Chapter Summaries

Yao Xuan found the untouched Green Lotus Core Flame in its magma cave and prepared to absorb it with Yao Lao’s help. After Yao Lao subdued its guardian, Yao Xuan began his attempt to claim the Heavenly Flame.

• Yao Xuan located the hidden cave and confirmed that the Green Lotus Core Flame remained in its perfect state.
• Yao Xuan entered the magma cave protected by the Bone Chilling Flame and the Yellow Mysterious Flame.
• The Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Serpent attacked, and Yao Lao took control of Yao Xuan’s body to knock it unconscious.
• Yao Xuan found the Green Lotus Core Flame and its eleven Earthfire Lotus Seeds, and Yao Lao warned him that absorbing another Heavenly Flame would be painful.
• Yao Lao gave Yao Xuan a Blood Lotus Pill and isolated him with the Green Lotus Core Flame as Yao Xuan began his attempt to subdue it.

Yao Xuan absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame and its eleven Earthfire Lotus Seeds, advancing to Three-Star Dou Wang and Mortal Realm Grand Perfection before fusing the new flame with Yellow Mysterious Flame. The fusion’s energy shook the lava cavern and drew Medusa’s attention in the Serpent-People Temple.

• Yao Lao sealed the Lava Secret Realm with a soul barrier while Yao Xuan swallowed a Blood Lotus Pill and used the Flame Mantra to draw in the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yao Xuan endured the flame’s searing heat as he absorbed its origin energy and refined his Dou Qi.
• Yao Xuan absorbed all eleven Earthfire Lotus Seeds, broke through to Three-Star Dou Wang, and raised his soul power to Mortal Realm Grand Perfection.
• Yao Lao watched Yao Xuan’s breakthroughs in astonishment as Yao Xuan continued refining the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yao Xuan fused the Green Lotus Core Flame with Yellow Mysterious Flame, releasing energy that shook the lava cavern.
• Medusa opened her eyes in the Serpent-People Temple and called out to the bold human.

After absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame, Yao Xuan broke through to Dou Wang and evolved the Flame Mantra to Earth Rank. He confronted Medusa in the Tagor Desert, where she recognized the flame and prepared to kill him for taking it.

• Yao Xuan fused the Green Lotus Core Flame with the Yellow Mysterious Flame, broke through to Dou Wang, and advanced the Flame Mantra to Earth Rank.
• Yao Lao praised the new flame and said he would not intervene unless Yao Xuan faced mortal danger.
• Yao Lao sensed a Peak Battle Emperor approaching, and Yao Xuan chose to meet the newcomer rather than flee.
• Yao Xuan emerged from the cave and faced Medusa, ruler of the Snake-People Tribe, who accused him of stealing the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Medusa released her full pressure and raised her hand to attack Yao Xuan.

Yao Xuan tested a fire lotus made by fusing the Green Lotus Core Flame and Yellow Mysterious Flame, injuring Medusa and forcing her to flee after she saw a message in Snake Language. Yao Lao revealed that the message announced the discovery of the eighteenth-ranked Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and Yao Xuan pursued Medusa.

• Yao Xuan dodged Medusa's attacks while fusing the Green Lotus Core Flame and Yellow Mysterious Flame into a fire lotus.
• Yao Xuan hurled the fire lotus at Medusa, breaking her defense and injuring her.
• Medusa prepared a powerful counterattack, but a line of Snake Language appeared in the sky and she immediately departed.
• Yao Lao urged Yao Xuan to follow Medusa and explained that the message announced a Heavenly Flame discovery.
• Yao Lao identified the newly discovered flame as the eighteenth-ranked Wind Fury Dragon Flame.

Yao Xuan followed Medusa to the Snake-People Sacred City and tried to negotiate cooperation, but she accused him of stealing the Green Lotus Core Flame and ordered his death. The four Snake-People main hall elders joined Medusa to trap him in their ultimate formation, which began suppressing his Dou Qi.

• Yao Xuan followed Medusa to the Snake-People Sacred City after learning that the Tagor Desert held the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Medusa rejected Yao Xuan's offer of cooperation and accused him of stealing the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yao Xuan argued that the Green Lotus Core Flame belonged to whoever was fated to obtain it, provoking Medusa to threaten him.
• The four Snake-People main hall elders surrounded Yao Xuan and activated the Four Extremes Soul-Locking Poison Formation.
• Medusa joined the four elders as they began suppressing Yao Xuan with the combined force of five Peak Battle Emperor Realm experts.

Yao Lao took control of Yao Xuan, revealed the strength of a Nine-Star Peak Dou Zong at the Half-Step Battle Venerable level, and destroyed the Snake-People Tribe’s formation. He pressured Medusa into discussing cooperation over the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, leaving her to choose between surrendering it and risking her tribe’s destruction.

• Yao Lao stopped Yao Xuan from using a Fire Lotus, warning that its power would rebound inside the sealed formation, and promised to handle the threat himself.
• Yao Lao possessed Yao Xuan and broke the Four Extremes Soul-Locking Poison Formation with a single finger, causing the four elders to stagger from backlash.
• Medusa and the elders realized that Yao Xuan’s aura had risen far beyond Dou Wang, while Yao Lao’s power reached Nine-Star Peak Dou Zong and Half-Step Battle Venerable strength.
• Yao Xuan demanded to know whether Medusa still intended to fight and threatened to destroy the Snake-People Tribe if she refused to state her position.
• Medusa asked what cooperation Yao Xuan wanted, and he requested the location of the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, which she needed for her own breakthrough.

Yao Xuan pressured Medusa into handing over the Wind Fury Dragon Flame map, then offered to refine a Sect-Breaking Pill if she gathered its ingredients within half a month. As Yao Xuan headed toward the flame, Yao Lao explained that he hoped to win Medusa’s support for Xiao Yan and the Xiao Household.

• Yao Xuan intensified his pressure until Medusa gave him the Wind Fury Dragon Flame map and asked him to spare the Snake-People Tribe.
• Yao Lao warned Medusa that using a Heavenly Flame to reach the Dou Zong realm could kill her, and offered to refine a Sect-Breaking Pill if she gathered its ingredients within half a month.
• Yao Xuan left for the Wind Fury Dragon Flame while Medusa doubted that the ingredients could be gathered in time.
• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan that he had offered Medusa the pill partly to gain the Snake-People Tribe’s support for Xiao Yan’s plans for the Xiao Household.

Yao Xuan found the Wind Fury Dragon Flame in the Tagor Desert and prepared to refine it, but Yao Lao sensed powerful strangers approaching. Yao Lao sealed the Heavenly Flame and fled with Yao Xuan, while a mysterious man arrived and recognized the Bone Chilling Flame’s aura.

• Yao Xuan and Yao Lao discovered the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, a towering storm of wind and fire in the desert.
• Yao Lao explained the flame’s power and warned that refining it could be dangerous, but Yao Xuan decided to try.
• As Yao Xuan approached the storm, Yao Lao sensed several powerful auras closing in and ordered him to stop.
• Yao Lao possessed Yao Xuan, sealed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame’s origin, seized it, and fled with him.
• A group of black-robed figures arrived, and their white-and-blue-robed leader identified the lingering aura as the Bone Chilling Flame.

Han Feng discovered that Yao Lao had survived and passed the Flame Mantra to someone else, while Yao Xuan and Yao Lao escaped with the sealed Wind Fury Dragon Flame. Yao Lao gave Yao Xuan a recipe for a pill to prepare him to refine the flame, and they arrived at Frostgrit City to gather its ingredients.

• Han Feng learned that others had taken the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and sensed Yao Lao's aura along with the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Han Feng realized Yao Lao had passed the Flame Mantra to someone else and unleashed his blue flame in anger.
• Yao Lao told Yao Xuan he had sealed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame's source flame and explained why they needed to prepare before refining it.
• Yao Lao gave Yao Xuan the ingredient list for the Wind-Concentrating Speed Qi Pill, which would help him absorb the flame's wind essence safely.
• Yao Xuan and Yao Lao reached Frostgrit City to rest and find the listed ingredients.

Yao Xuan entered Frostgrit City to buy ingredients for the Wind-Concentrating Speed Qi Pill, but the shop lacked its essential Wind-Pearl Eye Flower. As he prepared to leave, he recognized the trafficked snake-human girl as Qing Lin after her Jade Serpent Three-Flower Eyes appeared.

• Yao Xuan found Frostgrit City populated by powerful outlaws and learned from the herb shopkeeper that its residents had gathered there after committing crimes.
• Yao Xuan bought the available ingredients for the pill, but the shopkeeper said the scarce Wind-Pearl Eye Flower was out of stock, so Yao Lao advised searching for it in the desert.
• A burly Dou Spirit brought a frightened snake-human girl into the shop and tried to trade her for goods.
• The shopkeeper accepted the girl as payment, and Yao Xuan initially suppressed his disgust and prepared to leave.
• The girl’s eyes briefly revealed the Jade Serpent Three-Flower Eyes, and Yao Xuan and Yao Lao recognized her as Qing Lin.

Yao Xuan saved Qing Lin from being sold in Frostgrit City, killed the Dou Spirit who attacked him, and brought her out of the city. Qing Lin feared he might abandon her, but Yao Xuan reassured her and learned she trusted him because he felt warm to her.

• A burly Dou Spirit man brought Qing Lin to a shop to trade her, but Yao Xuan stepped in and demanded that he release her.
• The man attacked Yao Xuan, who revealed his Dou Wang strength, crushed him, and broke his arm.
• Yao Xuan killed the man and led Qing Lin out of Frostgrit City.
• Qing Lin pleaded with Yao Xuan not to abandon her, and he reassured her that she could stay with him.
• Yao Xuan asked why Qing Lin trusted him, and she said he had given her a warm feeling when they first met.

Yao Xuan took Qing Lin into the desert to find Wind-Pearl Eye Flowers, and her directions led him to a vast storm abyss where he harvested the herbs. As he prepared to leave, Yao Lao sensed a set of ruins hidden underground.

• Yao Xuan gave Qing Lin three Clear-Healing Pills and promised that no one would casually hurt her as long as she followed him.
• Yao Xuan explained that he was seeking Wind-Pearl Eye Flowers, and Qing Lin remembered a huge, permanent wind pit in the desert and pointed out its direction.
• Yao Xuan carried Qing Lin toward the storm, then told her to wait behind a sand dune while he entered the dangerous abyss.
• Yao Xuan used Heavenly Flame to shield himself from the storm and harvested the Wind-Pearl Eye Flowers growing in the rock crevices.
• Yao Lao warned Yao Xuan that something underground in the storm abyss appeared to be a set of ruins.

Yao Xuan discovered and broke through an ancient seal beneath a desert Wind Eye, revealing ruins that Yao Lao identified as the burial ground of an Intermediate Half-Saint. Yao Xuan entered the ruins despite the danger, determined to seize the opportunity.

• Yao Xuan sensed a vast azure-glass Wind Eye and a sealed barrier beneath the ten-thousand-meter-deep pit.
• Yao Lao urged Yao Xuan to test the barrier with his fused Heavenly Flames, and Yao Xuan shattered it with a Fire Lotus.
• The seal's destruction caused the desert pit to collapse into a bottomless abyss, and Yao Xuan plunged inside protected by Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Xuan landed in a vast underground ruin and found a massive stone gate carved with Wind Dao totems.
• Yao Lao identified the ruins as the burial ground of an Intermediate Half-Saint, and Yao Xuan declared that he would venture inside.

Yao Xuan entered the Wind Saint Ruins and discovered that its preserved Wind Dao Origin could help him subdue the Wind Fury Dragon Flame. Ten One-Star Battle Venerable puppets awakened, trapping him in the passage, so Yao Lao possessed him and raised his strength to a true One-Star Battle Venerable.

• Yao Xuan opened the stone door and sensed the ruins' dense, pure wind energy.
• Yao Lao identified the ruins' owner as a peak Half-Saint Realm expert who specialized in the Wind Dao and explained that the Wind Dao Origin could aid Yao Xuan through the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Yao Xuan entered the passage, triggering ten stone coffins to crack open and release One-Star Battle Venerable puppets.
• The puppets sealed the space and surrounded Yao Xuan, and Yao Lao warned that they had to destroy them all or die.
• Yao Lao poured his soul power into Yao Xuan, empowering him to the level of a One-Star Battle Venerable.

Yao Xuan and Yao Lao fought ten Battle Venerable puppets sustained by the Wind Domain, then destroyed them with a Fire Lotus fused from three Heavenly Flames. They continued toward the deepest part of the passage, where Yao Lao believed the true ruins lay.

• Yao Lao possessed Yao Xuan and used Bone Chilling Flame to attack the ten puppets, but the Wind Domain rapidly restored their damage.
• Yao Lao left Yao Xuan's body and explained that the puppets could draw endless energy from the Wind Domain, so they needed to destroy their soul imprints in one strike.
• Yao Lao held off the puppets while Yao Xuan fused Green Lotus Core Flame, Yellow Mysterious Flame, and Bone Chilling Flame into a Three-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Yao Lao drew all ten puppets together, and Yao Xuan hurled the Fire Lotus at them, shattering their origin cores and reducing them to ash.
• Yao Lao rejoined Yao Xuan after the explosion and said the passage led to the true ruins, so Yao Xuan headed deeper inside.

Yao Xuan reached the heart of the ruins and discovered a wind-attributed supreme treasure guarded by the remains of a Half-Saint. When he took the pearl, his soul entered a separate space and met the ruins’ master, who introduced himself as the Azure Wind Sage.

• Yao Xuan and Yao Lao entered a vast chamber filled with refined wind energy and found the skeleton of the ruins’ master seated on a jade throne.
• Yao Xuan spotted a blue pearl gathering the chamber’s wind energy, and Yao Lao identified it as the source of the Wind Eye and the master’s life-bound treasure.
• As Yao Xuan reached for the pearl, the skeleton’s lingering Half-Saint pressure overwhelmed him and Yao Lao, then quickly subsided.
• Yao Xuan took the pearl and was drawn into a separate void, where he met the ruins’ master’s remnant soul.
• The blue-robed elder welcomed Yao Xuan and revealed that he was known as the Azure Wind Sage.

Yao Xuan met Clearwind Saint, who explained the Wind Spirit Origin Pearl’s power and offered it to him. The chapter ended with Yao Xuan holding the pearl and preparing to test whether he could convert it to fire attribute.

• Yao Xuan greeted Clearwind Saint, who praised his arrival and noted that he had passed the ten Battle Venerable puppets despite being only a Dou Wang.
• Clearwind Saint offered to pass on his cultivation, but Yao Xuan recognized the proposal as possession and declined; Clearwind Saint clarified that his remnant consciousness could not possess him.
• Clearwind Saint revealed the Wind Spirit Origin Pearl and explained how it refined surrounding spiritual energy into pure wind-attributed battle qi, helping him rise from Dou Zong to Half-Saint.
• Clearwind Saint gave the pearl to Yao Xuan and told him he would need to gain its recognition and clear away its wind source to turn it into a Fire Spirit Origin Pearl.

Yao Xuan cleansed the Wind Spirit Treasure Pearl of its ancient wind essence, restoring it to an attribute-less state, and received Clearwind Saint’s incomplete Heaven Rank Dou Technique, the Flowing Cloud Thousand Winds Palm. Clearwind Saint’s remnant thought vanished after urging Yao Xuan to leave the ruin before it sealed itself.

• Yao Xuan used his fused Heavenly Flame to gradually refine the wind essence from the Wind Spirit Treasure Pearl without damaging its foundation.
• Clearwind Saint praised Yao Xuan’s skill and explained that nurturing the restored Spirit Pearl with fire Dou Qi could turn it into a Fire Spirit Treasure Pearl.
• Clearwind Saint passed Yao Xuan the Flowing Cloud Thousand Winds Palm, an incomplete low Heaven Rank technique with six perfected palms and three unfinished killing forms.
• Yao Xuan received the technique’s inheritance and promised to honor Clearwind Saint’s kindness.
• Clearwind Saint warned Yao Xuan that the ruin would seal itself, then vanished as his remnant thought dissipated.

After the Origin Pearl transformed the relic’s wind energy into fire energy, Yao Xuan absorbed it and advanced from Three-Star Dou Wang to Peak Dou King. Yao Lao warned that the relic was close to collapsing and suggested using the Wind Fury Dragon Flame to break through to Battle Emperor.

• Yao Xuan told Yao Lao that Clearwind Saint’s Origin Pearl could convert surrounding energy into energy suited to its holder.
• Yao Xuan’s Heavenly Flame origin transformed the pearl, which began converting the relic’s wind energy into pure fire energy.
• Yao Lao urged Yao Xuan to absorb the converted energy, and Yao Xuan cultivated through successive breakthroughs to Peak Dou King.
• Yao Xuan proposed absorbing the remaining relic energy to reach Battle Emperor, but Yao Lao said the relic would soon collapse and its energy would not suffice.
• Yao Lao revealed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame’s origin flame as the means for Yao Xuan to pursue the Battle Emperor breakthrough.

Yao Xuan refined the Wind-Concentrating Speed Qi Pill and absorbed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, breaking through to Three-Star Battle Emperor Realm and Spirit Realm soul power. He discovered that his Flame Mantra had advanced to Intermediate Earth Rank, while Yao Lao remarked on Yao Xuan's unusual fortune in finding Heavenly Flames.

• Yao Xuan used Yao Lao's formula and Yao Ling's essence blood to refine a Wind-Concentrating Speed Qi Pill intended to aid his cultivation and soul breakthrough.
• Yao Xuan swallowed the pill and began absorbing the Wind Fury Dragon Flame with the aid of the Green Lotus Core Flame and Yellow Mysterious Flame.
• The three Heavenly Flames fused inside Yao Xuan, shattering his cultivation barrier and raising him from Peak Dou King to Three-Star Battle Emperor Realm.
• The pill's medicinal power helped Yao Xuan's soul power break through from Mortal Realm Grand Perfection to the Spirit Realm.
• Yao Xuan realized his Flame Mantra had reached Intermediate Earth Rank, and Yao Lao commented that Yao Xuan seemed unusually fortunate in finding Heavenly Flames.