Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan traveled with Little Doctor Fairy to the Black-Corner Region, where Hai Bo Dong had established a Flame Alliance base in Noding City. There, Xiao Yan collected the third Pure Lotus Demon Flame Remnant Map and the Three-Thousand Lightning Movement technique, and examined the remaining item before him.

• Xiao Yan left Cai Lin, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei in the Flame Alliance and promised to hold a wedding after returning, then departed for the Black-Corner Region with Little Doctor Fairy on Zi Ling.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Fairy reached Noding City, where Hai Bo Dong and the Flame Alliance branch welcomed them; Xiao Yan praised Hai Bo Dong for securing the city and organizing the force.
• Hai Bo Dong reported on the branch’s progress and presented Xiao Yan with three items he had been ordered to obtain.
• Xiao Yan combined the damaged scroll with the two remnant maps he already possessed, confirming it was the third Pure Lotus Demon Flame Remnant Map.
• Xiao Yan inspected the silver-white scroll and identified it as the Three-Thousand Lightning Movement technique.

Xiao Yan examined the seized treasures, learned that the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill belonged to Yao Lao and that Han Feng was hiding in the Black-Corner Region, and rewarded Hai Bo Dong for his service. The system then granted Xiao Yan new techniques, pills, and a map to the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, leaving him wondering whether the flame was connected to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian the Three-Thousand Lightning Movement scroll and discovered that the jade bottle contained Yao Lao's Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
• Yao Lao recognized the pill and grew furious when Xiao Yan revealed that Han Feng had betrayed him and was now in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan promised to avenge Yao Lao by killing Han Feng, then rewarded Hai Bo Dong with a Supreme Sect-Breaking Pill for his loyalty.
• The system awarded Xiao Yan a Heavenly Flame map, the Nearness at Hand, Vastness Between technique, and the Azure Nether Dragon Transformation Pill; Xiao Yan mastered the technique but could not yet safely use it at perfection.
• The system revealed that the map led to the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, and Xiao Yan wondered whether the Heavenly Flame had a connection to the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan led Hai Bo Dong and Little Doctor Fairy to the Blood Sect to avenge Fan Ling and destroy the sect. Little Doctor Fairy and Hai Bo Dong fought Fan Lao’s Dou Emperor allies while Xiao Yan killed Fan Lao, leaving the battle’s outcome against the remaining fighters unresolved.

• Hai Bo Dong told Xiao Yan that Fan Ling had ambushed him and that Fan Lao’s two Dou Emperor allies had forced him to retreat.
• Xiao Yan ordered Hai Bo Dong to gather the Flame Alliance’s forces and march on the Blood Sect, while Fan Lao enlisted two Flame Demon Valley elders to help avenge his son.
• Xiao Yan, Little Doctor Fairy, and Hai Bo Dong arrived at the Blood Sect and confronted Fan Lao and the two masked Dou Emperors.
• Little Doctor Fairy attacked the Seven-Star Dou Emperor, and Hai Bo Dong engaged the Eight-Star Dou Emperor, drawing both fighters away.
• Xiao Yan used the Wasteland Heaven-Imprisoning Finger to crush Fan Lao’s Blood Demon Hand and kill him, leaving only blood mist behind.

Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance destroyed the Blood Sect, then headed for Maple City to meet an old acquaintance. Han Feng learned who had defeated the Blood Sect and decided to invite Xiao Yan to help him attack Canaan Academy for its Heavenly Flame.

• Little Doctor Fairy dissolved the Seven-Star Dou Emperor’s binding technique with her poison mist and killed him before he could escape.
• Hai Bo Dong overwhelmed the Eight-Star Dou Emperor with an Earth Tier Dou Technique, but Xiao Yan killed him when a pill briefly raised his strength.
• Xiao Yan ordered Hai Bo Dong and the Flame Alliance disciples to eliminate the Blood Sect and take control of Dusk City, then told Little Doctor Fairy they would go to Maple City.
• News of the Blood Sect’s destruction spread through the Black-Corner Region, making many factions wary of the Flame Alliance.
• Han Feng learned that the Flame Alliance had destroyed the Blood Sect and ordered Han Beng to invite its leader to Maple City, hoping to recruit him for an assault on Canaan Academy.
• Han Feng’s excitement over the Heavenly Flame gave way to pain as the Sea Heart Flame stirred within him, and he cursed the old man who had withheld the Flame Mantra.

Han Feng assembled Black-Corner Region experts to attack Canaan Academy, but Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Fairy appeared in Maple City and confronted him over his betrayal of Yao Chen. Xiao Yan revealed the Bone-Chilling Flame, and Yao Chen emerged to face his former disciple as the trapped Han Feng denied that he was alive.

• Han Beng infiltrated the Flame Alliance headquarters but Hai Bo Dong killed him before he could reach its leader.
• Han Feng gathered the Gold-and-Silver Elders, Ban Lao, and other experts in Maple City and promised them pills for helping him seize Canaan Academy's Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Fairy appeared at Han Feng's meeting, and Xiao Yan burned a Dou Emperor to ash when he tried to challenge them.
• Xiao Yan showed Han Feng the Bone-Chilling Flame and accused him of betraying their master, Yao Chen, prompting the assembled experts to question Han Feng's story.
• Han Feng offered to triple the promised pills and led the assembled experts in an attack, but Xiao Yan revealed the strength of a One-Star Dou Venerable and immobilized everyone except Han Feng.
• Yao Chen emerged from Xiao Yan's body and told Han Feng he was still alive, while Han Feng raged and refused to believe him.

Yao Lao confronted Han Feng over his betrayal, and Xiao Yan exposed how Han Feng’s choices had ruined the life he could have had. Yao Lao killed Han Feng, then Xiao Yan collected the Sea Heart Flame and explored Han Feng’s inheritance in the Nethersea Storage Ring.

• Yao Lao revealed that he had survived as a remnant soul and asked Han Feng whether he had betrayed him solely to obtain the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan explained why Yao Lao had not given Han Feng the Flame Mantra and mocked Han Feng for betraying his teacher despite the opportunities he had been given.
• Han Feng broke down with regret, and Yao Lao disowned him before crushing him with a palm strike.
• Yao Lao returned to the Bone Flame Ring, while Xiao Yan stored the Sea Heart Flame in the Green Lotus Seat and claimed Han Feng’s Nethersea Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan erased Han Feng’s soul imprint and discovered the gold, techniques, Dou Skills, pill formulas, alchemy notes, and rare materials inside the ring.

After obtaining powerful techniques, a Five-Star Dou Venerable Puppet, and other rewards, Xiao Yan forced Han Feng’s gathered forces to join the Flame Alliance and renamed Maple City Flame City. The survivors submitted to him, while the Gold-and-Silver Elders received pills to help them advance to Dou Zong.

• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with three techniques and offered two bundles of rewards for intercepting Han Feng’s inheritance; Xiao Yan chose the Heaven-Burning Mountain-Refining Cauldron, Heaven-Concealing Ring, Five-Star Dou Venerable Puppet, and Nine-Colored Sacred Fetus Pill ingredients.
• Xiao Yan mastered the new techniques, released Yao Lao, declared himself Maple City’s master, renamed the city Flame City, and demanded that the gathered factions merge into the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan offered the factions powerful pills as benefits and displayed the puppet to make clear that refusal would mean death; everyone agreed to join and swallowed his Heavenly Flame lotus.
• Ban Lao attempted to flee using Blood Demon Escape, but Xiao Yan’s puppet killed him with one punch, terrifying the remaining holdouts into pledging loyalty.
• Xiao Yan gave the Gold-and-Silver Elders Supreme Sect-Breaking Pills and ordered them to break through to One-Star Dou Zong within three days; they accepted the pills and vowed to serve him.

Xiao Yan began his breakthrough to Dou Zong by absorbing the Sea Heart Flame in a guarded chamber in Flame City. After its origin power surged through his body and cracked the barrier before him, he prepared to continue advancing.

• The Gold-and-Silver Elders reached One-Star Dou Zong and helped the Flame Alliance bring Flame City’s hostile factions under control.
• Little Doctor Fairy guarded Xiao Yan outside the chamber alongside the Five-Star Dou Venerable puppet while he prepared to break through.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Sea Heart Flame with the Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame and the Undying Divine Flame, then absorbed it into his cultivation art.
• The fused flame released vast origin power that tempered Xiao Yan’s meridians as he drove the energy into the barrier between Dou Emperor and Dou Zong.
• Cracks spread across the barrier under the force of Xiao Yan’s energy.

Xiao Yan broke through to Three-Star Dou Zong, advanced the Heaven-Burning Divine Art to High Earth Tier, and strengthened his physical cultivation. He then swallowed the Great Spirit Pill and began absorbing spiritual energy to advance his soul toward the Spirit Realm.

• Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame and broke through from Peak Dou Emperor to Three-Star Dou Zong after a month of cultivation.
• Xiao Yan advanced the Heaven-Burning Divine Art to High Earth Tier and raised the Immovable Wisdom King Art to its seventh level.
• Xiao Yan took the Great Spirit Pill and used the Great Evolution Divine Art to refine its medicinal power in his sea of consciousness.
• Xiao Yan opened his defenses to the surrounding spiritual energy, which flooded into his sea of consciousness and steadily strengthened his soul.

Xiao Yan absorbed immense spiritual energy and broke through to a Spirit-Realm Soul, manifesting a powerful soul body that shook Flame City. He confirmed that his Soul Power now met the requirements for refining low-grade Eighth-Rank Pills.

• Xiao Yan's soul formed a cocoon as spiritual energy surged across Flame City, alerting Little Doctor Fairy, Hai Bo Dong, and the other experts.
• After another month, Xiao Yan's Soul Cocoon synchronized with his heartbeat, cracked open, and released a materialized soul resembling him.
• Xiao Yan's awakening soul sent a wave of pressure through Flame City, and the Gold-and-Silver Elders were injured when they tried to resist it with Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan left his body as a soul, tested his ability to pass through walls and objects, then returned to his brow and opened his eyes.
• Xiao Yan assessed his Soul Power as early Spirit Realm and realized he could refine some low-grade Eighth-Rank Pills.

Xiao Yan consumed the Azure Nether Dragon Transformation Pill, gained a trace of Ancient Azure Dragon Bloodline and inherited several Azure Dragon Clan Dou Techniques while greatly strengthening his body. After emerging from seclusion, he heard that the Flame Alliance had subdued most nearby factions and decided to visit the Black Emperor Sect with Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the Azure Nether Dragon Transformation Pill, endured its violent effects, and destroyed the Azure Nether Flood Dragon's remnant soul in his sea of consciousness.
• The pill gave Xiao Yan a trace of Ancient Azure Dragon Bloodline, Azure Dragon Clan Dou Techniques, and a physical body comparable to a Peak Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan left seclusion and Xiao Yi Xian remarked that his presence had changed.
• Elder Gold reported that the Flame Alliance had subdued several factions, while the Black Emperor Sect, Flame Demon Valley, and Eagle Mountain Elder still refused to submit.
• Xiao Yan decided to take Xiao Yi Xian to the Black Emperor Sect and speak with its leader, Mo Tianxing.

Xiao Yan confronted Mo Tianxing at the Black Emperor Sect and demanded that the sect join the Flame Alliance and hand over three treasures. When Mo Tianxing refused, they took their dispute into the sky, where Mo Tianxing launched the first attack.

• Mo Tianxing heard reports of the Flame Alliance’s growing power and discussed resisting it with Mo Ya and the Black Emperor Sect’s elders.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Little Doctor Fairy, and Mo Ya stared at her before Mo Tianxing greeted the Flame Alliance leader.
• Xiao Yan demanded that the Black Emperor Sect merge into the Flame Alliance and offered to exchange for its Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, magical beast corpse, and Six-Unity Wandering Body Ruler.
• Mo Tianxing rejected Xiao Yan’s demands and told him to leave, so Xiao Yan challenged him to fight outside.
• Mo Tianxing and Xiao Yan faced off above the Black Emperor Sect, and Mo Tianxing attacked with the Black Demon Slash.

Xiao Yan killed Mo Tianxing, Mo Ya, and Qi Shan, forced the Black Emperor Sect’s surviving elders to join the Flame Alliance, and seized the sect’s treasures. The system rewarded him with Bodhi Seeds, an Azure Dragon Blood Pill, and a powerful ruler technique for intercepting three major treasures.

• Xiao Yan shattered Mo Tianxing’s attack with his Azure Dragon Claw and killed him with a crushing strike.
• Little Doctor Fairy blocked Mo Ya and the Black Emperor Sect elders while Xiao Yan returned holding Mo Tianxing’s corpse.
• Xiao Yan killed Mo Ya and Qi Shan, then made the surviving elders swallow Heavenly Flame lotuses and swear allegiance to the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was a High Seventh-Rank Alchemist and displayed pills to persuade the new members of the Flame Alliance to accept him.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Fairy entered the Black Emperor Sect’s treasure pavilion, where Xiao Yan stored its treasures, including Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, a Sky Demon Phoenix corpse, and the Six-Unity Wandering Body Ruler.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with five Bodhi Seeds, an Azure Dragon Blood Pill, and the High Earth Tier Mountain-Splitting Eight Desolations Ruler technique.

Xiao Yan refined the Sky Demon Phoenix remains to upgrade his Wind-Thunder Wings into an Eighth-Grade Dao Artifact with powerful spatial-leaping abilities. He tested the wings beside Xiao Yi Xian and gave her a separate pair of Seventh-Grade wings, while Flame Demon Valley organized the Earth Demon Alliance against the Flame Alliance.

• Xiao Yan stored the Black Emperor Sect's treasures and left with Xiao Yi Xian as news of the sect's submission to the Flame Alliance spread.
• Flame Demon Valley formed the Earth Demon Alliance with Eagle Mountain Elder and several other forces to oppose the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan refined the Sky Demon Phoenix corpse and used its wing essence and Thunderwing Roc bones to upgrade his Wind-Thunder Wings.
• After three days, Xiao Yan completed the Eighth-Grade Dao Artifact and discovered it could use Spatial Leap to cross short distances almost instantly.
• Xiao Yan surprised Xiao Yi Xian while she refined poison, then gave her a Seventh-Grade pair of wings made from a Nine-Heavens Wind Roc.

Cai Lin and Xiao Yan led the Flame Alliance to Flame Demon Valley to destroy the Earth Demon Alliance, where Xiao Yan confronted Earth Demon Old Ghost. Xiao Yan seemingly killed the Seven-Star Dou Zong with one technique, but Earth Demon Old Ghost survived by escaping through space, badly injured and with little lifespan remaining.

• Lin Longwen rallied the assembled factions to join the Earth Demon Alliance against the Flame Alliance.
• Elder Gold and the Gold-and-Silver Elders arrived with the Flame Alliance, and Cai Lin revealed herself as another Dou Zong and declared she would destroy the Earth Demon Alliance.
• Lin Longwen summoned Earth Demon Old Ghost, who challenged Cai Lin and made lewd threats before Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Fairy arrived.
• Xiao Yan faced Earth Demon Old Ghost and used the Wasteland Heaven-Imprisoning Finger to crush his ice sword and turn him into blood mist.
• Xiao Yan detected Earth Demon Old Ghost hiding in space and dragged him back out, revealing his severed arm, chest wound, and greatly diminished lifespan.

Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance annihilated the Earth Demon Alliance, then raided Flame Demon Valley’s treasure vault and claimed its valuable techniques, Magic Core, and Heavenly Demon Puppet method. The system rewarded Xiao Yan with a powerful breakthrough secret art and a random Eighth-Order Magic Core.

• Xiao Yan sealed Earth Demon Old Ghost’s soul and stored it with his body after foiling his Spatial Blood Escape.
• Cai Lin froze Eagle Mountain Elder as he tried to flee, and Xiao Yan captured his soul; the Flame Alliance then wiped out the Earth Demon Alliance and took control of the Black-Corner Region outside Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and the Little Doctor Fairy entered Flame Demon Valley’s treasure vault, where Xiao Yan captured a Battle King-level snake-type Magical Beast as a gift for Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan broke Earth Demon Old Ghost’s seals and collected the Thunderbolt Manual, Startling Insects Thunder Art, True Flame Manipulation Formula, a Seventh Tier fire-attribute Magic Core, and the Heavenly Demon Puppet creation method.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with the Heaven-Burning Fate-Reversal Art and a random Eighth-Order attribute Magic Core, and Xiao Yan was stunned by the art’s power.

Xiao Yan’s Flame Alliance destroyed Flame Demon Valley and seized the Black-Corner Region, prompting Canaan Academy to fear an attack. As Xiao Yan traveled to the academy with Cai Lin and Little Doctor Fairy, Xiao Xun'er learned of his rise and grew jealous of his other confidantes.

• Xiao Yan collected the remaining treasury treasures from Flame Demon Valley, then returned to Flame City with Cai Lin and Little Doctor Fairy as the valley burned in ruins.
• Hai Bo Dong reported the Flame Alliance’s victories and plunder to Xiao Yan, while Su Qian learned that the alliance had defeated the Earth Demon Alliance and might threaten Canaan Academy.
• Su Qian went to consult Elder Qian and Elder Bai, and Xiao Xun'er heard from Ling Ying that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Zong and unified the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Xun'er grew jealous as she thought of Xiao Yan’s other women and worried that she had lost her place in his heart.
• Xiao Yan entrusted Flame City’s affairs to Hai Bo Dong and the others, then traveled toward Canaan Academy with Cai Lin and Little Doctor Fairy on Little Zi.
• During the journey, Cai Lin massaged Xiao Yan while Little Doctor Fairy fed him fruit, and Xiao Yan contentedly enjoyed their company.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached Canaan Academy, where he met his cousin Xiao Yu and confirmed to Vice Principal Hu Gan that he had founded the Flame Alliance in the Black-Corner Region. Hu Gan invited Xiao Yan inside to discuss his visit and his wish to become an academy elder.

• Xiao Yan and his companions crossed Peace Town and the surrounding forest before reaching Canaan City and Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Yu greeted Xiao Yan at the academy gates, thanked him for helping Xiao Ning, and learned that he was a Three-Star Dou Zong who had founded the Flame Alliance in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yu sent a student to notify Vice Principal Hu Gan, who soon arrived with several Outer Academy elders.
• Hu Gan asked Xiao Yan whether he had founded the Flame Alliance in the Black-Corner Region, and Xiao Yan confirmed it.
• Hu Gan invited Xiao Yan and his companions into Canaan Academy to talk.

Xiao Yan negotiated with Jia Nan Academy's Su Qian for access to the Fallen Heart Flame, offering pills and a way to replace it with a new Heavenly Flame. After leaving the negotiations unresolved, he reunited with Xiao Xun'er, who was eager to confront him about his other confidantes.

• Xiao Yan told Hu Gan that his proposal to become an academy elder required a decision-maker, so Hu Gan summoned Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he wanted the Fallen Heart Flame and warned Su Qian that it would eventually erupt beyond the academy's control.
• Xiao Yan offered to erase the flame's intelligence and provide a new Heavenly Flame after two months in exchange for pills, and Su Qian decided to discuss the deal with the elders.
• Xiao Yan asked to see Xiao Xun'er and Qing Lin, and Su Qian allowed him to visit them.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Xiao Yan had arrived with two women, and she set out to meet him, intending to discuss his other confidantes.
• Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian left Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er alone, and Xiao Yan embraced Xiao Xun'er.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xun'er at Canaan Academy, reassured her about her place in his heart, and exchanged gifts with her. After receiving his three treasures and a promise that he would always come to her, Xiao Xun'er kissed him.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er walked hand in hand through Canaan Academy, where Xiao Xun'er showed him the grounds and shared what she had experienced there.
• At a cliff overlooking the academy, Xiao Xun'er became jealous of Xiao Yan's other women, and he promised that no one could take her place in his heart.
• Xiao Xun'er gave Xiao Yan the first two forms of the Ancient Clan's Emperor Seal Art, and Xiao Yan accepted it.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xun'er the Mystic Phoenix Li-Flame Plume, the Crimson Phoenix Heaven-Burning Sword, and one half of the Two Poles Heartguard Pendant, promising that he would come to her whenever she needed him.
• Xiao Xun'er embraced Xiao Yan and kissed him.