Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran’s engagement-breaking attempt and declared he would challenge her in three years, while Xiao Feng’s revelation that he was an alchemist—and that Xiao Yan had alchemist aptitude—changed the Xiao family’s standing. Ge Ye left with a stunned Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Zhan celebrated the family’s new prospects.

• Xiao Feng reassured Xiao Yan that he would support whatever decision he made, and Xiao Yan confronted Nalan Yanran over her attempt to end their engagement.
• Xiao Yan challenged Nalan Yanran to meet him at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years, then wrote a letter repudiating her and severing her ties with the Xiao family.
• Ge Ye objected to the repudiation, but Xiao Feng revealed that he was an alchemist and displayed a Qi Gathering Powder pill, alarming Ge Ye with the possibility of Xiao Feng’s powerful teacher.
• Xiao Feng announced that Xiao Yan also had alchemist aptitude, leaving Nalan Yanran stunned and Xiao Zhan overjoyed.
• Ge Ye took the dazed Nalan Yanran away, while Xiao Zhan laughed in celebration.

Xiao Feng learned that Xiao Yan’s battle qi had been drained by a remnant soul in his ring, and the Supreme Alchemist Spirit said the old man would become an opportunity for him. When the old man finally awakened and offered to teach Xiao Yan alchemy, Xiao Yan rejected him because Xiao Feng was already an alchemist.

• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit revealed to Xiao Feng that a Ninth-rank Grand Alchemist remnant soul in Xiao Yan’s ring had absorbed Xiao Yan’s battle qi for three years.
• Xiao Feng decided the remnant soul owed Xiao Yan compensation and began teaching Xiao Yan alchemist knowledge himself.
• A month later, the old man awakened in Xiao Yan’s ring and thanked him for the battle qi he had absorbed.
• Xiao Yan realized the old man had caused his three years of suffering, tore off the ring, and threw it off a cliff.
• The old man offered to make Xiao Yan an alchemist, but Xiao Yan said he did not need him because his older brother was already an alchemist.

Xiao Feng secured Xiao Xun’er’s help to travel to the Ancient Realm, while Li Yu prepared to profit from the Heavenly Tomb’s treasures. Li Yu broke through to the Four Extremities Realm and learned that Xiao Feng had reached Ancient Saint City.

• Xiao Feng gave Xiao Yan the materials for Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and decided to set out into the world.
• At the Supreme Alchemist Spirit’s instruction, Xiao Feng asked Xiao Xun’er to help him reach the Ancient Realm, and she revealed her identity and gave him a jade pendant for entry.
• Xiao Xun’er arranged for Uncle Ling Ying to take Xiao Feng to Ancient Saint City and warned him to stay away from the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Feng left home the next day, while Li Yu continued cultivating and later closed his shop to break through in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Li Yu reached the Four Extremities Realm and then learned that Xiao Feng had arrived at Ancient Saint City.

Xiao Feng arrived at Ancient Saint City with Ling Ying and asked Gu Yuan for permission to enter the Ancient Realm. After Xiao Feng revealed the Solar True Fire, Gu Yuan mistook its origins and agreed to let him enter, leaving Xiao Feng wondering whether his master was Zhetian the Great Emperor.

• Ling Ying brought Xiao Feng to Ancient Saint City, where Xiao Feng was awed by its powerful guards but steadied himself after the Supreme Alchemist Spirit encouraged him.
• Xiao Feng met Gu Yuan and argued that his status as a member of the Xiao clan entitled him to enter the Ancient Realm.
• Gu Yuan demanded the Ancient Emperor's Jade and pressured Xiao Feng with his Dou Saint aura, nearly forcing him to collapse.
• At the Supreme Alchemist Spirit's command, Xiao Feng released the Solar True Fire, and Gu Yuan recognized its resemblance to the flames from the golden palm over Wu Yuan City.
• Gu Yuan mistook the flames as evidence of a connection to Zhetian the Great Emperor, withdrew his pressure, and granted Xiao Feng entry to the Ancient Realm.
• Xiao Feng excitedly asked whether the Supreme Alchemist Spirit was Zhetian the Great Emperor, and his master denied it.

Xiao Feng used Supreme Alchemist Spirit’s connection to Zhetian the Great Emperor as a pretext to gain Gu Yuan’s respect and travel to the Gu Realm. At the Heavenly Tomb, which could not open for nearly eighteen years, Li Yu began searching for its spatial anchor.

• Supreme Alchemist Spirit told Xiao Feng he had only asked Zhetian the Great Emperor for a wisp of Solar True Fire and encouraged Xiao Feng to claim he was the Great Emperor’s successor or disciple.
• Gu Yuan opened the spatial gate to the Gu Realm and took Xiao Feng aboard a Void-Breaking Flying Boat toward the Heavenly Tomb.
• Li Yu scanned the flying boat through Supreme Alchemist Spirit and stored its information so he could build a better one.
• Gu Yuan explained that the Heavenly Tomb opened only once every twenty years and could not be entered yet, so Xiao Feng knelt at its entrance and paid respects to his ancestors.
• Li Yu asked the system to find the Heavenly Tomb’s spatial anchor so he could claim the hidden space.

Li Yu used Xiao Feng to secretly collect the Heavenly Tomb from the Ancient Realm, destroyed its spirit, and arranged for Xiao Feng to receive Xiao Xuan’s Soul Energy Body and Dou Di bloodline. Xiao Feng returned to the Jia Ma Empire believing he had gained his ancestor’s legacy and that the Xiao Family could rise again.

• Li Yu located the Heavenly Tomb, which appeared as a Stone Mill, and ordered the Supreme Alchemist Spirit to have Xiao Feng collect it.
• Xiao Feng persuaded Gu Yuan to let him take a mountain stone, then used the system to collect the Heavenly Tomb hidden inside it.
• Li Yu destroyed the Heavenly Tomb Spirit and instructed the Supreme Alchemist Spirit to give Xiao Feng Xiao Xuan’s Soul Energy Body and Dou Di bloodline.
• Xiao Feng left the Ancient Realm with Ling Ying and returned to the Jia Ma Empire half a month later.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit told Xiao Feng that the collected treasure contained Xiao Xuan’s cultivation, experience, and insights, as well as the recovered Dou Di bloodline.
• Xiao Feng celebrated the prospect of restoring the Xiao Family’s strength.

Li Yu planned to obtain the Azure-eyed Three-flower Pupils and Ancient Void Dragon blood before sending Xiao Feng to the Beast Domain, then processed the Heavenly Tomb and resumed cultivation. Xiao Feng met Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in Stone Desert City to discuss building up the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, and he noticed the maid guiding him had bluish scales on her wrist.

• Li Yu planned to acquire the Azure-eyed Three-flower Pupils and Ancient Void Dragon blood, claim the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and Void Thunder Pool, and preserve valuable skeletons from the Beast Domain ruins.
• Li Yu extracted knowledge, combat experience, cultivation insights, and Soul Power from the Heavenly Tomb's Soul Energy Bodies, then entrusted its management to the Supreme Alchemist Spirit and returned to cultivating and running his shop.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit warned Xiao Feng to prepare for threats to the Xiao Clan's Ancient Emperor's Jade, prompting him to travel to Stone Desert City and seek out Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Xiao Feng reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and the three agreed to expand the Desert Iron Mercenary Group into a power of their own.
• After Xiao Ding and Xiao Li got drunk, Xiao Feng followed a maid toward his room and noticed bluish scales on her wrist.

Li Yu scanned the maid’s Azure-eyed Three-flower Pupils, analyzed her blood, and arranged to grant their abilities to Xiao Feng. After the Supreme Alchemist Spirit transferred the powers, dark-golden runes appeared around Xiao Feng’s pupils.

• Xiao Feng comforted the mixed-blood maid after noticing the scales on her wrist, and Li Yu remotely scanned her Azure-eyed Three-flower Pupils.
• Li Yu ordered the Supreme Alchemist Spirit to have Xiao Feng collect a blood sample, and Xiao Feng persuaded the maid to give him several drops.
• Li Yu used the scan and blood sample to analyze the pupils and chose to grant Xiao Feng their mind-bewitching and snake-beast-controlling abilities as a skill.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit transferred the extracted abilities into Xiao Feng’s eyes, where three dark-golden runes briefly appeared around his pupils.

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After a year of rapid cultivation, Xiao Feng entered the Tagel Desert to find the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame and strengthen the Xiao family. He defeated a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, then the Supreme Alchemist Spirit warned that something was approaching the underground lava lake.

• Xiao Feng, now a five-star Dou Wang and fifth-tier alchemist, arrived in the Tagel Desert under the Supreme Alchemist Spirit's guidance.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit located the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame beneath the desert, and Xiao Feng entered the underground passage hoping to give the flame to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Feng reached a lava lake and used the Solar True Fire to shield himself from its heat.
• A Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake emerged from the magma and attacked Xiao Feng with fire pillars.
• Xiao Feng overwhelmed the snake with the Solar True Fire, killed it with the Vajra Demon Subduing Pestle, and stored its remains in his ring.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit sensed an approaching presence and warned Xiao Feng that it was not human.

Xiao Feng fought Queen Medusa over the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame, matching her attacks with his golden flames and Buddhist techniques. After Supreme Alchemist Spirit revealed that Medusa sought the flame to evolve, Xiao Feng offered to help her evolve with his own flame, leaving Medusa surprised but wary.

• Queen Medusa attacked Xiao Feng for coveting the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame, and Xiao Feng met her serpent phantom with the Mountain Moving Seal.
• Xiao Feng struck Medusa's serpent formation with the Vajra Demon Subduing Pestle, then burned her snake-like hair with the Great Sun Fire Lotus.
• Medusa stopped fighting and demanded to know why Xiao Feng wanted the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame despite already possessing a Heavenly Flame.
• Supreme Alchemist Spirit told Xiao Feng that Medusa wanted the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame to evolve and that he could help her without it.
• Xiao Feng offered to help Medusa evolve and showed her his golden flame, which astonished her, though she remained suspicious of his intentions.

Xiao Feng agreed to let Medusa use his Solar True Fire to evolve, accepting her venomous hair as a safeguard. As Medusa struggled in the flames, Li Yu secretly infused her with Divine Spring Water, and she emerged in a burst of seven-colored light.

• Medusa offered to stop competing for the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame if Xiao Feng tied her venomous hair around his wrist, and Xiao Feng accepted on the Supreme Alchemist Spirit’s advice.
• Medusa covered herself in purple light, transformed into a massive serpent, and plunged into Xiao Feng’s Solar True Fire to purify her bloodline.
• Li Yu asked the system to assess Medusa’s evolution, learned she had only a ten percent chance of success, and discovered that flame tempering purified her latent Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Li Yu secretly sent Divine Spring Water into Medusa’s body as she burned in the flames.
• Medusa’s charred serpent body burst apart, and a streak of seven-colored light shot out of the fire.

After Medusa successfully evolved into a Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python, she led Xiao Feng to the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame, which he stored in his ring. Li Yu analyzed the flame and decided to keep the azure lotus while giving the rest to the Supreme Alchemist Spirit.

• Medusa emerged from the seven-colored mist in a smaller, beautiful form and thanked Xiao Feng for helping her evolve.
• Medusa led Xiao Feng through the lava lake to the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame, warning him about the lotus's long roots.
• At the Supreme Alchemist Spirit's instruction, Xiao Feng stored the entire azure lotus in his ring and left the lava lake with Medusa.
• Li Yu analyzed the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame and learned it had formed when Magma Earth Fire fused with the lotus's wood-element energy.
• Li Yu decided to keep the azure lotus for his Immortal Estate Garden and give everything else to the Supreme Alchemist Spirit.

Xiao Feng gave Xiao Yan an Azure Lotus Earthly Flame, an inheritance technique, and the Xiao family's Dou Di bloodline. Xiao Yan gained powerful gifts while Elder Yao was left speechless by his cousin's generosity.

• Elder Yao showed Xiao Yan his Heavenly Flame and explained its value to alchemists.
• Xiao Feng returned and gave Xiao Yan a bronze box containing the Azure Lotus Earthly Flame, shocking Elder Yao.
• Xiao Feng revealed that the Xiao family was one of the Eight Ancient Clans and had once possessed a Dou Di bloodline.
• Following the Supreme Alchemist Spirit's instructions, Xiao Feng passed the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Feng transferred the remaining Dou Di bloodline to Xiao Yan, who endured the pain and emerged radiating light.
• Xiao Yan teased Elder Yao about his gifts, and Elder Yao refused to speak to someone so wealthy.

Xiao Feng traveled to the Snake-person Tribe to propose an alliance with Medusa, hoping to secure territory in the Black Horn Region for the Snake-people and a refuge for the Xiao family. After he defeated the city guards’ attacks without killing them, Medusa appeared and welcomed him.

• Xiao Feng flew to the Tagel Desert and learned from Supreme Alchemist Spirit that he could offer the Snake-person Tribe land in the Black Horn Region in exchange for an alliance.
• Xiao Feng reached the Snake-people main city, where a Snake-people Dou Wang attacked him and he defeated the attacker with Mountain Moving Seal.
• Five Snake-people Dou Wangs joined forces with Five Snake Poison Brake Seal, but Xiao Feng combined Thunderous Sound Demon Subduing Mantra with Azure-eyed Three-flower Pupils to break their formation and daze them.
• Xiao Feng announced that he had come to visit Queen Medusa, and Medusa appeared and welcomed him.

Xiao Feng proposed an alliance with Queen Medusa to conquer the Black Horn Region, and she agreed to investigate it with him. After touring the Snake-person settlements together, they traveled to Stone Desert City, where Xiao Feng introduced Medusa to his brothers.

• Xiao Feng proposed that the Snake-person Race ally with his family and move to the Black Horn Region, and Supreme Alchemist Spirit prompted him to praise the Snake-person Kingdom's scenery.
• Medusa accepted the alliance proposal but said the region needed investigation, then decided to make the trip herself with Xiao Feng.
• Medusa toured the Twelve Heavenly Snake Tribes with Xiao Feng over seven days and arranged for the race's preparations.
• Medusa and Xiao Feng set out for the Black Horn Region and stopped at Stone Desert City so Xiao Feng could inform his brothers about the alliance.
• Xiao Feng introduced Queen Medusa to Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, who were shocked to meet her and admired Xiao Feng's daring.

Xiao Feng and Medusa entered the Black Horn Region, where they traveled by carriage across the Black Region Great Plains toward Black Seal City. After Xiao Feng killed attackers who targeted Medusa, they reached the city and faced another assault from a Blood-robed youth’s followers.

• Xiao Feng and Medusa finalized an alliance with the Xiao brothers before leaving Stone Desert City for the Black Horn Region.
• Xiao Feng and Medusa landed on the Black Region Great Plains, where nomads attacked them and Xiao Feng killed them with the Mountain Splitting Palm.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit extracted information from the nomads and advised Xiao Feng to head to Black Seal City, while Medusa chose to travel by carriage.
• Xiao Feng and Medusa spent three days crossing the plains, killing bandits along the way, and arrived near Black Seal City.
• A Blood-robed youth ordered his followers to attack Xiao Feng and seize Medusa, but Xiao Feng smashed their blood-colored attacks with the Stone Shattering Palm.

Xiao Feng killed the Blood Sect’s Young Sect Master and, after learning the sect’s location, decided to attack it with Medusa. They arrived at the Blood Sect’s mountain city, where Sect Master Fan Lao confronted them and Xiao Feng unleashed the Great Sun Golden Flame.

• Xiao Feng killed the Blood Sect’s Young Sect Master and crushed the remaining blood-clothed figures with his punches.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit extracted information from the dead men’s souls and told Xiao Feng that Solar True Fire countered the Blood Sect’s techniques.
• Xiao Feng and Medusa decided to attack the Blood Sect, then flew toward its mountain city.
• Medusa noticed that the city’s cold Yin energy would suit the Snake-person Race, and Xiao Feng called for the Blood Sect’s Sect Master to appear.
• Fan Lao attacked Xiao Feng and Medusa with the Soul Devouring Blood Palm, and Xiao Feng answered with the Great Sun Golden Flame.

Xiao Feng and Medusa conquered much of the Black Horn Region and established the Wind Alliance, prompting Jia Lan Academy’s Great Elder Su Qian to meet them with Zi Yan. A clash between Medusa and Zi Yan subsided after Xiao Feng reassured Medusa, but the Supreme Alchemist Spirit then told him to ask Zi Yan for a drop of blood.

• Xiao Feng killed Fan Lao and took control of the Blood Sect’s mountain city, while Medusa killed the elders who tried to flee.
• Xiao Feng and Medusa expanded their power, and the Snake-person Tribe migrated to the region as the Wind Alliance rose over two years.
• Su Qian brought Zi Yan to meet Xiao Feng and Medusa in Black Seal City, and Li Yu learned that the Strength King had appeared.
• Medusa confronted Zi Yan for using Soul Shock, and Xiao Feng calmed Medusa before the dispute escalated.
• The Supreme Alchemist Spirit told Xiao Feng to ask Zi Yan for a drop of blood.

Xiao Feng obtained Zi Yan’s blood, and Supreme Alchemist Spirit identified her as a juvenile Ancient Void Dragon, allowing Li Yu to scan her bloodline and continue preparing his plans. As the Three Year Pact approached, Xiao Yan headed toward the Misty Cloud Sect while Nalan Yanran prepared to defeat him.

• Xiao Feng persuaded Zi Yan to give him blood so his teacher could investigate her origins, and she provided more than a dozen drops.
• Supreme Alchemist Spirit identified Zi Yan as a juvenile Ancient Void Dragon and said her blood could be used to forge equipment bearing dragon might.
• Li Yu scanned the Ancient Void Dragon bloodline and planned to send Xiao Feng to the Beast Domain after the Three Year Pact.
• Li Yu saw Xiao Yan heading toward the Misty Cloud Sect and wondered what Hun Tiandi would do after hearing someone call out “Dou Emperor.”
• Nalan Yanran carved her final Sword Mark and vowed to defeat Xiao Yan at their Three Year Pact.