Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun sealed the Green Lotus Core Flame in a lotus and subdued it, causing the Secret Realm’s five volcanoes to calm. He and Spirit Flame Maiden then gathered valuable medicinal herbs before the Secret Realm closed.

• Xiao Yun found the Green Lotus Core Flame inside the fifth volcano and sealed it within a Green Lotus using a Fire Sealing Dharma Seal.
• The sealed flame caused the five volcanoes to quiet and the Secret Realm’s heat to fade, while Spirit Flame Maiden ran to check on Xiao Yun.
• Xiao Yun met Spirit Flame Maiden, showed her the sealed flame, and told her to gather more medicinal herbs with him.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden harvested Crimson Flame Grass, Golden Flame Fruit, and Black Flame Grass around the volcanoes.

Xiao Yun helped Spirit Flame Maiden break through to rank sixty and evolve her Martial Soul in the volcanic Secret Realm. She then gained a ten-thousand-year sixth soul ring and learned Flame Manipulation before Xiao Yun prepared to leave.

• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden gathered rare herbs across the five volcanoes.
• Xiao Yun guided Spirit Flame Maiden to cultivate above the earthfire and used Immortal Spirit Qi to evolve her Flame Spirit Martial Soul.
• Spirit Flame Maiden broke through to rank sixty and stabilized her cultivation.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden found a twenty-thousand-year Flame Spirit, and Spirit Flame Maiden defeated it to obtain its soul ring.
• Spirit Flame Maiden gained the sixth soul skill Flame Manipulation, which let her control flames and shape them into flame beasts.
• Xiao Yun told Spirit Flame Maiden it was time to leave the Secret Realm.

Xiao Yun sealed the flame that had threatened the Mountain Clan for a thousand years, freeing the guardians from their long vigil and making the Secret Realm usable again. After resting in the stronghold, he explored the Mountain Clan with Spirit Flame Maiden and Phoenix Flame Maiden.

• Xiao Yun emerged from the Secret Realm with Spirit Flame Maiden and told Huang Qianyu, Ling Qianshan, and Hu Qiandai that the flame was sealed and the Secret Realm could be used again.
• Huang Qianyu flew to the stronghold and told Yan Pojun that Xiao Yun had lifted the curse, and they discussed how to thank him and maintain their relationship with him.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden returned to the Great Stronghold the next morning and spent two days resting there, with Phoenix Flame Maiden often joining them.
• Spirit Flame Maiden took Xiao Yun to the market, where he bought her several things she liked.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden showed Xiao Yun the Sacrificial Plaza and explained the Mountain Clan's eight totems and their Martial Souls.

After Spirit Hall envoy Yan reported that a powerful Evil Spirit Master was raising the dead, Yan Pojun prepared the Mountain Clan for battle. He asked Xiao Yun to protect the clan’s young people if the defenses fell, and Xiao Yun agreed to intervene if necessary.

• Spirit Flame Maiden and Phoenix Flame Maiden sparred at the Gladiator Arena, where Phoenix Flame Maiden narrowly won.
• Yan arrived at the Mountain Clan stockade with Temple Guards and told the Council Hall that an Evil Spirit Master had attacked him and used Undead Scourge to raise the dead.
• Yan Pojun ordered the Mountain Clan to shelter civilians, arm its Soul Masters, scout for pursuers, strengthen the stockade, and alert the other tribes.
• Yan Pojun gave Xiao Yun the location of the clan’s hidden refuge and asked him to protect its young people if the clan was defeated.
• Xiao Yun agreed to step in if the Mountain Clan could not hold out.

Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden discussed her wish to follow his path as reports revealed that an entire stronghold had vanished. Yan contacted Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu, who ordered the Mountain Clan to contain the Undead Scourge and sent two Spirit Hall consecrators to support them.

• Spirit Flame Maiden told Xiao Yun she wanted to follow him and see how far he could go, then asked whether he had ever killed anyone; he admitted that he had.
• A Spirit Master reported to Yan Pojun that a stronghold had been emptied, including its tombs, with no signs of a struggle or the Evil Spirit Master.
• Xiao Yun considered the rare Undead Scourge Soul Skill and sensed a message from Yan through the Divine Sense thread attached to him.
• Yan used a one-time Soul Tool to tell Bibi Dong that an Evil Spirit Master had destroyed a Mountain Clan stronghold with Undead Scourge and requested reinforcements.
• Qian Daoliu ordered Yan to help contain the undead within the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes and sent Mighty Lion Douluo and Feathered Light Douluo to support the Mountain Clan.

Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden investigated the abandoned Flower God Village and discovered a hidden torture chamber beneath a residence. After learning of the decades-long abuse of a Flower God Bloodline boy, Xiao Yun destroyed the chamber and left Spirit Flame Maiden wondering how he had found it.

• Xiao Yun took Spirit Flame Maiden to the deserted Flower God Village, where bloodstains remained but no people could be found.
• Xiao Yun searched a residence behind the council hall and uncovered a concealed entrance to an underground chamber.
• Spirit Flame Maiden read a notebook revealing that an Evil Spirit Master had imprisoned and experimented on a Flower God Bloodline boy for over thirty years.
• Xiao Yun took the notebook and burned the torture instruments and bloodstains in the chamber.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden left as the secret chamber collapsed, and Spirit Flame Maiden asked how Xiao Yun had known it was there.

Xiao Yun traced the black blood to the Daughter of the Flower God’s grave and uncovered the history behind the Son of the Flower God’s hatred. He promised Spirit Flame Maiden he would intervene if needed, then sensed that the Fire Attribute energy in his Martial Soul Bead was nearly full.

• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden followed the black blood to a mass grave, where Xiao Yun found the abused, poisoned remains he suspected belonged to the Daughter of the Flower God.
• Xiao Yun reasoned that the Son of the Flower God had returned to the village and slaughtered his clansmen after years of torture and learning that they had killed his sister.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden searched the Library Pavilion and found records describing the twins’ birth, the boy’s exile, and the girl’s rise and sudden loss of power before her death at the hands of villagers.
• Xiao Yun told Spirit Flame Maiden that the Son of the Flower God’s hatred had driven him to attack the village, and promised to act if the Evil Spirit Master unleashed a large-scale Undead Scourge.
• After Spirit Flame Maiden left to cultivate, Xiao Yun inspected the Green Lotus Core Flame in his Soul Tool and noticed that the Fire Attribute energy in his Martial Soul Bead was almost full.

Xiao Yun forged Spirit Flame Maiden a powerful sniper rifle with specialized bullets and a storage ring. After testing it at long range, Spirit Flame Maiden named the weapon Flame Spirit.

• Xiao Yun asked Spirit Flame Maiden to obtain Dark Iron, Adamantine, Mithril, and Red Copper from the Mountain Clan's warehouse.
• Xiao Yun forged a sniper rifle with nine tool patterns, made propellant, and prepared special and ordinary bullets.
• Xiao Yun gave Spirit Flame Maiden a storage soul tool ring, and she stored the rifle and bullets inside.
• Xiao Yun took Spirit Flame Maiden to a deserted hill, where she bonded with the rifle and learned to use its scope.
• Spirit Flame Maiden hit a tree two thousand meters away with ordinary, flame, and ice bullets, then named the rifle Flame Spirit.

Xiao Yun retrieved the fully charged Martial Soul Bead from the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes and completed its Five Elements transformation, creating a small world inside it. The bead began absorbing Soul Power, raising Xiao Yun to rank ten before his cultivation stopped at the bottleneck that required a soul ring.

• Xiao Yun left the mountain Great Stronghold after sensing that the Martial Soul Bead's Fire Attribute energy was full.
• Xiao Yun retrieved the bead from beneath the sleeping Undying Firebird in the crater and brought it into his body.
• Xiao Yun secluded himself in a protected cave as the Five Elements energies collided and formed a small planet inside the bead.
• Xiao Yun observed the newborn world's landforms and decided to let it stabilize before introducing living creatures.
• Xiao Yun discovered that the transformed bead could absorb Soul Power and quickly reached rank ten, where he needed a soul ring to advance.

As undead swept through the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes, Yan Pojun ordered the Mountain Clan to abandon its outer strongholds and gather at the core strongholds and Main Stronghold. The Undead Legion occupied the abandoned graves and raised the dead, while Phoenix Flame Maiden urged Yan Pojun to attack.

• Yan Pojun ordered Yuhua Stronghold and the other outer strongholds evacuated as undead advanced into the hinterland.
• Yan Pojun refused to order clansmen to exhume their ancestral graves, fearing it would shatter the Mountain Clan’s faith and unity.
• Tens of thousands of Mountain Clan people migrated toward the great strongholds while the Undead Legion watched without attacking.
• After the people left, the Undead Legion entered the empty strongholds and raised buried ancestors and other dead as undead warriors.
• Yan Pojun watched the dense undead gather beyond the Main Stronghold, and Phoenix Flame Maiden asked whether they should attack first.

Yan Pojun’s Mountain Clan strongholds were isolated by an expanding undead army as he waited for Spirit Hall’s reinforcements. Meanwhile, Star Luo Major General Zhu Hongbai led ten Soul Kings into the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes, where undead ambushed them in a valley.

• Yan Pojun explained that three squads sent to find the Evil Spirit Master had suffered heavy losses, so he ordered the Mountain Main Stronghold to strengthen its defenses and shelter civilians.
• The undead captured strongholds across the Mountain Clan’s territory, leaving the Main Stronghold and the Eight Great Tribes’ strongholds surrounded.
• Zhu Hongbai ignored his adjutant’s recommendation to withdraw and led ten veteran Soul Kings toward the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes to investigate missing outposts.
• Zhu Hongbai’s group found the volcanic region unnaturally silent and entered a narrow valley despite sensing danger ahead.
• Undead forces emerged from both ends of the valley and surrounded Zhu Hongbai’s group.

Zhu Hongbai led ten Soul Kings through an Undead ambush in the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes, but the group was overwhelmed and he was captured. The Evil Spirit Master took him deeper into the valley, intending to extract military intelligence.

• Zhu Hongbai ordered his ten Soul Kings to break through the Skeleton Legion and escape the valley to report what they had found.
• The Soul Kings initially cut through the Skeleton Warriors, but the Undead repeatedly reassembled while the defenders’ Soul Power ran low.
• Skeleton Archers surrounded the Soul Kings and killed Zhu Hongbai’s comrades with a barrage of Bone Arrows.
• Zhu Hongbai nearly reached the valley exit, but an Evil Spirit Master and Skeleton Mages struck him down and took him prisoner.
• The Evil Spirit Master led Zhu Hongbai and the Undead deeper into the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes, hoping to obtain Star Luo Empire military intelligence.

Yan Pojun assigned defenders to the three Mountain Clan strongholds as the Undead army attacked. At the Even-toed Ungulate Stronghold, Phoenix Flame Maiden rallied the warriors, and Spirit Flame Maiden took aim at an Undead Wizard commanding the assault.

• Yan Pojun assigned Elder Tiger and Elder Ox to the Beast Stronghold, Elder Bee and Elder Bamboo to the Spirit Insect Stronghold, and Phoenix Flame Maiden and Spirit Flame Maiden to the Even-toed Ungulate Stronghold with six Saintess guardians and Raptor Clan support.
• Elder Tiger ordered Fire Arrows against the Undead at the Beast Stronghold, but the Skeleton Warriors and Zombies kept advancing.
• Elder Bee sent Poison Bees against the Undead climbing toward the Spirit Insect Stronghold, but their venom had no effect on the skeletons or Zombies.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden rallied the Mountain Clan warriors at the Even-toed Ungulate Stronghold, and they charged the Undead alongside the Raptor Clan fighters.
• Spirit Flame Maiden spotted Undead Wizards directing the battle, moved into position, and fired her Flame Spirit Spear at one from two thousand meters away.

Spirit Flame Maiden’s shot disrupted the undead army, and Spirit Hall’s Angel Squad helped save all three besieged strongholds. Yan Pojun ordered a retreat to the Mountain Main Stronghold, where Xiao Yun returned to learn that Spirit Hall had taken command and the undead threat was still growing.

• Spirit Flame Maiden shot the Undead Wizards with her Flame Spirit Spear, disrupting their command and turning the battle’s momentum.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden and the Angel Squad helped repel the undead at Beast Stronghold, while Feathered Light Douluo and the Angel Squad saved Spirit Insect Stronghold; all three strongholds survived.
• Yan Pojun ordered everyone to evacuate to the Main Stronghold, and the clans withdrew as the Mountain Main Stronghold prepared its defenses.
• Xiao Yun returned to the Mountain Main Stronghold, where Spirit Flame Maiden told him about the battles, Spirit Hall’s control of the defense, and the powerful undead gathering nearby.

Xiao Yun agreed to disguise himself as Spirit Flame Maiden’s guard and intervene only if the danger became critical. As more than a million Undead attacked Mountain Main Stronghold, the defenders fought on, but by noon their forces were badly depleted and the Angel Squad’s Holy Light Array was fading.

• Xiao Yun reassured Spirit Flame Maiden that he would protect her if the battle reached a critical moment, then followed her to the city wall in disguise.
• Phoenix Flame Maiden rallied the Mountain Clan as a vast Undead army approached Mountain Main Stronghold.
• The Mountain Clan’s archers and Spirit Masters attacked the Undead, while Elder Tiger and Elder Ox defeated a Bone Bear and a Bone Tiger.
• The Angel Squad formed a Holy Light Array that strengthened the defenders and made their attacks capable of permanently destroying Undead.
• Death clouds raised shattered Undead again as the battle wore on, leaving more than half the warriors dead or wounded and the Angel Squad struggling to maintain its fading array.

Mighty Lion Douluo summoned Soul Beasts to disrupt the undead army, but the Evil Spirit Master’s formation strengthened his forces and protected him from Feathered Light Douluo’s attacks. Xiao Yun secretly altered the formation, allowing Feathered Light Douluo to strike the Evil Spirit Master and finish him with his ninth soul skill, scattering the death clouds and undead.

• Mighty Lion Douluo used his Eighth Soul Skill to summon Soul Beasts, which attacked the undead army and threw it into disarray.
• The Evil Spirit Master wounded Mighty Lion Douluo, then strengthened and revived the undead with black mist while Feathered Light Douluo’s arrows were diverted by the Evil Spirit Master’s Peony Flower and formation.
• Xiao Yun identified the formation beneath the Evil Spirit Master and secretly altered its energy flow so its damage-transfer node would fail briefly.
• Feathered Light Douluo’s next arrow bypassed the Skeleton Mage when the formation’s support faltered, striking the Evil Spirit Master in the chest.
• Feathered Light Douluo used his ninth soul skill to rain arrows upon the Evil Spirit Master, killing him and dispersing the death clouds and undead.

After the Evil Spirit Master died, the surviving defenders celebrated their victory while Xiao Yun withdrew to prepare for his Demigod advancement. He merged four Divine Abilities into his Primordial Spirit and chose Clear Sword Heart Realm as his Life-Bound Divine Ability.

• The Evil Spirit Master died, and the sunlight dispersed the Undead army as the defenders cheered their victory.
• Xiao Yun returned quietly to his Bamboo Building and waited for Feathered Light Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo to leave before slipping away.
• Xiao Yun entered the Vast Wilderness World and merged the Long Battle, Critical Strike, Divine Might, and Devour Divine Abilities into his Primordial Spirit.
• Xiao Yun chose Clear Sword Heart Realm as his Life-Bound Divine Ability.

Xiao Yun completed his Clear Sword Heart Realm life-bound divine ability and returned to the Mountain Clan stronghold after two days away. He agreed to let Spirit Flame Maiden leave with him, and she prepared to depart the next morning.

• Xiao Yun formed the Clear Sword Heart Realm ability, suppressed its sharp aura, and returned to the Douluo Continent.
• Spirit Flame Maiden told Xiao Yun that the Mountain Clan had lost half its treasury and owed Spirit Hall ten thousand Gold Soul Coins each year for twenty years.
• Xiao Yun reassured Spirit Flame Maiden that the price had saved the Mountain Clan, then announced he would leave that day.
• Spirit Flame Maiden asked to travel with Xiao Yun, and he agreed to take her after she packed and said goodbye.
• Spirit Flame Maiden bid farewell to Phoenix Flame Maiden, who encouraged her to cultivate and take care of herself.

Spirit Flame Maiden left the Mountain Clan to train with Xiao Yun, carrying three ancestral defensive treasures given to her by Grand Elder Yan Pojun. As they flew beyond the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes, Xiao Yun explained that the Mountain Clan could not settle outside because its population and development lagged far behind the empires.

• Spirit Flame Maiden told Yan Pojun she wanted to leave the Mountain Clan and follow Xiao Yun, and he urged her to serve as a link between them and manage their trade.
• Yan Pojun gave Spirit Flame Maiden a Fire Silkworm Garment, a Blazing Jade Pendant, and a Flame Amulet for protection.
• Xiao Yun and Spirit Flame Maiden left the stronghold at dawn as Phoenix Flame Maiden and the other Saintess Guards watched them depart.
• Xiao Yun summoned his flying sword and carried Spirit Flame Maiden above the clouds and beyond the Hundred Thousand Volcanoes.
• Spirit Flame Maiden asked why the Mountain Clan could not come out, and Xiao Yun explained that its limited population and lower level of development made it unable to compete with the outside world.

Xiao Yun returned to Gengxin City with Spirit Flame Maiden and reunited with Shui Bing'er and Zhu Zhuqing at the Seven Treasures Inn. After introducing the three women, he learned that Divine Craftsman Lou Gao had been looking for him and planned to visit him the next day.

• Xiao Yun disguised Spirit Flame Maiden and brought her through Gengxin City's crowded gates using a token.
• Shui Bing'er and Zhu Zhuqing rushed to greet Xiao Yun at the Seven Treasures Inn after his month-long absence.
• Xiao Yun introduced Spirit Flame Maiden to Shui Bing'er and Zhu Zhuqing, and the three women began getting acquainted.
• Shui Bing'er told Xiao Yun that Divine Craftsman Lou Gao had visited several times asking for him, so Xiao Yun planned to see Lou Gao the next day.
• Xiao Yun and the three women ate dinner together, and Spirit Flame Maiden delighted in trying teppanyaki for the first time.