Chapter Summaries

Yun Leng sent Misty Cloud Sect forces to destroy the Xiao Clan and capture Xiao Zhan, while Nalan Yanran tried and failed to stop the assault. A mysterious figure abducted Xiao Zhan, leaving the clan devastated as Xiao Yan remained unaware in Jia Ma City.

• Yun Leng ordered Misty Cloud Sect disciples to attack the Xiao Clan and bring Xiao Zhan back alive.
• Xiao Zhan activated the estate's Defensive Formation and led the clan in resisting the Misty Cloud Sect assault.
• Nalan Yanran intervened to protect the Xiao Clan, but Misty Cloud Sect elders bound her and captured Xiao Zhan's family.
• A mysterious dark figure appeared, seized Xiao Zhan, and flew toward the Canaan Mountains.
• The Misty Cloud Sect withdrew, and Xiao Bo returned to the ruined estate with the women and children while Xiao Yan remained unaware of the attack.

After learning that the Misty Cloud Sect had attacked the Xiao Clan and taken Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan stormed the sect and fought Yun Shan, who had gained Dou Zong power from an Otherworldly Demon. Fa Ma’s reinforcements arrived after Xiao Yan was gravely wounded, and Yun Shan escaped, leaving Xiao Yan unconscious and the conflict unresolved.

• Xiao Bo told Xiao Yan that the Misty Cloud Sect had ravaged the Xiao Residence and that a black-robed man had taken Xiao Zhan toward the Jia Nan Mountains.
• Xiao Yan refused Fa Ma’s offer to mobilize support and flew alone to the Misty Cloud Sect, where he killed the disciples who attacked him and confronted Yun Leng.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations to reach Two-Star Dou Emperor, but Yun Shan emerged as a One-Star Dou Zong empowered by an Otherworldly Demon and revealed that he held Xiao Zhan.
• A Soul Hall Steward joined the battle against Yun Shan, but the demon’s power strengthened; Xiao Yan’s transformation began to fade, and Yun Shan’s attack left him gravely wounded.
• Fa Ma and the association’s Dou Huang experts arrived, forcing Yun Shan to retreat into the mist while the Soul Hall Steward withdrew after making a deal with Xiao Yan.
• Nalan Yanran and the association carried the unconscious Xiao Yan away for treatment as Yun Shan vowed to kill him in their next encounter.

Xiao Yan recovered from his injuries by mastering the Twin Flame Heaven-Burning Seal and breaking through to Four-Star Dou Emperor, then led the resistance alliance against Yun Shan and the corrupted forces. Yun Shan transformed into a Three-Star Dou Zong with the Otherworldly Demon's power, and the battle for the Jia Ma Empire intensified when Fa Ma and the alliance's reinforcements arrived.

• Xiao Yan used the healing session to cultivate the Twin Flame Heaven-Burning Seal and Flame Spirit Transformation, reaching Four-Star Dou Emperor after three days.
• Fa Ma told Xiao Yan that Yun Shan and corrupted families had seized five cities, while Xiao Zhan was believed to be held in the Soul-Locking Tower.
• Xiao Yan and the Soul Hall Steward helped the resistance alliance defeat the Misty Cloud Sect's vanguard and fought their way to the sect's White Jade Square.
• Xiao Yan and the Soul Hall Steward attacked Yun Shan, and Xiao Yan weakened him by purifying his Otherworldly Demon energy.
• Yun Shan transformed into a half-demon and reached Two-Star Dou Zong, while Nalan Yanran tried to stop him and was knocked unconscious.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Flame River Splits the Mountain, but the Otherworldly Demon empowered Yun Shan to Three-Star Dou Zong before Fa Ma and the alliance's reinforcements arrived.

Xiao Yan and the defenders defeated Yun Shan’s Otherworldly Demon power, and the Soul Hall envoy sacrificed himself to destroy its core. After purifying the lingering poison and organizing a counteroffensive across the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan honored the envoy and set out to find his father while the larger threat remained.

• The Soul Hall envoy burned his soul origin and used Ten Thousand Souls Become One to purify Yun Shan’s Otherworldly Demon markings, destroying Yun Shan and the demon core at the cost of his own life.
• Xiao Yan joined forces with Fa Ma, Nalan Yanran, and the defenders to purify the poison spreading across the square, and Nalan Yanran disbanded the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan gave Fa Ma the Mysterious Yellow Flame purification method and used the Misty Cloud Sect’s Communication Array to rally resistance forces across the Jia Ma Empire.
• Over the following month, Xiao Yan led purification teams that freed corrupted family disciples, while the empire organized counterattacks and rebuilt.
• The people erected a statue honoring the Soul Hall envoy, and Nalan Yanran gave Xiao Yan ancient records about the Otherworldly Demons and news that the Xiao Clan had rebuilt in Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan left to search for his father and investigate the Soul Hall as the empire’s fight against the Otherworldly Demons continued.

After the battle at the former Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Yan opened its damaged treasure vault and used its resources and cultivation records to advance from Six-Star Dou Wang to Eight-Star Dou Wang. He left with Fa Ma and Xiao Bo’s support, as they agreed to turn the site into a defense fortress against the Otherworldly Demons.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Bo healing pills and purification talismans, then went to investigate the Misty Cloud Sect’s treasure vault.
• Xiao Yan used his heavenly flames to open the damaged formation and recovered herbs, weapons, cultivation records, a Heavenly Flames Cauldron, Concentration Spirit Liquid, and the Qi-Gathering Body-Refining Art.
• Xiao Yan cultivated overnight with the vault’s resources and advanced to Eight-Star Dou Wang.
• Fa Ma and Xiao Bo congratulated Xiao Yan on his breakthrough, and Xiao Yan said his improved strength would help him find his father and rebuild the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan proposed turning the former Misty Cloud Sect into an Otherworldly Demon Defense Fortress jointly garrisoned by the Spirit Gatherer Association and the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan departed for the imperial capital as the group began withdrawing from the former sect site.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran traveled to the Fog Forest to investigate mutated magical beasts and search for a lead on Xiao Zhan, where they found Xiao Yi Xian contaminated by an Otherworldly Demon remnant soul. After Xiao Yan purified her, Xiao Yi Xian revealed that Xiao Zhan was being held for a sacrifice at Black Wind Valley, and the group prepared to investigate the altar.

• Fa Ma sent Xiao Yan to investigate the mutated beasts in the Fog Forest and gave him supplies, while Xiao Bo provided a Ten Thousand Beasts Valley token.
• Nalan Yanran joined Xiao Yan, and they traveled to Falling Wind Town, where they heard reports of a dangerous Poison Fairy and encountered Xiao Yi Xian spreading uncontrolled poisonous mist.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran restrained Xiao Yi Xian as Xiao Yan used his flames and a millennium green spirit grass to destroy the Otherworldly Demon remnant soul inside her Woeful Poison Body.
• After Xiao Yi Xian woke, she told Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran that an altar in Black Wind Valley had contaminated her and that its black-robed guards had mentioned using Xiao Zhan's bloodline for a sacrifice.
• Xiao Yi Xian shared her map of the Fog Forest, and Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to seek help from Ten Thousand Beasts Valley and attack Black Wind Valley.

Xiao Yan and his companions cleared a mutated wolf pack, gained the Ten Thousand Beasts Valley’s support, and formed an alliance with Jia Nan Academy against the Otherworldly Demons. They established the Xiao Gate in the Black-Corner Region, while the altar in Black Wind Valley and Xiao Zhan’s disappearance remained unresolved.

• Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yi Xian defeated fifty mutated wolves at Wolf Fang Slope and earned the Ten Thousand Beasts Valley’s trust.
• The valley master explained that seven Obsidian Pillars protected the Otherworldly Demon altar in Black Wind Valley and offered magical-beast support for an assault.
• Xiao Yan secured Bluestone Terrace as a base for the Xiao Gate and set out with Xiao Yi Xian to seek Jia Nan Academy’s alliance.
• Xiao Yan purified the academy’s corrupted ancient books, and the dean agreed to join an alliance with the Xiao Gate and the Ten Thousand Beasts Valley.
• Xiao Yan established the Xiao Gate and announced a three-way alliance, while Nalan Yanran prepared the base’s defenses and the altar remained their next challenge.

Han Feng and the Gold and Silver Elders attacked Jia Nan Academy to seize the fallen heart flame, but Xiao Yan helped drive them off and purify the damaged seal. The academy began rebuilding, Xiao Yan became an Honorary Elder, and the flame’s connection to his missing father raised new questions.

• Xiao Yan learned that Han Feng and the Gold and Silver Elders had invaded Jia Nan Academy, while black-clad attackers assaulted the Heavenly Flames Tower.
• Xiao Yan rushed to defend the tower as Xiao Yi Xian and Nalan Yanran fought the attackers, and the headmaster withdrew to seek reinforcements.
• Xiao Yan drew power from the fallen heart flame and wounded Han Feng with a combined flame attack, forcing Han Feng and the elders to retreat.
• Xiao Yan and the headmaster’s allies removed poison from the underground seal, restoring the crystal coffin and calming the fallen heart flame.
• The academy counted nearly a hundred dead, and the headmaster made Xiao Yan an Honorary Elder and gave him a spare key to the seal.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the fallen heart flame might be connected to Xiao Zhan’s disappearance and vowed to protect the academy and uncover the truth.

Xiao Yan fused the Mysterious Yellow Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Fallen Heart Flame with help from the Soul Hall Ninth Elder, creating the Mysterious Yellow Earth-Core Flame and stabilizing the underground seal. After learning that Otherworldly Demons were active in the eastern Black-Corner Region, Xiao Yan prepared Xiao Gate to confront them in three days.

• Xiao Yan struggled to subdue the volatile Fallen Heart Flame as the crystal coffin's seal weakened, and Xiao Yi Xian gave him Spirit-Concentrating Dew to steady his soul.
• The Soul Hall Ninth Elder appeared, gave Xiao Yan Ten-Thousand-Year Earth-Core Essence, and guided him through the dangerous fusion of the three Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan formed the Mysterious Yellow Earth-Core Flame, which absorbed the remaining Fallen Heart Flame energy and repaired the crystal coffin's cracks.
• The Ninth Elder left Xiao Yan a Black Soul Pearl and warned that the Otherworldly Demon upheaval had only begun.
• Xiao Yan decided to revisit the Heavenly Flames Tower for clues about his father before returning to Xiao Gate.
• Xiao Chen reported unusual Otherworldly Demon activity in the eastern Black-Corner Region, and Xiao Yan ordered Xiao Gate to train and prepare to set out in three days.

Xiao Yan defeated Mo Cheng when Han Feng’s forces attacked Ten Thousand Beasts Valley, then captured Han Feng and subdued the Sea Heart Flame. He returned to Jia Nan Academy with new clues linking the Soul Hall to Otherworldly Demons and a possible teleportation array, while Han Feng remained imprisoned.

• Xiao Yan rushed to Ten Thousand Beasts Valley after Xiao Chen reported that Han Feng and Mo Cheng were attacking it.
• Xiao Yan used the Ten-Thousand-Year Earth-Core Essence to empower his Mysterious Yellow Earth-Core Flame, destroy Mo Cheng’s puppet armor, and kill him.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Nalan Yanran helped repel Han Feng’s troops while Xiao Yan captured Han Feng and took the Sea Heart Flame from him.
• The valley master gave Xiao Yan a token to the valley’s forbidden records, and Xiao Yan discovered that the Sea Heart Flame resonated with his Mysterious Yellow Earth-Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan learned that Mo Cheng’s armor contained runes linked to the Soul Hall and a possible teleportation array, then planned to return to Jia Nan Academy and investigate Han Feng’s information about his father.

Xiao Yan sealed the sea heart flame after failing to merge it with his other heavenly flames, then united the Black-Corner Region under Xiao Gate and subdued Black Tooth Mountain. Three months later, with the region under his control and clues still missing about the Otherworldly Demons and Xiao Zhan, he prepared to cultivate for a breakthrough to Dou Emperor before marching on Black Wind Valley.

• Xiao Yan failed to merge the sea heart flame with his other heavenly flames and sealed it in the academy's Flame-Locking Box until he could grow stronger.
• Xiao Yan formed a combined army with Jia Nan Academy and Ten Thousand Beasts Valley to attack Black Wind Valley, then returned to Xiao Gate to confront forces that refused to submit.
• Xiao Yan led Xiao Gate's elites to Black Tooth Mountain, where Xiao Yi Xian weakened the poison formations and Xiao Yan forced the Blood Wolf Gang's leader to surrender.
• Xiao Yan imposed rules across the Black-Corner Region, crushed rebellions, and expanded Xiao Gate's influence while the Otherworldly Demon threat and Xiao Zhan's disappearance remained unresolved.
• Xiao Yan sensed the sea heart flame resonating with the fallen heart flame and, three months later, announced he would enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yan discovered clues in Han Feng’s treasure vault pointing to the Central Plains, his father, and the origins of the Otherworldly Demons, then broke through to peak Dou Wang. He and Xiao Yi Xian and Nalan Yanran set out for the Central Plains while Xiao Chen stayed behind to lead Xiao Gate.

• Xiao Yan and his allies reviewed Han Feng’s resources, recruited five sixth-rank alchemists under Xiao Gate’s direction, and found the Complete Record of the Continent and a mysterious half-map.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Otherworldly Demons came from the Fallen Abyss and that Burning Heaven Valley held heavenly flame origins, possibly tied to four flames and a Dou Di inheritance.
• Xiao Yan used a thousand-year snow lotus, a Body-Tempering Pill, and the mysterious yellow earth-core flame to cultivate for seven days and reach peak Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran decided to travel to the Central Plains, while Xiao Chen became acting Xiao Gate master and allies remained to guard the Black-Corner Region.
• The trio departed Xiao Gate Castle and flew toward the Wildlands Forest, the first leg of their journey to the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan and his companions helped the Han Family repel the Bone-Eroding Hall, purge the damaged Space Wormhole, and restore the passage to the Central Plains. After Xiao Yan used the Ice-Armored Lion magic core to break through to peak Dou Wang, the trio entered the wormhole to continue their journey.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran arrived at Han Family Fort and helped Han Li drive off the Bone-Eroding Hall attackers.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian treated the poisoned Han Family members, then learned that the Bone-Eroding Hall had damaged the Space Wormhole's Star-Patterned Pillars.
• Han Li offered Xiao Yan a seventh-tier Ice-Armored Lion magic core and teleportation talismans in exchange for repairing the wormhole, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• The Bone-Eroding Hall launched another attack, but Xiao Yan, Han Li, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yi Xian defeated its forces and discovered runes linking the attackers to the Otherworldly Demon Altar.
• Xiao Yan and the Han Family repaired the wormhole, and Xiao Yan used the magic core's spatial energy to break through to peak Dou Wang.
• Han Li gave Xiao Yan a Spatial Commerce Association token, and Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran entered the restored wormhole for the Central Plains.

A spatial trap scattered Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran across dangerous regions of the Central Plains. Separated and unable to contact one another, each began searching for a way to survive and reunite.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran fought through the collapsing wormhole and an Otherworldly Demon vortex, but Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yi Xian were swept into separate rifts while Xiao Yan was hurled into a golden vortex.
• Xiao Yan awoke in a crimson-sky desert, defeated three sand scorpions, and followed fresh human footprints after discovering the star map and communication Jade Slip were ruined.
• Xiao Yi Xian landed in the eastern Central Plains' Misty Swamp, treated a spatial wound, and headed deeper into the swamp to find an outpost and seek news of her companions.
• Nalan Yanran became stranded on the northern Central Plains' Frozen Plateau, killed three ice wolves, and climbed toward a distant building she spotted on a summit.
• As night approached, Xiao Yan followed the footprints through a desert valley, determined to learn where he was and find Xiao Yi Xian and Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Yan recovered from the Spatial Storm while traveling with Wang Yue’s caravan, then used a seventh-rank Magic Core to break through to early-stage Dou Emperor. After helping the caravan pass Black Wind Gorge and reach Xuanyang City, he prepared to seek information about his missing companions.

• Wang Yue rescued the injured Xiao Yan from the remnants of a Spatial Storm and invited him to travel with her caravan to Xuanyang City.
• Xiao Yan absorbed a seventh-rank Magic Core and formed seven Dou Qi Crystals, advancing to early-stage Dou Emperor and healing his injuries.
• Xiao Yan used Soul Deterrence to disrupt the Iron-Armored Rhino, allowing Wang Yue’s caravan to escape through Black Wind Gorge.
• Xiao Yan secretly used his soul power to deter several more lord-class magical beasts during the caravan’s journey.
• Wang Yue brought Xiao Yan to Xuanyang City and offered to take him to the Intelligence Pavilion the next day so he could search for his companions.

Xiao Yan won the Pill Tower Family Tournament for the Wang Family, then fused four Heavenly Flames with the Soul Hall Sixth Elder’s help and reached Four-Star Dou Emperor. After learning that Xiao Zhan was imprisoned in the Soul Prison, Xiao Yan defeated the Liu and Zhao families’ ambush and set out for the northern Central Plains.

• Xiao Yan placed first in the ingredient-identification round and refined a quasi-fourth-tier Golden Marrow Rebirth Pill to win the second round for the Wang Family.
• Xiao Yan used a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Crystal and his four Heavenly Flames to win the final round, then revealed his Dou Emperor strength when Liu Chengfeng and the Zhao Family head accused him of cheating.
• Xiao Yan went to Shadow Alley, where the Soul Hall Sixth Elder helped him fuse his four Heavenly Flames and break through to Four-Star Dou Emperor, then revealed that Xiao Zhan was imprisoned in the Soul Prison.
• Wang Ling'er warned Xiao Yan that the Liu and Zhao families had joined forces to ambush him at Black Wind Slope, but Xiao Yan went there and defeated them with his Boundary-Breaking Slash.
• Liu Chengfeng and the Zhao Family head surrendered, and Xiao Yan headed north to rescue Xiao Zhan and pursue the Boundary-Breaking Keys.

Xiao Yan won the Pill Tower Gathering for the Wang Family with extraordinary flame control and peak seventh-grade pills, earning them a seat in the Pill Tower. Three days later, he partially fused four Heavenly Flames into the Four-Symbol Heaven-Burning Flame and returned ready to confront the four pavilions.

• Xiao Yan refined all one hundred ingredients perfectly and completed a lost pill formula, taking first place after the first two rounds while Liu Chengfeng fell behind.
• Xiao Yan used four Heavenly Flames and the Flame-Burst Alchemy Technique to refine seven nine-mark Soul-Gathering Pills, defeating Liu Chengfeng and securing the Wang Family's seventh family seat.
• Xiao Yan agreed to fuse his Heavenly Flames at the Falling Star Platform, and Wang Yue gave him a Space Jade Talisman for emergencies.
• The Sixth Elder used the Ten-Thousand-Spirit Soul-Devouring Formation to help Xiao Yan partially fuse his four Heavenly Flames around the griffin Magic Core, forming the Four-Symbol Heaven-Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Wang Family with his power increased and declared that he would settle accounts with the four pavilions.

Xiao Yan entered the Soul Hall’s Otherworldly Demon hunting tournament, killed demons in the Demon-Hunting Grounds, and survived Ye Gucheng’s ambush at the Misty Swamp. He escaped with the thousand-year-old dragon soul grass and pushed into the middle ring, where he sensed a powerful eighth-tier Otherworldly Demon.

• Xiao Yan accepted the Soul Hall’s invitation to the hunting tournament for a chance to win the Heaven-Burning Pill and other rewards, despite Wang Yue warning him of the dangers.
• At the tournament grounds, Xiao Yan overpowered Ye Gucheng’s guards with his soul power, then received Demon-Avoidance Pills and a warning from Yao Qing Lin about Ye Gucheng’s alliance with the Blood Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan entered the Demon-Hunting Grounds last and killed Ye Gucheng’s two guards by manipulating the spatial turbulence in the passage.
• Xiao Yan killed a Shadow Demon Wolf and a Corroded-Armor Demon Crocodile at the Misty Swamp, then harvested the thousand-year-old dragon soul grass as Ye Gucheng and four guards confronted him.
• Xiao Yan fought Ye Gucheng’s group until a Nine-Headed Demon Serpent attacked; he escaped with the dragon soul grass while Ye Gucheng was entangled by the serpent.
• Xiao Yan ventured into the middle ring and sensed an exceptionally powerful magic core fluctuation that suggested an eighth-tier Otherworldly Demon.

Xiao Yan won the Hunting Competition, survived an encounter with the tenth-tier Nine-Headed Demon Lizard, and agreed to help the Soul Hall destroy Otherworldly Demon altars. A month later, he joined a coalition of Central Plains powers at the border, where they prepared to attack an altar guarded by a suspected Dou Zun-level demon.

• Xiao Yan kept Xue Wuya alive for the Soul Hall, gave Yao Qing Lin the Antidote Pill, and entered the Inner Circle with Lin Jingyu.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Jingyu defeated a Bone-Winged Demon Lion, then fled when the Nine-Headed Demon Lizard pursued them; Xiao Yan stayed behind to hold it off until the Hunting Competition ended and the demon withdrew.
• The Sixth Elder declared Xiao Yan the champion and awarded him the Heaven-Burning Pill, Mystic Treasure Bodyguard Armor, and Ten Thousand Souls Devour Soul-Devouring Claw; Xiao Yan declined the invitation to join the Soul Hall.
• The Sixth Elder asked Xiao Yan to join a campaign against Otherworldly Demon altars in one month, and Xiao Yan agreed before returning to the Yao Clan Stronghold.
• After cultivating for a month, Xiao Yan traveled to the border and joined the assembled experts; the Sixth Elder announced their plan to attack an altar containing at least ten Dou Zong-level demons and a suspected Dou Zun-level leader.

Xiao Yan won the Soul Hall tournament’s prizes, uncovered Blood Soul Hall and the Ye Family’s plan to open a rift for an Otherworldly Demon invasion, and faced a Pill Tower accusation at Wang Family Castle. After reaching the Yao Clan, he learned the full moon was three days away and prepared to join an assault on the Ye Family Ancestral Grounds.

• Xiao Yan received the Heaven-Burning Pill, Mystic Treasure Bodyguard Armor, and a peak Earth-tier Dou Technique, then learned Blood Soul Hall had established sacrificial altars across the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan refined the Heaven-Burning Pill, survived its pill tribulation, and reached the peak of Four-Star Dou Emperor, but chose not to practice the soul-devouring technique he had won.
• Wang Yue told Xiao Yan that the Ye Family and three other families had accused the Wang Family of colluding with Blood Soul Hall, and Liu Changkong arrived with a confession to demand the Wang Family surrender its Pill Tower seat.
• Yao Chen protected Xiao Yan from Liu Changkong, and Xiao Yan left for the Yao Clan after learning that Yao Qing Lin had evidence of the Ye Family’s collusion with Blood Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Ye Family guards had ambushed him and learned from Yao Qing Lin that the Ye Family planned to open a spatial rift with one hundred thousand souls on the full moon.
• Yao Qing Lin showed Xiao Yan a scale locating the rift beneath the Ye Family Ancestral Grounds, and they planned an assault in three days with Soul Hall and the other great families.