Chapter Summaries

The Darkness Lord and First Elder Xiao Yan struggled to withstand Renshenzi’s demigod attack until Demon Xiao Yan emerged from the Demon Abyss and blocked it. The battle remained uncertain as the Endless Flame Alliance and Renshenzi’s coalition army clashed.

• The Darkness Lord urged First Elder Xiao Yan to retreat with the others to Nether City while he held Renshenzi back, but Xiao Yan refused to abandon the Xiao Clan.
• Renshenzi unleashed Yin and Yang Countercurrent, and its blade-gas shattered the Darkness Lord and Xiao Yan’s defenses.
• A dark green halo disrupted the blade-gas, but the descending crescent moon continued toward the two powerhouses.
• Demon Xiao Yan burst from the Demon Abyss and collided with the black and white torrent, successfully blocking Renshenzi’s attack.
• The Darkness Lord expressed relief at Demon Xiao Yan’s arrival, while Demon Xiao Yan warned that the situation remained grim.
• Renshenzi ordered his forces to fight, and Yaoji, the King of Myriad Beasts, and other Endless Flame Alliance powerhouses charged the opposing coalition army.

Xiao Yan entered the Xuansha Gate and defeated its Wood Attribute Gatekeeper, while the Son of Heaven plotted to kill him and exploit the Ghost Gates. Xiao Yan continued toward the third gate, unaware of the growing danger behind the trials.

• The Son of Heaven used a bead holding Thunder Power like Xiao Yan’s gray thunder and declared his plan to destroy Xiao Yan and claim what he needed.
• The Son of Heaven threatened the chained Spirit Devouring King, saying the King would be killed once Xiao Yan breached the three Ghost Gates.
• Xiao Yan entered the Xuansha Gate and sensed that its strange power was draining his vitality and soul.
• A shadowy Gatekeeper at the peak of the Sixth-fold Reincarnation Stage attacked Xiao Yan with Wood Attribute techniques.
• Xiao Yan used the Divine Wood Stone Realm to defeat the Gatekeeper and devour his power, then headed toward the third gate.

After the Soul Devouring Domain survived the invasion, Xiao Yan learned that the Foreign Territory Army was gathering in the Lihun Domain and prepared to lead forces there. Before departing, he reassured Hao Ni'er about their teacher, returned two evil artifacts, and promised Yun Yun and Mu Yingying a grand wedding.

• Hao Ni'er warned Xiao Yan that the Foreign Territory Army was gathering in the Lihun Domain and accepted his Holy Flame to guard against danger.
• Xiao Yan learned the Soul Devouring Master's life imprint remained intact, then returned the Blood River Bell and Soul Devouring Talisman to Hao Ni'er.
• Xiao Yan introduced Yun Yun and Mu Yingying as his sister-in-laws and promised them a lavish wedding for the five of them.
• The next morning, Baize and Soul Devouring Domain experts thanked Xiao Yan for helping save their home, and he declared their domains were one family.
• Hao Ni'er assembled nearly nine-tenths of the Soul Devouring Domain's available elite forces for the Lihun Domain, but Xiao Yan said half would suffice before departing.

Xiao Yan arrived in Wuliang Mountain and rescued Qin Xin from Night Cat, who had been hunting her. After recognizing Xiao Yan as the man who killed the Twin Ghost Emperor, Qin Xin asked to fight him someday, while Xiao Yan turned his attention to the more immediate threat.

• Night Cat overpowered Qin Xin in Wuliang Mountain, where her strength was suppressed and his was enhanced.
• Night Cat found Qin Xin hiding, bound her with black gas, and prepared to attack as she tried to resist with her Life Power.
• Xiao Yan hurled his flame-wreathed giant ruler at Night Cat and intervened, with Mu Yingying arriving alongside him.
• Qin Xin thanked Xiao Yan without enthusiasm and recognized him as the Xiao Yan who killed the Twin Ghost Emperor.
• Qin Xin said she wanted a serious fight with Xiao Yan someday, and Xiao Yan focused on Night Cat as they prepared to fight.

Xiao Zifan, Luo Menglan, Cai Lin, Mu Yingying, and their allies fought Kelly as she prepared an attack that could destroy the Endless Fire Domain. A Ghost Realm figure intervened and halted Kelly’s angel wings, and the defenders recognized Mu Feng wielding the Sixth Evil Weapon, the Yin Yang Decree.

• Kelly grew enraged after Xiao Zifan wounded her and summoned a Pentagram Array to unleash a devastating attack on the Endless Fire Domain.
• Xiao Zifan, Luo Menglan, Cai Lin, Mu Yingying, and the others joined forces to attack Kelly and defend their home.
• Kelly’s divine light threads ensnared the defenders, and she began an assault that threatened to devastate the domain.
• Eerie thunderclouds and Ghost Qi disrupted Kelly’s Pentagram Array as a shadowy figure descended from the sky and struck at her with a ghost seal.
• Kelly shattered the seal and launched her angel wings at the newcomer, but the Sixth Evil Weapon, the Yin Yang Decree, stopped them, revealing the figure as Mu Feng.

Xiao Yuntian fought the Head of Foreign Lands’ origin projection as the Angel Kingdom came under attack. The Human Center revealed its alliance with the Outer Realm Evil Clan, and the second Heaven and Earth War erupted.

• The Head of Foreign Lands’ projection threatened Xiao Yuntian and attacked him with a massive demon statue, while Xiao Yuntian countered with a flame-filled galaxy and the two fought evenly.
• The Angel Queen and others tried to channel their power into a young girl to restore the Angel Kingdom after the Slaughter Angel’s death.
• Xiao Tianming prepared to rectify the Angel Kingdom as the archangels and seraphs faced an uncertain future without the Slaughter Angel.
• The Outer Realm Evil Clan emerged alongside Human Center traitors, who attacked the gathered powerhouses by surprise.
• Xiao Yan led the Endless Flame Alliance toward the Sanctuary Mountain Range, while the Holy King took on the Saint Clan Supreme Commander and Xiao Yan faced Renshenzi.
• The Endless Flame Alliance and its allies joined battle with the Human Center and Outer Realm Evil Clan, beginning the second Heaven and Earth War.

Xiao Yan entered the Death Forest, where the Life and Death Chessboard’s power suppressed his abilities and forced him to cross a deadly sequence of steps. After surviving the final trap with help from the Dark Underworld Warrior’s armor and his own powers, he reached the summit and saw a terrifying sight.

• Xiao Yan entered the Death Forest and learned from the Dark Underworld Warrior that the Life and Death Chessboard could drain the losing side’s vitality.
• The passage behind Xiao Yan vanished, and the Dark Underworld Warrior formed dark armor to shield him from the forest’s bloody miasma.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the forest suppressed his Dou Qi, Holy Flame, soul power, and Demon Cube, so he advanced toward the chessboard on foot.
• Xiao Yan crossed the forest’s sequence of steps, but the final step unleashed dark matter and bloody miasma that nearly tore him apart.
• Xiao Yan released his Clan Mark Power, Xiao Clan Bloodline Power, and Dragon God Transformation, Patterns of Baxia; the dark sand recognized his power, consumed the miasma, and disappeared.
• Xiao Yan reached the summit of the Death Forest and muttered in shock at the sight before him.

Xiao Yan learned that the Xuan Ling Imperial Three Heavenly Sovereigns had trapped the seven Burning Incense Pavilion Heaven Hall disciples on a hill, and he set out with his companions to rescue them. Meanwhile, Qin Xin, Ling Xuan, and Mu Feng brought hundreds of Pavilion disciples near the hill, where they discovered the dangerous auras and waited as Qi Haoqing reported to the Heavenly Sovereigns.

• Du Mo revealed that the Xuan Ling Imperial Three Heavenly Sovereigns had found and attacked the seven Heaven Hall disciples on a northern hill.
• Yan Chi stopped Xiao Yan from killing Du Mo, and Du Mo told them where the trapped disciples were; Xiao Yan and his companions hurried to the hill.
• Qin Xin, Ling Xuan, and Mu Feng led hundreds of Burning Incense Pavilion disciples through the Blood River Realm toward the Heaven Hall group.
• Mu Feng sensed many powerful auras near the hill, so Qin Xin ordered the disciples to conceal themselves and wait.
• Qi Haoqing told Tian Hong and Tian Cang that he had failed to find the Burning Incense Pavilion's main group, and Tian Cang said they would kill them all together.

Yu Qian unleashed the power of a forcibly devoured Dou Soul, overpowering the black-robed man and demanding the Undying Leaf. The black-robed man called for Hun Hao as the sky darkened.

• The black-robed man's Soul Lock shattered against Yu Qian, whose aura surged as he revealed his Dou Soul power.
• The Black-Faced Tiger and Scarred Wolf recognized that Yu Qian had forcibly devoured a Dou Soul and warned of its backlash.
• Yu Qian attacked the injured black-robed man, sending him crashing into a deep pit.
• Yu Qian demanded that the black-robed man hand over the Undying Leaf or die.
• The black-robed man called to Hun Hao for help, and the clear sky suddenly turned gloomy.

Xiao Yan ended the fight with Guang Lu after revealing the power of his holy flame, and Guang Lu asked him to help cure his ailing royal father. Xiao Yan agreed to try after the Sect Tournament, then prepared with his companions to enter the Three Great Mountain Ranges, while growing wary of Xin Yan’s control over the holy flame.

• Guang Lu stopped the battle after Xiao Yan’s holy-flame attack overwhelmed his defense, and Xiao Yan confirmed that he possessed a holy flame.
• Guang Lu explained that he had come from another continent and begged Xiao Yan to help cure his royal father after the Sect Tournament; Xiao Yan agreed to try but made no guarantee.
• Guang Lu gave Xiao Yan a wooden token and left with An Li, Qian Zhang, Qian Qiu, and Tan Shaoyang, who accepted their captain’s decision without resentment.
• Xiao Yan and his companions recovered their Dou Qi and prepared to enter the Three Great Mountain Ranges before the Earth Team could get ahead of them.
• Ling Xuan asked whether Xiao Yan truly possessed a holy flame, and Xiao Yan privately questioned Xin Yan’s unusually strong control over it.

As the Four Continents Tournament approached, powerful Northern Continent factions prepared for the competition and pursued their own goals. The Thousand Puppet Ghost Sect dispatched a powerful figure to capture Xiao Yan, while Tianming Villa grew fervent with anticipation.

• Ghost Shadow Valley's elder told Tianjue that the sect needed a disciple to enter the Lihun Domain and find the passage to the Netherworld, and Tianjue vowed to kill anyone who stood in his way.
• Two Wanhun Palace disciples recalled the deadly cost of past tournaments and hoped their sect would triumph this time.
• A Soul Beast Alliance father urged his son to enter the Lihun Domain, and the son trusted his dragon-blooded soul beasts and Three-star Dou Xian Perfection strength.
• The Thousand Puppet Ghost Sect ordered its living-dead prodigy to work with the Hidden Soul Guild and capture Xiao Yan, and he agreed after learning about Xiao Yan's Great Heaven Seed and soul power.
• The factions gathered as Tianming Villa erupted with excitement for the approaching tournament.

Xiao Yan reunited with Cai Lin and Yingying, then met Feng Wan'er and the Guardians after they arrived through the spacetime wormhole. Feng Wan'er rejected the Endless Fire Domain’s strength and threatened to leave, leaving Xiao Yan and Cai Lin facing a tense dispute over the alliance.

• Xiao Yan appeared in the Endless Fire Domain and comforted Cai Lin, who said she wanted to return to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Yan Chi summoned Cai Lin to deal with powerful arrivals in the spacetime wormhole, and Xiao Yan joined her and Yingying.
• Xiao Yan welcomed Feng Wan'er and the Guardians, while Su Xueying left after learning that Xiao Yan already had two wives.
• Cai Lin explained that the Endless Fire Domain had unified three parts of the Dou Di Continent and hoped the Guardians would help conquer the Dou Yun Continent.
• Feng Wan'er criticized the Endless Fire Domain’s lack of powerful practitioners and ordered Mo Ze and Qian Rui to leave.

Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Yue Ru crossed the Hell Path passage, where a deadly illusion and the lingering resentment of corpses threatened them. Xiao Yan used the Holy Flame to open the six-aperture stone gate, leaving the group facing the trials beyond.

• Xiao Yan discovered the passage floor was covered in bones, then became trapped in an illusion that showed Xun'er conspiring to surrender Cai Lin, Mu Yingying, and the Xiao Clan Descendants to the Human Realm Center.
• Xiao Yan resisted the illusion with the Flame Mantra and Holy Flame, and Yun Yun and Yue Ru told him he had frozen while examining the bones.
• Xiao Yan and the two women reached a bronze-colored stone gate with six apertures, which the Flower Sprite identified as the entrance to the Hell Path trial.
• As Xiao Yan approached the gate, baleful qi overwhelmed him and made him turn on the two women, but he expelled it and told them to burn the corpse piles.
• Yun Yun burned the bones, and Xiao Yan filled the six apertures with glazed liquid, causing the stone gate to open.

Long Yi revealed that he had regained a true dragon body and intervened to protect Xiao Yan from Ye Mo and the Dragon Devouring Legion. He injured Ye Mo with a lightning-charged strike, forcing Yao Xin and the others to abandon their attack on Xiao Yan, and ended by telling Xiao Yan to call him Big Brother.

• Long Yi transformed from a silver dragon into a human and declared he would rescue Xiao Yan because Xiao Yan had once helped him.
• The Soul Devouring Talisman explained that Long Yi had cultivated a dragon body, but warned that he could not hold off all of Ye Mo's forces for long.
• Ye Mo ordered Xuan Ming and Qing Mu to help him attack Long Yi while Yao Xin led the other six Nine-star Dou Di to capture Xiao Yan alive.
• Long Yi turned back into his dragon form and struck Ye Mo with his Thunder Dragon Tail, heavily injuring him.
• Ye Mo ordered Yao Xin and the six others to retreat and form the Dragon Devourer Formation against Long Yi.
• Long Yi checked on Xiao Yan, promised no one would touch him, and told him to call him Big Brother.

After Mu Yingying sacrificed herself to save him, Xiao Yan awoke with a reshaped heart and greatly increased power. He began fusing three Holy Flames to defeat King Xuan Ling, while the Soul Devouring Master seized the Soul Ball and severed King Xuan Ling’s control over it.

• Xiao Yan woke and learned from Cai Lin that Mu Yingying had sacrificed herself and now resided within his chest, hoping he would free her brother from the curse and defeat King Xuan Ling.
• Xiao Yan took over from Yue Ru, caught King Xuan Ling’s attack, and drove him back with his transformed strength.
• Xiao Yan summoned Fire Heart Sky Rock, Ghost Face Soul Flame, and Kong Ling Ice Flame and began fusing them into Ghost Demon Execution for Mu Yingying.
• King Xuan Ling used the Soul Ball to gather controlled experts in front of him as a human shield, hoping to stop Xiao Yan from completing the fusion.
• The Soul Devouring Master took the Soul Ball from King Xuan Ling and severed its connection to him, revealing soul power at Heaven Tier Great Perfection as Xiao Yan’s three-flame fusion took shape.

Xiao Yan faced the Centipede Evil Emperor in the Reincarnation Sea, where the Emperor planned to unleash poison rain that would destroy the realm. Surrounded by millions of poisonous creatures and overwhelmed by the Emperor’s power, Xiao Yan called upon the Demon and the God Slashing Ruler, and his Demon Bloodline began to awaken in furious radiance.

• The Centipede Evil Emperor appeared amid a swarm of poisonous creatures and revealed the poison rain gathered in an altar inside his shell.
• The Emperor demanded the Sacred Flame Origin from Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan demanded that he withdraw his forces from the Great Thousand Territory.
• The Centipede Evil Emperor mocked Xiao Yan’s strength and prepared to unleash poison rain that would annihilate the Reincarnation Sea.
• The Emperor’s poisonous army swallowed Xiao Yan’s Holy Flame and trapped him as it swept through the void.
• Xiao Yan recalled that the Demon and the God Slashing Ruler were his final means of resistance, then let his Demon Bloodline boil and radiate across the darkness.

Xiao Yan sought Ye Meng’s help to use the Alchemy Room’s facilities to break through to an Emperor Grade Two Alchemist, but Ye Meng challenged him to a pill-refining match against Leng Fuyao. Leng Fuyao offered Xiao Yan a fair match, and the contest was left to begin.

• Qin Xin brought Xiao Yan to meet Ye Meng, who tried to turn them away from the Alchemy Room.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Emperor Realm Earth Grade Perfection soul power, impressing Ye Meng and surprising Leng Fuyao.
• Ye Meng refused to let Xiao Yan use the Alchemy Room’s facilities under a newly issued rule, and Xiao Yan prepared to leave.
• Ye Meng offered to help Xiao Yan if he became his disciple, but Zhu Jin’s warning made Ye Meng withdraw the offer.
• Ye Meng proposed a pill-refining match between Xiao Yan and Leng Fuyao, with Xiao Yan allowed to use the facilities if he won.
• Leng Fuyao introduced herself and extended her hand to Xiao Yan, asking for a fair match.

Lin Yunshu fought the Demon Servant, awakened the power of the stars, and unleashed her Star Talisman. The chapter ended as her attack and the Demon’s blood-forged gear collided, with the fate of the continent still uncertain.

• The Demon Servant challenged Lin Yunshu to become his mate, but she refused and agreed to fight him.
• Lin Yunshu’s Star Waterfall shattered against the Demon’s Hand, which passed through her body without harming her as starlight emerged from her chest.
• Lin Yunshu awakened the Starlight Power, drawing strength from the stars and restoring her body while the Demon’s power weakened.
• Lin Yunshu removed the Star Talisman from her forehead and prepared to use it against the Demon.
• The Demon unleashed Blood Devouring Heavens, sacrificing commoners to form a massive demonic gear, while Lin Yunshu cast the Star Talisman toward it.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er discovered Feng Luanyi, the Phoenix Clan Patriarch, sealed inside an array with the Nirvana Phoenix Flame. To help suppress the Reincarnation Seal tormenting Xun'er, Xiao Yan forced a passage through the Blood-Red Crystals toward the throne and its Holy Flame.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er recognized the sealed woman as the Phoenix Clan Patriarch and identified the flame above her as the ninth-ranked Nirvana Phoenix Flame.
• The Reincarnation Seal pulled Xun'er toward the array, and Xiao Yan accompanied her despite the danger.
• The Five-Footed Golden Crow and Xun'er recounted how Feng Luanyi had saved Fire Master Jiuxuan and later been imprisoned by the Phoenix Clan.
• The Five-Footed Golden Crow urged Xiao Yan to obtain some of the Nirvana Phoenix Flame to help suppress the Reincarnation Seal.
• Xiao Yan wrapped his palm in Glazed Colored Flame and smashed through the Blood-Red Crystals, carving a passage toward Feng Luanyi's throne.

Xiao Yan overcame the Earth Xuan Lightning and successfully refined an Emperor Grade Two medicinal pill. After securing the pill, he waited in the main courtyard for Qin Xin to return so they could make their trade.

• The Earth Xuan Lightning took the shape of a black Giant Tiger and attacked Xiao Yan as disciples and elders watched.
• Zhu Yuan returned to the Earth Hall to bid farewell to his master and said Xiao Yan was stronger than him.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Mantra and Flame Splitting Wave Ruler against the tiger, then struck it with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath when it rushed at him.
• The black Giant Tiger vanished, the thunder clouds dissipated, and Xiao Yan completed the pill.
• Xiao Yan stored the Xuan Yin Pill, put away the Black Demon Cauldron, and went to the main courtyard to await Qin Xin.