Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze visited the Nalan Family to cancel Xiao Yan’s engagement to Nalan Yanran, and Nalan Jie accepted the decision after learning both sides wanted it ended. Xiao Ze then headed to the Mitel Auction House to see Ya Fei before returning to the academy.

• Xiao Ze flew to Jia Ma Holy City and went to the Nalan Family estate, where Nalan Yanran recognized his voice and welcomed him inside.
• Xiao Ze told Nalan Jie that he had come on Xiao Yan’s behalf to cancel the engagement, and Nalan Yanran admitted she had proposed ending it.
• Xiao Ze explained that Xiao Yan agreed to the cancellation and that the two families should part without becoming enemies; Nalan Jie accepted and agreed to present the breakup as mutual disinterest in romance.
• After Xiao Ze left, Nalan Jie questioned Nalan Yanran and learned more about Xiao Ze, then regretted losing the chance to gain a Dou Emperor’s support through the marriage.
• Xiao Ze went to the Mitel Auction House headquarters to visit Ya Fei before returning to the academy.

Xiao Ze reunited with Ya Fei at the Mitel Auction House and learned that she was struggling against elders trying to undermine her authority. When Lei Ou accused her of breaking the rules, Xiao Ze revealed he was a Dou Emperor and forced the elders to recognize him as an honored guest.

• Xiao Ze entered the Mitel Auction House after breaking the hands of people who tried to steal his storage ring.
• Xiao Ze found Ya Fei, who welcomed him warmly and brought him to a private area to discuss her difficulties with the elders.
• Lei Ou led Great Elder Teng Shan and other elders to confront Ya Fei after learning she had brought an outsider into the offices.
• Xiao Ze revealed his Dou Emperor aura and offered to auction the Dou Spirit Pills he had refined.
• Teng Shan welcomed Xiao Ze as an honored guest and made Lei Ou kneel and apologize for his disrespect.

Xiao Ze used a Dou Spirit Pill and his connection with Ya Fei to settle Mitel Auction House's conflict, then supplied pills for a profitable Heaven-tier auction. After collecting gold and medicinal ingredients, he prepared to leave the Imperial Capital and return to the academy.

• Teng Shan asked Xiao Ze to reconsider Mitel Auction House, and Xiao Ze agreed to auction his Dou Spirit Pill after Ya Fei's position was secured.
• Xiao Ze gave the pill to Teng Shan, who dismissed Elder Lei Ou from his position after the elders condemned his handling of the dispute.
• Mitel Auction House held a Heaven-tier auction, where the Jia Ma Empire's royal family bought the Dou Spirit Pill and other factions purchased the remaining pills.
• Xiao Ze took thirty percent of the proceeds in gold and spent the rest on medicinal ingredients, leaving him with more than ten million gold coins.
• Xiao Ze decided to leave the Imperial Capital and return to the academy.

Xiao Ze refined his Great Boundless Sea Palm during a rest, then traveled through the Black Corner Region, looting powerful factions and rescuing captives. He found a sixth-grade Extreme Yang Pill formula and continued toward Jia Nan Academy.

• Ya Fei used her connections and abilities to build her influence within the Mittel Family and gathered alchemist-related supplies for Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze tested the Great Boundless Sea Palm, discovered its energy-construction limit, and smashed more than half a mountainside with it.
• Xiao Ze checked Xiao Xun'er's progress and recalled her message, then resumed traveling toward the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Ze looted the strongest faction in each city he visited and freed women imprisoned by a Dou Wang in a small city.
• Xiao Ze directed the women to seek refuge near Jia Nan Academy and found a sixth-grade Extreme Yang Pill formula among the faction's spoils.
• Xiao Ze headed toward Jia Nan Academy with the pill formula.

Xiao Ze returned to Jia Nan Academy, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, and visited the Xiao Family in Jia Nan City, supporting its discreet growth and asking them to gather materials for a powerful pill. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy and discovered that Xiao Ze’s celebrated exploits had made his own arrival unusually smooth.

• Xiao Ze passed through Peace Town and returned to the Inner Academy, where Elder Lin welcomed him and realized Xiao Ze had grown beyond his strength.
• Xiao Ze reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, then visited the Xiao Family, which operated publicly as the Desert Iron Mercenary Group while keeping its true identity hidden.
• Xiao Ze gave the family storage rings and asked Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to collect materials for an Extreme Yang Pill capable of rivaling a Dou Emperor’s self-destruction.
• Xiao Ze spent a day advising Xiao Zhan and the others on protecting the family, encouraged Azure Scales, and learned that Xiao Yan had not yet found them.
• Hu Gan escorted Xiao Yan into the Inner Academy, where students and elders treated him with respect after learning he was Xiao Ze’s elder brother.
• Xiao Yan heard about Xiao Ze’s remarkable Inner Academy achievements and realized his Fourth Brother’s supposedly peaceful academy life had been just as thrilling as his own dangerous training.

Xiao Ze made up with Zi Yan by giving her pills, then joined her treasure hunt in the deep mountains. After they found an Extreme Yang Region guarded by a Peak Sixth Tier Blazing Dragon Tiger, Xiao Ze drew the beast into battle while Zi Yan slipped inside to search for Yang Gold.

• Zi Yan confronted Xiao Ze for returning later than he had promised, and he gave her a bottle of pills to make amends.
• Zi Yan asked Xiao Ze to join her treasure hunt, and they agreed to split the value of any Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Materials they found.
• Xiao Ze and Zi Yan plundered treasures guarded by magical beasts throughout the deep mountains.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Ze about an Extreme Yang Region guarded by a Peak Sixth Tier Blazing Dragon Tiger, and Xiao Ze agreed to fight it while she searched for Yang Gold.
• Xiao Ze entered the Extreme Yang Region and clashed with the Blazing Dragon Tiger as Zi Yan sneaked inside to loot its treasures.

Zi Yan found Yang Gold in the Extreme Yang Region and brought it to Xiao Ze, who gathered the remaining ingredients and attempted to refine the Extreme Yang Pill. He succeeded in making a sixth-grade pill, but it was dangerously unstable, so he sent it flying away.

• Zi Yan collected a fiery golden herb and dug up a massive piece of Yang Gold before leaving the Extreme Yang Region.
• Xiao Ze escaped the Blazing Dragon Tiger and reunited with Zi Yan, then accepted her Yang Gold and prepared to refine the Extreme Yang Pill.
• Xiao Yan cultivated in the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda and learned that the Fallen Heart Flame was inside, while his Flame Mantra advanced to Yellow Tier High-Grade after he devoured another Beast Flame.
• Xiao Ze gathered the Extreme Yang Pill ingredients and traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan to a mountain ravine to refine the pill.
• After repeated explosions while processing the Yang Gold, Xiao Ze balanced his Soul Power and flame intensity, condensed the pill, and made a sixth-grade Yang Extreme Pill.
• Xiao Ze recognized that the pill could self-destruct and launched it several miles away.

Xiao Ze refined the Extreme Yang Pill, whose unstable energy caused a massive explosion that alarmed alchemists and leaders across the Black Corner Region. After successfully refining a stable pill, he agreed to make more for the Inner Academy in exchange for a high-grade pill recipe and sent one to the Xiao Family.

• Xiao Ze released the Extreme Yang Pill’s suppression, causing a pillar of fire to erupt and alarming Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan.
• Han Feng, the Great Elder, and Old Ya sensed the explosion and considered whether a high-grade pill had detonated; the Great Elder went to investigate.
• The Great Elder found Xiao Ze refining pills near Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, then stayed to guard him.
• Xiao Ze successfully refined a stable Extreme Yang Pill and explained its effects to the Great Elder.
• The Great Elder asked Xiao Ze to refine pills for the Inner Academy and offered him a high-grade pill recipe in return.
• Xiao Ze agreed to make more pills if the Inner Academy provided enough materials, gave one pill to Xiao Yi Xian to send to the Xiao Family, and resumed refining.

Xiao Ze exchanged for the Emperor Extreme Pill recipe and joined the elders in reinforcing the seal on the Fallen Heart Flame. Afterward, Great Elder Su Qian promised him the Sect Breaking Pill recipe once he reached the peak of the Dou Emperor realm, in exchange for making a copy.

• Xiao Ze exchanged for the Emperor Extreme Pill recipe after learning that the Sect Breaking Pill recipe required a major contribution to obtain.
• Great Elder Su Qian urgently summoned Xiao Ze to the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda as the Fallen Heart Flame began to riot.
• Xiao Ze learned the sealing method and helped the elders reinforce the seal, calming the fire-element energy.
• Su Qian offered Xiao Ze the Sect Breaking Pill recipe when he reached the peak of the Dou Emperor realm, asking him to make a copy afterward.
• Su Qian told Xiao Ze to seek ingredients for the Emperor Extreme Pill in the herb repository.

Xiao Ze brought Azure Scales from the Xiao Family to Jia Nan Academy and took her into the mountains to awaken her rare talent. Azure Scales successfully awakened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and controlled a snake-type magical beast, triggering Xiao Ze’s hundredfold feedback.

• Xiao Ze thanked the Xiao Family girls for caring for Azure Scales with pills, then took Azure Scales to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Ze checked Azure Scales’s cultivation and told her he wanted to awaken her talent by having her face a snake-type magical beast.
• Xiao Ze trapped a snake-type magical beast in a sphere of water and urged Azure Scales to control and contract it.
• Azure Scales awakened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and made a green flower appear on the beast’s forehead, successfully controlling it.
• Xiao Ze received a system notification that Azure Scales’s awakening had earned him hundredfold feedback.

Xiao Ze helped Azure Scales begin safely contracting snake Magical Beasts, then claimed the Hundredfold Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils feedback and discovered it granted guaranteed contracts and absolute control. He headed into the deep mountains to capture powerful snakes, successfully contracting a Sixth Tier Magical Beast and setting out to find more.

• Xiao Ze checked that Azure Scales felt well after her first contract and guided her through contracting several First Tier snake-shaped Magical Beasts, with only one attempt failing.
• Xiao Ze explained that Azure Scales's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils would devour contracted Magical Beasts and strengthen her, while advising her to build a balanced foundation.
• Xiao Ze claimed the Hundredfold Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils feedback and gained overwhelming authority over snake Magical Beasts, including a guaranteed contract success rate and absolute control.
• Xiao Ze left a Soul Imprint on Azure Scales's forehead for protection and went into the deep mountains to search for powerful snake Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Ze used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to contract a Sixth Tier Snake Magical Beast, stored it in the eye-space, and continued searching for more.

Xiao Ze refined the Emperor Extreme Pill, supplied tailored cultivation pills to his companions and the Xiao Family, then used the pill to reach the peak of the Nine Star Dou Sovereign. Xiao Yan learned of Xiao Ze’s achievements and clung to the hope that the Flame Mantra could help him catch up.

• Xiao Ze refined the Emperor Extreme Pill, prepared cultivation-assisting pills for Xiao Yi Xian, Azure Scales, Han Yue, and the Xiao Family, then took the pill to break through.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family and learned that Xiao Ze was a high-grade alchemist who had supplied the family with pills, including three Extreme Yang Pills.
• Old Ya recognized the Extreme Yang Pill’s aura and told Xiao Yan that the Flame Mantra and devouring Heavenly Flames might be his chance to catch up to Xiao Ze.
• Xiao Ze reached the peak of the Nine Star Dou Sovereign and decided to focus on expanding the Tree of Origin.
• Xiao Ze claimed Hundredfold Alchemy Technique feedback and obtained the seventh-grade Life Returning Pill formula.

Xiao Ze cultivated while considering how to strengthen his alchemy and soul, unknowingly provoking the Fallen Heart Flame and approaching the Spirit Realm. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian became an Inner Academy elder under strict conditions and hurried to find Xiao Ze.

• Xiao Ze reflected on how Xiao Yan's alchemy feedback had advanced his skills and considered future Subordinate Bindings and a journey to the Central Plains.
• The Fallen Heart Flame sensed that Xiao Ze was devouring its energy, grew furious, and began gathering power to break its seal sooner.
• Xiao Ze expanded the Tree of Origin, felt his soul touch the Spirit Realm, and concluded that he needed a Soul Cultivation Technique to advance further.
• The Great Elder approved Xiao Yi Xian's application to become an Inner Academy elder but required her to leave if her Calamity Poison Body reached its later stage.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted the condition and went to seek out Xiao Ze, the only person she believed could accept her.

Xiao Ze welcomed Xiao Yi Xian as a new elder, while Queen Medusa prepared to evolve using the Green Lotus Core Flame. Xiao Ze refined a Sect Breaking Pill and decided to give it to Vice Dean Hu Gan, but he still had no lead on the Life Returning Fruit.

• Xiao Ze congratulated Xiao Yi Xian on reaching Dou Wang and explained that they could cultivate in rooms on the seventh floor.
• Queen Medusa resolved to evolve with the Green Lotus Core Flame, and the Great Snake People Elder agreed to prepare the tribe’s Secret Treasures.
• Xiao Ze gathered ingredients for the Sect Breaking Pill and asked Inner Academy elders to search Jia Nan City and the Black Corner Region for a Life Returning Fruit.
• Xiao Ze refined a Sect Breaking Pill and decided to give it to Vice Dean Hu Gan in return for his past help.
• Xiao Ze noted that he still had no news of the Life Returning Fruit needed for the Life Returning Pill.

Xiao Ze obtained the Life Returning Fruit from Vice Dean Hu Gan in exchange for a Sect Breaking Pill, completing the ingredients needed for the Life Returning Pill. He began refining the Seventh-Grade pill in the Endless Deep Mountains, and as it took shape, the sky darkened and thunder rumbled.

• Xiao Ze offered Hu Gan a Sect Breaking Pill in exchange for help finding the Life Returning Fruit, and Hu Gan revealed that he already had one.
• Hu Gan accepted the pill and gave Xiao Ze the Life Returning Fruit, completing Xiao Ze's collection of ingredients for the Life Returning Pill.
• Xiao Ze returned to the Inner Academy and asked the Great Elder, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan to guard him while he refined the pill.
• Xiao Ze spent days refining the ingredients in the Spirit Nurturing Cauldron, including the three main ingredients and a high-grade wood-attributed magical core.
• Xiao Ze began fusing the refined ingredients, and as the pill started taking shape, the Spirit Nurturing Cauldron shook while thunder rumbled overhead.

Xiao Ze refined a Seventh-Grade Life Returning Pill and easily overcame its pill tribulation with the Golden Tree Roots. As the pill’s birth drew greedy onlookers toward him, Xiao Ze preserved it and became a true Seventh-Grade Alchemist.

• Xiao Ze completed the pill refinement atop a mountain while Great Elder, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan worried about the pill lightning and approaching threats.
• Han Feng sensed the pill tribulation in Maple City but hesitated to investigate, while greedy experts and a black-mist being headed toward its source.
• Old Ya recognized that Xiao Ze had refined a Seventh-Grade Pill and took Xiao Yan to witness its birth.
• Xiao Ze used the Golden Tree Roots to break apart and devour the pill lightning, ending the tribulation in less than ten minutes.
• Xiao Ze sealed and stored the Life Returning Pill, confirming that he had become a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.

After refining a Seventh-Grade Pill, Xiao Ze returned to Jia Nan Academy to absorb the Thunder Power gathered by the Tree of Origin and temper his body. Xiao Yan left the mountains to seek opportunities for faster cultivation, while the experts who arrived at Xiao Ze’s pill-refining site found he had already departed.

• Xiao Ze urged the Great Elder to return to the Inner Academy before experts tried to seize his Seventh-Grade Pill, and the group left the mountains.
• Xiao Yan and Old Ya watched from hiding, marveled at Xiao Ze’s secret treasure, and then departed after Xiao Yan decided to search the mountains for Heavenly Treasures and Earthly Materials.
• Powerful experts arrived at Xiao Ze’s pill-refining peak, but a Dou Zong warned them against provoking Jia Nan Academy, and they left without finding anything.
• Xiao Ze went to the seventh floor of the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda and used the Tree of Origin’s Thunder Power to strengthen his physique.

Xiao Ze strengthened his physique with Thunder Power and discovered that Queen Medusa's Heavenly Flame evolution had apparently failed, though she survived. Concerned for her, he decided to return to the Jia Ma Empire to handle her situation before the Fallen Heart Flame crisis.

• Xiao Ze used his expanded control over energy to compress Boundless Sea Power into a dense sphere, then prepared to write the Sect Breaking Pill formula.
• Xiao Ze saw Queen Medusa's status bar cycle through possible evolution results before Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Python vanished, making him fear she had died.
• Xiao Ze waited anxiously until Queen Medusa's status bar remained, realizing she had survived the failed evolution, possibly due to a Snake People secret treasure.
• Xiao Ze decided to return to the Jia Ma Empire and obtained leave from the Great Elder, who offered the Inner Academy's support.
• Xiao Ze told Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Azure Scales he would make a brief trip while they stayed behind to cultivate; Zi Yan complained that no one could match his cultivation speed.

Xiao Ze encountered and killed a Soul Hall Protector who had been searching for the Seventh-Grade Alchemist. After freeing the souls trapped in the Protector’s Soul Bag and taking his Soul Locking Chains, Xiao Ze burned the area to destroy the evidence.

• Xiao Ze left the Inner Academy and flew through the Endless Mountain Range toward the Black Corner Region.
• A Soul Hall Protector emerged from the black mist and attacked Xiao Ze with Soul Locking Chains.
• Xiao Ze countered the chains, struck the Protector with Thunder Power, and destroyed his Soul Body.
• Xiao Ze released the Soul Bodies trapped in the Soul Bag and claimed the Soul Locking Chains.
• Xiao Ze burned the battlefield to ash to conceal evidence of the fight.

Xiao Ze developed Calamity Poison Power that could penetrate the Soul Hall’s protective black mist and fatally harm Soul Bodies, while the Soul Hall sent three agents to investigate its slain member. In the Tagor Desert, the Snake People elders struggled to save Queen Medusa, and Xiao Ze sensed a Snake People expert approaching from the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Ze used a Golden Tree Root to study the black mist and tailored Calamity Poison Power to overcome its defenses and kill Soul Bodies.
• A purple-robed Soul Hall elder dispatched Mu Lu, Wang Xiao, and Lin An to investigate the killing in the Black Corner Region and retrieve the culprit’s soul.
• The Snake People elders discussed Queen Medusa’s critical condition and agreed to seek help from high-tier alchemists, including Pill King Gu He.
• Xiao Ze reached the Tagor Desert and sensed a cold Dou Emperor aura from a Snake People expert coming from the Jia Ma Empire.