Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan battled the Sacred Demon Sect after refusing to surrender the Calamity Scripture, revealing overwhelming speed and power as he attacked the sect’s experts. The chapter left him striking down the sect’s elder just as the elder tried to take Lu Xueyan hostage.

• The Seven-Colored Child offered to help the Sacred Demon Sect Master kill Xiao Yan in exchange for the Calamity Scripture, and the sect master agreed.
• Xiao Yan sent the Seven-Colored Child to fight the Heavenly Fire Venerable and You Mo, then severely wounded a Sacred Demon Sect expert with one shoulder charge.
• Xiao Yan unleashed a Four-Colored Fire Lotus at the Sacred Demon Sect Master, engulfing the marsh in a devastating explosion.
• Xiao Yan killed the Sacred Demon Sect’s burly expert with an elbow strike and a formation of Heavenly Flame Fire Spirits.
• The remaining elder attacked Lu Xueyan and knocked aside her companions, but a bloody hand pierced his chest before he could seize her.

Xiao Yan killed one of the Sacred Demon Sect Master's Dou Zun followers and fought the sect master, gradually gaining the upper hand with his Heavenly Flames and rising strength. When the sect master absorbed his remaining followers to unleash the Sacred Demon Form, Xiao Yan countered its demonic attack and formed his new Reincarnation Demon-Refining Cauldron around him.

• Xiao Yan crushed the old man's heart and destroyed his soul, killing him before he could detonate his Dou Qi.
• The Sacred Demon Sect Master emerged from the firestorm and attacked Xiao Yan, who used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations to raise his strength and gradually suppress him.
• The Seven-Colored Child tried to assist the sect master, but the Heavenly Fire Venerable and another ally blocked him.
• The Sacred Demon Sect Master absorbed the corpses of two followers, transformed into the Sacred Demon Form, and fired Spirit-Eradicating Demon Light at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan invoked the Xiao Clan Mark, used six Heavenly Flames to neutralize the attack, and formed his Reincarnation Demon-Refining Cauldron around the sect master.

Xiao Yan killed the Sacred Demon Sect Master by trapping him in the Reincarnation Demon-Refining Cauldron, but a hidden Demon Saint learned of the death and came to eliminate him. The Demon Saint appeared before Xiao Yan, who began fusing six heavenly flames as the enemy’s enormous demonic hand descended.

• Xiao Yan trapped the Sacred Demon Sect Master in the Reincarnation Demon-Refining Cauldron and burned away his Dou Qi until he died.
• A Demon Saint received the Sacred Demon Sect Master's memories through his demonic qi and decided to kill Xiao Yan.
• The Demon Saint emerged from the abyss and strode toward the Netherworld Poison Marsh while the Seven-Colored Child fled after Xiao Yan spared him.
• Xiao Yan sensed danger and dodged the Demon Saint's first strike, then recognized him as an uninjured Dou Sheng-level Extraterrestrial Fiend.
• Xiao Yan attacked with a Four-Colored Fire Lotus and began fusing six heavenly flames, but the Demon Saint's enormous black hand barely reacted to the lotus and then struck toward him.

Xiao Yan was saved from an Extraterrestrial Fiend by the Hun Clan’s Four-Star Dou Sheng Saint Daughter, who defeated the fiend and then captured Xiao Yan to take him to the Hun Clan. The Heavenly Fire Venerable and You Mo split up to seek help, while a hidden figure speculated about the Saint Daughter’s past with Xiao Shaobei.

• As an Extraterrestrial Fiend attacked Xiao Yan, the black-robed Hun Clan Saint Daughter appeared and blocked its strike with her own energy hand.
• The Saint Daughter fought the white-robed fiend, wounded him with a Heaven Tier Dou Technique, and forced him to retreat.
• After identifying the Saint Daughter, Xiao Yan tried to refuse her invitation to visit the Hun Clan, but she sealed his Dou Qi and carried him away.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable and You Mo decided that You Mo would seek reinforcements from the Xiao Clan while the Heavenly Fire Venerable searched the Southwest Continent.
• Lu Xueyan promised to mobilize the Gu Saint Sect to help find Xiao Yan, then left with the two old women.
• A hidden figure remarked that the Saint Daughter had become a Peak Four-Star Dou Saint and speculated that Xiao Shaobei had been visiting her.

Hun Xue brought Xiao Yan into the Small Soul Realm, where Hun Wuya attacked him before she intervened and had him confined until Hun Miaomiao emerged from seclusion. As Xiao Yan slept in the Hall of Souls, news of his capture ignited an uproar among the Hun Clan remnants.

• An axe-bearing man followed Hun Xue toward the Small Soul Realm but chose not to interfere, believing it was part of Xiao Xuan's plan.
• Hun Xue took Xiao Yan through the barrier into the Small Soul Realm and brought him to the Hall of Souls headquarters.
• Hun Wuya recognized Xiao Yan's Xiao Clan bloodline and unleashed his killing intent, but Hun Xue shielded Xiao Yan and stopped him.
• Hun Xue ordered Hun Wuya to seal Xiao Yan's dou qi and lock him in a small Hall of Souls until Hun Miaomiao came out of seclusion in three days.
• Xiao Yan failed to leave the palace, accepted Hun Xue's warning, and fell asleep as news of his capture spread through the Small Soul Realm.

Dark Sun Heavenly Venerate tried to attack Xiao Yan, but Hun Wuya stopped him and kept the prisoner confined. After enduring days of abuse from the Hun Clan, Xiao Yan was visited by Hun Miaomiao, who had just advanced to six-star Dou Zun and planned to recruit him for a dangerous mission.

• Dark Sun Heavenly Venerate charged toward Xiao Yan, but Hun Wuya restrained him and warned him not to interfere with the prisoner.
• Hun Wuya suppressed Soul Hall Venerables who also wanted to attack Xiao Yan, while keeping Hun Tiandi's resurrection secret from the clan.
• Hun Clan members hurled rubbish and abuse at Xiao Yan for three days, but he ignored them and used the ordeal to temper his state of mind.
• Hun Miaomiao broke through to six-star Dou Zun, and Hun Xue told her to recruit Xiao Yan as a helper for the Demon Pill Sea and their larger plan.
• Hun Miaomiao cleared the rubbish outside Xiao Yan's hall with her fire cloud water flame, entered after Hun Wuya opened the spatial seal, and called Xiao Yan out to discuss something important.

Hun Xue proposed a deal: Xiao Yan would help Hun Miaomiao enter the Heavenly Tomb and find the ancient Formation Dao inheritance in the Nine Nether Abyss, while she would help him grow stronger. After Hun Xue left, Hun Miaomiao eagerly took Xiao Yan to refine artifacts.

• Hun Miaomiao brought Xiao Yan to Hun Xue, who showed him Hun Miaomiao’s lightning-powered induction cooker and offered him a deal.
• Hun Xue asked Xiao Yan to take Hun Miaomiao into the Heavenly Tomb so she could benefit from the Hun Clan ancestors’ spirit bodies.
• Hun Xue offered to help Xiao Yan reach peak Dou Zun and revealed that the Nine Nether Abyss held a Nine Nether Wind Flame but was filled with dangerous demonic creatures.
• Hun Xue asked Xiao Yan to help Hun Miaomiao find Sacred Artifact Mountain and obtain the ancient Formation Dao inheritance in the Nine Nether Abyss.
• Xiao Yan agreed, and Hun Xue said she would take them to the abyss when it opened in a month; after she vanished, Hun Miaomiao grabbed Xiao Yan and invited him to refine artifacts.

Xiao Yan went with Hun Miaomiao to her Artifact Refining Field, where she used his heavenly flames to begin work on a Saint Artifact. After she helped him break Hun Xue’s seal, Hun Miaomiao revealed the Heavenly Soul Battle Armor and explained its flame-powered core.

• Hun Miaomiao took Xiao Yan to her Artifact Refining Field and asked him to provide heavenly flames so she could refine a Saint Artifact.
• Hun Miaomiao used her Dou Qi to gradually break Hun Xue’s seal on Xiao Yan, allowing him to restore his cultivation and reveal that he had reached Four-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan’s Netherworld Poison Flame side effect resurfaced, and Hun Miaomiao ordered him to focus and provide the fire.
• Xiao Yan released his seven-colored heavenly flame into the refining platform, and Hun Miaomiao removed her Battle Armor and changed into work clothes.
• Hun Miaomiao introduced the Heavenly Soul Battle Armor, describing its spatial weapon system and its fire spirit divine iron core, which stored and converted heavenly flame energy.

Xiao Yan commissioned Hun Miaomiao to make Fire Lotus Containers and Battle Armor, paying her with Eighth-Tier Pills. He then supplied heavenly flames as Hun Miaomiao refined Fire Spirit Iron into an artifact, which was taking shape as an Octagonal Round Bowl when the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yan learned that Fire Spirit Iron could make cheaper, temporary containers for his fire lotuses, and Hun Miaomiao agreed to make them.
• Hun Miaomiao offered to make Xiao Yan Battle Armor, and he paid her five Eighth-Tier Pills for it in addition to three for the containers.
• Hun Miaomiao returned with Fire Spirit Iron, and Xiao Yan melted it with his seven-colored heavenly flames while she prepared the materials.
• Hun Miaomiao blended dozens of materials into the molten iron and used an array to refine the mixture over the course of a day.
• Hun Miaomiao shaped the molten metal into an Octagonal Round Bowl, inscribed it with complex runes, and began bringing the artifact to life.

Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao tested the Octagonal Round Bowl, finding that it could store a Five-Colored Fire Lotus but not a Six-Colored one, then forged Xiao Yan the Heavenflame Battle Armor. After a month spent reforging Hun Miaomiao’s armor, Hun Xue arrived to announce that the Nine Nether Abyss had opened.

• Hun Miaomiao’s Octagonal Round Bowl failed to withstand Xiao Yan’s Six-Colored Fire Lotus, so Xiao Yan threw the lotus through a wormhole, causing a huge explosion in the spatial turbulence.
• Xiao Yan formed a Five-Colored Fire Lotus, which the bowl successfully absorbed and stored for a month.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao forged two more bowls, giving Xiao Yan three Eight-Cornered Fire Lotus Bowls for his future trip into the abyss.
• Hun Miaomiao helped Xiao Yan forge the Heavenflame Battle Armor, which Xiao Yan soul-imprinted and tested by wearing.
• Xiao Yan spent a month helping Hun Miaomiao reforge her Heavenly Soul Battle Armor, and Hun Xue arrived to say the Nine Nether Abyss had opened.

Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao traveled with Hun Xue to the Nine Nether Abyss, where they encountered the Heavenly Derivation Sect and two powerful members of the Fallen Evil Race. After the abyss opened, Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao entered alongside Bai Nian and two hostile young demons, leaving their clash imminent.

• Hun Xue took Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao through a wormhole toward the Nine Nether Abyss, while the Blood Axe Man secretly followed them.
• At the abyss entrance, Hun Xue confronted two Dou Sheng of the Fallen Evil Race, a Fallen Heavenly Phoenix and a Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Python, and attacked them.
• The Nine Nether Abyss opened, and the Demon Saints ordered You Chen and Huang Mo to kill Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao inside.
• Yan Shenzi introduced his disciple Bai Nian, who claimed to be the Child of Destiny and promised to defeat the Fallen Evil Race before Yan Shenzi threw him into the abyss.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao entered the abyss with Bai Nian, You Chen, and Huang Mo, and the two sides met with killing intent.

Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao entered the Nine Nether Abyss, prepared their Eight-Cornered Fire Lotus Bowls, and met Bai Nian before the Fallen Heavenly Phoenix and Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Python attacked. As Bai Nian faltered against their boosted strength, Xiao Yan launched two fire lotuses and pulled his companions back.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao entered the Nine Nether Abyss, killed a demon creature, and fled when a vast swarm approached.
• Xiao Yan spent three days preparing three Five-Colored Fire Lotuses while Hun Miaomiao adjusted her Heavenly Soul Battle Armor.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao encountered Bai Nian, who claimed he would protect them and asked Hun Miaomiao to join his harem.
• The Fallen Heavenly Phoenix and Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Python attacked Bai Nian, and he fought them with ancient formations.
• The Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Python used a secret art to draw on the abyss's demonic qi and overpower Bai Nian.
• Xiao Yan opened two Eight-Cornered Fire Lotus Bowls, then pulled Bai Nian and Hun Miaomiao back as the fire lotuses flew toward their enemies.

Xiao Yan, Hun Miaomiao, and Bai Nian defeated two powerful Fallen Evil Race beasts in the Nine Nether Abyss and joined forces to seek the Nine Nether Wind Flame. Bai Nian led them to the petrified corpse of the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor, where the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yan's fire lotuses killed the Fallen Heavenly Phoenix and badly wounded the Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Python, which fled.
• Hun Miaomiao pursued the Fallen Heavenly Phoenix's escaping magic core and captured its beast soul, while Xiao Yan and Bai Nian killed the Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Python.
• Hun Miaomiao stored the Python's corpse in her Spatial Saint Artifact, and Bai Nian said the Heavenly Derivation Sect had come to save the world.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao agreed to follow Bai Nian toward the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Bai Nian revealed that he knew where the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor had died.
• The three reached an enormous petrified serpentine body, and Xiao Yan recognized it as the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor's corpse.

Bai Nian used a Black Jade Talisman containing origin qi to awaken the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor, and Xiao Yan watched as the ancient Dou Di returned in an illusory body. The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor noticed Xiao Yan and recognized the aura of the Flame Mantra.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao saw the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor's colossal corpse and the nearby nine nether wind flame.
• Bai Nian revealed that the Heavenly Derivation Sect had sent him to awaken the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor and activated a Black Jade Talisman.
• Origin qi flowed from the shattered talisman into the corpse, which briefly showed signs of life before turning to stone again.
• A Dou Di aura spread across the Nine Nether Abyss, and the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor appeared as an old man in black.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor spoke with Bai Nian, then turned to Xiao Yan and recognized the aura of the Flame Mantra.

The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor told Xiao Yan that the Flame Mantra was created by the True Flame Emperor and revealed the Dou Qi Continent’s ancient war against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race. He explained how the continent was hidden and why its origin qi and Dou Di experts dwindled, leaving Xiao Yan with the grim history of the sacrifices that sealed the world away.

• Xiao Yan admitted that he cultivated the Flame Mantra, and the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor identified the True Flame Emperor as its creator and warned Xiao Yan that he would inherit the Emperor’s karmic burden.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor recounted how the True Flame Emperor rose to power, refined the Dou Qi Continent’s plane embryo, and led its lineage before dying in the war against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor explained that the Heavenly Derivation Supreme sacrificed himself to create the array that concealed the Dou Qi Continent, cutting it off from the Great Thousand World.
• Bai Nian revealed that the Heavenly Derivation Sect’s mission was to awaken a Dou Di remnant soul every ten thousand years to repair the Heaven-Deceiving Array.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor explained how origin qi could produce Dou Di and described how war, departures, and the deaths of many Dou Di consumed the supply.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor ended his account by lamenting that the Dou Di who fought the Extraterrestrial Evil Race had all died.

The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor told Xiao Yan about the ancient Dou Di, the Nine-Colored Lineage, and the mysterious disappearance of six Ancient Eight Clans’ Dou Di. He then sent his soul into the heavens to preserve the Dou Qi Continent’s legacy for another ten thousand years.

• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor explained that the Nine-Colored Demon Emperor was a female Heavenly Sovereign and revealed that her daughter’s lineage had once been sealed in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor recounted the Stone Emperor’s death and revealed that six Ancient Eight Clans’ Dou Di had disappeared around the time before the Tou She Ancient God appeared.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor told Xiao Yan that he had given Yellow Springs the essence blood that helped him become a Dou Sheng, and offered Xiao Yan the Nine Nether Wind Flame and access to a Sacred Artifact Mountain.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor urged Xiao Yan to take Hun Miaomiao to the Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Python clan and warned them to beware of the First-Generation Soul Emperor.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor, Youhuang, transformed into white light and ascended to preserve the Dou Qi Continent’s legacy, while Xiao Xuan bowed in respect.

The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor took over the Deception-Heaven Great Array from the Dragon Elephant Sovereign, sacrificing his remnant soul to strengthen its protection of the Dou Qi Continent. Elsewhere, Gu Yuan considered Xun’er’s marriage to Xiao Yan, while Hun Tiandi and an ancient Heavenly Flame wielder reacted to the growing threat.

• Xiao Xuan watched the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor’s remnant soul rise and reflected on his plan involving Xiao Yan.
• Gu Yuan sensed a fluctuation, weighed Xiao Yan’s reputation against the Gu Clan’s interests, and considered Xiao Xuan’s promise that Xun’er could become an emperor.
• Hun Tiandi recognized the fluctuation as another Dao-Transformation Heaven Mending and anticipated Xiao Xuan’s attempt to use him to seize the Second-Generation Soul Emperor’s reincarnated soul.
• The Dragon Elephant Sovereign gave the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor the Heavenly Derivation Supreme’s skull, the core of the Deception-Heaven Great Array, and vanished after entrusting him with the next ten thousand years of its defense.
• The Nine Nether Saint Ancestor merged with the skull, strengthening the array across the Dou Qi Continent, while an ancient man beneath Jia Nan Academy worried that the continent might not produce another Saint Grade Heavenly Supreme in time.
• In the Nine Nether Abyss, Xiao Yan asked Bai Nian whether the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor had been the first master of the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Flame.

Bai Nian explained how Dou Di experts’ Origin Qi had nurtured the highest-ranked Heavenly Flames, revealing the origins of several flames and Tou She Ancient God’s connection to the Emperor Flame. Xiao Yan then asked Bai Nian for the Nine Nether Wind Flame, which Bai Nian let him take, and approached it to begin refining it despite the Nine Nether Abyss’s time limit.

• Bai Nian told Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao that the highest-ranked Heavenly Flames contained traces of Origin Qi absorbed from Dou Di experts, though refining multiple flames was extremely dangerous.
• Bai Nian named the Dou Di experts who had nurtured several Heavenly Flames and revealed that Tou She Ancient God’s true form was the first-ranked Emperor Flame, but admitted he did not know the Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the Nine Nether Saint Ancestor had cultivated the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Bai Nian explained that the flame was rare but not unique.
• Xiao Yan asked Bai Nian to give him the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Bai Nian agreed while promising he could get them out of the Nine Nether Abyss.
• Hun Miaomiao warned that the Nine Nether Abyss would close in a month, and Xiao Yan walked toward the Nine Nether whirlwind to refine the flame.

Xiao Yan endured Nine Nether Wind Flame’s wind, fire, and soul-stirring demonic sounds while using his other Heavenly Flames and the Spring God Sect’s techniques to stay alive. After a prolonged struggle, black flame seeped into his flesh, bones, and meridians, and he prepared to counterattack.

• Xiao Yan entered the Nine Nether Wind and activated Crimson Refining Flame Demon Body to reach Nine Nether Wind Flame’s vortex.
• Xiao Yan stepped into the vortex’s center and used Yin-Yang Saint Flame, Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, Glazed Lotus Heart Flame, Sea Heart Flame, and Netherworld Poison Flame to withstand its assault.
• Xiao Yan endured a day of severe damage before using Spring God Technique and Withered Wood Meets Spring to restore his body at the cost of much of his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan consumed Eighth-Tier Pills to sustain a prolonged stalemate with Nine Nether Wind Flame through weeks of torment.
• Xiao Yan found wisps of black flame throughout his body and declared that it was his turn to strike back.

Xiao Yan endured the Nine Nether Wind Flame’s torment, absorbed and refined it, then fused it into his heavenly flame. The fusion raised him to Mid-Stage Six-Star Dou Zun, while outside the abyss Yan Shenzi revealed that the Pure Lotus Demon Saint came from another world.

• Xiao Yan used his Flame Mantra Dou Qi and a soul-calming method to withstand the Nine Nether Wind Flame as it tempered his body and his strength grew.
• Outside the Nine Nether Abyss, Hun Xue and the two Demon Saints waited anxiously, while Yan Shenzi told Hun Xue that the Pure Lotus Demon Saint was not from the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan completely absorbed the Nine Nether Wind Flame’s remaining origin flame seeds, then began fusing the flame into his own heavenly flame.
• After more than a month, Xiao Yan opened his eyes and unleashed his newly fused, multicolored heavenly flame, accidentally burning through a nearby Demon Creature.
• Xiao Yan’s aura surged through the Dou Zun stages and stopped at Mid-Stage Six-Star Dou Zun.