Chapter Summaries

Liu Xi began refining the three Sect Breaking Pills commissioned by Jia Xing Tian and overcame a failed attempt to produce two peak sixth-grade pills. He left the remaining ingredients for another attempt, intending to keep a pill for emergencies.

• Jia Xing Tian gave Liu Xi ingredients for three Sect Breaking Pills and three million gold coins, then left the valley after Liu Xi promised to refine them.
• Liu Xi began refining a Sect Breaking Pill in the Myriad Beasts Cauldron while Zi Ling followed him.
• Liu Xi failed his first attempt when the medicinal essences clashed and exploded during Condense Pill.
• Liu Xi adjusted his method, fused the medicinal essences, and nurtured them until a peak sixth-grade Sect Breaking Pill formed.
• Liu Xi refined a second Sect Breaking Pill after recovering his Dou Qi, using the experience from his successful first pill.

Jia Xing Tian received the Sect Breaking Pill, while Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Five-Star Dou Huang during Liu Xi’s eight months of cultivation. Zi Yan’s breakthrough remained underway, and Liu Xi planned to leave for Zhongzhou once she finished.

• Jia Xing Tian took the Sect Breaking Pill from Liu Xi and left to attempt his breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Liu Xi she planned to break through, then went deeper into the valley to cultivate while he kept watch.
• Liu Xi inspected Zi Yan’s energy cocoon and cultivated for eight months as it continued absorbing Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poisonous mist around her and successfully advanced to Five-Star Dou Huang.
• Liu Xi learned that Xiao Yi Xian’s Poison Dou Qi was beginning to spread, then said they would prepare to head to Zhongzhou after Zi Yan’s breakthrough.

After Zi Yan emerged from her cocoon, Liu Xi and Xiao Yi Xian returned to Jia Ma Imperial City and learned that the empire faced invasion from three neighboring powers. Yao Ye asked Liu Xi to help defend Jia Ma Empire as enemy armies approached.

• Zi Yan's cocoon burst, briefly revealing her grown-up form before the Form-Shaping Grass caused her to shrink back into a little girl.
• Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan left the forbidden grounds and returned to Jia Ma Imperial City after nearly a year in seclusion.
• Princess Yao Ye told Liu Xi that the Chu Yun Empire had attacked under Xie Shan, and Jia Xing Tian had driven its army back after breaking through to Dou Zong.
• Yao Ye explained that Xie Bi Yan had tied down Jia Xing Tian, forcing Jia Ma's other experts to join the fight against the renewed Chu Yun offensive.
• Yao Ye warned Liu Xi that the Luoyan and Mulan Empires were also preparing to invade, with powerful Dou Zong-level forces among their ranks.

Yao Ye asked Liu Xi to save the Jia Ma Empire from an invasion led by three Dou Zong-level combatants, and Liu Xi rushed to Black Mountain Fortress with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan. He revealed Elder Yao's Dou Zong aura to reassure the defenders and asked for three days in a quiet room before the enemy arrived.

• Yao Ye told Liu Xi that the Jia Ma Empire faced three Dou Zong-level enemies and begged him to intervene.
• Liu Xi agreed to help and flew toward Black Mountain Fortress, followed by Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan.
• At Black Mountain Fortress, Jia Xing Tian and the other defenders feared they could not withstand the approaching armies and their Dou Zong commanders.
• Fa Ma sensed Liu Xi's group approaching, and the defenders welcomed them at the fortress.
• Liu Xi summoned Elder Yao to show the defenders his Dou Zong-level strength, then asked them to give him three days and prepare a quiet room.

Liu Xi used the Fallen Heart Flame to burn away Medusa’s soul and fuse its essence with Zi Ling’s, strengthening the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. The awakened Medusa retained her old personality and hostility, but she unexpectedly agreed to fight for Liu Xi in exchange for her freedom.

• Liu Xi sent the Fallen Heart Flame into Zi Ling and began refining Medusa’s soul while strengthening Zi Ling’s soul essence.
• Medusa awoke and tried to seize control of the body, but Zi Ling calmed the surrounding energy and Liu Xi continued the refinement.
• Over three days, Medusa’s soul merged into Zi Ling’s, leaving a powerful Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python soul that transformed into Medusa’s human form.
• Medusa awoke in Liu Xi’s arms and threatened to kill him, but she could not bring herself to strike.
• Liu Xi offered Medusa her freedom if she fought for him that day, and she agreed before following him out dressed in a red gown.

As the allied armies of three empires gathered to attack Black Mountain Fortress, Jia Xing Tian faced three Dou Zong opponents and feared the Jia Ma Empire would fall. Liu Xi arrived with Queen Medusa, revealing that she had agreed to help defend the empire, while Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun reacted with unease to their appearance.

• Jia Xing Tian ordered the empire's experts to defend the fortress and worried that Liu Xi had not emerged from seclusion.
• Xie Bi Yan and Yan Luo Tian appeared before the allied army, followed by the Mul an Three Elders, leaving Jia Xing Tian facing five powerful enemies.
• Liu Xi arrived on the wall with Zi Ling, whom the onlookers recognized as Queen Medusa.
• Liu Xi announced that he had made a deal with Medusa and that she would fight for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yi Xian suspected Liu Xi had deceived her to bring Medusa back, while Yun Yun felt uncomfortable seeing them together.

Liu Xi divided the allied army’s Dou Zong opponents among himself, Medusa, Yao Tianhuo, and Jia Xing Tian, then challenged the Mu Lan Three Elders alone. The Three Elders activated their joint combat technique and reached Dou Zong-level strength as they prepared to fight him.

• Yan Luo Tian and the Mu Lan Three Elders argued over who would face Medusa while Xie Bi Yan proposed attacking Jia Xing Tian.
• Liu Xi summoned Yao Tianhuo and assigned him to hold off Xie Bi Yan, while Medusa took on Yan Luo Tian.
• Liu Xi told Jia Xing Tian to help Yao Tianhuo and declared that he would face the Mu Lan Three Elders himself.
• Liu Xi entered the battlefield with Zi Ling and Yao Tianhuo, then raised his aura to the Peak Dou Huang realm before confronting the Three Elders.
• The Mu Lan Three Elders formed their Three Beasts Savage Art, merging their power and transforming into semi-beast forms with strength comparable to a Dou Zong.

Dou Zongs clashed across the Black Mountain Battlefield as Medusa fought Yan Luo Tian and Liu Xi faced the Mulan Three Elders. Liu Xi exploited the formation’s weakness and struck down the tiger-headed elder, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Jia Xing Tian and Yao Tianhuo attacked Xie Bi Yan with Dou Qi and flame while he countered with green scorpion pincers.
• Yan Luo Tian provoked Medusa, who attacked him with a seven-colored snake-shaped sword as he countered with his Wild Goose Feather Sword.
• Liu Xi exchanged blows with the Mulan Three Elders and withdrew after the three transferred their shared Dou Zong power between them.
• Liu Xi charged the lion-headed elder, used Illusion Heart Art to appear before the tiger-headed elder, and pierced his defense with Blowing Fire Palm.
• The tiger-headed elder’s body burned from within, and he fell helplessly from the sky.

Liu Xi broke the Mulan Three Elders’ Three Beasts Savage Art and wounded the Tiger-headed Human and Lion-headed Elder, turning the tide of the battle. Elsewhere, Medusa kept Yan Luo Tian suppressed while Jia Xing Tian and Yao Tianhuo remained locked in a stalemate with Xie Bi Yan.

• Liu Xi shattered the Lion-headed Elder’s fading blood-red claw and crippled his arm, while the Bear-headed Human froze under Liu Xi’s stare.
• Fa Ma explained to Hai Bodong that spiritual power could reveal what the eyes could not, as Yun Yun watched Liu Xi’s victory with admiration.
• Mulan Valley experts flew to catch the gravely wounded Tiger-headed Human as the allied army reacted in shock to the Three Beasts Savage Art being broken.
• Yan Luo Tian noticed the Mulan Three Elders’ defeat, recognized Medusa’s strength, and began considering an escape.
• Xie Bi Yan launched a poisonous scorpion-tail attack at Jia Xing Tian, who met it with his Raging Flood Dragon Tears Heaven Claw.
• Yao Tianhuo sent five Fire Spirits through Xie Bi Yan’s poisonous mist in search of his true body, while both sides remained deadlocked.

Liu Xi killed Elder Xiong, Elder Shi, and three Mulan Valley Dou Emperors, then headed to assist Medusa against Yan Luo Tian. Medusa had Yan Luo Tian on the defensive, and he began looking for a way to flee as Liu Xi approached.

• Liu Xi beat Elder Xiong to death with his bare hands and took his Storage Ring.
• Elder Shi fled with three Mulan Valley Dou Emperors, but Liu Xi struck them with Radiant Seal, burning the three Dou Emperors to ashes.
• Liu Xi pierced Elder Shi's chest with an invisible-flame-wreathed hand and burned his body and soul to nothingness.
• Liu Xi took Elder Shi's Storage Ring and rushed toward Medusa and Yan Luo Tian, hoping to stop Yan Luo Tian from escaping with the Golden Yan Sect's Flying Fighting Skills method.
• Medusa wounded Yan Luo Tian's neck as Liu Xi approached, and Yan Luo Tian began searching for an escape route.

Yan Luo Tian fought Liu Xi while Medusa supported him from a distance, and she ultimately killed him with a poisoned sword strike. Liu Xi took Yan Luo Tian’s corpse and turned his attention to the ongoing battle between Xie Bi Yan, Jia Xing Tian, and Yao Tianhuo.

• Yan Luo Tian unleashed Myriad Feathers Annihilation Kill, and Medusa’s Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python swallowed the golden sword auras as Yan Luo Tian tried to flee.
• Liu Xi blocked Yan Luo Tian and fought him in the sky, with both sustaining injuries as Liu Xi’s flame coating and Yan Luo Tian’s heartfire wore them down.
• Medusa threw her sword from afar and pierced Yan Luo Tian’s chest with Mystic Spirit Snake Devour, killing him with seven-colored poison.
• Liu Xi stored Yan Luo Tian’s corpse in his Storage Ring and told Medusa to handle the allied fighters rushing toward them.
• Liu Xi turned to the battlefield where Xie Bi Yan remained locked in a stalemate with Jia Xing Tian and Yao Tianhuo.

Yao Tianhuo trapped Xie Bi Yan in the Li Huo Fen Tian Great Array and killed him, but Xie Bi Yan’s final attack ensnared Liu Xi’s Fallen Heart Flame with black threads. A hidden figure in the allied army then decided to act personally to retrieve a treasure.

• Yao Tianhuo formed the Five Wheel Separation Fire Method array and sealed Xie Bi Yan inside the Li Huo Fen Tian Great Array.
• Xie Bi Yan offered to withdraw his troops, but Liu Xi and Jia Xing Tian refused to spare him.
• Yao Tianhuo unleashed the array’s pillar of fire, and Xie Bi Yan summoned a Four-winged Sky Demon Scorpion phantom to defend himself.
• A thumb-thick streak of black light pierced the array and wrapped black threads around Liu Xi’s Invisible Fire Python before Xie Bi Yan was apparently reduced to ashes.
• Liu Xi said the black threads could be dealt with, while his power fell back to the Seven-star Dou Huang level.
• A hidden figure in the allied army judged the battle’s strength unexpected and resolved to act personally to recover a treasure.

Liu Xi survived Xie Bi Yan’s poison attack, and the Jia Ma Empire forces turned the battle against the Three Kingdoms Allied Army. Medusa left Black Mountain Fortress, struggling with the influence of the other soul within her.

• Yao Tianhuo ended the Li Huo Fen Tian Great Array, and Liu Xi examined Xie Bi Yan’s Storage Ring while deciding he could refine the Demon Poisonous Spot with Fallen Heart Flame.
• Liu Xi returned to Black Mountain Fortress, reassured Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, and gave Xiao Yi Xian Xie Bi Yan’s Storage Ring to search for useful poison treasures.
• Yun Yun flew off to join the battle, while Hai Bodong and Fa Ma led the empire’s experts against the allied army.
• Nalan Jie and Mu Chen sent the Imperial Army out to attack, and the allied forces began to collapse after losing their Dou Zong.
• Medusa returned to Liu Xi, then left when he released her; under the other soul’s influence, she struggled to resist obeying him and swore she never wanted to see him again.

After the Jia Ma Empire’s victory at Black Mountain Fortress, Liu Xi refined a flying fighting skill from Yan Luo Tian’s method and Sky Demon Phoenix Wings. When Yun Yun reported that the Xiao Family had been nearly wiped out by an attacker using black mist, Liu Xi was left facing the return of a threat linked to Vulture Protector.

• The Jia Ma Empire won the battle at Black Mountain Fortress, and Liu Xi’s prestige rose after the allied army suffered heavy losses.
• Liu Xi used the Fallen Heart Flame to refine the Demon Poisonous Spot and recover pure energy for his cultivation.
• Liu Xi studied Yan Luo Tian’s Nine Heavenly Goose Wing method and refined the Sky Demon Phoenix Wings into a new pair of flying wings.
• Liu Xi bonded the finished Bone Wings to his body and tested their response to Wind Attribute and lightning-attributed energy.
• Yun Yun told Liu Xi that the Xiao Family in Wutan City had been nearly wiped out four days earlier by an attacker surrounded by sinister black mist.

Yun Yun warned Liu Xi that the Soul Hall was targeting the Xiao Family for its Ancient Jade and offered the Misty Cloud Sect as refuge. After returning to Jia Ma Holy City, Liu Xi prepared to leave the empire and collected ingredients and payment from Hai Bodong for Sect Breaking Pills.

• Yun Yun warned Liu Xi about the mysterious Soul Hall expert and promised him refuge in the Misty Cloud Sect's Life and Death Gate.
• Liu Xi offered to refine a Sect Breaking Pill for Yun Yun, and she agreed to gather the ingredients and payment.
• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Liu Xi about his feelings for Yun Yun, then said she would accept Yun Yun as a lesser wife if Liu Xi pursued her.
• Liu Xi spent six days refining the Bone Wings, then returned to Jia Ma Holy City as the Xiao Family's near-extermination in Wutan City received little attention.
• Liu Xi told Hai Bodong he would leave the Jia Ma Empire to travel and train, and Hai Bodong gave him two sets of Sect Breaking Pill ingredients and payment.

Liu Xi refined two Sect Breaking Pills at the Alchemist Guild, giving one to Hai Bodong and trading the other to Fa Ma for rare medicinal ingredients. After half a month of cultivation, Liu Xi reached Eight-star Dou Huang and set out to check on Yun Yun’s ingredient gathering before preparing to go to Zhongzhou.

• Liu Xi spent seven days refining the Sect Breaking Pills in Fa Ma’s secret chamber and gave Fa Ma one pill in exchange for medicinal ingredients.
• Liu Xi met Hai Bodong and handed him the other Sect Breaking Pill, accepting Hai Bodong’s thanks and a Storage Ring.
• Liu Xi cultivated for half a month and advanced to Eight-star Dou Huang by refining the Demon Poisonous Spot left by Xie Bi Yan.
• Liu Xi decided to check on Yun Yun’s ingredient gathering and prepare for the trip to Zhongzhou, then headed toward Misty Cloud Mountain.

Liu Xi asked Yun Yun about the missing ingredients for a Sect Breaking Pill and invited her to travel with him, then learned she was hesitant because of her responsibilities as sect master. He gave her a Sect Breaking Pill before leaving the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Yun watched him go, promising to wait for his return.

• Liu Xi told Yun Yun he planned to leave the Jia Ma Empire and learned she had not gathered all the ingredients for a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Liu Xi pressed Yun Yun about her feelings, and she explained that her position as Misty Cloud Sect master kept her from accepting a relationship with him.
• Liu Xi said he would return in five years, when Yan Ran might have become sect master, and kissed Yun Yun before she pushed him away.
• Liu Xi gave Yun Yun a Sect Breaking Pill as a parting gift, and she accepted it while leaning against him.
• Yun Yun escorted Liu Xi to the Misty Cloud Sect's mountain gate and watched him disappear into the clouds, saying she would wait for him.

Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian traveled toward the Black Corner Region while searching for rare medicinal ingredients, eventually reaching its edge. In Peace Town, Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Li, who told him that the Xiao Family had been destroyed.

• Liu Xi and his companions left Jia Ma Holy City and headed toward Jia Nan Academy before continuing on to Tianya City and Zhongzhou.
• The group gathered medicinal ingredients in mountain ranges and escaped a seventh-tier Bloodthirsty Demonic Heart Ape guarding a Ten-Thousand-Year Green Spirit Vine.
• After more than a month of travel, Liu Xi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Li arrived in Peace Town and registered as a relative visiting a Jia Nan Academy student.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun Er met Xiao Li at his hut, where Xiao Li revealed that the Xiao Family had been destroyed.

Xiao Yan learned that the Xiao Family had been wiped out and discovered from Xiao Zhan’s letter that the Ancient Jade could confirm whether its bearer was alive. After resolving to rescue his father and keep the jade hidden, Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Court to cultivate while Xiao Li planned to seek strength in the Black Corner Region.

• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Family had been destroyed by a mysterious black mist and that Xiao Zhan’s whereabouts were unknown.
• Xiao Yan recalled Xiao Zhan’s brocade pouch, then opened it with Xiao Li and Xiao Xun’er in a sealed cabin.
• Xiao Yan read Xiao Zhan’s letter and used the Ancient Jade’s emerald light to confirm that his father was alive.
• Xiao Xun’er warned Xiao Yan that the Ancient Jade was a dangerous key connected to a powerful expert’s cave dwelling and urged him to keep it secret.
• Xiao Li decided to cultivate in the Black Corner Region and build strength through life-and-death battles, while Xiao Yan gave him medicinal pills.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Court, determined to obtain its Heavenly Flames and considering how to draw the experts’ attention away.

Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body advanced toward completion, forcing her to break through to Dou Zong while Liu Xi contained the deadly poison. Meanwhile, a Soul Hall Protector persuaded Old Ghost Di Mo to target Xiao Yan in the Jia Nan Inner Court in exchange for a chance to reach Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yi Xian’s poison surged out of control, and she began consuming the poisons she had stored to break through to Dou Zong.
• Liu Xi protected himself with Green Flame, sealed the poisonous mist inside Xiao Yi Xian’s room, and asked Zi Yan to guard outside.
• The Soul Hall Protector appeared before Old Ghost Di Mo in Demon Flame Valley and offered him a reward for capturing Xiao Yan.
• Old Ghost Di Mo learned that Xiao Yan was in the Jia Nan Inner Court and weighed the offer despite his fear of Mang Tianchi.