Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan helped the Flat Peach Tree overcome its death tribulation and absorbed its origin as his first hundred-thousand-year soul ring. After leaving with Ma Xiaotao and the transformed tree, he unknowingly attracted the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who set off to find him.

• Xiao Yan refined the Flat Peach Tree’s flames until it transformed into a Scarlet Golden Flat Peach and offered him its origin as a soul ring.
• The Flat Peach Tree gave Ma Xiaotao a small flat peach and shared its insights while Xiao Yan absorbed the soul ring, solidifying his Dharma Idol and gaining a crimson-gold ring.
• Xiao Yan finished absorbing the ring, formed a medicinal pill from its flames, and left with Ma Xiaotao and the Flat Peach Tree to avoid the soul beasts drawn by the commotion.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion arrived, ate Xiao Yan’s pill, enjoyed its effects, and raced off in the direction of his lingering aura.
• Scarlet King felt a sudden chill while slacking off, looked around suspiciously, and returned to slacking off.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Death's Hand Thieves' Group and returned to the Flame Alliance after gathering more information on evil soul masters. He prepared to visit Star Dou before moving on, intending to repay the Douluo Continent for the power and resources he had gained there.

• Xiao Yan entered the Death's Hand Thieves' Group's hideout and killed the Soul Kings who confronted him.
• The Death God Envoy used the Corpse Explosion Technique and fled, but Xiao Yan trapped him in Endless Flame Domain and burned him away.
• Xiao Yan collected the Death God Envoy's memory fragments and returned to the Flame Alliance, where Scarlet Emperor greeted him.
• Xiao Yan told Scarlet Emperor he planned to visit Star Dou and invited him to come along to see Scarlet King.
• Xiao Yan recalled how he had hunted or negotiated with powerful soul beasts and used their origins to strengthen himself and form soul rings.
• Xiao Yan left the Flame Alliance in Scarlet Emperor's care and planned to visit Star Dou before continuing his journey to repay the plane's will.

Zhongli Wu learned that Xiao Yan had destroyed fourteen Holy Spirit Cult branches and ordered an ambush for him. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan continued his hunt near Sunrise City, where Ye Guyi struggled to digest the energy she had gained.

• A kneeling Soul Sage reported that fourteen Holy Spirit Cult branches had been erased, and Zhongli Wu killed him after hearing the news.
• Zhongli Wu found the blood-flame message naming Xiao Yan as the killer and traced his route across the empire on the cult's map.
• Zhongli Wu ordered several Title Douluo to guard the next cities and prepare an ambush for Xiao Yan.
• In Sunrise City, Ye Guyi felt overwhelmed by the energy she had gained from helping exterminate evil soul masters.
• Xiao Yan warned Holy Spirit Cult members through a camera that they should flee, then transformed into firelight and engulfed several fleeing figures.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult’s surveillance rooms and remaining branches in Sunrise City, then headed toward its headquarters with Ye Guyi. He discovered a carefully prepared ambush involving five Soul Douluo and hidden Soul Engineers, but dismissed it as inadequate.

• Holy Spirit Cult Soul Engineers watched Xiao Yan through surveillance soul tools, but he sensed them and burned their underground chamber to ash.
• The Sunrise City branch’s leaders saw the city’s strongholds fall and sent more than ten figures to meet Xiao Yan at the headquarters.
• Xiao Yan shared his flames with Ye Guyi as they traveled south, helping her cultivate while she followed him.
• Xiao Yan used his Fiery Golden Eyes to reveal an underground ambush of three Zhongli brothers, sisters Wuyun and Wuyu, hidden Soul Engineers, and Fixed Soul Missiles.
• Xiao Yan called the trap inadequate and challenged the Holy Spirit Cult to ambush him properly.

Xiao Yan and Ye Guyi confronted the Holy Spirit Cult’s ambush, and Xiao Yan destroyed its forces with overwhelming fire. After killing the Zhongli brothers and two hidden Soul Douluo, he searched the underground plaza for the remaining enemies.

• Xiao Yan dismissed the ambush as inadequate, then teleported with Ye Guyi to face the Holy Spirit Cult’s hidden experts.
• Zhongli Tian watched Xiao Yan destroy the Rank 8 soul tool, then Xiao Yan struck the underground plaza and crushed Zhongli Ren and Zhongli Di.
• Xiao Yan gave Ye Guyi the crystal left by Zhongli Ren and killed Zhongli Tian as he tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan found Wuyun and killed her, then pulled Wuyu from behind another wall and killed her with the Samadhi True Fire.
• Xiao Yan spotted a bloated Title Douluo hiding below and prepared to attack next.

Xiao Yan drew on the Douluo Plane’s Origin of Fire and slaughtered the Holy Spirit Cult’s attackers, gaining temporary authority over the world’s flames. He then began eradicating the cult in Bright City and confronted Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao, declaring himself the Flame Emperor.

• Xiao Yan used his Fiery Golden Eyes to kill Netherworld Douluo through his dimensional refuge, then burned away Netherworld’s lingering slash before it could reach Ye Guyi.
• Xiao Yan killed Abomination Douluo with a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus and absorbed the Douluo Plane’s fire energy, then destroyed Wuyun, Myriad Souls, Nether Lightning, and nearby Evil Soul Masters with a colossal flaming hand.
• Xiao Yan sent Ye Guyi to the Flame Alliance, gave Ma Xiaotao a strand of power, and flew to Bright City to hunt down the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Xiao Yan killed Feng Ling and Zhang Peng and destroyed the cult’s strongholds before confronting its leader, Zhongli Wu.
• Ye Xishui and Long Xiaoyao intervened to protect Zhongli Wu, but Xiao Yan rejected negotiations and proclaimed that he would suppress all enemies in the world.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Holy Spirit Cult, crushed the empire’s attack, and killed Xu Tianran, but Ye Xishui survived. Tang San appeared to protect her, and Xiao Yan turned to confront him.

• Long Xiaoyao attacked Xiao Yan while Ye Xishui prepared a blood sacrifice, but Xiao Yan killed Zhongli Wu and trapped Ye Xishui in the Endless Flame Domain.
• Xiao Yan sealed Long Xiaoyao beneath a flaming mountain and surrounded the Evil Demon Forest with fire, alarming the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler.
• Xu Tianran ordered soul engineer legions to bombard Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan survived and revealed that his flames had shielded civilians from the explosions.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Xu Tianran and killed him, then returned to attack Ye Xishui when he sensed that she was still alive.
• Tang San emerged beside Ye Xishui with a Golden Trident, and Xiao Yan said he would take Tang San’s head to settle their account.

Xiao Yan destroyed Tang San’s incarnation by drawing on the Douluo Plane’s power, then spent weeks strengthening the Flame Alliance and negotiating cooperation with the soul beasts. After returning to the Dou Qi Continent, he appeared in the Beast Mountain Range and called for the Yao Clan to come out and die.

• Tang San tried to recruit Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan rejected him and used the Endless Fire Domain and the plane’s laws to destroy his incarnation.
• Tang San lost nearly half his divine power and divine sense, then tried to descend to Douluo in his true body despite the God of Destruction’s objections.
• Space-Time Turbulence severed the Divine Realm’s connection to the lower realms, leaving Tang San’s fate unknown while Xiao Yan recovered and strengthened the plane’s will.
• Xiao Yan treated Mu En, helped the Emperor Auspicious Beast take human form, expanded the Flame Alliance, and negotiated a cooperation plan with Di Tian.
• Di Tian proposed the title Di Jun for the Emperor Auspicious Beast as Xiao Yan left Douluo to discuss establishing a Divine Realm with the plane’s will.
• Xiao Yan appeared at the Beast Mound ruins in the Beast Mountain Range and shouted for the Yao Clan to come out and die.

After gaining the Ten Thousand Flames Undying Body, Xiao Yan joined Yao Chen to attack Yao Yun and Yao Nuo, and Yao Chen killed Yao Yun. The pair turned their attention to the Yao Clan, while Yao Chen ordered Xiao Yan to undergo intensive alchemy training before taking them on.

• Xiao Yan explained to Yao Chen that his body had transformed into the embryonic form of a Dharma Body, which he named the Ten Thousand Flames Undying Body.
• Yao Chen insisted that Xiao Yan learn alchemy and master the Fire-as-Pill Technique before going after Han Feng, then tested his new body by merging with him.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan used their combined powers to draw Yao Yun and Yao Nuo into Xiao Yan's flame domain, where Yao Chen attacked Yao Yun.
• Yao Chen revealed himself to Yao Yun, rejected his pleas for mercy, and killed him with the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan vowed to demand an explanation from the Yao Clan, and Yao Chen assigned him hellish pill-refining training to prepare for the fight.

After half a month of intensive alchemy, Xiao Yan reached the threshold of a fifth-tier alchemist and created a powerful Myriad Beast Blood-Coagulation Pill. He left seclusion and sensed a battle between Dou Emperor-level experts in the distance.

• Yao Chen stopped his possession-based alchemy lessons, exhausted by Xiao Yan's demanding half-month of study.
• Yao Chen examined Xiao Yan's fifth-tier Buddha's Fury Myriad Beast Blood-Coagulation Pill and praised its ability to unleash explosive effects and refine magical-beast bloodlines.
• Xiao Yan put away alchemy formulas from Yao Chen and spent another half day refining items and digesting his insights.
• Xiao Yan finished his seclusion, left the cave, and sensed a surge of purple fiery aura that suggested Dou Emperor-level experts were fighting.

Xiao Yan watched Yun Yun challenge the Amethyst Winged Lion King for its Amethyst Crystal and relished their battle. After the Lion King's stray attack destroyed his head, he decided the beast deserved to be beaten to death.

• Xiao Yan sensed a Purple Flame and flew to watch the Amethyst Winged Lion King fight, considering whether he could raise a young one as a mount.
• Yun Yun asked the Amethyst Winged Lion King to lend her its Amethyst Crystal in exchange for a suitable price so she could prepare a medicinal pill for Nalan Yanran.
• The Lion King refused and demanded a seventh-tier Transformation Pill, so Yun Yun and the beast abandoned negotiations and began fighting.
• Xiao Yan watched Yun Yun summon a massive azure tornado and the Lion King retaliate with purple fire and a claw strike.
• The Lion King's stray claw wave shattered Xiao Yan's head, but he regenerated and decided the beast needed to be beaten to death.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Amethyst Winged Lion King's flames while Yun Yun fought the beast, but the Lion King sealed her Dou Qi and nearly struck her down. Xiao Yan rescued her, overwhelmed the Lion King, and fled with Yun Yun, leaving a fire lotus to explode behind them.

• Xiao Yan endured the battle's stray attacks and absorbed the Lion King's Purple Flame while secretly gathering power.
• Yun Yun wounded the Lion King with Wind's Extreme: Fallen Kill, but the Purple Crystal Seal then sealed her Dou Qi and sent her falling.
• Xiao Yan caught Yun Yun and used flaming hands to shatter the Lion King's claws and armor.
• Xiao Yan carried Yun Yun away as the Lion King prepared another Purple Crystal Seal, then left a fire lotus that exploded behind them.
• Xiao Yan's voice taunted the Lion King from within the flames, warning that it had survived only the first strike.

Xiao Yan rescued the wounded Yun Yun and cared for her in a cave, unaware that his kindness and strength had stirred confusing feelings in her. Yun Yun learned he was Nalan Yanran’s former fiancé and returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with a promise to look after her, while Xiao Yan prepared to confront the Amethyst Winged Lion King again.

• Xiao Yan cooked medicinal chicken soup for Yun Yun and fed her while she recovered from the Amethyst Seal.
• Yun Yun developed unexpected feelings for Xiao Yan as she watched him care for her and witnessed his extraordinary abilities.
• Xiao Yan asked Yun Yun to look after his friend at the Misty Cloud Sect, and she agreed without revealing her identity.
• Yun Yun gave the false name Yun Zhi, then discovered Xiao Yan was Nalan Yanran’s former fiancé.
• Xiao Yan resumed refining pills and planned to return to confront the Amethyst Winged Lion King, while Yun Yun watched him with growing curiosity.
• At the Misty Cloud Sect, Nalan Yanran felt her ominous premonition growing stronger.

Xiao Yan removed Yun Yun’s Purple Crystal Seal, restoring her Dou Qi and raising her cultivation, but the effects of his flames and the pills she took led to three days of intimacy that left him exhausted. Yun Yun continued teasing and pursuing him, while revealing she had come to the Beast Mountain Range to obtain Purple Crystal for pills to help Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Yan used his Natal Flame to break Yun Yun’s seals, turning them into nourishment and helping her advance toward the four-star Dou Emperor realm.
• After Yun Yun took bottles of Xiao Yan’s special pills, she seized his wrist and kept him with her for three days, leaving him drained.
• Yun Yun teased Xiao Yan about his feelings and their dissolved engagement, while her cultivation rose to nearly the five-star Dou Emperor realm.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yan she had sought Purple Crystal to refine pills for Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan tried to escape but she caught his flame form.

After Yun Yun and Xiao Yan recovered, they confronted the Amethyst Winged Lion King and forced it to surrender, obtaining the purple crystal Yun Yun needed. Xiao Yan spared the Lion King, adopted its cub Little Zi, and bound the cub to his Natal Flame as his first retainer.

• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun flew to the Lion King's cave at noon and attacked it with a combined storm of wind and fire.
• The injured Amethyst Winged Lion King left its cave after Xiao Yan's attack broke its purple flame barrier, then recognized the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and tried to negotiate.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun joked about eating the Lion King until it brought them its treasured spirit spring and handed over the purple crystal Yun Yun needed.
• Xiao Yan gave the Lion King a Myriad Beast Blood-Coagulation Pill and named its cub Little Zi.
• Xiao Yan summoned Yao Lao and used his Natal Flame to bind Little Zi to him, making the cub his first retainer.
• Yun Yun refused Xiao Yan's suggestion that the Misty Cloud Sect keep either the Lion King or Little Zi as a guardian beast.

Xiao Yan strengthened the Amethyst Winged Lion King with a follower technique and discussed bringing Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Misty Cloud Sect members into his new faction. He and Yun Yun left the question of the sect’s leadership for later, while Xiao Yan planned to recruit Gu He and seek an alchemist assessment.

• Xiao Yan offered the Amethyst Winged Lion King a voluntary follower bond that could be dissolved, and the Lion King eagerly accepted it.
• Xiao Yan asked Yun Yun about Pill King Gu He and the Misty Cloud Sect’s leader while sorting through the Lion King’s collection.
• Yun Yun suggested that Nalan Yanran could become the Misty Cloud Sect’s leader, and Xiao Yan agreed to consider it only if the current leader wanted to step down.
• Xiao Yan proposed reserving an honorary position for Gu He in the Flame Alliance and decided it was time to take an alchemist assessment.

Xiao Yan left Yun Yun’s cryptic farewell behind and returned to Wutan City aboard the Amethyst Winged Lion King, whose overwhelming arrival stunned the townspeople and revealed how powerful Xiao Yan appeared. He reunited with the Xiao Clan and local figures, then cheekily asked how they knew he had taken a Dou Emperor as his underling.

• Xiao Yan wondered about Yun Yun’s hints and his new enforcement guest elder position, then decided to investigate Misty Cloud Mountain another time.
• Xiao Yan told the Amethyst Winged Lion King to take him to an Alchemy Association for an assessment, but gave up after the Lion King and Dumb Cat asked what his words meant.
• Xiao Yan chose to wait for a major event before displaying his alchemy skills and traveled back to Wutan City.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King roared above Wutan City, stunning the townspeople, while Ya Fei, Ling Ying, Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Ning recognized Xiao Yan or reacted to his power.
• Xiao Yan rode into the city, greeted Pain, and reunited with Xiao Zhan, the elders, and other notable figures.
• Xiao Yan asked the gathered crowd how they knew he had taken a Dou Emperor as his underling, leaving them bewildered.

Xiao Yan registered for Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Xun'er, then set out toward the desert after learning about a gifted mixed-blood girl named Qing Lin. In Desert City, he found Hai Bodong asleep beside a remnant map and broke part of the seal suppressing him to wake him.

• Xiao Yan developed pill-production furnaces, and low-level alchemists whose livelihoods had been hurt by cheap pills joined the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan learned from Xiao Ding's letter about Qing Lin, a mixed-blood girl with unusual eyes and a talent for controlling magical beasts, and planned to visit her in the desert.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er impressed Instructor Ruo Lin by testing as a Peak Dou Master and a Mid-Stage Dou Master, and Xiao Yan secured permission to take leave.
• Ruo Lin told Xiao Yan about the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, prompting him to plan to investigate it after dealing with Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan found Hai Bodong asleep beside the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Remnant Map in Desert City and tore open part of the seal in Hai Bodong's body to wake him.

Xiao Yan encountered Hai Bodong while searching the desert for his brothers and bargained for a fragmentary map tied to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame. Hai Bodong agreed to cooperate and gave Xiao Yan the map, information about another Heavenly Flame, and the formula and ingredients for the Spirit Recovery Purple Pill, while Xiao Yan mistook his title of Ice Emperor for a joke.

• Xiao Yan entered Hai Bodong's shop and picked up the fragmentary map, unknowingly loosening the seal on Hai Bodong's cultivation.
• Hai Bodong questioned Xiao Yan's background, and Xiao Yan offered to refine pills in exchange for the map and leads on other Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan proposed three additional requests if Hai Bodong helped him locate and obtain a Heavenly Flame.
• Hai Bodong handed Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing the map, a Heavenly Flame location map, and the Spirit Recovery Purple Pill formula and gathered ingredients.
• Hai Bodong introduced himself as the Ice Emperor, and Xiao Yan jokingly answered that he was the Flame Emperor.

Xiao Yan traveled through the Tagor Desert toward Stone Desert City, planning to find ingredients for Hai Bodong’s Purple Recovery Pill and investigate a hidden source of fire energy. He reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in the city, then eyed the other mercenary corps as if looking for a fight.

• Xiao Yan discussed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and other possible Heavenly Flames in the desert with Yao Chen, while sensing another concealed source of fire energy near Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan summoned Little Zi, had her transform into a larger purple-gold beast, and rode her toward Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Ding recognized Xiao Yan among the visitors arriving at the city and welcomed his younger brother.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Ding whom they were going to kill, and Xiao Li appeared and said they should kill them all.