Recaps

Long Fan told Xiao Yan that the Dragon Emperor, Long Nixian, betrayed the Dragon God and turned the Heavenly Dragon Guard into Dragon Bone Guards. He warned that Long Nixian might still be alive and asked Xiao Yan to help kill him.

• Long Fan explained that Dragon Bone Guards were made from executed Dragon Clan members, but none of those in the chamber had committed crimes.
• Long Fan said Lord Dragon God had guided him to become a Heavenly Sovereign and that he and the Heavenly Dragon Guard had slain the Demon Dragon Emperor.
• Long Fan revealed that Long Nixian had betrayed the Dragon God and attacked the wounded Heavenly Dragon Guard after pretending to come to their aid.
• Long Fan said Long Nixian had turned the dead guards into Dragon Bone Guards and sealed him in the chamber after the Dragon God imprisoned Long Nixian.
• Long Fan warned Xiao Yan that Long Nixian might still be alive and asked him to help slay the traitor.

Long Fan gave Xiao Yan the knowledge and tools to command the Dragon Bone Guards and asked him to fulfill their final wish by killing the sealed Dragon Emperor. Before his consciousness vanished, Long Fan also revealed that the ruins held the Dragon Roar Demon-Subduing Art.

• Xiao Yan refused Long Fan's request at first, explaining that he could not defeat the still-living Dragon Emperor or command the Dragon Bone Guards.
• Long Fan transferred his battle-formation knowledge and insights to Xiao Yan, greatly strengthening Xiao Yan's soul force and teaching him about Battle Formation Masters.
• Long Fan gave Xiao Yan two Flames of Battle Intent, warning that their Heavenly Sovereign-level power would dissipate after use.
• Long Fan handed Xiao Yan a Dragon Spirit Pearl that could support his control of the Dragon Bone Guards for a limited time and provide energy for cultivation.
• Long Fan told Xiao Yan about the Dragon Roar Demon-Subduing Art in the ruins, then lost consciousness and became motionless.

Xiao Yan reached the Dragon Tomb with the treasure hunters and searched for the Dragon God's failing seal, which he hoped to reinforce before the Dragon Emperor escaped. When Zong Yang revealed the Jade Ring, its sudden power made Xiao Yan uneasy.

• Xiao Yan thanked the deceased Long Fan, kept the Dragon Spirit Pearl safe, and left the secret chamber with Long Fan's Battle Formation Master knowledge.
• Xiao Yan concealed his appearance while treasure hunting, gained treasures, stabilized his spiritual power, and advanced to the peak of the Ninth-Rank Supreme level.
• Xiao Yan encountered Qin Wan'er and the others but hid his identity, then traveled with the group to the deepest part of the Dragon God Ruins.
• Xiao Yan recognized the desolate mountain range as the Dragon Tomb and searched for the Dragon God's failing seal, believing the Dragon Emperor was imprisoned there.
• Zong Yang displayed the Jade Ring he had won at auction, and its barrier repelled the treasure hunters who attacked him.
• Xiao Yan felt uneasy as he watched the Jade Ring's power emerge.

Zong Yang used the Jade Ring to reveal the Dragon Emperor’s sealed stone coffin, then slaughtered his allies to feed the ring. Xiao Yan exposed Zong Yang as the Dragon Emperor possessing him and accused him of betraying the Dragon Clan by joining the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.

• Zong Yang sacrificed blood essence to the Jade Ring, causing the Dragon Emperor’s enormous sealed coffin to emerge from distorted space.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Dragon Emperor’s hostile aura and recognized that a spiritual array still sealed the coffin.
• Zong Yang asked his allied factions to help open the coffin, then used the Jade Ring to slaughter them and absorb their blood.
• Xiao Yan declared that Zong Yang was not himself but the Dragon Emperor possessing him through the Jade Ring.
• Xiao Yan accused Long Nixian of colluding with the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and bringing shame upon the Dragon Clan.

Xiao Yan confronted Long Nixian, who drew power from the blood ring to reach peak Lower-Rank Earth Supreme. Xiao Yan revealed his enhanced strength and drove Long Nixian back, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Long Nixian threatened to kill everyone who knew his secret, but Xiao Yan pointed out that his weakened state had forced him to possess Zong Yang and set a trap.
• Long Nixian attacked with the Jade Ring, and Xiao Yan blocked its blood-colored halo with the Ancestral Stone.
• Long Nixian absorbed energy from the blood ring and rose to peak Lower-Rank Earth Supreme, while Xiao Yan sent Qin Wan'er and the others fleeing.
• Long Nixian's borrowed body began cracking under the strain, and his first palm strike missed Xiao Yan, who had evaded it with an afterimage.
• Xiao Yan activated his clan mark and pseudo-heart demon state, blocked Long Nixian's energy palms with the Six Harmonies Wandering Ruler, and struck him with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, forcing him backward.

Xiao Yan used his evasion to secretly set up numerous Spiritual Arrays around Long Nixian, who was already being torn apart by the strain of his possessed body. The arrays unleashed their combined assault, leaving Long Nixian trapped and in grave danger.

• Xiao Yan realized Long Nixian had withstood his ruler strike without injury and continued evading to outlast the limits of Long Nixian's possessed body.
• Long Nixian taunted Xiao Yan into fighting head-on, and Xiao Yan revealed the Five Saints Demon-Sealing Formation surrounding him.
• Xiao Yan activated dozens of additional heaven-grade Spiritual Arrays that he had set up while evading Long Nixian.
• The overlapping arrays attacked Long Nixian from all sides, and Xiao Yan warned him to break the arrays to his heart's content.
• Long Nixian feared the Five Saints Demon-Sealing Formation could shatter his Ninth-Rank Supreme body despite his peak Lower-Rank Earth Supreme strength.

Xiao Yan used several grandmaster-grade Spiritual Arrays to overwhelm Long Nixian and force him to break the Dragon God's seal with his own power. Long Nixian emerged at Great Perfection Earth Supreme strength, transformed into a dragon-like form approaching Half-Step Heavenly Sovereign, and prepared to kill Xiao Yan.

• Long Nixian raised a Sacred Artifact-powered barrier, but Xiao Yan's Demonic Lotus Formation and reversed Universe Ancient Formation corroded it under a barrage of Spiritual Power beams.
• Xiao Yan kept the Spiritual Arrays at full strength as Long Nixian's body and barrier cracked under the assault.
• Long Nixian turned into blood mist and slipped past Xiao Yan's defenses into the Stone Coffin, breaking the seal and awakening its power.
• Long Nixian emerged from the coffin with his strength restored to Great Perfection Earth Supreme, short of the Heavenly Sovereign level he had planned to regain.
• Long Nixian assumed a silver-scaled dragon form that raised him to Half-Step Heavenly Sovereign and vowed to kill Xiao Yan quickly.

Xiao Yan summoned the Dragon Bone Guards and formed a powerful battle spirit to fight Long Nixian. After the bone dragon drove Long Nixian into a desperate retreat, he revealed a Peerless Sacred Artifact, shifting the battle's course.

• Xiao Yan used the Dragon Spirit Pearl to awaken the Dragon Bone Guards and block Long Nixian's spiritual pressure.
• Xiao Yan commanded the Dragon Bone Guards to form a Ten-Thousand-Pattern Rank bone dragon battle spirit.
• Long Nixian recognized that Xiao Yan's cultivation limited the battle spirit's power and argued that it would not last long.
• The bone dragon attacked Long Nixian with battle-intent flame, its tail, bone spikes, and a claw that crushed his silver barrier.
• Long Nixian drew a Peerless Sacred Artifact silver longsword and shattered the bone spikes with a single slash.

Xiao Yan used the Time Ancestral Symbol to steal Long Nixian’s Peerless Sacred Artifact, then destroyed it to counter Long Nixian’s Dragon Roar Demon-Subduing Art. Long Nixian was badly injured and fell within reach of the Dragon Bone Guards’ battle spirit.

• Xiao Yan froze Long Nixian for an instant with the Time Ancestral Symbol and transferred his silver longsword into the Heavenly Tomb.
• Long Nixian summoned the Dragon Roar Demon-Subduing Art, forming a powerful Spiritual Power dragon to attack the Dragon Bone Guards.
• Xiao Yan brought out the stolen longsword and made the Peerless Sacred Artifact self-destruct, destroying Long Nixian’s summoned dragon.
• The explosion wounded Long Nixian and sent him plummeting as the bone dragon battle spirit lunged after him.

Xiao Yan defeated Long Nixian by detonating a Peerless Sacred Artifact and luring him into the Flame of Battle Intent. After securing Long Nixian’s corpse and retrieving the Silver Longsword, Xiao Yan prepared to flee before another Heavenly Sovereign arrived.

• Xiao Yan detonated a Peerless Sacred Artifact, interrupting Long Nixian’s attack and gravely injuring him.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Dragon Battle Spirit to keep Long Nixian under pressure as both fighters neared their limits.
• Xiao Yan pretended to lose consciousness and baited Long Nixian into approaching, while his Soul Clone struck with the Flame of Battle Intent.
• Xiao Yan gathered the Dragon Bone Guards’ battle intent and blasted Long Nixian’s fallen body until his death was assured.
• Xiao Yan reversed time to retrieve the Silver Longsword, stored Long Nixian’s corpse, and prepared to escape before another Heavenly Sovereign arrived.

After recovering from his battle in the Dragon God Ruins, Xiao Yan refined Long Nixian’s corpse and absorbed its purified Soul Force, gaining memories of the Dragon Roar Demon-Subduing Art and the Dragon God’s final act. He then tried to fuse Long Nixian’s dragon bones, but a black light inside him rejected them, leaving him and the Ancestral Stone Spirit puzzled.

• Xiao Yan spent nearly a month recovering in the Heavenly Tomb and found that his Spiritual Power and Soul Force had grown stronger.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul Refining Tower to refine Long Nixian’s corpse, purifying and absorbing the resentment within it as Soul Force.
• Xiao Yan gained Long Nixian’s memories, including the Dragon Roar Demon-Subduing Art and the account of the Dragon God destroying his body and Sacred Artifact to kill the Heavenly Demon Emperors.
• Xiao Yan attempted to fuse Long Nixian’s dragon bones with the Azure Heaven Dragon-Transformation Art, but a black light inside him repelled them.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit could not explain why the fusion failed and suggested the art’s origins in a Lower Plane might be the problem.

Xiao Yan discovered that the Four Fiends Spirits had fused with his bones, transforming his body and allowing him to break through to Earth Supreme. The chapter ended with him effortlessly shattering the spiritual tribulation lightning that appeared above the Heavenly Tomb.

• Xiao Yan suspected the Four Fiends Spirits inside the Demon Sword were preventing him from fusing with Long Nixian's dragon skeleton.
• Xiao Yan entered his Soul World and demanded an explanation from the Four Fiends Spirits, which released their power into his body.
• The blood fiend power ravaged Xiao Yan's body and shattered his bones, while the Ancestral Stone Spirit and other divine treasures failed to intervene.
• The Nine Revolutions Green Lotus seed restored Xiao Yan's body as the Four Fiends Spirits fused their power into his bones, creating a vastly stronger skeleton.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Earth Supreme, and a spiritual tribulation formed over the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan shattered the tribulation lightning with a casual slap.

Xiao Yan absorbed and repeated a Spiritual Tribulation to strengthen his Spiritual Power, then chose the Sky Luo Continent as his next destination in search of powerful flames. He decided to turn Long Nixian’s corpse into a Heavenly Sovereign Puppet.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Spiritual Tribulation lightning and used the Time Ancestral Symbol to repeat the tribulation until he reached saturation.
• Xiao Yan considered seeking new flames and chose the Sky Luo Continent over the Fire Spirit Clan and Volcano Continent.
• Xiao Yan decided not to return to the Nine Nether Clan, believing Qingtan would be treated well there.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit asked what Xiao Yan would do with Long Nixian’s corpse, and Xiao Yan announced that he would refine it into a Heavenly Sovereign Puppet.

Xiao Yan refined Long Nixian’s remains into a Heavenly Sovereign-level puppet using rare materials and his Soul Imprint. The puppet reached Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign strength, giving Xiao Yan more confidence as he headed toward the Sky Luo Continent, though he planned to keep it hidden.

• Xiao Yan chose the Ancient Human Puppet method and gathered the materials needed to refine Long Nixian’s corpse.
• Xiao Yan spent more than a month tempering Long Nixian’s remains with Emperor Flame before coating the body in melted exotic metals.
• Xiao Yan implanted a Soul Imprint into the puppet, which awakened with Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign strength.
• The Ancestral Stone Spirit praised the puppet’s power and noted that its body had belonged to an Immortal Grade Divine Beast.
• Xiao Yan considered seeking lightning at the Thunder God Palace to strengthen the puppet, then put it away and decided not to reveal it unless necessary.

Xiao Yan searched Sky Luo Continent for flames and lightning to strengthen his Emperor Flame while learning that rival Heavenly Sovereigns had kept the supercontinent’s factions in a power struggle. After gaining new abilities and restoring the Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art, he investigated a dangerous volcano and discovered a pure crimson energy beneath its magma.

• Xiao Yan learned from the Ancestral Stone Spirit that Heavenly Sovereigns had backed competing factions to vie for control of Sky Luo Continent and decided to focus on collecting flames.
• Xiao Yan searched the continent for a month, collected several flames, found netherworld heart demon thunder and a fragment of the Peerless Heart Demon Scripture, and restored the Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art.
• Xiao Yan achieved minor mastery of several divine abilities and became capable of fighting a Great Perfection Earth Supreme without his hidden trump cards.
• Xiao Yan traveled to a volcano in the Northern Realm and sensed that something beneath its magma was causing the intense heat and cracks in space.
• Xiao Yan crushed a magma python that attacked him, absorbed the crimson light left behind, and felt his Spiritual Power increase.

Xiao Yan descended to the volcano’s depths, discovered the remains of a Heavenly Sovereign Ancient Flame Dragon, and found a mysterious little girl resting on a stone platform. The girl opened her eyes as he approached.

• Xiao Yan absorbed crimson energy from magma creatures and found it offered little benefit to him.
• Xiao Yan defeated powerful magma dragons and obtained Ancient Flame Dragon blood essence, leading him to suspect the dragon’s remains lay below.
• Xiao Yan found a translucent layer of rock containing what the Ancestral Stone Spirit identified as the dragon’s divine veins.
• Xiao Yan sensed an unusual fluctuation, flew to its source, and found a little girl lying unclothed on a stone platform.
• The little girl sensed Xiao Yan’s presence and slowly opened her eyes.

Xiao Yan encountered a little girl with Earth Supreme strength and a painful curse beneath the magma, and his emperor flame drove the curse’s brambles back. They each pretended to be harmless while seeking to use the other, and Xiao Yan asked whether she had found an unusual flame.

• The little girl attacked Xiao Yan with a purple-black beam, but he shattered it effortlessly.
• Black brambles erupted from the girl’s body, and Xiao Yan’s emperor flame forced them to retreat into her body.
• The girl asked why Xiao Yan had helped her, and he claimed she reminded him of someone he knew.
• Xiao Yan acted innocent while the girl secretly considered using his flames to suppress her curse.
• The girl asked why Xiao Yan had come beneath the magma, and he said he was searching for an unusual flame before asking whether she had found one.

Xiao Yan learned that the little girl could lead him to the Saint Demon Emperor Lu Heng and his powerful Saint Flood Dragon Flame, while she sought revenge against him. Xiao Yan agreed to help her deal with Lu Heng if she was truthful, demanding that she serve as his guard for a year in return.

• The little girl denied knowing of any special flame, then stopped Xiao Yan and offered to lead him to one in exchange for his help.
• She told Xiao Yan that Lu Heng, master of the powerful Saint Demon Palace, possessed the Saint Flood Dragon Flame, which could burn a Lower-Rank Earth Supreme alive.
• The little girl admitted that she wanted revenge on Lu Heng and proposed that they work together to get what they each wanted.
• She explained that the Saint Demon Palace had four other Lower-Rank Earth Supremes and that Lu Heng could contend with an Upper-Rank Earth Supreme.
• Xiao Yan offered to help her deal with Lu Heng if she was not deceiving him, on the condition that she serve as his guard for a year.

Xiao Yan made a deal with Mandala to help defeat Saint Demon Emperor Lu Heng in exchange for her serving as his guard for a year, and she asked him to remove the curse Lu Heng had placed inside her. He began burning away the dangerous curse around her heart, using a Heart Demon Pill and his flame control to protect her as he worked.

• Xiao Yan negotiated with Mandala, agreeing to help deal with Lu Heng in return for a year as his guard.
• Mandala explained that Lu Heng had cursed her and asked Xiao Yan to refine the curse away with his flame.
• Xiao Yan proposed removing the curse immediately while they were surrounded by magma, and Mandala agreed.
• Xiao Yan examined the black thorns wrapped around Mandala’s heart and gave her a Heart Demon Pill to keep her calm during the procedure.
• Xiao Yan entered a true heart demon state and carefully guided his Emperor Flame to burn away the curse without damaging Mandala’s heart.

Xiao Yan used the Emperor Flame to completely remove the curse from Mandala, while containing its power for his own use. He left a hidden Flame Mark in Mandala as insurance, then withdrew his flames with the curse sealed away.

• Mandala wondered about Xiao Yan’s origins as he burned the brambles around her heart without harming her.
• Xiao Yan melted the brambles and trapped the resulting cursed liquid so it could not infect Mandala again.
• The brambles invaded Xiao Yan, but he transformed with the Destruction Fire Body and burned them away.
• Xiao Yan sealed some of the cursed liquid in his fingertip as a new Black Finger and stored the rest in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yan removed the remaining curse from Mandala and secretly left a Flame Mark inside her as a safeguard.

Xiao Yan and Mandala reached the Southern Region and investigated the formidable Saint Demon Palace as they planned to isolate its ruler, Lu Heng. Their search also revealed that the Ice Spirit Clan was hunting Qingtan, prompting Xiao Yan to ask where the clan was staying.

• Xiao Yan secretly moved the Ancient Flame Dragon's remains into the Heavenly Tomb before he and Mandala traveled to the Southern Region.
• Xiao Yan and Mandala gathered intelligence about the Saint Demon Palace and learned it had nearly ten Earth Supremes and a powerful guard force.
• Xiao Yan proposed using a spiritual array to neutralize Lu Heng's escorts so they could target him outside the palace.
• Mandala told Xiao Yan that the Ice Spirit Clan had sent an Upper-Rank Earth Supreme to capture someone connected to the Nine Nether Sparrow Tribe.
• Mandala identified the fugitive as Qingtan, and Xiao Yan asked where the Ice Spirit Clan was staying.

Xiao Yan found Qingtan hiding from the Ice Spirit Clan in the Nether God Abyss and arrived with Mandala to protect her. After entrusting Qingtan to Mandala, he infiltrated the clan’s camp and learned that they were hunting her because she carried a royal bloodline from a branch that had left the clan.

• Xiao Yan followed his soul imprint to Qingtan’s hiding place in the Nether God Abyss, where she was wounded and cornered by the Ice Spirit Clan.
• Qingtan warned Xiao Yan to flee, but he gave her Blood Jade Heaven-Mending Pills and asked Mandala to look after her.
• Xiao Yan approached the Ice Spirit Clan’s camp and secretly listened from inside the Heavenly Tomb.
• An elder revealed that the clan leader ordered Qingtan’s death because her royal bloodline came from a branch outside his own and could threaten his position.

Xiao Yan learned the secret behind Qingtan’s situation, then disguised himself as an Ice Spirit Clan elder to provoke the Saint Demon Palace. He left Lu Heng demanding that the palace hand over someone it had supposedly sheltered.

• After hearing the elder’s explanation, Xiao Yan understood that Qingtan harbored a hidden secret.
• Xiao Yan attacked the Ice Spirit Clan camp in black flames, killing dozens and drawing the elders into a fight.
• Xiao Yan used a Soul Clone to lead the Ice Spirit Clan elders away while his true body flew toward the Saint Demon Palace.
• Disguised in white mist and using an aged voice, Xiao Yan attacked Lu Heng with an iceberg.
• Lu Heng asked who Xiao Yan wanted, and Xiao Yan demanded that the Saint Demon Palace hand over someone it had sheltered.

Xiao Yan disguised himself as an enemy and tricked the Saint Demon Palace and the Ice Spirit Clan into fighting each other. He watched from hiding with Mandala and Qingtan as Lu Heng and the Ice Spirit Clan elder fought fiercely, hoping to turn the clash into a lasting feud.

• A mysterious figure threatened Lu Heng, who mistook the situation as an attack on the Saint Demon Palace and ordered his elders to form an array.
• The mysterious figure fled toward the approaching Ice Spirit Clan, and Lu Heng led his people after him.
• Lu Heng and the Ice Spirit Clan elder mistook each other for the mysterious man and began fighting without checking their suspicions.
• Xiao Yan slipped away with Mandala and Qingtan, revealing that he had used flames and the Ice Ancestor Symbol to disguise himself and provoke both sides.
• Mandala and Qingtan watched the battle while Xiao Yan hoped the two powers would inflict casualties and become sworn enemies.

Xiao Yan secretly intensified the battle between Lu Heng’s forces and the Ice Spirit Clan until both sides suffered casualties and their leaders unleashed their Supreme Dharma Bodies. Lu Heng revealed the Great Solar Undying Body, leaving Xiao Yan and Mandala astonished.

• Xiao Yan used hidden soul attacks to disrupt fighters on both sides, causing casualties and turning the restrained battle into a deadly one.
• Lu Heng and the Ice Spirit Clan elder clashed with their World-Destroying Flame Dragon Art and Extreme Cold Heaven-Freezing Palm, sending the other fighters crashing to the ground.
• The Ice Spirit Clan elder summoned the Ice God Dharma Body, which Mandala identified as thirty-fourth on the Supreme Dharma Body Rankings.
• Lu Heng manifested a dark Supreme Dharma Body that resembled the one Mu Chen had used, and Mandala identified it as the Great Solar Undying Body.