Chapter Summaries

The Hong Family retreated from its confrontation with the Han Family after discovering Ye Xin Lan’s ties to the Pill Tower, while Nalan Chaoge stopped her from pressing Shen Yun over Hong Chen’s crimes. Back at the Hong estate, Hong Li proposed killing Ye Xin Lan and Nalan Chaoge before they could report the incident.

• Hong Li learned that Hong Chen had died and led the Hong Family’s experts to demand that Han Chi hand over the person who had injured him.
• Ye Xin Lan’s connection to the Pill Tower made Shen Yun unwilling to support the Hong Family against the Han Family.
• Han Chi and Hong Li traded veiled remarks, and Hong Li claimed Hong Chen had died of a chill while announcing that his family would leave Tianbei City.
• Ye Xin Lan questioned Shen Yun about Hong Chen’s abuse of his pavilion status, but Nalan Chaoge stopped her from pursuing the matter.
• Hong Li and Shen Yun returned to the Hong estate, where Hong Li suggested eliminating Ye Xin Lan and Nalan Chaoge before they could report the Hong Family.

Hong Li persuaded Shen Yun to help the Hong Family attack Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan, while the pair departed Tianbei City for the Pill Region. After learning that the Hong Family had mobilized its forces, Han Chi gathered the Han Family to prepare for battle.

• Hong Li convinced Shen Yun to secretly attack Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan, promising to help him secure the Wind Lightning North Pavilion master's position.
• Han Chi gave Nalan Chaoge an eighth-tier magic core and medicinal herbs, and Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan left Tianbei City on flying magical beasts.
• Han Xue and Han Yue watched Nalan Chaoge depart, while Han Xue admitted she could not forget him.
• Han Chi became suspicious when the Hong Family closed its businesses and made no funeral preparations, then consulted his father, the Han Family's Great Elder.
• The Great Elder warned Han Chi that the Hong Family would try to stop Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan from reaching the Central Region, with Shen Yun's help.
• Han Chi learned that the Hong Family's experts had assembled and disappeared, so he ordered the Han Family's fighters to gather and prepare to confront them.

The Hong Family ambushed Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan at Ten Thousand Snake Gorge, but they had already escaped the attack and fled another route. As the Han Family advanced to confront the Hong Family, Nalan Chaoge sensed the forces converging and realized Han Chi was coming to avenge them.

• Han Chi ordered Han Xue and Han Yue to stay with their grandfather, then led the Han Family out to fight the Hong Family and protect their benefactors.
• Hong Li ordered Shen Yun and Hong Tianxiao to kill Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan, and the two elders destroyed the decoy flying beast and its riders with one attack.
• Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan watched the ambush from nearby and decided to leave rather than fight, since Nalan Chaoge was still injured and had already called for help from the Wind Lightning Pavilion.
• Han Chi sensed the energy from the gorge and roared a warning as his forces rushed toward Ten Thousand Snake Gorge.
• Nalan Chaoge stopped in midair after sensing the Han Family’s approaching force, and Ye Xin Lan realized the Han and Hong families were fighting.

Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan raced back to Ten Thousand Snake Gorge and found the Han Family trapped by Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun. Nalan Chaoge struck back, killing Shen Yun and unleashing Hai Bodong against Hong Tianxiao as the battle turned into a massacre.

• Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan hurried back to Ten Thousand Snake Gorge after Nalan Chaoge warned that Shen Yun and Hong Tianxiao had ambushed the Han Family.
• Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun attacked Han Chi's group as they tried to retreat, killing two Dou Wangs and capturing Han Chi.
• Han Tian ordered the Han Family guards to fight to the death, but Nalan Chaoge raised a wall of crimson flames to shield them and block Hong Tianxiao's advance.
• Nalan Chaoge struck Shen Yun from behind with Lightning Release: Kirin, then killed him with Multiplying Explosive Tags.
• Nalan Chaoge summoned Hai Bodong to attack Hong Tianxiao and advanced on the remaining Hong Family fighters, leaving Hong Tianxiao horrified.

Nalan Chaoge slaughtered the Hong Family’s attackers and saved the Han Family, then left with Ye Xin Lan. Han Chi and the arriving Han elders recognized that Nalan Chaoge had single-handedly ended the Hong Family’s threat, while Han Xue worried about him and wondered at his power.

• Nalan Chaoge killed the Hong Family’s Dou Emperors while Hai Bodong fought Hong Tianxiao, who begged for mercy and then tried to flee.
• Nalan Chaoge pierced Hong Tianxiao’s heart with a lightning sword, and Hai Bodong crushed him; Nalan Chaoge then finished off the last two Dou Emperors.
• Nalan Chaoge dismissed the Flame Formation, carried Ye Xin Lan away, and left the stunned Han Family survivors to clean up and take control of Tianbei City.
• The Great Elder arrived with Han Xue and Han Yue, and Han Chi explained how Nalan Chaoge returned and rescued the Han Family after Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun ambushed them.
• Han Xue learned that Nalan Chaoge had left and heard the survivors recount how he had killed the Hong Family attackers alone.

Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan reached Tianhuang City to take its space wormhole toward the Pill Region, hoping to learn about Xiao Yi Xian. Before they could depart, Cheng Yao seized the wormhole under a new order from the Demon Flame Valley, and Liu Qing appeared to challenge the takeover.

• Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan traveled south for more than ten days and arrived at Tianhuang City.
• Nalan Chaoge refused to visit the Liu Family and went with Ye Xin Lan to the space wormhole, intending to reach the Pill Region and investigate Xiao Yi Xian's situation.
• After waiting four hours, Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan finished paying for passage, but Cheng Yao announced that the Cheng Family was taking control of the wormhole.
• Cheng Yao defeated the Liu Family supervisor and drove the Liu Family guards away, citing a new Demon Flame Valley order.
• Liu Qing arrived and objected that the Liu Family was supposed to oversee the wormhole that year, while a red-spotted elder warned him to hand it over.

Liu Qing resisted the Cheng Family’s attempt to seize the space wormhole and won three days to find an alchemist, then revealed that Nalan Chaoge was there to help. Chi Huo promised the Liu Family twenty years of management rights if they produced a Seventh-grade Alchemist.

• Elder Chi Huo announced that Burning Flame Valley had ordered the Liu Family to surrender the wormhole to the Cheng Family for ten years, and Cheng Yao demanded that they leave.
• Liu Qing challenged Chi Huo and invoked the possibility of finding a Seventh-grade Alchemist, prompting Chi Huo to grant the Liu Family three days to compete with the Cheng Family for control.
• Liu Qing struck Cheng Yao with his Mountain Splitting Spear and drove the Cheng Family away, then offered Chi Huo royal jelly and learned that Burning Flame Valley needed an alchemist to refine medicine.
• Liu Qing promised to find a Seventh-grade Alchemist and secured Chi Huo’s offer of twenty years of wormhole management rights in exchange.
• Liu Qing revealed Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan at the wormhole entrance, and he and Nalan Chaoge greeted each other after their long separation.

Nalan Chaoge reunited with Liu Qing and agreed to help the Liu Family secure its wormhole rights, then learned Xiao Yi Xian might have been captured by a major sect. When the Cheng Family challenged his alchemy and Zeng Xiu insulted his family, Nalan Chaoge revealed overwhelming soul power and killed Zeng Xiu.

• Liu Qing introduced Nalan Chaoge as a seventh-grade alchemist, convincing Elder Chi Huo to grant the Liu Family twenty years of wormhole operating rights and request Nalan Chaoge's help for the Burning Flame Valley's master.
• At the Liu Family residence, Nalan Chaoge told Liu Qing how he survived the Magma World and explained that he had become separated from Xiao Yi Xian, Kimimaro, and Yang after a space storm.
• Liu Qing revealed that he had heard reports of a Woeful Poison Body appearing in the Central Plains, so Nalan Chaoge asked him to investigate whether it was Xiao Yi Xian.
• Elder Chi Huo and Cheng Yao arrived with Zeng Xiu, and Zeng Xiu challenged Nalan Chaoge to a soul-power contest after questioning his alchemy credentials and insulting his mother.
• Nalan Chaoge overwhelmed Zeng Xiu with his eighth-tier soul power, tore through his Soul Barrier, and killed him after refusing to accept his attempted apology.

Nalan Chaoge traveled with Elder Chi Huo to Burning Flame Valley after securing the Liu Family’s control of the space wormhole, then learned that Valley Master Tang Zhen needed help refining a seventh-grade advanced Fire Bodhi Pill. As Tang Zhen tested the assembled alchemists with his Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, Tang Huo’er singled out Nalan Chaoge, who calmly said there was no need for the test, prompting laughter from the hall.

• Nalan Chaoge killed Zeng Xiu, and Cheng Yao accepted the Liu Family’s control of the space wormhole for twenty years.
• Nalan Chaoge refused Liu Qing’s offer to accompany him to Burning Flame Valley and told him to find Xiao Yi Xian, then left with Ye Xin Lan and Elder Chi Huo.
• Nalan Chaoge entered Burning Flame Valley’s hidden independent space and followed Chi Huo to meet Valley Master Tang Zhen.
• Tang Zhen announced that he wanted to refine a seventh-grade advanced Fire Bodhi Pill and tested the gathered alchemists with his Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• Tang Huo’er called on Nalan Chaoge to try the test, but he said there was no need, and the alchemists in the hall laughed at him.

Nalan Chaoge silenced the alchemists at Burning Flame Valley by revealing a Fire Bodhi Pill and demanded an eighth-tier magic core to save Tang Huo'er. After demonstrating his ability to escape Tang Zhen’s spatial restraint, he negotiated with the Valley Master, while three days later the Liu Family celebrated its new control of Tianhuang City’s space wormhole and heard that Nalan Chaoge had returned.

• Nalan Chaoge rebuked the alchemists and revealed a seventh-grade advanced Fire Bodhi Pill, proving he had refined it himself.
• Nalan Chaoge demanded an eighth-tier magic core from Tang Zhen and started to leave with Ye Xin Lan when Tang Zhen offered two tier-seven demonic cores.
• Tang Zhen tried to stop Nalan Chaoge with the power of space, but Nalan Chaoge used Kamui to escape and reappeared beside Tang Huo'er.
• Tang Zhen agreed to provide an eighth-tier magic core, then invited Nalan Chaoge inside to discuss the deal.
• Three days later, the Liu Family celebrated gaining management of Tianhuang City's space wormhole for twenty years, and Liu Fei'er began telling guests about Nalan Chaoge.
• A guard interrupted Liu Fei'er to announce that Nalan Chaoge had returned.

Nalan Chaoge arranged a match between Liu Qing and Tang Huo'er, winning Tang Zhen's agreement with a gift of Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva. After bidding farewell to the Liu Family, Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan headed for the Pill Region, while Xiao Yi Xian remained untraced.

• Nalan Chaoge brought Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er to the Liu Family, where Liu Qing immediately fell for Tang Huo'er.
• Nalan Chaoge offered Tang Zhen a bowl of Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and persuaded him to approve Liu Qing and Tang Huo'er's match.
• Tang Zhen returned to Burning Flame Valley, while Tang Huo'er stayed with Liu Qing for three days before Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan prepared to leave.
• Nalan Chaoge thanked Liu Qing for once following Xiao Yi Xian and encouraged him to treat Tang Huo'er well; Tang Huo'er hinted that Nalan Chaoge should invite them to his wedding with Ye Xin Lan.
• The Liu Family had no news of Xiao Yi Xian, so Nalan Chaoge stopped waiting and set out with Ye Xin Lan for the Pill Region ahead of the Pill Gathering.

Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan reached Ye City, where the Ye Family faced losing its Pill Tower Elder Seat and pressure to marry Ye Xin Lan to Cao Dan. Ye Xin Lan brought Nalan Chaoge into the family meeting as a prospective ally, and Cao Dan challenged him by asking whether he was a Seventh-grade Alchemist.

• Ye Xin Lan worried that the Pill Tower might not let Nalan Chaoge represent the Ye Family as an adopted son, and the two traveled through a space wormhole to the Central Region.
• Nalan Chaoge carried Ye Xin Lan to Ye City, where she explained that the declining Ye Family still ruled the city.
• A guard told Ye Xin Lan that Cao Dan and the Cao Family were pressing the Ye Family to accept a marriage between Cao Dan and Ye Xin Lan in exchange for help retaining its Elder Seat.
• Ye Xin Lan explained that Cao Dan was a Seventh-grade Alchemist and a pervert, then asked Nalan Chaoge to help her family.
• Ye Xin Lan entered the hall and rejected Cao Dan's marriage proposal, introducing Nalan Chaoge to her father, Ye Zhong, as a pill-refining genius who could help the Ye Family.
• Cao Dan asked Nalan Chaoge whether he was a Seventh-grade Alchemist.

Nalan Chaoge accepted Cao Dan’s challenge in the Ye Family Hall and crippled him with a single strike, driving the Cao Family away. After Ye Zhong revealed how much he knew about Nalan Chaoge’s past, he began explaining the requirements for the Ye Family’s Pill Tower elder-seat assessment.

• Cao Dan challenged Nalan Chaoge and threatened the Ye Family over Ye Xin Lan’s broken engagement, so Nalan Chaoge agreed to fight him in the hall immediately.
• Nalan Chaoge struck Cao Dan from behind with Eight Trigrams: Mountain Crusher, leaving him limp on the floor.
• Ye Zhong defended Nalan Chaoge’s victory as a fair contest and warned the Cao Family against seeking private revenge, so Cao Dan’s men carried him away.
• Nalan Chaoge joked with the Ye Family, and Ye Zhong surprised him by recounting his past victories and asking whether he truly feared the Cao Family.
• Nalan Chaoge asked about the assessment, and Ye Zhong began explaining its three requirements for retaining the Ye Family’s elder seat.

Nalan Chaoge agreed to marry Ye Xin Lan so he could qualify for the Pill Tower assessment on behalf of the Ye Family. After the couple left the hall, Ye Xin Lan learned that he meant his proposal sincerely, though their marriage still had to be consummated for him to qualify.

• Ye Zhong told Nalan Chaoge that he had to marry a Ye Family member and consummate the marriage to qualify for the Pill Tower assessment.
• Ye Xin Lan pleaded with Nalan Chaoge to help the family, and he proposed to her publicly to protect her dignity.
• Nalan Chaoge gave Ye Xin Lan the Spirit of the Deep Sea, a cauldron ranked tenth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking, as his proposal gift.
• Nalan Chaoge tossed his Seven Star Dragon Abyss, ranked third, to Ye Xin Lan's uncle before leading her away from the crowd.
• Ye Xin Lan tried to return the Spirit of the Deep Sea, but Nalan Chaoge told her he meant to give it to her and teased her about consummating their marriage.

On his wedding day to Ye Xin Lan, Nalan Chaoge faced a Cao Family force that arrived to seize him and disrupt the ceremony. He appeared in the manor and confronted the Cao Family elders as they unleashed their full strength.

• Ye Xin Yue demanded a medicine cauldron from Nalan Chaoge, and he gave her a Grade 7 cauldron before the wedding preparations continued.
• Xiao Jiu warned that Cao Dan had arrived with two experts to make trouble, and Nalan Chaoge left Ye Xin Lan to meet them.
• Cao Dan accused the Ye Family of breaking a marriage agreement, while Ye Zhong denied the claim and refused to hand Nalan Chaoge over.
• Withered Leaf Venerable pressured the Ye Family with his aura, and Withered Branch Venerable headed toward the rear gardens to seize Nalan Chaoge.
• Nalan Chaoge struck Withered Branch Venerable back into the hall, then faced Ku Ye, Ku Zhi, two red-robed elders, and more than a hundred Cao Family Dou Emperor guards.

Nalan Chaoge stopped the Cao Family from seizing him at the Ye Family Manor and unleashed his allies and summoned beasts against Cao Dan’s forces. The Cao Family suffered a crushing defeat, leaving Cao Dan facing the consequences of his attack.

• Cao Dan ordered Ku Ye and Ku Zhi to seize Nalan Chaoge and attack anyone who intervened, while Ye Zhong vowed to defend him.
• Nalan Chaoge blocked Ku Ye and Ku Zhi’s attacks, and Yao Tianhuo emerged from the void as a Three-Star Dou Zun to support him.
• Nalan Chaoge trapped the Cao Family’s hundred-plus Dou Emperors in the Six Red Yang Formation and summoned Shukaku and Matatabi.
• Yao Tianhuo defeated Ku Ye, Matatabi defeated Ku Zhi, and Nalan Chaoge killed Cao Dan’s two Peak Dou Zong fighters with Morning Peacock.
• Shukaku massacred the Cao Family’s Dou Emperors, and Nalan Chaoge’s side defeated Cao Dan’s entire force.

Nalan Chaoge defeated Cao Dan’s force at the Ye Family wedding, then married Ye Xin Lan as the Cao Family considered how to retaliate and Cao Ying was sent to investigate him. The chapter left Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan in their bridal chamber as the Ye Family’s younger generation teased them.

• Nalan Chaoge forced Cao Dan to break his own finger, burned the dead attackers’ bodies, and warned the Cao Family to behave.
• Nalan Chaoge fetched Ye Xin Lan, and the wedding ceremony proceeded without further interference from the Cao Family.
• The Cao Family Head reprimanded Cao Dan, ordered him to spend three days in the River of Repentance, and sent Cao Ying to deliver medicinal herbs and investigate Nalan Chaoge.
• Cao Ying learned that her father wanted her to court Nalan Chaoge if he proved powerful, and she left for the Ye Family grounds.
• Nalan Chaoge and Ye Xin Lan entered the bridal chamber, where the Ye Family’s younger generation teased them and demanded gifts.

Ye Zhong welcomed Thunder Venerable and Feng Qing'er to the Ye Family after Xin Lan’s wedding, then received Cao Ying, whose visit followed the day’s clash between the Ye and Cao Families. Feng Qing'er and Cao Ying joined the wedding celebration, where Cao Ying warmly befriended Xin Lan and hinted at her interest in Nalan Chaoge.

• Ye Zhong’s brothers worried about the Cao Family’s response, and Ye Zhong said he would explain the incident to the Pill Tower and rely on Xiao Ge’s strength in the upcoming assessment.
• Thunder Venerable arrived with Feng Qing'er, who had just advanced to six-star Dou Zong, and Feng Qing'er went to join Xin Lan’s wedding celebrations.
• Cao Ying arrived with wedding gifts, met Feng Qing'er, and left the hall with her to visit Xin Lan.
• Thunder Venerable learned that Nalan Chaoge had killed powerful Cao Family forces and expressed interest in meeting him the next day.
• Nalan Chaoge entertained Xin Lan’s relatives with two medicine cauldrons before Feng Qing'er and Cao Ying entered the bridal chamber.
• Cao Ying congratulated Xin Lan, praised her wedding gown, and suggested she hoped to find a man like Nalan Chaoge when she married.

Cao Ying exposed that Nalan Chaoge was already married, then Feng Qing'er challenged him over his marriage to Ye Xin Lan and the death of Shen Yun. Nalan Chaoge sent out a Wood Style Shadow Clone to fight Feng Qing'er while remaining in the bridal chamber, and the clash drew the Ye Family, the Thunder Venerable, and Cao Ying toward the courtyard.

• Cao Ying revealed Nalan Chaoge's existing marriage to the Ye Family and warned that he might not be able to represent them in the Elder Seat assessment.
• Nalan Chaoge threatened Cao Ying until she left, but she announced that she would compete in the assessment and questioned whether he could represent the Ye Family.
• Feng Qing'er confronted Nalan Chaoge about Shen Yun's death and challenged him to a fight, wagering that he would leave Ye Xin Lan if he lost.
• Nalan Chaoge used his Wood Style Shadow Clone to leave the bridal chamber without breaking the wedding custom and meet Feng Qing'er outside.
• Feng Qing'er unleashed a powerful wind-and-thunder storm, drawing Ye Zhong, the Thunder Venerable, the Ye Family youngsters, and Cao Ying toward the courtyard.

Nalan Chaoge faced Feng Qing'er’s attacks during his wedding celebration, but the Wind Lightning Pavilion prodigy fought only his clone while he remained with Ye Xin Lan. The Thunder Venerable stopped Feng Qing'er before she could continue, and Nalan Chaoge used his soul power to conceal the bridal chamber from onlookers.

• Feng Qing'er attacked Nalan Chaoge with lightning-charged silk, but he made his body intangible and evaded her strikes.
• Feng Qing'er summoned her Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body and used Colorful Phoenix Ascends to Origin and Phoenix Kill Finger, but Nalan Chaoge blocked the beam with Five-layered Rashomon.
• Feng Qing'er used Bloodline Spirit Devour to absorb the colorful phoenix and raise her strength to Peak Dou Zong, then summoned the Demonic Phoenix Sacred Image.
• The Thunder Venerable stopped Feng Qing'er and revealed that she had been fighting Nalan Chaoge’s clone, while Nalan Chaoge remained in the bridal chamber with Ye Xin Lan.
• Nalan Chaoge dispelled his clone and sealed the bridal chamber with soul power, preventing the Thunder Venerable and Cao Ying from sensing inside.