Chapter Summaries

After twelve years trapped between life and death, Xiao Lin awakened with a Family System that strengthened him through the Xiao Family members’ cultivation. He emerged from seclusion as the Xiao Family learned of his return, just as the Misty Cloud Sect asked Xiao Zhan to dissolve Xiao Yan’s marriage contract.

• Xiao Lin awakened from his twelve-year half-dead state and discovered the Family System, which rewarded him when Xiao Family members cultivated.
• Xiao Lin decided to select promising clan members for greater system rewards and broke free from the ice with his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Lin emerged from seclusion, and the Core Elders rejoiced and sent word to Clan Leader Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family elders hosted three Misty Cloud Sect visitors, including Yan Ran, at the Guest Hall.
• The Misty Cloud Sect elder asked Xiao Zhan to dissolve the marriage arrangement between Yan Ran and the Xiao Family.

At the Xiao Family, Xiao Zhan faced Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye over the broken engagement, while Xiao Lin learned of the insult and took action. Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran's terms, formally severed their connection to the Xiao Family, and knelt before Xiao Zhan just as a terrifying wave of Dou Qi swept into the hall.

• Xiao Zhan stopped himself from attacking Ge Ye after the Three Elders reminded him of his duty as Clan Leader, and Ge Ye offered an Ancient Jade box as compensation.
• A Xiao Family messenger told Xiao Lin that Nalan Yanran had come to break the engagement, and Xiao Lin summoned his Dou Qi Wings and prepared to act.
• Xiao Yan confronted Nalan Yanran, challenged her to wait and see whether he could rise again, and rejected her proposed three-year wager.
• Xiao Yan cut his palm, marked the contract with his blood, and declared that Nalan Yanran was expelled from the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan knelt before Xiao Zhan as an overwhelming wave of Dou Qi swept into the hall, prompting the people inside to demand, "Who is it?!"

Xiao Lin awakened and revealed himself as a Dou Wang, driving the Misty Cloud Sect visitors from the Xiao Family after Nalan Yanran broke off her engagement with Xiao Yan. He then took Xiao Yan aside and exposed the mysterious spirit in Xiao Yan’s ring as the one who had absorbed his Dou Qi for three years.

• Xiao Lin emerged from his long recovery, and the Xiao Family recognized him as its returned Dou Wang clan head.
• Xiao Lin rejected the Misty Cloud Sect’s compensation, wounded Ge Ye and the accompanying man, and ordered them to leave while upholding Xiao Yan’s Three-Year Pact with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Lin lifted the Xiao Family members to their feet and took Xiao Yan to the back mountain for a private conversation.
• Xiao Lin took Xiao Yan’s black ring and forced the elderly spirit inside it to appear, identifying him as the cause of Xiao Yan’s vanishing Dou Qi.
• The spirit admitted that he had absorbed Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi for three years, and Xiao Yan angrily cursed him.

Xiao Lin confronted Yao Chen about absorbing Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and persuaded him to help Xiao Yan cultivate. He then used the Xiao Family Genealogy and the system to plan the clan’s development, ending with Xiao Yan’s breakthrough giving Xiao Lin cultivation feedback.

• Xiao Yan confronted Yao Chen over the three years of ridicule caused by his lost Dou Qi, and Yao Chen explained that the hardship had helped him mature.
• Xiao Lin revealed that he knew Yao Chen’s identity and persuaded him to help Xiao Yan cultivate, noting that Yao Chen’s alchemy surpassed Pill King Gu He’s.
• Xiao Lin told Yao Chen that the Xiao Family had come from the Middle Continent and had preserved records before its decline.
• Xiao Lin reviewed the Xiao Family Genealogy, considered how to strengthen the clan, and received system feedback that raised his breakthrough progress from 9% to 11%.
• Xiao Yan broke through a cultivation realm, and Xiao Lin received enough feedback to raise his progress to 12%, prompting him to plan to increase Xiao Yan’s strength.

Xiao Lin extorted the Gale Family and the Ouba Family, then warned the Xiao Family that the Misty Cloud Sect might attack and ordered them to prepare. The chapter left the family organizing a retreat, buying alchemy ingredients, and selecting promising youths to strengthen their forces.

• Xiao Lin visited the Gale Family and demanded four million gold coins after Gale Bi suggested he extort the Ouba and Xiao Families.
• Xiao Lin visited the Ouba Family that night and threatened them into paying three million gold coins.
• Xiao Lin summoned Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders, warned them that the Misty Cloud Sect could destroy the Xiao Family, and urged them to improve their strength.
• Xiao Lin said an Alchemist would refine pills if they supplied the ingredients, and Xiao Zhan suggested giving the pills to younger family members.
• Xiao Lin ordered the First Elder to establish a retreat at the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Second Elder to buy ingredients with a seven-million-gold-coin quota, and the Third Elder to choose promising youths with Xiao Zhan.

Xiao Lin used the Xiao Family’s wealth and resources to consolidate its dominance in Wutan City, then recovered from his injuries and broke through to Two-Star Fighting King with Xiao Yan’s cultivation feedback. Ya Fei visited the Xiao Family on behalf of the Miter Auction House, beginning deeper exchanges between the city’s two most powerful forces.

• Xiao Lin revealed himself as the mysterious Dou Wang and took seven million gold coins from the Gale Family and the Oba Family in exchange for letting their feud with the Xiao Family end.
• Xiao Lin gave Xiao Yan and Yao Lao resources to make Qi Gathering Powder for the Xiao Family’s disciples, while Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders organized the clan’s training roster.
• After cultivating for thirty days and receiving Dou Qi from Xiao Yan, Xiao Lin recovered from his injuries and advanced to Two-Star Fighting King.
• A concealed figure near the Xiao Family sensed Xiao Lin’s breakthrough and praised his resilient Dou Qi.
• Ya Fei arrived at the Xiao Family’s training plaza and praised its young disciples as the Miter Auction House sought closer ties with Wutan City’s dominant clan.

Xiao Lin negotiated a partnership between the Xiao Family and the Miter Auction House to establish a Pill Pavilion, naming Xiao Yan as the Xiao Family’s representative. He then turned his attention to Jia Nan Academy, hoping to secure places for Xiao Family disciples and ultimately gain access to the Falling Heart Flame.

• Ya Fei watched Xiao Yan spar at the Xiao Family grounds and found that his abilities contradicted the rumors about him.
• Ya Fei met Xiao Lin and agreed that the Miter Auction House would trade materials and money for Qi Gathering Powder and jointly establish a Pill Pavilion with the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Lin chose Xiao Yan to represent the Xiao Family in the Pill Pavilion partnership.
• After Ya Fei left, Xiao Lin planned to invest Qi Gathering Powder in Jia Nan Academy to send Xiao Family disciples there.
• Xiao Lin focused on Jia Nan Academy’s Falling Heart Flame, ranked fourteenth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking.

Xiao Lin weighed whether to cultivate the system-rewarded Earth Water Fire Wind technique while planning to strengthen the Xiao Family. Nearly half a year later, Xiao Yu returned from Jia Nan Academy to find the family transformed, and Xiao Yan noticed her arrival.

• Xiao Lin rejected the Blazing Flame Formula for himself and considered replacing his inadequate Raging Lion's Fury with a stronger cultivation technique.
• Xiao Lin inspected Earth Water Fire Wind, a system reward after Xiao Yan's breakthrough, but hesitated because it required cultivating four attributes and had no stated grade.
• Xiao Lin wrote down “Build high walls, stockpile grain, and claim kingship slowly” as his guiding plan for developing the Xiao Family.
• Over nearly half a year, Xiao Lin ordered the Xiao Family to spend heavily on nurturing its younger members, and the family rebuilt its estate into a lavish mansion.
• Xiao Yu returned from Jia Nan Academy and was stunned by the Xiao Family's transformation.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er spotted Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yan felt uneasy about how she would react to the family reforms.

Xiao Yan encountered Xiao Yu, who attacked him before learning that his cultivation had rapidly improved, while Ya Fei arrived to handle the Xiao Family's goods. Xiao Lin revealed his Seven-Star Fighting King cultivation and planned to send Xiao Family disciples to Jia Nan Academy as its recruitment visit to Wutan City approached.

• Xun'er teased Xiao Yan about his past encounter with Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yan explained their hostility.
• Xiao Yu mocked Xiao Yan and slashed at him, then was surprised when he dodged and revealed his Eighth Stage of Dou Qi.
• Ya Fei arrived to handle the Xiao Family's goods and praised Xiao Yan's rapid improvement.
• Xiao Lin checked his system and saw that he had reached the Seven-Star Fighting King stage while keeping his later breakthroughs secret.
• Xiao Lin planned to send Xiao Family disciples to Jia Nan Academy under an agreement to exchange pills and resources for places.
• Jia Nan Academy's recruitment instructors were expected to arrive in Wutan City within a few days.

The Xiao Family arrived at Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment plaza, where its members prepared to compete for leadership. When Xiao Yu was cornered by Luo Bu and his companions, Xiao Ning led the Xiao Family in attacking them and fired a signal for help.

• Xiao Lin’s investment allowed more than twenty Xiao Family members to attend Jia Nan Academy, and the group entered the crowded recruitment plaza through a reserved passage.
• Xiao Ning proposed that the Xiao Family members choose a leader through competition, and Xiao Yan agreed with Xun Er that it would encourage healthy rivalry.
• Luo Bu and his companions surrounded Xiao Yu and pressured her to give him an answer, so Xiao Yan urged Xiao Ning to intervene.
• Xiao Ning and more than twenty Xiao Family members attacked Luo Bu’s group, but Luo Bu’s Dou Qi blast knocked them back.
• Xiao Ning ordered a signal arrow fired, and it burst above the plaza in the shape of the character Xiao, silencing the crowd.

After Luo Bu and Ge Ci attacked the Xiao Family’s younger generation, Xiao Ning’s signal brought the Xiao Family’s armed forces to the plaza, where Xiao Lin’s power overwhelmed the soldiers. Xiao Lin proposed expelling the attackers instead of killing them, leaving their fate with Instructor Ruo Lin.

• Xiao Ning fired the Xiao Family’s Cloud-Piercing Arrow, and Xiao Lin’s Dou Qi forced the soldiers blocking the family back.
• The Third Elder arrived with armed soldiers and ordered Luo Bu, Ge Ci, and the others killed for attacking the Xiao Family’s younger generation.
• Xiao Yu tried to stop the executions, then explained the incident to Instructor Ruo Lin when she arrived.
• The Third Elder pointed Ruo Lin toward Xiao Lin in the sky, revealing that the Seven-Star Dou King had been alerted.
• Xiao Lin offered to spare Luo Bu and the others if Jia Nan Academy expelled them, and they begged Ruo Lin not to do so.

Xiao Lin focused on cultivation while the Xiao Family settled into a period of stability, then spent nearly half a year gathering energy to break through from Nine-Star Dou Wang to Dou Emperor. After awakening his new power and surveying the Xiao Family, Wutan City, and the Monster Beast Mountain Range with his Soul Power, he decided to leave seclusion.

• Xiao Lin sent the Third Elder and armed Dou Zhe away, then ended the Jia Nan Academy recruitment with Instructor Ruo Lin and approved Xiao Yan's year of leave.
• Xiao Lin entrusted family affairs to Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders while he cultivated and tracked Xiao Yan's progress through the pills sent home.
• Xiao Lin began advancing from Dou Wang to Dou Emperor, drawing on energy from heaven and earth and the Xiao Family's daily feedback for nearly half a year.
• Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders guarded Xiao Lin's cultivation site when powerful Dou Qi fluctuations announced his breakthrough.
• Xiao Lin awakened as a Dou Emperor, swept his Soul Power across Wutan City and the Monster Beast Mountain Range, and silenced the Magical Beasts' roars.
• Xiao Lin decided it was time to leave seclusion.

Xiao Lin broke through to Dou Emperor and set out on a journey while Xiao Yan arrived in the Tagor Desert to continue cultivating. In Mo City, Xiao Yan found another fragment of the map leading to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Xiao Lin emerged from seclusion as a One Star Dou Emperor, delegated the Xiao Family's affairs to Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders, and departed using Xiao Yan's coordinates.
• Xiao Yan reached the Tagor Desert after more than a year of training, having become a Dou Master and a Second-grade Alchemist.
• Yao Lao explained that the desert's Fire and Earth Attribute energy suited Xiao Yan's Purple Fire and would help temper him.
• Xiao Yan entered Mo City and went to the Ancient Map shop to look for a map.
• Xiao Yan found an old Map Fragment among the shop's damaged maps and recognized it as part of the treasure map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Xiao Yan tried to buy the Map Fragment from the mapmaker, only to discover that the old man was the famed Ice Emperor Hai Bodong. Xiao Lin intervened before Hai Bodong could attack Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao noticed that Xiao Lin’s strength had become impossible to read.

• Xiao Yan asked Hai Bodong about the Map Fragment and offered to buy it, but Hai Bodong refused and warned him not to take it by force.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Hai Bodong had once been a Dou Emperor, though a strange power had suppressed his strength to around Dou Ling.
• Hai Bodong recognized that Xiao Yan knew something about the fragment, shut the shop door, and released a tyrannical aura against him.
• Xiao Lin appeared, pushed back Hai Bodong’s aura, and identified him as the former Jia Ma Empire expert known as the Ice Emperor.
• Yao Lao found that he could no longer see through Xiao Lin’s cultivation, unlike when he had previously sensed Xiao Lin’s One-Star Fighting King strength.

Xiao Lin revealed that he was a Dou Emperor and negotiated an alliance with Hai Bodong, who agreed to trade his half of the ancient map for help recovering his strength. After parting from Xiao Yan in Mo City, Xiao Lin traveled to Stone Desert City to visit his grandsons Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.

• Xiao Lin revealed his strength as the Wind Emperor, and Hai Bodong agreed to discuss a deal after seeing Yao Lao’s Heavenly Flame.
• Hai Bodong explained that Queen Medusa had sealed his cultivation and promised the ancient map and his friendship in return for a Sixth-grade Pill that could break the seal.
• Xiao Lin reminded Xiao Yan that he already held the other half of the map, and the four men formed an alliance before splitting up in Mo City.
• Xiao Yan set out to gather medicinal ingredients, while Xiao Lin went to search for the Green Lotus Platform and its Earth Fire Lotus Seeds.
• Xiao Lin flew to Stone Desert City, found the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s camp, and asked its guards to inform the commander that someone from the Xiao Family of Wutan City had arrived.

Xiao Lin reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, then learned that Qing Lin could sense a bloodline aura in the desert. He took her to its location, where they found a two-headed snake-like Magical Beast hiding in a magma cavern, and Xiao Lin trapped it.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed their grandfather Xiao Lin at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s gate, and Xiao Ding introduced Xue Lan.
• Xiao Lin ordered the brothers to contact the owner of Ancient Map and search for Xiao Yan, then questioned Qing Lin about bloodline auras.
• Qing Lin identified a location on the map, and Xiao Lin took her there by air.
• Xiao Lin and Qing Lin followed an underground path into a magma cavern, where Qing Lin sensed something hiding in the molten rock.
• Xiao Lin stirred the magma with his Dou Qi and trapped the two-headed Magical Beast in a red tornado.

Xiao Lin helped Qing Lin subdue the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and gathered the Green Lotus Core Flame’s lotus pedestal and seeds. He learned Queen Medusa had taken the Heavenly Flame, then set out with Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong to pursue it while keeping his true strength and the Xiao Family’s plans hidden.

• Xiao Lin subdued the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and guided Qing Lin to use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to form a contract with it.
• Xiao Lin used the snake to locate the Heavenly Flame and collected the Green Lotus Core Flame’s lotus pedestal and seeds.
• Xiao Lin returned to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and told Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li that Queen Medusa had taken the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Lin explained that Queen Medusa was occupied refining the Heavenly Flame and that other pursuers could draw attention while they acted in secret.
• Xiao Lin, Xiao Yan, and Hai Bodong set out for the desert, while Xiao Lin resolved to conceal his Dou Emperor strength and continue building the Xiao Family’s power.

Yue Mei and Mo Bass confronted Gu He’s powerful human party as it arrived at the Snake People city seeking Queen Medusa. Medusa finally appeared before Gu He, leaving him and his allies facing the queen they had come to meet.

• Yue Mei told Mo Bass that Gu He’s group included a Dou Emperor, three Dou Wangs, and four Dou Lings, and that they were approaching the palace.
• Yue Mei and Mo Bass went to the locked city wall, where Gu He’s party demanded a meeting with Queen Medusa.
• Mo Bass refused to summon Medusa and warned that Snake People from the Eight Great Tribes were on their way; Yan Shi and Mo Bass traded insults until Gu He stopped them.
• Gu He called out to Queen Medusa, and a distortion in the air appeared above the city wall.
• Queen Medusa emerged before the crowd, prompting the Snake People to kneel as Gu He and Yan Shi moved closer to Black Robe.

Gu He and his allies attacked the Snake People Clan to seize the Heavenly Flames while Queen Medusa was occupied, and Xiao Lin used the chaos to get Xiao Yan into the Medusa Temple. As Gu He tried to enter the city, a mysterious green-robed figure appeared and sent him flying.

• Xiao Lin told Xiao Yan that Gu He wanted the Heavenly Flames and that Queen Medusa needed them to evolve, then urged him to prepare for the fighting.
• The Black Robe exposed Queen Medusa's apparition as an energy clone, and Gu He's group charged toward the Medusa Temple.
• Xiao Lin led Xiao Yan through the defenses and gave him the lotus platform, then entered the temple to collect its treasures before heading toward the battle.
• The Black Robe swept aside the Snake People Clan's poisoned spears with a Green Tornado, and Gu He ordered Yan Shi and Feng Li to hold off Yue Mei and Mo Bass while he searched for the Heavenly Flames.
• The Black Robe moved to fight Hua She'er so Gu He could enter the city, but a green-robed figure appeared and struck Gu He away.

Xiao Lin held Gu He and the human alchemists back as Queen Medusa’s evolution ended and Xiao Yan escaped with the Green Flame. The chapter left Gu He’s group surrounded by Snake People while Xiao Yan searched for his companions and wondered where Xiao Lin was.

• Xiao Lin revealed his Dou Emperor strength and knocked Gu He back, preventing the humans from reaching Queen Medusa.
• Dark clouds gathered over the city, and a bolt of lightning struck the Green Flame before the clouds cleared and green mist concealed the island.
• Xiao Lin attacked Gu He’s group and urged the Snake People to keep them from escaping; a red-aura Snake People leader and another Dou King arrived to help.
• The purple barrier vanished, and Black Robe found no sign of Queen Medusa or the Heavenly Flames while Xiao Lin realized Xiao Yan had escaped with them.
• Xiao Yan flew through the desert with the Green Flame and followed Yao Lao’s directions toward their companions, while Yao Lao explained that Xiao Lin was holding Gu He’s group back.