Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan won the Smoke Fruit with two Grade 6 Pill Recipes, then outbid rival factions to acquire the first fifteen forms of the Holy Spirit Sword Method. The auction ended with Xiao Yan holding the technique, while Gu Xun'er watched his bids with confusion and delight.

• Xiao Yan bid two Grade 6 Pill Recipes for the Smoke Fruit, and Gu Xun'er stopped Gu You from competing against him.
• Ya Fei unveiled the Holy Spirit Sword Method, an Earth Rank technique attributed to Sword Saint Dugu Jian, and explained that the auction offered its first fifteen forms.
• Xiao Yan recognized the names Dugu Jian and the Holy Spirit Sword Method, and told Yao Lao he would explain them later.
• The Luo Yan Royal Family and the Gama Royal Family competed for the technique, with Jia Xingtian offering Gold Coins and a Beast Flame.
• Xiao Yan bid two Grade 6 Pill Recipes and one Seventh Grade Pill Formula, defeating the other bidders and winning the first fifteen forms of the Holy Spirit Sword Method.

After the auction, Ye Qiu calculated his profits and heard that Nine Origins City and Deep Prosperity City had gone to war. Wang Yi proposed resettling refugees in Green Mountain City, and Ye Qiu approved the plan before asking the system to show him affordable cultivation items.

• Ye Qiu calculated that selling the auction items could earn him over eight thousand Myriad Realms Coins and planned to keep the Gold Coins and pills for Green Mountain City's development.
• Wang Yi told Ye Qiu that Nine Origins City and Deep Prosperity City had gone to war.
• Wang Yi explained that refugees fleeing the conflict could increase Green Mountain City's population and said he had already built three towns to house them.
• Ye Qiu ordered Wang Yi to proceed with bringing refugees to Green Mountain City.
• Ye Qiu asked the system to display affordable pills and Spirit Fruits that could improve his cultivation.

While Ye Qiu cultivated in seclusion, major changes unfolded across the region, and Xiao Yan prepared to leave Wu Tan City rather than attend Canaan Academy. He promised Xun Er he would find her there after challenging Nalan Yanran at Yun Lan Sect in one year.

• Ye Qiu practiced controlling the Gravity Fruit in his secret room while events outside included Jia Luo Cheng’s breakthrough, Murong Fu’s capture of Ningyu City, and Green Mountain City’s expansion.
• The Galie Family relocated to Green Mountain City after losing its economic rivalry with the Xiao Family.
• As Canaan Academy prepared to recruit students in Wu Tan City, Xiao Yan met Xun Er in the garden and confirmed he would not attend.
• Xun Er offered to help Xiao Yan defeat Nalan Yanran and revealed she knew about his Smoke Fruit and Holy Spirit Sword Method.
• Xiao Yan promised Xun Er he would challenge Nalan Yanran in one year and then go to Canaan Academy to find her.

Wang Yi ordered Canaan Academy expelled from Green Mountain City for recruiting students without Huaxia’s permission. Li Xingyun confronted the academy’s recruitment team just as they discovered a twelve-year-old Six-Star Water Attribute Dou Zhe, and announced the expulsion by order of the Carefree Duke.

• Wang Yi learned that Canaan Academy had entered Green Mountain City to recruit students without notifying Huaxia, and ordered the City Management Office to expel them.
• Canaan Academy held a recruitment event, where Zhang Li and Wan Yuan discovered that a twelve-year-old boy was a Six-Star Water Attribute Dou Zhe.
• Li Xingyun arrived with soldiers and surrounded Canaan Academy’s recruitment team.
• Li Xingyun told the team that they had violated Huaxia Law by recruiting without reporting in and ordered their immediate expulsion by order of the Carefree Duke.

Li Xingyun expelled Canaan Academy’s recruitment team from Green Mountain City after overpowering them with his cultivation and soldiers. He then reported to Wang Yi and brought in Wan Xiaoyong, a talented orphan who agreed to study at Green Mountain Academy for the promise of food.

• Li Xingyun ordered Canaan Academy’s team to leave Green Mountain City and temporarily drained Liu Bin’s Dou Qi after Liu Bin insulted him.
• Zhang Li attacked Li Xingyun, but his soldiers fired on her, and he revealed that he was an Eight-Star Great Dou Shi when Wan Yuan challenged him.
• Li Xingyun reported to Wang Yi that Canaan Academy’s team had been driven out of the city.
• Li Xingyun introduced Wan Xiaoyong, a twelve-year-old orphan refugee who was already a Six-Star Dou Zhe but did not know how to use his Dou Qi.
• Wang Yi offered Wan Xiaoyong a place at Green Mountain Academy, and the boy accepted after learning that the academy provided meals.

The Little Fairy Doctor found a hidden treasure chamber and began transplanting its rare herbs, including the Ice Spirit Flame Grass. Xiao Yan arrived and asked for the plant, but Yao Lao warned him that she was a Seven Star Great Dou Shi, leaving Xiao Yan stunned by the gap in their strength.

• The Little Fairy Doctor corroded her way through a stone door and entered the treasure chamber.
• She ignored its gold and valuables and identified the rare herbs in a small flower bed.
• The Little Fairy Doctor spotted the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and prepared to transplant it.
• Xiao Yan arrived and asked her to give him the Ice Spirit Flame Grass in exchange for medicinal pills.
• The Little Fairy Doctor refused and told Xiao Yan to leave.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the Little Fairy Doctor was a Seven Star Great Dou Shi, and Xiao Yan was shocked by her strength.

Xiao Yan let Yao Lao take control of his body to seize the Ice Spirit Flame Grass from Little Fairy Doctor, despite her refusal. He left the cave with the grass and a fragmentary map of the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire, unaware that the bindings were harming her.

• Yao Lao persuaded Xiao Yan that he had to take the Ice Spirit Flame Grass, and Xiao Yan agreed while asking him not to kill Little Fairy Doctor.
• After Little Fairy Doctor refused to give up the grass, Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan’s body and defeated her Water Overflowing Mighty Dragon technique with one punch.
• Yao Lao recognized Little Fairy Doctor’s Woeful Poison Body, burned away her poison with the Bone Spirit Cold Fire, and bound and silenced her.
• Xiao Yan took the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and secretly collected the fragmentary map of the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire from beside the skeleton.
• Xiao Yan left the keys and a bottle of Grade 2 Qi Recovery Pills as compensation, but did not notice Little Fairy Doctor’s skin turning red and then black beneath the bindings.

After emerging from more than three months of seclusion, Ye Qiu learned that Xiao Yan had left Wu Tan City and worried that Little Fairy Doctor might have encountered him. The chapter ended with Little Fairy Doctor unconscious from Heavenly Flame heat poison, and Ye Qiu furious at Xiao Yan.

• Ye Qiu completed his Gravity Fruit training, received system rewards, and emerged from seclusion at age sixteen.
• Pegasus told Ye Qiu that Little Fairy Doctor had left to gather herbs in the Demon Beast Mountain Range and that Xiao Yan had already entered the region.
• Ye Qiu summoned Wang Yi, Xiao Yicai, Xiao Feng, and Yue Buqun to ask about Xiao Yan and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Doctor Gray Wolf reported that Little Fairy Doctor had returned injured with a dangerously high fever.
• Ye Qiu identified Heavenly Flame marks on Little Fairy Doctor and ordered Wang Yi to retrieve Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Silk after an Ice Cicada died trying to draw out the heat.
• Ye Qiu clenched his fists and angrily blamed Xiao Yan before leaving the hospital room.

Ye Qiu summoned Akainu and ordered him to find Xiao Yan, punish him, and retrieve the fragmentary map of the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao identified the map as a clue to the rare Heavenly Flame, while Akainu began pursuing him.

• Ye Qiu summoned Akainu and ordered him to find Xiao Yan and bring back the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire map fragment.
• Ye Qiu authorized Akainu to mobilize forces across Green Mountain, Anlu, and nearby cities, and Akainu set out to pursue Xiao Yan.
• Qing Ye told Ye Qiu that Dean Yue had invited him to attend the Green Mountain Academy Competition.
• Xiao Yan examined the ancient parchment, and Yao Lao recognized its lotus symbol as a possible map fragment related to the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire.
• Yao Lao explained the Heavenly Flame’s terrifying power and rarity, then told Xiao Yan to rest before arduous training began the next day.

Ye Qiu attended Green Mountain Academy’s first grand competition and welcomed Mittel Ya Fei to the high platform. After Ya Fei realized Sword Emperor Xiao Yicai was the Sword Saint’s disciple serving under Ye Qiu, the competition officially began.

• Ye Qiu and his companions arrived at the academy’s grand competition, and Ye Qiu praised Dean Yue for his work.
• Ye Qiu and the others discussed finding promising students to cultivate and possibly take as disciples; Fa Hai said he could accept lay disciples.
• A Garrison General reported that Mittel Ya Fei had come to observe, and Ye Qiu invited her onto the high platform.
• Ye Qiu introduced Ya Fei to Fa Hai, Xiao Yicai, and Yue Buqun, and Ya Fei was shocked to learn Xiao Yicai was the Sword Saint’s disciple.
• Yue Buqun announced that Green Mountain Academy’s first grand competition had officially begun.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao sensed a battle between a human woman and the Amethyst Winged Lion King and flew toward it in smoke form. A middle-aged man named Sakazuki spotted Xiao Yan and pursued him, convinced that he had seen a Logia Smoke Fruit user.

• Sakazuki searched the Demon Beast Mountain Range, destroying Magical Beasts as he tried to locate someone.
• Yao Lao teased Xiao Yan about what he had refined, then both heard the Amethyst Winged Lion King's furious roar.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao watched the distant battle and Xiao Yan reflected on how little his past fights had prepared him for true power.
• Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan's body and used the Smoke Fruit to fly them toward the battlefield.
• Sakazuki saw Xiao Yan transform into smoke and vowed to capture him.

Xiao Yan watched Yun Yun and the Amethyst Winged Lion King prepare to fight over an Amethyst Spirit Crystal, while Yao Lao explained the value of the Transformation Pill. Their standoff was interrupted when Akainu arrived and looked toward Xiao Yan's hiding place.

• Xiao Yan reached the battlefield and hid in a tree, where he recognized Yun Yun confronting the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Yun Yun asked to exchange for an Amethyst Spirit Crystal, but the Lion King demanded a Transformation Pill and rejected her offer of other treasures.
• Yun Yun raised her sword and summoned a giant tornado as the Amethyst Winged Lion King gathered purple flames for battle.
• Akainu descended onto a mountaintop, ordered Yun Yun and the Lion King to stop, and looked toward Xiao Yan's hiding place.

Sakazuki confronted Xiao Yan over the harm he had caused the Little Fairy Doctor and demanded that he return the treasure he stole. After Sakazuki burned Xiao Yan’s left arm, he prepared to cripple him further, leaving Yun Yun and the Amethyst Winged Lion King watching in alarm.

• Sakazuki revealed himself and called Xiao Yan out of hiding, but stopped him when he tried to leave.
• Sakazuki attacked Xiao Yan with Dark Hound, and Yao Lao used the Smoke Fruit to flee with him, though Xiao Yan’s left arm was badly burned.
• Yun Yun recognized the Smoke Fruit, while the Amethyst Winged Lion King realized Sakazuki was a Dou Ancestor and stopped fighting.
• Sakazuki accused Xiao Yan of harming the Little Fairy Doctor with a Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Yan admitted he had taken her treasure but claimed he had compensated her.
• Sakazuki rejected Xiao Yan’s excuses, demanded the stolen treasure and threatened to cripple one of his arms.

Akainu demanded Xiao Yan return the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Fragment Map and sacrifice an arm, then fought Yao Lao when he refused. The battle escalated as Akainu prepared to attack through Yao Lao’s Heavenly Flame defenses with Armament Haki and Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Silk.

• Akainu rejected Xiao Yan’s offer to return the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and demanded the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Fragment Map and one of Xiao Yan’s arms.
• Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Yan’s ring and tried to negotiate, but Akainu refused and attacked him with Great Eruption.
• Yao Lao used Bone Spirit Cold Fire to shield himself and Xiao Yan, blocking the magma, while Akainu warned that Yao Lao could not sustain the defense indefinitely.
• Akainu wrapped Thousand Year Mysterious Ice Silk around his hand and coated it with Armament Haki, preparing to break through the Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Lao took Xiao Yan’s Profound Heavy Ruler and faced Akainu, and the two prepared to fight.

Akainu and Yao Lao fought fiercely in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and their clash threatened to kill Xiao Yan. Ling Ying intervened to save him and revealed himself as Gu Xun’er’s bodyguard.

• Akainu attacked Yao Lao, who fought back with Bone Spirit Cold Fire and the Profound Heavy Ruler, but Akainu’s Haki left Yao Lao weakened.
• Yao Lao and Akainu moved their battle to a giant tree as Yun Yun and the Amethyst Winged Lion King fled the danger.
• Yao Lao unleashed Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler against Akainu’s Great Eruption, setting the forest ablaze and sending a destructive heat wave toward Xiao Yan.
• Yao Lao and Akainu realized Xiao Yan was in danger, but a black beam parted the heat wave and saved him.
• Ling Ying appeared and mocked Akainu, who demanded that the hidden speaker show himself.

Akainu fought Yao Lao and Ling Ying over Xiao Yan and the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Fragment Map. Yao Lao escaped with Xiao Yan, leaving Ling Ying to face Akainu, who threatened to make the Gu Clan Clan Leader come to Marineford.

• After Yao Lao and Akainu exchanged attacks, Ling Ying arrived and shielded Xiao Yan, explaining that his young lady had ordered him to protect Xiao Yan.
• Akainu demanded the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Fragment Map, and Ling Ying urged Xiao Yan to hand it over for protection.
• When Akainu attacked Ling Ying, Yao Lao intervened, then grabbed Xiao Yan and fled while Ling Ying blocked Akainu’s pursuit.
• Akainu unleashed Great Eruption, but Ling Ying evaded the blast and revealed that he was protecting Xiao Yan on behalf of the Gu Clan and Xun Er.
• Akainu mocked the Gu Clan and vowed to capture Ling Ying and make its Clan Leader come to Marineford to beg for him.

Akainu fought Ling Ying after accusing him of helping Xiao Yan escape with the fragment map, badly injuring him and escalating the battle into a deadly attack. A white-haired young man rescued Ling Ying, leaving Akainu furious after another failed capture.

• Akainu attacked Ling Ying with magma and struck him down despite Ling Ying's attempts to evade and counterattack.
• Ling Ying invoked the Gu Clan's power, enraging Akainu, who unleashed Great Eruption and left him gravely injured.
• As Akainu prepared to finish Ling Ying, a white-haired young man intervened with Whirlwind Slash.
• The young man grabbed Ling Ying and fled while Akainu was pushed back by the clash.
• Akainu found Ling Ying gone and roared threats against Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Ling Ying.

Ye Qiu received a task to personally reclaim the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Fragment Map from Xiao Yan and went to the Demon Beast Mountain Range. After Xiao Yan escaped Akainu and tried to flee while injured, Ye Qiu arrived with reinforcements and confronted him.

• Ye Qiu received a system task to personally reclaim the Fragment Map and set out to find Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan hid in the Demon Beast Mountain Range and discussed his injuries and the danger of Akainu's forces with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan climbed down from his hiding place, but Xiao Feng's Dragon Capture Skill pulled him back.
• Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan's body and used the Heavenly Flame to break free, then defended against Purple Qi Comes East and Gray Wolf's missile.
• Xiao Yan was surrounded by Xiao Feng, Yue Buqun, and Gray Wolf before Ye Qiu arrived on a winged horse.

Ye Qiu confronted Xiao Yan and Yao Lao over the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Fragment Map, claiming it belonged to the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and demanding its return. After Xiao Yan handed it over, Ye Qiu challenged them to defeat Xiao Feng and Yue Buqun or come with him to face Akainu.

• Ye Qiu arrived and met Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, warning that Yao Lao had already spent much of his soul power fighting Sakazuki.
• Xiao Yan offered to surrender the fragment map and accept punishment if Ye Qiu spared Yao Lao.
• Ye Qiu denied ordering Akainu to hunt Xiao Yan and claimed the World Government’s fragment map had been a gift to Sun Wukong.
• Xiao Yan hurriedly returned the fragment map after realizing it belonged to the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and Ye Qiu received his mission reward.
• Ye Qiu ordered Xiao Feng and Yue Buqun to fight Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, promising to let them leave if Yao Lao defeated the two retainers.

Ye Qiu made Yao Lao fight Xiao Feng and Yue Buqun, promising to let him go if he defeated them. After the battle left all three weakened, King Gray Wolf attacked Yao Lao with an Interstellar Missile, and the resulting explosion turned the sky gray.

• Ye Qiu promised Yao Lao his freedom if he defeated Xiao Feng and Yue Buqun, and the three began fighting.
• Xiao Feng and Yue Buqun traded attacks with Yao Lao, who proved stronger and wounded Yue Buqun before Xiao Feng struck him with a powerful blow.
• Ye Qiu ordered King Gray Wolf to end the fight, and King Gray Wolf challenged Yao Lao to survive one strike in exchange for clearing his troubles with the World Government.
• King Gray Wolf fired an Interstellar Missile at Yao Lao, who tried to stop it with his strange fire despite Xiao Yan's warning.
• The missile exploded, filling the sky with gray smoke.