Chapter Summaries

Nalan Ye returned to Green Mountain Town and entered the Monster Mountain Range alone, intending to reach the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair and wait for Yun Yun. He camped with a mercenary squad, but Li Wuchen and A Li surrounded them, seeking revenge for A Li’s brother He Meng.

• Nalan Ye quietly returned to Green Mountain Town and set out alone into the Monster Mountain Range.
• Nalan Ye studied a map and chose a route toward the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair, knowing Rank 3 Magical Beasts could threaten him.
• Nalan Ye allowed Ka Gang and the Blood Battle Mercenary Group squad to camp near his fire.
• More than a dozen figures surrounded the valley at night, led by Li Wuchen, a One-Star Dou Shi of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• A Li accused Nalan Ye of killing her brother He Meng, and Ka Gang explained that Li Wuchen was A Li’s husband and that the pair had learned Nalan Ye had returned.

Nalan Ye turned the Wolf Head Mercenary Group against Li Wuchen by threatening them with the Nalan Family’s power, but Li Wuchen rallied them into an attack. Nalan Ye killed Li Wuchen with a Dragon Slayer Crossbow and drove off the remaining mercenaries, while A Li and some of the attackers escaped into the forest.

• Nalan Ye tossed his personal tokens to three Wolf Head Mercenary Group members and used the threat of his family’s retaliation to split the group.
• Li Wuchen and the mercenaries who remained loyal to him charged Nalan Ye after he refused to let the others leave safely.
• Nalan Ye shot Li Wuchen dead with the Dragon Slayer Crossbow and wounded A Li with a second bolt.
• Nalan Ye used a magic-core shield and sword to kill several attackers and force the others to flee.
• Nalan Ye fired at the fleeing mercenaries, hit two, and let the rest escape into the forest.

Nalan Ye killed A Li after the Wolf Head Mercenaries’ ambush, then continued into the Monster Mountain Range and waited near the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair for Yun Yun. As he began an unexpected breakthrough to Dou Master, Yun Yun’s battle ended, and he set out to find her while she was injured.

• Nalan Ye ordered the Blood Battle Mercenaries to finish the Wolf Head Mercenaries and had Ka Gang kill A Li, declaring that her family would also face punishment.
• Ka Gang gave Nalan Ye the spoils, and Nalan Ye sent a letter to the Nalan Family’s store in Wu Si City before parting ways with the mercenaries.
• Nalan Ye traveled deeper into the Monster Mountain Range and waited near the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair for Yun Yun to arrive.
• Nalan Ye unexpectedly began breaking through from nine-star Dou Zhe to Dou Master, but explosions from Yun Yun’s battle with the Amethyst Winged Lion King disrupted his cultivation.
• After the battle went quiet, Nalan Ye suppressed the remaining medicinal power and searched the mountain forest for the badly injured Yun Yun.

Nalan Ye found the unconscious Yun Yun in a waterfall pool and carried her to a cave, but his chaotic medicinal power and Dou Qi injured his meridians and left him unconscious. After waking, he learned that Yun Yun had rescued and cared for him, then introduced himself as a member of the Nalan Family.

• Nalan Ye searched the area around the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair for Yun Yun and spotted a person floating in a waterfall pool.
• Nalan Ye used his Purple Cloud Wings to reach the pool, recognized the unconscious woman as Yun Yun, and carried her to a cave after killing the Magical Beast inside.
• Nalan Ye tried to refine the medicinal power, but his Dou Qi and medicinal power collided, injuring his meridians and causing him to faint.
• Yun Yun cared for the injured Nalan Ye and offered him badly grilled fish when he woke hungry.
• Nalan Ye gave Yun Yun his Ring of Holding so she could retrieve dried meat and water, then introduced himself as Nalan Ye of the Nalan Family.
• Yun Yun identified herself as Yun Yun of the Yun Lan Sect and began cultivating.

While recovering in the cave, Nalan Ye took the Fifth Rank Healing Pill Yun Yun gave him and accidentally absorbed its immense medicinal power while asleep. Yun Yun suppressed the resulting strain and guided him into a breakthrough attempt, leaving him cultivating toward Dou Master.

• Nalan Ye recovered enough to circulate a little Dou Qi while Yun Yun continued healing and cultivating in the cave.
• Yun Yun gave Nalan Ye a Fifth Rank Healing Pill, and he swallowed it whole to repair his injuries.
• The pill’s medicinal power accumulated while Nalan Ye slept and began scouring his meridians, so Yun Yun used her Dou Qi to suppress it.
• Yun Yun explained that Nalan Ye had to refine the pill slowly and decided to guide the excess medicinal power into a breakthrough attempt.
• Nalan Ye followed the Geng Xin Vast Thunder Skill as Yun Yun guided the medicinal power, and his Dou Qi grew dense and began to liquefy.

The narrator reached One-Star Dou Shi and recovered while Yun Yun prepared to face the Amethyst Winged Lion King again for its Amethyst Spirit Crystal. Yun Yun carried the narrator toward the beast’s lair, where she warned that they were close.

• The narrator condensed a new Dou Qi vortex, broke through to One-Star Dou Shi, and awkwardly recovered in Yun Yun’s care.
• After several days, Yun Yun asked the healed narrator to help her obtain Amethyst Spirit Crystal from the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s lair.
• The narrator accepted a crystal that would help locate the Amethyst Spirit Crystal and asked Yun Yun for a favor in return; she agreed to owe him one.
• The narrator prepared two Dragon Slayer Crossbows and leather armor while Yun Yun readied herself for the confrontation.
• Yun Yun flew toward the lair while gripping the narrator by the collar, and she told him to be quiet when they approached the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s territory.

Yun Yun drew the Amethyst Winged Lion King into battle while Xiao Yan infiltrated its lair to obtain the Amethyst Spirit Crystal. He discovered the Symbiotic Amethyst Source and prepared to face the young lion guarding it.

• Yun Yun challenged the Amethyst Winged Lion King and fought it in a fierce battle high above the valley.
• Xiao Yan used the chaos and his concealed aura to slip past the frightened beasts guarding the lair and enter the cave.
• Xiao Yan recovered from temporary blindness caused by the sudden change in lighting and cautiously advanced through the cavern.
• Xiao Yan found the Symbiotic Amethyst Source fused to a crystal platform and realized he would need the Amethyst Spirit Crystal to break it free.
• Xiao Yan advanced deeper into the lair with his Dragon Slayer Crossbow, intending to kill the young Amethyst Winged Lion King.

The narrator sneaks into the Amethyst Winged Lion King's nest, kills the Little Lion King with a Dragon Hunting Crossbow, and gathers its treasures. He collects six and a half bottles of Symbiotic Amethyst Source before leaving the cave.

• The narrator finds the Little Lion King asleep and sets up a Dragon Hunting Crossbow with a special magic-core bolt.
• The narrator wounds the Little Lion King with a crossbow shot, lures it around a bend, and kills it with the Dragon Hunting Crossbow.
• The narrator finishes the Little Lion King with Thunder Crescent Slash, stores its corpse, and neutralizes the blood's scent.
• The narrator collects a pile of Amethyst Spirit Crystals from the Little Lion King's cave.
• The narrator uses an Amethyst Spirit Crystal to open the Symbiotic Amethyst Source and collects six and a half bottles of it.

After stealing the Amethyst Spirit Crystal and killing the Little Lion King, the narrator escaped the nest with Yun Yun, but the Amethyst Winged Lion King pursued them beyond the Monster Mountain Range. They reached Wu Si City and gathered its forces to prepare for the beast’s attack, leaving the narrator uncertain whether Yun Yun could protect them.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King spotted the narrator as he left its nest, and he fled through the forest while third-tier Magical Beasts chased him.
• Yun Yun rescued the narrator, who told her he had killed the Little Lion King and urged her to escape with him.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King followed them out of the Monster Mountain Range, so Yun Yun flew with the narrator to Wu Si City.
• Yun Yun warned Mo Wang that the sixth-tier Amethyst Winged Lion King was approaching, and the narrator argued that they should meet it outside the city.
• The City Lord's Mansion, local families, and mercenary groups assembled more than seventeen hundred fighters west of Wu Si City, while the narrator questioned whether they could face a Dou Emperor powerhouse.

The allied forces of Wu Si City prepared to face the Amethyst Winged Lion King, while Yun Yun warned that she could not defeat it and the narrator returned to the city. The Lion King attacked, and although Mo Wang’s troops launched a coordinated assault, their weapons failed to pierce its defenses.

• The four family patriarchs doubted Mo Wang’s command until the narrator ordered them to obey, and Yun Yun told the narrator to leave because the Lion King was her equal.
• Mo Wang organized 1,700 fighters into three divisions while the narrator returned to Wu Si City and witnessed panic, looting, and fires spreading through the city.
• Yun Yun warned that the Amethyst Winged Lion King was approaching, and it descended into the allied army’s encirclement after declaring that humans must die for killing its child.
• Mo Wang ordered the troops to fire their crossbows and catapults, but the Lion King’s purple flames melted the Dragon Slayer Crossbow bolts.
• Mo Wang’s troops hurled 1,500 javelins at the Lion King while Yun Yun blocked its escape, but its flames melted most of them and the rest failed to pierce its defenses.

Yun Yun and the allied forces killed the Amethyst Winged Lion King, while Mo Wang’s command of the battle caught Young Master Nalan’s attention. After the fight, Nalan threatened to have Mo Wang executed over the Left Army’s deaths unless he resigned and became Nalan’s follower.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King attacked the Left Army, and Mo Wang ordered the Central and Right Armies to hurl javelins despite the casualties among their allies.
• The Lion King feigned retreat and ambushed the Central Army, but the narrator’s Dragon Hunting Crossbow stopped its killing strike against Mo Wang, and the soldiers held it off until Yun Yun arrived.
• Yun Yun killed the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and the narrator claimed the beast’s corpse while offering the Rui Er Family head influence over disaster relief in exchange for his cooperation.
• The narrator warned Mo Wang that officials would investigate him for the Left Army deaths and threatened to send him to the execution platform.
• The narrator told Mo Wang that he could survive only by resigning as City Lord and becoming the narrator’s follower.

Nalan Ye received the Amethyst Winged Lion King's remains and recruited Mo Wang as his follower before leaving Wu Si City with Yun Yun. After more than ten days of travel, they reached Mo City near the Tagor Desert, where Nalan Ye hinted at the people he planned to meet.

• Mo Wang delivered the Sixth-Order Magic Core and the Amethyst Winged Lion King's dissected remains to Nalan Ye, then knelt and agreed to become his follower.
• Nalan Ye and Mo Wang left Wu Si City after the city settled, while Yun Yun accompanied them and received the Magic Core.
• Yun Yun asked what Nalan Ye wanted her to do, and he said he could not yet explain but promised it would not put her in a difficult position.
• The group traveled for more than ten days and dismounted in Mo City near the Tagor Desert.
• Mo Wang asked why they had come to Mo City, and Nalan Ye said he wanted to visit its fiery beauties and an interesting old map seller.

Nalan Ye found the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire map fragment in Hai Bo Dong’s Ancient Map shop and revealed the old mapmaker’s identity as the Ice Emperor. He then told Hai Bo Dong he had come seeking the Azure Lotus Core Flame.

• Nalan Ye found a fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire map and brought it to the counter where Hai Bo Dong was drawing.
• Ling Lin and three men tried to drive Nalan Ye away, but the Mo City Shop Manager identified him as a Nalan Family young master, and Mo Wang escorted them out.
• Nalan Ye introduced himself to Hai Bo Dong, who said he did not remember Nalan Ye’s grandfather, Nalan Tie.
• Nalan Ye revealed Hai Bo Dong’s identity as the Ice Emperor, and Yun Yun greeted him as the Yun Lan Sect Master.
• Hai Bo Dong asked about Yun Shan, mocked him for failing to break through to Dou Zong, then demanded to know why Nalan Ye had come.
• Nalan Ye told Hai Bo Dong he wanted the Azure Lotus Core Flame.

Nalan Ye recruited Hai Bodong to help the Nalan Family obtain the Azure Lotus Core Flame, then diverted toward two unfamiliar Dou Emperor auras near Stone Desert City. On the ground, he discovered Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and his fiancée Xiao Meier among the Stone Desert Mercenary Group.

• Nalan Ye told Hai Bodong that an Exotic Flame in the Tagor Desert could help break Medusa's seal, and Hai Bodong agreed to assist the Nalan Family in exchange for a Sixth-Rank Pill for the Mitre Family.
• Yun Yun sensed two unfamiliar Dou Emperor auras near Stone Desert City, so Nalan Ye ordered the flying magical beast to investigate.
• Hai Bodong advised the group to approach cautiously, and Nalan Ye and Mo Wang went ahead to inspect two confronting mercenary groups.
• Nalan Ye recognized Xiao Meier, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xun'er in the Stone Desert Mercenary Group and ran over to greet Meier.
• Xiao Yan identified Nalan Ye to Big Brother and Second Brother as Meier's fiancée.

Nalan Ye reunited with Xiao Yan, Xiao Meier, Xun Er, and the Xiao family members in Stone Desert City as their mercenary group faced the Sand Mercenary Group. Xun Er explained that the Mo Family’s expansion had destabilized local groups, leaving the Desert Iron Mercenary Group targeted by its rival.

• Xiao Ding ordered the mercenaries to let Nalan Ye and Mo Wang enter the formation, where Nalan Ye greeted the Xiao family members.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and Xiao Yu introduced herself as his cousin and a Canaan Academy student.
• Xiao Yu told Nalan Ye that Luo Bu wanted to take Xiao Meier as his wife, prompting the others to rebuke her teasing.
• The Sand Mercenary Group approached with nearly a hundred men, outnumbering the roughly forty members of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Xun Er explained that the Mo Family’s growing presence had weakened local mercenary groups and that the Sand Mercenary Group had turned its attention to theirs.

Nalan Ye revealed his ties to the Nalan Family and Xiao Meier to stop Luo Bu from attacking the Desert Iron Mercenary Group. Luo Bu backed down, but Nalan Ye demanded that the Sand Mercenary Group merge into the Xiao brothers’ group, leaving Luo Bu angered and the confrontation unresolved.

• Luo Bu arrived with the Sand Mercenary Group and demanded that Xiao Ding and Xiao Li merge their group with his.
• Xiao Ding refused and invited his mercenaries to leave or stay and fight, and every one chose to remain.
• Nalan Ye stepped forward, identified himself as a member of the Nalan Family, and named Xiao Meier as his fiancée.
• Luo Bu lost his nerve and offered to leave, then proposed becoming the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s ally.
• Nalan Ye demanded that Luo Bu either die or merge the Sand Mercenary Group into the Desert Iron Mercenary Group under the Xiao brothers’ command, and Luo Bu grew angry.

Nalan Ye stopped Luo Bu from attacking by invoking the Mo Family’s fear of the Nalan Family and forcing him to choose between death and merger. Luo Bu agreed to merge the Sand Mercenary Group into the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, and Nalan Ye reported the result to Xiao Ding.

• Luo Bu activated his Dou Qi Armor and prepared to fight, while Nalan Ye’s companions urged him to retreat.
• Nalan Ye reminded Luo Bu that the Mo Family feared the Nalan Family and bet that the Mo Family would answer his letter.
• Luo Bu knelt and offered to pledge the Sand Mercenary Group to Nalan Ye, but Nalan Ye demanded that it merge with the Desert Iron Mercenary Group instead.
• Luo Bu accepted the merger, and Nalan Ye told Xiao Ding that he had completed his mission.

Nalan Ye urged Xiao Yan to meet Yun Yun, the Yun Lan Sect Master, and explain that the Nalan Family had never agreed to end his engagement to Yanran. Xiao Yan refused, but Nalan Ye forcibly dragged him toward her flying beast.

• After the Sand Mercenary Group surrendered, Nalan Ye teased Xiao Meier, while Xiao Yu flirted with him and provoked Meier.
• Nalan Ye found Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er together and thanked Xiao Yan for helping avert a fight between the mercenary groups.
• Nalan Ye told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun had acted alone in breaking off his engagement and that the Nalan Family had been pressured into going along with it.
• Xiao Yan said he did not want to meet Yun Yun, even when Nalan Ye offered the possibility of compensation and a gift.
• Nalan Ye grabbed Xiao Yan and dragged him toward Yun Yun's flying beast, arguing that Xiao Yan should not refuse free benefits.

Nalan brought his companions aboard Yun Yun’s flying magical beast after explaining that they were traveling to Stone Desert City. He tried to conceal Xiao Yan’s connection to the unfamiliar Dou Emperor aura, and the chapter ended with Nalan awkwardly asking Yun Yun for meeting gifts.

• Xiao Meier and Xiao Yu bickered about seeing Dou Emperors and whether Xiao Yu could become one.
• Nalan questioned Xiao Yan about the Dou Emperor aura, and Xiao Yan and Xun Er claimed the hidden Dou Emperor might have passed by unnoticed.
• Nalan told Yun Yun that no Dou Emperor had been present and asked her to take the four travelers to Stone Desert City.
• Yun Yun agreed, and Nalan introduced Xiao Meier, Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, and Xun Er to her.
• Xiao Yan grew angry at Yun Yun’s indifference, but Nalan stopped him and then asked Yun Yun to give the newcomers meeting gifts.

Nalan Ye traveled with Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and the Xiao Family toward Stone Desert City, giving Xiao Meier a cultivation pill and growing closer to her. The journey left Xiao Yu knocked onto a cushion after she teased them and admitted she had overheard their conversation.

• Nalan Ye introduced Hai Bodong as the Ice Emperor, but Hai Bodong refused to give the Xiao Family members greeting gifts.
• Yun Yun gave the four Xiao Family youngsters gifts, and Nalan Ye led the group aboard a flying magical beast bound for Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Meier showed Nalan Ye Yun Yun's Three-Rank Pill, and he gave her a Small Supplement Pill after revealing that he had reached the One-Star Dou Shi level.
• Nalan Ye asked Xiao Meier to call him Ye Gege, and Xiao Yu entered and teased them by repeating the nickname.
• Nalan Ye accused Xiao Yu of eavesdropping and flicked her forehead, knocking her onto a cushion as Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er arrived.