Chapter Summaries

The Otherworldly Demon Emperor invaded the Dou Qi Continent, forcing the Xiao Clan and Soul Clan to unite under Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi. Their alliance defeated the demons at the cost of both leaders, leaving the Xiao Clan weakened and the Soul Clan hidden away.

• The Otherworldly Demon Emperor and his legion ravaged the Dou Qi Continent, destroying cities and killing its people.
• Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi set aside their clans’ feud and formed an alliance against the demons.
• The Xiao and Soul Clans fought together through more than a hundred battles, coordinating their techniques against the Otherworldly Demon Emperor.
• During the final battle, Hun Tiandi burned most of his soul origin to seal the Emperor, and Xiao Xuan sacrificed himself to block the Emperor’s attack.
• The surviving allied forces killed the remaining demons, while the Xiao Clan lost its Dou Di bloodline and the Soul Clan retreated to establish the hidden Soul Realm.

After the Xiao Clan was driven from its lands, Xiao Yan faced Nalan Yanran’s attempt to break their engagement in Wutan City. He rejected her first, wrote a blood letter repudiating her, and vowed to repay the humiliation.

• Xiao Lin fought an ambush while moving his family and escaped with a few surviving clansmen to Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan recalled how his cultivation had fallen from Dou Zhe to Dou Qi Third Stage, turning the clan’s praise into ridicule.
• Nalan Yanran and Elder Ge Ye came to the Xiao Clan hall, where Nalan demanded that her engagement to Xiao Yan be broken.
• Xiao Yan angrily rejected Nalan Yanran and wrote a blood letter declaring that he was casting her off.
• Elder Ge Ye threatened Xiao Yan on behalf of the Misty Cloud Sect, but Nalan Yanran left with him after taking the letter.
• Xiao Yan wiped away his tears and vowed to repay Nalan Yanran for the humiliation.

After Nalan Yanran humiliated him, Xiao Yan accepted a Soul Contract with a Soul Hall deacon in exchange for help restoring his cultivation and unlocking his hidden soul power. Six months later, Xiao Yan broke through to the Da Dou Shi realm, while a Soul Hall elder prepared to advance their plan.

• Xiao Yan brooded over his humiliation in Wutan City when a Soul Hall deacon contacted him and offered to help restore his Dou Qi.
• The deacon told Xiao Yan that a seal on his hidden soul power was draining his Dou Qi and offered to break it in exchange for ten years of service.
• After feeling his Dou Qi revive, Xiao Yan agreed to the contract, and the deacon planted a Soul Seed within him.
• Xiao Yan secretly cultivated for six months, gradually sensing the sealed power within his soul.
• During a full-moon night, Xiao Yan broke through to the Da Dou Shi realm as his soul power surged into his Dou Qi.
• At Soul Hall headquarters, an old man in black robes noted Xiao Yan's progress and said their plan could proceed.

After breaking through to Da Dou Shi, Xiao Yan concealed his strength from the clan while the Soul Hall Steward assigned him a mission to purge Black Wind Village of villagers contaminated by Otherworldly Demons. Three days later, Xiao Yan set out for the village, conflicted over the bloodshed awaiting him.

• Xiao Yan secretly used his Dou Qi to turn the tide of a sparring match, and Xiao Zhan recognized his progress but accepted his decision to hide it.
• Xiao Hu seized Xiao Yan’s cultivation resources, but Xiao Yan reclaimed them with a display of hidden strength that made Xiao Hu back down.
• The Soul Hall Steward ordered Xiao Yan to kill everyone in Black Wind Village and gave him a token to identify the contaminated villagers.
• Xiao Yan trained through the night, prepared for the mission, and looked toward the storehouse’s antidote pills.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan left Wutan City by carriage for Black Wind Village with the token in hand.

Xiao Yan joined Zhang Wulang’s cleanup squad at Black Wind Village, where he absorbed a powerful demonized villager’s energy and broke through to Dou Ling. After the battle, he confronted the cost of the Soul Absorption Technique as the squad searched the village for survivors.

• Xiao Yan encountered Zhang Wulang’s squad fighting demonized villagers and helped kill one before agreeing to accompany them to Black Wind Village.
• Zhang Wulang explained that the villagers’ corruption could not be reversed, and the group found the village ruined and eerily silent.
• The village chief emerged as a gigantic demonized villager and overwhelmed the squad, killing one member and injuring Zhang Wulang.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul Absorption Technique on the village chief, absorbed its demonic energy, and broke through from peak Da Dou Shi to early-stage Dou Ling.
• The village chief struck Xiao Yan’s shoulder before he killed it with his heavy sword and absorbed its remaining core energy.
• Xiao Yan told Zhang Wulang that his art converted Otherworldly Demon energy, and the surviving squad members searched the village for survivors as Xiao Yan reflected on the suffering souls he had absorbed.

Xiao Yan discovered the Mysterious Yellow Flame beneath Black Wind Village and subdued it by balancing its purifying power with his Demon Essence. The flame strengthened his abilities, but a mysterious watcher in the western forest fixed its gaze on his altered left hand.

• Zhang Wulang's team found an ancient sealing formation beneath the village altar, and Xiao Yan recognized it as a seal for the Mysterious Yellow Flame.
• The cracked well erupted, revealing the weakened Mysterious Yellow Flame burning away Otherworldly Demons and threatening to go out.
• Xiao Yan entered the well and used his Soul Absorption Technique to approach the flame, but its purifying power began destroying his Demon Essence and Soul Seed.
• Following the Soul Hall Steward's advice, Xiao Yan balanced the flame's essence with his Demon Essence and absorbed it into his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan emerged with the Mysterious Yellow Flame, used it to purify the villagers' corpses, and discovered his left hand had become partly glasslike.
• A black shadow watched Xiao Yan from the western forest, its greedy eyes fixed on his left hand.

After stabilizing his Dou Ling cultivation, Xiao Yan auctioned Purification Pills made with the Mysterious Yellow Flame and earned a fortune. He left the Treasure Gathering Pavilion with new techniques and equipment, while onlookers watched the mysterious black-robed figure.

• Xiao Yan completed his cultivation in a secluded valley and prepared three Purification Pills for auction.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself and brought the pills to the Treasure Gathering Pavilion, where fierce bidding pushed their combined price to six hundred and forty thousand gold coins.
• A steward delivered Xiao Yan’s proceeds and offered a long-term partnership, and Xiao Yan agreed to supply ten Purification Pills each month.
• Xiao Yan bought the incomplete Burning Heaven Art, a Black Iron Heavy Sword, Mysterious Ice Thorn, and spiritual-power-enhancing treasures.
• Xiao Yan left the pavilion carrying his purchases as curious and greedy observers followed him.

Xiao Yan killed Jia Lie Bi, Oba Pa, and their clan fighters after they ambushed him for his auction purchases, then escaped before the city guards arrived. Their deaths plunged the Jia Lie and Aoba families into decline and left the Xiao Clan as Wutan City's sole great clan, while Xiao Yan returned home to study his new treasures and prepare for greater challenges.

• Jia Lie Bi and Oba Pa ambushed Xiao Yan in an alley and demanded his storage bag.
• Xiao Yan used the Mysterious Yellow Flame and his Black Iron Heavy Sword to defeat and kill the attackers.
• Xiao Yan collected the clan tokens and fled over the rooftops as city guards approached.
• The deaths of Jia Lie Bi and Oba Pa caused the Jia Lie and Aoba families to fracture and decline.
• The Xiao Clan became Wutan City's sole great clan, and Xiao Zhan recognized Xiao Yan's role in its rise.
• Xiao Yan returned to his chamber, arranged his auction treasures, and began studying and cultivating.

Yun Yun went to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to obtain purple spirit crystal for Nalan Yanran, but the Amethyst Winged Lion King defeated and sealed her. Xiao Yan found her downstream and used his mysterious yellow flame to weaken the seal, leaving their unexpected encounter unresolved as he considered returning to face the Lion King.

• Yun Yun left the Misty Cloud Sect to trade demon companion grass with the Amethyst Winged Lion King for purple spirit crystal.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King rejected Yun Yun’s offer, wounded her, and used the Amethyst Seal to cripple her Dou Qi.
• The river carried Yun Yun downstream, where Xiao Yan found her and brought her to a cave.
• Xiao Yan used his mysterious yellow flame to weaken the seal and gave Yun Yun a healing pill.
• Yun Yun awoke and recognized Xiao Yan, who left after warning her to flee the Lion King’s territory.
• Xiao Yan considered the Amethyst Winged Lion King an opportunity as he recovered outside the cave.

Xiao Yan entered the Spirit Gathering Assembly and stunned the crowd with his skill, winning all three rounds and earning a Fourth-Rank Spirit Gatherer badge. Fa Ma selected him for the expedition to the Otherworldly Demon Lair, while a mysterious figure in the stands watched him.

• Xiao Yan used Spirit-Calming Liquid and mysterious yellow flame to purify ten portions of demon spirit flower juice to ninety-five percent purity, advancing from the first round.
• Xiao Yan balanced cold ingredients and magical beast blood essence with his flame to produce supreme-quality fourth-grade Blood-Coagulating Liquid.
• Xiao Yan restored a withering spirit ginseng with the Life-Nurturing Art, defeating the Imperial Family expert’s prized disciple in the final round.
• Fa Ma awarded Xiao Yan a Fourth-Rank Spirit Gatherer badge and chose him to represent the Spirit Gatherer Association on the expedition to the Otherworldly Demon Lair.
• Xiao Yan noticed a white-clad figure wearing a cyan bamboo hat watching him from the stands and turned his thoughts to the expedition ahead.

Xiao Yan traveled with Lin Xiu and the Spirit Gatherers to the Otherworldly Demon Lair, where his Mysterious Yellow Flame proved effective against corrupted creatures. He reunited with Yun Yun, discovered the Amethyst Winged Lion King's Reverse Scale was tainted, and prepared to enter the lair after fighting a corrupted Demon Wolf.

• Xiao Yan joined Lin Xiu and five Spirit Gatherers in teleporting to the Fog Forest, while Yun Yun watched them depart.
• Xiao Yan used Spirit-Cleansing Flame to destroy Bone-Eroding Demon Insects and helped the group fight through other corrupted creatures on their way to the lair.
• At the fissure, Yun Yun showed Xiao Yan the Amethyst Winged Lion King's Reverse Scale, and he purified its corruption demon marks with his flame.
• A corrupted Fifth-Rank Demon Wolf attacked the camp, and Xiao Yan wounded it with Flame Dragon Break before Yun Yun finished it with her Azure Longsword.
• Lin Xiu acknowledged Xiao Yan's purification power as the group prepared to enter the Otherworldly Demon Lair at dawn.

Lin Xiu, Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and their companions entered a Demonic Qi-filled ruin and found a Flame Spirit Clan treasury. After Xiao Yan passed its trial and acquired two arts, a powerful Seven-Eyed Demon Snake King attacked, leaving the group facing a dangerous battle.

• Lin Xiu led the group through a barrier into the fissure, where they fought Bone-Eating Demon Rats guarding a rune-covered stone door.
• Xiao Yan used the Mysterious Yellow Flame to open the Flame Spirit Clan door and discovered two inheritances inside.
• Xiao Yan passed the Flame Spirit Trial and received the Purifying Spirit Burning Heaven Record and Azure Luan Wings.
• A sixth-rank Seven-Eyed Demon Snake King burst into the chamber, and Xiao Yan used his new arts to charge at it.

Xiao Yan and his companions defeated the Seven-Eyed Demon Snake King through coordinated attacks and Xiao Yan’s Flame Wings Demon-Breaking Slash, but the battle left them badly injured. They recovered in a nearby stone chamber and prepared to continue deeper into the Otherworldly Demon Lair to uncover the source of the Otherworldly Demon.

• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, Lin Xiu, and the Spirit Gatherers fought the Seven-Eyed Demon Snake King, using attacks that countered its demonic flames and exposed weaknesses in its eyes.
• Xiao Yan purified a patch on the Demon Snake King's forehead, then struck its final attack with Flame Wings Demon-Breaking Slash and killed it in the resulting explosion.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun treated their injuries while Lin Xiu and the other Spirit Gatherers recovered, and Lin Xiu found a nearby natural stone chamber on the Jade Slip.
• The group traveled to the stone chamber, where Lin Xiu set up a defensive formation and everyone began healing.
• After recovering much of his strength, Xiao Yan sensed the dangers deeper in the lair and resolved to continue with his companions once they had healed.

Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, Lin Xiu, and the Spirit Gatherers fought their way through the Otherworldly Demon Lair and destroyed the black crystal powering its Ancient Altar. They escaped an Otherworldly Demon Lord and headed for the Jia Ma Empire, while the surviving demons remained a threat.

• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Lin Xiu defeated a horde of Shadow Demons and their Shadow Demon Lord in the stone chamber.
• Xiao Yan and the others crossed the Corpse Marsh and Demonflame Canyon, fighting a Rotting Corpse Octopus and enduring the canyon's heat.
• The group reached the Ancient Altar and discovered powerful Otherworldly Demons guarding its black crystal.
• The four Spirit Gatherers distracted the demons while Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Lin Xiu attacked and shattered the crystal, causing the altar's demonic qi to dissipate.
• An Otherworldly Demon Lord emerged, and Xiao Yan carried Yun Yun and Lin Xiu clear of its attack as they fled the lair.
• The group escaped to the edge of the Black-Corner Region and set off toward the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Yan and his companions fought off pursuing demons, were driven off course by a sandstorm, and discovered the sealed Hai Bodong, whom Xiao Yan freed with the Mysterious Yellow Flame. Hai Bodong revealed the Soul Hall’s role in the demonic threat and guided the group toward the Jia Ma border, where they prepared to confront a Soul Hall sentry at Soulbreak Cliff.

• Lin Xiu noticed an ambush as Sand Demons and three Shadow Demons attacked Xiao Yan and his companions in the wasteland.
• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, Lin Xiu, and the Spirit Gatherers fought their way through the demons and fled an approaching sandstorm, which left them lost in an unfamiliar Gobi desert.
• Xiao Yan and his companions found Hai Bodong sealed in an ice cave, and Xiao Yan used the Mysterious Yellow Flame to free him from a curse seal.
• Hai Bodong explained that Soul Hall emissaries had ambushed him and were cultivating Otherworldly Demon qi, then gave Xiao Yan an Ice Dou Qi Art scroll and told the group about a route to the Jia Ma border.
• Hai Bodong led Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Lin Xiu to Soulbreak Cliff, where they saw a Soul Hall sentry post across a damaged suspension bridge and prepared to attack.

Xiao Yan and his companions defeated the Soul Hall forces at Soulbreak Cliff, where he learned that his teacher was connected to the Purifying Spirit Hall and subdued Green Lotus Core Flame. After reaching the Jia Ma Empire, the group prepared to return to the capital as Xiao Yan vowed to uncover the Soul Hall's conspiracy and find his teacher.

• Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, Yun Yun, and their companions defeated the Soul Hall outpost guards on the cliff bridge, and Xiao Yan recognized the outpost token's flame markings as matching his teacher's token.
• Hai Bodong explained that the Purifying Spirit Hall had opposed the Soul Hall's evil faction, and Xiao Yan realized his teacher had left him its legacy.
• Xiao Yan subdued Green Lotus Core Flame in the gorge, then joined the others in defeating a Soul Hall Protector whose self-destruction left behind an Enforcement Hall token.
• Xiao Yan and his companions reached the Jia Ma Empire's border, where Hai Bodong departed for the Ice Plains after giving Xiao Yan a map of the Purifying Spirit Hall's former site.
• After resting in Border City for three days, Xiao Yan accepted a Wind Spirit Pill from Yun Yun and set out with the group toward the capital.

Xiao Yan fused the Mysterious Yellow Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, reached Six-Star Dou Wang, and was named an Honorary Elder of the Spirit Gatherer Association. In the Fog Forest, he discovered Yao Chen’s hidden legacy and learned the Soul Hall’s plan, but Soul Hall forces were closing in as he prepared to leave the cave.

• Xiao Yan fused the two Heavenly Flames and broke through to Six-Star Dou Wang while traveling back to the capital with Yun Yun and Lin Xiu.
• President Fa Ma welcomed Xiao Yan and his companions, named Xiao Yan an Honorary Elder, and revealed that he had been a member of the Purifying Spirit Hall and a friend of Yao Chen.
• President Fa Ma joined his half of the Purifying Spirit Hall token to Xiao Yan’s and identified a guarded former stronghold in the Fog Forest as their next lead.
• Xiao Yan traveled alone to the Fog Forest, evaded the Soul Hall blockade, and slipped into the valley during a clash between Soul Hall envoys and Otherworldly Demons.
• Xiao Yan defeated two Peak Dou Wang envoys guarding a hidden cave and discovered the Purifying Spirit True Scripture and a letter from Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan learned that Yao Chen had planted a pawn in the Soul Hall and that the Soul Hall sought to release the Ancient Otherworldly Demon Lord; as Soul Hall forces approached the cave, he prepared for battle.

Xiao Yan defeated Mu Feng and Mu Chen when the Mu Family tried to seize his heavenly flames and spiritual material. He returned to the Spirit Gatherer Association to prepare the Purifying Spirit Pill, while the Mu, Shi, and Li Families gathered outside demanding that he be handed over.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Mu Family's Spiritwood Workshop with Fa Ma's letter and the Azure Wood Core, but Mu Feng demanded his flames and spiritual material.
• Xiao Yan defeated Mu Feng and broke out of Mu Chen's Wooden Realm Cage, then damaged Mu Chen's staff and forced the clan chief to back down.
• Xiao Yan spared the Mu Family and returned to the Spirit Gatherer Association, where Fa Ma showed him the Purifying Spirit Pill recipe and warned him about the Mu Family's ties to the Soul Hall.
• The Mu, Shi, and Li Families brought hundreds of people to the association and demanded that Xiao Yan be handed over.
• Fa Ma told Xiao Yan to prepare to refine the pill while he dealt with the crowd, and Xiao Yan went to the cultivation chamber.

Xiao Yan found the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations in a hidden cavern, used its first transformation to break through to Dou Ling, and arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect for the Three-Year Agreement. He defeated Nalan Yanran, leaving the agreement settled in his favor.

• President Fa Ma gave Xiao Yan a route map, a Spirit Gatherer Badge, and three doses of Qi Gathering Powder before Xiao Yan left for the Jia Nan Mountains.
• Xiao Yan discovered a hidden cavern and obtained the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations scroll from an altar above magma.
• Xiao Yan used two heavenly flames to cultivate Body Burning, temporarily reaching Peak Dou Ling before later breaking through naturally to Dou Ling at an inn in Welcome Guest Town.
• Xiao Yan reached the Misty Cloud Sect and surprised Nalan Yanran and the gathered elders by revealing his Dou Ling cultivation.
• Xiao Yan blocked Nalan Yanran's attacks and defeated her in the Three-Year Agreement, prompting her to admit defeat.

After defeating Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan was accused by Elder Yun Leng of being a Soul Hall spy and attacked by the Misty Cloud Sect. He revealed himself as a Six-Star Dou Wang, left the sect, and flew toward the Spirit Gatherer Association while Yun Leng plotted to have him killed.

• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, but Elder Yun Leng presented a scroll accusing him of being a Soul Hall spy and ordered the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to seize him.
• Xiao Yan fought off the disciples and four Peak Dou Ling elders until Nalan Yanran stepped in to protect him.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Six-Star Dou Wang strength, forcing the attackers back and silencing the crowd.
• Xiao Yan condemned the Misty Cloud Sect’s treatment of him, then left on his Azure Luan Wings after warning that he would remember the debt.
• Nalan Yanran regretted annulling her engagement to Xiao Yan, while Elder Yun Leng ordered an aide to arrange an ambush in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the Spirit Gatherer Association, determined to grow stronger and uncover the truth about the Purifying Spirit Hall.