Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan refined rare soul-nourishing herbs to awaken Elder Yao, whose fragile soul recovered enough to speak with him again. Elder Yao offered to help strengthen the Xiao Clan, while warning Xiao Yan to build their power before seeking revenge against the Soul Hall.

• Xiao Yan used the Green Lotus Core Flame to refine the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma, Spirit Condensing Grass, Forget Worry Flower, and Soul Return Leaf into pure Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan infused the Soul Power into his black ring, and Elder Yao awakened and emerged as a weak, translucent soul body.
• Elder Yao reassured Xiao Yan that the refined Soul Power was helping him recover, then asked where Xiao Yan had obtained the Nine-Grade Purple Ganoderma.
• Xiao Yan told Elder Yao about the Black Corner Region auction and the Xiao Clan's growth, and Elder Yao offered to train alchemists and improve the clan's techniques.
• Elder Yao urged Xiao Yan to strengthen himself and the Xiao Clan before confronting the Soul Hall, then teased him into preparing a high-grade pill.

Xiao Yan assembled Qing Lin, Yan Ran, Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan to search the Black Corner Region Mountain Range for a Treasure Map left by a Burning Flame Valley Branch Hall. The group entered the dangerous mountains and followed Qing Lin’s warning about faint traces of hidden energy as they pressed deeper toward the map.

• Elder Yao warned Xiao Yan that the treasure map could be protected by dangerous restrictions and attract rivals, and Xiao Yan explained why his chosen companions would be useful.
• Xiao Yan invited Qing Lin, Yan Ran, Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan to join the expedition, and each agreed to go.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan led the five companions from the Xiao Clan gates toward the Black Corner Region Mountain Range.
• Qing Lin detected faint traces of hidden energy about five hundred meters ahead, while the group stayed alert for traps, magical beasts, and enemies.
• Xiao Yan urged the group to keep moving deeper into the mountains and find the map’s approximate location before nightfall.

Xiao Yan's group encountered a Jade Phosphorus Giant Python while searching the Black Corner Region mountains for a powerful snake that Qing Lin could control. Zi Yan's dragon might subdued the python long enough for Qing Lin to tame it, giving the group a powerful new companion for their future exploration of the Treasure Map.

• Zi Yan used her Ancient Dragon Clan pressure to drive away weaker Magical Beasts and sensed a powerful snake in a nearby cave.
• Xiao Yan led the group toward the cave, where a Dou Huang Six Stars Jade Phosphorus Giant Python emerged and attacked them with poisonous mist.
• Yan Ran blocked the poison mist while Xiao Yan and Yun Yun attacked, but the python dodged and swept its tail toward Qing Lin and Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan released her dragon might, terrifying the python and stopping its attack, and Xiao Yan urged Qing Lin to act.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control the python, which became docile and accepted her as its companion.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Burning Flame Valley West Hall ruins, discovered that the Crimson Flame Key was hidden in a Fire Pattern Box in the Magma Passage, and retrieved it. They left the passage with the key and planned to return to the ruins to open the Treasure Vault and investigate the map further.

• Qing Lin explained that she could control only one more Dou Huang level snake-type Magical Beast, so Xiao Yan chose to follow the Treasure Map to the West Hall ruins instead of searching for more snakes.
• Zi Yan found no other powerful snake-type Magical Beasts nearby, and the group traveled to the Crimson Flame Barrier, where Qing Lin spotted the hidden entrance and Xiao Yan opened it with Heavenly Flames Dou Qi.
• The group searched the ruins and found an inscription stating that the Crimson Flame Key lay in a Fire Pattern Box hidden in the Magma Passage.
• Xiao Yan used the Treasure Map's Flame Totem and his Heavenly Flames Dou Qi to open the passage beneath the central stone platform, and the group fought off three Lava Lizards on the way.
• Qing Lin identified the safe route through the fire net, allowing Xiao Yan to reach the Fire Pattern Box and retrieve the Crimson Flame Key.
• Xiao Yan led the group out of the Magma Passage, intending to return to the ruins and use the key to investigate the Treasure Vault.

Xiao Yan discovered and subdued the Yin Yang Twin Flames beneath the magma pool, advancing to One-star Dou Huang and raising the Flame Mantra to Low Di Tier. With the Crimson Flame Key and his companions, he set off to uncover the Burning Flame Valley Branch Hall's Treasure Vault.

• Elder Yao sensed a rare Heavenly Flame beneath the magma pool and identified it as the Yin Yang Twin Flames, ranked twenty-first on the Heavenly Flame Ranking.
• Xiao Yan descended into the magma and used the Flame Mantra, Green Lotus Core Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, and Myriad Beast Spirit Fire to balance and refine the Twin Flames.
• Xiao Yan subdued the Yin Yang Twin Flames, advanced to One-star Dou Huang, and raised the Flame Mantra from High Xuan Tier to Low Di Tier.
• Xiao Yan returned to the group and showed them the Yin Fire and Yang Fire before explaining his gains.
• Xiao Yan took out the Crimson Flame Key and led Qing Lin, Zi Yan, Yun Yun, Yan Ran, and Cai Lin toward the Treasure Vault.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered Burning Flame Valley's Treasure Vault and Qing Lin subdued its Peak Dou Huang Flame Giant Python by breaking the Soul Locking Restraint. They found the map to the Burning Flame Secret Realm and uncovered a hidden door, leaving them poised to explore the vault's deeper secret.

• Xiao Yan opened the Treasure Vault, where the group encountered a Peak Dou Huang Flame Giant Python guarding a hoard of treasure.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control the Flame Giant Python, while Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Yan Ran protected her from its attack.
• Elder Yao revealed that a Soul Locking Restraint suppressed the Flame Python, and Qing Lin broke it to free the beast and bring it under her control.
• Xiao Yan searched the treasure chests and found pills, alchemy materials, cultivation manuals, and a map marked with the Burning Flame Secret Realm.
• The Flame Giant Python indicated a misaligned stone in the wall, and Xiao Yan opened it to reveal a hidden door leading farther into the vault.

Xiao Yan and the others discovered a hidden chamber filled with high-grade pills, Demonic Beast cores, and an ancient Puppet Art. They packed the treasures while Xiao Yan noticed a faint crack in the wall, leaving another possible secret unexplored.

• Yan Ran and Yun Yun identified rare pills in the chamber, including Spirit-Restoring Purple Pills and Barrier-Breaking Pills.
• Cai Lin and Xiao Yan examined thirteen sixth-rank cores and three seventh-rank cores, while Elder Yao identified the beasts they came from.
• Xiao Yan found a cloth describing Puppet Art, and Elder Yao explained how multiple cores could power a puppet.
• Cai Lin and Yun Yun warned that refining puppets involved dangerous soul control, but Xiao Yan stored the art for possible future use.
• Yan Ran and Yun Yun packed the pills as Xiao Yan sorted the cores, and he spotted a faint crack in the stone wall.

Xiao Yan obtained the Earth Tier High-Grade Fighting Skill Heaven Burning Art from the Crimson Gold Altar and defeated the Late-stage Dou Zong Magma Giant Beast with his Four-Colored Buddha Flame Fire Lotus. Though badly drained by the technique, he left the secret realm with his companions, and Heaven Burning Art resonated with his four Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Cai Lin broke through the final fiery rock gate and discovered Heaven Burning Art protected by flames above a magma pool.
• The Magma Giant Beast emerged and attacked the group, while Cai Lin and Yun Yun struggled to withstand its armor and magma waves.
• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames to absorb the protective flames and claimed Heaven Burning Art from the altar.
• Xiao Yan formed the Four-Colored Buddha Flame Fire Lotus from four Heavenly Flames and destroyed the Magma Giant Beast, burning the magma pool into a deep pit.
• Cai Lin and Yun Yun supported the exhausted Xiao Yan, and Elder Yao observed that Heaven Burning Art resonated with the four-colored flames.
• Xiao Yan and his companions left the secret realm with Heaven Burning Art and reunited with the people waiting outside.

Xiao Yan studied the Emperor Seal Art that Xun'er had secretly given him and spent the night cultivating its Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Turning Seal. By dawn, he had learned to use and alternate between both techniques, and he resolved to seek Xun'er after reaching the Dou Zong realm.

• Xiao Yan activated Xun'er's Jade Slip and studied the diagrams and instructions for the Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Turning Seal.
• Xiao Yan struggled to form the Mountain Opening Seal, cleansed impurities from his Dou Qi, and discovered that damage near the Tianshu Acupoint weakened the technique.
• Xiao Yan repaired the meridian damage and successfully used the Mountain Opening Seal to shatter a massive boulder.
• Xiao Yan struggled to balance fierce and gentle Dou Qi for the Sea Turning Seal, then watched a stream and realized the two forces had to fuse rather than simply be divided.
• Xiao Yan formed the Sea Turning Seal, sent a massive wave across the lake, and practiced alternating between both seals until he could control their power precisely.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan felt his Dou Qi had grown more condensed and vowed to find Xun'er after breaking through to the Dou Zong realm.

Xiao Yan refined seven Dou Huang corpses into powerful puppets, using spiritual medicines, soul Magic Cores, and engraved arrays to enhance their abilities. After testing their coordinated combat formation, he ordered them into dormancy and prepared to face the challenges ahead with their support.

• Xiao Yan refined spiritual medicines into golden liquid and distributed it among seven corpses according to their strengths.
• Xiao Yan used soul Magic Cores to fuse soul energy into the corpses, activating three Peak Dou Huang puppets and four mid-to-late Dou Huang puppets.
• Xiao Yan engraved specialized arrays onto all seven puppets to improve their defense, speed, attacks, sensing, and support abilities.
• Xiao Yan tested the puppets' coordinated combat formation and confirmed their enhanced abilities exceeded his expectations.
• Xiao Yan ordered the seven puppets into dormancy, stored the remaining materials, and left the cave confident in their help.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan as Mo Tianxing, Red Rakshasa, and Lei Ba threatened to seize its resources. He secured the three factions’ help for his journey to the Jia Ma Empire by offering a Dou Huang Pill, and began preparing to confront the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Mo Tianxing, Red Rakshasa, and Lei Ba surrounded the Xiao Clan Main Hall and demanded resources, Misty Valley’s herb-harvesting rights, trade-route profits, and the Heavenly Soul Crystal.
• Xiao Yan returned, rebuked the three leaders, and proposed that their factions accompany him to the Jia Ma Empire to help with his revenge against the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan offered the factions a Dou Huang Pill after the journey and gave each leader a Concentrating Spirit Pill as a deposit.
• Mo Tianxing, Red Rakshasa, and Lei Ba agreed to cooperate, subject to conditions, and set a gathering time three days later.
• Xiao Yan told Elder Xiao Shan that he planned to use the factions’ support against the Misty Cloud Sect and might not let them claim the Dou Huang Pill.
• Xiao Yan began arranging the Xiao Clan’s preparations for the journey while vowing to settle accounts with the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan prepared the Xiao Clan for its campaign against the Misty Cloud Sect by strengthening his elite forces and recruiting more experts. The Yao Brothers prepared to break through to Dou Huang, while Yao Lie set out to enlist independent Dou Wangs before the army marched to the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Yan gave Yao Xiong, Yao Lie, and Yao Feng Ascending Emperor Pills and ordered them to enter secluded cultivation at dawn the next day.
• Xiao Yan tasked Yao Lie with recruiting reliable Dou Wang experts using pills and promised additional rewards for great deeds against the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yao Lie left with two trusted disciples to recruit experts in major Black Corner Region cities within three days.
• Xiao Yan gave Yao Xiong and Yao Feng Concentrating Spirit Pills and arranged a Nine Revolutions Qi Gathering Array to aid their breakthroughs.
• Xiao Yan promised each disciple a Qi Gathering Pill each day and urged the Xiao Clan elites to train hard before their campaign.
• Xiao Yan headed to the Xiao Clan Main Hall to plan the route, supplies, and coordination with the Tian Yin Sect, Rakshasa Gate, and Mad Lion Gang.

Xiao Yan prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire and take revenge on the Misty Cloud Sect, while Su Qian agreed to support the expedition despite being unable to accompany him. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan and four former Inner Academy classmates preparing to depart the next morning.

• Xiao Yan told Su Qian he planned to return to the Jia Ma Empire to find his father and settle his grudge with the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan introduced Zi Yan, Liu Qing, Lin Xiuyai, and Lei Yan as his four Dou Wang companions, and they entered the council hall.
• Zi Yan reminded Xiao Yan to refine Dragon Marrow Pills for her, while Liu Qing, Lin Xiuyai, and Lei Yan pledged to protect him and the group.
• Xiao Yan described the expedition’s forces, and Su Qian gave him an academy token and promised to send ten Dou Wang instructors to guard the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan ordered the group to gather at Xiao Clan Square the next morning, and the four companions left as he focused on the coming revenge expedition.

Xiao Yan led an allied force from the Xiao Clan and three factions toward the Jia Ma Empire to confront the Misty Cloud Sect and avenge the Xiao Clan. The party set out with Medusa promising to face Yun Shan, while Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and Zi Yan prepared to support Xiao Yan along the way.

• Xiao Yan gathered three hundred Xiao Clan disciples, the Tian Yin Sect, Rakshasa Gate, and Mad Lion Gang in the square before their journey.
• Xiao Yan warned the force that the Misty Cloud Sect had Yun Shan, five Dou Huang, and dozens of Dou Wang, and the disciples vowed to defeat it.
• Medusa offered to face Yun Shan if the party encountered a Dou Zong, while Mo Tianxing, Red Rakshasa, and Lei Ba described their factions' preparations and roles.
• Xiao Yan ordered the party to move out, and Qing Lin, Yun Yun, Zi Yan, and Medusa accompanied him as the force left the Xiao Clan.
• Medusa, Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Yun Yun reassured Xiao Yan as the party headed toward the Jia Ma Empire and the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan and his allies rescued Commander Meng Li from the Misty Cloud Sect’s attack on the western border fortress, then set out to confront Yun Shan. After defeating several ambushes, they camped within sight of Misty Cloud Mountain, preparing to attack at dawn.

• Xiao Yan led Medusa, Zi Yan, Yun Yun, and a hundred disciples into the fortress, rescued Meng Li, and defeated the Misty Cloud Sect force.
• Xiao Yan arranged for the wounded to be treated and supplies prepared, then departed for Misty Cloud Mountain with his companions and the Jia Ma Empire’s banner.
• Qing Lin detected an ambush in a forest, and Xiao Yan’s group surrounded and defeated the Misty Cloud Sect attackers.
• Xiao Yan’s group cleared several more ambushes as they traveled toward Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Xiao Yan ordered the group to camp near Misty Cloud Mountain and prepare to attack the Misty Cloud Sect at dawn.

Xiao Yan arrived in time to save Hai Bodong from three Misty Cloud Sect Dou Huangs, then joined forces with more than ten Peak Dou Wang experts to defeat six Dou Huangs. After tending to Hai Bodong and regrouping, Xiao Yan led his forces onward toward Misty Cloud Mountain to confront Yun Shan.

• Hai Bodong fought three Misty Cloud Sect Dou Huangs until Xiao Yan arrived and told him to retreat and recover.
• Xiao Yan attacked the three Dou Huangs with the Green Lotus Core Flame and Black Heavy Ruler, killing one as the others called for reinforcements.
• Three more Misty Cloud Sect Dou Huangs arrived and surrounded Xiao Yan, but he summoned more than ten Peak Dou Wang experts with a signal.
• Xiao Yan killed two Dou Huangs with a fused Heavenly Flame Fire Lotus while Liu Qing, Lin Xiuyai, and the other Peak Dou Wang experts killed the rest.
• Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong a Healing Pill, then ordered his forces to prepare before continuing toward Misty Cloud Mountain.

Xiao Yan and his allies stormed the Misty Cloud Sect, where seven Dou Huang puppets helped defeat the sect’s elders and clear the plaza. Yun Shan entered the battle as a Dou Zong, and after Xiao Yan’s group exposed his weakness and wounded him, Yun Shan swallowed a secret medicine and renewed the fight.

• Xiao Yan summoned seven Dou Huang puppets, which overwhelmed the Misty Cloud Sect elders while his allies held off the sect’s disciples.
• Xiao Yan and the puppets killed the elders, and Qing Lin’s magical beasts and Medusa’s group secured the plaza.
• Yun Shan descended from the sect hall and attacked Xiao Yan’s forces, but their combined assault injured him with a black-and-white Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan noticed Yun Shan’s Dou Qi stalled when he used a Dou Technique and directed everyone to attack his chest, knocking him into the hall wall.
• Yun Shan swallowed a Misty Cloud Sect secret medicine that strengthened him, and Xiao Yan charged back into battle.

Xiao Yan fought Yun Shan atop Misty Cloud Mountain, but a Soul Hall expert appeared and abducted Elder Yao. Xiao Yan’s final attack incapacitated Yun Shan and drove the Soul Hall figure away, leaving Xiao Yan gravely wounded and Elder Yao captured.

• Xiao Yan countered Yun Shan’s Azure Nether Shattering Claw with the Sea Turning Seal, and both combatants were injured by the clash.
• Elder Yao emerged from Xiao Yan’s Storage Ring to help him fight Yun Shan, but a Soul Hall expert seized Elder Yao and began draining his strength.
• Xiao Yan attacked the Soul Hall expert with three Heavenly Flames while Yun Shan ambushed him, but the expert blocked Xiao Yan’s attack and kept dragging Elder Yao toward a black rift.
• Xiao Yan fought Yun Shan while Elder Yao was pulled toward the rift, then unleashed the Earth Covering Seal against both enemies in a desperate attempt to save his teacher.
• The Earth Covering Seal shattered Yun Shan’s shield and knocked him unconscious, while the Soul Hall expert escaped and Xiao Yan collapsed gravely wounded after Elder Yao was taken.

Xiao Yan fused his Heavenly Flames into a Four-Colored Buddha Flame Fire Lotus and used it to kill Yun Shan and destroy the Misty Cloud Sect. After vowing to rescue Elder Yao and destroy the Soul Hall, Xiao Yan collapsed unconscious.

• Xiao Yan combined his Heavenly Flames into a Four-Colored Buddha Flame Fire Lotus despite the danger and strain of controlling them.
• Yun Shan fled from Xiao Yan, but his Dou Qi barrier failed to protect him from the Fire Lotus, which consumed him completely.
• The Fire Lotus continued into the Misty Cloud Sect, destroying its main hall and ancestral tablets as the sect burned.
• Xiao Yan mourned that he had not rescued Elder Yao, then vowed to find him and destroy the Soul Hall before collapsing unconscious.
• The surviving Misty Cloud Sect disciples fled as the sect lay in ruins.

Yun Yun caught Xiao Yan after he collapsed from his battle wounds and disbanded the Misty Cloud Sect, refusing to let its legacy bring him more harm. She and Qing Lin, Nalan Yanran, and Cai Lin brought him to the Xiao Clan for treatment, where Yun Yun began tending to him.

• Yun Yun caught Xiao Yan and saw that his wounds and damaged meridians left him in critical condition.
• Yun Yun blamed the Misty Cloud Sect’s conflicts for the suffering and deaths, declared the sect disbanded, and ordered its disciples to leave and conceal their identities.
• Yun Yun smashed the Sect Master token, and the Misty Cloud Sect’s disciples laid down their weapons and departed.
• Qing Lin, Nalan Yanran, and Cai Lin met Yun Yun on the mountain path and helped carry Xiao Yan to the Xiao Clan.
• Cai Lin prepared to treat Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran ground medicinal herbs, Qing Lin stayed beside him, and Yun Yun cleaned his wounds.