Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran unleashed their Earth Tier Dou Skills in a devastating clash that left them both badly injured and drained. Nalan Yanran remained standing while Xiao Yan could not rise, deciding the duel in her favor.

• Xiao Yan gathered his remaining Dou Qi and used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to unleash Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Nalan Yanran answered with Extreme Wind, Sunset Radiance, and the two attacks collided in a massive explosion.
• Yun Leng ordered the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to form a defensive shield against the spreading shockwaves.
• After the smoke cleared, Nalan Yanran stood injured and exhausted, while Xiao Yan remained unable to get up.
• Nalan Yanran reflected that Xiao Yan might have won if her realm had not been slightly higher, and the duel's outcome was decided.

After losing the Three-Year Agreement, Xiao Yan borrowed Yao Chen’s power and surged to Dou Emperor, then attacked Nalan Yanran in a rage. Yun Yun and Yun Leng intervened, leaving Nalan Yanran safe but Yun Leng gravely injured as Xiao Yan faced the Misty Cloud Sect’s fury.

• Nalan Yanran declared her victory, returned Xiao Yan’s letter of repudiation, and promised to treat his injuries and apologize to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan tore up the letter and asked Yao Chen for power, but Yao Chen urged him to leave and recover instead.
• Xiao Yan accepted Yao Chen’s temporary power, rose to his feet, and revealed an aura reaching Dou Emperor after Yun Leng declared Nalan Yanran the victor.
• Xiao Yan charged at Nalan Yanran with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler, smashing through Yun Yun’s Wind Walls and Yun Leng’s Heavy Rock Barrier.
• Yun Leng shielded Nalan Yanran and lost his right arm, while Yun Yun drove Xiao Yan back with Wind Blades and confronted him.

Xiao Yan, driven by humiliation, called on Yao Chen’s power and challenged Yun Yun, who fought him with the Misty Cloud Sect’s strength. The battle escalated as Xiao Yan summoned Queen Medusa, leaving Yun Yun facing two Peak Dou Huang opponents.

• Liu Xi watched the situation settle and waited for Xiao Yan to be cornered.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen to lend him strength, and Yao Chen told him to summon the woman who had agreed to protect him in exchange for a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan crushed a purple snake token and attacked Yun Yun, who repelled him and bound him with wind ropes.
• Xiao Yan melted the ropes with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and struck Yun Yun with Flame Strike, but her Wind Wall blocked the attack.
• The Misty Cloud Sect elders assembled the Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Formation, boosting Yun Yun to Peak Dou Huang strength as she threatened to sever Xiao Yan’s arm and imprison him.
• Xiao Yan called for Queen Medusa, who appeared with another Peak Dou Huang aura.

Queen Medusa arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to take Xiao Yan away, but he refused to leave until he settled his grievance. Medusa attacked Liu Xi for his Heavenly Flame, and after drawing her away from the sect, Liu Xi unleashed the Fallen Heart Flame and charged at her with overwhelming force.

• Queen Medusa demanded that Xiao Yan leave with her, but he refused and threatened to detonate his flame if she would not protect him.
• Yun Yun warned Medusa not to take Xiao Yan, while the Misty Cloud Sect accused him of colluding with the Snake People Race.
• Medusa recognized Liu Xi and attacked him, hoping to seize his Heavenly Flame; Liu Xi revealed he had reached the Dou Emperor realm and countered with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Liu Xi and Medusa clashed as he drew her away from the Misty Cloud Sect, leaving Xiao Yan and Yun Yun to watch them disappear into the distance.
• After his Dou Qi began to run low, Liu Xi released the Fallen Heart Flame, surged past Medusa's aura, and charged at her.

Yun Yun severely wounded Xiao Yan, but Ling Ying appeared to take him away and provoked the Misty Cloud Sect into battle. Meanwhile, Liu Xi continued fighting Medusa and prepared to strike her with the Radiant Seal.

• Yun Yun unleashed Extreme Wind, Death Strike, and sent Xiao Yan crashing into the ground with severe injuries.
• Ling Ying appeared, claimed he had been entrusted to take Xiao Yan away, and threatened the Misty Cloud Sect if Xiao Yan were harmed.
• Yun Yun ordered the Misty Cloud Sect to fight to the death after Ling Ying insulted the sect.
• Liu Xi used the Fallen Heart Flame to suppress Medusa, burned away her poison, and hurled her toward the mountains.
• Liu Xi formed the Radiant Seal and pushed it down toward Medusa.

Liu Xi attacked Medusa with the Radiant Seal and the Fallen Heart Flame, but she survived long enough to transform into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. After her apparent death, she was reborn as a tiny snake, which Liu Xi captured and decided to keep as a battle pet.

• Medusa used Snake Shadow Overlap to resist Liu Xi’s Radiant Seal, but the attack crushed her and left her barely alive.
• Liu Xi took Medusa’s Storage Ring and burned her with the Fallen Heart Flame, while she transformed into a purple python and tried to survive.
• A lightning bolt struck Medusa’s apparently dead body, and a tiny Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python emerged from it.
• Liu Xi caught the Seven-Colored Snake, recognized it as Medusa reborn, and decided to keep and train her as a battle pet.

Liu Xi sealed and subdued the Seven-colored Snake before returning to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Yun fought Ling Ying. Xiao Yan joined Ling Ying in attacking Yun Yun, and their clash with her defense triggered a powerful aura from within the sect.

• Liu Xi used the Seal Fire Dharma Seal to suppress the Seven-colored Snake's strength and made it coil around his wrist as a bracelet.
• Liu Xi flew back toward the Misty Cloud Sect and sensed the battle raging above the mountain.
• Xiao Yan learned from Yao Chen that Ling Ying had secretly protected him on Xiao Xun'er's orders, then flew to help Ling Ying fight Yun Yun.
• Ling Ying and Xiao Yan launched Snake Devour and Flame Strike at Yun Yun, who countered with Wind Cloud Twin Walls.
• The attacks shattered Yun Yun's shield, damaged the sect, and caused a vast, majestic aura to surge from within the Misty Cloud Sect.

Yun Shan emerged from seclusion and confronted Xiao Yan after hearing how he had attacked the Misty Cloud Sect. He declared that Xiao Yan would remain at the sect, while Ling Ying warned Yun Shan against harming him and Yun Shan prepared to fight.

• Yun Shan appeared above the plaza, calmed the energy storm, and rebuked Yun Yun for allowing the sect to be damaged.
• Yun Yun recounted Xiao Yan’s actions, and Xiao Yan admitted responsibility for what he had done.
• Yun Shan said Xiao Yan would be the only one punished and would remain at the Misty Cloud Sect forever.
• Ling Ying warned Yun Shan that harming Xiao Yan could bring consequences from powerful factions.
• Yun Shan refused to back down and said he would personally bear any future retaliation as he gathered Heaven and Earth Energy.

Yao Chen took control of Xiao Yan’s body and fought Yun Shan, buying time for Xiao Yan and Ling Ying to escape. Liu Xi returned after severely injuring Medusa, leaving Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect elders astonished by his strength.

• Yun Shan nearly crippled Ling Ying with a Wind Blade attack, and Ling Ying urged Xiao Yan to flee.
• Xiao Yan called on Yao Chen, who took control of his body and confronted Yun Shan with an aura approaching the Dou Zong realm.
• Yao Chen blocked Yun Shan’s attacks with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler, and the two Dou Zongs battled in the sky.
• Liu Xi returned to the plaza after defeating Medusa, while Yun Yun offered compensation for the Misty Cloud Sect’s treatment of him.
• Liu Xi said Medusa had fled severely injured and declined to explain how he had wounded her.

Yao Chen broke free of Yun Shan’s pressure and used a sudden spatial shift to gravely wound him. With Yun Shan falling and Yao Chen’s Soul Body fading, the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Yao Chen left Xiao Yan’s body and asked Ling Ying to carry his unconscious disciple to safety.
• Yun Shan ordered Yun Yun to stop them, and she attacked Ling Ying as he shielded Xiao Yan from her Wind Blades.
• Yao Chen offered Yun Shan three Earth Tier Dou Skills to end the conflict, but Yun Shan rejected the offer and demanded repayment in blood.
• Yao Chen and Yun Shan clashed with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and Extreme Wind, Falling Kill, whose collision filled the sky with blinding energy.
• Yao Chen used Space Shift to appear before Yun Shan and smash him with the Mysterious Heavy Ruler, breaking his Energy Shield and sending him falling with Bone Spirit Cold Flame burning through his body.

After defeating Yun Shan, Yao Chen faced an attack from a Soul Hall Vulture Protector, who extracted Yun Shan’s soul and threatened to capture Yao Chen. Liu Xi agreed to intervene in exchange for Yao Chen’s Heavenly Flame-fusing cultivation method, then stopped the Protector’s chain and learned that the Soul Hall also wanted his soul.

• Yao Chen defeated Yun Shan, but his own Soul Body was badly weakened as a hidden figure revealed himself as a Soul Hall Vulture Protector.
• Vulture Protector extracted Yun Shan’s soul, prompting Yun Yun to attack him and Yao Chen to urge Ling Ying to flee.
• Yao Chen tried to recruit Liu Xi, eventually offering him a cultivation method that could fuse Heavenly Flames in exchange for help.
• Vulture Protector knocked Yun Yun aside and sent his rune-covered chain toward Yao Chen.
• Liu Xi seized the chain with his Green Flame, and Vulture Protector warned that the Soul Hall wanted Liu Xi’s soul too.

Liu Xi obtained the Flame Mantra scroll while preventing the Vulture Protector from capturing Yao Chen. As the Vulture Protector turned his full attention on Liu Xi, Yao Tianhuo appeared and trapped him in the Li Huo Fen Tian Great Array, leaving their battle to a contest of endurance.

• Liu Xi retreated from the Vulture Protector, but Yao Chen sent the Flame Mantra scroll into the chain’s path, forcing Liu Xi to save it.
• Liu Xi caught the scroll, stored it, and drew the Vulture Protector’s anger while Ling Ying escaped.
• Yao Tianhuo emerged from Liu Xi’s Storage Ring and used five Beast Fires to form the Five Wheel Separation Fire Method array.
• Yao Tianhuo unleashed the Li Huo Fen Tian Great Array, trapping the Vulture Protector in a sea of five-colored flames.
• The Vulture Protector resisted with black mist as Yao Tianhuo’s Soul Body dimmed, and the struggle became a contest of endurance.

Vulture Protector resisted Yao Tianhuo’s fiery formation and consumed Yun Shan’s soul to strengthen himself. Grieving Yun Yun prepared to avenge her teacher, and Liu Xi agreed to help create an opening for her.

• Vulture Protector hurled a soul-devouring spear at the fiery curtain, but Yao Tianhuo summoned a flame beast that destroyed it and stabilized the formation.
• Vulture Protector swallowed Yun Shan’s Soul Body, strengthening the black qi around him as Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect mourned.
• Yun Yun activated the Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Formation with the elders and rose to Peak Dou Huang strength before asking to fight Vulture Protector herself.
• Liu Xi warned Yun Yun that she could barely hold her own against Vulture Protector, then promised to have Yao Tianhuo weaken him and create an opening for her.

After Vulture Protector devoured Yun Shan's soul, Liu Xi, Yun Yun, and Yao Tianhuo worked together to break his defenses and launch their strongest attacks. The battle ended in a massive explosion that Yao Tianhuo believed had killed Vulture Protector, and Yun Yun declared that she had avenged her teacher.

• Vulture Protector devoured Yun Shan's soul, strengthened himself, and battered the Li Huo Fen Tian Great Array with his Soul Erosion Demonic Hand.
• Liu Xi and Yun Yun prepared their strongest Dou Techniques while Yao Tianhuo held the formation together.
• Yao Tianhuo made the Li Huo Fen Tian Great Array explode, badly injuring Vulture Protector.
• Liu Xi and Yun Yun attacked Vulture Protector, who used Heavenly Soul Disintegration to raise a black shield against them.
• The attacks and shield triggered a massive explosion that forced Liu Xi, Yun Yun, and Yao Tianhuo to retreat.
• Yao Tianhuo returned to the Storage Ring, and Yun Yun said she had avenged her teacher.

After helping Yun Yun defeat Vulture Protector, Liu Xi discovered and captured the Protector’s surviving soul before leaving the damaged Misty Cloud Sect. Yun Yun placed Xiao Yan on the sect’s kill list, while Nalan Yanran resolved to enter the Life and Death Gate after recovering.

• Yun Yun thanked Liu Xi for helping her avenge her teacher, and Liu Xi detected Vulture Protector’s faint surviving soul and captured it with an invisible flame.
• Yun Yun named Liu Xi an honored guest of the Misty Cloud Sect and ordered the sect to place Xiao Yan first on its kill list, while warning that the Xiao Family would be spared unless it caused trouble.
• Liu Xi declined Yun Yun’s invitation to stay and left the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Yun watched him go with complicated feelings.
• Nalan Yanran blamed herself for the sect’s losses and asked to enter the Life and Death Gate to gain strength.
• Yun Yun agreed that Nalan Yanran could enter the Life and Death Gate after recovering, and Nalan Yanran thanked her.

Liu Xi returned from Misty Cloud Mountain after recounting Yun Shan’s death and Queen Medusa’s involvement to Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong. Back home, he checked on the still-sleepy Zi Yan and gave her the Seven-colored Snake, which she named Zi Ling.

• Liu Xi told Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong about the battle on Misty Cloud Mountain, including Yun Shan’s fall and Queen Medusa’s appearance.
• Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong returned to Jia Ma Holy City with Liu Xi, and Hai Bodong offered to accompany him on future outings.
• Liu Xi returned home and reassured Xiao Yi Xian, who worried that she had been unable to help during the battle.
• Liu Xi and Xiao Yi Xian visited Zi Yan, whose unstable aura and continued sleepiness suggested she was nearing a breakthrough.
• Liu Xi gave Zi Yan the Seven-colored Snake as a companion, and Zi Yan named it Zi Ling.

Liu Xi secured a secluded, energy-rich place in the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s forbidden ground for Zi Yan’s breakthrough and his own cultivation. After returning home, he learned Zi Yan had shared her pills with Zi Ling and prepared concentrated Special Extra-Dose Pills for her.

• Liu Xi asked Jia Xing Tian for a quiet place rich in energy, and Jia Xing Tian offered the imperial family’s forbidden ground and personally showed it to him.
• Jia Xing Tian gave Liu Xi a token granting him access to the imperial palace and forbidden ground, and Liu Xi agreed to use the site for seclusion.
• Liu Xi collected Imperial Pill ingredients from Chemir and asked the Alchemist Guild to keep gathering Soul Nurturing Saliva ingredients for Yao Tianhuo.
• Liu Xi returned to Liu Mansion and found Zi Yan playing with Zi Ling, who had eaten many of Zi Yan’s pills.
• Liu Xi refined concentrated Special Extra-Dose Pills from energy-rich ingredients to support Zi Yan’s impending breakthrough to the Dou Emperor realm.

Liu Xi brought Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and Zi Ling to the Jia Ma royal family's forbidden grounds to cultivate while Zi Yan prepared to break through. After Zi Yan frightened the royal guardian beast, the group settled into their new secluded residence.

• Liu Xi gave Zi Yan extra-strength pills and prepared special spirit liquid for Zi Ling, who eagerly drank it.
• Liu Xi's group reached the forbidden grounds with the golden-armored general, who led them past the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon.
• Zi Yan scolded the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon, and it sensed her terrifying aura and retreated into the lake in submission.
• The golden-armored general brought Liu Xi's group to their newly built residence and explained that supplies would arrive every ten days.

Liu Xi refined an Imperial Pill and used it to break through to the Two-Star Dou Emperor realm, continuing to absorb its remaining power. Meanwhile, Zi Yan’s accumulated energy reached its limit, and she entered a deep sleep inside a purple cocoon as she prepared to advance.

• Liu Xi refined an Imperial Pill, creating a golden energy pillar that attracted the attention of a massive beast in the lake.
• Liu Xi swallowed the pill while cultivating and broke through to the Two-Star Dou Emperor realm, with most of the pill’s power still unconsumed.
• Zi Yan grew exhausted and feverish while playing with Zi Ling, alarming Xiao Yi Xian.
• Zi Yan fell into a deep sleep as purple light formed a cocoon around her, and Xiao Yi Xian realized she was poised to advance to the Dou Emperor realm.

After reaching Three-Star Dou Huang, Liu Xi discovered Zi Yan cultivating inside a purple cocoon and spent time training Zi Ling with games and energy spiritual liquid. He ended their play and returned to cultivation, while Zi Ling settled around his wrist.

• Seven days after taking the Imperial Pill, Liu Xi exhausted its medicinal power and advanced to Three-Star Dou Huang.
• Liu Xi found Zi Yan inside a purple cocoon that was absorbing Heaven and Earth Energy, while Zi Ling greeted him outside it.
• Liu Xi rewarded Zi Ling with energy spiritual liquid as he taught her to follow simple commands.
• Liu Xi played fetch with Zi Ling using a jade chopstick, and she eagerly retrieved it for more rewards.
• Liu Xi stopped the games and headed back to cultivate, and Zi Ling coiled around his wrist.