Chapter Summaries

Seven-year-old Xun'er received the Gu Clan’s Golden Emperor Burning Flame inheritance and discovered that it had awakened her to Nine Stage Dou Qi. That night, she met Yun Xi, a white-robed man inside the flame who called himself her Strange Flame Guardian Spirit.

• Gu Yuan reluctantly let Xun'er attempt the inheritance while he and Ling Ying waited below the altar.
• Xun'er followed a mysterious figure through the starry inheritance ground and touched the Golden Emperor Burning Flame, which merged into her body.
• Xun'er emerged safely with golden flames covering her hands, and Gu Yuan recognized that her God Grade Bloodline had let her inherit the flame without resistance.
• That night, Xun'er found the Heavenly Flame and a seated figure inside her dantian, then fell in fear when he appeared beside her.
• Yun Xi comforted Xun'er, introduced himself as her Strange Flame Guardian Spirit, and asked her name.

After Xun'er fainted, Yun Xi secretly told her not to reveal his existence, then explained that he had fused with her Heavenly Flame and become her Guardian Spirit. He agreed to protect her while she refined the flame, and the chapter ended with him vowing to take revenge on the Heavenly Profound Continent and the Saint Spirit Religion.

• Gu Yuan and the Gu Clan Elders found Xun'er unconscious and examined her after she woke up.
• Yun Xi warned Xun'er through spiritual communication to hide his existence, and she told Gu Yuan she had only overused her soul power.
• After Gu Yuan and the Elders left, Yun Xi explained that he had fused with the Heavenly Flame and could communicate with Xun'er through her thoughts.
• Xun'er threatened to tell her father until Yun Xi promised to help her become stronger and protect her while she refined the Heavenly Flame.
• Yun Xi promised to stay by Xun'er's side, then watched over her as she slept and vowed to take revenge on the Heavenly Profound Continent and the Saint Spirit Religion.

Xun'er began refining the Heavenly Flame while Yun Xi revealed that the process could erase him, then vanished into the flames as they surged out of control. As Gu Yuan and the Elders struggled to contain the destruction, a soft sigh reached Xun'er from within the formation.

• Xun'er apologized to Yun Xi for startling him, then concealed his presence when Gu Yuan arrived and asked whether she had hidden anything.
• Gu Yuan brought Xun'er to the Ancient Clan Ancestral Hall, where he and the Elders prepared a formation to help her refine the Heavenly Flame.
• While Xun'er examined her golden dantian, Yun Xi told her that refining the Heavenly Flame meant refining him and that he might disappear.
• Yun Xi was swallowed by the golden flames before finishing his farewell, and the Heavenly Flame poured energy into Xun'er's meridians and strengthened her body.
• The Heavenly Flame erupted through the ancestral hall, forcing Gu Yuan and the Elders to fight to contain it as Gu Yuan tried to reach Xun'er.
• A soft sigh reached Xun'er just as the flames were about to erupt completely.

Yun Xi helped Xun'er refine the Golden Emperor Burning Flame, and she emerged as a Dou Zhe with an independent fire spirit. After Xun'er returned to consciousness, a guest requested an audience with Gu Yuan.

• Yun Xi calmed Xun'er and guided her soul power as the Heavenly Flames settled and refined within her.
• Gu Yuan searched the ruined ancestral hall for Xun'er while the Black Annihilation Army entered, mistook the Elders for enemies, and withdrew after recognizing them.
• Gu Yuan waited outside Xun'er's fiery barrier until it cracked open, revealing that she had become a Dou Zhe.
• Yun Xi explained that the Golden Emperor Burning Flame's consciousness had become a golden puppy fire spirit, which Xun'er named Xiao Xi before returning to her body.
• Xun'er woke beside Gu Yuan and summoned Xiao Xi, astonishing him with the independent fire spirit.
• The Great Elder appeared and told Gu Yuan that a guest requested an audience.

The Soul Clan’s Hun Jiu visited the Gu Clan and proposed joining forces to destroy the Yan Clan, but Gu Yuan rejected him and drove the guests away. Afterward, Yun Xi reassured the frightened Xun'er and promised to help her grow strong enough to find her mother.

• Hun Jiu proposed that the Soul Clan and Gu Clan ally to destroy the Yan Clan, shocking the Gu Clan members.
• Gu Yuan rejected Hun Jiu’s proposal and ordered the Black Annihilation Army to escort the Soul Clan guests out.
• Before leaving, Hun Jiu warned Gu Yuan about Xun'er having refined the Golden Emperor Burning Flame, then vanished with the other Soul Clan members.
• Gu Yuan sent Xun'er away and stayed behind with the Elders to discuss the matter.
• Xun'er told Yun Xi she feared the Soul Clan’s threat, and he promised to protect her while boasting about his former strength.
• That evening, Xun'er told Yun Xi she had never met her mother, and Yun Xi promised to help her become strong enough to find her.

After Heavenly Flame’s automatic protection destroyed Xun’er’s Bamboo House, Yun Xi rebuilt it with a mysterious array. Gu Yuan announced the opening of the Gu Clan’s Hidden Book Pavilion, and Xun’er entered with the other young clan members to seek cultivation methods and Dou Skills.

• Yun Xi accidentally triggered Heavenly Flame’s protection while reaching to wipe the drool from Xun’er’s mouth, and the Bamboo House burned to ashes.
• Yun Xi recreated the Bamboo House and placed a strange array beneath it that gathered and refined spiritual energy.
• Gu Yuan told Xun’er that the clan had opened the Hidden Book Pavilion to its younger generation, then noticed the array but left without investigating it.
• Xun’er arrived at the pavilion, where Yun Xi observed Gu Yao and she greeted Gu Qingyang.
• An Elder opened the pavilion and warned everyone that they could take at most three books, then Xun’er and Gu Qingyang rushed inside.

Xun'er explored the Hidden Book Pavilion and found two Mystic High-Rank techniques in its Inner Pavilion. After returning home, she avoided Gu Yao’s invitation to spar and fell asleep, while Yun Xi stayed close to her.

• Xun'er entered a hidden space in the Hidden Book Pavilion and used its altar to search among the meteors for Dou Skills.
• Yun Xi sensed the Inner Pavilion, halted the meteors, and led Xun'er to a gate where she chose the Starry Radiance Art and Swallow Reversal Strike.
• Xun'er told Yun Xi she wanted to become stronger to protect him and her father, then admitted she also wanted a good ranking in the coming clan competition.
• Gu Yao asked Xun'er to spar, but she declined after Yun Xi coughed and left for home.
• Xun'er returned to the Bamboo House and fell asleep, and Yun Xi tucked her in before returning to her body.

Xun'er cultivated the Starry Radiance Art while Yun Xi warned her against seeking shortcuts and offered to train her. After she mastered the technique, he began teaching her the Swallow Counterattack.

• Xun'er cultivated the Starry Radiance Art, and Yun Xi explained how devouring Heavenly Flames could increase her strength.
• Xun'er excitedly proposed searching for Heavenly Flames, but Yun Xi warned her that they were rare and urged her to focus on cultivation.
• Yun Xi offered to personally teach Xun'er, and she called him Master Yun before returning to cultivation.
• Xun'er completed her cultivation of the high-grade Mystic Rank Technique and said she was struggling to understand the Swallow Counterattack.
• Yun Xi tested Xun'er's reflexes with a sudden feint, then agreed to teach her the Dou Skill.

Yun Xi trained Xun'er in the Mystic High-Rank Dou Skill Swallow Reversal Strike by having her face increasingly powerful Spiritual Clones. After a full day of practice, Xun'er reached minor mastery and collapsed into Yun Xi's arms.

• Yun Xi summoned a One Star Dou Zhe Spiritual Clone and made Xun'er practice reflecting its attacks with Swallow Reversal Strike.
• After being knocked back repeatedly, Xun'er learned the counterattack and dispersed the first clone.
• Yun Xi raised the clones' strength and created an array to restore Xun'er's Dou Qi as she fought them.
• Xun'er dispersed clones up to the sixth, improving her technique until she could withstand a Six Star Dou Zhe.
• Xun'er collapsed from exhaustion, and Yun Xi caught her and noted that her skill had reached minor mastery.

Xun'er recovered from her injuries, advanced to Three Star Dou Zhe, and proved her progress by defeating Yun Xi's sixth clone. After learning about the Clan Competition, she worried that the stronger participants would make her disappoint Gu Yuan, while Yun Xi encouraged her and promised to help her win.

• Xun'er woke in the Bamboo House, and her Dou Qi circulated through her meridians until she advanced to Three Star Dou Zhe.
• Yun Xi took Xun'er to face his sixth clone, and she destroyed it with a single palm strike.
• Xun'er explained that the Clan Competition's top twenty could enter the Great Clan Competition against the other Six Great Clans.
• Yun Xi became excited at the prospect of the competition taking place on another continent and urged Xun'er to aim for the top five.
• Xun'er worried that Gu Qingyang, Gu Yao, Gu Hua, and Gu Xing were stronger than her and that she might embarrass Gu Yuan, so Yun Xi reassured her and promised to help her take first place.

Yun Xi told Xun'er that his martial arts could not be cultivated in her world, so she went to Gu Yuan for another Dou Skill. After Yun Xi quietly chose a scroll for her, Xun'er received the Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm.

• Yun Xi explained that Xun'er could not cultivate martial arts from his world and suggested she seek a Dou Skill from her clan.
• Xun'er went to Gu Yuan's study and asked to enter the Hidden Book Pavilion early, but Gu Yuan refused because of the clan rules.
• Xun'er told Gu Yuan she had obtained the Swallow Counterattack and worried that she knew too few skills for the clan competition.
• Gu Yuan presented Xun'er with four identical Mystic High-Rank Dou Skill scrolls and asked her to choose one.
• Yun Xi told Xun'er to take the third scroll, and she opened it to reveal the Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm.

Xun'er received the Mystic High-Level Dou Skill Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm and began cultivating it with Yun Xi in the Gu Clan's back mountain. She easily defeated Yun Xi's Seven-Star Dou Zhe clones with a four-palm attack, leaving them both stunned by the skill's power.

• Xun'er read Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm and learned from Gu Yuan that his old friend had created it to protect her wounded lover.
• Xun'er hurried to the back mountain, where Yun Xi emerged from her body and agreed to watch her cultivate the Dou Skill.
• Yun Xi wondered whether Gu Yuan's briefly sensed spiritual force had been searching for him, while Xun'er studied the skill and practiced its movements.
• Xun'er unleashed two palm seals and shattered a boulder, prompting Yun Xi to check that she was unharmed.
• Yun Xi sent four clones to attack Xun'er, and she defeated them instantly with Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm.
• Yun Xi revealed that the clones had the strength of Seven-Star Dou Zhes, and Xun'er realized the skill could help her place among the top competitors in the clan competition.

Yun Xi helped Xun'er test her Heavenly Flames, but the flames went berserk after mixing with his energy and left her unconscious. After Yun Xi sealed them and opened a controlled way for her to use them, Xun'er broke through to Four Star Dou Zhe.

• Yun Xi asked Xun'er to channel her Heavenly Flames, and her flames spread into a destructive sea across the back mountain.
• Xun'er lost control as the Heavenly Flames fused with Yun Xi's energy, so Yun Xi entered her body and sealed the rampaging fire spirit.
• Yun Xi carried the unconscious Xun'er to her Bamboo House and later explained what had caused the eruption.
• Xun'er teased Yun Xi, then worried that the seal would prevent her from using the Heavenly Flames again.
• Yun Xi opened a crack in the seal, allowing Xun'er to call up the flames without another rampage.
• Xun'er began a breakthrough and advanced to Four Star Dou Zhe.

Yun Xi took Xun'er into the forest to hunt Magical Beasts and push her to face real combat. After she killed a Crimson Ice Serpent and learned the danger of sparing an enemy, a powerful Polar Star Wolf appeared and forced her to flee.

• Yun Xi brought Xun'er into the mountain forest and urged her to overcome her fear of hunting Magical Beasts.
• Xun'er fought and killed a First Order Magical Beast, the Crimson Ice Serpent, after Yun Xi challenged her to prove herself.
• Xun'er hesitated to finish off the serpent, but Yun Xi destroyed its final ice-spike attack and warned her that mercy could cost her life.
• A Third Order Magical Beast, the Polar Star Wolf, appeared, and Yun Xi told Xun'er to leave quickly.

Xun'er fought a Third Order Polar Star Wolf while Yun Xi and Ling Ying watched from hiding, and Ling Ying intervened before the beast could kill her. Afterward, Ling Ying revealed that Gu Yuan had sent him to protect her, leaving Xun'er embarrassed that her father knew she had left the clan.

• Xun'er called for Yun Xi's help when she recognized the Polar Star Wolf, but he did not appear, so she faced the beast alone.
• Xun'er dodged the wolf's attacks and struck it with Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm, but the Polar Star Wolf survived and injured her with its counterattack.
• Yun Xi gave Xun'er instructions, and she avoided the wolf's energy spheres before attacking it from above, but the beast continued fighting.
• The Polar Star Wolf knocked Xun'er down and prepared to bite her, but Ling Ying struck it with Myriad Shadows Bind and killed it.
• Ling Ying apologized for failing to protect Xun'er, then explained that Gu Yuan had sent him after noticing she had left the clan.

After the battle, Xun'er persuaded Ling Ying to let her remain in the forest and cultivate, while Yun Xi accompanied her deeper into the wilderness. Yun Xi discovered that Ling Ying was secretly following them, and the chapter ended with Xun'er blushing after misunderstanding Yun Xi’s suggestion that they rest.

• Xun'er persuaded Ling Ying to give her an imprinted Talisman Stone and let her stay in the forest until the next morning.
• Ling Ying flew away, and Xun'er asked Yun Xi to take her flying; when he could not, she vowed to cultivate until she could fly herself.
• Yun Xi led Xun'er deeper into the forest, using his strength to frighten nearby magical beasts away.
• Yun Xi sensed Ling Ying probing the area and realized that he had secretly followed them to protect Xun'er.
• Yun Xi suggested finding a place to rest, and Xun'er blushed after mistaking his words for an invitation to sleep together.

Yun Xi told Xun'er the tragic story of his past and reassured her that he would probably stay by her side, though he privately planned to return to his own world. After he called her his little sister, Xun'er attacked him with an Eight Trigrams Palm.

• Yun Xi explained that his Space Barrier would keep Ling Ying from seeing him and reporting him to Gu Yuan.
• Yun Xi and Xun'er reached a waterfall, rested by the stream, and watched the stars together.
• At Xun'er's request, Yun Xi recounted how the Saint Spirit Religion massacred his clan, how he became the White-Robed Spear God, and how he escaped to another world.
• Xun'er cried over Yun Xi's story and asked whether he would always stay by her side; he answered that he probably would.
• Yun Xi called Xun'er his little sister and teased her for crying, so Xun'er struck him with an Eight Trigrams Palm.

Xun'er spent the night with Yun Xi by the stream before returning to the Gu Clan, worried about explaining her unexplained journey to the Ancient World's edge. When Gu Yuan questioned her, she lied about using a Teleportation Array, but he dismissed her before she could reveal Yun Xi's existence.

• Xun'er attacked Yun Xi with a Dou Skill, then quietly watched the moonlit grass and muttered about him having a little sister.
• Yun Xi pulled a sleepy Xun'er into his embrace, and she smiled while resting against him.
• Ling Ying woke Xun'er and escorted her through a space crack back to the Gu Clan's Primordial Great Hall.
• Xun'er worried that she could not explain how she had reached the Ancient World's edge, while Yun Xi refused to offer a solution and suggested she tell Gu Yuan about him.
• Xun'er told Gu Yuan she had used the Teleportation Array, but Gu Yuan recognized her lie and sent her back to her room before she could confess.

Xun'er trained with Ling Ying after Yun Xi urged her to grow stronger, and her powerful Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm defeated him despite his suppressed strength. Gu Yuan arrived at the cultivation grounds, leaving Xun'er and Ling Ying to face her father.

• Xun'er wondered whether Gu Yuan knew about Yun Xi, and Yun Xi told her to focus on cultivating for the clan competitions.
• Xun'er summoned Ling Ying and asked him to suppress his strength to the Dou Master level so they could spar.
• Ling Ying used Shadow Dragon Fist against Xun'er, forcing her to unleash the Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm.
• Xun'er's palm technique overwhelmed Ling Ying and sent him crashing into an ancient tree, though his Dou Emperor body left him with only minor injuries.
• Ling Ying praised the palm technique's power and noted that it had room to improve before Gu Yuan arrived.

Gu Yuan praised Xun'er’s strength and ordered Ling Ying to help her train for the Gu Clan’s internal competition. After Xun'er shattered Ling Ying’s Dou Qi Armor with her strongest attack, she began a breakthrough, and Ling Ying guarded her.

• Gu Yuan told Xun'er that the Gu Clan’s internal competition would take place in a month and said she could place among the top five.
• Gu Yuan instructed Ling Ying to train Xun'er in her Heavenly Flames and Dou Skills, then left.
• Xun'er asked Ling Ying to defend at the Dou Huang level while she attacked with her strongest technique.
• Xun'er’s Eight Trigrams Palm shattered Ling Ying’s Dou Qi Armor despite her Four Star Dou Zhe strength.
• Xun'er began breaking through, and Ling Ying guarded the area to prevent anyone from disturbing her.