Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Mo Chen reached Burning Heaven Cliff and fought the Netherworld Unicorn Snake to obtain the Netherworld Ghost Flame. Mo Chen escaped with the flame while Xiao Yan defeated the guardian but was badly injured, leaving them bound for a nearby town and its ancient teleportation array.

• Xiao Yan used the Origin Stabilizing Divine Stone and Void Origin Stone Fragment to help Mo Chen steer the pill boat away from a spatial rift, then killed a Void Fire Bat that attacked them.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen reached Burning Heaven Cliff and found the Netherworld Ghost Flame guarded by a Peak Origin Emperor Netherworld Unicorn Snake.
• Xiao Yan drew the unicorn snake away while Mo Chen wrapped the Netherworld Ghost Flame in pill fire and collected it in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yan restrained the unicorn snake with Space: Confinement and broke its horn with the Heavenly Flames: Realm-Breaking Slash, sending it tumbling into a volcano.
• Xiao Yan collapsed from his injuries, and Mo Chen carried him onto the pill boat and set course for a nearby town with an ancient teleportation array.

After subduing the netherworld ghost flame, Xiao Yan and Mo Chen activated an ancient teleportation array and reached the deserted Pill Realm. Xiao Yan learned that he must gather fragments of the Heart of the Pill Realm and restore its seal, then discovered that creatures of darkness were nearby.

• Xiao Yan recovered from his injuries, then joined the netherworld ghost flame with his netherworld core flame and subdued it.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen found the damaged ancient teleportation array in Fallen Fire Valley, and Xiao Yan's Pill God Bloodline activated it.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen entered the unstable spatial passage and arrived in the empty Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yan opened the Pill God Palace and received the Pill God's message about the darkness, the broken seal, and the scattered Heart of the Pill Realm fragments.
• Xiao Yan found a core fragment of the Heart of the Pill Realm in the Primordial Cauldron, then he and Mo Chen sensed creatures of darkness approaching.

Xiao Yan and Mo Chen fought their way through the corrupted Pill Realm, collected a second Heart of the Pill Realm fragment, and reached the Blazing Sky Tower. They found a third fragment set in the tower’s gate, but a powerful presence awakened inside before Xiao Yan could take it.

• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen killed the Bone-Eroding Winged Lizards attacking the Pill God Palace and decided to seek the remaining fragments and the final Heavenly Flame at the Blazing Sky Tower.
• They found a second Heart of the Pill Realm fragment in a statue in an abandoned alchemist city and continued toward the Mist Swamp.
• At the swamp, Xiao Yan and Mo Chen defeated two Peak Origin Emperor Rotting Swamp Crocodile Dragons, with Xiao Yan using his new Pill Realm Blazing Sky Slash.
• They reached the Blazing Sky Tower and discovered a third Heart of the Pill Realm fragment embedded in its gate.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to remove the fragment, a powerful presence awakened inside the tower.

Xiao Yan and Mo Chen defeated the Dark Flame Spirit in the Blazing Sky Tower, awakened the Pill Realm Origin Fire, and discovered how to reforge the Pill Realm’s seal. With five Heart of the Pill Realm fragments still missing, they set off for Medicine God Valley.

• The Dark Flame Spirit emerged from the Blazing Sky Tower and overwhelmed Xiao Yan and Mo Chen with its power.
• Xiao Yan used the tower’s runes to help Mo Chen remove a Heart of the Pill Realm fragment, awakening the tower’s Origin Fire.
• Xiao Yan combined his four Heavenly Flames, the Burning Heaven Cauldron, and the fragment’s energy to destroy the Dark Flame Spirit.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Pill Realm Origin Fire, fused all five Heavenly Flames, and reached High-Grade Origin Emperor.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen found the Pill God’s notes, which explained that eight fragments were needed to restore the seal and named the locations of the remaining five.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen chose Medicine God Valley as their next destination and left the tower.

Xiao Yan and Mo Chen reached Medicine God Valley, where they defeated a dark-corrupted Heart-Eroding Vine King, found the fourth fragment of the Heart of the Pill Realm, and gained the aid of dozens of Pill Spirits. After collecting the medicinal scripture and life-giving water from the Pill Spirit Spring, they set out for the Soul Refining Prison.

• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen entered Medicine God Valley and fought the dark-corrupted Heart-Eroding Vine King, with help from the Pill Spirits.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the vine's core with his five-colored Heavenly Flames, purified its origin seed, and replanted it.
• Mo Chen took the fourth Heart of the Pill Realm fragment from Yao Ling Hall, while Xiao Yan found a medicinal scripture about herbs and Pill Spirits.
• Dozens of Pill Spirits agreed to accompany Xiao Yan and Mo Chen, who carefully packed them in jade boxes.
• Xiao Yan collected water from the Pill Spirit Spring and took the medicinal scripture before leading Mo Chen toward the Soul Refining Prison.

Xiao Yan and Mo Chen crossed the Soul Devouring Mist Sea and fought their way through the Soul Refining Tower to retrieve the fifth fragment of the Heart of the Pill Realm. After defeating the Soul Devouring Ghost King, they recovered and left for the Star Sea.

• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen fought off waves of Soul-Devouring Ghosts before Xiao Yan used the Burning Heaven Cauldron and the Heart of the Pill Realm fragment to shield them across the mist.
• Xiao Yan opened the Soul Refining Tower and led Mo Chen up its stairs, where they defeated stronger Soul-Devouring Ghosts despite the mounting Soul Pressure.
• The Soul Devouring Ghost King ambushed them on the top floor, blasted Mo Chen into a wall, and attacked Xiao Yan as he approached the fifth fragment.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Soul Devouring Ghost King's soul core and took the fifth fragment, joining it to the four previous fragments.
• Xiao Yan healed Mo Chen, considered turning the Soul Refining Prison into a soul-tempering trial ground, and left with him for the Star Sea.

Xiao Yan cultivated in the Star Sea and broke through from Peak High-Grade Origin Emperor to Initial Origin Venerate, then gathered the sixth and seventh fragments of the Heart of the Pill Realm. He and Mo Chen reached the Primordial Hall, where the Pill God's remnant will revealed that the final fragment awaited them and warned that the Lord of Darkness's true body had formed.

• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen crossed the Star Sea, where Xiao Yan absorbed stellar power and defeated Star Beasts on their way to the Star Core Hall.
• Xiao Yan used the Star Sea's energy and his Heavenly Flames to break through to Initial Origin Venerate, forming his Origin Venerate Dharma Body.
• Xiao Yan took the sixth Heart of the Pill Realm fragment from the Star Core Hall, then flew with Mo Chen to the Ten Thousand Arrays Cliff.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen defeated the dark-energy Array Demon, recovered the seventh fragment, and found the Myriad Transformations Burning Heaven Array diagram.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen reached the Primordial Hall, where the Pill God's remnant will told Xiao Yan that the final fragment was on the sealing platform and warned him that the Lord of Darkness's true body had formed.

Xiao Yan reforged the Pill Realm’s seal, received the Primordial Pill Scripture, and returned to the Great Thousand World as the Lord of Darkness’s army advanced. He set out alone for Purple Haze Mountain to obtain Primordial Purple Qi for a new purification pill before the Star River Secret Realm opened.

• Xiao Yan reunited the eight fragments of the Heart of the Pill Realm and used his bloodline, the Burning Heaven Cauldron, the Pill Realm’s Origin Fire, and his Origin Venerate power to reforge the seal.
• The Primordial Pill Scripture entered Xiao Yan’s sea of consciousness, and the Pill God’s remnant will entrusted him with protecting the Pill Realm before fading away.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen returned to Pill City, where Xuan Kongzi reported that the Lord of Darkness’s true body had appeared at Soul-Severing Cliff and the dark army was advancing across the regions.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Primordial Pill Scripture described Primordial Purification Pills and said he would obtain Primordial Purple Qi from Purple Haze Mountain.
• Lin Qingxue gave Xiao Yan a map and a Holy Light Talisman, and he departed alone for the Western Region.

Xiao Yan defeated the Bone Demon at Purple Haze Mountain, absorbed its released Origin Qi, and broke through to Intermediate Origin Venerate. After gathering the remaining ingredients, he refined thirty-three Divine Grade Primordial Purification Pills and prepared to lead the Great Thousand Alliance to Soul-Severing Cliff.

• Xiao Yan defeated the Bone Demon with his Heavenly Flames and collected the Purple Cloud Crystals from the spring.
• The released Origin Qi from Purple Haze Mountain helped Xiao Yan break through to Intermediate Origin Venerate.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Star River Secret Realm and collected the Water of the Nine Heavens Star River.
• Xiao Yan returned to Pill City and refined thirty-three Primordial Purification Pills that suppressed the Pill Tribulation.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Great Thousand Alliance to prepare to march on Soul-Severing Cliff in three days.

Xiao Yan left Pill City to seek the Luo God Clan’s help and rescued Luo Li from a dark king general besieging Luo Shen Valley. He broke through to Initial Heavenly Sovereign during the battle, slew the general, and met Luo Tianshen, as the final battle at Soul-Severing Cliff approached.

• Xiao Yan distributed Primordial Purification Pills to the Great Thousand Alliance and decided to seek the Luo God Clan’s help before the battle at Soul-Severing Cliff.
• Xiao Yan and Mo Chen reached Luo Shen Valley and found Luo Li and her clan under attack by an Initial Heavenly Sovereign dark king general.
• Xiao Yan fought the dark king general while Mo Chen protected Luo Li, then broke through to Initial Heavenly Sovereign during the battle.
• Xiao Yan used the Primordial Realm Breaker to annihilate the dark king general and rescued Luo Li.
• Luo Li brought Xiao Yan and Mo Chen into Luo Shen Valley, where Luo Tianshen welcomed the Pill God’s descendant.

Xiao Yan allied with Lin Dong and Mu Chen to defeat the Darkness Heavenly Emperor at Soul-Severing Cliff. Afterward, they established allied domains to protect the Great Thousand World, and Xiao Yan founded the Endless Fire Domain.

• Luo Tianshen gave Xiao Yan the complete Luo Shen Record and the Luo Shen Mirror, then promised ten Heavenly Sovereigns to aid the battle.
• Lin Dong helped Xiao Yan defeat a dark royal general, and the two traveled to Pill City together, sharing their insights into Heavenly Sovereign power.
• Mu Chen joined Xiao Yan and Lin Dong in Pill City as the Great Thousand Alliance prepared to fight the Darkness Heavenly Emperor at Soul-Severing Cliff.
• Xiao Yan used the Luo Shen Mirror to find the Darkness Heavenly Emperor's weakness, and Lin Dong and Mu Chen helped him strike it down.
• Xiao Yan proposed the Endless Fire Domain, and Lin Dong, Mu Chen, Luo Tianshen, and Xuan Kongzi agreed to form an alliance with it.
• Several years later, Xiao Yan established the Endless Fire Domain, which became one of the Great Thousand World's three great domains alongside Lin Dong's Martial Realm and Mu Chen's Mu Domain.

Xiao Yan founded the Endless Fire Domain and joined Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li to summon the Great Thousand World Origin Fire against the returning Evil Clan Sovereign. The battle for the Great Thousand World began, with Xiao Yan aiming to reach the Dominator Realm.

• Xiao Yan established the Endless Fire Domain and welcomed Lin Dong and Mu Chen, who warned him of a powerful threat beyond the realm.
• Xiao Yan learned from the Pill God's lingering will that the Evil Clan Sovereign feared the Great Thousand World Origin Fire, which could be summoned through four origins.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Chaos Sacred Flame and advanced to the advanced stage of Heavenly Sovereign before Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li returned.
• Xiao Yan and the others used their four origins to summon the Great Thousand World Origin Fire at the altar.
• The Evil Clan Sovereign attacked the Endless Fire Domain, and the four joined the Great Thousand World's living beings in resisting his darkness.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li combined their powers to destroy the Evil Clan Supreme, then advanced into the Half-Step Dominator Realm. Years later, Xiao Yan pursued the true Dominator Realm in the Primordial Hall, guided by the Pill God’s message about safeguarding all living beings.

• Luo Li redirected the Evil Clan Supreme’s attack, while Lin Dong wounded him and Mu Chen protected Lin Dong.
• Xiao Yan and the others infused the Great Thousand World Origin Fire with their powers, then Xiao Yan used his Dominator Dharma Form to purify and destroy the Evil Clan Supreme.
• Mu Chen, Luo Li, Lin Dong, and Xiao Yan each broke through to the Half-Step Dominator Realm.
• Three months later, the four discussed their plans to protect the Great Thousand World and seek the true Dominator Realm before going their separate ways.
• Years later, Xiao Yan secluded himself in the Pill Realm’s Primordial Hall and read the Pill God’s message that the path to the Dominator Realm required safeguarding all living beings.

After ten years of seclusion, Xiao Yan grasped the meaning of the Dominator Realm and became a Dominator, then helped strengthen the Great Thousand World and guided Lin Dong and Mu Chen toward breakthroughs. When the Luo Shen Mirror revealed powerful forces beyond the Outer Realm, Xiao Yan prepared for challenges beyond the peace he had established.

• The Pill God's image taught Xiao Yan that a Dominator must bear the weight of heaven and earth and break through personal limits, allowing Xiao Yan to form his Heart of the Dominator and enter the Dominator Realm.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Burning Heaven Palace, where Mo Chen, Lin Qingxue, and the Fire Domain's elders welcomed him; living beings across the Great Thousand World soon honored him as the Flame Dominator.
• Lin Dong and Mu Chen visited Xiao Yan, learned from his breakthrough, and later went into seclusion to explore the Dao of protection and the power of bearing, while Luo Li reported approaching the Dominator Realm.
• Xiao Yan established the Nine Revolutions Primordial Array across the Great Thousand World, strengthening its defenses and helping its regions and people flourish.
• The Luo Shen Mirror showed Xiao Yan numerous planes beyond the Outer Realm and signs of stronger forces watching from the shadows, so he faced the coming challenges without fear.

After discovering that the Outer World Domain was threatened by the plane-devouring Deathly Stillness Realm, Xiao Yan united its planes and joined forces with Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li to fight back. The Realm-Devouring Demon revealed itself and vowed to use the Dominators as nourishment, setting the stage for a dangerous new war.

• Xiao Yan used the Luo Shen Mirror to discover the Outer World Domain and learned from Mo Chen and Lin Qingxue that its subsidiary planes might be connected to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Azure Mist Realm, where an old treant told him that the Deathly Stillness Realm had consumed seven planes and was led by a Realm-Devouring Demon stronger than the Evil Clan's Sovereign.
• Xiao Yan spent six months uniting the Outer World Domain's planes into a Plane Alliance, while Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li arrived to help strengthen and connect them.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, Luo Li, and the Plane Alliance's forces destroyed the deathly stillness mist sent by the Realm-Devouring Demon.
• The Realm-Devouring Demon vowed to make the Dominators nourishment for its breakthrough to the Realm Lord Realm, and Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen prepared to face the coming war.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li led the Allied Forces into the Deathly Stillness Realm, battling the Realm-Devouring Demon's minions and destroying an energy node on their way to its lair. At the Myriad Devourings Hall, they encountered the demon's overwhelming Realm Lord pressure and prepared for the decisive fight.

• Xiao Yan and the other Dominators planned an invasion of the Deathly Stillness Realm, and the alliance assembled a hundred thousand warriors for the expedition.
• The Allied Forces fought through waves of the Realm-Devouring Demon's minions as Mu Chen's spiritual rhyme light and Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames protected them from the deathly mist.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Mu Chen defeated ten Deathly Silence Titans and destroyed the Shattered Star Abyss energy node, weakening the surrounding mist.
• At the Myriad Devourings Hall, the Realm-Devouring Demon emerged and shattered the Allied Forces' protective light pillar with a tentacle's black beam.
• Xiao Yan ordered ordinary warriors to retreat and led Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li toward the Realm-Devouring Demon as the final battle began.

Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li defeated the Realm-Devouring Demon by joining their powers to create the Great Thousand World Origin Fire. They restored the devoured planes and returned to the Great Thousand World, where they chose their next steps toward the Realm Lord Realm and protecting both worlds.

• Lin Dong, Xiao Yan, Luo Li, and Mu Chen attacked the Realm-Devouring Demon, but it absorbed Lin Dong’s lightning and unleashed waves of remnant souls.
• Mu Chen proposed using the Great Thousand World Origin Fire, and the four combined their origins while Luo Li and Lin Dong protected them and Mu Chen gathered the faith of living beings.
• Xiao Yan and the others sent the golden lotus into the Realm-Devouring Demon’s law core, destroying the demon and purifying its core into a crystal containing Realm Lord insights and the origins of ninety-nine planes.
• Xiao Yan proposed returning the crystal’s origin power to the devoured planes and sharing its insights, and the four helped revive the planes over the following month.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li returned to the Great Thousand World and discussed entering seclusion or sharing Realm Lord power, while Xiao Yan resolved to use it to protect the worlds.

After the worlds began merging, Xiao Yan and his allies explored an ancient ruin and gained the inheritances needed to enter the Initial Stage World Lord Realm. Years later, Xiao Yan transformed the Endless Fire Domain and left through the Star Orbit Bridge to seek the World Beyond the World.

• Xiao Yan studied a World Lord core fragment, formed a miniature world in his sea of consciousness, and accelerated the spiritual Qi circulation in the Endless Fire Domain.
• Lin Qingxue told Xiao Yan that Lin Dong and Mu Chen had found a ruin at the Star Orbit Bridge, so Xiao Yan joined them and Luo Li there.
• Luo Li deciphered the ruin's stele, revealing the stages of the Realm Lord Realm and the need to condense a World Heart.
• Lin Dong, Mu Chen, and Luo Li used jade slips in the World Heart Hall to enter the Initial Stage World Lord Realm, while Xiao Yan received the Flame God's inheritance and also broke through.
• The four returned to their domains and used their new powers to transform them; Xiao Yan spent several years turning the Endless Fire Domain into a world of fire.
• Xiao Yan left the Endless Fire Domain and passed through the Star Orbit Bridge toward the World Beyond the World.

Xiao Yan reached the Realm Capital and entered the Flame God's temple to undergo the final trial for his legacy. After conquering six flame trials, he advanced to the Intermediate Realm Lord level and set off toward the All-Heavens Hub.

• Xiao Yan crossed the Star Orbit Bridge, reached the Realm Capital, and learned that the Flame God's temple stood at the God-Sealing Platform.
• Xiao Yan opened the temple with his six-colored Heavenly Flames and began the Flame God's trial by climbing the mountain of netherworld poison flame.
• Xiao Yan defeated the Poison Flame Guardian and fused the netherworld poison flame's origin with his green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Yan conquered the remaining five flame mountains and formed the Heart of the Flame Realm, breaking through to the Intermediate Realm Lord level.
• The Flame God gave Xiao Yan his Realm Lord insights and the Heaven Burning Sword, then directed him toward higher realms.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the temple and flew beyond the Realm Capital toward the All-Heavens Hub.

After breaking through to the Intermediate Realm Lord stage, Xiao Yan learned about the upcoming Star Dou Gathering and traded a Heaven Burning Stone for Space Marrow. He learned he could acquire a Nihility Devouring Flame Origin Fragment by obtaining a Time Hourglass fragment, and left determined to win one at the gathering.

• Xiao Yan tested the Heaven Burning Sword after his breakthrough and met Elder Qin, who invited him to the Star Dou Gathering in three days.
• Elder Qin told Xiao Yan that the gathering’s winners would enter the Law Secret Realm and recommended the Myriad Treasures Tower for trading resources.
• Xiao Yan exchanged a high-grade Heaven Burning Stone with Ling Yue for Space Marrow.
• Ling Yue showed Xiao Yan a Nihility Devouring Flame Origin Fragment and said it could be exchanged for a palm-sized Time Hourglass fragment.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would win the Time Hourglass fragment at the Star Dou Gathering, and Ling Yue agreed to reserve the flame fragment for him.