Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan faced the Gray Pill Lightning summoned by the Strange Flame Poison Pill, which threatened to destroy both the pill and everyone nearby. After the academy’s defenses failed, he used eight Heavenly Flames and the Asura Soul Severing Technique to fight his way toward the thunderclouds, reaching Nine Star Dou Ancestor as he prepared to make the pill succeed.

• The Gray Pill Lightning struck the Inner Academy, petrifying and shattering the Thousand Layer Guardian Formation and the Books Collection Pavilion’s Space Lock.
• Qian Bai Two Elders and the academy’s elders tried to defend the Books Collection Pavilion, but its barriers could withstand only two strikes.
• Xiao Yan activated the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change and swallowed several Tier 7 pills to raise his strength.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler with eight Heavenly Flames, clashed with the gray lightning, and charged toward the thunderclouds.
• Xiao Yan released his Spirit Realm Soul Power and the third form of the Asura Soul Severing Technique, raising his Cultivation Level to Nine Star Dou Ancestor.

Xiao Yan fought the Gray Heavenly Tribulation with his soul and an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus, but the battered thundercloud struck him down. Xiao Yi Xian saved him and retaliated with her Woeful Poison Body, while the thundercloud remained and a bizarre creature began to emerge.

• Xiao Yan used Asura Subjugates the Heavens to clash with the Gray Heavenly Thunder, then unleashed a Destruction Fire Lotus that badly damaged the thundercloud.
• A surviving bolt of gray lightning struck Xiao Yan, leaving him gravely wounded and unconscious in a crater.
• Xiao Yi Xian appeared, crushed the lightning tribulation, and attacked the thundercloud with the Calamity Demon Poison Claw.
• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed her Woeful Poison Body and Poison Pill, summoning a bizarre gigantic creature as the thundercloud persisted.

Xiao Yan’s Forbidden Pill resolved Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and produced a powerful, intelligent Zhen Bird Pill Beast whose poison destroyed the Pill Lightning. After Xiao Yan woke and learned what had happened, Xiao Yi Xian thanked him with a kiss, leaving their bond newly intimate.

• Xiao Yi Xian’s Thousand-Eyed Pill Beast poisoned the onlookers’ vision and melted the thundercloud and Pill Lightning.
• The Qian Bai Two Elders realized Xiao Yan’s alchemy had cured Xiao Yi Xian and created an extraordinary poison beast.
• Xiao Yan awoke in the Books Collection Pavilion with his wounds bandaged and his head resting on Xiao Yi Xian’s lap.
• Xiao Yan identified the little bird as a Zhen Bird and marveled at its intelligence and power.
• Xiao Yi Xian thanked Xiao Yan for saving her and kissed him.

Xiao Yan recovered from his battle with Xiao Yi Xian, discovered lingering Heavenly Punishment lightning inside his body, and decided to head to Burning Flame Valley for its Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and the complete Skyfire Three Mysterious Change. After teaching alchemy at Jia Nan Academy, he heard Xin Lan's plea to save her clan.

• Xiao Yan lent the Netherworld Poison Flame to Xiao Yi Xian, who had reached the level of a four-star Dou Zun, and recovered from his injuries.
• Xiao Yan found gray Heavenly Punishment lightning trapped inside his body and planned to seek Burning Flame Valley's Nine Dragons Thunder Flame to remove it.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left the Books Collection Pavilion, and Xiao Yan taught alchemy at Jia Nan Academy for ten days, demonstrating how to refine the Huangji Pill.
• Xiao Yan called Xin Lan into the hall to hear her request, and Xin Lan knelt and begged him to save her clan.

Xin Lan revealed that the Ye Family was at risk of losing its Pill Tower Council of Elders seat after failing two evaluations, and asked Xiao Yan to help it pass the next one. Xiao Yan agreed in exchange for the Ye Family supplying the Flame Alliance with pills and helping the Mittel Auction House establish itself in the Pill Domain, and planned to arrive there before the evaluation.

• Xiao Yu comforted Xin Lan, who introduced herself as a member of the Ye Family, one of the Pill Domain's Five Great Families.
• Xin Lan explained that the Ye Family had failed two evaluations and needed a young alchemist to rank in the top three to keep its Council of Elders seat.
• Xiao Yan considered the political risks of intervening, while Xin Lan offered to do anything if he would save her family.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the Ye Family supply the Flame Alliance with pills below Sixth Grade and help the Mittel Auction House establish a foothold in the Pill Domain.
• Xin Lan accepted Xiao Yan's offer, and he learned that the evaluation would take place in about a year before the Pill Gathering.

Xiao Yan left Jia Nan Academy with his companions after giving Su Qian a method for resolving the Woeful Poison Body and bidding farewell to Ya Fei, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Yu. He returned to the Small Mountain Valley, then announced he was heading to Burning Flame Valley to obtain the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame, despite Xin Lan warning that it could not be controlled without Burning Flame Valley’s cultivation method.

• Xiao Yan gave Su Qian a Strange Flame Poison Pill Method scroll that only someone with the Woeful Poison Body could open.
• Xiao Yan said goodbye to Ya Fei, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Yu before leaving Jia Nan Academy with his companions through a Space Channel opened by Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan promised Zi Yan he would take her to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan after winning the Pill Gathering, and Xin Lan was shocked by his confidence.
• Xiao Yan and the others reached the Small Mountain Valley, where Xiao Yi Xian gave him her Soul Jade Pendant and said she would rush to his aid if he was in danger.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan and Xin Lan he was going to Burning Flame Valley, and Xin Lan warned him that the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame could not be used without Burning Flame Valley’s Azure Underworld Nether Flame Tactic.

Xiao Yan traveled from the Northwest Region to the Scorching Volcano Mountain Range to reach Burning Flame Valley, using the journey to cultivate the Emperor Seal Technique. After discovering his puppet Xing Tian had strengthened during the trip, he encountered a group discussing Burning Flame Valley’s headquarters and the dangers of cultivating with the region’s violent fire energy.

• Xiao Yan told Xin Lan to practice alchemy, reassured Zi Yan that he would return soon, and gave the Big and Little Lion Kings the True Flame Manipulation Skill for Venerable Tian Huo.
• Xiao Yan visited the Snake-People Empire, learned Cai Lin had been summoned to perform a secret technique, and left Medicinal Pills and a message with Hua She'er.
• Xiao Yan traveled through Space Wormholes toward Burning Flame Valley, using Xing Tian as a vehicle while he practiced the Earth Overturning Seal.
• After more than ten days, Xiao Yan reached the Scorching Volcano Mountain Range and found that space travel had polished Xing Tian’s bronze body to a silver-white color.
• A group below explained that Burning Flame Valley lay within the mountain range and warned that its violent fire energy needed to be purified before cultivation.

Xiao Yan followed new recruits into Burning Flame Valley, then used Mao Wu’s black flame to slip through its immense Space Lock. Inside the hidden valley, he searched for Tang Zhen and learned that Tang Huo'er was nearby.

• Jia Lun escorted recruits toward Burning Flame Valley and explained its disciple ranks and fire-attribute requirements.
• Xiao Yan learned that Tang Zhen possessed the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and that Tang Huo'er had previously failed to merge with it.
• Jia Lun opened the Space Lock with a token, so Xiao Yan and Mao Wu burned a small passage through it after the recruits entered.
• Xiao Yan entered Burning Flame Valley’s verdant self-contained world and hid from a patrol of powerful disciples.
• Xiao Yan found no help from the Xiao Clan’s Clan Decree, then overheard disciples discussing Tang Huo'er’s strength and training.

Xiao Yan was discovered in Burning Flame Valley and fought through its disciples before facing Tang Huo'er, whose secret technique he recognized and used. The battle ended with Valley Master Tang Zhen arriving and demanding to know how Xiao Yan knew the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change.

• Tang Huo'er tested Burning Flame Valley's disciples with her meteor hammers while Xiao Yan watched, then exposed him as an outsider because he hid his Cultivation Level.
• Xiao Yan evaded and defeated the disciples, broke their Flame Locking Array, and accepted Tang Huo'er's challenge to earn a meeting with Tang Zhen.
• Tang Huo'er overwhelmed Xiao Yan with her Netherfire Nine Hammer Technique, but Xiao Yan used the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change to raise his strength and strike her with the Mountain Splitting Seal.
• Tang Huo'er demanded to know how Xiao Yan knew Burning Flame Valley's secret art, and Tang Zhen arrived and asked Xiao Yan who he was and why he knew it.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself as Xiao Yan of the Flame Alliance, and Tang Zhen reacted with surprise at his surname.

Xiao Yan revealed to Tang Zhen that he was Xiao Xuan’s descendant and asked to learn the remaining two changes of the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change. Tang Zhen accepted his claim and led him to Burning Flame Valley’s inheritance crystal, where Xiao Yan prepared to study the complete art.

• Tang Zhen questioned Xiao Yan about his surname and the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change, while Third Elder Wu Chen demanded that Xiao Yan cripple a meridian or join Burning Flame Valley.
• Tang Zhen sent Tang Huo'er to escort Xiao Yan to a guest room and ordered the disciples to double their training for a month because they had failed to capture him.
• Xiao Yan told Tang Zhen that Xiao Xuan had created the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change and sent him to learn it, and Tang Zhen confirmed that Burning Flame Valley’s valley masters had secretly preserved that history.
• Tang Zhen agreed to let Xiao Yan cultivate the art’s remaining two changes and took him with Tang Huo'er to the Dou Technique Pavilion.
• Tang Zhen opened the inheritance crystal on the pavilion’s third floor and explained that it held the complete cultivation method and generations of experience, and Xiao Yan reached out to study it.

Xiao Yan mastered the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change through Burning Flame Valley’s inheritance crystal, then revealed his Eighth Grade Alchemist abilities while offering to cure Tang Huo’er’s Fire Poison. He asked Tang Zhen to lend him the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame for ten years so he could gain the strength to go to the Ancient Clan, leaving Tang Zhen to consider his request.

• Xiao Yan entered the inheritance crystal and learned the complete Skyfire Three Mysterious Change while Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er watched its brilliant light astonished.
• After mastering the technique, Xiao Yan learned that Tang Huo’er’s Fire Poison had flared up and that only a Fire Bodhi Pill could cure it.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine the Fire Bodhi Pill himself and revealed his Spirit Realm Soul Power, shocking Tang Zhen and Master An with his Eighth Grade Alchemist ability.
• Xiao Yan asked to borrow the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame for ten years and promised to help Tang Zhen with alchemy whether or not he refined the Heavenly Flame.
• When Tang Zhen asked why Xiao Yan needed the flame, Xiao Yan said he wanted to go to the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yan refined a Fire Bodhi Pill that cured Tang Huo'er, then asked Burning Flame Valley to lend him the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame for ten years. The elders demanded he pass a strength test before entering Flame Valley, and Xiao Yan chose to face Wu Chen to demonstrate his Skyfire Three Mysterious Change.

• Xiao Yan explained why he needed the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame to stabilize his rapidly rising Cultivation Level and help Fen Jue evolve, then Tang Zhen agreed to consider lending it after Xiao Yan refined the Fire Bodhi Pill.
• Xiao Yan used his Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron and Void Swallowing Flame Earth Sub-flame to refine the pill in six days, and Xing Tian endured its Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan gave the Fire Bodhi Pill to Tang Zhen, who passed it to Tang Huo'er and later summoned Xiao Yan to discuss the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame.
• Tang Huo'er told Xiao Yan that Tang Zhen and the elders were waiting, and Xiao Yan learned that he had to pass an elder assessment before he could enter Flame Valley and refine the flame's origin.
• Xiao Yan rejected the proposed test against the Second Elder and said he would face Wu Chen for ten exchanges, intending to test his Skyfire Three Mysterious Change.

Xiao Yan accepted the Burning Flame Valley Second Elder’s test and used the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change to rise from an Eight Star Dou Emperor to a Five-Star Dou Ancestor. He stunned the gathered elders and disciples by sending the Second Elder flying with his first attack, then met the elder’s full-powered counterattack with the Mountain Splitting Seal.

• Xiao Yan agreed to face the Second Elder for ten moves, while Tang Zhen warned him that the elder was a Nine Star Peak Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan performed the three changes of the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change, using his flames to raise his strength to Five-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Bone Wings and used Three Thousand Lightning Movement and Eight Extremities Collapse to punch the Second Elder into the ground.
• The Second Elder recovered and vowed to stop holding back as he charged Xiao Yan with a full-powered attack.
• Xiao Yan answered the Second Elder’s palm strike with the Mountain Splitting Seal, and their collision shook the plaza.

Xiao Yan fought Burning Flame Valley’s Second Elder in a ten-move trial, revealing increasingly powerful abilities and ultimately proving he could defeat him. Tang Zhen agreed that Burning Flame Valley would lend Xiao Yan the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame for ten years, leaving Xiao Yan poised to use the Grandmaster Pill to break through to Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan avoided Second Elder’s Mountain Splitting Seal by passing through the void, then counterattacked with Heavenly Flame techniques and an Ancient Dragon’s Roar.
• Xiao Yan and Second Elder exchanged powerful attacks, and Second Elder used Skyfire Three Mysterious Change to raise his strength to Half-Step Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan activated Asura Soul Severing, temporarily raised his strength, and injured Second Elder with a soul attack.
• Second Elder knocked away Xiao Yan’s Heavy Xuan Ruler and overpowered his Earth Overturning Seal, but urged him to stop and offered to discuss lending the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed a four-colored Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus as his tenth move, forcing Tang Zhen to intervene and shield the valley from the explosion.
• Second Elder conceded, and Tang Zhen agreed that Burning Flame Valley would lend Xiao Yan the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame for ten years.

Xiao Yan recovered and entered Burning Flame Valley’s Flame Valley to refine the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame, but Old Ancestor Burning Flame’s manifestation removed its seals and gave it to him. After three months of cultivation and refining ten Heavenly Flames, Xiao Yan emerged at the Three-Star Peak Dou Ancestor level.

• Xiao Yan recovered from his battle with Second Elder and joined Tang Zhen in the Flame Valley to refine the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame.
• The Yin-Yang Twin Flame awakened Old Ancestor Burning Flame’s manifestation, which recognized Xiao Xuan’s legacy, removed the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame’s seals, and sent the flame into Xiao Yan.
• Tang Zhen declared Xiao Yan a permanent friend of Burning Flame Valley and ordered Second Elder and Third Elder to apologize to him.
• Xiao Yan refined the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame and cultivated in the Flame Valley for three months, while Mao Wu absorbed the surrounding Heavenly Flame energy.
• Xiao Yan fused the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame with his other flames, made it his tenth refined Heavenly Flame, and reached the Three-Star Peak Dou Ancestor level.

After reaching Three-Star Peak Dou Ancestor and evolving Fen Jue to Heaven Rank Intermediate, Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance and reunited with pregnant Cai Lin. He then learned that Han Yue and Han Xue wanted the Han Family to join the alliance, giving him a reason to confront the Wind and Thunder Pavilion at the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly.

• Xiao Yan discovered that refining the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame had raised his cultivation and, alongside Mao Wu’s evolution into an Earth Sub-Flame, advanced Fen Jue to Heaven Rank Intermediate.
• Xiao Yan left Burning Flame Valley after saying goodbye to Tang Zhen, who ordered an investigation into Liu Qing’s connection to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan returned to Cai Lin, learned that their child was developing, and heard that two women had come looking for him.
• Han Yue introduced her younger sister Han Xue and asked Xiao Yan to let the Han Family join the Flame Alliance because the Hong Family and Wind and Thunder Pavilion were oppressing them.
• Xiao Yan agreed to attend the Four Directions Pavilion Assembly and considered taking the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body.

Xiao Yan agreed to bring the Han Family into the Flame Alliance and sent Zi Yan to protect Han Yue and Han Xue from the Hong Family and Wind and Thunder North Pavilion. After spending three days with Xiao Yi Xian, he traveled to Bone Transformation City and learned about the rare Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.

• Xiao Yan arranged for the Han Family to join the Flame Alliance and promised Zi Yan would deal with the threats against them.
• Zi Yan confronted Xiao Yan for being away for three months, then set out to help Han Yue and collected medicinal ingredients for herself.
• Xiao Yan taught Xiao Yi Xian alchemy for three days, discussed the coming Four Directions Pavilion Assembly, and left the valley.
• Xiao Yan went to Bone Transformation City, where the Flame Alliance and Wind and Thunder Pavilion competed for influence.
• An old man told Xiao Yan about the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, which appeared for five days after an energy tide at the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range to secure places in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool for the Flame Alliance, where he destroyed Fei Tian’s clone and learned the Wind and Thunder Pavilion was prioritizing Phoenix Miss’s breakthrough. Phoenix Miss arrived with powerful guards and dismissed warnings about Xiao Yan, leaving their confrontation looming as the blood pool approached.

• Xiao Yan bought a map and headed for the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range after learning that contestants fought for the blood pool’s limited places.
• Xiao Yan encountered Fei Tian’s Lightning Illusion Body in Bone Transformation City and destroyed it with a single strike.
• Fei Tian told Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s disciples not to start an all-out war with the Flame Alliance, as Phoenix Miss’s attempt to break through to Dou Ancestor took priority.
• Xiao Yan spent several days refining pills in the Void Space to draw Pill Lightning for Xing Tian before arriving at the mountain range.
• Phoenix Miss arrived on a Seven-Colored Giant Crane, and Fei Tian warned her that Xiao Yan had reached Three Stars Dou Zun.
• Phoenix Miss dismissed the warnings and said she would kill Xiao Yan if he refused to serve her.

Xiao Yan reached the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range as the Energy Tide began, clashed briefly with Phoenix Miss, and concealed his identity in the fog. Elsewhere, Nalan Yanran killed three Earth Spirit Gate disciples who threatened her and the Spirit White Fox, then faced their scarred leader.

• The Energy Tide surged, and Xiao Yan followed the competitors toward the mountain while his Soul Power was suppressed.
• Xiao Yan overtook Phoenix Miss, repelled her attack, and burned her Seven-Colored Silk before she recognized him as the Flame Alliance's Xiao Yan.
• After elders arrived, Xiao Yan hid in the fog and concealed his aura, while Phoenix Miss continued up the mountain alone.
• Nalan Yanran refused to surrender the Spirit White Fox and killed three Earth Spirit Gate men with Wind's Extremity, Fallen Kill.
• The scarred Earth Spirit Gate leader praised Nalan Yanran's swordsmanship, and she dismissed his judgment.

Xiao Yan rescued Nalan Yanran from Wang Chen and accompanied her to the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, where she used a Spirit White Fox to cross the natural maze. When Nalan Yanran began the Gold Devouring Rat Clan’s trial for a pool spot, Xiao Yan prepared to help her, but clan leader Jin Shi approached him with a private offer.

• Xiao Yan appeared just as Wang Chen was about to defeat Nalan Yanran, burned Wang Chen’s fist with Black Flame, and demanded a place for the Flame Alliance at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.
• Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Yanran was the Flame Alliance’s only representative and followed her through the natural maze, holding her hand in the fog.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran reached the gathering platform, where representatives of the Four Directions Pavilion and the Gold Devouring Rat Clan had assembled.
• Jin Shi announced that the contenders had to pass the Rat Tide Sonic Wave Formation to compete for the remaining eight spots, and Nalan Yanran accepted Xiao Yan’s help.
• As Xiao Yan began preparing to assist Nalan Yanran, Jin Shi approached him privately to discuss a deal.