Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan prepared to enter a milky-white vortex that held the method to revive Xiao Xuan, though he did not know whether he would return. After saying farewell to his family, father, teacher, and allies, he entered the vortex as the people of the Dou Qi Continent hailed him as the Flame Emperor.

• Xiao Yan told Gu Yuan, Xiao Zhan, and Zhu Kun that Xiao Xuan’s Soul Origin remained and that he had found a way to revive him.
• Xiao Yan said the journey through the vortex might cost him his life, then embraced Xun'er, Cai Lin, and their children and asked them to wait for his return.
• Xiao Yan knelt before Xiao Zhan and Yao Lao, kowtowed ten times, and thanked them for raising and teaching him.
• Xiao Yan asked Zhu Kun about Zi Yan, then bowed to his friends and allies before walking toward the vortex.
• Xiao Yan entered the vortex as the gathered crowd bid farewell to the Flame Emperor.

Xiao Yan woke in a forest beside Huo Yi after surviving a deadly space, and learned Huo Yi had been unable to help him while trapped there. Xiao Yan and Huo Yi then watched Xiao Jin devour a strange wisp of spatial power, before Huo Yi silently focused on a distant red-and-white mountain.

• Xiao Yan woke beside Huo Yi and discovered that his injuries had healed and he had gained some Emperor's Origin.
• Huo Yi explained that the vortex had sealed all his abilities, preventing him from helping or warning Xiao Yan.
• Huo Yi showed Xiao Yan an intelligent wisp of spatial power that he had retrieved from Xiao Yan's grasp.
• Xiao Yan let Xiao Jin devour the wisp, and Xiao Jin returned to Xiao Yan's arm to refine its energy.
• Xiao Yan asked Huo Yi where Hei Yan was, but Huo Yi looked toward the red-and-white mountain without answering.

Xiao Yan began a long-awaited breakthrough after sensing a familiar presence near a distant mountain, but his Storage Ring cracked during the process and endangered Xiao Xuan’s Soul Origin. While Xiao Yan protected the jade bottle and continued cultivating, Xiao Xuan’s wisp began absorbing Emperor’s Origin and releasing life force.

• Xiao Yan and Huo Yi sensed something familiar drawing them toward a distant red-and-white mountain.
• Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi surged, stirring up a hurricane, and he realized a breakthrough was imminent.
• Xiao Yan sat down to cultivate and sent Huo Yi a thousand miles away to guard the area.
• Xiao Yan gathered the energy of heaven and earth, but his Nether Sea Storage Ring cracked and spilled its contents.
• Xiao Yan protected the jade bottle containing Xiao Xuan’s Soul Origin and resumed his breakthrough.
• Xiao Xuan’s Soul Origin began absorbing Emperor’s Origin and releasing life force inside the jade bottle.

Xiao Yan absorbed the energy of heaven and earth and broke through while an unknown vortex siphoned away the Emperor's Origin. Far away, an elder identified a Divine-Grade Bloodline, then left before the crystal ball revealed an even brighter seven-colored light.

• An unknown vortex absorbed the Emperor's Origin, allowing Xiao Yan to refine energy faster as he cultivated.
• Huo Yi noticed the second vortex helping Xiao Yan and chose not to interfere.
• Xiao Yan broke through, tested his increased strength, collected his belongings, and flew to Huo Yi.
• A jade bottle glimmered faintly as Xiao Yan tucked it into his robes.
• A white-robed elder saw a golden glow in a crystal ball, proclaimed a Divine-Grade Bloodline, and hurried away; afterward, the ball shone with an even brighter seven-colored light.

The Xiao Clan elders learned that the Sacred Blood Crystal had revealed a returning descendant with a Divine-Grade Bloodline and assigned Xiao Mingyuan to find them. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Huo Yi continued flying toward a distant mountain peak.

• The Third Elder revealed that the Sacred Blood Crystal had lit up with a Divine-Grade Bloodline, exciting the Xiao Clan elders.
• The First Elder reprimanded Xiao Mingyuan for delaying his report and sentenced him to a month of confinement.
• The First Elder assigned Xiao Mingyuan to find the descendant and bring them back to the clan.
• The First Elder ordered the elders to keep the discovery secret from everyone except the clan head, and the elders left the chamber.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Yi flew toward a towering mountain peak and found the journey was taking longer than expected.

Xiao Yan and Huo Yi traveled toward a distant mountain, where Xiao Yan sensed two experts whose strength matched his own. They found the experts waiting near the mountain and recognized one as a member of the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Yan and Huo Yi flew for hours toward the mountain, gathering unfamiliar spiritual herbs along the way.
• Xiao Yan sensed two powerful presences near the mountain and told Huo Yi they were at least his equal.
• Xiao Yan realized that the world suppressed his power but had also made his Dou Qi more condensed, and he rushed ahead eager to fight.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Yi hid in the clouds and watched an elderly man in green and a black-cloaked figure facing each other near the mountain.
• Xiao Yan and Huo Yi recognized the black-cloaked figure as belonging to the Hun Clan.

Xiao Yan and Huo Yi watched Yuan Qing confront Old Ghost Yan Mo over a mysterious treasure, while Xiao Yan recognized the black-qi-covered man as a likely Hun Clan member. The two Dou Di experts began fighting, and Yuan Qing invoked the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art as he threatened to kill Old Ghost Yan Mo.

• Xiao Yan suspected the black-qi-covered figure was a Hun Clan member and prepared himself while he and Huo Yi watched from concealment.
• Yuan Qing accused Old Ghost Yan Mo of breaking their ten-year agreement and trying to take the mysterious treasure.
• Old Ghost Yan Mo mocked Yuan Qing and admitted that the Ghost Fiend Gate did not follow rules.
• Yuan Qing and Old Ghost Yan Mo unleashed their Dou Qi and confronted each other, so Xiao Yan drew Huo Yi into his body and raised a protective shield.
• Yuan Qing used the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art and threatened to kill Old Ghost Yan Mo, who grew wary of the three forming avatars.

Yuan Qing confronted Old Ghost Yan Mo with three avatars formed through the dangerous Nine Revolutions Avatar Art, while Xiao Yan recognized the technique’s potential and considered combining it with his own avatar art. Old Ghost Yan Mo hinted that killing him would not be enough to claim the heavenly treasure inside the mountain, leaving Yuan Qing uncertain as their fight loomed.

• The chapter explained that Yuan Qing’s Nine Revolutions Avatar Art could produce powerful avatars and unleash a devastating attack at the cost of grievous injuries.
• Xiao Yan studied Yuan Qing’s three avatars and considered combining the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art with his Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.
• Yuan Qing prepared to attack Old Ghost Yan Mo, who realized he was alone and in danger.
• Old Ghost Yan Mo urged Yuan Qing to consider what lay inside the mountain and warned that killing him would not be enough to obtain the heavenly treasure.
• Yuan Qing questioned Old Ghost Yan Mo about what he meant.

Old Ghost Yan Mo lured Yuan Qing to the mountain and revealed that it contained an Ice and Fire Vermilion Fruit. Yuan Qing agreed to help break the mountain’s restriction in exchange for half the treasure, while Xiao Yan watched from the clouds.

• Old Ghost Yan Mo questioned Yuan Qing about how easily he had found him, making Yuan Qing suspect a trap before he dismissed the idea.
• Yuan Qing demanded to know why Old Ghost Yan Mo had lured him out, and Old Ghost Yan Mo proposed joining forces to break the mountain’s restriction.
• Old Ghost Yan Mo identified the treasure as an Ice and Fire Vermilion Fruit, and Yuan Qing confirmed the mountain’s appearance and conditions matched it.
• Yuan Qing agreed to split the treasure evenly with Old Ghost Yan Mo, and the two approached the mountain to prepare to break its restriction.

Yuan Qing and Old Ghost Yan Mo tried to break the restriction around a recess in the mountain, while Xiao Yan discovered that the barrier was formed by a powerful Heavenly Flame. Xiao Yan suspected the flame had sealed itself inside the mountain and waited for the two men to reveal more.

• Yuan Qing and Old Ghost Yan Mo chose a weak point in the mountain’s restrictions and prepared to break through together.
• Yuan Qing sent an incarnation against the cliff and learned that the restriction reflected attacks at twice their strength.
• Yuan Qing accused Old Ghost Yan Mo of hiding the danger, but Old Ghost Yan Mo denied blame and threatened to use his subordinates instead.
• Yuan Qing agreed to keep working with Old Ghost Yan Mo, while privately planning to deal with him after the restriction was broken.
• Xiao Yan sensed the restriction’s scorching and icy energy and recognized it as the power of a sentient Heavenly Flame that had sealed itself inside the mountain.
• Xiao Yan attached a wisp of soul power to the restriction and waited for the two men to uncover more.

Xiao Yan waited for the restriction to break, then intervened as Old Ghost Yan Mo moved to kill the badly wounded Yuan Qing. His Mystic Fire Finger struck Old Ghost Yan Mo, who collapsed after a delayed blast erupted inside him.

• Yuan Qing and Old Ghost Yan Mo's clash shattered the mountain restriction, leaving Yuan Qing severely injured.
• Old Ghost Yan Mo advanced on Yuan Qing and raised his sword to kill him.
• Xiao Yan attacked Old Ghost Yan Mo with a Mystic Fire Finger, breaking his sword and forcing him to twist away from the strike.
• Xiao Yan followed with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, sending Old Ghost Yan Mo crashing into a rock wall.
• Old Ghost Yan Mo dismissed the small wound on his shoulder, then a blast erupted inside him and left him unable to move.

Xiao Yan rescued Yuan Qing and fought Old Ghost Yan Mo, whose powerful Dou Technique was disrupted when Hei Yan intervened. Yuan Qing retreated into a jade bottle as a soul, and the injured Old Ghost Yan Mo fled after deciding to report Xiao Yan's arrival to the Ghost Fiend Gate.

• Yuan Qing thanked Xiao Yan for saving him, and Old Ghost Yan Mo recognized Xiao Yan's name and attacked him.
• Xiao Yan repelled Old Ghost Yan Mo's opening strike, while Old Ghost Yan Mo prepared the Mysterious Nether Soul-Devouring Palm.
• Xiao Yan moved Yuan Qing out of the attack's path, but the resulting energy storm caused intense pain in Xiao Yan's Soul Origin and left Yuan Qing in an ethereal state.
• Yuan Qing entered a jade bottle and asked Xiao Yan to keep his soul in his Storage Ring, while Xiao Yan helped him and Huo Yi recover from the pain.
• Hei Yan's sudden appearance disrupted Old Ghost Yan Mo's Dou Technique and left him gravely injured, so he fled to report Xiao Yan's arrival to the Ghost Fiend Gate.

Xiao Yan recovered from the battle, protected Hei Yan while he healed, and tested Yuan Qing’s Soul Origin to make clear that he could destroy it. Yuan Qing emerged, apologized, and offered Xiao Yan the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art, which Xiao Yan accepted.

• Xiao Yan gave Hei Yan a medicinal pill, then took him into his body to recover from his severe injuries.
• Xiao Yan attacked Yuan Qing’s jade bottle with soul power, but stopped the blow just short of destroying it and frightened Yuan Qing with the display.
• Yuan Qing realized Xiao Yan had seen through his earlier scheme and cautiously emerged from the bottle to wait beside him.
• Xiao Yan restored his depleted Dou Qi through cultivation, then opened his eyes as Yuan Qing thanked him and apologized.
• Yuan Qing offered Xiao Yan the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art, and Xiao Yan accepted the technique while inwardly wondering why Yuan Qing mistook him for a young disciple from a hidden faction.

Xiao Yan learned why Yuan Qing’s Soul Origin was dissipating and how Spirit Infusion Stones could preserve it. After explaining the continent’s scarcity of body-refining arts, Xiao Yan created a new physical body for Yuan Qing, who departed after adapting to it.

• Xiao Yan took the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art from Yuan Qing, who worried that Xiao Yan had looked down on his prized technique.
• Yuan Qing explained that Soul Origins below the Origin Transformation Realm gradually merged with heaven and earth’s Origin Qi, and that his Spirit Infusion Stone jade bottle helped preserve his Soul Origin.
• When Xiao Yan asked why Yuan Qing did not refine a body, Yuan Qing explained that body-refining arts were controlled by major factions and that powerful people looked down on those at their level.
• Xiao Yan considered the continent’s immense power and the mysteries surrounding his arrival, then resolved to investigate them through training.
• Xiao Yan used his materials to refine a physical body for Yuan Qing, who adapted to it and departed, leaving Xiao Yan alone.

Xiao Yan entered a fiery cavern and discovered what appeared to be Tou She Ancient God's inheritance beyond a deadly abyss. He struggled across the suspended platforms as a formation activated, then leaped toward the landing where the Heavenly Flame might await.

• Xiao Yan found that the cave's heat waves were stealing the Bone Spirit Cold Flame inside him, leaving him no choice but to press deeper.
• Xiao Yan reached an abyss and recognized the enormous stone sculpture there as Tou She Ancient God.
• Xiao Yan began crossing the suspended stone platforms, activating glowing chains and enduring increasingly powerful pressure.
• Xiao Yan reached the platform nearest the landing as the chains and six ice pillars lit up, then leaped toward the landing.

Xiao Yan reached the platform and discovered that Bone Spirit Cold Flame was sealed beneath it, guarded by powerful ice dragons formed by a formation. After fighting the dragons and facing their enormous combined form, he unleashed Buddha's Fury Reincarnation, and a devastating energy wave swept across the Distant Forest.

• Xiao Yan reached the platform just before a glow touched its ice pillars, but found a deep hole where the Heavenly Flame should have been.
• Six ice dragons emerged and Xiao Yan recognized them as guardians of Bone Spirit Cold Flame; he transformed into a golden giant and attacked them with his techniques.
• Xiao Yan endured the dragons' combined flame beam and struck them with Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, blasting them into the cavern wall.
• As Xiao Yan rushed toward the hole, the six dragons merged into one enormous ice dragon, which attacked him with its tail and claws.
• Xiao Yan countered the dragon with Yellow Springs techniques, then faced its devastating beam with Buddha's Fury Reincarnation.
• A massive energy wave swept out from the mountain across thousands of miles of the Distant Forest, killing humans and magical beasts in its path.

Xiao Yan discovered that the old man in the cavern was Gu You, the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, who had been waiting to guide him toward the Flame Mantra’s complete cultivation method. Gu You revealed the method was divided among five guardians, while Xiao Yan grew troubled by a sudden sense that the distant Heavenly Flame Plaza was familiar.

• Xiao Yan mistook Gu You for an Emperor Grade Pill, prompting Gu You to bring him into the Serene Bone Hall and explain his identity.
• Gu You told Xiao Yan that he had waited on Tou She Ancient God’s orders to help him master the Flame Mantra, but held only one of its five parts.
• Gu You revealed that Tou She Ancient God had separated five guardians from himself to protect his inheritance and choose an inheritor before dispersing into heaven and earth.
• Xiao Yan questioned how Tou She Ancient God could have left a cave mansion behind after dispersing, and Gu You calmly dismissed the concern.
• Xiao Yan said the Heavenly Flame Plaza felt familiar to him, and Gu You’s pupils abruptly contracted.

Gu You explained the other Flame Sealing Points and the trials Xiao Yan would face to obtain the Flame Burning Mantra fragments. He joined Xiao Yan but warned he could not fight for him, then sealed the Serene Bone Hall before they left.

• Gu You told Xiao Yan that Hai Mochen guarded the Sea Heart Flame in the north, while Ye Honglian guarded the Red Lotus Karmic Fire in the south, and mentioned two other hard-to-find Flame Sealing Points.
• Gu You explained that the five Flame Sealing Points would follow the Tou She Ancient God’s inheritor only if he proved worthy, and warned Xiao Yan that his trial had been unusually easy.
• Gu You revealed that the Flame Burning Mantra fragments were fused into the five guardians and could only be obtained by refining their Heavenly Flame Origins, which Xiao Yan was not yet strong enough to do.
• Gu You recounted that the creator of the Flame Burning Mantra had reached great heights but was killed by his own brothers.
• Gu You sealed the entrance to the Serene Bone Hall behind an ink-black wall and flew out of the mountain with Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan left the underground Serene Bone Hall with Gu You, who put the ice dragon to sleep before revealing the power of the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning. Gu You then guided Xiao Yan toward a human settlement, where Xiao Yan rescued a badly wounded young man from a giant wolf.

• Gu You sealed the ice dragon’s power and put it to sleep, parting from his old friend before leading Xiao Yan out of the cave.
• Gu You emerged to the ruined mountainside and swore to forge a transcendent inheritor, summoning the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning.
• Gu You explained the lightning’s power and entered Xiao Yan’s body to heal two injured creatures while Xiao Yan searched for a way out of the forest.
• Gu You directed Xiao Yan southeast toward a human presence, where Xiao Yan found a wounded young man fighting a giant wolf.
• Xiao Yan killed the wolf just before it could strike the young man, who then fainted.

Xiao Yan rescued Liu Xiang and learned about the Origin Martial Continent while traveling with him to Qingyang City. After parting ways, Xiao Yan studied a book about the continent’s cultivation realms, learning that Origin Qi cultivation beyond Dou Sheng shaped the path to the highest ranks.

• Xiao Yan rescued Liu Xiang from the Moon-Howling Nether Wolf, and Liu Xiang thanked him before telling him about his clan’s desperate search for Soul-Protecting Grass.
• Liu Xiang explained that the Wu Clan threatened the Liu Clan after injuring its leader, and that the wolf had killed the rest of his search party.
• Xiao Yan accompanied Liu Xiang toward Qingyang City, then vanished as they neared the city; Liu Xiang resolved to tell his clan leader about Xiao Yan’s strength.
• Xiao Yan entered Qingyang City, bought Detailed Explanation of the Continent from an information shop, and read about the continent’s regions and cultivation ranks.
• Xiao Yan learned that Origin Transformation and Origin Return cultivators refined Origin Qi, and that forming a pure Origin Qi Pearl could attract super sects and open the path to Yuan Zong.