Recaps

Jiang Yun won the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, entered the Inner Academy, and moved into a shared courtyard with Zi Yan. After breaking through to Nine-Star Great Dou Master, he visited the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower, where the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame inside him reacted to the sealed fallen heart flame.

• Su Qian rewarded Jiang Yun with fifty days of Fire Energy and an Azure Fire Crystal Card, while the other newcomers each received five days.
• Su Qian led the newcomers into the Inner Academy, where Jiang Yun and Zi Yan were assigned a courtyard together.
• News spread that Jiang Yun had defeated the Black Fiend and White Fiend Squads, while Jiang Yun broke through to Nine-Star Great Dou Master the next day.
• Jiang Yun headed to the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and sensed the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame inside him trembling and seeming hungry.

Jiang Yun cultivated in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, where the heart flame helped him advance to the peak of Nine-Star Great Dou Master. After the fallen heart flame sensed him and tried to escape its sealed shaft, Jiang Yun left the tower, and Elder Liu told him a young woman had been looking for him.

• Jiang Yun entered the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and discovered that the heart flame could slightly temper his Dou Qi.
• Jiang Yun used his Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to devour the heart flame scorching him, surprising Elder Liu, then persuaded him to let him cultivate on the sixth floor.
• Jiang Yun absorbed the room’s heart flame energy so rapidly that the fallen heart flame sensed him and attacked the spatial cage sealing its shaft before retreating.
• Jiang Yun cultivated for half a month and reached the peak of Nine-Star Great Dou Master, nearing a breakthrough to Dou Ling.
• Elder Liu praised Jiang Yun’s progress and told him that a young lady had been coming to look for him every day.

Jiang Yun returned to the new students’ dormitory and faced Xue Zhen, who demanded a tribute fee for the Snow Wolf Gang. Their fight revealed Jiang Yun’s immense strength and Earth Tier Cultivation Method, while powerful students watched and recognized the threat he posed.

• Song Yun warned Jiang Yun that senior students planned to collect his fire energy, and Jiang Yun gave Song Yun a pill in thanks for the warning.
• Jiang Yun arrived at his dormitory and rejected Xue Zhen’s demand for a thousand fire energy as a new student tribute fee.
• Xue Zhen attacked Jiang Yun with his Rushing Thunder Fist, but Jiang Yun caught his fist and countered with a pillar of white flame.
• Jiang Yun and Xue Zhen clashed in a battle of lightning and fire, and Xue Zhen stumbled back blackened and battered.
• Xue Zhen used his Thunder Dragon Nine Moves, and Jiang Yun drew fire energy from the surroundings with his Earth Tier Cultivation Method.
• Li Lin and the other powerful students watching from afar recognized Jiang Yun’s cultivation method and envied its value.

Jiang Yun defeated Xue Zhen with the White Tiger Seal, collected Fire Energy from the defeated students, and was punished by Su Qian for the fight and the damage. Back at his dormitory, he reunited with Zi Yan, who brought him precious medicinal ingredients to refine.

• Jiang Yun unleashed the White Tiger Seal, shattered Xue Zhen’s Thunder Flood Dragon, and left him badly wounded.
• Jiang Yun took Xue Zhen’s two thousand days of Fire Energy and collected Fire Energy from the other students.
• Su Qian arrived, fined the students involved thirty days of Fire Energy, and barred them from the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower for half a month.
• Li Lin and the other spectators discussed Jiang Yun’s strength, while Li Lin vowed to compete for a top-ten Strong Ranking spot.
• Jiang Yun returned to his dormitory and reviewed his use of the White Tiger Seal as he waited for Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan returned with medicinal ingredients she claimed to have gathered herself and asked Jiang Yun to refine them into pills.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan set out to retrieve the earth core body tempering milk Zi Yan had found, after Zi Yan effortlessly struck down Feng Wuhen when he challenged Jiang Yun. They reached the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s cave, where the beast angrily confronted them and insulted Zi Yan.

• Jiang Yun finished refining pills overnight, and Zi Yan woke after accidentally licking a pill from his hand.
• Jiang Yun recognized the earth core body tempering milk Zi Yan had brought back and persuaded her to return to where she found it.
• Feng Wuhen confronted Jiang Yun, but Zi Yan attacked him and sent him flying with a single punch, revealing her immense physical strength.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan traveled into the forest outside Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy to find the Snow Demon Sky Ape and its treasure.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape recognized Zi Yan, accused her of bringing a human into its territory, and provoked her into preparing to fight.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan defeated the Snow Sky Demon Ape and collected earth core body tempering milk before hearing about a Dou Zun Secret Realm on the Black-Corner Region Great Plains. Though Jiang Yun worried the realm would be too dangerous, Qing Ming urged him to go.

• Zi Yan beat the Snow Sky Demon Ape, overcame its berserk bloodline with her dragon roar, and pummeled it into submission.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan found the true earth core body tempering milk inside a giant stalactite, and Jiang Yun collected more than half for Zi Yan to save for her next breakthrough.
• Zi Yan and Jiang Yun overheard two Sixth-rank Magical Beasts discussing a Dou Zun Secret Realm on the Black-Corner Region Great Plains and decided it promised treasure.
• Jiang Yun warned Zi Yan that Dou Emperors and Dou Zongs would make the secret realm dangerous, but Qing Ming's voice urged him to go.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered the newly emerged secret realm after powerful figures from across the Black-Corner Region gathered and forced open its passage. They arrived in a dark, lifeless wasteland, where Zi Yan sensed a revolting aura.

• Jiang Yun decided to investigate the strange disturbance with Zi Yan, drank the earth core body tempering milk, and began breaking through as Zi Yan carried him toward the plains.
• A self-contained realm emerged above the plains, drawing Fan Lao, Su Mei, the Gold and Silver Elders, Mo Tianxing, Han Feng, and numerous other experts.
• The experts entered the realm through a newly opened spatial passage, while Jiang Yun concealed himself and Zi Yan until the others had gone inside.
• Jiang Yun completed his breakthrough to Two-Star Dou Ling, and he and Zi Yan entered the passage behind the crowd.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan arrived in a dark wasteland, where Zi Yan sensed a revolting aura.

Jiang Yun discovered evidence of the Evil Clan in the ruins and joined Zi Yan at a site where Su Mei, Yuan Yi, and Fan Lao fought over Life-and-Death Profound Fruits. He used a spirit array to hold the three Dou Emperors off, then escaped through a spatial rift as Zi Yan secured a fruit.

• Jiang Yun found a wisp of evil aura, then Zi Yan killed a spiked demon monster that had attacked him.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan reached a mountain bearing six corpses and six Life-and-Death Profound Fruits, where Su Mei, Yuan Yi, and Fan Lao were fighting.
• Jiang Yun arranged nearly a hundred spirit seals and activated the Four Symbols Grand Array to intercept the three Dou Emperors while Zi Yan took a fruit.
• Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and Su Mei attacked the array together, forcing Jiang Yun to shatter it in a powerful explosion.
• Jiang Yun escaped through a spatial rift as the three Dou Emperors pursued him.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered the ruins and discovered a chaotic battle over three treasures, including the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva. Mo Tianxing and Han Feng clashed over the prize as other powerful fighters closed in, leaving the inheritance contested.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan hid from the pursuing Dou Emperors until Fan Lao, Su Mei, and Yuan Yi each searched and left, then they continued into the ruins disguised in black robes.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan watched Han Feng, Mo Tianxing, and the others destroy moving skeletons of powerful magical beasts before the Dou Zun inheritance appeared.
• Jiang Yun recognized the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva among three objects on an altar, while Qing Ming urged him to try to obtain all three treasures.
• Han Feng identified the saliva as a path toward becoming a Dou Sheng, drawing the crowd's greedy attention away from the parchment scroll and Black Token.
• Mo Tianxing rushed for the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva and fought off attackers, but Han Feng stopped him with the Sea Flame Halberd as Elder Ying Shan and Fang Yan closed in.

Han Feng seized the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva, triggering a chaotic battle as rival experts fought to claim it. While the strongest combatants were occupied, Jiang Yun and Zi Yan recovered the Incomplete Map and hid nearby as the fighting continued.

• The Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva surged with energy, and Han Feng used his Heavenly Flame and soul power to seize it while the crowd hesitated.
• Mo Tianxing and Elder Ying Shan confronted Han Feng, who offered pills to recruit allies and escape with the saliva.
• The Gold and Silver Elders fought Mo Tianxing, Su Mei and other experts held off Elder Ying Shan, and Fang Yan and the other Demon Flame Valley elders attacked Han Feng.
• Han Feng’s sea heart flame overwhelmed the elders’ combined life transformation fire, but they continued their assault with Dou Techniques.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan appeared in a concealed corner, recovered the Incomplete Map, and watched the battle from hiding.

Jiang Yun used the black token to activate an ancient formation, then trapped and killed Fan Lao and Yuan Yi with the Great Demon Refining Formation. The Saint Heavenly Demon Flame devoured their Dou Qi and strengthened Jiang Yun, whose aura settled at peak Four-Star Dou Ling.

• Jiang Yun used the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to awaken a formation through the black token while the other cultivators fought over the Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva.
• Han Feng escaped with the Life Transformation Fire as pursuers attacked him, while Mo Tianxing broke through the Gold and Silver Elders and chased after him.
• Fan Lao and Yuan Yi stayed behind to search the ruins, where Jiang Yun appeared and taunted them with the black token.
• Fan Lao and Yuan Yi attacked Jiang Yun, but he activated the Great Demon Refining Formation and burned both Dou Emperors to death.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Flame absorbed the corpses' Dou Qi, rapidly raising Jiang Yun's strength before he compressed it to peak Four-Star Dou Ling.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan entered the hidden realm’s true inner region, where they witnessed the Jinglian Demon Saint’s history and learned that he had sealed a Soul-Eating Clan member’s lingering evil energy. Zi Yan’s Ancient Dragon Inheritance began awakening, and Jiang Yun led her onward to search for what the Demon Saint had left behind.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan collected the Storage Rings of Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and their subordinates, then used the token to enter the hidden realm’s inner region.
• Jiang Yun broke through an illusion that separated him from Zi Yan and woke her from a painful vision.
• Jiang Yun, Zi Yan, and Qing Ming watched scenes of the Jinglian Demon Saint’s life and learned that he had slain a Soul-Eating Clan member whose evil energy threatened to corrupt the continent.
• Zi Yan’s bloodline awakened in response to the Soul-Eating Clan member’s aura, revealing new knowledge within her mind.
• The Jinglian Demon Saint used a bodhi tree to create a formation that would erode the dead Soul-Eating Clan member’s evil energy, then left behind a token, Bodhi Body-Transformation Saliva, and part of a map.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan decided to search for what the Jinglian Demon Saint had left behind.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan discovered the dead Bodhi Tree and the Soul-Eating Clan corpse, and Jiang Yun decided to claim them with Qing Ming’s help. Outside the ruins, Han Feng escaped Mo Tianxing, who killed a group of cultivators before the survivors dispersed; Jiang Yun and Zi Yan later left the secret realm and set out for the academy.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan found the Bodhi Tree and the chained Soul-Eating Clan corpse, and Qing Ming revealed that both would dissipate within a hundred years.
• Jiang Yun decided to take the Bodhi Tree and the corpse, warned Zi Yan to keep his secret, and summoned the Azure Nether Tower.
• Han Feng emerged from the spatial passage badly injured, healed himself with a Sixth-Grade Resurrection Pill, and fled from Mo Tianxing.
• Mo Tianxing killed more than a dozen Dou Wangs and Dou Lings after they mocked him, then led Mo Ya, Qi Shan, and the Black Emperor Sect away.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan returned to a primeval forest and prepared to head back to the academy, where Zi Yan planned to advance to Dou Emperor.

After returning from the secret realm, Jiang Yun and Zi Yan told Su Qian that Jiang Yun had obtained a Heavenly Flame and gained the ability to refine pills. Su Qian brought Jiang Yun to the Inner Academy Alchemy Department to meet Elder Huo.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan fought their way back to Peace Town after escaping the secret realm, then agreed to claim an unknown Heavenly Flame had awakened Jiang Yun’s alchemy talent.
• Jiang Yun returned to the academy as a Four-Star Dou Ling, and Su Qian questioned him and Zi Yan about the Dou Zun ruins.
• Jiang Yun revealed his white Heavenly Flame, named it the undying saint flame, and demonstrated a first-tier Spring-Returning Pill for Su Qian.
• Su Qian welcomed Jiang Yun into the Alchemy Department, and Jiang Yun left Zi Yan resting while he followed Su Qian there.
• Su Qian led Jiang Yun to Elder Huo’s bamboo courtyard and announced that he had brought a treasure.

Jiang Yun impressed Elder Huo with his unknown heavenly flame and flawless alchemy, then used spatial force to create a movement technique. When Zi Yan began advancing, Jiang Yun built a Spirit Gathering Array to help her, and offered to set up more for Jia Nan Academy.

• Su Qian introduced Jiang Yun to Elder Huo, who examined his heavenly flame and learned he had refined flawless Spring-Returning Pills.
• Elder Huo arranged for Jiang Yun to join the Alchemy Department and access pill formulas and reference materials below the fourth grade.
• After Su Qian left, Jiang Yun used spatial force to develop the beginnings of a movement technique he named Flying Cloud Step.
• Jiang Yun found Zi Yan inside a purple cocoon after she ate several Life-and-Death Profound Fruits, and set up a Level 3 Spirit Gathering Array to aid her advancement.
• Su Qian and the elders came to investigate the gathered energy, and Jiang Yun offered to build Spirit Gathering Arrays for Jia Nan Academy in return for its kindness.

Jiang Yun completed a Spirit Gathering Array in Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and then descended into the Magma World to confront fallen heart flame. As the flame engulfed him, Jiang Yun revealed that he hoped to use it against “Him” and called out to Lord Saint Heaven.

• Jiang Yun asked Su Qian to let him study fifth- and sixth-grade pill recipes, and Su Qian granted access with Elder Huo’s approval.
• Jiang Yun proposed making fallen heart flame the core of his Spirit Gathering Array, and Su Qian agreed to prepare the academy for the attempt.
• Over the following year, Jiang Yun became a Fifth-grade Alchemist, reached Peak Dou Ling, and took the top spot on the Inner Academy Strong Ranking after defeating Feng Wuhen.
• Jiang Yun said goodbye to Zi Yan, who remained inside a purple cocoon, then entered the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and completed an array spanning the tower.
• Jiang Yun descended into the Magma World, where fallen heart flame engulfed him as Qing Ming warned him that his plan was reckless.
• Jiang Yun endured the flame’s burning and called out for Lord Saint Heaven to meet an old friend.

Jiang Yun confronted the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and learned the Fallen Heart Flame came from a defeated wielder of the Wan Huo Indestructible Body. He used the Fallen Heart Flame to enter a battle of wills against both flames, while Qing Ming supported him and hoped he would survive.

• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor revealed himself through the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame, and Jiang Yun deduced that his strength was still weakened.
• Jiang Yun learned that the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor had survived because the child flame remained intact and that the Fallen Heart Flame came from a former wielder of the Wan Huo Indestructible Body.
• Jiang Yun broke the barrier and used Evil Spirit Bind to seize the Fallen Heart Flame's origin, then drew both flames into his soul space to fight them.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and the Fallen Heart Flame attacked Jiang Yun's violet soul fire, while the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame drew traces of its influence from him.
• Qing Ming placed the bodhi tree remains behind Jiang Yun to support him and watched as he endured the ongoing clash of wills.

After a year in seclusion, Zi Yan’s breakthrough to the sixth rank as an Ancient Void Dragon shook the Inner Academy and stirred Zhu Kun inside the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion. Jiang Yun survived the battle for his soul, defeated the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame, and subdued the weakened Fallen Heart Flame before waking under Qing Ming’s watch.

• Zi Yan’s purple cocoon shattered, and her sixth-rank Ancient Void Dragon aura broke Su Qian’s barrier and sent the Inner Academy into alarm.
• Su Qian evacuated the area as Zhu Kun sensed his child’s aura and raged against his confinement in the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.
• Jiang Yun used the Evil Spirit Eye’s God-Slaying Xuan Mo Light to strike the Fallen Heart Flame and the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame while they were locked in his soul sea.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor acknowledged Jiang Yun’s victory and disappeared, leaving Jiang Yun able to claim the black-and-white Saint Heavenly Demon Flame.
• Jiang Yun used the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to overwhelm and swallow the weakened Fallen Heart Flame.
• Jiang Yun left his soul sea and opened his eyes under Qing Ming’s watch.

Jiang Yun awakened the Fallen Heart Flame and began devouring its energy with the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to break through to Dou Wang. After Zi Yan finished her breakthrough and rushed to find him, she discovered he was missing from the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, leaving Su Qian and the elders baffled.

• Jiang Yun reassured Qing Ming that he had subdued the Heavenly Flames, then asked him to stand guard while he absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Jiang Yun used the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to devour the Fallen Heart Flame’s flame seed and refined its energy, beginning his secluded breakthrough to Dou Wang.
• Zi Yan awakened in a more mature form and demanded to know where Jiang Yun was, then rushed toward the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower despite Su Qian’s warning not to disturb him.
• Zi Yan kicked open Cultivation Room One and found it empty; Elder Shi and Elder Huang searched the other rooms but could not find Jiang Yun.
• Su Qian arrived as Zi Yan’s draconic pressure frightened the elders, who told him Jiang Yun had entered the room a year earlier; Su Qian began to suspect the Fallen Heart Flame was involved.

Jiang Yun completed his refinement of the Fallen Heart Flame and woke after a major breakthrough, while Zi Yan stayed beside him and learned that her Ancient Void Dragon bloodline had begun awakening. The chapter left Zi Yan resolved to support Jiang Yun as the Fallen Heart Flame flickered, weakened and stripped of its intelligence.

• Su Qian found the Invisible Fire Python gone and saw Jiang Yun refining the Fallen Heart Flame, while Zi Yan stayed beside him despite the dangerous fire poison.
• Qing Ming reassured Zi Yan that Jiang Yun was safe and warned her that her newly awakening Ancient Void Dragon bloodline was unstable and required care.
• Zi Yan learned about her clan and inherited abilities, then resolved to stand by Jiang Yun and cultivated near him.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Flame devoured the Fallen Heart Flame's essence and intelligence before returning to Jiang Yun's dantian.
• Jiang Yun's aura surged as he broke through, opened his eyes, and sent two blazing streaks through the magma sea.

After two years refining the fallen heart flame, Jiang Yun emerged as a Six-Star Dou Wang and reunited with Zi Yan. He gave the academy a weakened but recoverable fallen heart flame to restore the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower.

• Jiang Yun reunited with Zi Yan, revealed that his Saint Heavenly Demon Flame had grown stronger, and broke through to Six-Star Dou Wang.
• Qing Ming told Jiang Yun that his seclusion had lasted two years, and Jiang Yun carried Zi Yan out of the Magma World.
• The heart flame clones vanished from the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, and the elders gathered as Jiang Yun and Zi Yan emerged from the Black Well.
• Jiang Yun told Su Qian that he had refined the fallen heart flame and presented him with its weakened remnant.
• Su Qian learned that the remnant could still power the tower and be nurtured back toward the academy, and he thanked Jiang Yun for the gift.

Jiang Yun recovered from refining the fallen heart flame and decided he needed the Flame Mantra to safely absorb the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame. He sought Su Qian’s intelligence on Han Feng and learned that Maple City had become a formidable force, leaving his plan to confront Han Feng more dangerous than expected.

• Zi Yan hurried Jiang Yun away while Su Qian and the elders examined and began planning how to nurture the juvenile fallen heart flame.
• Jiang Yun noticed the newly arrived Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, Han Yue, and Lin Yan, while Lin Xiuya sensed the threat posed by Jiang Yun and Zi Yan.
• After sleeping until the third day, Jiang Yun concluded that he needed the Flame Mantra to overcome the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor’s imprint in the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame.
• Jiang Yun asked Su Qian for intelligence on Maple City and confirmed that he intended to confront Han Feng, who possessed something Jiang Yun wanted and wielded a heavenly flame.
• Su Qian gave Jiang Yun a report showing that Han Feng had advanced to Dou Zong and Seventh-grade Alchemist, gained another Dou Zong ally, and built Maple City into the Black-Corner Region’s leading faction.

Jiang Yun enlisted Jia Nan Academy’s experts to support his planned move against Maple City by promising them pills and a Spirit Gathering Array. He successfully refined a Sect Breaking Pill, drawing the attention of powerful figures across the Black-Corner Region, including a mysterious black-robed figure.

• Jiang Yun told Su Qian he still intended to target Maple City, and Su Qian worried Han Feng’s gathered forces might threaten Jia Nan Academy.
• Jiang Yun offered Emperor’s Extreme Pills and Sect Breaking Pills in exchange for the academy’s help, then gave Su Qian a Fifth-Level Spirit Gathering Array diagram to secure his support.
• Su Qian gathered Jiang Yun’s ingredients and lent him a seventh-tier Medicine Cauldron, while several Dou Emperor experts and a purple-clad figure watched over his attempt to refine a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Jiang Yun completed the pill’s refinement, and a powerful energy beam confirmed his success to the delighted observers.
• Han Feng sensed the pill’s formation from afar, while powerful figures across the Black-Corner Region also noticed it.
• A mysterious black-robed figure surrounded by black mist sensed the Sixth-Grade Alchemist and called the discovery an unexpected windfall.

Jiang Yun refined Sect Breaking Pills for Jia Nan Academy’s Peak Dou Emperors, then used the remaining ingredients to make pills for himself and advanced to Eight-Star Dou Wang. After discussing preparations for the coming conflict in the Black-Corner Region with Su Qian, he hinted at a plan involving Han Feng and heavenly flames.

• Jiang Yun completed a flowing-pattern Sect Breaking Pill, and after the elders argued over who would receive it first, he gave it to Wu Tianlang, who promised to help capture Han Feng.
• Jiang Yun promised Elder Qing and Hu Gan each a pill, sealed the area with a formation, and spent the next month refining pills without drawing attention from the Black-Corner Region.
• After finishing the pills owed to the academy, Jiang Yun used his saved ingredients to refine more pills and swallowed a Dou Ling Pill, breaking through to Eight-Star Dou Wang.
• Jiang Yun discussed the upcoming plan with Su Qian and asked whether the academy could temporarily store heavenly flames.
• Jiang Yun hinted that Han Feng’s obsession with heavenly flames could be used against him, and Su Qian wondered whether Han Feng would want another flame despite already possessing one.

Jiang Yun recruited the Yao Brothers to lure the Gold and Silver Elders and Han Feng toward Demon Flame Valley with a supposed Heavenly Flame, igniting a scramble among the Black-Corner Region’s factions. The Yao Brothers reached Demon Flame Valley’s outskirts, where the Black Emperor Sect intercepted them as Han Feng rushed to the same destination.

• Jiang Yun met the Yao Brothers, gave them the Fire-Gathering Furnace and Berserk Blood Pills, and offered them Dou Ling Pills to stage a Heavenly Flame incident and flee toward Demon Flame Valley.
• Three days later, reports of the Yao Brothers’ strange flame spread through the Black-Corner Region, and Han Feng ordered his retainers to gather at Demon Flame Valley.
• The Yao Brothers took Berserk Blood Pills to escape the pursuing Gold and Silver Elders, but Mo Ya and the Black Emperor Sect blocked their route.
• Qi Shan identified the fire-attribute power around Yao Da as proof of a Heavenly Flame, and Mo Ya offered to settle the brothers’ grudge with the Gold and Silver Elders if they joined the Black Emperor Sect.