Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan competed in the Star Dou Gathering, claimed second place, and won a fragment of the Time Hourglass, which he exchanged for Nihility Devouring Flame. He entered the Law Secret Realm with the Thunder Realm Lord and four others, where an obscure force seemed to call to his Heaven Burning Sword.

• Xiao Yan entered the Star Dou Gathering and advanced through the melee, defeating several Realm Lords with the Heaven Burning Sword and Flame Realm: Heaven Burning.
• Xiao Yan defeated five challengers in the ranking contest and placed third before overcoming the Profound Gravity Realm Lord to take second place overall.
• Elder Qin awarded Xiao Yan a Law Secret Realm token and a Time Hourglass fragment, and the Thunder Realm Lord invited him to explore the realm with a group.
• Xiao Yan exchanged the Time Hourglass fragment at the Myriad Treasures Tower for a fragment of Nihility Devouring Flame, strengthening his Heart of the Flame Realm and Heaven Burning Sword.
• Xiao Yan and the Thunder Realm Lord's group entered the Law Secret Realm and set out to find a safe place, while an obscure fluctuation made Xiao Yan's sword tremble.

Xiao Yan followed the Heaven Burning Sword’s call to an altar, where he reclaimed its missing half and learned that the Heaven Burning Domain required the Heart-Clearing Jade from the Rift of Time. He and the Thunder Realm Lord’s companions prepared to enter the dangerous rift to find it.

• Xiao Yan followed the Heaven Burning Sword’s call through the law storms and found a ruined altar guarded by flame-law beasts and a Heaven Burning Battle Lion.
• Xiao Yan proved he was the Flame God’s inheritor, and the guardian beasts accepted him.
• Xiao Yan reunited the broken sword halves to restore the Heaven Burning Sword and discovered the tablet’s warning that the Heaven Burning Domain required the Heart-Clearing Jade from the Rift of Time.
• The Thunder Realm Lord warned Xiao Yan that the Rift of Time was deadly and offered to accompany him with the Soul-Stabilizing Bell, while the other Realm Lords joined them.
• Xiao Yan trained with the restored sword overnight, then set out with his companions for the Rift of Time the next morning.

Xiao Yan entered the Rift of Time alone and passed three trials drawn from his past, obtaining the Heart-Clearing Jade. After leaving the Law Secret Realm, he set his sights on the wider world and the mission ahead.

• The Thunder Realm Lord led the group through the chaotic Rift of Time, but Xiao Yan was separated from them upon entering.
• The Flame God's remnant will explained that Xiao Yan had to cross three rivers representing obsession, confusion, and fear to obtain the Heart-Clearing Jade.
• Xiao Yan faced memories of Hun Tiandi, his search for Xun'er, and his battle with the Darkness Heavenly Emperor, overcoming each trial.
• The Heart-Clearing Jade appeared, and Xiao Yan fused it into the Heaven Burning Sword, stabilizing the Heaven Burning Domain's power.
• Xiao Yan rejoined the Thunder Realm Lord and the others, and they left the secret realm.
• Xiao Yan emerged over the Realm Capital with a steadier Dao heart and turned his attention toward the wider world and his mission.

Xiao Yan learned that the Council of the Heavens was summoning powerful Realm Lords, then faced accusations from the Black Fiend Realm Lord over the Flame God's legacy. After defeating him and earning the Realm Capital's recognition, Xiao Yan received an invitation to the All-Heavens Hub.

• Xiao Yan visited Ling Yue at the Myriad Treasures Tower and learned that the Council of the Heavens was preparing for an unknown major undertaking.
• The Thunder Realm Lord warned Xiao Yan that the Black Fiend Realm Lord was spreading rumors and urging the council to seize the Flame God's legacy, but Xiao Yan refused to hide.
• At the Realm Capital Council, Xiao Yan challenged the Black Fiend Realm Lord to a duel at the Battle Star Platform, with the loser required to retract his claims.
• Xiao Yan overpowered the Black Fiend Realm Lord, but the Grand Elder intervened and sentenced Black Fiend to a hundred years of confinement while confirming Xiao Yan's right to the legacy.
• The Thunder Realm Lord told Xiao Yan that the Council of the Heavens had invited him to the All-Heavens Hub.

Xiao Yan traveled to the All-Heavens Hub to attend the Council of the Heavens, where he learned that Law-Devouring Beasts threatened the worlds. He offered to use his Heaven-Burning Flame to find the beasts’ weakness and was assigned to an investigation team led by Yun He.

• Xiao Yan left the Thunder Realm after receiving an invitation and traveled through the teleportation array to the All-Heavens Hub.
• Xiao Yan met Yun He, who explained the hub’s council and warned him about the growing threat of the Outer Realm Demons.
• The Council of the Heavens revealed that Law-Devouring Beasts had destroyed three medium-sized worlds and could devour cultivators’ laws.
• Xiao Yan recalled that the demons had a vulnerable core called Origin Fire and proposed that his Heaven-Burning Flame might detect it.
• The Grand Elder assigned Xiao Yan to an investigation team led by Yun He, which would set out in three days.

Xiao Yan and Yun He led a team into the Void Rift, where Xiao Yan discovered that Origin Fire could pierce the Law-Devouring Beasts’ defenses and helped the group claim seventeen flames. A powerful Law-Devouring Beast King appeared, and Xiao Yan fled with the other Realm Lords while Yun He stayed behind to hold it off.

• Xiao Yan joined Yun He and five Realm Lords on an expedition into the Void Rift to investigate the Law-Devouring Beasts.
• The group fought off Nothingness Human-Faced Lizards and reached a canyon filled with Law-Devouring Beasts that could absorb laws.
• Xiao Yan sensed Origin Fire inside the largest beast and helped Yun He defeat it, then guided the team in collecting seventeen balls of Origin Fire.
• A Law-Devouring Beast King emerged from the canyon and attacked the exhausted group.
• Yun He stayed behind to hold off the Beast King as Xiao Yan led the other Realm Lords toward the teleportation array.

Xiao Yan and the Realm Lords fled the Law-Devouring Beast King through a flame corridor, but Yun He and another Realm Lord died buying them time. After Xiao Yan’s forbidden sword strike weakened the Beast King and left Xiao Yan stranded and badly injured, he recovered Yun He’s final remnant, learned the Beast King’s weakness, and headed toward the Council’s arriving reinforcements.

• Yun He sacrificed himself by turning his whip into a cyan dragon that wounded the Law-Devouring Beast King and gave Xiao Yan’s group time to escape.
• Xiao Yan strengthened the flame corridor with the Realm Lords’ laws, but the Beast King shattered its tail and devoured the earth-law Realm Lord Lao Tu.
• Xiao Yan stayed behind and used Heaven-Burning: Flame God Slash to wound the Beast King’s claw, then passed out after sending the corridor onward.
• Xiao Yan awoke alone on a floating rock and learned from a message on the Heaven Burning Sword that the others had reached the hub and alerted the Council.
• While recovering and searching for the teleportation array, Xiao Yan found Yun He’s remnant thought, which revealed that the Beast King’s origin core lay beneath the golden scale between its brows.
• Xiao Yan stored Yun He’s remnant in the Heaven Burning Sword and set off toward the Council of the Heavens’ arriving reinforcements.

The twelve Sovereigns arrived in the Void Rift and killed the Law-Devouring Beast King by destroying the origin core beneath its golden brow scale. Xiao Yan joined the newly formed All-Heavens Guard as deputy commander and headed to its headquarters, determined to protect the heavens.

• The grand elder thanked Xiao Yan for his efforts, and Xiao Yan revealed that the Beast King's origin core was beneath the golden scale between its brows.
• The twelve Sovereigns attacked the Law-Devouring Beast King together, restrained it with their laws, and exposed its origin core.
• The armored Sovereign shattered the origin core with his lightning-wreathed axe, killing the Beast King and allowing the Void Rift to begin stabilizing.
• The grand elder ordered the formation of the All-Heavens Guard and appointed Xiao Yan its deputy commander, giving him an All-Heavens Token.
• The Sovereigns returned with Xiao Yan to the All-Heavens Hub, where Xiao Yan remembered Yun He and set out for the All-Heavens Guard headquarters.

Xiao Yan joined the All-Heavens Guard as acting deputy commander of the Heaven Battalion and led a team to the Netherworld Realm, where they defeated the Soul-Eroding Monarch and cleared the Soul-Eroding Mist. The grand elder then gave Xiao Yan the Spirit Refining Technique and arranged for him to study the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws, while warning that a stronger force might be behind the attack.

• The grand elder showed Xiao Yan the All-Heavens Guard headquarters and appointed him acting deputy commander of the Heaven Battalion under the Blazing Sun Realm Lord.
• Xiao Yan discovered Soul-Eroding Mist spreading through the Netherworld Realm and led thirty Heaven Battalion elites toward its source at the Ten Thousand Souls Cavern.
• Xiao Yan and his team fought the Soul-Eroding Monarch, using Heavenly Flames and Soul-Suppressing Nails to destroy it and disperse the mist.
• The Blazing Sun Realm Lord praised Xiao Yan’s success and confirmed his deputy commander position after arriving with reinforcements.
• The grand elder gave Xiao Yan the Spirit Refining Technique and told him to come to the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws in three days, warning that a more powerful existence might be involved.

Xiao Yan gained Old Ghost Heaven Burning’s flame-law legacy and advanced to the Late Realm Lord Realm before leading a squad to suppress Soul-Defiling demons in the Mystic Ice Realm. After he discovered signs of a greater demonic force, the All-Heavens Guard entered its highest state of alert.

• Xiao Yan entered the Hall of Ten Thousand Laws and received Old Ghost Heaven Burning’s insights into the law of flames and the Heaven Burning Nine Forms.
• Xiao Yan spent seven days refining his sword techniques and emerged at the Late Realm Lord Realm, then accepted a mission to investigate demonic activity in the Mystic Ice Realm.
• Xiao Yan led a fifty-person Heaven Battalion squad against the Soul-Defiling Race and cleansed a corrupted squad member with the Heart-Clearing Jade’s power.
• Xiao Yan traced the Heart-Corroding Black Water to an ice mountain, defeated the Soul-Defiling Lords with his squad, and sealed the source with the Soul-Suppressing Nail.
• Xiao Yan sensed a sinister presence deeper in the black hole, returned to the All-Heavens Hub, and reported that the demons’ main force might be approaching.
• The Grand Elder ordered the All-Heavens Guard to its highest state of alert as Xiao Yan prepared to face the coming war.

Xiao Yan led thirty Heaven Battalion cultivators into the Black Domain to destroy the Soul-Devouring Vines and stop a Void Envoy's ritual. He confronted the Void Envoy at the bone altar, and their battle began as the vines continued spreading.

• Xiao Yan learned that Soul-Devouring Vines were spreading through the Black Domain and volunteered to investigate with an elite squad.
• Xiao Yan and the squad crossed the unstable Black Domain, fought polluted barbarians, and followed vanished soul signatures to the vines' lair.
• Xiao Yan used Heaven Burning Purification to destroy the vines and their fruits around the bone altar, but the black-robed man empowered them with a black crystal.
• Xiao Yan charged the altar and used Heaven Burning Rend to break through the vine barrier, forcing the black-robed man to evade and revealing himself as a Void Envoy.
• The Void Envoy unleashed remnant souls from the crystal, and Xiao Yan met his attack with the full power of the Heart of the Flame Realm as the battle began.

Xiao Yan wounded the Void Envoy and returned from the Black Domain, where he learned the demon invasion was nearing. As the All-Heavens Hub prepared its defenses, the Void Mothership attacked with its Space Cannon, beginning the great battle ahead of schedule.

• Xiao Yan unleashed Heaven Burning Explosion, badly injuring the Void Envoy and forcing him to flee the Black Domain.
• Xiao Yan and his team purified the altar’s remains and suppressed the surviving sinister power before leaving the Black Domain.
• Xiao Yan reported the encounter to the grand elder and the Blazing Sun Realm Lord, who ordered him to train others in Heaven Burning Purification.
• Xiao Yan trained cultivators at the Purification Camp and watched the All-Heavens Mirror as demonic incursions spread across more worlds.
• The All-Heavens Mirror revealed the Void Mothership, and the escaped Void Envoy directed its Space Cannon at the All-Heavens Hub.
• Xiao Yan helped reinforce the Hub’s defensive barrier, but the Space Cannon struck and shattered its law runes as the battle began.

Xiao Yan helped the All-Heavens Hub withstand the void mothership’s bombardment and joined the defense against an approaching evil demon fleet. As the battle threatened to drain the defensive array, he set out with an elite team to infiltrate the mothership and destroy its evil power core.

• The Grand Elder and twelve Sovereigns reinforced the barrier while Xiao Yan used Heaven Burning Meteor to purify a cannon blast and buy time to activate the All-Heavens Defensive Array.
• The array repelled the void mothership’s next attack, but the Grand Elder revealed that an evil demon fleet was approaching and ordered the All-Heavens Guard into battle stations.
• Xiao Yan directed the defense against Soul-Devouring Beasts and Law-Devouring Beasts attacking the array, then concluded that the mothership’s evil power core had to be destroyed to stop the monsters.
• Xiao Yan persuaded the Blazing Sun Realm Lord to let him infiltrate the mothership with ten elite team members and a spacebreaker craft.
• Half a shichen later, Xiao Yan and the team slipped out of the hub toward the void mothership.

Xiao Yan led a team into the Void Mothership, broke through its defenses, and destroyed its evil energy core while the Sovereigns attacked from outside. He returned to the All-Heavens Hub after the mothership fell, then recovered as the demon army regrouped and the war continued.

• Xiao Yan and ten Heaven Battalion cultivators infiltrated the Void Mothership through a weakened rear section and fought through its traps and guardians.
• Xiao Yan used Heaven Burning Radiance to break the Ten Thousand Souls Gate and reveal the evil energy core and the Void Envoy.
• Xiao Yan's team held off the Evil Armor Guardians while he battled the Void Envoy and destroyed the evil energy core.
• The twelve Sovereigns shattered the mothership's weakened defenses and destroyed the vessel as Xiao Yan annihilated the Void Envoy.
• Xiao Yan and the surviving team members returned to the All-Heavens Hub, where Xiao Yan collapsed and later recovered.
• Xiao Yan saw the demon army regrouping in the All-Heavens Mirror and gripped the Heaven Burning Sword as the battle continued.

Xiao Yan recovered from his battle with the Void Envoy and joined Blazing Sun and three elders to investigate signs of the Shadow Clan in the Mist Star Domain. At Soul-Severing Cliff, they encountered a far more powerful enemy who attacked them.

• The Grand Elder treated Xiao Yan’s injuries and warned that the Shadow Clan would retaliate after the Void Envoy’s death and the destruction of its mothership.
• A Yao brought Xiao Yan soul-condensing fruits, and Blazing Sun told him the group would investigate a suspected Shadow Clan envoy in the Mist Star Domain.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Blazing Sun and three elders to Soul-Severing Cliff, where they found signs of a fight and traces of the Shadow Clan’s Bone-Corroding Claw.
• The white-bearded elder warned that the attacker might be a Shadow Clan priest, whose power exceeded the Void Envoy’s.
• A black figure rose from the mist, vowed to offer the group’s souls to Lord Shadow, and launched countless black spears at them.

Xiao Yan and the All-Heavens Guard fought the Shadow Priest at Soul-Severing Cliff, driving him away at the cost of Old Shi’s life and severe injuries to the Blazing Sun Realm Lord. They returned to the All-Heavens Hub to report the Shadow Clan’s threat, while Xiao Yan sensed a deeper evil connected to Lord Shadow.

• The Shadow Priest attacked the defenders with shadow-law spears and a beast, but Xiao Yan used the Heart-Clearing Jade’s power to help purge the shadows.
• The Shadow Priest unleashed a soul-severing slash, and the white-bearded elder and his allies met it with a faith-powered white dragon while Xiao Yan protected their souls.
• Shadow tentacles pierced Old Shi’s rock giant form, and he sacrificed himself to shield the others as the Blazing Sun Realm Lord charged the Shadow Priest and was badly wounded.
• Xiao Yan struck the Shadow Priest with Heaven Burning Explosion, allowing the white-bearded elder’s dragon to hit him and force him to flee into the Shadow Rift.
• The white-bearded elder stopped Xiao Yan from pursuing, and Xiao Yan escorted the wounded Blazing Sun Realm Lord back to the All-Heavens Hub to report the attack.

After the Shadow Priest escaped into the Shadow Rift, Xiao Yan learned that the Shadow Clan was preparing a dangerous ritual and helped organize the All-Heavens Alliance. He led the training of its Vanguard Battalion and urged the alliance to strike before the ritual was complete.

• The white-bearded elder reported the battle at Soul-Severing Cliff to the Supremes, explaining that the Shadow Priest had escaped into the Shadow Rift and the Blazing Sun Realm Lord was gravely wounded.
• The Grand Elder explained the Shadow Rift’s danger, and Xiao Yan identified the Shadow Clan’s law-devouring power and the heavens’ poor coordination as key disadvantages.
• The Supremes began forming the All-Heavens Alliance, and the Grand Elder appointed Xiao Yan to lead its Vanguard Battalion.
• Xiao Yan assembled and trained three hundred offensive cultivators, teaching them to combine flames, Buddha light, sword Qi, and Evil Breaking Runes against shadow defenses.
• The white-bearded elder showed Xiao Yan intelligence depicting nine Shadow Priests gathered around a black orb at the Shadow Rift, apparently conducting a ritual.
• Xiao Yan called for the alliance conference to be moved forward and ordered the Vanguard Battalion to intensify training in preparation for battle within three days.

Xiao Yan led the Vanguard Battalion to the Shadow Rift and disrupted the Shadow Clan’s ritual, but the Seed of Shadow awakened into the Shadow King before he could destroy it. As the badly wounded Xiao Yan and his battalion faced the enemy, the All-Heavens Alliance army arrived, and the final battle began.

• Xiao Yan led the Vanguard Battalion into the Mist Star Domain, where they broke through the Shadow Clan’s first defense with coordinated attacks.
• At the Shadow Rift, Xiao Yan learned that the Nine Shadow Priests were using the Seed of Shadow to bring forth a Shadow King, and he led the battalion toward the altar.
• Xiao Yan killed the lead priest with Flame God Break and attacked the Seed of Shadow, weakening the ritual.
• The Seed of Shadow burst open, awakening the Shadow King, who blasted Xiao Yan away and overwhelmed the battlefield with his presence.
• The All-Heavens Alliance army arrived under the grand elder, and Xiao Yan rose to face the Shadow King alongside the reinforcements.

The All-Heavens Alliance fought the awakened Shadow King, but its strongest warriors could not defeat him as he absorbed the Shadow Rift’s origin. Xiao Yan drew power from his allies and the Origin Fire of the Heavens to destroy the Shadow King, then collapsed after the alliance’s victory.

• The All-Heavens Alliance’s reinforcements arrived, but the Shadow King wounded the Buddha, the Grand Elder, Xiao Yan, and the Blazing Sun Realm Lord with ease.
• The Shadow King absorbed the Shadow Rift’s energy, so the Grand Elder ordered the twelve Supremes to trap him in the Heavens Reincarnation Array while the alliance’s experts attacked.
• The Flame God’s remnant will reminded Xiao Yan that the Origin Fire of the Heavens could purify the Shadow Clan, and Xiao Yan called on the alliance cultivators to lend him their power.
• Xiao Yan fused their strength with the Heaven Burning Sword and struck the Shadow King with Heaven Burning: Heavens Break, purifying him and causing the Shadow Rift’s energy to recede.
• The alliance wiped out the remaining Shadow Clan cultivators, and Xiao Yan lost consciousness after the Grand Elder praised him for saving the myriad worlds.

After recovering from the war, Xiao Yan helped establish the All-Heavens Alliance Council and traveled among the worlds to deepen his understanding of flame law. In the Azure Mist Realm, he sensed an ancient demonic presence emerging through a crack in the sky and flew to confront it.

• Xiao Yan woke after half a month and learned that the Shadow King had fallen, the Shadow Rift had closed, and he had been named an honorary elder of the All-Heavens Alliance Council.
• Xiao Yan proposed a Law Exchange plan, which the Ten Thousand Buddhas Realm and Sword Domain began implementing.
• Blazing Sun gave Xiao Yan the Evil Breaking Battle Armor schematics, and A Yao gave him a Heaven Burning Fruit.
• Xiao Yan left the All-Heavens Hub and traveled through several worlds, reflecting on how flame law could nurture life and protect peace.
• Xiao Yan sensed an ancient, evil presence through a crack in the sky above the Azure Mist Realm and flew toward it with his Heaven Burning Sword.