Chapter Summaries

At ten, Xiao Yan became a One Star Dou Zhe and discovered that cultivating near the Ancient Ring caused an unexplained aura to appear as his Dou Qi vanished. After Xiao Zhan witnessed Xiao Yan’s apparent epiphany, Xiao Yan told the family elders he had fallen back to the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi, leaving Xiao Zhan stunned.

• Xiao Yan reached One Star Dou Zhe at age ten and returned to his room, expecting Old Yao to begin absorbing his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan cultivated while studying the Ancient Ring and sensed an unfathomable aura whenever his Dou Qi disappeared.
• Xiao Yan entered an unusual state as his Soul Perception Power spread and World Energy poured into his Dou Qi Vortex.
• Xiao Zhan saw the phenomenon and decided to discuss buying Xiao Yan a Xuan Tier Cultivation Method with the Elders.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders that he had broken through to the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders examined Xiao Yan and confirmed that his Dou Qi Vortex had disappeared, though he appeared healthy.

Xiao Yan convinced his father and the Three Great Elders that a powerful alchemist had taught him a cultivation technique that weakened his Dou Qi while strengthening his soul. Three years later, his cultivation still lagged, and just as he worried that his teacher had not appeared, he encountered an old soul and asked whether it was the spirit of his ring.

• Xiao Yan claimed his Central Continent teacher considered Pill King Gu He unworthy of being a medicine boy and had him cultivate a technique that would eventually let him become an alchemist.
• Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders believed Xiao Yan might be apprenticed to a Seventh Grade Alchemist and decided to keep supporting him.
• Xiao Yan resolved to use his identity to gain resources and train for the Green Lotus Core Flame, while noting he was not close to Gu Xun'er.
• Three years later, Xiao Yan was thirteen and had fallen to the Fourth Stage Dou Qi, so Xiao Zhan questioned whether he would reach Sixth Stage before his Coming of Age Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan worried that Old Yao had not appeared, then finished training and found an old soul before asking whether it was the artifact spirit of his ring.

Old Yao revealed himself as the spirit in Xiao Yan’s ring and accepted him as a disciple, then gave him valuable cultivation methods and techniques for the Xiao Family. Xiao Yan became Young Clan Leader, and Old Yao began teaching him alchemy while considering whether to let him choose whether to cultivate the Flame Mantra.

• Old Yao told Xiao Yan he had passed the test and could take him as his master, then gave him a pile of scrolls after Xiao Yan shamelessly asked for treasures.
• Xiao Yan brought the scrolls to Xiao Zhan, who found two Xuan Tier Advanced cultivation methods and their accompanying Dou Techniques and declared Xiao Yan the Young Clan Leader.
• The Three Great Elders agreed to Xiao Yan’s new position and argued over the benefits he brought to the Xiao Family, while Xiao Yan returned to his room and continued cultivating.
• Old Yao wondered whether Xiao Yan should learn the Flame Mantra, and Xiao Zhan later gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring filled with medicinal herbs for pill recipes Old Yao had included.
• Old Yao used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to demonstrate pill refining, and Xiao Yan teased him about being an artifact spirit before Old Yao claimed he was a fallen powerhouse with many enemies.

Old Yao helped Xiao Yan strengthen his body with Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and a set of pills, then assigned him Eight Extremes Collapse training to improve their effects. Xiao Yan endured the painful regimen and continued cultivating as his body gradually grew stronger.

• Old Yao refined medicinal materials into Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and had Xiao Yan cultivate in it to strengthen his body.
• After a month, Xiao Yan used up the liquid, broke through the fifth stage of Dou Qi, and swallowed eight pills prescribed by Old Yao.
• Old Yao explained that the pills would gradually improve Xiao Yan's physical condition and told him to reach the eighth stage before taking another set.
• Xiao Yan began cultivating in another bucket of Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and felt pain and numbness as the pills' effects started.
• Old Yao taught Xiao Yan Eight Extremes Collapse and had him practice it to help absorb the medicinal power.
• After exhausting his Dou Qi through training, Xiao Yan cultivated in the bucket and slowly improved his physical condition and World Energy absorption.

Over ten months, Xiao Yan mastered the first hidden force of Eight Extremes Collapse, developed his alchemy, and helped the Xiao Family recover financially. With Nalan Yanran’s engagement annulment approaching, he decided not to resist, then used a Pill Pattern Qi Gathering Powder to break through to one-star Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Yan broke a bluestone with the first hidden force of Eight Extremes Collapse, and Old Yao urged him to begin preparing basic medicinal liquids.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Zhan pill recipes and proposed using medicines and a partnership with the Ao Ba Family to expand the Xiao Family’s business against the Jia Lie Family.
• Xiao Yan spent his days refining medicines, helping the Xiao Family earn a fortune as his alchemy skills improved.
• Xiao Yan reached the peak of Nine Stage Dou Qi and decided to let Nalan Yanran annul their engagement when she came to Wutan City.
• Xiao Zhan prepared herbs for Qi Gathering Powder, and Old Yao refined one with a Pill Pattern that Xiao Yan swallowed to reach one-star Dou Zhe.

After establishing himself as the Xiao Family’s alchemist, Xiao Yan chose to cultivate the Flame Mantra and prepared to travel to a larger city for Beast Flames and an Alchemist Guild examination. The chapter left him setting out with one million Gold Coins after Nalan Yanran’s attempt to break their engagement was dismissed by the Xiao Family.

• Xiao Yan refined Pills for the Xiao Family while Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders kept merchants and visitors from disturbing him.
• Xiao Yan declined the family assessment, and Xiao Zhan urged him to spend more time with Xiao Xun Er and reminded him of his engagement to Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao about the Flame Mantra, chose it over an Earth Grade method, and began cultivating it as a Yellow Grade Low-Tier method.
• Nalan Yanran arrived with Ge Ye to break off the engagement, but Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders rejected her Qi Gathering Powder and sent them away.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that Beast Flames were difficult to obtain in Wutan City, so Xiao Yan decided to visit a large city's Alchemist Guild and take the Second Grade Alchemist examination.
• Xiao Zhan gathered one million Gold Coins for Xiao Yan, who prepared to leave the Xiao Family.

Xiao Yan arrived in the Imperial Capital and passed the First and Second Grade Alchemist examinations at the Alchemist Guild, shocking Fa Ma and drawing the attention of rival factions. After Fa Ma questioned him about his identity and ambitions, Xiao Yan declared that the Jia Ma Empire needed him.

• Xiao Yan bypassed the queue at the city gate, hired a guide to take him to the Alchemist Guild, and gave her a Second Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan registered for the Alchemist examination as a fourteen-year-old and claimed he was a registered disciple whose teacher’s name he could not reveal.
• Guild Master Fa Ma personally oversaw Xiao Yan’s First Grade examination, which Xiao Yan completed faster than Princess Yao Yue and with Pill Patterns.
• Xiao Yan passed the Second Grade examination, offered to take Yao Yue as a registered disciple, and moved into a luxurious courtyard while spies reported his achievement to their factions.
• Fa Ma questioned Xiao Yan about his broken engagement to The Nalan Family’s young girl and his plan to find his teacher in Central Continent after becoming a Seventh Grade Alchemist.
• When Fa Ma asked what he thought of the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan replied that the empire needed him.

Xiao Yan persuaded the Jia Ma Imperial Family to entrust Yao Yue to him as a nominal disciple in exchange for valuable cultivation resources. He then used the Dry Blue Water Flame to strengthen his Flame Mantra and advance to Four Star Dou Zhe Peak.

• Xiao Yan explained to Fa Ma why the Jia Ma Imperial Family needed a trusted young genius like him.
• Jia Xing Tian brought Yao Yue to Xiao Yan and offered medicinal herbs and the Dry Blue Water Flame as payment for accepting her as a disciple.
• Xiao Yan gave Jia Xing Tian cultivation materials and a pill recipe, then accepted Yao Yue as his nominal disciple.
• After Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian left, Xiao Yan and Old Yao prepared the Beast Flame with medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yan swallowed the resulting mixture.
• Xiao Yan devoured the enhanced Beast Flame, which evolved the Flame Mantra to Yellow Tier Intermediate and raised him to Four Star Dou Zhe Peak.

Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City with several valuable gifts and began cultivating new flames and the Molten Earth Splitting Body technique. After successive breakthroughs and fusing two Beast Flames, he advanced to Eight Star Dou Practitioner and raised the Flame Mantra to Yellow Tier Advanced.

• Xiao Yan accepted Earth Flame and Peach Blossom Flame from the Alchemist Guild and the Mittel Family, and accepted Seven Illusions Green Spirit Saliva from Nalan Jie while promising to treat him.
• Xiao Yan rejected the Misty Cloud Sect's Beast Flame and left the Imperial Capital for Wutan City.
• Old Yao taught Xiao Yan Molten Earth Splitting Body, and Xiao Yan endured its painful training with the Dry Blue Water Flame.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family estate, where the Jia Lie Family patriarch reacted furiously to his arrival.
• Xiao Yan cultivated in seclusion, refined Peach Blossom Flame and Earth Flame, fused Peach Blossom Flame with Dry Blue Water Flame, and advanced to Eight Star Dou Practitioner as the Flame Mantra reached Yellow Tier Advanced.

Xiao Yan left the Xiao Family to train in the Beast Mountain Range, carrying the Heavy Black Ruler and claiming he sought life-or-death danger despite Old Yao’s protection. After arriving in Qingshan Town, he tried to persuade Old Yao to help him find Beast Flames and a way to evolve the Flame Mantra.

• Old Yao increased Xiao Yan’s body-training intensity and told him to leave the Xiao Family to gain combat experience.
• Xiao Yan told the old man steward he planned to cross the Beast Mountain Range alone, but the steward gave him two Beast Flames and was alarmed when Xiao Yan revealed an overwhelming aura.
• The old man steward arranged for a Second Grade Alchemist to refine pills for the Xiao Family, then secretly sent a letter to the Imperial Capital after Xiao Yan left.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun Er that a Dou Zong-level clone accompanying Xiao Yan had discovered and injured him, and Xiao Xun Er decided to leave Xiao Yan alone.
• Xiao Yan carried the Heavy Black Ruler to Qingshan Town and asked Old Yao about Beast Flames and evolving the Flame Mantra, but Old Yao warned him against trying to refine a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan entered Qingshan Town seeking Xiao Yi Xian and agreed to join Myriad Medicine Hall's expedition into the Beast Mountain Range. After Old Yao sensed that Xiao Yi Xian had an unusual constitution, Xiao Yan stayed at the hall, where Mr. Yao praised her and prepared for the expedition the next day.

• Old Yao chose the Sixth Grade Earth Spirit Pill for Xiao Yan and told him to gather its ingredients in the Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan searched Qingshan Town for Xiao Yi Xian, then visited Myriad Medicine Hall and agreed to join its mercenary expedition.
• Xiao Yi Xian approached Xiao Yan, but she ran off after he bragged that his talent had made him an Alchemist.
• Old Yao sensed that Xiao Yi Xian had an unusual constitution and told Xiao Yan she could become a high-level fighter.
• Mr. Yao recognized Xiao Yan's Second Grade Alchemist badge and invited him to travel with Myriad Medicine Hall's fifty-member team the next day.

After Xiao Yan rescued Xiao Yi Xian from a drugged state, he offered her a place as his disciple and gave her an Earth Grade Cultivation Method. The pair joined a herb-gathering expedition into the Beast Mountain Range, where Mu Li’s mercenaries began targeting them, and Xiao Yan stopped the group after noticing their scheme.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian a Calm Heart Pill, freed her, and resisted the effects of her Calamity Poison Body through the night.
• Xiao Yan offered Xiao Yi Xian discipleship and an Earth Grade Cultivation Method, and she resolved to seek strength to protect herself.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian joined the Myriad Medicine Hall herb-gathering team, while Mu Li ordered his Wolf Head mercenaries to target Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged names, and Xiao Yan grew interested in helping her develop her Calamity Poison Body.
• Mu Li’s mercenaries used weak magical beasts to wear down the Myriad Medicine Hall experts, and Xiao Yan halted the group after spotting their plan.

Xiao Yan used the Medicinal Fragrance from his supposed alchemy to lure an injured Green Lion into attacking the mercenaries, then escaped with Xiao Yi Xian. They headed deeper into the Beast Mountain Range while trying to evade pursuit.

• Xiao Yan began refining medicine to keep Mu Li and the mercenaries from disturbing him, while Mu Li planned to take the pill afterward.
• An injured Second Rank Green Lion arrived, and Xiao Yan threw his medicine cauldron at Mu Li to draw the beast’s attention toward him.
• Xiao Yan grabbed the dazed Xiao Yi Xian and fled while the Green Lion attacked the mercenaries.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan about a hidden valley, and Xiao Yan led her farther into the Beast Mountain Range to evade the Wolf Head mercenaries.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the herbs and medicine cauldron he had sacrificed had cost nearly a million.

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian pills and techniques to help her endure the Calamity Poison Body, then joined her to investigate a ruin in the mountains. After Xiao Yi Xian’s Blue Eagle carried them to a cliff, Xiao Yan spotted a hidden hollow that might contain a Fragmented Map.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian a Storage Ring filled with Body Tempering Pills and Dou Techniques, explaining that they could strengthen her physique while she awaited a cure for the Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi Xian about nearby ruins, and she told him that her Blue Eagle had found something unusual near a cliff.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to a mountain peak, camped overnight, and discussed their ages, cultivation levels, and Xiao Lan’s weak aptitude.
• Xiao Yi Xian summoned Xiao Lan, and the Blue Eagle carried her and Xiao Yan to the cliff where it had discovered the strange site.
• Xiao Yan spotted a dark hollow hidden behind trees and fallen timber in the cliff face.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian explored an ancient cave and uncovered its hidden chamber, where they found a giant python beneath the stone room. The chapter ended with them standing on the python’s scales, shocked by the discovery.

• Xiao Yan killed a Rock Snake at the cave entrance, and he and Xiao Yi Xian made their way inside.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian opened a glowing stone door and found a skeleton, three locked boxes, valuables, and a herb garden.
• Xiao Yan took a key and scroll from the skeleton and opened the boxes, finding the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, Purple Cloud Wings, and Raging Lion's Chant.
• Xiao Yi Xian examined the herbs while Old Yao investigated the flower bed, the warm locks, and the Fragmented Map; Xiao Yan dug up eleven green fruits beneath the soil.
• Xiao Yi Xian found a hidden keyhole, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian used the three black Keys to reveal a passage beneath the bluestone platform.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian descended into a lower chamber and discovered that the uneven patterns beneath them were the scales of a massive python.

Xiao Yan discovered a key to the Dou Sheng Ruins and materials left by a former inheritor, but chose to postpone the trial while he completed his cultivation tasks. He and Xiao Yi Xian reached Little Medicine Valley, where Xiao Yan prepared a painful marrow-cleansing treatment to strengthen Xiao Lan.

• Xiao Yan found a Fifth-tier Fire Attribute Magic Core, fire attribute medicinal herbs, and a Storage Ring inside the dead python’s skeleton.
• Xiao Yan read the former inheritor’s final words and learned that the mountain ravine held Dou Sheng Ruins, which required a key and judged inheritors by character.
• Old Yao explained the three inheritances of Nether Flame Demon Saint, and Xiao Yan kept the key rather than giving it to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Old Yao refined the python’s bones and recovered marrow, which Xiao Yan stored for cleansing Xiao Lan’s marrow.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Little Medicine Valley, where Xiao Yan mixed python marrow with medicinal liquid and prepared a treatment for Xiao Lan.

Xiao Yan used a Bone Spirit Fate Fruit and Beast Flames to advance rapidly in cultivation, reaching Seven Star Dou Shi after half a year. He returned to Little Medicine Valley with six months to become a Fourth Grade Alchemist before Old Yao guided his next training and search for a Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Lan completed his transformation, reached Second Grade, and gained violet feathers, while Xiao Yan broke through to Nine-Star Dou Practitioner after sparring with him.
• Xiao Yan left Little Medicine Valley for the Beast Mountain Range, where Old Yao explained how to ripen Green Fate Fruits and made three Bone Spirit Fate Fruits with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yan consumed a Bone Spirit Fate Fruit, broke through to Dou Shi, and reached Four Star Dou Shi during two days of cultivation.
• Xiao Yan refined two Beast Flames, advanced the Flame Mantra to Xuan Tier Low, and rose to the peak of Five Star Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan returned to Little Medicine Valley half a year later at the peak of Seven Star Dou Shi, and Old Yao gave him six months to become a Fourth Grade Alchemist before their planned journey.

Xiao Yan returned to Little Medicine Valley and found Xiao Yi Xian had reached Five-star Dou Grandmaster by consuming poison, then stopped him from taking more poison and helped him advance with pills. After Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Lan broke through further, Xiao Yi Xian abandoned his plan to seek poisons and went to Qingshan Town to settle old grudges, returning with little besides daily supplies.

• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian unconscious from poisonous incense and gave him an antidote, but Xiao Yi Xian later tricked him into drinking poisonous mushroom soup.
• Xiao Yan learned Xiao Yi Xian had passed out more than a dozen times from poison and forbade him from eating poison until he reached Dou King.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Lan Bone Spirit Fate Fruits, then spent a month gathering herbs, refining pills, and advancing to Eight Star Dou Shi and Third Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan used Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills and Azure Spirit Pills to help Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Lan reach the brink of breakthroughs and then advance.
• Xiao Yi Xian decided to stay with Xiao Yan and eat pills instead of seeking poisons, then took Xiao Lan to Qingshan Town to settle old grudges and collect supplies.

Four months after reaching the Da Dou Shi realm and refining a Fifth Grade Pill, Xiao Yan accompanied Old Yao to hunt the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King while Yun Yun fought it for Purple Spirit Crystal. Old Yao killed the weakened beast, and he and Xiao Yan found Companion Purple Crystal Source in its cave.

• Xiao Yan broke through to the Da Dou Shi realm and successfully refined a Fifth Grade Pill, then heard the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's roar near Little Medicine Valley.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao watched Yun Yun fight the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King after negotiations over Purple Spirit Crystal failed.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Old Yao to intervene if Yun Yun was about to lose, citing the Misty Cloud Sect's importance and hidden strength.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King struck Yun Yun with its Amethyst Seal, but Yun Yun snapped its horn with her counterattack before Old Yao ambushed and killed it with Heavenly Flames.
• Yun Yun fled, while Old Yao collected the lion king's heart and Sixth Grade Magical Core and found Companion Purple Crystal Source in its cave.

Old Yao refined the Purple Crystal Lion Heart Pill for Xiao Yan, who used the Purple Fire to strengthen himself and evolve the Flame Mantra. While Xiao Lan transformed and broke through to the fifth tier, Xiao Yan and Old Yao gained strength and resources in the Beast Mountain Range, where the beast kings began organizing against Old Yao.

• Old Yao gave the Companion Purple Crystal Source to Xiao Lan and refined the Purple Crystal Lion Heart Pill from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's heart and Magical Core.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the patterned pill, cultivated beneath the sun for seven days, evolved the Flame Mantra to Xuan Tier Intermediate, and advanced to a two-star Da Dou Shi.
• Old Yao forged the Di Tier Low Flying Dou Technique Purple Crystal Wings from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's wings and Essence Blood.
• Xiao Lan swallowed the Companion Purple Crystal Source and became a purple egg, while Xiao Yan trained with Old Yao and Xiao Yi Xian cared for it.
• Over two months, Xiao Lan broke through to the fifth tier, Xiao Yan advanced to a one-star Dou Ling and raised the Flame Mantra to Xuan Tier Advanced, and Old Yao refined the Earth Spirit Pill.
• The Beast Mountain Range's beast kings united against Old Yao, and countless Magical Beasts left their territories to search for him.