Chapter Summaries

Gu Fei and Gu Nanhai escaped the Nightmare Sky Mist and reunited with Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and Huo Yao. They fought through endless waves of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Fire Slaves, but the group faced exhaustion as stronger enemies filled each hall.

• Gu Fei used his Heavenly Flame and Emotion Value System to identify the illusion and led Gu Nanhai out of the mist, leaving the other trapped people behind.
• Gu Fei and Gu Nanhai reunited with Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and Huo Yao on a platform before a Great Gate, and they discussed the demon flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist.
• Milky-white flames poured through cracks in space, and the group battled the Fire Slaves before breaking open the Great Gate to advance.
• Gu Fei’s group passed through several halls filled with increasingly powerful Fire Slaves, each apparently as strong as a Dou Venerate.
• Huo Xuan warned that the group would be worn down by the endless fighting and their dwindling Dou Qi.

Gu Fei and the others fought through halls of Fire Slaves until they encountered a powerful Four-Star Dou Saint wielding a blood-red axe. Gu Fei recognized him as Xiao Chen of the Ancient Xiao Clan, and Xiao Chen began to remember his identity.

• Gu Fei led the group through successive halls, where they destroyed armies of Fire Slaves, including many Half-Saints.
• The group entered a hall containing a gaunt Four-Star Dou Saint who summoned an enormous blood-red axe.
• Gu Fei, Gu Nanhai, and Huo Yao fought Xiao Chen, but his clan mark appeared and his strength surged, sending Gu Nanhai and Huo Yao flying.
• Gu Fei faced Xiao Chen alone and called on him to remember the Ancient Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Chen reacted to the name of his clan, wondered who he was, and the others recognized him from the Xiao Clan’s history.

Gu Fei recognized the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s challenge as a large-scale illusion and helped the group break free from it. They emerged into a Magma Sea, standing on floating boulders near a silver ring of light.

• Gu Fei stopped Xiao Chen’s flames from erupting and persuaded him to lead the group toward the demon flame.
• Xiao Chen led Gu Fei and the others to an altar, where a white-robed figure challenged them to defeat him or remain as Fire Slaves.
• Gu Fei recognized the figure and the surrounding danger as an illusion, then told everyone to treat the attacker as nonexistent.
• The white-robed figure’s flaming spear vanished without harming the group because they believed Gu Fei’s judgment.
• Gu Fei used a Nightmare Breaking Rune to shatter the illusion, revealing the Magma Sea and a silver ring of light.

Gu Fei and the others escaped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist, but the flame trapped them inside a fiery prison and began refining them. Xun’er’s rash arrival left her vulnerable to the flames, and Gu Fei rescued her as the confrontation began.

• Gu Fei’s destruction of the illusion caused the Nightmare Sky Mist to collapse, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared before the gathered experts.
• Xun’er revealed herself among the crowd and told Gu Nanhai she had followed Gu Fei because she was worried about him.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame erased the Space Passage and unleashed Demon Flame Refines the Heavens, trapping everyone in flames.
• Several people burst into blood mist as the flame exploited their emotions, while Gu Nanhai warned Xun’er to stay calm.
• The flames ignited inside Xun’er, but Gu Fei extinguished them with a touch, and Xun’er apologized for coming and becoming a burden.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame killed most of the Dou Venerate experts and summoned powerful Fire Slaves, forcing Gu Fei and the other factions to cooperate against him. Gu Fei joined six other Four-Star Dou Saints in confronting the demonic flame, whose attacks immediately overwhelmed them.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame used Fireburst to kill more than eighty percent of the Dou Venerate experts, while Xun'er realized Gu Fei had protected her from the flame's influence.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned ten Dou Saint Fire Slaves, and Hun Miesheng urged the assembled factions to join forces.
• Gu Fei agreed to cooperate, assigned Gu Nanhai to protect Xun'er, and joined the assault on the demonic flame alongside Hun Miesheng and the other Four-Star Dou Saints.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Fire Demon Halberd and blasted the seven Dou Saints with a wave of fire, forcing them back.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned a colossal magma hand and brought it crashing down on Gu Fei and the other attackers.

Gu Fei and six other Four-Star Dou Saints battled the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while its Fire Slaves attacked the surrounding experts and detonated themselves. Hun Miesheng activated the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array, but the Demon Flame resisted its disintegrating power, leaving the group to pour more strength into the seal.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame knocked Gu Fei and the others into the Magma Sea, but all seven emerged and unleashed their full strength.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent ten Fire Slaves after the distant crowd, and several of them detonated themselves, killing nearby experts.
• Hun Miesheng called on the others and summoned the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array.
• The array's black pillar struck the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who transformed into a colossal flame and began resisting the seal.
• Hun Miesheng urged Gu Fei and the others to pour all their strength into the array before the Demon Flame broke free.

Hun Miesheng and the other experts sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then Hun Miesheng moved to claim its origin for the Soul Clan. Gu Fei kept the Gu Clan out of the struggle, leaving Hun Feng to seize the origin while others suspected Gu Fei had stayed back to protect Xun'er.

• Gu Fei and the other six experts poured their Dou Qi into Hun Miesheng's array and sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Miesheng thanked the other clans, then reached for the sealed Demon Flame, prompting Huo Yao and a Lei Clan elder to knock its pillar off course.
• Hun Miesheng ordered Hun Feng and another Soul Clan member to seize the pillar as fighters across the sea rushed toward it.
• Gu Nanhai stayed back on Gu Fei's instructions, and he told Xun'er that the Young Clan Leader had forbidden them from claiming the Demon Flame.
• After the first expert to grab the pillar was killed, Hun Feng drove off his rivals and seized the Demon Flame's origin.
• Hun Miesheng mocked Gu Fei for supposedly giving up the Demon Flame to protect Xun'er.

Hun Miesheng tried to kill Gu Fei in the Demon Flame Space, revealing that he had nearly reached the Five-Star Dou Saint level. Xiao Chen intervened to protect Gu Fei and attacked Hun Miesheng with his blood axe.

• Hun Miesheng declared his intention to kill Gu Fei, then charged at him while Gu Nanhai and Xun'er reacted with alarm.
• Gu Fei met Hun Miesheng's attack without being overwhelmed, and Hun Miesheng revealed his strength had risen to the threshold of a Five-Star Dou Saint.
• Gu Nanhai and Huo Zhi challenged Hun Miesheng for acting against the Clan Covenant, but Hun Miesheng dismissed the accusation and advanced on Gu Fei.
• Xiao Chen appeared, deflected Hun Miesheng's attack, and raised his aura to the mid Five-Star Dou Saint level.
• Xiao Chen formed a blood-red axe and swung it at Hun Miesheng after ignoring his threats.

Xiao Chen severely wounded Hun Miesheng with his Heaven Splitting Three Axes, but the Soul Clan’s hidden reinforcement, Soul Demon Old Man, arrived to fight. He revealed that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Xiao Clan and killed Xiao Xuan, leaving Xiao Chen devastated after Gu Fei confirmed the truth.

• Xiao Chen struck Hun Miesheng with three axe slashes, badly wounding him despite Hun Miesheng’s Soul Burial Technique.
• Hun Miesheng called on Soul Demon Old Man, who emerged as a late five-star Dou Saint and drew the Ancient Races’ condemnation for violating the Clan Covenant.
• Soul Demon Old Man recognized Xiao Chen as Blood Axe Xiao Chen and mocked him about the Xiao Clan’s fate.
• Soul Demon Old Man said the Soul Clan had exterminated the Xiao Clan and that its clan leader had killed Xiao Xuan.
• Gu Fei confirmed that Xiao Xuan had died after his failed attempt to advance to Dou Di and the Soul Clan’s ambush, leaving Xiao Chen filled with regret.

Soul Demon Old Man fought Xiao Chen while the Soul Clan attempted to assassinate Gu Fei. A mysterious black-cloaked woman revealed overwhelming strength to protect him, and Soul Demon Old Man rushed to attack her.

• Xiao Chen regained his clarity, stood between Gu Fei and Soul Demon Old Man, and fought him with his blood-colored axe.
• Soul Demon Old Man blocked Xiao Chen’s attacks, but Xiao Chen used a blood-red edge to cut through his bone web before his axe was slapped away.
• A black-robed Soul Clan Dou Saint ambushed Gu Fei, but a mysterious black-cloaked woman appeared and sent the attacker flying with one palm.
• The woman struck the Soul Clan expert again, leaving Hun Miesheng and the others unable to stop her, while Xun’er and Gu Nanhai recognized her voice as familiar.
• Soul Demon Old Man abandoned his fight with Xiao Chen and charged the woman, who sent a purple-gold light seal toward him.

Zi Yan revealed herself as a Six-Star Dou Saint and intervened against Soul Demon Old Man, astonishing Gu Fei and the gathered Ancient Race experts. After Soul Demon Old Man’s Soul Gu Toad was overwhelmed, he swallowed it to gain power as Zi Yan sent her Ancient Dragon Phoenix phantom toward him.

• Soul Demon Old Man unleashed a Soul Gu Toad, but Zi Yan’s Purple Gold light seal blasted it into the Magma Sea.
• Zi Yan removed her hood and revealed herself, then greeted Gu Fei and said she would kill the Soul Clan people.
• Gu Fei and the surrounding experts learned that Zi Yan had reached the Six-Star Dou Saint level.
• Zi Yan summoned an Ancient Dragon Phoenix phantom and sent it charging at Soul Demon Old Man.
• Soul Demon Old Man swallowed the dissolving Soul Gu Toad and transformed grotesquely to face Zi Yan’s attack.

Zi Yan defeated Soul Demon Old Man, leaving Hun Miesheng’s group to surrender the Demon Flame origin to Gu Fei. When Gu Fei refused it, the Pill Tower Old Ancestor appeared, took the origin, and exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s scheme to let the factions fight among themselves.

• Zi Yan’s giant dragon attack destroyed Soul Demon Old Man’s body and left only his remnant soul, frightening Hun Miesheng and the other factions.
• Zi Yan killed Elder Hun Ji, then embraced Gu Fei as the Gu Clan elders urged him to take the Demon Flame origin.
• Hun Miesheng offered Gu Fei the black pillar of light, but Gu Fei pushed it back to him.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor arrived on an azure ox, greeted Xiao Chen and the Pill Tower members, and seized the black pillar of light.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor revealed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had deliberately remained sealed while the factions fought, then called for it to come out.

The Pill Tower Old Ancestor exposed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had only pretended to be captured, preventing the Soul Clan from weakening their rivals through a fight over it. Zi Yan joined the Pill Tower Old Ancestor to confront the Demon Flame, which ended the chapter threatening the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor revealed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had faked its capture, and Gu Fei confirmed that he had seen through the scheme.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor destroyed the black pillar of light, forcing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to appear and expose its plan to make the others fight over its origin.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor warned the Demon Flame that it could not leave, while the Demon Flame blamed the Pure Lotus Demon Saint for sealing it.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor asked Zi Yan to help him fight, and Gu Fei told her to be careful.
• Zi Yan agreed to join the fight on the condition that the Pill Tower Old Ancestor would not compete with her for the Demon Flame, then offered to let it go if it submitted to Gu Fei.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame threatened Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, but Zi Yan dismissed its threat.

The Pill Tower Old Ancestor and Zi Yan fought the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and appeared to overpower him, but he activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation to trap everyone in Demon Flame Space. With the Space Passage destroyed, the Pill Tower Old Ancestor asked Zi Yan to help him face the formation as Gu Fei called for the Demon Saint to appear.

• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor told Zi Yan the seal would return when the Heaven and Earth Tide receded, and she agreed to keep the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame created the Demon Flame Divine Statue and attacked, but the Pill Tower Old Ancestor melted much of it with Dan Rong Tian, and Zi Yan battered it with a Purple Gold giant dragon.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, sealing Demon Flame Space above and below.
• Hun Miesheng and other elders tried to flee, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame destroyed the Space Passage with a pillar of magma fire.
• Gu Fei called on the Demon Saint to appear, while the Pill Tower Old Ancestor told Zi Yan to handle the earthly formation as he confronted the heavenly one.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame used the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation to attack the gathered fighters, but they survived when the Pure Lotus Demon Saint manifested through Gu Fei. The Demon Saint confronted the flame, which activated the formation against him again as Zi Yan, Xun'er, and Gu Nanhai moved to protect Gu Fei.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and unleashed destructive pillars of light at the Pill Tower Old Ancestor, Zi Yan, Xiao Chen, and the others.
• The fighters’ defenses were shattered, but a faint halo protected them all from harm.
• Xun'er noticed the glow gathering around Gu Fei, and the Pill Tower Old Ancestor recognized the figure emerging from him as the Pure Lotus Demon Saint.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who accused him of betrayal and activated the formation again.
• Zi Yan, Xun'er, and Gu Nanhai stepped in front of Gu Fei as the formation’s pillars of light shot toward him.

The Pure Lotus Demon Saint used the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation to restrain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and strip away the memories and intelligence he had given it. After everyone else escaped, Gu Fei regained control of his body and witnessed the Demon Saint enter the prison, where the Demon Flame attacked him and the formation collapsed.

• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint stopped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s attack and opened a Space Passage so the trapped experts could escape.
• Zi Yan, Gu Nanhai, and Xun'er left through the passage while Gu Fei remained behind.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint imprisoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and used the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation to extract its memories and intelligence.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame pleaded for mercy, but the Demon Saint entered the prison and told it that it had always been closest to him.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame attacked the Demon Saint, and the great fire formation collapsed as they vanished together.

After the Demon Flame Space collapsed, Xiao Chen learned that descendants of the Xiao Family remained in Wutan City and set off to find them. Inside the space, Gu Fei found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s origin and began preparing to refine it.

• Hun Miesheng fled with Hun Feng and the others after the Demon Flame Space vanished, while Zi Yan reassured Xun'er that Gu Fei was safe.
• Xiao Chen asked about the Xiao Family’s descendants, and Gu Nanhai told him to go to Wutan City in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Chen left to find the Xiao Family, and Gu Nanhai departed with Xun'er after she reluctantly agreed to go.
• Gu Fei found a white lotus with pink veins floating above the magma sea and recognized it as the Demon Flame’s origin.
• Gu Fei set up a formation and used the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill to weaken the Demon Flame before preparing to refine its Pink Flame core.

Gu Fei swallowed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and began refining it, while Xiao Chen quietly visited the Xiao Family descendants near Wutan City. A month later, Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian were still waiting outside the Demon Flame Space, where the Soul Hall kept its distance from their forbidden zone.

• Gu Fei endured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s heat, swallowed its origin, and began refining it with his Dou Qi.
• As Gu Fei refined the Demon Flame, his aura surged and energy clouds gathered over the magma sea.
• Xiao Chen found the Xiao Family near Wutan City, chose not to reveal its former glory, and left without disturbing its descendants.
• Zi Yan waited outside the Demon Flame Space for a month, and Xiao Yi Xian arrived to wait with her.
• Mercenaries discovered Demon Flame Stones on the plain, drawing factions to compete for them while the Soul Hall avoided the area where Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian waited.

Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan hunted down Soul Hall forces in the Demon Flame Plain while Gu Fei completed his year-long seclusion. Gu Fei emerged as a Six-Star Dou Saint and discovered that his fused Heavenly Flames had produced a flame spirit.

• Soul Hall members disobeyed Hun Miesheng's order and entered the central region to gather Demon Flame Stones.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan killed the intruding Soul Hall group, then destroyed a Soul Hall branch and everyone inside it.
• Gu Fei's crystal egg cracked open after more than a year of seclusion, and he emerged at the early stage of Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Gu Fei sensed that his Heavenly Flames had vanished and summoned a pink flame from within himself.
• The pink flame transformed into a baby before Gu Fei.

Gu Fei emerged from seclusion after refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and reaching the Six-Star Dou Saint level, then returned to the Gu Realm with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan. He reunited with his family and revealed the Fire Infant born from his Heavenly Flames, which Xian Le helped name Xiao Ying.

• Gu Fei affectionately met the Fire Infant in the Demon Flame Space and left with it after thinking of his family.
• Gu Fei reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, who had waited for him on the Demon Flame Plain and destroyed a Soul Hall branch during his seclusion.
• Gu Fei returned to the Gu Realm, where the Gu Clan Elders celebrated his breakthrough to Six-Star Dou Saint and the clan members greeted him as Young Clan Leader.
• Gu Fei returned to his Mountain Peak and reunited with Wushuang, Xian Le, Ling Xi, Qing Lin, Lion King, Heavenly Flame Honored One, and the others.
• Gu Fei showed everyone the Fire Infant, explained that it had formed from the fusion of his six Heavenly Flames, and Xian Le suggested naming it Xiao Ying.