Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng and Yun Yun prepared to enter the Demon Fire Space, where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame could control minds and create illusions. When Lin Feng confronted the Ancient Races and clashed verbally with Yan Clan elder Huo Yao, the Soul Clan watched and discussed its plans for the space.

• Lin Feng warned Yun Yun about the dangers inside the Demon Fire Space and gave her a bronze flame to help resist illusions and spiritual control.
• The Soul Hall Master sent two black dragons toward Lin Feng and Yun Yun, but Lin Feng destroyed them before they could strike.
• Lin Feng and Yun Yun revealed themselves to the Ancient Races, released their Dou Sheng auras, and Lin Feng argued that the clans had no right to attack him without consequence.
• Huo Yao threatened to capture Lin Feng, who taunted him and threatened to use Huo Xuan as leverage, while Xiao Yan hoped the two would fight.
• Hun Feng and the Soul Hall members discussed Lin Feng's strength and their confidence in the Soul Clan's plans for the Demon Fire Space.

Lin Feng drove Huo Yao away after making clear he would resist the Ancient Races' interference, then waited with the gathered experts as the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's rift opened. When the entrance formed, the powerful figures rushed inside, and Lin Feng warned those below Dou Sheng to turn back.

• Lei Luo and Yao Wangu intervened when Huo Yao prepared to fight Lin Feng, and Huo Yao withdrew after warning Lin Feng he would settle the score later.
• Lin Feng returned to Yun Yun and explained through his actions that he would confront the Ancient Races rather than let them interfere with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• A massive explosion shook the region as the spatial rift widened, and the surrounding desert melted into milky-white lava while experts gathered to watch.
• After roughly an hour and a half, a ring of light formed at the rift and the temperature surged; Lin Feng said the moment had arrived.
• The experts, including Xiao Yan, charged into the ring, while Lin Feng warned the crowd that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was at least Dou Sheng level and urged weaker cultivators to leave.

Lin Feng and Yun Yun crossed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusions and fought through its Nightmare Heaven Mist, where Fire Slaves proved to be harmless phantoms. At the fifth gate, they encountered a gaunt man whose overwhelming aura revealed him to be a Four-star Dou Sheng.

• Lin Feng and Yun Yun entered the Demon Fire Space as some of the gathered cultivators followed and others retreated.
• Lin Feng saw through an illusion of Gu Xun'er and Xiao Yan, then found Yun Yun and helped her confirm that he was real.
• Lin Feng and Yun Yun recognized the Fire Slaves as illusions created by the Nightmare Heaven Mist and passed through gates that opened as they advanced.
• Yun Yun blasted apart the fourth gate after the Fire Slaves repeatedly appeared, while Lin Feng sensed they were nearing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• At the fifth platform, Lin Feng identified a gaunt figure as the next obstacle, and Yun Yun recognized his strength as Four-star Dou Sheng.

Lin Feng persuaded the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan to join forces against the powerful Fire Slave guarding the way, while Yun Yun joined the fight from the side. The Fire Slave’s Xiao Clan mark awakened and raised him to the early Five-star Dou Sheng realm, leaving Gu Nanhai badly shaken by his axe strike.

• Lin Feng and Yun Yun waited for the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan groups to arrive, then Lin Feng proposed that they cooperate against the Half-step Five-star Dou Sheng guarding the way.
• The Soul Hall Master and Gu Nanhai agreed to attack the gaunt man, while Yun Yun joined them as a side attacker and Lin Feng stayed behind with Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er.
• The gaunt man fought the Soul Hall Master and Gu Nanhai with a blood-red axe, and Yun Yun’s sword strikes helped the two gradually gain the upper hand.
• The gaunt man revealed a Xiao Clan clan mark on his forehead, shocking Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er, and the mark raised his strength to the early Five-star Dou Sheng realm.
• The gaunt man’s axe shattered the hastily raised shield of Gu Nanhai and the Soul Hall Master, sending Gu Nanhai staggering backward with his aura in disarray.

Soul Hall Master and Gu Nanhai joined forces to kill the Xiao Clan ancestor Xiao Chen, while Lin Feng took Xiao Chen’s Blood Axe and provoked the attack. Xiao Yan learned Xiao Chen’s identity as he and the others continued toward the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving him grieving and furious.

• Xiao Chen drove back Soul Hall Master and Gu Nanhai, but their combined soul and water attacks trapped him and left him helpless.
• Gu Xun'er warned Xiao Yan about Soul Hall Master's Ten Thousand Souls Worship, while Lin Feng secretly took Xiao Chen’s Blood Axe.
• Lin Feng urged Hun Miesheng to finish the suffering Xiao Chen, and Hun Miesheng destroyed Xiao Chen’s body and soul before Xiao Yan could awaken him with the Xiao Clan mark.
• Xiao Yan cursed Hun Miesheng and blamed Lin Feng, but both men defended their actions before their groups moved on.
• Gu Nanhai identified the dead ancestor as Blood Axe Xiao Chen, cousin of Xiao Xuan, and Xiao Yan grieved over how he would explain Xiao Chen’s death.

Xiao Yan and the others reached the altar and confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, whose emotional manipulation and attacks trapped six fighters in a battle. Lin Feng sensed the scene was an illusion and stayed aside until Jing Lian Yao Sheng's remnant soul sent him information, while Yun Yun guarded him.

• Xiao Yan stored Xiao Chen's body in his Storage Ring and followed Gu Xun'er and Gu Nanhai toward the altar.
• Lin Feng and Yun Yun found the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame seated on a throne, and Xiao Yan's group soon arrived as well.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's influence nearly made everyone surrender, but Lin Feng's warning jolted them back to their senses.
• The Soul Hall Master and Gu Nanhai persuaded their groups to attack together, while Lin Feng refused to join because he sensed something was wrong.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame destroyed Xiao Yan's spiritual probing and attacked the six fighters with flaming spears as Lin Feng tried to contact Jing Lian Yao Sheng's remnant soul.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng's remnant soul sent information to Lin Feng, and Yun Yun stood guard while he focused on receiving it.

Lin Feng saw through the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Heaven Mist and revealed that the group was still trapped in an illusion. As the injured fighters realized their danger, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame demanded to know how Lin Feng had uncovered its secret, and the Soul Hall Master asked how they could escape.

• Lin Feng used the knowledge Jing Lian Yao Sheng had sent him to see that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was making the others fight empty air and slowly turning them into Fire Slaves.
• Lin Feng chose to let the others weaken further, but planned to intervene before the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame could devour their Heavenly Flames.
• The Soul Hall Master’s group was blasted onto the altar, and Xiao Yan began to suspect Lin Feng had been right about something being wrong.
• Lin Feng confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and identified its use of Nightmare Heaven Mist, prompting the group to realize they remained trapped in an illusion.
• Gu Nanhai explained that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame could have learned Nightmare Heaven Mist from Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s inheritance, while the others grew wary of one another.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame questioned how Lin Feng had seen through its illusion, and the Soul Hall Master asked Lin Feng how they could break free.

Lin Feng broke Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Nightmare Heaven Mist and freed the people trapped inside, but the group remained inside a dangerous magma realm. Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sealed them in a fiery prison and began killing people with an unseen attack.

• Lin Feng convinced Yun Yun and the others to disregard the illusion’s apparent power, then used the Rune of Nightmare Breaking to shatter it.
• Lin Feng’s group emerged into a magma sea, where they discovered and expelled dormant Purifying Demonic Lotus Flames from their bodies.
• The illusion’s collapse brought roughly eighty or ninety other captives to the volcanic islands, and the true Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared before them.
• The Soul Hall Master urged everyone to subdue Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while it questioned Lin Feng about breaking the illusion and concealed the spatial exits.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed Demonic Fire Refining Heaven to enclose everyone in a flaming prison, where people began exploding into bloody mist without warning.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame killed most of the weaker intruders and summoned ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves, forcing the survivors to unite against him. Lin Feng assigned the survivors to fight the Fire Slaves while the six Four-star Dou Shengs confronted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, whose first attack left the battle poised to erupt.

• Gu Nanhai warned the survivors to control their emotions, but the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame made most fighters below Dou Sheng level explode.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned ten Dou Sheng Fire Slaves, including two at Late Three-star Dou Sheng.
• Hun Miesheng proposed that the rival factions join forces, and Gu Nanhai agreed after Huo Yao and Yao Wangu urged him to protect their clans' younger members.
• Lin Feng accepted the alliance and assigned himself and Yun Yun the two strongest Fire Slaves, distributing the others among Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and the remaining fighters.
• Hun Miesheng and the other five Four-star Dou Shengs surrounded the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as Lin Feng led the rest of the survivors away to face the Fire Slaves.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame conjured the Fire Demon Halberd and unleashed a massive wave of demonic fire at the six Dou Shengs.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame overwhelmed the Soul Hall Master and five other experts, then sent ten Fire Slaves to attack the group. Lin Feng secretly used a rune taught by Jing Lian Yao Sheng to seize temporary control of one Fire Slave while the others fought to hold their assigned opponents at bay.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame blasted the Soul Hall Master and five other Four-star Dou Shengs into the magma, but they recovered and prepared to fight in earnest before the Demon Fire Space sealed.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame dispatched ten Fire Slaves against Lin Feng and the others, who split up to face their assigned opponents.
• Lin Feng fought a Late Three-star Dou Sheng Fire Slave and secretly used a soul rune taught by Jing Lian Yao Sheng to take temporary control of it.
• The Soul Hall Master and the other five experts held the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame in a fierce battle, while Lin Feng judged that it was stronger than it appeared.
• Lin Feng moved toward Yun Yun’s battle while pretending to flee his Fire Slave, and Xiao Yan continued holding back his own opponent to conserve strength for the coming contest.

Lin Feng secretly took control of several Fire Slaves while watching the battle, then triggered a chain of events that began with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s devastating howl and ended with a Fire Slave self-destructing among the fleeing survivors. The chapter left Xiao Yan and the others scattered and injured by the blast’s aftermath.

• Lin Feng struck Yun Yun’s Fire Slave away, took control of another Late Three-star Dou Sheng Fire Slave, and ordered his controlled Fire Slaves to hold back.
• Lin Feng noticed Hun Feng using the Nihility Devouring Flame’s Sub-Flame to absorb the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and restore his Dou Qi, then signaled Yun Yun to flee.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed a powerful howl that killed more than half of the Non-Bloodline Dou Shengs, while the clan geniuses and elders protected themselves.
• Lin Feng’s hidden runes entered several Fire Slaves, and one Late One-star Dou Sheng Fire Slave suddenly began self-destructing.
• The Fire Slave exploded, tearing open the magma and sending a massive energy storm through the battlefield, injuring and knocking away fleeing survivors.

The Soul Hall Master and five other Four-star Dou Shengs used the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array to seal the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame after its Fire Slaves' explosions injured and killed many of the gathered fighters. As everyone focused on the sealed flame, Lin Feng quietly withdrew, while Xiao Yan watched the Soul Hall Master.

• Lin Feng sent controlled Fire Slaves into the fleeing fighters, and their self-destructions devastated the gathered experts; Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er survived the shockwaves, though Gu Xun'er was injured.
• Yao Tian, Huo Xuan, Yao Ling, and the Lei Clan and Stone Clan Half-Saints joined forces to withstand the blasts, while Hun Feng and the Soul Hall Deputy Master plotted to kill Xiao Yan.
• The Soul Hall Master formed the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array and enlisted Gu Nanhai, Yao Wangu, Huo Yao, and the other elders to pour their power into it.
• The elders sacrificed essence blood to strengthen the array, and the black pillar shrank the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into a sealed cylinder.
• Lin Feng gestured to Yun Yun and withdrew as the others watched the sealed flame, while Xiao Yan turned his attention to the Soul Hall Master.

After the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was sealed, the exhausted factions turned against each other, and Xiao Yan tried to seize the flame before fighting the Soul Hall Deputy Master. Xiao Yan detonated a multicolored fire lotus that swallowed both him and the Deputy Master, while Gu Xun'er began unleashing a dangerous power against Hun Feng.

• Hun Miesheng lunged for the sealed Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but Gu Nanhai intercepted him, sparking a standoff between the Soul Hall and the other Dou Shengs.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the flame’s origin, but the Soul Hall Deputy Master attacked him, while Hun Feng blocked Gu Xun'er from coming to his aid.
• The Soul Hall Deputy Master sent Xiao Yan crashing into the magma, but Xiao Yan emerged wounded and hurled a multicolored fire lotus at him.
• The fire lotus exploded, engulfing and seemingly killing the Soul Hall Deputy Master and swallowing Xiao Yan in its flames.
• Gu Xun'er turned on Hun Feng with killing intent and began awakening a powerful force, prompting Gu Nanhai to shout for her to stop.

Gu Xun'er spent her essence blood to wound Hun Feng, while Hun Miesheng agreed to pause the dispute with the Ancient Clan. Xiao Yan emerged from the magma with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but Hun Miesheng attacked him and revealed that he had reached the Half-step Five-star Dou Sheng level.

• Gu Xun'er infused her essence blood into her golden greatsword, pierced Hun Feng's barrier, and severed his right arm.
• Hun Miesheng demanded an explanation from Gu Nanhai, who blamed the Soul Clan; they agreed to stop arguing and handle their own affairs.
• Hun Feng retrieved his severed arm, took a medicinal pill, and sealed the remaining Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame in his wounds.
• Gu Xun'er moved toward the magma where Xiao Yan had disappeared, then Xiao Yan burst out and seized the pillar containing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Miesheng trapped Xiao Yan and attacked him, while Gu Xun'er pleaded with Gu Nanhai to intervene.
• Gu Nanhai attacked Hun Miesheng, who raised his strength to Half-step Five-star Dou Sheng and claimed the Ancient Races' agreement did not forbid him from acting.

Hun Miesheng moved to seize the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Origin from Xiao Yan, but Elder Hun Mo revealed himself as a hidden Peak Five-star Dou Sheng and threatened the other clans. The Pill Pagoda Ancestor then appeared in the form of a child riding a green ox, confronting Hun Mo over the Soul Clan’s violation of their agreement.

• Hun Miesheng attacked Gu Nanhai’s palm-seal Fighting Skill and advanced toward Xiao Yan, demanding the Demon Fire Origin.
• Gu Nanhai called on Yao Wangu and Huo Yao to stop Hun Miesheng, while elders from the Lei Clan and Stone Clan sided with him.
• Hun Miesheng summoned Elder Hun Mo, who revealed his true strength as a long-established Peak Five-star Dou Sheng.
• Elder Hun Mo called out the hidden old monster of the Lesser Pill Pagoda, and the Pill Pagoda Ancestor appeared as a child riding a green ox.
• The Pill Pagoda Ancestor accused the Soul Clan of breaking the clans’ agreement, while the Lei Clan and Stone Clan elders showed they had not known Hun Mo was present.
• Xiao Yan contemplated absorbing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Origin so he could eventually capture the Pill Pagoda Ancestor.

The Pill Pagoda Ancestor intervened as Hun Miesheng’s group and Xiao Yan fought over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Origin Fire Seed, revealing his Six-star Dou Sheng strength. He warned that the flame had faked its capture and waited to exploit the conflict, leaving everyone staring at the milky-white flame in alarm.

• Hun Miesheng offered the Lei and Stone clans two Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flames as compensation, and their elders accepted.
• Elder Hun Mo threatened the Pill Pagoda Ancestor, who dismissed him and urged Xiao Yan to hand over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s Origin Fire Seed.
• The Pill Pagoda Ancestor used Spatial Shift to take the Origin Fire Seed from Hun Mo, revealing that he had reached Six-star Dou Sheng.
• The Pill Pagoda Ancestor tossed the Origin Fire Seed into the sky and accused the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of deliberately allowing itself to be sealed while it waited to profit from the others’ struggle.
• Huo Yao and the Soul Hall Master rejected the accusation, while Elder Hun Mo watched the flame closely without denying it.

The Pill Pagoda Ancestor exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s deception, but the flame revealed its Seven-star Dou Sheng strength and trapped everyone inside the Demon Fire Space. As the two began fighting, Lin Feng and Yun Yun remained missing, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array.

• The Pill Pagoda Ancestor attacked the sealed flame, forcing the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to emerge and admit it had pretended to be sealed while plotting to take advantage of the others.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame revealed its Seven-star Dou Sheng aura, while the Pill Pagoda Ancestor warned that the Demon Fire Space’s entrance and exit were sealed and vowed to delay him until the seal returned.
• Elder Hun Mo and the other clans retreated rather than help the Pill Pagoda Ancestor, while Xiao Yan noticed Lin Feng and Yun Yun had disappeared and warned Gu Xun’er and Gu Nanhai.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame formed a Demonic Flame Divine Idol and attacked the Pill Pagoda Ancestor, who countered with Dan Rong Tian and melted much of the idol.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame spread flames throughout the Demon Fire Space and summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, as a second matching array rose from the magma sea.

The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame took control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and overwhelmed the gathered Dou Shengs, while Lin Feng and Yun Yun survived by hiding in a recess outside the formation. As the Flame celebrated its escape, Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s strange sphere inside Lin Feng’s mind began to tremble as if something were awakening.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array and trapped the Pill Pagoda Ancestor, Elder Hun Mo, Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and the others between its upper and lower formations.
• The Pill Pagoda Ancestor united the factions and divided them into groups to resist the two formations, but the Flame’s pillars of light struck both groups and killed many cultivators, including Hun Feng.
• Lin Feng and Yun Yun hid in a recess he had dug into a damaged section of the Demon Fire Space, avoiding the array’s enclosure and watching the battle unfold.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame defeated the survivors and rejoiced that nothing could stop him from escaping his imprisonment.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s strange light sphere inside Lin Feng’s mind began trembling, and Yun Yun noticed Lin Feng was in distress.

Lin Feng was possessed by Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s remnant image, who wrested control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array from Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and opened an escape passage. Most survivors escaped, but Gu Xun’er stayed behind to save Xiao Yan, and the passage closed with her and Lin Feng still inside.

• Lin Feng entered the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, where Jing Lian Yao Sheng’s remnant image emerged through him and frightened Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame attacked Jing Lian Yao Sheng, but Jing Lian Yao Sheng froze the array’s strikes and reclaimed control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array.
• Jing Lian Yao Sheng opened a spatial passage, and the surviving clans, Pill Pagoda Ancestor, Gu Nanhai, and others began escaping as Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame unleashed his power.
• Elder Hun Mo pushed Gu Nanhai into the passage, while Hun Miesheng attacked Xiao Yan; Gu Xun’er knocked Xiao Yan to safety and took the strike herself.
• Xiao Yan escaped, but Gu Xun’er was hurled toward Lin Feng and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as the spatial passage closed.
• Gu Nanhai and the crowd outside watched the passage vanish before Gu Xun’er could emerge.

After the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame killed everyone trapped in the Demon Fire Space, Xiao Yan revealed that Hun Miesheng had caused Gu Xun'er to remain inside. Gu Dao confronted the Soul Clan over her disappearance, but Hun Sha arrived to protect Hun Mo and Hun Miesheng, leaving Gu Dao and Hun Sha on the brink of a fight.

• Hun Miesheng told the gathered clans that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had reached Seven-star Dou Sheng and killed everyone inside the Demon Fire Space.
• Xiao Yan accused Hun Miesheng and Elder Hun Mo of forcing Gu Nanhai away and trapping Gu Xun'er inside the Demon Fire Space.
• Gu Dao appeared, ordered Gu Nanhai to return to the Ancient Clan, and watched him take Xiao Yan away as a witness.
• Gu Dao moved to take Hun Mo and Hun Miesheng back to the Ancient Clan, but Hun Sha appeared and blocked him.
• Gu Dao and Hun Sha challenged each other, each insisting the other would have to fight to take the Soul Clan members.