Chapter Summaries

The Fallen Heart Flame broke through the Qi Refining Tower’s defenses, forcing Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders to form a sealing array as it tried to escape. Nalan Chaoge sent Kimimaro to halt the beast while the elders prepared to seal it.

• The Fallen Heart Flame erupted from the magma and smashed through the Qi Refining Tower’s successive energy shields as Su Qian fled upward and called the elders to gather.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan he had tampered with the seal, then sent him out while the Heavenly Flame rampaged.
• Eighteen Inner Academy elders formed the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array after the Fallen Heart Flame breached the tower’s final defenses.
• Nalan Chaoge sensed Hu Gan, Wu Sky Wolf, and forces from the Black-Corner Region approaching, then told Kimimaro to use his Lion-Tiger Shattering Gold Chant to hold back the escaping beast.
• Kimimaro unleashed a roar that struck the Fallen Heart Flame just as it burst from the tower’s peak.

The Fallen Heart Flame broke free of the Qi Refining Tower, and Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders struggled to trap it in the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array. As the formation began to fail, Hu Gan, Wu Tianlang, and the Outer Academy elders arrived and reinforced it just as the flame struck again.

• The Fallen Heart Flame shattered its seal, but a sonic attack disrupted it long enough for Su Qian and eighteen elders to activate the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen discussed their plan to seize the Fallen Heart Flame, and Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan to watch out for Nalan Chaoge.
• The fire python battered the array for an hour, while one elder ran out of Dou Qi and Su Qian used essence blood to repair a crack.
• The Fallen Heart Flame revealed Origin Heart Flames inside the remaining elders, weakening the formation until the python tore an opening and knocked several elders from the sky.
• The python swung its tail at Su Qian, but Hu Gan, Wu Tianlang, and the Outer Academy elders arrived and reinforced the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array as the attack landed.

The Inner Academy elders sealed the Invisible Fire Python back inside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, but Han Feng arrived with allies to claim the heavenly flame. Nalan Chaoge recognized Han Feng’s balding companion as Old Man Mu Gu, a powerful Soul Hall elder and Yao Chen’s junior martial brother, leaving the academy facing a dangerous new threat.

• Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang joined Su Qian, helping the elders stabilize the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array and trap the Invisible Fire Python.
• Su Qian formed a Dou Qi Orb and drove the Invisible Fire Python into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, sealing the tower as the students cheered.
• Nalan Chaoge sensed trouble approaching, and Su Qian ordered the elders to reinforce the seal while the Outer Academy elders prepared to meet the intruders.
• Han Feng led a group from the Black-Corner Region through the Inner Academy’s Space Barrier and demanded that Su Qian release the heavenly flame.
• Han Feng introduced his martial uncle, Old Man Mu Gu, and Nalan Chaoge recognized him as a powerful Soul Hall elder who had conspired with Han Feng against Yao Chen.

Han Feng and Old Man Mu Gu confronted Jia Nan Academy over the Fallen Heart Flame, while Nalan Chaoge tried to provoke a clash between the flame’s powerful claimants. When Su Qian attacked Old Man Mu Gu and was trapped by spatial force, Nalan Chaoge used Amaterasu to disrupt Mu Gu’s control and save him.

• Han Feng revealed that his martial uncle, Old Man Mu Gu, was a Dou Zun and demanded the Fallen Heart Flame from Su Qian.
• Han Feng offered to withdraw the Black Alliance if Jia Nan Academy surrendered the flame, but Su Qian refused and completed the seal.
• Nalan Chaoge pretended to support Han Feng’s demand, hoping to turn Old Man Mu Gu and Yao Chen against each other and release the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that he had leaked word of the flame to Han Feng, expecting Han Feng to come, but had not anticipated Old Man Mu Gu’s arrival.
• Su Qian ordered the Inner Academy’s elders to defend the Qi Refining Tower and attacked Old Man Mu Gu, who trapped him in crushing spatial force.
• Nalan Chaoge activated Amaterasu against Old Man Mu Gu, forcing him to loosen his hold on Su Qian and saving Su Qian from being crushed.

Nalan Chaoge negotiated with Old Man Mu Gu to hand over the Fallen Heart Flame in exchange for a Seventh Rank magic core, but Xiao Yan intervened and revealed Yao Chen, who confronted his former junior. Their battle threatened to destroy Jia Nan Academy as the elders tried to raise a protective formation.

• Nalan Chaoge accepted one Seventh Rank magic core from Old Man Mu Gu in exchange for the Fallen Heart Flame, despite demanding two.
• Xiao Yan warned Su Qian not to release the Heavenly Flame, and Old Man Mu Gu attacked him with distorted space.
• Yao Chen revealed himself through Xiao Yan and clashed with Old Man Mu Gu, who accused him of stealing the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Old Man Mu Gu unleashed the Nether Demonic Flame Arm, and Yao Chen countered with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• The clash sent a devastating shock wave toward the Inner Academy, prompting Su Qian to order the elders to form a protective formation as Nalan Chaoge realized he had been tricked.

The shock from Old Man Mu Gu and Yao Chen’s combined attack shattered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower’s seal, freeing the Fallen Heart Flame. The flame attacked the three men carrying Heavenly Flames, and Nalan Chaoge escaped its devastating roar with Kamui, making Yao Chen and Old Man Mu Gu suspect he was a Dou Zun.

• Old Man Mu Gu and Yao Chen’s combined powers shattered the tower’s seal, killing several elders and wounding Su Qian, while Nalan Treant shielded the students from the shock wave.
• The Fallen Heart Flame emerged as an enormous fire python and drew flames from Han Feng, Xiao Yan, and Nalan Chaoge, marking them as targets to devour.
• The fire python feinted toward Han Feng, then attacked Nalan Chaoge, who used Water Release techniques to strike and cut the python at the waist.
• The wounded fire python roared at Nalan Chaoge, but he vanished with Kamui before its sonic attack destroyed a distant mountain.
• Yao Chen and Old Man Mu Gu saw Nalan Chaoge escape through space and considered joining forces to eliminate him.

Nalan Chaoge fought to protect the Inner Academy as Old Man Mu Gu seized the fallen heart flame and Han Feng ordered an attack on the students. Injured and pressed by Yao Chen, Nalan Chaoge summoned Hai Bodong and old Enma, who went to hold off the enemy elders while Nalan Chaoge faced Yao Chen.

• Nalan Chaoge battled Old Man Mu Gu, who kicked him out of the Inner Academy, but Nalan Chaoge returned and tried to throw Han Feng into the fallen heart flame before Yao Chen struck him with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Old Man Mu Gu caught the fallen heart flame, while the flame struck Yao Chen and Han Feng ordered his allies to slaughter the Inner Academy students.
• Su Qian ordered an evacuation, but the students turned back as Han Feng's forces attacked, and Nalan Chaoge killed a Dou Huang with Eight Trigrams: Mountain Crusher.
• Yao Chen confronted the injured Nalan Chaoge, who summoned Hai Bodong through Impure World Reincarnation to block Yao Chen's Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Nalan Chaoge summoned old Enma, who agreed to hold off the Gold and Silver Elders and the other attackers while Nalan Chaoge prepared to face Yao Chen.

Nalan Chaoge used Sage Mode and Susanoo to break Yao Chen’s Space Lockdown and meet his enormous flame form in battle. Their clash devastated the surrounding mountains, and the chapter left them trading powerful attacks in the sky as Yao Chen grew alarmed by Nalan Chaoge’s strength.

• Hai Bodong regenerated after taking Yao Chen’s attack, while Old Man Mu Gu struggled to restrain the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yang Chao ordered Hu Jia, Wu Hao, Yan Hao, Xiao Yi Xian, and Kimimaro to lead the students to safety in the Primeval Forest.
• Yao Chen attacked Nalan Chaoge with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, froze his Sage Art: Super Gōemon, and trapped him with Space Lockdown.
• Nalan Chaoge activated Sage Mode and Susanoo, broke free of the lockdown with Shinra Tensei, and dispersed Yao Chen’s flame beast.
• Yao Chen formed a giant flame figure and struck Susanoo with a powerful Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, which the Yata Mirror absorbed and deflected.
• Nalan Chaoge and Yao Chen traded attacks in the sky, and Yao Chen became alarmed as Nalan Chaoge began to gain the upper hand.

Nalan Chaoge and Yao Chen appeared to join forces with Old Man Mu Gu, but Mu Gu betrayed Nalan Chaoge and nearly killed him. Nalan Chaoge revealed that his apparent defeat was a ruse and struck Mu Gu with Comet just as Yao Chen launched a Fire Lotus at him.

• Nalan Chaoge urged Old Man Mu Gu to help kill Yao Chen, while Mu Gu weighed their competing offers for the heavenly flames and Flame Mantra.
• Old Man Mu Gu agreed to Nalan Chaoge’s proposal, and the two attacked Yao Chen as Nalan Chaoge summoned storm clouds and lightning.
• Yao Chen fused two heavenly flames while Nalan Chaoge’s Kirin formed a lightning cage around him.
• Old Man Mu Gu betrayed Nalan Chaoge, striking his Susanoo with the Nether Sun Concealing Claw and shattering it as Nalan Chaoge appeared to fall helplessly.
• Su Qian rushed to save Nalan Chaoge, but Nalan Chaoge suddenly turned on Old Man Mu Gu and pressed Comet against him.
• Yao Chen revealed a Fire Lotus behind Nalan Chaoge and launched it at the moment Comet exploded.

Nalan Chaoge trapped the Fallen Heart Flame and began absorbing its origin flame seed while Yao Chen fought to break through his defenses. The barrier fell with thirty seconds left on the absorption countdown, and Yao Chen’s attack struck Nalan Chaoge, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Nalan Chaoge used Shinra Tensei to send the Destruction Fire Lotus into the Fallen Heart Flame, and the resulting explosion shattered the Thousand Hundred Elders’ protective barrier.
• Nalan Chaoge trapped the Fallen Heart Flame inside the Four Red Yang Formation, pinned it down with Wood Style: Divine Gate, and searched for its origin flame seed.
• Yao Chen saved Old Man Mu Gu from Comet and then fought off Nalan Chaoge’s shadow clones as they tried to keep him away from the formation.
• Nalan Chaoge found the flame seed and activated the sixty-second absorption countdown while Yao Chen repeatedly struck the barrier.
• Xiao Yi Xian tried to rush to Nalan Chaoge, but Kimimaro and Yang Chao stopped her; Yang Chao realized Nalan Chaoge was seeking the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin seed.
• Yao Chen combined Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Mysterious Yellow Flame to destroy the barrier, then struck Nalan Chaoge with Eight Extremes Collapse as the countdown reached thirty seconds; someone cried that Nalan Chaoge was still alive.

Nalan Chaoge fought to restrain the fallen heart flame while Yao Chen attacked him and threatened to destroy Jia Nan Academy. He saved the students with Kamui, but the flame escaped, leaving him badly injured as Yao Chen battled it in the sky.

• Nalan Chaoge used Hai Bodong to block Yao Chen’s attack, then endured Yao Chen’s Black Heavy Ruler strike while trying to restrain the fallen heart flame.
• Yao Chen threatened to destroy the Inner Academy unless Nalan Chaoge abandoned the flame, and Nalan Chaoge used Kamui to swallow Yao Chen’s attack and protect everyone.
• The fallen heart flame broke free while Nalan Chaoge was distracted, sending him crashing into the crowd and leaving him gravely wounded.
• Students and elders channeled Dou Qi into Nalan Chaoge as he recovered, while Yao Chen and the fallen heart flame began fighting in the sky.
• Yao Chen unleashed the bone spirit cold flame against the fallen heart flame as Nalan Chaoge hurried to regain his strength.

While Yao Chen battled the Invisible Fire Python for the fallen heart flame, Nalan Chaoge sought a Seventh Rank magic core to advance and help stop Xiao Yan from taking the flame. He killed Han Feng and Old Man Mu Gu but found no suitable core, then learned that the Gold and Silver Elders knew where one could be found.

• Yao Chen fought the Invisible Fire Python with soul power and two heavenly flames while Jia Nan Academy’s elders feared Xiao Yan would claim the fallen heart flame.
• Nalan Chaoge asked Su Qian for a Seventh Rank magic core, then turned to Han Feng and Old Man Mu Gu when the academy had none.
• Nalan Chaoge killed Han Feng, absorbed the sea heart flame from his corpse, and found no Seventh Rank magic core in his Na Ring.
• Old Man Mu Gu tried to self-destruct, but Nalan Chaoge blocked his Dou Qi, killed him, and found no magic cores in his Na Ring.
• Nalan Chaoge refused the Black Alliance survivors’ offers of lesser treasures and rejected their submission, then the Gold and Silver Elders said they knew where to find a Seventh Rank magic core.

Nalan Chaoge spared the Gold and Silver Elders in exchange for a Tier 7 Demonic Core and bodhi body transformation saliva, then tried to protect Jia Nan Academy as Yao Chen fought the fallen heart flame. Yao Chen revealed that he had already subdued the flame and threatened the academy students with a Three-Colored Fire Lotus.

• Nalan Chaoge killed the Black-Corner Region experts and spared the Gold and Silver Elders after they promised to obtain the Tier 7 Demonic Core and bodhi body transformation saliva.
• Su Qian, Hu Gan, Wu Tianlang, Yang Chao, and the students refused to abandon Jia Nan Academy, and Nalan Chaoge went to confront Yao Chen.
• Yao Chen negotiated with Nalan Chaoge over the heavenly flame, but then swallowed the fallen heart flame along with his other flames, revealing that he had lured Nalan Chaoge into the sky.
• Yao Chen formed a Three-Colored Fire Lotus and pointed out that Nalan Chaoge might survive its attack, but the students below would not.

Nalan Chaoge used the Shield of Shukaku and Super Shinra Tensei to survive Yao Chen’s Three-Colored Fire Lotus, then summoned One-tailed Guardian Shukaku to counterattack. As the Fallen Heart Flame escaped into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, Nalan Chaoge pursued it, but Yao Chen followed and captured the flame with a net of light.

• Yao Chen hurled his Three-Colored Fire Lotus toward the Academy, and Nalan Chaoge summoned the Shield of Shukaku to protect the students.
• As the shield crumbled, Nalan Chaoge burned his vitality and used Super Shinra Tensei to redirect the Fire Lotus’s remaining force into the sky.
• One-tailed Guardian Shukaku fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Yao Chen, who struggled to defend himself as the Fallen Heart Flame escaped into the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Nalan Chaoge pursued the Fallen Heart Flame into the tower, and Yao Chen followed after surviving the Tailed Beast Bomb by sending it into a spatial fold.
• Yao Chen formed a net of light that passed through Nalan Chaoge, ensnared the Fallen Heart Flame, and returned it to the space between Xiao Yan’s brows.

Nalan Chaoge trapped Yao Chen beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and tried to turn him into a puppet, but Yao Chen released the wild mysterious yellow flame to break free and disrupt the ritual. Nalan Chaoge forced the flame back into the tower to protect the teachers and students, then prepared to seal Yao Chen as the fight continued.

• Nalan Chaoge bound Yao Chen with squared timber, hurled him to the tower's base, and attacked him with fire release techniques.
• Nalan Chaoge summoned Old Man Mu Gu's body and began using Impure World Reincarnation to turn Yao Chen into a puppet.
• Yao Chen offered his heavenly flames in exchange for his freedom, then released the wild mysterious yellow flame from Xiao Yan's body to interrupt the ritual and escape his bindings.
• The mysterious yellow flame surged toward the tower's summit, and Nalan Chaoge used Shinra Tensei to repel it back inside before it could endanger the teachers and students.
• Exhausted, Nalan Chaoge considered sealing Yao Chen as the mysterious yellow flame flared again.

Nalan Chaoge fought Yao Chen inside the Qi Refining Tower while Xiao Yi Xian and the Inner Academy’s strongest students rushed to help. Nalan Chaoge collapsed, but Xiao Yi Xian and the others blocked the Mysterious Yellow Flame at the tower’s exit and forced it back.

• Yao Chen disrupted Nalan Chaoge’s hand seals, and the two fought fiercely inside the Qi Refining Tower as the elders watched helplessly.
• Xiao Yi Xian unsealed her Woeful Poison Body and flew toward the tower, joined by Kimimaro, Yang Chao, Liu Qing, Lin Xiuya, and Lin Yan.
• Yao Chen punched Nalan Chaoge into the tower wall and tried to strangle him, but Nalan Chaoge’s venomous blood corroded Yao Chen’s face.
• Nalan Chaoge fell as the Mysterious Yellow Flame broke free and raced toward the tower’s exit.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the students attacked the Mysterious Yellow Flame at the exit and forced it back.

Nalan Chaoge tried to hold Yao Chen and the mysterious yellow flame inside the Qi Refining Tower while Su Qian prepared Jia Nan Academy’s Thousand-Layer Sealing Array. Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian rushed back to help, and as the seal began closing, Nalan Chaoge used a scroll to prepare a Fire Sealing Method while the flame burst toward freedom.

• Nalan Chaoge urged Su Qian to activate the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array, and the Academy’s elders gathered their strength to prepare it.
• Kimimaro plunged into the tower to help Nalan Chaoge, and Xiao Yi Xian followed despite Su Qian’s warning.
• Nalan Chaoge held off Yao Chen while Xiao Yi Xian began unleashing her woeful poison body, but he stopped her and hurled her and Kimimaro toward the exit.
• As Yao Chen pursued them, Nalan Chaoge detonated the pair’s transformed bodies, blasting Yao Chen back and allowing the elders to begin sealing the tower.
• Nalan Chaoge inscribed a Fire Sealing Method on a scroll while the weakened mysterious yellow flame reached the tower’s tip and burst out before the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array could close.

Nalan Chaoge sealed the Mysterious Yellow Flame, then stayed behind in the Underground Magma World to keep Yao Chen from escaping while Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian got out. Though the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array trapped them, Yao Chen revealed a Spatial Jade Slip that could let him escape.

• Nalan Chaoge used the Flame Sealing Method to trap the Mysterious Yellow Flame in a scroll and stored it in his Na Ring.
• Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian appeared, but Yao Chen stopped their escape, so Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro tried to send Nalan Chaoge out alone.
• Nalan Chaoge used Shinra Tensei to hurl Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian through the opening in the seal, then bound Yao Chen with vines and dragged him into the magma.
• Su Qian completed the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array, trapping Nalan Chaoge, Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and the Heavenly Flame underground.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Kimimaro the Green Lotus Core Flame source inside her, which she said proved Nalan Chaoge was still alive.
• Yao Chen told Nalan Chaoge he had a way to escape and took out a Spatial Jade Slip.

Trapped in underground magma after Yao Chen defeated him, Nalan Chaoge survived by escaping into the Seven Star Dragon Abyss. After seven days of cultivation, he stabilized his injuries and rested inside the artifact.

• Yao Chen taunted Nalan Chaoge, then escaped through a spatial opening rather than risk staying to claim his Heavenly Flames.
• Nalan Chaoge tried to use the Summoning Technique to escape, but the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array blocked it as his green lotus core flame faded.
• Remembering the Seven Star Dragon Abyss, Nalan Chaoge summoned the artifact and rushed inside as the magma engulfed him.
• Nalan Chaoge took pills from his Na Ring and cultivated for seven days until his injuries stabilized.
• Nalan Chaoge found food and wine in the Na Rings he had collected, ate a hearty meal, and went to sleep.

Yun Yun and Yao Ye watched their children play on Misty Cloud Mountain while waiting for Nalan Chaoge, until Yun Yun’s exotic fire revealed that he was in mortal danger. Yun Yun decided to go find him, and a booming voice offered to accompany her.

• Yun Yun played with Yun Chu Jiu while Yao Ye visited with Nalan Qingcheng, and both women spoke of missing Nalan Chaoge.
• Yun Chu Jiu played with the Young Amethyst Winged Lion King as Yun Yun and Yao Ye watched and waited for news from Jia Nan Academy.
• Yun Yun and Yao Ye felt a sudden, painful dread and realized something had happened to Nalan Chaoge.
• Yun Yun’s originating exotic fire turned eerie green and dimmed, showing that Nalan Chaoge’s life was in danger.
• Yao Ye wanted to go find Nalan Chaoge, but Yun Yun refused and decided to go in her place.
• A rough, booming voice offered to accompany Yun Yun.