Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng refined a pill that summoned a lightning tribulation, drawing Black Seal City's factions to Thousand Medicine Workshop. As Li Xuan and her allies fought to protect the workshop, an intruding Dou Wang escaped with the pill while Li Xuan was held back.

• Xiao Heng combined the medicinal ingredients and refined them into a blue pill whose fragrance formed a flower, signaling its high rank.
• Thunderclouds gathered above Thousand Medicine Workshop, and Li Xuan assembled her retainers and elders to defend the workshop.
• Three rival Dou Emperors arrived and waited for the pill to finish refining while Li Xuan refused to let them enter.
• Lightning struck behind the workshop's main hall, and the pill's fragrance spread as the clouds dispersed.
• The rival factions attacked Thousand Medicine Workshop, and Li Xuan and Aunt Li fought the Dou Emperors while battles erupted across the grounds.
• A Dou Wang slipped past Li Xuan's water curtain and fled with the pill, while two Dou Emperors blocked her pursuit.

Xiao Heng revealed his overwhelming strength when intruders attacked Li Xuan and Thousand Medicine Workshop over a pill. He killed two Dou Emperors, captured the third, and left Li Xuan’s people to deal with the remaining enemies.

• Li Xuan fought off the intruders and hurried to protect Xiao Heng, but Xiao Heng killed the Dou Wang who was approaching him.
• Xiao Heng appeared beside Li Xuan, revealed the pill to the intruders, and refused to let them leave without consequences.
• Xiao Heng attacked the invaders with ten Heavenly Flame Swords, then detonated them to engulf the three Dou Emperors in flames.
• Li Xuan ordered Thousand Medicine Workshop’s people to attack the remaining enemies while Xiao Heng pursued the three Dou Emperors.
• Xiao Heng spared the wounded woman after she agreed to submit, but killed the burly man and the middle-aged scholar.

Xiao Heng defeated the factions that attacked the Thousand Medicine Workshop and compelled their surviving leaders to serve Li Xuan. He gave Li Xuan a Seventh-Rank Pill, which brought her to peak Dou Huang, while outsiders gathered in Black Seal City but refrained from challenging him.

• Xiao Heng killed the invading forces’ fighters, leaving one of Black Seal City’s four great factions standing and the survivors at his mercy.
• Xiao Heng made Yu Xin and five other leaders swallow pills that let him control them, then ordered them to obey Li Xuan and offered rewards for their service.
• Xiao Heng gave Li Xuan a Seventh-Rank Pill and other resources, and she refined the pill while he guarded her.
• Li Xuan emerged with the aura of a peak Dou Huang and began consolidating control of Black Seal City with her strengthened faction.
• Outsiders arrived seeking news of the Seventh-Rank Pill, but Xiao Heng’s warning and the force under his command kept them from attacking; some visitors left and others sent gifts.

After returning to Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Heng reunited with Queen Medusa, who had stayed in his courtyard while he was away. He persuaded her to remain a little longer, and their growing closeness showed as they spent the evening together.

• Xiao Heng returned to Jia Nan Academy and met with Su Qian and Hu Gan, who could not sense his current strength and wondered if he had reached Dou Emperor.
• Hu Gan hinted that someone was waiting for Xiao Heng in his courtyard, where he found Queen Medusa still staying.
• Queen Medusa said the Sky Swallowing Python was gone and that her soul fusion was nearly complete, but Xiao Heng persuaded her to wait and travel with him later.
• Queen Medusa entered Xiao Heng's room and scolded him for intruding, but she smiled after he hurriedly left.
• Xiao Heng and Queen Medusa spent the evening in the courtyard, and the Sky Swallowing Python visited Xiao Heng's room that night.

Xiao Heng waited outside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, confident Xiao Yan would survive, then returned to Pan Men and reunited with his friends. The chapter ended with Xiao Heng, Zi Yan, Bear Two, Hu Jia, Wu Hao, and Lin Yan preparing a welcome-back feast.

• Xiao Heng worried about Xiao Yan at the tower, and Hu Jia and Wu Hao joined him as he insisted Xiao Yan would return alive.
• Xiao Heng asked about Pan Men, and Hu Jia publicly scolded him and Wu Hao for leaving her to manage its affairs.
• Xiao Heng returned to Pan Men, apologized to Hu Jia, and learned the faction was developing well while Zi Yan and Bear Two were out hunting for treasures.
• Hu Jia organized a welcome-back feast, and Zi Yan and Bear Two arrived and greeted Xiao Heng enthusiastically.
• Lin Yan joined the gathering, and Xiao Heng and Zi Yan put him to work chopping firewood for the feast.

Xiao Heng sensed that Xiao Yan might have survived inside the Heavenly Burning Qi Tower and persuaded Su Qian to wait before resealing it. Xiao Yan emerged from the destroyed tower alive, reunited with Xiao Heng and the Inner Academy, and left the crowd celebrating his return.

• Xiao Heng sensed a powerful aura bearing traces of the Green Lotus Core Flame from the Heavenly Burning Qi Tower and flew to investigate.
• Xiao Heng asked Su Qian and the elders to delay sealing the tower, insisting that Xiao Yan might be the one emerging from it.
• The tower cracked and exploded, and Xiao Yan burst out through the magma, declaring that he had survived.
• Xiao Heng welcomed Xiao Yan back, while Xiao Yu, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, Su Qian, and others reacted with joy.
• Xiao Heng redirected the falling magma into the tower, and Xiao Yan greeted the gathered crowd from a nearby platform.

Xiao Yan returned to the academy at peak Dou Wang and defeated Lin Xiuya in a brief spar, then faced Xiao Heng in a match before the gathered students and elders. Xiao Heng overwhelmed him with greater speed and strength, ending the chapter with Xiao Yan crashing into a pavilion.

• Xiao Yan agreed to test his strength against Lin Xiuya and defeated him with his speed and Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Heng identified Xiao Yan as a peak Dou Wang and praised his solid foundation while noting that his flame control needed practice.
• Su Qian invited Xiao Heng to spar with Xiao Yan, and the brothers began their match before the crowd.
• Xiao Heng blocked Xiao Yan's opening punch, dodged his next attack, and shattered the stone platform with a powerful blow.
• Xiao Heng used an illusion to evade Xiao Yan's Black Giant Ruler, then struck him in the back and sent him crashing into a pavilion.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan’s fierce spar nearly damaged Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined the Fallen Heart Flame. Xiao Heng proposed a formation to create a weaker child flame, while Su Qian arranged for them to confront the Black Alliance after learning Xiao Li was in trouble.

• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan exchanged powerful attacks until Su Qian forced them to stop before they could destroy more of Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan told Su Qian that he had refined the Fallen Heart Flame, and an elder confirmed that the Heart Flame in the cultivation tower was fading.
• Xiao Heng proposed using a formation and part of Xiao Yan’s flame origin to create a child flame, and Su Qian agreed to provide the resources.
• Xiao Heng produced Han Feng’s corpse, which Xiao Yan took, then Su Qian told Xiao Yan that Xiao Li had run into trouble.
• Xiao Yan and Su Qian agreed to gather their people in three days and attack the Black Alliance, and Xiao Yan left after meeting Lin Yan.

Xiao Heng descended into the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower and found a juvenile Fallen Heart Flame guarded by the remnant soul of Heavenly Flame Venerable. Yao Tianhuo offered Xiao Heng the Fallen Heart Flame and a powerful fire-control method in exchange for help repairing his soul.

• Xiao Heng told Xiao Yan he would search beneath the tower while Xiao Yan went to help the others, and Su Qian agreed he had time before the coming battle.
• Xiao Heng used his Heavenly Flame to locate a hidden ring of light in the magma, where he found a juvenile Fallen Heart Flame beside a white tiger skeleton.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable appeared and gave Xiao Heng the Fallen Heart Flame after Xiao Heng asked for it.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable revealed that he was Yao Tianhuo and asked Xiao Heng to repair his soul, offering the Five Rounds Blazing Fire Method as payment.
• Xiao Heng accepted the scroll and examined the fire-control method, judging that it would suit Xiao Yan better than himself.

Xiao Heng secured Heavenly Flame Venerable’s help and escaped the magma beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame. He returned to his cultivation chamber and let the Aurora Meteor Flame devour it, leaving the flame stronger and preserving its traits.

• Xiao Heng accepted Heavenly Flame Venerable’s Fire Control Incantation and agreed to repair his soul, then collected his skeleton and sealed the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame.
• As Xiao Heng passed through the light screen, he glimpsed a massive dragon scale but heeded Heavenly Flame Venerable’s warning not to investigate.
• Xiao Heng killed the approaching lizardmen, collected their power beads, and escaped the magma with Heavenly Flame Venerable.
• Xiao Heng returned to his courtyard, where Medusa watched over the underground chamber, and prepared to refine the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Heng had the Aurora Meteor Flame devour the juvenile flame, strengthening it while preserving and amplifying its traits.

Xiao Heng gave Medusa the name Ling Ying, then made medicine for Zi Yan and learned that Bear Two had awakened a trace of dragon blood and reached the sixth tier. Gu Yue met Zi Yan for the first time, and their quarrel ended with Zi Yan asking Medusa to chase her away.

• Xiao Heng named Medusa Ling Ying after she explained that the Snake People queens shared one name.
• Zi Yan brought Xiao Heng medicinal ingredients, and he refined them into flavored pills for her and Bear Two.
• Bear Two told Xiao Heng that he had grown stronger after Zi Yan healed him, and Xiao Heng confirmed his sixth-tier breakthrough and pure trace of dragon blood.
• Gu Yue emerged from Xiao Heng's sleeve, ate some pills, and argued with Zi Yan over being called a four-legged snake.
• Medusa reappeared, and Zi Yan took her hand and asked her to chase Gu Yue away.

Jia Nan Academy confronted the Black Alliance in Golden Silver City to avenge its invasion, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Heng challenged the Golden Silver Elders. As the battle began, the elders launched a surprise attack on Xiao Heng, who evaded it.

• The Golden Silver Elders and Black Alliance gathered in Golden Silver City as Su Qian led Jia Nan Academy there for a decisive fight.
• Su Qian rejected Gold Elder’s offer of peace, and Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan volunteered to face the Golden Silver Elders while Su Qian held back the other enemies.
• Gold Elder ordered the Black Alliance to attack, and its fighters clashed with Jia Nan Academy’s forces.
• Su Qian attacked a Black Alliance Dou Wang while Xiao Yan and Xiao Heng blocked the Golden Silver Elders and claimed them as their opponents.
• The Golden Silver Elders attacked Xiao Heng together, but he dodged their blast with his movement technique.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan fought the Golden Silver Elders while Jia Nan Academy battled the Black Alliance. Xiao Heng crushed Golden Elder, and Xiao Yan killed Silver Elder with a fire lotus and a series of punches.

• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan attacked the Golden Silver Elders, and Xiao Heng’s punch severely injured Golden Elder while his dragon scales blocked Silver Elder’s claw.
• Xiao Yan held Silver Elder back as Xiao Heng pursued Golden Elder and battered him into the Black Alliance’s main hall, leaving his life uncertain.
• Su Qian and Hu Gan rallied Jia Nan Academy’s fighters, whose advantage made the Black Corner Region forces consider fleeing.
• Xiao Yan struck Silver Elder with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, and Su Qian blocked Silver Elder’s counterattack.
• Xiao Yan unleashed a fire lotus that weakened Silver Elder, then caught him and killed him with more than ten punches.

Soul Hall protectors ambushed Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan, seeking Yao Chen’s soul, but Xiao Heng survived and revealed himself as a Dou Zong. As Su Qian battled Eagle Protector, Xiao Heng struck Shock Protector with his sword and pursued him with a Blood Red Sword, leaving Shock Protector badly weakened and terrified.

• Xiao Heng killed the wounded Elder Jin and took his Storage Ring before Shock Protector ambushed him and buried him beneath the ruins.
• Eagle Protector attacked Xiao Yan and demanded Yao Chen’s soul while the two Soul Hall protectors collected the souls of Elder Jin and Elder Yin.
• Su Qian stepped in to protect Xiao Yan, while Shock Protector drove Hu Gan aside and went to check Xiao Heng’s condition.
• Xiao Heng emerged from the rubble unharmed, revealed his Dou Zong strength, and confronted Shock Protector as Su Qian held off Eagle Protector.
• Xiao Heng’s sword strike tore away nearly half of Shock Protector’s Black Mist, and he summoned the Blood Red Sword before rapidly pursuing the retreating protector.

Xiao Heng defeated Shock Protector and helped Jia Nan Academy destroy the Black Alliance, while the Soul Hall remained a looming threat. After the battle, Xiao Heng prepared a pill to restore Old Yao’s soul, and Medusa watched him, still unable to bring herself to leave.

• Xiao Heng burned through Shock Protector’s Black Mist, captured his soul in a jade bottle, and handed it to Xiao Yan.
• Su Qian rallied Jia Nan Academy, whose forces defeated the Black Alliance and killed its leaders and most of its fighters.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Heng, and Su Qian discussed the Soul Hall’s threat, and Xiao Yan said he would eventually confront it.
• The Black Alliance collapsed, and factions competed for control of the city while Xiao Heng kept Thousand Medicine Workshop out of the struggle.
• Xiao Heng refined medicinal liquid to restore Old Yao’s soul and infused it into the snow-white Storage Ring.
• Medusa watched Xiao Heng from nearby and reflected that she had stayed because she did not want to leave him.

Xiao Heng restored Elder Yao’s soul, refined several Seventh-Rank Pills, and gave pills to Medusa and his friends at Pan Men. He and Xiao Yan then went to see the Great Elder about the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, which had suddenly stopped working.

• Elder Yao emerged from the Storage Ring with his soul restored, thanked Xiao Heng, and agreed to stay by his side while Xiao Heng promised to help him regain a body.
• Xiao Heng spent four days refining four Seventh-Rank Pills, each drawing Pill Lightning, as Elder Yao watched and gained confidence in his abilities.
• Xiao Heng gave Medusa a Seventh-Rank Pill to purify her bloodline and improve her strength, but she ignored his teasing and left.
• Back at Pan Men, Xiao Heng gave Seventh-Rank Pills to Xiao Yan, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia, explaining that they could improve their aptitude and cultivation without destabilizing their foundations.
• Hu Jia told Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan that the Great Elder had summoned them because the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower had suddenly become unusable, so the two went to see him.

Xiao Heng repaired the Heavenly Burning Qi Tower by building a Formation Array that used the magma’s power to nourish a Child Flame of the Fallen Heart Flame. After celebrating with his friends, he woke to find the alchemy scroll Old Yao had given him and discovered its knowledge was extraordinarily valuable.

• Su Qian provided the magic cores and other materials Xiao Heng needed to repair the Heavenly Burning Qi Tower.
• Xiao Yan separated a portion of the Fallen Heart Flame’s origin and placed it in a pot for Xiao Heng.
• Xiao Heng built a Formation Array beneath the tower that drew power from the magma to nourish the flame, restoring the tower’s function for up to a hundred years.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan celebrated the repair with their friends at Pan Men, where Xiao Heng received an alchemy scroll from Old Yao through Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Heng read the scroll and found it filled with extensive alchemy knowledge, techniques, diagrams, and methods from Old Yao.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan set out from the academy for the Jia Ma Empire, where the Misty Cloud Sect’s growing power had put the Mittel Family and other factions under pressure. As they traveled with their allies, Xiao Heng reflected on the dangers ahead and reunited with Medusa, Zi Yan, and Gu Yue along the way.

• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan agreed to leave for the Jia Ma Empire after Xiao Yan finished settling his affairs, and they said farewell to Su Qian and the others at the academy.
• Xiao Yan’s gathered forces arrived in the Black Corner Region, where Xiao Heng reunited with Xiao Li and Xiao Yan promised the group Imperial Pills for their help.
• Xiao Yan led the group toward the Jia Ma Empire aboard tiger-hawk beasts as Xiao Heng wondered how the changes he had caused would shape the dangers ahead.
• The Mittel Family and the Imperial Family faced growing pressure as Yun Shan expanded the Misty Cloud Sect’s influence, while Yun Yun suffered under his rule.
• Gu Yue returned to Xiao Heng’s shoulder, and Medusa handed him her Storage Ring to keep safe as the group continued its journey.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Heng returned to the Jia Ma Empire, where Xiao Yan rescued Mu Tie from the Misty Cloud Sect’s takeover and learned of Yun Shan’s rule. As the group flew toward the Imperial Capital, Yun Shan prepared to face them with support from the Black Mist.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Heng entered Town Ghost Pass with their group, and Xiao Yan descended to investigate the conflict below.
• Xiao Yan quickly defeated the Misty Cloud Sect forces threatening Mu Tie, then learned about the sect’s seizure of power and ordered everyone toward the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Heng openly expressed his desire for Queen Medusa, while Lin Xiuya, Liu Qing, and Lin Yan teased him about the Myriad Flowers Pavilion until Queen Medusa’s glare sent them away.
• Xiao Yan and the others continued toward the Imperial Capital, confident in their strength against the Misty Cloud Sect.
• The Black Mist warned Yun Shan about Xiao Yan and Xiao Heng, offered to deal with Xiao Heng, and left Yun Shan insisting he would defeat them himself.

The Misty Cloud Sect attacked the Mittel Family to seize the Xiao Family remnants, but Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan returned and crushed the assault. With the Imperial Family joining the fight, the Xiao brothers reunited with their allies and old friends.

• The Misty Cloud Sect surrounded the Mittel Family and demanded that it surrender the Xiao Family remnants, while Hai Bodong prepared to defend the clan.
• Xiao Heng appeared and killed two Misty Cloud Sect Dou Emperors, while Xiao Yan killed two Dou Kings and revealed himself as the returning Xiao Yan.
• Jia Xing Tian recognized Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan, then sent Yao Ye to mobilize the Imperial Family's army against the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Heng's reinforcements joined the battle and wiped out the remaining Misty Cloud Sect attackers, while the Imperial Family's army stopped those who fled.
• Xiao Yan thanked Hai Bodong for protecting the Xiao Family, and Xiao Heng reunited with Xiao Mu, who had advanced to Dou Master.