Chapter Summaries

After Thunder Flame Emperor Flame devoured a trace of Nihility Devouring Flame's offspring flame, Chu Xiao saw visions of the flame’s past, advanced his soul realm, and rose to four-star Dou Wang. When Nihility Devouring Flame tried to trace the mysterious presence spying on it, it glimpsed a black-purple flame and involuntarily knelt.

• Chu Xiao recognized visions of Nihility Devouring Flame’s birth, imprisonment, escape, and history with the Soul Clan, and found his soul realm had reached the late Mortal Realm limit.
• Chu Xiao devoured Spiritual Qi to advance to four-star Dou Wang, then used Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to raise his aura to one-star Dou Zong.
• Chu Xiao explained soul realms to Cai Lin and kissed her after promising he had ways to increase her Soul Power together with him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Tiandi that an unknown presence had spied on it, and Hun Tiandi helped it search for the source.
• Nihility Devouring Flame glimpsed a black-purple flame and dropped to its knees, leaving Hun Tiandi stunned.

Nihility Devouring Flame recovered memories of Tou She Ancient God and revealed clues about the Dou Emperor breakthrough, while Hun Tiandi considered how to locate the Xiao Clan’s jade. Meanwhile, Chu Xiao visited Ya Fei and gave Hai Bo Dong a Youth Preservation Pill, whose effects transformed his appearance.

• Nihility Devouring Flame remembered that Tou She Ancient God had captured and devoured him to condense something that enabled him to become a Dou Emperor.
• Nihility Devouring Flame recalled escaping into a dark land and fleeing a mysterious colossal creature, while Hun Tiandi decided to seek more memories by strengthening his soul.
• Hun Tiandi suspected that Gu Yuan’s daughter, recently brought back from the Northwest Continent, could lead them to the Xiao Clan’s piece of Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Chu Xiao visited Ya Fei and teased her with a Youth Preservation Pill before Hai Bo Dong arrived and took the pill for himself.
• Hai Bo Dong swallowed the pill, which removed his scar and made him look younger, leaving Ya Fei envious.

Chu Xiao gave Ya Fei a Youth Preservation Pill and a body-tempering technique before taking her and Hai Bo Dong to a meeting at the Xiao Family residence. The meeting began with Yun Shan and Hai Bo Dong trading boasts about their ties to Chu Xiao, until Yun Yun stopped her master and called everyone back to business.

• Ya Fei accepted a Youth Preservation Pill from Chu Xiao, who also promised to teach her a body-tempering technique.
• Chu Xiao told Hai Bo Dong that he would represent Medusa at the meeting because she was in seclusion, then took Ya Fei and Hai Bo Dong to the Xiao Family residence.
• Chu Xiao took the seat of honor at the meeting, where Yun Shan mistook Hai Bo Dong for his illegitimate son after seeing his rejuvenated appearance.
• Yun Shan and Hai Bo Dong argued over whose connection to Chu Xiao was stronger, while Yun Shan praised his own bond with Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun released inherited sword intent to silence Yun Shan, then asked Chu Xiao to begin the meeting's proper business.

Chu Xiao outlined Ling Xiao Pavilion’s structure, strict disciple ranks, and benefits to the Jia Ma Empire’s leading factions, then invited them to join. Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian volunteered for positions, leaving Yun Yun embarrassed by her teacher’s shameless change of plans.

• Chu Xiao had Ya Fei explain Ling Xiao Pavilion’s halls, disciple ranks, and cultivation requirements to the assembled factions.
• Chu Xiao revealed that the pavilion had multiple Dou Zun experts and described the instruction available to disciples and offerings.
• Yun Shan asked to become a personal disciple, but Chu Xiao rejected him because he was too old and lacked sufficient talent.
• Jia Xingtian volunteered to become a core disciple, while Yun Shan agreed to join as a fourth-grade elder after claiming it was out of gratitude.
• Yun Yun realized Yun Shan had abandoned their prior plan for him to become a guest offering and felt embarrassed by his conduct.

Yun Yun, Hai Bo Dong, Jia Xingtian, and other leaders agreed to join the Ling Xiao Pavilion, while Fa Ma joined its Alchemy Hall. Chu Xiao set out with Jia Xingtian to heal the Nether Sea Serpent Beast, which mistook Chu Xiao’s youth for a sign he would become a Dou Zong.

• Yun Yun arranged to join the Ling Xiao Pavilion as a guest elder and promised Nalan Yanran the Misty Cloud Sect leadership after she reached Dou Huang.
• Hai Bo Dong, Jia Xingtian, Mittel Tengshan, and others agreed to join the Ling Xiao Pavilion, and Fa Ma joined its Alchemy Hall after Chu Xiao promised to introduce Gu He to Yao Chen.
• Chu Xiao cured Nalan Jie’s Burn Poison and promised to help Jia Xingtian heal the Nether Sea Serpent Beast.
• Yun Yun left for the Misty Cloud Sect with Yun Shan, who crudely advised her about her relationship with Chu Xiao, prompting her to challenge him to a swordsmanship test.
• Chu Xiao and Jia Xingtian reached the lake, where the Nether Sea Serpent Beast emerged and praised Chu Xiao’s talent, calling him someone with the bearing of a Dou Zong.
• Chu Xiao protested that the Nether Sea Serpent Beast was cursing him.

Chu Xiao recruited the Nether Sea Serpent Beast into the Ling Xiao Pavilion, promising to heal it and help it evolve, then headed to the Misty Cloud Sect to speak with Yun Yun. His diary revealed his plans for Zi Yan and Feng Qing Er, while Yun Yun's feelings for him became apparent as she served him tea.

• Chu Xiao provoked the Nether Sea Serpent Beast, then offered to heal its injuries and help it evolve into a flood dragon in exchange for joining the Ling Xiao Pavilion's Beast Hall.
• The Nether Sea Serpent Beast accepted, and Chu Xiao promised Jia Xingtian a future chance to become a Dou Zong and offered Yao Yue a choice of pills in return for taking the beast.
• Chu Xiao told Jia Xingtian to send one-tenth of the Jia Ma Empire's tax revenue to the Ling Xiao Pavilion before leaving through a tear in space.
• Zi Yan read Chu Xiao's diary and learned that he believed she was an Ancient Void Dragon who would eventually return to her clan.
• Feng Qing Er resisted the idea of becoming Chu Xiao's mount despite the promised benefits, while Mu Qingluan teased her about it.
• At the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Yun served Chu Xiao tea, and Yun Shan revealed she had brewed it before Chu Xiao arrived; Yun Yun then questioned how Chu Xiao addressed her.

Chu Xiao discussed entering the Gate of Life and Death with Yun Yun, helped her grasp Yun Potian’s sword technique, and prepared to establish Ling Xiao Pavilion after their cultivation. He gave Cai Lin a spatial escape mark before sending her back to the Snake-People Tribe, then sensed something strange through his Soul Power.

• Yun Shan backed Chu Xiao’s affectionate address for Yun Yun, then took a sip of Chu Xiao’s Essence Spirit Purple Grape Wine before Yun Yun confiscated the gourd.
• Chu Xiao told Yun Yun that he could activate the Gate of Life and Death and planned for them to cultivate there until she approached Dou Zong; he said Ling Xiao Pavilion would be announced when they emerged.
• Yun Yun demonstrated Wind God Annihilation, and Chu Xiao shared his insights into the sword technique with her before leaving for the Small World.
• Cai Lin told Chu Xiao she was returning to the Snake-People Tribe, and he gave her a Thunder Flame Emperor Flame mark with a spatial node for emergencies.
• Cai Lin kissed Chu Xiao and asked him to send her out; after she vanished, Chu Xiao sensed a disturbance in his Soul Power and turned toward it.

Chu Xiao suppressed Xiao Yi Xian’s Innate Poison Body eruption and explained how it had awakened, but she feared her Cursed Poison Body would eventually kill them both. He claimed he could remove its hidden danger and offered to do so if she became his Spirit Herbalist.

• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poison in the pit, broke through to one-star Da Dou Shi, and awakened her Innate Poison Body.
• Chu Xiao used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to suppress Xiao Yi Xian’s poison and gave her a secret method to form clothes from Dou Qi.
• Chu Xiao explained that the Seven-Colored Poison Manual and the poison he supplied had awakened Xiao Yi Xian’s physique, and she learned that her cursed body had caused the poisonings around her since childhood.
• Xiao Yi Xian cried over believing herself an omen of misfortune, then tried to leave so her accumulating poison would not harm Chu Xiao.
• Chu Xiao told Xiao Yi Xian that he could eliminate the Cursed Poison Body’s hidden danger and asked her to become his Spirit Herbalist.

Chu Xiao explained that Xiao Yi Xian could become a Spirit Herbalist and described three ways to manage her Innate Poison Body, including finding the Netherworld Poison Fire. The chapter left Xiao Yi Xian asking whether Chu Xiao’s offer was motivated only by her potential, while Han Yue and Han Xue began preparing to study Spirit Arrays.

• Chu Xiao concluded that Xiao Yi Xian was suited to poison, medicine, and spirit herb cultivation, while Han Yue and Han Xue could develop into Spirit Array Masters.
• Han Yue decided to study formation books with Han Xue after they returned to the Inner Academy, and Zi Yan wondered whether Beast Taming suited her.
• Chu Xiao told Xiao Yi Xian that his lower solution would remove her Innate Poison Body, while his middle solution would suppress its toxins but eventually require dual cultivation or the loss of her physique.
• Chu Xiao offered to help Xiao Yi Xian find and refine the Netherworld Poison Fire, which could strengthen her poison control and let her become an alchemist.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Chu Xiao whether he was willing to invest in her for any reason beyond her talents.

Xiao Yi Xian agreed to become Ling Xiao Pavilion’s Spirit Herbalist after testing Chu Xiao’s intentions, and he began establishing her role and workspace. Chu Xiao then visited Xiao Yan and Old Yao, offering Old Yao a reforged Soul Hall artifact that could strengthen his soul and combat power.

• Xiao Yi Xian tested whether Chu Xiao coveted her, then chose to work for him as a Spirit Herbalist and agreed to call him Brother Chu in private.
• Chu Xiao appointed Xiao Yi Xian head of the Spirit Herb Hall, arranged for her to work with Qing Lin, and designated land for her to cultivate spirit herbs.
• Chu Xiao traveled around the Jia Ma Empire to intimidate Dou Wangs and coordinate Ling Xiao Pavilion’s preparations with Ya Fei, Hai Bo Dong, and Jia Xingtian.
• Chu Xiao returned to the Demon Beast Mountain Range and told Xiao Yan and Old Yao about his clash with the Soul Hall and the death of an Earth-ranked Protector.
• Chu Xiao gave Old Yao a reforged Soul Hall chain that could grant him a powerful spirit-body state and help restore and improve his Soul Power.

Chu Xiao gave Old Yao a soul artifact, arranged for Gu He and Fa Ma to seek Old Yao’s guidance, and entered seclusion plans while Huo Zhi secretly followed him. After an unknown force tried to capture him, Chu Xiao identified the mysterious woman as Huo Zhi, the strongest young lady on the Dou Qi Continent.

• Old Yao accepted Chu Xiao’s silver-white chains, used them to strengthen his soul body, and sensed someone spying nearby.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen to train him harder so he would not fall behind Chu Xiao, while Huo Zhi escaped Old Yao’s detection and decided to approach Chu Xiao.
• Chu Xiao gave Gu He and Fa Ma Ling Xiao tokens and sent them to meet Xiao Yan and undergo Old Yao’s test in the Demon Beast Mountain Range.
• Huo Zhi heard Chu Xiao describe Grade Seven and Grade Eight alchemists and Dou Zong and Dou Zun experts as merely a starting point, and resolved to act.
• An unknown expert tried to imprison Chu Xiao near the Misty Cloud Sect, but the Small World teleported him away; he used the Heavenly Derivation Art to identify the red-veiled woman as Huo Zhi.

Huo Zhi arrived in the Northwest Continent and attacked Chu Xiao, prompting him to infer that she held a Diary Copy; the other women learned about her future and their own prospects. Huo Zhi received her exclusive copy, discovered Chu Xiao’s secrets, and decided she must hide that she could read it.

• Chu Xiao used the Heavenly Derivation Art to identify Huo Zhi and suspected she had a Diary Copy after she attacked him.
• Mu Qingluan and the other women read about Huo Zhi’s prodigious talents and discussed the future strength and fortunes of Zi Yan, Xun Er, Feng Qing Er, Yao Ling, Cao Ying, and Tang Huo'er.
• Tang Huo'er grew angry at being predicted to fade into obscurity and considered using her connection to the Xiao Clan to improve her standing.
• Huo Zhi received Chu Xiao's Notes Copy, read its revelations about Chu Xiao and the future, and realized she had to keep her Diary Copy secret.
• Huo Zhi called out to the hidden Chu Xiao and said she had something to discuss with him.

Chu Xiao questioned Huo Zhi’s motives after she offered him a protector, and she explained her ties to the Flame Clan, the Ancient Clan, and the Xiao family. The chapter ended with Huo Zhi confidently claiming her judgment was better than the Ancient Clan’s.

• Chu Xiao suspected Huo Zhi had recently received a Diary Copy and tried to uncover why she had come to the Northwest Continent.
• Huo Zhi offered to arrange a protector for Chu Xiao and said she came from the Flame Clan.
• Huo Zhi explained that the Ancient Clan, Flame Clan, and Soul Clan were Dou God Clans, and revealed that Xun Er and the Soul Clan were connected to her arrival.
• Huo Zhi said she had crushed a Space Pearl while fleeing a Soul Clan ambush, and its connection to Chu Xiao’s Green Lotus Core Flame had brought her near him.
• Chu Xiao asked why Huo Zhi wanted to befriend him when even the Ancient Clan had not offered him such help, and Huo Zhi replied that she believed her judgment was better.

Chu Xiao learned why Huo Zhi could sense his potential and accepted her offer to send a Dou Zun protector to Ling Xiao Pavilion. Huo Zhi then asked him to train her younger brother, Yan Xiao, whose name left Chu Xiao stunned because it resembled that of his cousin, Xiao Yan.

• Chu Xiao used the Heavenly Derivation Art to identify the Red Lotus Karma Fire's abilities and wrote that its inability to see through his potential had attracted Huo Zhi's interest.
• Huo Zhi summoned the Red Lotus Karma Fire, which broke free and sought to follow Chu Xiao's Thunder Flame Emperor Flame, prompting the women with Diary Copies to react to its effect on those who controlled Heavenly Flames.
• Cao Ying asked Xuan Yi whether she would still want a Heavenly Flame if it made its owner obsessed with a particular man, and Xuan Yi said it would depend on the flame and the man.
• Huo Zhi explained that the Red Lotus Karma Fire let her perceive Chu Xiao's potential and offered to send a Dou Zun expert to protect him; Chu Xiao accepted and gave her a Ling Xiao Pavilion token for the expert.
• Huo Zhi asked Chu Xiao to discipline her younger brother, and Chu Xiao was surprised when she said his name was Yan Xiao, similar to his cousin Xiao Yan.

Chu Xiao learned that Huo Zhi’s younger brother Yan Xiao was the same soul as Xiao Yan, and wrote about his talent, future death, and unusual past-life memories in the Diary. Huo Zhi resolved to bring Yan Xiao to Chu Xiao, then sensed a remarkable genius in the Northwest Continent.

• Huo Zhi told Chu Xiao about her younger brother Yan Xiao, and Chu Xiao recognized him as Xiao Yan reincarnated into the Flame Clan.
• Chu Xiao agreed to have Yan Xiao accompany a Dou Zun senior and returned to the Small World to write in the Diary.
• Chu Xiao revealed that Yan Xiao was a peerless prodigy who would be killed by the Soul Clan unless Chu Xiao changed his fate.
• Huo Zhi learned that Yan Xiao was a soul from another world whose past-life memories had faded, and she decided to bring him to Chu Xiao.
• Huo Zhi stepped out of the void after sensing a genius in the Northwest Continent.

Huo Zhi encountered Xuan Yi and Cao Ying in the Northwest Continent, then discovered that Cao Ying also possessed a Diary Copy. The two compared what they knew about the copies and began investigating why certain women had received them.

• Huo Zhi traveled to a city and met Xuan Yi and her disciple Cao Ying, introducing herself as a member of the Flame Clan.
• Huo Zhi told Xuan Yi that a Soul Clan member had ambushed her, then departed after learning Cao Ying was Xuan Yi’s disciple.
• Xuan Yi studied a jade plate that could detect Dragon Bone Spirit Liquid while Cao Ying went to visit the local Alchemist Association.
• Huo Zhi appeared at Cao Ying’s teahouse, and the two revealed their Diary Copies and added each other as friends.
• Cao Ying and Huo Zhi compared when their names appeared in Chu Xiao’s Diary and considered what determined who received a Diary Copy.

Cao Ying and Huo Zhi discussed the Diary Copy holders and agreed to watch out for each other, while Huo Zhi gave Cao Ying a token that could summon a Dou Saint. Chu Xiao then took Yun Yun and the Gate of Life and Death stone stele into his Small World, leaving Yun Shan unable to find it.

• Cao Ying and Huo Zhi speculated that talent and luck might determine who received a Diary Copy, and Huo Zhi gave Cao Ying a jade slip that could summon a Flame Clan Dou Saint.
• Chu Xiao examined Huo Zhi's jade pendant and realized a Dou Saint could use it to activate the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower.
• Chu Xiao found Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect and proposed they go to the Gate of Life and Death.
• Chu Xiao stopped Yun Yun from opening the Gate of Life and Death and swallowed its stone stele into his Small World.
• Chu Xiao showed Yun Yun around Sky Pillar Peak and led her into the Purple Subtlety Heavenly Dipper Tower, while Yun Shan arrived and found the stone stele missing.

Chu Xiao led Yun Yun through the Gate of Life and Death to its hidden eighth level, where she received the Misty Cloud Sect founder Yun Potian’s Dou Zun inheritance. Yun Potian’s dying wish revealed that Soul Hall’s Hun Qing had grievously wounded him, and Chu Xiao left Yun Yun poised to grow strong enough to take revenge.

• Chu Xiao took the Gate of Life and Death’s stone stele and promised Yun Shan a Grade 7 Pill if Nalan Yanran won the three-year agreement.
• Chu Xiao revealed a hidden eighth level and brought Yun Yun before Yun Potian’s remains.
• Yun Yun kowtowed to Yun Potian and received his cultivation inheritance, which could help her reach Three-star Dou Zun.
• Yun Potian recounted how Soul Hall’s Hun Qing had injured him and asked Yun Yun to avenge him or preserve the sect until a disciple could.
• Chu Xiao collected Yun Potian’s remains, and Yun Yun returned to the seventh level with an inheritance mark between her brows.
• Chu Xiao considered ways to help Yun Yun reach Peak Dou Zun and Dou Saint before announcing that he would begin dual cultivation with her.

Chu Xiao began tempering Yun Yun’s inherited Dou Qi through Dual Cultivation to strengthen her foundation, while Huo Zhi met Huo Ling and reported an exceptionally talented Xiao Clan descendant. Huo Ling headed to investigate the young genius herself.

• Xun Er, Cai Lin, Cao Ying, and Yun Yun reacted to Chu Xiao’s mention of Dual Cultivation, while Huo Zhi considered the importance of building a strong foundation before reaching the Great Thousand World.
• Huo Zhi speculated about the relationship between cultivation stages in the Dou Qi Continent and the Great Thousand World, then continued traveling toward the Central Plains.
• Chu Xiao used the Thunder Flame Emperor Flame to temper Yun Potian’s Dou Qi inheritance for Yun Yun, reducing its potential benefit but making it safer for her foundation to absorb.
• Chu Xiao drew a Yin-Yang Qiankun Dragon Phoenix Pill but set it aside and continued Dual Cultivation with Yun Yun.
• Huo Ling appeared before Huo Zhi near the Northwest Continent, and Huo Zhi told her she had encountered a Xiao Clan member with talent greater than Yan Xiao’s.
• Huo Ling, shaken by Huo Zhi’s report, asked to be directed to the Xiao Clan descendant so she could assess him herself.

Huo Ling learned that Chu Xiao possessed a powerful Heavenly Flame and a hidden Small World, then arranged for the Flame Clan to support him. Meanwhile, Venerable Azure Serpent heard that Protector Wu had died in the Jia Ma Empire and considered how to respond.

• Huo Ling decided Chu Xiao might reveal a way to restore the Xiao Clan’s bloodline, but Huo Zhi explained that his potential came from a Heavenly Flame that could devour other Heavenly Flames.
• Huo Ling followed Huo Zhi to the Misty Cloud Sect and discovered Chu Xiao’s Small World, whose defenses surpassed the Flame World and whose aura of kingship could threaten her.
• Huo Zhi told Huo Ling that Chu Xiao was Xun Er’s childhood sweetheart and Gu Yuan’s prospective son-in-law, so Huo Ling arranged for a Half-Saint guardian and Yan Xiao to stay near him.
• A black-robed subordinate reported to Venerable Azure Serpent that Protector Wu had died in the Jia Ma Empire and that Yun Shan and Medusa planned to join Ling Xiao Pavilion.
• Venerable Azure Serpent punished the subordinate for suggesting he personally investigate, but the subordinate reminded him that the mission to find someone from the Xiao Clan came from the Central Plains and could earn a reward.