Chapter Summaries

Youhuan controlled Yan Clan disciples and dispatched You Zun and Huan Zun to monitor the Thunder Tomb participants while he investigated powerful auras deeper inside. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan’s group encountered three Thunder Eating Beasts, and Xiao Yan assigned one to each pair of companions while taking the third himself.

• Youhuan froze the Yan Clan disciples with his Soul Controlling Technique, then ordered them to annihilate or assimilate the participants.
• Youhuan sent You Zun and Huan Zun to watch the participants and went toward powerful auras in the depths of the Thunder Tomb.
• Duan Qifei approached the river’s Energy Entities, but Xiao Yan warned her back when a Thunder Eating Beast swallowed them.
• Two more Thunder Eating Beasts appeared and surrounded Xiao Yan and his four companions; each beast could rival a human Two-star Dou Xian perfection powerhouse.
• Xiao Yan assigned Renran and Yu Wei one beast, Liu Qing and Qifei another, and claimed the remaining beast for himself.

Xiao Yan and Yun Qi tied for first in the second trial and received rewards from Forged Blade Thunder Valley. Elder Lei He then took the top three and Duan Qifei to a hidden stronghold, where the upcoming third stage was revealed to be intensive training.

• Elder Lei He stopped Xiao Yan and Yun Qi's fight, and the trial later produced the remaining rankings, with Liu Qing placing sixth and Yu Renran ninth.
• Elder Lei He announced that the top contestants had qualified for the Four Continents Tournament and that the third stage would serve as training or a bestowal of fortune.
• Elder Lei He brought Hua Fei and his companion to collect their rewards, then led Xiao Yan, Yun Qi, and Duan Qifei into the forest stronghold.
• Yun Qi offered to help Xiao Yan with soul power, and Xiao Yan chose the right-hand Dou Technique scroll after hearing advice from the Soul Devouring Master.
• Elder Lei He told Duan Qifei that the Valley Master had ordered intensive training for her, and she happily agreed.

Xiao Yan entered the soul-power contest and revealed that his soul power had reached the Taixu Realm. After defeating a provoker, he began his top-five match against Leng Hanyan and learned to shape his soul power into a physical form.

• Hua Fei explained that the Alchemist Association president was grooming Yun Qi as his successor, while Lei He divided the contestants into groups based on their soul power.
• A Shu Family contestant provoked Yun Qi and Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan asked Lei He whether he could attack under the rules.
• Xiao Yan struck the Shu Family contestant with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, overwhelming his half-step Immortal Realm soul and leaving him screaming.
• Lei He announced Xiao Yan's top-five match against Leng Hanyan, who summoned a giant Spirit Python Soul.
• The Soul Devouring Master instructed Xiao Yan on materializing soul power, and Xiao Yan formed a red-flamed Soul Fire Tiger to the astonishment of the spectators.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui encountered Moyu, a member of the Four Heroes of the Hidden Soul Society, in a lake inside the Demon Suppressing Prison. After Moyu warned that Duan Qifei and other strong experts from the Eastern Continent were surrounded, Xiao Yan hurried toward Duan Qifei while the Soul Devouring Master sensed a plot involving the Dusha Demon Empress.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui traveled deeper into the Demon Suppressing Prison, where Xiao Yan's points rose to 210.
• Xiao Gui noticed something beneath a gloomy lake, and Xiao Yan drew out a human with a powerful water aura.
• The man identified himself as Moyu of the Four Heroes of the Hidden Soul Society and said Eastern Continent experts were surrounded by Western Continent forces.
• Moyu vanished, and Xiao Yan used his connection to Duan Qifei to detect that Duan Qifei's aura was weakening and rushed toward him with Xiao Gui.
• The Soul Devouring Master sensed Soul Hall Soul Zun experts watching the Dusha Demon Empress and considered taking Xiao Gui to confront the Outer Realm Evil Clan.

Xiao Yan fought to capture the Tier 5 Immortal Grade Embryonic Pill inside the Pill Hall, but after suppressing the child, he discovered that Qifei had been taken hostage. A pale figure threatened to kill her unless Xiao Yan handed over the pill.

• The child identified himself as the Tier 5 Immortal Grade Embryonic Pill and attacked Xiao Yan with a rain of pills from the Pill Hall.
• Xiao Yan dodged the attacks, then struck at the child with the Seven-layered Heaven Breaking Ruler and suppressed him with the Spirit-Devouring Blood Monument.
• The Soul Devouring Master sensed a strange Ghost Qi in the Pill Hall as Xiao Yan prepared to leave with the child and Qifei.
• Xiao Yan realized Qifei had disappeared, and a pale living-dead figure appeared holding her unconscious body hostage and demanded the Tier 5 Immortal Grade Embryonic Pill.

Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei explored the Mihun Heavenly Palace, a labyrinth designed by Tianwang Cang to test entrants and bar the Outer Realm Evil Clan. After the labyrinth’s guardian activated a deadly mechanism, the pair found a way forward and approached a mysterious, powerful voice.

• Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei sensed a dreadful aura in the labyrinth, while the Soul Devouring Master explained that the Mihun Heavenly Palace was part of Tianwang Cang’s ruins and had once been used to imprison enemies.
• Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei walked in circles until the Soul Devouring Master told Xiao Yan to burn a drop of demonic beast essence blood with Holy Flame.
• A hidden guardian recognized Xiao Yan’s Holy Flame and triggered the labyrinth, causing its walls to rotate and close in on the pair.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Duan Qifei and ran through the sole remaining passage as the other routes vanished.
• Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei approached a Light Port and heard a benevolent voice invite them inside, its power surpassing that of the Earth Spirit Blood General.

Duan Qifei used her silver-gray lightning to bind a Fire Lion Sect attacker, but his fire dragon began to explode before Xiao Yan arrived and rescued her. Xiao Yan faced Muxi and the two black-robed men, while Muxi sent the two attackers to fight him and prepared to watch for interference.

• Duan Qifei summoned the Thunder Bound Immortal Lock and bound the black-robed man's fire dragon, but the Fire Lion Sect disciple triggered an explosion from within it.
• Duan Qifei prepared to use her samsara power to escape the blast, but Xiao Yan arrived, stopped the flames, and caught her as she fell.
• Xiao Yan restored Duan Qifei's strength and promised to kill the attackers, while Duan Qifei warned him that they were three-star later-stage Dou Xian from the Western Continent Fire Lion Sect.
• Xiao Yan told the others to stand aside and asked Xiao Gui to keep watch as he faced Muxi and the two black-robed men.
• Muxi told the two Fire Lion Sect men to attack Xiao Yan while she watched for other powerhouses, promising them a reward.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui entered the Qiankun Ancient Array and watched Hun Nie restore its array stone, only for him to use hidden ghost Qi to crack the pillar sealing the Dusha Demon Empress. The chapter left the seal beginning to break as Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui waited nearby.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui entered the Qiankun Ancient Array, where the Soul Devouring Master explained that the Dusha Demon Empress and Di Dusha were sealed within it.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui found Hun Nie at the array core and watched him prepare to use an array stone.
• Hun Nie returned the array stone to the Pillar Supporting the Heavens, restoring the Qiankun Ancient Array to its peak power.
• Hun Nie activated ghost Qi hidden on the array stone, forming cracks in the pillar that led toward the Dusha Demon Empress's sealed location.

Dusha Demon Empress broke free of her seal as the Soul Hall retreated and most of the fighters fled the Demon Suppressing Prison. Xiao Yan stayed behind to face her, while Dusha appeared and began absorbing the prison’s evil power.

• Dusha Demon Empress hurled Hun Nie aside, and the Soul Hall leader ordered a retreat with the injured Hun Nie.
• Xiao Yan warned the fighters that Dusha had broken the seal, prompting the Four Continent powerhouses and Yuanyan to leave and seek reinforcements.
• Xiao Gui, Duan Qifei, and Liu Qing refused to abandon Xiao Yan, but he persuaded them to leave and promised he would survive.
• Mo Tianxing ordered the Hidden Soul Guild powerhouses to attack Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan briefly defeated them with his flames.
• Dusha Demon Empress appeared in the sky beside a man and absorbed the Demon Suppressing Prison’s evil power, leaving Mo Tianxing terrified.

After stabilizing his strength, Xiao Yan exchanged ten thousand contribution points for the Flame Swallowing Technique and learned that it could greatly increase his power by devouring flames. He planned to cultivate it, refine a pill to devour the Undying Fire, and enter the Lihun Domain.

• Xiao Yan stabilized his aura at the saturation point of a Three Star mid-stage Dou Xian after five days of cultivation.
• Xiao Yan used ten thousand contribution points to exchange for the Flame Swallowing Technique, then escaped the Demon Suppressing Treasure as a powerful figure from the Lihun Domain appeared too late to stop him.
• The Soul Devouring Master warned Xiao Yan that the exchange would alert the Lihun Domain's higher-ups, and Xiao Yan resolved to cultivate the technique and prepare to enter the domain.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Medium Grade Immortal Technique could raise his strength by devouring flames, with no apparent upper limit to the increase from consuming Holy Flames.

The Dusha Demon Empress attacked Xiao Yan after slaughtering the Hidden Soul Guild experts, but the Soul Devouring Master appeared to protect his disciple. The Soul Devouring Master confronted the Empress and declared that neither she nor Di Dusha would escape.

• The Dusha Demon Empress arrived, absorbed demonic Qi, and recognized Xiao Yan’s strength and holy flame.
• The Empress’s Green Light Beam killed the Hidden Soul Guild experts, while Mo Tianxing escaped.
• The Dusha Demon Empress restrained Xiao Yan with green demonic Qi and demanded that he surrender his holy flame, but Xiao Yan refused.
• As the Empress squeezed the demonic Qi around Xiao Yan, the Soul Devouring Master appeared above him and frightened Di Dusha and the Empress.
• The Soul Devouring Master said Xiao Yan wanted the reward points on the Empress and prepared to fight her and Di Dusha.

As powerful figures across the Lihun Domain gathered at the Four Divine Halls, Xiao Yan learned that the Central Region Alliance had summoned him over news of a holy flame. He and Huo Yi headed to the alliance summit, where factions and disciples were gathering to discuss the coming contest.

• The Spirit Academy Dean temporarily took over as headmaster after both headmasters left, while powerful figures from the academies and lower planes were summoned to the Four Divine Halls.
• Elder Bo claimed the gathering was for a sacrificial ceremony, though perceptive observers suspected a major event was imminent.
• Huo Yi told Xiao Yan that the Central Region Alliance had invited him because of news about a holy flame, and Xiao Yan agreed to go with him alone.
• Aileen learned that Xiao Yan had broken through the Earth Spirit Pagoda trial and headed to the alliance summit, intent on overcoming her earlier defeat.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Yi reached the mountain outside Sky City, where representatives of the six factions and other contenders gathered.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Manghuang Ghost Abyss to seek the Undying Fire, where an unknown dark green powerhouse ambushed him but then revealed he meant no harm. The man easily destroyed the Soul Devouring Master's powerful avatar, leaving Xiao Yan stunned by his strength and identity.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Manghuang Ghost Abyss and sensed that the Undying Fire was real, then headed toward the center.
• The Black Fiend Dragon Wolf tracked Xiao Yan's Holy Flame aura and chased after him, believing he had found the Flame Mantra cultivator.
• A dark green domain trapped Xiao Yan, and its mysterious master attacked him as Xiao Yan unleashed his strongest techniques.
• The dark green man stopped attacking and used his power to restore Xiao Yan, explaining that he had only wanted to verify something.
• The Soul Devouring Master's avatar emerged to protect Xiao Yan, but the dark green man wiped it out with a wave of his hand, leaving Xiao Yan shocked.

Xiao Yan stood up to Feng Qingyang, and Zhao Guang intervened to stop their confrontation so the Five Academies could break the seal on the Holy Flame Land. As the entrance appeared, Xiao Yan sensed hidden Outer Realm Evil Clan powerhouses in the crowd and prepared for the danger ahead.

• Feng Qingyang threatened Xiao Yan after their clash, but Zhao Guang stepped in and urged everyone to focus on lifting the seal.
• Aileen thanked Xiao Yan for defending her and invited him to follow her into the ruins, and he agreed.
• Yu Xiao and representatives of the Five Academies joined their power to shatter the light pillar sealing the Holy Flame Land.
• A gray-robed Outer Realm Evil Clan member and dozens of hidden allies planned to seize the Undying Fire and use the deaths of the prodigies to invade Lihun Domain.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Holy Flames in his body reacting to the hidden enemy, then watched the seal vanish and reveal the entrance.

Aileen and Xiao Yan took in Xiao Zhuoma, who had been chased through the Red Mist, but a Ghostly Creature named Mu Wushuang appeared and attacked them. Mu Wushuang escaped after Aileen joined the fight, intending to report that Xiao Zhuoma had been found to his lord.

• Xiao Zhuoma told Aileen that she had woken up in the Red Mist and been hunted by strange men until Xiao Yan drove them away.
• Aileen took Xiao Zhuoma aside to clean her up, while Xiao Yan thought about returning to the Lower Realm to bring Xiao Xiao and Cai Lin to him.
• Mu Wushuang emerged from the earth and identified himself before attacking Xiao Yan with eerie Ghost Qi techniques.
• Xiao Yan countered Mu Wushuang's attacks, and Aileen arrived with Xiao Zhuoma and shielded him with a water barrier.
• Mu Wushuang recognized Xiao Zhuoma and escaped under cover of Ghost Qi, planning to report her location to his lord.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Glacial Milky Way and encountered You Er, a Soul Academy expert seeking cooperation against the Lord of Fierce Souls. Xiao Yan rejected her offer of a Holy Flame devouring secret and demanded a detailed map of the Four Divine Halls instead.

• Xiao Yan and his companions entered the ice palace within the Glacial Milky Way and found a spiral passage leading deeper below.
• You Er ambushed Xiao Yan with a soul attack, but Xiao Yan met it with his own soul power and the two attacks shattered part of the ice.
• Aileen recognized You Er as a Soul Academy expert and explained that the academy had suffered a major upheaval.
• You Er revealed that the Lord of Fierce Souls had devastated the Soul Academy and proposed cooperating with Xiao Yan against him.
• You Er offered to share the Soul Academy's secret research on Ghost Realm Ghostly Creatures devouring the Holy Flame, but Xiao Yan asked instead for a detailed map of the Four Divine Halls.

Xiao Yan agreed to help You Er obtain the Cold Jade Spiritual Bamboo in exchange for a map to the Lord of Fierce Souls's divine hall. At the bottom of the ice palace, the group confronted Xuantian Hall experts who were trying to break the ice sculpture, and Xiao Yan began fighting Tian Feng.

• You Er agreed to give Xiao Yan a detailed map if he helped her obtain the treasure, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• You Er revealed that the Cold Jade Spiritual Bamboo could protect against flames and help them enter the fiery core of the Undying Sacred Pool.
• Xuan Yuan and Mu Wushuang attacked the ice sculpture with their soul locks, but the Cold Jade Spiritual Bamboo remained protected.
• You Er led Xiao Yan, Aileen, and Xiao Zhuoma into the bottom chamber, where the Xuantian Hall experts discovered them.
• You Er engaged the strongest opponent while Xiao Yan faced Tian Feng, who attacked with his soul lock.
• Xiao Yan countered Tian Feng's soul-lock attack with the Heavenly King Seal.

Xiao Yan and You Er recovered the Cold Jade Spiritual Bamboo from the ice sculpture and completed their exchange for a map to the Lord of Fierce Souls's Four Divine Halls. Mu Wushuang escaped with Xiao Zhuoma, while You Er left for the core of the Undying Sacred Pool.

• Xiao Yan defeated Xuan Yuan, then joined You Er at the ice sculpture containing the Cold Jade Spiritual Bamboo.
• Xiao Yan used the Holy Flame on the ice sculpture, but it absorbed his power and trapped his palm.
• Mu Wushuang seized Xiao Zhuoma and escaped from the ice palace despite Aileen's attempt to stop him.
• Xiao Yan and You Er released soul power into the ice sculpture until it shattered and restored the Cold Jade Spiritual Bamboo.
• You Er gave Xiao Yan a map to the Four Divine Halls, warned him that the Xiangsi Broken Intestine Flame was held by the Lord of Fierce Souls, and departed.

Mu Wushuang summoned the Fourth Soul Sovereign into the Undying Sacred Pool, where he battled the four Demon Guards. As the fight threw the area into chaos, Xiao Yan headed for the Five Finger Mountain to seek the Undying Fire, while Aileen helped him and then left the pool.

• Mu Wushuang gave up his remaining strength to summon the Fourth Soul Sovereign, who entered the pool through a Soul Scroll.
• The Fourth Soul Sovereign and the four Demon Guards clashed, and he used the Soul Road technique to restrain them.
• Xiao Yan noticed a call from the Undying Leaf and Undying Nether Sparrow within the Five Finger Mountain and decided to search for the Undying Fire.
• Aileen blocked the other experts' attacks with Water Curtain Sky Flower, spending nearly all her Dou Qi to cover Xiao Yan's advance.
• Xiao Yan entered the Five Finger Mountain formation, followed unnoticed by the little beast and Xiao Zhuoma, while Aileen dissipated from the pool.

Xiao Zhuoma explained the Undying Fire and revealed it was sealed inside a grey giant egg, then sent Xiao Yan inside to seek its recognition. As Xiao Yan entered the final trial, Xiao Zhuoma drove off a mysterious clone of the Black Fiend Dragon Wolf and wondered whether it came from the Monster Realm.

• Xiao Zhuoma explained that the Undying Fire granted its chosen guardian the power of immortality and that the Undying Nether Sparrow King coveted it.
• Xiao Zhuoma summoned a grey giant egg containing the Undying Fire, and Xiao Yan sensed its power through his Flame Mantra and Holy Flame Heart.
• Xiao Yan suspected the Undying Fire might be damaged, but Xiao Zhuoma said its origin was intact and it might simply be asleep.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Zhuoma to watch over his Dou Soul, and she sent him into the giant egg to seek the Undying Fire's recognition.
• Xiao Zhuoma repelled the Black Fiend Dragon Wolf's clone with a fire chain and suspected it came from the Monster Realm.
• Xiao Yan crossed the barriers and entered the final step of the Undying Fire trial.