Chapter Summaries

Ning Luo watched Jia Nan Academy’s elders struggle to suppress Fallen Heart Flame while Xun'er discovered the powerful gifts he had left her. As the flame began to break free, Ning Luo waited for a chance to seize it, and an alchemist in the Black Corner Region sensed its presence.

• Ning Luo reassured Zi Yan that he would continue refining pills for her after she marveled at his strength.
• Xun'er opened Ning Luo's Ring of Holding and found high-grade pills, a Heavenly Grade Cultivation Method, and several Earth Tier Combat Skills.
• Su Qian and the eighteen elders trapped Fallen Heart Flame in an energy net, but the fire python fought back and began to overwhelm them.
• Ning Luo hid in the forest and waited for the battle to create an opportunity for him to take Fallen Heart Flame.
• A man in the Black Corner Region sensed Fallen Heart Flame and recognized its energy.

The Fallen Heart Flame went berserk, drawing Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and factions from the Black Corner Region to Jia Nan Academy. As the academy elders prepared to seal the flame, Han Feng’s forces arrived and the battle was about to begin.

• Yao Lao sensed that the Fallen Heart Flame had gone berserk, and he and Xiao Yan hurried to Jia Nan Academy, hoping to take advantage of the chaos.
• Han Feng ordered Han Beng to summon the Earth Flame Sect, Eight Sects, Blood Sect, and two other men, while revealing his desire to obtain another Heavenly Flame.
• Ning Luo watched the elders struggle to contain the Fallen Heart Flame as its attacks drove them back and threatened Jia Nan Academy.
• Hu Gan and the other reinforcements arrived, and Su Qian ordered them to take over while the elders prepared the next stage of the seal.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao slipped into the Inner Academy and identified the Fallen Heart Flame, while Ning Luo noticed Xiao Yan nearby.
• Han Feng’s group appeared over the Inner Academy, and its leader taunted Su Qian as a bloody aura spread across the sky.

Ning Luo watched as Han Feng arrived with forces from the Black Corner Region to seize Jia Nan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame. As Su Qian prepared to fight, the gold-and-silver elders joined Han Feng, and Ning Luo waited for the battle to begin.

• Ning Luo stayed hidden above the trees, hoping to take advantage of the conflict over the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Han Feng arrived with forces from the Black Corner Region and confronted Su Qian at Jia Nan Academy.
• Yao Lao recognized Han Feng as the traitor who had caused his death, and Xiao Yan learned that Han Feng also cultivated an incomplete Flame Mantra.
• Han Feng openly declared that he had come to seize the Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian refused to hand it over.
• Han Feng summoned two gold-and-silver elders, and Su Qian ordered Jia Nan Academy’s elders to prepare for battle.

The battle over the Heavenly Flames erupted as Su Qian and Han Feng’s forces clashed, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao headed for the tower. Fan Lao recognized Ning Luo as his son’s killer and attacked him, but Ning Luo revealed that he had become a Dou Emperor and struck back.

• Su Qian rejected the Golden Silver Elders’ demand for the Heavenly Flames and attacked Han Feng, setting off a battle between their forces.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao flew toward the tower, and Ning Luo followed them, suspecting Xiao Yan wanted to seize the prize while others fought.
• Fan Lao recognized Ning Luo as the killer of his son and charged at him, but Ning Luo evaded the attack with Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Ning Luo revealed his Dou Emperor aura, shocking Fan Lao, who summoned three blood snakes and raised a blood-red shield.
• Ning Luo drew his sword and sent a giant sword formed from Three Thousand Sword Intent cleaving down toward Fan Lao.

Ning Luo killed Fan Lao with a powerful sword strike while Han Feng and the Jia Nan Academy elders continued fighting over the Fallen Heart Flame. The flame broke free of its seal and fixed its greedy gaze on Xiao Yan and Han Feng, leaving Ning Luo to wonder who would truly profit.

• Ning Luo unleashed Sword Annihilation and blasted Fan Lao into a cloud of blood mist, stunning the onlookers with his Dou Emperor strength.
• Han Feng confronted Hu Gan over the Heavenly Flame while the Golden Silver Elders battled Su Qian, and Han Feng decided to wait until the fighting had weakened both sides.
• The Fallen Heart Flame rioted, prompting Su Qian to order the Inner Academy elders to form a sealing array as Black Corner Region experts gathered nearby.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao watched the seal fail, while Xiao Yan resolved to seize the Fallen Heart Flame and Yao Lao warned him to be cautious.
• The Fallen Heart Flame shattered its barrier and turned its greedy gaze toward Xiao Yan and Han Feng, as Ning Luo asked who would become the fisherman.

The Fallen Heart Flame attacked Xiao Yan and Han Feng, but Xiao Yan and Yao Lao withdrew while Han Feng rallied the Black Corner Region experts to fight it. As Xiao Yan prepared to confront Ning Luo, the Fallen Heart Flame wrapped around Han Feng, and the Invisible Flame Python turned its attack on him.

• Han Feng recognized the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan and Han Feng became its targets because their Heavenly Flames ranked lower.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao retreated, while Han Feng and the Black Corner Region experts joined forces to suppress the Invisible Flame Python.
• Xiao Yan waited for Han Feng’s group and the Fallen Heart Flame to weaken each other, but Ning Luo appeared beside him and challenged his plan.
• Xiao Yan called on Yao Lao to possess him, and both Xiao Yan and Ning Luo revealed Dou Emperor auras as they faced off.
• The Fallen Heart Flame wrapped around Han Feng, and the Invisible Flame Python attacked him before vanishing into its flames.

Ning Luo overwhelmed Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, then turned his attention to Han Feng as the Fallen Heart Flame appeared. He revealed that he had taken the Bone Spirit Cold Flame from Yao Chen, leaving Han Feng shocked and facing him.

• Ning Luo attacked Xiao Yan with Azure Flames, and Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that Ning Luo possessed two Heavenly Flames and had reached the Dou Emperor realm.
• Xiao Yan fought back with yellow flames, but Ning Luo blasted him and Yao Lao away.
• Ning Luo formed Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus from Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, then used Three Lightning Shifts and Proximity to Horizon to strike the fleeing Xiao Yan.
• The explosion left Xiao Yan and Yao Lao unconscious, and Ning Luo chose not to kill them.
• The Fallen Heart Flame appeared after the invisible fire python vanished, and Han Feng laughed as he claimed it for himself.
• Ning Luo appeared before Han Feng with Bone Spirit Cold Flame and said he had taken it from Yao Chen, denying any relationship with him.

Ning Luo battled Han Feng over the Fallen Heart Flame while the forces of Jia Nan Academy and the Black Corner Region clashed around them. Ning Luo revealed he could wield both Bone Spirit Cold Flame and another flame, then balanced the two Heavenly Flames as Han Feng prepared to fight with a dark-blue trident.

• Xiao Yan fell into the forest, where He Yuan surrounded him and carried him away.
• Han Feng and Ning Luo fought in the sky while the Golden Silver Elders and Black Corner Region forces attacked Jia Nan Academy’s intercepting elders.
• Ning Luo struck Han Feng from behind with Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and the two exchanged powerful attacks.
• Han Feng offered Ning Luo a sixth-tier medicinal pill formula for the Fallen Heart Flame, but Ning Luo refused and threatened to take Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame.
• Ning Luo revealed another flame and said he could wield two kinds of flames, then forced them into balance as Han Feng formed a dark-blue trident.

Ning Luo unleashed his Buddha's Rage Fire Lotus against Han Feng, overwhelming the Sea Flame Halberd and defeating him. Han Feng survived with only a faint heartbeat, while the Inner Academy elders and students stared at Ning Luo in shock.

• Ning Luo formed a powerful Azure-White Fire Lotus from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, alarming Su Qian and the Golden Silver Elders.
• Ning Luo launched the fire lotus at Han Feng, who countered with his Sea Flame Halberd.
• Su Qian ordered the Inner Academy elders to retreat as Ning Luo's and Han Feng's attacks collided and exploded.
• Han Feng fell from the sky, and the Golden Silver Elders caught him and confirmed he was still barely alive.
• Lin Xiuyai, Liu Qing, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and the other students realized Ning Luo had concealed his true strength.

Ning Luo charged into the Fallen Heart Flame and was presumed to have sacrificed himself while Su Qian and the elders sealed the flame inside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower. Deep beneath the tower, Ning Luo survived inside the flame and prepared to devour it, discovering that the Rainbow Snake had come with him.

• After the Black Corner Region experts fled, Su Qian ordered the students to evacuate while Ning Luo rushed toward the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Fallen Heart Flame swallowed Ning Luo, leaving the students and Luomen members convinced he had died.
• Su Qian and the elders combined their power to suppress the Fallen Heart Flame and seal it inside the tower's final level.
• Su Qian told the students to remember Ning Luo as the student who had sacrificed himself to save the Inner Academy.
• Deep underground, Ning Luo found himself surrounded by magma inside the Fallen Heart Flame and prepared to devour it.
• The Rainbow Snake appeared coiled around Ning Luo's arm, and Ning Luo promised to protect it as White Flame ignited around him.

Ning Luo continued absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame as Queen Medusa emerged from the Sky Swallowing Python and took control of its body. Trapped with him beneath the magma, she learned he had reached the Dou Emperor realm and heard his offer to help her complete her evolution.

• Ning Luo watched Queen Medusa win the struggle for control of the Sky Swallowing Python, and she transformed into her human body outside the protection of his flames.
• Queen Medusa realized she was surrounded by Fallen Heart Flame and demanded to know why Ning Luo had brought her there.
• Ning Luo explained that he was absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame and said he had forgotten she was still with him.
• Queen Medusa attacked Ning Luo, but he used the Heavenly Beast Taming Art to pin her down and reveal his Dou Emperor strength.
• Ning Luo offered to help Queen Medusa succeed in her evolution, and she reacted with surprise and asked if he was serious.

Ning Luo and Queen Medusa faced a life-or-death crisis when the Fallen Heart Flame erupted, and Ning Luo persuaded her to cultivate with him so they could absorb it and complete her evolution. They began transforming together deep beneath the tower, but the process was expected to last an uncertain length of time.

• Ning Luo proposed using his Yin Yang Dual Cultivation Technique to absorb the Fallen Heart Flame with Queen Medusa and help her evolve.
• The Fallen Heart Flame erupted inside them and threatened to burn them alive, so Ning Luo shielded them with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and pulled Medusa close.
• Ning Luo persuaded Medusa to trust him and swore that he truly liked her; Medusa confessed that she liked him too.
• Ning Luo and Medusa began cultivating at the bottom of the tower and absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame together.
• Ning Luo dispelled the Bone Spirit Cold Flame so it would not suppress the Fallen Heart Flame, and the pair plunged into the flames to undergo a prolonged transformation.

Ning Luo and Queen Medusa endured the underground flames while Ning Luo tried to refine the Fallen Heart Flame with her help. After a long period of erosion, the flame’s consciousness disappeared, leaving Ning Luo poised to absorb it.

• Ning Luo discovered the Fallen Heart Flame’s flame serpent and decided to refine it with Queen Medusa.
• Ning Luo drew the serpent into his body while Medusa helped balance his yin and yang and withstand the heat.
• Ning Luo used the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Azure Flames to suppress the Fallen Heart Flame and erase its consciousness.
• After a month or more of erosion, the Fallen Heart Flame became calm, and Ning Luo sensed that its consciousness had finally vanished.

Ning Luo refined the Fallen Heart Flame and fused his Heavenly Flames into an emerald-green flame, while Queen Medusa completed her soul fusion and advanced to Dou Zong. After they reunited at the tower’s bottom, Ning Luo promised to take responsibility for her.

• Ning Luo refined the Fallen Heart Flame and gained complete control over it.
• Ning Luo’s three Heavenly Flames fused inside his Qi vortex into an emerald-green flame.
• Ya Fei and Hai Bodong discussed Ning Luo’s long absence and Ya Fei said she believed he would reach the peak of the continent.
• Queen Medusa completed her soul fusion and advanced to Dou Zong as Ning Luo reached five-star Dou Emperor.
• Ning Luo and Queen Medusa kissed and embraced, and he promised to take responsibility for her as her husband.

After a year believed dead, Ning Luo emerged from the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower as the Fallen Heart Flame erupted, astonishing the Inner Academy. Xiao Yu reunited with him in tears, while Zi Yan found herself unexpectedly heartbroken.

• Xiao Yu waited by Ning Luo's statue as Zi Yan insisted he might still be alive, and the Inner Academy gathered to open the tower.
• Su Qian ordered the tower doors closed when a surge of Dou Qi erupted, but the tower tip burst apart and magma shot into the sky.
• Ning Luo appeared above the plaza and announced that he had finally emerged, leaving the crowd and elders stunned.
• Xiao Yu ran to Ning Luo, embraced him, and cried as he comforted her.
• Zi Yan watched them and wondered why Ning Luo's return made her heart ache.

Ning Luo reunited with the Inner Academy and revealed that he had reached five-star Dou Emperor. Queen Medusa arrived, called him her husband, and Ning Luo introduced her as Cai Lin before telling Su Qian that he had refined the Fallen Heart Flame, leaving the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with little power to accelerate cultivation.

• Zi Yan greeted Ning Luo, and he reunited with Su Qian and Xiao Yu.
• Ning Luo revealed that he was a five-star Dou Emperor, shocking the crowd and his former peers.
• Wu Hao and Hu Jia brought Luomen members to welcome Ning Luo as their leader.
• The black tower unleashed a seven-colored attack at Ning Luo, but Su Qian intercepted it before Queen Medusa appeared.
• Queen Medusa called Ning Luo her husband, and Ning Luo introduced her to the crowd as Cai Lin, his wife.
• Ning Luo told Su Qian that he had refined the Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian was overcome with dizziness at the news.

Ning Luo agreed to give the Inner Academy some of his refined Fallen Heart Flame to preserve the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, then gathered Luomen fighters and set out for the Black Corner Region. He flew ahead of the group toward the area where the Black Alliance’s factions and Xiao Li were expected to gather.

• Su Qian told Ning Luo the Heart Flame was weakening and asked him to provide some Fallen Heart Flame for the tower’s spare container, and Ning Luo agreed.
• Ning Luo learned that Han Feng had built the Black Alliance in the Black Corner Region, then spoke with Lin Yan, who promised to join him on a future trip to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Ning Luo visited Luomen, where Wu Hao gathered volunteers to accompany him; fourteen peak Dou Lings and other Dou Ling experts stepped forward.
• Ning Luo agreed to take the group to the Black Corner Region, and Wu Hao used intelligence to identify their destination, where Xiao Li was expected to be.
• Ning Luo flew ahead on his jade-green Azure Flame Wings while Wu Hao and the others followed on Griffon Beasts.

Ning Luo helped Lin Yan, Zi Yan, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia defeat the Black Alliance forces at a stronghold, then announced that he would go after Han Feng and his Sea Heart Flame. In Maple City, Han Feng learned Ning Luo was alive and declared that he wanted all of Ning Luo’s Heavenly Flames.

• Ning Luo arrived at the stronghold and warned the Black Alliance troops to leave and tell Han Feng he would take the Sea Heart Flame.
• The Black Alliance troops attacked despite Ning Luo’s warning, and Ning Luo used his Heavenly Flames to rout and kill them.
• With the stronghold secure, Ning Luo thanked Lin Yan and Zi Yan, reunited with Wu Hao and Hu Jia, and said they would find Han Feng.
• In Maple City, Han Feng told the Black Alliance leaders that Ning Luo was alive and that he intended to claim all of Ning Luo’s Heavenly Flames.

Han Feng and the Black Alliance prepared to strike Ning Luo for his Heavenly Flames and cultivation method, but Jia Nan Academy arrived at Maple City to settle the attack on the Inner Academy. Ning Luo confronted Han Feng and demanded the Sea Heart Flame, and the two sides stood on the verge of battle.

• Han Feng told the Black Alliance that Ning Luo might seek revenge and proposed attacking him first to seize his Heavenly Flames and cultivation method.
• Jia Nan Academy’s elders and Ning Luo approached Maple City, where Ning Luo asked Su Qian to hand Han Feng over to him if they won.
• Su Qian agreed that the Golden Silver Elders could fight him, while Ning Luo planned to claim Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng’s forces emerged to defend Maple City, and Su Qian accused Han Feng of attacking the Inner Academy.
• Han Feng recognized Ning Luo, refused to surrender the Sea Heart Flame, and declared that he would take Ning Luo’s Heavenly Flames and cultivation method.

Xiao Yan went to Maple City hoping to seize Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame, while Jia Nan Academy's forces confronted the Black Alliance. Ning Luo revealed he was alive and fought Han Feng for the flame, leaving Xiao Yan poised to attack whichever one of his enemies fell.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao arrived in Maple City and hid while waiting for a chance to seize Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame.
• Su Qian led Jia Nan Academy's forces against the Black Alliance, and the two sides began fighting.
• Ning Luo challenged Han Feng and began battling him, displaying the Fallen Heart Flame he had subdued.
• Xiao Yan discovered Ning Luo was still alive and refused Yao Lao's advice to leave, deciding to target the Sea Heart Flame instead.
• Ning Luo charged at Han Feng and demanded that he hand over his Sea Heart Flame.