Chapter Summaries

Xiao Peng continued cultivating while seeking resources, but Xiao Yu arrived to challenge him after her grandfather proposed that she marry him. Their spar began in Xiao Peng’s courtyard, where he easily blocked her attacks.

• Xiao Peng spent time cultivating discreetly and realized the Nine Revolutions Profound Technique was consuming too many resources.
• Xiao Peng recalled that Xiao Yi Xian’s cave dwelling contained money and resources, and considered copying and selling Mad Lion’s Roar.
• Xiao Yu confronted Xiao Peng, having decided to test his strength after her grandfather proposed their marriage.
• Xiao Peng accepted Xiao Yu’s challenge and drew the Qingping Sword in the courtyard.
• Xiao Peng blocked Xiao Yu’s whip attacks with ease, leaving her unable to touch him.

Xiao Peng attended the Xiao Family coming-of-age ceremony, where Xiao Yan tested at the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi and Xiao Peng confirmed he had reached Eight-star Dou Practitioner. The guests were shocked by Xiao Peng’s strength, and he waited to see whether anyone would challenge him.

• Xiao Peng disarmed Xiao Yu in a spar, and Xiao Yu left the courtyard in anger.
• Xiao Peng, Xiao Yan, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Xun'er attended the coming-of-age ceremony as numerous guests gathered to verify Xiao Peng’s cultivation.
• Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Peng and Xiao Yan to Ya Fei, who suspected Xiao Yan had an alchemist master based on his rapid progress.
• Xiao Yan tested at the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi, surprising the guests, but no one challenged him.
• Xiao Peng tested at Eight-star Dou Practitioner, shocking the guests, and looked forward to the challenge segment.

The Jia Lie Family plotted with the Ao Ba Family to have Xiao Peng and Xiao Yan killed as the Xiao Family’s young talents rose. Meanwhile, Xiao Feng came to Xiao Peng’s home to apologize, and the chapter ended after Xiao Feng slapped himself.

• Jia Lie Bi decided to enlist the Black Wind Group to assassinate Xiao Peng, and Jia Lie Ao added Xiao Yan as a target.
• Jia Lie Ying accepted the Jia Lie Family’s token and left to contact the Black Wind Group.
• Jia Lie Bi and Jia Lie Ao went to the Ao Ba Family to seek its cooperation against the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Ning brought the injured Xiao Feng to Xiao Peng’s home to apologize for Xiao Feng’s past behavior.
• Xiao Peng said he would let the past go, and Xiao Feng surprised him and Xiao Ning by slapping himself.

Xiao Peng’s apology from Xiao Feng was followed by an assassination attempt against him, which his Qingping Sword swiftly defeated. A captured attacker revealed that the Jia Lie Family and Ao Ba Family had hired the Black Wind Group to kill Xiao Peng and Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Feng apologized to Xiao Peng and struck himself, but Xiao Peng accepted his apology and stopped him from continuing.
• Xiao Peng returned to cultivating, aiming to reach the ninth level of Foundation Establishment and later form a flawless Golden Core.
• One-Eyed led more than a dozen Black Wind Group members into Xiao Peng’s courtyard, while Xiao Xun'er watched and chose not to intervene.
• The Qingping Sword flew out and killed or incapacitated the attackers, while One-Eyed and the others failed to escape.
• A captured attacker revealed that Jia Lie Ying had arranged the hit for the Jia Lie Family and Ao Ba Family, offering 100,000 Gold Coins and ordering them to kill Xiao Yan as well.

Xiao Peng survived the assassination attempt and attacked the Jia Lie Family after discovering its leaders had arranged his murder. The chapter ended as Jia Lie Bi lay badly wounded and Xiao Peng faced several elders’ combined Dou Techniques.

• Xiao Peng burned the Black Wind Group assassins’ corpses and rode the Qingping Sword to the Jia Lie Family estate.
• Xiao Peng overheard Jia Lie Bi and the elders plotting to eliminate him and later join forces against the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Peng crashed into the council hall and revealed that the assassins had been reduced to ash.
• Xiao Peng struck Jia Lie Bi with the Qingping Sword, shattering his Dou Qi spear and tearing open his left shoulder.
• Jia Lie Ao urged the elders to attack together, and they unleashed several Dou Techniques at Xiao Peng.

Xiao Peng defeated the Jia Lie Family elders and killed Jia Lie Ao, Jia Lie Bi, and Jia Lie Ying in the council hall. He left no member of the Jia Lie Family alive there.

• Xiao Peng used the Upper Clarity Sword Technique to defeat the elders' attacks and fatally stabbed Jia Lie Ao as he tried to flee.
• Xiao Peng killed the elders who attacked him, then cut down the elders who begged for mercy.
• Jia Lie Bi pleaded for his life and offered the family’s property, but Xiao Peng reminded him of the assassination attempt and killed him when he attacked.
• Jia Lie Ying tried to escape through a window, but Xiao Peng caught and killed him.

After killing Jia Lie Bi and looting the Jia Lie Family's treasure vault, Xiao Peng attacked the Ao Ba Family's manor and killed its leaders and guards. He left Ao Ba Pa dead, ending the family's threat against the Xiao Family.

• Xiao Peng found the Jia Lie Family's treasure vault and took everything inside.
• Xiao Peng flew to the Ao Ba Family's manor, where Ao Ba Pa and the Second Elder planned to join the Jia Lie Family in seizing the Xiao Family's businesses.
• Xiao Peng told Ao Ba Pa that he had killed Jia Lie Bi, then repelled Ao Ba Pa's Mountain Collapse Palm and shattered both his arms.
• Xiao Peng disarmed and killed the Second Elder when he attacked from behind.
• Xiao Peng killed the Ao Ba Family guards who rushed into the courtyard to protect their patriarch.
• Xiao Peng killed Ao Ba Pa, who regretted getting involved before he lost consciousness.

Xiao Peng looted the Ao Ba Family’s treasury after killing its leaders and returned to the Xiao Family, while Xiao Xun’er wondered about his origins and powerful teacher. The deaths of the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families stirred rumors across Wu Tan City, and Xiao Zhan moved to claim their businesses.

• Xiao Peng broke into the Ao Ba Family’s hidden treasury, collected its coins, herbs, ores, and Dou Technique scrolls, and stored them in his rings.
• Xiao Peng decided not to kill every surviving member of the two families because he did not want to worsen Sect Leader Tongtian’s opinion of him, then flew back to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Xun’er watched Xiao Peng leave and told Ling Ying that he was not from another clan, though she suspected his teacher was a powerful expert.
• Residents of Wu Tan City discussed the overnight deaths of the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Family leaders, with some suspecting the Xiao Family and others believing a passing expert was responsible.
• Xiao Zhan arranged for the Xiao Family to take over the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families’ businesses.

Xiao Peng brought the Jia Lie Family and Ao Ba Family’s seized resources to Ya Fei’s auction house to trade for rare herbs and other cultivation supplies. Ya Fei arranged to inventory and secure the goods, promised to gather herbs for him within three days, and was left examining an unfamiliar pill Xiao Peng gave her.

• Xiao Peng visited Ya Fei’s auction house and asked her to inventory the contents of two Storage Rings.
• Ya Fei recognized the Jia Lie Family’s ores, the Ao Ba Family’s reserves, and dozens of Dou Techniques, and realized Xiao Peng had taken both families’ resources.
• Xiao Peng requested rare herbs and Heavenly Treasures, and Ya Fei ordered the warehouse’s century-old herbs prepared while her staff secured and sorted the goods.
• Ya Fei gave Xiao Peng an auction-house Jade Pendant and promised to gather the best herbs for him within three days.
• Xiao Peng gave Ya Fei a Jade Bottle, and she opened it and asked about the pill inside.

Xiao Peng gave Ya Fei a Foundation Nourishing Pill before returning to the Xiao Family, where he reassured Xiao Yan that he had handled the previous night's attackers. That night, Sect Leader Tongtian began teaching Xiao Peng the Array Dao and revealed an intricate Array Diagram.

• Xiao Peng gave Ya Fei a Foundation Nourishing Pill, and she accepted it as thanks for her help over the past year.
• Xiao Peng returned to the Xiao Family and told Xiao Yan he had easily dealt with the attackers from the previous night.
• Xiao Peng advised Xiao Yan not to visit the Jia Lie Family and to focus on consolidating his cultivation.
• Sect Leader Tongtian appeared while Xiao Peng was cultivating and began teaching him the Array Dao.
• Sect Leader Tongtian displayed an Array Diagram and explained that arrays could trap, kill, defend, and gather.

Sect Leader Tongtian passed Array Dao knowledge to Xiao Peng and tested his understanding with the Jingzhe Disk. Xiao Peng mastered a Spirit Locking Array and then trapped and killed Foundation Establishment cultivators in the Trial Space.

• Sect Leader Tongtian transferred the Array Diagram’s knowledge to Xiao Peng, who quickly grasped its principles and formed a miniature Spirit Gathering Array.
• Sect Leader Tongtian gave Xiao Peng the Jingzhe Disk and challenged him to trap the life force of the old locust tree within one incense stick.
• Xiao Peng adjusted the Spirit Locking Array to balance the tree’s vitality with the earth energy, then withdrew the disk before time ran out.
• Sect Leader Tongtian brought Xiao Peng to the Trial Space and ordered him to trap several Foundation Establishment cultivators for half an hour before killing them.
• Xiao Peng combined a vine Trapping Array with an Illusionary Fog Array, draining the cultivators’ Spiritual Power as they struggled to escape.
• Xiao Peng activated a Killing Array, and its barbed vines and killing rays pierced the weakened cultivators’ defenses and destroyed their life force.

Xiao Peng refined his Array Dao under Sect Leader Tongtian, learning to hide a killing array within the forest’s natural movements. More than half a year later, Xiao Yu led Xiao Peng and his companions through Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment process, where they all passed the entrance test.

• Xiao Peng used the Jingzhe Disk to kill enemies with arrays, and Sect Leader Tongtian advised him to conceal his Spiritual Power and blend his arrays into nature.
• Xiao Peng created a hidden killing array that moved in sync with the forest, and Sect Leader Tongtian told him to practice killing enemies within the array.
• More than half a year later, Xiao Peng, Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Yan attended a recruitment event in Wu Tan City.
• Xiao Yu led the group past the crowded plaza and soldiers using her connection to the recruitment officer, then introduced them to her Jia Nan Academy friend Xue Ni.
• Luo Bu tested Xiao Peng and his companions, and they all passed with ease.

Xiao Peng rejected Luo Bu’s demand that he sit outside in the sun and challenged him to a fight instead. Luo Bu accepted, confident that Xiao Peng could not withstand three moves.

• Xue Ni teased Xiao Yu about her feelings for her cousin Xiao Peng, and Xiao Yu denied liking him while praising his strength.
• Luo Bu told the new students to wait outside in the sun for half an hour, then tried to pressure Xiao Peng into doing so alone on their behalf.
• Xiao Yu refused Luo Bu’s demand and said she would speak to Instructor Ruo Lin herself.
• Luo Bu brought in Ge La and proposed that Xiao Peng spar with him, but Xiao Peng challenged Luo Bu instead and offered to leave the academy if he lost.
• After Xiao Peng put an arm around Xiao Yu’s waist, Ge La mocked him, and Xiao Yu rebuked Ge La for his words.
• Luo Bu released his Dou Zhe aura and agreed to fight Xiao Peng, wagering that Xiao Peng could endure three moves.

Xiao Peng defeated Luo Bu with controlled physical strikes, stunning the watching students and revealing his strength to Xiao Yan. Instructor Ruo Lin treated Luo Bu and reprimanded him for bullying younger students.

• Xiao Peng caught Luo Bu's punch and twisted his wrist, then struck his chest and abdomen until Luo Bu could no longer fight.
• Xiao Peng dropped Luo Bu and challenged the others, but Ge La and the other students stayed silent.
• Xiao Mei praised Xiao Peng, Xiao Xun'er remained unsurprised, and Xiao Yan wondered what abilities Xiao Peng was hiding.
• Ruo Lin arrived, acknowledged she had seen the confrontation, and began treating Luo Bu.
• Ruo Lin reminded Luo Bu that senior students should not bully younger ones, and Luo Bu lowered his head and agreed.

After enrolling at Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Peng revealed his exceptional cultivation and received permission to take a year of leave for his master's training. Xiao Yan then asked for the same leave and was immediately refused.

• Ruo Lin stabilized the injured students and began recording the new students’ information.
• Xiao Peng announced that he was a sixteen-year-old Nine-star Dou Practitioner, shocking the students and leaving Luo Bu pale.
• Ruo Lin announced that the students would leave Wu Tan City in seven days, and Xiao Peng requested a year of leave to complete his master's tasks.
• Ruo Lin granted Xiao Peng’s request, and Xiao Yu and Xiao Xun'er each sought his reassurance before he left.
• Xiao Yan asked Ruo Lin for a year of leave, but she refused him outright.

Ruo Lin refused Xiao Yan’s request for a year of leave, then questioned Xiao Yu about Xiao Peng and Xiao Yan’s mysterious declines and recoveries in cultivation. She suspected Xiao Yan might also have an unknown opportunity, but judged that his current strength still fell far short of Xiao Peng’s.

• Xiao Yan asked Ruo Lin for a year of leave, but she refused because he lacked a master to guide his cultivation.
• Xiao Peng calmed Xiao Xun’er, promised Xiao Mei a gift, and left.
• Ruo Lin asked Xiao Yu about Xiao Peng, who explained that he had once been a genius, lost all his Dou Qi, and later recovered his talent.
• Ruo Lin reasoned that Xiao Peng’s mysterious master had raised him to nine-star Dou Zhe and suspected the master was at least a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yu told Ruo Lin that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Zhe at eleven before his Dou Qi fell to the third stage and he became reserved.
• Ruo Lin wondered whether Xiao Yan’s years of stagnation concealed an opportunity, but thought he remained weaker than Xiao Peng.

Xiao Peng said goodbye to Ya Fei and left Wu Tan City to travel toward Jia Nan Academy. He reached Qing Shan Town and planned to buy Blood Lotus Essence from Wan Yao Zhai so Xiao Yan would owe him a favor.

• Xiao Peng visited the Mite'er Family Auction House to tell Ya Fei he was leaving for Jia Nan Academy.
• Ya Fei warned Xiao Peng about the dangers and rival factions at Jia Nan Academy, then gave him a Storage Ring filled with travel supplies, medicine, and maps.
• Ya Fei embraced Xiao Peng and urged him to take care of himself before he left the auction house.
• Xiao Peng rode the Qingping Sword from Wu Tan City to Qing Shan Town near the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Peng decided to buy Blood Lotus Essence at Wan Yao Zhai to earn a favor from Xiao Yan.

Xiao Peng prepared a hidden mountain valley and layered it with formations and treasures before beginning his preparations for the Perfect Golden Core Tribulation. Days later, Xiao Yan’s group encountered unusually aggressive Magical Beasts and saw violet-gold tribulation clouds gathering in the west, where Xiao Peng was preparing to break through.

• Xiao Peng bought the Yellow Lotus Essence, which was actually Blood Lotus Essence, and entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range to find a place for his tribulation.
• Xiao Peng found a secluded valley with a natural Spirit-Gathering ground and set up defensive formations, the Jingzhe Disk, and Lightning-Locking Needles.
• Xiao Peng laid out the Mountain Suppressing Root, Moon Soul Fruit, and Star Marrow Crystal, then began adjusting his condition for the tribulation.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan’s group entered the mountain range and encountered repeated attacks from unusually aggressive Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Yan suspected the Magical Beasts were fleeing from something, and his group saw violet-gold clouds gathering in the western sky as Xiao Yi Xian trembled under the distant pressure.

Xiao Yan’s group approached a valley where heavenly lightning was being guided by a barrier, but Mu Li was killed when a bolt struck him. After the storm cleared, Xiao Peng emerged with a Perfect Golden Core and noticed someone nearby.

• Mu Li persuaded the group to investigate the Purple-Gold Thunderclouds, and Xiao Yan agreed to observe from a distance.
• The group saw a golden barrier guiding lightning into a valley, but Mu Li ignored Xiao Yan’s warning and approached it.
• A Purple-Gold lightning bolt struck Mu Li and annihilated him, so Xiao Yan and the others fled, leaving Xiao Yi Xian behind.
• After the clouds dispersed, Xiao Peng completed his Golden Core Tribulation and formed a Perfect Golden Core.
• Xiao Peng gained the Purple Heaven Evil Slaying Sword and noticed someone slumped nearby.

Xiao Peng saved Xiao Yi Xian from a Poison Wolf, treated her injuries, and learned about a nearby ruin she revealed in gratitude. He took her with him on the Qingping Sword to visit it.

• A Poison Wolf attacked Xiao Yi Xian after the others had left her behind.
• Xiao Peng appeared and killed the Poison Wolf, saving Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Peng comforted Xiao Yi Xian and treated the blisters on her arm.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Peng about a nearby ruin as thanks for saving her.
• Xiao Peng decided to visit the ruin and carried Xiao Yi Xian into the air on the Qingping Sword.