Chapter Summaries

The Lion King and the others fought desperately against Earth Demon Old Ghost, but Mo Tianxing seized Yun Yun and the Heavenly Cloud Sword. With the battle turning against Jia Nan Academy, Yun Yun chose to take her own life rather than be captured.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost’s black ice attacks wounded the Lion King and forced the defenders back.
• Yun Yun struck at Earth Demon Old Ghost’s ghostly claw, but he crushed her attack and sent her flying.
• The Lion King fought Earth Demon Old Ghost with desperate close-range attacks while Su Qian urged Yun Yun to escape.
• Yun Yun threw the Heavenly Cloud Sword to Su Qian, but Mo Tianxing snatched it and fled.
• Yun Yun chased Mo Tianxing, who captured her and declared the war over.
• As Earth Demon Old Ghost sent the remaining fighters crashing to the ground, Yun Yun pressed her neck toward Mo Tianxing’s sword.

Yun Yun sacrificed herself to kill Mo Tianxing, then fell beneath Earth Demon Old Ghost's attack. Trapped beneath the magma, Nalan Chaoge sensed that Yun Yun was gone and spent three days trying to break through the barrier, ending in despair.

• Mo Tianxing seized Yun Yun and threatened her, but she unleashed the Green Lotus Core Flame and killed him with Qi Light.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost formed a massive black palm above Yun Yun, and she collapsed after exhausting her Dou Qi and breaking her meridians.
• Nalan Chaoge was jolted from meditation by a sudden pain in his heart and struggled to regain control of his Dou Qi inside the Seven Star Dragon Abyss.
• Nalan Chaoge tried to escape through the magma opening, but an invisible barrier blocked the Seven Star Dragon Abyss.
• Nalan Chaoge saw the jade-green flame on his palm vanish and realized something had happened to Yun Yun.
• Nalan Chaoge rammed the barrier for three days, then sat exhausted and weeping, unable to escape.

Xiao Yan rescued Yun Yun from Earth Demon Old Ghost’s attack and sought a rare ingredient to make a pill that could save her. After Earth Demon Old Ghost failed to return with it, Xiao Yan prepared to leave, but Yun Yun called his name.

• A mysterious black-robed man appeared and shattered Earth Demon Old Ghost’s attack, revealing himself to be Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen whether Yun Yun could be saved, and Yao Chen said a Life Returning Pill required the Grade 7 ingredient Nine Yang Heaven Returning Jade Dew.
• Xiao Yan ordered Earth Demon Old Ghost to find the ingredient within an hour or die, and Earth Demon Old Ghost disappeared.
• Yao Chen stored Mo Tianxing’s soul in the Na Ring while Xiao Yan waited beside Yun Yun.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost did not return, so Xiao Yan gave up on saving Yun Yun and prepared to leave.
• Yun Yun softly called out to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan seized the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva from Yun Yun, then killed Elder Yingshan after discovering the elder had used a Soul Clone to steal it. He saved Yun Yun with Elder Yingshan’s Life Returning Pill, but she could no longer cultivate, and Xiao Yan left by stepping into space.

• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan to stay on the right path and revealed that her meridians had been severed; she gave the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva to Su Qian for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan snatched the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, but Elder Yingshan’s Soul Clone stole it and fled.
• Xiao Yan froze Elder Yingshan’s clone, dragged his original body back with Suction Palm, and killed him after taking the Life Returning Pill.
• Xiao Yan fed the pill to Yun Yun, saving her life, though Yao Chen explained that she had lost the ability to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan said that neither he nor Yun Yun owed the other anything, then stepped into space and left.

After the Black-Corner Region factions fell to Jia Nan Academy, Yun Yun arrived at the academy seeking to enter the Inner Academy despite her severed meridians and lost cultivation. Her party was attacked by Nalan Treant for flying over the road he guarded, but the Outer Court Elder stopped the fight and explained they were friends.

• News spread that Mo Tianxing, Elder Yingshan, and Earth Demon Old Ghost had died and Demon Flame Valley had been destroyed; Su Qian and Wu Tianlang returned to strip the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley of their remaining treasures.
• Lion King escorted Yun Yun to Jia Nan City with the Gold and Silver Elders, and she quietly visited Jia Nan Academy's gate tower before the Outer Academy elders welcomed her party.
• The academy sent Yun Yun toward the Inner Academy on a griffon beast while Lion King flew beside her and shielded her from the wind.
• Nalan Treant attacked the flying party with enormous roots because they had crossed the road he guarded, and Lion King and the Gold and Silver Elders fought back.
• The Outer Court Elder stopped the battle and apologized to Nalan Treant for failing to notify him that Yun Yun's party was coming.

Yun Yun and her escorts encountered Nalan Treant, who initially barred them from flying through until he learned she was Nalan Chaoge’s wife. He discovered her meridians were severed and offered bodhi body transformation saliva to ease her pain, leaving the group stunned by the enormous supply he had.

• Nalan Treant blocked Yun Yun and her escorts from flying through, but recognized Nalan Chaoge as his big brother when Yun Yun named him.
• The Gold and Silver Elders told Nalan Treant that Yun Yun was Nalan Chaoge’s wife, and Yun Yun explained that Yao Ye was his other wife.
• Nalan Treant examined Yun Yun’s wrist and discovered that her meridians had been severed in the past few days.
• Nalan Treant said he could not heal Yun Yun’s meridians but could ease her pain, then brought out a bucket of bodhi body transformation saliva.
• The blond Lion King and the Gold and Silver Elders recognized the saliva as the substance they had risked their lives to obtain and stared in disbelief at the bucketful.

Nalan Treant gave Yun Yun bodhi body transformation saliva, which eased the pain in her restored meridians, and she continued to Jia Nan Academy to search for Nalan Chaoge. At the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, she reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro and revealed that Xiao Yan had escaped.

• Nalan Treant gave Yun Yun a bowl of bodhi body transformation saliva, and she drank it, healing her meridian injuries but not restoring her Dou Qi.
• Yun Yun traveled with the others through the repaired spatial gateway to the devastated Inner Academy and headed for the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Yun Yun descended to the bottom of the tower, where Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian had waited beside the opening for Nalan Chaoge.
• Yun Yun comforted Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian, then told them that Xiao Yan had already escaped.

After Nalan Chaoge disappeared into the magma, Xiao Yi Xian refused to believe he was dead and stayed in the Black-Corner Region with Yun Yun’s allies. Three months later, she founded Akatsuki in Black Emperor City and prepared to bring the region under her control.

• Yun Yun told Xiao Yi Xian that Xiao Yan had escaped and Nalan Chaoge was presumed dead, then revealed that killing Mo Tianxing had shattered all her meridians.
• Xiao Yi Xian chose to wait for Nalan Chaoge in the Black-Corner Region rather than return to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Yun agreed that he might still be alive.
• Yun Yun returned to the Jia Ma Empire while Xiao Yi Xian, Kimimaro, and the Gold and Silver Elders remained in the Black-Corner Region and established Akatsuki.
• Three months after Nalan Chaoge’s disappearance, Akatsuki held its founding ceremony in Black Emperor City, with sects from across the region attending.
• Xiao Yi Xian, dressed in formal robes, vowed to keep waiting for Nalan Chaoge and make the Black-Corner Region submit to her.

At Akatsuki’s founding, Xiao Yi Xian announced her plan to unify the Black-Corner Region and threatened those who resisted. Mo Ya and Old Yin Gu challenged her authority, and the chapter ended with a scream and flames erupting as Old Yin Gu left the hall.

• Old Man Jin introduced Akatsuki and proposed unifying the Black-Corner Region, prompting opposition from several factions.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed herself as Akatsuki’s Sect Master, Zero, and declared that those who submitted would live while rebels would die.
• Mo Ya arrived with Qi Shan, Fang Yan, and other survivors, challenging Xiao Yi Xian and urging the gathered factions to reject her plan.
• When attendees tried to leave, Xiao Yi Xian warned they would die without her permission, but Old Yin Gu challenged her and ordered his disciples to issue the Massacre Order.
• Old Yin Gu and his disciples walked out of the hall without apparent harm, then a scream sounded and flames rose at the entrance.

Xiao Yi Xian used her flames and poison to destroy the Heavenly Yin Sect and kill or frighten the forces gathered in the hall, while Mo Ya lost an arm and Qi Shan was set ablaze. As Mo Ya called for Protector Xuan, dozens of Soul Hall figures emerged from black mist.

• Xiao Yi Xian’s golden flames burned Old Yin Gu and the others who had left the hall to ashes, forcing Old Yin Gu to return and beg for mercy before he died.
• Mo Ya dispelled the flames, but poison spread from a black spot on his hand, so he severed his left arm while Qi Shan urged the crowd to attack Xiao Yi Xian.
• The Gold and Silver Elders intercepted Qi Shan, and a mass attempt to flee the hall ended with the escaping crowd burned by Xiao Yi Xian’s flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian set Qi Shan ablaze and said the Black Emperor Sect had already vanished, while Qi Shan begged Mo Ya to summon help.
• Mo Ya called for Protector Xuan, and dozens of figures surrounded by black mist appeared as members of the Soul Hall.

Protector Xuan unleashed a soul array to capture Xiao Yi Xian, but her fused Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and Kimimaro’s attacks turned the fight against him. Yang Chao then appeared and struck Protector Xuan with Chengying, leaving the battle’s outcome in his hands.

• Protector Xuan revealed himself beside Mo Ya and demanded that Xiao Yi Xian become his cultivation vessel, while Mo Ya gave the gathered factions a choice between supporting Xiao Yi Xian or staying neutral.
• Protector Xuan summoned the Myriad Souls Devour Spirit array and sent its black clouds to engulf Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s poison-infused Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame drove the soul clouds back, and she attacked Protector Xuan with Golden Emperor Demonic Hand as Kimimaro trapped him with bone spikes.
• Protector Xuan vanished to evade their attacks, but Yang Chao appeared with Chengying and pierced his struggling soul body.

Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro defeated Protector Xuan and slaughtered the leaders who refused to submit to Tian Xiao, while Kimimaro advanced to Dou Emperor by absorbing their death energy. As the hall emptied, Su Mei and Tie Wu chose to kneel and join Tian Xiao.

• Yang struck Protector Xuan, and Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian killed him and destroyed the souls he had collected.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered the gathered leaders to choose between submitting to Tian Xiao and leaving, then Kimimaro killed Mo Ya, Qi Shan, Fang Yan, and their accompanying elders and absorbed their death energy.
• Kimimaro advanced to Dou Emperor, and Xiao Yi Xian burned the corpses to ashes.
• Xiao Yi Xian told the remaining guests that only useful people could stay, and many rushed for the exit.
• Su Mei warned Tie Wu that Xiao Yi Xian might not let the departing guests live, then knelt with her Rakshasa Gate elders to submit to Tian Xiao.
• Tie Wu's elders left the hall, but Tie Wu knelt beside Su Mei and submitted.

Xiao Yi Xian killed everyone who left the Black Emperor Pavilion, then led Tian Xiao through years of conflict until it reshaped the Black-Corner Region. Three years later, Nalan Chaoge prepared to find the Heavenly Fire Venerable and escape the Magma World, following a Flame Lizardman deeper into the magma.

• Xiao Yi Xian praised Su Mei for staying, then used Great Fire Heavenly Prison and her poison-infused flames to kill everyone who had left the Black Emperor Pavilion.
• Tian Xiao endured repeated attacks over the following years, and after three years the Black-Corner Region had become a mysterious, powerful territory that outsiders could not invade.
• Nalan Chaoge spent three years in the Magma World, gradually growing stronger and learning to move through the magma while searching for the Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Nalan Chaoge used the green lotus core flame to form a fish-shaped shield, spoke with a Flame Lizardman in its language, and gave it a pill.
• The Flame Lizardman accepted Nalan Chaoge’s gift and led him deeper into the magma.

Nalan Chaoge struggled to defeat Old Man Huo, a Flame Lizardmen elder, in the magma-filled world so he could obtain a seventh-rank magic core. He realized their agreement did not require a fight and won a game of Rock Paper Scissors, earning a chance to meet the clan leader.

• Nalan Chaoge visited Old Man Huo and offered seventh-grade Transformation Pills in exchange for a magic core, but Old Man Huo insisted that Nalan had to defeat him first.
• Nalan Chaoge explained that the magma weakened his abilities while strengthening the Flame Lizardmen, making Old Man Huo nearly impossible to beat in combat.
• Nalan Chaoge proposed competing at something other than fighting because the clan leader had not specified how he had to defeat Old Man Huo.
• Nalan Chaoge taught Old Man Huo Rock Paper Scissors, and Old Man Huo agreed to play.
• Nalan Chaoge won the game, and Old Man Huo promised to take him to see the clan leader.

Nalan Chaoge learned why the Flame Lizardman patriarch had welcomed him: the patriarch wanted an alchemist to treat his injured brother. The patriarch recounted how Mang Tianchi and Zhai Tianhuo fought over the Fallen Heart Flame, leaving Zhai Tianhuo trapped in the Magma World with its origin seed.

• Old Man Huo led Nalan Chaoge to meet the Flame Lizardman patriarch, who welcomed him into the tribe’s cave dwelling.
• The patriarch asked whether Nalan Chaoge, who claimed to be around Grade 7, would treat his injured brother.
• Nalan Chaoge suspected the tribe needed his help because of the Tou She Ancient God's tomb and agreed to hear the patriarch’s story.
• The patriarch explained that Mang Tianchi and Zhai Tianhuo fought over the Fallen Heart Flame, and Mang Tianchi sealed Zhai Tianhuo beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Zhai Tianhuo fought the Flame Lizard Tribe, lost his body, and hid in a pocket of space after Mang Tianchi’s seal blocked his escape.
• The patriarch revealed that the Fallen Heart Flame outside was only its shell, while Zhai Tianhuo kept its origin seed.

Nalan Chaoge discovered that the Flame Lizardman elder’s fire poison came from a trace of the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin, which he could not remove himself. He agreed to seek out Zhai Tianhuo, the human expert who had inflicted it, and the clan leader led him toward the hidden soul’s location.

• The Flame Lizardman clan leader explained that Zhai Tianhuo had driven his brother mad by leaving fire poison in him hundreds of years earlier.
• Nalan Chaoge examined the chained elder and found a trace of the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin inside him, which he said he could not extract with his current strength.
• Nalan Chaoge told the clan leader that Zhai Tianhuo might be able to remove the fire poison, and the clan leader agreed to take him to the human’s hiding place.
• The clan leader revealed that his tribe had located Zhai Tianhuo by sensing an area their souls could not search, and pointed out where that region lay.

Nalan Chaoge arranged with Old Man Huo and the Flame Lizardmen to stage a chase that would lead him to Yao Tianhuo’s hidden barrier. When the barrier would not admit him, he used the green lotus core flame and attacked the pursuing lizardmen, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Nalan Chaoge traded two Transformation Pills for a Seventh Rank magic core and gave the Clan Leader several Na Rings.
• Nalan Chaoge asked the Clan Leader for a Seventh Rank magic core and whispered another request, prompting the Clan Leader to summon a horde of Flame Lizardmen.
• Old Man Huo and the Flame Lizardmen chased Nalan Chaoge through the magma while pretending to pursue him, and Old Man Huo accidentally wounded him during the staged fight.
• Nalan Chaoge found Yao Tianhuo’s white barrier but could not pass through it, so he drew out the green lotus core flame to try to open it.
• Nalan Chaoge unleashed Fire Release: Green Lotus Dragon Flame Song at the Flame Lizardmen, turning the Magma Fire Domain into chaos.

Nalan Chaoge entered Yao Tianhuo’s hidden space and learned that the former Dou Zun needed his help to survive. Nalan refused because he was a student of Jia Nan Academy and Mang Tianchi was his headmaster, leaving Yao Tianhuo trapped beneath the magma.

• Nalan Chaoge was pulled into Yao Tianhuo’s hidden space after fighting the Flame Lizardmen and found the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s skeleton and the fallen heart flame.
• Yao Tianhuo appeared and restrained Nalan Chaoge, but Nalan broke free before Yao Tianhuo explained that he had rescued him from the Flame Lizardmen.
• Yao Tianhuo recounted how Mang Tianchi had betrayed him after they discovered the fallen heart flame and sealed him beneath the magma.
• Nalan Chaoge deduced that Yao Tianhuo’s soul was close to dispersing and that the Flame Lizardmen were keeping him trapped in the space.
• Yao Tianhuo asked Nalan Chaoge, a Grade 7 high-level Alchemist, for help, but Nalan refused because he was a student of Jia Nan Academy and Mang Tianchi was his headmaster.

Nalan Chaoge bargained with Yao Tianhuo for the fallen heart flame seed and the Five Wheels Leaving Fire Method, then helped him escape the Flame Lizardmen and absorbed the flame. He returned to the lizardmen with Yao Tianhuo hidden in a Na Ring and prepared to heal their imprisoned Clan Elder.

• Nalan Chaoge negotiated with Yao Tianhuo, receiving the juvenile fallen heart flame seed and the Five Wheels Leaving Fire Method in exchange for helping him.
• Nalan Chaoge agreed to restore Yao Tianhuo’s soul and take him out of the Magma World, while Yao Tianhuo promised to conceal his spatial fluctuations and guide him.
• After Nalan Chaoge recovered his dou qi, Yao Tianhuo used spatial power to help them evade the Flame Lizardmen, then entered a white Na Ring as his soul weakened.
• Nalan Chaoge removed the Na Ring and used the system to absorb the fallen heart flame, bringing the number of heavenly flames within his body to three.
• Old Man Huo found Nalan Chaoge, who claimed he had found a way to heal the Flame Lizardman Clan Elder, and took him back to the lizardmen’s cave mansion.
• Nalan Chaoge went with the Clan Leader to the imprisoned Clan Elder, intending to reclaim the fallen heart flame child flame and treat him with marrow cleansing cold spirit liquid.

Nalan Chaoge reconciled with the Flame Lizardman clan, gained two heavenly flames, and broke through to Dou Zun before leaving the Magma Fire Domain. Three years later, Jia Nan Academy honored him as a hero with a colossal statue while the Black-Corner Region enjoyed peace.

• Nalan Chaoge persuaded the Flame Lizardman clan leader to forgive the human expert, removed the origin child flame from a clan elder, and helped restore the elder's senses.
• The clan leader welcomed Nalan Chaoge as a friend, gave him demonic cores and the mysterious yellow flame, and accepted his Transformation Pills and other gifts.
• Nalan Chaoge left the Magma Fire Domain and used the gathered cores to advance his system and break through to Dou Zun.
• The clan leader watched as Nalan Chaoge's breakthrough sent violent waves through the Magma Fire Domain, then kept the Flame Lizardmen from interfering.
• Three years later, Jia Nan Academy had recovered and the Black-Corner Region was peaceful, with more than a hundred criminals displayed on two Death Spirit Trees.
• Jia Nan Academy remembered Nalan Chaoge as its savior, taught new students his name, and honored him with a thousand-foot rock-carved statue.