Chapter Summaries

After Flower Granny broke through to Half-Saint, Xiao Yun prepared to leave the Flower Sect to avoid drawing the Hall of Souls into conflict with it. He planned to visit Burning Flame Valley and then cultivate in the Beast Domain, and he left with several treasures from the Flower Sect Treasury.

• Flower Granny thanked Xiao Yun for curing her and gave him a Spatial Jade Token as a promise of future aid.
• Xiao Yun insisted on leaving the Flower Sect because he feared the Hall of Souls would retaliate against him and endanger the sect.
• After Azure Fairy cleared the elders from the area and raised an isolation barrier, Xiao Yun revealed his plans to visit Burning Flame Valley and then head to the Beast Domain.
• Xiao Yun reassured Azure Fairy that he had an Ancient Void Dragon friend who could protect him in the Beast Domain.
• Azure Fairy took Xiao Yun to the Flower Sect Treasury, where he learned its Heaven Tier cultivation method was unsuitable for him.
• Xiao Yun selected five Ninth Order medicinal ingredients and a Quasi-Heaven Tier cultivation method for Xiao Yi Xian, then left the treasury with Azure Fairy.

Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian left the Flower Sect through a hidden spatial passage created by the Azure Flower Two Immortals, evading the Hall of Souls as they traveled toward Burning Flame Valley. They arrived safely in the Western Region, though Xiao Yun did not know exactly where they had emerged.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yun that absorbing part of the Seven-Treasure Poison Pill had brought her close to Eight-Star Dou Zun.
• Hua Fairy and the Azure Flower Two Immortals explained that they had opened a secret passage to help Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian reach the Western Region unnoticed.
• Azure Fairy and Flower Granny created the passage, gave Xiao Yun a jade token for calling them, and promised to protect Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran; Flower Granny said she wanted Yun Yun to become the Flower Sect's next sect master.
• Xiao Yun gave Xiao Yi Xian a matching Quasi-Heaven Tier cultivation method and showed her that he had one of his own.
• Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian flew through the passage, then emerged safely in a forest near Burning Flame Valley.
• Xiao Yun flew above the forest to scout their location after realizing he had not asked Azure Fairy where the passage ended.

Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Scorching Fire Mountains and entered Burning Flame Valley with Elder Chi Yan’s help. Valley Master Tang Zhen welcomed them, and his daughter Tang Huo'er noticed the visitors and flew to meet them.

• Xiao Yun recognized the Scorching Fire Mountains and explained that Burning Flame Valley lay within them, but he and Xiao Yi Xian did not know how to enter its spatial barrier.
• Xiao Yun recognized Elder Chi Yan, who remembered Tang Zhen’s invitation and guided Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian through the barrier into Burning Flame Valley.
• Tang Zhen welcomed Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, recognized Xiao Yun’s Four-Star Dou Zun cultivation, and learned that Xian’er was his partner.
• Tang Zhen sent Elder Chi Yan back to collect taxes, then led Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian through the valley as Burning Flame Valley disciples watched.
• Tang Huo'er saw her father with the visitors, stopped the disciples’ chatter, and flew toward the three to find out who they were.

Xiao Yun told Tang Zhen that the Hall of Souls had targeted him, and Tang Zhen promised to protect him in Burning Flame Valley. Tang Zhen then asked Xiao Yun to examine the Fire Cloud Ancestor, whose lingering problems from cultivating in the Magma World had resisted treatment, and led him through a hidden passage to the ancestor.

• Xiao Yun warned Tang Zhen that the Hall of Souls' Second Heavenly Venerate had attacked him, and Tang Zhen vowed that Burning Flame Valley would keep him safe.
• Tang Huo'er barged into the hall, met Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, and listened as Tang Zhen explained why he had invited Xiao Yun.
• Tang Zhen asked Xiao Yun to examine the Fire Cloud Ancestor, whose problems from cultivating in the Magma World had resisted treatment by a High Seventh Tier Alchemy Master.
• Xiao Yun agreed to examine the ancestor and suggested that Venerable Yao could help if he could not find a solution.
• Xiao Yi Xian chose to cultivate in seclusion at Burning Flame Valley, and Tang Huo'er escorted her to her room.
• Tang Zhen opened a concealed door in the hall and led Xiao Yun into the dark passage toward the Fire Cloud Ancestor.

Xiao Yun examined Fire Cloud Ancestor’s hidden ailments and identified a possible treatment requiring a rare pill and Heavenly Flames. Fire Cloud Ancestor gave Xiao Yun a pill formula, and Xiao Yun agreed he had a chance to refine it.

• Tang Zhen introduced Xiao Yun to Fire Cloud Ancestor, who learned that Xiao Yun had revived Yao Chen after Han Feng and the Hall of Souls betrayed him.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor explained that Ice Marsh Old Freak’s Ice Venerable Force and his reckless breakthrough had created the hidden force now sealed inside his body.
• Xiao Yun examined the intertwined icy and fiery energy and proposed using two Eighth-Tier pills alongside Heavenly Flames to remove it over several months.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor gave Xiao Yun the Nine-Star Yin-Yang Pill formula, and Xiao Yun said he had about a forty percent chance of refining it.

Xiao Yun revealed that he was descended from the ancient Xiao Clan while negotiating with Burning Flame Valley for three items in exchange for refining a pill. Fire Cloud Ancestor recounted the Xiao Clan’s destruction and recognized Xiao Yun’s talent and powerful Heavenly Flame, leaving Tang Zhen astonished by Xiao Yun’s strength.

• Tang Zhen offered Xiao Yun any three items from Burning Flame Valley’s treasury in exchange for refining the Nine-Star Yin-Yang Pill, and Xiao Yun asked whether the offer included cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yun told Fire Cloud Ancestor that he was a descendant of the fallen Xiao Clan and wanted techniques to pass down through his family.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor told Tang Zhen that Xiao Xuan had been one of the continent’s greatest experts and that the Xiao Clan was destroyed after Xiao Xuan fell.
• Xiao Yun said his family retained records of the history, while Fire Cloud Ancestor praised his talent and revealed that he possessed a Half-Saint-level Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yun brought forth the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame, and Tang Zhen’s Nine Dragons Lightning Flame reacted with alarm.

Xiao Yun agreed to remove the danger in Fire Cloud Ancestor’s body by refining a Nine-Star Yin-Yang Pill, and Fire Cloud Ancestor promised him access to Burning Flame Valley’s treasure vault. The next day, Tang Zhen brought Xiao Yun and the pill ingredients to a guarded plaza so he could begin refining.

• Xiao Yun identified his flame as the sixth-ranked Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame, and Fire Cloud Ancestor offered him access to Burning Flame Valley’s treasure vault in return for his Xiao Clan’s past kindness.
• Xiao Yun said he would first treat Fire Cloud Ancestor, and Fire Cloud Ancestor arranged for Tang Zhen to take him to rest before they refined the pill the next day.
• After Xiao Yun and Tang Zhen left, Tang Zhen’s Flame Phantom Body returned to Fire Cloud Ancestor, who explained that Burning Flame Valley should befriend Xiao Yun and let him choose treasures despite the elders’ likely objections.
• The next morning, Tang Zhen gave Xiao Yun the Nine-Star Yin-Yang Pill formula and four sets of ingredients, while Xiao Yun declined the Mountain-Melting Cauldron in favor of his Myriad Beast Cauldron.
• Tang Zhen led Xiao Yun to a guarded volcanic-rock plaza, where they arrived at the stone platform before Burning Flame Valley’s watching disciples and elders.

Xiao Yun began refining the Nine-Star Yin-Yang Pill at Burning Flame Valley, allowing Tang Zhen and the valley’s Alchemists to watch from a distance. After one failed attempt, he completed the fusion on his second try, and a pillar of fire and gathering thunderclouds signaled the pill’s imminent completion.

• Xiao Yun asked Tang Zhen to clear the square, then allowed Burning Flame Valley’s Alchemists and Tang Zhen to observe from a distant platform.
• Xiao Yun studied the Nine-Star Yin-Yang Pill formula, summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and began extracting medicinal ingredients with his black flame.
• Xiao Yun extracted nearly a thousand portions of ingredients in one day, but his first attempt failed during fusion.
• Xiao Yun reviewed his mistake and began a second attempt, extracting the ingredients and fusing their essences more carefully over six days.
• Xiao Yun formed a pill, and a surge of energy, a pillar of fire, and gathering thunderclouds appeared above the cauldron.

Xiao Yun refined a Six-Colored Pill and absorbed its Pill Lightning, impressing Burning Flame Valley’s experts. After delivering the pill to Fire Cloud Ancestor, he was invited to enter the Valley’s separate-space treasure vault and choose a Dou Technique.

• Xiao Yun used his Thunder Dragon and Ten Thousand Thunders Body Tempering to absorb the Six-Colored Pill Lightning and the energy in the thunderclouds.
• Tang Zhen praised Xiao Yun before the gathered Alchemists and promised a Heavenly Flame and Heavenly Cauldron to anyone in Burning Flame Valley who could refine an Eighth-Tier Pill like his.
• Xiao Yun opened the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and Tang Zhen caught the escaping Nine-Star Yin-Yang Pill and stored it in a jade bottle.
• Tang Zhen told Xiao Yun that the elders had approved his reward, and Xiao Yun chose to visit the treasure vault immediately.
• Tang Zhen brought Xiao Yun to Fire Cloud Ancestor, who accepted the pill and opened a silver ring of light leading to Burning Flame Valley’s separate-space treasure vault.

Xiao Yun entered Burning Flame Valley’s treasure vault with Tang Zhen and selected five medicinal ingredients before heading to its highest floor to seek a Heaven Tier inheritance. He began the test for the rightmost inheritance, and Fire Cloud Ancestor predicted that Xiao Yun would pass as Tang Zhen watched over him.

• Tang Zhen led Xiao Yun through the concealed spatial seal into Burning Flame Valley’s treasure vault and explained its protections and three floors.
• Xiao Yun selected five medicinal ingredients from the first floor and declined to browse the Earth Tier techniques on the second floor.
• Tang Zhen explained that the three inheritance platforms held Heaven Tier techniques and skills, each guarded by a test, and advised Xiao Yun to start with the rightmost one.
• Xiao Yun placed both hands on the rightmost platform and sent his Soul Power into its red light to begin the test.
• The red light flared and released a destructive force, prompting Fire Cloud Ancestor to appear and tell Tang Zhen that Xiao Yun would likely pass.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor instructed Tang Zhen to watch over Xiao Yun, then vanished as Tang Zhen sat down to wait.

Xiao Yun crossed the inheritance space’s sea of fire and passed Flame Dragon Saint’s final test to receive Burning Flame Valley’s inheritance. After learning the Flame Dragon Art and Flame Dragon Ascends Heaven, he left a strand of Soul Power for Flame Dragon Saint and was sent away.

• Xiao Yun used the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame to cross the sea of fire and reach the volcano at its center.
• Flame Dragon Saint questioned Xiao Yun about his ties to Burning Flame Valley and the Xiao Clan, then challenged him to withstand a fire dragon’s attack.
• Xiao Yun subdued the fire dragon with Three-Flame Dragon Lock, proving he qualified for the inheritance.
• Flame Dragon Saint gave Xiao Yun the Heaven Tier low-grade Flame Dragon Art and Flame Dragon Ascends Heaven.
• Xiao Yun left Flame Dragon Saint a strand of Soul Power and was sent out of the fiery world.

After receiving Flame Dragon Saint’s inheritance, Xiao Yun converted to the Flame Dragon Art and advanced to Five-Star Dou Zun. He left the Dou Sheng Space and asked to learn the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame before heading to the Beast Domain.

• Xiao Yun awoke after seven days in the pavilion and told Tang Zhen he had received Flame Dragon Saint’s inheritance, but declined to attempt a second trial.
• With Tang Zhen’s guidance, Xiao Yun began cultivating the Flame Dragon Art in the Dou Sheng Space, opening meridians and transforming his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yun absorbed the space’s accumulated energy, broke through to Five-Star Dou Zun, and showed Tang Zhen that his Dou Qi remained pure.
• Xiao Yun told Tang Zhen he would leave Burning Flame Valley for the Beast Domain without cultivating Flame Dragon Ascends Heaven there.
• Back in Burning Flame Valley, Xiao Yun asked Fire Cloud Ancestor to learn the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame, and Fire Cloud Ancestor sent Tang Zhen to take him to the Technique Pavilion.

Xiao Yun obtained the complete inheritance of Burning Flame Valley’s Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and prepared to leave for the Beast Domain with Xiao Yi Xian. He left Tang Zhen a jade tablet so Burning Flame Valley could call on him for help in the future.

• Tang Zhen led Xiao Yun to the Technique Pavilion and had three elders remove its spatial seal.
• Tang Zhen revealed the inheritance crystal containing the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame and Burning Flame Valley’s accumulated cultivation experience.
• Xiao Yun absorbed the inheritance in about a quarter of an hour and considered using it to cultivate the Xiao Clan’s Clan Pattern.
• Tang Zhen warned Xiao Yun that the secret art’s power was violent, and Xiao Yun said he would rarely need to use it.
• Xiao Yun gave Tang Zhen a jade tablet and offered to help Burning Flame Valley, then summoned Xiao Yi Xian and flew with her toward the valley’s exit to travel to the Beast Domain.

Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian bought the un tamed Seventh Order Azure Luan Bird from Tianhuang City’s Beast Exchange and set off for the Beast Domain. After they left, the Beast Exchange owner, Tian Qi, summoned his Valley Master and reported that he had found a Woeful Poison Body.

• Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian decided to skip Starfall Pavilion and travel directly to the Beast Domain, stopping in Tianhuang City to find a flying Magical Beast.
• At the Beast Exchange, Xiao Yun offered pills to buy the owner’s Seventh Order Azure Luan Bird, and the owner agreed to the Sect Origin Pill and two Wind-Thunder Pills.
• Xiao Yun released the Azure Luan Bird from its chains with his Dou Zun aura and made it agree to take him and Xiao Yi Xian to the Beast Domain before going free.
• Xiao Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Azure Luan Bird left Tianhuang City, while the Beast Exchange owner realized Xiao Yun was a Dou Zun.
• The owner, Tian Qi, crushed a jade token to summon his Valley Master and reported that he had found a Woeful Poison Body.

Ice Venerable learned that Xiao Yi Xian had an Innate Woeful Poison Body and pursued her and Xiao Yun on their way to the Beast Domain. Xiao Yi Xian revealed her Eight-Star Dou Zun strength during the confrontation, and Ice Venerable fled while Xiao Yun trapped Tian Shuangzi in black flames.

• Ice Venerable ordered Tian Qi back to Ice River Valley after learning that a young woman with an Innate Woeful Poison Body was traveling toward the Beast Domain with a Dou Zun man.
• Xiao Yun asked the Azure Luan Bird about the Ancient Void Dragons and learned that dragon-type Magical Beasts gathered in the Beast Domain’s southern region, including the nearby Ancient Dragon Hawks.
• Ice Venerable and Tian Shuangzi appeared in the travelers’ path, and Xiao Yun recognized that Ice Venerable intended to take Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian disclosed that absorbing Ice Venerable’s poison Qi could help her reach Nine-Star Dou Zun, while Ice Venerable tried to retreat with Tian Shuangzi.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed her Eight-Star Dou Zun aura, and Xiao Yun attacked the two men with black fire dragons.
• Ice Venerable escaped as Tian Shuangzi was trapped inside the fire dragons, and Xiao Yi Xian pursued Ice Venerable.

Xiao Yun defeated Ice Venerable and Tian Shuangzi, then learned that their information came from an informant searching for someone who could control Magical Beasts. He suspected that person was Qing Lin and set out for the Beast Domain with Xiao Yi Xian, planning to ask Yao Lao later about fully curing her Woeful Poison Body.

• Xiao Yun burned Tian Shuangzi's body and sealed his surviving soul in a jade bottle while Xiao Yi Xian returned after defeating Ice Venerable.
• Xiao Yun tortured Tian Shuangzi until he revealed that Tian Qi, an informant in Tianhuang City, had leaked their information while searching for a person who could control Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Yun suspected the person was Qing Lin, but decided to continue to the Beast Domain rather than search the Southwestern Region.
• Xiao Yun told Xiao Yi Xian that the ruins where she obtained her Poison Core might hold a way to fully resolve her Woeful Poison Body, and they agreed to ask Yao Lao about it after their trip.
• Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian departed for the Beast Domain on the Azure Luan Bird.

Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Beast Domain with Qing Jia and traveled to the Azure Luan Clan’s territory. After a Dragon Hawk sensed Xiao Yun near its mountain range, Qing Jia escaped with them and brought them to meet his clan’s elders.

• Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian rode the Azure Luan Bird into the Beast Domain, and Qing Jia hurried toward his clan’s territory.
• Near the Ancient Dragon Hawks’ Blood-Red Mountain Range, a Dragon Hawk sensed Xiao Yun’s presence and pursued the travelers after they had left.
• Qing Jia reached the Azure Luan territory and met Qing Zhi, who learned that the two humans were his benefactors.
• Qing Jia transformed into human form and told Xiao Yun that the clan elders wanted to thank him in person.
• Qing Jia led Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian through the curious Azure Luan Birds to the clan’s main hall, where the elders were waiting.

Xiao Yun visited the Azure Luan Clan seeking information about the Ancient Void Dragons and learned that Ancient Dragon Hawk leader Blood Claw might know where to find them. Blood Claw arrived to accuse the Azure Luan Clan of spying and demand the supposed spy, leaving Xiao Yun and the clan leader poised for a confrontation.

• Qing Yan welcomed Xiao Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, then Qing Geng recognized Xiao Yun as Starfall Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master and an Eighth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster.
• Qing Geng told Xiao Yun that Blood Claw, leader of the Ancient Dragon Hawks, had undergone atavism and grown ambitious after returning from an unknown Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yun asked about the Ancient Void Dragons and snake-type Magical Beasts, but Qing Geng had no direct information on either.
• Blood Claw arrived at the Azure Luan Clan with his followers and accused the clan of sending a spy to Dragonblood Mountain.
• Blood Claw demanded that the Azure Luan Clan hand over the spy, and Qing Geng refused, accusing him of using the claim as an excuse to annex the clan.

Xiao Yun confronted Blood Claw to settle the dispute with the Ancient Dragon Hawks and fought him away from the Azure Luan Clan Grounds. Xiao Yun gained the upper hand with his Heaven Tier Dou Technique, then met Blood Claw's transformed Dragon Hawk form in a close-quarters battle while Xiao Yi Xian prevented the other Dragon Hawks from interfering.

• Blood Claw pressured Qing Geng, but Xiao Yun stepped forward and made clear he would settle the matter himself.
• Blood Claw threatened Xiao Yun and the Azure Luan Clan, so Xiao Yun attacked him with Flame Dragon Ascends Heaven.
• Xiao Yun's crimson dragon broke through Blood Claw's dragon claw and sent him crashing into a mountain, injuring him.
• Xiao Yun moved the fight into the sky, where Blood Claw transformed into a powerful Dragon Hawk and charged him.
• Xiao Yun and Blood Claw traded punches, while Xiao Yi Xian blocked the Ancient Dragon Hawks who tried to join the fight.

Xiao Yun defeated Blood Claw by trapping him with the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame, then asked him about the Ancient Void Dragons. After sensing the aura of Hei Qing’s broken jade tablet, Blood Claw became eager to find the clan, hoping it could help advance his bloodline.

• Xiao Yun and Blood Claw fought more than a hundred close-range exchanges, leaving both badly injured.
• Blood Claw used his speed to attack Xiao Yun through space, but Xiao Yun’s body turned out to be a decoy that burst into black flames and trapped him.
• Xiao Yun bound Blood Claw with chains of the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame and asked whether the dragon pattern on his forehead came from the Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yun told Blood Claw he wanted to find the Ancient Void Dragons because he had a friend among them, and Blood Claw doubted his claim because he lacked a Dragon Seal.
• Xiao Yun showed Blood Claw the broken jade tablet Hei Qing had given him, and Blood Claw sensed powerful dragon might that could help his bloodline advance.