Chapter Summaries

Old Yao helped the Tomb Mansion Master’s Lingering Soul Fragment enter a Talisman Puppet, creating a powerful guardian for the Lin Family. The puppet reached the Great Accomplishment of Creation Qi Realm, leaving Lin Dong excited about his family’s new strength.

• Old Yao opened the Bronze Gate and found the Nirvana Heart and the Tomb Mansion Master’s skeleton in the Stone Hall.
• Old Yao offered to stabilize the Tomb Mansion Master’s Lingering Soul Fragment in a Talisman Puppet, and the Tomb Mansion Master accepted.
• Old Yao used Soul Power and Bone Spirit Cold Flame to stabilize the fragment and merge it into Lin Dong’s Mid-Grade Talisman Puppet.
• Xiao Yan supplied ten thousand Pure Yuan Pills as the puppet absorbed energy to support the Lingering Soul Fragment.
• The Talisman Puppet released pressure at the Great Accomplishment of Creation Qi Realm, and Lin Dong celebrated the Lin Family’s new guardian.

Old Yao studied the Nirvana Heart and devised a pill that could greatly raise a cultivator’s strength, while Xiao Yan and Lin Dong arranged for Lin Xiao and Liu Yan to use the heart together. The chapter ended with Old Yao beginning to mass-refine pills that could rapidly strengthen the Xiao Family.

• Hehuanzi explained that the Nirvana Heart required a man and a woman to absorb it together, so Xiao Yan gave Lin Dong a dual cultivation technique for Lin Xiao and Liu Yan.
• Lin Dong left the Tomb Mansion with Little Sable to bring Lin Xiao and Liu Yan from Yan City.
• After two days of research, Old Yao created the Form Creation Pill, which could raise a Dou Ling Expert’s strength by four to six stars.
• Old Yao said the ingredients were available and began refining Form Creation Pills and Spirit Ascension Pills in batches using Bone Spirit Fire Talismans.

Old Yao completed a batch of pills after refining them through the night, and Xiao Yan distributed them to strengthen the Xiao and Lin Families. Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family with pills capable of greatly increasing its elders’ power, and his father and the elders eagerly received them.

• Old Yao finished refining seven Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pills and handed Xiao Yan the pills he had made.
• Xiao Yan gave pills to Lin Dong’s family and kept one Spirit Ascension Pill and one Form Creation Pill for City Lord Shi.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Han returned to the Xiao Family, where Xiao Yan promised his father he could raise him to Peak Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Zhan and the four elders a Spirit Ascension Pill and a Form Creation Pill each.
• The Xiao Family elders praised Old Yao’s pills and celebrated the family’s prospects.

Xiao Yan gave the Xiao Family’s three elders pills that advanced them into the Spirit Battle Realm, then discussed strengthening the family before Old Yao proposed turning Talisman Puppets into a defensive formation. The chapter left Xiao Yan considering the monster cores needed to power a formation capable of challenging a Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Yan gave the three elders breakthrough pills and Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pills, and they swallowed them while Xiao Zhan stood guard.
• Xiao Zhan asked about the Life Devouring Pill, and Xiao Yan explained its power and its three-year lifespan cost.
• The three elders broke through into the Spirit Battle Realm, bringing the Xiao Family’s number of Dou Ling Experts to five.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan, Fourth Uncle-Grandfather, and the three elders to cultivate with more pills so they could prepare to face Yun Leng.
• Old Yao called Xiao Yan to the back mountain and revealed his plan to reforge 108 Talisman Puppets into a formation that could trap a Dou Wang.
• Old Yao asked whether the Xiao Family had 108 Third-Rank Monster Cores, explaining that Fourth Tier Monster Cores could let the puppet formation contend with a Dou Emperor.

Old Yao rebuilt a Talisman Puppet with artificial meridians and a Magic Core, allowing it to draw Heaven and Earth Energy, use Battle Qi Armor, and launch ranged attacks. After seeing the successful test, he continued refining puppets, believing the work would help him condense a third Fire Talisman.

• Xiao Yan gave Old Yao a jade box of Third-Rank Monster Cores and planned to ask the Mittel Family to gather Fourth-Rank cores.
• Old Yao used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to reshape a Talisman Puppet, forming artificial meridians, a cyclone, and hollow Runes before installing a Third-Rank Fire Attribute Monster Core.
• The puppet awakened and drew Heaven and Earth Energy through its Runes, then converted it into fire-attribute Dou Qi and formed Battle Qi Armor.
• Old Yao tested the puppet's strength as it cracked a mountain wall with a punch and snapped a distant tree with a ranged Dou Qi attack.
• Old Yao resumed refining puppets, saying the work might help him condense a third Fire Talisman, and Xiao Yan congratulated him.

Xiao Yan watched Old Yao temper and test his newly reforged Puppets during a Wind and Thunder Tribulation, while a hostile force gathered to attack the Xiao Family. Old Yao detected the approaching force and offered to test his Puppet Battle Array against them.

• Mo Cheng and Commander Meng agreed to wait four days before destroying the Xiao Family, whether or not Xiao Zhan appeared.
• Old Yao refined his Soul Power to the threshold of a Three-Seal Heavenly Talisman Master as the Wind and Thunder Tribulation gathered over the Xiao Family Back Mountain.
• Old Yao sent 108 Puppets into the tribulation in two formations and shielded them with Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan that the thirty-six Yuan Li Puppets could match Great Accomplishment of Form Creation Realm in an array, while the seventy-two Dou Qi Puppets could trap a Dou King.
• Old Yao sensed three Dou Lings and fourteen Da Dou Shis approaching the Xiao Family and asked Xiao Yan whether to test his Earth Fiend Puppet Battle Array on them.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao tested the Earth Fiend Puppet Battle Array when Mo Cheng led an invading force into the Xiao Family estate to assassinate Xiao Zhan and Xiao Han. The Xiao Family’s seventy-two Peak Great Dou Shi Puppets surrounded the attackers, and Xiao Yan ordered them to kill.

• Xiao Yan decided to use the Earth Fiend Puppet Battle Array against the invaders and leave the Dou Lings alive for his family to fight.
• Mo Cheng led fourteen Da Dou Shi and two Dou Lings into the Xiao Family estate, planning to assassinate Xiao Zhan and Xiao Han.
• Xiao Yan activated the array, revealing seventy-two Puppets with the strength of Peak Great Dou Shi and trapping all seventeen invaders.
• Mo Cheng and the other attackers tried to retreat after realizing the Xiao Family had prepared an ambush.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Puppets to kill the invaders.

Xiao Yan used the Earth Fiend Puppet Battle Array to devastate Mo Cheng’s force, leaving three Dou Lings alive after fourteen Da Dou Shis died. Xiao Han then confronted Wang Que over an old grudge and attacked him with the Sky Scale Ancient Halberd.

• Xiao Yan unleashed the Thunder Tribulation Blast, killing fourteen Da Dou Shis and severely injuring Mo Cheng, Elder Wang, and Meng Li.
• Meng Li invoked his Imperial Family ties and the Misty Cloud Sect, but Xiao Yan mocked him for betraying the sect and exposing its influence in the empire’s army.
• Xiao Zhan arrived with Xiao Han and the three elders, then killed Meng Li with Lion Mountain Split.
• Elder Wang recognized Xiao Han and realized the Xiao Family had concealed its strength; Xiao Han identified Wang Que as the man who had destroyed his dantian years earlier.
• Xiao Han summoned the Sky Scale Ancient Halberd and walked through the air, shocking Wang Que, then launched the Fish Scale Halberd technique at him.

Xiao Han defeated Wang Que, who had stolen the Xiao Family’s techniques, and killed him with the Sky Scale Halberd Technique. As Mo Cheng faced Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family elders, he revealed a monstrous transformation in his arm.

• Wang Que used the Xiao Family’s Blazing Fire Sky Annihilation Slash, but Xiao Han’s Red Scale Giant Fish broke through his attack and wounded him.
• Wang Que tried to flee, and Xiao Han launched the Python Scale Halberd, killing him in the sky above Wutan City.
• Ling Ying watched from the shadows and decided to report Xiao Han’s strength to Xun’er.
• Jia Baili witnessed Wang Que’s death and began writing to Jia Xing Tian to urge greater support for the Xiao Family.
• Mo Cheng, cornered by Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family elders, unleashed a strange Hidden Strength that transformed his left arm into a beastlike limb.

Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family fought Mo Cheng after he transformed his arm with a Fifth Tier Monster Beast limb. Xiao Zhan killed Mo Cheng, and Xiao Yan sent the Third Elder to report the collusion to the City Lord’s Mansion while considering how to investigate the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Mo Cheng offered to make the Mo Family a subsidiary of the Xiao Family, but Xiao Yan refused because Old Yao wanted Mo Cheng’s intact corpse for research and the Imperial Family would handle the Mo Family.
• Mo Cheng’s transplanted beast arm drove him toward madness, so Xiao Zhan and the three elders surrounded him with the family’s Dou Qi Puppets.
• Xiao Zhan used Eight Extremes Collapse with Hidden Strength to blast Mo Cheng backward and severely injure him.
• The three elders joined Xiao Zhan’s assault, and Xiao Zhan shattered Mo Cheng’s heart meridians, killing him.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Third Elder to tell the City Lord that Mo Cheng, the local powers, and the Misty Cloud Sect had colluded against the Xiao Family.

Jia Xing Tian learned from Xiao Zhan’s letter that the Misty Cloud Sect had ordered a raid on the Xiao Family and colluded with an imperial general, so he awakened the imperial family’s injured guardian beast and set out for Misty Cloud Mountain. In Wutan City, Xiao Han remained unaware of the approaching confrontation as he handed over Magic Cores to Mittel Teng Shan.

• Yao Ye delivered Jia Baili’s report and Xiao Zhan’s letter, and Jia Xing Tian learned that Xiao Han had killed Wang Que and was likely a Dou King.
• Jia Xing Tian read that the Mo Family, Wang Que, and Meng Li had carried out a Misty Cloud Sect-ordered raid on the Xiao Family, and he became enraged at the sect’s infiltration of the empire.
• Jia Xing Tian went to the palace lake and awakened the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast, asking it to accompany him to Misty Cloud Mountain.
• The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast agreed to help Jia Xing Tian, and the two flew toward the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Han handed Magic Cores to Mittel Teng Shan, unaware that Jia Xing Tian was heading to confront the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan received Monster Cores from Teng Shan and gifted the Mittel Family three Form Creation Pills, strengthening their alliance. He then began studying alchemy under Old Yao while his teacher worked on improving puppets.

• Teng Shan delivered one hundred and eight Fourth-Tier Monster Cores and a Sixth-Rank Monster Core to Xiao Yan, crediting Hai Bodong’s reputation for helping him gather them.
• Xiao Yan gave Teng Shan three Form Creation Pills that could raise a Dou Ling Expert’s strength by four to six stars, and Teng Shan realized how they could strengthen the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Yan returned to the back mountain cave and asked Old Yao to teach him alchemy.
• Old Yao advised Xiao Yan to begin with Dou Qi Continent alchemy and start by refining basic healing medicines.
• Xiao Yan practiced refining medicinal herbs while Old Yao adjusted a puppet and considered improving its runes.

Xiao Yan became a Second-grade Alchemist after successfully refining the Pulse Protecting Pill, then learned that Shadow Guards had found three possible treasure caves near Qingshan Town. He traveled there to investigate, where the Xiao Family had already established control of the town.

• Xiao Yan successfully refined a Pulse Protecting Pill, and Old Yao confirmed he had become a Second-grade Alchemist.
• The Third Elder told Xiao Yan that Shadow Guards had located three suspected treasure caves near Qingshan Town and had secured them.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Zhan had gone to the Imperial Capital to discuss the Xiao Mansion, then gave the Third Elder a token for the Puppet Battle Array.
• Xiao Yan traveled to Qingshan Town and found that the Xiao Family's Qingshan Mercenary Group had absorbed the Wolf Head Mercenary Group and taken control of the town.
• The gatekeepers welcomed Xiao Yan and told him the commander was waiting while deputy commanders and Shadow Guards watched the three caves.

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Qingshan pills to help him break through to the Da Dou Shi realm and asked about Xiao Yi Xian, who had gone into the mountains to gather herbs. He considered whether her Calamity Poison Body could condense a Poison Pill in a way similar to other special physiques forming pills.

• Xiao Qingshan reported that the Qingshan Mercenary Group had found three cave mansions while searching for the Cave Mansion Treasure.
• Xiao Yan praised the group’s efforts and said he had come to arrange for a Da Dou Shi to strengthen the Qingshan Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Qingshan a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and a Pulse Protecting Pill, and Xiao Qingshan swallowed them before beginning cultivation.
• Xiao Yan learned from Xiao Ran that Xiao Yi Xian had gone into the mountains to gather herbs and had not returned.
• Xiao Yan asked his teacher whether Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body could condense a Poison Pill like other special physiques formed their pills.

Xiao Yan discussed ways to help Xiao Yi Xian control her Calamity Poison Body, then explored cave mansions with Xiao Qingshan and found a Seven Illusions Soul Nurturing Fruit that could restore Old Yao’s soul. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking how much strength the fruit could restore for his teacher.

• Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed Yuan Pills and the uncertain Poison Pill Method as possible ways to help Xiao Yi Xian control her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Qingshan broke through to the Da Dou Shi realm, and Xiao Yan congratulated him before setting out to explore a cave mansion.
• Xiao Yan found gold, valuables, a Fragmentary Map of Pure Lotus Demonic Flame, two Dou Skills, and a Seven-Colored Poison Scripture in the first cave mansion.
• Xiao Yan defeated the snake-shaped Magical Beasts in the second cave mansion and discovered a seven-colored fruit inside a crimson Stone Coffin.
• Old Yao identified the fruit as a Seven Illusions Soul Nurturing Fruit and carefully gathered it, while Xiao Yan asked how much it could restore his strength.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao planned to use the Seven-Colored Soul Nurturing Fruit to build strength and eventually strike Soul Hall, while considering an early entry into the Hundred Dynasties Battlefield. After finding a jade slip from Yun Lan Sect’s Fourth Generation Sect Master, Xiao Yan suspected Yun Potian had once discovered a ruined Dou Sheng small world.

• Old Yao said the Seven-Colored Soul Nurturing Fruit could help him condense two Fire Talismans and potentially reach the strength of a Peak Dou Zong, and Xiao Yan saw that Wu Protector would no longer threaten the Xiao Family.
• Old Yao proposed delaying his seclusion until he could make full use of the fruit, then targeting Soul Hall’s Northwest Continent branch to restore his strength with its Soul Origin.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed using Old Yao’s recovered power and Little Sable’s help to enter the Hundred Dynasties Battlefield early and seek ancient treasures and a powerful corpse.
• Old Yao found a jade slip beneath the fruit tree and identified its author as Yun Zaitian, the Fourth Generation Sect Master of Yun Lan Sect.
• Xiao Yan read that Yun Zaitian had entered the sect’s Secret Realm Life and Death Gate while at Peak Dou Zong, then suspected Yun Potian had obtained a Dou Sheng inheritance in a ruined small world.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao read the Yun Lan Sect founder's account of the Life and Death Gate and identify the Yin Yang Twin Flames as the force trapping Yun Potian in a state between life and death. Old Yao concludes that the Xiao Clan bloodline is needed to refine the flames, leaving Xiao Yan hopeful that the many Heavenly Flames in the Northwest Continent could help restore his teacher.

• Xiao Yan recognized the Black and White Flame described in the will as the Yin Yang Twin Flames.
• Old Yao proposed that Yun Potian, the Yun Lan Sect's founder, had remained in death seclusion for a thousand years while seeking to become a Dou Sheng.
• Old Yao deduced that Yun Potian could not leave the Life and Death Gate because he had failed to refine the Yin Yang Twin Flames and would die outside the secret realm.
• Old Yao explained that only Xiao Clan blood could refine the Yin Yang Twin Flames and connected them to the Xiao Clan Dou Sheng who fled to the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yan read that the fourth-generation sect master had died while seeking a way to suppress the flames, after a Mysterious Scorpion Dragon Beast defeated him.
• Xiao Yan listed several Heavenly Flames with known traces in the Northwest Continent and told Old Yao that his resurrection was in sight.

Xiao Yan weighed the risks of entering the Life and Death Gate, then cultivated the Flying Dou Skill and found a Corpse Puppet Refinement Method in the final cave mansion. He left the Medicine Realm with new wings and a method that could help Teacher improve their puppet research.

• Xiao Yan and Old Yao decided to delay entering the Life and Death Gate until Xiao Yan recovered to Peak Dou Zun strength and to adjust their plans around Yun Potian and the Yin Yang Twin Flames.
• Xiao Yan resolved to pursue the Life and Death Gate’s inheritance, hoping its remains might help revive Teacher, then began cultivating the High Xuan Class Flying Dou Skill.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Black Flame Purple Cloud Sculpture’s Lingering Soul Fragment and endured the opening of two branch meridians in his back.
• Xiao Yan formed a pair of Purple Cloud Wings and flew to the third cave mansion, leaving the little tree in the stone coffin behind.
• Xiao Yan found a jade slip containing the Corpse Puppet Refinement Method and considered using it to help Teacher strengthen their Fourth Tier Puppet.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family after exploring three cave mansions and shared a valuable Dou Skill, while Xiao Zhan told him the imperial family wanted the Xiao Family back in the capital. The chapter left Xiao Yan wondering whether the Misty Cloud Sect had yielded to Jia Xing Tian’s pressure and what would happen to the Nalan Family.

• Xiao Yan and Old Yao discussed using corpse puppets against Soul Hall Protectors, but Old Yao rejected hunting innocent experts for materials.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family and sensed that Fourth Uncle-Grandfather had broken through to the Small Accomplishment of Creation Qi Realm.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Zhan the High Xuan Class Dou Skill Roaring Lion Chant, and the elders celebrated its value to the clan.
• Xiao Yan asked about the imperial family’s stance, and Xiao Zhan said Jia Xing Tian wanted the Xiao Family to return to the capital and replace the Nalan Family.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether the Misty Cloud Sect had backed down and noted that the Nalan Family might lose its standing after Nalan Jie died.

Xiao Yan considered the Xiao Family strong enough to return to the Imperial Capital while Yun Leng accepted a Soul Hall offer of power and revenge. After Xiao Yan crossed to the Tianyan Mountain Range, he learned that Lin Xiao and Liu Yan had made immense breakthroughs by refining the Nirvana Heart.

• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that Jia Xing Tian had confined Yun Leng to the Misty Cloud Sect's back mountain, and Xiao Yan judged the Xiao Family ready to return to the Imperial Capital.
• In the cave, Yun Leng lamented the Xiao Family's strength until a black fog offered to make him a Peak Dou King and later a Dou Emperor; Yun Leng agreed to cooperate.
• Xiao Yan chose to cross alone with Old Yao, explaining that the Lin Family no longer needed Dou Ling support and that he intended to help Little Sable and plan around Yan City's Symbol Master Tower.
• After Xiao Yan arrived at the Tomb Mansion, powerful auras revealed that Lin Xiao and Liu Yan had broken through to the Minor Accomplishment of Creation Realm and Great Accomplishment of Creation Qi Realm, respectively.
• Old Yao warned that their breakthroughs might attract nearby experts and the Four Great Clans, while Xiao Yan joked that Lin Langtian would be beaten if he came to investigate.