Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan tried to convince Qingtan that her peaceful life in Qingyang Town was an illusion, but she refused to leave her imagined family. He left town and decided to shatter the illusion by destroying the happiness she clung to.

• Xiao Yan told Qingtan that the world was false and urged her to remember Lin Jing, who was waiting in reality.
• Lin Xiao and Lin Dong defended Qingtan and urged her to ignore Xiao Yan, while Qingtan insisted that they were real.
• Qingtan admitted that even if her dreams showed the real world, she would stay where she still had a home.
• Xiao Yan left Qingyang Town and decided to break the illusion at its root by destroying its beauty.

Xiao Yan repeatedly slaughtered Qingtan’s family in the illusion, forcing her beautiful dream to become a nightmare until she began to let it collapse. Before she could awaken, a white light replaced his memories, leaving him at a Xiao Clan stone monument as his Dou Qi rank was announced.

• Xiao Yan used his soul force and inability to die to hunt down and kill everyone in Qingyang Town and the Lin Family estate.
• Xiao Yan killed Lin Xiao and Qingtan’s other family members in front of her, then revealed he had repeated the massacre 351 times whenever she restored the illusion.
• Qingtan pleaded with Xiao Yan to let her remain in the dream, but he demanded that she wake herself or face another round of killings.
• Qingtan’s illusion began to shake, but a white light erased Xiao Yan’s memories and replaced them with new ones.
• Xiao Yan found himself at a Xiao Clan stone monument, where a voice announced, “Xiao Yan, Dou Qi, third stage! Grade: low!”

Qingtan escaped the Eternal Illusion Demon Flower with Xiao Yan’s help, but he remained unconscious amid strange fluctuations that might signal an advance toward the ancestral realm. Third King Hall appeared and attacked, forcing Qingtan to fight alone while Xiao Yan remained behind her.

• Qingtan awoke from the illusion and reunited with Lin Jing, while Xiao Yan stayed unconscious.
• Qingtan sensed a strange reincarnation-like aura around Xiao Yan and wondered if he was approaching the ancestral realm.
• Third King Hall emerged from the shadows and revealed that he had come to kill Qingtan, but he became more interested in Xiao Yan’s potential breakthrough.
• Qingtan shielded Xiao Yan and charged Third King Hall, hoping to hold him off until Xiao Yan awoke.
• As Qingtan and Third King Hall fought, Xiao Yan’s fingers twitched.

Xiao Yan realized that his decades-long life as the Flame Emperor was an illusion created from his memories and prepared to leave it. After bidding farewell to Xun'er and entering a Plane Passage, his memories merged with the Demon Fury Sage's consciousness, while the real Xun'er awakened from a vivid dream.

• Xiao Yan told Xun'er that their world was false and that he needed to leave it.
• Xun'er accepted that she was shaped from Xiao Yan's memories and urged him to return to the people waiting for him.
• Xiao Yan opened a Plane Passage, and the people of the Dou Qi Continent bid farewell to the Flame Emperor as he entered it.
• The illusory world collapsed, and Xiao Yan's Flame Emperor memories merged with the Demon Fury Sage's consciousness.
• Xun'er awoke from a dream in seclusion within the Gu Clan and called out to Brother Xiao Yan.

Qingtan’s forgotten fiendish demon power returned, allowing her to wound the Third King Hall with an icy sword strike. As the Fourth King Hall attacked Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan awoke and erased him with Primordial Heaven-Transforming Light, leaving the Third King Hall terrified.

• Qingtan’s black Ice Lotus blocked the Third King Hall’s attack and restored her lost chilling power.
• Qingtan formed an icy longsword and wounded the Third King Hall with Ice Nether Aurora Slash, cracking his Demon Emperor Armor.
• The Third King Hall summoned the Fourth King Hall, who attacked Xiao Yan while the Third King Hall kept Qingtan occupied.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes and killed the Fourth King Hall with Primordial Heaven-Transforming Light.
• The Third King Hall realized Xiao Yan could likely kill him just as easily and was filled with terror.

Xiao Yan denied that he had reached the Ancestral Realm, then faced Heaven King Hall and a vast Alien Demon army alongside Qingtan and Lin Jing. He unleashed the Demon Fury Nine Arts, annihilating most of the invading force and leaving Heaven King Hall and the surviving True King-level demons badly wounded.

• Xiao Yan explained that his comprehension had reached the Ancestral Realm, but his Dou Qi remained at Peak Dou Sheng, so he had not truly broken through.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Yang Origin Mine and revealed Heaven King Hall leading the Ten Great King Halls and a huge Alien Demon army.
• Heaven King Hall recognized Qingtan's Ice Master aura and ordered the demons to attack Xiao Yan, Qingtan, and Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Demon Fury Nine Arts, annihilating more than ninety percent of the Alien Demon army while sparing Qingtan and Lin Jing.
• Heaven King Hall and the surviving True King-level demons endured the blast but were badly injured and terrified by Xiao Yan's strength.

Xiao Yan used a powerful area attack against the Ten Great King Halls, then feigned another strike to escape with Qingtan and Lin Jing. The group arrived at the Chaotic Demon Sea, where Qingtan recalled the old defeat, and Xiao Yan demanded the billion Profound Origin Pills before their pursuers could find them.

• Xiao Yan unleashed Eight Desolations Annihilation, badly injuring the Third King Hall and devastating the Alien Demon army around them.
• Xiao Yan feigned a Light Wind Void Flame Slash and escaped through a spatial passage with Qingtan and Lin Jing while the Heaven King Hall ordered a search.
• Xiao Yan, Qingtan, and Lin Jing appeared hundreds of thousands of li from the Yang Origin Vein, and Xiao Yan's injuries worsened.
• Qingtan identified the Chaotic Demon Sea, and she told Lin Jing how Lin Dong's allies had sacrificed themselves during the second great war of heaven and earth.
• Xiao Yan urged Qingtan and Lin Jing to stop reminiscing and hand over the billion Profound Origin Pills, while suspecting Lin Dong had become lost on the path of reincarnation.

Xiao Yan refined the Profound Origin Pills in the Chaotic Demon Sea and used the Origin Qi there to break through to Dou Di. As the Alien Demons arrived to attack the gathered human survivors, Xiao Yan appeared before Heaven King Hall, ready to settle the score.

• Qingtan gave Xiao Yan the Profound Origin Pills, and he began refining them while she summoned the remaining human survivors to guard him.
• The survivors sensed Xiao Yan's Ancestral Realm fluctuations and gathered around him to protect his breakthrough.
• Heaven King Hall and the other Alien Demons arrived in force, threatening the humans and revealing that the Demon Emperor had emerged from seclusion.
• Xiao Yan completed his breakthrough to Dou Di and appeared before Heaven King Hall, who could no longer sense his presence.
• Xiao Yan told Heaven King Hall and the other Alien Demons that it was time to settle the score.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Dou Di realm and fought the Alien Demon Emperor, who had fused with Lin Dong’s body and wielded the Eight Ancestral Symbols and Nine Divine Objects. Xiao Yan gained the upper hand with his Heavenly Flames and techniques, but the emperor survived his strongest strike, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Yan effortlessly defeated Heaven King Hall and the other demons, then confronted the Alien Demon Emperor, who emerged in Lin Dong’s body and admitted he had taken it over.
• The Alien Demon Emperor combined the Eight Ancestral Symbols and Nine Divine Objects into a demonic spear, while Little Yao helped Xiao Yan strengthen his Xuan Heavy Ruler into the Heavenly Flames Eternal Ancient Ruler.
• Xiao Yan and the Alien Demon Emperor exchanged powerful attacks, and Xiao Yan countered the emperor’s spatial, life-and-death, flame, ice, devouring, lightning, and darkness abilities with his Heavenly Flames and combat techniques.
• Xiao Yan used Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and Extreme Day Heaven-Destroying Slash to break the Darkness Realm and blast the Alien Demon Emperor away, but the emperor’s black armor absorbed much of the damage.
• The Alien Demon Emperor’s armor shattered and blood appeared at his mouth, though he remained alive and the fight continued.

Xiao Yan battled the Alien Demon Emperor, who unleashed the Plane Embryo’s power through the Beginningless Demon Stele. Facing the stele’s overwhelming attack, Xiao Yan created Mortal Annihilation and destroyed the Alien Demon Emperor, ending the Alien Demon calamity.

• The Alien Demon Emperor and Xiao Yan clashed with their transformed bodies and powerful techniques, but Xiao Yan’s heavenly flames kept him on the offensive.
• The Alien Demon Emperor fired the Ancestral Symbol Eye and Chaos Arrow, while Xiao Yan countered with the Nine Profound Annihilation Burning Heaven Eyes and a fire lotus made from his heavenly flames.
• The Alien Demon Emperor corrupted the Plane Embryo, sacrificed captives and Alien Demons, and sent the blood-empowered Beginningless Demon Stele crashing toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan’s Demon Fury Nine Arts failed to stop the stele, so he used time force to create emperor flame and forged a silver needle that shattered it.
• The silver needle trapped the Alien Demon Emperor inside a lotus and unleashed Xiao Yan’s combined powers against him.
• Xiao Yan created and used Mortal Annihilation to destroy the Alien Demon Emperor, ending the nearly ten-thousand-year Alien Demon calamity.

Xiao Yan defeated the Alien Demon Emperor and claimed the Eight Ancestral Symbols, Nine Divine Objects, and corrupted Plane Embryo. After purifying the Plane Embryo, he caused the Woman in White to appear, and Qingtan recognized her as Sister Qingzhu.

• Xiao Yan recovered from using Mortal Annihilation and gathered the Eight Ancestral Symbols and Nine Divine Objects left behind by the Alien Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan offered to recreate Lin Dong’s final moments on the Path of the Ancestor, but Lin Jing and the others declined.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the Plane Embryo and explained that the Alien Demon Emperor had corrupted it with demonic aura.
• Xiao Yan purified the Plane Embryo with his Emperor Flame, driving the demonic aura from it.
• A Woman in White appeared from the Plane Embryo, and Qingtan recognized her as Sister Qingzhu.

Xiao Yan learned that the Woman in White was the sentient Plane Spirit, who had chosen him to defeat the Alien Demon Emperor. The Plane Spirit explained that controlling the Plane Embryo required her recognition, then suggested Xiao Yan might qualify if he treated the world as his own property.

• Lin Jing mistook the Woman in White for her mother, but the Woman in White clarified that she was borrowing Lin Jing's mother's appearance and was the Plane Spirit.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Woman in White as the Plane Embryo, and she explained that she had sent her power across worlds to find help against the Alien Demon Emperor.
• The Plane Spirit admitted she had expected to intervene if Xiao Yan faltered, while Xiao Yan challenged her for withholding crucial information and for promising an opportunity that was already his spoils.
• The Plane Spirit explained that controlling the Plane Embryo required her recognition and a pure desire to protect all living beings, which had also made the Symbol Ancestor fail.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether he could force control of the Plane Embryo, and the Plane Spirit suggested that claiming the world as his own might count as protecting it.

Xiao Yan became the Heavenly Profound Continent’s Plane Master and learned that the Plane Embryo’s power could help him break through to higher realms. The plane spirit revealed that a mysterious destiny-altering force had disrupted Lin Dong’s breakthrough and appeared far more strongly in Xiao Yan.

• The plane spirit accepted Xiao Yan as her master, and the Plane Embryo merged into him, granting him the ability to wield the Heavenly Profound Continent’s power.
• The plane spirit advised Xiao Yan to reserve the Plane Embryo’s energy for future breakthroughs beyond Dou Di and as a safeguard against future dangers.
• The plane spirit explained that Lin Dong had sensed her and could have reached the Ancestral Realm, but an unknown fluctuation changed the final trial in his path of reincarnation and caused him to fail.
• The plane spirit told Qingtan that the same strange fluctuation had appeared in her, then revealed that it had appeared in Xiao Yan thousands of times more intensely.
• Xiao Yan guessed that the mysterious power was connected to destiny and could change it.

Xiao Yan explained how outside interference could alter a person's destiny, then suspected that his own life had been rewritten. After the plane spirit teased Lin Jing and Xiao Yan, he turned his attention to the spirit's physical body.

• Xiao Yan used the poisoned-water analogy to explain how the plane spirit's power could change Lin Dong's and Qingtan's destinies.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether his life in the Path of Reincarnation had been his original destiny, while his previous life had distorted it, and vowed to make the mastermind pay.
• The plane spirit changed her appearance into a young girl and teased Lin Jing about her feelings for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan stopped the plane spirit and Lin Jing from arguing, then threatened to prove something after the spirit called him a lolicon.

After recovering from his battle with the Alien Demon Emperor, Xiao Yan refined his control over the Ancestral Symbols and experimented with the Heavenly Profound Continent’s cultivation system. He created a Source Spirit clone but discovered it lacked techniques and needed a separate supply of Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan spent more than a month healing his severe injuries and found that his strength and control had improved after defeating the Alien Demon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan refined the Alien Demon Emperor’s spoils except for the Plane Embryo’s power, then studied the Ancestral Symbols and their potential to strengthen his combat abilities.
• Xiao Yan punished the Plane Spirit by locking her in the Soul Refining Tower and exposing her to the Soul Refining Fire.
• Xiao Yan studied Origin Power cultivation and condensed a Source Spirit from his Dou Qi, giving himself a second clone alongside his Soul Clone.
• Xiao Yan discovered that his Source Spirit could not use Dou Techniques and would need a separate supply of Dou Qi to keep from dissipating.

Xiao Yan strengthened his source spirit by feeding it primordial spirit qi and forging Primordial Spirit Artifacts to improve its combat power. He completed three artifacts and began transforming the Green Lotus Seat into a golden lotus.

• The Ancestral Stone Spirit advised Xiao Yan to use natural treasures rich in primordial spirit qi and to create Primordial Spirit Artifacts and a divine soul flame for his source spirit.
• Xiao Yan gathered and accelerated the growth of natural treasures with the Life Spirit Flame, feeding them to his source spirit until it became solid and powerful.
• Xiao Yan studied artifact refining with help from one of his divine objects and forged three Primordial Spirit Artifacts over more than a month.
• Xiao Yan used the Dragon Slaying Sword, lightning powers, precious materials, and dragon bones to forge a golden longsword artifact.
• Xiao Yan began refining a golden lotus from the Green Lotus Seat, a fire-rich companion object to the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan refined divine soul artifacts and cultivated a stronger divine soul flame, then used the Flame-Tending Mantra and stored Pill Lightning Pearls to create a new flame seed. The chapter left him preparing to infuse the seed with destructive power.

• Xiao Yan completed the Heavenly Profound Divine Seal and Nirvana Golden Lotus, giving his divine soul clone powerful combat and recovery tools.
• Xiao Yan condensed a pale golden divine soul flame infused with nirvana aura but found its power inadequate.
• Xiao Yan brought out the life transformation fire and blood demon flame and decided to strengthen his divine soul flame with the Flame-Tending Mantra.
• Xiao Yan fused the three flames into a new flame seed but sensed that it still lacked destructive power.
• Xiao Yan summoned thousands of Pill Lightning Pearls to supply the volatile energy needed to strengthen the flame seed.

Xiao Yan strengthened his artificial divine soul flame with Heavenly Demon Phoenix beast flames before Qingtan came to question him about leaving the Heavenly Profound Continent. Their argument over Lin Jing’s future ended with Xiao Yan challenging Qingtan to take responsibility for her herself.

• Xiao Yan fed Heavenly Demon Phoenix beast flames to his divine soul flame, which grew stronger and began to carry faint phoenix cries.
• Qingtan visited Xiao Yan, and the Ice Ancestor Symbol reacted to her, prompting him to suspect she might have been the original Ice Master before destiny changed.
• Qingtan asked whether Xiao Yan was from another world and whether he planned to leave after obtaining the Plane Embryo; Xiao Yan confirmed he would leave soon.
• Qingtan objected that Xiao Yan would be abandoning his disciple Lin Jing, but he argued that Lin Jing could thrive without him.
• Xiao Yan asked Qingtan why she was placing responsibility for Lin Jing on him instead of caring for her as her aunt and adoptive mother.

Xiao Yan stopped Qingtan from pursuing death by threatening Lin Jing and persuaded her to return with him. Qingtan accepted, then adopted Lin Jing as her daughter and secretly planned to make Xiao Yan and Lin Jing a couple so she could become his mother-in-law.

• Xiao Yan mocked Qingtan's wish to die and threatened to kill Lin Jing if Qingtan took her own life, making Qingtan abandon her immediate plan.
• Xiao Yan offered to take Lin Jing back to his world on the condition that Qingtan came with them, and Qingtan agreed after asking him to treat Lin Jing well.
• Qingtan announced the next day that she would adopt Lin Jing and held a banquet, which Xiao Yan attended as Lin Jing's teacher.
• Qingtan secretly hoped that making Lin Jing Xiao Yan's partner would make her his mother-in-law and prevent him from pursuing her, while Xiao Yan continued to regard her as future labor for Starfall Pavilion.

Xiao Yan returned to the Dou Qi Continent with Qingtan and Lin Jing after gathering treasures and navigating the time turbulence. His return awakened the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di Bloodline, rapidly raising its members’ strength, while Nalan Yanran continued advancing her cultivation.

• Xiao Yan gathered treasures across the Heavenly Profound Continent and prepared to return to the Dou Qi Continent with Qingtan and Lin Jing.
• Xiao Yan used his own planar coordinates to guide them through the time turbulence, absorbing temporal energy before bringing them safely to the Dou Qi Continent.
• Qingtan and Lin Jing struggled with the Dou Qi Continent’s stronger gravity, while Xiao Chen sensed Xiao Yan’s return and broke through from Five-Star to Six-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan’s return awakened the Dou Di Bloodline across the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Zhan rose from Dou Emperor to Dou Sheng as the clan’s strength surged.
• Xiao Chen realized Xiao Yan had become a Dou Di, while Nalan Yanran continued progressing toward Eight-Star Dou Shi.