Chapter Summaries

Lin Chen led Hai Bodong and Qing Lin to the Underground Magma World, where he subdued the Double-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and found the Green Lotus Core Flame already gone. He absorbed the Earth Fire-Nurturing Lotus Platform and its seeds, advanced to peak One-Star Dou Wang, and emerged with Dou Qi Wings as Hai Bodong stared in shock.

• Lin Chen took Hai Bodong and Qing Lin to the Red Flame Basin, carved a passage underground, and descended with them into the Underground Magma World.
• The Double-Headed Fire Spirit Snake attacked, but Lin Chen gravely wounded it and brought it to Qing Lin, whose Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils made it submit to her.
• Lin Chen entered the lava and found the Green Lotus Core Flame gone, then refined the Green Lotus Platform and its Earth Fire Lotus Seeds to restore the Karma Fire Red Lotus.
• The absorbed energy pushed Lin Chen past the peak of Nine-Star Dou Ling and up to peak One-Star Dou Wang.
• Lin Chen formed dark-red Dou Qi Wings and burst from the lava, leaving Hai Bodong astonished by his power.

After breaking through to Dou Wang, Lin Chen used the Karma Fire Red Lotus to remove Hai Bodong’s seal and restore him to Four-Star Dou Emperor strength, securing his help in reclaiming the Heavenly Flame from Medusa. Lin Chen then awakened the introductory power of the Boundless Blood Sea, and the chapter ended with Hai Bodong announcing that the Heavenly Flame had appeared.

• Lin Chen showed Hai Bodong Queen Medusa’s seven-colored scale and confirmed that she had taken the Green Lotus Core Flame, then persuaded him to help recover it.
• Lin Chen burned away Medusa’s Purple Snake Seal with the Karma Fire Red Lotus, restoring Hai Bodong’s youth and Four-Star Dou Emperor cultivation.
• Lin Chen, Qing Lin, and Hai Bodong returned to the Ancient Map Shop, where Xiao Yi Xian saw Hai Bodong restored; Lin Chen planned to search for Medusa after they had recovered.
• Lin Chen tested the Boundless Blood Sea in his inn room and found that it expanded his senses and strengthened his abilities within its reach.
• Over the following days, Lin Chen and Hai Bodong trained and adapted to their restored powers until Hai Bodong arrived with news that the Heavenly Flame had appeared.

Lin Chen and Hai Bodong rushed into the Tagor Great Desert to claim the newly revealed Mystic Yellow Flame, leaving Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin behind for safety. They arrived at a standoff between human experts and Snake-People near the Holy City, where Lin Chen discovered the flame’s true source lay beneath the burning sand.

• Hai Bodong revealed that the Mystic Yellow Flame had appeared in the desert, and Lin Chen decided to pursue it despite the gathered Dou Emperors and Dou Wangs.
• Lin Chen gave Xiao Yi Xian pills and a Poison Scripture, arranged for the Fire Spirit Snake to protect her and Qing Lin, and flew out with Hai Bodong.
• As they traveled, Hai Bodong explained that the flame had drawn Gu He, Yun Yun, experts from the Black-Corner Region, and many other powerful cultivators.
• Lin Chen and Hai Bodong reached the Snake-People Holy City, where human experts surrounded a vast field of yellow-brown fire and faced a group of Snake-People defenders.
• Hai Bodong asserted himself against the Snake-People, while Lin Chen sensed that the visible flames were only a domain concealing the Mystic Yellow Flame far below the sand.

Lin Chen realized the supposed Mystic Yellow Flame was actually the cunning Wind Fury Dragon Flame, which fooled the gathered experts with a decoy while escaping toward the Snake-People Holy City. There, the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and the sealed Green Lotus Core Flame both erupted, leaving the human powerhouses and Snake-People Tribe facing a chaotic struggle over two Heavenly Flames.

• Lin Chen used the Karma Fire Red Lotus to identify the earthen-yellow flame as the Wind Fury Dragon Flame rather than the Mystic Yellow Flame.
• Six Dou Emperors joined forces to break the flame's outer defenses, and the Wind Fury Dragon Flame counterattacked with a towering fire tornado before revealing a bright-yellow Child Flame.
• Lin Chen stopped Hai Bodong from joining the battle and told him the real flame had escaped toward the Holy City.
• The Black Skull Tomb Dou Emperor seized the Child Flame, discovered it was a decoy, and warned the other fighters that the real Heavenly Flame had fled.
• The Wind Fury Dragon Flame erupted above the Snake-People Holy City alongside the Green Lotus Core Flame, stunning the gathered powerhouses and setting the stage for a larger battle.

Six human Dou Emperors gained the upper hand over Queen Medusa and the Snake-People Tribe after Mo Fa and Copper Flame summoned four Peak Dou Emperors, while Lin Chen waited for both sides to weaken. Yun Yun was knocked into the desert, and the elders’ barrier faltered as the human attackers’ combined strike swallowed them in destructive light.

• Queen Medusa refused to surrender the Heavenly Flames, and four high-tier Snake-People elders emerged to help defend the Holy City.
• Mo Fa and Copper Flame revealed four cloaked Peak Dou Emperors and offered pills to win the support of Gu He, Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and the mysterious Dou Emperor.
• The ten human Dou Emperors attacked the Snake-People defenses, while Hai Bodong, the mysterious Dou Emperor, and others held back and Lin Chen watched for an opening.
• Lin Chen noticed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame drifting toward the weakened Green Lotus Core Flame as the battle continued.
• The four elders trapped Yun Yun with their formation and blasted her into the desert, where a sandstorm swallowed her.
• Mo Fa, Copper Flame, and their four Peak Dou Emperor allies broke through the weakened barrier with a combined attack that engulfed the four elders.

Lin Chen arrived as the human Dou Emperors closed in on the Heavenly Flames and declared them his, then killed a Four-Star Dou Emperor with one sword strike. The remaining attackers stared in shock as Lin Chen faced them and asked whether anyone still thought he was joking.

• The combined attack of six human Dou Emperors gravely wounded Queen Medusa and the four Snake-People elders, leaving them unable to fight.
• Lin Chen appeared between the human Dou Emperors and the Heavenly Flames, claimed the flames, and refused Hai Bodong’s attempt to pull him away.
• A Four-Star Dou Emperor attacked Lin Chen with a flaming palm, while the other human Dou Emperors watched.
• Lin Chen fused Yuantu and Abi, wrapped the sword in Red Lotus Karma Fire, and killed the Four-Star Dou Emperor with a single slash.
• Lin Chen calmly confronted the nine surviving human Dou Emperors, while Hai Bodong, Queen Medusa, and the others watched in shock.

Lin Chen slaughtered the human Dou Emperors who had attacked the Snake-People, absorbing their power and rising to Peak Five-Star Dou Wang. When the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame began devouring each other, he summoned the Twelfth-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and consumed both flames, leaving the Holy City’s survivors stunned.

• Lin Chen killed a Four-Star Dou Emperor with one sword strike and devoured his corpse, shocking the human Dou Emperors and Snake-People.
• Lin Chen used the Yuantu and Abi Twin Swords and Shadow Escape to kill the mysterious Dou Emperor and two Peak Dou Emperors, then hunted down Mo Fa, Copper Flame Dou Emperor, and three more Peak Dou Emperors.
• Gu He escaped the slaughter, while Lin Chen absorbed the fallen Dou Emperors’ energy and advanced to Peak Five-Star Dou Wang.
• The Wind Fury Dragon Flame attacked the weakened Green Lotus Core Flame, and their clash unleashed destructive shock waves that devastated the Holy City and threatened the Snake-People.
• Lin Chen manifested the Twelfth-Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and forcibly devoured both Heavenly Flames, ending their clash and leaving the survivors in stunned silence.

After devouring Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, Lin Chen gained a Red Lotus Possession battle mark and broke through to a Spirit Realm soul. He left the Snake-People Holy City with Hai Bodong to test Boundless Blood Sea in the desert, where the chapter ended as he activated the technique.

• The Karma Fire Red Lotus devoured Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, then formed a twelve-petaled mark between Lin Chen’s brows that enabled Red Lotus Possession.
• Lin Chen asked the Snake-People Tribe for a quiet chamber, and the elders and Queen Medusa agreed to host him and Hai Bodong.
• Lin Chen cultivated in seclusion and broke through to the Spirit Realm soul, deepening his understanding of Boundless Blood Sea.
• Two days later, Lin Chen asked Hai Bodong to accompany him into the desert to test his new move, and Hai Bodong reluctantly agreed to spar.
• Lin Chen and Hai Bodong flew to a remote wasteland, where Hai Bodong armored himself and Lin Chen opened Boundless Blood Sea.

Lin Chen demonstrated the overwhelming power of his Blood Sea Domain against Hai Bodong, then found and rescued the badly injured Yun Yun. After treating her and discovering a seventh-grade alchemist inheritance among the fallen alchemists’ possessions, he began studying alchemy as Yun Yun started to wake.

• Lin Chen opened the Blood Sea Domain and crushed Hai Bodong’s attacks, bound him with blood tentacles, and ended the test after Hai Bodong admitted defeat.
• Lin Chen sensed a faint life beneath a dune and found Yun Yun unconscious and gravely injured.
• Lin Chen carried Yun Yun back to the temple, treated her with healing pills from her Storage Ring, and laid her on his bed.
• Lin Chen searched a fallen alchemist’s Storage Ring and found pill recipes, alchemy books, and a seventh-grade alchemist inheritance.
• Lin Chen rapidly studied the alchemy texts and began working toward fifth-grade alchemist knowledge before Yun Yun moaned and started to wake.

Lin Chen rescued the badly injured Yun Yun in the Snake-Person Holy City and used the Red Lotus Karma Fire to refine several perfect pills. After treating Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and Queen Medusa, he returned to studying alchemy and soul power.

• Yun Yun awoke in the Snake-Person Holy City and learned that Lin Chen had saved her after the Snake-People Dou Emperors injured her.
• Lin Chen refined a top-tier Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill with the Red Lotus Karma Fire and gave it to Yun Yun to heal her injuries.
• Queen Medusa arrived after sensing the pill’s aura and watched Lin Chen refine an Imperial Extreme Pill and a healing pill at the same time.
• Lin Chen gave the Imperial Extreme Pill to Hai Bodong and the healing pill to Queen Medusa, then resumed studying notes on soul power.

After Yun Yun recovered, Lin Chen offered Queen Medusa a chance at perfect bloodline evolution in exchange for a future favor, then used his Red Lotus Karma Fire to transform her into a sleeping Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python. Lin Chen and Hai Bodong left the Snake-Person Holy City for Black Rock City, where Lin Chen planned to obtain sixth-grade alchemist certification.

• Yun Yun awoke mostly healed, thanked Lin Chen, and left the Snake-Person Holy City.
• Lin Chen offered to purify Medusa's bloodline and help her evolve in exchange for a future favor, and Medusa accepted.
• Lin Chen used the Red Lotus Karma Fire to purify Medusa's bloodline and soul, completing her perfect evolution into a sleeping Seven-Colored Little Snake.
• Lin Chen told Hai Bodong that Medusa needed time to awaken and prepared to leave with him.
• Lin Chen and Hai Bodong departed for Black Rock City, where Lin Chen planned to seek sixth-grade alchemist certification.

Lin Chen brought Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to Black Rock City and stunned the Alchemist Guild by refining a perfect Break Sect Pill. The headquarters certified him as a sixth-grade Alchemy Grandmaster and invited him to meet President Fa Ma, while news of his skill spread through the Jia Ma Empire.

• A wounded Soul Hall survivor fled the Tagor Desert, resolved to report Lin Chen's power to his branch hall, and urged the Soul Hall to control or kill him.
• Lin Chen and Hai Bodong went to Shi Mo City, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and took them along to Black Rock City.
• Lin Chen arrived above the Black Rock City Alchemist Guild with Hai Bodong and announced that he would demonstrate his sixth-grade alchemy by refining a Break Sect Pill.
• Lin Chen used the Red Lotus Karma Fire to refine three perfect Break Sect Pills, astonishing the Guild's alchemists.
• The Guild headquarters certified Lin Chen as a sixth-grade Alchemy Grandmaster, gave him a six-star Alchemist Badge, and invited him to visit President Fa Ma.

Hai Bodong returned to Jia Ma Holy City with Lin Chen, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and the Mittel Family welcomed him home. Lin Chen revealed that he was a Sixth-Grade Alchemist, drawing the capital’s powerful factions to him, and agreed to refine a Break Sect Pill for Jia Xingtian in exchange for rare materials and access to the Imperial Family’s treasury.

• Hai Bodong returned to Six-Star Dou Huang and persuaded Lin Chen to stay with the Mittel Family in Jia Ma Holy City, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin were given a quiet, guarded courtyard.
• Hai Bodong reunited with Mite Tengshan and ordered the Mittel Family to treat Lin Chen with even greater respect than they treated him.
• Jia Xingtian arrived at the estate, followed by Chemir, Nalan Su, and Mu Chen, who gathered to meet Hai Bodong and Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen revealed his Sixth-Grade Alchemist Badge, astonishing the gathered leaders and turning their attention toward gaining his favor.
• Jia Xingtian offered rare materials and three items from the Imperial treasury for a Break Sect Pill, and Lin Chen agreed to refine one if the Imperial Family provided the materials.

Lin Chen used the Red Lotus Karma Fire to remove Nalan Jie’s Brand Poison, then refined a perfect Break Sect Pill at the Nalan Clan’s banquet. His feats earned him the Alchemist Guild’s honorary presidency and made him a legend across the Jia Ma Empire.

• Lin Chen entered the Nalan Mansion and purified the Brand Poison that had afflicted Nalan Jie for years, waking the old man and restoring hope of his recovery.
• Nalan Su and the Nalan Clan thanked Lin Chen, and news of Nalan Jie’s successful cure spread through the imperial capital.
• At the banquet, Jia Xingtian asked Lin Chen to refine the promised Break Sect Pill, and Lin Chen agreed to make it on the spot.
• Lin Chen refined a perfect Break Sect Pill before the assembled guests and handed it to Jia Xingtian.
• Chemir appointed Lin Chen Honorary President of the Jia Ma Empire’s Alchemist Guild, while the banquet crowd celebrated Lin Chen’s growing renown.

Lin Chen helped Jia Xingtian break through to Dou Zong with the Red Lotus Karma Fire, then visited the Imperial Family treasury to claim three obscure artifacts that stirred his interest. He left with the artifacts, whose hidden secrets remained unknown.

• Yun Yun visited Lin Chen, thanked him for saving her in the desert, and offered him a Seven-Colored Spirit Jade Ganoderma.
• Jia Xingtian brought Lin Chen to the Imperial Family's forbidden grounds to oversee his breakthrough using the Break Sect Pill.
• Lin Chen guided the pill's energy with the Red Lotus Karma Fire, helping Jia Xingtian break through to Dou Zong.
• Jia Xingtian thanked Lin Chen and opened the Imperial Family treasury to him in fulfillment of his promise.
• Lin Chen chose a rusted bronze fragment, a gray stone bead, and a scorched tree branch, then left with the three artifacts.

Soul Hall plotted to capture Lin Chen through Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect, while Lin Chen prepared to leave the Jia Ma Empire and headed for the Black-Corner Region. He recovered the Imperial Family’s Nether Sea Flood Dragon, arranged support for Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and began his hunt for Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame.

• Soul Hall’s Dou Zong agents ordered Protector Wu to bring Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect under control and use them to test Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin he would leave the empire, gave Xiao Yi Xian Poison Fiend Pills, and arranged for Hai Bodong and Mite Tengshan to watch over them.
• Lin Chen healed the Imperial Family’s Nether Sea Flood Dragon with a Life-Generating Blood Pill and asked Jia Xingtian to capture snake-type magical beasts for Qing Lin.
• Lin Chen quietly left Jia Ma Holy City for the Black-Corner Region and defeated the five members of the Black Jackal Squad who tried to rob him.
• Lin Chen continued toward the region’s inner reaches, declaring that he intended to take Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame.

Lin Chen destroyed the Shadow Kill Tower and reached Peak Dou Wang before joining Jia Nan Academy as an honorary elder. After helping two elders break through to Dou Zong, he enlisted them and Su Qian to kill the Medicine Emperor, Han Feng.

• Lin Chen slaughtered the Shadow Kill Tower's forces, including Mo Tianchou, and advanced to Peak Dou Wang.
• Lin Chen traveled to Jia Nan Academy, where Hu Gan welcomed him and Su Qian approved his honorary elder appointment.
• Lin Chen gave Su Qian and Hu Gan Blood Source Essence in exchange for the academy's support for his two juniors.
• Lin Chen promised to refine Break Sect Pills, then produced two flawless pills that helped Hu Gan and another elder break through to Dou Zong.
• Lin Chen asked Su Qian and the two newly advanced Dou Zongs to help him kill Han Feng, and they agreed.

Su Qian, Elder Huo, and Hu Gan attacked Han Feng’s manor and killed his Soul Hall protector and guards. A young man trapped Han Feng in a blood qi domain and began taking the Sea Heart Flame, leaving Han Feng’s fate unresolved.

• Su Qian, Elder Huo, and Hu Gan confronted Han Feng over the massacre at Qingfeng Village and attacked him.
• Han Feng summoned a Soul Hall elder, Black Sha, White Tu, and his Dou Wang guards to protect him.
• Su Qian killed Black Sha, Hu Gan killed White Tu, and Elder Huo burned the guards and Soul Hall elder to ash.
• Han Feng tried to escape, but a young man in black trapped him in a blood qi domain and suppressed his cultivation.
• The young man used Red Lotus Karma Fire to overpower Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame and seized him, declaring that the Heavenly Flame would be his.

After devouring Han Feng and the Sea Heart Flame, Lin Chen broke through to One-Star Dou Emperor and returned to find the Misty Cloud Sect threatening Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin. He led the Jia Ma Empire's forces to attack the sect, shattered its protective array, and faced Yun Shan, a Three-Star Dou Zong controlled by the Soul Hall.

• Lin Chen devoured Han Feng and the Sea Heart Flame, breaking through to One-Star Dou Emperor.
• Lin Chen returned to the Jia Ma Empire, killed Misty Cloud Sect experts led by Yun Leng, and learned through a soul search that the Soul Hall controlled Yun Shan and had ordered the capture of Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Lin Chen ordered Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and the empire's forces to march on the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Lin Chen combined the Yuantu Abi Twin Swords with Red Lotus Karma Fire and shattered the sect's protective grand array with one strike.
• Yun Shan appeared above the Misty Cloud Sect's plaza with the aura of a Three-Star Dou Zong and confronted Lin Chen.

Lin Chen rescued Yun Shan from the Soul Hall’s control and freed Yun Yun, then defeated three Soul Hall Dou Zongs with Red Lotus Karma Fire. The destruction of their tracking marks alerted a mysterious figure in a distant hall, who decided to act against Lin Chen.

• Yun Shan attacked Lin Chen, but Lin Chen overpowered him and used Red Lotus Karma Fire to destroy the Soul Hall sigil controlling him.
• Yun Shan revealed that Yun Yun was imprisoned in a secret chamber beneath the cold pool in Back Mountain, and Lin Chen went to rescue her.
• Lin Chen killed the two Peak Dou Emperor guards and freed Yun Yun from her chains.
• Three Soul Hall Dou Zongs confronted Lin Chen and Yun Yun, but Lin Chen activated Red Lotus Possession and purified their soul attack and their bodies and souls.
• Lin Chen burned away the three Soul Hall tracking marks, prompting a mysterious figure in a distant hall to suspect Lin Chen had secrets and decide to move against him.