Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated Gu He within ten moves, ending Gu He's involvement in the conflict and his marriage agreement with Yun Yun. As the duel ended, Xiao Shuang announced that the great battle was about to begin.

• Gu He challenged Xiao Yan to defeat him within ten moves, promising to cancel the wedding and stay out of the conflict if he lost.
• Gu He and Xiao Yan exchanged attacks, and Gu He counted eight moves without either gaining the advantage.
• Xiao Shuang sensed Xiao Yan's growing power and told his allies to prepare for the great battle.
• Xiao Yan used the Lion Tiger Shattering Gold Chant and a final punch to defeat Gu He, who fell and was caught by Yun Shan.
• Gu He admitted defeat, promised not to interfere, and asked Yun Shan to dissolve his marriage agreement with Yun Yun.

Xiao Yan and his allies launched an all-out assault on the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Shan called on Soul Hall forces to turn the battle against them. Queen Medusa arrived to aid Xiao Yan’s side, and the chapter ended with the major fighters engaging across the battlefield.

• Gu He left the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Shan ordered his disciples to kill the invaders as Xiao Yan vowed to destroy the sect or die trying.
• Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, Xiao Shuang, and Xiao Yan’s other allies attacked the Misty Cloud Sect; Yun Shan removed Yun Yun’s seal and pressured her to fight Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Shuang took Yun Yun as her opponent while Xiao Yan faced Yun Shan, and Protector Wu emerged from the sect’s hall to battle Old Yao.
• Queen Medusa arrived with three Snake People Race experts, then ordered them to attack the Misty Cloud Sect elders while she confronted the Soul Hall Envoys.
• The Soul Hall Envoys surrounded Queen Medusa with black mist, while Xiao Shuang and Yun Yun faced each other in the air.

Xiao Shuang defeated Yun Yun while sparing her, then prepared to help Xiao Yan face Yun Shan as the battle on Misty Cloud Mountain turned in their favor. The chapter left Xiao Shuang readying a powerful spear attack against Yun Shan’s assault.

• Xiao Shuang and Yun Yun fought, and he used his ice techniques to counter her attacks.
• Xiao Shuang used Frosty Snow Step to get behind Yun Yun and strike her; Yun Yun pretended to be dead after realizing he had spared her.
• Yun Shan unleashed Wind Brake Annihilation Force against Xiao Yan, and Xiao Shuang prepared the Severing Life Spear to intervene.
• A Misty Cloud Sect elder ambushed Xiao Shuang, but Jia Xingtian killed him with one punch and stood guard beside Xiao Shuang.
• Jia Xingtian went to help the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast surround Yun Shan while Xiao Shuang prepared to block Yun Shan’s attack and aid Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Shuang, Jia Xingtian, and the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast fought Yun Shan while Xiao Yan prepared a Three-Colored Fire Lotus. Xiao Yan’s attack severely wounded Yun Shan, and Xiao Shuang killed him, but Protector Wu seized Yun Shan’s soul and pulled it from his body.

• Xiao Shuang, Jia Xingtian, and the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast joined forces to stop Yun Shan while Xiao Yan prepared his attack.
• Xiao Shuang froze Yun Shan’s Ultimate Wind: Fallen Kill with an Ice Mirror, giving Xiao Yan time to finish the Three-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan hurled the fire lotus into Yun Shan’s green tornado, and the explosion shattered the attack and badly injured Yun Shan.
• Xiao Shuang reached the falling Yun Shan and drove the Severing Life Spear into his chest, killing him.
• Protector Wu knocked Yao Chen back, rushed to Yun Shan, pierced his crown with a chain, and pulled out his soul.

Protector Wu seized Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect elders’ souls, then shattered Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran’s formation. As Protector Wu prepared to capture Yao Chen and the Xiao Family, Yao Chen readied himself to fight while Queen Medusa remained trapped by the Soul Hall Envoys.

• Protector Wu absorbed Yun Shan’s soul and killed the Misty Cloud Sect elders, drawing their souls into his black mist.
• Yun Yun rallied the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to form their grand formation, while Protector Wu’s black mist consumed the captured souls.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion and joined Yun Yun, but Protector Wu destroyed the sea-of-clouds formation and injured its participants.
• Protector Wu declared that he would capture Yao Chen and the Xiao Family, and Yao Chen prepared to confront him.
• Protector Wu ordered the Soul Envoys to stop Queen Medusa, who continued fighting their formation-enhanced forces.

As Protector Wu gained the upper hand against Yao Chen, Xiao Shuang unleashed his Extreme Cold Physique and joined Yao Chen and Queen Medusa in battle. The three launched attacks together, while Xiao Yan watched in shock as Xiao Shuang summoned Ice Spirit Cold Spring.

• Protector Wu's strength surged as the Soul Hall envoys poured their collected souls into their formation, leaving Queen Medusa and Yao Chen under pressure.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong he could not use the Three-Colored Fire Lotus again, and Xiao Shuang asked whether his fused Heavenly Flames could melt an ice crystal.
• Xiao Shuang fully unleashed his Extreme Cold Physique, pierced the Soul Hall envoys' formation with the Severing Life Spear, and helped Queen Medusa shatter it.
• Xiao Shuang asked Yao Chen to treat his body afterward, as ice crystals were forming in his meridians and disrupting his Dou Qi.
• Yao Chen, Queen Medusa, and Xiao Shuang attacked Protector Wu together with a flame blade, a seven-colored energy serpent, and a towering wave of Ice Spirit Cold Spring.

Xiao Shuang unleashed his Extreme Cold Physique to fight Protector Wu, while Xiao Yan realized the power came at a heavy cost. Protector Wu detonated Yun Shan’s soul and devoured his Soul Envoys, then captured Old Yao and trapped him inside a black fog barrier.

• Xiao Shuang formed a massive ice spear that pierced Protector Wu’s black fog, and Xiao Yan recognized that using the Extreme Cold Physique would leave him severely weakened.
• Protector Wu tore out Yun Shan’s soul and detonated it, destroying the attacks from Old Yao and Queen Medusa and forcing them to shelter behind Xiao Shuang’s ice shield.
• Protector Wu consumed the Soul Envoys, greatly increasing his strength, and shattered the ice shield with a black palm strike.
• Protector Wu bound Old Yao with chains empowered by the Soul Envoys’ flames and imprisoned him inside a black fog cage, separating him from Xiao Shuang and Queen Medusa.
• Old Yao calmly sent a streak of white flame from his forehead into Xiao Yan’s forehead as Protector Wu captured him.

After Old Yao was captured by Protector Wu, he left Xiao Yan advice, a flame, and the Bone Flame Ring before disappearing into the black mist. Xiao Shuang, Queen Medusa, and Zi Yan fought to stop Protector Wu, but he escaped through a spatial rift after being struck by Xiao Shuang’s Seven Shadows.

• Old Yao told Xiao Yan how to use the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, where to find a cure for Xiao Yan’s second brother, and how to seek help from Venerable Feng before being pulled into the black mist.
• Xiao Shuang unleashed his Extreme Cold Physique and confronted Protector Wu, while Protector Wu formed a black palm to attack Xiao Yan.
• Zi Yan blocked Protector Wu’s palm with a punch but was injured, and Queen Medusa attacked Protector Wu with the Seven-Colored Serpent Sword.
• Xiao Shuang formed all seven spear shadows of Seven Shadows and launched them at Protector Wu while Queen Medusa prevented him from escaping.
• The spear shadows pierced Protector Wu, but he crushed a jade shard and fled through a spatial rift, telling Xiao Yan to come to the Soul Hall if he wanted to save Old Yao.

After the Soul Hall captured Old Yao, Xiao Yan confronted the Misty Cloud Sect over its role in his family's destruction and his teacher's capture. Xiao Shuang ordered the sect disbanded and its fighters punished, while Yun Yun agreed to comply and the survivors were placed under the army's control.

• Xiao Yan blamed himself for being too weak to protect his father and Old Yao, then turned his anger toward the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan what he wanted, and he accused the sect of causing his family's destruction and Old Yao's capture.
• Xiao Shuang told Xiao Yan to rest and warned that the Misty Cloud Sect would be wiped out if Yun Yun or Nalan Yanran resisted.
• Yaoye and the army arrived, and Xiao Shuang ordered the sect disbanded, its participants in the siege of the Xiao Family executed, and the remaining disciples conscripted.
• Yun Yun agreed to Xiao Shuang's demands, while Yaoye took responsibility for incorporating the disciples into the army.
• Xiao Yan took Yun Shan's corpse to gather materials for Old Yao's future body, and Yun Yun sat down in a daze after everyone left.

After the Misty Cloud Sect was dissolved and its disciples drafted into the army, Xiao Yan gathered herbs to treat the Ice Crystals blocking Xiao Shuang’s meridians. Xiao Shuang remained in seclusion with his condition temporarily stabilized, while Xiao Yan prepared to refine Rank Six Pills and use his Heavenly Flames to remove the aftereffects.

• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran to have the Misty Cloud Sect disciples report to the army and obey its demands, then promised to travel with her once matters were settled.
• News of the sect’s dissolution spread across the Jia Ma Empire, where rumors about Xiao Shuang and Xiao Yan inspired other factions to seek their favor.
• Within a week, Misty Cloud Mountain stood deserted, while Xiao Shuang entered seclusion in the Imperial Capital and Yaoye used fire-attribute herbs to ease his condition.
• Xiao Li brought Xiao Yan herbs gathered from the Royal Family and the Mittel Family, and Xiao Yan said he needed several more days before attempting to refine Rank Six Pills.
• Xiao Shuang considered the Ice Crystals blocking his meridians and hoped Xiao Yan’s three Heavenly Flames, assisted by medicine, could remove them quickly.

Xiao Yan began treating Xiao Shuang by using Heavenly Flames to melt the Ice Crystals obstructing his meridians. After clearing the main meridians, Xiao Yan rested and then hurried to the Misty Cloud Sect to meet Yun Yun, while Yaoye checked on Xiao Shuang.

• Xiao Yan brought five Rank Six Pills to the Royal Family, where he prepared to treat Xiao Shuang.
• Xiao Shuang took three protective pills, and Xiao Yan used three Heavenly Flames and two pills to begin melting the Ice Crystals in his meridians.
• Xiao Yan cleared the Ice Crystals from Xiao Shuang's main meridians, then stopped to rest for a day before continuing the treatment.
• Yaoye told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran had said Yun Yun wanted to see him at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan left alone for Misty Cloud Mountain, and Yaoye asked Xiao Shuang how he felt.

Xiao Shuang and Yaoye discussed forming an alliance and agreed to target the Chu Yun Empire after recovering. Once Xiao Yan had cleared the Ice Crystal from Xiao Shuang and returned from the Misty Cloud Sect, he invited Jia Ma Empire’s major powers to discuss joining the alliance, leaving them weighing its demands.

• Xiao Shuang declined to seize the Misty Cloud Sect’s techniques and cultivation methods, saying Yun Yun would give them to Xiao Yan, and asked Yaoye to prepare the army for a future strike on the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Shuang asked whether the Royal Family supported the alliance, and Yaoye pledged her full support despite the alliance weakening the importance of family.
• Xiao Yan nearly cleared the Ice Crystal from Xiao Shuang, whose strength rose to Five-Star Dou Huang, then sent invitations to the empire’s major powers.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the gathered families join an alliance to raise Jia Ma Empire’s standing, while Xiao Ding described plans to train their juniors and send qualified students to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Ding explained that alliance members would have to put the alliance’s interests ahead of their own families, causing Nalan Jie and the others to hesitate.

Xiao Yan brought the Jia Ma Empire’s major families and the Alchemist Guild into a new alliance by offering them seats and promises of support. The gathering ended with Xiao Shuang naming it the Xiao Alliance.

• Jia Xingtian joined the alliance and was appointed chief elder of its Elder Council.
• Hai Bodong, the Mu Family head, and Nalan Jie agreed to join the alliance.
• Xiao Yan pressed President Fama to bring the Alchemist Guild into the alliance, promising to help it produce ten Rank Five Alchemists within ten years.
• Fama agreed to join if Xiao Yan fulfilled his promise, and Xiao Yan promised the clans future Dou Huang and Dou Wang members.
• Xiao Shuang announced that the alliance would be called the Xiao Alliance.

After forming the Xiao Alliance, Xiao Shuang planned to recover before making a move against the Chu Yun Empire and welcomed the Snake People Race into the alliance. Back in the Imperial City, he received a poisoned letter from Xiao Yi Xian, leaving its message and the next move unresolved.

• Xiao Yan proposed Xiao Shuang as alliance leader, and the gathered factions agreed before celebrating the alliance's founding.
• Xiao Shuang said he would recuperate before striking the Chu Yun Empire, and Queen Medusa agreed to bring the Snake People Race into the alliance.
• Zi Yan said she was close to advancing and needed a great deal of energy, so Xiao Yan promised to refine pills and Xiao Shuang offered medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Shuang took Zi Yan to her prepared palace in the Imperial City, where she happily settled in with the maidservants.
• Yaoye gave Xiao Shuang an unopened letter from the Chu Yun Empire, and he recognized the Calamity Poison Body mist inside as Xiao Yi Xian's.

Xiao Shuang prepared the Jia Ma Empire for a possible war with Soul Hall and traveled to the Chu Yun Empire to help Xiao Yi Xian remove the Royal Family’s Dou Zong. Xiao Yi Xian revealed her plan to unite the Chu Yun Empire’s forces, beginning with the Royal Family.

• Xiao Shuang and Yaoye discussed Soul Hall’s alliance with Xiao Yi Xian and agreed to prepare for the threat while Xiao Yan and Zi Yan advanced.
• Xiao Shuang asked Yaoye to carry out her plan, protect herself with Little Purple, and coordinate with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan entered seclusion in the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, while Zi Yan began her advancement in the Imperial City under Queen Medusa’s protection.
• Xiao Shuang traveled in disguise to the Chu Yun Empire with a Poison Sect elder and met Xiao Yi Xian outside Heavenly Poison City.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Shuang she had located the Royal Family’s Dou Zong and wanted him to stand guard while she assassinated the old immortal.

Xiao Shuang and Xiao Yi Xian went to Heavenly Poison Mountain to confront Wu Yuan, a Dou Zong expert of the Chu Yun Empire’s Royal Family, as Xiao Yi Xian sought to force the Royal Family into submission. The chapter ended as Wu Yuan and his Blood Pattern Centipede joined forces against Xiao Yi Xian, while Xiao Shuang prepared to intervene from the shadows.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Shuang she had reached Three-Star Dou Zong and revealed that Wu Yuan was cultivating in a cave on Heavenly Poison Mountain.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Shuang traveled to the mountain, where she warned that she would need to unseal her Calamity Poison Body and leave the aftermath to him.
• Xiao Yi Xian killed the Green Nether Poison Bats guarding the cave and confronted Wu Yuan, explaining that she intended to use him as an example to make the Chu Yun Empire’s Royal Family submit.
• Wu Yuan summoned his Blood Pattern Centipede, and the beast leered at Xiao Yi Xian while Xiao Shuang recognized its strength and prepared to hold it back.
• Wu Yuan and the Blood Pattern Centipede joined their auras and faced Xiao Yi Xian, who released her own powerful aura as the cave battle became unavoidable.

Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Shuang fought Wu Yuan and the Blood Pattern Centipede on Heavenly Poison Mountain. After the Blood Pattern Centipede fell, Wu Yuan absorbed his venomous serpent staff to strengthen himself, and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to face him.

• Wu Yuan and the Blood Pattern Centipede teamed up against Xiao Yi Xian, who charged at Wu Yuan with poison-coated nails.
• Xiao Shuang appeared and struck the Blood Pattern Centipede with his three-colored spear, while Wu Yuan continued fighting Xiao Yi Xian.
• The Blood Pattern Centipede split its body to escape Xiao Yi Xian's poison, but Xiao Shuang's hidden Ice Dou Qi weakened it and he killed it with the Severing Life Spear.
• Wu Yuan lost focus after sensing the Blood Pattern Centipede's defeat, allowing Xiao Yi Xian to cut his right arm and poison him.
• Wu Yuan swallowed the serpent staff, causing his aura to surge, while Xiao Yi Xian declared that he would die on Heavenly Poison Mountain.

Xiao Yi Xian defeated Wu Yuan with the Calamity Poison Body and destroyed his lingering soul, then returned with Xiao Shuang to the Poison Sect. As they discussed the arriving Soul Hall Protector, a figure shrouded in black mist entered the hall and proposed cooperation.

• Xiao Yi Xian trapped Wu Yuan in a Heavenly Poison Cage and overwhelmed him with her Calamity Poison Body.
• Wu Yuan attempted to self-destruct, but Xiao Shuang interrupted him long enough for Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Blood to kill him.
• Xiao Yi Xian pulled Wu Yuan's lingering soul from twisted space and destroyed it before welcoming the approaching experts.
• Xiao Yi Xian brought Xiao Shuang to Heavenly Poison City, where he met the Poison Sect's powerful members and asked when the Soul Hall Protector would arrive.
• A figure in black mist entered the Poison Sect's main hall and offered Xiao Yi Xian a proposal for cooperation.

Iron Protector offered Xiao Yi Xian Soul Hall support for her Calamity Poison Body in exchange for attacking the Jia Ma Empire and capturing the Xiao Family, but she distrusted his motives. She and Xiao Shuang discussed dealing with the Golden Goose Sect and Mulan Valley before visiting her poisonous cultivation ground.

• Iron Protector proposed that Xiao Yi Xian ally with the Soul Hall and promised a Venerable Elder would resolve her Calamity Poison Body if she attacked the Jia Ma Empire and captured the Xiao Family.
• Iron Protector named the Golden Goose Sect and Mulan Valley as allies and left Xiao Yi Xian a jade slip to signal her decision.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Shuang she distrusted the Soul Hall and said he was one of the few people she trusted.
• Xiao Shuang suggested agreeing to Iron Protector's offer for now and looking for a chance to deal with the Golden Goose Sect and Mulan Valley.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Shuang discussed her efforts to consolidate the Chu Yun Empire and the death of its First Prince at Xiao Shuang's hands.
• Xiao Yi Xian led Xiao Shuang to her forbidden stone mountain, where she cultivated rare poisonous plants and insects.

Xiao Shuang helped Xiao Yi Xian suppress her Calamity Poison Body before returning to the Jia Ma Empire, where he prepared the Xiao Alliance and Queen Medusa for an impending invasion. The chapter ended with Queen Medusa asking about Xiao Yan and Zi Yan’s seclusion, and Xiao Shuang reporting that Zi Yan’s advancement was going smoothly.

• Xiao Shuang reduced the activity of Xiao Yi Xian’s poison Dou Qi and delayed her Calamity Poison Body’s outbreak, while Xiao Yi Xian gave him Ice Attribute medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Shuang that the Poison Sect would attack the Jia Ma Empire alongside the Golden Goose Sect and Mulan Valley, and he agreed to prepare and target the Soul Hall Protector.
• Xiao Shuang returned to the Jia Ma Empire and told Yaoye that the Poison Sect’s leader and Queen Medusa would help defend against the invasion.
• Xiao Ding and the Xiao Alliance mobilized experts to Black Mountain Fortress, while Xiao Shuang alerted the Snake People Race and Queen Medusa.
• At Black Mountain Fortress, Xiao Shuang briefed Queen Medusa and the alliance elders, then told Queen Medusa that Xiao Yan remained in seclusion and Zi Yan’s advancement was going smoothly.