Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan held an open alchemy teaching session outside Jia Nan Academy, demonstrating his techniques and guiding Alchemists through refining pills. As several participants achieved breakthroughs, he considered passing Yao Chen’s powerful technique on to Yue Er.

• Xiao Yu prepared the medicinal ingredients as Alchemists and experts gathered, and Xiao Yan sent a Soul Power message that let the entire Black-Corner Region witness his pill refining.
• Xiao Yan shared Yao Chen’s teachings, refined pills from Rank 6 through Ninth Grade Treasure Pills, and explained his formulas and techniques to the audience.
• Fa Ma, Xin Lan, and the other participants refined pills while Xiao Yan corrected their mistakes; the Pill Tower Three Giants watched from afar and remembered Yao Chen as a teacher.
• Xin Lan refined a nearly perfect Rank 6 High-Level Medicinal Pill, and Xiao Yan encouraged her to study the technique and pursue the Eighth Grade realm.
• Fa Ma broke through to Seventh Grade after successfully refining a pill, then resolved to challenge the Eighth Grade realm.
• As Yue Er and four others continued refining higher-grade pills, Xiao Yan considered teaching Yue Er Yao Chen’s technique for creating a pill that attracted Three-Colored Pill Lightning.

Xiao Yan watched Yue Er advance to Eighth Grade alchemist and considered what he could leave behind to strengthen the Dou Qi Continent. The chapter ended as Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and two other alchemists appeared to complete Ninth Grade Treasure Pills, drawing Black Demon Lightning.

• Xiao Yan sensed the Burning Heaven Tactic stirring as Mao Wu neared awakening after refining Tou She Ancient God's Emperor Flame Seed.
• With Xiao Yan's guidance, Yue Er refined a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill and used a Xiao Yan-like puppet to withstand its two-colored Pill Lightning.
• Yue Er showed Xiao Yan her pill and revealed that she had named the puppet Flame Moon, leaving him startled by her suggestive joke.
• Xiao Yan resolved to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree recover and wondered how Xiao Yi Xian was faring as she used the Life Spirit Flame's Source Fire Seed against her Calamity Poison.
• A week later, black clouds gathered above the alchemy platform as Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and two others appeared to have refined Ninth Grade Treasure Pills, astonishing Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi.

Xiao Yan guided Dan Chen, Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and Cao Ying as they completed their pills, protected them from Pill Lightning, and bid them farewell. He then began demonstrating his Alchemy by using the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation to refine multiple Ninth Grade Golden Pills at once.

• Dan Chen completed a pill that summoned Black Demon Lightning, and Xiao Yan used the Nine Mysterious Golden Dragon to scatter the clouds before promising to help control her constitution.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling finished their flawless pills, and Xiao Yan encouraged Yao Tian to help the Yao Clan rise again and offered to help restore Yao Ling's constitution.
• Cao Ying completed her pill after Xiao Yan guided her hand, and the two embraced and said goodbye.
• Xiao Yan saw his former Jia Nan Academy companions among the audience before stepping onto the alchemy platform to begin refining pills.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation and sent in vast quantities of ingredients, astonishing the gathered Alchemists by preparing to refine several Ninth Grade Golden Pills simultaneously.

Xiao Yan demonstrated his full Dou Di-level Alchemy Techniques, refining many Ninth Grade Golden Pills at once with the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation and energy drawn from across the Dou Qi Continent. After three days, the pills emerged alongside numerous by-products, while some people in the Black-Corner Region flew away for reasons not yet revealed.

• Xiao Yan filled the Refining Heaven Ancient Formation with Emperor Flame and threw in all the medicinal ingredients and an Energy Core at once.
• Xiao Yan rapidly refined more than ten thousand ingredients, astonishing the alchemists who watched his Flame Control and skill.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Sacred Lands and Small Worlds to open their Protective Barriers, then drew the Dou Qi Continent's energy into the formation.
• Xiao Yan used the Bodhi Hundred Lifetimes Pill Refining Method, allowing the formation's Bodhi Ancient Tree to undergo aging, withering, and rebirth in flames.
• The Nine Mysterious Golden Lightning devoured lightning from the thunderclouds as Xiao Yan's formation burned the Bodhi Ancient Tree to ash and revealed Ninth Grade Golden Pills, Mysterious Pills, and Treasure Pills.
• Some people in the Black-Corner Region rose into the air and flew away.

Xiao Yan established a legacy for alchemists and sought Hun Tiandi's help to face the Emperor Grade Pill's Pill Lightning and travel to the Great Thousand World. Hun Tiandi agreed after Xiao Yan offered to refine him a true Emperor Pill, while Xiao Yan planned to hide in the Heaven Tomb when the passage opened.

• Xiao Yan announced a ten-year alchemist apprenticeship gathering at Jia Nan Academy and left a merit stele containing Yao Chen's Spirit Ascension legacy and a Sub-flame of the Bone Chiling Flame.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yu three Ninth Grade Golden Pills for Cai Lin, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian, then went to the hidden Hun Realm to speak with Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Yan told Hun Tiandi that Mao Wu would soon finish refining Tou She Ancient God's Emperor Flame Seed and that the Emperor Grade Pill's Pill Lightning would eventually arrive from the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan asked Hun Tiandi to help withstand the Pill Lightning and travel with him to the Great Thousand World, and Hun Tiandi agreed after Xiao Yan promised to refine him a true Emperor Pill.
• Xiao Yan said he would hide inside the Heaven Tomb when the passage opened, while Hun Tiandi led the way to the Great Thousand World.

Xiao Yan arranged for Hun Tiandi to help open a path to the Great Thousand World, intending to fake his death and bring the Heaven Tomb so he could seek a way to revive Xiao Xuan. He concluded that the Hun Clan’s Gate of Silent Death might hold secrets about the passage, then returned to the Heaven Tomb to refine the Flame Seed and wake Mao Wu.

• Xiao Yan proposed taking the Heaven Tomb to the Great Thousand World and asked Hun Tiandi to help open a passage in exchange for Emperor Grade Pills.
• Hun Tiandi told Hun Lao Gui he lacked the coordinates to reach the Great Thousand World, while Hun Lao Gui warned him not to underestimate Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Xuan in the Heaven Tomb and explained why he believed Hun Tiandi had agreed to help and might be investigating the Gate of Silent Death.
• Xiao Xuan said the Xiao Clan’s ancestor had left only the Breaking through the Heavens incantation, then left Xiao Yan to refine the Flame Seed.
• Xiao Yan summoned the black Flame containing Mao Wu and prepared to wake him.

Xiao Yan completed Mao Wu’s evolution by refining Tou She Ancient God’s Emperor Flame Seed, making Mao Wu a new Heavenly Flame stronger than the Void Swallowing Flame. After Xiao Yan named it Emperor Dark Flame, heaven and earth recognized it as the first-ranked Heavenly Flame, with Flying Cat Divine Flame listed as its alias.

• Xiao Yan continued refining Tou She Ancient God’s inheritance in the Heaven Tomb, and his Dou Di power disrupted the Tomb’s time distortion.
• Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan forces responded to the Heaven Tomb’s violent shaking, then stood down when Gu Yuan realized Xiao Yan was cultivating there.
• Mao Wu evolved from the Void Swallowing Flame’s Sub-flame into an independent Heavenly Flame, surpassing the Void Swallowing Flame.
• Xiao Yan dismissed Mao Wu’s proposed name, Flying Cat Divine Flame, and named it Emperor Dark Flame.
• Heaven and earth manifested the Heavenly Flame Ranking, placing Emperor Dark Flame first and listing Flying Cat Divine Flame as its alias.

Mao Wu evolved into the Emperor Dark Flame, granting Xiao Yan Tou She Ancient God's inheritance and revealing the Heavenly Flame Eternal Ruler as a means of reaching the Great Thousand World. Xiao Yan planned to prepare for the journey and keep his promises to the Heavenly Flames, while the chapter ended with a familiar man interrupting Xiao Yi Xian at her medical hall.

• Mao Wu became the Emperor Dark Flame, and Xiao Yan realized Fen Jue could continue evolving beyond the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan received Tou She Ancient God's inheritance, including the Heavenly Flame Eternal Ruler and the marks that could command the Heavenly Flames.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained that Tou She Ancient God could still imprison the Flames, and Xiao Yan promised to restore their freedom and help him get revenge.
• Xiao Yan said the three Dou Di-level existences would likely break the continent's seal within three years, and he planned to master the ruler technique and remodel the Heaven Tomb.
• At the medical hall in Green Mountain Town, a man cut in line and teased Xiao Yi Xian about recovering and having two children with him.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian during her free clinic, then returned with her to Creation Valley, where she harvested Earth Dragon Grass and attempted to refine a pill. After her furnace exploded, Xiao Yan carried her to a hot spring as they prepared to try for a child.

• Xiao Yi Xian greeted Xiao Yan affectionately at her clinic, and Xiao Yan treated the injured mercenaries before closing the clinic and taking her to Creation Valley.
• Xiao Yi Xian harvested Earth Dragon Grass using a special method while Xiao Yan watched and asked about her work.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi Xian to refine a Sixth-Grade Pill, but her attempt caused a furnace explosion that filled the wooden hut with smoke.
• Xiao Yan teased Xiao Yi Xian about her poor alchemy skills and decided to stay with her while she practiced.
• Xiao Yan carried the bashful Xiao Yi Xian to a newly created hot spring after she said she wanted to bathe.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to the Earth's Core World to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree recover, then learned that the Xiao Clan might have opened the ancient passage to the Great Thousand World. Xiao Yan realized the passage may have been opened by Xiao Potian, the Xiao Clan's Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he could resolve the danger of her Woeful Poison Body, and they spent a month together in Creation Valley.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Earth's Core World, where Xiao Yan explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree survived at the continent's center because it drew nourishment from the earth.
• Xiao Yan found the Bodhi Ancient Tree and gave it a Ninth Grade Golden Pill and Medicinal Liquids to help restore it, while Xiao Yi Xian treated its injured trunk with the Life Spirit Flame.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree pointed Xiao Yan toward the Xiao Clan when he asked about the ancient passage to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Xiao Potian, the Xiao Clan's Dou Di, may have opened the passage.

Xiao Yan reflected on the Dou God Clans’ ancient origins, then visited the recovered Bodhi Ancient Tree with Xiao Yi Xian before traveling to the ruined site of the Xiao Realm. He reached the passage’s dark, frozen end and realized that reaching the Celestial Firmament would require breaking through the sky.

• Xiao Yan speculated that the Xiao Clan’s Progenitor may have established the dou qi cultivation system and decided to investigate where the Xiao Realm once stood.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree congratulated Xiao Yan on becoming a Dou God and showed him memories that suggested he was stronger than the Dou Gods it had encountered.
• After Xiao Yan refined a Medicinal Pill for the Bodhi Ancient Tree, he and Xiao Yi Xian admired its renewed vitality and left the Earth's Core World.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached the shattered space where the Xiao Realm had been and were drawn into its damaged passage, which Xiao Yan stabilized against the void currents.
• At the passage’s dark, silent end, Xiao Yan considered the Celestial Firmament and wondered how his ancestor had reached the Great Thousand World without guidance or coordinates.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian searched the fallen Xiao Realm, where he found Black Void Ore and discovered the barrier sealing the Dou Qi Continent. Back in Creation Valley, the Little Lion King reported changes in the Forbidden Ground, prompting Xiao Yan to grow serious.

• Xiao Yan found a massive deposit of Black Void Ore embedded in space and pulled it free, unleashing a powerful Space Turbulence storm.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Emperor Seal to destroy the storm, but its blast could not break the barrier around the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian returned to Creation Valley with the ore, and Xiao Yan realized the Shi Clan and Ancient Clan could provide the skills needed to modify the Heaven Tomb into a Space Ship.
• The Little Lion King visited Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, ate the pastries Xiao Yi Xian had brought, and said he had sensed changes in the Forbidden Ground.
• Xiao Yan reacted gravely because the Forbidden Ground was associated with him and Yun Yun.

Xiao Yi Xian urged Xiao Yan to stop avoiding his unresolved feelings for Yun Yun, who had been staying away because she feared hurting Nalan Yanran. Xiao Yan found Yun Yun in their old cave and used his Dou Di strength and the Fire Cloud Water Flame to overpower her, leaving her trapped in the cave.

• Xiao Yi Xian encouraged Xiao Yan to visit Yun Yun, and he decided he had been avoiding the matter for too long.
• Xiao Yan found Yun Yun replacing the cave's luminescent stones and teased her about avoiding him.
• Yun Yun tried to leave through a Space Channel, but Xiao Yan shattered it and pulled her into his arms.
• Xiao Yan kissed Yun Yun and spread the Fire Cloud Water Flame through the cave, causing the Sub-flame inside her to make her Dou Qi burn beyond her control.
• Xiao Yan seized Yun Yun's hand and threatened the Misty Cloud Sect, the Flower Sect, and Nalan Yanran to make her surrender.

Xiao Yan persuaded Yun Yun to accept their relationship, then Nalan Yanran discovered them and confronted her own long-hidden feelings for him. Three years later, the Heaven Tomb was finally remodeled.

• Xiao Yan declared that he would not let Yun Yun go, and Yun Yun embraced and kissed him.
• Yun Yun worried about how Nalan Yanran would react, but Xiao Yan carried her through a space channel to the Flower Sect.
• Nalan Yanran overheard Xiao Yan and Yun Yun, then learned that Xiao Yan already knew about her secret feelings for him.
• Xiao Yan drew Nalan Yanran into Yun Yun's room, and the three spent the night together.
• After Xiao Yan left, Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun talked about their feelings and accepted their closeness.
• Three years passed, and the Heaven Tomb was remodeled.

Five years after Xiao Yan became a Dou Di, he prepared to leave the Dou Qi Continent for the Great Thousand World with six companions. As his family and friends said farewell, Xiao Yan promised Xiao Yi Xian he would seek a cure for her inability to conceive, and the transformed Heaven Tomb was revealed as their vessel.

• Xiao Yan refused Xiao Xiao's request to join the journey and ordered her to train under Ling Ying and Elder Yao.
• Xun Er told Xiao Yan that the passage was ready, and seven travelers—Xiao Yan, Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Cai Lin, Xun Er, and Xiao Yi Xian—were set to depart while Zi Yan remained asleep.
• Xiao Yan bid farewell to his family and friends, while Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li accepted his departure and other Xiao Clan members begged him to stay.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xiao Yi Xian over her inability to conceive and promised to search for a solution in the Great Thousand World or beyond.
• The next day, Xiao Yan's companions gathered in the Gu Realm and saw the transformed Heaven Tomb, a vast black spacecraft, waiting in the void.

Xiao Yan used his Emperor Flame to break the ancient seal surrounding the Dou Qi Continent, allowing Source Qi and greater energy to reach it. With two passages to other worlds in sight, he prepared to lead the journey into the Great Thousand World.

• Xiao Yan said farewell to Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran as the group gathered aboard the Shuttle Sky Boat, and Hun Tiandi arrived to join them.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Twenty-Two Types of Heavenly Flames and fused them into Emperor Flame, then formed the Heavenly Flame Eternal Ruler.
• Xiao Yan struck the firmament with the ruler, shattering the sky and weakening the seal that had protected the Dou Qi Continent for fifty thousand years.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun sensed Source Qi entering the Dou Qi Continent as its energy and vegetation were replenished.
• Xiao Yan sensed the passages to the Great Thousand World and the Divine Beast Continent beyond the sky.

Xiao Yan opened the ancient seal over the Dou Qi Continent and faced the Emperor Grade Pill Lightning that gathered in the Great Thousand World’s Celestial Firmament. He devoured the lightning with his fused Emperor Flames and then tried to pull down the thunderclouds themselves.

• Xiao Yan burned away the sky to break the ancient Dou Di seal, then prepared to reopen the damaged passage to the Great Thousand World.
• Emperor Grade Pill Lightning formed in the Celestial Firmament, and Xiao Yan summoned the Nine Mysterious Golden Dragon and Xing Tian to help protect the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Xiao Clan Disciples to form an array and send their Dou Qi to him as Xun Er, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian watched anxiously.
• Xiao Yan fused the twenty-three Heavenly Flames into dual Emperor Flames and used chains and a vortex to absorb the Emperor Grade Pill Lightning.
• After devouring the lightning, Xiao Yan grabbed the Heavenly Flame chains and tried to drag the thunderclouds down from the Celestial Firmament.

Xiao Yan opened a passage from Dou Qi Continent to the Great Thousand World, then was sealed inside a coffin in the Heaven Tomb while his allies prepared to help him refine the Pill Lightning and raise his strength. The scene shifted to the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s Supreme God of the First Sequence, whose attempt to avoid a future war was disrupted by a mysterious power that seemed to belong to the supposedly destroyed Sacred God.

• Xiao Yan opened the passage to the Great Thousand World, and a hidden cultivation chapter revealed the art of Breaking Though the Heavens and the method for forming Dou's Law Body.
• A coffin carried Xiao Yan into the deepest part of the Heaven Tomb, where Xiao Xuan reassured Cai Lin and the other women that Xiao Yan was refining the Pill Lightning.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun powered the Shuttle Sky Boat while Hun Tiandi flew toward the Great Thousand World.
• The Supreme God of the First Sequence foresaw three powerful figures in the Great Thousand World and considered using a branch of the River of Time to pit the Flame Emperor against an enemy.
• The Supreme God rejected that plan, but a mysterious force moved a black chess piece beside the glowing white piece, prompting him to suspect that the destroyed Sacred God had returned.

Ancestral Dragon discovered that the Heavenly Evil God had left a message from the past and was trying to change the future by making Hun Tiandi defeat the Flame Emperor. The projected Heavenly Evil God claimed his plan would doom both universes, but the unchanged chessboard showed that the future had not shifted.

• Ancestral Dragon realized that the Heavenly Evil God had reached the same realm as him and had foreseen his own death in the Great Thousand World.
• The Heavenly Evil God's past projection appeared and declared that he would revive, conquer the Great Thousand World, and then defeat Ancestral Dragon.
• Ancestral Dragon calculated that Hun Tiandi defeating the Flame Emperor could overturn the future and lead to the Martial Ancestor's death and the ruin of both universes.
• Ancestral Dragon understood that the Heavenly Evil God had sent power from the past to interfere with the future and regretted not killing him earlier.
• The Heavenly Evil God's projection was shocked to find that the chess pieces had not changed and the future remained the same.

The Ancestral Dragon discovered that the Heavenly Evil God's attempt to alter the future had created a hidden branch in Xiao Yan's past, while a butterfly's disturbance left both universes' futures unreadable. He decided to travel to the Great Thousand World as Xiao Yan and his companions arrived there.

• The Ancestral Dragon saw that Hun Tiandi still lost to the Flame Emperor despite the Heavenly Evil God's interference, and traced the change to a black butterfly landing on the chessboard.
• The Ancestral Dragon used the River of Time to learn that the Heavenly Evil God had strengthened the Slaying Emperor Formation, but an earlier branch had caused Yao Chen to die in Xiao Yan's Storage Ring.
• The black butterfly stirred the chess pieces, ending the Ancestral Dragon's visions beyond the moment when three supreme experts appeared twenty-seven years after the Heavenly Evil God's death.
• The Ancestral Dragon told the woman who arrived through a Space Channel that he should visit the Great Thousand World.
• A white-robed figure followed a streak of light toward the Great Thousand World as a graveyard-like spaceship followed behind, and Xiao Yan awoke inside the Heaven Tomb and realized they had arrived.