Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan beat Lei Le after Lei Le attacked him, leaving Ya Fei stunned by Xiao Yan’s strength. He told Ya Fei to tell Teng Shan that Hai Bodong was still alive, promising that the words would secure Teng Shan’s support; the chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking Ya Fei for a reward.

• Xiao Yan repeatedly slapped Lei Le, then punched him into a wall when he attacked with a Dou skill.
• Ya Fei wondered if Xiao Yan had become a Dou Master, but Xiao Yan said he would need more time.
• Ya Fei warned that Lei Le’s grandfather, a Dou Ling, would retaliate, but Xiao Yan dismissed the threat and promised to protect her position.
• Xiao Yan told Ya Fei to tell Teng Shan that Hai Bodong was still alive, claiming Teng Shan would then stand by her.
• Xiao Yan put an arm around Ya Fei’s waist and asked her for a reward, making her blush.

Xiao Yan teased Ya Fei before waking the defeated Dou Master and ordering him to take Lei Le away. He left the Mittel Family a warning and reaffirmed that he would only work with Ya Fei, while she looked at him with new admiration.

• Ya Fei gave Xiao Yan a light kiss on the cheek, and they exchanged playful teasing.
• Xiao Yan woke the burly Dou Master, who begged for mercy after recognizing the terrifying power that had knocked him unconscious.
• Xiao Yan told the Dou Master to take Lei Le away and warn the Mittel Family against antagonizing the high-ranking Alchemists in Wu Tan City.
• Xiao Yan said he would cooperate in Wu Tan City only with Ya Fei, threatening to end cooperation if the Mittel Family replaced her.
• The Dou Master recognized Xiao Yan as the famed young Xiao Family genius and fled with Lei Le after promising to deliver the message.
• Ya Fei admitted that Xiao Yan looked handsome, and he prepared to say goodbye.

Xiao Yan teased Ya Fei with a sudden kiss, then returned to the Xiao Family and found Xun'er distressed over the thought of sharing him with other women. He embraced her and apologized, leaving them together in her courtyard.

• Xiao Yan kissed Ya Fei before leaving, and she realized she felt no disgust despite his boldness.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family, where the clansmen respected him for his status and the benefits he had brought them.
• Xiao Yan picked flowers from Xiao Mei and headed to Xun'er's courtyard to comfort her.
• Xun'er worried that Xiao Yan might love other women and tearfully resolved not to leave him, though she did not want to share him.
• Xiao Yan saw Xun'er sobbing, pulled her into his arms, and apologized.

Xiao Yan reconciled with Xun'er and spent the day with her, then continued cultivating as the Xiao Family grew stronger over the next two months. With Yao Lao's Soul Power recovered, Xiao Yan prepared to leave Wu Tan City for the Monster Mountain Range, where he sought a Heavenly Flame and a white-clad girl from his past life.

• Xiao Yan comforted Xun'er, stayed awake outside her room, and promised himself he would make her happy.
• Xun'er found Xiao Yan at dawn, scolded him for staying outside, and had him accompany her shopping through Wu Tan City.
• Over the following two months, Xiao Yan reached peak Nine-Star Dou Zhe, while Liu Panlong became a Fourth Grade Alchemist and the Xiao Family's strength increased.
• Yao Lao recovered his Soul Power to the Dou Zong level, allowing Xiao Yan to consider venturing beyond Wu Tan City.
• Xiao Yan planned to explore the Half-Saint Ancient Tomb in the Monster Mountain Range, obtain the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, and find the white-clad girl he had once failed to give a home.

Xiao Yan arranged protection for the Xiao Family, said goodbye to Xun'er and Ya Fei, and left for Green Mountain Town to train. Meanwhile, Nalan Yanran drew attention in the imperial capital as Yun Yun's thirteen-year-old Dou Zhe disciple, while powerful figures compared her with her unseen fiancé, Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that he was heading to the Monster Mountain Range for training under Yao Lao's protection, and Xiao Zhan accepted the plan.
• Xiao Yan instructed Liu Panlong to protect the Xiao Family and use the Soul Seal to summon him if danger arose.
• Xiao Yan promised Xun'er he would return within two months and encouraged her to become a Dou Zhe before they entered Jia Nan Academy together.
• Xiao Yan visited Ya Fei, learned that the Mittel Clan Leader had backed her against the Elder Council, and then left Wu Tan City for Green Mountain Town using Yao Lao's Soul Power.
• In the Gama Imperial Capital, powerful figures discussed Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun's thirteen-year-old Personal Disciple and a Dou Zhe, and her fiancé, Xiao Yan.

At Nalan Yanran’s ceremony, Yun Yun named her a Personal Disciple and a Sect Master Candidate, while the empire’s powerful figures weighed the Nalan Family’s future and Xiao Yan’s extraordinary talent. Nalan Yanran asked to visit Wu Tan City to meet her fiancé, and Yun Yun agreed to go with her.

• Yun Yun granted Nalan Yanran the Yun Lan Sect’s symbolic seal and welcomed her as her Personal Disciple and a Sect Master Candidate.
• Nalan Jie and Mu Chen discussed the Nalan Family’s promising future, while Jia Xingtian warned that a future change in regime should shed as little blood as possible.
• Mittel Teng Shan privately hoped Ya Fei would win Xiao Yan’s favor and considered the news that Hai Bodong was still alive.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun she wanted to visit Wu Tan City to judge whether Xiao Yan suited her, despite not yet acknowledging their engagement.
• Yun Yun agreed to accompany Nalan Yanran to Wu Tan City to meet Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan traveled to Green Mountain Town to find Xiao Yi Xian, whom he had vowed not to leave alone in this life. After striking the rude shop assistant, he reunited with her at the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop and told her he had come to take her home.

• Xiao Yan used Yao Lao's Soul Power to travel swiftly toward Green Mountain Town.
• Xiao Yan entered the town and found the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop while remembering his past meeting with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan asked the shop assistant Qin Cao where Xiao Yi Xian was, but Qin Cao mocked and dismissed him.
• Xiao Yan slapped Qin Cao, who prepared to attack him with a short staff.
• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the crowd and stopped Qin Cao, and Xiao Yan told her he had come to take her home.

Xiao Yan declared that he would take Xiao Yi Xian home, provoking the mercenaries in Green Mountain Town. When Qin Cao and several burly men attacked him, Xiao Yan easily knocked them all down with a single punch each.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that he was going to take her home, and she ordered the mercenaries to go easy on him.
• Qin Cao and several burly men surrounded Xiao Yan, angered by his words and his earlier slap.
• Qin Cao attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan dodged his strike and punched him into the ground.
• The burly men attacked Xiao Yan together, but he evaded them and knocked each of them down with one punch.
• The watching mercenaries stared in horror after Xiao Yan defeated five or six Dou Zhe-level men.

Xiao Yan defeated the mercenaries who tried to stop him and reached Xiao Yi Xian, insisting on staying at the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop. He compensated the injured mercenaries with pills, prompting Xiao Yi Xian to ask whether he was an alchemist.

• Xiao Yan knocked down the mercenaries who attacked him and used Soul Power pressure to make the others retreat.
• Mu Li ambushed Xiao Yan with an iron rod, but Xiao Yan dodged and struck him down without turning around.
• Xiao Yan reached Xiao Yi Xian, told her he had finally found her, and asked her to take him to meet Boss Yao so he could stay at the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop.
• Xiao Yi Xian apologized to the injured mercenaries, and Xiao Yan gave them Jade Bottles containing Spring Return Powder as compensation.
• Xiao Yi Xian stared at Xiao Yan in astonishment and asked whether he was an alchemist.

Xiao Yan revealed that he was an alchemist, and Xiao Yi Xian realized he was the famed young genius from the Jia Ma Empire. As they talked at the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop, Xiao Yan recalled Xiao Yi Xian’s devotion from his previous life and told her she was incomparable.

• Xiao Yan admitted he was an alchemist, shocking Xiao Yi Xian and the people in Green Mountain Town with his youth and status.
• Xiao Yi Xian led Xiao Yan into the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop while Mu Li learned that Xiao Yan was the Empire’s legendary youngest alchemist and grew pale.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Xiao Yan from the rumors and warned him that his fame and reputation as a playboy would not win her over.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she wanted a man she would follow through life and death, and Xiao Yan remembered her devotion from his previous life.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Yan about his betrothal to the Nalan Family’s young lady, and Xiao Yan told her she was a beauty unlike any other.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he planned to end his engagement to Nalan Yanran and then stayed at the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop in Green Mountain Town. Mu Li demanded revenge and insisted Xiao Yi Xian must be his, prompting Mu She to slap him.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that he would end his engagement to Nalan Yanran because he did not want to be with her.
• Xiao Yi Xian led Xiao Yan to the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop, where Boss Yao recognized him and arranged a guest room.
• Boss Yao rewarded Qin Cao with five hundred Gold Coins for informing him about Xiao Yan and considered bringing Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian together.
• Mu Li complained to Mu She about Xiao Yan hitting him and demanded revenge.
• Mu Li insisted that Xiao Yi Xian must be his, and Mu She slapped him for still thinking about women.

Xiao Yan invited Xiao Yi Xian to explore a Strong Practitioner's Cave Mansion, and she agreed despite suspecting he was trying to grow closer to her. After dreaming about him, she woke to find him waiting with the mercenaries for their herb-gathering trip.

• Mu She struck Mu Li and warned him that the Wolf Head Mercenary Group could not afford to provoke Xiao Yan or keep a brainless leader.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian spoke about her love of gathering herbs, and Xiao Yan invited her to a Strong Practitioner's Cave Mansion along their route.
• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Xiao Yan's motives but agreed to join him after hearing the cave contained Profound Rank Cultivation Method Dou Skills and medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yi Xian struggled to sleep, dreamed of Xiao Yan, and woke to find him waiting among the mercenaries.

Xiao Yan escorted Xiao Yi Xian to a hidden cave beneath a cliff, where he protected her from a Rock Serpent and smashed open the stone door. They entered a treasure-filled hall, and Xiao Yi Xian excitedly spotted a flower bed full of medicinal herbs.

• Xiao Yan joined the mercenary group's trek and killed the strongest Greenwood Wolves when a pack attacked.
• Xiao Yan led Xiao Yi Xian away from the resting group and descended with her to a hidden cave beneath a cliff.
• Xiao Yan held Xiao Yi Xian as they descended, and she wondered whether they had known each other before; he told her they had been best friends in a previous life.
• Xiao Yan killed the Rock Serpent guarding the cave and broke open the thick stone door after Xiao Yi Xian could not find its mechanism.
• Xiao Yan led Xiao Yi Xian into the hall, where she delightedly discovered a flower bed filled with medicinal herbs.

Xiao Yan took Xiao Yi Xian to the secret chamber and gave her the Seven-Colored Poison Manual, assuring her that her Woeful Poison Body could be controlled and cured. After collecting the cave’s treasures and returning to the mercenary group, Xiao Yan arranged a possible future partnership between Boss Yao and the Xiao Family, then told Xiao Yi Xian to prepare to visit the Small Mountain Valley she had found.

• Xiao Yan let Xiao Yi Xian choose herbs and gave her the Seven-Colored Poison Manual, explaining that her Woeful Poison Body could be mastered and was not a hopeless illness.
• Xiao Yan opened the remaining boxes, took Eagle Wings and Raging Lion's Roar, and gathered nearly all the herbs and Gold Coins from the cave.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian returned to the mercenaries, whose teasing left Xiao Yi Xian embarrassed, and the herb-gathering party continued into the mountains.
• Xiao Yan accepted Boss Yao's hospitality and suggested that he consider cooperating with the Xiao Family of Wu Tan City.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Yan about Boss Yao, and Xiao Yan told her to prepare for a trip to the Small Mountain Valley in the next two days.

Xiao Yan brought Xiao Yi Xian and Little Blue to the Small Mountain Valley, where he prepared to explore a hidden Ancient Tomb containing a Half-Saint’s inheritance. He concealed the valley with the Small Five Elements Sky Shielding Array and began the next day’s preparations while Xiao Yi Xian hid nearby.

• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Yi Xian about her Woeful Poison Body and took her from the Ten Thousand Medicines Shop to the Small Mountain Valley with Little Blue.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that a Half-Saint-level expert had died beneath the valley and that an Ancient Tomb lay hidden there.
• Xiao Yan refined five Fourth Order Magical Beast Magical Cores into formation foundations and used them to conceal the valley’s energy fluctuations.
• Xiao Yan warned Xiao Yi Xian that the next day’s disturbance could be dangerous, so she hid in a cave with Little Blue.
• At noon, Xiao Yan released a vast wave of Soul Power across the valley.

Xiao Yan used Yao Lao’s Soul Power and Bone Chilling Flame to break open a hidden spatial entrance in the valley, nearly freezing Xiao Yi Xian before protecting her and leaving her Warmth Pills. He entered the Ancient Tomb and reached its icy Underground Palace, where the tomb’s trials began.

• Xiao Yan borrowed Yao Lao’s Soul Power to locate a spatial node and used the Bone Chilling Flame to shatter it, releasing a violent wave of ice-attributed energy across the valley.
• Xiao Yi Xian felt the cold sweep through her cave, and Xiao Yan blocked it with a wall of flame, warmed her with Dou Qi, and gave her three Warmth Pills before entering the hidden space.
• Xiao Yan passed through a Space Gate and crossed the spatial tunnel, reaching a vast Underground Palace made of Mysterious Ice.
• Xiao Yan read the Ice Gate’s challenge, which required eligible entrants to defeat the ice sculptures for a chance at the Half-Saint’s inheritance.
• The eyes of the dozens of Ice Sculptures glowed red, and the sculptures began to move.

Xiao Yan defeated the Ice Crystal Demonic Beasts guarding White Tiger Venerable’s tomb and collected their Magical Cores. He entered the tomb’s inner chamber, discovered an Ice Spirit Cold Pool and a concealed Ice Soul Heart Lotus, then triggered a Frost Mirror Image challenge on the bridge.

• Xiao Yan evaded the Ice Crystal Demonic Beasts and used his Soul Power to locate weaknesses in their puppet bodies.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the beasts with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler, then extracted and collected their ice-attributed Magical Cores.
• Xiao Yan touched the Ice Gate and was pulled through a Space Wormhole into the tomb’s inner chamber.
• Xiao Yan found a vast Ice Spirit Cold Pool and identified a concealed Ice Soul Heart Lotus near its springhead.
• Xiao Yan stepped onto the Frost Ancient Bridge, where ice-attributed energy formed an image and announced the Frost Mirror Image challenge.

Xiao Yan challenged the Frost Mirror Image trials in White Tiger Venerable’s tomb and passed the first four levels using his combat skill and Flame God’s Spear. The fifth-level Ice Man emerged as a Two-Star Dou Master and launched its attack, leaving Xiao Yan’s final trial unresolved.

• Xiao Yan withdrew Yao Lao’s Soul Power, then defeated the first Frost Mirror Image with a punch and advanced to the second level.
• Xiao Yan overcame the second Ice Man’s stronger defense and rapid regeneration with Eight Extremes Collapse, earning passage to the third level.
• Xiao Yan used a Sub-Flame spear to destroy the third Ice Man’s Earth Rank Low Level Dou Skill and qualified as an inheritor.
• Xiao Yan pierced the fourth Ice Man with another Flame God’s Spear and advanced to the final level.
• White Tiger Venerable’s memory remnant spoke to Xiao Yan, and the fifth Ice Man, now at the Two-Star Dou Master level, attacked him with its Ice Long Spear.

Xiao Yan defeated the fifth Ice Mirror Image and received White Tiger Venerable’s inheritance and treasures. After the venerable’s remnant vanished, Xiao Yan gathered the remaining treasures and considered his next steps.

• Xiao Yan used his final Flame God's Spear to defeat the fifth Ice Mirror Image despite the draining cost and intense cold.
• White Tiger Venerable appeared, praised Xiao Yan for passing all five trials, and introduced himself as a former Grand Elder of the Four Saint Sect.
• White Tiger Venerable gave Xiao Yan the White Tiger Profound Nether Art and a badge meant to summon the Profound Nether White Tiger to protect him for ten years.
• White Tiger Venerable identified the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and Ice Soul Heart Lotus as especially precious treasures, then warned Xiao Yan to conceal the inheritance.
• White Tiger Venerable’s remnant vanished, and Xiao Yan bowed before using Yao Lao’s Soul Power to gather the treasures.

Xiao Yan collected the White Tiger Venerable’s inheritance treasures, including rare pills, Magical Cores, Eighth Order Magical Beast Essence Blood, medicinal ingredients, and the Ice Soul Heart Lotus. After Yao Lao took the Soul Nourishing Pill, Xiao Yan left the Ancient Tomb with his harvest and expected to return when he had reached Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan stored the Earth Rank cultivation methods and Dou Skills, six Magical Cores, and a collection of high-grade pills in the Bone Flame Ring.
• Xiao Yan found a Soul Nourishing Pill that could restore Yao Lao’s Soul Power and a Heavenly Venerable Pill capable of increasing a powerful Dou Zun’s cultivation by one star.
• Xiao Yan discovered Eighth Order Magical Beast Essence Blood and seven rare medicinal materials that could help him refine pills, including Blood God Pills for his father and brothers.
• Yao Lao swallowed the Soul Nourishing Pill, and Xiao Yan collected the Ice Soul Heart Lotus and several bottles of Ice Spirit Cold Spring from the pool.
• Xiao Yan left the Ancient Tomb, believing it would be sealed after his departure, and said he might return as a Dou Sheng.