Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan followed Fire Spirit Ancestor into the depths of the Fire Spirit Clan’s magma sea and learned about the clan’s inheritance of ninety-seven Heavenly Sovereign Divine Fires, including those of the Three Saints and Eight Immortals. He approached the Immortal Grade ancestors’ pillars, where his Emperor Flame and Fen Jue drew an unprecedented response from their Divine Fires.

• Fire Spirit Ancestor led Xiao Yan, Tou She Ancient God, Huo Tao, and the Supreme Elders through the magma sea and explained its layers of Fire Seeds.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor showed Xiao Yan the ninety-seven Heavenly Sovereign ancestors’ Divine Fires and identified the Three Saints’ Altars and the Eight Immortals’ pillars.
• Huo Tao urged Xiao Yan to try the surrounding Spirit Grade Divine Fires, but Xiao Yan flew directly toward the highest inheritance.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor stopped Huo Tao from intervening and watched as Xiao Yan reached the boundary of the Immortal Grade pillars.
• Emperor Flame and Fen Jue protected Xiao Yan from the pillars’ pressure, and the ancestors’ Divine Fires hummed in response to him, shocking the others.

Xiao Yan’s use of the Fen Jue caused every fire in the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma to bow to him, a legendary sign of the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Fires. Fire Spirit Ancestor and the clan’s elders began to believe Xiao Yan was their first-generation Progenitor reincarnated, and the elders knelt to welcome his return.

• Xiao Yan paid respects to Nine Flames Immortal Venerable and prepared to seek the ancestor’s acknowledgment with his Fen Jue and blood essence.
• As Xiao Yan circulated the Fen Jue, the fires throughout the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma surged and bowed toward him in Ten Thousand Fires Paying Homage.
• Huo Tao asked Fire Spirit Ancestor what the phenomenon meant, and Fire Spirit Ancestor identified it as the legendary sign of the true Ancestor of Ten Thousand Fires.
• Huo Tao suggested Xiao Yan might be the Fire Spirit Clan’s first-generation Progenitor reincarnated, and Fire Spirit Ancestor found the possibility increasingly convincing.
• A white-haired Supreme Elder knelt before Xiao Yan and welcomed the Progenitor’s return, and the other eleven Supreme Elders followed suit.

Xiao Yan’s Fen Jue awakened the Fire Spirit Clan’s Divine Fires and the lingering souls of its eight Immortal ancestors, who identified it as the complete Burning Heaven Divine Formula. Nine Flames Immortal Venerable began explaining why the formula had vanished, revealing that the answer lay in the Fire Spirit Clan’s ancient war against the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm.

• Huo Tao and the Fire Spirit Clan elders knelt to Xiao Yan, mistaking him for their Progenitor as ten thousand Divine Fires paid homage.
• Tou She Ancient God wondered whether Xiao Yan’s Fen Jue came from the Fire Spirit Clan’s lost Burning Heaven Divine Formula.
• The eight Fire Spirit Clan Immortal ancestors awakened from the altar’s stone pillars, and Nine Flames Immortal Venerable recognized the complete Burning Heaven Divine Formula in Xiao Yan’s aura.
• Xiao Yan asked why the Fire Spirit Clan had lost its ancestral formula despite the ancestors’ lingering souls, and Nine Flames Immortal Venerable said they had been unable to pass it down.
• Nine Flames Immortal Venerable began recounting the first invasion of the Great Thousand World by the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm over fifty thousand years earlier.

Nine Flames Immortal Venerable and the other ancient Immortal Venerables recounted how the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm nearly destroyed the Five Spirit Clans, especially the Fire Spirit Clan. They revealed that the Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor had sent the Burning Heaven Divine Formula into the void before dying, and Xiao Yan suspected it had eventually reached the Dou Qi Continent.

• Nine Flames Immortal Venerable and Immortal Venerable Linghuang explained that the Five Spirit Clans were the source of the Great Thousand World's cultivation systems and were targeted because their progenitors might surpass Heavenly Sovereign.
• Immortal Venerable Fengjin, Immortal Venerable Zhuyuan, Immortal Venerable Yanyang, and Immortal Venerable Huanqiong described how the other four clans were devastated while the Immortal Emperor and other great forces were unable to aid them.
• The four Immortal Venerables recounted how the Fire Spirit Clan's three progenitors and its experts fought eight Heavenly Demon Emperors, killed five, and ultimately fell after being trapped in an enemy array.
• The Immortal Venerables said they died in the battle and escaped as fragments within their natal divine fires, while nearly all of the Fire Spirit Clan's elites were lost.
• Nine Flames Immortal Venerable revealed that the Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor sealed the complete Burning Heaven Divine Formula in his origin divine fire and sent it into the chaotic currents of the void.
• Xiao Yan suspected that the formula had drifted into the Dou Qi Continent and wondered why the lingering soul fragments could not teach it.

Immortal Venerables Fengjin, Linghuang, Zhuyuan, Zhuoxuan, Yechen, and Nine Flames revealed how the Evil Clan destroyed and cursed away the Fire Spirit Clan’s Burning Heaven Divine Formula, severing its inheritance. They explained that Fire Spirit had reached the pinnacle of Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign but could not advance without the complete Ancestral Art to unlock his bloodline.

• Immortal Venerable Fengjin condemned the demon traitors who helped the Evil Clan destroy the Burning Heaven Divine Formula’s inheritance records.
• Immortal Venerable Linghuang explained that a Heart Demon Heavenly Demon Emperor used the Five-Direction Blood Spirit Soul-Burial Great Curse to erase the Ancestral Art from memory and suppress the ancestors’ Lingering Soul Fragments.
• Immortal Venerable Zhuyuan and Immortal Venerable Zhuoxuan described how the Fire Spirit Clan’s inheritance collapsed, leaving later generations without proper cultivation methods or a way to unlock their bloodline mysteries.
• Immortal Venerable Yechen said that he, Linghuang, Jiuyan, and Zhuoxuan were the only clan members to reach Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign after the inheritance was severed.
• Nine Flames Immortal Venerable revealed that the Eight Immortals had reconstructed only an incomplete Burning Heaven Divine Art, and that Fire Spirit could not advance without the complete Ancestral Art.

Xiao Yan’s complete Fen Jue restored the Fire Spirit Clan’s lost Ancestral Art and awakened its ancient ancestors’ lingering souls. As the clan celebrated the return of its inheritance, three altars released the overwhelming aura of the clan’s progenitors, whose Lingering Soul Fragments began to awaken.

• The eight Immortal Grade ancestors thanked Xiao Yan for breaking the curse’s restraints, and he realized that Fen Jue was the complete Burning Heaven Divine Formula left by the Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan explained that his master retained a complete Cultivation Technique Jade Slip and that Tou She Ancient God had first cultivated the technique to completion in a lower plane, beyond the curse’s reach.
• The ancestors rejoiced that the complete Ancestral Art had survived, while Nine Flames Immortal Venerable lamented that its loss had kept his generation from reaching Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor, Huo Tao, and the Supreme Elders celebrated the restored inheritance, which offered the clan a path to advancement and revival.
• The three central altars shook and released chaos-colored, crimson-gold, and pitch-black beams as the three progenitors’ Lingering Soul Fragments awakened.

The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor revealed how he had hidden the Burning Heaven Divine Formula so its origin could one day break the Evil Clan’s curse and restore the Fire Spirit Clan’s inheritance. After thanking Xiao Yan for awakening the progenitors, he hinted that Tou She Ancient God also had a deep connection to him, leaving Tou She asking what he meant.

• The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor, Flame Sun Saint, and Nether Fire Saint Emperor awakened, and the Fire Spirit Clan welcomed them back.
• The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor thanked Xiao Yan and explained that the complete Burning Heaven Divine Formula had reached him as Fen Jue, whose origin aura broke the curse suppressing the clan’s lingering souls.
• The progenitors revealed that their deaths on the Void Battlefield followed a traitor’s leak of their whereabouts, and that the Evil Clan had cursed the clan to prevent the Ancestral Art’s return.
• Xiao Yan realized that Fen Jue had enabled him to rise and had now restored the Fire Spirit Clan’s inheritance.
• The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor addressed Tou She Ancient God as someone with a great connection to him, and Tou She asked him to explain.

The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor revealed that Tou She Ancient God originated from his Divine Fire, then passed his perfected Burning Heaven Saint Art to Xiao Yan and Fire Spirit Ancestor. Xiao Yan used the art to reach late Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and left with a complete cultivation path toward the realm beyond Heavenly Sovereign.

• The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor revealed that Tou She Ancient God was born from a wisp of his Origin Divine Fire, making Tou She his direct descendant.
• Fire Spirit Ancestor, Huo Tao, and the twelve Supreme Elders bowed to Tou She Ancient God as their Progenitor, and Tou She acknowledged his connection to the Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor.
• The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor explained that Xiao Yan's Fen Jue was incomplete and bestowed the perfected Burning Heaven Saint Art on Xiao Yan and Fire Spirit Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan used the Burning Heaven Saint Art to merge his twenty-two Heavenly Flames and break through to late Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan thanked the Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor for granting him the perfected art and a path beyond Heavenly Sovereign.

The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor restored the Fire Spirit Clan’s ancestral cultivation art and promised Xiao Yan a gradual path to late-stage Saint-grade Heavenly Sovereign within a hundred years. Xiao Yan then shocked the Three Saints and Eight Immortals by claiming he had a way to revive them.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor broke through his bottleneck after receiving the complete Burning Heaven Saint Art, and the Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor warned that only Heavenly Sovereigns could cultivate it safely.
• The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor told the Fire Spirit Clan to pass Fen Jue to disciples below Heavenly Sovereign and explained that the clan’s other ancestral inheritances remained lost.
• The Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor and the Nether Fire Saint Emperor advised Xiao Yan to fuse the Divine Fires gradually, and the Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor promised he could reach late-stage Saint-grade within a hundred years.
• Xiao Yan realized that the Fire Spirit Clan’s accumulated legacy explained his rapid rise in the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan announced that he might be able to revive the Three Saints and Eight Immortals, leaving everyone in the Sea of Ten Thousand Fire Magma stunned.

Xiao Yan promised the Fire Spirit Clan's ancient figures that he could revive them, citing his master Yao Chen's alchemical expertise and the Buddhist Sect's resurrection arts. The clan proclaimed Xiao Yan its young master, and Fire Spirit requested permission to enter seclusion and pursue an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign breakthrough.

• Xiao Yan explained how Lingering Soul Fragments could be restored and given new bodies with nourishing pills, divine fires, and natural treasures.
• Huo Tao connected Yao Chen to the Buddhist Sect's Future Buddha, convincing the Eight Immortals and Three Saint Ancestors that revival was possible.
• Immortal Venerable Linghuang wept with joy, while Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor celebrated the hope of ending the Fire Spirit Clan's long despair.
• Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor appointed Xiao Yan as the clan's young master, and the clan members bowed and pledged their obedience.
• Xiao Yan accepted the position and vowed to protect the Fire Spirit Clan, oppose the Evil Clan from Outside the Realm, and restore the clan's glory.
• Fire Spirit asked the Three Saint Ancestors, Tou She Ancient God, the Eight Immortal Venerates, and Xiao Yan for permission to enter seclusion and attempt an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign breakthrough.

Fire Spirit Ancestor received the Burning Heaven Saint Art and departed to cultivate for a breakthrough to Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign. Xiao Yan brought the Fire Spirit Clan’s ancestral flame legacies into the Wanyan Continent, where their laws transformed and expanded his inner world.

• Fire Spirit Ancestor thanked the clan’s progenitors and Xiao Yan, then left to pursue an Immortal Grade breakthrough.
• Nether Fire Saint Emperor asked Xiao Yan to revive the clan’s Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereigns first so they could help gather materials for future pills.
• Xiao Yan selected thirty-six Spirit Grade Divine Fires and opened the Wanyan Continent to house the clan’s flame legacies.
• Xiao Yan brought the Three Saints’ altars and the Eight Immortals’ pillars into the Wanyan Continent, where their souls and Divine Fires joined its Flame Laws.
• The Wanyan Continent’s laws reached unprecedented perfection, its Spiritual Energy became Fire Spirit Liquid, and Xiao Yan’s inner world expanded.

Xiao Yan received the Fire Spirit Clan’s gratitude and the protection of the Three Saints and Eight Immortals after restoring their Ancestral Art. Back at Fire God City, Tou She Ancient God broke through to Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, leaving the Fire Spirit Continent in shock.

• Cultivators across Wanyan Continent broke through in the Fire Path fortune, and Red Flame Extreme Emperor, Yanlong Extreme Emperor, and Qingming Extreme Emperor became Earthly Sovereigns.
• Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor promised that the Three Saints and Eight Immortals would protect Xiao Yan in a life-or-death crisis, and Xiao Yan thanked them.
• Primordial Fire Saint Ancestor mourned the Fire Spirit Clan’s losses to the Evil Clan, while Huo Tao and the Supreme Elders anticipated the clan’s revival.
• Xiao Yan returned to Fire God City with Huo Tao and the others.
• Tou She Ancient God drew down the Heavenly Venerate Tribulation above Fire God City and refined it with his Emperor Flame.
• Tou She Ancient God emerged from the tribulation as a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign, shocking the Fire Spirit Continent.

Tou She Ancient God faced two Demon Emperors attacking Fire God City shortly after advancing to Heavenly Sovereign. He blocked Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor’s opening strike with his new Eternal Fire Spirit Diagram, then prepared to meet the demon’s full-strength axe attack.

• Tou She Ancient God advanced to Heavenly Sovereign, and the Fire Spirit Clan celebrated his breakthrough.
• Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor and Demon Emperor Xuan Bing arrived at Fire God City, prompting Xiao Yan to stand by while Tou She Ancient God chose to fight them himself.
• Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor attacked Tou She Ancient God with a demonic fire palm and battle axe.
• Tou She Ancient God summoned the Eternal Fire Spirit Diagram and blocked the Demon Emperor’s first strike, protecting Fire God City from the worst of the shockwave.
• Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor unleashed his full-strength Fire Demon God-Slaying Axe, and Tou She Ancient God drove the diagram to meet it.

Tou She Ancient God advanced to the middle stage of Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign during his battle with the Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor and trapped him in the Ten Thousand Beast Emperor Flame Cauldron. Demon Emperor Xuan Bing attacked Fire God City to force Tou She Ancient God to divide his attention, while Huo Tao and the twelve Supreme Elders struggled to stop her.

• The Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor cracked Tou She Ancient God's Eternal Fire Spirit Diagram and wounded him with a powerful axe strike.
• Under the pressure of battle, Tou She Ancient God fully unleashed the Eternal Flame and advanced from early-stage to middle-stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Tou She Ancient God repaired the diagram, trapped the Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor in the Ten Thousand Beast Emperor Flame Cauldron, and began refining him.
• Demon Emperor Xuan Bing ignored the Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor's pleas and flew toward Fire God City to threaten the Fire Spirit Clan.
• Huo Tao and the twelve Supreme Elders formed the Twelve Earthly Branches Fire God Formation, but Demon Emperor Xuan Bing's Ice Demon Light Pillar shook it severely.

Huo Tao and the gathered experts turned the fight against Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor and Demon Emperor Xuan Bing, but the arrival of the vastly stronger Demon Emperor Xuanxin left them facing a new crisis. Huo Tao urged them to hold out for Mohe Ancient Clan reinforcements as Xuanxin descended onto the battlefield.

• Huo Tao and the twelve Supreme Elders held the Twelve Earthly Branches Fire God Formation against Demon Emperor Xuan Bing despite their injuries.
• The Howling Silver Wolf clan leader attacked Xuan Bing, and the watching experts joined the battle, forcing her to defend while Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor remained trapped in the cauldron.
• A Space Rift opened, and its demonic aura drove weaker cultivators mad before Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor and Xuan Bing welcomed Demon Emperor Xuanxin.
• Huo Tao identified Xuanxin as an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign and urged everyone to hold out for the Mohe Ancient Clan.
• Demon Emperor Xuanxin emerged from the rift, and his immense pressure made the battlefield tremble.

Demon Emperor Xuanxin overwhelmed Fire God City, shattering the Fire Spirit Clan’s formation and crippling its defenders before turning on Tou She Ancient God. Just as Xuanxin prepared to kill him, a massive Black Heavy Xuan Iron Ruler wreathed in Emperor Flame struck between them.

• Demon Emperor Xuanxin revealed that the Mohe Ancient Clan was pinned down in the Void Battlefield, extinguishing Huo Tao and the others’ hope for reinforcements.
• Xuanxin destroyed the Twelve Earthly Branches Fire God Formation with a Heart Demon Light Beam, leaving Huo Tao and the twelve Supreme Elders gravely injured.
• The Howling Moon Wolf Clan’s leader and the other factions attacked Xuanxin, but he annihilated their assault and nearly killed the wolf clan leader.
• Xuanxin freed Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor from the Ten Thousand Beast Emperor Flame Cauldron and forced him to bow.
• Xuanxin’s demonic might wounded Tou She Ancient God and he prepared to kill him, but a blazing Black Heavy Xuan Iron Ruler suddenly crashed down between them.

Xiao Yan arrived in Fire God City and used his Chaos Emperor Flame to suppress Demon Emperor Xuanxin, saving Tou She Ancient God and the Fire Spirit Clan. Xuanxin recognized Xiao Yan as a dangerous young Heavenly Sovereign and resolved to kill him before he could leave.

• Xiao Yan appeared through a sea of Emperor Flame, evaporated the Demonic Qi, and suppressed Demon Emperor Xuanxin's aura.
• The witnesses recognized Xiao Yan as the Flame Emperor who had recently defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor, and Huo Tao and the Supreme Elders rejoiced at his arrival.
• Xiao Yan reached Tou She Ancient God, restored some of his injuries with fire Spiritual Energy, and told him to recover while Xiao Yan took over the fight.
• Demon Emperor Xuanxin sensed that Xiao Yan's strength surpassed that of the Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign he had fought before and decided to kill him at any cost.

Xiao Yan countered Demon Emperor Xuanxin’s Heart Demon World with his Emperor Flame, then faced the demon emperor’s enormous Heart Demon Great Method attack. He calmly struck at the descending Demon Hand with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.

• Demon Emperor Xuanxin transformed hundreds of thousands of li into demon soil with Heart Demon World, threatening the people of Fire God City.
• Xiao Yan purified the demon soil with Emperor Flame Burning Heaven, burning away the tainted Demonic Qi.
• Demon Emperor Xuanxin unleashed Heaven-Invading Earth-Eroding Hand, summoning a colossal Demon Hand with a devouring eye in its palm.
• Huo Tao reassured Fire Ox Supreme Elder that Xiao Yan was protected by the progenitor and could withstand Demon Emperor Xuanxin.
• Xiao Yan swung the Heavy Black Ruler and formed a vast blade of twenty-two Heavenly Flames with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.

Xiao Yan defeated Demon Emperor Xuanxin’s Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Demon Statue with his Buddha Fury Emperor Flame Lotus. The attack left Xuanxin gravely weakened and his demonic body close to collapse.

• Demon Emperor Xuanxin summoned the Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Demon Statue and attacked Xiao Yan with its demonic weapons and Heart Demon Light Beams.
• Xiao Yan formed a fire lotus from twenty-two Heavenly Flames and launched his Buddha Fury Emperor Flame Lotus at Xuanxin’s attack.
• The fire lotus destroyed the demonic art and shattered the Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Demon Statue.
• Xiao Yan’s sea of fire broke through Xuanxin’s Demonic Qi barriers and engulfed him, blasting apart the space around him.
• Demon Emperor Xuanxin emerged with a cracked Demonic Body, a withering Demonic Soul, and almost all of his cultivation gone.

Xiao Yan thwarted Demon Emperor Xuanxin’s escape attempt, extracted and refined his soul, and claimed his intact body for the Endless Fire Domain. After Fire God City celebrated his victory, Xiao Yan turned to face the Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor and Demon Emperor Xuan Bing.

• Demon Emperor Xuanxin feigned a self-detonation to cover his escape, but Xiao Yan saw through his plan and sealed his Demonic Body and source Demonic Soul with Chaos Emperor Flame.
• Demon Emperor Xuanxin begged for mercy, but Xiao Yan extracted and refined his Demonic Soul into a Soul Crystal, preserving his body for puppet refining.
• Xiao Yan placed the Soul Crystal and Demon Emperor Xuanxin’s body in his Storage Ring and said they would be sent to his Teacher for the Endless Fire Domain.
• Fire God City’s residents and gathered experts cheered Xiao Yan after witnessing his victory.
• Xiao Yan faced the terrified Swallowing Flame Demon Emperor and Demon Emperor Xuan Bing and declared that it was time to settle the score with them.