Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan defeated Sada, discovered the demons’ vulnerable spot, and drank Sada’s extracted essence blood before beginning to absorb the earthfire seed. Outside the secret realm, life spirits shattered on both sides, and Lin Wugui realized an unknown exotic beast had killed three spirit refiners at once.

• Xiao Fan blocked Sada’s attacks and endured his black flames without injury, then broke his arms and killed him.
• Xiao Fan found that demons’ butts were their weakest point and used his One Thousand Years of Death technique against Sada.
• Lin Xianhuo returned after defeating her opponent, and Xiao Fan extracted Sada’s essence blood and drank it raw.
• Lin Xianhuo resolved to grow stronger, while Xiao Fan began absorbing the earthfire seed.
• The Ghost Goat Demon God and Lin Wugui saw their life spirits shatter; Lin Wugui inferred that one powerful exotic beast had killed three spirit refiners in an instant.

Xiao Fan absorbed a fire seed, broke through to the Martial Artist Ninth Stage, and gathered enough flames to fuse a five-star Heavenly Soaring Fire while traveling with Lin Xianhuo. They reached a fourth-tier tempering pool guarded by a fire beast, where Lin Xianhuo hoped to unlock her Fire God Saber’s second stage and Xiao Fan aimed to claim the six-star Flying Sand Fire.

• Xie Linqing ambushed Zhou Qingyang’s first squad with deadly golden threads, and Zhou Qingyang ordered his team to fight rather than retreat.
• Xiao Fan absorbed a fire seed, broke through to the Martial Artist Ninth Stage, and set out with Lin Xianhuo to find more flames.
• Xiao Fan collected dozens of fire seeds over several days and fused them into a five-star Heavenly Soaring Fire.
• Lin Xianhuo spotted a report of a nearby fourth-tier tempering pool and hurried there with Xiao Fan.
• Li Kai asked Lin Xianhuo to deal with the guarding fire beast, while Xiao Fan eyed the six-star Flying Sand Fire at the pool’s center.

Lin Xianhuo fought a flying sand fire companion beast while Xiao Fan clashed with Li Kai over whether she needed help. When foreign-race enemies approached, Xiao Fan charged toward them to protect her.

• Lin Xianhuo entered the fourth-tier quenching pool and cut down a flying sand fire companion beast, which reformed and engulfed her.
• Lin Xianhuo broke free with a Heavenly Fire Half-Moon Slash and insisted on fighting the beast herself.
• Li Kai accused Xiao Fan of refusing to help Lin Xianhuo, so Xiao Fan knocked him into a boulder with one kick.
• Li Kai's teammates argued that Lin Xianhuo was strong enough to handle the companion beast on her own.
• Li Kai spotted two foreign-race enemies flying toward them, and Xiao Fan immediately launched himself at them.

Xiao Fan killed two noble-blood demons who had exposed Lin Xianhuo’s location, while Lin Xianhuo chose to enter the deepest, most dangerous part of the tempering pool to push beyond her limits. As she endured the lava’s pain, Xiao Fan searched the demons’ storage rings and found a martial art that might help him withstand Elemental Overlap.

• Xiao Fan killed the two noble-blood demons and learned that they had sent out the tempering pool’s coordinates and a warning about Lin Xianhuo.
• Xiao Fan took the demons’ corpses and storage rings, then told Li Kai that Lin Xianhuo’s location had been exposed.
• Lin Xianhuo returned after killing the companion beast, resolved to surpass her limits, and leaped into the tempering pool’s deepest lava.
• Lin Xianhuo struggled through the pain but hardened her resolve, determined not to hold Xiao Fan back.
• Xiao Fan searched the storage rings and found the fourth-tier martial art Divine Meridians: Introductory Volume, which could stabilize his meridians during Elemental Overlap.

Xiao Fan endured six days in the magma pool with Lin Xianhuo, then emerged as Wang Qingtian arrived and threatened him. As Xiao Fan guarded the pool and asked after Lin Lianshen, his Slaughter Instinct warned him that an extremely powerful enemy was nearby.

• Xiao Fan and Lin Xianhuo tempered themselves in the magma, and Xiao Fan’s fire seed advanced from five stars to six while he stayed to support her.
• Xiao Fan left the pool after Lin Xianhuo nearly completed the second stage, learned that six days had passed without a foreign-race attack, and replenished his energy.
• Wang Qingtian arrived with four underlings and taunted Xiao Fan, who challenged him to attack; Wang backed down because Li Kai’s squad and Lin Xianhuo were present.
• Xiao Fan asked Li Kai whether Lin Lianshen had returned, and Li Kai said he had heard nothing and guessed Lin Lianshen was seeking a way to master the Undying Fire.
• Xiao Fan’s Slaughter Instinct suddenly warned him of a nearby, exceptionally powerful danger, and he discreetly scanned his surroundings.

Du Lian prepared to assassinate Wang Qingtian while ten aliens attacked the humans at the quenching pool. Wang Qingtian proved unexpectedly weak and was wounded, but Xiao Fan vanished just as Du Lian struck, leaving everyone staring toward Wang Qingtian.

• Du Lian concealed himself nearby and waited for two alien teams to arrive before making his move against Wang Qingtian and Lin Xianhuo.
• Xiao Fan warned Wang Guangyi that an assassin was present, but Wang Guangyi dismissed him; Xiao Fan then spotted ten powerful aliens approaching.
• The aliens attacked Wang Qingtian, who failed to land his Hegemon Divine Fist and was stabbed in the shoulder by a royal-blood demon.
• Wang Qingtian cried for help while his allies were occupied fighting the other aliens, and Wang Guangyi realized an assassin was targeting him.
• As Du Lian's attack flashed toward Wang Qingtian, an explosive bang rang out and Xiao Fan disappeared; everyone turned toward Wang Qingtian.

Xiao Fan stopped Du Lian from assassinating Wang Qingtian, then fought the assassin in a close battle with no room for error. After Du Lian escaped using a demon bomb, Xiao Fan survived the blast and pursued him into the sky.

• Du Lian nearly killed Wang Qingtian, but Xiao Fan struck him with a Fire Dragon Token and forced him to reveal himself.
• Xiao Fan charged Du Lian and dodged the Assassination Star through a dangerous close-quarters fight.
• Xiao Fan landed a One-Inch Punch and nearly finished Du Lian with Twin Peaks Strike the Ears.
• Du Lian detonated a demon bomb and fled, but Xiao Fan emerged from the blast unharmed and chased him.
• As Du Lian sped toward the horizon, another fierce blaze came roaring toward him.

After Du Lian escaped, Xiao Fan returned to the battlefield and helped Lin Xianhuo and the others defeat the foreign races. Wang Guangyi apologized and compensated Xiao Fan with royal-blood essence and a martial art, while Xiao Fan revealed that he wanted Wang Qingtian to grow strong enough to challenge him.

• Xiao Fan failed to catch Du Lian and returned to the quenching pool, where he saw Lin Xianhuo fighting with the Fire God Saber's second stage activated.
• Xiao Fan joined the battle, helping Lin Xianhuo and the others kill one royal-blood and four noble-blood foreigners while five escaped.
• Wang Qingtian objected to giving the foreign races' spoils to Xiao Fan, and Lin Xianhuo berated him before Wang Guangyi escorted him away.
• Wang Guangyi knelt to apologize and gave Xiao Fan fourth-tier royal-blood essence; Xiao Fan also received the sixth-tier martial art Vajra Five Viscera.
• Xiao Fan told Wang Guangyi that he hoped Wang Qingtian would grow stronger so he could defeat the true Hegemon-King of Western Chu in a contest of strength.
• Wang Guangyi asked how Xiao Fan had detected the assassin, and Xiao Fan replied that it came from practice.

Xiao Fan gathered spoils and prepared to grow stronger while Wang Qingtian reacted angrily to Xiao Fan’s insult and stayed in the mystic realm. At the edge of the realm, Gui Qie attacked Lin Lianshen’s protector, Li Qingqiu, and provoked her into charging at him.

• Xiao Fan sent Li Kai and the others out, then found an amplification martial art and planned to absorb blood essence and improve his fire.
• Wang Guangyi told Wang Qingtian that Xiao Fan wanted to defeat the true Hegemon-King of Western Chu, and Wang Qingtian rushed ahead to kill an alien.
• Lin Wugui wondered why the Ghost Sheep Demon King remained confident as humans and aliens left the mystic realm.
• Du Lian reported Xiao Fan’s strength to an alien prodigy, who said Lin Lianshen had been found and ordered the aliens to gather and purge the humans.
• Gui Qie approached Lin Lianshen in the fifth-tier tempering pool and intercepted Li Qingqiu’s attack with Sword Shadow Instant Movement.
• Gui Qie mocked Li Qingqiu’s family and her dead mother, driving Li Qingqiu into a furious charge.

Xiao Fan and Lin Xianhuo learned that the aliens had sealed the Fire and Flame Mystic Realm and were closing in on Lin Lianshen, so they raced to join Li Qingqiu’s gathering. On the way, they heard someone cry that Old Yi was about to die and turned toward the plea for help.

• Kuang Xing arrived to help Xie Linqing attack the first squad, killing one member before Zhou Qingyang and two others escaped; Kuang Xing said the aliens had sealed the mystic realm and found Lin Lianshen.
• Zhou Qingyang warned Lin Wugui that Kuang Xing and Xie Linqing were inside, and the Ghost Goat Demon God revealed that four alien geniuses had been mobilized to ambush Lin Lianshen and Wang Qingtian.
• Xiao Fan broke through to the Lesser Grandmaster realm, raised his strength to 7,000 kg, and absorbed a fire seed to gain a seven-star Heavenly Soaring Fire.
• Lin Xianhuo showed Xiao Fan distress messages reporting that teleportation tokens had stopped working and that aliens were hunting people in the sealed mystic realm.
• After Li Qingqiu urged everyone to gather, Xiao Fan and Lin Xianhuo rode the Blazing Fire Warhorse toward him, then heard a desperate cry that Old Yi was about to die and turned toward it.