Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Zhukun arranged for Zi Yan to grow strong enough to reclaim the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Zhukun gave her sacred treasures before Xiao Yan helped her absorb an Ancient Dragon Heart. After Zi Yan left the Magma World with Xiao Yan, he told her a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit could help her become a Supreme Dragon Phoenix and rescue Zhukun.

• Xiao Yan proposed that Zi Yan stay with him and later join the direct descendants to oppose the three Dragon Kings, and Zhukun sealed the Dragon Emperor Seal and Dragon Emperor Sword inside her.
• Zhukun gave Xiao Yan purple-gold dragon scales, then refined the Ancient Dragon Heart into three clusters of heart's blood and gave the largest to Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan tempered Zi Yan with his Heavenly Flame as she absorbed the heart's blood, raising her strength to the Five-Star Dou Zong realm and restoring her human form.
• Zi Yan left the Magma World with Xiao Yan and the others, hoping to gather the eight ancient jade pieces and free Zhukun.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan about a hidden realm containing a mature Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit that could help her become a Supreme Dragon Phoenix, and she quietly wondered whether he saw her as only a little sister.

Xiao Yan returned from the Magma World with Zi Yan, explained the discoveries beneath Jia Nan Academy to Su Qian, and arranged for Yao Chen and Heavenly Flame Venerable to head to the Central Plains. After consolidating his cultivation, he met Ye Xinlan, who offered information about the Fire-Cloud Water Flame in hopes of securing his help for the declining Ye Clan.

• Xiao Yan told Su Qian that the Ancient God's Cave Abode and Zhukun were beneath Jia Nan Academy, and introduced Yao Chen as his teacher.
• Su Qian arranged for Xiao Yan to meet Ye Xinlan, who sought his help to preserve the Ye Clan's Pill Tower elder seats.
• Yao Chen and Heavenly Flame Venerable left for the Flame Alliance to establish a spatial passage to the Fallen Star Pavilion.
• After three days of cultivation, Xiao Yan met Ye Xinlan and learned that the Pill Tower's upcoming Pill Conference offered a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• When Xiao Yan said he already knew about the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Ye Xinlan revealed that her clan possessed a map to the Fire-Cloud Water Flame.

Xiao Yan agreed to help the Ye Clan retain its Elder seat in the Pill Tower in exchange for information about the Fire-Cloud Water Flame, and gave Ye Xinlan his alchemy insights. Yao Lao reached Fallen Star Pavilion and reunited with Wind Venerable, who prepared to hear what had happened during Yao Lao’s years away.

• Xiao Yan agreed to represent the Ye Clan at the Pill Conference and gave Ye Xinlan his book of Seventh-Grade Alchemist insights before leaving to follow the map from the Yin-Yang Twin Flames.
• Yao Lao and Heavenly Flame Venerable entered Fallen Star Pavilion through its spatial gate, where Mu Qingluan mistook Yao Lao for the Patriarch’s son.
• Mu Qingluan brought Yao Lao to the Sect Master's Hall, where Wind Venerable recognized his old friend and unleashed his aura before Yao Lao protected Mu Qingluan.
• Wind Venerable introduced Yao Lao to Mu Qingluan as Venerable Yao, and the two old friends exchanged greetings before turning to Yao Lao’s disappearance.
• Wind Venerable asked Mu Qingluan to guard the entrance as Yao Lao began to explain where he had been.

Yao Chen returned to the Fallen Star Pavilion, united the Four Pavilions, and led a coalition against the Soul Hall, while Xiao Yan searched Nether Soul Valley and found the Yin-Yang Twin Flames. The flames’ guardian learned that the Xiao Clan had fallen and erupted in grief and fury.

• Yao Lao told Feng Xian how Han Feng had betrayed him, then agreed to announce his return and unite the Four Pavilions.
• Yao Lao rallied the Fallen Star Pavilion, brought the Four Pavilions under its control, formed alliances, and declared war on the Soul Hall.
• Yao Lao killed Bone Nether Saint and wounded the Great Heavenly Venerable before the Soul Hall’s deputy hall master forced him to withdraw.
• Xiao Yan entered Nether Soul Valley, used the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade to open a stone door, and found the Yin-Yang Twin Flames guarded by an ancient skeleton.
• The guardian’s remnant soul awakened, identified himself as a member of the Xiao Clan, and asked Xiao Yan about the clan’s fate.
• Xiao Yan explained that only his family remained, and the guardian grieved over the Xiao Clan’s decline and angrily invoked Gu Yuan’s promise.

Xiao Kong sacrificed his remnant soul to pass his power, memories, and the Xiao Clan’s inheritance to Xiao Yan, who obtained the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and a preserved pool of Xiao Clan Dou Emperor Bloodline. After absorbing both, Xiao Yan reached Peak Nine-Star Dou Venerable and advanced his fused bloodline to Divine-Grade as he began forming the Xiao Clan’s Clan Mark.

• Xiao Yan convinced Xiao Kong that he intended to restore the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Kong judged his talent and resolved to help him.
• Xiao Kong sacrificed his remnant soul, leaving Xiao Yan his Soul Power, memories, and tens of thousands of Xiao Clan Dou Techniques; Xiao Yan’s soul advanced to Half-Step Heaven Realm.
• Xiao Yan respectfully bid farewell to Xiao Kong, absorbed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, and broke through from Five-Star to Seven-Star Dou Venerable.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Kong’s hidden chamber and absorbed the preserved Xiao Clan Dou Emperor Bloodline over a month, reaching Peak Nine-Star Dou Venerable while suppressing further advancement.
• Xiao Yan fused his Xiao Clan and Ancient Azure Dragon bloodlines, advanced his Dou Emperor Bloodline from ninth-grade to Divine-Grade, and activated the three transformations of the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations to form his Clan Mark.

Xiao Yan returned from the Black-Corner Region after strengthening his clan mark, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the Flame Alliance, and announced that he would hold a wedding for his companions. The chapter ended with Ya Fei, Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian gathered around him, pleased by his return and wedding announcement.

• Xiao Yan completed his ninth clan-mark stroke, rose to three-turn Dou Zong, and left Nether Soul Valley with its treasures.
• Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Zong at Jia Nan Academy, where Xiao Yan reunited with her and gave her the poison mist he had brought from Nether Soul Valley.
• Xiao Yan left Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yi Xian, Ye Xinlan, and Zi Yan, then returned to the Flame Alliance at Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yun Yun, whose cultivation rose to Four-Star Dou Zong after they spent time together, and told her he planned a grand wedding for them all.
• Xiao Yan reviewed the Flame Alliance's growth and announced his wedding plan to its elders before reuniting with Ya Fei, Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yan married Yun Yun, Ya Fei, Xiao Yi Xian, and Cai Lin in a grand ceremony attended by the Jia Ma Empire’s powerful figures. Afterward, Ya Fei devised a way for Xiao Yan to bring the other brides to their shared bed, leaving all four women embarrassed the next morning.

• Cai Lin told Xiao Yan that she was glad he was giving her a proper status, while Zi Yan and Qing Lin watched and discussed their own hopes of marrying him someday.
• A month later, Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan welcomed prominent guests to Xiao Yan’s wedding, including Hai Bo Dong, Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, Yun Shan, Nalan Yanran, and Yao Lao.
• Nalan Yanran grieved over having once ended her engagement to Xiao Yan, while Nalan Jie regretted not preventing her from doing so.
• Xiao Yan and his four brides completed the wedding rites, with Yao Lao seated as a respected elder and Heavenly Flame Venerable officiating.
• Xiao Yan went to Ya Fei’s room, where she suggested a way to bring the other brides to him; he used an aphrodisiac to gather Xiao Yi Xian and the other women into their bed.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan left the room while his four wives pretended to be asleep, then they woke and blushed as they recalled the previous night.

After two months with his wives, Xiao Yan publicly refined an Eighth-Rank Seven-Colored Nine-Colored Sacred Fetus Pill for Cai Lin’s unborn child. He left the pill safely in his possession and announced that his alchemy insights were available through the Flame Alliance treasury.

• Xiao Yan’s dual cultivation helped Ya Fei break through to Dou Emperor while Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian each advanced one star.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Misty Cloud Mountain and began refining the pill before a crowd of Flame Alliance members and visitors.
• Xiao Yan used the Heartless Quenching Method to refine hundreds of medicinal ingredients over three days, forming a nine-colored proto-pill.
• Seven-colored Pill Lightning struck the mountain, but Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Demon Puppet absorbed the bolts and protected the pill.
• Xiao Yan caught the sentient pill when it tried to flee, let Fa Ma inspect it, and stored it in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yan announced that his personally written Eighth-Rank Alchemist insights were available to exchange for in the Flame Alliance treasury.

Cai Lin absorbed the Nine-Colored Sacred Fetus Pill, evolved her bloodline to nine colors, and broke through to Five-Star Dou Venerable before Xiao Yan departed for the Central Plains with Zi Yan and Ye Xinlan. At the Fallen Star Pavilion, he reunited with Yao Lao and Wind Venerable, met his junior sister Mu Qingluan, and revealed that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Venerable.

• Xiao Yan gave Cai Lin the Nine-Colored Sacred Fetus Pill, and she absorbed it in seclusion while her bloodline evolved from seven colors to nine colors.
• Cai Lin emerged from a nine-colored egg with her cultivation at Five-Star Dou Venerable, and Xiao Yan estimated their unborn child could be born at Dou Zong.
• After three days with Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan left through a wormhole for the Central Plains with Zi Yan and Ye Xinlan.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Fallen Star Pavilion, greeted Yao Lao, Wind Venerable, and Heavenly Flame Venerable, and gave Mu Qingluan a Yin-Yang Protective Jade.
• Yao Lao identified Xiao Yan as a Nine-Star Dou Venerable, shocking Wind Venerable and Mu Qingluan.

Xiao Yan received Yao Lao’s collected treasures and learned that a secret realm near Tianbei City held the Nine-Aperture Dao Rhyme Lotus, so he agreed to travel there with Zi Yan. After gathering the last Pure Lotus Demon Flame map fragment, he gained the Emperor Soul Scripture, a Heaven Soul Fruit, and a map to the Life Spirit Flame, then refined a Nine Dragons Lightning Flame child flame without increasing his strength.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Venerable and Half-Step Heaven Realm soul power, and Yao Lao described the changed situation in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan proposed allying with the Pill Tower against the Soul Hall, and Yao Lao agreed to accompany him to the Pill Conference after Feng Xian and Xiao Yan teased him about meeting Xuanyi.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan about the mystic realm near Tianbei City and its Nine-Aperture Dao Rhyme Lotus, and Xiao Yan agreed to go with Zi Yan to seek it.
• Xiao Yan examined Yao Lao’s collected items, including the final Pure Lotus Demon Flame map fragment, seventeen soul origins, Vajra Glazed Body, and a Nine Dragons Lightning Flame child flame.
• Xiao Yan gathered the final map fragment and received the Emperor Soul Scripture, a Heaven Soul Fruit, and a random Heavenly Flame map; the map revealed the location of the Life Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan swallowed and refined the Nine Dragons Lightning Flame child flame, but his strength and cultivation techniques did not advance.

Xiao Yan cultivated the Emperor Soul Scripture before traveling with Zi Yan and Zi Ling to Tianbei City, where the Han Clan faced pressure from the Hong Clan and the North Wind Thunder Pavilion. Han Yue recognized Xiao Yan's name when he arrived seeking her, and she hoped he could save her family from the forced marriage and threat of annihilation.

• Xiao Yan cultivated the Emperor Soul Scripture to its sixth layer, inscribing seven emperor patterns on his soul crystal.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Zi Ling traveled through a space wormhole to the Northern Region and flew to Tianbei City.
• Xiao Yan reached the Han Clan estate and asked the guards to announce that he wanted to see Han Yue.
• Han Yue, Han Xue, and their father discussed the Hong Clan's demand that the sisters marry Hong Chen and feared the Han Clan could not resist the Hong Clan and its ally, the North Wind Thunder Pavilion.
• A guard told the family that Xiao Yan had come to see Han Yue, and Han Yue recognized the name and hoped he could rescue them.

Xiao Yan reunited with Han Yue in Tianbei City and learned that the Han Clan was being pressured by Hong Chen of the Hong Clan. He agreed to fight Hong Chen and asked Han Yue to guide him to the Godbreak Mountain Range, leaving the Han Clan hopeful that he would resolve its crisis.

• Han Yue and Han Xue welcomed Xiao Yan and Zi Yan to the Han Clan, where Zi Yan revealed Xiao Yan's accomplishments and strength to the astonished Han family.
• Han Yue stopped Han Xue from asking Xiao Yan for help immediately, explaining that the Han Clan needed to approach him carefully.
• After a welcoming banquet, Han Yue privately asked Xiao Yan to defeat Hong Chen, who intended to force her and Han Xue into marriage and take over the Han Clan's foundation.
• Xiao Yan agreed to fight Hong Chen and asked Han Yue to lead him to the Godbreak Mountain Range as payment.
• Han Yue told Han Xue that Xiao Yan had agreed to help, then urged her sister to become strong enough to protect the Han Clan themselves.

Xiao Yan accompanied Han Yue to confront the Hong Clan, where he effortlessly subdued Hong Chen and the North Wind Thunder Pavilion elders and revealed himself as the Fallen Star Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master. After sparing Shen Yun at Han Yue’s request, Xiao Yan left the Hong Clan to be destroyed and gave Han Yue a token that could help her and Han Xue join the Fallen Star Pavilion; Han Yue then wrestled with her feelings for the married Xiao Yan.

• Han Yue rejected Hong Chen’s marriage demand, and Xiao Yan stepped forward to face him.
• Xiao Yan forced Hong Chen, Hong Li, and the others to kneel, then dragged Shen Yun and the North Wind Thunder Pavilion elders into the hall and subdued them.
• Xiao Yan contacted Venerable Lei, who identified him as the Fallen Star Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master and ordered Shen Yun to seek his forgiveness.
• Xiao Yan spared Shen Yun at Han Yue’s request, and Shen Yun and the other elders slaughtered the Hong Clan and delivered its wealth to the Han Clan.
• Xiao Yan gave Han Yue a Young Pavilion Master Token and invited her and Han Xue to seek discipleship after reaching Dou Zong; Han Yue admitted to herself that Xiao Yan was beyond her reach and already married.

While waiting for a Dou Venerable secret realm to open, Xiao Yan advanced to the First Revolution and Zi Yan reached Four-Star Dou Zong. They arrived at the crowded entrance, where Xiao Yan spotted Ling Quan and resolved to settle their old score inside.

• Xiao Yan stabilized his cultivation and advanced to the First Revolution, while Zi Yan reached Four-Star Dou Zong.
• When the secret realm opened in the Godbreak Mountain Range, Han Yue told Xiao Yan it was time to leave, and he gave her a life-saving jade pendant before taking her and Zi Yan to the entrance.
• Experts from across the region gathered around the secret realm, including Gu Yao, Yan Kuang, and representatives of Soul Hall and other major powers.
• Xiao Yan secretly surveyed the gathered factions and discovered Ling Quan among the Ancient Clan party, then decided he would kill him inside the secret realm.
• Ling Quan sensed a threatening gaze but dismissed it as imagination, unaware that Xiao Yan had recognized him.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the secret realm, found rare treasures including Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Spirit Jade Earth Marrow, and encountered Ling Quan with the Half-Saint Gu Yang. Xiao Yan countered Gu Yang’s attack with the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Disc and gained the upper hand.

• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Han Yue entered the secret realm ahead of the other factions, but the unstable passage scattered them; Xiao Yan sensed Han Yue’s location through her jade pendant.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan searched the realm, and Zi Yan led him to a cave where Xiao Yan killed its Eight-Star Dou Zong python guardian and collected Ten-Thousand-Year Spirit Milk and Spirit Jade Earth Marrow.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan left the cave and met Ling Quan on a plain, where Ling Quan called on the concealed Gu Yang to kill Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yang attacked Xiao Yan with the Annihilation Profound Qi Finger, but Xiao Yan answered with the Five-Wheel Flame Separation Disc and overpowered the Half-Saint’s attack.

Xiao Yan fought and killed the Half-Saint Gu Yang after revealing the Xiao Clan’s awakened bloodline and unleashing his self-created Emperor Fist. He then captured Ling Quan’s soul after torturing him to death, leaving the Ancient Clan’s retaliation as a looming threat.

• Gu Yang attacked Xiao Yan with the Great Annihilation Finger, but Xiao Yan stacked several techniques to reach Peak Dou Venerable and countered with the Dragon-Slaying Palm.
• Xiao Yan used Void Step and his Azure Dragon techniques to overwhelm Gu Yang, who burned five years of life to raise his cultivation to Intermediate Half-Saint.
• Xiao Yan’s Emperor Fist shattered Gu Yang’s Ancient Emperor Saint-Slaying Diagram and killed him with a punch through the chest.
• Ling Quan tried to flee, but Xiao Yan sealed the space, cut off Ling Quan’s limbs, and killed him with thirty-six thousand cuts.
• Xiao Yan seized Ling Quan’s soul and sealed it in a bottle with the Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan reached the Nine-Aperture Dao Rhyme Lotus as powerful factions converged to claim it. The Soul Hall escalated the standoff by summoning two Half-Saints, while Xiao Yan remained concealed above the valley.

• Xiao Yan captured Ling Quan, stored Gu Yang’s corpse, and searched Gu Yang’s soul for Ancient Clan techniques.
• A pillar of multicolored light appeared, and Xiao Yan and Zi Yan traveled to the valley where the Nine-Aperture Dao Rhyme Lotus bloomed.
• The Northern Valley Sect, Wood Emperor Sect, Heavenly Sound Pavilion, and other factions arrived and argued over who would claim the lotus.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan watched from concealment as the Soul Hall appeared and the Fifth Heavenly Venerate declared the lotus belonged to his faction.
• Gu Yao and other major powers challenged the Soul Hall, prompting the Fifth Heavenly Venerate to summon the Half-Saints Hun Mo and Hun Yusheng.

Soul Hall's forces confronted the factions gathered around the Nine-Aperture Dao Rhyme Lotus, and Hun Mo revealed that he had secretly reached high-rank Half-Saint. With the area sealed against escape, Hun Mo announced that Soul Hall intended to take both the lotus and everyone's lives.

• Hun Yusheng revealed his new Initial Half-Saint cultivation and threatened Venerable Miaoyin with revenge for Sound Valley's past attack.
• Gu Han, Yan Lie, and Lei Bin joined forces with the other factions, and Gu Han proposed dividing the lotus with Soul Hall.
• Hun Mo exposed his concealed high-rank Half-Saint strength, shocking Gu Han and the other Half-Saints.
• Gu Yao crushed a Spatial Scroll to summon help, but the sealed formation prevented it from working.
• Hun Mo declared that Soul Hall planned to seize the lotus and kill everyone present for their souls and credit.

Soul Hall trapped the factions in the Heaven-Extinguishing Spirit-Swallowing Grand Formation and began slaughtering them while Hun Mo fought Gu Han and Yan Lie. After hours of battle, Gu Han burned his life force for a final attack, which Hun Mo answered with Soul Devours the Firmament.

• Hun Mo revealed Soul Hall intended to kill everyone and explained that the secret realm would leave no evidence behind.
• The Heaven-Extinguishing Spirit-Swallowing Grand Formation sealed the valley and devoured the fleeing experts’ bodies and souls.
• Hun Mo attacked Gu Han as Lei Bin fought Hun Yusheng, while Gu Han and Yan Lie joined forces against Hun Mo.
• Soul Hall’s Fifth Heavenly Venerate and Sixth Heavenly Venerable attacked the survivors as Gu Yao and Venerable Miaoyin helped resist them.
• After hours of fighting, Gu Han burned his blood, Dou Qi, and lifespan, then unleashed the Ancient Emperor Shattering Space Seal at Hun Mo.
• Hun Mo countered Gu Han’s attack with the Low Heaven-Tier Battle Skill Soul Devours the Firmament.

Hun Yusheng and Hun Mo killed Gu Han, Yan Lie, Lei Bin, and many other experts, leaving the survivors helpless before Soul Hall. As Hun Yusheng turned on Gu Yao, Xiao Yan unleashed a seven-colored Fire Lotus that killed him outright.

• Hun Mo killed Gu Han and Yan Lie, while Hun Yusheng beheaded Lei Bin and collected their souls.
• Hun Yusheng formed a Black Mist Domain and crushed the resisting experts beneath a massive palm strike, after which Soul Hall collected their souls.
• Hun Yusheng killed the wounded Gu Yao despite his appeal to his grandfather, then sensed an unexplained threat.
• A seven-colored Fire Lotus emerged from a spatial crack and exploded, engulfing Hun Yusheng in a firestorm.
• Xiao Yan's Fire Lotus burned through Hun Yusheng's defenses and destroyed his body and soul.