Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan refined Dou Qi at Origin Return Manor and arranged for two disciples to use Nihility Devouring Flame Child Flames to help with the filtering. After Zhukun returned from watching the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, Xiao Yan and Zhukun discussed the growing threat and plans to disrupt its energy transmission.

• Xiao Yan purified and liquefied the Dou Qi, losing less than half a percent of its energy, and gave the container to Huo Zhi.
• Xiao Yan offered Child Flames to Origin Return Manor disciples, and Huo Zhi selected Yan Ling and Huo Guandu to take turns filtering Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan helped Yan Ling and Huo Guandu absorb Child Flames from Little Scale over the following day, preparing them to improve the filtering results.
• Zhukun returned after three days of watching the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and told Xiao Yan that the clan did not appear ready to attack.
• Zhukun warned that the Heavenly Demon Phoenixes were growing stronger, and Xiao Yan said he and Xiao Yi Xian planned to bring other experts to destroy the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's energy transmission.

Xiao Yan learned the costly requirements for cultivating the Gate of Silent Death, then found a way for his War Puppet to undergo the process under his clone’s guidance. He sought Qing Lin to learn their dual cultivation art’s combined attack technique, the Grand Splendor Yin-Yang Rotation.

• Zhukun told Xiao Yan that he would resume watching for the Extraterritorial Evil Clan in six days, and Xiao Yan promised to send him restorative herbs and pills.
• Xiao Yan read Soul Heavenly Emperor’s jade slip and discovered that forging the Gate of Silent Death required an expert above Five-Star Dou Saint and would eventually kill its creator.
• Xiao Yan used his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body to command the damaged War Puppet and assigned the clone to guide it in cultivating the Gate of Silent Death.
• Xiao Yan decided to cultivate the Grand Splendor Yin-Yang Rotation with Qing Lin as another means of strengthening their combat power.
• Xiao Yan found Qing Lin teaching two disciples how to use the Child Flames of the Nihility Devouring Flame, and she explained why she had come to help them.

Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring to practice the Grand Splendor Yin-Yang Rotation, a joint attack technique they had both been studying. Their first full-power attempt devastated the spring, but Xiao Yan realized their energy remained scattered and had not yet reached the technique’s true potential.

• Huo Guandu and another female disciple praised Xiao Yan’s care for Qing Lin, while Yan Ling teased Huo Guandu before leaving to handle filtering.
• Xiao Yan took Qing Lin to the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, where she recognized that they had come to practice their joint technique away from the elders.
• Qing Lin shared her insights into the Grand Splendor Yin-Yang Rotation, and Xiao Yan urged them to practice together rather than study it separately.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin unleashed opposing fiery and freezing powers as they built up the technique’s force.
• Their attack churned and shattered the Nine Netherworld Yellow Spring, but Xiao Yan judged that their power was still scattered and fell short of threatening a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

After failing to stabilize their joint attack, Xiao Yan proposed improving his soul power to help control it, then left Qing Lin to train while he checked on the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. At the clan’s territory, Hun Sha revealed a Soul Clan weapon intended to counter the enemy.

• Xiao Yan reassured Qing Lin after their joint attack failed again and suggested that Imperial State Soul power could stabilize their Grand Splendor Yin-Yang Rotation.
• Qing Lin chose to remain at the Nine Serene Cold Spring and keep training while Xiao Yan traveled to Origin Return Manor.
• Xiao Yan joined Zhukun, Yan Jin, and twenty Dou Sheng experts on a mission to investigate the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Xiao Yan’s group met Gu Yuan and Hun Sha near the enemy’s territory, where Hun Sha introduced the Soul Clan’s Siege-Breaking Giant Cannon.

Xiao Yan and Yan Jin tested the Soul Clan’s City-Smashing Giant Cannon and slowed the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s power transfer to the Heavenly Demon Phoenix, while learning that only one cannon was available. After arranging for Mu Wei to study it, Xiao Yan left to temper his soul and began refining a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill.

• Hun Sha explained the City-Smashing Giant Cannon’s limitations, and Gu Yuan said the Ancient Clan’s cannon had slowed the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s expansion and power transfer.
• Xiao Yan and Yan Jin charged the cannon and fired ten blasts at the four Sky-Supporting Black Pillars, disrupting the Heavenly Demon Phoenix’s absorption of black qi.
• Hun Sha told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan had made only one cannon and was working on a second, and Xiao Yan asked Mu Wei to inspect and replicate it.
• Gu Yuan spoke with Xiao Yan about Xun’er and said she could return to the Ancient Clan at any time.
• Xiao Yan returned to focus on reaching the Soul Imperial State, chose to refine a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill, and brought out the Black Demon Cauldron and his seven fused Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan refined a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill in half a month and faced its Black Demon Lightning with Little Scale’s help. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian visited Liang Mengying, who declined to leave her residence because her cultivation technique was at a crucial stage.

• Xiao Yan rapidly refined batches of medicinal herbs with his Heavenly Flames as he attempted to make the Tier 9 Medicinal Pill in one go.
• Liang Mengying finished cultivating and accidentally left her secret chamber without her veil, revealing her striking appearance to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian invited Liang Mengying to go out, but Liang Mengying said her cultivation technique prevented her from sparing time; Xiao Yi Xian left, wondering whether Xun'er should visit her next.
• Dark clouds and pressure gathered over Origin Return Manor as Xiao Yan’s pill refinement reached its final stage, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized his aura.
• Xiao Yan faced the pill’s Black Demon Lightning in the sky while Little Scale divided the lightning with Nihility energy, letting some strike Xiao Yan and swallowing the rest with his Nihility Vortex.

Xiao Yan successfully refined a Tier 9 Precious Medicinal Pill after devouring Black Demon Lightning, and Origin Return Manor learned that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame was about to emerge. Xiao Yan led the manor’s forces toward the Demon Flame Space, determined to secure the flame whether or not he needed it for his cultivation.

• Xiao Yan devoured the Black Demon Lightning and completed his pill refinement, producing a Tier 9 Precious Medicinal Pill nearing the Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian received word of disturbances on the Central Plains that might signal the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s emergence and ordered three more Dou Sheng elders to investigate.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian agreed that Origin Return Manor should claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, though Xiao Yan first planned to consult Zhukun about advancing his soul to the Imperial State Soul.
• The chapter explained that the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint had sealed the flame inside the difficult-to-enter Demon Flame Space after his death.
• Three days after the Demon Flame Space appeared, Xiao Yan led dozens of Origin Return Manor figures to gather outside it as powers from across the Central Plains converged.

Xiao Yan and the allied experts gathered around the Demon Flame Space as the Soul Clan and other factions prepared to contest the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. When the Extraterritorial Evil Clan moved toward the site, the experts stayed to investigate, and the enemy arrived with all four of its true bodies and a host of Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan fighters.

• Xiao Yan recognized Hun Feng of the Soul Clan as a Five-Star Dou Saint and realized the Soul Clan intended for her to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Lei Jingxiao declared that Origin Return Manor would compete for the flame, while Xiao Yan considered the Demon Flame Space's strength restrictions and his Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Map.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan was heading toward the Demon Flame Space, prompting Xun'er to ask whether they should retreat.
• Zhukun and Yan Jin arrived with Origin Return Manor's experts to investigate the enemy's movement, and the Lei-Yao-Shi Three Clans also stayed to observe.
• The Extraterritorial Evil Clan arrived through four spatial vortices, with all four of its true bodies and many Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts behind them.

The Extraterritorial Evil Clan decided to compete for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame by sending Feng Qing'er and ten Heavenly Demon Phoenix experts into the Demon Flame Space. After the eleven entered, Feng Qing'er challenged the Continental Allied Army to follow.

• An Extraterritorial Evil Clan leader questioned Nine Phoenix about the Heavenly Flame, then decided to follow the Demon Flame Space's rules and send fighters inside.
• Nine Phoenix chose Feng Qing'er to lead the expedition because she had risen to Five-Star Dou Saint and resented Xiao Yan.
• Feng Qing'er selected ten other peak Five-Star Dou Saint experts, forming the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's full team for the space.
• When the entrance opened, Feng Qing'er and the ten Heavenly Demon Phoenix experts flew into the Demon Flame Space to claim the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame for their masters.
• Feng Qing'er looked back at the Continental Allied Army and dared them to follow if they were not afraid of dying.

Xiao Yan hesitated to send his people into the Demon Flame Space after the Extraterritorial Evil Clan arrived, but Little Scale’s response to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame gave him a way to enter despite the strength restriction. Xiao Yan split off part of his soul to make Little Scale his avatar, then led Origin Return Manor’s team inside while the remaining forces faced off outside.

• Jiang Yunyan led the Lei-Yao-Shi Three Clans into the Demon Flame Space, followed by Hun Feng’s Soul Clan team and an Ancient Clan expert.
• Little Scale stared at the entrance and told Xiao Yan he wanted to enter because something important was inside.
• At Zhukun’s suggestion, Xiao Yan infused Little Scale with part of his soul power and made him an avatar.
• Xiao Yan entered the Demon Flame Space through Little Scale without being rejected, and Yao Lao, Yan Yuan, Yao Ming, and the others followed.
• After the four groups entered, the remaining Nine-Star Dou Sheng experts and the four members of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan continued their tense standoff outside.

Xiao Yan entered Demon Flame Space in the form of Nihility Devouring Flame, recognized its threats as illusions, and set out to find Origin Return Manor’s experts. He reunited with Xun'er, who teased him about his appearance and mentioned his child.

• Zhukun suspected that Nihility Devouring Flame’s reaction to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame confirmed his theory, but he lamented that Gu Yu was divided among others.
• Inside Demon Flame Space, Xiao Yan felt the space react to Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Map transformed into a ball of light beside his soul.
• Xiao Yan saw an illusion of an Extraterritorial Evil Clan member holding Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Qingqing’s souls, then destroyed the illusion and its figures with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan set out through Demon Flame Space to find Origin Return Manor’s experts and soon encountered Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er confirmed each other’s identities, and Xun'er teased him about his appearance and his child.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er escaped the Nightmare Sky Mist and gathered Origin Return Manor's people before pursuing the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame through the Demon Flame Space. They reached a hall where the Soul Clan was watching the other groups, and Hun Feng was shocked to see Xiao Yan.

• Xun'er explained that the mist was Nightmare Sky Mist, a technique once used by the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint and now wielded by the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er searched the Demon Flame Space and reunited with Origin Return Manor's experts, including Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan's group found puppet remains and signs of battles with the flame's Fire Slaves, then hurried after the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• In the third hall, Xiao Yan encountered Hun Feng and the Soul Clan, who had been watching the other groups without acting.
• Hun Feng asked how Xiao Yan had entered the Demon Flame Space despite its restriction on experts above Five-Star Dou Saint Peak.

Xiao Yan intervened when he recognized a Fire Slave bearing the Xiao Clan Mark and fought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to save him. Feng Qing'er confronted Xiao Yan, and the battle remained unresolved as she prepared to act.

• Xun'er pointed out that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was attacking three Fire Slaves, including one with the Xiao Clan Mark.
• Xiao Yan rushed to protect the marked Fire Slave and used his Nihility Devouring Flame body to absorb and counter the attackers’ strikes.
• Origin Return Manor’s experts joined the fight, with Xiao Yan tying down five enemies while the marked Fire Slave remained under attack from two others.
• Feng Qing'er recognized Xiao Yan and welcomed the chance to kill him, blaming him for the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s destruction and her clan chief’s death.

Xiao Yan fought six Heavenly Demon Phoenix experts empowered by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, then used Hun Feng’s surprise attack on Feng Qing’er to break their encirclement. The chapter left Hun Feng attacking Feng Qing’er again as the remaining experts moved to stop her.

• Xiao Yan recognized that his limited devouring vortices could not withstand the six opponents’ combined assault.
• Feng Qing’er and five other Heavenly Demon Phoenix experts unleashed their attacks on Xiao Yan.
• Hun Feng appeared behind Feng Qing’er and bound her neck with Ghostly Soul Bind.
• Xiao Yan broke through the encirclement by returning the absorbed attacks and charged toward Feng Qing’er.
• Hun Feng attacked Feng Qing’er with a black-gold seal while three Heavenly Demon Phoenix experts closed in on her.

Hun Feng and Xiao Yan joined forces to badly wound Feng Qing'er and drive the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan away. Xiao Yan then promised Hun Feng that Origin Return Manor would not contend for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving the Soul Clan and Origin Return Manor temporarily allied as Xiao Yan reclaimed a fire slave bearing the Xiao Clan Clan Mark.

• Hun Feng attacked Feng Qing'er while Xiao Yan absorbed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s counterattacks, and their combined strike severely injured Feng Qing'er.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members suppressed the black-gold radiance covering Feng Qing'er, then withdrew to search for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hun Feng reminded Xiao Yan of his promise after the Soul Clan subdued a fire slave bearing the Xiao Clan Clan Mark.
• Xiao Yan promised that Origin Return Manor would not take the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Hun Feng ordered the Soul Clan to release the fire slave to him.
• Hun Miesheng warned Hun Feng that Xiao Yan was dangerous, but she chose to cooperate with him and trusted his word.

Xiao Yan used a Nightmare-Breaking Talisman to free Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control. Xiao Chen regained his clarity and asked Xiao Yan about the Xiao Clan, learning that Xiao Xuan had sacrificed himself to help Xiao Yan escape.

• The Thunder Clan team led by Jiang Yunyan arrived, and Xiao Yan identified the trapped fire slave as Blood Axe Xiao Chen, an ancestor of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Yunyan to restrain Xiao Chen while he tried to break the flame’s control.
• After Xiao Yan spoke of the Xiao Clan and Xiao Xuan, a Nightmare-Breaking Talisman formed from his soul power and merged into Xiao Chen’s forehead.
• Xiao Chen’s eyes cleared, and Jiang Yunyan released him from her restraint.
• Xiao Yan explained the Xiao Clan’s decline and told Xiao Chen that Xiao Xuan had self-detonated the Heavenly Tomb to help him escape.

Xiao Yan and the gathered factions prepared to confront the Extraterritorial Evil Clan after the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame appeared, tormented by black mist and pursued by Feng Qing'er’s group. As Xiao Yan moved to join forces against them, the Nihility Devouring Flame asked to speak with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Xiao Chen mourned Xiao Xuan and explained that he had entered the Demon Flame Space to obtain the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame for his cousin.
• Gu Jie arrived with the Ancient Clan experts, and Xiao Yan and Xun'er discussed whether his presence could benefit their side.
• Lei Jingxiao told Jiang Yunyan that the Extraterritorial Evil Clan fighters seemed weaker than their Five-Star Dou Saint Peak strength suggested.
• A powerful disturbance shook the hall, and Xiao Chen sensed that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame was coming toward them.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame burst into the hall, corrupted by black mist, with Feng Qing'er and ten other empowered Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members pursuing him.
• Xiao Yan called on Jiang Yunyan, Hun Feng, and Gu Jie to join forces against the pursuers, but the Nihility Devouring Flame asked to speak with the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

Xiao Yan left the battle to meet the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame after Nihility Devouring Flame Little Scale sensed something urgent. The flame lost control and attacked the fighters, and Xiao Yan suppressed it long enough to save Wang Yun’s soul, but it launched another assault on the Continental Allied Army.

• Xiao Yan trusted Little Scale’s urgent feeling and went to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while Xun'er, Jiang Yunyan, Gu Jie, and the Soul Clan joined the fight against the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Little Scale asked the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame whether it remembered their promise to save someone, but the flame struggled to remember and began losing control.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame transformed into its true form and burned three Dou Sheng experts to ashes, while Xiao Yan swallowed and suppressed its milky-white flames.
• Xiao Yan rescued Wang Yun’s soul, but an Ancient Clan expert and a Soul Clan member perished before he could save them.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame opened holes in the hall and sent pillars of flame toward the Continental Allied Army’s Dou Sheng experts.

Xiao Yan used the Nihility Devouring Flame to hold back the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame while the Continental Allied Army fought the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. As casualties mounted, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Map’s light cluster began absorbing the flame’s power, creating a possible turning point.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s surprise attacks killed or wounded allied fighters, leaving the Continental Allied Army under pressure from multiple enemies.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Chen to help protect the allied forces and then moved to restrain the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame himself.
• Xiao Yan transformed the Nihility Devouring Flame into a whirlpool and clashed with the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as Feng Qing'er tried to interfere.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Map’s light cluster was intercepting the energy he devoured, so he absorbed more power to accelerate its transformation at the cost of his soul power.
• As the allied battle continued and casualties mounted, the light cluster stopped storing the flame’s energy and began absorbing it.

Xiao Yan awakened the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint, who confronted the corrupted Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and began fighting it for control of the Demon Flame Space. With the two flames occupied, Xiao Yan turned his attention to Feng Qing'er.

• Xiao Yan's sphere absorbed his Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame energy and then devoured the flames attacking it, taking the form of the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint recognized his corrupted former flame and asked who had turned it into that state.
• Xiao Yan blamed Feng Qing'er and the Heaven Demon Phoenix people for controlling the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame's Huo Ling.
• Feng Qing'er insulted the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint, who reclaimed control of the Demon Flame Space and challenged her group.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Saint and the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame began struggling for control, leaving Xiao Yan free to face Feng Qing'er.