Recaps

Xingtian killed a weakened red dragon and used its body and the star’s energy to reach the peak of the seventh-level Immortal Emperor realm. He continued hunting demons wounded by the Human Clan, reaching the peak of the eighth level in twenty years, just as the Eternal Flame matured and upheaval forced the Human Clan to retreat.

• The red dragon, having detonated his Dragon Ball, flew to a star to recover but encountered Xingtian and tried to devour him.
• Xingtian blocked the red dragon’s attack with the egg white from the Three-Legged Golden Crow egg, seized him, and devoured him.
• Xingtian absorbed the red dragon’s flesh and energy from the star, reaching the peak of the seventh-level Immortal Emperor realm.
• Using Yi Xuan’s plan to let the Human Clan and demons weaken each other, Xingtian hunted wounded demons and grew to the peak of the eighth-level Immortal Emperor realm over twenty years.
• The Eternal Flame matured, drawing stars toward a supergiant star and disrupting the galaxy; Peng Tianlin ordered the Human Clan experts to retreat.

A galaxy-wide upheaval swept away its stars and black holes, then transformed the remaining celestial body into a rare black hole. As Xingtian and the Demon Race entered it, Xingtian sent Peng Tianlin a mysterious signal, prompting Peng Tianlin to lead the Human Clan in pursuit of the Eternal Flame.

• Xingtian survived the converging stars with the egg white's protection, while a Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor was trapped and carried toward the galaxy's center.
• After the galaxy was swept clean, Peng Tianlin stopped the Human Clan Immortal Emperors from entering the silent galaxy.
• The custard-apple-shaped celestial body heated up and exploded, and the Demon Race survived inside Phoenix Ancestor's Flame Golden Lotuses.
• The Demon Race members realized their cooperation was over and that they would become rivals for the Eternal Flame; Xingtian planned to take advantage of the conflict.
• The flames contracted into the celestial body, which collapsed into a visible black hole, drawing in the golden lotuses and the Demon Race members.
• Xingtian sent a signal to Peng Tianlin as he was pulled in, and Peng Tianlin ordered the Human Clan experts to stop the Demon Race and seize the Eternal Flame.

Xingtian struggled to survive in a world of flames that rapidly weakened him and killed the other Eighth-Level Immortal Emperors. After the Good Corpse could offer no rescue, Xingtian realized the Gene Furnace might help him improve his heat resistance.

• The golden lotus carried Xingtian into a world of flames whose heat charred his skin and steadily reduced his strength.
• Xingtian covered himself in egg white from the Gene Furnace and used Demon Power to keep producing more as the flames consumed it.
• The flames killed the other Eighth-Level Immortal Emperors who had entered, leaving Xingtian as the only one of that rank still alive.
• Xingtian tried to absorb a flame but was injured and forced to expel it, while his strength fell to the middle stage of the Eighth Level.
• Xingtian contacted the Good Corpse, who explained that neither heat-dissipation methods nor a Stargate rescue would work in the flames.
• Xingtian recalled the heat-resistant material of the Good Corpse's immortal artifact spaceship and turned his attention to the Gene Furnace for a way to increase his heat resistance.

Trapped in an unimaginably hot world, Xingtian used the Gene Furnace to graft heat-resistant genes onto the Three-Legged Golden Crow gene throughout his body. The process drained his strength to the early stage of the first-layer Immortal Emperor realm, but he survived and discovered that his modified body could absorb energy from the surrounding flames.

• Xingtian decided to use the Three-Legged Golden Crow gene as the foundation for grafting compatible heat-resistant genes.
• The Gene Furnace screened more than ten thousand genes, using Xingtian's own energy because it could not draw power from the flames.
• As gene grafting consumed his strength, Xingtian worried that the Gene Furnace would stop producing enough egg white to protect him.
• A month later, the Gene Furnace completed the grafting, and Xingtian began modifying his body from his skin inward.
• After a year, Xingtian finished modifying his body and discovered that he could absorb energy from the surrounding flames.

Xingtian devoured the red flames and restored his cultivation to the peak of the Eighth-Level Immortal Emperor realm, discovering that he had begun comprehending the Principle of Fire. Following the Flame Golden Lotus, he reached a boundary of deadly black flames and found the corpses of more than a hundred human and demon Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors; when the black flames invaded his Sea of Consciousness, he laughed with delight.

• Xingtian devoured the surrounding red flames and recovered his cultivation to the peak of the Eighth-Level Immortal Emperor realm.
• Xingtian discovered that his Three Flowers Atop the Head contained a trace of the Principle of Fire, which matched the presence of the Flame Golden Lotus.
• Xingtian used the Flame Golden Lotus to locate the Eternal Flame and followed its guidance through the fiery-red world.
• Xingtian found more than a hundred human and demon Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor corpses burning at the boundary between the red and black flames.
• Xingtian probed a demon's Sea of Consciousness, and the black flames inside followed his Divine Sense into his body and headed for his Sea of Consciousness.

Xingtian cut off his Divine Sense to shield the Black Pearl from the black flames, but the Principle of Fire awakened inside the Gene Furnace and seized control of it. The Gene Furnace devoured the nearby corpses and continued drawing in black flames while Xingtian lay helpless, unaware that two hostile figures watched from afar.

• Xingtian shut off his Divine Sense, causing the black flames to lose their target and drift around the Black Pearl.
• The Principle of Fire moved into the Gene Furnace, which began devouring the black flames and speaking to Xingtian with a hungry will.
• The Gene Furnace pulled Xingtian toward the flames, and the corpses of human and demon experts rose and pinned him down.
• The Gene Furnace absorbed more than a hundred corpses, leaving Xingtian too full to move as it continued consuming black flames.
• Two figures hidden far away in the black flames watched Xingtian with hatred.

Xingtian regained control of the Gene Furnace and comprehended the Principle of Fire after his modified Three-Legged Golden Crow gene absorbed the flames. He entered the black flames, where two Human Clan ninth-level Immortal Emperors confronted him, and the fight left Xingtian outmatched until he grew two extra arms and turned the battle around.

• Xingtian's Principle of Fire grew into a golden pillar, returned to his Three Flowers Atop the Head, and transformed one blood lotus into a golden lotus.
• Xingtian realized his enhanced Three-Legged Golden Crow gene had let him comprehend the Principle of Fire, then entered the black flames.
• Xingtian sensed two followers and confronted two Human Clan ninth-level Immortal Emperors sent by Peng Tianlin to stop Demon Race members from escaping.
• The two Immortal Emperors attacked Xingtian with an axe and spear, but the black flames suppressed their abilities and let him hold them off with weapons formed from flame.
• As the two gained the upper hand, Xingtian drew energy from the Gene Furnace, grew two extra arms, and formed two more black sabers.
• Xingtian wielded four sabers and drove the two Immortal Emperors into a fluster.

Xingtian defeated two Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors but spared their lives, then reached the core region, where the Human Clan and Demon Race were battling while searching for the Eternal Flame. He joined the demons’ fight against Peng Tianlin, though Peng Tianlin dismissed him as no threat.

• Xingtian overwhelmed the two Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors, shattered their weapons, and sent them flying.
• Xingtian chose not to kill the defeated men and left them behind.
• In the core region, Peng Tianlin held off more than thirty peak Ninth-Level demons while both sides searched for the Eternal Flame.
• Xingtian arrived and charged into the battle with his four black-flame sabers.
• Peng Tianlin ignored Xingtian, believing one more Eighth-Level demon would make no difference.

Xingtian struggled to fight Peng Tianlin while searching for the Eternal Flame, then secretly gathered demon remains to fuel the Gene Furnace. After using the demons as a distraction, he wounded Peng Tianlin and swallowed a piece of his flesh, gaining the ability to track the Eternal Flame as Peng Tianlin charged at him.

• Peng Tianlin overwhelmed Xingtian and more than thirty Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors, while Xingtian searched for the Eternal Flame and dodged his attacks.
• Xingtian secretly swallowed the great demons' blood and severed limbs, hoping to fuse their genes with the Three-Legged Golden Crow's genes.
• Xingtian persuaded the demons to keep Peng Tianlin occupied and used the Principle of Fire to approach him unnoticed.
• Xingtian stabbed Peng Tianlin in the buttocks with his four black-flame battle sabers, then swallowed the chunk of flesh torn loose when Peng Tianlin kicked him away.
• The Gene Furnace completed its gene grafting, raising Xingtian's fire affinity and letting him track the Eternal Flame, while Peng Tianlin drove back the demons and charged at him.

Xingtian used Peng Tianlin’s pursuit to reach the Eternal Flame, then survived the Human Clan Supreme Powerhouse’s attack with a golden lotus. Feng Jiu appeared beside the weakened Xingtian and identified himself as a Phoenix Clan Supreme Powerhouse.

• Peng Tianlin struck Xingtian from behind, breaking the arms on his back, then relentlessly pursued him as the Demon Race attacked from behind.
• Xingtian used the Principle of Fire to evade Peng Tianlin and followed the Eternal Flame, but realized he could not catch it on his own.
• Xingtian slowed down to lure Peng Tianlin close, then turned and took his full-force punch while holding a golden lotus.
• The golden lotus expanded around Xingtian, and Peng Tianlin abruptly left with the Human Clan experts.
• Feng Jiu appeared beside the weakened Xingtian and said that he was a Phoenix Clan Supreme Powerhouse.

Feng Jiu rescued Xingtian and the demons from the black hole while the Phoenix Ancestor and the Great Sage of Longevity fought. As Feng Jiu took Xingtian toward the Demon Race army, a mysterious iron claw struck through their wormhole and carried Xingtian away.

• Feng Jiu brought the demons out of the black hole, where Peng Tianlin and the Human Clan experts confronted them.
• The Phoenix Ancestor and the Great Sage of Longevity appeared as avatars, and Feng Jiu led the demons away while the two Great Sages began fighting.
• Feng Jiu sent the other demons back to the Demon Race army and took the injured Xingtian with him in a Flame Golden Lotus.
• Feng Jiu told Xingtian that the Phoenix Ancestor would handle the Eternal Flame and that Xingtian would meet him.
• An iron claw shattered the wormhole, swatted Feng Jiu aside, and seized Xingtian and the Flame Golden Lotus.

Feng Jiu told the Phoenix Ancestor that an unknown attacker had taken Xingtian and the Eternal Flame, and learned the attacker was a Top-Tier Supreme Powerhouse. Far from the Human-Demon Battlefield, a Western-style dragon emerged from a spatial crack carrying the sleeping Xingtian in its claw.

• Feng Jiu returned to the mysterious void and told the Phoenix Ancestor that someone had seized Xingtian and the Eternal Flame in a wormhole.
• The Phoenix Ancestor ruled out the Human Clan’s Great Sages and identified the attacker as a Top-Tier Supreme Powerhouse who had not become a Great Sage.
• Feng Jiu returned to the Demon Race’s main camp, rewarded the surviving demons, and sent searchers after Xingtian despite believing they would not find him.
• A Western-style dragon forced its way through a spatial crack far from the Human-Demon Battlefield, carrying Xingtian wrapped in the wilted Flame Golden Lotus.
• The dragon surveyed its surroundings, beat its wings, and vanished.

Xingtian awoke as a dragon carried him across the universe, then watched helplessly as it brought him to a Demon Race nest and cast him into a sealed space. Unable to contact either his original self or the Good Corpse or break out, Xingtian remained trapped as an unseen change began in the space.

• Xingtian awoke inside the Flame Golden Lotus and found that the dragon's strange energy had eased his injuries before the dragon cut off its supply.
• Xingtian failed to contact his original self but reached the Good Corpse, who could offer no way to help him against a Supreme Powerhouse.
• The dragon entered a Demon Race nest by opening a spatial rift without disturbing its protective formation, then threw Xingtian and the Flame Golden Lotus through another rift.
• Xingtian found himself in a sealed space where he could no longer sense the outside world or contact the Good Corpse.
• Xingtian absorbed the Flame Golden Lotus and attacked the space, but his full-strength blows produced no spatial fluctuation as a peculiar change began around him.

Trapped in a mysterious space created by the giant dragon, Xingtian endured escalating extremes of heat and cold as well as shifting pressure and forces. The dragon added increasingly varied distortions, leaving Xingtian battered and unsure whether time itself was being manipulated.

• Xingtian sensed a fleeting spatial fluctuation and noticed the dragon begin raising the temperature around him.
• The temperature climbed above a billion degrees, burning Xingtian until he reinforced himself with the Principle of Fire and a Demon Power shield.
• The space abruptly returned to room temperature, plunged to absolute zero, and then swung back to extreme heat, repeatedly tormenting Xingtian.
• Xingtian gradually adapted to the alternating temperatures and felt his heat resistance improve.
• The dragon altered the air pressure and replaced gravity with shifting force fields that tossed Xingtian around.
• The space began affecting more forces, including spatial power and possibly time, which Xingtian suspected the dragon could control.

Xingtian endured more than a century of torture inside the mysterious space before its forces stopped and abundant energy healed his injuries. As an opening appeared, he rushed toward it but found his original self blocking the way.

• Xingtian suffered extreme physical and mental torment as the mysterious space’s force fields weakened him.
• Xingtian realized the space was influencing his thoughts and defiantly challenged his tormentor to kill him.
• Xingtian stopped resisting the forces and began exploring how much suffering he could endure.
• The space’s forces vanished, and energy from the dragon Supreme Powerhouse healed Xingtian’s wounds.
• An opening appeared, but Xingtian found his original self standing in his path.

Xingtian reunited with the original body, who revealed that he owned the Supreme Powerhouse dragon and had deliberately put Xingtian through a transformation to strengthen him. The original body took Xingtian’s withered Flame Golden Lotus and recognized the power of a Great Sage within it.

• The original body told Xingtian that the rift and the Supreme Powerhouse dragon belonged to him, and that he had made the dragon.
• Xingtian followed the original body past the sleeping dragon and into the Mother Planet, while the dragon swallowed the planet and fell asleep again.
• The original body sent Xingtian data showing that his body density had increased tenfold and explained that the ordeal had refined his strength and prevented hidden dangers.
• The original body asked Xingtian for the Eternal Flame, and Xingtian summoned the withered Flame Golden Lotus containing the escaping flame.
• After examining the Flame Golden Lotus, the original body sighed and said that a Great Sage was truly formidable.

Xingtian learned that the Flame Golden Lotus held power from Phoenix Ancestor and followed the original into an alternate-dimensional space, where the original prepared to repair his body. The chapter ended with Xingtian lying in a lake of genetic repair solution as the original began the treatment.

• The original explained that Phoenix Ancestor had added power exclusive to Great Sages to the Flame Golden Lotus.
• The original opened a spatial rift and showed Xingtian an alternate-dimensional space containing Niu Keli and unfamiliar equipment.
• The original brought Xingtian to Liang Shi and asked whether the genetic repair solution was ready.
• Liang Shi explained that the Ring of Life supplied life energy to the repair solution, and the original reprimanded him for disparaging the medical profession.
• The original told Xingtian the solution would repair his crude gene fusion and grafting, and Xingtian lay down in the lake.

Xingtian recovered in life energy before Liang Shi began the second phase of his treatment, which triggered agonizing genetic repair. As Xingtian endured the pain, Liang Shi summoned two dragons named Space and Time, and Xingtian recognized the silver dragon as the likely source of the time fluctuations he had sensed.

• Xingtian absorbed life energy, which restored his depleted body and left him immersed in comfort.
• The original body checked Xingtian's condition, told Liang Shi to take over, and vanished.
• Liang Shi started the second phase, causing the gene repair fluid to trigger intense pain throughout Xingtian's body.
• Liang Shi explained that anesthesia would damage the genetic repair, and Xingtian gritted his teeth and chose to endure it.
• Liang Shi called for Space and Time, and two dragons emerged from spatial rifts; Xingtian connected the silver dragon to the time fluctuations he had previously felt.

Liang Shi and the others used two dragons to modify Xingtian’s Gene Furnace, easing his pain and strengthening his body. The original then revealed that Xingtian would return to the Demon Race undercover with the Eternal Flame.

• The silver dragon slowed time around Xingtian while the black dragon used spatial power to shift the Gene Furnace’s location without removing it from his body.
• Liang Shi and the others modified Xingtian’s Gene Furnace until his pain stopped and his body’s strength reached the Late Stage of the Ninth Layer.
• The original told Xingtian to continue lying low among the Demon Race rather than help the Human Clan.
• The original showed Xingtian the Eternal Flame inside a Flame Golden Lotus and intended for him to take it back to the Demon Race.

The original self explained the Eternal Flame and the Power of Principle to Xingtian, clarifying that Yu and Zhou were powerful but not Supreme Powerhouses and could not yet be mass-produced. He then brought Xingtian to the secret chamber beneath the Artifact Sect Great Hall, where an enormous weapon hilt awaited them.

• The original self explained that the Eternal Flame held a complete understanding of fire but could not apply its Principles to itself, and described the Power of Principle as deep understanding of a subject.
• Xingtian learned that Yu and Zhou were not Supreme Powerhouses, though their mastery of time and space let them defeat most Supreme Powerhouses; the original self said their creation could not yet be mass-produced.
• The original self led Xingtian into the deepest part of the Mother Planet and then into the secret chamber beneath the Artifact Sect Great Hall.
• The original self and Xingtian revisited the twelve characters warning against cultivating immortality and recalled the High Antiquity Artifact Sect’s plan to fight the Heavenly Dog.
• The original self pointed Xingtian toward an enormous weapon hilt in the chamber.

Xingtian learned that the mysterious weapon in the secret chamber was connected to a Great Sage, and his original self planned to study it with Great Sage Essence Blood. After a hundred years of travel, Xingtian returned to the Demon Race with the Flame Golden Lotus, and Feng Jiu seized him and vanished.

• Xingtian's original self revealed that the mysterious weapon resonated with the Flame Golden Lotus because both were connected to Great Sages.
• Xingtian's original self explained that he had modified the Gene Furnace and intended to use Great Sage Essence Blood to investigate the Great Sage realm alongside the weapon.
• Xingtian met the Good Corpse before leaving, and learned that his original self planned to upgrade him again.
• After a hundred years of travel, Xingtian reached the Human-Demon Battlefield and sought out Zhu Yan, who was shocked by Xingtian's strength.
• Xingtian showed Feng Jiu the Flame Golden Lotus, and Feng Jiu emerged in his Phoenix form before changing into a man in red robes.
• Feng Jiu seized Xingtian and vanished, leaving Zhu Yan behind.

Xingtian met the Phoenix Ancestor, whose gaze gave him a profound insight into the universe. Afterward, the Phoenix Ancestor examined Xingtian’s image of Yu and declared that the being was neither a Supreme Powerhouse nor part of the Demon or Human Clan.

• Feng Jiu introduced Xingtian to his father, the aged Phoenix Ancestor, and told him that Xingtian had returned with the Eternal Flame.
• The Phoenix Ancestor caught a fiery carp whose flames carried the presence of a Great Sage, and he warned Feng Jiu not to ask for it.
• The Phoenix Ancestor’s gaze swept Xingtian into a cosmic vision that purified and elevated his soul.
• The Phoenix Ancestor asked who had abducted Xingtian, and Xingtian said he did not know but thought the being resembled a member of the Dragon Clan.
• Xingtian used Demon Power to recreate Yu’s image and presence, and the Phoenix Ancestor said Yu was not a Supreme Powerhouse or a member of the Demon or Human Clan.

Xingtian returned to the Demon Race army after handing the Eternal Flame to the Phoenix Ancestor, then discovered how dramatically the battlefield had changed. As the Human Clan’s technological weapons devastated successive Demon Race charges, he recognized that Yi Xuan’s artificial Demon Race forces had grown to over a hundred million.

• Xingtian gave the Eternal Flame to the Phoenix Ancestor, who captured it and sent Feng Jiu to bring Xiao Lie.
• Xingtian returned with Feng Jiu to the Demon Race army and learned from the Heavenly Dog that the battlefield had changed.
• Xingtian saw the Human Clan’s space fleet, Space-Shattering Bombs, and steel mechas, which could threaten even Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors.
• Xingtian sensed that artificial members of the Demon Race had grown to more than a hundred million, furthering Yi Xuan’s plan to sow technology Seeds.
• The Demon Race charged through the bombs and fleet attacks, losing countless soldiers and several Immortal Emperors before the Human Clan fighters appeared.

Xingtian watched the Human Clan’s technological weapons fail to stop the Demon Race’s advance, but new weapons and technology-enhanced formations turned the battle. He charged into the renewed fight as the Human Clan’s forces showed how much stronger they had become.

• The Demon Race overwhelmed the Human Clan’s front-line technological weapons, forcing the two armies toward direct combat.
• The Heavenly Dog warned Xingtian not to attack when the Human Clan’s rear forces advanced, and more than ten thousand Peak of the Ninth Layer experts blocked a volley of white beams.
• The Heavenly Dog explained that the beams had nearly destroyed the Demon Race’s army in an earlier battle, and the Ninth-Level Immortal Emperors descended as the fighting began in earnest.
• Xingtian pressed forward as the Human Clan equipped its shield formation with metal armor, strengthening its energy barrier and grinding down the Demon Race’s attackers.
• The Heavenly Dog told Xingtian that Human Clan soldiers had grown far stronger since his departure, and Xingtian credited the Cultivation Assistance System’s growing influence.

Xingtian watched the Demon Race overwhelm the Human Clan after its shield formation collapsed, then fought a Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor amid the battlefield’s bloodlust. A bell toll interrupted their duel, and Xingtian retreated from the human formation as a voice demanded that Xieju appear.

• Xingtian and Zhu Yan recognized that the Human Clan had grown stronger, but the Demon Race’s increasing numbers gave it an overwhelming advantage.
• Zhu Yan launched into the air as the Human Clan’s shield formation broke, and the Demon Race army charged into battle.
• The two armies clashed in a slaughter that drove soldiers on both sides into madness, with some even attacking their own.
• Xingtian fought a Ninth-Level Immortal Emperor, attacking him with four flaming sabers empowered by the Principle of Fire.
• A bell toll slowed Xingtian’s attack, allowing his opponent to counter with a giant sword; Xingtian shattered it and withdrew as a voice called for Xieju.