Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan confronted Yu Xuan, the last clan chief of the Sky-Eye Fish Clan, to obtain the formation stone. Yu Xuan mistook Xiao Yan’s Milky White Flame for the power of the people who destroyed his clan and attacked him; Xiao Yan escaped the lethal blow using a body double.

• The Nine-Patterned Golden Fish and Fish Origin Stone restored the guardian, who revealed himself as Yu Xuan and demanded that Xiao Yan defeat him to claim the formation stone.
• Xiao Yan realized Yu Xuan’s Eight-star Dou Di Perfection strength was overwhelming and prepared to face him with the Golden Dragon King’s guidance.
• Xiao Yan released his Milky White Flame to evaporate the passageway’s moisture, and Yu Xuan recognized the flame as the kind used against his clan.
• Yu Xuan furiously accused Xiao Yan of being connected to the Xuan Ling Imperial Family and charged at him with a lethal attack.
• Yu Xuan pierced Xiao Yan’s body, but it vanished as a white-smoke double; Xiao Yan reappeared unharmed and recognized how dangerous the attack would have been to his true body.

Xiao Yan and his companions learned that the mysterious meteorite was a Life Origin Stone, but it lay inside a dangerous Shattered Space that repelled and destroyed power. When they found they lacked spatial abilities, Xiao Yan suggested he might have a way through.

• The woman identified the meteorite as a Life Origin Stone whose life force could greatly benefit the Golden Dragon King and help restore strength.
• The Golden Dragon King warned the woman not to sow discord and noted that the stone could be shared among them.
• The woman explained that the area within ten meters of the stone was Shattered Space, and the Golden Dragon King demonstrated its danger by throwing a pebble that was crushed to dust.
• The Golden Dragon King and the woman explained that Shattered Space repelled power and could likely be broken only with spatial-attribute Dou Qi or a spatial-attribute Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan said he might have a way through, surprising the woman, who had sensed no spatial power from him.

In the Medusa Clan’s Divine Hall, Cai Lin encountered a mysterious snake-haired woman who recognized her bloodline and drained her power. Cai Lin broke free by manifesting the true form of the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, but a ripple of death stirred in her heart as the woman smiled.

• A mysterious woman appeared before Cai Lin and identified her as a descendant of the Medusa Clan from the Dou Qi Continent.
• The woman used her ten-colored power to bind Cai Lin and transform into a tiny snake that began absorbing her energy.
• Cai Lin struggled against the drain and thought of her daughter and the girl’s father as sorrow spread through the space.
• Cai Lin’s sorrow awakened the true form of the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, allowing her to break free and leap onto its head.
• The mysterious woman returned to her original form, recognized Cai Lin’s true form, and left Cai Lin sensing a ripple of death.

She Fu fused the Green Snake with his snake-head staff to unleash an ancient power against Qin Tian, while Qin Tian swallowed a pill of compressed Flame Force and transformed his life-and-death energy. The battle in the sky intensified as Xiao Yan and the others watched from below.

• Xuan Mo failed to defeat the Green Snake before it escaped into She Fu’s black-and-white barrier, then returned to help Qing Mu fight the Snake King.
• She Fu restored the Green Snake’s wounds and merged it with his snake-head staff, turning the staff into an Immortal Artifact with an artifact spirit.
• She Fu challenged Qin Tian to withstand one move as the fused staff released ancient power.
• Xiao Yan recognized Qin Tian’s dark-red pill as compressed Flame Force and formed a protective shield around himself and his companions.
• Qin Tian swallowed the pill, surrounding his life-and-death energy with red flames and putting She Fu under immense pressure.

Nu Dong arrived with a black-robed Soul Hall expert and challenged She Fu’s authority over the Medusa Clan, claiming he would take control. The black-robed man agreed to face the two Half-Immortal experts as Nu Dong prepared to attack the eight chiefs.

• The black-robed man sent a dark chain at the Snake King, but Zhu Jin intercepted it and fought him to a standstill.
• She Fu recognized the black mist around the black-robed man as similar to the mist that had surrounded Qin Tian.
• Nu Dong accused She Fu of favoring Qing Hua She and argued that her injury left the Medusa Clan’s leadership open to change.
• She Fu stripped Nu Dong of his Avengers Tribe chief position and ordered his arrest, while Nu Dong vowed to purge those who opposed him.
• The black-robed man ordered an attack, and Nu Dong assigned him the two Half-Immortal experts while taking on the eight chiefs.

The Son of Light and Archbishop Michael visited the Gu Clan, where the Son of Light declared his love for Xun Er and demanded her despite learning she was married. Xun Er repelled his light Dou Qi with her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, shocking the Gu Clan experts.

• The Son of Light revealed his identity to the Gu Clan, and the Peerless Heavenly Emperor recalled that the previous Son of Light had nearly become a Dou Shen.
• Archbishop Michael praised Xun Er and revealed that the Holy See had come because the Son of Light had fallen for her.
• Xun Er told the Son of Light that she was already married, but he insisted that he alone was worthy of her.
• The Son of Light released his light-attribute Dou Qi, and Xun Er's golden flames burned it until Michael extinguished them.
• The Gu Clan experts recognized Xun Er's flames as the complete Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.

Xiao Yan visited Elder Zhu after being summoned and revealed that he had devoured the Fire Heart Sky Rock. Elder Zhu investigated the vanished Dou Qi in Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi Sea and told him to keep cultivating until he reached Nine-star Dou Di to understand the Fiery Beast’s benefits.

• A Registered Disciple told Xiao Yan that Elder Zhu wanted to see him, and Xiao Yan headed to Elder Zhu’s residence.
• Elder Zhu sensed a strange aura from Xiao Yan and learned that he had devoured the Fire Heart Sky Rock with Kuángmù Immortal Master’s help.
• Xiao Yan explained that his Dou Qi Sea had vanished and that a Fiery Beast seemed to have devoured its Dou Qi.
• Elder Zhu deduced that the Fiery Beast had condensed from Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and was compressing it, potentially granting him great power.
• Elder Zhu told Xiao Yan to cultivate until Nine-star Dou Di, when he would understand the Fiery Beast’s benefits.

Xiao Yan and his teammates began the Red Nightmare Tier team competition and traveled through Burning Incense Pavilion’s Spatial Teleportation Array. They arrived at the trial site, where Mu Xuzi’s warning about the Red Scroll missions left Xiao Yan wondering what else awaited them.

• Mu Xuzi opened a massive Spatial Teleportation Array and sent the strongest Earth Hall team, including Wang Chen, to the trial site.
• Ling Xuan identified the other Earth Hall disciples as the Second through Fifth Senior Brothers and warned Xiao Yan that the Fifth Senior Brother was the weakest among them.
• Mu Xuzi sent Xiao Yan, Xin Yan, Lu Di, Mu Feng, Ling Xuan, and Mu Yingying through the array after advising them to relax and protect their wooden token.
• During the teleportation, Xin Yan warned Xiao Yan not to probe the array, while treasures appeared around Ling Xuan and an Azure flame protected Mu Yingying.
• Xiao Yan and his teammates arrived at an unfamiliar location.

Mu Yingying discovered that Xin Yan, the Sacred Flame Spirit inside Xiao Yan, was not fully subdued and warned that it might threaten him. As Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying climbed Wuliang Mountain, a child at the summit prepared to escape Luoling Mountain by absorbing Essence Blood and Magic Cores, and sent Night Cat to meet them.

• Mu Yingying told Xiao Yan that the Sacred Flame Spirit within him held part of the sacred flame’s power and needed to be devoured, but she could not help because it was too strong.
• Mu Yingying warned Xiao Yan that Xin Yan was hostile to humans, and the two agreed to remain cautious as they explored Wuliang Mountain.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying found no Undead Beasts on the mountain and suspected the secret lay at its summit.
• Xin Yan awoke inside Xiao Yan, accepted their cover story about Mu Yingying’s attack, and privately vowed revenge against Xiao Mu and her clansmen.
• At the summit, a child absorbed Essence Blood and Magic Cores while plotting to escape Luoling Mountain and ordered Night Cat to meet the approaching Xiao Yan and Mu Yingying.

Xiao Yan destroyed Bing Tian’s escaping soul after Bing Tian’s apparent self-destruction, prompting Solomon’s Sect Master to order an investigation. Xiao Yan and Yue Ru recovered the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon’s beast core and seven drops of its essence blood before flying toward the main hall.

• Xiao Yan found Bing Tian’s surviving soul in the crater and destroyed it despite Bing Tian’s threats about Solomon.
• Solomon’s Sect Master discovered that an elder’s tablet had shattered and ordered someone to investigate Xiao Yan.
• Yue Ru pointed out the Bloodthirsty Demonic Dragon’s body, and Xiao Yan split its head open to reveal its beast core.
• At the Golden Dragon King’s urging, Xiao Yan refined the dragon’s body and collected seven drops of essence blood that could unleash its Bloodlust-form protective membrane.
• Xiao Yan and Yue Ru set off for the main hall with their gains.

Xiao Yan and his group arrived at the Immortal Auction House and encountered Sun Xiang, who tried to attack a hostess after she could not answer his question about Mu Yingying’s faction. Tu Ling stopped him, then gave Xiao Yan compensation and explained Sun Xiang’s background before the group entered the auction house.

• Xiao Yan and his companions flew to the mountaintop entrance of the Immortal Auction House.
• Sun Xiang spoke with a hostess and became interested in Mu Yingying when he noticed her among Xiao Yan’s group.
• Sun Xiang grew angry when the hostess could not identify Mu Yingying’s faction and struck at her.
• Tu Ling appeared and blocked Sun Xiang’s attack, then confronted him until he left for the auction house.
• Tu Ling offered Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing Emperor-tier medicinal pills, and Xiao Yan accepted it.
• Tu Ling told Xiao Yan that Sun Xiang was a mid-stage Five-star Dou Di from the Sun Family who seemed to covet his father’s position.

Qin Tian and She Fu began battling while Qing Hua She and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python faced the Dragon Devouring Legion and the Xuan Ling Imperial Family. As the clashes erupted, Liu Quan prepared to exploit the conflict from the shadows.

• Qin Tian confronted She Fu, and their black-and-white energies clashed as King Xuan Ling watched them fight.
• Qing Hua She donned her Snake Jade Armor, raising her strength to the Six-turn Nine-star Dou Di realm, while Little Green gathered her poisonous storm.
• Yao Xin linked the six Dragon Devouring Legion generals with her soul power and assigned them to fight Qing Hua She and Little Green while she prepared for five minutes.
• King Xuan Ling asked Ye Mo and Xuan Ming for help, and they joined him in confronting the Ten-Colored Sky Swallowing Python.
• Elder Zhu observed from hiding as Liu Quan gripped a dark-red object and planned to take advantage of the battles.

Zhu Jin revealed an immature domain that isolated the black mist within the Thunder Domain Array and began suppressing its power. The enemy transformed into the legendary Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend, whose arrival was linked to the Ghost Realm's return, and Zhu Jin prepared to fight it.

• Zhu Jin used silvery-white domain power to erode the black aura on the chains and trap the black mist inside the Thunder Domain Array.
• She Fu and Mo Ba Er recognized Zhu Jin's power as an incomplete domain, then resumed their battle against Nu Dong and the others.
• The black mist split into countless clumps that formed ghostly faces, and Zhu Jin recognized the figure as the legendary Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend.
• Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend said it had come to subdue the Medusa Clan or verify certain things, and Zhu Jin chose to fight because of his ties to the clan.
• Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend challenged Zhu Jin, and thousands of its faces smiled as the confrontation began.

Zhu Jin invoked his Saint Grade Dou Ji, Heaven-Descending Thunder, against Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend after the latter broke the Thunder Domain Array. As Zhu Jin gathered black lightning into his palm, Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend launched a five-soul attack to stop him.

• Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend shattered Zhu Jin's Thunder Domain Array, and Nu Dong recognized the power of a Saint Grade Dou Ji.
• She Fu condemned Nu Dong for betraying the Medusa Clan and prepared to capture him while their forces remained defeated.
• Zhu Jin began activating Heaven-Descending Thunder, summoning silver-white thunderclouds that released black lightning.
• Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend swallowed a black bead and spread a fog that devoured space around him.
• Thousand-Faced Ghostly Fiend attacked Zhu Jin with Five-Soul Soul Piercing Stab as Zhu Jin continued gathering lightning.

Xiao Yan and his companions discovered that the forest they had entered was growing on the back of an Ice Scar Heavenly Tiger, an ice-attributed magical beast. Xiao Yan resolved to kill it to obtain its core and essence blood for refining a Xu Sheng Pill, but the awakened beast challenged them.

• Xiao Yi estimated that the hidden beast was at least an imperial-grade sixth-rank magical beast, and Mu Feng warned that it could rival a Six-star Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan, Mu Yingying, Mu Feng, and Lu Di chose to fight the beast while Xiao Yi stayed behind to watch.
• Xiao Yan attacked, but the giant creature evaded his strike and shook the trees and soil from its back.
• The group saw the creature's snow-white fur, amber eyes, and icy aura, and Xiao Yan identified it as an Ice Scar Heavenly Tiger.
• Xiao Yan declared that the tiger had to die so he could obtain its core and essence blood, and the beast awoke and demanded to know who had disturbed its slumber.

Xiao Yan battled Night Cat while Qin Xin and Mu Yingying discovered that their Holy Flame powers were connected. The fight escalated as Night Cat unleashed his strongest attack and Xiao Yan countered with the first three tiers of the Seven-layered Heaven Breaking Ruler.

• Xiao Yan warned Qin Xin and Mu Yingying to stay back, then attacked Night Cat with the Emperor Flame-covered Primordial Fire Ruler.
• Mu Yingying sensed a flame within Qin Xin, and their Holy Flame powers merged after Mu Yingying recognized Qin Xin's flame as connected to her brother.
• Xiao Yan and Night Cat traded attacks, with Night Cat suffering burns from Xiao Yan's flame while concealing his full strength.
• Night Cat decided to end the fight and unleashed the Night Veil Claw as Xiao Yan launched the first three tiers of the Seven-layered Heaven Breaking Ruler.
• Xiao Yan's Emperor Flame-covered ruler collided with Night Cat's massive black qi palm.

After emerging from the Heaven-Piercing River in an unexpected location, Xiao Yan returned to the Burning Incense Pavilion and encountered Qin Xin. The chapter ended with Qin Xin asking him to refine a medicinal pill.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Heaven-Piercing River in the back mountain and met Yumou, who directed him toward the pavilion.
• Xiong Yuan and Mu Xuzi found that Xiao Yan was no longer inside the Heaven-Piercing River and sensed his aura in the back mountain.
• Xiao Yan returned through the pavilion as Earth Hall disciples stared at him, unaware that he had broken the pavilion's record.
• Qin Xin approached Xiao Yan and asked him to refine a medicinal pill.

Xiao Yan and his companions discovered that the Stone Giant’s remains carried an evil aura resembling that of the Outer Realm Evil Clan. After a strange black sound wave incapacitated most of the group, Xiao Yan found a sinister face on the back of a white stone.

• Long Yi sensed a faint evil aura on the Stone Giant and warned Xiao Yan that it might be connected to the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• After the Stone Giant fell, black sound waves erupted from its eyes, causing Xiao Yi and the others intense pain and making their flames weaken.
• The Primordial Fire Ruler shielded Xiao Yan from the sound waves, while Mu Yingying resisted them with her own flame.
• Xiao Yi and the others fainted, and Long Yi said the sound wave was likely a test left by the guardian and that the group seemed unharmed.
• Xiao Yan approached the Stone Giant’s fragments and picked up a white rock after Long Yi found no Outer Realm Evil Clan members nearby.
• Mu Yingying urged Xiao Yan to turn the rock over, revealing a sinister humanlike face surrounded by black aura.

Xiao Yan and his companions discovered a Stone Giant blocking their path through the cave, and learned that breaking it would require a large amount of Flame Force. As they considered using the surrounding Dark Bats, the Stone Giant’s eyes moved, revealing something strange about it.

• Xiao Yan led the group through a seemingly endless, bat-filled passage to a chamber where a Stone Giant blocked the way forward.
• The group searched the cramped chamber for a mechanism, but found nothing, while Mu Feng suspected the Stone Giant could not be opened by brute force.
• Xiao Yan tested his twenty-three-colored flame on the Stone Giant, but it vanished as soon as it touched the statue’s feet.
• Mu Feng concluded that the Stone Giant was connected to fire and would require a great deal of Flame Force to overcome.
• Xiao Yi suggested luring the numerous Dark Bats to use the Flame Force within their bodies, and the group agreed to consider the plan.
• The Stone Giant’s green and red eyes moved, prompting someone to call out that they were strange.

Kuángmù Immortal Master and Yan combined wood-element attacks with Holy Flame to overwhelm Blood Demon Left Guard. As Xiao Yan watched, Long Yi warned that Blood Demon Left Guard was hiding strength, and the guard began considering escape from the duel arena.

• Kuángmù Immortal Master used Wood Dawn and Wood Imprisonment to attack Blood Demon Left Guard and disrupt his protective Blood Demon Qi.
• Yan launched Holy Flame at Blood Demon Left Guard, and its power amplified the assault of Kuángmù Immortal Master's trees.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the battle and his own lack of strength, while Long Yi warned that Blood Demon Left Guard might be concealing his true power.
• Shan Ling explained that the duel arena could not be entered unless someone inside died.
• Blood Demon Left Guard resisted the combined attacks but found Holy Flame weakening his Blood Demon Qi, so he considered fleeing the arena.