Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Mansion Alliance reached the site where the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame would descend, joining the gathered factions as they waited for the Demonic Flame Space to open. The Soul Hall then arrived, led by the mysterious man who had stayed away during its long battle with the alliance.

• Xiao Yan brought the Heavenly Mansion Alliance toward the Demonic Flame’s arrival site and warned Zi Yan not to act unless necessary.
• Xiao Yan shielded the alliance members from the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s heat after they reached the milky-white desert left where a mountain range had stood.
• Xiao Yan and the other factions waited near the ruptured Demonic Flame Space, which had not yet fully opened.
• The Yan Clan, Lei Clan, Yao Clan, and Gu Clan arrived, and Xiao Yan and Xun'er were delighted to see the Gu Clan’s Eldest Miss, who had reached the Two-Star Dou Saint level.
• The Soul Hall appeared in black mist, revealing the man who had stayed absent throughout its long battle with the Heavenly Mansion Alliance.

Xiao Yan confronted Hun Miesheng as the Soul Hall arrived, then learned that Yao Wangui, the Yao Clan elder who had expelled and hunted Yao Lao, was present. The old enemies traded barbs, while Xiao Yan promised to kill Yao Wangui after the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame matter was settled.

• Xiao Yan recognized Hun Miesheng and learned that he had been criticized by the Hun Clan and was no longer Soul Hall Master.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Miesheng silently sized each other up but held back from fighting because the time was not right.
• Yao Lao recognized Yao Wangui among the Yao Clan group and told Xiao Yan that Yao Wangui had falsely accused him and arranged his expulsion.
• Xiao Yan promised Yao Lao he would kill Yao Wangui, but Yao Lao urged him to focus first on the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Yao Wangui mocked Yao Lao for becoming a Dou Sheng.

Yao Wangui and Yao Tian mocked Yao Lao over his expulsion from the Yao Clan, drawing condemnation from other factions and angering the Heavenly Mansion Alliance. As the clan continued to insult him, Xiao Yan stepped forward to defend Yao Lao.

• Yao Wangui mocked Yao Lao, while representatives of the Yan Clan, Lei Clan, and Myriad Formation Spirit Palace criticized the Yao Clan's treatment of him.
• Hun Ling and Hun Feng discussed the Yao Clan as a potential target, while Hun Miesheng watched them without joining in.
• Yao Tian joined Yao Wangui in belittling Yao Lao for refusing the clan's earlier offer to return, and Yao Ling stayed silent despite her unease.
• Yao Wangui and Yao Tian's insults enraged Yao Lao and exhausted the Heavenly Mansion Alliance's patience, so Xiao Yan stepped forward.

At the gathering for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, Xiao Yan answered Yao Tian’s insults and easily overwhelmed him with his superior soul power. Yao Wangui stopped Xiao Yan’s soul attack, but the Yao Clan was left humiliated before the watching Emperor Clans.

• Xiao Yan mocked Yao Tian for having only a Late Heavenly Realm soul despite being called the Yao Clan’s leading young talent.
• Yao Tian belittled Xiao Yan’s Pill Gathering victory, threatened him, and unleashed a wave of Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan crushed Yao Tian’s soul wave with a gesture and counterattacked with a soul fist that revealed his Heaven Realm Great Perfection soul.
• Yao Wangui pulled Yao Tian out of the soul fist’s path and blocked it, but Xiao Yan’s attack forced him back several steps.

Xiao Yan humiliated Yao Tian with a soul clone, then easily defeated him after Yao Tian attacked with the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame. Yao Wangui moved to seize Xiao Yan’s soul clone, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yao Tian demanded that Yao Wangui kill Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan’s soul clone appeared behind him through a Spatial Passage and slapped him.
• Xiao Yan’s soul clone scolded Yao Tian for insulting his teacher, while Yao Ling and the onlookers watched in shock.
• Yao Tian summoned the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame and sent its Fire Spirit to attack Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan formed a huge fire dragon that struck down the Fire Spirit, causing Yao Tian to spit blood and fall to one knee.
• Yao Wangui reached out to grab Xiao Yan’s soul clone.

Xiao Yan fought Yao Wangui to a draw, forcing the Yao Clan to withdraw after threatening to settle the score later. When the Demonic Flame Space opened, the factions rushed through its gateway in pursuit of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Xiao Yan recalled his soul clone and stopped Zi Yan from intervening, then met Yao Wangui’s punch head-on with the Dragon Emperor Tyrant Body Technique.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wangui staggered back from their clash, and the onlookers recognized Xiao Yan’s strength while Hun Miesheng and Hun Feng discussed killing him inside the Demonic Flame Space.
• Yao Wangui threatened Xiao Yan and Yao Lao before leaving with Yao Tian and Yao Ling, and Xiao Yan vowed that he and his teacher would visit the Yao Clan.
• The shattered space expanded and formed a milky-white gateway, prompting the Yan, Yao, Hun, Gu, and other factions to enter the Demonic Flame Space.
• The Gu Clan entered alongside the Heavenly Mansion Alliance, followed by Ji Li and Lei Jiu together, then Xuan Ting slipped inside.

Xiao Lin cultivated beneath the celestial phenomenon while watching the entrants to the Demonic Flame Space, where he noticed the unexpectedly powerful Xuan Ting. As Xiao Lin wondered whether Xuan Ting would endanger Xiao Yan and the others, Nihility Devouring Flame appeared before him.

• Xiao Lin used the thousandfold cultivation speed granted by the celestial phenomenon to pursue a breakthrough to Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Lin watched Xiao Yan clash with the Yao Clan and observed the various figures entering the Demonic Flame Space.
• Xiao Lin spotted the disguised Xuan Ting, whose strength far exceeded what he expected, and worried about the changes he might cause.
• A Spatial Passage opened near Xiao Lin, and Nihility Devouring Flame emerged from it.

Nihility Devouring Flame encountered Xiao Lin while waiting outside the Demonic Flame Space for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to escape, and explained why he feared entering the seal himself. He then attacked Xiao Lin, interrupting his cultivation.

• Nihility Devouring Flame recognized Xiao Lin and recalled his strength after their battle in the Stone Realm.
• Nihility Devouring Flame noticed Xiao Lin was cultivating amid the unusual celestial phenomenon and asked why he was not pursuing the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Xiao Lin asked why Nihility Devouring Flame had not entered the Demonic Flame Space, and Nihility Devouring Flame stayed silent because he feared the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint had left a trap there.
• Nihility Devouring Flame explained that he planned to wait for the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to escape so he could devour him and increase his strength.
• Nihility Devouring Flame grinned at Xiao Lin and fired a ball of black flame at him, interrupting Xiao Lin's cultivation.

Xiao Lin’s cultivation was interrupted when Nihility Devouring Flame discovered him near the celestial phenomenon, and the two began fighting outside the Demonic Flame Space. Xiao Lin overwhelmed Nihility Devouring Flame with a single punch, leaving him stunned and questioning the source of Xiao Lin’s strength.

• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Xiao Lin and gloated that Xiao Lin had lost his chance to advance by cultivating too close to the anomaly.
• Xiao Lin, furious at the interruption, attacked Nihility Devouring Flame as a battle between the two Nine-Star Dou Saints erupted outside the Demonic Flame Space.
• Nihility Devouring Flame mistook Xiao Lin for an Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng and assumed the celestial phenomenon was boosting his power.
• Xiao Lin’s punch broke Nihility Devouring Flame’s Devour Heaven and Earth technique and sent him flying.
• Nihility Devouring Flame asked why Lin Xiao was so strong and whether his Astral Dou Qi had gained power from the celestial phenomenon.

Xiao Lin confronted Nihility Devouring Flame after the flame interrupted his cultivation, overpowering him with three ordinary punches. Nihility Devouring Flame escaped through a Spatial Passage after his third punch nearly destroyed him.

• Xiao Lin struck Nihility Devouring Flame with his first punch, destroying one of his strongest Dou Techniques.
• Nihility Devouring Flame summoned the Void Flame Nether Shield to defend against Xiao Lin’s second punch, but Xiao Lin shattered it and sent him flying, scattering black flames from his body.
• Xiao Lin caught up with the injured Nihility Devouring Flame and launched his third punch before he could prepare a defense.
• Nihility Devouring Flame used Flame Body Star-Shattering Technique to split into countless black flames and flee, though Xiao Lin extinguished nearly a third of them.
• The remaining black flames gathered into a tornado and escaped through a Spatial Passage as Nihility Devouring Flame vowed to repay Xiao Lin.

Xiao Lin drove Nihility Devouring Flame from the Void and resumed cultivating under the special celestial phenomenon, confident that he could now fight Hun Tiandi. Meanwhile, the Heavenly Mansion Alliance entered the Demonic Flame Space, where Purifying Lotus Demon Flame awaited them and plotted to devour their Heavenly Flames to break free.

• Xiao Lin overpowered Nihility Devouring Flame, who lost a third of his body before escaping through a Spatial Passage.
• Xiao Lin resumed cultivating and continued advancing toward the Late-Stage Nine-Star Dou Saint level.
• Yao Lao sent the Heavenly Mansion Alliance’s Dou Venerables back, leaving only its Saint Realm members to enter the Demonic Flame Space.
• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s illusions trapped many entrants, while those below the Saint Realm who had entered became Fire Slaves.
• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame revealed that he intended to devour the visitors’ Heavenly Flames and break the seal left by Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.

Ji Li escaped the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s Nightmare Sky Mist and crossed the mist-shrouded area to a floating platform where other survivors had gathered. As the group approached a giant white gate, Fire Slaves emerged from cracks in space and surrounded them.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame trapped entrants below the Saint Realm in dangerous illusions created by Nightmare Sky Mist, while Saint Realm experts faced a trial-clearing game.
• Ji Li recognized Nightmare Sky Mist and used the illusion to study and cultivate the technique before leaving it.
• Ji Li helped acquaintances and people connected to the Myriad Formation Spirit Palace escape their illusions, but made the illusions harder for some ill-reputed strangers.
• Ji Li passed through the mist and reached a floating platform, where he greeted acquaintances and ignored the Soul Hall members.
• As Ji Li and the others headed toward the giant white gate, space cracked open and Fire Slaves poured out to face them.

Ji Li fought through the Fire Slaves and realized that the Demonic Flame Space was still an illusion, though the injuries he suffered seemed real. He reached the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and, instead of seeking its origin, proposed that they work together.

• Ji Li fought through the plaza and entered a hall filled with stronger Fire Slaves, then tested whether their attacks could hurt him.
• Ji Li concluded that he was likely still trapped in the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame's illusion, though he could not tell whether the injuries were real.
• Ji Li fought through three halls and climbed a staircase to an altar, where he found the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame waiting in the form of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame offered Ji Li his origin and promised to help him become a second Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint.
• Ji Li told the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame that he had come to propose a partnership, leaving the Flame shocked.

Ji Li revealed that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame had trapped him in an illusion where attacks became real or fake according to what he believed. He used Nightmare Sky Mist to escape the illusion and appeared before the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s true body in the Demonic Flame Space.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame rejected Ji Li’s offer to work together and demanded that he prove himself.
• Ji Li told the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame that they were still inside an illusion, and the flame attacked him to silence him.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s attack passed through Ji Li, who explained that the illusion made things real or fake according to what he imagined.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame asked how Ji Li had discovered the illusion, and Ji Li answered by using Nightmare Sky Mist.
• Ji Li escaped the illusory space and found himself standing on rocks above a vast Magma Sea, facing the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s true body.

Ji Li persuaded the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to cooperate by offering to help strengthen the illusion in the Demonic Flame Space, while concealing his knowledge of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Map. They joined forces to reshape the illusion, leaving the other entrants facing its hidden second layer.

• Ji Li explained that he had learned a related Dou Technique from an ancestor’s inheritance and had used it to escape the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s illusion.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame agreed to cooperate after realizing Ji Li could help others escape, while secretly intending to turn Ji Li into a Fire Slave later.
• Ji Li proposed borrowing the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s strength against certain people and using Nightmare Sky Mist together to strengthen the illusion.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame accepted and allowed Ji Li to target anyone in the Demonic Flame Space; Ji Li intended to use him against the Soul Hall people.
• Ji Li and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame merged their pale white mist, altering the Demonic Flame Space as the chapter revealed that the illusion had a second, more difficult layer.

While Ji Li secretly gained partial control over the Demonic Flame Space, Xiao Lin continued cultivating under the celestial phenomenon and discovered a possible way to influence the space from outside. He began directing starlight toward its portal, hoping to remove the danger of entering it.

• Ji Li used the Nightmare Sky Mist and his hidden Child Flame to gain partial control over the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame's illusion without alerting it.
• Xiao Lin cultivated under the thousandfold increase in speed, advancing more than thirty percent toward the late stage of Nine-Star Dou Saint in about a month.
• Xiao Lin noticed a connection between the celestial phenomenon and the Demonic Flame Space and concluded that the phenomenon had enabled the space to appear.
• Xiao Lin began testing whether he could influence the Demonic Flame Space from outside by guiding descending starlight onto it.
• A faint glimmer of starlight appeared on the milky-white portal to the Demonic Flame Space.

Xiao Lin tried to take control of the Demonic Flame Space while Ji Li and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame trapped the Soul Hall group in a deadly illusion. The Soul Hall members were left surrounded by flames, unable to escape or defeat the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.

• Xiao Lin sensed a connection between the celestial phenomenon and the Demonic Flame Space and began trying to seize control of it.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame attacked Hun Miesheng, Hun Ling, Hun Feng, and the Soul Demon Elder inside the illusion, overwhelming them and breaking Hun Miesheng's Heavenly Net Demon Sealing Array.
• The Soul Demon Elder concluded that the Soul Hall group had to retreat, but the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame unleashed Demonic Flame Refines Heaven and trapped all four in a prison of milky-white flames.
• Hun Miesheng failed to cut through the flame prison and said the group could survive only if others broke through the illusion and reached them.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame had separated the other entrants and set them against powerful Fire Slaves, while Ji Li watched the Soul Hall group from the shadows.

Ji Li watched the Soul Hall group suffer in his illusion and secretly changed it to delay Xiao Yan and his companions. When Xiao Yan’s group reached the altar, they encountered a counterfeit Purifying Lotus Demon Flame—Ji Li in disguise—while the real flame agreed to let Ji Li handle them.

• Ji Li saw Xiao Yan’s group nearing the illusion’s secret and decided to keep them from breaking the formation before the Soul Hall suffered losses.
• Xiao Yan and his companions fought through the floating islands and halls, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s remnant soul helped Xiao Yan realize they were in an illusion.
• Xiao Yan’s group encountered Xiao Chen, identified him as an ancestor of the Xiao Clan, and temporarily freed him from the flame’s control.
• At the altar, Xiao Yan and his companions found no Purifying Lotus Demon Flame until a throne and white-robed figure appeared before them.
• The real Purifying Lotus Demon Flame agreed to Ji Li’s offer to deal with Xiao Yan’s group, unaware that the remnant soul had sensed something wrong with Ji Li’s disguise.

Ji Li posed as the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to keep Xiao Yan and his companions trapped, but Xiao Yan mistook the real Ji Li for an illusion and challenged his attack. Xiao Yan realized his mistake only when Ji Li’s flame struck him.

• Ji Li impersonated the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and threatened to make Xiao Yan and the others his Fire Slaves unless they defeated him.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the apparent Demon Flame was an illusion created with Nightmare Sky Mist, while the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint’s Remnant Soul was left confused by the situation.
• Xiao Yan explained that the illusion mixed reality and falsehood, and that Xiao Chen was real but mostly controlled by the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Ji Li challenged Xiao Yan to take one attack, and Xiao Yan confidently refused to dodge because he believed the attack was fake.
• Ji Li fired a pillar of milky-white flame at Xiao Yan, who felt its heat and realized the attack was real.

Xiao Yan discovered that the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame in the illusion was real but an impostor, and the stranger revealed himself as Ji Li. Ji Li attacked to stall Xiao Yan and the others while pursuing his hidden plan.

• The fire injured Xiao Yan before he defended himself, embarrassing him after he had insisted the attack was fake.
• Xiao Yan explained that the group remained in the illusion space, but the figure before them was real and disguised as the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• The impostor praised Xiao Yan for seeing through the deception and guessed that someone had guided him.
• Xiao Yan asked who the impostor was, but Ji Li refused to reveal his identity or plan while they were inside the illusion.
• Ji Li unleashed his Dou Qi and prepared to fight, leaving everyone except Zi Yan and Xiao Chen wary of his Early-Stage Five-Star Dou Sheng strength.