Chapter Summaries

Yao Wan recognized that Little Fairy Doctor used poison for self-defense and understood that her constitution was causing poison Dou Qi to form inside her. She comforted Little Fairy Doctor and resolved to help her find a way to control it, while considering Xiao Yan and the future between them.

• Yao Wan told Little Fairy Doctor that using poison to protect herself was understandable and that no one had the right to criticize her for it.
• Yao Wan revealed that she knew about Little Fairy Doctor's constitution, and Little Fairy Doctor admitted that poison had begun turning into poison Dou Qi inside her body.
• Yao Wan reassured Little Fairy Doctor that she could focus on being herself for now and gently comforted her as she leaned on her.
• Yao Wan reflected that Little Fairy Doctor's Woeful Poison Body would bring more suffering and resolved to find what she needed to control it.
• Yao Wan thought of Xiao Yan and saw the present situation as an opportunity to change what had happened between him and Little Fairy Doctor.

Yao Wan watched Little Fairy Doctor treat wounded mercenaries at Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion and used censer incense to ease their pain and fatigue. Little Fairy Doctor noticed the unfamiliar scent and looked toward Yao Wan, who sat smiling by the window.

• Yao Wan comforted Little Fairy Doctor and told her not to push herself if she grew tired.
• Wounded mercenaries arrived at Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion, where Little Fairy Doctor examined them and prescribed careful treatment.
• A mercenary questioned why his recovery would take half a month, but Little Fairy Doctor insisted on the safest course and he accepted her advice.
• Yao Wan lit a piece of censer incense with Dou Qi flame and placed it in the pavilion's incense burner.
• The incense refreshed the people in the hall, and Little Fairy Doctor recognized its unfamiliar scent and looked toward Yao Wan.

Yao Wan watched Little Fairy Doctor tirelessly treat the wounded at Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion and offered her incense to help ease the strain. As an unwelcome man arrived at dusk, Little Fairy Doctor’s expression turned troubled and annoyed, and Yao Wan tried to identify him.

• Yao Wan reflected on the difference between her own casual charity and Little Fairy Doctor’s dedicated care for the wounded.
• Little Fairy Doctor spent the day treating patients, then admitted that the incense Yao Wan had lit helped her keep working.
• Yao Wan gave Little Fairy Doctor a pouch of incense, and they chatted about its usefulness.
• A flamboyant man entered Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion and asked whether Little Fairy Doctor was still busy.
• Little Fairy Doctor reacted with resistance and annoyance, while Yao Wan wondered who the man was.

Yao Wan interrupted Mu Li as he tried to approach Little Fairy Doctor, then bluntly rejected him and sent him away. Afterward, Yao Wan teased the embarrassed Little Fairy Doctor, who admitted she had not disliked being held.

• Little Fairy Doctor politely told Mu Li she had finished tending to the day’s visitors.
• Yao Wan embraced Little Fairy Doctor from behind and told Mu Li not to trouble her while she rested.
• Mu Li tried to introduce himself to Yao Wan, but she said she had no interest in him and asked him to keep his distance.
• Mu Li left after warning Yao Wan they would meet again, and she waved him off with a smile.
• Yao Wan released Little Fairy Doctor when she learned the embrace had made her uncomfortable, then teased her by touching her flushed cheeks.

Yao Wan teased Little Fairy Doctor, then spoke candidly about expecting to remain unmarried unless she met someone with whom she shared a deep spiritual bond. As night fell in Green Mountain Town, Yao Wan revealed that she had dealt with someone spying at their door the previous night.

• Yao Wan teased Little Fairy Doctor and said that whoever married her would be blessed.
• Yao Wan told Little Fairy Doctor she expected to grow old alone and was not interested in marrying a man, though she might accept someone who shared her spirit.
• Little Fairy Doctor admitted she was tired and asked whether Yao Wan had somewhere to go that night.
• Yao Wan lit the lamps and explained that she had stuck the man spying at their door to the door plank the previous night.

Yao Wan reassured Little Fairy Doctor that she understood why Wan Jiejie had acted to protect herself, then told her that Xiao Yan would arrive in Green Mountain Town in a few months. Meanwhile, news of Xiao Yan’s startling cultivation spread through the Yun Lan Sect, drawing attention to his Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran.

• Little Fairy Doctor told Yao Wan she did not think she had gone too far and understood that she had acted to protect herself.
• Yao Wan urged Little Fairy Doctor to protect herself and told her Xiao Yan would come to Green Mountain Town in a few months, advising her to identify herself as Yao Wan’s friend.
• Little Fairy Doctor asked whether Yao Wan planned to leave, and Yao Wan said she would stay a few more days to keep her company.
• The Yun Lan Sect learned that Xiao Yan had reached Nine Star Dou Zhe at the Xiao Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony and confirmed the reports were true.
• The Gama Empire’s forces uncovered Xiao Yan’s former engagement to Nalan Yanran and focused their attention on the Three-Year Agreement.

The Yun Lan Sect Elders feared the consequences of Xiao Yan’s rapid rise to Nine Star Dou Zhe, while Nalan Yanran grew increasingly anxious about the Three-Year Agreement. Yun Yun urged her disciple to rest, but Nalan Yanran remained determined to train harder as she recalled Xiao Yan and the mysterious woman beside him.

• The Yun Lan Sect Elders reconsidered their confidence in Nalan Yanran after learning that Xiao Yan had risen from One-Star Dou Zhe to Nine Star Dou Zhe in a year.
• Nalan Yanran stood distracted above the clouds until Yun Yun arrived and noticed how tense she had become.
• Yun Yun advised Nalan Yanran to rest, but Nalan Yanran insisted that she needed to keep cultivating because Xiao Yan would not stop.
• Nalan Yanran admitted that news of Xiao Yan reaching Nine Star Dou Zhe had filled her with urgency, especially after encountering him and the woman beside him.

Yun Yun urged Nalan Yanran to ease up on her desperate training and promised to seek Violet Spirit Crystal to help her cultivate. She persuaded Yanran to return to the Nalan Family, where her ailing grandfather needed her, and sent her with medicinal ingredients for him.

• Yun Yun warned Nalan Yanran that relentless cultivation could harm her and reassured her that the Yun Lan Sect could help her grow stronger.
• Yun Yun promised to seek Violet Spirit Crystal from the Amethyst Winged Lion King to help Yanran cultivate.
• Yun Yun asked Yanran why she had not returned home, and Yanran admitted she was reluctant because she had broken off her engagement without her family's approval.
• Yanran remembered that her grandfather Nalan Jie was suffering from Brand Poison and decided she should return to the Nalan Family.
• Yun Yun approved Yanran's decision and gave her medicinal ingredients to take to Nalan Jie before Yanran left for the imperial capital.

Nalan Yanran returned to the Nalan Residence to check on her gravely ill grandfather, whose Brand Poison could only be cured by a Heavenly Flame. After her father warned her that meeting him might lead to another quarrel, she heard a familiar voice in the backyard.

• Nalan Yanran descended Yun Lan Mountain and traveled alone toward the imperial capital, passing the Gama Empire army stationed at the mountain's foot.
• Nalan Yanran arrived at the Nalan Residence, where Nalan Su greeted her and said Nalan Jie was getting worse.
• Nalan Su explained that Pill King Gu He could not cure Nalan Jie's Brand Poison and that only a Heavenly Flame could eradicate it.
• Nalan Su warned Nalan Yanran that Nalan Jie remained angry over her breaking off the engagement with the Xiao Clan and advised her not to visit him.
• Nalan Yanran followed her father through the backyard and heard a familiar voice say it could not cure the illness.

Nalan Yanran recognized Yao Wan as the mysterious woman who had intervened during her visit to the Xiao Clan and learned that she was the Medicine Fairy treating her grandfather. Nalan Yanran approached Yao Wan to ask for help, but Yao Wan teased her about her cultivation and her rivalry with Xiao Yan.

• Nalan Yanran recognized the voice from her dreams and learned from Nalan Su that the Medicine Fairy was treating her grandfather.
• Nalan Yanran realized the Medicine Fairy was the woman who had stopped her at the Xiao Clan a year earlier and told Nalan Su they had no friendly connection.
• Nalan Yanran went to the honored guest room, saying she was willing to try asking Yao Wan for help.
• Yao Wan greeted Nalan Yanran as Young Sect Master Nalan and teased her about being a One-Star Dou Shi and whether she could defeat Xiao Yan.

Yao Wan spoke with Nalan Yanran about her past actions toward Xiao Yan and warned that he would easily defeat her at their Three-Year Agreement. She left Nalan Yanran with a question about whether she wanted power greater than Yun Yun and everyone in the Gama Empire.

• Nalan Yanran struggled with her resentment and discomfort toward Yao Wan, then asked whether Yao Wan hated her for what she had done to Xiao Yan.
• Yao Wan said she did not hate Nalan Yanran for resisting an unwanted marriage, but criticized her for building strength on another person's dignity.
• Nalan Yanran asked why Yao Wan had come, and Yao Wan told her Xiao Yan had reached Nine Star Dou Zhe and would likely defeat her in two years.
• After Nalan Yanran calmed down and asked what Yao Wan wanted, Yao Wan asked whether she wanted power greater than Yun Yun and everyone in the Gama Empire.

Yao Wan offered Nalan Yanran power and resources in exchange for using the Three-Year Agreement to challenge Xiao Yan, revealing she wanted Nalan to serve as his whetstone. Nalan Yanran questioned the offer and asked for help saving her grandfather, but Yao Wan said she could only keep Nalan Jie safe for a few years.

• Yao Wan told Nalan Yanran she could help her surpass her master and become powerful enough to make the Gama Empire bow to her.
• Yao Wan explained that she wanted Nalan Yanran to challenge Xiao Yan at the Three-Year Agreement and offered her training, resources, medicinal pills, and weapons.
• Nalan Yanran asked what Yao Wan expected in return, and Yao Wan demanded that she use her full strength to defeat Xiao Yan without leaving the Yun Lan Sect.
• Yao Wan healed and handed Nalan Yanran a blooming epiphyllum, while Nalan asked whether she could save Nalan Jie.
• Yao Wan said she could not cure Nalan Jie but could keep his life out of danger for a few years, and Nalan Yanran accused her of threatening her into obedience.

Yao Wan gave Nalan Yanran Purification Pills to keep Nalan Jie alive for two years, while making clear that her help came with conditions. Nalan Yanran told Nalan Su about the medicine and resolved to tell her teacher about Yao Wan's demands, determined to grow stronger and stand in Xiao Yan's way.

• Yao Wan gave Nalan Yanran Purification Pills and said they would keep Nalan Jie safe for two years if he took one every three months and suppressed the Brand Poison with Dou Qi.
• Yao Wan reflected that Xiao Yan would grow quickly under her and Yao Lao's guidance, and that she still needed to deal with the Yun Lan Sect's problems.
• Nalan Su met Nalan Yanran and asked how her talk with the Medicine Fairy had gone.
• Nalan Yanran handed Nalan Su the pills and explained that Yao Wan's help came with conditions, though she would not ask Yanran to change her allegiance.
• Nalan Yanran decided to tell her teacher about Yao Wan and vowed to prove she could grow stronger and remain an obstacle to Xiao Yan.

Yao Wan examined Nalan Yanran’s Profound High-Rank Wind Attribute cultivation method and said she would modify it. Nalan Yanran was stunned and asked how Yao Wan planned to do it.

• Yao Wan welcomed Nalan Yanran, who thanked her for the medicinal pill that had improved her grandfather’s condition.
• Yao Wan asked what cultivation method Nalan Yanran practiced and requested a copy so she could improve it.
• Nalan Yanran explained that the Yun Lan Sect’s method was a secret, then revealed it was Profound High-Rank.
• Nalan Yanran handed Yao Wan an ancient azure scroll titled Azure Cloud Swordplay, and Yao Wan studied its workings with her Heaven Realm Soul power.
• Yao Wan announced that she would make a small modification to the cultivation method, leaving Nalan Yanran shocked and asking how she would do it.

Yao Wan guided Nalan Yanran through a dangerous change to her Dou Qi circulation, and Nalan endured the pain until she completed the new route herself. Afterward, a cool, medicinal sensation flowed through her body and eased the lingering pain.

• Yao Wan asked Nalan Yanran to circulate her Dou Qi and instructed her to change its route through different meridians.
• Nalan Yanran chose to trust Yao Wan and redirected her Dou Qi despite the risk of crippling herself or dying.
• Nalan Yanran endured the piercing pain and gradually brought the chaotic Dou Qi into a new circulation without Yao Wan's help.
• Nalan Yanran completed the circulation, sensed a change in her body, and felt a cool, medicinal flow soothe her meridians.

Yao Wan transformed Nalan Yanran’s cultivation method, greatly speeding up her Dou Qi circulation and giving the new method an initial rank of Earth-Rank Low-Level. Nalan Yanran named it Azure Cloud Wind Control Art, and the chapter left her stunned by its rank, far beyond the methods she had seen in the Yun Lan Sect.

• Yao Wan treated Nalan Yanran’s meridians, and Nalan Yanran found her Dou Qi circulated at least thirty percent faster.
• Yao Wan explained that Nalan Yanran’s cultivation method had outgrown Azure Cloud Swordplay and that she had created a new method adapted to her.
• Yao Wan offered Nalan Yanran the chance to name the new cultivation method, and Nalan Yanran chose Azure Cloud Wind Control Art.
• Yao Wan said Azure Cloud Wind Control Art still needed refinement but currently counted as Earth-Rank Low-Level.
• Nalan Yanran realized that the Yun Lan Sect’s highest methods she had seen were only Profound High-Rank and was astonished by the new method’s rank.

Yao Wan improved Nalan Yanran’s cultivation method to a rough Earth-Rank Low-Level version and warned her that she would not match Xiao Yan at the Three-Year Agreement unless she trained harder. After settling the Xiao Clan’s affairs and registering for Canaan Academy, Xiao Yan left Wutan City to begin his training, with the Magical Beast Mountain Range as his destination.

• Yao Wan explained that the Azure Cloud Wind Control Art had only just crossed into Earth-Rank Low-Level and still needed a complete overhaul.
• Nalan Yanran accepted Yao Wan’s warning that her current growth would not be enough to defeat Xiao Yan in two years.
• Xiao Yan improved his alchemy, built ties with the Mittel Auction House, and registered for Canaan Academy while requesting a year’s leave from Ruo Lin.
• After bidding farewell to Father, Xiao Yan left Wutan City carrying the Mystic Heavy Ruler and asked Yao Lao where they would go.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that their next stop was the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Xiao Yan traveled to Green Mountain Town to enter the Magical Beast Mountain Range and temper himself until he advanced to Dou Shi. After Yao Lao reminded him to focus on cultivation instead of searching for the absent girl, Xiao Yan entered the town and headed toward an apothecary to buy medicinal ingredients.

• Yao Lao noticed Xiao Yan’s cheerful mood and pointed out that he was thinking about finding the girl who had left Wutan City.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to cultivate until he advanced to Dou Shi, reminding him that the girl might return and see his progress.
• Xiao Yan accepted Yao Lao’s advice, regained his composure, and reached Green Mountain Town at the foot of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Yao Lao explained that the Magical Beast Mountain Range was a training ground on the way to the Tagor Desert, the true destination of Xiao Yan’s journey.
• Xiao Yan entered Green Mountain Town carrying the Mystic Heavy Ruler and stopped outside the Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion to buy medicinal ingredients.

Xiao Yan visited the Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion, bought several medicinal herbs, and encountered a crowd gathered for the herb-gathering team's departure to the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Just as he considered giving up on competing for the last escort spot, Little Fairy Doctor selected him, and their eyes met.

• Xiao Yan examined the Pavilion's stock, bought several herbs he had noticed, and stepped outside into a crowd blocking the entrance.
• Xiao Yan saw Little Fairy Doctor arrive and learned that mercenaries were competing to escort the Pavilion's herb-gathering team into the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan raised his hand to compete for the final escort spot, then decided he would rather enter the mountain range alone.
• Little Fairy Doctor pointed at Xiao Yan and asked, "How about him?"
• Xiao Yan realized Little Fairy Doctor had chosen him and caught her gray eyes fixed on him.

Xiao Yan joined the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s herb-gathering expedition into the Magical Beast Mountain Range and noticed Little Fairy Doctor repeatedly glancing at him. Little Fairy Doctor suspected he might be Wan Jiejie’s friend Xiao Yan and felt an inexplicable pull toward him, while Yao Lao confirmed she seemed to be an ordinary person.

• Little Fairy Doctor wondered whether Xiao Yan was Wan Jiejie’s friend and felt her heart race when she saw him.
• Xiao Yan and the herb-gathering team left Green Mountain Town and entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range under the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s escort.
• Xiao Yan followed calmly at the rear as magical beasts watched him from the trees and avoided approaching.
• During a rest stop, Little Fairy Doctor spoke with a handsome young man, then glanced back at Xiao Yan and met his gaze.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao whether Little Fairy Doctor was watching him, and Yao Lao said she had only a negligible amount of Dou Qi.