Chapter Summaries

Su Qian confronted the Gold and Silver Elders while Xiao Yan and Han Feng raced to seize the fallen heart flame. After the flame trapped both men and they exchanged attacks, they rejected each other’s offers and charged into a direct battle over their heavenly flames.

• Su Qian released his overwhelming aura and prepared to fight the Gold and Silver Elders as a chaotic melee erupted overhead.
• Xiao Yan approached the fallen heart flame, but it attacked him from within and forced him to retreat when Han Feng struck from behind.
• Han Feng reached the fallen heart flame and was immobilized by its power, allowing Xiao Yan to launch a surprise attack that injured them both.
• Han Feng offered Xiao Yan a sixth-grade pill formula in exchange for the fallen heart flame, but Xiao Yan refused and challenged him for his sea heart flame.
• Han Feng and Xiao Yan charged at each other, and Han Feng summoned waves of deep-blue flame toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Han Feng clashed with their Heavenly Flames, and Han Feng realized Xiao Yan possessed the complete Flame Mantra. When Han Feng threatened to kill him, Xiao Yan summoned his father, Xiao Zhan, whose arrival made Han Feng immediately plead for mercy.

• Han Feng attacked Xiao Yan with a physical manifestation of the Sea Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan countered with a green lotus formed from the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• The two Heavenly Flames collided in a massive explosion, leaving both Xiao Yan and Han Feng battered.
• Han Feng recognized that Xiao Yan’s cultivation method was the complete Flame Mantra and became intent on killing him to seize the Heavenly Flame.
• Han Feng ignored the Black-Corner Region experts’ warnings and claimed that even the Xiao Emperor would kneel before him, so Xiao Yan called for his father to save him.
• Xiao Zhan stepped through a spatial rift, and Han Feng bowed and pleaded that he had only wanted to seize the Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Zhan defeated Han Feng while using only Dou Emperor cultivation, destroyed his body, and captured his soul for Xiao Yan to pass to Yao Lao. He took Han Feng’s High-Grade Storage Ring and discovered it was filled with valuable treasures.

• Xiao Zhan agreed to fight Han Feng using only Dou Emperor cultivation, then kicked him down with a movement technique so refined that onlookers thought he had teleported.
• Su Qian confirmed Xiao Zhan had kept his word, and Xiao Zhan struck Han Feng with a Soul Hand Seal that pulverized his body.
• Xiao Zhan captured Han Feng’s surviving soul and sent it to Xiao Yan, who imprisoned it and handed it to Yao Lao.
• Xiao Zhan took Han Feng’s blue High-Grade Storage Ring, erased Han Feng’s soul imprint, and found it packed with rare ingredients, cultivation methods, and Dou Technique scrolls.

Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan Han Feng’s Storage Ring, badly wounded the fallen heart flame, and left the Inner Academy. The flame swallowed Xiao Yan before Su Qian sealed it beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, leaving Xiao Yan’s fate uncertain.

• Xiao Zhan handed Xiao Yan Han Feng’s Storage Ring, then grievously wounded the fallen heart flame and departed through a spatial rift.
• The Black-Corner Region experts left as Su Qian ordered the students to evacuate and the elders to surround the fallen heart flame.
• The fallen heart flame charged after Xiao Yan and swallowed him as he tried to escape the elders’ array.
• Su Qian used a black energy net and a desperate strike to drive the fallen heart flame into the Magma World beneath the tower.
• Su Qian sealed the fallen heart flame beneath the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower with a dark Energy Barrier.

After Jia Nan Academy sealed the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Yan awoke trapped deep underground in magma with the Fallen Heart Flame. As Xiao Yan began cultivating and preparing to resist the flame himself, Yao Lao killed Han Feng’s soul and claimed his Sea Heart Flame.

• Su Qian watched the Fallen Heart Flame become sealed beneath the tower and worried about explaining Xiao Yan’s apparent death to Xiao Emperor.
• Xiao Yan woke in the magma and learned from Yao Lao that the Fallen Heart Flame had held him there for nearly a week while Yao Lao protected him with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus Platform and began absorbing fire energy as Yao Lao urged him to devour the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Lao confronted Han Feng, rejected his plea for mercy, and destroyed his soul, leaving behind the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to withdraw the Bone Spirit Cold Flame so he could resist the Fallen Heart Flame himself, and the heat began blistering his skin.

Xiao Yan endured the fallen heart flame’s prolonged torment in the Magma World, using pills and his green lotus core flame to stay alive. When the flame intensified until his body was close to destruction, he swallowed the Earth Spirit Pill, and its restorative energy began battling the burning within him.

• Xiao Yan swallowed a bottle of Qi Recovery Pills and continued resisting the fallen heart flame while drawing in fire-attributed energy.
• As he endured the endless heat and isolation, memories of his father, Xiao Zhan, helped him persevere.
• The fallen heart flame launched a far stronger attack, burning away Xiao Yan’s hair and badly damaging his skin, organs, and Dou Qi crystal.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Earth Spirit Pill when he reached his limit, and its liquid energy began restoring his body.
• The fallen heart flame repeatedly burned Xiao Yan’s recovering body while the Earth Spirit Pill’s energy renewed it, leaving him to endure immense pain.

After a month in the magma, Xiao Yan awoke with transformed meridians and broke through to Dou Wang, becoming immune to much of the Fallen Heart Flame’s burning. He prepared to fight back as the flame attacked him from within and without.

• Su Qian visited the Xiao Empire to apologize and discovered its formidable strength, while Xiao Emperor insisted Xiao Yan was alive.
• Su Qian ordered close guards and surveillance around the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower as the Xiao Empire continued expanding.
• Xiao Yan awoke deep in the magma and found his body and meridians had undergone a profound transformation.
• Xiao Yan discovered his Dou Qi flowed directly through his meridians and formed Dou Qi Wings, confirming he had advanced to Dou Wang.
• The Fallen Heart Flame attacked Xiao Yan with scorching flames from outside and a fierce heart flame within, but Xiao Yan remained calm and prepared to retaliate.

Xiao Yan used the fluorescence developed through his repeated exposure to the fallen heart flame to capture its Flame Serpent and began refining it inside his body. As the fallen heart flame fought back, he contained it within the green lotus core flame and continued enduring its heat.

• Xiao Yan’s fluorescence drove back the fallen heart flame and let him see its essence as a milky-white Flame Serpent.
• Xiao Yan chased down and captured the Flame Serpent, then drove it into his body to refine and devour it.
• Xiao Zhan sensed Xiao Yan’s progress and believed devouring the fallen heart flame could advance the Flame Mantra and help Xiao Yan grow stronger.
• The fallen heart flame erupted inside Xiao Yan, but he spread fluorescence through his body, slowed it, and enclosed it with the green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Yan condensed the green lotus core flame into an emerald-green fireball around the struggling fallen heart flame, enduring the rising heat.

Xiao Yan erased the consciousness of the fallen heart flame and refined it, then prepared to merge it with the green lotus core flame. Meanwhile, the Xiao Empire conquered nearly three hundred small countries and the Black Domain Great Plains before pausing to govern its new territory; the chapter ended as Xiao Yan commanded the two heavenly flames to merge.

• Xiao Yan used the green lotus core flame to wear down the fallen heart flame's consciousness, ignoring its pleas until it finally disappeared.
• Xiao Yan guided the now-docile fallen heart flame through his meridians and refined it with the Flame Mantra.
• The Xiao Empire occupied nearly three hundred small countries, annexed the Black Domain Great Plains, and paused its expansion to establish order.
• Xiao Yan guided the refined fallen heart flame into his Dou Qi Vortex, where the green lotus core flame reacted instinctively against it.
• Xiao Yan suppressed both flames and commanded them to merge, using Dou Qi as a boundary between them.

Xiao Yan began fusing two Heavenly Flames, using Flame Mantra Dou Qi to suppress their violent explosions. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhan confronted a blood-dragon attack from a hidden Soul Hall intruder and emerged unharmed, while the enemy stirred within a vast chasm.

• Xiao Yan removed the Dou Qi barrier between the green and white Heavenly Flames, then poured Flame Mantra Dou Qi into their increasingly violent fusion.
• Xiao Yan entered cultivation and drew in fire-attribute energy to sustain the long effort to make the Heavenly Flames coexist.
• Xiao Zhan sensed a powerful intruder crossing the Black Domain Great Plains and appeared above a fortress at its edge.
• Xiao Zhan called the intruder out, and a huge chasm opened as a blood-colored dragon burst from it and charged at him.
• Xiao Zhan endured the blood dragon’s attack without injury, prompting the fortress soldiers to cheer as he challenged the hidden Soul Hall figure.
• Someone inside the chasm reacted with surprise, and a gurgling sound rose from within.

Xiao Zhan faced the Soul Hall’s Fourth Venerable, Blood River, who tried to overpower him with the Blood Transformation Great Method. After absorbing the ravine’s blood and advancing to the third revolution, Blood River gathered blood clouds, but Xiao Zhan effortlessly split them apart.

• Blood River emerged from a sea of blood and accused Xiao Zhan of causing the Ninth’s death, then threatened to take the Xiao Clan’s bloodlines.
• Blood River unleashed the Blood Transformation Great Method, but Xiao Zhan froze its aura and injured him with a single finger.
• Blood River devoured the sea of blood, boosting himself from the first to the third revolution, while the narration explained the nine revolutions required to reach sainthood.
• Blood River gathered blood clouds overhead, and Xiao Zhan tore them in two with a sweep of his hands.

Xiao Zhan overwhelmed Blood River and deliberately let him summon Gu You, the Soul Hall’s Second Heavenly Venerate. Gu You attacked, but Xiao Zhan immediately kicked him out of hiding.

• Blood River unleashed his Blood Fiend Heavenly Demon Palm, but Xiao Zhan shattered it with a word.
• Xiao Zhan struck Blood River, breaking his defenses and badly injuring him while sparing his life.
• When Blood River refused to summon help, Xiao Zhan destroyed his body, prompting Blood River’s soul to call for his Second Brother through a Space Jade Tube.
• Gu You emerged from the spatial rift, introduced himself as the Second Heavenly Venerate, and challenged Xiao Zhan.
• Gu You vanished to attack Xiao Zhan, but Xiao Zhan kicked him out of a patch of space.

Gu You unleashed the Dark Skeleton King and a series of soul-based attacks against Xiao Zhan, but Xiao Zhan’s invisible defense stopped every blow. As Xiao Zhan prepared to counterattack, Gu You covered the skeleton in Ten Thousand Soul Bone Armor.

• Gu You summoned the Dark Skeleton King and sent it to strike Xiao Zhan.
• The skeleton’s crushing palm stopped just short of Xiao Zhan, and Gu You sent countless souls to explode against him, but Xiao Zhan’s barrier blocked them too.
• Gu You merged his soul with the shrinking skeleton and attacked again, but its palm could not break through Xiao Zhan’s defense.
• Xiao Zhan clenched his fist and prepared to strike, prompting Gu You to cover the skeleton in Ten Thousand Soul Bone Armor made from countless souls.

Xiao Zhan destroyed Gu You’s Ten Thousand Soul Bone Armor and killed both Gu You and Blood River, then ordered the Xiao Empire to defend its borders while its territory was stabilized. Beneath Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Yan regained awareness and saw the first signs that his two Heavenly Flames were fusing.

• Xiao Zhan’s attack shattered Gu You’s Ten Thousand Soul Bone Armor and left Gu You badly injured.
• Gu You and Blood River tried to escape, but Xiao Zhan sealed space and crushed both of them, then took their Storage Rings.
• Xiao Zhan appeared on the city wall, told the defenders to kill foreign invaders without mercy, and left the empire to establish order before expanding again.
• Xiao Yan awoke from his long cultivation beneath the magma and found that the green and white Heavenly Flames had become thoroughly intertwined.
• A small portion of the flames merged into a jade-like emerald flame, giving Xiao Yan hope that their fusion and the Flame Mantra’s maturation would eventually be complete.

Xiao Ding and Xiao Li decided to leave the Black-Corner Region for the Central Plains, while Xiao Yan emerged from a year of seclusion after successfully refining a second Heavenly Flame. He returned alive to Jia Nan Academy as a Three-Star Dou Wang, leaving the assembled students and Elders astonished.

• Xiao Ding rejected Xiao Li's suggestion that they return to help govern the Xiao Empire, and the brothers chose to seek opportunities in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan realized that he had refined the emerald-green Heavenly Flame and stored it in his Naling.
• As Jia Nan Academy prepared to reopen the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, Su Qian sensed danger and ordered the plaza evacuated and the tower door closed.
• Magma erupted through the tower's tip, but Xiao Yan stopped it before it reached the ground and announced that he had returned.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the shocked crowd, and Su Qian greeted him as the Elders recognized his survival and Three-Star Dou Wang cultivation.
• Xiao Yan drew the magma back into the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.

Xiao Yan agreed to supply the Inner Academy with Fallen Heart Flame so the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower could keep working, then left Jia Nan Academy to prepare for the Central Plains. In the Black-Corner Region, he refined the Sea Heart Flame and rose to Seven-Star Dou Wang.

• Su Qian learned that the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower’s heart flame was weakening after Xiao Yan refined the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan agreed to periodically provide Fallen Heart Flame for the tower’s spare vessel, and Su Qian told him that Xiao Zhan had expanded his territory to the Black Domain Great Plains.
• Xiao Yan left some Fallen Heart Flame for the Inner Academy and decided to head to the Central Plains after reaching Three-Star Dou Wang.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan to stay focused as he prepared to refine the Sea Heart Flame in a secluded cave in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame over three days and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Wang.

Xiao Yan set out for Tianya City to reach the Central Plains, riding a Griffin while Yao Lao explained the region’s space wormholes and powerful factions. They arrived at the Tianqing Mountain Range, near Tianya City.

• Xiao Yan learned that the Flame Mantra had evolved to the intermediate Earth Tier and agreed with Yao Lao to head to the Central Plains.
• Yao Lao explained that Xiao Yan would need to travel through a space wormhole in Tianya City, and Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy to obtain a Griffin from Su Qian.
• Xiao Yan rode the Griffin toward Tianya City while Yao Lao described the Central Plains’ major factions, including the Soul Hall, Pill Tower, Burning Flame Valley, and Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Lao revealed that he had founded the Starfall Pavilion and was close friends with Venerable Feng.
• Xiao Yan reached the Tianqing Mountain Range and guided the Griffin into its mountains.

Xiao Yan traveled to Tianya City, bought a Spatial Ship, and entered the Space Wormhole to begin his journey to the Central Plains. The chapter left him speeding through the Spatial Passage aboard the ship.

• Xiao Yan flew his Tier 4 Griffin to Tianya City, landed outside its gates, and sent the beast away.
• Xiao Yan checked into an inn and bought a Spatial Ship before evening.
• Xiao Yan paid to use the Space Wormhole in Tianya City and stepped inside.
• Xiao Yan followed Yao Lao's instructions, activated the Spatial Ship, and sped into the darkness of the Spatial Passage.

Xiao Zhan sent the Xiao Empire’s army to conquer the Black-Corner Region while Xiao Yan traveled through a spatial passage. The Black-Corner Region’s factions formed the Black Alliance, which met Jia Xingtian’s invasion with a defensive formation.

• Xiao Zhan ordered an army of more than a hundred thousand, backed by the Lightning Flying Eagle, to march into the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan traveled through a spatial passage aboard a ship, expecting the journey to take more than a dozen days.
• The Black-Corner Region’s faction leaders formed the Black Alliance and chose the Gold and Silver Elders to lead it.
• The Black Alliance gathered its forces on a mountain, where its twelve Dou Huang experts outnumbered the Xiao Empire’s two, but its army was much smaller.
• Jia Xingtian led the Xiao Empire’s forces to the mountain and demanded the Black Alliance surrender; the alliance refused, and he ordered an attack.
• The Black Alliance activated a prepared formation that blocked the army’s first barrage, while Jia Xingtian ordered a second attack.

The Xiao Empire’s army attacked the Black Alliance, but Old Man Ying Shan arrived to defend it. Yan Luotian summoned the Lightning Flying Eagle, whose overwhelming power destroyed the Black Alliance’s leadership and forces, leaving the Xiao Empire poised to rule the Black-Corner Region.

• Yan Luotian joined Jia Xingtian on the battlefield as the Black Alliance’s leaders worried that they lacked a Dou Zong expert.
• The Bearded Elder summoned Old Man Ying Shan, who challenged Jia Xingtian and Yan Luotian and declared that the Black-Corner Region should remain in chaos.
• Yan Luotian called forth the Lightning Flying Eagle, whose aura revealed him to be a Dou Zun and drove the Black Alliance’s leaders and troops to flee.
• The Lightning Flying Eagle killed Old Man Ying Shan with a bolt of lightning, then pursued and slaughtered the fleeing Black Alliance leaders.
• The Xiao Empire’s army wiped out the Black Alliance’s tens of thousands of soldiers, establishing its power across the region.