Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying reached the canopy’s sealed summit and found the Mother of the Immortal Spirit Bodhi Tree, which Xiao Yan needed to save the Golden Dragon King. After taking it, they left the tree, with Xiao Yan anticipating that the main event was about to begin.

• Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying climbed the ancient tree while the Golden Dragon King discussed the Soul Devouring Master’s absorption of Dong Xuan’s soul.
• Mu Yingying used the Frost and Snow Immortal Sword to break Dong Xuan’s lingering seal at the canopy’s summit.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying entered the hidden space and identified the Mother of the Immortal Spirit Bodhi Tree among the dense wood energy.
• Mu Yingying let Xiao Yan take the treasure, and Xiao Yan stored it in his storage ring.
• Xiao Yan told Mu Yingying that the evil power and ghost Qi in his body did not belong to him, and she reassured him before leaving the tree.

Su Xueying drew the Holy Demon Sword and, overtaken by its power, killed Holy Demon Lord with a single strike that overcame his angel defenses. The Demon Abyss vortex swallowed the clashing powers as the magic shadow’s aura faded, revealing the sword’s Heavenly Demon Mark.

• Xiao Yan and Holy Demon Lord noticed a supreme magic shadow surrounding Su Xueying after she pulled the Holy Demon Sword from Skeleton Demon Mountain.
• Holy Demon Lord tried to control Su Xueying with the magic zither, but its power was repelled.
• Su Xueying invoked the Holy Demon Sword and unleashed a devastating strike toward Holy Demon Lord, while he raised his angel defenses.
• The attacks formed an immense Demon Abyss vortex, and the First Generation Demon God stone statue crumbled and flew toward it.
• A blood-red sword glare pierced Holy Demon Lord and destroyed his body and soul, overcoming his angel power with the Heavenly Demon Mark.

Xiao Yan used the Demon Subduing Pillar and six holy runes, with Xun’er’s help, to mortally wound the Fourth Reincarnation Stage Eight-Poison Demon Snake. After the array collapsed, Xiao Yan recovered while the snake sank into the Poison God Demon Pool and a strange aura stirred nearby.

• Xiao Yan summoned the Demon Subduing Pillar and suppressed the Eight-Poison Demon Snake with Holy Flame runes, burning through its defenses.
• The Eight-Poison Demon Snake unleashed a lethal poison orb, and Xun’er gave Xiao Yan Sacred Flame Origin to reinforce the pillar.
• Xiao Yan’s six holy runes overwhelmed the snake, and he struck it with the Dragon God Claw, causing it to crash down as the All-Heaven Demonic Array collapsed.
• Xiao Yan sat in the void to recover, while Xun’er and another worried figure checked on him and Duhun Zi watched with resentment.
• Xiao Yan warned the others that the snake still had a breath left, then noticed its body sinking into the Poison God Demon Pool as a strange aura stirred at the edge.

Reborn with overwhelming demonic power, Xiao Yan killed Ares and Bailin despite their threats and pleas. After discovering a Spirit Pupil Worm tied Ares to the Slaughter Angel, he left the surviving forces facing the consequences of the Grand Archangels’ deaths.

• Demon Xiao Yan emerged with power near the Ninth Reincarnation Stage Peak and incapacitated Bailin and the two Grand Archangels with his Demon Power.
• Ares threatened Xiao Yan with the Angel Kingdom’s retaliation, but he tore her apart and the Demon Robe devoured her corpse.
• A Spirit Pupil Worm crawled from Ares’s head, revealing to Xiao Yan that the Grand Archangels were pawns of the Slaughter Angel.
• Bailin begged Xiao Yan to spare her and offered information, but he invoked the Xiao Clan’s blood feud and killed her.
• Forgotten Immortal Xuanzun watched Ares perish as Xiao Yan’s Demon Robe consumed both Grand Archangels.

After a month of arena battles, Xiao Yan and twelve other contestants advanced, and Duan Tianfeng announced the rewards for the coming rounds. Xiao Yan decided he needed to win the God of Thunder Scroll, a powerful one-use defensive item, before the tournament continued in three days.

• Muge returned from a match, spoke with Huang Hu, and watched him enter the arena for his own battle.
• Duan Tianfeng announced that thirteen contestants had advanced and explained the upcoming contests for the top nine, top six, and top three.
• Duan Tianfeng revealed that first place would receive a God of Thunder Scroll, second place weapons and defensive equipment, and third place a Tier Three Immortal Artifact.
• The Soul Devouring Master explained to Xiao Yan that the scroll could resist a powerful attack but would not fully block Xiao Yan's Three Sacred Flames Fusion.
• Xiao Yan resolved to win the scroll, while Duan Qifei lamented that her father was giving away one of the valley's rare creations.
• Duan Tianfeng ended the gathering and scheduled the next advancement matches for three days later.

Xiao Yan revealed that three holy flames coexisted within his body and fused them with the Great Heaven Seed to unleash a three-color-and-a-half Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus. The devastating attack engulfed the Fourth Soul Sovereign and the four Demon Guards, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Xiao Yan’s three holy flames weakened the Pure Heart’s suppression, and You Er left the Undying Sacred Pool after confirming the Soul Academy’s research.
• Deng Qing and the other Five Academies experts chose to wait, while the Demon Guard Leader urged his forces to keep attacking Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan gathered the four flames in his palm and fused them into a Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus, injuring himself in the process.
• The Five Academies experts used their scrolls to leave, leaving Xiao Yan, the four Demon Guards, and the Fourth Soul Sovereign’s group behind.
• Xiao Yan hurled the three-color-and-a-half fire lotus at the Demon Guards, and the explosion engulfed the Fourth Soul Sovereign as the void shook with its force.

Xiao Yan and Su Xueying battled Lei Shi after an unknown force took control of his body and made him seemingly immortal. After the coffin carried Lei Shi away, Xiao Yan confronted Su Xueying over her hostility toward the Xiao Clan and tried to stop her from leaving the medicine garden.

• Lei Shi was suddenly compelled by a mysterious voice to attack Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan's Immortal Golden Body withstood his thunder strike.
• Xiao Yan cleaved Lei Shi in half with the Eternal Ruler, but Lei Shi reformed unharmed from thunder arcs.
• Su Xueying trapped them in her Myriad Cold Flame Realm and suspected an evil technique had been planted in Lei Shi by the black shadow.
• The dark red coffin pierced Su Xueying's barrier, pulled Lei Shi inside, and vanished.
• Su Xueying refused to help Xiao Yan or share information about the Xiao Clan, then tried to leave for the mountain range's core.
• Xiao Yan released his Seven-Star Dou Xian Mid Stage power and Amber Flame Soul Fire to keep Su Xueying from leaving.

A year after the Dual God Battle, Qing Yuan and the Angel Royal Clan tried to resurrect the fallen heroes, but the ritual failed until a strange rain and fire brought them back. Xiao Yan finally returned from the abyss crack, having reached a higher realm, and was welcomed home by Xun'er and the others.

• Yun Yun and the other women learned that a year had passed without news of Xiao Yan, while Qing Yuan continued guarding the abyss crack.
• Qing Yuan failed to cast the Resurrection Divine Art, so the Previous Angel Queen, the Fallen Angel King, and the Angel Royal Clan joined her in a resurrection ritual.
• The ritual’s divine shadow collapsed into the crack, but a rain of fire restored the vanished heroes, including the Saint King and Golden Dragon King.
• The returned experts revealed that Xiao Yan had reached a higher realm as the abyss crack began to close.
• Xiao Yan appeared soot-stained in the sky, and Xun'er welcomed him home as the others celebrated his return.

The Lord of Fierce Souls unveiled the Soul Annihilating Blade and attacked the Soul Devouring Master, whose Devouring Heaven Divine Domain could not match the blade’s power. As the battle neared its end, an even greater grim power began awakening inside the Soul Devouring Master.

• The Lord of Fierce Souls used black spell tags to destroy the Soul Devouring Master’s blood-red chain, then recognized the gap between their levels of Samsara.
• The Lord of Fierce Souls drew out a black scroll and summoned the Soul Annihilating Blade, the seventh of the Twelve Evil Soldiers of the Ghost Realm.
• Hao Ni'er explained to Xiao Yan that the blade could scatter the soul and spirit of even a Samsara-grade expert.
• The Soul Devouring Master unleashed the Devouring Heaven Divine Domain while the Lord of Fierce Souls fed the Soul Annihilating Blade his essence blood and sent it toward him.
• Xiao Sensheng sensed that a power inside the Soul Devouring Master was awakening and rivaled the blade as the battered Desert Hinterland trembled.

A year after the Bright Moon Ruins closed, Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying returned to the Wasteland while King Xuan Ling prepared to use Qi Haoran’s death as a pretext for war against the Burning Incense Pavilion. Xiao Yan sensed a familiar presence nearby and found Qin Tian struggling with the Dou Soul he had swallowed.

• At the Burning Incense Pavilion, Xiao Yi and the others waited for Xiao Yan and discussed the tense relations among the Burning Incense Pavilion, Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion, and Poison Sect.
• King Xuan Ling learned that Xiao Yan had killed Qi Haoran and planned to declare war on the Burning Incense Pavilion once Qi Haoqing recovered.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying emerged from the Wasteland a year after the ruins closed and set off toward a familiar presence.
• Xiao Yan found Qin Tian with Xuan Mo, Xuan Wanxin, and Xuan Ming knocked out beside him.
• Yao Xin tried to examine Qin Tian and discovered that he was locked in a fierce struggle with the Dou Soul inside him.

Ye Meng explained that Xiao Yan needed to swallow a Soul Stone and compress his Soul Power before he could pursue a Spirit Palace, then prepared a secure space for him in the Burning Incense Pavilion. Xiao Yan summoned his Soul Clone for safety and began preparing to absorb the stone.

• Ye Meng told Xiao Yan that creating a Spirit Palace was premature and that he first needed to compress his Soul Power with a Soul Stone.
• Ye Meng led Xiao Yan through the Burning Incense Pavilion's alchemy room and brought him to a secure space prepared for his breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan found the silver-white Soul Stone, picked it up, and felt his Soul Power respond to it.
• Xiao Yan summoned his Emperor Realm Soul Clone, explaining that damage to the clone would affect him as well.
• Xiao Yan focused on the Soul Stone and prepared to begin swallowing it and compressing his Soul Power.

Xiao Yan led the Endless Flame Alliance into the Netherworld to rescue the slumbering Xiao Clan experts, opening the entrance despite the deadly forces within. As the alliance committed most of its strength to the battle, the Angel Kingdom and Human Realm Center set out to stop them.

• Xiao Yan ordered the Ghost Realm evacuated ten thousand miles from the Netherworld entrance and opened it with the Flame God Cauldron, Emperor Flame Ring, and blood of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan entered the Netherworld with two women and warned the assembled experts that the mission carried a grave risk of death.
• More than eighty percent of the Endless Flame Alliance's combat strength followed into the Netherworld as they confronted the undead and Outer Realm Evil Clan armies.
• Liu Hao used Xiao Yan's array to show the Slaughter Angel the opened entrance, but a mysterious figure rescued him and his sister from her attack.
• The Slaughter Angel ordered Bailin, Ares, and her personal guard to the Netherworld, while Renshenzi led the Human Realm Center's elites there as well.

Xiao Yan visited the Alchemist Association in Yao Wang City to test his alchemist rank, hoping to reach the highest level he could. He chose the Celestial Grade Sixth-Tier examination and entered the testing chamber, leaving Xun Er to wait outside.

• Yao Shigui brought Xiao Yan and Xun Er to the Alchemist Association and explained its authority and services.
• Yao Xuan welcomed the trio and led them to the examination area after Xiao Yan said he wanted to test his rank.
• Xiao Yan asked about the highest available examination, then selected the Celestial Grade Sixth-Tier test when Yao Xuan said higher ranks required passing it first.
• Yao Xuan introduced Elder Feng, the association’s chief manager, and left the examination room.
• Elder Feng took Xiao Yan through a spatial barrier to the testing chamber while Xun Er waited outside.

Xiao Gui woke in Spirit Mountain and met Luo Menglan, who had saved him and offered to show him a place where he could advance. Separated from Xiao Gui by spatial ripples, Xiao Yan considered his brother’s hidden potential and prepared to cultivate toward Four-star Dou Xian.

• Xiao Gui woke and confronted Luo Menglan over the clan mark on his forehead, then apologized after learning she had protected him.
• Xiao Gui asked to follow Luo Menglan, and she agreed before inviting him to a treasured land that could help him break through to Four-star Dou Xian.
• Xiao Gui and Luo Menglan headed toward the depths of Spirit Mountain together.
• Xiao Yan landed among ancient tree branches after spatial ripples scattered him from Xiao Gui, and he wondered how his brother was doing.
• The Soul Devouring Master said Xiao Gui might carry power sealed within him from his father, while Xiao Yan noted that reaching Four-star Dou Xian would require further cultivation and his Dou Xian Pill.
• Xiao Yan surveyed the energy-filled mountain range as the Soul Devouring Master explained that defeating its energy entities could provide power for a breakthrough.

Xiao Yan prepared to return to the Dou Qi Continent after learning of a faint distress signal from the Lower Realm. With Mu Yingying’s assembled experts and the reconstructed Space Channel ready, he led a powerful force through it and left the Endless Fire Domain on high alert.

• Xiao Yan worried about his family and friends in the Dou Qi Continent and wondered why they had not ascended.
• Mu Yingying brought Xiao Yan to the Main Hall and introduced dozens of experts she had gathered to accompany him.
• Xiao Yan promised each expedition member a Saint Pill, and Feng Wan'er added ten elite experts from the Endless Fire Domain’s hidden reserves.
• Cai Lin and Xun'er announced that the Space Channel had been reconstructed, and Xiao Yan led the assembled force into it.
• Feng Wan'er stabilized the channel’s spatial energy and placed the Endless Fire Domain on high alert as Xiao Yan and his companions departed.

Xiao Yan struggled against King Xuan Ling, whose power he suspected came from devouring the missing Blood Demon Envoy. To enable a fusion with the Sacred Flames, Xiao Yan detonated the origins of all twenty-three Heavenly Flames, weakening himself as a cataclysmic blaze engulfed the altar.

• King Xuan Ling pierced Xiao Yan’s Seven-layered Heaven Breaking Ruler with his Life and Death Power, then struck him again with the Xuan Ling Hand, leaving him badly injured.
• Xiao Yan concluded that King Xuan Ling had devoured the Blood Demon Envoy and decided to expel the Heavenly Flames inside himself so he could fuse the Sacred Flames.
• Despite Cai Lin’s warning, Xiao Yan summoned the Exotic Fire Plaza and called out the twenty-three Heavenly Flames within his body.
• Xiao Yan severed his connection to the Heavenly Flames and detonated their origins, causing his strength to fall to Five-star Dou Di.
• The explosion created an apocalyptic world of flames across the altar, and King Xuan Ling felt fear as the blast struck.

Xiao Yan tried to rescue Duan Qifei from the black mist’s attack while Duan Tianhong remained sealed. He escaped with Duan Qifei through a Spatial Teleportation Array after taking the Blood Soul Sword Crossbow’s devastating strike.

• Duan Qifei broke free from Xiao Yan and rushed toward the restrained Duan Tianhong, but Xiao Yan blocked her and urged her to flee.
• When Duan Qifei refused to leave her father, Xiao Yan used Youming Tianhu to render her unconscious and carried her away.
• The black mist attacked the fleeing pair with a Blood Soul Sword Crossbow after its earlier effort to seal Duan Tianhong had weakened it.
• Xiao Yan turned to shield Duan Qifei, and the sword crossbow pierced through his chest as they reached the Spatial Teleportation Array.
• Xiao Yan escaped with Duan Qifei through the array, while Duan Tianhong watched them vanish and felt indebted to Xiao Yan.

The Lord of Fierce Souls devoured the Xiangsi Broken Intestine Flame and began trying to advance to Samsara, forcing Xiao Yan and his allies to prepare for the worst. As they waited in the Desert Hinterland, the West Divine Hall and Fierce Soul Guards emerged to capture Xiao Yan.

• The Lord of Fierce Souls entered a pink flame domain to devour the Xiangsi Broken Intestine Flame and sent Xiao Yan a warning that he must survive.
• Demonic Xiao Yan urged the group to leave, but the Black Fiend Dragon Wolf and You Er refused to abandon the Demon of Light or the battle site.
• Xiao Sensheng returned control of the body to Xiao Yan, and the Black Fiend Dragon Wolf asked Xiao Yan to visit the Monster Realm after the Ghost Realm ended; Xiao Yan agreed.
• Xiao Yan sensed an approaching threat, and the Hall Master of the West Divine Hall appeared through a Space Gate with more than a hundred elites.
• Fang Hao ordered his forces to apprehend Xiao Yan and execute anyone who resisted.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er intervened as Blood King Mo attacked Liu Hao, joining forces to fight the powerful enemy. Liu Hao left Ancient Prison after Xun'er rejected him, carrying a growing jealousy and hatred toward Xiao Yan that set the stage for a future life-or-death battle.

• Liu Hao struggled to suppress the Slaughter Soul inside him as Blood King Mo prepared to capture him, while Xiao Yan and the others watched from hiding.
• The Peerless Heavenly Emperor agreed to intercept the other evil beings as Xiao Yan and Xun'er approached Blood King Mo.
• Blood King Mo changed his mind about capturing Liu Hao and swung a blood-red Evil Sword at him, but Xiao Yan and Xun'er appeared and shattered it with their attacks.
• Xun'er told Liu Hao to leave and made clear that anyone opposing Xiao Yan was her enemy, provoking Liu Hao's anger and jealousy.
• Liu Hao withdrew from Ancient Prison, swearing that he would make Xun'er regret rejecting him.

Xiao Yan spent six days fusing the ingredients for the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill, then completed and nurtured the pill. As the finished pill triggered dark clouds and lightning over the Yue Family, he stood atop the wooden house and faced the strange heavenly change.

• Xiao Yan controlled the cauldron and fused the five medicinal powers for six days while the Yue Family watched from outside the wooden house.
• Xiao Yan emerged from his focused state at the peak of the three-star level, nearly breaking through to four stars.
• Xiao Yan saw that the pill embryo had formed and continued nurturing it with the Milky White Flame.
• Xiao Yan finished the thumb-sized red-and-purple Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill after about ten more hours of nurturing.
• Dark clouds and silver lightning gathered over the Yue Family, and Xiao Yan stood atop the wooden house, calmly watching the sky.