Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan faced the New Demon Emperor in a battle that would decide the Dou Qi Continent’s fate, while his emergence as a Dou Di greatly strengthened his descendants. After the Demon Emperor found Xiao Yan’s Dou Di Body and heavenly flames difficult to overcome, he opened his Sacred Demon Eye.

• Xiao Yan’s new Dou Di bloodline power raised Xiao Xiao, Xiao Lin, Yao Ling, and Yao Ling’s infant son to Dou Sheng, while Xiao Xiao approached Eight-Star Dou Sheng.
• The New Demon Emperor confronted Xiao Yan in the Northern Region of the Central Plains and vowed to enslave the Dou Qi Continent despite Xiao Yan’s arrival as a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan and the New Demon Emperor traded blows, and Xiao Yan was forced back by the Demon Emperor’s superior raw strength.
• Xiao Yan drew magma from the Magma Ocean, formed his Dou Di Body, and blocked the Demon Emperor’s giant black sword with his flaming ruler.
• The New Demon Emperor struggled against Xiao Yan’s strength and heavenly flames, then opened the Sacred Demon Eye on his forehead.

Xiao Yan fought the Sacred Demon Race's Demon Emperor, using heavenly flames and the Dou Qi Continent's energy to overpower him. When the Demon Emperor tried to flee, Xiao Yan trapped him in the True Flame World, where the desperate Demon Emperor prepared to unleash a final attack.

• The Demon Emperor fired a corrosive black beam from his vertical eye, but Xiao Yan ground it away with a Flame Lotus.
• The Demon Emperor covered his body in sinister eyes and unleashed the Sacred Demon Eye, clashing with Xiao Yan's heavenly flame pillars in a battle of attrition.
• Xiao Yan drew on the Dou Qi Continent's energy and heavenly flames, forcing the Demon Emperor to retreat.
• Xiao Yan formed the True Flame World with twenty-two heavenly flames and trapped the Demon Emperor inside its burning formation.
• As Xiao Yan's flames annihilated his demonic qi, the Demon Emperor swelled and announced the Sacred Demon Death Ray, intending for them to perish together.

Xiao Yan unleashed True Flame World Purification and annihilated the Sacred Demon Race's Demon Emperor, ending the war against the Extraterrestrial Evil Race. He returned to the Xiao Realm, announced their victory, and was greeted by the people’s cheers.

• The Sacred Demon Race's Demon Emperor turned his demonic qi into a deadly death ray and tried to take Xiao Yan down with him.
• Xiao Yan compressed the True Flame World and used True Flame World Purification to destroy the death ray and annihilate the Demon Emperor.
• People in the Xiao Realm watched the Demon Emperor’s defeat through the Ancient Emperor Mirror and marveled at Xiao Yan’s power.
• Xiao Yan absorbed energy from the cooled Western Region of the Central Plains, recovered some strength, and returned to the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Yan announced that they had won, and the people of the Xiao Realm cheered for the Flame Emperor.

After becoming a Dou Di and defeating the Sacred Demon Race’s Demon Emperor, Xiao Yan spent time with his children and discussed how to handle their immense inherited strength. Still recovering from the battle, he turned his attention to having more children with the women in his courtyard.

• Xiao Yan held Xiao Changqing and watched Xiao Xiao and Xiao Lin play as he reflected on how becoming a Dou Di had strengthened the Xiao Clan and his children.
• Xiao Yan teased the women who had no children of their own, promising to give them children, and Cai Lin sent Xiao Xiao and her little brothers outside.
• Xiao Yan said the children’s strength should be sealed so they could develop their temperament instead of relying only on their divine-grade bloodlines.
• Xun'er asked whether Xiao Yan and the Clan Ancestor could defeat the remaining Demon Emperors, and Xiao Yan said he needed half a year to recover from his battle first.
• Xiao Yan raised a barrier around the courtyard and announced that he wanted to have a few more children during his recovery.

After six months of recovering and building his family, Xiao Yan summoned the Xiao Clan’s five Peak Dou Shengs to plan Xiao Xuan’s rescue and a campaign against demonic forces. He left the clan to gather materials and prepare to sweep away the demons.

• Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun became pregnant, while Xiao Yan’s wives advanced in cultivation and Ya Fei reached the Dou Sheng level.
• Xiao Yan’s strength and vitality recovered, and he went to the Ancestral Hall to meet the Xiao Clan’s five Peak Dou Shengs.
• Xiao Yan said he planned to rescue Xiao Xuan and defeat Demon Emperor Bo Kui in about a year.
• Xiao Yan ordered the clan to gather materials to reconstruct Xiao Xuan’s destroyed flesh body.
• Xiao Yan instructed the Xiao Clan to eradicate both the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and evil sects that preyed on living beings.

After becoming a Dou Di, Xiao Yan eradicated the Extraterrestrial Evil Race across the Dou Qi Continent and joined Xiao Xuan in destroying Demon Emperor Bo Kui. While Bo Kui weakened under Xiao Yan’s flames, the Xiao Clan and Flame Hall eliminated the continent’s evil sects, leaving Bo Kui close to death.

• Xiao Shaobei summoned the Dou Sheng Experts in the Xiao Realm to carry out Xiao Yan’s orders.
• Xiao Yan used his soul power and Emperor Flame to find and destroy the Extraterrestrial Evil Race across the Dou Qi Continent, including the Dragon Demon True Saint.
• Xiao Yan reached the Heavenly Tomb, where Xiao Xuan asked him to help eradicate Demon Emperor Bo Kui.
• Xiao Yan’s flames rapidly purified Bo Kui’s demonic qi as Xiao Xuan strengthened the ancient stone stele’s suppression.
• Over a hundred Dou Sheng Experts from the Xiao Realm and forces from the Flame Hall wiped out the continent’s evil sects and demon cults.
• After a year of burning, Demon Emperor Bo Kui’s aura weakened to its absolute limit.

After defeating Demon Emperor Bo Kui, Xiao Yan tried to purge the Demonic Qi from the Third-Generation Soul Emperor’s body and discovered that the Second-Generation Soul Emperor could devour it. The restored figure took Hun Tiandi’s appearance and thanked Xiao Yan, leaving his identity and allegiance uncertain.

• Demon Emperor Bo Kui vanished, and the ancient stone stele collapsed as Xiao Xuan emerged from it.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Yan to help free the Second-Generation Soul Emperor from the Demonic Qi corrupting the Third-Generation Soul Emperor’s body.
• Xiao Yan struggled to burn away the unusually tenacious Demonic Qi, then used True Flame Fire to make progress.
• An eerie voice revealed traces of Hun Xin and Hun Tiandi, while the Nihility Devouring Flame formed a vortex that consumed the Demonic Qi.
• After a year, the Demonic Qi disappeared, and the Third-Generation Soul Emperor’s body shrank and took on Hun Tiandi’s appearance.
• The restored figure thanked Xiao Yan, who demanded to know whether he was Hun Xin, Hun Tiandi, or the Second-Generation Soul Emperor; Xiao Xuan told him to stop teasing Xiao Yan.

The Second-Generation Soul Emperor gave Xiao Yan the origin flame seed of nihility devouring flame, which revealed the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art and the story of how he created it. After the Dou Di returned to their clans, Xiao Yan set his sights on the Great Thousand World and returned to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.

• The Second-Generation Soul Emperor gave Xiao Yan the origin flame seed of nihility devouring flame and promised him a second treasure.
• Xiao Yan refined the flame, discovered the Heaven-Devouring Demon Art, and learned how the Second-Generation Soul Emperor had developed it by devouring a Spirit Devouring Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan praised the Second-Generation Soul Emperor, who explained that he had destroyed his true form and undergone a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation to cleanse its demonic intent.
• The Second-Generation Soul Emperor and Xiao Xuan returned to their clans, and the new Hun Clan members led by Hun Xue gained strength while Xiao Clan celebrated Xiao Xuan's return.
• Xiao Yan spent a few days in the Xiao Realm, then crossed space to return to the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.

Xiao Yan met Tou She Ancient God above the Magma Ocean and learned why the passage to the Great Thousand World had been sealed. Tou She passed on the True Flame Indestructible Body and planned to send Xiao Yan and the other two Dou Di to the Great Thousand World, leaving the passage closed until Xiao Yan could protect the Dou Qi Continent.

• Xiao Yan met Tou She Ancient God, who praised his mastery of True Flame World Purification and invited him to ask about the Great Thousand World.
• Tou She told Xiao Yan that he had sealed the passage to hide the Dou Qi Continent from the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, leaving later Dou Di unable to find the Great Thousand World easily.
• Tou She passed the True Flame Indestructible Body inheritance to Xiao Yan and explained that the shattered Dharma Body would require many resources to rebuild.
• Tou She told Xiao Yan to seek the World-Purifying True Flame from the Fire Spirit Clan after reaching the Heavenly Sovereign level, though he would have to defeat Tou She's descendants to claim it.
• Tou She changed his plan after the Extraterrestrial Evil Race awakened early and decided to send Xiao Yan and the other two Dou Di to the Great Thousand World before reopening the passage once Xiao Yan could protect the continent.

Xiao Yan returned to the Nine Nether Abyss and refined Sacred Artifact Mountain, gaining a powerful peerless saint relic before setting out to reunite with Lu Xueyan. He found her at Manto Mountain Manor, where his sudden appearance moved her to tears.

• Xiao Yan thanked Tou She Ancient God, who promised to open a passage to the Great Thousand World in ten years, then vowed to protect the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan visited the Nine Nether Abyss and recalled how Bai Nian, Shi Hao, and Zhi Bai had progressed since their earlier adventures.
• Xiao Yan entered Sacred Artifact Mountain and asked Little Monkey whether he was qualified to become its new master.
• Xiao Yan spent three days refining Sacred Artifact Mountain, which shrank into a palm-sized relic in his hand.
• Xiao Yan appeared before Lu Xueyan at Manto Mountain Manor, and she recognized him with tearful eyes.

Xiao Yan organized the Flame Hall into a powerful faction and established the Flame God Realm as its headquarters. There, Hun Miaomiao demonstrated that demonic qi could be broken down into uncontaminated basic energy, opening a possible path to understanding and using it.

• Xiao Yan focused on strengthening the Flame Hall and preparing the Dou Qi Continent for future threats from the Great Thousand World.
• The Flame Hall established eight core halls and elite manors, then made the Flame God Realm its headquarters.
• Hun Miaomiao called Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Craft Hall to show him the results of her research.
• Hun Miaomiao used Xiao Yan's child flame to consume demonic qi and produce a strand of clean, cultivable energy.
• Hun Miaomiao explained that her experiment confirmed demonic qi was composed of basic energy, and Xiao Yan eagerly recognized the discovery's potential.

Over ten years, Xiao Yan helped the Flame Hall flourish and built a large family while the Dou Qi Continent reached unprecedented strength. When the Deception-Heaven Great Array gave off a faint fluctuation, Xiao Yan realized the long-awaited day had arrived.

• Hun Miaomiao explained that refining demonic qi with heavenly flames destroyed most of its useful fundamental energy, and Xiao Yan decided they had time to continue researching.
• Three years later, Xiao Xuan rebuilt his flesh body, and Xiao Yan helped the Flame Hall spread across the Dou Qi Continent and establish a talent development system.
• A faction that opposed the Flame Hall and tried to assassinate a branch hall master was destroyed, discouraging further resistance.
• Ten years later, Xiao Yan spent time with Cai Lin, Xiao Xiao, Xiao Lin, and their younger children in the Flame God Realm.
• Xiao Yan sensed a fluctuation from the Deception-Heaven Great Array and said that the day had finally come.

Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Dou Qi Continent for the Great Thousand World, entrusting its protection to Xiao Xuan. He and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor crossed the newly opened passage, leaving their families and friends behind as the continent returned to peace.

• Tou She Ancient God told Xiao Yan that he had seven days before leaving, and Xiao Yan shared the news with Cai Lin and Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor, and Xiao Xuan chose to remain behind to guard the Dou Qi Continent using the Heavenly Derivation Supreme's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan spent his remaining days with his family, arranged the Flame Hall's future, and sealed his children's cultivation and bloodline power until they reached Dou Sheng.
• On the seventh day, a node of the Deception-Heaven Great Array erupted near Jia Nan Academy, revealing the array and opening a passage to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor entered the passage together, and the passage vanished after they left.

Xiao Yan and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor traveled through a spatial node to the Great Thousand World. They arrived in the Fallen Battlefield amid a fierce war between the Maha Gu Clan and the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.

• Xiao Yan marveled at the vast Great Thousand World and considered how planes were ranked by their power and potential.
• A spatial node appeared, and Xiao Yan and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor entered it to reach the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor emerged in the Fallen Battlefield, where the Maha Gu Clan was fighting the Extraterrestrial Evil Race.
• Xiao Yan stared at the battlefield and wondered whether this was the Great Thousand World.

Xiao Yan and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor arrived in the Great Thousand World and were targeted by Maha Tian of the Maha Gu Clan, who wanted to seize their Plane Embryos. As Maha Tian's forces pursued them, Xiao Yan fled west while the Second-Generation Soul Emperor headed north into the Extraterrestrial Evil Race's territory.

• Xiao Yan sensed the immense Spiritual Energy and powerful fighters on the Fallen Battlefield, including Maha Tian and the Demon Emperor.
• Maha Tian recognized Xiao Yan and the Second-Generation Soul Emperor as ascended Heavenly Sovereigns and ordered his forces to capture them and extract their Plane Embryos.
• The Demon Emperor blocked Maha Tian, and Maha Tian told his clan's experts that the newcomers' Dou Qi was being eroded and that they should pursue them.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the spatial node behind them and urged the Second-Generation Soul Emperor to split up from their pursuers.
• The Second-Generation Soul Emperor flew north toward the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, while Xiao Yan fled west and struggled to outrun the pursuing experts.

Xiao Yan fled across the Great Thousand World while his Dou Qi steadily drained, then turned to fight the Maha Gu Clan’s Earthly Sovereigns on the Barren Continent. After devastating them with a concealed Flame Lotus, he faced Maha Great Stone’s Maha Yin-Yang Bottle as the Sacred Artifact Mountain loomed overhead.

• Xiao Yan flew for hours across the Great Thousand World, struggling with its sturdy space and his rapidly draining Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan landed on the Barren Continent and silenced its powerful beasts with his aura.
• Maha Great Stone led the pursuing Earthly Sovereigns to surround Xiao Yan and wait for their clan’s experts.
• Xiao Yan used Mirror Flower, Water Moon to deceive the Maha Gu Clan experts, then severely injured Maha Great Stone with a surprise attack.
• Maha Great Stone ordered the Earthly Sovereigns to form the Maha Boundless Array, but Xiao Yan detonated a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus and blasted many of them apart.
• Xiao Yan brought down the Sacred Artifact Mountain over Maha Great Stone, who summoned the enormous Maha Yin-Yang Bottle.

Xiao Yan used the Sacred Artifact Mountain to destroy Maha Great Stone’s life-bound relic, capture several pursuers, and escape the Maha Gu Clan’s forces. After flying for ten days while the Great Thousand World steadily drained his Dou Qi, he headed toward a cluster of islands to seek a way to convert it into spiritual energy.

• Xiao Yan used the Sacred Artifact Mountain to shatter the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle and absorb Maha Great Stone and many Earthly Sovereigns.
• Xiao Yan distracted the remaining pursuers with a weak fire lotus and escaped, while the Maha Ninth Ancestor arrived too late to catch him.
• The Maha Ninth Ancestor learned that Xiao Yan possessed a Peerless Saint Relic and decided to pursue him himself.
• Xiao Yan flew across the Great Thousand World for ten days as his Dou Qi continued to drain away.
• Xiao Yan headed toward a distant cluster of islands to look for a method of converting his energy into spiritual energy.

Xiao Yan entered the Lesser Western Heaven Realm while his Dou Qi dwindled, concealed himself, and learned about the region from local hunters. After discovering that Luo Shen had once ruled the area and left an overwhelming aura in its ancient river, he headed for Luo Shen City.

• Xiao Yan descended onto an island-sized continent, sensed a powerful aura in its ancient river, and hid in a nearby mountain range.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself, questioned a hunting party with his soul power, and learned that the region was the Lesser Western Heaven Realm.
• Xiao Yan killed a Black Demon Flood Dragon and took its Beast Core, leaving the carcass for the hunters.
• Xiao Yan learned that Luo Shen had fought two Heavenly Demon Emperors, killing one before falling, and recognized her aura in the river.
• Xiao Yan headed toward Luo Shen City, but two iron swords blocked his way.

Xiao Yan entered Luo Shen City and sold the Black Demon Flood Dragon’s Beast Core at Myriad Treasures Hall, choosing golden shells and a Spatial Spirit Artifact. The shopkeeper warned him that the slain beast might have ties to a Sixth Grade Sovereign, but Xiao Yan left untroubled by the threat.

• Xiao Yan paid two golden Luo Shen Shells to enter Luo Shen City and walked to Myriad Treasures Hall.
• Xiao Yan offered the Black Demon Flood Dragon’s Beast Core, and the shopkeeper valued it at about 108,000 golden shells or ten drops of Sovereign Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Yan took 100,000 golden shells and exchanged the remaining 8,000 for a Spatial Spirit Artifact, then bought several books.
• The shopkeeper warned Xiao Yan that the Black Demon Flood Dragon might have been descended from the Black Flood Dragon Ancestor, a Sixth Grade Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan thanked the shopkeeper and left, thinking he could defeat the ancestor if it came after him.

After settling into an inn in Luo Shen City, Xiao Yan studied books about the Great Thousand World and learned its cultivation system, crafts, and spirit arrays. He considered rebuilding his spiritual energy foundations and advancing his alchemy and artifact refining before turning to a ranking of Sovereign Dharma Forms.

• Xiao Yan spent part of his gold-shell earnings on basic books and rented a fine inn in Luo Shen City.
• Xiao Yan absorbed information about the Great Thousand World's cultivation ranks and learned that he would need to cultivate spiritual energy from the Sensing Realm.
• Xiao Yan studied the ranks of Spirit Array Masters, Alchemists, and Artifact Refiners, and judged his own alchemy and artifact refining skills to be near the pinnacle of the master level.
• Xiao Yan reviewed the Bestiary of Ten Thousand Beasts and then turned to the Ranking of the Ninety-Nine Sovereign Dharma Forms.