Chapter Summaries

Huo Zhen tested Xiao Yan’s herb-extraction skills and explained the precision needed to advance from an eighth-tier to a ninth-tier alchemist. Xiao Yan received Huo Zhen’s written guidance, though his limited time still forced him to prioritize increasing his strength.

• Huo Zhen praised Xiao Yan’s soul-power progress and challenged him to extract three difficult medicinal herbs without using Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan spent ten days extracting the Cold Pool Autumn Moon Lotus, White-Haired Immortal Ginseng, and Wild Blood Flame Flower.
• Huo Zhen inspected the medicinal liquids and pointed out flaws that could cause ninth-tier pill refinement to fail or become dangerous.
• Huo Zhen warned Xiao Yan that reaching the ninth tier required extensive practice and experience, and mentioned that Yao Lao might also advance to that tier.
• Huo Zhen gave Xiao Yan a jade slip recording his experience, and Xiao Yan thanked him for the guidance.

Xiao Yan rejected marriage to Huo Zhi but accepted Yan Xiao and Huo Fan as disciples, receiving two Heaven Class Dou Techniques from Yan Jin. He agreed to pursue the alliance leader position, and Yan Jin prepared to entrust him with the Flame Clan’s Clan Mark.

• Xiao Yan told Yan Jin he still could not agree to marry Huo Zhi, and Yan Jin revealed that Huo Zhi had asked him not to pressure Xiao Yan.
• Yan Jin introduced Yan Xiao and Huo Fan, who bowed to Xiao Yan and became his disciples.
• Xiao Yan gave his new disciples gifts, while Yan Jin gave each a Heaven Class Dou Technique to take with them to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help secure the alliance leader position after Yan Jin pressed him to honor their agreement.
• Yan Jin brought out an ancient flame-patterned brush to pass the Flame Clan’s Clan Mark to Xiao Yan.

Yan Jin drew a Flame Clan Mark for Xiao Yan, whose Flame Clan blood essence responded and empowered him. Yan Jin then outlined the Flame Clan’s strength in the planned alliance and revealed that he was a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan drew out Huo Zhi’s Flame Clan blood essence, and Yan Jin sensed that Xiao Yan could truly wield the Flame Clan’s power.
• Yan Jin used a Clan Mark brush to create a Flame Clan Mark and place it on Xiao Yan’s forehead.
• Xiao Yan’s Flame Clan blood essence surged, empowering him through the new mark.
• Yan Jin warned Xiao Yan that obtaining Clan Marks from the Thunder Clan and Spirit Clan would be difficult and costly.
• Yan Jin said the Flame Clan could field three Dou Sheng for the alliance and named Huo Zhen, Yan Xingzhi, and himself, revealing that he was a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan secured Yan Jin and the Flame Clan’s support for the alliance, then received two powerful Heaven Class Dou Techniques. After studying them for three days, he left the Flame Clan with his new disciples to return to Starfall Pavilion and continue building the alliance.

• Yan Jin revealed that he had broken through to Nine-Star Dou Sheng and pledged the Flame Clan’s support to Xiao Yan’s alliance, giving him a Spatial Jade Slip to summon him.
• Xiao Yan’s new disciples, Huo Fan and her fellow disciple, formally paid respects to him, and he considered what he could teach them.
• The disciples gave Xiao Yan two low-level Heaven Class Dou Techniques, Fire Glaze Fetal Beast Form and Crimson Flame Pierces the Sun, for him to study and simplify.
• Xiao Yan studied the techniques for three days but could not yet master either one, and he decided to return to Starfall Pavilion to pursue the alliance.
• Yan Jin saw Xiao Yan off, urged him to call for help or report Soul Clan movements, and Xiao Yan departed with his two Flame Clan disciples.

Yan Jin and Huo Zhen discussed why the Flame Clan had committed its remaining resources to Xiao Yan and feared that he might hold their past suspicions against them. With the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan allied against the continent and Yan Jin living on borrowed time, Yan Jin resolved to support Xiao Yan while taking steps to prevent the Flame Clan from being annexed after his death.

• Huo Zhen and Yan Jin agreed that their investment in Xiao Yan was unprecedented and that the Flame Clan had once been prepared to treat him as an experiment because of his Heavenly Flames.
• Yan Jin worried that Xiao Yan might learn of the Flame Clan's past attitude, especially now that Xiao Xuan had strengthened his position.
• Yan Jin explained that the Flame Clan had been excluded from other clans' alliances and that his nine-star Dou Sheng strength concealed injuries that left him only a little over thirty years to live.
• Yan Jin said the Flame Clan would obey Xiao Yan and hoped Xiao Zhi would marry him, helping protect the clan from annexation after Yan Jin's death.
• Yan Jin vowed to fight the Soul and Ancient Clans and to make major moves before his death to make it difficult for Xiao Yan to annex the Flame Clan.

Xiao Yan discovered that a vast horde of magical beasts was stampeding toward a powerful life aura and learned from Xiao Xuan that the Ancient Bodhi Tree had emerged. He decided to seek the tree’s opportunity but summoned help before entering, since his two disciples could not safely accompany him.

• Xiao Yan sensed an anomaly during spatial travel and landed with Huo Fan and Yan Xiao to observe countless magical beasts charging in one direction.
• Xiao Yan used his soul power to detect a tremendous life aura and concluded that a top-grade herb had drawn the beasts, though the scale of the stampede troubled him.
• Xiao Yan sent his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body to the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan identified the phenomenon as the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s emergence and explained its treasures and trials.
• Xiao Yan decided to pursue the Ancient Bodhi Tree but left Huo Fan and Yan Xiao behind because they lacked the strength to protect themselves.
• Xiao Yan crushed a spatial jade slip, and a crimson figure appeared through the vortex after he used his soul force as a beacon.

Yan Jin arrived after Xiao Yan summoned him and used his flames to clear the magical beasts surrounding the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s core. After confirming the tree’s aura and traces of the Soul Clan, he sent Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi into the spatial vortex while he waited outside.

• Xiao Yan summoned Yan Jin, who brought Huo Zhi and the others into the beast sea’s core region.
• Yan Jin incinerated the attacking magical beasts, driving the survivors away from the core.
• Yan Jin identified the life aura as belonging to the Ancient Bodhi Tree and Xiao Yan sensed lingering Soul Clan aura.
• Yan Jin warned Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi that the tree’s interior might be dangerous but offered to guard their escape route.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi entered the spatial vortex together, and Yan Jin hoped the opportunity would change the Flame Clan’s fortunes.

Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi entered the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s unstable spatial realm and found the enormous tree, whose power suppressed ordinary spatial abilities. As eager experts rushed toward it, Xiao Yan sensed the tree’s spirit watching him, and Huo Zhi warned that the tree could make the unworthy disappear.

• Yan Jin let the gathered experts enter the spatial passage, then concealed himself behind the beast horde to test those who followed.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi entered the small realm and saw the Ancient Bodhi Tree towering above a landscape filled with dense life energy.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the Ancient Bodhi Tree controlled the realm and had severed his connection to the Heavenly Tomb.
• The other experts hurried toward the tree while Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi stayed back and watched them.
• Xiao Yan felt as though the tree’s spirit had noticed him, and Huo Zhi explained that the Ancient Bodhi Tree could make those with insufficient strength disappear.

Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi resisted the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s illusion that lured them toward it, then cautiously approached the tree. A flash of white light enveloped them and pulled them inside, where Xiao Yan discovered that his Dou Qi had vanished.

• Xiao Yan realized he and Huo Zhi were being drawn toward the Ancient Bodhi Tree and broke Huo Zhi out of the illusion.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi found traces of a recent battle and saw the other travelers absorbed by the tree.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi approached the Ancient Bodhi Tree while sensing a persistent, sinister aura they could not dispel.
• A white light enveloped Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi, erased Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi, and pulled them into the tree.

Xiao Yan and Hun Feng freed Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi from the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s black-green barrier and discovered that only Heavenly Flames could repel the force. As the tree’s attacks grew stronger, Huo Zhi tried to rescue a trapped Dou Zun expert just as another wave struck.

• Xiao Yan used the Eight Wastelands Star Lotus Flame and his Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame to break free, with Hun Feng’s Child Flame helping from outside.
• Xiao Yan rescued Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng explained that the trio were inside the Ancient Bodhi Tree, where its greatest opportunities were hidden.
• The black-green radiance attacked, and Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng repelled it with their Heavenly Flames.
• Hun Feng said that the tree was growing stronger by absorbing the blood qi of the trapped people, and Huo Zhi chose to try rescuing a Dou Zun expert.
• As the next attack arrived, the radiance grew more solid and harder to resist.

Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng joined forces to destroy the black shadow controlling the blood-energy attacks inside the Ancient Bodhi Tree. The Ancient Bodhi Tree’s true body appeared and asked them for help, showing them a vision of its battle alongside a Dou Di against a destructive enemy.

• Xiao Yan proposed that he, Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng work together to escape, and they agreed to attack the source of the black aura with their Heavenly Flames.
• The three unleashed their Heavenly Flames and traced the attacks to a small, black tree-shaped shadow controlling the emerald-green barrier.
• The black shadow began absorbing the blood energy of the trapped people, but the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s true body appeared behind Xiao Yan and the others and asked them for help.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree showed them a vision of itself and a Dou Di battling a dark enemy, which they ultimately destroyed together.

Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng learned that an ancient Dou Di battle had left a corrupting force inside the Ancient Bodhi Tree, which was now feeding on human blood qi. The tree gave Xiao Yan a Bodhi Seed to refine while the others held back the pitch-black shadow, and Hun Feng discovered that absorbing its black qi was dangerous.

• Xiao Yan and the others watched the Ancient Bodhi Tree reveal how black qi from an ancient battle had corrupted it and begun consuming the blood qi of those trapped inside.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree revealed that the Bodhi Seed could help resolve the corruption, then gave Xiao Yan and the others more than twenty seeds.
• Xiao Yan began refining a Bodhi Seed and summoned his one-star Dou Sheng War Puppet to help Huo Zhi while she and Hun Feng restrained the tree shadow.
• Hun Feng used the Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame to devour a tentacle, but the black qi nearly injured her before she forced it from her body.
• Huo Zhi attacked the shadow's tentacles with the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame while Hun Feng urged her to slow their absorption of blood qi.

Xiao Yan used refined Bodhi Seed essence to weaken the pitch-black tree shadow and discovered that an ancient cushion rapidly restored and expanded his Dou Qi. He let Hun Feng help refine the seeds and ordered Huo Zhi to recover while he held the barrier at bay.

• Hun Feng used the Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame to slow the tree shadow's absorption of blood essence without touching its dangerous black aura.
• Xiao Yan refined a Bodhi Seed, and its pure azure-green essence damaged the pitch-black tree shadow when the Ancient Bodhi Tree sent it against the shadow.
• After refining three Bodhi Seeds, Xiao Yan exhausted his Dou Qi, but the Ancient Bodhi Tree provided a cushion that quickly restored him and increased his Dou Qi capacity.
• Hun Feng took a Bodhi Seed and began refining it, while Xiao Yan told Huo Zhi to recover on the cushion and took over controlling the situation.
• Huo Zhi followed Xiao Yan's orders and privately wondered whether he would treat another woman with the same care.

Xiao Yan and the others struggled to weaken the pitch-black tree shadow while refining Bodhi Seeds, but the shadow finished absorbing the blood qi of more than a hundred people and grew powerful enough to devour Heavenly Flames. The chapter ended with Hun Feng watching in shock as the Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame was swallowed.

• Xiao Yan refined Bodhi Seeds while Huo Zhi and Hun Feng fended off the pitch-black tree shadow's tentacles, and Hun Feng struggled to refine even one seed.
• Hun Feng threatened Huo Zhi after Huo Zhi mocked her, but Xiao Yan intervened and insisted that they keep working together.
• Xiao Yan refined more than fifteen Bodhi Seeds, improved his speed, and used the meditation cushion to restore his Dou Qi, increasing his reserves.
• The pitch-black tree shadow finished absorbing the blood qi of over a hundred people and turned its attention to Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame's Child Flame and the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame attacked the shadow, but its tentacles endured their flames and began devouring them.

Xiao Yan and Hun Feng raced to refine the remaining Bodhi Seeds while the pitch-black tree shadow overwhelmed the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s defenses. Xiao Yan completed his refinement and prepared a vast mass of pure energy to counter the shadow.

• The Ancient Bodhi Tree shielded Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng and urged them to refine the Bodhi Seeds quickly.
• Xiao Yan used Huo Zhi’s support to refine six seeds while Hun Feng worked on two.
• When Hun Feng struggled, Xiao Yan sent his Child Flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame to help her finish refining her seeds.
• Hun Feng directed the pure energy at the pitch-black tree shadow, but it dissipated before stopping the shadow’s advance.
• As the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s defenses withered, Xiao Yan finished refining the remaining seeds and produced a vast mass of pure energy.

Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and Hun Feng used the Ancient Bodhi Tree’s refined energy and their Heavenly Flames to destroy the pitch-black tree shadow. After the Ancient Bodhi Tree offered them a chance to cultivate beneath it, it secretly gave Xiao Yan the Bodhisattva Heart, whose immense energy surged through his body.

• Xiao Yan, Hun Feng, and Huo Zhi joined the Ancient Bodhi Tree in using refined energy and Heavenly Flames to completely eliminate the pitch-black tree shadow.
• The Ancient Bodhi Tree restored the exhausted group and formed two new meditation cushions for them.
• Hun Feng tried to claim the original cushion, but the Ancient Bodhi Tree stopped her and moved her to another one.
• Huo Zhi explained that the group had earned the chance to gain enlightenment beneath the Bodhi Tree, and Xiao Yan and the others sat down to cultivate.
• As the three fell asleep, the Ancient Bodhi Tree placed the Bodhisattva Heart into Xiao Yan, flooding his body with emerald energy.

The Ancient Bodhi Tree bestowed the Bodhisattva Heart on Xiao Yan, sending him through memories of several alternate lives while he slept. In his fifth life, Nalan Yanran supported him after his Dou Qi vanished instead of breaking their engagement.

• The Ancient Bodhi Tree expended much of its essence to bestow the Bodhisattva Heart on Xiao Yan, who fell into a deep sleep.
• Xiao Yan relived his first life as a powerless spectator, watching events unfold from his childhood through his journey into the Ancient Bodhi Tree.
• In his second life, a Soul Clan member took Xiao Yan, Yao Lao, and the Tou She Ancient God Jade, erased Xiao Yan's memories, and made him a feared Soul Clan prodigy.
• In his third life, the Tou She Ancient God helped Xiao Yan regain his strength, and Xiao Yan later became close to Zi Yan and married her and Xun'er.
• In his fourth life, Xiao Yan cultivated through dual cultivation with numerous women and grew stronger at a rapid pace.
• In his fifth life, Nalan Yanran did not break off her engagement after Xiao Yan lost his Dou Qi and instead used Misty Cloud Sect resources to help him cultivate again.

Xiao Yan experienced countless alternate lives inside the Ancient Bodhi Tree before beginning another life in which Yan Di and Huo Zhi brought him to the powerful Flame Clan. Because he possessed Heavenly Flames and Xiao Clan blood, the clan decided to keep him under house arrest, while Huo Zhi concealed the decision and vowed to restore his freedom someday.

• Xiao Yan lived through many different lives, including ones where Han Li became his master, Xiao Xuan ruled as a Dou Di, and Xiao Yan followed paths unlike his original life.
• After countless experiences, Xiao Yan questioned whether he was the Xiao Yan who entered the Ancient Bodhi Tree or one of the figures within its visions.
• Yan Di successfully brought Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi into the Flame Clan, where the clan's powerful experts changed Xiao Yan's understanding of strength.
• The Flame Clan debated whether to kill, release, or keep Xiao Yan because he possessed the same Heavenly Flame as Huo Zhi and carried Xiao Clan blood.
• Huo Zhi and Huo Xuan argued for Xiao Yan, and the Flame Clan's leaders decided to keep him while hiding the matter from the Ancient Clan.
• Huo Zhi told Xiao Yan he had to remain in the Flame Clan for now, concealed that he was under house arrest, and vowed to return his freedom one day.

Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi grew closer while cultivating together and eventually married, making Xiao Yan a son-in-law of the Flame Clan. As the Heavenly Tomb prepared to open, Xiao Yan agreed to enter, hoping to gain power through his Xiao Clan bloodline, while Huo Zhi warned him to stay close to her.

• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi discovered that cultivating together with their Heavenly Flames greatly increased their cultivation speed.
• Huo Zhi stopped Huo Zhang from taking Xiao Yan's Fireglow Jade and defended Xiao Yan from the Flame Clan disciples.
• Huo Zhi told Xiao Yan that the clan had ordered them to marry, and after years together they held a grand wedding.
• The Flame Clan revealed Xiao Yan's whereabouts after the wedding, and Xun Er was devastated while the Ancient Clan sent Xiao Yan's family to the Flame Clan.
• Huo Zhi told Xiao Yan that she and Huo Xuan would enter the soon-opening Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Yan agreed to go in hopes of gaining power through his Xiao Clan bloodline.
• Huo Zhi urged Xiao Yan to stay close to her in the dangerous Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Yan experienced a lifetime with Huo Zhi in which they built a family before his fatal injury, and her care stayed with him as he died. He awakened inside the Ancient Bodhi Tree with the memories of a hundred lifetimes fading, then looked at Huo Zhi with complicated feelings.

• Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi had a son while Xiao Yan lived as a live-in son-in-law of the Flame Clan.
• Xiao Yan was severely injured on an excursion mission, and the Flame Clan's alchemist could only keep him alive for a few more months.
• Huo Zhi took Xiao Yan to a small town, where they spent his final days living an ordinary life together.
• As Xiao Yan died, Huo Zhi thanked him for sharing a lifetime with her, prompting him to remember that their life together had been part of his hundred reincarnations.
• Xiao Yan awakened inside the Ancient Bodhi Tree, watched his memories fade, and saw that Hun Feng had also awakened.
• Xiao Yan looked toward Huo Zhi and felt the closeness of the life they had shared.