Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran collected Earth Core Body Tempering Milk and discussed his feelings for Little Fairy Doctor and Xiao Xun'er. After Yao Wan knocked the Snow Demon Sky Ape unconscious again, Xiao Yan admitted he intended to bring together everyone he liked.

• Xiao Yan gave Nalan Yanran a bottle of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk as payment and an apology, and she said she no longer held their past against him.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape woke and shook the cave, but Yao Wan knocked it unconscious again before it could reach Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran found the unconscious Snow Demon Sky Ape outside its lair, and Nalan Yanran guessed Yao Wan had struck it.
• Nalan Yanran asked about Little Fairy Doctor, and Xiao Yan explained that she was recovering at Canaan Academy after he and Wan Guniang resolved her hidden danger.
• Nalan Yanran warned Xiao Yan that pursuing Little Fairy Doctor could hurt Xiao Xun'er, but Xiao Yan said he intended to bring everyone he liked together, prompting Nalan Yanran to call him a scumbag.

Xiao Yan brought Nalan Yanran to meet Little Fairy Doctor, leaving the two women to discuss her relationship with him. Meanwhile, Yao Wan discovered Zi Yan cultivating in the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower and surrounded her room with green flame.

• Xiao Yan explained to Nalan Yanran that Qing Lin had been disciplined after helping him and naming a pill after him, which had angered Xiao Xun'er.
• Nalan Yanran met Little Fairy Doctor and, after Xiao Yan left, questioned why she had chosen to be with him despite knowing Wan Jiejie.
• Little Fairy Doctor said she had accepted Wan Jiejie's generosity and would willingly serve Xiao Yan and the others, while Nalan Yanran called Xiao Yan a scumbag.
• Xiao Yan returned to Pan Gate and refined Xiao Yan Pills, postponing the pill he had planned to make for Queen Medusa.
• Yao Wan spotted Zi Yan cultivating in Number One Cultivation Room and enveloped the room in green flame.

Xiao Xun'er returned to Pan Gate after a month away and learned that Xiao Yan had left his room and grown close to someone during her absence. Xiao Yan finally told her he might have fallen for another girl, whom she did not know.

• Yao Wan left a wisp of Life Spirit Flame to help Zi Yan cultivate, and Zi Yan sank into a cocoon of green and purple life force.
• During the month that followed, Xiao Yan refined two Dou Ling Pills and helped Lin Yan remove fire poison, while his relationship with Little Fairy Doctor grew closer.
• Xiao Xun'er returned from seclusion and found Queen Medusa in Xiao Yan's room, where Medusa told her Xiao Yan had left after Yao Wan returned.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Yan came back to Pan Gate and encountered Xiao Xun'er, and Lin Yan tactfully left them alone.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Xun'er that he might have fallen for someone else, then said the girl was someone she did not know.

After Xiao Yan told Xiao Xun'er that he would not give up either Xian'er or her, Xiao Xun'er confronted Yao Wan in fury but lost their battle of flames. Nalan Yanran took Xiao Xun'er back to Pan Gate and urged her to use Xiao Yan's guilt to secure his attention, leaving Xiao Xun'er shaken by how many people could vie for him.

• Xiao Xun'er left Pan Gate after Xiao Yan said he would not give up either woman, then went to Yao Wan's residence and accused her of giving Xiao Yan to someone else.
• Yao Wan told Xiao Xun'er that she could not have Xiao Yan to herself, and Xiao Xun'er attacked her with the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame.
• Yao Wan trapped and restrained Xiao Xun'er's flame with the Life Spirit Flame until Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran arrived.
• Nalan Yanran took Xiao Xun'er back to Pan Gate, while Yao Wan told Xiao Yan to take responsibility for his relationships instead of becoming the scumbag Nalan had called him.
• Nalan Yanran advised Xiao Xun'er that Xiao Yan's guilt would make him focus on her, and Xiao Xun'er realized the rivalry involved more people than she had thought.

Xiao Xun'er ordered Ling Ying to spread word of Yao Wan's location, while Xiao Yan and Xun'er went to meet Xiao Li, who had brought gifts and resources from the Xiao Clan to Canaan City. Xiao Li reunited with his younger brother but kept looking for someone who had not come.

• Xiao Xun'er told Ling Ying to publicize that Yao Wan was in the Black-Corner Region so the Yao Clan would take her away from Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er cautiously returned to spending time together, while Xiao Yan continued to get along with Nalan Yanran.
• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yan that someone from the Xiao Clan had arrived in Canaan City, and he invited Xiao Xun'er to meet the visitor.
• Xiao Li arrived with gifts and cultivation resources for the Xiao Clan disciples at Canaan Academy and asked how the clan's arrangements were going.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er arrived at the schoolhouse and reunited with Xiao Li, who recognized Xun'er after a moment.
• At the gathering, Xiao Li watched Xiao Yan and the others joke together and wondered where his sister-in-law was.

Xiao Li privately asked Xiao Yan about his feelings and learned that Yao Wan might have to return to her mysterious family because keeping her bloodline sealed was harming her. Xiao Yan vowed to find her if she left, while Xiao Li warned him about the distance and uncertainty; the chapter ended with Xiao Yan flying back to the Inner Academy with a tipsy Xiao Xun'er.

• Xiao Li took Xiao Yan aside and asked about his cultivation and romantic troubles, and Xiao Yan admitted that he had been tired and had mishandled his relationships.
• Xiao Li encouraged Xiao Yan to treat Xiao Xun'er and Yao Wan fairly and revealed that Yao Wan had secretly supported the Xiao Family through the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Li that Yao Wan might need to return to her family because her sealed bloodline could harm her, and he vowed to find her if she left.
• Xiao Li warned Xiao Yan that searching for Yao Wan could bring painful obstacles, then explained that he and Xiao Yan's Eldest Brother had expanded the Mo Tie Mercenary Group in Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Li that Queen Medusa was alive and might return to the Tagor Desert in about half a year, and Xiao Li agreed to warn his Eldest Brother.
• After the banquet, Xiao Yan carried the tipsy Xiao Xun'er onto the Gryphon and flew back to the Inner Academy.

Xiao Yan brought the drunk Xiao Xun'er back to Pan Gate and stayed with her as she pleaded for comfort and reassurance. After she fell asleep, Nalan Yanran teased Xiao Yan outside the room, but Xun'er suddenly opened her eyes and moved over him while Nalan heard rustling inside.

• Xiao Yan carried Xiao Xun'er from Canaan City back to Pan Gate on a Gryphon.
• Xiao Xun'er asked Xiao Yan to carry her to bed, stay with her, and hold her as they slept.
• Xiao Xun'er pleaded with Xiao Yan not to leave her, and he comforted her until she fell asleep in his arms.
• Nalan Yanran came to the door and teased Xiao Yan about secretly kissing the sleeping Xun'er.
• Xiao Xun'er opened her eyes, climbed over Xiao Yan, and moved her hand to his cheek as Nalan heard rustling from inside.

Xiao Yan visited the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower and discovered Zi Yan undergoing a transformation inside a green-purple energy cocoon. After he absorbed the Life Spirit Flame, the cocoon cracked open, revealing Zi Yan in a grown woman’s body.

• Xiao Xun'er woke and asked Xiao Yan about a dream in which they had kissed, but he pretended not to know what she meant.
• Xiao Yan left Xiao Xun'er to cultivate and learned that Little Fairy Doctor had begun seclusion as she approached Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan found Zi Yan sealed inside an energy cocoon in the Number One Cultivation Room, with the Life Spirit Flame helping her advance.
• Xiao Yan drew the docile Life Spirit Flame into his body, after which the cocoon cracked and burst apart.
• Zi Yan emerged with a tall, mature body, realized she had grown up, and celebrated.

Zi Yan emerged from her cultivation as a grown-up Dou Emperor, and she and Xiao Yan discovered that the Life Spirit Flame had helped her breakthrough. She handed Xiao Yan the Number One Cultivation Room before leaving to find Medusa, while Xiao Yan stayed to cultivate.

• Zi Yan celebrated growing up by hugging and spinning Xiao Yan, who made her put on a cloak after she teased him and gave him a nosebleed.
• Zi Yan said an unknown presence with a dense life aura had helped her, and Xiao Yan identified it as the Life Spirit Flame he had collected after it transformed the room’s energy.
• Zi Yan explained that she had eaten Xiao Yan’s pills while cultivating, and the ongoing Life Aura helped her refine the Transformation Grass’s medicinal properties and advance to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan told Zi Yan that the Life Spirit Flame belonged to his friend, an Inner Academy Elder living near Pan Gate, and Zi Yan eagerly went to find her.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Yan the Number One Cultivation Room, and he began cultivating there with a Xiao Yan Pill.

After reaching Dou Emperor, Zi Yan visited Yao Wan to thank her for the Life Spirit Flame and received clothes from her. Yao Wan shared why she was keeping an herb as an important gift and revealed that she had hidden her name from Xiao Yan, leaving Zi Yan puzzled about her reasons.

• Zi Yan followed Xiao Yan's directions to Yao Wan's residence and thanked her for leaving the Life Spirit Flame that helped her advance to Dou Emperor.
• Yao Wan realized Zi Yan had just met Xiao Yan and offered her clothes because she had none after breaking through.
• Zi Yan asked for Yao Wan's Seven Illusions Cyan Spirit Saliva, but Yao Wan refused because it was an important gift from someone who had mistaken her diagnosis.
• Yao Wan gave Zi Yan a white outfit with purple patterns and warned her to be careful around Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wan told Zi Yan her name but asked her not to tell Xiao Yan, explaining that she had hidden it because she had not expected to stay by his side for so long.

Yao Wan checked on the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower’s disturbance and found Xiao Yan safe after his training, while preparing to give him a pill to suppress the Fallen Heart Flame. Xiao Yan delivered the pills he had promised Queen Medusa, then refused further commissions because he was leaving to pursue the Fallen Heart Flame and wanted to protect his family from the Snake-People; Queen Medusa decided to return to the Tagor Desert.

• Yao Wan reinforced the restrictions around Little Fairy Doctor as she broke through to Dou Zong, then went to the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower when its energy surged.
• Xiao Yan appeared after training beneath the tower for a month and told Yao Wan he had reached Seven Star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yan gave Queen Medusa the pills she had requested, completing the commission four months ahead of her six-month deadline.
• Xiao Yan refused to refine more pills, explaining that he needed to pursue the Fallen Heart Flame and did not want his medicine used against his family in the Tagor Desert.
• Queen Medusa accepted Xiao Yan’s decision and said she would return to the Tagor Desert, asking him to treat Zi Yan well.

Xiao Yan secured second place in the Inner Academy Strong Ranking before the Fallen Heart Flame erupted at the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower. As a powerful figure emerged from a spatial rift and called for Wan'er to return, the Fallen Heart Flame retreated in fear.

• Xiao Yan defeated his opponents in the Strong Ranking tournament and claimed second place, while Nalan Yanran declined to fight him.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that the Yao Clan would soon come for Yao Wan, but an energy tide from the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower interrupted them.
• The Fallen Heart Flame formed a massive Fire Python and attacked the tower's final barrier, forcing Xiao Yan and the others to flee.
• Xiao Yan protected Nalan Yanran and the others from the Fire Python's attack with his Azure Flame, then greeted Yao Wan as she arrived.
• Yao Wan prepared to seize the Fire Python, but it recoiled into the tower as an aged man emerged from a spatial rift and demanded that Wan'er return.

Yao Wanhua arrived to take Yao Wan back to her clan, and Xiao Yan learned just how powerful her family was as he faced her departure. Before she left, Xiao Yan confessed that he had long known about her bloodline and admitted how much he wanted her to stay, but accepted that leaving might be best for them both.

• Yao Wan abandoned her earlier plans and flew to meet Yao Wanhua, who had come to bring her back to the Yao Clan after five years away.
• Xiao Yan chased after Yao Wan despite Yao Lao and Su Qian warning him, and Yao Wan shielded him from Yao Wanhua's scrutiny.
• Yao Wanhua recognized Yao Wan's matured Life Spirit Flame and saw through Xiao Yan's cultivation and the unusual soul coexisting with him; Yao Lao identified him as a Six Star Dou Saint.
• Yao Wan asked to speak with her friends before leaving, then told Xiao Yan to treat the people he loved well and not let any of them down.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan he had known about her bloodline since their journey to Canaan Academy and confessed that he did not want her to leave, though he accepted that her departure might spare them pain.

Yao Wan revealed her real name to Xiao Yan and prepared to return to Central State with Qing Lin, while Xiao Xun'er faced a pickup by the Black Submerging Army. When Ling Quan mocked Xiao Yan, Yao Wan slapped him and challenged him to retaliate.

• Yao Wan promised Xiao Yan they would meet again in Central State, revealed her real name, and told him to cultivate the things she had left him.
• Yao Wan gathered Qing Lin and her belongings, gave Xiao Yan a jade bottle, and urged him to see Xiao Xun'er before she left.
• Yao Wan introduced Qing Lin to Yao Wanhua, who agreed to bring her to the clan after recognizing her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Xun'er surrounded by the Black Submerging Army, whose Vice Commander Ling Quan mocked him and the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Wan slapped Ling Quan and challenged him to hit back.

Yao Wan left after slapping Ling Quan and warning Xiao Xun'er, who then departed with the Black Submerging Army. As the Fallen Heart Flame began breaking free again, Han Feng arrived at the Inner Academy, and Zi Yan appeared with reinforcements just as the flame attacked Xiao Yan.

• Yao Wan rebuked Ling Quan, then left after telling Xiao Xun'er to keep him under control.
• Xiao Xun'er apologized to Xiao Yan and returned to the Gu Clan with the Black Submerging Army, while Ling Quan stayed behind to taunt Xiao Yan before flying off.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the Fallen Heart Flame was about to erupt again, and Xiao Yan sensed it stirring inside the tower.
• Su Qian confronted Han Feng, whose arrival revealed that he had once been Yao Lao's disciple.
• The Fallen Heart Flame burst from the tower and lunged at Xiao Yan, but Zi Yan appeared and announced that she had brought reinforcements.

Zi Yan and Queen Medusa joined the battle to defend the Inner Academy from the Fallen Heart Flame and the Black-Corner Region forces. As Zi Yan confronted Han Feng, Xiao Yan prepared to settle his grudge with him and stop the conflict quickly.

• Zi Yan blocked the Fallen Heart Flame from attacking Xiao Yan and explained that she had returned to protect the Inner Academy.
• Queen Medusa revealed that she had stayed behind to spend more time with Zi Yan and joined the fight against the Fire Python.
• Han Feng approached Xiao Yan, but Zi Yan intercepted him while Xiao Yan asked her to hold Han Feng off so he could deal with him.
• Zi Yan used her command of space to strengthen her attacks as she charged at Han Feng.

Zi Yan and Xiao Yan fought Han Feng, whose Strange Fire armor was shattered by Xiao Yan’s combined flames. Yao Lao took control and killed Han Feng, but the exposed Sea Heart Flame drew the Fallen Heart Flame toward Xiao Yan as Queen Medusa hurried to intervene.

• Zi Yan used spatial control to withstand Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame and trap him long enough for Xiao Yan to attack.
• Xiao Yan broke Han Feng’s fire armor with three Strange Fires, revealing that he possessed a method for wielding multiple Strange Fires.
• Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan’s body and killed Han Feng with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yan pursued Han Feng’s soul and warned Zi Yan not to let it escape.
• The Fallen Heart Flame abandoned its fight with Queen Medusa and charged toward the exposed Sea Heart Flame, prompting Queen Medusa to rush after it.

Xiao Yan tried to stop the Fallen Heart Flame from devouring the Sea Heart Flame while Yao Wan returned to the Yao World with Qing Lin and Yao Wanhua. The chapter left Yao Wan back at the Yao Clan’s Boundary Gate, where the guards hurried to report her return.

• Xiao Yan blocked the Fallen Heart Flame’s Fire Python, and he and Queen Medusa discussed how long he could hold it off as he prepared to try another method.
• Yao Wan sensed that the Life Spirit Flame had reacted and said Xiao Yan should survive the Fallen Heart Flame because she had left him backup.
• Yao Wanhua brought Yao Wan and Qing Lin to the Shennong Mountain Range, where Yao Wan explained that it was her home.
• Yao Wanhua led them to the Yao Clan’s Boundary Gate and ordered the Iron Guards to announce that the Young Miss had returned.
• The guards recognized Yao Wan as the clan’s Heaven Realm Soul genius and rushed to inform the Clan Leader.

Yao Wan returned to the Yao Realm with Qing Lin and faced the Yao Clan’s elders in the Clan Hall. When Yao Wangui challenged her over her cultivation, she revealed a green light blooming from her palm, leaving the clan gathered to see what it would become.

• Yao Wan brought Qing Lin through the Yao Clan Boundary Gate and flew with Yao Wanhua toward the clan’s divine mountain after the clan’s summons sounded.
• Yao Wan entered the Clan Hall, where Yao Dan and the elders gathered to receive her return.
• Yao Wangui criticized Elder Wanhua’s journey and rebuked Yao Wan for speaking out of turn, but Yao Dan’s warning made him change his tone.
• Yao Wangui questioned Yao Wan about her cultivation, and Yao Wan revealed that she had reached the Dou Emperor level.
• Yao Wan released a green light from her palm, and it took root, sprouted, and quietly bloomed before the assembled elders.

Yao Wan revealed that she had nurtured the Life Spirit Flame into a complete Strange Fire, winning the Yao Clan’s approval and ending Yao Wangui’s attempt to criticize her absence. Yao Dan postponed the celebration until Yao Wan could improve her cultivation, then learned that Qing Lin had joined her as a maid with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Yao Wan displayed the Life Spirit Flame, astonishing the Elders and prompting them to recognize its value to the Yao Clan.
• Yao Wangui reacted with displeasure, but Yao Wan’s explanation that she had spent five years nurturing the flame won the Elders over.
• Yao Dan praised Yao Wan and postponed a clan celebration until she had improved her cultivation.
• Yao Wan introduced Qing Lin as a maid with good potential, and Yao Dan recognized her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.