Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan fought the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King after failing to secure its help with a promise of a Shapeshifting Pill. The Lion King surrendered when Yao revealed his Dou Zun strength, while a Peak Dou Huang elder spotted the battle and rushed toward it to capture a powerful monster beast.

• Xiao Yan offered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King a Shapeshifting Pill within two months and asked for guidance, but the Lion King refused and challenged him.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King attacked with Purple Crystal Seal, but Xiao Yan countered with Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Xiao Yan's attack shattered the Lion King's purple light pillar and sent him crashing into a mountain peak.
• Yao restrained the Lion King with spatial power, and the shocked beast surrendered and offered to join Xiao Yan's force.
• A Peak Dou Huang elder with a centipede tattoo mistook the battle's spectacle for a monster beast undergoing transformation and flew into the range to capture it.

Xiao Yan brought the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and other powerful Monster Beasts into the Xiao Family, strengthening its defenses and securing a supply of medicinal herbs. With the Companion Purple Crystal Source in hand, he prepared to cultivate in the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower, where he met Xun'er after she finished cultivating.

• Xiao Yan ordered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to move with his son and the Branded Iron Poisonous Python near the Xiao Family Back Mountain, gather herbs, and promised them Shapeshifting Pills and Imperial Pills.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King gave Xiao Yan the Companion Purple Crystal Source and followed him back to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Han learned that the Xiao Family now had three Clan Protecting Monster Beasts and discussed Nalan Jie's renewed attempt to revisit the marriage contract with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Han he would seclude himself in the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower, while Old Yao returned to his cave.
• Xun'er finished refining the Yang Yuan Pill's medicinal strength and greeted Xiao Yan at the tower.

Xiao Yan entered seclusion with Xun'er guarding him and used pills and Companion Purple Crystal Source to rapidly advance his cultivation. After several days, his Dou Crystal began transforming, leaving him on the verge of reaching the Dou Ling realm.

• Xun'er told Xiao Yan that his Yang Yuan Pills had helped her reach seven-star Dou Zhe, and he began his own seclusion.
• Xiao Yan showed Xun'er his pills and Companion Purple Crystal Source, then asked her to protect him while he cultivated.
• Xiao Yan used two Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pills and one Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill to reach the peak of Great Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan consumed the Companion Purple Crystal Source and circulated the Fen Jue Cultivation Technique to gather energy for a major breakthrough.
• After several days, Xiao Yan's Dou Crystal rounded and grew nine spikes, signaling that he was about to become a Dou Ling Expert.

Xiao Yan broke through from Five-Star Great Dou Shi to Peak Dou Ling by taking pills, while Xun'er learned about his Teacher's unusual creations. He left seclusion to find that Xiao Zhan had also become a Dou King and that Hai Bodong had returned with a large haul of medicinal ingredients.

• Xiao Yan reached Dou Ling, then used a Spirit Ascension Pill and a Form Creation Pill to advance to Peak Dou Ling, astonishing Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan explained that his Teacher had created the Spirit Ascension Pill and Form Creation Pill, and promised to prepare pills for Xun'er when she reached the Spirit Battle Realm.
• Xun'er wondered about Xiao Yan's mysterious Teacher and the Xiao Clan's possible hidden survivors before resuming her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan left the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower and congratulated Xiao Zhan, who had reached the Dou King realm.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that Hai Bodong had returned from the Black Corner Region with ingredients for several pills and asked him to decide whether Hai Bodong should stay or return.

Xiao Yan met Hai Bodong after returning from seclusion and learned that Fan Lao had wounded him on the way back from the Black Corner Region. Xiao Yan healed Hai Bodong and discussed responding to the Blood Sect, leaving Hai Bodong impressed by the Xiao Family’s growing power.

• Xiao Zhan discovered that Xiao Yan had reached Peak Dou Ling after only three months and went into the Nirvana Myriad Transformation Tower to stabilize his own realm.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that Hai Bodong had returned wounded and urged him to help if the Xiao Family could.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan the medicinal materials he had gathered and asked when Old Yao could refine the pills.
• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Gang Yang Flame to purge the foreign Dou Qi from Hai Bodong’s shoulder wound and identified Fan Lao as his attacker.
• Hai Bodong confirmed that Blood Emperor Fan Lao had ambushed him, and Xiao Yan suggested that Twilight City and the Blood Sect might become a concern for the Xiao Family.
• Hai Bodong agreed to follow Xiao Yan’s decision but noted that neither he nor Fan Lao could defeat the other in their current condition.

Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong went to Beast Gathering Peak, where Old Yao revealed a formation that would use a lightning tribulation to speed the Monster Beasts’ transformation and temper their bodies. Old Yao also offered Hai Bodong a chance to enter the Thunder Fire Body Refining Array, leaving Hai Bodong scrambling to refuse.

• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong that the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King was waiting for a Shapeshifting Pill, and Hai Bodong marveled that Xiao Yan’s mysterious teacher was a Seventh-grade Alchemist.
• Old Yao called Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong to Beast Gathering Peak, where he stood in the air above the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and Son, the Fire Demon Sky Ape, and the Branded Iron Poisonous Python.
• Hai Bodong recognized Old Yao as a Dou Ancestor, while Xiao Yan privately reflected that his teacher was far stronger than that.
• Old Yao explained that his formation would draw a lightning tribulation and combine its power with the Shapeshifting Pill to transform the Monster Beasts faster and temper Xiao Yan’s physique.
• Old Yao asked whether Hai Bodong had learned a Body Tempering Dou Skill and offered him a chance to use the Thunder Fire Body Refining Array, but Hai Bodong hurriedly refused and hid behind Xiao Yan.

Old Yao activated the Thunder Fire Body Refining Array to help Xiao Han advance his Great Sun Thunder Body and Xiao Yan cultivate his Lesser Nirvana Golden Body. By the second morning, Xiao Han had completed the body’s transformation, and Old Yao saw that he was also about to break through.

• Xiao Han joined Old Yao, Xiao Yan, and Hai Bodong at Beast Gathering Peak, where Old Yao sealed the area with Spatial Lock and revealed himself as a Dou Zun Magnate.
• Old Yao activated the Thunder Fire Body Refining Array, sending thunderfire down on Xiao Han, Xiao Yan, and four magical beasts undergoing transformation.
• Xiao Han endured the thunderfire while his Jade Thunder Body strengthened, and Xiao Yan cultivated the Lesser Nirvana Golden Body within the array.
• At sunrise, Xiao Han’s jade shell cracked and fell away as his Great Sun Thunder Body reached mastery, granting him strength to clash with a peak Fifth Tier Magical Beast.
• Old Yao observed that Xiao Han was about to break through, while Hai Bodong grew eager to learn a body-tempering technique.

Xiao Han broke through after cultivating the Great Sun Thunder Body, gaining combat strength comparable to a Dou Emperor. Old Yao explained how different attributes could fuse, and Hai Bodong realized he could combine his cold Dou Qi with the body-refining technique.

• Old Yao said Xiao Han’s perfected Great Sun Thunder Body could withstand Dou Emperor attacks and put his combat strength on par with a Dou Emperor.
• Hai Bodong asked to learn the Great Sun Thunder Body, and Old Yao sent him an improved version of the technique.
• Hai Bodong worried that the technique’s extreme yang nature would conflict with his yin-cold Dou Qi, so Old Yao explained that different attributes could transform and fuse through their shared origin.
• Hai Bodong realized he could combine thunder and ice, thanked Old Yao, and saluted him as a disciple.
• Xiao Han completed his breakthrough, let the golden light of the Great Sun Thunder Body recede, and declared that he could now confront Yun Leng and the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan completed the second layer of the Nirvana Golden Body, and Old Yao helped the Xiao Family’s allies grow stronger with pills and training. Their gains were interrupted when a mysterious Peak Dou Huang fought the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and Old Yao decided the newcomer would become the first improved Corpse Puppet.

• Xiao Yan completed the second layer of the Nirvana Golden Body and reached peak Fourth Tier physical strength.
• Old Yao gave Xiao Han and Hai Bodong pills, then had Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian help refine medicine.
• Hai Bodong recovered to Five-Star Dou Huang and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Huang, while the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King reached Five-Star Dou Huang and other Xiao Family forces also grew stronger.
• A Peak Dou Huang with sinister poison in their aura appeared in the Monster Beast Mountain Range and fought the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave, while Old Yao resolved to turn the unknown opponent into an improved Corpse Puppet.

Xiao Yan's teacher, Yao Chen, arrived to rescue the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King from Wu Ya and revealed that he was a Dou Zun known as Venerable Yao. Yao Chen lent Xiao Yan the strength of a Seven-Star Dou Huang and left Wu Ya for him to defeat.

• Xun'er detected a Peak Dou Huang near the Xiao Family's back mountain and sent Ling Ying to investigate.
• Wu Ya overwhelmed the weakened Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and tried to use it to advance his cultivation.
• Yao Chen arrived, drove back Wu Ya with his pressure, and revealed himself as Venerable Yao, a Dou Zun.
• Ling Ying realized Xiao Yan had a Dou Zun teacher and decided to report the discovery to Xun'er.
• Yao Chen granted Xiao Yan the power of a Seven-Star Dou Huang and told him to leave Wu Ya's corpse intact.

Xiao Yan used Old Yao’s power boost to fight Wu Ya and overwhelmed the Peak Dou Huang with his golden body and ruler techniques. After breaking Wu Ya’s Energy Centipede, Xiao Yan began testing a flame-fusion attack, leaving its result unresolved.

• Old Yao placed a Bone Spirit Fire Talisman on Xiao Yan, raising his combat strength to that of a Seven-Star Dou Huang.
• Wu Ya summoned a blood-red Energy Centipede and sent it charging at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Lesser Nirvana Golden Body and Flame Splitting Wave Ruler to suppress Wu Ya’s Poison Battle Qi and destroy the Energy Centipede.
• Xiao Yan followed with two ruler techniques and began combining their flames to test a new attack inspired by the Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus.

Xiao Yan used an improved Flame Splitting Wave Ruler to overwhelm Wu Ya, whose fate was left in Old Yao’s hands. After warning Xiao Yan to be wary of the Ancient Clan, Old Yao took Wu Ya away to study him, leaving Xiao Yan to reflect on Xun’er and the clan.

• Wu Ya reacted in shock to Xiao Yan’s two flames, unable to understand how he controlled them both.
• Xiao Yan combined the flames on the Heavy Black Ruler and used Fen Jue to stabilize their power.
• Xiao Yan launched the ruler at Wu Ya, destroying his blood-red Energy Centipede and engulfing the area in a vast sea of fire.
• The blast collapsed Beast Gathering Peak, but Old Yao restrained the flames and revealed Wu Ya trapped in crystal formed from the Power of Space.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan to be cautious around the Ancient Clan, then left with Wu Ya to research the Puppet.
• Xiao Yan considered Teacher’s warning and concluded that Xun’er could be trusted, but the Ancient Clan could not be relied upon.

Xun'er learned that Yao Chen was alive and chose not to investigate him, while Xiao Yi Xian absorbed refined poison energy as Yao Chen prepared her to form a Poison Pill. Xiao Yan also proposed a new pill to improve Yao Chen's compatibility with a future physical body, and Yao Chen agreed the idea was feasible.

• Ling Ying told Xun'er that Yao Chen was alive and was Xiao Yan's teacher, surprising her.
• Xun'er decided not to disturb Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, though she expressed curiosity about Xiao Yi Xian and her Calamity Poison Body.
• Yao Chen refined Wu Ya's corpse with materials and Bone Spirit Cold Flame while Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the purified Poison Battle Qi below.
• Xiao Yan worried that Xiao Yi Xian was forming a Poison Pill too soon, but Yao Chen reassured him that she was safe and had a high chance of success.
• Xiao Yan suggested using the Seven Illusions Soul Nurturing Fruit to create a pill that would improve Yao Chen's compatibility with a physical body, and Yao Chen said the idea was feasible.

Xiao Yan and Old Yao planned to gather flames and ingredients to refine the Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pill, then helped Xiao Yi Xian control her Calamity Poison Body. With Xiao Yi Xian safe and stronger, the group prepared to head to the Tagor Desert to seek the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Old Yao explained that his Eighth-Grade Four Poles Soul Nurturing Pill required many medicinal ingredients and at least four kinds of flames, and Xiao Yan offered to help gather them.
• Xiao Yan proposed visiting the Tagor Desert for the Green Lotus Core Flame and seeking other flames, while Old Yao noted that their available flames could reach seven in number.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poisonous gas, and Old Yao and Xiao Yan used the Fire Talisman Great Formation to help her condense the Destiny Poison Pill and reach Great Perfection of Core Formation Realm.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xiao Yi Xian over her past and said her Poison Puppet could protect the Xiao Family.
• Old Yao returned to the Ancient Ring, and Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that Old Yao had been framed and was now only a Soul Body before they prepared to leave for the Tagor Desert.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached Stone Desert City and reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, who had built the Desert Iron Mercenary Group into the city’s strongest force. Xiao Yan learned that Qing Lin had become astonishingly powerful and was away exploring.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Stone Desert City and went to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s courtyard.
• A mercenary told Xiao Yan that Xiao Ding and Xiao Li led the city’s strongest force and that Shara had left with his trusted men.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, then introduced Xiao Yi Xian to them as his junior sister.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed Xiao Yi Xian as their younger sister and said Qing Lin was out exploring.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that Qing Lin had become so powerful that she could defeat the brothers and their entire mercenary group.

Xiao Yan reunited with his brothers and learned how Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had advanced in strength. He planned to leave with Xiao Yi Xian for the Profound Sky Continent, then return to search for the Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Li and Xiao Ding learned that Xiao Yi Xian had reached roughly Seven- or Eight-Star Great Dou Shi, while Xiao Yan revealed he had reached Peak Dou Ling.
• Xiao Li condemned Nalan Yanran and the Nalan Family for breaking the engagement, and Xiao Ding said Nalan Jie wanted to renew the marriage arrangement now that the Xiao Family was rising again.
• Xiao Yi Xian silently resolved to protect the Xiao Family from anyone who threatened it.
• Xiao Ding explained that Qing Lin had reached Peak Dou Shi and used more than a hundred snake-type magical beasts to drive the Sand Mercenary Group from Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Ding said the brothers had not found underground magma at the location on the map, so Xiao Yan planned to search for the Heavenly Flames after returning.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding that he and Xiao Yi Xian would leave for five days to travel to the Profound Sky Continent.

Xiao Yan reunited with Lin Dong and discussed their plans to seek the Great Desolate Sect’s treasures while navigating the Lin Clan and imperial family’s overtures. The chapter ended with Lin Dong confused about whether his future Life and Death brother called Little Yan was actually Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Tomb Mansion with Xiao Yi Xian, and Lin Dong welcomed them and learned about her Calamity Poison Body.
• Little Sable revealed that he had recovered to the Nine-element Nirvana Realm after devouring a Nascent Soul.
• Xiao Yan told Lin Dong that they would seek the Devouring Ancestral Talisman and resources in the Great Desolate Sect ruins.
• Lin Dong explained that the Lin Clan had offered his father a Spiritual Wheel Mirror, while the imperial family sought a marriage alliance with the Yan City Lin Family.
• Xiao Yan advised Lin Dong to build ties with the imperial family so they could use its formation to reach the Hundred Dynasties Battlefield discreetly.
• Lin Dong questioned whether his future Life and Death brother Little Yan was Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan knocked him on the head.

Xiao Yan and his companions prepared to travel to Great Desolate County to search the ruins of the Great Desolate Sect, while discussing Little Flame’s potential to become a Dark Sacred Tiger. The group left after Old Yao strengthened Hehuanzi to protect Yan City, and they headed toward the ancient sect’s treasures.

• Xiao Yan explained that Little Flame could evolve beyond an ordinary Fire Python Tiger and become a Dark Sacred Tiger, prompting Little Sable to recall the clan’s ancient power.
• Xiao Yan said the group would go straight to Great Desolate County and explained that they needed more than five days to explore the Great Desolate Sect’s hidden resources.
• Lin Dong learned that Xiao Yan had reached Peak Dou Ling and realized the group would be away from home for several months.
• Old Yao refined Hehuanzi to the quasi-Nirvana Realm, making him strong enough to guard Yan City.
• Old Yao told Hehuanzi to return to the Lin Family with news that everyone was safe, then carried Xiao Yan, Lin Dong, and Little Sable toward Great Desolate County.

Xiao Yan explained that Great Eagle City was home to the reincarnated Lord of Life and Death, and he hoped to enlist her help with their resurrection research. After considering the benefits of befriending her, the group decided to approach her before she regained her memories.

• Xiao Yan told Old Yao and Lin Dong that Great Eagle City held the reincarnator of one of the Eight Ancient Masters.
• Little Sable explained how Reincarnators preserved their spirituality and returned to life, then identified the woman as the Lord of Life and Death.
• Xiao Yan proposed that the Ancestral Symbol of Life and Death and the Life and Death Coffin could help improve their resurrection methods and provide powerful allies.
• Little Sable recalled that the Immortal Saint Whale clan had buried the Lord of Life and Death in the Chaotic Demon Sea after she fell gravely injured.
• Old Yao considered how the Life and Death Reincarnation Pill and other resurrection arts might work together, while Lin Dong urged the group to reach Great Eagle City and recruit the Lord of Life and Death before she recovered her memories.

Lin Dong intervened when Luo Shan and the Blood Vulture Bandits threatened Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin, killing two powerful bandits with his Golden Platform Suppressing Demon Palm. He then turned his spear on Luo Shan, undeterred by the threat of Luo Jiu.

• Xiao Yan and Little Sable noticed the confrontation between Jiang Xue and the Blood Vulture Bandits in Great Eagle City, and Little Sable urged Lin Dong to intervene.
• Luo Shan blocked Jiang Xue and Jiang Yinyin, threatened to abduct them, and revealed that their father was occupied by a visit from the Di Family.
• Lin Dong entered the confrontation and struck at Luo Shan with the Golden Platform Suppressing Demon Palm.
• Lin Dong activated the Great Sun Thunder Body and crushed the two Great Perfection of Core Formation Realm experts who tried to stop him.
• Luo Shan threatened Lin Dong with his father, Luo Jiu, but Lin Dong dismissed the threat and thrust his Great Luo Golden Spear at him.