Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xun'er three treasures, and she refined the Mystic Phoenix Li-Flame Plume into evolved golden-red wings. Canaan Academy approved his request to enter the Heaven-Burning Qi Refining Tower and named him honorary headmaster; Su Qian then brought him to the tower’s lowest level to deal with Fallen Heart Flame.

• Xiao Xun'er thanked Xiao Yan for her gifts, refined the Mystic Phoenix Li-Flame Plume, and gained golden-red wings that had evolved because of the special flame in her body.
• Su Qian convened the Inner Academy elders to debate Xiao Yan’s proposal, and Luo Tianpeng argued that granting it while naming Xiao Yan honorary headmaster would benefit the academy.
• The elders voted thirteen to six to let Xiao Yan enter the Heaven-Burning Qi Refining Tower and proceed under Luo Tianpeng’s plan.
• Su Qian invited Xiao Yan to become honorary headmaster, and Xiao Yan accepted because the title offered benefits without imposing duties.
• Su Qian led Xiao Yan into the lowest level of the Heaven-Burning Qi Refining Tower, where scorching heat and binding runes surrounded them.

Xiao Yan entered the underground Magma World, trapped and captured the Fallen Heart Flame, then refined it with Cai Lin. Three months later, Cai Lin had reached Peak Dou Zong and Xiao Yan had risen to Six-Star Peak Dou Zong, just one step from Seven-Star Dou Zong.

• Su Qian opened the seal to the underground Magma World, and Xiao Yan entered to confront the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan lured the Fallen Heart Flame into attacking, then used three Divine Flame Clones to restrain it and seize its core.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Fallen Heart Flame and spent three months refining it with the Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame.
• Xiao Yan refined the Fallen Heart Flame alongside Cai Lin using the Yin-Yang dual cultivation method from the Emperor's Inner Scripture.
• Cai Lin advanced to Peak Dou Zong after consuming the Supreme Zongyuan Pill, while Xiao Yan reached Six-Star Peak Dou Zong.

After refining the mature Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Yan learned from a new legacy about the Venerable-Breaking Pill and set out to find the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame below the Magma World. He found Heavenly Flame Venerable’s hidden sanctuary and was ambushed by a Flame Lizardman as he approached it.

• Cai Lin asked how Xiao Yan would explain the mature Fallen Heart Flame to Su Qian, and Xiao Yan assured her he had a plan and promised to help her reach Dou Venerable with a Venerable-Breaking Pill.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with a Ninth-Rank Treasure Pill Grandmaster Legacy and a Soul-Origin Fruit, and he learned the lost formula for the Venerable-Breaking Pill.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao for help locating the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, and Yao Lao advised him to follow the summons he sensed through Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan descended into the Magma World, followed the summons to a transparent barrier containing Heavenly Flame Venerable’s skeleton and the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, and left a Treasure Artifact above as a marker.
• A Flame Lizardman ambushed Xiao Yan near the sanctuary, but Xiao Yan struck it hard enough to blast it away and destroy its arm.

Xiao Yan defeated a swarm of Flame Lizardmen, met Yao Tianhuo, and traded Soul-Nourishing Dew for the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method and a promise to help restore Yao Tianhuo's body. After revealing his six Heavenly Flames, Xiao Yan secured Yao Tianhuo's agreement to give up the Juvenile Fallen Heart Flame in exchange for resurrection and three years of protection, then summoned Yao Chen to meet him.

• Xiao Yan destroyed the Flame Lizardmen with his Great Heavenly Thunderclap soul skill and collected their fire beads.
• Xiao Yan met Yao Tianhuo, who introduced himself as Heavenly Flame Venerable and tried unsuccessfully to reclaim the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was a High Seventh-Rank Alchemist under twenty and gave Yao Tianhuo three bottles of Soul-Nourishing Dew in exchange for the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Method.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Tianhuo his six Heavenly Flames and explained that he could help restore Yao Tianhuo's physical body.
• Yao Tianhuo agreed to exchange the Juvenile Fallen Heart Flame for a chance at resurrection and promised to protect Xiao Yan for three years.
• Xiao Yan delayed their departure and summoned Yao Chen, shocking Yao Tianhuo.

Yao Lao and Heavenly Flame Venerable learned about the Soul Hall’s growing power before returning to Xiao Yan’s ring. When Xiao Yan emerged from the lava, he sensed danger and arrived at Jia Nan Academy just in time to stop Venerable Mu from destroying it.

• Yao Lao revealed that he was a Peak Dou Venerable and explained that the Soul Hall had destroyed Medicine King Valley centuries earlier, leaving Heavenly Flame Venerable grieving for Xin Baicao.
• Yao Lao and Heavenly Flame Venerable entered Xiao Yan’s Bone Flame Ring, and Xiao Yan flew back through the lava to retrieve his sword.
• Venerable Mu, a Three-Star Dou Venerable of the Soul Hall, attacked Jia Nan Academy while investigating the deaths of his Hall Guardians and searching for the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Venerable Mu overwhelmed Su Qian and the academy’s elders, then prepared to kill everyone with a massive black dou qi palm.
• Xiao Xun’er prepared to crush her Ancient Clan token, but Xiao Yan arrived and destroyed Venerable Mu’s attack with his Azure Dragon Claw.

Xiao Yan intervened to save the Canaan Academy students and fought Venerable Mu, a Soul Hall Dou Venerable. After overpowering him with his transformations and Azure Dragon technique, Xiao Yan captured Venerable Mu’s soul and sealed it in a jade bottle.

• Xiao Yan blocked Venerable Mu’s attack, then shattered his Hell Yama King Claw and knocked him into a crater with a punch.
• Venerable Mu attacked with the Soul-Sealing Ghost Blade, but Xiao Yan broke its saber gleam and damaged the weapon with his Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and struck Venerable Mu with the Flame Splitting Flowing Wave Ruler, breaking his armor and sending him flying.
• Venerable Mu swallowed soul spheres to raise his strength to the Five-Star Dou Venerable level and attacked Xiao Yan with Myriad Skulls Devour Souls.
• Xiao Yan activated his Azure Dragon Transformation and pierced Venerable Mu’s chest with the Azure Dragon Heaven-Rending Hand.
• Venerable Mu abandoned his body and tried to flee, but Xiao Yan caught his soul, sealed it in a jade bottle, and placed it in the Bone Flame Ring.

After Xiao Yan saved Canaan Academy from Venerable Mu, Su Qian rewarded him and his companions with access to the Library Pavilion. Xiao Yan found a mysterious purple-glowing stone inside and began investigating its unusual durability.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xun'er, accepted Su Qian's gratitude, and returned the weakened Fallen Heart Flame to Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Yan and Su Qian established cooperation between the Flame Alliance and Canaan Academy, which later erected a statue of Xiao Yan.
• After the academy repaired the damage and treated its wounded, Su Qian led Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Little Doctor Fairy, and Qing Lin to the Library Pavilion.
• The Qian Bai Elders opened the Pavilion's spatial barrier, and Xiao Yan and the three girls entered to select treasures.
• Xiao Yan took the Lion-Tiger Shattering Gold Chant, then discovered a purple-glowing stone that barely marked when struck by Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan found three Venerable-Breaking Flowers in the Library Pavilion and arranged for the Flame Alliance to gather the remaining ingredients for a Venerable-Breaking Pill. He then returned to the Magma World and began preparing five corpses to refine into Heavenly Demon Puppets, while planning stronger resurrection materials for Heavenly Flame Venerable.

• Xiao Yan discovered three Venerable-Breaking Flowers in the Library Pavilion and told Cai Lin they could help her break through to the Dou Venerable realm once they gathered the remaining ingredients.
• Qing Lin chose the Myriad Snake Soul-Eater Dou Skill, Xiao Yi Xian took Soul-Eroding Nether Toad venom, and Xiao Xun'er obtained the Golden Phoenix Suppresses the World Dou Skill.
• Xiao Yan instructed the Flame Alliance to find the Venerable-Breaking Pill ingredients and offered a top-grade Emperor-Breaking Pill as a reward, prompting Hai Bo Dong to enlist the Mittel Family's help.
• Xiao Yan entered the Magma World and decided to use Venerable Mu's body as Heavenly Flame Venerable's resurrection vessel, saving the five Dou Zong corpses for Heavenly Demon Puppets.
• Xiao Yan used the Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame to roast the five corpses, driving out their corpse qi and opening holes in their chests and foreheads as the first stage of puppet refinement.

Xiao Yan completed five Earth Demon Puppets and returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Zi Yan suddenly appeared in his pill-refining chamber. The chapter left them face to face as Zi Yan focused on the energy-rich pills.

• Xiao Yan refined five corpses with souls, Seventh-Tier Magic Cores, and special metals, turning them into silver Earth Demon Puppets.
• Xiao Yan marked his two strongest puppets with his blood and soul, binding them to obey him.
• Xiao Yan assessed the five puppets' strengths and planned to temper them further with pill lightning tribulations.
• One month later, Xiao Yan refined pills at Flame Serenity Residence in Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yan passed through the chamber wall, noticed Xiao Yan's pills, and asked what he was doing.

Xiao Yan befriended Zi Yan by giving her pills and teaching her how to identify herbs that were safe for her to eat, then spent two months helping her while hunting Flame Lizardmen for fire beads. After using most of the beads to reach Peak Dou Zong, Xiao Yan arrived at the academy’s secluded platform to begin refining the Bone-Melting Blood-Rebirth Pill for Heavenly Flame Venerable.

• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan pills, learned that she was an Ancient Void Dragon seeking energy to grow, and promised to assess her herbs and refine suitable ones for free.
• Xiao Yan sorted Zi Yan’s herb collection, refined or exchanged the ingredients, and gave her fifty bottles of pills; Zi Yan learned his identity and began visiting him often.
• Over the next two months, Xiao Yan helped Zi Yan refine herbs while hunting Flame Lizardmen in the magma world, eventually killing a Five-Star Dou Venerable Flame Lizardman with help from a puppet.
• Xiao Yan used the fire beads in a Nine Dragons Return-to-One Flame-Gathering Formation, rising three stars to Peak Dou Zong, and gave some beads to Xiao Xun’er.
• Su Qian opened the academy’s highest platform for Xiao Yan, who arrived there to begin refining the Bone-Melting Blood-Rebirth Pill.

Xiao Yan refined a two-color Eighth-Rank Venerable-Breaking Pill before the astonished spectators at Jia Nan Academy. He then began using the Spirit-Enhancement Method to improve the newly formed pill’s spirituality.

• Su Qian opened the academy’s stone platform for Xiao Yan to refine pills, while elders and students gathered to watch.
• Ye Xinlan recognized Xiao Yan as a possible savior for her clan and considered asking him for help in exchange for information about the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Heaven-Burning Mountain-Refining Cauldron and used the Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame to refine more than a hundred ingredients into a Venerable-Breaking Pill.
• The finished pill released a purple-gold pillar of light and triggered a two-color thundercloud, revealing that Xiao Yan had successfully refined an Eighth-Rank Pill.
• Xiao Yan reached into the pillar of light and activated the Spirit-Enhancement Method to raise the pill’s spirituality.

Xiao Yan used the Spirit-Enhancement Method to refine a four-color Eighth-Rank Venerable-Breaking Pill, then used the pill lightning to strengthen his five Earth Demon Puppets. After the lightning passed, he revealed that the pill could increase a Peak Dou Zong's chance of reaching Dou Venerable by ten percent.

• Xiao Yan refined the pill's spirituality with the Spirit-Enhancement Method, causing four-colored pill lightning to gather overhead.
• Xiao Yan sent five Earth Demon Puppets to absorb the pill lightning, which strengthened them while protecting him and the pill.
• The four-colored thunderclouds unleashed a final powerful strike before dispersing, and the onlookers recognized Xiao Yan as a Four-Color Eighth-Rank Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan inspected the strengthened puppets and found that one had reached Half-Step Dou Venerable while the others had advanced to higher Dou Zong levels.
• The Qian Bai Elders asked Xiao Yan what he had refined, and he identified it as a Venerable-Breaking Pill that increased a Peak Dou Zong's chance of breaking through by ten percent.

Xiao Yan offered the Qian Bai Elders pills that could help them advance and restored Elder Qian’s lost arm. He then used Venerable Mu’s body to revive Yao Tianhuo, whose new Dou Venerable pressure alarmed Jia Nan Academy.

• The Qian Bai Elders briefly succumbed to greed over Xiao Yan’s Venerable-Breaking Pill, but Xiao Yan offered to refine pills for them if they provided ingredients and payment.
• Xiao Yan explained the four grades of Venerable-Breaking Pills and gave the elders prescriptions for those pills and the Bone-Replenishing Pill.
• Su Qian arranged ingredients for Elder Qian’s Bone-Replenishing Pill, and Xiao Yan restored Elder Qian’s severed arm.
• Xiao Yan prepared Venerable Mu’s body with the Heavenly Flame Venerable’s soul power, the Bone-Melting Blood-Rebirth Pill, and Flame Lizardman essence blood, then helped Yao Tianhuo enter the body.
• After five days of burning by the Heavenly Flames, Yao Tianhuo took control of the body, regained his appearance, and reached the Dou Venerable realm.
• The pressure from Yao Tianhuo’s revival frightened Jia Nan Academy’s students and drew the elders, while Su Qian suspected Xiao Yan was responsible.

Yao Tianhuo was resurrected at Nine-Star Dou Venerable strength and pledged to protect Xiao Yan for twenty years after receiving a Zunji Pill recipe. As Xiao Xun'er prepared to leave for the Ancient Clan, she revealed her identity and Xiao Yan admitted he held the Tou She Ancient God Jade; the chapter ended with Ling Quan and an Ancient Clan party arriving at Jia Nan Academy.

• Yao Tianhuo thanked Xiao Yan for resurrecting him and promised another ten years of protection after discovering his strength had risen to Nine-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Tianhuo the Zunji Pill recipe, and Yao Tianhuo swore that his life belonged to Xiao Yan for twenty years.
• Xiao Yan stayed at Jia Nan Academy and hunted Flame Lizardmen with Yao Tianhuo for a month while Yao Tianhuo mastered his new strength.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Xun'er grieving over her impending return to the Ancient Clan and revealed that he knew her identity.
• Xiao Xun'er confessed that she was Gu Yuan's daughter and warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Clan sought the Tou She Ancient God Jade, which he revealed was in his possession.
• Ling Quan arrived at Jia Nan Academy with an Ancient Clan party and a formation of Four-Winged Unicorns.

Xiao Yan confronted Ling Quan and Gu Lingming after they came to take Xiao Xun'er back to the Ancient Clan, then accepted Gu Lingming's challenge and revealed power that shocked the onlookers. The fight escalated when Gu Lingming activated his purple-gold Clan Mark and unleashed a Heaven-Tier Battle Skill.

• Ling Quan rebuked Xiao Xun'er for being close to Xiao Yan, but she threatened him for overstepping and Xiao Yan stepped in to calm her.
• Xiao Yan detected Gu Lingming's hidden presence, and Ling Quan attacked him before Gu Lingming intervened to block Xiao Yan's Dou Venerable puppet.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Ling Quan lose an arm or die, then offered to apologize and let Xiao Xun'er leave if Gu Lingming defeated him.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Lingming fought in the air, where Xiao Yan used several techniques to raise his strength to Five-Star Dou Venerable and overpower Gu Lingming's attacks.
• Gu Lingming activated his purple-gold Clan Mark, raised his strength to Seven-Star Dou Venerable, and unleashed the Heaven-Tier Battle Skill Butcher God-Slaying Slash as Ling Quan watched in disbelief and jealousy.

Xiao Yan fought Gu Lingming with his six-Heavenly-Flame fire lotus and broke through from peak Dou Zong to Dou Venerable during the battle. After Gu Lingming conceded, Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xun'er a Venerable-Breaking Pill and enforced the agreed penalty on Ling Quan before the Ancient Clan party departed.

• Xiao Yan countered Gu Lingming's low Heaven-Tier battle skill with the Azure Sky Annihilation Divine Lightning, then unleashed a six-Heavenly-Flame fire lotus that devastated Gu Lingming and shattered the Emperor Seal Art.
• Gu Lingming emerged badly injured, took a seventh-rank healing pill, and admitted defeat as Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou Venerable realm.
• Xiao Xun'er congratulated Xiao Yan and said she had to leave with Gu Lingming's party; Xiao Yan gave her a four-color eighth-rank supreme Venerable-Breaking Pill and promised they would meet again.
• Xiao Yan reminded Gu Lingming that Ling Quan had to sever an arm for his loss, and Ling Quan cut off his remaining arm himself.

Xiao Yan brought Zi Yan and Heavenly Flame Venerable into the Magma World, where a colossal being transported them to the Ancient God's Cave Abode. There Zi Yan discovered that the imprisoned Dragon Emperor Zhukun was her father, but she confronted him over the childhood she had spent alone.

• Xiao Xun'er left Jia Nan Academy with her group, and she told them Xiao Yan was an Eight-Rank Five-Colored Pill Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao he intended to begin their plan in the Magma World, and Yao Lao agreed to protect him despite the danger.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Heavenly Flame Venerable entered the Magma World and fought their way through the Flame Lizardman Tribe's territory.
• Zhukun sensed Zi Yan's bloodline and used a colossal claw to carry Xiao Yan's group to the plaza before the Ancient God's Cave Abode.
• Zhukun told Zi Yan he was her father, and Zi Yan rejected him, lamenting that she had grown up without parents.
• Zhukun apologized and hurled himself against the barrier imprisoning him, unable to reach Zi Yan.

Xiao Yan reunited Zi Yan with Zhukun, who could not break Tou She Ancient God’s restriction even with the ancient jade. Zhukun agreed to help Xiao Yan obtain Fire Pearls and a Dou Saint body for Yao Lao, leaving the resurrection plan under consideration.

• Zhukun apologized to Zi Yan for being trapped and explained that he had sent her away before she was born.
• Xiao Yan presented the Tou She Ancient God Jade and explained how he had found Zhukun, then introduced Yao Lao after Zhukun took human form.
• Zhukun promised to help Xiao Yan, ordered two Flame Lizardman elders to bring Fire Pearls, and warned their tribe to keep clear of Xiao Yan and his companions.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhukun for a Dou Saint body so Yao Lao could regain a physical form, and Zhukun recognized the resurrection method’s need for three different Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao used Zhukun’s help to resurrect Yao Lao in a Five-Star Dou Saint body, and Yao Lao awoke rejuvenated as a Mid-Stage Three-Star Dou Saint. With Yao Lao’s resurrection complete, Zhukun turned to Xiao Yan and prepared to help him use the Flame Lizardmen’s Fire Pearls.

• Zhukun offered five Dou Saint bodies, and Xiao Yan chose the Five-Star Dou Saint body for Yao Lao’s resurrection.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao refined an Eight-Rank Seven-Colored Bone-Melting Blood-Rebirth Pill, which Zhukun upgraded to an Eight-Rank Nine-Colored Pill with his dragon aura.
• Zhukun used Xiao Yan’s Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame, his essence blood, and Yao Lao’s soul to prepare the Five-Star Dou Saint body for possession.
• Yao Lao entered the body, regained his youth, and awakened seven days later with the strength of a Mid-Stage Three-Star Dou Saint.
• Zhukun explained that Yao Lao had preserved room to grow by not advancing directly to Four-Star Dou Saint, then turned to Xiao Yan and mentioned the Flame Lizardmen’s Fire Pearls.

Xiao Yan used a fire-gathering array to reach Five-Star Dou Venerable while strengthening his soul and body, and Zhukun restored Zi Yan’s true form and prepared to send her back to the Ancient Void Dragon tribe. Xiao Yan warned that the tribe was in turmoil, prompting Zhukun to unleash a violent aura against everyone.

• Xiao Yan set up an Eight-Rank Five-Saint Fire-Gathering Array and cultivated for two months while Yao Chen guarded him.
• Zhukun used his origin blood and stored resources to free Zi Yan from the Transformation Grass’s restrictions, and she reached One-Star Dou Zong and regained her dragon form.
• Xiao Yan emerged as a Five-Star Dou Venerable with greatly strengthened soul and physical abilities, and Zhukun praised his progress.
• Zhukun planned to leave and asked Yao Chen to escort Zi Yan back to the Ancient Void Dragon tribe, while Zi Yan accepted that she should grow there.
• Xiao Yan warned Zhukun that the Three Dragon Kings had divided the tribe and might target Zi Yan, and Zhukun released a powerful, uncontrolled aura that Yao Chen struggled to resist.