Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy and fought his way through the Strong Ranking Challenge Competition, defeating opponents up to Lin Xiuya with his flame techniques. After Zi Yan challenged him for first place, Xiao Yan used the arena’s earth fire to catch her off guard and knock her out of the ring.

• Xiao Yan registered at the Inner Academy, received Azure Wind Cave as his cultivation abode, and accepted the challenge to climb the Strong Ranking.
• Wu Hao warned Xiao Yan that Hu Tian and Wang Teng intended to target him, but Xiao Yan decided to enter the competition.
• Xiao Yan advanced to Intermediate Dou Ling, defeated Hu Tian by striking his old shoulder injury, and later forced him to concede during the tournament.
• Xiao Yan defeated Ice Princess and Wu Hao, then used Flame Prison: Vermilion Bird to beat Thunder Venerable and advance past Poison Douluo and Sword Venerable.
• Xiao Yan defeated Lin Xiuya in the final by fusing his flames with the arena’s earth fire, then accepted Zi Yan’s challenge for first place.
• Despite being badly injured by Zi Yan’s punch, Xiao Yan ignited a line of earth fire beneath her; she stepped back off the edge of the ring.

After defeating Zi Yan and becoming the Strong Ranking champion, Xiao Yan investigated the Earth Core Magma Pool with her and found traces of the Fallen Heart Flame. He escaped a Peak Dou Emperor Magma Colossal Beast with the Heart Flame’s origin blood essence and a seal fragment, while a new quest revealed Burning Heaven Valley’s activity remained unexplained.

• Xiao Yan defeated Zi Yan in the Strong Ranking Challenge, won first place, and unlocked the Earth-tier Dou Technique Heavenly Flames Burning Heaven Art.
• After waking from three days of recovery, Xiao Yan accepted Zi Yan’s offer to guide him into the Earth Core Magma Pool and began investigating the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan found Inner Academy students killed by Burning Heaven Valley members, then fought the intruders and drove off their one-eyed leader.
• Xiao Yan found the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin blood essence in a cave, took it despite a Peak Dou Emperor Magma Colossal Beast’s approach, and raised the Green Lotus Core Flame’s purity to 50%.
• Xiao Yan escaped the collapsing cave and the beast with Zi Yan’s help, obtaining a seal fragment and triggering a quest to investigate Burning Heaven Valley’s activity.

Xiao Yan uncovered Burning Heaven Valley’s plan to use the Burning Heaven Ancient Map and Heaven-Piercing Mirror to threaten the Flame-Locking Array, then fought Mo Feng and survived his nether poison. With Zi Yan, Lin Xiuya, Wu Hao, and other Strong Ranking disciples, Xiao Yan set out for the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest to find the remaining fragments before Burning Heaven Valley.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that Mo Feng had been searching for the Burning Heaven Ancient Map, and the library elder explained that the map was tied to the magma-pool altar and the nine-fragment Flame-Locking Array.
• Mo Feng and his disciples attacked Lin Xiuya for a Flame-Locking Array fragment, but Xiao Yan drove them off and learned they planned to search Soul-Breaking Cliff for the Heaven-Piercing Mirror.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lin Xiuya confronted Mo Feng at Soul-Breaking Cliff, where they found the Ancient Map, but Mo Feng poisoned Xiao Yan and recovered the map before the library elder forced the Burning Heaven Valley group to retreat.
• The elder treated Xiao Yan and revealed that the Ancient Map showed the locations of Flame-Locking Array fragments and that Heaven-Piercing Mirror fragments were in the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest and Ice River Valley.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lin Xiuya formed a team to seek the fragments, and Wu Hao and other Strong Ranking disciples joined them three days later as they departed for the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest.

Xiao Yan and his team fought through the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest, recovered three Flame-Locking Array Fragments, and discovered that the fragments formed part of a seal for the Fallen Heart Flame. They defeated Mo Feng at the Beast Soul Altar and left with clues pointing to two more fragments in Ice River Valley and Burning Heaven Valley’s true lair.

• Xiao Yan’s team battled Strange-Faced Spiders in the Mist Swamp and recovered a Flame-Locking Array Fragment from the Dead Bone Tree.
• Xiao Yan split the group to evade Mo Feng’s Burning Heaven Valley pursuers, while Zi Yan’s party reached Thunder Valley and took another fragment from a One-Horned Thunder Rhinoceros’s platform.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Yan, Wu Hao, and Hu Gan activated the Four Symbols statues at the altar and earned the beast souls’ approval, revealing that the nine fragments sealed the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Mo Feng attacked the altar with Soul-Locking Talismans, but Lu Mu strengthened the beast souls while Ye Xinlan prepared a Talisman-Breaking Pill.
• Xiao Yan led the Four Symbols Beast Souls in defeating Mo Feng after he used a Power Explosion Pill to reach early-stage Dou Emperor strength.
• Xiao Yan’s team completed the regional quest with six fragments and learned that two more were in Ice River Valley and Burning Heaven Valley’s lair.

Xiao Yan and his companions gathered all nine Flame-Locking Array fragments and reinforced the seal on the Ice-Sealed Heart Flame, defeating Mo Feng’s attempt to unleash it. Zi Yan received the Ice Phoenix Inheritance, and the discovery of a hidden map led the team toward the Gu Clan ruins in the Central Plains.

• Xiao Yan’s team defeated the Soul-Devouring Ice Silkworm queen and recovered a Flame-Locking Array fragment and an ice silkworm crystal core.
• Zi Yan passed the Ice Phoenix trial through her bloodline resonance, obtained another fragment, and learned that Burning Heaven Valley had betrayed the Ice Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Yan’s team confronted Mo Feng in the Cold Crystal Prison and collected the ninth fragment as Mo Feng’s Heart-Exploding Gu threatened the seal.
• Xiao Yan and his companions chose to reinforce the seal, combining Green Lotus Core Flame, Burning Heaven Flame, and Zi Yan’s Ice Phoenix Power to contain the Heart Flame.
• Zi Yan received the Ice Phoenix Inheritance, while Xiao Yan gained the Heart Flame’s Recognition and Mo Feng was captured.
• Lu Mu and Xiao Yan discovered that the Flame-Locking Array and Beast Soul Altar designs formed a map of the continent, directing the team to the Gu Clan ruins in the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached the Gu Clan ruins, passed the Sacred Flame Altar’s trials, and defeated Mo Chen and the Burning Heaven Valley elders. Xiao Yan gained a fragment of the Gu Clan Sacred Flame, and the map revealed their next destination: the Central Plains Volcano Cluster.

• Lu Mu activated the teleportation formation at Soul-Breaking Cliff, and the team fought Soul-Devouring Shadows during their journey through space and time.
• Xiao Yan’s team found the contract seal in the stele forest and used it to escape the Stele Guardians’ attack.
• Lin Yan, Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Wu Hao passed the Heavenly Flames, Bloodline, and Beast Soul trials, opening the path to the altar’s core.
• Mo Chen revealed his plan to absorb the Gu Clan Sacred Flame and control Fallen Heart Flame, then attacked Xiao Yan’s team with four Burning Heaven Valley elders.
• Xiao Yan, Lin Yan, and Zi Yan combined their flames to defeat Mo Chen and the elders, and the Sacred Flame entered Xiao Yan as a fire seed.
• The altar revealed the complete secret map, which marked the Central Plains Volcano Cluster as the true sealing site of Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Yan and his companions fought through the Central Plains Volcano Cluster, uncovered Burning Heaven Valley’s plot, and learned that the Fallen Heart Flame was part of the Mother of Heavenly Flames. They reconstructed the Gu Clan Heart Seal and suppressed the awakening, leaving Xiao Yan with a fragment that could unlock the ultimate form of Heavenly Flames.

• Ye Xinlan made Miasma-Clearing Pills, and the team defeated Lava Lizards and a Black-Armored Lava Turtle on the lava walkway.
• Xiao Yan’s group found a damaged Gu Clan Flame-Sealing Stele and fought off Mo Xuan’s Burning Heaven Valley ambush, forcing Mo Xuan to retreat with a new flame-fusion technique.
• Lu Mu deciphered the stele, revealing the Mother of Heavenly Flames’ origins and her imminent awakening as nine stars aligned.
• The team entered the Earth Core Fire Vein and began forming a Flame-Locking Array while Xiao Yan fused their flames to confront the Mother of Heavenly Flames.
• Mo Xuan seized the Gu Clan Heart Seal but was consumed when the Mother of Heavenly Flames went berserk, and the group worked together to reconstruct the shattered seal.
• Xiao Yan added his essence blood to complete the Heart Seal, and the Mother of Heavenly Flames was suppressed as the team completed its quest.

Xiao Yan and his team fought Burning Heaven Valley forces in the ancient city, activated the Myriad Flames Returning to the Origin Array, and set out to reach the earth-core fire vein before the Mother of Heavenly Flames' remnant soul awakened. At the Fallen Star Crater, Mo Xuan trapped the group and attacked with Nether Flame Cannons, and Xiao Yan divided the team to fight back.

• Xiao Yan's team defeated Mo Tu's ambush and destroyed the Nether Flame Purgatory Array, but Mo Tu poisoned himself before revealing the entrance to Burning Heaven Valley's stronghold.
• The team installed the array foundation at the Burning Heaven Platform and repelled the Mutated Heaven Burning Guards after Zi Yan blocked their black fire dragon and Xiao Yan fitted the Gu Clan Bloodline Jade into the central groove.
• Lu Mu confirmed the array could suppress the remnant soul for now, and Xiao Yan used Mo Tu's map to locate the secret passage entrance at the Fallen Star Crater.
• The team took Aura-Concealing Pills and approached the crater's stone gate, but a gravity-sensing net exposed them to Mo Xuan and his Nether Flame Cannons.
• Zi Yan shielded the group from the cannon blasts, and Xiao Yan ordered Lin Xiuya, Ye Xinlan, and Lu Mu to dismantle the cannons while he, Wu Hao, and Hu Gan held off Mo Xuan.

Xiao Yan and his companions ventured through the Earth Core Fire Vein, learned the truth behind the Mother of Heavenly Flames' remnant soul, and overcame Mo Xuan's traps. They defeated Mo Xuan and purified the energy core, restoring the Earth Core Fire Vein, though his final warning left the Outer Realm Evil Clan as a future threat.

• Xiao Yan's team defeated the lava puppets, then split up to explore the left and right passages.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lin Yan received the Heavenly Flame Origin Seed from the Mother of Heavenly Flames' apparition and learned that Mo Xuan planned to open the seal on the Outer Realm Evil Clan.
• Wu Hao, Lin Xiuya, and Hu Gan broke Mo Ying's Space Strangulation Array, and Hu Gan's charge injured Mo Ying.
• Xiao Yan and his companions fought Mo Xuan in Earth Core Square while he used black flames and clones to defend himself.
• Xiao Yan used Ten Thousand Flames Return to Origin and combined his companions' power to destroy Mo Xuan and purify the Mother of Heavenly Flames' core.
• The purified core entered the Earth Core Fire Vein, and the team received the Earth Vein Benediction as Mo Xuan warned that the Outer Realm Evil Clan would return.

Xiao Yan and his companions defended the Gu Clan altar against the Evil Clan vanguard, warlords, suicide soldiers, and a Peak Dou Emperor general. They survived for twelve hours, forced the rift to close, and earned the Gu Clan sacred power blessing, though they still needed to repair the seal and track the Evil Clan.

• Xiao Yan and his companions prepared the Eight Desolations Evil-Locking Formation and took positions around the altar as the Evil Clan vanguard broke through the seal.
• Lin Xiuya and Wu Hao killed two Evil Clan Warlords, while Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lu Mu helped defeat the last Warlord and eliminate the suicide soldiers.
• As the rift widened and the team weakened, Ye Xinlan refined Nirvana Pills with Zi Yan's help, restoring Xiao Yan, Lin Yan, and Wu Hao.
• A Peak Dou Emperor Evil Clan general emerged, and Xiao Yan used the Gu Clan Sacrificial Formation to bind it while his companions helped bring it down.
• The rift contracted, the team survived twelve hours, and Xiao Yan fully fused his Heavenly Flame Origin and received the title Altar Guardian.
• After the battle, Xiao Yan and his companions planned to repair the seal and track down the Evil Clan.

Xiao Yan and his companions gathered materials to repair the seal, uncovered the Evil Clan Mother Nest, and repelled the clan’s assault. The seal was restored at full stability, though the wounded Mother Empress escaped and the group prepared to continue their journey.

• Xiao Yan led Wu Hao and Lin Xiuya to Shattered Star Abyss, where they defeated the Star Spirit Guardians and obtained Star Sand.
• Xiao Yan, Wu Hao, and Lin Xiuya destroyed an Evil Clan corruption party and recovered a token pointing toward Ten Thousand Souls Swamp.
• Lu Mu, Lin Yan, and Hu Gan broke the Soul-Devouring Altar, obtained Soul-Subduing Wood, and defeated a Mother Nest Guardian to reveal a map to the Evil Clan Mother Nest.
• Zi Yan completed refining her Dragon Phoenix Essence Blood as the team began repairing the seal, while the Mother Empress attacked from beyond the rift.
• Xiao Yan entered the Mother Nest and destroyed the Mother Empress’s heart, weakening her and stopping her assault.
• Xiao Yan returned as the seal finished repairing at 100% stability, and the badly injured Mother Empress fled.

Xiao Yan and his companions helped the Central Plains factions repel the Evil Clan’s attacks, destroy its altars, and defeat the Mother Empress’s remnant soul. With an alliance formed, they set out to find the remaining Four Symbols Keys and reach the Gu Clan’s secret ground.

• Xiao Yan’s group arrived in Heavenly Mist City and agreed to destroy the three Evil Clan altars as the factions divided their forces to defend the city.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lin Yan destroyed the bone dragon controlling the corpse tide at the north gate, then joined Lu Mu’s group to destroy a blood-sacrifice altar in the west.
• Xiao Yan’s group exposed Bai Ling’s betrayal at Falling Rosy Clouds Valley, defeated her and the Evil Clan priest, and rescued the captives.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan helped Yan Lie defeat the Evil Clan generals at Black Wind Abyss, then destroyed the Mother Empress’s remnant soul and closed the rift to the Evil Clan’s plane.
• The faction leaders formed an alliance and named Xiao Yan its leader, but he declined and prepared to search the Gu Clan’s secret ground for the Heaven and Earth Cauldron.
• Ye Xinlan and Lu Mu identified the Water, Wood, and Metal Keys’ likely locations, and Xiao Yan’s group prepared to seek them.

Xiao Yan and his companions overcame the wood, water, fire, metal, and earth trials in the Mist Forest, collecting all four keys and obtaining a Heart of the Earth Fragment. The forest’s mist cleared, and Xiao Yan and the others prepared to continue into the Gu Clan’s secret land.

• Xiao Yan broke the wood illusion by attacking the ancient tree that copied his movements, and the group passed the wood trial.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan destroyed the water reflections, then Xiao Yan defeated an Ice Soul Fish and obtained the Water Key.
• Xiao Yan rejected the fire illusion of Zi Yan in danger, passed the fire trial, and obtained the Fire Key; Lin Yan also overcame his own illusion.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lu Mu defeated the metal guardian by exploiting its weaknesses, and Ye Xinlan collected the Metal Key.
• Xiao Yan and his companions stopped fighting the mud monsters and reached the mound, where the Wood Key appeared; they used all four keys to reveal the Heart of the Earth Fragment.
• Xiao Yan obtained the fragment as the mist dispersed, and he told the others that the Gu Clan’s secret land still awaited them.

Xiao Yan and his companions crossed Mirror Image City’s reversed laws, defeated its mirror images, and recovered the Myriad Phenomena Mirror fragments. They escaped the collapsing city with Gu Clan Bloodline Resonance unlocked and the Sea of Annihilation marked as their next destination.

• Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Space-Time Crevice, found a stele marked with “mirror image,” and were swept into Mirror Image City.
• Xiao Yan discovered that restraint and matching the opposite energy frequency could break the Reversal Law, then defeated Mirror Image Xiao Yan while his companions exploited their own mirror images’ weaknesses.
• Lu Mu found a time fragment showing the Myriad Phenomena Mirror’s history, and the group collected four space-time keys to open a secret passage beneath the clock tower.
• Ye Xinlan noticed that a mural’s figure bore the same mark as Xiao Yan, and the Mother Empress revealed that the other mirror half was at the Sea of Annihilation.
• Xiao Yan used the mirror fragment to destroy Mirror Image City’s master mirror image, joined the two fragments, and unlocked Gu Clan Bloodline Resonance as the group escaped.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Sea of Annihilation, where cause and effect operated in reverse, and rescued the Gu Clan descendants from the Evil Clan Mother Empress. After restoring the Myriad Phenomena Mirror and freeing the Sea from the inversion, they set course for the Reincarnation Ferry, hoping to learn how to return home and uncover the mirror’s secrets.

• Xiao Yan’s group encountered the Sea of Annihilation’s reversed causality, rescued A Mu, and gained the Causality Immunity buff.
• Following A Mu into an undersea grotto, the group outmaneuvered its echo traps and freed the Gu Clan descendants from the Mother Empress’s control.
• The group used A Mu’s rune-inscribed tortoise shell and Lu Mu’s time fragments to disrupt the Causality Cycle Formation and fight the Evil Clan Mother Empress.
• Xiao Yan reunited the two halves of the Myriad Phenomena Mirror, destroying the formation, restoring the Gu Clan descendants’ vitality, and dissolving the Mother Empress.
• The Gu Clan gave the group the tortoise shell, and the system unlocked the Reincarnation Ferry as the team prepared to seek a way home.

Xiao Yan and his allies defended Reincarnation Ferry from three waves of Outer Realm invaders, restoring the Realm Stele and activating the Myriad Phenomena Mirror. The mirror opened a gate to Ten-Thousand-Ren Peak, while Lu Mu noticed a star that might represent their original world.

• The Spirit Ferryman explained the ferry’s realm-overlap laws and warned that the Shadow Realm, Elemental Prison, and Mechanical City would attack the Realm Stele.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and their allies defeated the Shadow Lord by attacking its eyes, repelling the first wave and restoring 10% of the Realm Stele’s energy.
• Ye Xinlan found safe intervals in Elemental Prison’s energy rain, and the group defeated the Elemental Lord after Lu Mu diverted the rain, restoring 30% of the stele’s energy.
• Xiao Yan’s allies disabled the Puppet Legion’s defenses and destroyed the Mechanical King’s core, repelling the third wave and raising the Realm Stele’s energy to 80%.
• Xiao Yan fused the Myriad Phenomena Mirror fragment with the Realm Stele, and the completed mirror opened a gate to Ten-Thousand-Ren Peak in the Central Plains.
• Lu Mu spotted a tiny star on the Realm Stele and asked whether it was their original world, and the Spirit Ferryman nodded.

Xiao Yan and his companions endured the Myriad Races' Furnace's three temperings, awakening the Heart of the Realm and earning powers that let them travel freely between explored planes. They left the furnace and began the Plane traversal quest, setting their sights on the Elemental Prison.

• Xiao Yan shattered Bai Jie's Trial Plaque by embracing his past tribulations, allowing the team to enter the furnace.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Wu Hao, Lin Xiuya, and Hu Gan faced their painful memories in the Heart Flame and passed the first tempering.
• The team endured the Shadow Clan warriors' attacks and used Bone Fire to purify their bodies, passing the second tempering.
• Xiao Yan and his companions resonated with the Soul Fires of myriad races and awakened the Heart of the Realm.
• The Heart of the Realm merged with Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames and granted the team Myriad Races Affinity and the complete Realm Mark.
• Xiao Yan and the others left the furnace and began the Plane traversal quest, with the Elemental Prison as their next destination.

Xiao Yan and his companions journeyed through the Elemental Prison's Energy Ocean, overcame its guardians and trials, and gathered all five fragments of the Elemental Core. They restored the plane's balance, unlocked Elemental Affinity, and set off for the Mechanical City Ruins.

• Xiao Yan and his companions defeated the fire, wind, and water guardians on Molten Flow Island and found the fire fragment in the energy labyrinth.
• Xiao Yan led the group in defeating the Tidal Lord and claimed the water fragment from the vortex.
• Xiao Yan and his companions demonstrated elemental symbiosis in the Elemental Temple and obtained the wind fragment.
• Xiao Yan gained the earth fragment from the earth elemental miners, and Lin Xiuya guided the group through the Eye of the Storm to obtain the lightning fragment.
• The five fragments reformed into the Elemental Core, stopping the energy tide and restoring the Elemental Prison's stability.
• The team unlocked Elemental Affinity and departed by boat toward the spatial rift to Mechanical City.

Xiao Yan and his team fought through Mechanical City’s defenses and defeated Iron King · Zero to reclaim the Source Energy Core. They restored the city’s energy system and prepared to teleport to the Spirit Plant Realm.

• Xiao Yan’s team used the Elemental Core, a ventilation duct, and their weapons to survive the Iron Filing Storm and enter the ruins.
• Xiao Yan’s team defeated the Rusted Infantry, collected three matching gears, and opened the gate to the Drive Shaft Passage.
• Xiao Yan’s team crossed the collapsing drive shaft passage and used the Elemental Core to open the Core Control Room.
• Xiao Yan’s team exposed Iron King · Zero’s logic chip, disrupted its shield, and defeated the guardian.
• Xiao Yan restarted the Source Energy Core, restoring Mechanical City’s energy system and unlocking the Mechanical Affinity talent for the team.
• Xiao Yan’s team received Spirit Plant Realm as their next destination and a ten-minute teleportation countdown.

Xiao Yan and his companions overcame dangerous spirit plants, passed the Forest Guardians’ symbiosis trial, and awakened the World Tree Sapling in Emerald Valley. Root Rot Disease was eliminated, and the team received new abilities and a mark of their bond with the Spirit Plant Realm before preparing to travel to Crystal Core Star.

• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Lu Mu, Wu Hao, and Lin Xiuya defeated the Light-Devouring Vine cluster and recovered a Reverse Growth Seed from its mother vine.
• Xiao Yan, Wu Hao, and Hu Gan helped Lu Mu cross the Heart-Rot Lotus Swamp, where Lu Mu gathered Clear Heart Grass and made an antidote with the seed.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lu Mu coordinated their energies to pass the Forest Guardians’ Symbiosis Trial and gain permission to awaken the World Tree Sapling.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Lu Mu healed the sapling, producing the Dew of Life and ending Root Rot Disease throughout the realm.
• The Forest Guardians granted the team Spirit Plant Communication, three Dew of Life items, and a World Tree contract mark, while the system activated Life Energy Affinity and set a one-hour teleport countdown to Crystal Core Star.