Chapter Summaries

Naruto and Sasuke discussed the failures behind the Shinobi World’s wars while searching Kirigakure’s secret vault for Uzumaki Clan records. Sasuke proposed reshaping Kirigakure through conquest and assimilation, leaving Naruto and Kakashi uneasy about his ruthless logic.

• Naruto reflected on Hashirama Senju’s failed peace efforts and concluded that lasting cooperation required a powerful common enemy and strength capable of restraining the Shinobi World.
• Sasuke copied a Sealing Book text from the Land of Whirlpools and asked Naruto what they should do with Kirigakure.
• Naruto rejected destroying Kirigakure and its people, noting that the Uzumaki Clan had already been avenged and the remaining villagers held no malice toward them.
• Naruto suggested integrating Kirigakure’s people into a peaceful alliance until they rejected their former identity and ancestors’ actions.
• Sasuke agreed with Naruto’s plan but described it as rescuing and educating the populace, overthrowing its rulers, and bringing them into a new era.
• Kakashi interrupted to point out that Sasuke’s proposed transformation sounded even more ruthless than physically destroying Kirigakure.

Sasuke and Naruto secured a cooperation treaty with Kirigakure and planned to extract the Three-Tails while keeping Yagura alive in sealed, near-death stasis. In the Gray Fog Space, Xiao Yan asked how to deal with snakes, and the others pointed him toward a person in the Tagor Desert whose eyes resembled a Three-Tomoe Sharingan.

• Sasuke had Yagura sign a treaty granting Konoha temporary custody of Kirigakure’s Tailed Beast in exchange for help training young ninja and mutual assistance.
• Naruto and Sasuke jokingly dictated a slanted account of the treaty to Ao, while Genji objected to their version of events.
• Yagura said he wanted to atone by dying, but Sasuke planned to keep him alive in a sealed, near-death state after removing the Three-Tails.
• Sasuke entered the Gray Fog Space and considered using Orochimaru’s methods and disrupting Black Zetsu and Kabuto’s plans.
• Xiao Yan asked for tricks to use against snakes in the Tagor Desert, and Tang San, Tang San Zang, and the others suggested genjutsu and a local person with Sharingan-like eyes.
• Xiao Yan realized that something resembling a Three-Tomoe Sharingan might exist in the Tagor Desert.

Sasuke and Xiao Yan discussed ways to strengthen their eye techniques, while Xiao Yan discovered multiple Heavenly Flame auras in the Tagor Desert. After identifying the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, he headed to collect the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and stopped outside a shop where a renowned angel investor was inside.

• Sasuke considered awakening his Mangekyo through love or accumulated power and discussed advancing his Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan sensed three fiery auras in the Tagor Desert, including one he recognized from the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map.
• Xiao Yan identified a moving storm-like aura as the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and Yao Lao confirmed that the desert was a likely place for it to appear.
• Xiao Yan revealed that a Magma Lake beneath the desert held the Green Lotus Core Flame, astonishing Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan decided to collect the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map before pursuing the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then stopped outside a shop containing a renowned angel investor.

Xiao Yan visited Hai Bodong’s map shop in Desert City and revealed that he knew the Ice Emperor’s identity and the details of Queen Medusa’s seal. Hai Bodong attacked him with Heavenfrost Cold Qi, freezing him in place as he prepared to question him.

• Xiao Yan entered Hai Bodong’s shop and hinted that he knew the old man had been sealed by the Snake-People Tribe’s techniques.
• Xiao Yan picked up a fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map, and Hai Bodong grew suspicious of his knowledge and intentions.
• Xiao Yan identified Hai Bodong as the Ice Emperor and disclosed his sealed strength, leaving Hai Bodong shocked that his secrets had been exposed.
• Hai Bodong asked who Xiao Yan was and who stood behind him while secretly activating Heavenfrost Cold Qi.
• Hai Bodong shut the shop door and froze Xiao Yan into an ice sculpture, then approached him to demand answers.

Xiao Yan broke free of Hai Bodong’s ice attack and revealed his overwhelming power, then offered to help remove Hai Bodong’s seal in exchange for a map. The offer stopped Hai Bodong from carrying out his plan to self-detonate, and he quickly changed his attitude toward Xiao Yan.

• Hai Bodong’s ice cracked as Xiao Yan broke free, melting it with his crimson flames.
• Hai Bodong recognized Xiao Yan’s flames as heavenly flames and realized his attack had failed to threaten him.
• Xiao Yan said he had a connection to the Misty Cloud Sect but was an unaffiliated wanderer, then taunted Hai Bodong about his seal.
• Hai Bodong began awakening his Dou Qi to self-detonate and take Xiao Yan with him.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine a Sixth-Grade Pill to help Hai Bodong regain his strength in exchange for the map.
• Hai Bodong abandoned his threat, called Xiao Yan his younger brother, and invited him to sit.

Xiao Yan accepted Hai Bodong’s map and support, promised to help break his seal, and gave him a pill as thanks before setting off to seek a heavenly flame. He reached Stone Desert City, where a burly man immediately picked a fight with him.

• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan the other half of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map and promised to stand guard and grant him three favors.
• Xiao Yan weakened Hai Bodong’s seal with a Fire Needle and showed him a sixth-grade Myriad Beast Pill, saying he could ask his teacher to refine pills if needed.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing desert maps and cooling talismans, and Xiao Yan returned a fifth-grade Heavenly Flame Delusion Breaker Pill.
• Xiao Yan left to search for a heavenly flame and arrived at Stone Desert City in the Tagor Desert.
• A burly man deliberately bumped into Xiao Yan and shouted at him for blocking the road.

Xiao Yan discovered that Sha Bi and Nao Can were connected to the Mo Clan, killed Sha Bi when he attacked, and went to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group's headquarters. There, two people recognized him as their third brother.

• Sha Bi attacked Xiao Yan with an axe, but Xiao Yan stopped it effortlessly and burned him to ash.
• Xiao Yan questioned Nao Can about the Desert Iron Mercenary Group's headquarters, while Nao Can secretly blamed him for ruining the Mo Clan's plans.
• Xiao Yan realized Sha Bi and Nao Can had ties to the Mo Clan and resolved to put an end to its human experiments.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group's headquarters, where two people hurried out and recognized him as their third brother.

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li pills and a technique to help them unify Stone Desert City, then discovered they had mistaken his gaunt appearance for kidney deficiency and sent Qing Lin to him. When Qing Lin feared Xiao Yan found her dirty, he reassured her and urged her not to make choices to please others, stirring the power in her eyes.

• Xiao Yan learned the Sand Mercenary Group had gained four Da Dou Shi, including three surnamed Mo, and gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li pills and the Pill Detonation Technique to support their campaign to unify the city.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li led Xiao Yan to a room stocked with supposed remedies for kidney deficiency and sent Qing Lin to him, believing he wanted her as a companion.
• At the Misty Cloud Sect, Gu He arranged for Yun Yun to accompany him into the desert in three days to search for Heavenly Flames, while Nalan Yanran teased Yun Yun about her feelings for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan stopped Qing Lin from acting on his brothers’ request, reassured her that her bloodline did not make her dirty, and told her to make her own choices when she was older.
• As Qing Lin listened to Xiao Yan, Three Green Flowers began spinning rapidly within her pupils.

After developing the Huo Yun Golden Eyes, Xiao Yan tracked down the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and entered its storm with ease. He seized and refined the flame’s source in an instant.

• Xiao Yan left Qing Lin, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li jade pendants containing his natal flame so he could return if they needed help.
• Xiao Yan created the Huo Yun Golden Eyes by studying Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, greatly strengthening his fire control and ability to locate Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan followed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame’s fluctuations to a vast flaming tornado in the desert.
• Xiao Yan used his mastery of wind and fire to pass through the tornado unharmed and reach its still center.
• Xiao Yan used a strand of the Wind Fury Dragon Flame to teleport inside the flame, seize its source, and refine it instantly.

Xiao Yan refined the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, strengthening his Flame Mantra and heavenly flame body while draining the surrounding sandstorm. He sensed Queen Medusa approaching and fled, realizing she likely sought a heavenly flame to evolve beyond the Peak Sixth Tier.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and refined it into his Flame Mantra, transforming his aura and Huo Yun Marks.
• Xiao Yan spent two hours absorbing the storm’s energy and storing what he could not yet consume in his heavenly flame space.
• Yao Lao questioned why Xiao Yan had not used the absorbed energy to advance to the Dou Ling stage, and Xiao Yan said he could break through during a fight if necessary.
• Xiao Yan sensed a Peak Dou Emperor approaching and recognized the visitor as Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan fled as Yao Lao warned that only the myriad beast spirit flame could safely temper a magical beast’s bloodline; another heavenly flame could simply burn Medusa alive.

Xiao Yan left the desert after sensing Hong Yan approaching, while Queen Medusa arrived too late to find the Heavenly Flame and mistook its remaining wisp for an ordinary flame. When another human Dou Emperor appeared nearby, Medusa abandoned the area and headed to search elsewhere for a Heavenly Flame.

• Yao Lao questioned why Xiao Yan was avoiding Queen Medusa, and Xiao Yan admitted he sensed Hong Yan approaching and chose to leave.
• Queen Medusa reached the storm’s former center and found signs that someone had already taken the Heavenly Flame.
• Medusa unknowingly struck the tiny remaining flame with her serpentine tail, causing it to grow instead of going out.
• Yao Lao misinterpreted Xiao Yan’s strange reaction and searched his Storage Ring for medicine to treat what he assumed was sexual repression.
• Medusa sensed a human Dou Emperor approaching, lashed the strange flame with a purple whip, and vanished to search another possible site.

Gu He, Yan Shi, and Feng Li found traces of the Wind Fury Dragon Flame but could not determine where it had gone, and they set out to search elsewhere. Yun Yun recognized Xiao Yan’s lingering flame and received his challenge to let Gu He and the others compete with him for the heavenly flame, leaving her curious whether Xiao Yan could face them all.

• Gu He found signs that a heavenly flame had burned in the desert, while Yan Shi and Feng Li urged him to hurry to other possible locations.
• Gu He explained that he had diverted to the desert after sensing unusual energy fluctuations and had not originally expected to find the Wind Fury Dragon Flame there.
• Yun Yun touched a lingering wisp of flame and recognized the physical quality of Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame Dharma Body.
• Yun Yun received Xiao Yan’s voice transmission telling her not to interfere and inviting Gu He and the others to challenge him for the heavenly flame.
• Yun Yun agreed to leave with Gu He while privately wondering whether Xiao Yan could take on several opponents alone.

Xiao Yan unleashed the wind fury dragon flame and myriad beast spirit flame to create a vast lava storm and a Crimson Glazed Palace, but he remained unable to understand why he could not use Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus. He set the problem aside and planned to study refining pills directly from fire after obtaining the green lotus core flame.

• Xiao Yan sent the wind fury dragon flame into the desert, turning sand and stone into a towering lava storm.
• Xiao Yan summoned the myriad beast spirit flame and shaped its beasts into a Crimson Flame Divine Dragon that merged with the storm.
• Xiao Yan reflected on his inability to unleash Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus despite his precise control of the heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan collapsed the storm's power into a Crimson Glazed Palace with a blazing corridor descending underground.
• Xiao Yan decided to pursue the green lotus core flame and investigate refining pills from fire itself.

Xiao Yan waited underground as he studied the interaction between two heavenly flames and seemed to discover the key to the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus. Aboveground, Gu He led Yun Yun and his companions into the passage, and Queen Medusa followed, convinced the heavenly flames would be hers—until she witnessed an unexpected turn of events.

• Xiao Yan stopped beside a magma lake and tested how two heavenly flames could alternate between violence and suppression as he studied the Fire Pill Technique.
• Xiao Yan noticed what he believed was the key to his inability to use the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Gu He, Yun Yun, Wind Walker Feng Li, and Lion King Yan Shi examined the Glazed Sacred Hall, then Gu He led his group into the underground passage.
• Queen Medusa arrived at the hall, sensed heavenly flames below, crushed a Token to summon Snake-People Tribe Dou Wangs, and rushed into the passage.
• Queen Medusa caught up with Gu He's group and widened her eyes at the sudden turn of events ahead.

Gu He, Yun Yun, and Medusa reached the vast underground Lava Sea and found Xiao Yan surrounded by two heavenly flames. When Medusa attacked to seize the myriad beast spirit flame, Xiao Yan revealed his power over the molten world and parted the Lava Sea, leaving a path ahead.

• Gu He and the others descended through Xiao Yan’s reshaped passage, with Medusa catching up but holding back from attacking.
• The group emerged into an immense underground sea of magma and saw Xiao Yan standing with the wind fury dragon flame and myriad beast spirit flame circling him.
• Medusa recognized the myriad beast spirit flame as her chance to evolve and attacked Xiao Yan, while Gu He ordered the others to stop her.
• Xiao Yan’s two flames formed a barrier that shattered Medusa’s strike, and he taunted her before preparing to leave.
• Medusa found that she could not use spatial power as Xiao Yan became a thirty-foot flame body and commanded the Lava Sea to split apart.
• Xiao Yan parted the Lava Sea and formed a solid stairway across it.

Xiao Yan realized that perfect harmony between his Heavenly Flames prevented him from creating the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, then refined their clashing energies into a stable lotus. Just as he absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame and declared his Dao complete, a sudden purple attack erupted above him.

• Queen Medusa discovered Xiao Yan had sealed the others behind a flame barrier and joined Gu He and the others in attacking it.
• Xiao Yan's pill-refining cauldron exploded, and the clash of medicinal energies gave him insight into how to create the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan deliberately balanced the opposing forces of his Heavenly Flames and condensed them into a fist-sized, translucent lotus.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame, his aura surged, and a crimson-gold pill cloud formed above him.
• A dazzling purple light erupted from twisted space above Xiao Yan with a deafening hiss.

Queen Medusa ambushed Xiao Yan and nearly destroyed his Heavenly Flame Dharma Body, but he ate a petal from his Three-Colored Fire Lotus and quickly restored himself. When Medusa attacked again, Xiao Yan detonated a lotus petal at close range, leaving her facing a deadly explosion.

• Queen Medusa struck Xiao Yan while he was focused on his Fire Lotus, destroying most of his body and covering him in corrosive purple-red energy.
• Medusa noticed the Three-Colored Fire Lotus in Xiao Yan's remaining hand and feared its power, so she retreated behind layers of defenses.
• Xiao Yan ate a lotus petal, unleashing its healing essence to restore and strengthen his body while burning away Medusa's energy.
• Medusa dismissed the Fire Lotus as a bluff and charged Xiao Yan again as Yun Yun led Gu He and the others away.
• Xiao Yan detached another petal and warned Medusa, but she struck it with her Dou Qi, triggering a devastating explosion that made her fear for her life.

Xiao Yan unleashed Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus against Queen Medusa, devastating the underground Lava Dimension and leaving both combatants apparently near death. After the blast subsided, Xiao Yan re-formed himself from crimson-gold flames, absorbed the lingering fire, and prepared to strike the barely living Medusa again.

• Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus exploded, and Queen Medusa used spatial power to resist the overwhelming flames.
• The reflected blasts battered Gu He, Yan Shi, Feng Li, and Yun Yun, while Medusa's body was blasted into pieces and Xiao Yan disappeared amid the fire.
• Yun Yun sensed that Xiao Yan was still alive as a mass of crimson-gold flames gathered where he had stood.
• Xiao Yan reappeared, absorbed the remaining flames to strengthen himself, and turned toward the barely moving Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan sent two more petals from the Fire Lotus toward Medusa, suspecting she was pretending to be dead.

After surviving Xiao Yan’s first Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, Queen Medusa tried to play dead and gather strength to escape, but Xiao Yan revealed two more petals. As he prepared to launch them, Gu He, Yan Shi, Feng Li, and Yun Yun rushed to intervene, leaving Xiao Yan to make stopping conditional.

• Xiao Yan noticed Queen Medusa secretly gathering strength while she pretended to be dead.
• Xiao Yan showed the onlookers two more Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus petals, startling Queen Medusa, Gu He, Feng Li, and Yan Shi.
• Queen Medusa abandoned her act, then collapsed again and tried to gather strength to flee.
• Xiao Yan asked how Queen Medusa would handle a second and third attack, then moved to launch both petals.
• Gu He, Yan Shi, and Feng Li begged Xiao Yan to wait, while Yun Yun stepped forward to negotiate.
• Xiao Yan said he might stop, but left his condition unstated.

Xiao Yan forced Queen Medusa to submit after defeating her, while Gu He realized he had no power to negotiate or resist. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan gripping Medusa’s neck as she acted humiliated, though he suspected she had leaned into his hand.

• Gu He accepted that he and his companions were at Xiao Yan’s mercy and decided that risking their lives for a heavenly flame was not worthwhile.
• Xiao Yan threatened Queen Medusa with two more Fire Lotus petals when she continued gathering power while playing dead.
• Queen Medusa surrendered after sensing Xiao Yan’s attack lock onto her, and she recognized that the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame had purified her bloodline at the cost of damaging her mind and body.
• Xiao Yan sent Yun Yun and the others upward, then approached Medusa and teased her for asking him to stop.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Medusa by the neck as she appeared to submit, but he wondered whether she had leaned into his hand.