Chapter Summaries

Amon pressured Purifying Lotus Demon Flame into activating the Heaven Refining Ancient Array while revealing only three fragments of the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint's map. He then transformed his appearance and displayed many flames, leaving Purifying Lotus Demon Flame convinced that he was facing Tuoshe Ancient God.

• Amon showed Purifying Lotus Demon Flame three fragments of the ancient map and claimed he had not collected them all.
• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame hesitated to activate the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, fearing Amon could summon the Purifying Lotus Demon Saint's remnant soul and seize control of the array.
• Amon revealed his peak Six-Star Dou Sheng pressure and reminded Purifying Lotus Demon Flame that, as a Taixu Ancient Dragon, he could prevent him from escaping.
• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Array, forming enormous formations in the sky and across the magma sea.
• Amon put away the map fragments and demanded the Nightmare Heavenly Mist and a wisp of Purifying Lotus Demon Flame's Origin Flame.
• Amon changed his hair into brilliant, multicolored flames and surrounded himself with different flames, prompting Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to scream that he was Tuoshe Ancient God.

Amon overpowered Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and forced him to hand over Purifying Lotus Demon Saint’s inheritances, his Fire Slaves, and a large portion of his origin flame. After Amon prepared to leave, Purifying Lotus Demon Flame asked to go with him, and Amon offered to take him if he helped kill someone.

• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame recognized Amon’s appearance, but could not recall the Pill Refining God Art and tried to kill him for his technique and heavenly flames.
• Amon revealed his Nine-Star Dou Sheng power, ignited a heart flame inside Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, and trapped him with Formless Hand.
• Amon demanded Nightmare Heavenly Mist, copies of Purifying Lotus Demon Saint’s inheritances, all the Fire Slaves, and a wisp of Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s origin.
• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame surrendered the inheritances and Fire Slaves, then gave up enough origin flame to drop from peak five-star Dou Sheng to middle-stage five-star Dou Sheng.
• After Amon released him and announced he was leaving, Purifying Lotus Demon Flame asked to accompany him, and Amon offered to take him if he helped kill someone.

Amon persuaded Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to kill Xun'er when she entered the Demon Flame Space, then used the Demon Flame's origin to create a second Purifying Lotus Demon Flame. Its birth violated the Dou Qi Plane's laws and drew down the plane's will, attracting Gu Yuan's and Hun Tiandi's attention.

• Amon arranged for Purifying Lotus Demon Flame to kill Xun'er during the next Demon Flame descent, promising to help him escape afterward.
• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame accepted the plan and reflected on how Amon's power had humbled him.
• Amon left the Demon Flame Space and had Flame Amon refine the origin he had taken from Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Flame Amon gave the refined origin spirituality, creating a second Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• The Dou Qi Plane's will reacted to the new Demon Flame as an Error, and Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi turned their attention toward the Central Plains.

Amon used his uniqueness to prevent the world’s thunder tribulation from targeting him as a newly born Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then captured its Nine Profound Golden Lightning. Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi, Nihility Devouring Flame, and other powerful beings sensed the disturbance as Amon withdrew before they could arrive.

• Gu Yuan abruptly left an Ancient Clan meeting after sensing a disturbance, and King Hienie suspended the meeting.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame sensed the world’s rejection of a new existence and set out to investigate.
• Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame felt the world urging him to destroy something and angrily attacked the sealed Demon Flame Space.
• Amon’s thunder tribulation gathered but did not strike because the world recognized him as unique rather than as a second Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Amon used his Formless Hand to capture and seal the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, then retrieved Demon Flame Amon and withdrew.

Gu Yuan investigated the vanished Thunder Tribulation and remained at its site as powerful factions gathered to claim it. After Hun Tiandi appeared, Gu Yuan asked him to discipline his subordinates, and Mo Yu demanded to know who Gu Yuan was.

• Gu Yuan found only lingering lightning and fire energy at the site, while two independent cultivators arrived and tried to learn what he had seen.
• The Blood Blade Sect claimed the area, but Blood Blade Ancestor, Iron Sword Venerable, Tian Shuangzi, and other Dou Zuns arrived and challenged its control.
• Three Soul Hall Honored Elders threatened the gathered cultivators, then Ninth Celestial Worthy Mo Yu and Eighth Celestial Worthy Qiu Di appeared and ordered everyone to leave.
• Gu Yuan laughed and called out Hun Tiandi, who appeared and greeted him as an old acquaintance.
• Gu Yuan asked Hun Tiandi to discipline Mo Yu and Qiu Di, but Mo Yu demanded to know who Gu Yuan was.

Hun Tiandi told Gu Yuan that the Xiao Clan had concealed the Xiao Tribe and its surviving strength, prompting Gu Yuan to worry about Xun'er and the Ancient Clan. Back at Xiao Yan's side, Xun'er learned her clan wanted her to return but asked for more time.

• Hun Tiandi overwhelmed the Soul Hall's rescuers, identified himself, and dismissed them before discussing the threat of the world's hidden power with Gu Yuan.
• Hun Tiandi revealed that Xiao Zhan had told him of a realm beyond Dou Emperor and said the Xiao Clan had actually been the Xiao Tribe, which had concealed its strength and the Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan suspected the missing Xiao Chen might be leading the surviving Xiao Tribe and decided that bringing Xun'er home was the immediate priority.
• Xun'er learned from Ling Ying that Xiao Meng had disappeared and that the Ancient Clan had sent word for her to return.
• Xun'er told Ling Ying to ask the clan to wait because she still wanted to remain with Xiao Yan.

Hun Tiandi and Void Devouring Flame discussed the Heavenly Flames and the possibility that Void Devouring Flame was hiding knowledge, while Hun Tiandi ordered an investigation. Gu Yuan returned to the Ancient Realm with news of a possible problem involving the Xiao Tribe and decided to visit Xun'er.

• Void Devouring Flame sensed several Heavenly Flames nearby, including a newly born Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, and recalled a mysterious figure from fragmented memories.
• Void Devouring Flame refused Hun Tiandi's offer to help find the figure, and the two returned to the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi ordered a Dou Zun to have Hun Miesheng investigate the mountain range near the Blood Blade Sect and watch for people with multiple Heavenly Flames and reports of Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Gu Yuan told the Ancient Clan leaders that Hun Tiandi had warned him of a problem with the Xiao Tribe and ordered them to identify missing Xiao Tribe members from that era.
• Gu Yuan decided to visit Xun'er himself and instructed the Ancient Clan to strengthen its security and contact him if anything happened.

Huang Tao helped Amon stabilize after he absorbed vast energy and strengthened the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, while Protector Xiao planned to seize the Fallen Heart Flame from Jianan Academy. Gu Yuan arrived there and learned of Xun'er’s feelings for Xiao Yan, leaving Ling Ying’s failure to protect her before him.

• Huang Tao told Cailin that her pill would be delayed but promised an eighth-tier Heavenly Snake Blood Condensing Pill within half a year.
• Huang Tao joined Amon in the Nether Snake World, where Amon used the strange flames to purify Nine Profound Golden Lightning energy and stabilize his damaged body.
• Protector Xiao collected another soul and decided to hire helpers to take the Fallen Heart Flame from Jianan Academy.
• Ling Ying told Gu Chen that Xun'er refused to return to the clan yet, and Gu Yuan appeared through the Space Wormhole before Gu Chen could send his report.
• Ling Ying explained Xun'er’s relationship with Xiao Yan to Gu Yuan and knelt to accept punishment for failing to protect her.

Gu Yuan secretly observed Xun'er, Xiao Yan, and Zhou Mingrui while investigating whether the Xiao Tribe had ulterior motives. After learning that Xiao Yan's master was likely Yao Chen, a victim of the Soul Hall, Gu Yuan suspected someone might be arranging events behind the scenes.

• Gu Yuan told Ling Ying to keep his arrival secret and used his Soul Power to observe the Black-Corner Region, including Xun'er, Xiao Yan, and Zhou Mingrui.
• Ling Ying and Gu Chen explained Zhou Mingrui's background and how Gu Chen had tested him by asking him to protect a student with a special identity.
• Xiao Yan sensed that someone was watching him, but Yao Chen found no one nearby.
• Ling Ying described how Xiao Yan became a genius again and took an Alchemist as his master, while Gu Chen identified the soul body as Yao Chen.
• Gu Chen explained that Yao Chen likely possessed the Bone Chilling Flame and had been harmed by the Soul Hall, prompting Gu Yuan to suspect the Xiao Tribe or another force was manipulating events.

Gu Yuan secretly observed Xiao Yan and Xun'er while searching for signs of a hidden Xiao Tribe, then questioned Zhou Mingrui about his covert watch over Xun'er. His investigation in the Black-Corner Region found nothing, and he returned to the Ancient Realm wary of the Soul Clan's renewed activity.

• Gu Yuan learned that Yao Chen had been expelled from the Medicine Clan and suspected the Xiao Tribe had orchestrated the affair behind the scenes.
• Gu Yuan watched Xiao Yan cultivate for three months, saw no sign of the hidden Xiao Tribe, and grew frustrated that Xun'er pursued Xiao Yan while he remained focused on training.
• Gu Yuan found Zhou Mingrui secretly watching Xun'er and questioned him; Zhou Mingrui explained his assignment to protect a special girl and admitted he was interested in Xun'er.
• Zhou Mingrui inferred that Gu Yuan was Xun'er's father and that she was the girl in his assignment, while Gu Yuan remained unsure whether Zhou Mingrui's remarks were sincere or a test.
• Gu Yuan searched the Black-Corner Region without finding anything unusual, then decided to return to the Ancient Realm because the Soul Clan was growing active again.

Gu Yuan visited Xun'er at Jianan Academy and warned her that the Soul Clan was stirring and that a hidden Xiao Tribe might have its own plans. He ordered her to return to the Ancient Clan in three days, then brought her to see Xiao Yan.

• Xun'er asked Ling Ying why the Ancient Clan had not sent anyone to bring her back, and Gu Yuan revealed himself as the one who had come.
• Gu Yuan warned Xun'er that the Soul Clan had regained strength and that he and its clan leader had discovered a hidden force connected to the Xiao Tribe.
• Gu Yuan questioned Xun'er about whether she would side with the Ancient Clan or Xiao Yan if their interests clashed, and she said she would seek the truth while showing some preference for Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yuan told Xun'er to prepare to return to the Ancient Clan in three days, and she immediately asked to visit Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yuan transported Xun'er to Xiao Yan's cave, where she told him she had come because she missed him.

Xiao Yan and Xun'er spent several days together before Xun'er told him her clan had come to take her away, and they shared a kiss and an embrace. They were abruptly separated and replaced by a Xiao Yan doll and a female Curly-Haired Baboon, leaving Xiao Yan confused and frightened as he asked Yao Chen what had happened.

• Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan that Xun'er had appeared through an unfamiliar form of Space Shift, so Xiao Yan stayed by her side.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er spent three days fishing, exploring, and watching the sun rise and set together.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that her clansmen had come to take her back, and Xiao Yan promised to grow strong enough to find her.
• Xun'er and Xiao Yan kissed and embraced, but she suddenly found herself in Xiao Meng's room holding a life-sized Xiao Yan doll.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Xun'er was gone and a female Curly-Haired Baboon stood in her place, so he called to Yao Chen for an explanation.

Xiao Yan learned that Gu Yuan, Xun’er’s father and the Ancient Clan’s leader, had secretly watched over her and would allow their relationship once her bloodline stabilized. Gu Yuan challenged Xiao Yan to defeat him to win the clan’s approval, then revealed that a powerful hidden Xiao Tribe might exist behind the Xiao Clan, though he knew little about it.

• Yao Chen explained that Xun’er’s sudden disappearance had likely involved an advanced use of spatial power, and Gu Yuan appeared and confirmed it was Space Shift.
• Gu Yuan introduced himself as Xun’er’s father, explained that he had transferred her away, and said she could not have sex until her bloodline stabilized after reaching Dou Sheng.
• Gu Yuan admitted he had considered separating Xiao Yan and Xun’er, but agreed not to oppose their relationship; Xiao Yan promised to exercise restraint until she became a Dou Sheng.
• After Xiao Yan repeated Xun’er’s suggestion that he beat Gu Yuan to secure their marriage, Gu Yuan accepted the challenge and revealed he was the Ancient Clan’s leader.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Gu Yuan knew about the destruction of the Xiao Clan, but Gu Yuan clarified that he meant a hidden, more powerful Xiao Tribe and said he had only recently found traces of it.

Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan about the strange parasites he suspected were affecting Yao Chen, and Gu Yuan removed them from Yao Chen’s soul. Yao Chen was freed from the creatures, though their long influence left him with lingering aftereffects.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that Yao Chen had described strange soul fluctuations, warned him not to trust him completely, and developed a habit of wearing a Monocle.
• Xiao Yan said that people and beasts with Monocles or colored rings around their right eyes might have been parasitized.
• Gu Yuan took Xiao Yan into a sealed space, then returned with him to examine Yao Chen.
• Gu Yuan sealed the space around Yao Chen and used his soul force to find and crush three tiny, twelve-ringed insects inside his soul.
• Yao Chen coughed out the insect corpses and thanked Gu Yuan, but said their deep fusion had left him with lingering aftereffects.

Gu Yuan learned that the parasites in Yao Chen’s soul had come from the Great Thousand World and suspected a hidden Xiao Tribe had used them to influence Xiao Yan. After confirming Qing Meng was safe, he reacted sharply to the name Zhou Mingrui and disappeared.

• Yao Chen told Gu Yuan that the parasites subtly influenced their hosts and had whispered that they wanted to return to the Great Thousand World.
• Gu Yuan connected the parasites to a hidden branch of the Xiao Tribe and warned Xiao Yan to be cautious around them.
• Gu Yuan examined Qing Meng and found no parasites inside the Heavenly Flame.
• Gu Yuan offered to inspect others around Xiao Yan, who named Lord Ape and Zhou Mingrui as suspicious people at Jianan Academy.
• Gu Yuan vanished as soon as Xiao Yan mentioned Zhou Mingrui.

Xun'er tried to help Xiao Yan, but Gu Yuan’s investigation of Zhou Mingrui and the Xiao Tribe’s possible influence became the focus. After warning Xiao Yan about the risks to Lord Ape, Gu Yuan took him and Xun'er to meet it, where Lord Ape’s gift of a Desire Fruit stirred up trouble.

• Xun'er went to Xiao Yan's room with plans to leave him cultivation supplies, but found Zhou Mingrui there and learned he would soon accompany her to the Ancient Clan as Gu Chen's disciple.
• Gu Yuan took Zhou Mingrui's Fire Crystal Card, told Xun'er he had watched Xiao Yan for two months, then secretly examined Zhou Mingrui and wondered whether he was connected to the Xiao Tribe.
• Gu Yuan warned Xun'er to be careful of Zhou Mingrui and the people around Xiao Yan, then told Xiao Yan that Zhou Mingrui bore no insects and suggested they visit Lord Ape.
• Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan that killing the insects might erase Lord Ape's current personality, and Xiao Yan decided to meet it before making any choice.
• Lord Ape welcomed Xiao Yan, mistook Xun'er for another woman in his life, and gave him an eighth-tier Desire Fruit that affected Xun'er before Gu Yuan shielded her and warned Xiao Yan not to use it on her.

Xiao Yan watched Gu Yuan depart with Xun'er after promising to defeat him, then reassured Lord Ape that he would avenge its humiliation. Meanwhile, three black-robed figures appeared near Peace Town and set their sights on the Fallen Heart Flame at Jianan Academy.

• Gu Yuan suppressed Lord Ape, found no detectable Spirit Worm in its body, and concluded that a Monocle was not necessarily linked to the strange insects.
• Xun'er kissed Xiao Yan goodbye and asked him to come to the Ancient Clan and defeat Gu Yuan; Xiao Yan promised to prove himself worthy of her.
• Gu Yuan praised Xiao Yan's courage before leaving through a spatial rift with Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan admitted his doubts about defeating a Nine-Star Dou Sheng, while Lord Ape vowed to crush Gu Yuan and asked Xiao Yan to hit him in the face.
• Three black-robed figures arrived on a city wall near Peace Town, and their leader announced that he had come for the Fallen Heart Flame.

Amon began refining the Heavenly Snake Blood Condensing Pills for Cailin’s four unborn children, hoping to use Spirit Worms and the Spirit Ascension Method to raise peak Tier 8 pills to Tier 9. He left the difficult ingredients refining in a Fire Cauldron, with his Flame Amons dividing the work.

• Demon Flame Amons contained the Nine Profound Golden Lightning while purifying its energy for Spirit Worms and cultivating Amons.
• Amon arrived at the Dragon Burial Basin to refine the Heavenly Snake Blood Condensing Pills.
• Amon assessed the challenge of elevating the pills to Tier 9 by adding Spirit Worms as spiritual material.
• Amon summoned a Fire Cauldron and used Heavenly Flames to refine the medicinal ingredients in parallel.
• Amon and his Amons continued refining the higher-ranked ingredients as time passed.

Amon attempted to elevate the Heavenly Snake Blood Condensing Pill from Tier 8 to Tier 9 by sacrificing a Dou Sheng-level Spirit Worm, but the refinement exploded and failed. Huang Tao reassured Cailin and Bai Qing that the blast would not harm them and that Amon had survived.

• Amon refined the medicinal ingredients into a pill embryo, then sacrificed a Dou Sheng-level avatar to produce Spirit-Nurturing Dust.
• Amon added the Spirit-Nurturing Dust to the unstable pill embryo and used Space Flame to contain its escaping spirituality.
• The pill embryo exploded with the force of a one-star Dou Sheng’s self-destruction, sending shockwaves across the area.
• Cailin and Bai Qing sensed the blast from the White Snake Tribe and worried that it could destroy them.
• Huang Tao told Cailin and Bai Qing that Amon’s refinement had failed, but that the explosion could not kill him.

Amon used time distortion and a Dou Sheng-level avatar to refine a Tier 9 Heavenly Snake Blood Condensing Pill, which became a living Amon-like being. The pill-being went to Cailin and offered itself to be eaten, leaving her shocked by its strength and by Amon’s willingness to sacrifice an avatar for her unborn child.

• Amon slowed time around the pill prototype with Spirit Worms, successfully refined the Tier 9 Heavenly Snake Blood Condensing Pill, and swallowed its Black Demon Lightning tribulation.
• The completed pill transformed into a living being resembling Amon and said it was an avatar that had lost contact with the Main Body.
• The pill-being left for the White Snake Tribe and entered Cailin’s room, telling her that it had come for her to eat it.
• Cailin learned that the pill-being was a one-star Dou Sheng and that it could not escape Amon or Huang Tao.
• The pill-being explained that Amon had used a Dou Sheng-level avatar as an ingredient to raise the pill’s grade, shocking Cailin with the sacrifice Amon had made for her unborn child.