Chapter Summaries

Yao Xuan fought Yao Xingtong, whose Dou Zong cultivation and Yao Clan battle skill gave him the advantage. Yao Xingtong revealed that the clan planned to marry Yao Ling to him after he became a Battle Venerable and found a Heavenly Flame.

• Yao Xingtong suppressed Yao Xuan with his Dou Zong power and mocked him as an abandoned branch-family child.
• Yao Xuan unleashed his Dragonflame Profound Sea Flame to break free of the suppression and struck Yao Xingtong with the Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm.
• Yao Xingtong countered with an eighth-rank Beast Flame, then summoned the Ten Thousand Pills Withering-Glory Seal.
• Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Yan urged Venerable Feng to intervene, but the Yao Clan elders threatened to stop him and summon clan experts.
• Yao Xingtong told Yao Xuan that the clan planned to marry Yao Ling to him once he became a Battle Venerable and found a Heavenly Flame.

Yao Xuan defeated Yao Xingtong with a Four-Colored Fire Dragon, destroying his cultivation after Yao Xingtong tried to claim Yao Xuan's Heavenly Flames and marry Yao Ling. The Yao Clan elders threatened Yao Xuan and his allies, but an unidentified figure in the clouds warned them that the Yao Clan did not control the Central Plains.

• Yao Xuan summoned four Heavenly Flames and condensed their origin into a powerful Four-Colored Fire Dragon.
• Yao Xingtong unleashed the Ten Thousand Pills Withering-Glory Seal, but Yao Xuan's fire dragon shattered it and struck him down.
• The Yao Clan elders saved Yao Xingtong's life, but his dantian and meridians were ruined, leaving him crippled.
• The two Yao Clan elders accused Yao Xuan of defying clan rules and threatened to kill him, while Xiao Yan, Little Fairy Doctor, and Venerable Feng stood in his defense.
• An unidentified voice from the clouds warned the elders that harming Yao Xuan would bring trouble and that the Yao Clan did not have the final say in the Central Plains.

Xun'er arrived with Ancient Clan elders Lin and Yuan to protect Xiao Yan and Yao Xuan from the Yao Clan elders. When the Yao Clan elders tried to seize Yao Xuan by force, Elder Lin struck them down and Elder Yuan warned them to stop.

• Xun'er arrived with Elder Lin and Elder Yuan and promised Xiao Yan that no one would hurt his companions.
• Xun'er argued that Yao Xuan had been expelled from the Yao Clan and that the Ancient Clan could intervene to protect him.
• The Yao Clan elders rejected Xun'er's argument and attacked to seize Yao Xuan.
• Elder Lin countered with the Heaven-Annihilating Seal, injuring both Yao Clan elders and sending them flying.
• Elder Yuan warned the Yao Clan elders that their actions had already brought shame on their clan and that they should stop.

After Gu Xun'er and the others departed, Yao Xuan subdued the Turtle Spirit Earthfire, evolved the Flame Mantra, and broke through to One-Star Dou Zong. He fused his five Heavenly Flames into the Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame.

• The Yao Clan elders threatened Yao Xuan and fled with the gravely wounded Yao Xingtong, while Yao Xuan thanked Gu Xun'er for her help.
• Gu Xun'er bid farewell to Xiao Yan and returned to her clan, and Yao Xuan told Xiao Yan he needed to become a Dou Saint to earn the Ancient Clan's attention.
• Cao Ying withdrew from the contest for the Turtle Spirit Earthfire, and Venerable Feng secured the space so Yao Xuan could subdue it.
• Yao Xuan used the Dragon Lotus Profound Sea Flame to overpower the Turtle Spirit Earthfire and absorb its origin flame seed.
• The Turtle Spirit Earthfire's energy evolved Yao Xuan's Flame Mantra to the Advanced Earth Rank and propelled him from Peak Six-Star Battle Emperor to One-Star Dou Zong.
• Yao Xuan fused his five Heavenly Flames into the Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame.

Yao Xuan fused five Heavenly Flames into the Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame and broke through to the One-Star Dou Zong Realm. After returning to Starfall Pavilion, he reunited Yao Lao with Venerable Feng and proposed searching for the ingredients needed to restore Yao Lao's physical body.

• Yao Xuan fused five Heavenly Flames into the Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame, stabilizing his breakthrough to the One-Star Dou Zong Realm.
• Yao Xuan said he planned to pursue the Falling Heart Flame, then followed Venerable Feng, Xiao Yan, and Little Fairy Doctor through a spatial passage back to Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Lao emerged from Yao Xuan's Storage Ring and reunited with Venerable Feng at Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Lao explained that Han Feng had poisoned and betrayed him, and Venerable Feng offered to avenge him before learning Han Feng had already been executed.
• Yao Xuan told Yao Lao that restoring his physical body was the priority and proposed searching for the required medicinal ingredients.

Yao Xuan planned to obtain the ingredients for the Nine-Revolution Soul-Sculpting Life Pill to revive Yao Lao, while Venerable Feng agreed to search for three of them. He left Starfall Pavilion for Jia Nan Academy, leaving Xiao Yan to cultivate for the Three-Year Pact and Xiao Yi Xian to train in a poisonous secret realm.

• Yao Xuan gave Venerable Feng the ingredient list for the Nine-Revolution Soul-Sculpting Life Pill, and Venerable Feng identified Heavenly Phoenix Marrow as the hardest ingredient to obtain.
• Venerable Feng proposed targeting Feng Qing'er, a Heavenly Demon Phoenix, but Yao Xuan said he had a safer way to acquire the marrow and asked Venerable Feng to search for the other three ingredients.
• Yao Xuan announced that he would travel to Jia Nan Academy to obtain Falling Heart Flame and seek information about scarce medicinal ingredients.
• Yao Xuan told Xiao Yan to remain at Starfall Pavilion and focus on preparing for the Three-Year Pact, and Xiao Yan promised to train diligently.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to accompany Yao Xuan, but he asked Venerable Feng to arrange a secluded training place for her in the Ancient Poison Miasma Abyss.
• After bidding farewell to Yao Lao, Venerable Feng, Xiao Yan, and the others, Yao Xuan left Starfall Pavilion for Jia Nan Academy.

Yao Xuan returned to Jia Nan Academy as a Dou Zong and learned that the weakened seal on the Falling Heart Flame had made the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower dangerous. He offered to subdue the flame and preserve the academy’s cultivation foundation, then asked Su Qian to take him to the Alchemy Department to prepare pills.

• Yao Xuan returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian sensed his Dou Zong aura and was surprised by his rapid cultivation.
• Su Qian told Yao Xuan that the Black-Corner Region had quieted down, but the weakened seal on the Falling Heart Flame had made its Heartfire dangerous and forced the academy to close the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Yao Xuan proposed subduing the Falling Heart Flame and leaving behind a Seedfire to keep the tower operating.
• Su Qian agreed to support Yao Xuan, on the condition that he preserve the academy’s cultivation foundation if he succeeded.
• Yao Xuan promised to leave a Heartfire Seedfire and asked Su Qian to take him to the Inner Academy Alchemy Department to prepare pills.

Yao Xuan refined pills in Jia Nan Academy to prepare for subduing the Falling Heart Flame and absorbing the fire energy beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. Zi Yan ate his pills and offered to accompany him, but Yao Xuan left for the tower alone.

• Su Qian led Yao Xuan to the Inner Academy Alchemy Department and left him alone to use its ingredients.
• Yao Xuan refined high-tier pills to protect himself from the Falling Heart Flame and temper his body with fire energy.
• Zi Yan rushed into the hall, ate Yao Xuan's freshly made pills, and introduced herself.
• Yao Xuan told Zi Yan he planned to subdue the Heavenly Flame beneath the tower, but declined her offer to go with him.
• Yao Xuan made more pills for Zi Yan, promised to return, and headed toward the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.

Yao Xuan entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower’s magma world and subdued Falling Heart Flame with Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame. After absorbing it, he evolved his flame and cultivation method and rose to the peak of the Two-Star Dou Zong Realm, then brought out the Spirit Pearl.

• Yao Xuan entered the tower and descended into the magma world beneath it.
• Falling Heart Flame formed a fire python and attacked Yao Xuan with its heartfire, but his soul power kept him unaffected.
• Yao Xuan used Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame to overpower and restrain Falling Heart Flame.
• Yao Xuan absorbed Falling Heart Flame, evolving Lotus Hell Vast Dragon Flame into the Six-Colored Primordial Fire Body and raising the Flame Mantra to Heaven Rank.
• The absorbed flame’s energy raised Yao Xuan from early One-Star Dou Zong to the peak of Two-Star Dou Zong.
• Yao Xuan took out the Spirit Pearl, which began absorbing the surrounding energy.

Yao Xuan absorbed the magma realm’s fire essence and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Zong before heading deeper to seek Heavenly Flame Venerable. Zi Yan followed him, and the Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun’s overwhelming pressure suddenly froze them and the Flame Lizard Folk.

• Yao Xuan used the Fire Spirit Origin Pearl and Heaven Rank Flame Mantra to absorb and purify the magma realm’s fire essence, reaching early-stage Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Yao Xuan decided to descend deeper into the magma realm to revive Heavenly Flame Venerable and gain his aid.
• Flame Lizard Folk surrounded Yao Xuan when he entered the deeper region, but their weaker strength posed no threat to him.
• Zi Yan appeared and explained that she had secretly followed Yao Xuan because she feared he would die and stop making pills for her.
• Zhu Kun’s terrifying soul pressure spread from the abyss, immobilizing Yao Xuan and the Flame Lizard Folk.

Yao Xuan and Zi Yan were drawn by Zhu Kun’s power into the deepest part of the Ancient Emperor’s Cave-Dwelling, where Zi Yan’s bloodline awakened and Zhu Kun recognized her as his daughter. The chapter left Yao Xuan facing the trapped Dragon Emperor, uncertain whether Zhu Kun would harm him.

• Zi Yan’s presence awakened her ancient dragon bloodline and alerted Zhu Kun beneath the magma abyss.
• Zhu Kun’s spatial power transported Yao Xuan and Zi Yan to the entrance of the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe’s cave-dwelling.
• Zhu Kun called Zi Yan “Child,” and his pressure eased as his aura surrounded her.
• Zi Yan sensed a familiar presence beyond the stone gate as her bloodline resonance intensified.
• Yao Xuan realized Zhu Kun was a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint with an Emperor-Realm Soul and feared he could not resist him.

Zi Yan learned that Zhu Kun, the Dragon Emperor imprisoned in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave-Dwelling, was her father when his bloodline aura awakened her royal dragon bloodline. Zhu Kun questioned Yao Xuan about his relationship with Zi Yan, then withdrew his hostility and offered him a reward to help with an unspecified task.

• Zhu Kun told Zi Yan that he was her father and explained how he had been imprisoned in the cave-dwelling for ten thousand years.
• Zhu Kun released a gentle source dragon aura that awakened Zi Yan’s bloodline, and she recognized him as her father.
• Zhu Kun examined Yao Xuan and demanded to know his intentions toward Zi Yan, while Zi Yan defended her friend.
• Yao Xuan said he was Zi Yan’s friend and had entered the cave-dwelling while seeking the Falling Heart Flame.
• Zhu Kun accepted Yao Xuan after Zi Yan vouched for him and offered him valuable items in exchange for help with an unspecified matter.

Zhu Kun entrusted Yao Xuan with escorting Zi Yan to Ancient Dragon Island and gave him a drop of Dragon Emperor essence blood to help protect her. As Yao Xuan refined it, he broke through from Seven-Star Dou Zong to Battle Venerable.

• Zhu Kun asked Yao Xuan to escort Zi Yan back to Ancient Dragon Island, warning that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan might have fallen into chaos.
• Yao Xuan agreed to protect Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun explained that her Dragon Emperor aura might draw the clan's experts to them if the clan remained united.
• Zhu Kun gave Yao Xuan a drop of Dragon Emperor Reverse-Scale Essence Blood that he had condensed over a thousand years.
• Yao Xuan refined the essence blood as his Six-Colored Primordial Heavenly Flame shielded him from its violent energy.
• Yao Xuan's cultivation surged to Nine-Star Peak Dou Zong, then he broke through to Battle Venerable and gained the power of space.

Yao Xuan absorbed Zhu Kun’s Dragon Emperor Reverse-Scale Essence Blood and advanced to the Early Three-Star Battle Venerable stage before reaching the limit his body and soul could endure. Zhu Kun gave him an ancient Nine-Rank Golden Core Grandmaster’s alchemical inheritance and bound him with a soul contract requiring him to escort Zi Yan to Dragon Island within three years.

• Yao Xuan’s cultivation rose from Seven-Star Dou Zong to Early Three-Star Battle Venerable as he refined the essence blood, until Zhu Kun stopped him from absorbing more.
• Zhu Kun explained that the remaining Dragon Emperor power was sealed within Yao Xuan and could be refined later as his cultivation and soul strengthened.
• Yao Xuan confirmed he was a Seventh-Rank Alchemist, and Zhu Kun gave him a Storage Ring containing a Nine-Rank Golden Core Grandmaster’s alchemical inheritance.
• Zhu Kun placed a Dragon Emperor Soul Contract Mark on Yao Xuan, requiring him to escort Zi Yan safely to the Void Ancient Dragon’s Dragon Island within three years.
• Yao Xuan accepted the contract and promised to protect Zi Yan and fulfill his task.

Yao Xuan found Heavenly Flame Venerable and the nascent Falling Heart Flame in a hidden pocket space beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower. After hearing Yao Xuan’s flattering account and offering him the flame and the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method in exchange for help restoring his remnant soul, Heavenly Flame Venerable secured Yao Xuan’s agreement.

• Yao Xuan left Zi Yan on a safe rock platform and searched the middle-layer magma region for Heavenly Flame Venerable and the nascent Falling Heart Flame.
• Yao Xuan entered a secluded pocket space, where he found Heavenly Flame Venerable’s skeleton and the nascent flame seed.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable appeared and tried to summon the Falling Heart Flame, but Yao Xuan suppressed it and explained that he had already refined it.
• Yao Xuan praised Heavenly Flame Venerable and learned how his attempt to refine two flames and an attack by the Underground Flame Lizard Tribe had destroyed his body.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable offered Yao Xuan the nascent Falling Heart Flame and the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method in exchange for help restoring his remnant soul, and Yao Xuan accepted.

Yao Xuan returned from the magma with the Falling Heart Flame seedling, restored the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and revealed his breakthrough to Battle Venerable. After making pills for Zi Yan, he secluded himself to investigate an ancient Nine-Rank Golden Core alchemist’s legacy for a way to advance his soul power.

• Heavenly Flame Venerable hid in Yao Xuan’s Storage Ring, and Yao Xuan collected the Falling Heart Flame seedling before leaving the magma with Zi Yan.
• Yao Xuan used the seedling to restart the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and Su Qian thanked him and learned he had become a Battle Venerable.
• Yao Xuan took Zi Yan to the alchemy department and refined pills suited to her constitution, which she immediately began eating.
• Yao Xuan went alone to the academy’s back mountain and examined the Storage Ring Zhu Kun had given him, seeking a method to advance his soul power.

Yao Xuan entered the Storage Ring and discovered an ancient medicinal field filled with rare herbs, where the remnant soul of its former owner appeared. The Nine-Rank Golden Core alchemist judged Yao Xuan suitable to inherit his mantle and revealed that he was Dan Chen, known as Dan Yuanzi.

• Yao Xuan entered the Storage Ring despite the immense soul pressure left by its former owner.
• Yao Xuan explored the ancient medicinal field and found vast quantities of precious herbs, including long-extinct treasures.
• Dan Chen's remnant soul appeared and criticized Yao Xuan's cultivation, though he was surprised by Yao Xuan's six Heavenly Flames.
• Dan Chen recognized that Zhu Kun had chosen Yao Xuan to inherit his mantle and used medicinal power to nourish Yao Xuan's soul.
• Yao Xuan introduced himself and asked the old man his name, and Dan Chen revealed that he had once been called Dan Yuanzi.

Yao Xuan broke through to the middle Spirit Realm, and Dan Yuanzi revealed that soul cultivation could surpass the Emperor Realm into the Divine Soul Realm. Unable to complete that breakthrough in a world missing Origin Qi, Dan Yuanzi urged Yao Xuan to pass down his Divine Soul Canon.

• Yao Xuan used the medicinal spiritual energy to break through from the early Spirit Realm to the middle Spirit Realm.
• Dan Yuanzi asked Yao Xuan about the nature of soul power, then explained that he had once reached the Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint level and become a Nine-Rank Golden Core Grandmaster.
• Dan Yuanzi said he had abandoned Battle Qi cultivation to pursue a path to becoming an emperor through the soul.
• Dan Yuanzi revealed that the Divine Soul Realm lay beyond the Emperor Realm and that he had reached only the Half-Step Divine Soul Realm.
• Dan Yuanzi explained that the incomplete laws of the world, which lacked Origin Qi, had blocked his advancement and the emergence of a new Dou Di.
• Dan Yuanzi told Yao Xuan that he had created the Divine Soul Canon and asked him to pass it down.

Dan Yuanzi passed the Divine Soul Canon and its soul skill, the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal, to Yao Xuan. Yao Xuan cultivated the method and tested the seal as Dan Yuanzi’s remnant soul neared its end.

• Dan Yuanzi transferred the Divine Soul Canon directly into Yao Xuan’s soul, along with the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal.
• Yao Xuan learned that the canon had three realms and that its highest path aimed beyond the Emperor Realm toward a divine soul.
• Dan Yuanzi urged Yao Xuan to cultivate using the medicinal field’s source power, and Yao Xuan purified his soul and stabilized his Mid-Stage Spirit Realm cultivation.
• Yao Xuan formed and unleashed the Golden Firmament Soul-Suppressing Seal, producing power comparable to an Advanced Earth Rank combat technique.
• Dan Yuanzi praised Yao Xuan’s comprehension as his remnant soul grew dim and neared dispersal.

Yao Xuan received Dan Yuanzi’s vast alchemy inheritance, including Nine-Rank Golden Core formulas and the Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron. Seeing Dan Yuanzi’s soul fading, Yao Xuan proposed bringing him to the Heavenly Tomb to preserve him until Yao Xuan could restore his soul and body.

• Yao Xuan realized the Heavenly Tomb’s laws and Soul Origin mist might slow the dissipation of Dan Yuanzi’s lingering soul.
• Dan Yuanzi passed down his collection of pill formulas, including five Nine-Rank Profound Pill formulas and two Nine-Rank Golden Core formulas.
• Dan Yuanzi gifted Yao Xuan his life-bound medicinal cauldron, the Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron, which immediately recognized Yao Xuan as its master.
• Yao Xuan thanked Dan Yuanzi and, seeing his soul grow more unstable, explained that the Heavenly Tomb could shelter and nourish him.
• Yao Xuan asked Dan Yuanzi to enter the Heavenly Tomb and promised to restore his soul and create a new body after reaching Dou Di.