Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han gathered Qin Pavilion to announce he would surrender the pavilion master position, then challenged anyone to withstand one palm strike. After he crushed Chen Feng with his overwhelming strength, the members accepted Xiao Han’s authority and pledged to follow Qin Pavilion’s rules.

• Qin Pavilion members and students from other factions gathered, expecting Xiao Han to resign, while Xiao Yan and Xun Er watched from nearby.
• Xiao Han announced that he would step down and offered the position to anyone who could take one palm strike from him.
• Chen Feng stepped forward, but Xiao Han’s World-Ending Divine Demon Palm smashed him into a pit and left him gravely injured.
• Xiao Han challenged the crowd again, and the Qin Pavilion members lowered their heads and admitted they did not dare oppose him.
• Xiao Han ordered the members to obey Qin Pavilion’s rules, and they answered that they had heard him clearly.

Xiao Han secured obedience in Qin Pavilion after demonstrating his strength and putting its affairs in order. He then spent a peaceful sunset walking above the bamboo sea with Xiao Xueqin, who had learned Nine Heavenly Steps.

• Xiao Han established his authority by striking Chen Feng into the ground and frightening Qin Pavilion's members into submission.
• Qin Pavilion's members began treating Xiao Han with respect, and they carried out his orders as the faction's affairs settled into order.
• Xiao Han left Qin Pavilion's day-to-day work to his subordinates.
• Xiao Han and Xiao Xueqin walked hand in hand above the bamboo sea as the sun set.
• Xiao Han complimented Xiao Xueqin's beauty, and she leaned against his shoulder.

Xiao Han and Xiao Yan stole Earth Core Tempering Milk while Lin Xiunya and the others fought the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape. Xiao Yan escaped by framing Xiao Han, leaving him pursued by the furious ape and Inner Academy students.

• Xiao Han left Xiao Xueqin and went to investigate a battle, where he saw Lin Xiunya, Han Yue, and other Inner Academy students fighting a Snow Demon Heavenly Ape for Earth Core Tempering Milk.
• Xiao Han found Xiao Yan hiding nearby, and the two agreed to steal the treasure while the others kept the ape occupied.
• Xiao Han and Xiao Yan slipped into the ape's cave and emerged with the Earth Core Tempering Milk, alerting the ape and the fighting students.
• As the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape and Lin Xiunya's group charged after them, Xiao Yan handed the bottle to Xiao Han, blamed him for the theft, and fled.
• Xiao Han realized Xiao Yan had set him up and ran from the pursuing ape and students, cursing Xiao Yan.

Xiao Han returned to Qin Pavilion after Xiao Yan tricked him, then gave Xiao Xueqin Earth Core Tempering Milk and went into seclusion to break through to Dou Wang. After Lin Xiunya and the other Strong Ranking students waited outside for a month, Xiao Han emerged as a Dou Wang and confronted them.

• Xiao Han visited Xiao Xueqin, complained that Xiao Yan had tricked him, gave her Earth Core Tempering Milk, and asked her to say he was in seclusion.
• Lin Xiunya, Han Yue, Yan Hào, and other Strong Ranking students came to Qin Pavilion looking for Xiao Han, and Xiao Xueqin told them he was cultivating.
• Lin Xiunya and the others waited outside Qin Pavilion for a month while news of their visit spread through the Inner Academy.
• Yan Hào threatened to tear down Qin Pavilion unless Xiao Han came out, but an explosion and a pillar of energy announced Xiao Han's breakthrough.
• Xiao Han emerged with dark wings, flew above Qin Pavilion's entrance, and asked Lin Xiunya and the others what they wanted with their Pavilion Master.

Xiao Han advanced to Dou Wang, establishing Qin Pavilion as the Inner Academy’s dominant force. During deep winter, a beautiful newcomer arrived seeking him, and Xiao Han recognized her as she embraced him in front of the stunned students.

• Xiao Han revealed his Dou Wang cultivation, causing Lin Xiunya, Han Yue, Yan Hào, and the other Inner Academy students to abandon their challenge to Qin Pavilion.
• Xiao Han spent his time relaxing with Xiao Xueqin and guiding Qin Pavilion members as the pavilion became the Inner Academy’s undisputed hegemon.
• A veiled, beautiful girl arrived at the Inner Academy in the snow and asked to be taken to Qin Pavilion.
• Xiao Han initially tried to avoid meeting the newcomer, but Xiao Xueqin insisted they go greet her together.
• The newcomer recognized Xiao Han and threw herself into his arms, stunning Xiao Yan, Lin Xiunya, and the gathered students.

Bing Qing'er reunited with Xiao Han at Jia Nan Academy, provoking Xiao Xueqin's jealousy before Xiao Han reconciled with her. Meanwhile, Bing Wuji learned about Xiao Han's strength and grudges in the Inner Academy, then planned to use Chen Feng and other unseen means to kill him and reclaim the Divine Ice.

• Bing Qing'er embraced Xiao Han in front of the students, and Xiao Xueqin left angrily after seeing them together.
• Bing Qing'er apologized to Xiao Han and left with Bing Wuji and the Ice and Snow Imperial Family disciples.
• Xiao Han went to Xiao Xueqin's pavilion and drew her into his arms after she opened the door to check whether he had left.
• Bing Wuji received a report that Xiao Han had reached Dou Wang strength and that Chen Feng still resented him.
• Bing Wuji decided to use the information and an unseen hand to arrange Xiao Han's death and take back the Divine Ice.

Bing Wuji drugged Xiao Xueqin and lured Chen Feng to Qin Pavilion, setting Xiao Han up to kill him. With Xiao Xueqin rescued and Chen Feng dead, Xiao Han faced the Inner Academy elders and refused to admit he had committed a crime.

• Bing Wuji broke into Qin Pavilion, overpowered Xiao Xueqin, and forced a red pill down her throat before leaving.
• Xiao Han received a letter warning that Xiao Xueqin was in trouble and rushed back to Qin Pavilion with Xiao Yan.
• Chen Feng arrived, found Xiao Xueqin drugged, and tried to assault her, but Xiao Han appeared and Xiao Yan stopped Chen Feng from escaping.
• Xiao Han gave Xiao Xueqin an antidote, then snapped Chen Feng's neck despite Chen Feng's warning that killing was forbidden.
• Inner Academy elders confronted Xiao Han over Chen Feng's death, and Xiao Han declared that he had only killed a beast and had committed no crime.

Xiao Han faced the elders who accused him of murdering a student, learned that Bing Wuji had framed him, and fought past everyone trying to stop him. He killed Bing Wuji in front of Great Elder Su Qian, leaving the academy stunned and a confrontation with Su Qian looming.

• Xiao Han repelled two Dou Wang elders and learned from Xiao Rou that Bing Wuji had injured and drugged Xiao Xueqin, then used Chen Feng's death to frame him.
• Xiao Han charged at Bing Wuji while Xiao Yan held off the Peak Dou Huang elder, and Xiao Han struck Bing Qing'er aside when she refused to move.
• Su Qian arrived and imprisoned Xiao Han, but Xiao Han spent his accumulated points to reach Dou Zong strength and shattered the restraint.
• Xiao Han seized Bing Wuji and snapped his neck in front of Su Qian, declaring that no one could save someone he wanted dead.

Xiao Han rejected Su Qian’s offer of leniency, withdrew from Jia Nan Academy, and freed the Fallen Heart Flame while escaping with Xiao Xueqin. After reaching the Black-Corner Region, he revealed that he had gained Dou Emperor strength and planned to found Emperor Pavilion and unite the region.

• Xiao Han refused to admit guilt, announced that he was leaving Jia Nan Academy, and took Xiao Xueqin with him.
• When Su Qian blocked his departure, Xiao Han struck with the Heavenly Emperor Sword, destroying the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda and breaking the seal beneath it.
• The Fallen Heart Flame erupted from beneath the tower, and Xiao Han told Xiao Yan to subdue it before escaping with Xiao Xueqin.
• At dawn, Xiao Han told Xiao Xueqin that a lucky draw had given him Dou Emperor strength and that he planned to establish Emperor Pavilion and unite the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Han promised to make Xiao Xueqin his Empress when he became emperor.

Half a year after Xiao Han disappeared, his rise as the feared Di Pavilion Master, Demon King Xiao, reshaped the Black-Corner Region. When bandits fled from Xiao Yu after hearing her surname, the students began to suspect that Xiao Han was the one protecting people surnamed Xiao from Jia Nan Academy.

• Di Pavilion rose to rival Han Feng’s Black Alliance, absorbing factions across the Black-Corner Region under the mysterious Demon King Xiao.
• Jia Nan Academy commemorated Xiao Yan as a hero after he contained the Fallen Heart Flame, while Xun Er left for the Gu Clan and Xiao Han remained absent from the Inner Academy.
• A group of bandits surrounded Xiao Yu and her fellow students during their training trip into the Black-Corner Region.
• The bandits fled when Xiao Yu confirmed her surname, and a passing merchant explained that Demon King Xiao had threatened anyone who harmed people surnamed Xiao from Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu and the other students wondered whether Demon King Xiao was Xiao Han, and Xiao Yu recalled his green-robed figure.

Xiao Han learned that Han Feng and the Black Alliance planned to seize the Heavenly Flames beneath the Inner Academy, and he ordered the Emperor Pavilion to march against them. With Xiao Xueqin and his forces at his side, he set out for Jia Nan Academy, intending to defeat the Black Alliance and unify the Black-Corner Region.

• An Emperor Pavilion subordinate reported that the Heavenly Flames’ seal was weakening and Han Feng planned to lead Black Alliance experts to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Han ordered the Dou Emperors to prepare and declared he would destroy the Black Alliance and unify the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Xueqin questioned whether the Emperor Pavilion could face the Black Alliance’s four peak Dou Zong experts, and Xiao Han said the Inner Academy would hold them off.
• Xiao Han gathered Su Henshui, Su Nianqiu, and the Emperor Pavilion’s Dou Emperor experts before leading them toward the Inner Academy.

As the Fallen Heart Flame threatened to break free of its seal, Su Qian ordered the Inner Academy students to evacuate, but Han Feng and the Black Alliance arrived to seize the flame. The fighting began, and Elder Qian and Elder Bai appeared to stop Han Feng from reaching the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda.

• The Fallen Heart Flame made the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda erupt with scorching magma, prompting Su Qian to order the Inner Academy evacuated.
• Su Qian gathered the students and told them to move temporarily to the Outer Academy.
• Han Feng led more than twenty Black Alliance fighters into the Inner Academy and demanded that Su Qian hand over the Fallen Heart Flame.
• After Su Qian refused, Han Feng sent his fighters to battle the academy elders while he went to the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda.
• Elder Qian and Elder Bai appeared before Han Feng as he prepared to break open the pagoda.

Han Feng attacked the Inner Academy to seize the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda and its flames, but Xiao Yan emerged from the wreckage. Xiao Han arrived with the Di Pavilion and ordered the Black Alliance members killed, leaving Xiao Yan to face Han Feng.

• Han Feng's Peak Dou Zong allies fought Elders Qian and Bai while Han Feng knocked back Lin Xiunya and the other students, then destroyed the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda.
• Xiao Yan escaped from beneath the pagoda after devouring the Fallen Heart Flame, and Han Feng sent Old Qin to kill him and take his Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Han arrived with a powerful force from the Di Pavilion and reunited with Xiao Yan, who had reached Peak Dou Wang.
• Han Feng recognized Xiao Han as the Di Pavilion's Demon King Xiao, and Xiao Han told Xiao Yan to fight Han Feng without interference.
• Xiao Han ordered the Di Pavilion members to kill the Black Alliance members without mercy.

Xiao Han withdrew the Emperor Pavilion forces, then unleashed the Buddha-Demon Suppressing Heaven Seal and wiped out the Black Alliance’s elite. He left Han Feng still battling Xiao Yan as the Inner Academy watched in shock.

• The Emperor Pavilion and Black Alliance clashed while Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders stood aside, hoping both factions would weaken each other.
• Xiao Han recognized that the Inner Academy intended to let the two sides destroy each other and ordered the Emperor Pavilion forces to withdraw.
• Old Qin mistook Xiao Han’s order for a willingness to make peace, but Xiao Han asked what it meant to be a demon king and summoned a massive golden-and-dark hand from the clouds.
• Xiao Han’s Buddha-Demon Suppressing Heaven Seal shattered the Black Alliance’s energy shield and knocked down its four peak Dou Zong experts and more than a dozen Dou Emperors.
• Xiao Han struck the fallen Black Alliance members again, crushing them into dust, while Han Feng continued fighting Xiao Yan and the onlookers stared in disbelief.

Xiao Han destroyed the Black Alliance and Emperor Pavilion became the Black-Corner Region's sole overlord. Later, a Dou Zun ruin rose from the Black Sea, and its seventeen-question Bronze Gate left the gathered factions searching for a way inside.

• Xiao Yan killed Han Feng, took the Sea Heart Flame, and planned to reunite with Xiao Han after refining it.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xun Er had left with her clan, then went to the Inner Academy's back mountain to cultivate.
• Emperor Pavilion unified the Black-Corner Region, and Xiao Han gained two million points.
• A Dou Zun ruin emerged from the Black Sea, drawing factions and experts from across the region.
• After three days, the palace fully surfaced, revealing a Bronze Gate inscribed with seventeen one-character questions that served as its password.

Xiao Han recognized the inscriptions on the Bronze Gate as the You Yuan Seventeen Orders and correctly filled them in, opening the sealed entrance to the Dou Zun ruins. The gate opened as Su Nianqiu confronted a mocking maiden, and the gathered cultivators prepared to enter.

• A Dou Emperor tried to break the Bronze Gate by force and was killed by a beam from it.
• A Dou Zong filled in two incorrect answers and was also killed, leaving the crowd afraid to attempt the Seventeen Bronze Orders.
• Xiao Han arrived with his group, recognized the inscriptions, and flew up to the gate to answer them.
• A Central Plains maiden mocked Xiao Han, and Su Nianqiu confronted her and her two peak Dou Zong guards.
• Xiao Han filled in all seventeen answers correctly, making the Bronze Gate glow and open.

Xiao Han claimed the Dou Zun Ruins for the Emperor Pavilion and stopped the other forces from entering. When a maiden from the Central Plains ordered her guards to kill him, Xiao Han appeared before her and seized her by the throat.

• Xiao Han swept the Heavenly Emperor Sword across the sea, raising tornadoes that hurled the advancing crowds back to shore.
• Xiao Han gathered the Emperor Pavilion members behind him and declared that the ruins belonged to them.
• Su Qian challenged Xiao Han's decision, but Xiao Han admitted he was being overbearing and asked what Su Qian could do about it.
• A maiden from the Central Plains ordered Old Chen and Old Fang to kill Xiao Han.
• Xiao Han appeared before the maiden, grabbed her throat, and asked whether she still wanted to kill him.

Xiao Han killed a proud maiden who threatened him, then defeated her two Peak Dou Zong guards and let the Emperor Pavilion enter the ruins. He remained outside to guard the Bronze Gate and challenged the gathered experts to withstand one strike from his sword.

• Xiao Han snapped the maiden’s neck after she and her guards threatened him, then threw her body into the Black Sea.
• The maiden’s two Peak Dou Zong guards attacked Xiao Han, but he heavily injured them with thunder- and ice-powered Eight Extremities Collapse strikes.
• Su Nianqiu and Su Henshui killed the two wounded guards on Xiao Han’s order.
• Xiao Han summoned a Lightning Throne and allowed Xiao Xueqin, Su Nianqiu, and the other Emperor Pavilion members to enter the ruins while he guarded the gate.
• When a Peak Dou Zong expert objected to his control of the ruins, Xiao Han drew the Heavenly Emperor Sword and asked who could withstand one strike.

Xiao Han discovered that the Bronze Gate’s sword character contained a Heaven Tier Dou Technique, then left the ruins with the Emperor Pavilion after giving the emptied site to the waiting crowd. Half a month later, Xiao Yan arrived, and the brothers prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire to settle matters with the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Han noticed the Bronze Gate’s seventeen ancient lines blur until only the character for sword remained, and he received the Heaven Tier Dou Technique One Sword Separating Worlds.
• Xiao Han welcomed the Emperor Pavilion group out of the ruins, then told Su Qian and the others they could have the site; they later found its halls and secret rooms emptied.
• Half a month later, Xiao Yan arrived at Emperor Pavilion after swallowing the Sea Heart Flame, which raised his strength to three-star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Han and Xiao Yan prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire and confront the Misty Cloud Sect, where they had been forced to retreat two years earlier.

Xiao Han led Emperor Pavilion to the Jia Ma Empire, where he learned the Misty Cloud Sect had mobilized against the empire’s powers and the Snake-People Race. He split the response: Xiao Yan would rally the empire’s factions while Xiao Han flew to aid the Snake-People Race.

• Xiao Han ordered Emperor Pavilion’s Dou Zong, Dou Emperor, and Dou Wang experts to gather and depart for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Han, Xiao Yan, and their party reached the Jia Ma Empire and learned that the Misty Cloud Sect had surrounded the empire’s major powers, demanding their surrender within a day.
• An Emperor Pavilion member reported that the Misty Cloud Sect had also attacked the Snake-People Race under the command of two Dou Zong experts.
• Xiao Han told Xiao Yan to take Emperor Pavilion to the imperial capital, rally the empire’s powers, and protect Xiao Xueqin while he went to the Snake-People Race.
• Xiao Han flew away, leaving Xiao Yan in charge of Emperor Pavilion.