Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the Two Saints battled a Demon King released beneath Spring God Ravine, and Xiao Yan survived the Demon King’s final attack with a protective Jade Talisman from Xiao Lin. As they prepared to explore the ravine’s depths, a remnant of black light suddenly pierced Xiao Wu’s hand.

• Xiao Yan created a soul technique, astonishing Han Feng and the Two Saints, while Han Feng released a surge of demonic qi before disappearing.
• A formation beneath Spring God Ravine broke, releasing a vast demonic presence that formed into a giant Demon King; Xiao Yan summoned Wen and Wu, the Two Saints.
• Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu fought the Demon King as Xiao Yan retreated, and their battle devastated Spring God Ravine while the Demon King’s strength gradually faded.
• The Demon King condensed his remaining power into a final attack against Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan’s Jade Talisman from Xiao Lin blocked it and the Demon King perished.
• Xiao Yan and the Two Saints prepared to descend into the ravine, but a thin black gleam shot from the Demon King’s vanished fireball and burrowed into Xiao Wu’s hand.

Xiao Yan discovered that a demon soul had affected Xiao Wu, then explored the ruins beneath Spring God Ravine and learned how the Spring God Sect had sealed the Hun Mo Clan. As he burned away the lingering fiends and the sect master's remains, the ancient stone stele began to melt, revealing an unexpected gain.

• Xiao Wen examined Xiao Wu and warned that a demon soul had merged with his soul, while Xiao Yan judged that the Xiao Clan would need to treat him.
• Xiao Yan suggested searching beneath the ravine, and Xiao Wu cleared the rubble to uncover a deep opening.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Wen, and Xiao Wu entered an underground ruin filled with preserved members of the Spring God Sect and read Li Yuchun's account of the sect's sacrifice to seal the Hun Mo Clan.
• Xiao Yan bowed to the fallen sect members, then used his seven-colored heavenly flame to burn their remains and destroy the fiendish remnants.
• When Xiao Yan burned the Spring God Sect master's body, the ancient stone stele began to melt, and Xiao Yan realized he had uncovered an unexpected gain.

Xiao Yan recovered the Spring God Sect’s legacy and returned to the Xiao Clan with Xiao Wu, whose soul had been tainted by the Extraterrestrial Fiends. He summoned Xiao Shaobei to seek help treating Xiao Wu and uncovering the ancient secrets.

• Xiao Yan refined the Spring God Sect’s stele into a golden scroll and learned the Heaven Tier arts Withered Wood Meets Spring and Spring God Technique.
• Xiao Yan promised the Spring God Sect’s senior that he would find worthy successors for its legacy and reflected on the threat posed by the Extraterrestrial Fiends.
• Xiao Yan decided to bring Xiao Wu back to the Xiao Clan for treatment and question the clan leader about ancient secrets.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Wu, and Wen and Wu returned to the Xiao Realm three days later.
• Xiao Yan used a jade talisman to tell Xiao Shaobei that Xiao Wu’s soul had been tainted, and Xiao Shaobei appeared before them.

Xiao Shaobei purged the demonic qi from Xiao Wu and brought Xiao Yan before Xiao Xuan, who revealed the history of the Extraterrestrial Fiends and the Severing of Heaven and Earth. Xiao Xuan then told Xiao Yan that he would lose the Xiao Clan’s support once he became a Dou Zun and asked whether he would accept a life-and-death trial.

• Xiao Shaobei restrained Xiao Wu and destroyed the demonic root inside his soul, restoring Xiao Wu’s clarity.
• Xiao Shaobei brought Xiao Yan to meet Xiao Xuan in an ancient hall, where Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yan’s progress and four heavenly flames.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the Dou Qi Continent’s loss of origin qi and connection to the Upper Realm resulted from the Extraterrestrial Fiends’ invasion forty-nine thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Xuan recounted how the continent fought the remaining fiends for thousands of years until their traces disappeared around three thousand years ago.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Clan would withdraw its authority and support once he became a Dou Zun, then asked whether he would accept the trial.

Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Yan three days before suspending his Emperor’s Son privileges, then sent him to meet the purifying lotus demon flame. The flame gave Xiao Yan a child flame to protect him from Extraterrestrial Fiends, while hints about the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s death raised new questions; Xiao Shaobei then led Xiao Yan to a place dense with soul aura.

• Xiao Yan admitted he feared dying, but Xiao Xuan still gave him three days before freezing his Emperor’s Son benefits until he became a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Shaobei to take Xiao Yan to the purifying lotus demon flame and revealed that a Heavenly Demon Emperor might escape its seal within thirty years.
• The purifying lotus demon flame recognized Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra and nearly attacked him, but changed course after learning he had encountered an Extraterrestrial Fiend.
• The purifying lotus demon flame planted a child flame in Xiao Yan to help him resist Extraterrestrial Fiends and urged him to avenge the Pure Lotus Demon Saint.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Shaobei about the Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s death, and Xiao Shaobei said the records blamed wounds from battle and backlash from the purifying lotus demon flame.
• Xiao Shaobei led Xiao Yan away from the Scripture Repository Hall to a place dense with soul aura, stirring the yin-yang saint flame within Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan visited the Xiao Clan’s Soul-Nourishing Grounds and used its pool to restore his soul. As he cultivated there, he began crossing the threshold into an eighth-tier Alchemist, with the Yin-Yang Evil Saint watching his progress.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Shaobei found the Yin-Yang Evil Saint soaking in the Soul-Nourishing Pool, and the Saint marveled at Xiao Yan’s rapid rise to Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Shaobei told the Yin-Yang Evil Saint that his soul had recovered and complained about the merit points spent on the precious soul-nourishing liquid.
• Xiao Yan released the Heavenly Fire Venerable and You Mo into the pool so they could restore their souls, then began absorbing its soul power himself.
• Xiao Yan’s soul recovered and grew purer as he absorbed the pool’s energy, and he sensed spiritual energy for the first time.
• Xiao Yan recited a soul-cultivation secret art, causing his soul power and spiritual energy to surge as he began advancing toward the eighth tier.

Xiao Yan restored his soul and advanced to an Eighth-Tier Alchemist with Xiao Shaobei’s help. He went to the Scripture Repository Hall to find a Heaven Tier movement technique and discovered Flowing Shadow Lightning Flash.

• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint and Xiao Shaobei watched over Xiao Yan as he absorbed spiritual energy in the Soul-Nourishing Pool.
• Xiao Shaobei increased the spiritual energy, helping Xiao Yan break through to the eighth tier and reunite his soul with his body.
• Xiao Yan thanked Xiao Shaobei and said he planned to visit the Scripture Repository Hall before his Emperor’s Son privileges expired.
• Xiao Yan collected the Heavenly Fire Venerable and the Netherworld Demon Serpent, then left the Soul-Nourishing Grounds.
• Xiao Yan met Elder Qing at the Scripture Repository Hall and went straight to the seventh floor to search for a movement technique.
• Xiao Yan found the Heaven Rank Low Grade Dou Technique Flowing Shadow Lightning Flash.

Xiao Yan chose two Heaven Tier Dou Techniques in the Scripture Repository Hall, then hurried to Xiao Shaobei to have his divine-grade clan mark awakened. After spending two days with his family, Xiao Yan received innate profound thunder and was sent back to the Black-Corner Region to continue his training.

• Xiao Yan chose Flowing Shadow Lightning Flash and Fire Dance Whirlwind, learning that the movement technique required tempering with innate profound thunder.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Shaobei at the Patriarch Hall and asked him to awaken his clan mark before his time ran out.
• Xiao Shaobei brought Xiao Yan to the Xiao Lin Lineage settlement and inscribed a Seven-Colored Clan Mark, confirming Xiao Yan's divine-grade bloodline.
• Xiao Yan spent two days with Xiao Lin, Xiao Zhan, Yao Xian, and the rest of his family.
• Xiao Shaobei gave Xiao Yan a bolt of innate profound thunder and sent him from the Central Plains back to the Black-Corner Region.

After returning from the destroyed Spring God Ravine, Xiao Yan reunited with Jia Nan Academy and began refining the Sea Heart Flame to break through. Two months later, Han Yue watched him awaken with the aura of a Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yan emerged from a spatial tear alive, reunited with Su Qian and Han Yue, and returned to Jia Nan Academy with the students.
• Xiao Yan checked on Zi Yan's cocoon, then prepared to refine the Sea Heart Flame without Wen and Wu guarding him.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Sea Heart Flame's flame seed and entered secluded cultivation while Su Qian secured the surrounding area.
• After two months, Xiao Yan awakened and released an overwhelming aura that made Han Yue recognize his breakthrough to Dou Zun.

Xiao Yan refined sea heart flame, broke through to Two-Star Dou Zun, and evolved the Flame Mantra to Quasi-Heaven Tier. After the academy elders left, he was alone with Han Yue and asked her to help him cultivate.

• Xiao Yan used the power of sea heart flame to break through the bottleneck to Two-Star Dou Zun while Su Qian shielded Han Yue from his pressure.
• Xiao Yan's Flame Mantra evolved to Quasi-Heaven Tier, triggering a vast cloud phenomenon that he dispersed with his soul power.
• Xiao Yan tested his transformed cultivation technique and declared that he was ready to roam the Dou Qi Continent.
• Han Yue watched Xiao Yan with growing admiration as Su Qian marveled at his talent.
• The academy elders arrived, and Xiao Yan dismissed them after promising to refine pills for them later.
• After Su Qian left, Xiao Yan leaned close to Han Yue and asked her to help him cultivate.

Xiao Yan spent a month at Jia Nan Academy cultivating with Han Yue and helping the elders, while Zi Yan remained in her cocoon. The chapter ended with news that Demon Flame Valley had captured Hao and others and demanded an Emperor's Extreme Pill for their release, prompting Xiao Yan to take an interest in the valley.

• Xiao Yan and Han Yue spent seven days cultivating together, raising Han Yue from Five-Star Dou Ling to Peak Dou Ling, and she asked him to visit her family.
• Xiao Yan promised to visit the Han Family and told Han Yue that he was Venerable Yao's disciple and the young pavilion master of Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan helped the Alchemy Department's elders refine pills and trained with the Sea Heart Flame, while his own Dou Zun cultivation advanced slowly.
• After a month, Han Yue reached Two-Star Dou Wang, the academy's alchemy elders improved, and Zi Yan remained cocooned as she continued her evolution.
• Lin Yan told Su Qian that Fang Yan and Demon Flame Valley had captured Hao and the others, stolen their treasure, and demanded an Emperor's Extreme Pill as ransom.
• Xiao Yan heard the report and smiled, recalling that Demon Flame Valley held several things he wanted.

Xiao Yan rescued the Jia Nan Academy hostages from Demon Flame Valley’s elders and then went to the sect’s headquarters to seize it for the Flame Alliance. He forced the valley’s fighters to the ground and called out Earth Demon Old Ghost, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Xiao Yan agreed to lead the rescue mission and took Lin Xiuya, Han Yue, and the other students through a space wormhole to the valley where Jia Nan Academy’s people were held.
• Fang Yan’s elders tried to attack Xiao Yan, but he struck them down, sealed their cultivation, and freed the captives.
• Elder Hao berated and slapped the bound Demon Flame Valley elders while Xiao Yan left with a captive to reach the sect’s headquarters.
• Xiao Yan declared that Demon Flame Valley’s headquarters would become a Flame Alliance branch and announced his robbery to the valley.
• Xiao Yan’s aura forced the nearby Dou Wangs and Dou Emperors to the ground, and he called for Earth Demon Old Ghost to appear.

Xiao Yan confronted Earth Demon Old Ghost over Demon Flame Valley’s kidnapping and tried to claim its treasures and make the old patriarch his slave. After Earth Demon Old Ghost called for help, a Hun Clan Saint Daughter appeared and attacked Xiao Yan, leaving them on the verge of battle.

• Xiao Yan demanded Demon Flame Valley’s treasures and offered Earth Demon Old Ghost the choice of becoming his slave.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost fled, but Heavenly Fire Venerable and You Mo caught him and beat him until he could no longer resist.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable suggested using Earth Demon Old Ghost’s body to resurrect himself, and Xiao Yan considered the idea.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost called for the Saint Daughter, who used a Soul-Locking Chain to bind him and revealed herself as a Hun Clan member.
• The Hun Clan Saint Daughter sent over a hundred chains at Xiao Yan, who answered by unleashing his heavenly flames.

Xiao Yan fought the Hun Clan's Saint Daughter, whose strength and defenses withstood his attacks and forced him to reveal his strongest techniques. As he unleashed the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method, she summoned a vast physical Medicine Cauldron that Xiao Yan recognized as the Ancient Artifact Dao.

• Xiao Yan dodged the Saint Daughter's Soul-Locking Chains and attacked with a Soul-Slaying Spear and Four-Colored Fire Lotus, but her black armor and chains left her nearly unharmed.
• The Saint Daughter used iron wings to chase Xiao Yan, and their clash revealed that she was a Five-Star Dou Zun with Spirit Realm soul power.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and his Xiao Clan mark to raise his strength to the middle stage of five stars.
• The Saint Daughter activated the Hun Clan's clan mark, raising her strength to the late stage of six stars.
• Xiao Yan released five Heavenly Flames and unleashed the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method, but the Saint Daughter summoned a gigantic physical Medicine Cauldron that he recognized as the Ancient Artifact Dao.

Xiao Yan battled Hun Miaomiao, whose ancient artifacts and Heavenly Dipper Cannons drew on Heavenly Flame energy, until they discovered they were both transmigrators from Earth. Though they remained loyal to their rival clans, Hun Miaomiao left after urging Xiao Yan to grow strong enough to resolve the feud, while he began plotting to visit her on the Southwest Continent.

• Hun Miaomiao used a size-changing cauldron to absorb Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame attack, then unleashed thirty-six Heavenly Dipper Cannons against him.
• As Hun Miaomiao attacked, Xiao Yan tested whether she was from Earth with familiar phrases, and they confirmed their shared origins with references to chemistry, Earth, and China.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao talked about how they had transmigrated, and she revealed she had earned a PhD before arriving in the Dou Qi Continent.
• Hun Miaomiao asked whether Xiao Yan had destroyed the Hun Clan's Branch Hall; they affirmed their loyalty to their respective clans but admitted they did not want to become enemies.
• Xiao Yan joked that Hun Miaomiao should marry into the Xiao Clan and bring the Hun Clan as her dowry, then she told him to grow strong enough to command a clan and left through a space wormhole.
• Xiao Yan headed back toward Demon Flame Valley, smiling as he considered visiting Hun Miaomiao on the Southwest Continent.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Ma Holy City as a Dou Zun and Spirit Realm soul expert, then led Flame Alliance forces back to Demon Flame Valley to establish a branch. There, he reunited with Han Yue, whose arrival prompted Cai Lin to confront the prospect of Xiao Yan adding another woman to the family.

• Xiao Yan opened a spatial tunnel to Jia Ma Holy City and impressed the Flame Alliance experts with his Dou Zun strength and Spirit Realm soul power.
• Xiao Yan asked Cai Lin and Xiao Li to assemble forces to accompany him to Demon Flame Valley, and the group traveled there through the spatial tunnel.
• The people at Demon Flame Valley welcomed Xiao Yan and his companions with respect.
• Han Yue happily approached Xiao Yan, but Cai Lin appeared and recognized her feelings for him.
• Cai Lin teasingly called Han Yue a new little sister, then offered to let her call Cai Lin elder sister.

Xiao Yan seized Demon Flame Valley’s treasury and arranged for its takeover as a Flame Alliance branch in the Black-Corner Region. After recruiting future graduates from Jia Nan Academy, news from Black Seal City changed his plans to return to the Flame Alliance.

• Xiao Yan assigned the Flame Alliance elders and experts to take over Demon Flame Valley, then led Cai Lin and Han Yue to its hidden treasury.
• Xiao Yan found that Hun Miaomiao had taken the Heavenly Demon Puppet scroll and collected the remaining treasures, including the Flame Manipulation Art and a seventh-rank magic core.
• Xiao Yan put Xiao Li in charge of Demon Flame Valley and watched Cai Lin invite Han Yue to visit the Flame Alliance before leaving through a space wormhole.
• Xiao Li oversaw the purge of Demon Flame Valley’s upper ranks, allowing only one-tenth of its elders and disciples to join the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Su Qian to let willing Jia Nan Academy graduates join the Flame Alliance, then changed his plans after receiving news from Black Seal City.

Xiao Yan obtained the third Pure Lotus Demon Saint map fragment from an elder of the mysterious Heavenly Derivation Sect, who warned that the Demon Saint had concealed a secret tied to the Dou Qi Continent’s survival. The elder departed for the Southwest Continent, leaving Xiao Yan to investigate the warning and summon an alchemist from that region.

• Xiao Yan rushed to Black Seal City after learning a powerful stranger possessed the third map fragment, and he and the white-robed elder recognized that each was a Dou Zun.
• The elder gave Xiao Yan the fragment and revealed that his sect, the Heavenly Derivation Sect, had sent it to the Black-Corner Region in hopes it would reach someone destined for it.
• Xiao Yan identified the Heavenly Derivation Sect and questioned why its members had brought the fragment to the Northwest Continent, while the elder suggested fate was drawing him toward the Demon Saint’s legacy.
• The elder claimed the Pure Lotus Demon Saint had a secret that could make even Dou Di experts tremble and affect the survival of the Dou Qi Continent, but said he did not know what it was.
• The elder advised Xiao Yan to investigate in the Southwest Continent, then left through a spatial rift; Xiao Yan rewarded the Black Seal City Lord and ordered him to bring over an alchemist from the Southwest Continent.

After learning about the Southwest Continent and its dangerous Poison Saint Ruins, Xiao Yan planned a journey there after returning to the Central Plains with Zi Yan and Han Yue. During a year at the Flame Alliance, he helped his wives advance their cultivation, and the chapter ended as a seven-colored light and a Dou Zun aura erupted from Cai Lin’s residence.

• Liao Du gave Xiao Yan a map and described the Southwest Continent, including the Poison Saint Ruins, the Gu Saint Sect, and powerful hidden factions in the Ten Thousand Mountains.
• Xiao Yan decided to return to the Central Plains before traveling to the Southwest Continent, and promised to bring Liao Du and the Black Seal City Lord along.
• Back at the Flame Alliance, Xiao Yan reunited with Cai Lin, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Yao Ye, then spent the following month helping the women improve their cultivation.
• Yun Yun broke through to Dou Zong, while Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Ye, and Ya Fei advanced to Dou Wang; Cai Lin continued striving toward Dou Zun.
• As the year ended, a seven-colored pillar of light rose from the alliance leader’s residence, and a powerful Dou Zun aura spread across Jia Ma Holy City.

Cai Lin advanced to Dou Zun, and Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Northwest Continent while arranging the Flame Alliance and its branches. At Jia Nan Academy, Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon after three days, only to shrink back into a little girl, leaving Xiao Yan wondering whether the Transformation Pill had been wasted.

• Cai Lin absorbed the gathered energy, reached Dou Zun, and helped manage the Flame Alliance alongside Yao Ye and Ya Fei, while Xiao Cheng distinguished himself in the alliance’s inner circle.
• Xiao Yan told his women he would leave the Northwest Continent, then departed with Hun Xin and Xiao Cheng, placing Xiao Cheng in charge of Demon Flame Valley.
• Xiao Yan brought Hun Xin to Jia Nan Academy and asked its Alchemists to look after her before checking on Zi Yan’s violet cocoon in Su Qian’s courtyard.
• After three days, Zi Yan broke out of her cocoon and appeared as a mature woman, but green light soon transformed her back into a little girl.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether Zi Yan’s Transformation Pill had been wasted.