Chapter Summaries

Yao Ling persuaded her arrogant brother Yao Tian to visit Star Meteor Pavilion, where they learned that Yao Chen had been missing for over twenty years. The siblings stayed to see the pavilion, while Yao Ling concealed how she had learned about it.

• Yao Ling joked with her sisters in the group chat before asking Yao Tian about the Yao Clan outcast Yao Chen.
• Yao Ling convinced Yao Tian to visit Yao Chen's Star Meteor Pavilion despite his contempt for the faction.
• At Star Meteor Pavilion, Feng Zunzhe told Yao Tian that Yao Chen had been missing for over twenty years, possibly because of a connection to his disciple and the Soul Hall.
• Yao Tian said Yao Chen had fallen out with Elder Yao Wangui and might already be dead, but Yao Ling still wanted to see the pavilion.
• Yao Ling claimed Huo Zhi had recommended Star Meteor Pavilion for its scenery, hiding that she had learned of it through the Notebook Copy.

Yao Tian and Yao Ling stayed at the Star Meteor Pavilion, where Yao Ling recruited Mu Qingluan into their group after learning she had planned to tell Venerable Feng about Venerable Yao. Mu Qingluan and Feng Qing'er traded barbs in the group chat, which ended with both denying they intended to reveal everything about Venerable Yao.

• Venerable Feng welcomed Yao Tian and Yao Ling to stay at the Star Meteor Pavilion.
• Yao Ling offered Mu Qingluan a Tier 6 Beast Spirit Pill to guide her, and Venerable Feng assigned her to the guests.
• Yao Tian asked Mu Qingluan to find him a secluded residence where he could refine a high-tier Seventh Rank medicinal pill.
• Yao Ling told Mu Qingluan that Feng Qing'er had sent her regards and invited her to join the group.
• Mu Qingluan joined the group and argued with Feng Qing'er about becoming a mount and whether either planned to tell others about Venerable Yao.

Mu Qingluan and Yao Ling planned to travel to the Black-Corner Region without revealing the Notebook Copy, while Xiao Ting forced Feng Qing’er to choose between acknowledging him as her master and enduring ever-increasing pain. Feng Qing’er accepted, and Xiao Ting branded her soul and ended her torment.

• Mu Qingluan explained that she would use Han Feng’s death as a reason to travel to the Black-Corner Region with Feng Zunzhe, and Xun’er invited her and Yao Ling to come.
• Mu Qingluan reassured Yao Ling that she would cover for her, and Yao Ling explained his concerns about the Yao Clan’s arrogance and his plan to help Yao Lao.
• After refining a Dou Zun Fire Bead, Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame to pressure Feng Qing’er into becoming his mount and acknowledging him as her master.
• Feng Qing’er agreed to release the restrictions on her soul, and Xiao Ting carved a brand into it before ending her pain.

Xiao Ting reached Seven-Star Dou Zun and received the Yin-Yang Dao Transformation Heavenly Technique, while Mu Qingluan and Yao Ling traveled toward the Black-Corner Region to investigate Han Feng and meet an acquaintance. The chapter left Xiao Ting eager to use his new technique to help his companions grow stronger alongside him.

• Xiao Ting planned to visit Saint Creation's ruins and use the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix remains and Purple Heaven Sky Flame to help Feng Qing'er transform after he reached Peak Dou Zun.
• Mu Qingluan told Feng Zunzhe about a young Dou Zun named Xiao Ting and news that he had killed Han Feng in the Black-Corner Region, leading Feng Zunzhe to suspect Han Feng was Pavilion Master Chen's disciple.
• Feng Zunzhe sent Mu Qingluan and Elder Qing Yan to investigate Han Feng, and Yao Ling arranged to travel with Mu Qingluan.
• Yao Ling delayed the journey so Xiao Ting could continue hunting Flame Lizardmen, and three months passed before the group reached the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Ting broke through to Seven-Star Dou Zun and received the Yin-Yang Dao Transformation Heavenly Technique, which could help his Dao companions improve their souls, bloodlines, physiques, and comprehension.

Xiao Ting’s Notes revealed that the Yin-Yang Dao Transformation Heavenly Technique could improve the bloodlines and abilities of women who cultivated with him. Convinced by Xiao Ting’s talent and their growing closeness, Huo Zhi chose to test the technique with him and emerged with a stronger bloodline.

• Xiao Ting’s Notes explained how cultivating with him could improve the bloodlines of Caili, Qing Lin, Xun’er, Huo Zhi, and others, prompting the girls to react with surprise and interest.
• Huo Zhi said she would test the technique for the others and defended her decision by praising Xiao Ting’s talent, character, and achievements.
• Xun’er said Xiao Ting planned to obtain the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes and inscribe the Xiao Tribe’s Clan Mark.
• Huo Zhi found Xiao Ting in the Magma World, asked whether he liked her, and he sealed off their surroundings with Purple Heaven Sky Flame.
• After several hours, Huo Zhi said her bloodline power felt stronger, and Xiao Ting explained that the Fire Beads and their cultivation together had helped her advance from the Fourth Rank toward the Fifth Rank.

Xiao Ting strengthened his bloodline through dual cultivation with Huo Zhi and pursued further gains by cultivating with Caili and Yun Yun. He then helped Xiao Yi Xian control her Woeful Poison Body, which began to lose its urgent craving for poison.

• Huo Zhi’s bloodline advanced to Fifth-Rank Alchemist level, while Xiao Ting’s bloodline talent rose to Sixth Rank and loosened his cultivation bottlenecks.
• Xiao Ting cultivated with Caili, whose bloodline began transforming, then cultivated with Yun Yun to gain swordsmanship and sword-intent comprehension.
• Xiao Ting told Xiao Yi Xian that dual cultivation could help her control her Woeful Poison Body, and she agreed without hesitation.
• After several days, Xiao Yi Xian noticed that her Woeful Poison Body no longer urgently demanded poisonous substances.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Ting to help her control the Woeful Poison Body a little more.

Huo Zhi met Yao Ling and Yao Tian in the Black-Corner Region, where Yao Tian tried to court her and she made clear that she already had a Dao companion. She left the meeting’s outcome unresolved after rejecting Yao Ling’s matchmaking plan.

• Yao Ling and Huo Zhi discussed how to handle Yao Tian’s planned meeting with Huo Zhi, and Huo Zhi agreed to meet him but said she had her own way of turning him down.
• Yao Tian complained about the long journey and said Huo Zhi’s bloodline was not impressive, though her Red Lotus Karma Flame and special constitution made her worth considering.
• Huo Zhi received Yao Ling’s message while cultivating with Xiao Ting and went to meet her without him.
• Yao Ling introduced Yao Tian to Huo Zhi, who politely kept her distance and mentioned her interest in the Nine Nether Wind Flame, exposing Yao Tian’s resentment over losing it to Yao Xingji.
• Huo Zhi refused Yao Tian’s invitation to visit the Yao Realm and told Yao Ling she already had a Dao companion, so she could not accept the matchmaking.

Yao Tian tried to meet Huo Zhi’s partner, but Huo Zhi defeated him effortlessly and told him to return when he reached Dou Sheng. Huo Zhi then brought Yao Ling and Mu Qingluan to meet Xiao Yan so they could ask about the missing Venerable Yao and Han Feng.

• Yao Tian insisted on meeting Huo Zhi’s partner, despite Yao Ling urging him to leave.
• Huo Zhi subdued Yao Tian, then defeated him again when she let him attack first and warned him to wait until he reached Dou Sheng to meet her partner.
• Yao Ling asked Huo Zhi about Han Feng, and Mu Qingluan explained that Venerable Yao and Han Feng had been missing for over twenty years.
• Huo Zhi opened a spatial passage and led Yao Ling and Mu Qingluan to the Inner Academy of Jia Nan Academy.
• Huo Zhi found Xiao Yan after he finished refining a medicinal pill and called him over because a guest wanted to see Venerable Yao.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen met Mu Qingluan and Yao Ling, whose visit brought news of the Central Plains and the Yao Clan. As Yao Ling insulted Yao Chen and Xiao Yan, a powerful Soul Hall Venerable Elder appeared over Zixiao City, leaving the group facing a Seven-Star Peak Dou Zun.

• Huo Zhi introduced Yao Ling and Mu Qingluan to Xiao Yan, and Mu Qingluan confirmed that she was Feng Zunzhe’s disciple from the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Yao Chen appeared and recognized Mu Qingluan, who explained that she had come to investigate Han Feng’s death and sent word to Feng Zunzhe.
• Yao Ling scorned Yao Chen and Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan vowed to surpass him and help his master return to the Yao Clan.
• Huo Zhi revealed that Xiao Yan was her partner’s Third Brother, and Yao Ling realized her partner was Xiao Ting.
• A High-Rank Dou Zun’s aura appeared over Zixiao City as black clouds gathered and dark-blue rain began to fall.
• Yao Chen identified the newcomer as Magic Rain, a Soul Hall Venerable Elder whose rain devoured soul power, and Xiao Yan was alarmed by his Seven-Star Peak Dou Zun strength.

Magic Rain, a seven-star Dou Zun and Ninth Heavenly Venerable of the Soul Hall, came to capture Xiao Ting, whom he suspected was a descendant of the Xiao Tribe. Xiao Ting summoned a powerful cauldron and lightning, leaving Magic Rain trapped and revealing that he had mistaken Xiao Ting’s strength.

• Xiao Yan panicked over Magic Rain’s arrival and urged Huo Zhi to help Xiao Ting, but Huo Zhi said Xiao Ting could handle him.
• Magic Rain revealed that he had learned of Xiao Ting’s talent and Soul Realm while investigating the destruction of the Soul Hall branch, and had come personally to seize him for a reward.
• Xiao Ting’s purple flames dispelled Magic Rain’s soul-devouring rain as a giant Three-Legged Cauldron and lightning pythons appeared around the Ninth Heavenly Venerable.
• Magic Rain identified himself and threatened Xiao Ting with the Soul Hall’s attention, urging him to surrender and serve the organization.
• Xiao Ting dismissed Magic Rain’s claims about Hun Miesheng and recognized that Magic Rain had come for personal gain, while the women reacted in surprise.

Xiao Ting killed Magic Rain and drew the attention of the Soul Hall, while Yao Tian fled after realizing Xiao Ting’s strength. Xiao Ting then planned to travel to the Central Plains with Huo Zhi to explore ruins and trouble the Soul Hall, and Yao Ling asked to join them.

• Xiao Ting trapped Magic Rain in thunder and purple Tian Huo, and Magic Rain used a self-detonation to send a final message before dying.
• The Eighth Heavenly Venerable and Seventh Heavenly Venerable learned of Magic Rain’s death and decided to investigate Xiao Ting before pursuing him for credit.
• Yao Tian concluded Xiao Ting was likely a Peak One-Turn Dou Zun, abandoned his plans to test him, and left for the Yao Realm with his protector.
• Yao Ling’s aunt told her to stay with Huo Zhi, and Yao Ling welcomed the chance to remain near Xiao Ting.
• Xiao Ting returned to Jia Nan Academy and proposed accompanying Huo Zhi to explore Central Plains ruins while causing trouble for the Soul Hall.
• Yao Ling asked to go with them, and Huo Zhi said Xiao Ting would decide.

Xiao Ting demanded that Yao Ling prove her usefulness, then accepted her soul-based alchemy technique and brought her along. He prepared resources to help Xiao Yan resurrect Yao Chen, returned to Zixiao City, and set off with his companions toward the Central Plains while refining pills aboard his Spirit Boat.

• Xiao Ting told Yao Ling she needed to prove her value to travel with him, and she gave him a secret soul-based alchemy technique in exchange for protection.
• Xiao Ting welcomed Mu Qingluan as his junior sister and gave her a Tier 7 Wind Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Ting gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing a Ban Sheng's remains, a Bone Melting Blood Pill, and Heavenly Demon Phoenix essence blood to help resurrect Yao Chen.
• Xiao Ting returned to Zixiao City with Huo Zhi and Yao Ling, while Mu Qingluan stayed behind at Jia Nan Academy to await Feng Zunzhe.
• Xiao Ting instructed Su Mei and the others to manage Zixiao City, then departed for the Central Plains aboard his Spirit Boat and began refining pills.

Xiao Ting crossed Soul Hall’s territory, killing its members and drawing the attention of its Heavenly Venerables before reaching Burning Flame Valley. There, he told Valley Master Tang Zhen that his Xiao Clan had a thousand-year connection to the valley, and Tang Huo'er asked whether he was descended from Xiao Xuan.

• Xiao Ting refined a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill, killed Soul Hall attackers, and left one survivor to carry his challenge back to Soul Hall.
• Xiao Ting slew the Seventh and Eighth Heavenly Venerables when they joined forces to stop him.
• Saint Hun Qing and the Third Heavenly Venerable discussed Xiao Ting’s strength, and the Third Heavenly Venerable set out with a Spatial Jade Slip.
• Xiao Ting reached Burning Flame Valley, where Ancestor Huo Yun instructed Tang Zhen to welcome the powerful alchemist with great ceremony.
• At a banquet, Xiao Ting told Tang Zhen that his Xiao Clan shared a thousand-year connection with Burning Flame Valley, and Tang Huo'er asked if he was descended from Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Ting explained his Xiao Clan’s connection to the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes and offered a Tier 8 medicinal pill in exchange for the secret art. After revealing his alchemy skill and promising future help, he drew the attention of Burning Flame Valley’s Ancestor Huo Yun.

• Tang Huo'er guessed that Xiao Ting had come to Burning Flame Valley for the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes, and Xiao Ting confirmed it.
• Xiao Ting explained that Xiao Xuan had created the secret art and entrusted it to Burning Flame Ancestor, then asked to trade for it.
• Tang Huo'er argued that the secret art belonged to Burning Flame Valley, while Xiao Ting said he would offer sufficient compensation.
• Xiao Ting gave Tang Zhen a Tier 8 Heavenly Spirit Fire Bodhi Pill to heal Tang Huo'er and aid her cultivation.
• Xiao Ting revealed that he was an Eighth-Rank Alchemist with a Heaven Realm soul, prompting a figure to appear and demand to know whether his claims were true.

Xiao Ting learned that Burning Flame Valley had maintained a thousand-year alliance with the Xiao Clan and agreed to guide Tang Huo'er. Ancestor Huo Yun also permitted Xiao Ting to take a portion of the Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame, which Xiao Ting successfully divided using the Purple Heaven Sky Flame.

• Ancestor Huo Yun praised Xiao Ting's Heaven Realm soul and revealed that Soul Hall's First Heavenly Venerable had injured him while targeting Burning Flame Valley over its ties to the Xiao Clan.
• Ancestor Huo Yun explained that Burning Flame Valley's alliance with the Xiao Clan dated back to the Hun Clan's assault on the Xiao Realm a thousand years earlier.
• Ancestor Huo Yun asked Xiao Ting to guide Tang Huo'er, and Xiao Ting agreed to let her follow him.
• Xiao Ting asked to take a portion of Burning Flame Valley's Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame, and Ancestor Huo Yun gave him permission to try.
• Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame to split the Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame into a three-fourths portion and a one-fourth portion.

Xiao Ting accepted part of Burning Flame Valley’s Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame and helped the valley improve its strength before Ling Yue reached Dou Zun with his resources. When the Black Annihilation Army came looking for Gu Xun’er, Ling Yue confronted its commander and asserted her authority.

• Xiao Ting accepted a quarter of the Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame and stayed at Burning Flame Valley with Xun'er and the other women.
• Xiao Ting refined pills for Burning Flame Valley, helping its people advance while recording the gains in his Notes.
• Ling Yue broke through to Dou Zun in Zixiao City and learned that the Black Annihilation Army had arrived to retrieve Xun'er.
• Commander Yang Hao confronted Su Qian in Peace Town, then learned from Ling Yue that Xun'er had gone to the Central Plains with Xiao Ting.
• Yang Hao tried to question Ling Yue with an External Affairs Elder Token, but she revealed her Dou Zun strength and said only an elder or an Elder Council token could challenge her.

Ling Yue drove off the Black Annihilation Army by revealing Xiao Ting’s extraordinary talent and abilities, while Xiao Ting learned of the Burning Flame Ancestor’s hidden inheritance beneath Burning Flame Valley. The chapter ended with Xiao Ting considering which of the inheritance’s five methods to pursue.

• Ling Yue told Yang Hao to report that she had been assigned to the Black-Corner Region and that Xiao Ting was a seventeen-year-old Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Ling Yue revealed that Xiao Ting was also an Eighth-Rank Alchemist with a Heaven-Realm Soul, leaving Yang Hao and the Black Annihilation Army stunned.
• Ling Yue returned through a Spatial Passage to Zixiao City to hold the fort for Xiao Ting.
• Xiao Ting received information about the Burning Flame Saint Stele and the five ways to obtain the Burning Flame Ancestor’s inheritance.
• Xiao Ting considered which inheritance method to choose.

Xiao Ting discovered five ways to obtain the Burning Flame Ancestor's inheritance and decided to pursue the complete inheritance through the Burning Flame Saint Stele. Tang Huo'er considered dual cultivating with him, and Xiao Ting told Ancestor Huo Yun that he had found the inheritance.

• Xiao Ting assessed the five inheritance methods and determined he could pursue the partial inheritance now or try for the complete inheritance after growing stronger.
• Xiao Ting recorded his plans and discussed the inheritance with Tang Huo'er and the other women, who teased Tang Huo'er about dual cultivating with him.
• Tang Huo'er visited Ancestor Huo Yun under the pretext of learning a powerful Dou Technique, then Xiao Ting requested an audience.
• Xiao Ting told Ancestor Huo Yun that he had discovered the Burning Flame Ancestor's inheritance, leaving the elder stunned.

Xiao Ting led Ancestor Huo Yun and Tang Huo'er to the Burning Flame Saint Stele, where they learned that the Xiao Tribe and Burning Flame Valley shared ties to the inheritance and discovered why the Burning Flame Ancestor had vanished. The revelation suggested that Xiao Xuan had faced his attempt to become a Dou Di without the allies and support he had expected.

• Xiao Ting explained that his awakened Xiao Clan Mark had sensed the Burning Flame Ancestor's inheritance beneath Burning Flame Valley, and Ancestor Huo Yun took him and Tang Huo'er into the Magma World.
• The three reached the Burning Flame Saint Stele, where their bloodlines and Xiao Ting's Clan Mark connected to the inheritance and revealed five methods of receiving it.
• Ancestor Huo Yun and Xiao Ting learned that the Xiao Tribe had entrusted resources and Xiao Chen's future to the Burning Flame Ancestor, while the Tang Family was meant to join the Xiao Realm if the Xiao Tribe's bloodline continued to decline.
• The stele revealed that the Burning Flame Ancestor had vanished into a plane rift while searching for the missing Xiao Chen alongside the Xiao Tribe's old clan leader, leaving a final message for his descendants to deliver to the Xiao Tribe.
• Xiao Ting realized that Xiao Xuan had likely attempted to break through to Dou Di without Xiao Chen, the Burning Flame Ancestor, or the old clan leader, and wondered whether their disappearance had helped the Hun Clan ambush him.

Xiao Ting and Tang Huo'er discovered they could enter the Burning Flame Saint Stele’s inheritance space by cultivating together inside the Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame. They obtained the complete inheritance and began absorbing a Sky Flame Meteorite Crystal, while Tang Huo'er shared the news with Xiao Ting’s other partners.

• Xiao Ting agreed to accept the complete inheritance and share its cultivation methods and Dou Techniques with Ancestor Huo Yun.
• Tang Huo'er proposed that she and Xiao Ting cultivate together inside the Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame without relying on the fifth method’s usual requirement.
• Xiao Ting and Tang Huo'er began dual cultivation, and the Nine Dragons Lightning Gang Flame formed a barrier around them.
• The Burning Flame Saint Stele activated and drew Xiao Ting, Tang Huo'er, and the Heavenly Flame into its inheritance space.
• Tang Huo'er told the Notebook Copy chat group that they had obtained Heaven Tier methods and techniques and would absorb the Sky Flame Meteorite Crystal in seclusion.