Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Demon Fire Space, overcame illusions and endless Fire Slaves, and reached the Demon Fire Hall. Xiao Yan recognized that the hall itself was another illusion, leaving the group to face the Lotus Demonic Flame’s next deception.

• Xiao Yan warned that the Yao Clan would not get its chance, hinting that he knew the Soul Clan planned to target them.
• Xiao Yan and the others entered the milky-white ring and were separated; he mistook the real Xun'er for an illusion before they recognized each other.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er rescued Medusa, Xiao Yixian, Gu Nanhai, and the others from nightmares, then led them deeper into the Demon Fire Space.
• Xiao Yan's group fought through the seemingly endless Fire Slaves and shattered a stone gate to reach the Demon Fire Hall.
• Xun'er explained that the Lotus Demonic Flame's true body lay beyond the hall, and Xiao Yan realized the hall was still an illusion.

Xiao Yan rescued Xiao Chen from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control and learned how the Xiao Clan had fallen. Xiao Yan and his companions then reached the flame’s altar, where its white-robed figure challenged them to defeat him for the Demon Fire Origin.

• Xiao Yan led Xun'er and the others through the illusory halls until they encountered a powerful Fire Slave wielding a Blood Axe.
• Xiao Yan fought Xiao Chen alone and used the Yin-Yang Twin Flame to free him from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame’s control.
• Gu Nanhai recognized Xiao Chen as an ancient Xiao Clan expert and explained his history to Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen about the Xiao Clan’s destruction and the Soul Clan, then insisted that they subdue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame before the Soul Clan could claim it.
• Xiao Chen led Xiao Yan and the others to an altar, where a white-robed figure demanded that they defeat him to obtain the Demon Fire Origin.

Xiao Yan broke the Nightmare Illusion and led the group out, where the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame trapped them in a deadly sea of fire and summoned its Fire Slaves. As the enemies prepared to attack, Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen to conceal his true strength.

• Xiao Yan used the Break-Nightmare Talisman to shatter the illusion and bring everyone to a rocky mountain above the magma.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame appeared and unleashed Demon Flame Refines Heaven, killing those below the Dou Sheng realm and burning several Dou Sheng experts to ash.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame summoned more than a dozen Dou Sheng Fire Slaves, prompting the gathered experts to consider joining forces.
• Xiao Yan challenged the Soul Hall Master to choose between facing the Fire Slaves or the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while the Soul Clan's young clan master rejected his taunts.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame charged Xiao Yan with its Flame Demon Halberd, and Xiao Yan told Xiao Chen to hide his strength.

Xiao Yan fought the Lotus Demonic Flame in the Demon Fire Space and defeated it by transforming into a golden dragon. As the flame appeared in its weakened Demon Fire Origin form, the Soul Hall Master and other experts rushed to seize it.

• Xiao Yan and the man in white clashed with their weapons, then traded powerful attacks that sent shockwaves through the Demon Fire Space and killed many fighters below.
• The Lotus Demonic Flame formed the Demonic Flame Divine Statue, while Xiao Yan enlarged himself with Law of Heaven and Earth; their battle forced weaker experts to retreat.
• A shepherd boy on a green ox and hidden experts from the major factions emerged, while Xun'er refused to leave and insisted on staying beside Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan transformed into a golden-winged dragon, tore apart the divine statue, and forced the wounded man in white to explode and reveal the Lotus Demonic Flame.
• The crowd rushed toward the weakened Demon Fire Origin, and the Soul Hall Master led the Soul Hall experts in an attempt to seize it for the Nihility Devouring Flame.

The Lotus Demonic Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation after the other experts fled or were driven out, leaving Xiao Yan and the three women inside. Xiao Yan resisted the formation with the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s power, and the Saint appeared to confront the Flame about its lingering resentment.

• While the experts fought over the recovering Lotus Demonic Flame, it summoned the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and began refining everyone inside.
• The experts fled the Demon Fire Space; Huo Zhi was forced out, while Xun'er chose to remain with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Chen and Qinglin to return to the Tianxia Guild, then stayed with Xun'er, Medusa, and the third woman as the formation closed.
• The Lotus Demonic Flame tried to refine Xiao Yan, but its power had no effect on him.
• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint appeared from Xiao Yan and reminded the Lotus Demonic Flame that its long imprisonment had not erased its hostility.
• The Lotus Demonic Flame accused the Pure Lotus Demon Saint of betraying it after it had helped him, while the Saint recalled that he had once spared it and suffered a backlash.

The Pure Lotus Demon Saint erased the Lotus Demonic Flame’s intelligence, and both disappeared after the flame detonated. Xiao Yan began absorbing the Demon Fire Origin, but as his body reached its limit, Medusa and Xun'er prepared to help him.

• The Pure Lotus Demon Saint took control of the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation and began stripping away the Lotus Demonic Flame’s intelligence.
• The Lotus Demonic Flame begged for mercy, then detonated his flames, while the Pure Lotus Demon Saint crushed a pale cyan ball of light and vanished with him.
• Xiao Yan and the three women found the Demon Fire Origin, and Xiao Yan began absorbing it with the Yin-Yang Twin Flame.
• The Lotus Demonic Flame’s resistance overwhelmed Xiao Yan’s body, prompting Xiao Yixian to ask which woman should help him first.
• Medusa offered to help, but Xun'er insisted on going first, so Medusa led Xiao Yixian away and gave them privacy.

Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Xiao Yixian, and Medusa survived the Yin-Yang Twin Flame's evolution after the Bodhi Ancient Tree saved them and drew their minds into an illusion. A year later, they awoke in a transformed Demon Fire Space and decided to make it their home, while the outside world remained embroiled in conflict.

• Xun'er joined Xiao Yan to help him absorb the Lotus Demonic Flame, but the Yin-Yang Twin Flame began absorbing her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame as well.
• Xiao Yixian and Medusa joined Xiao Yan and Xun'er, and the four endured the heat of three Heavenly Flames until their bodies began to disintegrate.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree released Bodhi Seeds that restored the four, then drew their minds into an illusion while their bodies continued to be tempered.
• During the four's year-long absence, the Stone Clan vanished, the Yao, Yan, and Thunder Clans formed an alliance, and the Tianxia Guild fought the Soul Hall across the Central Plains.
• The Yin-Yang Twin Flame transformed the Demon Fire Space into a lush mountain landscape, and Xiao Yan and the three women awoke there.
• Xiao Yan agreed to move the Demon Fire Space into the void as the four decided to make it their home.

After Xiao Yan returned from seclusion as a Six-Star Dou Sheng, he learned that Medicine Elder had gone to the Yao Clan and hurried there, fearing a Soul Clan attack. At the Yao Ceremony, the Nihility Devouring Flame trapped the Yao Clan and its guests, but the sealed space began to crack just as Medicine Elder accepted their apparent fate.

• Xiao Yan named the hidden domain the Immortal Realm, anchored it in the void, and brought Xun'er, Xiao Yixian, and Medusa back to the Tianxia Guild.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached Six-Star Dou Sheng, while the three women had each reached Five-Star Dou Sheng and Medusa had subdued the weakened flame spirit of the Lotus Demonic Flame.
• Xiao Yan learned that Medicine Elder had left for the Yao Clan half a month earlier and rushed there with the three women, worried the Soul Clan would attack.
• At the Yao Ceremony, Medicine Elder won the alchemist competition with help from Old Man Shennong and Yao Wanhuo, defeating Hun Xuzi.
• Hun Xuzi demanded the Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade, then summoned the Nihility Devouring Flame, which sealed the Yao Clan's space and overwhelmed its defenders.
• As Medicine Elder despaired with the Yao Clan facing destruction, the sealed space began to tremble and crack.

The Yao Clan fought to break the spatial seal as Hun Jing and Hun Yan led the Soul Clan in attacking them. Outside, Xiao Yan’s group nearly broke through, but Nihility Devouring Flame intercepted them and faced Xiao Yan, leaving the rescue attempt to continue while the two prepared to fight.

• Yao Dan rallied the Yao Clan to attack the cracking seal, and several elders self-destructed to help break it.
• Hun Xuzi summoned Hun Jing and Hun Yan, who led the Soul Clan in attacking the Yao Clan and admitted the Soul Clan had destroyed the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan.
• Yao Dan refused to surrender and urged everyone to fight, but the seal began closing again as Hun Jing and Hun Yan overwhelmed the defenders.
• Xiao Yan and his group nearly broke Nihility Devouring Flame’s barrier before Nihility Devouring Flame appeared and blocked their way.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and Xiao Yan recognized the chance to devour or subdue one another and began building their auras.
• Xiao Yan told Xun'er and the other two women to keep breaking the seal and rescue Medicine Elder while he fought Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan fought Nihility Devouring Flame and used the clash of their flame dragons to break the seal trapping the Yao Clan. With Medicine Elder and the others freed but still threatened, Xiao Yan asked to borrow their Heavenly Flames so he could hold Nihility Devouring Flame off while they escaped.

• Nihility Devouring Flame overwhelmed Xiao Yan's defenses, but Xiao Yan healed his wounds and answered with the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms.
• Xiao Yan redirected his golden flame dragon into the weakened spatial seal, shattering it and opening a passage out of the Yao Clan.
• Yao Dan ordered Yao Wanhuo to lead the younger generation away while he stayed behind to hold off Hun Yan and Hun Jing.
• Yao Wanhuo, Medicine Elder, and the others escaped through the opening, then found Xiao Yan injured and still facing Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan offered to borrow the Heavenly Flames from Yao Wanhuo, Old Man Shennong, and Yao Tian so he could delay Nihility Devouring Flame and give the others time to escape.
• Yao Wanhuo agreed to give up his Heavenly Flame to protect the Yao Clan.

Xiao Yan swallowed three Heavenly Flames, reached Seven-Star Dou Sheng, and faced Nihility Devouring Flame while the Yao Clan fled. Nihility Devouring Flame activated his array and annihilated the Yao Clan, then grew stronger as he prepared to finish Xiao Yan.

• Yao Wanhuo and Old Man Shennong gave their Heavenly Flames to Xiao Yan, who swallowed them and rose to Seven-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan sent Xun'er, Medusa, and Xiao Yixian away with the Yao Clan and the Yao Ceremony guests before confronting Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan struck Nihility Devouring Flame with a powerful finger technique that combined the Death Finger and Great Nirvana Finger, breaking open the spatial seal.
• Nihility Devouring Flame's black flames killed a group of Yao Clan members trying to escape through the reopened spatial crack.
• Nihility Devouring Flame activated the grand array and devoured hundreds of millions of Yao Clan citizens, replenishing his energy before taunting Xiao Yan about fighting a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan used Xiao Xuan’s remnant soul to drive back Nihility Devouring Flame after the Soul Clan destroyed the Yao Clan. Gu Yuan and the allied clan leaders learned the Soul Clan was responsible, then met with Xiao Yan to hear what happened as the remaining clans faced the threat.

• Xiao Yan’s aura surged to Nine-Star Dou Sheng as Xiao Xuan possessed him, and he fought Nihility Devouring Flame until the Soul Clan retreated.
• Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Gu Yuan arrived at the ruined Medicine Realm and followed traces of the battle to the Tianxia Guild.
• Yao Clan survivors told Yan Jin and Lei Ying that the Soul Clan had destroyed the Spirit Clan, Stone Clan, and Yao Clan, and that Xiao Yan had protected them.
• Gu Yuan met Xiao Yan and Xun'er, learned their strength had risen, and asked Xiao Yan to explain what had happened to the Yao Clan.

Xiao Yan explained the Soul Clan’s plan to gather the Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade, while the Soul Clan stole the jade held by the three remaining clans. Huntiandi arrived at the Tianxia Guild with Xiao Yan’s captive father and demanded Xiao Yan’s jade, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan sought the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor’s inheritance and was too powerful for the remaining clans to defeat.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Soul Clan had likely taken the three clans’ jade, and Yan Jin and Lei Ying confirmed that their jade had been stolen by betraying elders and Soul Clan members.
• Xiao Yan warned that the Soul Clan would arrive soon, and Gu Yuan sensed Huntiandi’s presence outside the Tianxia Guild.
• Huntiandi appeared before Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying, then said he had come for Xiao Yan and produced Xiao Zhan in a cage of black mist.
• Xiao Yan vowed to destroy the Soul Clan after seeing his imprisoned father, while Huntiandi realized Xiao Yan possessed Xiao Xuan’s soul.

Xiao Yan traded the final fragment of the Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade to Huntiandi for his father, Xiao Zhan, then attacked the Soul Clan as Gu Yuan and the other clans fought to stop them. Huntiandi escaped with the Soul Clan survivors and the complete jade, leaving the other factions unable to prevent his retreat.

• Xiao Xuan appeared beside Xiao Yan, and Huntiandi offered Xiao Zhan's life in exchange for the final fragment of the Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Xiao Yan and Huntiandi exchanged Xiao Zhan for the jade fragment, and Xiao Yan freed his father from the cage.
• Gu Yuan attacked Huntiandi while Yan Jin and Lei Ying led their clans into battle against the Soul Clan and Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan reunited Xiao Zhan with Xun'er, Xiao Yixian, and Medusa, then joined the battle to attack the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yan unleashed golden dragons that killed many Soul Clan experts, and Huntiandi opened a spatial rift to withdraw with the survivors and the jade.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had secretly replaced the Ancient Clan’s Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade, buying time before Huntiandi discovered the deception. He proposed devouring the Yan Clan’s Heavenly Flames to grow stronger, and Yan Jin offered them in exchange for Xiao Yan marrying Huo'er.

• Xiao Yan sealed the Tianxia Guild hall and told Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying that Huntiandi had not obtained all the genuine Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had switched the Ancient Clan’s jade and showed the others a genuine fragment, warning that Huntiandi would eventually discover the deception and attack with the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yan said the Soul Clan would need time to prepare for entering the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, and proposed using that time to increase their strength.
• Xiao Yan offered Yan Jin three Ninth-Rank Mysterious Pills in exchange for the Yan Clan’s Heavenly Flames, promising that their energy would recover after he devoured it.
• Yan Jin declined the pills and offered the Heavenly Flames on the condition that Xiao Yan marry Huo'er.

Xiao Yan rejected Yan Jin’s offer to use Huo Zhi’s marriage as a bargain, but agreed to visit the Yan Clan’s Flamefire Domain to strengthen himself against the Soul Clan and the Nihility Devouring Flame. Huo Zhi led him toward the domain and explained how the Yan Clan obtained so many Heavenly Flames.

• Lei Ying recalled that the Thunder Clan had a connection to the Falling Heart Flame and asked Xiao Yan to remember their friendship.
• Yan Jin offered Xiao Yan the Yan Clan’s Heavenly Flames, help finding others, and access to the Flamefire Domain in exchange for marrying Huo Zhi, but Xiao Yan refused to make marriage a bargain.
• Yan Jin abandoned his attempt to persuade Xiao Yan and invited him to the Flamefire Domain; Gu Yuan urged Xiao Yan to go so he could grow stronger before the Soul Clan returned.
• Xiao Yan followed Yan Jin through a spatial passage to the Yan Clan, where Huo Zhi led him toward the Flamefire Domain and teased him about refusing the marriage offer.
• Huo Zhi explained that Yan Clan members could sense Heavenly Flames and usually captured newly born flames, while the intelligent flames ranked in the top five tended to evade them.

Xiao Yan entered the Yan Clan’s Flamefire Domain, devoured all its Heavenly Flames, and began refining them. Meanwhile, Nihility Devouring Flame reached the Emperor-Realm Soul, and Huntiandi’s attempt to reunite the eight Tou She Ancient God Jades ended with one piece shattered.

• Huo Zhi brought Xiao Yan into the Flamefire Domain and showed him the Yan Clan’s captive Heavenly Flames, including the Black Yellow Flame.
• Huo Zhi explained that Yan Clan members could subdue Heavenly Flames as adults and that she had obtained the Red Lotus Karmic Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Huo Zhi to guard him, then devoured every Heavenly Flame in the domain before beginning the lengthy process of refining and absorbing them.
• Nihility Devouring Flame devoured the Soul Hall’s collected souls and advanced to the Emperor-Realm Soul.
• Huntiandi brought out the eight Tou She Ancient God Jades and tried to combine them, but one shattered in his grasp.

Huntiandi discovered that one of the Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade pieces was fake and concluded that Xiao Yan had deceived him. He led the Soul Clan's forces to attack the Tianxia Guild, where Gu Yuan and the other clans prepared their formations for battle.

• Huntiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame inspected the shattered jade and realized it was fake.
• Huntiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame suspected Xiao Yan had arranged the deception and decided the real jade was at the Tianxia Guild.
• Huntiandi resolved to destroy the Tianxia Guild and the three ancient clans, then brought the Soul Clan's full force to attack.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying discussed Xiao Yan's plan and prepared to face the Soul Clan.
• Huntiandi demanded the final Tuo She Ancient Emperor Jade piece, then ordered the Soul Clan to attack when Gu Yuan refused.
• Gu Yuan's Ancient Clan summoned the Ancient Emperor Mirror, while the Yan Clan and Thunder Clan formed the Burning Heaven Formation and Nine Dragons Heavenly Thunder Formation.

While the Soul Clan fought the Ancient Three Clans, Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb to revive his ancestor Xiao Xuan. After refining the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb into pure energy, Xiao Yan began using it and Xiao Xuan’s bloodline remnants to restore him.

• Huntiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame besieged Gu Yuan while four resurrected Eight-Star Dou Shengs confronted Yan Jin and Lei Ying.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Heavenly Tomb, where he planned to help Xiao Xuan reach the Emperor-Realm Soul and regain his strength.
• Xiao Yan drew out and refined the Soul of the Heavenly Tomb with the Yin-Yang Twin Flame.
• Xiao Xuan entered the mass of pure energy, and Xiao Yan began refining it together with Xiao Xuan’s bloodline remnants to revive him.

Xiao Yan refined Xiao Xuan’s soul and rare materials into a Nine-Turn Golden Pill, whose birth drew the attention of the warring clans. Huntiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame arrived to seize it, but Xiao Yan met Huntiandi’s attack head-on and fought him to a standstill.

• Xiao Yan added Bodhi treasures and a drop of his Dragon-Phoenix Blood Essence to the ingredients and refined Xiao Xuan’s soul into a pill.
• The forming Nine-Turn Golden Pill summoned golden thunder dragons visible across the Central Plains, causing the Soul Clan and ancient clans to pause their battle.
• Huntiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame abandoned their fight with the ancient clans and headed to claim the pill, while Gu Yuan ordered his side to recover for the final battle.
• Xiao Yan used the Tai Chi pattern to refine the golden lightning dragons, and the finished pill’s fragrance raised his soul from mid-stage to advanced Emperor Realm.
• Huntiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame arrived as Xiao Yan guarded the pill, and Xiao Yan’s punch met Huntiandi’s attack with both men driven backward.