Chapter Summaries

After leaving the Heavenly Tomb, Xiao Yan advanced to Upper-Rank Earth Supreme by refining Spirit God Liquid and took control of the Saint Demon Palace. He reinforced the palace’s defenses and used force, a curse, and rewards to secure his new subordinates.

• Xiao Yan brought the unconscious Qingtan and Mandala out of the Heavenly Tomb and laid them in a room in the Saint Demon Palace.
• Xiao Yan swallowed three beads of Spirit God Liquid and advanced from the peak of Lower-Rank Earth Supreme to Upper-Rank Earth Supreme.
• Xiao Yan reinforced the Saint Demon Palace’s Spiritual Array with a high-tier formation diagram.
• Xiao Yan killed several palace members who resisted him and ordered the survivors to serve him or die.
• Xiao Yan cursed the palace’s senior members and rewarded those who had pledged allegiance first with divine abilities and sacred artifacts.

After killing Lu Heng and taking over the Saint Demon Palace, Xiao Yan renamed it the Endless Fire Domain and used its spiritual array and pill trade to secure its position on the Sky Luo Continent. He planned to expand his faction further by selling divine artifacts.

• Xiao Yan renamed the Saint Demon Palace the Endless Fire Domain after killing Lu Heng, and declared himself Demon Emperor Xiao Yan.
• The Demon Blade Sect invaded the Endless Fire Domain, but its forces were destroyed by the domain's powerful spiritual array, prompting other factions to withdraw.
• The Endless Fire Domain began selling spiritual pills, including high-quality Grandmaster-Level Spiritual Pills refined by Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used his strength and pill trade to establish the Endless Fire Domain's foothold and planned to sell quasi-sacred artifacts made with the Profound Heaven Hall.

Xiao Yan continued refining pills and developing his own Pill Formula until Qingtan asked him to help her cultivate with their Dual Cultivation Method. He then turned to producing Spirit God Liquid in the Heavenly Tomb and first prepared to extract the Saint Flood Dragon Flame from Lu Heng's corpse.

• Xiao Yan worked on creating a Pill Formula while Qingtan visited and told him she had reached Seventh-Rank Supreme through their Dual Cultivation Method.
• Qingtan asked Xiao Yan to help her cultivate, insisting their arrangement was purely for cultivation and involved no feelings.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help Qingtan, then abandoned his Pill Formula research for the time being.
• Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb and brought out the corpses he had stored there to make Spirit God Liquid by accelerating time with the Time Ancestral Symbol.
• Xiao Yan planned to extract the Saint Flood Dragon Flame from Lu Heng's body before accelerating time, so the flame would not lose its power.

Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flames Formation and his divine treasures to erase the imprint in Lu Heng’s Saint Flood Dragon Flame. The imprint’s owner appeared as a demonic flame silhouette, threatened revenge, and left Xiao Yan eager to claim the flame on his body.

• Xiao Yan summoned the Heavenly Flame Plaza and joined the Nine Ancestral Symbols and his sacred treasures to suppress the Saint Flood Dragon Flame’s imprint.
• The formation erased the imprint, which manifested as a silhouette wreathed in demonic flame.
• The silhouette identified Lu Heng as his subordinate and threatened to send someone to retrieve the flame and punish Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan mocked the silhouette’s threats and said he intended to take the flame on its body.

After refining the Saint Flood Dragon Flame and reassessing the gap between his strength and the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor’s, Xiao Yan focused on improving his abilities. When rival factions disrupted the Endless Fire Domain’s medicinal herb supply, he ordered Qingtan to outbid them and secure the suppliers, leaving her to trust his confidence.

• Xiao Yan considered the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor’s power and resolved to reach the Heavenly Sovereign level as soon as possible.
• Xiao Yan refined the Saint Flood Dragon Flame, strengthening his Emperor Flame but making little progress in his cultivation.
• Xiao Yan studied pill formulas, spiritual arrays, and divine abilities to improve his Demon Fury Nine Arts.
• Qingtan told Xiao Yan that the Endless Fire Domain’s medicinal herb purchases had fallen below half their usual amount because someone had bought up the stock.
• Xiao Yan identified the other Southern Region factions as the likely culprits and ordered Qingtan to offer up to ten times the usual price to secure the herbs.

Xiao Yan faced a medicinal-herb shortage after a Southern Region alliance outbid the Endless Fire Domain and blocked its purchases. He reassured Qingtan and Mandala that the opposing factions would soon panic, then hinted that the Domain had not actually run out of herbs.

• Qingtan reported that the Heaven-Covering Gate, the Purple Yin Sect, the Azure Origin Palace, and their allies had driven medicinal-herb prices beyond the Endless Fire Domain's reach.
• Mandala explained that the newly established Endless Fire Domain lacked its own mature herb-growing grounds, leaving its pill business vulnerable to the blockade.
• Xiao Yan visited several auction houses, but rival factions bought the herbs there at more than ten times the market price after the staff leaked his plans.
• Xiao Yan explained that the auction houses had sold the information and herbs for profit, and rejected Mandala's idea of buying herbs in another region because rivals could intercept them.
• Xiao Yan argued that the opposing factions had spent so much money that the herbs would become a burden if the Endless Fire Domain held out.
• When Mandala warned that the Domain's reserves were nearly exhausted, Xiao Yan said they had not run out of medicinal herbs.

Xiao Yan revealed that the Endless Fire Domain had never truly lacked medicinal herbs and explained how he had tricked rival factions into buying useless stock. He hinted that another revelation would deal them an even harsher blow, leaving Mandala and Qingtan curious about where the Southern Region’s herb shops had obtained their supplies.

• Xiao Yan produced a vast stock of medicinal herbs and explained that his life spirit flame and other treasures let him grow more whenever needed.
• Xiao Yan said he had advertised high-priced herb purchases to bait rival factions into investing in supplies, while his auction-house visits secured pill formulas, formation diagrams, and Divine Abilities.
• Xiao Yan explained that merchants had kept quiet about his true supply because they wanted to sell their stock, and that the rivals’ purchased herbs could not reproduce his pills.
• Xiao Yan hinted that he could make the rival factions suffer even more and asked where the Southern Region’s herb shops had obtained their medicinal herbs.

Xiao Yan used the Southern Region Alliance’s medicinal-herb blockade to sell them herbs at inflated prices, while Mandala and Qingtan helped make the Endless Fire Domain appear close to running out. After three months of costly purchases, the alliance’s smaller factions were struggling financially, but its leaders still urged them to hold on.

• Mandala suggested making a show of buying herbs elsewhere, and Qingtan proposed reducing pill sales to conceal the Endless Fire Domain’s reserves.
• Xiao Yan agreed, and the Endless Fire Domain sent people to buy herbs, allowing the Southern Region Alliance to intercept them.
• For a month, the Endless Fire Domain continued selling a steady supply of pills while the alliance spent heavily on herbs across the Southern Region.
• The alliance’s smaller factions faced cash-flow problems and struggled to provide their subordinates with Supreme Spiritual Liquid.
• At a meeting, the Heaven-Covering Gate’s Gate Master insisted the Endless Fire Domain was nearing exhaustion, while other leaders questioned how it could keep selling pills.
• The Gate Master urged the alliance to persevere and promised its members tenfold repayment once Xiao Yan gave in.

After three months of cultivation, Xiao Yan had strengthened his abilities but remained at the peak of Upper-Rank Earth Supreme. Mandala told him that the Ancient Sacred Abyss was about to emerge, offering a chance to find powerful inheritances that could help him break through.

• Mandala reached Upper-Rank Earth Supreme, while Qingtan advanced to Eighth-Tier Supreme and the half-step Ninth-Tier realm.
• Xiao Yan perfected his pill formula and refined the Demon Fury Nine Arts, but his cultivation remained at the peak of Upper-Rank Earth Supreme.
• Xiao Yan explained that he needed to reach Heavenly Sovereign to face the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and protect the people of the Dou Qi Continent.
• Mandala told Xiao Yan that the Ancient Sacred Abyss held the remains and inheritances of powerful experts from the ancient war.
• Mandala revealed that the Ancient Sacred Abyss was about to emerge and said Xiao Yan could enter with help from a Heavenly Sovereign.

Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Ancient Sacred Abyss in a few months and decided to finish the conflict with the factions obstructing the Endless Fire Domain first. His return to normal pill sales and later sale of medicinal herbs exposed the factions’ mistaken belief that they had cut off his supplies, leaving the Gate Master of the Heaven-Covering Gate spitting blood.

• Mandala warned Xiao Yan that the Ancient Sacred Abyss would appear in a few months and that its spatial turbulence could send him into the Extraterritorial Evil Clan’s territory.
• Xiao Yan decided to settle the Endless Fire Domain’s conflict with the opposing factions within half a month before entering the Ancient Sacred Abyss.
• The Endless Fire Domain restored its normal pill sales, but the Gate Master of the Heaven-Covering Gate and other faction leaders assumed it was a bluff and tightened their medicinal herb blockade.
• Xiao Yan recognized the factions’ misunderstanding and had the Endless Fire Domain begin selling medicinal herbs in enormous quantities.
• The Gate Master of the Heaven-Covering Gate spat out blood after realizing the Endless Fire Domain had never lacked medicinal herbs and that the blockade had achieved nothing.

Xiao Yan used the Endless Fire Domain’s herb sales and commercial counterattack to cripple the Southern Region Alliance’s finances and win over neutral Spiritual Pill Masters. He drove the alliance’s smaller factions to the brink of ruin, then brought them into the Endless Fire Domain through annexation.

• Xiao Yan sold medicinal herbs at their original prices, winning goodwill among neutral Spiritual Pill Masters and uncovering spies through his investigations.
• Xiao Yan’s herb sales blocked the Southern Region Alliance from recovering its losses by selling its stockpiled herbs.
• Xiao Yan launched a commercial counterattack with competing products, better quality, and discounts across the alliance’s business sectors.
• Xiao Yan targeted the alliance’s smaller factions for financial ruin while letting the major factions believe they could still endure the competition.
• Xiao Yan offered the struggling smaller factions help in exchange for annexation, and they ultimately joined the Endless Fire Domain.

Xiao Yan left the Endless Fire Domain in Mandala’s care and traveled to the Saint Abyss Continent to prepare for the Ancient Sacred Abyss. After becoming a Demon Slayer and surveying the city’s offerings, he decided to spend his resources on formation diagrams and Pill Formulas to strengthen his techniques.

• Xiao Yan absorbed several Southern Region factions into the Endless Fire Domain, screened new members, and placed Curse Marks on their leaders.
• Before leaving for the Ancient Sacred Abyss, Xiao Yan poisoned a letter to the Heaven-Covering Gate and other major factions, while entrusting Mandala, who had reached Upper-Rank Earth Supreme, to protect the domain.
• Xiao Yan traveled for several months to the Saint Abyss Continent, where the Great Thousand World and the Extraterritorial Evil Clan clashed over the Ancient Sacred Abyss.
• Xiao Yan obtained a Demon Slaying Token from the Great Thousand Palace branch in Saint Abyss City and learned that demon-slaying points could be exchanged for powerful treasures.
• After finding that top-tier abilities and High-Rank Sacred Artifacts cost more spirit god liquid than he wished to spend, Xiao Yan chose to seek formation diagrams and Pill Formulas to improve his Demonic Lotus Burial Step.

Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Sacred Abyss alone after preparing for the dangers within, relying on Long Nixian to carry him through the Space-Time Storm. A concealed mark placed by the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor activated upon his arrival, revealing his location to the Extraterritorial Evil Clan lurking there.

• Xiao Yan spent Supreme Spiritual Liquid and nearly forty drops of Spirit God Liquid on supplies and a Grandmaster-level Formation Diagram before entering secluded cultivation in the Heavenly Tomb.
• When the Ancient Sacred Abyss opened, Xiao Yan summoned the Puppet made from Long Nixian and traveled there alone because he could not find a suitable companion.
• Long Nixian carried Xiao Yan safely through the Space-Time Storm, and Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Sacred Abyss without being harmed by its pressure.
• Xiao Yan sensed an icy aura cling to him but failed to expel it, assuming it came from a fallen Demon Emperor in the Abyss.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor's concealed mark activated, allowing the Extraterritorial Evil Clan within the Ancient Sacred Abyss to sense Xiao Yan and begin seeking him.

Xiao Yan followed a detection compass through the Ancient Sacred Abyss in search of the Heavenly Array Elder's ruins, surviving dangerous phenomena and killing a team that tried to rob him. The compass led him into a desert that he recognized as a powerful Spiritual Array, but he had no conventional way to break it.

• Xiao Yan used a low-grade Sacred Artifact compass to search alone for the Heavenly Array Elder's ruins and hoped to obtain the elder's Spiritual Array legacy.
• Xiao Yan avoided dangerous weather phenomena and collected some of them, then slaughtered a treasure-hunting team that attacked him.
• After several days, the compass led Xiao Yan into a vast desert, and he nearly smashed it when he saw no sign of ruins.
• Xiao Yan entered the Greater Heart Demon State and realized the desert was a Spiritual Array rather than a natural calamity.
• Xiao Yan recognized that his incomplete knowledge of Spiritual Arrays left him unable to break the powerful array by conventional methods.

Xiao Yan used soul sound waves to locate weak points in the Spiritual Array and broke through its desert illusion, revealing the Heavenly Array Elder’s cave abode. As he reached for the crystal orb inside, Qing Yanjing of the Buddha Ancient Clan appeared and tried to take it.

• Xiao Yan used Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath to map the Spiritual Seals and find fragile sections of the array.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Eight Desolations Annihilation, destroying the array’s weak points and shattering the desert illusion.
• Xiao Yan entered the revealed cave abode and found a crystal orb and several rusty iron balls on a stone platform.
• Qing Yanjing reached through twisted space to grab the crystal orb, and Xiao Yan struck at her hand.
• Qing Yanjing identified herself as being from the Buddha Ancient Clan and revealed a crystalline Treasure Pagoda.

Xiao Yan clashed with Qing Yanjing of the Buddha Ancient Clan after she tried to take something important to him. Trapped inside her Saint Buddha Tower, he unleashed his Unending Void Demon Body and shattered the tower, leaving Qing Yanjing facing the force of his counterattack.

• Xiao Yan refused Qing Yanjing's offer of compensation and told her to leave after she attempted to take his things.
• Qing Yanjing summoned the Saint Buddha Tower and trapped Xiao Yan inside it with golden flames.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the golden flames with his Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand, so Qing Yanjing transformed them into stronger crystal flames that sealed his spiritual power.
• Xiao Yan unleashed a powerful baleful aura that turned the tower blood-red and nullified the crystal flames.
• Xiao Yan used the Unending Void Demon Body's Nine Calamity Demon Fist to shatter the Saint Buddha Tower.

Xiao Yan escaped Qing Yanjing’s Saint Buddha Tower and broke her spiritual seal, then overcame two high-tier spiritual arrays using his spatial abilities. He and Qing Yanjing began fighting directly, with her crystal longsword thrusting at him after he blocked her first attack.

• Xiao Yan used his heavenly flame body and Emperor Flame to remove the spiritual seal left by the Saint Buddha Tower.
• Qing Yanjing trapped Xiao Yan in two high-tier grandmaster-grade spiritual arrays, but he warped space to escape them and appear before her.
• Xiao Yan used his dragon phoenix physique and Spatial Ancestral Symbol to bypass the arrays’ Space Lock.
• Xiao Yan attacked Qing Yanjing with his Heavy Ruler, but she evaded and countered with a crystal longsword.
• Xiao Yan raised his ruler to block Qing Yanjing’s thrust.

Xiao Yan and Qing Yanjing fought fiercely, forcing her to reveal the Boundless Light Body, one of the Great Thousand World's five primordial Supreme Dharma Bodies. Xiao Yan then unleashed a black dragon attack that threatened even its renowned defense, leaving Qing Yanjing alarmed as it struck toward her.

• Xiao Yan used the Six Harmonies Wandering Ruler to defend against Qing Yanjing's sword energy, then feinted with ruler shadows before attacking with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Qing Yanjing summoned her Boundless Light Body to block Xiao Yan's attack, revealing the Supreme Dharma Body known for having the strongest defense in the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan attacked the Boundless Light Body with the Golden Crow Nether-Flaming Art and the World-Destroying Flame Dragon Art, but Qing Yanjing's barrier of light easily withstood them.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Calamity Black Dragon, whose presence dimmed the light around Qing Yanjing's Dharma Body.
• Xiao Yan transformed his arm into a scaled dragon claw and unleashed Black Dragon Annihilates the Universe, an attack powerful enough to rival peerless Divine Abilities.

Xiao Yan unleashed the four fiends spirits against Qing Yanjing, whose boundless light body endured their attacks despite being restrained and weakened. He then used the spirits to bind her limbs and revealed the Four Fiends Demon-Sealing Array.

• Xiao Yan sent the Black Dragon Spirit crashing through Qing Yanjing's light barrier, forcing the boundless light body back and slowing its movements.
• The Ghost Fiendish Black Tortoise turned the ground beneath Qing Yanjing into a powerful black swamp that trapped her dharma body.
• The Dark Abyss Evil Tiger disrupted the surrounding spiritual power and interrupted Qing Yanjing's attempt to escape, while the Netherworld Demon Sparrow's black flames corroded her defensive dome.
• Xiao Yan sent all four fiends spirits toward Qing Yanjing, but they landed around her instead of attacking directly.
• The four fiends spirits fired colored chains that bound the boundless light body's limbs, and Xiao Yan named the move the Four Fiends Demon-Sealing Array.

Xiao Yan sealed Qing Yanjing’s boundless light body and searched her memories for the Great Buddha Art, but learned that it required the Buddha Ancient Clan’s bloodline. He then seized Qing Yanjing, intending to obtain her bloodline power so he could cultivate it.

• Xiao Yan used the Four Fiends Demon-Sealing Array to seal Qing Yanjing’s boundless light body and knocked her out of its range.
• Xiao Yan subdued Qing Yanjing and demanded the cultivation method for her Saint Buddha Tower.
• Xiao Yan searched Qing Yanjing’s memories and found the Great Buddha Art, which required Buddha Ancient Clan bloodline and ancestral qi to cultivate fully.
• Xiao Yan recalled the Dragon Phoenix Art and decided Qing Yanjing’s bloodline might let him cultivate the Great Buddha Art.
• Qing Yanjing tried to retreat and reconnect with the boundless light body, but Xiao Yan caught her wrist and said they would cultivate.