Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan woke after a year of body tempering in the magma and reached the Dou Emperor realm, but he accidentally swallowed the true body of the Fallen Heart Flame. As the flame erupted inside him, he began refining it with Yao Lao’s help, while the awakened Fire Spirit faced the consequences of Xiao Yan’s appetite.

• Xiao Yan and Medusa endured a year of tempering from the Invisible Fire Python’s Heavenly Flame, and Medusa remained in a deep transformation inside his chest.
• Xiao Yan woke to find the Fire Spirit gone and learned from Yao Lao that he had reached the Dou Emperor realm a month earlier.
• While Yao Lao began explaining how to devour the Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Yan ate its true body, mistaking the soft white worm for food.
• The Fallen Heart Flame’s power erupted inside Xiao Yan, so he meditated to refine it while Yao Lao guarded him.
• The exhausted Fire Spirit woke from its sleep in agony after Xiao Yan’s bite.

Xiao Yan used the Great Ming King to devour the Fallen Heart Flame, then remained unconscious for a year as the flames merged and the Flame Mantra evolved. He awoke to find the Great Ming King transformed and his technique advanced to Earth Tier Intermediate.

• The Fallen Heart Flame attacked Xiao Yan from within, but the Great Ming King chased it through his meridians and repeatedly struck it.
• Xiao Yan circulated the Flame Mantra to empower the Great Ming King, which swallowed the weakened Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Great Ming King absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame and underwent a transformation as Xiao Yan fully circulated the Flame Mantra.
• After a year in a muddled state, Xiao Yan awoke when the Great Ming King chirped near his heart.
• Xiao Yan tested his technique and discovered that the Flame Mantra had advanced to Earth Tier Intermediate.

After Medusa revealed she had advanced to seven-star Dou Zong, Xiao Yan discussed his own breakthrough and the Flame Mantra’s advancement with Yao Lao. Xiao Yan then told Yao Lao about a strange summons from deeper in the Magma Sea, and they prepared to investigate despite the danger below.

• Medusa demonstrated her new spatial power, revealed she had reached seven-star Dou Zong, kissed Xiao Yan, and returned to his Storage Ring as a seven-colored snake.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao he had reached five-star Dou Emperor and explained that he had restrained his breakthrough to keep his foundation stable.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Flame Mantra had advanced to Middle Di class, surprising Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan said he sensed a summons from deeper in the Magma Sea that seemed connected to the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Lao agreed to accompany Xiao Yan into the depths and warned him to be careful in the vast Magma Sea.

Xiao Yan reached Venerable Skyfire, the soul inhabiting the infant Fallen Heart Flame, and learned that the old man could not give it up without dying. Xiao Yan offered to refine Soul Nourishing Saliva, leaving Venerable Skyfire hopeful that he could survive without the flame.

• Xiao Yan descended through the magma while the Great Ming King searched for the presence summoning it.
• Xiao Yan entered a hidden barrier and met the white-robed Venerable Skyfire, who recounted his past as Yao Tianhuo and the Fallen Heart Flame's former master.
• Venerable Skyfire tried to draw on Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames, but the Great Ming King struck his soul and forced him to apologize.
• Xiao Yan asked for the infant Fallen Heart Flame, and Venerable Skyfire refused because it sustained his soul.
• Xiao Yan offered Soul Nourishing Saliva to repair Venerable Skyfire's soul, and the old man eagerly asked whether Xiao Yan could refine it.

Xiao Yan secured the infant Fallen Heart Flame and made a deal with Venerable Skyfire to restore his body in exchange for ten years of service. After receiving Venerable Skyfire’s Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique, Xiao Yan revealed that his teacher, Yao Chen, had come to meet him.

• Xiao Yan showed Venerable Skyfire his sixth-tier Alchemist ability, then had the Great Ming King swallow the infant Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan offered to help Venerable Skyfire regain his physical body, and Venerable Skyfire agreed to serve him for ten years after returning to his peak strength.
• Venerable Skyfire gave Xiao Yan the Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique, which Xiao Yan planned to strengthen with five flames.
• Xiao Yan told Venerable Skyfire that a guest was waiting, then summoned his teacher, Yao Chen, who greeted Venerable Skyfire.

Yao Lao revealed his identity and immense status to Venerable Skyfire, who agreed to assist Xiao Yan after learning how much time had passed and that Soul Hall remained powerful. Xiao Yan left the magma world, and the Heart Flame supplying the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower suddenly vanished.

• Yao Lao introduced himself as a peak Dou Zun and Ninth-Grade Profound Pill Alchemist, then asked Venerable Skyfire to protect Xiao Yan in the future.
• Venerable Skyfire learned that Soul Hall had destroyed Medicine King Valley 430 years earlier and had grown even stronger since then.
• Yao Lao and Venerable Skyfire entered Xiao Yan's Storage Ring, and Yao Lao used spatial power to move Xiao Yan away from the magma world.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the magma sea and asked Yao Lao to help him pass through the seal at the crust's opening.
• The fluctuation supplying the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower stopped, and the Inner Academy students discovered that its Heart Flame offshoots had disappeared.

The Fallen Heart Flame vanished from the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, prompting the students to panic and the Tower Guarding Elders to investigate. Su Qian arrived at the Magma Sea, found no trace of the flame, and wondered what had happened while remembering Xiao Yan as a young genius who had died two years earlier.

• The Inner Academy students discovered that the Heart Flame wisps had disappeared and rushed to alert the academy’s authorities.
• The Grey-Robed Elder ordered the students evacuated, the tower sealed, and an investigation begun at the Magma Sea.
• The Grey-Robed Elder and two Dou Wang elders searched for the Fallen Heart Flame but could not sense it or its main body.
• Su Qian arrived and tried to sense the Fallen Heart Flame, but he also found nothing.
• Su Qian ruled out the seal and the injured Fire Spirit escaping, then remembered Xiao Yan and mistakenly believed he had died two years earlier.

Two years after Xiao Yan’s disappearance, Wangtian had grown into a major Inner Academy organization, but Han Yue still accused Yan Qishang of plotting to take Xiao Yan’s place. The chapter ended with Han Yue breaking into tears as Zi Yan and Huang Hao prepared to comfort her.

• Su Qian forbade the elders from entering the Endless Magma World and ordered them to seal the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower until Elders Qian and Bai could investigate.
• Over two years, Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, and Yan Hao rose among the Inner Academy’s strongest students while Wangtian flourished under its elders’ care.
• Han Yue confronted Yan Qishang at Wangtian headquarters, insisting he was an insidious villain trying to seize Xiao Yan’s legacy, while Yan Qishang pleaded that he remained loyal to Xiao Yan.
• Zi Yan and Huang Hao joined Han Yue in mocking Yan Qishang, though they explained that only Xiao Yan could appoint or dismiss Wangtian’s Chief Elder.
• Han Yue became tearful over Xiao Yan’s absence, prompting Huang Hao to urge Zi Yan to comfort her.

Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Academy after surviving the battle two years earlier, reuniting with Zi Yan and shocking Han Yue and the others. After learning that the split Heart Flames had vanished from the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, he rushed to the academy office and began telling Great Elder Su Qian how he had survived.

• Xiao Yan came downstairs and reunited with Zi Yan, while Han Yue wept at the sight of him and ran away after confronting him.
• Zi Yan explained Yan Qishang's situation, and Xiao Yan blamed him for laughing at Han Yue before agreeing to explain things to her.
• Bei He reported that the split Heart Flames had vanished from the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and that the academy had sealed it.
• Xiao Yan hurried to the Inner Academy office, where Su Qian and Qin Xuan were startled to discover him alive.
• Xiao Yan began recounting to Su Qian what had happened after the Fallen Heart Flame dragged him underground two years earlier.

Xiao Yan told Su Qian that he had refined the Inner Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame and offered its juvenile form as a replacement. After placing it in Mang Tianchi’s Fire Gathering Pot, they prepared to test its effect and reopen the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.

• Su Qian questioned Xiao Yan about refining the Fallen Heart Flame and the disappearance of its split flames, and Xiao Yan admitted he was responsible.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Great Ming King, which spat out a seed that became a miniature Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan explained that the seed was an infant form of the Fallen Heart Flame discovered beneath the Magma Sea, and Su Qian agreed to nurture it for the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian brought out Mang Tianchi’s Fire Gathering Pot, and Xiao Yan placed the juvenile flame inside, causing it to come alive again.
• Su Qian asked Xiao Yan to test the pot, and Xiao Yan poured his Dou Qi into it while Su Qian marveled at his strength.

Xiao Yan restored the Fallen Heart Flame’s Heart Flame Branch, allowing the Inner Academy to reopen the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. Su Qian appointed Xiao Yan as an elder and assigned him to nurture the infant flame, then brought him to the tower’s tenth level, where the Grey-Robed Elder questioned his return.

• Xiao Yan infused the Fire Gathering Pot with Dou Qi, restoring the Heart Flame Branch and delighting Su Qian and the Inner Academy staff.
• Su Qian announced that the Fallen Heart Flame had returned to normal and that the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower would reopen that day.
• Xiao Yan refused early graduation, accepted an elder position for access to academy resources, and agreed to nurture the infant Fallen Heart Flame in shifts.
• Su Qian offered Xiao Yan free entry to the Medicine Repository, prompting Xiao Yan to urge him to reinstall the Fallen Heart Flame.
• At the tower’s deepest level, the Grey-Robed Elder asked how Xiao Yan had returned after apparently dying, and Xiao Yan began explaining.

Xiao Yan returned to Wangtian and rewarded Zi Yan, Yan Qishang, and Huang Hao with Heart Flame Seeds while setting cultivation goals for them. Bei He brought back medicinal ingredients for Xiao Yan, though several rare materials for a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill were still being gathered.

• Xiao Yan praised Zi Yan, Yan Qishang, and Huang Hao for running Wangtian and gave them Heart Flame Seeds made from the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan to reach the Dou Emperor realm within three years and ordered Yan Qishang and Huang Hao to reach the Dou King realm before graduation.
• Xiao Yan asked Yan Qishang to have Bei He and two others visit him so he could plant Heart Flame Seeds for them.
• Zi Yan examined Xiao Yan's elder badge and compared her progress with his cultivation achievements.
• Bei He returned with several medicinal ingredients and reported that the Medicine Repository was still gathering rare materials for Xiao Yan's Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.

Xiao Yan refined perfect-quality Soul Nourishing Saliva, restoring Venerable Skyfire's damaged soul and allowing him to rest without fear of fading away. As Xiao Yan and Yao Lao each considered how to win Venerable Skyfire's loyalty, Xiao Yan thought of giving him a Child Flame from the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Xiao Yan refined Soul Nourishing Saliva while Yao Lao praised his disciple to Venerable Skyfire.
• Xiao Yan completed the perfect-quality medicinal liquid and invited Venerable Skyfire to consume it.
• The Soul Nourishing Saliva restored Venerable Skyfire's soul, and he thanked Xiao Yan for saving him.
• Xiao Yan accepted Venerable Skyfire's gratitude as repayment for receiving the Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique.
• Yao Lao considered making Venerable Skyfire Xiao Yan's protector, while Xiao Yan planned to win him over with a Child Flame from the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yan gave Venerable Skyfire a Child Flame of the Fallen Heart Flame to help him regain strength, and Venerable Skyfire accepted it after wrestling with his suspicions. After Skyfire began refining it, Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan a Child Flame of the Bone Chilling Flame, which Xiao Yan swallowed.

• Xiao Yan offered Venerable Skyfire a Child Flame of the Fallen Heart Flame, explaining that it could help him recover his strength.
• Venerable Skyfire examined the flame, worried it might place him under Xiao Yan and Yao Lao's control, and finally accepted it.
• Venerable Skyfire swallowed the Child Flame and began cultivating to refine it.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao for his own flame, and Yao Lao gave him a Child Flame of the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Yao Lao cautioned Xiao Yan that the Child Flame might not evolve the Flame Mantra and told him to cultivate the Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Bone Chilling Flame Child Flame.

Xiao Yan refined Bone Chilling Flame’s Child Flame, but the Flame Mantra only advanced halfway, so he set his sights on another Heavenly Flame and began learning the Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique. After a month of seclusion, the Great Elder’s order sent him back to supply Dou Qi to the Fallen Heart Flame in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.

• Xiao Yan found that refining Bone Chilling Flame’s Child Flame had advanced the Flame Mantra only halfway, and he planned to seek another Heavenly Flame in Feng City.
• Xiao Yan began studying the Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique with Venerable Skyfire’s help.
• Zi Yan delivered the Great Elder’s complaint that Xiao Yan had neglected his duty to supply Dou Qi to the Fallen Heart Flame and threatened to reclaim the medicinal ingredients he had taken.
• Xiao Yan went to the tenth floor of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower and apologized to the Grey-Robed Elder for his absence.
• Xiao Yan and the Grey-Robed Elder supplied Dou Qi to the immature Fallen Heart Flame, causing it to release a powerful invisible ripple throughout the tower.

After leaving the tower, Xiao Yan reunited with Han Yue and then spent a month practicing the Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique. He successfully summoned five powerful flame beasts and began testing their combat strength.

• Xiao Yan left the tower after three days of channeling Dou Qi into the Fallen Heart Flame, while students greeted him along the way.
• Han Yue approached Xiao Yan, and their awkward exchange left her blushing before she returned to the Moon Spirit students.
• Xiao Yan flew to the back mountain to practice the Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique.
• One month later, Xiao Yan summoned five azure Fire Spirits—the Wolf, Leopard, Lion, Tiger, and Flood Dragon—each with the energy of a peak five-star Dou Emperor.
• The Fire Spirits' roars sent nearby Magical Beasts fleeing, and the Snow Demon Sky Ape mistook them for six-tier existences and ran away.
• Xiao Yan judged the technique to be a high-tier Earth-class Dou Technique and called the Wolf Spirit forward to test its combat power.

Xiao Yan tested Wolf Spirit’s hunting ability, then summoned five Fire Spirits to form the Five Wheel Departure Fire Array and began testing their combined strength. The array took shape above him, radiating an astonishing aura.

• Xiao Yan ordered Wolf Spirit to bring him prey, and Wolf Spirit caught a Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• Wolf Spirit returned with the ape, whom Xiao Yan recognized as an old acquaintance and ordered Wolf Spirit to wake.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape recognized Xiao Yan, asked to become his subordinate, and fled after Xiao Yan threatened to feed it to Wolf Spirit.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would test the Fire Spirits’ group combat ability and formed the Five Wheel Departure Fire Array.
• The five Fire Spirits took positions on the illusory disc above Xiao Yan, which solidified and began to rotate.

Xiao Yan completed his Five-Wheel Fire Disk experiment and returned to the Inner Academy after Elder Qin Xuan summoned him to an urgent meeting. Su Qian revealed that Han Feng was trying to unite the Black-Corner Region’s forces to seize the Inner Academy’s Heavenly Flame, but three factions had already warned the academy and rejected Han Feng’s offer.

• Xiao Yan condensed five Fire Spirits into a powerful azure fire disk that produced a small spatial crack, then dismissed it and prepared to leave.
• Elder Qin Xuan delivered Su Qian’s urgent order for all Inner Academy elders to return for a meeting.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the meeting and learned from Su Qian that Han Feng had confirmed the Inner Academy possessed a Heavenly Flame and was recruiting Black-Corner Region forces to demand it.
• Su Qian revealed that the Heavenly Yin Sect, Mad Lion Gang, and Rakshasa Gate had secretly informed the Inner Academy of Han Feng’s plan and refused to join him.
• The Inner Academy elders laughed at Han Feng’s failed attempt to keep his plans secret.

Han Feng learned that the Jia Nan Inner Academy possessed the Fallen Heart Flame and plotted to unite Black-Corner Region factions to seize it and establish the Black Alliance. In the present, Yao Lao ordered Xiao Yan to kill Han Feng, while Su Qian prepared the Inner Academy to strike first.

• Yao Lao sensed Han Feng’s threat and ordered Xiao Yan to bring back his head, while Venerable Skyfire wondered who Han Feng was.
• Su Qian ordered the recall of outside elders and planned an attack on Han Feng’s alliance seven days later.
• Two years earlier, Han Beng reported to Han Feng that a battle at the Jia Nan Inner Academy involved an Invisible Fire Python, and Han Feng identified the hidden Heavenly Flame as the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Han Feng decided to seize the Fallen Heart Flame to break through to Dou Zong and ordered Han Beng to summon major factions to Feng City and invite others to join.
• Han Feng planned to use the conflict to force the factions into a Black Alliance under his leadership.

Xiao Yan was sent to rescue Inner Academy elder Liu Ying, whom Fan Lao had intercepted to exchange for Master Xu Yi. Liu Ying held off Fan Lao in the skies near Peace Town, waiting for Xiao Yan to arrive.

• Han Feng dismissed Han Beng and went out to meet the Gold and Silver Elders, while several factions refused to join his side.
• Su Qian told Xiao Yan that Fan Lao had intercepted Liu Ying and wanted to trade him for Xu Yi, whom Fan Lao believed had killed his son.
• Xiao Yan volunteered to rescue Liu Ying, and Su Qian ordered him to handle the trouble he had caused.
• Liu Ying stalled Fan Lao in the air, relying on his fire-attributed Dou Qi to counter Fan Lao’s blood-attributed attacks.