Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan tracked down the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s remains and a second Fallen Heart Flame deep beneath the magma. He persuaded Yao Tianhuo to give him both flames in exchange for help coming back to life, and Yao Tianhuo agreed to serve him.

• Xiao Yan used a wisp of origin heart flame to locate a hidden space deep in the magma.
• Xiao Yan drove off a Flame Lizard and entered the space, where he found the Heavenly Fire Venerable’s skeleton and another Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan forced Yao Tianhuo’s soul to appear and revealed that he knew how the Heavenly Fire Venerable had died.
• Xiao Yan identified himself as the Xiao Clan’s Emperor’s Son and offered to revive Yao Tianhuo in exchange for both Fallen Heart Flames and his service.
• Yao Tianhuo eagerly agreed and asked Xiao Yan to call him Little Yao, prompting Xiao Yan to ask about his Five-Part Wheelfire Art.

Xiao Yan obtained the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method from Heavenly Fire Venerable and promised to revive him, then carried the infant fallen heart flame out of the magma sea. Inside the Little Hall of Souls, Heavenly Fire Venerable met You Mo, who convinced him that Xiao Yan had an exceptionally powerful background.

• Xiao Yan read the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method and focused on its potential to rival a Heaven-tier Dou Technique when four beasts were formed from heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan gave Heavenly Fire Venerable the Little Hall of Souls as a place to rest and promised to prepare the materials needed to revive him.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable entered the palace, discovered the souls bound inside, and recognized the Old Woman as a former Peak Dou Zun.
• You Mo told Heavenly Fire Venerable that Xiao Yan had two Half-Saint Guardian Daoists, and the two souls celebrated their good fortune while mocking the imprisoned Hall of Souls members.
• Xiao Yan carried the infant fallen heart flame out of the sea of magma.

Xiao Yan gave Jia Nan Academy the miniature fallen heart flame and reclaimed the original fallen heart flame, then secluded himself to devour it. After nearly a summer of refining, he emerged at the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan presented Su Qian with the miniature fallen heart flame, and Su Qian thanked him and let him take the original flame.
• Xiao Yan released the original fallen heart flame, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable erased its intelligence and captured it.
• Xiao Yan left Jia Nan Academy and began refining the fallen heart flame in a secluded valley.
• Su Qian rewarded Han Yue with three opportunities for origin heart flame body tempering and three Heart Flame Body-Tempering Pills because she had spoken up for Xiao Yan.
• After nearly the entire summer passed, Xiao Yan finished devouring the fallen heart flame and reached peak Nine-Star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan reached Nine-Star Dou Zong, strengthened his Flame Mantra and body, and returned to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital before heading back toward Jia Nan Academy. He found Lin Xiuya, Han Yue, and other academy students in danger from a pack of Frostwater Wolves and appeared before them.

• Xiao Yan finished devouring the fallen heart flame, advanced the Flame Mantra to High Earth Tier, and cultivated his Crimson Refining Flame Demon Body to the Sixth Turn.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital with Wen and Wu, the Two Saints, and spent three days with Cai Lin before leaving for the Black-Corner Region.
• The Flame Alliance's members discovered that Xiao Yan's wives had made substantial cultivation progress, while Nalan Yanran worried about falling behind.
• Xiao Yan encountered Jia Nan Academy students led by Lin Xiuya, who were struggling against a pack of Frostwater Wolves and its fifth-tier Beast King.
• As Lin Xiuya and the others prepared to call for help, Xiao Yan appeared, and Han Yue recognized him as Elder Yan Xiao.

Xiao Yan rescued Han Yue and Lin Xiuya’s group from Frostwater Wolves, impressing them with his strength and generosity. After returning to the Inner Academy, he recognized that Zi Yan was about to evolve and gave her a Transformation Pill to help her reach the sixth tier and take human form.

• Xiao Yan effortlessly killed the Frostwater Wolves and let Lin Xiuya’s group collect their magic cores.
• Xiao Yan spoke warmly with Han Yue, accepted the fifth-tier beast king’s magic core, and gave it to her.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine Heart Flame Origin Pills for the students and told Han Yue to seek him out if she needed help.
• After Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Academy, he found Zi Yan flushed and listless as she neared an evolution.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan a Transformation Pill, and she eagerly swallowed it.

Zi Yan swallowed the Transformation Pill and entered a cocooned breakthrough, while Xiao Yan settled into a quiet period at Jia Nan Academy. Su Qian then rushed to Xiao Yan with news of a major event.

• Zi Yan fell asleep after taking the Transformation Pill, and Xiao Yan and the Two Saints fortified the cave around her cocoon.
• Su Qian told Xiao Yan that the Gold and Silver Elders had appeared in Spring God Ravine two months earlier, but he had no news of Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan spent his days cultivating, refining pills, and guiding the Alchemy Department; he also refined Heart Flame Body-Tempering Pills for Lin Xiuya and Lin Yan.
• Liu Fei repeatedly tried to visit Xiao Yan, until an Alchemy Department elder ordered her to leave and warned her against harassing him.
• Su Qian hurried into the Alchemy Department and told Xiao Yan that something huge had happened.

Su Qian told Xiao Yan that the Gold and Silver Elders had massacred Spring God City after being transformed by a strange demonic qi. Xiao Yan agreed to help capture them so they could learn Han Feng’s whereabouts, and Su Qian arranged a student mission to lure them out.

• Su Qian visited Xiao Yan and reported that Spring God City had been massacred three days earlier.
• Su Qian explained that the Gold and Silver Elders had changed into demon-like beings whose black aura turned people into beasts driven by slaughter.
• Xiao Yan recognized the aura as resembling the demonic qi from the Yin-Yang Evil Saint Ruins and worried that a larger, unknown threat was emerging.
• Xiao Yan assured Su Qian he could face the Gold and Silver Elders, even if they had reached Dou Zun.
• Su Qian proposed sending students to gather herbs as a cover for laying an ambush, so Xiao Yan could capture the Elders and question them about Han Feng.
• Su Qian left to organize the plan, and a mission notice appeared on the Inner Academy’s board that afternoon.

Xiao Yan led a team of Jia Nan Academy experts toward Spring God Ravine to gather herbs, while Han Feng secretly devoured the souls of Spring God City to restore his strength. The team encountered an old acquaintance three days after setting out.

• Nearly twenty Dou Ling students competed for ten places on the mission team, and Lin Xiuya, Lin Yan, Han Yue, Liu Qing, and others joined Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan's team left Jia Nan Academy three days later, and he chatted with Han Yue as Lin Xiuya and the others discreetly gave them space.
• The group traveled toward Spring God Ravine, a place feared for its deadly black miasma and dangerous history.
• Deep in the ravine, Han Feng used the Sea Heart Flame to refine and consume the souls of Spring God City's victims, hoping to recover to Demon General level.
• Han Feng resolved to remain hidden until he reached Emperor Tier, while two similarly transformed elderly men stayed nearby.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan's group encountered an old acquaintance.

Xiao Yan’s herb-gathering mission was interrupted when Fan Lao and a hundred Blood Sect members ambushed the group, seeking revenge for Fan Lao’s son. Xiao Yan admitted he had killed the son and provoked Fan Lao, who flew into a rage and vowed to kill him.

• Lin Xiuya asked Xiao Yan what herbs they were meant to gather, but Xiao Yan told the students to pick whatever medicinal herbs they considered good or rest.
• Han Yue asked whether the group had anything to do, and Xiao Yan told her to cultivate or sleep as long as she stayed with them.
• A hundred Blood Sect members, including two Dou Wang experts, emerged from the woods and surrounded the group.
• Fan Lao revealed that he wanted revenge for his son and ordered his followers to capture the women and take the men as blood slaves.
• Han Yue appealed to Xiao Yan for help, and Fan Lao recognized him as the man who had killed his son.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that he had killed Fan Lao’s son and mocked him, prompting Fan Lao to erupt in fury and vow to kill him.

Xiao Yan protected Han Yue and the Jia Nan Academy students when Fan Lao ambushed them, then burned Fan Lao and the Blood Sect forces to ashes. The forest was left covered in ash, and the students stared at Xiao Yan in awe.

• Fan Lao secretly vanished and targeted Han Yue to use her as leverage against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Han Yue, reassured her, and unleashed seven-colored heavenly flame that burned Fan Lao to ashes within seconds.
• The Blood Sect forces fled, but Xiao Yan killed their strongest fighters with tiny wisps of flame.
• Xiao Yan used the fallen heart flame to make the remaining Blood Sect disciples burst into ash.
• The Jia Nan Academy students were left alone in the forest and looked at Xiao Yan as though he were a god.

Xiao Yan led the students onward after demonstrating overwhelming strength, while Han Yue grew increasingly drawn to him. They reached Spring God City, where its intense demonic aura made Xiao Yan wary, and he entered alone to check for danger.

• Xiao Yan refused to disclose his true strength, and the students set out with renewed reverence for him.
• Han Yue asked Xiao Yan his age; when she told the students he had said he was seventeen, they dismissed the claim and teased her about him.
• Xiao Yan overheard the students encouraging Han Yue to pursue him and privately appreciated their matchmaking efforts.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan and the students arrived at Spring God City and sensed its overwhelming bloody, demonic aura.
• Xiao Yan told the pale-faced students to wait outside while he entered the city alone to assess the danger.

Xiao Yan entered Spring God City and found it devastated by demonic corruption, then led his students toward Spring Lake City despite the danger. The students agreed to follow him, determined to prevent another massacre like the one they had witnessed.

• Xiao Yan entered Spring God City and saw its streets filled with blood, corpses, and black mist.
• Xiao Yan used his soul to witness how the Gold and Silver Elders slaughtered the city and spread demonic energy among its people.
• Xiao Yan regained his composure and let his students choose whether to enter the ruined city.
• The students explored Spring God City, and Xiao Yan purged demonic energy from one student who showed signs of corruption.
• Xiao Yan asked which city lay closest to Spring God Ravine, and Han Yue named Spring Lake City, eight hundred li away.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the students would accompany him to Spring Lake City, and Lin Xiuya and the others agreed.

Xiao Yan led the students to Spring Lake City, where the fishing fanatics continued angling despite the danger following the massacre in Spring God City. After discovering that six of his ten students had gone to buy fishing gear, Xiao Yan realized Han Yue was missing and sensed something unusual beyond the city.

• Xiao Yan saw an angler jump into Spring Lake after his rod, only to be swallowed by a huge aquatic beast, and then led the students into Spring Lake City.
• The group ate and settled into an inn, where the innkeeper privately dismissed them as reckless fishing fanatics.
• Xiao Yan promised the students extra rewards if they resolved the Gold and Silver Elders matter, then left his room for the city's largest fishing tackle shop.
• Xiao Yan found Lin Yan trying to buy expensive fishing gear and paid for the best set; Lin Xiuya and four more students soon joined them.
• Xiao Yan found that Han Yue was absent from the inn and could not locate her anywhere in Spring Lake City, then extended his soul power farther and noticed a strange scene.

Xiao Yan and his students caught Han Yue spearing fish at Spring Lake, and Xiao Yan teased her before sharing an intimate moment with her. Meanwhile, Han Feng emerged from Spring God Ravine with his power restored to Demon General level and ordered the Gold and Silver Elders to gather more souls.

• Xiao Yan took his students to Spring Lake, where they discovered Han Yue spearing a large fish in the shallows.
• Embarrassed by the audience, Han Yue jumped into the lake, and Xiao Yan pulled her close, dried them with Dou Qi, and kissed her after teasing her.
• On shore, Lin Xiuya and the others joked about Xiao Yan giving Han Yue private counseling, while Liu Qing failed to understand their laughter.
• A pillar of black energy erupted from Spring God Ravine, mutating nearby plants and animals before a vortex swallowed the miasma.
• Han Feng emerged from the ravine with his strength restored to Demon General level and told the Gold and Silver Elders to plunder more souls.

The Gold and Silver Elders headed for Spring Lake City to devour its residents, while Xiao Yan revealed his true name to Han Yue. As the demons prepared to attack the city, Xiao Yan appeared before them to confront them.

• The Gold and Silver Elders left for Spring Lake City, hoping to regain strength by slaughtering its people.
• Xiao Yan took Han Yue away from the fishermen and told her his real name and age.
• Han Yue recognized Xiao Yan as the famed Pill Tower alchemy prodigy after recalling a rumor from the Central Plains.
• The Gold and Silver Elders' arrival terrified Spring Lake City's residents, and Xiao Yan told Han Yue to join the other students.
• The Gold and Silver Elders prepared to devour the city's souls, but Xiao Yan appeared before them in a ripple of space.

Xiao Yan confronted the Gold and Silver Elders, learned they were fiends from the Hun Mo Clan, and discovered that Han Feng was beneath Spring God Ravine. After the demons tried to unleash their demonic Qi on Spring Lake City, Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames to restrain them and attacked as they attempted to flee.

• The Gold and Silver Elders revealed that they belonged to the Hun Mo Clan, one of the Thirty-Two Great Clans, and mocked the Strange Demon Clan as a lesser tribe.
• Xiao Yan asked about Han Feng, and the Gold and Silver Elders confirmed that he was beneath Spring God Ravine.
• Xiao Yan declared that the demons would pay for slaughtering ten million people in Spring God City and released an aura that astonished the people of Spring Lake City and Han Yue's group.
• The Gold and Silver Elders unleashed demonic Qi toward Spring Lake City, but Xiao Yan's seven-colored Heavenly Flames blocked and burned it away.
• The Gold and Silver Elders tried to escape, so Xiao Yan formed two hundred-zhang Flame Dragons and sent them after the demons.

Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames to overpower the Gold and Silver Elders, whose demonic qi and monstrous true forms could not withstand his attacks. As he trapped them in a formation of four Fire Spirits, they detonated themselves and unleashed a terrifying Soul-Destroying Demonic Light at him.

• Xiao Yan bound the Gold and Silver Elders with seven-colored fire dragons that burned away their demonic qi.
• The Gold and Silver Elders transformed into ten-foot-tall monsters covered in sinister eyes, but Xiao Yan remained unfazed.
• Xiao Yan separated four Heavenly Flames into Fire Spirits and trapped the Gold and Silver Elders inside a powerful flame barrier.
• The Gold and Silver Elders begged Xiao Yan to spare them, but he refused, citing the tens of millions of souls in Spring God City.
• The Gold and Silver Elders detonated themselves, formed a palm-sized black eyeball, and fired a blood-red Soul-Destroying Demonic Light at Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan defeated the Gold and Silver Elders’ final soul attack, then tracked Han Feng to Spring God Ravine. He found Han Feng possessed by an Extraterrestrial Fiend and prepared to fight him.

• Xiao Yan used layers of heavenly flames to stop the Gold and Silver Elders’ Soul-Destroying Demonic Light, then set off after Han Feng.
• Spring Lake City’s residents celebrated their survival, while Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, and Han Yue watched Xiao Yan leave.
• Xiao Yan descended into Spring God Ravine and found the demonic qi growing dense enough to suggest a Dou Sheng-level fiend had once been there.
• A scale-covered claw attacked Xiao Yan in the ravine, and he drove back the demonic qi to reveal the possessed Han Feng.
• Han Feng recognized Xiao Yan as a Xiao Clan prodigy and attacked him, while Xiao Yan retreated and formed a Four-Colored Lotus.

Xiao Yan detonated a Four-Colored Fire Lotus against Han Feng, devastating Spring God Ravine, but the Extraterrestrial Fiend survived and recovered by drawing on demonic qi. Xiao Yan then used all three transformations of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, reaching Peak One-Star Dou Zun as he prepared to fight Han Feng at full strength.

• Xiao Yan hurled a Four-Colored Fire Lotus at Han Feng, who formed Demonic Soul Battle Armor before the lotus exploded and ravaged Spring God Ravine.
• Xiao Yan retreated beyond the blast and saw Han Feng burst from the fallen rocks, badly wounded but alive and able to neutralize Heavenly Flames with demonic qi.
• Han Feng gathered demonic qi to restore his aura and charged Xiao Yan again.
• Xiao Yan activated the Green Lotus Transformation and the Yin-Yang Transformation, raising his strength to the Dou Zun level.
• Xiao Yan used the Seven-Colored Glazed Transformation and reached Peak One-Star Dou Zun, then challenged Han Feng to fight at full strength.

Xiao Yan fought Han Feng, whose power had once reached the Dou Sheng level, and survived his Soul-Destroying Demonic Light by creating a new soul technique. The chapter ended with Han Feng and the Two Saints realizing what Xiao Yan had accomplished.

• Xiao Yan used four heavenly flames to reach Dou Zun strength and clashed with Han Feng, devastating Spring God Ravine.
• Han Feng revealed that his race's Demon King realm corresponded to Dou Sheng, then continued fighting Xiao Yan.
• Han Feng transformed and unleashed the Soul-Destroying Demonic Light from a black eyeball, while Xiao Yan's allies offered to intervene.
• Xiao Yan combined his soul power with the Fallen Heart Flame to create a spinning Seven-Colored Fire Lotus that regenerated its petals and absorbed the attack.
• Han Feng and Wen and Wu, the Two Saints, reacted in horror when they realized Xiao Yan had created his own soul technique.