Chapter Summaries

Qing Yanjing and Xiao Yan both revealed that they had advanced to Heavenly Sovereign, shocking the experts gathered at the Annihilation Continent. They set off for the Fire Spirit Clan, but were intercepted by a Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan protector and a man who asked Xiao Yan whether he had killed the Sun Emperor.

• Qing Yanjing warned Xiao Yan not to tell Maha Dahong what had happened between them in the inheritance space, then rebuffed Maha Dahong when he arrived.
• Maha Dahong threatened Xiao Yan over his closeness to Qing Yanjing, but Xiao Yan sent him flying and revealed that he had also become a Heavenly Sovereign.
• Maha Dahong left, and the watching Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns recognized Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing as newly risen Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing agreed to travel to the Fire Spirit Clan so Xiao Yan could retrieve two things, and Qing Yanjing cautioned him about the clan's strength.
• After they left the Annihilation Continent, a Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan protector confronted them, while a middle-aged man asked Xiao Yan if he had killed the Sun Emperor.

Xiao Yan refused to surrender the Sun Emperor’s treasures and sun true fire to the Golden Crow Holy Sect’s sect master, who challenged him to a fight. As the sect master launched his attack, Xiao Yan prepared to test his strength with Daytime Ascension.

• The Golden Crow sect master demanded the Sun Emperor’s treasures, inheritance, and sun true fire, but Xiao Yan refused and revealed that he had swallowed the fire.
• Qing Yanjing stepped forward to defend Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan moved her aside and said he would fight the sect master himself.
• The sect master summoned a golden giant with nine divine birds and attacked Xiao Yan with Golden Crow Burns the Heavens.
• Xiao Yan invoked Daytime Ascension and said he would return the Sun Emperor’s inheritance only if the sect master could catch it.

Xiao Yan defeated the Golden Crow Sect Master's flames with Daytime Ascension and forced him to concede. After the Golden Crow Sect Master withdrew from the Sun Emperor Lineage's affairs and departed, Elder Qingyun approached Xiao Yan with something to tell him.

• Xiao Yan unleashed Daytime Ascension, forming a vast platinum fireball that made the Golden Crow Sect Master's Nine Golden Crows tremble.
• The Golden Crow Sect Master merged his Nine Golden Crows into one and clashed with Xiao Yan's fireball, damaging his spirit body and weakening his crows.
• Xiao Yan prepared to use Daytime Ascension again, but the Golden Crow Sect Master conceded and agreed to stop interfering in the Sun Emperor Lineage's affairs.
• Xiao Yan let the Golden Crow Sect Master leave and gave him his name; the Golden Crow Sect Master memorized it and departed.
• Elder Qingyun approached Xiao Yan after the Golden Crow Sect Master left and said he had something to tell him.

Elder Qing Yun warned Xiao Yan that the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan and the Maha Gu Clan would oppose his relationship with Qing Yanjing unless he reached Saint Grade. Xiao Yan took Qing Yanjing with him to the Fire Spirit Clan, leaving Qing Yun fearing the clans’ retaliation.

• Elder Qing Yun explained that the two Gu Clans could use Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing’s relationship against them, especially because Maha Tian was pursuing her.
• Xiao Yan claimed that experts like the Immortal Emperor and the True Flame Emperor could make the Gu Clans hesitate, and said he intended to reach the summit of the Great Thousand World.
• Elder Qing Yun warned Xiao Yan that he would need to reach Saint Grade to gain the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan’s approval and would still make an enemy of the Maha Gu Clan.
• Xiao Yan took Qing Yanjing by the wrist and reminded her that she had agreed to help him at the Fire Spirit Clan, not that he wanted to be with her.
• Qing Yanjing told Elder Qing Yun she would repay Xiao Yan for saving her, then twisted Xiao Yan’s arm and left with him.
• Elder Qing Yun watched them fly away and feared Qing Yanjing would defy her clan, provoking both Gu Clans.

Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing reached the Fire Spirit Clan, where Xiao Yan sensed the World-Purifying True Flame and spotted the genuine Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler. Their arrival drew the attention of the clan’s powerful defenders, who challenged them above the Fire Spirit Continent.

• Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing flew for several days to the Fire Spirit Clan while Qing Yanjing explained the clan’s history and the Great Thousand Palace’s role in protecting ancient powers.
• Xiao Yan teased Qing Yanjing during their journey, provoking her into sending a blast of spiritual light at him.
• The pair entered the Fire Spirit Clan’s territory and crossed islands rich with powerful flames as they approached the Fire Spirit Continent.
• Xiao Yan spotted the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler and sensed the overwhelming power of the World-Purifying True Flame beneath it.
• Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Sovereign aura alerted the Fire Spirit Clan, and nearly a hundred Earthly Sovereigns gathered as a burly, red-robed man challenged the intruders.

Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing arrived at the Fire Spirit Clan, where Xiao Yan revealed his origins on the Dou Qi Continent and demanded the True Flame Emperor’s inheritance. The Fire Spirit Lord rejected his claim and prepared to fight as Xiao Yan summoned his own immense power.

• The Fire Spirit Lord introduced himself to Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing, then recognized Xiao Yan’s fused heavenly flames and mastery of the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan declared that he had come from the Dou Qi Continent and sought the World-Purifying True Flame and the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.
• The Fire Spirit Lord condemned Xiao Yan for coveting the clan’s treasures and threatened him, while Xiao Yan’s emperor flame caused the Lord’s crimson flames to recoil.
• The Fire Spirit Lord formed a ten-thousand-zhang heavenly venerable spirit body and summoned the Eternal Earth Vein Flame into a massive magma blade.
• Xiao Yan refused to leave, summoned his emperor flame dharma form, and called forth the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.

Xiao Yan defeated the Fire Spirit Lord’s flaming blade, but the Fire Spirit Ancestor intervened before the Lord could draw on the plane embryo’s power. The Ancestor offered Xiao Yan a chance to pursue the World-Purifying True Flame if he could first defeat him in the path of flames.

• Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler shattered the Fire Spirit Lord’s Earth Vein Blade in their clash.
• The Fire Spirit Lord prepared to draw on the power of the plane embryo, and Xiao Yan readied himself to face the threat.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor, a middle-stage Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign, arrived and warned Xiao Yan that the World-Purifying True Flame had killed a clan expert who tried to refine it.
• Xiao Yan accepted the danger of refining the flame, citing his cultivation of the Flame Mantra, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor agreed to give him a chance.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor challenged Xiao Yan to defeat him in the path of flames, and Xiao Yan eagerly accepted.

Xiao Yan tested his Flame Mantra and emperor flame against the Fire Spirit Ancestor, revealing an advantage in flame quality and his mastery of True Flame World Purification. The Fire Spirit Ancestor was shocked when Xiao Yan demonstrated the True Flame Realm.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor challenged Xiao Yan to demonstrate his Flame Mantra, and they clashed with their emperor flames.
• Xiao Yan's flames proved superior in quality as the two men transformed them into flame giants and battled with their divine abilities.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor and Fire Spirit Lord recognized the purifying lotus demon flame among Xiao Yan's flames and asked after the Pure Lotus Demon Saint.
• Xiao Yan told them that the Pure Lotus Demon Saint had fallen and that he had avenged him by killing the Demon Emperor who wounded him.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor warned Xiao Yan about the World-Purifying True Flame and challenged him to demonstrate his mastery of True Flame World Purification.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had comprehended the True Flame Realm, shocking the Fire Spirit Ancestor.

Xiao Yan defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor’s flame giants and earned permission to refine the World-Purifying True Flame despite the deadly risk. He followed the Ancestor to the heart of the Fire Spirit Continent and came face-to-face with the flame he had sought.

• Xiao Yan’s flame giants defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor’s forces, demonstrating that Xiao Yan had perfected the True Flame Realm.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor acknowledged Xiao Yan and warned that refining the World-Purifying True Flame could kill him.
• Xiao Yan insisted on attempting the refinement, explaining that he needed to become stronger to protect the Dou Qi Continent and bring his family and friends to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan followed the Fire Spirit Ancestor to a vast Giant Ruler above a magma ocean at the continent’s center.
• Xiao Yan saw the World-Purifying True Flame beneath the Giant Ruler and declared that he had finally found it.

Xiao Yan entered the World-Purifying True Flame to attempt refining it, while Qing Yanjing stood guard outside and the Fire Spirit Ancestor learned her identity. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan facing the flame seed at the heart of the flames, ready to test its power.

• Xiao Yan rejected Qing Yanjing’s suggestion to wait until he was stronger and asked her to guard him while he refined the World-Purifying True Flame.
• Xiao Yan kissed Qing Yanjing before entering the Magma Ocean and resisting its heat with his emperor flame.
• Xiao Yan plunged into the World-Purifying True Flame as Qing Yanjing and the Fire Spirit Ancestor and the Fire Spirit Lord watched.
• Qing Yanjing concealed the Magma Ocean with a spirit array and revealed that she was the Saint Daughter of the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor and the Fire Spirit Lord worried that the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan and the Maha Gu Clan might react to Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing’s relationship.
• Xiao Yan reached the flame seed at the center of the World-Purifying True Flame and challenged it to reveal its power.

Xiao Yan risked his life to refine the World-Purifying True Flame, but when ordinary methods failed, he merged his body, Spiritual Energy, and soul into the Emperor Flame. The Fire Spirit Ancestor warned Qing Yanjing that Xiao Yan would either devour the flame and gain unimaginable strength or be consumed by it and vanish.

• Xiao Yan swallowed the World-Purifying True Flame seed and used the Emperor Flame and Flame Mantra Spiritual Energy to try to refine it.
• The World-Purifying True Flame awakened and fought the Emperor Flame inside Xiao Yan, shattering his body and draining his strength.
• Xiao Yan realized that only the ultimate state of the True Flame Realm might let him refine the flame, so he forced his remaining power to suppress it.
• The collision between the two flames caused Xiao Yan's body to explode, and his flesh, soul, and Spiritual Energy merged into the Emperor Flame.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor explained to Qing Yanjing that Xiao Yan had become one with his natal flame, risking complete destruction for the chance to devour the World-Purifying True Flame.

Xiao Yan risked his life to refine the World-Purifying True Flame, and their clash fused into a lotus seed that seemed to mark his death. Qing Yanjing stayed with the Fire Spirit Clan to mourn him, while a faint consciousness began awakening inside the seed.

• Xiao Yan and the World-Purifying True Flame fought for a month as the Fire Spirit Ancestor, the Fire Spirit Lord, and Qing Yanjing reinforced their protective arrays.
• The two flames fused and collapsed into a glasslike lotus seed, leaving Qing Yanjing believing Xiao Yan had perished.
• Qing Yanjing tried to attack the lotus seed but was stopped by the Fire Spirit Ancestor and the Fire Spirit Lord.
• Qing Yanjing asked to remain in the Fire Spirit Clan to mourn Xiao Yan, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor allowed her to stay.
• The lotus seed settled at the bottom of the Magma Ocean, cracked open, and slowly grew roots as a hazy consciousness began to awaken.

Xiao Yan consumed the World-Purifying True Flame’s remaining consciousness and began mastering its power to forge a new body while the Great Thousand World learned of his rise as the Flame Emperor. After a year of waiting, Qing Yanjing and the Fire Spirit Ancestor sensed Xiao Yan’s aura within a radiant lotus leaf emerging from the Magma Ocean.

• Xiao Yan defeated the World-Purifying True Flame’s last trace of consciousness and began gathering its power to create a new body.
• News of Xiao Yan’s strength spread through the Great Thousand World, drawing attention from Luo Tianshen, the Western Heaven War Emperor, the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan, and Maha Tian.
• The Demon-Slaying King ordered a Great Thousand Copper Invitation and a Demon Slaying Token delivered to Xiao Yan.
• After a year, the Fire Spirit Ancestor told Qing Yanjing that Xiao Yan might have perished, but she remained beside the Magma Ocean.
• Qing Yanjing and the Fire Spirit Ancestor saw a radiant lotus leaf emerge from the Magma Ocean and sensed Xiao Yan’s aura within it.

After Xiao Yan's aura appeared within the World-Purifying True Flame, countless flaming lotus leaves spread across the Magma Ocean and absorbed vast amounts of spiritual energy. Nine months after a lotus bud emerged and grew, it cracked and released a pillar of light, leaving Qing Yanjing and the Fire Spirit Ancestor awaiting what would emerge.

• Qing Yanjing sensed Xiao Yan's aura within the first crystalline lotus leaf, but neither she nor the Fire Spirit Ancestor understood what it meant.
• Over the following year, millions of flaming lotus leaves spread across the Magma Ocean and began devouring spiritual energy from the Fire Spirit Continent and beyond.
• The leaves refined the incoming spiritual energy, drawing down a vast rain of Spirit Liquid that lasted for months and attracted attention from factions beyond the Fire Spirit Clan.
• A person-sized lotus bud rose from the Magma Ocean, and Qing Yanjing hoped Xiao Yan was being nurtured inside it.
• After nine months of relentless spiritual rain, the lotus bud cracked and a vast pillar of light shot into the heavens.

Xiao Yan successfully refined the World-Purifying True Flame and reached the peak of Immortal Grade, gaining the power to challenge even Saint Grade Heavenly Supremes. He resolved to return to the Dou Qi Continent to destroy the weakened Cursed Incantation Heavenly Demon Emperor, but first took Qing Yanjing aside to deal with the flame’s side effects.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the blossoming Fire Lotus after refining the World-Purifying True Flame, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor recognized his immense new strength.
• Xiao Yan reached the peak of Immortal Grade, mastered the World Purification Realm, and gained confidence that he could confront a Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan vowed to return to the Dou Qi Continent and eradicate the weakened Cursed Incantation Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan asked the Fire Spirit Ancestor to leave him and Qing Yanjing alone, then carried her into the Magma Ocean, claiming the World-Purifying True Flame’s side effects needed to be purged.

Xiao Yan pressed Qing Yanjing to accept him, and after three days together she showed a tenderness that went beyond physical desire. He then began refining the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler, while Demon Slayer visitors headed for the Fire Spirit Clan and Maha Tian appeared behind them.

• Xiao Yan asked Qing Yanjing to become his wife or bear his child, and he promised to handle the hostility of the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan and the Maha Gu Clan.
• Three days later, Qing Yanjing tenderly straightened Xiao Yan’s clothes, and he took her to the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler.
• Xiao Yan began refining the ruler with the World-Purifying True Flame, causing its patterns to light up and flames to spread across it.
• Three black-robed visitors arrived at the Fire Spirit Continent, hoping Flame Emperor Xiao Yan would join the Great Thousand Palace as a Demon Slayer.
• Maha Tian of the Maha Gu Clan appeared after the three visitors flew toward the Fire Spirit Clan.

Maha Tian threatened Xiao Yan over his relationship with Qing Yanjing while Xiao Yan worked to claim the Fire Spirit Clan’s Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler. After mastering the ruler, Xiao Yan was summoned to meet three Demon-Slaying Envoys bearing a personal invitation from Qin Tian.

• Maha Tian left the Fire Spirit Continent after warning Xiao Yan not to pursue Qing Yanjing.
• Xiao Yan continued pouring the World-Purifying True Flame into the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler until their connection neared completion.
• Three Demon-Slaying Envoys arrived on Qin Tian’s orders to deliver Xiao Yan a Great Thousand Copper Invitation and a Demon Slaying Token.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor told the envoys that Xiao Yan was in seclusion and that the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler might soon change hands.
• Xiao Yan claimed the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ruler, and the Fire Spirit Ancestor called him over to meet the envoys.

The Great Thousand Palace invited Xiao Yan to join and granted him a Demon Slaying Token and an honorary invitation after recognizing his Immortal Grade strength. Maha Tian of the Maha Gu Clan then arrived, and Xiao Yan confronted him for familiarly calling Qing Yanjing “Jing'er.”

• Xiao Yan accepted Qin Tian’s invitation to join the Great Thousand Palace, and its envoys gave him a Demon Slaying Token and explained how demon slayer points worked.
• The envoys offered Xiao Yan a Great Thousand Palace invitation and noted that his strength merited a silver invitation instead of the copper one they had brought.
• Maha Tian arrived on the Fire Spirit Continent with two Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereigns and identified himself as a member of the Maha Gu Clan.
• Maha Tian addressed Qing Yanjing as “Jing'er” and offered to help with her business, prompting Xiao Yan to step forward and challenge his right to call her that.

Xiao Yan confronted Maha Tian over his pursuit of Qing Yanjing, who declared that Xiao Yan was her husband and rejected Maha Tian. Maha Tian attacked Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan stepped forward to test his strength with the World-Purifying True Flame.

• Maha Tian recognized Xiao Yan as the man who had ascended through the Fallen Battlefield and demanded a ransom for the captured Maha Gu Clan Earthly Sovereigns.
• Xiao Yan called Qing Yanjing his wife and took her hand, provoking Maha Tian.
• Qing Yanjing affirmed that Xiao Yan was her husband, warned Maha Tian against harming him, and told Maha Tian she never wanted to see him again.
• Maha Tian called Xiao Yan a country bumpkin and launched a black-and-white fist attack at him.
• Xiao Yan moved Qing Yanjing behind him and sent a flaming palm to meet Maha Tian's attack.

Xiao Yan fought Maha Tian and gained the advantage by combining his strength with the World-Purifying True Flame. Maha Tian then summoned his ranked eighth Maha Boundless Body, setting the stage for their battle to intensify.

• Xiao Yan and Maha Tian moved their fight away from the Fire Spirit Clan, while Qing Yanjing, the Fire Spirit Ancestor, and others followed.
• On a distant continent, Xiao Yan and Maha Tian exchanged powerful blows, and Maha Tian recognized the World-Purifying True Flame.
• Xiao Yan ignited the World-Purifying True Flame and used it to burn through Maha Tian’s Maha Yin-Yang Qi and exhaust his spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yan struck Maha Tian with Eight Extremes Collapse, sending him flying and leaving a charred fist mark on his arm.
• Maha Tian summoned his Maha Boundless Body, ranked eighth on the Sovereign Dharma Body Rankings, as Xiao Yan’s battle intent rose.