Chapter Summaries

Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders feared that Zi Yan and Ye Xinyue were trapped below the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower, but Xiao Yi Xian restrained them while Ye Chen went to help. As the Fallen Heart Flame’s power dwindled, Su Qian realized Ye Chen might have taken it and worried about the damage to the Inner Academy.

• Elder Hao suggested Zi Yan had entered the bottom of the tower, and Su Qian decided to lead the elders down to rescue her while ordering an evacuation.
• Su Qian’s control of the Space Seal failed, and Xiao Yi Xian appeared and imprisoned the elders, telling them someone had already gone to save the girls.
• Xiao Yi Xian identified herself as a member of the Ye family and said Ye Chen had gone below, easing Su Qian’s fear that they meant harm.
• Su Qian noticed the tower’s trembling had stopped and the Fallen Heart Flame was rapidly weakening.
• Su Qian suspected Ye Chen had taken the Fallen Heart Flame and lamented that its loss could undermine the Inner Academy’s cultivation system.

Ye Chen gave Ye Xinyue the Fallen Heart Flame to refine, explaining that its cultivation benefits suited her and that the Ye Family already had enough Exotic Flames. After she began refining it, Ye Chen left Zi Yan to guard her and descended into the magma world to seek the juvenile flame and the Heavenly Flame Honored One’s remains.

• Ye Chen told Ye Xinyue to refine the Fallen Heart Flame, arguing that its cultivation benefits would help her and that another Exotic Flame in the Ye Family could attract unwanted attention.
• Ye Chen destroyed the Flame Python and revealed the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin, then gave Ye Xinyue an Earth Spirit Pill to protect her vital pathways.
• Ye Chen erased the flame’s spiritual wisdom and guided its origin into Ye Xinyue, who began refining it.
• Ye Chen asked Zi Yan to watch over Ye Xinyue and gave her three Seventh Grade Instant Qi Pills as a reward.
• Ye Chen descended into the magma world, intending to find the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and the Heavenly Flame Honored One’s remains.

Ye Chen found Yao Tian Huo’s remains and the weak Fallen Heart Flame inside a fading Spatial Barrier in the Magma World. Yao Tian Huo revealed how two Fallen Heart Flame seeds left him wounded, then began explaining who attacked him.

• Ye Chen used his Soul Power and a wisp of Purple-Black Flame to locate the remains and Fallen Heart Flame deep in the magma.
• Ye Chen entered the weakened Spatial Barrier and exposed Yao Tian Huo, who had been hiding within his bones.
• Yao Tian Huo introduced himself as the Heavenly Flame Honored One and said Ye Chen’s soul cultivation was terrifying.
• Yao Tian Huo explained that he had subdued one Fallen Heart Flame, then found a second seed deeper in the Magma World.
• The two flames repelled each other inside Yao Tian Huo, leaving him seriously wounded before he was attacked.
• Ye Chen asked whether Flame Lizards had attacked Yao Tian Huo, and Yao Tian Huo was about to continue his account.

Ye Chen secured the Fallen Heart Flame and negotiated a twenty-year Retainer agreement with the Heavenly Flame Honored One in exchange for restoring his soul, reviving him, and returning him to peak cultivation. After Ye Xinyue completed her breakthrough, Ye Chen took her and Zi Yan away, leaving Su Qian anxiously waiting outside.

• The Heavenly Flame Honored One offered Ye Chen the Fallen Heart Flame and asked him to take him out of the Magma World.
• The Heavenly Flame Honored One gave Ye Chen the Five Wheels Departing Fire Method and agreed to serve the Ye Family for twenty years in exchange for revival and restored cultivation.
• Ye Chen took the Heavenly Flame Honored One into a Storage Ring and escaped the Magma World as the Soul Barrier collapsed.
• Ye Xinyue absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame and raised her cultivation to the Seven Star Dou Wang level, while Zi Yan resolved to use three pills to improve her own cultivation.
• Ye Chen tore open space and left with Ye Xinyue and Zi Yan, while Su Qian remained blocked by Xiao Yi Xian at the entrance.

Ye Chen returned the weakened Fallen Heart Flame to Su Qian, concealed how it had been absorbed by Ye Xinyue, and explained how the Inner Academy could help it recover. He stayed at the academy with Xiao Yi Xian, praised Ye Xinyue's Star Pavilion, and drew Xiao Xun'er's attention.

• Ye Chen presented Su Qian with the weakened Fallen Heart Flame and claimed he had struck it while saving Xin Yue and another girl.
• Su Qian and the Inner Academy Elders accepted Ye Chen's explanation, and he advised them to nourish the flame with fire-attributed Dou Qi from people at the Dou Wang level or above.
• Ye Chen secretly offered Zi Yan a bottle of Instant Qi Pills in exchange for her silence about what had happened to the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian thanked Ye Chen and kept him and Xiao Yi Xian at the Inner Academy.
• Ye Xinyue showed Ye Chen her Star Pavilion, and he praised her work.
• Ye Chen sensed that Xiao Xun'er concealed her true strength and suspected she possessed the Golden Emperor Burning Flame, while Xiao Xun'er compared him with Xiao Yan.

Ye Chen reunited with Hu Tian and the Three Yao Brothers, who had guarded his younger sister and grown stronger while operating in the Black-Corner Region. Hu Tian delivered the third fragment map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and a movement technique, while the Three Yao Brothers reported that they had founded the Three Beasts Gate.

• Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Chen shared a quiet moment together before Hu Tian and the Three Yao Brothers arrived to greet Ye Chen.
• Ye Chen praised their cultivation progress; Hu Tian had reached four-star Dou Zong, and the Three Yao Brothers had reached Nine Star Dou Huang.
• Hu Tian gave Ye Chen a Storage Ring containing the third fragment map and Three Thousand Lightning Movement, both acquired at the Black Seal City auction.
• Ye Chen recognized the fragment map as the third of four maps leading to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and kept the movement technique despite not planning to cultivate it.
• Hu Tian told Ye Chen that the Three Yao Brothers had founded the Three Beasts Gate, a powerful Black-Corner Region faction.

Ye Chen prepared to leave the Black-Corner Region for the Jia Ma Empire, taking the Three Yao Brothers with him while arranging for Three Beasts Gate to remain under the Ye Family’s protection. In the Jia Ma Empire, the Snake-People Race faced mounting attacks after Queen Medusa disappeared, and its leaders gathered in their besieged Holy City.

• Ye Chen offered the Three Yao Brothers the choice of staying in the Black-Corner Region or returning to the Ye Family, and all three chose to return.
• Ye Chen told the brothers to leave a trusted person in charge of Three Beasts Gate and set out with them for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Su Qian asked Ye Chen to take Zi Yan to Central State so she could learn about her origins, and Han Yue was also set to leave with the group.
• After the Misty Cloud Sect fell and Yun Yun and Gu He disappeared, the Jia Ma Imperial Family and other forces attacked the Snake-People Race amid rumors that Queen Medusa was missing.
• The leaders of the eight Snake-People tribes gathered in the Holy City, where Yin Shi asked the wounded Mo Bas whether all the tribes had withdrawn there.

Ye Chen arrived in the Tagor Desert as Hai Bodong was about to kill the Snake-People Second Elder. After stopping Hai Bodong, Ye Chen ordered the Three Yao Brothers to help the Snake-People Race retreat.

• Hai Bodong pursued the injured Second Elder and demanded that she reveal Queen Medusa’s whereabouts.
• The Second Elder fought Hai Bodong but was overpowered and faced his killing blow without yielding.
• Ye Chen and his companions emerged through a rift in space, freezing Hai Bodong’s spear before it could strike.
• Hai Bodong and the Second Elder recognized Ye Chen, who realized the Jia Ma Empire was waging war against the Snake-People Race.
• Ye Chen sent the Three Yao Brothers to separate areas to cover the Snake-People Race’s retreat.

Ye Chen helped the Snake-People Race decide how to protect its ancient inheritance after learning that moving away would mean abandoning its sacred altar and traditions. He offered to shield their Holy City with a Space Barrier, and the First Elder offered him Snake-People Race secret techniques in return.

• Hai Bodong feared that the mysterious powerhouses might be connected to the missing Queen Medusa, then reported their arrival to Jia Xingtian and the Mittel Family before fleeing the empire.
• Ye Chen and his companions arrived at the Snake-People Race Temple, where Yin Shi recognized the rescued Second Elder and Ye Chen summoned the leaders with authority to decide the tribe's future.
• Ye Chen proposed moving the Snake-People Race to a safer location, but the surviving Four Great Elders opposed leaving their ancient inheritance, altar, and Medusa rites behind.
• Ye Chen agreed to place a Space Barrier around the Snake-People Race Holy City, though the Eight Great Tribal Leaders worried about feeding their people there.
• The First Elder thanked Ye Chen and offered him Snake-People Race Secret Techniques as repayment.

Ye Chen learned that the Snake-People Race’s secret art nurtured Medusa infants and accepted its instructions despite the First Elder’s hints that he might have a daughter with Queen Medusa. He then gave the Snake-People Race a large supply of pills to strengthen its people.

• Ye Chen asked about the Snake-People Race’s secret arts, and the First Elder revealed its infant-nurturing method for Medusa bloodlines.
• Ye Chen refused the secret art at first because he believed the First Elder thought he had gotten Queen Medusa pregnant, but he eventually accepted it after she hinted at the future.
• The First Elder explained that the method had lower, middle, and upper grades, each requiring rarer pills and offering greater potential for a Medusa infant.
• The First Elder said the upper-grade method required a difficult Seventh Grade Heaven Soul Blood Bone Pill and urged Ye Chen to prepare one if he and Queen Medusa had a daughter.
• Ye Chen gave the Snake-People Race many Fifth and Sixth Grade pills, along with twenty or thirty Seventh Grade pills, to help its strong fighters grow more powerful.

Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian secured the Snake-People Race’s inheritance grounds before returning to the Black-Corner Region, where Three Beasts Gate was under attack. At Jia Nan Academy, Zi Yan asked Ye Chen for more pills to fuel her coming transformation, and he promised to help her in Central State.

• Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian completed a Space Barrier around the Snake-People Race’s Holy City, protecting it with Xiao Yi Xian’s Poisonous Calamity Gas.
• Ye Chen returned to the Black-Corner Region and found Three Beasts Gate fighting an attack by three factions.
• Ye Chen sent Hu Tian and the Three Yao Brothers to handle the battle and told them to meet him at Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy in three days.
• Zi Yan greeted Ye Chen at the Inner Academy and asked for more pills because she was nearing a transformation.
• Ye Chen told Zi Yan he knew a place in Central State with powerful energy that could support her transformation, and she agreed to wait.

Ye Chen brought Zi Yan and the others to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range so Zi Yan could use the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool to transform. After reaching the volcano crater ahead of the pool’s opening, they were surrounded by the Gold Devouring Rat Tribe, whose leader Jin Shi recognized Ye Chen as a Dou Zun.

• Ye Chen explained that the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool’s energy could help Zi Yan transform, though Xiao Yi Xian worried it might be too powerful for her.
• During the journey, Ye Chen guided his Younger Sister in controlling the Fallen Heart Flame and spent 500 Star Essence Points to light his eleventh Star Soul, bringing his Dou Qi close to another breakthrough.
• Ye Chen and his companions arrived at the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range more than a month before the blood pool opened.
• Ye Chen led the group straight to the volcano crater where the blood pool appeared, drawing the attention of the Gold Devouring Rat Tribe.
• Jin Shi and the tribe’s experts surrounded the group, and Jin Shi recognized Ye Chen’s aura as that of a Dou Zun.

Ye Chen demanded all the energy from the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and persuaded Jin Shi to announce that the Northern Region factions’ quotas were canceled by offering to cure Jin Shi’s Fire Poison. As the Blood Pool’s appearance neared, a spatial barrier and Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous gas kept the crowds, including Four Directions Pavilion disciples, from entering the mountain.

• Ye Chen identified himself to Jin Shi and demanded all the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool quotas, offering a Seventh Grade Intermediate medicinal pill to cure Jin Shi’s Fire Poison in exchange for the energy tide.
• Jin Shi agreed to announce that the outsiders must leave, though he warned Ye Chen that he might have to stop the factions himself.
• Experts gathered at Heavenly Eye Mountain and were blocked by a spatial barrier that they believed had been created by a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous gas dissolved those who tried to force their way through, while the crowd at the mountain’s foot continued to grow.
• A purple light cocoon pulsed at the volcanic crater as the Blood Pool’s appearance drew near.

As Ye Chen waited for the cocoon to absorb energy atop the mountain, Xiao Yi Xian defended the Spatial Barrier against the gathered forces. After Yellow Springs Venerate recognized Ye Chen’s name and withdrew, Feng Qing’er stayed behind to investigate the unsettling aura from the mountaintop.

• Hu Tian warned Ye Chen that powerful people were gathering below, but Ye Chen said Xiao Yi Xian would handle them.
• The gathered elites and their allies failed to break the Spatial Barrier, then Yellow Springs Venerate arrived and attacked it.
• Xiao Yi Xian clashed with Yellow Springs Venerate and forced him back with her poisonous gray energy.
• Xiao Yi Xian named Ye Chen as her Young Master, and Yellow Springs Venerate immediately withdrew after recognizing him.
• Feng Qing’er sensed a hostile aura from the mountaintop and decided to remain nearby and investigate.

Ye Chen sent Xinyue, Han Yue, and the Three Yao Brothers into the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool while Zi Yan’s cocoon absorbed its energy. Nearly a month later, the cocoon began to crack, signaling that Zi Yan was close to completing her advancement.

• Ye Chen gave the Three Yao Brothers permission to cultivate in the Blood Pool and provided Heavenly Flames to protect Xinyue and Han Yue.
• The Five-Colored Vortex released an energy pillar into the volcanic crater, forming the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, and Ye Chen placed Zi Yan’s cocoon inside.
• Xinyue, Han Yue, and the Three Yao Brothers cultivated in the pool, then left after their bodies absorbed as much energy as they could.
• Nearly a month later, the mountain trembled as Zi Yan’s cocoon lit up and began to crack.
• Ye Chen froze the surrounding sky and suppressed the purple rays escaping from the cocoon.

Xiao Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon with the power of an Ancient Void Dragon, briefly taking on a mature form before shrinking back into a little girl. Her breakthrough revealed her identity to Feng Qing'er, who realized she might be in danger and considered fleeing.

• Zi Yan emerged from the purple cocoon, and Ye Chen, Ye Xinyue, and Han Yue saw her mature form.
• Ye Xinyue hurried to cover Zi Yan, but Zi Yan shrank back into her childlike appearance because of the Transformation Grass.
• Zi Yan and Ye Xinyue tussled while Ye Chen explained that the Transformation Grass would keep affecting her until her strength increased.
• Ye Chen checked Zi Yan's cultivation and found that her breakthrough had given her an aura equivalent to a human Peak Dou Emperor.
• Feng Qing'er sensed the Ancient Void Dragon's presence and considered fleeing from Heavenly Eye Mountain.

Ye Chen and his companions left the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and traveled to Tian Bei City, where Han Yue brought them to the Han Family Manor. Feng Qing'er reported Zi Yan’s presence to her clan, while Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian spent a quiet night together.

• Zi Yan sensed an irritating presence but could not identify Feng Qing'er, who escaped without drawing her attention.
• Feng Qing'er sent a message to her clan warning that an underage Ancient Void Dragon had appeared in the Northern Region.
• Ye Chen agreed to visit Tian Bei City so Han Yue could inform her family before they returned to the Ye Family.
• Han Yue introduced Ye Chen and his companions to the Han Family, and Han Chi arranged their highest standard of reception.
• A curious Han Family girl wondered about Ye Chen’s identity after seeing her father and Han Yue treat him with unusual respect.
• Ye Chen and Xiao Yi Xian spent the night together beneath the stars after his cultivation advanced to Two Star Dou Zun.

Ye Chen went to the Han Family Manor and found the Han Family facing a forced marriage proposal from the Hong Clan, backed by the Wind Thunder North Pavilion. As Chen Yun's pressure threatened the hall, an unknown figure suddenly stepped forward.

• Second Yao told Ye Chen that Han Yue had gone to the Han Family because it was in trouble, and Ye Chen went there with him.
• Ye Chen found the Han Family confronting nearly a hundred Hong Clan members, while Hong Chen demanded that Han Yue marry him.
• Hong Chen revealed that he had become an inner disciple of the Wind Thunder North Pavilion and threatened the Han Family, including Han Xue.
• Han Fei learned that the Grey Robe Elder was Chen Yun, Hong Chen's Teacher and an Elder of the Wind Thunder North Pavilion.
• Chen Yun pressured the Han Family into accepting the marriage, and a figure suddenly walked out as the hall was about to be damaged.

Hu Tian and Ye Xinyue intervened when Chen Yun threatened Han Yue, but Chen Yun and Hong Tianxiao attacked the Han Family anyway. Ye Chen then immobilized both attackers with overwhelming soul pressure and decided to delay the group’s departure to refine their corpses into Demon Puppets.

• Hu Tian appeared to block Chen Yun’s aura, and Ye Xinyue declared that the Wind Thunder Pavilion had no right to interfere with Han Yue’s affairs.
• Chen Yun and Hong Tianxiao launched attacks that destroyed the Han Family reception hall, but Hu Tian and Han Fei protected everyone with a barrier.
• Ye Chen’s soul pressure froze Chen Yun and Hong Tianxiao in midair, leaving them unable to move or speak.
• Ye Chen arrived and said he intended to refine the two Dou Zong corpses into Demon Puppets.
• Ye Chen reassured Han Yue that the incident was not her fault and said their departure would be delayed for a few days while he refined something.

Ye Chen began refining Chen Yun and Hong Tianxiao into Demon Puppets after defeating them, using the Han Family's help to obtain the needed materials. After three days of work, Chen Yun's puppet reached a crucial stage of refinement.

• Ye Chen gave Han Yue a list of materials and a bottle of Seventh Grade Pills as payment, while Ye Xinyue and Zi Yan joined the exchange.
• Ye Chen studied the Demon Puppet Refining Method and decided that the Earth Demon Puppets made from Chen Yun and Hong Tianxiao could serve as protection for Xin Yue.
• Three days later, Ye Chen used his Purple-black Flame to prepare Chen Yun's corpse, expelling its Corpse Qi before placing a Seventh-tier Magic Core and Chen Yun's soul inside.
• Ye Chen refined the puppet with his Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame and discovered that it gained a special recovery ability.
• After three days of refinement, Ye Chen triggered the final stage, shattering Chen Yun's soul into points of light as energy from the magic core surged through the puppet's body.