Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan saved the Ye Family, took Ye Qingling as his disciple, and gave her the Fallen Heart Flame. After advancing to Two-Star Dou Zun by absorbing the Yang Fire, he began fusing another flame and received a mysterious Nine Tribulations Demon Puppet Flame.

• Xiao Yan killed Zhao Hei and Qin Mo by ripping out and destroying their souls, then warned everyone not to harm the Ye Family because Ye Qingling was his disciple.
• Xiao Yan imparted alchemical knowledge to Ye Qingling and implanted the Fallen Heart Flame Fire Seed into her body.
• Xin Lan revealed that Xiao Yan's soul had reached the Quasi Emperor Realm, stunning Ye Qingling and the Ye Family.
• Xiao Yan devoured the Yang Fire at the Ye Family's ancient altar and advanced to Two-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan continued fusing flames in his room, and Heavenly Fire Venerable said his Emperor Flame had surpassed the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan received a mysterious Nine Tribulations Demon Puppet Flame as a reward.

Xiao Yan used the Nine Tribulations Demon Puppet Flame to turn powerful corpses into Heavenly Demon Puppets that could reach Dou Zun strength and use Dou Skills. After making three puppets, he was attacked at night by Purple Thunder Venerable, who wanted to devour Xiao Yan’s soul.

• Xiao Yan tested the Nine Tribulations Demon Puppet Flame on a Five-Star Dou Zong corpse and created a One-Star Dou Zun-level Heavenly Demon Puppet without a Dou Zong soul or Tier 7 Magic Core.
• The puppet demonstrated that it could use Eight Extremes Collapse, and Xiao Yan used the flame to change its appearance to match his own.
• Xiao Yan refined Zhao Hei and Qin Mo’s corpses into two more Heavenly Demon Puppets, each comparable to a Two-Star Dou Zun.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable said Xiao Yan’s puppets could help him cooperate with the Pill Tower, and Xiao Yan planned to show them to his teacher the next day.
• Purple Thunder Venerable attacked Xiao Yan at the Ye Family, but Xiao Yan emerged and shattered his lightning hand seal with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Purple Thunder Venerable revealed his intent to kill Xiao Yan for his Quasi Emperor Realm soul and prepared another attack as the Ye Family elders watched in alarm.

Xiao Yan fought Purple Thunder Venerable while Cao Ge and Rain Sword Venerable blocked the Ye Family from seeking help. After Xiao Yan appeared to be killed, he revealed that the body in the fight was a puppet and sent his Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body against Purple Thunder Venerable.

• Cao Ge brought Purple Thunder Venerable and Rain Sword Venerable to stop the Ye Family from helping Xiao Yan, and threatened to destroy the family if Xiao Yan fled.
• Purple Thunder Venerable severed Xiao Yan's arm and then struck off his head, while Cao Ge celebrated his apparent death.
• Purple Thunder Venerable tried to devour Xiao Yan's Soul Power but found none, and then demanded that the Ye Family hand over Ye Qingling.
• Two black-robed figures resembling Xiao Yan appeared, and Purple Thunder Venerable's broadsword failed to harm one of them.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the body fighting Purple Thunder Venerable was a Two-Star Dou Zun puppet and sent his Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body to attack.

Xiao Yan defeated Purple Thunder Venerable, forced Rain Sword Venerable to serve him for three years, and refined Purple Thunder Venerable into a powerful puppet. He then headed for the Cao Family, where its leaders mistook a decoy corpse for Xiao Yan and planned to blame the Bai Family for his death.

• Xiao Yan's clones and Heavenly Demon Puppets overwhelmed Purple Thunder Venerable, and Xiao Yan destroyed his soul with a Soul Handprint.
• Xiao Yan threatened Rain Sword Venerable, who agreed to serve him for three years rather than become a puppet.
• Rain Sword Venerable seized Cao Ge, and Xiao Yan refined Purple Thunder Venerable's body into a Six-Star Dou Zun Heavenly Demon Puppet in half an hour.
• Xiao Yan set off for the Cao Family with Rain Sword Venerable and the puppet, while the Ye Family Elders celebrated Cao Ge's predicament.
• The Cao Family Elders praised Purple Thunder Venerable after a split corpse they believed was Xiao Yan's was thrown into their hall, and the Family Head ordered them to blame the Bai Family.

Xiao Yan and Xuan Yi exposed the Cao Family’s attempt to kill Xiao Yan, then forced the family to surrender its medicinal herbs as compensation. After leaving, Xiao Yan refined a legendary Six-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill in the Western Region.

• Purple Thunder Venerable killed the Cao Family Great Elder, then Xiao Yan, Xuan Yi, Rain Sword Venerable, and Cao Ge appeared in the hall, revealing that Purple Thunder Venerable was Xiao Yan’s puppet.
• Xuan Yi confronted the Cao Family Head over the attempted killing, while Rain Sword Venerable warned the family of Xiao Yan’s past victories over powerful enemies.
• Xiao Yan threatened to destroy the Cao Family, but Xuan Yi spared them and ordered them to pay compensation; Xiao Yan demanded all their medicinal herbs.
• The Cao Family surrendered its thousand-year stock of medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yan warned that he would destroy them if they caused trouble again.
• After the outsiders left, the Cao Family Head blamed Cao Ge for the family’s losses and ordered Cao Ying to prepare for the ancestor’s soul empowerment.
• In a barren mountain in the Western Region, Xiao Yan refined a Grade 8 pill and Rain Sword Venerable caught the resulting Six-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill.

Xiao Yan gave Rain Sword Venerable a Six-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill, helping him advance to Five-Star Dou Zun, then recruited him to attack a Soul Hall branch. They destroyed half the branch hall and confronted Xin Celestial Venerable and Ling Celestial Venerable, who recognized Xiao Yan and spotted the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Xiao Yan gave Rain Sword Venerable a Six-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill and urged him to refine it before they attacked the Soul Hall.
• Rain Sword Venerable advanced from Three-Star to Five-Star Dou Zun and agreed to help Xiao Yan fight the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan and Rain Sword Venerable flew to a hidden Soul Hall Branch Hall, where Xin Celestial Venerable and Ling Celestial Venerable discussed gathering souls and the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Yan's flame attack destroyed half the Branch Hall, prompting Xin Celestial Venerable and Ling Celestial Venerable to confront the attackers.
• Xiao Yan revealed himself and showed the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Xin Celestial Venerable ordered the hall's forces to surround him.

Xiao Yan and Rain Sword Venerable fought Soul Hall’s forces, with Xiao Yan’s puppets and sealed battlefield overwhelming the Celestial Venerables. Xin Celestial Venerable was killed, while Ling Celestial Venerable and the remaining Soul Hall fighters were left facing Xiao Yan’s forces.

• Rain Sword Venerable revealed his increased strength and confronted Soul Hall as Xin Celestial Venerable attacked Xiao Yan.
• Purple Thunder Venerable’s demonic puppet stopped Xin Celestial Venerable, and Xiao Yan released two more puppets that could use powerful Dou Skills.
• Ling Celestial Venerable discovered that the area had been sealed and Soul Hall could not send a message for reinforcements.
• Rain Sword Venerable used Rain Flower Sword Intent to cut down Soul Hall’s Dou Zongs, Dou Huangs, and a Venerable Elder.
• Xin Celestial Venerable and Ling Celestial Venerable strengthened their chains with blood essence, but Xiao Yan’s puppets broke through their defense.
• The Six-Star Heavenly Demon Puppet pierced Xin Celestial Venerable’s chest and seized his heart, killing him.

Xiao Yan destroyed a Soul Hall branch, killed its Celestial Venerables, and added powerful puppets to his forces. He then visited a Pill Tower exchange fair to trade for Tianxuan Star Sand, where he offered Old Man Huo a Venerable Zenith Pill.

• Xiao Yan killed Xin Celestial Venerable and burned Ling Celestial Venerable to ashes with Emperor Flame.
• Xiao Yan ordered Rain Sword Venerable and the puppets to slaughter the remaining Soul Hall forces, then destroyed the branch and freed its imprisoned souls.
• Xiao Yan emerged from a valley with a powerful collection of puppets and planned to seek an alliance with the Pill Tower's three giants after the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan and Rain Sword Venerable entered a Pill Tower Alchemist Exchange Fair, where Xiao Yan found Old Man Huo offering three portions of Tianxuan Star Sand.
• Old Man Huo asked for Venerable Zenith Pills in exchange, and Xiao Yan produced one and asked how many portions it could buy.

At the exchange fair, Xiao Yan traded for rare ingredients by refining high-tier pills at astonishing speed, drawing alchemists from across Central State and positioning himself to build a faction against Soul Hall. Xuan Yi and Yao Lao discussed the strength of the followers his display might attract and Xiao Yan’s possible pursuit of Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Old Man Huo exchanged three portions of Tianxuan Star Sand and information about Star River Storm Land for Xiao Yan’s Six-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine Nine-Pattern Dou Wang Pills and Emperor Rank Pills in exchange for ingredients needed to make Venerable Zenith Pills, and alchemists rushed to trade with him.
• Xiao Yan refined two Nine-Pattern Dou Wang Pills simultaneously, then brought out seven more cauldrons and used nine Heavenly Flames to refine pills at once.
• Pill Tower experts shattered the pill lightning as news of Xiao Yan’s feats drew crowds from across Central State.
• Xuan Yi warned Yao Lao that Xiao Yan might struggle to control powerful experts who joined him, and Yao Lao said Xiao Yan needed the Pill Tower’s Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Yan’s fame spread across Central State after he refined 237 pills, and he strengthened the Ye Family before arriving at the Pill Gathering. After passing the first selection trial, he found Millennial Di Huang Essence in the Pill Realm, where a would-be challenger backed down after learning who he was.

• News of Xiao Yan’s 237 pills and the destruction of the Heavenly Haze Valley Soul Hall Branch Hall spread across Central State.
• Xiao Yan gave Ye Qingling five specks of Spirit Nurturing Dust and left two Three-Star Dou Zun puppets to guard the Ye Family.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Pill Gathering, where Cao Ying and Dan Chen discussed the Cao Family’s Great Elder and Cao Ge’s absence.
• Several hostile figures suspected Xiao Yan of destroying the Soul Hall Branch Hall and planned to kill him in the Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yan passed through the Illusion Realm Forest and pulled Millennial Di Huang Essence from the ground in the Pill Realm.
• A peak Dou Zong tried to claim the Millennial Di Huang Essence, then recognized Xiao Yan and publicly offered to protect his belongings.

Xiao Yan gathered medicinal ingredients in the Pill Realm, transformed Xiong Zhan into an Ancient Dragon Bear, and recruited him after trading a pill for his herb collection. As they left the realm, Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates ambushed Xiao Yan for the Tou She Ancient God Jade, but Xiong Zhan stepped in to protect him.

• Xiao Yan subdued Xiong Zhan and offered him a Six-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill in exchange for his medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame to awaken Xiong Zhan's Ancient Dragon Bear bloodline, raising him to Six-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiong Zhan swallowed the pill, advanced to Eight-Star Dou Zun, gave Xiao Yan his herbs, and agreed to follow him.
• Xiao Yan and Xiong Zhan left the stone hall, but Old Man Mu Gu and four other Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates trapped Xiao Yan and demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiong Zhan seized the Soul Hall members' chains and confronted them after they recognized his Eight-Star Dou Zun strength.

Xiao Yan used the Pill Realm’s restrictions to turn an Eighth Grade Peak pill’s tribulation lightning against Old Man Mu Gu and the Soul Hall Dou Zuns who had trapped him. As the pill neared completion, he prepared to make them withstand the final lightning strike.

• Xiong Zhan tore apart Old Man Mu Gu’s chains, but the Pill Realm’s fragile space swallowed him when he attacked, leaving the alchemists without his help.
• Old Man Mu Gu trapped Xiao Yan in a black-mist cage and revealed that Soul Hall Celestial Venerables had sealed the Pill Realm’s exterior against the Pill Tower elders.
• Xiao Yan shielded himself with his bone wings, then began refining a pill while Old Man Mu Gu watched.
• Xiao Yan triggered the tribulation lightning of an Eighth Grade Peak pill and used Heavenly Flame ribbons to bind the Soul Hall Dou Zuns to their chains.
• The lightning battered Old Man Mu Gu and the others as the Pill Realm’s space repeatedly broke apart, and Xiao Yan declared that the Nine-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill was about to condense.

Xiao Yan completed the Nine-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill and killed four Soul Hall Dou Zuns, capturing Old Man Mu Gu’s soul. After escaping the collapsing Pill Realm, he found Saint Pill City in ruins beneath a rampaging Three Thousand Burning Flame, unleashed by Soul Hall as part of a larger scheme.

• Xiao Yan used the Emperor Flame and the pill lightning to defeat the Soul Hall Dou Zuns, while the lightning nearly struck the other alchemists.
• Xiao Yan caught the completed Eighth Grade Peak pill, then stomped four wounded Soul Hall Dou Zuns to death and sealed Old Man Mu Gu’s soul in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yan shattered the soul barrier with his Quasi Emperor Realm soul, and a Dou Saint repaired the Pill Realm’s damaged space and sent everyone outside.
• Xiao Yan and the others emerged to find Saint Pill City devastated by Three Thousand Burning Flame, which coiled above the city as Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates revealed it was their true weapon.

Three Thousand Burning Flame descended on Saint Pill City and overwhelmed the assembled experts, then targeted Xiao Yan because of his unusual flames and connection to the Tou She Ancient God. Xiao Yan rushed toward the dragon with a Fire Lotus, challenging it as the battle continued.

• Three Thousand Burning Flame emerged above Saint Pill City and devastated the city as Xuan Kongzi and the others organized an evacuation and tried to seal it.
• Tang Zhen, Fan Yin, and many other Dou Zun experts joined Pill Tower’s fighters, but their attacks failed to injure the dragon.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame trapped Tang Zhen in frozen space and attacked him, but Xiao Yan arrived and destroyed its fireball with the Five Round Li Fire Method.
• The dragon recognized Xiao Yan’s peculiar flames, asked about his connection to the Tou She Ancient God, and declared that devouring him might help it break through to higher planes.
• Xiao Yan flew above the dragon’s head and prepared to strike it with a Fire Lotus.

Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flame Sources to wound Three Thousand Burning Flame and help seal it, but the Hall of Souls Great Celestial Venerable pulled the dragon back out, and it swallowed Xiao Yan. Spirit Clan Dou Saints then intervened and prepared to send Three Thousand Burning Flame into Space Turbulence, while Yao Lao could not find Xiao Yan’s aura.

• Xiao Yan attacked Three Thousand Burning Flame with several Heavenly Flame Sources, blasting a hole in its face and damaging its true body.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other experts used Space Seals to force Three Thousand Burning Flame back into the Star Region.
• The Hall of Souls Great Celestial Venerable seized the dragon and pulled it out of the Star Region, where it swallowed Xiao Yan.
• Spirit Clan Dou Saints cut Three Thousand Burning Flame’s body apart, but the dragon declared that it could not be killed while the starry sky existed.
• Yao Lao searched for Xiao Yan’s aura without finding it, as the Spirit Clan Elders decided to send Three Thousand Burning Flame into Space Turbulence.

Xiao Yan unleashed a devastating Seven-Colored Fire Lotus against Three Thousand Burning Flame, but the backlash left him vulnerable. With Zi Yan’s help and a Dragon Mark restraining the flame, he refined it and rose to Six-Star Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yan’s Seven-Colored Fire Lotus blasted Three Thousand Burning Flame and forced the Spirit Clan Dou Shengs to raise a vast barrier, but the attack left Xiao Yan severely weakened.
• Xiong Zhan struck Three Thousand Burning Flame to protect Xiao Yan, but the dragon knocked him away and lunged for Xiao Yan.
• Zi Yan arrived with a Dragon Mark, struck Three Thousand Burning Flame, and placed a mark on Xiao Yan so he could devour it.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame fled, but Xiao Yan used the Six Paths Reincarnation Flame to appear inside its body, where the Dragon Mark immobilized it.
• Xiao Yan refined Three Thousand Burning Flame and broke through to Six-Star Dou Zun as the Spirit Clan Elders departed.

After Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion with Yao Lao, Mu Qingluan awakened the Ancient Sky Luan bloodline during a duel with Feng Qing'er and overwhelmed her with its bloodline suppression. Yao Lao’s arrival reunited him with Venerable Feng, who was left wondering how Mu Qingluan’s transformation had happened.

• Xiao Yan left the Saint Pill Domain with Yao Lao, Xiong Zhan, Rain Sword Venerable, and Little Purple, then traveled to Starfall Pavilion.
• Feng Qing'er defeated Mu Qingluan in a sparring match while Thunder Venerable mocked Starfall Pavilion and Venerable Feng.
• A green flame enveloped Mu Qingluan, who awakened as an Ancient Sky Luan and advanced from a two-star Dou Huang to a three-star Dou Zong.
• Mu Qingluan’s bloodline pressure frightened Feng Qing'er into collapsing, and Thunder Venerable took her away after Venerable Feng promised to keep the incident quiet.
• Venerable Feng wondered how Mu Qingluan had awakened her bloodline until Yao Lao arrived and greeted him.

Xiao Yan reunited Yao Lao with Venerable Feng and strengthened his allies and himself in the Starfall Pavilion. After reaching Nine Star Dou Zun, he prepared to search for Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and ownerless Heavenly Flames while recognizing that he still needed the power to face the Soul Hall.

• Venerable Feng reunited with Yao Lao and learned that Xiao Yan possessed a Quasi Emperor Realm soul, Six-Star Dou Zun strength, and seventeen Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame to transform Little Purple, who revealed her female form and rose to strength beyond Xiong Zhan’s.
• Xiao Yan refined five Dou Zun puppets and consumed a Nine-Pattern Venerable Zenith Pill, advancing to Nine Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan gave Rain Sword Venerable a jade token containing the Six Paths Reincarnation Flame and sent him to protect Xiao Yan’s clan with the puppets.
• Xiao Yan asked Venerable Feng and the Starfall Pavilion Elders to search for Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and ownerless Heavenly Flames.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan saw the golden flame on his panel and said he had finally been waiting for it.

Xiao Yan fused the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame into his Emperor Flame, then learned that Wind and Thunder Pavilion had beaten Starfall Pavilion’s Fourth Elder while blocking his search in the Beast Domain. He killed three Dou Zuns in retaliation, leaving Starfall Pavilion’s Elders convinced that their pavilion had risen.

• Xiao Yan let Little Purple eat a small portion of his Emperor Flame and began fusing it with the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan treated Fourth Elder after learning that Song Ting and Wind and Thunder Pavilion had beaten him and barred him from entering the Beast Domain to search for a girl.
• Xiao Yan took Fang Chen and other Starfall Pavilion Elders to confront Wind and Thunder Pavilion at the Beast Domain’s border.
• The Earth Tiger Clan chief mocked Xiao Yan, who killed him with a finger; Xiao Yan then killed the Silver Moon Wolf Clan chief with a sweep of his sleeve.
• Song Ting fled through space, but Xiao Yan twisted the space and ground him to pieces.

Xiao Yan found Qing Lin in Yin Wind Gorge and rescued her from She Ya and Huo Yan. After helping Bai Ya evolve into a Twelve-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, Xiao Yan turned his attention to She Ya and Huo Yan and began using Life Spirit Flame again.

• Xiao Yan sent the Starfall Pavilion Elders back and searched the Beast Domain for Qing Lin, following a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon’s lead to Yin Wind Gorge.
• She Ya and Huo Yan attacked Qing Lin and Bai Ya, but Xiao Yan arrived and overpowered them before Qing Lin could be harmed.
• Qing Lin reunited with Xiao Yan, who praised her growth and promised to compensate Bai Ya for the strain caused by her pupils.
• Xiao Yan offered She Ya and Huo Yan death or submission to Qing Lin, but they rejected his offer and refused to be controlled.
• Xiao Yan used Life Spirit Flame to transform Bai Ya into a Twelve-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and raise him from Dou Huang to Dou Zong.
• After She Ya and Huo Yan realized the potential they had refused, Xiao Yan used Life Spirit Flame on them as well.