and reached Late Stage Three-Star Dou Sheng after swallowing it.
• Yao Chen gave Xiao Yan an invitation to the Ancient Clan’s Bloodline Awakening ceremony, which carried a coded message from Xun’er; Xiao Yan decided to visit and ask for her hand.
• Zi Yan insisted on accompanying Xiao Yan to the Ancient Clan as the Dragon Emperor’s congratulatory gift.

Xiao Yan finished refining the Nine Dragon Breaking Saint Pill’s power, reached the peak of the Three-star Dou Saint realm, and entered the Ancient Holy City. After Ling Quan and other Ancient Clan youths provoked him at the gates, Xiao Yan crushed them with his aura and began to confront Yang Hao.

• Xiao Yan used the Eight Types of Exotic Flames to refine the Demonic Dragon Evil Qi, completing the Nine-Turn Dragon Scale Art.
• On the third day, Xiao Yan broke through to the Three-star Dou Saint Peak and traveled to the Ancient Holy City using Xun'er's spatial coordinates and invitation.
• Ling Quan stopped Xiao Yan at the city gates and insulted him, while hostile Ancient Clan youths mocked him.
• Ling Quan attacked Xiao Yan with black flames, but Xiao Yan’s pressure extinguished the flames, forced Ling Quan to his knees, and knocked the youths unconscious.
• Yang Hao arrived and challenged Xiao Yan for injuring people in the city; Xiao Yan expanded his Eight-colored Flame into a sea of fire.

Xiao Yan arrived at Ancient Holy City, overpowered Yang Hao, and reunited with Xun'er before the Ancient Clan’s Bloodline Awakening ceremony. After Xun'er revealed her Ten-star Bloodline, Gu Yao challenged Xiao Yan, who accepted and said one move would decide the fight.

• Yang Hao attacked Xiao Yan with the Azure Nether Breaking Venerable Spear, but Xiao Yan’s flames destroyed it and his aura forced Yang Hao to kneel.
• Xun'er arrived and stopped Xiao Yan from killing Yang Hao, then stripped the commander of his positions and assigned him to guard the gates.
• Xun'er took Xiao Yan to the ceremony, where he greeted his teacher Old Yao and watched Ancient Clan youths reveal their bloodline ranks.
• Gu Yao displayed an Eight-star Bloodline, while Xun'er’s awakening revealed a Ten-star Bloodline that astonished the crowd.
• Gu Yao challenged Xiao Yan, who accepted and declared that Gu Yao would lose if he could not withstand one move.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Gu Yao with his Eight-colored Exotic Fire and revealed that he had reached Three-star Dou Saint Peak, forcing Gu Yao to concede and apologize. He then publicly asked the Ancient Clan for Xun'er’s hand in marriage, but Gu Xu objected, and Xiao Yan answered with a show of strength and a challenge to anyone who opposed him.

• Xiao Yan unleashed his Eight-colored Exotic Fire and Three-star Dou Saint Peak pressure, overpowering Gu Yao until Gu Yao conceded.
• An Ancient Clan elder shielded Gu Yao from Xiao Yan’s flames, then made Gu Yao apologize and praised Xiao Yan’s strength.
• Xiao Yan knelt before Xun'er and formally asked Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan for her hand in marriage.
• Gu Xu objected to the match, citing the Xiao Clan’s decline, and challenged Xiao Yan’s right to marry Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan declared that he was a sixteen-year-old Three-star Dou Saint and tier-nine alchemist, then summoned a powerful Fire Lotus and dared anyone to step forward.

After Xiao Yan declared that he was a sixteen-year-old Dou Saint, Elder Gu Xu demanded that he marry into the Ancient Clan and bring the Xiao Family under its control. Xiao Yan defeated Gu Xu in battle, prompting Gu Yuan to approve his marriage proposal and bring him to the Ancient Clan’s Inheritance Space to discuss matters privately.

• The clans and their young prodigies were stunned when Xiao Yan revealed he was sixteen and a Dou Saint.
• Elder Gu Xu demanded that Xiao Yan marry into the Ancient Clan and bring the Xiao Family to submit, but Xiao Yan vowed to restore the Xiao Family to its former glory and surpass it.
• Gu Xu challenged Xiao Yan, who unleashed his techniques and temporarily reached the threshold of a Six-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan overwhelmed Gu Xu, broke his sacred halberd, and defeated him with the Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus until Gu Xu conceded.
• Gu Yuan approved Xiao Yan’s marriage proposal and transported him to the Ancient Clan’s Inheritance Space to discuss matters privately.

Xiao Yan entered the Heaven Tomb with Xun'er and their companions, swept through its first two levels, and rescued Lightning Clan prodigies from a Soul Clan ambush. At the blood-colored altar leading to the third level, Xiao Yan felt a powerful bloodline summons and triggered a pillar of red light, leaving his group on the verge of entering the tomb's deepest level.

• Gu Yuan told Xiao Yan that Xun'er had to remain pure until she reached Dou Saint, explained the Heaven Tomb's time difference, and warned him about Xiao Xuan's tomb on the third level.
• Xiao Yan entered the Heaven Tomb with Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Gu Qingyang, and the other gathered geniuses, then destroyed the Energy Bodies around them and collected their energy cores.
• Xiao Yan led his group through the first level in seven days and entered the second level, where they discovered Hun Ya and Hun Li attacking Lightning Clan prodigies alongside two Dou Saint Energy Bodies.
• Xiao Yan defeated Hun Ya's group with the Great Heaven Creation Palm and Buddha's Wrath Samsara, then rescued Lei Dong and the other Lightning Clan members.
• Xiao Yan's group reached the blood-colored altar to the third level, where Xiao Yan felt a summons connected to his bloodline and caused a pillar of red light to rise when he touched it.

Xiao Yan met his ancestor Xiao Xuan in the third level of the Heaven Tomb, where Xiao Xuan reshaped his depleted bloodline by fusing the Ancient Clan and Xiao Clan bloodlines. Xiao Yan emerged with a powerful new bloodline and a breakthrough in cultivation, while Xiao Xuan vanished after entrusting him with the Xiao Clan’s revival.

• Xiao Yan led his companions through the third level of the Heaven Tomb and found Xiao Xuan seated on a blood-jade altar.
• Xiao Xuan examined Xiao Yan’s history and praised his cultivation, then revealed pools containing the Ancient Clan bloodline and the Xiao Clan’s final Dou Di Bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan began replacing Xiao Yan’s bloodline, and Xiao Yan endured three days and nights of intense pain as his companions watched anxiously.
• Xiao Yan completed the bloodline transformation, activated Qilin Possession, and broke through the Three-star Dou Saint Peak bottleneck.
• Xiao Xuan explained the new bloodline’s potential and urged Xiao Yan to revive the Xiao Clan before his Energy Body faded away.
• Xiao Yan vowed that the Xiao Clan’s glory would return as the altar collapsed around him.

Xiao Yan awakened his Dou Di Bloodline, rose to Peak Six-star Dou Sheng, and left the Heaven Tomb after helping Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin prepare to break through. On the way back to Starfall Pavilion, he and Old Yao were ambushed by Hun Miesheng and four Soul Hall Dou Saints, and Xiao Yan began fighting back with his Nine-colored Flame.

• Xiao Yan's Dou Di Bloodline awakened and raised his cultivation to Peak Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan led the group through the Heaven Tomb, defeated its Energy Bodies, and gave energy cores to Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan left the three women cultivating in the Heaven Tomb and departed with Old Yao for Starfall Pavilion.
• Hun Miesheng and four Soul Hall Dou Saints collapsed Xiao Yan and Old Yao's spatial tunnel and surrounded them.
• Xiao Yan shattered Soul Hall's formation with his bloodline power, then fused his bloodline with his Eight-colored Exotic Fire to create a Nine-colored Flame.

Xiao Yan used his new bloodline and battle techniques to defeat five Soul Hall Dou Saints, though Hun Miesheng escaped through a mysterious clan leader’s contingency. Old Yao returned to find Xiao Yan collecting the defeated Saints’ Storage Rings.

• Hun Miesheng tried to contact the Soul Clan, but Xiao Yan crushed his wrist and stopped him from using the Jade Slip.
• Xiao Yan let Old Yao escape, then reached Eight-star Dou Saint strength with Heavenly Flame Three Transformations and Super Beast Armament and killed the Three-star Dou Saint pursuing him.
• Xiao Yan’s Nine Heavens Burning Heaven fire lotus killed two Four-star Dou Saints and another Three-star Dou Saint while leaving Hun Miesheng badly injured.
• Hun Miesheng used the Soul Sacrifice Great Law, but Xiao Yan split him with Wave Splitting Flame Ruler: Nine Heavens; a black light then carried Hun Miesheng away.
• Xiao Yan collected the Storage Rings, and Old Yao returned and asked whether the Soul Hall Dou Saints had all been dealt with.

Xiao Yan broke through to an Emperor Realm Soul, and Old Yao revealed that he had completed the map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. After the Demon Fire Space appeared, Xiao Yan, Old Yao, and Zi Yan arrived at Demon Fire Plain, where powerful clans had gathered to compete for the flame.

• Xiao Yan awakened an Emperor Realm Soul after seven days of cultivation, and Old Yao praised his breakthrough.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame might emerge soon and gave him the fourth map fragment, completing the map.
• Zi Yan confronted Xiao Yan for leaving her behind during the trip to the Heaven Tomb, then insisted on joining him to seek the flame.
• Xiao Yan received word that the Demon Fire Space had appeared, and he, Old Yao, and Zi Yan traveled to Demon Fire Plain.
• Yao Wangui, Lei Ling, Shi Potian, Gu Nanhai, Yan Yao, and hundreds of other experts gathered around the Demon Fire Space as Xiao Yan sensed the Heavenly Flames stirring within him.

Xiao Yan defended Yao Chen from Yao Wangui’s insults, defeated him with one palm, and burned him to ash before the Demon Fire Space opened. Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and their companion entered the space to pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, followed by a mysterious black-robed man.

• As the Demon Fire Space began opening, Yao Wangui mocked Yao Chen and insulted his past expulsion from the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Peak Six-star Dou Saint strength and Emperor Realm Soul, then shattered Yao Wangui’s defenses and severely injured him with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Xiao Yan burned Yao Wangui and his soul to ash, challenged the Yao Clan to send Yao Dan, and demanded that Yao Dan kneel and apologize to Yao Chen.
• The Demon Fire Space gateway fully opened, and Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and their companion entered alongside experts from the gathered clans.
• After the others entered, a mysterious black-robed man appeared, said the fighting was only beginning, and stepped into the gateway.

Xiao Yan and the other clans fought through the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion-filled space, discovering that its Fire Slaves could be weakened by the Eight-colored Exotic Fire. Just as the battle turned in their favor, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared as the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint and unleashed the Pure Lotus Realm.

• Xiao Yan warned Yao Chen and Zi Yan that the lotus-scented mist could erode their minds, while other experts fell into deadly illusions and attacked one another.
• Xiao Yan led his group through shifting illusions and fought the Fire Slaves, whose bodies and weapons rapidly regenerated after being destroyed.
• Xiao Yan used Buddha's Wrath Samsara—Eight Desolations Burning Heaven to consume the Fire Slaves’ milky-white energy and disrupt their recovery.
• Yao Chen, Zi Yan, Yan Yao, Gu Nanhai, and the other experts seized the opening to attack the weakened Fire Slaves and turn the battle around.
• The Pure Lotus Demonic Saint appeared, restored the Fire Slaves, revealed his peak Five-star Dou Saint pressure, and invoked the Pure Lotus Realm.

Yan Yao and the other experts failed to defeat the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with their individual attacks, but Xiao Yan’s merged Exotic Fire wounded it and destroyed its Fire Slaves. The five experts then used a formation to force the flame into its original form, leaving them arguing over who would claim it as a hidden red light flickered inside.

• Yan Yao, Gu Nanhai, and Elder Lei Ling attacked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but it absorbed Yan Yao’s flames, burned away Gu Nanhai’s binding threads, and badly wounded Elder Lei Ling.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned powerful Fire Slaves, who overwhelmed Shi Potian and Yao Tian until Xiao Yan destroyed them with his Eight-colored Exotic Fire.
• Xiao Yan struck the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with a merged-fire punch, then clashed with its fire dragon using Buddha's Wrath Samsara.
• Yan Yao and four other experts activated the Heavenly Restraining Spirit Locking Great Formation, which drained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s power and forced it into its original flame form.
• Yan Yao, Yao Tian, Lei Ling, and Gu Nanhai disputed who would claim the trapped flame as a red streak quietly flashed inside it.

Xiao Yan fought off the Dou Saint experts who tried to stop him from taking the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin, but the flame broke free from its seal and revealed its overwhelming strength. As the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame prepared to begin the battle in earnest, the Pill Tower Ancestor appeared and asked Xiao Yan to join forces with him.

• Yan Yao, Yao Tian, Lei Ling, Shi Potian, and Old Man Hun Mo fought in a chaotic melee, while Xiao Yan remained protected by his Eight-colored Exotic Fire.
• The wounded experts surrounded Xiao Yan and demanded that he withdraw, but Xiao Yan summoned a colossal fire Qilin and shattered their attacks as it reached for the Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin.
• The sealing formation cracked and collapsed, freeing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who blocked Xiao Yan’s Qilin with his Sky Burning Palm and revealed that he was a Peak Six-star Dou Sheng.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the controlled Xiao Chen and absorbed the Fire Slaves, pushing his aura close to the Seven-star Dou Saint threshold.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared, declared that he had come to subdue the flame, and formed a medicinal-pill array before asking Xiao Yan to join forces with him; Xiao Yan agreed.

Xiao Yan and the Pill Tower Ancestor overwhelmed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, bound it, and forced it into Xiao Yan’s body for refinement. As Xiao Yan struggled to subdue it, Nihility Devouring Flame arrived and demanded Xiao Yan’s life and Heavenly Flames.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor’s Azure Flame net and Xiao Yan’s Wave Splitting Flame Ruler shattered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s lotus barrier and sent him flying.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated dormant energy in the Saints, controlling some of them and Blood Axe Xiao Chen; Xiao Yan destroyed the attacking Saints while Zi Yan tried to free Xiao Chen.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor trapped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with golden threads, allowing Xiao Yan to refine it with his Eight Types of Exotic Flames and swallow its lotus-shaped original form.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame resisted fiercely inside Xiao Yan as the Pill Tower Ancestor prepared to help.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared with a rising Nine Star Dou Sheng aura and demanded Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames and life.

Xiao Yan fused the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with his other Heavenly Flames and surged from Six-star to Nine Star Dou Sheng, then fought Nihility Devouring Flame in the Demon Fire Space. The chapter ended as Xiao Yan's nine-colored lotus collided with Nihility Devouring Flame's Void Devouring Heaven, threatening to collapse the space.

• Nihility Devouring Flame blocked the Pill Tower Ancestor and prepared to kill Xiao Yan while Zi Yan tried to reach him and Xiao Chen restrained her.
• Xiao Yan used the Kirin Sky Burning Art to refine the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and break through to the peak of Seven-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan activated all three Heavenly Flame Three Transformations and Super Beast Armament, reaching Nine Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan struck Nihility Devouring Flame with a nine-colored flame punch and a Fire Lotus, blasting away half of his body and weakening him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned the Void Demonic Idol and attacked with six weapons, but Xiao Yan's crimson-gold Qilin and nine-colored flames battered him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame unleashed Void Devouring Heaven as Xiao Yan hurled his nine-colored Buddha's Wrath Samsara Sun Burning Heaven lotus at its giant black maw, shaking the Demon Fire Space.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame with his Nine-colored Fire Lotus and drove him to flee, then received the submission of the gathered Dou Saints. Nihility Devouring Flame escaped to the Soul Clan Forbidden Area and pleaded for help as a pair of scarlet eyes opened in its depths.

• Xiao Yan’s Nine-colored Fire Lotus broke through Nihility Devouring Flame’s Void Devouring Heaven and blasted a huge hole through his chest.
• Xiao Yan relentlessly attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, then destroyed his Thousand-Handed Demon Idol with Kirin Tramples Heaven.
• Nihility Devouring Flame scattered into black sparks to escape; Xiao Yan burned most of them, but a few slipped through spatial rifts.
• Yan Yao, Yao Tian, Lei Ling, Shi Potian, and the others knelt before Xiao Yan and offered him their gains, while Yan Yao and Yao Tian begged for mercy.
• Nihility Devouring Flame reached the Soul Clan Forbidden Area gravely wounded and called for help, awakening a pair of scarlet eyes in its depths.

Hun Tiandi learned that Xiao Yan had defeated Nihility Devouring Flame and ordered the Soul Clan to emerge and begin its campaign. Xiao Yan helped Cai Lin complete her breakthrough, reunited with the other women after their seclusion, and prepared Starfall Pavilion for war after hearing the Soul Clan had destroyed the Stone Clan and threatened the ancient clans.

• Hun Tiandi discovered Nihility Devouring Flame’s injuries and, after learning Xiao Yan’s age and strength, ordered the Soul Clan to emerge and killed three elders who had failed to stop him.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Nine Nether Yellow Springs and helped Cai Lin complete her ninth colored pattern, bringing her to the Four-star Dou Saint level.
• Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin emerged from seclusion as Dou Saints, and Xiao Yan reunited with them and Cai Lin.
• Gu Nanhai reported that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Stone Clan and threatened to destroy all the ancient clans within a year.
• Xiao Yan declared that Starfall Pavilion would prepare for war against Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan.

Xiao Yan rushed to the Yao Clan but arrived after Hun Tiandi had devastated its sacred land and taken its Ancient Jade. After a fierce clash, Hun Tiandi withdrew and named the Burial Sky Mountain Range as their next meeting place; Xiao Yan left with Old Yao while the surviving Yao Clan faced its ruin.

• Xiao Yan warned Old Yao that the Soul Clan would target the Yao Clan, then gathered his companions and hurried there with reinforcements notified.
• Xiao Yan found the Yao Clan nearly destroyed, while Old Yao treated a dying disciple despite Xiao Yan's refusal to save the clan.
• Hun Tiandi appeared with the Ancient Jade and Yao Dan, and Xiao Yan defeated his two Eight-star Dou Saint living dead before fighting Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Tiandi traded powerful attacks for an hour, damaging each other and reducing the Yao Clan ruins further to rubble.
• Hun Tiandi withdrew after announcing a meeting at the Burial Sky Mountain Range in three months, and Xiao Yan vowed to refine Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Old Yao saved Yao Dan and learned that fewer than forty percent of the Yao Clan remained; he then left with Xiao Yan as Starfall Pavilion's reinforcements collected usable medicinal ingredients.

Xiao Yan was ambushed by Hun Tiandi inside the Nine Nether Saint Refining Array, while Soul Clan traitors and forces attacked the Ancient, Lightning, and Flame Clans to seize their Ancient Jades. The Soul Clan escaped with the Lightning and Flame Clan’s jades, and Nihility Devouring Flame fled with Gu Yang after taking the Ancient Clan’s jade.

• Xun'er learned that the Lightning, Flame, and Ancient Clans had been attacked, so Xiao Yan headed to support the Ancient Clan and warned everyone to watch its elders.
• Hun Tiandi’s trap hurled Xiao Yan into the Nine Nether Saint Refining Array, where Hun Tiandi ambushed him and the two fought inside the repairing formation.
• Gu Yang betrayed the Ancient Clan and fled with Nihility Devouring Flame, who escaped Gu Yuan with the Ancient Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• The Four Demon Saints and traitors within the Lightning Clan disabled its defenses, subdued Lei Ying, and seized the Lightning Clan’s Ancient Jade.
• Soul Clan forces and two living dead overwhelmed the Flame Clan, sealed Yan Jin’s cultivation, and took the Flame Clan’s Ancient Jade.