Chapter Summaries

The narrator entered the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower and used Cai Lin’s help to withstand and refine the Fallen Heart Flame’s manifestation. Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor began preparing to form the poison pill, leaving the narrator to wait and cultivate nearby.

• Hu Qian led the group into the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where the Fallen Heart Flame’s heartfire affected the narrator and Xiao Yan.
• Cai Lin protected the narrator, who quickly refined the heartfire manifestation and concealed his initial pain from Hu Qian.
• Xiao Yan chose to treat Little Fairy Doctor inside the tower, and Hu Qian sealed off a section of its first level for them.
• Little Fairy Doctor entered a cultivation chamber with Xiao Yan to form the poison pill, while the narrator reassured her and said goodbye.
• Hu Qian gave the narrator a Cyan-Purple Crystal Card, and the narrator had Ling Ying stand guard before cultivating in a nearby chamber.

After leaving the secret chamber, the narrator explored the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower and became fixated on reaching the Magma Fire Sea beneath it. He waited until night and began secretly lowering himself through the opening toward the seventh floor.

• The narrator found Ling Ying still guarding the secret chamber and learned that Third Brother and Little Fairy Doctor had not emerged.
• The narrator descended to the sixth floor, where Han Yue praised him for killing Han Feng and returned the seventy thousand gold coins he had lent her.
• Han Yue warned the narrator that the floors below the sixth were forbidden, and guards turned him back when he tried to descend the stairs.
• The narrator spotted an opening through the tower and saw the Magma Fire Sea far below, then became determined to reach it.
• The narrator waited until night, returned to the opening, and silently lowered himself toward the seventh floor using only his physical strength.

Nalan Ye descended into the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower under Cai Lin’s influence, where she shattered his Dou Crystal and revealed her plan to refuse submission. He used the imprint on her Soul Origin to destroy it, and Cai Lin’s remnant soul dispersed, leaving him gravely injured and alone.

• Nalan Ye realized he had been bewitched into descending beneath the tower and discovered that his Dou Qi was leaking away.
• Cai Lin emerged and revealed she had spent two years hiding her intentions before shattering Nalan Ye’s Dou Crystal.
• Cai Lin declared she would not submit to Nalan Ye and described her ambition to lead the Snake-People Tribe back to its ancestral homeland.
• Nalan Ye used the imprint on Cai Lin’s Soul Origin to shatter it, leaving both of them in agony.
• Cai Lin’s remnant soul faded and dispersed, while Nalan Ye lay injured on the Volcanic Rock, reflecting on their broken bond.

Nalan Ye survived the destruction of his Dou Crystal but was left gravely injured and nearly powerless. As he reached the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower seeking help, Cai Lin revealed that she had escaped his control through the dangerous Soul Severing Technique and declared that her clan would never be slaves.

• Nalan Ye slowly regained control of his Dou Qi, swallowed a low-grade Healing Pill, and struggled toward the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Nalan Ye found the tower but saw Cai Lin alive behind him and desperately tried to call for help.
• Cai Lin sealed off Nalan Ye's cries, leaving him trapped beside the tower as she mocked his despair.
• Cai Lin explained that she had truly died once, then used the Soul Severing Technique to free herself and control the split soul that had died in her place.
• Cai Lin told Nalan Ye, "My clan will never be slaves!"

Cai Lin dragged the narrator deep into the lava cave and revealed that she planned to negotiate with Fallen Heart Flame so she could gain power and escape Canaan Academy. After mutilating him to force the encounter, she summoned the flame, which appeared from the boiling lava.

• Cai Lin broke the narrator’s right leg and dragged him away from the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower into the cavern.
• Cai Lin said she had been puzzled by how much the narrator knew and decided to trust his knowledge of Fallen Heart Flame.
• Cai Lin struck the lava lake with soul power to attract Fallen Heart Flame, and the narrator realized she hoped to gain its help in condensing a physical body and escaping.
• Cai Lin rejected the narrator’s offer to help her, saying she would not remain under his control, then crushed and blasted away both his legs.
• Fallen Heart Flame answered Cai Lin’s invitation, rising from the bubbling lava as a massive, invisible flame.

Cai Lin tried to persuade Fallen Heart Flame to lend her power, while the narrator urged the flame to distrust her. After extracting the narrator’s soul, Cai Lin used the flame to temper his corpse and awaken the blood essence and medicinal power she had hidden within it, leaving the narrator trapped and furious as her plans unfolded.

• Cai Lin promised Fallen Heart Flame that she would help it escape Canaan Academy if it lent her power, but the narrator warned the flame that she meant to refine it.
• Cai Lin extracted the narrator’s soul from his body and placed a Soul Imprint on his Soul Origin, then held him in her palm.
• Fallen Heart Flame withdrew its oppressive aura and allowed Cai Lin to channel its power into the narrator’s corpse.
• Cai Lin used the flame to burn the corpse, revealing blood essence she had hidden inside it and awakening the medicinal power of the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.
• Cai Lin merged the medicinal power with her blood essence, while the narrator realized she had outmaneuvered him and taken his possessions.

Cai Lin used the Fallen Heart Flame and the narrator’s essence blood to restore her strength, then attempted to break through to Dou Zong while condensing a physical body. The Flame Lizard Tribe emerged from the magma and attacked her, forcing her to fight while continuing her breakthrough.

• Cai Lin absorbed the narrator’s essence blood and energy from the Fallen Heart Flame, restoring her aura to the peak of Dou Huang.
• Cai Lin chose to break through to Dou Zong while condensing her physical body, but Flame Lizard Tribe members emerged from beneath the magma and disrupted her attempt.
• Cai Lin burned the first lizardmen with the Fallen Heart Flame, but hundreds more gathered and attacked her with Magma Fireballs.
• Cai Lin decided to attempt a breakthrough during battle and descended into the magma to fight the Flame Lizard Tribe.
• Seven or eight powerful Great Lizardmen surrounded Cai Lin and attacked her from every direction.

Cai Lin was overwhelmed by the Great Lizardmen’s attack, which knocked the narrator out of her body and left him trapped above the lava. He plunged into the magma to escape, where a Strange Rune in his soul protected him as he fled deeper, with lizardmen still pursuing him.

• Seven or eight Great Lizardmen bombarded Cai Lin with Magma Fire Pillars, breaking through the Fallen Heart Flame and scorching her soul body.
• The attack knocked the narrator out of Cai Lin, and he dodged the Magma Fireballs from the lizardmen until they cornered him against the cave ceiling.
• The narrator dived into the magma rather than be killed by the lizardmen, and the heat began shrinking his soul body.
• A Strange Rune inside the narrator’s soul protected him from being destroyed by the magma, and he recognized its power as Wu Protector’s.
• The lizardmen caught up and struck the narrator, who kept swimming deeper into the magma to escape them.

Nalan Ye fled pursuing Lizardmen into a hidden white space in the magma sea, where he encountered the awakened Heavenly Flame Venerable. Yao TianHuo discovered multiple imprints on Nalan Ye’s soul and revealed that he was the legendary Venerable.

• Nalan Ye plunged into a hazy white light while the Lizardmen pursued him through the magma.
• Nalan Ye found a skeleton bearing the Fallen Heart Flame, and the Lizardmen could not enter the space around it.
• Yao TianHuo emerged from the skeleton and questioned Nalan Ye about his connection to the Hall of Souls.
• Yao TianHuo detected imprints from the Hall of Souls and the Ancient Clan on Nalan Ye’s soul, along with another Soul Imprint controlling his life and death.
• Yao TianHuo introduced himself as Heavenly Flame Venerable, leaving Nalan Ye stunned by the revelation.

Xiao Yan helped Little Fairy Doctor compress the toxins in her dantian so she could form a poison pill, using Bodhi Transformation Saliva to support her. Refining it unexpectedly produced a rare Bodhi Seed, which Xiao Yan stored away as Little Fairy Doctor continued her cultivation.

• Xiao Yan warned Little Fairy Doctor that she had to compress the toxins herself and form a poison pill or they would erupt.
• Little Fairy Doctor endured the pain and agreed to continue, determined not to waste Xiao Yan's efforts to cure her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan refined the Bodhi Transformation Saliva with the Azure Lotus Core Flame and discovered that its sediment had formed a Bodhi Seed.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to keep the Bodhi Seed, and Xiao Yan stored it in a Cold Jade Box for safekeeping.
• Xiao Yan applied the refined Bodhi Transformation Saliva to Little Fairy Doctor's forehead, sending medicinal energy toward her dantian and easing her furrowed brows.

Little Fairy Doctor formed a poison pill, but the Heavenly Tribulation was not connected to her. Su Qian traced it beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where Xiao Yan discovered that the tribulation was targeting Medusa Queen’s soul body.

• Little Fairy Doctor condensed the toxins in her dantian into a poison pill as a Heavenly Tribulation gathered over Canaan Inner Courtyard.
• Little Fairy Doctor and Yao Lao determined that the tribulation was not connected to her, and Su Qian traced its source to below the tower.
• Ling Ying located Nalan Ye beneath the entire tower, and Xiao Yan followed the elders downward.
• Cai Lin reached the threshold of Dou Zong, turned the tide against the Lizardmen, and faced the Heavenly Tribulation above the magma.
• Su Qian and the elders found Medusa Queen’s soul body bathed in Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan recognized her as the woman he had seen self-destruct.
• Ling Ying said Nalan Ye had been devoured by Medusa’s backlash.

Cai Lin began her Heavenly Tribulation beneath Canaan Academy, forcing Su Qian to confront her to protect the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower. Su Qian revealed the overwhelming power of his Water Attribute Dao Domain, and Cai Lin fled into the magma after her attack failed.

• Su Qian ordered Cai Lin to leave Canaan Academy and give up the Fallen Heart Flame, but Cai Lin refused and continued her breakthrough.
• The Heavenly Tribulation struck near the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, so Su Qian sent Hu Qian and the other elders to defend it while he stayed to face Cai Lin.
• Cai Lin attacked Su Qian with pythons formed from the Fallen Heart Flame, but he shattered them and opened his Dao Domain, turning the magma within three hundred zhang into clear water.
• Cai Lin compressed and launched the Fallen Heart Flame, but Su Qian trapped it in a curtain of water and warned that it had little power left.
• Cai Lin detonated the Fallen Heart Flame to escape into the magma, while Su Qian struck her soul body and left her severely injured as she fled deeper.

Cai Lin’s breakthrough continued in the magma, transforming her into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, but a space-piercing Dou Zong-level Heavenly Tribulation struck her down. Trapped beneath the magma with Heavenly Flame Venerable, the narrator insisted that the soul marks on him would lead someone to rescue them.

• Cai Lin escaped Su Qian and resumed her breakthrough in a fissure, where the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill’s power rebuilt her body and pushed her cultivation toward Dou Zong.
• Hu Qian and Canaan Academy’s elders resisted the strengthening Heavenly Tribulation outside the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower as its strikes reached the Dou Zong level.
• Cai Lin evolved into a small Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python with seven-colored scales and violet eyes.
• A space-piercing lightning strike from the Heavenly Tribulation hit Cai Lin in the fissure, leaving her apparently dead as the storm dispersed above the academy.
• The narrator asked Heavenly Flame Venerable how they could escape the magma, and Heavenly Flame Venerable said his damaged soul could not make the journey to the surface.
• The narrator told Heavenly Flame Venerable that the soul marks on him would lead someone to rescue them.

Little Fairy Doctor completed her poison pill and rushed to find Nalan Ye, but Ling Ying concealed that he could not sense him while Xun Er ordered Nalan Ye left in the magma. As Su Qian and the elders sealed the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower’s entrance, Little Fairy Doctor watched helplessly, believing Nalan Ye was trapped below.

• Little Fairy Doctor condensed her poison pill, learned from Xiao Yan that Nalan Ye had vanished into the tower’s depths, and hurried down to find him.
• Xun Er told Gu Xu she wanted to see Xiao Yan before returning to the clan, while Gu Xu insisted Canaan Academy was no longer safe; Xun Er then sent Ling Ying an order to leave Nalan Ye in the magma.
• Ling Ying pretended he could not sense Nalan Ye, and Little Fairy Doctor flew down the tower until Su Qian stopped her and said Nalan Ye was probably dead.
• The Fallen Heart Flame surged toward the tower entrance, so Su Qian and the elders began forming a barrier to seal it.
• Little Fairy Doctor attacked the barrier to stop the sealing, but Hu Qian blocked her and the elders shut the entrance while she cried out in grief.

Trapped with Yao TianHuo in a hidden space beneath the magma, the narrator waited in vain for rescue until a tiny Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python appeared. Recognizing it as a possible way out, the narrator asked Yao TianHuo to erase something inside it, leaving the snake’s fate unresolved.

• The narrator and Yao TianHuo waited more than ten days for rescuers, but no one came.
• The narrator worried about Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, and the turmoil that might follow if the narrator died.
• A tiny seven-colored snake crawled over the narrator and startled the narrator awake.
• Yao TianHuo identified the snake as a juvenile Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, a powerful magical beast.
• The narrator realized the snake could help them escape and asked Yao TianHuo to erase something inside it.

The narrator learned that the newly born Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python mistook him for its parent because Cai Lin’s Soul Imprint connected them. Yao TianHuo proposed a life-and-death contract that could free the narrator from Cai Lin’s control, and left him to decide whether he would accept it.

• Yao TianHuo examined the narrator and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, then refused to remove Cai Lin’s Soul Imprint because it could destroy the narrator’s weak soul.
• Yao TianHuo explained that the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python had followed the imprint’s connection and likely regarded the narrator as its parent.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python gave the narrator Cai Lin’s stolen Ring of Holding, and he recovered his three Po Zong Pills inside.
• The narrator warned Yao TianHuo that Cai Lin could regain control of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and enslave or kill him.
• Yao TianHuo proposed a secret art for the narrator and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python to form a contract and share life and death, which could let him later erase Cai Lin’s soul.
• Yao TianHuo asked whether the narrator was willing to share life and death with a magical beast, since the contract would not let him control its life or death.

Nalan Ye learned a Heavenly Rank secret method from Heavenly Flame Venerable and used it to bind his soul to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, Xiao Qi. The bond unexpectedly connected him to Cai Lin as well, whose awakened soul revealed itself through the Python.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable gave Nalan Ye a Heavenly Rank secret method and guided him through learning it over a month.
• Nalan Ye fed Xiao Qi Symbiotic Amethyst Source and asked it to cooperate with the soul-binding ritual.
• Nalan Ye successfully cast the secret method, forming a Shared Life and Death bond with Xiao Qi.
• Nalan Ye sensed a fork in the bond and followed it to Cai Lin's sleeping soul.
• Cai Lin's enormous purple eyes startled Nalan Ye, and he recognized her presence within Xiao Qi.

The narrator discovered that he and Cai Lin had formed a secret technique that tied their lives together, making it impossible for him to kill her without dying too. Years later, he prepared to leave after the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python had grown strong enough to fight a Dou Wang.

• The narrator sensed that his connection with Cai Lin was real and learned that they had formed the Shared Life and Death secret technique.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable said he could not undo the technique and explained that Cai Lin's Soul Severing Technique could not break it.
• The narrator decided to keep Cai Lin's soul suppressed with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and fed Xiao Qi Symbiotic Amethyst Source.
• Years passed, and the narrator recalled Xun Er, Little Fairy Doctor, Xiao Meier, and Yun Yun as their paths diverged.
• After Xiao Qi consumed all six and a half bottles of Symbiotic Amethyst Source and grew strong enough to fight a Dou Wang, the narrator decided to leave.

The narrator, Heavenly Flame Venerable, and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python escaped the hazy underground space and traveled through the magma while avoiding the Flame Lizardmen. To avoid the Fallen Heart Flame and Canaan Academy, they decided to have Xiao Qi dig a tunnel toward the surface, and stopped where Heavenly Flame Venerable could no longer sense the tower or the flame.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable proposed provoking the Fallen Heart Flame to create chaos if they could not escape through the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• The narrator and Heavenly Flame Venerable attached themselves to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and Heavenly Flame Venerable collected the infant Fallen Heart Flame and stored the skeleton.
• Xiao Qi carried them through the magma, concealing its aura as they passed the Flame Lizardmen and reached the magma lake's surface.
• The narrator suggested digging through the rock to bypass the Fallen Heart Flame and Canaan Academy, and Heavenly Flame Venerable agreed it was safer.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable guided Xiao Qi away from the Fallen Heart Flame and the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, and the narrator asked Xiao Qi to begin digging.

After digging out of their underground prison, the narrator and Heavenly Flame Venerable emerged into the Back Mountain of Canaan Academy and set out toward the Small World's boundary. They encountered a girl on a cliff, and Heavenly Flame Venerable realized she was a magical beast rather than a human.

• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python dug through the last layer of soil and emerged in a remote mountain valley.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable, moved by seeing the natural world again, sensed their surroundings and declared that he had returned.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable identified the area as Canaan Academy's Back Mountain and proposed heading northeast toward the Small World's boundary.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python initially went southwest, then corrected its course after the narrator pointed out the mistake.
• The group spotted a young girl sitting on a cliff, and Heavenly Flame Venerable sensed that she was a magical beast.