Chapter Summaries

After refining the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and returning to Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan learned that Queen Medusa had emerged from seclusion and spent three days with her. He was then summoned to meet Old Ancestor Huoyun, who said he had come to discuss Huo'er.

• Xiao Yan refined the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, strengthened his Origin Divine Flame, and increased his cultivation to 68,000 segments of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion and told Yao Lao and Venerable Feng that he had found Xiao Clan ancestor Xiao Chen in the Demonic Flame Space.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Queen Medusa had emerged from seclusion and brought Qing Lin to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan visited Queen Medusa that night, and three days later he left her attic feeling refreshed.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun met Xiao Yan at Starfall Pavilion and said he had come about Huo'er.

Xiao Yan accepted the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire from Old Ancestor Huoyun, then retaliated against the Hun Clan after learning they had tried to seize his brothers. He destroyed the Human Hall and the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation, provoking Hun Tiandi.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun told Xiao Yan that Tang Huo'er had inherited the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire and sent it to him as her dowry.
• Xiao Yan refined the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire instantly, healed Old Ancestor Huoyun, and prepared two Ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pills for Tang Huo'er.
• Yao Lao and Venerable Feng told Xiao Yan that three Hun Clan Dou Sheng had tried to capture his brothers but were driven off by two Five-Star Dou Sheng from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Xiao Yan took Zi Yan to the Human Hall and annihilated its Hun Clan forces with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation beneath the mountain range, and Hun Tiandi sensed the loss and summoned Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formation in the Earth Hall and confronted Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame. Hun Tiandi attacked Xiao Yan while Nihility Devouring Flame challenged Zi Yan, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame that someone had erased his imprint on the Human Hall formation, and they hurried to the Earth Hall.
• Xiao Yan killed the Hall of Souls members in the Earth Hall and refined their corpses before sensing Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame approaching.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame emerged and recognized Xiao Yan as the one who had disrupted the Hun Clan's plan.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had come to retaliate for the Hun Clan capturing his family, and Hun Tiandi recalled his past conflict with the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Tiandi attacked Xiao Yan with a black giant hand, but Xiao Yan shattered it with his soul power.
• Hun Tiandi assigned Nihility Devouring Flame to fight Zi Yan, who said she would defeat him and that Xiao Yan needed his heavenly flame.

Zi Yan and Xiao Yan began fighting Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame, revealing powerful techniques that surprised their opponents. Xiao Yan unleashed another trump card, a towering crimson figure that formed a crimson-gold flame seal as the heavens fell silent.

• Zi Yan summoned the Dragon Slaying Sword and battled Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan used blood qi smoke and his Crimson Divine Furnace to absorb Hun Tiandi's Ten Thousand Souls Slay the Heavens.
• Xiao Yan attacked Hun Tiandi with the five-seal Emperor Seal Art and Great Heaven Creation Palm, but Hun Tiandi blocked both techniques.
• Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger clashed with Hun Tiandi's Blood Demon Heart-Eroding Thunder, tearing apart the sky and earth.
• Xiao Yan revealed a towering crimson figure that mirrored his movements and unleashed a crimson-gold flame seal.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan attacked Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame, forcing Hun Tiandi to consider accelerating his plan to reach Dou Di by sacrificing entire clans. Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion, gave Zi Yan a pill to help her advance, and ended the chapter carrying Xun'er toward a pavilion after she came to speak with him.

• Xiao Yan's crimson-gold fire seal smashed through Hun Tiandi's nine shields and injured him, but Xiao Yan said he would kill him the next time they met.
• Xiao Yan called Zi Yan away from her fight with Nihility Devouring Flame, and they escaped through a spatial rift.
• Hun Tiandi told Nihility Devouring Flame that they had to begin their plan early, starting by destroying the Stone Clan and Yao Clan and sacrificing their bloodlines to strengthen him.
• Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion with Zi Yan and gave her a Ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill, telling her to reach eight-star Dou Sheng before their next battle.
• Xun'er visited Xiao Yan that night, and he scooped her up and carried her toward the pavilion despite her protests that she had come for another reason.

Xiao Yan received the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame from Xun'er, then traveled with Yao Lao, Zi Yan, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree to the Yao Clan. The chapter ended as Elder Wanhuo came out to receive them, uncertain of the visitors’ true strength.

• Xun'er gave Xiao Yan the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and severed her connection to it, then began recovering with a Ninth-grade Energy-Gathering Pill.
• Xiao Yan refined the flame into his origin divine flame and set up a Divine Flame Barrier around Xun'er before leaving for the Yao Clan with Yao Lao, Zi Yan, and the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• At the Yao Clan’s Medicine Realm entrance, Xiao Yan announced his visit and promised Yao Lao he would clear his name.
• Yao Dan heard Xiao Yan had arrived and sent Elder Wanhuo to receive him, while Yao Wangui worried Xiao Yan had come to settle old scores.
• Elder Wanhuo emerged from the gate and found Xiao Yan’s party’s strength unfathomable.

Xiao Yan brought Yao Lao and their companions to the Yao Clan, where Elder Wanhuo apologized for Yao Lao’s past exile and promised to have his parents’ names added to the clan stele. Before Yao Dan, Xiao Yan began the first of three matters: seeking justice from Yao Wangui for falsely accusing Yao Lao.

• Elder Wanhuo welcomed Xiao Yan and led him and his companions through a Spatial Vortex into the Yao Clan’s territory.
• Elder Wanhuo apologized to Yao Lao for the clan’s past treatment and offered him Yao Wangui’s position, but Yao Lao declined to return and asked only for his parents’ names to be inscribed on the clan stele.
• Elder Wanhuo agreed to fulfill Yao Lao’s request and brought the group to meet Clan Chief Yao Dan.
• Yao Dan noticed the formidable beings accompanying Xiao Yan and asked why he had come to the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Dan that he had come to discuss three matters and began by demanding justice for Yao Lao over Yao Wangui’s false accusation.

Xiao Yan sought justice for Yao Lao from the Yao Clan and demanded its Turtle Spirit Earth Flame and treasured pill formulas. He warned that a disaster threatening to annihilate the clan was at its doorstep, leaving the hall in shock.

• Yao Dan offered to strip Yao Wangui of his position and banish him for ten years, but Xiao Yan rejected the punishment and destroyed Yao Wangui's limbs.
• Xiao Yan used the Bodhi Ancient Tree's overwhelming aura to deter the Yao Clan, and Yao Dan agreed to banish Yao Wangui from Medicine Mountain for a hundred years.
• Xiao Yan requested the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, which was inside Yao Tian, but Yao Dan refused to give the clan's inherited flame to an outsider.
• Xiao Yan demanded the Yao Clan's Ninth Grade Golden Pill and Emperor Grade Pill formulas, provoking Yao Dan and the clan members.
• Xiao Yan warned that a disaster threatening to annihilate the Yao Clan was imminent, shocking everyone in the hall.

Xiao Yan warned Yao Dan that the Hun Clan planned to destroy the Yao Clan as part of its blood-sacrifice scheme, then revealed that nihility devouring flame had already arrived with an attack force. Yao Dan accepted Xiao Yan’s request, and Xiao Yan led the Yao Clan outside to meet the invaders.

• Yao Dan accused Xiao Yan of coercing the Yao Clan, but Xiao Yan said he was warning them about another threat.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Hun Clan had set up Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formations across the Central Plains and might target the Yao and Stone Clans next.
• Xiao Yan promised to protect the Yao Clan’s legacy and said he could stop Hun Tiandi if he came alone.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the Hun Clan had arrived and revealed that nihility devouring flame was leading the attack.
• Yao Dan agreed to Xiao Yan’s request, and Xiao Yan led the Yao Clan outside to welcome nihility devouring flame.

Xiao Yan and his allies prepared to defend the Yao Clan from the Hun Clan’s overwhelming attack. With the Bodhi Ancient Tree sealing the battlefield, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan began cutting through the attackers while the Nihility Devouring Flame tried to escape.

• The Hun Clan’s forces approached the Yao Clan, and Yao Dan promised Xiao Yan heavenly flames and pill formulas in return for his help.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame sensed Xiao Yan and tried to escape with his true body, but Xiao Yan detected him and asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to seal the space.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree expanded and blocked the Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving him trapped inside the Yao Clan’s territory.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan charged into battle, with Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger blasting back the Hun Clan’s five Seven-Star Dou Saints.
• Zi Yan attacked the Hun Clan’s five- and Six-Star Dou Saints with the Dragon Slaying Sword as a Bodhi Ancient Tree branch struck at the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Yao Clan members watched in shock while Yao Lao joked that Yao Dan could join the fight if he wanted to.

Xiao Yan stopped Hun Xuzi from detonating himself and absorbed him into the Crimson Divine Furnace. He then crushed the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan with the Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal and drew their corpses into the furnace.

• Hun Xuzi tried to detonate himself to tear open the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Space Lock and help the Four Demon Saints of the Soul Clan escape.
• Xiao Yan intercepted Hun Xuzi and absorbed him into the Crimson Divine Furnace before he could explode.
• The Four Demon Saints attacked Xiao Yan together, then began preparing to detonate themselves after Hun Xuzi was captured.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal, killing all four Demon Saints and pulling their corpses into the divine furnace.

Xiao Yan defeated the nihility devouring flame and refined it along with the Hun Clan invaders, raising his strength to eighty-one thousand segments of dou qi. After saving the Yao Clan and accepting its pill formulas, he declared himself utterly invincible thirty years after arriving in this world.

• Xiao Yan rejected the nihility devouring flame’s offers of secrets and joined the Bodhi Ancient Tree to destroy him, then drew his essence into the divine furnace.
• Zi Yan killed the remaining Hun Clan experts, and Xiao Yan collected their corpses while the Yao Clan thanked him for saving them.
• Yao Dan ordered Yao Tian to surrender the turtle spirit earth flame, which Xiao Yan absorbed instantly.
• Yao Dan offered Xiao Yan copies of the Yao Clan’s five Ninth Grade Golden Pill formulas and its Emperor Grade Pill formula.
• Xiao Yan spent half a month refining the nihility devouring flame and another half month refining the Hun Clan experts, increasing his strength from seventy-one thousand to eighty-one thousand segments of dou qi.

After emerging from a month of seclusion, Xiao Yan learned that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Stone Clan and fortified the Soul Realm with powerful defenses. He joined the leaders of the Gu, Yao, Lei, and Yan Clans to plan their final assault on the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion, and Yao Dan told him the Hun Clan had overrun the Stone Clan and sealed off the Soul Realm behind four Gates of Dead Silence.
• Yao Lao explained that Gu Yuan had destroyed the Hun Clan's Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Formations while Zi Yan guarded the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Yao Dan, Yao Lao, and Elder Wanhuo to the Gu Clan, where Zi Yan, Xun'er, and Gu Yuan welcomed them.
• Gu Yuan introduced Xiao Yan to Yan Jin and Lei Ying, the chiefs of the Yan and Lei Clans, and Yao Dan joined their gathering.
• Gu Yuan called the allied clan leaders to take their seats so they could discuss how to deal with the Hun Clan.

Xiao Yan defeated Lei Ying in a spar, displaying strength that rivaled Gu Yuan and Hun Tiandi. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi sacrificed the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan descendants and ordered the Hun Clan's own people thrown into the sea of blood to help him reach Half-Emperor before the other clans found the Soul Realm.

• Gu Yuan and the clan leaders planned to have Zi Yan locate the hidden Soul Realm and kill Hun Tiandi there.
• Lei Ying challenged Xiao Yan to a spar in the void, where Xiao Yan defeated him with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Yao Dan told the others that Xiao Yan's strength had grown greatly after refining the nihility devouring flame.
• An elder reported that millions of Spirit Clan and Stone Clan descendants had been cast into the sea of blood.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Hun Clan's descendants thrown into the sea of blood as well, threatening anyone who objected.

Xiao Yan led the allied clans to the Soul Realm and shattered its barrier, launching the final battle against the Hun Clan. As the invaders fought the Soul Clan’s elders and the Soul Emperor’s remnant soul, Hun Tiandi awakened in a sea of blood and vowed to destroy them.

• Zi Yan assembled the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s forces, and an elder found the Soul Realm after three days of searching.
• Gu Yuan, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and the leaders of the Gu, Lei, Yan, Yao, and Ancient Void Dragon clans marched on the Soul Realm.
• Xiao Yan broke the formation concealing the Soul Realm and led the assembled experts in an assault that shattered its barrier.
• The Four Elders of the Soul Clan summoned the Soul Emperor’s remnant soul and formed the Four Directions Annihilation formation to stop the invading army.
• Zi Yan and the Bodhi Ancient Tree attacked the Soul Emperor’s remnant soul while Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and the allied experts fought the Four Elders and the Hun Clan.
• Hun Tiandi opened his eyes in a sea of blood and threatened to make the invaders stay in the Soul Realm.

Hun Tiandi emerged as a Half-Emperor and confronted Xiao Yan, who insisted on fighting him alone while Gu Yuan dealt with the Gate of Dead Silence array. After their opening attacks clashed evenly, Hun Tiandi activated the Emperor-Slaying Array and prepared to sacrifice the Hun Clan to empower it against Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan he could handle Hun Tiandi alone, then broke through the array and left Gu Yuan to fight the Four Elders of the Soul Clan.
• Hun Tiandi rose from the sea of blood, discovered that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had become a Half-Emperor, and faced Xiao Yan across the battlefield.
• Xiao Yan struck with the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger, and Hun Tiandi countered with the Blood God Heaven-Breaking Spear in an even clash.
• Lei Ying and Yan Jin ordered weaker fighters to retreat from the Soul Realm as the Half-Emperor battle threatened them.
• Hun Tiandi activated the Emperor-Slaying Array and commanded the Hun Clan members to sacrifice their bodies to its blood blade.

Hun Tiandi sacrificed the Hun Clan to empower the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade, but Xiao Yan survived its strike and launched another Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal. Hun Tiandi was left melting in the flames, raging that Xiao Yan had ruined his thousand-year scheme.

• Hun Tiandi sacrificed Hun Clan experts and millions of descendants to strengthen the Emperor-Slaying Ghost Blood Blade.
• Xiao Yan summoned a towering divine-fire figure and attacked Hun Tiandi with the Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal.
• Hun Tiandi infused the blood blade with his own blood energy and struck Xiao Yan, shattering half his body in the resulting clash.
• Xiao Yan regenerated his body through his immense vitality, then crushed Ninth-grade Pills and refined their power in a Crimson-Gold Divine Furnace.
• Xiao Yan's second fire seal broke through Hun Tiandi's Blood Spears and struck him, melting his Half-Emperor body as he cried out in defiance.

After defeating Hun Tiandi and wiping out the Hun Clan, Xiao Yan gathered the clan’s resources and sought the clans’ Emperor Jades for his journey to Dou Di. Yan Jin offered Xiao Yan two heavenly flames and volunteered two more, while Xiao Yan promised the clan leaders they could also reach Dou Di.

• Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Yao Dan arrived after Xiao Yan and Zi Yan defeated Hun Tiandi and the Soul Emperor Remnant Soul.
• Xiao Yan refined Hun Tiandi’s corpse and soul origin in the Crimson-Gold Divine Furnace, then absorbed the Hun Clan’s corpses as cultivation resources.
• Xiao Yan claimed ninety percent of the Hun Clan’s treasures, and the group discovered the blood sea Hun Tiandi had used to reach Half-Emperor.
• Xiao Yan asked to borrow the Emperor Jade from Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and Yao Dan, and all four agreed.
• Yan Jin gave Xiao Yan the Nine Serenities Golden Ancestor Flame and volcanic stone flame, then offered the Yan Clan’s eight desolations destruction flame and Water Cloud Flame as well.

Xiao Yan assembled the Emperor Jade and led Gu Yuan and the others to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath Jia Nan Academy. Zhu Kun used the completed jade to open the stone gate, leaving the group ready to enter.

• Gu Yuan revealed that Hun Tiandi had secretly replaced Elder Gu Yang with a Hun Clan soul, and Lei Ying and Yan Jin said their clans had faced similar schemes.
• Xiao Yan joined the Emperor Jade pieces, causing Tou She Ancient God's phantom to appear, then told the others he and Zi Yan had already found the Cave Mansion.
• Zi Yan opened a spatial passage, and Xiao Yan led Gu Yuan and the others to the Magma World beneath Jia Nan Academy.
• Zhu Kun greeted Zi Yan and Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan handed him the completed Ancient Jade.
• Zhu Kun cast the jade toward the stone gate, which opened amid a powerful roar.

Xiao Yan and the others entered the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and found the plaza before its central hall. There, the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill revealed itself and prepared to kill them so it could keep its existence secret.

• Xiao Yan led Gu Yuan, Zhu Kun, Yao Dan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin through the opened stone doors into a space that severely suppressed soul power.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he could probe three thousand zhang, far beyond Gu Yuan's Emperor Realm soul range, and the group searched the cave together.
• After nearly half a day, the group found a vast plaza lined with pillars bearing hollowed-out heavenly flames and advanced toward the stone hall.
• Xiao Yan cleared the mist and revealed a statue of Tou She Ancient God surrounded by numerous heaven-tier techniques and Dou Techniques.
• A figure resembling Tou She Ancient God appeared, and Zhu Kun identified it as the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill that had trapped him for thousands of years.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill admitted it planned to escape and declared that it would kill Xiao Yan and the others to keep its existence secret.