Chapter Summaries

Lin Hao wounded the Fallen Heart Flame with Queen Medusa and claimed that merging with it could improve her fire resistance, though she recognized his ulterior motives. After Queen Medusa agreed to protect him, Lin Hao began devouring the flame to attempt an unprecedented path of Heavenly Flame evolution.

• Lin Hao and Queen Medusa joined forces to severely wound the Fallen Heart Flame in the magma.
• Lin Hao told Queen Medusa that the Fallen Heart Flame could improve her fire resistance if he merged with it and they joined bodies, prompting her to accuse him of having no good intentions.
• Queen Medusa recalled Lin Hao's help securing peace and a home for the Snake-Person Tribe, then offered herself to him before he clarified that he had not yet refined the flame.
• Lin Hao asked Queen Medusa to protect him, sat down, and summoned his nine Spirit Rings.
• Lin Hao activated his Martial Soul and used the Realm Profound Talisman to devour the surrounding fire energy and the wounded Fallen Heart Flame.

Lin Hao absorbed and assimilated the Fallen Heart Flame, using the Power of the Sea to balance its heat as it tempered his body. After his bones transformed into silver and his aura surged, he turned to Queen Medusa with a wicked grin and approached her.

• Lin Hao used the Realm Profound Talisman to draw in the magma’s fire energy and devour the Fallen Heart Flame’s source.
• Queen Medusa sensed the Green Lotus Core Flame in Lin Hao and watched as he endured the Heavenly Flame’s tempering.
• Lin Hao circulated the Power of the Sea to balance the flame, strengthening his skin, meridians, bones, muscles, and organs.
• The Fallen Heart Flame was fully assimilated into Lin Hao, transforming his bones into silver and greatly increasing his aura.
• Lin Hao told Queen Medusa that the fusion had stirred wicked fire within him, and she understood as he approached and she undid her collar.

Xiao Yan realized that Lin Hao had likely obtained the Fallen Heart Flame and left the inner academy after Yao Lao urged him to seek other opportunities. Deep beneath the academy, Lin Hao and Queen Medusa discovered that the Fallen Heart Flame had improved their cultivation and fire resistance, and Lin Hao led her toward another opportunity in the magma.

• Xiao Yan sensed the temperature drop around the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and feared that Lin Hao had obtained the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to leave the inner academy and seek other chances to find a Heavenly Flame.
• Lin Hao and Queen Medusa paused their intimate activity in the magma, and Queen Medusa said being with Lin Hao accelerated her cultivation.
• Queen Medusa discovered that her fire resistance had greatly improved, allowing her to press against the magma without harm.
• Lin Hao sensed another opportunity deeper in the magma and led Queen Medusa toward it, asking her to reveal her Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python form next time they played.

Lin Hao and Queen Medusa fought their way through the magma and collected fire spirit pearls before entering a hidden chamber where they met Yao Tianhuo. Lin Hao recruited Yao Tianhuo into the Misty Cloud Sect, and the chapter ended with Yao Tianhuo realizing Lin Hao had refined the Fallen Heart Flame he once possessed.

• Queen Medusa killed flame lizardmen in the magma and gave Lin Hao the fire spirit pearls they carried.
• After defeating increasingly powerful lizardmen, Queen Medusa bargained with Lin Hao for a future chance to see the Heaven-Swallowing Python’s true form.
• Lin Hao led Queen Medusa through a barrier into a chamber containing a skeleton and a weak Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lin Hao invited Yao Tianhuo to join the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yao Tianhuo agreed after Lin Hao promised the sect would prioritize resources for his recovery for three years.
• Yao Tianhuo gave Lin Hao the Fallen Heart Flame, then realized Lin Hao had already refined the flame he had possessed in life.

Lin Hao secured Jia Nan Academy's cooperation by offering Heart Fire and a new Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, while Venerable Tian Huo gave him a jade slip containing the Five-Wheel Flame Expelling Technique. As Xiao Yan agreed to travel to the Ancient Clan with Gu Xun'er, rumors that the Misty Cloud Sect served the Ancient Clan prompted her to hurry back.

• Lin Hao told Queen Medusa how Venerable Tian Huo found and subdued the Fallen Heart Flame, then gave Tian Huo a rare soul-type herb and received his jade slip containing the Five-Wheel Flame Expelling Technique.
• Hun Miesheng learned that Wu Ying had been killed by the Misty Cloud Sect with Ancient Clan backing, and decided the Soul Hall would bide its time until Hun Tiandi became a Dou Di.
• Lin Hao negotiated with Su Qian, who agreed to admit thirty Misty Cloud Sect Dou Zhes to Jia Nan Academy's inner academy each year after Lin Hao offered to provide Heart Fire.
• Gu Xun'er urged Xiao Yan to visit the Ancient Clan so he could search its records for Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Ling Ying brought Gu Xun'er a letter reporting rumors that the Misty Cloud Sect was subordinate to the Ancient Clan, so Gu Xun'er decided to return there as soon as possible.

The Misty Cloud Sect conquered the Mu Lan Empire and the Luo Yan Empire, then continued expanding as surrounding kingdoms and empires submitted. In Lin Hao’s room, Xiao Yi Xian asked whether he feared her as the Poison Girl, and Lin Hao ended by confessing that he wanted her to bear his children.

• The Misty Cloud Sect defeated Mu Lan Valley and the Luo Yan Empire, forcing both empires to submit.
• Yun Shan, Hai Bodong, Nalan Jie, Gu He, Mu Chen, Queen Medusa, and others led campaigns that brought three more great empires under the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Queen Medusa and the Snake-Person Tribe agreed to help the Misty Cloud Sect expand in exchange for permission to inhabit forests in its territory.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Hao that Yao Ye was happy with her status, then asked whether he considered her a friend and feared her as the Poison Girl.
• Lin Hao took Xiao Yi Xian’s hand and said he wanted to be the kind of male-and-female friends who had children together.

Lin Hao convinced Xiao Yi Xian to accept a closer relationship, while Ya Fei arrived hoping to approach him but discovered them together. Later, Yun Yun and Lin Hao discussed the Misty Cloud Sect’s growing power and looming threats before he pressed her to have children.

• Lin Hao told Xiao Yi Xian that he wanted them to have children so they would stay together, and she agreed despite worrying they had not even dated.
• Ya Fei arrived intending to confess her feelings to Lin Hao, heard Xiao Yi Xian inside his room, and secretly peeked through the window.
• Yun Yun rested with Lin Hao and asked whether the Misty Cloud Sect should stop conquering more empires after eighteen had submitted.
• Lin Hao explained that the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan might soon threaten the Misty Cloud Sect, so he had ordered resources from conquered empires brought back.
• Yun Yun recognized Lin Hao’s plan to stockpile resources, and Lin Hao then urged her to have children, saying Master had asked why there was no news.

A month after the Misty Cloud Sect’s expansion paused, Lin Hao welcomed Zi Yan, who came to the sect’s new mimic cultivation ground for training. He fed her hotpot and considered relying on the Ancient Void Dragon Clan as protection while the Ancient Clan remained uncertain.

• Thirty-six empires had submitted to the Misty Cloud Sect, temporarily ending its expansion campaign.
• Lin Hao hosted Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran in his courtyard, where he cooked while they played.
• Zi Yan arrived at Lin Hao’s courtyard, and he dismissed the hidden guards who stirred at her entrance.
• Lin Hao’s mimic cultivation ground had earned Jia Nan Academy’s cooperation, including training slots exchanged between the two institutions.
• Zi Yan asked to try Lin Hao’s spicy hotpot, and he agreed to make it for her again.
• Lin Hao considered turning to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan for support because the Ancient Clan had not stated its position.

Lin Hao told Zi Yan that she was an Ancient Void Dragon and encouraged her to return to her clan and ask why they had left her behind. After Zi Yan agreed, Lin Hao arranged for the clan to be informed, then accompanied Nalan Yanran and others to the Heaven's Eye Mountain Range for the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.

• Lin Hao fed Zi Yan charcoal-grilled oysters and told her she was an Ancient Void Dragon who had eaten Transformation Grass.
• Lin Hao explained that members of Zi Yan's clan were searching for her, and encouraged her to return and resolve her doubts about her parents.
• Zi Yan agreed to go home, and Lin Hao asked Queen Medusa to contact the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and tell them Zi Yan was at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Lin Hao, Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yi Xian, and Gu He arrived at the Heaven's Eye Mountain Range, where Jin Shi recognized them and sensed Heavenly Flames from Gu He.
• Lin Hao told Nalan Yanran to enter the rising Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and try to break through to the Dou Zong realm.

Gu He received payment from the Gold-Devouring Rat Tribe for removing their fire poison, while Lin Hao gave him the opportunity and let him keep the rewards. Nalan Yanran broke through to Dou Zong, kissed Lin Hao in gratitude, and was left alone with him after Gu He flew away.

• Lin Hao let Gu He use his Green Lotus Core Flame to remove the Gold-Devouring Rat Tribe's fire poison, and Gu He thanked him for the tribe's payment.
• A surge of energy from the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool revealed that Nalan Yanran had broken through to Dou Zong.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from the pool and walked through the air to Lin Hao, who praised her new rank and the Misty Cloud Sect's growing strength.
• Nalan Yanran kissed Lin Hao on the cheek and said she wanted to thank him for helping her break through.
• Gu He teased Lin Hao and Nalan Yanran about their feelings, then flew away to leave them alone.

Lin Hao and Nalan Yanran acknowledged their feelings, but agreed to wait for Yun Yun's blessing before becoming a couple. At Burning Flame Valley, Lin Hao recognized the masked Xiao Yan and offered Tang Zhen a way to help his daughter inherit the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame.

• Nalan Yanran confessed that she wanted to be with Lin Hao, and he agreed to take responsibility for her feelings.
• Nalan Yanran insisted that she and Lin Hao first receive Yun Yun's blessing, and Lin Hao agreed.
• Lin Hao, Nalan Yanran, and Gu He arrived at Burning Flame Valley, where Tang Zhen welcomed them and introduced his pale daughter.
• Nalan Yanran recognized the masked young man as Xiao Yan after Lin Hao told her to read the name Yan Xiao backward.
• After Tang Zhen selected several Alchemists to refine the Fire Bodhi Pill, Lin Hao said the pill would not let Tang Zhen's daughter inherit his Nine Dragon Lightning Flame.
• Lin Hao proposed increasing Tang Zhen's daughter's affinity with Heavenly Flames, surprising Tang Zhen.

Lin Hao explained that Tang Huo'er’s constitution rejected Heavenly Flames and demonstrated his control of the Fallen Heart Flame to convince Tang Zhen. He proposed that she merge with him, leaving Tang Zhen wondering whether Lin Hao meant marriage.

• Lin Hao revealed that a mocking Alchemist had the Fallen Heart Flame inside him, then briefly urged the flame to burn around the man before stopping.
• Tang Huo'er recognized Lin Hao’s name, and the Alchemists changed their attitude after learning he had killed a Soul Hall Protector.
• Tang Zhen dismissed the other Alchemists so Lin Hao could explain Heavenly Flame affinity privately to Tang Huo'er, Gu He, and Nalan Yanran.
• Lin Hao transformed into the Fallen Heart Flame and told Tang Zhen that he was a Heavenly Flame, then explained that Tang Huo'er’s constitution rejected them.
• Lin Hao proposed that Tang Huo'er merge with him, and Tang Zhen asked whether he meant a man and woman joining as husband and wife.

Lin Hao proposed that Tang Huo'er become his wife so she could absorb his Heavenly Flame origin and strengthen her affinity with Heavenly Flames. He then removed the fire poison left by the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame and gave her a bottle of healing medicine, leaving her to decide whether to accept it.

• Lin Hao told Tang Zhen that Tang Huo'er could improve her resistance to Heavenly Flames by absorbing his primordial Core Flame through becoming one with him.
• Tang Zhen recognized the implications of Lin Hao's secret and promised not to reveal it, while Tang Huo'er realized Lin Hao was proposing marriage and blushed in embarrassment.
• Tang Zhen asked Lin Hao how he would treat Tang Huo'er, and Lin Hao said he would devour the fire poison left by the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame.
• Tang Huo'er sat cross-legged as Lin Hao used his Martial Soul and Realm Profound Talisman to remove the fire poison from her body.
• Lin Hao gave Tang Huo'er a bottle of sacred healing medicine and told her that whether to use it was her choice.

Lin Hao healed Tang Huo'er with his Companion Purple Crystal Source and gained access to the first manifestation of the Three Mysterious Manifestations of the Heavenly Flame. After a month in Burning Flame Valley, his relationship with Tang Huo'er had grown close, and he finally revealed what his healing liquid was.

• Lin Hao gave Tang Huo'er spiritual liquid that removed her fire poison, healed her injuries, and helped her break through a cultivation level.
• Tang Zhen invited Lin Hao to stay in Burning Flame Valley and rewarded him with the first manifestation of the Three Mysterious Manifestations of the Heavenly Flame left by Xiao Xuan.
• Lin Hao spent a month in Burning Flame Valley studying the technique and growing closer to Tang Huo'er, while Nalan Yanran kept her distance from their outings.
• Tang Huo'er joined Lin Hao for a walk and asked what the healing liquid had contained.
• Lin Hao told Tang Huo'er that the liquid was his Companion Purple Crystal Source.

Lin Hao and Tang Huo'er reconciled after arguing over the medicine he used to heal her, while Nalan Yanran, Zi Yan, and Tang Huo'er watched Lin Hao compete at the Pill Gathering in Holy Pill City. Lin Hao produced only a fifth-tier pill, but Xiao Yan revealed himself and used the Pill Ascension Method, drawing the attention of the Pill Tower's leaders.

• Tang Huo'er became furious when Lin Hao explained that he had treated her burns with Companion Purple Crystal Source, and she chased him across the cliff.
• After three days apart, Tang Huo'er came to Lin Hao's room to complain that he had not visited her, and he pulled her inside.
• Nalan Yanran and Zi Yan watched the Pill Gathering in Holy Pill City as Lin Hao entered the competition and refined a fifth-tier pill.
• Tang Huo'er worried that Lin Hao's fifth-tier pill would not earn him a place among the top ten, who could enter the Pill Realm to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Elder Mu Gu claimed he would win the gathering, but Xiao Yan revealed himself and displayed the Pill Ascension Method, startling the three leaders of the Pill Tower.

At the Pill Gathering, Lin Hao used a formation and the Heavenly Flame to transform twenty-four fifth-tier pills into a higher-grade pill while Xiao Yan completed the Pill Ascension Method. Pill lightning appeared over Lin Hao, signaling that he was refining at least a seventh-tier pill.

• Spectators discussed Lin Hao’s twelve successfully refined fifth-tier pills and assumed he was using the Pill Gathering to attract the attention of factions.
• Xiao Yan focused on defeating Elder Mu Gu, while Lin Hao prepared to reveal his own technique as the Pill Gathering entered its final stage.
• Lin Hao arranged twenty-four fifth-tier pills on a twenty-four-pointed formation and gathered their pill energy with the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lin Hao shaped the flame into a miniature pill furnace as the Pill Tower’s three leaders watched and wondered about his unfamiliar formation technique.
• Xiao Yan’s Pill Ascension triggered a lightning tribulation, and black clouds gathered above Lin Hao as pill lightning signaled a pill of at least the seventh tier.

At the Pill Gathering, Lin Hao used his secret method to raise his fifth-tier Dou Ling Pills to eighth tier and then poured Companion Purple Crystal Source into the furnace to elevate one further. As seven-colored pill lightning struck, Lin Hao transformed and charged directly into it.

• Onlookers realized Lin Hao had refined twenty-four peak fifth-tier Dou Ling Pills and used a secret method to elevate them, while the pill clouds above him grew to five colors.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Heavenly Demon Puppet and expected Lin Hao to place third if he survived the lightning, while Lin Hao noticed his pill’s energy was nearly exhausted.
• Lin Hao poured Companion Purple Crystal Source into the furnace to elevate the pill again, shocking the Pill Tower’s three great giants and prompting Tang Huo'er to identify the spirit liquid.
• The pill clouds changed to seven colors, leaving Elder Mu Gu speechless and Xiao Yan wondering whether Lin Hao could withstand the lightning.
• Lin Hao summoned his Realm Profound Talisman True Body and charged head-on into the descending seven-colored pill lightning.

Lin Hao won the alchemy competition after using his self-created pill-ascension method to refine a peak eighth-tier pill, then revealed the method to Gu He. The chapter ended with Gu He kneeling and accepting Lin Hao as his master.

• Lin Hao struck the seven-colored pill lightning with his Tidal Fist and survived, leaving the transformed white tiger pill behind.
• Xuan Yi, Dan Leizi, and Xuankongzi examined the white tiger pill and declared Lin Hao the competition champion, while Elder Mu Gu accepted the result.
• Elder Mu Gu asked Lin Hao about his alchemist tier, and Lin Hao revealed he was a fifth-tier Alchemist who had created the pill-ascension method himself.
• Lin Hao explained that his Spirit-Gathering Pill-Ascension Secret Method combined array knowledge to raise a pill's tier.
• Gu He visited Lin Hao that night and asked to become his disciple and learn the pill-refining method.
• Lin Hao gave Gu He two array manuals and his pill-refining method, and Gu He knelt to acknowledge Lin Hao as his master.

Lin Hao received Zi Yan’s Ancient Void Dragon Clan essence blood to help him subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame and gave her an evolved pill in return. At the Pill Tower’s sealed space, the contenders failed to persuade the intelligent Heavenly Flame, and Elder Mu Gu prepared to release it and wear down its strength.

• Zi Yan gave Lin Hao her clan’s ancestor essence blood, which could improve his chances of defeating the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Lin Hao gave Zi Yan an evolved peak eighth-grade pill, then teased Tang Huo’er about how the pill’s Companion Purple Crystal Source would affect her.
• In the Pill Tower’s sealed space, Lin Hao let Xiao Yan and the other contenders try to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame before him.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame rejected Xiao Yan, and the other contenders also failed to subdue it through gentle persuasion.
• When his turn came, Elder Mu Gu argued that the Heavenly Flame had to be released and exhausted before anyone could subdue it.

Lin Hao stayed behind in the Starfield to confront Three Thousand Burning Flame and devoured it, advancing to Dou Zun. After breaking through the spatial barrier, he called for Yanran to enter.

• Elder Mu Gu provoked Three Thousand Burning Flame, which unleashed a sea of purplish-black flames and drove Gu He and the others to flee.
• Lin Hao stayed to face Three Thousand Burning Flame, withstood its heat, and revealed that he was both human and a Heavenly Flame.
• Lin Hao devoured Zi Yan's Ancient Void Dragon Clan essence blood and used his chaotic power to assimilate Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame vanished into Lin Hao, whose cultivation advanced to Dou Zun and whose flames gained purple, black, and white colors.
• Lin Hao felt the poison's burning sensation return, punched a hole through space, and called, "Yanran, come in!"