Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo escaped a Spatial Wormhole aboard a lightning-struck shuttle and crashed through the forces sealing the battlefield. They reunited with Old Man Yao and Venerable Feng, then faced Venerable Huangquan as another Dou Zun appeared.

• Xiao Yan argued that he could draw the lightning tribulation away from the shuttle, and Hun Ruoruo pressed the helm’s dark red button to send him into the lightning.
• The lightning-wreathed Space Shuttle tore through the Ice River Valley encirclement, crushed a Dou Zong elder, and smashed into the chain sealing Heaven and Earth Force.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo emerged from the wreckage and greeted Old Man Yao and Venerable Feng, who were astonished by their arrival.
• Xiao Yan confirmed to Old Man Yao that he had received news from Sound Valley and turned his attention toward the enemy Dou Zun experts.
• An unidentified rigid figure appeared beside Xiao Yan’s group, and Venerable Huangquan realized that another Dou Zun had arrived.

Heavenly Fire Venerable joined the battle for Starfall Pavilion, while Hun Ruoruo chose to face Venerable Qinghai with Xiao Yan’s help to settle her blood debt against Soul Hall. She summoned the Sea Flame Halberd and unleashed its immense power, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable threatened to self-destruct if Ice River Valley pressed him, then taunted Venerable Huangquan into fighting him.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable admitted he could only contend with a two-star Dou Zun and was at risk against Venerable Qinghai, so Venerable Feng identified Tian Shuangzi as Old Man Yao’s opponent.
• Hun Ruoruo said she and Xiao Yan would face Venerable Qinghai, citing Soul Hall’s past capture attempt against Old Man Yao and its slaughter of Sound Valley’s people.
• Venerable Qinghai recognized Hun Ruoruo as a remnant of Sound Valley and gloated over Protector Ying’s death.
• Hun Ruoruo asked Xiao Yan to lend her Dou Qi, manifested the Sea Flame Halberd, and expanded it into a colossal weapon before ordering it to strike.

Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo fought Venerable Qinghai, using their linked Dou Qi and Xiao Yan’s newly awakened Pure Fire Dou Qi to challenge his Space power and defense. Hun Ruoruo was blasted into ruins, but her taunt suggested their attack had begun to unsettle him.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo launched a combined flame-halberd attack, but Venerable Qinghai used Space power to shrink and banish it.
• Venerable Qinghai trapped Xiao Yan in Spatial Rend, and Hun Ruoruo rescued him before reversing the torn space and escaping with injuries.
• Hun Ruoruo declared her intent to bury Soul Hall, then fought Venerable Qinghai alone to buy time for Old Man Yao while Xiao Yan supplied her with Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan fully activated Pure Fire Dou Qi, and Hun Ruoruo used the enhanced power to batter Venerable Qinghai’s barrier until it briefly cracked and forced him back.
• Venerable Qinghai struck Hun Ruoruo into the ruins, but she rose with a sly smile and told him he was panicking.

Hun Ruoruo and her allies appeared close to defeating Venerable Qinghai, but he activated Sound Valley’s Soul Secret Treasure and turned the battle around. As Xiao Yan learned that Mo Yi and other Sound Valley disciples had died, the Golden Crow Cry left Hun Ruoruo gravely wounded.

• Hun Ruoruo pressed Venerable Qinghai for answers about Soul Hall’s past actions against Sound Valley while Xiao Yan gave her medicinal pills.
• Venerable Qinghai revealed an ancient bronze cymbal and struck it, unleashing a Divine Bird cry that severely weakened Old Man Yao and injured Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Venerable Huangquan took advantage of Heavenly Fire Venerable’s injury, while Mu Qingluan was knocked unconscious by the cry.
• Venerable Qinghai revealed that Mo Ying had not deceived him and showed Xiao Yan the dead Soul Body of Mo Yi.
• Furious over the deaths of Sound Valley’s disciples, Xiao Yan activated the Fierce Heaven Art and Lion Soul Lotus Armor.
• Venerable Qinghai warned that Hun Ruoruo had been affected by the Golden Crow Cry, and Xiao Yan saw blood falling from her as her eyes went vacant.

Hun Ruoruo damaged Venerable Qinghai’s Golden Crow Cry treasure with her Soul Water Dou Qi, but the effort left her gravely wounded and falling from the sky. Xiao Yan caught her, and she warned him that the Golden Crow would attack again and told him to make Master and the others flee.

• Hun Ruoruo endured the Golden Crow Cry and used Soul Water Dou Qi to pierce and erode Venerable Qinghai’s bronze cymbals.
• The damage disrupted the paired Golden Crows and weakened the treasure, but Hun Ruoruo exhausted her strength and began falling.
• Xiao Yan leaped into the sky and caught Hun Ruoruo, then tried desperately to stop her bleeding.
• Hun Ruoruo warned Xiao Yan that the Golden Crow would return and urged him to tell Master and the others to run.

As Venerable Qinghai prepared to awaken Golden Crow Cry and destroy Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan refused to abandon Hun Ruoruo or the people fighting for him. He took Ruoruo and provoked Qinghai into chasing him away from the battlefield, leaving Qinghai furious.

• Venerable Qinghai began reactivating Golden Crow Cry while the Soul Hall forces trapped Starfall Pavilion's defenders.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable, Old Man Yao, Venerable Feng, and the pavilion's disciples urged Xiao Yan to escape with Hun Ruoruo.
• Hun Ruoruo secretly produced a black token, but Xiao Yan seized it and told her not to go; she agreed to stay with him.
• As Venerable Qinghai prepared to attack the exhausted defenders, Xiao Yan gathered a space-shattering ripple and shouted a challenge at him.
• Xiao Yan carried Hun Ruoruo away on his purple cloud wings, provoking Venerable Qinghai into pursuing him.

Xiao Yan and Ruoruo used a Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body to draw Venerable Qinghai away from Starfall Pavilion, while the pavilion’s disciples fought desperately against their attackers. Zi Yan feared for Ruoruo and Xiao Yan as the battle continued.

• Xiao Yan provoked Venerable Qinghai and flew away as bait, while Mu Qingluan and Lin Yan realized he and Ruoruo were luring him away.
• Venerable Qinghai interrupted Golden Crow Cry and attacked Xiao Yan, only for the target to vanish as a Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.
• Venerable Qinghai sensed the Fire Lotus Dou Technique beyond the Heavenly Star Mountain Range and pursued Xiao Yan, ordering his forces to hold back the elders.
• Lin Yan urged the Starfall Pavilion disciples to fight on, and they charged their enemies despite their heavy losses.
• Zi Yan killed an initial Dou Zong opponent, collapsed from exhaustion, and worried that Xiao Yan and Ruoruo might not return.

Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo fled from Venerable Qinghai, who wounded Xiao Yan and pursued them for their secrets. Cornered, Xiao Yan unleashed his Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations and a body-refining forbidden technique, then smashed the still-forming Fire Lotus into Venerable Qinghai’s face.

• Xiao Yan fled with the injured Hun Ruoruo and learned that she could not tell whether Venerable Qinghai was following them.
• Venerable Qinghai destroyed Xiao Yan’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body and struck him through the spine, but Xiao Yan kept fleeing while Hun Ruoruo used pills and Pure Water Dou Qi to sustain him.
• Venerable Qinghai emerged from hiding and pursued Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo, intent on taking their lives and searching their souls for their memories.
• When Venerable Qinghai reached for Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan activated the Void Spirit Transformation and attacked him with the power of a body-refining forbidden technique.
• Xiao Yan seized Venerable Qinghai’s hand and slammed the Fire Lotus into his face, shouting for it to explode.

Xiao Yan crippled himself and severely wounded Venerable Qinghai with an unfinished Fire Lotus, then Hun Ruoruo carried him away while Qinghai recovered and pursued them. As their strength ran low, Hun Ruoruo continued toward an undisclosed destination, saying they were almost there.

• Xiao Yan detonated the unfinished Fire Lotus at close range, badly burning Venerable Qinghai and himself.
• Hun Ruoruo confirmed Xiao Yan was alive, carried him away, and fled before Venerable Qinghai could recover.
• Xiao Yan revealed that his body had been tempered using the Heavenly Demon Puppet's forging method, allowing him to survive the blast without breaking any bones.
• Venerable Qinghai crawled from the ruins, realized Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo were escaping, and resolved to hunt them down.
• Hun Ruoruo carried Xiao Yan through the forest as they argued about his weight and her stamina, while he warned that Qinghai would catch up.
• Hun Ruoruo refused to explain where she was taking Xiao Yan and said they were almost there.

Hun Ruoruo and the badly injured Xiao Yan fled from Venerable Qinghai toward Sound Valley, while teasing each other about their past and Xiao Yan’s relationship with her. They reached the hidden mountain range where Sound Valley was concealed, and Hun Ruoruo asked Xiao Yan for the token that could let them enter.

• Hun Ruoruo stopped to rest with Xiao Yan and reminisced with him about their first meeting, then admitted that their relationship might have become more than mutual exploitation.
• Hun Ruoruo accidentally revealed that she was taking Xiao Yan to meet her mother, leaving him stunned.
• After three days of travel without Venerable Qinghai appearing, Hun Ruoruo ruled out Fierce Flame Valley and chose Sound Valley as their refuge.
• Hun Ruoruo and Xiao Yan reached the empty mountain range where Sound Valley was hidden, and Xiao Yan realized it might be a small world once overseen by a Dou Saint.
• Hun Ruoruo asked Xiao Yan for the white token he had obtained from Soul Hall, took it, and hurried toward the mountains as Xiao Yan followed.

Hun Ruoruo and Xiao Yan entered Sound Valley, where its barren landscape and soul-suppressing array revealed the damage left by Soul Hall. The Venerable Qinghai ambushed Hun Ruoruo, but she confronted him and summoned Tang Zhen to fight.

• Hun Ruoruo's token opened a hidden passage into Sound Valley, and Xiao Yan followed her inside.
• Xiao Yan struggled through the valley's yellow sand, which weakened his Soul Force, and pursued Hun Ruoruo after she vanished from sight.
• The Venerable Qinghai emerged from hiding and found Hun Ruoruo unconscious in the sand.
• Hun Ruoruo revealed that she had used a mirage to deceive Qinghai, denied that Xiao Yan was her boyfriend, and summoned Tang Zhen with her crystal brooch.
• Tang Zhen appeared and challenged Qinghai, who recognized him as the leader of Fierce Flame Valley.

Hun Ruoruo and Tang Zhen trapped Venerable Qinghai, but Golden Crow Cry still afflicted Ruoruo with painful markings. Xiao Yan carried her through the sandstorm toward Sound Valley and encountered its people, who recognized her as the Little Princess.

• Hun Ruoruo revealed that Tang Zhen was a Dou Zun Projection, and Tang Zhen struck Venerable Qinghai while she used her Water Blade to sever his arm.
• Tang Zhen explained that Golden Crow Cry could restrain his projection and urged Hun Ruoruo to enter Sound Valley while he fought Venerable Qinghai.
• Xiao Yan heard Golden Crow Cry and found Hun Ruoruo suffering from its effects; she told him to go east, and he carried her through the sandstorm.
• Hun Ruoruo joked with Xiao Yan as they fled, then he spotted a group traveling through the valley and approached them.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat saw the unconscious Hun Ruoruo and cried out, recognizing her as the Little Princess.

Xiao Yan discovered that Sound Valley recognized Hun Ruoruo as its Little Princess, then learned she had been sealed by the valley’s Golden Crow Cry artifact. Sound Valley’s members took the unconscious Ruoruo back to the valley and brought Xiao Yan along under guard.

• Sound Valley disciples surrounded Xiao Yan and identified the girl he carried as their Little Princess.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Little Princess was An Ruoruo, though he remained puzzled by how the disciples recognized her.
• Xiao Yan told Senior Sister An Wan that Soul Hall had attacked them and afflicted Ruoruo with the Golden Crow Cry seal.
• An Wan confirmed the seal, and the Man in the Bamboo Hat ordered the group to return to Sound Valley with Ruoruo.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat had Xiao Yan placed in a separate carriage under guard, and Xiao Yan climbed aboard willingly for Ruoruo’s sake.

Xiao Yan traveled toward Sound Valley with Ruoruo and learned more about its formations and musical traditions from the Man in the Bamboo Hat. At Que Yin Hall, the First Elder learned that An Wan had found the Little Princess and prepared to receive them.

• Xiao Yan rode through Myriad Beauties Ridge and learned from the Man in the Bamboo Hat that the flowers concealed Sound Valley's gate-guarding formation.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat explained that his strict older brother had not targeted Xiao Yan, praised Xiao Yan's care for Ruoruo, and encouraged him to study musical rhythm.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat gave Xiao Yan the temporary identity Mo Yan but kept his own name secret before leaving.
• Xiao Yan suspected that Sound Valley concealed secrets, including its lack of awareness that its treasure was missing and Soul Hall had killed its disciples, then focused on recovering his Dou Qi.
• At Que Yin Hall, a messenger reported that An Wan had found the Little Princess, interrupting the First Elder's zither performance.
• The First Elder stopped the ensemble, transformed a broken zither string into a horsetail whisk, and said that they had come.

An Wan confirmed that An Ruoruo had entered the grand formation with Xiao Yan, and the First Elder learned that Golden Crow Cry had injured her. As Xiao Yan waited in Winding Water Courtyard, the Man in the Bamboo Hat received a report that Golden Crow Cry had never been missing.

• An Wan confirmed to the First Elder that she and Li Yue had encountered An Ruoruo in the grand formation, where Xiao Yan had accompanied her.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat told the First Elder that Xiao Yan was an outsider and that An Ruoruo's condition was poor because Golden Crow Cry had injured her.
• The First Elder reacted with fury when he learned that Golden Crow Cry was responsible for An Ruoruo's injury.
• Xiao Yan told the Man in the Bamboo Hat that he intended to marry An Ruoruo despite Sound Valley's rule forbidding its successor from marrying.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat received word from his Senior Sister that the First Elder said Golden Crow Cry had never been missing.

Xiao Yan escaped Sound Valley’s pursuit with help from the Man in the Bamboo Hat and confronted the First Elder over the Golden Crow Cry and Soul Hall. He revealed the power of his Spirit Realm, leaving the First Elder stunned.

• The Man in the Bamboo Hat secretly helped Xiao Yan escape by setting off the Enforcement Xun and directing the pursuing disciples east.
• Xiao Yan used the Three Thousand Lightning Movement to head toward the main hall while the Man in the Bamboo Hat misled his fellow disciples.
• Li Yue warned the main hall that Xiao Yan was coming, and the First Elder hurried to the plaza as An Wan urged the Man in the Bamboo Hat to help Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan appeared before the First Elder, who insisted Sound Valley could not make an exception for him and questioned his relationship with Ruoruo.
• Xiao Yan accused the First Elder of being connected to Soul Hall, then unleashed his Spirit Realm and used the Disguise Dou Technique—Fragrance. Annihilation.

Xiao Yan stunned Sound Valley by revealing a Spirit Realm soul and mastering Fragrance. Annihilation, then tested the First Elder in a clash that ended in a draw. The First Elder accepted him under the name Mo Yan, while Xiao Yan was carried away with his injuries worsened.

• Xiao Yan used Fragrance. Annihilation to conceal his position and demonstrate his Spirit Realm soul, shocking Sound Valley’s disciples.
• Xiao Yan provoked the First Elder and offered to prove his connection to the Valley Master on the condition that the First Elder receive one move from him.
• Xiao Yan attacked the First Elder with Soul Force blades, broke through his musical-score defense, and was driven back after the First Elder counterattacked.
• The First Elder called the clash a draw and declared that Xiao Yan would temporarily be known as Mo Yan and become a member of Sound Valley.
• An Wan and the others carried away the badly injured Xiao Yan as the disciples wondered whether he had defeated the First Elder.

After three days of recovery, Xiao Yan worried about Hun Ruoruo and wondered why the First Elder had said the Golden Crow Cry was never lost. Hun Ruoruo awoke from a peaceful dream to discover her scars had vanished.

• Sound Valley disciples speculated about Mo Yan's draw with the First Elder, while Xiao Yan recovered from his injuries and struggled with the effects of his transformed body.
• Xiao Yan considered how the First Elder had protected the disciples during their fight and questioned what he meant about the Golden Crow Cry.
• Hun Ruoruo dreamed of a safer life as An Ruoruo, with her mother well and the people around her cherishing her.
• An Wan woke Hun Ruoruo and teased her about Xiao Yan challenging the First Elder for her sake.
• Hun Ruoruo hurried to get up, then froze when she saw that the scars on her forearm had disappeared.

Hun Ruoruo woke to find her Dou Di bloodline had vanished and learned that removing the Golden Crow Cry markings required a Qin Se Harmony partner from Sound Valley’s Ink Vein. Xiao Yan learned that Ruoruo had chosen him as her partner, a custom that was nearly equivalent to an engagement, and discovered that Sound Valley’s people were gathering outside the main hall.

• Hun Ruoruo discovered that her Dou Di bloodline had changed into a Musical Masterwork, while her injuries from Golden Crow Cry still prevented her from using Dou Qi.
• An Wan explained that Hun Ruoruo needed an Ink Vein man as her Qin Se Harmony partner to remove the divine markings, but Hun Ruoruo refused to pair with a stranger.
• An Wan told Hun Ruoruo that Xiao Yan had temporarily joined the Ink Vein and should be called Mo Yan.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat told Xiao Yan that Hun Ruoruo had chosen him as her Qin Se Harmony partner and that a crowd had gathered outside the main hall.
• The Man in the Bamboo Hat explained that Qin Se Harmony partners almost always became cultivation partners, making the arrangement akin to an engagement, and Xiao Yan was shocked.

Xiao Yan learned that Sound Valley’s disciples believed he had sacrificed his chance at happiness to become Hun Ruoruo’s Qin Se Harmony partner, then went to see her. The chapter ended with him finding Ruoruo dressed provocatively and calling him “Pervert Senior Brother.”

• The Man in the Bamboo Hat told Xiao Yan that the First Elder had taken responsibility for the Golden Crow Cry incident and that the disciples supported Xiao Yan’s sacrifice for Hun Ruoruo.
• Xiao Yan thanked the Man in the Bamboo Hat and left to find Hun Ruoruo.
• An Wan teased Xiao Yan, pushed him into Hun Ruoruo’s room, and locked the door behind him.
• Xiao Yan entered and found Hun Ruoruo in revealing clothes, whereupon she recognized him as “Pervert Senior Brother.”