Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong entrusted Luo Tianshen with guiding the four Supreme Experts from the Martial Realm as they converted their Origin Energy into the Great Thousand World's Sovereign Spiritual Energy. After completing the conversion in less than a month, all four reached the Earthly Sovereign realm and thanked Luo Tianshen for his help.

• Luo Tianshen thanked Lin Dong for helping Luo Tianhe break through to Earthly Sovereign, and Lin Dong introduced the Lord of Devouring, the Lord of Space, the Lord of Darkness, and the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor.
• Lin Dong asked Luo Tianshen to guide the four experts through converting their energy, and Luo Tianshen agreed to teach and protect them.
• Luo Tianshen explained the conversion process, gave the four jade slips of his cultivation insights, and warned them against rushing.
• Luo Tianshen helped each expert overcome obstacles during cultivation and kept the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor from damaging his foundation.
• In less than a month, the Lord of Devouring and the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor reached peak Lower Earthly Sovereign, while the Lord of Space and the Lord of Darkness advanced to Lower Earthly Sovereign.
• The four experts thanked Luo Tianshen and promised to repay his kindness if he ever needed their help.

Lin Dong learned that the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan had been destroyed after their leaders were captured and their ancestral lands were raided. He gave the Strength God Drum to Luo Tianhe, kept the Bone Emperor Coffin, and asked why the Blood God Clan had not yet been taken down.

• Lin Dong reflected on the growth of Martial Realm and the cultivation progress of the ascended experts.
• Luo Tianhe presented Lin Dong with the Strength God Drum and Bone Emperor Coffin, spoils from the destroyed clans.
• Luo Tianhe explained that he had led the Six-fingered Dragon Emperor and the four Lord of Devouring to defeat the remnants of the Strength God Clan and Bone God Clan.
• Lin Dong gave the Strength God Drum to Luo Tianhe and kept the Bone Emperor Coffin for Yao Chen.
• Lin Dong asked Luo Tianhe whether an unexpected change had delayed the defeat of the Blood God Clan.

Luo Tianshen reported that the Corpse Demon Clan had ravaged the isolated Wanyan Continent for a decade, prompting an urgent call for help. The chapter left Lin Dong facing a potential catastrophe in the Lesser Western Heaven Realm.

• Luo Tianhe told Lin Dong that the Blood God Clan's Blood Demon Flag and Ten Thousand Blood Demon Array had stopped their assault, and Lin Dong decided to leave the clan for his elder brother to deal with.
• Lin Dong explained that his elder brother was a master-level Spirit Puppet master, and Luo Tianhe accepted the order and withdrew.
• Ying Huanhuan ascended to become the Martial Realm's first Upper Earthly Sovereign as the Ancestral Stone Continent continued to prosper.
• Luo Tianshen arrived in a panic and told Lin Dong that a cultivator from Wanyan Continent had risked his life to seek aid.
• Luo Tianshen reported that the Corpse Demon Clan, one of the Evil Clan's thirty-two great clans, had invaded Wanyan Continent and terrorized it for ten years.

Luo Tianshen told Lin Dong that a Corpse Demon Clan branch had devastated the Wanyan Continent and was corrupting its Plane Embryo to create a Demon Emperor. Lin Dong accepted the mission, then saw an opportunity in the Plane Embryo and headed to the Dou Qi Continent.

• Luo Tianshen reported that the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King and his Corpse Demon Kings had conquered most of the Wanyan Continent and were poisoning its Plane Embryo.
• Luo Tianshen explained that the Corpse Demon King could become a Demon Emperor within three years, threatening the Lesser Western Heaven Realm.
• Lin Dong told Luo Tianshen to leave the intelligence and keep the crisis secret while he prepared to intervene within half a month.
• Luo Tianshen gave Lin Dong the crimson jade slip containing the Wanyan Continent's coordinates and intelligence, then departed.
• Lin Dong reviewed the jade slip, recognized the Plane Embryo as an opportunity, and opened a Space Rift to the Dou Qi Continent.

Lin Dong returned to the Endless Fire Domain with a chance for Xiao Yan to refine the Wanyan Continent’s Plane Embryo and advance rapidly in the Great Thousand World. After learning that the Corpse Demon Clan was ravaging the continent, Xiao Yan resolved to eliminate them and claim the opportunity.

• Yao Chen refined Emperor Grade pills to help ascended experts stabilize their realms, while several ancient figures underwent revival.
• Lin Dong returned to the Flame Emperor Hall and gave Xiao Yan a Crimson Jade Slip containing information about the Wanyan Continent.
• Xiao Yan read about the Corpse Demon Clan’s slaughter of the continent’s people and corruption of its Plane Embryo, and grew furious.
• Lin Dong explained that refining the Wanyan Continent’s complete Plane Embryo could let Xiao Yan bypass Spiritual Energy conversion and reach the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Xiao Yan recognized the opportunity and prepared to confront the Corpse Demon Clan.

Lin Dong brought Xiao Yan to Wanyan Continent to destroy the Corpse Demon Clan and claim its Plane Embryo, which could help Xiao Yan advance to Heavenly Sovereign. They entered the devastated lower plane, where the Corpse Demon Clan’s Death Qi was consuming its life and fire energy.

• Lin Dong explained that Wanyan Continent’s Plane Embryo could help Xiao Yan advance, and Xiao Yan agreed to join him in killing the Corpse Demon Clan’s Twelve Corpse Demon Kings.
• Yao Chen asked them to bring back the Corpse Demon Clan’s remains as puppet-making materials, then gave Xiao Yan Emperor Grade Pills and Talismans.
• Lin Dong created an Isolation Barrier to protect Xiao Yan’s Dou Di Origin from the Great Thousand World’s Spiritual Energy, and the two traveled toward Wanyan Continent.
• Lin Dong and Xiao Yan reached Wanyan Continent’s planar barrier and sensed that Death Qi was devouring its living beings and extinguishing its fire energy.
• Lin Dong cut through the planar barrier and entered Wanyan Continent with Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arrived in Wanyan Continent and found it devastated by the Corpse Demon Clan. They rescued a group of besieged cultivators, and Xiao Yan appeared just as Corpse Puppets were about to attack the children.

• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong surveyed the ruined, Death Qi-choked landscape and decided to find surviving cultivators.
• Lin Dong sensed about a hundred cultivators surrounded by a corpse tide three thousand li to the southeast, and he and Xiao Yan rushed to help.
• Lin Dong explained Wanyan Continent’s Life-Bound Fire Seed cultivation system as they approached the besieged group.
• A green-clad youth and the exhausted cultivators defended the children, but the Corpse Puppets broke through their line.
• Xiao Yan descended into the valley and burned the Corpse Puppets threatening the children to ash with a multicolored flame.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong rescued Qing Xuan and more than a hundred young survivors from the Corpse Demon Clan’s siege, then learned that Prince Qing Luo had sacrificed himself to send a plea for help. Qing Xuan confirmed the plea had reached the Great Thousand World, and the chapter left Xiao Yan mourning the promising prince who could not be revived.

• Xiao Yan formed a ring of Emperor Flame that burned away the Corpse Puppets attacking the valley.
• Lin Dong devoured the remaining Corpse Puppets and Death Qi, ending the siege.
• Qing Xuan identified himself as a prince of the Qingming Dynasty and thanked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong for saving the survivors.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flames to cure Qing Xuan’s corpse poison, restore his meridians, and regrow his damaged arm.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Xuan that Prince Qing Luo had burned his life and cultivation to send a plea for help before dying.
• Qing Xuan and the other survivors mourned Qing Luo, while Xiao Yan reflected that the prince’s sacrifice had left no remnant to revive.

Qing Xuan told Xiao Yan and Lin Dong how the Corpse Demon Clan had conquered most of Wanyan Continent and was close to capturing its Plane Embryo. Xiao Yan vowed to save the survivors, and the group set out for Flame Dragon Canyon to gather the remaining forces before confronting the enemy.

• Qing Xuan explained that the Corpse Demon Clan had occupied over ninety percent of Wanyan Continent and killed the three dynasties' ancestors, refining two of them into Corpse Fire Battle Puppets.
• Qing Xuan revealed that the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King and eight other Corpse Demon Kings were besieging Heaven-Burning Valley, whose defenses could last no more than three months.
• Qing Xuan begged Xiao Yan and Lin Dong to rescue the survivors, and Xiao Yan promised to save Heaven-Burning Valley and destroy the Corpse Demon Clan.
• Qing Xuan said several thousand Flame Dragon Dynasty survivors and three Heaven-Burning Realm elders remained in Flame Dragon Canyon, so Lin Dong and Xiao Yan agreed to join them first.
• Xiao Yan shielded the young survivors with Heavenly Flames, and Qing Xuan led the group toward Flame Dragon Canyon.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong traveled to Flame Dragon Canyon, where they found the survivors of the Flame Dragon Dynasty close to collapse after repeated attacks by the Corpse Demon Clan. The three elders welcomed the powerful newcomers as possible reinforcements, while Xiao Yan sensed that Wanyan Continent’s fire origin offered him a major opportunity.

• Xiao Yan sensed a distress signal from Wanyan Continent’s fire origin, and Lin Dong recognized its strong compatibility with Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong set out to confront the Corpse Demon Kings and the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King.
• Qing Xuan brought the group to Flame Dragon Canyon and explained that three Corpse Demon Kings had recently besieged it, leaving the defenses shattered and its protectors badly wounded.
• Xiao Yan led the group through the canyon’s formation, where they found exhausted survivors, including wounded cultivators and infants.
• Yan Lie, Yan Shan, and Yan Hai arrived, sensed Xiao Yan and Lin Dong’s overwhelming power, and bowed to welcome them as potential saviors of Wanyan Continent.

Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arrived at the besieged gorge and learned that its defenders were nearly exhausted. When three Corpse Demon Kings attacked, Xiao Yan effortlessly burned Blood-Claw Corpse Demon King with a colored flame, leaving the other two stunned.

• Yan Lie told Xiao Yan that fewer than a thousand of the gorge's more than three thousand seven hundred defenders could fight and that the damaged Formation could barely withstand another assault.
• Lin Dong dismissed the Twelve Corpse Demon Kings as insignificant, giving Yan Lie and the other defenders renewed hope.
• Three Corpse Demon Kings—Bone-Splitting, Heart-Rotting, and Blood-Claw—arrived with a vast corpse tide, and Xiao Yan and Lin Dong went out to face them.
• Blood-Claw Corpse Demon King attacked Xiao Yan, who casually raised a colored flame that burned through the Corpse Demon King's claws and spread across his body.
• Blood-Claw Corpse Demon King failed to extinguish the flame, while Bone-Splitting and Heart-Rotting Corpse Demon Kings realized their opponent's strength was overwhelming.

Xiao Yan effortlessly killed the three Corpse Demon Kings and burned away the corpse tide, rescuing the cultivators of the Flame Dragon Dynasty. He then revealed three Lingering Soul Fragments belonging to their lost ancestors, leaving Yan Lie and the others stunned.

• The three Corpse Demon Kings joined forces against Xiao Yan, but his wall of fire easily destroyed their attacks.
• Xiao Yan captured and killed all three Corpse Demon Kings with Emperor Flame in less than three breaths.
• Xiao Yan burned the hundreds of thousands of uncontrolled corpses, purifying the plain.
• Yan Lie, Qing Xuan, and the other cultivators thanked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong for saving them.
• Xiao Yan revealed three Lingering Soul Fragments, and Yan Lie recognized them as Ancestor Chiyang Jidi, Ancestor Flame Dragon Jidi, and Ancestor Qingming Jidi.

Xiao Yan rescued the lingering souls of three Extreme Emperor Ancestors and promised to reclaim their bodies from the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King. The Demon King arrived at Flame Dragon Canyon with eight Corpse Demon Kings and a vast Corpse Tide, and Xiao Yan openly challenged him.

• Xiao Yan used Emperor Flame to restore the three Ancestors’ lingering souls, and Yan Lie and Qing Xuan recognized them and bowed in grief.
• Chiyang Extreme Emperor thanked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, while Xiao Yan explained that the Ancestors would need new physical bodies to recover fully.
• Yanlong Extreme Emperor lamented that the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King had turned their corpses into Corpse Fire Battle Puppets, and Xiao Yan vowed to defeat him and reclaim them within three days.
• The three Ancestors offered to use Wanyan Continent’s Origin of Fire to help Xiao Yan communicate with the Plane Embryo.
• The Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King sensed the deaths of his clan members and threatened Xiao Yan and Lin Dong from the continent’s center.
• Xiao Yan taunted the Demon King, who arrived above Flame Dragon Canyon with eight Corpse Demon Kings and the Billion Corpse Tide.

Xiao Yan confronted the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King, who unleashed the Ten Thousand Corpse Coffin and trapped him in the Ten Thousand Corpse World-Extinguishing Array. Xiao Yan remained confident as multicolored flames began to illuminate the death-shrouded battlefield.

• The Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King accused Xiao Yan of killing three of his subordinates and threatened to turn him into a Corpse Puppet.
• Lin Dong mocked the Demon King, who sensed Lin Dong's formidable aura but trusted the coffin, corpse army, and his control over Wanyan Continent.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Demon King's Heavenly Cluster Corpse Cloud Hand with his Twenty-Two Extreme Emperor Flame Heaven-Collapsing Fist.
• The Demon King summoned the Ten Thousand Corpse Coffin, and Chiyang Extreme Emperor warned Xiao Yan that its array had trapped the three Ancestors before.
• The Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King activated the Ten Thousand Corpse World-Extinguishing Array, filling the battlefield with Death Qi and attacking Xiao Yan with Corpse Puppets and eight Corpse Demon Kings.
• Multicolored firelight spread through the array as Xiao Yan dismissed it as shabby and revealed his confidence in his power.

Xiao Yan used the Emperor Flame to counter the Ten Thousand Corpse World-Extinguishing Array and commanded every fire seed on Wanyan Continent to gather under his control. With the Plane Embryo supporting him, he unleashed a vastly strengthened ring of fire against the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King.

• Xiao Yan’s Emperor Flame purified the Death Qi, destroyed the Corpse Puppets, and burned away the Corpse Demon Kings’ attacks.
• Xiao Yan expanded the Emperor Flame to tear apart the Ten Thousand Corpse World-Extinguishing Array, while the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King struggled to keep it intact.
• Xiao Yan called on all the fires of Wanyan Continent, causing cultivators’ Life-Bound Fire Seeds and natural flames to converge on Flame Dragon Canyon.
• Yan Lie, Qing Xuan, and the other cultivators witnessed Ten Thousand Fires Paying Homage, while the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King learned Xiao Yan was the Flame Emperor from the Great Thousand World.
• The Plane Embryo supported Xiao Yan as the gathered flames merged into his Emperor Flame, swelling it into a ten-thousand-zhang ring that enveloped the Death Qi-covered world.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Ten Thousand Corpse World-Extinguishing Array and defeated the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King, ending the threat to the Wanyan Continent. Before being refined, the Demon King revealed that the three Extreme Emperor Ancestors’ corpses were in the Ten Thousand Corpse Coffin and warned Xiao Yan that the Sacred Clan would come for him.

• Xiao Yan used Emperor Flame to destroy the array, burn away the Death Qi, and capture the eight remaining Corpse Demon Kings in the Great Desolate Tablet.
• The Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King fled toward Heaven-Burning Valley, hoping to detonate the Death Qi corrupting the Plane Embryo, but Xiao Yan caught and crushed him.
• Xiao Yan demanded to know where the three Extreme Emperor Ancestors’ corpses were, and the Demon King said they were inside the Ten Thousand Corpse Coffin and that he had used them as Corpse Fire Battle Puppets.
• The Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King explained that he had sought to refine the Plane Embryo and become a Demon Emperor, then detonated his Corpse Demon Origin.
• Xiao Yan sealed and burned away the explosive force, then refined the Ten Thousand Skeleton Corpse Demon King into the Great Desolate Tablet after the Demon King warned that the Sacred Clan would not let him go.

Xiao Yan purified the three Extreme Emperor Ancestors’ bodies and led Lin Dong and the others to Heaven-Burning Valley, where he destroyed the corpse tide and ended the siege. The survivors learned that the Corpse Demon Kings were defeated and their Ancestors’ spirits remained, but Wanyan Continent had lost nearly all its people.

• Xiao Yan purified the bodies of Chiyang Extreme Emperor, Yanlong Extreme Emperor, and Qingming Extreme Emperor, returned them to their spirits, and promised to help revive them.
• Xiao Yan set out for Heaven-Burning Valley with Lin Dong, Yan Lie, Qing Xuan, and the others to end the remaining threat.
• As Corpse Puppets broke through the valley’s failing barrier, Xiao Yan’s fire curtain erased the corpse tide, while Lin Dong purified the remaining Death Qi.
• The exhausted cultivators thanked Xiao Yan and Lin Dong, and Xiao Yan reassured them that the Twelve Corpse Demon Kings and the main culprit had been defeated.
• Chiyang Extreme Emperor, Yanlong Extreme Emperor, and Qingming Extreme Emperor appeared before the survivors and mourned the devastation, with fewer than ten thousand of Wanyan Continent’s billions of inhabitants left alive.

Xiao Yan entered Wanyan Continent’s origin to seek recognition as its Plane Master and repair its damaged Plane Embryo. The Plane Embryo recoiled from him, leaving him to prove that he meant to protect the continent rather than claim its origin.

• Chiyang Extreme Emperor, Yanlong Extreme Emperor, and Qingming Extreme Emperor asked Xiao Yan to take charge of Wanyan Continent’s damaged Plane Embryo.
• The three Ancestors burned the remaining power in their Lingering Soul Fragments and opened a passage to the Plane Embryo.
• Xiao Yan entered a sea of golden fire and saw the Plane Embryo, which was wrapped in corrupting black mist.
• The Plane Embryo sensed Xiao Yan and raised walls of fire to block him.
• Xiao Yan stopped before the wary Plane Embryo and said he had come to protect Wanyan Continent, not seize its origin.

Xiao Yan won the Wanyan Plane Spirit’s trust with an oath to protect the continent and became its Plane Master, absorbing the plane’s origin as he cultivated toward Heavenly Sovereign. After decades within the chaotic sphere, he awakened with surging Spiritual Energy and formed a more powerful, thousand-foot Flame Emperor Avatar, ready to break through.

• Xiao Yan swore to protect the Wanyan Continent and destroy any Evil Clan from Outside the Realm that threatened it.
• The Plane Spirit accepted Xiao Yan’s sincere oath, enveloped him in its flame light, and opened the Wanyan Origin to him, making him the continent’s Plane Master.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Light of Chaos and Wanyan Origin as his Dou Qi and life essence transformed, preparing to undergo a Heavenly Venerate Lightning Tribulation.
• After decades of cultivation within the chaos, Xiao Yan awakened with immense Spiritual Energy and expanded into a thousand-foot Flame Emperor Avatar.
• Xiao Yan declared that it was time for him to break through.

Xiao Yan became Wanyan Continent’s Plane Master and began breaking through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm, triggering the Great Thousand World’s Heavenly Venerate Lightning Tribulation. He broke the first two tribulations and tempered the Heavy Black Ruler, which began transforming into a Sacred Artifact.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the origin passage as a quasi-Heavenly Sovereign, and the cultivators of Heaven-Burning Valley welcomed him as the Plane Master.
• Wanyan Origin and the plane’s blessing loosened Xiao Yan’s barrier to the Heavenly Sovereign realm, triggering the Great Thousand World’s Heavenly Venerate Lightning Tribulation.
• Lin Dong led everyone far from the valley and warned Xiao Yan that each lightning strike would grow stronger.
• Xiao Yan used the Twenty-Two Extreme Emperor Flame Heaven-Supporting Hand to withstand and refine the first tribulation’s black water.
• Xiao Yan wielded the Heavy Black Ruler and used Flame Splitting Wave Ruler to destroy the second tribulation’s black spark, absorbing its origin into the weapon.
• Lin Dong said the tribulation-tempered Heavy Black Ruler could become a mid-grade or high-grade Sacred Artifact after further nurturing.