Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan seized the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and discovered Mulan Valley’s hoard of magic cores beneath a mysterious stele. When the remnant soul inside the stele revealed itself as the Heavenly Beast Saint, Xiao Yan suddenly attacked him.

• Xiao Yan escaped the sea of blood with the juvenile Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and reached the plaza with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan found a mountain of magic cores beneath the stele, including a ninth-tier core and eighteen eighth-tier cores, and stored them in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan examined the stele, resisted its attempt to draw in his soul, and threatened to destroy it with four Heavenly Flames.
• The Heavenly Beast Saint emerged from the stele and identified himself as a remnant soul who had once been a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao agreed to capture the Heavenly Beast Saint, and Xiao Yan launched a sudden attack that left the Saint alarmed.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao fought the Heavenly Beast Saint, who used techniques that revealed his connection to the Hall of Souls. Xiao Yan defeated him with a Three-Colored Fire Lotus and captured his weakened remnant soul, intending to interrogate him about his secrets, including one concerning a Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan punched through the Heavenly Beast Saint's soul-powered black dragon and recognized the Saint as a dangerous opponent.
• The Heavenly Beast Saint sent black chains after Yao Lao, who defended himself with bone spirit cold flame and revealed another Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan summoned three Heavenly Flames and formed a Three-Colored Fire Lotus while the Heavenly Beast Saint offered techniques and a secret about a Dou Di in exchange for his life.
• Xiao Yan rejected the offer and hurled the Three-Colored Fire Lotus, engulfing the Heavenly Beast Saint in flames.
• Xiao Yan flew into the flames and returned carrying the nearly dispersed Heavenly Beast Saint, ready to interrogate him.

Xiao Yan learned the secrets of Mulan Valley, obtained the True Blood Divine Refinement Art, and refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. He and Yao Lao then recovered material from the Heavenly Beast Saint’s bones, which could help Yao Lao rebuild his body and reach Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao learned from Hun Qianshang that he had stolen Mulan Valley’s body-refining art and fought the Heavenly Beast Saint, whose remnant soul had been attached to the inheritance stone tablet.
• Xiao Yan obtained the Dou Di inheritance, the True Blood Divine Refinement Art, and decided to have the Lion King guard the blood sea.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, severing his connection to it, and Xiao Yan gave Yao Lao a Soul Restoration Pill.
• Xiao Yan refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame in one day, advancing his dou qi to seven hundred and forty stages and evolving the Flame Mantra to Quasi-Heaven Tier.
• Yao Lao easily refined the juvenile myriad beast spirit flame while Xiao Yan stood guard.
• Xiao Yan melted down the inheritance stone tablet and recovered material from the Heavenly Beast Saint’s bones, which he and Yao Lao hoped could help Yao Lao reach Dou Sheng.

After Xiao Yan left the Spatial Secret Realm, Nalan Yanran took the initiative to become his lover, and he shared a Dou Di inheritance with her. They practiced the True Blood Divine Refinement Art in the sea of blood, where Nalan Yanran broke through to five-star Dou Wang and Xiao Yan warned her about its dangers.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Spatial Secret Realm and asked Yun Yun to have the Flame Alliance take control of it, while she gave him Mulan Valley’s resources and copied techniques.
• Jia Xingtian returned to the Jia Ma Empire to lead an invasion of the weakened Mulan Empire, and Yun Shan urged Nalan Yanran to take the initiative with Xiao Yan.
• Nalan Yanran visited Xiao Yan that night and offered herself to him, and they spent the night together.
• Xiao Yan taught Nalan Yanran the True Blood Divine Refinement Art and took her to the secret realm’s sea of blood to temper their bodies.
• Nalan Yanran’s first tempering cleansed her sinews and marrow and raised her to five-star Dou Wang, and Xiao Yan warned her to practice only once a year to avoid the blood essence’s resentment.

Xiao Yan entrusted the Spatial Secret Realm to the Amethyst Winged Lion King, then returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Nalan Yanran to enter the Gate of Life and Death. Inside, the trial space misjudged Xiao Yan as a Nine-Star Dou Ling, and he began clearing its increasingly strong phantom opponents with ease.

• Xiao Yan gave the Amethyst Winged Lion King the True Blood Divine Refinement Art and ordered him to restrict its cultivation to the Flame Alliance’s core members.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Yun welcomed them and suspected that their relationship had grown closer.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran opened the Gate of Life and Death and were pulled into its isolated trial space.
• The trial space assessed Xiao Yan as a Nine-Star Dou Ling and summoned ten One-Star Great Dou Master phantoms, which Xiao Yan destroyed in one second.
• Xiao Yan received a surge of energy but no special reward, then defeated the next wave of ten Two-Star Great Dou Master phantoms just as quickly.

Xiao Yan rapidly advanced through the trial’s stages, using the energy rewards to increase his Dou Qi and break through to the Spirit Realm. He finished the stage-six battle with a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus and reached 3,400 stages of Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan destroyed successive phantom waves in stages two through four and gained enough energy to reach 1,000 stages of Dou Qi and break through to Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan’s five senses expanded at the breakthrough, and his soul power advanced to the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan defeated phantoms through stage five and faced increasingly powerful Dou Zun phantoms in stage six, using the battles to adapt to his strength and hone his instincts.
• Xiao Yan relied on Cicada Senses Autumn Wind Before It Stirs to evade attacks and reach the seventh wave of stage six without using the Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan fused five Heavenly Flames into a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus and wiped out the phantoms, earning a fifteenfold stage-six reward and reaching 3,400 stages of Dou Qi.

After grinding through the Gate of Life and Death, Xiao Yan gained immense strength but was expelled for absorbing too much of its origin energy. He reunited with Yun Yun and Yun Shan, who recognized his astonishing growth, and left the Misty Cloud Sect with a promise to remember its kindness.

• Xiao Yan cleared the seventh stage of the trial, defeated ten first-revolution Dou Zun phantoms, and raised his Dou Qi to four thousand two hundred levels.
• The Gate of Life and Death angrily expelled Xiao Yan for absorbing too much of its origin energy and barred him from returning.
• Yun Yun and Yun Shan rushed to the Gate of Life and Death and found Xiao Yan after he crashed into a mountain.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun and Yun Shan that Dou Zuns were ants to him, and they were shocked by his immense progress.
• Xiao Yan thanked the Gate of Life and Death and promised to remember the Misty Cloud Sect's kindness, delighting Yun Shan and Yun Yun.
• Yao Lao heard Xiao Yan's account and wondered if he was the legendary Child of Fortune.

Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance with Yao Yue and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast, then reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and prepared to cure her woeful poison body. Xiao Yi Xian accepted his complicated relationships but teased him about Xun'er and Nalan Yanran.

• Jia Xingtian sent his great-granddaughter Yao Yue and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast with Xiao Yan to join the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance, where Yao Yue began studying alchemy under Gu He and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast joined the Heavenly Snake Hall.
• Xiao Yan gave Gu He the ingredients to refine a Primordial Bone-Shaping Pill for the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and told her he had gathered what he needed to refine a Poison Pill and eliminate the danger of her woeful poison body.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted Xiao Yan's promise to take her on his travels, then teased him about Xun'er and Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Yan began helping Xiao Yi Xian condense her Poison Pill, using Heavenly Flames, Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, and an Eighth-Rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core. Xiao Yi Xian’s aura surged to Seven-Star Dou Huang as the poison qi and magic core began to fuse.

• Xiao Yi Xian celebrated the coming end of the danger from her woeful poison body by spending an intimate night with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian discovered that she had reached Seven-Star Dou Wang during their intimacy, and Xiao Yan attributed her breakthrough to his powerful constitution.
• Xiao Yan used the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame to drive Xiao Yi Xian’s poison qi into her lower abdomen and compress it.
• Xiao Yan refined the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, sent its life force into Xiao Yi Xian, and instructed her to compress the poison qi with her Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan refined the Eighth-Rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core and placed it inside Xiao Yi Xian as she activated the Poison Pill Method.
• Xiao Yi Xian began fusing the poison qi vortex with the magic core, and her aura erupted to Seven-Star Dou Huang.

Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance, oversaw its rapid expansion, and led it to unify the Black-Corner Region. After setting his sights on the Northwest Continent, he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Nalan Yanran, whose growing strength reflected the opportunities he had given them.

• Xiao Yi Xian successfully condensed her Poison Pill and celebrated with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li reported the Flame Alliance’s growth, and Xiao Yan set its next goal as unifying the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan’s return led to Queen Medusa awakening and reaching Three-Star Dou Zong, Xiao Xun’er joining the Flame Alliance, and Nalan Yanran returning after advancing to Six-Star Dou Emperor.
• The Flame Alliance unified the Black-Corner Region, and Xiao Yan announced that he would next target the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yi Xian joined Xiao Yan in his bedchamber, and Nalan Yanran arrived after breaking through to Seven-Star Dou Huang.

After two years of growth, Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the Central Plains with Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, and Zi Yan, leaving Qing Lin and Queen Medusa to oversee the Flame Alliance. He relied on Xiao Ding to manage the alliance and declared that his name would soon shake the continent.

• Over two years, the Flame Alliance grew stronger as its members advanced, while Xiao Yan reached 7,200 Stages of Dou Qi and improved his alchemy and soul power.
• Xiao Yan announced his plan to visit the Central Plains, and Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, Qing Lin, Queen Medusa, and Zi Yan each expressed interest in joining him.
• Xiao Yan chose Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, and Zi Yan to accompany him, and tasked Qing Lin and Queen Medusa with protecting the Flame Alliance.
• Queen Medusa resolved to keep pursuing Xiao Yan, while Qing Lin accepted her responsibility to guard the alliance.
• Xiao Ding teased Xiao Yan for leaving the alliance's affairs to him, and Xiao Yan thanked his brother before confidently predicting that his name would soon be known across the continent.

Xiao Yan led his companions to a Hall of Souls branch hidden in the Tianqing Mountain Range and launched an attack before their journey to the Central Plains. As the branch’s leaders prepared to fight, Xiao Xun'er began using a powerful seal against the deputy hall masters.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, and Zi Yan that he had found the branch’s location by interrogating a captured Hall of Souls member.
• Xiao Yan shattered the spatial barrier around the branch’s canyon, prompting its forces to gather and attack the intruders.
• Nalan Yanran volunteered to fight the Dou Zongs, while Xiao Xun'er took on the deputy hall masters and Zi Yan offered to handle the weaker fighters.
• Xiao Yi Xian killed the branch hall master with a beam of gray energy and sealed the surrounding space so the deputy hall masters could not send a distress signal.
• Xiao Xun'er formed seals and invoked the Mountain Splitting Seal as the two deputy hall masters prepared to fight their way out.

Xiao Yan and his companions defeated the Hall of Souls guards and discovered a plaza where thousands of captured souls were being held for a ritual. After claiming a cache of soul origin and freeing the prisoners, Xiao Yan reflected that Gu Yuan had badly underestimated the Hun Clan, leaving him to handle the coming crisis himself.

• Xiao Xun'er quickly defeated two deputy hall masters, Zi Yan easily handled several Dou Wangs and Dou Emperors, and Nalan Yanran won her arduous battle after nearly two hours.
• Xiao Yan praised Nalan Yanran and gave her a Sixth-Grade Pill before the group collected the fallen enemies' Storage Rings and entered the hall's deepest chamber.
• Xiao Yan recognized a glowing cluster as soul origin, took it, and used his soul power to break the chains binding thousands of captured souls.
• The freed souls thanked Xiao Yan and departed, while he personally released those whose consciousness had been destroyed.
• Xiao Xun'er explained that the Hun Clan used soul origin for its secret arts and that Gu Yuan had long known of the Hall of Souls' activities but had not intervened.
• Xiao Yan condemned Gu Yuan for overlooking the Hun Clan's schemes and resolved that he would have to carry the team himself.

Xiao Yan refined the soul origin and advanced to the half-step heaven realm before traveling with the women to Tianya City. As they headed for the city’s spatial passage, Luo Cheng realized the visitors were far stronger than he had expected and hurried to greet them.

• Xiao Yan used the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame to remove the Hall of Souls’ hidden tampering from the soul origin, then absorbed and refined it.
• After two days, Xiao Yan’s soul power surged, and he reached the half-step heaven realm; Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Nalan Yanran, and Zi Yan congratulated him.
• Xiao Yan and the women traveled toward Tianya City, taking five days as Zi Yan found medicinal herbs and they stopped to search for treasures.
• A yellow-robed elder met Xiao Yan and his companions near Tianya City and offered them hospitality, but Xiao Yan asked to go directly to the spatial passage.
• When an informant told Luo Cheng that four Dou Zong experts had arrived, Luo Cheng hurried to receive them and realized they were Dou Zun; he bowed to Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yan and the women traveled through Tianya City's Spatial Passage toward the Central Plains aboard a space ship. After eleven days of travel and signs that the passage's barriers were failing, they emerged safely in the Central Plains.

• Luo Cheng welcomed Xiao Yan and the women, then personally escorted them to Tianya City's Spatial Passage after they declined to visit the Luo family.
• Xiao Yan paid Luo Cheng a Fifth-grade Pill as the passage fee and entered the Spatial Passage with the women.
• Xiao Yan summoned a Fifth-Level Space Ship and powered it with crimson energy to carry them through the passage.
• During the journey, Xiao Yan and the women cultivated, drank tea, chatted, and played board games while Xiao Yan noticed tension beneath the games between Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian.
• After eleven days, the passage's spatial barriers showed signs of collapse and battered the ship, but Xiao Yan and the women continued without intervening.
• The ship passed through the silver-lit exit, and Xiao Yan and the women arrived in the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan brought his companions to the Burning Flame Valley to learn the complete Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, an art once created by his ancestor. After reaching the valley and announcing himself, he left its leaders wary of the powerful soul force in his voice.

• Xiao Yan explained that the Xiao Clan ancestor Xiao Xuan had created the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and that the Burning Flame Valley held its complete version.
• Xiao Yan bought a Central Region map, subdued a Peak Sixth Tier Six-Winged Flying Tiger, and traveled with his companions for half a month to the Blazing Fire Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan thanked the Six-Winged Flying Tiger with a rare medicinal herb and identified the concealed spatial barrier to the Burning Flame Valley.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested breaking through the barrier, but Xiao Yan refused and announced himself as Xiao Yan of the Flame Alliance.
• The Burning Flame Valley's red-haired Valley Master and the others sensed Xiao Yan's soul power and wondered who he was.

Xiao Yan and his companions visited Burning Flame Valley, where he asked Tang Zhen for the valley’s inherited Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations. Tang Zhen refused to pass on the secret technique to an outsider, but Xiao Yan revealed a powerful heavenly flame, leaving Tang Zhen shocked and the request unresolved.

• Tang Zhen led Burning Flame Valley’s elders and Tang Huo'er out to welcome Xiao Yan and his companions.
• Tang Zhen invited Xiao Yan’s group into Burning Flame Valley and escorted them to a crimson hall.
• Tang Zhen asked why Xiao Yan had come, and Xiao Yan requested the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations.
• Tang Zhen explained that the technique was not passed to outsiders, prompting Zi Yan to point out that Xiao Yan possessed heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame, and Tang Zhen recognized it as a heavenly flame more terrifying than the three thousand burning flame.

Xiao Yan revealed that he was Xiao Xuan’s descendant and demonstrated the Beast King Transformation to prove his identity to Tang Zhen and Burning Flame Valley. Convinced, Tang Zhen agreed to return the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, while Tang Huo’er’s admiration for Xiao Yan left her father uneasy.

• Tang Zhen explained that he could not hand over the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations without the secluded grand elder’s approval.
• Xiao Yan told Tang Zhen that Xiao Xuan created the technique and revealed that Xiao Xuan was his ancestor and patriarch of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan explained that the technique had been created as a contingency for the Xiao Clan and that only a clan member could reveal its true purpose.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated the first transformation, Beast King Transformation, unleashing a powerful aura and awakening the Xiao Clan Mark; Xiao Xun'er recognized it as a sign that his imperial bloodline had awakened.
• Tang Zhen accepted Xiao Yan’s identity and told Tang Huo’er to fetch the technique, then noticed her admiring gaze and worried she had fallen for Xiao Yan.

Old Ancestor Huoyun arrived at Burning Flame Valley, welcomed Xiao Yan as an old friend's disciple, and offered him treasures in exchange for the return of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations. After Yao Lao appeared and revealed Xiao Yan might be able to cure Huoyun's lingering condition, Huoyun was left astonished.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun entered the hall, praised Xiao Yan, and allowed him to choose three treasures from Burning Flame Valley's treasury.
• Huoyun explained that the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations belonged to the Xiao Clan and said Xiao Yan was welcome to take it back.
• Tang Huo'er returned, and Huoyun praised her cultivation while privately considering her a suitable match for Xiao Yan.
• Yao Lao appeared from the Bone Flame Ring, and Huoyun recognized him as an old friend and learned that Xiao Yan was his disciple.
• Tang Zhen realized Yao Lao might be able to treat Tang Huo'er's injuries from forcibly merging with the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Yao Lao hinted that Xiao Yan could resolve Huoyun's lingering condition, leaving Huoyun stunned.

Yao Lao revealed Xiao Yan’s extraordinary alchemy talent to Old Ancestor Huoyun and sought Burning Flame Valley’s Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, but Xiao Yan refused to demand payment for curing Huoyun’s ailment. Xiao Yan then offered to treat Tang Huo’er, leaving everyone wondering how he had noticed her condition.

• Yao Lao claimed that Xiao Yan’s alchemy already rivaled his own, astonishing Old Ancestor Huoyun and the people of Burning Flame Valley.
• Yao Lao asked for the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, but Old Ancestor Huoyun refused to give it up.
• Xiao Yan offered to cure Old Ancestor Huoyun’s hidden ailment once he became a Ninth-Rank Alchemist, asking for nothing in return.
• Xiao Yan said he could treat Tang Huo’er’s condition, and Old Ancestor Huoyun discovered the problem and scolded Tang Zhen for keeping it from him.
• Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Lao, and the people of Burning Flame Valley wondered how Xiao Yan had noticed Tang Huo’er’s condition.