Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying traveled to the Medusa Clan, where its leaders argued over whether to protect him or hand him to the Xuan Ling Imperial Family. Xiao Yan revealed Cai Lin’s Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline, and Xiao Yi declared that Cai Lin was his wife.

• Xiao Yan told Mu Yingying that Yan Chi had likely been controlled by power from the Outer Realm Evil Clan and promised to rescue him.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying reached the Medusa Clan’s crystal palace, where Mo Ba Er argued that the clan should hand Xiao Yan over to the Xuan Ling Imperial Family.
• Elder Snake told Xiao Yan to resolve the dispute, and Xiao Yan approached Mo Ba Er as Xiao Yi and Long Yi prepared to intervene.
• Cai Lin’s nine-colored blood surged from Xiao Yan, forcing Mo Ba Er to kneel and ask why Xiao Yan carried the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python blood.
• Xiao Yi said that Cai Lin was his wife, shocking the Medusa Clan’s assembled powerhouses.

Xiao Yan risked his life to fuse the cyan and earth-yellow Sacred Flame Origins into the Lotus of Life and Death and hurled it at King Xuan Ling. Its explosion destroyed the altar’s barrier, exposing the battle to everyone across Xuan Tian San.

• King Xuan Ling fought Yue Ru while watching Xiao Yan prepare his attack, and his subordinates remained pinned down by their opponents.
• Xiao Yan stripped the cyan and earth-yellow Sacred Flame Crystals into their Origins and struggled to fuse the flames, injuring his hands and coughing blood from the backlash.
• Mu Yingying urged Xiao Yan to stop, but Cai Lin told her to trust him.
• Xiao Yan formed the cyan-yellow Lotus of Life and Death, infused it with Flame Mantra Dou Qi, and threw it at King Xuan Ling.
• The Lotus of Life and Death exploded near King Xuan Ling, destroying nearby peaks and the evil Ghost Qi barrier around the altar.
• The destruction of the barrier revealed the events on the altar to countless mortals across Xuan Tian San.

After Xiao Yan’s heart was shattered and his life force faded, the Soul Devouring Master explained that Mu Yingying could sacrifice herself to preserve his soul and give him a chance to survive, though he would lose his memories of her and Cai Lin. Mu Yingying chose to sacrifice her life and Sacred Flame power, and Xiao Yan’s body began to recover as she disappeared into his chest.

• The Soul Devouring Master said Xiao Yan’s heart had been destroyed by King Xuan Ling’s Hunter Flame Chain and that burning his body with Holy Flame Power could preserve his soul.
• Cai Lin tried to save Xiao Yan with her Ten-Colored Sky Swallowing Python blood, but the Soul Devouring Master stopped her and revealed that Xiao Yan would forget both women if he were resurrected.
• Mu Yingying decided to use her Sacred Flame to save Xiao Yan despite Yan Chi’s protests and asked Cai Lin not to tell Xiao Yan what she had done.
• Mu Yingying and the Spirit of the Sacred Flame shattered the Sacred Flame Crystal and prepared to sacrifice their power.
• Mu Yingying invoked the Kong Ling Ice Flame and gave her blood, soul, and power to Xiao Yan, turning into azure flame that entered his chest as his breathing and heartbeat returned.

Xiao Yan, Qing Wenshu, and Qinger entered Ghost King City for the City Lord Mansion’s upcoming auction after Qing Wenshu convinced Battalion Commander Dao to let them through. Inside the city, Xiao Yan noticed a black-clad figure carrying a familiar Yu Family aura, and he and Qing Wenshu set off to follow him.

• The trio reached Ghost King City’s guarded gate, where Battalion Commander Dao questioned Xiao Yan because he looked unfamiliar.
• Qing Wenshu gave Battalion Commander Dao a money pouch and claimed Xiao Yan was a young master visiting to propose marriage to Qinger.
• Battalion Commander Dao accepted the explanation and let the trio enter the city.
• Xiao Yan spotted a black-clad figure with a Yu Family aura and suggested following him.
• Qing Wenshu sent Qinger home and went with Xiao Yan to investigate the mysterious figure.

Hua Fei and the Alchemist Association disciples tried to protect Yun Qi from the Green-robed Man, Mu Xiao, and Xue Jing. Yun Qi sent them away and faced the attackers alone, unleashing her Minor Heaven Seed as their fatal strikes descended.

• Hua Fei and the other Alchemist Association disciples volunteered to hold off Mu Xiao and Xue Jing so Yun Qi could escape.
• The Green-robed Man ordered Mu Xiao and Xue Jing to kill the others and capture Yun Qi alive.
• Yun Qi used her soul power to carry Hua Fei and the disciples hundreds of meters away from the cave, leaving herself behind.
• The Green-robed Man offered Yun Qi the choice of joining the Outer Realm Evil Clan or dying, and Yun Qi rejected him.
• Yun Qi summoned her Minor Heaven Seed, Little Orange, and formed flame and soul barriers as Mu Xiao and Xue Jing launched their attacks.

Xiao Yan rescued Liu Qing and Duan Qifei from the black-robed man and fought him with his Holy Flame. The black-robed man was badly wounded and fell into the bushes below the cliff as Xiao Yan went to search for him.

• Xiao Yan warned Liu Qing and Duan Qifei of the black-robed man's attack, and Liu Qing pulled Duan Qifei away from a spot that was obliterated.
• Xiao Yan confronted the black-robed man, who attacked him and declared his allegiance to the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yan's flames burned the black-robed man's power, and Xiao Yan countered his Three Soul Lock chains with Severing the Firmament.
• Xiao Yan strengthened his flaming attack with Fire Heart Sky Rock, broke the chains, and sent the black-robed man crashing into the bushes.
• Duan Tianfeng and City Lord Lei recognized Xiao Yan's earth-yellow flame as a Holy Flame, while Xiao Yan descended to search for the black-robed man.

Xiao Yan used his spiritual power to destroy the rock formation concealing the Corpse-Shattering Stone Fan Scorpion while Yu Yifeng and Thunder Snake protected him. After Yu Yifeng pierced the scorpion and Xiao Yan stopped it from self-destructing with his flames, the ninth-layer guardian was defeated and the exit passage appeared.

• Xiao Yan locked onto the Corpse-Shattering Stone Fan Scorpion with his soul power and used twenty-seven thousand core inscriptions to weaken its rock formation.
• The scorpion attacked Xiao Yan, and Yu Yifeng and Thunder Snake intercepted its venomous tail while Xiao Yan continued breaking the formation.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the rock formation, exposing the scorpion, and Yu Yifeng rushed in and pierced it with his Wind Soaring Technique.
• The injured scorpion began to self-destruct, but Xiao Yan engulfed it in fire and suppressed the blast as its life force drained away.
• The Corpse-Shattering Stone Fan Scorpion vanished, and a passageway appeared in the giant rock, marking the end of the ninth layer.

Xiao Yan and Liu Qing prepared to destroy the Second Eye, with Liu Qing using Borrowing Spirits to amplify her strength and Xiao Yan drawing the creature’s attacks. The battle began as Xiao Yan charged the Second Eye, while Liu Qing waited for the opening to unleash her single decisive strike.

• The Soul Devouring Master explained that Liu Qing’s Borrowing Spirits drew on angelic power and revealed that he had once fought the Holy See’s Pope to a draw.
• Liu Qing told Xiao Yan that her enhanced Light Element attack had a ninety percent chance of destroying the Second Eye if it hit, and Xiao Yan promised to create an opening.
• Thunder Snake shielded Liu Qing while Yu Yifeng attacked the Second Eye with Thousand Wind Blades, but the strike passed harmlessly through its yellow pupil.
• Xiao Yan told Yu Yifeng to guard Liu Qing and took on the Second Eye himself.
• Xiao Yan broke free of the Second Eye’s soul-based attacks with Yellow Springs techniques and charged toward it, while Liu Qing waited for her chance to strike.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui entered the Qiankun Ancient Array while the Hidden Soul Society and Soul Hall fought the Four Continents powerhouses over the Demon Suppressing Prison. The Dusha Demon Empress’s seal remained at risk as Hun Nie worked to crack the array and Xiao Yan moved inside.

• Xiao Yan and his group reached the blood-red depths of the Demon Suppressing Prison and identified the Qiankun Ancient Array sealing the Dusha Demon Empress.
• Hun Nie and the Earth Spirit Blood General met with the Four Heroes of the Hidden Soul Society and prepared to crack the array while their allies held off the Four Continents powerhouses.
• Hei Jue and other Four Continents fighters confronted the Hidden Soul Society and Soul Hall, beginning a battle across the blood-red space.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui headed for the array, and Duan Qifei and the other girls blocked the Earth Spirit Blood General so the brothers could enter.
• The armies clashed as Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui entered the Qiankun Ancient Array, leaving the seal’s fate uncertain.

Dusha Demon Empress drew on the Demon Suppressing Prison’s evil auras to reach Six-Star Dou Xian Perfection, then revealed her true form and used the fifty-seventh-ranked Yaoxie Poison Bell to shield her escape. The Soul Devouring Master faced the barrier while protecting Xiao Yan, and Dusha Demon Empress fled with Di Dusha toward the prison’s exit.

• Di Dusha abandoned his attempt to capture Xiao Yan because the Soul Devouring Master’s devouring power protected him.
• Dusha Demon Empress absorbed evil auras from the Demon Suppressing Prison and raised her strength to Six-Star Dou Xian Perfection.
• Dusha Demon Empress transformed into her true form and summoned an Evil Implement, which Xiao Yan recognized as the Yaoxie Poison Bell.
• Dusha Demon Empress used the Yaoxie Poison Bell to create a massive demonic barrier, while the Soul Devouring Master judged that breaking it would take time.
• Dusha Demon Empress returned to human form, took Di Dusha, and escaped toward the passage out of the Demon Suppressing Prison.

Xiao Yan and Yu Mu’s group struggled against a silver giant dragon formed from unstable Spatial Power inside the Spatial Teleportation Array. Yu Mu’s team trapped it with the Thunderstorm Cage, and Xiao Yan struck as it reappeared, while a hidden black-robed man took notice of Xiao Yan’s Immortal Realm Soul power.

• Yu Mu and the other experts found their attacks ineffective against the silver dragon, while Xiao Yan used his soul power to defend them.
• Yu Mu led seven experts in forming the Thunderstorm Cage, but the silver dragon escaped by traveling through space.
• Xiao Yan warned Yu Mu that he would attack the dragon with soul power when it reappeared so the thunder net could follow.
• The silver dragon emerged elsewhere, and Xiao Yan unleashed Youming Tianhu as Yu Mu sent the thunder net toward it.
• A hidden black-robed man sensed Xiao Yan’s Immortal Realm Soul power and grew interested.

Xiao Yan stopped fleeing and revealed his Dou Soul and Undying Nether Flame to counter Ye Yunqing’s Water Attribute attacks. Their first clash ended in a draw, and Xiao Yan launched another attack as Ye Yunqing recognized that he had underestimated him.

• Ye Yunqing declared that he would kill Xiao Yan and send him to join the Fifth Elder, while Xiao Yan stopped fleeing and gathered his power.
• Xiao Yan explained that his Holy Flame could overcome Ye Yunqing’s Water Attribute, then faced the water dragon without dodging.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Undying Nether Sparrow Dou Soul and unleashed the Undying Nether Flame, eroding Ye Yunqing’s water dragon and alarming him.
• A Soul Clan expert hiding in a secret passage recognized Xiao Yan’s Dou Soul, Holy Flame, and Immortal Realm Soul and considered him a valuable target.
• Ye Yunqing raised a Water Spirit Realm barrier against Xiao Yan’s flame attacks, and their clash ended with both men stepping back.
• Xiao Yan launched another attack with the Undying Nether Sparrow Dou Soul’s amplification after Ye Yunqing admitted he had underestimated him.

After Xiao Yan defeated Yin Protector and crippled Ye Ku, Yu Tianyue ordered the Yu Sect to destroy Withered Leaf Zhai. Ye Ku’s escape attempt failed, leaving Withered Leaf Zhai defeated and its leaders captured or dead.

• Yu Tianyue warned Yu Renran not to antagonize Xiao Yan and ordered the Yu Sect to attack Withered Leaf Zhai at midnight.
• Xiao Yan rested and meditated after being escorted away by Yu Wei, while Yu Renran agreed to join the coming battle.
• Ye Ku’s leaders debated their options as the Yu Sect surrounded Withered Leaf Zhai; Ye Ku chose to flee and preserve his family’s bloodline.
• The Yu Sect overwhelmed Withered Leaf Zhai’s fighters, and Yu Tianyue pursued Ye Ku through the sect’s secret passages.
• Yu Tianyue intercepted Ye Ku, Ye Shuang, and Ye Yunqing after they escaped; he stopped Ye Ku from self-detonating and ordered the captives taken away.

Xiao Yan defeated Feng Yu in the second match by absorbing Feng Yu’s Space Shuttle attack and returning it with added fire-attribute Dou Qi. He collapsed after winning, while Duan Tianfeng arranged for Duan Qifei to take him to rest and continued the competition.

• Zhu Li, Muge, and Duan Tianfeng watched Xiao Yan and Feng Yu’s increasingly powerful attacks and worried about the outcome.
• Xiao Yan gathered the energy of the Arena Mountain Range into the Primordial Fire Ruler and prepared his final strike against Feng Yu’s Space Shuttle.
• Feng Yu’s Space Shuttle began overpowering Xiao Yan’s red energy beam, but Xiao Yan used Sky Shifting Ruler to swallow it and add his own Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan sent the strengthened Space Shuttle back at Feng Yu, who admitted defeat because he could no longer resist it.
• Duan Tianfeng announced Xiao Yan’s victory, caught him as he collapsed, and sent Duan Qifei to take him to rest.

Xiao Yan endured the Gray Lake’s violent thunder to absorb its thunder essence, completing the Second Transformation of the Dragon God and reaching Two-star Dou Xian Perfection. He finished absorbing the power as Thunder Lord continued stabilizing the samsara fluctuations within Duan Qifei.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the thunder essence, and the Soul Devouring Master warned that he had to withstand its attacks to absorb it fully.
• Gray thunder struck Xiao Yan repeatedly, leaving him badly injured as he defended himself with Holy Flame Power and the First Transformation of the Dragon God.
• As Xiao Yan endured the blows, his body began glowing with golden light, and Dragon Might repelled the thunder.
• Xiao Yan activated the Second Transformation of the Dragon God and discovered it granted him an aura that suppressed beasts with Dragon Clan bloodlines.
• The remaining thunder essence poured into Xiao Yan’s Fire Attribute Dou Core, and after about an hour he reached Two-star Dou Xian Perfection.

Emperor Lei Hong revealed the Thunder Emperor Scepter and gave it to Duan Qifei, who began absorbing its power as the Outer Realm Evil Clan attacked. Xiao Yan confronted the three attackers and discovered that the Soul Devouring Master's ghost qi could neutralize their strikes.

• Emperor Lei Hong revealed that the Thunder Emperor Scepter was a Sixth Grade Immortal Artifact and told Duan Qifei to accept it.
• Duan Qifei took the scepter, and Emperor Lei Hong's coffin shattered as the weapon's lightning began merging with her.
• You Zun, Huan Zun, and Youhuan attacked the tomb to stop Duan Qifei from mastering the scepter.
• Xiao Yan left the tomb to hold off the attackers while Duan Qifei absorbed the scepter's power.
• The attackers' strikes vanished against the ghost qi around Xiao Yan, and the Soul Devouring Master identified them as two Zun-tier powerhouses and one Half-Emperor.

Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei found a lightning path to Emperor Lei Hong’s grave, where they hoped to discover a way out of the Thunder Tomb. As Youhuan attacked them, a mysterious figure formed from thunder appeared above the grave and challenged the Outer Realm Evil Clan king.

• Duan Qifei recalled that Emperor Lei Hong was a Five-star Dou Xian who helped divide Yinhun Heaven, and sensed he might have been her father’s teacher.
• Duan Qifei used her thunder power to reveal a silver lightning path leading to Emperor Lei Hong’s grave.
• You Zun warned Youhuan that someone had found the grave, and Youhuan set out to stop them.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Duan Qifei and struck Youhuan’s deep cyan energy beam with a fist wrapped in Holy Flame power.
• A blurry figure of thunder appeared above the hill, gently regarding Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei while defying Youhuan.

Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei entered Emperor Lei Hong’s tomb while the Thunder Lord repelled Youhuan and his companions. The Soul Devouring Master easily broke the Bagua array around the coffin, but hinted that someone had already taken the inheritance.

• Emperor Lei Hong used his remaining power to drive Youhuan and the other Youhuan clan members away from the graveyard.
• Xiao Yan and Duan Qifei entered the tomb, protected from its powerful Thunder Power by the Thunder Lord’s Gray Thunder.
• Duan Qifei explained that Emperor Lei Hong’s tomb held treasures meant to suppress the Outer Realm Evil Clan and that her father alone knew its entrance.
• Xiao Yan approached the bronze coffin, and the Soul Devouring Master broke the Bagua array guarding it.
• The Soul Devouring Master remarked that someone had already taken the inheritance.

Xiao Yan and his companion escaped the Qiankun Ancient Array as Hun Nie continued breaking the seal imprisoning the Dusha Demon Empress. Xiao Yan joined the battle outside and confronted Mo Tianxing, who revealed the Forbidden Hand as the battlefield’s balance shifted.

• Hun Nie broke through the Qiankun Ancient Array’s defenses, and the Dusha Demon Empress waited inside the Morning Glow Light Gate for her seal to be broken.
• Xiao Yan and his companion used the God of Thunder Scroll to escape the array and found the Four Continents powerhouses losing ground against the Hidden Soul Guild and Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan rescued Duan Qifei from Mo Tianxing and learned that Hun Nie’s control of the array threatened to release the Dusha Demon Empress.
• Mo Tianxing attacked Xiao Yan, explaining that he intended to subdue him and retrieve things from the Qiankun Ancient Array.
• Mo Tianxing summoned the Forbidden Hand, and the Soul Devouring Master identified it as belonging to the Forbidden Sea King, whose power transformed the battlefield.

Duan Qifei left with the Fierce Soul Guard after the academies recognized her as a Samsara Runner, and the remaining disciples began choosing academies. Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui joined Diling Academy, whose departure revealed a Holy Flame fluctuation and angered Yuan Xiao.

• The five academy representatives focused on Duan Qifei, and she said goodbye to Xiao Yan before leaving with the Fierce Soul Guard.
• Jiang Zhong of the Soul Academy recruited the Three-faced Ghost's female follower after introducing his academy.
• The Earth Spirit Old Ghost invited the remaining disciples to join Diling Academy, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui accepted.
• The Earth Spirit Old Ghost took Xiao Yan and Xiao Gui away, leaving behind a Holy Flame fluctuation that prompted Yuan Xiao to accuse him of provoking the Adjudication Court.