Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan watched Huang Jin claim the Empress Phoenix-Sparrow Blood Essence Beast, then learned that Huang Jin’s succession prospects had drawn Phoenix Clan rivals and other divine beast prodigies against him. After Huang Jin challenged them, the Little Crane King launched the first attack.

• Huang Jin arrived and effortlessly suppressed the Empress Phoenix-Sparrow Blood Essence Beast before hidden experts joined forces to attack him.
• The Nine-Headed Golden Roc told Yan Qingshan that Huang Jin’s likely succession to the Phoenix Twin Kings had caused discord within the Phoenix Clan.
• Huang Jin confronted Phoenix Maiden and revealed that the Little Roc King, Little Crane King, and Fairy Kong Xuan had also taken part in the attack.
• Kong Xuan challenged Huang Jin’s claim to the Blood Essence Beast, and Huang Jin sealed it away before daring the four rivals to defeat him.
• The Little Crane King transformed into his Heavenly Dragon Crane true form and attacked Huang Jin with a destructive torrent.

Huang Jin defeated Little Roc King after overcoming Little Crane King, but the fight turned into a chaotic multi-sided battle as rival divine beasts joined in. The fighting spread across the Azure Wave Sea and began disturbing the entire Spirit Transformation Pool.

• Huang Jin broke through Little Crane King's Heavenly Dragon Breath and sent Little Roc King flying when he intervened.
• Little Roc King unleashed the Golden Roc Dragon-Grappling Technique, but Huang Jin endured his attacks and defeated him with his True Phoenix form and Phoenix Feather Breaking-Space Blade.
• Little Crane King and Little Roc King attacked Huang Jin again alongside the Nine-Colored Peacock, while the Phoenix Maiden prepared another divine ability.
• Huang Jin burned away the peacock's rainbow rays and fought off the attackers until a Golden Phoenix Eagle arrived and used God-Slaying Wings to aid him.
• A Heavenly Divine Crane and a Divine Roc joined the melee, triggering a chaotic battle that drew in more Heavenly Sovereigns and disturbed the entire Spirit Transformation Pool.

Yan Qingshan seized the Empress Phoenix-Sparrow’s blood essence while the other prodigies were distracted, then clashed with Huang Jin over the prize. Their battle escalated beneath the Spirit Transformation Pool as the watching experts retreated in shock.

• The Empress Phoenix-Sparrow broke free of Huang Jin’s seal and fled through the Deification Sea while the prodigies fought.
• Huang Jin and the other prodigies pursued the Blood Essence Beast, but Yan Qingshan trapped and refined it first.
• Huang Jin’s golden-haired clansman demanded that Yan Qingshan surrender the beast, and Yan Qingshan struck him with flames from his eyes.
• Huang Jin attacked Yan Qingshan with golden feathers and a Golden Plume Longsword, but Yan Qingshan countered and shattered the sword.
• Yan Qingshan and Huang Jin exchanged fierce blows, forcing the other experts to retreat as shockwaves tore through the seabed.

Yan Qingshan defeated Huang Jin’s Golden Phoenix Flame and learned from Phoenix Maiden that the Spirit Transformation Pool concealed two Quasi-Saint-level Blood Essence Beasts tied to the Phoenix Twin Kings’ succession trial. He agreed to help her target the True Huang Blood Essence first, then set out to find Tian Huang and the Nine-Headed Golden Roc a safe place to refine their blood pills.

• Huang Jin attacked Yan Qingshan with the Golden Phoenix Flame, but Yan Qingshan countered with a blue fire dragon and swallowed his refined blood pill.
• Huang Jin withdrew with his followers, and Yan Qingshan reunited with Tian Huang and the Nine-Headed Golden Roc.
• Phoenix Maiden privately told Yan Qingshan that the Spirit Transformation Pool trial would produce a Quasi-Saint-level True Phoenix and True Huang Blood Essence Beast.
• Phoenix Maiden asked Yan Qingshan to help her subdue the True Phoenix Blood Essence, and Yan Qingshan proposed they first seize the True Huang Blood Essence from Huang Jin.
• Phoenix Maiden agreed to Yan Qingshan’s plan, and he arranged to find Tian Huang and the Nine-Headed Golden Roc a safe place to enter seclusion.

Yan Qingshan prepared to capture the two Saint-grade Blood Essence True Phoenixes by drawing Huang Jin and Phoenix Maiden’s forces together. When Huang Jin offered him one beast to switch sides, Yan Qingshan demanded the Blood Essence True Phoenix and joked that he would help Huang Jin become Empress Phoenix King.

• Yan Qingshan hid with Phoenix Maiden, Kong Xuan, Little Roc King, and Little Crane King as the two Blood Essence True Phoenixes gathered in the depths of the Deification Sea.
• Yan Qingshan sent Phoenix Maiden and the others to find Huang Jin while he prepared a powerful formation with Saint artifact-grade materials.
• Phoenix Maiden and Huang Jin assembled a group of more than ten Heavenly Sovereigns and agreed to work together against the two True Phoenixes.
• The group trapped the True Phoenixes in formations that suppressed their Saint-grade power, and Yan Qingshan appeared during the battle.
• Huang Jin offered Yan Qingshan one of the Blood Essence Beasts to join his side, and Yan Qingshan agreed only if Huang Jin gave him the Blood Essence True Phoenix and helped him make Huang Jin Empress Phoenix King.

Yan Qingshan fought Huang Jin over the True Huang Blood Essence, and their battle escalated as both unleashed powerful Phoenix abilities. Yan Qingshan countered Huang Jin’s full-force attack with the Heavenly Phoenix Bell, engulfing the True Huang in purple-gold light.

• Yan Qingshan rejected Huang Jin’s offer to divide the Phoenix Blood Essence, insisting that strength decided who claimed it.
• Huang Jin summoned his True Huang Spirit, while Yan Qingshan revealed his Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline, and the two began fighting.
• Yan Qingshan pursued Huang Jin with Heavenly Flame attacks, forcing him to defend himself before Huang Jin unleashed Sun-Moon Heavenly Phoenix Wings.
• Yan Qingshan countered with True Phoenix Spatial Slash, then secretly followed it with a second slash and struck Huang Jin down with a palm.
• Huang Jin revealed his True Huang form and launched Sun-Moon Heavenly Phoenix Wings again, but Yan Qingshan blocked the attack with Heavenly Phoenix Bell—Bell Toll of Infinite Tribulations, engulfing Huang Jin in purple-gold light.

Yan Qingshan helped Phoenix Maiden and Kong Xuan suppress the Blood Essence True Phoenix after Huang Jin’s defeat, then refined its blood essence to strengthen his Heavenly Phoenix spirit. He completed his transformation amid a fierce lightning tribulation, releasing a powerful pressure that reached nearby divine beasts and Phoenix-blooded experts.

• Huang Jin lost to Yan Qingshan, then freed the Blood Essence True Phoenix and withdrew with his allies rather than risk provoking Yan Qingshan.
• Kong Xuan controlled the rampaging Blood Essence True Phoenix while Yan Qingshan lured it away, giving Phoenix Maiden time to suppress the other beast.
• Phoenix Maiden weakened the Blood Essence True Phoenix, and Yan Qingshan used his Blood Refinement Great Array to seal it before warning the others that Huang Jin might retaliate.
• Yan Qingshan refined the captured blood essence while Tian Huang and the Nine-Headed Golden Roc guarded him and fended off approaching Blood Essence Beasts.
• A lightning tribulation struck as Yan Qingshan neared the end of his transformation, and he emerged as a multicolored, fire-wreathed Heavenly Phoenix whose pressure stirred nearby divine beasts.

Yan Qingshan met with the Phoenix King, who urged him to compete for the position of Empress Phoenix King and explained the succession struggle within the Phoenix Clan. He learned that his greatest obstacle was Huang Jin’s son, Huang Xuanzhi, and that he would need to gain entry into the Nine Revolutions to Saint Art to challenge him.

• Yan Qingshan helped Tian Huang stabilize his newly attained Great Perfection Earth Sovereign realm before the Phoenix Maiden summoned him to meet the Phoenix King.
• The Phoenix King told Yan Qingshan that the Phoenix Twin Kings’ succession relied on a secret art that passed Saint-grade power to compatible successors.
• The Phoenix King invited Yan Qingshan to compete for the position of Empress Phoenix King, promising the inheritance could help him break through to Saint-grade.
• Yan Qingshan asked why the Phoenix King wanted an outsider to compete, and she explained that she opposed the Empress Phoenix King and did not want Huang Jin to succeed her.
• The Phoenix King revealed that Huang Xuanzhi, Huang Jin’s son, had gained entry into the Nine Revolutions to Saint Art, and said Yan Qingshan needed to do the same to overcome this obstacle.

Yan Qingshan received the Nine Revolutions to Saint Art inheritance and immediately cultivated its first revolution, securing his prospects in the Phoenix Clan’s succession struggle. He left the Phoenix Clan’s ancestral land to seek the dangerous Burning Heaven Spirit Flame.

• The Phoenix King explained that the Nine Revolutions to Saint Art required exceptional talent and bloodlines, and offered Yan Qingshan its inheritance feather as a test.
• The feather’s spiritual imprint activated as soon as Yan Qingshan held it, and he emerged having cultivated the first revolution.
• Yan Qingshan demonstrated the Golden Phoenix Seal, convincing the Phoenix King that he had mastered the divine ability’s first Peerless Divine Art.
• The Phoenix King said Yan Qingshan’s success made him a strong contender to become Empress Phoenix King and planned to build support for him against Huang Jin.
• Yan Qingshan announced that he would seek the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame at the Burning Heaven Mountain Range, despite the Phoenix King warning that it could badly injure him.
• Yan Qingshan bid farewell to the Phoenix King and Phoenix Maiden, then departed the ancestral land and headed north across the Great Thousand World.

Yan Qingshan arrived at the Burning Heaven Mountain Range and encountered a Fire Devourer Clan hunting party. The hunters’ leader recognized the distance implied by Yan Qingshan’s origins and was shocked by his apparent power.

• A Fire Devourer Clan hunting party hunted spirit beasts while a leader explained to Xiao Yan why the clan avoided fighting outsiders.
• Xiao Yan grew curious about the Great Thousand World after hearing the leader describe its powerful experts.
• Yan Qingshan tore through space and appeared before the hunting party, asking whether he had reached the Burning Heaven Mountain Range.
• The hunting party’s leader confirmed they were at its southern foothills, nearly seven hundred li from the center.
• The leader recognized Mountains and Seas Continent as a distant, renowned place and wondered what level of expert Yan Qingshan was.

Yan Qingshan entered the Burning Heaven Mountain Range to find the drifting Burning Heaven Spirit Flame and sought the Fire Devourer Clan’s help. The clan chief mobilized the clan to search the range, while Yan Qingshan waited in the Royal Palace.

• Yan Qingshan gave the Fire Devourer Clan hunting party leader a jade bottle and had the party guide him to the clan’s settlement.
• Yan Qingshan sent the hunting party back to its territory with a wave of his hand, and the chief warned the others to keep their encounter secret.
• Yan Qingshan reached the clan’s temple and asked to speak with its Sovereigns; a Sovereign elder escorted him to the clan chief, Yan Xuan.
• Yan Qingshan told Yan Xuan he came from the Phoenix Ancient Palace and wanted to find the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame.
• Yan Xuan welcomed Yan Qingshan into the Royal Palace and ordered the Fire Devourer Clan to search the mountain range for concentrated fire attribute spiritual energy.

Yan Qingshan learned that a Fire Spirit Tribe expert had angered the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame while trying to subdue it, triggering a massive volcanic eruption and crimson clouds. He set off toward the disturbance to claim the flame, while Yan Xuan wondered whether Yan Qingshan might become the Fire Devourer Clan’s backer.

• Fire Spirit Tribe experts arrived in the Burning Heaven Mountain Range as the Fire Devourer Clan searched for the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame.
• A young Fire Spirit Tribe expert found the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame beneath a magma lake and began trying to subdue it alone.
• The young expert’s attempt provoked a violent eruption, sending magma pillars into the sky and spreading crimson clouds across the region.
• Yan Xuan told Yan Qingshan that the phenomenon indicated someone had angered the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame and suspected the Fire Spirit Tribe was responsible.
• Yan Qingshan ordered Yan Xuan to protect the Fire Devourer Clan’s members, then flew toward the crimson clouds to subdue the flame.
• Yan Xuan watched Yan Qingshan leave and wondered whether he would become the Fire Devourer Clan’s backer.

Yan Qingshan watched the Fire Spirit Tribe suppress a wisp of the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame’s origin, then observed their experts fail one after another to subdue it. The tribe continued searching for someone able to claim the flame as Yan Qingshan watched from above.

• Yan Qingshan found the Lava Giant awakening in the magma lake and recognized the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame within it.
• The Fire Spirit Tribe surrounded the Lava Giant with a Spirit Array, and its Heavenly Sovereign led the battle that wore down the giant and cut it off from the earth.
• The Fire Spirit Tribe Heavenly Sovereign broke the giant’s protective sphere and suppressed a wisp of the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame’s origin.
• Huo Feng tried to subdue the spirit flame but failed and was injured.
• Huo Ling’er and the other Fire Spirit Tribe Earth Sovereigns also failed to claim the flame as Yan Qingshan watched.

Yan Qingshan watched the Fire Spirit Tribe fail to subdue the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame, then seized its weakened Spirit-Rhyme Sub-Fire. When the tribe tried to stop him, he struck them all into the magma with a single palm.

• The Fire Spirit Tribe repeatedly failed to subdue the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame, while its Heavenly Sovereign tempered his natal flame with it.
• A Fire Spirit Tribe member warned that Yan Qingshan had sent the Fire Devourer Clan to search for the flame, so the Heavenly Sovereign cast the weakened Spirit Flame deep into the magma.
• Yan Qingshan drew the Spirit-Rhyme Sub-Fire from the magma and absorbed a Fire Spirit Tribe expert's attack when the tribe challenged him.
• The Fire Spirit Tribe's Heavenly Sovereign blocked Yan Qingshan's escape and questioned his conduct after realizing he was a Heavenly Sovereign.
• Yan Qingshan struck once with his palm, sending the Fire Spirit Tribe experts and their Spirit Boat plunging into the underground magma.

Yan Qingshan drove off the Fire Spirit Tribe and descended into the Burning Heaven Mountain Range to refine a Sub-Fire of the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame. The Sub-Fire brought him to the threshold of Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign, but he chose to keep strengthening his foundation before breaking through.

• Yan Qingshan ordered the Fire Spirit Tribe to prepare spirit flames as compensation and announced he would visit them after his seclusion.
• The Fire Spirit Tribe's Heavenly Sovereign retrieved the damaged Spirit Boat and led his clan away from the Burning Heaven Mountain Range.
• Yan Qingshan followed the Sub-Fire's resonance to the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame's true body deep underground, but stopped at a safe distance.
• Yan Qingshan summoned the Emperor Flame True Phoenix Body and used the Fennel Art and his Heavenly Flames to begin refining the Sub-Fire.
• As the Sub-Fire yielded, Yan Qingshan's strength rose until he sensed the Saint-grade barrier within reach.
• Yan Qingshan decided to continue tempering his foundation so he could aim for a higher Saint-grade breakthrough later.

Yan Qingshan entered the Fire Spirit Tribe’s ancestral land during its sacrificial ceremony, intending to demand spiritual flames and disrupt the celebrations. He reached the Fire Spirit Conference as the Fire Spirit Ancestor and Maha You watched from the highest platform.

• Yan Qingshan arrived on Fire Spirit Continent and summoned his Emperor Flame outside Fire Spirit City.
• Yan Qingshan opened a spatial gate and entered the Fire Spirit Tribe’s ancestral land, alarming its guards before evading them.
• Yan Qingshan flew across the ancestral land toward the Fire Spirit Conference venue.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor and another Fire Spirit Tribe Heavenly Sovereign hosted Maha You, a powerful guest from the Maha Ancient Clan, at the conference.

Yan Qingshan arrived at the Fire Spirit Tribe’s ceremonial festival and revealed that he had subdued the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame. He then displayed twenty-five Heavenly Flames and two powerful fire spirits, leaving the gathered experts astonished as he made clear his interest in the tribe’s spirit flames.

• Maha You praised the Fire Spirit Tribe’s growing festival, while the Fire Spirit Ancestor dismissed reports of an intrusion and ordered that the celebration remain undisturbed.
• Yan Qingshan entered the festival, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor welcomed him despite their earlier conflict at the Burning Heaven Mountain Range.
• Yan Qingshan displayed the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame, shocking the Fire Spirit Ancestor and the assembled guests.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor offered three spirit flames as compensation, but Yan Qingshan said he had already planned to visit because he was interested in the tribe’s flames.
• Yan Qingshan summoned twenty-five Heavenly Flames and revealed two intelligent fire spirits, astonishing the gathered cultivators.

Yan Qingshan challenged Fire Spirit Ancestor to a contest in flame control, offering to leave the Fire Spirit Tribe’s spiritual flames alone if it could surpass him. Fire Spirit Ancestor chose alchemy, and the chapter ended with both men refining pills by different methods as Yan Qingshan gathered spiritual energy, sunlight, and moonlight into a flame furnace.

• Yan Qingshan asked Fire Spirit Ancestor whether the title Flame Emperor suited him, then demanded the Fire Spirit Tribe’s spiritual flames and proposed a contest in controlling fire.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor restrained his furious clansmen and judged that Yan Qingshan was too formidable to be stopped by Maha You’s intervention.
• Yan Qingshan invited Fire Spirit Ancestor to choose the contest, and Fire Spirit Ancestor selected alchemy despite Yan Qingshan claiming it was his greatest specialty.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor summoned his cauldron and used five spiritual flames to refine herbs into medicinal liquid.
• Yan Qingshan summoned the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame and transformed it into a furnace that gathered spiritual energy and the essence of the sun and moon, puzzling the watching alchemists.

Yan Qingshan defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor in a contest of fire control, then watched as the Ancestor completed an Immortal Golden Pill and summoned a devastating lightning tribulation. The pill’s quality impressed the gathered Heavenly Sovereigns, though its tribulation had yet to be endured.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor challenged Yan Qingshan to a contest of fire control while they refined pills, summoning five Heavenly Flames into a mountain to confront Yan Qingshan’s Burning Heaven Spirit Flame.
• Yan Qingshan countered the flaming mountain with waves of fire, then wrapped it in a tornado of Burning Heaven Spirit Flame and destroyed its form.
• Yan Qingshan contained the resulting spiritual energy and won the fire-control contest, while the Fire Spirit Ancestor focused on completing his pill.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor’s pill produced pill rain, then gathered Immortal Golden Property and formed a radiant golden sphere.
• Black-gold lightning gathered in the sky, and the Heavenly Sovereigns recognized that the Immortal Golden Pill had summoned an exceptionally powerful lightning tribulation.

Yan Qingshan challenged the Fire Spirit Ancestor’s pill refinement by creating a pill from gathered spiritual energy and sun-and-moon essence, then tempering it with tribulation lightning. The blazing sun in his furnace began to reveal the aura of a true Emperor-grade pill, and everyone recognized that he had won as they awaited its birth.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor transformed his Immortal Golden Pill into an Imperial Grade Embryonic Pill, impressing the Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Yan Qingshan drew heavenly lightning and earthly fire into the Spirit Fire Divine Furnace and formed a radiant pill without using spiritual herbs.
• Yan Qingshan summoned the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Flame and Heavenly Venerable Tribulation Flame to draw tribulation lightning into the furnace and temper the pill.
• Cracks spread across the blazing sun in Yan Qingshan’s furnace, and a torrent of lightning engulfed it.
• The experts sensed the aura of a true Emperor-grade pill and realized Yan Qingshan had won the contest.