Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan subdued Ling Lin at the Salt City inn and accepted rooms from the Mo family to avoid drawing in the city garrison while he searched for Qing Lin. After Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong went upstairs, Nalan Yanran arrived at the inn, unaware that Xiao Yan was nearby.

• Xiao Yan seized Ling Lin by the neck, then released her when a middle-aged Mo family man intervened.
• The middle-aged man apologized and offered Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong rooms, which they accepted.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong that he wanted to rescue Qing Lin without provoking the city garrison.
• Nalan Yanran entered the inn and greeted Ling Lin, who invited her to stay for the night.
• Nalan Yanran went upstairs with Ling Lin and Ge Ye, not knowing Xiao Yan was staying there.

Xiao Yan arrived in Salt City to find Qing Lin and confront Mo Cheng, but he unexpectedly encountered Nalan Yanran at an inn. Their reunion revived their unresolved agreement, and Xiao Yan agreed to go with her group to the Mo Clan, where he planned to search for Qing Lin and deal with Mo Cheng.

• Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong decided to enter the Mo Clan the next morning and find Qing Lin before confronting Mo Cheng.
• Xiao Yan met Nalan Yanran at the inn, and they recognized each other after three years apart.
• Nalan Yanran proposed that they settle their original agreement in Salt City, and Xiao Yan asked to postpone it until the next day.
• Ge Ye greeted Xiao Yan and invited him to accompany their group to the Mo Clan.
• Ge Ye advised Nalan Yanran to delay her training challenge, and Xiao Yan secretly asked Hai Bodong to rescue Qing Lin while he handled Mo Cheng.

Xiao Yan confronted Mo Cheng at the Mo Clan gathering and demanded the return of Qing Lin, whom Hai Bodong could not find. When Mo Li attacked Xiao Yan to defend Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan stopped his sword with a fingertip and questioned how little Nalan Yanran had improved in three years.

• Mo Li escorted Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan, and Hai Bodong to the Mo Clan, where Hai Bodong secretly searched for Qing Lin while Xiao Yan watched Mo Cheng.
• Hai Bodong returned without finding Qing Lin, so Xiao Yan publicly demanded that Mo Cheng reveal where he had taken the girl.
• Xiao Yan identified himself, and Mo Li recognized him as Nalan Yanran's fiancé; Mo Cheng rejected his demand and Mo Li challenged him with a sword.
• Mo Li launched a lethal Azure Wood Swordplay attack, but Xiao Yan stopped the sword tip with a wisp of blood-red Flame and asked Nalan Yanran why she had advanced so little in three years.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Mo Li at Mo Cheng’s birthday banquet, exposed Mo Cheng’s abuse of the Misty Cloud Sect’s influence, and demanded Qing Lin’s return. After Hai Bodong sealed the hall, Xiao Yan launched his attack on Mo Cheng.

• Xiao Yan stopped Mo Li’s sword technique with one finger and blocked his successive attacks while drinking tea.
• Xiao Yan struck Mo Li down with a flame-powered palm after Mo Li continued attacking.
• Xiao Yan challenged Ge Ye to ask Salt City’s families about Mo Cheng’s abuses and offered to spare the Mo family if they brought Qing Lin to him.
• Mo Cheng ordered Mo Lan to gather the Mo family, while Hai Bodong raised an ice wall to keep others from interfering.
• Xiao Yan used Lion’s Roar to strengthen his body, charged at Mo Cheng, and punched him in the face.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Mo Cheng with his physical strength and Earth Rank-level Eight Extremities Collapse, despite Mo Cheng’s higher cultivation. After Mo Cheng regenerated his arm and revealed more transplanted Magical Beast parts, Xiao Yan used Soul Impact to stun him and began tearing the bone spears from his back.

• Xiao Yan shattered Mo Cheng’s nose with a punch, and Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye recognized that his blood-red Flame strengthened his body.
• Mo Cheng attacked with Azure Wind Claw, but Xiao Yan countered with Ten Thousand Beasts Collapse Fist and blasted him back, destroying his right hand.
• Mo Cheng used Black Armor Dragon blood to regenerate his arm and revealed additional Magical Beast parts transplanted onto his body.
• Xiao Yan identified Mo Cheng’s transplanted parts and dismissed his claim that they made him impossible to kill.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Soul Impact, stunned Mo Cheng, and pulled the bone spears from his back.

Xiao Yan tortured and killed Mo Cheng after learning that Mo Cheng had abducted Qing Lin and attacked Xiao Yan’s brothers. Just as Xiao Yan prepared to reunite with Qing Lin, a powerful attacker shattered Hai Bodong’s ice wall, drawing Xiao Yan toward the battle.

• Xiao Yan pulled the bone spears from Mo Cheng and demanded to know where Qing Lin was, while Mo Lan offered to bring her over.
• Xiao Yan burned Mo Cheng’s thigh and rejected Mo Cheng’s threat that the Misty Cloud Sect would retaliate.
• Hai Bodong secretly followed Mo Lan’s messenger to rescue Qing Lin and then informed Xiao Yan that he had found her.
• Mo Cheng revealed his Mountain Shattering Arm and attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan killed him with a Soul Impact.
• An enormous ice wall outside the hall was shattered while Hai Bodong was under attack, and Xiao Yan flew toward him.

Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong fought a cyan-clad woman from the Sky Serpent Mansion who tried to abduct Qing Lin for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. After the woman escaped, Nalan Yanran chose to enter the Gate of Life and Death, setting the worldline on a new course.

• Xiao Yan flew toward the ice wall as the cyan-clad woman seized Qing Lin from Hai Bodong and knocked aside Xiao Yan’s attack.
• The woman put Qing Lin to sleep and revealed that she wanted to take the girl to the Sky Serpent Mansion because of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Hai Bodong and Xiao Yan attacked the woman, and Xiao Yan’s Soul Skill stunned her long enough for Hai Bodong to wound her with Cold Qi.
• The woman used a spatial secret art to escape, and Xiao Yan pursued her into the sky.
• Ge Ye urged Nalan Yanran to reconsider the Three-Year Agreement, but Nalan Yanran decided to enter the Gate of Life and Death.

Nalan Yanran decided to enter the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death to gain enough strength to defeat Xiao Yan. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong pursued Lü Man, whose Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor ally joined the fight, and Xiao Yan confronted them by invoking the Soul Hall.

• Nalan Yanran insisted on entering the dangerous Gate of Life and Death, despite Ge Ye warning her about its risks and the opposition within the sect.
• Nalan Yanran left to discuss entering the Gate of Life and Death with her master.
• Xiao Yan used a Soul Skill to interrupt Lü Man while Hai Bodong attacked her with his Ice and Snow Sky technique.
• Lü Man summoned the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, who recognized the danger posed by Xiao Yan’s Soul Skill.
• Xiao Yan advanced toward the two Dou Emperor experts and warned the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor that the Soul Hall had claimed what they were trying to take.

Xiao Yan confronted Lü Man and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor over Qing Lin, but learned they intended to take her to inherit the Azure Serpent Demon Saint's legacy and train her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. He accepted that Qing Lin would go with them and gave her a Soul Jade Pendant so she could contact him if she needed help.

• Xiao Yan used the Soul Hall's reputation and his Soul Token to try to make Lü Man and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor release Qing Lin, but they refused because her pupils were key to the Azure Serpent Demon Saint's inheritance.
• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor told Xiao Yan that Qing Lin would be taken to the Ancient Sky Serpent Mausoleum, and Xiao Yan asked Lü Man to wake her.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Lin whether she could control Lü Man and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, but Lü Man explained that Qing Lin's pupils were still unawakened and Qing Lin failed to control them.
• Xiao Yan explained that Qing Lin would go with them to learn to use her pupils and grow stronger, and Qing Lin agreed despite her fear.
• Xiao Yan refined a Rank 5 Magical Beast Magic Core with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and made Qing Lin a Soul Jade Pendant that would let her contact him for help.

Xiao Yan sent Qing Lin away with the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and secured Hai Bodong’s promise to protect him in exchange for a future Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill. After recovering at Mo City Rock, Xiao Yan began developing a way to combine Heavenly Flames into a remotely delivered explosive.

• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin a jade pendant and sent her away with the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, warning the serpent not to deceive him.
• Mao Wu emerged from the void with the restrained Green Lotus Core Flame Source Fire Seed, revealing Xiao Yan’s hidden trump card to Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill formula, and Hai Bodong agreed to protect him until Xiao Yan could refine the pill.
• Hai Bodong carried Xiao Yan back to Mo City Rock, where Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that Qing Lin had gone away to train.
• After recovering his Soul Power, Xiao Yan studied how to fuse the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame and imagined Mao Wu carrying the resulting explosive through the void.

Xiao Yan devised and created the prototype of a new Combat Technique, Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, and asked Hai Bodong to help test its power. When Xiao Yan formed the fire lotus from his two Heavenly Flames, they began to clash beyond his control, and he hurled the unstable technique at Hai Bodong.

• Xiao Yan spent three days and nights designing a fire lotus that combined Heavenly Flames, Soul Power, and Dou Qi.
• Hai Bodong returned with medicinal ingredients he had found while searching for materials for the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill.
• Xiao Yan asked Hai Bodong to defend against his newly created Combat Technique, and Hai Bodong agreed.
• Xiao Yan shaped his blood-red and emerald Heavenly Flames into a fist-sized fire lotus as the mercenaries, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li watched.
• The two flames began trying to Devour each other, so Xiao Yan used most of his Soul Power to control them before throwing the unstable lotus toward Hai Bodong.

Xiao Yan tested his Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, but its uncontrolled explosion destroyed the Mo Tie Mercenary Group's base. After helping his brothers with reconstruction funds, he prepared to head to the Royal Capital's Soul Hall and resolve one last hidden danger.

• Xiao Yan threw the unstable Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus at Hai Bodong, and Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and the mercenaries fled the Training Field.
• Hai Bodong formed a Mystic Ice Shield, but the fused Heavenly Flames exploded and obliterated the Training Field and much of the mercenary group's base.
• Hai Bodong feared Xiao Yan had died, but Xiao Yan crawled from the rubble after surviving with several layers of protection.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus was a dangerous Combat Technique powered by flames and dependent on Soul Power and Flame Control.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li accepted the destruction and planned to relocate to the Sha Mercenary Group's base, while Xiao Yan gave them several hundred thousand gold coins for reconstruction.
• Xiao Yan returned to his guest room and prepared to visit the Royal Capital's Soul Hall to resolve his final hidden danger.

Xiao Yan confronted Queen Medusa after realizing she had disguised herself as the Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python and was following him for the Green Lotus Core Flame and Earth Fire Lotus Seeds. He used the threat of a Heavenly Flame explosion to keep her from attacking, then explained that her evolution had failed because she used the wrong Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he had recognized Queen Medusa beneath the Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python’s act of amnesia.
• Queen Medusa resumed her human form and threatened to kill Xiao Yan, while he remained wary of her weakened body and her need for the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan raised two Heavenly Flames and warned that killing him could trigger a deadly explosion that would destroy them both.
• Xiao Yan showed Queen Medusa an ancient book describing a Heavenly Flame evolution method for fire-attribute Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Queen Medusa’s evolution had purified her bloodline but failed to rebuild her body because the method required the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, not the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan negotiated with Queen Medusa over the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and used it to refine a pill that began restoring her body. Medusa agreed to settle their grievances if he helped her return to her peak within three years, leaving Xiao Yan with an ally for his coming trip to the Jia Ma Empire's Royal Capital.

• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa that the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame could help her rebuild her body and revealed that he possessed a wisp of it.
• Queen Medusa offered to exchange the Green Lotus Core Flame for the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, but Xiao Yan refused and proposed an alliance instead.
• Xiao Yan offered to help Medusa recover in return for her protection if he faced danger, and she asked him to prove his sincerity.
• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame and an Earth Fire Lotus Seed to refine pills, giving one to Medusa and one to Mao Wu.
• After taking the pill, Medusa returned to her snake form and told Xiao Yan that the Green Lotus Core Flame would be his payment if he restored her to her peak within three years.

After a month of training and alchemy, Xiao Yan left Mo City Rock for Jia Ma Holy City with Hai Bodong. He arrived near the capital determined to investigate the Soul Hall hidden there.

• Xiao Yan created a Fourth Grade Pill formula that raised him to Four-Star Da Dou Shi, but he still failed to refine a Fifth Grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li valuable Skills, Combat Techniques, Fourth Grade Pills, Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus trump cards, and soul communication jade pendants.
• Xiao Yan credited his elder brothers with helping him obtain the Green Lotus Core Flame, and the three brothers spent the night talking together.
• Xiao Yan flew with Hai Bodong toward Jia Ma Holy City, stopping in large cities to search for ingredients for the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill.
• Xiao Yan spotted the Misty Cloud Sect's mountain range and declared that he would investigate the Soul Hall in Jia Ma Holy City.

Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong visited the Mittel Family auction house in Jia Ma Holy City to search for ingredients for the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill. After reuniting with Ya Fei, Xiao Yan burned off the hand of a young man who provoked and attacked him, then told him he should be grateful.

• Xiao Yan entered Jia Ma Holy City with Hai Bodong and said he would wait another month or two before going to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Hai Bodong brought Xiao Yan to the Mittel Family auction house and explained its four auction ranks and the rare Heaven-rank auctions.
• Ya Fei recognized Xiao Yan and led him and Hai Bodong upstairs to find somewhere quiet to talk.
• A lecherous young man blocked Ya Fei and insulted her and her companions, then grabbed at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan's green Flame burned off the young man's right hand, and Xiao Yan told him, "Thank me. I just saved your life."

Xiao Yan visited the Mittel auction house with Ya Fei to buy rare ingredients for the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill, while Hai Bodong intervened when Lei Le and his grandfather confronted them. The chapter ended with Hai Bodong revealing his identity and demanding that Mittel Tengshan come see him.

• Xiao Yan crippled Lei Le’s hand after Lei Le harassed Ya Fei, then followed her and Hai Bodong to a VIP room.
• Ya Fei explained that Lei Le had been troubling her and said she would resolve the family dispute, while Xiao Yan warned Lei Le not to provoke him again.
• Xiao Yan asked Ya Fei to gather ingredients for the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill, and Hai Bodong paid for the roughly two-thirds the auction house could obtain.
• Lei Le returned with Elder Lei Ou, who attacked Xiao Yan, but Hai Bodong pinned Lei Ou to the wall with ice needles and froze his limbs.
• Hai Bodong told Ya Fei to summon Mittel Tengshan and announce that Hai Bodong had returned, leaving Lei Ou and Lei Le in his hands.

Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong settled the dispute with Lei Ou, and Hai Bodong revealed his long-standing ties to the Mittel Family. He promised Xiao Yan half of the Mittel Auction House’s support, then stunned him by proposing that Ya Fei marry him.

• Xiao Yan explained that Lei Ou had ignored warnings and let lust cloud his judgment.
• The Mittel Family elders arrived, and Mittel Tengshan recognized Hai Bodong as the former protector who had helped the family rise to power.
• Mittel Tengshan stripped Lei Ou of his elder position and sent him to manage a branch in a border city for three years.
• Hai Bodong announced that Xiao Yan would receive half of the auction house’s support in the form of medicinal ingredients, while agreeing to help the family when needed.
• Hai Bodong proposed betrothing Ya Fei to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan sprayed tea over Hai Bodong and protested that they had never agreed to that.

Xiao Yan escaped Hai Bodong’s attempt to bind him to the Mittel Family through Ya Fei, then learned that Nalan Yanran had come seeking an alchemist with Heavenly Flames to treat Nalan Jie. He went to the Nalan Mansion to pay his respects, where Steward Zhao recognized him and excitedly announced his arrival.

• Hai Bodong proposed that Xiao Yan marry Ya Fei as a way to connect him to the Mittel Family, but Xiao Yan rejected the arrangement and flew away.
• Hai Bodong warned Mittel Tengshan not to make an enemy of Xiao Yan, and Mittel Tengshan gave Ya Fei control of the Royal Capital auction house and ordered her to build a relationship with Xiao Yan.
• Ya Fei told Hai Bodong that Nalan Yanran had come seeking an alchemist with Heavenly Flames to cure Nalan Jie, and Hai Bodong revealed that the alchemist had just left.
• Xiao Yan landed outside the city, made a fruit basket, and headed to the Nalan Mansion, where he found alchemists gathered to treat Nalan Jie.
• Steward Zhao recognized Xiao Yan and hurriedly led him into the mansion while announcing that Young Master Xiao Yan had arrived.

Xun Er sent Ling Ying to watch over Xiao Yan from a distance as he reached Jia Ma Holy City. At the Nalan Mansion, Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Jie was dying from Branding Poison and examined him after discovering that his Heavenly Flame might be needed for a cure.

• Xun Er asked Ling Ying to travel to the Jia Ma Empire and observe Xiao Yan without being discovered.
• Nalan Su learned that Xiao Yan had arrived and told the gathered alchemists that they had found someone with a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had come to visit Nalan Su, not in response to the Nalan Family's search for him.
• Nalan Su explained that Nalan Jie’s Branding Poison had erupted and that Gu He could only prolong his life.
• Xiao Yan examined Nalan Jie and judged his condition to be very serious.