Chapter Summaries

Xuan Yi endured the Fallen Heart Flame’s assault while using Ye Yan’s pill and hidden method to weaken and suppress its essence. After the Heaven Burning Flame erased the Fallen Heart Flame’s intelligence, Xuan Yi was poised to reunite its divided essence and refine it.

• Xuan Yi swallowed Ye Yan’s pill, and its Wood Qi restored her meridians as the Fallen Heart Flame absorbed the vitality.
• Ye Yan activated the hidden measure in the pill, using emerald-blue flames to divide and weaken the Fallen Heart Flame’s essence.
• Xuan Yi used her battle qi to draw the divided essence into her dantian while maintaining the refining process.
• After an extended struggle, the weakened Fallen Heart Flame stopped resisting when Ye Yan’s Heaven Burning Flame appeared.
• Ye Yan sensed the Heaven Burning Flame move to erase the Fallen Heart Flame’s intelligence so its essence could reunite for Xuan Yi to absorb.

Xuan Yi extinguished the Fallen Heart Flame’s consciousness and began refining it, while Ye Yan remained absent from Jia Nan Academy. At Green Mountain, Cailin invited Zi Yan to travel with them to the Central Plains and help her search for her origins.

• Xuan Yi used a wisp of Ye Yan’s Heaven Burning Flame to extinguish the Fallen Heart Flame’s consciousness.
• The Fallen Heart Flame gathered its scattered origin essence, and Xuan Yi guided it through her meridians to absorb and refine it.
• After two weeks without news from Ye Yan, students at Jia Nan Academy worried that the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower had lost its cultivation benefits.
• Zi Yan asked Cailin why she could not grow up, then wondered aloud whether Cailin would have a child with Ye Yan.
• Cailin invited Zi Yan to join them in the Central Plains and promised to help her search for her clan and origins.

While Jia Nan Academy’s elders waited anxiously for Ye Yan to emerge with the Fallen Heart Flame, Ye Yan kept watch as Xuan Yi recovered and reviewed how his skills had improved. Xuan Yi’s pain subsided, and she realized the Fallen Heart Flame seed had taken hold in her meridians.

• Protector Xiao worried that Venerable Qinghai had failed to return from the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower after two weeks.
• Several Jia Nan Academy elders challenged Su Qian and Hu Gan over letting Ye Yan take the Fallen Heart Flame, but they accepted that the decision would stand.
• Hu Gan said the elders could only wait for Ye Yan to come back, while Su Qian reminded them of the favors they owed Alchemist Ye.
• Ye Yan watched over Xuan Yi in the Magma World and considered rescuing Sky Fire Venerable to protect the Ye Family.
• Ye Yan checked his system panel and saw that his combat skills had improved, with Heaven-Burning Cauldron Suppression remaining his only Heaven-rank combat skill.
• Xuan Yi recovered from her pain and saw the Fallen Heart Flame seed flowing through her meridians, while her Beast Fire had disappeared.

Xuan Yi absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame, but its aftereffects triggered a strange, uncontrollable fire within her. As she struggled to suppress it and keep Ye Yan from seeing her, she realized she could not remain where she was.

• Xuan Yi reflected on how Ye Yan had helped her obtain the Heavenly Flame and carefully infused the Fallen Heart Flame into her Spirit Receptacle.
• The Spirit Receptacle shuddered, and Ye Yan discovered that the strand of Heaven Burning Flame he had placed inside Xuan Yi had vanished from his senses.
• Xuan Yi told Ye Yan not to turn around and assured him that she would be fine.
• A strange wicked fire spread through Xuan Yi's body, and she used her dou qi to suppress it while hiding her distress from Ye Yan.
• As crimson overtook her thoughts and she struggled to control the fire, Xuan Yi decided she could not stay there.

After Xuan Yi’s evil fire surged out of control, Ye Yan discovered that a poison was intensifying her emotions and worsening her condition. He identified a likely antidote but lacked Bodhi Tender Leaf Juice, leaving Xuan Yi’s crimson-eyed state unresolved as he searched for a substitute.

• Xuan Yi tried to dress and leave, but the evil fire forced her to sit down and suppress it again.
• Ye Yan turned around, approached Xuan Yi despite her protests, and found the evil fire had invaded her mind and body.
• While examining Xuan Yi, Ye Yan spotted a bluish-green trace at her hair roots and detected a poison that amplified buried emotions.
• Ye Yan identified the poison’s ingredients and determined that an antidote required Bodhi Tender Leaf Juice, which he did not have.
• Ye Yan suspected someone from the Soul Hall had poisoned Xuan Yi and searched his Storage Ring for a substitute, unaware that her eyes had turned completely crimson.

Xuan Yi lost control in the Magma World and Ye Yan gave in to her advances, after which the Green Lotus Seat absorbed energy through spreading black-and-white lotuses. Ye Yan woke beside the exhausted, sleeping Xuan Yi and worried about how she would react.

• Xuan Yi lost her reason and pounced on Ye Yan, tearing open his clothes.
• Ye Yan embraced Xuan Yi, and they became intimate within the Green Lotus Seat's barrier.
• Black-and-white lotuses spread across the magma, absorbing energy and feeding it into the Green Lotus Seat as its aura grew stronger.
• Xuan Yi fell asleep in Ye Yan's arms while the Green Lotus Seat gathered energy within her body.
• Ye Yan woke and worried that Xuan Yi might have regained awareness during their encounter and would be angry afterward.

After Xuan Yi woke from the aftermath of the evil fire, she was overwhelmed by shame and blamed herself for what happened with Ye Yan. Ye Yan tried to explain the poison and Heavenly Flame’s role, and the chapter ended with Xuan Yi realizing her aptitude and cultivation had greatly improved.

• Ye Yan worried that Xuan Yi would despise herself or leave after waking, and waited beside her as she slept.
• Xuan Yi woke, recalled what had happened, and asked Ye Yan to go outside so she could be alone.
• Ye Yan refused to leave and told Xuan Yi that the evil fire had been connected to his Heaven Burning Flame and that she had been poisoned.
• Xuan Yi continued to blame herself, calling what happened a punishment for failing to steady her mind.
• Ye Yan urged Xuan Yi to sense her condition, and she discovered her aptitude had increased by ten percent and her cultivation had reached the fifth turn.

Ye Yan used his gift and the Green Lotus Seat to improve Xuan Yi's aptitude and cultivation, then continued their intimate encounter as she struggled to understand the changes in her body. Nearly a month later, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Cailin still had no news of Ye Yan, while Xiao Xun'er prepared to leave the Xiao Clan after receiving a message from the Ancient Clan.

• Xuan Yi questioned her increased aptitude and five revolutions of cultivation, and Ye Yan told her that absorbing the Heavenly Flames and his gift had caused the changes.
• Ye Yan kissed Xuan Yi again, and their encounter coincided with her aura rising and the Green Lotus Seat drawing energy into her body.
• Xuan Yi asked Ye Yan to leave and treat what happened as an accident, while Ye Yan examined the Green Lotus Seat and saw its energy flowing into her.
• Nearly a month after Ye Yan disappeared, Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian worried about him, and Cailin returned without knowing his situation.
• Xiao Xun'er received the Ancient Clan's response to Ye Yan's proposal about the Ancient Jade and prepared to leave the Xiao Clan.

After Ye Yan and Xuan Yi recovered from absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame, they followed the seedling’s summons deeper into the magma. Ye Yan sensed Venerable Qinghai nearby and destroyed the jade pendant containing his soul, leaving Xuan Yi to continue following the flame.

• Xuan Yi worried she might be pregnant, but Ye Yan told her their union had improved her aptitude by fifty percent instead.
• Xuan Yi discovered that absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame and the surrounding energy had brought her cultivation accumulation to the ninth transformation.
• Ye Yan and Xuan Yi descended deeper into the magma until Xuan Yi sensed the Fallen Heart Flame seedling’s summons and followed its guiding wisp.
• Ye Yan sensed a familiar aura fifty li away, left a Soul Seal on Xuan Yi’s wrist, and went to investigate while she followed the summons.
• Venerable Qinghai hid in a drifting jade pendant and planned to report Ye Yan to Soul Hall, but Ye Yan seized and shattered the pendant, destroying his remaining soul.

Ye Yan and Xuan Yi searched the magma for the Fallen Heart Flame seedling after Xuan Yi absorbed the flame and rapidly advanced her cultivation. Ye Yan split off to investigate a familiar aura and destroyed Venerable Qinghai’s hidden soul, leaving Xuan Yi to follow the seedling’s summons.

• Ye Yan told Xuan Yi that their intimacy had improved her aptitude, and she sensed a fifty percent increase.
• Ye Yan explained that Xuan Yi’s cultivation had advanced by absorbing energy from the lava around them, and they descended deeper into the magma.
• Xuan Yi sensed the Fallen Heart Flame seedling’s summons, and an invisible flame led her and Ye Yan farther downward.
• Ye Yan sensed a familiar aura and left Xuan Yi with a Soul Seal on her wrist while he went to investigate.
• Venerable Qinghai planned to report Ye Yan to Soul Hall, but Ye Yan seized and shattered the jade pendant containing his soul.

Ye Yan confirmed that his enemy was dead and followed Xuan Yi through the magma sea to the Fallen Heart Flame seedling. They discovered a Lizardman and its Fire Bead, leaving Ye Yan interested in the bead as a resource for his clan and for alchemy.

• Ye Yan searched the area with his soul power, confirmed the man had died, and hurried toward Xuan Yi.
• Xuan Yi followed the Fallen Heart Flame’s summons deeper into the magma sea and found a transparent barrier holding bones and a Fallen Heart Flame seedling.
• Xuan Yi caught a red Lizardman hiding in the magma with a giant Dou Qi hand as Ye Yan arrived.
• Ye Yan said the Lizardman could be killed and speculated that its kind might have stronger members, though none could reach Battle Saint.
• Xuan Yi crushed the Lizardman and produced a crimson Fire Bead, which Ye Yan identified as a potential medicinal ingredient and cultivation resource once its fire poison was removed.

Ye Yan and Xuan Yi defeated the lizardmen around a transparent barrier, gathered their fire beads, and entered a hidden space. There they met the spirit of Yao Tianhuo, also known as Sky Fire Venerable, who mistook them for husband and wife before learning they were master and disciple.

• Ye Yan unleashed his flames on a swarm of lizardmen, killing most of them and turning the survivors into fire beads.
• Ye Yan burned the powerful lizardman leader to ashes, then used his fire tigers to slaughter the remaining lizardmen nearby.
• Ye Yan and Xuan Yi wrapped themselves in their respective flames and passed through the transparent barrier into a separate space.
• Ye Yan called out to a floating skeleton, and its spirit appeared as Yao Tianhuo, the Sky Fire Venerable.
• Sky Fire Venerable mistook Ye Yan and Xuan Yi for husband and wife, and Xuan Yi corrected him by calling Ye Yan her disciple.
• Sky Fire Venerable explained that he had refined the Fallen Heart Flame before setting it free prior to his death.

Ye Yan and Xuan Yi found a juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, which Ye Yan wanted as a replacement for the flame his teacher had absorbed. Sky Fire Venerable offered to help them in exchange for rebuilding his body, and Ye Yan considered recruiting him into the Ye Family as an elder.

• Ye Yan told Sky Fire Venerable that he and Xuan Yi had come to take the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame for an academy that needed its heartfire.
• Sky Fire Venerable explained that the juvenile flame came from a Heavenly Flame seed and asked them to help reconstruct his body before his remnant soul dissipated.
• Ye Yan proposed rebuilding Sky Fire Venerable's body, then said it would require enormous resources and rejected the Five Rounds Flame Expelling Technique as insufficient compensation.
• Sky Fire Venerable offered Ye Yan his Storage Ring, which contained ordinary Battle Skills and books.
• Ye Yan caught the Storage Ring, confused, as he had intended to ask Sky Fire Venerable to become an elder of the Ye Family.

Ye Yan arranged for Sky Fire Venerable to join the Ye Family as an elder for ten years in exchange for help restoring his body. After securing the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame for the Inner Academy, Ye Yan prepared to leave with Xuan Yi and planned to harvest Fire Beads from the Lizardmen.

• Ye Yan asked Sky Fire Venerable to serve as an elder of the Ye Family for ten years, and Sky Fire Venerable agreed.
• Ye Yan gave Sky Fire Venerable soul-repairing medicinal liquid, and Sky Fire Venerable handed over the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame.
• Ye Yan tested the Fallen Heart Flame's invisible ripples, then placed it in the Fire Gathering Pot to resolve the Inner Academy's troubles.
• Ye Yan determined Sky Fire Venerable's damaged bones could not be used to rebuild his body and stored the remains for later use.
• Sky Fire Venerable warned Ye Yan that many Lizardmen stronger than Dou Zongs lived outside the barrier, and Ye Yan decided to collect their Fire Beads.
• Ye Yan called Xuan Yi to leave, and Sky Fire Venerable gave him a Storage Ring and asked him to open the barrier.

Ye Yan and Xuan Yi drew out two powerful Lizardmen beneath the magma, and Ye Yan defeated them with the Heaven-Burning Cauldron and Heaven Burning Flame. They returned toward the academy, where Su Qian watched a spatial rift open and waited anxiously for Ye Yan to emerge.

• Ye Yan had Xuan Yi create a disturbance to lure the Lizardmen while he sensed a terrifying presence beneath the magma.
• Ye Yan used the Heaven-Burning Cauldron and spatial power to force two Battle Sovereign Lizardmen out of hiding.
• Ye Yan suppressed the Lizardmen with the cauldron and Heaven Burning Flame, then collected their Fire Beads after defeating them.
• Ye Yan and Xuan Yi used a spatial mark to return toward the magma sea’s entrance.
• Su Qian and the elders spotted a spatial rift and hoped Ye Yan was returning, while Su Qian worried about the academy’s future without the Fallen Heart Flame.

Ye Yan returned from beneath the lava with a juvenile Heavenly Flame in the Fire Gathering Pot, securing the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower’s future. He reunited with his companions and promised to seek the Nether Poison Fire for Xiao Yi Xian, while keeping Xuan Yi’s secret from the others.

• Ye Yan and Xuan Yi emerged from the lava and told Su Qian that Ye Yan had fulfilled his mission.
• Su Qian sent away the other elders, then accepted the Fire Gathering Pot and learned that the juvenile Heavenly Flame needed a steady supply of Dou Qi.
• Ye Yan left with Xuan Yi and reassured her that no one would discover what had happened beneath the magma.
• Ye Yan returned to Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Cailin, who welcomed him back after his month-long absence.
• Ye Yan praised Qing Lin’s progress and promised to find the Nether Poison Fire for Xiao Yi Xian so she could grow stronger and pursue the Battle Emperor realm.

Ye Yan and Xiao Yi Xian discussed the Nether Poison Fire and decided to investigate the Chu Yun Empire, while Ye Yan and Xuan Yi struggled to hide their growing intimacy. Their private moment was interrupted when Hu Gan arrived with Xiao Yu, apparently bringing urgent news.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Ye Yan that the Nether Poison Fire might be found in the Chu Yun Empire’s Myriad Poison Mountain Range, and Ye Yan agreed to investigate.
• Xuan Yi worried that her changed behavior around Ye Yan would reveal their relationship and refused his offer to build her a quiet courtyard.
• Ye Yan entered Xuan Yi’s room, embraced her, and kissed her despite her warning that she might return to the Central Plains early.
• Xiao Yi Xian announced that Hu Gan had arrived with Xiao Yu, interrupting Ye Yan and Xuan Yi.
• Ye Yan greeted Hu Gan and asked whether a major problem had arisen.

Ye Yan learned that someone from the Xiao Clan had come searching for him and realized Xiao Xun'er might be arriving at Jia Nan Academy. While waiting, he hosted Xiao Yu and the others, then began devising a better cultivation method for Xiao Yu after she struggled to absorb his powerful milk tea.

• Hu Gan told Ye Yan that someone from the Xiao Clan of Wu Tan City was searching for him, and Ye Yan and Xiao Yi Xian suspected the visitor was Xiao Xun'er.
• Hu Gan said Xun'er could enter the academy through its Outer Academy and left Ye Yan to handle her arrival.
• Ye Yan invited Xiao Yu and the others to sit, prepared potent milk tea, and Xiao Yu began cultivating after tasting it.
• Ye Yan saw that Xiao Yu's low-grade cultivation method guided energy too slowly and worked out how to improve it to high Xuan class.
• Cailin teased Ye Yan for attracting women, while Ye Yan insisted that giving Xiao Yu the improved method was no great effort.

Ye Yan gave Xiao Yu a cultivation method that strengthened and refined her Dou Qi, while Cailin grew jealous of their closeness. Xiao Xun'er arrived with Ling Ying and an unfamiliar middle-aged man whose spatial movements suggested Battle Sovereign strength.

• Ye Yan sent Xiao Yu a new cultivation method, and she recultivated until her Dou Qi became denser and darker blue.
• Xiao Yu thanked Ye Yan and recognized Cailin as Queen Medusa, while Cailin discreetly pinched Ye Yan in jealousy.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked about Xiao Xun'er, and Ye Yan said she would arrive soon.
• Ye Yan and Xuan Yi sensed spatial fluctuations, and Ye Yan identified the approaching figures as likely guests.
• Xiao Xun'er arrived with Ling Ying and an unfamiliar middle-aged man, and Ye Yan invited them to sit.

Ye Yan welcomed Xiao Xun'er, Ling Ying, and Gu Ran to Green Mountain, where Xiao Xun'er and Cailin eyed each other over tea. Ye Yan then received a scroll containing a secret message from Gu Yuan, with its details left for discussion after Ye Yan returned to the Central Plains.

• Xiao Xun'er and Ling Ying arrived with Gu Ran, who praised Ye Yan and quickly took a liking to him.
• Ye Yan invited Gu Ran and Ling Ying to drink on Green Mountain while Xiao Xun'er stayed behind to enjoy his tea.
• Xiao Xun'er complimented Cailin's beauty, and the two silently measured each other as Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yu watched.
• At the mountaintop, Ye Yan asked Ling Ying to hand over the scroll sent by Gu Yuan.
• Gu Ran explained that Gu Yuan's message was a soul transmission and said its details should be discussed after Ye Yan returned to the Central Plains.