Chapter Summaries

After learning that Soul Hall might be behind the invasion of Jia Ma Empire, Chen Yang returned with Yang Alliance forces to reinforce the empire. He sent Xiao Yan to lead the battle at Black Mountain Fortress while he stayed back to guard against stronger enemies and investigate Misty Cloud Sect, as a Blue-haired Elder revealed that a trap had been laid.

• Su Qian told Chen Yang that surrounding empires had invaded Jia Ma Empire and that Hai Bodong suspected Soul Hall was involved.
• Chen Yang gathered three Dou Zongs, thirteen Dou Emperors, and thirty-eight Dou Wangs from the Yang Alliance and brought them to the Imperial Capital.
• Gu He told Chen Yang that Hai Bodong and Zi Yi were at Black Mountain Fortress, where multiple enemies stronger than Four-star Dou Zong were fighting them.
• Chen Yang gave Xiao Yan medicinal pills and sent him with Fang Yan and the others to reinforce Black Mountain Fortress, while he stayed behind in case a Dou Zun appeared.
• Chen Yang gave Gu He his alchemy notes, then headed for Misty Cloud Sect to check on its situation.
• At Golden Goose Sect in Luo Yan Empire, a Blue-haired Elder said that a trap had been laid and that he was waiting for someone to take the bait.

As the Three Great Empires threatened Black Mountain Fortress, Chen Yang returned to the Jia Ma Empire, helped Yun Yun advance to Two-star Dou Zong, and sent Xiao Yan and the Yang Alliance reinforcements to the front. The defenders gathered at the fortress, but the enemy revealed three Seven-star Dou Zongs, apparently strengthened by the Soul Hall, as battle loomed.

• At Black Mountain Fortress, Ya Fei and the other defenders discussed missing scouts, Jia Xing Tian's poison, and the empire's heavy losses while awaiting Chen Yang and Yun Yun.
• Chen Yang helped Yun Yun refine the last of her medicinal power, stabilizing her cultivation at Two-star Dou Zong, and told her that Xiao Yan had taken reinforcements to the front.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Black Mountain Fortress with more than seventy Yang Alliance fighters, including several Dou Zongs, and Ya Fei began assigning them tasks.
• Xiao Yan suppressed the Demonic Poisonous Pustule in Jia Xing Tian and promised to use Heavenly Flames to refine it after the crisis.
• Yan Luotian threatened the fortress, and Cai Lin identified him as a Seven-star Dou Zong before two more Seven-star Dou Zongs appeared from Mulan Valley and the Chuyun Empire.

Xiao Yan and the Jia Ma Empire’s forces battled Yan Luotian and the invading experts, with Xiao Yan facing the poison master Hao. As Hao unleashed his desperate Five Poisons Illusionary Sky Seal, Xiao Yan began preparing a powerful flame technique.

• Yan Luotian’s allies threatened the Snake-People Tribe, so Cai Lin charged the Mulan Valley elder while Xiao Yan went to fight Hao.
• Xiao Yan burned through Hao’s poison arrows with Sea Blue Flame and struck him with a concealed Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, creating a massive shockwave.
• Cai Lin used Long Rainbow Setting Sun to force the Mulan Valley elder to retreat.
• Hai Bodong, Zi Yi, and Chen Xuan struggled to keep Yan Luotian occupied, relying on speed and attacks to stop him from reaching Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan’s Dragon’s Roar, Tiger’s Howl stunned Hao, who then risked his life to unleash the Five Poisons Illusionary Sky Seal.
• Xiao Yan put away his ruler and began combining two Heavenly Flames with Flame Mantra Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan defeated Elder Hao with his newly developed Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus, but a Demonic Poisonous Pustule from Elder Hao’s final counterattack infected him. Xun Er arrived to protect Xiao Yan and killed Elder Hao, while Yan Luotian and the Mulan Valley elder fled the battlefield.

• Xiao Yan fused the Green Lotus Core Flame and Sea Heart Flame, then used the Buddha's Fury Flame Lotus to blast through Elder Hao's Five Poisons Illusionary Sky Seal and critically injure him.
• Yan Luotian and the Mulan Valley elder abandoned their forces and fled, while Cai Lin and Zi Yi pursued them in their True Forms.
• A Demonic Poisonous Pustule shot out of the explosion and burrowed into Xiao Yan's chest, and Xun Er rushed to his side with a Seventh Grade antidote pill.
• Xiao Yan told Xun Er that he could suppress the poison for now and asked her to handle the remaining enemies.
• Xun Er declared that none of the intruders would leave the Northwest Continent and killed Elder Hao by extinguishing his life.

Xun Er and the Yang Alliance defeated the Three Sects’ forces at Black Mountain Fortress, but Xiao Yan and Xun Er suspected a stronger power stood behind the attack. That night, Venerable Qing Hai confronted Xiao Yan and demanded the Ancient Jade inherited by the Xiao Family.

• Xun Er killed Yan Luotian with the Mountain Splitting Seal, while Cai Lin killed Old Man Mu, and the group returned to Black Mountain Fortress.
• Ya Fei accepted the surviving Three Sects experts’ surrender after Xiao Yan argued they could be useful to the Yang Alliance.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er privately suspected that a Soul Hall Elder had backed the Three Sects’ attack, and the Yang Alliance held a banquet while keeping its suspicions secret.
• Xiao Yan suppressed the Demonic Poisonous Pustule with Heavenly Flames and planned to devour the Fallen Heart Flame after advancing to Dou Zong.
• Venerable Qing Hai appeared before Xiao Yan and demanded the Ancient Jade inherited by the Xiao Family, threatening to spare his life only if he handed it over.

Chen Yang arrived in time to save Xiao Yan from Venerable Qing Hai, then killed the Soul Hall elder and captured his soul. He revealed that Xiao Yan’s Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus had triggered a new system reward, Nuclear Boy, before the two set out to accelerate the Yang Alliance’s takeover of the empires and sects and draw the Soul Hall’s attention to Central Continent.

• Xiao Yan tricked Venerable Qing Hai into turning around, and Chen Yang appeared and pulled Xiao Yan free.
• Chen Yang restrained Qing Hai, snapped his neck, sealed his soul in a Jade Bottle with the Fallen Heart Flame, and stored his body in the Universe Ring.
• Xiao Yan thanked Chen Yang, who explained that he had watched Xiao Yan use Buddha’s Fury Flame Lotus during the day and triggered a system reward.
• Chen Yang demonstrated Nuclear Boy, a Heavenly Flame technique that formed a singing, self-destructing boy, and told Xiao Yan he would teach it to him later.
• Chen Yang urged Xiao Yan to help take over the Three Great Empires and Three Sects quickly so the Yang Alliance could head to Central Continent and draw the Soul Hall’s attention there.
• Xiao Yan agreed and left with Chen Yang to find Ya Fei, Hai Bodong, and the others.

Chen Yang prepared to leave the Northwest Continent for Central Continent, while his companions discussed who would travel with him and how the Yang Alliance would be managed. A month later, Cai Lin summoned him to the Snake-People Tribe's Ancestral Land and told him she might be pregnant.

• Chen Yang told the Yang Alliance that he had killed Soul Hall Elder Qing Hai and that he and Xiao Yan planned to go to Central Continent after Xiao Yan devoured the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Cai Lin, Yun Yun, and Qing Lin said they wanted to accompany Chen Yang, but he decided to take only Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian at first; Xiao Ling chose to remain at Jia Nan Academy.
• Chen Yang assigned Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian to manage the alliance's resources and spent time with Ya Fei before returning to the Imperial Capital.
• After about a month, Hua She'er summoned Chen Yang to the Snake-People Tribe's Ancestral Land, where Cai Lin dismissed the Four Old Snakes and told him she might be pregnant.

Chen Yang learned that Cai Lin was pregnant and discovered that she was carrying both a Little Medusa and a reborn Sky Swallowing Python. He decided to travel to Central Continent to obtain the ingredients for a powerful pill to nourish their children, while promising to care for Cai Lin and be present at the birth.

• Cai Lin told Chen Yang she was pregnant, and he admitted that he was nervous but overjoyed about becoming a father.
• Chen Yang used his Piercing Gold Eyes to see that Cai Lin carried two children: a Little Medusa and a Little Sky Swallowing Python.
• Cai Lin gave Chen Yang the Snake-People Tribe's fetal-nourishment formula, which called for a Seventh Grade Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.
• Chen Yang said he would seek the ingredients in Central Continent for a Nine-Colored Profound Yin Pill, an Eighth-grade pill suited to nourishing their children.
• Chen Yang promised Cai Lin he would protect her and be by her side when the child was born.

Chen Yang arranged for Cai Lin to enter the Chen Mansion as its mistress and established a new Yang City before returning to Jia Nan Academy. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian emerged from more than a year of closed-door cultivation as a One-star Dou Zun and set out to find her husband.

• Chen Yang asked Cai Lin to marry him, and she teased him by asking him to become her royal husband before he carried her to her bedchamber.
• Three days later, Chen Yang returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Cai Lin and ordered a city built where he had first appeared in the world.
• Chen Yang named the new city Yang City, arranged for Cai Lin to enter the Chen Mansion as its mistress, and gained the support of Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and the other women.
• Chen Yang left Hai Bodong to guard the Yang Alliance and returned to Yang City in the Black Corner Region with the others before heading back to Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the Purple Cocoon, read Chen Yang's letter, and left the Small World after promising to avenge her teacher and find a way forward for the Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had become a One-star Dou Zun and traveled through a Space Tunnel toward Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Yi Xian arrived at Jia Nan Academy to reunite with Chen Yang, while Zi Yan completed her evolution. The chapter ended as Xiao Yi Xian and Chen Yang embraced and Zi Yan asked who she was.

• Xiao Yi Xian reached Peace Town, where Xue Lei recognized her as Chen Yang’s wife and arranged for her to travel to Jia Nan Academy.
• Chen Yang returned to the Inner Academy, introduced Fierce Tiger King to the others, and sent Xiao Yan to deliver medicinal pills to Feng Li.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived at Jia Nan City at midnight and agreed with Hu Gan to continue to the Inner Academy the next morning.
• Chen Yang refined medicinal pills for the women in his courtyard and witnessed Zi Yan emerge from her cocoon after completing her evolution.
• Chen Yang pulled Xiao Yi Xian into his arms when she arrived, and Zi Yan asked who the new sister was.

Xiao Yi Xian returned from receiving her inheritance, reunited with Chen Yang, and learned she would accompany him and Zi Yan to Central Continent. Chen Yang prepared a Seventh-grade Mysterious Ice Heart Calming Pill for Xiao Yan, who was about to devour the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Chen Yang reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and introduced her to Cai Lin, Qing Lin, Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian learned that Cai Lin was pregnant and that she and Zi Yan would travel with Chen Yang to Central Continent.
• Chen Yang and the women organized a fishing competition, then spent several leisurely days together while Chen Yang refined pills.
• Xiao Yan delivered the medicinal materials for the Fallen Heart Flame pills, and Chen Yang warned him that devouring powerful Heavenly Flames could be fatal.
• Chen Yang completed the Seventh-grade Mysterious Ice Heart Calming Pill and handed it to Xiao Yan as he prepared to devour the Fallen Heart Flame.

After Jia Nan Academy's elders approved Xiao Yan's plan to devour the Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower while Chen Yang and the others waited outside. Chen Yang sent Zi Yan and Xun Er to search for rare medicinal materials, leaving the story with Xiao Yan's dangerous trial underway.

• Qian Mu and Bai Lie thanked Chen Yang for the pills that helped them advance to Dou Zun and agreed that Xiao Yan could devour the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Medicine Elder promised that he and Xiao Yan would help Jia Nan Academy in the future, and Elder Qian Bai accepted Xiao Yan's plan.
• Chen Yang gave Xiao Yan a Perfect Sect-Breaking Pill before Xiao Yan entered the tower to devour the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian lifted the seal and followed Xiao Yan into the tower while Chen Yang, Xun Er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan waited outside.
• Chen Yang gave Zi Yan maps to search for medicinal materials and assigned Fierce Tiger King to accompany her.
• Xun Er agreed to accompany Zi Yan and arrange for the Ancient Clan to help gather the materials, and the two left together.

Xiao Yan lured the Fallen Heart Flame into attacking, then worked with Medicine Elder to subdue it and seize its origin. He began refining the flame in its magma lair, where he remained for a month as Chen Yang occasionally checked on him.

• After seven days of searching, Medicine Elder realized the Fallen Heart Flame was hiding and waiting for Xiao Yan to weaken, so he devised a plan to draw it out.
• Xiao Yan feigned exhaustion and retreat until the Fallen Heart Flame ambushed him near the tower's lowest level.
• Xiao Yan restored his Dou Qi with a concealed Seventh-grade pill, while Medicine Elder trapped the Fallen Heart Flame with Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yan battered the Fallen Heart Flame with repeated attacks, then seized its marked Heavenly Flame Origin as it tried to escape.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Fallen Heart Flame Origin and began refining it in the magma, with Medicine Elder guarding him.
• A month later, Chen Yang passed near the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, and the System Prompt sounded beside his ear.

Chen Yang obtained the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Flame, fused his Heavenly Flames into the Solar True Fire, and discussed searching for another Fallen Heart Flame with Su Qian. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan evolved the Flame Mantra and began breaking through to Dou Zong in the magma.

• Chen Yang obtained the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Flame and fused it with his other Heavenly Flames, naming the result Solar True Fire.
• Chen Yang told Su Qian that Xiao Yan had succeeded in devouring the Fallen Heart Flame and planned to search the magma for another one.
• Xiao Yan endured the Fallen Heart Flame’s energy as he evolved the Flame Mantra, with Medicine Elder watching over him.
• After half a month, Xiao Yan took Chen Yang’s Sect Breaking Pill and leaped into the magma to break through to Dou Zong.

After a month of cultivation, Xiao Yan advanced from Peak Dou Huang to Dou Zong, then refined the two Demonic Poisonous Pustules and rose to Five-star Dou Zong. He left the ruins of the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower to reunite with Xun Er, who was nearing the time she had to return to her clan.

• Xun Er returned to Jia Nan Academy with most of the medicinal materials Chen Yang had requested and learned Xiao Yan was still cultivating.
• Xiao Yan’s breakthrough caused an explosion that destroyed the aboveground structure of the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• At Chen Yang’s urging, Xiao Yan used his three fused Heavenly Flames to refine the Demonic Poisonous Pustules and absorb the Dou Qi within them.
• Xun Er waited outside the tower as Xiao Yan broke through repeatedly and reached Five-star Dou Zong.
• Medicine Elder advised Xiao Yan to pause his advancement and adapt to his strength, so Xiao Yan ended his cultivation and emerged from the ruins.
• Xun Er rushed into Xiao Yan’s arms when he came out of the tower.

Chen Yang, Xiao Yan, and their companions celebrated Xiao Yan’s advancement to Dou Zong before Xiao Yan spent Xun Er’s final days at the academy with her. Xun Er gave Xiao Yan the Emperor Seal Art, then Ling Quan arrived to escort her back to her clan.

• Chen Yang, Xiao Yan, and Su Qian discussed finding another Fallen Heart Flame after the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower was rebuilt, while Xiao Yan promised to earn Xun Er’s clan elders’ approval.
• Chen Yang teased Xiao Yan about making money, then Xiao Yan devoted the next two weeks to traveling and spending time with Xun Er.
• On the final day, Xun Er gave Xiao Yan the High-level Earth Tier Emperor Seal Art, which could rival a Heaven Tier Dou Technique when all five seals were combined.
• Ten Four-winged Unicorns arrived outside the Jia Nan Academy Elders’ residences, and Ling Quan introduced himself as the Black Annihilation Army’s newly appointed Deputy Commander sent to escort Xun Er home.

Xun Er confronted Ling Quan over his early arrival and the Ancient Clan’s refusal to send her requested medicinal materials, while Xiao Yan revealed his strength by defeating Ling Quan and his guards. After Xun Er took the materials and left with Xiao Yan, a Dou Zun Elder killed the witnesses and planned to conceal what happened as a spatial accident.

• Xun Er ordered Ling Quan to leave Jia Nan Academy and accused him of acting under an Elder’s instructions, but Ling Quan provoked Xiao Yan by calling him a former good-for-nothing.
• Xiao Yan seized Ling Quan, overwhelmed the nine Dou Wang guards, revealed he was a Five-star Dou Zong, and slapped and humiliated Ling Quan before throwing him aside.
• Xun Er learned the Ancient Clan Elders had rejected her request for medicinal materials, severed Ling Quan’s arm to take his Storage Ring, and warned the Elder behind him against defying her orders.
• A Dou Zun Elder appeared and killed Ling Quan; after Xun Er insisted she had not seen the materials, the Elder gave her his own Storage Ring, which she passed to Xiao Yan.
• Xun Er flew away with Xiao Yan and told the Elder to clean up the grounds; he killed the nine guards and planned to claim they had vanished in spatial turbulence.

Xun Er said goodbye to Xiao Yan before returning to her clan, while Chen Yang reassured her that he would watch over Xiao Yan. The next morning, Chen Yang and Xiao Yan entered the Magma Sea beneath the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.

• Xiao Yan and Xun Er shared an emotional farewell, and Xun Er said she would return to her clan and cultivate diligently.
• Chen Yang promised Xun Er he would keep an eye on Xiao Yan, while Zi Yan also vowed to stop Xiao Yan from pursuing other women.
• Xun Er spent her final night with Xiao Yan, then left the academy before dawn and said goodbye to him.
• Xiao Yan gave Chen Yang the medicinal materials Xun Er had sent and received instructions to keep the Dou Zun's Storage Ring for himself.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Yan entered the repaired Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and plunged into the Magma Sea, where Chen Yang's System Prompt sounded.

Chen Yang advanced to One-star Dou Sheng in the Magma Sea and accompanied Xiao Yan to investigate the Fallen Heart Flame’s summons. They found another Fallen Heart Flame guarded by Flame Lizardmen, and Chen Yang began harvesting their Fire Pearls for the Yang Alliance before killing the strongest reinforcements.

• The System Mechanism raised Chen Yang from Five-star Dou Zun to One-star Dou Sheng when he entered the Magma Sea.
• Xiao Yan sensed a summons from Fallen Heart Flame, so he and Chen Yang followed it deeper into the magma.
• They discovered a third Fallen Heart Flame beside a set of bones, and a Flame Lizardman ambushed Xiao Yan.
• Chen Yang explained that Flame Lizardmen carried Fire Pearls that could be used to make pills, and he and Xiao Yan began collecting them for the Yang Alliance.
• Chen Yang let Flame Lizardmen summon reinforcements, then killed the seventh wave’s Eight-star Dou Zun leader and the remaining lizardmen.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable watched from within the ring of light and wondered about Chen Yang’s strength.

Xiao Yan and Chen Yang defeated the Flame Lizardmen, and Chen Yang revealed that he had reached One-star Dou Sheng. They met Yao Tianhuo, whose connection to Xiao Yan’s Fallen Heart Flame explained why it had summoned them, and he asked whether they were Alchemists.

• Xiao Yan killed the remaining Flame Lizardmen, and Chen Yang explained that he had stopped more from arriving after defeating an Eight-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan learned that Chen Yang had unsealed more of his strength and reached One-star Dou Sheng.
• Chen Yang pointed out a hidden Soul Body, and he and Xiao Yan entered the halo to meet Yao Tianhuo.
• Chen Yang and Yao Tianhuo discussed the Fallen Heart Flames, and Yao Tianhuo explained how he had once refined the flame Xiao Yan now possessed.
• Yao Tianhuo noticed Wood Qi in Chen Yang and Xiao Yan and asked if they were Alchemists; both nodded.