Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan remained with the Luo Shen Clan while awaiting the opening of the Annihilation Great Emperor's inheritance and the chance to obtain the Void Annihilation Flame. The Western Heaven War Emperor halted his deputy's plan to confront Xiao Yan and ordered the Western Heaven War Hall to protect the Luo Shen Clan, hoping to win the future Luo Shen Successor's favor.

• Xiao Yan reassured Luo Tianshen that he would stay in the Lesser Western Heaven Realm to keep the Western Heaven War Hall from taking its anger out on the Luo Shen Clan.
• Xiao Yan helped Yan Hai cultivate the Void Blazing Sun Dharma Form and studied the key to the Annihilation Great Emperor's inheritance, which he expected to open in about a year.
• The Western Heaven War Hall's Deputy Hall Master rebuked Winter Elder and Ling Zhanzi, then prepared to challenge Xiao Yan as a way to hone his martial path.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor ordered the Deputy Hall Master not to stir up trouble while he attempted to break through to Immortal Grade, and told the Western Heaven War Hall to protect the Luo Shen Clan for a hundred years.
• The Western Heaven War Emperor revealed that he hoped to win the Luo Shen Successor's heart to aid his cultivation of the Earth Inner Scripture.

After leaving the Luo Shen Clan, Xiao Yan traveled to the Annihilation Continent to seek the Annihilation Great Emperor’s inheritance. He arrived to find the dangerous continent drawing powerful factions eager for its treasures.

• Xiao Yan bid farewell to Luo Tianshen, Luo Hetu, Luo Yu, and Yan Hai, promising to welcome Yan Hai into his future power after reaching the Heavenly Sovereign realm.
• Xiao Yan rejected Yan Hai’s request to accompany him because the journey was too dangerous, but encouraged him to grow stronger.
• Xiao Yan flew for seven days and nights to reach the Annihilation Continent, where lethal energy currents made survival difficult.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor’s mirage-like cave abode attracted more than a dozen factions seeking its inheritance, Void Destruction Halberd, and Void Annihilation Flame.
• Xiao Yan arrived on the continent and sensed at least ten Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign auras nearby.

Xiao Yan arrived on the Annihilation Continent with the fifth key to the Annihilation Great Emperor’s inheritance and faced the powerful factions gathered there. When the Sun Emperor attacked to seize the key, Xiao Yan caught and devoured his Sun True Fire spear, leaving the Sun Emperor stunned.

• Nearly twenty Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns gathered around Xiao Yan, including the formidable Woman in Blue, the Maha Gu Clan elder, and the Sun Emperor.
• The Woman in Blue asked Xiao Yan whether he owned the fifth key, and he revealed the small pitch-black sword.
• The Sun Emperor demanded that Xiao Yan return the key to the Sun Emperor Lineage and offered him a reward.
• Xiao Yan accused the Sun Emperor of ambushing his senior brother, the Blazing Sun Emperor, to obtain the key.
• The enraged Sun Emperor attacked Xiao Yan with a giant spear of Sun True Fire.
• Xiao Yan caught the spear in a fiery hand and rapidly devoured its golden flames, shocking the Sun Emperor.

Xiao Yan proved his strength by devouring the Sun Emperor’s Daytime Ascension, forcing the gathered experts to accept his right to share in the Annihilation Great Emperor’s inheritance. After introductions revealed the identities of the powerful clans and figures present, Maha Dahong asked whether the Maha Gu Clan could buy the inheritance key from Xiao Yan.

• The Sun Emperor attacked Xiao Yan with his divine ability, Daytime Ascension, but Xiao Yan trapped the attack inside a multicolored Fire Lotus.
• Qing Yanjing acknowledged Xiao Yan’s strength and accepted that he was entitled to a share of the Annihilation Great Emperor’s opportunity.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself, and Qing Yanjing, Maha Dahong, and Ji Yue identified themselves as representatives of three supreme Gu Clans.
• Xiao Yan joked about visiting the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Sect to study its Dual Cultivation methods, irritating the women present.
• Maha Dahong asked Xiao Yan whether the Maha Gu Clan could offer compensation for the Annihilation Great Emperor’s Key.

Xiao Yan rejected Maha Dahong’s attempt to obtain the key to the Annihilation Great Emperor’s Inheritance, demanding a Peerless Saint Relic and provoking the Maha Gu Clan. After nearly a month of waiting, the inheritance began to appear on the Annihilation Continent.

• Maha Dahong explained that the Maha Gu Clan was acting on Maha Tian’s orders, while Qing Yanjing rejected the clan’s interference.
• Xiao Yan offered to trade the key for a Peerless Saint Relic, but Maha Dahong could not agree to the demand.
• Maha Great Stone warned Xiao Yan that the Maha Gu Clan would deal with him after he left the Annihilation Continent, and Xiao Yan dismissed the threat.
• Everyone waited in vigilance for nearly a month until black flames threaded with silver rose and a phantom Palace appeared at the continent’s center.

Xiao Yan and four other experts entered the Annihilation Great Emperor’s inheritance trial, where the emperor offered his Void Annihilation Flame, sword, and a plane embryo to whoever could master his annihilation true intent and defeat a suppressed Demon Emperor. The trial began with the five competitors receiving the emperor’s true intent, while Xiao Yan eyed the hostile Sun Emperor and the Ancestor of Joyous Union.

• Qing Yanjing, the Saint Daughter of the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan, and the Saint Daughter of the Grand Spirit Gu Clan agreed with Xiao Yan and the Sun Emperor to open the inheritance.
• The five experts released their small black swords, which entered the Void Divine Palace and caused the Void Annihilation Flame and the Annihilation Great Emperor’s phantom to appear.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor used the five swords to form an array that transported Xiao Yan and the other four into the inheritance space, while Maha Dahong realized a plane embryo lay beneath the continent.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor offered his Void Annihilation Flame, Void Annihilation Sword, and plane embryo to whoever could swiftly refine either treasure, while warning that the plane embryo was guarded by a Nether Demon Emperor Peak.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor revealed that mastering his annihilation true intent was essential and sent a tongue of black flame into each competitor to begin the trial.

Xiao Yan crossed the threshold of Annihilation True Intent in half a month, astonishing the other experts. When he approached the Void Annihilation Flame, the Sun Emperor attacked to stop him, and Xiao Yan battered him into submission before declaring he would take the Sun True Fire as well.

• Xiao Yan devoured a wisp of the Void Annihilation Flame and began comprehending Annihilation True Intent alongside the Sun Emperor, Qing Yanjing, the Ancestor of Joyous Union, and the Saint Daughter of the Grand Spirit Gu Clan.
• After half a month, Xiao Yan rose with a grasp of Annihilation True Intent, shocking the others, who had gained little insight.
• Xiao Yan approached the Void Annihilation Flame, but the Sun Emperor shot a golden arrow at him to prevent him from claiming it.
• Xiao Yan struck the Sun Emperor through his Sun Saint Armor, shattered the armor, and grievously injured him with another punch.
• Xiao Yan refused the Sun Emperor's plea for mercy and declared that he would take both the Void Annihilation Flame and the Sun True Fire, prompting the Sun Emperor to reveal the Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Sun Emperor with the Eight-Direction Spirit God Array and forced him to retreat into the Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace. Xiao Yan detonated a powerful Fire Lotus inside the furnace, leaving the Sun Emperor's fate uncertain as a pillar of flames burst out.

• The Sun Emperor used the Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace to block Xiao Yan's attack, then tried to concede and escape with his life.
• Xiao Yan summoned eight Sovereign Spirit Gods to restrain the furnace and punched the Sun Emperor, who fled inside it for protection.
• Xiao Yan created a multicolored Fire Lotus around the golden-white sun and threw it into the Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace.
• Xiao Yan recalled the Spirit Gods and detonated the Fire Lotus from a distance, causing flames to erupt from the furnace and making everyone believe the Sun Emperor was likely doomed.

Xiao Yan defeated the Sun Emperor, destroyed his Divine Soul, and claimed his inheritance and treasures. He swallowed the Sun True Fire, securing the prize he had sought.

• After the flames weakened, Xiao Yan entered the Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace and found the badly injured Sun Emperor still alive.
• The Sun Emperor begged for mercy, but Xiao Yan seized his Divine Soul before he could detonate it.
• Xiao Yan suppressed the Sun Emperor and burned away his Divine Soul, leaving the Sun True Fire behind.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Sun Emperor's body, took his Inheritance Bracelet, and found two valuable divine abilities among the contents.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Sun True Fire.

Xiao Yan refined the Sun True Fire, strengthening his Emperor Flame and studying the Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace before turning to refine the Void Annihilation Flame. As he endured its destructive power, the Annihilation Great Emperor recognized that Xiao Yan was using the process to deepen his comprehension of annihilation true intent.

• Xiao Yan spent a month refining the Sun True Fire with his Emperor Flame, then studied the Daytime Ascension and Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace for half a month.
• Xiao Yan recalled the Sun-Melting Treasure Furnace and emerged from it with the furnace reduced to palm size, leaving Qing Yanjing and the others wary of his strength.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Void Annihilation Flame and placed his hand on it, beginning to draw the destructive flame into his body.
• Xiao Yan endured the Void Annihilation Flame's burning as his Emperor Flame, Flame Mantra, and Emperor's Origin protected him.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor watched Xiao Yan and praised his use of the refining process to accelerate his comprehension of annihilation true intent.

Xiao Yan endured the Void Annihilation Flame until he fully comprehended annihilation true intent, then began refining its origin with emperor flame. As he struggled to seize the flame, Qing Yanjing also revealed that she had comprehended annihilation true intent.

• Xiao Yan spent half a year tempering his body with the Void Annihilation Flame, consuming nearly two billion units of Sovereign Spirit Liquid and raising his physical strength to the Quasi-Heavenly Sovereign level.
• Xiao Yan fully comprehended annihilation true intent and walked into the depths of the Void Annihilation Flame to refine it.
• Xiao Yan seized the flame’s pitch-black origin sphere and used emperor flame to refine it, suffering severe wounds as the flames clashed.
• The Ancestor of Joyous Union considered killing Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing, but Qing Yanjing rose and revealed destructive spirit seals.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor and the others realized that Qing Yanjing had also comprehended annihilation true intent.

Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing raced to claim the Annihilation Great Emperor’s inheritance while the Ancestor of Joyous Union plotted against them. Qing Yanjing obtained the Void Annihilation Sword, but Xiao Yan’s aura nearly vanished after he swallowed the Void Annihilation Flame, leaving her to believe he had died.

• The Annihilation Great Emperor praised Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing for rapidly comprehending Annihilation True Intent as the Ancestor of Joyous Union plotted to kill Qing Yanjing.
• Qing Yanjing began refining the Void Annihilation Sword while Xiao Yan continued taming the Void Annihilation Flame, and they competed to claim the inheritance first.
• After seven days, Xiao Yan swallowed the Void Annihilation Flame and suffered severe injuries as he tried to refine it with the Emperor Flame’s help.
• Over the next three days, Xiao Yan’s aura dwindled until it was barely perceptible, leading the Grand Spirit Gu Clan’s Saint Daughter and the Ancestor of Joyous Union to believe he was dying.
• Qing Yanjing claimed the Void Annihilation Sword and looked toward Xiao Yan, wondering whether such a Heavenly Pride was truly going to fall.

Qing Yanjing used the Annihilation Great Emperor’s full Great Annihilation Divine Array to destroy the Nether Demon Emperor and claim the plane embryo. As she moved to refine it, the Ancestor of Joyous Union attacked, setting up a confrontation despite her wielding two Peerless Saint Relics.

• Qing Yanjing learned that killing the Nether Demon Emperor would earn her the plane embryo, while the Annihilation Great Emperor urged Xiao Yan to decide his own fate.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor drew Qing Yanjing’s spiritual energy into the Void Annihilation Sword and formed the complete Great Annihilation Divine Array.
• Qing Yanjing and the Annihilation Great Emperor unleashed the array, destroying the Nether Demon Emperor and leaving a vast gash across the Annihilation Continent.
• The Annihilation Great Emperor dissipated, and Qing Yanjing turned to refine the plane embryo before the Ancestor of Joyous Union struck from behind.
• Qing Yanjing wounded the Ancestor of Joyous Union with the Void Annihilation Sword, then summoned the Buddha Pagoda Array Disk as he boasted that he could still subdue her.

Qing Yanjing and Tailing Saint Daughter confronted a powerful Lust Demon Emperor who had emerged from Ancestor of Joyous Union. After their attacks failed and Qing Yanjing prepared to detonate herself, a mysterious figure appeared in a blaze of black-and-gold flame.

• Ancestor of Joyous Union revealed himself as a member of the Saint Race and tore free of his body as a Lust Demon Emperor.
• The Lust Demon Emperor recognized Qing Yanjing and Tailing Saint Daughter as valuable captives and advanced on them.
• Qing Yanjing unleashed the Buddha Pagoda Array Disk while Tailing Saint Daughter attacked with the Grand Spirit Ancient Map, but their assaults barely weakened him.
• Qing Yanjing used the Buddha Pagoda Demon-Slaying Light and Great Annihilation Divine Array, but the Lust Demon Emperor countered both attacks with his Lust Demon Great Hand Seal.
• With her Divine Soul nearly exhausted and the demon's attack closing in, Qing Yanjing began to detonate herself.
• A voice urged Qing Yanjing not to hurry, and a dazzling black-and-gold flame appeared before her.

Xiao Yan returned after faking his death, having refined the Void Annihilation Flame, and confronted the Lust Demon Emperor to rescue Qing Yanjing and the Tailing Saint Daughter. He revealed that he had reached Heavenly Sovereign and prepared to slay the Demon Emperor.

• Xiao Yan appeared alive and burned away the Lust Demon Emperor's attacks, revealing that he had refined the Void Annihilation Flame.
• Xiao Yan taunted the Lust Demon Emperor and declared that he would kill him rather than flee.
• Xiao Yan's emperor flame overpowered the Lust Demon Emperor's Demonic Qi, but the Demon Emperor transformed into his ten-thousand-foot Demon Emperor True Form.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Heavenly Sovereign strength and explained that absorbing the Void Annihilation Flame had fully merged him with the Great Thousand World's laws.
• Xiao Yan formed his Heavenly Venerable Spirit Body, borrowed Qing Yanjing's Void Annihilation Sword, and prepared to fight the Lust Demon Emperor.

Xiao Yan fought the Lust Demon Emperor and used his Emperor Flame to overcome the demon’s seductive illusions and suppress his Demonic Qi. The Lust Demon Emperor was trapped in Xiao Yan’s True Flame World as Xiao Yan unleashed a finishing attack.

• The Lust Demon Emperor realized Xiao Yan had ascended from a lower plane, then attacked him with a strange Demon Staff that resembled Xiao Yan’s demon-subduing pestle.
• Xiao Yan and the Lust Demon Emperor exchanged blows while Qing Yanjing and the Tailing Saint Daughter sheltered from the shock waves.
• The Lust Demon Emperor offered Xiao Yan the Annihilation Great Emperor’s inheritance and a plane embryo in exchange for Qing Yanjing, but Xiao Yan refused and attacked again.
• The Lust Demon Emperor cast Color Demon World, surrounding Xiao Yan with pink Demonic Qi and visions of his past parties.
• Xiao Yan summoned True Flame World, burned away the pink Demonic Qi, and trapped the weakening Lust Demon Emperor inside it.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Peerless Divine Ability—True Flame World Purification as the Lust Demon Emperor begged to be released.

Xiao Yan killed the Lust Demon Emperor, but the emperor’s dying curse struck Qing Yanjing and forced Xiao Yan to treat her. As he tried to expel the curse, the Heavenly Flames’ side effects affected him too, and he sent the Tailing Saint Daughter away before turning to Qing Yanjing.

• The Lust Demon Emperor recognized Xiao Yan as the True Flame Emperor’s successor and detonated himself, blasting a hole through the True Flame World.
• The Lust Demon Emperor’s final attack pierced Xiao Yan’s flame shield and struck Qing Yanjing before the emperor’s soul was destroyed.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the attack had afflicted Qing Yanjing with a Demon Emperor curse and used Emperor Flame to remove its Demonic Source from her Divine Soul.
• As he treated Qing Yanjing, Xiao Yan felt the Heavenly Flames’ side effects flare up and realized he had been affected too.
• Qing Yanjing pressed close to Xiao Yan, and he sent the watching Tailing Saint Daughter out of the space before focusing on Qing Yanjing.

After Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing won the Annihilation Great Emperor’s inheritance, the Tailing Saint Daughter reported the deaths inside while Xiao Yan worked to purge the Lust Demon Emperor’s curse from Qing Yanjing. Qing Yanjing refined much of the plane embryo and began to regain sustained clarity, though the curse remained.

• The Tailing Saint Daughter emerged from the inheritance space and told the waiting powers that the Sun Emperor and the Ancestor of Joyous Union had died.
• The Tailing Saint Daughter told Maha Dahong that Qing Yanjing had probably obtained the inheritance, and Maha Dahong sent the news to Maha Tian.
• Xiao Yan used a Bodhi Seed to briefly restore Qing Yanjing’s clarity and urged her to refine the plane embryo while he fought the demonic source in her soul.
• Qing Yanjing refined the plane embryo for a day before the curse overwhelmed her again, and Xiao Yan resumed purging it with his emperor flame.
• After using his remaining Bodhi Seeds, Xiao Yan helped Qing Yanjing refine more than half of the plane embryo, allowing her to stay clearheaded for longer stretches.

Xiao Yan persuaded Qing Yanjing to stay with him by framing his aid as a debt she could repay, and asked her to accompany him to the Fire Spirit Clan. As she began refining the Annihilation Great Emperor's plane embryo to reach Heavenly Sovereign, the Demon Emperor's Source flared up again.

• Qing Yanjing offered to return to the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan alone, but Xiao Yan objected and insisted she did not owe him nothing after he saved her.
• Qing Yanjing warned that a relationship would make Xiao Yan a target of both the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan and the Maha Gu Clan, especially because Maha Tian was interested in her.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Maha Gu Clan had once hunted him and proposed that Qing Yanjing repay him by doing three things for him.
• Qing Yanjing agreed to accompany Xiao Yan to the Fire Spirit Clan after refining the plane embryo and advancing to Heavenly Sovereign.
• Qing Yanjing began refining the plane embryo, but the Demon Emperor's Source flared up inside her again.

Qing Yanjing continued refining the plane embryo while Xiao Yan helped purge the demonic source from her, and she eventually became a heavenly sovereign. After the inheritance space vanished, they were greeted by an old man.

• Qing Yanjing struggled against the demonic source's corrosion, and Xiao Yan repeatedly helped her purge it as they remained in the inheritance space.
• When the demonic source flared again, Qing Yanjing took the initiative and asked Xiao Yan to help her.
• After three months, Qing Yanjing became a heavenly sovereign and completely purged the demonic source from her body.
• Qing Yanjing collected the five black swords and the Void Divine Palace, then offered them to Xiao Yan as compensation while promising to fulfill the three things she had promised him.
• The inheritance space disappeared, and an old man's fawning voice called out to Qing Yanjing.