Chapter Summaries

Li Yun announced that he possessed a complete Method of Attaining Dao through Law inherited from Pangu and offered it in exchange for the Wordless Heavenly Book. He sent the gathered cultivators to search the Northern Region, hoping to obtain the book through their efforts.

• Li Yun ordered Kong Xuan to tell Zhurong to wait until the Enthronement Ceremony ended or leave immediately.
• Li Yun borrowed Da Peng's venue and publicly confirmed that his Method of Attaining Dao through Law was genuine and more complete than the version circulating through the Primordial World.
• The crowd eagerly asked Li Yun whether he would share the method and how they could obtain it.
• Li Yun offered the complete method to whoever found the Wordless Heavenly Book and brought it to him, saying it was somewhere in the Northern Region.

Li Yun revealed that the Wordless Heavenly Book was somewhere in the Northern Region and offered a reward to whoever found it and brought it to him. Most of the gathered cultivators left Da Peng’s enthronement ceremony to begin searching, while Li Yun hoped they would locate the book before Sect Master Tongtian returned.

• Li Yun confirmed that the Wordless Heavenly Book was in the Northern Region and promised a reward, including the complete Method of Attaining Dao through Law, to whoever delivered it to him.
• Li Yun warned that no one outside the Human Race and Human Teachings could become a Human Dao Saint.
• The gathered Great Spiritual Power Users and cultivators thanked Da Peng and asked to leave so they could search for the book.
• Da Peng ordered the Phoenix Clan to open an exit from the Ten Thousand Volcanoes, and most of the cultivators departed for the Northern Region.
• Cultivators who remained behind sent word to their clans to join the search, while Li Yun welcomed their efforts as a chance to find the book before Sect Master Tongtian returned.

Li Yun sent Kong Xuan and Da Peng to finish negotiating with the races that had left the Phoenix Clan, then waited at Zhurong’s residence while Zhurong prepared to face the Vermilion Bird. After the races agreed to return, Li Yun advised Da Peng to steady his Dao Heart through dual cultivation with Feng Xue’er.

• Li Yun told Kong Xuan and Da Peng to complete the negotiations and meet him at Zhurong’s residence.
• Li Yun arrived at Zhurong’s residence and told Zhurong to prepare for their coming battle with the Vermilion Bird.
• Zhurong went inside to adjust his condition while Li Yun waited in the courtyard.
• Three days later, Kong Xuan and Da Peng reported that the races that had left had agreed to return, restoring the Phoenix Clan’s strength and fortune.
• Li Yun warned Da Peng not to rely on fortune alone and advised him to dual cultivate with Feng Xue’er to stabilize his Dao Heart.

Qing Luan returned wearing a ring linked to the Swan Race, and Kong Xuan revealed that she had once been betrothed to their young lord because of the race’s power to evolve Daoist Companions. Li Yun cautioned Da Peng against interfering in Qing Luan’s choice, but Kong Xuan warned that the evolution required pregnancy and could harm Qing Luan or her children; Zhurong then arrived with more information about the Swans’ dangerous parasitic method.

• Qing Luan appeared with a strange ring, said the matter involving Vermilion Bird was handled, and quickly left.
• Kong Xuan explained that Qing Luan had been betrothed to a Swan Race young lord, whose people could evolve through Daoist Companions or sacrifice.
• Da Peng grew furious and vowed to stop the match, but Li Yun urged him to respect Qing Luan’s choice and questioned whether the evolution was real.
• Kong Xuan warned that the evolution required Qing Luan to become pregnant and might damage her or affect her children instead.
• Zhurong arrived and said the Swan Race possessed a sinister, potentially deadly parasitic method.

Zhurong revealed that the Swan Lineage’s supposed evolution was a form of parasitism that could let a swan seize its host’s body. Dapeng attacked Bai Hong after learning Qing Luan might be in danger, while Kong Xuan and the others arrived and waited for the truth to come out.

• Zhurong explained that a parasitized swan could absorb its host’s foundation or take control of the host’s body.
• Dapeng flew toward Qing Luan after hearing the danger, and Kong Xuan thanked Zhurong and promised to seek Vermilion Bird afterward.
• About a quarter of an hour later, Dapeng used white flames to burn Bai Hong while Qing Luan and Zhu Yan'er watched from outside his power.
• Kong Xuan, Li Yun, and Zhurong arrived as cultivators gathered to witness Dapeng’s strength.
• Qing Luan urged Kong Xuan to stop Dapeng, but Kong Xuan said Dapeng would not kill Bai Hong.

Da Peng confronted Bai Hong for plotting against Qing Luan, while Kong Xuan stopped her from intervening. As Da Peng moved to kill Bai Hong, a demonic hand appeared from the sky to rescue him, revealing his connection to the Demonic Path.

• Da Peng burned Bai Hong with white flames and accused him of plotting against Qing Luan.
• Bai Hong denied the accusation and begged Qing Luan to save him, but Kong Xuan blocked her and persuaded her to stand aside.
• Kong Xuan promised Qing Luan that his master could save Bai Hong if the accusation proved false.
• Bai Hong invoked Yuan Feng's order naming him Qing Luan's chosen husband, but Da Peng rejected the order and affirmed his authority as Phoenix Clan Master.
• As Da Peng's power burned Bai Hong, Bai Hong called for his lord, and a massive hand formed amid demonic qi and descended toward him.

Zhurong destroyed the demonic hand attacking Kong Xuan, and Da Peng captured Bai Hong so Li Yun could expose the Swan Clan’s plan to possess Qing Luan. The Phoenix Clan discovered hidden Swan Clan members among its own ranks and began sealing the camp and capturing them.

• Zhurong used Nanming Li Fire to destroy the demonic hand, and Kong Xuan thanked him.
• Da Peng captured Bai Hong’s divine soul and asked Li Yun to reveal his memories.
• Li Yun exposed Bai Hong’s plot against Qing Luan and revealed that the Swan Clan’s evolution relied on parasitic possession.
• Kong Xuan asked Li Yun to show what happened after possession, revealing Swan Clan members disguised within the Pure-Blood Phoenix Clan by their black eyes.
• Da Peng ordered the Phoenix Clan to seal its main camp and capture anyone with the telltale appearance, and the clan rounded up the hidden Swan members.

The Phoenix Clan captured nearly two thousand people possessed by the Swan Lineage, only to learn that the original souls of their clansmen had already been devoured. With many of the captives being pure-blood Phoenixes, Da Peng and Qing Luan struggled to decide what to do, until Li Yun proposed using them for another purpose.

• The Phoenix Clan and its subordinate races captured nearly two thousand Swan-possessed attendants, exposing the scale of the infiltration.
• Qing Luan apologized to Da Peng and Kong Xuan for failing to discover the danger, but they reassured her that the possession had likely begun long before her stewardship.
• Qing Luan thanked Zhurong for revealing the Swan Lineage's secret, and Zhurong asked her to help him get more chances to fight the Vermilion Bird.
• A Phoenix Clan Elder reported that the Swans had devoured the original souls of their hosts, leaving the possessed clansmen dead.
• Da Peng asked Qing Luan whether they should kill the captives, but neither of them knew how to handle the many pure-blood Phoenixes among them.
• Li Yun stepped forward and proposed making use of the captives.

Li Yun proposed sending the possessed beings in Phoenix Clan bodies to dangerous sites in the Ten Thousand Volcanoes, and Da Peng ordered it done. After other clans’ cultivators left to investigate possession among their own people, Li Yun, Da Peng, and Zhurong traveled to the Extreme South Land, where Li Yun asked Da Peng about his Purifying White Flame.

• Li Yun suggested using possessed Phoenix Clan members to suppress dangerous areas in the Ten Thousand Volcanoes, freeing elite Phoenix Clan members for other duties.
• Da Peng ordered the possessed beings sent to those sites, and Phoenix Clan members dragged them away despite their protests.
• Cultivators from other races asked to return and deal with possession in their own clans, and Da Peng allowed them to leave.
• Da Peng, Li Yun, and Zhurong set out for the Extreme South Land and arrived amid the Vermilion Bird Divine Flame.
• Zhurong remarked on the flames’ power, and Li Yun asked Da Peng where he had obtained his Purifying White Flame.

Da Peng revealed that he had obtained the Purifying White Flame from his wife, Feng Xue'er, as the group hurried to Vermilion Bird’s residence in the Extreme South Land. After entering the Vermilion Bird lineage’s territory, they were led beneath the parasol tree, where Vermilion Bird appeared.

• Da Peng said that Feng Xue'er had given him the Purifying White Flame, surprising Li Yun and the others.
• Da Peng led the group at full speed to a vast island in the Extreme South Land, where they felt the pressure of Vermilion Bird’s Saint-level power.
• Qing Luan called out to Vermilion Bird, whose barrier opened a path for the group to enter.
• Li Yun and the others saw the Vermilion Bird Clan and observed that its members had substantial potential despite their burden of Karma and Causality.
• A red-haired woman led the group beneath the parasol tree, where Vermilion Bird stepped out of a wooden house.

Li Yun and the others watched Zhurong challenge Vermilion Bird, who overwhelmed him with her flames. Zhurong unleashed a dangerous blaze despite his injuries, and Vermilion Bird contained it with a crimson-gold barrier.

• Li Yun saw Vermilion Bird and felt a strange pull, while Zhurong stepped forward to challenge her.
• Vermilion Bird said Zhurong was no match for her and agreed to fight him with fire.
• Zhurong attacked with Nanming Li Fire, but Vermilion Bird's crimson-gold flames shattered his fire dragons and scorched him.
• Li Yun used the Eye of Heaven and Earth to see that Zhurong's meridians and origin were in danger, but Zhurong refused to stop.
• Zhurong unleashed a surge of Nanming Li Fire that threatened Li Yun, Kong Xuan, and the others; Li Yun and Kong Xuan blocked it with Chaos Divine Light.
• Vermilion Bird spread a crimson-gold curtain of light that contained the Nanming Li Fire.

Vermilion Bird burned Zhurong to break through his cultivation bottleneck, and his aura began to rise as he endured the process. She revealed that Yuan Feng had been reborn but had lost most of her memories and power, then invited Li Yun and the others to visit her.

• Vermilion Bird sent crimson-gold flames into Zhurong, and his body collapsed under the burning while his aura began to climb.
• Vermilion Bird reassured Li Yun and the others that Zhurong was not in serious danger and might advance if he endured the flames.
• Da Peng asked whether Vermilion Bird could improve his Purifying White Flame, and she directed him to ask Yuan Feng.
• Vermilion Bird told Kong Xuan and the others that Yuan Feng had been reborn with most of her memories and strength lost.
• Vermilion Bird proposed visiting Yuan Feng, and Kong Xuan and Da Peng urged Li Yun to come with them.

Li Yun sensed an intruder with an evil aura in Hundred Flowers Valley and joined Vermilion Bird and the others as they rushed to Yuan Feng's home. They found Vermilion Bird fighting a black-flamed figure whose defenses resisted his attacks, and Li Yun began examining the enemy's strength.

• Li Yun agreed to accompany Da Peng and the others to see Yuan Feng, and Sister Vermilion Bird led them to Hundred Flowers Valley.
• Li Yun used the Heavenly Emperor's Eye and detected an evil aura gathering into a male figure in the valley.
• After Sister Vermilion Bird denied letting anyone in, Li Yun warned the group that an intruder was likely inside.
• Vermilion Bird opened the way, sealed off the valley, and attacked the black-flamed intruder, but could not break through its defenses.
• Li Yun and the others reached the battle, worried that Yuan Feng was in danger, and Li Yun opened the Eye of Heaven and Earth to assess the intruder.

Li Yun discovered that the black-flame figure resembled Da Peng and Kong Xuan, and Qing Luan identified the flames as the Phoenix Clan’s forbidden World-Ending Black Flame. After Yuan Feng began trembling and displayed an uncanny resemblance in origin aura to the stranger, Li Yun sent Kong Xuan to stop Vermilion Bird and capture the figure.

• Li Yun saw that the black-flame figure resembled Da Peng and Kong Xuan, and he warned them that the matter was bizarre.
• Qing Luan identified the figure’s flames as the World-Ending Black Flame, a forbidden Phoenix Clan power tied to the father who had sacrificed himself.
• Qing Luan rushed toward Yuan Feng after hearing a scream, and Li Yun and the others followed her.
• Li Yun observed that Yuan Feng was trembling, appeared only at the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal level, and shared an unusually similar origin aura with the black-clad figure.
• Li Yun ordered Kong Xuan to stop Vermilion Bird from killing the figure and to capture her, and Kong Xuan flew off to warn his sister.

Vermilion Bird extinguished Divine Phoenix’s black flames, revealing that he was bound to Yuan Feng’s life, while the children learned he claimed to be their father. Yuan Feng recognized him and warned him that he had overstepped.

• Vermilion Bird used his Vermilion Bird form to extinguish Divine Phoenix’s flames, and Yuan Feng’s breathing and aura recovered as he was brought back.
• Yuan Feng said the mysterious man had appeared when she was troubled and guided her, while Li Yun confirmed he could not sever their deeply entwined life link.
• Divine Phoenix called Da Peng and the others his children, prompting Yuan Feng to clutch her head and cry out in pain.
• Divine Phoenix identified himself to Kong Xuan as the first Phoenix, and Da Peng and the others rejected his claim that he was their father.
• Yuan Feng addressed the man as Divine Phoenix and told him he had overstepped.

Divine Phoenix revealed that Yuanfeng had devoured him to become a phoenix and gain her power, including Nirvana Fire. After confirming that Yuanfeng had once considered killing Vermilion Bird for her rare ability, Vermilion Bird rejected her and banished her from the Extreme South Land.

• Yuanfeng refused to explain her relationship with Divine Phoenix, but Divine Phoenix told her children that she had ensnared and devoured him to transform herself and rise to power.
• Da Peng realized that Nirvana Fire came from the origins of Yuanfeng and Divine Phoenix rather than ordinary inheritance, and Li Yun explained how Vermilion Bird had gained her unique version of the ability.
• Divine Phoenix confirmed that he had intervened to give Vermilion Bird part of the nirvana origin and said Yuanfeng would have killed her to seize it if he had not stopped her.
• Yuanfeng admitted she had spared Vermilion Bird because of her talent and fortune, and Vermilion Bird withdrew her support, ended their bond, and banished Yuanfeng from the Extreme South Land.

Yuan Feng moved to expel Da Peng from the Extreme South Land, while Divine Phoenix explained why he had once accepted a symbiotic bond with her and why he now needed a separate avatar body. Da Peng and Kong Xuan considered finding him one, but Yuan Feng refused to let him leave her body.

• Yuan Feng insisted that Da Peng leave, and Da Peng asked Divine Phoenix why he had not resisted her in the past.
• Divine Phoenix said Yuan Feng had used the Divine Phoenix Armor and Divine Phoenix Sword, which she had hidden from the Phoenix Clan.
• Li Yun asked how Divine Phoenix and Yuan Feng had formed their symbiotic relationship, and Divine Phoenix explained that he had survived within one of her avatars after his World-Ending Black Flame could not achieve nirvana.
• Divine Phoenix said Yuan Feng was absorbing his origin power and that he needed an avatar body to reclaim it; Da Peng and Kong Xuan considered finding him one.
• Yuan Feng refused to let Divine Phoenix leave her body or claim a separate avatar.

Divine Phoenix explained that Yuan Feng had suppressed him while trying to absorb his origin, and that their children could help him break free. Vermilion Bird, Da Peng, Kong Xuan, and Qing Luan sided against Yuan Feng, while Li Yun ended by questioning whether Divine Phoenix's Destruction Black Flame carried demonic nature.

• Divine Phoenix explained that Yuan Feng had dominated their shared body and tried to draw on his origin, but he had suppressed her at the Daluo Golden Immortal stage.
• Divine Phoenix said Yuan Feng hoped to regain control through Vermilion Bird, Da Peng, and Kong Xuan.
• Vermilion Bird offered to help Divine Phoenix break free from Yuan Feng, and Da Peng and Kong Xuan offered their support.
• Yuan Feng accused her children of betraying her, but Qing Luan said Da Peng would become Phoenix Lord and told Yuan Feng not to interfere in other affairs.
• Li Yun asked Divine Phoenix whether his Destruction Black Flame contained demonic nature, startling Da Peng and the others.

Divine Phoenix revealed that he had absorbed the demonic energy threatening Yuanfeng’s rebirth, and Yuanfeng freed him by returning his origin power. As Da Peng went to retrieve a Quasi-Saint pureblood phoenix corpse for Divine Phoenix’s Second Primordial Spirit, Divine Phoenix learned about Li Yun and heard that Li Yun’s avatar Li Mo was with Yuan Ming.

• Divine Phoenix told Yuanfeng and the others that he had absorbed the demonic energy that might have corrupted Yuanfeng during her rebirth.
• Yuanfeng gave Divine Phoenix his strand of origin power and declared that they had nothing more to do with each other.
• Divine Phoenix rejoiced at regaining his freedom and asked for a pureblood phoenix body so he could forge a Second Primordial Spirit.
• Da Peng said the Phoenix Clan had a Quasi-Saint pureblood phoenix corpse and flew off to retrieve it while Vermilion Bird left to prepare.
• Divine Phoenix learned that Li Yun was the Human Race Great Emperor and declined to press him about marrying one of his daughters.
• Kong Xuan told Divine Phoenix that Li Yun’s avatar Li Mo was with Yuan Ming, prompting Divine Phoenix to ask whether Yuan Ming had succeeded.

Li Yun explained why Divine Phoenix could not become a member of the Devil Race, then revealed his plan to strengthen ties between the Human Race and the Phoenix Clan. He secured the clan’s agreement to provide bloodlines and access to the Origin of Fire, leaving the Phoenix Clan prepared to discuss the arrangements and obtain Yuan Feng’s token.

• Li Yun told Kong Xuan that Divine Phoenix could not gain the Demonic Path’s recognition without his true body, and that even then sainthood would be nearly impossible.
• Li Yun said he had come to seek cultivation methods and inheritance for people with Phoenix blood in the Human Race, and proposed that other Phoenix Clan members provide bloodlines.
• Kong Xuan agreed in principle but warned that the Phoenix Clan’s elders would need incentives, so Li Yun offered to make one person from each contributing lineage a Human Race tribe’s totem.
• Qing Luan accepted Li Yun’s offer, which promised the selected Phoenixes Human Race Destiny, Humanity Dao protection, and freedom to cultivate outside the Ten Thousand Volcanoes.
• Li Yun asked to contact the Phoenix Clan’s Origin of Fire, and Divine Phoenix explained that it lay in the largest parasol tree and required a token from Yuan Feng to enter.
• Li Yun assured them he would only comprehend the Origin of Fire and would not take or damage it.