Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yang easily passed the ingredient-refining test and joined the other contestants at the opening of the seventh Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Convention. The first round began with contestants tasked to make a pill from an incomplete prescription, with only two attempts before elimination.

• Xiao Yang refined the Black Iron Spirit Leaves to the highest purity and passed the preliminary test.
• Xiao Yang entered the Royal Plaza with Fa Ma as the convention filled with contestants, officials, and spectators.
• Fa Ma opened the seventh Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Convention and directed Xiao Yang, the little princess, and Liu Ling to prominent central platforms.
• Liu Ling and the little princess leaped down to the plaza, and Xiao Yang followed with his Thunderclap Sky-Rending movement technique.
• Fa Ma announced the first round: contestants had to refine a pill using an incomplete prescription and would be eliminated if they failed both attempts.

Xiao Yang passed the first round of the Alchemist Convention with an exceptionally potent Bone Growing Pill, while a mysterious Chuyun Empire alchemist drew Fa Ma’s attention. The second round began with contestants receiving an orthodox formula for a Third-Grade Wind Riding Pill.

• Fa Ma began the first assessment, and Xiao Yang quickly refined a Bone Growing Pill using Sun True Fire.
• Contestants tested their pills in the platforms’ machines, and Xiao Yang’s pill produced the brightest green light in the plaza.
• A gray-robed alchemist from the Chuyun Empire produced a nearly as powerful result, prompting Fa Ma to investigate his identity and Xiao Yang to react angrily to the Chuyun emblem.
• Fa Ma began the second assessment, and Xiao Yang read the formula for a Third-Grade Wind Riding Pill.

Xiao Yang won the convention’s second round by spotting and discarding an incompatible ingredient, then began the final round by refining a sixth-grade Great Return Pill. Its completion produced a heavenly phenomenon, making him the clear champion, while he turned his attention toward Yan Li.

• Xiao Yang discarded the Thick Earth Mushroom, refined the Wind Riding Pill flawlessly, and won the second round after every other contestant failed.
• Xiao Yang entered the final round intending to refine a Great Return Pill that would strengthen Nalan Yanran before her future duel with his older brother.
• Fa Ma announced that contestants had to supply their own formulas and ingredients, and the Little Princess, Liu Ling, Yan Li, and Xiao Yang revealed unusual flames.
• Xiao Yang used the Yin-Yang Cycle Thunder-Dragon Flame, which caused the other flames to submit, then began refining the Great Return Pill.
• Xiao Yang completed the sixth-grade pill, producing a heavenly phenomenon and a pillar of golden energy that confirmed his championship.
• Xiao Yang looked toward Yan Li, and Yan Li's medicine cauldron developed cracks and exploded.

Xiao Yang won the Alchemist Convention, killed Yan Li, and claimed his rewards before exchanging a pill for Yun Yun’s sect sword inheritance. Half a month later, Xiao Yan and Xun Er arrived at Misty Cloud Sect to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement.

• Xiao Yang won the convention after Yan Li failed to complete his pill, then tracked him to the Chuyun Empire base and killed him.
• Xiao Yang collected the Soul Fusion Pill Formula and an honorary elder token from Fa Ma, while declining Jia Xingtian’s proposed marriage alliance.
• Xiao Yang traded Yun Yun a Great Return Pill for the Yun Lan Heaven Piercing Sword Canon and explained that its inherited Sword Intent had been exhausted.
• Half a month after the convention, Xiao Yan and Xun Er climbed toward Misty Cloud Sect to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to fulfill his three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran, while Xiao Yang watched with Xun Er, Hai Bo Dong, and others. As the duel began, Nalan Yanran confronted the resentment behind their broken engagement, awakened her own Sword Intent, and launched a sword attack at Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan climbed the steps to the Misty Cloud Sect plaza and declared that he had come to fulfill the three-year agreement.
• Xiao Yang welcomed Xun Er and Hai Bo Dong, who reported that the Xiao Family had been safely relocated to the Black-Corner Region.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan took their positions, and Yun Yun announced that they could fight without restraint and that their past grievances would end with the battle.
• Nalan Yanran explained that she had broken the engagement out of resentment and rejected Nalan Jie's right to decide her future.
• Nalan Yanran awakened her own Sword Intent, drawing the Misty Cloud Sect disciples' swords from their sheaths, then attacked Xiao Yan with sharp sword Qi.

Xiao Yan fought Nalan Yanran, whose newly comprehended Sword Intent and Dou Ling cultivation made her attacks exceptionally powerful. After exchanging fierce blows and suffering minor wounds, Xiao Yan counterattacked at close range as Nalan Yanran’s sword came for his legs.

• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran had developed Sword Intent through the Ruthless Sword Dao, while Xiao Yang explained to Xun Er how the forced engagement and Nalan Jie’s pressure had shaped her rebellion.
• Nalan Yanran unleashed nine sword shadows, but Xiao Yan destroyed them with Azure Lotus Sky Burning Strike.
• Nalan Yanran revealed that she had reached the Dou Ling level at eighteen and attacked Xiao Yan with five spiraling sword gangs, injuring his arms slightly.
• Xiao Yan rushed in and swung his legs at Nalan Yanran’s neck, but she evaded and slashed toward his legs.
• Xiao Yan struck at Nalan Yanran’s chest with Eight Extremes Collapse.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran fought fiercely until both unleashed powerful attacks that collided and created a catastrophic energy storm. Xiao Yang tore open space to swallow the storm, but its remaining force struck both fighters and left them unconscious.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran traded close-range attacks, each injuring the other as their battle reached a tense stalemate.
• Nalan Yanran released her hair and gathered energy for Extreme Wind: Sunset Radiance, forming a gigantic azure sword of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan raised the Mysterious Heavy Ruler and unleashed Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, which Jia Xingtian and the Misty Cloud Sect elders recognized as an Earth-Rank Fighting Skill.
• Nalan Yanran's azure sword and Xiao Yan's dark red ruler beam collided, creating a violent storm and an enormous spatial rift.
• Xiao Yang tore open space and swallowed the energy storm, but residual shockwaves struck Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, knocking both unconscious.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s duel ended in a draw, and Xiao Yang’s group returned to Black Seal City for an auction featuring the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill and other prizes. The auction began with Fan Ling spending heavily on rare items, while Xiao Yang kept the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Remnant Map off the auction block.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran both collapsed, but Nalan Yanran briefly woke to insist she had not lost before passing out again, and Yun Yun declared the duel a draw.
• Yun Yun ended the gathering, and Xiao Yang’s group brought Xiao Yan down Misty Cloud Mountain and rested at the Mittel Family before returning to the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan’s stored medicinal energy surged after his battle with Nalan Yanran, raising his cultivation to five-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yang returned to Black Seal City after Yuan Yi informed him that Han Feng’s Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill had been entrusted to the Eight Gates for auction; Xiao Yang had Yuan Yi keep the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Remnant Map aside.
• At the auction, Fan Ling won the Thunder Bat Sky Wings for two million gold coins after bidding against Elder Qing and other factions.
• Ya Fei presented the Blood Demon Great Handprint and its accompanying movement technique, and Fan Ling raised his bid to two million five hundred thousand gold coins.

The auction’s final item, the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, was bought by the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, and Xiao Yang, Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Ling Ying secretly followed its escort after it left Black Seal City. As Elder Qing’s group approached an ambush in the forest, her scout snake was struck by an arrow.

• Fan Ling won the Blood Demon Great Handprint, while the Black Skull Tomb outbid the other factions for Three Thousand Lightning Movement at ten million two hundred thousand.
• Ya Fei revealed the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, and Xiao Yang explained its grades and said Han Feng had likely refined it.
• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion won the pill and departed Black Seal City the next day with Elder Qing leading the escort.
• Xiao Yang, Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and Ling Ying secretly followed the escort, expecting to intercept it on the road.
• Elder Qing slowed her group near a forest and sent an emerald energy snake ahead, but an arrow struck and dispersed it.

Fan Lao ambushed Elder Qing’s party to seize the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, while Xiao Yang sent Xiao Yan and Xun Er after Fan Ling. After Fan Lao defeated Elder Qing and took the pill, Xiao Yang killed him with Space Power, leaving the Blood Sect’s base in Dusk City as his next target.

• Fan Lao and the Blood Sect ambushed Elder Qing’s party, and the two sides fought as the Blood Sect tried to seize the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.
• Fan Lao broke Elder Qing’s arm and took the pill, then sent Fan Ling and the Blood Guards toward Dusk City with it.
• Xiao Yang directed Xiao Yan and Xun Er to pursue Fan Ling and stayed behind to confront Fan Lao.
• Elder Qing unleashed her strength against Fan Lao but was quickly wounded and left unable to fight.
• Xiao Yang bound Fan Lao with Space Power and crushed him into a cloud of blood mist.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er returned to Jia Nan Academy after obtaining the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, which Xiao Yan swallowed with little immediate effect. Xiao Yang returned to the Inner Courtyard, then entered the Back Mountain with Zi Yan to hunt a Rank 7 Illusory Flame Scorpion Dragon Beast for its essence blood, and the beast emerged and threatened to devour Zi Yan.

• Yao Lao explained the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill’s effects and suggested Xiao Yan might inherit its trace of dragon aura, which could help him fight Soul Hall soul bodies.
• Xiao Yan took the pill, but its medicinal power settled without any noticeable change; Yao Lao said its main benefit would come if Xiao Yan were gravely wounded and rebuilt himself.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Qing Lin, Xue Ni, and Xiao Yu returned to Jia Nan Academy and dominated the Outer Courtyard selection competition, earning Xiao Yang the Heavenly Dragon Thunder Sound Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yang returned to the Inner Courtyard and went into the Back Mountain with Zi Yan to find a Rank 7 Illusory Flame Scorpion Dragon Beast, whose essence blood his father needed to refine a body.
• The Illusory Flame Scorpion Dragon Beast emerged from its lair, mistook Zi Yan for a pure-blooded Ancient Void Dragon, and declared it would devour her and force her to bear its descendants; Zi Yan ordered Xiao Yang to attack it.

Xiao Yang killed the Illusory Flame Scorpion Dragon Beast and refined its Magic Core and essence blood. With Zi Yan guiding him, he then fought a Mystic Ice Cold Flood Dragon and obtained its remains, before setting out to consult Yao Lao about the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill Formula.

• Xiao Yang used his Yin-Yang Cycle Thunder-Dragon Flame and Subduing Dragon Seal to defeat the Illusory Flame Scorpion Dragon Beast, then extracted its Magic Core and essence blood.
• Zi Yan led Xiao Yang to an icy pool where a Mystic Ice Cold Flood Dragon lived, seeking to settle an old score with the beast.
• The Mystic Ice Cold Flood Dragon attacked Zi Yan, but Xiao Yang blocked its tail and transformed into the Giant of Light to fight it.
• Xiao Yang battered the Mystic Ice Cold Flood Dragon and pierced its heart, then returned to human form as Zi Yan asked to learn his transformation.
• Xiao Yang extracted the Mystic Ice Cold Flood Dragon's Magic Core and essence blood, then went to find Yao Lao for guidance on the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill Formula.

Xiao Yang obtained the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill formula and found the Purple Blood Ginseng Emperor needed to refine it in a cave guarded by a powerful Purple Moon Demon Bear. After saving Han Yue and settling Nine Heavens’ failed commission, he began preparing to refine the pill on the Inner Courtyard’s highest platform, drawing the attention of students and elders.

• Xiao Yang traded Yao Lao a portion of Rank 7 Magical Beast blood essence for the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill formula, then learned that a Purple Blood Ginseng Emperor was the sole missing ingredient.
• Xiao Yang found Han Yue and the Nine Heavens members fighting a Purple Moon Demon Bear while trying to retrieve a Silver Moon Ganoderma, unaware that its cave also held the Purple Blood Ginseng Emperor.
• The Purple Moon Demon Bear overwhelmed the group and nearly killed Han Yue, but Xiao Yang arrived in time to save her.
• Xiao Yang waived Han Yue’s fee, promised to refine her Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill for free, and fined Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing fifty days of Fire Energy each for failing to protect their client.
• Su Qian opened the Inner Courtyard’s highest platform for Xiao Yang to refine the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, and his arrival drew elders and students to watch.

Xiao Yang refined a peak seventh-grade Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill in the Inner Courtyard, drawing a powerful Pill Tribulation. He used the lightning to strengthen his Earth Demon Puppet and broke through to Six-Star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yang refined the pill’s ingredients and merged them into a purple-gold pill embryo over several days.
• Xiao Yang completed the pill, whose formation summoned dark clouds and Pill Tribulation lightning over the Inner Courtyard.
• Su Qian ordered the elders to form a defensive formation and sent the students back to their dormitories.
• Xiao Yang used the Nine Dragons Thunder Flame to devour nine bolts of tribulation lightning, gaining power from them.
• Xiao Yang commanded his Earth Demon Puppet to withstand the remaining lightning until the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Xiao Yang revealed that he had advanced from peak Five-Star Dou Zong to Six-Star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yang confronted Han Feng and Old Man Eagle Mountain after they came to claim the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill. He killed both men, seized their treasures, and left with Old Man Eagle Mountain’s intact body for his plan to create a new body for Xiao Zhan.

• Han Feng arrived at Jia Nan Academy with Black-Corner Region experts and demanded the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill’s formula, while Xiao Yang taunted him about Venerable Yao and his exile.
• Han Feng attacked Xiao Yang with the Sea Heart Phantom Beast, but Xiao Yang dispelled it with the Flower Pinching Seal.
• Han Feng summoned Old Man Eagle Mountain for help, and the old man demanded that Xiao Yang hand over the pill.
• Xiao Yang used Extreme Light, Dazzling Kill to pierce Old Man Eagle Mountain’s heart, then collected his corpse and Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yang killed Han Feng with a Vajra Seal, extracted the Sea Heart Flame, refined Han Feng’s soul into a Soul Pearl, and took his Nether Sea Storage Ring.

After consolidating his gains in the Black-Corner Region, Xiao Yang returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Gu Clan commanders arrived to retrieve Xun Er and ask about the Xiao Family’s share of the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xiao Yang overwhelmed them with his hidden power and said he would escort Xun Er to Central Continent himself.

• Xiao Yang killed the fleeing Earth Flame Sect Master and spent the following period absorbing Black-Corner Region forces for the Xiao Family.
• While Xiao Yang was away, Xun Er defeated Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing together in the Inner Courtyard tournament finals.
• Gu Qingyang and the other Black Annihilation Army commanders arrived on Four-Winged Unicorns, and Ling Quan demanded that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yang reveal the Xiao Family’s portion of the key.
• Xiao Yang struck Ling Quan with a soul attack and defeated Gu Yao’s spear techniques, then transformed into his Heavenly Demon Moon Slayer form and reached peak Dou Zun strength.
• Gu Qingyang combined the other commanders’ Dou Qi and used the Great Extinction Finger, but Xiao Yang erased the attack without harming him.
• Xiao Yang told Gu Qingyang to report his warning to the Gu Clan Elder Council and said he would escort Xun Er to Central Continent in a few days.

Xiao Yang descended into the Magma Sea to find Venerable Skyfire and the infant Fallen Heart Flame, fighting through the Flame Lizardmen guarding them. He entered the hidden barrier and met Yao Tianhuo, who asked whether he wanted the flame.

• After the Black Annihilation Army left, the Fallen Heart Flame erupted and heavily injured Grand Elder Su Qian, but Xiao Yang suppressed it and saved the Inner Courtyard.
• Xiao Yang explained to Grand Elder Su Qian that he was searching for Venerable Skyfire and another Fallen Heart Flame, then plunged into the Magma Sea.
• Xiao Yang found Venerable Skyfire’s bones and an infant Fallen Heart Flame, then killed the Flame Lizardmen that attacked him and collected their Fire Pearl Inner Cores.
• Xiao Yang entered the transparent barrier and approached the bones, which formed an illusory image of Yao Tianhuo.
• Yao Tianhuo asked Xiao Yang whether he wanted the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yang admitted that he did.

Xiao Yang obtained the infant Fallen Heart Flame and the Five Round Fire Separation Method after agreeing to help Venerable Skyfire restore his body. The Inner Courtyard’s Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower resumed working, and months later Xiao Yan’s Sea Heart Flame acknowledged him as its master, leaving him ready to refine it.

• Venerable Skyfire explained how his attempt to claim a second Fallen Heart Flame left him fatally wounded, and Xiao Yang agreed to help restore his body in exchange for the infant flame and the Five Round Fire Separation Method.
• Xiao Yang stored the infant Fallen Heart Flame in the Flame Gathering Pot and escaped the magma with Venerable Skyfire, who gave him a Ring of Acceptance and received Soul Nourishing Saliva.
• Xiao Yang reunited with Su Qian, and the Inner Courtyard elders infused the Flame Gathering Pot with Dou Qi, restoring the Heart Flame within the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Xiao Yang studied the Heavenly Dragon Thunder Sound and the Five Round Fire Separation Method while preparing for the dangers awaiting him in the Central Continent.
• Several months later, Han Feng’s lingering aura had vanished from the Sea Heart Flame, which acknowledged Xiao Yan as its master and was ready to be refined.

Xiao Yang rushed back to the Jia Ma Empire after the Soul Hall-backed Allied Forces invaded, and he joined Yun Yun and the defenders at Black Mountain Fortress. As the allied army began its assault, Yan Luotian and the Mu Lan Three Elders prepared to fight Medusa and Yun Shan.

• Xiao Yang learned that the Cloud Empire, Falling Goose Empire, and Mu Lan Empire had attacked the Jia Ma Empire, then traveled there with Zi Yan and his companions.
• Xiao Yang reunited with Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect, helped her advance to Dou Zong, and declared that he would head to Black Mountain Fortress for the final battle.
• Three days later, the Allied Forces marched on Black Mountain Fortress, where Princess Yao Ye ordered the Jia Ma Empire's defenders to take their positions.
• Medusa confronted Yan Luotian outside the fortress, while Yun Shan stepped forward to face the Mu Lan Three Elders.
• Yan Luotian and the Mu Lan Three Elders readied their weapons and formation, and the elders used the Three Beasts Savage Desolation Skill to unleash a powerful fused aura.

Xiao Yang defeated Yan Luotian and the Mu Lan Three Elders before the Jia Ma forces faced the Thousand Scorpion Gate and Soul Hall. As the battle erupted, Medusa fought Xie Biyan and Zi Yan took on the Four-Winged Heavenly Demon Scorpion, hurling it into the Thousand Scorpion Gate's Mountain Gate.

• Xiao Yang killed the Mu Lan Three Elders and Yan Luotian, then claimed Yan Luotian's Nine Heavens Goose Flight Wings scroll as the Jia Ma forces wiped out the Golden Goose Sect and Mu Lan Valley.
• Soul Hall's black mist descended on the battlefield, and Xie Biyan arrived with the Thousand Scorpion Gate's forces.
• Xiao Yang assessed the opposing fighters and concluded that the Jia Ma side had the advantage in high-level combat strength.
• Medusa charged Xie Biyan, while Xie Shan ordered the Thousand Scorpion Gate to attack and both armies clashed.
• Xie Shan summoned the Four-Winged Heavenly Demon Scorpion, but Zi Yan dodged its attacks, lifted it, and hurled it into the Thousand Scorpion Gate's Mountain Gate.