Chapter Summaries

Xiao Se defeated Ling Ying in a fierce battle and warned him to stay away, then continued toward the Inner Academy entrance. Hu Qian arrived at the ruined battlefield afterward, while Hong Kui questioned why Xiao Se had spared Ling Ying.

• Ling Ying unleashed Myriad Shadows Binding, and Xiao Se countered with Crimson Flame Sword, leaving the battlefield badly damaged.
• Xiao Se amplified his Strange Fire with his Fire Dragon King Left Arm Bone, and he and Ling Ying clashed with a giant fire sword and Demonic Serpent Devour.
• Xiao Se used a black flame and his first black soul ring to overwhelm Ling Ying, who was blasted into a mountain and badly injured.
• Xiao Se held the Demon Sword to Ling Ying's throat, then spared him and warned him not to return before flying away.
• Hu Qian arrived at the battlefield and wondered whose two Dou Huang auras he had sensed.
• As Xiao Se flew toward the Inner Academy, Hong Kui asked why he had not killed Ling Ying.

Xiao Se refined pills for Zi Yan, then used the system to exchange an item for the Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul and several pills for an Elixir of Immortality. The exchanges affected events in Spirit Hall and the Mythology world, where Gao Yao took the pill as Ying Zheng lay critically ill.

• Xiao Se returned to the Inner Academy and refined Zi Yan a new batch of pills from medicinal ingredients she had gathered in the Deep Mountain.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Se that Zhu Qing and Little Fairy Doctor were both in seclusion.
• Xiao Se received two exchange opportunities and a grand-roulette draw from the system, then exchanged an item for Qian Xunji's Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Hu Lie Na told Bi Bi Dong that Qian Xunji had committed suicide and that the Great Elder had retrieved his Soul Bone.
• Xiao Se exchanged three pills for the Elixir of Immortality, while Gao Yao swallowed a Longevity Pill as Ying Zheng lay critically ill.

Xiao Se used a Fox Spirit Matchmaker travel ticket and arrived in the Southern Kingdom, where he met Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan. After demonstrating his strength to a group of young men, he invited the sisters to share his table.

• The First Emperor declared Fu Su his heir after Zhao Gao exploded and then died.
• Xiao Se kept a Battle Through the Heavens Travel Ticket and used his Fox Spirit Matchmaker Travel Ticket.
• Xiao Se arrived in a ruined village in the Southern Kingdom and followed unfamiliar auras to a firelit house.
• A young man attacked Xiao Se, who stopped his sword and used Sword Intent to pin the man with five blades.
• Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan entered the house and asked whether Xiao Se was the young master of the Wang Quan Family.
• Xiao Se invited Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan to sit at his table.

Xiao Se shared food with Dongfang Qinlan and met the Dongfang sisters while cultivators gathered to eliminate demons. After the sisters returned to their room, Dongfang Huaizhu sensed that something dirty was approaching.

• A white-robed man insulted the Eastern Spirit Clan and the Wang Quan Family, prompting Dongfang Qinlan to challenge the Little Fire God before Dongfang Huaizhu stopped her.
• Xiao Se offered Dongfang Qinlan food and persuaded her to call him Big Brother in exchange for a sugar-coated haw skewer.
• Dongfang Huaizhu introduced herself and Dongfang Qinlan to Xiao Se, who gave his name and arranged separate guest rooms for himself and the sisters.
• Dongfang Qinlan complained to Dongfang Huaizhu about the earlier insults and Xiao Se, then teased her sister about liking him.
• Dongfang Huaizhu sensed that something dirty was approaching as cultivators downstairs fought lesser demons.

Xiao Se burned away Poison Master’s poisonous mist and killed him, then learned the Sword Control Technique from Hong Kui. The next morning, Huaizhu told Xiao Se that their attendants and caretaker had been kidnapped, and he set out after receiving the kidnapper’s letter.

• Xiao Se stopped Simon Chuisha from dispersing the poisonous mist and cleared it with pink flames.
• Xiao Se found Poison Master and cut him down with a Strange Fire Giant Sword, turning him to ashes.
• Xiao Se accepted Hong Kui’s offer to teach him the Sword Control Technique and received the cultivation method.
• Huaizhu told Xiao Se that their attendants and caretaker had been captured and handed him a letter demanding that he come.
• Xiao Se recognized the kidnapper’s childish handwriting and hurried out with Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan.

Xiao Se took Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan to rescue Huaizhu’s attendant and an old man, then caught and spanked Southern Kingdom Princess Huan Du Luolan for setting a trap. After giving Huaizhu antidote pills, he offered Dongfang Qinlan a storage Ring on the condition that she call him big brother.

• Xiao Se flew Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan to a clearing and explained that his wings came from cultivating dou qi.
• Huaizhu spotted poisonous smoke in the grass, and Xiao Se captured Huan Du Luolan while Huaizhu freed the poisoned old man and attendant.
• Xiao Se spanked Huan Du Luolan until Long Kui urged him to stop, then tossed her to a panda who warned her not to act rashly.
• Xiao Se gave Huaizhu antidote pills for the old man and her attendant and explained how his storage Ring worked.
• Xiao Se offered Dongfang Qinlan a low-grade Ring in exchange for calling him big brother, and she eagerly accepted the condition.

Xiao Se protected Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan from Huan Du Qingtian, then defeated the Southern Border Demon King with his strange fire and Eightfold Stack. After Huan Du Qingtian fell wounded, Xiao Se seized Huan Du Luolan and began spanking her.

• Xiao Se gave Dongfang Qinlan a Ring filled with food boxes, and she asked why it belonged on her left ring finger.
• Huan Du Qingtian arrived in a poisonous mist, and Xiao Se shielded Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan with the Vast Sea Bodyguard Cover.
• Xiao Se faced Huan Du Qingtian, dispersed his poison with pink flames, and cut apart his poisonous cloud attack with Crimson Flame Sword—Across All Directions.
• Xiao Se rushed Huan Du Qingtian and struck him with Eightfold Stack, sending him flying and leaving him badly injured.
• Huan Du Qingtian tried to escape with Huan Du Luolan, but Xiao Se caught her and began spanking her.

Xiao Se spared Huan Du Qingtian, warned Wang Quan Baye against a disastrous expedition, and left with Huaizhu, Dongfang Qinlan, and Xiao Lu. During their flight, Huaizhu learned that Xiao Se had asked Qinlan to call him Brother-in-Law, and he admitted it as they landed at the Huai River Bamboo Pavilion.

• Xiao Se made Huan Du Luolan promise not to harm ordinary people again, healed Huan Du Qingtian, and sent them away.
• Xiao Se explained to Dongfang Qinlan and Huaizhu why he had spared Huan Du Qingtian, then noticed Wang Quan Baye approaching.
• Wang Quan Baye told the old man that the Spider Monster's captives had been rescued and invited Xiao Se to join the Mask Organization.
• Xiao Se warned Wang Quan Baye that his planned expedition would kill him and his companions, then left with Huaizhu, Dongfang Qinlan, and Xiao Lu on a Strange Fire Giant Sword.
• Dongfang Qinlan revealed that Xiao Se had given her a storage Ring and food in exchange for calling him Brother-in-Law, and Xiao Se admitted it to Huaizhu at the Huai River Bamboo Pavilion.

Xiao Se confessed his love to Huaizhu, and she admitted she returned his feelings but needed time to consider his sudden proposal. As they planned to return to Spirit Fire Villa together, Xiao Se warned that someone had placed a Tracking Talisman on Xiao Lu, suggesting Huaizhu and Qinlan were being followed.

• Xiao Se confessed that he loved Huaizhu and offered her a bouquet of Flame Flowers.
• Dongfang Qinlan prompted Huaizhu to answer, and Huaizhu asked Xiao Se for time to think before admitting she liked him.
• Xiao Se embraced Huaizhu, while Dongfang Qinlan led Xiao Lu away to give them privacy.
• Huaizhu asked for the Flame Flowers, and Xiao Se explained how he could adjust their temperature.
• Huaizhu said she planned to return to Spirit Fire Villa, and Xiao Se decided to go with her.
• Xiao Se revealed that he sensed a Tracking Talisman on Xiao Lu and warned Huaizhu that she and Qinlan had been followed.

Xiao Se returned to Spirit Fire Villa with Dongfang Huaizhu and Dongfang Qinlan, impressing Dongfang Guyue and winning his agreement to marry Huaizhu despite revealing that he was only fifteen. Xiao Se then exposed Jin Renfeng’s plan to steal the blood-exchange art and harm Dongfang Guyue, leaving the family to decide the traitor’s fate.

• Dongfang Qinlan told Dongfang Guyue that Huaizhu had brought home her boyfriend, and Huaizhu introduced Xiao Se to her father.
• Dongfang Guyue tested Xiao Se’s flames, questioned him about defeating Huan Du Qingtian, and agreed to his marriage with Huaizhu after Xiao Se revealed he was fifteen.
• Xiao Lu reported to Jin Renfeng that Dongfang Guyue supported Huaizhu’s marriage to Xiao Se, and Jin Renfeng revealed his plans to obtain the blood-exchange art and steal Dongfang Guyue’s Divine Blood.
• Xiao Se, Huaizhu, Dongfang Qinlan, and Dongfang Guyue listened from inside the Vast Sea Bodyguard Cover as Jin Renfeng confessed his scheme.
• Dongfang Qinlan condemned Jin Renfeng, and Dongfang Guyue declared that the traitor did not deserve to live.

After Jin Renfeng died in the Dou Qi Continent, Xiao Se gave Huaizhu a Longevity Pill and helped her refine the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower before telling her he would soon leave for a few months or perhaps a year. As Xiao Se and Huaizhu shared a quiet night together, an unexpected visitor’s footsteps interrupted their intimacy.

• Jin Renfeng died after Xiao Se arranged for him to be punished by Union Apes in the Dou Qi Continent.
• Dongfang Guyue praised Xiao Se for healing his hidden injuries, then left him alone with Huaizhu.
• Xiao Se gave Huaizhu a Longevity Pill and explained that it could preserve her youth for thousands of years.
• Xiao Se gave Huaizhu the Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower, and she refined it with his help, strengthening her Pure Yang Flame.
• Xiao Se told Huaizhu he might leave for months or a year, and she agreed to wait for him at Spirit Fire Villa.
• Huaizhu stayed in Xiao Se’s room, and their first kiss was interrupted by footsteps outside the door.

After returning to the Dou Qi Continent, Xiao Se reunited with Little Fairy Doctor, who had emerged from seclusion, and learned she had been monitoring the Fallen Heart Flame. Xiao Se used his recovered Kotoamatsukami to target the flame and try to make it acknowledge him as its master.

• Xiao Se returned from the Spirit Fire Villa after Dongfang Qinlan interrupted his private moment with Huaizhu.
• Long Kui revealed that she shared Xiao Hong's experiences, embarrassing Xiao Se before he hurried out to see Little Fairy Doctor.
• Little Fairy Doctor told Xiao Se that the Fallen Heart Flame was heavily guarded and protected by a powerful seal beneath the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Se's Mangekyō Sharingan recovered, and he explained to Little Fairy Doctor that Kotoamatsukami could alter a target's will but had a long cooldown and limited uses.
• Xiao Se locked onto the Fallen Heart Flame with Kotoamatsukami and ordered it to acknowledge him as its master.

Xiao Se prepared to face Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame, while the Inner Academy evacuated students and strengthened the tower’s seal. At Xiao Se’s command, Fallen Heart Flame violently struck the seal, and the elders realized an eruption was imminent.

• Xiao Se told Zhu Zhuqing that he would send her to the Outer Courtyard and have Xian Er retrieve her once the danger passed, while Zhu Zhuqing and Little Fairy Doctor worried about his safety.
• Su Qian learned that the students had been evacuated and ordered the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower closed until Fallen Heart Flame was stable.
• Su Qian considered asking Little Fairy Doctor to help but hesitated because he feared Xiao Se might try to seize the Heavenly Flame; the yellow-robed elder reassured him that Xiao Se already possessed one.
• Little Fairy Doctor told Xiao Se that Elder Qing had asked her to help when Fallen Heart Flame erupted, and Xiao Se said the time had come.
• Xiao Se used a hand seal to command Fallen Heart Flame, which began battering the seal until the watching elders rushed to warn Su Qian.

The Fallen Heart Flame broke through the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower’s inner seals, forcing Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders to fight to contain it. As reinforcements arrived and calmed the flame, a middle-aged man in Maple City gathered Black-Corner Region factions to pursue a Heavenly Flame, while Xiao Se’s plan proceeded.

• The Fallen Heart Flame shattered the seals beneath the tower and surged upward with magma, prompting Su Qian to call for the Thousand-Layer Seal and reinforcements.
• A middle-aged man in Maple City sensed a Heavenly Flame, summoned Han Beng, and ordered him to invite the Earth Flame Sect, Eight Gates, Blood Sect, and Gold Silver Duo.
• Thirteen of the Inner Academy’s eighteen elders withdrew after exhausting their Dou Qi, leaving Su Qian and four others to hold the final seal.
• Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor left their concealment and joined the battle, with Xiao Se explaining that they had arrived late because he was breaking through.
• Hu Qian and the Outer Courtyard experts arrived, and their combined forces gradually settled the Fallen Heart Flame as influential Black-Corner Region experts gathered in Maple City.

Xiao Se and the Canaan Academy elders nearly resealed Fallen Heart Flame before Han Feng and his allies arrived to seize it. As the Gold Silver Duo joined the attack, Xiao Se prepared to put his plan into motion while asking to join the battle.

• Xiao Se, Little Fairy Doctor, and Zhu Zhuqing arrived to reinforce the Inner Academy, and Su Qian praised their extraordinary cultivation and alchemy achievements.
• Su Qian and the elders nearly sealed Fallen Heart Flame back inside the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower before Han Feng's group interrupted them.
• Han Feng demanded that Canaan Academy release Fallen Heart Flame, but Su Qian and Hu Qian refused.
• Xiao Se watched Han Feng and planned to use Fallen Heart Flame to balance the battle, defeat Han Feng, and refine both Heavenly Flames in the tower's depths.
• Han Feng summoned the Gold Silver Duo, and Su Qian assigned the elders to hold off the invaders while the others completed the seal.
• Xiao Se asked Su Qian to let him join the battle instead of helping reinforce the seal.

Xiao Se intervened as Han Feng and his allies attacked Canaan Academy, then confronted Han Feng to protect the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. After revealing his fused Strange Fire and powering up, Xiao Se launched a massive sword strike at Han Feng.

• Xiao Se offered to fight Han Feng, and Little Fairy Doctor persuaded Su Qian to let him intervene.
• Han Feng’s allies engaged Canaan Academy’s elders while Han Feng flew toward the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Se blocked Han Feng and challenged him, revealing that he wanted Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame and Nether Sea Storage Ring.
• Xiao Se summoned his own fused Strange Fire, shocking Han Feng, who suspected Xiao Se had cultivated the Burning Art.
• Xiao Se used Fire God’s Wrath and the Demon Sword to reach Dou Huang Peak strength, then struck at Han Feng with Crimson Flame Sword: Across All Directions.

Xiao Se defeated Han Feng with his Half-Step Dou Zong strength and forced Fallen Heart Flame back into the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. As the battle turned in Canaan Academy’s favor, Little Fairy Doctor confronted the Gold Silver Duo while Xiao Se stayed to deal with Han Feng.

• Han Feng summoned a massive Sea Heart Flame trident and clashed with Xiao Se’s Strange Fire Giant Sword, but Xiao Se’s Fire Attribute Amplification overwhelmed him and sent him crashing into the ground.
• Xiao Se controlled Fallen Heart Flame as it returned to the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, and Su Qian and the Gold Silver Duo stopped fighting in shock at Han Feng’s defeat.
• The Gold Silver Duo rushed toward Xiao Se to rescue Han Feng, while Su Qian pursued them and Xiao Se sent Hu Qian and the elders to support the other battles.
• Little Fairy Doctor attacked the Gold Silver Duo with Black Fiend Blood Poison Hand, revealing her Dou Zong strength and forcing them to desperately resist.

Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor turned the battle against Han Feng’s forces, but Xiao Se was dragged into the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower with Han Feng and the Fallen Heart Flame. Little Fairy Doctor pursued the fleeing sect leaders with her newly revealed Eight Wings of Heavenly Poison.

• Su Qian struck Gold Silver Duo from behind, and Little Fairy Doctor killed them with her poisonous giant hand.
• The Black-Corner Region forces fled as Little Fairy Doctor slaughtered them, while Xiao Se seized Han Feng’s Nether Sea Storage Ring.
• Han Feng tried to self-destruct, but Xiao Se’s Evil God Hook drained his life force and soul energy.
• Xiao Se called forth the Fallen Heart Flame, and Han Feng forced them both into its attack, dragging them into the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and Yan fled, and Little Fairy Doctor unfurled eight dark-purple wings and pursued them.

Little Fairy Doctor defeated the remaining invaders at Canaan Academy and reassured everyone that Xiao Se was likely alive after the Fallen Heart Flame dragged him into the tower. She recruited Zi Yan to help her seize factions in the Black-Corner Region, while Xiao Se’s other companions remained at the academy.

• Little Fairy Doctor killed Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and Yan, then told Su Qian she believed Xiao Se could survive the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Little Fairy Doctor collected the dead invaders and left to subdue factions in Maple City and gather resources for Xiao Se.
• Han Yue comforted the grieving Zi Yan, who believed Xiao Se had died after being swallowed by the fire python.
• Little Fairy Doctor told Zi Yan that Xiao Se was likely safe and had prepared tens of thousands of pills for her.
• Zi Yan agreed to help Little Fairy Doctor with Xiao Se’s affairs, and the two flew out of the Inner Academy.
• Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Yu, and Xun Er chatted in a pavilion in Canaan Academy’s Outer Courtyard.

Xun Er learned that Xiao Se had been swallowed by the Fallen Heart Flame and realized he had likely planned it. Inside the flame, Xiao Se awoke after the Evil God Hook devoured Han Feng’s Soul Power and discovered that his own Soul Power had advanced to seventh-tier low-level alchemist.

• Ling Ying told Xun Er that Han Feng had invaded the Inner Academy, Xiao Se and Little Fairy Doctor had fought him, and the Fallen Heart Flame had swallowed Xiao Se and Han Feng.
• Ling Ying suggested that Xiao Se had deliberately let Han Feng drag him into the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xun Er agreed that this fit Xiao Se’s plans.
• Inside the underground lava world, Xiao Se awoke while Long Kui confirmed she had stayed inside him as he had instructed.
• Xiao Se learned that the Evil God Hook had devoured Han Feng’s Soul Power, after which Han Feng’s body burned away and his Sea Heart Flame remained.
• Xiao Se checked his status and discovered that his Soul Power had advanced beyond sixth-tier peak to seventh-tier low-level alchemist.