Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan transformed the Endless Flame Domain into a growing habitat for living beings and considered seeking more beast flames beyond the Jia Ma Empire. After Qing Lin consolidated her peak Dou Wang realm, they encountered the Mo Clan threatening the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, and Xiao Yan let Qing Lin handle them.

• Xiao Yan comprehended the Endless Flame Domain Law and used the Life Spirit Flame to transform the domain, with the Heavenly Flames rising above the Waterless Ocean as vines spread through the space.
• Xiao Yan decided the domain needed more living creatures and planned to collect beast flames beyond the Jia Ma Empire.
• Qing Lin stabilized her peak Dou Wang realm and told Xiao Yan that using the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils had temporarily weakened the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin left the Beast Storage Ring and found Mo Lan confronting Xiao Ding and Xiao Li with an invitation that demanded the Desert Iron Mercenary Group submit to the Mo Clan.
• Xiao Yan told his brothers to let Qing Lin handle Mo Lan's threatening group.

Qing Lin revealed that she could control the sixth-tier Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent, which killed Mo Lan and the Mo Clan visitors. A Dou Emperor from the Sky Serpent Mansion appeared to claim Qing Lin and summoned an Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, leaving the Xiao family facing a new threat.

• Xue Lan objected to making Qing Lin fight the Mo Clan, but Xiao Yan told Qing Lin that the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent needed nourishment.
• Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils summoned the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent, shocking Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Xue Lan.
• The Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent burned Mo Lan and the other Mo Clan visitors into energy and swallowed them.
• A veiled Dou Emperor called Green Man appeared on the roof and said she would not give Qing Lin up.
• Green Man whistled for a colossal magical beast, and Xiao Ding recognized it as the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.

Xiao Yan and Qing Lin drew Green Man and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor away from Stone Desert City, where Hai Bo Dong revealed his power as a five-star Dou Zong. After Hai Bo Dong subdued the serpent, Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to capture it.

• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor arrived to help Green Man deal with Qing Lin and the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent.
• Xiao Yan led Qing Lin away from Stone Desert City, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li followed them into the air.
• Hai Bo Dong appeared in a snowstorm and knocked the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor to the ground with a single attack.
• Xiao Yan urged Qing Lin to seize the opportunity, and she captured the immobilized Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to absorb the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s energy and break through to Dou Emperor, inspiring Xiao Yan to comprehend a cultivation method for her. Green Man appealed to Sky Serpent Mansion’s expertise to save herself, but Xiao Yan dismissed her offer and demanded to know what else she could provide.

• Qing Lin controlled the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and absorbed its energy until she broke through to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan comprehended the Jade Serpent Myriad Spirits Method, which strengthened the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and granted controlled snake-type magical beasts cultivation methods suited to their bloodlines and species.
• Green Man explained that she came from Sky Serpent Mansion and claimed the faction would nurture Qing Lin rather than harm her.
• Xiao Yan rejected Green Man’s appeal and warned that Sky Serpent Mansion’s promise would not save her life.
• Green Man asked Xiao Yan what he wanted.

Xiao Yan forced Green Man to retrieve Sky Serpent Mansion’s forbidden research on the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, placing a three-year restriction inside her to ensure she returned. He then invited Hai Bo Dong to test his strength, and Hai Bo Dong launched a powerful attack that left Xiao Ding and Xiao Li stunned.

• Xiao Yan demanded that Green Man bring him Sky Serpent Mansion’s information on the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan secretly placed an icy restriction inside Green Man and ordered her to deliver the information to the Black-Corner Region within three years.
• Green Man agreed and flew back toward Sky Serpent Mansion, while Xiao Yan said he expected her to fulfill the demand.
• Hai Bo Dong questioned Xiao Yan’s strength, and Xiao Yan invited him to test it after Qing Lin stepped aside.
• Hai Bo Dong summoned a Sea Emperor's Halberd and sent more than a dozen spinning ice blades toward Xiao Yan, alarming Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.

Xiao Yan faced Hai Bo Dong’s attacks without moving, and his Super Fallen Heart Flame dissolved Hai Bo Dong’s ice-blade storm. As Hai Bo Dong launched his final technique, Xiao Yan comprehended Flame Spirit Armor, a battle armor that could absorb many kinds of energy.

• Xiao Yan calmly evaded Hai Bo Dong’s attacks, astonishing Xiao Li and the others.
• Hai Bo Dong unleashed the high-grade Xuan-class Profound Ice Spiral Kill, but its ice blades melted around Xiao Yan as the Super Fallen Heart Flame’s protection flared into view.
• Hai Bo Dong gathered ice and snow into a giant dragon and sent it charging at Xiao Yan with Profound Ice Dragon Soar.
• Xiao Yan drew on the protective effect of the Super Fallen Heart Flame and his combat experience to comprehend Flame Spirit Armor, which could absorb many forms of energy.

Xiao Yan defeated Hai Bo Dong’s ice attack and imparted the Ice Emperor Art, a cultivation method that could lead ice-attributed cultivators to the Dou Di realm. He then arranged for Hai Bo Dong to accompany Xiao Ding and Xiao Li home, where he planned to prepare the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment, before Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran arrived.

• Xiao Yan’s Flame Spirit Armor absorbed Hai Bo Dong’s ice dragon, and Xiao Yan overwhelmed him with his strength.
• Xiao Yan imparted the Ice Emperor Art to Hai Bo Dong, who collapsed under the energy and information before recovering with greater strength.
• Hai Bo Dong offered to refuse Xiao Yan’s precious gift, but Xiao Yan told him to accompany Xiao Ding and Xiao Li home.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li questioned why they had to return, and Xiao Yan promised they would find out the next day.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran arrived from the east, with Nalan Yanran showing a more restrained demeanor after years of arduous cultivation.

Xiao Yan reunited with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran after they arrived during the battle, then learned they were heading to the Mo Clan. He decided to accompany Yun Yun and crafted the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment, which could grant a wearer the strength of a high-level Dou Zong but required the Chaos Life-Nourishing Technique to activate safely.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran arrived, and Yun Yun reunited with Xiao Yan while Xiao Li and Xiao Ding recognized her as the Misty Cloud Sect leader.
• Yun Yun explained that she had come to attend a birthday banquet at the Mo Clan, and Xiao Yan warned her to investigate the clan’s strange magical-beast transplantation practices.
• Xiao Yan agreed to accompany Yun Yun to the Mo Clan and went to a quiet room to work on a combined attack combat skill.
• Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus Core Flame Root and his soul power to weave the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment, sealing multiple Heavenly Flames inside it.
• Xiao Yan added an activation password so that only someone who cultivated the Chaos Life-Nourishing Technique could safely activate the garment.

Xiao Yan completed the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment, gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li a storage ring to take home, and began preparing Qing Lin and Yun Yun for further cultivation. As Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran traveled toward Yan City, he taught Yun Yun the combined Poet Immortal Vertical-Horizontal Strike.

• Xiao Yan completed the black-and-gold Flame Spirit Sacred Garment and stored it in a ring.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Ding a storage ring for their father and sent Xiao Ding and Xiao Li home, while Qing Lin stayed with him.
• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin the Jade Serpent Myriad Spirits Method and placed her in the Beast Storage Ring to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan assessed Yun Yun's cultivation and traveled with her and Nalan Yanran toward Yan City on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Yan transmitted the Poet Immortal Vertical-Horizontal Strike to Yun Yun and explained how the two-person Dou Technique worked.

Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran reached Yan City and found only one overpriced room at the Moso Flower Garden inn. Xiao Yan settled down to think while Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran went to the bathroom, where Yun Yun prepared to bathe, leaving the reason for her nervous anticipation unclear.

• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran arrived outside Yan City after traveling through the day.
• Xiao Yan chose the Moso Flower Garden inn, where the maid said only one room remained and charged him more than the usual price.
• Yun Yun agreed to take the room, and she led Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran upstairs while the maid misread their relationship.
• Xiao Yan found two large beds, lay down to consider the Dou Technique, and Nalan Yanran followed Yun Yun to the bathroom.
• Yun Yun undressed down to her dudou in the lavish bathroom and thought about Xiao Yan's remark with nervous anticipation.

After reuniting with Xiao Yan, Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran discussed the Misty Cloud Sect’s ties to the Mo Clan and planned to investigate. While they settled in for the night, Xiao Yan developed a plan to fuse three secret arts into a stronger technique.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran discussed the Mo Clan’s links to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Yun decided to investigate it in secret the next day.
• Xiao Yan considered how to improve combined battle techniques and settled on fusing Three Insights of Bodhi, Vajra Four Principles, and Maha Five Destinies.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran came out of the bath and found Xiao Yan pretending to sleep as he continued thinking about the secret arts.
• Yun Yun urged Nalan Yanran to rest before their important business the next day, while Xiao Yan continued refining his fusion plan.

Xiao Yan spent the night with Yun Yun while trying to understand how to combine the three secret arts, and the experience helped him conceive both defensive and offensive techniques. In the morning, he discovered that Nalan Yanran had ended up in his arms, then got up and prepared for the day.

• Xiao Yan reflected on combining the three secret arts into an absolute defensive technique that could enhance the Super Fallen Heart Flame's ability to burn away external energy.
• Yun Yun went to Xiao Yan's bed while Nalan Yanran slept nearby, and the two spent the night together.
• Xiao Yan gained new insight into the secret arts and realized he could use them to develop a powerful offensive technique as well as a defensive one.
• Xiao Yan woke to find Nalan Yanran wrapped around his neck, carefully freed himself, and stored the ruined bed in the Bone Flame Ring.
• Yun Yun heard Xiao Yan moving and slowly woke up.

Xiao Yan completed his fusion of three secret arts and joined Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to investigate the Mo Clan. Their arrival at the Mo Clan’s birthday gathering exposed their connection to Xiao Yan and shocked Mo Li.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran left Xiao Yan to handle Misty Cloud Sect business while he continued cultivating.
• After several days of unsuccessful investigation, Yun Yun told Xiao Yan she had found no clues at the Mo Clan.
• Xiao Yan comprehended Satuo Twelve Evils All Empty by integrating Three Insights of Bodhi, Vajra Four Principles, and Maha Five Destinies.
• Xiao Yan decided to help Yun Yun investigate and led her and Nalan Yanran toward the Mo Clan’s gathering.
• Guests at the inn spread rumors about Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran, leaving the two women embarrassed.
• Mo Li arrived, saw Xiao Yan with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, and was stunned by their apparent closeness.

Xiao Yan uncovered the Mo Clan’s hidden experiments transplanting magical beast limbs into humans and helped Yun Yun confront the clan. He destroyed Mo Cheng and the Mo Clan’s fighters, leaving their estate in ruins.

• Xiao Yan captured Mo Li and found a concealed underground chamber beneath the Mo Clan containing magical beast limbs and human remains.
• Mo Li revealed that the Mo Clan used people in dangerous transplantation experiments, and Xiao Yan burned him to ashes.
• Yun Yun confronted Mo Cheng during his banquet and condemned the Mo Clan’s crimes before the gathered regional forces.
• Mo Cheng transformed his arm and summoned dozens of fighters with transplanted magical beast limbs to attack Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan used Satuo Twelve Evils All Empty to repel the assault and destroy Mo Cheng, the fighters, and the Mo Clan estate.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Mo Clan estate and announced the Flame Alliance, recruiting Yan City’s leaders to gather under his new force. As he left with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun confronted him over his connection to Queen Medusa and vowed to destroy the Serpent-People Tribe, while Xiao Yan challenged her to defeat him first.

• Xiao Yan obliterated the Mo Clan estate with a precise sword strike, leaving the gathered guests unharmed.
• Xiao Yan marked the ground with a flaming emblem and announced the Flame Alliance, prompting Boer and the other guests to agree to join.
• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran vanished from the hall, and Xiao Yan told the guests that someone would contact them later.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Flame Alliance would unite small factions as well as major forces such as the Serpent-People Tribe and the Mittel Family.
• Yun Yun accused Xiao Yan of protecting Queen Medusa and set off toward the Tagor Great Desert, but Xiao Yan stopped her and argued against attacking the Serpent-People Tribe.
• Yun Yun demanded that Xiao Yan choose between her and the Serpent-People Tribe; Xiao Yan challenged her to defeat him first, then flew toward Jia Ma Sacred City.

After leaving Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan traveled to Jia Ma Sacred City to search the Alchemist Association for the first transformation of the Three Mysterious Flame Change. He found the jade slip containing it in the association’s treasure-hunting area.

• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran she could enter the Life-and-Death Gate early and promised to escort her there when they returned to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan flew to Jia Ma Sacred City on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and summoned the Life Spirit Flame, naming her Liu Ling.
• Xiao Yan brought Liu Ling to the Alchemist Association and led her into its eastern treasure-hunting area.
• Xiao Yan searched the stalls without buying anything and detected the jade slip containing the Three Mysterious Flame Change.

Xiao Yan bought the stall goods containing the Three Mysterious Flame Change and took Liu Ling toward the Mittel Auction House, but he met Xue Mei and went with her to visit her teachers instead. He introduced Liu Ling to Frank and Otto as his disciple, who would compete in the Alchemist Grand Meeting in his place.

• Xiao Yan bought everything at the shabby stall by giving its owner a third-tier healing pill, then invited Liu Ling to prepare for her first alchemy attempt.
• Xue Mei recognized Xiao Yan and told him she had failed to find a suitable flame seed while treasure hunting.
• Xue Mei invited Xiao Yan to see her teachers, and he followed her with Liu Ling to the western district of the Alchemist Association.
• Frank and Otto welcomed Xiao Yan and asked whether he had come for the Alchemist Grand Meeting.
• Xiao Yan told Frank and Otto that Liu Ling, his disciple, would participate in the Alchemist Grand Meeting instead of him.

Xiao Yan brought his disciple Liu Ling to the Jia Ma Sacred City Alchemist Association for an alchemist assessment and demonstrated how to refine a Recovery Pill. He left Liu Ling to begin her own attempt after watching his cauldron-free demonstration.

• Frank and Otto recognized Xiao Yan as a Dou Wang, while Lin Fei and Xue Mei discussed his strength and the famed Xiao Yan who had challenged the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan asked Frank to assess Liu Ling, and Frank agreed to let her pass if she refined a first-tier pill in front of them.
• Liu Ling admitted that she had only studied medicinal theory, but Xiao Yan told her she could learn and refine at the same time.
• Xiao Yan explained the Recovery Pill prescription and demonstrated cauldron-free alchemy, quickly condensing the ingredients into a pill.
• Xiao Yan tossed the finished pill to Liu Ling and told her to begin her own refinement, astonishing Frank and the others.

Xiao Yan guided Liu Ling toward a new form of alchemy and created the Medicine Spirit Sacred Canon to suit her Life Spirit Flame. After she refined an unusual but potent medicinal object, Liu Ling began applying the newly imparted technique to another batch of ingredients.

• Xiao Yan refined a third-tier Recovery Pill from ordinary ingredients, leaving Lin Fei, Xue Mei, Frank, and Otto astonished.
• Liu Ling studied Xiao Yan's explanation, then used her Life Spirit Flame to grow and fuse ingredients into an egg-sized red object.
• Frank and Otto found that Liu Ling's strange-looking creation had medicinal power comparable to the finest first-tier pills.
• Xiao Yan deduced the Medicine Spirit Sacred Canon, a cultivation method and alchemy art tailored to Liu Ling, and imparted it to her.
• Liu Ling immediately grasped the method and began refining another batch, guiding the ingredients to grow and merge into living vines.

Liu Ling impressed the Black Rock City Alchemist Association by refining a pill with pill patterns, while Xiao Yan devised an Emperor-Breaking Pill formula and went to the Mittel Auction House to ask Ya Fei for help gathering ingredients. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking Ya Fei to arrange a quiet room for Liu Ling and revealing that Yun Yun had betrayed her master.

• Liu Ling refined a pill with pill patterns, surprising Frank, Otto, Xue Mei, and Lin Fei.
• Xiao Yan left the Alchemist Association with Liu Ling and deduced the Emperor-Breaking Pill formula at the Mittel Auction House.
• Xiao Yan met Ya Fei and asked her to help gather the pill ingredients.
• Ya Fei questioned Xiao Yan about Liu Ling and Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan said Yun Yun had betrayed her master.
• Xiao Yan asked Ya Fei to arrange a quiet room where Liu Ling could cultivate.