Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan battled Huang Tian while Feng Qing’er used a Cross-border Pill and her clone technique to fight the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes. After the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s formation failed to stop Lu Chuan, Huang Tian faced him directly, and their evenly matched fight continued.

• Feng Qing’er took the Cross-border Pill, reached the Two-Star Dou Sheng level, and created a One Star Dou Saint clone to hold off the Three Heavenly Demon Phoenixes.
• Huang Tian summoned the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s experts, who formed the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Formation and attacked Lu Chuan with a giant phoenix.
• Lu Chuan fought back and weakened the formation, forcing Huang Tian to order the clansmen to withdraw.
• Huang Tian regretted Jiu Feng’s past decision but insisted that Lu Chuan pay for his son’s death.
• Huang Tian attacked Lu Chuan at great speed, and Lu Chuan blocked his claw and countered with a punch.

Lu Chuan defeated Huang Tian with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and ordered him to follow the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s rules by leaving his body and cultivation behind. Huang Tian named Feng Qing'er as his successor, then sacrificed his power and bloodline to create an inheritance for the clan.

• Huang Tian used the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Heavenly Phoenix Steps to attack Lu Chuan, but Lu Chuan endured his blows and countered with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Lu Chuan’s soul attack left Huang Tian gravely injured and barely conscious, and Huang Tian’s clan members rushed to his side.
• Lu Chuan told Huang Tian to take his own life and preserve his cultivation as an inheritance for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Huang Tian named Feng Qing'er the next Clan Leader and ordered the clan members to remain loyal to her.
• Huang Tian entered the parasol tree and dispersed his cultivation, Dou Skills, cultivation methods, and bloodline power into an inheritance for his descendants.

After Huang Tian’s death, Feng Qing’er became the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s new Clan Leader and turned the clan against Soul Hall, helping Lu Chuan’s allies drive Soul Hall into retreat. Lu Chuan then learned that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would emerge in a month and anticipated using it to strengthen his Natal Divine Fire.

• Phoenix, Kun Huang, Ying Huang, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts accepted Feng Qing’er as their new Clan Leader, following Huang Tian’s final instructions.
• Feng Qing’er canceled the clan’s alliance with Soul Hall and ordered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to attack it.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan joined Starfall Pavilion and the Black Alliance in destroying Soul Hall branch halls, forcing Soul Hall to withdraw to a handful of strongholds.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master planned for the Soul Clan to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame when it appeared in a month.
• Gu You learned of the Soul Clan’s plans and thought of relaying the news to Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan received the news and anticipated that devouring the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame would greatly strengthen his Natal Divine Fire.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended, drawing powerful factions from across the continent toward the northwest. Lu Chuan brought Xiao Yu to the flame’s ruined mountain range, where the gathered experts prepared to enter the space containing it and three black-robed figures appeared.

• The twin moons and nine aligned stars fulfilled the prophecy, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged as its heat spread across the continent.
• Lu Chuan rejected Yao Chen, Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Feng Qing'er’s offers of support, choosing to take Xiao Yu because he might need her Xiao Clan Clan Mark to awaken Xiao Chen.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu traveled aboard the Void-Piercing Giant Ship to the flame’s location, where its heat had turned a mountain range into a milky-white desert.
• Lu Chuan told the assembled experts that they would have to enter the shattered space to obtain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Three black-robed figures appeared in a surge of black mist, making the gathered experts wary.

Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu waited in the Demon Fire Space as the Soul Clan gathered to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. The Yan Clan and Ancient Clan arrived, bringing the powerful rivals together while Hun Miesheng held back until the Flame weakened the seal.

• Hun Miesheng recognized Lu Chuan as a threat and said the Demon Fire Space would become his burial ground, while the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master and the Soul Clan's Young Clan Leader discussed killing Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu.
• Hun Miesheng told the Soul Clan's Young Clan Leader that they would wait for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to weaken the seal before attacking.
• Three Yan Clan members arrived, each carrying a Heavenly Flame, and Elder Huo Yao welcomed the prospect of a more complicated battle.
• Gu Xun'er, Gu Nan Hai, and Gu Qingyang arrived, and Gu Nan Hai greeted Lu Chuan.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master noted the Ancient Clan's arrival, and Hun Miesheng's subordinate observed that the Ancient Clan also wanted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

As the factions gathered around the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, suspicion over the Spirit Clan’s disappearance deepened the divide among the Ancient Races. The Yao Clan arrived, including Yao Wan Gui, Yao Chen’s former enemy.

• Hun Miesheng and the Ancient Clan’s Young Clan Leader discussed how the Ancient Races’ agreement limited powerful experts from intervening, while Lu Chuan remained an exception.
• Gu Xun'er greeted Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu, then the gathered experts waited as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Seal continued to hold it in.
• Gu Nan Hai questioned Elder Huo Yao about the Yan Clan’s distrust, and Huo Yao said the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan were suspects in the Spirit Clan’s disappearance before leaving with his companions.
• The desert began melting as the Flame’s heat intensified, and the Lei Clan and Stone Clan arrived but kept their distance from the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan.
• Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and Yao Wan Gui arrived for the Yao Clan, and Yao Wan Gui was identified as the man who had expelled Yao Chen from the clan.

Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu entered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s space, where its Nightmare Sky Mist created dangerous illusions that could make intruders burn from within. They reached a platform with members of the Ancient and Yan Clans, joined Gu Nan Hai’s proposed alliance, and prepared for the trials beyond the giant gate.

• Yao Wan Gui warned his companions that Lu Chuan was a dangerous variable as the shattered space opened into a White Light Circle.
• Lu Chuan cautioned Xiao Yu about controlling her emotions, and they entered the circle together.
• Inside the milky-white sea of flames, Lu Chuan’s Natal Divine Fire devoured the flames growing within him, and he awakened Xiao Yu from an illusion.
• Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu found the Nightmare Sky Mist killing weaker intruders and reached a platform where the Ancient and Yan Clan members had gathered.
• Gu Nan Hai explained the Nightmare Sky Mist and invited Lu Chuan to join forces in passing through the trials beyond the giant gate.
• The surrounding space began to ripple violently as a terrifying heat spread around the group.

Lu Chuan and the others fought through the Fire Slaves guarding the Demonic Fire Great Hall, whose ranks grew stronger as they advanced. In the next hall, Lu Chuan faced an intelligent Four-Star Dou Sheng Fire Slave wielding a blood-red giant axe.

• Gu Nan Hai identified the figures pouring from the cracks as Fire Slaves and led the group through them to break open the great hall’s gate.
• Gu Nan Hai and the others fought through successive halls of increasingly powerful Fire Slaves, destroying each army and smashing through the gates ahead.
• The group entered a hall without an army of Fire Slaves and found a gaunt figure whose power exceeded that of Gu Nan Hai and Huo Yao.
• Huo Yao asked Lu Chuan to join the fight, and the figure opened his eyes and summoned a giant blood-red axe.
• Lu Chuan charged the axe-wielding Fire Slave, whose first clash with him sent the Fire Slave staggering back dozens of steps.

Lu Chuan and Xiao Yu discovered that the gaunt Fire Slave was Xiao Chen, an ancestor of the Xiao Clan, and Lu Chuan temporarily suppressed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's control over him. The group followed Xiao Chen through the final gate and began climbing toward the altar at the end of the hall.

• The gaunt man activated the Xiao Clan's clan mark and attacked Lu Chuan, but Lu Chuan blocked him with his physical strength.
• Xiao Yu revealed her own clan mark, causing the man to recognize her bloodline and begin to recover his memories.
• Gu Nan Hai and Huo Yao identified the man as Xiao Chen, a gifted Xiao Clan expert and Xiao Xuan's cousin who had disappeared after the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame tried to control Xiao Chen again, but Lu Chuan steadied him and suppressed the flames.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Chen that the Xiao Clan no longer existed and that Xiao Xuan had fallen; Xiao Chen mourned the news.
• Xiao Chen led Lu Chuan, Xiao Yu, Gu Xun'er, Gu Nan Hai, Huo Zhi, and the others through the final gate, and Lu Chuan began climbing the stairs toward the altar.

Lu Chuan revealed that the group was trapped in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist and explained how its illusion drew power from their belief in its strength. He broke the illusion with a Symbol of Nightmare Breaking, leaving the group on boulders above a vast sea of magma.

• A white-robed figure on the altar offered the Demonic Flame source to whoever could defeat him, and Lu Chuan identified him as an illusion created by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Lu Chuan explained that Gu Nan Hai and the others were real, but Xiao Chen’s consciousness had been controlled and the Nightmare Sky Mist was keeping them trapped.
• The white-robed man attacked with a flaming spear, but Lu Chuan urged everyone not to defend themselves with Dou Qi and to believe the attacker was powerless.
• Lu Chuan formed a Symbol of Nightmare Breaking and shattered the illusion, revealing a magma sea, floating boulders, and a slowly revolving silver halo.

Lu Chuan freed Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control long enough to face the Flame, which trapped the group in a blazing prison. The Flame then used their emotions to ignite its victims, killing most of the Dou Zuns.

• Lu Chuan used a curse mark to temporarily block the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control over Xiao Chen.
• Hun Miesheng, Yao Wan Gui, and other fighters emerged from the illusion, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared above the magma sea.
• Lu Chuan told the Flame that it was not the Pure Lotus Demonic Sage, and the Flame revealed that Lu Chuan had broken its Nightmare Illusion.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame concealed the Space Tunnel and unleashed Demonic Fire Refining Heaven, trapping everyone in a sea of milky-white flames.
• The Flame caused people to explode by triggering their emotions, then ordered everyone below Dou Saint to explode, killing nearly eighty percent of the Dou Zuns.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame turned the intruders into Fire Slaves, forcing Hun Miesheng and the other experts to form an alliance against it. The battle began with seven powerful fighters attacking together, but the flame’s counterattack sent six of them staggering back while Lu Chuan held his ground.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned ten Dou Saint Fire Slaves and announced that it would add the survivors to its collection.
• Hun Miesheng proposed that the experts join forces, and Lu Chuan, Elder Huo Yao, and the clans’ elders agreed.
• Lu Chuan told Xiao Chen to protect Xiao Yu, and Xiao Chen promised to devote himself to the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Miesheng and six other powerful fighters, including Lu Chuan, surrounded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as the remaining experts retreated.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned a pale-white Demonic Fire Halberd and attacked, but Lu Chuan alone stood firm against its counterattack.

Lu Chuan and five other Four-Star Dou Shengs fought the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while its Fire Slaves attacked the spectators. The battles spread across the magma sea, where one unopposed Three-Star Dou Saint Fire Slave became a major threat.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame knocked Hun Miesheng and the other five Four-Star Dou Shengs into the magma with a giant magma hand, then blocked Lu Chuan's Sky-Tearing Hand with his flaming halberd.
• Lu Chuan taunted the six experts, who unleashed more of their strength and prepared to defeat the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame before they suffered casualties.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sent ten Dou Saint Fire Slaves to attack the spectators, while Hun Feng told the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master to act only if a Fire Slave approached them.
• Xiao Yu fought a Two-Star Dou Saint Fire Slave while Xiao Chen watched, and Gu Xun'er and Gu Qingyang joined forces against a One-Star Fire Slave.
• Lu Chuan and the six Four-Star Dou Shengs entangled the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as the other spectators fought the Fire Slaves; the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master held off one Three-Star Fire Slave, leaving the other free to attack the weaker experts.

Fire Slaves self-destructed across the Demon Fire Space, killing many experts and giving Hun Miesheng and six others a chance to seal the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Their formation succeeded, trapping the flame in a small black cylinder.

• Hun Feng absorbed the demonic flame covering a late-stage Two-Star Dou Sheng Fire Slave as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame cried out in pain under attack.
• Xiao Chen warned Xiao Yu to retreat, and their Fire Slave self-destructed, triggering a chain of explosions that killed more than half the experts and destroyed all ten Fire Slaves.
• Hun Miesheng summoned the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array and called on the survivors to lend him their strength.
• Hun Miesheng, Gu Nan Hai, Huo Yao, Yao Wan Gui, and three others poured their energy and blood essence into the formation as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame struggled against the seal.
• Hun Miesheng completed the sealing array, shrinking the pillar into a black cylinder containing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

The experts fought over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s sealed origin while Hun Miesheng revealed greater power and tried to seize Xiao Yu. Ancestor Xiao Chen intervened, leaving Hun Miesheng facing the Xiao Clan’s hidden expert.

• Hun Miesheng tried to claim the sealed Demonic Flame Origin, but Gu Nan Hai knocked it away and triggered a chaotic scramble.
• The Yellow-robed Elder seized the black pillar of light, but nearly ten experts struck him and blew half his body apart.
• Hun Feng and the Soul Hall Vice Hall Master took the Demonic Flame Origin, prompting Gu Nan Hai and Huo Yao to attack them.
• Hun Miesheng revealed that he had reached the threshold of the Five-Star Dou Sheng level and stopped Gu Nan Hai and Huo Yao.
• Hun Miesheng tried to capture Xiao Yu, but a withered hand repelled him, and Xiao Yu identified the figure as Ancestor Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen revealed his overwhelming strength and badly wounded Hun Miesheng, who trapped him in a black-light prison and called on a hidden ally. The ally stepped forward and revealed a strange appearance, though his true power remained unclear.

• Xiao Chen said Hun Miesheng should be killed, then raised his aura to the mid Five-Star Dou Sheng level.
• Xiao Chen shattered Hun Miesheng's black sphere and struck him with the Sky-Breaking Three Axes, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Hun Miesheng used the Soul Burial Technique to blunt Xiao Chen's attacks but suffered a deep wound.
• Hun Miesheng healed himself with medicinal liquid, formed a black-light prison around himself and Xiao Chen, and called for the Demon Elder to help.
• A gray-clothed old man who had appeared to be an Advanced Half-Saint stepped out of the crowd, revealing strange features.

The Soul Clan's Elder Soul Demon appeared to claim the Demon Flame Origin, prompting the Lesser Pill Tower's hidden guardian to reveal himself. The young oxherd proved he had reached Six-Star Dou Sheng and blocked Elder Soul Demon, leaving the struggle over the Demon Flame Origin unresolved.

• Elder Soul Demon dismissed the Ancient Races' agreement and called out the Lesser Pill Tower's hidden guardian.
• The young oxherd appeared on a green ox and challenged Elder Soul Demon over the Soul Clan's intentions.
• Hun Miesheng was thrown back, and Elder Soul Demon and the young oxherd recognized Xiao Chen as Blood Axe Xiao Chen.
• The Great Elder of the Lesser Pill Tower recognized the young oxherd as the Pill Tower Guardian and called him Ancestor.
• Elder Soul Demon tried to seize the Demon Flame Origin, but the young oxherd exchanged positions with him through spatial displacement.
• Elder Soul Demon realized the young oxherd had reached Six-Star Dou Sheng and could overpower him.

The Pill Tower Ancestor exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s plan to escape the Great Luo Demon Sealing Array, and Lu Chuan agreed to help him subdue it. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned its Demonic Fire Divine Image and attacked, while a Golden Giant appeared to meet its blow.

• The Qing Ox Herding Boy took the black pillar of light from Elder Soul Demon and revealed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had allowed itself to be sealed to manipulate the others.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame broke out of the pillar after the Qing Ox Herding Boy attacked it, then argued that Pure Lotus Demonic Sage had wronged it by sealing it.
• Elder Soul Demon refused to help the Pill Tower Ancestor, but Lu Chuan agreed to join him in subduing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame formed a colossal Demonic Fire Divine Image and struck at the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor blocked the blow with a golden curtain, and a Golden Giant appeared to punch the Demonic Fire Divine Image.

Lu Chuan and the Pill Tower Ancestor damaged the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Demonic Fire Divine Image, prompting it to activate the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and destroy the group’s escape route. As the trapped experts prepared to fight together, Lu Chuan refused the Pill Tower Ancestor’s proposed alliance.

• Lu Chuan punched the Demonic Fire Divine Image back, and the Pill Tower Ancestor melted away more than half of it with Pill Melting Heaven.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame raged and summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, with enormous fire arrays appearing above and below the Demon Fire Space.
• Elder Soul Demon and other experts fled toward the Space Tunnel, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame blasted it apart and trapped them.
• Elder Soul Demon proposed that everyone join forces against the flame, and the Pill Tower Ancestor agreed to divide the heavenly and earthly arrays between their fighters.
• Lu Chuan smiled and rejected the alliance, leaving the others confused.

Lu Chuan’s group faced the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Heaven Refining Ancient Array, but a protective light shield appeared around them. A residual image of the Pure Lotus Demonic Sage emerged from Lu Chuan, leaving the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame shocked and afraid.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and attacked the Pill Tower Ancestor, Elder Soul Demon, and the other experts.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor and the experts joined their attacks, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame overwhelmed them and destroyed their defenses.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was astonished when the experts survived inside a light circle that had blocked his attack.
• A halo gathered around Lu Chuan and formed the image of the Pure Lotus Demonic Sage, which the Pill Tower Ancestor recognized as a residual image.
• Lu Chuan dissipated the light shield, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame roared in disbelief at the Pure Lotus Demonic Sage’s apparent return.