Chapter Summaries

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.

Xiao Yan and his allies confronted the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, whose strength overwhelmed their opening attacks. Xiao Yan fought back with his fused divine flame and powerful techniques, and the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill screamed in defeat as the final clash’s shock waves filled the area.

• Xiao Yan and the others attacked the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, but he easily broke their combined assault and forced Yao Dan to retreat.
• Xiao Yan unleashed his fused origin divine flame and struck with the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger, meeting the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill’s Emperor Pill Palm in a destructive clash.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill proposed that he and Xiao Yan stop fighting, but Xiao Yan refused and summoned a towering phantom that approached the power of a Dou Di Dharma Body.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill launched the Emperor Pill Heaven-Suppressing Ring, and Xiao Yan countered with the Divine Fire Heaven-Burning Seal.
• The attacks collided and shook the surrounding space, after which the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill screamed in pain and everyone realized he had lost.

Xiao Yan claimed the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and opened the passage to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's inheritance. Inside, he met Tou She Ancient God, who gave him a flaming lotus seed containing the inheritance and emperor's origin power.

• Xiao Yan put away the incomplete Emperor Grade Nascent Pill after its intelligence was destroyed, and Gu Yuan, Lei Ying, and Yan Jin recognized its value.
• Xiao Yan used origin divine flame to open a passage in Tou She Ancient God's statue after Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun failed to damage it.
• A powerful aura emerged from the statue, and its beam of light chose Xiao Yan, allowing him to enter the passage as the pressure on the others disappeared.
• Xiao Yan entered a sea of heavenly flames and told Tou She Ancient God that he had advanced beyond eighty thousand stages of Dou Qi.
• Tou She Ancient God formed a flaming lotus seed containing his inheritance and a strand of emperor's origin power, then gave it to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan refined the Fire Lotus Seed, the Hun Clan experts, and an Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, creating a vast world inside his body and breaking through to 100,000 stages of Dou Qi. His breakthrough summoned a towering external form that shook the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion and spread its aura across the continent.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Fire Lotus Seed and refined it along with the Hun Clan experts, enduring repeated damage and healing as his body processed the energy.
• After two and a half months, Xiao Yan refined the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill to gain enough energy for his breakthrough.
• The energy shattered Xiao Yan's dantian and formed a vast inner world, with the Root Divine Flame rising above it like a sun.
• Xiao Yan reached 100,000 stages of Dou Qi and manifested a ten-thousand-zhang external form bearing his likeness.
• Gu Yuan and the others held back the breakthrough's pressure while Su Qian and the Jia Nan Academy elders watched from afar; Xiao Yan's aura spread across the continent.

Xiao Yan’s bloodline resonance caused his Xiao Clan relatives across the continent to grow vastly stronger, revealing that he had broken through to Dou Di. After thanking Tou She Ancient God and watching him disappear, Xiao Yan returned above Jia Nan Academy and summoned all flames beneath heaven.

• Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the Xiao Clan Younger Generation surged in strength at the Flame Alliance headquarters, with several breaking through to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Ding recognized the phenomenon as the effect of a Xiao Clan member reaching Dou Di and concluded that Xiao Yan had ascended.
• Xiao Zhan and the other Xiao Clan Older Generation members on Ancient Dragon Island also advanced dramatically, confirming Xiao Yan’s breakthrough to the watching experts.
• Xiao Yan realized that his bloodline power had let his relatives benefit from his breakthrough, then thanked Tou She Ancient God for the inheritance.
• Tou She Ancient God vanished, and Xiao Yan appeared above Jia Nan Academy and commanded all flames beneath heaven to come.

Xiao Yan became the Flame Emperor, gathered the heavenly flames, and helped powerful allies across the continent reach Dou Di. Years later, he led his family and the continent’s strongest experts through a passage to the Great Thousand World.

• Xiao Yan summoned the heavenly flames across the continent, refined them, and became renowned as the Flame Emperor.
• Yao Lao, Ya Fei, the women close to Xiao Yan, and powerful figures across the continent reacted to his breakthrough to Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan drew Origin Qi to help Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan become Dou Di, restored the Bodhi Ancient Tree, and brought Tang Huo'er into the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Yan and his partners built a family over the following years, while Zi Yan and later Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Queen Medusa reached Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan gathered the continent’s foremost experts and opened a passage to the Great Thousand World, then led them through it.