Chapter Summaries

Yao Wan was born with a Heaven Realm Soul, prompting Yao Dan to make her his personal disciple and guide her cultivation. Nearly fifteen years later, she reached one-star Dou Wang and began to tell Yao Dan something important.

• Yao Dan discovered that newborn Yao Wan had a Heaven Realm Soul and declared that he would personally teach her.
• Yao Wan grew up studying cultivation and pharmacology under Yao Dan, while rumors spread about her talent and the Life Spirit Flame she received.
• Yao Wan cultivated in her hidden heaven until she reached one-star Dou Wang, then reflected on how slowly she was progressing toward the strength needed to face Hun Tiandi.
• Yao Dan visited Yao Wan, praised her steady advancement, and privately regretted that her Daughter's Body might limit her future in the clan.
• Yao Wan turned to Yao Dan and said she had something to tell him.

Yao Wan asked Yao Dan for permission to leave the Yao Realm and travel, but he refused to let her go without an escort. She secretly left a letter and departed anyway, prompting the Yao Clan to search for her as rumors spread across Central State.

• Yao Wan asked Yao Dan to let her travel alone, but he refused and offered to have Ten Thousand Fire Elder accompany her instead.
• Yao Wan decided to leave without permission, took her stored treasures and medicinal pills, and left a letter explaining that she wanted to explore the Dou Qi Continent.
• Yao Dan discovered Yao Wan had escaped and ordered Yao Wanhua and Yao Wangui to find her and bring her back.
• Yao Dan privately hoped Yao Wan would travel far enough to avoid being caught and returned.
• Rumors spread across Central State that the Yao Clan's Young Miss had disappeared, and Yao Wan mocked speculation that she had been abducted.

Yao Wan left Central State and wandered the Dou Qi Continent as the Medicine Fairy, then headed for Wutan City after spotting the Gama Empire on a map. There, Xiao Yan struggled once again to condense a Dou Qi vortex as his cultivation continued to fail.

• Yao Wan avoided Central State and flew away from the Shennong Mountain Range to explore the Dou Qi Continent.
• Yao Wan gained fame as the Medicine Fairy by healing the sick and wounded, then beat and tossed several men who had followed her into a river.
• Yao Wan recognized the Gama Empire on a map and decided to visit Wutan City to see Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wan arrived in the Gama Empire, found Wutan City on an imperial map, and set her sights on it.
• Xiao Yan failed once again to condense a Dou Qi vortex, continuing the two-year decline that began when his cultivated Dou Qi vanished.

Xiao Yan met the mysterious Yao Wan in the Xiao Clan’s Back Mountain, where she eased his exhaustion and explained that she could not fix the problem stopping his Dou Qi from gathering. After Xiao Yan agreed to endure another year, Yao Wan decided to stay at the Xiao Clan for a few days.

• Xiao Yan heard someone in the bushes and met the disguised Yao Wan, who had come to see the Xiao Clan’s former genius.
• Yao Wan mocked Xiao Yan’s condition, then tapped his brow and relieved his accumulated exhaustion.
• Xiao Yan recognized Yao Wan as an alchemist and explained that he did not want to beg her for help.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan that his inability to gather Dou Qi was not necessarily bad and that he needed to endure one more year, though she could not resolve it for him.
• Xiao Yan said he could endure the year, and Yao Wan chose to stay at the Xiao Clan and introduced herself as Wan Guniang.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that his guest, Yao Wan, was an alchemist, but his father doubted the claim and warned him to be cautious. Yao Wan later urged Xiao Yan to treat her as an ordinary friend, while he remained curious about her strength.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that his friend wanted to stay with the Xiao Clan and was an alchemist.
• Xiao Zhan questioned where Xiao Yan had met her and warned him not to trust people too easily.
• Xiao Yan decided not to arrange a meeting between Xiao Zhan and Yao Wan, then Xiao Zhan left his residence.
• Yao Wan surprised Xiao Yan, and they discussed his weak cultivation and her strength.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan to treat her as an ordinary friend, but when he asked about her realm, she challenged why he wanted to know.

Xiao Yan learned that Yao Wan was a one-star Dou Wang and was startled by her strength. After Xiao Xun’er arrived, Yao Wan sensed someone secretly probing her and forced the hidden watcher to retreat.

• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan that she was a Dou Wang, leaving him astonished at her young age and power.
• Yao Wan sensed something outside and ended her conversation with Xiao Yan, who left the guest room.
• Xiao Xun’er met Xiao Yan in the courtyard and asked about his guest, but he avoided revealing Yao Wan’s identity.
• Yao Wan listened to Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun’er from inside and recognized Xiao Xun’er as the Gu Clan’s Young Miss.
• Yao Wan confronted an unseen intruder probing her residence and used her Heaven Realm Soul pressure to make him withdraw.

Yao Wan quietly nourished her Life Spirit Flame seed and casually refined Body Tempering Fluid while Xiao Yan visited her. She gave him the medicine to strengthen his body and nourish his meridians, leaving her curious about how his future would unfold.

• Yao Wan nourished the fragile Life Spirit Flame seed she had obtained from the Clan Leader, aware that the Yao Clan had paid a great price to acquire it from Old Man Shen Nong.
• Yao Wan reflected on her cultivation and her reputation as the Medicine Fairy, then refined a small amount of Body Tempering Fluid from common medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan entered Yao Wan's room and noticed the lingering medicinal fragrance, asking whether she had been refining medicine.
• Yao Wan gave Xiao Yan the Body Tempering Fluid and advised him to use it in three portions to strengthen his physique and nourish his meridians.
• Yao Wan wondered whether Xiao Yan would rise rapidly after two years of silence with her presence changing his circumstances.

Xiao Yan used Yao Wan’s medicinal liquid to temper his body, which widened his meridians but did not increase his Dou Qi. When he met Yao Wan again that night, she judged that she had overestimated the medicine’s effect and sent more medicinal property into him.

• Xiao Yan accepted Yao Wan’s medicinal liquid and silently resolved to remember her kindness.
• Xiao Yan diluted the liquid in a bath and cultivated as it tempered his body, causing pain before it widened his meridians and sped up his absorption of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan cultivated through the day but saw no increase in his Dou Qi, then received food from the old servant sent by Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan visited Yao Wan that night, and she said she had overestimated the result before tapping his brow and sending medicinal property into his bloodline.
• The breeze lifted the black gauze that had been hiding Yao Wan’s face.

Yao Wan discovered that the Body Tempering Spirit Liquid had mildly damaged Xiao Yan’s meridians, so she prepared a pill to treat him. After refining it, she told Xiao Yan to take it and let her nourish his meridians.

• Yao Wan asked Xiao Yan what he had felt when using the medicine, and he said it had caused stinging pain.
• Yao Wan concluded that the spirit liquid had strained Xiao Yan’s body and told him to pause cultivation while she found a remedy.
• Yao Wan brought Xiao Yan into her guest room and lit it with a Dou Qi flame.
• Yao Wan selected medicinal ingredients and refined them into a pill while Xiao Yan watched.
• Yao Wan gave Xiao Yan the pill and told him to sit so she could warm and nourish his meridians.

Yao Wan nourished Xiao Yan’s damaged meridians with the pill she had refined, helping stabilize them and improve his Dou Qi absorption. She offered to continue supplying him with medicine, and Xiao Yan accepted her help despite not understanding why she was so generous.

• Yao Wan gave Xiao Yan a pill and guided its medicinal properties through his body while nourishing his meridians.
• Xiao Yan endured the treatment until morning, when Yao Wan said his meridians had stabilized and his Dou Qi absorption should be about thirty percent faster.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan to use the remaining Body Tempering Fluid over seven days and promised to prepare a Spirit Medicine suited to him afterward.
• Xiao Yan asked why Yao Wan kept helping him, and she said she did so because she wanted to.
• Xiao Yan accepted Yao Wan’s continued help and agreed to keep cultivating.

Over six months, Xiao Yan trained his body under Yao Wan’s guidance and learned a Body Strengthening Technique while his Dou Qi remained weak. On his way home, he passed Xiao Mei without acknowledging her, leaving her embarrassed and unsettled.

• Yao Wan supplied Xiao Yan with spirit medicine for half a year and avoided giving him pills that could directly raise his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan’s bones and muscles grew sturdier, and Yao Wan offered to teach him a Body Strengthening Technique.
• Yao Wan taught Xiao Yan the technique, and he left with another bottle of spirit medicine.
• Xiao Yan encountered Xiao Mei and her companions on a road but walked past without greeting them.
• Xiao Mei called after Xiao Yan, and he answered coldly before continuing on his way.

While healing in his bath, Xiao Yan discovered that an old man living in his ring had secretly absorbed his Dou Qi for more than two years. He went to ask Wan Guniang what to do about the old man, and she opened the door to her guest room.

• Xiao Yan soaked in a medicinal bath to heal his injuries and complained about Yao Wan’s harsh attacks.
• An old man spoke from Xiao Yan’s ring, revealed that he had absorbed Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi for more than two years, and said he would stop doing so without permission.
• Xiao Yan angrily threw the ring out the window, but it returned with the old man’s illusory figure floating above it.
• Xiao Yan suspected the old man had revealed himself because Wan Guniang could detect him, then decided to ask her how to handle the situation.
• Xiao Yan hurried to the Xiao Clan’s guest rooms, knocked on Wan Guniang’s door, and was invited inside.

Xiao Yan confronted the spirit in his ring and learned that the old man had caused his lost Dou Qi. With Yao Wan’s encouragement, Xiao Yan accepted Yao Lao as his teacher, and the chapter left him needing costly medicinal ingredients to begin his cultivation training.

• Xiao Yan summoned the old man from his ring and told Yao Wan that he had been draining Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi.
• Yao Lao praised Yao Wan’s talent and offered to take her as his disciple, but she declined and said Xiao Yan was better suited.
• Yao Wan urged Xiao Yan to consider his choice carefully, and Xiao Yan performed the disciple-taking ceremony to become Yao Lao’s student.
• Yao Wan advised Xiao Yan to reach Dou Zhe before pursuing alchemy, and Yao Lao promised to help him cultivate.
• Yao Lao asked Xiao Yan to buy expensive medicinal herbs and a Magic Core, so Xiao Yan looked to Yao Wan for help with the cost.

After Yao Lao helped Xiao Yan regain his ability to gather Dou Qi, Xiao Yan borrowed money from Yao Wan to buy medicinal herbs and pursue cultivation. He left the chapter newly hopeful, while Xun'er asked him to take her around Wutan City the next day.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Wan for financial help, and she offered him one hundred thousand Gold Coins.
• Xiao Yan accepted the money as a loan and left, while Yao Lao teased him about relying on Yao Wan's support.
• Xiao Yan reflected on his renewed hope after regaining the ability to gather Dou Qi and becoming Yao Lao's student.
• Yao Lao hid in Xiao Yan's Storage Ring when he sensed someone approaching.
• Xun'er met Xiao Yan and asked him to take her around Wutan City the next day.

Xiao Yan took Xiao Xun'er for a stroll around Wutan City, where they spent time together and he gave her a pendant. Their outing was interrupted by Ga Lie Ao, whom Xiao Yan rebuked before leaving with Xun'er.

• Xiao Yan agreed to take Xiao Xun'er out, and the next day they left the Xiao Clan together while Yao Lao watched and Yao Wan wondered where Xiao Yan had gone.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er wandered through Wutan City before buying the medicinal ingredients Yao Lao needed.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Xun'er a pendant and fastened it around her neck.
• Ga Lie Ao approached Xiao Xun'er and mocked the pendant, but she tried to leave without speaking to him.
• Xiao Yan insulted Ga Lie Ao's intentions and reputation, warned Xun'er to stay away from people like him, and left with her.

Xiao Yan fought Ga Lie Ao after Ga Lie Ao insulted and provoked him in front of Xun'er. Xiao Yan defeated him in a single exchange without using Dou Qi, leaving the crowd convinced that the Xiao Family's genius had returned.

• Ga Lie Ao grew angry when Xiao Yan's remarks spoiled his attempt to impress Xun'er and challenged him to fight.
• Xiao Yan accepted Ga Lie Ao's challenge and shielded Xun'er, while Yao Lao warned him that he was being reckless.
• Ga Lie Ao charged at Xiao Yan, who blocked his punch and countered with a knee and a strike that left Ga Lie Ao unable to resist.
• Xiao Yan stopped his fist beside Ga Lie Ao's temple and declared him defeated, then the Xiao Family's Guard arrived and Ga Lie Ao was sent away.
• The crowd cheered Xiao Yan's victory and discussed the return of the Xiao Family's genius.

After defeating Ga Lie Ao, Xiao Yan returned with Xiao Xun'er, learned about Yao Lao’s Heavenly Flame, and was summoned to face his father and the Xiao Clan elders. He admitted that he had beaten Ga Lie Ao despite the difference in their Dou Qi stages, leaving Xiao Zhan proud and relieved.

• Xiao Yan walked Xiao Xun'er back to her residence, where she asked whether he had fought Ga Lie Ao for her, and he misunderstood her question.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Lao the Magic Core and medicinal herbs, and Yao Lao refined Spirit Medicine with his Heavenly Flame while explaining the flames used by alchemists.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that he wanted a Heavenly Flame of his own, and Yao Lao said he could obtain one if he had the courage.
• A servant summoned Xiao Yan to meet Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders about his fight with Ga Lie Ao.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that he had defeated Ga Lie Ao in one exchange despite fighting at Dou Qi Stage 3 against Dou Qi Stage 8, and Xiao Zhan praised him.

After Xiao Yan defended his long-term guest stay at the Xiao Family, a tremendous breakthrough disturbance led him and the elders to Wan Guniang's courtyard. Yao Lao identified the source of the strange vitality there as the Life Spirit Flame, ranked fifth on the Strange Fire Ranking.

• The elders accepted that Xiao Yan had humiliated the Ga Lie Family and questioned him about his friend staying in the Guest Room Courtyard for over half a year.
• Xiao Yan challenged the Great Elder's right to question his guest, but a powerful Dou Qi tide suddenly swept through the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan suspected Miss Wan was breaking through and led Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders toward the Guest Room Courtyard.
• Xiao Yan found rare medicinal plants flourishing in the courtyard as the Dou Qi tide weakened.
• Yao Lao sensed the courtyard's life aura and told Xiao Yan that Wan Guniang possessed the Life Spirit Flame, ranked fifth on the Strange Fire Ranking.

Yao Lao explained the Life Spirit Flame’s extraordinary vitality and its value to alchemists, while Xiao Yan realized how far beyond the Gama Empire Wan Guniang’s origins might be. Yao Wan emerged from her breakthrough as a Five Star Dou Wang after nurturing her Life Spirit Seed Flame, leaving Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders stunned.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the Life Spirit Flame was a rare, life-giving strange fire prized by alchemists and suggested Yao Wan possessed only a growing seed flame.
• Xiao Yan reflected that Wan Guniang could have advanced much faster without nurturing the seed flame and suspected she came from beyond the Gama Empire.
• Yao Wan reached Five Star Dou Wang after sacrificing a chance to break through to Dou Emperor so she could nourish the Life Spirit Seed Flame.
• Yao Wan ignited the seed flame into a more developed Life Spirit Flame and formed a green flower in her palm.
• Yao Wan left the guest room and told Xiao Yan she had reached Five Star Dou Wang, astonishing Xiao Zhan and the Three Elders.

Xiao Yan introduced Yao Wan to Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders, revealing that she was the friend who had stayed with the clan for half a year. Yao Wan gave Xiao Zhan twelve pills she had refined, and Xiao Yan left with his father and the elders while Yao Wan remained at the residence.

• Xiao Yan introduced his father, Xiao Zhan, and the Three Elders to Yao Wan, explaining that she was his friend Wan Guniang.
• Yao Wan greeted Xiao Zhan and presented him with twelve Shi Ling Pills she had refined as thanks for the Xiao Clan taking her in.
• Xiao Yan urged Xiao Zhan to accept the pills and promised to repay Yao Wan's kindness in the future.
• Xiao Zhan accepted the gift and asked whether Yao Wan had been comfortable living with the Xiao Clan; she said her current residence suited her.
• Xiao Zhan and the elders prepared to leave, and Yao Wan told Xiao Yan they could speak after he finished answering their questions.