Chapter Summaries

Nalan Yanran learned that Yun Shan had returned to seclusion instead of rescuing Yun Yun, while Jia Xingtian worried that Yun Shan might be preparing to break through to the Dou Zong realm. Fearing both the Misty Cloud Sect and the Xiao Clan, Jia Xingtian agreed to seek cooperation with the Xiao Clan.

• Nalan Yanran urged the Great Elder to ask Yun Shan to rescue Yun Yun, but he said Yun Shan had forbidden anyone from disturbing him for six months.
• Yao Ye told Jia Xingtian that Yun Shan had not broken through to the Dou Zong realm and had returned to seclusion, delaying action against the Xiao Clan for six months.
• Jia Xingtian suspected Yun Shan was using the time to attempt a breakthrough and warned that a Dou Zong would threaten the Jia Ma Imperial Family.
• Yao Ye proposed attacking the weakened Misty Cloud Sect, but Jia Xingtian rejected the plan because the Xiao Clan could benefit from their conflict.
• Yao Ye suggested cooperating with the Xiao Clan, and Jia Xingtian agreed to travel to Xiao City himself.

Xiao Yan passed the first-tier alchemist examination in Black Rock City and received the guild’s special robe and badge. As he left the Alchemist Guild, he heard that Xiao Zhan had defeated and captured Yun Yun, leaving Xiao Yan thrilled by his father’s victory.

• Xiao Yan refined a first-tier pill before Frank, Otto, and the Alchemist Guild’s members, earning astonishment at his achievement before turning sixteen.
• Frank and Otto praised Xiao Yan’s talent and wondered who had taught him.
• Frank presented Xiao Yan with a first-tier alchemist robe and badge, and Xiao Yan put on the robe before leaving the guild.
• Xiao Yan heard passersby say that Xiao Zhan had defeated and captured Yun Yun after the Misty Cloud Sect’s expedition to Xiao City.
• Xiao Yan celebrated his father’s victory and thought that the Misty Cloud Sect was no threat.

Xiao Yan left Black Rock City for the Tagor Desert while news of the Xiao Clan’s victory spread and enraged Gu He. The chapter ended with Xiao Zhan taunting the imprisoned Yun Yun over the Misty Cloud Sect’s failure to rescue her.

• Xiao Yan learned that the Xiao Clan had defeated the Misty Cloud Sect, then traveled by flying beast toward Desert City to seek the Heavenly Flames in the Tagor Desert.
• Liu Ling told Gu He that Yun Yun had been defeated and captured by the Xiao Clan, and Gu He grew furious after hearing the full account.
• Gu He learned that Yun Shan would not go to Xiao City for six months and angrily questioned whether he would leave Yun Yun imprisoned.
• The people of Xiao City celebrated the Xiao Clan’s growing reputation as its victory became known across the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Zhan visited the recovered but confined Yun Yun and mocked her because the Misty Cloud Sect had sent no one to rescue her.

Xiao Zhan threatened Yun Yun with the deaths of the Misty Cloud Sect's Three Elders unless she agreed to marry him, while Xiao Yan arrived in Desert City to prepare for training in the Tagor Desert. In Xiao City, Gu He arrived with several experts seeking to speak with the Xiao Clan Chief, and Yan Shi urged the group to attack.

• Xiao Zhan gave Yun Yun half a month to agree to their wedding, threatening to kill the Misty Cloud Sect's Three Elders if she refused.
• Xiao Yan reached Desert City, where Yao Lao advised him to buy a desert map, water, and snake-repelling medicine before entering the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Shan confronted Gu He and the experts accompanying him outside Xiao City and asked their purpose.
• Gu He introduced himself as Pill King Gu He and requested a meeting with the Xiao Clan Chief.
• Yan Shi urged Gu He to wipe out the Xiao City defenders, and Xiao Shan warned the visitors not to act recklessly.

Gu He met Xiao Zhan in Xiao City and asked him to release Yun Yun. In Black Rock City, Xiao Yan found a fragment that Yao Lao suspected could lead to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, then learned the map shop’s old owner recognized it.

• Gu He stopped Mad Lion from provoking Xiao Shan and called for Xiao Zhan to discuss Yun Yun’s release.
• Xiao Zhan appeared before Gu He, accepted his offer to compensate the Xiao Clan, and heard his request to let Yun Yun return.
• Xiao Yan visited Ancient Map in Black Rock City and found a mysterious map fragment among the shop’s discarded maps.
• Yao Lao identified a lotus on the fragment as possibly depicting the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame and explained its rarity and power.
• Xiao Yan asked the white-haired mapmaker whether he had other fragments like it, and the old man asked where Xiao Yan had seen one.

Xiao Yan found a map fragment linked to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame in a desert shop, where Yao Lao sensed that the old map seller was a Dou Emperor suppressed to Dou Ling strength. Meanwhile, Gu He offered Xiao Zhan precious pills in exchange for Yun Yun, but Xiao Zhan had not agreed to release her.

• Xiao Yan asked the old map seller about his fragment and tried to buy it, but the old man said he had dug it up in the desert and refused to sell it.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the seller was truly a Dou Emperor whose strength was being suppressed to around the Dou Ling level.
• Xiao Zhan told Gu He that Yun Yun had led an attack on the Xiao Clan and that he would not simply release her.
• Gu He offered two Sixth-grade Dou Ling Pills and one Seventh-grade Transformation Pill to secure Yun Yun's release.
• Yan Shi and the others were astonished by Gu He's costly offer as they considered the pills' rarity and effects.

Xiao Zhan refused Gu He's offer of two rare pills, revealing that he intended to take Yun Yun as his concubine, and Gu He led the others to attack Xiao City. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan's interest in an ancient map fragment provoked the shop's white-haired old man, who demanded to know who he was.

• Gu He offered Xiao Zhan a Sixth-Grade Pill and a Seventh-grade Transformation Pill in exchange for Yun Yun, but Xiao Zhan refused.
• Xiao Zhan said he planned to take Yun Yun as his concubine, enraging Gu He and shocking Yan Shi, Feng Li, and the others.
• Gu He promised to double the payment for their help, then charged toward Xiao City with Yan Shi, Feng Li, and the other experts.
• At the Ancient Map Shop, the white-haired old man refused to sell Xiao Yan the map fragment and warned him against taking it by force.
• The old man's brush snapped as Xiao Yan spoke, and he shut the door, released a powerful icy aura, and asked Xiao Yan who he was.

Xiao Zhan defeated Gu He and the experts attacking Xiao City, then used the Father-Relying Teleportation Talisman to rescue Xiao Yan from Hai Bodong. Xiao Yan took the map fragment, and Xiao Zhan left after Hai Bodong backed down.

• Xiao Zhan struck down Yan Shi, Gu He, and the Dou Wang and Dou Ling experts they had brought to attack Xiao City.
• Xiao Zhan ordered his men to deal with the fallen attackers, then activated the Father-Relying Teleportation Talisman after sensing Xiao Yan was in danger.
• Hai Bodong pressured Xiao Yan with his aura in the Ancient Map Shop, and Xiao Yan called for his father to save him.
• Xiao Zhan emerged through a Void Gate, dispersed Hai Bodong's aura, and asked Xiao Yan what had happened.
• Xiao Yan took the map fragment from the counter, and Hai Bodong agreed to let him have it after Xiao Zhan questioned him.
• Xiao Zhan spared Hai Bodong and left after giving Xiao Yan a few instructions.

Xiao Yan learned that Hai Bodong possessed the other half of the map fragment and discovered the old map vendor was the famed Ice Emperor. Hai Bodong revealed that Queen Medusa had sealed his strength and offered to trade the missing fragment for a pill that could restore it.

• Xiao Yan learned the map fragment was only half of the complete map, and Hai Bodong refused to reveal the other piece without negotiating.
• Hai Bodong introduced himself as the Ice Emperor, a former powerhouse of the Jia Ma Empire.
• Hai Bodong explained that Queen Medusa had cursed him with a Snake Seal Curse, aging his body and sealing his strength at the Dou Ling level.
• Hai Bodong told Xiao Yan he had a medicinal formula for a pill that could break the seal and offered the other map half in exchange for having it refined by an alchemist with heavenly flames.

Xiao Yan agreed to find Hai Bodong’s missing sand mandala and arrange for his Sixth-Grade Pill to be refined in exchange for information about heavenly flames in the Tagor Desert. Hai Bodong gave him a detailed map marking three likely locations and warned him to avoid the western site near Queen Medusa’s territory, but Xiao Yan dismissed the danger.

• Xiao Yan said he could ask Yao Lao to refine Hai Bodong’s Sixth-Grade Pill, provided Hai Bodong supplied the ingredients.
• Hai Bodong revealed he was missing sand mandala, which grew in the Tagor Desert, and offered information about heavenly flames in return for Xiao Yan finding it.
• Xiao Yan agreed to the exchange, and Hai Bodong handed him a detailed desert map marking three possible heavenly flame locations.
• Hai Bodong advised Xiao Yan to investigate the eastern and northern locations first and avoid the western one near Queen Medusa’s territory.
• Xiao Yan laughed off Hai Bodong’s warning about Queen Medusa.

Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Tagor Desert in search of a heavenly flame, while Xiao Zhan’s defeat of Gu He and his allies and the revelations from Xiao City shocked the region’s major powers. Xiao Yan began his desert journey and killed a concealed Yellow Sand Scorpion.

• Xiao Yan left Hai Bodong’s shop with a map fragment and, after Yao Lao advised him to stay cautious, bought supplies and checked into an inn.
• Xiao City’s guards imprisoned the wounded Gu He and Feng Li after Xiao Zhan defeated their group, while the other experts were found dead.
• Xiao Zhan announced his intention to marry Yun Yun, and news about Hai Bodong and Yun Shan further alarmed the major powers.
• Xiao Yan set out into the Tagor Desert with supplies and Qi Recovery Pills, heading toward the first flame marker on Hai Bodong’s map.
• Xiao Yan sensed a Yellow Sand Scorpion beneath the sand and killed it with his Heavy Black Ruler.

Xiao Yan searched the Tagor Desert for traces of Heavenly Flames but found none, then discovered the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and reunited with his second brother, Xiao Li, and his eldest brother. He left the chapter greeting both brothers at their headquarters in Stone Desert City.

• Xiao Yan spent more than ten days searching the desert and reached Five-Star Dou Zhe, but found no sign of Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Desert Iron Mercenary Group's name and helped its members drive away the Sand Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yan told the Desert Iron mercenaries he was Xiao Li and Xiao Yan's younger brother, and they escorted him to Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Li at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group's headquarters, and Xiao Li brought him to see their eldest brother.
• Xiao Yan greeted his eldest brother warmly, and they exchanged remarks about how much they had grown and changed.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that their father was an Immortal Emperor Reincarnation and explained his plan to seek Heavenly Flames. The brothers began preparing to return home, but Yao Lao sensed a powerful magical beast nearby, which Xiao Ding identified as Queen Medusa.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that Wutan City had been renamed Xiao City and that their father was an Immortal Emperor Reincarnation.
• Xiao Li doubted Xiao Yan until Yao Lao emerged from his Storage Ring and confirmed the story.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li accepted Xiao Yan's account and decided to disband their mercenary company and return home with anyone who wished to join them.
• Xiao Yan said he would remain in the desert to find Heavenly Flames, which he could devour to grow stronger because of his Fire Spirit Body.
• Yao Lao sensed a powerful magical beast nearby, and Xiao Ding identified it as Queen Medusa of the Snake-People Tribe.

Xiao Yan and his brothers followed Queen Medusa into the desert after Yao Lao sensed a Heavenly Flame nearby. When Xiao Yan claimed he would take the flame, Queen Medusa attacked, and he shouted for his father to save him.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li decided to investigate Queen Medusa's presence near the flame region.
• Queen Medusa transformed into a giant purple snake and burrowed underground at a spot where she sensed something.
• Xiao Yan and his brothers found the hole and discovered that Queen Medusa was searching for a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa to leave the flame to him, angering her into attacking the three brothers.
• Xiao Yan shouted, "Father, save me!" as Queen Medusa's attack came at them.

Xiao Zhan spared the imprisoned Gu He in exchange for his service as the Xiao Clan’s alchemist, then used the Father-Relying Teleportation Talisman to rescue Xiao Yan from Queen Medusa. After reuniting with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, Xiao Zhan faced Queen Medusa, who apologized for attacking his son.

• Xiao Zhan gave Gu He healing pills and ordered him to refine pills for the Xiao Clan, sparing his life.
• Xiao Zhan sensed Xiao Yan was in danger and teleported from the prison to the desert.
• Xiao Zhan shattered Queen Medusa’s energy blast before it could hit Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li joyfully greeted Xiao Zhan and reunited with their father.
• Xiao Yan explained that Queen Medusa had discovered a Heavenly Flame, and Queen Medusa apologized to Xiao Zhan for attacking Xiao Yan.

Xiao Zhan traded Queen Medusa a Transformation Pill for the Heavenly Flames and had her excavate a passage beneath the ground. He equipped Xiao Ding and Xiao Li with a talisman and pills, urged them to seek opportunities beyond the Jia Ma Empire, and learned that the passage led to a magma lake where the Heavenly Flames might lie.

• Xiao Zhan explained the danger of Queen Medusa's evolution and offered her a Transformation Pill in exchange for the Heavenly Flames.
• Queen Medusa accepted the pill and dug an underground passage for Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Zhan used the Father-Relying Teleportation Talisman on Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, explaining that it would let him sense their locations and come to their aid.
• Xiao Zhan urged Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to leave the Jia Ma Empire and explore farther afield, then gave them pills to support their cultivation.
• Queen Medusa returned and reported that the passage reached an enormous underground magma lake, where the Heavenly Flames were likely located.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Ding reached the underground magma lake where Xiao Yan planned to seek the heavenly flame. As Xiao Yan prepared to dive in, a mysterious creature burst from the magma and attacked him, and Yao Lao stepped in to handle it.

• Queen Medusa reported finding the magma to Xiao Zhan, who sent her away and told Xiao Yan to retrieve the heavenly flame with Yao Lao's help.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li reached the passage, where Xiao Ding sent Xiao Li to guard the entrance before he and Xiao Yan descended.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Ding reached the underground magma world, but Xiao Ding could go no farther because the fire energy suppressed his wood-attribute Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan flew over the magma under Yao Lao's protection and prepared to dive beneath its surface.
• A mysterious creature burst from the magma and lunged at Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao told him to leave the fight to his teacher.

Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan’s body and protected him from the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake’s magma attack. He fought the beast in the underground cavern, and the chapter ended as its flame-made copies converged on him and exploded.

• Xiao Yan let Yao Lao take control, and Yao Lao blocked the Fire Spirit Snake’s magma attack with an invisible barrier.
• Xiao Ding recognized that Xiao Yan’s teacher had intervened as the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake emerged from the magma.
• Yao Lao explained the snake’s potential and attacked it with Xiao Yan’s Heavy Black Ruler, striking its head and drawing blood.
• The Fire Spirit Snake surrounded Xiao Yan with deep-red flames and created a dozen flame copies that charged at him.
• The flame copies converged on Xiao Yan and exploded, sending ripples of energy across the magma lake.

Xiao Yan absorbed the Fire Spirit Snake’s flames, battered the creature, and then plunged into the lava to search for Heavenly Flames. In Xiao City, Xiao Zhan told Yun Yun that Gu He and the others had died trying to rescue her, and she agreed to marry him to protect the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan devoured the Fire Spirit Snake’s flames and struck it repeatedly with his heavy ruler until it escaped into the lava.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding he would search for Heavenly Flames and dove into the lava lake.
• Xiao Zhan returned to Gu He’s cell, where Gu He had given up hope of opposing him.
• Xiao Zhan told Yun Yun that Gu He, Yan Shi, Feng Li, and the others had died attacking Xiao City to rescue her.
• Yun Yun agreed to Xiao Zhan’s proposal to spare the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Zhan set their wedding for three days later.

Xiao Zhan prepared to marry Yun Yun, then won Ya Fei’s acceptance and promised to let her talents shine. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan found the Green Lotus Core Flame in the underground magma and approached it under Yao Lao’s protection.

• Xiao Zhan ordered Xiao Shan to arrange his wedding to Yun Yun and told him not to summon his three sons.
• Ya Fei decided to accept Xiao Zhan, and Xiao Zhan arrived at the Mittel Auction House and embraced her.
• Xiao Zhan and Ya Fei consummated their relationship, and he promised to give her talents a chance to shine.
• Xiao Yan caught up with and killed the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake before Yao Lao guided him toward the Heavenly Flame’s aura.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discovered the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Xiao Yan moved closer while Yao Lao strengthened his protection.