Chapter Summaries

Sun Buxiao left Xiao Yan inside the Magma World to search for another fallen heart flame while Xiao Yan struggled to refine the one surrounding him. Medusa was trapped nearby, and when the flame began burning her soul, she drank the pink Millet Porridge to strengthen it.

• Su Qian panicked when a surge of power shook the Magma World, but Sun Buxiao emerged from the magma and assured him Xiao Yan was alive and refining the fallen heart flame.
• Sun Buxiao healed his burns, said he needed to search the magma for something, and dived back in under the netherworld poison flame.
• Xiao Yan continued resisting the fallen heart flame on a rocky island, protected by his other heavenly flames as Yao Lao remained trapped in the Storage Ring.
• Medusa realized she could not escape the Magma World and became furious that Xiao Yan had brought her into the scorching place.
• The fallen heart flame began burning Medusa's soul, so she crushed the bottle of Millet Porridge and drank the pink liquid to strengthen her soul.

Sun Buxiao defeated a swarm of Fire Lizards, found Yao Tianhuo’s remains, and collected the Fallen Heart Flame before sensing a gathering of soul power. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian learned that the Heavenly Poison Gate’s transport routes had been attacked and ordered an investigation into Earth Demon Old Ghost’s suspected involvement.

• Sun Buxiao fought through Fire Lizards in the Magma World and searched the area for Yao Tianhuo’s remains.
• Sun Buxiao found Yao Tianhuo’s jade-like skeleton and collected the Fallen Heart Flame with his bowl.
• Sun Buxiao sensed soul power gathering near the remains and challenged their unseen owner to appear.
• Su Mei told Xiao Yi Xian that attackers from the Luo Yan Empire and Jia Ma Empire had wiped out transport squads and cut off the western route.
• Xiao Yi Xian suspected Earth Demon Old Ghost was behind the attacks and ordered the Heavenly Poison Gate to investigate and restrict its members’ movements.

Sun Buxiao met Yao Tianhuo in the Magma World and took the Fallen Heart Flame, then helped the weakened Venerable and brought his remains along. He escaped the surrounding lizardmen with Yao Tianhuo in his Storage Ring and captured two lizardmen corpses for study.

• Yao Tianhuo appeared before Sun Buxiao, who admitted he had come to take the Fallen Heart Flame and said his best bro was refining another one.
• Yao Tianhuo explained that he had died after trying to refine two Fallen Heart Flames and had been nearly killed by a powerful lizardman.
• Sun Buxiao realized Yao Tianhuo hoped to use the flame as leverage to escape, then poured Soul Solution over him to repair his soul.
• Sun Buxiao invited Yao Tianhuo into his Storage Ring and packed up Yao Tianhuo's bones, joking that they could make a tonic.
• Sun Buxiao fled through the magma as lizardmen surrounded the area, taking two Dou Zong-level lizardmen corpses with him.

Xiao Yan’s attempt to suppress the fallen heart flame was disrupted while Medusa’s souls fused, and the flame overwhelmed him. Sun Buxiao escaped the magma with Yao Tianhuo as Xiao Yi Xian confronted several Dou Emperors threatening the Heavenly Poison Gate.

• Xiao Yan found Medusa unconscious beside him and sensed that her soul was painfully merging with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s soul.
• Medusa rose while still unconscious and approached Xiao Yan, distracting him as the fallen heart flame battered his defenses.
• Xiao Yan’s defenses broke, and Sun Buxiao emerged from the magma with Yao Tianhuo stored inside his ring.
• Sun Buxiao introduced himself to Yao Tianhuo and sensed that Xiao Yan was safe, then headed out to look around Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yi Xian confronted several Dou Emperors near the Black-Corner Region and warned them against attacking the Heavenly Poison Gate.

Earth Demon Old Ghost helped the four-nation alliance attack the Heavenly Poison Gate, but the alliance targeted Xiao Yi Xian instead of Sun Buxiao. Xiao Yi Xian repelled their opening attack and prepared to fight back.

• After Mo Tianxing's death, Earth Demon Old Ghost coordinated Jia Ma, Chu Yun, Mulan, and Luo Yan into an alliance against Sun Buxiao and the Heavenly Poison Gate; Xiao Yi Xian refused an offer of help from the Heavenly Snake Empire.
• The alliance demanded that Xiao Yi Xian disband the Heavenly Poison Gate, but she and her elders refused to yield to the assembled Dou Emperors.
• The alliance revealed that it had come to kill Xiao Yi Xian, believing her death would weaken Sun Buxiao and bring down the Heavenly Poison Gate.
• Hai Bodong recognized Pan Bo, the Jia Ma Empire's Desert Emperor, and exchanged insults with him as the alliance prepared to attack.
• A Peak Dou Emperor from Mulan charged Xiao Yi Xian, but she stopped the assault with her Heavenly Poison Cloud-Crushing Palm and challenged the alliance to fight.

Xiao Yi Xian revealed her formidable combat strength by killing a Six-Star Dou Emperor and holding off the four-nation alliance. When five veteran Dou Zong-level threats arrived, she called on Great Elder Su Qian for support, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Xiao Yi Xian used a combination of Dou Techniques to kill the Chu Yun Dou Emperor despite being a Four-Star Dou Emperor.
• The surviving Mulan and Luoyan Dou Emperors avoided Xiao Yi Xian and struggled against her poisonous mist, so the Mulan Dou Emperor crushed a Token to summon reinforcements.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered the Heavenly Poison Gate’s Dou Emperors to tighten formation as reinforcements arrived from three directions.
• Xiao Yi Xian identified Xie Biyan, Yan Luotian, and the Mulan Three Elders as the approaching veteran Dou Zong-level threats.
• Xiao Yi Xian called for Great Elder Su Qian, whose Four-Star Dou Zong aura rose from the city below.

Su Qian tried to protect Sun Buxiao and the Heavenly Poison Gate from a coalition of powerful factions, but Sun Buxiao arrived and attacked the invaders. He left Xie Biyan gravely wounded with a powerful kick as the confrontation escalated.

• Su Qian declared that he was acting on his own to defend his friend Sun Buxiao, despite warnings from Xie Biyan and Yan Luotian.
• Sun Buxiao arrived and killed Pan Bo with his scorpion tail, then struck two other Dou Huang experts with Netherworld poison flame.
• Xie Biyan coveted Sun Buxiao’s scorpion tail and offered to take him as a disciple in exchange for sparing his life.
• Sun Buxiao sensed Earth Demon Old Ghost hiding nearby and wondered whether he was manipulating the coalition.
• Sun Buxiao used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to attack Xie Biyan, broke his cane, and struck him in the stomach with a second kick.

Sun Buxiao fought Yan Luotian, Xie Biyan, and the Mulan Three Elders while the Heavenly Poison Gate attacked the retreating Dou Emperors. He exposed the hidden Earth Demon Old Ghost and killed one of the Mulan Three Elders, leaving the remaining enemies facing him.

• Yan Luotian and the Mulan Three Elders attacked Sun Buxiao while he refused Su Qian's help and told him to stay out of the fight.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered the Heavenly Poison Gate to pursue and kill or capture the four nations' Dou Emperors.
• Sun Buxiao used the Night Demon Swarm of Mosquitoes to evade the attackers and wounded the lion-headed Mulan Elder with Heavenly Flames.
• Sun Buxiao detected Earth Demon Old Ghost's hidden soul aura and forced him to reveal himself.
• Sun Buxiao kicked the lion-headed Mulan Elder's head off and asked the remaining enemies who would be next.

After defeating the Four Nations Alliance, Sun Buxiao planned to extract resources from the defeated empires and use the battle’s growing reputation to expand the Heavenly Poison Gate’s influence. He kept a fallen heart flame for an undisclosed scheme, then prepared to visit the Jia Ma Empire after receiving a secret offer from the Mittel Family.

• Sun Buxiao killed the wounded Mulan Three Elders, captured Yan Luotian and Xie Biyan, and confirmed that Earth Demon Old Ghost was dead.
• Sun Buxiao said he would visit the defeated empires’ capitals to demand resources, while Su Qian agreed that the countries deserved a lesson for their actions in the Black-Corner Region.
• Sun Buxiao revealed that the fallen heart flame he held was separate from the one Xiao Yan was absorbing, and said he had a use for it.
• Xiao Yi Xian reported that most enemy Dou Huang experts had been captured or surrendered, while two had escaped.
• The Heavenly Poison Gate distributed rewards and opened many Earth Tier Dou Techniques to its Yellow Badge elders; Sun Buxiao told Bai Kun he would seek another heavenly flame for him.
• Hai Bodong delivered a secret letter saying the Mittel Family wanted to pledge allegiance, and Sun Buxiao chose the Jia Ma Empire as their first stop.

Sun Buxiao tested the fallen heart flame by feeding it Han Feng's Inner Demon Legacy and found it seemed slightly more lively afterward. He offered Heart Demon Seeds to Xiao Yi Xian, Bai Kun, and the hesitant Hai Bodong, and all three swallowed them to begin confronting their inner demons.

• Sun Buxiao loosened the fallen heart flame's suppression while Xiao Yi Xian, Hai Bodong, and Bai Kun watched.
• Sun Buxiao threw Han Feng's Inner Demon Legacy into the fallen heart flame, which burned fiercely as it refined it.
• After the flame returned to its former size, Sun Buxiao sensed that it had become a little more lively and said he would need more Inner Demons to test it further.
• Sun Buxiao offered Heart Demon Seeds to Xiao Yi Xian, Bai Kun, and Hai Bodong, explaining the potential benefits and risks.
• After Sun Buxiao suggested Hai Bodong might reach Dou Sheng if he overcame his Inner Demon, Hai Bodong accepted a seed, and all three swallowed theirs.

Sun Buxiao warned Xiao Yi Xian, Hai Bodong, and Bai Kun about their inner demon tribulations before taking the two struggling men back. He arranged for Yao Tianhuo to be resurrected in Earth Demon Old Ghost’s body, then gave Zi Yan red crystals from the Magma World to eat.

• Sun Buxiao explained that the three needed to believe they could overcome their inner demons, but Bai Kun and Hai Bodong began suffering, so he carried them away to recover.
• Sun Buxiao offered Earth Demon Old Ghost’s body to Yao Tianhuo, who agreed to serve him if he could be resurrected and gave him a list of needed pills.
• Sun Buxiao left Soul Solutions with Yao Tianhuo and hurried to Jia Nan Academy to find Zi Yan.
• Sun Buxiao gave Zi Yan a red crystal from a Fire Lizard person, and she eagerly ate it, praising its pure energy.
• Sun Buxiao brought out a heap of red crystals for Zi Yan and wondered whether eating them could help her evolve.

Zi Yan began evolving after eating the red crystals, and Sun Buxiao agreed to take her away from Jia Nan Academy so she could grow stronger. He also planned to punish the neighboring countries that had joined the attack on the Heavenly Poison Gate, while Xiao Yan remained inside the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower.

• After Zi Yan ate the red crystals, she fell asleep and grew larger, so Sun Buxiao covered her with a beast hide and carried her back to her dormitory with Su Qian.
• Sun Buxiao told Su Qian that the Magma World contained lizardmen and warned him not to probe deeper into the dangerous place.
• Su Qian worried about Xiao Yan, and Sun Buxiao assured him that Xiao Yan was benefiting from the Fallen Heart Flame and would emerge much stronger.
• Sun Buxiao said he would visit Jia Ma, Luoyan, Mulan, and Chu Yun to exact compensation for their role in targeting him and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Su Qian asked Sun Buxiao to take Zi Yan with him because her growth at the academy had been too slow, and Sun Buxiao agreed to help her become stronger before approaching the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Zi Yan joined Sun Buxiao to leave Jia Nan Academy and grow stronger, while Xiao Yi Xian overcame her inner demon and stayed in Black Seal City to stabilize her cultivation. Sun Buxiao set off toward Jia Ma with Zi Yan and a group of prisoners, as upheaval loomed over the lands around the Black-Corner Region.

• Zi Yan woke in her human form, discovered she could only partially manifest her dragon features, and agreed to leave the academy with Sun Buxiao.
• Xiao Yi Xian rejected her inner demon’s doubts about the Woeful Poison Body, dispelled it, and advanced in soul strength and Dou Qi.
• Sun Buxiao invited Xiao Yi Xian to Jia Ma, but she stayed in Black Seal City to stabilize her cultivation and oversee the unsettled region.
• Sun Buxiao explained that he was taking Zi Yan to help her grow stronger and eventually address her clan’s problems.
• Sun Buxiao discussed the Hall of Souls’ likely response with Xiao Yi Xian, then took Zi Yan and a group of prisoners toward Jia Ma.

Sun Buxiao brought Zi Yan to Jia Ma, where he forced the Imperial Family to submit and pay compensation after defeating its Dou Emperors. He planned to move several allies and clans to the Black-Corner Region, and left Jia Xingtian leading him to the Imperial Family’s treasury.

• Sun Buxiao told Zi Yan that Jia Ma had sent three Dou Emperors against him, one of whom had died, and explained that Yun Shan was not loyal to the Imperial Family.
• Sun Buxiao decided to move the Mittel Family, the Xiao Clan, and the Desert Iron Mercenary Group to the Black-Corner Region under Yuan Yi’s organization.
• Sun Buxiao smashed through the Jia Ma Imperial Palace roof and summoned Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast.
• Jia Xingtian admitted Jia Ma had provoked the wrong person and offered compensation, while the other guardians accepted his submissive approach.
• Sun Buxiao ordered Jia Xingtian to take him to the Imperial Family’s treasury and threw the two captured Jia Ma Dou Emperors to Fa Ma.

Mu Gu decided to seek out Sun Buxiao, hoping to recruit him into the Hall of Souls while pursuing the Ancient Jade Fragment. Sun Buxiao took compensation from Jia Ma’s imperial collection and left with Zi Yan, planning to hunt seventh-rank magical beasts for Demon Puppet experiments.

• Mu Gu read a report about Sun Buxiao, lamented Han Feng’s death and the loss of the Sea Heart Flame, and decided Sun Buxiao was a promising recruit for the Hall of Souls.
• Mu Gu chose to travel to pursue credit for recruiting Sun Buxiao and obtaining the Ancient Jade Fragment.
• Sun Buxiao criticized Jia Ma’s imperial collection, then took an earth-element Dou Technique, three sixth-rank magic cores, and half the treasury’s money as compensation.
• Zi Yan complained that she had not gotten to fight, and Sun Buxiao said he planned to travel through the wilderness toward Mulan to find seventh-rank magical beasts for experiments.
• Sun Buxiao showed Zi Yan two Fire Lizard corpses and explained his plan to refine them into Demon Puppets, while Zi Yan asked whether she could eat their meat and magic cores.

Sun Buxiao persuaded Xiao Zhan to relocate the Xiao Clan from Wutan City to the Black-Corner Region, where it would join the Mittel Family. While searching the Magical Beast Mountain Range with Zi Yan, Sun Buxiao found a sixth-rank Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard King, and Zi Yan attacked it.

• Sun Buxiao convinced Xiao Zhan and the three elders that the Xiao Clan should move to the Black-Corner Region, citing better prospects, Xiao Yan’s safety, and the Misty Cloud Sect’s schemes.
• Xiao Zhan and Sun Buxiao agreed that the Xiao Clan would spend two months selling its assets before meeting the Mittel Family at Ghost-Suppressing Pass.
• Sun Buxiao left the captured Dou Emperors bound and powerless in a valley while he and Zi Yan searched the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Zi Yan dismissed the Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard King as a weak opponent, and Sun Buxiao gave her three sixth-tier magic cores as a reward for defeating it.
• The Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard King attacked Zi Yan with stone spikes, but she charged forward and struck at it with her fist.

Sun Buxiao extracted a drop of dragon blood and considered studying Zi Yan’s royal bloodline later. Beneath the Skyburner Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Yan woke after his cultivation breakthrough to find Medusa beside him, and their argument over what had happened turned into a confrontation as the Fallen Heart Flame still threatened them.

• Sun Buxiao refined the Earth-Splitting Demon Lizard King's blood into one drop of dragon blood and asked Zi Yan to provide some of her blood for comparison.
• Zi Yan refused for now because her body was still too weak, and Sun Buxiao agreed to wait.
• Xiao Yan woke beside Medusa in the Magma World and discovered that his cultivation had risen to five-star Dou Wang after his Storage Ring burst.
• Medusa began waking as her souls finished merging, and Xiao Yan pretended to be unconscious until she called him out.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa argued while he resisted the unrefined Fallen Heart Flame, then he grabbed her and pulled her toward him.

Sun Buxiao and Zi Yan hunted a seventh-rank Wind Sovereign Skycleaver in the Tagor Desert to obtain its magic core for an experiment. They killed the beast, and Sun Buxiao prepared to begin the experiment.

• Xiao Ding agreed to discuss moving the Desert Iron Mercenary Group to the Black-Corner Region with his second brother and Luo Bu, while Luo Bu felt discouraged by Sun Buxiao’s growing power.
• After five days of travel, Sun Buxiao and Zi Yan found the Wind Sovereign Skycleaver in the southwestern Tagor Desert.
• The Skycleaver attacked with a massive sandstorm, and Sun Buxiao told Zi Yan to charge straight at it when he threw her into the storm.
• Sun Buxiao weakened the sandstorm with a phoenix plume, then hurled Zi Yan toward the Skycleaver.
• Zi Yan punched through the Skycleaver’s neck, and Sun Buxiao pierced its body with his Scorpion Tail, killing it.
• Sun Buxiao produced two bottles and prepared to begin his experiment.

Sun Buxiao refined a Dou Zong-level Fire Lizard into a Demon Puppet while preparing to add more magical-beast parts to his arsenal. Meanwhile, the Xiao Clan arrived at Ghost-Suppressing Pass on its way to the Black-Corner Region, and Mu Gu learned that Sun Buxiao was away and decided to wait for him.

• Sun Buxiao assigned grades to the Wind-Radiance Heaven-Splitting Wings and Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Tail, then began refining a Demon Puppet from a Dou Zong Fire Lizard using a magic core, Death Solution, and rare metals.
• After three days of work, Sun Buxiao complained about the slow refinement while Zi Yan ate the Heaven-Splitter's meat and refused to share it.
• Xiao Zhan met Mittel Ya Fei at Ghost-Suppressing Pass after the Xiao Clan transferred its assets and traveled there, and Ya Fei reassured him about settling in the Black-Corner Region and seeing Xiao Yan again.
• Old Man Mu Gu arrived looking for Sun Buxiao, heard Protector Xuan explain that he was away, and chose to wait at Protector Xuan's residence while asking him to cook.

Sun Buxiao returned to the Chu Yun Empire and arranged to make Xie Biyan its new emperor, demanding that he govern well, pay tribute to the Heavenly Poison Gate, and abolish the Poison Master system. He then left Zi Yan to lead the captives toward the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and flew to an untended grave near a town.

• Sun Buxiao reached the Chu Yun Empire with Zi Yan and his captives, intending to seize the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect's resources and wipe out the Imperial Family.
• Sun Buxiao offered to back Xie Biyan as Chu Yun's new emperor, and Xie Biyan agreed in exchange for a chance to take the throne.
• Sun Buxiao poisoned Xie Biyan and gave him a vial of blood, ordering him to take one dose each year and to govern Chu Yun well, pay tribute, and abolish the Poison Master system.
• Sun Buxiao told Zi Yan to take the captives toward the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, then flew to an untended mound of earth near a town.