Chapter Summaries

Xiao Huo gained the Invincible Pretending and Flirting System and was transported into Battle Through the Heavens after exchanging identities with Xiao Yan. He arrived near Wutan City with temporary Dou Emperor strength as Nalan Yanran traveled to the Xiao Clan to break off their engagement.

• Xiao Huo accepted the System’s offer to transmigrate, and it bound him after threatening to self-destruct.
• The System exchanged Xiao Huo’s identity with Xiao Yan’s, making Xiao Huo the protagonist and Xiao Yan a nameless passerby.
• The System granted Xiao Huo a three-day Dou Emperor trial, though his listed level remained Dou Qi level three and Nalan Yanran appeared as his fiancée with the engagement already broken.
• Xiao Huo arrived near Wutan City and recognized Nalan Yanran traveling with Ge Ye toward the Xiao Clan to end their engagement.
• Xiao Huo decided to use his temporary strength to prevent Nalan Yanran from breaking off the engagement and to make himself the Fire Emperor.

Xiao Huo used the system-generated ambush to stage a rescue when Shadow Assassins attacked Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye. He defeated the attackers with ease, leaving Nalan Yanran stunned and in his arms.

• Nalan Yanran asked Ge Ye whether breaking off her engagement with Xiao Huo would be inappropriate, and Ge Ye encouraged her to pursue her own future.
• Three Shadow Assassins surrounded Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran, and one struck Ge Ye down while the others moved to attack Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Huo appeared and caught Nalan Yanran in his arms before the assassins could harm her.
• Xiao Huo sent a Dou Ling Shadow Assassin flying with a single slap, stunning Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye.
• Xiao Huo immobilized the two remaining Shadow Assassins and burned them to ashes as Nalan Yanran gazed at him in disbelief.

Xiao Huo saved Nalan Yanran and impressed her and Ge Ye with his strength and miraculous pills. After revealing that he was her fiancé, he left Nalan Yanran eager to marry him sooner.

• Xiao Huo rescued Nalan Yanran, earned her favor, and reached the ninth level of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Huo gave Nalan Yanran a Pipi Pill, which raised her cultivation by one level without side effects.
• Xiao Huo gave Ge Ye a Healing Pill, and Ge Ye's injuries healed almost immediately.
• Xiao Huo left after praising Nalan Yanran and told her he was Xiao Huo of the Xiao Clan in Wutan City.
• Nalan Yanran realized Xiao Huo was her fiancé and asked Ge Ye to help arrange their marriage sooner.

Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran decided to visit the Xiao Clan to arrange her marriage to Xiao Huo, while Xiao Huo gained strength, explored the system shop, and received missions that sent him to Wutan City. He set out eager to use his temporary Dou Emperor power to make a dramatic entrance.

• Ge Ye praised Xiao Huo, rebuked a young Misty Cloud Sect disciple for doubting him, and expelled him from the sect.
• Nalan Yanran agreed to keep Xiao Huo’s hidden abilities secret and looked forward to seeing him at the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Huo advanced to one-star Dou Practitioner, discovered that buying the Pipi Pill had left him with negative Prestige Points, and browsed the system shop.
• Xiao Huo drew the cultivation technique Dong Dong Bo and received missions to forcibly kiss Xiao Xun'er, drive Xiao Yan out of the Xiao Clan without killing him, and earn 20 Prestige Points within a week.
• Xiao Huo planned to use his temporary Dou Emperor cultivation to swagger through Wutan City and make his entrance.

Xiao Huo confronted Ling Ying, the hidden guard protecting Xun'er, and revealed his overwhelming Dou Emperor strength. After declaring that Xun'er was his woman, he won Ling Ying’s loyalty and ordered him to keep Xiao Huo’s power secret.

• Xiao Huo returned to the Xiao Clan and sensed Ling Ying hiding nearby.
• Xiao Huo called Ling Ying out by name and intimidated him with his Dou Emperor aura.
• Xiao Huo warned Ling Ying that he would have killed him if he had not been protecting Xun'er.
• Xiao Huo declared that Xun'er was his woman and promised to protect her.
• Ling Ying pledged to help Xiao Huo pursue Xun'er and keep his strength secret.

After Ling Ying became his subordinate, Xiao Huo returned to the Xiao Clan, where he found Xiao Yan being treated as a stranger. Xiao Huo claimed Xun'er as his own and ordered the servants to beat Xiao Yan, leaving Xiao Yan battered and confused.

• Xiao Huo gained experience and Prestige Points for taking Ling Ying as a subordinate, advanced to Dou Practitioner 2-star, and set off for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan tried to speak with Xun'er at the Xiao Clan entrance, but she said she did not know him and kept her distance.
• Xiao Huo arrived, took Xun'er’s hand, and declared that he would protect her and that she was his.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Xiao Huo let go of Xun'er, but Xiao Huo ordered the servants to give him thirty strokes.
• The servants failed to recognize Xiao Yan and beat him until he screamed and spat blood.

Xiao Huo beat Xiao Yan and asserted his claim over Xiao Xun'er, then confessed and kissed her to prevent Xiao Yan from restoring her memories of their childhood. Xiao Yan was left devastated as Xun'er embraced Xiao Huo and ignored him.

• Xiao Huo ordered Xiao Yan to kneel and apologize, then slapped him flying when he defied him.
• Xiao Yan appealed to Xiao Xun'er and tried to remind her of their childhood bond.
• Xiao Huo interrupted Xiao Yan and confessed to Xiao Xun'er, who happily accepted his feelings.
• Xiao Huo kissed Xiao Xun'er, while Xiao Yan watched in shock and spat blood.

Xiao Huo manipulated Xiao Yan into attacking him, winning Xiao Xun’er’s affection and humiliating Xiao Yan with a magical green hat. When Xiao Yan lunged at Xiao Huo with a dagger, Xiao Xun’er intervened with a sudden burst of power.

• Xiao Yan attacked Xiao Huo after seeing him kiss Xiao Xun’er, but Xiao Huo staged an injury and gained Xiao Xun’er’s concern.
• Xiao Huo mocked Xiao Yan and placed an unremovable green hat on his head, earning system rewards and confusing the onlookers.
• Xiao Yan saw the hat in a mirror, flew into a rage, and drew a dagger to attack Xiao Huo.
• Xiao Xun’er surged forward with a golden flame in her eyes and declared that Xiao Yan was the one courting death.

Xiao Huo turned Xiao Yan’s attack on him into a public humiliation, taking Xiao Yan’s ring and having him beaten while Xiao Xun'er stood by Xiao Huo. Xiao Yan’s final hope vanished when Xiao Zhan failed to recognize him and ordered him thrown out of the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Xun'er blasted Xiao Yan away after learning he had tried to kill Xiao Huo, then openly clung to Xiao Huo as his girlfriend.
• Xiao Huo stepped on Xiao Yan’s hand, accused him of stealing the ring, and ordered the servants to beat him.
• Xiao Yan vowed to return within three years and make Xiao Huo kneel, while Xiao Huo privately planned to torment him further.
• Xiao Zhan arrived, ignored Xiao Yan’s pleas that he was Yan'er, and treated Xiao Huo as his son.
• Xiao Zhan ordered Xiao Yan thrown out of the Xiao Clan, and a single slap sent him flying to its entrance.

Xiao Huo celebrated his growing closeness with Xiao Xun'er while learning that Nalan Yanran had arrived at the Xiao Clan. He prepared to pursue Yanran and discovered that the system forbade him from killing Xiao Yan for now.

• Xiao Huo received Prestige Points for kissing Xiao Xun'er and driving Xiao Yan from the clan, then celebrated reaching four-star Dou Practitioner.
• Xiao Huo embraced Xiao Xun'er and reassured her that he would rise to the pinnacle and protect her, while Xiao Zhan worried about his low Dou Qi.
• A messenger told Xiao Zhan that Nalan Yanran and Elder Ge Ye had arrived, leaving him puzzled about their visit.
• Xiao Huo asked the system whether he could kill Xiao Yan, but it said Xiao Yan could not be killed unless Xiao Huo reached Dou Di or met a stated condition.
• Xiao Huo spent his 30 Prestige Points on six Pipi Experience Pills and received a mission to spend a night with Nalan Yanran and kiss her.

Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye visited the Xiao Clan, where the crowd mistook their arrival for an attempt to break her engagement to Xiao Huo. Nalan Yanran remained determined to marry Xiao Huo, who watched from the shadows as Xiao Yan secretly observed the gathering too.

• Xiao Huo hid in the reception hall and watched Nalan Yanran, while Xiao Yan concealed his presence to learn why she had come.
• Ge Ye told Xiao Zhan that Nalan Yanran's visit concerned her marriage agreement with Xiao Huo.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan assumed the Misty Cloud Sect had come to break the engagement, and the three elders and several disciples mocked Xiao Huo.
• Ge Ye worried that the Xiao Clan might reject the match, while Nalan Yanran grew anxious that Xiao Huo had not appeared.
• Nalan Yanran resolved that she would marry no one but Xiao Huo, despite the gossip and opposition around her.

Ge Ye offered Qi Gathering Powder as a gift while seeking to annul Nalan Yanran’s engagement to Xiao Huo, and Xiao Zhan reluctantly prepared to accept the annulment. Nalan Yanran instead declared that she loved Xiao Huo and wanted to marry him, leaving Xiao Zhan overjoyed and eager for her to see him.

• Ge Ye presented Xiao Zhan with Qi Gathering Powder, hoping the gift would help secure the annulment of Nalan Yanran’s engagement to Xiao Huo.
• Xiao Zhan refused the gift and reluctantly agreed to the annulment, but the First Elder took the Qi Gathering Powder and accepted the proposal on the clan’s behalf.
• Nalan Yanran reclaimed the Qi Gathering Powder and told Xiao Zhan that she had always loved Xiao Huo and wanted to marry him.
• Xiao Zhan warned Nalan Yanran that Xiao Huo’s cultivation was only Dou Qi level three, but she said she believed he would rise again.
• Xiao Zhan happily agreed to let Nalan Yanran see Xiao Huo and worried that Xiao Huo might disappoint her by being absent.

Nalan Yanran came to the Xiao Clan hoping to marry Xiao Huo, but Xiao Yan mistook himself for her fiancé and embarrassed himself in front of everyone. Xiao Huo watched from the shadows and prepared to enter the hall to humiliate Xiao Yan.

• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Zhan where Xiao Huo was and worried that he did not want to see her.
• Xiao Zhan reassured Nalan Yanran and angrily called for Xiao Huo to appear.
• Xiao Yan rushed into the hall wearing a green hat and claimed that he was Nalan Yanran's fiancé.
• Nalan Yanran rejected Xiao Yan, called him a green-hatted freak, and said she recognized Xiao Huo as her fiancé.
• Xiao Huo received a system mission to embarrass Xiao Yan and decided to make his entrance.

Xiao Huo welcomed Nalan Yanran at the Xiao Clan and won her over by revealing that she was his fiancée, then kissed her in front of the assembled clan. The chapter ended with Xiao Huo striking Xiao Yan and sending him crashing through the front gate.

• Xiao Huo entered the Xiao Clan hall, where Nalan Yanran greeted him happily and Ge Ye showed him great respect.
• Xiao Huo asked Nalan Yanran to marry him, and she accepted before he kissed her and received system rewards.
• Xiao Yan raged at seeing Xiao Huo kiss his fiancée, while Old Yao warned him against attacking because of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Huo accused Xiao Yan of trying to bully Yanran and slapped him through the Xiao Clan's front gate.

Xiao Yan attacked Xiao Huo after hearing Xiao Huo's taunts about Xiao Xun'er, but Nalan Yanran intervened and defeated him. Xiao Yan challenged Xiao Huo to a duel at Misty Cloud Sect in three years, leaving the challenge awaiting Xiao Huo's answer.

• Xiao Huo provoked Xiao Yan with claims that he had slept with Xiao Xun'er, driving Xiao Yan into a furious attack.
• Xiao Yan charged Xiao Huo with a dagger, but Nalan Yanran struck him and broke his bones before he could reach Xiao Huo.
• Xiao Yan struggled to his feet, insulted Xiao Huo and Nalan Yanran, and vowed to remember the humiliation.
• Xiao Yan challenged Xiao Huo to meet him at Misty Cloud Sect in three years, demanding that Xiao Huo give up Nalan Yanran and return Xiao Xun'er if he lost.

Xiao Huo brutally beat Xiao Yan and accepted his challenge to fight at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years. He then promised Nalan Yanran that he would come to marry her there, and she pledged to wait for him.

• Xiao Huo suddenly slapped and kicked Xiao Yan, then pinned him beneath his foot and taunted him while the system warned him not to kill Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Huo accepted Xiao Yan's challenge for a fight at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years and threw him outside the Xiao Clan's gates.
• Xiao Yan vowed to repay Xiao Huo and challenged him to meet at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years before leaving.
• Nalan Yanran declared that she would support Xiao Huo and marry no one else.
• Xiao Huo promised to ascend the Misty Cloud Sect and marry Nalan Yanran in three years, and she kissed him and promised to wait.

Xiao Huo and Nalan Yanran confirmed their engagement, and Xiao Huo spent a day with her while gaining experience and Prestige Points. He reached Dou Practitioner Nine Stars and learned that the system could eventually transform into human form if upgraded to its highest level.

• Xiao Huo and Nalan Yanran set their wedding for three years later, delighting Xiao Zhan and Ge Ye.
• Xiao Huo took Nalan Yanran around Wutan City's market district and beat Galeo and members of the Ao Ba Family.
• Xiao Huo entertained Nalan Yanran with stories and returned with her to the Xiao Clan after a day together.
• The system rewarded Xiao Huo with experience and Prestige Points, advancing him to Dou Practitioner Nine Stars.
• The system announced that reaching its highest level would let it transform into human form, and Xiao Huo checked his panel and noted his 666 Prestige Points.

Xiao Huo and Nalan Yanran shared a tender farewell before she returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, and he promised to marry her in three years. When he stopped short of consummating their relationship at her request, the system rewarded him and introduced a treatment for erectile dysfunction.

• Xiao Huo embraced Nalan Yanran and kissed her beneath the moonlight before she left for the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Huo promised to become stronger and marry Nalan Yanran in three years, then gave her pills to keep.
• Xiao Huo carried Nalan Yanran to her room and began kissing her, but stopped when she asked him to wait until their wedding.
• Xiao Huo held Nalan Yanran as she fell asleep, and the system rewarded him for restraining himself and offered a new medicine for erectile dysfunction.

Xiao Huo saw Nalan Yanran off as she left for the Misty Cloud Sect, promising to come marry her in three years. After her departure, he resolved to grow stronger and defeat Xiao Yan before their reunion.

• Xiao Huo warned Ge Ye to protect Nalan Yanran, keep his identity secret, and gave him a pill that could help him break through to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Huo and Nalan Yanran shared a farewell kiss, and she left with Ge Ye after asking Xiao Huo to come marry her in three years.
• Nalan Yanran departed without looking back, silently crying as she resolved to cultivate at the Misty Cloud Sect while waiting for Xiao Huo.
• Xiao Zhan urged Xiao Huo to cultivate so he could protect the one he loved, and Xiao Huo vowed to suppress Xiao Yan's growth over the next three years.

Xiao Huo received Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid from Xiao Zhan, then took Xun'er out and vowed to keep Xiao Yan from advancing. In Wutan City, Xiao Huo confronted Galeo for approaching Xun'er and declared that she was his girlfriend.

• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Huo Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and Xiao Huo resolved to keep Xiao Yan from rising again.
• Xun'er asked whether Xiao Huo would marry Nalan Yanran, and he reassured her before inviting her to the market.
• The System assigned Xiao Huo quests to humiliate Galeo, gain Ya Fei's favor, and have Xiao Yan beaten at the Temir Auction House.
• Xiao Huo noticed that Purple Leaf Orchid Grass and Bone Washing Flowers were sold out and planned to monopolize wood-element magic cores to obstruct Xiao Yan.
• Galeo blocked Xun'er in the street, so Xiao Huo struck him twice and told him that Xun'er was his girlfriend.