Chapter Summaries

After waking from the battle, Qin Han discovered that Gu Nanhai had left a sealed source of dark-golden energy inside him, which steadily strengthened his cultivation. Meanwhile, Han Feng regrouped in Maple City and began plotting to seize Qin Han’s Heavenly Flames and secrets.

• Qin Han woke in the valley as Han Yue recounted how Gu Nanhai had driven Han Feng away and bestowed opportunities on her and Zi Yan.
• Qin Han found a sealed ball of dark-golden energy in his dantian that leaked into his Dou Qi and pushed his cultivation toward the peak of seven-star Dou Wang.
• Zi Yan said she instinctively wanted to swallow the energy, and the three companions cleaned the battlefield before heading for the Inner Academy.
• In Maple City, Han Feng sent Han Beng to summon allies and ordered his agents to monitor Jia Nan Academy, especially Qin Han.
• Han Feng decided to pursue Qin Han and claim the Fallen Heart Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Qin Han’s flame-fusion method, even if it meant war with Jia Nan Academy.

During Heart Flame body tempering, Qin Han absorbed the Heart Flame origin to strengthen his Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and broke through to seven-star Dou Wang. When Fallen Heart Flame attacked the seal, he and Zi Yan slipped into the Lava World to seek another Heavenly Flame, while Han Feng led the Black Corner Region’s forces toward Jia Nan Academy.

• Su Qian warned the top ten students about the dangers of Heart Flame body tempering, and Zi Yan completed her tempering first.
• Qin Han devoured the Heart Flame origin with his Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and used the energy to break through to seven-star Dou Wang.
• The lava lake erupted as Fallen Heart Flame attacked the seal, so Su Qian ordered the elders to evacuate the students and left Zi Yan to guard Qin Han.
• Zi Yan confronted Qin Han about pretending to break through, and he admitted he planned to descend into the Lava World with her to seek another Heavenly Flame.
• Qin Han and Zi Yan crossed the seal and plunged into the lava lake as Su Qian’s forces prepared to reinforce the seal above.
• Han Feng gathered leaders from the Black Corner Region and marched on Jia Nan Academy, hoping to seize Qin Han’s Heavenly Flame and fusion method.

Qin Han and Zi Yan descended into the Lava World, where they found an underground Fallen Heart Flame and the Remnant Soul of Yao Tianhuo. Zi Yan began a breakthrough while Qin Han started absorbing the flame, leaving both of them cultivating in the hidden chamber.

• Zi Yan hunted Flame Lizardmen as she followed Qin Han through the increasingly deep and dangerous magma.
• Qin Han sensed a Heavenly Flame and led Zi Yan into a protected chamber containing the Fallen Heart Flame and a jade-white skeleton.
• Yao Tianhuo appeared and warned Zi Yan not to venture deeper, then allowed Qin Han to take the flame.
• Zi Yan chose to stay, swallowed more than twenty medicinal herbs, and entered a breakthrough inside a purple energy cocoon.
• Qin Han began feeding the Fallen Heart Flame's origin into the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and his aura started to rise.

Qin Han and Zi Yan both broke through to the Dou Emperor realm in the Underground Lava World, where Zi Yan encountered two powerful Flame Lizardmen who treated her with deference. Qin Han recruited Yao Tianhuo by promising to seek a way to restore his body, and the pair returned to the surface, where they found two people in an unexpected compromising scene.

• Qin Han devoured the Fallen Heart Flame's source, advanced to the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Wang realm, and then broke through to become a One-Star Dou Emperor.
• Qin Han discovered Zi Yan's light cocoon was empty, but she returned from the magma unharmed and revealed that she had also reached the Dou Emperor realm.
• Two powerful Flame Lizardmen emerged from the magma, regarded Zi Yan with emotion, and retreated after escorting her back to the white space.
• Qin Han accepted the Five Wheel Fire Controlling Method and persuaded Yao Tianhuo to entrust his Remnant Soul to him in return for the possibility of restoring his body.
• Qin Han and Zi Yan left the Underground Lava World and found two naked figures tangled together on solidified lava, so Qin Han covered Zi Yan's eyes.

Qin Han and Zi Yan returned alive from the Underground Lava World after reaching Dou Emperor, and Qin Han gave Su Qian a Fallen Heart Flame seed to restore the academy’s flame. After learning Han Feng was gathering Black Corner Region forces into an alliance, Qin Han saw a chance to act and promised Su Qian good news.

• Qin Han and Zi Yan emerged from the Underground Lava World and startled the duty elder, who hurried to tell Su Qian they had returned alive.
• Qin Han told Su Qian that Xiao Yan was alive and had refined the Fallen Heart Flame while in seclusion underground.
• Qin Han gave Su Qian a weakened Fallen Heart Flame seed, which Su Qian believed the academy could nourish back to strength.
• Su Qian explained that Jia Nan Academy had retaliated against the Black Corner Region but that Han Feng was gathering hostile forces into a Black Alliance.
• Qin Han decided the forces’ alliance had not formed yet and told Su Qian he had a plan.

Qin Han and Zi Yan entered Maple City to attend Han Feng’s auction while Qin Han considered how to disrupt the Black Alliance and profit from the event. After assessing the city’s powerful visitors, Qin Han spent the night studying his flames and practicing the Five Wheel Fire Controlling Method, leaving him with a newly formed but still rudimentary Wolf Spirit.

• Qin Han and Zi Yan decided to enter Maple City for the auction, intending to ambush people and perhaps profit from the pills.
• Qin Han used his Dou Emperor aura to pass Maple City’s guarded gate, then let a maid escort him and Zi Yan to a luxurious courtyard.
• Qin Han used his Soul Power and Yao Tianhuo’s perception to survey the city, finding several Dou Huang auras and two pairs of experts nearing the Dou Zong realm.
• Qin Han examined the sealed fire-attribute energy within himself, then practiced the Myriad Stars Flame Scripture’s evolving formula on the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• With Yao Tianhuo’s guidance, Qin Han used the Fallen Heart Flame to form a Wolf Spirit, which lasted for ten breaths before dispersing.

Qin Han and Zi Yan attended Han Feng’s auction in Maple City, where Qin Han bought a Soul Nourishing Ghost Epiphyllum for Yao Tianhuo and several items Zi Yan wanted. The auction reached its second half with the eagerly awaited pill auction beginning.

• Qin Han and Zi Yan entered the auction hall in disguise and watched Han Li present a range of items.
• Han Li auctioned a kidnapped princess of the Tianxin Empire with a Cultivation Method, and a second-floor bidder bought her for eleven million gold coins.
• Qin Han won the Soul Nourishing Ghost Epiphyllum for two million five hundred thousand gold coins, giving Yao Tianhuo a chance to strengthen his soul.
• Qin Han bought several medicinal herbs and unusual metals and ores that Zi Yan requested, and joked that he might pawn her if he ran short of money.
• Han Li unveiled dozens of Jade Bottles and jade boxes, announcing the start of the pill auction.

Han Feng’s auction drew the Black Corner Region’s factions with discounted pills before he used the gathering to promote the Black Alliance. Qin Han challenged Han Feng’s promises and left with Zi Yan, while the remaining audience consisted largely of factions already involved in the attack on Jia Nan Academy.

• Han Li auctioned pills, including Imperial Extreme Pills and a seventh-grade Barbarian King Bone-Forging Pill, which Zi Yan wanted but Qin Han could not afford.
• Han Feng announced the Black Alliance, promised alliance members discounted pill refining, and revealed that the Gold and Silver Elders had joined him.
• As factions began to leave, Han Feng offered Qin Han and Zi Yan a free Imperial Extreme Pill if they joined, then promised pills to qualified Dou Emperor and Dou Wang members.
• Qin Han questioned whether Han Feng could deliver his promised pills and warned that gathering rare ingredients could take too long amid the conflict with Jia Nan Academy.
• Han Feng let Qin Han and Zi Yan leave, and other undecided factions departed; only about twenty or thirty people remained, all among those who had helped besiege Jia Nan Academy.

Qin Han and Zi Yan ambushed several Black Alliance factions while making it appear that Han Feng was responsible, killing Yuan Yi and leaving one witness to escape. At Black Alliance headquarters, Han Feng realized the attacks were a frame-up and vowed to find the culprit himself.

• Yuan Yi told two Eight Gates elders that he had joined the Black Alliance because Jia Nan Academy would seek revenge for their past attacks.
• Qin Han and Zi Yan ambushed Yuan Yi and his two elders, with Qin Han revealing a fleeting blue flame that led Yuan Yi to believe his attacker was Han Feng.
• Qin Han killed Yuan Yi with Great Sun Fen Tian, while Zi Yan defeated one elder and the other escaped to report what he had heard.
• Qin Han and Zi Yan removed their hoods, and Qin Han confirmed that they had allowed the surviving elder to escape before they left for their next target.
• A subordinate reported to Han Feng that Eight Gates and other factions blamed him for ambushes by a Peak Dou Huang wielding blue flame.
• Han Feng, Golden Elder, and Silver Elder recognized that the accusations threatened the Black Alliance, and Han Feng vowed to hunt down the person who framed him.

Zi Yan and Qin Han rescued the Little Princess from Mystic Desire Sect, but Han Feng attacked them and a large Black Corner Region force arrived to surround them. Wu Tianlang, Hu Gan, and the Outer Academy Elders then appeared to reinforce them.

• Zi Yan killed Hua Wuying and the Mystic Desire Sect escort before Qin Han freed the frightened Little Princess from the locked carriage.
• Zi Yan comforted the Little Princess while Qin Han prepared to leave, but Han Feng arrived and attacked them with the Sea Heart Flame.
• Qin Han fought Han Feng with his Heavenly Flames and Great Sun Burning Heaven Seal, then fled with Zi Yan and the Little Princess.
• Fan Lao and a large force of Black Corner Region experts blocked their escape, leaving Qin Han facing overwhelming odds.
• Wu Tianlang, Hu Gan, and several Outer Academy Elders arrived and confronted Fan Lao's group.

Jia Nan Academy drove Han Feng’s forces away, then returned to the academy with Ye Xinxin, who chose to stay with Zi Yan. At Cold Creek, Qin Han developed a way to channel fused Heavenly Flames through a Dou Technique’s meridian pathways, enduring repeated injuries until he successfully formed a much stronger Wolf Spirit.

• Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang confronted Han Feng, who withdrew with the Black Corner Region forces after threatening Qin Han and Xiao Yan and hinting that someone thought dead was still alive.
• Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang explained that Qin Han’s schemes had deepened divisions among Han Feng’s allies, then arranged to protect Ye Xinxin and contact the Tianxin Empire.
• Ye Xinxin clung to Zi Yan, who took her to the Inner Academy’s Moon Spirit residence, where the female students comforted and cared for her.
• Qin Han visited Han Yue at Cold Creek, then practiced forming Wolf and Leopard Spirits under Yao Tianhuo’s guidance.
• Qin Han realized he could channel fused Heavenly Flames through the Five Wheel Fire Controlling Method, but his first attempts tore through his meridians and repeatedly left him coughing blood.
• After enduring days of failures and injuries, Qin Han completed a full meridian circuit with fused flame and successfully condensed a stronger Wolf Spirit.

Qin Han reunited with Han Yue after her breakthrough, then joined Jia Nan Academy’s elders in planning an offensive against the Black Alliance. After the meeting, Lin Xiuyai, Lin Yan, and Liu Qing asked him to help bring Xiao Li back to the academy, and Qin Han agreed to go with them.

• Qin Han emerged exhausted from cultivation, and Han Yue supported him before revealing she had reached Five Star Dou Wang.
• Qin Han brought Han Yue to Moon Spirit’s residence, where she reassured the timid Ye Xinxin and he asked Zi Yan to look after her.
• Su Qian convened the elders, and Qin Han confirmed he had exchanged blows with Han Feng without being defeated.
• Su Qian ordered a recall of the academy’s forces and preparations for an assault to destroy the Black Alliance.
• Lin Xiuyai, Lin Yan, and Liu Qing explained that Xiao Li had become a Dou Wang and was hunting Black Corner Region forces, and Qin Han agreed to accompany them to find him.

Qin Han brought Xiao Li to the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower to prove that Xiao Yan was alive, but Medusa’s attack exposed Xiao Yan’s return and sent her fleeing after a confrontation. Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Li, then agreed to join Jia Nan Academy’s campaign against Han Feng’s Black Alliance, set to depart in three days.

• Qin Han brought the bound Xiao Li to the Burning Heaven Qi Refining Tower and went below to check on Xiao Yan.
• Medusa attacked Qin Han, and Xiao Yan emerged from the magma while fleeing her furious assault.
• Su Qian stopped Medusa from pursuing Xiao Yan, and she threatened them before vanishing.
• Xiao Li rushed to Xiao Yan and embraced him, while Qin Han and Su Qian left them to reunite.
• Xiao Yan told Su Qian that Xiao Li was recovering and agreed to help destroy Han Feng’s Black Alliance.
• Su Qian ordered the academy’s forces to gather in the Outer Academy in three days and march to Maple City.

Han Feng rallied the Black Alliance to attack Jia Nan Academy, but Su Qian led the academy’s forces straight to Maple City and the two sides prepared for battle. Mo Ya revealed the Black Emperor Sect’s involvement, and the chapter ended with the leaders assigning their opponents as the fighting began.

• Han Feng urged the Black Alliance to strike Jia Nan Academy and promised that contributors could earn priority access to his medicinal pills.
• Su Qian arrived in Maple City with Hu Gan, Xiao Yan, Qin Han, and Jia Nan Academy’s forces, then declared that the academy would settle its blood debt.
• Han Feng called Mo Ya from the Black Emperor Sect, and Mo Ya demanded that Jia Nan Academy end the conflict; Su Qian refused and ordered his forces to fight.
• Su Qian assigned Hu Gan to face Mo Ya, Xiao Yan to fight Han Feng, and Qin Han to hold Mo Ya off while Hu Gan dealt with Mo Tianquan.
• Su Qian charged the Gold and Silver Elders, beginning the battle.

The battle above Maple City erupted as Jia Nan Academy and its allies fought Han Feng’s forces, while Qin Han confronted Mo Ya. Qin Han shattered Mo Ya’s attacks with flame techniques and left him badly battered, then began forming the Great Sun—Heaven-Burning Seal overhead.

• Xiao Yan charged Han Feng while Su Qian, Wu Tianlang, Zi Yan, and the other elders engaged the Black Corner Region fighters.
• Han Yue, Lin Xiuyai, Liu Qing, and Lin Yan worked together to trap Fan Lao in a coordinated assault.
• Hu Gan intercepted Mo Tianquan and gained the upper hand, while Qin Han blocked Mo Ya from helping him.
• Qin Han evaded Mo Ya’s attacks, broke through his Peak Dou Huang pressure, and countered his fan strikes with flame armor and an invisible wall of fire.
• Qin Han formed a green flame wolf that destroyed Mo Ya’s tornado and chased him until Mo Ya broke it, triggering an explosion that hurled him away.
• Qin Han rose above the battered Mo Ya and formed the Great Sun—Heaven-Burning Seal.

Qin Han defeated Mo Ya and helped Hu Gan incapacitate Mo Tianquan before Mo Tianxing arrived and demanded Qin Han be handed over. Facing Mo Tianxing alone, Qin Han revealed the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and Mo Tianxing launched his Dark Gold Rune at him.

• Qin Han battered Mo Ya and pursued him while Hu Gan struck down Mo Tianquan as he rushed to help his young sect leader.
• Mo Tianxing appeared, crushed Qin Han's flame sword, and attacked him, but Qin Han's fused flames disrupted the strike and forced Mo Tianxing back.
• Mo Tianxing demanded that Jia Nan Academy surrender Qin Han, but Su Qian and the others refused, and Qin Han volunteered to face Mo Tianxing.
• Qin Han taunted Mo Tianxing and drew on the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, while Yao Tianhuo warned him that revealing it could attract powerful enemies.
• Mo Tianxing sensed the golden flame's threat but, unwilling to retreat before the watching factions, hurled his Dark Gold Rune at Qin Han.

Qin Han used the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to withstand Mo Tianxing’s attacks, but the flames drained his Dou Qi and left him struggling to break their stalemate. After Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng, a mysterious force sent black chains toward the unconscious Xiao Yan as the Black Alliance renewed its assault, leaving the battlefield in peril.

• Qin Han burned away Mo Tianxing’s Dark Gold Rune, then formed a golden flame shield to block his Black Emperor World-Suppressing Seal.
• Qin Han pierced the seal with golden fire threads, and both he and Mo Tianxing were driven back after their clash.
• Qin Han realized the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame was consuming his Dou Qi rapidly and that he could not keep defending indefinitely.
• Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng, and both fighters fell from the sky, with Xiao Yan remaining conscious long enough to crash into the ruins.
• Qin Han warned Su Qian to stay alert, then black chains appeared and struck toward the nearly unconscious Xiao Yan as the Black Alliance attacked again.
• Mo Tianxing watched Qin Han without attacking, wary of the brief, frightening aura he had sensed from him.

After Medusa stopped the Soul Hall Protector from taking Xiao Yan, the Black Corner Region forces fled Maple City. Qin Han secretly looted Han Feng’s hidden stores and discovered a scroll he recognized as a Fen Jue Fragment.

• Medusa knocked back the Soul Hall Protector’s chains, killed Han Feng with a kick, and forced the Protector to retreat after he extracted Han Feng’s soul.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Han Feng’s soul had been taken, while the Black Alliance leaders and their forces fled Maple City.
• Qin Han entered the abandoned City Lord Mansion and emptied Han Feng’s underground storeroom of gold, resources, and medicinal ingredients.
• Qin Han uncovered Han Feng’s hidden alchemy chamber and collected its pills, including a Tier 7 Barbarian King Bone-Forging Pill, as well as five Alchemical Furnaces.
• Qin Han found two concealed scrolls beneath the largest furnace and recognized the first as a Fen Jue Fragment.

Qin Han discovered Han Feng’s map of Heavenly Flame clues, including a Wind Fury Dragon Flame location near Jia Ma Empire. He joined Yao Tianhuo in defeating and capturing Soul Hall Protector Lian Qi, leaving them with two sealed souls.

• Qin Han examined Han Feng’s scrolls and found a Fen Jue Fragment and a map marking Heavenly Flame clues across several continents.
• Qin Han spotted the Wind Fury Dragon Flame clue near Luo Yan Empire, Chu Yun Empire, and Jia Ma Empire.
• Lian Qi fled the Black Wind Mountain Range with Venerable Yao’s soul and another captured soul, but Yao Tianhuo intercepted him with a Space Barrier.
• Yao Tianhuo suppressed Lian Qi while waiting for Qin Han, who arrived and struck Lian Qi with the Great Sun—Heaven Incinerating Seal.
• Qin Han gave Yao Tianhuo Formless Heart Flame, and Yao Tianhuo used Fallen Heart Flame to defeat Lian Qi and capture both souls in Jade Bottles.

After Jia Nan Academy crushed the Black Alliance, Qin Han interrogated a Soul Hall Protector and gave Yao Tianhuo two souls and the Fallen Heart Flame to refine. Alone in the Lava World, Qin Han began absorbing the Sea Heart Flame to advance the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.

• Jia Nan Academy purged factions that had joined the siege and Black Alliance, restoring its fearsome reputation across the Black Corner Region.
• Qin Han released Han Feng's weakened remnant soul and gave it to Yao Tianhuo.
• Qin Han burned Lian Qi with the Fallen Heart Flame until he revealed that the Black Skull Branch Hall was in Myriad Poison Ravine, northeast of the Black Corner Region.
• Qin Han gave Lian Qi's soul and the Fallen Heart Flame to Yao Tianhuo so he could refine both souls and recover his strength.
• Qin Han used the Myriad Flames Compendium to absorb the Sea Heart Flame and raise the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame's development level.