Chapter Summaries

Several Dou Kings ambushed the Xiao Family convoy, demanding the family’s treasures and a rumored Sixth-tier Medicinal Ingredient. When Xiao Zhan refused to accept their baseless accusation, the Dou Kings attacked and devastated the family, leaving him crying out in grief.

• The three Xiao Family elders charged the approaching Dou Kings but were swiftly knocked down, and the black-robed Dou King demanded the family’s treasures in exchange for letting them leave.
• Xiao Zhan handed over the Xiao Family’s storage rings, but the black-robed Dou King found no Sixth-tier Medicinal Ingredient and accused him of hiding it.
• Xiao Zhan denied that the Xiao Family had ever possessed the ingredient, and the black-robed Dou King ordered the Dou Kings to attack.
• Xiao Zhan activated Mad Lion Fury and rallied the Xiao Family to resist, but the Dou Kings’ Dou Skills sent their fighters flying and inflicted devastating losses.
• Xiao Zhan avoided serious injury and roared in grief as he watched the Xiao Family suffer.

Bai Ge intervened as the Xiao Family was being slaughtered and killed the black-robed Dou Kings with his Gravity Domain. After Xiao Zhan asked him to avenge the clan and offered anything in return, Bai Ge eliminated the fleeing attackers and descended toward him.

• Bai Ge flew over the Xiao Family convoy and announced that he was protecting the family.
• A black-robed Dou King mistook Bai Ge’s Holy Demon Wings for a flying Dou Technique and challenged him, but Bai Ge crushed him with his Gravity Domain.
• Ice Ape asked Bai Ge to spare the black-robed Dou Kings, while Xiao Zhan pleaded for revenge and promised to offer whatever Bai Ge wanted.
• Bai Ge agreed to Xiao Zhan’s offer, then used his Gravity Domain to kill Ice Ape and the remaining Dou Kings as they tried to flee.
• The Xiao Family mourned their dead as Bai Ge descended toward Xiao Zhan.

Bai Ge took the Xiao Family’s fragment of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade and promised to protect them if they agreed to host him as a four-year-old child three years later. Three years passed as his allies grew stronger and united their forces into the Bai Di Sect.

• Xiao Zhan gave Bai Ge the Xiao Family’s inherited fragment of the Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Bai Ge promised to protect the Xiao Family from the imperial capital’s families if they agreed to let him live among them in three years as a four-year-old child.
• Xiao Zhan agreed and told Bai Ge that the Xiao Family planned to relocate to Wutan City.
• Bai Ge departed after promising to warn the families that had pursued the Xiao Family, and the surviving Xiao Family members knelt to thank him.
• Over the next three years, Bai Ge and his allies advanced in strength, while the Cloud Mist Sect, Jia Ma Imperial Family, Mittel Family, and Snake People Kingdom united under Queen Medusa Cai Lin to establish the Bai Di Sect.

After three years in seclusion, Bai Ge prepared to leave the Bai Di Sect for the Xiao Family, taking Ya Fei to Wutan City for business experience while Yun Yun and Little Doctor Immortal prepared to go to Jia Nan Academy. He also told Yun Yun to bring a young Nalan girl into the sect when she began cultivating Qi, then flew toward the Xiao Family.

• Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Little Doctor Immortal played with Fennekin and discussed Bai Ge's plans to leave the sect.
• Bai Ge emerged from seclusion and told Ya Fei she would accompany him to the Mittel Family in Wutan City to test her business judgment.
• Bai Ge instructed Yun Yun to bring the young Nalan girl into the sect once she began cultivating Qi, hinting that an important story awaited her.
• Bai Ge tested his three disciples' progress, then left the Bai Di Sect using his Holy Demon Wings.
• Bai Ge recalled that Xiao Yan would soon begin cultivating Qi and that Xiao Xun'er was nearing the age when Xiao Yan would secretly nourish her body.

Bai Ge arrived at the Xiao Family to fulfill his promise to live there, disguising himself as a four-year-old boy named Xiao Bai. He was introduced to the younger generation, including Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning, as a distant relative.

• Xiao Zhan worried that Bai Ge’s arrival might clash with another Dou Huang who had arranged for a girl from his clan to stay with the Xiao Family.
• Bai Ge reassured Xiao Zhan, transformed into a small child, and instructed the Xiao Family elders to present him as their distant relative Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Zhan and the elders arranged a secluded residence for Bai Ge and agreed to conceal his true identity.
• The next day, Xiao Ning and a young girl discussed why the children had gathered and remarked on Xiao Yan’s withdrawn manner.
• Xiao Bai introduced himself to the Xiao Family children at the bluestone plaza.

Bai Ge joined the Xiao Family and toured the clan with Xiao Yu, while Xiao Ning grew resentful after she compared him to Xiao Yan. Bai Ge learned that Xiao Yan had been a boastful, dismissive child and encouraged Xiao Ning’s complaints.

• Xiao Zhan introduced Bai Ge as a distant branch relative seeking shelter, and the elders asked Xiao Yu to show him around.
• Xiao Yu guided Bai Ge and Xiao Ning through the Xiao Family grounds and pointed out the Back Mountain.
• Xiao Ning urged Xiao Yu to return for food, but she scolded him and compared him unfavorably to Xiao Yan.
• At the crowded cafeteria, Xiao Yu went to get food, and Bai Ge asked the sulking Xiao Ning about Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ning complained that Xiao Yan acted superior and rejected his invitations, and Bai Ge agreed that Xiao Yan had put on airs.

A month after settling into the Xiao Family, Bai Ge watched Xiao Xun'er arrive and worried that Xiao Yan would exploit her loneliness to get close to her. He fetched the Fennekin from Ya Fei and returned to wait outside Xiao Xun'er's room for Xiao Yan.

• Bai Ge spent a month casually exploring and making progress in the Mind Sword Body Great Law while keeping his distance from Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Xun'er to the Xiao Family, and Xiao Yu showed her around as Bai Ge secretly noticed a Dou Emperor protecting her.
• After the protector left, Bai Ge suspected Xiao Yan might visit Xiao Xun'er's room and decided to prevent him from taking advantage of her loneliness.
• Bai Ge traveled through space to the Mittel Auction House, took the Fennekin from Ya Fei, and returned to hide near Xiao Xun'er's room.
• A furtive figure crept toward Xiao Xun'er's room late at night as Bai Ge waited with the Fennekin.

Xiao Yan sneaked toward Xiao Xun'er’s room, but Bai Ge stopped him and beat him before visiting Xiao Xun'er and giving her Fennekin for company. The next day, Xiao Yan’s beating became a scandal across the Xiao Family, while Xiao Zhan stayed silent.

• Xiao Yan used Dou Qi to sharpen his senses and approached Xiao Xun'er’s room, hoping to win her favor.
• Bai Ge knocked Xiao Yan unconscious, took him to the Xiao Family’s Back Mountain, beat him, and hung him from a tree.
• Bai Ge visited Xiao Xun'er, told her he was also not originally from the Xiao Family, and gave her Fennekin as a companion.
• Xiao Xun'er warmly accepted Fennekin and was touched by Bai Ge’s concern before he left.
• News of Xiao Yan’s beating spread through the Xiao Family, but Xiao Zhan did not seek justice for him.

Twelve years after Bai Ge began living quietly, his power had grown enough for him to prepare to enter the Central Continent, where Little Doctor Immortal and Yun Yun had already established a foothold. At the Xiao Family’s annual cultivation test, Xiao Yan revealed his five-star Dou Practitioner cultivation, and Bai Ge arrived as the next examinee.

• Over twelve years, Bai Ge advanced to the fifth heaven of the Mind Sword Body Great Law and grew strong enough to rank among Dou Saints.
• Little Doctor Immortal reached the Dou Venerate level and Yun Yun reached Dou Ancestor, and the two traveled to the Central Continent to prepare for Bai Ge’s arrival.
• At the Xiao Family’s annual test, Xiao Yan displayed five-star Dou Practitioner cultivation and drew jeers calling him an eternal runner-up.
• Xiao Ning provoked Xiao Yan, who restrained himself because he feared the person backing Xiao Ning.
• The examiner called Xiao Bai, and Bai Ge leaped down from a tree while wondering how much strength to reveal.

At the Xiao Family’s annual test, Bai Ge deliberately stayed one level above Xiao Yan, worsening Xiao Yan’s frustration as Xiao Xun’er’s affection for Bai Ge became clear. Xiao Xun’er tested as a One-star Dou Practitioner and left with Bai Ge, while Xiao Yan remained surrounded by criticism.

• Bai Ge tested as a Five-star Dou Master and teased Xiao Yan for being one level below him again.
• Xiao Mei comforted Xiao Yan, who felt angry and powerless at being treated as the eternal runner-up.
• Xiao Xun’er gave her golden fox, Fennekin, to Bai Ge and tested as a One-star Dou Practitioner.
• Xiao Xun’er took Fennekin back and left the square with Bai Ge, prompting onlookers to praise Bai Ge as her most suitable match.
• Xiao Yan heard the crowd criticize him and grew increasingly irritated as he reflected on why he had lacked time to help others.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er learned that Nalan Yanran and the Bai Di Sect had come to the Xiao Family to end her engagement to Xiao Yan. At the reception hall, Bai Ge recognized Cai Die among the visitors, and he and Xiao Xun'er went to watch what would happen.

• Bai Ge praised Xiao Xun'er’s cultivation, and she told him that people from the Nalan Family were coming to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Xun'er explained that Nalan Yanran was a Bai Di Sect holy maiden and a Dou Shi, while Xiao Yan was only a five-star Dou Zhe, so the visitors likely intended to break the engagement.
• The next morning, Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er passed the reception hall and saw Xiao Zhan and the three elders meeting a white-robed old man, Nalan Yanran, and a woman in a seven-colored skirt.
• Bai Ge recognized the woman as Cai Die, and he and Xiao Xun'er decided to go closer and watch.

Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er joined Xiao Zhan’s meeting with Nalan Yanran, whose strength and status reflected the changes Bai Ge had brought to the region. Xiao Yan arrived at the end, just as Xiao Zhan’s polite conversation with Nalan Yanran continued.

• Xiao Zhan welcomed Nalan Yanran and the Bai Di Sect group, then asked after her family while hiding his wish for her to focus on Xiao Yan.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er entered the reception hall, and Nalan Yanran was surprised that she could not discern Bai Ge’s cultivation.
• The Great Elder warmly seated Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er, while Bai Ge noticed Cai Die watching him with joy and resentment.
• Xiao Xun'er questioned Bai Ge about Ya Fei and the woman he had noticed, and Bai Ge jokingly claimed women wanted him because he was handsome.
• Bai Ge observed Nalan Yanran’s Three-star Dou Shi insignia and Bai Di Sect uniform as she continued chatting politely with Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan entered the reception hall and asked Xiao Zhan what he wanted.

Nalan Yanran came to the Xiao Family to end her engagement to Xiao Yan, explaining that she wanted control over her own fate rather than rejecting him for being weak. The confrontation left Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan furious as Ge Ye revealed eighteen jade boxes as compensation.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the reception hall and learned that Nalan Yanran was his fiancée.
• Xiao Xun'er and Bai Ge discussed Xiao Yan's pride and his ignorance of Nalan Yanran's intentions.
• Ge Ye explained that Bai Di Sect's rule and its Young Sect Master's wishes made the engagement unsuitable, prompting Xiao Yan to angrily protest.
• Nalan Yanran declared that she would decide her own future and wanted to end the engagement regardless of Xiao Yan's strength.
• Ge Ye produced eighteen jade boxes, leaving the Xiao Family members puzzled and Bai Ge amused.

Ge Ye offered Xiao Zhan pills in exchange for ending Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s engagement, and Xiao Zhan struggled between family benefits and pride. Xiao Yan angrily opposed the arrangement, while Nalan Yanran rebuked him for refusing to respect her choice; someone then spoke up as the hall fell silent.

• Ge Ye offered Xiao Zhan nine Qi Gathering Powders and nine Essence Condensing Pills if the Xiao Family agreed to end the engagement.
• The elders urged Xiao Zhan to accept the pills, but he hesitated and looked to Xiao Yan and Bai Ge.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward and accused the Bai Di Sect of using its power to bully the Xiao Family.
• Nalan Yanran challenged Xiao Yan’s accusation and said he wanted to preserve his pride rather than respect her wish not to marry a stranger.
• As the reception hall fell silent, an unidentified speaker calmly asked to say something.

Bai Ge persuaded the Xiao Family to accept Nalan Yanran's dissolution of the engagement and compensation, arguing that it would protect the family and preserve its reputation. Xiao Yan agreed to a duel with Nalan Yanran in three years, while Nalan Yanran left with a warmer impression of Bai Ge.

• Bai Ge rebuked Xiao Yan for treating the engagement as a personal matter and explained that the Xiao Family's survival mattered more than his pride.
• Bai Ge argued that Nalan Yanran had acted reasonably and that the Xiao Family could present the dissolution in a way that avoided public humiliation.
• Xiao Yan angrily challenged Nalan Yanran to a duel in three years, and Bai Ge interrupted his grandiose line before he could finish it.
• Bai Ge accepted Nalan Yanran's compensation on behalf of the Xiao Family, and Nalan Yanran thanked him sincerely.
• Xiao Zhan allowed Nalan Yanran's group to leave, while Bai Ge ignored the elders' questions about the Pills and departed with Xiao Xun'er.

After leaving the Xiao Family, Cai Die reunited with Bai Ge in the woods and discussed their years apart, Qing Lin, and his plans. Bai Ge said he would stay with the Xiao Family for half a year before heading to Jia Nan Academy, and Cai Die agreed to prepare the sect’s people there and in the Black Corner Region.

• Nalan Yanran and Cai Die left the Xiao Family by carriage, and Cai Die slipped away after spotting Bai Ge nearby.
• Bai Ge and Cai Die embraced and caught up after nearly twelve years apart, while Cai Die teased him about his other female disciples.
• Bai Ge asked about Qing Lin, and Cai Die said her Four-Headed Fire Spirit Snake had grown to seven heads and reached roughly Dou Zun strength.
• Bai Ge told Cai Die he planned to remain with the Xiao Family for half a year, then go to Jia Nan Academy, and asked her to prepare the sect’s people there and in the Black Corner Region.
• Cai Die agreed to make preparations, and Bai Ge vanished from the woods before she flew back toward the horizon.

Bai Ge failed to turn his fused domains into a Sword Domain and planned to seek soul-nourishing ingredients from Ya Fei. Xiao Ning asked him to help secure a cultivation method at the Xiao Family's Dou Qi Pavilion during the coming-of-age ceremony, and Bai Ge agreed.

• Bai Ge practiced fusing his four domains with the Mind Sword Body Great Law but concluded that his soul power was insufficient to develop a Sword Domain.
• Bai Ge planned to visit Ya Fei for medicinal ingredients that could strengthen his soul, keeping the errand from Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Ning visited Bai Ge and teased him about supposedly liking Xiao Yu before asking for his help.
• Xiao Ning explained that he and Xiao Mei expected to reach the Dou Zhe level before the coming-of-age ceremony and wanted Bai Ge to help him obtain a cultivation method from the Dou Qi Pavilion.
• Bai Ge agreed to help Xiao Ning and gave a mysterious smile while considering Xiao Mei's involvement.

Bai Ge disguised himself and visited Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House, where he saw her use the Heavenly Demon Sound to spur bidders. After the auction, Ya Fei brought him to her private lounge and admitted she had told Cai Die he was there and taught her to keep an eye on him; she then playfully tempted him.

• Bai Ge used the Form-Change Method to disguise himself, entered the Mittel Auction House with a Bai Di Sect token, and learned Ya Fei was holding an auction.
• Bai Ge watched Ya Fei sell items while her Heavenly Demon Sound clouded the bidders' minds and drove up their bids.
• After the auction ended, Bai Ge slipped past the guards and revealed himself to Ya Fei, who led him to her private lounge.
• Ya Fei said she had informed Cai Die of Bai Ge's whereabouts and had taught her to watch over him so his harem would not grow too crowded.
• Ya Fei lay face-down on the bed and teased Bai Ge by asking whether he wanted to spank her.

Bai Ge asked Ya Fei to seek rare medicinal ingredients that could strengthen soul power, then learned that Xiao Yu would return for the Xiao Family's Coming-of-Age Ceremony. He reunited with Xiao Yu and Xiao Ning and discussed enrolling with Xiao Xun'er in Jia Nan Academy.

• Bai Ge asked Ya Fei to buy medicinal ingredients that could nourish and strengthen soul power, and she agreed to search for them.
• Ya Fei told Bai Ge she would leave with him when he left the Xiao Family, and Bai Ge promised she could join him later.
• Nearly half a year passed as the Xiao Family prepared for its Coming-of-Age Ceremony, and Xiao Ning eagerly told Bai Ge that his elder sister Xiao Yu was returning.
• Xiao Ning brought Xiao Yu to meet Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er after Xiao Yu returned from Jia Nan Academy.
• Bai Ge asked Xiao Yu about academy life and said he planned to enroll there with Xiao Xun'er; Xiao Yu teased him about needing help from recruitment instructors.

The Xiao Family's Coming-of-Age Ceremony began, and Xiao Ning stunned the crowd by testing as a One-Star Dou Practitioner. Xiao Yan watched Xiao Ning show off and trembled with anger.

• Bai Ge and Xiao Xun'er arrived at the crowded martial arts arena, where Ya Fei's arrival drew attention and made Xiao Xun'er jealous.
• Xiao Zhan announced the start of the ceremony, and Xiao Lie tested at the Fifth Stage of Dou Qi, losing the chance to continue cultivating in the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Ning stepped forward and tested as a One-Star Dou Practitioner, shocking the spectators.
• Bai Ge spotted Xiao Yan beneath a tree, gripping its bark and trembling with rage as Xiao Ning basked in the crowd's attention.