Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan pursued and killed the Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor, then absorbed the primordial true flame into his Chaos Furnace. He returned to the Volcano Continent and began preparing to refine it, while news of his latest victory caused a sensation in Saint Abyss City.

• Xiao Yan chased the Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor through the Magma Ocean and trapped him inside the Chaos Furnace.
• Xiao Yan tore the Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor apart and spent a month burning away his demon soul, leaving the primordial true flame subdued.
• Xiao Yan planned to refine the primordial true flame on the Volcano Continent, expecting it to raise his strength to the peak of Saint Grade or beyond.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Volcano Continent, where experts learned he had slain another Heavenly Demon Emperor from the surge in his demon slayer points.
• The experts in Saint Abyss City and Qin Tian reacted with astonishment to Xiao Yan's third Heavenly Demon Emperor kill.
• Xiao Yan entered seclusion to refine the primordial true flame into his body.

Xiao Yan refined the primordial true flame over three years, advancing to the peak of Saint Grade as the Endless Fire Domain grew stronger. After releasing his immense aura, he sensed the barrier beyond Saint Grade.

• Xiao Yan entered seclusion inside a volcano and began refining the primordial true flame with the Chaos Furnace and his radiant flames.
• Xiao Yan spent three years refining the primordial true flame, fused the three supreme flames, and reached the peak of Saint Grade.
• Xiao Xuan and the other Five Emperors reached Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign, while many other experts from the Dou Qi Continent advanced into the Earthly Sovereign realm.
• The people of the Dou Qi Continent exhausted their supply of Sovereign Spirit Liquid and established an initial foothold in the Great Thousand World as the Endless Fire Domain grew.
• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion, released an aura that shook the Endless Fire Domain, and sensed the barrier above Saint Grade.

Xiao Yan tried to break through the barrier at the limit of Saint Grade, then realized it was the restraint of the Great Thousand World's rules and contacted its world will. The Firmament List appeared and revealed the character “Ye,” which Xiao Yan suspected was a mark left by the Immortal Emperor.

• Xiao Yan unleashed Flame God and repeatedly struck at the barrier, but could not break through it.
• Xiao Yan realized the barrier was the restraint of the world's rules and sensed the Great Thousand World's will.
• Xiao Yan withstood the world will's pressure and poured his power into it, causing a vast curtain of spiritual light to appear above the Endless Fire Domain.
• Late-stage Saint Grade experts across the Great Thousand World and the Heaven-Slaying Demon Emperor and Heaven-Battling Heavenly Demon Emperor sensed the curtain, while the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor recognized Xiao Yan and raged at his growing power.
• Xiao Yan saw the character “Ye” form on the Firmament List, touched it with his soul power, and received the words “Firmament List.”

Xiao Yan stirred the Firmament List and learned that it could grant power from the Great Thousand World to those who inscribed their names upon it, but he could leave only a single stroke. He announced that he would explain the realm beyond Saint Grade at the Endless Fire Domain in a year and a half, and three of its mistresses later broke through to Heavenly Sovereign.

• Xiao Yan received the Immortal Emperor’s brief explanation of the Firmament List and learned that inscribing a name upon it granted the list’s recognition and world power.
• Xiao Yan used all his strength to press against the Firmament List, but managed to leave only a single stroke.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Volcano Continent and confirmed to Great Thousand Palace experts that he had caused the disturbance and touched the realm beyond Saint Grade.
• Xiao Yan promised to explain how to approach that realm when the Endless Fire Domain opened its doors in a year and a half, stirring excitement among Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Over the next three months, three mistresses of the Endless Fire Domain broke through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm.

After the Endless Fire Domain celebrated Xun'er, Cai Lin, and Hun Miaomiao becoming Heavenly Sovereigns, Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan and bring Qing Yanjing home. He left the women a devastating World-Destroying Fire Lotus to defend the domain and set out for her.

• Xiao Yan used the energy from refining the Flame Heavenly Demon Emperor to help Xun'er, Cai Lin, and Hun Miaomiao break through to Heavenly Sovereign, while Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Ling advanced to late-stage Earthly Sovereign and Ya Fei neared Earthly Sovereign.
• News of the three mistresses' breakthroughs spread, and people across the Great Thousand World began calling Xiao Yan the Stud Emperor.
• At a banquet, Xiao Yan promised Xiao Xuan and Zhu Kun that he would obtain Sovereign Spirit Liquid to help them reach Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan decided to go to the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan to free Qing Yanjing, who had been confined to secluded cultivation for nearly fourteen years.
• Xiao Yan gave the three female Heavenly Sovereigns a World-Destroying Fire Lotus powerful enough to threaten even a supreme Heavenly Demon Emperor, then departed for the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan to take Qing Yanjing home, but found no trace of her outside the sealed Buddha Pagoda Tower. Futu Xuan opened a spatial rift and invited Xiao Yan into the Futuo Realm, promising to return her.

• Xiao Yan reached Buddha Pagoda City and called on Futu Xuan to release his wife, Qing Yanjing.
• Xiao Yan searched the Futuo Realm with his soul power but found no trace of Qing Yanjing outside the Buddha Pagoda Tower.
• Xuan Guang and Mo Tong panicked when Xiao Yan arrived, fearing he would punish them for their role in Qing Yanjing's imprisonment.
• Futu Xuan told Xuan Guang and Mo Tong he would not let Xiao Yan kill them, then opened a spatial rift and invited Xiao Yan inside.

Xiao Yan confronted Futu Xuan at the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan and reunited with Qing Yanjing after more than a decade apart. The reunion revealed that they had a son, who was taken from Qing Yanjing shortly after his birth, and Xiao Yan was left consumed by fury and concern for the child.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Buddha Pagoda Tower, and Futu Xuan agreed to release Qing Yanjing rather than fight him.
• Futu Xuan opened the tower, and Qing Yanjing emerged in a streak of crystal light before stopping when she heard Xiao Yan's voice.
• Qing Yanjing mistook Xiao Yan's arrival for a danger and summoned an immortal-grade spirit array, but Xiao Yan dismissed it and revealed he had reached the peak of the saint grade.
• Qing Yanjing urged Xiao Yan to suppress Futu Xuan, Xuan Guang, and Mo Tong, saying she wanted revenge for being separated from their son.
• Qing Yanjing told Xiao Yan that she had been pregnant when he left, and that Futu Xuan imprisoned her after she gave birth and separated her from their child.

Xiao Yan confronted Futu Xuan over Qing Yanjing and their child, then beat him and captured Xuan Guang and Mo Tong. After Qing Yanjing identified the two as the chief culprits behind her suffering, Xiao Yan suggested refining them into Battle Puppets.

• Xiao Yan unleashed his pressure on the Futuo Realm and demanded to know why Futu Xuan had never told him he had a child.
• Futu Xuan assured Xiao Yan that his child was safe, but defended his actions as obedience to the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan's rules.
• Xiao Yan punched Futu Xuan into the Buddha Pagoda Tower, then struck down and captured Xuan Guang and Mo Tong as they tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Yanjing who had bullied her and how they should be punished.
• Qing Yanjing named Xuan Guang and Mo Tong as the chief culprits, and Xiao Yan proposed refining them into Battle Puppets.

Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing rejected Xuan Guang and Mo Tong’s pleas for mercy, and Xiao Yan prepared to kill them despite Futu Xuan’s attempts to intervene. Futu Xuan summoned the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan’s Ancestral Tower, but Xiao Yan caught it in a vast hand of flame.

• Qing Yanjing refused to forgive Xuan Guang and Mo Tong, and they tried unsuccessfully to break free of Xiao Yan’s Flame Chains.
• Futu Xuan recovered and demanded that Xiao Yan release the prisoners, but Xiao Yan refused and blocked Futu Xuan’s crystal attack with his furnace.
• Futu Xuan offered compensation and said Elder Qingyun was protecting Xiao Yan’s son, but Xiao Yan insisted that only Qing Yanjing could spare the prisoners.
• Futu Xuan summoned the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan’s Ancestral Tower to fight Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan reassured Qing Yanjing and caught the descending Ancestral Tower in a hand of flame.

Xiao Yan overpowered the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan’s Ancestral Tower and severed Futu Xuan’s control of it. He sent Qing Yanjing inside to claim the tower while threatening the ancient wills to cooperate, then turned back to Xuan Guang and Mo Tong.

• Xiao Yan held the Ancestral Tower aloft and bound it with fire dragons despite Futu Xuan’s efforts to withdraw it.
• Xiao Yan pulled the tower toward himself, leaving Futu Xuan injured and forcing him to plead with Qing Yanjing to save the clan’s sacred relic.
• Xiao Yan severed Futu Xuan’s connection to the Ancestral Tower, shrank it, and declared that Qing Yanjing would control it.
• Qing Yanjing entered the Ancestral Tower to try to gain its recognition after asking Xiao Yan not to destroy or remake it.
• Xiao Yan threatened the ancient wills inside the tower with oblivion unless they handed control to Qing Yanjing, then looked back at Xuan Guang and Mo Tong.

Xiao Yan punished Xuan Guang and Mo Tong while Qing Yanjing claimed the Ancestral Tower and gained the strength to contend with saint grade experts. With the tower recognizing her, Xiao Yan asked her to become the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan's new Great Elder, then confronted Futu Xuan about surrendering the position.

• Xiao Yan bound Xuan Guang and Mo Tong with Flame Chains and burned their souls, while warning the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan not to interfere.
• Xiao Yan imprisoned Futu Xuan in a Chaos Furnace and subdued the clan's rescuers and gathered experts.
• After three days, the Ancestral Tower erupted with light, and Qing Yanjing emerged with its recognition and greatly increased power.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing agreed she would take the Great Elder position and later go with him to see their child.
• Xiao Yan released Futu Xuan from the Chaos Furnace and asked whether he objected to Qing Yanjing taking his position.

Xiao Yan secured Qing Yanjing’s position as Great Elder of the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan and bound Xuan Guang and Mo Tong as his Fire Slaves. He left the two Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns alive but forced to serve Qing Yanjing and the clan.

• Futu Xuan acknowledged that Qing Yanjing had refined the Ancestral Tower and qualified to become Great Elder.
• Xiao Yan announced Qing Yanjing’s appointment, and the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan experts gradually agreed to support her.
• Xiao Yan released Xuan Guang and Mo Tong from their immediate torment, then bound them with Flame Chains and made them his Fire Slaves.
• Xiao Yan ordered Xuan Guang and Mo Tong to remain in the clan and assist Qing Yanjing, threatening them with soul-burning torture if they disobeyed.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Yanjing that the two men were hers to command, then demanded that they hand over all their treasures.

Xiao Yan forced the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan to accept Qing Yanjing as its Great Elder, then reunited with her after she finished settling the clan’s affairs. They set out for the Hundred Spirits Continent to find their son, whom neither had seen in years.

• Xiao Yan took Xuan Guang and Mo Tong’s treasures, leaving them their Peerless Saint Relics, and warned Futu Xuan to support Qing Yanjing.
• Futu Xuan and the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan accepted Qing Yanjing’s authority after Xiao Yan subdued the clan and enslaved Xuan Guang and Mo Tong.
• Qing Yanjing spent three days handling clan affairs, then reunited with Xiao Yan and discussed visiting their son.
• Xiao Yan apologized for not knowing Qing Yanjing had been pregnant or that their child had been separated from her.
• After Qing Yanjing assigned tasks to the clan, she and Xiao Yan departed for the Hundred Spirits Continent.

Xiao Yan reunited with Qing Yanjing and brought her to the Northern Spirit Realm to find their child, whom Qing Tian had secretly guarded. The couple arrived at the boy’s residence and saw him practicing with a sword.

• Xiao Yan carried Qing Yanjing across the Great Thousand World in a single day, and she learned more about his battles and rise to power.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing arrived in the Northern Spirit Realm, where Qing Tian appeared to greet them.
• Qing Tian led the couple to the residence where their child was staying.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing saw a thin boy practicing swings with a longsword.

Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing watched their son Mu Chen train, and Xiao Yan admired the perseverance he had developed while growing up with Mu Feng. After Mu Feng brought him up as his own, Mu Chen met his birth parents, leaving him stunned as Mu Feng introduced Qing Yanjing as his mother.

• Xiao Yan stopped Qing Yanjing from approaching Mu Chen so they could observe his training and judge his determination.
• Mu Chen finished his sword practice, and Xiao Yan concluded that his son had the best chance among his children of reaching saint grade.
• Qing Yanjing explained that she had entrusted Mu Chen to Mu Feng when she had to leave him behind, and Xiao Yan resolved to repay Mu Feng for raising him.
• Mu Feng praised Mu Chen for training ahead of the Spiritual Road Competition, and Mu Chen said he hoped to become a Sovereign and see his mother.
• Xiao Yan, Qing Yanjing, and Elder Qing Tian appeared in the courtyard, and Mu Feng told Mu Chen that Qing Yanjing was his mother.

Qing Yanjing and Xiao Yan reunited with Mu Chen, but he rejected Xiao Yan and insisted that Mu Feng was his only father. After Mu Feng took Mu Chen aside to explain, Xiao Yan suggested leaving their son with him for now so Mu Chen could build strength through hardship.

• Mu Feng recognized Qing Yanjing and recalled how she had once saved and guided him before leaving Mu Chen in his care.
• Qing Yanjing reunited with Mu Chen and introduced Xiao Yan as his birth father, but Mu Chen angrily refused to accept him and declared Mu Feng his only father.
• Mu Feng explained to Mu Chen that Qing Yanjing had entrusted him with raising the boy while fleeing her pursuers, then took Mu Chen to another courtyard to calm him and explain further.
• Xiao Yan worried that he was an inadequate father, and Qing Yanjing comforted him while acknowledging the cost of his duties.
• Xiao Yan proposed letting Mu Chen stay with Mu Feng for now so he could face hardship on the path to becoming a Heavenly Sovereign or reaching Saint Grade, while Qing Yanjing worried about her son suffering.

Xiao Yan offered Mu Feng lavish resources and the Hundred Spirits Continent in gratitude for raising Mu Chen, while asking him to keep the arrangements secret from the boy. Qing Yanjing then told Xiao Yan that Mu Chen was willing to meet him.

• Qing Yanjing left to explain the situation to Mu Chen after Mu Feng asked her to speak with him.
• Xiao Yan thanked Mu Feng for raising Mu Chen and promised resources to help him reach the Sovereign Realm and beyond.
• Xiao Yan offered Mu Feng the Hundred Spirits Continent once Mu Chen became powerful, asking Mu Feng to conceal his improved strength and the resources from the boy.
• Mu Feng accepted Xiao Yan's offer and agreed to put in a good word for him with Mu Chen.
• Qing Yanjing returned and told Xiao Yan that Mu Chen was willing to meet him, and Xiao Yan hurried toward the courtyard.

Xiao Yan met his son Mu Chen and offered him a choice between an easy life under his protection and a difficult path toward becoming a peerless expert. Mu Chen rejected his father's confidence and vowed to surpass him, while Xiao Yan's laughter revealed his overwhelming power and inspired Mu Chen to pursue strength.

• Xiao Yan introduced himself as Mu Chen's biological father, and Mu Chen said he was not ready to acknowledge him yet.
• Mu Chen explained that he knew Xiao Yan had not abandoned him deliberately and asked for time to adjust to having another father.
• Xiao Yan apologized and offered Mu Chen either privileged resources and protection or the chance to grow into an expert through his own efforts.
• Mu Chen declared that he would reach Xiao Yan's level and surpass him, calling him an old geezer.
• Xiao Yan laughed so powerfully that his voice shook the Hundred Spirits Continent, alarming the Hundred Spirits King and prompting his father to warn him not to provoke Xiao Yan.
• Mu Chen witnessed a glimpse of Xiao Yan's strength and became determined to reach the heights his father had attained.

Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing reunited with Mu Chen, encouraged him to grow stronger on his own, and left him under Elder Qing Tian’s protection. Back in the Endless Fire Domain, Xiao Yan saw his forces flourishing and planned to improve his alchemy and artifact refining to attract even more experts.

• Xiao Yan praised Mu Chen’s ambition, gave him a Flame Mark, and agreed to let him temper himself rather than rely on his parents.
• After seven days at the Mu Residence, Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing left Mu Chen in Elder Qing Tian’s care and asked him to protect the boy without interfering unless necessary.
• Mu Chen told Mu Feng he wanted to become an expert like his birth parents, and Mu Feng reminded him that the Spiritual Road would open in a year.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Endless Fire Domain with Qing Yanjing, where Xiao Xuan and Zhu Kun had reached the Heavenly Sovereign level and the domain had five Heavenly Sovereigns and hundreds of Earthly Sovereigns.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Yanjing he planned to advance his alchemy and artifact refining, believing saint-grade alchemy could draw many more experts to the Endless Fire Domain.

Qing Yanjing reluctantly returned to the Endless Fire Domain and helped Xiao Yan strengthen its cultivation grounds with spirit arrays. Xiao Yan then attended the Pill God Assembly, where his alchemy advanced to the Immortal Grade Peak and earned him the title of Grandmaster Alchemist, as the date in the Endless Fire Domain’s invitations approached.

• Qing Yanjing grew angry after seeing Xiao Yan’s many women, but Xiao Yan persuaded her to return to the Endless Fire Domain.
• Qing Yanjing spent three months establishing Super Spirit-Gathering Arrays across Volcano Continent and nearby territories while Xiao Yan studied spirit arrays.
• A Pill God Clan Elder invited Xiao Yan to visit, and Xiao Yan set out with members of the Yao Clan, Yao Lao, and Pill Tower experts.
• Xiao Yan and his companions attended the Pill God Assembly, where they exchanged knowledge with alchemists from the Pill God Clan, the Ancient Myriad Grassland, and elsewhere.
• Xiao Yan advanced his Alchemy Technique to the Immortal Grade Peak and became known as a Grandmaster Alchemist after refining a peerless divine pill.