Chapter Summaries

Cai Lin brought Xiao Yan before the Snake-People Race elders, who revealed that their soul connection had created a Soul Fetus within her and that it had weakened her breakthrough. Xiao Yan and Cai Lin chose to let it be born, and Xiao Yan accepted responsibility before they were left alone together.

• Cai Lin took Xiao Yan to Misty Cloud Mountain to meet four elders of the Snake-People Race.
• The Great Elder explained that a Soul Fetus had formed in Cai Lin's Soul Body from her and Xiao Yan's merged souls, draining her strength and hindering her breakthrough.
• The elders offered to let the Soul Fetus be born or kill it, and Xiao Yan and Cai Lin both rejected killing it.
• The Great Elder asked Xiao Yan to provide a Heaven Soul Blood Bone Pill to nourish the Soul Fetus, but Cai Lin said she would find another way.
• Xiao Yan took Cai Lin's hand, sent the elders away through a Void Passage, and accepted responsibility; Cai Lin brought out the green lotus, and the two spent the night together.

Xun Er sent Xiao Yan the final three seals of the Emperor Seal Technique and prepared to enter secluded cultivation, while Xiao Yan struggled with his situation with Cai Lin before resolving to take responsibility and improve his strength. After learning that members of the Ancient Clan wanted Xun Er to marry Gu Yao, Xiao Yan vowed to reach Dou Zun and go to the Middle Continent.

• Xun Er asked Ling Ying to deliver the final three seals of the Emperor Seal Technique to Xiao Yan and bring her news of him before she entered secluded cultivation.
• Cai Lin sent Xiao Yan a letter saying she would raise their child herself and would not interfere with his private life, and Xiao Yan decided to face his responsibilities and strengthen himself.
• Xiao Yan left Zi Yan waiting while he met Ling Ying, who delivered Xun Er's scroll and told him that elders favored a marriage between Xun Er and Gu Yao.
• Xiao Yan promised to visit the Ancient Clan and confront Gu Yao, then accepted the Emperor Seal Technique and began studying its final three seals.

Xiao Yan gathered medicinal ingredients and trained for three months, refining a Grandmaster Pill before learning that Bodhi Transformation Saliva was being auctioned in Black Emperor City. As he prepared to leave to save Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Lin confronted him about his departure and kissed him.

• Zi Yan forced Xiao Yan to refine her pill, while the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King brought him treasures seized from the Three Great Empires and major sects.
• Xiao Yan found the Heavenly Goose Nine Movements Wings crafting method among the seized scrolls and began training in the Emperor Seal Technique while refining pills.
• After three months, Xiao Yan refined a Tier 7 Peak Grandmaster Pill and nearly triggered a second bolt of Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that Ya Fei had discovered Bodhi Transformation Saliva would be auctioned in Black Emperor City, so Xiao Yan prepared to leave with Xiao Yi Xian and the Lion King.
• Xiao Yan visited Cai Lin, gave her the Heaven Soul Blood Bone Pill and Spirit Light Soul Pill, and explained that he was leaving to obtain Xiao Yi Xian's final treatment ingredient.
• Cai Lin grabbed Xiao Yan by the collar, slammed him onto the table, and kissed him before he could finish speaking.

Cai Lin sent Xiao Yan away after insisting that she would be the only queen in his heart, and he traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan to Xiao City. There, Xiao Yan reunited with his father and the Xiao Clan, apologized to Ya Fei and Xiao Yu for his yearlong disappearance, and learned that Xiao City had become a thriving Flame Alliance stronghold.

• Cai Lin told Xiao Yan that she would not stop him from helping Xiao Yi Xian but demanded to remain the only queen in his heart, then threw him out of the Imperial Palace.
• Xiao Yan set off for the Black-Corner Region with Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and the Big and Little Lion Kings, while Venerable Tian Huo stayed behind to support the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Xiao City, where Ya Fei had helped make the city a major center for alchemists and medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan, who scolded him for neglecting his father, and Xiao Yan embraced Ya Fei and apologized for making her worry during his disappearance.
• Xiao Yu kicked Xiao Yan after confronting him about worrying everyone, and Xiao Yan apologized before greeting the Xiao Clan members, including Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei.
• Xiao Yan celebrated with the Xiao Clan and raised a toast to the disciples who had helped the clan grow stronger.

Xiao Yan learned that Demon Flame Valley had attacked Xiao City and led an expedition to Demon Flame City to demand revenge. As the two sides prepared to clash, Xuan Protector realized that Xiao Yan was the Venerable Yan he knew and feared being caught between rival Soul Hall factions.

• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan that the Black Emperor Sect planned to barter the Bodhi Transformation Saliva at its auction, and Xiao Yan learned that Demon Flame Valley had attacked Xiao City.
• Xiao Yan gathered the Xiao Clan and allied forces, promised Sect Breakthrough Pills to Yin Gu Lao, Wu Tie, and Su Mei, and ordered them to march on Demon Flame City.
• A thousand cultivators set out from Xiao City as other Black-Corner Region factions watched for a chance to profit from the conflict.
• Xiao Ning challenged Demon Flame City to surrender and compensate Xiao City, while Demon Flame Valley's elders panicked at Xiao Yan's arrival.
• Xuan Protector learned that Xiao Yan was the Flame Alliance's leader and recognized him as Venerable Yan, then worried that his mission for the Hall Master might put him against Hun Xuzi's faction.

Xiao Yan led the Flame Alliance against Demon Flame Valley to avenge its attack on Xiao City, while Xuan Protector secretly considered his options. When Demon Flame Valley's Three Great Elders challenged Xiao Yan with their artificial Heavenly Flame, Transformation Fire, he defeated it with the Sea Heart Flame and left them reeling.

• Xuan Protector learned that Demon Flame Valley had attacked Xiao City and promised Fang Yan he would act when needed, while privately smiling at the unfolding conflict.
• Xiao Yan refused Fang Yan's offer to settle their grudges peacefully and demanded that the disciples who had attacked Xiao City kill themselves or face the destruction of Demon Flame City.
• Xiao Yan sent Zi Yan to loot Demon Flame Valley's treasury, assigned the transformed Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King to protect the Xiao Clan disciples, and ordered Xiao Ning to lead the assault on the city.
• Fang Yan and the other two Great Elders combined their Dou Qi and Soul Power to create Transformation Fire and challenged Xiao Yan to match it with a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Sea Heart Flame, used Spirit Infusion to empower its fire dragon, and crushed Transformation Fire, badly injuring Fang Yan and the other elders.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to finish the three elders, Fang Yan cried out for Xuan Protector to save him.

Xiao Yan defeated Demon Flame Valley’s three Great Elders with Xuan Protector’s help, claimed the Transformation Fire, and secured the Bodhi Transformation Saliva. After returning to Xiao City and heading to Black Emperor City for the auction, he was welcomed by Mo Tianxing, while Mo Ya became infatuated with Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xuan Protector emerged from the Black Mist, killed Fang Yan and the other two Great Elders, and gave Xiao Yan the Transformation Fire and Flame Manipulation Skill.
• Xuan Protector told Xiao Yan that the Hall of Souls was searching for things related to the Bodhi Tree, and Xiao Yan claimed the Bodhi Transformation Saliva by invoking Pill Saint Hun Xuzi.
• Xiao Yan declined to attack Demon Flame Valley while Di Mo Lao Gui remained in seclusion, then led Xiao City’s forces back after the valley’s fighters retreated.
• Xiao Yan spent several days in Xiao City, demonstrated refining a Sect Breakthrough Pill, and then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, Zi Yan, and the Big and Little Lion Kings to Black Emperor City.
• Mo Tianxing personally welcomed Xiao Yan at Black Emperor Pavilion, and Mo Ya offered Xiao Yi Xian a VIP auction token before Xiao Yan took it and walked away.

Xiao Yan attended the Black Emperor Sect auction and won an Earth Middle-Rank ruler technique before Zi Yan recognized a powerful Magical Beast corpse as belonging to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. The auction was about to begin bidding on the corpse, which Zi Yan said contained Essence Blood and more than a Magic Core.

• Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Black Emperor Sect auction’s private room, where Ya Fei prepared to bid and Zi Yan ate the fruit.
• Ya Fei failed to win the early lots, then bought the Earth Middle-Rank Six Directions Roaming Body Ruler for three million gold coins.
• Xiao Yan traded Medicinal Pills for valuable medicinal ingredients as the auction continued.
• Zi Yan recognized the dried corpse of a Half-Step Rank 8 Magical Beast and said it contained Essence Blood as well as more than a Magic Core.
• The auctioneer revealed the corpse belonged to a beast nearing Rank 8, and Zi Yan identified it as an ordinary member of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

Xiao Yan and Ya Fei traded pills for the Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse, which Zi Yan identified as a valuable source of bones and wings. As the auction’s Bodhi Transformation Saliva appeared, Xiao Yan declared he would outbid everyone and offered a Seventh Grade Emperor Power Purple Pill, leaving the hall stunned.

• Zi Yan revealed that the dried Magical Beast corpse came from an ordinary member of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Xiao Yan told Ya Fei that Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Ya Fei negotiated with Mo Tianxing and traded one Huangji Pill and one Dou Wang Pill for the corpse, which Xiao Yan stored in his Storage Ring.
• Mo Tianxing unveiled the Bodhi Transformation Saliva, the material Xiao Yi Xian needed to complete her Poison Pill Method, and explained that interested bidders would make offers privately onstage.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would take the Bodhi Transformation Saliva and presented a Seventh Grade Emperor Power Purple Pill as his bid, challenging anyone to offer more.

Xiao Yan secured the Bodhi Transformation Saliva by outbidding Eagle Mountain Old Man with two Seventh Grade Pills, then discovered Mo Tianxing had placed a tracking mark on its box. After returning to the inn, Xiao Yan chose to leave the mark in place and turned his attention to the dried corpse of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.

• Xiao Yan offered an Emperor Power Purple Pill for the Bodhi Transformation Saliva, and Eagle Mountain Old Man challenged his bid with a Reversion Pill.
• Xiao Yan added a second Reversion Pill to his offer, forcing Eagle Mountain Old Man to abandon the bidding.
• Mo Tianxing completed the exchange after inspecting Xiao Yan's pills, then asked him to refine a Sect Breakthrough Pill; Xiao Yan refused and left.
• Mo Tianxing discussed waiting for a chance to attack Xiao Yan with Mo Ya and Qi Shan, while Xiao Yan's group returned to the inn.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Mo Tianxing had placed a tracking mark on the box but decided not to remove it.
• Xiao Yan brought out the dried Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan corpse to examine it, and its foul stench filled the room.

Xiao Yan refined the remains of a Half-step Eighth Rank Heaven Demon Phoenix into powerful Bone Wings and subdued them with his Asura Soul Severing Style. After emerging from his ruined room, he joined Xiao Yi Xian and the others, hoping the auction participants had finished deliberating—and that he would get to use his new wings that day.

• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan extracted blue-red Essence Blood and a Magic Core from the Heaven Demon Phoenix corpse, while Mao Wu devoured the remnant soul in its head.
• Xiao Yan combined the Bone Wings with the Essence Blood, feathers, bone spines, other Strange Bones, and purple crystals, refining them into a jade-white liquid over a day and night.
• Xiao Yan shaped the material into Bone Wings, embedded the Magic Core, and bound the finished wings to himself with his blood.
• Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Style to subdue the unruly wings, then tested them and found they heightened his sensitivity to Wind Attribute energy.
• Xiao Yan left his damaged room after paying gold coins for the destruction and joined Xiao Yi Xian and the others, anticipating the auction participants' decision.

Xiao Yan left Black Emperor City with Xiao Yi Xian and their companions, drawing a coalition of Black-Corner Region factions intent on taking the Bodhi Transformation Saliva and the rumored Bodhi Tree information. As Di Mo Lao Gui arrived, Xiao Yi Xian revealed the strength of a Nine Star Dou Ancestor, and Xiao Yan ordered the coalition killed.

• Xiao Yan gave Ya Fei medicinal pills and Sect Breakthrough Pills for the Mittel Auction House, and she kissed his cheek before departing with Su Mei.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and the two Lion Kings left the city for Jia Nan Academy, while Mo Tianxing confirmed that a tracking mark remained on Xiao Yan and prepared the Black Emperor Sect to act.
• On a hill outside the city, Xiao Yan called out the factions following him, and the Big Lion King drove back several Dou Huangs with his Dou Zong aura.
• The Eagle Mountain Old Man and Mo Tianxing joined the encircling factions and demanded the Bodhi Transformation Saliva and news about the Bodhi Tree, using a false claim about Xiao Yan's auction pills as an excuse.
• Di Mo Lao Gui arrived with Demon Flame Valley's forces, and Xiao Yan dismissed the attackers before ordering them killed.
• Xiao Yi Xian released the aura of a Nine Star Dou Ancestor, shocking the assembled factions.

Xiao Yi Xian revealed her Nine Star Dou Ancestor strength as Xiao Yan and his allies fought Mo Tianxing, Di Mo Lao Gui, and the Black Emperor Sect. The battle left Mo Tianxing still fighting Xiao Yan, while Mao Wu appeared and killed Di Mo Lao Gui with a Soul Chain.

• Xiao Yi Xian activated her Woeful Poison Body and revealed that she was a Nine Star Dou Ancestor, shocking Mo Tianxing and Di Mo Lao Gui.
• Mo Tianxing gave Di Mo Lao Gui Xiao Yan’s Emperor Power Purple Pill and sent him to hold off Xiao Yi Xian while he attacked Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change, then fought Mo Tianxing with the Mountain Splitting Seal, Bone Wings, and Sea Flipping Seal, injuring him and rejecting his offer to surrender.
• Xiao Yan accused Mo Tianxing of marking the Bodhi Transformation Saliva box and spreading rumors, then attacked him with his Black Ruler as Mo Tianxing fought back using a secret technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian overwhelmed Di Mo Lao Gui with poison, and he attempted to escape with his Blood Escape Technique.
• Mao Wu appeared in the distorted space, extinguished Di Mo Lao Gui’s escape, and pierced his head with a Soul Chain.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian defeated the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley, killing their leaders and driving the remaining observers away. After claiming the battle’s spoils, Xiao Yan prepared to resolve Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, which had less than a month before it erupted.

• Xiao Yi Xian killed Di Mo Lao Gui with the Heaven Rank Calamity Demon Poison Claw, while Xiao Yan defeated Mo Tianxing and captured his Soul Body after Mo Tianxing self-detonated.
• Xiao Yan let Mo Ya escape, then tested a fused Yin-Yang Heart Flame that decomposed Mo Ya’s body and soul from within.
• Xiao Yan and his allies defeated the remaining forces, collected their Soul Bodies, and left survivors from Demon Flame Valley and Black Emperor Sect at his order.
• Xiao Yan sent Zi Yan and Lion King to collect the two factions’ treasuries, then ordered the watching experts to leave.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that her Woeful Poison Body would erupt in less than a month and that they needed to refine the Poison Pill; Xiao Yi Xian said she believed in him.

Xiao Yan sold captured Soul Bodies and explored the Soul Hall’s Treasure Hall, where Hun Lao Gui offered him the second half of the Asura Soul Severing Technique. After Xiao Yan rejected it because it required the Heaven Realm, he reunited with Jia Nan Academy’s elders and asked to borrow the Books Collection Pavilion’s Space Lock to refine a Seventh Grade Medicinal Pill.

• Xiao Yan entered Hun Lao Gui’s shop and sold most of the Soul Bodies he had collected, keeping Di Mo Lao Gui’s Soul Body.
• Xiao Yan searched the Treasure Hall for powerful techniques but lacked the Soul Points to exchange for the ones that interested him.
• Hun Lao Gui revealed that the complete Asura Soul Severing Technique was a Heaven Rank High-Level Soul Skill, but Xiao Yan left after learning it required the Heaven Realm.
• Su Qian, Hu Qian, and several Jia Nan Academy elders arrived to meet Xiao Yan after hearing that he had returned to the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Qian to lend him the Books Collection Pavilion’s Space Lock so he could refine a Seventh Grade Medicinal Pill, astonishing Su Qian and Hu Qian.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yi Xian, reunited with Xiao Yu, and encountered Xin Lan practicing alchemy. He headed toward Xiao Hall while Su Qian went to meet Zi Yan, unaware she had already reached the Seventh Tier.

• Xiao Yan told Su Qian that Zi Yan was heading to the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley, so Su Qian left with elders to receive her.
• Xiao Yan admitted to Hu Qian that he had forgotten to mention Zi Yan had already broken through to the Seventh Tier.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Inner Academy, asked a student where Xiao Hall was, and Xiao Yan gave him a Third Grade Qi Recovery Pill.
• Xiao Yan smelled Xin Lan's pill and commented on its grade, prompting her to glare at him before Xiao Yu arrived and called him a big pervert.
• Xiao Yu invited Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian into Xiao Hall, while Xin Lan realized the man who had criticized her alchemy was Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and his companions settled into Xiao Hall’s courtyard, then joined Zi Yan in looting the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley treasure vaults. They found few rare treasures, but Xiao Yan took several scrolls and planned to give a Flame Manipulation Skill to Elder Yao.

• Xiao Yu showed Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian their rooms and revealed that the room beside Xiao Yan’s had been reserved for Xun Er.
• Zi Yan summoned Xiao Yan to an open space, where she had brought the Black Emperor Sect’s Iron Treasury and cave by digging them out of the ground.
• Xiao Yan inspected the Black Emperor Sect’s vault, found mostly gold, Medicinal Pills, scrolls, and Rank 6 ingredients, and planned to have Ya Fei inventory the haul.
• Zi Yan broke into Demon Flame Valley’s treasure vault and killed a Magical Beast that tried to ambush her.
• Xiao Yan found Earth Rank lightning scrolls and a true Flame Manipulation Skill, deciding to give the skill to Elder Yao.

Xiao Yan discovered the Heavenly Demon Puppet method and prepared to use Di Mo Lao Gui’s soul to refine a puppet. He then brought Xiao Yi Xian to the Books Collection Pavilion to begin refining a pill that could change the fate of her Woeful Poison Body.

• Xiao Yan found the Heavenly Demon Puppet method and realized Di Mo Lao Gui’s soul, a Seventh Tier Magic Core, and Eagle Mountain Old Man’s body could provide its materials.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan three seventh-rank medicinal ingredients in exchange for her share of the recovered items and arranged for Xiao City to donate part of the cave’s contents to the Academy.
• Xiao Yan reunited with his former Inner Academy companions and postponed hearing Xin Lan’s urgent matter until after his Alchemy.
• Hu Qian arranged for the Books Collection Pavilion’s protective formation to be activated while Xiao Yan prepared to refine the pill for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Qian Mu and Bai Lie lamented the usual fate of Woeful Poison Body owners, and Xiao Yan confidently promised Xiao Yi Xian a different outcome.

Xiao Yan refined Di Mo Lao Gui’s soul into a human-grade Heavenly Demon Puppet, then began treating Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body with the Poison Pill Method. After enduring days of Heavenly Flame refinement and absorbing the Bodhi Transformation Saliva, Xiao Yi Xian began recovering, but Xiao Yan’s work was not finished.

• Xiao Yan entered the Books Collection Pavilion’s secret chamber with Xiao Yi Xian and prepared to refine Eagle Mountain Old Man’s corpse into a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yan erased Di Mo Lao Gui’s intelligence with the Soul Slave Seal and used his soul to complete a human-grade puppet with strength comparable to a Four-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan warned Xiao Yi Xian about the pain of triggering her Woeful Poison Body, then removed the Heavenly Fire Seal and used three Heavenly Flames to gather her poison gas.
• Xiao Yan spent two days and two nights driving the poison gas into Xiao Yi Xian’s lower abdomen, then combined it with the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s Magic Core and the Bodhi Transformation Saliva.
• Xiao Yan refined Xiao Yi Xian for seven more days and nights; her blood and vitality recovered as the poison formed a Poison Pill and a Bodhi Seed appeared, but he continued because the Poison Pill Method alone was insufficient.

Xiao Yan tried to create a Strange Flame Poison Pill that could grow alongside Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, using eight Strange Flames and Spirit Ascension to give it a spirit. His alchemy drew Gray Pill Lightning that Xin Lan identified as Heavenly Punishment, and Xiao Yan stood between the storm and Xiao Yi Xian as it threatened to destroy the pill and kill him.

• Xiao Yan fused the Netherworld Poison Flame into Xiao Yi Xian’s poison pill, turning it into a Strange Flame Poison Pill and drawing enormous Tier 8 Pill Lightning over Jia Nan Academy.
• Realizing the pill still could not keep pace with the Woeful Poison Body, Xiao Yan used eight Strange Flames in a Bagua formation and gathered Soul Light to make the poison pill grow into a Pill Beast or Heavely Flame Spirit.
• Xiao Yan performed Spirit Ascension, causing the Netherworld Poison Flame to erupt from Xiao Yi Xian and the pill’s power to shake Jia Nan Academy.
• The thunderclouds shrank and turned gray, and Xin Lan identified them as Heavenly Punishment from a Forbidden Pill that would destroy the pill and kill Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan covered Xiao Yi Xian with his Alchemist Robe, raised his Black Ruler, and faced the Heavenly Punishment.