Chapter Summaries

Elder Liu Ying fought Fan Lao but exhausted his Dou Qi before reinforcements arrived. The Blood Sect’s three elders joined Fan Lao and closed in on Liu Ying, leaving him cornered as the confrontation was about to erupt.

• Fan Lao attacked Elder Liu Ying with the Blood-Devouring Seal, and Liu Ying countered with a flaming sword before both attacks dispersed.
• Fan Lao mocked Liu Ying’s dwindling strength and launched the Bone-Melting Blood Fiend Palm, while Liu Ying defended himself with the Mystic Flame Shield.
• After twenty minutes of fighting, Liu Ying ran out of Dou Qi and warned Fan Lao that Jia Nan Academy reinforcements might arrive.
• Elder Wang, Elder Hao, and Elder Han arrived from the Blood Sect, and Fan Lao ordered them to capture Liu Ying.
• The three Blood Sect elders surrounded Liu Ying as he retreated with his battered body.

An azure Wolf Spirit arrived on the battlefield and rescued Elder Liu Ying while driving back Fan Lao and the Blood Sect elders. Xiao Yan appeared atop the Wolf Spirit and prepared to deal with Fan Lao and the others himself.

• The Wolf Spirit charged into battle, scattering Fan Lao and the three Blood Sect elders with its howl and flames.
• Elder Wang, Hao Han, and Han Luo fled, while the Wolf Spirit caught Elder Liu Ying and let him rest on its back.
• Fan Lao approached the Wolf Spirit and demanded that it surrender Liu Ying, but it warned that anyone who tried to stop it would die.
• Xiao Yan appeared on the Wolf Spirit's head, and the beast wagged its tail excitedly as Elder Liu Ying recognized him as reinforcements.
• Xiao Yan told Elder Liu Ying to watch from the side and turned toward Fan Lao and the four Blood Sect members.

Xiao Yan confronted Fan Lao, revealed himself as Xu Yi, and demanded that the Blood Sect master come to the Inner Academy. Fan Lao attacked with his strongest Dou Technique, but Xiao Yan summoned a massive azure sword that destroyed it and descended toward him.

• Xiao Yan identified himself to Fan Lao as Xu Yi and challenged him over the death of Fan Lao's son.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Fan Lao stay at the Inner Academy, but Fan Lao refused and ordered the three Blood Sect elders to restrain the Azure Giant Wolf.
• Fan Lao formed a blood spear and unleashed his Earth-Tier Low Dou Technique, Great Blood Bodhi Devour, at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan summoned a massive azure sword and used it to shatter Fan Lao's blood spear.
• The azure sword continued toward Fan Lao, who realized he was facing a deadly threat.

Fan Lao transformed into the Endless Blood Sea to evade Xiao Yan’s sword and claimed he could not die while it remained. Xiao Yan summoned ninety-nine azure swords and shattered the Blood Sea, leaving Fan Lao’s fate unclear.

• Fan Lao formed Blood-Devouring Armor, but Xiao Yan’s enormous sword cut through it.
• Fan Lao abandoned his armor and transformed into the Endless Blood Sea, which rejoined after Xiao Yan’s sword split it.
• Fan Lao boasted that he could never perish while the Blood Sea remained, but Xiao Yan pointed out that its repairs consumed energy.
• Xiao Yan summoned ninety-nine azure sword blades and surrounded the Blood Sea.
• Xiao Yan sent the swords down, slicing the Blood Sea apart until it burst into dispersing clouds of blood mist.

Xiao Yan captured the unconscious Fan Lao and let the Three Elders of the Blood Sect leave after warning them to control their forces. As the elders fled, Xiao Yan secretly gave Elder Wang two lotus-seed-like pellets and ordered him to take over the Blood Sect and await further instructions.

• Fan Lao escaped the Endless Blood Sea but collapsed after telling the Three Elders he had no strength left to fight.
• The Three Elders pretended to stand with Fan Lao, then struck him from behind and knocked him unconscious.
• Xiao Yan revealed his identity, demanded Fan Lao alive, and the frightened elders handed him over.
• Xiao Yan released the Three Elders after warning them to restrain the Blood Sect's forces.
• Xiao Yan secretly gave Elder Wang two pellets and told him to take control of the Blood Sect and await orders.
• Elder Wang, Hao Han, and Han Luo hurried away, agreeing that Elder Wang would become the next sect master.

Xiao Yan captured Fan Lao after defeating him and brought him back to Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian prepared to punish him. The chapter left Fan Lao stripped of his cultivation and kneeling before the Inner Academy Elders.

• Xiao Yan explained to Liu Ying that he had let the Three Elders of the Blood Sect go, and Vice Dean Hu Gan arrived with Outer Academy Elders to check on them.
• Xiao Yan told Hu Gan that he had captured Fan Lao alive and was escorting him to the Inner Academy, then left with Liu Ying as Wolf Spirit returned to Xiao Yan’s body.
• Xiao Yan delivered Fan Lao to Su Qian, who ordered guards to hold him and summoned the Elders to witness his punishment the next day.
• Su Qian gave Xiao Yan three days of cultivation on the tenth floor of the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower as his mission reward.
• Su Qian confronted Fan Lao before nearly thirty Inner Academy Elders after Fan Lao had lost his Dou Emperor cultivation.

Xiao Yan and the Inner Academy elders executed Fan Lao, and news of the Blood Sect leader’s death spread fear of Jia Nan Academy throughout the Black-Corner Region. In Feng City, Han Feng learned that Fan Lao had acted on his own after discovering the identity of his son’s killer at the Inner Academy.

• Fan Lao revealed that he had murdered Elder Shi Yan, enraging Su Qian, who crushed him with his Dou Zong aura.
• Xiao Yan taunted Fan Lao and revealed that Xu Yi was only an alias, driving Fan Lao into a furious demand to learn his real identity.
• Elder Qin Xuan used the Fire Gathering Pot to execute Fan Lao, whose body was devoured by the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to spread news of Fan Lao’s death and warned that the Inner Academy would punish anyone who threatened it.
• The Blood Sect sealed its gates as news of Fan Lao’s public execution spread, and people across the Black-Corner Region grew wary of Jia Nan Academy.
• In Feng City, Han Beng told Han Feng that Fan Lao had intercepted an Inner Academy elder because he wanted to trade him for the man who had killed his son.

Han Feng accelerated his plan to attack Jia Nan Academy after Fan Lao’s execution weakened his alliance, but Su Qian led the Academy’s forces to strike Feng City first. The chapter ended as a severed head landed before Han Feng and an unseen attacker called out to him.

• Han Feng ordered Han Beng to recruit the Blood Sect and other allies, double their promised rewards, and begin the operation in three days.
• Su Qian learned that Han Feng’s forces planned to attack the Inner Academy and ordered the Academy to move against them that night.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Su Qian’s force toward Feng City and noted that Jia Nan Academy had kept many powerful experts in reserve.
• Han Feng prepared to host his allies in Feng City and assigned Han Beng and Han Da to secure the estate.
• An attacker killed Han Da and sent his head rolling to Han Feng’s feet, then called out to ask whether the Medicine Emperor was still there.

Xiao Yan and Su Qian led Jia Nan Academy’s forces to Feng City and confronted Han Feng and the Black-Corner Region experts. As the battle began, Su Qian drew the Gold and Silver Elders away, while Xiao Yan prepared to face Han Feng.

• Xiao Yan struck Han Da down as Jia Nan Academy’s group arrived in Feng City, and Su Qian challenged Han Feng.
• Han Feng and the Gold and Silver Elders emerged with the gathered Black-Corner Region experts, and Su Qian revealed he had learned of Han Feng’s plan to attack Jia Nan Academy.
• Han Feng denied the accusation and grew furious when Su Qian mentioned Venerable Yao, while Su Qian ordered his elders to attack.
• Xiao Yan asked to fight Han Feng, and Su Qian agreed after warning him that Han Feng was a peak Dou Emperor with a Heavenly Flame.
• The Gold and Silver Elders intercepted Su Qian, who revealed his three-star Dou Zong strength and drew them away to fight.

As the battle erupted, Xiao Yan challenged Han Feng and revealed that his strength far exceeded the newly promoted Dou Wang he pretended to be. Xiao Yan and Han Feng traded attacks, and the chapter ended as Xiao Yan merged his flaming swords into a gigantic blade.

• Elder Ban moved to attack Xiao Yan, but Hu Gan intercepted him and challenged him to fight.
• Su Qian's Dou Emperor allies and the academy elders engaged Yuan Yi, Yan, and the other opposing forces.
• Xiao Yan approached Han Feng and pretended to be a weak new elder, then used Eight Extremities Collapse to shatter Han Feng's flaming shield.
• Han Feng recognized Xiao Yan as a Five-Star Dou Emperor and drew a deep-blue flaming sword, while Xiao Yan formed an azure one.
• Han Feng and Xiao Yan exchanged sword attacks, then Han Feng summoned countless flaming sword shadows to overwhelm Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan split his azure sword into nearly a thousand blades and merged most of them into a flaming sword more than sixty meters long.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Han Feng with a powerful azure sword strike, while Su Qian kept the Gold and Silver Elders on the defensive. Han Feng proposed settling the fight through a flame-control contest, and Xiao Yan agreed as Han Feng summoned the Sea Heart Flame.

• Xiao Yan's azure sword tore through Han Feng's sword shadows and carved a long ravine into the ground, though Han Feng narrowly dodged the strike.
• Gold Elder lost focus watching Xiao Yan, and Silver Elder pulled him away from Su Qian's attack before the two elders resumed fighting Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan confronted Han Feng, who proposed a flame-control contest, claiming an alchemist's matters should be settled that way.
• Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders warned Xiao Yan against accepting, but Xiao Yan agreed to Han Feng's challenge.
• Han Feng summoned the Sea Heart Flame and smugly asked Xiao Yan to begin, while Xiao Yan eagerly studied the flames.

Xiao Yan revealed his Heavenly Flame and stopped much of the battlefield’s fighting before challenging Han Feng’s fire-control techniques. After the Azure Lotus swallowed Han Feng’s Flame Trident, Han Feng summoned a flaming beast, and Xiao Yan awakened the Azure Flame Phoenix to face it.

• Xiao Yan unleashed an immense azure curtain of flames that separated the fighters and forced Su Qian, the Gold and Silver Elders, and others to stop.
• Han Feng recognized Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame as a prize he could devour and vowed to kill him.
• Han Feng formed a Sea Flame Halberd and sent it at Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan’s Azure Lotus swallowed it.
• Han Feng summoned the Sea Heart Phantom Beast, a massive deep-blue flaming lion with a scorpion tail and horn, and ordered it to attack Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan directed the Azure Lotus to fight, and an Azure Flame Phoenix awakened inside it.

Xiao Yan’s Great Ming King overwhelmed Han Feng’s Sea Heart Phantom Beast, and Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng with a surprise attack. Jia Nan Academy’s elders resumed their assault as the Black-Corner Region fighters watched Han Feng’s fate.

• The Great Ming King wounded the Deep Blue Lion Beast, but Han Feng used his Essence Blood to drive it back into battle.
• The Great Ming King steadily drained the Deep Blue Lion Beast while Xiao Yan and Han Feng remained the only fighters near the clash.
• Han Feng launched his Light Radiance Seal at Xiao Yan’s afterimage, but Xiao Yan appeared behind him and struck him down.
• Han Feng crashed into a trench and survived by using his Dou Qi to cushion his fall as Xiao Yan approached.
• Great Elder Su Qian ordered Jia Nan Academy’s elders to resume attacking, and they pressed the Black-Corner Region fighters as their morale faltered.

Xiao Yan captured Han Feng and brought Yao Lao out to confront his former disciple. Han Feng blamed Yao Lao for withholding the Flame Mantra, while Yao Lao explained that he had delayed giving it to him because the elders of Star Fall Pavilion had exposed Han Feng’s misconduct.

• Xiao Yan sealed Han Feng’s Dou Qi with chains of azure flame and told him he had brought him to meet someone.
• Xiao Yan summoned Yao Lao, and Han Feng was shocked to find his former master’s soul alive.
• Yao Lao asked whether Han Feng had betrayed him solely to obtain a copy of the Flame Mantra.
• Han Feng accused Yao Lao of refusing to pass on the Flame Mantra, while Yao Lao said he had intended to give it to him after another year.
• Yao Lao explained that Star Fall Pavilion’s elders had reported Han Feng’s vile conduct, so he had delayed the Flame Mantra in hopes Han Feng would change.

Yao Lao confronted Han Feng over his betrayal and ended their relationship as master and disciple. After Xiao Yan struck Han Feng, Yao Lao destroyed his cultivation and alchemy foundations and set him ablaze, leaving Han Feng screaming in the flames.

• Han Feng revealed that Elder Mu Gu had recruited him into the Soul Hall after Yao Lao refused to give him the Flame Mantra, and he blamed Yao Lao for his betrayal.
• Yao Lao told Han Feng that he had intended for him to inherit his legacy, then declared that Han Feng was expelled from his sect.
• Xiao Yan struck Han Feng with an azure energy handprint, sending him crashing into the barrier.
• Yao Lao shattered Han Feng's Qi Cyclone and destroyed his Consciousness Sea, taking back the foundations of his cultivation and alchemy.
• Yao Lao declared that he would cleanse his sect, then engulfed Han Feng in a pale white flame.

Xiao Yan killed Han Feng with the Bone Chilling Flame, ending the attack on Jia Nan Academy and sending the Black-Corner Region forces fleeing. After the Academy left, a marked Dou Emperor plotted under his mysterious lord’s orders to gather the escaped factions and bring them under his control.

• Han Feng’s body and soul were burned away, and Yao Lao left the rest to Xiao Yan before retreating into the Storage Ring.
• The Sea Heart Phantom Beast collapsed after Han Feng’s death, and the Great Ming King swallowed the exposed Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan announced Han Feng’s death, while Su Qian ordered the Academy forces to let the fleeing Black-Corner Region factions escape; Xiao Yan secretly marked more than twenty fugitives.
• Su Qian, Hu Gan, and the Jia Nan Academy experts returned after the Black-Corner Region forces fled Feng City.
• A middle-aged Dou Emperor revealed his loyalty to Wangtian and planned to lure the escaped factions and other groups into a gathering so he could capture them for his lord.

Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame, broke through to Nine-Star Dou Emperor, and told Su Qian he planned to establish a faction in the Black-Corner Region. He then confronted the Gold and Silver Elders, who had survived Han Feng’s defeat, and left them sweating as tension mounted.

• The Great Ming King swallowed the Sea Heart Flame and helped Xiao Yan refine it over three days, allowing the Flame Mantra to evolve to Earth-Tier Advanced and Xiao Yan to reach Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan told Su Qian he planned to consolidate forces in the Black-Corner Region and establish an organization, and Su Qian gave him Jia Nan Academy’s support.
• The Gold and Silver Elders emerged from seclusion after spending seven days purging Su Qian’s hidden force from their bodies.
• The Gold and Silver Elders rejected Yuan Yi’s invitation to discuss dividing Han Feng’s former forces and lamented losing the Break Sect Pills Han Feng had promised them.
• Xiao Yan appeared above the Gold and Silver Elders and addressed them, causing them to stiffen, gather Dou Qi, and watch him warily.

Xiao Yan forced the Gold and Silver Elders to submit after demonstrating his Five-Wheel Fire-Separating Technique and crushing their home with his fire disk. He branded them as his subordinates and ordered them to reach the Dou Zong realm within three days using Break Sect Pills.

• Xiao Yan demanded that the Gold and Silver Elders submit to him, but they refused and prepared to fight together.
• Xiao Yan summoned five powerful Azure Flame Beasts, then formed the Five-Wheel Departure Fire Array and a massive Five-Wheel Fire Disk.
• The Gold and Silver Elders knelt and surrendered, but Xiao Yan dropped the fire disk, destroying the mountain behind their home while sparing them.
• Xiao Yan branded the Gold and Silver Elders with Azure Lotus marks, binding them as his subordinates.
• Xiao Yan gave the Gold and Silver Elders Break Sect Pills and ordered them to break through to the Dou Zong realm within three days.

Xiao Yan sent the Gold and Silver Elders to Feng City, where Yuan Yi had gathered the Black-Corner Region factions to discuss Han Feng’s remaining forces. As the hostile leaders demanded a division plan, Yuan Yi struggled to stall them while waiting for Xiao Yan to arrive.

• Xiao Yan accepted the Gold and Silver Elders’ breakthroughs and ordered them to leave the buried house for Feng City.
• Yuan Yi invited the Black-Corner Region factions to Feng City, claiming Han Feng’s forces were too vast for him to seize alone.
• More than forty Dou Wang and Dou Emperor experts gathered in Yuan Yi’s meeting hall, while several faction leaders suspected he had a hidden scheme.
• Wang Haoyu sat unnoticed among the attendees and considered taking a nap.
• Yuan Yi praised Han Feng’s legacy and began the discussion, but the Mad Lion Gang leader demanded a division plan.
• Yuan Yi privately admitted he had no plan and anxiously waited for Xiao Yan, who had told him to stall the crowd.

Yuan Yi revealed that he was working for Xiao Yan, who arrived with the Gold and Silver Elders and demanded that the Black-Corner Region leaders submit or die. After Xiao Yan killed a defiant Dou Wang with Heart Flame Projection, Gold Elder swiftly captured Elder Ban when he tried to escape.

• Yuan Yi dropped his pretense and bowed to Xiao Yan as he entered with the Gold and Silver Elders.
• Xiao Yan demanded the gathered leaders submit or die, then burned a Two-Star Dou Wang to ashes with Heart Flame Projection.
• Elder Ban fled the hall, and Xiao Yan sent Gold Elder after him.
• Gold Elder returned within moments and threw the battered Elder Ban before Xiao Yan.