Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan cleansed the Bodhi Ancient Tree of the Black-Robed Dou Di’s lingering negative emotions and received its Bodhi Seeds and Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation. After a month of reincarnations, he emerged with a renewed understanding of his cultivation path and declared it complete.

• Xiao Yan approached the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which drew him into its inner space and showed him how the Black-Robed Dou Di’s death had left corrupting emotions inside it.
• Xiao Yan agreed to cleanse the tree in exchange for payment, then refined its released negative emotions with his blood qi and origin divine fire.
• After the cleansing, the Bodhi Ancient Tree gave Xiao Yan hundreds of Bodhi Seeds and a heart-shaped substance, then offered him a chance to experience Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• Xiao Yan lived through a hundred lives, including lives as a mercenary alongside Xiao Yi Xian and as an outcast of the Yan Clan, and used the experiences to reconsider his path.
• After a month beneath the tree, Xiao Yan opened his eyes and said that his path was complete.

Xiao Yan created the Creation Furnace Scripture and persuaded the injured Bodhi Ancient Tree to accompany him to Starfall Pavilion, promising to help it recover with Ninth Grade Golden Pills. As they prepared to leave with Zi Yan, the Bodhi Ancient Tree explained that ancient Dou Di sealed the passage to the Great Thousand World, cutting off the Origin Qi needed to become a Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan created the Creation Furnace Scripture by combining the Flame Mantra, the Insect Queen of the Ancient Devouring Worms, his own traits, and insights from the Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree said it planned to return to the earth's veins to heal its old injuries, but Xiao Yan offered to help it recover with three healing Ninth Grade Golden Pills.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree agreed to go with Xiao Yan and shrank to palm size before hopping onto his shoulder.
• Zi Yan joined Xiao Yan and the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Xiao Yan told her the tree would live with them at Starfall Pavilion.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree explained that Dou Di sealed the passage between the Dou Qi Continent and the Great Thousand World after the Extraterrestrial Evil Clan invaded, blocking the Origin Qi needed to reach Dou Di.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the Demonic Flame Space to find the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, and Xiao Yan shattered its illusions and faced the flame’s army of fire slaves. He began refining the horde with his Creation Furnace Scripture, while Zi Yan knocked Blood Axe Xiao Chen aside and Xiao Chen began to regain his senses.

• Zi Yan opened a spatial rift that let her and Xiao Yan enter the Demonic Flame Space, where Xiao Yan dispelled the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s illusion with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame summoned thousands of fire slaves, including Blood Axe Xiao Chen, to test the intruders.
• Xiao Yan unveiled his crimson furnace and absorbed the fire slaves, refining most of them into energy for himself.
• Zi Yan struck Xiao Chen away without killing him, and Xiao Chen regained some clarity and wondered where he was.

Xiao Chen learned that the Hun Clan had destroyed the Xiao Clan and resolved to follow Xiao Yan in taking revenge. Xiao Yan confronted the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, rejecting its bargain and calling for the Purifying Lotus Saint to speak.

• Xiao Chen recovered his memories, identified himself as a member of the Xiao Clan, and learned from Zi Yan that the Hun Clan had wiped it out a thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Chen regretted missing the Xiao Clan's fall but vowed to follow Xiao Yan and help avenge it.
• After half a day refining the Fire Slaves, Xiao Yan reached sixty-two thousand stages of Dou Qi and paid his respects to Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Chen, and Zi Yan confronted the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, which offered the Purifying Lotus Saint's legacy and Tou She Ancient God's secret in exchange for help breaking its seal.
• Xiao Yan rejected the bargain and called on the Purifying Lotus Saint; the Saint's voice told him to refine the Demon Flame or destroy it completely.

Xiao Yan defeated the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, destroyed its consciousness, and began refining its remaining flame. At the Hun Clan, the Nihility Devouring Flame learned Xiao Yan had grown to Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength and blamed Hun Xuzi for failing to capture him earlier.

• The Purifying Lotus Demon Flame unleashed the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation, but Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger shattered it and overwhelmed him.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s consciousness, drew its remaining essence into the Crimson Divine Furnace, and began refining it.
• A Hun Clan Dou Sheng reported Xiao Yan’s strength and Xiao Clan lineage to the Nihility Devouring Flame after he emerged from seclusion.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame summoned Hun Xuzi and angrily blamed him for delegating the failed attempt to capture Xiao Yan to Hun Miesheng.
• Hun Xuzi panicked as he realized Xiao Yan now posed a grave threat to the Hun Clan’s plan and asked the Nihility Devouring Flame what to do.

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.