Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated Xuan Wuji’s spiritual body and rejected the intervention of three allied powers, using his Holy Runes to destroy their spiritual bodies as well. He left the Endless Fire Domain secure and warned other factions against coveting it.

• Xuan Wuji summoned the Heaven-Extinguishing King Disk to resist Xiao Yan’s Glazed Soul Fire Phoenix, but Xiao Yan broke the artifact and trapped Xuan Wuji and his disciple.
• Xiao Yan summoned three spiritual-body powerhouses—Huo Tianhen, Feng Qingyang, and Tian Mo—and refused their request to spare Xuan Wuji and his disciple.
• Xiao Yan shattered Xuan Wuji and his disciple’s spiritual bodies, injuring their true bodies in the distant Xuan Domain.
• Tian Mo threatened Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan revealed five Holy Runes and used them to destroy the three remaining spiritual bodies.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Endless Fire Domain would punish anyone who coveted it, causing the watching powers to abandon their plans against the domain.

Xiao Yan prepared Primordial Jade Liquid and used it with the Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill to treat Qing Yuan. As Qing Yuan absorbed their power, her strength surged to Dou Di and a violent, invisible ripple spread from her soul.

• Xiao Yan repeatedly failed while balancing the three heavenly treasures, then successfully prepared enough Primordial Jade Liquid for his needs.
• The Golden Dragon King told Xiao Yan to administer the Primordial Jade Liquid and Gu Ben Pei Yuan Pill to Qing Yuan together.
• When Qing Yuan's lips would not open, Xiao Yan swallowed some Primordial Jade Liquid and transferred the liquid and pill into her mouth.
• The medicines melted the icy threads covering Qing Yuan and unleashed powerful energy that caused her soul power and strength to rise.
• Qing Yuan's strength surged from Four-Star Dou Sheng to Five-Star Dou Sheng and then Dou Di, before a violent ripple spread from between her brows into the sky above the waterfall.

Xiao Yan and the other young talents set out for the ruins, where they would compete for the Dou Soul and its inheritance. As the major sects dispatched their chosen disciples, the Xuan Ling King revealed a plan to seize the prize by overcoming the ruins’ restrictions.

• Xiao Yan led Qin Xin, Leng Fuyao, Mu Feng, and Mu Yingying away from the Heaven Burning Domain, while Xiao Yi stayed behind to guard the Burning Incense Pavilion.
• Qi Haoran summoned Qi Haoqing, and the brothers departed for the ruins; the Xuan Ling King told Wen Zi he would use the Dragon Devouring Legion and other methods to claim the Dou Soul.
• Song Yue and Hong Qian set out after the Wine Sword Immortal warned them to watch the Xuan Ling Imperial Family, Yue Ru, and Xiao Yan.
• The super sects sent their outstanding disciples to the ruins, while stronger fighters from minor sects stopped at the surrounding restriction.
• The young talents of the Xuan Tian San gathered at the ruins as a fierce contest for the Dou Soul began.

Xiao Yan protected Cai Lin from the Evil-Eyed Demon Infant, the Semi-Evil God imprisoned in the fifth Demon Suppressing Prison. The two unleashed their soul powers against each other, and the chapter ended as the Demon Infant sent a devastating, nearly invisible soul attack toward Xiao Yan’s Holy Flame Eyes.

• Xiao Yan intercepted the Demon Infant’s attack on Cai Lin with a barrier of Holy Flame, and Cai Lin warned him about its soul-controlling ability.
• Xiao Yan identified his opponent as the Evil-Eyed Demon Infant, a peak fifth-reincarnation-stage Semi-Evil God from the Hun Mo Evil Infant Prison.
• The Demon Infant attacked with its Evil Eye, and Xiao Yan summoned his Divine Wandering Realm soul power to resist it.
• The Demon Infant imbued a giant black skeleton with its soul power, turning it into a fearsome evil corpse beast.
• Xiao Yan sent his Holy Flame Eyes against the skeleton, but the Demon Infant launched a nearly invisible soul beam at him.

Xiao Yan confronted Ye Qing and two Earth Hall disciples who wanted him to explain his intrusion into the Heaven Burning Domain. He defeated Ye Qing’s strongest attack effortlessly, then was stopped by a woman asking about the incident.

• Ye Qing recognized Xiao Yan and tried to bring him to the Earth Hall to answer for entering the Heaven Burning Domain, but Xiao Yan refused.
• Xiao Yan challenged Ye Qing and attacked first, forcing Ye Qing to fight back.
• Ye Qing used the low-grade Immortal-tier Dou Ji Thunder Chant Bead, and Xiao Yan swallowed its energy sphere without being harmed.
• Xiao Yan warned Ye Qing that the Human Hall was not easy to bully and turned to leave.
• A woman arrived and asked Xiao Yan to explain what had happened in the Heaven Burning Domain.

Xiao Yan gave Duan Qifei a Thunder Crystal and agreed to follow her to the Thunder Tomb’s forbidden area. Outside the Thunder Tomb, Duan Tianyan learned that an alliance was preparing to destroy Forged Blade Thunder Valley and the Eastern Continent, and ordered his forces to protect Youhuan.

• Xiao Yan defeated a Thunder Eating Beast and found a Thunder Crystal, which Duan Qifei asked for because it would aid her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan gave Duan Qifei the Thunder Crystal, and she promised to lead him and the others to the Thunder Tomb’s forbidden area.
• The remaining teams killed two more Thunder Eating Beasts, then Duan Qifei began refining the Thunder Crystal while Xiao Yan suspected she had a secret beyond her Thunder-type Minor Heavenly Seed.
• A messenger told Duan Tianyan that the Youhuan Clan Patriarch and his elite forces had disappeared from their base camp, while the Soul Hall had infiltrated the Thunder Realm and Sin’s forces had surrounded Thunder City.
• Duan Tianyan ordered the Soul Hall not to act without his command and sent people into the Thunder Tomb to protect Youhuan, then revealed that the alliance planned to wipe out Forged Blade Thunder Valley and the Eastern Continent after the competition.

Xiao Yan identified Yaoling’s affliction as a lingering complication from forcibly devouring the Pure Spirit Immortal Flame and examined the demonic presence trapped in her wound. He offered a better-than-even chance of curing her if Yaochi Fairyland took him to its Holy Flame grounds, then requested medicinal herbs for the treatment.

• Xiao Yan told Immortal Envoy Yaozhu and Yaoling that her condition was caused by hidden damage from devouring a Holy Flame, not an ordinary backlash.
• Yaoling revealed the fist-sized Black Aperture on her back, where a cunning demonic shadow had been eating away at her foundation.
• Xiao Yan examined the wound with his Glazed Flame and assessed that the situation was dangerous but potentially treatable.
• Xiao Yan said he had better than a fifty percent chance of curing Yaoling if Yaozhu took him to the Holy Flame grounds.
• Yaozhu promised that Yaochi Fairyland would become Xiao Yan’s ally if he cured Yaoling, and Xiao Yan listed the medicinal herbs he needed.

Cai Lin arrived in the Monster Realm to reinforce Xuan Yi and the Demon Emperor, then the King of Myriad Beasts emerged from the Palace Gate. The King swiftly killed the three Evil Clan leaders, ending the crisis within the Endless Flame Alliance’s Monster Realm forces.

• Cai Lin appeared and explained that Xiao Yan had sent her to reinforce the Monster Realm, then gave Xuan Yi and the Demon Emperor medicinal pills.
• Cai Lin offered to fight Bing Lan while Xuan Yi and the Demon Emperor faced the other two Evil Clan leaders.
• The Ten-Colored Spirit Cutter flew to the Palace Gate, resonating with it and provoking Bing Lan to order a retreat.
• The King of Myriad Beasts emerged from the Palace Gate, greeted Cai Lin, and asked after Xiao Yan.
• The King of Myriad Beasts revealed the corpses of Bing Lan and the other two Evil Clan leaders, confirming their deaths.

Xiao Yan challenged Huang Tian, a powerful Heavenly Phoenix Clan prodigy, after Huang Tian opposed his plan to enter the Black Bird Clan’s Forbidden Area. The battle began with Xiao Yan unleashing a fearsome five-colored flame technique, leaving Huang Tian shocked.

• Huang Tian emerged and warned Xiao Yan not to interfere in the Heavenly Phoenix Clan’s affairs, while Feng Luan encouraged him to stand up for the clan’s plan.
• Xiao Yan challenged Huang Tian, and they agreed that Huang Tian would concede if Xiao Yan resisted three moves, while Xiao Yan demanded Huang Tian stop opposing the plan.
• Feng Luan allowed the match because she wanted to judge Xiao Yan’s strength before deciding whether to let him enter the Black Bird Clan’s Forbidden Area to rescue the Five-Footed Golden Crow.
• The two men moved to a sparring ground, where Xiao Yan gathered the power of the Holy Flame and began his attack.
• Xiao Yan used Five-Flame Lotus Seed and Buddha's Wrath Reincarnation, startling Huang Tian with the technique’s immense power.

Yao Shigui returned atop a Golden Wheel Titan Giant, revealing the Yao Clan’s trump card against Cardinal Lexi. Lexi empowered himself with Four Purple Angel Wings and clashed with the giant, while Xiao Yan began considering a bold move.

• A towering golden figure entered the Medicine Realm, and Yao Wanyuan recognized it as a Golden Wheel Titan Giant.
• Yao Shigui revealed himself on the giant’s shoulder, said he had recovered, and called it to attack Lexi for harming his father.
• The Golden Wheel Titan Giant struck Lexi with a powerful golden sun, but Lexi summoned his Four Purple Angel Wings and countered it with a dimensional storm.
• Xiao Yan realized the giant might not be enough to defeat Lexi and conceived a bold impulse.

Xiao Yan learned that the Dusha Demon Empress was leading an invasion of the Xuan Ling Continent and hurried toward Xuan Ling Mountain to rescue Queen Medusa. At the mountain, Cai Lin prepared the alliance to resist the attackers as its defenses neared collapse.

• Wu Tianyu reported that several thousand invaders led by a red-clad woman called the Demon Empress were attacking the Xuan Ling Continent.
• Xiao Yan recognized the leader as the Dusha Demon Empress and ordered Huo Yun to leave a thousand troops guarding Xuan Shan Fortress.
• Xiao Yan and dozens of elite powerhouses took the fortress's Space Channel toward Xuan Ling Mountain, while Huo Yi led the remaining army by the front route.
• At Xuan Ling Mountain, Hua She'er told Queen Medusa and the alliance leaders that the invaders were close to breaking their defensive barrier.
• Queen Medusa revealed she had reached the early five-star Dou Xian stage and ordered the Snake People Tribe to fight to the death when the barrier fell.

Xiao Yan struggled to refine the Blood Tooth Demon Fruit and Nether Snake Heaven Swallowing Grass, the last two medicinal materials for his pill. After finding ways to overcome both obstacles, he sensed unease as the skies over Medicine Valley changed, signaling that someone was nearing pill formation.

• Xiao Yan realized that the Blood Tooth Demon Fruit and Nether Snake Heaven Swallowing Grass resisted his flames and remained unrefined.
• Xiao Yan triggered a hidden mechanism inside the Blood Tooth Demon Fruit, releasing its vitality and allowing it to melt.
• Xiao Yan lured the energy snake guarding the Nether Snake Heaven Swallowing Grass away with his remaining Sky Swallowing Python bloodline blood.
• Xiao Yan sent the unguarded grass into the cauldron for refining, while the energy snake dissipated after devouring the blood.
• Xiao Yan felt uneasy about his pill and noticed changes in the skies, concluding that someone was about to form a pill.

Xiao Yan agreed to help Xiao Yue seize a treasure during the Yin Moon of Yin Shi Forest in ten days, in exchange for Xiao Yue teaching him Space Shuttle. Xiao Yue revealed that the Dragon Soul was sealed inside Xiao Yan’s Primordial Fire Ruler and began demonstrating the technique.

• Xiao Yan agreed to try to obtain a guarded treasure when the Yin Moon arrived in ten days, while Xiao Yue agreed to refine pills for him after the tournament.
• Xiao Yue told Xiao Yan that his two companions were safe and explained that Xiao Yan had reached the third layer through the secret realm.
• Xiao Yue revealed that the secret realm’s Dragon Soul was inside Xiao Yan’s heavy ruler and said he would not try to take it from him.
• Xiao Yue offered to teach Xiao Yan Space Shuttle, his technique for instantly traveling between spaces.
• Xiao Yue repeatedly demonstrated the hand seals as Xiao Yan watched, trying to understand the technique.

You Quan Ghost Spirit revealed that the Twin Ghost Emperor, Xie Yin, had slaughtered his family and Daoxiang Village, then defeated him by swallowing him after Xie Yin tried to self-destruct. As You Quan left to recover and the Ghost Suppressing Well fell silent, Mu Yingying and the Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger explored its outer passages while a woman and Luo Guang headed to the third level to find Xiao Yan.

• You Quan Ghost Spirit recalled how Xie Yin had slaughtered Daoxiang Village and his family when he was twelve, and vowed to kill him for revenge.
• Xie Yin tried to break the Soul Locking Chain, then inflated his soul to self-destruct; Hong Ye escaped the dry well as You Quan survived and swallowed him.
• Hong Ye took the badly injured You Quan Ghost Spirit to a place dense with Ghost Qi, while the wounded Chi Mei Ghost Spirit left the well.
• Xiao Yue told the weakened Silver Azure Thunder Wolf King to heal and promised it would regain its freedom after the human points-plundering competition ended.
• Mu Yingying and the Heavenly Fire Sacred Tiger discussed the Twin Ghost Emperor and the Ghost Suppressing Well as they explored its outer passages.
• A late Four-star Dou Di woman and Luo Guang entered the third level to find Xiao Yan, whom the woman said had something she needed.

Xiao Yan confronted Long Feng, a dragon clan supreme elder guarding the Dragon Tomb, but struggled to overcome his formidable defense. As Long Feng prepared to capture him and battles raged nearby, an unusual energy stirred in Xiao Yan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Xiao Yan claimed he would shatter Long Feng’s defense.

• Long Feng demanded that Xiao Yan explain his intentions and attacked him with the Dragon God Light Pillar, trapping him inside a giant yellow dragon.
• Xiao Yan struck the dragon with nine Holy Runes, but Long Feng’s silver dragon scales resisted the attack and only forced him back a few steps.
• Xiao Yan recognized that his lack of experience against dragon clan fighters left him without an effective way to injure Long Feng.
• The Fire Dragon King and Baxia noticed the danger and urged Cloud Lass to join them in breaking through, while four dragon kings moved to intercept them.
• Long Feng declared that he would imprison Xiao Yan in the Dragon Prison as the silver scales and giant dragon’s power intensified.
• An unusual energy began stirring in the Tou She Ancient God Jade inside Xiao Yan as he raised a finger and told Long Feng he would shatter his defense.

The remaining guardians were defeated, allowing the group to pass the trial and claim Immortal-tier Dou Ji. The white-robed figure granted the younger generation the great fortune, summoned Xiao Yan, then exposed a hidden girl standing on a green lotus.

• Xiao Yan gave Yue Ru medicinal pills and stayed beside her while the other battles continued.
• Wang Zhong defeated his guardian with Sword-Shattering Kill, and Sun Ming defeated his guardian through relentless attacks.
• Yao Mei and Feng Yi worked together to defeat the fourth guardian, while Wu Huan defeated the fifth with a desperate strike.
• Bai Shan rallied the hundred-man group, whose combined attack defeated the half-step four-star Dou Di guardian.
• The white-robed figure declared the trial passed, summoned Xiao Yan, and shattered space to reveal a girl in a bamboo hat atop a green lotus.

Xiao Yan fought Fire Heart Sky Rock for recognition and revealed a Xiao Clan Mark Embryo, which changed the Holy Flame’s attitude toward him. After confirming Xiao Yan’s Xiao Clan bloodline, Fire Heart Sky Rock granted him the Sacred Flame Crystal, and Yan prepared to remove the Holy Flame source.

• Xiao Yan abandoned his defense and attacked Fire Heart Sky Rock, then used Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations to reveal a Xiao Clan Mark Embryo.
• Yan and Fire Heart Sky Rock recognized the mark, and Fire Heart Sky Rock stopped Xiao Yan before his attack landed.
• Fire Heart Sky Rock tested Xiao Yan by drawing his blood and confirmed the scent of the Xiao Clan.
• Fire Heart Sky Rock accepted Xiao Yan and merged his power into the Sacred Flame Crystal, granting Xiao Yan the qualification to obtain the Holy Flame.
• Yan recalled that Fire Heart Sky Rock had once served a Xiao Clan expert named Xiao Mu, and Xiao Yan prepared to devour the Holy Flame.

The Golden Dragon King explained that powerful figures had sealed the Xiao Clan and its bloodline, then announced he would rescue a hunted Xiao Clan member near Xuan Tian San. He planned to take Xiao Xuan with him and leave Xiao Yan to retrieve what he needed to restore his true body, while promising they would meet again.

• Xiao Yan introduced the Golden Dragon King to Xiao Xuan, who greeted him respectfully after learning of his friendship with Tou She Ancient God.
• The Golden Dragon King revealed that fewer than ten figures at the pinnacle of the Great Thousand World could have sealed the Xiao Clan and its bloodline, and told Xiao Yan that the clan had powerful allies.
• The Golden Dragon King said he sensed a Xiao Clan member being hunted at the edge of Xuan Tian San and would take Xiao Yan along to rescue him.
• The Golden Dragon King explained that a human resurrection method would weaken his dragon body and said Xiao Yan would later need to retrieve items so he could recondense his true body.
• The Golden Dragon King confirmed that the Xiao Clan seniors and Tou She Ancient God had not fallen, and Xiao Yan vowed to cultivate and fight the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Xiao Yan gave the Golden Dragon King the Mother of the Immortal Spirit Bodhi Tree, and the Golden Dragon King said he would leave with Xiao Xuan after the rescue.

Xiao Yan entered the hall and learned from Cang Yue that the Fire Heart Sky Rock held a secret Xiao Mu left for the Xiao Clan, which would be revealed when Xiao Yan reached Nine-star Dou Di. Cang Yue then asked Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying to help her drive out two Venerable-level Outer Realm Evil Clan members.

• Jade Rabbit eased the crushing pressure as Xiao Yan and the others entered the hall, where Xiao Yan saw Cang Yue imprisoned in a purple cage.
• Looking at Cang Yue, Xiao Yan remembered a man who looked exactly like him and told her he was not that man.
• Cang Yue recognized the Fire Heart Sky Rock within Xiao Yan and explained that Xiao Mu had left something inside it to help him search for the vanished Xiao Clan once he reached Nine-star Dou Di.
• Cang Yue introduced herself as Moonlight Fairy's only female disciple and revealed that two Venerable-level Outer Realm Evil Clan members were behind her.
• Cang Yue asked Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying to help drive out the two enemies, and they stepped beside her cage.

Xiao Yan detected a concealed presence in the Stone Giant and absorbed its unusually evil black qi with the Soul Devouring Talisman. He and Xiao Yi set off to lure the Dark Bats toward the Stone Giant, while Xiao Yan warned Xiao Yi that Mu Yingying’s Holy Flame might be sealed and dangerous.

• Xiao Yan saw mismatched blue and red eyes on the Stone Giant, exposed the hidden presence, and heard it invite him inside to find it.
• The mysterious presence released evil black qi, which the Soul Devouring Talisman absorbed even though Xiao Yan’s flames could not refine it.
• Xiao Yan decided to use the Dark Bats to deal with the Stone Giant, and he ordered Mu Yingying, Lu Di, and Mu Feng to stay behind while he and Xiao Yi went to lure them.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi that Mu Yingying’s Holy Flame seemed sealed and that he suspected she was hiding a secret, so they should keep her out of the fight.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi reached the Dark Bats in the passage and prepared to draw them toward the Stone Giant.