Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan confronted more than a hundred Gu Clan youths who challenged him over his relationship with Gu Xun'er, then overwhelmed their combined attacks with his Half-Saint strength. The Gu Clan youths formed a bloodline battle formation to block his palm, but Xiao Yan's flame began melting their barrier.

• More than a hundred Gu Clan youths gathered outside Xiao Yan's residence and demanded that he face them.
• Gu Yao accused Xiao Yan of mistreating Gu Xun'er, and Xiao Yan revealed his Half-Saint cultivation and challenged the crowd to attack together.
• Xiao Yan's first Dou Qi palm was dispersed by the youths' combined Dou Techniques, but he explained that he had used only half his strength.
• The Gu Clan youths activated their bloodline power and formed a defensive battle formation to withstand Xiao Yan's stronger palm.
• A dazzling flame ignited on Xiao Yan's palm and began melting the battle formation's barrier.

Xiao Yan defeated the Gu Clan’s young prodigies, then met Gu Yuan, who took him to see Gu Xun'er. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan seeing Gu Xun'er again at last.

• Xiao Yan broke the Gu Clan prodigies’ energy barrier and subdued them with his Dou Qi palm.
• Gu Yuan appeared, healed the defeated prodigies, and reprimanded them for losing to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan greeted Gu Yuan as his father-in-law and admitted he was fickle in love but would have only one principal wife.
• Gu Yuan brought Xiao Yan to a secluded mountain setting, where Xiao Yan saw Gu Xun'er again.

Xiao Yan visited Gu Xun'er at the Gu Clan and teased her about their engagement, then used the Demon Emperor's attack and curse to set up a dramatic farewell. He left Gu Xun'er stunned by revealing that he had been cursed by the Demon Emperor's demonic source.

• Gu Yuan introduced Xiao Yan to Gu Xun'er and told her Xiao Yan had subdued the Gu Clan's younger generation with one hand.
• Xiao Yan called Gu Xun'er his wife, provoking her and angering Gu Yuan with his shameless flirting.
• Gu Yuan warned Xiao Yan not to mistreat Gu Xun'er and left them alone, while Ling Granny hesitated to intervene against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan approached Gu Xun'er and said he had come to say goodbye because he was undergoing the clan's training trials.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Xun'er that the Ancient Demon Emperor had attacked him in the Southwest Continent and that he had been cursed by the Demon Emperor's demonic source.

Xiao Yan told Gu Xun'er that the Demon Emperor's demonic source threatened his life and used the danger to draw out her feelings about their engagement. After kissing her and escaping the Ancient Realm, he left Gu Xun'er furious while Gu Yuan faced Xiao Chen's criticism over the Gu Clan's past failure to help the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Xun'er he had to become a Dou Sheng within three years to eradicate the demonic source, and that the Xiao Clan would not help him if it corrupted him.
• Gu Xun'er admitted the marriage alliance was the clans' decision and said she would expect Xiao Yan to preserve the Gu Clan's dignity if they married.
• Xiao Yan kissed Gu Xun'er, promised to return for her as a Dou Sheng, and fled as she burned a hilltop in anger.
• Gu Yuan watched the encounter, and Xiao Chen rebuked him for the Gu Clan's failure to aid the Xiao Clan during the Xiao-Hun War a thousand years earlier.
• Xiao Yan reached the entrance to the Ancient Realm.

Xiao Yan left the Ancient Realm after visiting Gu Xun'er and headed back toward the Northwest Continent, while Gu Yuan reflected on his past choice not to aid Xiao Xuan. At the Flame Alliance, Xiao Yi Xian emerged from seclusion, and Cai Lin sensed a powerful expert arriving.

• Xiao Yan asked Gu Zhen to reopen the Ancient Realm gates, then departed after bidding him farewell.
• Gu Yuan recalled how his decision not to help Xiao Xuan had left the Gu Clan diminished beside the Xiao Clan, then went to see Gu Xun'er and found the mountains near her residence scorched by the golden emperor burning heaven flame.
• Xiao Yan discovered the demon emperor's source was still sealed but slowly weakening, and decided to return to the Northwest Continent while plotting to use the threat to his advantage.
• At the Flame Alliance, Cai Lin and Yun Yun watched as Xiao Yi Xian emerged from seclusion after reaching Six-Star Dou Zong.
• Cai Lin sensed a powerful expert approaching the Flame Alliance and reacted with surprise.

After more than two years away, Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance and learned that Cai Lin was pregnant, overwhelming him with joy at becoming a father. As he shared a quiet moment with her that night, his insight deepened and he broke through his bottleneck, shaking heaven and earth.

• Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun learned that Xiao Yan had returned and went to welcome him, despite their anger that he had been gone for over two years.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Cai Lin, noticed her swollen belly, and discovered that she was pregnant.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Alliance Lord’s Mansion, where the women confronted him for neglecting them and teased him about trying to single out Qing Lin.
• That night, Xiao Yan held Cai Lin and reflected on becoming a father, gaining a profound insight that broke his bottleneck and changed heaven and earth.

Xiao Yan broke through to the Heavenly Realm as his soul power shook the Flame Alliance and drew awe from its experts. While he continued refining his soul, a Hun Mo Clan member awakened the Black Zombie King to eliminate a human with the potential to become a Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan told Cai Lin to evacuate everyone, then released a soul storm and drew spiritual energy into his soul body as he broke through to the Heavenly Realm.
• Cai Lin warned the Flame Alliance experts to stay away from the Alliance Lord's Mansion, and Venerable Fuding and the others guarded the area while the alliance's members learned Xiao Yan caused the fluctuations.
• Yun Potian, the Heavenly Snake Mansion Lord, Gu He, and Ya Fei reflected on how far Xiao Yan had advanced, while hidden experts sensed the Heavenly Realm breakthrough.
• After three days, alchemists gathered at a safe distance from the mansion and found that Xiao Yan's soul pressure refined their soul power.
• A Hun Mo Clan expert sacrificed himself to awaken the Black Zombie King, who vowed to kill a human with the potential to become a Dou Di.
• After half a month, Xiao Yan stopped absorbing spiritual energy and found his soul body had become indistinguishable from a physical body.

After reaching the Heavenly Realm, Xiao Yan strengthened the Flame Alliance and reunited with his wives. He helped Nalan Yanran advance to Dou Emperor and drew Yun Yun into their reunion, while Cai Lin remained close to giving birth.

• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Realm soul power to gather and refine energy, showering the Flame Alliance headquarters with it and helping many members advance.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Cai Lin and the other women, confirming that he had reached the Heavenly Realm and crediting Cai Lin's unborn child.
• Xiao Yan visited Nalan Yanran at the Misty Cloud Sect, and she broke through to Dou Emperor with his help.
• Yun Yun sensed Nalan Yanran's breakthrough and reflected on her envy of Cai Lin and her feelings for Xiao Yan.
• Yun Yun entered Nalan Yanran's palace after sensing another breakthrough, where Xiao Yan kept her from leaving.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei, then visited Empress Jia Yao Ye in the Imperial Palace. The chapter ended when Yao Ye presented her younger sister Yao Yue to him.

• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Yi Xian at her herb garden, reunited with her, and taught her the Calamity Scripture using his netherworld poison flame.
• Xiao Yan visited Ya Fei at the Mittel Family estate, where she welcomed him in a fiery red qipao.
• Xiao Yan went to the Imperial Palace to see Empress Jia Yao Ye and proposed helping her cultivate.
• Jia Yao Ye introduced her sister Yao Yue, who greeted Xiao Yan with a blush.

Xiao Yan settled into his busy life as Flame Alliance leader while helping the alliance’s women cultivate. Meanwhile, a Demon Saint emerged from the Deep Ravine seeking to kill Xiao Yan, and his arrival brought a terrifying aura over the Flame Alliance.

• Yao Ye proposed that Xiao Yan take Yao Yue as another wife, but Xiao Yan’s stern refusal faltered when Yao Ye called out his behavior at the Misty Cloud Sect, and he drew both sisters into his embrace.
• Xiao Yan spent the following days helping the Flame Alliance’s women improve their cultivation through dual cultivation.
• A gigantic demon creature emerged from the Deep Ravine, transformed into a bald, black-haired man, and declared that he would kill Xiao Yan over the True Flame Emperor’s inheritance.
• Xiao Chen watched the Demon Saint depart and decided the encounter would be a chance to temper Xiao Yan.
• After leaving Qing Lin’s room, Xiao Yan sensed a terrifying aura above the Flame Alliance and recognized it as a Demon Saint.

A Demon Saint from the Weird Curse Demon Race attacked the Flame Alliance, and Xiao Yan confronted him after protecting the alliance’s warriors from his demonic qi. Xiao Yan prepared to fight the stronger foe, declaring that he would make the Demon Saint the first victim of his Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.

• The burly, black-haired bald man arrived over the Flame Alliance and nearly transformed a squad of its warriors into demons with a glance.
• Xiao Yan appeared, burned the demonic qi from the warriors with heavenly flames, and ordered them to evacuate the alliance’s people before the battle began.
• Xiao Yan recognized the attacker as a genuine Demon Saint and realized he could not flee while the Flame Alliance remained in danger.
• The Demon Saint identified Xiao Yan as a young prodigy and began spreading demonic qi that made long black hairs appear on Xiao Yan’s hands.
• Xiao Yan burned away the demonic influence, and the Demon Saint intensified his killing intent after sensing Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan unleashed his own flames and challenged the One-Star Dou Sheng to become the first Demon Saint slain beneath his Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.

Xiao Yan fought the Black Zombie King with the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler, using its power to wound the Demon Saint despite remaining a Half-Saint. He lured the demon away from the Flame Alliance and launched a Flame Lotus at his chest, leaving the strike's impact unresolved.

• Xiao Yan reached the limits of Half-Saint strength and clashed with the bald, black-haired brute, while Cai Lin ordered the Flame Alliance to form a protective array.
• Xiao Yan wielded the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler and wounded the brute with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, then continued battling as his heavenly flames burned away the demon's demonic Qi.
• The bald, black-haired brute transformed into his thousand-zhang true form and revealed his name as the Black Zombie King.
• Xiao Yan fled across more than a thousand li, drawing the Black Zombie King away from the alliance before turning to face him.
• As the Black Zombie King struck with Curse Ultimate Demon Palm, Xiao Yan sent a brilliant Flame Lotus toward his chest.

Xiao Yan defeated and burned away the Black Zombie King, then returned to the Flame Alliance and announced a pill-refining gathering. He left the chapter planning to refine a God-Demon Bone-Shaping Pill for his unborn daughter.

• Xiao Yan blasted the Black Zombie King's demonic body apart with a six-and-a-half-colored fire lotus and trapped his head in the Heavenly Flame Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan restrained the Black Zombie King's limbs with heavenly flame spirits, burned away the scattered body fragments, and survived the limbs' explosive counterattack.
• Xiao Yan used Fire Dance Whirlwind to gather and burn away the Black Zombie King's released demonic qi, then recovered and resumed refining the demon's head inside the cauldron.
• The Black Zombie King's final curse affected Xiao Yan with black hair, but Xiao Yan burned away the strange demonic qi and killed him completely.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Alliance, announced a pill-refining gathering, and told Cai Lin he would refine a God-Demon Bone-Shaping Pill for their unborn daughter.

Xiao Yan began refining a God-Demon Bone-Shaping Pill for his unborn daughter before a huge Flame Alliance crowd, while the Extraterrestrial Evil Race learned that he had killed the Black Zombie King. The Demon Emperor awakened from the Mysterious Coffin and agreed that Xiao Yan must be eliminated.

• Xiao Yan explained that the God-Demon Bone-Shaping Pill was meant to nurture his unborn daughter and could grant extraordinary talent.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan appeared above the Flame Alliance's packed square and prepared to refine the pill as a public demonstration.
• Xiao Yan heated the Heavenly Flame Cauldron and began processing rare ingredients, including marrow from the Seven-Colored Demon Saint.
• Mittel Family members sold Hai Bodong-brand ice pops to the crowd while Xiao Yan refined the pill.
• Dragon Demon heard that Xiao Yan had killed the Black Zombie King as a Half-Saint and urged his master to eliminate him.
• The Demon Emperor awakened inside the Mysterious Coffin and agreed that Xiao Yan must be killed.

Demon Emperor Bo Kui awakened in the Myriad Demon Realm and summoned a vast army to prepare for the conquest of the Dou Qi Continent, while Xiao Xuan and Tou She Ancient God reacted to the coming calamity. In the Flame Alliance, Xiao Yan completed the refinement of a peak eighth-tier pill and drew it from the Heavenly Flame Cauldron.

• Demon Emperor Bo Kui awakened, declared that the Saint Race could no longer delay its plan, and summoned nearly a thousand Fallen Evil Race members and other demons.
• Dragon Demon warned Bo Kui that Tou She Ancient God still guarded the Dou Qi Continent, and Bo Kui said they would wait three years for someone to deal with him.
• A Heavenly Derivation Sect elder sensed the approaching calamity, while Xiao Xuan anticipated Bo Kui's invasion and looked forward to testing his strength against him.
• Tou She Ancient God recalled sparing Bo Kui as a tool for the younger generation and wondered how a strand of origin qi had changed the future.
• Xiao Yan completed seven days and nights of refining as nine-colored pill lightning descended, then endured it unharmed until the thunderclouds dispersed.
• Xiao Yan drew the shimmering pill from the Heavenly Flame Cauldron into his hand.

Xiao Yan strengthened the Flame Alliance with a vast collection of pill recipes and cultivation arts, then cared for Cai Lin and their unborn daughter. He revealed that a Demon Emperor’s curse would erupt in a little over a year, promised to seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree and return as a Dou Sheng, and ended by locking his companions in a room to throw a party.

• Xiao Yan sealed the eighth-tier pill, then promised the Flame Alliance ten eighth-tier formulas, numerous lower-tier recipes, and a large store of cultivation methods and combat skills in exchange for merit points.
• Xiao Yan gave Cai Lin the God-Demon Bone-Shaping Pill, explained that its energy was nourishing her and their child, and watched over her as she fell asleep.
• Xiao Yan gathered his companions and confessed that a Demon Emperor’s curse would erupt in him in a little over a year.
• Xiao Yan said he would seek the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Bodhi Heart to help him survive the curse and become a Dou Sheng, and his companions agreed to return with him to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan pretended to make a final request before departure, then locked the room and declared that his wish was to throw a party with the women.

Xiao Yan left the Flame Alliance and entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region in search of the Bodhi Ancient Tree, discovering traces of an ancient Demon Emperor along the way. At the Ancient Domain Platform, he found Hun Miaomiao surrounded by young experts from the ancient clans, and his sudden command interrupted their attack.

• Xiao Yan bade farewell to Cai Lin and the other women, then left the Flame Alliance after promising to return as a Saint.
• Seven days later, Xiao Yan reached Desolate Ancient Town and entered the Vast Desolate Ancient Region, where he sensed traces of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race in a poisonous marsh.
• Xiao Yan used a Bodhi Seed to guide himself through the region, defeated ferocious beasts, and collected their magic cores as he traveled toward the Ancient Domain Platform.
• At the Ancient Domain Platform, Xiao Yan sensed the aura of a Demon Emperor and saw Hun Miaomiao surrounded by young experts from the ancient clans.
• A Xiao Clan youth ordered the group to capture Hun Miaomiao, but Xiao Yan's voice suddenly rang out and told them to stop.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Bodhi Ancient Tree and protected Hun Miaomiao, provoking Yao Ling and the other clans. He declared that sheltering Hun Miaomiao was part of a plan with the Clan Chief, then challenged the River-Sea Two Venerables over their preference for the Xiao Saint King.

• Xiao Yan appeared beside Hun Miaomiao as the clans recognized the famed Xiao Clan Emperor's Son.
• Yao Ling confronted Xiao Yan about protecting Hun Miaomiao, and Hun Miaomiao teased him about Yao Ling's concern.
• Xiao Yan embraced both women and urged them not to fight, drawing jealous and disapproving reactions from the assembled prodigies.
• The River-Sea Two Venerables warned Xiao Yan that protecting a Hun Clan member was a grave crime, but he said it was part of a plan with the Clan Chief.
• Xiao Jianghe suggested capturing Hun Miaomiao, and Xiao Yan replied that he already had her captured.
• Xiao Yan told the River-Sea Two Venerables he had heard them favoring the Xiao Saint King, and their expressions changed.

Xiao Yan asserted his authority over the River-Sea Two Venerables and the other clan prodigies, then led them to a vast beast horde. He began slaughtering the beasts so the group could collect their magic cores, leaving everyone scrambling to gather the spoils.

• The River-Sea Two Venerables warned Xiao Yan that he would need to defeat Xiao Saint King to win the Xiao Clan's recognition, but Xiao Yan declared he would beat him within a few years.
• Xiao Yan released his Half-Saint pressure and reminded the River-Sea Two Venerables to follow his orders outside the clan; they bowed and agreed.
• Xiao Yan ordered the pursuit of the Hun Clan's Saint Daughter suspended and invited the other clan prodigies to follow him toward the Bodhi Ancient Tree in exchange for a share of the spoils.
• The group reached a vast black plain covered by a seemingly endless horde of ferocious beasts, and Xiao Yan told the others to collect magic cores while he killed the beasts.
• Xiao Yan charged into the horde and cut down beasts with repeated flaming Ruler Glints, prompting the prodigies to rush in and gather the magic cores.

Xiao Yan slaughtered his way through the beast tide, frightening the gathered Heavenly Prides into surrendering most of their magic cores. He led them onward and spotted the legendary Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• Xiao Yan carved a bloody path through the beast tide while the Heavenly Prides collected magic cores from the beasts he killed.
• Xiao Yan smashed dozens of eighth-rank ferocious beasts and chased down those that tried to flee.
• The Heavenly Prides surrendered seventy percent of their magic cores to Xiao Yan, who amassed more than six thousand.
• Xiao Yan let Hun Miaomiao and Yao Ling keep their magic cores, then led the group onward.
• Xiao Yan and the others spotted the Bodhi Ancient Tree rising from the plain.