Chapter Summaries

Lin Xuan realized that absorbing the black flames and fusing them with his gray flames was his only way to protect himself from Wusheng and Baihe. He examined the black flames’ destructive yet immense life force but could not yet understand their secrets.

• The young man warned Lin Xuan that he needed to fully fuse with the black flames to survive Wusheng and Baihe.
• Lin Xuan concluded that he had to absorb the black flames first, then combine them with the gray flames within him.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the black flames carried a life force far beyond any he had encountered and could make him nearly impossible to defeat.
• Lin Xuan tried to discern the black flames’ secrets but failed to comprehend them.

Lin Xuan searched for a way to approach and subdue the deadly black flames, realizing that anything with vitality would be destroyed by them. He decided to use his transformed soul, and the young man warned him that damaging it could ruin his cultivation foundation.

• Lin Xuan realized the black flames were too dangerous to approach with anything that carried vitality.
• Lin Xuan considered how the black flames were his only bargaining chip against Wusheng and Baihe, so he had to gain control of them.
• After exhausting other possibilities, Lin Xuan turned to his unusually powerful soul as a way to approach the flames.
• Lin Xuan released wisps of soul aura, and the young man warned him that risking his soul could damage his cultivation foundation.

Lin Xuan believed his soul might be the only way to merge with the black flames, despite the young man's warnings about the danger. After searching for another option and finding none, Lin Xuan pressed to investigate the flames with his soul, and the young man finally agreed to let him risk it.

• Lin Xuan argued that his soul might be the only thing capable of merging with the black flames.
• The young man urged Lin Xuan to keep searching for another method rather than risk damaging his soul.
• Lin Xuan studied the flawless black flames but could find no weakness or alternative path.
• Lin Xuan proposed using his unusually strong soul to control the black flames, and the young man warned they might burn him or take over his body.
• Seeing that Lin Xuan remained determined, the young man finally allowed him to take the risk.

Lin Xuan tried to absorb the black flame with his soul, despite the young man's warning that the attempt could destroy him. After the flame consumed his first wisp of soul, Lin Xuan sensed it was absorbing rather than burning him and decided to try again with more of his soul.

• The young man agreed to let Lin Xuan risk absorbing the black flame but warned him to sever the merged soul if anything went wrong.
• Lin Xuan decided to absorb the black flame, believing it was necessary to protect himself from Wusheng and Baihe.
• Lin Xuan sent a wisp of his soul into the black flame, and it vanished almost instantly.
• The young man urged Lin Xuan to stop, but Lin Xuan sensed the flame was absorbing his soul rather than burning it.
• Lin Xuan drew on more of his soul to attempt the absorption again.

Lin Xuan argued that the black flames absorbed souls rather than burning them, and persuaded the young man to let him test them again. The chapter ended with Lin Xuan risking a tenth of his soul as the young man rushed to stop him too late.

• Lin Xuan told the young man that the black flames were absorbing his soul, not burning it.
• The young man hesitated because he feared for Lin Xuan, whom he regarded as the true successor of Xuantian's Legacy.
• The young man allowed Lin Xuan to try again, warning him not to use his origin soul power.
• Lin Xuan sensed that the black flames seemed conscious and drew a tenth of his soul toward them.
• The young man tried to intervene after sensing Lin Xuan use more soul power, but it was too late.

Lin Xuan was trapped inside the black flames’ silent inner world, where their power slowly consumed his vitality. He searched for a way to collect the flames but found no clue before reaching what seemed to be the world’s end.

• The young man tried to pull Lin Xuan from the black flames, but they absorbed and burned away all the power he used.
• Lin Xuan realized the black flames were slowly consuming his vitality, though they no longer burned his soul.
• Lin Xuan recognized that he had entered the core of the black flames and began searching for a way to collect them.
• Lin Xuan explored the lifeless black world, searching for a hidden force or flaw, but found nothing.
• Lin Xuan reached what seemed to be the edge of the world without discovering its secret.

Lin Xuan discovered that the black world was silently scorching away his soul as well as his life force. Unable to find the cause, he was left searching for a way to stop his soul from burning.

• Lin Xuan noticed that the black clouds in the sky were shrinking his soul.
• Lin Xuan observed that his soul kept evaporating, with the loss growing to more than one percent.
• Lin Xuan realized that the black world naturally restrained souls and was burning his soul faster than his life force.
• Lin Xuan searched the black world for the cause but found no clues beyond its lack of life.

As the black world’s flames rapidly consumed his soul and body, Lin Xuan discovered a faint wisp of black fog that controlled the flames. With little time left, he decided to risk fusing with it to survive.

• Lin Xuan searched the silent black world for a flaw as its flames consumed his soul and vitality faster and faster.
• After his soul and body became severely depleted, Lin Xuan spotted a faint wisp of black smoke.
• Lin Xuan appeared before the smoke and realized it controlled the black flames and was gradually devouring them.
• Lin Xuan decided to fuse with the black fog despite the risk that it might kill him.

Lin Xuan merged his soul with the black mist, triggering a black dragon of flames and unbearable pain that threatened to make his soul disintegrate. He endured until the pain began to fade, leaving his soul fully fused with the mist and covered in black markings.

• Lin Xuan drew out his soul power and charged toward the black mist, causing the black flames to form a dragon and attack him.
• Lin Xuan merged his entire soul into the black mist, which fused with his soul but caused intense, needle-like pain in his brow.
• Lin Xuan feared the pain would disintegrate his soul and destroy his cultivation, but gritted his teeth and endured it.
• The pain gradually faded as Lin Xuan became completely fused with the black mist, which left black markings across his soul.

Lin Xuan discovered that a black mark in his soul was absorbing the black flames of the black world, allowing him to summon flames far more powerful than his World-Destroying Law. He continued absorbing them but searched for a faster method, since the process was too slow.

• Lin Xuan examined the black mark fused into his soul and found no other changes at first.
• Lin Xuan realized his soul was slowly absorbing the black flames without his awareness, and briefly feared an unfamiliar consciousness had fused with it.
• Lin Xuan's sense of his soul returned as black flames bloomed within it, and the mark became a small flame between his brows.
• Lin Xuan summoned a black flame and concluded he could control it through absorption but had not truly mastered it.
• Lin Xuan sat in the black world absorbing flames and began searching for a way to speed up the process.

Lin Xuan struggled to absorb the Moon Demon's black flames after taking in one-tenth of them, leaving him unable to summon their power. He searched the black world for something else that could absorb the flames but found nothing, and continued looking.

• Lin Xuan decided to absorb the black flames slowly because he feared their power would overwhelm his soul.
• After absorbing one-tenth of the Moon Demon's black flames, Lin Xuan's soul stopped and could no longer summon them.
• Lin Xuan searched the black world for more black mist, which had absorbed the flames before, but found none.
• Lin Xuan reasoned that something else in the black world must be able to absorb the flames and searched for it.
• Lin Xuan found nothing after searching for a long time and continued looking for a way to absorb the black flames.

Lin Xuan found another faint wisp of black mist and merged his soul with it, but the process caused him unbearable pain. As his soul began splitting and changing, he suspected that living two lifetimes had caused the problem.

• Lin Xuan searched the black world until he found a faint wisp of black mist.
• Lin Xuan merged his soul with the mist and felt intense, needle-like pain.
• Lin Xuan realized his soul was splitting and differentiating as it underwent a major transformation.
• Lin Xuan failed to identify the cause of his pain and suspected it came from his soul rather than the black mist.
• Lin Xuan wondered whether his soul had developed a serious problem because he had lived two lifetimes.

Lin Xuan discovered that the black mist was threatening to split his two-life soul apart, but he suppressed the danger and began absorbing it. Despite the black mist’s resistance and mounting pain, he continued the slow process of taking it into his soul.

• As Lin Xuan absorbed the black mist, it exposed the hidden flaw in his soul and nearly split him into two people.
• Lin Xuan identified the black mist as the cause and used his willpower to suppress the pain and protect his soul.
• Lin Xuan sent his soul deeper into the black mist, causing it to part and merge into his soul.
• The black mist intensified Lin Xuan’s soul-piercing pain in a last-ditch attempt to stop him, but he endured it and continued absorbing it slowly.

Lin Xuan endured intense pain as he absorbed the black mist, causing the terrifying aura around him to grow stronger. He then began absorbing the surrounding black flames, confident that he would eventually absorb them all.

• Lin Xuan sensed a terrifying aura emerging as the black flame between his brows grew denser.
• Lin Xuan withstood the pain in his soul and forcibly absorbed the black mist despite its fierce struggle.
• The last of the black mist transformed into Lin Xuan's power, and his aura surged outward.
• The surrounding black flames rushed toward Lin Xuan and were absorbed by him.
• Lin Xuan opened his eyes, expressed confidence that he would absorb all the black flames, and continued absorbing them slowly.

Lin Xuan absorbed more black flames, gaining a faint trace of the aura of a Supreme Expert of Heaven and Earth, then searched the black world for more black miasma. He found a strange, scorched wisp and realized that black flames could escape from and injure black miasma.

• Lin Xuan absorbed black flames until the black miasma around him reached its limit, bringing his total to two-tenths of the flames in the black world.
• Lin Xuan noticed the remaining black flames seemed to avoid him and continued searching the black world for more black miasma.
• Lin Xuan found a wisp of black miasma in a remote corner, marked by faint traces of black flames.
• Lin Xuan concluded that black flames could break free from black miasma and scorch it in return.

Lin Xuan discovered that black mist continuously absorbed black flames until the flames burst out and dispersed it, while black mist could slowly form within the flames. Worried the black flames in his soul had reached the limit his body could bear, he fused with a terrifying mass of black mist, leaving it gradually merging with him.

• Lin Xuan understood how black mist absorbed black flames and how black mist formed within them.
• Lin Xuan feared the black flames in his soul might turn on him because they had reached his body's limit.
• Lin Xuan released his soul and approached the black mist despite its intense heat and the pain in his eyes.
• The black mist produced strange auras and formed a cage of wisps to stop Lin Xuan's soul from reaching its core.
• Lin Xuan's powerful soul suppressed the black mist, and he gradually fused with it.

Lin Xuan absorbed a massive black mist and discovered a terrifying consciousness struggling inside it. After overpowering the consciousness, he cautiously absorbed only eighty percent of the mist’s black flames and found that the amount exceeded what he had gained from the previous two masses combined.

• Lin Xuan sensed a powerful consciousness trying to escape when he had absorbed eighty percent of the black mist.
• Lin Xuan unleashed stronger soul force and absorbed the mist completely, preventing its consciousness from breaking free.
• Lin Xuan limited his absorption of the black flames to eighty percent and controlled its speed to avoid danger.
• A day later, Lin Xuan opened his eyes and realized he had absorbed more black flames than from the previous two masses combined.

Lin Xuan searched the black world for more black mist and found a chilling wisp that could harm his soul and influence his emotions. He cautiously approached it, realizing its power was even more frightening than the young man's method.

• Lin Xuan resolved to keep searching for black mist so he could absorb the remaining black flames.
• Lin Xuan discovered a wisp of black mist that radiated bone-chilling cold despite the black world's heat.
• Lin Xuan approached the mist cautiously as its cold began to cause minor damage to his soul.
• Lin Xuan realized the mist could also affect his emotions and try to make him utterly indifferent.

Lin Xuan resisted the black mist’s attempt to freeze and alter him, then used the black flame protecting his soul to absorb it. As his soul merged with the mist, he found himself in a place filled with despair.

• Lin Xuan resisted the black mist’s cold influence as he slowly approached it.
• The mist injured Lin Xuan’s soul, so he surrounded it with a terrifying black flame.
• Lin Xuan sent his body and soul into the black mist and began absorbing it despite its struggle.
• Lin Xuan’s soul merged into the black mist, where he sensed despair like that of the Yellow Springs of the Nine Hells.

Lin Xuan realized the black mist was trying to make his soul collapse by enveloping it in despair. He chose to force his way into the mist and absorb it, but a terrifying aura from its core made his soul falter as he approached.

• The black mist changed its method and began surrounding Lin Xuan's soul with despairing aura.
• Lin Xuan recognized the threat, gathered his soul, and used his willpower to resist the despair.
• Lin Xuan concluded that resisting in place would eventually fail, so he decided to fuse with and absorb all the black mist.
• Lin Xuan released his soul toward the black mist, using the mysterious aura he had gained from absorbing it to keep his soul together.
• As Lin Xuan approached the core, a powerful aura of despair struck him and briefly stalled his soul.