Chapter Summaries

Medusa, Han Feng, and the others were trapped in Meng Chen’s Eight Desolations Burning Flame Formation, which grew stronger by absorbing Han Feng’s Heavenly Flame. They pursued Meng Chen into the underground lava hall, where the groups clashed and Medusa confronted him about arranging the trap.

• Medusa and Han Feng discovered that the Heavenly Flame was missing, and the Eight Desolations Burning Flame Formation sealed the cavern around them.
• Han Feng’s Heart-Sea Flame strengthened the formation when he attacked it, while Fan Ling’s blood battle qi failed to break through.
• Han Feng led the others deeper underground to strike at the formation’s source, and Medusa and Yun Yun followed after agreeing to confront the schemer before competing for the Heavenly Flame.
• Meng Chen revealed himself in the lava hall, where Hai Bodong attacked Han Feng and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King blocked the Gold and Silver Elders and Fan Ling.
• Medusa arrived with Yun Yun, asked Meng Chen if he had arranged the trap, and watched the formation’s golden light envelop him.

Meng Chen revealed that the Heavenly Flame beneath the cavern was already gone and declared that he wanted Han Feng’s life and Storage Ring. Medusa joined Meng Chen’s attack, leaving Han Feng surrounded and preparing to fight to the death.

• Meng Chen announced that he wanted to kill Han Feng and take his Storage Ring, then told the others that the Heavenly Flame had already been taken.
• Yun Yun sheathed her sword and stepped back, while Han Feng called on the Gold and Silver Elders and Fan Ling to protect him.
• Meng Chen argued that no one in the Black-Corner Region would avenge Han Feng because they would fight over his inheritance.
• Medusa agreed and attacked Han Feng with a violet Dou Qi python, which Fan Ling’s blood curtain and the Gold and Silver Elders’ shields helped block.
• Meng Chen demanded Han Feng surrender the Heart-Sea Flame and Storage Ring, but Han Feng unleashed his flames and vowed to take others down with him.

Han Feng and his allies attacked Meng Chen, but Medusa, Hai Bodong, and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King held them back. Meng Chen ordered Aunt Qing to activate the formation, which sealed Han Feng and stripped away the Heart-Sea Flame, leaving him kneeling and weakened.

• Han Feng, Gold and Silver Elders, and Fan Ling charged Meng Chen, while Hai Bodong and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King blocked their advance.
• Hai Bodong fought Gold and Silver Elders, and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King drove Fan Ling back with purple fire.
• Han Feng struck Hai Bodong with the Heart-Sea Flame, but Medusa attacked Han Feng from behind and wounded him.
• Han Feng threatened to self-destruct with the Heart-Sea Flame, so Meng Chen told Aunt Qing to seal him.
• Qing Yanjing used the Eight Desolations Burning Flame Formation to suppress Han Feng and pull the Heart-Sea Flame from his body into the Small Pagoda.
• Han Feng lost much of his Dou Qi and collapsed to his knees, staring at Meng Chen in disbelief.

Meng Chen subdued Han Feng, forced the Gold and Silver Elders and Fan Ling to submit, and then asked Gu He to join the Divine Court as an alchemist. Gu He, overwhelmed by the collapse of his plans and intimidated by Meng Chen’s power, faced a choice he scarcely dared refuse.

• Meng Chen used the Eight Desolations Burning Flame Formation to repel the Gold and Silver Elders’ attacks and keep Han Feng suppressed.
• Meng Chen demanded that the Gold and Silver Elders and Fan Ling submit or be made into puppets, and all three handed over their blood essence.
• Meng Chen told Gu He he would not punish him for Han Feng’s schemes and invited him to join the Divine Court as an alchemist.
• Gu He reeled at losing the Green Lotus Core Flame and feared refusing Meng Chen after witnessing Han Feng’s defeat.

After subduing Han Feng and securing the Heavenly Flame, Meng Chen faced Medusa, who warned him that the Tagore Desert was not under the Divine Court’s control. With the other guests gone, he took Han Feng’s spoils and prepared to leave with the captured Heart-Sea Flame, which would need at least half a month to cleanse of Han Feng’s imprint.

• Medusa asked Meng Chen who he was, and he identified himself as a Lesser Divine King of the Divine Court.
• Medusa abandoned her pursuit of the Green Lotus Core Flame and warned Meng Chen not to mistake the Tagore Desert for Divine Court territory before leaving.
• Yun Yun departed with Gu He, while Meng Chen stored Han Feng in the Small Pagoda and took his Storage Ring.
• Qing Yanjing withdrew the formation’s power as Gu He and the others left the lava hall.
• Meng Chen examined the bound Heart-Sea Flame, and Qing Yanjing told him it would take at least half a month to erase Han Feng’s imprint.

Meng Chen returned to Qinglin and brought her and the others to his residence in Wutan City. There, he began strengthening his body to prepare for safely devouring a Heavenly Flame, and the chapter ended with him asking Qing Yanjing to add even more Dragon Blood to his medicinal bath.

• Qinglin waited anxiously for Meng Chen until he appeared, and she ran into his arms after Xiao Yixian told her to close her eyes.
• Meng Chen apologized for his delay and told Qinglin he would take her home to Wutan City; she kissed his cheek before running off to pack.
• Meng Chen, Qinglin, Xiao Yixian, Hai Bodong, and the others traveled to the Wutan City residence, where Qinglin and the others chose rooms.
• Meng Chen entered seclusion and asked Qing Yanjing to help him cultivate so he could build the strength needed to devour a Heavenly Flame.
• Qing Yanjing added Dragon Blood to Meng Chen's medicinal bath, and he handled three wisps easily before asking her to add three more.

Meng Chen pushed Qing Yanjing to add more Dragon Blood until its power overwhelmed him, forcing her to use the Female Phoenix Subduing Dragon Art to help him refine it. After several hours, the Dragon Blood was under Meng Chen’s control, while Qing Yanjing questioned how far she had strayed from her purpose.

• Meng Chen persuaded Qing Yanjing to add four more strands of Dragon Blood, then ten more, hoping to transform his Golden Sun Python Markings.
• The Dragon Blood ran wild through Meng Chen’s body, and Qing Yanjing’s attempt to suppress it failed.
• Qing Yanjing hesitated to use the Female Phoenix Subduing Dragon Art, but Meng Chen’s desperate plea convinced her to guide the energy.
• With Qing Yanjing’s help, Meng Chen subdued the Dragon Blood and began refining it.
• After five hours of playing cards, Qing Yanjing reflected on her ideals and her mission to help Meng Chen cleanse the Great Thousand World of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.

Meng Chen woke after surviving a dangerous breakthrough and learned that Qing Yanjing had saved him with a secret technique. After reaching Three-Star Battle King, he prepared to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame with Qing Yanjing’s help.

• Meng Chen discovered that he had replaced his three Sun Python Markings with five Blazing Sun Flood Dragon Markings and had advanced from Battle Master to Three-Star Battle King.
• Qing Yanjing told Meng Chen that his excessive use of Dragon Blood had nearly destroyed his meridians, and that she had used a secret technique to save him.
• Qing Yanjing warned Meng Chen to stabilize his foundation and said the secret technique had consumed too much of her strength to use again.
• Qing Yanjing gave Meng Chen the Blood Lotus Pill and separated the Green Lotus Core Flame from its pedestal.
• Meng Chen sat on the lotus pedestal, swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill, and was enclosed in a protective layer formed from the crimson liquid seeping through his skin.

Meng Chen refined the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Heart-Sea Flame, enduring their violent power with the aid of his physique, battle qi, and medicinal pills. After a month of seclusion, he broke through to Battle Emperor as Divine Court's name began spreading through the Jia Ma Empire.

• Meng Chen extracted and swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame's origin flame seed, then refined it with the Purple Sun Incinerating World Heavenly Technique.
• The Divine King Physique's aura helped Meng Chen suppress the Green Lotus Core Flame, and completing its refinement raised his cultivation to Seven-Star Battle King.
• Qing Yanjing worried over Meng Chen, who reassured her and prepared to refine the Heart-Sea Flame with an Earth Spirit Pill.
• Meng Chen endured the Heart-Sea Flame's fierce resistance and erased Han Feng's imprint during a month of seclusion.
• Meng Chen completed the refinement, formed a Vast Sea Divine Sun beside the Green Lotus Divine Sun, and broke through to Battle Emperor.

After Qing Yanjing fled into the Small Pagoda to avoid her feelings for Meng Chen, he took Qinglin shopping in Wutan City. While Meng Chen spoke with Xiao Yan, Jialie Ao and an unfamiliar alchemist confronted Qinglin, leaving trouble brewing.

• Qing Yanjing rejected Meng Chen's invitation to go out and fled into the Small Pagoda.
• Qinglin told Meng Chen she had been lonely during his month in seclusion, so he carried her out to shop and promised to buy her treats and clothes.
• Meng Chen ran into Xiao Yan, gave Qinglin gold coins to shop on her own, and explained that he had adopted her.
• Yao Lao sensed two Heavenly Flames in Meng Chen, and Xiao Yan probed him about his gains, but Meng Chen brushed off the question.
• Jialie Ao cursed at Qinglin while the unfamiliar alchemist beside him watched her greedily.

Meng Chen killed Jialie Ao and Liu Xi after they threatened Qinglin, then used the Green Lotus Core Flame to destroy the entire Jialie Clan. The chapter ended with the clan’s estate reduced to a vast, lava-filled pit.

• Jialie Ao insulted Qinglin and tried to grab her, but Meng Chen stepped in and burned him to nothing with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Meng Chen killed Liu Xi when he threatened him, then tried to learn where Liu Xi’s family lived so he could wipe them out, but Liu Xi died before answering.
• Xiao Yan told Meng Chen that Liu Xi was a first-tier alchemist employed by the Jialie Clan and that Jialie Bi would likely be enraged.
• Meng Chen left Qinglin with Xiao Yan and went to take care of the Jialie Clan.
• Meng Chen summoned a blazing green sun over the Jialie Clan estate and burned the entire clan, leaving a huge pit filled with molten lava.

Xiao Yan told the Xiao Clan council that the Jialie Clan had been destroyed, then explained that his friend Meng Chen had annihilated it after Jialie Ao and Liu Xi harassed Qinglin. Xiao Zhan and the elders were left stunned by Meng Chen’s power, while Xiao Zhan wondered whether he could offer anything valuable enough to build a connection with him.

• The elders pressured Xiao Zhan over the Jialie Clan’s Spring-Returning Powder and blamed his leniency toward Xiao Yan for their troubles.
• Xiao Yan entered the council hall and announced that the Jialie Clan had already been destroyed, but the elders and Xiao Zhan dismissed his claim.
• A servant reported that a blue sun had burned the Jialie Clan estate into a wasteland, and Xiao Zhan led the others to inspect the enormous crater.
• Xiao Yan explained that Meng Chen had destroyed the Jialie Clan after Jialie Ao and Liu Xi harassed Qinglin.
• Xiao Zhan considered preparing a gift to build a relationship with Meng Chen, then doubted that Meng Chen would value his offerings.

Meng Chen left Wutan City for the Black-Corner Region with Xiao Yixian and Qinglin after Xiao Yan thanked him for defeating the Jialie Clan. Half a month later, he arrived in Maple City, where the Gold and Silver Elders welcomed him and asked him to rename it.

• Xiao Zhan urged Xiao Yan to visit Meng Chen and thank him on behalf of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan thanked Meng Chen for dealing with the Jialie Clan, and Meng Chen told him he was leaving for the Black-Corner Region; the two promised to meet again at the summit.
• Meng Chen stored his belongings in the Small Pagoda, paid off his servants, and departed Wutan City with Xiao Yixian and Qinglin on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Yao Lao reminded Xiao Yan to cultivate if he wanted to meet Meng Chen again, then stiffened when Xiao Yan asked about the promised Low-Level Earth-Rank Battle Skill.
• Half a month later, the Gold and Silver Elders welcomed Meng Chen to Maple City and reported that the Divine Court had purged Han Feng's followers and taken over the city.
• Meng Chen agreed to rename Maple City Chen City, and the Gold and Silver Elders promised to issue the order.

Meng Chen crushed the factions that invaded Chen City, then struggled to manage the city’s affairs and summoned Yafei from the Jia Ma Empire to help. Yafei arrived expecting to become the Little Divine King’s plaything, while the Gold and Silver Elders escorted her to meet him.

• Meng Chen’s forces defeated the factions that entered Chen City, and Qinglin revealed that she had helped stack their heads into a mound.
• The Divine Court’s victory spread its reputation through the Black-Corner Region, while rival factions waited to see how Canaan Academy would respond.
• Meng Chen struggled with Chen City’s paperwork and decided that Yafei should manage its affairs.
• Two months later, Yafei arrived at Chen City with a large caravan, believing she had been sent there to serve as the city lord’s plaything.
• The Gold and Silver Elders welcomed Yafei and told her that the Little Divine King was waiting for her.

Yafei arrived in Chen City expecting a dangerous summons, but Meng Chen appointed her City Lord and entrusted her with the city’s management. Afterward, Qing Yanjing emerged from the Small Pagoda and questioned his motives for bringing Yafei over, then fled when he teased her about being jealous.

• Yafei entered the bamboo building and discovered that the Little Divine King was Meng Chen, not the sinister figure she had imagined.
• Meng Chen asked Yafei to manage Chen City and named her City Lord, giving her authority to direct the Gold and Silver Elders.
• Yafei accepted the responsibility, delighted that Meng Chen had given her a chance to prove her abilities.
• Meng Chen escaped his paperwork and returned to his room, where Qing Yanjing emerged from the Small Pagoda.
• Qing Yanjing questioned Meng Chen about transferring the beautiful Yafei, and he insisted that he valued her management skills.
• Meng Chen teased Qing Yanjing for being jealous, prompting her to return to the Small Pagoda and remind herself not to harbor improper thoughts toward her disciple.

Meng Chen appointed Yafei as Chen City's City Lord and ordered the Gold and Silver Elders to obey her. He offered them a high-grade Earth-tier cultivation method in exchange for their sincere support, then promised to help them reach the Battle Ancestor realm.

• Meng Chen told the Gold and Silver Elders that Yafei would govern Chen City and required them to follow her commands.
• The Gold and Silver Elders admitted they had been stuck at Battle Emperor Peak and had lost hope of advancing.
• Meng Chen explained that their cultivation methods were inadequate and revealed he had an unused high-grade Earth-tier method.
• The Gold and Silver Elders knelt and pledged to assist Yafei loyally, so Meng Chen handed them the cultivation method.
• Meng Chen told the Gold and Silver Elders to study the method and return in three days, promising to help them break through to the Battle Ancestor realm.

Meng Chen used Qing Yanjing’s formation to help the Gold and Silver Elders break through to Battle Ancestor, strengthening their loyalty to him and Yafei. The news spread across the Black-Corner Region as Meng Chen entered seclusion to study two secret arts.

• Meng Chen asked Qing Yanjing to help the Gold and Silver Elders force a breakthrough, and she proposed using a high-tier Essence-Gathering Formation.
• Qing Yanjing set up a Fifth-Tier Essence-Gathering Formation in Chen City, where the Gold and Silver Elders cultivated under Meng Chen’s watch.
• The Gold and Silver Elders absorbed the formation’s gathered essence energy and broke through to Battle Ancestor.
• The Gold and Silver Elders pledged to protect Yafei and obey her orders while Meng Chen secluded himself.
• News of their breakthrough spread through Chen City and the Black-Corner Region, while Meng Chen entered seclusion to comprehend the Divine Gu Secret Art and the Combat Character Secret.

After three months in seclusion, Meng Chen emerged as a Three-Star Battle Emperor and learned that Yafei had made Chen City prosperous. He asked about events in the Black-Corner Region and became interested in the upcoming Black-Mark City auction, especially the possible appearance of a Pure Lotus Demon Flame map fragment.

• Meng Chen completed three months of cultivation, advanced to the Three-Star Battle Emperor realm, and gained greater control over the Combat Character Secret and Divine Gu Secret Art.
• The Gold and Silver Elders welcomed Meng Chen out of seclusion and reported that Yafei had improved Chen City's governance, commerce, farmland, and guard salaries.
• Meng Chen praised the Gold and Silver Elders for their work and asked whether anything unusual had happened in the Black-Corner Region.
• Elder Gold told Meng Chen that the annual Black-Mark City auction would begin in a few days.
• Meng Chen recalled that the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill would not appear because Han Feng was dead, but wondered whether the Pure Lotus Demon Flame map fragment would be auctioned.

Meng Chen agreed to attend Black-Mark City’s auction and brought Qinglin and Xiao Yixian with him. They arrived on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and entered the auction house through the honored guest passage.

• The Gold and Silver Elders told Meng Chen about the auction, and he agreed to go after three months of seclusion.
• Qinglin persuaded Meng Chen to take her and Xiao Yixian along to Black-Mark City.
• Meng Chen, Qinglin, Xiao Yixian, and the Gold and Silver Elders arrived at Black-Mark City on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, startling the crowds and guards.
• Meng Chen stored the lion in the Small Pagoda, and Qinglin rushed toward the city gate despite promising to behave.
• Meng Chen led Qinglin, Xiao Yixian, and the Gold and Silver Elders into the auction house through the honored guest passage using his first-class VIP card.

At the Black-Mark City auction, Qinglin grew jealous after seeing Meng Chen glance at a maid and resolved to grow up into a beauty. Fan Lao and Fan Ling arrived arrogantly but bowed to Meng Chen, revealing the Divine Court’s influence, and Fan Lao left after Meng Chen reprimanded him.

• A maid led Meng Chen and his companions to the front seats, while Qinglin compared herself to the maid and privately vowed to grow up quickly and become more beautiful.
• Xiao Yixian noticed Qinglin’s unusual mood, but Qinglin blushed and said she simply wished she could grow up faster.
• Several factions watched Meng Chen and Qinglin, including women from the Sky Serpent Mansion, while Meng Chen complained about the lack of private rooms.
• Fan Lao and Fan Ling forced their way through the VIP passage, then Fan Lao approached Meng Chen and bowed respectfully.
• Meng Chen told Fan Lao to stop acting domineering, and Fan Lao agreed before leaving with Fan Ling and his subordinates.