Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan fought Lei Dong, a one-star Dou Saint and formidable Lightning Clan Body Cultivator, before the two agreed to cooperate on the way to the Bodhi Ancient Tree. Lei Dong charged into the beast tide to attack the five Ancient Tree Puppets, and his opening strike devastated the battlefield.

• Xiao Yan struck Lei Dong with Eight Extremes Collapse, but Lei Dong took the blow to his face and emerged uninjured.
• Xun'er explained that Lightning Clan Body Cultivators measured strength in Dragon Power, while Lei Dong boasted about his clan's past battle with the old Dragon Emperor.
• Hun Ruoruo teased Xun'er about Xiao Yan while he and Lei Dong paused their fight and discussed the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Lei Dong offered to make up for delaying Xiao Yan by clearing a path through the beast tide and charged toward the five Ancient Tree Puppets.
• The Half-Saint puppets attacked Lei Dong, who unleashed Purgatory Gang Lightning and scorched a vast area around them.

Xiao Yan destroyed the million-strong beast tide with the Myriad Beasts Spirit Flame, advancing his soul to the Heaven Realm and turning his contest with Lei Dong into a draw. Lei Dong accepted the result and agreed to compete with Xiao Yan again after he became a Saint.

• Lei Dong annihilated five Half-Saint puppets with one move, astonishing Xiao Yan and the others.
• Hun Ruoruo secretly seized Xun'er and challenged Xiao Yan to defeat Lei Dong or let her claim Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Dragon Phoenix-powered Myriad Beasts Spirit Flame and wiped out the million-strong beast tide.
• Xiao Yan's soul advanced to the Heaven Realm, and he and Lei Dong called their contest a draw.
• Lei Dong and Xiao Yan agreed to compete again when Xiao Yan became a Saint, then the ancient tree gate opened.

Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo entered the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s reincarnation trial before he could hear her answer to his confession. He awoke in a strange modern city, where a message addressed to Sakura suggested Ruoruo was there too.

• Xiao Yan and the others collected nearly a hundred thousand low- and mid-tier Magic Cores from the Magical Beast carcasses.
• Xiao Yan teased Hun Ruoruo about their bet, but then explained that he feared the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s Way of Reincarnation would make them forget each other.
• Xiao Yan asked Hun Ruoruo to like only him if they entered reincarnation, but she lost consciousness before she could answer.
• Xiao Yan entered the Pure White Space and struggled to keep his memories clear as he walked toward its far end.
• Xiao Yan awoke in a wine cellar in rainy Banghai City, heard gunfire outside, and found a message asking, “Where are you, Sakura?”

Xiao Yan confirmed that the girl messaging him was Hun Ruoruo, then encountered a Tuxedo Boy who tried to provoke him with talk of a mocked, powerless monster. When Ruoruo said she was scared, Xiao Yan decided to go find her.

• Xiao Yan video-called Hun Ruoruo and confirmed her identity, but ended the call without revealing his secret.
• Hun Ruoruo told Xiao Yan she had learned to use a phone from him and said she was on her way to the airport to fly to Kimchi Country.
• A Tuxedo Boy appeared in the wine cellar and warned Xiao Yan that his friends could disappear as the world rotted away.
• Xiao Yan rejected the Tuxedo Boy's insinuations and ended their conversation.
• Hun Ruoruo messaged Xiao Yan that she was scared, and Xiao Yan first replied that there was no need before adding that he would come find her.

Xiao Yan raced through a storm to reach Hun Ruoruo, then plunged from a burning car to confront the newly born Dragon King. As the Tuxedo Boy offered him a 99% fusion, Xiao Yan began transforming into a dragon and the chapter ended with the Void Ancient Dragon Phoenix being invoked.

• Xiao Yan drove toward the Red Well through gunfire, insisting he would change something despite the Tuxedo Boy warning that he could not save Hun Ruoruo in time.
• Hun Ruoruo confronted the suited old man beneath the well and revealed that he had mistaken her for a vessel and violated the nature of a deal.
• The old man transformed into a monstrous Dragon King, knocked Xiao Yan’s burning sedan back into the sky, and tried to devour Hun Ruoruo.
• Xiao Yan escaped the exploding car and fell toward the Dragon King, deciding to fight despite lacking Dou Qi and having only a small amount of Soul Force.
• The Tuxedo Boy offered Xiao Yan a 99% fusion, and Xiao Yan began transforming into a dragon as the Void Ancient Dragon Phoenix was invoked.

Xiao Yan rejected the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion, transformed into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, and defeated the White Dragon with Hun Ruoruo’s help. After escaping through a Spatial Rift, he realized the world had never been a true reincarnation and demanded that the Bodhi Ancient Tree appear.

• Xiao Yan’s threads of fate failed to fuse with him, so he transformed into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and summoned an army of Beast Souls and spirit essences.
• A Golden Retriever Man recognized Xiao Yan as a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and abandoned the battle to flee to China and cultivate immortality.
• Xiao Yan used his control of the void to banish the White Dragon’s attacks, then coiled around it and bit its neck.
• Hun Ruoruo strengthened Xiao Yan with her Soul Force, and he swallowed the White Dragon with a Fire Lotus attack that destroyed the island and shattered space.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo escaped through a Spatial Rift, realized the Bodhi Ancient Tree had created an illusion rather than true reincarnation, and Xiao Yan called for the tree to appear.

Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo discovered that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was divided between its original benevolent consciousness and a malicious consciousness tainted by a Dou Di’s negative emotions. They agreed to enter reincarnation together so the tree could awaken its power, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan’s birth in the Xiao family.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo escaped the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s illusion and found Xun’er and the others trapped in spheres of light.
• Xiao Yan used Erasure to see a massive wound on the tree and sensed that it carried a Dou Di’s negative emotions.
• Hun Ruoruo explained that the tree’s original consciousness saved living beings while the corrupted consciousness enslaved them.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree offered Xiao Yan Bodhi Seeds and said reincarnation could help it overcome the corruption.
• Xiao Yan demanded that the tree release Xun’er and the others and allow Hun Ruoruo to enter reincarnation with him; the tree agreed.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo began their reincarnation, and Xiao Zhan welcomed a son named Yan in Wutan City.

Xiao Yan cared for his sick mother and rekindled her will to live by stirring up a confrontation with Xiao Zhan. After learning that Nalan Ruoruo would soon visit the Xiao Family, Xiao Yan wondered what awaited him.

• Xiao Yan cared for his bedridden mother and reassured her that her condition would improve, while she urged him to build a life beyond her.
• Xiao Yan provoked his mother by saying Xiao Zhan planned to arrange a marriage, prompting her to demand that Xiao Zhan come see her.
• Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan's mother argued over marriage plans and realized they were both trying to protect Xiao Yan and the family.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that the betrothed Nalan would soon visit and secretly handed him a note.
• Xiao Yan read the note identifying the visitor as Nalan Ruoruo and reacted with surprise.

Nalan Ruoruo arrived at the Xiao Family with Ge Ye, intending to avoid the humiliation of publicly annulling her engagement to Xiao Yan. When Xiao Yan offered to annul it himself, Ruoruo protested that she had never wanted to end the engagement, leaving the gathering stunned and Xun'er quietly satisfied.

• Nalan Ruoruo arrived at the Xiao Family and greeted Xiao Zhan while Xiao Yan and Xun'er watched her.
• Ruoruo reflected that she was a transmigrator who had altered everyone's perceptions to take Nalan Yanran's place as Xiao Yan's fiancée.
• Ge Ye explained that Misty Cloud Sect rules barred Ruoruo from becoming involved with a man before she became Sect Master, freezing the hall's cheerful mood.
• Xiao Yan offered to annul the engagement, shocking Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family while Ge Ye and the Misty Cloud Sect members urged Ruoruo to accept.
• Ruoruo insisted that she had never wanted to annul the engagement, and Xun'er smiled calmly after tying her hair into twin ponytails.

Ruoruo stopped Xiao Yan from breaking their engagement and arranged to stay with the Xiao Family, then admitted she had impersonated his fiancée because she disliked Nalan Yanran’s choices. As they bonded in the back mountain, she introduced herself as An Ruoruo, awakening Xiao Yan’s sense of a familiar past.

• Ruoruo refused to let Xiao Yan break their engagement, and Xiao Zhan affirmed that the betrothal would stand.
• Ruoruo discarded Ge Ye’s Qi Gathering Powder, offered Foundation Building Spiritual Liquid, and asked to stay with the Xiao Family.
• In the back mountain, Xiao Yan asked Ruoruo why she had impersonated Nalan Yanran, and she said she disliked Nalan Yanran’s self-indulgence and melodrama.
• Ruoruo explained that Nalan Yanran’s actions had betrayed a young man’s spirit, and Xiao Yan gently pointed out the cotton candy on her face.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself, and Ruoruo proudly told him her name was An Ruoruo, stirring a memory of a familiar school-life scene in him.

An Ruoruo stabilized Xiao Yan’s mother’s cold constitution and explained that the Xiao family’s elemental imbalance came from lacking water. After his mother urged him to pursue the girl he loved, Xiao Yan left with her, still a genius despite the years that had passed.

• An Ruoruo told Xiao Yan that his mother’s cold condition had stabilized after she corrected the imbalance among the family’s Dou Qi attributes.
• An Ruoruo explained that the Xiao family was missing water, and Xiao Yan teased her for knowing details about his brothers.
• An Ruoruo realized Xiao Yan had noticed her knowledge, grabbed the last bit of cotton candy, and flew away while reminding him he still owed her two sticks.
• Xiao Yan’s mother walked out into the sunlight for the first time and encouraged him to pursue the girl he loved without worrying about her.
• Xiao Yan left with An Ruoruo, while she departed the Xiao Family as An Ruoruo rather than Nalan Ruoruo.

Xiao Yan retraced his journey from the Monster Beast Mountain Range to the Three-Year Pact while searching for the truth about An Ruoruo’s origins, repeatedly finding her woven into events under different identities. After the Misty Cloud Sect’s night raid left him exhausted and Xiao Zhan captured, An Ruoruo revealed herself and rushed after his abductors despite her fear of the Soul Hall.

• Xiao Yan resolved to uncover why An Ruoruo had no Bloodline Power and no longer recognized Hun Tiandi as her father, then set out with Old Man Yao for the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• In Qingshan Town, Xiao Yan discovered that the physician known as the Medical Immortal was An Ruoruo rather than Xiao Yi Xian, and learned that a mercenary had developed a crush on her.
• An Ruoruo accompanied Xiao Yan through encounters involving the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and the Snake People, while her disguises and teasing repeatedly disrupted his plans.
• At the Three-Year Pact, Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached One Star Dou Wang, overwhelming Nalan Yanran and the Misty Cloud Sect.
• After the Misty Cloud Sect raided the Xiao Family and abducted Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan fought Yun Leng, Yun Shan, and the Soul Envoys until An Ruoruo appeared, caught him, and pursued Xiao Zhan’s captor.

An Ruoruo followed Xiao Yan into the snake’s belly and found him rejecting Medusa, confirming that he had diverged from the fate she remembered. Xiao Yan confessed that he had always liked her, and the two finally acted on their feelings.

• Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy with cotton candy for An Ruoruo, and she healed his wounds while teasing him about helping him find a partner.
• Half a year later, Xiao Yan won the Inner Academy Grand Competition, became the youngest Dou Emperor in the Northwest Region, and killed Han Feng during the Soul Hall attack.
• Xiao Yan entered the underground with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and vanished, so An Ruoruo plunged into the sea of fire to find him.
• An Ruoruo found Xiao Yan and Medusa in the snake’s belly, realized Xiao Yan had rejected Medusa, and told him he was not the Xiao Yan she remembered.
• Xiao Yan told An Ruoruo that he had always liked her, and An Ruoruo kissed him before they began an intimate encounter.

After subduing the Falling Heart Flame, Xiao Yan reunited with An Ruoruo and resolved to visit Sound Valley because he feared the danger awaiting her there. He and An Ruoruo traveled to the Central Continent, where their arrival at Sound Valley left her father stunned when Zi Yan called him Grandpa.

• Xiao Yan spoke with Old Man Yao about his fear that Sound Valley could face a calamity, then decided to visit it and help his Teacher forge a body.
• An Ruoruo told Xiao Yan she was Sound Valley’s successor and could not marry, while Xiao Yan tried to persuade her to let him go home with her.
• Zi Yan emerged from the Heart Flame space and teased An Ruoruo, while the Little Snake escaped through the void and Xun'er was taken away by the Ancient Clan army.
• After bidding farewell to Jia Nan, Xiao Yan and An Ruoruo left the Northwest Region and traveled to the Central Continent.
• An Ruoruo introduced Xiao Yan and Zi Yan to her father at Sound Valley, and he was horrified when Zi Yan called him Grandpa.

Xiao Yan met Tang Zhen, who had raised An Ruoruo as his adoptive daughter, and learned that Ruoruo’s mysterious biological father may have died after a disaster at her birth. Tang Zhen accepted Xiao Yan’s place beside Ruoruo and gave him the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, whose source revealed the Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Tang Zhen mistook Xiao Yan for a man who had fathered Zi Yan and intended to marry An Ruoruo, but Ruoruo defended Xiao Yan and insisted she would never marry.
• Xiao Yan went with Tang Zhen, who recognized his extraordinary cultivation and said it was not enough for Ruoruo’s background.
• Tang Zhen revealed that he was Ruoruo’s adoptive father, that her biological father may have died long ago, and that An Suying had sacrificed her vitality to save Ruoruo after a calamity at her birth.
• Tang Zhen gave Xiao Yan the weakened Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, which he had used to care for Ruoruo.
• Xiao Yan examined the flame’s source and discovered the Nihility Devouring Flame within it.

Xiao Yan spent a peaceful life beside An Ruoruo, married her in Sound Valley, and vanished after their wedding-night farewell. He then confronted Hun Tiandi, who had used Nihility Devouring Flame to manipulate bloodlines, and used the Power of Reincarnation to overpower him and declare victory.

• Xiao Yan left Tang Zhen and stayed in Sound Valley with An Ruoruo, choosing to remain by her side as he built a new life.
• Xiao Yan traveled across the Central Continent, won competitions, gained fame, and obtained Xiao Xuan's legacy in the Heavenly Tomb.
• Xiao Yan and An Ruoruo married in Sound Valley, and she kissed him before he vanished, leaving behind the last cotton candy he had promised her.
• Xiao Yan confronted Hun Tiandi in Sound Valley's core and learned that Hun Tiandi had used Nihility Devouring Flame to strip Ruoruo's bloodline and forge a Heavenly Flame body.
• Hun Tiandi unleashed Nihility Devouring Flame's dead soul, but Xiao Yan survived and erased the limits on time, space, and cultivation with the Power of Reincarnation.
• Xiao Yan surpassed Hun Tiandi's power, shattered the space, and answered the Bodhi Ancient Tree's claim that he had failed by declaring, "I won."

Xiao Yan challenged the Bodhi Ancient Tree’s understanding of reincarnation by saving Xun’er, but the tree used its origin power to overwhelm him and force him to relive his past. He emerged in the aftermath of the Misty Cloud Sect battle, set out for Jia Nan Academy to search for his father, and encountered Elder Ling and Xun’er in the Black Corner Region.

• Xiao Yan told the Bodhi Ancient Tree that he saved the girl because he wanted to, and the tree accepted his view of reincarnation as a way of understanding the Path.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree challenged Xiao Yan by unleashing its reincarnation origin, flooding his mind with memories and making him relive his past.
• Xiao Yan woke after the battle at the Misty Cloud Sect and learned from Old Man Yao that his father’s whereabouts remained unknown.
• Xiao Yan resolved to seek answers from Xun’er and left the Jia Ma Empire for Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan crossed the desert into the Black Corner Region and came upon Elder Ling and Xun’er.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er and Ling Ying after escaping the Misty Cloud Sect, but Old Man Yao warned him that something was wrong. Xiao Yan discovered that the girl was Hun Ruoruo in disguise, and she had stolen the Jade Stone connected to his father's capture.

• Xiao Yan greeted Xun'er and Ling Ying, then collapsed from exhaustion and rested in Xun'er's lap.
• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that his father’s capture might be connected to the Jade Stone, and he began to hand it to her.
• Old Man Yao warned Xiao Yan that Ling Ying had no soul aura, prompting Xiao Yan to notice that Ling Ying was only an empty shell.
• Xiao Yan sprang away as the disguised girl revealed that she had stolen the Jade Stone.
• Xiao Yan recognized the girl as Hun Ruoruo and angrily called her a vile woman.

Hun Ruoruo disguised as Xun'er rescued an exhausted Xiao Yan in the Black Corner Region and brought him safely to Black Seal City, turning Fan Lao into another Blood Slave along the way. As they traveled, Xiao Yan confronted her over her past schemes, and Ruoruo ended by offering to marry him that night.

• Hun Ruoruo appeared disguised as Xun'er and persuaded Xiao Yan to leave with her after he found Ling Ying drained and mutilated.
• Hun Ruoruo took Xiao Yan safely through the Black Corner Region, where Fan Lao fell into her trap and became a Blood Slave.
• Inside the sedan chair, Xiao Yan accused Hun Ruoruo of targeting the Ancient Jade and wearing Xun'er's clothes.
• Xiao Yan recalled how Hun Ruoruo had tricked him in the Monster Beast Mountain Range with an aphrodisiac and used him to distract the Magical Beasts while she searched the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave.
• Hun Ruoruo invited Xiao Yan to marry her that night.

Hun Ruoruo told Xiao Yan why his father had been abducted and tried to draw him into marriage, but he rejected her proposal and insisted on finding his father. Their teasing ended with Hun Ruoruo dumping him out of her sedan chair, while she watched him with a faint smile.

• Xiao Yan rejected Hun Ruoruo’s marriage proposal and demanded to know what was happening with the Jade Stone.
• Hun Ruoruo explained why Xiao Yan’s father had been abducted, leaving Xiao Yan worried about finding him before pursuing revenge.
• Xiao Yan reflected on Hun Ruoruo’s schemes and admitted he could not agree to marry her, even if she genuinely meant her offer.
• Hun Ruoruo teased Xiao Yan about staying in her sedan chair, then opened the door and dropped him onto the ground when he said he did not want to stay.
• Hun Ruoruo watched Xiao Yan from the window with a faint smile as night fell.