Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan interrupted Jia Lie Ao's advances toward Xun'er and gave her a bracelet, then faced Jia Lie Ao's challenge in the marketplace. With Payne and the guards nearby, Xiao Yan agreed to fight him.

• Xun'er noticed a Wood Spirit Chain Jia Lie Ao offered her and considered taking it for its magic crystal, but Xiao Yan arrived and refused the gift for her.
• Xiao Yan gave Xun'er his inexpensive bracelet, which she eagerly accepted, and warned her to stay away from Jia Lie Ao.
• Xiao Yan criticized Jia Lie Ao's womanizing and told Xun'er to avoid him, and she agreed.
• Jia Lie Ao's subordinates surrounded Xiao Yan and Xun'er, so Xiao Yan summoned Payne and the marketplace guards.
• Jia Lie Ao challenged Xiao Yan to a fair fight, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Xiao Yan defeated Jia Lie Ao in the marketplace, prepared Foundation Establishment Elixirs for auction, and gave Xun'er an extraordinary spiritual liquid. Disguised as an old alchemist, he brought the liquid to the Mittel Auction House, where Gu Ni confirmed its quality and arranged for it to be auctioned soon.

• Xiao Yan knocked Jia Lie Ao into a marketplace wall with one palm, then continued shopping with Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan bought a Green Wood Rat Magic Crystal and refined the ingredients into Foundation Establishment Elixirs.
• Xiao Yan gave Xun'er a golden spiritual liquid that could nourish her Dou Di Bloodline, and she kissed his cheek before returning to the Xiao Family Ancestral Land.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself in a black robe and took the spiritual liquid to the Mittel Auction House for appraisal.
• Gu Ni tested the spiritual liquid, confirmed it had reached the level of a tier-two pill, and the middle-aged appraiser arranged for it to be auctioned shortly.

Xiao Yan attended the Mittel Auction House auction and secretly told Xiao Zhan that he could provide the Xiao Family with pills and cultivation methods, so Xiao Zhan won the Foundation Establishment Elixir for forty thousand gold coins. The auction then opened bidding on the high Xuan class Wind Scroll Technique, with Jia Lie Bi and Ao Ba Pa driving the price to four hundred thousand.

• Gu Ni recognized Xiao Yan as an alchemist and instructed his attendant to avoid offending him and make a good impression.
• Xiao Yan entered the auction, spotted Xiao Zhan, and resolved to prevent his father from wasting money on the Foundation Establishment Elixir.
• Ya Fei presented the Foundation Establishment Elixir, and Xiao Zhan won it for forty thousand gold coins after Xiao Yan told him he could refine more and supply the family with cultivation methods.
• Ya Fei introduced the high Xuan class Wind Scroll Technique with a starting price of two hundred thousand gold coins.
• Jia Lie Bi and Ao Ba Pa outbid other buyers and raised the Wind Scroll Technique's price to four hundred thousand gold coins.

Xiao Yan outbid Jia Lie Bi, collected the proceeds from his auction, and revealed his extraordinary strength and alchemy to Ya Fei and Gu Ni, offering her a Heavenly Spirit Marrow Pill if she became his maid. Back at the Xiao Family, he gave Xiao Zhan pills, cultivation methods, and Dou Techniques, leaving his father to organize the clan’s preparations.

• Xiao Zhan drove Jia Lie Bi’s bid for the Wind Scroll Technique up to 550,000 gold coins, then withdrew and let Jia Lie Bi win at an inflated price.
• Xiao Yan collected the proceeds from the Foundation Establishment Elixir and gave Ya Fei a Mittel Auction House VIP card before revealing a nine-pattern Heavenly Spirit Marrow Pill and offering it to her if she became his maid.
• Xiao Yan revealed his identity to Ya Fei and Gu Ni, told them to keep it secret, and gave Ya Fei three days to decide.
• Xiao Yan refined ten more Heavenly Spirit Marrow Pills and over ten thousand other pills, then prepared five Heavenly Spirit Marrow Pills and numerous Di-tier cultivation methods and Dou Techniques for Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Zhan to Old Ya in the rear mountain, and Xiao Zhan accepted the explanation and left to arrange matters for the Xiao Family.

At the Xiao Family coming-of-age ceremony, Xun'er tested as a One Star Dou Zhe, while Xiao Yan stunned the clan by revealing himself as a Seven Star Dou King. After Xiao Zhan announced that unqualified youths could challenge qualified peers, most challengers eyed Xiao Yan but avoided meeting his gaze.

• Xun'er teased Xiao Yan about a woman's scent after he returned from an outing.
• At the coming-of-age ceremony, Xiao Mei passed with Dou Qi Eighth Stage, and Xun'er tested as a One Star Dou Zhe at age fifteen.
• Xiao Yan tested as a Seven Star Dou King, shocking Xiao Zhan, the elders, and the gathered clansmen.
• Xiao Zhan announced that those who failed could challenge one qualified companion for a chance to pass.
• More than half of the unqualified youths looked toward Xiao Yan, then quickly turned away when he looked back.

Xiao Yan arranged for Old Ya to protect the Xiao Family, then left Wutan City to train while Xun'er stayed behind with Jia Nan Academy. After learning Xiao Yan had departed, Xun'er beat Lin Nan for speaking ill of him and warned Luo Bu not to do so again.

• After the Jia Lie and Ao Ba families left Wutan City, Xiao Yan declined Instructor Ruo Lin's recruitment offer but arranged for Xun'er to join Jia Nan Academy.
• Old Ya revived as a five-star Dou Saint, agreed to guard the Xiao Family, and received a jade slip from Xiao Yan to summon him in an emergency.
• Xiao Yan said goodbye to Xiao Zhan, packed three Storage Rings, and left Wutan City quietly to train on his own.
• Lin Nan tried to get closer to Xun'er and dismissed Xiao Yan's Dou King strength as possibly fake, while planning to pursue her after Xiao Yan left.
• Instructor Ruo Lin told Xun'er that Xiao Yan had departed, and Xun'er challenged Lin Nan to spar before returning bruised and warning Luo Bu not to speak ill of Xiao Yan.

Nalan Su confronted Nalan Yanran over her broken engagement to Xiao Yan, but she refused to apologize or marry him, and Ge Ye stopped her father from striking her. Xiao Yan reached Qingshan Town and discovered that a supposedly low-grade herb in Myriad Medicine Hall was actually rare Blood Lotus Essence.

• Nalan Yanran left her cultivation spot after a maid told her that Nalan Su had come to see her.
• Nalan Su demanded that Nalan Yanran apologize to Xiao Yan and repair the relationship between their families, but she refused.
• Nalan Su raised his hand to strike Nalan Yanran, and Ge Ye intervened and stopped him.
• Nalan Su left after disowning Nalan Yanran in anger, while Ge Ye reassured her that Xiao Yan held no hostility toward the Nalan Family or Cloud Mist Sect.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Qingshan Town and entered Myriad Medicine Hall, where he recognized a piece of Yellow Lotus Essence as rare Blood Lotus Essence.

Xiao Yan followed the Little Doctor Immortal’s herb-gathering party into the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he watched her secretly investigate a cliffside cave. After warning her that the Hammer Mercenary Company was watching her, he accepted her offer to cooperate and spotted a dark opening in the cliff.

• Xiao Yan saw the Little Doctor Immortal treating wounded mercenaries at Myriad Medicine Hall and decided to get acquainted with her.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan followed the Little Doctor Immortal and a group of mercenaries into the Magical Beast Mountain Range without joining them.
• Three Red Ice Snakes attacked the group, poisoning three mercenaries, whom the Little Doctor Immortal treated; the party then endured several more beast attacks.
• The Little Doctor Immortal strayed from the group to gather herbs and climbed down a cliff, unaware that someone from the Hammer Mercenary Company had watched her.
• Xiao Yan warned the Little Doctor Immortal that returning to camp would lead her into a trap, and she offered to split the spoils from a cave she had found.
• Xiao Yan climbed down to investigate and spotted a pitch-black cave opening concealed among trees on the cliff wall.

Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal uncovered a hidden cave beneath a cliff and entered it together, hoping to find what a powerful predecessor had left behind. They reached a glowing stone door, where Little Doctor Immortal began examining an earth-element mechanism to open it.

• Little Doctor Immortal knocked Xiao Yan unconscious with white powder, but he had feigned it and seized her when she tried to tie him up.
• Xiao Yan forced Little Doctor Immortal to reveal that a hidden cave lay behind the strange trees on the cliff, and she agreed to explore it with him before Mu Li arrived.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal descended the cliff together and Xiao Yan cleared the cave entrance with Fire Blowing Palm.
• They entered the dark passage and walked for more than ten minutes before reaching a thick stone door glowing faintly yellow.
• Little Doctor Immortal identified an earth-element mechanism on the stone door and began inspecting it while Xiao Yan asked about her knowledge of mechanism arts.

Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal entered the cave’s hidden chamber and divided its medicinal treasures, where Xiao Yan found an unusual flying technique and Little Doctor Immortal discovered a poison manual. They ended the chapter examining the Seven-Colored Poison Sutra and wondering whether the cave’s owner had been a physician.

• Little Doctor Immortal opened the stone door, and Xiao Yan cautiously entered the chamber with her.
• Little Doctor Immortal recognized valuable medicinal plants in the flower bed, while Xiao Yan took the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and agreed to share the remaining herbs.
• Xiao Yan found three keys hidden in the skeleton’s broken arm, along with the Purple Cloud Wings flying technique.
• Xiao Yan opened a stone box after trying the keys, and Little Doctor Immortal found a colorful scroll inside.
• Little Doctor Immortal identified the scroll as the Seven-Colored Poison Sutra, prompting Xiao Yan to wonder whether the cave’s owner had been a physician.

Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal found valuable items in a hidden cave, but she poisoned him and tried to take them before Mu Li and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group arrived. Xiao Yan revealed he was never incapacitated, killed the mercenaries, and headed with Little Doctor Immortal into the Magical Beast Mountain Range to train while awaiting a future event.

• Xiao Yan let Little Doctor Immortal keep the seven-colored poison scroll and claimed the Heavenly Flame Fragment Map for himself.
• Little Doctor Immortal poisoned Xiao Yan, took the cave’s treasures, and opened the final stone box before Mu Li arrived with a dozen mercenaries.
• Mu Li revealed he had bribed Liffey for the cave’s location and demanded the treasures, while Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal faced his group.
• Xiao Yan revealed he had only pretended to be poisoned and killed Mu Li and the other mercenaries; afterward, he made Little Doctor Immortal his maidservant.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal left Qingshan Town for the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he suppressed his strength to train and ambushed a first-rank Fire Wolf with Eight Extremities Collapse.

Xiao Yan found a waterfall valley to use as a training ground, cured Little Doctor Immortal’s Calamity Poison Body, and helped her cultivate the Purple Cloud Wings. Later, they flew to watch a battle between a mysterious woman and the Amethyst Winged Lion King, where Xiao Yan recognized the woman and vowed not to let her leave again.

• Xiao Yan killed a giant wolf, took its Magic Core, and found a waterfall valley with caves suitable for training.
• Xiao Yan found Little Doctor Immortal unconscious in poisonous fog and used the Flame Emperor Avatar to transform her Calamity Poison Body into an exceptional cultivation and medicine-refining constitution.
• Xiao Yan trained Little Doctor Immortal, who reached nine-star Dou Practitioner strength within months, and helped her cultivate the Purple Cloud Wings despite the beast soul inside them.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal heard a battle in the sky and flew closer to watch; Xiao Yan recognized the green-clad woman fighting the Amethyst Winged Lion King and said he would not let her leave again.
• Little Doctor Immortal watched the battle from a giant tree and identified the enormous magical beast as the legendary Amethyst Winged Lion King.

A mysterious woman fought the Amethyst Winged Lion King for its Purple Spirit Crystal after it demanded a Form Transformation Pill in exchange. The Lion King wounded her and she escaped, leaving it furious and ordering the beasts of the mountain range to hunt her.

• The mysterious woman offered the Amethyst Winged Lion King several treasures for its Purple Spirit Crystal, but it refused and demanded a Form Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Yan told the Little Doctor Immortal that the pill was more valuable than the crystal and predicted that the Lion King would win.
• The woman and the Lion King traded attacks through the afternoon, with the woman dodging its superior strength and neither side gaining a decisive advantage.
• The Lion King unleashed its Amethyst Seal, broke through the woman's defenses, and struck her, while she cut off the tip of its horn with a powerful counterattack.
• The wounded woman fled across the sky, and the enraged Lion King ordered the magical beasts to search for her.

Xiao Yan rescued Yun Yun, left her two pills in exchange for favors, and took Little Doctor Immortal toward Desert Rock City to find another maid. There, he saved the Desert Iron Mercenary Group from snake-people and met Xue Lan.

• Xiao Yan found the injured Yun Yun beneath a waterfall, gave Little Doctor Immortal pills for her, and left after asking Yun Yun to owe him two favors if she accepted them.
• Yun Yun recovered, accepted the pills, thanked Little Doctor Immortal, and flew away; Xiao Yan returned and took Little Doctor Immortal toward Desert Rock City to find another maid.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal found the injured Dan Zai in the desert, treated him, and flew with him to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, which snake-people had surrounded.
• Xiao Yan killed the attacking snake-people with a Liuli-colored flame, saving the mercenaries and impressing Xue Lan and the others.
• Little Doctor Immortal scolded Xiao Yan for acting alone, and he told her to remember her status as his maid.

Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Immortal traveled to Stone Desert City with Xue Lan after rescuing her mercenary squad from snake-people, and Xiao Yan was reunited with his brothers Xiao Li and Xiao Ding. The chapter ended with Xiao Ding praising Xiao Yan’s composure after noticing how much he had changed.

• Xiao Yan accepted Xue Lan’s invitation to Stone Desert City, intending to visit his brothers Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Xue Lan realized Xiao Yan was the younger brother her leaders had described and brought him to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s compound.
• Xiao Li opened the hall door, recognized Xiao Yan, and embraced him excitedly before taking him inside to see Xiao Ding.
• Xiao Yan greeted Xiao Ding, who welcomed him warmly and praised his composure after years apart.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in Desert Rock City, helped them become Dou Zong experts, and met Qing Lin, a girl discriminated against for her snake-person heritage. After discovering her Jade-Green Snake Three-Flower Pupils, he transformed her physique and took her on a tour of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li Yin-Yang Marrow Cleansing Pills, and both brothers refined them into one-star Dou Zong experts.
• Xiao Yan celebrated with Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the Little Doctor Immortal, then met Qing Lin the next morning.
• Xiao Yan discovered the snake scales on Qing Lin’s wrist and recognized her Jade-Green Snake Three-Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan reassured Qing Lin, transformed her body into the Myriad Demon Emperor Body, and told her not to live for others’ judgment.
• Xiao Yan walked through the Desert Iron Mercenary Group with Qing Lin as its mercenaries showed her disdain, and Qing Lin thanked him before following him.

Xiao Yan left the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and entered the Tagor Great Desert alone, hoping to encounter a woman from his memories. At an oasis, he found Yue Mei bathing, and she trapped him among her venomous snakes after mistaking him for a possible spy.

• Xiao Yan got up with Qing Lin's help, then left Little Doctor Immortal, Qing Lin, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group before heading into the desert alone.
• Xiao Yan followed a map to an oasis near a Snake People Tribe and searched the forest for water.
• Xiao Yan spotted guards near a lake and saw Yue Mei emerge from the water, recognizing her from a blurry memory.
• Yue Mei attacked Xiao Yan with a poisoned water arrow and a venomous snake, then summoned more than a thousand snakes to surround him.
• Yue Mei questioned Xiao Yan about whether he was a spy from the Jia Ma Empire, and Xiao Yan attempted to flee into the forest.

Xiao Yan escaped Yue Mei's attack, but she chased him across the desert until she realized he was far stronger than he had let on. Their pursuit was interrupted by Yun Yun and a group of Jia Ma Empire experts, who confronted Yue Mei and prepared to capture her.

• Xiao Yan fought off Yue Mei's Snake Person subordinates and flew from the oasis, prompting Yue Mei to pursue him.
• Yue Mei attacked Xiao Yan with five energy snakes, but they vanished against his fire wings; realizing he was a high-rank Dou King, she fled.
• Two Dou King experts appeared and blocked Yue Mei's escape, while Yun Yun arrived with a larger group on a magical beast and recognized Xiao Yan.
• Old He asked Yue Mei to lead the group to the Snake People Queen, but she refused and warned them to leave her territory.
• Old He enlisted Old Lion and Feng Li to capture Yue Mei, and Yan Shi introduced himself before the confrontation began.

Xiao Yan watched Yue Mei battle Feng Li and Yan Shi before continuing toward the Snake People Royal City. As the Snake People Race mobilized under martial law, Yue Mei briefed another tribal leader on the human fighters approaching the temple.

• Yue Mei fought Feng Li and Yan Shi, then used her Snake Technique: Division to escape as energy snakes scattered through the desert.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the Snake People Royal City while the Black-robed Figure warned the others to leave the area.
• Xiao Yan reached the fortress and disappeared, while Snake People patrols searched the desert under martial law and prepared for the eight tribes’ leaders to gather at the temple.
• Yue Mei met a male snake person in the great hall and reported that the intruders included a Dou Emperor, three Dou Kings, four Dou Ling, and a powerful young man.

Mo Bas and Yue Mei faced Gu He’s party outside the Snake People city, where Queen Medusa appeared and learned they had come for her Heavenly Flames. The Black-robed Figure exposed and destroyed Medusa’s energy clone, and the Snake People attacked as the chapter ended with the Black-robed Figure shielding Gu He’s group from a rain of poison spears.

• Mo Bas and Yue Mei learned that human experts had approached the city, then went to the wall to confront Gu He and his party.
• Queen Medusa appeared, and Gu He offered two sixth-tier Dou Spirit Pills and a seventh-tier Form Transformation Pill in exchange for her Heavenly Flames.
• The Black-robed Figure revealed that Medusa was an energy clone and struck it, causing it to disperse into pale-purple smoke.
• Mo Bas ordered the Snake People guards to attack Gu He’s party, and the Black-robed Figure summoned a green tornado that shattered the incoming poison spears.