Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling met the Yin-Yang Evil Saint, who recognized their Ancient Clan bloodlines and revealed his connection to Xiao Shaobei. He gave Yao Ling the yin-yang twin flames, then led Xiao Yan toward the dangerous Yin Side after hinting that his death involved a Dou Di expert.

• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint learned that Yao Ling came from the Yao Clan and Xiao Yan came from the Xiao Clan, then asked Xiao Yan about Xiao Shaobei.
• Xiao Yan told the Yin-Yang Evil Saint that Xiao Xuan had become a Dou Di, and the revelation shocked him.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint refused to give Xiao Yan the heavenly flames and awarded them to Yao Ling to repay a favor owed to the Yao Clan leader's wife.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint offered Xiao Yan another inheritance, and Xiao Yan eagerly asked about his famous Dual Cultivation Method.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint said his death had involved a Dou Di expert and led Xiao Yan toward the dangerous Yin Side.

Xiao Yan followed the Yin-Yang Evil Saint into the black fog, where the saint repeatedly spent his soul origin to cleanse Xiao Yan’s soul and strengthen it. At the altar beyond the fog, Xiao Yan discovered the true Yin-Yang Twin Flames and learned that the monster rising before him was the Yin-Yang Evil Saint’s corpse.

• Xiao Yan entered the black fog and used his soul power to navigate while its killing intent began to overwhelm him.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint sent clear light into Xiao Yan several times, purifying his soul at the cost of his own soul origin.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the fog and found a red-haired monster at another Yin-Yang Altar; its presence began transforming his body until the saint cleansed him again.
• Xiao Yan learned that the altar held the true Yin-Yang Twin Flames and that the Yang Side’s flames were a special child flame.
• The monster began to rise, and the Yin-Yang Evil Saint revealed that it was his corpse.

The Yin-Yang Evil Saint possessed Xiao Yan and used the yin-yang twin flames to suppress his mutated corpse and purge the Yin Side of its black mist. He then explained that his corruption began after discovering a Dou Di's corpse in an Emperor Tomb, leaving Xiao Yan stunned by the revelation.

• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint took control of Xiao Yan's body and summoned the yin-yang twin flames to battle the Red-Haired Monster.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint used the Yin-Yang God-Locking Formation to immobilize the Red-Haired Monster, then drew the black mist into a flame dragon and sent it through a spatial tunnel.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint sealed his mutated body and told Xiao Yan that a Yao Clan prodigy had once made him a cuckold.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint recounted losing to Yao Dan and searching the continent for a way to grow stronger.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint revealed that he had found an Emperor Tomb on the Southeast Continent and discovered a Dou Di's corpse inside.

The Yin-Yang Evil Saint revealed that a Dou Di had become a red-haired monster and explained how he survived infection by preserving his soul. He gave Xiao Yan the yin-yang saint flame and asked him to seek Shao Bei’s help before the corpse broke free, leaving Xiao Yan to refine the flame under his protection.

• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint told Xiao Yan that he had seen a Dou Di corpse transformed into a red-haired monster and had become infected after meeting its gaze.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint explained how he created the yin-yang saint flame and offered it to Xiao Yan for its power to aid dual cultivation.
• Xiao Yan accepted the gift with three kowtows, and the Yin-Yang Evil Saint removed his soul imprint and transferred the flames to him.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint used the yin and yang flames to suppress the stirring corpse and said he could hold it for ten more years.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint asked Xiao Yan to find Shao Bei to deal with the corpse and help him see his old friend before his soul vanished.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint urged Xiao Yan to refine the flame while he protected him, joking that the girl from the Yao Clan might grow impatient.

Xiao Yan began refining the yin-yang saint flame with extensive protection and the Yin-Yang Evil Saint watching over him. He endured the flame’s brutal heat and guided it through his meridians, leaving his transformation into a true powerhouse dependent on surviving the trial.

• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint revealed that he had altered the yin-yang twin flames so they contained only the yang essence, and suggested Xiao Yan use them to explore the Yin-Yang Saint Scripture with the Yao Clan girl.
• Xiao Yan prepared to refine the flame with ice spirit cold spring, spirit-assimilating essence, and a Jade-Blood Golden Pill crafted by Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Jade-Blood Golden Pill, which formed a protective green layer over his body.
• Xiao Yan drew the twin flames into his palm and swallowed them, suffering intense pain as they transformed into two wisps of flame inside him.
• Xiao Yan used his Dou Qi and soul strength to control the flames and guide them along his meridians while the pill’s energy protected him.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint watched Xiao Yan endure the trial and approved of his resolve.

The Yin-Yang Twin Flames erupted into a sea of fire and Black Miasma, transforming exposed creatures into bloodthirsty monsters. Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu sealed the miasma while they waited for the youth inside the Ancient City, who emerged seven days later having refined his first heavenly flame.

• The exploding fire dragon spread Black Miasma across a hundred-li radius, turning exposed experts and creatures into violent monsters.
• Xiao Wen tested the miasma and found that it could contaminate Dou Qi and corrode space, making it difficult even for Half-Saints to destroy.
• Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu drew on water, fire, and spatial power to imprison the miasma in an energy dome.
• Xiao Wen estimated that the seal would hold for about a year, then waited with Xiao Wu near the Ancient City for seven days.
• The youth opened his eyes inside the Ancient City and announced that he had refined his first heavenly flame.

Xiao Yan refined the Yin-Yang Saint Flame, which evolved his Flame Mantra to high Profound Tier, while Yao Ling discovered that the flame had trapped her and was stirring an uncontrollable reaction. After the Yin-Yang Evil Saint urged Xiao Yan to find her, he entered her altar and asked her to help him cultivate.

• Xiao Yan absorbed yin and yang energy with the Yin-Yang Saint Flame and devoured it to advance his cultivation.
• Yao Ling finished refining the weakened Yin-Yang Twin Flames, then found herself trapped by a barrier as an invisible flame surged inside her.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint told Yao Ling that the Yao Clan had not truly done him a kindness and said his successor would rescue her.
• After a day of absorbing the flame, Xiao Yan discovered that his Flame Mantra had evolved from high Yellow Tier to high Profound Tier.
• Xiao Yan entered Yao Ling's altar and told her that he wanted her to help him cultivate.

After spending three days with Yao Ling, Xiao Yan emerged from the Ancient City with her. The two Yao Clan elders and Xiao Yan’s protectors waited anxiously outside until the pair appeared.

• Xiao Yan’s dual cultivation with Yao Ling advanced his cultivation from the middle six-star stage to the early seven-star stage.
• Yao Ling attacked Xiao Yan, but he reminded her that the Yin-Yang Evil Saint had trapped her and that killing him could bring the Xiao Clan’s wrath upon the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yan used the Yin-Yang Twin Flames to subdue Yao Ling, then declared that he wanted her and would come to the Yao Clan for her after becoming a Dou Sheng.
• Three days later, Wen and Wu, the Two Saints, and two Yao Clan elders waited outside the Ancient City, growing anxious as a black hole appeared in a silver circle.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling emerged from the portal, relieving the four elders.

Xiao Yan and Yao Ling emerged from the Evil Saint Ruins stronger, then parted as he stayed behind to deal with the black miasma and sent the Yin-Yang Evil Saint's jade slip to the Xiao Clan leader. Back in the Yao Clan, Yao Ling told her brother Yao Tian that Xiao Yan was responsible for what had happened to her, and Yao Tian vowed to kill him.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Ling emerged from the ruins, having advanced to Seven-Star Dou Huang and Dou Zong respectively, and Yao Ling left with the two elderly women.
• Xiao Yan warned Wen and Wu that the black miasma had killed the Yin-Yang Evil Saint and explained that a Three-Star Dou Sheng or stronger might need ten years to eradicate it.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Wen a jade slip left by the Yin-Yang Evil Saint and asked him to deliver it to the Xiao Clan leader, then stayed with Xiao Wu to watch the miasma.
• Yao Ling returned to the Yao Clan and recalled her time with Xiao Yan in the ruins, becoming angry and distressed.
• Yao Tian sensed changes in Yao Ling's aura, demanded to know who was responsible, and swore to kill Xiao Yan after she named him.

Yao Tian decided to spare Xiao Yan but vowed to punish him for hurting Yao Ling. Meanwhile, Xiao Wen returned to the Xiao Clan, where the anxious patriarch learned that the Yin-Yang Evil Saint was in the Fertile Plains; there, Yao Tian confronted Xiao Yan and was greeted as his brother-in-law.

• Yao Ling persuaded Yao Tian not to kill Xiao Yan, explaining that two Half-Saints protected the Xiao Clan's Saint Son.
• Yao Tian promised to make Xiao Yan pay, while Yao Ling smiled and clung to her brother's arm.
• Xiao Wen delivered a jade slip bearing the Emperor's Son's orders to Xiao Zhen, who passed it to Xiao Shaobei.
• Xiao Shaobei urgently asked where Lang Bi, the Yin-Yang Evil Saint, was, then took Xiao Wen through a spatial passage to the Fertile Plains.
• Yao Tian arrived outside the Ancient City, identified Xiao Yan, and announced that he was Yao Ling's elder brother.
• Xiao Yan stood up and loudly called Yao Tian "Brother-in-law!"

Yao Tian attacked Xiao Yan for what he had done to Yao Tian’s sister, but an impossibly powerful stranger intervened just as Yao Tian was about to whip him. The stranger’s words revealed that Yao Tian had challenged him to come, leaving Yao Tian stunned by his strength.

• Yao Tian confronted Xiao Yan and attacked him, while Xiao Wu stepped in to protect the Xiao Clan Saint Son.
• Yao Tian overwhelmed Xiao Wu with his Heaven Rank Mid Grade Dou Technique, Heaven-Burning Divine Cauldron, and sealed him inside a massive cauldron.
• Xiao Yan fled with Dou Qi Wings, but Yao Tian caught up and restrained him, threatening him with a whip formed from Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.
• A man in purple-and-gold robes appeared between Yao Tian and Xiao Yan, stopped the whip by gripping Yao Tian’s wrist, and rendered his Dou Qi unusable.
• The stranger asked whether Yao Tian had not said that even he could not save Xiao Yan, leaving Yao Tian shocked by the man’s overwhelming strength.

Xiao Shaobei stopped Yao Tian from fighting Xiao Yan and persuaded him to leave after learning Xiao Yan was the Xiao Clan's Emperor's Son. As Xiao Shaobei headed toward the ancient city to save Lang Bi, Xiao Yan realized Elder Wu was still inside a medicinal cauldron.

• Xiao Shaobei identified himself as the Xiao Clan's leader and heard Yao Tian accuse Xiao Yan of defiling his sister.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had saved Yao Tian's sister after she refined the Yin-Yang Evil Saint's Yang Flame, and Xiao Shaobei asked Yao Tian to settle the matter peacefully.
• Yao Tian asked Xiao Yan to visit the Yao Clan and apologize to his sister, but Xiao Yan refused until Xiao Shaobei learned the clan ancestor had ordered him to go.
• Xiao Shaobei told Yao Tian about Xiao Yan's standing as the Xiao Clan's Emperor's Son, and Yao Tian called Xiao Yan his brother-in-law before leaving.
• Xiao Shaobei headed toward the ancient city to save Lang Bi, while Xiao Yan heard noises from a medicinal cauldron and realized Elder Wu was still inside.

Xiao Shaobei reunited with the Yin-Yang Evil Saint, Lang Bi, after freeing him from the Ancient City and learned that his physical body had become a Red-Haired Monster. He destroyed the monster and another mass of black mist, then asked Lang Bi what had happened a thousand years ago.

• Xiao Shaobei dissolved the Heavenly Flames cauldron and freed Xiao Wu, who greeted him as Clan Leader.
• Xiao Shaobei destroyed the Ancient City and brought its hidden space back into the Dou Qi Continent, revealing the Yin-Yang Evil Saint on the Yin Altar.
• Xiao Shaobei and Lang Bi reunited, and Lang Bi asked whether Xiao Shaobei had reached Nine-Star Dou Sheng; Xiao Shaobei proudly confirmed he had reached Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Lang Bi explained that the Red-Haired Monster was his physical body, and it awoke and tried to flee.
• Xiao Shaobei caught and crushed the Red-Haired Monster, then annihilated the black mist within it and the other black mist trapped in an energy barrier.
• Xiao Shaobei asked what the black mist was, and Lang Bi sighed that the explanation was a long story.

Xiao Yan returned to the Pill Tower after earning a favor from the Xiao Clan leader, while Yao Tian told Yao Ling that Xiao Yan was the clan’s Emperor’s Son. Back in Sacred Pill City, Xiao Yan overheard Cao Ying suggest that she and Dan Chen share a husband.

• Xiao Shaobei took the Yin-Yang Evil Saint back to the Xiao Clan and promised Xiao Yan a favor, and Xiao Yan decided to return to the Pill Tower.
• Yao Tian told Yao Ling that Xiao Yan was the Xiao Clan’s Emperor’s Son and urged her to consider accepting him, but she refused and resumed cultivating in a restless mood.
• Cao Ying asked Dan Chen to let her have Xiao Yan, but Dan Chen firmly refused, so Cao Ying proposed that they share him.
• Xiao Yan appeared in the doorway and teased Cao Ying and Dan Chen after overhearing their conversation.

Xiao Yan returned to Yao Lao with the Yin-Yang Saint Scripture and revealed his rapid breakthrough and newly acquired Yin-Yang Saint Flame. The next morning, he began refining a seventh-grade Transformation Pill before the gathered Pill Tower, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Xiao Yan embraced Cao Ying and Dan Chen before returning to the Starfall Pavilion and catching Yao Lao pretending to study the Heavenly Manual of Elixir Furnace Refining.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Lao the Yin-Yang Saint Scripture, and Yao Lao discovered that Xiao Yan had reached Mid-Seven-Star Dou Emperor and obtained the Yin-Yang Saint Flame.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to try refining a seventh-grade pill, and Xiao Yan agreed to attempt it the next day.
• The Pill Tower gathered to watch Xiao Yan prepare three sets of ingredients for a Transformation Pill, while Yao Lao stood guard.
• Xiao Yan focused his spiritual power and announced that pill refinement had begun.

Xiao Yan refined a Transformation Pill with the yin-yang saint flame, but the first pill embryo exploded and had to be contained by Xiao Wu. After reviewing his mistakes overnight, Xiao Yan tried again, and pill lightning marked his success as the youngest Seventh-Rank Alchemist in a thousand years.

• Xiao Yan refined the medicinal ingredients and formed a Transformation Pill embryo, but its energy began to surge out of control.
• Xiao Wu appeared and opened a spatial rift to absorb the explosion, while Yao Lao encouraged Xiao Yan to rest and reflect.
• Xiao Yan recovered overnight, studied his mistakes, and began refining the pill again with adjustments to his technique.
• Xiao Yan formed another pill embryo and used the Yin-Yang Fish flames to complete its refinement.
• Pill lightning gathered above the cauldron, announcing Xiao Yan's achievement as the youngest Seventh-Rank Alchemist in a thousand years.

Xiao Yan completed a seventh-rank pill and entered the seventh rank after Xiao Wu destroyed the pill lightning. He invited Dan Chen and Cao Ying to visit him that night, then sat cultivating until someone knocked at his door.

• Xiao Wu, Wen and Wu, and Yao Lao intervened as pill lightning struck, and Xiao Wu burned away the storm.
• Xiao Yan caught the finished pill, confirmed his breakthrough to the seventh rank, and received praise from the Pill Tower's Three Giants.
• The Cao Family Ancestor and Dan Family Ancestor worried over Xiao Yan's hold on Cao Ying and Dan Chen, while Danyang Zi resented his attention to them.
• Xiao Yan told Dan Chen and Cao Ying to find him that night, teasing both women and making them blush.
• After the alchemists left, Xiao Yan cultivated in his room until a series of knocks broke the silence.

Xiao Yan spent a chaste night with Dan Chen and Cao Ying before telling them he would leave the Central Plains in about two months to gather Heavenly Flames. Meanwhile, Han Feng grew jealous after learning Xiao Yan had been named the Starfall Pavilion’s young pavilion master and received the Flame Mantra.

• Dan Chen came to Xiao Yan’s room, and Cao Ying joined them, sparking a brief rivalry between the two girls.
• Xiao Yan told Dan Chen and Cao Ying he planned to leave the Central Plains in about two months and return after gathering Heavenly Flames in the Northwest Continent.
• Cao Ying mentioned the Three Thousand Burning Flame sealed in the Pill Tower, but Xiao Yan said it was too dangerous for him to refine for now.
• Xiao Yan shared a chaste night with Dan Chen and Cao Ying, then enjoyed their company again the following morning.
• At the Starfall Pavilion, Han Feng questioned a disciple about Xiao Yan and grew furious over Xiao Yan’s title and access to the Flame Mantra.

Han Feng left the Starfall Pavilion to seek the Fallen Heart Flame beneath Jia Nan Academy, while Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the Northwest Continent and gave Shi Hao the title Desolate Heavenly Emperor. In the Xiao Realm, Xiao Xuan questioned the Yin-Yang Evil Saint’s remnant soul about its warning.

• Han Feng learned that a fallen ancient Saint beneath Jia Nan Academy possessed a cultivation technique and heavenly flame, then left the Starfall Pavilion to pursue them.
• At a meal in Sacred Pill City, Xiao Yan confirmed to Ye Zhong that he would travel to the Northwest Continent the next day.
• Xiao Yan named Shi Hao the Desolate Heavenly Emperor, and the boy excitedly toasted him with a bowl of Beast Milk.
• Xiao Yan recalled the strange black energy and contaminated Dou Di corpse and sensed that the world was diverging from its original course.
• In the Xiao Realm, Xiao Shaobei presented the Yin-Yang Evil Saint’s remnant soul to Xiao Xuan, who gravely asked whether its words were true.

Xiao Xuan investigated the burial site of a Dou Di and discovered that the corpse was the Third-Generation Soul Emperor, while Xiao Yan prepared to leave Sacred Pill City. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan stepping through a spatial passage as his companions watched.

• Xiao Xuan sent the Yin-Yang Evil Saint to the Soul-Nourishing Grounds and promised to restore his body after verifying his report.
• Xiao Shaobei told the Yin-Yang Evil Saint that Xiao Yan was an Emperor's Son, then explained how the Xiao Clan had destroyed the Hun Clan a thousand years earlier.
• The Yin-Yang Evil Saint remembered that the writing at the Dou Di burial ruins used the Hun Clan's script, prompting Xiao Xuan to investigate Heavenly Burial Mountain.
• Xiao Xuan entered the hollow mountain, found a red-haired corpse bound by chains, and read a stele identifying it as the Third-Generation Soul Emperor.
• Xiao Yan said farewell to Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Yao Lao, and the others in Sacred Pill City, then entered the spatial passage opened by Wen and Wu.