Chapter Summaries

Mu Fan completed the damaged Yang-Returning Soul-Nourishing Pill formula with a more precise method than Cao Ying, earning the Ye Family a narrow win in the second round. The third trial began with pill condensation, and Xiao Fan concealed his true fire behind an unremarkable pale cyan flame.

• Cao Ying identified the Three-Sun Bone-Shedding Branch as the main ingredient and proposed fierce-then-gentle flame control, with Seven-Leaf Cold Heart Grass added during condensation.
• Xiao Fan proposed warming the ingredients first, using Seven-Leaf Cold Heart Grass before the second fire turn, and balancing the final pill with Earth Heart Green Vine.
• The Danta Elder judged that Mu Fan of the Ye Family had narrowly won the second round, and Ye Xinlan cried with happiness as her family celebrated.
• The third trial began, and Cao Ying ignited her Demon Phoenix Crimson Flame before challenging Mu Fan to show his skill.
• Xiao Fan raised a pale cyan flame that Cao Xiu and others dismissed as ordinary, while Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian suspected he was concealing his real power.

Xiao Fan used Cao Ying’s fire pressure to prepare his ingredients, then revealed a mysterious Heavenly Flame to forge a twin-core Yang-Returning Soul-Nourishing Pill and win the round for the Ye Family. Cao Ying became determined to learn about his flame, while a chained Purple-Black Fire Dragon deep within Danta sensed it and opened its eyes.

• Cao Ying used waves of Demon Phoenix Crimson Flame to probe Xiao Fan, but Xiao Fan borrowed the pressure to refine his medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Fan extinguished his pale-green flame and revealed an unknown Heavenly Flame that subdued the flames across the competition stage.
• Xiao Fan used the Heavenly Flame to condense a twin-core pill with linked inner and outer medicinal effects.
• The Danta Elder judged Xiao Fan’s pill superior to Cao Ying’s, giving the round to the Ye Family and temporarily placing them first.
• Cao Ying questioned Xiao Fan about his unidentifiable Heavenly Flame and vowed to make him use it again in the next round.
• A Purple-Black Fire Dragon bound beneath Danta sensed Xiao Fan’s flame and opened its eyes.

After Mu Fan was summoned to Danta’s main tower, its three heads discovered that his soul had reached the threshold of the Heavenly Realm while his Dou Qi remained at three-star Dou Zong. Mu Fan explained that he needed cultivation, a stronger body, and Danta’s resources, then began laying out a mutually beneficial arrangement involving the Ye Family and the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Danta’s order to summon Mu Fan unsettled the gathered families, while Xiao Yi Xian, Ye Xinlan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin worried as he followed the Danta Elder to the main tower.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi questioned Mu Fan about his soul, Heavenly Flame, and pill-making, revealing that they had seen through his Spirit Realm test and recognized his soul was far stronger.
• Mu Fan tested the Nine-Turn Soul Lamp, lighting its seventh ring and briefly flickering the eighth before stopping and suffering backlash.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi concluded that Mu Fan’s soul and flames overwhelmed his body and Dou Qi, and Mu Fan said he needed time to build a stronger foundation.
• Mu Fan told the three chairmen he wanted the Pill Gathering, a Danta identity, and Danta’s resources, while the Ye Family needed his help and he needed its connections and Yang Fire Ancient Altar.
• Mu Fan named the Three Thousand Burning Flame as another thing he wanted.

Xiao Fan gained limited Danta access after the Three Giants warned that his powerful soul and flames outstripped his body, then returned to his companions and agreed to slow down. As the group prepared for the next day's assessment, the chained Three Thousand Burning Flame sensed his Eighth Ring soul-light and awakened.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi questioned Xiao Fan about the Three Thousand Burning Flame and warned him that forcing his alchemy advancement could destroy him.
• Xuan Yi gave Xiao Fan a soul-stabilizing method, Tian Leizi granted him three visits to the fire-vein chambers, and Xuan Kongzi issued him a Soul Guest Token with three rules.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi suspected Xiao Fan had reached a higher soul realm and resolved to watch over him and keep him from Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yi Xian examined Xiao Fan's injuries, urged him to slow down, and he promised to do so after Zi Yan gave him a Sugar Pill.
• Cao Ying recognized that Xiao Fan's body could not withstand his soul fire and promised not to make him use more fire than he could bear in the assessment.
• The chained Purple-Black Fire Dragon awakened after sensing Xiao Fan's Eighth Ring soul-light and murmured that his soul smelled better than fire.

Xiao Fan used his new Danta status to gather rare medicinal ingredients, while Xiao Yi Xian and the others urged him to prioritize strengthening his own body and Dou Qi. After securing supplies from Danta’s medicine treasury, he learned that more ingredients would require outside channels, and Ye Xinlan took charge of pursuing them.

• Xiao Fan presented Ye Zhong with a long medicinal list, and Xiao Yi Xian urged him to use the most important ingredients for himself before treating the others.
• Ye Zhong and Ye Xinlan offered to revive the Ye Family’s old trade routes and help locate the ingredients.
• Xiao Fan used his Soul Guest Token and Tian Leizi’s Fire Pulse Iron Token to gain access to Danta’s Outer Pavilion Medicine Treasury.
• Xiao Yi Xian helped Xiao Fan contain the soul pressure he was suppressing inside the medicinal storehouse.
• Xiao Fan exchanged pills and a repaired pill formula for the available ingredients, then learned that the remaining materials could be found through a consignment sale and an auction.
• Ye Xinlan offered to use the Ye Family’s old accounts and Danta’s token to secure access to the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion auction.

At the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion, Xiao Fan helped Ye Xinlan reclaim the Ye Family’s standing and acquired a rare Star Dragon Marrow Stone. At the Ye Family’s Yang Fire Ancient Altar, he used it in a body-tempering treatment that strengthened his body and reduced the backlash from his Soul Fire without raising his cultivation rank.

• Ye Xinlan used Xiao Fan’s Danta Soul Guest Token to secure the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Milk and a Tier 7 Wood-Fire Monster Core for the Ye Family.
• Xiao Fan recognized a charred stone embryo as a Star Dragon Marrow Stone and won it after Cao Ying tested his interest and then withdrew her bid.
• Xiao Fan and Xiao Yi Xian prepared a dark-gold medicinal pool from the auctioned materials and other ingredients at the Ye Family’s Yang Fire Ancient Altar.
• Xiao Fan endured the body-tempering treatment without letting his Heavenly Flames devour the medicinal power, while Xiao Yi Xian monitored him and made him pause when needed.
• Xiao Fan remained a three-star Dou Zong, but his body better withstood his Colorless Fire and the backlash from his Soul Fire eased.

After reaching five-star Dou Zong, Xiao Fan received Queen Medusa’s plea for help: Soul Hall had arranged an invasion of Tagor and the Jia Ma Empire to draw him out, and his true name was known. He set off with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin through Danta’s wormhole, leaving Ye Xinlan to manage the Ye Family and promising nothing about what awaited them.

• Xiao Fan stabilized his five-star Dou Zong aura, and the seven-colored scale Medusa had left him cracked as her bloodied soul thought called for help.
• Medusa reported that the Chu Yun Empire, Luo Yan Empire, and Mu Lan Empire had invaded, that border passes had fallen, and that Soul Hall and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan were involved.
• Xiao Fan told Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to prepare to leave, while Qing Lin offered to track the scale’s surviving soul thread and Ye Xinlan agreed to handle the Ye Family.
• Xiao Fan used the Danta Soul Guest Token to request a wormhole; Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi warned that Soul Hall was luring him away from Danta but agreed to open one.
• Xiao Fan, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin entered the wormhole, and Zi Yan left Ye Xinlan a Sugar Pill to keep until she returned.

Xiao Fan and his companions joined Hei Qing and took a hidden spatial route toward Tagor, where Medusa was trapped under attack by the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall. They defeated an ambush on the way as Medusa held her ground and waited for Xiao Fan to arrive.

• Hei Qing met Xiao Fan, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin in the spatial passage and revealed that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall were targeting both Zi Yan and Xiao Fan.
• Hei Qing explained that the three allied empires, the Phoenix forces, and Soul Hall had coordinated their attacks to trap Xiao Fan before he reached Tagor.
• Hei Qing led the group through an abandoned spatial layer, while Xiao Fan used Colorless Fire to protect them and Qing Lin tracked the Soul Hall's trail.
• Hei Qing's group encountered three Soul Hall figures; Hei Qing smashed one Soul Lamp, Xiao Yi Xian sealed the other two, and Xiao Fan burned the soul shadows while marking an escaping wisp to track it.
• Medusa stood injured at Tagor Holy City's altar as the protective formation cracked, refusing to bow while she waited for Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan arrived as Medusa’s essence blood nearly failed and fought Huang Xuan himself, while Xiao Yi Xian drove back the Three-Nation Allied Forces. The battle remained underway, with Xiao Fan confronting the Dou Zun and Xiao Yi Xian halting the armies outside the city.

• Medusa burned her essence blood to protect the Snake-Person Holy City until Xiao Fan emerged from a spatial rift and reached the altar.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan helped steady Medusa, while Xiao Fan insisted on facing Huang Xuan himself.
• Hei Qing sealed the surrounding space, and Xiao Fan used spatial movement and a Spirit-Devouring Dragon Seal to disrupt Huang Xuan’s Phoenix Domain and crack his Feather Armor.
• Medusa ordered Xiao Yi Xian to handle the allied forces below, and Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body repelled the Chu Yun, Luo Yan, and Mu Lan armies without killing them.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian watched Xiao Yi Xian rout the forces and remarked on how frightening she had become.

Xiao Fan defeated Huang Xuan and refined his phoenix blood origin into a pill to restore Medusa’s blood after Huang Xuan forced her to burn it. The Three-Nation Allied Forces retreated from the Holy City, leaving Medusa and her people safe.

• Xiao Fan used the Spirit-Devouring Dragon Phoenix Lock and the Spirit-Devouring Heaven-Burning Seal to restrain and injure Huang Xuan while Hei Qing sealed off his escape.
• Huang Xuan transformed into his Heaven Demon Phoenix true form, and Zi Yan tore out one of his life-bound feathers as Hei Qing forced him toward Xiao Fan’s medicine cauldron.
• Xiao Fan refined Huang Xuan’s phoenix blood origin and Dou Zun aura with medicinal ingredients to create a Phoenix Blood Origin-Restoring Pill for Medusa.
• Xiao Fan gave Medusa the pill, while Xiao Yi Xian returned after forcing the Three-Nation Allied Forces to withdraw beyond ten miles.
• Medusa saw that the Holy City and its people had survived and quietly told Xiao Fan that she owed him one.

After the battle for Snake-Person Holy City, Xiao Fan and the others discovered a Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame emerging from Huang Xuan. The flame recognized Xiao Fan as a surviving, sane member of the Tunling Clan, leaving his connection to the clan exposed.

• Medusa thanked Xiao Fan for saving her, and Zi Yan joked about collecting payment in Sugar Pills.
• The survivors celebrated Snake-Person Holy City's defense, but a crack came from Huang Xuan's ruined body.
• A pitch-black flame emerged from Huang Xuan and began devouring his body and the surrounding light.
• Hei Qing attacked the flame, but it swallowed his fist force and knocked him into the sand.
• Xiao Fan identified the flame as a Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and confronted it with his Colorless Fire.
• The flame recognized Xiao Fan as a sane member of the Tunling Clan and expressed interest in him.

Nihility Devouring Flame forced Xiao Fan to absorb the battlefield’s blood, souls, and power in an attempt to make him lose control. Protected by the Dragon Emperor Reverse Scale and pulled back by Medusa, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Fan saved the trapped souls, reached Dou Zun, and devoured the sub-flame; the battle ended with him alive and his new power stable.

• Nihility Devouring Flame’s Black Fire Shadow drew the battlefield’s blood, souls, and power into Xiao Fan, triggering his devouring instincts and driving his strength toward Dou Zun.
• Medusa, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian called out to Xiao Fan, and the Dragon Emperor Reverse Scale protected his heart and preserved his clarity.
• Xiao Fan reversed the Colorless Fire to release the innocent souls, then broke through to one-star Dou Zun.
• Hei Qing, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Medusa sealed the area while Xiao Fan trapped and devoured Nihility Devouring Flame’s sub-flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan supported the exhausted Xiao Fan as Medusa joined him, and the rescued souls returned to rest while the Snake-Person Holy City and Jia Ma Empire forces survived.

After the war, Xiao Fan treated Die’s unstable transformation while Queen Medusa and the others stayed by her side. Die stabilized and learned she could control her snake tail, leaving the group ready to travel together to the Central Plains.

• Xiao Fan examined the swallowed Void Black Pattern while Queen Medusa told him Die had awakened but remained unstable.
• Die confessed her fear that she was a burden, and Queen Medusa reassured her that she protected her because she was her sister.
• Xiao Fan used Colorless Fire, medicinal ingredients, and Die’s shed scale to stabilize her snake soul and newly born human body.
• Die cried out through the pain as Queen Medusa held her hand, while Zi Yan left a Sugar Pill beside the jade platform.
• Die’s transformation stabilized, allowing her to summon or dismiss her snake tail at will, and Queen Medusa agreed they would travel together.

Xiao Fan and the Snake-People Tribe planned their relocation from Tagor to the Central Plains while arranging defenses for the Jia Ma Empire. The chapter ended with Xiao Fan misleading a Luo Yan spy about the migration route as the tribe prepared to leave.

• Xiao Fan gave Jia Xingtian a Break Sect Pill and Phoenix Blood medicinal liquid, then arranged to protect him during a Dou Zong breakthrough.
• Hai Bodong proposed using Cold Sand Fortress as a transfer point, and Xiao Fan assigned Die to lead the old, young, and wounded Snake-People.
• Xiao Yi Xian volunteered to deal with the Chu Yun Empire while Xiao Fan, Medusa, Zi Yan, and Hei Qing prepared to guard the migration's rear.
• Medusa declared that the Snake-People Tribe would migrate to the Central Plains, and the clansmen pledged to follow her.
• Xiao Fan caught a Luo Yan Empire messenger Feather Owl and altered its message to claim the Snake-People would travel directly to Danta instead of through Cold Sand Fortress.

After the battle at Tagor, Jia Ma strengthened its position under Jia Xingtian’s new Dou Zong status, while Die settled the first Snake-People migrants safely in Cold Sand Fortress. Xiao Fan cared for Medusa and the others before Xiao Yi Xian returned to Tagor with a convoy of spoils from the Chu Yun Empire.

• Jia Xingtian emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong, and Jia Ma issued orders reorganizing its border, trade routes, wounded-soldier medicine, and imperial medicinal storehouse.
• Die led the first Snake-People migrants to Cold Sand Fortress, where they received supplies and care, then sent Medusa a letter assuring her that everyone had arrived safely.
• Xiao Fan gave Medusa a Blood-Solidifying Scale-Nourishing Pill and limited Zi Yan to two honey-flavored pills a day.
• Xiao Fan sent a pill bead into the heart seal for Xiao Xiao Yan, who woke briefly to tease Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned to Tagor with poison masters and a convoy of medicine, poison cauldrons, scrolls, ores, and medicinal ingredients taken as spoils of war from the Chu Yun Empire.

Xiao Yi Xian returned with Chu Yun's surrender, and the group distributed medicines and supplies before preparing to leave for the Central Plains. Xiao Fan announced they would depart the next day, with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and Soul Hall still looming as threats.

• Xiao Yi Xian reported that the Chu Yun Empire and Poison Sect had surrendered, and that she had incorporated the poison master army into the Heaven Poison Order.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Fan gave Jia Xingtian medicines, poison records, and protective items for Yao Yue, while Xiao Yi Xian also gave Xiao Xiao Yan Soul-Nurturing Dew.
• Xiao Fan distributed medicines to the group and gave Xiao Yi Xian a Poison-Tempering Heart-Calming Pill for the strain of using the Woe Poison Body.
• Jia Xingtian left with Yao Yue's gifts, and Xiao Fan told him to have her keep training toward refining a sixth-tier pill.
• Xiao Fan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medusa decided to travel through Cold Sand Fortress and enter the Central Plains, and Xiao Fan said they would leave the next day.

Xiao Fan returned to Wutan City in disguise and confronted Xiao Yan’s teacher, Yao Lao, with an offer to trade soul-repairing liquid for the Bone Chilling Flame. When Yao Lao refused, Xiao Fan revealed Han Feng’s remnant soul, leaving Yao Lao shaken by the appearance of his traitorous disciple.

• Xiao Fan left Tagor alone and traveled to Wutan City to settle an old debt and obtain a clump of fire.
• Xiao Fan entered the Xiao Family disguised as a Tier 6 Alchemist, and Gu Xun’er and the Second Elder recognized him despite his mask.
• Xiao Fan privately summoned Yao Lao from Xiao Yan’s ring and offered Nine-Turn Soul Nourishing Liquid in exchange for the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Yao Lao refused the trade and attacked Xiao Fan, but Xiao Fan’s Colorless Fire suppressed the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Xiao Fan revealed a bottle containing Han Feng’s remnant soul, and Yao Lao recognized his former disciple and froze in shock.

Xiao Fan traded the Nine-Turn Soul Nourishing Liquid and Han Feng's remnant soul to Yao Lao for the Bone Chilling Flame Origin, then left Wutan City after rejecting Gu Xun'er's apology and quietly giving gifts to the Second Elder and Xiao Yu. He departed with Zi Yan toward Cold Sand Fortress and the Central Plains, leaving old ties behind as he set out to seize territory and build a home.

• Xiao Fan exchanged the Nine-Turn Soul Nourishing Liquid and Han Feng's remnant soul for Yao Lao's Bone Chilling Flame Origin, then refined the Origin into his Colorless Fire.
• Xiao Fan told Gu Xun'er that guilt could not bring back the person who died in the void in the previous life and ordered her to stop following him.
• Xiao Fan gave the Xiao Family several Tier 2 Healing Pills and left a Storage Ring with personal gifts for the Second Elder and Xiao Yu.
• The Second Elder and Xiao Yu realized Xiao Fan had returned and left again, while the Second Elder mourned that Xiao Fan still refused to call the Xiao Family home.
• Xiao Fan left Wutan City with Zi Yan, carrying the Bone Chilling Flame Origin and heading toward Cold Sand Fortress and the Central Plains.

As Xiao Fan and the Snake-People Tribe’s migrants approached the Central Plains, Hun Tiandi learned that Xiao Fan had devoured a Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and ordered Hun Miesheng to capture him alive. Ice Venerable also learned of Xiao Yi Xian’s mature Woe Poison Body and ordered Ice River Valley to find and bring her back.

• The Snake-People Tribe’s first migration party reached Cold Sand Fortress while a second group traveled toward the Central Plains under the Miteer Caravan’s cover.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Tiandi that Xiao Fan had devoured its Sub-Flame and revealed that he belonged to the Tunling Clan.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Soul Hall to send Hun Miesheng to capture Xiao Fan alive without damaging his soul, flame, bloodline, or Heart Seal.
• Ice Venerable learned that Xiao Yi Xian was a Dou Zun-level Woe Poison Body who had taken control of Chu Yun’s poison masters.
• Ice Venerable ordered Ice River Valley to investigate Xiao Yi Xian’s origins and companions, then bring her back whether or not she agreed.

Xiao Fan proposed settling the Snake-People Tribe in the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Tribe’s territory by helping its oppressed members restore their rightful leader, rather than conquering the clan by force. Medusa agreed to lead the tribe there, and Qing Lin accepted a role in identifying those who might support them.

• Xiao Fan studied the maps and pointed out the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Tribe as a better home for the Snake-People Tribe than the Dan Region’s barren ridge.
• Medusa, Hai Bodong, and Hei Qing warned that the Nine Nether Deep Earth Python Tribe was powerful and difficult to attack, but Xiao Fan said they would avoid fighting and rely on Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Fan reassured Qing Lin that she only needed to identify oppressed and resentful members while he handled the rest.
• Xiao Fan revealed that the tribe’s authority was unstable and that they would seek the imprisoned legitimate tribe leader’s return.
• Die and Medusa recognized the territory’s potential to secure the Snake-People Tribe’s future, and Medusa agreed to go there.
• Qing Lin promised to do her best, and Xiao Fan urged her to believe in herself.