Chapter Summaries

Jia Nan Academy and its allies surrounded Maple City to settle the Black Alliance’s attack on the Inner Academy, while Han Feng prepared the city’s defenses. Xiao Yan and Han Feng faced each other as the two sides launched their battle.

• The Gold Silver Two Elders and Han Feng sensed Jia Nan Academy’s forces approaching Maple City.
• Han Feng activated the city’s defenses and rallied the Black Alliance’s experts against Su Qian and the academy forces.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Yin Gu Lao, Wu Tie, and Su Mei had brought their forces to support Jia Nan Academy in exchange for Huangji Pills.
• Han Feng realized Xiao Yan could refine Huangji Pills and grew alarmed at his junior brother’s alchemy skills.
• Su Qian assigned Xiao Yan to hold off Han Feng while he fought the Gold Silver Two Elders.
• The Gold Silver Two Elders charged Su Qian, and Han Feng tried to bargain with Xiao Yan before the battle began.

Xiao Yan fought Han Feng, using his fused Heavenly Flames and Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to overwhelm his former senior brother. After the blast left Han Feng badly injured, Xiao Yan struck him from behind and sent him flying, declaring he would punish him on their master's behalf.

• Han Feng threatened to capture Xiao Yan and take his Flame Mantra and Heavenly Flame, but Xiao Yan activated the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change and rose to three-star Dou Emperor strength.
• Xiao Yan used his fused Heavenly Flames to defeat Han Feng's sword attacks and burn him with the Fallen Heart Flame, while Han Feng countered with the Radiant Seal.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, then formed a two-colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus as Han Feng defended himself with the Sea Heart Phantom Beast.
• The Fire Lotus erupted in a massive energy storm, leaving Han Feng bloodied and burned while the onlookers searched for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan appeared behind Han Feng in Black Flame and struck him with the Heavy Xuan Ruler, declaring he would clean house on their master's behalf.

Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng during the battle for Maple City, revealing that Xuan Protector served him as a Soul Palace Venerable rather than Han Feng. After Han Feng died and the Black Alliance began to flee, Xiao Yan pursued Silver Old, but Xiao Yi Xian appeared and struck him with purple flame.

• Xiao Yan pierced Han Feng with Heavenly Flame chains while Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders blocked the Black Alliance from rescuing him.
• Han Feng summoned a Black Wind Storm and called on Xuan Protector to capture Xiao Yan, but Xuan Protector bowed to Xiao Yan as Venerable Yan.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had anticipated Han Feng's dealings with the Soul Palace, then Xuan Protector bound Han Feng and Xiao Yan extracted his Soul Body and Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan stored Han Feng's corpse and ordered the Black Alliance's forces eliminated as Su Qian and Xiao Yan chased the fleeing Gold Silver Two Elders.
• Xiao Yan sent Gold Old crashing down with a sound-wave attack, while a purple flame struck Silver Old and Xiao Yan saw Xiao Yi Xian arrive on a Purple Lion.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian after defeating Han Feng and the Black Alliance, then sought to secure control of Maple City. He offered the city’s remaining factions a place under the Xiao Clan, and revealed a Huangtian Pill to persuade them.

• Xiao Yi Xian and the Amethyst Winged Lion King stopped Silver Old from escaping, and Xiao Yan killed the poisoned Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan and Jia Nan Academy defeated the Black Alliance in Maple City, killed its leaders, and claimed Han Feng’s pill formulas, Heavenly Flame, and medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Ning asked how the Xiao Clan would handle Maple City, and Xiao Yan decided to negotiate with the leaders of its remaining factions.
• Xiao Yan told Yin Gu Lao, Su Mei, and Wu Tie that he wanted their factions incorporated into the Xiao Clan, prompting them to reject his proposal and prepare to fight.
• Xiao Yan offered a Sect Breakthrough Pill, then revealed he had successfully refined a Huangtian Pill, astonishing the three faction leaders.

Xiao Yan persuaded Yin Gu Lao, Wu Tie, and Su Mei to join the Xiao Clan by promising them Sect Breakthrough Pills, then learned from Xiao Yi Xian about a Heavenly Flame near Deep Secluded Valley in the Chuyun Empire. He planned to travel there after returning to the Jia Ma Empire, while Zi Yan’s bloodline power revealed that she was no ordinary dragon beast.

• Xiao Yan offered Yin Gu Lao, Wu Tie, and Su Mei a Sect Breakthrough Pill when they reached Nine-Star Dou Huang, and the three agreed to join the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan arranged for the leaders’ subordinates to manage Maple City, which was later renamed Xiao City.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that she and the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King had found a strange flame near Deep Secluded Valley while searching for Clear Soul Youlan.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the Poison Sect had hunted them because of her Woeful Poison Body, and that Deep Secluded Valley’s Poison Barrier would weaken again in three months.
• Xiao Yan decided to return to the Jia Ma Empire before traveling with Xiao Yi Xian to the Chuyun Empire.
• Zi Yan objected when Xiao Yan said he would make the Transformation Pill for the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King first, then used her bloodline pressure to force the Lion King to the ground.

Xiao Yan arranged for Zi Yan to accompany him, said farewell to Jia Nan Academy, and spent his remaining weeks teaching alchemy and preparing to return to the Jia Ma Empire. He left the academy after entrusting Xiao Yu with pills and the care of Xiao Clan students, while Medusa remained in the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.

• Xiao Yan persuaded Zi Yan to join him, explaining that her treasure-hunting talent could help locate Clear Soul Youlan, and brought her, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan told Su Qian he planned to return to the Jia Ma Empire within the month, and Su Qian gave him a letter of introduction to the academy headmaster, Mang Tianchi.
• Xiao Yan taught alchemy to Jia Nan Academy students and elders, demonstrating pill refinement from First-grade to Rank 6 Low-Level pills and sharing his methods freely.
• Xiao Yan spent his remaining days refining pills, practicing the Emperor Seal Technique, and using the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to strengthen Medusa's bloodline before giving her pills for her Fire Poison.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yu a Storage Ring of pills and asked her to look after Xiao Clan students, then bade farewell to his friends and left Jia Nan Academy.

Medusa emerged from seclusion after taking an Earth Fire Lotus Seed, while Xiao Yan traveled to Peace Town to sell captured souls and extract Han Feng's Sea Heart Flame. After learning that Clear Soul Youlan had appeared in the Chuyun Empire, Xiao Yan discovered the Yao Clan was involved.

• Medusa took an Earth Fire Lotus Seed, which helped her awaken the young Fallen Heart Flame and accelerate her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan and his companions left Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan decided to stop in Peace Town before returning to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan sold the captured souls at the Soul Offering Old Shop, where Hun Lao Gui extracted the Sea Heart Flame from Han Feng and consumed Han Feng's soul.
• Hun Lao Gui revealed that the Emperor's Soul Decree could extract Dou God Bloodline, but Xiao Yan rejected the costly offer to obtain the cultivation method.
• Xiao Yan spent ten thousand Soul Points to learn that Clear Soul Youlan had appeared in Deep Secluded Valley, then found that the Yao Clan was involved.

Xiao Yan returned to the valley with his companions, refined the Sea Heart Flame, and advanced the Flame Mantra to Heaven Rank Low-Level. After training in the Five Ring Flame Expelling Technique, he formed five Fire Spirits so quickly that Venerable Tian Huo fled in frustration.

• Hun Xuzi told Hun Lao Gui that the clan needed Xiao Yan to refine an Emperor Pill, despite the risks of recruiting an outsider.
• Xiao Yan and his companions flew to the valley, where Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Little Blue and Zi Yan persuaded her to let her eat medicinal materials.
• Xiao Yan used Mao Wu to devour Han Feng's Soul Mark and refined the Sea Heart Flame, raising the Flame Mantra to Heaven Rank Low-Level.
• Xiao Yan summoned seven Heavenly Flames and began training in the Emperor Seal Technique and Five Ring Flame Expelling Technique.
• Xiao Yan condensed four Fire Spirits from his Heavenly Flames and shaped a fifth as a Sea Heart Flame flood dragon in half a month.
• Venerable Tian Huo fled after Xiao Yan asked whether his rapid progress was too slow.

Xiao Yan struggled to cultivate the Mountain Splitting Seal, then set out with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan for the Jia Ma Empire before Deep Secluded Valley’s poison barrier receded. In the Holy City, Ya Fei and Hai Bo Dong discussed Xiao Yan’s recent exploits until Hai Bo Dong sensed two powerful arrivals and flew to investigate.

• Xiao Yan practiced the Mountain Splitting Seal for a month but could only produce a weak burst of power, while Venerable Tian Huo observed his training.
• Zi Yan traded medicinal ingredients with Xiao Yan to have him make sugar pills, and he promised to refine a Transformation Pill for her.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan left for the Jia Ma Empire, stopping briefly in Wutan City before continuing toward the capital.
• Ya Fei and Hai Bo Dong reflected on Xiao Yan’s absence and his recent activities in the Black-Corner Region.
• Hai Bo Dong sensed a sixth-rank Magical Beast and a powerful Dou Huang approaching the Holy City, then flew toward them.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Ma Holy City with a Rank 6 Magical Beast, reunited with Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian, and presented Jia Xing Tian with the pill needed to heal his guardian beast. After a crowded welcome banquet, Xiao Yan went to the imperial palace to treat the Nethersea Flood Dragon, where Zi Yan’s power made it collapse before her.

• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian sensed a powerful Magical Beast and Dou Emperor approaching the Holy City, then recognized Xiao Yan arriving on the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Yan greeted Hai Bodong and gave Jia Xing Tian a Primal Bone Forming Pill, explaining that an alchemist had to activate it for the Nethersea Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Yan stayed at the Mittel Family manor, reunited with Ya Fei, and attended a banquet where he greeted the city’s prominent families and officials.
• Xiao Yan took Zi Yan to the imperial palace with Queen Yao Ye to treat Jia Xing Tian’s Nethersea Flood Dragon.
• The Nethersea Flood Dragon greeted Xiao Yan eagerly, then roared at Zi Yan, who answered with a burst of purple light that made it collapse as if kneeling.

Xiao Yan healed the Nethersea Flood Dragon and learned more about Zi Yan’s Dragon Race bloodline before joining the Flame Alliance leaders to discuss the approaching Northwest Region Sect Assembly. With the Jia Ma Empire and Snake-People Empire threatened by neighboring powers, Xiao Yan sought a way to help Jia Xing Tian break through to Dou Zong.

• Zi Yan’s bloodline pressure subdued the Nethersea Flood Dragon, and Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and Primal Bone Forming Pill to heal it.
• Xiao Yan discussed Zi Yan’s Dragon Race heritage with her and promised to find a Transformation Pill so she could recover her true form.
• At the Flame Alliance assembly, Yao Ye explained that the Northwest Region Sect Assembly would take place in six months and that the Jia Ma Empire faced possible invasion from the Chuyun Empire, Luoyan Empire, and Mulan Empire.
• Yue Mei reported that neighboring empires had sent Dou Emperors to probe the Snake-People Empire, while Yun Yun remained in the Border Region and Medusa was evolving in a secret realm.
• Xiao Ding and Yao Ye argued that strong results at the Sect Assembly could deter the neighboring powers, and Xiao Yan agreed that the Flame Alliance needed a Dou Zong to lead it.
• Xiao Yan asked Jia Xing Tian whether he had ever used a Sect Breakthrough Pill after learning that Jia Xing Tian had long been stuck at the peak of Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yan promised to refine Sect Breakthrough Pills for the Jia Ma Imperial Family and Hai Bodong, then reunited with his family before Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion and challenged him to a rematch. The chapter ended as they began fighting in the air, with Nalan Yanran unleashing a powerful sword technique and Xiao Yan answering with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Ye he could attempt to refine a Sect Breakthrough Pill with a thirty percent success rate, and she promised to gather three sets of ingredients within three days.
• Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong a Huangji Pill, promised to refine a Sect Breakthrough Pill for him later, and then flew with Xiao Ding to Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan reunited with his family, discussed Xun Er's capture with his brothers, and spent two days resting at the Xiao Clan residence.
• Nalan Yanran emerged from the Gate of Life and Death as a Dou Wang and challenged Xiao Yan to fight; they agreed that the loser would owe the winner a favor.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began their aerial duel, and Nalan Yanran struck with Wind's Extremity—Sunset Radiance before Xiao Yan countered with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their duel by revealing a Heaven Rank version of the Five Ring Flame Expelling Technique, and she admitted defeat. He then asked whether she was still in contact with Liu Ling, leaving Nalan Yanran to seek out Liu Ling and Master Gu He.

• Xiao Yan broke through Nalan Yanran’s sword attacks with his black-and-white Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and a Lightning Clone, then struck her into a crater with his Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Nalan Yanran unleashed Wind’s Extremity: One Sword Astonishing Venerable, and Xiao Yan answered with five Heavenly Flame spirits that transformed the Five Ring Flame Expelling Technique into a Heaven Rank Dou Technique.
• Nalan Yanran sheathed her sword and admitted defeat, then asked Xiao Yan what help he needed.
• Xiao Yan asked Nalan Yanran whether she was still in contact with Liu Ling, and she agreed to find him.
• Nalan Yanran met Liu Ling at his bamboo house near the Jia Ma Empire’s border and told him she had come to find Master Gu He.

Nalan Yanran tried to exchange Xiao Yan’s soul-related treasures for Gu He’s Transformation Pill, but Gu He agreed only if Xiao Yan proved he could refine a Sect Breakthrough Pill. Xiao Yan began refining it publicly at the Misty Cloud Sect, and a brilliant light signaled that the pill had formed.

• Nalan Yanran visited Gu He and offered a Mystic High-Rank soul cultivation formula and a Little Soul Black-Purple Pill for his Transformation Pill.
• Gu He realized Xiao Yan wanted the pill and said he would trade if Xiao Yan could refine a Sect Breakthrough Pill.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran to obtain the royal family’s ingredients, and Yao Ye gathered three sets for him.
• Xiao Yan began refining the Sect Breakthrough Pill before the Misty Cloud Sect disciples, Gu He, and Fa Ma, using the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron and his fused Void Earth Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan’s first attempt failed during the ingredients’ fusion, but Mao Wu swallowed the scattered medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan refined the second set twice as fast, formed an embryonic pill, and unleashed a dazzling light from the cauldron.

Xiao Yan successfully refined a perfect Sect Breakthrough Pill, defeated Gu He in their alchemy rivalry, and exchanged it for the Transformation Pill. Zi Yan swallowed the pill and began advancing into a sixth-rank Magical Beast, leaving Xiao Yan to refine her cocoon with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame for seven days and seven nights.

• Xiao Yan’s Sect Breakthrough Pill formed amid Pill Lightning, impressing Fa Ma, Gu He, Jia Xing Tian, and Yao Ye.
• Xiao Yan gave the Sect Breakthrough Pill to Gu He, who admitted defeat and exchanged it for a Transformation Pill before leaving the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan gave the Transformation Pill to Jia Xing Tian and asked Queen Yao Ye to oversee the Flame Alliance while he prepared to leave for the Chuyun Empire.
• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to check and restore the Transformation Pill, then had Venerable Tian Huo create a vast space with a Space Lock.
• Zi Yan swallowed the Transformation Pill, fell asleep inside a purple cocoon, and began advancing to a sixth-rank Magical Beast.
• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to refine Zi Yan’s cocoon for seven days and seven nights.

Xiao Yan helped Zi Yan complete her transformation, revealing that she was an Ancient Void Dragon, and promised to accompany her to find her clan in the Middle Continent. After leaving the Space Lock, he visited Ya Fei at night and asked for her help with a secretive matter.

• After seven days of refining, Zi Yan broke out of her cocoon and transformed into a giant Ancient Void Dragon, reaching Dou Emperor.
• Venerable Tian Huo explained that the Ancient Void Dragon Clan lived in the Middle Continent and was the strongest of the three great Magical Beast clans, though it had become mysteriously reclusive.
• Xiao Yan promised to grow stronger before accompanying Zi Yan to seek her clan, and warned her to hide her true form from powerful factions.
• Zi Yan changed back into a human and, at Xiao Yi Xian's urging, returned to her earlier appearance before they left the collapsing Space Lock.
• That night, Xiao Yan visited Ya Fei and secretly asked her to help with a matter that astonished her.

Xiao Yan left Jia Ma after asking Ya Fei to use the Mittel Auction House to build Xiao City into a haven for alchemists. At the Snake-People Empire’s border fortress, Yun Yun faced two Dou Huang leaders as the Three Great Empires launched an attack.

• Xiao Yan explained to Ya Fei that he wanted to use Xiao City and the Mittel Auction House to attract Medicine Gang members and free alchemists, then gave her a ring of medicinal ingredients and pills for an auction.
• Ya Fei accepted Xiao Yan’s plan and confessed that she could not follow him, while he remained devoted to Xun Er; the next morning, Xiao Yan departed Jia Ma without seeing Ya Fei again.
• Ya Fei told Hai Bodong that Xiao Yan had already said what needed to be said, then took a Youth Preservation Pill from her Storage Ring.
• The Three Great Empires massed outside the Snake-People Empire’s fortress, where Yun Yun and the tribe leaders prepared to defend against their Dou Huang forces.
• Yun Yun flew out to confront Luo Yan Cai and Mu Lan Tianhua, who attacked her together to avenge Mu Lan Tianhua’s disciple.

Yun Yun fought Mu Lan Tianhua, Luo Yan Cai, and Liang Zhong Sheng until Xiao Yan and his allies arrived through the void. Xiao Yan and Zi Yan attacked the Dou Emperors as the battle for the fortress escalated.

• Yun Yun defeated Mu Lan Tianhua and Luo Yan Cai's combined attack, but Liang Zhong Sheng joined them and helped force her back with a poisoned strike.
• Xiao Yan emerged through a Black Flame vortex and pulled Yun Yun to safety, while Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings arrived through the void.
• Liang Zhong Sheng recognized Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body, and Zi Yan attacked him with a Space Heavy Punch while Xiao Yi Xian followed.
• Xiao Yan sent the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings to aid the battlefield below, then joined Yun Yun in fighting Mu Lan Tianhua and Luo Yan Cai.
• Xiao Yan struck Luo Yan Cai with Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler, brought him down, and collected his Soul Body with a Soul Token.

Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian stopped Liang Zhong Sheng’s poisonous attack on the fortress, and Xiao Yan struck him down. Liang Zhong Sheng’s final Demon Poison Spot hit Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan contained it with Black Flame and let Mao Wu consume it before extracting Liang Zhong Sheng’s soul; the remaining enemy Dou Emperor also fell.

• Zi Yan fought Liang Zhong Sheng, who unleashed his Poison Sky technique against the fortress and killed Snake-People Race warriors and Chuyun Empire soldiers.
• Xiao Yi Xian blocked and devoured the poisonous fog, revealing the Woeful Poison Body’s power.
• Xiao Yan ambushed Liang Zhong Sheng with the Mountain Splitting Seal and severely injured him.
• Liang Zhong Sheng fired a Demon Poison Spot at Xiao Yan, who contained it with Black Flame and turned it into food for Mao Wu.
• Xiao Yan extracted Liang Zhong Sheng’s soul into the Soul Token, and Mao Wu devoured his body and the corpse of another Dou Emperor.
• Yun Yun killed the other Dou Emperor, whose soul and body were claimed by the Soul Token and Mao Wu.

After helping the Snake-People defeat the allied army, Xiao Yan set out with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and the Amethyst Winged Lion Kings for Deep Secluded Canyon to seek a Heavenly Flame and Clear Soul Youlan. When they reached Youdu City, a strange eruption of poison gas announced that the canyon’s Poison Barrier had vanished completely.

• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun he planned to enter the Chuyun Empire and eventually confront the Poison Sect, then gave her two Huangji Pills before leaving with Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed Liang Zhong Sheng’s poisonous fog and rose to four-star Dou Emperor before the group flew toward the Chuyun Empire.
• Xiao Yan and his companions reached Youdu City after nearly seven days of travel and learned that Deep Secluded Canyon’s Poison Barrier would normally recede in seven days.
• A massive poison-gas tornado erupted from Deep Secluded Canyon, stunning the people of Youdu City and Xiao Yan’s group.
• News spread that Deep Secluded Canyon’s Poison Barrier had vanished completely, allowing anyone to enter the canyon safely.