Chapter Summaries

The factions entered the Demonic Flame Space after its passage opened, and Cao Ying used the Wanhuo Qinglian to protect herself from the demonic flames. She found a wounded Su Baichen calling for help, but recognized that his act was unconvincing.

• Cao Ying called out Hun Miesheng for probing the Gu Clan, and Hun Miesheng stopped Hun Feng from retaliating because he feared provoking Su Baichen.
• The spatial fissure opened into a passage, and Hun Miesheng, the other clans, and the Gu Clan entered the Demonic Flame Space.
• Cao Ying's Wanhuo Qinglian shielded her from the flames, while other cultivators were consumed or struggled to resist them.
• Cao Ying found Su Baichen lying wounded beside a scorched rock and asking her to save him.
• Cao Ying laughed and told Su Baichen that his act was unconvincing.

Cao Ying rescued Xiao Yu from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and guided her through the Nightmare Sky Mist. After they emerged, Cao Ying sensed that the seemingly peaceful surroundings were suspicious, while the Saint of the Purifying Lotus's remnant soul and Su Baichen watched from within her consciousness.

• Cao Ying exposed and destroyed a false Su Baichen, then hurried to find Xiao Yu.
• Cao Ying drove the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame out of Xiao Yu and learned from Su Baichen how the fire and Nightmare Sky Mist preyed on emotions and illusions.
• Cao Ying and Xiao Yu steadied their minds and cautiously crossed the white mist.
• After emerging from the mist, Cao Ying sensed that their surroundings felt wrong, while the Saint of the Purifying Lotus and Su Baichen watched from her consciousness.

Cao Ying, Xiao Yu, Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, and Gu Nanhai escaped the Nightmare Sky Mist but were trapped in a series of halls filled with Fire Slaves. After fighting through repeated waves and gates, they encountered a gaunt Four-Star Dou Sheng wielding a great axe.

• Cao Ying and Xiao Yu emerged from the Nightmare Sky Mist and reunited with Xun'er, Gu Qingyang, and Gu Nanhai.
• Cao Ying concealed her unease after receiving the method for refining a Dream-Breaking Talisman, then Fire Slaves surrounded the group in the plaza.
• The five fought through the Fire Slaves, broke open the stone gate, and entered a hall where an ancient barrier blocked their pursuers.
• They battled through repeated halls of Fire Slaves and shattered stone gates until they reached a larger, silent chamber.
• A gaunt figure appeared and unleashed the pressure of a Four-Star Dou Sheng, leaving the exhausted group pinned under its force.

Xiao Yu recognized the Fire Slave’s Clan Mark and learned from Gu Nanhai that he was Xiao Chen, Xiao Xuan’s younger first cousin. With Cao Ying’s help, the group tried to free Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control, and she began purifying the flame threads inside him.

• Xiao Yu’s bloodline reacted to the Clan Mark on the Fire Slave’s forehead, and Gu Nanhai identified him as Xiao Chen, Xiao Xuan’s younger first cousin.
• Gu Nanhai explained that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had entangled Xiao Chen’s soul and consciousness for thousands of years.
• Cao Ying said she could try to awaken Xiao Chen if the others protected her while she approached him.
• Gu Nanhai, Xun’er, Gu Qingyang, and Xiao Yu restrained Xiao Chen and opened a path for Cao Ying.
• Cao Ying touched Xiao Chen’s forehead with purifying white light, causing him to convulse as the flame threads controlling him began to leave his body.

Gu Nanhai and the others purged most of the demonic flame from Xiao Chen, who learned that the Xiao Clan had fallen and accepted Xiao Yu’s vow to restore it. Xiao Chen led the group deeper into the Demonic Flame Nest, while Su Baichen challenged the Saint of the Purifying Lotus’s decision to leave some of the corruption behind.

• Gu Nanhai watched as the pale flames drove the demonic flame from Xiao Chen and weakened his Four-Star Dou Sheng pressure.
• Xiao Chen recognized Xiao Yu as a descendant of the Xiao Clan, and she told him that the clan’s glory had fallen.
• Xiao Yu swore to restore the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Chen accepted her vow and agreed to trust her because Xiao Xuan had believed in her.
• Xiao Chen picked up his Blood-Colored Giant Axe and led the group toward the deeper reaches of the Demonic Flame Nest.
• Su Baichen questioned the Saint of the Purifying Lotus about leaving some of Xiao Chen’s Demonic Flame Mark, and the Saint claimed he had done so to avoid alerting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Cao Ying broke the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s illusion, but the attempt to seal him exposed the experts to another trap. The Old Ancestor revealed that the flame had allowed itself to be sealed as part of an escape plan, and the chapter ended with the flame trapping everyone in a fire formation.

• Cao Ying used an ancient blood talisman to shatter the illusion and free Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control.
• The awakened factions joined forces under Hun Miesheng to form the Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Formation and temporarily sealed the flame.
• The alliance broke apart as the factions fought over the Demonic Flame Origin, while Old Demon Hun and the Old Ancestor of the Little Danta appeared.
• The Old Ancestor exposed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s plan to use the seal to escape the Demonic Flame Space.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame broke the formation, attacked the crowd, and trapped everyone in a massive fire formation, threatening to turn them into Fire Slaves.

Cao Ying used the Tianxuan Bead to summon Su Baichen, whose violet-gold flames disrupted the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array. Su Baichen then called forth the white-robed Saint of the Purifying Lotus, leaving the Demonic Flame shaken and the gathered fighters stunned.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame sealed the spatial passage with the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, forcing Old Demon Hun and the Shepherd Boy Old Ancestor to attack the formation’s cores while Fire Slaves held back the others.
• Xun'er and Gu Qingyang asked Cao Ying whether Su Baichen had left her a way to escape, and Cao Ying threw the Tianxuan Bead at the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame instead of calling out for her master.
• Violet-gold flames burst from the bead, destroyed the Demonic Flame’s attack, and knocked him into a stone pillar, weakening the formation enough for Old Demon Hun and the Shepherd Boy Old Ancestor to break free.
• Su Baichen emerged from the bead, scolded Cao Ying for throwing him, and told her to call out her Little Demon for him to discipline.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame reacted in shock to the name Little Demon, and a white-robed phantom appeared from Cao Ying’s forehead as the Shepherd Boy identified him as the Saint of the Purifying Lotus.

Su Baichen killed Hun Miesheng and several Soul Clan fighters after confronting them over his family’s kidnapping, while the Saint of the Purifying Lotus wrested control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Xun'er, Cao Ying, and Xiao Yu reunited with Su Baichen as the Saint continued disciplining the flame.

• The Saint of the Purifying Lotus revealed himself as a remnant soul and began taking control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Array from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame attacked the Saint with pillars of fire, but he dispelled them and started stripping away its control of the formation.
• Su Baichen confronted Hun Miesheng over the Soul Hall’s kidnapping of his family and struck Hun Feng aside when he tried to intervene.
• Su Baichen beat Hun Miesheng, then killed him with a palm strike and the Slaying Divine Skill, erasing his body and soul.
• Su Baichen killed Old Demon Hun, Hun Feng, and a low-ranking Soul Clan Dou Sheng, then watched the Saint discipline the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xun'er, Cao Ying, and Xiao Yu flew over to Su Baichen and greeted him.

Su Baichen stripped the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of its sentience, and the Saint of the Purifying Lotus gave him his legacy and Demonic Flame Origin before passing away. As Cao Ying and Xiao Yu began refining the Origin with Xun'er, the three women trapped Su Baichen inside the Wanhuo Qinglian and turned their cultivation session into a romantic ambush.

• The Saint of the Purifying Lotus used the Heaven Refining Ancient Array to strip the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame of its sentience, then ordered the remaining people to leave the Demonic Flame Space.
• Su Baichen reappeared after Xun'er saw through his disguise, and the dying Saint of the Purifying Lotus entrusted him with the Heaven Refining Ancient Array scroll and the Demonic Flame Origin before disappearing.
• Su Baichen explained that he could not save the Saint of the Purifying Lotus, then asked Xun'er to help Cao Ying refine the Demonic Flame Origin alongside Xiao Yu.
• Cao Ying and Xiao Yu pretended to suffer Heavenly Flame backlash, seized Su Baichen, and sealed him inside the Wanhuo Qinglian with them.
• Xun'er joined Cao Ying and Xiao Yu in revealing their plan to cultivate with Su Baichen while refining the Heavenly Flame, and he eventually stopped resisting.

Su Baichen helped Cao Ying, Xiao Yu, and Xun'er recover after they absorbed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while the Soul Clan plotted against him. After the Shi Clan vanished, the ancient clans turned on one another, and Gu Yuan sought Su Baichen's support as the Gu Clan faced isolation.

• Su Baichen stabilized Cao Ying, Xiao Yu, and Xun'er after they refined the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to watch the Baichen Realm and proceed with its plan to annex the Shi Clan.
• The Shi Clan disappeared without a trace, prompting the Yan and Yao Clans to form an alliance while the Lei Clan allied with the Baichen Realm.
• Gu Nanhai admitted that the Gu Clan's past actions against the Xiao Clan had made others suspect it of destroying the Shi Clan.
• Gu Yuan ordered the Gu Realm locked down and sent an envoy to seek Su Baichen's support, hinting that he might offer his daughter if necessary.

Gu Nanhai failed to secure an alliance between the Gu Clan and Baichen Realm after Lei Zhen accused the Gu Clan of betraying its former allies. Hun Tiandi learned that the factions remained divided and ordered the Soul Clan to deepen their distrust.

• Gu Nanhai asked Xuanyi and Cailin to form an alliance with the Gu Clan, but they said Su Baichen was absent and they could not decide without him.
• Lei Zhen warned Xuanyi and Cailin against trusting the Gu Clan, citing its conduct during the Xiao Clan's destruction, and they postponed any decision until Su Baichen returned.
• Cailin confirmed that Su Baichen's strength could rival an Eight-Star Dou Sheng, reassuring Lei Zhen about Baichen Realm's ability to deter threats.
• Gu Nanhai reported his failed visit to Gu Yuan, who wondered whether the Gu Clan had become untrustworthy in other factions' eyes.
• Hun Tiandi learned of the failed alliance and ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to worsen tensions between the factions.

After a year in seclusion, Su Baichen and the three women emerged stronger as the Soul Clan’s machinations isolated the Gu Clan and put the Yao Clan at risk. Su Baichen returned to the Baichen Realm and planned to attend the Yao Ceremony, but fled when Xuanyi and Cailin questioned his relationships with Cao Ying and the others.

• A Shi Clan powerhouse’s corpse was found near the Gu Realm, then vanished along with the loose cultivator who had discovered it, leaving the Gu Clan under suspicion and isolated.
• Xuanyi and Cailin discussed hiding the Ling Clan survivors and learned the two young women were asking about Su Baichen’s preferences.
• After a year refining the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Su Baichen and Cao Ying, Xun'er, and Xiao Yu emerged from the fire cocoon with greatly improved cultivation.
• Su Baichen returned to the Baichen Realm with Cao Ying, Xun'er, and Xiao Yu, while their arrival drew attention across the Central Plains.
• Xuanyi and Cailin told Su Baichen about the Shi Clan’s destruction and the Yao Clan’s growing danger; he predicted the Soul Clan might strike at the upcoming Yao Ceremony.
• Xuanyi and Cailin challenged Su Baichen about his closeness with Cao Ying, Xun'er, and Xiao Yu, and he ran from the hall as they chased him.

After half a year of training Cao Ying and Xuanyi in alchemy, Su Baichen declined the invitation to the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony because he feared a Soul Clan attack. Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian left for the ceremony, while Cailin asked what important matter Su Baichen had to attend to.

• Su Baichen taught Cao Ying and Xuanyi alchemy, bringing Cao Ying to the point where she could refine Tier 9 Treasure Pills.
• Cao Ying brought Su Baichen the Yao Clan’s invitation, but he warned that the Soul Clan might target the Yao Clan and said he would not attend.
• Cao Ying told Su Baichen she wanted to grow stronger and stand beside him, and Xuanyi assured her that his silence meant he had agreed to let her go.
• Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian departed for the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony with pills prepared by Su Baichen, as Xuanyi and Caidie saw them off.
• Cailin asked Su Baichen what important matter he had to attend to, and he said Cao Ying would have to make her own way.

Su Baichen revealed the full extent of his strength to Cailin and explained why he would not risk an immediate war against the Soul Clan. He had exposed the Soul Devouring Arrays to the Gu Clan, anticipating that Hun Tiandi would turn to a new source of sacrifices.

• Su Baichen told Cailin that he possessed Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng strength, a Di Realm Soul, ninety percent mastery of the Law of Space, and a Mid-Stage Dou Sheng physique.
• Su Baichen said he could not rely on Gu Yuan or the Gu Clan because their internal divisions and past inaction over the Xiao Clan made them untrustworthy allies.
• Su Baichen warned that attacking the Soul Clan could bring heavy losses, especially if Hun Tiandi used hidden defenses within the Soul Realm.
• Su Baichen revealed that he had informed the Gu Clan about the Soul Devouring Arrays so they would destroy the Soul Hall's formations.
• Su Baichen predicted that Hun Tiandi would respond to the arrays' destruction by seeking an even crueler source of sacrifices, and Cailin began considering who the targets might be.

Su Baichen explained Hun Tiandi’s plan to sacrifice the Soul Clan to complete the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill and revealed his own path to becoming a Dou Di. He left Cailin in charge of the alliance and prepared to temper his body in the Void Lightning Pool.

• Su Baichen told Cailin that Hun Tiandi intended to sacrifice the Soul Clan to perfect the Emperor Grade Embryonic Pill, and that the Gu Clan had received information about the Soul Devouring Array to force Hun Tiandi’s hand.
• Su Baichen said he would become a Dou Di and planned to use the Black Demon Lightning and Nine Profound Golden Lightning in the Void Lightning Pool to temper his body to High-Level Dou Sheng.
• Cailin worried that Su Baichen would be hurt and apologized for being unable to help, but he reassured her that she and their family gave him the reason to keep fighting.
• Su Baichen resolved to compress his system’s Dou Sheng-stage reward toward Source Qi of the Emperor once he had reached his limits in Dou Qi, soul, laws, and physique.
• Su Baichen told Cailin he would leave for the Void Lightning Pool in three days and asked her to watch over the alliance; Cailin promised to protect it and asked him to return.

Su Baichen entered the Void Lightning Pool to temper his body, while Zhu Kun and Jiang Mingyue watched from the shore and discussed his extraordinary rise. The story left Su Baichen inside the lightning as Zhu Kun began to believe he was favored by fortune and could benefit the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Su Baichen asked Zhu Kun to let him use the Void Lightning Pool to break through his physical limits, and Zhu Kun agreed to have Zi Yan take him there.
• Zi Yan led Su Baichen to the pool, where he plunged into its lightning without using Douqi to protect himself.
• Zhu Kun and Jiang Mingyue appeared beside Zi Yan as she worried about Su Baichen, and Zhu Kun grumbled that the lightning should strike him harder.
• Jiang Mingyue teased Zi Yan about caring for her chosen future husband, and Zi Yan blushed before fleeing with Spatial Shift.
• Zhu Kun told Jiang Mingyue that Su Baichen's rapid progress in four areas and repeated escapes from danger made him seem favored by fortune, and that the clan might need to borrow his momentum.

Yao Chen returned to the Yao Realm with Xiao Yan and confronted Yao Wangui over the false accusation that had driven him from the Yao Clan. The confrontation ended with Yao Chen revealing his late-stage Three Star Dou Sheng strength and humiliating Yao Wangui, while Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yao Ling watched from the Hundred Herb Pavilion.

• Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian stayed at the Hundred Herb Pavilion as Yao Ling welcomed them ahead of the Medicine Ceremony.
• A crash outside drew Cao Ying, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yao Ling to the window, where they saw Yao Chen and Xiao Yan confronting Yao Wangui and his guards.
• Yao Chen accused Yao Wangui of framing him for stealing spiritual herbs so Yao Feng could use them to break through his Dou Zun bottleneck, while the elders avoided admitting what they knew.
• Xiao Yan condemned the elders for staying silent, and Yao Wangui unleashed his Four-Star Dou Sheng pressure against him.
• Yao Chen blocked Yao Wangui's pressure and revealed that he had reached the late-stage Three Star Dou Sheng realm.
• Yao Chen mocked Yao Wangui for remaining at the Early Four-Star Dou Sheng stage, leaving Yao Wangui trembling with rage.

Yao Chen confronted Yao Wangui in the Yao Realm, where his strength and status forced the Punishment Elder to withdraw. Yao Ling offered to seek justice for Yao Chen’s parents, while Yao Chen refused clan reinstatement; Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian followed him and Xiao Yan, and Cao Ying revealed she had come on her own.

• Yao Chen exposed Yao Wangui’s privilege and declared his own strength as a Late-stage Three Star Dou Sheng, leaving Yao Wangui unable to challenge him openly.
• Yao Ling intervened by reminding Yao Wangui that the Hundred Medicine Pavilion hosted honored guests, and Yao Wangui withdrew with a threat to Yao Chen.
• Yao Ling bowed to Yao Chen and offered to report the matter to Yao Dan, seek his reinstatement, and plead for his parents’ graves to be returned to the ancestral cemetery.
• Yao Chen thanked Yao Ling for handling his parents’ matter but refused to return to the Yao Clan, then left with Xiao Yan.
• Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian excused themselves from Yao Ling and went after Yao Chen and Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen guessed that Su Baichen had sent Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian to exploit the Medicine Ceremony, but Cao Ying told him she had come of her own accord.

Yao Chen reunited with Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian, then found comfort in Xiao Yan’s loyalty as they discussed competing in the Medicine Ceremony. Meanwhile, Yao Dan acknowledged the Yao Clan’s past wrongs and ordered Yao Chen’s parents’ remains restored, while offering Yao Chen a place in the clan if he chose to return.

• Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian greeted Yao Chen, and Xiao Yi Xian thanked him for teaching her poison refinement at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan reassured Yao Chen that he still had him, easing Yao Chen’s thoughts of Han Feng and his past betrayal.
• Cao Ying and Yao Chen confirmed they would compete in the Medicine Ceremony, with Xiao Yan attending to broaden his horizons.
• Yao Ling reported Yao Chen’s cultivation, his dispute with Yao Wangui, and the matter of his parents’ remains to Yao Dan.
• Yao Dan ordered Yao Chen’s parents’ remains reburied with honors and offered Yao Chen an elder’s position if he returned to the Yao Clan.

Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian attended the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony as representatives of their master, Mr. Su, while Yao Dan welcomed the gathered alchemists. The arrival of Hun Xuzi, who came seeking the prize fragment of the Nine-Turn Saint-Transforming Pill formula, heightened tensions, but Yao Dan allowed him to stay under watch.

• Yao Ling seated Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian beside the Yao Clan elders, explaining that they represented Mr. Su.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Ceremony, and Elder Shennong arrived to join the gathering.
• Hun Xuzi appeared unexpectedly, prompting Elder Shennong to accuse him of using evil methods in alchemy.
• Yao Dan challenged Hun Xuzi to follow Yao Clan rules, and Hun Xuzi said he had come for the Nine-Turn Saint-Transforming Pill formula fragment.
• Yao Dan gave Hun Xuzi an isolated seat, then assured Elder Shennong that he could stop Hun Xuzi if he caused trouble.