Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan struggled to refine an Imperial Zenith Pill with his new Heavenly Flame before Yao Lao found a way to adapt Nether Old Ghost's Poison Puppet technique into poison tempering for Xiao Yi Xian. Xiao Yi Xian successfully strengthened her body with her Woeful Poison Body's poison, though the benefits vanished when she suppressed it.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained to Medusa that her vulnerable, solitary life made relying on Xiao Yan feel like a lifeline, while Medusa said that even her status as queen offered little protection.
• Xiao Yan barely completed an Imperial Zenith Pill, and Yao Lao criticized his poor control over the Azure Fall Flame's temperature and its effect on the pill.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Lao Nether Old Ghost's Poison Puppet technique as a possible way to give him a body, but Yao Lao rejected its use on living people and saw potential in its Poison Tempering method for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yao Lao called Xiao Yi Xian over and proposed that she use the Poison Tempering method on herself, assuring her he could save her if her life was endangered.
• Xiao Yi Xian activated the method in a shallow pit, letting her poison temper and strengthen her body until her physical strength nearly matched her Dou Qi realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian suppressed her Woeful Poison Body, causing the poison patterns and enhanced strength to disappear, and Yao Lao concluded that continued practice could help contain the poison and reduce her risk of losing control.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao adapted Nether Old Ghost’s Poison Puppet art into a Poison Tempering method for Xiao Yi Xian. Her first attempt strengthened her body while her Woeful Poison Body was active, and Yao Lao concluded that continued practice could help control its toxins.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained to Medusa that her bond with Xiao Yan mattered because a lone person without allies could be preyed upon, and Medusa reflected that her own tribe offered little protection.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined an Imperial Zenith Pill, though Yao Lao noted that his control of the Azure Fall Flame was poor and the pill had slight poison contamination.
• Xiao Yan showed Yao Lao Nether Old Ghost’s Poison Puppet art as a possible way to give him a body, but Yao Lao rejected its cruel methods and saw potential in its Poison Tempering technique for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yao Lao asked Xiao Yi Xian to temper herself using her Woeful Poison Body, and Xiao Yan prepared a pit to contain the spreading poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian activated the method and absorbed toxins into her body, gaining strength close to her Dou Qi realm while the Poison Body remained active.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s strength faded when she closed her Poison Body, and Yao Lao judged that continued Poison Tempering could give the released toxins an outlet and reduce the risk of losing control.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed the northern continent’s body- and soul-focused cultivation and considered a journey that could bring Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa sparred, with Medusa ultimately outmaneuvering her.

• Xiao Yan refused to temper his body with Azure Fall Flame, and Yao Lao explained that the northern land’s harsh conditions had led its cultivators to prioritize body and soul cultivation.
• Xiao Yan considered traveling north to seek opportunities involving beast souls and planned to pass through the Heavenly Serpent Empire, where Qing Lin might find a place at the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• Yao Lao revealed that he had once been swept into the Heavenly Serpent Mansion and estimated that its leader had reached the first turn of Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yi Xian released her Poison Gas during a spar with Medusa, who dodged and assessed the strength of her poison-based attacks.
• Xiao Yi Xian trapped Medusa’s scattered auras inside Heavenly Poison Calamity Realm and thought she had won, but Medusa spoke from behind her and declared that she had lost.

Xiao Yan treated Xiao Yi Xian after Medusa accidentally stabbed her, then made her train with the Xuan Heavy Ruler while they joked about her becoming a formidable fighter. He studied the Hall of Souls’ soul techniques and discovered that its methods could resonate with a hidden mark in his Dou Qi, leaving him wary of how the Hall had tracked the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan treated Xiao Yi Xian’s through-and-through wound and criticized her weak battle awareness while Medusa apologized for stabbing her.
• Xiao Yan made Xiao Yi Xian carry the Xuan Heavy Ruler to strengthen her body, and their teasing turned to talk of the imagined Heavenly Poison Woman.
• Xiao Yan examined Xie Bi Yan’s Storage Ring, learned the Yin Soul Robe, and accidentally provoked Medusa into stabbing him when she mistook him for a Hall of Souls Protector.
• Xiao Yan practiced the Hall of Souls’ Soul Shackling Chain and discussed the danger of infiltrating the organization with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan tested the chain against his Dou Qi and confirmed that it resonated with a hidden brand, suggesting the Soul Clan had helped the Hall pursue the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan and Medusa turned north toward the Golden Goose Empire, where Medusa intended to confront the Golden Goose Sect over its role in the slave trade. As Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered a border city to investigate the sect’s plans, Golden Goose Sect elders waited for the absent Acting Sect Leader Yan Luotian.

• Medusa told Xiao Yan that Golden Goose had long bought slaves trafficked through Town Ghost Pass, and they decided to head north to visit the Golden Goose Sect.
• A Golden Goose Sect elder discussed the empire’s shrinking territory and hoped Yan Luotian would complete a new sect base near the border.
• Xiao Yan used a token to pass the city guard, then entered the city with Xiao Yi Xian to investigate the unusually strong experts monitoring it.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian went to eavesdrop on three Golden Goose Sect figures who were waiting for Yan Luotian.
• The messenger said Yan Luotian was busy, and the young woman offered to lead the three visitors to him anyway.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian followed the Golden Goose Sect elders toward Yan Luotian, while Lion King investigated the sect’s construction site and discovered a sealed forbidden presence. Yan Luotian assaulted a visiting elder until a black-robed figure interrupted him, leaving the threat unidentified.

• The old man inferred that Yan Luotian would accommodate them, and the woman decided to visit him despite the messenger’s warnings.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian concealed themselves on the hall roof, then set off to follow the elders while Lion King watched the Golden Goose Sect’s construction site.
• Lion King disturbed the seal around a basin, releasing scarlet air and revealing that something had been transferred there from the sect’s forbidden ground.
• Lion King confronted the guarding Dou Wang and demanded an explanation of the seal after trapping him behind an Amethyst barrier.
• Yan Luotian restrained and threatened the visiting woman, dismissing sect rules as restrictions meant for servants.
• A cold wave interrupted Yan Luotian, and a black-robed figure emerged from the shadows as he prepared to flee.

Xiao Yan disguised himself as a Soul Hall Protector and lured Yan Luotian into accepting a pill, then attacked him and discovered that the Golden Goose Sect had killed the local Protector years earlier. The Lion King arrived as Xiao Yan questioned what to do with Yan Luotian and noticed another hostage the Lion King had brought.

• Xiao Yan offered Yan Luotian a Yin-Yang Lotus Heart Pill in exchange for an alliance, and Yan Luotian accepted it.
• The pill released a Fire Lotus explosion that injured Yan Luotian, who fled before Xiao Yan caught up with him.
• Xiao Yan restrained Yan Luotian and learned that the Golden Goose Sect had killed a mysterious soul cultivator three years earlier, explaining the lack of Hall of Souls activity in the empire.
• Xiao Yan admitted that he had attacked the wrong person because his intelligence was faulty, but worried that Medusa would kill Yan Luotian if he sent him back.
• The Lion King arrived and Xiao Yan questioned why he had left headquarters and brought along a hostage.

Xiao Yan forced Yan Luotian to surrender the Golden Goose Sect’s flying techniques and learned that refining their wings would require rare materials from the Mulan Empire. Meanwhile, Medusa freed imprisoned snake-people and killed their captors when they refused to tell her where the others were.

• Xiao Yan threatened Yan Luotian with Xiao Yi Xian’s Poisonous Marsh, making him hand over the Golden Goose Sect’s cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, including the Heavenly Goose Nine Transformations Wings.
• Yao Lao examined the wing technique and suggested reforging Xiao Yan’s Purple Cloud Wings, while Xiao Yan considered gathering the hundreds of materials needed to improve them.
• Yan Luotian explained that the Golden Goose Empire’s magical beasts had been hunted away and that the Golden Goose Sect bought materials from the Mulan Empire; Xiao Yan then took Yan Luotian to inspect a sealed basin.
• Yan Luotian showed Xiao Yan an indecent book attributed to Blood Emperor Fan Lao, and Xiao Yan left him bound and hanging from the Lion King’s back.
• Medusa freed an imprisoned snake-person and demanded that the guards reveal where the rest of their race were being held.
• When the guards stayed silent, Medusa killed them and threatened to kill everyone who continued to withhold information.

Xiao Yan tried to make sense of the sealed souls and followed Yao Lao’s instruction to cook medicinal materials in the Black Demon Cauldron, accidentally turning alchemy into a bizarre braise. After mistaking the experiment for a lesson in alchemy, he was shocked that Xiao Yi Xian thought reaching Dou Sheng would be easy.

• Xiao Yan found only incoherent noise when he sensed the resentful souls in the sealed basin, while Yao Lao told him to braise them and continued studying the Heavenly Goose Nine Transformations Wings.
• Yao Lao searched ancient books for the wings’ methods, considered combining them with the Purple Cloud Wings, and found Withered Owl Ape wings as possible experimental material.
• Xiao Yan used the Black Demon Cauldron to braise medicinal herbs, horrifying Yao Lao, who nevertheless watched to see whether the experiment would work.
• Xiao Yi Xian noticed that Xiao Yan’s Xuan Heavy Ruler smelled of medicine, and Xiao Yan concluded that Yao Lao’s strange instructions had taught him about alchemy’s development.
• Xiao Yi Xian said advancing to Dou Sheng should not be hard for Xiao Yan, and he realized she needed to learn more.

Xiao Yan weighed whether to kill the captured Yan Luotian while Medusa continued rescuing Snake-People and realized she needed allies against the Golden Goose Sect. The chapter left Xiao Yan questioning a proposed way to test the Nine-Line Wings without refining bones.

• Yao Lao finished absorbing the impurities from the pills while Xiao Yan surveyed the evacuated Golden Goose Sect encampment.
• Xiao Yan considered Yan Luotian's fate and decided to avoid Medusa's private feud unless the Golden Goose Sect forced his hand.
• Medusa and Han She discussed the dangers of rescuing the remaining Snake-People, and Medusa decided she needed helpers.
• Medusa kept the rescued Snake-People weak so she could control their movements and prevent them from scattering or seeking revenge.
• Xiao Yan questioned how the Nine-Line Wings could be tested without the bones that formed their essential core.

Yao Lao refined Xiao Yan’s Purple Cloud Wings with the Withered Owl Ape’s Essence Blood, causing the dormant Purple Eagle soul to merge with them and turn them into living wings. The process awakened a Withered Moon Owl bloodline in Xiao Yan, and the chapter ended with Yao Lao identifying the new phenomenon.

• Yao Lao used the Bone Chilling Flame to temper Xiao Yan’s Purple Cloud Wings while Xiao Yan endured the pain.
• The Purple Eagle soul stirred and merged into the wings, absorbing the Withered Owl Ape’s Essence Blood and beginning to grow flesh and feathers.
• Yao Lao added the Withered Owl Ape’s wings and feathers to strengthen the transformation, while the Lion King sensed the resulting Magical Beast aura and feared the Ugly Baboon had returned.
• Xiao Yan tested his new wings and found that their wind energy could not be refined by the Flame Mantra, but it could combine with his Blood Fire.
• Xiao Yan discovered a new bloodline entry, the Withered Moon Owl phenomenon, and Yao Lao confirmed its identity while noting the wings’ mixed coloring.

Xiao Yan examined his newly formed bloodline wings with Yao Lao, then faced the Lion King after the Lion King mistakenly sealed him. Meanwhile, Medusa’s Blood Fire Seed flared as she approached Golden Goose City, forcing her to claim she had sensed a chance to break through.

• Yao Lao examined Xiao Yan’s bloodline wings, confirmed they were flesh and blood, and explained their durability and ability to sense air currents.
• The Lion King sensed Xiao Yan approaching and struck him with the Amethyst Seal, but Xiao Yan used Soul Dou Qi as a shield and confronted him.
• Xiao Yan spread his wings and used Soul Power to darken the area around the Lion King, then summoned Soul Locks and Cross Nails to challenge him.
• Yan Luotian, held captive at a construction site, speculated about the people who had captured him and lamented that no one was coming to rescue him.
• Medusa’s Blood Fire Seed flared at the Golden Goose City gate, and she told the guards she had sensed an opportunity to break through.

Medusa entered Qingmen City, learned about the Golden Goose Sect, and killed the Dou Wang who had offered her snake-person slaves. Yan Nantian pursued her, but she escaped after realizing his lifespan was nearly over.

• The Dou Wang let Medusa enter Qingmen City after sensing her Withered Moon Owl wings, then asked her to help reforge his wings and offered her snake-person slaves.
• Medusa demanded the snake-person in the Dou Wang's courtyard and questioned him about the Golden Goose Sect while concealing her anger.
• Yan Nantian sensed a powerful intruder near the city and flew out despite warnings that fighting could expose his frail condition.
• Medusa used seven-colored snake shadows to kill the Dou Wang, then took the snake-person with her at the snake-person's request.
• Yan Nantian caught up and unleashed Falling Goose Frost Sky, but struck only Medusa's seven-colored light shadow as she escaped.

Old Man Crane, Yan Fu, and Night Owl debated whether to rescue Yan Luotian or flee, only to find him already free and standing among Xiao Yan’s group. After learning that news of Yan Luotian’s capture could reach the Golden Goose Sect soon, Xiao Yan set out for Golden Goose City while Medusa struggled to refine her sword and faced a group of powerful enemies.

• Old Man Crane urged Yan Fu and Night Owl to rescue Yan Luotian, but Yan Fu proposed fleeing to the Black-Corner Region instead.
• Yan Luotian appeared behind the three Dou Huangs, revealed that he had joined Xiao Yan’s group, and asked Xiao Yan when he would be released.
• The Lion King unsealed Yan Luotian’s strength only to Seven Stars Dou Huang, and Xiao Yan learned that the Golden Goose Sect could receive news within days through its Dark Guards.
• Xiao Yan decided to travel to Golden Goose City with the Lion King because the sect might threaten Medusa, while Yao Lao assured him he could handle enemies below high-rank Dou Zong.
• Medusa failed to refine her longsword despite repeatedly using her blood and suspected that her incomplete inheritance or the sword itself was preventing the technique from working.

Yan Nantian faced growing unrest within the Golden Goose Sect as Thunder Eagle challenged his authority, then learned that Yan Luotian had been captured by a Tier 7 Magical Beast and its allies. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan provoked the captive Qing Shou into a life-and-death duel, leaving Qing Shou stunned when Xiao Yan accepted.

• A blue-robed elder urged Yan Nantian to gather the sect's Dou Huang and hunt down the mysterious attacker, while Thunder Eagle openly pressed him to act.
• Yan Nantian intimidated Thunder Eagle and the other elders, but a Dark Guard reported that Yan Luotian had been captured and that Thunder Eagle's three Envoy Elders had waited for reinforcements.
• The Dark Guard linked one of Yan Luotian's captors to the Hall of Souls, and Yan Nantian ordered Thunder Eagle to help rescue his son, threatening his faction if they failed.
• Xiao Yan questioned Qing Shou about the Golden Goose Sect's experts and patrol routes, then provoked him by threatening to take liberties with the snake-person and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Qing Shou swore a Soul Oath to reveal what he knew if Xiao Yan won a life-and-death duel, and Xiao Yan accepted, shocking him.

Xiao Yan and his allies learned that Golden Goose’s Dou Zong elders were near the ends of their lives and weighed the danger of attacking the city. Medusa agreed to consider reconciliation, and Yan Luotian offered sweeping reparations and an alliance, while Xiao Yan privately used the Azure Underworld Longevity Pill to secure his cooperation.

• Xiao Yan defeated Qing Shou with one punch, then forced him to explain Golden Goose’s internal situation.
• Qing Shou revealed that Golden Goose still had three Dou Zong, but they were old, and the empire had shown signs of weakness.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa worried that the elders might fight to the death, while Medusa admitted she wanted to prioritize rescuing the living Snake-People.
• Yan Luotian offered to punish those involved in the slave trade, compensate the Snake-People, cede territory, and swear an alliance.
• Medusa and Xiao Yan accepted Yan Luotian’s proposal in principle, and Xiao Yan hinted that he could provide the Azure Underworld Longevity Pill.

Xiao Yan attempted to refine an Azure Underworld Longevity Pill, but a bloodline-triggered surge of mismatched Dou Qi caused an explosion and left the pill damaged. He and Yao Lao decided they needed a test subject to assess it, while Xiao Yi Xian recovered from being struck by the Xuan Heavy Ruler during training.

• Xiao Yan studied the Azure Underworld Longevity Pill recipe as Yao Lao explained its effects and warned that it could not repair damage caused by the Life Devouring Pill.
• Xiao Yan began refining the pill, but an explosion erupted as his bloodline stimulated an extra branch in his Dou Qi circulation and mixed Wind Blade energy into the cauldron.
• Yao Lao saved Xiao Yan from the blast and found that the Azure Underworld Longevity Pill had turned gray and its medicinal effects were uncertain.
• Yao Lao suggested testing the damaged pill on a strong, resilient subject, and Xiao Yan recognized that he meant Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian recovered after the explosion knocked the Xuan Heavy Ruler into her face and demanded a safer cultivation tool.

Xiao Yi Xian appeared to die after taking Xiao Yan’s pill, but she revived and the pill’s life-restoring effects were explained. As Yan Nantian’s forces arrived to negotiate, Xiao Yan prepared to fight him and unleashed a destructive attack.

• Xiao Yan panicked when Xiao Yi Xian’s aura and breathing vanished, while Yao Lao urged him to stop trying to save her.
• Xiao Yi Xian revived, and Yao Lao explained that the pill restored vital energy and repaired hidden injuries when its user had suffered a serious loss.
• Medusa rushed to Xiao Yan’s aid, and the group spotted Yan Nantian leading six Golden Goose Sect experts toward them.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa discussed the coming negotiations, then Xiao Yan clashed with Yan Nantian’s wind blade and was pushed back by the Five Stars Dou Zong.
• Yan Nantian challenged Xiao Yan to prove his pill-refining ability, and Xiao Yan answered with an attack that combined fire spirits into a multicolored lotus.