Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan spent two months refining the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, surviving with Little Yao’s help and emerging with a strengthened body, mutated bloodline, and enhanced power. He sensed a Heavenly Demon Phoenix aura near Ancient Dragon Island and prepared to confront the intruder.

• Xiao Yan endured the Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s violent energy while Little Yao helped him refine it, and the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and his bloodline also transformed his body.
• Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame and Flame Mantra to repair himself as the surrounding Black Demon Lightning tempered his flesh, Dou Qi, Soul Force, and eyes.
• After two months, Xiao Yan completed the refinement and discovered golden lightning mixed into his emerald-gold flame and a new mutation in his eyes.
• Xiao Yan found that the refinement had greatly increased his Demon Marks and brought his strength close to the peak of his previous life.
• Xiao Yan sensed a Heavenly Demon Phoenix aura near Ancient Dragon Island and reacted with hostility.

Huang Tian attacked Ancient Dragon Island and nearly defeated Zi Yan before Xiao Yan arrived to protect her. Xiao Yan confronted Huang Tian, broke through his Demon Phoenix Step, and left the Heavenly Demon Phoenix patriarch reeling from a powerful punch.

• Huang Tian used his strength as a Five-Star Dou Sheng to overwhelm Zi Yan and demanded that she surrender her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline.
• Xiao Yan appeared beside Zi Yan, struck Huang Tian away, and revealed the three captured Heavenly Demon Phoenixes inside a sphere of light.
• Huang Tian attacked Xiao Yan with golden feathers, but Xiao Yan froze the space and shattered them with Soul Force.
• Huang Tian used the Demon Phoenix Step to attack Xiao Yan from thousands of golden silhouettes.
• Xiao Yan struck Huang Tian's true body, cracked the bones in his palm, and challenged him to witness true speed.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Huang Tian and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, crushing their strongest formation and secret technique without using a Dou Technique. He left Huang Tian defeated and the clan’s experts injured, while the Ancient Void Dragon Clan celebrated.

• Xiao Yan repeatedly struck Huang Tian with such speed that Huang Tian could not follow his movements and crashed into a mountain.
• Huang Tian ordered the Heavenly Demon Phoenix experts to form the Heavenly Phoenix Ancient Formation, but Xiao Yan refused the Ancient Void Dragon elders’ offer to help.
• With the formation’s support, Huang Tian used the Demon Phoenix Sacred Image and charged Xiao Yan in his phoenix form.
• Xiao Yan stopped the charging demon phoenix with one hand and destroyed it with a touch, sending Huang Tian crashing into a mountain.
• The shattered formation injured its participants, and the assembled clans realized Xiao Yan had defeated them using only his own strength.

Xiao Yan defeated Huang Tian and captured the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, crippling their patriarch and imprisoning the clan in a space he controlled. He turned them into a renewable source of essence blood and materials, beginning the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Slaughterhouse.

• Huang Tian lay defeated in the rubble, and Xiao Yan crippled his cultivation while declaring that he would erase the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Yan imprisoned the remaining clan members in his own space and soon defeated the clan's other Dou Sheng experts at their lair.
• Xiao Yan plundered the clan's ancestral graves and used its essence blood to evolve the Nine Nether Flame into the Nine Netherworld Flame.
• Xiao Yan discovered that he could slaughter and resurrect Heavenly Demon Phoenixes, allowing their bodies to produce fresh essence blood.
• Xiao Yan named their prison the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Slaughterhouse and began repeatedly slaughtering and resurrecting the captive clan members for materials.

Xiao Yan evolved the nine netherworld flame into the undying flame, then punished the Nine Netherworld Python Clan and took its treasures. After returning to Ancient Dragon Island, he prepared to leave, but Zi Yan asked him to stay one more day.

• Xiao Yan evolved the nine netherworld flame with demon phoenix essence blood, gaining the powerful undying flame.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Nine Netherworld Pythons’ nerves, collected their treasures, and took the Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath technique.
• Cai Lin asked Xiao Yan to move the Nine Nether Yellow Springs to a space he had created for her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan returned to Ancient Dragon Island and prepared to depart, while Zi Yan stayed behind to manage the reunited Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Zi Yan visited Xiao Yan before his departure, and she, Cai Lin, and Little Yao joined him in an intimate night together.
• The next morning, Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan to stay with her one more day.

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.