Chapter Summaries

Yao Xuan earned Flame Ancestor’s approval and received his lifelong Fire Dao inheritance, along with the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame. As the secret realm collapsed, Flame Ancestor’s remnant soul vanished after asking Yao Xuan to protect Flame Valley and carry on his legacy.

• Flame Ancestor praised Yao Xuan’s ability to harmonize Heavenly Flames and agreed to entrust his inheritance to him.
• Flame Ancestor recounted how he died after battling the Soul Clan’s endless ancestral formation while avenging Xiao Xuan and trying to stop the Soul Clan.
• Flame Ancestor passed Yao Xuan the Heavenly Flame Soul-Fusion Secret Art, two Battle Skills, the Myriad Flames Spirit-Sealing Formation diagram, and his thunderflame insights.
• Yao Xuan absorbed the inheritance and promised to use it to suppress the Soul Clan’s evil and protect the Central Plains.
• Flame Ancestor gave Yao Xuan the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame and asked him to protect Flame Valley before his remnant soul disappeared and the secret realm began to collapse.

Yao Xuan emerged from the collapsing Flame Valley ancestral realm with Flame Ancestor’s inheritance and accepted the position of Guest Elder. He promised to protect Flame Valley and offered to help heal Firecloud Ancestor’s hidden injuries and Tang Hu’er’s backlash.

• After Flame Ancestor’s remnant soul vanished, the secret realm began collapsing, and Yao Xuan escaped through the ancestral land passage.
• Yao Xuan told Firecloud Ancestor, Tang Zhen, and Tang Hu’er that he had inherited Flame Ancestor’s Fire Dao arts, the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame origin seed, and the command to protect Flame Valley.
• Firecloud Ancestor saluted Yao Xuan as Flame Ancestor’s successor and asked him to serve as a Guest Elder; Yao Xuan accepted.
• Yao Xuan identified Firecloud Ancestor’s old soul-poison injuries and promised to seek a way to restore his full strength.
• Yao Xuan warned that the Fire Bodhi Pill might not cure Tang Hu’er’s backlash and pledged to help resolve it.

Yao Xuan returned Flame Valley’s three cultivation methods, then passed the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to Xiao Yan before refining the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame. He broke through to Peak Eight-Star Battle Venerable, awakened an embryonic Heavenly Flame Spirit shaped like a little dragon person, and wondered how Zi Yan was doing.

• Yao Xuan gave Tang Zhen the Thunderflame Rakshasa Palm, Nine-Dragon Burning Heaven Seal, and Myriad Flames Spirit-Sealing Formation, but withheld the Heavenly Flame Soul-Fusion Secret Art.
• Yao Xuan left Flame Valley with Xiao Yan and transmitted the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame into Xiao Yan’s soul at Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Xuan refined the Nine-Dragon Thunder Flame with the Flame Mantra and fused it into his Seven-Colored Mystic Dragon Firmament Ember Flame.
• Yao Xuan’s cultivation broke through from Peak Six-Star Battle Venerable to Peak Eight-Star Battle Venerable as his Heavenly Flame became eight-colored.
• Yao Xuan discovered that the fused flame had formed an embryonic Heavenly Flame Spirit resembling a little dragon person, then wondered how Zi Yan was doing.

After Elder Wanhuo ordered Yao Wangu to invite Yao Chen and Yao Xuan back into the Yao Clan, Yao Ling eagerly joined the journey with Yao Tian and Yao Xingji. Yao Wangu brought them to Starfall Pavilion, where his Four-Star Dou Saint aura alerted Yao Xuan and Yao Chen to his arrival.

• News spread through the Yao Clan that Elder Wanhuo had ordered Yao Wangu to invite Yao Chen and Yao Xuan back, and Yao Ling rejoiced at the prospect of Yao Xuan's return.
• Yao Ling asked Yao Wangu about the rumors, and he confirmed them before telling her to summon Yao Tian and Yao Xingji for the journey.
• Yao Wangu led Yao Ling, Yao Tian, and Yao Xingji out of the Medicine Realm and toward Starfall Pavilion in the Central Plains.
• Yao Wangu's Four-Star Dou Saint pressure descended on Starfall Pavilion, prompting Yao Xuan and Yao Chen to recognize his aura.

Yao Wangu arrived at Starfall Pavilion with Yao Ling, Yao Tian, and Yao Xingji and demanded that Yao Chen and Yao Xuan surrender their Heavenly Flames in exchange for returning to the Yao Clan. After they refused, he threatened to seize the flames by force and unleashed his Four-Star Dou Saint pressure over Starfall Pavilion.

• Yao Xuan and Yao Chen confronted Yao Wangu’s group, and Yao Ling joyfully called out to Yao Xuan before Yao Tian stopped her from approaching.
• Yao Wangu detected Yao Xuan’s eight Heavenly Flames and offered to let him and Yao Chen return to the Yao Clan if they surrendered those flames.
• Yao Chen refused to return, and Yao Wangu declared that he would take the Bone Chilling Flame and Yao Xuan’s eight Heavenly Flames regardless.
• Yao Wangu ordered Yao Tian to choose a Heavenly Flame, while Yao Xuan and Yao Chen prepared to resist.
• Yao Wangu released his Four-Star Dou Saint pressure over Starfall Pavilion and threatened to take the flames by force.

Yao Xuan and Yao Chen fought Yao Wangu, whose Four-Star Dou Saint power overwhelmed them as he sought to seize Yao Xuan’s treasures and techniques. Yao Xuan formed an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus as his strongest attack, leaving the outcome uncertain.

• Yao Wangu used his pressure to pin Yao Xuan and Yao Chen in the sky, and Yao Xuan asked Yao Chen to hold him off.
• Yao Chen unleashed his Bone Chilling Flame to create an opening, allowing Yao Xuan to evade with Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Yao Xuan struck with the Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm, but Yao Wangu dispelled it with a raised finger.
• Yao Xuan unleashed the Thunderflame Rakshasa Palm, and Yao Wangu absorbed and dissolved it with a sphere of void energy.
• Yao Wangu declared that he would take Yao Xuan’s treasures for the Yao Clan, while Yao Xuan continued forming an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus as his strongest attack.

Yao Xuan used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame and a surprise soul attack to wound Yao Wangu with an eight-colored Fire Lotus. Yao Wangu unleashed his full killing intent, but an ancient voice sounded from Yao Xuan's Storage Ring as death closed in.

• Yao Xuan activated the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame, raising his strength to the peak of an Eight-Turn Battle Venerable.
• Yao Xuan launched an eight-colored Fire Lotus at Yao Wangu and struck him with the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal.
• Yao Wangu's attention faltered, and the Fire Lotus shattered his Saint power barrier and badly wounded his right arm.
• Yao Wangu abandoned his restraint and used the full power of a peak Four-Star Dou Saint to imprison and crush Yao Xuan.
• An ancient voice emerged from Yao Xuan's Storage Ring, saying that he seemed to have encountered trouble he could not handle.

Dan Yuanzi broke his soul seal to possess Yao Xuan and save him from Yao Wangu, raising Yao Xuan’s strength to Five-Star Dou Saint. Yao Xuan confronted Yao Wangu and prepared to make him pay for his actions.

• Dan Yuanzi drew Yao Xuan’s soul into the ring’s secret realm and decided to sacrifice his remnant soul to save him.
• Dan Yuanzi sent Yao Xuan back to his body, then used Ghost Possession to merge with him.
• Yao Xuan’s cultivation surged from the peak of Eight-Turn Dou Zun to Five-Star Dou Saint, shocking Yao Wangu, Yao Ling, Yao Tian, and Yao Lao.
• Yao Xuan faced Yao Wangu and declared that he would make him pay in blood.

Yao Xuan, empowered by Dan Yuanzi's remnant soul, fought Yao Wangu at Starfall Pavilion and overcame his superior defenses. Yao Wangu died after trying to use Yao Ling as a hostage.

• Yao Wangu recognized that Yao Xuan's Five-Star Dou Saint power came from temporary soul possession and tried to wait it out.
• Yao Wangu unleashed the Yao Clan's All Beings' Crossing, but Dan Yuanzi used the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal to grievously damage his soul and disrupt his Saint power.
• Yao Wangu seized Yao Ling and threatened to kill her, hoping Yao Xuan would hesitate to attack.
• Yao Xuan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to bypass Yao Ling and strike Yao Wangu's fatal spiritual platform point.
• Yao Wangu's origin and meridians collapsed, and he died beneath the skies of Starfall Pavilion.

Yao Xuan killed Yao Wangu after Dan Yuanzi’s remnant soul lent him Five-Star Dou Saint power, then parted from Yao Ling and learned that Dan Yuanzi’s soul had dispersed for good. He vowed to inherit Dan Yuanzi’s soul and alchemy legacy, then turned his attention to Yao Wangu’s corpse.

• Yao Xuan’s borrowed power faded after Yao Wangu died, and he comforted Yao Ling as she wept over his past hardships.
• Yao Xuan refused to return to the Yao Clan, warning that the clan would not forgive him for killing one of its Dou Saints, and sent Yao Ling, Yao Tian, and Yao Xingji back to the Medicine Realm.
• Yao Chen checked on Yao Xuan, who took pills to recover and entered the Dark Gold Storage Ring’s secret realm to speak with Dan Yuanzi.
• Dan Yuanzi explained that burning his soul origin had left him unable to survive, refused Yao Xuan’s offers of blood essence and a Soul Infant Fruit, and entrusted him with his soul and alchemy legacy before dispersing.
• Yao Xuan bowed to honor Dan Yuanzi’s final wish, returned from the secret realm, and vowed that Yao Wangu’s death would not be release.

Yao Xuan took Yao Wangu's shattered body to a secluded valley and used the Heavenly Flames and Human Emperor Banner to refine his surviving soul. He began stripping away Yao Wangu's consciousness while preserving his Dou Saint combat memories and Battle Saint Origin, leaving the refinement underway.

• Yao Lao warned Yao Xuan that Yao Wangu's remnant soul remained dangerous despite its severe injuries, and Yao Xuan said he would handle him.
• Yao Xuan carried Yao Wangu's body to a secluded valley, where Yao Wangu's remnant soul awakened and tried to attack and escape.
• Yao Xuan engulfed Yao Wangu's soul in eight Heavenly Flames, burning and weakening it as Yao Wangu begged for mercy and offered to serve him.
• Yao Xuan drew Yao Wangu's remnant soul into the Human Emperor Banner and began erasing its consciousness and obsessions while preserving its battle experience and Battle Saint Origin.
• Yao Wangu begged Yao Xuan to spare him and offered to apologize to the clan, but Yao Xuan added Falling Heart Flame to the banner's refinement arrays.

Yao Xuan refined Yao Wangu into a loyal Four-Star Dou Saint puppet after killing him, then discussed the fallout with Yao Lao. The chapter leaves Yao Lao preparing to build alliances while Yao Xuan considers visiting the Pill Tower and Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Yao Xuan used the Human Emperor Banner and Heavenly Flames to erase Yao Wangu’s consciousness and refine his body into a puppet.
• Yao Xuan bound the puppet to himself with his blood essence and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Yao Lao warned Yao Xuan that the Yao Clan would seek accountability for Yao Wangu’s death.
• Yao Xuan proposed forming alliances with Central Plains powers to strengthen Starfall Pavilion against the Yao Clan and Soul Hall.
• Yao Lao agreed to contact reclusive forces and sects, then suggested Yao Xuan visit the Pill Tower on his behalf.
• Yao Xuan thought of the Pill Tower and Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Yao Tian reported Yao Wangu’s death to the Yao Clan, and Clan Chief Yao Dan judged that Wangu had brought his fate upon himself. Yao Dan ordered the clan not to provoke Yao Xuan or Yao Chen and left the door open for them to return, while placing Yao Huo under watch.

• Yao Tian told Elder Wanhuo how Yao Wangu had attacked Starfall Pavilion, been killed by Yao Xuan, and allowed Yao Ling and the others to return safely.
• Yao Wanhuo brought Yao Tian, Yao Ling, and Yao Xingji to Yao Dan, who heard the report and lamented that the clan had driven away Yao Chen and Yao Xuan.
• Yao Dan ruled that Yao Wangu had caused his own death through greed and abuse of power, and that the clan should not seek revenge.
• Yao Huo demanded that Yao Dan avenge his brother by executing Yao Xuan and Yao Chen, but Yao Dan rebuked him and expelled him from the hall.
• Yao Dan forbade the Yao Clan from provoking Yao Xuan or Yao Chen and said they would be welcomed back with honored positions and Dao lineages.
• Yao Dan ordered Yao Wanhuo to keep Yao Huo from leaving the Medicine Realm.

Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan traveled to the Pill Tower for the Pill Assembly, where Xuan Kongzi asked Yao Xuan to stop the Soul Hall from claiming the top prize and gaining access to the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Yao Xuan agreed to help, and the story left them preparing for the competition and the threat surrounding the sealed flame.

• Yao Chen told Yao Xuan that winning the Pill Assembly could earn him access to the Three Thousand Burning Flame and advised him to bring Xiao Yan along.
• Yao Xuan entrusted Starfall Pavilion's affairs to its elders, then took Xiao Yan to Saint Dan City for the Pill Assembly.
• Xuan Kongzi welcomed Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan at the Pill Tower's council hall and praised their abilities.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that the Soul Hall had sent Mugu, an Eighth-Rank Alchemist, to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame at the Pill Assembly.
• Yao Xuan agreed to help the Pill Tower prevent Mugu from winning first place and obtaining access to the flame.

Yao Xuan joined the Pill Assembly and entered the Pill Realm, where he tracked down Elder Mu Gu before the Soul Hall alchemist could advance toward the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After Mu Gu attacked him, Yao Xuan burned away his soul phantoms and revealed his superior strength, leaving their fight underway.

• Xuan Kongzi introduced Cao Ying, Song Qing, and Dan Chen to Yao Xuan and warned them that the Soul Hall sought the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the Pill Assembly’s three rounds, and the assembled alchemists entered the soul illusion trial.
• Yao Xuan crushed the illusion with his Heavenly Realm soul power and became the first contestant to reach the Pill Realm.
• Yao Xuan detected Elder Mu Gu’s arrival, teleported to him, and confronted him over his past crimes and the Soul Hall’s plan.
• Elder Mu Gu attacked with soul needles and phantoms, but Yao Xuan incinerated the phantoms and unleashed his Eight-Star Battle Venerable aura.

Yao Xuan killed Elder Mu Gu with his eight-flame palm and imprisoned his soul in the Human Emperor Banner. He then gathered the required herbs in the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountains and became the first contestant to complete the second round, leaving the alchemy competition as the final trial.

• Elder Mu Gu recognized Yao Xuan's Flame Mantra and tried to recruit him to Soul Hall in exchange for the technique.
• Yao Xuan crushed Elder Mu Gu's body with an eight-flame palm and captured his surviving soul in the Human Emperor Banner.
• Yao Xuan traveled to the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountains, where Xiong Zhan yielded after sensing his Eight-Star Battle Venerable aura.
• Yao Xuan collected every herb on the roster and became the first contestant to finish the second round.
• Nearly ninety percent of the contestants passed the second round, and the alchemy competition remained.

Yao Xuan returned from the Pill Realm after killing Mu Gu, then secured rare ingredients from the Pill Tower before the final Pill Assembly began. On the central platform, he chose to attempt a Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill, hoping to push beyond his limits and become a Ninth-Rank Alchemist.

• Yao Xuan told Xuan Kongzi that he had killed Mu Gu in the Pill Realm and sealed his soul, and Xuan Kongzi praised him for eliminating the threat to the Pill Assembly.
• Yao Xuan asked the Pill Tower to gather ingredients for a foundation-stabilizing pill, and Xuan Kongzi agreed to provide everything on his list from the core secret vault.
• Pill Tower stewards delivered the ingredients as the other alchemists emerged from the Pill Realm and assembled for the final round.
• Yao Xuan ascended the central alchemy platform while Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi speculated about his abilities and the grade of pill he would refine.
• Yao Xuan decided to attempt the Ninth-Rank Purple Thunder Origin-Consolidating Pill, despite estimating that his chance of success was only fifty percent.

The Pill Assembly final began, and Yao Xuan stunned the audience by revealing eight fused Heavenly Flame origins and the Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron. While the other contestants refined Eighth-Rank Pills, Yao Xuan began his own alchemy with a mysterious cauldron that led the judges to expect his victory.

• Xiao Yan revealed his Seven-Colored Fused Child Flame, suppressing the nearby Beast Flames as Xuan Yi and Tian Lei Zi assessed its origins.
• Yao Xuan unleashed eight fused Heavenly Flame origins in the form of a giant flaming dragon, extinguishing ordinary flames and summoning a heavenly phenomenon.
• Yao Xuan controlled the flaming dragon with his Heavenly Soul Realm and refined its heat, while Xiao Yan watched and resolved to challenge an Eighth-Rank Pill.
• Cao Ying, Song Qing, Dan Chen, Xiao Yan, and the other contestants focused on refining their pills as Yao Xuan revealed the Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron.
• Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi marveled at the cauldron, and Xuan Yi teased Xuan Kongzi about Yao Xuan surpassing Cao Ying before Yao Xuan began refining his pill.

Yao Xuan refined a Ninth-Rank Purple Thunder Origin-Consolidating Pill during the Pill Assembly finals, shocking the crowd when Black Demon Lightning gathered for its tribulation. As everyone feared the lightning would kill him, Yao Xuan remained calm and saw it as a chance to absorb powerful thunder origin.

• Yao Xuan used his Heavenly Soul Realm, Eight-Colored Heavenly Flames, and Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron to refine rare ingredients into a Ninth-Rank pill.
• Other contestants completed Eighth-Rank pills while Yao Xuan continued tempering and compressing the pill’s origin in silence.
• Yao Xuan began condensing the pill, causing Black Demon Lightning to cover the sky above the central platform.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi feared Yao Xuan could not survive the tribulation and considered asking the Grand Elder for help.
• Yao Xuan stayed composed because he intended to use the Black Demon Lightning to temper himself and absorb its thunder origin.
• A hidden figure above the Pill Tower observed the tribulation and remarked on the appearance of such a young Ninth-Rank Alchemist.

Yao Xuan endured the Black Demon Lightning tribulation and refined its power into his Heavenly Flames before completing the Purple Thunder Origin-Consolidating Pill as a living Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill. His unprecedented achievement won him the Pill Assembly and established him as a Ninth-Rank Alchemist.

• The Black Demon Lightning struck Yao Xuan, but his concealed Dou Saint Puppet absorbed most of its power and shielded him.
• Yao Xuan activated the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame, reached Eight-Turn Battle Venerable strength, and deliberately absorbed the remaining lightning to temper his body and strengthen his flames.
• Yao Xuan refined the Black Demon Lightning's origin, then dispersed the remaining tribulation clouds with a palm.
• The Purple Thunder Origin-Consolidating Pill emerged from the Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron as a lightning dragon Pill Spirit, and Yao Xuan subdued it and stabilized the pill.
• The crowd recognized Yao Xuan's genuine Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill, and he won the Pill Assembly and became a Ninth-Rank Alchemist.