Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan, the Demon Emperor of the Endless Fire Domain, visited the Fire Spirit Clan and challenged them to a Fire Duel for their Clan-Protecting Divine Flame. He wagered the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame against it, and the Fire Spirit Clan Chief accepted.

• The Fire Spirit Clan Chief and several Grand Elders confronted Xiao Yan after his aura shrouded the Fire Spirit Continent.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself and asked to test the clan's Fire-Control Technique.
• The Fire Spirit Clan elders debated whether to accept Xiao Yan's challenge, while the Chief agreed to a contest.
• Xiao Yan proposed a Fire Duel, wagering the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame against the clan's Clan-Protecting Divine Flame.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Chief accepted the wager after seeing the Burning Heaven Spirit Flame.

Xiao Yan challenged the Fire Spirit Clan Chief to a flame-control contest and defeated him with the Flame Ancestral Symbol and his twenty-two heavenly flames. The clan’s Grand Elders then joined the fight and formed the Sacred Flame Heaven-Burning Array, summoning a massive crimson dragon.

• The Fire Spirit Clan Chief accepted Xiao Yan’s wager and summoned a flaming tiger to attack him.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Ancestral Symbol and twenty-two heavenly flames to overwhelm the Chief’s Fire Beasts, leaving the Chief injured by the backlash.
• The Grand Elders refused to accept the Chief’s defeat and challenged Xiao Yan together.
• Xiao Yan’s heavenly-flame beasts tore through the Grand Elders’ Fire Beasts until the leading Grand Elder called for the Sacred Flame Heaven-Burning Array.
• The Grand Elders combined their flames into a huge pillar of energy, from which an enormous crimson dragon emerged.

Xiao Yan easily defeated the Fire Spirit Clan elders’ combined flame attack and demanded the guardian divine flame he had won in their wager. When the patriarch refused, Xiao Yan subdued the clan with his Saint Grade pressure, prompting an ancient powerhouse from the Fire Spirit Clan to emerge.

• Xiao Yan compressed his Heavenly Flames into a fire lotus that shattered the elders’ crimson dragon in a single strike.
• Xiao Yan reminded the Fire Spirit Clan patriarch that the wager entitled him to their guardian divine flame.
• The patriarch refused to surrender the flame and offered peerless divine abilities as compensation, but Xiao Yan rejected them.
• Xiao Yan threatened to take the divine flame by force and released his Saint Grade pressure, leaving the clan unable to move.
• A powerful aura rose from the depths of the Fire Spirit Continent and countered Xiao Yan’s pressure, and he recognized its source as an old monster of the Fire Spirit Clan.

Xiao Yan drew out the Fire Spirit Ancestor to claim the Fire Spirit Clan’s Clan-Protecting Divine Flame, but the ancestor refused to surrender it and challenged him to battle. In an abandoned Lower Plane, the ancestor revealed his Ancient Flame Dragon Halberd, while Xiao Yan summoned a Demon Sword that surpassed it and suppressed its dragon bloodline.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor emerged from seclusion and rebuked the Fire Spirit Clan Chief for blaming Xiao Yan after losing their wager.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor recognized Xiao Yan as a young Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign, and Xiao Yan mocked the clan for sending its ancestor after its younger members had lost.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor refused to hand over the Divine Flame and opened a Spatial Rift to move their battle to an abandoned Lower Plane.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor summoned the Ancient Flame Dragon Halberd, a Peerless Sacred Artifact forged from an Ancient Flame Dragon.
• Xiao Yan summoned his blood-red Demon Sword, whose greater grade and dragon-suppressing power made the halberd dim and tremble.

Xiao Yan defeated the Fire Spirit Ancestor by suppressing his weapon and destroying his Supreme Divine Ability with the Emperor Flame. The Fire Spirit Ancestor admitted defeat, leaving Xiao Yan to claim the Fire Spirit Clan’s Clan-Protecting Divine Flame under their wager.

• The Fire Spirit Ancestor put away the suppressed Ancient Flame Dragon Halberd and summoned his blazing sun scorching body.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor unleashed the Great Sun Heaven-Incinerating Fall at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan formed a Fire Lotus from the Emperor Flame and dissolved the giant sun on contact.
• The Fire Spirit Ancestor recognized that he could not win and conceded the battle.
• Xiao Yan reminded the Fire Spirit Ancestor of their wager and claimed the Fire Spirit Clan’s Clan-Protecting Divine Flame.

After defeating the Fire Spirit Clan, Xiao Yan gained fame across the Great Thousand World, strengthening the Endless Fire Domain and attracting new experts. As he reviewed the Domain’s growth, Mandala told him a woman from the Buddha Ancient Clan had come to see him, and he wondered if she was Qing Yanjing.

• News of Xiao Yan’s defeat of the Fire Spirit Clan spread, and the Ice Spirit Clan’s Grand Elders agreed to make Qingtan their next Clan Leader.
• Rival powers abandoned their plans against the Endless Fire Domain after learning of Xiao Yan’s strength.
• Xiao Yan sold his pills at major auction houses, earning renown as a Saint Grade Grandmaster Alchemist and helping the Endless Fire Domain recruit experts.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Clan-Protecting Divine Flame but remained at peak Early Saint Grade, short of a breakthrough to Middle Saint Grade.
• Xiao Yan spoke with Mandala and the others about the Domain’s growing ranks, then heard that a woman from the Buddha Ancient Clan was waiting for him.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether the visitor was Qing Yanjing.

Maha Tian learned that Qing Yanjing had given her heart to Xiao Yan and that the Buddha Ancient Clan had rejected his marriage proposal. He ordered the Maha Gu Clan to attack the Endless Fire Domain, intending to kill Xiao Yan and bolster his prestige.

• Maha Tian asked about the Buddha Ancient Clan’s response and learned that Qing Yanjing loved someone else.
• Maha Tian learned that the man was Xiao Yan, the Demon Emperor of the Endless Fire Domain, and heard about his recent defeat of the Fire Spirit Ancestor.
• Maha Tian dismissed Xiao Yan as an upstart and ordered the Maha Gu Clan to prepare an attack on the Endless Fire Domain.
• Maha Tian planned to kill Xiao Yan to restore his marriage prospects with Qing Yanjing and demonstrate the Maha Gu Clan’s power.

Qing Yanjing found Xiao Yan and warned him that the Maha Gu Clan might target him after her clan rejected Maha Tian’s marriage proposal because of Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan learned how powerful the Maha Gu Clan was but remained confident he could defeat its strongest members.

• Qing Yanjing found Xiao Yan after hearing reports that he had fought the Fire Spirit Ancestor and confirmed he was alive.
• Qing Yanjing warned Xiao Yan that her clan had rejected Maha Tian’s marriage proposal because she had named Xiao Yan, potentially earning him the Maha Gu Clan’s resentment.
• Qing Yanjing explained that Maha Tian was a Middle Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign and that the Maha Gu Clan had two even stronger Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereign Grand Elders.
• Qing Yanjing told Xiao Yan that the Maha Gu Clan possessed a peerless Divine Ability comparable to the Eight-Part Buddha Pagoda.
• Xiao Yan said he was confident he could defeat the Maha Gu Clan’s three Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns even without Firmament Transformation.

Xiao Yan prepared the Endless Fire Domain for a possible attack from the Maha Gu Clan while Qing Yanjing stayed and resolved to discuss marriage with him. After refining a powerful pill, Xiao Yan sensed the clan’s arrival and confronted its hidden attackers outside the domain’s protective array.

• Xiao Yan placed the Endless Fire Domain on alert after Qing Yanjing warned him about the Maha Gu Clan, and Qing Yanjing stayed with Zi Yan and Mandala.
• Qing Yanjing recalled how Xiao Yan had saved her from the Extraterritorial Evil Clan and decided to discuss marriage with him.
• Xiao Yan refined the Dragon-Phoenix Heavenly Sovereign Pill, a Saint Grade Grandmaster-level pill capable of aiding Heavenly Sovereigns, and chose to save it for a future breakthrough.
• Maha Tian and the Maha Gu Clan attacked the Endless Fire Domain with a gigantic black palm, but its Saint Grade Grandmaster-level Spiritual Array repelled the strike.
• Xiao Yan appeared in the air, addressed the concealed attackers, and said he had been waiting for them.

Maha Tian led the Maha Gu Clan to attack the Endless Fire Domain and offered Xiao Yan a chance to submit, but Xiao Yan mocked and rejected him. Maha Tian ordered an assault and revealed the powerful maha boundless body as he confronted Xiao Yan.

• Maha Tian arrived with a vast force from the Maha Gu Clan, alarming nearby cultivators who expected the Endless Fire Domain to be overwhelmed.
• Maha Tian offered to spare Xiao Yan and let the Endless Fire Domain remain ruler of the Sky Luo Continent if they submitted to the clan.
• Xiao Yan mocked Maha Tian and refused his offer, prompting Maha Tian to order the Endless Fire Domain washed in blood.
• Maha Tian struck at Xiao Yan while his forces attacked the spiritual array, but Xiao Yan casually dispersed Maha Tian's palm wind.
• Maha Tian manifested the maha boundless body, the eighth-ranked Supreme Dharma Body, as Xiao Yan assessed its formidable reputation.

Xiao Yan fought Maha Tian without summoning a Supreme Dharma Body and used his techniques to gain the upper hand. He left Maha Tian injured and mocked the Maha Gu Clan as the battle continued.

• Maha Tian summoned the Maha Boundless Body and challenged Xiao Yan to use his Supreme Dharma Body, but Xiao Yan refused.
• Maha Tian attacked with Maha Divine Sound, and Xiao Yan countered with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, causing both soundwaves to dissipate.
• Maha Tian thrust with the Maha Tian Spear, but Xiao Yan's Six Harmonies Wandering Ruler guarded against it and set up a counterattack.
• Xiao Yan's Flame Splitting Wave Ruler shattered Maha Tian's spear and struck the Maha Boundless Body, injuring Maha Tian.
• Xiao Yan mocked Maha Tian and the Maha Gu Clan after spectators saw that he had gained the upper hand.

Xiao Yan mocked Maha Tian before countering the Maha Gu Clan leader’s Maha Immeasurable Calamity with the Eight-Part Buddha Pagoda. Xiao Yan’s attack destroyed Maha Tian’s divine ability, leaving him defeated as Xiao Yan prepared to kill him.

• Xiao Yan taunted Maha Tian and the Maha Gu Clan for boasting about their long history despite lacking a Heavenly Sovereign above their current realm.
• Maha Tian formed the Maha Immeasurable Calamity by combining his blood with the black-and-white energy of his Maha Boundless Body.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Eight-Part Buddha Pagoda and unleashed its Buddha God-Slaying Light against Maha Tian’s tornado.
• The two divine abilities collided, annihilating the space around them and sending destructive shock waves across the battlefield.
• Xiao Yan’s beam destroyed Maha Tian’s Maha Immeasurable Calamity, and Maha Tian cried out in disbelief.

Xiao Yan defeated Maha Tian’s Maha Immeasurable Calamity, but two Late Saint Grade elders of the Maha Gu Clan appeared and saved him. After trading insults with the three opponents, Xiao Yan faced the elders’ combined attack with his ruler of fire.

• Xiao Yan’s Eight-Part Buddha Pagoda shattered Maha Tian’s Maha Immeasurable Calamity, leaving a beam that threatened to kill him.
• Two Late Saint Grade elders of the Maha Gu Clan appeared and joined forces to stop the beam.
• Qing Yanjing recognized the elders as the Maha Gu Clan’s powerful stabilizing forces, while remaining confident Xiao Yan could face them.
• The elders questioned how Xiao Yan could use the Eight-Part Buddha Pagoda, and Xiao Yan mocked them and Maha Tian.
• The two elders attacked Xiao Yan with their black and white canes, and he transformed the Xuan Heavy Ruler into a ruler of fire to meet them.

Xiao Yan fought Maha Tian and the two Maha Gu Clan Grand Elders, whose combined attacks still failed to overpower him. After blocking their enhanced Maha Immeasurable Calamity with the Four Fiends Power, Xiao Yan declared that he intended to annihilate the Maha Gu Clan.

• Xiao Yan taunted Maha Tian and the two Grand Elders after driving them back in a fierce clash.
• Maha Tian and the two Grand Elders combined their strength to unleash an enhanced Maha Immeasurable Calamity.
• Xiao Yan summoned the four fiends spirits and used the Four Fiends Power to halt and exhaust the black-and-white tornado.
• Xiao Yan warned the Maha Gu Clan that he intended to wipe them out, and the black-staff elder angrily challenged his claim.
• Xiao Yan said he would kill the clan's three Saint Grade Heavenly Sovereigns and destroy the Maha Gu Clan before its enemies could act.

Xiao Yan revealed that his demonic Origin Spirit Clone had already slaughtered the Maha Gu Clan at its headquarters, provoking Maha Tian to order an attack on the Endless Fire Domain. After the Grandmaster Spiritual Array fell, Qing Yanjing and the Dragon Bone Guards stepped in to stop the Maha Gu Clan’s Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.

• Xiao Yan told Maha Tian that he would destroy the Maha Gu Clan, and a pillar of blood rose from the direction of its headquarters.
• Xiao Yan revealed that his demonic Origin Spirit Clone had used the Demon Sword to slaughter the Maha Gu Clan while its strongest fighters were away.
• Maha Tian, enraged by the destruction of his clan, ordered his forces to kill everyone in the Endless Fire Domain.
• The Maha Gu Clan’s attacks shattered the Endless Fire Domain’s Saint Grade Grandmaster Spiritual Array.
• Qing Yanjing used a Spiritual Array and her boundless light body to block two Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereigns.
• The Dragon Bone Guards’ battle spirit, strengthened by Long Nixian’s puppet, appeared as a bone dragon capable of matching an Immortal Grade Heavenly Sovereign.

Xiao Yan and his allies blocked the Maha Gu Clan’s fighters, but Maha Tian summoned the clan’s hidden Maha Yin-Yang Bottle. Xiao Yan brought out the Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl, and the chapter ended as the two sacred artifacts clashed.

• Xiao Yan’s Bone Dragon Battle Spirit and Peerless Sacred Artifacts held back the Maha Gu Clan’s remaining Heavenly Sovereigns.
• Maha Tian sent a blood-red rune to the Maha Continent, summoning the hidden Maha Yin-Yang Bottle.
• Maha Tian and two Grand Elders joined forces to wield the clan-protecting artifact against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl, and its light curtain met the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle’s black-and-white stream.

Xiao Yan defeated Maha Tian and his companions by overcoming the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle with his Fire Lotus and capturing the artifact. He left Maha Tian and the other attackers gravely injured and had the remaining Maha Gu Clan Heavenly Sovereigns subdued for the Endless Fire Domain.

• Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus defeated the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle after the artifact destroyed his Eight Ancestors Glazed Bowl barrier.
• Xiao Yan’s soul clone ambushed Maha Tian and his companions, knocked the bottle away with the Heavenly Profound Divine Seal, and sealed it inside the Crystal Tower.
• Xiao Yan struck Maha Tian and his companions with the Fire Lotus, leaving them gravely injured.
• Xiao Yan injured the other Maha Gu Clan Heavenly Sovereigns and intended to turn them into puppets for the Endless Fire Domain.
• The Endless Fire Domain’s experts subdued the injured Heavenly Sovereigns.

Xiao Yan annihilated Maha Tian and the Maha Gu Clan’s other leaders after defeating their forces, then rejected Qin Tian and his companions’ plea to spare the surviving clan members. He insisted on carrying out his promise to exterminate the Maha Gu Clan.

• Qing Yanjing judged that Xiao Yan’s strength might eventually surpass the Immortal Emperor’s.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Maha Tian reveal how to activate the Maha Yin-Yang Bottle, but Maha Tian refused and said outsiders could not use it.
• Xiao Yan ignored a plea from afar and swallowed Maha Tian and the other leaders with the Black Dragon Spirit-Devouring Hand.
• Qin Tian, the Azure-Robed Sword Saint, and the Undying Lord arrived too late to save the Maha Gu Clan’s leaders.
• Qin Tian and the Undying Lord urged Xiao Yan to spare the remaining clan members, but Xiao Yan declared that he would exterminate them as promised.

Xiao Yan urged the Great Thousand World's leaders to attack the Extraterritorial Evil Clan while its strongest leaders were incapacitated. He left them stunned by revealing that he had killed Heavenly Demon Emperor Slaying Heaven and badly injured the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor.

• Xiao Yan stopped the Lord of Undying, Qin Tian, and the others and warned that the Heavenly Evil God might escape before the Great Thousand Demon-Subduing Array's final activation.
• The Lord of Undying explained that the array had activated successfully forty-eight times and needed one more activation to destroy the Heavenly Evil God.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the Great Thousand World attack the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, but the Lord of Undying and the others dismissed the plan as too dangerous.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had fought his way back from the Extraterritorial Evil Clan's territory and killed Heavenly Demon Emperor Slaying Heaven.
• Xiao Yan said he had also severely injured several clan leaders, including the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor, leaving them unable to recover for years.

After destroying the Maha Gu Clan, Xiao Yan urged the Lord of Undying and the others to consider attacking the weakened Extraterritorial Evil Clan within a year. He entered the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate toward late saint grade, leaving Xun'er and the others to oversee the newly dominant Endless Fire Domain.

• Xiao Yan gave the Lord of Undying and the others a year to decide whether to join his proposed attack on the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Endless Fire Domain and refined the subdued Maha Gu Clan experts into puppets.
• Xiao Yan distributed the Maha Gu Clan's treasures and cultivation methods, giving Mandala a chance to pursue the eternal immortal body and Xun'er and the others the maha boundless body method.
• Xiao Yan entered the Heavenly Tomb to cultivate, leaving Xun'er and the others in charge and a clone to guard the Endless Fire Domain.
• Many factions pledged allegiance to the Endless Fire Domain, while the Ice Spirit Clan moved its people near the domain.
• Xiao Yan prepared to use Supreme Spiritual Liquid and the Dragon-Phoenix Heavenly Sovereign Pill to advance his cultivation and face the Extraterritorial Evil Clan.