Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng rested at the Han Family’s residence and cultivated with the resources they gathered for him. He broke through to Seven-Star Dou Zong and prepared to face the challenges ahead, including the Wind Thunder Pavilion.

• Han Chi promised that the Han Family would protect Xiao Heng, then ordered the clan to fulfill his requests and show him respect.
• Han Yue led Xiao Heng to a courtyard, where he asked her to find several rare items and give him privacy while he cultivated.
• Han Chi mobilized much of the Han Family to search for Xiao Heng’s requested items, and Han Xue delivered most of them, though the Returning Yang Fruit and Heavenly Heart Grass remained missing.
• Xiao Heng thanked Han Xue for the supplies and resumed cultivating with Spirit Stones.
• Xiao Heng broke through to Seven-Star Dou Zong and considered the threat posed by the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s Dou Zun master.

The Han Family prepared for the duel between Hong Chen and Xiao Heng at Sky Stone Platform, while Han Xue and Han Yue struggled with their growing feelings for Xiao Heng. The Han convoy arrived at the crowded plaza, where spectators began wondering who Xiao Heng was.

• Han Yue warned Han Xue that Xiao Heng’s strength and future made him difficult to reach, though she admitted he might care more about affection than status.
• Xiao Heng joined Han Chi and the Han Family convoy, and Han Xue pulled him into the carriage with her and Han Yue.
• Xiao Heng told Han Xue to release his hand and made clear to Han Yue that he would leave after the duel to help friends in danger.
• The Han Family arrived at Sky Stone Platform, where the crowd noticed Xiao Heng between Han Yue and Han Xue and speculated that he was their hired helper.

Xiao Heng defeated Hong Chen in a single punch, securing the Han Family’s ten-year peace agreement with the Hong Family. Shen Yun of the Wind Thunder Pavilion then blocked Xiao Heng from leaving and demanded that he accompany him to the pavilion until Hong Chen recovered.

• Hong Li and the spectators doubted that the unfamiliar Xiao Heng could defeat Hong Chen, while Han Chi arrived confident in his challenger.
• Xiao Heng stepped onto the platform, dodged Hong Chen’s lightning attack, and killed him with a single punch.
• Han Chi claimed the victory and prepared to leave, and Hong Li agreed that the Hong Family would honor its ten-year promise.
• Shen Yun identified himself as a North Pavilion elder of the Wind Thunder Pavilion and declared that Xiao Heng could not leave because he had killed a pavilion disciple.
• Xiao Heng pointed out that Hong Chen was still alive, but Shen Yun demanded that he return to the Wind Thunder Pavilion until Hong Chen recovered.

Xiao Heng refused Shen Yun’s recruitment by the Wind Thunder Pavilion, and Shen Yun attacked after Han Xue stepped in to protect him. Xiao Heng revealed his Seven-Star Dou Zong strength, devastated the Hong Family’s attackers, and blocked Shen Yun’s escape.

• Shen Yun tried to recruit Xiao Heng into the Wind Thunder Pavilion, but Xiao Heng refused because he had urgent business and did not want to be bound by rules.
• Shen Yun attacked Xiao Heng, and Han Xue rushed in front of him; Xiao Heng shattered Shen Yun’s lightning strike and told Han Xue to retreat.
• Shen Yun demanded that Hong Li’s people help attack Xiao Heng, so Hong Li summoned the Hong Family’s ancestor while Han Chi ordered the Han Family to resist the Hong Family.
• Xiao Heng faced the attackers alone and used two fire lotuses to engulf the stone platform in flames, killing or driving back the Hong Family’s fighters.
• Shen Yun tried to flee after realizing Xiao Heng was truly a Seven-Star Dou Zong, but Xiao Heng appeared in front of him and blocked his path.
• Shen Yun called the confrontation a misunderstanding and backed away from his demand to take Xiao Heng to the Wind Thunder Pavilion.

Xiao Heng overwhelmed Shen Yun and Hong Tianxiao in battle, using his speed, flames, and swordsmanship to leave both Dou Zongs badly wounded. Shen Yun escaped while Hong Tianxiao abandoned the fight to save himself, and Xiao Heng remained in pursuit.

• Xiao Heng rejected Shen Yun’s offer to join the Wind Thunder Pavilion and attacked him with two fire lotuses.
• Han Chi protected the Han Family from falling debris and ordered Han Yue to evacuate everyone as Xiao Heng and Shen Yun’s clash filled the sky with fire and lightning.
• Xiao Heng found Shen Yun in the flames and caught up with him, while Hong Tianxiao arrived and learned Xiao Heng was a Seven-Star Dou Zong.
• Shen Yun used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to flee toward Hong Tianxiao, and Hong Tianxiao attacked Xiao Heng with a flaming saber.
• Xiao Heng cleaved Hong Tianxiao’s saber, wounded him with a sword thrust, and forced him to retreat as Shen Yun escaped.
• Hong Tianxiao realized Shen Yun had used him as a shield, cursed him, and chose to flee rather than keep fighting Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng pursued Shen Yun and Hong Tianxiao after they fled, catching them outside Tianbei City. He attacked with his Soaring Dragon Sword Art as the two Dou Zongs fought back, leaving their clash unresolved.

• Han Fei learned from Han Yue and Han Chi that Xiao Heng had killed the Hong Family and pursued the fleeing Shen Yun and Hong Tianxiao; Han Xue and Han Yue followed him.
• Hong Tianxiao used a secret technique and a sea of fire to speed up, then attacked Shen Yun when the two realized Xiao Heng was closing in.
• Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun fought over who would be left behind, but Xiao Heng appeared ahead of Hong Tianxiao and blocked their escape.
• Shen Yun falsely claimed the Wind Thunder Pavilion Master was on the way, while Xiao Heng challenged the pair to hold out until he arrived.
• When Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun hesitated to attack together, Xiao Heng unleashed the Soaring Dragon Sword Art, and they countered with Thunder God's Descent, Thunder God Hammer and Fire Cloud Sky Blade.

Xiao Heng defeated Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun, then returned to the Han Family with Han Yue, Han Xue, and Han Fei. The Han Family took over the weakened Hong Family, and Han Chi gave Xiao Heng the medicinal ingredients he had requested.

• Xiao Heng survived the clash and killed the mortally wounded Hong Tianxiao, while Shen Yun had already died in the battle.
• Han Xue embraced Xiao Heng, and he exchanged greetings with Han Fei before the group flew back to Tianbei City.
• Han Chi welcomed the group and, after seeing Xiao Heng's Storage Rings, realized the two enemies had been defeated.
• Han Chi mobilized the Han Family to take over the Hong Family while Xiao Heng returned to his room to rest.
• Han Chi later gave Xiao Heng two medicinal ingredients he had requested, and Xiao Heng stored them in his Storage Ring.

Xiao Heng accepted the Han Family’s compensation and reassured Han Chi that he could face the Wind Thunder Pavilion without involving Han Xue or Han Yue. He sorted through the spoils from the Hong and Han Families, finding several powerful Earth-tier skills and filling his Storage Ring with valuable resources.

• Han Chi gave Xiao Heng two Storage Rings containing the Hong Family treasury and part of the Han Family’s collection, then warned that the Wind Thunder Pavilion would retaliate for Shen Yun’s death.
• Han Chi offered to send Han Xue with Xiao Heng, but Han Yue volunteered instead; Xiao Heng refused to take either sister and told them to cultivate without worrying about him.
• Xiao Heng returned to his room and opened the Storage Rings, finding Shen Yun’s Earth-tier High Grade Three Thousand Lightning Movement and other skills, along with Hong Tianxiao’s techniques and treasures.
• Xiao Heng discovered the Earth-tier High Grade Heavenly Fire Descent skill and several Earth-tier methods and combat skills from the Han Family, including Nine Revolutions Wind Roaming Steps and Astonishing God Palm.
• Xiao Heng sorted the resources, kept useful items for himself, and sacrificed most of the remainder to Little Grass.

Xiao Heng rejected Han Xue’s confession and left the Han Family estate to search for Xiao Yi Xian, guided by an earring carrying her Soul Power. On the way, he spoke with Old Yao about restoring his body and continued gathering materials in the mountain range.

• Han Xue confessed that she liked Xiao Heng and offered herself to him, but he stopped her and warned her not to do something she might regret.
• Han Xue tried to turn at the sound of Han Yue’s voice, and Xiao Heng knocked her unconscious, dressed her, and left after kissing her forehead.
• Han Yue comforted Han Xue at daybreak and promised that she would see Xiao Heng again if she cultivated diligently.
• Xiao Heng crossed into the primeval mountains and used an earring containing Xiao Yi Xian’s Soul Power to find her direction.
• Old Yao told Xiao Heng his Soul Power had recovered to around the Eight-Star Dou Zong level, and Xiao Heng promised to gather the remaining materials and refine him a body.
• Xiao Heng continued collecting corpses and essence blood from Magical Beasts that attacked him, bringing him closer to having enough materials for Old Yao’s body.

After the Wind Thunder Pavilion learned that Xiao Heng had killed Shen Yun, its Pavilion Master ordered a large force to hunt him down. Meanwhile, Xiao Heng traveled toward the city with a Space Wormhole after killing a powerful demonic beast, unaware that his pursuers were closing in from the opposite direction.

• The Wind Thunder Pavilion identified Xiao Heng as Shen Yun’s killer, and its Pavilion Master decided to personally lead the elders in pursuit.
• The Han Family agreed to cut ties with Xiao Heng, keeping itself out of the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s plans and sparing Xiao Heng the risk of being threatened through them.
• Xiao Heng and the Heavenly Demon Puppet killed a Seventh-Rank serpentine demonic beast, and Xiao Heng collected its Magic Core, refining materials, and a Three-Leaf Profound Origin Grass.
• Xiao Heng continued traveling, rested for the night, and thought of Xiao Yi Xian as he checked his map and headed toward a city with a Space Wormhole.
• Xiao Heng flew onward while another group moved through the mountains toward him, and the two parties were on course to meet.

Xiao Heng was tracked down by Fei Tian and the elders of the North Pavilion of Wind and Thunder after they used a mark on the silver scroll to locate him. Fei Tian offered him a place in the pavilion, but Xiao Heng refused, and Fei Tian ordered the elders to form an array as the confrontation began.

• Old Yao warned Xiao Heng that a powerful group was approaching, and Xiao Heng hid in the forest to avoid them.
• The Wind Thunder Pavilion used a jade disc to track Xiao Heng, and Fei Tian ordered his men to surround the area.
• Fei Tian confronted Xiao Heng and identified himself as the Pavilion Master of the North Pavilion of Wind and Thunder.
• Xiao Heng explained that he had killed Shen Yun in self-defense, while Fei Tian offered to let him join the pavilion under a new identity.
• Xiao Heng rejected Fei Tian's offer, drew his longsword, and challenged the pavilion's forces.
• Fei Tian ordered the elders of the North Pavilion of Wind and Thunder to form an array against Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng fought Fei Tian and the Wind Thunder Pavilion elders, using his Heavenly Demon Puppet and powerful attacks while Fei Tian protected the elders and countered him. The elders completed the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Array around Xiao Heng, who hinted that he belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan as the battle continued.

• The Wind Thunder Pavilion elders began forming the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Array, but Xiao Heng sent his Heavenly Demon Puppet to attack them.
• Fei Tian intercepted the puppet and clashed with Xiao Heng’s Silver Dragon attack, while Xiao Heng’s energy blast grievously injured five elders and wounded the others.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Heng that Fei Tian was nearing the Dou Zun realm and promised to prepare an escape route, allowing Xiao Heng to fight without fearing death.
• Fei Tian ordered the elders to form the array again, and Xiao Heng killed a Dou Zong elder while Fei Tian struck him from behind.
• Xiao Heng’s golden scales and reverse scale blocked Fei Tian’s lightning punch, but the elders completed the array and trapped him beneath its thunderclouds.
• Xiao Heng claimed he was from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and Fei Tian began to believe him because of his dragon-like scales.

Xiao Heng fought Fei Tian and the Wind Thunder Pavilion elders as they unleashed their formation’s Thunder against him. After Fei Tian escalated the attack, Xiao Heng and his opponents’ powers collided in a spatial explosion, leaving Fei Tian hidden in a rift and Xiao Heng taking shelter in one of his own.

• Fei Tian ordered the Wind Thunder Pavilion elders to attack Xiao Heng with the Thousand Instant Thunder Punishment formation, but Xiao Heng and his Heavenly Demon Puppet endured the storm.
• Fei Tian took control of the formation and strengthened its Thunder, while Heavenly Flame Venerable told Xiao Heng to shatter the thunderclouds at its core.
• Xiao Heng raised his strength to peak Nine-Star Dou Zong and began forming the Four Symbols Sword Art as Fei Tian launched the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison, Wrath of the Thunder God.
• Xiao Heng sent the Heavenly Demon Puppet to block Fei Tian’s lightning fist, then unleashed the Four Symbols Sword Array against it.
• The clash shattered space and overwhelmed the Wind Thunder Pavilion elders; Fei Tian escaped into a spatial rift, and Xiao Heng used his spatial power to protect himself as the explosion devastated the surrounding area.

Xiao Heng survived the devastating clash with Fei Tian and resumed fighting the North Pavilion master in a battle of swords, lightning, and close combat. Both were injured and tiring, and the chapter ended with Xiao Heng opening a jade bottle of potent medicine as Fei Tian wondered whether he could outlast Xiao Heng’s secret technique.

• Fei Tian emerged from space after the destruction of the North Pavilion elders and realized that he was the only survivor.
• Xiao Heng appeared behind Fei Tian with a surprise sword strike, but Fei Tian blocked it with Thunder.
• Xiao Heng and Fei Tian exchanged blows, with Xiao Heng’s strength and swordsmanship forcing Fei Tian back while both sustained injuries.
• The two fought through dozens more clashes, and Xiao Heng’s sword lights wounded Fei Tian despite his Thunder defense.
• Fei Tian tried to wait out Xiao Heng’s secret technique, but Xiao Heng claimed it could last another hour and opened a jade bottle of medicine.

Xiao Heng defeated and killed Fei Tian after a desperate battle, then recovered with Old Yao while the Wind Thunder Pavilion learned of Fei Tian’s death. He fled the area and began securing the spoils, leaving the contents of Fei Tian’s Storage Ring yet to be examined.

• Xiao Heng revealed he was a Seventh-grade Alchemist and fought Fei Tian with his Four Symbols Sword Array against Fei Tian’s lightning techniques.
• Fei Tian survived the battle’s destruction and tried to kill the wounded Xiao Heng, but Xiao Heng caught his wrist as a sword pierced Fei Tian from behind.
• Xiao Heng finished Fei Tian, then healed while Old Yao guarded him; afterward, Xiao Heng collected corpses and salvaged the damaged Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• The Wind Thunder Pavilion discovered Fei Tian’s jade plaque had shattered and ordered an investigation into his death.
• Xiao Heng fled to a cliffside cave, burned away possible tracking measures on the Storage Rings and corpses, and prepared to sort through the spoils.

Xiao Heng recovered while the Wind Thunder Pavilion spread a bounty for him, and the Han Family publicly disowned him to avoid trouble. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan learned that the Tianshan Blood Pool might help him break through to Dou Zong and set out to find more information about it.

• Xiao Heng sorted the treasures he had taken from Fei Tian and the others, then used medicinal ingredients and Heavenly Flames to treat his injuries.
• The Wind Thunder Pavilion announced rewards for information about Xiao Heng and for capturing him, drawing treasure hunters into the mountain range.
• Han Chi declared that the Han Family had no ties to Xiao Heng, while Han Xue blamed herself for his danger and Han Yue acknowledged the family had wronged him.
• Xiao Heng's killing of Fei Tian and the North Pavilion's experts made his name famous across the Northern Region, and Xiao Yan saw his wanted notice in a city.
• Xiao Yan heard that the Tianshan Blood Pool was opening soon and could help someone reach Dou Zong, paid a man for his information, and left to learn more.

After learning that Xiao Heng had reached the Central Continent and killed Fei Tian, Bai Qufeng ordered the Bai Clan elders to bring him back and consider him for their next ceremony. Lin Xiao Yi was permitted to join the group if she defeated Bai Yi Fan, while the elders debated how to handle the Wind Thunder Pavilion.

• Bai Feng told Bai Qufeng that Xiao Heng had arrived in the Central Continent and killed Fei Tian, a Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Bai Feng told Lin Xiao Yi the news, and she asked Bai Qufeng to let her go see Xiao Heng.
• Bai Qufeng agreed to let Lin Xiao Yi join the group if she defeated Bai Yi Fan.
• Bai Qufeng gathered the Bai Clan elders and ordered them to bring Xiao Heng back and consider him for the next ceremony.
• The elders raised the Wind Thunder Pavilion's pursuit of Xiao Heng, and one elder offered to attack them before another warned him not to expose the clan.

After recovering from his injuries, Xiao Heng traveled to Yulin City to find a Space Wormhole to the Central Continent. At Heaven and Earth Pharmacy, he discovered a withered earth core that Little Grass said might help him break through a realm, and he decided to buy it.

• Bai Qufeng ordered Third Elder to bring Xiao Heng back without leaving traces and heard Fourth Elder’s reports on the clans and the coming Alchemist Grand Meeting.
• After more than ten days of recovery, Xiao Heng set out west and reached Yulin City, where he disguised himself to avoid Wind Thunder Pavilion’s bounty hunters.
• Xiao Heng entered Heaven and Earth Pharmacy and followed its fat attendant to the upper floors after revealing his Dou Zong aura.
• While inspecting the pharmacy’s rare goods, Xiao Heng sensed something unusual about a stone and asked Little Grass to identify it.
• Little Grass told Xiao Heng the stone was a withered earth core that might be awakened to boost his strength and help him break through a realm, so Xiao Heng asked its price.

Xiao Heng negotiated with Shopkeeper Liu to buy the mysterious Heaven and Earth Stone and placed a large order for alchemy ingredients and magic cores. Shopkeeper Liu began gathering what he could, while Xiao Heng agreed to pay in gold or items of equivalent value.

• Xiao Heng examined the Heaven and Earth Stone and found that it absorbed Dou Qi, but slowly converted it into purer energy with a seventy-percent loss.
• Shopkeeper Liu asked for a Mid-grade Earth Tier Dou Technique, but Xiao Heng started to leave and negotiated the price down to three million gold coins.
• Xiao Heng bought the stone and gave Shopkeeper Liu a list of medicinal ingredients and other supplies he needed.
• Shopkeeper Liu recognized that Xiao Heng was an Alchemist and ordered his staff to gather as many listed items as possible within an hour.
• Xiao Heng told Shopkeeper Liu to charge gold coins where possible and said he would offer items of equivalent value for anything that could not be bought with money.

Xiao Heng bought medicinal ingredients from Heaven and Earth Pharmacy, then rested at an inn and asked Little Grass how to restore a spiritual object. He learned that one method could help him reach Dou Zun by extracting a mountain range’s spirit, and began considering the Wind Thunder Pavilion as a target.

• Xiao Heng completed a large transaction at Heaven and Earth Pharmacy, and Shopkeeper Liu warned Yuan'er not to provoke him because he was a Dou Zong and an Alchemist.
• Xiao Heng rented a room at an inn to recover before entering the Space Wormhole.
• Xiao Heng entered the Little Grass Space and asked Little Grass how to restore the stone.
• Little Grass explained that restoring it with Spirit Stones would require roughly ten rounds of replacements, while extracting the spirit of a spiritually rich mountain range could make it stronger.
• Little Grass told Xiao Heng that extracting a thousand-year sect’s spirit could help him break through to Dou Zun, but would leave the region ordinary and make the sect a deadly enemy.
• Xiao Heng considered targeting the Wind Thunder Pavilion and decided he would need to plan carefully and act without being discovered.