Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan helped three Dou Zun Experts attack the Profound Ice Toad King to obtain its Magic Core, while Ice River Valley's leaders and Yi Chen went to investigate. After Yao Yan defeated Yi Chen and asked Ice River Valley Master to let him study the Calamity Poison Body secret technique, the Valley Master responded with a threat.

• Ice River Valley Master and Grand Elder Heavenly Frost Child set out with Yi Chen to investigate the battle against the Profound Ice Toad King.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable, Wind Venerable, and Iron Sword Venerable battered the wounded Profound Ice Toad King while Yao Yan blocked Ice River Valley's group.
• Yi Chen recognized Yao Yan as the young Rank 8 Alchemist and challenged him, but Yao Yan ignored him and spoke to Ice River Valley Master.
• Yi Chen attacked Yao Yan with his Blood-Devouring Bone-Transforming Hand, but Yao Yan's soul power struck him down and broke most of his bones.
• Yao Yan asked Ice River Valley Master to lend him the Calamity Poison Body secret technique, and the Valley Master threatened to take Yao Yan's soul in exchange.

Yao Yan fought Bing He, the Ice River Valley Master, and revealed the power of his Exotic Flames and formidable body as he held his own against a Four-Star Dou Zun. Bing He unleashed his deadly Demonic Snow Devouring the Heavens, and both men prepared to end the battle with their strongest attacks.

• Yi Chen urged Bing He to kill Yao Yan, but Bing He attacked after declaring that Yao Yan would not leave.
• Yao Yan countered Bing He's black blizzard with an Azure Luan made of flame, then used the Five Round Separating Fire Method to shatter Bing He's enormous palm strike and leave him burned.
• Bing He rushed Yao Yan at close range, but Yao Yan transformed with black-gold scales and bone wings, then fought him through a brutal exchange of blows.
• Yao Yan grew stronger during the fight, while Bing He realized he was being used as a whetstone and broke away from the close-quarters battle.
• Bing He unleashed Demonic Snow Devouring the Heavens as Yao Yan burned away the poisonous snow and formed the Five Round Separating Fire Method again.
• Bing He fired a corroding beam from the dark clouds toward Yao Yan as the battle reached its climax.

Yao Yan fought Bing He with his formations, Exotic Flames, and Heavenly Demon Puppet until Bing He summoned Soul Hall for help. The summoned Mo Yu recognized Yao Yan as the Young Master, and Bing He handed over the secret technique and his cultivation insights.

• Yao Yan used the Five Round Separating Fire Method and his Four-Colored Fire Lotus to withstand Bing He's attacks and wound him with the Eight Desolations Burning Heaven Seal.
• The Heavenly Demon Puppet struck Bing He from behind, and Yao Yan trapped him in the fire formation while restoring his strength.
• Bing He asked to end the fight, but Yao Yan demanded the secret technique, so Bing He crushed a Gu Jade to summon the Soul Hall Nine Heavenly Venerates.
• Mo Yu emerged from the passage, bowed to Yao Yan as the Young Master, and confirmed that Soul Hall had supported Ice River Valley.
• Bing He apologized and presented Yao Yan with the secret technique and his cultivation insights.

Yao Yan defeated Ice River Valley Master in a fierce fight, then negotiated a truce in exchange for helping him condense the Innate Calamity Poison Body and receiving Ice River Valley’s secret method. After Ice River killed Yi Chen for threatening to cause trouble, Yao Yan examined Yi Chen’s belongings and discovered the dangerous Evil Blood Skill.

• Yao Yan asked Mo Yu to obtain Heavenly Underworld Sect’s cultivation methods and skills, and Mo Yu agreed to deliver copies to Ice River Valley.
• Yao Yan reassured Ice River that outsiders only needed to know they had reached an agreement, while the arriving Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, and Heavenly Fire Venerable watched the Li Fire Grand Formation collapse.
• Ice River agreed to treat their fight as settled if Yao Yan helped him condense the Innate Calamity Poison Body, and Yao Yan told Wind Venerable and the others that he had been confident he could outlast Ice River.
• Yi Chen threatened to seek reinforcements against Yao Yan, so Ice River secretly put him to sleep with a black snowflake and ordered Heavenly Frost Child to dispose of him.
• In Ice River Valley’s secret chamber, Yao Yan examined Yi Chen’s Storage Ring and learned that the Evil Blood Skill could devour blood, flesh, Dou Qi, and souls but risked leaving its user corrupted and insane.

Yao Yan studied Ice River’s physique-condensing method, realized it was unnecessary for his body, and collected nearly ten thousand cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques from Mo Yu. He returned to Holy Pill City with Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, and Heavenly Fire Venerable, where he prepared to refine pills and confirmed that they could enter the formation sealing Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Yao Yan studied the Evil Blood Skill, Heavenly Underworld Asura Hand, and Ice River’s secret method for condensing a Calamity Poison Body, then considered gathering bloodlines to create new physiques.
• After two days of cultivation, Yao Yan realized the secret method could not improve his already compatible body and left the secluded chamber when Mo Yu and Ice River arrived.
• Mo Yu gave Yao Yan a Storage Ring containing nearly ten thousand cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques, and Yao Yan departed for Holy Pill City with Wind Venerable and the others.
• During the journey, Yao Yan told Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, and Heavenly Fire Venerable that he had only pretended to help Ice River Valley’s Valley Master condense a Calamity Poison Body.
• After a month and a half, the group reached Holy Pill City, where Yao Yan promised to refine pills for the three Dou Zuns and confirmed that there was a way to enter the formation sealing Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Yao Yan learned that the Pill Tower required him to earn qualification to refine Three Thousand Burning Flame, then visited the sealed flame with Xuan Yi to seek its recognition. The encounter ended with Three Thousand Burning Flame destroying his wisp of Soul Power, leaving its willingness to cooperate uncertain.

• Yao Yan refined three Five Qi Uniting Origin Pills and gave one each to Wind Venerable, Iron Sword Venerable, and Heavenly Fire Venerable to aid their breakthroughs.
• Xuan Yi told Yao Yan that he needed to refine and submit a required number of pills to earn the qualification to refine Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Yao Yan remained determined to attempt it before the year's end.
• Xuan Kongzi advised Xuan Yi to let Yao Yan see Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Xuan Yi brought him to the starry expanse where the enormous dragon was sealed.
• Xuan Yi explained that gaining Three Thousand Burning Flame's recognition was the safest way to refine it, while failure could leave Yao Yan only one attempt with the Pill Tower's help.
• Yao Yan placed his hand on Three Thousand Burning Flame's brow scale and spoke with its miniature dragon form, but the dragon attacked and obliterated his wisp of Soul Power.

After Three Thousand Burning Flame rejected Yao Yan, he decided to seek Hun Xuzi’s help rather than wait years to meet the Pill Tower’s demands. Soul Hall prepared to assist him, while Yao Yan began refining the Seven Absolutes Pill to help restrain the flame.

• Yao Yan visited Three Thousand Burning Flame with Xuan Yi, learned how dangerous it would be to refine, and agreed to prepare before trying again.
• Yao Yan contacted Hun Xuzi, who proposed that Soul Hall help undo Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal so Yao Yan could seize its main body.
• Yao Yan agreed to Hun Xuzi’s plan and resolved to pursue strength despite the coming separation from Yao Lao and the others.
• Hun Miesheng ordered the Deputy Hall Master and several Heavenly Venerates to assist Yao Yan while keeping the operation’s commotion under control.
• Yao Yan gathered the ingredients for the Seven Absolutes Pill and began refining it in the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron.

Yao Yan finished refining the Seven Absolutes Pill, then agreed to refine a pill for a mysterious Eight-star Dou Zun who was secretly connected to the Soul Hall. He entered the Star Region with Xuan Yi, where Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates revealed that Yao Yan was their Young Master and began their assault on the Pill Tower.

• Yao Yan refined the Seven Absolutes Pill, destroyed its intelligence, and collected it after Xuan Yi shattered the pill lightning.
• Xuan Kongzi introduced Yao Yan to a black-robed Eight-star Dou Zun, who gave him a scroll that contained Soul Hall messages; Yao Yan agreed to prepare for the requested pill refinement.
• After three days of recovery, Yao Yan asked Xuan Yi to take him to the Star Region to see Three Thousand Burning Flame, and she agreed.
• The Soul Hall Vice Hall Master sent several Heavenly Venerates toward Holy Pill City while confronting Elder Lin from afar and revealing that they had come to free Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Inside the Star Region, Blood River and four other Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates attacked Xuan Yi, then bowed to Yao Yan and addressed him as their Young Master.

Yao Yan revealed himself as Soul Yan, Hun Xuzi’s disciple, while Soul Hall attacked the Pill Tower and seized Three Thousand Burning Flame. He absorbed the flame’s main body and, unable to use his power, prepared to retreat and refine it before recognizing someone familiar.

• Soul Yan revealed his true identity to Xuan Kongzi and the Pill Tower, and Heavenly Thunder attacked Blood River’s group as the Heavenly Venerates engaged the Pill Tower experts.
• Mo Yu summoned six Dou Zuns, and Soul Hall’s forces used the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array to pierce and weaken Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted and began breaking its seals, so the six Venerable Elders used their Lifebound Soul Locks to restrain it while Mo Yu extracted its Lifeblood Flame.
• Yao Yan placed a drop of purple-black essence blood into Three Thousand Burning Flame, drew its main body into himself, and took a Seven Absolutes Pill to withstand the strain.
• As Yao Yan said he needed a quiet place to refine the flame, he recognized a familiar figure and stopped mid-sentence.

Yao Lao emerged from seclusion and confronted Yao Yan over his Soul Clan identity, but their clash was interrupted by Soul Hall’s forces. Soul Hall’s Dou Shengs took Yao Yan away, while Yao Lao and the Pill Tower were left facing a dangerous confrontation.

• Yao Lao appeared before Yao Yan and questioned why a Soul Clan member had learned the Yao Clan’s Three Flowers Gather Fire Skill.
• Yao Yan called their relationship a transaction, and Yao Lao decided he could not let him leave; Mo Yu ordered the Six Heavenly Venerates to seize Yao Yan.
• Yao Lao overwhelmed Mo Yu and revealed that he had reached the Dou Sheng level, though Yao Yan judged his breakthrough unstable and incomplete.
• A Soul Hall Dou Sheng attacked and captured Yao Yan, while another Dou Sheng fought to stop him above Holy Pill City.
• The Soul Hall and Pill Tower leaders agreed to end the confrontation after Soul Hall retrieved Yao Yan, and the two Dou Shengs ceased fighting.

After Yao Yan was taken by the Soul Hall, Yao Lao learned that Hun Xuzi was his teacher and accepted the Pill Tower Old Ancestor’s essence to gain the strength needed to bring him back. Meanwhile, Yao Yan began refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame in Hun Miesheng’s secret chamber, and the Hall Master considered supporting his rise within the Soul Clan.

• The Soul Hall forces departed with Yao Yan, leaving Yao Lao and the Pill Tower experts to reckon with his hidden identity and Hun Xuzi’s connection to him.
• Lin Mo ordered the Pill Tower to investigate future recruits more carefully, then brought Yao Lao to meet the Pill Tower Old Ancestor, who offered him the Pill Tower Master position and a century of condensed essence.
• Yao Lao accepted the golden essence, which could help him break through to Dou Sheng, as the Pill Tower Old Ancestor’s body decayed and vanished into his next reincarnation.
• Hun Miesheng brought Yao Yan to a secure secret chamber, where Yao Yan began subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame within him.
• Hun Miesheng watched Yao Yan control the flames and considered supporting his bid to become Young Clan Leader.

Yao Yan fought the Three Thousand Burning Flame in his consciousness and discovered that his soul could devour its Soul Origin, rapidly strengthening him. After nearly half a year, he emerged on the verge of a major breakthrough, and Hun Miesheng watched a Heaven and Earth Anomaly form around him.

• Yao Yan endured the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s attacks in their consciousness clash and realized that his soul could absorb the flame’s Soul Power.
• Yao Yan transformed his Soul Body and began devouring the Three Thousand Burning Flame, turning its Soul Origin into his own.
• Hun Miesheng observed Yao Yan’s Soul Origin and Dou Qi rapidly increase as the Three Thousand Burning Flame merged into his Azure Flame.
• After nearly half a year, Yao Yan’s aura erupted and he began absorbing vast energy as fire clouds and terrifying lightning filled the sky.
• Hun Miesheng recognized the surrounding Heaven and Earth Anomaly as a sign that a Heaven Rank Skill was being born.

After absorbing Three Thousand Burning Flame, Yao Yan broke through to Four-Star Dou Zun Peak and reunited with Hun Xuzi’s phantom. Hun Xuzi arranged for him to devour captured experts’ souls and reach the Mid Heaven Realm before the Soul Clan’s Bloodline Baptism.

• Yao Yan’s breakthrough surged from One-Star Dou Zun to Four-Star Dou Zun Peak after he absorbed Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Hun Miesheng congratulated Yao Yan, who asked whether Hun Xuzi had arrived and activated the jade token.
• Hun Xuzi appeared, heard Yao Yan’s report, and approved his participation in the Soul Clan’s Bloodline Baptism.
• Hun Xuzi ordered Hun Miesheng to provide captured experts’ souls so Yao Yan could advance his soul to Heaven Rank Middle Grade.
• Hun Xuzi departed into the jade token, leaving Yao Yan and Hun Miesheng together.

Hun Miesheng brought Yao Yan to Soul Hall’s store of Soul Origin and let him absorb it to strengthen his soul. Yao Yan’s Tunling Clan bloodline consumed the Soul Origin’s negative emotions, and he continued cultivating while keeping his soul realm within limits for his future breakthrough to Dou Sheng.

• Hun Miesheng took Yao Yan to Heaven Hall and showed him the Soul Origin Soul Hall had collected from countless people.
• Hun Miesheng gave Yao Yan a small cluster of Soul Origin, which Yao Yan purified with his exotic flame and absorbed, reaching the Mid Heaven Realm.
• Yao Yan activated his Tunling Clan bloodline, which devoured the remaining negative emotions and cleared their effects from him.
• Hun Miesheng explained that Yao Yan should not let his soul realm exceed the Mid Heaven Realm before his Dou Sheng breakthrough.
• Yao Yan swallowed two larger clusters of Soul Origin without purifying them first, relying on his bloodline to consume their negative emotions as he cultivated.

Yao Yan absorbed Soul Origin, raised his soul to the peak of the Heaven Realm Middle Stage, and returned with Hun Miesheng to the Soul Clan. Hun Xuzi named him Soul Yan and revealed his rare bloodline talent, leaving the clan’s elders eager to assess and support him as a contender for Young Clan Leader.

• Yao Yan absorbed three clusters of Soul Origin, reached the peak of the Heaven Realm Middle Stage, and gained greater control over the Evil Eye.
• Hun Miesheng took Yao Yan toward the Soul Clan, explaining that Soul Yan could contend for the Young Clan Leader position and would face challengers there.
• Hun Miesheng brought Yao Yan into the Soul Clan’s Imperial City, where Hun Xuzi welcomed him and bestowed the name Soul Yan.
• Hun Xuzi told the gathered elders that Soul Yan could devour other races’ bloodline power and already possessed Dou Di bloodlines from the Yao Clan, Stone Clan, Spirit Clan, and Yan Clan.
• The elders examined Soul Yan’s blood and Exotic Fires, then questioned his dangerous cultivation method; Hun Yan praised him and offered help if he encountered trouble.

Yao Yan entered the Soul Clan and learned he would compete against Hun Feng for the Young Clan Leader position, which could earn him a Void Swallowing Flame Sub-fire and access to the clan’s resources. As Yao Yan settled into Hun Xuzi’s estate and slept, Hun Feng dismissed him as an unworthy challenger.

• The Four Demon Saints discussed Yao Yan’s potential and the reward of a Void Swallowing Flame Sub-fire, while Hun Xuzi announced that he would compete for Young Clan Leader against Hun Feng.
• Yao Yan said he was confident he could handle a Seven-Star Dou Zun, and Hun Yan instructed Hun Xuzi to prepare him for the upcoming Bloodline Baptism.
• Hun Xuzi brought Yao Yan to his estate, assigned Hun Yi to gather information on Hun Feng, and left Yao Yan to settle in with two maids.
• Yao Yan chose a quiet courtyard near the Pill Refining Room, asked for detailed information about Hun Feng, and fell asleep after years of constant cultivation.
• Hun Feng learned that Yao Yan would compete for the position, dismissed him as a weak Four-Star Dou Zun, and returned to cultivating.

After studying Hun Feng’s abilities, Yao Yan sought methods to strengthen himself and received powerful techniques from Hun Yi, including the Xiao Clan Crest Condensation Method and the Ten Thousand Flames Avatar. He also examined techniques stolen from other Emperor Clans, became intrigued by the Spirit Clan’s unusual cultivation practices, and learned that its female chief was a powerful Six-Star Dou Sheng Peak.

• Yao Yan studied Hun Feng’s intelligence and considered how to compensate for his weaker Dou Qi against the Soul Clan genius.
• Yao Yan asked Hun Yi for a strength-boosting secret method and a new movement technique, and Hun Yi gave him the Xiao Clan Crest Condensation Method and the Ten Thousand Flames Avatar.
• Yao Yan asked to see techniques from the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan, and Hun Yi brought him more than a dozen scrolls.
• Yao Yan found the Spirit Clan’s Heaven Rank dual-cultivation technique and Dou Skill unusual, and Hun Yi explained that their Dou Di had created the method to help the clan have descendants.
• Yao Yan declined Hun Yi’s offer to arrange dual-cultivation partners, then asked about the Spirit Clan Chief and learned she was a woman at the Six-Star Dou Sheng Peak level.

Yao Yan emerged from seclusion after making progress in a Heaven Rank Dou Skill and strengthening his cultivation, then learned how the Soul Clan’s Bloodline Baptism worked. He entered the Blood Sacrifice World after trading soul-aura tokens with Hun Ya and his companions, and glimpsed Hun Feng just before the gateway swallowed him.

• Yao Yan tested his new flame-shifting technique, recalled the power of the Divine Flame Avatar, and left the void space where he had trained for more than three months.
• Hun Xuzi met Yao Yan and explained that the Bloodline Baptism took place in a Blood Sacrifice World filled with accumulated Bloodline Power, where participants could plunder it by killing others.
• Yao Yan arrived at the plaza and exchanged soul-aura tokens with Hun Ya and two other Soul Clan geniuses who challenged him to meet them in the Blood Sacrifice World.
• The Soul Clan’s leaders watched as four gateways opened, and Yao Yan entered the nearest blood-colored vortex.
• Yao Yan sensed a dangerous gaze and saw the Black Patterns between Hun Feng’s brows before he disappeared into the Blood Sacrifice World.

Yao Yan entered the Blood Sacrifice World and discovered that the Void Swallowing Flame Heavenly Son Fire had given him a child flame. He killed a veteran Soul Clan hunter who attacked him, absorbed the man’s power, and sent the hunter’s two companions fleeing.

• Yao Yan sensed the child flame inside him and found that the Blood Sacrifice World suppressed Soul Power and contained little Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Yao Yan decided to hunt for prey and grow stronger by devouring those in the Blood Sacrifice World.
• Three Soul Clan clansmen, each at Six-Star Dou Zun, discussed hunting newcomers to raise their Bloodline Power before leaving the world.
• The trio’s Third Brother charged at Yao Yan, but Yao Yan survived his attack and crushed him with a single kick.
• The child flame devoured the dead man’s power, bringing Yao Yan closer to Five-Star Dou Zun, while his two companions fled.

Yao Yan discovered that the Void Swallowing Flame Sub-fire claimed most of the essence from his kills, so he pursued the two surviving men to test his own devouring ability. After absorbing one man with his Evil Eye and advancing to Five-Star Dou Zun, he left the leader alive because his body was nearly saturated.

• Yao Yan realized the Void Swallowing Flame Sub-fire took about seventy percent of his victim's essence and decided to study its behavior by hunting the two fleeing men.
• The two men hid in a cave, feared Yao Yan's strength, and the leader resolved to pursue a God Grade Bloodline at any cost.
• Yao Yan caught up with the men, charged through their strongest attacks, and subdued them with his strength.
• Yao Yan pierced the dark-red-haired man with his Evil Eye and devoured his Blood Qi, vitality, Dou Qi, and soul before burning the remains to ash.
• Yao Yan rose from Four-Star Dou Zun to Five-Star Dou Zun, then spared the immobilized leader because he could not safely absorb more power.