Chapter Summaries

Xiao Huo and Yue Yao entered Medicine Valley’s Trial Secret Realm after Bai Yixue threatened them, then chose to explore and enjoy the scenery instead of gathering points in earnest. Outside the realm, Yun Qianqian dismissed Xiao Huo as unlikely to succeed.

• Bai Yixue threatened Xiao Huo and Yue Yao after learning Yue Yao was with Xiao Huo, then entered the secret realm with his companions.
• Xiao Huo took Yue Yao’s hand and entered the secret realm, where he collected an herb and showed her the point board.
• Xiao Huo flew with Yue Yao to search for higher-grade herbs, but found none nearby and decided to enjoy the sights and food with her.
• Xiao Huo and Yue Yao spent their time sightseeing and playing, while Xiao Huo casually killed magical beasts along the way.
• Yun Qianqian watched them from outside the secret realm and criticized Xiao Huo for treating the trial like a vacation.

After Bai Yixue claimed the first place on the Deity Transformation Stele, Yun Qianqian activated the secret realm’s ultimate trial. Xiao Huo and Yue Yao headed toward the Sixth-tier Monster Beast as the disciples rushed to compete for it.

• Xiao Huo spent half a month sightseeing with Yue Yao and easily defeated the Monster Beasts they encountered while she stayed by his side.
• The Deity Transformation Stele appeared, and Bai Yixue’s name emerged in first place after reaching one hundred thousand points.
• Yun Qianqian doubted Xiao Huo could rank among the top ten, but her elder believed he might have a chance to complete the Thirteen Layer Challenge.
• Yun Qianqian ordered the ultimate trial activated, bringing the Sixth-tier Monster Beast and its two hundred thousand points into play.
• Xiao Huo agreed to take Yue Yao to see the Monster Beast and told her to stay close to him.
• Countless disciples rushed toward the Sixth-tier Monster Beast to compete for the trial’s decisive prize.

Bai Yixue tried to force Yue Yao to choose him and rallied the disciples against Xiao Huo, promising them his points and the chance to cultivate with the White Robe Family. Xiao Huo faced the encirclement without fear as the Space Rule appeared in his hand, and a battle was about to begin.

• Bai Yixue gathered the disciples to help him kill Oriole and claim its treasures, confident that he would take first place.
• Bai Yixue offered Yue Yao first place in the Trial Assembly if she became his woman, but she refused and stayed by Xiao Huo.
• Bai Yixue ordered the disciples to kill Xiao Huo, offering them Xiao Huo's points and cultivation at the White Robe Family.
• Xiao Huo reassured Yue Yao and faced the charging disciples, while Yun Qianqian wondered whether he had planned to seize their points.
• Xiao Huo unleashed the Space Rule as the battle began.

Xiao Huo killed Huang Long and declared that Yue Yao belonged to him, prompting Bai Yixue to lead the gathered disciples in a combined attack. Outside the secret realm, Yun Qianqian predicted Xiao Huo would die but promised to reward him personally if he defeated everyone, defeated Bai Yixue, and survived; Xiao Huo remained determined to fight.

• Xiao Huo killed Huang Long with a burst of flames and took the points from his card.
• Xiao Huo declared Yue Yao was his and challenged the gathered cultivators to object.
• Bai Yixue ordered the disciples to attack Xiao Huo, and they charged together.
• Yun Qianqian dismissed Xiao Huo as arrogant, while the old man beside her argued that he might win.
• Yun Qianqian promised to reward Xiao Huo and pour him wine if he defeated the geniuses and Bai Yixue and emerged alive.
• Xiao Huo calmly faced the attackers and resolved to fight to the end.

Xiao Huo faced a coordinated attack from more than a hundred disciples and stopped them all with the Space Rule before killing them in an instant. He stood untouched before Bai Yixue, while Yue Yao and Yun Qianqian watched in shock.

• Yue Yao offered to help Xiao Huo, but he insisted he could handle the battle alone.
• Bai Yixue ordered more than a hundred disciples to attack Xiao Huo from every direction.
• Xiao Huo used the Space Rule to freeze the disciples and their swords in place.
• Xiao Huo released an overwhelming ancient pressure and killed all the attackers in an instant.
• Xiao Huo faced Bai Yixue as the White Robe Family disciples and Yue Yao stared in disbelief.
• Outside the secret realm, Yun Qianqian rose to her feet in shock at Xiao Huo's power.

Xiao Huo instantly defeated more than a hundred disciples in the Trial Secret Realm, shocking Yun Qianqian and Bai Yixue. Bai Yixue withdrew with the White Robe Family, hoping to let Xiao Huo weaken himself against the Yellow Sparrow before they returned to seize the spoils.

• Yun Qianqian watched Xiao Huo defeat over a hundred disciples and considered him a possible contender for first place in the trial.
• Yue Yao praised Xiao Huo’s strength as Bai Yixue and the White Robe Family disciples stood stunned.
• Bai Yixue ordered the White Robe Family to retreat and wait for Xiao Huo to fight the Yellow Sparrow.
• The Sixth-tier Monster Beast, the Yellow Sparrow, appeared in a blaze of flames before Xiao Huo.

Xiao Huo upgraded Yue Yao’s Jade Terrace Staff and promised to help save her injured parents, then prepared to face a Sixth-tier Monster Beast. The chapter left him confident that the beast would be no match for him, with the Seventh-tier Purple Crystal Winged Lion King under his command.

• Yue Yao warned Xiao Huo that Bai Yixue might be hoping they would be badly wounded, and Xiao Huo agreed to face the Sixth-tier Monster Beast.
• Yue Yao gave Xiao Huo the Jade Terrace Staff, and he upgraded it from High-grade Profound Tier to Peak Earth Tier.
• Yue Yao told Xiao Huo she needed the ganoderma to save her unconscious parents, and he promised to help them.
• Xiao Huo prepared to deal with the Sixth-tier Monster Beast, while his Seventh-tier Purple Crystal Winged Lion King remained at his command.

Xiao Huo confronted the Sixth-tier Monster Beast Oriole and forced it to submit, securing the heavenly treasures and first place in the Trial Assembly. As Bai Yixue tried to flee, Xiao Huo's Space Rule imprisoned him and the White Robe Family disciples.

• Xiao Huo rose to face Oriole alone while Yun Qianqian and others doubted he could defeat the Sixth-tier Monster Beast.
• Xiao Huo told Oriole it was too weak, then overwhelmed it with his pressure until it knelt before him.
• Oriole handed Xiao Huo all the heavenly treasures, giving him two hundred thousand points and undisputed first place.
• Bai Yixue fled in fear, but Xiao Huo's Space Rule imprisoned him and the White Robe Family disciples.

Xiao Huo killed Bai Yixue and the White Robe Family members who threatened Yue Yao, then emerged as the trial’s first-place finisher. Outside the secret realm, he received the rewards and prepared to take part in the Thirteen Layer Challenge, hoping to awaken Miss System.

• Xiao Huo used the Space Rule to hold Bai Yixue in place and killed him and the White Robe Family members with a palm strike and the Star Rule.
• Yue Yao thanked Xiao Huo and teased him about staying by his side forever as they confirmed that the trial was over.
• Xiao Huo saw that he had earned 350,000 points and planned to enter the Thirteen Layer Challenge to awaken Miss System.
• Outside the secret realm, Yun Qianqian congratulated Xiao Huo on taking first place and gave him the rewards for the top ten.
• Xiao Huo gave Yue Yao a lingzhi and his Healing Pill, and she left for home after reminding him that he had promised to marry her.

After winning the Medicine Valley Trial, Xiao Huo rejected Yun Qianqian’s offer to join Medicine Valley and was asked to consider escorting her to the Imperial City of the Central Plains. He learned that passing the Thirteen Layer Challenge could earn him the Ice Spirit Spring, which he hoped to use to revive Miss System, and resolved to face the test.

• Yun Qianqian invited Xiao Huo to join Medicine Valley as an Elder, but he refused because he was the sect master of the Sacred Flame Sect.
• Yun Qianqian brought Xiao Huo to meet Elder Yun, who offered him a mission to escort her to an exhibition in the Imperial City of the Central Plains; Xiao Huo said he would consider it.
• Elder Yun told Xiao Huo that the Thirteen Layer Challenge could earn him the Ice Spirit Spring, a treasure capable of restoring souls and enabling revival.
• Xiao Huo recalled how Miss System had protected him in his final battle with Xiao Yan and resolved to overcome the challenge to save her.

Xiao Huo entered Medicine Valley’s Thirteen Layer Challenge, where an endless staircase trapped him in a dream of life with Xun'er. He rejected the illusion and resolved to finish the trial, grow stronger, and find the real Xun'er in the Ancient Clan.

• Xiao Huo accepted the challenge, and Yun Qianqian gave him a jade pendant to summon her if he faced danger.
• Xiao Huo entered the Exquisite Pagoda and began climbing stairs that grew heavier and more exhausting with every step.
• After a day and a night, the trial showed Xiao Huo visions of a happy life with Nalan Yanran, Medusa, Yun Yun, and Xun'er.
• Xiao Huo spent what felt like days with the dream Xun'er before realizing she was only an illusion.
• Xiao Huo rejected the dream, causing Xun'er's image to disappear and the staircase to reappear, and he vowed to find the real Xun'er.

Xiao Huo passed the first trial and chose to face the life-threatening second trial, where he had to select one of three opponents. Remembering Xun'er and resolving to find her, he chose the Nine-star Dou Saint and charged at him.

• Xiao Huo passed the first trial and worried about Xun'er after realizing his protective jade pendant had shattered.
• Xiao Huo chose to enter the second trial despite the warning that it could kill him and that 3,489 people had died there.
• Xiao Huo found three opponents: a peak Dou Ancestor, a peak Dou Venerate, and a Nine-star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Huo recalled Xun'er's promise and the ring she had given him, then resolved to find her.
• Xiao Huo chose the Nine-star Dou Saint and charged toward him.

Xiao Huo defeated the trial’s apparent Nine-star Dou Saint, obtained the Ice Spirit Spring, and lit the Thirteen-Story Tower, becoming a one-star Dou Venerate as a world-shaking prophecy declared him the Human Race’s Son of Destiny. In the Ancient Clan, Xun'er realized Xiao Huo was alive and resolved to find him herself.

• Xiao Huo shattered the Dou Saint’s rules and struck him down, discovering that the seemingly overwhelming opponent had only been a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Huo passed the secret realm trial and claimed the Ice Spirit Spring as the realm disappeared.
• The Thirteen-Story Tower lit up, and Elder Yun reminded Yun Qianqian of the prophecy tied to completing its trial.
• A prophecy declaring a youth would emerge and protect the world resounded across Heaven and Earth as spiritual energy raised Xiao Huo’s cultivation to one-star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Huo placed the Ice Spirit Spring in his Spiritual Sea, where its energy began restoring Miss System.
• Xun'er recognized a golden streak in the sky as Xiao Huo, rejoiced that he was alive, and decided to seek him out herself.

After completing the Thirteen Layer Challenge and reaching one-star Dou Venerate, Xiao Huo stunned Medicine Valley with his Supreme Quality pills and eighth-grade alchemy skill. He agreed to help Yun Qianqian protect Medicine Valley at the Alchemy Tournament, but first set off for Jade Terrace Palace to find Yue Yao.

• Xiao Huo completed the Thirteen Layer Challenge, advanced to one-star Dou Venerate, and received the Ice Spirit Spring.
• Xiao Huo gave Yun Qianqian Supreme Quality pills and rare pill formulas, revealing that he was an Eighth-grade Alchemist.
• Yun Qianqian asked Xiao Huo to save Medicine Valley from rival factions threatening to destroy it if it lost the Pill Tower's protection.
• Xiao Huo agreed to help Medicine Valley at the Alchemy Tournament, which was scheduled to begin in ten days.
• Xiao Huo flew toward Jade Terrace Palace to find Yue Yao and bring her along.

Xiao Huo arrived at Jade Terrace Palace to meet Yue Yao, but Lin Lan and the disciples challenged him at the gates. Xiao Huo defeated Lin Lan with one finger and was left facing the palace disciples’ guarded formation around Yue Yao.

• Xiao Huo flew to Jade Terrace Palace and told Lin Lan that he had come to see Princess Yue Yao.
• Lin Lan refused to let Xiao Huo enter and attacked him with Jade Terrace Palace’s strongest Dou Technique.
• Xiao Huo stopped Lin Lan’s sword with one finger and sent him flying with a burst of power.
• Lin Lan thanked Xiao Huo for showing mercy and asked whether he had come to see the princess.
• The Jade Terrace Palace disciples formed ranks to protect Yue Yao in case Xiao Huo threatened her.

Xiao Huo reunited with Yue Yao at Jade Terrace Palace, where she declared him her future husband and confirmed their relationship. He left the disciples newly confident in their palace’s future after sharing powerful pills with them.

• Yue Yao came out of the hall, embraced Xiao Huo, and told the Jade Terrace Palace disciples to treat him with respect as her future husband.
• Yue Yao teased Xiao Huo and ran off with him, while the disciples later learned of his victories in the Medicine Valley Trial and the Thirteen Layer Challenge.
• Lin Lan accepted Xiao Huo’s strength and felt reassured that Jade Terrace Palace would be protected from outside forces.
• At a banquet, Yue Yao asked Xiao Huo to be her boyfriend, and he agreed before she kissed him.
• Xiao Huo encouraged the Jade Terrace Palace disciples and gave each of them a Supreme Quality Seventh Grade Pill.

Xiao Huo rewarded Jade Terrace Palace’s disciples and raised Yue Yao’s bloodline to God-grade. After receiving the Nine-Colored Flower Dew Grass, he realized it might help Miss System recover before his trip to the Central Plains.

• Xiao Huo gave Lin Lan and the Jade Terrace Palace disciples Seventh Grade Pills, then offered Lin Lan a chance to join the Sacred Flame Sect if he reached peak Dou Ancestor within a year.
• Xiao Huo told Yue Yao her bloodline was too weak and offered to raise it to God-grade.
• Xiao Huo used a deep-blue radiance to transform Yue Yao’s bloodline, and she felt her perception of spiritual energy improve.
• Yue Yao thanked Xiao Huo and gave him Jade Terrace Palace’s Nine-Colored Flower Dew Grass, which he thought could help Miss System recover ahead of time.

After taking the Nine-Colored Flower Dew Grass, Xiao Huo reunited with Miss System, who revealed her name was Yaoyao. With her help, he planned to reassure the Sacred Flame Sect disciples that he was alive before setting out to find Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Huo waited beneath the stars for the Nine-Colored Flower Dew Grass to awaken Miss System and worried about the women he had left behind.
• Miss System awakened as a beautiful young woman, and Xiao Huo embraced her and learned she wanted him to call her Yaoyao.
• Yaoyao explained that she could make two moves for Xiao Huo or warm his bed twice each month, and she later returned to his Spiritual Sea.
• Xiao Huo said he would leave in a few days to search for Nalan Yanran.
• Yaoyao offered to help him contact the Sacred Flame Sect disciples, and Xiao Huo decided to let them know he was safe.

Xiao Huo learned that Miss System could not locate Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun, or Medusa, so he resolved to gain fame in the Central Plains through the Alchemy Tournament and the Nine Regions Ranking. He set out for Medicine Valley with Yue Yao and Yun Qianqian, where Yun Qianqian asked him to help protect Medicine Valley during the competition.

• Miss System told Xiao Huo that she could not determine where Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun, and Medusa were, but confirmed that all three were safe.
• Xiao Huo decided to compete in the Alchemy Tournament and enter the Nine Regions Ranking to make his name known across the Central Plains.
• The next day, Yue Yao joined Xiao Huo as he flew from Jade Terrace Palace to Medicine Valley.
• Yun Qianqian welcomed Xiao Huo and explained that the Alchemy Tournament had three pill-related contests and that Medicine Valley might face attacks from rival factions.
• Yun Qianqian asked Xiao Huo to help Medicine Valley, and Xiao Huo agreed as he prepared to enter the tournament and seek information about Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Huo learned about the Nine Regions Ranking and its powerful young experts while preparing for the Alchemy Tournament in Xuan Yin City. He then saw that Yun Yun and Medusa had both appeared on the ranking.

• Xiao Huo arrived in Xuan Yin City with Yun Qianqian and Yue Yao and examined the Nine Regions Ranking.
• Xiao Huo saw Gu Ling'er in third place and learned that Li Qingfeng, an eighteen-year-old Dou Zun from the Li Family, ranked first.
• Yun Qianqian explained that Xun'er was absent because she had taken on Ancient Clan affairs, and said Li Qingfeng intended to propose marriage to the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Huo learned that disciples from the Yang Family and Wu Family would attend the Alchemy Tournament and declared that Medicine Valley would not lose with him there.
• Xiao Huo spotted Yun Yun in twenty-third place and Medusa in twenty-second place on the Nine Regions Ranking.