Chapter Summaries

Li Xiao traveled with Bailing to the Misty Cloud Sect to watch Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan fulfill their Three-Year Agreement. As the gathered spectators awaited Xiao Yan, a strange snowfall revealed the terrifying power of Bailing’s Dou Qi.

• Li Xiao accepted Yun Yun’s invitation and set out for the Misty Cloud Sect with Bailing.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran welcomed Li Xiao, and Nalan Yanran credited Ascending Heaven Pavilion’s resources for her rapid advancement to the Dou Ling realm.
• Li Xiao took the place of honor while Misty Cloud Sect disciples questioned his identity and criticized his presence.
• Yun Leng identified Li Xiao as the Lord of Ascending Heaven Pavilion, while Jia Xingtian and President Fa Ma recognized the immense Dou Qi in the falling snow.
• Jia Xingtian turned toward Bailing, and the flying magical beasts in the Misty Cloud Sect’s rear mountain broke free amid a thunderous roar.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement and fight Nalan Yanran, who had reached the Dou Ling realm while he was only a Da Dou Shi. As the duel began, Pill King Gu He and Liu Ling arrived and greeted Li Xiao, leaving Xiao Yan facing a formidable opponent.

• Bailing seized several disciples who had insulted Li Xiao and tossed them into a pool, while Yun Yun apologized and the rampaging beasts calmed down.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and declared that he had come to challenge it and settle his grievances with Nalan Yanran.
• Nalan Yanran defended her choice to break their engagement, and Yun Leng agreed to oversee the duel after Xiao Yan insisted it would be a fight to the death.
• Nalan Yanran revealed that she was a Dou Ling, while Xiao Yan was only a Da Dou Shi, and their battle began.
• Pill King Gu He arrived with his disciple Liu Ling, and both greeted Li Xiao as they watched the duel.

As Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan fought in the Misty Cloud Sect square, both unleashed increasingly powerful techniques, while Li Xiao recognized Yao Chen’s aid in Xiao Yan’s growing strength. The battle reached a dangerous climax as Xiao Yan prepared his Angry Buddha Lotus Flame and Yun Leng ordered the sect to raise its shields.

• Liu Ling stared at Bailing, and Gu He apologized for his disciple’s behavior.
• Li Xiao asked who had won the Alchemist Association competition, and Yun Yun said the champion had been Yan Xiao.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan traded attacks as she insisted she had the right to choose her own life and challenged him to fight at full strength.
• Yao Chen’s aid caused Xiao Yan’s aura to rise into the Dou Ling realm, and Nalan Yanran revealed a strange multicolored totem.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was Yan Xiao and gathered the pale white flame and the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s Beast Flame to prepare the Angry Buddha Lotus Flame.
• Nalan Yanran unleashed Extreme Wind, Glorious Setting Sun, and Yun Leng ordered everyone to activate their shields.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Agreement duel, then burned the letter of divorce and declared that their families had no connection. As he tried to leave the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Leng stopped him and demanded that he confirm something.

• Nalan Yanran unleashed her full strength, while Yun Yun and Bailing shielded the plaza from the battle’s shockwaves.
• Xiao Yan ignored Yun Leng’s offer of a reward and struck Nalan Yanran down, leaving her injured and unable to continue.
• Nalan Yanran accepted defeat, apologized for breaking off the engagement, and tried to take her own life, but Li Xiao stopped her and sheathed her sword.
• Li Xiao told Xiao Yan that the Three-Year Agreement was over and that he would not reveal the truth about Xiao Yan’s methods.
• Xiao Yan burned the letter of divorce and left Nalan Yanran and the Xiao Family free of their connection.
• Yun Leng stopped Xiao Yan before he could leave and said the Misty Cloud Sect needed him to confirm something.

After Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, Yun Leng accused him of killing Mo Cheng and ordered the Enforcement Team to detain him. Xiao Yan fought off the team, but Yun Sheng and two other Dou Wang experts blocked his escape from the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Nalan Yanran cried in Yun Yun's arms, and Yun Yun comforted her after her defeat.
• Yun Leng questioned Xiao Yan about Mo Cheng's murder, and Ge Ye testified that the killer's Dou Technique resembled Xiao Yan's.
• Nalan Yanran recalled the masked killer's terrifying white flame, and Yun Leng connected it to Xiao Yan's flames at the Alchemist Grand Meeting.
• Xiao Yan denied the accusation and tried to leave, but Yun Leng ordered the Enforcement Team to keep him in the sect.
• Xiao Yan crushed the Enforcement Team members who charged him, then faced Yun Sheng and two other Dou Wang experts blocking the main gate.

Xiao Yan faced accusations over Mo Cheng’s death, but Li Xiao exposed Mo Cheng’s crimes and Yun Yun ordered the Misty Cloud Sect to let Xiao Yan leave. Yun Yun then invited Li Xiao to stay at the sect and hosted him that night, where he gave her tea.

• Xiao Yan prepared to fight the three Dou Wangs, but Li Xiao intervened and questioned Yun Leng about Mo Cheng’s secret experiments on magical beasts and humans.
• Yun Leng stammered as the gathered experts realized he had concealed Mo Cheng’s crimes and was using the accusation against Xiao Yan to settle a private grudge.
• Yun Yun rebuked Yun Leng, declared the Misty Cloud Sect at fault, and allowed Xiao Yan to leave after the Three-Year Agreement ended.
• Yun Yun invited Li Xiao to stay at the Misty Cloud Sect, and he accepted a guest room beside hers.
• Yun Yun hosted Li Xiao with twenty-year-old wine, and Li Xiao gave her tea leaves from Ascending Heaven Pavilion.

Li Xiao and Yun Yun became lovers after drinking together, and Li Xiao promised to take responsibility for their relationship. Nalan Yanran then asked to undergo the Misty Cloud Sect's dangerous inheritance, and Li Xiao gave her a Rank 6 Pill to aid her cultivation.

• Yun Yun asked Li Xiao how he learned about Mo Cheng, and he credited the Ascending Heaven Pavilion's intelligence network.
• Li Xiao and Yun Yun drank together, revealed his face to her, and spent the night together after the room went dark.
• In the morning, Li Xiao promised to take responsibility, and Yun Yun asked him to keep their relationship secret from the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Nalan Yanran arrived and told Yun Yun she wanted to accept the sect's inheritance to grow stronger after losing to Xiao Yan.
• Li Xiao gave Nalan Yanran a Rank 6 Pill to cleanse her marrow and meridians.

Li Xiao learned that Yun Leng had gone to the Xiao Family and confronted him at the Misty Cloud Sect. Xiao Yan arrived demanding his father back, and Yun Leng threatened to keep him at the sect.

• Nalan Yanran accepted a Rank 6 Pill from Li Xiao after Yun Yun silently approved.
• A white-haired man discovered that Yun Yun's Virginity Mark had vanished, while black mist warned him not to challenge the person responsible.
• Yun Yun told Li Xiao that Yun Leng had gone to the Xiao Family with Yun Sheng and Yun Lei, so they went to confront him.
• Yun Yun reprimanded Yun Leng for acting without authorization, and Li Xiao accused him of hiding what he had done to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect demanding that Yun Leng return his father, and Yun Leng vowed to keep him there.

Xiao Yan confronted the Misty Cloud Sect over Yun Leng’s attack on the Xiao Family and his father’s disappearance. Li Xiao handed Yun Leng and two other elders to Xiao Yan, but Yun Leng defied Yun Yun’s orders and led Misty Cloud Sect fighters against him.

• Xiao Yan demanded Yun Leng’s death and accused him of gravely injuring Xiao Zhan and pursuing him from Wutan City.
• Yun Yun confronted Yun Leng, who admitted that he and two others had chased Xiao Zhan, though he claimed Xiao Zhan vanished in the forest.
• Li Xiao threw Yun Leng, Yun Sheng, and Yun Lei into the square and declared that the Xiao Family’s grievance would be settled by Xiao Yan.
• Yun Leng taunted Xiao Yan about Xiao Zhan’s suffering, prompting Xiao Yan to summon the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and draw on Yao Chen’s Soul Power.
• Yun Leng ordered several Misty Cloud Sect Dou Wang experts to attack Xiao Yan despite Yun Yun’s command to stand down.

Xiao Yan attacked Yun Leng at the Misty Cloud Sect, but Yun Leng summoned the former Sect Leader Yun Shan. Yun Shan confronted Li Xiao and Bailing, then was forced to his knees when Bailing revealed her overwhelming power.

• Xiao Yan used his Soul Power to knock down the sect members who charged him, then raised his Mysterious Heavy Ruler to kill Yun Leng.
• Yun Leng blew a flute to summon Yun Shan, whose arrival filled the mountain with a powerful aura.
• Yun Shan scolded Yun Yun and questioned Li Xiao, then threatened to keep him and Xiao Yan at the sect unless they explained themselves.
• Bailing challenged Yun Shan and used an invisible force to crush him to the ground, breaking both his legs.
• Yun Shan recognized Bailing as a Dou Zun powerhouse and apologized, while Bailing asked whether he still wanted an explanation from Li Xiao.

Xiao Yan demanded Yun Leng’s life for the massacre of the Xiao Family, while Yun Shan tried to claim authority over the punishment. Xiao Yan unleashed the Angry Buddha Lotus Flame, leaving Yun Leng near death and the Misty Cloud Sect devastated.

• Yun Shan recognized Li Xiao as the Auction House Pavilion Master, and Bailing released the pressure holding him down.
• Yun Shan apologized to Xiao Yan but insisted Yun Leng could not die by Xiao Yan’s hand, prompting Xiao Yan to threaten the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan fused Beast Flame with Bone Spirit Cold Fire and completed the Angry Buddha Lotus Flame with his teacher’s help, despite Yun Shan ordering the Dou Wangs to stop him.
• Xiao Yan’s attack exploded before Yun Leng, devastating the Misty Cloud Sect and severing Yun Leng’s meridians.
• Yun Shan handed the silent Yun Leng to Yun Lei and Yun Sheng and ordered them to ask Gu He to try to save him.

Li Xiao stopped Xiao Yan and Yun Shan from continuing their fight, and both agreed to end the feud after Xiao Yan killed Yun Leng. Xiao Yan left the Misty Cloud Sect and planned to move his family away from Wutan City, while Li Xiao turned his attention to the Soul Hall's search for Xiao Zhan and the Tou She Ancient God Jade.

• Xiao Yan insisted that Yun Sheng and Yun Lei should pay for the destruction of the Xiao Family, but Li Xiao ordered him to stop.
• Bailing warned Yun Shan that she would suppress whoever started another fight, and Yun Shan and Xiao Yan both accepted Li Xiao's decision to end the conflict.
• Xiao Yan left the Misty Cloud Sect, and Li Xiao privately told Yun Yun that preventing a deadly conflict would spare her sect a future catastrophe.
• Yun Shan invited Li Xiao and Yun Yun to the main hall, while Xiao Yan collapsed at the foot of the mountain and learned from Yao Chen that Bailing was a Nine Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan decided to move his clan members away from Wutan City, and Yao Chen agreed that it was sensible.

Li Xiao met with Yun Shan and Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect, then negotiated with Wu Protector over the Tou She Ancient God Jade and Xiao Zhan. The chapter ended with Li Xiao considering the treasures and bloodline power in Xiao Xuan’s tomb and explaining why the world had run out of the source qi needed to become a Dou Emperor.

• Yun Shan apologized to Li Xiao and urged Yun Yun to stay by his side, while Li Xiao embraced her.
• Wu Protector arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and respectfully greeted Li Xiao as a representative of the Soul Hall.
• Li Xiao refused to sell the Tou She Ancient God Jade privately but promised to notify the Soul Hall if he auctioned it.
• Wu Protector handed over the unconscious Xiao Zhan after Li Xiao asked where he was.
• Li Xiao considered the valuable treasures in Xiao Xuan’s tomb in the Gu Clan’s Ancient World and recalled that Xiao Xuan had died seeking to restore the Xiao Clan’s bloodline.
• Li Xiao reflected on how the world’s source qi had been depleted and how Tou She Ancient God had stored the remaining source qi in the Embryonic Emperor Pill.

Li Xiao rescued Xiao Zhan and warned Yun Shan and Wu Protector to end their secret dealings concerning the Misty Cloud Sect. After the Three-Year Agreement, Yun Shan replaced Yun Yun as sect leader so she could leave with Li Xiao and Bailing.

• Li Xiao healed Xiao Zhan, who woke in terror and learned that the Xiao Family had been destroyed and most of its disciples killed or injured.
• Li Xiao told Xiao Zhan to find the surviving clansmen in Stone Desert City, and Xiao Zhan departed after thanking him.
• Li Xiao warned Yun Shan and Wu Protector to stop their secret dealings, and Yun Shan agreed.
• Li Xiao announced that he was leaving the Misty Cloud Sect and called Yun Yun to join him.
• Yun Shan stepped down as sect leader in favor of himself, freeing Yun Yun to leave, and told her to take Yan Ran as well.
• Wu Protector questioned Yun Shan about abandoning their plans, but Yun Shan said they could not risk opposing the Ascending Heaven Pavilion.

Li Xiao brought Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to Jia Nan Academy in search of the Fallen Heart Flame, hoping to use it to strengthen Ascending Heaven Pavilion. The academy’s Great Elder Su Qian confronted the visitors, and Hu Qian recognized Li Xiao as the Lord of Ascending Heaven Pavilion.

• Wu Protector ended Soul Hall’s cooperation with Yun Shan, waiving its fees while asking Yun Shan to provide good items in the future.
• Li Xiao chose to travel to Jia Nan Academy to obtain the Fallen Heart Flame, which Ascending Heaven Pavilion could consume to grow stronger.
• Bailing opened a teleportation gate and took Li Xiao, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran from Misty Cloud Sect to the Black-Corner Region.
• The group arrived at Jia Nan Academy, where their powerful auras alarmed the students and drew out Great Elder Su Qian and other experts.
• Li Xiao introduced himself to Su Qian, and Hu Qian recognized him as the Lord of Ascending Heaven Pavilion.

Li Xiao visited Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian welcomed him after learning about the Ascending Heaven Pavilion's power. Li Xiao met Xiao Xun'er and hinted that the Pavilion held the Emperor Seal, leaving her determined to uncover his identity and the truth behind the Auction House.

• Su Qian apologized after Bailing's pressure forced him to recognize Li Xiao's strength, then invited Li Xiao and his companions to a private reception.
• Li Xiao spotted Xiao Xun'er and sent Yun Yun and Yan Ran ahead while he spoke with her.
• Li Xiao invited Xiao Xun'er to visit the Ascending Heaven Pavilion and mentioned that it might have the Emperor Seal before disappearing.
• Xiao Xun'er summoned Ling Ying and questioned him about the Ascending Heaven Pavilion, Li Xiao, and the Emperor Seal.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er about the Pavilion's powerful visitors and Li Xiao's intervention at the Misty Cloud Sect, while noting that the Gu Clan had little regard for Xiao Yan's potential.

Li Xiao negotiated with Great Elder Su Qian to exchange three Eighth-Rank Pills and five low-grade Earth-class Dou Skills Cultivation Methods for Jia Nan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame. Su Qian accepted and led Li Xiao and the others to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, where the elders prepared to reinforce the seal.

• Xun'er realized the Emperor Seal mentioned by Li Xiao was the Gu Clan’s secret Emperor Seal Skill, then sent Ling Ying to rest outside the academy.
• Li Xiao told Su Qian he wanted Fallen Heart Flame and offered three Eighth-Rank Pills and five low-grade Earth-class Dou Skills Cultivation Methods in exchange.
• Su Qian agreed to the exchange, and Bailing broke the pills’ protective shields so Su Qian could take possession of them.
• Li Xiao asked to see the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower, and Su Qian led him and the elders there as they formed a formation to stop Fallen Heart Flame from breaking its seal.
• Li Xiao recalled that the tower’s depths held another Fallen Heart Flame and the dangerous Fire Lizardmen, whom Yao Tianhuo had encountered while trying to subdue the flame.

Li Xiao prepared to receive the Fallen Heart Flame while Jia Nan Academy’s elders maintained its seal, and he recalled the Dou Di Cave Abode hidden beneath the magma. When Han Feng arrived with Black-Corner Region experts to claim the flame, Li Xiao warned them off, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Li Xiao remembered the Dou Di Cave Abode and its treasures beneath the magma, then resolved to grow stronger before pursuing its secrets.
• Su Qian and the academy elders restrained Fallen Heart Flame as Bailing warned Li Xiao that something unusual lay in the magma, but he stopped her from taking the risk.
• Medicine Emperor Han Feng arrived with experts from the Black-Corner Region and demanded that Jia Nan Academy hand over Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Qian said he had transferred the flame to Li Xiao, and Han Feng and the other visitors greeted the pavilion lord.
• Li Xiao warned Han Feng to stay put and asked Gold Silver Two Elders whether they planned to seize the flame; they denied it, and the Black-Corner Region experts hesitated to act.

Fallen Heart Flame broke free of Jia Nan Academy’s formation, and Li Xiao’s allies gathered to help subdue it. Bailing suppressed the flame with her Dou Zun power and sent a massive tornado toward it.

• Li Xiao had Bailing protect Yun Yun while Jia Nan Academy’s experts prepared to face the Heavenly Flame.
• The Gold Silver Two Elders, Fan Lao, Yuan Yi, and Han Feng joined the effort to support Li Xiao and Jia Nan Academy.
• Fallen Heart Flame shattered the formation and burst out of the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower’s encirclement.
• Bailing struck Fallen Heart Flame into the ground with overwhelming pressure, then formed a powerful ice-blue tornado.
• Fallen Heart Flame charged at Bailing, who sent the tornado hurtling toward it.

Bailing subdued Fallen Heart Flame, and Li Xiao hosted the Black-Corner Region experts at Jia Nan Academy to celebrate. The banquet was interrupted by Zi Yan, who arrived seeking food and eagerly ate the Rank 7 magical beast meat.

• Bailing trapped Fallen Heart Flame in a spatial barrier after crushing it with her strength.
• Han Feng congratulated Li Xiao and gave him a sealed medicinal formula, prompting the other experts to offer gifts as well.
• Li Xiao hosted a banquet at Jia Nan Academy and served meat from a Rank 7 magical beast to the guests.
• Su Qian explained that Bailing stood behind Li Xiao rather than sitting at his table, while the experts toasted their host.
• Zi Yan arrived at the banquet, complained that Su Qian had stopped giving her medicinal herbs, and grabbed some Rank 7 magical beast meat.