Chapter Summaries

Xiao Peng accepted Ya Fei’s confession, and the two began a relationship while making plans to tell others. After half a month of lessons and preparation, Xiao Yan absorbed a Heavenly Flame and returned as a five-star Dou Emperor.

• Ya Fei confessed her love to Xiao Peng, and he told her he loved her too.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Peng spent the night together, then agreed the next morning to make their relationship public.
• Xiao Peng told Ya Fei about Xiao Yu, and Ya Fei said she did not mind.
• Over the next half month, Xiao Peng taught Yao Yue alchemy, spent time with Ya Fei, and watched the Misty Cloud Sect while Xiao Yan prepared to absorb a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Peng and revealed that he had successfully absorbed the flame and reached the five-star Dou Emperor realm, shocking Yao Yue.

Xiao Peng and Xiao Yan led the Jia Ma Empire’s forces to attack the Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Peng killed a Dou Emperor elder with one sword strike. Yun Shan then confronted Xiao Peng, whose taunts exposed that Yun Shan’s injuries had still not healed.

• Xiao Peng told Yao Yue to inform her sister that the army would march on the Misty Cloud Sect in three days, and ordered her to prepare healing pills.
• Three days later, Xiao Peng, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Zi Yao, Yao Ye, and the assembled royal army departed the Imperial Capital for the Misty Cloud Sect.
• At the mountain entrance, Xiao Peng killed a gray-robed Dou Emperor elder with a single strike of the Qingping Sword.
• Yun Shan appeared and accused Xiao Peng of using dirty tricks against him in the past, while Xiao Peng sensed that Yun Shan’s injuries remained unhealed.

Xiao Peng confronted Yun Shan over his secret dealings with the Soul Hall, while Yun Shan summoned Xiao Yi Xian to help defeat him. Xiao Yi Xian turned against Yun Shan, allowing Xiao Peng to seize and crush his shoulder as the battle continued.

• Xiao Peng effortlessly shattered Yun Shan's attack and accused him of colluding with the Soul Hall.
• Yun Shan revealed that he had hired the Poison Sect's Sect Master, the Heavenly Poison Woman, and promised her the Misty Cloud Sect's medicinal herbs as payment.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized Xiao Peng and subtly moved away from Yun Shan while pretending to consider the reward.
• Yun Shan attacked Xiao Peng, but Xiao Yi Xian struck Yun Shan from behind with poisonous Dou Qi.
• Xiao Peng caught the wounded Yun Shan in midair, crushed his shoulder, and lifted him up.

Xiao Peng defeated Yun Shan and went to Yun Yun, who mourned her teacher after learning he had died. Yun Yun disbanded the Misty Cloud Sect and left its disciples to choose their own paths.

• Xiao Peng brutally beat Yun Shan until Xiao Yan killed him with a final strike.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Peng to rescue Yun Yun, and he found her at her residence.
• Xiao Peng told Yun Yun that Yun Shan was dead and had cooperated with Soul Hall, and Yun Yun broke down in his arms.
• Yun Yun announced that Yun Shan had betrayed the sect and declared the Misty Cloud Sect disbanded.

After the Misty Cloud Sect disbanded, Yun Yun accepted Nalan Yanran’s offer to stay with her, while Xiao Peng reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and heard how she had taken control of the Chuyun Empire’s poison master circles. Xiao Yi Xian gave him the herbs she had collected for him over the past few years.

• Xiao Peng asked Yun Yun what she would do next, and Nalan Yanran invited her to live with her; Yun Yun accepted and left with her.
• Yao Ye gathered the spoils of war as the other factions returned home, and Xiao Peng left with Xiao Yi Xian for the Mittel Family residence.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Peng that she had founded the Poison Sect, defeated rival poison master factions, and secretly taken control of the Chuyun Empire’s Imperial Family.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained how the Calamity Poison Body had let her survive the poison masters’ attacks and grow stronger, though she regretted failing to save more people harmed by poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Peng more than a dozen carefully labeled jade boxes of herbs she had collected for him.

Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Peng to teach her alchemy so she could spend more time with him, and their teasing turned into a kiss. Xiao Peng invited her to meet him every afternoon for lessons, beginning the next day.

• Xiao Peng offered to repay Xiao Yi Xian for gathering herbs, and she asked him to teach her alchemy.
• Xiao Yi Xian removed her veil and asked Xiao Peng what he thought of her, and he teased her about her looks and temper.
• Xiao Peng pulled Xiao Yi Xian into his arms and teased her until she shut her eyes, expecting a kiss.
• Xiao Peng kissed Xiao Yi Xian, and she pushed him away after imagining a future with him.
• Xiao Peng held Xiao Yi Xian and said he would teach her alchemy every afternoon, then asked if she would start the next day.

Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Peng that the Soul Hall had recruited her to attack the Jia Ma Empire, while Yao Ye reported that three neighboring empires had declared war. Xiao Peng reassured the Yao sisters and gave them pills to strengthen their cultivation as the conflict approached.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Peng that Iron Protector of the Soul Hall had promised a way to break her Calamity Poison Body if she occupied Jia Ma and captured Xiao Yan.
• Yao Ye told Xiao Peng that the Luoyan, Mulan, and Chuyun Empires had declared war on Jia Ma, and Xiao Peng said the Soul Hall was manipulating events through the Heavenly Poison Woman.
• Xiao Peng gave Yao Ye several bottles of medicine to help her advance from nine-star Da Dou Shi to Dou Wang.
• Yao Yue teased Yao Ye about Xiao Peng favoring her, and Xiao Peng gave Yao Yue a bottle of medicine before she threw herself into his arms.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Peng that he had founded the Flame Alliance and invited him to become its vice leader, but Xiao Peng declined and decided to return to the Magical Beast Mountain Range with Zi Yao and Zi Yan. They reunited with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, who warmly welcomed Zi Yao and met Zi Yan.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Peng about the Flame Alliance and offered him the position of vice leader, but Xiao Peng declined and urged Xiao Yan to take responsibility for the alliance.
• Xiao Yan planned to go to the border to face the coalition army of the Yan Empire, Mulan Empire, and Chu Yun Empire, while Xiao Peng decided to take Zi Yao and Zi Yan home.
• Xiao Peng told Zi Yao and Zi Yan they were leaving that day, and the two eagerly packed before he took them through Space Power to the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Zi Yao rushed ahead to reunite with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, who welcomed her and praised her progress.
• Zi Yao introduced Zi Yan as her older sister, and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King recognized Zi Yan's powerful bloodline and welcomed her.

Zi Yao and Zi Yan told the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King about their Magical Beast breeding farm and won him over with Flesh and Blood Essence. He agreed to build a branch farm in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Xiao Peng allowed them to stay until it was finished.

• Zi Yao told the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King that she and Zi Yan raised Magical Beasts for food near Jia Nan Academy.
• Zi Yao gave the Lion King Flesh and Blood Essence, and he was impressed by its rich, pure energy.
• Zi Yao proposed building a breeding farm in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and the Lion King began considering where to put it.
• Zi Yao gave the Lion King attribute-specialized essence, and he enthusiastically agreed to build the farm.
• Xiao Peng agreed to let Zi Yao and Zi Yan stay until the breeding farm was finished, and they headed to the Lion King's lair.

At Black Mountain Fortress, Xiao Yan proposed striking at the enemy commanders and faced Yan Luotian while Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast confronted the Three Elders of Mu Lan. The elders fused their Dou Qi and sent the flood dragon crashing into the fortress wall as the battle continued.

• Xiao Yan proposed a decapitation operation against the experts of Luoyan and Mulan and assigned himself to fight Yan Luotian.
• Xiao Yan asked Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast to hold off the Three Elders of Mu Lan.
• The Three Elders of Mu Lan arrived at Black Mountain Fortress and attacked, prompting Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and the flood dragon to surround them.
• The Three Elders used the Three Beast Savage Art to fuse their Dou Qi, and Hai Bodong identified the bear-headed elder as the formation’s core.
• Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong attacked the formation, but the lion-headed elder blocked Jia Xingtian’s strike while the tiger-headed elder knocked the flood dragon into the fortress wall.
• Xiao Yan fought Yan Luotian as the clash at the fortress continued.

Xiao Yan fought Yan Luotian above Black Mountain Fortress, first wounding him with three sealed Buddha's Rage Fire Lotuses and then destroying him with a Four-Colored Destruction Fire Lotus. After Yan Luotian vanished, Xiao Yan was left hovering in the sky with nearly all his Dou Qi exhausted.

• Yan Luotian attacked Xiao Yan with golden claws and feather volleys, but Xiao Yan defended himself with his flames and Black Heavy Ruler.
• Xiao Yan released three sealed Buddha's Rage Fire Lotuses, which broke Yan Luotian's wing and badly wounded him.
• Xiao Yan began forming a Four-Colored Destruction Fire Lotus from four Heavenly Flames, frightening Yan Luotian into fleeing.
• Xiao Yan completed and launched the fire lotus, then used a jade slip on the fleeing Yan Luotian.
• The fire lotus caught Yan Luotian and annihilated him, while Xiao Yan was left pale and nearly out of Dou Qi.

Xiao Peng arrived in time to save Xiao Yan and used the Qingping Sword to kill the Three Elders of Mu Lan before confronting Iron Protector of the Soul Hall. After Iron Protector unleashed an empowered skeletal phantom, Yao Ye prepared to intervene, but Jia Xingtian stopped her.

• Iron Protector ambushed Xiao Yan, but Xiao Peng arrived and knocked him back with the Qingping Sword.
• Xiao Peng controlled the Qingping Sword to kill the Three Elders of Mu Lan as they fought Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian.
• Iron Protector identified himself as a member of the Soul Hall and attacked Xiao Peng with a skeletal phantom and Bone-Eroding Poison Mist.
• Xiao Peng dispelled the poison mist and severed Iron Protector's wrist with the Qingping Sword.
• Iron Protector fed his blood essence to the skeletal phantom, enlarging it as Yao Ye tried to help and Jia Xingtian held her back.

Xiao Peng annihilated Iron Protector with his Ember Dust aura, then helped Yao Ye secure the surrender of the allied armies. Yao Ye ordered the surrendered troops detained and registered, while declaring that Chuyun’s war criminals would face Jia Ma law for their past massacres.

• Xiao Peng dissolved Iron Protector and his skeletal phantom into dust with Ember Dust aura.
• Xiao Peng handed the unconscious Xiao Yan to Hai Bodong, then went with Yao Ye to the allied army camp.
• Yao Ye displayed the Three Elders of Mu Lan’s heads and demanded the allied soldiers surrender; Xiao Peng’s Qingping Sword helped convince them to lay down their weapons.
• Yao Ye promised surrendered soldiers they would not be killed and ordered them disarmed and taken to Black Mountain Fortress for judgment.
• Yao Ye said ordinary Chuyun soldiers could be incorporated, but commanders involved in the border-city massacres would be punished under Jia Ma law.

Xiao Peng urged Yao Ye to imagine unifying the Dou Qi Continent and ending its endless wars, inspiring her to consider pursuing that goal. After returning to Black Mountain Fortress, the victors celebrated, while Xiao Peng and Xiao Yan anticipated stronger retaliation from Soul Hall.

• Xiao Peng told Yao Ye that unifying the continent could end wars and encouraged her to make Jia Ma the starting point.
• Yao Ye asked whether that future would come, and Xiao Peng reassured her before catching her when she nearly fell in midair.
• Xiao Peng and Yao Ye returned the three armies to Black Mountain Fortress and joined the celebration there.
• Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong toasted Xiao Peng, while Yao Ye praised him, Xiao Yan, and the soldiers who defended Jia Ma.
• Xiao Peng warned Xiao Yan that Soul Hall would send stronger opponents, and Xiao Yan said he trusted Xiao Peng to face them together.

After celebrating victory at Black Mountain Fortress, Yao Ye confessed her feelings to Xiao Peng, and they spent the night together. The next day, Xiao Peng and Yao Ye returned to the Imperial Capital with Xiao Yan, where Yao Ye introduced them to her father, the emperor.

• At the banquet, Xiao Peng, Xiao Yan, and Yao Ye drank Forget Worry Brew and celebrated the battle’s end.
• After the banquet, drunken Yao Ye told Xiao Peng she had fallen for him, and they spent the night together.
• The next morning, Yao Ye joined Xiao Peng for breakfast with Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan decided to return to the Imperial Capital to see his family.
• Xiao Peng used Space Power to take Yao Ye and Xiao Yan back to the Imperial Capital, where Yao Ye led them to meet her father.
• The emperor praised Xiao Peng for helping defend Jia Ma and remarked that Yao Ye was fortunate to have his assistance.

The Emperor rewarded Xiao Yan’s family and offered Princess Yao Ye’s hand to Xiao Peng, who agreed to marry her after his travels. The group visited the Xiao Family residence, where Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan and they shared a family dinner.

• The Emperor granted Xiao Zhan the title of King Zhen Bei and offered Yao Ye in marriage to Xiao Peng.
• Xiao Peng accepted the marriage but said he would wed Yao Ye after returning from his travels, and Yao Ye promised to wait for him.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Peng, and Yao Ye left the palace and traveled to the Xiao Family residence in the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Zhan, while Xiao Peng and Yao Ye greeted Xiao Zhan and the First Elder.
• Xiao Zhan hosted the group for a family dinner, and the First Elder toasted Xiao Peng for his contributions to the Xiao Family.

Yao Ye spent the day with Xiao Peng and Ya Fei, then shared the night with them. The next morning, she woke sore and found Ya Fei beside her.

• Yao Ye enjoyed lunch with Xiao Peng, Xiao Zhan, and Xiao Peng's family before following Xiao Peng to his quarters.
• Xiao Peng embraced Yao Ye and flirted with her until Ya Fei arrived.
• Ya Fei teased Xiao Peng, then told him that Yun Yun had left the Jia Ma Empire with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Peng invited Ya Fei to stay, and he kept both Ya Fei and Yao Ye close through the evening and night.
• Yao Ye woke the next morning aching, and Ya Fei asked how she felt.

Xiao Peng visited Medusa in the Tagor Desert to show her how much his strength had grown. After they fought outside her palace, he effortlessly countered her attacks and split her summoned snake-tail phantom with Sword Qi.

• Ya Fei teased Yao Ye about spending the night with Xiao Peng, and the two women left the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Zhan urged Xiao Yan to marry and have children, while Xiao Yan thought about finding Liu Fei and Yue Mei.
• Xiao Peng used Space Power to travel to the Tagor Desert and visited Medusa at her renovated palace.
• Xiao Peng and Medusa went outside to fight so she could assess his strength.
• Xiao Peng dispersed Medusa's purple scales and split her snake-tail phantom with a slash of Sword Qi.

Xiao Peng and Medusa sparred while the Snake-people watched and discussed their relationship. Back at the palace, Xiao Peng invited Medusa to join the Flame Alliance, and she asked what threat required the Jia Ma Empire’s powers to unite.

• Mo Bass wanted to interfere in Medusa and Xiao Peng’s spar, but Yue Mei and the others explained that Medusa was testing Xiao Peng and valued him as an equal.
• Mo Bass recalled Medusa’s hard-won rise to leadership and vowed to surpass Xiao Peng.
• Medusa accepted Xiao Peng’s handkerchief after their spar and left with him for her palace.
• Medusa told Xiao Peng that the tribe’s affairs were mostly settled, and he suggested she join the Flame Alliance.
• Medusa asked Xiao Peng what future enemy required the Jia Ma Empire’s top powers to unite.

Xiao Peng explained the Soul Hall and Soul Clan to Medusa, who decided the Snake-people Tribe should join the Flame Alliance. He refined Bloodline Ancestry Return pills for her, and the chapter ended as she endured the pill’s intense effects while Xiao Peng guided its power through her meridians.

• Xiao Peng told Medusa about the Soul Hall and Soul Clan, and Medusa decided the Snake-people Tribe needed to join the Flame Alliance.
• Medusa asked Xiao Peng to refine Bloodline Ancestry Return pills, and Xiao Peng kissed her before agreeing to help.
• Medusa brought Xiao Peng to a stone chamber, where she advised him on the herbs while he refined three pills.
• Medusa took one pill, and its power caused a painful surge through her bloodline and meridians.
• Xiao Peng sent mana into Medusa’s body to guide the violent medicinal power.