Chapter Summaries

Jiang Hong told his grandson Jiang Yun that he would send him away, and Jiang Yun suspected the move was tied to his unusual bloodline and the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame inside him. The chapter ended as Jiang Yun began to understand that the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor’s attention had set his fate in motion.

• The chapter described the Great Thousand World’s war with the Outer Realm Evil Clan and the coming forty-ninth activation of the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array.
• Jiang Hong visited Jiang Yun as he read the history of the two worlds’ wars and told him he would send him somewhere in a few days.
• Jiang Yun questioned whether he was being sent to slaughter his clansmen, face a beast, or be taken for breeding, reflecting on the Evil Spirit Clan’s cruel existence.
• Jiang Hong recalled that Jiang Yun had been born without the clan’s Evil Eye, possessed nine divine veins, and had never met his parents.
• Jiang Yun remembered that the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor had given him a wisp of Saint Heavenly Demon Flame, which seemed connected to his inability to cultivate and the forces kept outside his body.

Jiang Yun was sent from the Outer Realm Evil Clan into the Great Thousand World as part of the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor’s plan to save the Heavenly Evil God. As he vanished into a deadly space-time storm, he vowed to return and change the Evil Spirit Clan’s fate.

• Jiang Yun agreed to go to the Great Thousand World after Jiang Hong explained the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor’s plan, and Jiang Hong gave him a seven-story tower pendant he warned him never to remove.
• Jiang Hong brought Jiang Yun to a gathering of captives and clan members who were to be sent through a space-time storm into the Great Thousand World.
• The Youxin Demon Emperor tried to place a seal in Jiang Yun’s soul, but black-and-white flames blocked it, prompting the demon emperor to recognize him as a famed Evil Spirit Clan genius.
• A disturbance calmed the space-time storm, and Jiang Hong sent Jiang Yun inside in a streak of azure light while many others were torn apart by the storm.
• Jiang Yun watched his clansmen perish and vowed to return and change the fate of the Evil Spirit Clan.

Jiang Yun drifted through a spatial passage and gained an extraordinary affinity for space before the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor confronted him about his mission to infiltrate the Great Thousand World. Jiang Hong and Jiang Ya intervened to protect him, and the tower descended to suppress the Emperor’s manifestation and Child Flame.

• Jiang Yun traveled through chaotic space, absorbed silver light, and discovered he could sense and move between Space Nodes.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor appeared and told Jiang Yun to infiltrate the Great Thousand World, lie low, and rescue several people.
• Jiang Hong emerged from Jiang Yun’s tower and defied the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor, who attacked them with his Saint Heavenly Demon Flame.
• Jiang Hong transformed into a thousand-zhang Peerless Sacred Artifact tower and began absorbing the flames, but the Emperor countered with Ten Thousand Demons Hand.
• Jiang Ya appeared within the tower and unleashed Evil Spirit Purple Light, after which the tower descended to suppress the Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor and his Child Flame.

After Jiang Yun survived the clash and drifted through a space-time storm, Jiang Ya entrusted his protection to the Little Tower's spirit and left the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame for him. Jiang Yun crashed into a wilderness, where a wild boar chased him as other terrifying beasts converged on the impact site.

• Jiang Ya told the tower spirit that Jiang Yun could become the Evil Spirit Clan's hope, then asked the spirit to protect his grandson and left the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame as nourishment for him.
• The Saint Heavenly Demon Emperor discovered that he had lost contact with Jiang Yun, but decided to wait and see whether the boy would reach the summit.
• Jiang Yun crashed into a vast wilderness and formed a massive crater, drawing the attention of countless beasts.
• A giant wild boar charged at Jiang Yun, who fled while protesting that it had mistaken him for food.
• Terrifying beasts arrived at the crash site; some fought over the area while others pursued Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun fought off the boar pursuing him and won his first clash despite having no cultivation. A purple-clad girl sensed him and headed toward the commotion, drawn by the possibility that he could help her grow up.

• An old man sensed the magical beasts rampaging in the mountain range and went to investigate.
• A purple-clad girl who had stolen Jade Spirit Fruits sensed something promising and set off toward it despite the dangerous presences nearby.
• Jiang Yun fled from the boar he called Second Brother and resolved to endure the ordeal as training.
• When Second Brother charged, Jiang Yun swung his fist and absorbed energy through nine glowing meridians.
• Jiang Yun seized Second Brother's tusks and hurled the boar to the ground, narrowly winning their clash.

Jiang Yun exhausted himself after defeating the “Second Senior Brother,” but a powerful little girl rescued him and carried him away as pursuing beasts approached. Elsewhere, Su Qian confronted the Magical Beast Emperors in the forest, leaving their standoff unresolved.

• Jiang Yun collapsed from exhaustion after toppling the “Second Senior Brother,” which recovered and charged at him.
• A purple-clad little girl killed the charging beast with a wooden spear and told Jiang Yun that she had saved him.
• Jiang Yun fainted, and the little girl demanded payment before sensing his unusual spatial power and deciding he was valuable food.
• When more beasts roared nearby, the little girl carried Jiang Yun away through space.
• Su Qian confronted the Red-Gold Tiger King and the other Magical Beast Emperors, who warned him to leave the forest.

Su Qian drove off most of the magical beasts before fighting the four sixth-tier kings, then investigated the spatial traces left near Jiang Yun. Jiang Yun woke in a cave with the little girl who had rescued him, just as she was about to lick him.

• Su Qian's aura frightened away the Two-Winged Thunder Snake and most of the other magical beasts, leaving four sixth-tier kings behind.
• The Red-Gold Tiger King and the other three kings attacked Su Qian, who countered with his Cloud-Turning Hand and charged at the tiger king.
• Su Qian examined the dead Black Wind Pig and followed traces of spatial power, suspecting a nearby Dou Zong.
• In a secluded cave, the little girl leaned toward Jiang Yun, tempted by his scent, until he suddenly opened his eyes.
• The little girl backed away and told Jiang Yun she had saved him twice, then asked how he had ended up alone in the forest.

Jiang Yun realized the purple-haired girl was Zi Yan and gave her that name, then shielded her when Su Qian appeared. Su Qian became interested in both children, while Zi Yan stepped forward to defend Jiang Yun.

• Jiang Yun guessed the little girl was Zi Yan, and she happily adopted the name he gave her.
• Zi Yan demanded payment for saving Jiang Yun, but agreed to let him owe her after he found he had nothing.
• Jiang Yun sensed someone approaching and moved in front of Zi Yan, who felt protected for the first time.
• Su Qian revealed himself and studied Jiang Yun's perception, soul strength, and spatial power, deciding he wanted to bring both children to the academy.
• Jiang Yun stayed wary of Su Qian, and Zi Yan shoved him aside and threatened to beat the old man if he scared Little Yun.

Su Qian brought Jiang Yun and Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy after persuading Zi Yan with the promise of food. They reached Canaan City, and Su Qian introduced the two children to Deputy Headmaster Hu Gan, who took a special interest in Zi Yan.

• Su Qian invited Jiang Yun and Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy, and Zi Yan agreed after he promised to feed her.
• Su Qian took them through Peace Town, where the academy enforced strict rules, then flew with them toward the Outer Academy.
• Su Qian explained that Jiang Yun would have to attend the Outer Academy first, while he had hoped to take Zi Yan directly to the Inner Academy.
• Su Qian showed the children Canaan City, but neither reacted with the awe he expected.
• Su Qian brought Jiang Yun and Zi Yan to Hu Gan's office, where Hu Gan examined them and looked at Zi Yan with surprise.

Hu Gan tested Jiang Yun’s cultivation and discovered the six-year-old had reached sixth-stage Dou Power with an extraordinary fire affinity. Zi Yan insisted on staying with Jiang Yun and promised to protect him, while Su Qian and Hu Gan anticipated the disruption the two would bring to Jia Nan Academy.

• Hu Gan tried to place Zi Yan in the Outer Academy, but she clung to Jiang Yun and refused to be separated from him.
• Hu Gan tested Jiang Yun’s spiritual strength and found that Jiang Yun blocked his probing.
• Jiang Yun pressed his hand against a testing crystal ball, which blazed with black-and-white light and revealed sixth-stage Dou Power.
• Su Qian recognized Jiang Yun’s exceptional fire affinity, while Hu Gan regretted that Jiang Yun lacked the wood attribute needed for alchemy.
• Zi Yan called Jiang Yun weak, then promised to protect him, as Su Qian and Hu Gan looked forward to the commotion the pair would cause at the academy.

After settling into a shared residence with Zi Yan, Jiang Yun learned from Azure Nether that the tower had brought him to the Dou Qi Continent for its extraordinary aura and that it contained the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame. He ended the chapter asking Azure Nether to explain what made the continent special.

• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan moved into a two-story residence at the academy, where Zi Yan claimed the upstairs room and assigned Jiang Yun the downstairs room.
• Jiang Yun reflected on his plans to grow stronger on the Dou Qi Continent and noted that he had nearly two hundred years before the Great Thousand Demon Transformation Array was activated.
• While Jiang Yun slept, the Azure Nether Tower brought him into its dark interior, where Azure Nether asked what kind of person he wished to become.
• Jiang Yun declared that he wanted to fulfill Jiang Hong's dream and prove that the Evil Spirit Clan was not disposable cannon fodder.
• Azure Nether said the Dou Qi Continent had a special aura, revealed that the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame was suppressed inside the tower, and explained that Jiang Yun could absorb it after reaching Dou Zhe.
• Jiang Yun asked Azure Nether to tell him more about the Dou Qi Continent's special qualities.

Qing Ming told Jiang Yun that the Dou Qi Continent had once been a battlefield where dozens of Heavenly Sovereigns, including members of the Outer Realm Evil Clan, had died, though their locations remained unknown. Jiang Yun began cultivating, advanced to seventh-stage Dou Power, and was interrupted by Zi Yan inviting him to hunt for treasure.

• Qing Ming revealed that he had sensed traces of battles involving dozens of Heavenly Sovereigns on the Dou Qi Continent, nearly half of them bearing the aura of the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Jiang Yun accepted that the fallen Heavenly Sovereigns might be hidden or gone and decided to search for them once he was strong enough.
• Jiang Yun returned from the tower space and began cultivating Dou Qi with the soul power he had learned to use.
• Jiang Yun guided the surging Dou Qi through his meridians and broke through to seventh-stage Dou Power.
• Zi Yan pounded on Jiang Yun's door, woke him, and invited him to hunt for treasure.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan snuck into the Outer Academy’s Medicinal Materials Treasury, where Zi Yan stole an Ice Fire Dragon Beard Fruit that Su Qian had allowed her to take. After eating it, Zi Yan began advancing and formed a purple cocoon, while Su Qian appeared and praised Jiang Yun’s insight.

• Zi Yan dragged Jiang Yun to the Medicinal Materials Treasury and used her spatial power to enter past its guards.
• Zi Yan stole the Ice Fire Dragon Beard Fruit while Jiang Yun realized the white-haired elder had deliberately let them go.
• Zi Yan ate the fruit, complained about its taste, and Jiang Yun promised to make medicinal ingredients into pills she would enjoy once he could control flames.
• Zi Yan began advancing, warned Jiang Yun to run from anyone who bullied him, and sealed herself inside a purple cocoon after asking for candy when she woke.
• Jiang Yun called out Su Qian, explained how he had guessed the First Elder was nearby, and received Su Qian’s praise for his insight.

Jiang Yun watched Zi Yan’s breakthrough create a surge of energy, then spent half a year cultivating until he advanced to Dou Zhe. With Qing Ming’s guidance, he began refining a child flame of the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame, leaving the flame contained in his dantian and his affinity with it growing.

• Su Qian sealed the room to contain the disturbance from Zi Yan’s breakthrough, while Jiang Yun copied his Space Seal technique before turning to cultivation.
• After half a year, Jiang Yun reached the peak of ninth-stage Dou Power and condensed a black-and-white Dou Qi Vortex to become a Dou Zhe.
• Jiang Yun met Qing Ming in Qing Ming Tower and learned that he needed a cultivation method before attempting to absorb the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame.
• Jiang Yun cultivated the Divine Grade spiritual art Crimson Fire Treasure Mirror, then agreed to attempt absorbing a child flame despite Qing Ming’s warning about the danger.
• Qing Ming led Jiang Yun through the tower’s intense heat to the sealed Saint Heavenly Demon Flame and brought back a tiny flame for him to refine.
• Jiang Yun swallowed the child flame, endured its scorching pain, and used the power of his Nine Divine Veins to drive it into his dantian, where he began refining it.

Jiang Yun reached Three-Star Dou Zhe after refining the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame, while Zi Yan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Wang before shrinking back to her childlike form. The two raided the medicinal herb storehouse for ingredients, and Jiang Yun began making pills with the flame as Zi Yan nervously watched.

• Jiang Yun absorbed the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame’s power and broke through from One-Star to Three-Star Dou Zhe.
• Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon as a Dou Wang, briefly taking a mature form before the Transformation Grass returned her to her childlike appearance.
• Jiang Yun promised to find Zi Yan a Transformation Pill, then agreed to take her to the medicinal herb storehouse for food.
• Jiang Yun and Zi Yan secretly took several medicinal herbs, while the storehouse elder recognized them and replaced the stolen goods without stopping them.
• Back at the dormitory, Jiang Yun summoned the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame’s white flame to refine the herbs, making Zi Yan recoil in alarm.

Jiang Yun refined flavorful pills for Zi Yan and tested how the white and black halves of his Saint Heavenly Demon Flame affected medicinal ingredients, suspecting the white flame might let him practice alchemy. He went to the Alchemy Department to investigate and joined a crowd watching Elder Liu begin a public pill-refining demonstration.

• Jiang Yun refined the ingredients Zi Yan had selected into purple pills, and she eagerly ate them while asking him to make more.
• Jiang Yun warned Zi Yan that the academy’s ingredients could not support her appetite, and she left to find more ingredients for him.
• After Zi Yan departed, Jiang Yun tested white and black flames on Blood-Stopping Grass and found that the white flame preserved its medicinal potency while the black flame destroyed it.
• Jiang Yun concluded that his white flame might substitute for an alchemist’s wood attribute and headed to the Alchemy Department to investigate.
• Jiang Yun followed a crowd to North Square, where Elder Liu began demonstrating pill refinement by heating a cauldron and adding seven ingredients.

Jiang Yun watched Elder Liu demonstrate alchemy, studied its fundamentals in the Library Pavilion, and received a recommendation from an elderly hidden expert to examine a Dou Technique. He returned to find Zi Yan waiting for him and demanding pills because she was starving.

• Jiang Yun watched Elder Liu refine pills from the first grade through the fourth and compared his soul power with the elder’s.
• Jiang Yun spent seven days reading alchemy books in the Library Pavilion and learned the theory before attempting practical alchemy.
• An elderly man warned Jiang Yun that his lack of a wood attribute made alchemy difficult, then directed him to a Dou Technique in the library.
• Jiang Yun found the Yellow Tier High Grade Blazing Fire Palm and memorized its method, though he considered it of limited use to him.
• Jiang Yun returned to the dormitory, where Zi Yan greeted him and asked him to make pills because she was hungry.

Jiang Yun successfully used the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to refine pills, proving he could become an alchemist without wood energy. After reaching Second-Rank Alchemist overnight, he kept the secret and turned his attention back to cultivation and Dou Techniques.

• Jiang Yun accepted Zi Yan's medicinal ingredients and told her to stay at the academy while he prepared an experiment, then sent her to fetch a medicine cauldron and more supplies in exchange for an incomplete soul cultivation method.
• While Zi Yan was away, Jiang Yun refined pills for her and read as he waited for her return.
• Zi Yan brought back the cauldron and ingredients, and Jiang Yun used the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame to refine a First-Grade Recovery Pill before making more pills through the night.
• Jiang Yun advanced to a four-star Dou Zhe and gave Zi Yan a Second-Grade Qi Recovery Pill, telling her that his alchemy experiment had succeeded.
• Jiang Yun asked Zi Yan to keep his alchemy secret, and she agreed; in the following days, he refined pills, cultivated, and began training in Dou Techniques while absorbing the Saint Heavenly Demon Flame.

After two and a half years of cultivation and study, Jiang Yun reached Eight-Star Great Dou Master and decided to enter the Inner Academy with Zi Yan. They registered for the selection tournament, and three days later headed to its venue as the competition began.

• Jiang Yun emerged from cultivation as an Eight-Star Great Dou Master and decided to leave the Outer Academy for the Inner Academy.
• Jiang Yun recalled becoming a fifth-grade alchemist and how Elder Huo had gained a soul cultivation method Jiang Yun left behind, later visiting the Outer Academy to teach.
• Jiang Yun asked Wu En to register him and Zi Yan for the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, and Wu En added their names to the roster.
• Three days later, Jiang Yun and Zi Yan set out for the tournament venue among Jia Nan Academy students eager to watch the competition.

Jiang Yun and Zi Yan competed in the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, revealing that both were far stronger than their opponents expected. Jiang Yun easily defeated Li Yunzhi, and Zi Yan began her match against Wang Shan, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Jiang Yun recognized Vice Dean Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang among the academy's powerful elders as the tournament began.
• Jiang Yun defeated Li Yunzhi with one palm strike, and Hu Gan and Wu Tianlang recognized his strength as a Da Dou Shi.
• Zi Yan was called to fight Wang Shan, and Jiang Yun warned her not to hit too hard.
• Hu Gan explained that Zi Yan was a fifth-rank Magical Beast who had stayed in the Outer Academy to wait for Jiang Yun.
• Zi Yan stamped the arena floor and sent a powerful shockwave toward Wang Shan, who formed Dou Qi Armor to defend himself.