Heavenly Flame Venerable

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Yao TianHuo 249
Alias(es)	Heavenly Flame Venerable; Heavenly Flame Saint 249 554
Species/Race	Human 517 554
Gender	Male
Occupation/Role	Fire-attribute cultivator, refiner, and mentor 295 347 843
Status	Alive; ascended to the Dou Sheng realm 554
First Appearance	Chapter 249

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Venerable (remnant soul)	249	Awakens from the skeleton within a hidden magma-space beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower after surviving for centuries as a wisp of remnant soul. 249 548
Three Star Dou Zong	307	Restores his cultivation to this level after consuming resources; despite incomplete recovery, he retains the insight and combat experience of a Venerable. 307
Venerable, on the threshold of Dou Sheng	548	Having regained a body and retraced his cultivation, he prepares to attempt the Dou Sheng Tribulation; insight from the Human World Kindling Flame hastens this step. 548
Dou Sheng	554	Survives a tribulation containing a fusion of Thunder and Fire Great Daos, becoming the Heavenly Flame Saint and attaining a Heaven Realm soul. 553 554

Background / History

Centuries before his reappearance, Yao TianHuo sought to enter the Dou Sheng realm but suffered a catastrophe beneath Canaan Academy's Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower. Reduced to a remnant soul, he remained dormant in a hidden white-radiance space within the magma sea, beside his skeleton and a juvenile Fallen Heart Flame. 249 548

Nalan Ye accidentally entered this space while fleeing Flame Lizardmen. Heavenly Flame Venerable awakened, immediately noticed the conflicting Hall of Souls and Ancient Clan imprints on Nalan Ye's soul, and identified himself with characteristic pride. The Flame Lizardmen could not enter the space, leaving Nalan Ye temporarily trapped with him. 249

After accompanying Nalan Ye, he gradually rebuilt his strength. He later obtained a new physical body through the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's bloodline essence, hoping its inherited Fire Great Dao insight would compensate for shortcomings in his own path to sainthood. 347 382

Appearance

Heavenly Flame Venerable is an elderly man with a distinctly white color scheme. While a remnant soul, he manifests as a translucent white-robed elder; after restoring his body and later becoming a Saint, his bearing becomes increasingly vigorous and transcendent. 249 382 838

• White robes, beard, hair, and brows. 249 382
• Calm eyes that retain a sharp, imposing gleam. 249 382
• Rosy complexion after attaining Dou Sheng, despite his white hair. 838
• His Saint-level aura is described as elegant and detached from the mortal world. 838

Personality

Heavenly Flame Venerable is proud, blunt, and extremely confident in his mastery of fire. He treats inferior flame arts with open contempt and is willing to taunt opponents whose techniques fail to meet his standards. 353 354

Despite his gruff manner, he is a patient and invested mentor. He guides younger cultivators through difficult techniques, warns them of cultivation risks, helps them control dangerous power, and quietly protects them when necessary. 257 295 843

His centuries of isolation leave him eager for the wider world after recovering his body. Following his ascension, however, he lives alone in a small world, with neither a sect nor descendants to keep him company. 369 838

Abilities & Skills

Fire Great Dao

Heavenly Flame Venerable is a fire-attribute cultivator whose command of the Fire Great Dao lets him manipulate natural fire energy and overwhelm opponents through superior flame quality and control. 317 353

• Creates fire nets capable of trapping and crushing flame-based attacks. 353 354
• Surrounds himself with defensive crimson flames that can burn a Dou Zong's hardened hand raw on contact. 354
• Generates large-scale fire attacks, including Falling Fire Star Rain, which produces barrages of condensed flame arrows. 317
• Can form a vast fire sea capable of absorbing attacks such as Old Man Ying Shan's Blade Storm. 355

Different Flames

Heavenly Flame Venerable formerly refined the fourteenth-ranked Fallen Heart Flame, which he took from beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower. He used it to counter Thunder Venerable's Three Thousand Thunderous Illusory Body, burning its Venerable-level avatar away. 464 487

• Fallen Heart Flame's heart fire can temper Dou Qi, but may also burn a victim's heart from within. 535
• He later severed his connection with Fallen Heart Flame and gave it to Nalan Ye for alchemy and cultivation. 534
• He subsequently refined the twelfth-ranked Nine Dragons Lightning Flame, a mature offensive Different Flame acquired from the Seventh-Order Crimson Blood Flood Dragon. 464 534

Nine Palaces Heavenly Fire Method

Originally called the Five Round Li Fire Method, this is Heavenly Flame Venerable's signature Dou Technique. After refining Nine Dragons Lightning Flame, he spent three years modifying it into the Nine Palaces Heavenly Fire Method. 553

• Forms nine silver fire dragons connected by a great array. 553
• Merges the dragons' fire into a pure white flame powerful enough to contend with a tribulation created through the fusion of Thunder and Fire Great Daos. 553
• Served as his decisive technique during his Dou Sheng Tribulation. 553 554

Phoenix Cry Chi Chi

After using Heavenly Demon Phoenix bloodline essence to rebuild his body, Heavenly Flame Venerable comprehends the bloodline's Flame True Meaning and develops a technique that condenses his fire sea into a giant flaming Heavenly Demon Phoenix. 522

• The flame phoenix manifests above his shoulders before diving at its target. 522
• Its creation reflects his integration of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix bloodline with his Fire Great Dao. 347 522

Alchemy and Refinement

Heavenly Flame Venerable is a skilled refiner and pill-maker in addition to a combat cultivator. 347 481

• Refines Heavenly Demon Phoenix flesh into five drops of bloodline essence. 347
• Extracts the magic core from the corpse's dried outer skin. 347
• Refines the seventh-rank, three-colored Jade Well Earth Horse Pill. 481 482
• Uses Fallen Heart Flame to temper Nalan Ye's regenerated arm after the attachment of a Dou Sheng bone. 466

Spatial and Dou Sheng Abilities

After becoming a Dou Sheng, Heavenly Flame Saint possesses a Heaven Realm soul and can freely create spatial fissures and Space Wormholes. 554 838 865

• Resides within a secluded small world, entering and leaving it through spatial fissures. 838
• Can conceal himself within another fire cultivator's Dou Technique; he hides inside Tang San's Fire Deer technique to ambush Nether Bone Saint. 861
• Provides controlled Dou Sheng-level energy to train Lin Ming's ability to wield power beyond his own realm. 842 843

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Nine Dragons Lightning Flame — His current Different Flame and greatest trump card during his breakthrough. 534 553
• Ring of Holding — Entrusted to Nalan Ye before the Dou Sheng Tribulation in case he did not survive. 548
• Little Fire Seed — A wisp of his fire seed given to Nalan Ye, which can point generally toward his location. 676 838

Relationships

• Nalan Ye — Discoverer, student, and close companion. Heavenly Flame Venerable guides his cultivation, protects him, helps restore his body and arm, and credits Nalan Ye's Human World Kindling Flame with giving him crucial insight for his own breakthrough. 257 466 548
• Little Fairy Doctor — Ally and fellow caretaker of Nalan Ye. She provides him restorative pills before his tribulation, but angrily blames him when Nalan Ye is injured refining Fallen Heart Flame. 535 549
• Thunder Venerable — Rival Venerable defeated when Heavenly Flame Venerable uses Fallen Heart Flame to expose and destroy the weakness of the Three Thousand Thunderous Illusory Body. 483 487
• You Duo — Enemy from the Nine Nether Earth Hell Python Clan. Their conflict escalates around the Snake-People Ancestral Land and continues after Heavenly Flame Venerable's ascension. 517 522 554
• Tang San — Fellow Dou Sheng who entered the realm through the Fire Great Dao. Their compatible flames allow Heavenly Flame Venerable to conceal himself within Tang San's Dou Technique during battle. 861
• Lin Ming — Junior cultivator whom Heavenly Flame Venerable trains to stabilize and wield Dou Sheng-level power. 843
• Zi Yan — She dislikes him largely because of her aversion to white-bearded elders. 549

Story Role / Major Arcs

Hidden Remnant Soul

Nalan Ye finds Heavenly Flame Venerable's concealed resting place beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower. The encounter turns a desperate escape from Flame Lizardmen into the beginning of their mentor-student relationship. 249

Recovery and Return to Combat

While rebuilding his cultivation, Heavenly Flame Venerable mentors Nalan Ye, reclaims Dou Zong-level combat ability, and demonstrates that his Venerable experience lets him defeat opponents above his recovered realm. 257 307 310

Black-Corner Region Battles

Heavenly Flame Venerable refines the Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse, confronts Demon Flame Valley's elders, and dismisses their Transformation Fire as a crude imitation. He defeats their combined flame assaults through overwhelming fire control. 347 353 355

Return to the Central Plains

He publicly identifies himself as Yao TianHuo before Thunder Venerable, proving that the Venerable believed dead for centuries has returned. He then defeats Thunder Venerable's avatar and destroys the retreating Wind and Lightning Pavilion forces. 483 487

Path to Sainthood

After replacing Fallen Heart Flame with Nine Dragons Lightning Flame, he observes Nalan Ye refine Fallen Heart Flame into Human Dao Fire. The resulting Human World Kindling Flame gives him new insight into the Fire Great Dao and motivates his final attempt at the Dou Sheng realm. 534 536 548

Dou Sheng Tribulation

At Thousand Zhang Peak, Heavenly Flame Venerable withstands an unusually dangerous Dou Sheng Tribulation. He counters its final Thunder-Fire Dao fusion with the Nine Palaces Heavenly Fire Method, survives, and becomes the Heavenly Flame Saint. 552 554

Saint-Level Ally

As a Dou Sheng, he lives in a secluded small world but continues answering Nalan Ye's summons. He later joins Tang San in the Star Realm conflict, ambushing and engaging Nether Bone Saint. 838 861

Notable Quotes

“This old man is Yao TianHuo. Some people also call me Heavenly Flame Venerable.” 249

“Since it defies heaven, then today, I'll fuck the heavens!” 553

Trivia

• Heavenly Flame Venerable calls the hidden magma-space containing his skeleton and Fallen Heart Flame a “graveyard,” rather than an esteemed domain. 249
• Although he possesses a Ring of Holding, he lived in a dilapidated thatched cottage with crude pottery tea ware in his small world. 839
• He regards the Human World Kindling Flame as potentially stronger than Fallen Heart Flame and even somewhat stronger than Nine Dragons Lightning Flame. 536