Chapter Summaries

Chen Changfeng used his Annihilation Thunder to overwhelm Yue Mei and force her to guide the group to the Snake People Tribe settlement. They reached its fortress after nightfall, where the guards attacked them with poisoned spears and Yun Yun stepped forward to defend the group.

• Chen Changfeng explained how to track Yue Mei's true body, then summoned purple thunderclouds and struck the desert with devastating lightning while sparing her life.
• Yue Mei survived the attack, feared Chen Changfeng's strength, and agreed to lead the group to Medusa.
• After traveling for half a day, Chen Changfeng, Yun Yun, Xiao Yan, and their companions reached a heavily fortified Snake People Tribe city after nightfall.
• The Snake Person guards spotted the approaching group and hurled poisoned spears at them.
• Yun Yun unleashed her Wind Attribute Dou Qi and used Four Directions Wind Wall to meet the attack.

Chen Changfeng used the arrival of Gu He and the Gamma Empire’s experts as an opportunity to help Medusa by ordering his allies to guard Snake People City. Qian Renxue revealed her six-winged angel form and blasted the approaching force from the sky, leaving Xiao Yan impressed.

• The Amethyst Lion King reported that Gu He and Jia Xing Tian had stopped it from seizing the Heavenly Flames, and Chen Changfeng ordered Yun Yun’s elders to surround the city while Qian Renxue guarded the skies.
• Chen Changfeng sent Yue Mei to request an audience with Medusa, while Yue Mei and Mo Bass discussed the powerful experts outside the city.
• Gu He and the others approached Snake People City on a magical beast, but Qian Renxue manifested a Golden Sun and unfurled six enormous angel wings.
• Qian Renxue warned the newcomers to halt, then struck them and their magical beast from the sky with a pillar of golden light.
• Xiao Yan praised Qian Renxue as he watched her dominate the sky above the city.

Chen Changfeng reached the island where Queen Medusa was preparing to absorb the Green Lotus Core Fire and evolve. Medusa entered the Heavenly Flame in giant snake form, and her evolution began as Chen Changfeng watched.

• Chen Changfeng crossed the lake, knocked away a giant snake guarding the island, and found Queen Medusa preparing to use the Green Lotus Core Fire.
• Queen Medusa removed her robe and began the ritual, hoping to break through to the Dou Zong realm despite the danger.
• Chen Changfeng chose to wait, believing Medusa could become a powerful Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and an ally against the Soul Clan.
• Queen Medusa transformed into a giant purple snake and charged into the Heavenly Flame.
• The fire scorched Medusa's scales away, and her blood burned as she screamed in agony.

As Queen Medusa endured the Green Lotus Core Fire’s trial, Chen Changfeng and Qian Renxue intervened to save her and help her evolve. Chen Changfeng gave her a Golden Dragon King reverse scale, and the scale’s power awakened a spectacular heavenly phenomenon.

• Gu He tried to recruit Yun Yun and proposed cooperating over the Heavenly Flame, but Yun Yun refused, while the Amethyst Lion King ordered the outsiders to leave.
• Queen Medusa’s screams faded as the Green Lotus Core Fire burned her nearly to death, leaving the Snake People Tribe in mourning.
• Chen Changfeng appeared and ordered Qian Renxue to heal Medusa with her Power of Life, prompting the Snake People to prostrate themselves in gratitude.
• Chen Changfeng offered Medusa help completing her evolution in exchange for the Green Lotus Core Fire and sent a Golden Dragon King reverse scale into her brow.
• Golden light filled the city as golden lightning surged through the dark clouds, signaling the descent of the Dragon King bloodline.

Queen Medusa completed her evolution into a Dou Zong and learned that Chen Changfeng had helped her secure the Heavenly Flame. Chen Changfeng took the Green Lotus Core Fire for his disciple Xiao Yan, and Medusa invited their group to stay in the city.

• Queen Medusa emerged from her ruined snake body after evolving, and her aura drove Gu He and the other outsiders to flee.
• Medusa asked Chen Changfeng why he had helped her, and he explained that he wanted the Heavenly Flame for an alchemist and had driven away her enemies.
• Medusa ordered the city gates opened for Chen Changfeng’s friends and agreed that he could take the Heavenly Flame.
• Chen Changfeng picked up the Green Lotus Core Fire with his bare hand and said he would give it to Xiao Yan, who would become a ninth-grade alchemist.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Yun Yun and the others, and Chen Changfeng told him to begin absorbing the Heavenly Flame after they returned.
• Medusa invited Chen Changfeng’s group to rest in the city for two days.

Chen Changfeng established Spirit Hall with the Snake People Tribe, the Eastern Amethyst Lion King Mountain Range, and the Yun Lan Sect, then defended the sect from Qiu Di and the Soul Clan. After Chen Changfeng annihilated Qiu Di’s seventeen Dou Zong subordinates, Qiu Di was left facing him alone.

• Chen Changfeng and Qian Renxue formed Spirit Hall, with Qian Renxue as Empress, Chen Changfeng as Judgment Elder, and Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and the Amethyst Lion King as elders.
• Less than half a month later, Qiu Di and eighteen Soul Clan members arrived at the Yun Lan Sect and attacked Nalan Yanran when she tried to summon Chen Changfeng.
• Chen Changfeng appeared, destroyed one Soul Clan Dou Zong, and threatened the remaining intruders before confronting Qiu Di.
• Chen Changfeng unleashed his Source of Destruction Domain, overpowering Qiu Di and revealing that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Venerable.
• Qiu Di ordered his seventeen remaining subordinates to flee, but Chen Changfeng’s Annihilation Divine Thunder destroyed them and their mountain range, leaving their storage rings for him to collect.

Chen Changfeng overwhelmed Qiu Di with a succession of Divine Skills while Qian Renxue shielded the Yun Lan Sect from the devouring attack. The battle left Qiu Di bloodied and nearly exhausted in a massive crater, while Chen Changfeng remained apparently unharmed.

• Qiu Di expelled the power of Annihilation Thunder and unleashed Devouring Dou Qi toward Chen Changfeng and the Yun Lan Sect.
• Qian Renxue raised a golden-green barrier to protect the Yun Lan Sect as Chen Changfeng summoned Flames Burning the Sky.
• Qiu Di countered the Flame Meteor with Soul Shocking Thousand Miles, but thousands of meteors descended in Chen Changfeng's Meteor Shower.
• Qiu Di used Soul Defense and fired a black beam through the meteor storm, while Chen Changfeng prepared another attack rather than let him recover.
• Chen Changfeng unleashed Black Dragon Wave, whose Destructive Gales shattered Qiu Di's Space-Rending Abyss Slash and devoured him and the mountain range.
• Qiu Di was left bloodied and half-kneeling in a huge crater, while Chen Changfeng showed no sign of exhaustion.

Chen Changfeng froze and killed Qiu Di, then gave the fallen enemies’ storage rings to Qian Renxue and warned that the Soul Clan might retaliate. One year later, Spirit Hall came to Jia Nan Academy for Xiao Yan’s wish and the Fallen Heart Flame, where a mysterious young woman stood on the back mountain.

• Chen Changfeng used Ice God's Sigh to overwhelm Qiu Di’s defenses and freeze him.
• Chen Changfeng killed Qiu Di with the God-Slaying Spear, blasting his body apart.
• Chen Changfeng gave nineteen storage rings to Qian Renxue and told her to distribute their contents to help the others grow stronger.
• One year later, Spirit Hall arrived at Jia Nan Academy seeking to fulfill Xiao Yan’s wish and obtain the Fallen Heart Flame.
• A young woman in a pale green dress stood on Jia Nan Academy’s wooded back mountain, facing the mist.

Xiao Xun'er learned of Xiao Yan’s rapid rise and hoped to see him again at Jia Nan Academy. Xiao Yan and his companions arrived in Canaan City, intending to draw the Gu Clan’s attention and obtain the Heavenly Flames.

• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Xiao Yan had ended his Three-Year Agreement early and reached Spirit Fighter in a year.
• Xiao Xun'er said she was willing to wait for Xiao Yan to become a pinnacle expert and learned he might reach Jia Nan Academy within a month or two.
• Chen Changfeng reminded Xiao Yan that they had come to Jia Nan Academy to demonstrate their strength, attract the Gu Clan’s attention, obtain the Heavenly Flames, and crush opposition.
• Qian Renxue teased Xiao Yan about seeing his girlfriend as their group approached Canaan City at dawn.
• Chen Changfeng and his companions entered Canaan City and headed toward Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan Academy and rescued his cousin Xiao Ning from men trying to question him about Xun'er. At the Inner Academy Selection Competition, Xun'er won her match and asked Xiao Yu whether Xiao Yan had arrived.

• Xiao Yan and Chen Changfeng heard a fight at the academy entrance, and Xiao Yan recognized his cousin Xiao Ning among the attackers.
• Xiao Yan knocked away the four men with his black ruler and reunited with Xiao Ning, who explained that they had been pressuring him for information about Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning headed to the academy as the Inner Academy Selection Competition drew a huge crowd.
• Xun'er defeated Mo Wen with a golden strike and won her round of the competition.
• Xun'er joined Xiao Yu and Instructor Ruo Lin in the viewing area, then asked Xiao Yu whether Brother Xiao Yan had arrived.

Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan Academy’s Selection Competition just before his match, ending the crowd’s doubts about his absence. As the plaza reacted to his return, Chen Changfeng promised Qian Renxue he would no longer make her wait.

• Xiao Yu, Xun'er, and Instructor Ruo Lin worried that Xiao Yan would miss the competition, while Bai Shan and the girl in red criticized him for staying away.
• The referee announced a match between Xue Beng of Class Three, Xuan Rank, and Xiao Yan of Class Two, Huang Rank, but Xiao Yan did not appear at first.
• A black figure dropped from the sky and shattered the plaza floor, then Xiao Yan emerged from the dust and announced himself.
• Xun'er smiled when Xiao Yan arrived, and Qian Renxue told Chen Changfeng that Xun'er reminded her of herself.
• Chen Changfeng promised Qian Renxue he would not make her wait any longer, drawing envious looks from Yun Yun, Medusa, and the Amethyst Lion King.

Xiao Yan challenged Jia Nan Academy’s students to fight him all at once, hoping to end the stream of rivals pursuing Xun’er and prove his strength. After defeating Xue Beng with a single exchange, he received permission to face any participants who wished to challenge him.

• Xue Beng confronted Xiao Yan and declared he would defeat him to win Xun’er’s admiration.
• Xiao Yan invited all the academy students who wanted to challenge him to attack together.
• Xue Beng launched a spear attack, but Xiao Yan stopped it near his throat and sent Xue Beng flying out of the arena.
• Xiao Yu, Instructor Ruo Lin, Bai Shan, and the red-clothed girl reacted with surprise to Xiao Yan’s overwhelming strength.
• Xiao Yan asked the judges to let him challenge everyone, and the vice principal permitted participants to enter the arena, stipulating that the matches must not go too far.

Xiao Yan unleashed Annihilation Thunder against the challengers who tried to take Xun'er from him, devastating Jia Nan Academy’s square. He emerged unharmed, silenced every challenger, and watched Xun'er rush toward him.

• A man in white and more than a dozen challengers attacked Xiao Yan together, claiming he was unworthy of Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan released the Source of Destruction and summoned purple thunderclouds that covered Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan struck the square with Annihilation Thunder, creating a huge crater and blasting away the vice dean while the other challengers escaped the aftermath.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the dust and asked if anyone else wanted to challenge him, but the crowd fell silent.
• Xun'er asked what Xiao Yan had been through, then flew toward him amid the ruins.

Xiao Yan announced that he would take Xiao Xun'er to the Central Plains and borrow the Falling Heart Flame to prevent it from endangering Jia Nan Academy. When the flame erupted and the academy's elders confronted him, his powerful allies gathered to protect him, and the returning principal Mang Tianchi appeared as the standoff reached its peak.

• Xiao Yan asked whether anyone would challenge him, then told Hu Gan he had come to graduate, take Xiao Xun'er to the Central Plains, and borrow the Falling Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan sent a burst of flame toward the Qi Refining Tower, triggering the Falling Heart Flame and forcing the students to evacuate as the Inner Academy elders sealed the tower.
• Su Qian attacked Xiao Yan, but the Amethyst Lion King blocked him and revealed himself as a transformed seventh-tier magical beast.
• Qian Mu and Bai Lie joined Su Qian, while Queen Medusa and Yun Yun rose to protect Xiao Yan, setting six Dou Ancestor experts against one another.
• Mang Tianchi returned and declared that Jia Nan Academy's principal was not dead.

Chen Changfeng subdued the chaos around the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, sent Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er inside to obtain the Falling Heart Flame, and announced his plan to take Xiao Yan to the Central Plains and propose marriage to Xun'er's clan. Inside the tower, Xiao Yan and Xun'er confronted the raging fire python and prepared to refine the Heavenly Flame.

• Chen Changfeng arrived at Jia Nan Academy, overpowered its defenses, and stopped the elders from entering the tower.
• Chen Changfeng sent Xiao Yan into the tower and offered to send Xiao Xun'er after him, then revealed his plan to propose marriage to her clan head.
• Chen Changfeng sent Xun'er into the tower, where she caught up with Xiao Yan as the academy shook from the Heavenly Flame's eruption.
• The Falling Heart Flame emerged as a colossal invisible fire python and attacked the dark energy barrier with waves of flames.
• Xiao Yan used the Source of Destruction to protect himself and Xun'er, then said they should descend and refine the Heavenly Flame as Chen Changfeng had instructed.

Xiao Yan captured the Falling Heart Flame beneath Jia Nan Academy and began refining it inside his body. The struggle was still underway as he used Flames Burning the Sky and the Green Lotus Core Fire to contain the Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan brought Xun'er to the underground magma world, gave her a strand of the Source of Destruction, and told her to wait while he subdued the Falling Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan used his protected hand and swift movement to seize the tiny fire serpent from a wall of flames.
• Xiao Yan pulled the Falling Heart Flame into his body and began refining it, facing the danger that the two Heavenly Flames might destroy him.
• After his green flames failed to catch the serpent, Xiao Yan surrounded it with Flames Burning the Sky and gathered the flames into a crimson fireball.
• Xiao Yan sent streams of green fire into the trapped Falling Heart Flame as the refining battle continued.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er refined the Falling Heart Flame together, and Xiao Yan successfully fused it into a jade-green flame. The wicked heat that followed overwhelmed his reason, and the chapter ended with him attacking Xiao Xun'er as she resigned herself to what was happening.

• Xiao Yan called Xiao Xun'er over to help him refine the Falling Heart Flame beneath the seal of Heavenly Fire of Annihilation.
• After a long fusion, Xiao Yan discovered that the Heavenly Flames had become a jade-green flame and placed it in the Spirit Gathering.
• The Spirit Gathering shuddered and released a stubborn wicked heat that Xiao Yan could not suppress.
• Xiao Yan lost his reason, bound Xiao Xun'er's hands with jade-green flames, and approached her despite her protests.
• Xiao Xun'er closed her eyes and accepted what was about to happen, and Xiao Yan pounced on her as her clothes tore.

Chen Changfeng and his allies prepared Xiao Yan to pursue the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s opportunities in the Barren Ancient Domain while arranging for Xiao Xun'er to return to the Gu Clan. After waiting for other cultivators to enter first, the group ventured into the ancient forest and began pressing deeper.

• Chen Changfeng told Xiao Xun'er he would bring Xiao Yan to the Gu Clan to ask for her hand within three to six months, and Xiao Yan reluctantly promised to find her.
• Over the next three months, Xiao Yan obtained resources from the Blood Altar, the ruins, and the Heavenly Tomb as the group's cultivation improved.
• Chen Changfeng, Qian Renxue, Yun Yun, Medusa, the Amethyst Lion King, and Xiao Yan arrived outside the Primordial Desolate Domain, where thousands of cultivators gathered to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Medusa suggested they wait until most of the crowd entered the forest, and the group set off about half an hour later.
• Xiao Yan and the others advanced through the ancient forest, encountering only beasts that the gathered cultivators quickly killed.

Xiao Yan’s group crossed the Primordial Desolate Domain’s outer reaches and discovered that its poisonous mist was made of tiny insects that could bypass Dou Qi defenses. After Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames and Source of Destruction to protect the group, he pressed on toward the Bodhi Heart.

• Xiao Yan grew wary as his group traveled deeper into the Primordial Desolate Domain and gave Yun Yun and the others antidote pills when he detected poison mist.
• The group heard poisoned travelers screaming, and Xiao Yan found the corpse of a Dou Venerable who had died in the mist.
• Medusa discovered that invisible poisonous insects made up the mist, and Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames to burn the insects from himself and the three elders.
• Xiao Yan activated the Source of Destruction to keep the insects away from the group and decided to hurry toward the domain’s depths for the Bodhi Heart.
• The Amethyst Lion King and Medusa marveled at Xiao Yan’s strength, while Yun Yun reminded them that the Grand Elder had helped them advance.

Xiao Yan and his companions crossed the poisonous miasma and entered the Primordial Desolate Domain, where he used the Bodhi Seed to set their course toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree. After fierce beasts attacked them near a ravine, they abandoned flying and continued on foot, leaving other Dou Venerables behind.

• Yun Yun and Xiao Yan used the Destruction Heavenly Fire to clear a path through the poisonous miasma as their group advanced.
• After emerging from the miasma, Xiao Yan sensed the danger in the Primordial Desolate Domain and used the Bodhi Seed to identify a northwest direction toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Yan and his companions flew across a ravine, where he killed several black, leopard-shaped fierce beasts with Annihilation Thunder.
• Queen Medusa warned that flying could attract more fierce beasts, so Xiao Yan's group landed and continued on foot.
• Several Dou Venerable-level figures caught up, but Xiao Yan's group left without speaking or joining forces with them.