Chapter Summaries

Kurumi and Xun'er visited the Xiao family market, where Galeo harassed them until Xiao Yan intervened. A powerful black-clothed Dou Wang then killed Galeo with black flames and descended toward them, leaving Kurumi suspecting he was Huo Xuan of the Yan Clan.

• Kurumi and Xun'er wandered through the Xiao family market while servants followed them.
• Galeo surrounded the girls with his lackeys and tried to accompany them, ignoring Xun'er's request to leave.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Xiao family enforcers, confronted Galeo, and ordered his men to cripple the troublemakers.
• A black-clothed youth's black flames burned Galeo to ashes and blasted Xiao Yan away.
• Kurumi recognized the youth's Flame Emblem and Heavenly Flame wings, suspected he was Huo Xuan, and watched him descend toward them.

Huo Ao arrived in the Gu Clan’s territory and declared Xun’er his future fiancée, but her twin elder sister Gu Mo’er challenged his claim. After learning Gu Mo’er’s powerful status from his system, Huo Ao considered trying to bring both sisters along on his journey.

• Huo Ao killed the pale-faced man harassing the girls and approached Kurumi, Xun’er, and the injured Xiao Yan.
• Huo Ao introduced himself as a one-star Dou Wang and claimed Xun’er was his future fiancée, while Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan not to act against the powerful clan forces nearby.
• Xun’er denied knowing Huo Ao, and Kurumi questioned how he knew her and warned him that she might reject the proposed engagement.
• Huo Ao paid his system for information and learned that Kurumi was Gu Mo’er, Xun’er’s twin elder sister and a one-star Dou Ling.
• The system revealed that Gu Mo’er had a ninth-grade bloodline, inherited the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and was backed by Dou Saints; Huo Ao then considered testing her and taking both sisters on his travels.

Kurumi and Xun'er confronted Huo Ao after he claimed Xun'er was his fiancée and tried to take her away. As Lin Bai and a Yan Clan Dou Zun faced off above Wutan City, Kurumi prepared to fight Huo Ao while Xiao Yan and the bystanders fled.

• Huo Ao tried to seize Xun'er, but Kurumi raised a wall of golden flame and refused to let him approach.
• Lin Bai appeared, subdued two hidden Dou Emperors, and trapped Huo Ao, while a Yan Clan Dou Zun intervened and confronted him in the sky.
• Kurumi warned Xun'er to protect herself and ordered Xiao Yan to evacuate the onlookers; Xiao Yan was carried away by Xiao family servants.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao about Huo Ao's claim to be Xun'er's fiancé, and Yao Lao said it was probably true but that the girls were not interested in him.
• Kurumi's golden flames surged as she prepared to face Huo Ao in the market.

Kurumi used layered secret arts and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to fight Huo Ao, reaching the peak of the nine-star Dou Ling realm and nearly defeating him with a soul attack. Huo Ao recovered unexpectedly and blasted the market apart, leaving Kurumi injured but standing amid the ruins.

• Kurumi activated Chase the Wind and combined Heaven Burning Transformation with Golden Emperor Transformation, raising her strength to the peak of the nine-star Dou Ling realm.
• Huo Ao attacked Kurumi with his Mysterious Fire Palm, but Kurumi cut through it and struck him with a concealed Soul Needle.
• Huo Ao retreated into the system space to repair his soul while Kurumi evaded the Eight Desolations Destruction Flame and closed in on him.
• Kurumi broke through Huo Ao's black protective membrane, but he had recovered and struck her with overwhelming force.
• Lin Bai grabbed Xun'er as Huo Ao's flames devastated the market, and Kurumi emerged from the ruins with a damaged dress and golden blood at her mouth.

Kurumi used her Divine Bloodline and aerial skill to gain the upper hand against Huo Ao, despite his stronger cultivation and Heavenly Flame. With Lin Bai keeping the Yan Clan Venerable occupied, Kurumi unleashed a final attack on Huo Ao, whose fate remained uncertain.

• Kurumi dodged Huo Ao’s Flame Saint Finger and forced him into an aerial fight with her golden flame spears.
• Huo Ao fed on his remaining Divine Bloodline to strengthen his Eight Desolations Destruction Flame and sent a black flame dragon after Kurumi.
• Kurumi used spiritual power to make her spears strike Huo Ao from above and below, then ignited them with divine flame.
• Lin Bai clashed with the Yan Clan Venerable, while Kurumi kept attacking Huo Ao through the black dragon’s defense.
• Kurumi pierced the black dragon’s head and rushed toward the flame-engulfed Huo Ao, raising both hands to unleash the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.

Kurumi defeated Huo Ao but collapsed from the backlash of her secret arts, and Xun'er revived her by transferring medicine mouth-to-mouth. Two days later, Xiao Yan remained shaken by the battle and decided to visit Mo'er.

• Kurumi drained Huo Ao's flames and struck him with three Soul Needles, leaving him gravely injured as her own transformations ended and she fell unconscious.
• The Yan Clan Dou Zun took Huo Ao away, while Lin Bai stabilized Kurumi and brought her to Xun'er.
• Xun'er dissolved healing pills with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and fed Kurumi the medicine mouth-to-mouth.
• Over the next two days, Lin Bai altered Wutan City's residents' memories, but rumors spread among people who had fled, and Xiao Yan remained unaffected because Yao Lao protected him.
• Xiao Yan smashed a stone and declared that he was going to see Mo'er.

Kurumi recovered from her battle with the Yan Clan young master and arranged to use the recorded fight to seek compensation from the Yan Clan. She left Lin Bai to deliver the evidence to Gu Yuan and the Black Annihilation King while she focused on recovering and strengthening herself.

• Kurumi woke after two days of recovery, welcomed Xun'er, and asked her to bring porridge.
• Kurumi summoned Lin Bai and reviewed the projection stones that recorded her confrontation and battle with the Yan Clan young master.
• Kurumi ordered Lin Bai to keep one projection stone, give two to her, and send the other two to the Clan Leader so they could reach the Black Annihilation King.
• Kurumi planned for the Black Annihilation King to demand compensation from the Yan Clan and proposed that she receive thirty percent of whatever he recovered.
• Kurumi resumed cultivating, deciding to prioritize raising her strength to Dou Wang level over condensing more Divine Bloodline.

Xiao Yan struggled with the pressure of seeing a peer reach Dou Wang, while Kurumi guided Xun'er’s cultivation and bloodline refinement. Kurumi then visited Xiao Zhan during a council meeting and offered to make a deal, leaving its terms unrevealed.

• Xiao Yan brought spirit fruits to visit Kurumi but handed them to Xun'er, then admitted to Yao Lao that the recent battle had shaken his confidence.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that he needed to meet the clan’s requirements soon, and Xiao Yan resolved to become stronger than his rivals.
• Kurumi asked Xun'er about her cultivation and bloodline refinement, and Xun'er said half her bloodline had reached the ninth grade.
• Kurumi learned that the Xiao Clan elders were blaming Xiao Zhan over the burned marketplace and decided to visit the council hall with Xun'er.
• Kurumi asked the elders to leave, then told Xiao Zhan she wanted to make a deal with him.

Kurumi negotiated with Xiao Zhan for the Xiao Clan Leader's Jade Pendant, offering cultivation resources and Jia Nan Academy recommendations while promising to help resolve the marketplace dispute in Wutan City. After taking the pendant, she told Xun'er she might leave to pursue Heavenly Flames, leaving Xun'er frightened and pleading to stay together.

• Kurumi offered Xiao Zhan a Profound Tier High-grade wind-attribute cultivation method, a matching Dou Technique, and three Jia Nan Academy recommendation letters in exchange for the Jade Pendant and future help from his branch of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Zhan accepted the deal, gave Kurumi the Jade Pendant, and received the cultivation method and Dou Technique as a deposit; Kurumi promised to help settle the dispute over Wutan City's marketplaces.
• Kurumi and Xun'er left Xiao Zhan, and Xun'er examined the ancient jade and asked whether they had completed their task.
• Kurumi told Xun'er that she might leave for a while because her Flame Mantra required Heavenly Flames and she needed to become stronger.
• Xun'er panicked and offered Kurumi the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, asking to return with her to the Gu Clan.

Kurumi secured the Xiao clan’s support and learned more about the Misty Cloud Sect and the Hall of Souls while rejecting Elder Lin’s offer to accompany her. After reading a clan letter ordering her to take command of a Black Annihilation Army unit, she planned to gain strength and resources before returning to claim it.

• Elder Lin resolved the marketplace dispute, and Jia Nan Academy’s recommendation letter and cultivation resources arrived for the Xiao clan.
• Kurumi signed a contract with Xiao Zhan to bind the Xiao clan to her, while Xun'er continued sulking over Kurumi’s refusal to take her along.
• Lin Bai told Kurumi that the Misty Cloud Sect elder was linked to the Lei Clan and that Yun Shan had dealings with the Hall of Souls; Kurumi said she did not plan to provoke the Hall.
• Kurumi refused Lin Bai’s offer to accompany her on her journey and told him to stay behind and watch over Xun'er.
• Kurumi read a clan letter asking her to take over a Black Annihilation Army unit and planned to gather Heavenly Flame map fragments and refine more flames until she reached Dou Emperor strength.

Kurumi traveled toward Qingshan Town while cultivating and refining her bloodline, leaving her two guards astonished by her rapid breakthrough and enormous consumption of Qi Nourishing Pills. As she neared the town, the guards spotted two suspicious figures on a slope ahead.

• Xun'er worried that Kurumi would face danger while searching alone for Heavenly Flames, while Lin Bai reassured her that two skilled guards were following.
• Kurumi ignored the guards trailing her and continued toward Qingshan Town, cultivating as she walked and sensing the road around her.
• Kurumi's cultivation rose from two-star Dou Ling to five-star Dou Ling, and her guards cleared the area while she stabilized her breakthrough.
• Kurumi kept walking with her eyes closed and ate about a hundred bottles of Qi Nourishing Pills, shocking the two guards.
• Brother Tie warned his companion not to discuss Kurumi and pointed out two suspicious figures on the slope ahead.

Kurumi encountered two former Wolf Head Mercenary Group members who planned to rob her, then learned from Scarface how to find Xiao Yi Xian in Qingshan Town. After recognizing the men’s dense Negative Energy, she realized they were already dead.

• The bald bandit dismissed Scarface’s warnings and decided to rob Kurumi as she approached the dirt slope.
• Kurumi opened her golden eyes, terrifying the bald bandit into collapsing and begging for his life.
• Scarface knelt and told Kurumi that he and the bald man had been expelled from the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• Scarface directed Kurumi to the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, where Xiao Yi Xian worked as a physician.
• Kurumi examined the bandits with her divine flames and saw that both were surrounded by dense Negative Energy.

Kurumi entered Qingshan Town and discovered that a spreading Negative Energy had turned many residents into living corpses, while the town’s people seemed unaware. Near the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, where Xiao Yi Xian practiced medicine, she was accused of killing a local named Xiao Hao.

• Kurumi found that two men she had knocked unconscious had died as their Dou Qi Vortices collapsed and Negative Energy consumed their bodies, then burned their corpses.
• Kurumi’s two bodyguards suspected the strange deaths were connected to Soul Hall and recalled a corpse plague five years earlier, but decided to let Kurumi gain experience in town.
• Kurumi entered Qingshan Town, burned a group of thugs who harassed her, and saw that Negative Energy tainted the townspeople and even the air.
• As Kurumi walked toward the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, she found that roughly one in ten residents appeared dead to her, including many children, though they behaved normally.
• Kurumi approached the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, where the Negative Energy was weaker, but a man pointed her out to a captain as the woman who had killed Xiao Hao.

Kurumi confronted the Wolf Head Mercenary Group outside the Myriad Medicine Pavilion and used divine flame to kill their captain, discovering that he and most of his men were already dead and corrupted by Negative Energy. As another mercenary attacked her, Xiao Yi Xian realized Kurumi was untouched by Qingshan Town’s black qi and watched the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame melt his blade.

• Kurumi blocked the burly captain’s attack and sent divine flame into his body, burning away its Negative Energy and killing him.
• The mercenaries learned their captain was dead, and one drew his sword and charged at Kurumi with a mid-tier Yellow-class Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized that Kurumi had no trace of the black qi that had been spreading through Qingshan Town and grew certain she knew something about it.
• Kurumi studied the attacker’s corroded organs as he swung at her, then a flash of golden flame melted his blade and burned his hands and arms with molten iron.

Kurumi examined the black aura rising from the mercenary captain’s corpse while the Wolf Head Mercenary Group blamed her for his death. Xiao Yi Xian defended Kurumi before the crowd and suggested she was an alchemist, but the mercenaries continued demanding proof that Kurumi had not poisoned the captain.

• The mercenaries retreated from the captain’s corpse as strange fluid seeped from it, and Kurumi sensed the Negative Energy drifting into the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Brother Tie warned the Dou Emperor that everyone in Qingshan Town would die once the young mistress left, then stopped him from attacking the crowd.
• Xiao Yi Xian defended Kurumi, reminding the crowd that the mercenaries had started the trouble and questioning how Kurumi could have poisoned their captain.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested Kurumi was an alchemist, leaving the mercenaries and onlookers stunned by the possibility.
• A mercenary accused Kurumi of hiding poison in her sleeves, so Kurumi rolled them up to show her forearms.

Kurumi and Xiao Yi Xian investigated the black vapor affecting Qingshan Town after several mercenaries died under mysterious circumstances. Xiao Yi Xian revealed that Kurumi was the only person in town the vapor had not entered and pressed her to explain why.

• A bearded man demanded that Kurumi strip to prove she was not hiding poison, and Kurumi killed several lustful mercenaries with divine flames.
• Onlookers noticed that the mercenaries’ bodies resembled others found in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while Kurumi memorized the faces of men who reacted with alarm.
• Xiao Yi Xian took Kurumi to her home, where Kurumi complimented her tea and introduced herself as Gu Mo'er.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Kurumi about the black vapor and said it contaminated everyone entering Qingshan Town except Kurumi.

Kurumi offered Xiao Yi Xian a chance to pursue alchemy in exchange for help gathering herbs and investigating the black mist in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Xiao Yi Xian accepted, and the black letter granted her external apprentice status at the Pill Tower and filled her mind with alchemy knowledge.

• Kurumi revealed her golden Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Yi Xian asked if she was an alchemist.
• Kurumi offered Xiao Yi Xian a recommendation to become an alchemist's apprentice, and Xiao Yi Xian eagerly accepted.
• Kurumi asked Xiao Yi Xian to help her find herbs and investigate the black mist deep in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Kurumi gave Xiao Yi Xian a black letter and instructed her to use her blood and soul force on it.
• Xiao Yi Xian activated the letter, heard that the Gu Clan had recommended her to the Pill Tower as an external apprentice, and received alchemy knowledge through the fifth tier.

Kurumi prepared to take Xiao Yi Xian to the Magical Beast Mountain Range and investigated the strange mercenaries at night. Meanwhile, Xun'er worried about her sister in Wutan City, and Kurumi discovered that one mercenary was missing from the suspicious group.

• Xiao Yi Xian accepted Kurumi's alchemy knowledge and planned to seek the cave's treasures before heading to Central Plains.
• Kurumi agreed to leave for the Magical Beast Mountain Range the next morning and dismissed Xiao Yi Xian's concerns about the Wolf Head Mercenary Group's leader.
• Kurumi told Xiao Yi Xian that Xuan Yi would sense her arrival at the Pill Tower and advised her to call Xuan Yi big sister.
• Xun'er worried that something had happened to her sister, but Elder Lin assured her that the life jade slips showed the young miss was safe.
• Kurumi slipped out at night and searched a mercenary encampment, finding the suspicious squad but realizing one of its members was missing.

Kurumi followed an undead mercenary to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where she discovered strange beads inside him and a corrupted leopard. After collecting four beads and finding that one contained pure energy and life force, she suspected Negative Energy was spreading across the Northwest Continent and planned to investigate its source the next day.

• Kurumi tracked an undead mercenary from the encampment into the Magical Beast Mountain Range and watched him search a corpse for a black bead.
• A Negative Energy-corrupted giant leopard swallowed the bead and fought the mercenary, revealing a white bead inside his body.
• Kurumi killed the leopard and nearby magical beasts with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, then collected four beads from the corpses.
• Kurumi drew pure energy and life force from a black bead, which turned transparent and shattered.
• Kurumi suspected someone was spreading Negative Energy across the Northwest Continent, considered a connection to the Soul Hall, and resolved to find its source the next day.

Kurumi and Xiao Yi Xian escaped Qingshan Town and entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range to gather herbs and seek the source of the black mist. After Kurumi sensed they had been surrounded, the chapter left them facing a troop of Mating Apes.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke Kurumi before dawn, and the two slipped past the Myriad Medicine Pavilion's guards and left town.
• Kurumi stored Xiao Yi Xian's bundle in her storage ring, and they set out to gather herbs before searching for the black mist.
• A magical beast attacked from above, and Kurumi killed it with her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Kurumi broke apart nearby trees and revealed that a troop of Mating Apes had surrounded them.