Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan encountered the Hall of Souls, the Yan Clan, and the Ancient Clan as they gathered near the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He reunited with Xun Er, who revealed that she had become a Dou Saint.

• Hun Feng met Xiao Yan and confidently said he would not lose to him, while Hun Zhu and Hun Miesheng waited for the seal to weaken.
• Xiao Yan told Cai Lin that they would pursue their own goals without making their connection to the Hall of Souls obvious.
• Huo Xuan arrived with Huo Zhi and Elder Huo Yao, and told Xiao Yan that he had obtained the Yan Clan's Eight Desolations Destruction Flame.
• Xun Er arrived with Gu Qingyang and a blue-robed elder, then greeted Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xun Er after their two-year separation, and she told him she had become a Dou Saint.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er, learned that she had become a Dou Saint, and discussed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the suspicions surrounding the Spirit Clan’s disappearance. As the Demon Flame Space grew increasingly unstable and the Dou God Clans gathered, the Yao Clan arrived with a woman whose soul power matched Xiao Yan’s Heaven Realm Great Perfection.

• Xun Er reunited with Xiao Yan and explained that becoming a Dou Saint had completed the maturation of her God Grade Bloodline; Xiao Yi Xian had also reached the Dou Saint level by absorbing poison from the Yellow Spring Blood Crystals.
• Gu Nanhai told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Clan had come to investigate the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while Xun Er explained that the Hun Clan repeatedly sought it and the Yan Clan wanted it to remain ownerless.
• Huo Yao said the Yan Clan distrusted the Ancient and Hun Clans over the Spirit Clan’s disappearance, then led Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi away; Xiao Yan suspected Hun Tiandi but acknowledged that no one had proof.
• As the Demon Flame Space heated and the desert began melting, the Lei Clan and Shi Clan arrived and kept their distance from the Ancient Clan and the Hun Clan.
• The Yao Clan arrived with Yao Tian, an Elder, and a blue-haired woman whose soul power had reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection; Xun Er pinched Xiao Yan’s waist and warned him not to be fickle in love.

At the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame gathering, Xiao Yan clashed with the Yao Clan over claims about his alchemy and his master, Yao Chen. He revealed his Three-Star Dou Saint strength and fought off Yao Tian and Yao Ling, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Xun Er explained that Yao Ling might develop an Emperor Realm Soul because of a remnant of the Yao Clan's Medicine Emperor, and Xiao Yan learned that she was considered a rare soul prodigy.
• Yao Tian questioned Xiao Yan's reputation as a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill Alchemist, and Xiao Yan and Zi Yan exposed that Yao Tian's achievement had depended on Yao Wangui's help.
• Yao Wangui claimed Xiao Yan's alchemy came from the Yao Clan's inheritance through Yao Chen, and Yao Tian insulted Yao Chen and challenged Xiao Yan to prove himself at the Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan attacked Yao Tian, revealed that he was an early-stage Three-Star Dou Saint, and struck Yao Wangui back while sending Yao Tian flying.
• Yao Ling blocked Xiao Yan's attempt to seize Yao Tian with a Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul attack, and the clash injured Yao Tian before Xiao Yan warned him to stop judging Yao Chen.

Xiao Yan defeated Yao Tian and forced the Yao Clan’s representatives to withdraw, then entered the space of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with Xun Er and his companions. The group faced the flame’s emotion-triggered danger, and Xiao Yan arrived in a strange world of intense milky-white fire.

• Xiao Yan’s Lightning Illusion Body helped him overpower Yao Tian, whose Turtle Spirit Earth Flame emerged as he raged.
• Yao Ling calmed Yao Tian, and Yao Wangui and the Yao Clan withdrew after Xiao Yan warned them their clan was in trouble.
• After waiting three hours, the gathered experts entered the opening to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Space as the seal began to break.
• Xun Er warned Xiao Yan that strong emotions could draw the Demon Flame, and Xiao Yan used the Fallen Heart Flame to offer the group protection.
• Xun Er asked about the Ancient Maps, and Xiao Yan suggested the Ancient Treasure Pavilion’s auction of a remnant map was no coincidence.
• Xiao Yan and his companions entered the strange flame-filled space, where he used his Heavenly Flames to shield himself from the scorching heat.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er reunited in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist and fought through its Fire Slaves to reach a great gate leading toward the flame’s true body. They entered the Demon Flame Great Hall together, while Xiao Yan sensed an unexplained unease.

• Xiao Yan escaped an illusion of Venerable Yao by using Fen Jue to refine strands of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then reunited with Xun Er.
• Xun Er explained that the Nightmare Sky Mist had separated the group, and Xiao Yan used the Fallen Heart Flame to confirm the others were still alive.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er passed burning Dou Zuns while their combined Heavenly Flame protection kept the Nightmare Sky Mist from attacking them.
• Thousands of Fire Slaves swarmed Xiao Yan and Xun Er, and they discovered that Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside the slaves purified their attacks when the slaves were destroyed.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er broke through the great gate with their Clan Marks and entered the Demon Flame Great Hall, where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s true body was said to be located.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er fought their way through more trials in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's space and confronted a powerful, mind-controlled Four-Star Dou Saint. After their first attacks failed to overcome him, they unleashed two Heaven Rank High-Level techniques, the Flame Emperor Seal and the Ancient Emperor Seal, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Xiao Yan and Xun Er broke through two more halls of Fire Slaves and reached a trial guarded by a middle-aged man whose strength rivaled a peak Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan identified the man as a surviving expert controlled by the Nightmare Sky Mist, and he and Xun Er activated their God Grade Clan Marks before engaging him.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er attacked together with their Heavenly Flames and Combat Techniques, but the man’s blood-colored axe split their Great Extinction Finger and Yellow Spring Finger attacks.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er decided to stop conserving Dou Qi and formed the Flame Emperor Seal and Ancient Emperor Seal, with Xun Er adding her essence blood to the Ancient Emperor Seal.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er freed Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control and learned he was an ancestor of the Xiao Clan. They followed him to the altar, where Xiao Yan exposed the white-robed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as an illusion, though the surrounding Nightmare Sky Mist still made the space seem both real and false.

• Xiao Chen revealed the Xiao Clan Mark, and Xiao Yan recognized him as a possible clan elder before Xiao Chen identified himself as Xiao Chen.
• Xun Er and Xiao Yan defeated the controlled Xiao Chen with their Emperor Seals, then used Golden Emperor Burning Flame and Fallen Heart Flame to clear the Nightmare Sky Mist from him.
• Xiao Chen learned that the Xiao Clan had been destroyed and that Xiao Xuan had fallen, then agreed to lead Xiao Yan and Xun Er to the Demon Flame Source.
• Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Xiao Chen reached the altar, where a white-robed figure offered them the Demon Flame Source and his inheritance if they defeated him.
• Xiao Yan exposed the figure as a false Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Mao Wu emerged to confront the illusion.

Xiao Yan exposed the Nightmare Sky Mist illusion and used Mao Wu’s Nihility Devouring Flame Heaven Sub-Flame to break it, revealing the true Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and freeing the others. As the gathered fighters faced the flame’s true body, Xun Er suggested Xiao Yan use it to activate the Demon Flame Remnant Map.

• Xiao Yan realized that the apparent journey to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame had been an illusion designed to make him a Fire Slave.
• Xiao Yan and Mao Wu destroyed the false scene with Sub-Flame Devours the World, opening a passage to the true Heavely Flame Space.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er emerged into the Lava Sea, where Xiao Chen began struggling against the Purification Lotus Demon Flame’s control again.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived with Little White Rabbit and Tuan Tuan, whose Pill Qi temporarily suppressed the power controlling Xiao Chen, while the others escaped their illusions.
• The true Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared before Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the gathered Dou God Clans, as Cai Lin warned that the group might not be able to capture it.
• Xun Er suggested Xiao Yan use the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to burn the Demon Flame Remnant Map, and Xiao Yan considered that it might activate the map.

Xiao Yan secretly used Mao Wu’s swallowed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to activate the remnant maps, then faced the flame’s deadly attack alongside the gathered experts. With the Space Channel erased and most weaker fighters killed, Xiao Yan urged the surviving factions to unite against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and they agreed.

• Xiao Yan hid his knowledge of the remnant maps and quietly moved back while Mao Wu revealed that it had swallowed a small amount of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan touched the remnant maps to Mao Wu’s flame, causing their patterns to reveal a formation-like design before the maps turned to ash and white lines entered his mind.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame erased the Space Channel and trapped everyone in a vast fire prison, where its power caused weaker fighters to burst into flames and die.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame killed most fighters below Dou Sheng and summoned ten powerful Fire Slaves, leaving the survivors badly outnumbered.
• Xiao Yan called on the rival factions to cooperate against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Hun Miesheng and the clan elders agreed to join forces.

Xiao Yan and the Hall Master of the Hall of Souls led seven powerful Dou Saints in an attack on the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while their allies fought its Fire Slaves. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame overwhelmed the group at first, but after they unleashed their full strength, Xiao Yan opened with a powerful technique as the battle continued.

• Xiao Yan and the Hall Master of the Hall of Souls agreed to join forces with the Dou God Clans against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while Xiao Yan told Cai Lin and Zi Yan to hide their strength.
• Xiao Yan arranged for Xiao Chen to stay back as a concealed trump card, and Xiao Chen vowed to protect him and give everything for the Xiao Clan.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned a Fire Demon Halberd and struck the seven attackers with a flame wave and a giant magma hand, leaving them injured and at a disadvantage.
• Xiao Yan activated the Xiao Clan's God Grade Clan Mark, and the other five clan elders unleashed their full strength as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame focused its greed on Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames.
• The ten Dou Saint Fire Slaves attacked the gathered allies; Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xun Er engaged several of them while Cai Lin and Zi Yan watched the main battle.
• Xiao Yan used Double Grand Creation Palm, forming two huge black spheres that clamped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame between them.

Xiao Yan and the others sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with the Hall of Souls’ Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array, but Hun Miesheng tried to claim it for the Hun Clan. Zi Yan stopped him, and Xiao Yan ended by throwing the sealed flame to Yao Wangui.

• Xiao Yan and six allies attacked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then Hun Miesheng urged them to power the Heavenly Net Sealing Demon Array.
• Xiao Yan gave the others Tier 8 medicinal pills, and the group poured their strength into the array until it sealed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Miesheng tried to take the sealed pillar, but Zi Yan appeared and punched him into the sea of fire.
• Zi Yan sent the pillar to Xiao Yan, who taunted Hun Feng and then threw it to Yao Wangui.

Xiao Yan exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s feigned capture, and his group launched a coordinated assault against it. After the Flame unleashed its Demon Flame Divine Statue and nearly seized Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen intervened, while Cai Lin’s borrowed ancestral power battered the Flame and drove it into the ground.

• Xiao Yan revealed that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had let itself be sealed, and its escape blast badly injured Yao Wangui.
• Cai Lin and Zi Yan attacked the Flame together, while Qing Lin empowered the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent and Xiao Yi Xian broke through its Fire Lotus barrier.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er struck with the Flame Emperor Seal and Ancient Emperor Seal, but the Flame summoned its Demon Flame Divine Statue and sent them flying with its roar.
• The Flame reached for Xiao Yan, but Xiao Chen recovered his strength, advanced to Five-Star Dou Saint Middle Stage, and shattered the divine statue with the Heaven Splitting Three Axes.
• Cai Lin summoned a serpent net using the souls of her ancestors, forcing the Flame to destroy its divine statue and attempt an escape before her snake tail slammed it into the ground.

Cai Lin severely injured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but it recovered and rose to Six-Star Dou Saint strength within its Demon Flame Space. Xiao Yan joined Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to begin sealing it with their Strange Flames, while the Hun Clan revealed that Soul Demon Old Man had been concealed among them.

• Cai Lin struck the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into the sea of fire, then transformed back into human form as the gathered clans marveled at her power.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame emerged from the flames stronger than before, and Xiao Yan's group formed a pincer formation against it.
• Xun Er suggested that Xiao Yan use his Fen Jue and Strange Flames to seal the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Miesheng summoned Soul Demon Old Man, whose appearance angered the other clan elders and exposed the Hun Clan's hidden trump card.
• Xiao Yan gathered Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian and released ten Strange Flames, then began the technique Exotic Flame Seals the Heavens.

Xiao Yan and his allies weakened the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and exposed its Source Fire Seed, while Huo Yao and the Yan Clan tried to detonate the Demon Flame Space rather than let anyone claim it. Xiao Yan sent Mao Wu to swallow the Yan Clan’s three Heavely Flame Sources, turning the confrontation into a struggle over whether the fire formation could be stopped.

• Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian used twelve Heavenly Flames to seal and suppress the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but its powerful counterattack wounded Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Cai Lin, Xiao Chen, Soul Demon Old Man, and Hun Miesheng joined the fight, while Gu Nanhai and others helped block the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s World Purification Fire Palm.
• Qing Lin distracted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Zi Yan and Cai Lin struck together, giving Xiao Yan an opening to reveal and bind its Source Fire Seed.
• Huo Yao, Huo Xuan, and Huo Zhi formed the Three Phases Fire Formation with their Heavely Flame Sources to detonate the Demon Flame Space and prevent anyone from claiming the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yan summoned Mao Wu, whose Void Swallowing Flame Sub-flame began drawing in the three Sources; Mao Wu revealed two Soul Marks as Huo Yao and the others struggled to resist.

Xiao Yan and Mao Wu seized the Fire Cloud Water Flame from the Yan Clan as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation. Xiao Yan stopped the formation and was possessed by the Purification Lotus Demon Saint, who confronted the flame.

• Xiao Xuan's Soul Mark helped Mao Wu subdue the Yan Clan's Exotic Flames, but Huo Yao sacrificed the Fire Cloud Water Flame's explosion to retrieve the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame and Red Lotus Karma Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation, broke Xiao Yan's seals, and began turning its power against everyone in the Demon Flame Space.
• Soul Demon Old Man fled toward the Space Channel, and Xiao Yan sent his companions away before confronting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame alone.
• Xiao Yan unleashed his Soul Power and stopped the formation, then collapsed as the Purification Lotus Demon Saint's figure emerged from his body.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame recognized the Purification Lotus Demon Saint, who rebuked it for its violence and warned that it would destroy the Dou Qi Continent if allowed to grow.

Xiao Yan’s final Asura Soul Severing Technique tribulation emerged as a three-headed, six-armed soul clone and joined forces with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame against the Purification Lotus Demon Saint. Xiao Yan began forming an Emperor Rank Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus from his eleven Heavenly Flames and the demonic flame’s power, leaving the clash poised to erupt.

• The Purification Lotus Demon Saint seized control of the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation and began stripping the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s memories and violence while sending the others toward the exit.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed its full power, but the Demon Saint trapped it inside the formation as Xun Er and the others fled.
• Xiao Yan’s final tribulation erupted, producing a three-headed, six-armed soul clone that blasted the Demon Saint away and broke the demonic flame’s seal.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame entered the soul clone, which took control of the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation and turned against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan summoned his eleven Heavenly Flames and received the Demon Saint’s strength, beginning to form an Emperor Rank Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus that alarmed the soul clone and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Xiao Yan joined forces with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to forge a God Stage Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, defeating the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation. He found the Demon Flame Source after the battle, and Fen Jue was on the verge of reaching the Di class.

• Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Demon Flame Space and lent Xiao Yan their flames, Dou Qi, and Soul Power as he formed the fire lotus.
• Xiao Yan activated the Hun Clan Tribal Mark, raised his Soul Power to the Emperor Realm, and created a fourteen-petaled God Stage Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan detonated the fire lotus against the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation, erasing the Asura Soul Severing Technique's consciousness as the Purification Lotus Demon Saint shielded him and passed on his inheritance.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that he had collected three pieces of the Tou She Ancient God Jade and ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to attack the Shi Clan when its members returned to the Stone Realm.
• Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian survived the explosion and found the Demon Flame Source drifting across the Lava Sea, while Xiao Yan sensed that Fen Jue was about to break through to the Di class.

Xiao Yan began refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame inside the sealed Demon Flame Space and endured a year of agony before gaining control of it. He then claimed the space’s stored flame energy, while Xiao Yi Xian reacted uneasily to the prospect of refining it.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Three-Faced Asura Statue, sensed a barrier to Emperor Realm Soul Power, and decided to refine the purified flame because the group could not leave the Demon Flame Space.
• Xiao Yan and the two women recovered for seven days; outside, Zi Yan returned to Dragon Island while Cai Lin and Qing Lin waited before departing.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill and began refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, which engulfed him and inflicted severe damage.
• Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Technique to share the damage with its statue and stabilize himself as Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian watched.
• After a year, Xiao Yan completed the refinement, controlled the Demon Flame Space, and gathered its stored flame energy.
• Xiao Yi Xian blushed and refused the flame energy, while Xun Er looked puzzled and Xiao Yan feigned innocence.

Xiao Yan shared the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s energy with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian, raising their Cultivation Levels while pursuing intimacy with both women in the secluded Demon Flame Space. He then returned to cultivation, working to Fuse Heavenly Flame and refine the Fire Cloud Water Flame as another year passed.

• Xiao Yan transferred refined Demon Flame energy to Xun Er, whose Golden Emperor Burning Flame protected her as she absorbed it and cultivated with him.
• Xiao Yi Xian sealed her senses and cultivated while Xiao Yan and Xun Er absorbed energy; afterward, Xiao Yan embraced her and asked about her Woeful Poison Body and Poison Pill.
• Xiao Yan examined Xiao Yi Xian’s condition while she agreed to let him check for changes in her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan began cultivating again, planning to Fuse Heavenly Flame, study the Purification Lotus Demon Saint’s techniques, and refine the Fire Cloud Water Flame.
• Xiao Yan continued refining and fusing two Heavenly Flames in the Demon Flame Space, and another year of cultivation passed.

While Xiao Yan and the others remained trapped in the Demon Flame Space, the Flame Alliance lost territory as the Shi Clan vanished and the Three Clans Alliance reshaped the continent’s balance of power. Yun Yun broke through to Dou Sheng and, with Nalan Yanran, prepared the Flame Alliance to reclaim its lands, though they still had no news of Xiao Yan.

• During Xiao Yan’s absence, the Flame Alliance weakened and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and other factions seized its territory and resources.
• The Shi Clan mysteriously vanished like the Spirit Clan, prompting suspicion of the Hun Clan and Ancient Clan and unsettling the remaining Ancient Clans.
• The Yao, Lei, and Yan Clans formed the Three Clans Alliance, abolished the pact restricting powerful Dou Saints, and began intervening in disputes across the continent.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen joined the Flame Alliance’s Alchemy Hall and defeated the Yao Clan’s younger alchemists, while Venerable Tian Huo advanced to the Initial Half-Saint realm.
• After two years of secluded cultivation, Nalan Yanran reached Nine Revolutions Dou Zun and Yun Yun used a Bodhi Pill and the Flower Sect inheritance to break through to One-Star Dou Sheng.
• Yun Yun asked Nalan Yanran for news of Xiao Yan, then agreed that the Flame Alliance should protect its allies and reclaim territory taken from it.