Recaps

Chen Xuan defeated Liu Qing in the Strong Ranking Competition after overpowering his Great Splitting Coffin Claw and Mountain Splitting Spear with his physical strength and sword techniques. After two days of eliminations, Chen Xuan drew Xiao Yan as his next opponent.

• Liu Qing attacked Chen Xuan with the Great Splitting Coffin Claw, but Chen Xuan matched him in close combat and sent him staggering back with a punch against his spear.
• Liu Qing unleashed the Mountain Splitting Spear's Great Fissure Rock, and Chen Xuan countered with the Azure Wood Sword Art as his aura surged sixfold.
• Chen Xuan destroyed Liu Qing's attack, struck him with sword Qi, and won the battle, leaving Liu Qing injured on the ground.
• After two days of eliminations, thirteen contestants remained, and the next round's six pairs were drawn.
• Chen Xuan drew Xiao Yan as his opponent and grinned when he saw the result.

Chen Xuan defeated Xiao Yan in the final top-ten match after Zi Yan’s opponent forfeited rather than face her. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan beaten and Chen Xuan declared the winner.

• Yan Hao defeated Qian Mo in the first match.
• Qin Zhen forfeited his match against Zi Yan, saying his stomach hurt.
• Chen Xuan and Xiao Yan entered the arena for the final top-ten spot, and Su Qian began the match.
• Xiao Yan attacked with his Azure Flame Dou Qi and Profound Heavy Ruler, but Chen Xuan revealed Dou Wang strength and knocked him down.
• Chen Xuan seized Xiao Yan and continued attacking until Su Qian stopped the fight and declared Yang Shuo the winner.

Chen Xuan revealed his Dou Wang strength and defeated Xiao Yan, prompting Zi Yan to promise revenge. The final rankings began with Chen Xuan drawing Zi Yan as his opponent, and she attacked him before the elder could start their match.

• Chen Xuan overwhelmed Xiao Yan with Dou Wang strength, leaving him seriously injured and shocking the audience.
• Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan grew furious over Xiao Yan's injuries, and Zi Yan vowed to punish Chen Xuan.
• The top ten contestants drew lots, pairing Chen Xuan with Zi Yan for the next match.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Xiuya expected Zi Yan to defeat Chen Xuan, while the academy elders anticipated a clash between the two Dou Wangs.
• Zi Yan entered the arena, revealed her Dou Wang aura, and charged at Chen Xuan after he called her a little brat.

Chen Xuan fought Zi Yan in a contest of physical strength, revealing his five-star Dou Wang power after initially holding back. He injured Zi Yan, but she began unleashing even greater strength, leaving their fight poised to escalate.

• Chen Xuan met Zi Yan's opening punch with his own strength and endured the collision, surprising the spectators.
• Chen Xuan revealed an aura at the level of a five-star Dou Wang, then exchanged blows with Zi Yan across the arena and into the air.
• Chen Xuan struck Zi Yan in the abdomen and sent her crashing to the ground, injuring her and astonishing Su Qian, Xiao Yan, and Lin Xiuya.
• Chen Xuan taunted Zi Yan, and she wiped away her blood as her aura grew more violent and powerful.

Zi Yan attacked Chen Xuan with overwhelming force, but he activated Rampage and turned the fight around. The chapter ended with Chen Xuan pinning Zi Yan down and spanking her until Su Qian stopped him.

• Zi Yan unleashed her aura and charged Chen Xuan, whose first punch left him rattled and pushed back.
• Zi Yan relentlessly attacked Chen Xuan, forcing him to retreat as the audience expected him to lose.
• Chen Xuan activated Rampage, multiplying his strength and overwhelming Zi Yan with a barrage of punches.
• Chen Xuan pinned Zi Yan down and struck her with his shoe until she began to cry.
• Su Qian called for Chen Xuan to stop as Zi Yan lay crying in the arena.

Chen Xuan entered the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda with the other top students and used the Origin Heart Flame to temper his body. A sealed Heavenly Flame erupted beneath the tower, leaving Chen Xuan thrilled by the chance to obtain it as Su Qian ordered the students to evacuate.

• Su Qian led Chen Xuan and the other top students to a chamber at the bottom of the tower and warned them not to wander.
• Two elders opened the energy barrier and brought out the Origin Heart Flame, which Su Qian explained would help students below the Dou Wang realm.
• The invisible flames entered the students and burned them, but Chen Xuan endured for three days and strengthened his physique with the Undying Hegemon Body Art.
• Heartbeat-like sounds and violent energy surged from beneath the lava, where Chen Xuan saw a massive, five-colored Fire Python breaking through its seal.
• Su Qian ordered the elders into the tower and the students to evacuate at least a hundred meters away, while Chen Xuan recognized the Fire Python as the Heavenly Flame and saw an opportunity to claim it.

The Heavenly Flame escaped from the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda, forcing Jia Nan Academy’s elders to contain it with a sealing array. Han Feng arrived with a group of powerful outsiders and demanded that Su Qian release the Heavenly Flame, while Chen Xuan waited for a chance to take it.

• The Heavenly Flame burst out of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda as a massive Fire Python, and Chen Xuan recognized it as a Fire Spirit he wanted to swallow.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to form the Thousand-Layer Sealing Array, but the Fire Python’s attacks cracked the seal.
• Hu Gan and the Outer Academy elders arrived to reinforce the array and replace exhausted Inner Academy elders.
• Han Feng arrived with a group of outsiders, and Su Qian identified him as the Medicine Emperor of the Black Corner Region.
• Han Feng claimed that Heavenly Flames should not be imprisoned and asked Su Qian to release the Fire Python, while Chen Xuan waited for the ensuing chaos.

When Fan Lao threatened Jia Nan Academy’s students, Su Qian called on Yang Shuo to stop him. Chen Xuan revealed power far beyond his apparent Five-star Dou Wang cultivation, destroyed Fan Lao’s attack, and left Han Feng alarmed by the academy’s hidden strength.

• Su Qian’s elders fought Han Feng’s people while Fan Lao prepared to attack the students, and Su Qian ordered Yang Shuo to stop him.
• Chen Xuan accepted the challenge as students and Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lin Xiuya watched, and Fan Lao dismissed him as an easy target.
• Chen Xuan used sword Qi to fend off Fan Lao’s blood snakes, then met Fan Lao’s Blood Demon Hand with a surge of power.
• Chen Xuan shattered the blood-colored hand, shocking Fan Lao and making Han Feng realize that Jia Nan Academy had a student who could contend with a Dou Emperor.

Chen Xuan used his explosive strength to hold off Fan Lao, a Four-star Dou Emperor, while the Inner Academy students and Xiao Yan wondered at his power. Fan Lao transformed to increase his speed and unleashed a barrage of blood-red spears, which Chen Xuan's Green Flame shield began to melt.

• Chen Xuan blocked Fan Lao's blood handprint with a burst of cyan sword qi, shocking the Inner Academy students and Xiao Yan.
• Fan Lao used Blood Transformation, drawing in the sea of blood and changing his appearance and wings to increase his speed.
• Chen Xuan summoned his Wind Thunder Wings to evade Fan Lao's spear attack and recognized that he could not underestimate his opponent.
• Fan Lao unleashed Blood Sea Surging Heaven, filling the sky with blood-red spears that surrounded Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan formed a Green Flame shield, and the flames began melting Fan Lao's incoming spears.

Chen Xuan countered Fan Lao’s full-strength attack with a fused Azure-Green Fire Lotus and destroyed him in a massive explosion. After Han Feng recognized Chen Xuan’s Heavenly Flame and Xiao Yan confirmed his suspicions about him, the Fallen Heart Flame began absorbing the explosion’s energy, alarming Chen Xuan.

• Fan Lao gathered his power and launched the Earth-tier Great Blood Bodhi Devour at Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan fused his Azure Flame and Green Flame into a Fire Lotus and sent it against Fan Lao’s Blood Spear.
• The collision caused a devastating explosion that killed Fan Lao and left Chen Xuan exhausted but alive.
• Han Feng recognized Chen Xuan’s Azure Flame as a Heavenly Flame, while Xiao Yan confirmed his suspicions about Chen Xuan.
• The Fallen Heart Flame began devouring the energy from Chen Xuan’s attack, giving him an ominous premonition.

The Fallen Heart Flame devoured the Heavenly Wrath Fire Lotus energy, grew stronger, and began attacking the people at Jia Nan Academy. After it swallowed Chen Xuan, Xiao Yan revealed that “Yang Shuo” was an impostor, and Su Qian ordered the elders to seal the flame with him inside.

• The Fallen Heart Flame consumed the Heavenly Wrath Fire Lotus energy, terrifying the students and forcing many to flee into the mountains.
• The Gold and Silver Elders and other Black Corner Region experts escaped as Su Qian ordered the students to evacuate.
• Han Feng broke free of the Fallen Heart Flame’s suction and fled, after which the flame turned on Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan used a Dou Zong Experience Card and the Green Lotus Core Flame to resist, but the Fallen Heart Flame swallowed him.
• Xiao Yan told Su Qian that Yang Shuo was an impostor and identified him as the Dou Zong who had caused trouble at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to form a formation and seal the Fallen Heart Flame, accepting that Chen Xuan would be sealed inside with it.

Su Qian sealed Fallen Heart Flame beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda, while Chen Xuan survived inside its magma depths and prepared to devour it. Chen Xuan suppressed Fallen Heart Flame with his temporary Dou Zong strength and began fusing it before his experience card expired.

• Su Qian used a black energy net and a final blast of dark energy to force Fallen Heart Flame into the deepest level of the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda, then sealed it away and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to seal the pagoda’s final level, and the academy elders concluded that the real Yang Shuo had been killed and replaced by Chen Xuan.
• Inside the magma sea, Chen Xuan bought an Earth Spirit Pill, drank his remaining Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid, and advanced from Five-star Dou Wang to Peak Nine-star Dou Wang.
• Chen Xuan activated a One-star Dou Zong Experience Card, used Berserk, and surrounded himself with fused tricolored flames to trap Fallen Heart Flame.
• After Chen Xuan swallowed the Earth Spirit Pill, his flames subdued Fallen Heart Flame, which took the form of a small flaming snake and was drawn into his body.
• Fallen Heart Flame counterattacked inside Chen Xuan, but his Dou Zong strength and flames suppressed it as he began devouring and fusing with it.

Chen Xuan fused the Green Lotus Core Flame with the Fallen Heart Flame and broke through to the Dou Emperor realm. Trapped beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda by Su Qian’s seal, he prepared a powerful fire lotus to escape.

• Chen Xuan refined the Fallen Heart Flame and rested before beginning the fusion with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Chen Xuan merged the two Heavenly Flames into an Emerald Green Flame, triggering a surge of power in his body.
• Chen Xuan absorbed fire energy from the magma and broke through to the peak of a one-star Dou Emperor.
• Chen Xuan realized Su Qian’s formation sealed the exit and that he would need Dou Zong-level strength to break it.
• Chen Xuan activated the Berserk skill and fused the Emerald Green Flame with the Purple-Green Flame to form a fire lotus.

After the Fallen Heart Flame’s aura vanished from the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda, Su Qian and Jia Nan Academy’s experts gathered to investigate. Chen Xuan emerged amid a violent eruption, and Su Qian confronted him, demanding that he surrender the flame.

• Su Qian concluded that the Fallen Heart Flame might have been subdued and summoned the academy’s elders to surround the pagoda.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen watched from afar and discussed helping if Chen Xuan appeared.
• The pagoda shook, its seal shattered, and magma erupted as Chen Xuan emerged engulfed in flames.
• Su Qian recognized Chen Xuan, ordered the experts to block his escape, and accused him of killing Yang Shuo to obtain the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian demanded that Chen Xuan hand over the Fallen Heart Flame, but Chen Xuan refused.

Chen Xuan fought Su Qian and the Jia Nan Academy elders after refusing to return the Fallen Heart Flame. He shattered Su Qian’s attacks, and as the elders surrounded him, he prepared to unleash his Azure Flame.

• Su Qian confronted Chen Xuan over the Fallen Heart Flame, but Chen Xuan refused to surrender and drew his longsword.
• Su Qian attacked Chen Xuan with a giant palm, and Chen Xuan activated Berserk and pierced through it with Wind's Extreme, Fallen Kill.
• Xiao Yan recognized Chen Xuan’s combat skill, while Yao Chen warned him that Chen Xuan could instantly multiply his strength.
• Su Qian launched an energy pillar, and Chen Xuan met it with Wind Extremity: Sunset Radiance, causing a destructive explosion that ruined nearby buildings.
• Su Qian ordered the academy elders to take Chen Xuan down dead or alive, and Chen Xuan brought out his Azure Flame as they surrounded him.

Chen Xuan unleashed a Four-Colored Fire Lotus against Xiao Yan’s Three-Colored Fire Lotus during the siege at Jia Nan Academy. After Chen Xuan’s attack swallowed Xiao Yan’s and threatened to destroy the Inner Academy, two aged gray figures appeared beside it.

• Su Qian and the academy elders attacked Chen Xuan, who countered with a Three-Colored Fire Lotus that devastated the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Pagoda and injured the defenders.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to wear Chen Xuan down while hidden Xiao Yan prepared a flame attack.
• Chen Xuan realized the siege was buying time for Xiao Yan and fused the Fallen Heart Flame with his other flames to form a Four-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan launched his Three-Colored Fire Lotus at Chen Xuan’s, but Chen Xuan’s attack swallowed it and grew stronger.
• The Four-Colored Fire Lotus threatened to obliterate the Inner Academy, and two aged gray figures suddenly appeared beside it.

The Jia Nan Academy guardians sent Chen Xuan’s Four-Colored Fire Lotus into a spatial crack, but Chen Xuan escaped while they were occupied. He entered the Black Corner Region to seek Han Feng and the Heavenly Flame he possessed.

• Two Jia Nan Academy guardians appeared and used spatial power to send Chen Xuan’s Four-Colored Fire Lotus into a crack.
• Su Qian discovered Chen Xuan had vanished, and the guardians learned that he had stolen the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The guardians ordered an investigation and vowed to punish Chen Xuan for stealing the academy’s foundation.
• Chen Xuan entered the Black Corner Region to find Han Feng and take his Heavenly Flame.
• Chen Xuan decided to search for information on Han Feng and relied on his strength and Teleportation Jade Talisman to protect himself.

Chen Xuan provoked trouble in Medicine Emperor City to draw Han Feng out and secure a one-on-one fight for his Heavenly Flame. After killing Wang Xiong and rejecting poisoned food, he waited as the enforcement squad was summoned.

• Chen Xuan entered a tavern and deliberately acted arrogantly to attract Han Feng's attention.
• Wang Xiong attacked Chen Xuan with his axe, but Chen Xuan stopped the blow and killed him by crushing his neck.
• The tavern patrons recognized Chen Xuan as a nine-star Dou Wang, and the owner sent a messenger to notify Zhang Hu.
• The tavern owner poisoned Chen Xuan's food, but Chen Xuan kicked the table over and refused to eat it.

Chen Xuan provoked Medicine Emperor City’s law enforcement squad, revealed his Azure Flame, and robbed and destroyed a restaurant to attract Han Feng’s attention. After Zhang Hu reported that Chen Xuan possessed a Heavenly Flame and was a one-star Dou Emperor, Han Feng decided to confront him.

• Chen Xuan harassed the restaurant owner until Zhang Hu and the law enforcement squad arrived to arrest him.
• Chen Xuan burned the owner to ash, then attacked Zhang Hu with Azure Flame and let the injured Dou Emperor escape.
• Chen Xuan robbed the restaurant’s guests, burned the building down, and left deliberate traces as he headed out of the city.
• Zhang Hu reported Chen Xuan’s Heavenly Flame and strength to Han Feng, who decided to pursue him for the flame.

Chen Xuan lured Han Feng out of Medicine Emperor City and defeated him with his fused Heavenly Flames. He killed Han Feng, extracted the origin flame seed of Sea Heart Flame, and began refining it before attempting another fusion.

• Chen Xuan waited outside Medicine Emperor City, where Han Feng arrived with Zhang Hu and four other powerful fighters.
• Han Feng ordered his companions to capture Chen Xuan, but Chen Xuan unleashed Azure Flame and then fused it with White Flame to form Emerald Green Flame.
• Chen Xuan burned Han Feng's companions, including Zhang Hu, and trapped Han Feng in the flames.
• Han Feng offered to surrender Sea Heart Flame, but Chen Xuan used heartfire to weaken him and killed him, trapping his soul with the flames.
• Chen Xuan found a secluded location, drew Sea Heart Flame's origin flame seed from Han Feng's soul, and began refining it.

After returning from the Black Corner Region, Chen Xuan learned that Medusa was pregnant and heard the Snake People Race’s plan to leave the Tagore Desert and settle in the Jia Ma Empire. He agreed to support the move using his strength as Medusa’s husband.

• Chen Xuan returned to the Snake People Race after absorbing the Sea Heart Flame and reaching the two-star Dou Emperor level.
• The Great Elder told Chen Xuan that Medusa was pregnant, though her pregnancy would last three to five years.
• Chen Xuan celebrated the news, kissed Medusa, and asked whether she could already feel the child moving.
• The Great Elder explained that the Snake People Race planned to leave the Tagore Desert and seek territory in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Medusa and the elders hoped Chen Xuan would help pressure the Jia Ma Empire, and Chen Xuan agreed to support them.

Chen Xuan returned to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, where his three Seventh-tier subordinates had driven human forces away and gathered medicinal herbs to strengthen their forces. After learning that Medusa was ready to march into the Jia Ma Empire, Chen Xuan set out to support her with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.

• Chen Xuan returned to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, now sealed off by the Amethyst Winged Lion King, the Green Flame Python, and the Heavenly Venomous Python.
• The Green Flame Python and the Amethyst Winged Lion King reported that they had repelled human groups, including experts from the Misty Cloud Sect, while Chen Xuan warned them not to leave the mountain range and provoke stronger human factions.
• Chen Xuan ordered his subordinates to gather rare Medicinal Herbs and rewarded Monster Beasts that found them, then refined Beast Source Pills to cultivate stronger underlings.
• Chen Xuan had more than fifty Fifth-tier Monster Beast underlings, but continued seeking to expand his forces.
• After Medusa reported that the Snake People Race was ready to march into the Jia Ma Empire, Chen Xuan joined her campaign with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.

The Snake People Race army, led by Medusa and supported by twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts, attacked Mo City. A Snake People Race Dou Emperor smashed open the city walls, and the warriors charged through as Garros organized a defense.

• Garros spotted the Snake People Race army approaching Mo City and ordered his soldiers to defend the city while awaiting imperial reinforcements.
• Chen Xuan and Medusa advanced with the Snake People Race army, whose twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts shocked Garros and the soldiers on the walls.
• A Snake People Race chief demanded Mo City's surrender, but Garros refused and Medusa ordered her forces to kill.
• A Snake People Race elder unleashed her Dou Emperor power and blasted a massive breach through Mo City's walls.
• The Snake People Race warriors charged through the breach as Garros deployed ballistae and archers, whose attacks were blocked or ineffective.

Queen Medusa led the Snake People Race in taking Mo City to force the Jia Ma Empire to grant them land to live on. After learning of the city’s fall and Medusa’s Dou Zong strength, Jia Xingtian sought help from the Misty Cloud Sect.

• The Snake People Race’s warriors stormed Mo City, and two elders with Dou Emperor strength helped Medusa’s forces overwhelm its defenders.
• Medusa ordered her people to occupy Mo City and guard its inhabitants while she waited for the empire’s leaders to negotiate.
• Jia Xingtian told the gathered officials that Medusa had reached Dou Zong strength, then received news that Garros had died and Mo City had fallen.
• The imperial officials called for retaliation, and Jia Xingtian learned that the Snake People Race had brought two Dou Emperors and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.
• Jia Xingtian ordered the empire’s armies to prepare and went with Fama, Hai Bodong, and others to seek the Misty Cloud Sect’s help.

Yun Yun agreed to help Jia Xingtian confront the Snake People Race after learning that its army had taken Mo City and Queen Medusa had reached the Dou Zong realm. The Jia Ma Empire’s forces arrived outside the city, where Jia Xingtian called Medusa out, and she appeared above the walls.

• Jia Xingtian told Yun Yun that the Snake People Race had taken Mo City with forty thousand warriors, two Dou Emperors, and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.
• Jia Xingtian revealed that Queen Medusa had broken through to Dou Zong and asked the Misty Cloud Sect to help deal with her.
• Yun Yun consulted Yun Shan, who agreed to intervene, while Jia Xingtian mobilized two hundred thousand imperial troops.
• The Jia Ma Empire’s forces and allies arrived outside Mo City, where they found the defenders’ corpses and Garros’s body hanging from the wall.
• Jia Xingtian summoned Medusa, and she appeared above Mo City to face him.