Chapter Summaries

Five years after founding the Endless Fire Domain, Xiao Yan prepared to introduce it formally to the Great Thousand World as its countless superpowers sent leaders and representatives to Flame Emperor City. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan inviting the gathered guests to his banquet.

• Xiao Yan's Endless Fire Domain grew across the Volcano Continent and neighboring lands, while its twenty or more Alchemist Grandmasters drew attention across the Great Thousand World.
• Superpower leaders prepared lavish gifts and traveled to the Endless Fire Domain, whose master many Heavenly Sovereigns recognized as the Great Thousand World's Number One Expert.
• Xiao Yan addressed the experts from the Dou Qi Continent and instructed them to show the Endless Fire Domain's strength and grandeur to visiting guests.
• Hundreds of Heavenly Sovereign Experts and representatives from more than half the Great Thousand World's superpowers arrived in Flame Emperor City over the course of a month.
• Xiao Yan invited the guests to bring their invitations and attend the banquet, thanking them for coming.

Xiao Yan hosted the unveiling banquet for the Endless Fire Domain as powerful factions across the Great Thousand World presented gifts and offers of support. The gathering ended with Lin Dong arriving, and Xiao Yan recognizing that he had reached Saint Grade.

• Qin Tian congratulated Xiao Yan, gave him the Nine Heavens Divine Shadow, and joined the banquet with three Heavenly Sovereigns who presented Middle-Grade Saint Relics.
• The Azure-Robed Sword Saint sent a spiritual puppet to give Xiao Yan the Ten Thousand Swords Mountain, a Spirit Grade Peerless Saint Relic.
• The True Dragon Ancient Emperor offered Cai Lin and Zhu Kun a chance to seek their ancestors' inheritances in the Divine Beast Clan's territory.
• A representative of the Northern Desolate Mound presented the Undying Divine Seal on the Undying Master's behalf, and other supreme factions offered gifts.
• Xiao Yan noted that the Maha Gu Clan had sent no gift because of Maha Tian's hostility toward him.
• Lin Dong arrived with a little girl, and Xiao Yan realized Lin Dong had reached Saint Grade.

At Xiao Yan’s banquet, Lin Dong revealed that he had reached the Saint Grade and introduced his daughter, Lin Jing, who received a flame gift and many treasures from the guests. As the banquet ended, an old man arrived with a girl whom the Western Heaven War Emperor recognized as this generation’s Luo Shen Successor.

• The assembled experts realized Lin Dong had reached the Saint Grade, and Lin Dong credited insights from Xiao Yan’s Mysterious Light Curtain for his breakthrough.
• Lin Dong gave Xiao Yan a Quasi-Peerless Saint Relic and introduced his daughter, Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan gifted Lin Jing a child flame of his World-Purifying True Flame, and Saint Grade experts followed with gifts of their own.
• Hundreds of Heavenly Sovereigns presented congratulations, while Lin Dong watched the uneasy Western Heaven War Emperor.
• An old man dressed in black arrived with a girl, and the Western Heaven War Emperor suspected she was the Luo Shen Successor as Xiao Yan welcomed Brother Luo.

Xiao Yan welcomed Luo Tianshen and his granddaughter Luo Li, then seated them among the Great Thousand World's most powerful experts. As the banquet continued, Lin Jing befriended Luo Li, while the Western Heaven War Emperor concealed his intent to pursue the Luo Shen Successor and Qing Yanjing imagined the girls as future wives for her son Chen'er.

• The Western Heaven War Emperor realized Xiao Yan was close to the Luo Shen Clan and decided to hide his interest in the Luo Shen Successor until he could strike.
• Xiao Yan greeted Luo Tianshen, met his granddaughter Luo Li, and joked that he should have arranged her betrothal to a Luo Shen Clan boy.
• Xiao Yan invited Luo Tianshen to sit beside Lin Dong, and Lin Dong helped ease the old man's nerves as the Western Heaven War Emperor watched uneasily.
• Lin Jing took Luo Li under her wing, gave her a palm-sized palace, and chatted with her about the Spiritual Road while Qing Yanjing watched them fondly.
• The three-day banquet ended, and the departing Heavenly Sovereigns recognized that the Endless Fire Domain was formidable even without Xiao Yan.

After strengthening the Endless Fire Domain and helping Xiao Xuan advance to immortal grade, Xiao Yan watched his youngest son, Xiao Chen, compete in the Spiritual Road Competition. Xiao Chen attracted several girls and rivals, and Xiao Yan sensed that he was about to cause a major commotion.

• Qing Yanjing connected the Buddha Pagoda Gu Clan to the Endless Fire Domain with a super teleportation array, while the clan’s Three Lineages submitted to her control.
• Xiao Yan distributed Saint Relics among his allies and refined pills that helped Xiao Xuan break through to immortal grade within three months.
• Xiao Chen entered the Spiritual Road Competition, and Xiao Yan secretly watched him compete alongside Qing Yanjing.
• Xiao Chen outmaneuvered Ji Xuan and was chased by Luo Tianshen’s granddaughter, then crossed paths with a girl bathing and later provoked more girls.
• Xiao Yan noticed Xiao Chen was about to stir up something big on the Spiritual Road Continent.

Mu Chen unleashed a Spiritual Energy storm against the youths who surrounded him, earning the name Blood Calamity and prompting the Five Great Spiritual Academies to debate his punishment. Xiao Yan stopped Qing Yanjing from intervening openly and sent Qing Tian to secure a fair outcome while concealing Mu Chen’s family background, leaving the academy elders stunned to learn that Qing Tian was only Mu Chen’s guardian.

• Ji Xuan and nearly a hundred youths surrounded Mu Chen, but Mu Chen sent Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan away and detonated a Spiritual Energy node, killing some attackers and forcing most of the others to withdraw or flee.
• Mu Chen’s bloody victory earned him the title Blood Calamity, and the Five Great Spiritual Academies’ elders argued over whether to punish or expel him.
• Qing Yanjing wanted to punish the Holy Spirit Academy for targeting Mu Chen, but Xiao Yan persuaded her to let him face opposition so he could be tempered.
• Xiao Yan sent Qing Tian to negotiate a fair outcome for Mu Chen and told him to conceal Mu Chen’s true background from the academies.
• Qing Tian appeared before the elders, who became deferential, and he later assured them that he would remain Mu Chen’s guardian and intervene if the boy faced mortal danger.
• The elders realized Qing Tian was Mu Chen’s guardian rather than merely an interested Heavenly Sovereign, and the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy’s elder drew their envy.

After Mu Chen left the Spiritual Road, Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing visited Ling Xi at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy and set her up to await their son. Xiao Yan then spent ten years developing the Endless Fire Domain and later toured the Divine Beast Clan, where Cai Lin and Zhu Kun advanced to Immortal Grade.

• Mu Chen won the Spiritual Road’s champion title and kissed Luo Li goodbye, while Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing watched.
• Qing Yanjing told Xiao Yan about Ling Xi, and they traveled to the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy to find her and ask her to wait for Mu Chen.
• Xiao Yan established a new Jia Nan Academy, brought the Bodhi Ancient Tree and Ancient Mandala Flower into the Endless Fire Domain, and assigned the Ancient Eight Clans their own continents.
• Xiao Yan organized the Ancient Eight Clans into the Flame Emperor’s Eight Divisions and took Cai Lin, Zhu Kun, Zi Yan, Feng Qing'er, and other divine beast experts to the Divine Beast Clan.
• After two years of visiting the divine beast races, Xiao Yan deepened his understanding of the way of fire, and Cai Lin and Zhu Kun inherited their ancestors’ legacies and broke through to Immortal Grade.

After returning from the Divine Beast Clan, Xiao Yan helped establish the Endless Fire Domain’s Pill Tower and Artifact Refining Hall, then began leading its experts to reclaim lower planes from the Extraterrestrial Evil Race. The chapter left Gu Yuan ready to take control of a newly liberated plane embryo.

• Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er gained powerful inheritances, and Xiao Yan forced the phoenix clan to apologize after one of its young masters tried to seize Feng Qing'er's bloodline.
• Xiao Yan refined seven Dragon-Phoenix Supreme Pills and forged nearly ten Peerless Saint Relics using the Divine Beast Clan's resources.
• Xiao Yan returned with his allies and established the Pill Tower under Yao Lao and the Artifact Refining Hall under Hun Miaomiao, giving the Endless Fire Domain a new structure.
• Xiao Yan used the Volcano Continent's planar power to baptize promising Great Perfection Earthly Sovereigns and sought plane embryos for them in lower planes.
• Xiao Yan led the Endless Fire Domain's experts against lower planes occupied by the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and burned the Blade Demon Clan's forces from one plane.
• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan that the plane had been cleared and explained how to communicate with its plane embryo, and Gu Yuan eagerly accepted the opportunity.

Xiao Yan purged demon-occupied planes and fought seven peak Heavenly Demon Emperors to a draw, forcing the Extraterrestrial Evil Race to withdraw from many planes. While cleansing a poisonous large plane, he found the Woeful Poison Body, and Xiao Yi Xian entered secluded cultivation.

• Xiao Yan led the Endless Fire Domain’s experts through lower planes, purifying them and arranging for powerful Earthly Sovereigns to seek breakthroughs to Heavenly Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan defeated a Xuan Mo Emperor and then faced the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and six other peak Heavenly Demon Emperors, holding them off without using his strongest Fire Lotus Divine Ability.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and the other Demon Emperors discussed Xiao Yan’s threat and resolved to use their final trump card if necessary.
• The Extraterrestrial Evil Race surrendered more than a hundred large planes and ordered its forces to withdraw from countless lower planes as Xiao Yan continued purifying them.
• Gu Yuan, Xiao Shaobei, and the Yellow Springs Demon Saint each broke through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm over the following years.
• Xiao Yan destroyed a peak Heavenly Demon Emperor’s remnant soul in a poisonous large plane and found the Woeful Poison Body, after which Xiao Yi Xian entered secluded cultivation.

Xiao Yan expanded the Endless Fire Domain while laying down rules for how the Great Thousand World could claim the lower planes he had reclaimed. Years later, he rushed to the Sky Luo Continent after Xiao Xiao and Chen'er sent simultaneous distress signals, where his children confronted a freed Heaven-Devouring Demon Emperor.

• Xiao Yan learned that the ancient woeful poison body’s inheritance had passed to Xiao Yi Xian, who could use it to reach Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.
• Shi Hao and Zi Yan advanced in the seventh year, and Yao Lao reached Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign in the eighth.
• Xiao Yan allocated reclaimed lower planes among the Endless Fire Domain, the Great Thousand Palace, and the Divine Beast Clan, and forbade anyone from invading planes with nearly intact civilizations.
• Xiao Chen, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying broke through to Heavenly Sovereign over the next two years, while Xiao Yan sent Yao Lao to a lower plane to make his breakthrough.
• Xiao Xiao told Xiao Yan she had found his younger son Chen'er on the Sky Luo Continent, but months later both children triggered their distress signals.
• Xiao Yan’s soul projection appeared before Xiao Xiao and Chen'er as they faced the escaped Heaven-Devouring Demon Emperor, and Chen'er declared that Xiao Yan was his father.

Xiao Yan arrived as a projection to protect Xiao Xiao, Mu Chen, Lin Jing, and the others from the Heaven-Devouring Demon Emperor. He burned and purified the demon emperor, then used his flames to dissolve the black head in the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum, revealing a luminous figure.

• The Heaven-Devouring Demon Emperor threatened Xiao Xiao and Mu Chen while demonic qi overwhelmed the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Xiao Yan appeared as a projection, drove back the demonic qi, and reunited with Xiao Xiao, Mu Chen, and Lin Jing.
• Mu Chen recognized Xiao Yan as the Flame Emperor and questioned whether his projection could defeat the demon emperor.
• Xiao Yan unleashed world power through radiant flames, struck the fleeing Heaven-Devouring Demon Emperor into a Chaos Furnace, and burned him away.
• Xiao Yan burned the black head in the Heavenly Emperor Mausoleum until it melted into crystalline light and revealed a luminous, white-robed figure.

Xiao Yan learned One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, created two powerful clones, and intervened when the Western Heaven War Emperor threatened Mu Chen and Luo Li. Over the next fifteen years, the Endless Fire Domain grew stronger as new Heavenly Sovereigns emerged and Xiao Yan established the Flame Emperor Tower.

• Xiao Yan received the cultivation method for One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones while Mu Chen inherited the Heavenly Emperor's teachings and resolved to seek Luo Li's hand.
• After Mu Chen advanced, Xiao Yan mastered the divine ability by forming a Chaos Clone and a Primordial Clone from his supreme flames.
• When the Western Heaven War Emperor tried to seize Luo Li to advance his cultivation, Xiao Yan appeared, forced him to back down, and obtained the Great Emperor Inner Scripture in exchange for a Dragon-Phoenix Supreme Pill.
• Mu Chen became engaged to Luo Li, and Xiao Yan later sent his Chaos Clone to patrol the myriad worlds while his Primordial True Form remained in the Endless Fire Domain.
• Over the following years, Yao Dan, the Heavenly Derivation Sect's ancestor, Yao Lao, and several members of the Xiao Clan reached the Heavenly Sovereign Realm, while Xiao Yan and Hun Miaomiao built the Flame Emperor Tower.

After years of growth in the Endless Fire Domain, Xiao Yan attended the Maha Gu Clan’s Eternal Gathering to support Mu Chen’s bid for the eternal immortal body. Xiao Yan publicly acknowledged Mu Chen as his son, leaving the furious Maha Tian powerless to oppose them.

• Yao Ling and the former Spirit Clan Chief became Heavenly Sovereigns, bringing the Endless Fire Domain’s total to more than twenty before its rapid growth began to slow.
• News that the Maha Gu Clan was reopening the Eternal Gathering prompted Xiao Yan to attend so he could protect Mu Chen as he sought the eternal immortal body.
• Qing Yanjing discussed Mu Chen’s inheritance with Xiao Yan, who promised that no one could interfere if the eternal immortal body chose their son.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Eternal Gathering, drawing attention from the gathered experts, and told Mu Chen to give it his all because he would back him.
• Mu Chen thanked Xiao Yan and called him Dad, publicly confirming their relationship.
• Maha Tian seethed at Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing’s arrival but swallowed his anger and hoped Mu Chen would fail to obtain the eternal immortal body.

Mu Chen obtained the Eternal Immortal Body and the Immortal Emperor’s inheritance after sacrificing his immortal golden body. Xiao Yan defeated the assembled Maha Gu Clan with one strike, then told Qin Tian he would handle the final Demon-Slaying Conference himself.

• Mu Chen detonated his immortal golden body in the Eternal Tower and ultimately won the Eternal Immortal Body and the Immortal Emperor’s recognition.
• Maha Tian ordered the Maha Gu Clan’s thirty Heavenly Sovereigns to attack Xiao Yan, bringing out the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle.
• Xiao Yan subdued the entire Maha Gu Clan and its Ancestral Artifact with a single palm strike.
• Qin Tian arrived to invite Xiao Yan to the final Demon-Slaying Conference, and Xiao Yan said he would handle it himself.

Xiao Yan revealed to Qin Tian that he could face the Extraterrestrial Evil Race and removed the Heart Demon Heavenly Demon Emperor’s seed from him. As the Great Thousand Covenant approached, the Demon Emperors decided to risk everything to rescue their Saint God, with the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor pledging to hold Xiao Yan back.

• Xiao Yan told Qin Tian he had gained strength comparable to the Immortal Emperor and asked him to keep it secret while gathering allies.
• Xiao Yan confirmed he had burned the Heart Demon Heavenly Demon Emperor’s heart demon seed out of Qin Tian.
• The Extraterrestrial Evil Race’s Demon Emperors met to discuss the Great Thousand Covenant and the danger Xiao Yan posed to their Saint God Rescue Plan.
• The Heart Demon Heavenly Demon Emperor revealed Xiao Yan had destroyed the seed he planted in Qin Tian, alarming the assembled Demon Emperors.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor vowed to burn his life to hold Xiao Yan back while the others tried to rescue their Saint God.
• The Demon Emperors pledged to fight to the death for the glory of their race.

Xiao Yan and the Great Thousand World’s experts prepared to suppress the Heavenly Evil God’s final life imprint as the Extraterrestrial Evil Race invaded the Northern Desolate Mound. Xiao Yan and Lin Dong went out to face twenty-three Heavenly Demon Emperors while Qin Tian led the others to activate the Great Thousand Demon-Slaughtering Array.

• At the Great Thousand Palace, Xiao Yan recognized that Lin Dong had touched the Ruler Realm, and Lin Dong urged Mu Chen to visit his daughter Lin Jing after the battle.
• The Undying Master declared that the Tomb Keeper Clan would serve Mu Chen as the new master of the eternal immortal body.
• The Northern Desolate Mound shook, and its bronze coffins released spiritual energy that formed an ancient array to grind away the Heavenly Evil God’s final life imprint.
• Xiao Yan promised to hold off the Extraterrestrial Evil Race, and Lin Dong went with him while Qin Tian led the experts to the array.
• Twenty-three Heavenly Demon Emperors emerged from spatial rifts with countless Xuan Mo Emperors and Nether Demon Emperors, and the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor demanded that Xiao Yan leave.

The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor burned his life to summon a fragment of the Saint God's power and attack Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan survived with only minor injuries. The Demon Emperors then charged toward the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array while other battles broke out, and a radiant figure arrived to crush one of them.

• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor sacrificed his life to merge with a figurine containing the Saint God's origin and gain a fraction of the Saint God's power.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor fired the Saint God Annihilation Light at Xiao Yan, who blocked it with his Chaos Furnace and suffered only minor injuries.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered the Demon Emperors to attack the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array while he kept Xiao Yan occupied.
• Lin Dong engaged the Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor, while the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor revealed that other forces were attacking the Endless Fire Domain and lower planes.
• A figure wreathed in radiant flames descended and crushed a Demon Emperor.

Xiao Yan’s original body fought the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor while his Chaos Clone faced the other Demon Emperors, revealing power comparable to the Immortal Emperor and killing two of them. With their attacks useless and their forces losing hope, the Heart Demon Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered every Demon Emperor to activate the Final Plan and sacrifice themselves to their God.

• Xiao Yan explained that the Great Thousand World had prepared defenses for the lower planes while the True Dragon Ancient Emperor and Divine Beast Clan intercepted enemy forces.
• Xiao Yan inscribed his name on the Firmament List and charged at the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor as Qin Tian prepared to activate the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array.
• Xiao Yan’s Chaos Clone raised its power to match his original body and burned a Heavenly Demon Emperor and his Clan-Suppressing Treasure to ashes.
• The Demon Emperors attacked together, but their barrage failed to damage the Chaos Furnace, and Xiao Yan’s flames annihilated another Heavenly Demon Emperor.
• The Demon Emperors learned that Xiao Yan’s clones rivaled the Immortal Emperor, and the Heart Demon Heavenly Demon Emperor ordered them to detonate themselves as sacrifices to their God.

The Demon Emperors sacrificed themselves and the Evil Spirit Clan to weaken the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array and feed the Heavenly Evil God. As the array failed and the Heavenly Evil God began to break free, Xiao Yan sent the Heavenly Sovereigns away and prepared to face him.

• The Demon Emperors self-destructed, but Xiao Yan used the Chaos Furnace to devour much of their demonic qi while the Heart Demon Heavenly Demon Emperor sacrificed himself to distract him.
• The Light Heavenly Demon Emperor released the Evil Spirit Clan, whose members self-destructed and merged their blood mist with the demonic qi, corroding the array's spiritual-energy threads.
• The Heavenly Evil God drew the demonic qi into the fissure, and Qin Tian called for the Heavenly Sovereigns to reactivate the array.
• Xiao Yan crushed the Dark Heavenly Demon Emperor and told the Heavenly Sovereigns to withdraw, declaring that he would kill the Heavenly Evil God even if he escaped.
• The Heavenly Sovereigns left their array posts, and a pillar of demonic light erupted from the depths of the earth.

Xiao Yan confronted the newly freed Heavenly Evil God and wounded him with the combined power of his original body and Chaos Clone. The Heavenly Evil God tried to flee, but Xiao Yan’s three incarnations surrounded him above the Northern Desolate Mound.

• The Heavenly Evil God emerged from the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array, and Xiao Yan struck him with Radiant Flames, revealing his half-step ruler strength.
• Xiao Yan battled the weakened Heavenly Evil God, while the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor sacrificed himself to restore some of the god’s strength.
• The Heavenly Evil God unleashed the Five-Eyed God-Slaying Diagram, but Xiao Yan and his Chaos Clone answered with twin Fire Lotuses that destroyed its five eyes and wounded him.
• The Heavenly Evil God attempted to escape, but Xiao Yan’s other incarnation struck him back, leaving all three of Xiao Yan’s incarnations surrounding him.