Chapter Summaries

Xun'er used soul perception and Heavenly Flames to fight the Dark Gold Bear, which escaped after unleashing a powerful burst. She found a Crimson Gold Twin Fruit, and the bear returned to offer her the red fruit while claiming the golden one for itself.

• Xun'er activated her soul perception, evaded the Dark Gold Bear's attacks, and struck it five times with Guardian Eight Trigrams Palm.
• Xun'er retreated when the Dark Gold Bear erupted in a golden ring of energy, but the bear vanished before she could attack again.
• Xun'er found a Crimson Gold Twin Fruit and recognized that its fruit could be refined into a pill that strengthened the body and healed injuries.
• The Dark Gold Bear returned and gestured that Xun'er could take the red fruit while it took the golden one.

Xun'er accepted the Dark Gold Bear's red Crimson Gold Twin Fruit, and Yun Xi turned the fruit into a pill that could help her advance. After explaining his alchemy techniques, Yun Xi agreed to teach Xun'er, who insisted that she still wanted to learn.

• The Dark Gold Bear invited Xun'er to take the red fruit and kept its distance as she approached and collected it.
• Yun Xi appeared beside Xun'er, startled the Dark Gold Bear, and explained that the golden fruit could help Xun'er break through to seven stars.
• At Yun Xi's request, Xun'er handed him the red fruit, which he refined into a pill.
• Xun'er asked whether Yun Xi was an alchemist, and he explained that he knew basic alchemy techniques but did not consider himself an alchemist.
• Xun'er asked Yun Xi to teach her alchemy, and after he described its drawbacks, she stubbornly said she still wanted to learn.

After Xun'er advanced to seven-star, Yun Xi let her decide the fate of the Dark Gold Bear. She spared it, and the bear joined them as they headed deeper into the forest, where Xun'er named it Little Gold.

• Yun Xi gave Xun'er a spirit pill, and she cultivated while he watched over her and considered what to do with the Dark Gold Bear.
• Xun'er broke through to seven-star, and Yun Xi asked whether they should kill the Dark Gold Bear or let it go.
• Xun'er chose to spare the bear, which indicated that it wanted to accompany her into the forest; Yun Xi agreed.
• Xun'er named the Dark Gold Bear Little Gold, and Yun Xi told it to lead them deeper into the forest.

Xun'er rode Little Gold through the Dark Forest and found a hidden cave guarded by two fifth-tier magical beasts. As she watched the Snow Devil Sky Ape confront the Fire Devouring Giant Rhino, Ling Ying learned that Gu Yuan knew she was safe under an expert’s protection.

• Xun'er rode Little Gold to a location Yun Xi identified in the Dark Forest.
• Ling Ying searched for Xun'er, then reported to Gu Yuan that she might have entered the forest.
• Gu Yuan sensed Xun'er in the Dark Forest and reassured Ling Ying that an expert was guarding her.
• Xun'er used her soul perception to discover a concealed cave at the foot of a cliff.
• Xun'er recognized a Snow Devil Sky Ape and a Fire Devouring Giant Rhino facing off near the cave.
• The Snow Devil Sky Ape asked the Fire Devouring Giant Rhino why it had left its Lava Land for the Dark Forest.

Xun'er and Yun Xi encountered a Snow Devil Sky Ape guarding Earth Core Body Tempering Milk while it fought a Fire Devouring Giant Rhino. Yun Xi urged Xun'er to enter the ape's cave during the battle, but as she crossed between the beasts, the ape suddenly attacked her.

• Xun'er and Yun Xi encountered the Snow Devil Sky Ape, which questioned why they had entered its Dark Forest.
• The Snow Devil Sky Ape refused to lend the Fire Devouring Giant Rhino its Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, revealing that the treasure could help it advance to the sixth tier.
• The Snow Devil Sky Ape and Fire Devouring Giant Rhino began fighting fiercely, using ice and magma against each other.
• Yun Xi told Xun'er to use the distraction to enter the cave, and he formed a golden barrier around her.
• Xun'er reluctantly walked between the battling beasts, but the Snow Devil Sky Ape suddenly swung a fist at her, prompting her to cry out to Yun Xi.

Xun'er and Yun Xi searched a hidden cavern for Earth Core Body Tempering Milk after finding nothing in the cave above. They discovered a vast stalactite grotto, where Yun Xi suspected the genuine milk came from millennial stalactites, and Xun'er found an unusually large one.

• The Snow Devil Sky Ape's punch missed Xun'er when it fell, and Xun'er returned safely to the cave under Yun Xi's barrier.
• Xun'er and Yun Xi searched the cave, then Xun'er used her soul power to find a hidden area and burned open a pit in the ground.
• Yun Xi grabbed Xun'er's hand, and they leaped into the pit and landed in a glowing stalactite cavern.
• Xun'er found hollows filled with milky liquid, but Yun Xi realized the stalactites were only a hundred years old and could not produce genuine Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.
• Yun Xi asked Xun'er to search for unusually large stalactites, and she called out that she had found one.

Xun'er and Yun Xi retrieved the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk from the Snow Devil Sky Ape’s lair and returned to the Gu Clan. Gu Yuan welcomed Xun'er back, noticed her increased strength, and learned that Yun Xi had helped her obtain the treasure.

• Xun'er found the enormous stalactite, and Yun Xi took a sealed piece containing the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and stored it in her ring.
• Yun Xi instantly moved Xun'er back to the grass near the battling beasts, then entered her body as she rode Little Gold out of the forest.
• Ling Ying rushed to meet Xun'er at the forest entrance, but Gu Yuan restrained him and released him after Xun'er arrived safely.
• Gu Yuan embraced Xun'er and sensed that she had reached the peak of seven stars.
• Xun'er showed Gu Yuan the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and said Yun Xi had taken her to it.

Xun'er revealed that Yun Xi had been secretly helping her, and Yun Xi appeared to explain that he was her Strange Flame Guardian Spirit. After Gu Yuan tested Yun Xi’s strength, Yun Xi shattered Gu Yuan’s Ancient Emperor Seal, leaving Gu Yuan stunned.

• Xun'er accidentally mentioned Yun Xi, then tried to conceal his identity by blaming Little Gold.
• Gu Yuan questioned Xun'er about Yun Xi, and Yun Xi appeared beside her and identified himself as her Strange Flame Guardian Spirit.
• Yun Xi proved his identity by displaying the Golden Emperor Burning Flame and explained that he came from another continent.
• Gu Yuan thanked Yun Xi for teaching Xun'er, then challenged him to demonstrate his strength.
• Yun Xi dispersed Gu Yuan's palm strike and pierced through the Ancient Emperor Seal with a single finger, prompting Ling Ying and Xun'er to warn Gu Yuan.

Yun Xi demonstrated overwhelming strength by breaking Gu Yuan’s strongest technique, then agreed to guide Xun’er’s cultivation. Gu Yuan decided Xun’er should not attend the Seven Clans Gathering because the dangerous dimension would prevent her from relying on Yun Xi.

• Yun Xi’s finger strike shattered Gu Yuan’s Five Emperors Unite Palm Technique before dissipating.
• Gu Yuan apologized to Yun Xi, ordered Ling Ying to keep his existence secret, and welcomed him as Xun’er’s protector.
• Yun Xi said he would guide Xun’er’s daily cultivation and then vanished.
• Gu Yuan told Xun’er she qualified for the Seven Clans Gathering but did not want her to participate.
• Ling Ying explained that the gathering’s unstable dimension would restrict Xun’er to her own strength and prevent her from summoning Yun Xi.

Gu Yuan told Xun'er about the dangerous inheritance space and asked her to retrieve the Tou She Ancient God Jade from the Xiao Family in Wutan City after the grand ceremony. He left Xun'er in Yun Xi's care, while Xun'er regretted missing the competition and remembered her plan to beat up Gu Qingyang.

• Gu Yuan explained that the inheritance space held the legacies of ancient Dou Di and warned Xun'er not to take risks.
• Gu Yuan asked Xun'er to retrieve the Tou She Ancient God Jade from the Xiao Family in Wutan City, revealing that the family was the fallen Xiao Clan.
• Gu Yuan told Xun'er to cultivate under Guardian Spirit's guidance, attend the grand ceremony as an observer, and leave for Wutan City afterward.
• Gu Yuan asked Yun Xi to protect Xun'er before departing, and Ling Ying took the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to have its potency neutralized.
• Xun'er told Yun Xi that she regretted missing the competition, and Yun Xi reminded her that she had promised to beat up Gu Qingyang.
• Gu Qingyang sneezed in his room, unaware that Xun'er was about to give him a beating.

Xun'er trained with Yun Xi and learned that she was close to breaking through to Eight-Star Dou Zhe. After Ling Ying brought her Body Tempering Spirit Liquid, Yun Xi prepared a medicinal bath for her at home.

• Xun'er felled a massive tree during training, and Yun Xi told her to rest while noting she was near a breakthrough.
• Xun'er asked whether she could defeat Gu Qingyang, but Yun Xi said she could not and forbade her from using the Burning Heaven Armor because of its dangerous side effects.
• Ling Ying delivered Body Tempering Spirit Liquid prepared by Elder Gu Dan, and Xun'er planned to challenge Gu Qingyang after her breakthrough.
• Xun'er said she would claim first place if she won the spar and give Gu Qingyang fifth place if she lost.
• Yun Xi examined the liquid, and Xun'er dragged him home to prepare a bath so she could cultivate in it.

Xun'er cultivated in the spiritual liquid and broke through to the peak of eight stars while Yun Xi waited outside the Bamboo House. After she emerged, she invited Yun Xi to enter her body so she could take him somewhere.

• Xun'er asked Yun Xi to leave while she bathed and cultivated, then sealed the Bamboo House against spiritual probing.
• Yun Xi placed another barrier over the Bamboo House and reflected on being bound to protect Xun'er until she could separate the Golden Emperor Burning Flame.
• Xun'er emerged from the bath and accidentally ran into Yun Xi's barrier before he dispelled it.
• Yun Xi noticed that Xun'er had reached the peak of eight stars, and she credited the spiritual liquid for her breakthrough.
• Xun'er asked Yun Xi to enter her body so she could take him somewhere, and Yun Xi transformed into a stream of light and entered her body.

As Xun'er prepared to leave for the Jia Ma Empire to retrieve the key, Yun Xi reassured her that he would stay by her side, while Gu Yuan revealed that he was sending her away to protect her from the Soul Clan. Xun'er demonstrated her strength in a hard-fought spar with Gu Qingyang, and the Seven Clans Gathering began as her leisurely days came to an end.

• Xun'er worried about leaving the Gu Clan for the Jia Ma Empire, and Yun Xi promised to accompany and protect her for life.
• Over the following months, Xun'er relaxed with Ling Yin, cultivated, sparred with Yun Xi's clone, and played with Little Gold while Gu Yuan watched her anxiously.
• Gu Yuan told Ling Ying that he had sent Xun'er to retrieve the key to give her a happy childhood and protect her from the Soul Clan after a vision from the Ancient Emperor Mirror.
• Xun'er challenged Gu Qingyang to a spar and impressed the Gu Clan despite losing when he struck a flaw in her attacks.
• Gu Yao said he was no match for Xun'er, and the Seven Clans Gathering began as her peaceful days ended.

The seven ancient clans gathered in Emperor Immortal City to begin a dangerous trial that could lead to the Ancient Emperor's Inheritance. When Soul Emperor threatened Xun'er with his gaze, Gu Yuan attacked him, and Ling Ya intervened before the clan leaders could fight.

• The Gu Clan juniors arrived, and Hun Feng watched Xun'er at his father's instruction.
• The seven clan leaders appeared, and Gu Yuan and Soul Emperor explained the trial and its dangers.
• Soul Emperor's gaze trapped Xun'er in darkness until Yun Xi dispelled the effect.
• Gu Yuan attacked Soul Emperor, but Ling Ya stopped the two clan leaders from fighting.
• Gu Yuan warned Soul Emperor not to threaten Xun'er again, then sent her a concerned message asking if she was all right.

At the Seven Clans Gathering, the clan chiefs opened a gateway to a hidden dimension containing ruins, treasures, and a Dou Di inheritance. Gu Yuan took Xun'er into a separate spatial crack, but Soul Emperor followed in secret.

• Gu Yuan told Xun'er he would send her to the Xiao Family after the gathering and warned her to stay under Yun Xi and Ling Ying's protection.
• Soul Emperor ordered Hun Feng and the other Soul Clan juniors to strip Gu Xun'er of her Heavenly Flames and cripple her if they encountered her.
• Ling Ya distributed Saint Emperor Tokens and explained that participants could use them to escape the inheritance dimension, but doing so would eliminate them.
• Yan Jin revealed that the gathering's inheritance was a Dou Di inheritance, then cautioned the excited juniors that a complete inheritance was unlikely to remain.
• The six clan chiefs opened a spatial gateway, and a hundred talented juniors entered; afterward, Gu Yuan led Xun'er through a nearby space crack, while Soul Emperor sent a soul clone and followed them with his true body.

Gu Yuan sent Xun'er through a Space Wormhole while Soul Emperor secretly watched, and the story shifted to the young Xiao Yan, a reincarnated Earthling and gifted cultivator. Xiao Zhan summoned Xiao Yan to discuss cultivation, but an unexplained voice addressed him as the chapter ended.

• Gu Yuan sensed Soul Emperor's sinister presence near the Gu Clan, but failed to locate him as Soul Emperor watched from a distant mountaintop.
• Gu Yuan, Xun'er, and Ling Ying entered the completed Space Wormhole, while Gu Dao told the Gu Clan Elders to trust their Clan Leader's decision.
• Xiao Yan reached Two Star Dou Zhe at ten years old and reflected on how his soul had come from Earth and grown to love the Dou Qi Continent.
• Steward Mo escorted Xiao Yan to Xiao Zhan's study, where Xiao Zhan said he wanted to discuss Dou techniques and cultivation methods.
• Xiao Zhan noticed Xiao Yan had become unnaturally still, and an inexplicable voice asked him, "Are you Xiao Zhan?"

Gu Yuan left his daughter Xun'er in the Xiao Family under the name Xiao Xun'er, stunning Xiao Zhan with her strength and her father's status. After Xun'er joined the clan, she met Xiao Yan.

• Gu Yuan suddenly transported Xiao Zhan to the rear mountain and asked him to let his daughter live in the Xiao Family.
• Gu Yuan introduced the girl as Xiao Xun'er and told her that Ling Ying would secretly protect her before leaving through a space crack.
• Xiao Zhan learned that Xun'er was an Eight-Star Dou Zhe and that she described her father's strength as only a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Zhan after noticing he had disappeared, then approached Xun'er and asked who she was.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan her name was Xiao Xun'er.

Xiao Yan met Xun'er and was struck by her strength and beauty, while Yun Xi sensed that Xiao Yan's soul was unusual. Yun Xi then recognized a Heavenly Flame's aura inside Xiao Yan's ancient ring and asked Xun'er to obtain it.

• Xiao Yan met Xun'er, learned she was an eight-year-old Eight-Star Dou Zhe, and became infatuated with her.
• Xiao Zhan warned Xiao Yan not to investigate Xun'er's origins because doing so could bring disaster upon the Xiao Family.
• Yun Xi told Xun'er that Xiao Yan's soul seemed unusually powerful and strange.
• Yun Xi recognized a Heavenly Flame's aura inside the ancient ring on Xiao Yan's hand.
• Xun'er agreed to find a way to get Xiao Yan's ring so Yun Xi could confirm what was inside.

Xun'er toured the Xiao Family with Xiao Yan and visited its bustling Marketplace, where Yun Xi shielded her from the crowd. She spotted something that caught her attention, but the chapter ended before revealing what it was.

• Xiao Yan invited Xun'er to tour the Xiao Family grounds, while Xiao Zhan worried about the danger of his son growing attached to her.
• Xiao Yan showed Xun'er around and explained Wutan City's three great clans and the Xiao Family's Marketplaces.
• Xun'er asked to visit a Marketplace, and Xiao Yan led her there.
• Yun Xi created a barrier that let Xun'er move freely through the crowd, then urged her to familiarize herself with the surroundings.
• Xun'er noticed something in the Marketplace and stopped to look.

Xun'er bought a dangerous Fear Bracelet at the Marketplace after Yun Xi recognized it and realized it might connect the Dou Qi Continent to the Demon Plane. That night, Yun Xi destroyed the bracelet's evil exterior, revealing a sky-blue bracelet and leaving him troubled.

• Yun Xi identified the black bracelet Xun'er found as a Fear Bracelet that could store living beings and attack souls, and he suspected it marked a connection to the Demon Plane.
• Xun'er bargained with the stall owner and bought the bracelet for forty-five gold coins, while Yun Xi considered returning to the Demon Plane through its connection point.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er visited Xiao Zhan, who arranged a room for Xun'er before she began her first night in the Xiao clan home.
• After Xun'er started cultivating, Yun Xi removed the bracelet from her storage ring and used a flaming spear to shatter its black exterior and destroy the malice inside.
• Yun Xi saw that the bracelet beneath the broken exterior was sky blue and called the situation troublesome.