Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he could solve the problem with her constitution and wanted her to become a Great Poison Master. He left her with the mission of using her power to protect everyone from a disaster.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke from a nightmare in Xiao Yan's arms, then panicked when she saw the Little Lion King and the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Yi Xian learned that Xiao Yan claimed to be fifteen years old and a Dou Ling, and she watched him work on refining medicine for the Lion King.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she had expected others to use her as a weapon, and Xiao Yan admitted he needed her help and intended to use her power.
• Xiao Yan promised he could solve the problem with Xiao Yi Xian's constitution and asked her to become a Great Poison Master to protect everyone from a disaster.

Xiao Yan agreed to help the Amethyst Winged Lion King obtain a Seventh Order Soul Nurturing Branch from the Withered Owl Ape in exchange for medicinal ingredients. The Lion King asked what else Xiao Yan wanted as compensation.

• Xiao Yi Xian considered using her poisonous power to protect others, but Xiao Yan interrupted her with poisonous smoke and demanded that she say she was willing.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing four portions of Imperial Zenith Pill ingredients, and Yao Lao judged that two batches of pills could be made.
• The Lion King admitted it could not obtain the requested Seventh Order Soul Nurturing Branch itself and revealed that a Withered Owl Ape had taken one years earlier.
• Yao Lao explained that the Seven Stars Dou Huang Withered Owl Ape had exceptional mental strength and a natural mental attack, but he was confident he could handle it.
• Xiao Yan told the Lion King its reward was missing its main ingredient, and the Lion King cautiously asked what else he wanted.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao accompanied the Amethyst Winged Lion King to confront the Withered Owl Ape, which was evolving inside its cave. They waited as its aura surged toward the seventh rank, with Yao Lao prepared to take its core or harvest its corpse for medicinal power.

• Xiao Yan rode with the Amethyst Winged Lion King to the Withered Owl Ape’s cave to obtain the medicinal ingredient.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King provoked the Withered Owl Ape, then blasted open its cave when it did not emerge.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the Lion King’s active Crimson Sun Bloodline might let it evolve into a powerful beast with the potential to reach Dou Sheng.
• The Lion King realized the Withered Owl Ape was evolving and warned that it might consume the medicinal ingredient, but Yao Lao chose to wait and strike before it completed its advancement.
• A powerful aura and blood mist emerged from the cave, and Yao Lao judged that the Withered Owl Ape was shedding its bones before changing its blood.

Xiao Yan struck the Withered Owl Ape during its evolution with a Fire Lotus, devastating the mountain and leaving the beast gravely weakened. As the Withered Owl Ape launched a soul attack, Yao Lao was nowhere to be found.

• Xiao Yan combined the Bone Chilling Flame and beast flames into a Fire Lotus while the Amethyst Winged Lion King watched in alarm.
• Xiao Yan hurled the Fire Lotus into the cave and fled with the Amethyst Winged Lion King as the blast destroyed the mountain.
• Xiao Yan found the Withered Owl Ape gravely wounded in the crater and admired its powerful wings.
• The Withered Owl Ape gathered spiritual power and fired an invisible soul attack at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan called for Yao Lao to stop the attack but discovered that he was missing.

Yao Lao possessed Xiao Yan and stopped the Withered Owl Ape’s soul attack, but the beast revealed that it had slaughtered its own kind to fuel its evolution. After swallowing their Magic Cores and transforming into a monstrous birdlike creature, it faced Xiao Yan’s attack.

• Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan’s body and erased the Withered Owl Ape’s mental impact with a touch.
• The Withered Owl Ape revealed a cavern filled with the skeletons of dozens of its kin, including cubs, and swallowed their Magic Cores to force its evolution.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King tried to seal the Withered Owl Ape, but its Amethyst Seal only slowed the beast briefly.
• The Withered Owl Ape mutated into a bloodied, birdlike monster as Xiao Yan waited for an opening to strike.
• Yao Lao called out the moment to attack, and Xiao Yan unleashed a fire lotus and flame-covered Xuan Heavy Ruler before charging at the monster with Flame Splitting Wave Slash · Eight Extremities Collapse.

Xiao Yan defeated a strange bird with borrowed power, then questioned the Amethyst Winged Lion King about his Crimson Sun Bloodline. The Lion King said a Blood Origin Grass had awakened it, but Xiao Yan doubted that explanation and pressed him for more.

• Xiao Yan used a Fire Lotus and Eight Extremities Collapse to kill the strange bird.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the overwhelming exhilaration of wielding great power, then returned to Dou Ling after withdrawing it.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King offered Xiao Yan herbs, and Xiao Yan took them along with the strange bird's head.
• Xiao Yan asked how the Lion King's Crimson Sun Bloodline had awakened, and the Lion King credited a Blood Origin Grass.
• Xiao Yan rejected the Lion King's explanation, arguing that the grass should have brought him close to breaking through to the seventh rank.

Xiao Yan questioned the Amethyst Winged Lion King about the Blood Origin Grass and learned where it had come from, along with the danger surrounding the Crimson Fire Fox Clan. He considered using the lion to obtain another stalk but left its future in the Mountain Range uncertain.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King confessed that it had swallowed an immature Blood Origin Grass, which awakened two abilities but barely improved its bloodline.
• At Yao Lao's suggestion, Xiao Yan asked where the lion had found the grass, and the lion revealed that it grew near the Crimson Fire Fox Clan's ancestral graves.
• The lion admitted it had taken a clan cub hostage to escape and said two more stalks were growing there, with a peak Dou Huang currently guarding the clan.
• The lion proposed that Xiao Yan help it reach Dou Zong in exchange for protecting the Crimson Fire Fox Clan and obtaining a stalk of Blood Origin Grass.
• Xiao Yan asked why the lion assumed it would be allowed to remain free in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, leaving the lion stunned.

The Amethyst Winged Lion King consumed the Withered Owl Ape’s remains and advanced to four-star Dou Emperor, while Xiao Yan prepared to refine a Seventh Grade pill with Yao Lao. During the refinement, Xiao Yan sensed the Withered Owl Ape’s lingering will resisting the flames, and Yao Lao began teaching him how to subdue it.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King advanced to four-star Dou Emperor after eating the Withered Owl Ape’s remains, then collected the bones for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan left the pit with the Lion King, dismissed the fallen Beast King’s five subordinates, and returned to the platform near the Lion King’s cave.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao began refining a Seventh Grade pill in the Black Demon Cauldron using the Bone Chilling Flame.
• The Withered Owl Ape’s lingering will struggled inside the cauldron, and Yao Lao explained its strength before showing Xiao Yan how to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan sent his Soul Power into the flames and perceived the resentful, shrinking form of the Withered Owl Ape.

Yao Lao demonstrated how Xiao Yan could use a net of concentrated Bone Chilling Flame threads to wear down and destroy the resentment inside the pill. The Seventh Grade pill finished refining and drew a vast Pill Lightning storm, while Xiao Yan revealed that he intended to rely on the Amethyst Winged Lion King to protect it.

• Yao Lao split the Bone Chilling Flame into fine threads and showed Xiao Yan how to trap and wear down the strange bird's resentment.
• Xiao Yan complained that Yao Lao had not warned him before making him follow every fire thread with his Soul Power, leaving him with a nosebleed.
• Yao Lao warned that the pill's Pill Lightning could strike with the force of a Four or Five Stars Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had gone to find the Amethyst Winged Lion King because he planned to have it guard the pill.
• The Seventh Grade pill expelled its impurities and rose from the Black Demon Cauldron as immense dark clouds gathered overhead and drew the attention of powerful beings across the region.

Xiao Yan used the Xuan Heavy Ruler and the Amethyst Winged Lion King to manage the terrifying Pill Lightning during the Seventh Grade pill’s refinement. After repeatedly ordering the Lion King to seal the pill and interrupt the lightning, the clouds finally dispersed, leaving the Lion King completely exhausted.

• Xiao Yan activated Ghost Possession and hurled the flame-filled Xuan Heavy Ruler into the first lightning bolt, blasting it away and sending the ruler crashing into a mountain.
• Xiao Yan called the Amethyst Winged Lion King over as a second, stronger bolt descended, then had it seal the Seventh Grade pill to stop the lightning.
• The pill repeatedly broke free of the Lion King’s fire seal, so Xiao Yan ordered it to seal the pill again whenever the lightning began to return.
• After dozens of interrupted bolts, the dark clouds dispersed, and the exhausted Amethyst Winged Lion King collapsed as a pale stone statue.

Xiao Yan completed a Seventh Grade pill and learned it could help Yao Lao recover to the Dou Zong level, then prepared to meet the Emperor Clans’ geniuses after resting. While Xiao Yan stayed away for several days, Xun Er waited impatiently for him to return.

• Xiao Yan watched the pill lightning fade and asked Yao Lao whether the Seventh Grade pill could heal his soul; Yao Lao said it could restore him to the Dou Zong level but not fully heal his Heaven Realm soul.
• Yao Lao thanked Xiao Yan for accomplishing so much in only a few days, and Xiao Yan dismissed his own contributions and said he would meet the Emperor Clans’ geniuses when the time came.
• Xiao Yan nicknamed the Amethyst Winged Lion King the Lion King, sent it to retrieve his ruler, and announced he would spend a day or two recovering before handling its Imperial Zenith Pill.
• Xun Er missed Xiao Yan through four days of his absence and complained that he had not come back to see her.
• Ling Ying told Xun Er that Xiao Yan had informed the Xiao Clan’s clan head and elders, not only her.

Xiao Yan mastered the Dou Ling realm’s ability to control Dou Qi remotely and create Fire Spirits while waiting for the Bone Chilling Flame to change. The flame’s cocoon erupted with a Dou Zong aura, and a pair of eyes opened within it as the cocoon broke apart.

• Xiao Yi Xian grilled fish with the Little Lion King while the Amethyst Winged Lion King waited outside the cave for Xiao Yan to finish his seclusion and deliver the Imperial Zenith Pill.
• Xiao Yan tested his newly awakened Dou Ling abilities, freely shaping and controlling his Dou Qi from a distance.
• Xiao Yan condensed a Beast Flame into a Fire Spirit, then found that creating it consumed substantial mental energy and Dou Qi.
• The Bone Chilling Flame’s cocoon began pulsing with powerful spiritual waves, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King sensed an aura like Dou Zong.
• The cocoon shattered under the spreading Soul Power, and a pair of eyes burning with ghastly white Heavenly Flames opened.

Jia Xingtian’s nationwide tax and donation campaign exposed forces plotting against the Jia Ma Empire, and he destroyed the Hao Clan after its leader boasted of plans to divide the empire. Meanwhile, a tremendous surge of energy erupted from the Magical Beast Mountain Range as Yao Lao’s injuries improved, leaving Xiao Yan alarmed by the commotion.

• Jia Xingtian’s collection teams forced powerful families and the Misty Cloud Sect to pay taxes and donations, while the Hao Family Head secretly resented the campaign.
• The Hao Family Head told his clansmen that his son Hao Qian, his ties to Golden Goose Izumo, and his alliance with Old Man Liu would let the family carve up Jia Ma after Jia Xingtian died.
• Jia Xingtian appeared among the Hao clan and annihilated its ancestral grounds with a single attack as the departing official watched from the sky.
• A massive beam of light erupted from the Magical Beast Mountain Range and knocked the official out of the air.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that his injuries had improved, and Xiao Yan warned that the huge energy surges could alert neighboring empires.

Xiao Yan recognized the spiritual light around Yao Lao’s soul and explained the four soul realms, leaving Yao Lao stunned by what he knew. After Xiao Yan summoned his forces, Xiao Yi Xian rode with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and realized Yun Shan was still an unaligned peak Dou Emperor.

• Yao Lao revealed a layer of Spiritual Qi surrounding his strengthened Soul Body, and Xiao Yan identified it as a sign that Yao Lao was nearing the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan described the Mortal, Spirit, Heaven, and Emperor soul realms, including their links to alchemy and powerful cultivators, leaving Yao Lao astonished.
• Yao Lao said he did not understand the spiritual radiance but promised to teach Xiao Yan a soul cultivation method once he reached the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan used a Purple Crystal to summon his forces, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King brought Xiao Yi Xian along.
• Xiao Yi Xian reasoned that Yun Shan had not yet joined the Hall of Souls and was still a wild peak Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian Brand Poison and fed the Little Lion King powerful pills, then reflected on the limits that constrained magical beasts and cultivators. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan realizing he had forgotten to write a scene about refusing candied hawthorn bitten by Xun Er.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she still needed food, and Xiao Yan reluctantly tried her grilled fish before asking where she had caught it.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian a bottle of Brand Poison and urged her to control the dosage as she committed to following his path.
• Xiao Yan fed the Little Lion King several high-grade medicinal pills and told it to consume the Associated Amethyst Source to reach the fifth rank.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed how the Associated Amethyst Source overcame magical beasts' difficult advancement and how bloodlines shaped cultivators' limits.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the Nine Revolutions to Sainthood and the difficulty of reaching Dou Sheng before remembering a forgotten scene about Xun Er's candied hawthorn.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao refined an altered Imperial Zenith Pill to raise the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s strength, but the first dose failed to produce the expected breakthrough. Yao Lao insisted on trying more pill recipes to force the Lion King toward Dou Emperor.

• Yao Lao refined an Imperial Zenith Pill while Xiao Yan considered how such pills supplied energy and why some people could not advance through sheer force.
• Yao Lao revealed that he had altered the pill recipe so the Lion King could take a similar pill more than once.
• Xiao Yan gave the pill to the Amethyst Winged Lion King, but its aura surged and then leaked away without a clear breakthrough.
• Yao Lao suspected Xiao Yan had given the wrong pill, and Xiao Yan suggested the Lion King’s foundation was too weak after its rapid rise.
• Yao Lao ordered Xiao Yan to keep feeding the Lion King pills made from different recipes until it reached the peak of Dou Emperor.

After the Amethyst Winged Lion King reached peak Dou Emperor, Xiao Yan took Xiao Yi Xian to Green Mountain Town to go shopping and offered to pay. Their outing ended with Xiao Yi Xian surprised by how many gold cards he had, while Xiao Yan insisted he was only trying to help her relax.

• Yao Lao intimidated the Amethyst Winged Lion King during its repeated breakthrough attempts, and the Lion King eventually reached peak Dou Emperor.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to make the Lion King consolidate its realm, while Xiao Yan told it that it owed him five sixth-tier pills.
• After Xiao Yi Xian finished refining, Xiao Yan invited her to visit Green Mountain Town and carried her there at high speed.
• Xiao Yi Xian complained about how Xiao Yan had dragged her along and challenged him by threatening to empty the market.
• Xiao Yan showed Xiao Yi Xian a fan of gold cards, and she wondered whether he was trying to win her heart.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that her poison Dou Qi did not necessarily prevent her from becoming an alchemist, giving her hope for a future she had long envied. After she openly linked arms with him in public, the people of Green Mountain Town mistook them for a couple and turned the street into a spectacle, forcing her to flee in embarrassment.

• Xiao Yi Xian described how work and fear had kept her from shopping or socializing, and said she envied the freedom and respect alchemists enjoyed.
• Xiao Yan asked whether she wanted to become an alchemist, and Xiao Yi Xian said her poison Dou Qi made her think it was impossible.
• Xiao Yan explained that alchemists were not completely restricted by their attributes, and Xiao Yi Xian grabbed his hand in excitement.
• Xiao Yi Xian noticed the mercenaries staring and hooked her arm through Xiao Yan's, saying they might as well let people misunderstand them.
• A burly man announced that Xiao Yi Xian was getting married, drawing crowds from the street and nearby buildings, and Xiao Yi Xian blushed before dragging Xiao Yan away.

Jia Xingtian investigated a dangerous disturbance in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and worried about the Jia Ma Empire’s weakness. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan took Xiao Yi Xian back into the mountains and used Yao Lao’s soul scan to locate a hidden tomb chamber containing the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and other treasures.

• Jia Xingtian dismissed the idea of entering the Magical Beast Mountain Range and worried that the empire had no Dou Zong to defend it.
• Jia Xingtian killed a Chuyun Empire spy who had infiltrated the empire’s heartland.
• Xiao Yan bought candied hawthorn for someone he knew, then told Xiao Yi Xian they would return to the mountains and improve her cultivation.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao to scan the forest, and Yao Lao found a sealed tomb chamber with a skeleton and a nursery bed of medicinal herbs.
• Yao Lao discovered the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and directed Xiao Yan toward the tomb chamber, where Xiao Yan promised to share the herbs with Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached the hidden Tomb Chamber, where Xiao Yan broke through its entrance and collected its treasures and medicinal herbs. Yao Lao explained that ancient mechanism craft and many other inheritance systems had declined after a great upheaval, while Xiao Yi Xian regretted not getting to use the mechanism-solving method she had learned.

• Xiao Yi Xian spotted a cave entrance below the cliff, and Xiao Yan used the Xuan Heavy Ruler to cut a slope through the cliff and reach it with her.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao examined the tomb’s self-repairing mechanism, and Yao Lao described the decline of ancient crafts after the disappearance of the Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether Tou She Ancient God’s alchemy had helped preserve alchemy, then opened the Tomb Chamber door with his ruler.
• Xiao Yan collected the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and drew the tomb’s gold, silver, and jewels into his Storage Ring while Xiao Yi Xian gathered medicinal herbs.