Chapter Summaries

After killing Han Feng, Xiao Jie fled Medicine Emperor City and recovered from the backlash of his secret technique. News of Han Feng’s death shook the Black-Corner Region, and Mo Tianxing sought his father’s counsel after learning how powerful the Burning Heaven Sect had become.

• Xiao Jie swallowed a Vitality Pill, confirmed no experts were pursuing him, and abandoned Medicine Emperor City's profits to avoid a fight with the Black-Corner Region's factions.
• News spread that the Burning Heaven Sect had killed Han Feng, causing major factions to fear the sect and seek its friendship or avoid provoking it.
• Mo Tianxing learned that Xiao Jie and the Burning Heaven Sect's forces had killed Han Feng, leaving the Black-Imperial Sect without its planned alliance or Seventh-grade Alchemist.
• After hearing that Xiao Jie had trapped Han Feng in a strange flame formation, Mo Tianxing dismissed the elders and went to the back mountain.
• Mo Tianxing knelt before the stone door, and his father invited him inside.

After Han Feng's death, the factions of the Black-Corner Region reconsidered their alliances, and Demon Flame Valley chose to seek good relations with the Burning Heaven Sect. Xiao Jie recovered from his battle and questioned Han Feng's soul about the Soul Hall, leaving Han Feng ready to reveal what he knew.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost learned Han Feng had died and told Fang Yan to send a generous gift to the Burning Heaven Sect and avoid conflict.
• The major factions reassessed their positions, while the Burning Heaven Sect celebrated Xiao Jie's victory and rising influence.
• Xiao Jie recovered in seclusion and realized the Emperor-Extreme Pill could help him reach Peak Dou Emperor within three months.
• Xiao Jie questioned Han Feng about the Soul Hall and threatened him with the Mystic Yellow Lotus Heart Flame when Han Feng demanded to know about the Burning Mantra.
• Han Feng agreed to answer Xiao Jie's questions about his Soul Hall ties and the Soul Hall's presence in the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Jie forced Han Feng to surrender the Sea Heart Flame, then refined it and broke through to Two-Star Dou Zong. He inspected his newly transformed flame, whose power had greatly increased after fusing five Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Jie threatened Han Feng with Heavenly Flames until Han Feng removed his soul imprint from the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Jie restrained the Sea Heart Flame, sealed Han Feng's soul inside a jade bottle, and swallowed the flame's Origin Flame Seed with an Earth Spirit Pill.
• After a month of refining the Sea Heart Flame, Xiao Jie used an Ancestor-Breaking Pill to break through to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Jie reached Two-Star Dou Zong and found that his fused Heavenly Flame had turned green and grown powerful enough to rival flames ranked in the top ten.

Xiao Jie used a Life Simulation to foresee an early-opening Ancient Secret Realm, where he would gain the Zhenyuan Sect's inheritance before Soul Hall and Black-Imperial Sect forces destroyed the Burning Heaven Sect. He claimed a Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng and left seclusion as a mysterious little girl sensed it and headed toward Twilight Mountain.

• Xiao Jie began a Life Simulation and learned that an Ancient Secret Realm would open early, draw experts from across the continent, and bring about his death and the Burning Heaven Sect's destruction.
• Xiao Jie selected the Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng, restrained its attempt to flee with his Green Lotus Mystic Yellow Flame, and put it away.
• A little girl beating a Fifth-Tier Magical Beast sensed the ginseng and sped toward Twilight Mountain.
• In the Burning Heaven Sect's discussion hall, Kui Shan reassured Yao Ling that Xiao Jie would emerge from seclusion soon.
• The sect's guests discussed Mo Tiange's return and the shifting alliances among the Black-Corner Region's major forces, while Hua Yuwei was revealed to have become a Dou Wang.

Xiao Jie emerged from seclusion after advancing to the Dou Zong level, astonishing the leaders gathered at the Burning Heaven Sect. He thanked Yao Ling and Lady Hua for stopping Han Feng’s allies, then faced questions about the Black-Imperial Sect’s newly emerged High-Rank Dou Zong.

• Lady Hua and Kui Shan discussed Medicine Emperor City’s leadership vacuum and the threat posed by the Black-Imperial Sect’s former sect master, Mo Tiange.
• Xiao Jie entered the council hall after finishing his secluded cultivation and revealed that he had broken through, warning everyone to keep his strength secret from enemies in the shadows.
• The gathered leaders realized Xiao Jie had reached the Dou Zong level, leaving Yao Ling, Lady Hua, and the others stunned by his rapid advancement.
• Xiao Jie thanked Yao Ling and Lady Hua for stopping the Earth-Flame Sect and Star-Plucking Tower from aiding Han Feng.
• Lady Hua asked Xiao Jie what he planned to do about the Black-Imperial Sect’s High-Rank Dou Zong.

Xiao Jie took control of Han Feng’s Sea Nether Ring and found a wealth of pills, techniques, and medicinal ingredients. He went to the Alchemy Room to begin refining pills, but an unexpected visitor interrupted him.

• Lady Hua asked Xiao Jie to refine an Ancestor-Breaking Pill, and he agreed; Hua Yuwei noticed him glancing at her mother and wondered if he preferred mature women.
• Lady Hua and Hua Yuwei departed for Wind and Snow City, while Xiao Jie sent Hai Bodong and the others back to their work.
• Xiao Jie broke Han Feng’s soul imprint on the Sea Nether Ring and claimed it, finding nearly a hundred million gold coins, valuable pills and techniques, and many medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Jie took Han Feng’s Myriad Beast Cauldron and medicinal ingredients to the Alchemy Room to prepare Ancestor-Breaking, Vitality, and Life-Returning Pills.
• After Xiao Jie began adjusting himself for alchemy, he suddenly grabbed someone who cried out, “Let me go!”

Xiao Jie caught a purple-haired Ancient Void Dragon girl stealing medicinal ingredients from his secret chamber and offered to trade refined pellets for rare ingredients. After she agreed, he took the ingredients he needed and began preparing the rest for her.

• Xiao Jie pulled the purple-haired girl from the void after discovering she had taken nearly half the chamber’s main ingredients.
• The girl agreed to help Xiao Jie find rare medicinal ingredients in exchange for ingredients and sweet-tasting pellets.
• Xiao Jie used his Green Lotus Mystic Yellow Flame to refine Seven-Leaf Danshen into pellets, which the girl eagerly ate.
• The girl gave Xiao Jie her stored medicinal ingredients, and he kept more than thirty types he needed as payment.
• Xiao Jie agreed to refine the remaining ingredients into pellets for the girl.

Xiao Jie refined medicinal ingredients for Zi Yan and promised to make her a Humanoid Pill once she gathered its ingredients. After learning her name, he took her to meet Kui Shan so the sect would recognize her when she returned.

• Xiao Jie used the Green Lotus Mystic Yellow Flame to refine most of the medicinal ingredients, then pretended the effort had left him too drained to continue.
• Xiao Jie reassured Zi Yan that he was fine and promised she could visit him whenever she wanted.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Jie to refine a Humanoid Pill, and he agreed if she found the ingredients, though he kept two pills he already owned secret.
• Xiao Jie learned the little girl's name was Zi Yan and told her she could stay and come and go freely.
• Xiao Jie led Zi Yan from the secret chamber to Kui Shan's residence, answering her questions along the way.

Xiao Jie introduced Zi Yan to Kui Shan and let her explore the Burning Heaven Sect while he studied information about the Black-Imperial Sect and Soul Hall. More than a month later, Xiao Jie refined a Tier 7 Life-Returning Pill and used its Pill Lightning to strengthen the Earth Demon Puppet.

• Xiao Jie brought Zi Yan to meet Kui Shan, who sensed her unusual strength and guessed she was a transformed magical beast created with a Humanoid Pill.
• Xiao Jie showed Zi Yan around the Burning Heaven Sect and let her eat the pills he had prepared for her.
• Xiao Jie told the restless Zi Yan she could go explore, and she opened a void passage and disappeared from the hall.
• Xiao Jie studied information about the Black-Imperial Sect and Soul Hall while Zi Yan was away.
• More than a month later, Xiao Jie refined a Tier 7 Life-Returning Pill, and the resulting Pill Lightning spread over Twilight Mountain.
• Xiao Jie sent the Earth Demon Puppet into the clouds to absorb the lightning, which struck it without causing any visible damage.

Xiao Jie refined a Life-Returning Pill and used its Heavenly Tribulation to strengthen the Earth Demon Puppet to Four-star Dou Zong. After resting, he reviewed Black-Corner Region intelligence and considered his growing strength and plans involving the region’s secret realms and Fallen Heart Flame.

• The Earth Demon Puppet endured the Heavenly Tribulation, transformed into pure silver, and reached Four-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Jie ordered Yan Sheng to have Lady Hua collect the pill, then returned to his residence exhausted from more than a month of refining pills.
• Zi Yan visited Xiao Jie, brought ingredients for more candy pills, and left after he promised to refine them once he had rested.
• After a night of meditation, Xiao Jie reviewed intelligence from the Thousand-Mechanism Tower and considered his cultivation progress and plans for Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yan Sheng arrived at the discussion hall and greeted Xiao Jie.

Xiao Jie arranged alliances and a Pill Gathering to strengthen the Burning Heaven Sect against the Black-Imperial Sect. After dismissing Yan Sheng, he planned to cultivate the Nine Turns Golden Body Art while his rapid advancement remained secret.

• Xiao Jie warned Yan Sheng that the Black-Imperial Sect and Demon Flame Valley could pose a threat, then sent him to offer Earth Demon Old Ghost an Ancestor Origin Pill in five years in exchange for Demon Flame Valley’s support.
• Xiao Jie ordered Yan Sheng to invite several factions to a Pill Gathering in a month, excluding the Black-Imperial Sect and signaling that he intended to reshape the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Jie told Yan Sheng to urge Yao Da to attempt his breakthrough to Dou Emperor and promised another Emperor-Breaking Pill if he failed.
• After Yan Sheng left, Xiao Jie assessed the rival factions and decided the Pill Gathering would force them to choose sides while buying time for his cultivation to advance.
• Xiao Jie went to the secret chamber to cultivate the Nine Turns Golden Body Art, whose materials for the first two turns had been gathered.

Mo Tiange agreed to cooperate with Soul Hall and help capture Xiao Jie in exchange for a Heavenly Flame and a treasure to aid his advancement to Dou Venerate. Meanwhile, Zi Yan visited Xiao Jie with a rare medicinal fruit, and he rewarded her with pills and a Dragon Blood Ginseng.

• Vulture Protector and Protector Xuan negotiated with Mo Tiange, who demanded a way to advance to Dou Venerate in return for helping Soul Hall capture Xiao Jie.
• Vulture Protector offered Mo Tiange one of Xiao Jie's Heavenly Flames and a spiritual treasure, and Mo Tiange agreed on the condition that the protectors keep Demon Flame Valley from aiding the Burning Heaven Sect.
• Protector Xuan and Vulture Protector agreed to deal with Demon Flame Valley, while Mo Tiange prepared to move against the Burning Heaven Sect and Xiao Jie.
• Zi Yan brought Xiao Jie a Three-Colored Snake Soul Fruit, and he gave her pills in return.
• Xiao Jie warned Zi Yan to be careful around human cities and offered her his Ten-Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Ginseng, which she accepted excitedly.

Xiao Jie used a Life Simulation to learn that the Black-Imperial Sect and its allies would attack during his pill convention and that Earth Demon Old Ghost would eventually kill him. He prepared the Burning Heaven Sect for battle and secured the Mad Lion Gang’s support, leaving the factions readying for the coming conflict.

• Xiao Jie’s Life Simulation showed the Black-Imperial Sect and allied factions attacking during the pill convention, killing Hai Bodong and Yan Sheng, before Earth Demon Old Ghost killed Xiao Jie.
• Xiao Jie summoned the sect’s elders, warned them of the coming attack, and assigned Yan Sheng, Yao Da, Hai Bodong, and Kui Shan preparations for battle.
• Xiao Jie went to the Mad Lion Gang and told Tie Wu that the Black-Imperial Sect planned to unify the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Jie persuaded Tie Wu to ally with him by promising the Mad Lion Gang more territory and an Ancestor-Breaking Pill if the Black-Imperial Sect was not destroyed within a year.
• Tie Wu agreed to support Xiao Jie, and Xiao Jie departed after telling him to prepare for battle.

Xiao Jie recruited Su Mei and the Rakshasa Sect to oppose the Black-Imperial Sect, promising an Ancestor-Breaking Pill and territory in return. At the alliance gathering in Twilight City, he urged the factions to unite and announced he would refine a Tier 7 Pill as a reward for the greatest contribution to the coming struggle.

• Xiao Jie offered Su Mei an Ancestor-Breaking Pill and a larger territory if the Rakshasa Sect allied with him, and she agreed to help hold back factions with Dou Emperors.
• The next day, factions from across the Black-Corner Region gathered in Twilight City for Xiao Jie's alliance gathering against the Black-Imperial Sect.
• Xiao Jie urged the assembled factions to join the Burning Heaven Sect, promising protection and priority access to medicinal pills.
• The Li Family and several other second-rate factions voiced their support for Xiao Jie.
• Xiao Jie announced he would refine a Tier 7 Pill as a reward for the faction that contributed the most against the Black-Imperial Sect, then set the Myriad Beast Cauldron in the plaza.

Xiao Jie refined a Tier 7 Primordial Blood Spirit Pill to lure the Black-Imperial Sect into attacking, while using its lightning tribulation to strengthen the Earth Demon Puppet. Mo Tiange arrived with his forces and revealed his intent to fight, and Xiao Jie killed Kui Wolf before stepping into the air to face him.

• Xiao Jie refined the Primordial Blood Spirit Pill in front of the gathered factions, impressing the onlookers with his unusual technique while Old Demon Yin and Kui Wolf reconsidered their allegiance.
• After seven days, the pill reached completion and its lightning tribulation struck at the Earth Demon Puppet as Xiao Jie searched Twilight City for Mo Tiange.
• Mo Tiange arrived with two Dou Zong, eight Dou Emperor, eleven Dou Wang, and two Protectors, declaring that he had come with confidence in victory.
• Kui Wolf flew toward Mo Tiange's group, but Xiao Jie struck him with a Heaven-Burning Palm and killed him before Mo Tiange could intervene.
• Xiao Jie stepped into the air to confront Mo Tiange and told Kui Shan to keep Mo Tianxing from interfering.

Xiao Jie faced Mo Tiange, Vulture Protector, and their allies while the Burning Heaven Sect formed a defensive array. After boosting his strength with secret techniques, he used the Five-Wheel Fire-Separation Array to intercept the enemies’ attacks, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Xiao Jie recalled the Earth Demon Puppet as the Burning Heaven Sect disciples formed the Blood Bat Sea-Forming Array.
• Xiao Jie drew Mo Tiange and Vulture Protector away from Twilight Mountain while the other fighters engaged the Burning Heaven Sect’s allies.
• Xiao Jie dodged Soul Hall chains and used the Nine Turns Golden Body Art to send Mo Tiange flying with a punch.
• Vulture Protector summoned the Ten Thousand Soul Devouring Spirit Array as Mo Tiange unleashed his Black-Imperial Seal.
• Xiao Jie raised his cultivation to Seven-Star Dou Zong and deployed the Five-Wheel Fire-Separation Array to block the black spear and imperial seal.

Xiao Jie defeated Mo Tiange and Vulture Protector in the battle near Twilight City, killing Vulture Protector and forcing the Black-Imperial Sect to retreat. After Mo Tiange left, Xiao Jie killed the Gold and Silver Elders and sent an attack toward the fleeing Yuan Yi.

• Xiao Jie withstood Vulture Protector and Mo Tiange’s attacks, then trapped them inside the Five-Wheel Fire-Separation Array and used its Fire Spirits to suppress Vulture Protector.
• Mo Tiange took a secret pill that raised his power to Half-Step Dou Venerate, but Xiao Jie redirected Mo Tiange’s attack toward Vulture Protector and destroyed his defenses with a Heaven-Burning Fist.
• Xiao Jie sealed Vulture Protector’s remaining soul in a jade bottle, and Mo Tiange agreed to retreat and stop attacking Burning Heaven Sect.
• Xiao Jie noticed Earth Demon Old Ghost watching from the mountains and spared Mo Tiange rather than risk a fight that might let Earth Demon Old Ghost profit.
• After withdrawing from the Heavenly Fire Three-Mysterious Transformation and taking a Vitality Pill, Xiao Jie killed the Gold and Silver Elders and sent an azure flame after the fleeing Yuan Yi.

Xiao Jie defeated the invading Black-Imperial Sect forces, killed Yuan Yi and Star-Plucking Elder, and rescued the badly injured Hai Bodong. At the next day's meeting, Xiao Jie declined to rush an attack on the Black-Imperial Sect and assigned the conquered territories to allied factions.

• Xiao Jie killed Yuan Yi and ordered the captured fighters to seal their cultivation, then caught and killed the fleeing Star-Plucking Elder.
• Xiao Jie found Hai Bodong gravely wounded and gave him a Life-Returning Pill; the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill began rebuilding Hai Bodong's body, though whether he would survive remained uncertain.
• Xiao Jie considered learning the Heaven-Turning Seal and Yin Yang Universe Slash, reviewed the Storage Rings taken from the Gold and Silver Elders and Star-Plucking Elder, and returned to cultivation.
• At the council meeting, Tie Wu and Su Mei urged an attack on the Black-Imperial Sect, while Kui Shan and Yao Ling warned against rushing into its territory and Xiao Jie postponed the decision.
• Xiao Jie awarded the Eight-Fan Sect's territory to Su Mei and Tie Wu, the Kui Wolf Gang's territory to four factions led by the Li Family, and Star-Plucking Tower to Yao Ling and Lady Hua.

Xiao Jie consolidated the Burning Heaven Sect’s victory by forcing captured enemies to submit, accepting Old Man Ying Shan into the sect, and replenishing the Blood Spirit Pool for Zi Yan and Hai Bodong. He then led the sect’s forces toward the Black-Imperial Sect after the Heavenly Yin Sect and Earth-Flame Sect ignored his demands.

• Xiao Jie ordered the Heavenly Yin Sect and Earth Flame Sect to send their sect masters to the Burning Heaven Sect within ten days, and he had five captured Dou Kings brought before him.
• Xiao Jie killed the two severely injured Dou Kings, forced three survivors from the Star-Plucking Tower, Earth Flame Sect, and Heavenly Yin Sect to swallow fire seeds, and assigned them powerless steward roles.
• Xiao Jie announced a celebration and accepted Old Man Ying Shan, a Three-Star Dou Zong, into the Burning Heaven Sect as a subordinate.
• Xiao Jie refined medicinal ingredients into energy for Zi Yan and Hai Bodong after realizing the Blood Spirit Pool could not sustain them for long.
• Xiao Jie declared that the Heavenly Yin Sect and Earth-Flame Sect had ignored his demands and led the Burning Heaven Sect’s experts toward the Black-Imperial Sect.

Mo Tiange agreed to submit the Black-Imperial Sect to Xiao Jie, hoping to wait for help from a Soul Hall Elder, while Earth Demon Old Ghost also accepted that Demon Flame Valley would have to submit. As Xiao Jie demanded the Black-Imperial Sect's people and merger, Mo Ya lost control and charged at him.

• Mo Tiange decided the Black-Imperial Sect should pretend to submit until a Soul Hall Elder arrived, and told Mo Tianxing to contact the escaped Protector Xuan.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost concluded that Demon Flame Valley could not resist the Burning Heaven Sect and accepted submission as a possible opportunity.
• Xiao Jie arrived at the Black-Imperial Sect with more than a dozen figures and demanded the people he wanted from Mo Tiange.
• Xiao Jie demanded that the Black-Imperial Sect hand over those people and merge into the Burning Heaven Sect, and Mo Tiange agreed to submit with conditions.
• Mo Ya broke down at the thought of living beneath Xiao Jie's shadow, then roared and charged at Xiao Jie despite Mo Tiange and Mo Tianxing trying to stop him.