Chapter Summaries

After securing the Jia Ma Empire and Misty Cloud Sect under Nalan Family influence, Nalan Chaoge prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy, but the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings arrived to submit. Their old grudge with Yun Yun reignited, and a clash of three Dou Emperor powers threatened the Holy City.

• Nagato guarded the Holy City in Yao Ye’s absence, while Yao Ye and Yun Yun announced happy news after spending a month with Nalan Chaoge.
• Jia Yao Ye became the Jia Ma Empire’s first empress, Nalan Yanran became Misty Cloud Sect Master, and Nalan Jie advanced to Dou Emperor.
• Nalan Chaoge told Yun Yun he would leave for Jia Nan Academy the next day, and she urged him to remember his family and home in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Two Dou Emperor auras approached the Holy City, and Nalan Chaoge stopped Nagato from attacking the arriving Amethyst Winged Lion Kings.
• The male Amethyst Winged Lion King recognized Yun Yun as the woman who had stolen his purple spirit crystal and attacked with his mate, while Yun Yun answered with Extreme Wind, Meteor Kill.

Nalan Chaoge negotiated with the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings after learning Xiao Yan had gravely injured their cub, and he healed the Young Amethyst Winged Lion King in exchange for the couple becoming guardians of the Misty Cloud Sect. To earn their submission, he challenged them to attack him together and promised to defeat them in one move; the crowded duel began on Yun Lan Mountain Peak as his departure was delayed.

• Nalan Chaoge rejected the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings’ initial offer to submit because the male Lion King disrespected Yun Yun.
• The female Amethyst Winged Lion King asked Nalan Chaoge to save their child, and the male blamed Yun Yun for the cub’s injuries before they realized Xiao Yan had caused them.
• Nalan Chaoge agreed to heal the Young Amethyst Winged Lion King if the couple cleared their old grievances and submitted, and he restored the cub with soul power and a pill.
• Nalan Chaoge announced that the Lion King couple would guard the Misty Cloud Sect, then offered to let them go if they could defeat him with one combined attack.
• News of the duel drew a huge crowd to Yun Lan Mountain Peak, where Nalan Chaoge faced the two Amethyst Winged Lion Kings as they unleashed their energy.

Nalan Chaoge defeated the two Amethyst Winged Lion Kings with one strike after their combined sonar attack seemingly disintegrated him. Nalan Yanran confessed to Yun Yun that she loved Xiao Ge and asked to enter the Gate of Life and Death to gain the strength to stay by his side.

• The two Lion Kings combined their power and used the Amethyst Crystal Curse, apparently shattering Nalan Chaoge with a sonar attack.
• Nalan Chaoge reappeared behind the Lion Kings and used Shinra Tensei to knock them out of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun she wanted to enter the Gate of Life and Death, and Yun Yun realized she loved Xiao Ge.
• Nalan Yanran confessed her feelings to Yun Yun, who warned that she and Xiao Ge could never be together but agreed to support her.
• After Nalan Chaoge left to handle the Lion Kings, Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun to open the Gate of Life and Death after he departed.

Nalan Chaoge secured the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings’ loyalty with transformation grass and the Cursed Seal of Heaven, then invited them to serve as Misty Cloud Sect Grand Elders. He began a public pill-refining demonstration and announced that he would make the seventh-grade Three Origins One Beginning Pill, leaving Gu He stunned.

• Nalan Chaoge offered the two Amethyst Winged Lion Kings transformation grass, and they knelt to pledge their loyalty.
• Nalan Chaoge installed his Cursed Seal of Heaven in both Lion Kings and asked them to protect the Misty Cloud Sect and Jia Ma Empire.
• Nalan Yanran invited the Lion Kings to become Misty Cloud Sect Grand Elders, and Nalan Chaoge affirmed that the sect was their home.
• Nalan Chaoge promised to refine a pill before the gathered crowd and arranged more than a hundred medicinal herbs.
• Pill King Gu He arrived, saw the herbs, and was shocked when Nalan Chaoge named the seventh-grade Three Origins One Beginning Pill.

Nalan Chaoge demonstrated his alchemy by refining a seventh-grade pill before the Misty Cloud Sect, winning over Gu He and Fa Ma as pill lightning gathered over Yun Lan Mountain Peak. He stopped Nalan Yanran from deploying the sect’s defensive array and instead summoned four clones to activate the Four Green Sun Array as the pill neared completion.

• Gu He and Fa Ma were shocked to learn that Nalan Chaoge could refine a seventh-grade pill, and Gu He reconsidered leaving the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Nalan Chaoge summoned the Seven Star Dragon Abyss and used Yao Chen’s skill and the bone white flame to refine the pill while the gathered alchemists watched.
• After Nalan Chaoge spent the night extracting and fusing the herbs, Yun Yun arrived with Chujiu, and Gu He and Fa Ma praised his control and technique.
• At dawn, pill lightning formed dark clouds and fierce winds over Yun Lan Mountain Peak, so Nalan Yanran ordered the Misty Cloud Sect elders to form the Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Array.
• Nalan Chaoge stopped Nalan Yanran from interfering, created four clones, and sent them to activate the Four Green Sun Array against the approaching pill lightning.

Nalan Chaoge survived the pill lightning, completed the Three Origins One Beginning Pill for the Lion Kings’ daughter, and left the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian and Kaguya Kimimaro. He headed toward Jia Nan Academy and the Eight Gates to settle old scores, while Xun’er remained at the academy as Ling Ying appeared behind her.

• Nalan Chaoge borrowed Yao Chen’s power to sustain the Four Green Sun Array as pill lightning battered Misty Cloud Mountain for an hour.
• Nalan Chaoge caught the finished Three Origins One Beginning Pill and gave it to the Lion Kings to restore their daughter’s health.
• Nalan Yanran held a cultivation gathering that lasted ten days and brought the Misty Cloud Sect more than twenty promising disciples.
• Nalan Chaoge left the Misty Cloud Sect and the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yi Xian and Kaguya Kimimaro, intending to confront Mu Zhan and the Eight Gates of Black Seal City.
• At Jia Nan Academy’s Back Mountain Summit, Ling Ying emerged from the shadows behind Xun’er.

Xun'er heard Ling Ying’s account of Xiao Yan’s journey and learned that Nalan Chaoge had defeated him during Mu Chen’s rebellion. She left still vexed by Nalan Chaoge and his boast about obtaining a marriage contract from her father.

• Ling Ying returned to Xun'er and explained that he had brought Xiao Yan safely back to the Xiao Family estate before Xiao Yan chose to travel alone through the Black-Corner Region.
• Ling Ying recounted the Xiao Family’s destruction and Mu Chen’s rebellion, prompting Xun'er to grieve and suspect that Mu Chen had framed the Nalan Family.
• Ling Ying praised Xiao Yan’s resolve and revealed that he had reached Three-Star Dou Ling at sixteen.
• When Xun'er asked whether Xiao Yan had defeated Nalan Chaoge, Ling Ying explained that Nalan Chaoge had fought three opponents alone and subdued the soul body within Xiao Yan.
• Xun'er angrily ordered Ling Ying to kill Nalan Chaoge, then withdrew the order and stormed down the mountain.

Nalan Chaoge, Xiao Yi Xian, and Kimimaro reached the Black Domain Great Plains after months of travel, and Nalan revealed that multiple heavenly flames could help control Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body. After falling in front of a caravan and warning its travelers about a black windstorm, they watched the caravan panic as the rare storm approached.

• Nalan Chaoge and his companions crossed the Black Domain Great Plains after spending months searching for medicinal plants and fighting magical beasts.
• Nalan Chaoge revealed that he could wield two heavenly flames and said another awaited them at Jia Nan Academy, where he intended to obtain it.
• Nalan Chaoge carried Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro through the air, but Kimimaro’s teasing about marrying Nalan made him lose control and drop them in front of a caravan.
• The caravan’s guards aimed crossbows at the three travelers and were ordered to kill them, so Xiao Yi Xian spread an invisible scent and Nalan Chaoge pleaded for mercy.
• Nalan Chaoge claimed a black windstorm had swept them into the sky, and the caravan panicked when the warning seemed to herald a once-in-a-century black hurricane.

Nalan Chaoge and his companions fled with a mercenary caravan as a huge Black Windstorm swept across the Black Domain Great Plains. Suspicious of the mercenaries, Nalan Chaoge discovered they planned to sacrifice Jia Nan Academy’s students to save their valuable cargo and leapt into their midst.

• Nalan Chaoge, Xiao Yi Xian, and Kimimaro joined the caravan after the mercenaries warned them of a Black Windstorm.
• Nalan Chaoge saw the massive storm bearing down on the caravan and noticed herds of Plains Magical Beasts fleeing ahead of it.
• Nalan Chaoge told Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro he would investigate the mercenaries’ plans, then slipped away.
• The bald mercenary boss ordered his men to throw the students off the beasts while keeping the women bound, intending to sell them after escaping the storm.
• Nalan Chaoge revealed himself among the mercenaries, who aimed rune-marked, poison-coated crossbows at him.

Nalan Chaoge and his companions were ambushed by a mercenary caravan while traveling toward Black Seal City, but the men were stunned to find him alive and eating priceless royal jelly. After Nalan Chaoge questioned them about captives from Jia Nan Academy, Kimimaro killed both mercenaries, leaving the caravan’s plans and the captives’ fate unresolved.

• Nalan Chaoge claimed that he and his companions were Jia Nan Academy students who had been separated from their instructor, but the bald mercenary leader ordered his men to attack.
• The mercenaries shot Nalan Chaoge with poisoned crossbow bolts and believed he had fallen to his death as a Black Windstorm approached.
• The mercenaries found Nalan Chaoge, Xiao Yi Xian, and Kimimaro eating royal jelly, then watched in disbelief as Nalan Chaoge and Kimimaro poured some of it away.
• Nalan Chaoge asked whether the chests held Jia Nan Academy students and who their instructor was, but one mercenary charged instead of answering.
• Kimimaro killed the charging mercenary with a bone spike through the forehead, then struck the second mercenary through the chest with another bone spike.

Nalan Chaoge and his companions rescued Instructor Ruolin and Jia Nan Academy students from mercenaries who planned to sell them. After learning that the Black Alliance had attacked the recruitment team, Nalan Chaoge reunited with Xiao Yu and noticed Xiao Mei among the rescued students.

• Kimimaro killed two mercenaries by controlling their bones, and Instructor Ruolin escaped from a crate and tried to free the other captives.
• Nalan Chaoge confronted Baldhead, tore off his limbs, and threw him into the black windstorm while Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro killed the remaining mercenaries.
• Xiao Yi Xian freed Instructor Ruolin and the students, and Ruolin recognized Nalan Chaoge and explained that the Black Alliance had attacked the recruitment team.
• Nalan Chaoge reunited with Xiao Yu and noticed Xiao Mei standing behind her.

Nalan Chaoge tried to protect Ruo Lin and the students as a black windstorm overtook their group in the Black-Corner Region. He stopped the Chicken-footed Beasts and made a shelter, leaving the students gathered safely enough for Ruo Lin to take attendance.

• Nalan Chaoge reunited with Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei among the rescued students as Ruo Lin ordered everyone to hurry through the Black-Corner Region.
• The black windstorm swallowed the group before Ruo Lin could stop the Chicken-footed Beasts, and the students struggled to hold on amid the gale.
• Nalan Chaoge used his Byakugan to check the students and told Ruo Lin he would stop the beasts while she confirmed everyone's safety.
• Nalan Chaoge created four clones, then struck the Chicken-footed Beasts with Eight Extremes Collapse and brought them crashing down.
• Nalan Chaoge's clones helped Ruo Lin gather the students behind the fallen beasts, where Ruo Lin checked for injuries and began taking attendance.

Nalan Chaoge and the students took shelter from what Xiao Yi Xian feared was a deadly Black Hurricane Storm. He sought Yao Chen’s advice, but learned that protecting all twenty-six students might be impossible, and refused to abandon them.

• Nalan Chaoge reunited with Kimimaro and learned from Xiao Yi Xian that the storm might be a Black Hurricane Storm powerful enough to kill even a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yi Xian urged Nalan Chaoge to escape with Xiao Lü, but he insisted he would not abandon his friends.
• Ruo Lin organized the students inside the Chicken-footed Beasts’ protective ring, while Nalan Chaoge worried that the shelter might not withstand the storm.
• Nalan Chaoge entered the Barrier within his body and asked Yao Chen how to survive the Black Hurricane Storm.
• Yao Chen advised Nalan Chaoge to abandon the others and escape, then fell silent when he learned there were twenty-six students to protect.
• Nalan Chaoge refused to leave the students behind, even after Yao Chen warned that they might all perish.

Nalan Chaoge sought a way to protect his students from the Black Hurricane Storm after Yao Chen warned that they could not survive it by hiding underground. When the group’s shelter began shifting in the wind, Nalan Chaoge stopped their attempt to leave and summoned Triple Rashomon.

• Nalan Chaoge explained the storm to Yao Chen, who said the group could not escape without losses and would have to withstand it head-on.
• Nalan Chaoge rejected the idea of giving up, left the barrier, and warned everyone to hold fast to the chains he freed from the Chicken-footed Beasts.
• Ruo Lin reassured the students that Jia Nan Academy instructors were coming, while she and Nalan Chaoge considered whether they could cross the storm.
• An Elephant-bodied Beast with Chicken Feet shifted in the wind, prompting Ruo Lin to prepare the group to move.
• Nalan Chaoge stopped Ruo Lin from leading the weakened students out and used the Summoning Technique: Triple Rashomon.

Nalan Chaoge sheltered the group from the Black Hurricane Storm with Triple Rashomon and helped Kimimaro demonstrate her unusual bone-manipulating ability to Instructor Ruo Lin. Ruo Lin offered to bring them into Jia Nan Academy to seek advice from its instructors and elders, provided they enrolled as students.

• Nalan Chaoge summoned three Rashomon gates that shielded the group from the hurricane, then told everyone to eat while he monitored the gates.
• Ruo Lin checked whether Nalan Chaoge could hold out and asked Kimimaro and Xiao Yi Xian about themselves.
• Kimimaro claimed to be a nine-year-old two-star Dou Ling, and Ruo Lin doubted her.
• Nalan Chaoge explained Kimimaro's unusual constitution, and Kimimaro produced a bone spike sharp enough to pierce the hard ground.
• Nalan Chaoge asked Ruo Lin for help getting Kimimaro examined by Jia Nan Academy's instructors.
• Ruo Lin offered to take them to the academy if they agreed to become students.

Nalan Chaoge reunited with Instructor Ruo Lin, learned that Mu Zhan had risen to Five-Star Dou Wang, and helped her enroll Xiao Yi Xian, whose strength astonished everyone. The group survived inside Rashomon for days, but the Black Hurricane Storm began breaking through, leaving them in danger as the barrier weakened.

• Nalan Chaoge thanked Ruo Lin, who agreed to register his companions as students and revealed that the academy still wanted him over Mu Zhan's accusation.
• Ruo Lin told Nalan Chaoge that Mu Zhan had become a Five-Star Dou Wang and an Inner Academy elder, while Nalan Chaoge concealed his own strength from her.
• Nalan Chaoge reminded Ruo Lin that Xiao Yi Xian met the academy's age requirement, and Xiao Yi Xian said she was a Four-Star Dou Ling, stunning the gathered students.
• Nalan Chaoge tested the Black Hurricane Storm outside Rashomon and discovered its suction remained powerful even though the barrier initially protected the group.
• After three days, the storm intensified and began breaking through Rashomon, leaving the weaker students dehydrated and the group facing imminent danger.

Trapped by the Black Hurricane Storm and running out of food, Nalan Chaoge shared his Heavenly King Bee royal jelly with the students. Ruo Lin revealed its extraordinary value and uses, while Nalan Chaoge prepared to rely on the Four Red Yang Formation to endure the storm.

• Nalan Chaoge remembered the royal jelly in his Na Ring and brought it out to feed the starving students.
• Ruo Lin tasted a drop and used her cultivation method to absorb it, rapidly reaching the peak of Five-star Dou Ling.
• Ruo Lin explained that the royal jelly could boost cultivation, change constitutions, heal injuries, and purge impurities, but warned that carrying too much could attract deadly attention.
• Nalan Chaoge gave each student a small bottle and secretly gave Ruo Lin three full bowls.
• Nalan Chaoge planned to use the Four Red Yang Formation, strengthened by Yao Chen, to withstand the Black Hurricane Storm for two or three days.

Nalan Chaoge used the Mittel Family’s Seven Star Dragon Abyss to shelter everyone from the Black Hurricane Storm after Rashomon broke. The survivors found safety inside its vast inner space, and Ruo Lin promised to report his situation to Jia Nan Academy.

• Nalan Chaoge realized Seven Star Dragon Abyss could expand to shelter the students from the storm.
• After the students finished cultivating with royal jelly, Rashomon began to fail, and Nalan Chaoge told them to enter the medicine cauldron.
• When Rashomon shattered, Nalan Chaoge used Wood Release to protect the last three students and brought them inside the cauldron.
• Seven Star Dragon Abyss expanded to mountain size, shielding everyone from the Black Hurricane Storm.
• Inside the cauldron, Nalan Chaoge discovered its spacious inner world and explained to Ruo Lin that he had not known about it before.
• Ruo Lin promised to report the events to the dean and seek Nalan Chaoge’s readmission to Jia Nan Academy.

Nalan Chaoge and Ruo Lin discussed his past and his intention to confront Mu Zhan, while Jia Nan Academy’s Enforcement Team searched the Black Domain Great Plains for Ruo Lin and the missing students. After a Black Hurricane Storm delayed the search, Wu Tianlang rushed to answer a distress flare, leaving Wu Hao and the squad to face a hidden Dou Emperor.

• Ruo Lin questioned Nalan Chaoge about his disappearance, his battle with Yuan Yi, and his wager with Xiao Yan, then warned him against attacking Mu Zhan inside Jia Nan Academy.
• Nalan Chaoge insisted that Mu Zhan’s past murder could not be forgiven with time, while Ruo Lin offered to explain the matter to the Academy.
• Wu Tianlang, Hu Gan, Wu Hao, Hu Jia, and Xiao Xun'er led Jia Nan Academy’s Enforcement Team into the Black-Corner Region to search for Ruo Lin and the missing students, but found the Eight Gates deserted.
• Wu Tianlang and Wu Hao’s team waited seven days for a Black Hurricane Storm to weaken, while Hu Gan’s team searched toward Black Emperor City.
• After a Jia Nan Academy Signal Flare came from Black Emperor City, Wu Tianlang hurried to help Hu Gan, and a hidden Dou Emperor attacked Wu Hao’s squad and knocked the Blood Sword from his hand.

Wu Hao escaped Yuan Yi’s massacre by fleeing into the Black Hurricane Storm, but Yuan Yi caught up after the storm faded. A giant medicine cauldron appeared, revealing Jia Nan Academy’s Recruitment Team and Nalan Chaoge, whom Yuan Yi recognized as his hated target.

• Yuan Yi killed most of Wu Hao’s Enforcement Team while its members sacrificed themselves to help Wu Hao escape.
• Wu Hao entered the Black Hurricane Storm and endured its ravages until he emerged onto the black plain, where Yuan Yi was waiting.
• Yuan Yi told Wu Hao that a Dou Zong and three Dou Emperors were attacking Wu Tianlang and Hu Gan, then dismissed the chance that Jia Nan Academy’s dean would return.
• A giant medicine cauldron appeared as the storm receded, and Instructor Ruolin and the Recruitment Team emerged from it.
• Yuan Yi recognized Nalan Chaoge among the students and rejoiced at finding the man he had long wanted to kill.