Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Yan Mang both completed their pills, but Yan Mang escalated the contest by revealing his poison-refining methods and attempting to refine a dangerous Tier 5 Profound Spirit Bone Growing Pill. He urged Jia Ma Empire's alchemists to join the Chu Yun Empire, while Xiao Yan dismissed his methods as crooked and talentless.

• Xiao Yan and Yan Mang simultaneously finished refining a Grade Four Marrow Cleansing Pill and a Grade Three Profound Ice Pill, respectively.
• Liu Ling grew jealous and refused to believe Xiao Yan could surpass Gu He's past championship achievement.
• Yan Mang announced that he would refine a Profound Spirit Bone Growing Pill, a hazardous Tier 5 pill that could cost him his life if it failed.
• Yan Mang revealed that poison refinement had taken him from a First Grade Alchemist to his current level in three years, despite greatly reducing his lifespan.
• Yan Mang urged alchemists to join the Chu Yun Empire and claimed its poison refiners could rapidly improve their pill-refining skills, alarming Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, Xue Mei, and Yao Ye.
• Xiao Yan called Yan Mang's lifespan-consuming methods crooked and dismissed the poison refiners of the Chu Yun Empire as talentless idiots.

Xiao Yan exposed Yan Mang’s pills as poisonous, then demonstrated his own extraordinary alchemy by refining a Rank 5 and a Rank 6 pill before beginning a possible Rank 7 pill. The chapter left Gu He and the others stunned as Xiao Yan continued refining with four Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan and Gu He exposed Yan Mang’s pills as poisonous, and the Poison Cleansing Rose confirmed the Profound Spirit Bone Growing Pill was toxic.
• The alchemists turned against Yan Mang, while Liu Ling realized his ambition to join the Chu Yun Empire had nearly cost him his life.
• Xiao Yan refined a Tier 5 Profound Spirit Bone Growing Pill in front of the crowd, breaking the Jia Ma Empire competition record.
• Xiao Yan used three Heavenly Flames to refine a Rank 6 Divine Light Glazed Pill, stunning Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, Gu He, and the audience.
• Xiao Yan invoked his agreement with Gu He and began refining with four-colored flames, leading Gu He and Fa Ma to suspect he was attempting a Rank 7 Profound Nether Barrier Breaking Pill.

Xiao Yan refined the Profound Nether Barrier Breaking Pill, enduring a powerful Pill Lightning that Medusa destroyed before it could strike him. Medusa revealed her new Dou Zong strength and stayed beside Xiao Yan as he completed the pill.

• Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame to purify the medicinal paste, and Pill Lightning formed above him as the pill began to take shape.
• Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian helped shield Xiao Yan, but the Pill Lightning shattered their defenses while Liu Ling laughed at Xiao Yan's danger.
• Medusa appeared and erased the descending lightning with her Dou Zong power.
• Xiao Yan asked Medusa to stand beside him, and she calmly agreed, bewildering the onlookers who recalled their fight the previous night.
• Xiao Yan restrained the escaping Life Spirit Flame and completed the Profound Nether Barrier Breaking Pill.

After Xiao Yan’s Rank 7 Pill won the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Convention, Yan Mang challenged its authenticity and tried to escape with the Wind Emperor. Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Huang strength, killed the Wind Emperor, captured Yan Mang, and secured Gu He’s agreement to become a Guest Elder of the Xiao Family.

• Yan Mang demanded to inspect Xiao Yan’s pill, but the instrument confirmed it was genuine.
• The Wind Emperor arrived and carried Yan Mang away, then used a storm of sharp feathers to hold off Jia Xing Tian and escape.
• Xiao Yan spread his Great Desolate Bone Butterfly Wings, pursued the Wind Emperor, and killed him with two strikes of Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Xiao Yan handed Yan Mang to Fa Ma and reminded Gu He to honor their agreement.
• Gu He agreed to become a Guest Elder of the Xiao Family, allowing Xiao Yan to prepare to travel the continent.

After winning the Alchemist Convention, Xiao Yan settled matters with Gu He, Medusa, and the Jia Ma Empire before flying to the Misty Cloud Sect to end his engagement. There, Nalan Yanran faced defeat at the hands of the powerful little girl Zi Yan, and an unknown voice intervened just as Zi Yan was about to strike her.

• Xiao Yan accepted Gu He's service, then promised Medusa he would visit the Snake-People Tribe to find them habitable land.
• Xiao Yan gave Mu Chen a healing pill for Mu Zhan and reassured Yao Ye and Jia Xing Tian that he would help the Jia Ma Empire if it faced trouble.
• Xiao Yan flew to the Misty Cloud Sect to dissolve his engagement, prompting Jia Xing Tian and the others to follow and anticipate his marriage to Nalan Yanran.
• Zi Yan defeated the Misty Cloud Sect's inner-sect geniuses and badly injured Nalan Yanran, who refused to give up despite Yun Yun urging her to stop.
• Zi Yan charged at the helpless Nalan Yanran, but a faint voice declared that Nalan Yanran could not die before their matter was settled.

Xiao Yan dissolved his engagement to Nalan Yanran and openly declared his feelings for Yun Yun. After Jia Xing Tian praised Xiao Yan’s achievements, Nalan Jie and Nalan Su learned that Nalan Yanran had originally broken off the engagement herself, leaving the family shocked and ashamed.

• Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan as the Black Robe and was stunned when he returned the marriage contract and declared them both free.
• Xiao Yan admitted his feelings for Yun Yun, while Yun Yun regretted becoming involved with him without knowing his identity.
• Jia Xing Tian, Nalan Jie, and Nalan Su arrived, and Jia Xing Tian praised Xiao Yan’s strength, alchemy, and accomplishments.
• Nalan Su accused Xiao Yan of humiliating Nalan Yanran, and Nalan Jie grew furious over the dissolved engagement.
• Yun Yun explained that Nalan Yanran had gone to the Xiao Family to break off the engagement, shocking Nalan Jie and Nalan Su.

Xiao Yan exposed Ge Ye’s lies before Yun Yun and the Nalan family, prompting Yun Yun to expel Ge Ye and Nalan Su to punish him. The confrontation ended with Yun Shan appearing as a Dou Zong alongside a Soul Hall protector, revealing that the Misty Cloud Sect faced a larger threat.

• Ge Ye accused Xiao Yan of killing Mo Cheng, injuring him, and threatening to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect, but Xiao Yan challenged his story.
• Yan Shi identified Xiao Yan as the powerful Dou Huang who had wounded six Dou Huangs, and Nalan Jie and Nalan Su learned that Xiao Yan was also a Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
• Yun Yun expelled Ge Ye from the Misty Cloud Sect, and Nalan Su struck him for causing the Nalan family to lose its chance to reconcile with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Yun Yun about the Misty Cloud Sect’s connection to the Soul Hall, and Ge Ye burst into black mist as a Soul Hall presence emerged.
• Yun Shan appeared in the sky as a Dou Zong and told Wu Protector that Xiao Yan had the item he wanted, proposing they capture everyone at once.

Yun Shan allied with Soul Hall and attacked Jia Xing Tian’s forces, while Yao Lao and Xiao Yan fought back. Xiao Yan revealed the Tou She Ancient God Jade and used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to overpower Wu Protector, ending the chapter as he prepared another attack.

• Yun Shan revealed his Dou Zong breakthrough and declared that the Misty Cloud Sect would rule the Jia Ma Empire with Soul Hall’s support.
• Yao Lao confronted Wu Protector, who demanded Yao Chen’s soul and the Tou She Ancient God Jade from Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan showed Wu Protector the jade, then fought him as Yun Shan and the Sect Elders attacked Jia Xing Tian’s side.
• Yao Lao engaged Yun Shan while Yun Yun hesitated to choose between her master and the others, and Nalan Yanran watched Xiao Yan in shock.
• Xiao Yan used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to raise his strength to Nine Star Dou Huang and struck Wu Protector with multiple Heavenly Flames.
• Wu Protector was badly injured by Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan gathered five flames for another attack.

Xiao Yan defeated Wu Protector and exposed the Tou She Ancient God Jade’s location to draw Soul Hall’s attention away from his family. After the Misty Cloud Sect’s leaders died and its collusion with Soul Hall came to light, Yun Yun chose to disband the sect.

• Wu Protector survived the explosion of five Heavenly Flames by consuming souls, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao defeated Yun Shan.
• Wu Protector devoured Yun Shan, the Misty Cloud Sect Elders, and Yun Leng, then reached the power of a two-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan struck Wu Protector down with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler and ordered him to report that the Tou She Ancient God Jade was in Xiao Yan’s hands.
• Xiao Yan killed Wu Protector after he sent the message, hoping to draw Soul Hall’s attention away from Xiao Yan’s clansmen.
• Xiao Yan stopped Yun Yun from taking her own life and told her she could choose whether to keep leading the sect.
• Yun Yun announced that the Misty Cloud Sect was disbanded.

After the Misty Cloud Sect disbanded, Yun Yun chose to leave and confront Soul Hall, while Xiao Yan helped Nalan Jie and prepared Yun Yun for her journey. As they faced the possibility of never meeting again, Yun Yun drew Xiao Yan into an intimate farewell.

• Jia Xing Tian offered Misty Cloud Sect disciples places in the Jia Ma Empire's defensive strongholds, and Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran to return to the Nalan Family.
• Zi Yan left for the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while Xiao Yan used Fire Cloud Water Flame to cure Nalan Jie's Scorch Poison.
• Nalan Yanran realized that Xiao Yan's feelings for her were gone and left with Nalan Su, regretting her past choices.
• At the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Yun asked what she could do without the sect and decided to go to Central State to destroy Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan made a hundred Fire Lotus Bottles for Yun Yun, who accepted them before they prepared to part.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan to finish what they had left undone, then cupped his face as they shared an intimate moment beneath the moonlight.

Xiao Yan left for the Snake-People Tribe with Zi Yan and brought Mo Bas back as a prisoner. After displaying the Netherworld Poison Flame, Xiao Yan reached the tribe and attacked Hei Du when the Second Commander threatened him.

• Yao Lao teased Xiao Yan about leaving a trace of his soul on Yun Yun before Mo Bas confronted him, accusing him of taking Medusa's virginity.
• Zi Yan knocked Mo Bas unconscious, revealed she had stolen herbs from the Bright Moon Centipede, and persuaded Xiao Yan to refine them into pills.
• Zi Yan refused to return to Jia Nan Academy and joined Xiao Yan as his bodyguard, while Mo Bas remained unconscious.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Lao the Netherworld Poison Flame and considered searching the Ten Thousand Miles Poison Land while traveling to help relocate Medusa's people.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan arrived at the Snake-People Tribe, where he dropped Mo Bas into the ground and drew the tribe's alarm.
• Hei Du challenged Xiao Yan and threatened to skin him after the palace ceremony, so Xiao Yan stopped Zi Yan and struck Hei Du across the ground.

Xiao Yan fought the Snake-People commanders after they accused him of dishonoring Medusa, while Medusa revealed that she had advanced to Dou Zong and demanded that her tribe stop threatening the Jia Ma Empire. When the Four Great Elders invoked the Ten Thousand Snakes Devouring the Body Punishment, Xiao Yan challenged them to withstand one attack without his Fire Lotus.

• Xiao Yan defeated Hei Du, then angered the Snake-People by saying Medusa had been the one to get on top of him.
• The Great Commander attacked Xiao Yan, but Medusa ordered him to stop; Xiao Yan then battered the Great Commander with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• One of the Four Great Elders attacked Xiao Yan and the elders surrounded him, declaring that he must undergo the Ten Thousand Snakes Devouring the Body Punishment.
• Medusa revealed her new Dou Zong strength, forcing the Four Great Elders to bow and submit.
• Medusa explained that she had brought Xiao Yan to intimidate the tribe and asked him to resolve the threat to the Jia Ma Empire before they expanded their territory.
• Xiao Yan challenged the Four Great Elders to withstand his attack without the Fire Lotus, and they accepted.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Snake-People elders and commanders, then helped Medusa secure their allegiance by promising them a new territory in the Ten Thousand Miles Poison Land. The chapter ended when the Great Elder announced that Medusa appeared to be pregnant, and Medusa silenced Xiao Yan’s suspicions with a threat.

• The Snake-People elders and commanders combined their Dou Qi into a powerful barrier, but Xiao Yan used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame to reach the brink of a three-star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Black Mist Barrier, defeated the elders and commanders, and warned them not to enter the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa promised to carve out territory for the Snake-People in the Ten Thousand Miles Poison Land, and the Great Elder swore that the tribe would remain allied with the Jia Ma Empire.
• The Great Elder examined Medusa and announced that she appeared to be pregnant.
• Xiao Yan questioned the pregnancy, so Medusa slammed him against a tent and threatened to crush his head if he continued.

The Golden Goose Sect and Mu Lan Valley joined Soul Hall in attacking the Jia Ma Empire while Xiao Yan was away. Xiao Yan and Medusa returned in time to save Nalan Yanran and turn the battle, and Xiao Yan caught Yan Luotian as the fight continued.

• Yan Luotian and the Three Mu Lan Elders attacked the Jia Ma Empire alongside Nether Protector of Soul Hall, who sought Xiao Yan and soul bodies.
• Yan Luotian and the Three Mu Lan Elders overwhelmed Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, Yan Shi, and Feng Li, then threatened Nalan Jie and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan returned and knocked Yan Luotian away before he could kill Nalan Yanran.
• Medusa defeated and killed the Three Mu Lan Elders with her Chaos Heaven Serpent technique.
• Nether Protector refused Yan Luotian's demand for help, and Xiao Yan seized Yan Luotian by the neck with speed beyond his golden wings.

Xiao Yan killed Yan Luotian and claimed the Golden Goose Sect’s Nine Heavenly Goose Wings manual, then joined forces with Medusa against Nether Protector. Nether Protector’s escape attempt failed when Xiao Yan struck him with a powerful ruler beam, revealing that he was only a skeleton beneath his robes.

• Xiao Yan pursued Yan Luotian through the air, tore off one of his wings, and killed him after he surrendered.
• Xiao Yan found the Nine Heavenly Goose Wings manual in Yan Luotian’s Storage Ring and learned that it could create flying Dou Techniques.
• Nether Protector attacked Xiao Yan and tried to recruit Medusa by offering the Snake-People Tribe control of the Jia Ma Empire, but Medusa refused after he threatened her tribe.
• Medusa and Xiao Yan attacked Nether Protector together, and Medusa dismissed his claims that Soul Hall could freely send Dou Zuns to destroy her tribe.
• Nether Protector unleashed Isolated Heavenly Evil and tried to escape, but Xiao Yan’s emerald ruler beam knocked away his Bone Scythe and cleaved through him, exposing his skeletal body.

Xiao Yan stopped Nether Protector’s self-destruction from devastating Gama Holy City, then traveled with his companions toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range. There, they found the Old Lion King surrounded by Bright Moon Centipedes, and Xiao Yan offered the centipedes a chance to live as guardians of the Xiao Family.

• Nether Protector self-destructed, but Xiao Yan contained the blast with a Heavenly Flame barrier and left the cleanup to Jia Xing Tian.
• Xiao Yan’s group departed Gama Holy City, while the crowd discussed his broken engagement with Nalan Yanran and Jia Xing Tian celebrated the empire’s victories.
• On the way to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Yan told Zi Yan he would refine a Transformation Pill for her father, and Medusa warned him that she would kill him after he made her Heaven Soul Blood Fusion Pill.
• The Bright Moon Centipede gathered rank 6 magical beasts to attack the Old Lion King, but Little Purple arrived with Xiao Yan and burned one centipede to ashes.
• The Old Lion King joyfully reunited with Little Purple, while Zi Yan confronted the Bright Moon Centipedes and Xiao Yan offered to spare them if they became guardian magical beasts for his Xiao Family.

Xiao Yan transformed the Bright Moon Centipedes into Divine Moon Centipedes and helped the Old Lion King evolve into a Rank 7 Amethyst Winged Lion King. He left the Magical Beast Mountain Range with Purple Lion and the new Xiao Family guardians, while Fu Ling and Ka Gang watched them go.

• Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames to persuade the Bright Moon Centipedes to become guardian Magical Beasts for the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan used the Life Spirit Flame to help the Old Lion King evolve, then gave him the promised Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Yan transformed the five Bright Moon Centipedes into Divine Moon Centipedes, and they pledged to protect the Xiao Family for ten thousand years.
• The Old Lion King took human form, named himself Purple Lion, and agreed to join Xiao Yan on the journey to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Medusa, Purple Lion, and the Divine Moon Centipedes left the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Fu Ling and Ka Gang saw the powerful group fly past and wondered why so many experts had appeared in the range.

Xiao Zhan ordered the Xiao Family to kill Qi Qingfeng after he threatened them, but Xiao Yan arrived with Gu He and six Dou Zongs who pledged to serve as the family’s patrons. The Xiao Family learned that Xiao Yan had brought back powerful evolved magical beasts, while Qi Qingfeng was left at their mercy.

• Xiao Zhan refused Qi Qingfeng’s demand to hand over Xiao Yan and ordered Ling Ying to kill the Dou Wang accompanying him.
• Gu He arrived and announced that he would become the Xiao Family’s resident patron, prompting Qi Qingfeng to threaten war between the Jia Ma Empire and the Chu Yun Empire.
• Purple Lion and five other Dou Zongs appeared, bowed to Xiao Zhan, and revealed that Xiao Yan had recruited them for the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had used threats and incentives to bring the Dou Zongs back, and Purple Lion terrified Qi Qingfeng into fainting.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Xiao Family to keep Qi Qingfeng alive as a black slave, and Wu Da revealed that the magical beasts had evolved into Rank 7 Divine Moon Centipedes.
• Gu He recognized Queen Medusa among Xiao Yan’s powerful companions.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Family with Medusa, revealed that she was his unmarried wife, and left his powerful allies behind to protect the clan. He then accompanied Medusa to the Ten Thousand Miles Poison Land, where the Nether Dragon Serpent propositioned her and Xiao Yan attacked him.

• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family members were shocked when Xiao Yan called Medusa his unmarried wife, and Medusa knocked Xiao Yan away when he tried to take her hand.
• Ling Ying showed Gu He, Wu Da, and the others the Black Tower, and they were delighted by the Xiao Family's treasures and agreed to stay as its protectors.
• Xiao Yan told Medusa he wanted to reach Dou Di to secure his clan's future, then traveled with her toward the Ten Thousand Miles Poison Land.
• Medusa guided Xiao Yan through the poisonous region to the ancestral Snake-People Palace and explained that the Nether Dragon Serpent and two allies had driven her people out.
• The Nether Dragon Serpent offered to give Medusa's people territory if she married into his family, and Xiao Yan struck at him, declaring that Medusa was his wife.

Xiao Yan and Medusa negotiated with the Blood Moon Demon Lord to settle the Snake-People Tribe in the Ten Thousand Miles Poison Land, though Xiao Yan remained suspicious of their host. Before dawn, an ambush exposed a poisoning plot, and Xiao Yan called on the Blood Moon Demon Lord to reveal himself.

• Xiao Yan struck the Nether Dragon Serpent, then revealed a second Heavenly Flame and made him back down when the Blood Moon Demon Lord intervened.
• The Blood Moon Demon Lord welcomed Medusa, confirmed she could bring her clansmen to the Ten Thousand Miles Poison Land, and explained that their interests aligned against outside threats.
• Zi Yan ate and took the Nether Dragon Serpent's medicinal materials, and the Blood Moon Demon Lord gave them to her as a gift and apology.
• That night, Xiao Yan suspected the Blood Moon Demon Lord but found no obvious poison in their room; before dawn, he advanced to Three-Star Dou Huang.
• An attacker broke through the wall and thrust a halberd at Medusa, but Xiao Yan carried her and Zi Yan away and used the Fire Cloud Water Flame to neutralize their poison.
• Xiao Yan deduced that Bone-Eroding Spirit Herb on the stools had combined with Ghost Fire Netherworld Flower pollen, then confronted three attackers and demanded that the Blood Moon Demon Lord appear.