Chapter Summaries

Su Ye discovered a Vermilion Bird Precious Bone in the Fire Domain and used its runes to form the Great Sun Furnace, a new Treasure Art and weapon. As he completed it, an unseen attacker launched soul-threatening black nails at him, and Su Ye blocked them with the Chaos Grinding Disc.

• Su Ye used his Samsara Heavenly Eye to see through the illusion of a living Vermilion Bird and found its Precious Bone in the nest.
• Su Ye studied the bone’s Primal Runes and added the Vermilion Bird to the Golden Crow engraving in his Great Sun Furnace.
• Su Ye used his Wheel Sea origin and Mental Power to forge the Great Sun Furnace into a solid weapon that devoured the surrounding flames.
• An unseen attacker fired black nails at Su Ye, but his Chaos Grinding Disc blocked and dissolved them.
• Su Ye erupted with power and called for the attacker to reveal themself, but no figure appeared.

Su Ye reflected on why he cultivated, briefly gave in to despair, then revealed he had used the flames to draw out a Black Demon Race powerhouse. Their battle left the Black-Robed Youth surprised by Su Ye’s Millstone Phantom before a mysterious voice interrupted.

• Su Ye ventured deeper into the Endless Fire Domain seeking fire-path Fierce Beast bones and realized its Fire Spirits were the reborn remnants of creatures who had died there.
• Su Ye questioned his purpose for cultivating and let the flames consume him, appearing to lose the will to live.
• A Black-Robed Youth emerged and attacked Su Ye with a black spike, but Su Ye revived and explained that he had partly acted to lure him out.
• The Black-Robed Youth revealed himself as a powerful Black Demon Race member and attacked with a Dharma Image wielding a Marquis Level Magic Treasure axe.
• Su Ye’s Furnace shattered under the axe, but his Millstone Phantom blocked its next strike, startling the Black-Robed Youth.
• As Su Ye prepared to suppress his opponent with the Mountain and River Seal, a sweet voice asked him, “Sir, am I beautiful?”

Su Ye resisted a Black Demon powerhouse’s curse and fought through the bizarre transformations of the creature’s living “clothes.” He destroyed the Black Demon’s disguises, struck its true body with a mental attack, and burned it to nothingness.

• A beautiful woman tried to seduce Su Ye, but he rejected her and disrupted the Black Demon youth’s Curse Art.
• The Black Demon youth transformed into a black Roc and attacked Su Ye with devouring powers and the Peng Clan’s Three Thousand Divine Feather Swords.
• Su Ye countered the Roc’s attacks, shattered its body, and then defeated the Fierce Beast that emerged from within it.
• Su Ye unleashed a mental sword beam that shattered the Black Demon powerhouse’s latest set of clothes and wounded its true body.
• Su Ye engulfed the wounded Black Demon powerhouse in flames and burned it to nothingness.

Su Ye opened his Purple Mansion Heavenly Passage and discovered that its Divine Substance could nourish his primordial spirit and body. As his spirit grew too powerful for his body, he repaired and transformed himself by joining the power of his Purple Mansion and Wheel Sea.

• Su Ye recalled his resolve to transcend Heaven and Earth and control his own destiny, and his Dao Heart transformed as he opened his spiritual Consciousness Sea Heavenly Passage.
• Su Ye entered the Purple Mansion Divine Treasury and learned that its Divine Substance could strengthen his primordial spirit and replenish his body.
• As Su Ye's primordial spirit grew too powerful for its vessel, his body split open while a sinister Underworld filled with monsters surrounded him.
• Su Ye realized his body had cracked from his own transformation, then joined the Divine Substance from his Purple Mansion with the Life Source Power from his Wheel Sea to heal and temper himself.
• Su Ye's body transformed until it was comparable to a Saint Herb, a state once called attaining sainthood through the flesh.

After entering the Saintly Dao, Su Ye faced a strange trial in which a copy of himself appeared and fought him with overwhelming Sword Dao. Su Ye defeated the copy with sheer force and activated his Samsara Eye to keep it from returning, but a vast millstone then appeared to grind him and his own Chaos Grinding Disc away.

• Su Ye wondered why the bizarre beings in the gray mist watched him instead of attacking, even after he broke through into the Saintly Dao.
• A figure identical to Su Ye emerged from the mist, and Su Ye attacked it with his Samsara Eye before it countered with powerful sword techniques.
• Su Ye discovered that he could wield an unexpectedly refined sword style, while his opponent grew older and fought with the elegant bearing of a Sword Immortal.
• Realizing his opponent was draining his strength by deflecting his attacks, Su Ye unleashed his physical and Wheel Sea origin power to overwhelm it with brute force.
• Su Ye killed Fake Su Ye and activated his Samsara Eye to grind it away, but a gigantic Millstone Phantom appeared and began encompassing his Chaos Grinding Disc.

Su Ye defeated another fake version of himself with the Great Dream Lotus Technique and gained a deeper understanding of it. Across several realms, Qingyi, Yue Chan, the Witch, and Fairy Menglian discovered that their power had been drained, and Fairy Menglian suspected the ancient Divine Temple was responsible.

• Su Ye destroyed a fake self wielding the Samsara Grinding Disc and absorbed Chaos Radiance into his ninth Heaven.
• A dancing Fake Su Ye used the Great Dream Lotus Technique, so Su Ye fought back with the same technique to seize an opportunity.
• Su Ye defeated the fake and gained a deeper understanding of the Great Dream Divine Lotus as eight figures briefly appeared in the Chaos mist.
• Qingyi and Yue Chan discovered that their power had been drained, while Yue Chan suspected something was wrong with the Great Dream Lotus Technique.
• The Witch realized her power had also been devoured and feared that the technique might let someone control her.
• Fairy Menglian recognized that the power-drawing method should require consent and suspected Su Ye's ancient Divine Temple was the cause.

Su Ye fought and absorbed the insights of many versions of himself, strengthening his understanding of the Dao and suppressing his scattered consciousness. After breaking through the illusions, he discovered his true spirit and prepared to enter its Primordial Spirit Fetal Light to condense his one and only true self.

• Su Ye defeated a fake version of himself in a battle of Fire Dao abilities and absorbed its special power and insights.
• Su Ye recalled the dangers of cultivating the spirit and wondered whether the different versions of himself were Heart Demons.
• Su Ye rejected the idea that maturity meant becoming heartless and vowed that his present self was the real one.
• Su Ye continued fighting through visions of Immortal Mountains, Heavenly Rivers, and Willow Branches as he killed more versions of himself.
• Su Ye shattered the illusion of a towering Heavenly Deity and recognized the Bare-Butt Child before him as his true spirit.

Su Ye completed his breakthrough in the Endless Fire Domain and found the Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples fighting alongside Huo Ling'er over Fire Essence Stones containing Golden Crow Divine Blood. He subdued the Red Flame Beast that threatened them, leaving the battle under his control.

• Su Ye fused with his true spirit, opened the Ninth Heavenly Passage and the Purple Mansion Immortal Platform, and gained a singular consciousness resistant to illusions.
• Su Ye heard fighting nearby and arrived to find Heaven Mending Pavilion disciples, Huo Ling'er, Fire Spirits, and Fierce Beasts battling over treasure.
• A Heaven Mending Pavilion disciple explained that golden Fire Essence Stones contained Golden Crow Divine Blood, and Huo Ling'er showed Su Ye one.
• The Red Flame Beast demanded the stone, so Su Ye attacked it with Willow Branches that pierced its Treasure Art and bound it fast.

Su Ye drove off the Crimson Flame Beast and met Huo Ling'er, who proposed that they explore the Endless Fire Domain together in search of Golden Fire Crystals and divine-grade Origin. After realizing Huo Ling'er was probing his ability to see Great Dao Rules, Su Ye asked what she knew about the domain.

• Su Ye restrained the Crimson Flame Beast with Willow Branches until it used a sword artifact to cut itself free, then the beast and the other Fierce Beasts withdrew.
• Huo Ling'er recognized that Su Ye had opened the Nine Heavenly Passages, and Su Ye realized she had reached a similar realm.
• Huo Ling'er invited Su Ye to team up and explore the depths of the Endless Fire Domain for Golden Fire Crystals and Sun Origin matter.
• Huo Ling'er explained that divine-grade Origin might remain in the domain, which had formed where multiple Golden Crow Divine Beasts died.
• Huo Ling'er claimed Milk Baby had told her about Su Ye's ability to see Great Dao Rules, but Su Ye recognized her attempt to draw him out and asked what she knew about the domain.

Huo Ling'er led Su Ye and the others into the Endless Fire Domain in search of Sun Origin, and Su Ye safely guided them through its hidden rules. Huo Ling'er explained her ambition to transform her Vermilion Bird bloodline, while a misunderstanding over Su Ye’s interest in her family’s Treasure Art ended with her striking him.

• Huo Ling'er shared an old map of the Endless Fire Domain, and Su Ye led the group deeper into it.
• Su Ye used his eyes to avoid the domain’s hidden rules, while Huo Ling'er asked what kind of eyes he had.
• Huo Ling'er explained that absorbing Sun Origin might transform her Vermilion Bird bloodline and let her forge her own path.
• Su Ye asked how Huo Ling'er would repay his help, while privately hoping to obtain her family’s pure-blooded Vermilion Bird Precious Technique.
• Huo Ling'er mistook Su Ye’s lecherous grin for interest in her and punched him, then froze when he clarified that he wanted her family’s Treasure Art.

Su Ye led Huo Ling'er and the others to a Flame Mountain so they could rest, then fought the Fire Flood Dragon guarding it. He bound the dragon with several powerful techniques, but when it unleashed a blast of flame, a graceful figure appeared to shield him.

• As the group struggled through the scorching domain, Su Ye spotted a Flame Mountain and said they would suppress its Fire Spirit and rest there.
• Su Ye went ahead alone and confronted the Fire Flood Dragon hidden within the mountain.
• The dragon lunged at Su Ye, who trapped it in a Furnace and pressed it down with the Mountain and River Seal.
• Su Ye invoked the Great Dream Lotus Technique and the Willow Deity Method, binding the dragon after it broke free of his first attacks.
• The Fire Flood Dragon unleashed a torrent of flame while Su Ye maintained his technique, and a graceful figure appeared in front of him to shield him.

Su Ye saved Huo Ling'er from the Fire Flood Dragon and used his Samsara Eye to glimpse her future, which ended in Chaos. He told her that her fate line appeared severed, leaving her to face the possibility that she would die.

• Huo Ling'er shielded Su Ye from the Fire Flood Dragon's attack with a Crimson Tortoise Shell, but its barrier began to crack.
• Su Ye used his powers to suppress and grind the Fire Flood Dragon into Chaotic Matter.
• Su Ye saw Huo Ling'er's future shrouded in Chaos, then came back to himself exhausted after Huo Ling'er punched him for staring.
• Huo Ling'er ordered the others to mine Fire Crystals and asked Su Ye to go deeper into the volcano, but he refused because of what he had seen.
• Su Ye revealed that he possessed Heavenly Eyes called the Samsara Eye and could glimpse the future.
• Su Ye explained that Huo Ling'er's fate line appeared severed, a sign usually seen only in the dead.

Huo Ling'er chose to continue deeper into the Endless Fire Domain despite Su Ye's warning that she had a nine-in-ten chance of dying. As they pressed on through the flames, she drew on her bloodline power and revealed a Vermilion Bird phantom.

• Huo Ling'er questioned Su Ye about his visions, and he explained that the future he saw was only one possibility shaped by people's choices.
• After Su Ye called her fat, Huo Ling'er punched at him, then asked him to take her deeper into the Fire Domain.
• Su Ye warned Huo Ling'er that the future he foresaw made her death extremely likely, but she refused to turn back and went with him after telling the seal-bearers to wait.
• Huo Ling'er struggled against the Fire Domain's heat while Su Ye's Heavenly Eye and Chaos Radiance protected him from the flames.
• When Su Ye warned that the Sun Origin would be even hotter, Huo Ling'er released mysterious runes and manifested a Vermilion Bird phantom behind her.

Su Ye and Huo Ling'er discovered that a strange power in the depths of the Fire Domain damaged spiritual consciousness and tainted the Sun Origin, making it dangerous to absorb. As someone approached, Su Ye hid with Huo Ling'er in the lava.

• Su Ye and Huo Ling'er cautiously traveled deeper into the Fire Domain while he concealed their auras with Chaos Radiance.
• Huo Ling'er recalled that an ancient Divine Arrow had slain the Golden Crow Divine Beast and might still lie in the Endless Fire Domain, suppressing it.
• Su Ye detected a strange power that erased spiritual consciousness and explained that absorbing the tainted Sun Origin could damage Huo Ling'er.
• Su Ye sensed someone approaching, pulled Huo Ling'er into his arms, and hid with her in the lava.
• Huo Ling'er told Su Ye to move his hand, and he realized what he had been holding and shifted it lower.

Su Ye and Huo Ling'er watched as Crimson Flame Beast and the other Fierce Beasts absorbed the Sun Origin, only to lose their minds and vanish when a golden light erupted. A golden temple appeared beyond a path linked to a sun, and Su Ye decided to enter it with Huo Ling'er.

• Crimson Flame Beast and the other Fierce Beasts found the golden lake and cautiously tested its Sun Origin before absorbing it.
• Su Ye noticed the beasts were transforming and led Huo Ling'er closer to investigate.
• Su Ye saw that the Sun Origin had erased the beasts' minds, leaving only their bodies and spiritual matter.
• Su Ye pulled Huo Ling'er away as flames erupted and golden light swallowed Crimson Flame Beast and the others.
• A golden sun appeared and revealed a rune road leading to a Divine Temple, which Su Ye and Huo Ling'er chose to enter.

Su Ye and Huo Ling'er crossed the Great Sun’s trials and reached the core of the Great Sun Divine Palace. After finding the remains of powerful explorers, they heard an aged voice address Su Ye.

• Su Ye and Huo Ling'er entered the Great Sun and found the Great Sun Divine Palace surrounded by lava.
• Fire Spirits emerged from the lava, and Su Ye used the Chaos Grinding Disc to defeat them as they advanced toward the palace.
• Su Ye uncovered a golden road that carried them to the palace stairs, where the Fire Spirits withdrew.
• Su Ye resisted the palace’s mist and Fire Domain by force, ignoring Huo Ling'er's warning that they had cheated the trial.
• Su Ye and Huo Ling'er reached the palace’s core and found jade-like bones belonging to beings who had died there decades or centuries earlier.
• An aged voice called Su Ye an extraordinary young friend for making it to the palace’s core.

Su Ye and Huo Ling'er encountered the Venerable Golden Flame Beast inside the Great Sun Divine Temple, where Su Ye negotiated a partnership to obtain the Golden Crow’s power. After Su Ye revealed the backing of a terrifying divine presence, the Golden Flame Beast accepted his proposal.

• The Crimson Flame Beast revealed its true form as a pure-blooded Golden Flame Beast, and Huo Ling'er recognized it as a Beast Venerable.
• Su Ye showed his Spirit Body and explained that he and the Golden Flame Beast wanted different things from the Golden Crow Divine Beast.
• The Golden Flame Beast offered to let Su Ye and Huo Ling'er go in exchange for a favor, but Su Ye refused and warned that the Golden Crow might still be alive.
• Su Ye proposed working together to break the formation and split the rewards equally, angering the Golden Flame Beast.
• Su Ye summoned a vision of the Divine Temple through the Great Dream Lotus Technique, causing the Golden Flame Beast to withdraw its killing intent and agree to discuss the partnership.

Su Ye, Huo Ling'er, and the Golden Flame Beast crossed spatial loops and reached the Fusang Divine Tree, where the beast claimed the Golden Crow Origin Divine Fire. The Golden Flame Beast left to refine the tree, while Su Ye warned that the Golden Crow Divine Beast's remnant soul might try to possess it.

• The Golden Flame Beast dismissed the dead kings of the Hundred Broken Mountains as too weak to refine a god's power, and Su Ye and Huo Ling'er continued deeper with it.
• Su Ye recognized that a spatial field was trapping them in a closed loop and led the group forward by flying.
• Su Ye and the Golden Flame Beast overcame several more spatial fields and found a crimson Fusang Divine Tree bearing seven fake Golden Crows.
• Su Ye proposed that the Golden Flame Beast take the Golden Crow Origin Divine Fire while he and Huo Ling'er took the origin divine liquid, and the beast agreed.
• The Golden Flame Beast uprooted the Fusang Divine Tree, swallowed the seven fake Golden Crows, and departed with the Crimson Flame Beast.
• Huo Ling'er asked whether the Golden Flame Beast would succeed, and Su Ye explained that the Golden Crow Divine Beast's remnant soul might possess it when it ignited its Divine Fire.

Su Ye brought Huo Ling'er into a hidden realm within the lava and revealed that the Golden Crow's pure Sun True Fire might awaken the Fire Clan's ancestral bloodline. As Huo Ling'er endured the flames, Su Ye explained that her true heritage was not the Vermilion Bird bloodline but an ancient Immortal King's bloodline.

• Su Ye opened a Great Dao passage through the lava, and he and Huo Ling'er entered the hidden realm.
• Su Ye explained that the Golden Crow Divine Beast had concealed its Origin Divine Source there while it sought a way to revive.
• Huo Ling'er stepped into the pure Sun True Fire, which burned away her clothes but left her unharmed under the Vermilion Bird's protection.
• Su Ye used his Samsara Eye to investigate Huo Ling'er and urged her to weaken the Vermilion Bird bloodline by drawing in the Golden Crow's power.
• Su Ye told Huo Ling'er that the Fire Clan's true ancestral bloodline was the Immortal King's and questioned whether her clan's human form showed signs of Fierce Beast blood.

Su Ye guided Huo Ling'er to sense the powerful, hidden bloodline within her while they cultivated in the Golden Crow Divine Beast's source. He ventured deeper into the Sun True Fire and used Divine Guidance to comprehend the Golden Crow Great Dao and its Great Sun Burning Heaven Sutra.

• Su Ye told Huo Ling'er that her Fire Clan bloodline surpassed the Vermilion Bird bloodline and urged her to awaken it, possibly opening the Ten Heavenly Passages.
• Su Ye tempered his body in the Sun True Fire while Huo Ling'er drew on the flames and began sensing a power stronger than Vermilion Bird or Golden Crow Power.
• As Huo Ling'er's Vermilion Bird Power weakened, her resistance to the Sun True Fire grew, and she sensed the faint hidden power within her.
• Su Ye went deeper into the Golden Crow Divine Beast's source, where his eyes revealed its original Dao Patterns and Primal Runes.
• Su Ye used Divine Guidance of the Original True Interpretation to comprehend the Golden Crow Great Dao, hear the Great Sun Burning Heaven Sutra, and merge with its insights.