Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan used the Seven Crossings Soul Guiding Lamp to unleash a powerful soul attack against Uncle Lin, but a jade pendant saved him from being killed. Xiao Yan escaped while badly injured as Uncle Lin ordered the Underground Palace searched.

• Uncle Lin trapped Xiao Yan in a Wood Attribute domain and fought off his Amber Flame array.
• Xiao Yan used the Seven Crossings Soul Guiding Lamp to raise his Soul Power and form a five-layered Spirit Palace above his head.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Soul Rising Vault, shattering Uncle Lin’s domain and badly injuring him.
• Uncle Lin’s jade pendant blocked the soul attack from killing him, and Xiao Yan fled the Stone Wall Passage.
• Uncle Lin sent guards to search the Underground Palace while Xiao Yan struggled to escape and warn the Princess about Lin Fengya’s plans.

Xiao Yan defeated the lizard spiritual beast guarding the Saint Grade Eighth-Tier holy qi and claimed its two sources. As he approached the trial’s exit, an unknown challenger blocked his way and demanded the holy qi.

• Soul Xiao Yan trapped the lizard spiritual beast inside the Taboo Hall, where it attacked him with Immortal Grade soul techniques.
• Soul Xiao Yan copied the lizard spiritual beast’s Minan Sound Tide and overwhelmed it with the Taboo Hall’s power.
• Xiao Yan claimed the golden and emerald wisps of holy qi left behind by the defeated guardian.
• The trial’s exit appeared, and Xiao Yan headed toward it with the holy qi.
• A newcomer spread a sticky spider web across the exit and challenged Xiao Yan for keeping both wisps of holy qi.

Xiao Yan refined the death blood ghost liquid and forced the fiery beast in his Dou Qi Sea to consume its Death Power. He gained Death Power and broke through to mid seven-star Dou Di.

• After a day, Xiao Yan removed the ghost Qi from the death blood ghost liquid and revealed its pure white bead of Death Power.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the bead and suppressed its resistance with his Immortal Body, Sacred Flame, soul power, and spiritual power.
• The Death Power stirred the Life Power within Xiao Yan, while the fiery beast in his Dou Qi Sea resisted consuming it.
• Xiao Yan ordered the fiery beast to eat the Death Power, and it eventually swallowed the energy despite its reluctance.
• The fiery beast's consumption of the Death Power caused Xiao Yan to gain Death Power and break through to mid seven-star Dou Di.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi returned to Goddess Yaoji’s statue, where she revealed the wounded Wulu Purple Spirit Flame and explained that it needed repair before anyone could subdue it. When Xiao Yi gave up the flame for Xiao Yan, the choice awakened his memories and set him on the Samsara Path.

• Goddess Yaoji burned away the elf’s final remains and led Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi back into her statue.
• Yaoji revealed a wounded purple elk and identified it as Wulu, the tenth-ranked holy flame, whose antlers were elf horns.
• Yaoji said she would join with Wulu and use the holy flame powers within Xiao Yan to repair the damaged flame.
• Xiao Yi refused the holy flame and insisted that Xiao Yan take it, despite Xiao Yan’s objections.
• Xiao Yi’s Reincarnation Seal and elf power began to fuse, loosening his Samsara Path as memories of Xiao Yan surfaced.

After learning that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had invaded the Ghost Realm, Xiao Yan organized aid and called on the Great Thousand World to join the war. As factions made their own choices, the coming battle between the Great Thousand World and the Outer Realm Evil Clan drew near.

• Mu Feng brought Xiao Yan intelligence showing that the Ghost Realm had been invaded by forces of the Outer Realm Evil Clan led by the Seventh Evil God.
• Mu Feng explained that the Ghost Realm’s distorted spacetime meant the invasion had lasted only a few months, despite the outside world’s passage of nearly two years.
• Xiao Yan ordered Xun'er to assemble one-third of the Endless Fire Domain’s forces and issued a proclamation offering pill-refining qualifications to those who joined the war.
• Xiao Yi decided to take elite Fire Spirits to the Ghost Realm to rescue Goddess Yaoji, while the Phoenix Clan began reviving through nirvana.
• The Demon Emperor focused on finding a key to enter the Netherworld, while the Heaven Realm and other factions withheld aid or remained inactive; Buddha Realm monks set out to help the Ghost Realm.

Xiao Yan watched bidders compete for a sealing Dou Ji that he wanted but could not afford to barter for. The Hammer Mercenary Corps won it, and Xiao Yan considered confronting them to take it as the auction moved on to its third item.

• Xiao Yan decided to wait and see who would obtain the sealing Dou Ji, while Qing Ming suggested that wealthy bidders would compete for it.
• The young commander of the Hammer Mercenary Corps bid six Heaven-tier peak Emperor Grade Three medicinal pills, and an elder in Room 15 countered with the unusual Fengbing Palace cultivation method.
• After considering the bids, Li Qin and Wang Feng awarded the sealing Dou Ji to the guest in Room 10.
• Qing Ming told Xiao Yan about the Hammer Mercenary Corps' strength, and Xiao Yan said he would meet them if he had the chance.
• Li Qin introduced the third auction item as the auction drew closer to its grand finale.

After escaping Huantong, Xiao Yan and his companions took refuge in a concealed mountain range, where they planned to reach the Thunder Pool and guide the other contestants there. Xiao Yan began using his Holy Flame to purge the evil power from Yun Qi, while the group remained trapped inside the Thunder Tomb.

• Huantong let Xiao Yan and the others escape, then decided to capture the Holy Flame Controller before reporting to Huan Zun.
• Xiao Yan's group arrived in a hidden mountain range, where Duan Qifei proposed seeking refuge in the Thunder Pool and taking Xiao Yan to a forbidden area.
• Xiao Yan gave the group healing medicines and asked Liu Qing to send a soul transmission directing uncontrolled contestants to the Thunder Pool.
• Xiao Yan took Yun Qi to a concealed pond and explained that its water could help her recover while he purged the evil power from her body.
• Yun Qi exposed the wound on her chest, and Xiao Yan began treating it with drops of earth-yellow Holy Flame as she endured the pain.

Xiao Yan traded the Thunder Origin bead to Old Luo for the Millennium Mysterious Ice, securing the remaining material needed to prepare for swallowing the Undying Fire and refining the Ice Xuan Pill. After Xiao Yan left, Duan Tianhong revealed that the Forged Blade Thunder Valley intended to help him because of his mysterious, immeasurable potential.

• Xiao Yan showed Old Luo a Thunder Origin bead and argued that it was worth trading for the Millennium Mysterious Ice.
• Xiao Yan began to leave when Old Luo refused, but Old Luo called him back and agreed to the exchange.
• Old Luo gave Xiao Yan the Millennium Mysterious Ice and warned him that refining it would require formidable flames.
• Old Luo blasted Xiao Yan out after the trade, leaving him with all the materials needed to swallow the Undying Fire and refine the Ice Xuan Pill.
• Duan Tianhong appeared and told Old Luo that Xiao Yan had the Forged Blade Thunder Valley's support, prompting Old Luo to consider introducing him to the Master.

Xiao Yan faced Fang Hao in the Desert Hinterland and drew on the power of multiple holy flames to answer Fang Hao’s challenge. By the chapter’s end, Xiao Yan had summoned four holy flames and was building toward an overwhelming attack, while Fang Hao braced himself against the growing threat.

• Fang Hao gathered thunder power and challenged Xiao Yan to witness a true Eight-Star Dou Xian’s strength.
• Xiao Yan took confidence from Mu Yingying’s support and resolved not to die before resurrecting her.
• Fang Hao unleashed the Thunder Nether Soul Seal as Xiao Yan called upon his flames.
• Xiao Yan fused Earth Yellow Flame, Ghost Face Soul Flame, and Undying Fire with their Sacred Flame Crystals, forming three immense fiery beasts.
• Xiao Yan summoned Azure Flame without fusing its Sacred Flame Crystal, bringing his total to four holy flames and alarming Fang Hao and the gathered elites.

After leaving the Xiangsi Tree, Xiao Yan learned that the Wanhuo Sect had been devastated by Qingyun Pavilion and that Xiao Gui had disappeared. He killed Tingfeng Pavilion administrator Yang Xi, then vowed to make Qingyun Pavilion pay.

• Xiao Yan discovered Tingfeng Pavilion sentries occupying a crystal vein that had belonged to the Wanhuo Sect.
• A sentry told Xiao Yan that Qingyun Pavilion had attacked the Wanhuo Sect, severely injured Xiao Gui, and driven the sect into its forbidden grounds.
• Xiao Yan killed the sentry and learned that Xiao Gui had not appeared since the Sect Tournament, while the Wanhuo Sect Master and other experts had been wiped out.
• Yang Xi confronted Xiao Yan and revealed that he had believed Xiao Yan died in the Xiangsi Tree.
• Xiao Yan used his Acacia Flame Domain to overpower and kill Yang Xi, who revealed that Qingyun Pavilion had backing from Earth Courtyard experts.
• Xiao Yan vowed that Qingyun Pavilion would pay for its actions.

Xiao Yan met Yu Yifeng, the leader of a traveling team, and agreed to help them with his Soul Power in exchange for safe passage to the Eastern Continent. The group left Ghost King City together, while Wang Feng stayed behind and hoped to meet Xiao Yan at the tournament.

• Wang Feng introduced Xiao Yan to Yu Yifeng, and the two men tested each other’s strength during a handshake.
• Xiao Yan told Yu Yifeng he wanted to travel to the Eastern Continent for the tournament, and Yu Yifeng offered his team’s guidance in exchange for help against a creature vulnerable to Soul Power.
• After the Soul Devouring Master advised him to join the team, Xiao Yan accepted Yu Yifeng’s offer despite the mission’s undisclosed dangers.
• Yu Yifeng sent Yu Xiaoye to gather the team, then led Xiao Yan and five cloaked members out of Ghost King City.
• Wang Feng watched them depart and wished Yu Yifeng success on the mission and Xiao Yan a meeting at the Eastern Continent Tournament.

Xiao Yan trapped Xin Yan in the Sacred Flame Space and brought out the Sacred Flame Crystal, provoking Xin Yan into attacking. Outside, the One-Tailed Demon Fox destroyed itself and its blood-colored bead, dissolving Luoling Mountain’s barrier and forcing most people out as the mountain’s space grew unstable.

• Xiao Yan and Xin Yan entered the Sacred Flame Space, while Mu Yingying began dealing with the weakened Five-Elements Beast.
• The One-Tailed Demon Fox muttered that they should all leave, then shattered itself and the blood-colored bead, causing the barrier in Luoling Mountain to dissolve.
• The barrier’s collapse expelled the disciples from Wuliang Mountain, and Xiong Yuan and Mu Xuzi rushed toward the mountain ranges to search for Xiao Yan, Mu Yingying, and Qin Xin.
• Mu Feng’s group and the Earth Team discussed Xiao Yan’s strength, then left Luoling Mountain after Zhang Wumeng warned that the unstable space was about to collapse.
• Inside the Sacred Flame Space, Xiao Yan revealed the Sacred Flame Crystal, and Xin Yan lunged at him to seize it.

Xiao Yan and his forces entered the Demon Emperor Tomb, where the Evil Eyed Monster King tried to claim the Monster Emperor Heart. The Demon Emperor’s remnant soul appeared and countered his attack, leaving the two powerful figures poised to fight.

• Xiao Yan led five hundred people into the Demon Emperor Tomb, where the tomb’s aura overwhelmed the weaker monster beasts and the Monster Book Fragments inside him began absorbing its power.
• Xiao Yan told the Celestial Fox Commander that they needed to defeat the Evil Eyed Monster King quickly and then support the battle against the Three Great Experts.
• The crystal coffin trembled as the Evil Eyed Monster King used his power to draw out the Demon Emperor’s aura, and Xiao Yan prepared his Divine Motion Core Inscription while watching.
• The Demon Emperor’s remnant soul emerged and warned the Evil Eyed Monster King to respect the rules of the Monster Realm.
• The Evil Eyed Monster King attacked the Demon Emperor’s remnant soul with a Death Ray, but the crystal coffin blocked it, and the Demon Emperor answered with a roaring green flame.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi agreed to help the Fire Spirit Tribe enter the Spirit Nest and confront the Evil Thought Monster threatening its experts. The elders gave them Spirit Seeds to strengthen their chances of survival, and the group arrived at an ancient wooden house before entering the Spirit Nest.

• Marin explained that the First Elder had sealed the Evil Thought Monster inside the Spirit Nest, leaving himself trapped there.
• Old Ghost Yao described the Reincarnation Stage ranks and revealed that Marin was at the Four-Reincarnation Stage while he was at the Third Reincarnation Stage Peak.
• Marin and Old Ghost Yao said they needed Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi's Holy Flames to help resolve the Spirit Nest crisis and restore the Fire Spirit Tribe's ability to enthrone a new patriarch.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help, and Marin promised an eternal alliance between the Fire Spirit Tribe and the Endless Fire Domain if he lifted the calamity.
• Old Ghost Yao gave Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Spirit Seeds that could temporarily grant them Reincarnation Stage strength.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi followed Marin and Old Ghost Yao to a crude wooden house atop the Life Ancient Tree, where the Emperor Flame Ring stirred within Xiao Yan.

Elder Zhu discovered that Xiao Yan’s Holy Flame amplified Spiritual Power enough to raise his Divine Movement Natal Core Inscription to a six-inscription Array Grandmaster at minor accomplishment. He explained how Array Masters and Spiritual Power worked, then tossed Xiao Yan an object that might help him cultivate it.

• Xiao Yan directed his Holy Flame power into his Divine Movement Natal Core Inscription, which absorbed it and produced yellow and red light until Elder Zhu stopped him.
• Elder Zhu confirmed that Holy Flame power amplified Spiritual Power and warned Xiao Yan to keep his Dou Qi Sea, Soul Sea, and sea of Spiritual Power in balance.
• Elder Zhu explained the Array Master ranks and told Xiao Yan that he had reached minor accomplishment as a six-inscription Array Grandmaster.
• Elder Zhu described how Spiritual Power differed from Soul Power and served as a second Dou Qi, while Xiao Yan listened and asked about cultivation.
• Elder Zhu threw Xiao Yan a round object with a powerful fluctuation, leaving Xiao Yan wondering what it was.

Xiao Yan and his companions arrived in the Lihun Domain, where they learned that applicants to the Four Great Academies had to climb the mysterious Connecting Heaven Stone Steps. The eleven newcomers began the trial, their powers suppressed and the pressure increasing with each step.

• Tianming King announced that the group had reached the Lihun Domain, and Xiao Yan reflected on finding the Seven Crossings Soul Guiding Lamp and the Xiangsi Broken Intestine Flame.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Gui, Duan Qifei, and the other travelers left the Space Channel and found themselves at the foot of a vast mountain range.
• Tianming King and Zuo Mu left the eleven newcomers, and an elder explained that the Connecting Heaven Stone Steps tested those seeking guidance from the Four Great Academies.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Gui, and Duan Qifei stepped onto the stone steps, where a mysterious force temporarily suppressed their strength and increased the pressure with every step.
• The other nine disciples followed them onto the steps as the elder watched, noting that few people had ever completed the trial.

White King Ming Feng used the Blood Stone Soul Order to overwhelm Xiao Yan, and the God Slashing Ruler Spirit took control of Xiao Yan’s body but failed to stop him from being captured. Xiao Yan disappeared from the external crystals, while Gu Xun'er and a powerful man preparing to undergo tribulation hinted that the conflict was spreading beyond the battle.

• White King Ming Feng summoned the Blood Stone Soul Order, whose evil power suppressed Xiao Yan and the forces within him.
• The God Slashing Ruler Spirit revealed itself and temporarily took control of Xiao Yan’s body, but Ming Feng’s attack wounded him and disrupted the All-Heaven Demonic Array.
• White King Ming Feng shackled Xiao Yan with the Blood Stone’s power, filled the Demon Cube, and left with Xiao Yan under his control.
• Xun'er noticed that Xiao Yan had vanished from the recording crystals, briefly left after hearing a silent soul voice, and returned with an eerie aura.
• A man and woman in a distant forest discussed Xiao Yan and the danger facing the Ten Halls of Yama, and the man prepared to undergo tribulation amid seven rounds of lightning.

Xiao Yan cared for Qing Yuan and learned that she had less than a month to live unless he refined a Strengthening Foundation and Nurturing Origin pill, which required an Emperor-tier magical beast core. He took her to the Alchemist Association to seek the missing ingredient and began an assessment as a First-grade Emperor Pill alchemist.

• Xiao Yan gave Qing Yuan money, promised to help her find her parents, and let her sleep while he cultivated through the night.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan that Qing Yuan likely had less than a month left and that the pill needed to reveal her condition required an Emperor-tier magical beast core.
• Xiao Yan decided to visit the Alchemist Association, where his Emperor Realm Soul overcame the soul impact on its entrance and drew the attention of Bai Su.
• Xiao Yan asked to be assessed as a First-grade Emperor Pill alchemist, and Bai Su ordered the association sealed and its members gathered to watch.

Xiao Yan awakened the holy flames within the Flame God Cauldron as the Endless Fire Domain and the Angel Kingdom reacted to its summons. With only the final pattern left, he called upon the Holy King, hoping to fully awaken the cauldron and uncover the Holy King's secrets.

• Xun'er and Yun Yun sensed their holy flames responding to the Flame God Cauldron, while Yaoji hoped the coming final battlefield would not bring the worst outcome.
• The Human Realm Lord heard the holy flame's call as messengers reported that Foreign Territory forces had nearly wiped out their dispatched experts and were attacking the Great Thousand Palace and other factions.
• Xiao Yan drew the Bodhi Relic Flame and the Seven-Color Recovery Flame into the Flame God Cauldron, while Jenny confronted Andy over the capture of the Fourth Evil God and the Angel Kingdom's actions.
• Jenny and Andy saw the Seven-Color Recovery Flame depart from the Angel Kingdom, and Andy decided the Slaughter Angel must be told that the Flame God Cauldron had appeared.
• Xiao Yan filled the cauldron's remaining holy flame patterns, then called on the Holy King to complete its awakening and give him a chance to learn the Holy King's secrets.

Mekal defeated Mal but discovered that Mal’s subordinates had escaped with the Devil Fruits, so he moved to destroy the lair and everyone inside. When Mekal attacked Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan yielded his body to his master, who effortlessly shattered the Angel’s strike and turned the battle.

• Mekal destroyed Mal’s self-destructive attack with the Judgment Holy Sword and killed him.
• Mekal realized Mal’s subordinates had escaped through a spatial passage with the Devil Fruits, then prepared to destroy the lair.
• Xiao Yan confronted Mekal to protect the people fleeing the lair, and his Holy Flame overwhelmed Mekal’s divine radiance.
• Mekal attacked Xiao Yan, who retreated into his Soul Sea and let his master take control of his body.
• Xiao Yan’s master shattered Mekal’s holy light beam with a casual blow.