Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi killed Han Feng, captured his soul, and claimed the Sea Heart Flame with Xiao Xuan’s help. Xiao Xuan stored the flame for Xiao Yi to use when he reached the Dou Venerate realm, while Xiao Yi began inspecting Han Feng’s treasures.

• Xiao Xuan froze Han Feng as he charged at Xiao Yi, allowing Xiao Yi to strike him with the Myriad Phenomena Converging Finger and kill him.
• Xiao Yi used Fallen Heart Flame to pin Han Feng’s fleeing soul and asked Xiao Xuan to extract the Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng surrendered the Sea Heart Flame, but Xiao Yi burned his soul and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Xuan absorbed the Sea Heart Flame for safekeeping until Xiao Yi reached the Dou Venerate realm.
• Xiao Xuan broke Han Feng’s storage ring’s soul imprint, and Xiao Yi spotted the Myriad Beasts Cauldron among the treasures.

Xiao Yi claimed Han Feng’s treasures and left the magma after subduing the Fallen Heart Flame, returning to Jia Nan Academy as a peak four-star Dou Emperor. He reunited with Su Qian, Zi Yan, and the others, then returned to the back mountain to begin cultivating the next art Xiao Xuan had taught him.

• Xiao Yi secured Han Feng’s Deep Blue Storage Ring, including the Myriad Beasts Cauldron and pill formulas, and decided to rest before exploring the magma below.
• Xiao Xuan broke the seal, allowing Xiao Yi to emerge from the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower as it shook again.
• Su Qian mistook Xiao Yi for Han Feng, then realized Xiao Yi had returned alive and learned that he had subdued the Fallen Heart Flame and reached the peak of the four-star Dou Emperor level.
• Zi Yan, Liu Qing, Lin Xiuya, and Han Yue visited Xiao Yi, and he promised Zi Yan her pills and gave Han Yue a Dragon Strength Pill and a Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Yi returned to the back mountain, qualified to cultivate the Reverse Scale Raging Tide Art taught by Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi that mastering the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame would prepare him to claim the Xiao Clan’s surviving Dou Di bloodline in the Heavenly Tomb, which lay within the Ancient Realm. He also explained how a mysterious woman had helped part of his soul escape the Tomb, but Xiao Yi’s question about her Dou Di bloodline remained unanswered.

• Xiao Yi asked Xiao Xuan about the promised opportunity, and Xiao Xuan gave him the first change of the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame before directing him to master it.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the Xiao Clan’s final Dou Di bloodline was preserved at an inheritance site in the Heavenly Tomb, now under the Ancient Clan’s jurisdiction.
• Xiao Xuan described how scarce Origin Qi had caused his failed attempt to break through to Dou Di, while Xiao Yi recalled the Emperor-Grade Nascent Pill and the Origin Qi in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave.
• Xiao Yi asked how Xiao Xuan’s soul had escaped the Heavenly Tomb, and Xiao Xuan said a mysterious woman traded a drop of the Xiao Clan’s bloodline for help taking one-third of his soul origin outside.
• Xiao Yi learned that Xiao Xuan possessed only one-third of his soul power and asked why the woman had Dou Di bloodline despite belonging to none of the eight clans.

Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi about the Tunling Clan and suggested that the mysterious woman who rescued him might be Xiao Yi’s mother, with the truth awaiting him in the Heavenly Tomb. Xiao Yi mastered the first change of the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame, then flew to the Inner Academy’s Alchemy Department and reunited with Zi Yan.

• Xiao Xuan explained how the Tunling Clan could devour other clans’ Dou Di Bloodlines and was ultimately wiped out by the eight ancient clans.
• Xiao Yi guessed Xiao Xuan suspected the Tunling Clan woman was his mother, and Xiao Xuan urged him to wait until he entered the Heavenly Tomb for answers.
• Xiao Xuan taught Xiao Yi the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Yi used the Fallen Heart Flame to master its first change, gaining strength comparable to a Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yi withdrew the technique and decided to seek treasures and pills in Feng City to repair and strengthen his body.
• Xiao Yi flew to the Inner Academy’s Alchemy Department, where he found Zi Yan and she greeted him cheerfully.

Xiao Yi searched for Xiao Yi Xian in the Black-Corner Region after learning she had gone there alone, then led Zi Yan to raid Han Feng’s medicinal storeroom in Feng City. They discovered a golden Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill inside a brocade box.

• Xiao Yi gave Zi Yan the fifty pills he owed her and persuaded her to join him treasure hunting.
• Xiao Yi learned from Xiao Yu that Xiao Yi Xian had left Jia Nan Academy for the Black-Corner Region, so he and Zi Yan hurried there to look for her.
• Xiao Yi searched the region’s major auction houses and offered a fifth-tier pill for information about Xiao Yi Xian, but found no clues.
• Xiao Yi and Zi Yan traveled to Feng City and used Fallen Heart Flame to break the seal on Han Feng’s medicinal storeroom.
• Xiao Yi and Zi Yan found a golden pill in a brocade box, and Xiao Yi recognized it as a Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.

Xiao Yi tracked Xiao Yi Xian to the Blood Sect after learning she had bought a fragmentary map at the Black Mark Auction House. He infiltrated the sect under the pretense of offering alchemical help and found Xiao Yi Xian imprisoned in its dungeon.

• Zi Yan reached for the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, but Xiao Yi stored it away and promised to refine other pills for her.
• Xiao Yi collected Han Feng's medicinal ingredients and pill formulas, then went to the Black Mark Auction House to seek news of Xiao Yi Xian.
• The auction house manager said Xiao Yi Xian had bought a fragmentary map and that the Blood Sect's young sect master had competed with her for it.
• Xiao Yi and Zi Yan went to Mu City, where Xiao Yi used Fallen Heart Flame to convince Fan Lao that he was an alchemist seeking cooperation.
• Fan Lao asked Xiao Yi to cure Fan Ling's poison, and Xiao Yi recognized Xiao Yi Xian's aura in it before asking to see the woman.
• Fan Lao led Xiao Yi to the dungeon, where Xiao Yi found Xiao Yi Xian imprisoned behind iron bars.

Xiao Yi rescued Xiao Yi Xian from the Blood Sect’s dungeon and attacked Fan Lao after seeing how badly she had been treated. He killed the Blood Sect elders with Fallen Heart Flame and left Fan Lao barely alive after a powerful spear strike.

• Xiao Yi broke Xiao Yi Xian out of her cage and entrusted her care to Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yi attacked Fan Lao, rejecting his offer of compensation and declaring that the Blood Sect would pay.
• Xiao Yi and Fan Lao fought above Tianmu City as Blood Sect elders gathered behind Fan Lao.
• Xiao Yi used Fallen Heart Flame to suppress the Blood Sect members and killed the elders with his spear.
• Xiao Yi struck Fan Lao with Dragon Abyss Awakening, driving him into a crater and leaving him barely alive.

Xiao Yi destroyed the Blood Sect, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, and learned she possessed a fragmentary map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. He then decided to seek the Xiao Clan's final inheritance in the Heavenly Tomb, leaving to find Zi Yan and prepare to enter the Ancient Realm.

• Xiao Yi killed Fan Lao with the Fallen Heart Flame and speared Fan Ling through the chest.
• Xiao Yi used the Fallen Heart Flame to destroy Tianmu City and wipe out the Blood Sect, then took the unconscious Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yi Xian woke in the Alchemy Department, embraced Xiao Yi, and gave him a fragmentary map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Xiao Yi promised Xiao Yi Xian he would find a way to solve her Calamity Poison Body, and she agreed to wait for him.
• Xiao Xuan confirmed Xiao Yi was strong enough to receive the Xiao Clan's final inheritance and agreed to go with him to the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi to crush the jade tablet and summon Gu Yuan when ready, and Xiao Yi went to find Zi Yan.

Xiao Yi summoned Gu Yuan with the Space Jade Token and asked him to take him and Xiao Xuan to the Heavenly Tomb. Gu Yuan opened a spatial passage, and the three arrived in the Ancient Realm, where he praised Xiao Yi's talent.

• Xiao Yi entrusted Xiao Yi Xian's care to Zi Yan and promised her more pills when he returned.
• Xiao Yi crushed Gu Yuan's Space Jade Token, summoning a projection that Xiao Xuan freed from its pressure.
• Xiao Xuan asked Gu Yuan to take him and Xiao Yi to the Heavenly Tomb, and Gu Yuan agreed to open a passage despite the tomb not being due to open yet.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan followed Gu Yuan through the spatial passage to the Ancient Realm, where Xiao Yi endured its tearing force with his Dou Qi and Fallen Heart Flame.
• Gu Yuan's true body welcomed them to the Ancient Realm and praised Xiao Yi's four-star Dou Emperor cultivation and Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Xuan and Gu Yuan opened the Heavenly Tomb early so Xiao Yi could train inside for a month, equivalent to half a year outside. After Xiao Yi risked absorbing an Energy Core, he advanced from a Dou Emperor to a Nine-Star Dou Emperor and strengthened his soul power.

• Gu Yuan warned Xiao Xuan about taking Xiao Yi into the dangerous Heavenly Tomb, but Xiao Xuan insisted he would protect him.
• Gu Yuan opened the Heavenly Tomb’s entrance and said he would reopen it in one month before Xiao Xuan and Xiao Yi entered.
• Xiao Xuan explained the Heavenly Tomb’s three levels and gave Xiao Yi an Energy Core from a Three-Star Dou Zun Energy Body.
• Xiao Yi endured the violent energy as he absorbed the Energy Core, using the Fallen Heart Flame to refine it and heal his meridians.
• Xiao Yi completed the absorption and reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor, while Xiao Xuan noted that his soul had also attained the Spirit Realm.

Xiao Xuan brought Xiao Yi into his tomb mansion in the Heavenly Tomb to receive the Xiao Clan’s final Dou Di Bloodline inheritance. As Xiao Xuan prepared the blood pool, Xiao Yi produced a Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, surprising Xiao Xuan with its origins.

• Xiao Xuan led Xiao Yi through the dangerous third level of the Heavenly Tomb to Xiao Xuan's Tomb Mansion.
• Xiao Xuan opened the tomb mansion, absorbed the soul power he had left there, and became an Emperor Realm Soul body.
• Xiao Xuan revealed the Xiao Clan’s last Dou Di Bloodline by transforming the pool into crimson liquid.
• Xiao Yi agreed to accept the dangerous inheritance without hesitation.
• Xiao Yi took out the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, and Xiao Xuan learned that Yao Chen had created its formula.

Xiao Yi began replacing his ordinary blood with the Xiao Clan's Dou Di bloodline in the Heavenly Tomb, enduring ten days of agony. As Xiao Xuan began infusing the new bloodline, eight other Ancient Clan bloodlines appeared in Xiao Yi, and Xiao Xuan suspected his mother had been from the Tunling Clan.

• Xiao Yi swallowed the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill and agreed to begin accepting Xiao Xuan's inheritance.
• Xiao Xuan started the blood replacement, and Xiao Yi endured crimson energy stripping the ordinary blood from his body.
• After ten days, Xiao Yi's ordinary blood had been cleared, and Xiao Xuan warned him to purify the bloodline power rather than absorb the blood pool's remaining strength.
• When Xiao Xuan infused the pure Xiao Clan Dou Di bloodline, eight rays of light revealed that Xiao Yi also carried the Dou Di bloodlines of the other Ancient Eight Clans.
• Xiao Xuan detected the Tunling Clan's bloodline and devouring secret art in Xiao Yi, concluded that the Tunling Clan woman might be his mother, and continued the infusion.

Xiao Yi endured the collision between the Xiao Clan's Dou Di Bloodline and the eight bloodlines within him, then used the Tunling Clan Totem and Secret Art to fuse them into Godblood. The new bloodline drove him from Nine-Star Dou Emperor to Eight-Star Dou Zong, leaving Xiao Xuan worried that his rapid advancement could limit his future cultivation.

• Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yi to make the Xiao Clan's Dou Di Bloodline lead as it fused with the other eight bloodlines.
• The bloodlines' conflicting power overwhelmed Xiao Yi, and he lost consciousness as Xiao Xuan feared he would die.
• Xiao Yi found a dark-green energy in the darkness, awakened, and manifested the Tunling Clan Totem.
• The totem drew in the eight bloodlines and the Xiao Clan bloodline, which Xiao Yi fused into a new bloodline called Godblood.
• Godblood flooded into Xiao Yi and raised his cultivation from Nine-Star Dou Emperor to Eight-Star Dou Zong, alarming Xiao Xuan about the risks of advancing too quickly.

Xiao Yi endured the destructive power of the Xiao Clan’s Godblood as the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill healed and strengthened him. He reached peak One-Star Dou Zun and briefly manifested an Emperor Mark before it faded.

• Xiao Yi’s Godblood shattered his meridians and bones, leaving him unconscious as Xiao Xuan prepared to stop the inheritance.
• The Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill began healing Xiao Yi, restoring his body and soul while strengthening his meridians.
• After all the Godblood entered him, Xiao Yi’s Dou Qi transformed and his strength surged into the Dou Zun realm.
• Xiao Yi suppressed his rising power and stabilized at peak One-Star Dou Zun, avoiding the restrictions that a sudden leap to Seven-Star Dou Zun might bring.
• Xiao Yi formed a mark stronger than Xiao Xuan’s nine-stroke Clan Mark, which Xiao Xuan identified as an Emperor Mark before it faded.

After completing the blood replacement, Xiao Yi advanced to the Dou Zun realm and learned that his mother was a Tunling Clan woman who had sealed eight ancient clans’ Dou Di Bloodlines within him. Xiao Xuan then urged him to activate his powerful Xiao Clan Mark and learn the complete Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yi emerged from the blood pool, felt his strengthened body and Dou Qi, and manifested a Zun Ring marking his advancement to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi thanked Xiao Xuan and vowed to restore the Xiao Clan’s former glory, while Xiao Xuan explained the hardship of the blood replacement.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that Xiao Yi’s mother was the Tunling Clan woman who had helped him escape the Heavenly Tomb and had hidden eight Dou Di Bloodlines within Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the bloodlines had broken their seal during the blood replacement and fused with the Xiao Clan’s final inheritance to create a powerful Godblood.
• Xiao Yi recalled that his father had disappeared while training, and Xiao Xuan told him he would meet his parents when the time was right.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi that his Clan Mark had already appeared and urged him to activate it and learn the complete Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Xuan explained how the Xiao Clan’s soul technique could cultivate multiple strands of soul origin, allowing Xiao Yi to control more than one Heavenly Flame. Xiao Yi began tempering his soul with the Fallen Heart Flame to condense a second strand of soul origin, and the process was still underway at the end of the chapter.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi to refine the Sea Heart Flame and explained that the Flame Soul Devouring Heaven Art let cultivators form multiple strands of soul origin to control multiple Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Xuan said Xiao Yi’s Dou Zun strength and pseudo-Heaven Realm soul qualified him to cultivate the soul technique in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yi began practicing the technique under Xiao Xuan’s guidance, using the Fallen Heart Flame to burn and temper his soul.
• Xiao Yi endured the pain and drew deep-red soul force from his soul power as Xiao Xuan praised his talent.
• Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yi to keep tempering the soul force into soul threads.

Xiao Yi forged his first Soul Thread, advanced his soul power into the Heaven Realm, and learned Xiao Xuan's Soul Origin Splitting Method. He refined the Sea Heart Flame and reached Two-Star Dou Zun, leaving him able to wield two Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yi suffered backlash while forging Soul Threads, then steadied himself and successfully created his first Soul Thread, entering the Heaven Realm.
• Xiao Xuan taught Xiao Yi the Soul Origin Splitting Method and helped him divide his Soul Origin into two.
• Xiao Yi drew the Sea Heart Flame Origin into his body and refined the flame using his second Soul Origin.
• Xiao Yi's cultivation advanced from One-Star Dou Zun to Two-Star Dou Zun, and he summoned both the Fallen Heart Flame and the Sea Heart Flame.

Xiao Yi left the Heavenly Tomb with Xiao Xuan and met Gu Yuan, who learned that Xiao Yi had reached Dou Zun and awakened the Xiao Clan's Dou Di Bloodline. After promising to become a Dou Sheng and marry Xun'er, Xiao Yi departed the Ancient Realm to return to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Xuan explained that the Heavenly Tomb's rules forced him to leave two strands of Soul Origin behind and hide in Xiao Yi's Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yi was pulled from the Heavenly Tomb to the plaza, where Gu Yuan sensed his Two-Star Dou Zun strength and Dou Di Bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan told Gu Yuan that Xiao Yi had awakened the Xiao Clan's Dou Di Bloodline, while Xun'er reunited with Xiao Yi.
• Gu Yuan said he would not interfere with Xiao Yi and Xun'er but required Xiao Yi to reach Dou Sheng before marrying her.
• Xiao Yi promised Xun'er he would return to marry her, then entered Gu Yuan's spatial tunnel with Xiao Xuan to leave the Ancient Realm.

After returning to Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yi found Xiao Yi Xian cultivating with her poison and invited her to travel with him to the Jia Ma Empire. Zi Yan asked to join them, and Xiao Yi Xian promised to take her along.

• Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan returned to Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Xuan went back into Xiao Yi's storage ring.
• Zi Yan greeted Xiao Yi and told him that Xiao Yi Xian had been consuming poison in a training room.
• Xiao Yi entered the room, cleared the poisonous aura, and found that Xiao Yi Xian had advanced from Dou Wang to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yi invited Xiao Yi Xian to return with him to the Jia Ma Empire, and she immediately agreed.
• Zi Yan asked to join the trip, and Xiao Yi Xian promised to take her even if Xiao Yi would not.

Xiao Yi revealed his Dou Zun strength to Su Qian and received permission to take Zi Yan back to the Jia Ma Empire with him and Xiao Yi Xian. They arrived in Jia Ma Holy City in time for Xiao Yan’s three-year duel with Nalan Yanran, where Xiao Yi appeared just as the confrontation began.

• Xiao Yi told Su Qian he planned to take Zi Yan with him, then demonstrated his Dou Zun strength to reassure the Great Elder that he could protect her.
• Su Qian gave Xiao Yi permission to take Zi Yan, and the next day Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled with him aboard a Thick-Winged Bird.
• Xiao Yi’s group reached Jia Ma Holy City, where Xiao Yi heard that Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran were facing each other at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran introduced themselves and began their three-year agreement duel, with Xiao Yan demanding repayment for the grievance against his clan.
• Xiao Yi arrived above them and announced himself as Xiao Clan’s Xiao Yi.