Chapter Summaries

Xiao Cang married Nalan Yanran in a small ceremony, consummated their marriage, and received system rewards. The next morning, he told her to serve tea to Yun Yun, leaving Nalan Yanran anxious about her master's reaction.

• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Cang to marry her, and he agreed to marry her immediately.
• Xiao Cang prepared a simple wedding room, lifted Nalan Yanran's veil, and married her.
• After consummating the marriage, Xiao Cang received one-star Dou Zong cultivation, the Heavenly Nether Asura Hand, and Yin Yang Twin Flames as system rewards.
• Xiao Cang comforted Nalan Yanran and spent the night with her.
• The next morning, Xiao Cang told Nalan Yanran to serve tea to Yun Yun, and she nervously asked if she could avoid going.

Xiao Cang spent his final day at the Misty Cloud Sect with Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun, then visited Yao Ye at the Imperial Palace before departing. After being intimate with Yao Ye, he received a system notification that one of his wives or concubines was pregnant.

• Nalan Yanran served Yun Yun tea, and Yun Yun reassured her that she was not angry and that she remained her most beloved disciple.
• Xiao Cang told Nalan Yanran he had to leave soon, then spent his last day at the sect with both her and Yun Yun.
• Before leaving, Xiao Cang asked Yun Yun to use the Misty Cloud Sect's resources to help the Xiao Family grow, and she agreed.
• Xiao Cang went to the Imperial Palace, where he reunited with Yao Ye and shared an intimate moment with her.
• Xiao Cang received a system notification that his wife or concubine was pregnant.

After Yao Ye became pregnant, Xiao Cang received powerful rewards that brought him to peak Nine-star Dou Zong and gave him a new Heavenly Flame. He left Yao Ye behind and prepared to travel toward the Black Corner Region and Middle Continent, having reached Half-step Dou Zun.

• The system confirmed Yao Ye's pregnancy and rewarded Xiao Cang with cultivation, alchemist experience, treasures, and a Dou Technique.
• Xiao Cang told Yao Ye she was pregnant, gave her pills, and spent the night with her before leaving her bedchamber the next morning.
• Xiao Cang claimed accumulated rewards and advanced to peak Nine-star Dou Zong, alarming Jia Xing Tian in the Imperial Palace.
• Xiao Cang summoned and refined the Yin Yang Twin Flames, raising his strength to Half-step Dou Zun and advancing the Supreme Flame God Canon.
• Xiao Cang decided that the level above Heavenly Tier should be called Emperor Tier.

Xiao Cang named his new cultivation method and prepared to travel to the Black Corner Region, promising Yao Chen he would deal with Han Feng. After arriving in Twilight City, Xiao Cang killed a peak Nine-star Dou Wang who tried to rob him, leaving the watching locals wary of him.

• Xiao Cang named the Supreme Flame God Canon an Emperor Tier Cultivation Method and gave Yao Chen five thousand medicinal ingredients to refine into pills.
• Xiao Cang told Yao Chen he was heading to the Black Corner Region and would take care of Han Feng, whose Sea Heart Flame he also wanted.
• Xiao Cang left Jia Xing Tian and traveled to Twilight City in the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Cang observed the region's ruthless street life and sensed several people plotting to rob him.
• Xiao Cang killed a peak Nine-star Dou Wang who demanded his Storage Ring, and the hidden onlookers withdrew their covetous gazes.

Xiao Cang arrived at Rakshasa Gate and killed Fan Lao while rescuing Su Mei from his attempt to seize her. He then asked Su Mei to marry him, leaving her stunned.

• Xiao Cang ate at a roadside stall, learned where Rakshasa Gate was, and rewarded the stall owner with a medicinal pill.
• Xiao Cang discovered that Fan Lao was exploiting Su Mei's injuries to force her into marriage and absorb Rakshasa Gate into Blood Sect.
• Fan Lao took a pill to increase his strength and prepared to attack Su Mei, but Xiao Cang appeared in the hall.
• Xiao Cang killed Fan Lao with one punch and told the fleeing Blood Sect experts to warn Han Feng that he would come for his life.
• Su Mei thanked Xiao Cang, and he told her he wanted her to marry him.

Xiao Cang offered Su Mei pills that promised rapid cultivation gains in exchange for marrying him, and she accepted. He carried her to her private chambers and began forcing intimacy with her.

• Xiao Cang declared that he wanted to marry Su Mei, and she resisted his proposal.
• Xiao Cang offered Su Mei three improved Imperial Pills and a Shattering Sect Pill, promising a path to Dou Zong within five years.
• Su Mei accepted Xiao Cang's offer, and he carried her to her private chambers despite her alarm.
• Xiao Cang burned away Su Mei's clothes and forced himself on her.

Xiao Cang married Su Mei, gave her the pills he had promised, and left her with an Earth-Demon Puppet to protect the Rakshasa Gate. He then set off for Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Cang revealed to Su Mei that he was eighteen and close to reaching Dou Zun, then married her and received two Earth Tier techniques from the system.
• Xiao Cang gave Su Mei four pills, and he stayed at the Rakshasa Gate with her for three days.
• A Rakshasa Gate member raised concerns about the Medicine Emperor Han Feng, so Xiao Cang gave Su Mei an Earth-Demon Puppet comparable to a Nine-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Cang taught Su Mei how to use the puppet, bid her farewell, and headed toward Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Cang arrived at Jia Nan Academy during the Outer Academy competition and found Ruolin being humiliated by Instructor Lin Fu and his students. He volunteered to take the stage, leaving Ruolin and her students hopeful that he could turn the match around.

• Xiao Cang reached Jia Nan Academy and saw that the academy was holding its annual instructor competition.
• Lin Fu mocked Ruolin as her student was defeated by an opponent whose strength had been secretly boosted with pills.
• Xiao Yu and Xue Ni wanted to fight, but Ruolin stopped them and conceded because Lin Fu's remaining students were also too strong.
• Ruolin told Xiao Yu that Xiao Cang could still earn her enough points in the freshman competition to qualify as a Xuan-tier instructor.
• Xiao Cang appeared, reunited with Ruolin, Xiao Yu, and Xue Ni, and offered to take the stage.

Xiao Cang stepped into a student tournament to defend Ruolin after an opponent mocked him, then overwhelmed the arena with his immense pressure. Vice Principal Hu Gan intervened and discovered that the terrifying expert was actually enrolled at Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Cang reassured Ruolin that he would avoid causing serious trouble, then walked onto the competition stage.
• The student onstage mocked Xiao Cang, and Instructor Lin Fu began to suspect that he was the Dou Emperor prodigy recruited by Ruolin.
• Xiao Cang released his aura, forcing the student and Lin Fu to their knees and terrifying everyone at the tournament.
• Hu Gan arrived and asked Xiao Cang to show mercy, then Xiao Cang withdrew his pressure and introduced himself as a student of the academy.
• Hu Gan recalled that an instructor had recruited a Dou Emperor student a month earlier and realized Xiao Cang was the person he had heard about.

Xiao Cang defended Instructor Ruolin at the tournament, earned her a promotion, and reassured Hu Gan that he had no ulterior motive for joining Jia Nan Academy. After returning, he reunited with Xiao Yu and began a private, affectionate conversation with her.

• Hu Gan promoted Ruolin to Xuan Tier Instructor and ordered the Enforcement Hall to take Lin Fu and his student away for violating academy rules.
• Xiao Cang told Hu Gan that Jia Nan Academy had nothing he wanted, then left the Vice Principal's office.
• After the tournament, Xiao Yu and Xue Ni bickered over Xiao Cang, while Ruolin scolded them playfully.
• Ruolin brought Xiao Yu and Xue Ni to stay in her courtyard, and they went to their rooms.
• Xiao Cang embraced Xiao Yu from behind, asked whether she had missed him, and drew close to her.

Xiao Cang spent the day with Xiao Yu, teasing her before carrying her to bed and leaving her exhausted by evening. He then went to Ruolin's room, where she had been waiting for him all afternoon.

• Xiao Cang teased Xiao Yu about visiting Instructor Ruo Lin and Xue Ni before her, then kissed her and carried her to bed.
• Xiao Cang and Xiao Yu spent the afternoon together, and Xiao Yu turned the tables on him during their intimate encounter.
• Xiao Yu urged Xiao Cang to go see Instructor Ruo Lin and Xue Ni, and he left after kissing her goodbye.
• Ruolin waited in her room with food and wine, then welcomed Xiao Cang when he finally arrived.

Xiao Cang reunited with Ruolin and Xue Ni, then Wu Hao told Hu Jia about Xiao Cang’s extraordinary strength. Hu Jia became eager to meet the newcomer.

• Xiao Cang reunited with Ruolin, and they spent the night together before he left to visit Xue Ni.
• Xue Ni welcomed Xiao Cang in a revealing dress, and they spent the night together.
• Wu Hao practiced spear techniques late at night after being driven to train by Xiao Cang’s strength.
• Hu Jia returned to the academy and asked Wu Hao why he was training so late.
• Wu Hao told Hu Jia about Xiao Cang, and Hu Jia became intensely interested in meeting him.

Xiao Cang spent the morning with Xue Ni, Xiao Yu, and Ruolin before putting the three women through sparring that lasted on and off for three days. He defeated them all but remained unsatisfied and decided he needed to find another target to keep growing stronger.

• Hu Jia admired an outstanding young prodigy, while Wu Hao warned her that he would not be interested in her.
• Xiao Cang woke beside Xue Ni, then joined Xiao Yu and Ruolin for breakfast after praising and kissing them.
• Xiao Yu and Ruolin competed with Xue Ni for a seat beside Xiao Cang, but Xue Ni claimed his lap and asked him to feed her.
• Xiao Cang sparred with Xue Ni, Xiao Yu, and Ruolin over three days, repeatedly defeating them through his superior physical strength.
• Xiao Cang decided that he needed to find another target if he wanted to grow stronger.

Xiao Cang explored Jia Nan Academy and asked Vice Principal Hu Gan about entering the Inner Academy. Hu Gan sent a request for an exception and asked Xiao Cang to meet his granddaughter, Hu Jia, while she had already become determined to win him over.

• Xiao Cang's appearance drew crowds of students, and Hu Jia found herself captivated by him and resolved to get him.
• Xiao Cang decided to pursue Hu Jia and visited Hu Gan, also hoping to learn how to enter the Inner Academy and reach the Fallen Heart Flame beneath its tower.
• Hu Gan explained that Xiao Cang met the cultivation requirements but needed an exception because it was not the usual enrollment period.
• Hu Gan sent a letter to the Inner Academy asking whether Xiao Cang could join, expecting a reply within three days.
• Hu Gan asked Xiao Cang to meet his talented granddaughter and guide her cultivation.

Hu Gan arranged for Xiao Cang to guide his granddaughter Hu Jia in cultivation, but Hu Jia quickly showed a personal interest in him. She took his hand and led him toward her room, leaving Xiao Cang to realize she had turned the tables on him.

• Hu Gan introduced Xiao Cang to Hu Jia and asked him to guide her cultivation.
• Hu Jia greeted Xiao Cang warmly, and the two agreed to begin the guidance immediately.
• As they walked through the academy, Hu Jia asked Xiao Cang whether he had a girlfriend, and he said he did not.
• Hu Jia proposed that Xiao Cang guide her in her room and led him there by the hand.
• Xiao Cang realized that Hu Jia had made him the prey.

Xiao Cang visited Hu Jia’s bedroom to help with the fiery energy she claimed had accumulated from cultivating fire-attributed Dou Qi, though both understood her excuse was an invitation to flirt. He played along by using his hands to “treat” her, leaving Hu Jia overwhelmed by unfamiliar feelings before he stopped and she said the energy was gone.

• Xiao Cang followed Hu Jia to her bedroom, where she described a burning sensation caused by accumulated fire-attributed Dou Qi.
• Xiao Cang examined Hu Jia and realized her problem was minor and easily treated, while recognizing that she had offered it as a signal to get closer to him.
• Xiao Cang claimed he needed to use his palms to expel the fiery energy, and Hu Jia agreed to let him help.
• Xiao Cang channeled Dou Qi through his palms and moved his hands over Hu Jia’s back, waist, sides, and exposed thigh, stirring unfamiliar amorous feelings in her.
• Xiao Cang stopped the treatment, and Hu Jia said the fiery energy was gone, though she felt an odd emptiness afterward.

Xiao Cang bound and kissed Hu Jia in her boudoir, then insisted that they marry by drinking bridal cup wine. The marriage earned Xiao Cang a one-star Dou Zong cultivation reward and an Earth Tier Advanced cultivation art, which he offered to teach Hu Jia.

• Xiao Cang used Hu Jia's crimson whip to bind her wrists, then kissed her as she nervously accepted his advances.
• An hour later, Xiao Cang and Hu Jia had finished their encounter, and he challenged her to avoid taking responsibility by marrying him.
• Xiao Cang gave Hu Jia bridal cup wine, and they crossed arms and drank it, becoming husband and wife.
• Xiao Cang received a one-star Dou Zong cultivation reward and the Earth Tier Advanced Dual Fire Spirit Flame Art from the system.
• Xiao Cang told Hu Jia she could call him Husband and offered to teach her the cultivation art, and she eagerly agreed.

After spending the night with Hu Jia, Xiao Cang moved into a student dormitory and broke through from peak Nine-star Dou Zong to One-star Dou Zun at eighteen. He considered his new strength enough to negotiate with the Gu Clan over Xun'er’s pregnancy, then asked Hu Gan whether the Inner Academy had replied.

• Xiao Cang told Hu Jia about Ruolin, Xiao Yu, Xue Ni, and his concubines, and Hu Jia realized she would have to share him with them.
• Xiao Cang left Hu Jia’s room at dawn and moved into an unoccupied student dormitory.
• Xiao Cang’s aura surged beyond the Dou Zong barrier, terrifying the people throughout Jia Nan Academy’s Outer Academy.
• Hu Gan recognized Xiao Cang’s aura as greater than Elder Qian Bai’s and rushed toward its source.
• Xiao Cang stabilized at One-star Dou Zun, rose into the sky, and resolved that he could now negotiate with the Gu Clan about Xun’er’s pregnancy.
• Hu Gan congratulated Xiao Cang, who asked whether the Inner Academy had sent a reply.

Xiao Cang received permission and a token to visit Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy, then returned to Ruolin’s courtyard after revealing his breakthrough to Dou Zun. With Ruolin and Xue Ni away, he carried Xiao Yu into the room.

• Hu Gan gave Xiao Cang Su Qian’s letter welcoming him to visit the Inner Academy and a rare personal token that let him travel there without obstruction.
• Xiao Cang told Hu Gan he had given Hu Jia an Earth Tier Advanced fire cultivation method, astonishing Hu Gan, and said he planned to leave within a day or two.
• Xiao Cang returned to the courtyard and confirmed to Xiao Yu that the aura over the academy had come from his breakthrough to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yu said Ruolin was teaching and Xue Ni was cultivating, so Xiao Cang picked her up and carried her into the room.

Xiao Cang reunited with Hu Jia and Xiao Yu, then spent his remaining days in the courtyard with them and Ruolin and Xue Ni before leaving for Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy. He entrusted his friends to Hu Gan and gave the dean a Shattering Sect Pill, then departed using the Power of Space.

• Xiao Yu met Hu Jia, who revealed that she had become Xiao Cang’s wife, and the two women bickered over him before he pulled them both close.
• Xiao Cang told Hu Jia and Xiao Yu that he would soon leave for the Inner Academy, and they urged him to return to the courtyard.
• Ruolin and Xue Ni took two days off to keep Xiao Cang company before his departure.
• Xiao Cang asked Hu Gan to look after his friends and gave him a Shattering Sect Pill to help him break through to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Cang vanished using the Power of Space as he left for the Inner Academy, while Hu Gan watched enviously.