Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiao, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin entered the magma beneath Jia Nan Academy to find the Fallen Heart Flame and discovered a second, newly born flame guarded by an ancient barrier. After Chen Xiao drew it into his hand, the skeleton’s spirit appeared and introduced himself as Yao Tian Huo.

• Chen Xiao asked Su Qian to seal the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower while he investigated the Fallen Heart Flame with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin summoned Ling'er, her longtime Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake companion, before the group descended into the magma.
• Chen Xiao found a barrier concealing a newly born Fallen Heart Flame and explained that Flame Lizardmen in the magma carried Fire Pills.
• Chen Xiao opened the barrier and drew the small Fallen Heart Flame toward himself, after which a spirit emerged from the skeleton and introduced himself as Yao Tian Huo.

Chen Xiao recruited Heavenly Flame Honored One, promising to preserve his soul for ten years in exchange for his service. After leaving the hidden space, Chen Xiao provoked the Flame Lizardmen to gather Fire Pills, and Heavenly Flame Honored One discovered that Chen Xiao and his companions commanded overwhelming Dou Venerate-level strength.

• Heavenly Flame Honored One explained how two Fallen Heart Flame seeds wounded him and the Flame Lizardmen drove him to preserve his soul in a Heavenly Flame seed.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One offered Chen Xiao his Storage Ring in exchange for being taken out, but Chen Xiao returned it and asked him to serve for ten years instead.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One accepted Chen Xiao's terms, entered the Storage Ring, and Chen Xiao collected his skeleton before returning to the magma with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Chen Xiao captured a Flame Lizardman and let it call for reinforcements, despite Heavenly Flame Honored One warning that powerful lizardmen would arrive.
• Qing Lin released five Dou Venerate-level figures from her Three-Flower Pupil Space, while Xiao Yi Xian slaughtered hundreds of Flame Lizardmen with her Woeful Poison Body.
• Chen Xiao summoned nine Heavenly Demon Puppets and sealed the area with formations as Heavenly Flame Honored One realized the group had nine Dou Venerate-level combatants.

Chen Xiao and his companions lured the Fallen Heart Flame out of the magma, defeated it, and proposed using a newly born Fallen Heart Flame to keep the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower running. Su Qian accepted the plan and took custody of the Little Fallen Heart Flame.

• Chen Xiao defeated three Flame Lizardmen and collected their Fire Pills before he, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin returned to the magma world’s starting point.
• Xiao Yi Xian used the Netherworld Poison Flame as bait, and Chen Xiao added the Little Fallen Heart Flame to draw the Fallen Heart Flame out of hiding.
• Xiao Yi Xian trapped the Fallen Heart Flame in her poison domain while Chen Xiao used three Ice Soul Talismans to severely injure it and freeze the surrounding magma.
• Su Qian arrived and found Chen Xiao, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin beside the weakened Fallen Heart Flame.
• Chen Xiao offered the Little Fallen Heart Flame to Su Qian and proposed using it in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower while taking the old flame’s source to nurture it; Su Qian agreed.

Chen Xiao resolved the Fallen Heart Flame crisis at Jia Nan Academy, arranged for Qing Huan and Xing Yao to study under Su Qian, and returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin. The chapter ended as Chen Xiao reunited with Cai Lin in the Snake-People Race’s Holy City.

• Chen Xiao used the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Locking Array to let the small Fallen Heart Flame absorb the large flame’s energy, and warned Su Qian about the dangerous race in the magma.
• Chen Xiao told Su Qian that Zi Yan had been taken to Eastern Dragon Island, then arranged for Su Qian to guide Qing Huan and Xing Yao.
• Chen Xiao invited Hai Bo Dong to return to the Jia Ma Empire, and Hai Bo Dong agreed so he could visit old acquaintances and challenge Yun Shan.
• Chen Xiao, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin traveled to Tagor, while Hai Bo Dong went ahead to the Imperial Capital.
• Cai Lin heard Chen Xiao’s voice behind Hua She’er and greeted his return with a rare gentle smile.

Chen Xiao returned to Tagor and stayed with Cai Lin until she gave birth to their daughter, Chen Yao, whose power was linked to the reborn Little Heaven Swallowing Python. The chapter ended with Hai Bo Dong defeating Jia Xing Tian, who lamented that he could find no way to break through to Dou Zong.

• Chen Xiao reunited with Cai Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin in the Snake-People Race Holy City and told Cai Lin about his Central Plains experiences and plans to move the Snake-People Race there.
• Chen Xiao stayed beside Cai Lin as she neared childbirth, and the Four Great Elders sought an explanation from him before backing down because he was a Dou Venerate.
• Eight days after Chen Xiao returned, a Heaven and Earth Energy anomaly surrounded the Holy City as Cai Lin gave birth to a daughter.
• The Little Heaven Swallowing Python reappeared through the child, and Chen Xiao gave the newborn a Bodhi Foundation Establishment Pill to seal its power; he named her Chen Yao.
• Hai Bo Dong defeated Jia Xing Tian and urged him to leave the Jia Ma Empire, but Jia Xing Tian said Yun Shan's advance to Dou Zong left him unable to leave and lamented that he had no way to break through.

Chen Xiao agreed to send Heavenly Flame Honored One and nine Heavenly Demon Puppets to help the Jia Ma Empire deal with the three neighboring empires. When Xiao Yan and Yao Chen visited, Yao Chen offered information about Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body inheritance, persuading Chen Xiao to trade Heavenly Flame information and leaving Yao Chen to choose the Volcanic Stone Flame.

• Chen Xiao promised Jia Xing Tian that Heavenly Flame Honored One would lead nine Heavenly Demon Puppets against the Dou Zong experts of the three neighboring empires after receiving Soul Nourishing Saliva.
• Hua She'er told Chen Xiao that Xiao Yan had arrived, and Chen Xiao welcomed Xiao Yan and Yao Chen into the temple.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen told Chen Xiao they had obtained the Yin-Yang Dual Flames, while Chen Xiao said he had subdued the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Chen Xiao initially refused to trade information about two Heavenly Flames, but Yao Chen offered to reveal how Xiao Yi Xian could fully control her Woeful Poison Body.
• Chen Xiao offered information on the Netherworld Poison Flame or the Volcanic Stone Flame, and Yao Chen chose the Volcanic Stone Flame.

Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian discussed the information they had traded with Yao Chen and planned their next moves after returning to the Central Plains. Xiao Yan and Yao Chen left for the Misty Cloud Sect, while Chen Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to settle their allies in Northern Sky and pursue new opportunities.

• Yao Chen told Chen Xiao that an unclaimed Volcanic Stone Flame might be in Molten Fire Ridge near the Shadow Clan’s grounds in the Southern Continent, and gave Xiao Yi Xian a map to an inheritance suited to a Woeful Poison Body.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan thanked Chen Xiao and left for the Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Yan planned to seek revenge.
• Xiao Yi Xian predicted the Misty Cloud Sect would be destroyed, and Chen Xiao revealed that the Soul Hall had a Protector there backing Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she had placed Spatial Nodes in Purple Cloud City and the Holy City to help connect them to the Central Plains.
• Chen Xiao chose Northern Sky as Purple Firmament Pavilion’s future home and planned to settle the Snake-People Race there while Xiao Yi Xian accepted her inheritance.
• Chen Xiao planned for Qing Lin to travel and see more of the world, hoping she might discover an opportunity tied to the Ancient Heavenly Serpent.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen attacked the Misty Cloud Sect, while Wu Protector escaped with stolen strength and was trapped by Chen Xiao’s formations until Yao Chen captured him. The Misty Cloud Sect was later destroyed, with only Yun Yun and her disciple spared among those above Dou Wang.

• Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and two Starfall Pavilion elders defeated Yun Shan, but Wu Protector devoured Yun Shan’s soul, surged to Six-Star Dou Zong, and fled.
• Chen Xiao trapped Wu Protector in a spiritual formation over the Tagor Desert while teaching Qing Lin about formations.
• As Wu Protector’s borrowed strength faded, Yao Chen and the two elders attacked and captured him in a jade bottle.
• Yao Chen thanked Chen Xiao for his help, then returned with the elders to handle matters at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Chen Xiao received news that everyone above Dou Wang at the Misty Cloud Sect had died except Yun Yun and her disciple, while the remaining disciples were disbanded.

After destroying three hostile factions, Chen Xiao prepared to move his group from the northwest to the Central Plains and arrived in Northern Sky. He parted from Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin so they could pursue their own plans while he began exploring the region alone.

• Jia Xing Tian learned that the Poison Sect, Jin Yan Sect, and Mu Lan Valley had been destroyed and decided to thank Chen Xiao and Hai Bo Dong.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One presented the spoils of war to Chen Xiao, pledged himself more fully, and received Chen Xiao’s promise to help with his revival.
• Chen Xiao finalized the migration plans, left Cai Lin and Yao Yao in Tagor, and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Hai Bo Dong toward the Central Plains.
• At Xian City, Xiao Yi Xian noticed that the Spatial Wormhole was unstable, while Chen Xiao pointed out that workers were already recruiting people to repair it.
• Chen Xiao sent Xiao Yi Xian to seek the Woeful Poison Body inheritance and encouraged Qing Lin to explore the Central Plains before he departed alone to explore Northern Sky.

Chen Xiao chose Myriad Snake Gorge as a home for the Snake-People Race, killed Xia Mang and cleared the gorge before sending the Tang Family caravan away. After completing his fifty-thousand-scroll Pre-pay follow-up, he fell into a state of enlightenment as Heavenly Flame Honored One recognized what was happening.

• Chen Xiao selected Myriad Snake Gorge as a suitable place for the Snake-People Race to settle.
• Xia Mang ambushed the Tang Family caravan and demanded that the two young misses stay behind, but Chen Xiao appeared and the Puppet killed him and the surrounding snakes.
• Chen Xiao sent the Tang Family caravan away and used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to herd the remaining snake-type Magical Beasts into one corner of the gorge.
• Chen Xiao checked the Pre-pay information, read his final scroll, and completed the fifty-thousand-scroll follow-up.
• Chen Xiao sank into a strange state while reading, and Heavenly Flame Honored One emerged from the Storage Ring and identified it as enlightenment.

Chen Xiao entered sudden enlightenment while studying a Qi Method in Myriad Snake Gorge, and Heavenly Flame Honored One guarded him. After a Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion disciple provoked Heavenly Flame Honored One and was killed, Chen Xiao decided the incident settled the site-selection matter for Purple Firmament Pavilion.

• Chen Xiao became absorbed in a Qi Method and entered sudden enlightenment, so Heavenly Flame Honored One guarded him from wolves and other disturbances.
• Hong Chen, a newly promoted Dou Huang from Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion, arrived while flying toward Tian Bei City and ignored Heavenly Flame Honored One's warning to avoid disturbing the pavilion master.
• Hong Chen accelerated through Myriad Snake Gorge with a burst of wind and thunder, and Heavenly Flame Honored One killed him with a palm strike.
• Chen Xiao revealed that he had already awakened and treated Hong Chen's provocation as a legitimate excuse to settle Purple Firmament Pavilion's site selection.
• Chen Xiao burned Hong Chen's corpse, found a familiar silver scroll in his Storage Ring, and ordered Heavenly Flame Honored One to notify Purple Firmament Pavilion and the Snake-People Race that the site had been decided.

After Hong Chen’s Soul Thunder Stele shattered, Yang Lei tracked the killer to Myriad Snake Gorge, where Chen Xiao revealed his overwhelming power. Yang Lei lay defeated before Chen Xiao, who said he was pleased with the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion’s speed but not its attitude.

• A Soul Thunder Stele belonging to Hong Chen shattered, and Sun Ao told Yang Lei that Hong Chen had carried the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Yang Lei vowed to recover the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and investigate Hong Chen’s death.
• Chen Xiao finished laying Rune Seals around Myriad Snake Gorge and discussed the gains from his sudden enlightenment with Heavenly Flame Honored One.
• Yang Lei tracked Chen Xiao to Myriad Snake Gorge and demanded to know whether he had seen Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion disciples.
• Yang Lei attacked Chen Xiao, but Chen Xiao stopped and destroyed his Dou Qi hand, then forced Yang Lei to crash to the ground.
• Chen Xiao approached Yang Lei and said he disliked his attitude.

Chen Xiao took Hong Chen’s Three Thousand Lightning Movement scroll and seized Yang Lei’s Storage Ring, uncovering the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body fragment. He prepaid the technique and began cultivating its complete method, which appeared in a lightning pool inside the scroll’s Soul Power space.

• Chen Xiao admitted killing Hong Chen, summoned Heavenly Flame Honored One, and studied the Wind Lightning Hammer Technique and Thunder God’s Descent while Yang Lei notified the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion’s Pavilion Master.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One demanded Yang Lei’s Storage Ring, and Yang Lei surrendered it after warning that Lord Thunder Venerable would oppose the theft.
• Chen Xiao erased Yang Lei’s Soul Mark, opened the ring, and shattered its lightning trap, confirming to Yang Lei that Chen Xiao was a Dou Venerate expert.
• Chen Xiao found Yang Lei’s fragment of the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and confirmed the technique was genuine, while Yang Lei recognized Chen Xiao had obtained the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Chen Xiao prepaid the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, entered the scroll’s lightning world, dispersed its Soul Power defenses, and revealed the technique’s characters in the lightning pool.

Chen Xiao studied the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and used Fei Tian’s clones to understand how to form his own, then obtained the complete cultivation method. He issued Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion a three-day ultimatum to leave Qifeng Mountain, setting the stage for a major clash in Northern Sky.

• Chen Xiao studied the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and began forming a clone, while Yang Lei watched in disbelief.
• Fei Tian arrived at Myriad Snake Gorge and attacked Chen Xiao, who dodged with Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Fei Tian used his own clones to attack, helping Chen Xiao understand how to sustain a clone with a connection to his true body.
• Chen Xiao formed a clone seed, destroyed Fei Tian’s clones, and absorbed the information that completed the cultivation method.
• Chen Xiao ordered Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion to leave Qifeng Mountain within three days or face the consequences.

Chen Xiao learned that the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion had been defeated and ordered to leave Tian Bei, then met Han Yue, a Jia Nan Academy graduate who had joined Purple Firmament Pavilion. He declined her offer to stay with the Han Family but entrusted them with preparing Qifeng Mountain for the pavilion’s arrival.

• News spread through Tian Bei City that Hong Chen had died, Elder Yang Lei had been captured, and Fei Tian had failed to defeat two Dou Venerate experts who ordered the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion to leave within three days.
• Han Yue greeted Chen Xiao at a restaurant and explained that she and other top Jia Nan Academy students had joined Purple Firmament Pavilion while training in the Black-Corner Region.
• Han Yue invited Chen Xiao to stay at the Han Family residence, but he declined because he wanted to travel alone before Xiao Yi Xian and the others returned.
• Han Yue gave Chen Xiao a booklet detailing Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s experts, including Thunder Venerable.
• Chen Xiao told Han Yue that Purple Firmament Pavilion would be based at Qifeng Mountain and asked the Han Family to begin preparing the site; Han Yue accepted and hurried back to organize the work.
• Chen Xiao watched Han Yue leave and thought about Zi Yan, wondering how much she had grown on Dragon Island.

The Four Directions Pavilion gathered at Qifeng Mountain to witness the clash between Thunder Venerable and Chen Xiao, master of the Purple Firmament Pavilion. As the crowd waited for the three-day deadline to end, Chen Xiao appeared and transformed the mountain into a snowy landscape.

• Disciples and spectators packed Qifeng Mountain’s plaza, including Feng Qing'er and Han Yue, to await the confrontation between Chen Xiao and Thunder Venerable.
• Thunder Venerable, Wind Honored One, Sword Venerable, and Yellow Springs Venerable arrived and took their places above the plaza.
• Sword Venerable and Yellow Springs Venerable doubted that Chen Xiao posed much danger, while Wind Honored One warned Thunder Venerable not to underestimate him.
• Han Yue assured her younger sister that Chen Xiao could defeat Thunder Venerable, recalling his strength at Jia Nan Academy.
• As the three-day deadline ended, Chen Xiao stepped out of twisted space, and snow engulfed Qifeng Mountain.

Chen Xiao challenged Thunder Venerable at Qifeng Mountain and revealed his superior techniques during their battle. He unleashed Sun Moon Same Sky against Venerable Zha, who vanished in the resulting blast, leaving the crowd uncertain whether he had died.

• Chen Xiao confronted Thunder Venerable and fought him evenly at close quarters despite their two-star difference.
• Thunder Venerable used Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, while Chen Xiao's extreme-cold domain weakened him and his clones.
• Thunder Venerable countered with Thunder God Descent and Heavenly Thunder Technique, but Chen Xiao destroyed the clones with Annihilating Heaven Seal and dispelled the lightning with Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Chen Xiao combined extreme heat and extreme cold into Sun Moon Same Sky and struck Venerable Zha, who tried to flee but was caught in the blast.
• After the blast faded, Venerable Zha had disappeared without a trace, and the crowd stood in stunned silence.

Chen Xiao killed Thunder Venerable, erased Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s Dou Zong leaders, and announced the founding of Purple Firmament Pavilion on Qifeng Mountain. After Feng Qing’er fled from Zi Yan, Chen Xiao sent the crowds away and left with Zi Yan to loot Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion.

• Feng Xian learned that Yao Chen was in the northwest and hurried away to warn him before Soul Hall could act.
• Chen Xiao used spatial power to kill Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s higher-ups, dismissed its disciples, and announced that Purple Firmament Pavilion would recruit in half a year.
• Feng Qing’er stayed behind, sensed something connected to the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, and warned Chen Xiao that they would meet again.
• Zi Yan appeared and let Feng Qing’er escape, then urged Chen Xiao to send everyone away so they could loot Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion.
• Chen Xiao assigned Han Xue and the Han Family to prepare Qifeng Mountain, sent a Puppet to plunder Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion, and departed with Zi Yan.

Chen Xiao and Zi Yan looted the East Wind and Lightning Pavilion treasury, then established Purple Firmament Pavilion at Qifeng Mountain and reviewed its gains. As news of Thunder Venerable’s death spread, Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran arrived seeking refuge, and Yun Yun chose to join Purple Firmament Pavilion rather than pursue an opportunity at the Flower Sect.

• Chen Xiao explained that Northern Sky was a temporary base chosen because of a nearby ruin, and Zi Yan offered to search for it while recounting how she had secretly left Dragon Island.
• Chen Xiao and Zi Yan reached East Wind and Lightning Pavilion, entered its treasury through a Spatial Rift, and took its treasures, scrolls, and materials.
• Half a month later, Heavenly Flame Honored One reported the recovered Wind and Lightning Pavilion spoils and told Chen Xiao that Gan Hou and Dun Xiong had come seeking refuge.
• Heavenly Flame Honored One brought Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to meet Chen Xiao, who welcomed them but suggested that Yun Yun might be better suited to the Flower Sect.
• Yun Yun declined the Flower Sect opportunity and asked to join Purple Firmament Pavilion with Nalan Yanran, and Chen Xiao accepted.

Chen Xiao broke through to Two-Star Dou Venerate and planned to help Zi Yan reach Dou Sheng by seeking the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in the Beast Region ruins. Before pursuing it, he decided to travel to the Dan Domain to arrange pills and consult an expert about refining a Bodhi Foundation Establishment Pill.

• Chen Xiao cultivated for three days in the Thunder Tower and broke through to Two-Star Dou Venerate.
• Zi Yan told Chen Xiao that her racial talent and physical strength let her contend with powerful Dou Venerates, though she had never tested her limits.
• Chen Xiao considered taking Zi Yan to the Beast Region ruins to obtain the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and Fortune Saint's remains.
• Chen Xiao decided to visit the Dan Domain first, then bring Cai Lin and the others to Dragon Island and investigate how to use the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit safely.
• Chen Xiao explained that he planned to send medicinal ingredients to the Cao Family and ask a giant of the Dan Tower to refine a Bodhi Foundation Establishment Pill.