Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan destroyed the Witch-Ghost Path, helped Jingren join Hong Yi, and repaired the Qiankun Cloth Bag’s Lesser Thousand World before giving it to Hong Yi. He then entered the Thunder Tribulation to refine its thoughts, vanished during Meng Shenji’s challenge, and left Meng Shenji wondering whether Xiao Yan had transcended the Other Shore.

• Xiao Yan burned the four Ghost Immortals and refined the Corpse Emperors, then gave Jingren the Now Tathagata Sutra’s Aperture Chapter and sent him to Hong Yi.
• Xiao Yan studied the Qiankun Cloth Bag, removed the Now Tathagata Sutra’s general outline, repaired its Lesser Thousand World with the Heaven Mending Art, and gave the bag to Hong Yi.
• Xiao Yan provoked Hong Xuanji, beat him nearly half to death, and fled to the Wild Continent before Hong Xuanji could unleash his newfound power.
• Xiao Yan entered the Thunder Tribulation, devoured its thoughts, and advanced through the first three seas of lightning as his soul grew stronger.
• Meng Shenji appeared in the fourth sea of lightning to challenge Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan vanished and claimed he had reached beyond the Other Shore.
• Meng Shenji pondered Xiao Yan’s realm while Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji arrived, and Yang Pan wondered whether changing his name to Yang Ji would grant him a breakthrough.

Xiao Yan consolidated the mercenaries in Stone Desert City and captured Mo Ji, a Mo Clan human experimenter who had challenged him. After learning the Mo Clan had abducted people for experiments and had ties to the Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Yan planned to investigate and deal with them, but first intended to look into the Heavenly Flames in the desert.

• Xiao Yan announced that Stone Desert City would have only one mercenary group and set out rules for joining the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Mo Ji challenged Xiao Yan and revealed magical beast organs implanted in his body, while Rob disavowed any connection to him.
• Xiao Yan sealed Mo Ji with flames and left the mercenaries to Xiao Li and the others to sort out.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Li body-tempering techniques, pills, and self-defense items, and assigned him the Enforcement Hall.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that the Mo Clan had captured people for human experiments, and Xiao Yan ordered an investigation into their associates.
• Xiao Yan decided to deal with the Mo Clan and its Misty Cloud Sect ties after investigating the Heavenly Flames in the desert.

Xiao Yan raced toward a Heavenly Flame after strengthening Yao Chen’s soul and considering how to give him a body. He arrived to find a peak Dou Emperor aura nearby and wondered whether someone had reached the flame first.

• Xiao Yan gave cultivation methods to his family and headed toward a Heavenly Flame while stabilizing his soul cultivation.
• Yao Chen used the Past Amitabha Sutra to crush an attacking snake person with a powerful soul technique.
• Yao Chen began studying the sutra in hopes of restoring his soul and eventually taking revenge on the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yan considered finding Yao Chen a powerful body and continued toward the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan sensed a magical-beast-like aura at the peak of the Dou Emperor realm and wondered if someone had beaten him there.

Xiao Yan descended into the magma sea to claim the Green Lotus Core Flame, but first he refined the surrounding magma into his Heavy Xuan Ruler. Queen Medusa arrived at the flame and found the magma drained away, just as Xiao Yan approached and claimed he was destined to meet it.

• Xiao Yan discovered a Snake-Person's aura near the Heavenly Flame and guessed the Snake-People had come for it too.
• Xiao Yan broke through the desert and found a vast magma sea beneath it.
• Xiao Yan used the Endless Flame Domain and Divine Mechanism Hundred Refinements to absorb and refine the magma into his Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Queen Medusa descended toward the Green Lotus Core Flame but found the surrounding magma and fire-elemental energy had vanished.
• Xiao Yan approached Queen Medusa and told her to stop, saying he and the flame were fated to meet.

Xiao Yan descended into the magma world and found Queen Medusa seeking the Green Lotus Core Flame and the power she sensed in him. When Medusa attacked to seize both, Xiao Yan effortlessly caught her by the neck.

• Xiao Yan descended into the magma chamber as the surrounding fire energy quieted around him.
• Queen Medusa sensed Xiao Yan’s powerful aura and felt it offered a chance for her bloodline to evolve.
• Xiao Yan gave Medusa a cloud of medicinal mist and admired her beauty while explaining he wanted to trade for the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Medusa refused the exchange, declaring that she would take Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Flame for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Queen Medusa attacked Xiao Yan, but he brushed aside her snake shadows and grabbed her by the neck.

Xiao Yan explained why the Green Lotus Core Flame was too dangerous for Queen Medusa to use for bloodline tempering, then offered to help her break through in exchange for herbs and cooperation. He began refining the flame himself, while Medusa swallowed a pill and her bloodline started to advance.

• Xiao Yan recognized Queen Medusa and explained that using an ordinary Heavenly Flame to temper her bloodline could easily kill her.
• Xiao Yan shared the risks with Medusa and offered to help her break through in exchange for Sand Mandala herbs and other cooperation.
• Xiao Yan gave Medusa two bottles of pills and prepared to refine more medicine for her.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame and began refining it to open his second Dao Palace.
• Medusa hesitated, then swallowed a pill as her bloodline advanced and her eyes grew hazy.

Xiao Yan refined the green lotus core flame, opened his liver divine treasury, and prepared a pill to help Medusa’s bloodline transformation. Medusa became overwhelmed by the pill’s effects and clung to Xiao Yan, leaving the arriving Snake-People elders stunned.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the green lotus core flame, advanced to the second heaven of the Dao Palace, and formed an Azure Emperor deity in his liver divine treasury.
• Xiao Yan assigned the liver deity to study alchemy and refined a stronger Myriad Beast Blood-Coagulation Pill after two failed attempts.
• Xiao Yan gave Medusa the pill and helped her refine it, but its effects stirred her desire and bloodline transformation.
• Xiao Yan calmed Medusa with a thought, then carried her out of the magma sea when she resisted being lifted from a distance.
• The Snake-People elders arrived and found Medusa coiled around Xiao Yan, who handed her over with a blaze of light.

Xiao Yan helped Medusa begin her bloodline evolution and left her with his blood as protection. Back in Stone Desert City, he suspected the Soul Hall was targeting him, then destroyed Mo Clan forces who came to seize Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yan told the Snake-People elders that Medusa had begun her evolution and warned them not to break open her lotus bud without matching his strength.
• Xiao Yan left Medusa a drop of his blood before departing, and the elders took her to the Holy City.
• After forty-nine hours, Medusa awakened inside the lotus bud, refined Xiao Yan's blood, and resolved to grow stronger and lead her tribe to a better future.
• In Stone Desert City, Xiao Yan suspected the Soul Hall's Jia Ma Empire outpost was watching him and considered going after it.
• Mo Clan fighters threatened the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and demanded Qing Lin, but Xiao Yan appeared and burned them all away.