Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun rescued the Ox Maiden, the White Tiger, and the Golden Roc from the Earth Rock Apes, then found a hidden Seven-Colored Holy Spirit Tree in a lake. After overcoming the natural formation concealing it, he harvested its seven fruits and stored them in his Soul Tool.

• Xiao Yun took the Ox Maiden, the White Tiger, and the Golden Roc into the Pagoda Space, leaving the Earth Rock Apes roaring at their vanished opponents.
• Xiao Yun rode his Flying Sword across the Rainforest and spotted a lake with a small island at its center.
• Xiao Yun discovered that a natural Grand Formation of mist concealed and protected the Seven-Colored Holy Spirit Tree.
• Xiao Yun passed through the formation and confirmed that the tree had no spiritual intelligence and bore seven fruits with different effects.
• Xiao Yun used his Flying Sword to collect all seven fruits, sealed them in a jade box, and put the box into his Soul Tool.

Xiao Yun captured the Iron-Armored Giant Crocodile that guarded the Seven-Colored Holy Spirit Tree and absorbed the Wood Attribute energy from an emerald fruit. The Origin of Wood formed in his Martial Soul Bead, leaving only fire needed to complete the five elements.

• An Iron-Armored Giant Crocodile emerged from the lake, and Xiao Yun decided to capture it and raise it in the Pagoda Space.
• Xiao Yun used a Wood Dragon to bind the crocodile, pierce its weaker belly, and throw it into the first level of the Pagoda Space.
• Xiao Yun released the Wood Attribute energy from the emerald fruit, and the Martial Soul Bead absorbed it.
• The Origin of Wood took shape in the Martial Soul Bead, completing four of the five origins.
• Xiao Yun looked at the Seven-Colored Holy Spirit Tree and decided to transplant it.

Xiao Yun moved the Seven-Colored Holy Spirit Tree into the Pagoda Space, replanted its hidden seedling, and traveled to the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes to seek the Origin of Fire. He found a dense, uninhabited volcanic crater and descended toward its lava lake.

• Xiao Yun sent the Seven-Colored Holy Spirit Tree to the Pagoda Space and told Sky Dream Butterfly Dance to plant it in a place with abundant spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yun found a seedling of the Seven-Colored Holy Spirit Tree beneath the original tree and replanted it in the pit.
• Xiao Yun left the island and flew east across wasteland toward the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes.
• Xiao Yun searched the volcanic region for concentrated flame energy and spotted an Undying Flame Divine Bird, but left without disturbing it.
• Xiao Yun found another crater with dense fire energy and no soul beasts, then descended toward its lava lake.

Xiao Yun left his Martial Soul Bead in the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes to absorb Fire Attribute energy, then entered a Mountain Clan stronghold during its Saintess selection ceremony. The eight candidates prepared to enter the Sacred Fire Cave, and the trial began as the cavern opened beneath the plaza.

• Xiao Yun wedged the Martial Soul Bead beneath a lava rock so it could absorb Fire Attribute energy, then flew away from the crater.
• Xiao Yun disguised himself as a Mountain Clan member and paid guards to enter their stronghold.
• Xiao Yun learned that the Mountain Clan was holding its Saintess selection ceremony and followed the crowd to the plaza.
• The Grand Elder announced that the first of eight candidates to leave the Sacred Fire Cave would become Saintess, while the others would become her protectors.
• The plaza shook, and the ground opened to reveal the Sacred Fire Cave.

The eight Flame Maidens entered a sealed chamber for the Saintess trial and found formations that sent each into a separate path. Spirit Flame Maiden passed two timed flame-shaping tests and continued onward.

• The eight Flame Maidens landed in a dark chamber, summoned their Martial Souls, and watched the entrance seal shut.
• Tiger Flame Maiden, Ox Flame Maiden, Sparrow Flame Maiden, Bamboo Flame Maiden, Bee Flame Maiden, Soul Flame Maiden, and Spirit Flame Maiden activated matching grooves and fell into separate passages.
• Spirit Flame Maiden slid through a winding tunnel and reached a trial room with instructions to shape flames into patterns within three breaths.
• Spirit Flame Maiden formed four views of an axe from flame and opened the first doorway.
• Spirit Flame Maiden shaped flames into four stages of a flower and opened the next doorway.

Spirit Flame Maiden reached the underground altar, where a drop of divine blood could make one of the eight young women the tribe’s Saintess. A fight broke out over who would claim it, and Soul Flame Maiden discovered that the altar statue was absorbing their blood and life energy.

• Spirit Flame Maiden solved the wall patterns, opened the passage, and entered a vast chamber containing an altar and a drop of golden divine blood.
• Spirit Flame Maiden headed for the white jade platform, but Phoenix Flame Maiden challenged her over the unfairly different passages and blocked her way.
• Spirit Flame Maiden and Phoenix Flame Maiden began fighting, and Tiger Flame Maiden and Sparrow Flame Maiden joined the battle as the remaining women arrived.
• All eight Flame Maidens fought before the altar, and their blood flowed across the stone slabs toward the statue and disappeared into it.
• Soul Flame Maiden sensed that the statue was absorbing their blood, life energy, and soul fragments, and warned the others.

A corrupted ritual drove the Flame Maidens into madness before the statue released puppet-making mycelium and a storm of poisoned arrows. Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden recognized their shared investigation and agreed to settle the Saintess contest in one move, with the winner promising to restore the loser.

• The statue's aura made the eight Flame Maidens lose control, fight each other, and collapse as their strength and Soul Power drained away.
• The statue turned blood-red and released mycelium mist that entered the fallen women and began controlling them.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden, Spirit Flame Maiden, Bamboo Flame Maiden, Tiger Flame Maiden, Ox Flame Maiden, and Soul Flame Maiden used their powers to shield themselves from the mist.
• Poisoned arrows poured from holes in the walls, and the mycelium infected Bamboo Flame Maiden, Tiger Flame Maiden, Ox Flame Maiden, and Soul Flame Maiden; Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden survived.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden revealed that they were investigating the Saintesses' changes after the ritual and agreed to decide the contest in one attack, with the winner promising to restore the loser.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden poured her Soul Power into the Flame Fan, sending its Fire Phoenix toward Spirit Flame Maiden in a blazing attack.

Spirit Flame Maiden defeated Phoenix Flame Maiden but nearly fell under the ritual’s influence until Xiao Yun briefly freed her from the Puppet Mother Worm’s control. She attacked the worm and exposed the scheme, but the seven other candidates turned against her, leaving her facing death with no strength to fight.

• Spirit Flame Maiden merged with the Flame Spirit and defeated the Fire Phoenix, while Phoenix Flame Maiden collapsed and fungal threads took control of her body.
• As Spirit Flame Maiden approached the altar’s Divine Blood, Xiao Yun struck her soul and broke the worm’s bewitching influence.
• Spirit Flame Maiden recognized the Divine Blood as an Inscription Puppet Worm and realized the Saintess selection had been used to create puppets.
• Spirit Flame Maiden fired her Blazing White Flame Arrow at the Puppet Mother Worm, burning away its fungal threads but failing to kill its flame-immune body.
• The Puppet Mother Worm sent out a Spiritual Power shockwave, and the seven Saintess candidates attacked Spirit Flame Maiden together.
• With her Soul Power exhausted and the seven puppets closing in, Spirit Flame Maiden accepted that she could not escape.

Xiao Yun rescued Spirit Flame Maiden and freed the seven Saintess Candidates from the Puppet Mother Worm’s control. After discovering the old woman behind the ritual in the worm’s memories, he left to find her while Spirit Flame Maiden waited in the cave.

• Xiao Yun blocked the seven Saintess Candidates’ attacks with a Green Lotus and used Soul Puppet Threads to free them from the mycelium controlling them.
• Xiao Yun gave Spirit Flame Maiden a robe, and she thanked him and learned his name.
• Xiao Yun identified the Puppet Mother Worm as the creature that had controlled generations of Saintesses and restrained it with Flying Swords.
• Xiao Yun searched the Puppet Mother Worm’s memories and found an old woman who had created the ritual to regain her youth.
• Xiao Yun told Spirit Flame Maiden to wait while he went to find the old woman and promised to keep her alive for questioning.

Xiao Yun uncovered the old woman’s plot to prolong her life by sacrificing Saintess Candidates and sealed her until the victims could decide her fate. The surviving candidates chose Phoenix Flame Maiden as their Saintess, while Spirit Flame Maiden became her guardian and prepared to leave the Mountain Clan.

• Xiao Yun confronted the old woman, who admitted using the Life Sacrifice Ritual and puppet arts to drain eight generations of Saintess Candidates for immortality.
• Xiao Yun brought the old woman to the altar, where Spirit Flame Maiden nearly killed her but stopped after Xiao Yun warned that the candidates might be harmed.
• Xiao Yun sealed the old woman and waited as the seven Saintess Candidates recovered their minds and woke.
• Spirit Flame Maiden explained the conspiracy to the candidates, and they thanked Xiao Yun for saving them.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden argued that the selection should continue, and Spirit Flame Maiden declined the title and nominated Phoenix Flame Maiden instead.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden accepted the role, Spirit Flame Maiden agreed to become her guardian, and the other six candidates bowed to their new Saintess.

The Mountain Clan’s eight maidens received immense power from the altar, and Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden both claimed to be the Saintess. After learning that an Evil Spirit Master had controlled the previous Saintesses, Phoenix Flame Maiden accepted the role and promised to live and fight alongside her people.

• The altar sent eight streams of radiance into Phoenix Flame Maiden, Spirit Flame Maiden, and the six other maidens, greatly raising their Soul Power and granting them black Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• The eight maidens emerged from the cave, and Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden both said they were the Saintess before pointing to each other.
• Spirit Flame Maiden told the elders that an Evil Spirit Master had controlled the previous eight Saintesses through a mother insect and the false Flame Deity, while Xiao Yun had already left.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden addressed the Mountain Clan as its new Saintess and vowed to share her people’s hardships, fight beside them, and protect them from Evil Spirit Masters.

Spirit Flame Maiden followed Xiao Yun to Cloud Mist Teahouse and asked to travel with him so she could see the world beyond the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes. Xiao Yun agreed, and she left to stabilize her cultivation and prepare to join him when he departed.

• Spirit Flame Maiden found Xiao Yun in the crowd and followed him to Cloud Mist Teahouse, where he invited her to sit.
• Xiao Yun asked why Spirit Flame Maiden had given up the saintess position, and she explained that she wanted to explore the outside world.
• Spirit Flame Maiden asked to travel with Xiao Yun, and he agreed on the conditions that she stabilize her cultivation, wait for his departure notice, and call him Teacher Xiao.
• Xiao Yun gave Spirit Flame Maiden a wooden token that would let him sense her when she was ready to leave.
• Spirit Flame Maiden returned to the Fire Element Tribe's barracks, while Phoenix Flame Maiden watched her go and did not stop her.

Xiao Yun hosted Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden during a late-night visit, discovering that the Soul Puppet Thread had made Phoenix Flame Maiden feel compelled to call him Master and draw close to him. Phoenix Flame Maiden conveyed the Mountain Clan Grand Elder’s gratitude and invitation for Xiao Yun to meet him at the Bamboo House.

• Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden visited Xiao Yun, and Phoenix Flame Maiden unexpectedly knelt and called him Master.
• Xiao Yun examined Phoenix Flame Maiden and found his Soul Puppet Thread protecting and strengthening her while creating a strong sense of closeness toward him.
• Xiao Yun explained that the Soul Puppet Thread caused Phoenix Flame Maiden’s feelings and that the effect would weaken but not disappear completely.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden thanked Xiao Yun on behalf of the Grand Elder and the other six Saintess Candidates for saving them from the Evil Spirit Master.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden reported that the Candidates were recovering, while the elders’ attempts to remove the puppet Mycelium had worsened it until Xiao Yun’s Soul Puppet Thread began absorbing it.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden invited Xiao Yun to the Grand Elder’s Bamboo House to receive the Mountain Clan’s thanks and discuss other matters.

Xiao Yun agreed to meet Mountain Clan Grand Elder Yan Pojun after learning the clan could gather rare Fire Attribute medicinal herbs for him in exchange for cultivation pills. He also promised Phoenix Flame Maiden he would examine the seal burdening her grandmother and two other seniors, then ended the night sharing a bed with Spirit Flame Maiden before the visit.

• Phoenix Flame Maiden told Xiao Yun that Yan Pojun could arrange medicinal herbs in exchange for pills, and Xiao Yun agreed to visit him the next morning.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden described Yan Pojun's age, strength, interests, and personality, and Xiao Yun chose a Body-Fortifying Pill as his gift.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden explained that her grandmother and two other seniors had spent decades suppressing a seal, and Xiao Yun offered to examine it after meeting Yan Pojun.
• Spirit Flame Maiden learned that Xiao Yun had prepared a pill to help Yan Pojun break through his bottleneck and offered to guide him to the Grand Elder.
• After talking late into the night, Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden agreed to share the bed and went to sleep.

Xiao Yun and the Spirit Flame Maiden shared breakfast before she escorted him to meet Yan Pojun, the Mountain Clan's Grand Elder. Yan Pojun welcomed Xiao Yun and offered the clan's help, and Xiao Yun presented him with a jade bottle.

• Xiao Yun gently moved the sleeping Spirit Flame Maiden off his chest and left her resting in their room.
• Xiao Yun and the Spirit Flame Maiden ate breakfast together, and he removed a grain of rice from the corner of her mouth.
• The Spirit Flame Maiden led Xiao Yun through the Bamboo Forest to meet Yan Pojun and the Mountain Clan elders.
• Yan Pojun thanked Xiao Yun for helping the Mountain Clan and promised the clan would repay his kindness.
• Xiao Yun placed a jade bottle on the table as a gift for Yan Pojun.

Xiao Yun traded pills and medicinal materials with the Mountain Clan, then insisted on investigating the dangerous seal deep within Sacred Mountain. Yan Pojun realized Xiao Yun was powerful enough to possibly undo it.

• Xiao Yun gave Yan Pojun a Foundation and Longevity Pill, which Yan accepted in gratitude.
• Yan Pojun presented Xiao Yun with the Mountain Clan's Nine-Leaf Divine Flame Grass, and Xiao Yun accepted it.
• Xiao Yun offered the Mountain Clan one hundred Soul King-level Soul Replenishing Pills each year in exchange for fire-attribute immortal herbs, spirit materials, and Five Poisons Materials.
• Xiao Yun asked to visit the seal deep within Sacred Mountain, and Yan Pojun warned him about its danger and the Mountain Clan's long struggle to suppress it.
• Xiao Yun released a trace of his aura, startling Yan Pojun into realizing Xiao Yun might be powerful enough to undo the seal.

Yan Pojun told Xiao Yun how the Mountain Clan had guarded an immortal, destructive flame sealed in the Sacred Mountain for a thousand years. Xiao Yun suspected it was a spiritual flame and intended to investigate it, then outdrank the Mountain Clan’s elders and Soul Emperors at lunch.

• Yan Pojun recounted how an undying flame had killed tens of thousands and defeated five Titled Douluo before Spirit Hall’s pope and two Consecrators sealed it in the Sacred Mountain.
• Yan Pojun explained that the Mountain Clan had guarded the seal for a thousand years, sacrificing access to its ancestral secret realm and losing the chance to produce another Titled Douluo.
• Yan Pojun warned Xiao Yun against approaching the seal and said he planned to take over its guard duty, but Xiao Yun suspected the flame was not a Soul Beast and wanted to compare it with his own flames.
• Yan Pojun and the Mountain Clan hosted Xiao Yun for lunch and repeatedly toasted him.
• Xiao Yun stayed sober as Yan Pojun, the elders, and the Soul Emperors drank themselves unconscious, leaving only Xiao Yun, Phoenix Flame Maiden, and Spirit Flame Maiden sitting.

Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden traveled to the Mountain Clan’s Sacred Mountain and entered the Fire Sealing Cave, where they discovered a powerful flame held beneath an ancient formation. They arrived as three weakened Soul Douluo elders continued sustaining the seal.

• Xiao Yun sensed a power stronger than a Titled Douluo sealed within the Sacred Mountain and agreed to spend the night at its foot with Spirit Flame Maiden.
• At dawn, Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden began climbing the mountain, and she showed him its landmarks along the way.
• At the Fire Sealing Cave entrance, Xiao Yun sensed three fading Soul Douluo auras feeding Soul Power into the seal and detected the unusual flame energy beneath it.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden entered the underground hall and found three elders sustaining the formation, who became alert at their arrival.

Xiao Yun met the Mountain Tribe guardians who had spent more than thirty years sustaining the seal and demonstrated his Fire Sealing Dharma Seal. Impressed, they allowed him to examine the ancient array, and he identified its inefficient water-conversion and leaky sealing structure.

• Spirit Flame Maiden introduced Xiao Yun to Huang Qianyu, Ling Qianshan, and Hu Qiandai, the Mountain Tribe guardians who had maintained the seal for over thirty years.
• Xiao Yun explained his understanding of the underground flame and said he wanted to inspect the seal despite the danger.
• Xiao Yun sealed Hu Qiandai's flame inside a crystal with his Fire Sealing Dharma Seal, astonishing the three guardians.
• Hu Qiandai agreed to let Xiao Yun try to strengthen the array and warned him that it was fragile.
• Xiao Yun examined the array and found that its conversion of Soul Power into Water Attribute Soul Power was inefficient and its seal leaked energy.

Xiao Yun improved the Fire Sealing Array and entered the seal with Spirit Flame Maiden to investigate the flame. They landed in a vast underground space surrounded by five volcanoes, where abundant spiritual energy allowed Xiao Yun to use far more of his power.

• Xiao Yun optimized the Fire Sealing Array and added Water Condensation Arrays, reducing the guardians’ Soul Power consumption by sixty percent.
• Xiao Yun asked to enter the seal, and Huang Qianyu, Ling Qianshan, and Hu Qiandai agreed on the condition that Spirit Flame Maiden accompany him.
• Hu Qiandai gave Spirit Flame Maiden fireproof treasures, and the three guardians opened the array.
• Xiao Yun shielded Spirit Flame Maiden from the heat, and they leaped into the crack beneath the array.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden landed in a vast underground space surrounded by five volcanoes, where Xiao Yun sensed exceptionally rich spiritual energy.