Recaps

Xiao Yan plundered the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s power and treasures, then sought a way to strengthen his Soul Force before Yao Lao’s deadline. He headed for a Soul Hall Branch Hall, where he remembered a treasure that could help him reach the Heaven Realm.

• Thunder Venerable learned that the Wind and Lightning Pavilion and its three branch pavilions had been stripped of their lightning power and treasures, then ordered an investigation.
• Xiao Yan sorted through the stolen collection, kept its treasures, and dismissed the Dou Techniques and cultivation methods as mostly useless.
• Xiao Yan recalled that his Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand had absorbed all the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s power, bringing him to six-star peak Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan decided to strengthen his Soul Force rather than risk advancing the Unending Void Demon Body.
• Xiao Yan remembered a Soul Hall Branch Hall that held a treasure capable of helping him reach the Heaven Realm, put on a black robe, and headed there.

Xiao Yan secretly prepared to destroy a remote Soul Hall branch hall without leaving evidence that he was responsible. He left the Soul Refining Tower and Heaven Refining Ancient Formation operating at gradually increasing power, with the branch hall’s occupants unaware of the danger.

• Xiao Yan sealed the valley with a spatial barrier of his own.
• Xiao Yan formed a massive Soul Refining Tower over the branch hall and laid a weakened Heaven Refining Ancient Formation beneath it.
• Xiao Yan activated both techniques at low power and began gradually increasing their strength.
• Xiao Yan released netherworld poison flame’s toxin into the tower, which could kill the branch hall’s two Dou Zun experts before they noticed the threat.

Xiao Yan destroyed a Soul Hall branch hall by sealing it off and using soul flame to refine its Protectors and two Dou Zun. He created Human Puppets from the Dou Zun and obtained a soul orb that could raise his soul force to the Heaven Realm.

• Xiao Yan used the Soul Refining Tower to burn away the branch hall’s imprisoned soul bodies and Protectors.
• The two Soul Hall Dou Zun tried to summon help, but Xiao Yan’s sealed space blocked their Spatial Jade Slip.
• The Dou Zun discovered their Dou Qi was gone and their bodies were paralyzed before soul flame refined their souls.
• Xiao Yan implanted soul imprints into the two Dou Zun’s corpses and turned them into Human Puppets.
• Xiao Yan retrieved a soul orb from the hall’s plaza and began purifying its negative emotions with soul flame.

After refining the stolen soul light cluster, Xiao Yan advanced his soul force to the Heaven Realm and prepared to pursue another plan. News then spread of the Fire Flood Dragon Sage's Tomb Mansion, while Lord Void declared the ruins fake and forbade the Hun Clan from sending anyone.

• The Soul Hall blamed two dead Dou Zun for conspiring with another faction to steal a soul light cluster and concealed the loss from their superiors.
• Xiao Yan finished refining the soul light cluster after nearly two months, reached the Heaven Realm, and demonstrated his strengthened soul force by destroying a mountain peak.
• Xiao Yan decided against raiding more Soul Hall branch halls for now and left to carry out a plan before Yao Lao's deadline.
• The Fire Flood Dragon Sage's Tomb Mansion appeared in the Central Plains, drawing the interest of countless factions with rumors of a Peak Dou Sheng skeleton and the highest-ranked heavenly flame.
• The ancient clans planned to send heirs at Five-Star Dou Zun or below into the ruins, but Lord Void forbade the Hun Clan from going and called the ruins fake.

Xiao Yan secretly watched the factions gather at the Fire Flood Dragon Sage’s tomb and discovered several powerful heavenly flame holders among them. When the tomb opened and their flames reacted to something inside, he waited for them to enter so he could seize his chance.

• Yao Lao concluded that Starfall Pavilion had no suitable candidate to explore the ruins and hoped Xiao Yan would hear about them.
• Xiao Yan observed members of the Yao Clan and Yan Clan, identifying the heavenly flames they carried.
• Xiao Yan spotted the Burning Flame Valley valley master and counted five other heavenly flames gathered at the ruins.
• Xiao Yan held back from attacking because the flame holders had powerful guards and could summon reinforcements with Spatial Jade Slips.
• The Fire Flood Dragon Sage’s tomb opened, and the heavenly flames reacted fearfully to the presence of another flame inside.
• Xiao Yan waited for the gathered flame holders to enter the tomb before making his move.

Xiao Yan followed the ancient clans into the Fire Flood Dragon Tomb Mansion and watched them reach a stone coffin amid doubts about how easy the journey had been. He provoked a fight over the supposed inheritance and hid in the shadows, waiting for everyone to exhaust themselves.

• The crowds entered the tomb mansion and found valuable pills, Cultivation Methods, and Heaven Tier Dou Techniques along the way.
• Huo Zhi questioned why a Peak Dou Sheng's tomb mansion seemed so small and easy to traverse, and urged the Yan Clan members to stay cautious.
• The explorers entered a great hall and found a stone coffin radiating the terrifying aura they associated with the Fire Flood Dragon Sage.
• Xiao Yan, disguised as a black-clad figure, rushed toward the coffin, then let another figure knock him away and disappear into the shadows.
• The assembled experts attacked one another over the coffin, and Huo Zhi and the Yan Clan joined the melee.
• Xiao Yan watched the battle grow chaotic and waited for the others to tire before claiming the spoils.

The clans’ battle in the hall turned deadly, and Yao Xingji seized Huo Zhi to force the Yan Clan to stop fighting while he opened the stone coffin. Huo Zhi realized the tomb was a fraud, but a figure hidden in black mist seized Yao Xingji and revealed himself as Xiao Yan.

• A Stone Clan Dou Zun suddenly died, triggering a fierce battle among the ancient clans in which the Yan Clan gained the upper hand.
• Yao Xingji took Huo Zhi hostage and demanded that Huo Xuan order the Yan Clan to stop fighting; Yao Tian sided with his clan, and Huo Xuan complied.
• Yao Xingji opened the coffin and found only an insulting message, while Huo Zhi recognized that the supposed tomb was a fraud.
• Black chains shot from a cloud of mist, pierced Yao Xingji, and dragged him away as Huo Zhi called out the hidden mastermind.
• The others identified the mist as a Hun Clan technique, and Xiao Yan revealed himself from within it.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had fabricated the Fire Flood Dragon Tomb Mansion as a trap for the ancient clans. After devouring Yao Xingji and sealing the group inside a small space, he prepared to hunt the survivors.

• Xiao Yan explained how he had planned the fake tomb mansion in his previous life and adapted the scheme to deceive the ancient clans.
• Xiao Yan used the Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand to extract and devour Yao Xingji’s Nine Nether Wind Flame, bloodline power, and soul.
• Xiao Yan told the Yao Clan members he had eaten Yao Xingji and dismissed their threats.
• Huo Zhi realized her Spatial Jade Slip could not summon help because Xiao Yan had sealed the surrounding space by devouring it.
• Xiao Yan approached Huo Zhi and the others and announced that the hunt was beginning.

Xiao Yan poisoned and subdued the ancient clans' fighters in the Fire Flood Dragon Tomb Mansion, then extracted their heavenly flames, bloodlines, and other valuables. He left the survivors trapped with lingering poison, and the elders sacrificed themselves before Huo Zhi escaped with reinforcements, unaware Xiao Yan had already removed the spatial seal.

• Huo Zhi urged the gathered experts to attack Xiao Yan together, but his poison made them collapse before they could fight.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the items he had distributed were bait, then extracted heavenly flames, bloodlines, and Yao Clan souls while taking the survivors' Storage Rings.
• Xiao Yan spared Yao Tian and left the poisoned survivors behind, intending for them to warn the six clans that the Hun Clan was targeting them.
• Huo Zhi tried to use her Spatial Jade Token, but a Spirit Clan man believed Xiao Yan had sealed the space and said they could not escape.
• The Yan Clan elders and then elders from other clans self-destructed to create what they believed was an escape route, and Huo Zhi crushed her token to summon Yan Clan reinforcements.
• Huo Zhi and the survivors mourned the elders, unaware Xiao Yan had already released the space and had never sealed it.

After plundering Heavenly Flames and bloodline power from members of the ancient clans, Xiao Yan used the stolen energy to awaken and transform his Xiao Clan Bloodline. He successfully formed the Clan Mark and gained a more powerful version of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, along with a new inheritance from the Four Fiends Spirit.

• Xiao Yan stored the seized Heavenly Flames inside Little Yao so she could conceal them and erase their inheritance imprints before he refined them.
• Xiao Yan merged high-grade bloodline power taken from the ancient clans into his body to awaken the Xiao Clan Bloodline, while setting Yao Tian's portion aside.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Four Fiends Spirit's energy competing with his newly awakened bloodline, so he used his Soul Force to fuse the energies together over five days.
• Xiao Yan formed the Xiao Clan's Clan Mark and activated the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, gaining a stronger temporary boost without the usual weakened state afterward.
• Xiao Yan realized his transformed bloodline surpassed Divine Grade and that the Four Fiends Spirit had left him several powerful methods.

Xiao Yan returned to Starfall Pavilion and reassured Yao Lao that he had not visited the Fire Flood Dragon Ruins, then gave him a pill that awakened and strengthened his dou di bloodline. As Xiao Yan prepared for his appointment at the Pill Tower in ten days, Zi Yan arrived and announced that she had broken through to Dou Zong.

• Yao Lao questioned Xiao Yan about the Fire Flood Dragon Ruins, and Xiao Yan said he had been in seclusion and had not gone there.
• Xiao Yan learned that Yao Lao had reached Half-Saint after switching to the cultivation method Xiao Yan had given him.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Lao an emerald-green pill, which was actually condensed from Yao Tian's dou di bloodline and greatly improved Yao Lao's bloodline and future potential.
• Yao Lao understood that the pill's true nature had to remain secret, and he and Xiao Yan tacitly agreed not to discuss it further.
• Xiao Yan left to prepare for his appointment at the Pill Tower in ten days, and Zi Yan rushed into his arms and told him she had reached Dou Zong.
• Zi Yan asked for her promised medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yan gave her the pills he had refined from dragon saliva fire spirit grass.

After learning that Zi Yan belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, Xiao Yan agreed to escort her to Ancient Dragon Island. There, he would face the clan elders who had summoned him after discovering his relationship with Zi Yan.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that members of the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had invited her to return, and he agreed to accompany her.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan set out through Starfall Pavilion’s Space Wormhole, and Zi Yan admitted she had visited Ancient Dragon Island months earlier.
• Zi Yan revealed that the clan elders had summoned Xiao Yan after a Secret Art exposed that she was no longer a virgin.
• Zi Yan reassured Xiao Yan that her mother had died, her father was missing, and she could decide her own marriage.
• Xiao Yan comforted Zi Yan and agreed to meet the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Zi Yan claimed she was the clan’s future Dragon Emperor.

Xiao Yan accompanied Zi Yan to Ancient Dragon Island, where the elders initially accused him of taking advantage of her until Zi Yan explained that she had forced herself on him. He learned that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan was divided among four islands and that Zi Yan’s identity as the future Dragon Emperor had to remain secret, leaving him to consider how to grow strong enough to protect her.

• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan arrived at Ancient Dragon Island, where the Three Great Elders tested Xiao Yan with their pressure.
• First Elder Zhu Huo accused Xiao Yan of exploiting Zi Yan, but Zi Yan clarified that she had forced herself on him after taking a pill made from Dragon Saliva Fire Spirit Grass.
• Third Elder Zhu Li praised Xiao Yan and Zi Yan as a fitting pair, and the elders’ confrontation ended peacefully.
• Xiao Yan spent the day exploring Eastern Dragon Island with Zi Yan and learned that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had split into four factions after her father disappeared.
• The Three Great Elders asked Xiao Yan to let Zi Yan remain at Starfall Pavilion for her safety, and Xiao Yan resolved to refine the Heavenly Flames in his body so he could become stronger.

Xiao Yan accompanied Yao Lao to the Pill Tower in Sacred Pill City to learn about the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After reuniting with the Pill Tower's Three Giants, Yao Lao asked them about the flame's current situation.

• Xiao Yan left Starfall Pavilion with Yao Lao, who entrusted the pavilion to Venerable Feng and gave him a Spatial Jade Slip for emergencies.
• Yao Lao brought Xiao Yan to Sacred Pill City and was welcomed into the Pill Tower because of his connections and reputation.
• Xiao Yan assessed the Pill Tower's Three Giants, Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi, and learned they were nine-revolutions Peak Dou Zuns.
• Yao Lao introduced Xiao Yan to the Three Giants, who were astonished by his age, cultivation, and soul force.
• Yao Lao asked the Three Giants about the current situation with the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Yan entered the Pill Tower’s Star Domain to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, despite warnings about its danger. He discovered the flame was a dragon with an Ancient Void Dragon Clan soul imprint, then confronted its origin flame with his Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art.

• Xuan Kongzi warned Xiao Yan that past attempts to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame had failed, but Xiao Yan insisted on trying.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other Pill Tower giants opened the Star Domain and warned Xiao Yan not to awaken the flame; Yao Lao stayed outside and gave Xiao Yan a Spatial Jade Slip for emergencies.
• Xiao Yan entered the Star Domain with Little Yao and found the Three Thousand Burning Flame sealed in the form of a massive purple-black dragon.
• Xiao Yan detected an Ancient Void Dragon Clan soul imprint within the flame but continued with his attempt to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan sent his soul into a dragon scale and encountered the flame’s origin, which attacked him with waves of purple-black fire.
• Xiao Yan countered the origin flame’s attack with the God-Slaying Wheel from his Nine Revolutions Soul Refining Art.

Xiao Yan refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame, erased its consciousness and the Dragon Seal, and advanced to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zun. Finding the Star Domain sealed and unable to leave, he decided to cultivate there by refining the other Heavenly Flames he had collected.

• Xiao Yan trapped the Three Thousand Burning Flame's origin in a Soul Refining Tower and used black energy to destroy the golden Dragon Seal within it.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the origin flame, and Little Yao helped refine it while Yao Lao and the others failed to break into the sealed Star Domain.
• Xiao Yan completed the refinement and rose from Seven-Star Dou Zun to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan learned the Star Domain was sealed, then chose to refine his remaining Heavenly Flames there.
• Little Yao brought out five collected Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan began with the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.

After nearly six months in the Star Domain, Xiao Yan emerged as an Early One-Star Dou Saint, having refined five heavenly flames and advanced his Flame Mantra. He tried to suppress the resulting evil flame, but Little Yao and Cai Lin’s presence made matters worse, and the chapter ended with him feeding Cai Lin.

• Yao Lao returned to the Starfall Pavilion, and Xuan Kongzi and the others eventually stopped watching the sealed Star Domain, believing Xiao Yan had died inside.
• Xiao Yan awakened within the Star Domain, restored the shattered space around him, and realized he had broken through to Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the power of the five heavenly flames and his Flame Mantra’s advance to high-grade Heaven Tier, while Nalan Yanran broke through to Dou Shi outside.
• Xiao Yan’s accumulated evil flame overwhelmed the pills he used to suppress it, so Little Yao absorbed some of it and warned that the energy affected her too.
• Little Yao emerged and rushed at Xiao Yan, but Cai Lin then embraced him, and he fed her until she was satisfied.

Xiao Yan discovered that Queen Medusa had regained her memories while her body still responded to the bond formed with him. After temporarily severing the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's influence, he tested whether his energy still affected her.

• Queen Medusa realized she had regained her memories during her encounter with Xiao Yan, but had continued acting affectionately toward him.
• Xiao Yan noticed the change and confirmed that Queen Medusa had taken control of her body again.
• Queen Medusa denied wanting anything from Xiao Yan, but instinctively accepted the fire-attribute energy he offered and nuzzled his hand.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's fused soul and the energy he had given her had left Queen Medusa instinctively drawn to him.
• Xiao Yan temporarily cut off the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's influence, then offered his energy again, and Queen Medusa felt her body crave it.

Xiao Yan overcame Queen Medusa’s resistance by releasing the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s influence, and she submitted to him despite still resenting him. Afterward, she dressed and prepared to return with him, caught between thoughts of revenge and an attachment she could not explain.

• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa that her craving was her own desire and called her Little Cai.
• Queen Medusa approached Xiao Yan, and their souls intertwined as he embraced and kissed her.
• After their passion subsided, Queen Medusa threatened Xiao Yan while helping him clean up.
• Xiao Yan gave Queen Medusa clothes and told her they were heading back, while she continued to threaten him and obey.
• Queen Medusa instinctively called Xiao Yan Daddy, and he said she could use the name in private.

After returning to Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan reunited with Cai Lin and the others while hiding his Dou Sheng strength. He then set out to raid the Soul Hall’s branch halls for their Soul Light Orbs, relying on his enhanced Nine Nether Wings to strike before the Soul Hall could react.

• Xiao Yan returned Cai Lin to Starfall Pavilion and told Yao Lao only that he had refined the three thousand burning flame, concealing his Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Yan spent time with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Cai Lin, while guiding their cultivation and helping Qing Lin obtain more serpentine magic beasts.
• Xiao Yan left Starfall Pavilion to seek the life spirit flame and the Void Lightning Pool, and to advance his soul cultivation.
• Xiao Yan decided to destroy the Soul Hall’s Central Plains branch halls and seize their Soul Light Orbs before the Soul Hall could move them.
• Xiao Yan unfurled his enhanced Nine Nether Wings, preparing to use their speed to attack the branch halls in rapid succession.

Xiao Yan destroyed every Soul Hall branch in the Central Plains except the three Heavenly Dipper Halls, collecting more than a hundred soul clusters. After resting, he chose the Earth Hall as his next target for its greater store of soul origin, despite its formidable defenders.

• Xiao Yan used the Nine Nether Wings and spatial power to destroy the Dead Soul Mountain Range branch hall and strip away its soul origin and inhabitants.
• Xiao Yan spent a day destroying the Soul Hall’s ordinary branches and looting all twenty-four Earth Fiend Halls, leaving only the three Heavenly Dipper Halls untouched.
• Xiao Yan rested and assessed his haul of more than a hundred glowing soul clusters, then recovered to peak condition.
• Xiao Yan compared the defenders and soul origin in the Human Hall and Earth Hall, finding the Earth Hall far more heavily guarded.
• Xiao Yan chose to attack the Earth Hall, aiming to claim its greater store of soul origin.

Xiao Yan attacked the Soul Hall’s Earth Hall, trapping its forces behind the Chaotic Origin Formation and devastating the branch with Little Yao’s fire lotuses. He left the Soul Hall Deputy Master standing against him, revealing the enemy was a Late Three-Star Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan and Little Yao prepared the Chaotic Origin Formation, which replaced the Earth Hall’s spatial barrier and sealed the surrounding space.
• Little Yao sent fire lotuses crashing into the Earth Hall, destroying its main hall and killing or gravely injuring many of its defenders.
• Xiao Yan confronted the Soul Hall Deputy Master and was attacked by the branch’s surviving Dou Shengs and Half-Saints.
• Xiao Yan used the Ghost Fiendish Black Tortoise to engulf the attackers in a corrosive, devouring Blackwater Domain.
• Xiao Yan launched a Five-Wheel Separation Flame Disc, but the Soul Hall Deputy Master shattered it with a punch and proved to be a Late Three-Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan confronted the Soul Hall Deputy Master and revealed the power of the Xiao Clan Mark and his Unending Void Demon Body. After shattering the Deputy Master's Heaven Tier technique, Xiao Yan left him badly wounded with the Nine Calamity Demon Fist.

• The Soul Hall Deputy Master attacked Xiao Yan, who activated the Xiao Clan Mark and surged to the late Two-Star Dou Saint level.
• Xiao Yan struck the Deputy Master with the five-seal Emperor Seal Art, forcing him back and shocking him.
• The Deputy Master summoned the Ten Thousand Nether Soul Python, but Xiao Yan shattered it with the Nine Calamity Demon Fist.
• Xiao Yan sealed the Deputy Master's escape and broke his arm with a direct blow, overpowering his Nine Nether Ghost Claw.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Earth Hall and killed its Deputy Master, leaving the Soul Hall with only two Branch Halls. As the Hun Clan debated who was responsible, Hun Dai'er demanded that they find the culprit.

• Xiao Yan severed the Soul Hall Deputy Master's remaining arm, extracted his soul, and devoured the souls of the surviving Dou Sheng and Half-Saints.
• Xiao Yan collected the Earth Hall's soul origin before leaving its ruins.
• The Soul Hall headquarters learned that all but the Heaven Hall and Human Hall had been destroyed, and the Hun Clan soon received the news.
• Hun Miesheng knelt before the Hun Clan elders as they blamed him for failing to prevent the Branch Halls' destruction.
• Hun Dai'er dismissed talk of recovering the losses and ordered the elders to identify the culprit.
• An elder accused the other six Ancient Clans of joining forces to destroy the Branch Halls.

Hun Dai'er punished Hun Miesheng for the Soul Hall’s destruction while privately suspecting Xiao Yan might be behind it. Her thoughts about Hun Moli’s disappearance and Yao Chen’s return led her to investigate Yao Chen’s new disciple, whom she suspected could be Xiao Yan.

• Hun Qianmo and the elders concluded that the Other Six Clans had destroyed the Soul Hall’s Branch Halls, and Hun Miesheng was blamed for the loss.
• Hun Dai'er stripped Hun Miesheng of his position as Hall Master and sentenced him to a year in the Astral Wind Soul-Refining Grounds before he could serve as Deputy Master.
• After the elders left, Hun Dai'er considered whether Xiao Yan’s methods connected the Branch Hall attacks to the Fire Flood Dragon Ruins incident, but doubted he was strong enough.
• Hun Dai'er remembered that Hun Moli had gone missing in the Black-Corner Region and connected the disappearance to Yao Chen’s resurrection and Han Feng’s flight there.
• Hun Dai'er ordered a dark figure to gather all information about Yao Chen’s new disciple.