Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan’s Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body rescued his severely injured true body and secured passage with Wang Zhuang’s caravan. As Xiao Yan began calming the destructive energies inside himself, he remained unable to move and had to withdraw his clone’s soul power after three hours of repair.

• Xiao Yan’s Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body subdued a Dou Emperor and forced him to reveal that Soul Hall had sent them to find someone.
• Xiao Yan asked Wang Zhuang to let him travel with the caravan and use its medicinal herbs, and Wang Zhuang eagerly agreed.
• Xiao Yan carried his blackened true body into the carriage and explained that he had used his clone to save himself and Wang Linger.
• Xiao Yan sensed that his true body had grown stronger but remained critically unstable from the Dou Sheng’s strike and clashing flame energies.
• Xiao Yan’s clone spent three hours using soul power to calm the chaos inside his true body, then withdrew when the effort neared its limit.

Xiao Yan continued tending to his severely injured true body while Wang Linger cared for him and asked to learn medicine. As his body began recovering, Xiao Yan agreed to help Wang Linger enter Medical Poison Valley, though she doubted his claim until he said he knew Valley Master Xiao.

• Wang Linger brought medicinal porridge and carefully fed Xiao Yan's unconscious true body while Xiao Yan's Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body watched.
• Wang Linger asked whether Xiao Yan could recover and requested to learn medicine; Xiao Yan invited her to observe him each day despite her water attribute.
• Xiao Yan gradually restored his true body, confirmed that it had absorbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and struggled to manage the remaining Dou Sheng power inside it.
• Xiao Yan decided to move the stubborn Dou Sheng power into his right arm, even if that meant losing the arm.
• Wang Linger questioned Xiao Yan's promise to help her enter Medical Poison Valley and become Valley Master Xiao's disciple; Xiao Yan said he knew Valley Master Xiao and could get her in.

Xiao Yan taught Wang Linger medicine and cultivation while secretly eliminating a Soul Hall Guardian near the caravan. After finding flaws in Wang Linger’s treatment plan, he encouraged her to watch as he began treating the injured man himself.

• Xiao Yan corrected Wang Linger’s cultivation mistakes and taught her medicinal theory, though her medical knowledge remained weak.
• Wang Linger returned from town with the requested herbs and worked out a proposed treatment while Xiao Yan was away.
• Xiao Yan killed a Soul Hall Guardian and erased the traces of their battle before returning to the camel cart.
• Xiao Yan reviewed Wang Linger’s treatment plan, pointed out its problems, and saw her lose confidence.
• Xiao Yan told Wang Linger not to lose heart and said she should watch him bring the injured man back to health.

Xiao Yan processed a batch of herbs and used the resulting medicinal extract to treat his true body, preparing to complete its recovery and awaken it. As he began removing the lingering power of the Dou Sheng strike, a Soul Hall Venerable decided to investigate the disappearance of its Guardians personally.

• Xiao Yan explained to Wang Linger that he needed to recover his true body so he could protect the caravan from Soul Hall and other threats.
• Xiao Yan extracted the herbs and carefully fused their medicinal liquids while Wang Linger watched and learned.
• Xiao Yan covered his true body with the medicinal paste and unleashed his soul power to remove the remaining force of the Dou Sheng strike.
• A Soul Hall Elder learned that three groups of Guardians, including an eight-star Dou Zong, had disappeared while investigating a missing area leader.
• The Soul Hall Venerable ordered his men to assemble and declared that he would investigate personally.

Xiao Yan used all his soul power to suppress the Dou Sheng remnant inside his body, while Wang Linger watched the burned man recover and noticed he looked exactly like her teacher. When Xiao Yan finally forced the remnant into his right arm, its immense aura shook the convoy and drew Wang Zhuang to the camp.

• Xiao Yan relentlessly drove the Dou Sheng remnant toward his right arm, but it resisted and remained lodged near his shoulder.
• Wang Linger watched the charred man's burns vanish and realized he looked exactly like her teacher.
• After struggling for three days, Xiao Yan recalled the soul power of his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body clone and combined it with his own.
• Xiao Yan broke through the remnant's resistance and forced it into his right arm, releasing a powerful aura that shook the convoy.
• Wang Zhuang arrived and asked Wang Linger where her teacher was, and she told him the teacher had suddenly disappeared.

As Xiao Yan broke through amid a powerful Dou Qi storm, Wang Zhuang learned that the mysterious man was a Dou Zun. Three Soul Hall venerables arrived and prepared to attack Xiao Yan while he was vulnerable.

• Wang Zhuang feared that a Dou Zun had appeared, but the honored guest told him Xiao Yan was not with the Soul Hall and seemed well-disposed toward him.
• Xiao Yan's breakthrough sent a massive vortex of Dou Qi across the caravan, frightening the pack beasts and destroying his carriage.
• The honored guest recognized the approaching figures as Soul Hall members and returned to his carriage to hide.
• Three Soul Hall Dou Zun experts appeared above the vortex, led by Venerable Ming Lin.
• Venerable Ming Lin decided Xiao Yan's powerful soul was worth the risk and ordered all three to attack together.

Xiao Yan emerged from his cultivation with his strength raised to Eight-Star Dou Zun and overwhelmed three Soul Hall elders who had attacked him. Venerable Ming Lin tried to negotiate, and Xiao Yan asked him to explain why they had come.

• Venerable Ming Lin and two Soul Hall elders launched their Dou Techniques at Xiao Yan inside the Dou Qi vortex.
• Xiao Yan's reddish-purple flame swallowed their attacks and burned through the black mist surrounding them.
• Xiao Yan rose from the flames and unleashed the Fused Heavenly Flame, forcing the three elders to defend themselves with chains.
• Venerable Ming Lin offered compensation and claimed their attack was a misunderstanding.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had guided Dou Sheng power into his arm, raising his strength from Three-Star to Eight-Star Dou Zun, and asked Ming Lin to explain their arrival.

Xiao Yan used his newly strengthened purplish-red Heavenly Flames to trap three Soul Hall Dou Zuns and rejected their pleas for mercy. He killed all three, including Seven-Star Dou Zun Venerable Ming Lin, before they could summon reinforcements.

• Venerable Ming Lin and another Soul Hall Dou Zun begged Xiao Yan to withdraw his flames and offered compensation.
• Xiao Yan refused and unleashed his four-colored Heavenly Flames, trapping all three Soul Hall Dou Zuns.
• Two Soul Hall Dou Zuns sent their gathered soul bodies against the flames, but Xiao Yan used Soul Flow Black Vortex to consume them and killed both with soul needles and the Red Lotus Core Flame.
• Venerable Ming Lin tried to destroy himself to take Xiao Yan down, but Xiao Yan stunned him with soul power and struck him with the Emperor Seal Art, Four Seals Stacked.
• Xiao Yan's flames annihilated Venerable Ming Lin, body and soul, and then returned to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan revealed his overwhelming new strength by effortlessly killing three Soul Hall Elders, then confirmed his identity to Wang Zhuang and promised to escort Wang Linger to Medical Poison Valley. Knowing the caravan’s mission was likely a deadly risk because the Soul Hall had targeted them, he called on the Flame Clan members hidden in the central carriage to come out.

• Xiao Yan assessed that his awakening had raised him to eight-star Dou Zun, brought his soul power into the Heavenly State, and strengthened his Flame Mantra.
• The stunned caravan watched Xiao Yan reveal that he was both the gentleman and the injured charcoal man, and he promised Wang Linger he would send her to Medical Poison Valley.
• Wang Zhuang recognized Xiao Yan as the Pill Convention champion, and Xiao Yan warned him that the Soul Hall would pursue the caravan.
• Xiao Yan gave Wang Zhuang a letter for Medical Poison Valley and said he would handle the caravan’s dangerous mission himself.
• Xiao Yan called the Flame Clan members concealed in the central camel carriage and identified himself.

Xiao Yan exposed Yan Chao and the other passengers as Flame Clan members being pursued by Soul Hall, then arranged for Wang Zhuang’s caravan to leave safely. He agreed to escort Yan Chao after learning that the Flame Clan had been destroyed.

• Xiao Yan revealed that Soul Hall was pursuing the Flame Clan members hidden in the caravan, and Yan Chao introduced himself as one of them.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Yan Chao to let Wang Zhuang disband the caravan and leave, then gave Wang Zhuang a letter and life-saving pills for Wang Linger’s future.
• Wang Zhuang thanked Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan refused Wang Linger’s invitation to leave with them.
• Yan Chao asked Xiao Yan to serve as their guard, and Xiao Yan agreed on the condition that Yan Chao reveal their situation.
• Yan Chao told Xiao Yan that the Flame Clan had already been destroyed.

Yan Chao told Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Flame Clan and that Huo Zhi’s fate was unknown. Worried for Huo Zhi, Xiao Yan agreed to escort Yan Chao and two young survivors to the Flame Clan’s refuge in Sand City.

• Yan Chao revealed that the Soul Clan had ambushed the Flame Clan a month earlier, killing more than seventy percent of its members and leaving the clan leader missing.
• Yan Chao showed Xiao Yan the boy and girl he had rescued and explained that Soul Hall was relentlessly hunting surviving Flame Clan members.
• Xiao Yan asked about Huo Zhi, and Yan Chao said he did not know whether she had escaped the inferno in the Flame Domain.
• Yan Chao told Xiao Yan that the survivors were heading to Sand City, a secret fallback refuge, and Xiao Yan agreed to escort them.
• Xiao Yan said goodbye to Wang Zhuang and Wang Linger, then set off with Yan Chao and the two children toward Sand City.

After the Soul Clan cornered Huo Yi and Huo Xuan, Hun Tu killed Huo Yi and captured Huo Xuan. Tang Qiying then entered Huo Xuan’s body, beginning a struggle for control.

• Huo Yi carried the badly injured Huo Xuan while fleeing the Soul Clan pursuers and resolved to draw them away.
• Hun Tu and another figure attacked from ahead, bringing Huo Yi and Huo Xuan down.
• Huo Yi tried to sacrifice himself, but Hun Tu crushed his body, seized his soul, and stored both his soul and blood essence.
• Hun Tu lifted Huo Xuan and told Tang Qiying to enter his body.
• Tang Qiying used hand seals to transform into black light and enter Huo Xuan through his throat, triggering a struggle between their souls.

Tang Qiying fought Huo Xuan for control of his body as Soul Hall experts arrived under Hun Tu's command. Tang Qiying ultimately destroyed Huo Xuan's consciousness and awoke in his body, while Hun Yu was forced to give up his claim to the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame.

• Huo Xuan resisted Tang Qiying's attempt to take over his body, suffering severe pain as their souls clashed.
• Hun Tu arrived with Soul Hall experts, and Hun Yu explained that he had pursued Huo Xuan to claim the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame.
• Hun Tu told Hun Yu that the flame had already been assigned to someone by higher authorities, and Hun Yu backed down under Hun Tu's cold gaze.
• Hun Yu realized that a foreign soul was fighting inside Huo Xuan's body as the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame grew increasingly wild.
• Tang Qiying overwhelmed and destroyed Huo Xuan's consciousness, then opened his eyes in Huo Xuan's body and declared, "I'm back!"

Tang Qiying took control of Huo Xuan's body and the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame, then confronted Hun Yu over his demand for the flame. He threatened to self-destruct and badly injure Hun Yu, leaving the confrontation on the brink of violence.

• Tang Qiying tested his new body and displayed the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame he had gained from Huo Xuan.
• After seeing Hun Tu's tacit approval, Tang Qiying introduced himself to Hun Yu, who offered pills, cultivation techniques, or treasures in exchange for the flame.
• Tang Qiying refused to give up the flame, explaining that he needed it to defeat Xiao Yan and would risk his life to keep it.
• Tang Qiying reminded Hun Yu that he had never challenged Hun Feng, shaking Hun Yu's confidence in his undefeated reputation.
• Tang Qiying announced that he would self-destruct his talented body at close range to severely injure Hun Yu.

Tang Qiying forced Hun Yu to abandon his attempt to take the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame by threatening to self-destruct, then humiliated him with an offer of Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames. Hun Yu ordered an investigation into Tang Qiying and redirected his forces toward the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, unknowingly dismissing a group that included Xiao Yan.

• Tang Qiying threatened to self-destruct with the Eight Wastelands Destruction Flame unless Hun Yu gave up, and Hun Yu relented.
• Tang Qiying promised Hun Yu a choice of Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames after killing him, provoking Hun Yu’s anger.
• Hun Tu took Tang Qiying away, and Hun Yu ordered his people to investigate him.
• Hun Yu learned of another suspected Flame Clan group in the Northern Region and ordered two peak Dou Zuns to pursue it while his forces searched for the bearer of the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame.
• Hun Yu’s forces dismissed the group containing Xiao Yan, unaware that Xiao Yan carried several Heavenly Flames.

Inside a spatial tunnel, Yan Chao explained to Yan Jun why the continent’s balance of power had failed to protect the Flame Clan and urged him to rely on his own people. Xiao Yan continued toward his unresolved mission, thinking of Xiao Yi Xian and the child he had yet to meet.

• Yan Chao thanked Xiao Yan for helping the Flame Clan survivors and warned that the Soul Hall’s growing activity meant they still could not relax.
• Yan Jun asked whether anyone could stop the Soul Hall, and Yan Chao explained that the continent’s fragile balance had been shattered by the Soul Clan’s swift attack.
• Yan Chao told Yan Jun that the Flame Clan’s allies were still negotiating and that the clan could not depend on outsiders for revenge or restoration.
• Yan Chao urged Yan Jun and the scattered young clansmen to grow strong enough to reclaim what belonged to the Flame Clan, and Yan Jun vowed to remember his words.
• Xiao Yan thought of Xiao Yi Xian and their unborn child, but resolved to continue his mission to learn Huo Zhi’s fate before returning home.

After reaching Sand City, Xiao Yan sensed a Soul Hall inspection led by three Dou Zuns and used the Soul-Turning Secret Technique while keeping Yan Chao from acting. The inspection approached their ship, but Xiao Yan remained seated as Yan Chao waited anxiously for his plan to unfold.

• Xiao Yan sensed three Soul Hall Dou Zuns inspecting ships at Sand City after their spatial journey ended.
• Xiao Yan activated the Soul-Turning Secret Technique to conceal his aura and strengthen his soul pressure.
• Yan Chao recognized the Soul Hall threat, but Xiao Yan's Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body stopped him from gathering Dou Qi and urged him to trust Xiao Yan.
• Soul Hall protectors searched the ships with black jade disks while the three Dou Zuns kept the plaza subdued.
• After the ship ahead passed inspection, Xiao Yan still did not move, leaving Yan Chao uncertain about his plan.

Xiao Yan’s ship faced inspection by Soul Hall, but Black Intent Venerable recognized him as a Heavenly Venerable and cleared the way. Xiao Yan departed after ordering Black Intent to keep his presence secret, leaving Soul Hall’s elders shaken and sworn to silence.

• As Soul Hall prepared to inspect Xiao Yan’s ship, Black Intent Venerable stopped the protectors and announced that he would inspect it himself.
• Black Intent saw Xiao Yan and bowed respectfully, greeting him as the Heavenly Venerable while the Flame Clan trio and Soul Hall members reacted in shock.
• Xiao Yan told Black Intent to clear the passage and not reveal that he had been there, and Black Intent ordered Soul Hall to obey.
• Xiao Yan piloted his ship away, and Black Intent warned the two other elders not to discuss their encounter with anyone.

Xiao Yan explained how his Soul Puppet Control Technique had let him control the Soul Hall Venerable, then recovered his Dou Qi after the encounter. When Yan Chao revealed that their true destination was Luo City and Xiao Yan demanded the full truth about the mission, Yan Chao asked how Xiao Yan had learned something was wrong.

• Yan Jun asked Xiao Yan how he had made the Soul Hall elder treat him with such respect, and Xiao Yan said he had used soul power.
• Xiao Yan recalled winning the Soul Puppet Control Technique from Ling Zhuo and using his Heavenly State Soul to control the Soul Hall Venerable.
• Xiao Yan restored his Dou Qi and asked Yan Chao where the Flame Clan group was headed after reaching Sand City.
• Yan Chao admitted that their destination was Luo City, and Xiao Yan grew displeased that Yan Chao had concealed this.
• Xiao Yan demanded to know the real purpose of the journey, and Yan Chao asked how Xiao Yan had detected his deception.

Yan Chao revealed that he had taken the Flame Clan’s precious medicinal reserves to a secret refuge in Luo City, hoping to save surviving clan members and keep the supplies from Soul Hall. To regain Xiao Yan’s trust, he offered immediate access to the clan’s alchemical ingredients, which could help Xiao Yan prepare for Yao Lao’s resurrection.

• Xiao Yan challenged Yan Chao’s claim that the Luo City destination was completely secret and demanded an honest explanation.
• Yan Chao admitted his real mission was to deliver the Flame Clan’s hidden reserves of rare medicinal ingredients to a secret refuge in Luo City.
• Yan Chao explained that injured survivors of the Flame Clan might need the ingredients, and that he had to keep them out of Soul Hall’s hands.
• Yan Chao offered Xiao Yan immediate compensation: any alchemical ingredients the Flame Clan possessed, including ingredients for ninth-tier treasure pills.
• Xiao Yan was tempted by the offer because he needed the best ingredients for Yao Lao’s resurrection.