Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and King Xuan Ling both survived the devastating Lotus of Life and Death, but Yue Ru’s attack was halted when King Xuan Ling revealed he could kill the mind-controlled powerhouses. The confrontation ended with Xiao Yan and Yue Ru forced to weigh killing King Xuan Ling against the lives of everyone in Xuan Tian San.

• Xiao Yan’s Lotus of Life and Death heavily injured King Xuan Ling, while the explosion scorched the altar and left Xiao Yan exhausted.
• King Xuan Ling attacked Xiao Yan, but Yue Ru arrived and blocked his strike.
• Xiao Yan told Yue Ru that King Xuan Ling had controlled Xuan Tian San’s powerhouses through the Poison Sect’s Soul Controlling Guide, and Yue Ru moved to confront him.
• King Xuan Ling revealed a Soul Ball containing the soul power of the controlled powerhouses and threatened to kill them if anyone attacked him.
• King Xuan Ling taunted Xiao Yan to kill him and accept the deaths of Xuan Tian San’s powerhouses.

Xiao Yan resolved to grow stronger, find Xun Er and the Immortal Holy Flame, and return to the Burning Incense Pavilion for the Sect Tournament. On the way to a teleportation array near Luoyan Town, he intervened when Xuan Ling Imperial Family men tried to kill an injured stranger, and faced them with his Primordial Fire Ruler.

• Xiao Yan decided to focus on the Sect Tournament before searching for Xun Er and the Immortal Holy Flame and reclaiming things from the faction that had guarded the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan headed for the Ghost Realm seal, hoping to use its teleportation array to return to the Burning Incense Pavilion.
• Near Luoyan Town, Xiao Yan sensed two burly men pursuing an injured Mid Seven-star Dou Di, who fought back with Fen Tian Jue but was nearly killed.
• Xiao Yan struck the captain's axe aside, appeared before the men, and gave the injured stranger healing pills.
• Xiao Yan drew his Primordial Fire Ruler and confronted the Xuan Ling Imperial Family men as they challenged him.

Xiao Yan and You Er infiltrated the West Divine Hall while Ji Mo fought Hun Mietian, who had come to secure the Holy Flame for the Ghost Kingdom. Using You Er’s detailed map, they identified two possible locations for the Lord of Fierce Souls’ seclusion.

• Ji Mo confronted Hun Mietian over the Ghost Kingdom’s collusion with human forces, and the two fought inside Ji Mo’s poison domain.
• Xiao Yan and You Er discussed the Soul Hall’s ties to the Ghost Kingdom and slipped away in disguise to pursue the Lord of Fierce Souls.
• Hua Shao took the Forbidden Cage and Flame Swallowing Crystals to the Lord of Fierce Souls’ Seclusion Ground, while Ji Mo disappeared and unfamiliar patrols went unnoticed.
• Xiao Yan and You Er navigated the West Divine Hall’s maze of passages using a detailed map You Er had received from her teacher.
• You Er pointed out two places on the map where the Lord of Fierce Souls might be in seclusion, and Xiao Yan stared at the marked locations.

Xiao Yan investigated why the space channel between the Endless Fire Domain and the Netherworld had been cut off and discovered signs of the Foreign Territory Army in the wormhole. After Xiao Zifan revealed that the Netherworld contained the Netherworld Entrance, Xiao Yan ordered preparations for an urgent expedition.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zifan, Xiao Gui, Mu Feng, and the others, then revealed that he had subdued the Third Holy Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Mu Feng to seek intelligence and followed Xiao Zifan to inspect the sealed space channel to the Netherworld.
• Xiao Yan entered the wormhole, found it filled with evil mist, and fought black-eyed stone pillars that called it the Evil Realm.
• Xiao Yan returned without sharing his suspicions and spoke privately with Xiao Zifan.
• Xiao Zifan told Xiao Yan that the Netherworld contained the Netherworld Entrance, prompting Xiao Yan to order an elders' meeting and prepare to act once Mu Feng obtained intelligence.

Xiao Yan and his allies defeated the Soul-Hooking Envoy and Zen Master Wuxiang, then discovered a powerful water array protecting the palaces beneath the Samsara Pool. As Tang Feng proposed that the gathered experts work together to break it, the Hell Flame Slave revealed that the world below was the homeland of the Six Paths Samsara Fire Slaves.

• Xiao Yan shattered the Hell Samsara Pillar while Yun Yun and the Hell Flame Slave helped kill Zen Master Wuxiang, and two fierce spirits devoured the defeated enemies’ remaining origins.
• Xiao Yan found Yun Yun unharmed, though the fierce spirits on her sword seemed to be transforming after their feast.
• Xiao Yan examined the palace world beneath the Samsara Pool and learned from the Nether Sea Dragon Serpent that a deadly water array blocked the way in.
• Xiao Yan’s soul power entered the water array and caused him excruciating pain, confirming its danger.
• Tang Feng proposed that the gathered experts pool their strength to break the array and then pursue the treasures independently.
• The Hell Flame Slave revealed that the world below was the homeland of the Six Paths Samsara Fire Slaves.

Xiao Yan, Jasmine, and Elder Gu confronted the Magic Whale Sea Dragon Beast in the Devil Sea Area, with Xiao Yan and Jasmine trying to draw it out of the water. The beast revealed its immense power and incapacitated Elder Gu and Jasmine with its Demonic Sound Tide, leaving it to approach the ferry.

• Jasmine recognized the Magic Whale Sea Dragon Beast as an old enemy and asked Xiao Yan to lure it above the water, where they would have a better chance of fighting it.
• Xiao Yan and Jasmine surfaced, while the beast attacked the ferry from below with enormous waves and water-whip strikes.
• Xiao Yan protected the ferry with his Soul Sacred Shield as Jasmine and Elder Gu prepared their techniques, but he pretended to be injured to bait the beast into striking the vessel.
• Elder Gu trapped the Magic Whale Sea Dragon Beast with hundreds of water chains, revealing its enormous body, but it unleashed its Demonic Sound Tide and disrupted the others' Dou Qi.
• The beast taunted Jasmine as it moved toward the ferry, while Elder Gu collapsed and the others struggled under the sound's effects.

Cassel Anjou and Elder Li received Xiao Yan and Li Tianxiao at the Information Trading House, where they revealed that both were heading to the Buddha Realm and gave them intelligence scrolls. Xiao Yan entered the Buddha Realm to seek a way to repair the God Slashing Ruler, while Elder Li defended his decision to help them to the other elders.

• Cassel Anjou introduced himself as the Building Master and invited Xiao Yan and Li Tianxiao inside the Information Trading House.
• Elder Li returned with two protected intelligence scrolls and revealed that Xiao Yan and Li Tianxiao were both bound for the Buddha Realm.
• Elder Li gave Xiao Yan and Li Tianxiao the scrolls and arranged for escorts to lead them to the Buddha Realm plane channel.
• Xiao Yan entered the Buddha Realm, intent on repairing the God Slashing Ruler.
• After they left, Elder Li told the other elders he had given the intelligence away because he believed Li Tianxiao and Xiao Yan had exceptional potential.

Xiao Yan unleashed a Four-Colored Fire Lotus made from three Holy Flame Origins and one child flame against Yin Protector, nearly exhausting himself in the process. Yin Protector survived but was left gravely weakened, and a mysterious voice emerged from Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring as he began to fall.

• Yin Protector recognized Xiao Yan’s three Holy Flames and formed a massive black tornado to defend himself.
• Xiao Yan sent the Four-Colored Fire Lotus tearing through space toward Yin Protector.
• Yin Protector used a silver bag of ghosts to create a blood-red protective shackle around himself.
• Xiao Yan detonated the fire lotus, destroying the black tornado and shattering Yin Protector’s shackle.
• Yin Protector survived as an illusory soul, while Xiao Yan collapsed from exhaustion.
• A gentle power from Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring began restoring him, and Yin Protector reacted with shock to the accompanying voice.

Xiao Yan and the Yu sisters arrived in the Eastern Continent after a month aboard a Space Ship, where they met Mo Yu, the powerful guide of the spatial array. They went with him to register for the Eastern Continent Tournament, which would begin in a month.

• Yu Renran told Xiao Yan that she knew he came from another realm and explained that her Yu Sect had left the Human Realm for the Ghost Realm.
• Xiao Yan spent the month cultivating aboard the Space Ship as it traveled toward the Eastern Continent.
• Yu Renran pointed out the Eastern Continent’s entrance, and Yu Wei guided the Space Ship out of the space channel.
• Xiao Yan and the Yu sisters emerged at a spatial array atop a mountain in the Eastern Continent.
• Mo Yu greeted the trio, exchanged news with Yu Renran about her father, and invited them to register for the tournament.

Xiao Yan tried to reach Spirit Devouring King and fight Son of Heaven, but the furnace released the Hell Demon Dragon, a supreme being immune to flames. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan’s Seven Flames Destroy the World attack failing to injure it.

• Xiao Yan descended into the furnace to rescue Spirit Devouring King, but the bizarre barrier kept them apart and swallowed his Four-Attribute Power attack.
• Son of Heaven summoned a giant tiger made from Xiao Yan’s power and struck Xiao Yan with a three-color claw, pushing him toward the furnace.
• The Hell Demon Dragon emerged from the furnace, swallowed the giant tiger, and joined Son of Heaven against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan returned to Spirit Devouring King and discovered that the chains binding him were connected to the soul below, so both had to be destroyed together.
• Xiao Yan attacked the Hell Demon Dragon with Seven Flames Destroy the World, but the dragon’s black scales took no substantial damage.

Zhu Jin and the Burning Incense Pavilion elders planned a mission to enter the Xuan Ling Imperial Family’s Underground Palace and find Yan Chi. They would wait for a chance during a ruins expedition in half a year, while Pavilion Master Fen Tian remained away handling his romantic debts.

• Ling Mengsheng offered to create powerless avatars to disguise the group’s absence from the Burning Incense Pavilion.
• Mu Xuzi proposed using the Burning Incense Pavilion’s Flight Escape passage to enter the Underground Palace, where Zhu Jin confirmed Yan Chi’s aura was present on the Seventh Layer.
• Zhu Jin warned that the Underground Palace held at least three Nine-star Di and numerous other powerful fighters, and assigned the group to handle them.
• Zhu Jin said the group would act when the Xuan Ling Imperial Family sent forces to a ruins in Xuan Tian San half a year later.
• Elder Zhu revealed that Fen Tian was away dealing with romantic debts, and Fen Tian sneezed near the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion.

Xiao Yan and Yuan Feng infiltrated Yuan River by subduing two Elder Council guards and taking their identities. After learning the patrol positions, they headed toward the Elder Council’s base camp, where Xiao Yan hoped to test his unstable strength against six-star Dou Xian experts.

• Xiao Yan and Yuan Feng hid in Yuan River and overheard guards discussing the stalemate between the Light Demon and the Four Hall Masters as they awaited the Soul Devouring Domain’s experts.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the river and attacked two five-star Dou Xian guards, containing their signal scroll inside his Acacia Flame Domain.
• Xiao Yan used his cyan flames and pink domain power to overpower the guards, while Yuan Feng knocked them unconscious with his soul power.
• Xiao Yan and Yuan Feng changed into the guards’ clothes, and Xiao Yan probed their minds for information about the patrols and route into Yuan River.
• Xiao Yan invited Yuan Feng to brave Yuan River with him, and they headed toward the base camp to confront the six-star Dou Xian experts.

Luo Menglan returned to Luozhamu’s residence and learned that she could reject Ling Yu’s forced marriage. Luozhamu revealed the Luo Clan’s plan to leave the Ghost Realm and return to their homeland, and began preparing her to absorb the clan’s Saint Flame.

• Luo Menglan returned late and told Luozhamu that she had broken through to four-star Dou Xian.
• Luozhamu told Luo Menglan she could reject Ling Yu’s forced marriage, with protection from Earth Spirit Old Ghost if the Earth Courtyard objected.
• Luozhamu brought Luo Menglan into the Luo Clan Ancestral Hall and revealed that the clan’s homeland was the Tianyin Continent beneath the Human Realm.
• Luozhamu instructed Luo Menglan to worship the spirit tablets daily and absorb their grey-white Saint Force before she could devour the Luo Clan’s Saint Flame.
• Earth Spirit Old Ghost agreed to return to the homeland with the Luo Clan and warned Luozhamu that Sin and the Outer Realm Evil Clan had been expanding their activities.

Xiao Yan fought the Black-Robed Man to a standstill, but the Soul Clan fighter tried to kill him by self-destructing. Duan Tianfeng shielded Xiao Yan and stopped the blast, while an unseen trace of energy gathered into Xiao Yan's possession.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he knew about the Soul Clan, the Soul Hall, and the Black-Robed Man's Natal Soul Lock, and the two continued their fight.
• The Black-Robed Man declared his loyalty to the Soul Clan's cause and began self-destructing to take Xiao Yan with him.
• Duan Qifei and Liu Qing urged Duan Tianfeng to save Xiao Yan, and Duan Tianfeng rushed into the Arena Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan defended himself with Dou Qi and Soul Power, but the Black-Robed Man's soul force repeatedly re-formed and threatened to overwhelm him.
• Duan Tianfeng arrived, protected Xiao Yan with silver lightning, and used another lightning strike to resolve the self-destruct.
• A faint trace of energy gathered into Xiao Yan's possession without Duan Tianfeng noticing.

Inside the Dragon Tomb, the Golden Dragon King prepared to enter the Dragon God stele and risk his life to gain the Dragon God Power, hoping to turn the Dragon Clan’s civil war in his faction’s favor. He left instructions for his followers and asked after several missing allies before beginning the attempt.

• Long Yi warned that the Silver Dragon King’s growing strength made the Dragon Clan’s internal conflict increasingly dangerous.
• The Golden Dragon King said his primordial dragon body had been destroyed and that he needed to comprehend the Dragon God Power to quell the conflict.
• The white-robed elder agreed that entering the stele was the only viable gamble, despite the danger to the Dragon Lord.
• The Golden Dragon King told his followers to submit temporarily if necessary and to seek Xiao Yan with his Holy Decree if he failed to return.
• The Golden Dragon King promised to make Long Yi the Dragon Clan’s tenth king and asked whether Long Qing, Long Hao, and the Holy Armor Dragon Army Commander had been found.

The Third Hall Master learned that three Ghost Realm exit seals had weakened and sought help as the Ghost Realm prepared to invade Xuan Tian San. Blood Rose coordinated the Ghost Realm’s plans and prepared to meet an imperial prince from the Xuan Ling Imperial Family.

• A Black-robed Man told the Third Hall Master that Ghostly Creatures had escaped through three weakened seals, and the Third Hall Master learned that Purgatory Hall guards and the Heaven Hall Seven-Man Team were watching the exits.
• The Third Hall Master questioned a captive Ghost Emperor, who threatened that the Ghost Realm Army would annihilate Xuan Tian San.
• Blood Rose learned that three of Xuan Tian San’s nine sealed exits had opened and told her agent to delay the Ghost Realm’s plan until the sect competition began.
• Blood Rose agreed to meet an imperial prince from the Xuan Ling Imperial Family after hearing he had come to see her.

Xun Er accepted leadership of the Gu Clan and organized an evacuation from the Ancient Prison while she and Xiao Yan prepared to reclaim the clan. At a strategy meeting, Gu Qingkong and Gu Yang revealed that the Outer Realm Evil Clan had planted deadly, mind-controlling holes in everyone in the vassal city, complicating the planned assault on the Gu Clan Core.

• Xun Er accepted the Gu Clan elders’ submission and became their Clan Chief, then ordered the Ancient Prison army to evacuate and gather forces for the coming battle.
• Xiao Yan noticed a trace of Jet-Black Qi Force while resting with Xun Er, and they discussed returning home to see Xiao Lin and Xiao Xiao after the conflict.
• Xun Er proposed that the assembled forces attack the Gu Clan Core, retake the Gu Clan, and destroy the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Gu Qingkong and Gu Yang explained that tiny holes planted in the people of the vassal city extracted soul power and could poison or control their victims.
• Gu Yang warned that anyone approaching within a thousand kilometers of the Gu Clan’s core land could have their mind controlled, even if they were an Eight-Star Dou Xian.

Xiao Yan told Elder Zhu that he had reached six-star Dou Di without undergoing a tribulation and had no power of life and death, leaving Elder Zhu puzzled. Elder Zhu then discovered that Xiao Yan’s spiritual power had advanced alongside the sacred flame, and the chapter ended as Xiao Yan’s core inscription emitted a strange red radiance.

• Xiao Yan revealed that his six-star Dou Di breakthrough came after he swallowed the sacred flame, without a Six-star Dou Di Tribulation or any power of life and death.
• Elder Zhu explained that the power of life and death was necessary to advance from Dou Di Peak to Dou Xian and promised to investigate Xiao Yan’s unusual breakthrough.
• Elder Zhu asked whether the sacred flame had affected Xiao Yan’s spiritual power, and Xiao Yan sensed that the Divine Movement Natal Core Inscription had emerged beside the Ni Palace Pill.
• Elder Zhu identified Xiao Yan’s spiritual power as a six-rune Yellow Forming Array Master, far beyond the level he had reached when he joined the Burning Incense Pavilion.
• As Xiao Yan continued sensing the core inscription, it emitted a red radiance that made the room feel deathly.

Yaoji revealed the Eternal Ruler’s origins as the damaged God Slashing Ruler and sent Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi to defeat the Magic Shadow Evil Spirit in the Golden Elf Coffin. With six Holy Runes empowered by holy flames, Xiao Yan summoned the ruler’s vast power, leaving the enemy and coffin on the verge of destruction.

• Yaoji explained the God Slashing Ruler’s restoration and tasked Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi with defeating the evil thought and retrieving the Spirit Patriarch Token in exchange for Xiao Yi’s inheritance and a repair method.
• Yaoji temporarily granted Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi reincarnation-stage strength and transported them into the Golden Elf Coffin.
• Xiao Yan attacked the black aura on the Golden Coffin with a Five-Colored Fire Lotus, forcing the Magic Shadow Evil Spirit to reveal itself.
• The Magic Shadow Evil Spirit trapped Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi in an Evil Thought Formation, but Xiao Yi’s Reincarnation Seal repelled the evil power.
• Xiao Yan invoked the Eternal Ruler and six Holy Runes, manifesting a Golden Giant Ruler whose sacred power shattered the space and made the Magic Shadow Evil Spirit and coffin tremble.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er found the imprisoned Five-Footed Golden Crow in the Ice and Fire Underground Palace, where they learned it was Fire Master Jiuxuan's Divine Artifact and Holy Flame Spirit. Xuan Ye of the Black Bird Clan appeared to capture the Golden Crow and Xun'er, leaving Xiao Yan facing a true Third Reincarnation Stage opponent.

• Xiao Yan and Xun'er entered the frozen lake and approached the Five-Footed Golden Crow, resisting the Yin Cold Force with Xiao Yan's Soul Power.
• The Five-Footed Golden Crow recognized its master and revealed that it had been imprisoned by the Black Bird Clan for nearly ten thousand years.
• Xun'er received information from the Golden Crow's flames and learned its identity as Fire Master Jiuxuan's Signature Skill, Holy Flame Spirit, and Divine Artifact.
• Xuan Ye emerged from the void and shattered the Golden Crow's attack with a gesture.
• Xuan Ye declared that he would obliterate the Golden Crow and seize Xun'er's Reincarnation Seal, while Xiao Yan realized Xuan Ye had reached the true Third Reincarnation Stage.