Chapter Summaries

Qin Han and Zi Yan defeated Earthflame Gate’s elders, while Wu Tianlang killed another of its Dou Wang experts. Qin Han turned the Black Corner Region factions against Yun Sha, who destroyed a Storage Ring and scattered its contents into the air.

• Qin Han overwhelmed the Fifth Elder with close-range attacks and struck him with fire poison, sending him flying toward Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan punched the Fifth Elder into the mountainside and claimed his Storage Ring.
• Wu Tianlang killed a Five Star Dou Wang and took his Storage Ring as Yun Sha watched in fury.
• Yun Sha opened the passage to Fire Pavilion and tried to make sure Jia Nan Academy could not claim its treasures.
• Qin Han accused Earthflame Gate of trying to monopolize the treasures, turning the Black Corner Region factions against Yun Sha.
• Yun Sha declared that Jia Nan Academy would get nothing and exploded his Storage Ring, scattering its contents across the sky.

After Yun Sha scattered Fire Pavilion’s treasures, Qin Han, Wu Tianlang, and Zi Yan were targeted by the other factions and forced into a desperate fight. Qin Han completed the Green Lotus Core Flame’s development, but before he could use it, a powerful azure figure intervened.

• Yun Sha sent the Second Elder and other elders toward the Core Region while he stayed behind to fight Wu Tianlang.
• Yun Sha accused Wu Tianlang, Qin Han, and Zi Yan of taking most of the treasures, prompting the gathered factions to demand their loot.
• Wu Tianlang, Qin Han, and Zi Yan formed a defensive stand as their attackers overwhelmed them with Dou Techniques and hidden weapons.
• Qin Han’s Green Lotus Core Flame reached 100% development, and he prepared to combine it with his other flames.
• An azure figure appeared between the trio and their attackers, then sent dozens of experts flying with a casual flick of his sleeve.

Yao Yan rescued Qin Han, Wu Tianlang, and Zi Yan from Yun Sha’s group, then tested Qin Han’s account of how he would have escaped. After the trio left to recover, Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed Qin Han’s hidden abilities and set out for the Fallen Fire Sect’s forbidden ground to seek its true inheritance.

• Yao Yan drove Yun Sha and the other attackers away, then introduced himself to Wu Tianlang as a wandering cultivator named Yao Yan.
• Wu Tianlang offered Yao Yan the recovered treasures as thanks, but Yao Yan refused and questioned Qin Han about his plan to overcome the attackers.
• Qin Han claimed he had intended to use a dangerous secret technique, concealing that he was preparing to fuse a stronger flame.
• Yao Yan departed, and Wu Tianlang led Qin Han and Zi Yan to find a hidden place to heal rather than head toward the Core Region while injured.
• Yao Yan reappeared and discussed Qin Han’s concealed abilities with Old Yao, who suspected Qin Han could fuse flames without Fen Jue.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao concluded that the Fallen Fire Sect’s true inheritance, including the mysteries of Myriad Stars Flame, was likely in the Myriad Fire Furnace, and Xiao Yan headed deeper into the ruins.

Qin Han, Zi Yan, and Wu Tianlang inspected the Storage Rings they had taken from Fire Pavilion, finding mostly worthless or spoiled items before Wu Tianlang revealed a powerful fire-attribute Dou Technique. After the group settled in to recover, Qin Han began refining the energy from the battle and preparing to break through.

• Zi Yan searched the Storage Rings and found that the pills had spoiled, while Qin Han judged most of their contents useless.
• Wu Tianlang gave Qin Han the low-level Earth Rank fire-attribute Dou Technique Great Sun Burning Heaven Seal, then admitted he had kept a Mysterious Rank technique for himself.
• Wu Tianlang warned Qin Han that enemies from the Black Corner Region might retaliate and urged him to recover before supporting the Vice Dean.
• Qin Han asked Zi Yan to keep watch while he attempted a breakthrough, and she promised to protect him.
• Qin Han sat down and used the Devouring Flame Technique to draw the battle's remaining flame-origin energy into his Qi Whirlpool.

Yun Lie opened the seal of the Myriad Fire Furnace under pressure from the gathered factions while Qin Han completed his breakthrough to Two-Star Dou Wang. After learning Wu Tianlang had gone ahead, Qin Han left the valley with Zi Yan to catch up.

• Mo Tianquan, Fan Lao, and the other leaders pressured Yun Lie to open the Myriad Fire Furnace, and Yun Lie activated the seal left by his ancestors.
• Qin Han spent three days refining flame source energy and broke through to Two-Star Dou Wang.
• Qin Han found Zi Yan teasing a fire spirit near a lava pool, and its aura stirred an inexplicable sense of familiarity in him.
• Zi Yan told Qin Han that Wu Tianlang had gone ahead and that she had waited four days for him.
• Qin Han took Zi Yan and flew toward the depths of the Fallen Fire Sect to catch up with Wu Tianlang.

Qin Han and the Jia Nan Academy group reached the Myriad Fire Furnace Plaza, where Yun Lie opened the seal and revealed the Myriad Stars Flame and several treasures. As the gathered factions rushed to seize them, Zi Yan charged after a treasure flying toward the academy.

• Qin Han recognized the potent fire poison in the ruins and arrived with Zi Yan at the Myriad Fire Furnace Plaza.
• Hu Gan explained that Yun Lie was being forced to break the seal and warned the academy group to stay together and avoid greed.
• Qin Han spotted Xiao Yan concealed among the spectators before Yun Lie opened the furnace seal.
• The Myriad Stars Flame emerged, and Qin Han's Myriad Flames Compendium identified and cataloged it as an Eighth Rank Man-made Flame.
• Several treasures shot from the furnace, prompting the factions to rush forward as Han Ya targeted the flame.
• A treasure flew toward Jia Nan Academy, and Zi Yan charged after it before Hu Gan could finish warning the group.

Zi Yan seized a Transformation Pill from the Flowing Light while Qin Han and Hu Gan protected her from rival cultivators. After Qin Han warned her not to take it until Elder Huo examined it back at the academy, Hu Gan approved her keeping it, and they assessed the ongoing battles over the remaining treasures.

• Zi Yan fought off attackers and grabbed the Flowing Light as Qin Han drove back her assailants and Hu Gan repelled two more Dou Wangs.
• Qin Han opened the jade box inside the Flowing Light, revealing a seventh-tier Transformation Pill that Zi Yan urgently needed.
• Qin Han warned Zi Yan to wait until Elder Huo checked the pill for contamination, and she stored it in her Storage Ring.
• Hu Gan allowed Zi Yan to keep the pill, joking that her transformation would save the academy money on food.
• Qin Han asked whether they should pursue more treasures, and Hu Gan surveyed the battles, noting what Mo Tianquan, Fan Lao, Silver Elder, and Han Ya had obtained.

Hu Gan and Jia Nan Academy tried to withdraw from the plaza after powerful Fire Spirit Bodies slaughtered a treasure-holder, but Yun Lie revealed that he had trapped everyone in a formation. The formation withstood Hu Gan’s full-strength attack, leaving the factions sealed inside the plaza.

• A bloodied Dou Wang from the Raging Lion Gang fled with a crystal, but three powerful Fire Spirit Bodies ambushed and killed him.
• Qin Han noticed the Fire Spirit Bodies forming an encirclement, and Hu Gan ordered Jia Nan Academy to retreat.
• Yun Lie appeared atop the Myriad Fire Furnace as Fire Spirit Bodies continued emerging from the Lava River.
• Fleeing cultivators struck an invisible pale-green barrier, and Yun Lie revealed the formation surrounding the plaza.
• Hu Gan attacked the barrier with a Peak Dou Huang’s full strength, but energy from the furnace restored it.

Hu Gan, Mo Tianquan, Silver Elder, and Old Yao joined forces to crack the formation, but Yun Lie unleashed the Fire Spirit Bodies and forced the factions into battle. Qin Han discovered that the Myriad Stars Flame was drawing blood, Dou Qi, and souls from the battlefield to refine them in the crimson Myriad Fire Furnace.

• Mo Tianquan, Hu Gan, Silver Elder, and Old Yao attacked the barrier together and opened fine cracks in it.
• Yun Lie used a crimson flag to command the Fire Spirit Bodies to attack, interrupting the group's assault on the formation.
• Hu Gan, Mo Tianquan, Fan Lao, and others fought off the Fire Spirit Bodies while protecting their factions' members.
• Qin Han suspected Yun Lie had a hidden purpose and sensed the Myriad Stars Flame drawing energy from wounds, clashes, and corpses.
• Qin Han realized the formation was refining the battlefield's life energy and sending it to the crimson Myriad Fire Furnace.

Qin Han realized the Myriad Fire Furnace was absorbing the battlefield’s Blood Qi and energy, and Hu Gan, Mo Tianquan, Fan Lao, and Silver Elder joined forces to attack Yun Lie and the furnace. Yun Lie sacrificed his Blood Soul to activate the furnace, awakening an ancient, overwhelming presence that left the battle frozen as something inside prepared to emerge.

• Qin Han warned Hu Gan that the Myriad Fire Furnace was absorbing energy and likely concealed Yun Lie’s true attack, prompting Hu Gan and the other Dou Emperors to charge the furnace and Yun Lie.
• Yun Lie sent the Fire Spirit Bodies to attack the weaker fighters, while Qin Han and Zi Yan fought side by side to defend their group.
• Hu Gan, Mo Tianquan, Fan Lao, and Silver Elder battered Yun Lie’s defenses, but Yun Lie placed himself before the furnace and poured all his power into it.
• Yun Lie transformed his Dou Qi, essence blood, and soul fluctuations into a crimson pillar that struck the Myriad Fire Furnace, declaring that he was using his Blood Soul as a catalyst.
• The furnace’s runes flared with blood light, its flames turned blood-green, and the Fire Spirit Bodies stopped fighting as an ancient, terrifying aura began to emerge.

Xiao Yan joined Jia Nan Academy’s group as the Myriad Fire Furnace opened and revealed Yun Qianhang, the supposedly dead Fallen Fire Sect Leader, reborn as a peak Three-Star Dou Zong. Hu Gan tried to negotiate the group’s escape, but Yun Qianhang declared that he would drain them and use their remains to restore his sect members.

• Xiao Yan warned Hu Gan that something powerful was awakening inside the Myriad Fire Furnace.
• The furnace burst open, and a fire-and-lava figure emerged, rapidly rising to the peak of the Three-Star Dou Zong realm.
• Hu Gan recognized the figure as Yun Qianhang, the Fallen Fire Sect Leader believed to have died a hundred years earlier.
• Silver Elder and Hu Gan appealed to Yun Qianhang to open the formation and let their groups leave.
• Yun Qianhang said he would drain their Qi and Blood, Dou Qi, and souls to help his sect members escape their monstrous forms.

Yun Qianhang revealed the Fallen Fire Sect's plan and unleashed the fire poison beneath the Myriad Fire Furnace to trap and drain the people in Myriad Fire Plaza. As the Fallen Fire Spirit Bodies began regaining human forms, everyone realized they had been lured there as sacrifices to revive the sect.

• Hu Gan, Mo Tianquan, Fan Lao, Silver Elder, and Xiao Yan attacked Yun Qianhang, but his flaming palm repelled them.
• Yun Qianhang shifted the Myriad Fire Furnace and exposed a deep cave, releasing poisonous fire mist that swept across the plaza.
• Qin Han used his Heart Flame to protect Zi Yan and the Jia Nan Academy elders, while a mercenary leader succumbed to the poison and became a Fire Spirit Body.
• Yun Qianhang used the Myriad Stars Flame to bind the survivors and drain their Dou Qi, vitality, Blood Qi, and Soul Power into the furnace.
• Yun Qianhang sent the gathered energy into the Fire Spirit Bodies, causing them to begin regaining human forms.
• The survivors realized the Fallen Fire Sect and Earthflame Gate had lured them into the plaza to use them as nourishment for the sect's resurrection.

Qin Han discovered that the Myriad Stars Flame did not restrain him and learned from Xiao Yan that the Blood Refining Formation’s weak point lay inside the Myriad Fire Furnace. He gathered Hu Gan, Wu Tianlang, and Xiao Yan to help create a distraction, then feigned agony as he approached the furnace to break the Formation Eye.

• Qin Han realized the Starflame Silk Threads did not restrain him because he carried the Myriad Stars Flame’s origin, and he quietly approached Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Qin Han that the Formation Eye was where the third Ring Rune met the seventh Vertical Rune on the Myriad Fire Furnace’s inner wall.
• Qin Han revealed a docile wisp of Starflame and offered to break the Formation Eye while the others distracted Yun Qianhang.
• Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang agreed to cover Qin Han, while Xiao Yan promised to help the others resist the fire poison and Extraction Force.
• Qin Han pinched his thigh, pretended to stagger in agony, and began moving toward the Myriad Fire Furnace.

Qin Han broke the Myriad Fire Furnace’s formation with a compressed flame needle, freeing the plaza but leaving himself exhausted and vulnerable. Yun Qianhang lost much of his power and rushed to kill Qin Han as the others fled.

• Qin Han endured the fire poison and approached the Myriad Fire Furnace while Hu Gan and Xiao Yan prepared to help him.
• Qin Han launched a needle formed from the Green Lotus Core Flame and Fallen Heart Flame at the Formation Eye, and Hu Gan and Xiao Yan attacked Yun Qianhang to hold him back.
• A Two-Star Dou Huang Fire Spirit Body tried to block the needle, but it pierced through and struck the Formation Eye, shattering the formation and injuring those linked to it.
• Mo Tianquan, Silver Elder, Fan Lao, and the others fled as the Starflame barrier vanished.
• Yun Qianhang’s power fell from the peak of the Three-Star Dou Zong realm to around Two-Star, but he charged at the exhausted Qin Han with a killing palm.

Yun Qianhang’s attack left Qin Han falling toward the Lava Black Hole, but Xiao Yan struck back with a Green-White Fire Lotus as Yun Qianhang unleashed the furnace’s poisonous fire. The Myriad Fire Furnace sealed the hole, and Hu Gan led Jia Nan Academy’s survivors away while the fire poison continued to spread.

• Wu Tianlang intercepted Yun Qianhang’s attack and was gravely wounded, while Hu Gan, Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan tried to protect Qin Han.
• Yun Qianhang knocked Qin Han toward the Lava Black Hole, and Xiao Yan hit Yun Qianhang with a Green-White Fire Lotus.
• Yun Qianhang toppled the Myriad Fire Furnace and poured his remaining Dou Qi into the hole, triggering a surge of poisonous fire before he fell into it.
• The Myriad Fire Furnace flipped over and sealed the cave entrance, while Hu Gan collapsed from fire poison and Xiao Yan warned that the sealing power could not be broken soon.
• Hu Gan ordered Jia Nan Academy’s group to retreat with the unconscious Wu Tianlang and Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan followed them out of the plaza.

Qin Han recovered from his injuries beneath the Myriad Fire Furnace while trapped with the dying Yun Qianhang. Yun Qianhang revealed that the Fallen Fire Sect had been destroyed by fire poison from the Underground Lava World and claimed that Jia Nan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame had originally belonged to his sect.

• Qin Han awoke on a platform surrounded by magma and learned from Yun Qianhang that the furnace seal made escape impossible.
• Qin Han tried to punch through the furnace ceiling but was thrown back and injured himself further.
• Qin Han spent seven or eight days recovering with Fallen Heart Flame, while Yun Qianhang’s condition worsened.
• Qin Han questioned Yun Qianhang about the Fallen Fire Sect’s destruction a century earlier, and Yun Qianhang denied that Myriad Stars Flame had gone out of control.
• Yun Qianhang said fire poison from the Underground Lava World had destroyed the Fallen Fire Sect and claimed the Fallen Heart Flame had belonged to his sect.

Qin Han learned how the Fallen Fire Sect’s search for Fallen Heart Flame led to its destruction by Flame Lizardmen. He then searched the furnace for a way out and discovered the Myriad Stars Flame Scripture engraved inside it.

• Yun Qianhang revealed that the Fallen Fire Sect had entered the Underground Lava World to seek Fallen Heart Flame beneath Jia Nan Academy.
• Qin Han deduced that the sect had hunted Flame Lizardmen for the Fire Beads they carried.
• Yun Qianhang recounted how the sect ventured too deep and provoked a powerful lizardman and its kin, who unleashed corrupted fire poison that destroyed the sect.
• Qin Han stopped arguing with Yun Qianhang and flew to the furnace to search for a weakness in its seal.
• Qin Han uncovered ancient writing on the furnace wall and recognized the Myriad Stars Flame Scripture.

Qin Han learned the Myriad Stars Flame Scripture and rebuilt his Dou Qi pathways, vastly increasing his reserves. After discovering Yun Qianhang had died and left behind the ownerless Myriad Stars Flame, Qin Han began using it to strengthen his flame development.

• Qin Han absorbed the Myriad Stars Flame Scripture and the cultivation insights left by generations of Fallen Fire Sect sages.
• Qin Han painstakingly opened all three hundred and sixty-five Main Acupoints, forming a Star Flame Meridian network that greatly expanded his Dou Qi capacity.
• Qin Han awakened from cultivation and recognized that he still needed to master the scripture’s fire-manipulation techniques.
• Qin Han found Yun Qianhang dead and took control of the ownerless Myriad Stars Flame.
• Qin Han infused the complete Starflame Origin into the [Myriad Flames Compendium], raising its development level as his aura grew.

Qin Han reached Five Star Dou Wang by absorbing the Starflame Origin, then chose to escape through the Underground Lava World using a map and Fire Beads taken from Yun Qianhang’s Storage Ring. At Jia Nan Academy, Han Yue continued defending Qin Han’s Strong Ranking position, insisting he was still alive as Wen Yan challenged her.

• Qin Han absorbed the Starflame Origin and raised his cultivation to Five Star Dou Wang, but could not break through the furnace above him.
• Qin Han searched Yun Qianhang’s Storage Ring, found a map of the Underground Lava World and more than a hundred Fire Beads, and decided to travel downward toward Jia Nan Academy.
• Qin Han activated his fire-resistant form and leaped into the Dark Red Magma.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Wen Yan challenged Han Yue for defending Qin Han’s Strong Ranking position and argued that Qin Han was surely dead.
• Han Yue rejected Wen Yan’s claim, raised her sword, and accepted his challenge.

Zi Yan interrupted Han Yue and Wen Yan’s confrontation before a disturbance beneath the Heavenly Refining Qi Tower revealed that Qin Han had returned from the Underground Lava World. Su Qian rescued Qin Han from the seal, and the elders gathered to hear his account of the Fallen Fire Sect.

• Zi Yan attacked Wen Yan and was stopped by Su Qian, who ordered the students to restore order at the arena.
• A roar and a scorching aura shook the academy, prompting Su Qian to rush to the bottom of the Heavenly Refining Qi Tower.
• Su Qian saw Qin Han fighting the Fire Serpent in the Underground Lava World and opened the seal so Qin Han could escape.
• Su Qian struck the Fire Serpent back into the magma as Qin Han passed through the opening and reached safety.
• Qin Han recounted his experiences to Su Qian, Hu Gan, and the other elders, who agreed to keep the unverified details of the Fallen Fire Sect incident quiet.