Chapter Summaries

Chu Xiao helped Medusa evolve into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and break through to Dou Zong, then began cultivating with her to refine her new body's energy. Their cultivation was underway when the heat from Chu Xiao's strengthening body began burning away Medusa's Dou Qi dress.

• Chu Xiao refined Medusa's bloodline with the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame, transforming it into that of a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and drawing a heavenly lightning tribulation.
• Medusa faced the lightning and completed her evolution, while Chu Xiao briefly entered the dispersing clouds to devour some of their lightning energy.
• The newly born Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python swallowed a Green Lotus Core Flame lotus seed and transformed into a human woman resembling Medusa.
• Chu Xiao brought Medusa to the Small World and used their joined cultivation to refine her remaining energy, strengthen her control of her body, and absorb some energy into himself.
• The heat from Chu Xiao's cultivation began destroying Medusa's clothes, and her replacement dress formed from Dou Qi started turning into sparks.

Chu Xiao completed his breakthrough to three-star Dou Wang and created the Glass Thunder Body, while Medusa cultivated in an enlightened state as his Thunder Flame Emperor Flame refined her Dou Qi and clothing. The chapter ended with Chu Xiao noticing Medusa’s exposed body and reacting in shock.

• Medusa realized the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame was purifying her Dou Qi and refining her dress, so she chose to cultivate the Barren Sky Serpent Scripture while in an enlightened state.
• Chu Xiao finished his closed-door cultivation at peak Dou Ling and devised the Glass Thunder Body as a new stage of his body-tempering technique.
• Han Yue and Han Xue discussed Chu Xiao’s future potential and their hopes of following him, while the Diary revealed his plan to help Cai Lin control her body through Dual Cultivation.
• Three days later, Chu Xiao shattered his Dou Crystal, advanced to three-star Dou Wang, and reached the beginner stage of the Glass Thunder Body.
• Chu Xiao noticed Medusa’s body and exclaimed, “Are you using this to test an old cadre?”

Chu Xiao challenged Medusa after reaching peak Dou Huang strength and defeated her in a fierce battle, claiming the victory she had promised him. The next morning, he used ten Yellow-Grade lottery draws and received several useful treasures, then looked forward to his higher-grade draws.

• Chu Xiao activated the Glass Thunder Body and challenged Medusa, despite the other women’s shock at his rapid increase in strength.
• Chu Xiao fought Medusa, whose sealing ability and other advantages proved ineffective against his enhanced speed and Glass Jade Body.
• Chu Xiao defeated and suppressed Medusa, then claimed victory; Medusa accepted the result, and they spent the night together.
• The next morning, Chu Xiao checked his accumulated lottery draws and used ten Yellow-Grade draws.
• Chu Xiao received rewards including the Gathering Qi Stone Tablet, Crimson Thread, and Silver Fish, then claimed them and prepared to use his Mysterious-Grade draws.

Chu Xiao used lotteries to obtain three unusual martial arts and a Top-grade Spirit Artifact, the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower. After testing the tower, he realized he could not fully activate it yet and discovered something atop it.

• Chu Xiao received Cloud Grasping Hand, Prismatic Rod Play, and Immortal Stepping Gait from three Mysterious Grade Lotteries.
• Chu Xiao used an Earth Grade Lottery and obtained the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower, while the women holding the Diary reacted to his sudden praise of Cai Lin.
• Xun Er messaged Medusa and learned that Cai Lin had been first again, then privately vowed to take revenge on Chu Xiao.
• Chu Xiao and Medusa became cultivation partners, and he gave her the red High Heels from his lottery.
• Chu Xiao summoned the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower on Sky Pillar Peak and found that his current spiritual power was insufficient to activate it fully.
• Chu Xiao sensed that the tower had gathered Power of Stars and discovered something atop it.

Chu Xiao mastered the High-Level Earth Grade Wind-Thunder Profound Mirror, while Yun Yun chose to honor her ancestor’s inheritance and prepare to deal with the Soul Hall. Yun Shan continued his breakthrough unaware that a hidden observer had seen through his thoughts and was waiting to test his resolve.

• Chu Xiao used the inheritance jade platform to obtain the Wind-Thunder Profound Mirror, then cultivated it and gained initial mastery of its method and three Dou Skills.
• Mu Qingluan lamented that she lacked wind and lightning attributes, and Feng Qing Er offered to help her advance the Great Sun Thunder Body.
• Yun Yun considered switching to Chu Xiao’s stronger method but decided to cultivate the Wind Cloud Sword Art and uphold the Misty Cloud Sect’s legacy.
• Yun Yun sensed that Chu Xiao had emerged from seclusion and resolved to handle proper business.
• Yun Shan sensed Yun Yun’s rising strength and regretted his deal with Soul Hall, then resumed his breakthrough as a hidden observer watched him.

Chu Xiao strengthened his allies by giving Qing Lin a cultivation method and then found Xiao Yan with Yue Ling, a Snake-People warrior who had grown close to him. After Yue Ling mimicked Medusa’s reaction to Chu Xiao naming her Cai Lin, Chu Xiao praised the impression while Medusa silently vowed to kill them all.

• Chu Xiao reviewed the vast inheritance stored in the Wind-Thunder Profound Mirror and resolved to use it to arm himself and his allies.
• Chu Xiao found Qing Lin cultivating with the Twin-Headed Spirit Serpent and offered to make her his sworn younger sister, but she chose to remain his maid.
• Qing Lin explained the secret art tied to her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Chu Xiao passed her the Earth Grade cultivation method Dragon Serpent Seven Transformations.
• Chu Xiao found Xiao Yan training beside a waterfall with Yue Ling, Yue Mei’s younger sister, who had stayed with Xiao Yan after he rescued her.
• Yue Ling greeted Chu Xiao and misunderstood his question about Cai Lin’s name; after she imitated Medusa’s threat, Chu Xiao praised her performance as Medusa silently vowed revenge.

Chu Xiao informed Yue Ling of Cai Lin’s breakthrough and the Snake-People Tribe’s role in Ling Xiao Pavilion’s upcoming establishment, while Xiao Yan learned how far Chu Xiao had advanced. In the Flame World, Yan Xiao asked Huo Zhi to take him along on her mission to the Ancient Clan to see the Xiao Family’s returned daughter.

• Yue Ling revealed that Hai Bo Dong spread rumors that Chu Xiao was Cai Lin’s chosen partner, and Chu Xiao praised Hai Bo Dong in his diary.
• Chu Xiao told Yue Ling that Cai Lin had become a Dou Zong and instructed the Snake-People Tribe to prepare for the ceremony, but a ripple from his sleeve made Yue Ling accept the order and leave for the Tagor Desert.
• Chu Xiao teased Xiao Yan about Yue Ling and revealed that he had reached three-star Dou Wang, stunning Xiao Yan and Old Yao.
• Yan Xiao broke through, and Huo Zhi struck him for calling his progress lucky before agreeing to let Xuan Huo Elder protect him on a trip around the Central Plains.
• Huo Zhi told Yan Xiao she was going to the Ancient Clan to see the daughter its patriarch had raised in the Xiao Family, and Yan Xiao shamelessly asked her to take him along.

Chu Xiao used the Heavenly Derivation Art to locate a cave dwelling near Xiao Yi Xian and tried to guide her toward it, while Xiao Yi Xian acted as though she had discovered it by chance. The cave’s entrance was revealed, but Xiao Yi Xian chose to return to Green Mountain Town and prepare before exploring; meanwhile, Yun Yun called a major Misty Cloud Sect assembly for seven days later.

• Huo Zhi refused to let Yan Xiao visit the Ancient Realm before he reached Dou Zun, then beat him after he teased her about the Ancient Clan patriarch’s daughter.
• Chu Xiao overtaxed his Soul Power while examining the Nether Flame Demon Fire Fragment Map, then recovered through Diary True Form visualization and found Xiao Yi Xian’s location.
• Chu Xiao discovered the nearby cave dwelling and wrote that he planned to lure Xiao Yi Xian to it and stage a rescue so he could share its treasures without arousing suspicion.
• Yun Yun ordered Yun Miao to summon a Misty Cloud Sect assembly in seven days, warning that the sect’s future depended on what happened.
• Chu Xiao manipulated the wind to send Xiao Yi Xian toward the hidden cave entrance, but she found the cave, suspected it might be dangerous, and climbed back up to prepare before exploring.

Chu Xiao reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, saved her from a Rock Snake, and persuaded her to reveal a cave dwelling hidden beneath a cliff. As they entered to explore its treasures, they reached a stone door in the dark, leaving Chu Xiao poised to tease Xiao Yi Xian about opening it.

• Chu Xiao provoked a Rock Snake into attacking Xiao Yi Xian, then pulled her onto the cliff with a rope.
• Chu Xiao killed the Rock Snake with Thunder Sharp Spear, and Xiao Yi Xian learned that he was powerful despite his claim that he was roughly a Dou Master.
• Chu Xiao questioned Xiao Yi Xian about the cliff, and she admitted that she had found a cave dwelling entrance below.
• Chu Xiao took Xiao Yi Xian into the cave dwelling, intending to give her a higher-grade poison-element cultivation method and other treasures.
• Chu Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian reached a stone door in the darkness, while the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and Medusa bickered inside his sleeve.

Chu Xiao and Xiao Yi Xian explored a hidden cave, where he secretly manipulated the Seven-Colored Poison Manual to trigger her Innate Poison Body awakening. He placed her in a poison pool in his Small World and then gave Xiao Yan a flying Dou technique.

• Little Cai offered to withdraw from control of Medusa's body in exchange for being reborn as Medusa's child's loyal magical beast.
• Chu Xiao broke through the cave's stone door, and he and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to divide its treasures and medicinal herbs.
• Chu Xiao secretly collected a map fragment and keys, then let Xiao Yi Xian inspect scrolls containing techniques and a poison manual.
• The altered Seven-Colored Poison Manual triggered Xiao Yi Xian's poison-body awakening, and Chu Xiao carried her to a prepared poison pool in his Small World.
• Chu Xiao gave Xiao Yan a high-grade Profound-tier flying Dou technique, and Xiao Yan excitedly claimed he knew the answer to Chu Xiao's good fortune.

Huo Zhi recovered and spoke with Huo Ling, while Chu Xiao rapidly advanced in alchemy and attracted Huo Zhi’s growing curiosity. The chapter left Huo Zhi secretly observing Chu Xiao and convinced that he had hidden secrets.

• Huo Zhi told Huo Ling that the Soul Clan had ambushed her and that she escaped using the Lotus Heart Space Pearl.
• Huo Ling advised Huo Zhi to investigate where she had been teleported, since the location might contain a newly born Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Chu Xiao urged Xiao Yan to study his flying Dou Technique and began learning alchemy from Old Yao.
• After three days of practice, Chu Xiao successfully refined a high-quality Awakening Spirit Pill and became a third-grade alchemist.
• Huo Zhi learned that Chu Xiao lived in a remote Northwest Continent country and secretly watched him, growing curious about his abilities and hidden secrets.

Huo Zhi decided to assess Chu Xiao as a potential person to invest in, while Chu Xiao left Xiao Yan to cultivate and flew north to wait for Hai Bo Dong. His diary entry about a future marriage plot alarmed Cao Ying and led Xun Er to suspect the Pill Tower Old Ancestor had planned to have Cao Ying seduce Chu Xiao.

• Remembering Huo Ling’s advice about investing in talented rogue cultivators, Huo Zhi decided to evaluate Chu Xiao’s character and talent.
• Chu Xiao told Xiao Yan to keep cultivating, declined Old Yao’s wish to continue alchemy lessons, and flew north because he expected Hai Bo Dong to seek his help in two days.
• Chu Xiao wrote in his diary that he had reached Grade Three alchemy in four days and might reach Grade Eight before turning twenty.
• Cao Ying grew angry at Chu Xiao’s prediction that she would not match his future alchemy progress, then noticed his diary entry about an old man urging her to seduce him.
• Xun Er reasoned that the Pill Tower Old Ancestor might arrange a marriage alliance and urge Cao Ying to approach Chu Xiao, while Cao Ying suspected the same ancestor.

The Pill Tower Old Ancestor arranged for Xuan Yi to take Cao Ying as her disciple after noticing Cao Ying's unusual potential and her intention to leave the Pill Domain. Xuan Yi brought Cao Ying into the Lesser Pill Tower, while wondering whether the Old Ancestor's interest in her was connected to Chu Xiao.

• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor decided Cao Ying must remain in the Pill Tower and sent Xuan Yi a message ordering her to take Cao Ying as a disciple and watch for Chu Xiao.
• Xuan Yi reviewed Cao Ying's background, traveled to Cao City, and found Cao Ying talking about defeating Chu Xiao and leaving for Starfall Pavilion.
• Xuan Yi asked Cao Ying to become her disciple and persuaded her by offering immediate entry to the Lesser Pill Tower and instruction in a Soul Secret Method.
• Cao Ying accepted Xuan Yi as her master, and Xuan Yi imparted a soul cultivation secret art before telling her to summon her elders.
• After Cao Ying left, Xuan Yi noted that her visible Soul Power and cultivation seemed ordinary and wondered whether the Old Ancestor's attention was because of Chu Xiao.

Xuan Yi took Cao Ying as her disciple and decided to travel with her to the Northwest Continent to seek out Chu Xiao. Meanwhile, Chu Xiao prepared for the Misty Cloud Sect assembly, where Yun Yun announced her intention to join the Ling Xiao Pavilion and confronted Yun Ling’s objections.

• Xuan Yi made Cao Ying her disciple, promised the Cao Family a reward, and agreed to take Cao Ying to the Northwest Continent after informing Xuan Kongzi and the others.
• Chu Xiao visited Mittel Tengshan and asked him to summon Hai Bo Dong for a meeting, promising him a Fu Ling Zi Dan and an Imperial Zenith Pill.
• Chu Xiao drew an Auction House for Lingxiao City, while Huo Zhi secretly observed him vanish into his Small World and wondered about his abilities.
• Chu Xiao entered the Misty Cloud Sect and arrived as Yun Yun convened the assembly, revealed her seven-star Dou Huang strength, and announced that she intended to join the Ling Xiao Pavilion.
• Yun Ling objected to Yun Yun’s decision, and she asserted her authority as Sect Leader while Chu Xiao remarked that she had stolen Medusa’s line.

Yun Yun asserted her authority as Misty Cloud Sect Leader and killed Yun Ling despite Yun Shan’s intervention. Yun Shan then challenged her right to remain Sect Leader, and Yun Yun turned the accusation back on him.

• Yun Yun declared that she would join the Ling Xiao Pavilion as a guest elder, and Yun Ling objected and threatened to have her removed as Sect Leader.
• Yun Yun cited the sect rules and attacked Yun Ling for insubordination, prompting him to summon Yun Shan with a jade token.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong and questioned Yun Yun, while Hai Bo Dong and other Jia Ma Empire experts watched nearby.
• Yun Yun insisted that Yun Shan should address her as Sect Leader and that he had no authority to interfere in sect affairs.
• Yun Shan tried to stop Yun Yun with Spatial Lockdown, but she broke through it and killed Yun Ling with her sword attack.
• Yun Shan declared that Yun Yun should no longer be Sect Leader, and Yun Yun challenged his right to make that decision.

Yun Yun exposed Protector Wu’s control over Yun Shan and used her inherited sword techniques to fight the Soul Hall protector. Protector Wu attacked the Misty Cloud Sect, and as Yun Yun was caught off guard by a chain emerging from torn space, someone else appeared.

• Protector Wu revealed that Yun Ling had become his third-class Soul Envoy, so Yun Yun killed Yun Ling’s soul to spare him from becoming the protector’s puppet.
• Yun Yun told Yun Shan that accepting Protector Wu’s aid would make him a controlled Soul Envoy, then explained how she had learned about Soul Hall and inherited Yun Potian’s legacy.
• Yun Shan struggled against Protector Wu’s influence, arguing with himself over whether to honor the Misty Cloud Sect or pursue power and survival.
• Yun Yun unleashed her Earth-Grade Dou Skill against Protector Wu, then diverted the resulting energy fragments to protect the sect’s disciples from the attack.
• Protector Wu sent a chain toward Yun Shan and another through torn space at Yun Yun, but he suddenly noticed an unknown presence.

Chu Xiao intervened when Protector Wu was about to defeat Yun Yun, trapping the Soul Hall enforcer with a spatial barrier and revealing allies who helped turn the fight against him. The chapter ended as Chu Xiao summoned a phantom treasure pagoda over Protector Wu.

• Chu Xiao appeared beside Yun Yun, gave her a fourth-grade pill, and challenged Protector Wu despite being identified as a three-star Dou Wang.
• Chu Xiao trapped Protector Wu in a spatial barrier, while Ling Ying freed Yun Shan from Protector Wu’s control and revealed his ties to the Ye Trading Company.
• Protector Wu tried to escape, but Cai Lin blocked him and revealed that she had also become a Dou Zong.
• Yun Yun, Cai Lin, the Amethyst Winged Lion King, Hai Bo Dong, and Jia Xingtian joined the attack on Protector Wu.
• Chu Xiao shouted “Suppress!” and formed a phantom treasure pagoda above Protector Wu.

Chu Xiao trapped Protector Wu and helped Yun Shan recover from the Soul Hall’s influence while recruiting powerful figures to the Ling Xiao Pavilion. He arranged a gathering for the Jia Ma Empire’s leaders the next day, then turned to Cai Lin to help with the remaining cleanup.

• Chu Xiao used the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower to trap Protector Wu and let Ling Ying stand down.
• Yun Yun asked Chu Xiao to spare Yun Shan, and Chu Xiao used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to remove the mark affecting Yun Shan’s soul.
• Chu Xiao gave Hai Bo Dong two Rank 6 Pills and promised an Ancestor Breaking Pill once he gathered the required ingredients.
• Chu Xiao invited the Jia Ma Empire’s faction leaders and Dou Huang experts to a meeting at the Xiao Family’s former residence the following day.
• Chu Xiao secretly left Yun Shan with a means of killing him, while Yun Shan teased Yun Yun about her relationship with Chu Xiao.
• Chu Xiao took Cai Lin’s hand and asked her to help with the cleanup after dealing with Protector Wu.

Chu Xiao recruited Gu He into Ling Xiao Pavilion by offering him a chance to study under Venerable Yao, while his allies fought Protector Wu inside the Heavenly Dipper Tower. The chapter ended with Protector Wu igniting a Soul Hall mark to self-destruct, and Chu Xiao preparing to counter him with Thunder Flame Emperor Flame.

• Chu Xiao asked Cai Lin and the others to help execute the suppressed Protector Wu, and they entered the Heavenly Dipper Tower through a gate he created.
• Chu Xiao declined Ling Ying’s offer to join the fight, then invited Gu He to become an elder of Ling Xiao Pavilion’s Pill Hall.
• Chu Xiao promised Gu He a chance to become Venerable Yao’s disciple, and Gu He accepted immediately.
• Inside the tower, Cai Lin and the others attacked Protector Wu until he ignited his soul mark and began a destructive self-detonation.
• Protector Wu’s black flame devoured the group’s attacks, and Chu Xiao summoned Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to counter it.

Chu Xiao refined Protector Wu into a soul bead and began cultivating with it after the Soul Hall crisis at the Misty Cloud Sect was resolved. As Gu He and Fa Ma moved to join Ling Xiao Pavilion, Chu Xiao’s cultivation triggered a strange vision that brought him face to face with the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Chu Xiao reversed Protector Wu’s self-destruction, refined him into a soul bead, and explained how consuming such a bead could strengthen Soul Power.
• Yun Shan’s soul problem was resolved, and Yun Yun left to preside over the sect assembly after agreeing that she and Yun Shan would attend the meeting.
• Chu Xiao returned to his Small World to refine the soul bead, while Yun Shan, Hai Bo Dong, and the others departed and Gu He revealed he had joined Ling Xiao Pavilion as a full elder.
• Gu He announced that Chu Xiao would introduce him to Venerable Yao, prompting Fa Ma to declare that he would join Ling Xiao Pavilion as well.
• Chu Xiao recorded details about the Soul Clan and its Nihility Devouring Flame in his Diary, then began refining the soul bead.
• A day later, a strange ripple swept across Sky Pillar Peak, and Chu Xiao found himself in a peculiar place where he recognized the Nihility Devouring Flame.