Chapter Summaries

Jia Nan Academy’s defenders were being overwhelmed until Su Yun returned and struck Protector Wu with the Fallen Heart Flame. He joined the academy’s forces against the Black Corner Region and began the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes.

• Xiao Yi Xian dodged Old Ghost Di Mo’s attack while the Black Corner Region’s Dou Zongs pressed Jia Nan Academy’s defenders, and Protector Wu badly injured Hu Gan.
• Medicine Elder urged Xiao Yan to overcome his guilt and told him that Su Yun had returned.
• Protector Wu knocked Hu Gan unconscious, but Su Yun’s flame-wrapped sword struck him and ignited the Fallen Heart Flame inside his body.
• Su Yun kicked Protector Wu into a mountain, gave Su Qian a healing pill for Hu Gan, and faced the gathered Black Corner Region fighters beside Jia Nan Academy’s defenders.
• Su Yun revealed his Peak Three-Star Dou Zong cultivation and activated the first change of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes.

Su Yun used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes to raise his cultivation and overwhelm Old Ghost Di Mo, turning the battle against the Black Emperor Sect’s forces. He left the fighters stunned by his Heaven Tier cultivation method and mastered Earth Tier Dou Technique, while Medicine Elder anticipated his arrival in the Central Plains.

• Su Yun’s aura surged to peak Six-Star Dou Zong after he activated the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, and Medicine Elder explained the secret technique to Xiao Yan.
• Su Yun struck Old Ghost Di Mo before he could react, while Xiao Yi Xian poisoned Old Man Yingshan and Protector Xuan and sent Cai Lin and the others to aid the Dou Emperor battlefield.
• Su Yun battered Old Ghost Di Mo with Setting Sun and invisible flames, mocking him as the battle turned in the allies’ favor.
• Su Yun gathered the energy of the world with the Fennel Cold Art, disrupting other fighters’ access to it, and Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder recognized the method as near Heaven Tier.
• Su Yun unleashed Flowing Flame Dragon Slash against Old Ghost Di Mo, and Medicine Elder praised his talent and anticipated his future clashes with Central Plains geniuses.

Su Yun helped Jia Nan Academy defeat the Black Corner Region’s forces, then destroyed Demonic Flame Valley and obtained the Heavenly Demon Puppet refining method. After returning to the academy, he learned that Hai Bodong had gone back to the Jia Ma Empire three months earlier and still had not returned.

• Su Yun killed Old Ghost Di Mo, and the remaining Black Corner Region experts fled or fell to Jia Nan Academy’s forces.
• Su Yun checked the academy’s casualties, learned the attack was linked to his destruction of the Black Emperor Sect, and returned to his usual cultivation level.
• Su Yun flew to Demonic Flame Valley, destroyed it, and killed its remaining people.
• Su Yun found Demonic Flame Valley’s treasure vault and used the System to recover its contents, including the Heavenly Demon Puppet refining method.
• Su Yun returned to Jia Nan Academy and learned from Xiao Yi Xian that Hai Bodong had returned to the Jia Ma Empire three months earlier and had not come back.

Su Yun left Jia Nan Academy for the Jia Ma Empire after learning that a national war had begun, and he reached the Imperial Capital to find Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate still alive. Hai Bodong told him that Mitel Tengshan had died in battle, while the war and the Misty Cloud Sect’s rebellion continued.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Su Yun that the Jia Ma Empire had been drawn into a national war, and Su Yun decided to return immediately to aid Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Su Yun the savage soul, and he stored it away to refine later; he also gave Cai Lin a High Earth Tier Cultivation Method.
• Su Yun flew toward the Jia Ma Empire while Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder traveled there slowly by Griffon Beast.
• Su Yun reached the Imperial Capital, sensed Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate in the imperial palace, and found them alive but weary.
• Hai Bodong told Su Yun that Mitel Tengshan had died in battle after the Misty Cloud Sect rebelled and forces from the Chuyun Empire and other nations attacked the Jia Ma Empire.

Su Yun learned how close the Jia Ma Empire was to collapse and prepared to oppose the Hall of Souls Protector and the invading empires. After the Jia Ma Empire announced a decisive battle in five days, Fa Ma refused to surrender the Alchemist Guild’s formulas and Du Tian killed him.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that the three empires had occupied half the Jia Ma Empire, Jia Xingtian was unconscious, Fa Ma had been captured, and the Misty Cloud Sect had rebelled.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate revealed that a Hall of Souls Protector had watched the battles and abducted people, while Su Yun suspected the Protector was targeting the Xiao Family.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate identified the Myriad Scorpion Gate, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley as the three empires’ strongest forces, and Su Yun resolved to end the war.
• The Jia Ma Empire announced that it would fight a decisive battle against the three empires in five days, and the empires accepted the challenge.
• Du Tian demanded that Fa Ma reveal the Alchemist Guild’s pill formulas, but Fa Ma refused, so Du Tian killed him with a flame.

Su Yun reunited with the injured Xiao Lan and promised to support the Mittel Family, while Yun Yun and Gu He hid from Yun Shan’s forces. The story left Su Yun preparing for a major battle in the Jia Ma Empire, wary of a Hall of Souls Protector.

• Su Yun found Xiao Lan injured at the Mittel Family and told Ya Fei he would give her a Dou Zong-level guard and help raise the family’s standing.
• Yun Yun and the wounded Gu He hid in a cave after fleeing Yun Shan, whose behavior had changed and who had turned against the Jia Ma Empire.
• Gu He revealed he knew Yun Yun loved Su Yun, then left the cave as powerful auras approached; Yun Yun heard a self-detonation and saw Gu He’s aura among those moving away.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and the others returned to the Imperial Capital, where Qing Lin greeted Hai Bodong and Su Yun discussed the looming battle.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yi Xian and Senior Skyfire that he had no plan for confronting the Hall of Souls Protector and would not hold back if the Protector appeared.

Su Yun and his allies faced the armies of three nations outside the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Capital. Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian swiftly overwhelmed the enemy forces, leaving the surviving leaders to confront Su Yun.

• Su Yun decided to conceal some of his strength while planning to seek the Netherworld Poison Flame and a Seventh Tier Magic Core to strengthen Xiao Yi Xian.
• The armies of three nations gathered outside the Imperial Capital, and Yun Shan called on their experts to attack the Jia Ma Empire.
• Su Yun unleashed the Fallen Heart Flame, killing weaker experts and disrupting the gathered attack before confronting Yun Shan, Xie Biyan, Luoyan Tian, and the Three Elders of Mulan.
• Su Yun’s sword aura shattered the leaders’ combined attacks and wounded Xie Biyan, setting him ablaze with invisible flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian poisoned the million-strong army with her Poisonous Body of Misfortune, killing every soldier.

Su Yun defeated the invading Dou Zong leaders and their forces, saving the Jia Ma Empire. After killing Xie Biyan, he absorbed the Demonic Poison Spot and captured his soul.

• Su Yun killed Yun Shan with a single punch, while the Poisonous Body of Misfortune annihilated the invading army.
• Su Yun caught up to Yan Tianxing, cut off one of his golden wings, killed him, and captured his corpse and soul.
• Su Yun killed the Three Elders of Mulan with Blazing Flame Heaven-Earth Split and burned away their bodies.
• Su Yun pierced Xie Biyan's chest and let the Demonic Poison Spot enter his body, explaining that he could refine it.
• Xie Biyan died in shock and anger, and Su Yun stored his corpse and captured his soul.

After the Jia Ma Empire defeated the three invading empires, Su Yun considered Yaoye’s offer, discussed Hai Bodong’s future, and refined the Demonic Poison Spot until he reached Four-Star Dou Zong. Three days later, Jia Xingtian awoke and learned how the empire had been saved.

• Yun Yun watched Su Yun’s victory and remembered that Yanran remained inside the Gate of Life and Death.
• Yaoye begged Su Yun to save Jia Xingtian and offered the Imperial Family’s treasures and obedience, but Su Yun sent her away to consider the offer.
• Hai Bodong asked whether he could still be useful in the Central Plains, and Su Yun assured him he would not abandon him.
• Su Yun used four Heavenly Flames to refine the Demonic Poison Spot, then advanced to Four-Star Dou Zong after a day of cultivation.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Hai Bodong that nineteen-year-old Su Yun’s talent rivaled the top geniuses of the Ancient Races.
• Jia Xingtian woke three days later, and Hai Bodong explained how Su Yun and his companions had defeated the three empires.

Su Yun refined two Earth Demon Puppets, giving Ya Fei one to strengthen her control of the Mittel Family and keeping another for his own use. Before preparing to leave for Jia Nan Academy, he and Xiao Yi Xian visited Xiao Lan, whose desire to fly free remained unmet.

• Hai Bodong gave Jia Xingtian a Sect Breaking Pill and urged him to stay alive.
• Su Yun refined Yan Tianxing’s corpse into an Earth Demon Puppet and bound it to Ya Fei with her blood.
• Ya Fei tested her control of the puppet, and Su Yun told her to continue managing the Mittel Family.
• Su Yun refined Old Ghost Di Mo’s corpse into a stronger Earth Demon Puppet and stored it in the System Space.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian visited the healed Xiao Lan, but Su Yun’s attempt to fuse it with Heavenly Demon Phoenix Blood Essence failed.

Su Yun strengthened Xiao Lan before parting from it with Xiao Yi Xian, then learned that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion possessed an Eighth Tier snake magical beast named Snake Lin Yue. He planned for Qing Lin to control it, and Su Qian warned him to be careful in the Central Plains.

• Su Yun fused Blue Eagle Magic Cores into Xiao Lan, raising it to the Fourth Tier, then used a Myriad Beast Spirit Flame sub-flame and a Grade Six Pill to improve its aptitude.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian stayed with Xiao Lan while it recovered, then said goodbye as it flew away.
• Su Qian told Su Yun that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion's guardian magical beast, Snake Lin Yue, had repelled a two-star Dou Zun ten years earlier.
• Su Yun confirmed that he intended for Qing Lin to control Snake Lin Yue, and Su Qian cautioned him about attempting such a plan in the Central Plains.

Su Qian gave Su Yun two sets of ingredients for the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill and told him that Ye Zhong of the Ye Family wanted his help. Su Yun successfully refined the pill, using its lightning to strengthen his Earth Demon Puppet, and continued preparing to leave the Northwest Continent for the Central Plains.

• Su Qian warned Su Yun that the Nine Netherworld Pythons hated the Heavenly Serpent Mansion and gave him two portions of the ingredients he had requested.
• Su Qian told Su Yun that Ye Zhong, the Great Elder of the Ye Family, hoped he would visit and help the struggling clan, and admitted he had told Mang Tianchi about Su Yun's cultivation and alchemy.
• Su Yun said he would consider visiting the Ye Family and reminded Su Qian not to reveal more about him.
• Su Yun successfully refined the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, and his Earth Demon Puppet absorbed the pill lightning and advanced to Six-Star Dou Zong strength.
• Su Yun stored the strengthened Earth Demon Puppet and the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill in the System Space.

Su Yun revived Yao Tianhuo by refining Xie Biyan’s corpse with his soul, a Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, and Seventh-Tier Magical Beast essence blood. After Yao Tianhuo returned, Su Yun refined an Emperor’s Extreme Pill for Qing Lin and visited her residence, where he found Zi Yan waiting.

• Su Yun summoned Hai Bodong and Yao Tianhuo, then began the resurrection using Xie Biyan’s corpse and the prepared ingredients.
• Yao Tianhuo endured Su Yun’s four-colored flames as his soul fused with the body, and after two and a half days he revived with his strength still short of Dou Zun.
• Su Yun learned Yao Tianhuo expected to recover his full strength in about a month, then refined an Emperor’s Extreme Pill for Qing Lin.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian went to Qing Lin’s residence, where Zi Yan greeted Su Yun and excitedly accepted the pill bottle.
• Zi Yan tried to swallow the pill immediately, and Su Yun stopped her with a knuckle to the head.

Su Yun refined a vicious soul into Soul Origin and strengthened his Soul Power while Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder faced another attack from Protector Tie. After a month of cultivation, Su Yun summoned his companions, but Qing Lin failed to appear, leaving him worried that she had encountered trouble.

• Su Yun refined Zi Yan’s requested pills and left the Emperor’s Extreme Pill with her to give Qing Lin when she emerged from seclusion.
• Su Yun refined Protector Xuan’s vicious soul into Soul Origin and absorbed it, advancing his Soul Power to the late Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder discovered that a mysterious person had abducted most of the Xiao Family, then heard Protector Tie find them.
• Su Yun refined some of the Demonic Poison Spot during a month of cultivation as Heavenly Flame Venerate recovered.
• Su Yun summoned Heavenly Flame Venerate, Qing Lin, and the others, but Qing Lin did not arrive, so he used his Soul Imprint to check on her.

Su Yun rushed to the Inner Academy after learning that Zi Yan and Qing Lin had clashed with Ling Quan of the Ancient Clan. He arrived just as Ling Quan tried to leave, and Zi Yan appealed to him for help.

• Su Yun received a soul projection revealing that Zi Yan and Qing Lin were facing Ling Quan, then set off with Heavenly Flame Venerate to investigate.
• Ling Quan explained that he had attacked Zi Yan after she took a medicinal ingredient he wanted, and Xiao Xun'er stopped him from escalating the fight.
• Ling Quan asked Xiao Xun'er to return to the clan and questioned Xiao Yan about a mysterious thing, but Xiao Yan denied knowing anything about it.
• Zi Yan objected when Ling Quan tried to leave, and Su Yun arrived between him and Xiao Xun'er.
• Zi Yan clung to Su Yun and accused Ling Quan of bullying her, while Su Yun looked at Ling Quan with anger.

Su Yun confronted Ling Quan after Ling Quan tried to take Zi Yan’s medicinal ingredient, and overwhelmed the Ancient Clan officer and his formation. Ling Quan launched another attack despite the power gap, leaving Xiao Xun'er frustrated with his impulsiveness.

• Su Yun released his killing intent and forced Ling Quan to reveal his Seven-star Dou Emperor cultivation, then overwhelmed him with his aura.
• Ling Quan summoned the nine Black Annihilation Army members, whose combined formation reached Dou Zong strength, but Su Yun’s invisible sword strike nearly broke it.
• Xiao Yan watched Su Yun’s strength and worried that he could not catch up in time to keep Xun'er by his side; Medicine Elder reminded him to focus on keeping his girlfriend.
• Su Yun mocked Ling Quan for relying on his background and formation, and Ling Quan grew furious.
• Ling Quan ordered the Black Annihilation Army to raise the Annihilation Battle Formation and attack, while Xiao Xun'er shook her head at his impulsive behavior.

Su Yun used Heavenly Flame Condensation to overwhelm Ling Quan and the Black Annihilation Army’s ten-man formation after they challenged him over a medicinal herb. The ten warriors were badly injured and burned, but Ling Quan forced them to stand again.

• Ling Quan explained that the Black Annihilation Army’s formation combined the ten warriors’ strength and challenged Su Yun, while Su Yun reassured Zi Yan that he could defeat them.
• Su Yun summoned the Fallen Heart Flame and condensed it into an Invisible Fire Python, astonishing Xiao Yan, Medicine Elder, Ling Quan, and the others.
• Su Yun sent the Invisible Fire Python at Ling Quan and the ten-man formation, which the flame python scattered with a single strike.
• Zi Yan mocked the fallen warriors, and Ling Quan ordered his injured teammates to stand despite the invisible flames burning their bodies.

Su Yun pressured Ling Quan and the Black Annihilation Army until Xiao Xun'er intervened to keep them from kneeling. Xiao Xun'er apologized to Su Yun and Zi Yan and offered compensation, while Su Yun privately coveted her Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.

• Su Yun intensified the Invisible Fire Python's spiritual pressure on Ling Quan and the nine Black Annihilation Army members, while Ling Quan hesitated over using his Space Jade Slip.
• Su Yun had Heavenly Flame Venerate lock the space to prevent a Dou Venerate from arriving through Ling Quan's jade slip.
• As Ling Quan was about to kneel, Xiao Xun'er struck him and the other Black Annihilation Army members, then revealed her Peak Dou Emperor strength.
• Xiao Xun'er identified herself as Gu Xun'er and apologized to Su Yun and Zi Yan for Ling Quan's actions.
• Xiao Xun'er offered to give Zi Yan the medicinal ingredients in the Black Annihilation Army members' Rings of Holding, and Su Yun thought about her Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.

Su Yun settled the conflict between Zi Yan and Ling Quan with Xiao Xun'er, who compensated Zi Yan with medicinal ingredients and agreed to smooth things over with the Ancient Clan. Back at the pavilion, Su Yun learned how Xiao Xun'er had obtained Soul Nurturing Saliva from Qing Lin and revealed that he had found an eighth-rank snake Magical Beast in the Heavenly Serpent Empire.

• Su Yun accepted Xiao Xun'er's compensation for Zi Yan and warned her that the conflict could affect the academy and the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Xun'er collected the medicinal ingredients from the Black Annihilation Army and handed them to Zi Yan before Su Yun left with Zi Yan and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Xun'er noticed Heavenly Flame Venerate watching from a nearby mountain and wondered about Su Yun's background.
• Back at the pavilion, Qing Lin explained how Xiao Xun'er had persuaded her to give Xiao Yan two portions of Soul Nurturing Saliva.
• Su Yun told the group he had found an eighth-rank snake Magical Beast in the Heavenly Serpent Empire, prompting concern because of their previous dangerous visit there.

Su Yun tested his strength against Heavenly Flame Venerate to prepare for the coming confrontation with Snake Lin Yue. After the spar, Heavenly Flame Venerate revealed he had confidence in facing her because of a Movement Dou Technique he had mastered.

• Su Yun decided that he, Heavenly Flame Venerate, and Qing Lin would go after their powerful target while the others waited at Jia Nan Academy.
• Qing Lin, now a Nine-Star Dou Emperor after refining the Emperor's Extreme Pill, agreed to help Su Yun.
• Su Yun and Heavenly Flame Venerate fought in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and their clash tore open space.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate assessed that Su Yun could reach the peak of a Two-Star Dou Venerate using four Heavenly Flames and the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes.
• Su Yun worried that Snake Lin Yue might have grown stronger since her last appearance, while Heavenly Flame Venerate said he had confidence because his greatest skill was a Movement Dou Technique.