Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Peng promised to take responsibility for Xiao Yi Xian, they returned to the Ruins and found a poison-refining scripture and a field of rare herbs. Back at the bamboo house, Xiao Peng refined Purple Origin Pills that drew Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, then offered two to a stunned Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Peng promised to take responsibility for Xiao Yi Xian, and she accepted before they resumed exploring the Ruins.
• Xiao Peng found the Nine Revolutions Poison Refining Scripture hidden inside an Alchemy Furnace in a sealed pill room.
• Xiao Yi Xian harvested rare herbs from a medicinal field, including Golden-Edged Heart Nourishing Grass and Spirit Calming Blue Fluff.
• Xiao Peng and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged their discoveries, and Xiao Peng began refining Purple Origin Pills while Xiao Yi Xian studied the poison-cultivation insights he gave her.
• Xiao Peng refined seven Purple Origin Pills, but lightning destroyed three before four survived the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yi Xian stared in astonishment at the lightning patterns, and Xiao Peng offered her two pills to try.

After Xiao Peng promised to take responsibility for Xiao Yi Xian, they explored the Ruins and gathered valuable discoveries. Xiao Peng refined Purple Origin Pills that survived Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, then offered some to a stunned Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Peng promised to take responsibility for Xiao Yi Xian, and she accepted his promise before they returned to exploring the Ruins.
• Xiao Peng found the Nine Revolutions Poison Refining Scripture hidden in a pill-room cauldron, while Xiao Yi Xian collected rare medicinal herbs from a medicinal field.
• Xiao Peng and Xiao Yi Xian exchanged their discoveries, and Xiao Peng began refining pills while Xiao Yi Xian studied the insights and secret methods he gave her.
• Xiao Peng refined seven Purple Origin Pills, and Nine-Colored Pill Lightning destroyed three before the remaining four survived.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, and Xiao Peng offered her two Purple Origin Pills.

Xiao Peng strengthened the arrays around Luoshen Ravine and prepared to face the Void Refining Tribulation, while Xiao Yi Xian worried over his safety. As the tribulation began, people gathered outside the ravine, including a woman sent by her family to investigate the strange phenomena.

• Xiao Peng gave Xiao Yi Xian two Purple Origin Pills and urged her to refine them to improve her strength.
• More than a year later, Xiao Peng built layered arrays with Space Rifts and poison crystals to withstand and redirect the tribulation’s attacks.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Peng a Vitality Replenishing Pill and tearfully warned him to be careful before moving to safety.
• Xiao Peng sat at the array’s center as the Tribulation Clouds rolled in and the Four Symbols and Seven Stars arrays formed a protective barrier.
• People from various factions gathered outside Luoshen Ravine, where a young man asked a woman why she had come, and she said her father and the others had sent her to investigate.

Cao Ying, Cao Dan, Feng Qing'er, and other factions fled a devastating lightning strike at Luoshen Ravine, then returned to find the survivors gathered at its entrance. Xiao Peng emerged from the ravine and overwhelmed them with his aura.

• Cao Dan told Cao Ying that a treasure was expected to appear within half a month and named the factions gathered at Luoshen Ravine.
• A lightning bolt split from the storm and struck the crowds, killing many cultivators as Cao Dan pulled Cao Ying to safety in a misty gorge.
• Feng Qing'er escaped the lightning by diving into a thorn bush, suffering a burn to her arm.
• After the thunderclouds vanished, Cao Ying and Cao Dan returned to the ravine's outskirts and found Feng Qing'er and other wounded survivors.
• Xiao Peng emerged from the entrance, and his immense aura pressed Cao Ying, Cao Dan, Feng Qing'er, and the others in place.

Xiao Peng revealed that he had caused the tribulation and the strange phenomena at Luoshen Ravine while refining pills, then agreed to let Cao Ying seek his guidance after finishing his business. He led Cao Ying and Cao Dan through the poisonous mist, leaving them to follow him into the ravine.

• Xiao Peng dismissed the pressure crushing the gathered visitors and explained that he had borrowed Luoshen Ravine to undergo his tribulation.
• Feng Qing'er recognized Xiao Peng, accepted a healing pill from Xiao Yan, and left with the departing disciples.
• Cao Ying asked Xiao Peng for guidance in pill refining, and he agreed to speak with her after dealing with matters there.
• Cao Ying told Cao Dan that she hoped to learn about Xiao Peng and build an alliance between him and the Cao Family.
• Xiao Peng invited Cao Ying and Cao Dan to follow him into the poisonous mist and said he occasionally refined pills there.

Cao Ying and Cao Dan were stunned by the Dou Saint Puppet at Xiao Peng’s residence, then received his guidance on the Pill Dao. They left with new insights and greater respect for Xiao Peng.

• Cao Ying and Cao Dan saw the Poison Dragon Puppet, and Xiao Peng revealed that it was a Dou Saint Puppet.
• The Cao siblings apologized for their earlier behavior and praised Xiao Peng’s Puppet Technique, while Cao Ying offered the Cao Family’s support.
• Xiao Yi Xian came out and introduced herself to the siblings before Xiao Peng invited them inside.
• Xiao Peng corrected Cao Ying’s pill formulas and Cao Dan’s flame control, helping both understand their mistakes.
• Cao Ying and Cao Dan thanked Xiao Peng for his guidance and recognized how much they still had to learn.

Xiao Peng agreed to visit the Pill Tower after completing his affairs, then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian to the Flower Sect to see Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun. The Two Immortals of Qinghua welcomed them and began guiding them inside, though Fairy Hua remained wary of the Poison Dragon.

• Cao Ying invited Xiao Peng to visit the Cao Family and asked whether there was another path to becoming a Ninth-Rank Pill Refiner.
• Xiao Peng declined to meet Cao Ying's master immediately but accepted her token and promised to visit the Pill Tower after finishing his affairs.
• Xiao Peng told Xiao Yi Xian that they would visit two friends at the Flower Sect, and they departed Luoshen Ravine the next morning.
• Ten days later, Xiao Peng and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Flower Sect, where Fairy Qing and Fairy Hua came out to meet them.
• Xiao Peng identified Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun as his old acquaintances, and Fairy Qing invited him inside while Fairy Hua expressed concern about the Poison Dragon.

Xiao Peng arrived at the Flower Sect with Xiao Yi Xian and learned that Hua Jin intended to take the Dou Qi sealed inside Yun Yun. Nalan Yanran asked him to help Yun Yun in the contest Hua Yu had arranged, and Xiao Peng agreed.

• Fairy Hua invited Xiao Peng and Xiao Yi Xian into the Flower Sect after Xiao Peng assured her he had no designs on it.
• Hua Jin confronted Yun Yun and demanded the Dou Qi sealed inside her, but Yun Yun refused to hand it over because removing it could endanger her life.
• Nalan Yanran challenged Hua Jin for trying to take the Dou Qi, and Yun Yun invoked the contest rules established by Hua Yu.
• Xiao Peng heard about the dispute and agreed to follow the rules and help Yun Yun.
• Nalan Yanran brought Xiao Peng to Yun Yun, who thanked him and questioned why he would involve himself in the Flower Sect's internal affair.

Xiao Peng helped Yun Yun begin absorbing the Dou Qi sealed inside her, raising her strength to a two-star Dou Zun over the next month. When Hua Jin and Demon Flower Evil Lord challenged her, Xiao Peng arrived with the Dou Sheng Puppet Poison Dragon and crushed them with its pressure.

• Xiao Peng asked Yun Yun to let him help absorb the Dou Qi sealed inside her, and she agreed.
• Xiao Peng lifted Yun Yun's seal at Wind-Listening Courtyard and guided her for a month, allowing her to reach the two-star Dou Zun level.
• Hua Jin arrived at the training grounds with Demon Flower Evil Lord and mocked Yun Yun for not appearing.
• Xiao Peng and Yun Yun descended on Poison Dragon, whose Dou Sheng pressure forced Hua Jin and Demon Flower Evil Lord to the ground.
• Hua Jin and Demon Flower Evil Lord realized they could not resist Poison Dragon, and Demon Flower Evil Lord regretted getting involved.

Yun Yun arrived to settle her wager with Hua Jin, backed by Xiao Peng and the Poison Dragon. Xiao Peng defeated the Demon Flower Evil Lord, and Hua Jin begged for mercy as he asked Yun Yun how she should be dealt with.

• Yun Yun arrived before Hua Jin and the Demon Flower Evil Lord, and Xiao Peng had the Poison Dragon ease its pressure.
• Hua Jin protested that Yun Yun had cheated, but Xiao Peng forced her to accept the contest.
• The Demon Flower Evil Lord and Hua Jin attacked Xiao Peng together, but he deflected their strikes with ease.
• Xiao Peng drew the Qingping Sword, cut apart their combined attacks, and killed the Demon Flower Evil Lord.
• Hua Jin knelt and begged Xiao Peng to spare her, and he asked Yun Yun what should be done with her.

Yun Yun spared Hua Jin, while Xiao Peng bound her with a Spirit Locking Curse and had her taken away. The Two Immortals of Qinghua invited Xiao Peng to become a Flower Sect Honorary Elder, and he accepted before offering to strengthen the sect’s formation against Dou Sheng attacks.

• Yun Yun spared Hua Jin because she was Hua Yu’s adopted daughter, and Xiao Peng placed a Spirit Locking Curse on her to prevent her from harming Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun ordered disciples to take Hua Jin away under guard, and the Two Immortals of Qinghua praised Yun Yun’s decision.
• Fairy Hua and Fairy Qing invited Xiao Peng to become an Honorary Elder of the Flower Sect, and Xiao Peng accepted the jade token and position.
• Xiao Peng offered to inspect and improve the Flower Sect’s formation so that even a Dou Sheng would struggle to break in.

Xiao Peng rebuilt the Flower Sect’s defensive formation and tested whether teaching its disciples would earn him Destiny/Fortune. After his teachings triggered a powerful breakthrough among the disciples, he gained a flow of Destiny/Fortune and realized that spreading teachings worked.

• Xiao Peng installed the Nine Earth Profound Pivot Array around the Flower Sect and taught the Two Immortals of Qinghua how to activate it.
• Xiao Peng asked Fairy Hua to gather newly inducted disciples at Qinglan Peak so he could teach them.
• Xiao Peng imparted a cultivation method from his teacher’s world, drawing the disciples and his companions into an unusual state of understanding.
• The disciples’ cultivation improved dramatically, with several advancing multiple stars and some reaching Dou Ling.
• Xiao Peng felt Destiny/Fortune flow into him and concluded that spreading teachings worked.

Xiao Peng announced that he would teach the disciples for three months before traveling to the dangerous Savage Ancient Region, while Xiao Yi Xian insisted she might accompany him. That night, Yun Yun confessed her feelings and hid in Xiao Peng’s bed when Nalan Yanran arrived to confess and asked to stay the night.

• Xiao Peng promised to teach the disciples every seven days for three months and said he would then leave for the Savage Ancient Region.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to accompany Xiao Peng, but he postponed deciding and ended the gathering.
• Yun Yun visited Xiao Peng that night, and they confessed their mutual feelings and kissed.
• Nalan Yanran arrived and confessed that she had long liked Xiao Peng, then accepted his condition that he would continue seeing other women.
• Nalan Yanran asked to stay the night while Yun Yun hid beneath Xiao Peng’s blanket.

Xiao Yi Xian used purple mist to push Xiao Peng, Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun into spending the night together. The next morning, Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Peng to take responsibility for them, and he promised to do so for life.

• Nalan Yanran discovered Yun Yun in Xiao Peng's bed and asked why her master was there.
• Xiao Yi Xian sent purple mist into the room, and it weakened Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun until they embraced Xiao Peng.
• Xiao Yi Xian watched from a tree after using the mist to help Xiao Peng win over both women.
• The next morning, Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran woke beside Xiao Peng and greeted each other awkwardly.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Peng to take responsibility for them, and he promised to stay with them for life.

Xiao Peng traveled to the Savage Ancient Region to find the Bodhi Ancient Tree and rescued Cao Ying from a pack of Ink Scale Beasts. Cao Ying joined him as he headed toward the region’s core, where the legendary tree was said to be hidden.

• After three months with Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Peng left them and traveled to the Savage Ancient Region.
• Xiao Peng killed a Flood Dragon and other fierce beasts while exploring the poisonous region in search of the Bodhi Ancient Tree.
• Xiao Peng found Cao Ying surrounded by Ink Scale Beasts and killed the beasts before they could harm her.
• Cao Ying explained that she had entered the region to train but had become lost and outmatched, so Xiao Peng offered to guide her out or let her travel with him.
• Cao Ying chose to accompany Xiao Peng and learned that he was seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree in the core region.

Xiao Peng carried Cao Ying through the Savage Ancient Region to a lake, then descended underground and found a Bodhi Ancient Tree corrupted by an Evil Spirit. He began purifying it, but the Evil Spirit formed an Ink-black Crystal in a final attempt to escape.

• Xiao Peng concealed himself and Cao Ying as he carried her past the Fierce Beasts into the core region of the Savage Ancient Region.
• Xiao Peng left Cao Ying inside a concealing formation, dived beneath the lake, and used the Earth Evasion Technique to reach an underground cavern.
• Xiao Peng found a Bodhi Ancient Tree, and Sect Leader Tongtian explained that an Evil Spirit had formed within it from negative emotions.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree attacked Xiao Peng with Black Qi-laced branches, but he broke them and destroyed the spreading Black Mist with golden Mana.
• Xiao Peng used Golden Sword Qi to cut through the tree's attacks and began purifying its Evil Spirit.
• The Evil Spirit unleashed Dark Power from the trunk's core and condensed into an Ink-black Crystal as it tried to break free.

After Xiao Peng and Sect Leader Tongtian destroyed the Evil Spirit’s Black Crystal, Ruan Sheng revived and offered Xiao Peng Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation to temper his Dao Heart. Xiao Peng completed the hundred lifetimes and returned with a transformed aura as Spiritual Energy surged into him.

• Xiao Peng purified and destroyed the Black Crystal, freeing the Bodhi Ancient Tree from the Evil Spirit.
• Sect Leader Tongtian revived the tree, and Ruan Sheng thanked Xiao Peng and offered him Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation.
• Xiao Peng agreed, sent a clone to retrieve Cao Ying, and entered reincarnation while Ruan Sheng began guarding him.
• Sect Leader Tongtian helped Ruan Sheng take human form before leaving the cave.
• Xiao Peng experienced more than a hundred lifetimes, holding fast to his true heart and refining his Dao Heart.
• Xiao Peng's soul returned from reincarnation, and Spiritual Energy gathered violently into his body.

After three years of cultivation, Xiao Peng faced a powerful tribulation in the Savage Ancient Region and used its lightning to temper his body and soul. As Xiao Xun'er feared for his safety, Xiao Peng’s realm began breaking through to the Body Integration stage.

• Xiao Peng cultivated for three years, drawing on Hundred Lifetimes Reincarnation until his body and soul neared perfect harmony and tribulation clouds gathered overhead.
• Xiao Peng sent Ruan Sheng deeper into the cave, then stepped above the lake and met the first violet-black tribulation bolt with the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique.
• Xiao Peng endured the lightning and its soul-corroding mist, regenerating stronger as the tribulation refined his body and soul.
• Hun Yu noticed the terrifying clouds while battling Fierce Beasts with forces seeking the Bodhi Ancient Tree at the Savage Ancient Region’s core.
• Xiao Xun'er worried that Xiao Peng was in the core region as Xiao Yan reassured her, but a seven-colored lightning bolt soon struck there.
• Xiao Peng bathed in the seven-colored lightning and felt the barrier to the Body Integration stage begin to crumble.

Xiao Peng survived the remaining tribulation bolts and reached the Late Body Integration Stage, then manifested the Sword Dao Law and wiped out a horde of Fierce Beasts. He invited Ruan Sheng to join the sect he planned to establish, and she agreed on the condition that she could retreat into seclusion when she wished.

• Xiao Peng endured the fourth, fifth, and sixth tribulation bolts, using the white lightning to refine his body as the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique advanced to its eighth turn.
• Xiao Peng's cultivation stabilized at the Late Body Integration Stage, and he gained insight into the Sword Dao Law through memories of his past lives.
• Xiao Peng swept his Sword Intent across the charging Fierce Beasts, killing thousands and cutting a distant mountain in half.
• Ruan Sheng congratulated Xiao Peng and identified his strength as equivalent to a Nine-star Dou Saint, while Xiao Peng considered the differences between the Dou Qi and cultivation systems.
• Xiao Peng invited Ruan Sheng to join the sect he planned to establish, and Ruan Sheng accepted after asking to be allowed to enter seclusion whenever she wished.

Xiao Peng reunited with Xiao Xun'er and subdued an Ancient Clan disciple who challenged him. He then met Ruan Sheng, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran, while Xiao Xun'er grew jealous as the women welcomed him.

• Xiao Peng appeared before Xiao Xun'er, and she embraced him tearfully before laughing at his teasing.
• Gu Tian challenged Xiao Peng, who forced him to his knees with his pressure until Xiao Yan asked him to stop.
• Xiao Peng introduced Ruan Sheng to Xiao Xun'er, and they exchanged greetings.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran arrived and welcomed Xiao Peng after searching for him, making Xiao Xun'er jealous.