Chapter Summaries

After two years in the Demon Flame Space, Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian emerged stronger, and Xiao Yan promised to find a cure for Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body. Back at the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan learned that the Shi Clan had been destroyed and began to question the Hun Clan’s true strength.

• Yun Yun broke through to Dou Saint, while Nalan Yanran took command of the Flame Alliance’s position on the Demon Flame Plain.
• Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the Crystal Egg after Xiao Yan absorbed the Demon Flame Space’s Heavenly Flames energy, and they were joined by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Fire Spirit, Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body made it impossible for her to bear a child, and he vowed to cure her with a pill if necessary.
• Xiao Yan tore open the space and returned with Xun Er and Xiao Yi Xian to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Yu recognized them and notified the Xiao Clan.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan about the Flame Alliance and the past two years, including the Shi Clan’s destruction, which left Xiao Yan wondering whether the Hun Clan had hidden its strength.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Cai Lin after returning from the Demon Flame Space, then went to the Yellow Spring Mountain Range to help Qing Lin. He began purifying the negative forces within Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils as her accumulated power erupted.

• Xun Er left to return to the Ancient Clan, and Xiao Yan told her to contact him if the Hun Clan attacked.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she would visit the Xiao Realm and then return to Creation Valley to study her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Yellow Spring Mountain Range and reunited with Cai Lin, Xiao Xiao, and Xiao Cai.
• Xiao Yan showed Cai Lin the spirit formed by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and went with her to find Qing Lin.
• The Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent released Qing Lin, whose cultivation surged as the negative emotions of her Snake Slaves invaded her soul.

Xiao Yan purified the negative emotions in Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and reassured her of his affection before returning to the Beast Domain’s political affairs. He arranged for Nalan Yanran to challenge Feng Qing’er, using the match to test Feng Qing’er’s loyalties, and learned that Yun Yun had broken through to Dou Saint.

• Xiao Yan used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to cleanse Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, awakening her and helping the pupils begin to bloom.
• Qing Lin worried that Xiao Yan no longer wanted her, but he comforted her, and Cai Lin affirmed that she would protect Qing Lin as her elder sister.
• Xiao Yan considered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s expansion and decided to test Feng Qing’er’s loyalties while assessing the obstacles to Zi Yan unifying Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yan secretly returned to the continent, then arranged for a Challenge Letter to be sent in Nalan Yanran’s name, challenging Feng Qing’er over territory near the Yellow Spring Mountain Range.
• Nalan Yanran confronted Xiao Yan about impersonating her, and he explained that her Cultivation Level was close to Feng Qing’er’s and revealed that Yun Yun had reached Dou Saint with help from the Bodhi Tree.

Xiao Yan promised to help Nalan Yanran reach Dou Saint if she accepted a challenge from Feng Qing’er, while Feng Qing’er faced pressure to choose between loyalty to Xiao Yan and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s plans. Three days later, the Bet Battle drew attention across the Middle Continent and Beast Domain, with both women preparing to face each other.

• Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran that accepting Feng Qing’er’s challenge would earn his help in breaking through to Dou Saint, and Nalan Yanran agreed to fight without deliberately losing.
• Feng Qing’er discussed the Flame Alliance’s Challenge Letter with Phoenix and worried about Xiao Yan’s absence, Huang Tian’s power, and the threat posed by the North Dragon King’s alliance with Huang Tian.
• Feng Qing’er decided she had to attend the Bet Battle at Ten Thousand Bones Plain, regardless of whether the challenge was genuine or a test of her allegiance.
• Three days later, the Bet Battle between Nalan Yanran and Feng Qing’er became a major topic across the Middle Continent and Beast Domain.

Nalan Yanran and Feng Qing'er’s duel drew powerful observers, as many suspected the Flame Alliance was testing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan before helping Zi Yan unite Dragon Island. Xiao Yan and Yun Yun watched from a pavilion, where Xiao Yan revealed his strength and intentions while resting in Yun Yun’s care, awaiting Feng Qing’er’s arrival.

• Crowds and powerful observers gathered at the Ten Thousand Bones Plain, speculating that the Flame Alliance might unite the continent’s forces against the Dou God Clans.
• Nalan Yanran arrived with formidable Sword Intent, while Yun Yun appeared in a cloud pavilion and drew the attention of the onlookers.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan what he would do if Feng Qing’er refused the challenge, and he said her absence would spare him trouble but could leave the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan facing destruction.
• Xiao Yan explained that he wanted to avoid complications before helping Zi Yan unify the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and that he intended to honor his promise to Feng Qing’er rather than exterminate her clan.
• Xiao Yan rested with his head on Yun Yun’s chest as she gently cared for him, while the crowd waited for Feng Qing’er.

Nalan Yanran fought Feng Qing'er in a high-profile battle over the Yellow Spring Mountain Range, revealing her formidable swordsmanship against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan heir. She wounded Feng Qing'er with a precise strike, while Xiao Yan and Yun Yun watched from a hidden pavilion.

• Feng Qing'er arrived alone on a Seven-Colored Giant Crane and faced Nalan Yanran across the battlefield.
• Nalan Yanran released her killing aura and drew the Cloud Slayer Black Sword as Feng Qing'er challenged her to attack.
• Nalan Yanran countered Feng Qing'er's Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body with black-and-white sword qi and unleashed the Heaven Rank Mountain River Azure Wind Slash.
• Feng Qing'er answered with Heavenly Thunder Overturning the Sea, and the two Heaven Rank attacks collided across the battlefield.
• Nalan Yanran pierced the Thunder Sea with Wind's Extremity, found a flaw in Feng Qing'er's Demon Phoenix Bell, and wounded her shoulder.
• Yun Yun praised Nalan Yanran's Sword Dao, and Xiao Yan told Yun Yun that Nalan Yanran had surpassed her as a swordswoman.

Xiao Yan secretly tested Feng Qing’er’s loyalty during her duel with Nalan Yanran, who ultimately defeated her with a sword strike infused with Heavenly Flame. After the battle, Feng Qing’er entered Yun Yun’s pavilion at night to meet her, while Xiao Yan’s return signaled that greater events were ahead.

• Xiao Yan watched Nalan Yanran fight Feng Qing’er and instructed Nalan Yanran to leave openings so he could judge Feng Qing’er’s intentions.
• Feng Qing’er seized Nalan Yanran’s apparent opening, but later deliberately let her own Dou Qi stall, revealing that she did not want to oppose the Flame Alliance.
• Nalan Yanran unleashed the Yin-Yang Twin Flame hidden in her sword and defeated Feng Qing’er, winning the Yellow Spring Mountain Range for the Flame Alliance.
• Huo Zhi saw Nalan Yanran’s Heavenly Flame and suspected that Xiao Yan had returned, while news of the duel spread across the Middle Continent.
• Feng Qing’er arrived at Yun Yun’s pavilion in disguise after nightfall, and Yun Yun waited for her inside.

Xiao Yan returned from the Demon Flame Space and learned that the North Dragon King might be plotting with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan against East Dragon Island. He sent Yun Yun to warn Zi Yan, then went to Soul Hall to make preparations and was attacked by Hun Miesheng.

• Xiao Yan frightened Feng Qing'er when he appeared, then questioned her about the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Three Dragon Islands.
• Feng Qing'er reported that Huang Tian had reached the Five-Star Dou Saint Late Stage and might have met with the Phoenix Supreme Elder at the North Dragon King's request.
• Xiao Yan ordered Feng Qing'er to investigate the North Dragon King's plans and sent Yun Yun to East Dragon Island with a message for Zi Yan.
• After Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran interrupted Xiao Yan and Yun Yun, Xiao Yan went to Soul Hall's Earth Hall to prepare for what was coming.
• Hun Miesheng attacked Xiao Yan with an intermediate Heaven Rank Dou Technique that drained the souls of Soul Hall's Protectors, Venerables, and Tianzun.

Xiao Yan defeated Hun Miesheng with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, inherited control of the Hall of Souls, and entered a hidden passage to meet the Void Swallowing Flame’s true form. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking whether he was now qualified to cooperate with it.

• Xiao Yan purified Hun Miesheng’s devastating palm and revealed that he had reached the peak of the Five Star Dou Saint level.
• Hun Miesheng relinquished his Hall Master token, declared the Hall of Souls’ original mission complete, and left after relaying Hun Tiandi’s message about the Medicine Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan branded the token with his Soul Power, became the new Hall Master, and ordered the Hall of Souls’ members to resume their duties.
• Xiao Yan and Mao Wu opened a hidden passage with the Void Swallowing Flame and found the true form consuming the collected Soul Origins of the Shi Clan and Spirit Clan.
• Xiao Yan faced the Void Swallowing Flame and asked whether refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had made him qualified to cooperate.

Xiao Yan rejected Nihility Devouring Flame’s offer to help him become a Dou God, then learned that Tou She Ancient God had created Fen Jue and was once the Heavenly Flame ranked first. The revelation left Xiao Yan wary as Nihility Devouring Flame explained that Tou She Ancient God had become Emperor Flame by devouring the other Heavenly Flames.

• Nihility Devouring Flame offered to help Xiao Yan become a Dou God if he retrieved the Emperor Grade Pill Embryo from Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion, but Xiao Yan exposed its earlier bargain with Hun Tiandi and refused.
• Xiao Yan found and crushed the Devouring Seed Nihility Devouring Flame had hidden in him, then explained that he would not risk his life for a mere promise of help.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to leave, Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that Tou She Ancient God had practiced Fen Jue, making Xiao Yan suspect the cultivation method had been created by a Dou God.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Xiao Yan that Tou She Ancient God had trapped and refined it, then escaped after Tou She Ancient God broke through to Dou God.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that Tou She Ancient God had been a Heavenly Flame who devoured the other Heavenly Flames and became Emperor Flame, the first-ranked Heavenly Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained that it later chose Hun Tiandi during the Tunling Clan war, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had once chosen the Purification Lotus Demon Saint.

Xiao Yan rejected Nihility Devouring Flame’s request to help explore Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion and stayed hidden while the Flame Alliance grew stronger. After helping Nalan Yanran become a Dou Saint, he received an unexpected visit from Huo Zhi, who had come to discuss something with him.

• Xiao Yan questioned Nihility Devouring Flame’s motives and refused to get involved while Hun Tiandi remained his ally.
• Xiao Yan secretly refined a Bodhi Great Return Pill for Nalan Yanran, then playfully tried to teach Xiao Yi Xian alchemy.
• Xiao Yan helped Nalan Yanran advance to Dou Saint and left the Flame Alliance’s management to Yao Ye, Ya Fei, Xiao Ding, and the others.
• Huo Zhi arrived at the Yellow Spring Mountain Range and asked Qing Lin whether Xiao Yan had returned.
• Xiao Yan invited Huo Zhi inside, and she saw that he had safely returned from the Demon Flame Space.

Xiao Yan agreed to protect Huo Zhi’s Yan Clan branch in exchange for the Red Lotus Karma Flame, which he extracted from her and kept for inspection before refining. The next day, Feng Qing’er brought news that the North Dragon King still had the Dragon Transformation Demon Array.

• Huo Zhi revealed that she wanted Xiao Yan to preserve her Yan Clan branch if disaster struck, and offered him the Red Lotus Karma Flame in exchange.
• Xiao Yan agreed to do his best to protect the branch and extracted the Red Lotus Karma Flame from Huo Zhi, leaving her to recuperate in the Snake-People Empire.
• Xiao Yan examined the flame with Cai Lin and decided to inspect it carefully before attempting to refine it.
• Feng Qing’er reported that the North Dragon King still possessed the Dragon Transformation Demon Array, a forbidden formation that strengthened its formation eye by devouring everyone else inside.

Xiao Yan learned that the North Dragon King had completed the Dragon Transformation Demon Array and hurried to East Dragon Island to help Zi Yan lead an expedition. As Huang Tian trapped Cai Lin and Qing Lin in the Snake-People Empire and prepared to kill Feng Qing'er, a powerful Soul Power erupted from her body.

• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin learned that the North Dragon King had blood-sacrificed the Ancient Void Dragon Clan through the Dragon Transformation Demon Array, and Xiao Yan left Cai Lin and Qing Lin to guard the Snake-People Empire.
• Xiao Yan traveled to East Dragon Island with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, met Zi Yan, and explained the threat of the array.
• Zi Yan ordered East Dragon Island's forces to assemble and led an expedition toward North Dragon Island, where the North Dragon King waited in ambush.
• Huang Tian arrived at the Snake-People Empire and revealed that he had deceived Feng Qing'er with false intelligence while conspiring with the North Dragon King.
• Huang Tian seized the wounded Feng Qing'er and raised his hand to kill her, but a powerful Soul Power erupted from her body.

Cai Lin and Qing Lin repelled Huang Tian’s attack on the Snake-People Empire, turning the battle against the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. After Cai Lin overwhelmed Huang Tian with her evolved power and Qing Lin’s support, he used a blood escape technique to flee.

• Xiao Yan’s Soul Severing Strike protected Feng Qing’er from Huang Tian, and Cai Lin had her carried away for treatment.
• Cai Lin revealed her Nine-Colored Devouring Heaven Python form and rallied the Snake-People Empire as Huang Tian’s forces attacked.
• Cai Lin fought Huang Tian with Nine-Colored Heavenly Thunder while Qing Lin and the Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent supported her.
• Cai Lin transformed into her true form and battered Huang Tian, forcing him to recognize the strength of her python Soul Bodies and Qing Lin’s pupils.
• Cai Lin prepared to eliminate the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, but Huang Tian struck his chest and fled with the Demon Phoenix Blood Escape Technique.

Cai Lin wounded Huang Tian with her Nine-Colored Heaven Devouring Lightning, but Hun Miesheng intercepted him and revealed that he had come under orders to kill him. On North Dragon Island, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan found the North Dragon King had used the Dragon Transformation Demon Array to devour countless clan members, and Zi Yan fought the empowered king as Xiao Yan began rescuing survivors.

• Qing Lin sealed Huang Tian’s escape with the Azure Snake Demon Realm, allowing Cai Lin to pierce him with her Nine-Colored Heaven Devouring Lightning.
• Hun Miesheng emerged from a Black Flame Passage, blocked Huang Tian’s retreat, and killed him after revealing he was acting under orders.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan arrived at North Dragon Island and discovered that the North Dragon King had used the Dragon Transformation Demon Array to consume most of the island’s inhabitants, including the West Dragon King and South Dragon King.
• Xiao Yan organized a rescue while Zi Yan broke through the island’s barrier and challenged the North Dragon King, who appeared as a three-faced monster wielding a Dragon Slaying Sword.
• The North Dragon King matched Zi Yan’s attacks and hurled three captured Ancient Dragon Race members at her.

Xiao Yan appeared just as the North Dragon King’s Dragon Transformation Demon Array was about to consume Zi Yan and the young dragons, then turned the fight around with the Red Lotus Karma Flame and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He trapped the North Dragon King between the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation’s two vast fire arrays and vowed to refine his body into a puppet while condemning his soul to eternal torment.

• Zi Yan rescued three Ancient Void Dragons, but the North Dragon King struck her with corrosive blood qi and drove her back into North Dragon Island.
• The North Dragon King revealed that he had refined many Ancient Void Dragons and threatened several hundred young dragons, so Zi Yan transformed into her true form to shield them as the Dragon Transformation Demon Array engulfed her.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the array, confirmed that the other survivors had been rescued, and used Nihility Devouring Flame to carry the young dragons to Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan had Three Thousand Burning Flame help purge Zi Yan’s wound, then unleashed the Red Lotus Karma Flame, igniting the North Dragon King’s sins and trapping him in visions of his fears.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and formed the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation above and below North Dragon Island, vowing to refine the North Dragon King’s body and subject his soul to eternal burning.

Xiao Yan used the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation to destroy the North Dragon King’s Dragon Transformation Demon Array and unified the Ancient Void Dragon Clan under Zi Yan. With the Flame Alliance’s influence spreading across the Beast Domain, Xiao Yan prepared to exploit the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning to refine a Thunder Tribulation Pill and advance his strength.

• Xiao Yan refined the North Dragon King’s Ancestor Dragon Shadow and erased the Dragon Transformation Demon Array, leaving North Dragon Island barren; Zi Yan mourned the fallen members of her clan.
• Yun Yun reported that the South Dragon Island and West Dragon Island had survived, and Zi Yan proposed that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan join the Flame Alliance.
• The four dragon islands reunited as one Ancient Dragon Island under Zi Yan, while Nalan Yanran reported that Huang Tian had been killed and Feng Qing’er had made the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan a vassal of the Snake-People Empire.
• The Ancient Void Dragon Clan allied with the Flame Alliance, making the alliance the strongest force on the Dou Qi Continent and giving it influence over the Beast Domain.
• Xiao Yan prepared the materials for a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill and planned to use the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning as its main ingredient after it destroyed itself.

Xiao Yan used the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation and Black Demon Lightning to fuse North Dragon King and Huang Tian into Xing Tian, creating a powerful puppet. After his own cultivation stalled, the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning finally began gathering its spirit, and Xiao Yan concealed himself to watch.

• Xiao Yan left Dragon Island for the Void Thunder Pool to seek a breakthrough from peak Five-Star Dou Saint to Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan found the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning deep in the pool and waited for it to gather spirit while preparing to refine Xing Tian.
• Xiao Yan used Mao Wu, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation to temper Xing Tian with North Dragon King’s corpse and Black Demon Lightning.
• Xiao Yan later added Huang Tian’s body to Xing Tian, whose physical strength grew beyond Xiao Yan’s and reached its limit under the Black Demon Lightning.
• After a month of refining the Red Lotus Karma Flame without breaking through, Xiao Yan sensed the Void Thunder Pool shake and hid as the golden Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning began gathering its spirit.

Xiao Yan confronted the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning in the Void Thunder Pool and watched it attempt to gather spirit, hoping to claim its energy if it failed. The gathering of spirituality failed, leaving the lightning dragon weakened as Xiao Yan approached it.

• Xiao Yan revealed himself to the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning, whose attack Xing Tian absorbed, and warned that he would take its energy if its attempt to gather spirit failed.
• Xiao Yan withdrew while the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning began gathering spirit, and the Black Demon Lightning rushed to help it resist the backlash.
• The backlash intensified, scattering the golden dragon’s emerging Spiritual Energy and weakening its body despite the Black Demon Lightning’s aid.
• The Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning’s gathering of spirituality failed, and the sorrowful Black Demon Lightning stopped charging as Xiao Yan entered the Thunder Sea and approached the weakened dragon.

Xiao Yan began refining the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning into a peak Ninth Grade Mysterious Thunder Tribulation Pill, using his newly created Bodhi Hundred Lifetimes Refining Heaven technique. After half a month of preparing the ingredients and refining the lightning’s energy, he began the precise fusion that would determine whether the pill succeeded.

• Xiao Yan proposed turning the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning into a Thunder Tribulation Pill, and it revealed its incomplete source and agreed to risk the refinement.
• Xiao Yan ordered Mao Wu to collect the lightning’s excess energy and prepared his sole set of medicinal ingredients for the pill.
• Xiao Yan activated the Bodhi Heart and used Xiao Yi and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to form the Bodhi Hundred Lifetimes Refining Heaven technique.
• Xiao Yan spent half a month refining the supplementary ingredients, then drew the remaining Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning into the formation and refined it into golden energy liquid.
• Xiao Yan used precise control to combine the golden liquid with the medicinal essences as the source of the Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning watched in astonishment.