Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the Little Girl reached the Immortal Flame’s grand hall and discovered that the flame was being corrupted by the Outer Realm Evil Clan. They confronted the Evil Eye King, who appeared with Holy Flame power and threatened to kill them.

• Xiao Yan and the Little Girl were pulled from the Starlight Path into a strange passage that led them to the Immortal Flame’s grand hall.
• The Little Girl explained that she was the Immortal Flame’s Holy Flame Spirit and asked Xiao Yan to help cleanse the sick flame.
• Xiao Yan and the Little Girl suspected the Outer Realm Evil Clan had driven her away and intended to suppress the Holy Flame with the Pure Heart.
• The Little Girl sent Sanskrit Sound incantations into the hall, drawing the Evil Eye King out from the golden paper.
• Xiao Yan protected them from the Evil Eye King’s demonic sound and faced the Seven-Star Dou Xian Early Stage enemy as it attacked.

Tang Tang and the others discovered the scales of a rare Three-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and discussed the beast’s power and threat to the Xuan Ling Imperial Family. After ten days at the oasis, Xiao Yan refined pills and used the Golden Demon Puppet to absorb the Pill Lightning Tribulation, greatly strengthening it.

• Tang Tang recognized the scales as belonging to a Three-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, and Great Water explained the Sky Swallowing Python bloodline and its legendary Ten-Colored form.
• Xiao Yi described how a fully evolved Sky Swallowing Python could rival the four great divine beasts and potentially reach the Dou Shen realm.
• Tang Tang warned that the growing python could threaten the Xuan Ling Imperial Family, then urged the group to collect water and conserve their Dou Qi.
• Yan Xiao used Flame Force to extract the python’s venom from the lake and stored it, then accepted medicinal ingredients from Wu Yu to refine antidote and Dou Qi-restoring pills.
• Ten days passed without anyone appearing at the oasis, while Xiao Yan had the Golden Demon Puppet absorb the Pill Lightning Tribulation from his pill refining.
• Xiao Yan observed that the Golden Demon Puppet’s physical strength had risen to the level of a Five-star Dou Di Perfection expert.

Xiao Yan learned that his fused Heavenly Flames were a Holy Flame Embryo that needed more power and tribulation to become true Holy Flame. He realized Xiao Yi was its mutated spirit, but Xiao Yi could no longer return to his body, leaving Xiao Yan questioning how he could devour other Holy Flames.

• Xiao Yan asked Xin Yan why his Heavenly Flames could not fuse with her Holy Flame, and she examined the source of his flames.
• Xin Yan recognized an aura like Holy Flame in Xiao Yan’s source and asked whether anything had emerged from the fusion; Xiao Yan recalled Xiao Yi’s transformation into a Fire Spirit.
• Xin Yan explained that the Heavenly Flames were Holy Flame Embryos that needed greater strength and the tempering of heaven and earth’s laws to become true Holy Flame.
• Xin Yan identified Xiao Yi as the likely spirit of Xiao Yan’s Holy Flame Embryo, and Xiao Yan tried but failed to call him back into his body.
• Xin Yan suggested Xiao Yi’s strength would need to grow for the embryo to strengthen, and Xiao Yan questioned how he could devour other Holy Flames if his body could not contain two.

Mu Yingying revealed a powerful azure Holy Flame aura and persuaded Fire Heart Sky Rock to give Xiao Yan a chance to earn its recognition. Xiao Yan prepared to face the Sacred Flame Crystal, determined to succeed so he could eventually devour the Holy Flame.

• Mu Yingying's blue pupils and overwhelming aura emerged, and Xiao Yan and his companions suspected her power came from the Holy Flame within her.
• Mu Yingying challenged Fire Heart Sky Rock and asked it to give Xiao Yan a chance; it agreed after warning that Xiao Yan was too weak.
• Mu Yingying's aura faded, and she told Xiao Yan that the choice was now his.
• Fire Heart Sky Rock introduced itself as the thirty-fifth-ranked Sacred Flame, a dual fire-and-earth flame, while Long Yi described its destructive power.
• Xiao Yan accepted Fire Heart Sky Rock's test and resolved to succeed, briefly revealing the aura of the Xiao Clan's Clan Mark.

Xiao Yan completed refining Fire Heart Sky Rock and began drawing its power into the Flame Mantra, enduring a painful transformation as his strength surged. He then entered meditation within the Exotic Fire Plaza, where his twenty-three Heavenly Flames appeared to submit to him.

• Xiao Yan confirmed that Fire Heart Sky Rock had been refined and prepared to absorb its power into the Flame Mantra.
• With Long Yi watching, Xiao Yan guided the Holy Flame into the Flame Mantra, which swallowed its source and triggered a violent transformation.
• Xiao Yan's body and aura grew stronger as he advanced from early-stage Five-star Dou Di to late-stage Six-star Dou Di.
• The Exotic Fire Plaza appeared around Xiao Yan, and his twenty-three Heavenly Flames arranged themselves on its pillars and bowed to him.
• Long Yi realized Xiao Yan had entered meditation and that his soul power had gone somewhere else.

Xiao Yan completed refining the medicinal ingredients and began forming the Xuan Yin Pill, using neutralizing ingredients to fuse the Blood Sea Heavenly Spring and Fallen Star Branch. As he moved to temper the forming pill with Pale Flame Xuan Lightning, the lightning broke free and tried to escape, but Xiao Yan attacked it.

• Qin Xin's Nine-star Dou Di protector warned her that the Empire could fall into chaos within three years and urged her to return.
• Qin Xin said she would return after the Sect Tournament and learned that her father, the Emperor, had at most a year left to live.
• Xiao Yan prepared the medicinal ingredients after twenty days of refining and began fusing the Blood Sea Heavenly Spring with the Fallen Star Branch.
• Xiao Yan added neutralizing medicinal ingredients, allowing the two medicinal strengths to fuse into a forming pill.
• Xiao Yan released the Pale Flame Xuan Lightning to temper the pill, but it broke free and tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan moved to force the Pale Flame Xuan Lightning into the pill before it could escape.

The Medusa Clan’s eight chieftains attacked the Xuan Ling Imperial Family, but King Xuan Ling and Xuan Cang turned the tide after the chieftains defeated most of their opponents. Queen Medusa rescued the chieftains from Xuan Cang’s killing blow, and the attack left her authority over the clan poised to become unchallenged.

• Blood Rose learned that the Medusa Clan’s eight chieftains were attacking the Xuan Ling Imperial Family and ordered her people to prepare to evacuate.
• The chieftains defeated most of the Xuan Ling fighters, while Xuan Yin and Xuan Yang narrowly won their battles and Snake King struck down Yang Tian.
• King Xuan Ling arrived and blocked the chieftains’ escape, then Xuan Cang revealed his two-star Dou Xian strength and stopped them with the Power of Life and Death.
• Xuan Cang prepared to kill Snake King and the chieftains, but Queen Medusa’s Monochrome Sky Swallowing Power intercepted his attack and rescued them into the desert.
• King Xuan Ling took Xuan Cang into seclusion, while the surviving Xuan Ling fighters and observers realized Xuan Tian San was facing a drastic change and Queen Medusa would become the desert’s true queen.

Xiao Yan and the others prepared to help the Heavenly King Ginseng withstand its ten-thousand-year Heavenly Tribulation, while the Heavenly King Ginseng raised a barrier around them. Wang Xie and Guni secretly watched from outside as the group readied themselves to draw out the tribulation.

• The Heavenly King Ginseng asked Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying to use their holy flames to help resist part of the Heavenly Tribulation, and Xiao Yan agreed to help.
• Xiao Yan explained that a Heaven and Earth Rare Object could become a human after surviving its ten-thousand-year tribulation, retaining its spiritual nature but risking being hunted if discovered.
• The Heavenly King Ginseng set up a strong silver barrier around itself, Xiao Yan, Mu Yingying, and Yue Ru.
• Wang Xie and Guni watched the barrier from behind a rock and wondered what Xiao Yan and the others were doing.
• The Heavenly King Ginseng sat down to prepare to draw out the Heavenly Tribulation while Xiao Yan and the two women readied themselves.

The group struggled to damage the Mystic Elf until Mu Feng wounded it with his rune-covered wooden sword. Feng Hong then bound the creature with three Judgment Nails, leaving Xiao Yan and Meng Fei to attack it with Emperor Flame.

• Song Yue and the other powerhouses attacked the Mystic Elf, but their blows barely affected it.
• Bingshui explained that they needed to wound the Mystic Elf, restrain it with the Light Element, and finish it with fire.
• Mu Feng revealed his rune-covered wooden sword and pierced the Mystic Elf, inflicting a painful wound.
• Feng Hong used an Immortal Tier Mid-grade Judgment Nail technique to bind the Mystic Elf with three radiant nails.
• Xiao Yan and Meng Fei unleashed their Emperor Flame at the immobilized Mystic Elf, whose true form appeared as it felt fear of death.

Xiao Yan fought Xiong Jun on Wuliang Mountain and discovered that Xiong Jun was absorbing his Emperor Flame and sending it to the peak. The battle stopped when an indifferent voice called the beasts back, and Xiao Yan sensed a greedy presence stirring as a blood cloud formed over the mountain.

• The Double-Headed Sub-Dragon noticed Xiong Jun was absorbing the Flame Force from Xiao Yan's attacks, prompting Night Cat to suspect the flames were needed for her Master's plan.
• Xiao Yan sensed that Xiong Jun was transferring his absorbed Emperor Flame to the peak of Wuliang Mountain.
• Xiao Yan unleashed a powerful attack with the Primordial Fire Ruler, but Xiong Jun defended himself with earth walls and declared he would make Xiao Yan taste death.
• An indifferent voice from the peak called Xiong Jun back, and Xiong Jun, Night Cat, and the Double-Headed Sub-Dragon flew toward it.
• The smoke over Wuliang Mountain's peak dissipated into a heavy blood cloud as Xiao Yan sensed something within his body growing greedy.

Xiao Yan defeated the impostor in the Stone Hall with the Primordial Fire Ruler, then discovered the secret behind the Hall’s Stone Pillars. As he absorbed the power created by the Ruler’s collision with a Stone Pillar, the Saint Grade Dou Technique Scroll began to appear.

• Xiao Yan used the Primordial Fire Ruler to absorb the impostor’s power and destroy him.
• Xiao Yan refused to take the Dou Technique Scroll immediately and searched the Stone Hall for its secret.
• The Mysterious Elder watched Xiao Yan and explained that defeating the Energy Entity was only the first trial.
• The Primordial Fire Ruler broke free and struck a Stone Pillar, producing power like that of the Dou Technique Scroll.
• Xiao Yan circulated the Flame Mantra to absorb the power, and the Dou Technique Scroll slowly emerged.

Xiao Yan entered the Sky Shifting Ruler’s independent space, where its phantom taught him the technique and revealed that the Primordial Fire Ruler was an incomplete artifact of great rank. As the Fourth Layer’s closing time approached, the others waited outside, while Mu Xuzi and Xiong Yuan wagered on whether Xiao Yan would succeed.

• Xiao Yan used the Holy Flame to reveal the Sky Shifting Ruler’s phantom in a vast desert.
• The phantom assessed Xiao Yan and explained that the Sky Shifting Ruler required the Holy Flame, then noted the Primordial Fire Ruler’s great potential and incomplete state.
• Xiao Yan received the Sky Shifting Ruler’s cultivation method and insights, then spent the remaining time studying them under the phantom’s guidance.
• With three days left before the Fourth Layer closed, the other six disciples had emerged after cultivating their hall’s Hall-Protecting Treasures, while Xiao Yan remained inside.
• Ling Xuan, Zhu Yuan, and Qin Xin discussed Xiao Yan’s chances, and Xiong Yuan bet Mu Xuzi that Xiao Yan would master the Human Hall technique.

Wine Sword Immortal, Chen Xin, Zhu Jin, Huang Li, and King Xuan Ling uncovered the hidden entrance to the ruins and entered after Chen Xin opened the ancient iron gate. The four explorers were repelled by the ruins’ power and scattered to investigate, while Chen Xin stayed behind to hold the gate open.

• The five powerhouses searched the flat ground, and Chen Xin’s Soul Power triggered Gray Flame that Wine Sword Immortal cut apart, revealing a vortex entrance.
• Wine Sword Immortal led Zhu Jin, Huang Li, Chen Xin, and King Xuan Ling through the vortex and cleared the Gray Flame with his sword.
• The group found an ancient iron gate carved with a Bagua symbol, and Chen Xin said he knew how to open it.
• Chen Xin used the Power of Life and Death and an incantation to crack the gate, allowing the other four to enter while he maintained the opening.
• Inside the ruins, Zhu Jin, Huang Li, Wine Sword Immortal, and King Xuan Ling resisted the repulsion and scattered in different directions to investigate.

The Solomon Sect Master entered the Moonlight Fairy’s ruins and challenged the Undying Nether Sparrow while Qi Haoqing waited to exploit the fight. Elsewhere, the Xuan Ling King prepared a scheme to send Qin Tian and the Dragon Devouring Legion into the ruins, intending to kill Qin Tian and claim the Dou Soul for himself.

• The Solomon Sect Master appeared before the Undying Nether Sparrow, and Guni joined him as Hua Lexin condemned Guni’s underhanded methods.
• The Solomon Sect Master attacked the Undying Nether Sparrow with magma and his Corrosive Ghost Hand, while Song Yue suspected his power came from the Ghost Realm.
• Qi Haoqing, controlled by the Blood Curse, judged his body too weak to fight effectively and decided to let the Solomon Sect Master and the Undying Nether Sparrow weaken each other.
• Qin Tian and the Dragon Devouring Legion prepared to use the Xuan Ling King’s blood-red array and the Qi brothers’ imprints to travel into the ruins and seize the Dou Soul.
• Wen Zi reported that Qi Haoran’s soul plaque had shattered, and the Xuan Ling King hoped to use his death as an excuse to target the Burning Incense Pavilion or the Ten Thousand Flowers Pavilion.
• The Xuan Ling King revealed that the substance he gave Qin Tian contained a hidden ingredient meant to kill him in the ruins, and vowed to claim the Dou Soul and rule the Xuan Ling Continent.

Xiao Yan killed Ming Zun and absorbed his power, while the Netherworld Twin Venerables escaped with their lives. Cang Yue began guiding Yue Ru through the Bright Moon Fairy’s inheritance, leaving her to risk death in pursuit of the strength to stand beside Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan used the Primordial Fire Ruler and Holy Flame to kill Ming Zun, while the Soul Devouring Talisman absorbed his power and recovered to Dou Xian strength.
• Mu Yingying caught the weakened Xiao Yan, and Cang Yue helped restore him as he learned that the Bright Moon Fairy Inheritance Stone was safe.
• Cang Yue told Yue Ru to receive the inheritance while she investigated the mystery surrounding her Master’s fall.
• Yue Ru declared that she would gain the strength to stand proudly beside Xiao Yan, then entered the inheritance guided by Cang Yue.
• Cang Yue sealed the Bright Moon Ruins and departed, leaving Yue Ru to face the dangerous inheritance.

Xiao Yan killed Yang Fei and took the sealing Dou Ji, then hid in Ghost King City as its factions reacted to the Hammer Mercenary Corps’ destruction. Wang Feng prepared to attack the Yu Family and learned that the Eagle Eye Squad would arrive early.

• Xiao Yan intercepted Yang Fei on the escape trail and burned him to nothing before taking the sealing Dou Ji.
• Xiao Yan entered Ghost King City, checked into an inn, and concealed his aura while waiting for the Undying Leaf’s buyer to act.
• After hearing the Hammer Mercenary Corps had been wiped out, Lei Li ordered the Lei Family to muster its forces.
• Qing Ming and the Qing Family elders suspected the Yu Family and the Mad Demon Corps were involved and prepared for battle.
• Wang Feng ordered Bai He to gather the City Lord Mansion’s forces for an attack on the Yu Family.
• Bai He reported that the Eagle Eye Squad would arrive ahead of schedule, and Wang Feng welcomed the news.

After Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying defeated Xue Tian and Xue Xuan, the Blood Demon Envoy revealed that Yin Fu Tong, a long-lost Burning Incense Pavilion genius, had been demonized and sent him to fight Xiao Yan’s group. The chapter ended as Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi, and the Ghost Face Soul Flame attacked Yin Fu Tong while Yan Chi asked them to leave his body intact if possible.

• Xiao Yan returned Mu Yingying’s Sacred Flame Crystal, and Yan Chi explained that the Blood Demon Envoy’s strength had been split in two, with one half still at large.
• The Blood Demon Envoy vowed revenge on Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yi attacked him before he could act further.
• The Blood Demon Envoy summoned a demonized Yin Fu Tong and revealed him to Yan Chi as the Burning Incense Pavilion genius who had disappeared.
• Yan Chi recognized Yin Fu Tong and warned Xiao Yan that he had mastered the true secret of Sound Attribute Dou Qi, asking that his body be left intact if possible.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi, and the Ghost Face Soul Flame charged Yin Fu Tong, who answered the Blood Demon Envoy’s command to entertain them.

Mu Tian Yuan defeated Qi Haoqing by using the Burning Incense Pavilion’s fire cultivation method to burn away his evil power, but a weakened Blood Demon Envoy took over Qi Haoqing’s body. The envoy shattered the Heaven Hall disciples’ defensive array and left all seven of them badly wounded and facing death.

• Mu Tian Yuan unleashed the Fen Tian Jue, destroying Qi Haoqing’s blood-red skull and burning away its evil aura.
• Mu Tian Yuan struck Qi Haoqing down, and Luan Yu urged him to purge the remaining Outer Realm Evil Clan power from Qi Haoqing’s body.
• The Blood Demon Envoy’s blood qi entered Qi Haoqing’s body, allowing the envoy to take control and erode Mu Tian Yuan’s mind and body.
• Huang Feikong charged the Blood Demon Envoy to protect the others, but the envoy struck him down with a single blow.
• Mu Tian Yuan led the seven Heaven Hall members in forming Zhu Jin’s defensive array, but the Blood Demon Envoy shattered it with one finger and badly wounded them all.

Xiao Yan discovered a soul Dou Technique and the Blood River Bell at the bottom of the Blood River Pool, then bargained with the Soul Devouring Talisman over the artifacts. The Soul Devouring Talisman agreed to save Xiao Yan once in exchange for the Blood River Bell, and they prepared to collect both treasures.

• Xiao Yan and the Soul Devouring Talisman found a cyan scroll and the Blood River Bell on a riverbed at the bottom of the pool.
• The Soul Devouring Talisman explained that the Blood River Bell was one of the Twelve Evil Soldiers of the Ghost Realm and could unleash a powerful Blood River Map.
• The Soul Devouring Talisman proposed taking the Blood River Bell in exchange for Xiao Yan claiming the soul Dou Technique, but Xiao Yan insisted on taking both.
• Xiao Yan negotiated for the Soul Devouring Talisman to save him once in a life-or-death crisis in return for the Blood River Bell.
• The Soul Devouring Talisman warned that helping Xiao Yan could make humans brand it a traitor, but Xiao Yan accepted the risk.
• Xiao Yan and the Soul Devouring Talisman agreed to collect the Blood River Bell and the soul Dou Technique.

Xiao Yan’s group arrived at Blood River Town ahead of the Blood River Realm tournament and learned that the realm had split into two layers, with the second restricted to Seven-star Dou Di cultivators. Elder Zhu assigned the teams and urged the stronger disciples to recover Senior Brother Yin Fu Tong’s remains, while Xiao Yan headed to the town’s treasure district with his companions.

• Elder Zhu led the Burning Incense Pavilion disciples into Blood River Town and met Yuanyang at their mansion.
• Yuanyang reported that the Blood River Realm had divided into two sections and that Ghost Realm forces might be behind the change.
• Yuanyang explained that only Seven-star Dou Di cultivators could enter the second layer, where Senior Brother Yin Fu Tong had fallen.
• Elder Zhu assigned Mu Tian Yuan to lead the nine-person second-layer team, with Xiao Yan as his second-in-command, while Qin Xin would lead the first-layer team.
• Elder Zhu told the disciples to bring back Senior Brother Yin Fu Tong, even if they found only his skeleton.
• Xiao Yan took Mu Feng, Xiao Yi, and Mu Yingying to explore Blood River Town’s treasure district.