Chapter Summaries

After Qing Lin was kidnapped, Xiao Zhen returned to the Xiao Clan and joined the search, suspecting the Mo Clan or the Misty Cloud Sect. Mew sensed Qing Lin near the Misty Cloud Sect’s office, and Xiao Zhen began searching its courtyard despite the elders’ objections.

• Xiao Zhen learned that a high-level Dou Ling and two Da Dou Shi had overcome Qing Lin’s protectors and abducted her.
• Xiao Zhen comforted Hanako and Qing Lin’s grandmother, then searched the Imperial Capital with his Soul Power.
• Mew sensed that Qing Lin was near the Misty Cloud Sect’s office, though something was blocking its search.
• Xiao Zhen brought Ash and Xiao Yan to the Misty Cloud Sect office and told its disciples he suspected Qing Lin was inside.
• Elder Yunnan objected to an unauthorized search, but Xiao Zhen used his Soul Power to search the entire courtyard.

Xiao Zhen searched the Misty Cloud Sect outpost for his kidnapped daughter, Qing Lin, and seized Mo Cheng, whom he suspected of abducting her. The Xiao Clan’s search failed to find Qing Lin, who was secretly being carried toward the city walls, and Yun Yun arrived to confront Xiao Zhen.

• Xiao Zhen found no trace of Qing Lin with his Soul Power and insisted on searching the Misty Cloud Sect outpost.
• Xiao Zhen recognized Mo Cheng as a likely suspect and pinned him to the ground, while Elder Yunnan threatened to intervene.
• Xiao Zhan arrived, and Xiao Zhen ordered the Xiao Clan disciples to search the outpost for Qing Lin.
• The Xiao Clan disciples ransacked the courtyard but failed to find Qing Lin, while a woman in green carried a wooden box toward the city walls.
• Yun Yun arrived and angrily rebuked Xiao Zhen for searching the Misty Cloud Sect outpost.

Xiao Zhen used the Twin-headed Fire Spirit Snake and a search of two accomplices’ memories to expose Mo Cheng as the one who abducted Qing Lin for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. With Mo Cheng’s guilt revealed before Yun Yun and the gathered crowd, he was left in despair.

• Xiao Zhen proposed that the Twin-headed Fire Spirit Snake identify Qing Lin’s abductor, then released Mo Cheng at Yun Yun’s request.
• The snake recognized Mo Cheng, while Mo Cheng denied the accusation and Xiao Lin attacked him.
• Fa Ma suggested searching memories to uncover the truth, but Yun Yun objected to a soul search that might harm Mo Cheng.
• Xiao Zhen restrained two suspicious men and searched their memories despite Mo Cheng’s protests.
• The projected memories showed Mo Cheng planning to seize Qing Lin for her eyes, leaving him in despair.

Xiao Zhen discovered that Mo Cheng had hidden Qing Lin in a box, but a woman from the Heavenly Snake Mansion took her before the Xiao Clan could find her. Xiao Zhen caught up with Lv Man and demanded an explanation, leaving their dispute over Qing Lin unresolved.

• Mo Cheng confessed that he had hidden Qing Lin in a wooden box, but Xiao Zhen found the box missing from Mo Cheng’s room.
• A Xiao Clan disciple reported that a Dou Huang had fled the Imperial Capital carrying a wooden box, so Xiao Zhen pursued her while Yun Yun decided to help.
• Yao Chen located the fleeing woman north of the city and warned Xiao Zhen that she used a Heavenly Snake Mansion cultivation technique.
• Xiao Zhen caught up with Lv Man, who said the Heavenly Snake Mansion meant no harm and that Qing Lin’s eyes could bring the Xiao Clan a great opportunity.
• Xiao Zhen challenged Lv Man for taking his daughter without first negotiating with the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Zhen negotiated with Lv Man to bring Qing Lin home safely while Heavenly Snake Mansion sought to recruit her. Yao Chen later urged Xiao Zhen to consider letting Qing Lin join, leaving him weighing the benefits against his distrust of the mansion.

• Lv Man insisted that Heavenly Snake Mansion needed to take Qing Lin back soon, but Xiao Zhen asked her to leave the child with him until she was older.
• Bai Ya arrived battered after Queen Medusa beat him for trying to court her, and Lv Man scolded him for his foolish remarks.
• Lv Man opened the chest and let Xiao Zhen take the unconscious Qing Lin after he confirmed she was unharmed.
• Xiao Zhen revived Qing Lin on the way back, and Yun Yun joined them and gave the girl a piece of purple jade as compensation for the Misty Cloud Sect's mistake.
• Xiao Zhen told Yao Chen that he was uneasy about Qing Lin joining Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Yao Chen explained that its cultivation methods could benefit her before Xiao Zhen fell silent to consider it.

Heavenly Snake Venerate arrived at the Xiao Clan to recruit Qing Lin, whose Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils he confirmed were genuine. As he examined her, he recalled how his former master had used the same eyes to save Heavenly Snake Mansion from a Dou Sheng attacker.

• After the Xiao Clan’s banquet, Xiao Zhen and Die remained concerned about finding Qing Lin a suitable cultivation method, while Lv Man urged Xiao Zhen to act.
• Heavenly Snake Venerate and Lv Man arrived at the Xiao Clan and told Xiao Lin that the mansion wanted to train Qing Lin, with the Venerate offering to personally take her as his disciple.
• Lv Man identified the visitor as Heavenly Snake Venerate, shocking Xiao Lin and the elders when they learned he was a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Zhen scanned Heavenly Snake Venerate, then brought Qing Lin to the hall after the Venerate asked to see her.
• Heavenly Snake Venerate confirmed Qing Lin possessed the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and recalled how his former master had used them to drive off a Two-Star Dou Sheng.

Heavenly Snake Venerate sought to take Qing Lin to the Heavenly Snake Mansion, while Xiao Zhen and the Xiao Clan weighed the risks of refusing him. The arrival of Gu Yuan, a peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng who brought his daughter Xun'er to stay with the clan, left Heavenly Snake Venerate wary and Xiao Zhen under immense pressure.

• Heavenly Snake Venerate asked Qing Lin to join the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Xiao Zhen requested more time before she answered.
• Heavenly Snake Venerate gave Xiao Lin a seventh-tier magical beast core and stayed at the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Zhen and Yao Chen discussed Heavenly Snake Venerate's intentions, and Xiao Zhen's family decided they could not refuse him.
• Gu Yuan arrived with Xun'er and arranged for her to stay with the Xiao Clan under a new surname.
• Heavenly Snake Venerate sensed Gu Yuan's overwhelming strength and heeded a warning not to speak carelessly.
• Xiao Zhen used the system to identify Gu Yuan as the Ancient Clan Patriarch and a peak Nine-Star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Zhen warned Xiao Yan to stay away from Xun'er and taught him a transformation technique, which left him looking like a fat cat instead of a tiger. Xun'er then approached Xiao Zhen for elixirs, and he began refining one while suspecting she had another motive.

• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Lord left the Xiao Clan with Lv Man and Qing Lin, while Qing Lin's grandmother stayed behind.
• Xiao Zhen scolded Xiao Yan for sneaking into Xun'er's room and warned him that powerful people secretly protected her.
• Xiao Zhen taught Xiao Yan a transformation technique, but Xiao Yan turned into a cat despite believing he had become a tiger.
• Xun'er came to Xiao Zhen and asked him for elixirs, claiming she wanted help because her constitution was weak.
• Xiao Zhen began refining an elixir for Xun'er without a cauldron as she praised his alchemy skills.

Xun'er tried and failed to learn where Xiao Zhen kept the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Xiao Zhen warned Xiao Yan to be wary of her. Concerned about the hidden Dou Zun and the need to strengthen his forces, Xiao Zhen used the character-summoning system and recruited Deen, Sagros, Allison, and Zog.

• Xun'er collected the pills Xiao Zhen refined, then unsuccessfully probed him about the Xiao Clan heirloom and left convinced he had the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• After Xun'er left, Xiao Zhen told Xiao Yan to watch out for her, then revealed that the elders knew about Xiao Yan sneaking into Xiao Mei's room; Xiao Yan transformed into an ostrich in embarrassment.
• Xun'er began visiting Xiao Zhen's courtyard often, and Xiao Zhen suspected Gu Yuan wanted his daughter to experience an unusual childhood.
• Feeling pressure from the hidden Dou Zun, Xiao Zhen decided to strengthen his forces and spent ten thousand Points on a Level 5 character draw.
• The system summoned Deen, a loyal and intelligent character with strength ranging from peak Dou Wang to early Dou Huang, and gifted Xiao Zhen Sagros, Allison, and Zog.

After taking Ash and Hanako back to the Pokémon World for a visit, Xiao Zhen entered the Mecha Beast World and broke through to Dou Zong. He returned to the Dou Qi Continent exhausted and asked the system for high-priced dual-cultivation techniques.

• Xiao Yan reached the ninth level of Dou Qi, and Xiao Zhen gave him Pill-Mark Qi Gathering Powder while warning him to build a solid foundation before breaking through.
• Xiao Zhen took Ash and Hanako back to Pallet Town, where Hanako reunited with her mother, and he paid Professor Oak Ash's future Trainer expenses.
• Xiao Zhen entered the Mecha Beast World, met Kurumi, and used sixth-tier high-grade medicinal pills to break through to Dou Zong.
• After spending three days with the spirit girls, Xiao Zhen returned to the Dou Qi Continent and asked the system for dual-cultivation techniques costing at least one hundred thousand.

Xiao Zhen bought the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon Dual Cultivation Chapter, tested it with Die, and decided to seize Han Feng's Heavenly Flame. After spending time with his companions and gathering fate points, he set off for the Black Corner Region with Xiao Yan, who had insisted on coming along.

• Xiao Zhen spent 1,000,000 Points on the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon Dual Cultivation Chapter and cultivated with Die, advancing to two-star Dou Zong while Die neared Dou Zong.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Han Feng possessed the Sea Heart Flame and decided to kill him to take it.
• Han Feng learned that Jia Nan Academy's inner academy held a Heavenly Flame and resolved to obtain it for himself.
• Xiao Zhen spent time with women from several worlds and gained more than 5,000 fate points from the red-haired hedgehog and the two fathers.
• Xiao Yan insisted on accompanying Xiao Zhen, who summoned a fighter jet and took him toward the Black Corner Region.

Xiao Zhen and Xiao Yan traveled into the Black Corner Region, where Xiao Zhen showed off his Dou Zong strength and teased his nephew along the way. After landing near a town, they were confronted by bandits, and Xiao Zhen killed their leader with a single wave of his hand.

• At the border fortress, a soldier spotted the fighter jet streaking across the sky, but the general found it had already passed.
• Xiao Zhen revealed to Xiao Yan that he had become a Dou Zong by calmly standing in midair.
• Xiao Yan asked about Xiao Zhen's gourds and Seven-Star Pills, and Xiao Zhen joked about refusing him a pill and taking him to the Myriad Poison Cliff if he lost the Ten-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Zhen and Xiao Yan landed beside a town in the Black Corner Region, where a gang of robbers demanded their Storage Rings and the flying treasure.
• Xiao Zhen killed the three-star Dou Ling leader with one casual wave, causing the remaining bandits to flee, then warned Xiao Yan that the town would be just as lawless.

Xiao Zhen brought Xiao Yan through the dangerous Black Corner Region while seeking information about Han Feng, then traveled to Jia Nan Academy. They entered Peace Town, where academy students inspected newcomers, and Xiao Zhen explained that they had come to visit relatives.

• Xiao Zhen killed a bald man who threatened him, sparking a fight over the dead man's Storage Ring as he and Xiao Yan continued through town.
• At an inn, Shopkeeper Wang told Xiao Zhen that Han Feng, the Medicine Emperor, was a powerful Sixth-grade Alchemist; Yao Chen emerged from Xiao Yan's Black Ring and reacted to hearing his former disciple's name.
• After several days, Xiao Zhen flew with Xiao Yan to Jia Nan Academy and explained the Death Spirit Tree and its deterrent effect in Peace Town.
• An enforcement squad surrounded the newcomers and required them to identify themselves and take a pill; Xiao Zhen swallowed one, introduced himself and Xiao Yan, and said they had come to visit clansmen at the academy.

Xiao Zhen and Xiao Yan visited Jia Nan Academy, where Xiao Zhen’s fame as an alchemist attracted the attention of the Academy’s leaders. After meeting Vice Principal Hu Gan, Xiao Zhen insisted he had come only to look around, though he considered returning later to seek the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Ruolin escorted Xiao Zhen and Xiao Yan to Jia Nan City, helped them register as guests, and guided them to the Xiao Clan students at the Academy.
• Xiao Zhen told Ruolin he was an alchemist, prompting a registrar to recognize his name and decide to inform the elders.
• The Xiao Clan students welcomed Xiao Zhen excitedly, while his visit and alchemist identity drew the interest of people watching him.
• Hu Gan visited Xiao Zhen at the inn and asked why he had come to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Zhen assured Hu Gan he meant no harm and had come out of curiosity, while privately considering a future visit to take the Fallen Heart Flame.

Xiao Zhen toured Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yan, gave Ruolin pills to help her cultivation, and accepted Hu Gan’s invitation to visit the Outer Court Alchemy Department. After witnessing the department’s chaotic alchemy mishaps, he challenged its students and Old Man Lin to recognize his superior skill.

• Xiao Zhen warned Xiao Yan to speak carefully after Hu Gan left, then toured Jia Nan Academy with him and Ruolin.
• Xiao Zhen gave Ruolin a bottle of pills to help her break through to the Da Dou Shi realm, and Hu Gan invited him to meet the Inner Court alchemists and visit the Outer Court Alchemy Department.
• Xiao Fei told Ruolin that Xiao Zhen was a Dou Huang powerhouse and Sixth-grade Alchemist, astonishing her.
• Xiao Zhen arrived at the Alchemy Department as a furnace exploded and its students brawled before Old Man Lin intervened.
• Xiao Zhen laughed at the alchemists’ disorder, prompting Old Man Lin to challenge him, and Xiao Zhen claimed he was more skilled at alchemy than they were.

Xiao Zhen challenged Jia Nan Academy’s Alchemy Department and stunned its members by refining a high-grade Sixth-grade Medicinal Pill with his Heavenly Flame. Several days later, the Outer Academy Grand Competition began, but Xiao Zhen found the fights beneath him while Xiao Yan watched with interest.

• Xiao Zhen let an Alchemy Department student choose a healing-medicine contest, then watched as the student refined a Third-grade Healing Medicine.
• Xiao Zhen revealed his green Heavenly Flame and began refining numerous ingredients, including a Sixth-Tier Magical Beast’s magic core, at once.
• Xiao Zhen refined a high-grade Sixth-grade Vitality Preservation Pill, leaving his opponent stunned and prompting Old Man Lin to ask Hu Gan about him.
• Hu Gan announced Xiao Zhen’s name and accomplishments to the gathered students, and Xiao Zhen confirmed that the demonstration had helped rein in the Alchemy Department’s arrogance.
• Several days later, the Outer Academy Grand Competition began, and Xiao Zhen watched the Dou Master matches with boredom while Xiao Yan reacted excitedly to the fighters’ Dou Skills.

Xiao Zhen met Elders Qian Mu and Bai Lie, entered Jia Nan Academy’s treasury with the students, then traveled with them to the Inner Academy. On the way, he roasted a magical beast’s wings with his Heavenly Flame and watched the old students overwhelm the newcomers in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.

• Qian Mu and Bai Lie recognized Xiao Zhen’s Green Lotus Core Flame and saw that he had reached the Dou Zong realm at a remarkably young age.
• Qian Mu and Bai Lie opened the Space Lock, and Xiao Zhen entered the treasury after the students had chosen their rewards.
• Hu Gan killed a late fifth-tier magical beast that charged the flying group, and Xiao Zhen asked to take its wings.
• Xiao Zhen plucked and roasted the wings with his Heavenly Flame, drawing complaints from Old Man Lin and sharing the food with Hu Gan and Xiao Yan.
• The group arrived at the Fire Energy Hunting Competition, where the old students crushed the newcomers and collected their Fire Energy.

Xiao Zhen negotiated with Su Qian to trade Sixth-grade Medicinal Pills for ingredients at Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, while Xiao Yan went to a stone chamber to break through. Xiao Yan was robbed of his Qi Gathering Powder and knocked unconscious by a mysterious girl, and Xiao Zhen was given broad access to the academy’s medicinal storehouse.

• Hu Gan left Xiao Zhen with Su Qian, who welcomed him and agreed to let him exchange medicinal pills for ingredients.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhen he could no longer suppress his cultivation, and Su Qian arranged for an elder to escort him to a guarded stone chamber.
• A mysterious purple-haired girl appeared in the chamber, swallowed Xiao Yan’s Qi Gathering Powder, and knocked him unconscious when he demanded compensation.
• Xiao Zhen agreed to refine at least twenty Sixth-grade Medicinal Pills for Jia Nan Academy in exchange for ingredients.
• Su Qian told Elder Hao to give Xiao Zhen any medicinal ingredient he wanted from the storehouse.

Xiao Zhen entered the Inner Academy's medicinal storehouse and found Zi Yan secretly eating its ingredients. He won her over by turning a bitter medicinal root into a sweet treat, leaving him poised to draw the greedy little dragon closer.

• Elder Hao let Xiao Zhen enter the medicinal storehouse after accepting his gift and gave him the jade token to open its energy barrier.
• Xiao Zhen found Zi Yan biting into a Dragon Blood Fire Crystal and recognized her as a pure-blooded Ancient Void Dragon.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Zhen she had never seen her family and thought they might be dead.
• Xiao Zhen used his alchemy skills to turn a bitter Profound Bitter Root into a sweet candy for Zi Yan, who happily ate it.

Xiao Zhen befriended Zi Yan and helped resolve her theft of Xiao Yan’s medicinal pill, then spent several days refining pills at Jia Nan Academy. While making an Imperial Extreme Pill, he and Yao Chen sensed a powerful fluctuation from the southwest that they suspected came from a Heavenly Flame.

• Zi Yan asked Xiao Zhen to keep making medicinal ingredients into tasty treats, and he agreed to stay at Jia Nan Academy for a while.
• Elder Hao confronted Zi Yan for raiding the medicinal storehouse, but Xiao Zhen offered to cover the missing ingredients.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhen and Su Qian that Zi Yan had stolen and eaten his medicinal pill, and Zi Yan reluctantly apologized.
• Xiao Yan received another Qi Gathering Powder and became a Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Zhen spent the next dozen days exchanging alchemy insights and refining Sixth-grade Medicinal Pills, but failed to make a Seventh-grade pill.
• Xiao Zhen and Yao Chen sensed a southwest fluctuation that stirred their flames and decided to investigate the suspected Heavenly Flame when they had time.