Chapter Summaries

Lin Dong and Xiao Yan met for the first time after Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion, and their minds briefly revealed the paths of their respective Great Daos to each other. The two leaders welcomed one another warmly, and Xiao Yan invited Lin Dong’s party to see the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the Flame Emperor Palace.

• Xie Wuyou told Lin Dong that Xiao Yan had emerged from seclusion and invited him to the main hall.
• Lin Dong and Xiao Yan exchanged a brief mental vision of the Emperor Flame and the Eight Great Ancestral Symbols, then greeted each other as Brother Xiao and Brother Lin.
• Xiao Yan welcomed Lin Dong’s companions and offered them seats on meditation cushions woven from the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s fallen branches.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Bodhi Ancient Tree came from the Dou Qi Continent and that he had brought its healed main body to the Flame Emperor Palace.

Lin Dong asked Xiao Yan to help resurrect Ying Huanhuan, and Xiao Yan agreed after reviewing the preparations. The chapter ended with Medusa providing the divine-beast Essence Blood needed for the resurrection.

• Lin Dong asked Xiao Yan why he had known the Ice Ling Clan held what Lin Dong sought, and Xiao Yan answered that he did not know.
• Lin Dong offered Xiao Yan the Crimson Flame Token in exchange for help, but Xiao Yan returned it as a memento.
• Lin Dong showed Xiao Yan the Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl and brought Ying Huanhuan’s damaged soul out of it.
• Xiao Yan explained the conditions for resurrection and learned Lin Dong had prepared a body made from Ice Cold Divine Soul.
• Medusa gave Xiao Yan a portion of her nine-colored Essence Blood.

Xiao Yan used his alchemy to revive Ying Huanhuan, reuniting her with Lin Dong and their companions. After three days at the Flame Emperor Palace, Lin Dong returned to the newly established Martial Border with an Immortal Grade Spirit Array Great Grandmaster to build a teleportation link between their factions.

• Xiao Yan explained that Cai Lin’s Essence Blood would be used to revive Ying Huanhuan, and Lin Dong thanked him for arranging it.
• Xiao Yan began the revival by placing Ying Huanhuan’s Spirit Soul power and Cai Lin’s Essence Blood into her prepared body, then tempering it with Emperor Flame.
• After seven days, Ying Huanhuan emerged fully revived, and Ling Qingzhu and the others welcomed her back.
• Lin Dong and his group stayed at the Flame Emperor Palace for three days before Lin Dong said he needed to return to the Martial Border.
• Xiao Yan sent an Immortal Grade Spirit Array Great Grandmaster with Lin Dong to establish a Super Teleportation Spirit Array connecting the Martial Border and the Endless Fire Territory.

Xiao Yan decided to visit the Fire Spirit Clan and win its treasured Fire Spirit Sacred Flame by debating the Dao with its Clan Leader. After arriving in Fire Spirit City and shopping for medicinal herbs, he was approached by a young man who offered to guide him to the clan's ancestral grounds.

• The Endless Fire Territory received news that the Fire Spirit Clan's Clan Leader had denounced Xiao Yan's Flame Emperor title and demanded an apology.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he wanted the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame and proposed wagering his title against it in a Dao debate with the Clan Leader.
• Medusa let Xiao Yan depart alone, while Xiao Xuan reflected on the trouble the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor might cause among the Great Thousand World's ancient clans.
• Xiao Yan entered Fire Spirit City, explored its marketplace, and bought several medicinal herbs.
• A white-clothed young man met Xiao Yan outside the marketplace and offered to lead him to the Fire Spirit Clan's ancestral grounds.

Xiao Yan entered the Fire Spirit Clan grounds with Zhu Yang, who boasted about his own talent and the clan’s defenses. After Zhu Yang challenged him to break the Clan Protection Array, Xiao Yan destroyed it and flew toward the clan’s depths, while Zhu Yang fled to avoid being blamed.

• Zhu Yang introduced himself to Xiao Yan and boasted about his standing among the Fire Spirit Clan’s younger generation.
• Zhu Yang showed Xiao Yan the Clan Protection Array and asked why he had come to the clan.
• Xiao Yan said he planned to speak with the Fire Spirit Clan Leader, and Zhu Yang laughed and dared him to crush the array.
• Xiao Yan raised his hand and shattered the Clan Protection Array, alarming the clan’s experts.
• Zhu Yang panicked and insisted he had nothing to do with the destruction as Xiao Yan comforted him and flew into the clan grounds.
• Zhu Yang realized he might be blamed for accompanying Xiao Yan and ran in the opposite direction.

The Flame Emperor arrived at the Fire Spirit Clan and unleashed an immortal legion of fire beasts against its Earthly Sovereigns. When the clan’s Second Elder attacked, the Flame Emperor’s Wolf Spirit struck him down with one blow, leaving the clan’s strongest fighters facing the invader.

• The Flame Emperor appeared above the Fire Spirit Clan and announced his visit, prompting more than a hundred Earthly Sovereigns to attack him.
• The Flame Emperor summoned the Ten Thousand Beast Legion, whose fire-beast phantoms repeatedly revived and overwhelmed the clan’s Earthly Sovereigns.
• The surviving Fire Spirit Clan experts called for their elders, and the Second Elder appeared as an Early-Stage Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• The Flame Emperor summoned Wolf Spirit and ordered it to deal with the Second Elder.
• Wolf Spirit struck the Second Elder down with one blow, then returned to the Flame Emperor.

Xiao Yan, the Flame Emperor, challenged the Fire Spirit Clan Leader to a fight, wagering an Immortal Grade Emperor Pill and his title against the clan’s Fire Spirit Sacred Flame. The Clan Leader accepted, confident he would win, but Xiao Yan required him to cross the Emperor Flame Sky Curtain before they could fight.

• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader and Great Elder arrived to find their clan grounds in ruins and confronted Xiao Yan, who was seated on the Crimson Flame Throne.
• The Clan Leader rebuked Xiao Yan for claiming the title of Flame Emperor, and Xiao Yan called him useless and proposed a fight.
• Xiao Yan wagered that he would surrender his title, rename the Endless Fire Territory, and offer an Immortal Grade Emperor Pill if he lost; if the Clan Leader lost, the Fire Spirit Clan would give up its Fire Spirit Sacred Flame.
• The Fire Spirit Clan elders warned the Clan Leader against risking their sacred flame, but he overruled them and accepted the wager, certain he would defeat Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan refused to come down and told the Clan Leader to cross the Emperor Flame Sky Curtain before challenging him.

Flame Emperor defeated the Fire Spirit Clan Leader with a single finger and demanded the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame. The Clan Leader admitted defeat but claimed the flame was guarded in the Ancestral Shrine Hall, then revealed he had no intention of handing it over.

• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader attacked Flame Emperor with his Sovereign Sea, but Flame Emperor struck him down with a Giant Black Flame Finger.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader emerged from the ravine, recovered, and admitted defeat.
• Flame Emperor demanded that the Clan Leader hand over the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame.
• The Clan Leader claimed the sacred flame was guarded by two previous-generation elders in the Ancestral Shrine Hall and urged Flame Emperor to leave.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader privately resolved to keep the flame, and Flame Emperor asked whether he truly meant to refuse.

Xiao Yan revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame had secretly retrieved the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame and defeated the Fire Spirit Clan Elders guarding it. As Xiao Yan departed with the flame, the Fire Spirit Clan called on its Immortal Grade Old Ancestor to intervene.

• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader claimed he could not hand over the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame, and Xiao Yan said he would retrieve it himself.
• Nihility Devouring Flame appeared before Xiao Yan, knelt, and presented the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame he had taken from the clan’s Ancient Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that he had dealt with the Clan Elders guarding the flame, shocking the Fire Spirit Clan Leader and the assembled experts.
• Xiao Yan began withdrawing the Emperor Flame Sky Curtain and announced that he was returning to the Endless Fire Territory.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader urged the clan experts to summon their slumbering Immortal Grade Old Ancestor, and they called out to him together.

Xiao Yan faced the Fire Spirit Clan’s Fire Spirit Old Ancestor, who intervened after Wolf Spirit blocked his attack. They agreed to settle their dispute with a duel beyond the Fire Spirit Continent, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor attacked Xiao Yan with a colossal magma hand, but Wolf Spirit intercepted it with a fireball.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor appeared and recognized Wolf Spirit as an extraordinary flame spirit; Xiao Yan ordered Wolf Spirit to stand down.
• Xiao Yan and Fire Spirit Old Ancestor assessed each other’s cultivation and strength.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor accepted the clan’s loss of the wager but challenged Xiao Yan to a duel, with the guardian Divine Flame at stake.
• Xiao Yan accepted, and he and Fire Spirit Old Ancestor vanished beyond the continent to fight without endangering the clan.

After leaving Fire Spirit City, Xiao Yan faced the Fire Spirit Old Ancestor on an abandoned continent and overwhelmed his opening attacks with powerful fire techniques. The Old Ancestor then summoned his Sovereign Celestial Body, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Xiao Yan and the Fire Spirit Old Ancestor traveled to an abandoned continent to fight without harming inhabited lands.
• The Fire Spirit Old Ancestor attacked with a scarlet pillar of light, but Xiao Yan summoned Earth Gale Flame and engulfed him in magma.
• The Fire Spirit Old Ancestor survived with his Fire Flame Divine Armor and launched the Raging Flame Burning Sea Palm.
• Xiao Yan summoned five Heavenly Sovereign-level Fire Spirits and formed a Five-Wheel Fire Disk that clashed with the palm strike.
• The Fire Spirit Old Ancestor summoned his Sovereign Celestial Body as the battle continued.

Xiao Yan defeated Fire Spirit Old Ancestor’s Flame God Celestial Body techniques with his Heavenly Flames and Swallow Heaven and Earth. Fire Spirit Old Ancestor then unleashed the Crimson Flame Heaven-Burning Art, sending a meteor bombardment toward the entire abandoned continent to destroy Xiao Yan along with it.

• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor summoned his Flame God Celestial Body and attacked Xiao Yan with the Spear of the Flame God.
• Xiao Yan summoned twenty-two Heavenly Flames into an ancient ruler and shattered the Crimson Flame Spear with Heavenly Flame Eternal Ruler.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor merged with his Flame God Celestial Body and launched Flame Dragon Descends, but Xiao Yan swallowed the flame dragon with Swallow Heaven and Earth, collapsing the celestial body.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor announced that he had one move left and cast the peerless divine ability Crimson Flame Heaven-Burning Art.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor summoned a sea of fire and sent countless magma meteors hurtling toward the entire abandoned continent, targeting Xiao Yan as well.

Xiao Yan survived the Fire Spirit Old Ancestor’s devastating attacks and defeated him, winning the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame and an end to the Fire Spirit Clan’s grudges. News of the battle spread across the Great Thousand World, establishing the Flame Emperor’s fame.

• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor destroyed the continent with his attacks, but Xiao Yan emerged from a Green Lotus unharmed and declared that the Old Ancestor had lost.
• Fire Spirit Old Ancestor conceded defeat, gave Xiao Yan the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame, and agreed that the Fire Spirit Clan would no longer oppose his title.
• Xiao Yan departed, while Fire Spirit Old Ancestor warned his clan to keep their distance from experts of the Endless Fire Territory.
• The battle’s details spread throughout the Great Thousand World, and Xiao Yan became renowned as the Flame Emperor.

Xiao Yan returned from the Fire Spirit Clan with its Divine Flame, the Fire Spirit Sacred Monarch, intending to use him to advance into the Immortal Grade. The Sacred Monarch attacked Yao Chen but was repelled by Yao Chen’s Forest White Lion, leaving him wounded.

• Lin Dong and Lin Diao discussed how Xiao Yan and Lin Dong had become known as the Great Thousand Twin Heroes.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Emperor Palace, where Xiao Xuan and Yao Chen welcomed him and discussed his reputation and his acquisition of the Fire Spirit Clan’s Divine Flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Fire Spirit Sacred Monarch, an Immortal Grade expert who had once served as the Fire Spirit Clan’s Divine Flame.
• The Fire Spirit Sacred Monarch threatened Xiao Yan, then attacked Yao Chen, believing him to be the easiest target.
• Yao Chen summoned the Forest White Lion, which struck the Fire Spirit Sacred Monarch and sent him crashing to the ground, injured.

Yao Chen revealed the power of his evolved Bone Chilling Flame, and Xiao Yan captured the Fire Spirit Sacred Monarch’s Crimson Divine Flame before preparing to advance to the Immortal Grade. In seclusion, Xiao Yan learned that Xu Wu had stolen the Fire Spirit Clan’s hundred strongest Divine Flames and threatened to hand him over when the clan retaliated.

• Forest White Lion struck down Fire Spirit Sacred Monarch, then returned to Yao Chen as a stream of pale white flame.
• Xiao Yan bound Fire Spirit Sacred Monarch with black flame chains and refined him into the Crimson Divine Flame, which he took for his own use.
• Xiao Yan said he would enter seclusion to attempt the Immortal Grade realm and left the territory’s affairs to Yao Chen and Ancestor.
• Xu Wu reported that he had stolen the hundred strongest Divine Flames from the Fire Spirit Clan’s treasury of more than eight thousand flames.
• Xiao Yan scolded Xu Wu for provoking the Fire Spirit Clan and said he would hand him over if the clan attacked.
• Xu Wu clung to Xiao Yan’s robe and pleaded that his service and sacrifices for the Xiao Tribe and the Alliance should save him.

Xiao Yan began using the hundred Divine Flames to break through to the Immortal Grade realm. Meanwhile, the Demon Slayer Ranking in Holy Abyss City changed dramatically, and Pavilion Master Lu wondered whether a new Demon Slayer King had appeared.

• Nihility Devouring Flame tried to excuse hiding the hundred Divine Flames, and Xiao Yan persuaded him to hand them over.
• Xiao Yan considered devouring the Fire Spirit Sacred Flame and even the Tou She Ancient God, then slapped Nihility Devouring Flame after recoiling from the thought.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned all one hundred Divine Flames, and Xiao Yan began cultivating with the Flame Mantra to break through.
• The Demon Slayer Stele shook and illuminated Holy Abyss City as the Demon Slayer Ranking underwent a dramatic change.
• Pavilion Master Lu suspected a new Demon Slayer King had emerged and wondered who could have defeated so many powerful Extraterritorial Evil Clan members.

Qin Tian returned from the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s heartland with the remains of a slain Heavenly Demon Emperor, earning the title of Demon Slayer King and shocking the Great Thousand World. After Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion, Xiao Xuan told him how Qin Tian had survived, and the two planned to visit him.

• The Demon Slayer Ranking named Qin Tian its new top-ranked Demon Slayer King, placing him above Xiao Xuan and causing Holy Abyss City to celebrate his survival.
• A month later, Qin Tian returned to the Great Thousand Pavilion Holy Abyss Branch carrying a Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remains, and the Chief Elder traveled to verify his achievement.
• Xiao Yan continued strengthening his power in seclusion while Qin Tian’s reputation rose above Xiao Xuan’s.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that Qin Tian had gained an ancient inheritance, advanced to Late Immortal Grade, and killed a Heavenly Demon Emperor while it was in deep cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan invited Xiao Yan to visit Qin Tian, and Xiao Yan agreed.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan visited Great Thousand Building, where Xiao Xuan reunited with Qin Tian and Xiao Yan questioned him about the Heart Demon Clan. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan claiming Qin Tian’s Spirit Soul Realm was compromised, despite the Chief Elder’s examination.

• The Grey-Robed Elder welcomed Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan and explained that Qin Tian was recovering in Holy Abyss City.
• Xiao Yan gave the Grey-Robed Elder an Immortal Grade Emperor Pill in gratitude for helping Xiao Xuan in the past.
• Qin Tian arrived and reunited with Xiao Xuan, then recognized Xiao Yan and welcomed his questions about the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Xiao Yan asked about the Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant body and warned Qin Tian about the Heart Demon Clan’s ability to plant Heart Demon Seeds.
• Xiao Yan declared that he believed something was wrong with Qin Tian’s Spirit Soul Realm, and the Grey-Robed Elder urgently objected.

Xiao Yan exposed the Heart Demon Seed planted in Qin Tian and used Emperor Flame to burn it away. He then began forming a Fire Seal, preparing to give Qin Tian a gift.

• Xiao Yan provoked Qin Tian, causing black rays to erupt from him and reveal that a Heart Demon expert had tampered with his Spirit Soul Realm.
• Xiao Yan explained that Qin Tian's seemingly lucky escape from the Extraterritorial Evil Clan had likely been a trap laid by the Heart Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xuan and the Grey-Robed Elder to stand back, then used Emperor Flame to burn away the Heart Demon Seed inside Qin Tian.
• Xiao Yan began forming hand seals and shouted, "Fire Seal, condense!"

Xiao Yan removed the Heart Demon Seed from Qin Tian and concealed the incident, prompting the demon who planted it to send a warning about Xiao Yan to Sheng Tian. After returning to the Endless Fire Territory, Xiao Yan reunited passionately with Ya Fei and was confronted by Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Yan used his Emperor Flame to remove Qin Tian’s Heart Demon Seed and left a protective Fire Seal between his brows.
• Xiao Xuan asked Elder Lu to keep Qin Tian’s contamination secret, and Elder Lu agreed not to report it to the Great Thousand Pavilion.
• A Xuan Demon Emperor sensed that his Heart Demon Seed had been removed and ordered a guard to warn Sheng Tian about the mysterious flame expert.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan stayed on the Holy Abyss Continent for several days before returning to the Endless Fire Territory.
• Ya Fei greeted Xiao Yan with a passionate kiss and teased him about remembering the four years and six months they had been apart.
• Nalan Yanran called Xiao Yan a scumbag, and he protested that he was only showing affection to his wife Ya Fei.