Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan effortlessly subdued Mu Zhan after he insulted him and threatened Ya Fei at the Nalan Family gathering. Mu Chen begged for his son's life with a treasure, and Nalan Jie arrived to greet Xiao Yan.

• Liu Ling, Yao Yue, and Ya Fei watched Xiao Yan display his extraordinary fire control and alchemy skill during tea.
• Yao Yue announced that Mu Zhan had arrived, and Mu Zhan entered and claimed Ya Fei as his chosen wife.
• Mu Zhan attacked Xiao Yan after seeing Ya Fei serve him, but Xiao Yan forced him to kneel and burned away his Dou Qi.
• Mu Chen offered Xiao Yan the Mu family's Thousand-Year Earth Core Milk and begged him to spare Mu Zhan; Xiao Yan let Mu Zhan live and warned him not to offend again.
• Mu Chen dragged the unconscious Mu Zhan away, and Nalan Jie entered to greet Master Xiao.

Xiao Yan cured Nalan Jie’s Brand Poison by refining it into a Sixth-grade poison pill, restoring the old man’s strength. Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong then fought above Jia Ma Sacred City, and Xiao Yan flew up to challenge them, prompting Jia Xing Tian to offer him three moves while suppressing his cultivation.

• Xiao Yan used Azure Flame and the Black Demon Cauldron to extract Nalan Jie’s poison and refine it into a Bone-corroding Heart-burning Pill.
• Xiao Yan gave Nalan Su a pill formula and instructions for Nalan Jie’s recovery, and Nalan Jie opened the Nalan Family treasure vault to him in gratitude.
• Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong left the rooftop and clashed as Dou Emperor experts above Jia Ma Sacred City.
• Xiao Yan flew between Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong and asked them to give him guidance in battle.
• Jia Xing Tian suppressed his cultivation to the four-star Dou Wang level and offered to let Xiao Yan make three moves.

Xiao Yan fought Jia Xing Tian, who had offered to spar while suppressing his cultivation, and overwhelmed him with powerful attacks. After revealing a technique that raised him to Dou Emperor, Xiao Yan defeated Jia Xing Tian without seriously injuring him, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Jia Xing Tian offered to suppress his cultivation to four-star Dou Wang and let Xiao Yan make three moves, while Hai Bodong warned him privately to be careful.
• Xiao Yan's first two attacks broke Jia Xing Tian's defenses and forced him to use his full strength, while Jia Xing Tian blamed Hai Bodong for setting him up.
• Xiao Yan's third attack clashed with Jia Xing Tian's Dou Technique, and the two emerged with Xiao Yan unharmed and Jia Xing Tian's clothes in tatters.
• Xiao Yan activated Crimson Armor and reached one-star Dou Emperor, then split Jia Xing Tian's attack and sent him crashing into a crater while holding back enough to spare his body.
• Xiao Yan stood over the defeated Jia Xing Tian as the spectators stared in disbelief, and Jia Xing Tian climbed out cursing Hai Bodong.

Xiao Yan defeated Jia Xing Tian, collected medicinal ingredients from the Nalan Family vault, and discovered a jade fragment containing a mysterious soul technique. He exchanged a Sixth-grade Pill for the fragment and began absorbing its cultivation method at the inn.

• Xiao Yan defeated Jia Xing Tian, leaving the onlookers stunned, then departed with Xiao Yi Xian and Nalan Jie.
• Nalan Jie opened the Nalan Family’s underground treasure vault, where Xiao Yan collected several medicinal ingredients and sensed a strange fluctuation from a jade fragment.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the fragment contained a mysterious soul cultivation method that might be a soul attack technique.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine a Sixth-grade Pill for the jade fragment, then gave Nalan Jie a pill that could help him break through to Dou Emperor in exchange.
• At the inn, Xiao Yan entered the fragment’s method into his mind and began drawing in strange energy from the outside world.

Xiao Yan mastered the Great Void Soul Art, gained the Great Void Soul Suppressing Seal, and discovered how his enhanced Spiritual Power could enable Super Beast Armament. He then visited Xiao Yi Xian, and the two shared an intimate moment that ended with her declaring her devotion to him.

• Xiao Yan cultivated the Great Void Soul Art to major completion in a few hours, astonishing Old Yao with his Spirit Realm soul power.
• Xiao Yan manifested the Great Void Soul Suppressing Seal and learned that the technique could attack and control opponents by targeting their souls.
• Xiao Yan realized that Super Beast Armament required powerful Spiritual Power to control his body and unleash all his strength at once.
• Xiao Yan went to Xiao Yi Xian's room and kissed and embraced her beneath the moonlight.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that she had long been his and offered herself to him.

Xiao Yan bought a mysterious jade fragment at the Holy City black market after discovering it reacted to his Heavenly Flames and showed hidden runes. He arrived at the imperial palace with Xiao Yi Xian, where Yao Ye said her Imperial Ancestor was waiting in the Forbidden Area.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian flirted while visiting the Alchemist Guild's black market, and Xiao Yan bought her a Purple Jade Hairpin.
• Xiao Yan spotted a black jade fragment and recognized a fluctuation like the fragment from Nalan Mansion's treasure vault.
• Xiao Yan used his Spiritual Power to reveal runes on the jade and traded a Rank 4 Recovery Pill for it after the vendor saw his Rank 6 badge and panicked.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left the black market as dawn approached and flew to the Holy City's central imperial palace.
• Yao Ye welcomed Xiao Yan at the palace gates and led him toward the Forbidden Area, where her Imperial Ancestor had been waiting.

Xiao Yan refined a Sect Breaking Pill for the Jia Ma Imperial Family, then examined the badly injured Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast. The beast reacted threateningly when Xiao Yan inspected its hidden injuries.

• Xiao Yan asked Jia Xing Tian for Seven Revolutions Profound Ice Grass, and Jia Xing Tian hurried off to obtain it.
• Xiao Yan refined a Sect Breaking Pill with three Heavenly Flames and received Jia Xing Tian's praise.
• Jia Xing Tian led Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to the black lake where the injured Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast lived.
• Jia Xing Tian explained that the beast had protected the Imperial Family three hundred years earlier and suffered its wounds fighting three Dou Huang experts.
• Xiao Yan pressed his palm to the beast's forehead and examined its meridians, but the beast roared at him threateningly.

Xiao Yan healed the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast with a custom Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, restoring it to Sixth Tier strength. After Jia Xing Tian opened the imperial treasury for him to choose a reward, Xiao Yan focused on a difficult Earth Tier Low-grade movement technique.

• Xiao Yan examined the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast and said its injuries required a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill made with Heavenly Flames.
• Jia Xing Tian gathered the costly ingredients, and Xiao Yan refined the pill using three flames and medicines suited to the beast’s water-aligned nature.
• Xiao Yan fed the pill to the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast, which shed its old scales, recovered its meridians, and returned to Sixth Tier strength.
• Jia Xing Tian opened the treasury’s third level for Xiao Yan to choose from, and Xiao Yan noticed the Earth Tier Low-grade Soaring Dragon Instant Shadow Body technique.
• As Xiao Yan reached for the technique’s Jade Slip, it turned toward the one beside it.

Xiao Yan chose the Seven Revolutions Dragon Scale Technique and rapidly reached its beginner stage by refining the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast’s scales. Two days later, he had mastered the Dragon’s Instant Shadow movement technique, but judged his Five Star Dou Wang cultivation too slow and swallowed a handful of pills.

• Xiao Yan selected the Seven Revolutions Dragon Scale Technique despite Jia Xing Tian’s warnings about its dangers and demands.
• Xiao Yan refined three Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast scales and endured the painful body tempering, reaching the technique’s beginner stage almost instantly.
• Jia Xing Tian offered Xiao Yan the Wandering Dragon movement technique, and Xiao Yan promised pills that could help the Imperial Family and its guardian beast.
• Two days later, Xiao Yan demonstrated the fifth revolution and used Dragon’s Instant Shadow at great speed, while his punch shattered part of a rockery.
• Xiao Yan decided his Five Star Dou Wang cultivation was too slow and swallowed a handful of pills just as Old Yao appeared and tried to stop him.

Xiao Yan refined fourteen Fifth-grade pills with his Heavenly Flames and broke through from Six-Star Dou King to Peak Dou King before taking an Imperial Pill to force a breakthrough to Dou Emperor. As a crimson Qilin appeared in the dark clouds above the Forbidden Area, Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, and Hai Bodong rushed toward the disturbance.

• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that refining fourteen Fifth-grade pills at once could kill him, but Xiao Yan used three Heavenly Flames to control and absorb their medicinal power.
• Xiao Yan broke through successive realms and reached Peak Dou King, leaving Old Yao stunned while Xiao Yi Xian calmly trusted him.
• Xiao Yan swallowed an Imperial Pill, cracked the Dou Emperor barrier, and drew dark clouds marked with red Qilin-like streaks.
• Xiao Yan burst out of his Fire Cocoon, tore open the dark clouds, and released the pressure of a Dou Emperor.
• Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, and Hai Bodong sensed the disturbance and flew toward the Forbidden Area, where the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast watched a crimson figure descend from the clouds.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had broken through to the Dou Emperor realm, shocking Jia Xing Tian, Hai Bodong, and Fa Ma before rushing to the Alchemist Convention finals. As the competition began, Xiao Yan noticed a gray-robed girl using a strange purple flame.

• Jia Xing Tian attacked the crimson figure near the Imperial Family's Forbidden Area, but his Dou Qi could not pierce Xiao Yan's Fire Wings.
• Jia Xing Tian, Hai Bodong, and Fa Ma realized Xiao Yan had become a Dou Emperor and reacted with disbelief.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xiao Yi Xian, declined congratulations, and hurried with the others to the Alchemist Convention finals.
• Xiao Yan and the experts arrived at the Alchemist Guild plaza, where Fa Ma announced the finals and the contestants began demonstrating their flames.
• A gray-robed girl in the far corner produced a purple flame, and Xiao Yan turned his attention toward her.

During the Pill Gathering, a Gray-robed Girl poisoned contestants by refining an Evil Pill and revealed herself as a Soul Hall attacker. Xiao Yan confronted her, but four streams of black aura erupted from hidden places across the arena.

• Yao Yue struggled to combine ice- and fire-aligned ingredients, and Xiao Yan subtly helped separate and purify the medicinal liquid in her cauldron.
• Liu Ling used his blood to fuse three Beast Cores while Xiao Yan warned the judges that a major disturbance was coming.
• The Gray-robed Girl plunged her finger into her cauldron and released purple mist that poisoned nearby contestants and disrupted Yao Yue's and Liu Ling's refining.
• Fa Ma identified the process as Infant Soul Pill Refining, and the Gray-robed Girl removed her mask to reveal an aged, black-marked face.
• Xiao Yan recognized the attacker as a likely Soul Hall member and struck back with crimson fire when she sent nine soul chains at him.
• The attacker sneered at Xiao Yan, and four streams of black aura erupted from hidden locations throughout the arena.

Four Soul Hall Dou Emperors ambushed Xiao Yan and his allies, forcing Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong into separate battles while Xiao Yan protected the fleeing spectators. As the fight turned against them, Xiao Yan unleashed a terrifying power-up that made the Soul Hall attackers fear for their lives.

• Four Peak Dou Huang emerged from the purple mist and demanded that Xiao Yan surrender, while Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong prepared to fight.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian engaged two attackers as Xiao Yan shielded the arena with his flames and attacked the remaining Soul Hall Dou Emperors.
• Xiao Yan burned through a Soul Chain attacker's arm and struck back with a fiery dragon, while he warned Hai Bodong about an enemy behind him.
• Jia Xing Tian sacrificed his essence blood to summon his Earth Emperor True Body and smash the wronged souls, while Hai Bodong used Absolute Zero against his opponent and discovered he had struck a substitute.
• The Soul Hall attackers pressed Xiao Yan, but he withdrew his Heavenly Flames, covered himself in scarlet armor, and released an aura that made them believe they should flee.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Soul Hall Dou Emperors with his Three-Colored Exotic Fire and soul techniques, then joined the fights in the sky and against Jia Xing Tian’s opponent. The chapter ended with all five Dou Emperors defeated and Xiao Yan facing the last half-dead old man.

• The three Soul Hall Dou Emperors unleashed blood, ghost, and soul attacks, but Xiao Yan’s Wave Splitting Flame Ruler: Annihilation erased them.
• Xiao Yan killed the black-robed Dou Huang who tried to escape and burned the one-armed Dou Huang with a soul technique.
• Xiao Yan stopped the last old man’s teleportation and killed him by piercing through his chest.
• Xiao Yan rescued Hai Bodong by binding and grievously wounding the black-robed man pursuing him, allowing Hai Bodong to seal him in ice.
• Xiao Yan killed the Soul Hall Dou Emperor attacking Jia Xing Tian, leaving all five Dou Emperors defeated.
• Xiao Yan turned toward the last half-dead old man.

Xiao Yan and the others learned that the Soul Hall and Misty Cloud Sect were moving against them, then received news that the Xiao Family had been attacked and its clan leader captured. Xiao Yan’s fury exposed his youthful face to the imperial court as he prepared to act.

• Hai Bodong and Xiao Yan threatened the captured black-robed elder, but Soul Hall’s restrictions caused him to self-destruct and send a warning about the Venerable Elder.
• Yun Shan met Wu Fu Protector, who ordered the Xiao Family’s collateral branches wiped out to lure Xiao Yan and asserted that the Soul Hall wanted him alive.
• Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong discussed the Soul Hall and learned that Yun Leng had taken seven Dou Wang elders and dozens of Dou Ling experts from the Misty Cloud Sect.
• An Imperial Guard delivered a bloodstained letter reporting that Misty Cloud Sect forces had surrounded the Xiao Family, a mysterious Dou Emperor had protected them, and the clan leader had been captured.
• Xiao Yan demanded Yun Leng’s whereabouts, then removed half his mask and revealed his youthful face to the others.

Xiao Yan revealed his identity to Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma, then announced that he would destroy the Misty Cloud Sect in three days to avenge his father. The Imperial Family, Hai Bodong, and the Alchemist Guild pledged their forces, while Jia Xing Tian prepared to break through to Dou Zong before the campaign.

• Xiao Yan removed his mask and revealed that he was the young Dou Emperor from the Xiao Family of Wutan City.
• Jia Xing Tian offered the Imperial Family and empire’s full support after Xiao Yan said the Misty Cloud Sect had imprisoned his father.
• Xiao Yan declared that the Misty Cloud Sect would be destroyed in three days and ordered preparations for war.
• Hai Bodong committed the Mite'er Family Three Hundred Death Warriors, and Fa Ma placed the Alchemist Guild’s alchemists and medicinal ingredients at Xiao Yan’s disposal.
• Xiao Yan left with Xiao Yi Xian to begin refining pills that night, while Jia Xing Tian ordered troops to gather and announced he would enter seclusion to attempt a breakthrough.

Xiao Yan refined the Imperial Pill and Sect Breaking Pill at the same time, then returned to Wutan City as a Dou Emperor and took charge of the Xiao Family. He promised the elders that the Misty Cloud Sect would be destroyed, while Jia Xing Tian prepared the imperial forces to march in three days.

• Jia Xing Tian assembled the Imperial Guards and Dark Guards and ordered them to march with him in three days to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan refined two pills simultaneously as Fa Ma watched, while Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian argued outside the Alchemy Room.
• Xiao Yan collected the six dragon-patterned pills and told Medusa that the Spirit Fusion Pill ingredients were ready under their agreed conditions.
• Xiao Yan flew into Wutan City with his Fire Wings, and his Dou Emperor pressure shocked the Xiao Family elders.
• Xiao Yan told the Xiao Family elders to leave the family's affairs to him and promised news of the Misty Cloud Sect's destruction within three days.

Xiao Yan refined a Spirit Fusion Pill from Medusa’s scales and blood, restoring her cultivation and advancing her to Dou Zong. After she attacked him and he subdued her, Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong arrived outside the chamber and saw them through a crack in the door.

• Xiao Yan teased Medusa and declared that he would make her his, while she called him arrogant but did not reject him.
• Xiao Yan completed the six-pattern Spirit Fusion Pill, and the Seven-Colored Snake swallowed it.
• Medusa regained her peak strength and advanced to Dou Zong, then tested Xiao Yan with a poisoned blade that his Three-Colored Exotic Fire destroyed.
• Medusa confronted Xiao Yan, but his contract and Green Lotus Core Flame prevented her from overpowering him, and he restrained her on a nearby bed.
• Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong heard the disturbance and called out from outside; Hai Bodong pierced the door and saw Xiao Yan and Medusa inside.

Xiao Yan revealed that Medusa was his fiancée, then gave Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian pills to help them break through to Dou Zong. As both men began cultivating, Xiao Yan advanced to Four-star Dou Huang, while Medusa watched him with conflicted feelings.

• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian arrived as Medusa was pinned beneath Xiao Yan, and Medusa’s Dou Zong pressure sent them flying until Xiao Yan stopped her attack.
• Xiao Yan wrapped Medusa in a blanket, introduced her as his fiancée Cai Lin, and she returned to a room after he released her.
• Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian pills and demanded that two Dou Zongs emerge within three days.
• Jia Xing Tian sealed himself inside a rock cocoon to cultivate, while Hai Bodong used an Imperial Pill and other medicines to reach Peak Dou Huang and attempt a forced breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan’s sixth Dragon Pattern lit up, raising his cultivation to Four-star Dou Huang as Medusa watched from the corridor.

Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian reached Dou Zong and prepared with Xiao Yan to attack the Misty Cloud Sect after Xun'er warned him that unknown experts had appeared there. Xiao Yan set the assault for dawn, and the Xiao Family volunteers stepped forward to serve as the vanguard.

• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian argued over who had reached Dou Zong first until Xiao Yan’s Seventh Revolution aura stopped their bickering.
• The Third Elder delivered Xun’er’s secret letter warning Xiao Yan about unknown experts behind the Misty Cloud Sect and urging him to use her jade pendant if he faced danger.
• Jia Xing Tian reported that the Imperial Family’s deathsworn had surveyed the sect, while Hai Bodong declared he was ready to fight its hidden forces.
• Xiao Yan offered the Xiao Family members a choice between joining the army to avenge themselves or staying behind, and Xiao Ning and others volunteered to fight.
• Xiao Yan ordered an assault at dawn, assigned Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian to seal the sect’s rear and surround it, and received logistical support from Fa Ma and the Alchemist Guild.
• Twenty-three Xiao Family youths above three-star Dou Shi stepped forward and requested to serve as the vanguard.