Chapter Summaries

At the Son of the Continent Tournament, the Heart-Severing Hall Master tried to force the other great forces to submit after revealing his Immortal Grade cultivation, but the Reincarnation Sect Master revealed that he was also Immortal Grade and allied with Great Spirit Mountain. Xiao Yan suspected another powerful figure might still be hiding among the leaders as the stunned crowd watched Protector Shi Long appear.

• The Heart-Severing Hall Master crushed the Spirit Luo Path Master and demanded that the Reincarnation Sect Master cooperate with his plan to unify the Crimson Flame Continent.
• The Reincarnation Sect Master insulted Duanqing, blocked his attack, and revealed that he had reached Early Immortal Grade a year earlier.
• The Reincarnation Sect Master disclosed his connection to Great Spirit Mountain and summoned Protector Shi Long, a Mid Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• The Heart-Severing Hall Master and the spectators were stunned by Great Spirit Mountain's involvement and the sudden appearance of multiple Immortal Grade experts.
• Xiao Yan asked Xie Wuyou whether he was hiding his cultivation, then predicted another powerful figure might still be among the leaders.

Shi Long and the Reincarnation Sect forced the Crimson Flame Continent’s powers to submit, while the Wind Demon Fortress Master abandoned his secret plan. Xie Wuyou refused to surrender, and Shi Long demanded the enchanting woman behind him as the price of letting Demon Snake Palace leave.

• The Wind Demon Fortress Master put away his Teleportation Spirit Talisman after seeing Shi Long and the Reincarnation Sect Master appear as Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Shi Long declared that Great Spirit Mountain intended to take over the Crimson Flame Continent and demanded the Heart-Severing Hall Master submit.
• The Heart-Severing Hall Master submitted, followed by the Spirit Luo Path, Wind Demon Fortress, Heavenly Extreme Mansion, and Innate Temple.
• Xie Wuyou refused Shi Long’s offer to leave with Demon Snake Palace’s forces, refusing to surrender the palace’s foundation.
• Shi Long demanded that Xie Wuyou hand over the enchanting woman behind him, and she released an astonishing wave of seduction.

Xiao Yan confronted Great Spirit Mountain Protector Shi Long after Shi Long coveted Cai Lin, then called on the Desolate Beast Sovereign to kill him. The beast answered Xiao Yan’s summons as the gathered experts watched a colossal presence emerge in the clouds.

• Shi Long ogled Cai Lin, and Xiao Yan revealed that he was her husband and challenged the protector.
• Shi Long attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan struck him with Mountain Leaning Strike and exposed his Late Immortal Grade physical body.
• Shi Long unleashed the Holy Buddha Hand and charged again, so Xiao Yan summoned the Desolate Beast Sovereign.
• The Desolate Beast Sovereign’s enormous paw descended from the clouds and crushed Shi Long to death.
• The Desolate Beast Sovereign announced that it had come in answer to Xiao Yan’s summons, and the experts looked up as the clouds churned overhead.

Xiao Yan revealed the Four Beast Sovereigns as his subordinates, shocking Crimson Flame City and terrifying the Reincarnation Sect Master. When the Sect Master threatened him with Great Spirit Mountain’s World Honored One, the True Dragon Emperor appeared and exposed how little that threat meant.

• The Ancient Desolate Beast Sovereign and three other ancient super divine beasts appeared above Crimson Flame City and identified themselves as the Four Beast Sovereigns under the Flame Emperor.
• The crowd turned its attention to Xiao Yan, while the Heart-Severing Hall Master trembled and the Reincarnation Sect Master resisted surrendering.
• The Reincarnation Sect Master threatened Xiao Yan with the World Honored One of Great Spirit Mountain after Xiao Yan killed Protector Shi Long.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the threat, and the Reincarnation Sect Master laughed, believing he could summon the World Honored One to defeat him.
• The True Dragon Emperor appeared with several figures and asked how Great Spirit Mountain’s World Honored One compared to him, leaving the Reincarnation Sect Master speechless.

Xiao Yan’s coalition of nine great factions overwhelmed the Reincarnation Sect Master and forced the surviving faction leaders to submit. As the Wind Demon Fortress Master realized he had accidentally activated a summoning talisman, Xiao Yan stopped Elder Bian Cang from attacking the figure arriving through the portal.

• Nine great factions and the Flame Emperor’s forces sealed off White Jade Plaza, leaving the Reincarnation Sect Master surrounded by more than forty Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Xiao Yan welcomed the World Honored One to visit the Endless Fire Territory, and the Reincarnation Sect Master admitted defeat before exploding in a self-destruction.
• The Heart-Severing Hall Master and four other faction leaders surrendered, and Xiao Yan ordered their forces reorganized under the Endless Fire Territory.
• The Wind Demon Fortress Master congratulated himself for avoiding a costly and humiliating battle, then noticed that his Teleportation Spirit Talisman had activated.
• Elder Bian Cang prepared to strike at the incoming figure, but Xiao Yan stopped him and asked to see who had arrived.

Old Ancestor Xuanhua arrived to aid Wind Demon Fortress Master but found Xiao Yan and the Endless Fire Territory's overwhelming forces waiting for him. Xiao Yan declared the Endless Fire Territory the sole power over the Crimson Flame Continent and ordered all Sovereign-level martial practitioners to register, provoking unrest in Crimson Flame City.

• Old Ancestor Xuanhua emerged from the spatial passage and discovered that dozens of Heavenly Sovereigns, including beings stronger than him, had gathered at White Jade Plaza.
• Old Ancestor Xuanhua tried to flee, but Xiao Yan stopped him and ordered him to stay and listen.
• Spirit Luo Path Master, Innate Temple Master, and Heavenly Extreme Mansion Master realized that Wind Demon Fortress Master had secretly plotted against them and felt relieved that they were not the only ones who had failed to act.
• Xiao Yan confronted Wind Demon Fortress Master, who pleaded for a chance to explain.
• Xiao Yan announced that the Endless Fire Territory would become the sole power on the Crimson Flame Continent and that it would be officially established in one month.
• Xiao Yan ordered every martial practitioner at the Sovereign realm or above to register and await conscription, prompting angry murmurs among the powerful figures in Crimson Flame City.

Xiao Yan announced the Endless Fire Territory’s alchemy resources and alliances to persuade Crimson Flame City’s powerhouses to accept its rule. He left them considering the benefits of joining, then began explaining the territory’s ties to the Spirit Gathering Clan.

• Old Ancestor Xuanhua asked whether he could avoid registering with the Endless Fire Territory, and Xiao Yan told him to stay and register on the Crimson Flame Continent.
• Xiao Yan silenced Crimson Flame City and introduced the Endless Fire Territory’s four Emperor Grade Medicinal Herb Grandmasters, who revealed their powerful auras.
• Xiao Yan described the territory’s complete ranks of Spirit Medicine Masters and said it could become the Great Thousand World’s third alchemy holy land.
• More than half the gathered powerhouses felt reassured by the territory’s alchemy resources, while the Dan God Clan and Ancient Myriad Grass Plains doubted it could reach Saint Grade.
• Xiao Yan announced the Endless Fire Territory’s relationship with the Spirit Gathering Clan and turned toward its elder, a Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign and Spirit Artifact Great Grandmaster.

Xiao Yan secured the Spirit Gathering Clan’s friendship and won over many Crimson Flame City experts by offering access to the Endless Fire Territory’s resources while enforcing submission. He suspended the Son of the Continent Tournament until the territory had integrated Crimson Flame Continent, then left the crowd with a warning not to mistake his generosity for weakness.

• The Spirit Gathering Clan elder welcomed friendship with the Endless Fire Territory and agreed to let its people purchase high-grade spirit artifacts.
• After the elder confirmed the alliance, Crimson Flame City’s experts realized the Endless Fire Territory could provide cultivation resources, pills, and spirit artifacts, and much of their resistance faded.
• Xiao Yan announced that the Son of the Continent Tournament would be suspended until the Endless Fire Territory had integrated Crimson Flame Continent, after which all local Earthly Sovereigns could participate.
• The experts cheered Xiao Yan for opening the tournament to ordinary Earthly Sovereigns, while he cautioned himself that they must show gratitude as well as fear.

Xiao Yan ordered Crimson Flame Continent's forces to submit to the Endless Fire Territory and oversaw the campaign to bring the whole continent under its control. A month later, the continent was unified, and Flame Emperor City and Flame Emperor Palace stood as its new capital and center of power.

• Xiao Yan ordered the gathered leaders and experts to return to their stations, spread word of the Endless Fire Territory's arrival, and begin reorganizing their forces.
• Xiao Yan assigned his subordinates to work with the six submitted great powers, warning the Wind Demon Fortress Master that he would be punished if the reorganization failed.
• The Endless Fire Territory and the seven great powers crushed resistance, took control of the remaining territory, and brought hidden Heavenly Sovereigns into their ranks.
• After one month, the Endless Fire Territory declared Crimson Flame Continent unified under its rule.
• The continent's experts gathered in the renamed Flame Emperor City, where the new Flame Emperor Palace served as the center of power.

Xiao Yan proclaimed the founding of the Endless Fire Territory and used his power to spread it across the Crimson Flame Continent, unifying the continent under his rule. The new faction entered the Great Thousand World's notice, while Xiao Yan and his allies gained a permanent home after three years away from the Dou Qi Continent.

• Xiao Yan announced the establishment of the Endless Fire Territory before the assembled citizens and Heavenly Sovereigns of Flame Emperor City.
• Xiao Yan manifested the Flame Emperor Dharma Body and spread the Endless Fire Territory across the Crimson Flame Continent.
• The continent's people heard Xiao Yan's declaration and knelt to praise him as their ruler.
• The eleven Emperor Realm experts from the Dou Qi Continent recognized that their group had finally secured a home in the Great Thousand World.
• The Endless Fire Territory formally unified the Crimson Flame Continent and drew the attention of powerful factions after nine super factions sent representatives to congratulate it.

Xiao Yan reorganized the Crimson Flame Continent under the Endless Fire Territory and strengthened its forces before traveling with Xiao Xuan to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy. The academy’s leaders and guardian spirit beast hurried toward the deepest part of the grounds, where Xiao Yan’s promised surprise awaited.

• Xiao Yan introduced Identity Jade Tokens and began registering martial artists, then reorganized the continent’s forces and established new army, artifact-refining, and spirit array departments.
• The allied groups departed, and the Endless Fire Territory counted thirty-four Heavenly Sovereigns and more than eleven hundred Earthly Sovereigns among its forces.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan took more than fifty Demon Slayers to anchor the Battle Through the Heavens Plane and White Dragon Plane near the Endless Fire Territory.
• Two months later, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and an Immortal Grade Spirit Array Great Grandmaster traveled to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy to keep Xiao Yan’s promise to an old acquaintance.
• The academy’s Dean, Heaven Seat Elders, and Northern Nether Dragon Kun rushed toward the academy’s depths, startling students who wondered what had happened.

Xiao Yan visited Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and told White Dragon Sovereign that the White Dragon Plane had been reclaimed from the Blood Evil Clan. He proposed a teleportation array connecting the academy to the Endless Fire Territory, and his companion revealed he had brought the necessary Space Stone.

• Northern Nether Dragon Kun welcomed Xiao Yan and praised Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s information network, while Xiao Yan and White Dragon Sovereign compared their progress since they last met.
• Xiao Yan told White Dragon Sovereign that his homeland had been reclaimed and introduced Ancestor Xiao Xuan, who had led the Demon Slayer army against the Blood Evil Clan.
• White Dragon Sovereign bowed in gratitude, and Xiao Xuan explained that the White Dragon Plane was now under his protection and anchored within the Endless Fire Territory.
• Xiao Yan proposed building a Super Teleportation Spirit Array between Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and the Endless Fire Territory and invited the academy’s graduates to serve there.
• Northern Nether Dragon Kun agreed to the proposal but cited the academy’s lack of qualified array experts, and Xiao Yan’s companion produced the main Space Stone needed to construct the array.

Xiao Yan arranged a Super Teleportation Spirit Array linking the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and the Endless Fire Territory, while securing the academy under his territory’s protection. Back in the Endless Fire Territory, he proposed connecting the Battle Through the Heavens Plane to the Great Thousand World but chose a limited transformation, leaving the reason beyond his attachment to its cultivation system unexplained.

• Xiao Yan introduced the True Dragon Elder, an Immortal Grade Spirit Array Great Grandmaster, who agreed to let Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy spirit array masters observe his work.
• Xiao Yan explained to Xiao Xuan that he wanted to recruit the academy’s graduates as grassroots talent, and Northern Nether Dragon Kun welcomed the Endless Fire Territory’s protection.
• Seven days later, the Super Teleportation Spirit Array was completed, and Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and the White Dragon Sovereign returned to the Endless Fire Territory.
• Xiao Yan told the Nine Emperors he had anchored the Battle Through the Heavens Plane and proposed connecting it to the Great Thousand World so the Dou Qi Continent could grow stronger and its future Dou Di could enter the Endless Fire Territory safely.
• Xiao Xuan favored comprehensively replacing the Dou Qi Continent’s power system, but Xiao Yan chose a limited transformation because he considered its cultivation system his lifelong faith and wanted the continent to retain its identity.

Xiao Yan proposed modifying the Battle Through the Heavens Plane and unifying the Dou Qi Continent to turn it into a foundation for the Endless Fire Territory. The Nine Emperors agreed, and Xiao Yan assigned Xiao Xuan to transform the White Dragon Plane as another reserve base.

• Xiao Yan explained that preserving the Dou Qi Continent’s plane laws and gradually raising its power could let future Dou Di experts and their families become a major source of strength for the Endless Fire Territory.
• Xiao Yan proposed unifying the Dou Qi Continent in two stages, first bringing its factions under the Nine-Family Super Alliance and then establishing effective rule across the continent.
• Xiao Yan outlined plans to expand Space Wormholes and train Spirit Array Masters to spread Teleportation Spirit Arrays over the next eight to ten years.
• Gu Yuan asked whether Xiao Yan had planned the unification for a long time, and Xiao Yan said the idea had formed after he entered the Emperor Realm over twenty years earlier.
• The Nine Emperors agreed to Xiao Yan’s proposals, and Xiao Yan asked Xiao Xuan to connect and transform the White Dragon Plane using the Great Thousand World’s power system.
• Xiao Xuan agreed and called the Battle Through the Heavens Plane a Chosen Plane, prompting laughter from Gu Yuan and the others.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Realm and told Xiao Zhan that he had established the Endless Fire Territory and connected the Battle Through the Heavens Plane to the Great Thousand World. As the Xiao Tribe prepared to help unify the Dou Qi Continent, Xiao Yan learned that five more people had ascended, including Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan.

• Xiao Yan’s control as Plane Master opened the Battle Through the Heavens Plane to higher-grade energy, causing the plane to begin rising in power.
• Xiao Yan congratulated Xiao Zhan on entering the Emperor Realm and reported that he had established the Endless Fire Territory and anchored the plane there.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan discussed unifying the Dou Qi Continent with the other eight families, while Xiao Yan explained that the plane’s rising power would ease future ascension.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Xiao Qing, Feng Qing'er, and Mu Qingluan had entered the Emperor Realm and left for the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Zhan explained that Mu Qingluan had purified her bloodline into that of an Ancient Heavenly Luan before she and Feng Qing'er departed together.

Xiao Yan returned to the Endless Fire Territory with recruited Alchemists and backed a Central Plains ultimatum issued by the Alliance. He also sought to draw the ancient Dou Di powerhouses, especially Tou She Ancient God, to the Endless Fire Territory by publicizing their origins.

• Xiao Yan learned Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan had joined forces to travel to the Great Thousand Plane, then planned to recruit Alchemists from the Star Realm for the Endless Fire Territory.
• Xiao Zhan agreed to convene the Alliance's leaders to discuss the unification war, and Xiao Yan later returned to the Endless Fire Territory with recruited Alchemists.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Yun Yun and Ya Fei to remain on the Dou Qi Continent for a few more years while they converted their energy, and planned to raise Ya Fei's cultivation and put her in charge of trade and auction houses.
• The Alliance of the nine strongest super factions announced its formation and ordered every Central Plains force to surrender within seven days or face destruction.
• Xun'er reminded Xiao Yan that she had spread word of their origins, as he hoped the surviving ancient Dou Di powerhouses would learn of the Endless Fire Territory and join him.

Xiao Yan learned that Lin Dong had founded the Martial Border and decided to help him find Ying Huanhuan’s soul fragment in the Ice Ling Clan. He sent Xie Wuyou with a token and a message for Lin Dong, then shared a playful, intimate moment with Xun'er.

• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Lin Dong had established the Martial Border in the Extreme South with eleven Heavenly Sovereigns and called himself the Martial Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan praised Lin Dong’s talent and realized Lin Dong would need the Ice Ling Clan’s Ice Spirit Tablet to revive Ying Huanhuan.
• Xiao Yan gave Xun'er a Crimson Flame Token and instructed her to send Xie Wuyou to tell Lin Dong that what he sought was in the Ice Ling Clan and that the Flame Emperor could help revive powerful experts.
• Xun'er teased Xiao Yan about keeping a secret, and the two became intimate.

While Xiao Yan pursued the Immortal Grade in seclusion and the Endless Fire Territory organized its forces, Xie Wuyou delivered the Flame Emperor’s token and message to Lin Dong in the Martial Border. Lin Dong reacted sharply when he heard that what he was searching for was with the Ice Ling Clan, and asked to hear the second message.

• Xiao Yan entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to the Immortal Grade, while Yao Chen and Yao Dan built an Alchemist corps and Xiao Xuan organized a Son of the Continent Tournament.
• Two months later, Xie Wuyou arrived at the Martial Border and greeted Lin Dong as the Flame Emperor’s representative.
• Xie Wuyou presented the Crimson Flame Token, which Lin Dong recognized as an identity token and low-grade Divine Artifact.
• Xie Wuyou relayed Xiao Yan’s message that what Lin Dong was searching for was with the Ice Ling Clan.
• Lin Dong concealed his reaction and asked Xie Wuyou to deliver the second message.

After Xie Wuyou relayed the Flame Emperor’s message, Lin Dong realized Huanhuan might belong to the Ice Ling Clan and set out to recover her wandering soul. He defeated the clan and its allies, taking the soul from the Ice Spirit Tablet, while Xie Wuyou continued back to report the news.

• Lin Dong restrained Xie Wuyou after hearing that the Flame Emperor had called himself a Grandmaster of Immortal Grade Medicinal Herbs, then let him leave when Xie Wuyou said he knew nothing more.
• Lin Dong recalled Huanhuan and concluded that she might come from the Ice Ling Clan; Qingzhu agreed to accompany him to bring her back.
• Lin Dong left the Martial Border with four companions and went to the Ice Ling Clan to seek the Ice Spirit Tablet.
• Lin Dong defeated Ice Spirit Old Ancestor and fought four Heavenly Sovereigns, forcing the Ice Ling Clan to give up Huanhuan’s wandering soul.
• News of Lin Dong’s victory spread across the Great Thousand World, and Xie Wuyou heard it while traveling back to the Endless Fire Territory.

After returning from seclusion just short of the Immortal Grade, Xiao Yan learned that Lin Dong had arrived in the Endless Fire Territory with the Crimson Flame Token and prepared to meet him. While Lin Dong’s companions surveyed the Flame Emperor Palace, Lin Diao assessed the territory’s strength and concluded it surpassed the Martial Border in nearly every respect.

• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Lin Dong had come to the Flame Emperor Palace after his attack on the Ice Ling Clan, and Xiao Yan asked her to invite him to the main hall.
• Xiao Yan instead pulled Xun'er into his arms and asked her to accompany him to bathe before meeting Lin Dong.
• The chapter recounted how a True Dragon Elder designed the Flame Emperor Palace, earned a Spirit Grade Emperor Pill for his work, and stayed on as a Guest Elder of the Endless Fire Territory.
• Lin Qingtian praised the Flame Emperor Palace, while Lin Diao explained that the Endless Fire Territory had more powerful experts, armies, and resources than the Martial Border.