Chapter Summaries

Gu Xun'er was delighted with the Five-Ring Flame Separation Art and promised to resurrect Yao Tianhuo after they returned. As Gu Ming broke the seal around the Black Tower to leave, the backlash devastated Jia Nan Academy, and the three escaped through a spatial rift.

• Gu Xun'er praised Yao Tianhuo's Dou Technique and promised to have him resurrected once they returned.
• Gu Ming carried Gu Xun'er and Yao Tianhuo out of the magma and discovered that the space around the Black Tower was sealed.
• Gu Ming shattered the elders' energy net, triggering an explosion that injured the elders and caused heavy casualties among Jia Nan Academy's students.
• Su Qian blamed the fallen heart flame for the disaster and cursed it as he surveyed the ruined tower and injured students.
• Gu Ming opened a spatial rift, and Gu Xun'er, Yao Tianhuo, and Gu Ming disappeared from the tower.

Hun Changqing arrived at Jia Nan Academy and learned from Su Qian that the Fallen Heart Flame had escaped. He discovered Xiao Yan’s charred remains, but found a black stone containing a trace of Xiao Yan’s soul, giving him hope that Xiao Yan could be saved.

• Su Qian found the Fallen Heart Flame’s seal destroyed and assumed the flame had escaped, then vented his anger in the chamber.
• Hun Changqing restrained Su Qian with his aura and questioned him about what had happened.
• Su Qian told Hun Changqing that the Fallen Heart Flame had broken free and denied that anyone had entered during the sealing.
• Hun Changqing sensed Supreme Yin True Qi near a charred corpse and realized it was Xiao Yan.
• Hun Changqing searched Xiao Yan’s remains and found an ancient black stone carrying a trace of Xiao Yan’s soul.

Hun Changqing discovered that Xiao Yan could be revived using the Soul-Guarding Stone and planned to keep him close. When Zi Yan entered the chamber, Hun Changqing recognized her as a precious little dragon and stopped her from leaving, alarming Su Qian.

• Hun Changqing found Xiao Yan's remnant soul inside the Soul-Guarding Stone and worked out how to restore him in a suitable corpse.
• Hun Changqing decided to keep Xiao Yan close and planned to gain enough strength to protect himself from pressure by the Gu Clan.
• Zi Yan entered the stone chamber while eating a Vermilion Fruit and asked Su Qian what was happening.
• Su Qian sternly told Zi Yan to leave because Hun Changqing was an unknown, dangerous expert.
• Hun Changqing recognized Zi Yan and called her back as she tried to leave, while Su Qian anxiously warned him that she was a student of Jia Nan Academy.

Hun Changqing tried to recruit Zi Yan by offering pills and promising to help her complete her transformation, but she refused out of loyalty to Su Qian. He threatened Jia Nan Academy and pressured Zi Yan to reconsider, leaving her frightened and uncertain.

• Hun Changqing gave Zi Yan a pill and claimed he knew her origins and could help her complete her transformation.
• Hun Changqing offered to take Zi Yan as his disciple and promised her more pills, but she hesitated and ultimately refused.
• Su Qian tried to dissuade Zi Yan and ordered her to return, then fell silent when Hun Changqing threatened the students and elders of Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yan defended Su Qian and insisted that she would stay at Jia Nan Academy.
• Hun Changqing unleashed his deadly aura, touched Zi Yan's cheek, and threatened to destroy Jia Nan Academy unless she accepted him as her master.

Hun Changqing used the threat to Jia Nan Academy to force Zi Yan to accept him as her disciple. Zi Yan agreed to leave with him to protect Su Qian and the academy, while Su Qian watched in despair.

• Su Qian held back from confronting Hun Changqing, fearing the destruction a battle between Dou Zong and Dou Zun experts would bring to Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yan recalled Su Qian’s kindness and blamed herself for bringing danger to the academy.
• Zi Yan told Su Qian she would protect Jia Nan Academy by going with Hun Changqing, then agreed to become his disciple.
• Su Qian struggled with whether to intervene, but his fear for the academy left him hunched and overwhelmed by sorrow.
• Hun Changqing mocked their bond and told Zi Yan it was time to leave with him; Zi Yan wiped away her tears and answered him with scorn.

Hun Changqing abducted Zi Yan from Jia Nan Academy and brought her to his loft in Maple City, claiming he intended to take her as his disciple. Zi Yan began to doubt his motives, though she remained wary of being captured for his experiments.

• Hun Changqing threatened Zi Yan, seized her, and vanished from the stone chamber, leaving Su Qian overwhelmed by the academy's losses and coughing up blood.
• Hun Changqing carried Zi Yan to his loft in Maple City and tossed her onto the floor.
• Hun Changqing gave Zi Yan a medicinal pill and told her he wanted her as his disciple, not to kill her.
• Hun Changqing argued that taking Zi Yan away had freed her from guilt about leaving Jia Nan Academy, and Zi Yan began to believe him.
• Zi Yan asked whether Hun Changqing planned to study her true form and kill her afterward, and he denied needing such elaborate steps to capture her.

Hun Changqing won Zi Yan’s trust with pills and told her she was an Ancient Void Dragon destined for greater power than Jia Nan Academy could offer. After leaving Zi Yan in Hai Bodong’s care, he extracted Xiao Yan’s soul from the Soul-Guarding Stone.

• Zi Yan accepted Hun Changqing as her master after he gave her a Storage Ring filled with pills.
• Hun Changqing revealed that Zi Yan belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and promised her a Transformation Pill once she reached Dou Emperor.
• Hun Changqing told Hai Bodong to look after Zi Yan while he attended to other matters.
• Hai Bodong led the reluctant Zi Yan away, and Hun Changqing removed the Soul-Guarding Stone containing Xiao Yan’s soul.
• Hun Changqing used a black chain to extract Xiao Yan’s soul from the stone.

Hun Changqing searched Xiao Yan’s memories, then had Yao Chen restore his body. To keep Xiao Yan under control and preserve him as protection against Gu Xun’er, Hun Changqing sealed him in a living-dead state and set out with Han Feng’s gathered forces for the Ancient Flame Sect.

• Hun Changqing searched Xiao Yan’s damaged soul and reviewed his memories, learning of his rise without Yao Chen’s help and the loss of his memories after reaching Jia Nan Academy.
• Hun Changqing brought Xiao Yan’s soul and a corpse to Yao Chen, who used Bone Spirit Cold Flame and precious materials to create a new body for him.
• Hun Changqing suppressed Xiao Yan’s returning life energy with death qi and supreme yin true qi, leaving him in a controlled living-dead state inside a black wooden coffin.
• Hun Changqing learned from Yao Chen that he had given the Flame Mantra only to Xiao Yan, leaving the Ancient Flame Old Demon’s knowledge of it unexplained.
• Hun Changqing headed to the Ancient Flame Sect, where Han Feng’s summoned experts had gathered and sealed the sect’s surroundings.

Hun Changqing arrived to help Han Feng attack the Ancient Flame Sect, killed a poison master who had mocked him, and watched the sect’s defenses swallow their assault. Gu Xun’er emerged in a blaze of dark golden flames and recognized Hun Changqing’s supreme yin true qi, while he was stunned to see her.

• Han Feng and the gathered experts waited impatiently for Hun Changqing, and a poison master voiced his contempt for the late arrival.
• Hun Changqing passed through their Space Seal, seized the poison master, and killed him with death qi and supreme yin true qi.
• Han Feng confirmed that the Ancient Flame Old Demon was inside the Ancient Flame Sect, and Hun Changqing ordered the experts to begin their attack.
• The experts’ Dou Qi vanished against an unseen defense at the sect, while Gu Xun’er prepared to face the attackers and told Gu Ming to protect the sect.
• Gu Xun’er emerged from a sea of dark golden flames, and Hun Changqing recognized her as the Ancient Flame Old Demon.
• Gu Xun’er sensed Hun Changqing’s supreme yin true qi, turned toward him, and recognized his familiar black robe.

Hun Changqing ambushed Han Feng to seize the Sea Heart Flame, then fled when Gu Xun'er confronted him. Gu Xun'er pursued him and fought him with her newly revealed powers, leaving their battle raging as her flames clashed with his Blackwood.

• Hun Changqing stole the Sea Heart Flame from Han Feng, extracted Han Feng's soul, killed him, and escaped from the Ancient Flame Sect.
• Gu Xun'er ordered Elder Gu Ming to kill the invading experts and poison masters, then chased Hun Changqing alone.
• Hun Changqing fired Supreme Yin Divine Light at Gu Xun'er, who struck it with her flames and emerged wounded but healed herself with the Life Spirit Flame.
• Gu Xun'er used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations to raise her strength to Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Hun Changqing summoned Supreme Yin Black Death Wood, and Gu Xun'er answered with pillars of dark golden fire, sending their powers into a destructive clash.

Hun Changqing wounded the increasingly deranged Gu Xun'er with his mirror technique, but she activated the Gu Clan's Clan Mark and raised her strength to Peak Dou Zong. She prepared a devastating Heavenly Flame technique and named it as the battle reached its climax.

• Hun Changqing shattered his silver mirror and sent its fragments at Gu Xun'er, whose golden flames failed to stop them from piercing her body.
• Gu Xun'er healed her wounds, activated the Gu Clan's Clan Mark, and surged to Peak Dou Zong.
• Gu Xun'er compressed several Heavenly Flames into a destructive fireball as Hun Changqing formed a Divine Water barrier.
• Gu Xun'er raised the fireball toward the sky and announced her technique: "Above heaven and beneath heaven... I alone reign supreme!"

Gu Xun'er and Hun Changqing clashed with their most powerful techniques, devastating the surrounding plains. After Hun Changqing’s waves overwhelmed her golden attack, Gu Xun'er ambushed him at close range and seized him in a crushing embrace.

• Gu Xun'er unleashed a massive golden fireball at Hun Changqing, who struggled to hold it back with a barrier.
• Hun Changqing summoned four droplets of Divine Water and used Years-Long Dreaming Waves to overpower Gu Xun'er's attack and assault her soul.
• Believing he might have killed Gu Xun'er, Hun Changqing stopped his final wave and hurried toward the mist to find her.
• Gu Xun'er burst from the mist and punched Hun Changqing in the abdomen, then kicked him hard in the chest as he tried to retreat.
• Gu Xun'er pursued Hun Changqing and locked her arms around him, trapping him in her embrace.

Medusa confronted Hai Bodong and Zi Yan after misreading their relationship with Hun Changqing, then Hun Changqing arrived battered from a fight and introduced Zi Yan as his new disciple. Medusa remained suspicious, and Hun Changqing carried her into the secret chamber rather than explain further.

• Medusa found Hai Bodong and Zi Yan in the courtyard and nearly attacked after Zi Yan called her an old woman.
• Hun Changqing arrived in torn robes, changed into his black robe, and left Hai Bodong and Zi Yan stunned by his appearance.
• Medusa offered to help Hun Changqing kill the woman who had injured him, but he said he had been careless and needed to consider how to deal with her.
• Hun Changqing told Zi Yan to prepare for a breakthrough and promised her a Transformation Pill afterward.
• Hun Changqing explained that Zi Yan was his talented young disciple, but Medusa stayed suspicious, so he carried her into the secret chamber.

Chang Qing reported that Hun Changqing and two companions had settled near the late Medicine Emperor’s residence in Maple City after one of them clashed with the Blood Sect. Enraged to learn Hun Changqing was with a woman, Gu Xun'er killed Chang Qing and set out with Gu Ming for Maple City.

• Chang Qing reported that three black-robed people had appeared in Black Seal City, where their leader destroyed the Blood Sect and much of the city before settling near the late Medicine Emperor’s residence in Maple City.
• Gu Xun'er erupted in fury at hearing that Hun Changqing had a woman with him, and her Dou Zong aura severely injured Chang Qing.
• Gu Xun'er raged that Hun Changqing belonged only to her and wrecked the sect hall with her Dou Qi and flames.
• Gu Xun'er summoned Gu Ming and ordered him to take her to Maple City.
• Before entering Gu Ming’s spatial rift, Gu Xun'er killed Chang Qing with a single strike, then departed with Gu Ming.

Hun Changqing tried to put Gu Xun'er out of his mind while resting with Medusa, but a powerful aura and spatial rift interrupted them. Gu Xun'er and Gu Ming arrived at his compound, leaving Hun Changqing braced for trouble.

• Hun Changqing reasoned that he should avoid Gu Xun'er and wondered whether Xiao Yan could help restore her former disposition.
• Medusa offered to help Hun Changqing plan, but he ignored her, angering her.
• A vast aura descended on the compound, and Hun Changqing, Medusa, and Hai Bodong prepared for a fight after securing Zi Yan in a secret chamber.
• A spatial rift opened above the courtyard, prompting Hun Changqing to ready his abilities and Medusa to transform into a Seven-Colored Little Snake.
• Gu Xun'er and the Gu Clan's three-turn Dou Zun, Gu Ming, emerged from the rift.

Gu Xun'er arrived at Hun Changqing’s courtyard with a powerful Gu Clan elder and announced that she had come to kill. She revealed that Medusa was her target, though Medusa had never met her, and Gu Xun'er’s overwhelming presence left the confrontation poised to begin.

• Gu Xun'er arrived with a Three Revolutions Dou Zun elder, and Hun Changqing prepared to fight or flee.
• Gu Xun'er searched the courtyard with her Heaven Realm soul power and demanded to know where the other Dou Zong woman was.
• Hun Changqing asked Medusa whether she knew Gu Xun'er, and Medusa said they had never met while suppressing her own killing intent.
• Hun Changqing asked Gu Xun'er why she wanted Medusa, and Gu Xun'er said she wanted to kill her despite having no direct grudge.
• Gu Xun'er released an overpowering aura across the courtyard as Medusa remained hidden in Hun Changqing's sleeve.

Gu Xun'er ordered Gu Ming to restrain Hun Changqing while she broke the seal on his pavilion and went inside to search for a woman. Hun Changqing unleashed the strength he had concealed, shocking Gu Ming and revealing himself as a member of the Soul Clan.

• Gu Xun'er refused to let Hun Changqing leave and ordered Gu Ming to restrain him without causing harm.
• Gu Ming's oppressive aura pinned Hun Changqing and Medusa, while Hai Bodong was driven into the ground.
• Gu Xun'er shattered the pavilion's seal with her golden flames and entered to search for the woman inside.
• Hun Changqing released his full power and broke through Gu Ming's suppression.
• Gu Ming recognized Hun Changqing as a member of the Soul Clan.

Hun Changqing fought Gu Ming in Maple City, unleashing his Blackwood and seven-colored ocean techniques, but Gu Ming overwhelmed them with the Earth-Covering Seal. The chapter ended with Hun Changqing calling for Yao Lao to save him.

• Gu Ming attacked Hun Changqing with five streams of Dou Qi, but Hun Changqing dodged them.
• Hun Changqing summoned Blackwood tendrils that tore through Maple City and then formed a giant with two heads and nine arms.
• Hun Changqing created a seven-colored ocean and combined its waves with the Wooden Giant's attack, leaving Gu Ming's clothes dirty but failing to seriously injure him.
• Gu Ming grew angry and summoned the Emperor Seal Art-Earth-Covering Seal, which shattered the Wooden Giant and split the waves apart.
• Hun Changqing watched Gu Ming's palm seal descend and shouted for Yao Lao to save him.

Yao Chen emerged from Hun Changqing's Storage Ring and fought Gu Ming, whose Heaven Annihilating Seal clashed with Yao Chen's flaming palm above Maple City. Hun Changqing concealed himself and prepared a sneak attack with Medusa as Gu Ming grew wary and Yao Chen pressed his advantage.

• Yao Chen appeared from Hun Changqing's Storage Ring and held back Gu Ming's giant palm with his icy white flames.
• Gu Ming attacked Yao Chen with the Heaven Annihilating Seal, and the two palm strikes met in a fierce stalemate.
• Hun Changqing used the Breath Concealment Technique to hide and move closer to Gu Ming while Medusa gathered her power.
• Gu Ming sensed that someone watched him from the shadows, noticed Hun Changqing had vanished, and diverted some attention to guarding against a sneak attack.
• Yao Chen increased the energy flowing into his flaming palm while Gu Ming was distracted.

Yao Chen and Hun Changqing repeatedly harassed Gu Ming, helping Yao Chen break through his defenses and injure him. Gu Ming survived their combined assault by activating the Gu Clan bloodline, raising his strength to that of a fifth-revolution Dou Zun.

• Yao Chen pressured Gu Ming with his giant flaming palm while Hun Changqing concealed himself nearby.
• Hun Changqing and Medusa exploited a lapse in Gu Ming’s focus, striking him and disrupting his Dou Qi.
• Hun Changqing and Medusa continued harassing Gu Ming until his Heaven Annihilating Seal shattered under Yao Chen’s attack.
• Yao Chen’s flaming palm and Hun Changqing’s wave of Yin Qi battered Gu Ming’s barrier and forced blood from him.
• Gu Ming emerged from the energy assault with a glowing Gu Clan mark on his forehead and activated his bloodline, reaching the strength of a fifth-revolution Dou Zun.