Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan used the Empty City Stratagem to frighten off Ha Mu and his men, then trained while Yao Wan refined a pill. Three days later, Yao Wan completed the pill and revealed that she had created its formula herself.

• Xiao Yan stood alone to make Ha Mu believe a powerful guardian was nearby, and Ha Mu led his men in retreat.
• Xiao Yan explained the Empty City Stratagem to Yao Lao, who praised his cleverness and told him to keep training while they waited for Yao Wan.
• For three days, Xiao Yan cultivated and watched Yao Wan refine medicine as Yao Lao described her extraordinary Soul Power.
• Yao Wan completed the pill and handed its bottle to Xiao Yan, who examined the jade-green pill.
• Yao Lao asked about the unfamiliar pill, and Yao Wan said she had configured its Pill Formula herself.

Yao Wan revealed that she had invented the Rank 6 Clear Spirit Pill and discussed the bandits who had threatened her with Xiao Yan. She decided to postpone hunting them until after their journey to the Chu Yun Empire, then gave Xiao Yan a Flying Feather Pill that temporarily granted him Dou Qi Wings.

• Yao Wan named her self-created pill the Clear Spirit Pill, and Yao Lao praised her skill.
• Yao Wan asked about the bandits who had threatened her, and Xiao Yan explained how he had driven them away with the Empty City Stratagem.
• Yao Wan said she wanted to eliminate the bandits, but agreed with Xiao Yan to focus on finding the Heavenly Flame and see if the bandits appeared after their return.
• Yao Wan gave the Clear Spirit Pill to Xiao Yan and prepared to leave with him for the dangerous Chu Yun Empire.
• Yao Wan gave Xiao Yan a Flying Feather Pill, and he used it to form temporary Dou Qi Wings.

You Li enlisted Wu Ya and Xie Shan to help him seek the Netherworld Poison Flame in the Netherworld Poison Swamp. Meanwhile, Yao Wan and Xiao Yan traveled through the swamp, where Xiao Yan was poisoned despite his circulating Dou Qi.

• You Li welcomed Centipede Sky Mansion Master Wu Ya and Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate Master Xie Shan to the Chu Yun Alchemist Guild and confirmed their help in seeking the Netherworld Poison Flame.
• You Li explained that he had invited the two forces after learning the flame might appear in the swamp, hoping it would help him reach Dou Emperor and become a Rank 6 Alchemist.
• Wu Ya, Xie Shan, and You Li flew from the capital toward the Netherworld Poison Swamp.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan traveled across the swamp, and Yao Wan observed that its toxins were weaker than she had expected.
• Xiao Yan noticed black lines spreading across his fingertips and told Yao Wan that he had been poisoned, so she stopped to examine him.

After Xiao Yan was poisoned in the Netherworld Poison Swamp, Yao Wan treated him and searched for the Netherworld Poison Flame. She found its location in the southern swamp and flew there with Xiao Yan, while a poison dragon rose from the depths to meet them.

• Xiao Yan developed mild poison symptoms, and Yao Wan gave him a pill and Purification Pills to keep the poison at bay.
• Yao Wan asked Yao Lao to sense the Netherworld Poison Flame, but he could only detect hostility from the Southern Poison Swamp.
• Yao Wan searched the swamp with her divine sense, found the flame, and flew toward it with Xiao Yan.
• Yao Lao agreed to protect Xiao Yan if Yao Wan had to fight the flame's fire spirit.
• The Netherworld Poison Flame flared in the depths, and a massive black poison dragon rose from the swamp.

Yao Wan confronted the Netherworld Poison Flame’s powerful Poison Dragon while Xiao Yan watched from hiding. She revealed the strength of her cultivation method and blocked the dragon’s bite with a glass-colored body-tempering technique.

• Yao Wan shielded Xiao Yan from the Poison Dragon’s poisonous pressure, then sent him and Yao Lao to hide while she faced the creature alone.
• Yao Wan offered the Poison Dragon a chance to submit, but it rejected her and lunged at her in a rage.
• Xiao Yan worried that Yao Wan could not defeat a Dou Emperor-level Strange Fire spirit, while Yao Lao warned him that refining the Netherworld Poison Flame would be extremely dangerous.
• Yao Wan circulated Di Xi Chan Ge, drawing in the surrounding Dou Qi and revealing a far greater aura.
• Yao Wan used the Glass Body Sculpting Art to block the Poison Dragon’s bite, surprising Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.

Yao Wan fought the Poison Dragon to obtain the Netherworld Poison Flame for Xiao Yan, but the creature’s poisonous fire broke through her barrier. When experts from the Chu Yun Empire approached, she refused to retreat and prepared to face them.

• The Poison Dragon’s poisonous beam melted through Yao Wan’s Glass Light Barrier and struck her Gleaming Body, leaving only minor corrosion.
• Yao Wan split the Poison Dragon’s head with a hand-blade strike, but the creature quickly regenerated it.
• Yao Lao sensed two peak Dou Emperors and a peak Dou Wang approaching with an alchemist from the Chu Yun Empire, then urged Yao Wan to take Xiao Yan and flee.
• Yao Wan insisted on obtaining the Netherworld Poison Flame for Xiao Yan and said she was willing to fight the approaching experts.
• Yao Wan swallowed a medicinal pill as Yao Lao hid Xiao Yan behind a white barrier.

Yao Wan used her Soul Power sword array to defeat the Fire Spirit Poison Dragon and claim the Netherworld Poison Flame. As she faced three powerful Chu Yun Empire experts who demanded she stop, Xiao Yan watched from behind her.

• Yao Lao explained to Xiao Yan that Yao Wan's sword was formed from Soul Power and that she cultivated her heart rather than a specific weapon.
• Yao Wan summoned nine soul swords and used the Flying God Eight Swords to pin down the Fire Spirit Poison Dragon.
• Yao Wan pierced the poison dragon's heart, cut open its chest, and pulled the Netherworld Poison Flame's origin from its body, killing it.
• Three Chu Yun Empire experts—a peak Dou Emperor in black, a peak Dou Wang Rank 5 Alchemist, and another peak Dou Emperor—arrived and told Yao Wan to wait.
• Yao Wan faced the three experts with her soul sword and asked who they were.

Yao Wan refused to surrender the Netherworld Poison Flame to You Li and his companions, then fought Xie Shan and Wu Ya while protecting Xiao Yan. She wounded Wu Ya and raised a Glass Light Barrier around Xiao Yan, leaving the clash unresolved.

• You Li arrived with Xie Shan and Wu Ya and demanded that Yao Wan give up the Netherworld Poison Flame, but she refused.
• Xie Shan attacked Yao Wan with Blood Fiend Seal, but her Glass Light Barrier blocked the strike and her soul swords surrounded him.
• Wu Ya attacked Xiao Yan with Equal King Manifestation, forcing Yao Wan to redirect her soul swords and wound him.
• Yao Wan used Glass Forged Golden Body to raise a Glass Light Barrier around Xiao Yan and shield him from the attacks.

Yao Wan fought Xie Shan and Wu Ya while protecting Xiao Yan, but her Gleaming Body and barrier were finally broken. Just as the two attackers and You Li launched a deadly combined assault, an unseen force erased their attacks, and Yao Wan's bamboo hat fell into the poisonous swamp.

• Xie Shan and Wu Ya attacked Yao Wan's Glass Light Barrier, while Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that he could not help her.
• Wu Ya and Xie Shan targeted Yao Wan's Gleaming Body, and the Netherworld Poison Flame's corrosion helped them shatter it.
• Yao Wan withdrew her Gleaming Body, grabbed Xiao Yan, and used her nine soul swords to hold off the attackers as You Li secretly targeted Xiao Yan with poison.
• Yao Lao's Bone Spirit Cold Flame blocked You Li's first strike, but You Li prepared another attack as Xie Shan and Wu Ya unleashed their strongest techniques.
• An unseen force nullified all three attacks, and Yao Wan's bamboo hat spun away and disappeared into the poisonous swamp.

Yao Wan revealed her true appearance and defeated the three Dou Emperors who had cornered her, killing You Li and leaving Xie Shan and Wu Ya badly wounded. As the two tried to flee, she made clear she would not let them escape.

• Xiao Yan was stunned by Yao Wan's unveiled beauty as she faced You Li, Xie Shan, and Wu Ya.
• Yao Wan rejected You Li's offer to spare her and unleashed a soul sword array that immobilized all three men.
• Yao Wan used Void Piercing, Purple Light to kill You Li and severely injure Xie Shan and Wu Ya.
• Xie Shan and Wu Ya attempted to retreat, but Yao Wan attacked them again and refused their pleas for mercy.

Yao Wan killed Xie Shan and Wu Ya after defeating them, then took Xiao Yan away to refine the Netherworld Poison Flame. In their mountain cave, she treated the poison spreading through her arm and warned Xiao Yan not to pursue her.

• Yao Wan ignored Xie Shan and Wu Ya's pleas for mercy and killed them with her soul swords.
• Yao Wan and Xiao Yan left the Netherworld Poison Swamp to find a place to refine the strange fire.
• Yao Wan suppressed the Netherworld Poison Flame in a mountain cave, but its toxins spread through her arm despite the help of her Life Spirit Flame.
• Yao Wan asked Xiao Yan whether seeing her face had fulfilled his old wish, then explained why she had hidden it beneath a bamboo hat and black gauze.
• Yao Wan noticed Xiao Yan staring at her and warned him not to get any ideas about her.

Xiao Yan began absorbing the Netherworld Poison Flame with Yao Wan and Yao Lao helping him withstand its poison and heat. As Yao Wan struggled to suppress the flame, Xiao Yan reached into it to seize its flame seed.

• Yao Wan told Xiao Yan not to pursue her romantically, then prepared to help him absorb the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan recovered, took the Clear Spirit Pill and Blood Lotus Pill, and prepared to endure the Poison Flame.
• Yao Wan loosened her control over the Poison Flame while she and Yao Lao formed a Soul Barrier around the cave.
• Xiao Yan endured the poisonous heat and melting rock as Yao Lao told him to reach into the flames and grab the flame seed.
• Yao Wan reassured Xiao Yan, and he plunged his hand into the Deep Purple Flames.

Xiao Yan endured the poison fire’s agony and swallowed its flame seed, then followed Yao Lao’s instructions to circulate and refine it. He successfully sent the Netherworld Poison Flame into the Na Ling, though the deadly poison still gathered within the flame.

• Yao Wan used her Soul Power to pin the flame seed and help Xiao Yan find it despite her own injuries.
• Xiao Yan pulled out the Poison Fire Seed and swallowed it, enduring its destructive flames and poison inside his body.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and instructed him to circulate the flame through his meridians and the Flame Mantra route.
• Xiao Yan used the cold spring to endure the pain, gradually gathered the scattered flames, and made the Netherworld Poison Flame docile.
• Yao Lao sent the Na Ling into Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan guided the Netherworld Poison Flame into its space as it drew the deadly poison from his body.

Xiao Yan successfully refined the Netherworld Poison Flame and began using it to draw the poison from Yao Wan’s body. The chapter ended with Yao Wan feeling the poison recede as Xiao Yan continued treating her.

• Yao Lao worried about the poison that had gathered in Yao Wan’s body, but she insisted Xiao Yan would be able to help her once he refined the Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Wan said she trusted Xiao Yan and had endured the Poison Flame’s scorching to give him a better chance of surviving its refinement.
• Xiao Yan recovered, opened his eyes with dark purple flames in them, and announced that he had succeeded in refining the Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Yao Wan pointed out that Xiao Yan had risen naked, and he hurriedly put on his clothes and apologized.
• Xiao Yan supported Yao Wan and began drawing the Netherworld Poison Flame’s deadly poison out of her body.
• Yao Wan breathed out as the poison receded from her meridians, and Xiao Yan continued drawing it into his hand.

After refining the Netherworld Poison Flame and curing Yao Wan’s poison, Xiao Yan prepared to make the Flame Mantra devour the Heavenly Flame and evolve. Yao Wan stayed with him to help, while Yao Lao went outside to guard them, and the attempt ended in a tremendous purple-flame eruption in the mountains.

• Xiao Yan drew the Netherworld Poison Flame’s deadly poison from Yao Wan and restored her strength.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Lao that he had refined the Netherworld Poison Flame, and Yao Lao explained that Xiao Yan still needed to devour a Heavenly Flame to evolve the Flame Mantra.
• Yao Wan offered to help Xiao Yan with her Life Spirit Flame, and Yao Lao left the cave to protect them.
• Yao Wan reassured Xiao Yan that she would help if he could not endure the process, and Xiao Yan began the Flame Mantra’s evolution.
• After several days of stifling rain, a terrifying purple flame erupted from the uninhabited mountains.

Xiao Yan endured the Flame Mantra’s devouring of the Netherworld Poison Flame while Yao Wan helped contain the fire and drew off the energy he could not withstand. After the strange fire was consumed and Xiao Yan woke, Yao Lao recognized his success and congratulated him on evolving the Flame Mantra.

• Yao Wan used her green flame and Soul Power to keep the Netherworld Poison Flame from harming Xiao Yan during his refinement.
• Yao Wan absorbed the excess energy from Xiao Yan and used it to nurture her Life Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan completed the devouring of the Netherworld Poison Flame as the energy in his body settled.
• Yao Lao sensed the strange fire energy vanish and hurried into the mountain cave.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes, and Yao Lao congratulated him on devouring the strange fire and evolving the Flame Mantra.

After Xiao Yan subdued the Netherworld Poison Flame, his Flame Mantra evolved and his cultivation rose to Eight Star Dou Zhe. He and Yao Wan left the Chu Yun Empire for the Gama Empire, where increased inspections and attention toward Yao Wan’s appearance threatened to complicate their journey.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao and Yao Wan that the Flame Mantra had advanced to Profound Rank Low Level and that he had reached Eight Star Dou Zhe after Yao Wan helped draw away excess energy.
• Yao Wan said refining the Life Spirit Flame had helped it grow, and Xiao Yan thanked her for helping him subdue the Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Lao advised Xiao Yan to return to the Gama Empire, stabilize his cultivation, study alchemy, and take the Alchemist Guild exam.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan prepared to leave the Chu Yun Empire, wary of repercussions after Yao Wan killed two peak Dou Emperors and the Alchemist Guild president.
• As Xiao Yan and Yao Wan traveled toward the Gama Empire, they noticed more inspections, while Yao Wan attracted covetous attention after her true appearance was exposed.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan escaped the Chu Yun Empire’s border after Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate disciples tried to stop them. Back at the Xiao Clan, Xun'er learned from Ling Ying that Xiao Yan had obtained and refined the Netherworld Poison Flame and was nearing Wutan City.

• Xiao Yan struck a Chu Yun Empire soldier with the Mystic Heavy Ruler after he threatened Yao Wan, then fled the pass with her on Dou Qi wings.
• Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate disciples mistook Xiao Yan and Yao Wan for spies but gave up pursuing them when they saw his Dou Qi Wings.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan continued toward the Gama Empire, and Yao Wan explained why she wore a bamboo hat to avoid attracting trouble.
• Xun'er waited for Xiao Yan at the Xiao Clan, still resentful that Yao Wan had taken him away more than half a year earlier.
• Ling Ying returned and told Xun'er that Xiao Yan had obtained and refined the Netherworld Poison Flame and was on his way back to the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan with Yao Wan after more than half a year away, and Xiao Zhan welcomed him in the Guest Hall. Xiao Yan revealed that his cultivation had reached Eight Star Dou Zhe, leaving the clan elders stunned.

• Xun'er heard the commotion in the Xiao Clan and realized Xiao Yan had returned.
• Xiao Zhan met with the Three Elders in the Guest Hall and reflected on his growing strength and authority within the clan.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Yao Wan and reassured Xiao Zhan that he had been safe during his training.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Yao Wan, who explained that she had lost her bamboo hat while training.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that his cultivation had advanced to Eight Star Dou Zhe, shocking everyone in the Guest Hall.

Xiao Yan shocked the Xiao Clan by revealing that he had reached Eight Star Dou Zhe in less than a year. Yao Wan's closeness to Xiao Yan intensified Xiao Xun'er's jealousy, while Xiao Mei watched from the crowd, and Yao Wan noticed her without intervening.

• Xiao Yan's Eight Star Dou Zhe cultivation stunned the Xiao Clan, including Xiao Mei.
• Xiao Mei watched Xiao Yan and Yao Wan together and felt bitter about how far he had risen beyond her.
• Yao Wan met Xiao Xun'er's hostile stare and returned a calm, provocative smile.
• Xiao Xun'er grew jealous as she realized Yao Wan had given Xiao Yan the resources and pills he needed for alchemy.
• Yao Wan noticed Xiao Mei behind the crowd but left the Xiao Clan's affairs for Xiao Yan to handle.