Chapter Summaries

Cao Ying announced her rapid progress while Xun Er and Medusa secretly bonded as they visited Qing Lin. Chu Xiao cultivated the Fen Jue and absorbed the remaining power of the Green Lotus Core Flame, ending with a breakthrough to seven-star Dou Ling.

• Cao Ying told her family she had touched the fourth-tier threshold and expected to become a Pill Tower core disciple at fourteen.
• Xun Er and Medusa greeted each other, agreed to keep Chu Xiao alive while beating him, and went to meet Qing Lin.
• Chu Xiao watched Xun Er and Medusa act friendly, wrote about them in the Diary, and began cultivating the Fen Jue with the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• The Thunder Flame Emperor Flame used the Fen Jue to devour the young flame of the Golden Emperor Sky-Burning Flame and the Yin-Yang Azure Lotus Core Flame, raising the technique to peak Profound Rank.
• Chu Xiao absorbed the remaining power of the Green Lotus Core Flame and a Dou Ling Pill, then broke through to seven-star Dou Ling as Xun Er and Medusa watched.

Chu Xiao used the Yin-Yang Azure Lotus Core Flame to reach seven-star Dou Ling, then revealed a secret technique that temporarily raised him to Dou Huang. As Medusa and Xun Er compared their Diary rewards and Mu Qingluan provoked Feng Qing Er, Chu Xiao spent his accumulated draws on five consecutive pulls.

• Xun Er explained to Medusa how Chu Xiao fused two Green Lotus Core Flames into the Yin-Yang Azure Lotus Core Flame and rapidly advanced to seven-star Dou Ling.
• Medusa and Xun Er discovered that they and Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian had received equal Diary rewards and tallied the same number of name mentions.
• Chu Xiao condensed a halberd and a sword from Dou Qi, then used Emperor Flame Possession to temporarily raise his cultivation to one-star Dou Huang.
• Mu Qingluan teased Feng Qing Er about her chances of defeating Chu Xiao and provoked her by calling her a potential mount.
• Chu Xiao reviewed the rewards he had accumulated in his Diary and requested five consecutive draws.

Chu Xiao used five lottery draws and received several useful rewards, including a powerful Thunderweave Bra, then wrote that his Diary could recover treasures from his past life. The Diary holders reacted to the revelation, while Han Yue emerged in the Jia Nan Academy Inner Academy and Xun Er affirmed her determination to stay with Chu Xiao.

• Chu Xiao claimed five lottery rewards, prized the Thunderweave Bra’s defensive and lightning-enhancing abilities, and considered giving Aqua Ice to Ya Fei.
• Chu Xiao wrote in the Diary that continued writing could recover treasures hidden in the Small World he had created before his death.
• The women who possessed Diary Copies realized that Chu Xiao might obtain powerful physical treasures from his past life.
• Han Yue emerged from the Burning Sky Refining Tower in the Jia Nan Academy Inner Academy, and students discussed her new Dou Ling realm and her younger sister’s plans to join the academy.
• A red-haired woman in a world of flames said she wanted to meet Chu Xiao soon.
• Medusa and Xun Er discussed women pursuing Chu Xiao, and Xun Er vowed to become powerful enough to remain worthy of him.

Chu Xiao finished cultivating and reunited with Xun Er and Medusa, then tried to make amends by cooking for them and Qing Lin. As the women enjoyed his chicken dishes, Han Xue revealed to Han Yue that she also had a Diary Copy and had come to Jia Nan Academy partly because of Chu Xiao.

• Chu Xiao emerged from seclusion, and Xun Er teased Medusa about wanting to bite him after he had kept her waiting.
• Chu Xiao told Xun Er that Medusa had agreed to submit to him if he became stronger than her, then changed the subject when Xun Er asked about their agreement.
• Chu Xiao apologized for his long absence by cooking six chicken dishes for Xun Er, Medusa, and Qing Lin, whom Medusa had met in the Small World and acknowledged as her younger sister.
• Han Xue told Han Yue that she had received a Diary Copy forty-three days earlier and had come to Jia Nan Academy after suspecting her sister had one too.
• Medusa insisted she would not eat Chu Xiao's food, but Chu Xiao put a fried chicken drumstick in her mouth, and she found it delicious.

After Medusa was caught eating most of the chicken, Chu Xiao reassured her by promising to accelerate her bloodline evolution. She began the refinement process, while Xun Er questioned Chu Xiao about Medusa’s clothes having burned before.

• Medusa claimed the chicken was only alright, but Xun Er and Qing Lin exposed how much she had eaten, and Chu Xiao recorded proof in his Diary.
• Medusa demanded that Chu Xiao compensate her for pausing her bloodline refinement, then he explained that he could now purify her bloodline every three days and help her evolve in about three months.
• Medusa agreed to begin immediately and entered the Azure Lotus Platform for refinement with the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• Chu Xiao said the refinement would take two hours, but Xun Er asked what Medusa meant when she mentioned her clothes being burned away before.

Chu Xiao agreed to make Xun Er new dresses, helped Xiao Yan break through to three-star Dou Zhe, and arranged to learn alchemy from Old Yao. As he prepared to take Xiao Yan to the Demon Beast Mountain Range, he learned that the Xiao Family had become dominant in Wutan City and that the Ice Emperor wanted to discuss important matters with him.

• Xun Er teased Chu Xiao about Cai Lin's clothes and asked him to make her at least two prettier dresses within seven days, which he agreed to do.
• Chu Xiao found Xiao Yan recklessly cultivating, helped him advance from two-star to three-star Dou Zhe, and learned from Old Yao that the Bodhi Fire Origin Skill worked well alongside alchemy.
• Chu Xiao proposed that he might cultivate the skill and learn alchemy; Old Yao agreed to teach him after their trip to the Demon Beast Mountain Range, while Chu Xiao promised to help Old Yao obtain a body and a quasi-Heaven Rank cultivation method.
• Chu Xiao told Xiao Yan to pack and say goodbye to his parents before they set off, and learned that Old Yao's Foundation Establishment Liquid had improved the Xiao Family juniors' cultivation.
• Xiao Yan reported that the Ice Emperor had allied the Mittel Family with the Xiao Family, Ya Fei's auction of the Foundation Establishment Liquid had strengthened the family, and the Ice Emperor wanted to speak with Chu Xiao about important matters.

Chu Xiao visited the Xiao Family and the Mittel Auction House, where he discovered Ya Fei had cultivated the Great Sun Thunder Body and learned that Jia Xingtian was ready to meet him. After postponing the meeting and assigning Ya Fei preparations for Ling Xiao Pavilion, he made an aggressive move toward her, and she wondered if she would be the first to become intimate with him.

• Chu Xiao left to find Hai Bo Dong, and Old Yao revealed to Xiao Yan that Chu Xiao had reached the Dou Ling realm.
• Chu Xiao praised Xiao Mei's progress, gave her Fire-Roasted Qingti Wine, and told her how to advance before Jia Nan Academy's admissions assessment.
• Chu Xiao found Hai Bo Dong absent at the Mittel Auction House and discovered that Ya Fei had cultivated the Great Sun Thunder Body.
• Ya Fei told Chu Xiao that Jia Xingtian had prepared what he needed, and Chu Xiao postponed their meeting for one to three months.
• Chu Xiao instructed Ya Fei to prepare plans for Ling Xiao Pavilion, and she flirted with him and wondered if she would be the first to become intimate with him.

Chu Xiao teased Ya Fei, then clashed playfully with Medusa and Xun Er before taking Xiao Yan to Green Mountain Town and promising to train him. The chapter left Xiao Yan stunned by Chu Xiao’s claim that a Dou Wang at twenty would only count as an ordinary genius in the Central Plains.

• Chu Xiao gave Ya Fei an Aqua Ice pearl that could change her water attribute to ice, while Ya Fei suspected he had deliberately teased her and considered pursuing the position of Imperial Concubine.
• Chu Xiao returned to the Small World, where Medusa asked to cultivate on the Azure Lotus Platform and provoked him; he sealed her and kissed her as Xun Er watched.
• Xun Er flew away with Chu Xiao and bit his chest after catching him kissing Medusa, then softened when he let her bite him and praised her teeth.
• Chu Xiao returned to Sky Pillar Peak with Xun Er, who fled to her room, while Medusa went to cultivate on the Azure Lotus Platform.
• Chu Xiao took Xiao Yan to Green Mountain Town and said he could reach Dou Wang within five years, then told him that a Dou Wang at twenty would be an ordinary genius in the Central Plains.

Chu Xiao took Xiao Yan around Green Mountain Town and promised to find him a flying Dou Skill before he became a Dou Master. There, Chu Xiao met Xiao Yi Xian, bound her Diary Copy, and synchronized a secret art she had learned.

• Xiao Yan questioned Chu Xiao's strength and offered his future Heavenly Flame to help Old Yao revive, while Yan Xiao complained about Huo Zhi's threats in the Flame World.
• Chu Xiao bet Old Yao that he could find Xiao Yan a flying Dou Skill before Xiao Yan became a Dou Master.
• Chu Xiao and Xiao Yan walked through Green Mountain Town, where mercenaries praised physician Xiao Yi Xian as she emerged from a shop.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Chu Xiao, and he bound her Diary Copy and synchronized the Mystic Tortoise Concealment Art.

Xiao Yi Xian unexpectedly gained entry into the Great Sun Thunder Body in front of Chu Xiao, alarming the women who feared he would discover the Diary Copies. Chu Xiao instead explained the event as a mysterious inheritance from the Heavenly Palace lightning pool, leaving the women reassured and impressed by his mistaken deduction.

• Xiao Yi Xian claimed entry into the Great Sun Thunder Body, causing thunder to gather over her and alarming Chu Xiao and the women with Diary Copies.
• Xun Er warned Xiao Yi Xian to hide how she had gained the technique and sought Cai Lin’s help to distract Chu Xiao.
• Chu Xiao updated his Diary, recognized the Great Sun Thunder Body, and prompted Xun Er and Cai Lin to give up on concealing it.
• Feng Qing Er and Mu Qingluan guessed that meeting Chu Xiao enabled Xiao Yi Xian to claim an Earth-Rank technique, and worried that he might learn the Diary’s contents had leaked.
• Chu Xiao reasoned that Xiao Yi Xian had received a mysterious inheritance through a connection to the Heavenly Palace lightning pool, and the women accepted his explanation with relief.

Chu Xiao used his Diary to warn its readers that changing the future could alter lives and relationships, then intervened when lightning struck Xiao Yi Xian. After she survived and gained the Great Sun Thunder Body, he realized her clothes hinted at Xun Er’s involvement.

• Mu Qingluan explained that Chu Xiao understood the Diary differently because he was its writer, while she and Feng Qing Er were readers.
• Chu Xiao described how Xun Er had once gained enlightenment from a butterfly, leading the women to understand how small changes could alter the future and why he wanted them to act cautiously.
• Chu Xiao fused his cultivation, physique, and Thunder Flame Emperor Flame, drove the crowd away from Xiao Yi Xian, and told her to endure the lightning for its benefits.
• Xiao Yi Xian survived the lightning after half an hour and reached the beginner stage of the Great Sun Thunder Body.
• Chu Xiao noticed Xiao Yi Xian’s clothes had survived the lightning and suspected Xun Er had given them to her, leaving him unsure how to explain their quality.

Chu Xiao left the lightning inheritance site with Xiao Yan, claiming he had mastered the Great Sun Thunder Body and passing the technique to him. He planned to meet Xiao Yi Xian later under circumstances that would let them become friends naturally, while Xiao Yi Xian resolved to seek out the cave dwelling herself; Chu Xiao then left Xiao Yan training in a secluded valley and went to deal with his “precious darlings.”

• Chu Xiao used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to take Xiao Yan away from the lightning phenomenon and told him he had mastered its Earth-Grade Low-Level body-refining technique, the Great Sun Thunder Body.
• Chu Xiao transmitted the Great Sun Thunder Body to Xiao Yan, who planned to repay his cousin by sharing a high-level Dou Skill, while Xiao Yi Xian reached the Copper Thunder Body entry level.
• Xiao Yi Xian discovered through the Diary why Chu Xiao had left and learned that he intended to wait until she explored a cave dwelling before helping her and befriending her.
• Xiao Yi Xian decided to lead more herb-gathering teams into the mountains to find the cave dwelling early, while Xun Er and Medusa learned Chu Xiao's plan through the Diary.
• Chu Xiao brought Xiao Yan to a secluded valley, where Old Yao gave him the Mystic Heavy Ruler and explained how it would aid his training.
• Chu Xiao flew away on Heavenly Flame wings, saying it was time to have some fun with his “precious darlings.”

Chu Xiao forged a Three-Colored Fire Lotus from three Heavenly Flames and unleashed it on the Amethyst Winged Lion King, testing whether the beast could survive a single attack. The lotus detonated in a vast explosion, leaving the Lion King's fate unknown.

• Chu Xiao separated the Golden Emperor Sky-Burning Flame and summoned the Yin-Yang Azure Lotus Core Flame to combine with his Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• Chu Xiao revealed that he planned to use the essence blood of five Sixth-Rank Demonic Beasts to perfect his Great Sun Thunder Body, and he chose the Amethyst Winged Lion King as his first target.
• Old Yao took control of Xiao Yan's body and flew with him to witness Chu Xiao's Three-Colored Fire Lotus, which Old Yao judged powerful enough to kill ordinary low-level Dou Zong experts.
• Chu Xiao challenged the Amethyst Winged Lion King to survive his attack and hurled the Three-Colored Fire Lotus at it.
• The fire lotus exploded in a massive blast that was heard as far away as Green Mountain Town.

Chu Xiao subdued the injured Amethyst Winged Lion King, hunted other powerful demonic beasts, and broke through to the middle stage of the Mortal Realm. He used his forty-ninth-day lottery draw to obtain the Heavenly Derivation Art, a great-perfection Divine Technique.

• After the Three-Colored Fire Lotus left the Amethyst Winged Lion King and its child badly wounded, Chu Xiao collected the lion king's blood and sealed it into submission with the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• Chu Xiao recovered, shared a meal with Qing Lin, Cai Lin, and Xun Er, and sent food to Xiao Yan before returning to visualize his Diary.
• Chu Xiao searched the Demon Beast Mountain Range for powerful demonic beasts, using a Three-Colored Fire Lotus to kill a Black-Backed Demonic Ape and suppressing a nest of Golden Scaled Luan Birds with another technique.
• After meditating and making clothes for Xun Er, Chu Xiao broke through to the middle stage of the Mortal Realm, expanding his soul's perception and his Small World's teleportation range.
• On the forty-ninth day since his rebirth, Chu Xiao hugged Cai Lin and Xun Er before drawing the lottery and obtaining the Heavenly Derivation Art.

Chu Xiao obtained and quickly mastered the Great Perfection Divine Technique Heavenly Derivation Art, then used it to deduce information about Xun Er's past. After spending time with Xun Er, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin in the Small World, he prepared to take Xun Er outside as she was about to return to the Ancient Clan.

• Chu Xiao claimed the Heavenly Derivation Art and absorbed its cultivation method, while the women reading the Diary Copies were astonished by the technique's rank and could not understand its script.
• After writing the method in the Diary, Chu Xiao received insights that brought the Heavenly Derivation Art to minor mastery.
• Chu Xiao used the art to deduce Xun Er's past, frowned at what he learned, then reassured her and promised to cook her chosen dishes.
• Chu Xiao and Xun Er shared a meal and affectionate time with Cai Lin and Qing Lin in the Small World.
• Xun Er asked Chu Xiao to take her outside, and Cai Lin said she would go too; Chu Xiao's Diary called Cai Lin's excuse clumsy, prompting Medusa's silence and Xun Er's smile.

Xun Er prepared to return to the Ancient Clan, and Chu Xiao supported her decision, gave her gifts, and promised they would meet again. When they left the Small World, they found an Ancient Clan party mocking Xiao Yan, and Chu Xiao confronted its leader.

• Xun Er told Chu Xiao she planned to return to the Ancient Clan to cultivate, and he agreed to support her choice.
• Chu Xiao gave Xun Er three handmade dresses and promised to visit her, while Medusa and Qing Lin also gave her gifts.
• Chu Xiao led the women out of the Small World and saw Xiao Yan surrounded by Ancient Clan members on flying demonic beasts.
• The leader mocked Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family, prompting Chu Xiao to condemn the Ancient Clan for sending someone like him to retrieve Xun Er.

Chu Xiao confronted Ling Quan over the Ancient Clan’s arrogance and defeated him with one finger after Ling Quan challenged his strength. When Yang Qian intervened, Chu Xiao summoned a lightning finger to face him, and the clash began.

• Ling Quan greeted Xun Er and said the Ancient Clan had sent him to escort her home, while Xun Er promised Chu Xiao she would wait for him in the Central Plains.
• Ling Quan insulted the Xiao Clan and challenged Chu Xiao, who answered by summoning three powerful demonic beasts and daring Ling Quan to face them.
• Ling Quan insisted on fighting Chu Xiao personally, and Chu Xiao used his enhanced strength and Falling Thunder Finger to pierce Ling Quan’s Overturning Sea Seal and hurl him into a cliff.
• Chu Xiao spared Ling Quan for Xun Er’s sake and questioned why the Ancient Clan had sent such a weak escort.
• Yang Qian emerged from torn space and challenged Chu Xiao, who identified him as a half-step Dou Zong and launched Thunder Flame Sky-Burning Finger against his Overturning Earth Seal.

Chu Xiao defeated Yang Qian and the Black Annihilation Army, then demanded and received compensation before Xun Er departed for the Ancient Clan. After the escort left, Chu Xiao called for someone hiding nearby to come out.

• Chu Xiao used Thunder Flame Sky-Burning Finger and close-combat attacks to defeat Yang Qian, silencing the Black Annihilation Army.
• Ling Yan intervened, and Chu Xiao agreed to end the dispute after receiving Thunder Snake Dance from Ling Quan and Netherworld Three-Eyed Shark essence blood from Yang Qian.
• Yang Qian escorted Xun Er away, and she shared a tender farewell with Chu Xiao.
• After the Black Annihilation Army disappeared into the distance, Chu Xiao turned aside and ordered someone to come out.

Chu Xiao welcomed Ling Ying into his service and promised him pills that could help him become a Dou Zong, while refusing Medusa’s request to give an Ancestor Breaking Pill to her tribe. After settling his plans for the others, Chu Xiao entered seclusion in the Small World to begin cultivating with several kinds of magical beast blood.

• Ling Ying appeared and Chu Xiao introduced him as Xun Er’s former protector, who would now serve him.
• Chu Xiao assigned Imperial Zenith Pills to Ling Ying, Old Hai, Yun Yun, and one of two rival magical beasts, then promised Ling Ying an Ancestor Breaking Pill when he was ready to advance.
• Medusa asked to give the Ancestor Breaking Pill to one of her tribe’s elders, but Chu Xiao refused and explained that her own bloodline evolution offered a better path.
• Ling Ying knelt and pledged to protect Chu Xiao after receiving the promise of future advancement.
• Chu Xiao stored the magical beasts in the Small World, told Xiao Yan to continue training, and returned inside with Medusa and Qing Lin.
• Chu Xiao gathered blood from several magical beasts and began a new period of seclusion.

Chu Xiao completed the Great Sun Thunder Body after refining five Sixth-Rank Demonic Beast essence blood portions in a formation, reaching physical strength comparable to a Seventh-Rank Demonic Beast and advancing to peak Dou Ling. He then took Medusa, whom he called Cai Lin, out of the Small World to help her undergo a bloodline evolution and face a lightning tribulation.

• Chu Xiao spent sixty-three days gathering natural energy and tempering the five portions of essence blood in a grand formation powered by Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.
• During Chu Xiao's seclusion, Xun Er cultivated, Medusa prepared for bloodline metamorphosis, Qing Lin formed a contract with the Twin-Headed Spirit Serpent, and Ya Fei helped begin construction of Lingxiao City.
• Chu Xiao absorbed the essence blood as the formation reached full force, and his body transformed into the Great Sun Thunder Body.
• Chu Xiao shattered a mountain with his newfound physical strength, reached the peak of Dou Ling, and advanced his soul realm toward the late stage.
• Chu Xiao brought Medusa out of the Small World to help her undergo evolution and face the lightning tribulation.