Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan agreed to help the Bodhi Ancient Tree remove its wound of evil thoughts through repeated reincarnations, and the tree began the process. In a new life, Xiao Yan was born in the Xiao Clan, lost his cultivation, and became estranged from Nalan Yanran before an old man emerged from his ring and offered to teach him alchemy.

• Xiao Yan learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree wanted him to use its power of reincarnation to strip away the evil thoughts embedded in its wound, and he agreed after ensuring the others were safe.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree began Xiao Yan's reincarnation, and he was reborn as Xiao Zhan's third son in the Xiao Clan and named Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran grew up as childhood sweethearts, but they were separated when he moved to Wutan City.
• After Xiao Yan lost his Dou Qi and spent three years as a cripple, Nalan Yanran confronted him, and their argument left him realizing he had hurt someone who cared about him.
• When Nalan Yanran came to cancel their engagement, Xiao Yan accepted, and she cut their marriage contract in two before leaving.
• An old man emerged from Xiao Yan's black ring atop a cliff and asked whether he wanted to become an alchemist.

In an illusion created by the Bodhi Ancient Tree, Nalan Yanran saw a life in which she reunited with Xiao Yan, trained alongside him, and became the person he chose to marry. She woke from the vivid dream conflicted and wondering what nonsense Xiao Yan was saying.

• Xiao Yan found the wounded Nalan Yanran in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and carried her to a cave, where he treated her injuries.
• After Nalan Yanran recovered, she and Xiao Yan trained together before parting; she called him a Karmic Tie, and he promised to propose to her.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran met again in the Tagor Desert, traveled together beneath Stone Desert City, and Xiao Yan obtained a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Yun Lan Sect with Nalan Yanran and asked Yun Yun for her hand in marriage.
• Nalan Yanran woke from the Bodhi Ancient Tree's illusion and reflected on the dream.

Xiao Yan completed a reincarnation with Nalan, helping the Bodhi Ancient Tree slowly purify its evil thought, then began another life as a young death warrior. His latest mission brought him to a remote clinic, where he confronted Little Fairy Doctor after she discovered him injured in her courtyard.

• Xiao Yan accepted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s warning that future reincarnations would grow deeper and agreed to continue, wondering whether Nalan could feel their connection.
• Xiao Yan was reincarnated as an orphan in Li Province City and adopted by a general, who made him the youngest of his death warriors.
• Xiao Yan received a final mission involving a young doctor known as Little Fairy Doctor, who lived and practiced medicine in a remote town.
• Little Fairy Doctor investigated a noise in her courtyard and found the injured Xiao Yan hiding there.
• Xiao Yan appeared behind Little Fairy Doctor with a blade at her throat and demanded that she drop the medicine in her hand.

Little Fairy Doctor treated the wounded Xiao Yan after he entered her clinic at knifepoint, and the two began to build trust as they shared details about their pasts. By the third day, Xiao Yan’s wounds had scabbed over, but he was growing restless under Little Fairy Doctor’s insistence that he stay inside.

• Xiao Yan eased the blade from Little Fairy Doctor’s throat and followed her into the clinic to have his wounds treated.
• Little Fairy Doctor cleaned and bandaged Xiao Yan’s injuries, prepared medicine for him, and learned his name.
• Little Fairy Doctor told Xiao Yan that she had no parents and had never been given another name; Xiao Yan said that he had no parents either.
• Little Fairy Doctor made a bed for herself in the clinic and told Xiao Yan to rest while he recovered.
• After caring for Xiao Yan for three days, Little Fairy Doctor heard him insist that he did not want to stay inside any longer.

Xiao Yan repeatedly returned to Little Fairy Doctor’s clinic while recovering from injuries, and their growing trust and companionship brought them closer. After Xiao Yan told her everything was over and he might stay, the story ended with them marrying, having a son, and growing old together.

• Xiao Yan stayed at Little Fairy Doctor’s clinic for nearly half a month, helping with patients and learning about medicinal ingredients before leaving.
• After rumors about Little Fairy Doctor faded, Xiao Yan returned injured, and she let him help at the clinic again; he stayed for a month before leaving.
• Xiao Yan returned a third time with severe injuries and told Little Fairy Doctor that everything was over and he might not leave.
• Little Fairy Doctor accepted Xiao Yan’s wish to stay, and the two later married, had a son, and grew old together.

Cai Lin ruled as the new empress with the Xiao Clan’s support while seeking Xiao Yan’s help to break free of its control. Xiao Yan accepted her offer on his own terms, and their marriage and daughter Xiao Xiao later marked the Xiao Clan’s rise to its peak.

• Cai Lin became empress with the backing of the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan stayed by her side as the court’s factions were reshuffled.
• Cai Lin asked Xiao Yan whether he would accept a life beneath his father and brothers, then offered to make him master of the Xiao Clan if he helped her.
• Xiao Yan refused that offer and proposed instead to become Cai Lin’s master of the Xiao Clan, then carried her away.
• The Xiao Clan arranged Cai Lin and Xiao Yan’s marriage, and Xiao Yan became her Royal Husband six months later.
• Cai Lin gave birth to a daughter named Xiao Xiao a year and a half later, and the Xiao Clan’s power reached its peak.

Xiao Yan remembered a lifetime spent with Cai Lin and their daughter Xiao Xiao before awakening as a teenager in the Xiao Clan of Wutan City. When he searched for Wan'er, he found her courtyard abandoned and learned that Xun'er had no memory of any girl living there.

• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin raised Xiao Xiao while gradually weakening the Xiao Clan's influence so it would not threaten her future rule.
• After growing old together, Xiao Yan died while holding Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yan awoke in his youthful body at the Xiao Clan, recognized Xun'er, and realized he was back around the time Nalan had broken off their engagement.
• Xiao Yan rushed to the guest courtyard to find Wan'er, but it was empty and overgrown.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that no girl had lived in the courtyard for many years and asked whether he had dreamed about her.

Xiao Yan failed a Bodhi Ancient Tree reincarnation in which Yao Wan did not exist, then chose to seal away the memories of her absence and begin the reincarnation again. As the fourth reincarnation resumed, he woke with an inexplicable emptiness in his heart.

• Xiao Yan refused to believe Wan'er was only a dream and sought Yao Lao's help so he could become strong enough to find her.
• Xiao Yan followed a different path through the years, eventually becoming a Dou Saint and reaching the Yao Clan, where Yao Wanhua and Yao Wansheng told him no one named Yao Wan existed there.
• Xiao Yan demanded answers from the Bodhi Ancient Tree, which revealed that the reincarnation was real and that Yao Wan was his variable.
• Xiao Yan carved a memory seal to preserve his memories of her and asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree to restart the reincarnation, even if that left his insights incomplete.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree resumed the fourth reincarnation, and Xiao Yan woke feeling that his heart was empty and that he had forgotten someone important.

Xiao Yan entered a new reincarnation in a ruined Dou Qi Continent ruled by the Spirit Devouring Clan, where he fought transformed humans and sought answers about the world. The chapter ended when a powerful figure confronted him with the familiar voice of Xian'er.

• Xiao Yan remembered that this was his fourth reincarnation and accepted the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s warning that Wan'er might be changed by their tangled fate.
• Xiao Yan began the next reincarnation beneath a black sun on a Dou Qi Continent overrun by Demonic Qi.
• Xiao Yan burned several demonic attackers with his Heavenly Flame and learned they were corrupted humans who served a Saint King.
• Xiao Yan traveled toward a great city, where a Dou Saint-level presence caught him by surprise.
• Xiao Yan turned toward the familiar voice behind him and recognized Xian'er.

Xiao Yan encountered a transformed Little Fairy Doctor, who did not recognize him but knew stories about him from Nalan Yanran. She took him to meet Nalan and learn why he seemed not to exist in this version of the world.

• Little Fairy Doctor tried to convert Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi, but he refused and prepared to defend himself with seven fused Heavenly Flames.
• Little Fairy Doctor recognized Xiao Yan from his Heavenly Flames, then told him that the Xiao Clan she knew had no third son.
• She withdrew her Demonic Qi and invited Xiao Yan to meet Nalan Yanran, whom she called the Demon Sword God Officer and identified as Xiao Yan’s former fiancée.
• Little Fairy Doctor led Xiao Yan through the ruined Dou Qi Continent and described its state as the result of the Spirit Devouring Clan’s king acting on a Momentary Impulse.

Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor reached Yun Lan Mountain, where Nalan Yanran revealed that Yao Wan was the Spirit Devouring Saint King who had devastated the Dou Qi Continent. Yao Wan met Xiao Yan without the affection he remembered and killed Nalan Yanran as she tried to help him escape.

• Xiao Yan recognized the Gama Empire and saw that Demonic Qi had corrupted Yun Lan Mountain as he and Little Fairy Doctor approached the Yun Lan Sect.
• Nalan Yanran identified Yao Wan as the Spirit Devouring Saint King and told Xiao Yan that she had transformed the continent and killed nearly half its people.
• Yao Wan appeared before Xiao Yan, admitted she had searched for him, and dismissed the deaths as a fair price for changing the world.
• Yao Wan offered to keep Xiao Yan by her side, while Nalan Yanran urged Little Fairy Doctor to flee with him and vowed to hold Yao Wan back.
• Yao Wan suddenly seized Nalan Yanran's head and revealed that she had lied about letting them go.

Yao Wan killed Nalan Yanran and let Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor escape to seek a Dou Di inheritance that might help them defeat her. Little Fairy Doctor recalled how Yao Wan became ruthless, then revealed that Yao Wan had embraced the Spirit Devouring Saint King's Demon Fetus, bringing about the destruction of the continent.

• Yao Wan mocked Nalan Yanran's death, then said she would keep playing with Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Little Fairy Doctor took Xiao Yan to the hidden inheritance beneath the old Canaan Academy Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower, explaining that Yao Wan believed only he could obtain it.
• As they entered the inheritance, Little Fairy Doctor told Xiao Yan that Yao Wan had once been their caring teacher and friend, but changed after searching for him and believing he did not exist.
• Little Fairy Doctor recalled Yao Wan seizing the Spirit Devouring Saint King's Demon Fetus, while Nalan Yanran and Little Fairy Doctor reluctantly agreed to let her proceed.
• Yao Wan absorbed the Demon Fetus's power, and demonic energy consumed the continent's edge as she emerged as the new Spirit Devouring Saint King.

Xiao Yan entered Tou She Ancient God's inheritance to gain the power to defeat Yao Wan, accepting a price that would cost him his life. After one month, he emerged with a plan and told Little Fairy Doctor that Yao Wan had once been his fiancée, leaving them questioning whether this Wan'er was the same person he had known.

• Little Fairy Doctor withdrew from the inheritance site, and Tou She Ancient God told Xiao Yan he was too early and refused to pass on the inheritance because of his connection to the Spirit Devouring Demon.
• Xiao Yan argued that he intended to kill the Spirit Devouring Demon and convinced Tou She Ancient God to grant him Dou Di Power despite the fatal cost.
• Tou She Ancient God warned Xiao Yan that he would have only half an incense stick to use the power before it consumed him, and Xiao Yan accepted the risk.
• One month later, Xiao Yan left the Inheritance Land without any obvious increase in cultivation and told Little Fairy Doctor he had found a way to defeat Yao Wan.
• Xiao Yan told Little Fairy Doctor to protect herself if he died, then revealed that Yao Wan had been his fiancée in another world.
• Little Fairy Doctor recalled that Yao Wan had mentioned her and Nalan Yanran's ties to Xiao Yan but not her own, and Xiao Yan wondered whether this Wan'er was the original one he had known.

Yao Wan dreamed of an alternate past in which she met Xiao Yan and helped him rise, then realized he had fallen in love with another version of her. She woke from the vision furious and disgusted, determined to kill him.

• Yao Wan expected her dream to show Nalan’s lingering resentment, but instead saw Xiao Yan as a young man.
• A cloaked version of Yao Wan met Xiao Yan and began helping him, while the present Yao Wan tried and failed to disperse the vision.
• The dream showed Yao Wan protecting Xiao Yan, guiding his cultivation, and risking herself with him in the Ancient Poisonous Marsh.
• Yao Wan realized Xiao Yan had grown attached to the other version of her and retched in disgust.
• Yao Wan lost her remaining goodwill toward Xiao Yan and vowed to kill him when the dream ended.

In her mindscape, Yao Wan watched visions of another version of herself and Xiao Yan fall in love, reacting with disgust and rage as she realized the scenes reflected her own feelings. Nalan Yanran suggested Yao Wan was jealous of the other self’s happy life, while Yao Wan remained trapped watching their story.

• Yao Wan watched Xiao Yan’s feelings for her become clear and cursed him for coveting her.
• She saw the other Yao Wan grow close to Xiao Yan, confess her feelings, and accept his love.
• Yao Wan erupted in anger and threatened to kill Xiao Yan and the other version of herself.
• Nalan Yanran explained that Yao Wan was watching from within her own mindscape and challenged her denial.
• After seeing Xiao Yan propose to the Yao Clan, Yao Wan called her admiration for him blindness.
• Nalan Yanran suggested Yao Wan was jealous that the other self had a happy life with Xiao Yan while she remained alone.

Yao Wan rejected Nalan Yanran’s warning and prepared to kill Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan arrived at Yun Lan Mountain hoping to reach her despite their differences. The chapter ended as Yao Wan unleashed her Dou Di Power and Xiao Yan resolved to face it.

• Yao Wan dismissed Nalan Yanran’s warning, and Nalan Yanran vanished as the vision faded.
• Yao Wan fixed her killing intent on Xiao Yan and the other version of herself, then spotted Xiao Yan approaching from the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan he wanted to live with everyone and insisted that, despite their different memories and understandings, she was still herself.
• Yao Wan rejected his words and covered the world in Demonic Qi as Yun Lan Mountain rose into a throne beneath the blood-red sun.
• Xiao Yan recognized the overwhelming force of Yao Wan’s Dou Di Power and prepared to experience that power himself.

Xiao Yan used Tou She Ancient God's remaining Dou Di Power and gathered the Heavenly Flames to confront Yao Wan, even as the power burned his body away. He seized Yao Wan's wrist and declared that they would go to the Yellow Springs together.

• Xiao Yan activated the Dou Di mark, gaining tremendous power that began consuming his body.
• Yao Wan mocked Xiao Yan's attempt to challenge her and attacked with a storm of Demonic Qi.
• Xiao Yan summoned the hidden Heavenly Flames, which formed a barrier against Yao Wan's attack.
• Yao Wan pierced Xiao Yan with a cold gleam, but found that he showed no pain as his body became almost entirely flame.
• Xiao Yan grabbed Yao Wan's wrist, and the final black and white flames surged into him as he invited her to the Yellow Springs with him.

Xiao Yan faced Yao Wan with the Emperor Flame, but Wan'er briefly manifested through the Life Spirit Flame and urged him to kill her. Xiao Yan burned Yao Wan and himself in the flames, leaving Yao Wan to confront her defeat and Xiao Yan’s reasons as they both neared death.

• Xiao Yan combined the Heavenly Flames with Dou Di Power to form the Emperor Flame and challenged Yao Wan, who tried to strike him down.
• The Life Spirit Flame transformed through the Ash Extinction Flame, and Wan'er appeared long enough to tell Xiao Yan not to hesitate and to kill Yao Wan.
• Wan'er’s manifestation faded, and the gathered flames grew stronger as Xiao Yan seized Yao Wan and said he would accompany her to the end.
• The flames burned away Yao Wan’s Demonic Qi and the evil aura across the scorched land, while Xiao Yan’s body also burned away.
• As they faced death, Xiao Yan told Yao Wan he hoped she could live well and explained that he acted because he could not let her keep making mistakes.

Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor spoke as his burning body and soul began to come apart, but they realized the ending was not yet settled. The story then shifted to Yao Wan’s past, recounting how the Medicine Fairy was trapped by a demonic cultivator and chose to burn herself to death rather than be captured.

• Xiao Yan told Little Fairy Doctor about the other world and described the other version of her as kind, quiet, and close to Nalan and Wan'er.
• Xiao Yan’s flames dispersed and freed his soul, but Little Fairy Doctor suspected that the ordeal was not over.
• The story revealed that Yao Wan had been adopted by the Azure Star Sword Sect’s sect master and had become a gifted healer and Golden Core cultivator who fought the demonic path.
• After defeating the Netherworld Society, Yao Wan took a dangerous mountain path and was caught in poisonous mist and a spiderweb trap.
• A demonic young man confronted Yao Wan in a cave, but she killed him with her hammer.
• Unwilling to be captured and tormented, Yao Wan poured Spirit Wine over herself and used her spiritual fire to burn herself to death.

Xiao Yan learned that the Bodhi Ancient Tree had been gravely wounded in the ancient past when a Spirit Devouring Saint King tried to devour it. The Bodhi Ancient Tree warned Xiao Yan that the Spirit Devouring Clan might target him after it broke free, and Xiao Yan resumed meditating beside its roots.

• Xiao Yan asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree how it had fallen from its former Dou Di-level power, and it showed him a memory of the Ancient Era.
• Xiao Yan witnessed a Spirit Devouring Saint King attack the Bodhi Ancient Tree to devour it and grow stronger.
• An unknown Dou Di struck the Spirit Devouring Saint King, who retreated after leaving a savage wound on the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree warned Xiao Yan that the Spirit Devouring Clan might target him after it escaped its entanglement.
• Xiao Yan accepted the warning and sat cross-legged beside the Bodhi Ancient Tree's roots to meditate again.