Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Agreement, but spared her from the old pledge that she become his servant. As the crowd began to leave and the Xiao Family’s rising power drew attention, a powerful presence awakened in the Misty Cloud Sect’s back mountain and called for them to stop.

• Xiao Yan used Eight Extremities Collapse to shatter Nalan Yanran’s Dou Qi Armor and send her crashing across the plaza.
• Nalan Yanran rose and refused to concede, but Xiao Yan detonated the force inside her, leaving her severely injured.
• Xiao Kun checked Nalan Yanran, gave her a Healing Medicinal Pill, and stopped her from continuing her pledge to become Xiao Yan’s servant; Xiao Yan declared the Three-Year Agreement over.
• Yun Yun announced Xiao Yan as the victor, and the crowd recognized that the Xiao Family’s strength could alter the empire’s balance of power.
• As the crowd began to disperse, a powerful voice from the Misty Cloud Sect’s back mountain ordered them to stop, and Yun Yun realized her teacher had awakened.

Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a newly advanced Dou Zong and tried to detain the Xiao Family at Protector Wu’s request. When Xiao Kun refused and began to leave, Yun Shan attacked, and Xiao Kun effortlessly burned away his binding technique.

• Yun Shan’s aura swept over the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Kun recognized that he had become a Dou Zong.
• Yun Shan arrived at the plaza and told the Xiao Family to stay for a confidential discussion, while Yun Yun worried about his intentions.
• Xiao Kun refused Yun Shan’s invitation and led the Xiao Family and Mittel Family away, hoping to provoke Yun Shan into attacking first.
• Yun Shan used Myriad Wind Entanglement to bind the Xiao Family, but Xiao Kun burned away the wind ropes with golden-green flames.
• Xiao Kun warned Yun Shan to reconsider for Yun Yun’s sake, and Yun Shan grew solemn after seeing his attack fail.

Xiao Kun revealed that he had reached the Dou Zong level and challenged Yun Shan, who insisted on fighting him. Xiao Kun overwhelmed Yun Shan’s clones and sealed his Dou Qi, leaving him restrained.

• Yun Shan doubted Xiao Kun could match him, but Xiao Kun walked through the air and proved he was a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Kun asked Yun Yun to move away from the fight, while Yun Shan accused him of using an inhumane method and vowed to eradicate him.
• Xiao Kun sent two Shifting Phantom clones at Yun Shan, whose own clones were quickly shattered.
• Xiao Kun’s clones restrained Yun Shan, and Xiao Kun struck him with the Extreme Sealing Curse, causing his Dou Qi to dissipate.

Xiao Kun sealed Yun Shan’s Dou Qi and learned that Soul Hall’s Protector Wu had manipulated Yun Shan into targeting the Xiao Family. After revealing Soul Hall’s strength, Xiao Kun detected Protector Wu hiding near the plaza and challenged him to come out.

• Xiao Kun captured Yun Shan by sealing his Dou Qi, and Yun Yun thanked him for sparing her teacher.
• Yun Shan revealed that Protector Wu of Soul Hall had promised to help him reach the Dou Zong realm in exchange for capturing Xiao Family members.
• Xiao Kun explained that Soul Hall was a powerful Central Plains faction whose Venerables were Dou Zun experts, then reassured Yun Yun that no stronger expert would come to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yun Shan warned Xiao Kun that Protector Wu was still in the Misty Cloud Sect and began siding with him.
• Xiao Kun sensed Protector Wu hiding in a towering tree near the plaza and called on him to reveal himself.

Xiao Kun confronted Soul Hall's Protector Wu after exposing his hiding place and defeating Yun Shan. Protector Wu's attack failed against Xiao Kun's clone, and he began looking for a way to escape.

• Protector Wu emerged from the giant tree in black mist and admitted that Xiao Kun had ruined his plan.
• Protector Wu insulted Yun Shan, who retorted that he too would soon become Xiao Kun's prisoner.
• Protector Wu attacked Yun Shan with a soul-forged chain, but Xiao Kun's clone caught it and melted through part of it with Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Kun sent Yun Shan and Yun Yun to take cover and assigned another clone to protect the Xiao Family.
• Protector Wu recognized that Xiao Kun's Heavenly Flames countered his weapons and began considering how to escape.

Xiao Kun overwhelmed Protector Wu at the Misty Cloud Sect, protected the people below, and drove off the Soul Hall attacker. Protector Wu fled beyond Misty Cloud Mountain, and Xiao Kun pursued him.

• Xiao Kun refused to let Protector Wu kill Yun Shan and blocked the Soul Hall protector’s black chain spear with a Heavenly Flame palm.
• Their clash sent a shockwave across the Misty Cloud Sect, forcing Yun Yun and the major clans to evacuate weaker members while Xiao Kun’s clone protected the Xiao Family.
• Protector Wu released Soul Bodies to attack the disciples and younger clan members, but Xiao Kun’s two clones destroyed them.
• Protector Wu hid in black mist and escaped beyond Misty Cloud Mountain as Xiao Kun burned the mist away.
• Xiao Kun spotted Protector Wu fleeing into the distance and pursued him with silver light flashing in his eyes.

Xiao Kun pursued Protector Wu and killed him with the second form of Sky Severing Finger, leaving a vast crater on Misty Cloud Mountain. The watching fighters were stunned by the power Xiao Kun had displayed.

• Protector Wu fled from Xiao Kun and began considering revenge, but Xiao Kun used Shifting Phantom to appear behind him and strike him into the forest.
• Protector Wu realized Xiao Kun had used spatial traversal and understood that he could not escape.
• Xiao Kun formed Sky Severing Finger while Protector Wu summoned the Hundred Souls Sky-Locking Serpent to defend himself.
• Xiao Kun's attack spiritually stunned Protector Wu, then crushed him and the black giant python into the earth.
• Xiao Kun assessed the successful technique as the onlookers stared in shock at the huge crater and his power.

After defeating Protector Wu, Xiao Kun tortured him for information and learned that the Soul Clan had not yet taken the Xiao Family seriously. Xiao Kun sealed Protector Wu away, concealed his strength, and left Yun Shan under a light punishment supervised by Yun Yun.

• Xiao Kun captured the weakened Protector Wu and tortured him with the Fallen Heart Flame until he agreed to answer questions.
• Protector Wu revealed that the Soul Clan believed the Xiao Family was insignificant and had not been told of its recent rise.
• Xiao Kun sealed Protector Wu in a jade bottle and told the crowd that his Spatial Shift was only a Secret Art, concealing his true strength.
• Xiao Kun ordered Yun Shan to remain in the Misty Cloud Sect's back mountain for five years and let Yun Yun supervise him, and both accepted.

Xiao Kun confessed his feelings to Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect, and she admitted she felt the same, though she remained cautious about being seen together. He returned to the Imperial Capital, where he arranged for Xiao Yan to travel to Jia Nan Academy with Lion King after his engagement to Ya Fei, then continued visiting Yun Yun in the days before the engagement.

• Xiao Kun took Yun Yun's hand and drew her into his arms before confessing that he liked her, and Yun Yun said she felt the same.
• Two Misty Cloud Sect disciples came upon Xiao Kun and Yun Yun, prompting Yun Yun to quickly straighten her clothes before greeting them.
• Xiao Kun returned to the Imperial Capital and saw Ya Fei giving him a resentful look.
• Xiao Kun asked Xiao Yan when he planned to leave for Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan said he would leave after Xiao Kun's engagement.
• Xiao Kun promised to have Lion King take Xiao Yan to Jia Nan Academy after the engagement, and Xiao Yan thanked him.
• Xiao Kun spent the next few days traveling between the Misty Cloud Sect and the Imperial Capital to deepen his relationship with Yun Yun, while Ya Fei gradually became less upset.

Xiao Kun gave Yun Yun powerful pills to help her advance and a Face-Fixing Pill, drawing them closer during their time together. He finally told her that he would visit the Mittel Family in two days to ask for Ya Fei’s hand in marriage.

• Xiao Kun met Yun Yun in their pavilion and struggled to tell her the troubling news he had been carrying.
• Xiao Kun gave Yun Yun three Sixth Grade Emperor Augmenting Pills, a Seventh-grade Great Sect Breaking Pill, and a fifth-grade Beauty-Enhancing Pill, and she accepted them so she could grow stronger and support him.
• Xiao Kun received a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, the Face-Fixing Pill, as a system compensation and gave it to Yun Yun.
• Xiao Kun and Yun Yun shared an affectionate hour together in the pavilion.
• Xiao Kun told Yun Yun that he would go to the Mittel Family in two days to ask for Ya Fei’s hand in marriage.

Xiao Kun persuaded Yun Yun to accept his plan to propose to her and Ya Fei on the same day, then spent the night with Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect. After announcing the simultaneous proposals to his family, he began refining King Augmenting Pills as betrothal gifts.

• Yun Yun accepted Xiao Kun’s proposal to marry her and Ya Fei on the same day, and Xiao Kun promised to reassure her.
• Xiao Kun stayed at the Misty Cloud Sect, spent the night with Yun Yun, and told her he would return the day after tomorrow.
• Xiao Kun returned to the imperial capital and announced his plan to visit the Mittel Family and the Misty Cloud Sect with marriage proposals.
• Xiao Kun decided to use medicinal pills as betrothal gifts and began refining King Augmenting Pills with the Void Refining Cauldron.
• Xiao Kun discovered that the Void Refining Cauldron could change size and conceal the phenomena produced by Fifth-grade Medicinal Pills.

Xiao Kun prepared medicinal pills and betrothal gifts before formally becoming engaged to Ya Fei and Yun Yun. Both weddings were set for the same day one year later, and the double engagement ended amid celebrations across the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Kun refined extra King Augmenting Pills and gave Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan twenty each, receiving critical-hit rewards from the system.
• Xiao Kun entrusted the engagement arrangements to Xiao Zhan, then created auspicious beasts to carry the Xiao Family and betrothal gifts into the imperial capital.
• Xiao Zhan and the Mittel Family finalized Xiao Kun and Ya Fei's engagement, setting their wedding for one year later, and Xiao Kun gave Hai Bodong valuable medicinal pills.
• Xiao Kun and the Xiao Family went to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Shan represented Yun Yun and agreed to her engagement with Xiao Kun.
• The families set Xiao Kun and Yun Yun's wedding for the same day as his wedding to Ya Fei, and Xiao Kun gave Yun Shan medicinal pills as betrothal gifts.

Xiao Yan departed for Jia Nan Academy with two map fragments for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, while the Xiao Family established itself in the imperial capital. Three months later, Yun Yun had grown stronger, Lion King had returned, and the rest of the Xiao Family had moved to Xiao Manor.

• Xiao Kun paid for Xiao Manor in the imperial capital and promised its former owner help if he ever needed it.
• Xiao Kun gave Xiao Yan two map fragments for a Heavenly Flame, then asked Lion King to protect him on the journey to Jia Nan Academy.
• Lion King transformed, carried Xiao Yan out of the imperial capital, and escorted him safely to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li returned to Wu Tan City, while Xiao Kun remained at Xiao Manor.
• Over the next three months, Yun Yun absorbed the Face-Fixing Pill and advanced to seven-star Dou Emperor, and Xiao Kun rewarded Lion King with a Great Sect Breaking Pill.
• The Xiao Family's several hundred members moved to the imperial capital, where the major families accepted their arrival without objection.

After three months of cultivation, Xiao Kun decided to recruit alchemists so he could stop spending his time refining low-tier pills for the Xiao Family. He approached Fa Ma to bring the Alchemist Guild into the family and offered to discuss the terms, leaving Fa Ma wary but curious.

• Xiao Kun mastered his recently acquired peak Dou Zong strength and believed he was nearing the Dou Zun bottleneck, while Ya Fei and Yun Yun trained to grow stronger.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Kun that the Xiao Family was running low on fifth-tier and lower medicinal pills, prompting Xiao Kun to seek alchemists for the family.
• Xiao Kun decided to merge the Alchemist Guild into the Xiao Family and planned to entice Fa Ma with an alchemy inheritance reaching the seventh tier.
• Xiao Kun arrived at the Alchemist Headquarters, where the guards recognized and saluted him, then went to Fa Ma's office.
• Xiao Kun asked Fa Ma to have the Alchemist Guild serve the Xiao Family, and Fa Ma instinctively objected before asking what conditions Xiao Kun could offer.

Xiao Kun offered Fa Ma a Seventh-grade Alchemist inheritance in exchange for bringing the Alchemist Guild into the Xiao Family, and Fa Ma accepted after reviewing Yao Lao’s teachings. The System rewarded Xiao Kun with a Ninth-grade Golden Pill alchemist inheritance, while Fa Ma awakened as a Sixth-grade Medicinal Pill alchemist and prepared to announce the guild’s integration; Xiao Kun began examining his new inheritance.

• Xiao Kun offered Fa Ma a Seventh-grade Alchemist inheritance if he brought the Alchemist Guild into the Xiao Family.
• Fa Ma reviewed Yao Lao’s alchemy teachings, agreed to join the Xiao Family, and received the inheritance jade slip.
• The System rewarded Xiao Kun with a Ninth-grade Golden Pill alchemist inheritance after he gave Fa Ma the Seventh-grade inheritance.
• Xiao Kun left Fa Ma to absorb the inheritance and told Che Mier to keep others from disturbing him.
• Fa Ma awakened as a Sixth-grade Medicinal Pill alchemist and set out to convene a meeting to announce the guild’s integration into the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Kun returned to Xiao Manor and began examining the Ninth-grade Alchemist Inheritance in the System Space.

Xiao Kun absorbed the Ninth-grade Alchemist Inheritance, then learned that Fa Ma and the Alchemist Guild leaders had come to discuss joining the Xiao Family. After Xiao Zhan confirmed that most arrangements were settled, Xiao Kun approved the agreement and welcomed the Guild leaders’ trust.

• Xiao Kun spent a day absorbing the Ninth-grade Alchemist Inheritance and sorted through most of its vast knowledge.
• Li Xuan told Xiao Kun that Xiao Zhan had been looking for him because Fa Ma and Alchemist Guild leaders had visited while he was in seclusion.
• Xiao Kun thanked the exhausted Li Xuan, gave her a fourth-grade Qi Gathering Powder, and sent her to rest.
• Xiao Kun entered the family hall and learned that Xiao Zhan and Fa Ma had already discussed most details of the Alchemist Guild joining the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Kun approved the arrangements, thanked the Alchemist Guild leaders for their trust, and they addressed him as Young Clan Leader.

Xiao Kun refined batches of Sixth-grade Emperor Augmenting and Emperor Extreme Pills to improve his family's cultivation prospects, then emerged from a month of seclusion with enough pills for fifteen people. He gave Li Xuan Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid and urged her to cultivate diligently.

• After Xiao Kun left the reception hall, Fa Ma praised his dedication, and Xiao Zhan continued discussing the Alchemist Guild's incorporation into the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Kun decided to refine Sixth-grade pills so he could trigger critical hits and obtain Nirvana Pills to improve the cultivation talent of his family and promising clan members.
• Xiao Kun failed his first attempt to refine an Emperor Augmenting Pill, then learned from the failure and successfully made a high-quality pill with the Void Refining Cauldron concealing its phenomena.
• Over the next month, Xiao Kun refined forty-five Emperor Augmenting Pills and fifteen Emperor Extreme Pills, enough for fifteen people to use during the Dou Emperor stage.
• After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Kun accepted tea from Li Xuan and gave her Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, telling her to cultivate diligently while he was away.

Xiao Kun gave Xiao Zhan pills, including ten Seventh-grade Nirvana Pills, and promised to provide alchemists with recipes and inheritance manuals. Several days later, Hai Bodong broke through to Dou Zong, prompting Jia Xingtian to fly to the Mittel Family to investigate.

• Xiao Kun gave Li Xuan Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, then asked about Xiao Zhan’s whereabouts.
• Xiao Kun promised Xiao Zhan an Alchemist Inheritance Manual to help secure the alchemists’ loyalty to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Kun gave Xiao Zhan Sixth-grade pills, triggered a hundredfold critical hit, and obtained ten Seventh-grade Nirvana Pills.
• Xiao Kun gave Xiao Zhan the Nirvana Pills and explained that they could help improve cultivation; Xiao Zhan promised to take them soon.
• Several days later, Xiao Kun sensed a Dou Zong aura from the Mittel Family’s residence and suspected Hai Bodong had broken through.
• Jia Xingtian recognized Hai Bodong’s aura and flew to the Mittel Family to confirm whether the Xiao Family had helped him.

Hai Bodong broke through to Dou Zong, drawing prominent figures of the imperial capital to the Mittel Family to congratulate him. He credited Xiao Kun’s help and promised to repay him, while the crowd began considering marriage ties with the Xiao Family.

• Yun Shan sensed Hai Bodong’s breakthrough and returned to cultivating the Extreme Sealing Curse that Xiao Kun had left behind.
• Xiao Kun flew to the Mittel Family after greeting Xiao Zhan, Lion King, and White Fang in the air above Xiao Manor.
• Ya Fei happily embraced Xiao Kun, and he noted that she had reached three-star Dou Wang.
• Jia Xingtian, Nalan Jie, Fa Ma, Mu Chen, and other prominent figures gathered at the Mittel Family to congratulate Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong appeared with the ability to walk through empty space, confirming his breakthrough, and thanked Xiao Kun for his Seventh-grade Great Sect Breaking Pill.
• Hai Bodong promised to repay Xiao Kun, and the crowd began thinking about arranging marriages with the Xiao Family.

After celebrating Hai Bodong’s breakthrough and spending time with Ya Fei, Xiao Kun used Earth Spirit Marrow to strengthen his family and fiancées. Eleven months after the Three-Year Agreement, he prepared to travel to Jia Nan Academy in the Black Corner Region, confident in his new Dou Zun strength.

• Hai Bodong greeted the congratulatory guests, while Jia Xingtian lamented that Hai Bodong had reached the Dou Zong realm before him.
• Xiao Kun spent the night with Ya Fei, then returned to the Xiao Family to cultivate and gave the Little Sky-Swallowing Python an Earth Fire Lotus Seed.
• The gift triggered a ten-thousandfold critical hit, earning Xiao Kun a drop of Earth Spirit Marrow, which he decided to distribute to his family, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei.
• Medusa briefly took control of the Little Sky-Swallowing Python’s body, but Xiao Kun’s stroking prompted her to yield it back to the creature.
• After seven more months, Xiao Kun reached one-star Dou Zun and decided to travel to Jia Nan Academy before the Fallen Heart Flame erupted.