Recaps

After returning to Fallen Peak to seek the energy needed to break through to Dou Di, Xiao Yan discovered that it was gone and deduced that Hun Dai'er had taken it. Hun Xuzi then ambushed him to capture him for the key to taming the purifying lotus demon flame, and Xiao Yan prepared to fight.

• Xiao Yan left Ancient Dragon Island and traveled to Fallen Peak instead of returning to Starfall Pavilion.
• At Fallen Peak's summit, Xiao Yan searched for the mysterious energy but could not find it and suspected Hun Dai'er had taken it.
• Xiao Yan sensed black motes of Nihility Devouring Flame trying to consume his Dou Qi and destroyed them with his demon marks.
• Hun Xuzi appeared and revealed that Hun Dai'er had sent him to capture Xiao Yan, who supposedly possessed the key to taming the purifying lotus demon flame.
• Xiao Yan recognized Hun Xuzi's earth sub-flame of the nihility devouring flame and declared that he would take it.

Xiao Yan confronted Hun Xuzi and overwhelmed him with superior flames, soul attacks, and successive Dou Techniques. After Hun Xuzi’s Heaven Swallowing Mirror failed, Xiao Yan’s Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand created a black ring whose devouring power threatened him.

• Hun Xuzi attacked Xiao Yan with his Nihility Devouring Flame, but Xiao Yan’s purple-gold flame destroyed it, and Hun Xuzi realized Xiao Yan was a powerful opponent.
• Hun Xuzi crushed a Spatial Jade Slip to summon help, but Xiao Yan revealed that he had sealed the space to prevent escape or communication.
• Hun Xuzi attacked with Rending Wind Tiger Roar Palm, and Xiao Yan shattered it with Ten Prisons Azure Flame Finger.
• Hun Xuzi unleashed Myriad Souls Worship, but Xiao Yan’s Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath overcame it and injured him.
• Xiao Yan pressed his advantage with multiple Dou Techniques, forcing Hun Xuzi to defend himself with Heaven Swallowing Mirror.
• Xiao Yan’s Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand swallowed the mirror and formed a black ring whose devouring power alarmed Hun Xuzi.

Xiao Yan trapped Hun Xuzi in the Soul Refining Tower and activated the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation to overcome his resistance. As Hun Xuzi was consumed and the Soul Light Orbs released their energy into Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan prepared to push his soul toward the Emperor Realm.

• Hun Xuzi resisted Xiao Yan’s black ring until Xiao Yan’s soul clone struck him with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, allowing the ring to swallow him.
• Xiao Yan enclosed Hun Xuzi in the Soul Refining Tower and began refining him, while Hun Xuzi’s Nihility Devouring Flame earth sub-flame slowed the process.
• Xiao Yan formed the Heaven Refining Ancient Formation above and below the tower, and Hun Xuzi recognized the lost technique of the Purifying Lotus Demon Sage.
• Xiao Yan activated the formation, whose pseudo-Purifying Lotus Demon Flame stripped away Hun Xuzi’s defenses and left him with no chance to resist.
• The Soul Light Orbs released pure soul energy into Xiao Yan as Hun Xuzi cried out, and Xiao Yan prepared to make a decisive attempt at the Emperor Realm soul.

After learning the Hun Clan’s secrets from Hun Xuzi’s memories, Xiao Yan decided to impersonate him and infiltrate the clan to get close to the Nihility Devouring Flame. He entered the Soul Realm, looted Hun Xuzi’s treasure vault, and planned to plunder the rest of the clan.

• Xiao Yan learned that the Hun Clan had secretly placed agents among the Other Six Clans by fusing captured members’ souls with Hun Clan members’ souls.
• Xiao Yan realized he could impersonate the dead Hun Xuzi and infiltrate the Hun Clan, using Hun Xuzi’s body as a disguise if Hun Tiandi summoned him.
• Xiao Yan practiced Hun Xuzi’s mannerisms for several days, then disguised himself and traveled to the Hun Clan’s Soul Realm.
• Xiao Yan reached Hun Xuzi’s residence and took most of the medicinal herbs, pills, and materials from his enormous treasure vault.
• Xiao Yan decided to search the entire Hun Clan for more treasures to plunder.

Xiao Yan prepared an escape route inside the Hun Clan, but Hun Dai'er summoned him and saw through his disguise as Hun Xuzi. After revealing his real face, he and Hun Dai'er confronted their shared past and discussed how much he had changed.

• Xiao Yan secretly created a spatial passage from Hun Xuzi's room to the outside as an escape route.
• Hun Dai'er summoned Hun Xuzi, and Xiao Yan went to meet her while trying to keep his identity hidden.
• Hun Dai'er dismissed her attendants and revealed that she had recognized Xiao Yan because he dared to look her in the eyes.
• Xiao Yan stopped pretending and removed his disguise, showing Hun Dai'er his real face.
• Hun Dai'er remarked on Xiao Yan's changed appearance and teased him about his romantic encounters.

Xiao Yan negotiated a partnership with Hun Dai'er to obtain the Nihility Devouring Flame and oppose Hun Tiandi, while refusing to forgive her for their past. He left Hun Dai'er alone with their agreement settled but their personal relationship unresolved.

• Hun Dai'er proposed working with Xiao Yan again to kill her father, Hun Tiandi, and threatened to give him the energy from Fallen Peak if Xiao Yan refused.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help deal with Hun Tiandi only if Hun Dai'er helped him obtain the essence of the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Dai'er accepted the condition and asked Xiao Yan to temporarily take over the Nihility Devouring Flame's duties after subduing it.
• Xiao Yan rejected Hun Dai'er's attempt to make peace and confirmed their agreement would remain strictly business.
• Hun Dai'er asked Xiao Yan to let go of what happened in their previous life, but Xiao Yan said she had not been the one who was hurt and left.

Xiao Yan reflected on his tangled history with Hun Dai'er, from childhood affection and repeated reunions to her betrayal and their later battles. After once joining forces to kill Hun Tiandi, they were now preparing to recreate their flawless collaboration.

• Xiao Yan returned to Hun Xuzi's residence, dropped his disguise, and told Little Yao that he knew Hun Dai'er from his previous life.
• Xiao Yan recalled how Hun Dai'er had rescued him after his Dou Qi was crippled, restored his power, confessed her love, and later disappeared from his life.
• After Hun Dai'er betrayed him and demanded the Tou She Ancient God Jade, Xiao Yan escaped their battle and retaliated by destroying Soul Hall Branch Halls until his strength grew formidable.
• Xiao Yan remembered that he and Hun Dai'er had eventually joined forces to kill Hun Tiandi, with Hun Dai'er becoming clan leader and Xiao Yan obtaining what he wanted.
• Xiao Yan recognized that he and Hun Dai'er intended to recreate their past collaboration, then privately joked about what might come afterward.

While posing as Hun Xuzi in the Hun Clan, Xiao Yan gathered intelligence and prepared for his next move. Hun Dai'er’s instructions required him to meet the newly emerged Nihility Devouring Flame, whom Xiao Yan found waiting in the palace.

• Xiao Yan secretly surveyed the Hun Clan and marked its treasure vaults for later, while reviewing Hun Xuzi’s collection of pill formulas and medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yan assessed his chances of refining ninth-grade pills and gathered supplementary herbs, but avoided refining a pill inside the Hun Clan stronghold.
• Xiao Yan practiced the remaining moves of the Demon Fury Nine Arts during his stay in the clan.
• After more than a month, Hun Dai'er sent Xiao Yan instructions that required the Nihility Devouring Flame’s participation, so he went to the flame’s palace.
• Xiao Yan respectfully reported that he had an important matter, and the Nihility Devouring Flame appeared before him in the form of a black-rune-covered figure.

Xiao Yan disguised himself as Hun Xuzi and persuaded Nihility Devouring Flame to launch an early attack on the Yan Clan. The attack was set for the Yan Clan’s Profound Fire Gathering, where Xiao Yan planned to seize its heavenly flames and exploit the confusion.

• Xiao Yan told Nihility Devouring Flame that Hun Tiandi had ordered the plan against the Ancient Clans to begin early because the other clans had formed an alliance and destroyed the Soul Hall’s Central Plains Branch Halls.
• Nihility Devouring Flame questioned why the Hun Clan would target the Yan Clan instead of the weaker Spirit or Stone Clan, and Xiao Yan convinced him that striking the Yan Clan first would catch the others off guard.
• Xiao Yan said they would ambush Yan Jin at the Profound Fire Mountain Range during the Yan Clan’s Profound Fire Gathering in half a month, while a Hun Clan pawn retrieved the Ancient Jade.
• Nihility Devouring Flame accepted the plan and collected the ninth-grade pills Xiao Yan presented on Hun Tiandi’s behalf.
• Xiao Yan privately anticipated that the scheme would soon let him reap its rewards.

The Yan Clan gathered at the Profound Fire Mountain Range for its five-year Profound Fire Gathering, hoping Earthfire Body Tempering could help Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi recover from their injuries. The gathering was interrupted when Hun Xuzi appeared, and Yan Jin demanded to know why he had intruded.

• Yan Jin brought the dispirited Huo Xuan and Huo Zhi to the gathering, hoping the body-tempering ritual would help repair the damage to their foundations.
• Yan Jin prepared to begin the gathering while worrying that the Yan Clan lacked a young prodigy capable of carrying its future.
• Yan Jin sensed someone hiding nearby and ordered the clan's experts to guard the Profound Fire Pavilion.
• Hun Xuzi emerged from distorted space and greeted the Yan Clan members.
• Fairy Fire Spirit recognized Hun Xuzi and accused him of betraying his master, while he denied the charge and defended his loyalty to the Hun Clan.
• Yan Jin stopped Fairy Fire Spirit and demanded to know Hun Xuzi's intentions for intruding on the gathering.

Xiao Yan, disguised as Hun Xuzi, confronted the Yan Clan during its Profound Fire Gathering and revealed overwhelming strength while demanding Yan Jin come to the Hun Clan. The chapter ended with Yan Jin recognizing the black flames as the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Xiao Yan, posing as Hun Xuzi, claimed the Hun and Yan Clans were friends and asked Yan Jin to visit the Hun Clan.
• A hot-tempered Yan Clan elder attacked Xiao Yan, who repelled him and revealed a Seven-Star Dou Saint aura.
• The Yan Clan elders discovered that the surrounding space was sealed, preventing them from opening a spatial passage.
• Xiao Yan warned Yan Jin that the Yan Clan could avoid war if he came willingly, but Yan Jin attacked him instead.
• Xiao Yan summoned a black flame dragon that forced Yan Jin back and injured him.
• Yan Jin recognized Xiao Yan's black flames as the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan revealed that Nihility Devouring Flame had reached the Nine-Star Dou Sheng level and led a coordinated Hun Clan assault on the Yan Clan. As black flames surrounded the Profound Fire Mountain Range and drained the Yan Clan experts’ Dou Qi, Yan Jin prepared to hold off Nihility Devouring Flame while the others escaped.

• Xiao Yan revealed Nihility Devouring Flame’s true body, and Yan Jin realized his opponent was a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan warned that the Soul Clan’s Four Demon Saints were attacking the Yan Clan’s home territory, where its remaining experts were outmatched.
• Yan Jin ordered Fairy Fire Spirit to take the younger generation to seek shelter with the Gu Clan while he held off Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Nihility Devouring Flame engulfed the Profound Fire Mountain Range in black flames as Hun Clan members appeared throughout the gathering.
• Yan Jin unleashed his fused crimson-gold heavenly flames and used the Burning Heaven Great Method to attack Hun Clan members and buy the others time to retreat.

Xiao Yan feigned support for the Hun Clan while devouring a Yan Clan Heavenly Flame and watching Yan Jin battle Nihility Devouring Flame. Yan Jin sacrificed himself to help his clan escape, and Xiao Yan claimed the two flames left behind, leaving Nihility Devouring Flame gravely wounded.

• Xiao Yan extracted the water cloud stone flame from Elder Huo Yao and swallowed it while pretending to fight Fairy Fire Spirit.
• Yan Jin failed to overcome Nihility Devouring Flame, then used the Fallen Flame Mystic Finger to break the spatial seal and open an escape route.
• Fairy Fire Spirit swept nearby Yan Clan juniors toward the Spatial Rift as Xiao Yan appeared to pursue them.
• Yan Jin bound Nihility Devouring Flame with flaming chains and self-destructed, devastating the Profound Fire Mountain Range and killing members of both clans.
• Nihility Devouring Flame survived gravely wounded, but Xiao Yan appeared and absorbed the nine nether golden ancestor flame and volcanic stone flame.

Xiao Yan seized and refined two Heavenly Flames before confronting the wounded Nihility Devouring Flame. After overpowering him with a soul attack, Xiao Yan unleashed his self-created Nine Profound Annihilation Burning Heaven Eyes, leaving Nihility Devouring Flame facing a deadly strike.

• Xiao Yan took the two Heavenly Flames from Nihility Devouring Flame and swallowed them, raising his strength to the middle seven-star stage.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan used his Clan Mark and Yellow Springs Palm to meet the blow without being injured.
• Xiao Yan claimed Hun Tiandi had ordered the attack and said he would replace Nihility Devouring Flame by refining him.
• Xiao Yan struck Nihility Devouring Flame with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, devastating his soul and revealing Xiao Yan’s Emperor Realm Soul Force.
• Xiao Yan activated his Nine Profound Annihilation Burning Heaven Eyes and fired two beams of flame and lightning at Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan crippled Nihility Devouring Flame with his new Nine Profound Annihilation Burning Heaven Eyes, then trapped him in the Soul Refining Tower to begin refining him. As Nihility Devouring Flame fought to escape, Xiao Yan empowered the tower with his blood fiendish aura.

• Nihility Devouring Flame used Heaven Swallowing Mirror to try to block Xiao Yan's attack, but the Nine Profound Annihilation Burning Heaven Eyes pierced his defense and grievously wounded his body and soul.
• Xiao Yan struck Nihility Devouring Flame with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, then trapped him inside the Soul Refining Tower using the Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art.
• The Heaven Refining Ancient Formation reinforced the tower's soul flame, allowing it to suppress Nihility Devouring Flame's devouring power and gradually refine his strength.
• Nihility Devouring Flame battered the tower walls in a desperate attempt to escape, causing the tower to shake.
• Xiao Yan drove the Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art to its limit and poured his blood fiendish aura into the tower, turning it blood-red and intensifying the soul flame.

Hun Tiandi learned that Hun Xuzi had betrayed the Hun Clan and sabotaged his plans, then was wounded when Nihility Devouring Flame suddenly attempted to assassinate him. The chapter ended with the attacker’s identity and the outcome of the ambush still unresolved.

• Nihility Devouring Flame confronted Hun Tiandi, accusing him of ordering the Yan Clan’s destruction and Hun Xuzi’s attempt to refine him.
• Hun Tiandi questioned Hun Dai'er and discovered that Hun Xuzi had acted on orders delivered in his name, while Hun Dai'er had sent a soul message he had ignored during cultivation.
• Nihility Devouring Flame revealed that Hun Xuzi might also have helped destroy the Soul Hall and plunder its soul origins, and Hun Tiandi realized his plans had been badly disrupted.
• Nihility Devouring Flame offered Hun Tiandi the Yan Clan’s piece of the Tou She Ancient God Jade and proposed targeting the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan after they recovered.
• As Hun Tiandi reached for the jade, Nihility Devouring Flame transformed it into a golden sword and stabbed at his heart.
• Hun Tiandi blocked the sword but was struck by lightning that pierced his defenses, while the attacker regretted that the assassination had not killed him.

Xiao Yan revealed himself as a surviving member of the Xiao Clan and joined Hun Dai’er in confronting Hun Tiandi. After Xiao Yan used the Xiao Clan’s mark and his fused heavenly flame to block Hun Tiandi’s attacks, Hun Tiandi realized Xiao Yan had refined Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Hun Tiandi recognized that Xiao Yan’s lightning strike had injured him and accused the disguised attacker of not being Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed his identity as the Demon Fury Sage, and Hun Tiandi recognized him as a member of the Xiao Clan.
• Hun Tiandi vowed to kill Xiao Yan, while Hun Dai’er admitted she wanted her father to step down and take control of the Hun Clan.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed a tide of energy and a Black Hole at Xiao Yan, who activated the Xiao Clan’s mark and rose to the middle stage of Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan’s fused dark-purple flame swallowed Hun Tiandi’s attacks, and Hun Tiandi realized Xiao Yan had refined Nihility Devouring Flame.

Xiao Yan battled Hun Tiandi, using his powerful Heavenly Flames to break through the Seal of Destruction and unleash Demon Sparrow Burning Heaven. The black firebird entered Hun Tiandi’s body, leaving him in searing pain as the fight continued.

• Xiao Yan blocked Hun Tiandi’s attack and countered with the Five Seals United and Heaven-Burning Flame of Separation Disc, but Hun Tiandi shattered both with the Withering Finger.
• Xiao Yan combined three Heaven Tier Dou Techniques to stop Hun Tiandi’s Withering Finger, while Hun Tiandi gathered black mist and launched the Seal of Destruction.
• Xiao Yan’s ten-colored Fire Lotus overpowered the Seal of Destruction, forcing Hun Tiandi to retreat and marvel at the many Heavenly Flames within it.
• Xiao Yan’s sealed-off battlefield and Hun Dai’er’s preparations prevented Hun Clan experts from answering Hun Tiandi’s call for help.
• Xiao Yan transformed the firestorm into a black firebird with Demon Sparrow Burning Heaven, and it broke through Hun Tiandi’s attacks and barrier before merging into his body.
• Hun Tiandi felt the black bird’s flames scorching his meridians and organs, and he could not suppress the pain with Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan killed Hun Tiandi by refining his body and soul in the Soul Refining Tower, then rejected Hun Dai’er's proposal to join forces. Hun Dai'er revealed that she controlled the energy from Fallen Peak, which Xiao Yan needed to become a Dou Di, but he refused to cooperate with her.

• Xiao Yan strengthened the Soul Refining Tower with a hundred demon marks and overwhelmed Hun Tiandi with soul flame and an enhanced Annihilation Flame Eyes attack.
• Hun Tiandi's body was burned away, and Xiao Yan watched until his soul was completely refined, absorbing its soul force.
• Hun Dai'er grieved over her father's death, but Xiao Yan dismissed her reaction and told her to leave.
• Hun Dai'er proposed that she and Xiao Yan join forces, claiming they could overcome anyone together.
• Hun Dai'er revealed that she held the energy from Fallen Peak and could conceal its location, but Xiao Yan refused to work with her and said he despised her.

Xiao Yan left the sealed Hun Clan, refined the purifying lotus demon flame, and strengthened Starfall Pavilion by helping its members advance. The chapter ended with him taking Qing Lin beneath the covers after she came to warm his bed.

• Xiao Yan stripped the Hun Clan of its treasures and soul-refining gale before leaving, while Hun Dai'er concealed the sealed Soul Realm.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Hun Dai'er intended to seize control of the Hun Clan and planned to investigate the energy he had sensed in the Ruins of Return.
• Xiao Yan entered the Demonic Flame Space, refined the purifying lotus demon flame, and found Xiao Chen, whom he brought back to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan helped Xiao Yi Xian resolve her Woeful Poison Body and gave Qing Lin and others resources to support their breakthroughs.
• Xiao Yan held Qing Lin beneath the covers after she came to warm his bed.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er at Starfall Pavilion as he prepared to leave for the Black-Corner Region, and she gave him a cultivated Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame. He refined several Ninth-grade Pills for her to take back to the Gu Clan, while remaining ready to protect her if the clan caused trouble.

• Before leaving for the Black-Corner Region, Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan and left ten Heavenly Demon Puppets to protect it.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Xun'er had come to Starfall Pavilion as the Gu Clan's guest to visit Xiao Chen and see him.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er, and she asked about his search for Heavenly Flames.
• Xun'er offered Xiao Yan a Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, explaining that the Gu Clan had cultivated it from a flame seed in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan accepted the flame after learning that Xun'er had another, inherited one, and refined several Ninth-grade Pills for her to take back to Gu Yuan.

Xiao Yan returned to the Ruins of Return seeking the special energy needed to break through to Dou Di, and discovered a white-robed woman connected to the illusions he had faced there before. She revealed that he had passed her trials and suggested she had a purpose for him, though she still did not identify herself.

• Xiao Yan found that refining the golden emperor burning heaven flame had not helped him break through to Dou Di, so he traveled through Xiao Gate to the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan forcibly entered the Ruins of Return before its next appearance and found that its medicinal herbs had grown back since his last visit.
• Xiao Yan returned to the ice field where he had found the sea heart flame and discovered a blue lotus containing the projection of a white-robed woman.
• The woman accused Xiao Yan of being a villain and explained that her Green Lotus Heart-Questioning trials tested whether people could remain true to themselves through forty-nine days of illusions.
• The woman revealed that Xiao Yan had passed despite breaking the illusions with his soul force, and decided to enlist him because she feared her image would not last much longer.

Xiao Yan was forced by the woman in white into a Plane Passage leading to her ruined world, the Heavenly Profound Continent. She sent him into time turbulence despite his protests, leaving him hurtling toward an uncertain arrival decades after the Yimo conquered her world.

• Xiao Yan refused the woman in white’s offer and tried to leave, but she pursued him and dragged him into a Plane Passage.
• The woman explained that she came from the Heavenly Profound Continent, which the Yimo had conquered, and asked Xiao Yan to help save it.
• She warned Xiao Yan that time turbulence would shift his arrival by roughly sixty or seventy years and severely injure him.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Yimo Emperor was equivalent to a Dou Di and protested that he could not fight such an enemy.
• The woman praised Xiao Yan’s rapid cultivation and said he was the only person she could trust, then sent him into the time turbulence as he cursed her.

After arriving gravely injured in a new world, Xiao Yan learned he had been captured and was being sent to work as a mining slave. Meanwhile, Qingtan found and lifted the missing Xuan Heavy Ruler, which displayed strange suppressive properties.

• Xiao Yan awoke in an iron cage, discovered his belongings were missing, and learned that his captors planned to send him to the Yang Origin Vein in Qingyang Town as a slave miner.
• Xiao Yan decided to recover enough to retrieve his Nether Sea Storage Ring, recover the Xuan Heavy Ruler, and learn about the new world.
• Qingtan was summoned to inspect the Xuan Heavy Ruler after it killed several people who tried to move it.
• Qingtan lifted the Xuan Heavy Ruler, expelled its baleful aura, and decided to take it back rather than leave it where it might attract trouble.

Xiao Yan reached the Yang Origin Vein, recovered his Nether Sea Storage Ring, and tested whether yang origin stone could help heal him. As he prepared to leave, he noticed a white-clad girl whose face resembled the woman who had brought him to this world.

• Xiao Yan recovered a trace of Dou Qi and sensed that it carried a strand of time force from the time turbulence.
• Xiao Yan found his Nether Sea Storage Ring on a senior overseer, marked the man with soul force, and later retrieved the ring and killed him.
• Xiao Yan learned that yang origin stone contained fire-attribute energy, but found it too weak to meaningfully aid his recovery.
• Xiao Yan saw a white-clad girl scold a miner who had dropped stones, then stop an overseer from whipping him further.
• Xiao Yan recognized that the girl's appearance resembled the woman in white who had brought him to this world and wondered whether they were connected.