Chapter Summaries

Xiao Huo received the Huode Sect Secret Art from Zhang Chulan and a movement technique from Li Lianhua as gifts to strengthen his future cultivation and combat skills. Sword God Li then arrived with a gift intended to help Xiao Huo endure the pain of devouring Strange Fire.

• Zhang Chulan gave Xiao Huo the Huode Sect Secret Art, annotated with guidance on cultivating fire and using Fire Escape.
• Jiang Zhen explained that the secret method could help Xiao Huo cultivate flames from the five organs and eventually unite them.
• Li Lianhua gave Xiao Huo a movement technique based on Gentle Wind that could aid him if he comprehended Wind Intent.
• Jiang Zhen asked why Li Lianhua had not given Xiao Huo Prosperous Steps, and Li Lianhua said Xiao Huo lacked the knowledge to learn it.
• Sword God Li arrived and announced that he had brought something to help Xiao Huo endure the pain of devouring Strange Fire.

Sword God Li gave Xiao Huo Great King Kong Blood, and Hong Hong of Tushan brought him a Pure Yang Flame seed from Rong Rong. Uncle Jiu then gave Xiao Huo a gourd capable of devouring and releasing flames, including Samadhi True Fire.

• Sword God Li explained the Great King Kong Blood’s origins and gave it to Xiao Huo to strengthen his physique.
• Jiang Zhen suggested that Xiao Huo have his teacher refine the blood into pills for tempering his body.
• Hong Hong of Tushan delivered a Pure Yang Flame seed from Rong Rong, who had obtained it in Aalai Country from the Dead Monkey.
• Jiang Zhen advised Xiao Huo to use the Great King Kong Blood before absorbing the Pure Yang Flame and explained its benefits against demons and for his descendants.
• Uncle Jiu gave Xiao Huo a gourd refined from gourds in Little Stone’s world that could devour and release flames, including Samadhi True Fire.

Uncle Jiu explained that the Fire Devouring Gourd could nurture and store flames, and Jiang Zhen showed Xiao Huo how to use it to keep Fire Lotuses ready as weapons. Ace arrived with a gift from Whitebeard for Xiao Huo: a mysterious Zoan Mythical Beast Species Devil Fruit, whose identity remained unknown.

• Uncle Jiu explained that the Fire Devouring Gourd could strengthen Sub-Flames and store flames for later use.
• Jiang Zhen suggested Xiao Huo store Fire Lotuses in the gourd and use them as ready-made explosives, delighting Xiao Huo and alarming the others.
• Ace arrived and explained that Whitebeard's Pirates would leave the World Government's overthrow to Luffy and later explore the Universe.
• Ace gave Xiao Huo a Devil Fruit from Whitebeard, identifying it as a Zoan Mythical Beast Species fruit.
• Jiang Zhen examined the flame-winged fruit and wondered how that kind of fruit had appeared in Ace's world.

Ace gave Xiao Huo a mysterious flame-type Devil Fruit that Jiang Zhen identified as likely the Vermilion Bird Fruit, then Su Wuming and Cherry brought Xiao Huo unusual ancient Illusion Techniques to study. Jiang Zhen demonstrated how illusion could transform the appearance of fire, leaving Xiao Huo caught in the illusion.

• Ace explained that he had found the unrecorded flame-type fruit near the location of Roger's great treasure and offered it to Xiao Huo.
• Jiang Zhen identified the fruit as likely the Vermilion Bird Fruit, one of the Four Sacred Beasts, and said gathering all four fruits might bring about something special.
• Xiao Huo offered to return the fruit, but Ace insisted he keep it and asked him to refine medicinal pills for the crew when he grew stronger.
• Su Wuming and Cherry arrived together, and Cherry gave Xiao Huo unusual Illusion Techniques from their world to study and potentially integrate into his Art.
• Jiang Zhen conjured a flame that had no heat, then transformed its appearance into a vine around Xiao Huo.

Shi Potian explained that the Great Xuan Scripture let each cultivator comprehend Arts suited to themselves, then gave Xiao Huo a copy and prepared to return to his world to break through and undergo Ascension. Jiang Zhen told Xiao Huo what the three absent members were doing and warned that Little Stone might bring him an overwhelmingly nourishing beast-meat gift.

• Jiang Zhen used an Illusion Technique to show Xiao Huo how it could help him, and Xiao Huo thanked Su Wuming and Cherry.
• Shi Potian, nearing Level Four and preparing to undergo Ascension, gave Xiao Huo a copy of the Great Xuan Scripture and explained that its Arts could be comprehended differently by each person.
• Shi Potian said he suspected his world was restricting him and planned to break through after returning, while the others reassured him they would support him.
• Jiang Zhen told Xiao Huo to keep the Scripture because it might help him after he reached the Dou Emperor Realm, and Xiao Huo promised to refine pills for Shi Potian.
• Jiang Zhen explained that Daegu was searching the Universe for a safe place for Lina, Long Kui was with her brother, and Little Stone might bring a Fierce Beast that Xiao Huo could barely eat.

Jiang Zhen arranged for Zhang Chulan to pass his modified Six Treasuries Immortal Thief to Xiao Huo, and Daegu gave Xiao Huo the Fire of Hope. Long Kui arrived and revealed she was escorting evil thoughts toward the God Realm with her brother’s group, then presented Xiao Huo with the Nine Netherworld Ghost Fire.

• Jiang Zhen asked Zhang Chulan to give Xiao Huo the modified Six Treasuries Immortal Thief, and Zhang Chulan passed on its memories and cultivation method.
• Xiao Huo quickly entered a state of enlightenment while cultivating, and Jiang Zhen praised his talent and comprehension.
• Xiao Huo recognized Daegu as Tiga and joked about him returning the light he had borrowed; Daegu explained the Fire of Hope and gave it to Xiao Huo.
• Long Kui arrived and told Jiang Zhen she had left the Demon Locking Tower and returned to her brother, who had lost his memories.
• Long Kui said she was setting out to escort evil thoughts toward the God Realm with Bai Doufu, and Jiang Zhen criticized the choice and offered to help later.
• Long Kui gave Xiao Huo the Nine Netherworld Ghost Fire from Fengdu, which could burn souls, and he recognized it as the legendary flame.

Jiang Zhen explained that Xiao Huo’s Nine Netherworld Ghost Fire was a powerful weakened version and helped him understand the flame Little Stone brought from Little Red. Little Stone arrived with a Venerable Realm Primordial Remnant Species, and the group prepared to use it to strengthen Xiao Huo.

• Jiang Zhen told Xiao Huo that his Nine Netherworld Ghost Fire was not the true Divine Fire but was still among the strongest Strange Fires in his world.
• Little Stone appeared with a Fierce Beast whose baleful aura Jiang Zhen contained, then explained that it was a Primordial Remnant Species with Suanni-like bloodline aura.
• Little Stone said he had settled his grudge with his cousin and planned to kill the people who came down to the Lower Realm before going to the Upper Realm.
• Jiang Zhen advised Xiao Huo to use the beast’s flesh and blood to temper his body with the Six Treasuries Immortal Thief rather than rush his cultivation breakthrough.
• Little Stone gave Xiao Huo a flame from Little Red, and Jiang Zhen identified it as Vermilion Bird Divine Fire from a descendant of the Vermilion Bird.
• Little Stone took out a huge cauldron and invited everyone to eat the Primordial Remnant Species.

The group identified Little Stone’s slain Fierce Beast as a descendant of Chi Wen, one of the Nine Sons of the Dragon, and cooked it with Aged Herbs. Xiao Huo struggled to refine the meal’s powerful medicinal essence as Xiao Chen arrived to check on the commotion.

• Jiang Zhen confirmed that the Fierce Beast carried Chi Wen’s Bloodline after Uncle Jiu and Su Wuming recognized its dragonlike, fish-bodied form.
• Little Stone insisted that the group drain the beast’s blood and stew it with Aged Herbs, and everyone joined the feast.
• Xiao Huo grew red and began to overflow with essence, so Jiang Zhen told him to use the Six Treasuries Immortal Thief to absorb the meal’s medicinal power.
• The group finished eating after more than an hour, and Xiao Huo continued tempering his body as the essence leaked from him.
• Xiao Chen arrived after sensing a fierce, baleful aura, and Jiang Zhen explained the meal’s effects on Xiao Huo and praised Xiao Chen’s progress with his pill.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Huo went to meet Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders who had arrived above the Xiao Family. Xiao Chen confronted Gu Yuan over the Xiao Family’s decline, then faced Hun Tiandi and the powerful figures gathered with him.

• Xiao Chen sensed the visitors and told Xiao Huo they had arrived, then questioned how Xiao Huo’s training had gone.
• Xiao Huo reported reaching Great Dou Shi strength, described his Vermilion Bird transformation and stored Fire Lotuses, and said the Xiao Family was protected in the Monster Mountain Range.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Huo went outside to meet Gu Yuan, whom Xiao Chen recognized as his old acquaintance and Xiao Huo’s father-in-law.
• Xiao Chen asked Gu Yuan whether the place Xiao Xuan had entrusted to him still existed and challenged him for failing to help the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Chen called out the other clan leaders, including Hun Tiandi, and assessed the formidable strength gathered around them.
• Hun Tiandi greeted Xiao Chen and remarked that he had not expected anyone from the Xiao Clan to have survived from back then.

Xiao Huo challenged the younger generations of the Eight Ancient Clans to a fight, and stunned them by defeating Lei Ming with his physical strength. The Stone Clan’s Shi Yun stepped forward to test him next.

• Xiao Chen revealed that he had reached Nine Star Dou Sheng, and the clan leaders came to congratulate him and inspect the Xiao Family.
• Hun Tiandi mocked the Xiao Family’s decline, so Xiao Huo challenged anyone below Dou Zong to a life-and-death battle.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Wu to kill or cripple Xiao Huo and promised him a wisp of Sub-Flame from the Void Devouring Flame.
• Lei Ming challenged Xiao Huo, but Xiao Huo shattered his spear with a punch and sent him flying with a second blow.
• Shi Yun of the Stone Clan stepped forward, activated his body’s stone-like patterns, and prepared to test Xiao Huo’s physical strength.

Xiao Huo defeated Shi Yun by overpowering his Stone Body, then accepted a challenge from Medicine Spirit of the Medicine Clan. The two clashed in the air, where Xiao Huo revealed his flame-formed Vermilion Bird Wings and Medicine Spirit attacked with his Strange Fire.

• Xiao Huo dodged Shi Yun's charge, shattered his boulder, and endured Shi Yun's attacks before catching and breaking his stone-covered fist.
• Xiao Huo punched Shi Yun in the abdomen, breaking the Stone Body and sending him flying.
• Xiao Chen asked the other clans for challengers, and the Spirit Clan Patriarch declined while the Medicine Clan Patriarch put forward Medicine Spirit.
• Xiao Huo agreed to fight Medicine Spirit after his teacher urged him to win decisively in exchange for a treasure.
• Medicine Spirit took to the air with Dou Qi Wings, and Xiao Huo followed with Vermilion Bird Wings that erupted with heat.
• Medicine Spirit wrapped himself in flames and attacked Xiao Huo with a massive finger of condensed Dou Qi.

Xiao Huo defeated Medicine Spirit by cutting apart the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire’s Sub-Flame, then beat him into a pighead while Xiao Chen restrained the Medicine Clan Patriarch. After the Medicine Clan Patriarch took the unconscious Medicine Spirit away, Xiao Huo revealed that his teacher could refine Seventh and Eighth Grade pills and met Yan Yang of the Yan Clan.

• Medicine Spirit attacked Xiao Huo with the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire’s Sub-Flame, but Xiao Huo recalled the sword technique from Potian’s scroll and the Lightness Skill Li Lianhua had given him.
• Xiao Huo cut the Sub-Flame in two and moved to strike Medicine Spirit, while Xiao Chen stopped the Medicine Clan Patriarch from intervening.
• Xiao Huo turned his flaming sword into a staff and sent Medicine Spirit flying, then slapped him repeatedly until he fainted from rage.
• The Medicine Clan Patriarch took Medicine Spirit away and gave Xiao Huo a Ring of Holding as compensation.
• Xiao Huo said his teacher was confident in refining Seventh and Eighth Grade pills, shocking those present, and introduced himself to Yan Yang of the Yan Clan.

Xiao Huo competed with Yan Yang in flame control and proved his Pure Yang Flame superior, prompting Yan Yang to admit defeat. Xiao Huo then faced the remaining youths, whose eagerness and killing intent suggested the next contest could be dangerous, but Gu Yuan stopped his companion from acting.

• Xiao Huo challenged Yan Yang, who proposed a contest of flame control and temperature instead of a direct fight.
• Yan Yang summoned a Fire Wolf, while Xiao Huo revealed his Pure Yang Flame and shaped it into a Flame Lion.
• Xiao Huo's Flame Lion overwhelmed Yan Yang's Fire Wolf, and Yan Yang admitted defeat without continuing to test their flames' temperatures.
• Xiao Huo noticed that the youths beside Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi seemed ready to move against him, but Gu Yuan told his companion to stand down.

Xiao Huo fought Hun Wu and revealed the explosive Fire Lotuses he had stored in his gourd. He left Hun Wu badly wounded with successive blasts, then prepared to test a still more powerful lotus.

• Gu Yuan refused to let Xiao Huo fight the Ancient Clan challenger, so Xiao Chen sent him to face Hun Wu instead.
• Xiao Huo asked Xiao Chen to move everyone to a plain, and Xiao Chen relocated the gathering after Jiang Zhen warned that Xiao Huo's Fire Lotuses could unleash devastating explosions.
• Xiao Huo peppered Hun Wu with black flames that would not go out, then revealed a two-colored Fire Lotus and blasted Hun Wu into a mass of wounds.
• Xiao Huo threw a three-colored Fire Lotus, sending Hun Wu flying and leaving him badly injured.
• Xiao Huo declared that he wanted to see whether Hun Wu could withstand the Three-Colored Fire Lotus, while Xiao Chen remarked that moving away had saved their home.

Xiao Huo killed Hun Wu with a Six-Colored Fire Lotus, then returned to the Xiao Family as Hun Tiandi demanded the item in the family’s possession. When Xiao Chen refused, Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to attack the Xiao Family and search for it.

• Xiao Huo’s Six-Colored Fire Lotus incinerated Hun Wu before the other Dou Saints could intervene.
• Xiao Chen apologized for Xiao Huo’s excessive attack, then returned to the family and praised him for carrying out the plan.
• Hun Tiandi confronted Xiao Chen and demanded the item, arguing that Xiao Chen could not defend it alone.
• Gu Yuan and the other clan leaders declined to help Xiao Chen, each giving a different reason.
• Hun Tiandi sent Soul Clan experts to search the Xiao Family and said he would fight Xiao Chen himself.

Hun Tiandi sent Dou Zuns to attack the Xiao Family, but Xiao Chen watched as the family’s allies revealed overwhelming power and defeated the invaders. Surrounded by an assembly of formidable figures, Xiao Chen challenged Hun Tiandi to continue, leaving him stunned and asking who they were.

• Hun Tiandi ordered more than a dozen Dou Zuns to attack the Xiao Family, while Xiao Chen and Xiao Huo stayed back.
• A child studying a bone seized a One Star Dou Zun, battered him, and had a Kun Peng tear him apart.
• Hong Hong, Esdeath, and Long Kui froze three Dou Zuns with their murderous auras, and Esdeath turned them into ice sculptures.
• Other defenders killed the remaining Dou Zuns with sword strikes, flames, and lightning.
• Jiang Zhen and numerous powerful allies appeared before the gathered Dou Saints, and Xiao Chen told Hun Tiandi to keep going.
• Hun Tiandi asked who the newcomers were, and Xiao Chen said they were his descendant's friends.

Xiao Chen battled Hun Tiandi while Natsu fought the Void Devouring Flame, whose fire Natsu devoured to gain Void Fire Dragon God Mode. Natsu chased the fleeing flame, and Jiang Zhen explained Natsu’s magic to Xiao Huo before beginning to describe its different learning methods.

• Xiao Chen attacked Hun Tiandi with his axe, and Jiang Zhen moved their battle away from the nation.
• Jiang Zhen assigned Natsu and Ace to fight the Void Devouring Flame, and Natsu launched a Fire Dragon’s Roar at it.
• Natsu devoured the Void Devouring Flame’s black fire and entered Void Fire Dragon God Mode.
• Natsu struck the Void Devouring Flame and began inhaling its flames, forcing it to flee as Natsu pursued.
• Xiao Huo questioned whether Natsu’s fighting style was magic, and Jiang Zhen explained that Natsu used Fire Dragon Slayer Magic.

Jiang Zhen explained the four ways to obtain Dragon Slayer Magic and how Natsu combined Fire Dragon, Fire Demon, and Fire God Slayer Magic. Xiao Huo ordered the Soul Clan members killed, and the chapter ended with Hun Tiandi collecting their remains for his Bloodline after he and Xiao Chen emerged from their battle.

• Jiang Zhen described learning from dragons, transplanting magic crystals, consuming dragon flesh and blood, and using Enchantment as the four methods of cultivating Dragon Slayer Magic.
• Jiang Zhen explained that Natsu had become E.N.D. after his resurrection and had fused Fire Dragon, Fire Demon, and Fire God Slayer Magic.
• Jiang Zhen asked Xiao Huo whether to kill the suppressed Soul Clan members, and Xiao Huo ordered them all killed.
• The other members slaughtered the Soul Clan forces, while Xiao Chen and Hun Tiandi emerged from their battle badly wounded.
• Hun Tiandi collected the Soul Clan experts' bodies and blood, and Xiao Huo realized he wanted them for his Bloodline.

Jiang Zhen returned from the Dou Qi world and learned that the Known Universe had split into rival camps as Carl’s Cosmic Alliance Army advanced toward the Angel Nebula. After hearing the enemy’s reported strength, he recognized the coming war would be troublesome.

• Jiang Zhen left Xiao Huo to deal with Hun Tiandi, then departed the Dou Qi world while the Eight Ancient Clans watched in awe of the Xiao Family’s powerful connections.
• Jiang Zhen returned to the Supergod World and asked Old Huang why many Super Soldiers and other experts had disappeared.
• Old Huang explained that the Cosmic Alliance Army, formed by the Beast Body Civilization, Cosmic Mercenaries, the Triangular Body, and the Sky Scum Legion, was advancing toward the Angel Nebula, and many civilizations had sent reinforcements.
• Jiang Zhen suspected Carl and the Super God Academy were behind the alliance, and said Morgana would likely oppose them after arming her Demon Legion.
• Old Huang reported the alliance’s upgraded leaders and forces, including Hua Ye, Sumari, Ruoning, Taotie King Shihao, and numerous divine-body warriors.

Jiang Zhen left Earth Star for Angel Nebula, where Kaisha and Hexi prepared for the coming war with Hua Ye. Kaisha suspected the conflict was part of a larger game between Jiang Zhen and the Super God Academy, with the Angels serving as its vanguard.

• Jiang Zhen left power behind to protect Earth Star and headed for Angel Nebula after predicting that a major event was coming.
• Hexi completed the Angel Rebirth Pool, and Kaisha ordered the Little Angels to contribute their blood so they could be reborn with the possibility of recovering past-life memories.
• Hexi told Kaisha that Hua Ye was approaching with many fighters and a supposed Fifth Generation Divine Body, while Kaisha ordered her forces to strengthen themselves.
• Hexi reported that Lieyang and experts from Earth Star would support the Angels, while most other civilizations remained neutral or refused to help.
• Kaisha said she would replace unhelpful subordinate civilizations after the war and demand their unpaid protection fees.
• Kaisha suspected that Jiang Zhen had set events in motion against the Super God Academy and that the Angels were serving as his vanguard.