Recaps

Elder Hun Mo and Pill Tower Ancestor joined forces against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, dividing the Heaven Refining Great Array between their groups. The Flame unleashed the array’s destructive power, overwhelming their combined attacks and leaving Hun Feng dead.

• Elder Hun Mo proposed an alliance, and Pill Tower Ancestor assigned himself and Lin Ming, Xiao Chen, and Gu Nanhai to attack the Heaven Array while Hun Mo led the Four Clans against the Earth Array.
• Lin Ming briefly paused as if sensing something before joining Pill Tower Ancestor, while the Four Clans followed Hun Mo.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated both sides of the Heaven Refining Great Array, unleashing pillars of milky-white light at the two groups.
• Pill Tower Ancestor, Lin Ming, Xiao Chen, Gu Nanhai, Elder Hun Mo, and the Four Clans combined their strongest attacks, but the pillars shattered their defenses and killed many people.
• A beam struck Hun Feng, piercing through him and killing him before his hidden Child Flame could react.

Hun Feng died when the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s attack destroyed him, and the blast caught up with the fleeing experts. A pink halo shielded Lin Ming, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and the others, while a figure resembling the flame emerged behind Lin Ming and was identified as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.

• Hun Feng vanished under the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s attack, despite carrying Nihility Devouring Flame’s Origin Child Flame.
• Elder Hun Mo, Hun Miesheng, and the others fled, but the destructive light pillars caught up and detonated near them.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame celebrated his apparent escape from the seal, then sensed that his targets had survived.
• A pink halo appeared around Lin Ming, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and the others, shielding them from the blast.
• Yao Ling noticed milky-white radiance around Lin Ming, which formed an illusory figure resembling the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor recognized the figure behind Lin Ming as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.

Lin Ming was possessed by the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s remnant image, shocking the survivors and terrifying the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. The Flame attacked Lin Ming with the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, leaving everyone’s survival in the Saint’s hands.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s remnant image appeared behind Lin Ming, and Lin Ming opened his eyes with milky-white pupils as those present felt compelled to bow.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame recognized the Saint and raged over being sealed for thousands of years, blaming him for its suffering.
• The Saint acknowledged his responsibility for the Flame’s violence but defended sealing it to protect living beings.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame dismissed the Saint as a fading afterimage and activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array.
• Two destructive pillars of light shot toward Lin Ming, threatening everyone gathered there.

Lin Ming seized control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who unleashed a world-destroying eruption. Lin Ming opened a passage and sent the others to safety, leaving himself behind to face the flame.

• Lin Ming stopped the Light Pillars and began taking control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame lost control of the array and transformed himself into flames that began burning the space and the people inside it.
• Lin Ming opened a Space Passage and urged everyone to escape before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's power destroyed them.
• Mang Tianchi asked Lin Ming to leave with the Lei Clan, but Lin Ming sent Mang Tianchi, Lei Jie, and Lei Yun through the passage.
• Lin Ming remained alone with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and his illusory figure as a crimson Demonic Fire Lotus formed overhead.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to strip the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of its memories and intelligence, believing its brutality threatened the continent. He forced the Flame’s soul out of its true body and trapped it in a shrinking fire prison.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint recalled how he had given the Demonic Lotus intelligence and taught it to cultivate, while the Flame blamed him for meddling in its life.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint activated the formations and sealed the Demonic Lotus inside a prison of milky-white fire pillars.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame attacked the prison with blood-colored flames as the Saint collapsed the outer formations to strengthen the pillars.
• The Saint used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to draw blood-colored mist containing the Flame’s memories and intelligence out of its body.
• The Flame’s human-shaped soul tried to return to its body, but the Saint shrank the Fire Curtain around it into a prison about ten feet across.

Lin Ming persuaded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint to spare the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame by imprisoning him inside Lin Ming’s complete world. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint accepted the plan, transferred the Flame into Lin Ming’s world, and then dissipated.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame begged the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint for mercy, then attacked him with blood mist while insisting that he hated him.
• As the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint began collapsing the fire formation to destroy them both, Lin Ming asked him to spare the Flame.
• Lin Ming revealed his complete world and promised to imprison and reform the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while preserving the Saint’s inheritance.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint agreed, bound the resisting Flame, and sent him into Lin Ming’s world.
• The Five Elements Roulette restrained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint said goodbye before dissipating.

After the Demonic Flame Space vanished, Mang Tianchi and the others waited anxiously outside, while Hun Miesheng’s clan also stayed to see whether Lin Ming had survived. Inside the space, Lin Ming found the now-quiet Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and approached it, preparing to subdue it.

• Mang Tianchi, Huo Yao, and the Pill Tower Ancestor waited outside the sealed space and worried that Lin Ming had not escaped.
• Hun Miesheng welcomed the possibility that Lin Ming had died, but Elder Hun Mo ordered the Hun Clan to wait several days in case Lin Ming survived and revealed the flame’s whereabouts.
• Experts from the Ancient Races, rogue cultivators, and Middle Continent factions remained nearby, hoping for another chance to gain something from the Demonic Flame Space.
• Inside the space, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s Remnant Soul disappeared, the flame’s soul was imprisoned in Lin Ming’s Inner World, and the Heaven Refining Ancient Array collapsed.
• Lin Ming saw the calm Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame drifting above the Magma Sea and cautiously approached it.

Lin Ming seized the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Origin and endured its destructive power as it entered his body, where his Inner World subdued it. Outside the sealed Demonic Flame Space, ten days passed without a sign of him, and the waiting experts lost hope when Pill Tower Ancestor could not locate the space.

• Lin Ming reached for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Origin, and its power engulfed him and overwhelmed his New Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame.
• Despite his agony and burns, Lin Ming swallowed the flame and forced it into his body.
• Lin Ming's Inner World pulled the flame inside and trapped it with the Five Elements Roulette, after which it began circulating through his meridians.
• Ten days passed outside the Demonic Flame Space as the crowd dwindled and Mang Tianchi, Lei Yun, and Lei Jie waited without news.
• Pill Tower Ancestor failed to sense the sealed Demonic Flame Space, leaving those who hoped Lin Ming had survived in despair.

With Lin Ming missing, Huang Tian led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to surround the Five Elements Sect and demand its people. The Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Lei Jie, and Mang Tianchi intervened to protect the sect, but Huang Tian demanded that Ya Fei and the others be handed over, bringing the rival clans to the brink of war.

• Huang Tian surrounded the Five Elements Sect with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and said the sect had broken their agreement by failing to reveal his imprisoned clansmen.
• Ya Fei refused to abandon the sect despite Lin Ming's earlier instruction to flee, and Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Elder Yao stood with her.
• Huang Tian attacked the sect with a massive golden palm, but the arrival of the Ancient Void Dragons halted its descent.
• North Dragon King Zhu Xu declared that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan would protect Lin Ming's sect, while Lei Jie and Mang Tianchi also sided with the Five Elements Sect.
• Huang Tian agreed not to destroy the sect but demanded that Ya Fei and the others be handed over, threatening war when the defenders resisted.

The Pill Tower Ancestor stopped Huang Tian from attacking the Five Elements Sect by reminding him that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was breaking its agreement. Huang Tian withdrew but warned that he would return in two years if his clan members were not handed over, while Ya Fei and the others continued to hope for Lin Ming’s return.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared between the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Five Elements Sect and challenged Huang Tian over breaking the agreement with Lin Ming.
• Huang Tian argued that Lin Ming and the clan members trapped in the Demonic Flame Space were missing, but the Pill Tower Ancestor said that did not permit an early attack.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor warned that the Pill Tower, Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Lei Clan would oppose the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, so Huang Tian ordered his army to withdraw.
• Ya Fei thanked the rescuers, and the Pill Tower Ancestor told her he believed Lin Ming might return before Huang Tian’s two-year deadline.

After a year of seclusion inside the Demonic Flame Space, Lin Ming emerged from a crystal cocoon having refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He had reached Peak Six-Star Dou Saint and fused the flame with his five Heavenly Flames into a new seven-petaled Flame Lotus.

• A year passed as Ya Fei and the Five Elements Sect disciples waited for Lin Ming to return from the sealed Demonic Flame Space.
• The crystal egg containing Lin Ming cracked open, and he emerged from it amid a burst of multicolored light.
• Lin Ming sensed that his cultivation had risen from Early Stage Four-Star Dou Saint to Peak Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Lin Ming summoned the new Flame Lotus formed by fusing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with his five Heavenly Flames.

Lin Ming fused the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with seven other flames, including the Nihility Devouring Flame’s child flame, and showed the result to the imprisoned Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Soul. He offered the soul a choice between joining him and enduring eternal imprisonment, leaving its decision unresolved.

• Lin Ming revealed that he had secretly killed Hun Feng during the Demonic Flame Space battle and taken the Nihility Devouring Flame’s child flame from his corpse.
• Lin Ming formed an eight-colored Flame Lotus, combining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with seven other flames, though the fusion did not unlock another level of the Chaos Spirit Five Elements Art.
• Lin Ming entered his Inner World and found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Soul bound by the Five Elements Roulette after a year of imprisonment.
• Lin Ming told the soul that its body had become part of his Origin Flame and offered it a choice between remaining imprisoned until its intelligence faded or returning to the Flame Lotus and growing stronger with him.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Soul stared at its transformed body in shock as Lin Ming pressed it to choose, but it gave no answer.

Lin Ming secured the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Soul's submission, allowing it to merge with its Eight-Colored Fire Lotus body and break through to Six-Star Dou Saint. He took the Heaven Refining Great Array into his Inner World, collapsed the Demonic Flame Space, and left for the Middle Continent.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Soul accepted Lin Ming as its Master, and Lin Ming replaced its restraints with a Five Elements Roulette mark.
• The soul rejoined the Eight-Colored Fire Lotus and broke through from peak Five-Star Dou Saint to Six-Star Dou Saint.
• Lin Ming confirmed the flame and its soul were under his control, then stored the Heaven Refining Great Array in his Inner World.
• The Demonic Flame Space collapsed after losing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Heaven Refining Great Array.
• Lin Ming tore open a Spatial Rift with the fused flames and stepped through toward the Middle Continent.

The Soul Hall arrived at the Five Elements Sect’s Demon Fire Plains encampment and demanded its rich territory, where Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian waited for Lin Ming to return. As the Soul Hall leader attacked Qing Lin, a rift opened and a voice declared that the Soul Hall was not qualified to harm anyone from the Five Elements Sect.

• The chapter described how the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had transformed the mountains into the Demon Fire Plains, where Demon Fire Stones drew factions from across the Middle Continent.
• The Five Elements Sect held the plain’s richest region under Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian’s protection, preserving the site where Lin Ming might emerge from the Demonic Flame Space.
• A group from the Soul Hall arrived and ordered the Five Elements Sect to surrender the territory.
• Qing Lin refused and summoned Yao Li and Yao Xiaotian, while the Soul Hall leader and another Dou Saint released their auras to overwhelm them.
• The Soul Hall leader formed a black palm print and struck toward Qing Lin, but a rift opened and a voice warned that the Soul Hall was not qualified to touch anyone from the Five Elements Sect.

Lin Ming returned after a year and revealed that he had refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He annihilated the Soul Hall force threatening Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, leaving the two women reunited with him amid the drifting ash.

• Lin Ming emerged from a Spatial Rift, reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin after a year apart.
• The two Soul Hall Dou Saints recognized Lin Ming and fled, prompting the rest of their force to scatter.
• Lin Ming used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to burn the fleeing Half Sages and Dou Venerates to ash.
• A peak One-Star Dou Saint realized Lin Ming had refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but Lin Ming then incinerated both Soul Hall Dou Saints.
• Lin Ming withdrew his hand and turned back to Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin with a gentle smile.

Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect after refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and reassured its people that they were safe from their enemies. Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin then entered secluded cultivation to pursue the Dou Saint realm, leaving Lin Ming confident they would succeed.

• Lin Ming revealed that he had reached Peak Six-Star Dou Saint and left an Early-stage Two-star Dou Saint Fire Slave to guard the Demon Fire Stone mining area.
• Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and Ya Fei tearfully reunited with him.
• Lin Ming told Ya Fei, Elder Yao, and the others about refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and subduing eight Fire Slaves, then displayed the flame and reassured them about threats from the Hun Clan and Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin decided to enter secluded cultivation to break through to Dou Saint, using their Tier 9 Bodhi Pills and Yellow Springs Demon Saint essence blood.
• Lin Ming gave Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin Child Flames to temper their Dou Qi, shared his breakthrough experience, and secured their Cave Mansion with restrictions and a Fire Slave guard.

Lin Ming prepared to refine a custom pill to help Elder Yao overcome the cultivation bottleneck that threatened to leave him stuck at Intermediate Half Sage. Before the assembled observers, he summoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and formed a Flame Condensation Cauldron to begin the refinement.

• With Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin in seclusion to pursue Dou Sheng, Lin Ming discussed Ya Fei's cultivation and Elder Yao's stagnation with them in the Five Elements Sect's main hall.
• Lin Ming resolved to help Elder Yao break through the limits of his aptitude, and the sect spent half a month gathering fire-attribute treasures and Demon Fire Stones for the pill refinement.
• More than twenty selected alchemists, elders, and disciples gathered to observe Lin Ming refine a pill for Elder Yao.
• Lin Ming lifted the gathered materials into the air and summoned the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, shaping it into an enormous Flame Condensation Cauldron.
• Elder Xumei recognized the ancient alchemy technique and was astonished as Lin Ming focused on refining his self-created pill.

Lin Ming refined a three-pattern Demonic Fire Pill and gave it, along with the remaining Saint Soul Marrow, to Elder Yao. The gifts gave Elder Yao a path to advance beyond Half Sage and potentially challenge the Dou Sheng realm.

• Lin Ming used fire-attribute materials to nurture the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame within the Demon Fire Stones and form a Demonic Fire Pill.
• A Black Demon Lightning tribulation appeared, but Lin Ming commanded it to disperse before it struck.
• The finished Demonic Fire Pill gained three Pill Patterns and tried to escape the flame cauldron, but Lin Ming contained it and stored it in a Jade Bottle.
• Lin Ming met Elder Yao at a secluded mountain peak and gave him the remaining Saint Soul Marrow and the Demonic Fire Pill.
• Lin Ming explained that the treasures could help Elder Yao reach High-Tier Half Sage, strengthen his Dou Qi flames, and gain the potential to challenge the Dou Sheng realm.

After settling the Five Elements Sect’s affairs, Lin Ming set out for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Demon Phoenix Realm to take revenge for its attacks. He reached the clan’s hidden stronghold undetected, while its leaders remained unaware of the danger gathering outside.

• Lin Ming repaid the allies who had supported the Five Elements Sect and settled the sect’s affairs before deciding to take revenge on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Lin Ming traveled to the Beast Domain and secretly reached the entrance to the Demon Phoenix Realm.
• Lin Ming sensed someone nearby and told them to come out.
• Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members gathered in Phoenix Hall and discussed destroying the Five Elements Sect when the two-year deadline arrived.
• Jiu Feng brooded over the pain and lost potential caused by Lin Ming erasing part of his soul, and vowed to kill him.
• Huang Tian and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan remained unaware that Lin Ming had reached their stronghold.

Lin Ming sent the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to attack the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, whose leader Huang Tian faced the invader in the Demon Phoenix Realm. The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame declared that the clan would die for offending someone they should never have crossed, and Huang Tian prepared to fight.

• Lin Ming ordered the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to unleash the abilities he had learned from Senior Demon Sage against the Demon Phoenix Realm.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame tore open a rift into the Demon Phoenix Realm, drawing an enraged response from Huang Tian, who ordered the clan onto high alert.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame entered the realm while Lin Ming vanished, then incinerated several Dou Venerate patrollers and frightened the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members who gathered to stop him.
• Huang Tian confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame outside Phoenix Hall and, sensing his Six-Star Dou Saint strength, asked why he had invaded.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame mocked Huang Tian and declared that the clan had offended someone they should never have offended, then threatened to kill everyone in the Demon Phoenix Realm.
• Huang Tian erupted in fury and roared that reaching Six-Star Dou Saint would not let the intruder run wild among his clan.

Huang Tian attacked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with a huge Energy Demon Phoenix, but the Flame destroyed it with the Fire Demon Halberd and injured him. Huang Tian then transformed into his true form and unleashed golden hurricanes, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame calmly summoned the Heaven and Earth Energy around him.

• Huang Tian formed a several-thousand-zhang Energy Demon Phoenix and sent it charging at the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Fire Demon Halberd, which pierced and burned away Huang Tian's Energy Demon Phoenix.
• Huang Tian was injured by the destruction of his attack, while the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members watched in alarm.
• Huang Tian transformed into his golden true form, declaring that his clan would not submit.
• Huang Tian beat his wings and sent golden hurricanes toward the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, who raised a hand and gathered the realm's Heaven and Earth Energy.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame crushed Huang Tian with one blow, prompting the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to summon its ancient protective formation. The chapter ended as the Flame’s Demonic Flame God Statue and the formation’s Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Phantom collided.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame struck Huang Tian down with his ten-thousand-zhang giant palm, leaving him severely wounded in a crater.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Grand Elder emerged and ordered the clan members to form the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Array.
• Huang Tian forced himself into the array and became its Array Eye, helping the clan summon an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Phantom.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame transformed into his ten-thousand-zhang Demonic Flame God Statue and challenged the phantom.
• The Demonic Flame God Statue punched, and the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Phantom charged; the two colossal figures collided in midair.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame destroyed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s protective array and prepared to finish off its survivors. As Huang Tian’s dying bloodline cry awakened an ancient clan elder in the Cremation Grounds, the chapter left the elder vanishing from his hiding place.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Demonic Flame God Statue shattered the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Phantom with three punches, leaving the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan crippled and Huang Tian gravely wounded.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame raised its fist to kill the helpless clan members, while the survivors despaired.
• Huang Tian’s bloodline and soul triggered the clan’s ancient summoning technique, calling to an existence in the Cremation Grounds.
• An ancient, death-secluded elder awakened as the summoning cry reached him.
• The elder vanished from the Cremation Grounds.

A long-dormant elder of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan stopped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from killing the clan and nearly destroyed him. Lin Ming appeared after a Five-Colored Light saved the flame, and the elder turned his attention to the dying Huang Tian.

• The hunched elder emerged before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and stopped his attack on the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• The elder collapsed the Demonic Flame God Statue with a clench and prepared a deadly strike against the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame cried for his master, and a Five-Colored Light broke the elder's restraint and nullified his grayish-white beam.
• Lin Ming appeared at the peak of Six Stars Dou Sheng, and the dying Huang Tian recognized him with hatred.
• The elder addressed Huang Tian from above the ruins.

Huang Tian’s great-granduncle emerged from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Cremation Grounds and attacked Lin Ming to defend the clan. Lin Ming blocked the old man’s Seven-Star Dou Saint-level strike, but the exhausted elder sacrificed more of his lifespan and spat out his Origin Blood Essence.

• Huang Tian confessed the clan’s role in its feud with Lin Ming and took responsibility before his great-granduncle.
• Lin Ming recognized that the dying elder could still unleash the power of an early Seven-Star Dou Saint and suspected he had once been even stronger.
• The great-granduncle decided to kill Lin Ming for the clan’s survival and fired a deathly annihilating beam at him.
• Lin Ming countered with Yellow Springs Finger and Great Heaven Creation Palm, blocking and devouring the death-qi beam.
• The old man’s attacks further depleted his life force, and he spat out dark-gold Origin Blood Essence.