Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan recovered after Queen Medusa’s attempt to force her will on him, then learned that five factions had allied against Evil Prison and begun destabilizing its territory. He ordered Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei to make arrests while avoiding casualties, preparing for a decisive turn in three days.

• Xiao Mei and Xiao Yu discussed their struggles helping Black Corner Region residents adjust to Evil Prison’s rules and care for its orphaned children.
• Xiao Mei and Xiao Yu found Xiao Yan exhausted in his wrecked room with a sleeping seven-colored snake; Xiao Yan said the incident that weakened him would happen again, while Yao Chen teased him about Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yu reported that the Heavenly Yin Sect, Mad Lion Gang, Black Skull Tomb, Blood Sect, and Rakshasa Gate had allied under Old Man Yin Gu and seized some Evil Prison territory.
• Xiao Mei reported that misleading rumors and rebellions had spread through Evil Prison’s ranks, and that more than a dozen troublemakers had been arrested.
• Xiao Yan ordered Xiao Mei to continue making arrests and told Xiao Yu to help, avoid killing unless necessary, and let the allied factions take territory without a costly fight; he said events would be decided in three days.

Xiao Yan ordered Xiao Yi Xian to withdraw from a carefully improved territory, allowing the Mad Lion Gang to seize and plunder it as part of a plan to expose the old order of the Black Corner Region. Xiao Yi Xian understood that Xiao Yan was trying to win the people’s hearts, and recognized that his ruthless explanation concealed how much the sacrifice pained him.

• Xiao Yi Xian retreated before Tie Wu’s Mad Lion Gang, while Tie Wu ordered his men to plunder the territory and kill anyone who resisted.
• Old Man Yin Gu suspected Xiao Yan had planted spies in the territory and ordered Tie Wu to seize people at the Dou Ling level or above.
• Su Mei judged that the residents’ memories of life under Xiao Yan’s rule would make the renewed plundering deepen their resentment toward the old order.
• Xiao Yi Xian confronted Xiao Yan over surrendering the territory, then realized he had made it a model under her care so its destruction would be especially visible.
• Xiao Yan explained that he wanted the people to choose between his rule and the Law of the Jungle, and Xiao Yi Xian saw that he still grieved over the residents’ suffering.

As Old Man Yin Gu’s alliance rapidly seized Evil Prison’s territories, Xiao Yan prepared to lead a counterattack and welcomed Black Corner Region residents who wanted to defend their new lives. The chapter ended with Han Feng confirming that Xiao Yi Xian might have less than half a month to live, while no cure had been found.

• Old Man Yin Gu’s forces advanced with suspicious ease, and residents increasingly blamed them for destroying the peace Evil Prison had brought.
• Xiao Yu reported that Black Corner Region residents had volunteered to join the enforcement branch, and Xiao Yan placed them under Xiao Yi Xian’s command.
• Xiao Yan ordered Evil Prison to launch its counterattack the next morning, while Zi Yan eagerly promised to fight for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Ning relayed that Hong Shuang was waiting for Xiao Yan’s orders, and Xiao Yi Xian later spoke with Han Feng about her worsening condition.
• Han Feng told Xiao Yan that she had found no cure and believed Xiao Yi Xian might not last more than half a month.

Xiao Yan and Evil Prison retook territory from the Heavenly Yin Sect after its disciples massacred and plundered the commoners. As Xiao Yan confronted Old Man Yin Gu, the sect revealed that its defeated disciples had been bait and a force of Dou Wangs, Dou Huangs, and other old powers had gathered to destroy Evil Prison.

• Heavenly Yin Sect disciples brutalized the commoners while Old Man Yin Gu watched, and the people prayed for Evil Prison to save them.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Evil Prison, stopped a disciple from killing an old woman, and led the counterattack to retake the territory.
• Xiao Yan apologized to the survivors for his deliberate inaction, then joined the fighting while Old Man Yin Gu watched his disciples fall.
• Xiao Yan confronted Old Man Yin Gu and said that what mattered to him was a world without him.
• Xiao Yi Xian reported that no Heavenly Yin Sect disciple above Dou Ling had fought, and Old Man Yin Gu revealed that his troops had been bait.
• Over a hundred Dou Wangs and Dou Huangs, along with leaders of other old powers, appeared as Old Man Yin Gu challenged Xiao Yan to decide who would control the Black Corner Region.

Xiao Yan’s forces faced Old Man Yin Gu’s coalition in a battle sparked by Su Mei’s betrayal, while Xiao Yan revealed that he had summoned Great Elder Su Qian only to witness the Black Corner Region’s destruction. The fighting spread across the arena, and the chapter ended with news that a massive riot had erupted in the territory behind the Heavenly Yin Sect.

• Tie Wu revealed that Su Mei had exposed Xiao Yan’s whereabouts, and Su Mei admitted she had chosen to side with the coalition.
• Han Feng and Yuan Yi arrived with their forces, and Yuan Yi declared his support for Xiao Yan’s plan for the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Yi Xian attacked Tie Wu, while Han Feng engaged Su Mei and Zi Yan, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Yu fought stronger opponents.
• Xiao Yan faced Old Man Yin Gu and said he had invited Great Elder Su Qian to witness him destroy the Black Corner Region, not to join the battle.
• A Heavenly Yin Sect disciple reported to Old Man Yin Gu that a massive riot had broken out in the sect’s territory behind them.

Xiao Yan led Evil Prison against the Black Corner Region’s old established forces, overwhelming Old Man Yin Gu and killing him. With Su Mei’s betrayal turning the battle, Evil Prison gained the upper hand, and the old order’s representative fell.

• Old Man Yin Gu learned that residents across the seized territories had stormed the prisons and freed the imprisoned experts, while Xiao Yan revealed that the uprising was not the result of spies he had planted.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations and the Xiao Clan Ancestral Mark to rise from Dou Wang to Dou Huang, then attacked Old Man Yin Gu and rejected his attempted surrender.
• Old Man Yin Gu’s injuries and screams broke the old established forces’ morale, allowing Evil Prison’s fighters to seize the advantage.
• Su Mei poisoned Tie Wu and the leaders of the Blood Sect and Black Skull Tomb, leaving them unable to defend themselves as Xiao Yi Xian killed all three with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Su Mei to stay out of her sight, while Xiao Yan impaled Old Man Yin Gu and crushed his heart, killing the leader of the old established forces.

After Evil Prison defeated the old powers, Xiao Yan spared their powerless personnel and thanked Su Mei while warning her not to cross his bottom line. The Black Corner Region’s residents arrived ready to fight, learned Yin Gu was dead, and celebrated; Xiao Yan said their resistance mattered because it taught them to stand against oppression.

• Evil Prison wiped out the old powers after their leaders fell, and Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian to leave the remaining low-level personnel to their fate.
• Su Mei tried to grow closer to Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yi Xian blocked her; Xiao Yan stopped Xiao Yi Xian and sincerely thanked Su Mei for her help.
• Xiao Yan warned Su Mei that he would act without mercy if she crossed his bottom line, and Su Mei agreed to be cautious.
• The Black Corner Region’s residents arrived prepared to fight, saw Yin Gu’s corpse, and cheered when they learned the old powers had been defeated.
• Xiao Yan explained to Su Mei and Xiao Yi Xian that the residents’ rebellion mattered because they had learned to resist oppression, and that their victory was what they deserved.

After unifying the Black Corner Region, Xiao Yan mourned the people who died because of his strategy and vowed not to allow avoidable sacrifices again. When Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamitous Poison Body erupted early and sealed her in ice, he took her away from the city and waited beside her, overwhelmed by regret.

• Su Qian and the Dean of Students left for the academy after witnessing the residents fight for Xiao Yan, and Su Qian said Xiao Yan’s future would reach beyond the Black Corner Region.
• At the gravestones outside Black-Seal City, Xiao Yan blamed himself for the residents who had died after he abandoned their territories and promised that no one would have to make avoidable sacrifices for him again.
• Han Feng told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi Xian’s condition had worsened, and Xiao Yu gave him Xiao Yi Xian’s note asking that no one enter and that she be taken somewhere uninhabited before the ice melted.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian encased in ice and learned from Han Feng that using her power had accelerated her Calamitous Poison Body’s eruption.
• Xiao Yan and Han Feng moved Xiao Yi Xian’s ice block to a deserted plain to protect the city, and Xiao Yan stayed behind to wait beside her, grieving that he had not answered her confession.

Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, Xiao Ning, and Su Mei searched for a way to save Xiao Yi Xian as Xiao Yan kept watch over her sealed body. Yao Chen proposed preserving Xiao Yi Xian’s soul, and Xiao Yan vowed to bear her life upon his shoulders.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Mei that Xiao Yi Xian’s condition had to remain secret and left to ask Su Qian and the others for help.
• Xiao Mei woke Xiao Ning and ordered him to gather information about the Calamitous Poison Body without revealing Xiao Yi Xian’s condition.
• After hearing that Xiao Ning was searching brothels for clues, Su Mei sent Hong Shuang to seek information from the women there.
• Xiao Yan stayed beside Xiao Yi Xian’s ice seal for three days while Yao Chen realized they might preserve her soul even if they could not cure her Calamitous Poison Body.
• Yao Chen explained that Xiao Yi Xian’s Soul Power was too weak to leave her body, but Xiao Yan trusted her to have a solution.
• Yao Chen asked whether Xiao Yan was prepared to bear Xiao Yi Xian’s life, and Xiao Yan answered, “Unwavering until death!”

Xiao Yi Xian regained awareness as a soul linked to Xiao Yan after he and Yao Chen pulled her from her body to keep her alive. She accepted that she would have to stay within Xiao Yan while he searched for the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, but their shared ability to hear each other’s thoughts left both embarrassed.

• Xiao Yi Xian saw fragments of Xiao Yan’s memories, including a young Xiao Yan asking Queen Medusa to marry him, before a hostile voice and darkness overwhelmed her.
• Queen Medusa urged Xiao Yi Xian to open her eyes, and Xiao Yi Xian used the unfamiliar power within her to see through the darkness and realize she was inside Xiao Yan’s body.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen discussed Xiao Yi Xian’s unresponsive soul, and Xiao Yan heard her voice after she woke and complained that he was looking at her soaked, torn clothing.
• Xiao Yan explained that Yao Chen had attached Xiao Yi Xian’s soul to his because her Soul Power could not sustain it independently, and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to stay with him while he sought a cure.
• Xiao Yan discovered that he could hear Xiao Yi Xian’s unspoken thoughts as well as she could hear his, and she angrily demanded that he forget her private musings.

Xiao Yan returned with Xiao Yi Xian’s body, and his companions mistakenly believed she had died until he explained that her soul was inside him. He bought a coffin to preserve her body while Han Feng learned of a lead on the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, and Yuan Yi warned that the plan to make the Black Corner Region a neutral commercial district might face trouble.

• Han Feng returned to Evil Prison’s headquarters and learned that Xiao Yan had brought back Xiao Yi Xian’s apparently lifeless body, just as Xiao Ning announced he had found a lead on the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Mei, Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, and Han Feng that Xiao Yi Xian was alive inside him, but they doubted him until Han Feng confirmed the method and Xiao Yu vouched for him after a private conversation.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yu to watch over Xiao Yi Xian’s body and went to Black-Seal City to buy a special coffin, since her body could not be placed in a Storage Ring or taken far from him.
• At the auction house, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian considered coffin designs, and Yuan Yi arrived to greet him.
• Xiao Yan asked Yuan Yi about turning the Black Corner Region into a neutral commercial district, and Yuan Yi said preparations were underway but the timing might be poor.

Xiao Yan learned that neighboring empires might unite against the Jia Ma Empire and went to buy a coffin for Xiao Yi Xian. There he reunited with Yun Ying, accepted her gift of the coffin, and made clear that he wanted to remain friends; Yun Ying’s motives remained unclear.

• Yuan Yi told Xiao Yan that Chu Yun, Falling Wild Goose, and Mulan might be joining forces against the Jia Ma Empire, prompting Xiao Yan to consider returning for the Three-Year Pact.
• Xiao Yan chose an unusually fine, heavy coffin for Xiao Yi Xian after she approved of it, and Yuan Yi offered to introduce him to its owner.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the coffin’s owner was Yun Ying, his old friend, and awkwardly apologized for having mistaken her for a man.
• Yun Ying teased Xiao Yan about his past drunken promise to propose, but Xiao Yan said they were better suited as friends.
• Yun Ying gave Xiao Yan the coffin for Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan accepted while offering his help in the Black Corner Region.

Xiao Yan showed Yun Ying the transformed Black Corner Region, while Yun Xiao sneaked into the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death and was nearly killed by a Black Mane Lion. Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion and killed the beast, leaving Yun Xiao facing the bloodstained Young Sect Master.

• Xiao Yan explained that the Black Corner Region’s residents had chosen a different way of life, then invited Yun Ying to see the changes firsthand.
• Yun Ying concealed her jealousy and resentment as she reflected on how Xiao Yan’s Righteous Path had saved others but not her.
• Yun Xiao, bored and unable to leave the sect, climbed into a forbidden courtyard and touched the Gate of Life and Death.
• Yun Xiao was transported to a forest inside the gate and happily chased its animals until a Black Mane Lion approached her.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion and split the Black Mane Lion in two, then stared at the frozen Yun Xiao.

Yun Xiao entered the Gate of Life and Death, terrifying Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect until Nalan Yanran emerged carrying her safely. After recovering from two years of trials, Nalan Yanran met Yun Xiao again and began to bond with her, while wondering who her father was.

• Zijing and Yun Leng worried about Yun Xiao until Yun Shan sensed someone had passed through the Gate of Life and Death, and Yun Yun discovered the gate had closed behind her daughter.
• Yun Yun tried to force the gate open, but Yun Shan stopped her and went to search the sect’s ancient records with Zijing for a way to help Yun Xiao.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from the gate carrying Yun Xiao, and Yun Yun embraced her daughter before scolding her for running off alone.
• Yun Yun apologized for shouting, and Nalan Yanran greeted her teacher before sleeping for three days to recover from the trial.
• Nalan Yanran woke at peak Dou Wang, kept her blood-scabbed sword and named it the Scarlet Sword, then encountered Yun Xiao outside her room.
• Nalan Yanran teased Yun Xiao into agreeing to call her Sister Yanran, while privately wondering who Yun Xiao’s father was.

Nalan Yanran reunited with Yun Yun after emerging from the Gate of Life and Death, unaware that Yun Xiao's father was her fiancé, Xiao Yan. After Yanran defended Xiao Yan as an ideal husband, she declared she would defeat him in the Three-Year Pact and marry him, leaving Yun Yun and the others stunned.

• Nalan Yanran ate an enormous meal in the Misty Cloud Sect cafeteria with Yun Xiao, then took her to see Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun struggled over whether to tell Nalan Yanran that Xiao Yan was Yun Xiao's father, while Yun Leng suspected the truth and Yun Shan stayed silent.
• Nalan Yanran asked who Yun Xiao's father was, then became furious when Yun Yun said he had not returned after the birth and demanded his name.
• Nalan Yanran praised Xiao Yan as someone who would never abandon his family, making Yun Yun repeatedly strike her head against the desk with a supposed stomachache.
• Zijing and Zi Yun voiced support for Xiao Yan becoming a father to Zijing and Yun Xiao, before Nalan Yanran insisted Xiao Yan was her fiancé and vowed to marry him after the Three-Year Pact.

Nalan Yanran learned that Nalan Jie was guarding the Jia Ma Empire’s unsettled border and decided to visit him, while Yun Ying ordered Soul Hall to prolong the conflict between the Jia Ma Empire and the allied countries. Xiao Yan prepared to return to the empire with Xiao Yi Xian’s body as war threatened, and Nalan Jie awaited the enemy at the border with Xiao Li.

• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that Nalan Jie was leading the border defenses against a possible alliance of Chu Yun, Falling Wild Goose, and Mulan, and Nalan Yanran asked to go see him.
• Yun Ying discovered that Xiao Yan’s work in the Black Corner Region made her jealous, then ordered Soul Hall to support the three allied countries if they lost their first battle, without deciding the war’s outcome.
• Xiao Mei told Xiao Yan that Xiao Ning had found a lead on the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, and Xiao Yan said he would return to the Jia Ma Empire because war might break out.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Mei a Token to summon help if needed, secured Xiao Yi Xian’s body in a coffin, and left the Black Corner Region.
• At the border fortress, Nalan Jie worried about the coming invasion while Xiao Li assured him that their forces could defeat the three countries.

Xiao Li and Nalan Jie prepared the border forces to face a massive allied invasion by the Cloud, Luoyan, and Mulan Empires. After Yan Luotian launched an overwhelming attack, Xiao Li blocked it and charged at him, leaving the battle poised for a desperate clash.

• Nalan Jie warned Xiao Li to stay alert, and their conversation revealed Xiao Li still had not realized that Xiao Xiao was Xiao Yan's child.
• Mo Bass reported that a human army was approaching, so Nalan Jie sounded the alarm and Xiao Li led the soldiers into formation.
• The allied army arrived with seven Dou Zongs, prompting Nalan Jie to send for reinforcements as Yan Luotian demanded surrender and the Jia Ma forces vowed to fight.
• Yan Luotian attacked the defenders, but Xiao Li blocked his strike and survived despite being blasted backward.
• Xiao Li challenged Yan Luotian and charged at him with her lightning-wreathed spear.

Xiao Li’s Heaven-Defying Physique repeatedly amplified her strength as she fought Yan Luotian and the Mulan Second Elders, protecting the soldiers despite her severe injuries. Just as Nalan Jie faced death defending her, Nalan Yanran arrived and struck Mu Lan the Elder away.

• Yan Luotian defeated Xiao Li, Nalan Jie, and the three Snake-people race leaders, leaving them badly injured.
• Xiao Li’s strength surged each time she neared death, and she continued fighting Yan Luotian and the Mulan Second Elders.
• Xiao Li rose to Two-star Dou Huang strength and knocked Mu Lan the Elder into the desert before fighting Yan Luotian.
• Mu Lan the Elder attacked Xiao Li, but Nalan Jie intervened and was left unable to defend himself from a fatal blow.
• Nalan Yanran arrived and punched Mu Lan the Elder a thousand meters away as Nalan Jie recognized her.

Nalan Yanran returned to the battlefield and revealed a terrifying transformation, overwhelming the allied army’s Dou Zongs with a feral presence. She killed Mu Lan the Elder by tearing out his throat and turned her attention to the remaining enemies.

• Nalan Yanran sent Mu Lan the Elder flying with one punch, then checked on Nalan Jie and greeted the badly injured Xiao Li.
• Yan Luotian ordered the allied forces to attack together, and Nalan Yanran stepped forward to protect her grandfather.
• Nalan Yanran drew the Scarlet Sword, filling the battlefield with primal fear and leaving both armies frozen in place.
• When Mu Lan the Elder moved, Nalan Yanran severed his arm and then tore out his throat with her teeth, killing him.
• Nalan Yanran spat out the flesh and surveyed Xie Biyan and the others as though choosing her next prey.

Nalan Yanran used her beastlike instincts to kill Mu Lan the Elder and Mu Lan the Second, then faced Xie Biyan and three other Dou Zongs while gravely injured. As the frightened Dou Zongs stalled her until she fell from the sky, Xiao Yan arrived and caught her.

• Nalan Yanran ambushed and killed Mu Lan the Elder, then fought Mu Lan the Second with unpredictable, instinctive attacks.
• Xie Biyan tried to strike Nalan Yanran from behind, but she evaded him and wounded his neck before the Dou Zongs attacked together.
• Xiao Li kept Yan Luotian occupied while Nalan Yanran took Mu Lan the Second's blow, pierced his chest, and killed him.
• Severely injured, Nalan Yanran charged at Xie Biyan and the other Dou Zongs, whose fear led them to evade her and stall until she collapsed.
• Xiao Yan arrived ahead of Nalan Jie and caught the falling Nalan Yanran.