Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan revealed that Old Yao’s Soul Nurturing Pill could restore lingering souls and potentially revive Heavenly Sovereigns, astonishing the Western Heaven Battle Hall. The Western Heaven War Emperor pledged his hall’s resources to help develop the pill, leaving the alliance eager to pursue the chance to revive its fallen masters.

• Xiao Yan and Lin Dong swore an offensive and defensive alliance with the Western Heaven Battle Hall and drank to seal their oath.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor said he planned to summon the Ancient War Emperor’s guardians from the Battle Hall’s forbidden ground.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Old Yao had created the Soul Nurturing Pill and that further research might produce a pill capable of reviving Heavenly Sovereigns.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor realized Old Yao was Shiluo’s revered Medicine Buddha and was deeply shaken by the pill’s ability to restore shattered souls.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor offered the Battle Hall’s pill formulas, medicinal materials, and alchemy classics to help Xiao Yan and Old Yao develop the pill, hoping to revive the Ancient War Emperor.

Old Yao announced improved pill-refining methods that could strengthen the Western Heaven Realm, while the alliance banquet was interrupted by a powerful Heavenly Venerate Tribulation. Xiao Yan and the others saw the tribulation gathering over the Ancestral Stone Continent, where a white-robed old man stood atop the Ten Thousand Talisman Altar.

• Old Yao said his method could refine ten Sovereign-Breaking Pills from one set of ingredients and revealed he was researching the Emperor Source Ultimate Ancestor Pill.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor and the assembled cultivators praised Old Yao, recognizing that his pills could help the alliance resist the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm.
• A destructive tribulation aura swept over the Flame Emperor Hall, and the Western Heaven War Emperor, Elder Sanzang, and Elder Winter identified it as a Heavenly Venerate Tribulation.
• Xiao Yan led Lin Dong, Old Yao, Time Emperor, the Western Heaven War Emperor, and others outside to watch the tribulation clouds gather over the Ancestral Stone Continent.
• A white-robed old man stood atop the Ten Thousand Talisman Altar at the center of the Ancestral Stone Continent beneath the tribulation clouds.

The Symbol Ancestor faced his Heavenly Venerate Tribulation on the Ancestral Stone Continent and used the Eight Extremes Demon-Suppressing Array to overcome its first two punishments. As the Falling Stone Tribulation began, he remained calm and prepared for the more dangerous trials ahead.

• The Symbol Ancestor's accumulated cultivation erupted after his ascension, and he drew down a Heavenly Venerate Tribulation.
• He formed the Eight Extremes Demon-Suppressing Array with the eight laws in his Nascent Soul, revealing himself as a Grandmaster Spirit Array Master.
• The array turned into an independent Small World and dissolved the Black Water Tribulation.
• The Symbol Ancestor used the array's laws to contain and dissolve the Thunder Fire Tribulation.
• The Falling Stone Tribulation descended as black, mountain-like thunderstones crushed space around the array.

The Symbol Ancestor used the Eight Extremes Demon-Suppressing Array to destroy the black stones of the Heavenly Venerate Tribulation and faced its final Black Thunder Tribulation. His allies learned that he was a Grandmaster Spirit Array Master and hurried to Ancestral Stone Continent to protect him as he approached the Heavenly Sovereign realm.

• The Symbol Ancestor's Eight Extremes Demon-Suppressing Array shattered, crushed, and swallowed the falling black stones.
• The tribulation clouds condensed the final Black Thunder Tribulation, the most dangerous strike of the Heavenly Venerate Tribulation.
• Old Yao, the Ancestor of Devouring, and the other Four Ancestors of Tianxuan realized the Symbol Ancestor had reached the Grandmaster Spirit Array Master realm.
• Lin Dong celebrated the Symbol Ancestor's progress, then rushed to Ancestral Stone Continent to guard him against interference.
• The Ancestor of Devouring and the other Four Ancestors of Tianxuan followed Lin Dong to protect the Symbol Ancestor.
• Luo Tianshen and Luo Tianhe celebrated the prospect of the Martial Realm gaining a Heavenly Sovereign-level Grandmaster Spirit Array Master.

The Symbol Ancestor survived the final Heavenly Venerate Lightning Tribulation and became a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, strengthening the alliance between the Martial Realm and the Endless Fire Domain. The Western Heaven War Emperor decided to send the Battle Hall’s medicinal resources to the Heaven Refining Medicine Emperor in hopes of reviving several Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.

• Elder Winter, Elder Sanzang, and the Western Heaven War Emperor watched the Symbol Ancestor’s tribulation with envy and relief at their alliance with the rising powers.
• The Symbol Ancestor used the Eight Extremes Demon-Suppressing Array to withstand the Black Thunder Tribulation and ascended to Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Lin Dong and the others congratulated the Symbol Ancestor, who then entered seclusion in the Martial Ancestor Hall to stabilize his Dao foundation.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor congratulated Xiao Yan and returned toward the Western Heaven Battle Hall with Elder Winter and Elder Sanzang.
• Elder Winter questioned the order to send the Battle Hall’s medicinal ingredients, pill formulas, and notes to Old Yao.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor explained that the Heaven Refining Medicine Emperor might restore lingering souls with the Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pill, and vowed to exhaust the Battle Hall’s resources to win his favor.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao spent six and a half years refining a prototype Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pill, but they lacked the power to complete it. Xiao Yan planned to retrieve Tou She Ancient God's scattered flame origin from the Fire Spirit Clan, while Tou She remained in seclusion, sensing it from afar.

• The Western Heaven War Emperor gave Xiao Yan rare herbs, pill formulas, and alchemist notes, strengthening the alliance between their sides.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao entered the Heavenly Tomb's World of Time to study alchemy and refine pills together.
• After six and a half years inside, Xiao Yan and Old Yao emerged with an incomplete Spirit Grade Soul Nurturing Pill prototype.
• Old Yao explained that completing the pill required either a second Heavenly Sovereign fire cultivator or a stronger Emperor Flame source.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao he would retrieve Tou She Ancient God's scattered flame origin and headed for the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Tou She Ancient God sensed his scattered flame origin growing clearer while he secluded himself in his cave mansion.

Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God traveled from the Western Heaven Realm to the Fire Spirit Continent to retrieve Tou She’s former-life Emperor Flame essence. After using the Western Heaven Battle Hall’s cross-boundary teleportation array, they reached Fire God City, the Fire Spirit Clan’s stronghold.

• Tou She Ancient God told Xiao Yan that the summons from his former-life Emperor Flame essence had grown stronger, and Xiao Yan agreed to accompany him to retrieve it.
• Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God visited the Western Heaven Battle Hall, where the Western Heaven War Emperor warned them about the Fire Spirit Clan and activated a cross-boundary teleportation array.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor’s array transported Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God to the Fire Spirit Continent in six days.
• Tou She Ancient God sensed that his essence lay near the continent’s center, and Xiao Yan used the map gifted by the Western Heaven War Emperor to locate Fire God City.
• Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God concealed their strength and traveled to Fire God City, arriving at the Fire Spirit Clan’s fortified central city.

Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God arrived at Fire God City to retrieve Tou She Ancient God’s origin and seek an audience with the Fire Spirit Clan leader. After the guards dismissed them and refused to pass on their request, Xiao Yan unleashed his Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign pressure, alarming the city and drawing the attention of Huo Tao and the clan elders.

• Tou She Ancient God told Xiao Yan that his origin was inside Fire God City, and Xiao Yan chose to request an audience before using force.
• Fire Spirit Clan guards stopped Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God at the city gate and mocked their claim to meet the clan leader.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Heavenly Sovereign pressure, forcing the guards to their knees and making their Flame Spears crumble.
• The pressure spread through Fire God City, startling nearby cultivators and shaking Fire Spirit Hall.
• Huo Tao rose from his seat and suppressed the surging Spiritual Energy as the clan elders reacted to the sudden provocation.

Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God arrived at Fire God City, drawing the Fire Spirit Clan’s leader and twelve Supreme Elders into a tense confrontation. Tou She Ancient God claimed the clan’s Eternal Flame was his lost Emperor Flame, and Huo Tao reacted with fury.

• The twelve Supreme Elders sensed a powerful fire-attribute Heavenly Sovereign approaching and followed Huo Tao toward the city gate.
• Foreign experts outside Fire God City gathered to watch as Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God faced the clan’s leaders.
• Huo Tao sensed Xiao Yan’s overwhelming strength and asked why he had come while maintaining a wary, polite tone.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had come on behalf of his teacher to reclaim something that belonged to him.
• Tou She Ancient God identified the Eternal Flame as a remnant of his Emperor Flame and asked Huo Tao to return it.
• Huo Tao’s politeness gave way to fury at Tou She Ancient God’s claim to the Fire Spirit Clan’s guardian Divine Fire.

The Fire Spirit Clan rejected Tou She Ancient God's claim that its Sacred Fire was his Origin Emperor Flame and prepared to capture him and Xiao Yan. As the Twelve Earthly Branches Formation took shape, Xiao Yan recognized similarities between several elders' flames and flames he knew.

• Huo Tao and the Fire Spirit Clan accused Tou She Ancient God of lying and insulting their Sacred Fire, while the twelve Supreme Elders gathered to attack.
• Tou She Ancient God explained that he had perished ten thousand years earlier and that the clan's Sacred Fire was the scattered Origin Emperor Flame tied to his Soul Origin.
• Huo Tao dismissed the explanation and ordered the twelve Supreme Elders to form their formation and capture Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God.
• The twelve elders summoned their animal-shaped Dharma Images and unleashed a formation that made the fire-attribute Spiritual Energy surge violently.
• Xiao Yan noticed that several elders' flames resembled flames he had encountered before.

The Fire Spirit Clan’s twelve Supreme Elders activated their Twelve Earthly Branches Fire God Formation and empowered Huo Tao with a Fire God Dharma Image. Seeing that the Formation fused flames in a way strikingly similar to Fen Jue, Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God began to suspect that the technique might be connected to the Fire Spirit Clan’s first-generation progenitor, while Huo Tao launched his attack.

• The twelve Supreme Elders summoned their fire spirit Dharma Images and formed the Twelve Earthly Branches Fire God Formation, sealing off the surrounding area.
• The Formation fused its twelve Divine Fires and poured their power into Huo Tao, who manifested a massive Fire God Dharma Image with strength comparable to an early-stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the Formation’s flame-fusion method resembled Fen Jue and secretly told Tou She Ancient God.
• Tou She Ancient God agreed that Fen Jue might share an origin with the Fire Spirit Clan’s first-generation progenitor, and Xiao Yan considered why the technique seemed beyond the Dou Qi Continent’s origins.
• Huo Tao ordered the attack and thrust his Burning Heaven Divine Spear at Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan used his Flame World Projection to destroy the Fire Spirit Clan’s formation and overwhelm Huo Tao, then demanded to see Tou She Ancient God’s suspected Divine Fire origin. Huo Tao refused and summoned the clan’s Heavenly Sovereign, leaving the confrontation on the verge of escalating.

• Xiao Yan unfolded his Flame World Projection and suppressed the Twelve Earthly Branches Fire God Formation, shattering its fire spirit images and injuring Huo Tao and the twelve Supreme Elders.
• The watching cultivators reacted with fear and awe as Xiao Yan defeated the clan’s formation with a single strike.
• Xiao Yan again asked Huo Tao to let them test whether the Divine Fire was Tou She Ancient God’s origin.
• Tou She Ancient God offered to leave and apologize if the Divine Fire was not his, but Huo Tao accused them of going too far and refused to surrender the clan’s sacred artifact.
• Huo Tao crushed a crimson jade pendant, releasing a vast Heavenly Sovereign pressure from the Forbidden Ground beneath Fire God City.

Fire Spirit Ancestor emerged to confront Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God after Xiao Yan demanded access to the Fire Spirit Clan’s sacred fire. As Fire Spirit Ancestor’s Burning Heaven Divine Art recoiled from Xiao Yan’s power, he realized the young man’s flames could suppress the clan’s inheritance at its very root.

• Fire Spirit Ancestor left seclusion as the volcanoes around Fire God City erupted, and onlookers recognized him as the clan’s ancient Heavenly Sovereign.
• Huo Tao reported that Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God had come to claim the sacred fire, and that Xiao Yan had broken the Twelve Earthly Branches Fire God Formation and injured the clan’s elders.
• Xiao Yan explained that the sacred fire was Tou She Ancient God’s origin Emperor Flame and asked Fire Spirit Ancestor to let his teacher inspect and reclaim it if the claim was true.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor refused to let outsiders enter the sacred land or take the clan’s treasured fire, then secretly probed Xiao Yan with the Burning Heaven Divine Art.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor’s fire Spiritual Energy trembled and nearly submitted to Xiao Yan, leaving him shocked by the young man’s power.

Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God asked the Fire Spirit Ancestor to let Tou She inspect the Fire Spirit Clan’s Sacred Fire, but the ancestor refused to admit them to the holy land. Xiao Yan challenged him to settle the dispute in battle on the desolate Black Meteor Continent, where the two sides prepared to face off.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor considered the risk of offending Xiao Yan and questioned Tou She Ancient God’s claim that the Sacred Fire was connected to his soul’s origin.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor refused to let Tou She enter the clan’s forbidden holy land, despite their assurances.
• Xiao Yan proposed a duel on Black Meteor Continent, offering to submit if the Fire Spirit Ancestor won and asking for Tou She to inspect the Sacred Fire if he won.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor accepted Xiao Yan’s challenge and tore open a rift to Black Meteor Continent.
• Xiao Yan, Tou She Ancient God, and the Fire Spirit Clan’s experts followed the ancestor to the ruined continent, where the ancestor invited Xiao Yan to use his methods.

Xiao Yan and Fire Spirit Ancestor began their agreed battle, revealing their powerful Heavenly Venerate Spiritual Bodies. Xiao Yan’s Flame Emperor Body overwhelmed Fire Spirit Ancestor’s Fire God Body in their first clash, and the spectators learned that Xiao Yan possessed the legendary Nine Divine Veins.

• Fire Spirit Ancestor summoned his Fire God Body, fueled by seven divine veins, and attacked Xiao Yan with the Flame God Heaven-Opening Axe.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Flame Emperor Body, formed from nine divine veins and twenty-two fused Heavenly Flames, astonishing the watching Fire Spirit Clan members.
• Xiao Yan drew the Ancient Exotic Fire Ruler and met Fire Spirit Ancestor’s axe with a powerful strike.
• The clash forced Fire Spirit Ancestor back several thousand steps and left his hands bleeding.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor recognized Xiao Yan’s Nine Divine Veins, prompting the Fire Spirit Clan spectators to erupt in shock.

Xiao Yan defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor’s Divine Fire attack with his twenty-two Heavenly Flames, but the elder refused to concede and summoned his Seven Luminaries Burning Heaven Seal. Xiao Yan answered with his Nine Divine Veins supernatural power, the Buddha Fury Emperor Flame Lotus, whose Emperor Flame began to suppress the Divine Fire as the two prepared to clash.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor recognized Xiao Yan’s Nine Divine Veins and launched Burning Heaven Extinguishing the World to test his strength.
• Xiao Yan pierced the Divine Fire torrent with his Emperor Extreme Heaven-Collapsing Fist and blasted a hole through the Fire God Body, badly wounding the Fire Spirit Ancestor.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor healed his injuries and challenged Xiao Yan to withstand his Seven Luminaries Burning Heaven Seal, promising to concede if Xiao Yan could receive it.
• Xiao Yan formed the Buddha Fury Emperor Flame Lotus with his Nine Divine Veins and twenty-two Heavenly Flames.
• The Emperor Flame lotus caused the Divine Fire in the Seven Luminaries Burning Heaven Seal to tremble and draw toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan defeated Fire Spirit Ancestor with his Emperor Flame fire lotus, whose power came from the complete Burning Heaven Divine Formula. He saved Fire Spirit Ancestor before the lotus destroyed Black Meteor Continent, and Fire Spirit Ancestor accepted his defeat.

• The chapter revealed that Fen Jue was the complete Burning Heaven Divine Formula, the ancestral fire-path technique created by the first progenitor of the Fire Spirit Clan.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor launched his Seven Luminaries Burning Heaven Seal at Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan’s fire lotus overwhelmed and devoured it.
• Xiao Yan’s fire lotus began gathering power enough to destroy Black Meteor Continent, so he seized Fire Spirit Ancestor and escaped with him through a Space Rift.
• The fire lotus exploded and reduced Black Meteor Continent to dust, purifying the Demonic Qi as Huo Tao and the others watched in shock.
• At Burning Heaven Peak, Fire Spirit Ancestor withdrew his power and admitted that he had lost to Xiao Yan.

The Fire Spirit Ancestor accepted defeat and agreed to take Xiao Yan to verify whether the Eternal Flame belonged to him. He led Xiao Yan and Tou She Ancient God into the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma, where he explained why the Fire Spirit Clan had chosen the Eternal Flame as its Sacred Fire.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor acknowledged Xiao Yan’s strength, accepted the wager’s outcome, and promised to retrieve the Sacred Fire if Xiao Yan’s claim proved true.
• Tou She Ancient God, Huo Tao, and the twelve Supreme Elders joined Xiao Yan and the Fire Spirit Ancestor as they headed into the City Lord’s Mansion.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor opened a passage beneath the mansion and led the group down to the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor showed Xiao Yan the flame seeds and ancestral Divine Fires in the magma sea, explaining that few clan members could withstand or earn recognition from the ancestral flames.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor explained that the Eternal Flame embraced all kinds of flames and had helped the entire clan grow stronger, so he had enshrined it as the clan-guarding Sacred Fire.

Tou She Ancient God reunited with the Fire Spirit Clan’s sacred flame, which recognized him as its true master and restored his strength. He stopped short of triggering the Heavenly Venerate Tribulation to protect the clan’s sacred land and planned to do so after leaving.

• Fire Spirit Ancestor explained the three regions of the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma and introduced the Sacred Fire Altar, where the clan’s sacred flame was enshrined.
• Tou She Ancient God approached the altar, and the Eternal Flame and the fire seeds throughout the magma sea responded to him with powerful resonance and submission.
• Tou She Ancient God called to the flame, and it broke free of its Formation bindings and flew into his palm.
• The Eternal Flame’s return caused Tou She Ancient God’s strength to soar from Upper Earthly Sovereign to Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign.
• Tou She Ancient God suppressed his power before it could trigger the Heavenly Venerate Tribulation, explaining that he would wait until he had left the Fire Spirit Clan’s sacred land.

Tou She Ancient God restored his source and thanked the Fire Spirit Clan for protecting it, while Xiao Yan witnessed his teacher’s return to strength. The Fire Spirit Ancestor welcomed Xiao Yan into the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma to seek recognition from the clan’s ancestral Divine Fires.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor apologized for distrusting Tou She Ancient God and explained that the sacred ground could withstand his Heavenly Venerate Tribulation, though its fire lightning would become far more dangerous there.
• Tou She Ancient God thanked the Fire Spirit Clan for safeguarding his source, and Xiao Yan rejoiced as his teacher’s aura became complete again.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor praised Xiao Yan and invited him to seek recognition from the ancestral Divine Fires in the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma.
• Huo Tao and the twelve Supreme Elders accepted the invitation, trusting that Xiao Yan’s connection with the clan would benefit them.
• Xiao Yan thanked the Fire Spirit Ancestor and agreed to visit the depths of the magma sea to view the ancestral inheritance Fire Seeds.