Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan helped defeat the Otherworldly Demons’ Thirteen Soul-Sealing Formation, then joined the Central Plains factions in purifying demonic corruption and hunting the escaped hall masters. The twelve survivors gathered in the Frozen Wasteland to prepare the resurrection of their sealed Dou Sheng-level master, and Xiao Yan and his allies prepared to confront them.

• Xiao Yan discovered Ye Gucheng using captured Yao Clan disciples and thirteen altars to resurrect the hall masters, then weakened the ritual with his Mysterious Yellow Earth-Core Flame.
• After the Soul Hall’s Sixth Elder arrived, Xiao Yan purified the Otherworldly Demon Scale at the formation’s core; the hall masters’ power fell, and the Thirteenth Hall Master was killed, though the others escaped.
• Xiao Yan recovered, learned that the hall masters’ demonic weapons were tied to their strength, and joined the Sixth Elder and Yao Qing Lin in defeating the Third Hall Master in the Black Wind Mountain Range.
• Liu Changkong and Pill Tower alchemists helped Xiao Yan establish Myriad Spirits Purification Arrays across the Central Plains, while Xiao Yan advanced to Five-Star Dou Emperor.
• The factions learned that the twelve escaped hall masters were building an altar in the Frozen Wasteland to revive their sealed Dou Sheng-level master, and they united to stop them.
• Xiao Yan accepted Yao Qing Lin’s battle robe and prepared to depart for the decisive battle in the Frozen Wasteland.

A year after the battle in the Frozen Wasteland, Xiao Yan left secluded cultivation to help stop an Otherworldly Demon altar in the Black Wind Mountain Range and broke through to the Dou Zong realm. He returned to the alliance with the threat still unresolved, and learned of a coming factions conference and an ancient ruin that might reveal the demons’ origins.

• Xiao Yan spent a year tempering his strength in the Frozen Wasteland while the Central Plains recovered and the Demon-Extermination Alliance hunted the remaining Otherworldly Demons.
• Yao Qing Lin brought Xiao Yan news of an unrecorded altar in the Black Wind Mountain Range, and he left with her to support Liu Changkong and the Pill Tower disciples.
• Liu Changkong’s disciples formed the Nine-Palace Spirit-Locking Array while Xiao Yan attacked and defeated the Qi-Devouring Demon Bear, purifying its demonic qi and the altar runes.
• The Heaven-Burning Pill’s medicinal power erupted during the battle, and Xiao Yan forcibly combined it with the Mysterious Yellow Flame to break through from Five-Star Dou Emperor to One-Star Dou Zong.
• The Sixth Elder informed Xiao Yan that the alliance would hold a Central Plains Factions Conference in a month and that the Soul Hall would open an ancient ruin afterward.

Xiao Yan uncovered the first hall master's plot to use the Ancient Ruins to break his seal and led the alliance expedition into the ruins. After confronting the controlled alliance members, he received the first hall master's origin and gained a new purification power, then set out with Yao Qing Lin and Wang Yue to eliminate the remaining Otherworldly Demons.

• Xiao Yan learned from Ye Zhong's Jade Slip that the first hall master's remnant soul had controlled the Ye Family and intended to use the Ancient Ruins to break his seal.
• Xiao Yan persuaded the alliance to proceed with the ruins expedition under new precautions, then traveled there with Yao Qing Lin and Wang Yue.
• Xiao Yan and his companions fought alliance members controlled by the remnant soul and discovered murals revealing that the first hall master had merged with the Otherworldly Demon Origin while seeking to purify demonic qi.
• Xiao Yan reached the altar and accepted the first hall master's origin, learning that Otherworldly Demons manifested from humanity's negative emotions and that purification required guidance rather than destruction.
• Xiao Yan's Mysterious Yellow Flame evolved into a new purification power, freeing the controlled alliance members, and he flew back toward the Central Plains with Yao Qing Lin and Wang Yue to confront the remaining Otherworldly Demons.

Xiao Yan and his allies used his gold-and-black flames to purify the Otherworldly Demon Hall’s outposts, rescue controlled survivors, and restore corrupted lands across the Central Plains. After freeing Xuan Kongzi and clearing the final outpost, they celebrated peace and continued their work as Xiao Yan approached the Dou Sheng realm.

• Xiao Yan, Wang Yue, and Yao Qing Lin raided a Black Wind Mountain Range outpost, where Xiao Yan purified its demons, freed missing disciples, and restored the local spiritual veins.
• Xiao Yan led a three-month campaign that cleared thirty-seven outposts and rescued more than two hundred controlled experts, while he developed purification weapons and the Soul-Returning Pill.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Qing Lin, and Wang Yue reached the far northern Ice Plains and freed former Pill Tower master Xuan Kongzi from a magic core’s control.
• The Central Plains Alliance celebrated the eradication of the last outpost and honored Xiao Yan, Yao Qing Lin, Wang Yue, and the fallen on a monument.
• Xiao Yan continued traveling with Yao Qing Lin and Wang Yue to purify lingering demonic qi and teach people how to resist corruption, while nearing the Dou Sheng threshold.

Xiao Yan learned that a World-Devouring Demon vanguard could threaten Central Plains in three years, and set out to obtain the World-Origin Grass needed for a Boundary Realm Pill. After cleansing the Dream Soul Flower’s black mist, he found the herb in Fallen Venerable Cliff and broke through to Three-Star Dou Zun, leaving with his allies to prepare for the coming threat.

• Yao Qing Lin told Xiao Yan that the Otherworldly Demon Origin would approach in three years and that the Boundary Realm Pill required World-Origin Grass.
• Xuan Kongzi identified Fallen Venerable Cliff as the likely source of the herb, and Xiao Yan recognized its location in the southern volcanic range.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Qing Lin, and Wang Yue investigated black mist in the Western Region and discovered that a Dream Soul Flower was sending a warning about the World-Devouring Demon.
• Xiao Yan purified the Dream Soul Flower, waking the sleeping herdsmen, and Wang Yue and Yao Qing Lin pledged their clans’ support.
• Xiao Yan entered Fallen Venerable Cliff, absorbed the remnant souls’ law energy, and advanced to Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the World-Origin Grass and told Yao Qing Lin and Wang Yue to return with him to the Pill Tower so Xuan Kongzi could prepare the Boundary Realm Pill.

Xiao Yan found and fused the Demon Flame in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, purifying the corrupted Demon Flood Dragon and advancing to Five-Star Dou Zun. He then completed three Boundary Realm Pills and turned toward strengthening the Alliance against the World-Devouring Demon’s Vanguard Force.

• Xiao Yan used the magic core energy and world-origin grass leaf to locate the Demon Flame in the Ten Thousand Demons Cave.
• Xiao Yan fused the Demon Flame with his other flames, broke through to Five-Star Dou Zun, and purified the Demon Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Yan found an Ancient Demon Suppression Warrior’s sword and learned that the World-Devouring Demon had been created by ancient human cultivators.
• Xiao Yan returned to Sacred Pill City and spent three days studying the Boundary Realm Pill formula and information about the Outer Demon Realm.
• Xiao Yan refined three Boundary Realm Pills with Yao Qing Lin, Wang Yue, and Xuan Kongzi assisting him.
• Xiao Yan said the Alliance needed to be strengthened so people across the Central Plains could fight demonic qi.

Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Realm for its Spirit Gatherer Competition and gained Heaven and Earth Thunderflame, bringing the six Heavenly Flames within him into balance. After winning the competition and learning that the flames were tied to a prophecy about the World-Devouring Demon, he set out for the Spirit Source Pool to strengthen himself.

• Xiao Yan received an invitation to the Ancient Realm’s Spirit Gatherer Competition, and Wang Yue arranged for him and his companions to enter.
• During the journey through the spatial passage, Heaven and Earth Thunderflame entered Xiao Yan and coexisted with the Demon Flame, raising him to Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan earned full marks in the competition’s first two rounds by using his Heavenly Flames to purify spiritual energy and stimulate an ancient tree.
• Xiao Yan repaired an ancient staff, whose projection revealed a prophecy linking six-colored flames and Heaven and Earth Thunderflame to the World-Devouring Demon’s defeat.
• The Ancient Realm’s Grand Elder gave Xiao Yan access to the Spirit Source Pool and warned that the demon’s vanguard might arrive early.
• Xiao Yan entered the spatial passage to the Spirit Source Pool to improve his strength and prepare to face the World-Devouring Demon.

Xiao Yan fused the heaven and earth thunderflame with the demon flame at the Spirit Source Pool, reached Peak Dou Zun, and learned the deeper principles of the Flame Mantra. After the World-Devouring Demons’ advance fleet appeared early, the factions prepared for war, and Xiao Yan helped create a Heaven-Burning Barrier; Yao Qing Lin’s work on an improved Purification Pill was still underway.

• Xiao Yan used the Spirit-Gathering Runes and Flame Mantra to fuse the heaven and earth thunderflame with the demon flame, then broke through to Peak Dou Zun.
• Xuan Kongzi summoned Xiao Yan after the World-Devouring Demons’ advance fleet appeared in Outer Space half a year ahead of schedule.
• Xiao Yan and the faction leaders agreed on a defensive plan, including reinforcing the spatial barrier, preparing layered defenses, and forming an elite strike team led by Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan proposed combining the Spirit-Gathering Art with the Flame Mantra, and the Ancient Realm’s Spirit Gatherers helped him create a Heaven-Burning Barrier that purified demonic qi and reflected some attacks.
• Yao Qing Lin and the Pill Tower improved the Purification Pill formula by adding ashes of heaven and earth thunderflame.

Xiao Yan shattered the Rift-Splitting Demon’s teleportation array and helped the allied forces repel the World-Devouring Demon’s first offensive, but the battle left their defenses badly damaged and their fighters wounded. After learning that the main forces would reach the Ten Thousand Demons Cave within three days, Xiao Yan led the army there and resolved to stop the next attack while seeking a way to break through to Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan broke the Rift-Splitting Demon’s defenses, wounded him, and destroyed the teleportation array inside the mothership.
• Wang Yue warned Xiao Yan that the other two capital ships were self-destructing, and the Ancient Realm’s Spirit Gatherers shielded the Black Wind Mountain Range’s defensive array from the explosions.
• After three days of fighting, the allied forces held the Black Wind Mountain Range, though Ye Feng was gravely wounded, Wang Yue suffered demonic qi corrosion, and Yao Qing Lin nearly exhausted her soul power.
• Xuan Kongzi urged Xiao Yan to interrogate the captured Rift-Splitting Demon, who revealed that the main forces would reach the Ten Thousand Demons Cave within three days.
• Xiao Yan ordered the allied forces to retreat to the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, where they would prepare a new defense against the approaching Dou Sheng-level fiend.

Xiao Yan defended the allied army at the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, broke through to one-star Dou Sheng, and used his purification domain to defeat Blood Slaughter. With the Ancient Realm reinforcements arriving, he prepared the battered survivors for the World-Devouring Demon Main Force’s coming attack.

• Xiao Yan, Wang Yue, and Yao Qing Lin struggled to hold the failing Defensive Formation against the World-Devouring Demon Soldiers.
• Blood Slaughter shattered the formation and struck Xiao Yan with a powerful beam, leaving him gravely injured as he protected Yao Qing Lin and Wang Yue.
• Xiao Yan’s seven heavenly flames fused, allowing him to break through to one-star Dou Sheng and form a golden purification domain.
• Xiao Yan trapped Blood Slaughter in the domain and purified him before his self-detonation could erupt, leaving behind a dark golden magic core.
• Xiao Yan gave the magic core to Wang Yue as the Grand Elder and Xuan Kongzi arrived with Ancient Realm reinforcements.
• Xiao Yan warned that stronger enemies were approaching and rallied the survivors to prepare for the coming battle.