Chapter Summaries

Feng Yi trapped Bing Tian with a Space Seal, but he self-destructed and devastated the mountain range. Xiao Yan secretly took the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon’s body, while Feng Yi and her attendants survived and left for the main hall, unaware that Solomon would likely pursue her.

• Feng Yi confronted the wounded Bing Tian, who charged at her intending to take her down with him.
• Feng Yi used Space Seal to imprison Bing Tian, but he self-destructed and unleashed a massive energy storm across the mountain range.
• Xiao Yan used his soul power to make the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon’s body disappear during the explosion.
• Feng Yi and her attendants escaped to a distant mountain peak, then left for the main hall after failing to find the Demon Dragon’s body.
• Wu Huan sensed the explosion, suspected Xiao Yan had fought Bing Tian and Bing Wu, and hurried toward the main hall.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan that Feng Yi had likely made an enemy of Solomon, while Xiao Yan and Yue Ru remained hidden until the storm weakened.

Xiao Yan faced Wang Chen after the Earth Hall senior accused him of trespassing into the Heaven Burning Domain. Wang Chen challenged him to fight in the sparring ground, and Xiao Yan accepted.

• Wang Chen and Ling Xuan spotted Xiao Yan at the sparring grounds, drawing the attention of the gathered disciples.
• Wang Chen questioned Xiao Yan about entering the Heaven Burning Domain, while Xiao Yan admitted he had gone in but insisted it was accidental.
• Mu Feng urged Xiao Yan to leave, but Xiao Yan said he could handle Wang Chen and planned to collect interest from the Earth Hall.
• A Heaven Hall senior disciple remarked that Wang Chen might be the one destined to suffer, while Ling Xuan warned Wang Chen that Xiao Yan's flames were strange.
• Wang Chen challenged Xiao Yan to a fight before the gathered disciples, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Yan stripped the Fire Heart Sky Rock’s Sacred Flame Origin from himself and restored it to the Sacred Flame Crystal for Xiao Yan. The transfer left Yan greatly weakened, while Xiao Yan received the Holy Flame he had sought.

• Yan enveloped Mu Feng and the others in Earth Yellow Flame and told Xiao Yi and Mu Yingying that their potential gains depended on them.
• Yan began forcing the Fire Heart Sky Rock’s Sacred Flame Origin out of his body, enduring severe pain as his strength declined.
• Yan returned the Sacred Flame Crystal to his body, restoring the Fire Heart Sky Rock’s complete Holy Flame power before extracting its origin.
• Mu Yingying prepared to help when Yan’s extraction grew dangerous, but Yan refused her assistance and completed the process himself.
• Yan gave Xiao Yan the Sacred Flame Crystal containing the Fire Heart Sky Rock’s Sacred Flame Origin, and his strength fell to Four-turn Nine-star Dou Di.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Manghuang Land on their way to the ruins, where they encountered its harmful Manghuang Qi and a mysterious pair seeking medicine. The chapter left the group facing a possible encounter with people from the Ten Thousand Sword Gate, while Wang Xie and Poison Niangzi also headed toward the ruins.

• Poison Niangzi revealed that she had grafted the Evil Heart Demon Scorpion’s twin claws onto herself and planned to obtain the Dou Soul at the ruins, even if she had to sacrifice Wang Xie.
• Wang Xie set out for the ruins, hoping to secure its fortune for his Master.
• Xiao Yan and his party passed the Xuan Ling Imperial Family, but his soul power found nothing in the Underground Palace where a Holy Flame was imprisoned.
• After entering the Manghuang Land, the group inhaled harmful Manghuang Qi, so Xiao Yan gave them medicinal pills and Xiu Qi warned them to protect themselves with Dou Qi.
• A Seven-star Dou Di man carrying an ill woman asked Xiao Yan’s group for medicine, and Xiu Qi suspected they were from the Ten Thousand Sword Gate.

Fen Tian and his group entered the Sixth Floor of the Underground Palace, where Ling Mengsheng led the others toward a towering tree and a powerful presence. The group left Fen Tian and Zhu Jin concealed nearby, while Mu Xuzi stayed with Xuan Muqing.

• King Xuan Ling planned to use the Burning Incense Pavilion members to kill his father and secure control of the Xuan Ling Imperial Family.
• The group entered the sixth layer through an ordinary wooden door and was pulled into a forest by a mysterious force.
• An elder atop a towering tree awakened beside the Mother of the Immortal Spirit Bodhi Tree.
• Fen Tian sensed a formidable presence near the towering tree, and Ling Mengsheng sent Fen Tian and Zhu Jin aside to avoid drawing attention before the seventh layer.
• Ling Mengsheng led Elder Qing and the Heaven and Earth Elders toward the tree, while Mu Xuzi stayed with Xuan Muqing.

The Medusa Clan’s eight leaders attacked the Xuan Ling Imperial Family while King Xuan Ling and the Dragon Devouring Legion were absent. Yang Tian and Zhuo Li joined the defense, but most of the Imperial Family’s battles were going badly as the chapter ended.

• The Medusa Clan’s leaders confronted Xuan Shan and the Xuan Ling Imperial Family, with Mei Lan taking on Xuan Zhan.
• Xuan Yin and Xuan Yang emerged from the Underground Palace to fight You Rui and another chieftain.
• Yang Tian appeared in silver armor, repelled Aili, and began fighting the Snake King.
• Xuan Ling experts stepped forward to face the remaining Medusa leaders, and Zhuo Li revealed that he had reached the Nine-star Dou Di realm.
• Eight battles broke out above the Xuan Ling Imperial Family, but five of them were being suppressed while Yang Tian and the Xuan brothers were also struggling.

Nearly five years after Xiao Yan began absorbing the Holy Flame, Xiao Yi, Mu Feng, Mu Yingying, and Lu Di waited at Burning Incense Pavilion while Earth Hall plotted to challenge them in the upcoming competition. Xiao Yan finally awoke to find the Desert Mountain Range gone and the Fire Heart Sky Rock fully refined, then prepared to test his new power.

• Xiao Yi threatened Ye Qing after hearing him spread rumors that Xiao Yan had died, and Ye Qing continued provoking Human Hall on the orders of Earth Hall’s Third Senior Brother.
• Mu Feng, Mu Yingying, Lu Di, and Xiao Yi agreed to skip the individual competition and await Xiao Yan before entering the team competition.
• Earth Hall’s Third Senior Brother told Ye Qing to keep provoking Human Hall, expecting Xiao Yan’s group to struggle to win every team match.
• After nearly five years of refining the Holy Flame, Xiao Yan awakened amid the ruins of the collapsed Desert Mountain Range and found the Fire Heart Sky Rock completely refined.
• Xiao Yan released the power of his Heavenly Flames and Holy Flame, saying it was time to reap the rewards of his ordeal.

Xiao Yan returned to Burning Incense Pavilion and entered the Heaven Burning Domain, where he tested his newly strengthened power with Xin Yan. His arrival drew attention from Elder Zhu and Earth Hall’s Ye Qing, who rushed to investigate.

• Ye Qing and his two junior brothers discussed Xiao Yan, then headed to Earth Hall’s cultivation caves as the individual matches neared their end.
• The gatekeepers assigned Ye Qing a fourth-rank cave and Yang Wen and Zhi Jiang second-rank caves, but a powerful Dou Qi fluctuation interrupted them.
• An unseen Earth Hall senior brother told Ye Qing that someone had entered the Heaven Burning Domain and ordered him to investigate.
• Xin Yan explained that he had become part of Xiao Yan after being devoured, and Xiao Yan tested his power by firing Dou Qi into the sky, where it exploded against an array.
• Elder Zhu sensed Xiao Yan’s changed aura, and Ye Qing recognized the Heaven Burning Domain’s disturbance and rushed toward it.

Su Xueying appeared in the ruin’s great hall and asked to borrow the Emperor’s Vital Blood, while the man in white drove out the other intruders. After the hall emptied, she showed him a token bearing the character “Fire,” prompting him to ask whether a woman was well and learn that she was still waiting for someone.

• The man in white exposed Su Xueying, who had been hiding in the void, and she revealed herself seated on a Green Lotus.
• Su Xueying introduced herself and asked to borrow the Emperor’s Vital Blood; the man in white warned those without flame energy to leave.
• Several experts tried to reach the treasures, but the man in white killed them, and the remaining visitors withdrew from the hall.
• After Xiao Yan and the others left, the man in white asked Su Xueying why she had suppressed her strength to enter the ruin.
• Su Xueying handed him a token marked “Fire,” and the man in white asked whether a woman was well; Su Xueying said she was waiting for someone.

The gathered experts faced seven powerful guardians in the final hall, where an Immortal-tier Dou Ji awaited. After the guardians’ opening attack, Xiao Yan and the other contenders prepared to fight, leaving the hall on the brink of battle.

• The seven guardians unleashed streams of sound-wave Dou Qi, and Wu Huan helped the gathered experts break the stalemate with their combined defense.
• The experts saw that the guardians were humanlike figures arranged on the steps beneath a skeletal throne, with a mysterious white-clad man standing above six burly fighters.
• Wu Huan, Feng Yi, Shenxu, Wang Zhong, Yao Mei, Liu Yin, and Sun Ming resolved to face the guardians despite their overwhelming strength.
• Xiao Yan told Yue Ru to stay close to him when the battle began, and she quietly agreed as power gathered at her forehead.
• The remaining experts from the Alchemist Association and several sects chose to join the fight, and Wu Huan led the charge.

Xiao Yan learned that the sealed ruin involved Xuan Ling Imperial Family secrets and would not open for at least three months. He agreed to refine Qin Xin’s rare Emperor Grade Two Mortal Peak pills using three sets of medicinal materials, then began work alone in her woodshed.

• Qin Xin told Xiao Yan that major sects were waiting for the ruin’s seal to weaken and that it would take at least three months to open.
• Xiao Yan remembered Yue Ru and wondered how she was doing before changing the subject to refining Qin Xin’s pills.
• Qin Xin brought Xiao Yan to her woodshed and offered him three sets of medicinal materials, letting him keep the rest if he succeeded once.
• Xiao Yan told Qin Xin not to disturb or touch him while he refined the pills, and Qin Xin sealed the woodshed door before leaving.
• Xiao Yan began preparing to refine the pills and confidently assured Qin Xin that the task posed no threat to him.

After the entrance to Guanghan Island was broken, Xiao Yan’s group let the other cultivators rush ahead while they headed for the Medicine Garden. Yue Ru sensed Starry Sky Power within the island, and several other groups followed them, hoping to learn its secrets.

• The Silver Light Mouse broke Guanghan Island’s entrance seal, and cultivators charged inside seeking the Moonlight Fairy’s inheritance and a Dou Soul.
• Xiao Yan and Yue Ru waited for most of the crowd to enter, then led their companions toward the Medicine Garden instead of joining the fight for the inheritance.
• Xing Long and Xiao Bi, followed by Guni and Wang Xie, decided to track Xiao Yan’s group because they suspected it knew secrets about Guanghan Island.
• Yue Ru sensed Starry Sky Power in the island and attributed her perception to the Inheritance Rune she carried.
• The group spotted a massive purple palace ahead, whose powerful fluctuations led them to wonder whether it held the inheritance.

Xiao Yan prepared to absorb the Death Blood Ghost Liquid in the Blood River Pool, learning from the Soul Devouring Master how to weaken its Ghost Qi safely. As Xiao Yan began the process, the Soul Devouring Master warned that a powerful, suspicious presence lurked in the Blood River Realm, while Yan Chi sensed a mysterious call from deep within it.

• After days absorbing the Blood River Pool's power, Xiao Yan felt his strength nearing Mid Seven-star Dou Di and took out the Death Blood Ghost Liquid.
• The Soul Devouring Master warned Xiao Yan not to swallow the liquid directly and explained that he needed the Blood River Pool's Ghost Qi to weaken it first.
• The Soul Devouring Master cautioned Xiao Yan about a presence in the Blood River Realm whose aura surpassed that of the Blood Demon left envoy.
• Xiao Yan used his Soul Power to draw the pool's Ghost Qi toward himself, stripping away the Ghost Qi surrounding the liquid.
• Yan Chi gave up on pursuing something below the pool to heal his hidden injuries, but sensed a call from deep within the Blood River Realm as blood marks flickered on his back.
• Mu Yingying recognized how Xiao Yan was using the pool, and Xiao Yi found that absorbing its power was slowly advancing his strength.

Xiao Yan endured the Alchemist Association’s first trial for one hundred days, using the Soul Beast to temper his soul until it reached the mid-stage of the Taixu realm. Tan Chen welcomed him into the Association and brought him to the second trial, where he would refine a medicinal pill.

• Hua Fei guarded the stone door as Xiao Yan remained inside for one hundred days, breaking the Alchemist Association’s record.
• Xiao Yan’s soul power advanced to the mid-stage of the Taixu realm, and he nourished the nearly exhausted Soul Beast before leaving the trial space.
• Tan Chen and Hua Fei recognized Xiao Yan’s breakthrough, and Tan Chen invited him to join the Alchemist Association.
• Hua Fei advised Xiao Yan to choose an easy medicinal recipe for the second trial, which tested pill refining.
• Tan Chen transported Xiao Yan and Hua Fei to the Alchemy Room for the second trial.

Yue Ru went to find Xiao Yan beneath the lake but was captured by Muller, who demanded the Moon Crescent Jade Fruit in exchange for her life. Xiao Yan fought Muller above the lake, and as both gathered power for their final attacks, the battle approached its climax.

• Worried that Xiao Yan had not returned, Yue Ru descended into the magma below the lake, then surfaced exhausted and was seized by Muller.
• Xiao Yan confronted Muller and demanded that he release Yue Ru, while Muller insisted that Xiao Yan surrender the real Moon Crescent Jade Fruit.
• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations to raise his strength to the late stage of the four-star Dou Di realm, matching Muller.
• Xiao Yan and Muller traded fierce attacks with the Primordial Fire Ruler and demonic spear, each blocking the other's blows.
• Muller said Xiao Yan's secret technique was nearly over and prepared a final attack as Xiao Yan gathered his power to respond.

Bing Tian and the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon Lizard fought a desperate battle, while Xiao Yan stayed hidden and waited for a chance to claim the magic core. Bing Tian survived the Dragon Breath and killed the weakened beast, but a girl in a colorful dress and her companions arrived to attack him.

• Xiao Yan condemned Bing Tian for devouring his own companions, and the Golden Dragon King suspected Solomon's Blood Sacrifice was tied to a deeper problem.
• Bing Tian and the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon Lizard unleashed their strongest attacks against each other as Xiao Yan told Yue Ru to wait for his signal.
• The Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon's Dragon Breath overwhelmed Bing Tian's black light pillar, and the exhausted beast fell to the ground.
• Bing Tian revealed he had survived by feigning defeat, killed the weakened Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon with his Dragon Head Cane, and began collecting its blood and magic core.
• A girl in a colorful dress attacked Bing Tian, seeking revenge for Solomon's persecution of her father, and Bing Tian saw five Three-star Dou Dis with her.

Kuángmù Immortal Master confronted Shan Ling and Shan Yao after the arena barrier shattered, then began explaining the past that separated him from his daughter. He revealed that he was Shan Mu and started recounting the Blood Demon attack on the Desert Mountain Range, leaving the truth of what followed unfinished.

• The Blood Demon Left Guard broke through the barrier, while Xiao Yan lowered Shan Yao and Shan Ling before Kuángmù Immortal Master.
• Shan Ling accused Kuángmù Immortal Master of abandoning her, and he said the letter she had read was altered by the Immortal Grade Four Embryonic Pill.
• Kuángmù Immortal Master apologized to Shan Yao and Shan Ling and agreed to tell them what had happened.
• Kuángmù Immortal Master revealed that his real name was Shan Mu and described his rise, his encounter with Yan, and his meeting with Shan Ling’s mother.
• Shan Mu explained that Blood Demon Qi entered the Desert Mountain Range through a child used as bait, unleashing an attack on the day Shan Ling was born.

Wang Feng auctioned an Earth Dragon Blood Crystal for a merchant who wanted an alchemist to accompany him to the Eastern Continent's core and protect his group from soul attacks. Xiao Yan recognized that winning the Eastern Continent Tournament and placing in the Four Continents Tournament could bring him closer to the Xiangsi Broken Intestine Flame.

• Wang Feng introduced the Earth Dragon Blood Crystal and explained its value for body tempering.
• Qing Ming realized that the crystal belonged to Wang Feng's friend, since Wang Feng would otherwise have kept it.
• Wang Feng announced that the Eastern Continent Tournament would select competitors for the Four Continents Tournament.
• The Soul Devouring Master told Xiao Yan to win the Eastern Continent Tournament and place in the top three of the Four Continents Tournament.
• Wang Feng revealed that the merchant required an alchemist to travel with his group and repel soul attacks, and that only alchemists could bid on the crystal.

Xiao Yan completed the fusion of the medicinal ingredients in his pill, triggering powerful thunderclouds over the Burning Incense Pavilion. He sent the Golden Demon Puppet to absorb the Earth Xuan Lightning, hoping to strengthen it further.

• Xiao Yan refined the Gale Treasure Fruit and Heavenly King Ginseng, then used Azure Dragon Dew and his soul power to make their liquids fuse.
• Fen Tian and Yan Chi noticed powerful thunderclouds gathering over the Burning Incense Pavilion and suspected Xiao Yan was refining a high-grade pill.
• Xiao Yan appeared beneath the thunderclouds with the Golden Demon Puppet and recognized the Earth Xuan Lightning.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Golden Demon Puppet to absorb the lightning, which struck it and increased the power within its body.

Fen Tian used his Holy Flame Child Flame to expel the Fourth Grade Blood Curse from Xuan Muqing, and Zhu Jin destroyed it. The group then headed for the fifth level of the Underground Palace, unaware that their whereabouts had been exposed.

• Zhu Jin explained that the blood curse was an Outer Realm Evil Clan method, and Xuan Muqing revealed it had appeared after she gave birth to Ling Xuan in Xuan Ling City.
• Fen Tian identified the curse as Fourth Grade and said he could remove it by having Xuan Muqing activate it while he used his Holy Flame Child Flame.
• Fen Tian forced the blood curse out of Xuan Muqing, and Ling Mengsheng caught her as she weakened.
• Zhu Jin destroyed the hostless blood curse with his Power of Life and Death.
• Fen Tian led the group toward the fifth level of the Underground Palace, while their whereabouts were exposed without their knowledge.