Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yuan oversaw the Strong Ranking students’ Source Heart Flame body tempering while warning Su Qian that the Fallen Heart Flame had become unnaturally quiet. On the third day, the Fallen Heart Flame erupted from the underground magma, and Su Qian ordered the elders to the tower and the students to evacuate.

• Xiao Yuan helped prepare ten Source Heart Flame clusters, and the Strong Ranking students began body tempering under Su Qian’s supervision.
• Xiao Yuan warned Su Qian that the Fallen Heart Flame had gone completely still, and Su Qian arranged for more guards while checking the seal.
• Xiao Yuan rescued five students whose body tempering failed, while the other five continued through the trial.
• Su Qian sensed strange heartbeat-like sounds and a surge of energy beneath the magma, then saw the Invisible Fire Python break through the surface.
• Su Qian sealed the pit entrance and ordered every elder to the tower and all students to evacuate; Xiao Yuan immediately stood up.

The Fallen Heart Flame erupted from the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda, broke through its seals, and emerged as the Invisible Fire Python. Su Qian and the elders began the Thousand Layer Seal Array while Xiao Yuan stayed with Xiao Yan below, waiting to see whether the seal would hold and whether help would arrive.

• The Fallen Heart Flame shattered Su Qian's first barrier and sent a pillar of crimson lava erupting through the pagoda.
• Xiao Yuan led Xiao Yan and the others out of the tower just before the Fallen Heart Flame broke through its remaining seals and set the surrounding grounds ablaze.
• The Invisible Fire Python emerged from the lava, and Xiao Yuan revealed his Dou Wang strength as he flew beside Su Qian.
• Su Qian ordered eighteen elders to form the Thousand Layer Seal Array and told Xiao Yuan to protect the students and watch for people from the Black-Corner Region.
• The Invisible Fire Python recovered its strength and attacked the array, while Xiao Yuan warned Xiao Yan that the Fallen Heart Flame had become too powerful for him to devour and refine.

Su Qian and the academy elders battled the rampaging Fallen Heart Flame, eventually forcing it back into the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda with help from Hu Qian and the instructors. The seal briefly held, but experts from the Black-Corner Region arrived and surrounded the Inner Academy.

• The Invisible Fire Python battered the elders’ energy net and sent a surge of energy that alerted a man in Maple City, who recognized it as a Heavenly Flame’s fluctuation.
• As the elders grew exhausted, Xiao Yuan told Xiao Yan to wait for reinforcements and warned that experts from the Black-Corner Region might come.
• Hu Qian arrived with Outer Academy reinforcements, and the elders and instructors joined forces to strengthen the defense against the Invisible Fire Python.
• Su Qian gathered the group’s Douqi into a sphere and struck the Invisible Fire Python, knocking it into the shattered Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda before sealing the pagoda.
• A large group of Black-Corner Region experts appeared above the Inner Academy, and their leader addressed Su Qian about the hidden Heavenly Flame.

Han Feng led powerful Black-Corner Region fighters to Jia Nan Academy and demanded the Fallen Heart Flame, triggering a battle against the academy’s elders. As the fighting spread, Xiao Yuan joined the fray against Fan Lao, who recognized his black ice Douqi and vowed to kill him.

• Han Feng and his allies broke through the Space Barrier, and Han Feng demanded that Su Qian hand over the Heavenly Flame.
• Su Qian refused and ordered the academy’s powerhouses to defend the flame, while Han Feng summoned the Gold Silver Gentlemen to fight him.
• Han Feng’s allies engaged the academy elders as Han Feng descended toward the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda, where Hu Qian intercepted him.
• Xiao Yuan stepped in to help three elders who were being suppressed by Fan Lao, but Fan Lao struck him back and recognized his black ice Douqi.
• Fan Lao recalled the white-dressed figure with the Mystic Ice Dragon Spear and declared that he would kill Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan confronted Fan Lao during the attack on the Inner Academy and used his Heavenly Flames and combat techniques to overpower the Dou Emperor. After Fan Lao’s Blood Devouring Armor shattered, he unleashed the Blood Demon Hand and blasted Xiao Yuan away, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Yuan Yi recognized Xiao Yuan’s resemblance to the Ice Emperor and held back from defeating the elders as he considered helping Xiao Yuan.
• Fan Lao blamed Xiao Yuan for his son Fan Ling’s death and attacked him, while Xiao Yuan sent the other elders to assist elsewhere.
• Xiao Yuan used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations to raise his strength from Three-Star Dou Wang to Six-Star Dou Wang and burned through Fan Lao’s blood-thread trap.
• Xiao Yuan fought Fan Lao head-on, broke his defensive barrier, and battered him with Heavenly Flame-covered blows and Wind Eagle Leg.
• Fan Lao formed Blood Devouring Armor to withstand Xiao Yuan’s barrage, but the armor shattered before Fan Lao unleashed Blood Demon Hand and blasted Xiao Yuan backward.

Xiao Yuan battled Fan Lao with his Yin Yang Dual Flames, forcing Fan Lao to use Blood Transformation and attack with renewed speed and power. As Fan Lao prepared a powerful spear strike, Xiao Yuan summoned a colossal black-and-white flaming dragon with Yin Yang Dragon Flight.

• Xiao Yuan reflected Fan Lao’s blood hand with the Xuan Bing Flame Mirror, then used his Heavenly Flames to burn away Fan Lao’s blood sea and wound him.
• Han Feng recognized Xiao Yuan’s flames as the Yin Yang Dual Flames and began plotting to seize them.
• Fan Lao condensed his shrinking blood sea into a bead, absorbed it through Blood Transformation, and charged Xiao Yuan with a blood spear.
• Xiao Yuan exchanged spear and fist attacks with Fan Lao, then blasted him with a flaming drill that detonated in a firestorm.
• Fan Lao survived the explosion and gathered his Douqi into a powerful blood spear as Xiao Yuan formed a huge black-and-white flaming dragon using Yin Yang Dragon Flight.

Xiao Yuan defeated Fan Lao in their fierce battle, but Fan Lao escaped his final blows using Blood Escape. The seal on the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda then broke, and the Fallen Heart Flame emerged as the battle turned toward a new threat.

• Fan Lao unleashed Great Blood Bodhi Devour, but Xiao Yuan's black-and-white flame dragon blocked the attack and left him unharmed.
• Fan Lao tried to flee, but Xiao Yuan caught up and overwhelmed him with a close-range assault that shattered his Blood Membrane and sent him crashing into the ruins.
• Xiao Yuan attacked Fan Lao in the ruins, but Fan Lao escaped with Blood Escape and used it again to evade Xiao Yuan's next strike.
• The energy barrier sealing the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda broke, halting the battles as Su Qian recognized that the beast had escaped and Han Feng saw the intelligent Heavenly Flame emerge.

Xiao Yuan killed Fan Lao with his orange-red flames while Su Qian’s elders tried to reseal the Fallen Heart Flame. The seal broke, and the Invisible Fire Python fixed its gaze on Xiao Yuan and Han Feng as Xiao Yuan prepared for the coming fight.

• Su Qian ordered the Inner Academy elders to form the Sealing Grand Array, while Han Feng told Ban Lao to wait until the elders and the heavenly flame had weakened each other.
• Xiao Yuan used Scorching Fire Incineration to burn Fan Lao to death, shocking the Black-Corner Region experts and earning cheers from Jia Nan Academy’s side.
• Han Feng showed interest in Xiao Yuan’s orange-red flames, and Xiao Yuan publicly accused him of betraying his master, then provoked him to distract him while sensing that Yao Lao was close to awakening.
• The Invisible Fire Python battered the elders’ weakened barrier until it shattered, then fixed its greedy gaze on Xiao Yuan and Han Feng.
• Xiao Yuan warned Xiao Yan to prepare for battle, replenished his strength, and planned to let Han Feng face Fallen Heart Flame first.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan watched Han Feng battle the Fallen Heart Flame while they waited for their teacher to awaken, and Xiao Yuan warned Xiao Yan not to use his fire-based ultimate move. Han Feng was badly injured and hurled toward Xiao Yuan, who saw a chance to kill him.

• The Invisible Fire Python charged Han Feng, and Han Feng rallied the Black-Corner Region experts with a promise of doubled pill rewards.
• Elder Su told Hu Qian to keep their elders recovering and wait for a chance to stop Han Feng from obtaining the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yuan told Xiao Yan that their teacher would awaken within two hours, then warned him that the Fallen Heart Flame could devour his Angry Buddha Lotus Flame.
• The Black-Corner Region experts attacked the Invisible Fire Python, but it counterattacked with invisible flame pillars, burning several fighters and forcing Han Feng to defend himself with the Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng used Heavenly Cold Qi to weaken the Fallen Heart Flame and struck it, but it recovered, vanished into its flames, and smashed Han Feng toward the ground.
• Xiao Yuan realized Han Feng was falling toward him and recognized the chance to kill him.

Xiao Yuan ambushed the wounded Han Feng and helped Xiao Yan defeat him, while Yao Lao awakened and destroyed Han Feng’s soul. The chapter left Xiao Yuan facing the Invisible Fire Python after it identified him as the holder of a Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yuan used his secret techniques to ambush Han Feng as he fell, piercing him with a Demon Lightning Spear infused with Brand Poison.
• Xiao Yan struck Han Feng with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler while Xiao Yuan detonated the spear, forcing Han Feng to abandon his body and flee as a soul.
• Xiao Yuan sealed the battlefield, and Xiao Yan captured Han Feng’s weakened soul before Han Feng escaped and crushed a jade slip.
• Yao Lao awakened and shattered Han Feng’s soul, then drew the ownerless Sea Heart Flame into Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring.
• Fallen Heart Flame recognized Xiao Yuan and attacked him, but Xiao Yuan dodged as the Invisible Fire Python vanished into its flames.

Xiao Yuan wounded Fallen Heart Flame’s source and approached its true body, intending to use it to transform the Shao Yin Sovereign Fire. As Su Qian faced the Gold Silver Duo and the academy elders fought the Black-Corner Region forces, Fallen Heart Flame’s heart fire trapped Xiao Yuan just as a mass of black mist arrived.

• Xiao Yuan used the Yin Yang Eye to locate Fallen Heart Flame’s source and pierced it with a flaming spear, forcing the Invisible Fire Python to vanish and reveal the Heavenly Flame’s true body.
• Xiao Yuan flew toward Fallen Heart Flame, while Su Qian ordered the academy elders to intercept the Black-Corner Region experts trying to seize it.
• Su Qian confronted the Gold Silver Duo, and Xiao Yuan reached Fallen Heart Flame and grabbed for it to transform the Shao Yin Sovereign Fire within him.
• Fallen Heart Flame’s destructive heart fire erupted inside Xiao Yuan, and he used the Heart Scarlet Fire Qi Palace’s flames to contain it.
• A mass of black mist swept into the battlefield as a strange voice announced that the place was lively.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan defeated the Black-Corner Region attackers after Yao Lao killed Xuan Protector and Xiao Yuan unleashed his powers. The brothers then negotiated with Su Qian over Fallen Heart Flame, agreeing to preserve some for Jia Nan Academy while Xiao Yan took the rest.

• Xuan Protector tried to seize Xiao Yuan's Fallen Heart Flame, but Yao Lao trapped and killed him with Space Power and Soul Strength.
• Xiao Yan revealed himself, gave Xiao Yuan the sealed Fallen Heart Flame, and drove the Gold Silver Duo and other Black-Corner Region fighters away.
• Xiao Yuan slaughtered many fleeing attackers with his dragon techniques and Nine Tribulation Demon Thunder Spear, then killed the Gold Silver Duo.
• Su Qian led Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan to his office, where Yao Lao appeared and Su Qian recognized him as Venerable Yao.
• Su Qian offered a spare container to preserve Fallen Heart Flame for Jia Nan Academy, and Yao Lao gave the academy cultivation prescriptions and methods in return.

Xiao Yuan declined to learn the Burning Arts and instead began studying alchemy with Yao Lao while Xiao Yan continued cultivating in the Heavenly Flame Training Pagoda. Meanwhile, Su Qian prepared the Inner Academy’s retaliation against the Black-Corner Region, and the Lion Heart Society left its daily affairs to A Tai.

• Xiao Yuan visited Xiao Yan, who had made little progress after half a month of cultivation, and Yao Lao offered to teach Xiao Yuan the Burning Arts.
• Xiao Yuan declined the Burning Arts and asked about powerful fire-attributed Dou Techniques, so Yao Lao returned the Yin-Yang Soul Nourishing Pearl and began teaching him alchemy.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to gather the Inner Academy’s forces and attack the Black-Corner Region experts who had assaulted the academy, but he barred Xiao Yuan from joining the operation.
• Xiao Yuan devoted himself to alchemy, while Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Xiao Yu left most Lion Heart Society affairs to A Tai.

Xiao Yuan left Jia Nan Academy for the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yu and several friends after leaving Xiao Yan to refine the Fallen Heart Flame. In the Imperial Capital, Ya Fei learned that Yun Shan planned to marry Yun Yun to Gu He, while Yun Shan conspired with the Soul Hall to target the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yuan left a message for Xiao Yan, then departed Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yu and several companions, including Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, Yan Hao, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and Zi Yan.
• During the journey, Xiao Yuan advanced to Nine-Star Dou Wang, astonishing Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, and Yan Hao.
• Ya Fei told Hai Bodong and Xiao Zhan that the Misty Cloud Sect had announced Yun Shan's return as a Dou Zong and his plan to marry Yun Yun to Gu He; Hai Bodong left to investigate and urged Ya Fei to inform Xiao Yuan.
• Yun Yun refused Yun Shan's demand that she marry Gu He, and Yun Shan confined her in the Forbidden Hall while declaring that the Jia Ma Empire's order would change.
• Yun Shan spoke with a Soul Hall agent, who demanded that he find something in the Xiao Clan and warned that the Hall Master was watching the matter.

Xiao Yuan returned to the Imperial Capital, learned that Yun Shan had imprisoned Yun Yun and arranged her marriage to Gu He, and set out to stop the wedding. As Yun Shan announced the marriage on Misty Cloud Mountain, Xiao Yuan interrupted the ceremony and declared that he did not agree to it.

• Hai Bodong told Ya Fei that Yun Shan had injured him and warned that the Misty Cloud Sect seemed to be expanding its ambitions.
• Xiao Yuan returned, learned Yun Yun was being forced to marry Gu He, and gave Hai Bodong a Healing Pill before hearing Ya Fei's account of the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Yuan told Ya Fei to stay away from the wedding and promised that it would not happen, then left to prepare.
• Yun Shan and Gu He discussed Yun Yun's wedding, while Yun Shan privately watched Gu He with suspicion.
• Yun Yun arrived at the wedding in a red veil, and Yun Shan announced her marriage to Gu He before declaring the auspicious hour.
• Xiao Yuan's sword shadow struck toward the Wedding Stage, and he appeared to declare that he did not agree to the marriage.

Xiao Yuan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect wedding, freed Yun Yun from her seal, and declared that he would take her away. After defeating Gu He with his Heavenly Flames, he confronted Yun Shan, who unleashed his Dou Zong aura and vowed to kill everyone who opposed him.

• Xiao Yuan confronted Yun Shan at the wedding and revealed that he had reached the peak of the Dou Wang Stage.
• Xiao Yuan lifted Yun Yun's veil, rejected her marriage to Gu He, and carried her into the sky after breaking her seal and restoring her Douqi.
• Xiao Yuan faced Gu He in battle and overwhelmed him with Yin Yang Dual Flames and Scorching Fire Incineration, sparing him and offering him ten Qi Gathering Powders.
• Xiao Yuan accused Yun Shan of coercing Yun Yun and scheming to control the Jia Ma Empire, shocking Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and the other guests.
• Yun Shan unleashed his Dou Zong aura and threatened to kill everyone who dared oppose him.

Xiao Yuan faced Yun Shan after defeating Gu He and driving away the guests who had supported him. He overwhelmed Yun Shan with successive power boosts and attacks, leaving their battle unresolved as he unleashed nine enormous Wind Pillars.

• Gu He accepted his defeat, left the Misty Cloud Sect, and watched his wedding robe fall apart as he departed.
• Several experts invited by Gu He left the sect, while Yun Yun worried about Xiao Yuan and questioned whether the Misty Cloud Sect needed changes.
• Yun Shan mobilized the Misty Cloud Sect elders and confronted Xiao Yuan, who declared that Yun Shan had no right to lecture Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yuan used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and Qi Gathering Palaces Infusion Method to raise his strength to the peak of Eight Star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Yuan exchanged rapid attacks with Yun Shan, wounded the sect elders with the shockwaves, and shattered Yun Shan's Douqi shield with a flame-infused slash.
• Xiao Yuan summoned nine enormous Wind Pillars and sent them charging toward Yun Shan.

Xiao Yuan overwhelmed Yun Shan with his Wind Extremes techniques, then exposed a Soul Hall agent hiding in the Misty Cloud Sect. After Wu Protector appeared as a four-star Dou Zong and threatened to capture him, Xiao Yuan prepared to fight with his ice attribute Douqi.

• Xiao Yuan's nine Wind Pillars broke through Yun Shan's Four Direction Wind Wall and wounded him with lightning and flames.
• Yun Shan attacked Xiao Yuan from behind, but Xiao Yuan evaded the strike and kicked Yun Shan in the back, making him spit blood.
• Yun Shan used Great Compassionate Wind Ripping Hand, but Xiao Yuan pierced his chest with Wind Extremes, Sunset Meteor Kill and froze the energy hand with Yao Lao's help.
• Xiao Yuan accused the Soul Hall of hiding in the Misty Cloud Sect and blasted the main hall, forcing Wu Protector to emerge from black mist.
• Yun Shan ordered Wu Protector to kill Xiao Yuan, and Wu Protector revealed he wanted to capture Xiao Yuan and his soul; Xiao Yuan formed an ice spear as black snow began to fall.

Xiao Yuan fought Wu Protector while Yun Shan and Great Elder Yun Ling fell, and Wu Protector revealed the Soul Hall’s scheme by devouring the souls of Yun Ling and Misty Cloud Sect elders. Xiao Yuan rescued Yun Yun from the black mist, but admitted he was unsure whether he could defeat Wu Protector.

• Xiao Yuan struck Yun Shan unconscious and froze Great Elder Yun Ling when he attacked, then evaded Wu Protector’s chain.
• Xiao Yuan used Heavenly Flames to repel Wu Protector’s chains and shatter them, then summoned nine Mystic Ice dragons.
• Wu Protector extracted Yun Shan’s and Yun Ling’s souls, devoured Yun Ling’s soul, and used the Soul Hall’s power to seize the souls of nearly ten Misty Cloud Sect elders.
• Yun Yun attacked Wu Protector to reclaim the elders’ souls, but Xiao Yuan carried her clear of the black mist when it threatened to engulf her.
• Xiao Yuan told Yun Yun that Wu Protector’s strength had likely increased and that he was unsure he could win, then prepared to fight.

Yun Yun empowered Xiao Yuan with the Cloud Covering Sun Array as he fought Protector Wu, whose strength exceeded his own. Xiao Yuan discovered that the Shao Yin Sovereign Fire countered Protector Wu’s black mist and used it to expose him, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Yun Yun formed the Cloud Covering Sun Array and infused its power into Xiao Yuan, then declared the Misty Cloud Sect’s fight to the death against Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yuan’s Wind Extremes, Sunset Meteor Kill failed to overpower Protector Wu, so he unleashed Wind Brake Obliteration, which Protector Wu’s black mist eroded.
• Xiao Yuan and Protector Wu clashed repeatedly in the clouds, and Xiao Yuan was injured as Yun Yun struggled to keep the array from being drained.
• Xiao Yuan realized the Shao Yin Sovereign Fire dispersed Protector Wu’s black mist and used Scorching Fire Incineration to burn it away, revealing Protector Wu.