Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan advanced through the Soul Palace training ground, defeated three Ice Snow Demon Wolves, and earned enough Soul Points to complete the Yellow-Rank Low-Level trial. In the Treasure Hall, he discovered a Mystic High-Rank soul cultivation method that could raise the Soul Realm to the Spirit Realm.

• Xiao Yan inferred that defeating opponents let him plunder their Soul Points, then considered how the Soul Palace trials resembled a dangerous treasure ruin.
• Xiao Yan arrived on a glacier and used Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and Eight Extremities Collapse to kill three Ice Snow Demon Wolves in under ten seconds.
• Xiao Yan gained six Soul Points from the wolves, reached ten total, and was promoted to Yellow Middle Grade after completing the Yellow-Rank Low-Level trial.
• Xiao Yan chose to enter the Treasure Hall instead of continuing to the next trial, hoping to find a method for cultivating the soul.
• Xiao Yan inspected the exchange options and found the Mystic High-Rank Spirit Heart Soul Gathering Art, which could let the Soul Realm reach the Spirit Realm at great perfection.

Xiao Yan learned that mastering a rare Soul Cultivation Method could raise his Soul Realm to the Spirit Realm, but he needed a Xuan Rank rating to obtain it. After clearing the Yellow-Rank Mid-Level Trial, he challenged the Yellow-Rank High-Level Trial and fought a Black Steel Giant Serpent.

• Xiao Yan studied the Soul Realm levels and resolved to earn a Xuan Rank rating so he could exchange for a Mystic High-Rank Soul Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yan used his Soul Token to return from the Treasure Hall to the trial ground and passed the Yellow-Rank Mid-Level Trial.
• Xiao Yan entered the Yellow-Rank High-Level Trial and faced a Second Rank Black Steel Giant Serpent in thick white mist.
• The Black Steel Giant Serpent ambushed Xiao Yan, knocked him into a mountain wall, and buried him under falling rocks.
• Xiao Yan hid his heat with an Ice Heart Pill, tricked the serpent with burning clothing, and burst from underground to strike its vulnerable spot with Eight Extremities Collapse.

Xiao Yan defeated a Black Steel Giant Serpent with Eight Extremities Collapse and used an Ice Heart Pill to conceal himself from its heat perception. He entered the next passage and faced Zhang Chuanwu, a poison master from the Chuyun Empire's Poison Sect, who threatened him after learning he was an alchemist.

• Xiao Yan used an Ice Heart Pill to hide his body heat, then killed the Black Steel Giant Serpent with Eight Extremities Collapse.
• Xiao Yan collected the serpent's Magic Core, recovered with pills, and cooked its meat before entering the passage.
• Xiao Yan dodged a poison attack from Zhang Chuanwu, who identified himself as a member of the Poison Sect.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself as a Tier 2 alchemist, provoking Zhang Chuanwu's resentment and threats.
• Xiao Yan mocked Zhang Chuanwu by comparing his threat to anesthetic surgery without an anesthesiologist license.

Xiao Yan fought Zhang Chuanwu, a poison master who relied on hidden attacks and poisonous insects, and gained the upper hand despite being weaker in cultivation. When Zhang unleashed a swarm of Poison Water Ants, Xiao Yan used his alchemy cauldron and a fire-attribute Magic Core to attack them, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhang Chuanwu attacked Xiao Yan with poison powder, a hidden arrow, and Poison Cloud Palm, but Xiao Yan dodged and countered with the Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Zhang Chuanwu realized Xiao Yan was only an Eight-Star Dou Zhe, yet Xiao Yan’s keen soul perception let him evade the poison master’s attacks.
• Xiao Yan tricked Zhang Chuanwu into lowering his guard, struck him from behind with Eight Extremities Collapse, and took a pill to delay the toxin in his body.
• Zhang Chuanwu revealed that he bred Poison Water Ants inside his body and released a swarm that attacked anyone stained with his Poison Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan ignited his alchemy cauldron, detonated a second-tier fire-attribute Magic Core inside it, and sent a wave of flames toward the swarm.

Xiao Yan defeated Zhang Chuanwu by using Bone Chiling Flame to destroy his poisonous insects, then earned the Yellow Rank High-Level Soul Envoy title and chose to challenge the Mystic Rank trial. After detoxifying himself, he entered the Mystic trial, where Hun Yucun was chosen to face him.

• Xiao Yan used a Bone Chiling Flame needle to kill Zhang Chuanwu’s Poison Water Ants, and Zhang Chuanwu died after losing them.
• Xiao Yan received the Yellow Rank High-Level Soul Envoy title and decided to continue to the Mystic Rank trial.
• Xiao Yan spent a day analyzing the poison in his body and refined an Antidote Pill to cure himself.
• Xiao Yan entered the Mystic Rank trial through a great door.
• An instructor in the Hun Realm sent Hun Yucun to face the outside-world challenger, and Hun Yucun looked forward to hunting him.

Xiao Yan faced Hun Yucun, a six-star Dou Shi from the Hun Clan, in the Mystic Rank trial arena suspended in the void. Hun Yucun’s soul-infused sword technique pierced Xiao Yan’s defense and struck his mind, leaving Xiao Yan injured as the battle continued.

• Xiao Yan entered a grassy arena floating in the void and met Hun Yucun, who demanded that he surrender his Soul Points and kneel.
• Xiao Yan refused and fought Hun Yucun, blocking his broadsword despite being only an eight-star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Yucun exchanged heavy blows, and Xiao Yan realized Hun Yucun’s strength and combat techniques surpassed Lu Xing’s.
• Hun Yucun formed armor from Soul Power and Dou Qi, then attacked Xiao Yan with the Mystic High-Rank Soul Tremor Blade.
• Hun Yucun’s blade sent a Soul Impact through the Heavy Xuan Ruler and struck Xiao Yan’s mind, making him spit blood.

Xiao Yan fought Hun Yucun, whose Soul Tremor Blade combined a saber technique with a soul attack, and used Eight Extremities Collapse to discover and exploit its weakness. Hun Yucun then activated the Dou God Bloodline to increase his strength beyond Xiao Yan’s ability to counter, leaving Xiao Yan to answer with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler.

• Hun Yucun pinned Xiao Yan with the Heavy Xuan Ruler and prepared to finish him with a Soul Severing Strike, but Xiao Yan struck him with Eight Extremities Collapse and sent him flying.
• Hun Yucun charged again with the Soul Tremor Blade, but Xiao Yan used the hidden force of Eight Extremities Collapse to knock the slash aside and sense where the saber concentrated its Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan repeated the counter, breaking the Soul Power condensed on Hun Yucun’s saber and exposing the weakness of the Soul Tremor Blade.
• Hun Yucun activated a bloodline secret technique, raising his strength to peak Nine-Star Dou Shi and strengthening his Soul Power until Xiao Yan could no longer counter the blade’s attack.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a Qi Recovery Pill, gripped the Heavy Xuan Ruler, and unleashed Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler against Hun Yucun.

Xiao Yan defeated Hun Yucun in the Mystic Low-Rank trial but suffered severe soul damage from a Soul Severing Strike. After recovering and reaching Nine Star Dou Zhe, he exchanged Soul Points for a Soul Strengthening Pill and chose to challenge an extra Soul Test.

• Xiao Yan charged Hun Yucun and struck with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, overpowering Hun Yucun's attack and knocking him into the void.
• Xiao Yan endured Hun Yucun's Soul Severing Strike, survived, and received the Mystic Low-Rank Soul Envoy title and two hundred Soul Points.
• Xiao Yan refused the Mystic Middle-Rank trial and exchanged forty Soul Points for a fourth-grade Soul Strengthening Pill.
• Xiao Yan took the pill to heal and strengthen his soul, then realized he had advanced to Nine Star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul Token to challenge the Soul Test.

Xiao Yan challenged the Hun Realm Passage’s Soul Test, learning the Soul Skill Soul Impact and using his powerful soul to break through all three Soul Light Membranes. He earned a Mystic High-Rank Soul Envoy title and wondered whether Alchemy could earn him more Soul Points.

• A Hun Clan Elder dismissed Hun Yucun’s death because he was a low-grade disciple without a Clan Mark.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul Token to enter the Soul Test, aiming to earn a higher evaluation and more Soul Points.
• Xiao Yan learned Soul Impact and realized the trial measured raw Soul Power rather than technique or Cultivation Level.
• Xiao Yan shattered the first two Soul Light Membranes, then broke through the third despite the strain on his Soul Body.
• The trial awarded Xiao Yan the Mystic High-Rank Soul Envoy title, and he asked Hun Xuzi whether Alchemy could earn him extra points.

Xiao Yan bargained with Hun Xuzi for Soul Points and a chance to obtain a Heavenly Flame, while learning why Hun Xuzi wanted him as an alchemy partner. The chapter left Xiao Yan preparing to demonstrate his talent by refining a Third Grade Pill.

• Xiao Yan asked Hun Xuzi whether alchemy could earn him more Soul Points and challenged Hun Xuzi's claim that he had offered to reward him with the Soul Token.
• Xiao Yan rejected Hun Xuzi's offer to take him as a disciple, saying he had no intention of joining the Soul Hall to study alchemy.
• Hun Xuzi revealed that he wanted Xiao Yan to eventually help refine a special pill because he could find no suitable Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill alchemist to work with him.
• Xiao Yan agreed in principle and hinted that a Heavenly Flame would help him advance; Hun Xuzi told him the Heaven Rank Treasure Hall held one.
• Hun Xuzi returned Xiao Yan to the grassy plain, where Xiao Yan set out herbs and a Second Rank Magic Core to refine a Third Grade Pill as a demonstration.

Xiao Yan passed Hun Xuzi’s test by refining three Third Grade Dou Armor Pills, then entered the Heaven-Tier Treasure Hall. There he discovered a dark planet in the void that appeared to be the birthplace of the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Xiao Yan calmly prepared to refine a pill and chose the Dou Armor Pill, whose ingredients suited his current strength.
• Xiao Yan controlled the Bone Chiling Flame, extracted the ingredients’ essences, purified the Magic Core’s resentment, and fused the materials.
• Xiao Yan produced three Dou Armor Pills in one furnace, impressing Hun Xuzi with his achievement.
• Hun Xuzi declared that Xiao Yan had passed the test and opened a black-hole passage to the Heaven-Tier Treasure Hall.
• Xiao Yan passed through the passage and saw a dark planet split open in the void, which he recognized as the Nihility Devouring Flame’s birthplace.

Xiao Yan searched the Hun Clan’s treasury on the Void Swallowing Flame’s birthplace for a Heavenly Flame Source Fire Seed. After a black fire gathered enough remaining flames to form a fist-sized sub-flame, he sensed that it contained the Source Fire Seed he sought.

• Xiao Yan used the Soul Token to approach the dark star and inspected the rewards available to a Heaven Rank evaluator.
• Xiao Yan considered the Emperor's Soul Decree but set it aside because he lacked its prerequisite and had come to seek a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan found the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change Secret Method, examined its dangerous requirements, and tossed it aside.
• The planet’s remaining Void Swallowing Flame gathered at a point in space and formed a black fire.
• Xiao Yan sensed a Heavenly Flame Source Fire Seed inside the fist-sized fire and identified it as the Void Swallowing Flame's Sub-flame.

Xiao Yan discovered that the Treasure Hall’s reward was an intelligent Void Swallowing Flame Sub-flame, which took the form of a tiny black cat. After Xiao Yan refined it, the sub-flame escaped his Soul Collection, but its love of pills and magical cores gave him a way to win its favor.

• Xiao Yan learned from Hun Xuzi that the Void Swallowing Flame Sub-flame could be refined like a Heavenly Flame, then carefully picked it up in the Treasure Hall.
• The sub-flame opened its eyes and meowed before the Soul Token returned Xiao Yan to reality with it on his shoulder.
• Xiao Yan recognized the black cat as a newly born Heavenly Flame Spirit and tried to convince it to sleep inside his Soul Collection.
• Xiao Yan refined the sub-flame with the Flame Mantra, but it walked out of his body and demonstrated its ability to pass between void and reality.
• The sub-flame ate Xiao Yan’s Ice Heart Pills, then eagerly gnawed on a Magical Beast Magic Core he offered it.

Xiao Yan refined the Void Swallowing Flame sub-flame, which evolved the Flame Mantra to Xuan-Rank Low-Level and helped him break through to Dou Shi. After testing his new flame and strength, he checked his Soul Token and found he had 11,060 Soul Points to spend.

• Xiao Yan used magic cores to feed the Void Swallowing Flame, then guided it into his Soul Collection to begin evolving the Flame Mantra.
• The Void Swallowing Flame fused with Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and Bone Chilling Flame, raising the Flame Mantra to Xuan-Rank Low-Level and transforming his Qi cyclone into liquid as he broke through to Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan formed the Void Black Flame in his palm and tested it in his alchemy furnace, but his attempt to refine a pill failed because he could not adjust to the flame’s speed.
• Xiao Yan tested his new strength and formed Black Flame Gauze Armor, celebrating his advancement to Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan checked his Soul Token and found an Earth Rank Low-Level evaluation and 11,060 Soul Points.

Xiao Yan left the Soul Path and visited the Soul Offering Old Shop to spend his Soul Points on information about Heavenly Flames. He learned that Han Feng was targeting Jia Nan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame and discovered that the weaker Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame was in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yan returned from the Soul Path after less than two days had passed outside, despite experiencing at least four days within it.
• Hun Lao Gui explained that Soul Points could buy goods and services from the Soul Hall through the Soul Offering Old Shop.
• Xiao Yan asked about Heavenly Flames, and Hun Lao Gui revealed that Han Feng was targeting the Fallen Heart Flame at Jia Nan Academy.
• Hun Lao Gui offered to help Xiao Yan take Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame, but Xiao Yan rejected the plan.
• Hun Lao Gui disclosed that the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame was in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, warning Xiao Yan that the location was dangerous for someone of his strength.

Xiao Yan learned that the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame might be in the dangerous Magical Beast Mountain Range, bought soul-cultivation information and Ice Spirit Cold Spring from Hun Lao Gui, and traveled to Green Mountain Town. He arrived with Mao Wu and prepared to seek the Heavenly Flame despite the uncertain reports and powerful beasts.

• Xiao Yan discovered that Soul Hall’s information about the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame was only a deduction based on the Magical Beast Mountain Range’s dense population of beasts and reports of fire-attributed energy.
• Xiao Yan complained about the information’s price, then exchanged Soul Points for the Spirit Heart Soul Gathering Art and a crate of Ice Spirit Cold Spring after Hun Lao Gui refused to provide his requested medicinal ingredients.
• Hun Lao Gui warned Xiao Yan to beware of the Yao Clan and Yan Clan, two Dou God Clans, if he sought Heavenly Flames.
• Ten days later, Xiao Yan traveled toward Green Mountain Town with Mao Wu and practiced the Spirit Heart Soul Gathering Art, using a Soul Robe to help gather soul particles.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Green Mountain Town, where mercenaries gathered before entering the Magical Beast Mountain Range, but found no news about Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan bought a batch of Yellow Lotus Essence and secretly obtained a rare Blood Lotus Essence before joining Ten Thousand Medicines Hall’s escort team into the Magical Beast Mountain Range. He earned the last spot by overpowering two mercenaries, while Xiao Yi Xian watched with interest.

• Xiao Yan recognized a piece of Blood Lotus Essence in a medicine shop and bought it along with more than ten jin of overpriced Yellow Lotus Essence.
• Xiao Yan discovered that only one piece of the herb was Blood Lotus Essence and heard that Xiao Yi Xian was the town’s famous physician.
• Xiao Yan learned that Ten Thousand Medicines Hall was recruiting escorts for a herb-gathering trip into the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Xiao Yi Xian would also travel.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself, suppressed his cultivation, and claimed the last escort spot.
• Xiao Yan forced two Two-Star Dou Zhe mercenaries to the ground, impressing the registrar and drawing Xiao Yi Xian’s curious attention.

Xiao Yan followed Xiao Yi Xian after noticing her secretly descend a cliff while the Herb Gathering Team rested. When she attacked him to keep him from discovering what lay below, he restrained her and demanded an explanation.

• Xiao Yan impressed the Herb Gathering Team by dodging a Snake-Tailed Leopard and kicking it away.
• Xiao Yan sensed someone heading below a cliff and left the resting group to investigate.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian gathering White Orchid Fruit below the cliff and helped her climb back up.
• Xiao Yi Xian sprayed white powder at Xiao Yan when he tried to look beneath the cliff, but his black Flame absorbed it.
• Xiao Yan pinned Xiao Yi Xian's arm behind her back and plucked one of her hairs as he demanded to know what was below.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to explore a hidden mountain cave together, then descended the cliff at night and entered it. After Xiao Yan defeated a Rock Snake, they reached a dead end deep inside the cave.

• Xiao Yan forced Xiao Yi Xian to reveal a hidden cave beneath the cliff, and they agreed to return after nightfall.
• Xiao Yan followed Xiao Yi Xian from the camp, then carried her down the cliff on a rope to the cave entrance.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian encountered a Rock Snake, which Xiao Yan dodged and sent tumbling off the cliff.
• Xiao Yan led Xiao Yi Xian through the dark cave until they reached a passage with no way forward.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian explored a poison master's tomb chamber, found valuable herbs and treasures, and uncovered a Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and a Flight Dou Technique. Mu Li arrived with mercenaries to seize them, and Xiao Yan prepared to fight as Xiao Yi Xian faced him.

• Xiao Yi Xian discovered how to open the Stone Gate, and she and Xiao Yan entered the tomb chamber.
• Xiao Yan secretly took a strange paper from the skeleton while Mao Wu burned the bones, and the pair split the medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian opened the first two boxes, finding the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and the Flight Dou Technique: Eagle Wings.
• Mu Li entered with mercenaries and ordered them to attack Xiao Yan while claiming Xiao Yi Xian for himself.
• Xiao Yan drew the Heavy Xuan Ruler and told Xiao Yi Xian to handle Mu Li as he faced the mercenaries.