Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan used the Five Emperors Sealing Demon Formation to slow the birth of a Sacred Demon Race Demon Emperor, while continuing to grind down the Black Sea Demon Emperor. Gu Yuan and the Dou Qi Continent’s experts confronted the Extraterrestrial Evil Race’s reinforcements, beginning a prolonged stalemate.

• A gigantic black egg appeared in the shattered Myriad Demon Realm, absorbing demonic qi as the Black Sea Demon Emperor revealed that a Sacred Demon Race Demon Emperor was gestating inside.
• Xiao Xuan called on Xiao Shaobei, Xiao Chen, and three other Peak Dou Sheng experts to form the Five Emperors Sealing Demon Formation, slowing the egg’s absorption of demonic qi and delaying the Demon Emperor’s birth by about ten years.
• The Dragon Demon True Saint attacked a Xiao Clan Emperor's Son who was maintaining the formation, but Gu Yuan intercepted the blow.
• The Dragon Demon True Saint brought ten powerful Extraterrestrial Evil Race experts, including Huang Mo True Saint and Nine Nether Demon Saint, to face Gu Yuan.
• Gu Yuan summoned the Clan Chiefs of the Lei Clan, Yan Clan, and Yao Clan, Xiao Clan experts, and the Ancestor of the Heavenly Derivation Sect to meet the enemy forces.
• Both sides launched into battle, beginning another prolonged war of attrition.

Over six months of brutal war, the Dou Qi Continent's strongest fighters remained tied down while defectors and Demon Saints spread chaos, forcing many survivors to seek shelter with the Xiao Clan. As the clan faced internal disputes over who should lead, Xiao Yan finally opened his eyes inside Heavenly Flames Valley.

• Gu Yuan continued battling the Dragon Demon True Saint to keep him from attacking the Dou Qi Continent, while other powerful fighters remained locked in stalemates.
• Demon Saints and native Dou Sheng experts fought across the continent, and more than a hundred Dou Sheng experts fell in six months.
• Huang Tian defected to the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, triggering a civil war in the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and driving Feng Qing'er and other survivors to flee to the Xiao Clan.
• Zi Yan left the Ancient Void Dragon Clan with its survivors to seek refuge with the Xiao Clan after the other Dragon Kings prepared to defect.
• Experts crowded into Xuan Emperor City for protection, while Xiao Clan members argued over whether Xiao Yan should command the clan when he emerged from seclusion.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes inside the pink fireball in Heavenly Flames Valley.

Xiao Yan refined the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, broke through to Early Six-Star Dou Sheng, and gained a fire infant he named Little Goofball. After reuniting with Gu Xun'er and spending three days with the women in his household, he learned that the Extraterrestrial Evil Race had attacked major factions and that the continent was gathering in Xuan Emperor City.

• Xiao Yan refined the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, advanced to Early Six-Star Dou Sheng, and evolved the Flame Mantra to advanced Heaven Tier.
• Xiao Yan summoned his nine-colored Jing Lian flame, which transformed into a fire infant; he named the infant Little Goofball and watched it create and fuse fire lotuses.
• Xiao Yan broke through the weakened space barrier at Heavenly Flames Valley and returned to the Flame Hall, where he reunited with Gu Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan spent three days with the women in his household, and the excess energy from the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame helped several of them break through.
• Xiao Yan learned from Gu Xun'er that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan had sought refuge with the Xiao Clan, while many Central Plains factions had gathered in Xuan Emperor City.

Xiao Yan learned that factions within the Xiao Clan were questioning his authority, but he remained confident he could force them to submit. He took Xiao Xiao to Xuan Emperor City, where he reunited with Zi Yan and stunned the Ancient Void Dragon elders with his strength.

• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that dissent was growing because the Xiao Clan Ancestors had entrusted him with leadership while they sealed the Demon Emperor embryo.
• Xiao Yan assured Xun'er that he could defeat the clan experts who refused to accept his authority.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Xiao and took her to Xuan Emperor City to visit Zi Yan.
• Elder Zhu Mu complained that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's quarters were too cramped and questioned whether Xiao Yan could help them.
• Xiao Yan appeared before Zi Yan and the elders, and his aura revealed that he had reached at least the Six-Star Dou Sheng level.

Xiao Yan reunited with Zi Yan and revealed that the Old Dragon Emperor, Zhu Kun, was still alive and trapped, promising to help rescue him. The Ancient Void Dragon Clan welcomed the news, and Elder Xiao Kun arrived to confirm Xiao Yan’s Six-Star Dou Sheng cultivation and ask about the rescue plan.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Zi Yan, introduced her to his daughter Xiao Xiao, and promised to help reclaim the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s home.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the elders remembered Zhu Kun and confirmed that the Old Dragon Emperor was alive but trapped.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan that he would take them to rescue Zhu Kun, and the Great Elder of East Dragon Island knelt in gratitude.
• Elder Xiao Kun arrived, sensed Xiao Yan’s strength, and asked whether he could rescue Zhu Kun.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan after revealing that he could rescue the Ancient Void Dragons’ Old Dragon Emperor. At a meeting of the clan’s strongest elders, Xiao Tong declared Xiao Yan the Acting Clan Chief, challenging those who objected to his authority.

• Xiao Yan told Elder Xiao Kun that he could free the Old Dragon Emperor, and Xiao Kun urged him to return to the Xiao Clan for a meeting.
• Xiao Yan promised Zi Yan he would take her to find her father after visiting the clan, then left with Xiao Xiao and Xiao Kun.
• At the Clan Chief’s grand hall, Xiao Yan asked Xiao Tong to summon all clan elders who had reached Five-Star Dou Sheng or higher.
• Nearly a hundred experts gathered and noticed Xiao Yan sitting in Xiao Shaobei’s seat; some objected, while others recognized his Six-Star Dou Sheng strength.
• The Xiao Saint King challenged Xiao Yan’s right to occupy the Clan Chief’s seat, and Xiao Tong announced that Xiao Xuan had appointed Xiao Yan Acting Clan Chief.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached Six-Star Dou Sheng and called on the Xiao Clan to increase its campaign against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race. After proposing that stronger Dou Sheng lead each squad, he declared that he would handle the high-ranking Demon Saints himself.

• Xiao Tong presented the Clan Ancestor’s token, securing the elders’ obedience to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Six-Star Dou Sheng cultivation, astonishing the elders and surpassing the Xiao Saint King’s strength.
• Xiao Yan reminded the Xiao Saint King of their agreement to fight, and the Xiao Saint King accepted his challenge.
• Xiao Yan urged the Xiao Clan to send more experts against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, despite elders’ concerns over casualties.
• Xiao Yan proposed assigning a five-star-or-higher Dou Sheng to lead each squad and said he would handle the high-ranking Demon Saints.

Xiao Yan persuaded the Xiao Clan elders to support a campaign against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race by promising to return with the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Old Dragon Emperor. He then faced Xiao Saint King in a duel to settle their agreement, and the fight began with Xiao Yan revealing the Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame.

• Xiao Yan told the elders that he could bring the Old Dragon Emperor, a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint, back to join the fight against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• The elders agreed to support Xiao Yan's campaign, and he asked Xiao Saint King to fulfill their agreement by fighting him.
• Xiao Saint King said the loser would have to accept the winner's terms, while Xiao Yan demanded that Xiao Saint King pledge allegiance if he lost.
• The clan's experts gathered at a sealed martial arena to watch Xiao Yan and Xiao Saint King duel.
• Xiao Saint King attacked with the heaven tier Dou technique Angry Sea Thousand Waves, and Xiao Yan summoned the Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame.

Xiao Yan revealed his Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame and burned away much of Xiao Saint King's Energy Tide, then answered Xiao Saint King's Saint King Fist with his newly created Jing Lian Heaven-Burning Finger. Their techniques collided in a wave of destruction, leaving the duel's outcome unresolved.

• Xiao Yan unleashed the Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame, whose heat threatened the Space Barrier and alarmed the watching Dou Shengs.
• Xiao Yan exhaled a sea of fire that burned away more than half of Xiao Saint King's Energy Tide.
• Xiao Saint King summoned a thousand-zhang water-blue fist and attacked with his Saint King Fist.
• Xiao Yan formed the Jing Lian Heaven-Burning Finger from his flames and sent it against the Saint King Fist.
• Xiao Yan's flaming finger and Xiao Saint King's fist collided, releasing a destructive wave that shocked the elders.

Xiao Yan defeated Xiao Saint King with his Heavenly Flames and won his submission, impressing the Xiao Clan and gaining him as a general. After the clan’s celebrations, Xiao Yan returned to the Clan Chief’s hall and asked Xiao Tong whether the arrangements for the Ancient Emperor Jade were ready.

• Xiao Yan’s Jing Lian Heaven-Burning Finger overcame Xiao Saint King’s water techniques and struck him down.
• Xiao Saint King admitted defeat, pledged to serve Xiao Yan, and was named one of his generals.
• The Xiao Clan elders praised Xiao Yan’s strength, while Dou Sheng sought favor with Xiao Lin.
• Xiao Yan attended a banquet, returned to the Flame Hall to settle little Xiao Xiao, and then went to the Clan Chief’s hall.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Tong whether the arrangements concerning the Ancient Emperor Jade had been made.

Xiao Yan assembled the Tou She Ancient God Jade and saw its vision reveal the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, then prepared to go there with Zi Yan. The chapter ended when Xiao Kun told him that experts from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan had requested an audience.

• Xiao Tong gave Xiao Yan five jade fragments, and Xiao Yan added three from the Xiao Clan, Gu Clan, and Yao Clan to complete the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Yan's essence blood activated the assembled jade, which released a Dou Di's pressure and revealed the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion beneath the Magma Sea.
• Xiao Yan entrusted the Xiao Clan's affairs to Xiao Tong and said the clan would attack the Extraterrestrial Evil Race after he returned.
• Xiao Yan returned to Xuan Emperor City and planned to take Zi Yan to the cave mansion so she could bring Zhu Kun into line.
• Xiao Kun told Xiao Yan that experts from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan requested an audience.

Xiao Yan visited the desperate Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and agreed to consider helping them after Feng Qing'er pleaded for his aid. The next morning, he left with Zi Yan for Jia Nan Academy, where she noticed a Heaven Demon Phoenix scent on him.

• Xiao Yan went to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s reduced residence and met Feng Huang and Feng Qing'er.
• Feng Huang asked Feng Qing'er to explain the clan’s plight to Xiao Yan, and Feng Qing'er begged him to save her clan.
• Xiao Yan agreed to consider helping the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, then spent the night with Feng Qing'er.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s estate the next morning and set off with Zi Yan for Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yan sniffed Xiao Yan and asked why he smelled like the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy to search for Zi Yan’s father and arrange the academy’s evacuation. As an Extraterrestrial Evil Race monster arrived to attack, Xiao Yan promised to handle it himself.

• Xiao Yan took Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian welcomed them and reminisced about her childhood.
• Zi Yan filled Su Qian’s courtyard with medicinal herbs from her home to repay the academy for the treasury she had once emptied.
• Xiao Yan told Su Qian that they had come to find Zi Yan’s father, the Old Dragon Emperor, and to relocate Jia Nan Academy’s people.
• Su Qian began preparing to move the academy into the Flame Alliance’s territory.
• An Extraterrestrial Evil Race monster darkened the sky above Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan assured Su Qian that he would handle it.

Xiao Yan protected Jia Nan Academy by effortlessly killing an invading Demon Saint with his heavenly flames. Afterward, Jia Nan Academy completed its relocation, while Su Qian and the elders struggled to absorb Xiao Yan’s strength.

• Su Qian worried that Xiao Yan lacked experience against Demon Saints, but Zi Yan assured him that few people could threaten her brother.
• A two-star Demon Saint of the Mist Demon Race attacked Jia Nan Academy and found himself trapped by Xiao Yan’s spatial power, which he mistook for that of a Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan burned the Demon Saint’s demonic qi with his nine-colored Jing Lian flame and crushed him in a flaming palm.
• Su Qian realized Xiao Yan had become a Six-Star Dou Sheng, and Xiao Yan urged him to begin relocating Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian revealed to the academy’s elders that Xiao Yan had killed the Demon Saint, and Jia Nan Academy completed its relocation three days later.

Xiao Yan and Zi Yan entered the Magma World and found the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, where they discovered the imprisoned Old Dragon Emperor, Zhu Kun. Zi Yan's arrival awakened his eyes, leaving her to face her father.

• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan agreed to descend into the Magma World to find and rescue the Old Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan drove back the magma creatures guarding God's Burial Ground and continued through the deepening magma with Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan found a hidden spatial entrance and brought Zi Yan into the space beneath the magma.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan reached the enormous stone gate marked Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Xiao Yan illuminated the darkness and revealed Zhu Kun's immense purple-gold dragon form.
• Zi Yan released her purple-gold radiance, and Zhu Kun opened his eyes.

Xiao Yan used the complete Tou She Ancient God Jade to open the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion, freeing Zhu Kun from the space that had imprisoned him. The mansion rose from the Magma Sea and revealed a passage, leaving Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Zhu Kun poised to enter.

• Zhu Kun recognized Zi Yan as his daughter, and she confronted him over abandoning her before agreeing to let him approach.
• Xiao Yan explained the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's division and the Extraterrestrial Evil Race's threat, and Zhu Kun agreed to help after learning Xiao Xuan had become a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan revealed the complete Tou She Ancient God Jade and told Zhu Kun to protect Zi Yan as he used it to open the ancient stone gate.
• The Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion rose above the Magma Sea, destroying Jia Nan Academy as a transparent passage formed in its gateway.

Xiao Yan, Zhu Kun, and Zi Yan entered Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion, where they discovered its treasures and encountered the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill. The Nascent Pill overwhelmed Zhu Kun and wounded Xiao Yan, then attacked Zi Yan as Xiao Yan struggled to protect her.

• Xiao Yan, Zhu Kun, and Zi Yan crossed into the ancient space and traveled to the hall at its center.
• Xiao Yan recognized the heavenly flames displayed on the pillars and revealed Little Goofball, then summoned the towering statue of Tou She Ancient God.
• Xiao Yan identified the black-robed figure on the statue as the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, who recognized Little Goofball as the purifying lotus demon flame.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill attacked Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun, overpowering Zhu Kun and forcing Xiao Yan to spend his trump cards to survive a blow.
• The Emperor Grade Nascent Pill sent another attack toward Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan moved to shield her while Little Goofball could offer no help.

Tou She Ancient God appeared as a projection, subdued the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, and gave it and an emperor-ascension method to Xiao Yan. He appointed Zhu Kun as Xiao Yan’s Guardian Daoist and invited Xiao Yan to learn the secrets of the ages.

• Tou She Ancient God froze the world, shrank the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, and sealed it, saving Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun from its attack.
• Tou She Ancient God recognized Xiao Yan as the destined one and said he had once expected Xiao Yan to receive his inheritance.
• Tou She Ancient God gave Xiao Yan the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill and emperor-ascension method, telling him to become a Dou Di through his own efforts.
• Tou She Ancient God ordered Zhu Kun to become Xiao Yan’s Guardian Daoist and warned him not to covet the pill.
• Tou She Ancient God hinted that Zhu Kun might help restore the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s glory, then asked Xiao Yan to accompany him and hear the secrets of the ages.

Xiao Yan followed Tou She Ancient God through a spatial passage and encountered the sealed Cursed Incantation Heavenly Demon Emperor, whose gaze nearly transformed him into a member of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race. After learning more about the threat, Xiao Yan asked Tou She Ancient God about his relationship with the True Flame Emperor.

• Zhu Kun watched Xiao Yan depart and resolved to protect him, while Zi Yan rebuffed his attempt to approach her.
• Xiao Yan crossed the spatial passage and met Tou She Ancient God in a magma world whose heat nearly matched the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Tou She Ancient God showed Xiao Yan the enormous sealed monster beneath four masses of Emperor's Origin, which Xiao Yan recognized as a member of the Weird Curse Demon Race.
• The monster's gaze nearly corrupted Xiao Yan, but he used the Jing Lian True Intent and Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame to burn away its evil influence.
• Xiao Yan identified the prisoner as the Cursed Incantation Heavenly Demon Emperor and wondered whether it had transformed the Third-Generation Soul Emperor.
• Xiao Yan asked Tou She Ancient God what relationship he had with the True Flame Emperor.

Tou She Ancient God revealed to Xiao Yan that he was the True Flame Emperor’s memory projection, reborn as an array spirit after the Emperor’s death. He explained how the ancient battle and the Third-Generation Soul Emperor shaped his fate, then Xiao Yan asked where the Dou Di went after Tou She Ancient God disappeared.

• Tou She Ancient God confirmed that he was also the True Flame Emperor and asked Xiao Yan how he had learned that name.
• He recounted fighting three Heavenly Demon Emperors, killing one, sealing the Cursed Incantation Heavenly Demon Emperor, and suffering irreversible damage to his true spirit.
• Tou She Ancient God blamed the Third-Generation Soul Emperor for disrupting the seal, then said his memory projection had destroyed the Soul Emperor’s soul and cast his body onto the Southwest Continent.
• He explained that the present Tou She Ancient God was a new consciousness formed from his memory projection and remnant soul, bound to the array and unable to leave the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan asked Tou She Ancient God where the Dou Di had gone after he disappeared.