Chapter Summaries

After Jia Nan Academy returned to the Inner Academy, Xiao Fan remembered meeting Yue Yao there. In the Spirit World, Yue Yao awakened as the Spirit Clan’s Holy Maiden and received the title of Yao Venerable, leaving Granny to announce her investiture ceremony for one month later.

• Mo Tianxing learned that Xiao Fan had killed Earth Demon Old Ghost and ordered the Black Emperor Sect’s forces not to oppose the Rakshasa Gate or the Mad Lion Gang.
• Xiao Fan, Xiao Yan, and the Jia Nan Academy party returned to Peace Town and entered the Inner Academy.
• The First Elder teased Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan about their cohort’s victory in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, and Xiao Fan remembered meeting Yue Yao in the forest.
• In the Spirit World, silvery-white energy rose from the immense tree as Yue Yao succeeded in restoring her true self.
• Granny declared Yue Yao the Spirit Clan’s Holy Maiden and Yao Venerable, and announced an investiture ceremony in one month.

Xiao Fan returned to the Inner Academy, failed to find Han Yue, and absorbed the awakened Moon God's Power from the jade pendant connected to Yue Yao. He reunited with Xiao Yan at Pan Gate, where the students were astonished to see him standing in midair.

• Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Academy, and Su Qian told them that Pan Gate had grown into a powerful force.
• Xiao Fan split from Xiao Yan to visit Moon Spirit and ask Han Yue about Yue Yao, but a student told him Han Yue had graduated and left Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Fan examined the jade pendant Hu Jia had given him and received the system's prompt that Moon God's Power had awakened.
• Xiao Fan absorbed the Moon God's Power, which left a concealed crescent mark on his forehead, then resolved to travel to the Central Plains after helping Xiao Yan absorb the fallen heart flame.
• Xiao Fan arrived at Pan Gate while Xiao Yan addressed its students and appeared beside him in midair, prompting the students and Hu Jia to realize he had reached the Dou Zong realm.

Xiao Fan restored the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower by planting a flame seed, then Xiao Yan learned of the three thousand burning flame and the nine dragon thunder gang fire. Xiao Fan brought Xiao Yan to the tower to help him strengthen himself before they left for the Central Plains.

• Hu Jia showed Xiao Fan and Xiao Yan how Pan Gate had grown into the Inner Academy's strongest faction under her leadership.
• Xiao Fan reassured the First Elder that he could restore the weakening Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower and planted a chaos flame seed inside its fallen heart flame.
• The First Elder gathered the instructors to announce that Xiao Fan had restored the tower's tempering effects.
• Xin Lan told Xiao Yan about the three thousand burning flame, which the Pill Tower offered a chance to claim through the Pill Gathering, and the nine dragon thunder gang fire held by Burning Flame Valley.
• Xiao Fan invited Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower to help boost his strength before their journey to the Central Plains.

Xiao Fan took Xiao Yan into the Lava World and showed him how fire beads from the Fire Lizard Tribe could strengthen fire-attribute cultivators. After they split up to hunt and explore, Xiao Fan tested the beads, found that only powerful Lizardmen offered him a small gain, and began preparing the Heavenly Demon Phoenix bone wings.

• Xiao Fan led Xiao Yan through the magma into the Lava World and explained that Fire Lizard fire beads contained rich fire-attribute energy.
• Xiao Yan killed a Dou Ling Lizardman and absorbed its fire bead, increasing his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Fan gave Xiao Yan a Fire Lizard Tribe distribution map and arranged to meet him in a month, then took the Seventh-Rank Magic Core and Yun Shan's corpse.
• Xiao Yan headed toward a nearby tribe while Xiao Fan went in the opposite direction to search for powerful opponents and the Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Xiao Fan wiped out a Fire Lizard settlement, found that a Peak Dou Wang's fire bead gave him only three Dou Qi points, and took out the Heavenly Demon Phoenix bone wings.

Xiao Fan spent 8,000 source coins to transform the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Bone Wings into a Flying Dou Technique, then prepared to refine a Heavenly Demon Puppet. He reviewed the process and ended the chapter ready to begin the delicate refinement.

• Xiao Fan chose to spend 8,000 source coins for the system to turn the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Bone Wings into a Flying Dou Technique.
• Xiao Fan followed the system’s instructions to transform the bare skeletal wings into a pair of golden wings and stored them away.
• Xiao Fan opened Sand Protector’s jade bottle, absorbed a wisp of fallen heart flame, and left Sand Protector expecting to be freed soon.
• Xiao Fan took out Yun Shan’s corpse, a seventh-rank magical beast core, and the sealed souls of Sand Protector and Han Feng for the Heavenly Demon Puppet refinement.
• Xiao Fan studied the Heavenly Demon Puppet’s instructions until he had memorized every step, then prepared to begin refining it.

Xiao Fan refined Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse into an Earth Demon Puppet using Sand Protector's soul, a seventh-rank magic core, heavenly flames, and molten metal. He left the puppet with a blood mark that bound it to serve him loyally.

• Xiao Fan chose Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse and a seventh-rank magic core for the puppet, sparing Yun Shan's body out of consideration for Yun Yun.
• Xiao Fan used heavenly flames to remove the corpse qi and impurities from Earth Demon Old Ghost's body, then crushed Sand Protector's consciousness and prepared his pure soul.
• Xiao Fan placed the magic core in the corpse's chest and the soul in its forehead, then waited while refining metals until the body's soul, core, and energy resonated.
• Xiao Fan controlled the resonance for several hours as the soul and magic core's energy spread through the corpse, strengthening it to rival a Dou Zong powerhouse.
• Xiao Fan coated the body with molten metal, which it absorbed and which gave it the silvery-white surface of an Earth Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Fan marked the puppet's forehead with his blood, binding it to him as a loyal guard and bodyguard.

Xiao Fan strengthened the Earth Demon Puppet and developed Dragon Extreme Battle Dance by fusing three Heavenly Flames, though the technique still had room to improve. After the Shop refreshed, he decided to buy a Fixed-Point Teleportation Talisman to prepare for exploring deeper into the magma.

• Xiao Fan ordered the Earth Demon Puppet to strike, and its punch blasted a passage through the magma before the molten rock filled it again.
• Xiao Fan practiced Dragon Extreme Battle Dance, successfully fusing turtle spirit earth flame, green lotus core flame, and bone spirit cold flame into a dragon silhouette but failing to add fallen heart flame reliably.
• Xiao Fan’s three-flame technique shattered a patch of space and appeared capable of reaching Earth Tier power in a real battle.
• Xiao Fan realized two and a half days had passed and checked the refreshed Shop, where he found a Fixed-Point Teleportation Talisman priced at 10000 Source Coins.
• Xiao Fan exchanged the remaining contents of the Mulan Three Elders’ Storage Ring, raising his balance to 23250 Source Coins so he could buy the talisman.

Xiao Fan attacked a Fire Lizard Tribe settlement to collect Fire Beads for Xiao Yan, but the tribe discovered him and its two Dou Zong fighters confronted him. The chapter ended as Xiao Fan thrust his Thousand-Flame Spear at the charging One-Star Dou Zong Lizardman.

• Xiao Fan bought a Fixed-Point Teleportation Talisman, then traveled deeper into the magma while collecting Fire Beads from lone Lizardmen.
• Xiao Fan reached a settlement guarded by two Dou Zong Lizardmen and silently killed three patrols with chaos-flame daggers.
• The Lizardmen raised the alarm, and Xiao Fan killed the Peak Dou Emperor Lizardman with a single punch.
• The One-Star Dou Zong Lizardman charged at Xiao Fan with a fiery-red trident while the Three-Star Dou Zong Lizardman watched for other intruders.
• Xiao Fan met the charge with his Thousand-Flame Spear, wrapped in chaos flame.

Xiao Fan fought the Lizardmen in the Magma World, learning that they drew strength from their surroundings and could rapidly heal at the cost of their aura. After killing a One-Star Dou Zong Lizardman, he unleashed a Heavenly Flame-powered dragon technique against the Three-Star Dou Zong and the watching tribe.

• Xiao Fan wounded a One-Star Dou Zong Lizardman, then observed him heal rapidly and inferred that Lizardmen had advantages within the Magma World.
• A Three-Star Dou Zong Lizardman joined the fight while the wounded Lizardman attacked Xiao Fan with a crimson energy cage.
• Xiao Fan shattered the cage with his Thousand-Flame Spear, killing the One-Star Dou Zong and dozens of nearby Lizardmen, then collected the Fire Bead.
• Xiao Fan summoned a black dragon silhouette and empowered it with three Heavenly Flames, then sent it to coil around the Three-Star Dou Zong Lizardman.

Xiao Fan defeated a Three-Star Dou Zong Fire Lizardman, collected the tribe’s Fire Beads and energy-rich Red Stones, and tested how much cultivation energy the beads could give him. He advanced to Five-Star Dou Zong and decided to save beads below Dou Zong level for Xiao Yan while preparing to become a Seventh-Tier Alchemist.

• Xiao Fan killed the Three-Star Dou Zong Lizardman and collected its Fire Bead, then wiped out the remaining Fire Lizardmen and gathered their beads and Red Stones.
• Xiao Fan absorbed Fire Beads from One-Star and Three-Star Dou Zong Lizardmen and gained ten and thirty Dou Qi Points, respectively.
• Xiao Fan tested lower-ranked Fire Beads and found that their benefits had sharply diminished, while a Seven-Star Dou Huang bead gave him four points.
• Xiao Fan advanced to Five-Star Dou Zong and decided to reserve Fire Beads below Dou Zong level for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Fan saw that he needed fifteen more Alchemist experience points to become a Seventh-Tier Alchemist and prepare to refine the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.

Xiao Fan continued exploring deeper into the Magma World while avoiding the increasingly powerful Snake-People Tribes. At a Hall of Souls branch, Mo Shang successfully refined his first seventh-grade pill that survived pill lightning, then thanked Yao Lao, who urged him to leave the Hall of Souls for the Pill Tower.

• Xiao Fan ventured deeper into the magma, bypassing the Snake-People Tribes and fighting only isolated snake-people who crossed his path.
• Two elders watched Mo Shang refine a pill at a Hall of Souls branch and noted that Yao Lao had been instructing him and that he had become a seventh-tier alchemist.
• Mo Shang completed a pill as pill lightning gathered, and the pill survived the lightning intact.
• Mo Shang caught the pill when it tried to escape and sealed it in a jade bottle.
• Mo Shang thanked Yao Lao for his guidance, and Yao Lao criticized his progress and offered to recommend him to the Pill Tower.
• A black-robed elder objected that members of the Hall of Souls had no need to join the Pill Tower.

Mo Shang gave Yao Lao a Soul-Restoring Pill before leaving with the gray-clad elder for a competition assignment, while Yao Lao secretly began working at his chains. In the Magma World, Xiao Yan followed a strange fluctuation toward a dangerous settlement, and Xiao Fan prepared a teleportation escape route before venturing deeper between powerful tribes.

• Mo Shang thanked Yao Lao for his alchemy guidance, gave him a Soul-Restoring Pill, and left with the gray-clad elder after Star-Picking Old Ghost was interrupted.
• Yao Lao swallowed the pill and, once alone, produced a hidden wisp of black flame that clung to his sleeve and brushed against his chains.
• Xiao Yan gathered Fire Beads and, after sensing strange fluctuations near a settlement marked as having a Dou Zun expert, cautiously headed toward their source.
• Xiao Fan avoided a Fire Lizard Tribe with at least two Dou Zun experts and abandoned his search for Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Xiao Fan set a Fixed-Point Teleportation Talisman to a safe destination, then descended between two tribes that each had a Peak Dou Zun.

Xiao Fan reached the heavily guarded depths of the Magma World, where powerful white Fire Lizardmen blocked the way to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. After the system offered missions to see, touch, and enter the mansion, he decided to gamble on a plan to lure the guards away while preserving his chance to survive.

• Xiao Fan detected several near-Half-Saint white Fire Lizardmen and avoided them while searching for a route deeper into the magma.
• The system triggered three missions involving the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and granted Xiao Fan one use of Hidden Edge, which made him immune to damage for one second.
• Xiao Fan considered the danger posed by the Fire Lizardmen and the nine-star Dou Sheng Dragon Emperor guarding the mansion, but decided to attempt the missions.
• Xiao Fan traveled away from a Fire Lizardman expert, manifested four heavenly flames inside a chaos-flame membrane, and then hid nearby after replenishing his strength with pills.

Xiao Fan slipped past the Fire Lizard guards and entered the vast void hidden beneath the crimson-black magma, where he found the stone gate leading to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion. The gate's crushing aura forced him toward his knees, but he continued to resist as his body began to tear and bleed.

• Xiao Fan concealed himself with chaos flame and passed the Fire Lizard experts, but they discovered his trail and pursued him toward the black magma.
• Xiao Fan outran the guards into God's Graveyard, where they refused to follow him across the boundary.
• Xiao Fan explored the crimson-black magma for two hours, then crossed a spatial barrier into an immense void.
• Xiao Fan flew through the void and eventually found a colossal stone gate and plaza.
• Xiao Fan resisted the stone gate's aura when it tried to force him to kneel, enduring crushing pressure until his body bled.

Xiao Fan endured the Ancient Emperor’s stone gate trial, entered the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion realm, and secretly completed his second mission without waking the Old Dragon Emperor. As he prepared to teleport away, he spotted a crimson-gem Storage Ring beneath the dragon’s claws.

• Xiao Fan resisted the stone gate’s force until it vanished, then discovered that the trial had greatly strengthened his body.
• Xiao Fan recovered, found no way to take anything from the plaza, and entered the spatial portal while concealed by chaos flame.
• Xiao Fan arrived before the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion and spotted the sleeping Old Dragon Emperor, Zi Yan’s father, nearby.
• Xiao Fan carefully circled around the Old Dragon Emperor and touched the cave mansion’s doors, completing mission two.
• Xiao Fan prepared to teleport away but noticed a crimson-gem Storage Ring among the glittering objects beneath the dragon’s claws.

Xiao Fan stole the Old Dragon Emperor’s crimson Storage Ring and escaped the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion using a Fixed-Point Teleportation Talisman. He reappeared in the Magma World, where he collided with a Six-Star Dou Zun Fire Lizardman.

• Xiao Fan concealed his aura with chaos flame, activated the Nine Solar Transformations, and advanced toward the Old Dragon Emperor’s Storage Ring.
• Xiao Fan used the Seventh Transformation to reach the Two-Star Dou Zun realm, crushed Hidden Edge, seized the Storage Ring, and teleported away as the Old Dragon Emperor awoke.
• The Old Dragon Emperor tried to escape through the void but remained trapped, then realized Xiao Fan carried an aura from his bloodline and pondered the golden light that had blocked his attack.
• A Six-Star Dou Zun Fire Lizardman patrolled the Magma World under orders to investigate outsiders, and Xiao Fan suddenly appeared in a dark opening before him.
• Xiao Fan and the Fire Lizardman collided and stared at each other.

Xiao Fan escaped the Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion only to be pursued through the Magma World by an increasing force of Fire Lizardmen. With the Nine Solar Transformations still active and his escape routes blocked, he was close to being overwhelmed.

• Xiao Fan struck a Six-Star Dou Zun Fire Lizardman and fled, unable to deactivate the seventh transformation of the Nine Solar Transformations.
• The Fire Lizardman pursued Xiao Fan and sent out signals to summon reinforcements as Xiao Fan used spatial movement to evade his attacks.
• A second Fire Lizardman ambushed Xiao Fan from above, and the pursuers grew to four Dou Zun experts who attacked him as he fled.
• Xiao Fan broke through to the Three Thousand Thunder realm of the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and gained insight into spatial control while escaping.
• Xiao Fan realized the Seven-Star Dou Zun Fire Lizardman had blocked his route upward and feared the pursuit would wear him down before the Nine Solar Transformations ended.

Xiao Fan used a Four-Colored Fire Lotus to break through the Fire Lizard Humans’ pursuit and escape deeper into the Magma World. The Seven-Star Dou Zun realized the other pursuers had deliberately let Xiao Fan get away, then left to report their failure.

• Xiao Fan spotted a Fire Lizard Human settlement ahead and gathered his Heavenly Flames, making his pursuers wary of his power.
• The Six-Star Dou Zun Lizardman slowed his pursuit while charging an attack, and the Seven-Star Dou Zun moved in to stop Xiao Fan from escaping.
• Xiao Fan launched a Four-Colored Fire Lotus, forcing the Seven-Star Dou Zun to defend the nearby settlement with a spatial barrier.
• The two low-star Dou Zun and the Six-Star Dou Zun joined the Seven-Star Dou Zun in resisting the Fire Lotus’s lingering blast as Xiao Fan vanished into the distance.
• After the energy subsided, the Seven-Star Dou Zun realized the others had repeatedly allowed Xiao Fan to escape, then left to report what happened.

Xiao Fan escaped the Magma World and spent half a month unconscious, while Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Academy with the fallen heart flame and worked to stabilize Yao Lao’s soul. Xiao Yan grew worried when Xiao Fan failed to return, but Xiao Fan awoke, claimed his mission reward, and reached Eight-Star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Fan fled the Fire Lizardmen, reached the shallows of the Magma World, and collapsed as the chaos flame concealed him.
• Xiao Yan escaped the magma after wondering whether Xiao Fan had caused the Fire Lizardmen’s riot, and he emerged with the fallen heart flame.
• Xiao Yan used medicinal ingredients and pills to stabilize Yao Lao’s soul, but the Inner Academy lacked two ingredients for the Calming Soul-Restoring Pill.
• As the agreed month neared its end, Xiao Yan delayed Xin Lan’s departure and returned to the bottom of the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower to look for Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan awoke after half a month, claimed his mission reward, and advanced from Five-Star to Eight-Star Dou Zong.

Unable to use his soul power or Dou Qi after escaping into the Magma World, Xiao Fan struggled to recover and find a way out. Remembering Zhu Kun’s immense draconic presence, he transformed Dragon Extreme Battle Dance into an Earth Tier Dou Technique.

• Xiao Fan discovered that he could not summon soul power or circulate Dou Qi, and the Chaos Flame continued protecting him in the magma.
• After swimming for about an hour without finding the surface, Xiao Fan gave up and reflected on the power of Zhu Kun and the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Fan realized that Dragon Extreme Battle Dance lacked the genuine draconic might he had witnessed in Zhu Kun.
• Over two days, Xiao Fan repeatedly refined the technique using his memories of Zhu Kun and completed its transformation.
• Xiao Fan concluded that Dragon Extreme Battle Dance had become an Earth Tier Dou Technique even when infused with only three heavenly flames.