Chapter Summaries

Jia Nan Academy shut down the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and returned students’ Fire Energy, provoking widespread unrest and withdrawals. Xiao Yan made pills for Zi Yan, who enjoyed them but postponed deciding whether to become his little sister and asked him to remove his mask.

• Jia Nan Academy permanently shut down the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and exchanged students’ Fire Energy for other currency.
• Students, especially those from powerful families, grew angry and many sought to leave despite the academy’s promises of improved benefits.
• Xiao Yan refined Zi Yan’s medicinal herbs into pills and warned her that their violent energy made them unsafe for most humans.
• Zi Yan ate a bottle of pills, admitted she wanted more before deciding whether to become Xiao Yan’s little sister, and joked that he might covet her.
• Xiao Yan explained that he wanted Zi Yan’s powerful bloodline to protect him, and Zi Yan asked him to take off his mask.

Xiao Yan revealed his face and real name to Zi Yan, who agreed to become his little sister. He then went with Jia Nan Academy’s elders to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, where they prepared to lure out the Fallen Heart Flame so he could take its flame seed.

• Xiao Yan removed his mask for Zi Yan and explained that he wore it to hide his age and avoid trouble.
• Zi Yan agreed to be Xiao Yan’s little sister, and he told her that Yan Xiao was a false name and his real name was Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan refined pills for Zi Yan until a Jia Nan Academy elder summoned him to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Xiao Yan met Su Qian, Hu Gan, Bai Lie, and Qian Mu, who prepared to weaken part of the formation and lure the Fallen Heart Flame into attacking.
• Xiao Yan agreed to the plan and felt his body grow hot as he looked toward the tower.

Xiao Yan entered the Magma World to find the unusually calm Fallen Heart Flame and discovered that it regarded him as the master of flames. The Fallen Heart Flame welcomed the chance to be subdued, leaving Xiao Yan poised to claim it.

• Su Qian and the other Dou Zongs opened a weak point in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower’s seal, but the Fallen Heart Flame did not react.
• Xiao Yan suspected his Fire Spirit Body had calmed the Fallen Heart Flame and insisted on entering the Magma World himself.
• Su Qian opened the seal, and Xiao Yan descended through the tower into the magma while the others remained behind to stand guard.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Fallen Heart Flame deep in the magma and found it as a massive White Flame Giant Python that called him the master of flames.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the Fallen Heart Flame would let him subdue it, and it declared that doing so would be an honor.

Xiao Yan subdued the Fallen Heart Flame and absorbed it, advancing to Four-Star Dou Zong while strengthening his physique and the Burning Mantra. The Earth Fire Lotus Platform also absorbed the surrounding magma and grew larger, surprising Xiao Yan at the chapter’s end.

• The Fire Python willingly submitted to Xiao Yan and gave him the Fallen Heart Flame seed.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to guard him, then swallowed the seed and absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame through the Burning Mantra.
• The Fallen Heart Flame strengthened Xiao Yan’s cultivation, physique, and Burning Mantra, raising him from One-Star to Four-Star Dou Zong.
• The underground magma flowed into Xiao Yan and the Earth Fire Lotus Platform, which grew larger as it absorbed the energy.
• Yao Lao marveled at Xiao Yan’s advancement, and Xiao Yan noticed the Earth Fire Lotus Platform had grown.

Xiao Yan discovered that the Earth Fire Lotus Platform had improved and that the Fallen Heart Flame continuously tempered his Dou Qi. Following the flame deeper into the magma, he encountered a Flame Lizard and recognized the Crimson Orbs in their bodies as valuable cultivation treasures.

• Xiao Yan tested the Earth Fire Lotus Platform and found that it helped him absorb natural energy more efficiently.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the Fallen Heart Flame steadily tempered his Dou Qi and increased his cultivation over time.
• Xiao Yan followed the Fallen Heart Flame deeper into the Magma World, with Yao Lao entering his ring and the Fire Python leading the way.
• Xiao Yan encountered a Flame Lizard and recognized it as a member of the tribe guarding the Ancient God Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Yan decided he wanted the Flame Lizards' Crimson Orbs to help improve his cultivation.

Xiao Yan defeated the Flame Lizards guarding the magma passage and entered the Fallen Heart Flame barrier, where he met Yao Tianhuo. After taking the juvenile flame, he promised to resurrect Yao Tianhuo in exchange for his future service and received the Five Wheel Fire Method.

• Xiao Yan pierced a Flame Lizard with a punch, then killed the approaching Flame Lizards with his Heavy Profound Ruler and collected their corpses and Crimson Orbs.
• Xiao Yan followed the Fire Python through the magma to a barrier formed from the main Fallen Heart Flame and entered it.
• Xiao Yan took the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, while Yao Tianhuo tried and failed to control the flame within Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan recognized that Yao Tianhuo depended on the juvenile flame to survive and offered to restore his soul and revive him if he joined Xiao Yan's faction.
• Yao Tianhuo agreed to Xiao Yan's terms and handed him a scroll containing the Five Wheel Fire Method.

Xiao Yan learned the value of Yao Tianhuo’s Five Wheel Fire Method and brought Yao Tianhuo and Yao Lao out of the underground barrier. When he sensed a group of powerful Flame Lizards, including one with Dou Venerate strength, Xiao Yan chose to confront them rather than flee.

• Xiao Yan praised Yao Tianhuo’s Five Wheel Fire Method, which could reach Heaven Rank power and improve his alchemy.
• Xiao Yan invited Yao Tianhuo into the Nether Sea Storage Ring, then introduced him to Yao Lao and explained his plan to restore his teacher’s body.
• Xiao Yan collected Yao Tianhuo’s Dou Venerate skeleton, and Yao Tianhuo and Yao Lao entered their respective rings as Xiao Yan left the barrier.
• Xiao Yan sensed numerous Flame Lizards, including one whose aura matched a human Dou Venerate, and Yao Tianhuo urged him to escape.
• Xiao Yan called on Yao Lao for help and decided to face the Flame Lizards.

Xiao Yan fought a ring of powerful Flame Lizards in the Magma World and revealed that he could control and fuse six Heavenly Flames. After using [Flame Burning] on the fused flame, he powered up and launched Flame Burst Fist, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Xiao Yan used his Heavy Profound Ruler and Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to kill several Flame Lizards, collecting a Crimson Orb from one of them.
• The Dou Venerate-level Flame Lizard blasted Xiao Yan with a fireball, burning his arm before his Heaven-Swallowing Talent and regeneration healed him.
• Xiao Yan summoned six Heavenly Flames, shocking Yao Tianhuo and frightening the Flame Lizard Clan.
• Xiao Yan fused all six Heavenly Flames into a powerful multicolored flame and activated [Flame Burning] on it.
• Xiao Yan drew in the surrounding fire-attribute energy and attacked with Flame Burst Fist.

Xiao Yan killed a Dou Venerate Fire Lizard and escaped the Earth Core Magma World just before a terrifying Semi-Saint Fire Lizard reached him. While recovering in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, his soul power broke through to the Spirit Realm.

• Xiao Yan used his full strength to kill the Dou Venerate Fire Lizard with one punch, then used his Soul Spirit Avatar and Soul Chains to kill the remaining Fire Lizards.
• Xiao Yan gathered the Fire Lizard corpses and fled when he sensed a powerful Fire Lizard approaching from the depths of the magma.
• Yao Lao possessed Xiao Yan, who tore open a spatial rift and escaped before the Semi-Saint Fire Lizard arrived.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and recovered on the Earth Fire Lotus Platform while Yao Lao and Yao Tianhuo kept watch.
• Xiao Yan replenished his Dou Qi with the Quasi-Heaven Rank Flame Mantra, and his soul power broke through to the Spirit Realm.

Xiao Yan absorbed Spirit Qi beneath Jia Nan Academy and broke through to a Spirit Realm Soul, unleashing soul pressure across the surrounding region. He emerged with a Soul Spirit Avatar powerful enough to rival a Dou Venerate, while those around him realized his strength far exceeded his apparent Dou Zong cultivation.

• Xiao Yan absorbed Spirit Qi in the Earth Core Magma World as his soul underwent a qualitative transformation.
• Su Qian, Hu Gan, Bai Lie, and Qian Mu sensed Xiao Yan's soul power sweep across Jia Nan Academy and the surrounding cities.
• Powerful figures at the Vientiane Auction House felt the soul pressure, and Hai Bodong suspected Xiao Yan was its source.
• Yao Lao and Yao Tianhuo recognized that Xiao Yan had reached the Spirit Realm Soul.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes and manifested a Soul Body, while his Soul Spirit Avatar gained enough strength to rival a Dou Venerate.

Xiao Yan told Jia Nan Academy’s elders that the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower could reopen with a Fallen Heart Flame Split Flame in place of the main body. The elders welcomed the prospect, and Xiao Yan asked whether the academy had medicinal herbs suitable as the main ingredient for a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill.

• Su Qian congratulated Xiao Yan on his soul power breakthrough and asked whether he had subdued the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that he had taken the Fallen Heart Flame, leaving Su Qian and the other elders worried about the academy’s future.
• Xiao Yan assured them that the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower could still restart with a suitable replacement for the flame’s main body.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame could bring greater rewards if traded to a major Central Plains power, but Xiao Yan said he had no intention of trading it to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan showed the elders a Fallen Heart Flame Split Flame and explained that it could produce Heart Flame and accelerate cultivation, though it needed regular infusions of Dou Qi.
• Su Qian asked what Xiao Yan wanted in exchange, and Xiao Yan asked whether the academy had a medicinal herb suitable as the main ingredient for a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill.

Xiao Yan traded the Split Flame of the Fallen Heart Flame to Jia Nan Academy for two herbs suited to Tier 8 Medicinal Pills, then explained his Source Fire talent to Yao Lao. He prepared to absorb the Fire Lizards’ Heart Blood Essence to strengthen his body ahead of the Ancient Clan’s arrival for Xiao Xun’er.

• Su Qian agreed to trade two Tier 8 medicinal herbs for Xiao Yan’s Split Flame, and Xiao Yan handed it over.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that Source Fire let him control the Fallen Heart Flame’s intensity and create limited Split Flames for cultivation.
• Xiao Yan kept his reason for retaining the young Fallen Heart Flame to himself, intending to save it for Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao he had a sixty percent chance of refining a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill with his strengthened Fusion Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to stand guard while he absorbed the Fire Lizards’ Heart Blood Essence to improve his physique before the Ancient Clan came for Xiao Xun’er.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Dou Venerate Fire Lizard’s heart blood essence, bringing his physique to seventh-rank perfection, then spent a month studying Dou Techniques and alchemy while spending time with Zi Yan and Xiao Xun'er. As Jia Nan Academy reopened the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower using the Fallen Heart Flame’s split flame, the outside world’s commotion continued.

• Xiao Yan extracted and swallowed the Fire Lizard’s heart blood essence, raising his physique to seventh-rank perfection but not to the eighth rank.
• Yao Lao praised Xiao Yan’s powerful physique and advised him to consolidate his foundation by studying Dou Techniques and alchemy.
• Xiao Yan planned to obtain the Heavenly Demon Puppet refinement method from Demon Flame Valley and later refine an eighth-rank Myriad Beast Blood Pill.
• Over the following month, Xiao Yan studied the Five Wheel Fire Method and alchemy, refined medicinal pills for Zi Yan, and spent time with Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan postponed trading the Ancient Jade with Xun Er and the Ancient Clan until his physique and bargaining position were stronger.
• Jia Nan Academy tested the Fallen Heart Flame’s split flame, then restarted the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.

Jia Nan Academy reopened the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and announced three new Dou Zong experts, intensifying interest in Xiao Yan’s Break-Ancestor Pills and the Vientiane Auction. As Jia Xingtian and his companions arrived in Yan City with Black Cards, the crowd noticed Xiao Zhan and Mittel Teng Shan carrying them and turned greedy eyes toward the pair.

• Jia Nan Academy reopened the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, refused readmission to students who had withdrawn, and announced that Elder Huo and another elder had become Dou Zong experts with Xiao Yan’s Break-Ancestor Pills.
• Factions across the Black-Corner Region focused on the Vientiane Auction after its announced items included a Break-Ancestor Pill.
• Jia Xingtian, Fama, Yun Shan, Mittel Teng Shan, and Xiao Zhan walked through Yan City and discussed their Black Cards and the auction.
• The crowd overheard the group mention their Black Cards and fixed greedy gazes on Xiao Zhan and Mittel Teng Shan.

Xiao Zhan and Mittel Teng Shan were pressured to surrender their Black Cards when Shi Jing of the Lion Underworld Sect threatened them in Yan City. Xiao Ding intervened on behalf of the Tian Shu Alliance, and Xiao Yan arrived just as Shi Jing attacked him.

• Xiao Zhan and Mittel Teng Shan drew close to Jia Xingtian, Fama, and Yun Shan as onlookers eyed their valuable Black Cards.
• Shi Jing demanded the Black Cards in exchange for two Tier 5 Medicinal Pills and threatened to seize them by force.
• Jia Xingtian confronted Shi Jing, but Shi Jing insisted that the Lion Underworld Sect could overpower their backing.
• Xiao Ding arrived and ordered Shi Jing to leave Yan City for threatening Tian Shu's guests and breaking its rules.
• Shi Jing swung at Xiao Ding, but Xiao Yan appeared and blocked the blow with the back of his hand.

Xiao Yan killed Shi Jing after the Lion Underworld Sect elder refused to apologize, drawing attention to the danger of retaliation. He took Shi Jing’s wealth and corpse, while Mo Tianxing defended him and caught his interest as a potential recruit.

• Xiao Yan warned Shi Jing to apologize and leave Yan City, then seized him and snapped his neck when Shi Jing tried to back down.
• The crowd feared the Lion Underworld Sect would retaliate, but Mo Tianxing argued that Xiao Yan must have powerful backing or allies willing to shelter him.
• Xiao Yan considered recruiting Mo Tianxing into Tian Shu after dealing with Demon Flame Valley and taking control of the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan took Shi Jing’s Storage Ring, found a valuable Flame Pole Flower inside, and stored the corpse to refine into a puppet.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding to take the others to the main hall while he finished reading his letter.

After reading Medusa’s letter about her and Qing Lin’s progress and the Snake-People Empire’s expansion, Xiao Yan reviewed Tian Shu’s growing influence and resources. Xiao Ding then revealed a possible Heavenly Flame near the border with the Central Plains, identified as the Yin-Yang Dual Flame.

• Xiao Yan finished Medusa’s letter, learning that Xiao Yi Xian was nearing awakening, Medusa had brought the Heavenly Snake Mansion under her control, and Qing Lin had reached the Dou Wang realm.
• Medusa wrote that she would bring Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the Black-Corner Region after Xiao Yi Xian awakened.
• Xiao Yan met with Xiao Ding, Jia Xingtian, Xiao Zhan, and others, who reported the Jia Ma Empire’s security and the Xiao Clan and Mittel Family’s growing prosperity.
• Xiao Ding explained Tian Shu’s income from subordinate forces and the Vientiane Auction House, then gave Xiao Yan the resources the alliance had gathered for him.
• Xiao Ding showed Xiao Yan a map marking a possible Heavenly Flame near the Northwest Continent and Central Plains border, which Xiao Yan recognized as the Yin-Yang Dual Flame.

Xiao Yan investigated a map hinting at Yin-Yang Dual Flame, then prepared to refine Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pills before the Vientiane Auction. When his pill lightning appeared over Yan City, he dispelled it with a fire dragon, convincing Mo Tianxing that the Black Emperor Sect should align with Tian Shu Alliance rather than oppose it.

• Xiao Yan doubted the Heavenly Flame Ranking, asked Xiao Ding to investigate the map’s possible Yin-Yang Dual Flame location, and arranged for Ice Spirit Cold Spring to be delivered for pill refining.
• Xiao Ding reported that Tian Shu had enough Ice Spirit Cold Spring for two Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pills and said he had already sent people to check the map’s location.
• As the Vientiane Auction approached, experts poured into Yan City, where Xiao Yan’s reputation kept the city peaceful after he killed Shi Jing.
• Xiao Yan’s Tier 7 pill refining drew thunderclouds over Yan City, and his crimson fire dragon tore through the descending thunder dragon and dispersed the clouds.
• Mo Tianxing watched Xiao Yan’s display and abandoned thoughts of joining other factions to assassinate him, deciding instead that the Black Emperor Sect should cooperate with Tian Shu Alliance.

Xiao Yan finished refining an Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill and prepared for the Vientiane Auction, where powerful Dou Zong experts gathered to bid. The auction began with Ya Fei announcing the Break-Ancestor Pill as its first item.

• Xiao Yan refined pills for Zi Yan, who eagerly ate them, then welcomed Xiao Xun'er back to the courtyard.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yan she missed his company, and he apologized for being busy with the alliance's booming business.
• Dou Zong experts, including Mo Tianxing and Su Qian, gathered outside the Vientiane Auction House and entered after Hai Bodong checked their Black Cards.
• Ya Fei opened the auction before the guests in the private rooms, including Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Xiao Xun'er.
• Ya Fei announced the Break-Ancestor Pill as the first auction item.

Ya Fei auctioned Xiao Yan’s Break-Ancestor Pill, drawing fierce bids from powerful figures across the Northwest Continent. After Xiao Yan punished Fang Yan for violating the auction rules, Mo Tianxing won the pill with Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.

• Ya Fei described the Break-Ancestor Pill’s extraordinary success rate and opened the bidding through barter.
• Bidders offered rare medicines, flames, and a Tier 7 Magical Beast as they competed for the pill.
• Fang Yan identified himself as Demon Flame Valley’s Grand Elder and invoked his status while bidding, so Xiao Yan burned him for breaking the rules.
• Fang Yan acknowledged his mistake, and Ya Fei canceled his bid and resumed the auction.
• Mo Tianxing offered Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, and Xiao Yan accepted the bid.