Chapter Summaries

The Tou She Ancient God explained that the last four Dou Di sacrificed themselves to reseal the Cursed Incantation Heavenly Demon Emperor, and that the Medicine Emperor’s earlier death caused the Yao Clan’s earlier decline. Xiao Yan learned he could not receive the Tou She Ancient God’s emperor’s origin and was left with the dangerous Emperor Grade Nascent Pill as his only path to becoming a Dou Di.

• The Tou She Ancient God told Xiao Yan that many Dou Di had died fighting the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, while others had departed for the Great Thousand World.
• The Tou She Ancient God revealed that the Dou Di of the Gu, Hun, Yao, and Xiao Clans sacrificed themselves to reseal the Cursed Incantation Heavenly Demon Emperor because the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill’s origin qi lacked a soul.
• The Tou She Ancient God explained that the Medicine Emperor had died a thousand years before the other three Dou Di, causing the Yao Clan’s bloodline and strength to decline earlier.
• The Tou She Ancient God said the Heavenly Derivation Supreme had foretold Xiao Yan’s arrival and his practice of the Flame Mantra, but Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough disrupted the original inheritance plan.
• The Tou She Ancient God told Xiao Yan that he could only become a Dou Di by consuming the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill, which required Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint cultivation to survive.

Tou She Ancient God gave Xiao Yan his insights into True Flame World Purification and the Wan Huo Emperor-Ascension Method, preparing him to overcome the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill’s incomplete Origin Qi. Xiao Yan returned to Zi Yan and Zhu Kun, gathered the treasures in the Heavenly Flame Plaza, and prepared to leave to confront the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.

• Tou She Ancient God explained that Xiao Yan could use the fusion of all heavenly flames to make up for the Nascent Pill’s deficient Origin Qi and strengthen his future Dou Di power.
• Tou She Ancient God passed his lifetime insights into True Flame World Purification to Xiao Yan, who spent a month comprehending them and gained a glimpse of the True Flame Realm.
• Tou She Ancient God gave Xiao Yan the Wan Huo Emperor-Ascension Method and urged him to reach nine-star Dou Sheng and Emperor Realm soul power quickly to face the approaching crisis.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Heavenly Flame Plaza, where Zhu Kun and Zi Yan greeted him; Zi Yan had reached the peak of an eighth-rank magical beast in a month.
• Xiao Yan shrank the Heavenly Flame Plaza, gathered its hundreds of treasures inside it, and prepared to leave with Zi Yan and Zhu Kun to confront the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.

After Xiao Yan and Zi Yan returned from the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion with Zhu Kun, the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Old Dragon Emperor, Zhu Kun rewarded Su Qian for caring for Zi Yan by making him an Honorary Elder and granting him access to the clan's resources. Zhu Kun then took Xiao Yan and Zi Yan to Ancient Dragon Island to deal with the clan's enemies, leaving Su Qian overwhelmed by the unexpected opportunity.

• After a month of waiting, Su Qian, Wen and Wu, the Two Saints, and a Xiao Clan Dou Sheng sensed a powerful aura emerging from the Light Gate.
• Zhu Kun came through the gate with Xiao Yan and Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan introduced him as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's Old Dragon Emperor.
• Zhu Kun thanked Su Qian for taking care of Zi Yan and offered to repay him, but Su Qian initially refused any material reward.
• Zhu Kun named Su Qian an Honorary Elder of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and promised him the clan's best suitable cultivation methods, combat skills, and resources.
• Zhu Kun transformed into a purple-gold dragon and took Xiao Yan and Zi Yan to Ancient Dragon Island to confront the enemies there, while Su Qian stood behind, moved by Zi Yan's gratitude.

Zhu Kun carried Xiao Yan and his companions through the spatial turbulence toward demonized Ancient Dragon Island, where the fallen Dragon Kings discussed the Demon Emperor’s eventual release and worried about Tou She Ancient God. Zhu Kun arrived, subdued the four Dragon Kings, and confronted them over bullying his daughter.

• Zhu Kun rapidly transported Xiao Yan and his companions toward Ancient Dragon Island, while Xiao Yan anticipated purifying demonic qi and refining the Dragon Kings’ magic cores.
• The East Dragon King assured the other Dragon Kings that the emerging Demon Emperor would eventually destroy their enemies and dismissed concern about Tou She Ancient God.
• The East Dragon King spotted a purple-gold light approaching Ancient Dragon Island, and the Dragon Kings realized it was a living Dragon Emperor.
• Zhu Kun burst through the island’s spatial barrier and pinned all four Dragon Kings to the ground with his claws.
• Zhu Kun asked the subdued Dragon Kings if they were the ones who had bullied his daughter.

Zhu Kun crushed Zhu An’s rebellion and Xiao Yan used the Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame and Jing Lian True Intent to erase him completely. When Xiao Yan proposed harvesting the Three Great Dragon Kings’ bodies and essence for Zi Yan, Zhu Kun agreed and began extracting their magic cores.

• Zhu Kun revealed himself as the Old Dragon Emperor, rejected Zhu An’s offer to join the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, and crushed his body into black blood mist.
• Xiao Yan burned Zhu An’s demonic qi with the Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame, strengthened by Jing Lian True Intent, until Zhu An was utterly destroyed.
• The Three Great Dragon Kings begged for mercy, and Xiao Yan told Zhu Kun he could dispel their demonic qi but proposed taking their body parts, dragon souls, magic cores, and essence blood instead.
• Zhu Kun agreed that the traitorous Dragon Kings deserved no mercy, and Zi Yan accepted the idea of drinking spirit blood refined from them.
• Zhu Kun split open the Three Great Dragon Kings’ skulls and pulled their magic cores from their heads.

Xiao Yan purified the Ancient Void Dragon Clan from demonic qi, helped Zhu Kun reunite and rebuild Ancient Dragon Island, then asked him to help defeat the Dragon Demon True Saint. Zhu Kun learned that the enemy was his clan uncle and that he was fighting Xiao Yan’s father-in-law.

• Xiao Yan purified the Three Great Dragon Kings’ magic cores and corpses, storing them along with their essence blood for later use.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun rescued the Ancient Void Dragons who could still be saved, while Xiao Yan gave the irreversibly corrupted young dragons a swift end.
• Xiao Yan, Zhu Kun, and Zi Yan brought the escaped elders back from Xuan Emperor City, and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan reunited its scattered island into one.
• Xiao Yan told Zhu Kun that the Dragon Demon True Saint was still fighting his father-in-law and asked him to help kill the enemy.
• Zhu Kun narrowed his eyes when he realized the Dragon Demon True Saint was his clan uncle.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun traveled through spatial turbulence to join Gu Yuan in his long battle against the Dragon Demon True Saint. Zhu Kun revealed himself as the Dragon Demon True Saint’s old enemy, and Xiao Yan arrived to help his father-in-law.

• After reorganizing Ancient Dragon Island, Zhu Kun agreed to go with Xiao Yan to kill the Dragon Demon True Saint.
• Xiao Yan used a Jade Talisman to follow Gu Yuan’s location, and the two crossed the spatial turbulence toward him.
• Gu Yuan and the Dragon Demon True Saint continued their stalemate after fighting for more than half a year.
• Gu Yuan sensed Xiao Yan approaching and hoped he had brought powerful allies.
• Zhu Kun appeared before Gu Yuan and the Dragon Demon True Saint, who recognized him and exclaimed that he was still alive.
• Xiao Yan waved to Gu Yuan from Zhu Kun’s neck and announced that he had come to help.

Xiao Yan reunited with Gu Yuan and introduced him to Zhu Kun, who joined forces with Gu Yuan against the Dragon Demon True Saint. As the two Peak Dou Saints overwhelmed their foe, Xiao Yan prepared a surprise attack with an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that Zhu Kun was the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Old Dragon Emperor and had been freed from Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion.
• Zhu Kun and Gu Yuan attacked the Dragon Demon True Saint together, wounding him and driving him onto the defensive.
• The Dragon Demon True Saint unleashed Dragon Emperor Otherworld, but Zhu Kun countered it with a stronger purple-gold domain.
• Xiao Yan summoned Little Goofball and had him combine heavenly flames into an Eight-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan hurled the Eight-Colored Fire Lotus toward the Dragon Demon True Saint’s black spatial sphere.

Xiao Yan’s Jing Lian Heavenly Wrath helped Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun gravely injure the Dragon Demon True Saint and destroy his Dragon Emperor Otherworld. The Dragon Demon True Saint self-destructed to escape their assault, but a streak of black light fled the blast using the Extraterrestrial Evil Race’s Soul-Burning Escape Technique.

• Xiao Yan’s Eight-Colored Fire Lotus burned through the Dragon Demon True Saint’s demonic qi and damaged his Dragon Emperor Otherworld, letting Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun’s attacks land decisively.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun gravely wounded the Dragon Demon True Saint, and Gu Yuan’s Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Slash severed his tail.
• Xiao Yan struck the Dragon Demon True Saint with Jing Lian Heavenly Wrath, briefly stunning him, then fled while Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun resumed their assault.
• With his Dragon Emperor Otherworld collapsed and his injuries severe, the Dragon Demon True Saint self-destructed, and Zhu Kun endured the blast.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun saw a streak of black light escape the demonic qi and recognized it as the Extraterrestrial Evil Race’s Soul-Burning Escape Technique.

Xiao Yan and his allies drove off Demonic Dragon True Saint, then joined forces to kill Huang Mo True Saint. After Xiao Yan burned away the remaining demonic qi and recovered, a distress signal from the Nine Netherworld Python Clan turned his attention to a new crisis.

• Demonic Dragon True Saint escaped by detonating his body and burning his soul, leaving behind vast demonic qi that Xiao Yan incinerated with Little Goofball's flames.
• While Xiao Yan recovered, Zhu Kun considered matchmaking his daughter Zi Yan with him, but Gu Yuan revealed that Xiao Yan already had more than ten wives.
• Xiao Yan, Gu Yuan, and Zhu Kun reached the battlefield where the Heavenly Derivation Elder had been fighting Huang Mo True Saint.
• Gu Yuan and Zhu Kun overwhelmed Huang Mo True Saint, while the Heavenly Derivation Elder blocked his escape and helped prevent his soul from fleeing after he detonated himself.
• Xiao Yan burned away Huang Mo True Saint's remains, recovered, and received a distress signal from the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun rushed to the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, where Cai Lin had emerged from seclusion and was helping defend the clan from traitors. Zhu Kun overwhelmed their leader, Saint Demon Python, and prepared to kill the remaining attackers.

• Saint Tian Mu reported that Saint Demon Python and two other Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Pythons had attacked the Nine Netherworld Python Clan, so Xiao Yan asked Zhu Kun to take him there.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Kun reached the devastated Nine Nether Abyss, where Yao Ming, Saint Tian Mu, a Xiao Clan Dou Sheng, and Cai Lin were fighting the attackers.
• Xiao Yan recognized Cai Lin, who returned to human form and greeted him after emerging from her inheritance in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs.
• Saint Demon Python tried to flee, but Zhu Kun struck him and split his body into four pieces.
• Zhu Kun asked Xiao Yan whether he could kill the remaining attackers, and Xiao Yan agreed as Saint Demon Python threatened them with Dragon Demon True Saint and Lord Demon Emperor.

Zhu Kun killed Saint Demon Python and two other Demon Saints, while Xiao Yan burned away their remains and learned that the Xiao Clan could begin a counterattack against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race. After returning to the Xiao Clan with Cai Lin, Xiao Yan convened a meeting to plan the counterattack.

• Zhu Kun crushed Saint Demon Python and two Nine Netherworld Earth Demon Pythons, then Xiao Yan burned their remains with Heavenly Flames.
• An Xiao Clan Emperor Lineage Lord arrived, and Xiao Yan introduced him to Zhu Kun, the Old Dragon Emperor.
• Zhu Kun gave Xiao Yan a Jade Talisman for summoning him and passage to Ancient Dragon Island, then departed.
• Xiao Yan announced that Dragon Demon True Saint and Huang Mo True Saint had fallen and led everyone back to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan returned home with Cai Lin and gathered the Advanced Dou Shengs for the Counterattack Meeting.

Xiao Yan won the Xiao Clan's support for a continent-wide offensive against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, then returned to the Flame Hall before setting out for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. He left to help Feng Qing'er restore her clan and pursue the clan's magic cores, and ended by going with her to meet Phoenix.

• Xiao Yan secured unanimous approval from the Xiao Clan elders for his blockade proposal after news spread of his alliance with Zhu Kun and their victories against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• The Xiao Clan and allied powers mobilized more than six hundred Dou Sheng experts to hunt down the Extraterrestrial Evil Race across the continent.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Flame Hall, spent time with Cai Lin, Xun'er, and Xiao Xiao, and Cai Lin encouraged Xun'er to have a child.
• Xiao Yan left the Flame Hall, driven by the threat that the demon emperor embryo would mature within ten years, and traveled to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• After spending the night with Feng Qing'er, Xiao Yan went with her to meet Phoenix, the clan's only remaining Dou Sheng expert.

Xiao Yan traveled with Feng Qing'er and Phoenix to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's ancestral nest to confront chief Huang Tian and the demonic phoenix who had helped drive the clan out. He left Phoenix and Feng Qing'er outside and entered the nest alone, where Huang Tian and his companion noticed his arrival.

• Phoenix rejoiced when Xiao Yan returned and agreed to help reclaim the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's ancestral grounds.
• Phoenix warned Xiao Yan that a peak six-star Dou Sheng Demon Saint had joined the invasion, but Xiao Yan insisted he could handle the danger.
• Phoenix led Xiao Yan and Feng Qing'er across space to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's vast ancestral nest.
• Xiao Yan teased Feng Qing'er about becoming his mount, then told her and Phoenix to wait outside while he entered the nest alone.
• Huang Tian and his uncanny-looking companion sensed Xiao Yan break through the nest's space barrier as its temperature surged.

Xiao Yan stormed the Demon Phoenix Nest to obtain the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s magic cores and demonstrated overwhelming strength against its demonized Dou Shengs. He left the nest in ruins after his Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath killed Kun Huang and the sinister-looking man along with Ying Huang, while Huang Tian survived his opening blow.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Demon Phoenix Nest, identified himself to Huang Tian and struck him with a flaming fist, sending him flying and gravely wounding him.
• Xiao Yan beheaded Ying Huang with a blade of flame and trapped his fleeing illusory figure in a fiery chain.
• Xiao Yan pursued Kun Huang, but the sinister-looking man intervened and warned him against attacking under his protection.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, killing Kun Huang and the sinister-looking man and shattering a vast section of the Demon Phoenix Nest.

Xiao Yan killed Kun Huang, Ying Huang, and Huang Tian, then purified the Demon Phoenix Nest with his nine-colored Jing Lian flame. After three days, he discovered a place that even his flame could not burn.

• Xiao Yan's Jing Lian Heavenly Wrath killed Kun Huang and Ying Huang, and he collected their remains and magic core.
• Huang Tian fled the Demon Phoenix Nest, but Phoenix slowed him down and Xiao Yan caught and killed him.
• Xiao Yan agreed to clear the demonic qi from the Demon Phoenix Nest, earning Phoenix's gratitude.
• Xiao Yan burned through the nest for three days, purifying its demonic qi and processing the three Demonic Phoenix corpses.
• Xiao Yan discovered a place in the Demon Phoenix Nest that the nine-colored Jing Lian flame could not burn.

Xiao Yan discovered the remains of a Nine-Star Dou Sheng Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and refined its wing bones into a saint relic suited to his wind, fire, and lightning affinities. After completing the wings’ runes and shrinking them, he triggered a pitch-black cloud above the Demon Phoenix Nest.

• Xiao Yan found and hauled the enormous Ancient Heavenly Phoenix skeleton out of the burial ground, shocking Phoenix, Feng Qing'er, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Phoenix stopped her clansmen from confronting Xiao Yan and warned them that he was their benefactor and could destroy their clan.
• Xiao Yan used the Nine-Colored Jing Lian Flame to temper the skeleton, discovering its wind, fire, and lightning energies and extracting nine drops of essence blood.
• Xiao Yan gathered materials and refined the wing bones, embedding arrays and runes into them over several days.
• Xiao Yan completed and shrank the wing relic to two zhang, and a pitch-black cloud appeared above the Demon Phoenix Nest.

Xiao Yan completed a high-grade Wing Saint Relic by forging the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix’s wings and tempering them with Nine Profound Golden Lightning. He fused the Heavenly Phoenix Gold-Splitting Wings into his back and discovered they granted extraordinary speed and spatial power.

• Phoenix watched in astonishment as artifact refinement summoned thunderclouds over the Demon Phoenix Nest.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and realized his Wing Saint Relic had reached the high-grade level.
• The tricolored skeletal wings endured repeated lightning strikes, growing golden Sword Feathers as the tribulation strengthened them.
• After the final lightning bolt, Xiao Yan fed the golden wings his essence blood and fused them into his back.
• Xiao Yan tested the wings, expanding them to a thousand zhang and piercing the Space Barrier with their spatial power.
• Xiao Yan named his new relic the Heavenly Phoenix Gold-Splitting Wings.

Xiao Yan tested the speed and power of the Heavenly Phoenix Gold-Splitting Wings, then rewarded Phoenix and Feng Qing'er with ancient heavenly phoenix essence blood. After Feng Qing'er began integrating her drop, Xiao Yan left the Demon Phoenix Nest to return to Ancient Dragon Island and grow stronger.

• Xiao Yan tested the wings' tremendous speed and used their golden feathers to destroy three mountaintops, finding that each feather could threaten a Dou Sheng Expert.
• Xiao Yan returned to Phoenix and offered her two drops of the ancient heavenly phoenix essence blood, reserving the third for Feng Qing'er.
• Xiao Yan gave Feng Qing'er the final drop and treated her as his mount in exchange for the essence blood.
• By morning, Feng Qing'er had begun integrating the essence blood, and Xiao Yan departed for Ancient Dragon Island to increase his strength.

Xiao Yan returned to Ancient Dragon Island with powerful beast corpses and learned from Zhu Kun about the last surviving Black Tortoise. After plundering the treasury, he entered the Void Lightning Pool to use Huang Tian and the North King's corpses in creating Tribulation Lightning Battle Puppets.

• Xiao Yan returned to Ancient Dragon Island, where Zi Yan welcomed him and Zhu Kun reproached him for being too close to her.
• Zhu Kun said he had killed a Seven-Star Demon Saint and told Xiao Yan that an ancient Black Tortoise still lived on the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Black Tortoise as the Seven-Star Dou Saint who had avoided the Xiao Clan's pursuit.
• Xiao Yan plundered the Ancient Void Dragons' treasury after promising to refine a pill to help Zi Yan break through to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan reached the Void Lightning Pool with Huang Tian and the North King's corpses and prepared to refine them into Tribulation Lightning Battle Puppets.