Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Jing took Xiao Yan from the mine to serve tea and fetch water, believing him to be frail and sickly. Xiao Yan concealed his strength and injuries while considering how Lin Jing might help him learn more about the mine and its otherworldly masters.

• Lin Jing rebuked the overseers for whipping the miners, and Xiao Yan privately doubted her words would improve their treatment.
• A miner told Xiao Yan that Lin Jing was the mine owner's niece and had authority because her aunt owned the Yang Origin Vein.
• Lin Jing noticed Xiao Yan working in the mine and ordered him to come with her, telling the overseers she wanted him to serve her.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing his real name and quietly prepared Dou Qi, but relaxed when she assigned him only simple chores and showed him kindness.
• Lin Jing blamed the otherworldly demons for forcing even sickly people into hard labor, and Xiao Yan wondered why the mine workers still served them.

Xiao Yan recovered in the Heavenly Profound Continent and learned how its cultivation, Symbol Masters, and tribulations differed from those on the Dou Qi Continent. He discovered that the world’s energy could help him reach Dou Di but was contaminated by the Alien Demon Clan, and that Lin Jing had already absorbed a dangerous amount of it.

• Xiao Yan used his time in his own room to refine healing pills and gathered information about the Heavenly Profound Continent from memories and Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan learned that this world’s cultivators relied on special energies and faced dangerous Nirvana Tribulations, while Symbol Masters focused mainly on mental-power combat and artifact refining.
• Xiao Yan found that space was less stable in this world and that his injuries had healed enough for him to face a Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan circulated the Flame Mantra, sensed his strength increasing, and discovered that abundant energy for reaching Dou Di remained in this world.
• Xiao Yan detected black contamination in the Heaven and Earth Energy and realized it came from the Alien Demon Clan and could transform those who absorbed it.
• Xiao Yan found that Lin Jing had accumulated a dangerous amount of the contamination in her body, while his Purifying Lotus Demon Flame could cleanse it.

Xiao Yan met Qingtan, Lin Jing’s aunt and the mine owner, while he worried that polluted energy could turn Lin Jing into an alien demon. After Qingtan left, Xiao Yan began probing Lin Jing about her aunt’s fortune, while Qingtan realized he had no aura and might be stronger than her.

• Xiao Yan sensed that polluted energy was entering Lin Jing’s body and decided not to intervene.
• Qingtan introduced herself to Xiao Yan and watched him closely as she considered whether he might suit Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan learned that Qingtan was Lin Jing’s aunt and that she possessed hundreds of millions of Profound Origin Pills.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Jing what he used to do, hinting at an ulterior purpose.
• Qingtan realized she could not sense Xiao Yan’s aura and concluded that he might be stronger than her.

Xiao Yan kidnapped Lin Jing and demanded a billion Profound Origin Pills from Qingtan in exchange for her return. He took Lin Jing to a nearby cave, where he insisted he only wanted money but threatened to punish her if she continued insulting him.

• Qingtan rushed to Lin Jing's room and found Xiao Yan holding Lin Jing by the throat.
• Xiao Yan demanded a billion Profound Origin Pills, and Qingtan agreed to gather them before he returned Lin Jing in a month.
• Xiao Yan left the Yang Origin Vein with Lin Jing and hid with her in a cave nearby.
• Lin Jing questioned why Xiao Yan had kidnapped her, and he warned her not to trust people simply because they treated her well.
• Xiao Yan assured Lin Jing he would not violate her, then threatened to rip out her tongue if she kept insulting him.

Xiao Yan purified Lin Jing’s contaminated energy and kept her from escaping after she was attacked by a demonic beast. After he fed and treated her, Lin Jing denied she could ever fall for him.

• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing a pill that expelled the impure energy in her body, and she went to bathe outside the cave.
• Lin Jing tried to flee but was mauled by a powerful black leopard before Xiao Yan killed it with a beam of energy.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing healing medicine, and she washed her wounds and returned to the cave.
• Lin Jing ate the broth Xiao Yan had cooked and felt her fear fade as she drank several bowls.
• Xiao Yan teased Lin Jing about developing Stockholm syndrome, and she insisted she would never fall for him.

Xiao Yan offered to train Lin Jing during the month before her ransom arrived, and she became his second disciple. Lin Jing misunderstood his comments about his family and imagined that his wife and senior disciple had died, while Xiao Yan left her misconception uncorrected.

• Xiao Yan told Lin Jing that his wife was not in this world, and Lin Jing assumed she had passed away.
• Xiao Yan pointed out that Lin Jing lacked combat experience and said her aunt, Qingtan, had sheltered her too much.
• Xiao Yan offered to put Lin Jing through a month of special training, and she agreed.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Jing to become his disciple, and she kowtowed and called him Teacher.
• Xiao Yan told Lin Jing she was his second disciple and that she might never meet her senior sister, leading Lin Jing to assume the senior sister had also died.

Xiao Yan put Lin Jing through brutal combat training by making her fight demon beasts without his intervention. After Lin Jing killed her first opponent, Xiao Yan sent a stronger beast after her and planned to increase her daily quota over the next month.

• Lin Jing fled from a tiger demon beast while Xiao Yan refused to intervene and told her to defeat it herself.
• Lin Jing completed her hand seals under pressure and struck the tiger, but it survived and wounded her in their next exchange.
• Lin Jing used the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger to kill the tiger and discovered that her hand seals had become faster.
• Xiao Yan criticized Lin Jing's combat skills and told her she had nineteen more demon beasts to fight that day, with the goal of reaching a hundred daily in a month.
• Xiao Yan summoned a stronger demon beast despite Lin Jing asking to rest, and she ran from it as he praised her improvement.

Lin Jing failed Xiao Yan’s training test and was badly injured, but he healed her and gave her the Three Thousand Lightning Movement. After she mocked him, Xiao Yan sent her into the sky to learn by being struck by lightning.

• Lin Jing collapsed during her fight with the fourteenth demonic beast, and Xiao Yan killed it before taking her back to a cave for treatment.
• Lin Jing woke in a medicinal pool, absorbed its healing energy, and advanced slightly in cultivation.
• Lin Jing discovered Xiao Yan had removed her clothes to treat her injuries and accused him of being a pervert.
• A sudden storm reminded Xiao Yan that Lin Jing’s Great Sun Thunder Body used lightning, so he gave her the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Lin Jing admitted Aunt Qingtan had helped her absorb lightning before, and Xiao Yan explained that she could learn by letting lightning strike her.
• When Lin Jing tried to retreat, Xiao Yan transported her high into the air, where a bolt of lightning struck her.

After a month of brutal training, Lin Jing defeated a powerful beast and prepared to regain her freedom, but Xiao Yan found the Yang Origin Vein filled with dead miners and Qingtan strangely unconscious. Lin Jing identified black flowers whose fragrance had killed everyone in the mine, leaving Xiao Yan facing an unexplained danger.

• Lin Jing killed a Wind-Attribute Beast in battle, showing how much she had improved after a month of Xiao Yan's training.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Jing pills and took her back to the Yang Origin Vein for the scheduled exchange with Qingtan.
• Xiao Yan noticed the mine was silent and found the miners dead without visible wounds, their faces frozen in smiles.
• Xiao Yan located Qingtan sitting motionless on a stone platform and scanned the mine without disturbing her.
• Xiao Yan found more than a hundred fragrant black flowers, and Lin Jing recognized them as Eternal Illusion Demon Flowers.

Xiao Yan learned why Lin Jing’s people mined Yang Origin Stone for the Alien Demons and discovered that Qingtan had been trapped by an Eternal Illusion Demon Flower. After entering Qingtan’s illusion, he found her in a reconstructed town and tried to take her away.

• Lin Jing explained that Eternal Illusion Demon Flowers used their scent to trap victims in illusions until their bodies withered, and Xiao Yan realized his and Lin Jing’s purifying power had protected them.
• Lin Jing told Xiao Yan that her aunt mined Yang Origin Stone to preserve a human refuge after the Alien Demons defeated the Heavenly Profound Continent and killed Lin Jing’s parents and many other warriors.
• Xiao Yan devoured the Eternal Illusion Demon Flowers and entered Qingtan’s illusion with his soul to wake her before their power killed her.
• Xiao Yan found Qingtan in a shabby house with the family she remembered, including a young boy he identified as Lin Dong.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Qingtan’s arm and urged her to leave with him immediately.