Chapter Summaries

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.