Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan read the story of his future, then told Old Man Yao about the cross-world treasure that let him communicate and trade with people from other worlds. Old Man Yao urged him to keep it secret and use it to obtain cultivation resources, and Xiao Yan ended the chapter holding a Top-grade Spirit Stone and asking whether its energy could be absorbed.

• Xiao Yan asked Lin Yu to let him read Battle Through the Heavens, downloaded it, and earned nine hundred Points by uploading pill formulas and a Cultivation Method.
• After reading about his future, Xiao Yan returned to the room, where Old Man Yao had finished refining seven bottles of Foundation Establishment Liquid.
• Xiao Yan told Old Man Yao about the divine artifact fragment that enabled cross-world communication and trading, and Old Man Yao warned him to keep it secret from everyone else.
• Old Man Yao advised Xiao Yan to use the treasure to trade for materials or pills instead of risking an auction that could attract attention.
• Xiao Yan spent five hundred Points on a Top-grade Spirit Stone, received it across worlds, and asked Old Man Yao whether he could absorb its energy.

Xiao Yan tested a top-grade Spirit Stone and learned that his low cultivation made it difficult to convert its energy into Dou Qi. Lin Yu then sent him Foundation Establishment Liquid in a spatial bottle, and Old Man Yao was stunned when opening it released a surge of spiritual energy.

• Old Man Yao examined the Spirit Stone, explained its protective runes, and warned Xiao Yan that he needed to become a Dou Zhe to absorb it normally.
• Su Haoming told Xiao Yan how to synchronize with the Spirit Stone’s Internal Circulation Matrix, but Xiao Yan absorbed its energy inefficiently and decided to refine Qi Gathering Powder.
• Lin Yu sent Xiao Yan a sample of Foundation Establishment Liquid for Old Man Yao to assess and gave him the white jade spatial bottle as tuition.
• Old Man Yao recognized the bottle as a high-grade spatial treasure and accepted it before opening the Foundation Establishment Liquid.
• A powerful surge of spiritual energy burst from the bottle, and Old Man Yao angrily demanded to know how Xiao Yan could call it Foundation Establishment Liquid.

Xiao Yan learned that Lin Yu had made wildly potent Foundation Establishment Liquid using ancient, exceptionally powerful ingredients, prompting Old Man Yao to trade pill formulas for Lin Yu’s resources. Xiao Yan discovered he could exchange Points for gold and set out to auction the liquid, while Lin Yu studied the formulas and considered visiting Battle Through the Heavens for ingredients.

• Old Man Yao questioned Xiao Yan about Lin Yu’s Foundation Establishment Liquid and learned it used ten-thousand-year-old Purple Leaf Orchid Grass, ancient Marrow Washing Grass, and a powerful Monster’s Demon Core.
• Lin Yu offered to trade Points and resources for pill formulas, and Old Man Yao agreed to trade low-rank formulas while warning that alchemy insights required a master’s personal instruction.
• Xiao Yan exchanged Old Man Yao’s formulas for spiritual herbs and other goods from Lin Yu, including a spacious Storage Ring.
• Su Haoming told Xiao Yan that Points could buy gold cheaply, so Xiao Yan exchanged ten tons of gold and planned to auction the Foundation Establishment Liquid and seek Cultivation Methods and Secret Techniques.
• Lin Yu received more than a hundred pill formulas, began studying them, and considered visiting the world of Battle Through the Heavens to find suitable ingredients.

Xiao Yan collected the auction proceeds and used Marrow Cleansing Liquid from Brother Lin to secure the Mittel Auction House’s help while he entered seclusion. After leaving, he reunited briefly with Xiao Zhan, then learned Old Man Yao considered the liquid a waste of exceptionally valuable materials.

• Ya Fei gave Xiao Yan a jade card holding the 285,000 gold coins earned from selling the Foundation Establishment Liquid, and Gu Ni delivered the herbs and Cultivation Methods he had bought.
• Xiao Yan asked the Mittel Auction House to reserve valuable herbs and Cultivation Methods for him during his seclusion, then left a bottle of Marrow Cleansing Liquid as a deposit.
• Gu Ni and Ya Fei were shocked when the liquid’s power was revealed, and Gu Ni promised the auction house would not sell it.
• Xiao Yan briefly spoke with his father, Xiao Zhan, outside the auction house, then left quickly when Ya Fei and Gu Ni showed the Xiao Clan unusual attention.
• Xiao Yan changed back into his young master’s appearance in a quiet alley, and Old Man Yao complained that Brother Lin had wasted materials capable of producing much higher-ranked pills.

Old Man Yao used Xiao Yan’s rare spiritual ingredients to refine an exceptional Qi Gathering Powder, while suppressing its power and containing its fragrance. Xiao Yan consumed the pill and advanced to the Seven-star Dou Practitioner Realm.

• Xiao Yan reached his hidden cave behind the Xiao Clan and gave Old Man Yao rare medicinal ingredients to refine Qi Gathering Powder.
• Old Man Yao replaced nearly every original ingredient with precious spiritual items and refined a pill whose power exceeded the Fifth Rank.
• Old Man Yao warned Xiao Yan about the pill’s dangerous energy and lingering fragrance, so Xiao Yan used a Shield Scroll and his Storage Ring to contain and absorb them.
• Old Man Yao gave Xiao Yan the pill, and Xiao Yan absorbed its energy as his Dou Qi Vortex formed and grew.
• Xiao Yan finished cultivating and announced that he had reached the Seven-star Dou Practitioner Realm.

After Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou Zhe stage, Old Man Yao let him choose the dangerous Blazing Art, which he began cultivating. Xiao Yan then used the Chat Group to obtain new resources and an otherworldly alchemy method, leaving Old Man Yao impressed but advising him to use it mainly as a reference.

• Old Man Yao explained that he had suppressed the pill’s effects to give Xiao Yan a solid foundation and urged him to choose a cultivation method and learn alchemy.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Old Man Yao to give him the Blazing Art, then cultivated it until his Dou Qi became pale yellow.
• Xiao Yan uploaded his acquired skills and treasures to the Chat Group for 11,800 Points and spent some of them on items from the Group Mall.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Yu for an alchemy furnace, but Lin Yu had none and instead sent him the Four Qi Life-Nurturing Treasure Refining Chapter.
• Old Man Yao studied the method and praised its principles for alchemy and artifact refining, then advised Xiao Yan not to cultivate it too deeply.

Xiao Yan obtained a Medicine Cauldron and a protective Jade Pendant from Lin Yu, then visited the Mittel Auction House to buy a cauldron and gather herb plants. Back at the Xiao Clan, he used the pendant to detect Ling Ying, the hidden Dou Emperor guard protecting Xun Er, and stunned her by claiming his Cultivation Method could sense powerful enemies.

• Lin Yu offered to forge Xiao Yan a stronger Medicine Cauldron, requested living spirit herb plants, and sent him a Jade Pendant that could conceal his aura and detect danger.
• Xiao Yan went to the Mittel Auction House, where Ya Fei and Gu Ni provided the requested supplies and helped him obtain a Flame Essence alchemy cauldron and medicinal plants for Lin Yu.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan and met Xun Er, who questioned him about his recent activities and whether he had learned a Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yan suppressed his cultivation to One-star Dou Practitioner and told Xun Er that he had just broken through, but the Jade Pendant warned him that someone was watching nearby.
• Xiao Yan led Xun Er inside and revealed that he could sense the hidden watcher, while Xun Er realized the person was Ling Ying, her Eight-star Dou Emperor guard.

Xiao Yan traveled to Lin Yu’s world and met Lin Yu and Su Haoming at the Reincarnation Pavilion, where he learned that Lin Yu had created the world and connected portals to other group members’ worlds. The chapter left Xiao Yan awestruck by the power and scale of Lin Yu’s Dojo as they headed elsewhere to talk.

• Xun Er signaled Ling Ying to leave, and Xiao Yan decided he needed a Cross-border Invitation Letter after sensing the Jade Pendant’s warning.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the Chat Group Red Packet could not send his Medicine Cauldrons, so Lin Yu invited him to travel to his world instead.
• Xiao Yan accepted Lin Yu’s invitation and vanished from the cave, leaving Old Man Yao behind in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Reincarnation Pavilion and met Lin Yu and Su Haoming, who explained that the hall’s silver doorways connected multiple worlds.
• Lin Yu told Xiao Yan that the Dojo was a world he had created, and Su Haoming explained that the powerful Golden Armored Divine Generals were servant puppets used for display.

Lin Yu brought Xiao Yan to the Reincarnation Pavilion and Myriad Treasures Pavilion, where Xiao Yan discovered that Old Man Yao had been left behind when the Chat Group portal rejected him. Lin Yu reassured him and took him to an artifact-refining chamber filled with unfamiliar high-energy furnaces.

• Lin Yu introduced Xiao Yan to Ling Hua, the Reincarnation Pavilion's artifact spirit and the Chat Group's first digital life-form, before they boarded the Cloud-Mist Boat.
• Xiao Yan realized his ring was missing and worried that Old Man Yao had been left behind; Lin Yu explained that the portal only admitted group members and that Old Man Yao should be waiting in the cave where Xiao Yan accepted the invitation.
• Lin Yu teleported the group to the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, where Xiao Yan handed over 927 living medicinal plants in 68 varieties for Lin Yu's herb garden.
• Lin Yu led Xiao Yan and Su Haoming through the treasure hall to an artifact-refining area, where Xiao Yan saw a Particle Furnace and electric plasma used for refining artifacts.

Lin Yu forged Xiao Yan a powerful Nine Dragon Cauldron using the Eternal Flame, while Su Haoming revealed that the person secretly watching Xiao Yan was Xun Er’s guard, Ling Ying. Xiao Yan accepted the new cauldron and prepared to return, leaving his Blazing Flame Medicine Cauldron with Lin Yu for research.

• Xiao Yan examined the magical flames in Lin Yu’s realm and learned that even the Eternal Flame was far beyond his ability to devour.
• Su Haoming told Xiao Yan that the hidden observer was Ling Ying, Xun Er’s elderly guard and an Eight-star Dou Emperor, leaving Xiao Yan worried about his earlier claims of sensing him.
• Lin Yu used the Eternal Flame, Magic Steel Ingots, and Uru Metal to forge a size-changing Nine Dragon Cauldron with flame-amplifying, ingredient-preserving, and pill-sealing abilities.
• Lin Yu explained that the cauldron’s Rootless Fire was a lesser child flame derived from the Eternal Flame and gave the Nine Dragon Cauldron to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan thanked Lin Yu, offered him the Blazing Flame Medicine Cauldron for research, and said he would return to attend to Old Man Yao.

After returning from another world, Xiao Yan received the Nine Dragon Cauldron and began learning alchemy from Old Man Yao. Over the next half month he advanced in cultivation and alchemy, helped the Xiao Clan crush the Jia Lie Family’s business, and ended the chapter refining medicine in his cave.

• Xiao Yan explained that only artifact-fragment holders could cross worlds and learned that time flowed differently between worlds, then showed Old Man Yao the Nine Dragon Cauldron and its Rootless Fire.
• Old Man Yao revealed his Black Demon Cauldron, and he and Xiao Yan agreed that the Nine Dragon Cauldron was even more valuable before Old Man Yao began teaching Xiao Yan alchemy.
• Xiao Yan spent more than half a month cultivating to become an Eight-star Dou Practitioner and refining supreme-quality Blood Coagulation Powder as a First-grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan partnered with the Xiao Clan to sell Blood Coagulation Powder, drawing customers away from the Jia Lie Family and helping the Xiao Clan’s marketplace flourish.
• Xiao Yan used his alter ego to cut off the Jia Lie Family’s ingredient supply, then raided their shipment with Old Man Yao and wounded a Jia Lie Family elder, worsening the family’s financial crisis until it sold its marketplaces.
• Xiao Yan left the commercial struggle to the Xiao Clan and focused on cultivation and alchemy, nearing the threshold of a Second-grade Alchemist while refining Blood Coagulation Powder.

Xiao Yan finished producing Blood Coagulation Powder and watched Li Shimin’s Northern Expedition through the group’s live broadcast. At Chencang, Hao Zhao refused to surrender, and Li Shimin prepared to bombard the city with Italian howitzers.

• Xiao Yan completed another batch of two thousand bottles of Blood Coagulation Powder, and Old Man Yao praised his ninety-five-percent success rate.
• Xiao Yan opened the group chat and watched Su Haoming’s live broadcast from Li Shimin’s army at Chencang.
• Li Shimin brought Hundred-ton Kings to Chencang and sent Jin Xiang to urge Hao Zhao to surrender, but Hao Zhao refused.
• Li Shimin ordered the Italian 1935-type Howitzers brought forward and gave Hao Zhao one final chance to surrender or see Chencang razed.

Li Shimin’s Shu army used artillery and power armor to capture Chencang in minutes, while Zhuge Liang’s forces prepared to ambush Zhang He. In Wutan City, Xiao Yan told Xun Er he would train in the Monster Mountain Range before honoring his agreement to defeat Nalan Yanran.

• Li Shimin ordered the Shu artillery to destroy sections of Chencang’s wall, killing Hao Zhao and scattering the defenders.
• Zhao Yun led the armored Vanguard Squad through the breaches, and Shu troops entered the city as the Hundred-ton King formed a staircase to the wall.
• Yun Ye reported that Zhuge Liang had learned of Zhang He’s thirty-thousand-strong force through aerial reconnaissance and planned to ambush it before advancing toward Luoyang.
• Xiao Yan left the Chat Group and brought his Blood Coagulation Powder out of the cave after the commercial war in Wutan City ended.
• Xiao Yan told Xun Er he would train in the Monster Mountain Range before climbing Misty Cloud Sect and defeating Nalan Yanran, and he resolved to deal differently with Yun Leng and the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan promised Xun Er he would return safely, then revealed his alchemist identity and plans to leave for the Monster Mountain Range to Xiao Zhan. He left his father with Marrow Cleansing Liquid and three sets of Power Armor to strengthen the Xiao Clan before his journey.

• Xun Er ordered Ling Ying to protect Xiao Yan, but Ling Ying suspected that several powerful experts already watched over him.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan he was an alchemist and admitted he had secretly supplied the Xiao Clan with Blood Coagulation Powder.
• Xiao Yan explained that he planned to train in the Monster Mountain Range and prepare the Xiao Clan for powerful enemies tied to his teacher.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Zhan genuine Marrow Cleansing Liquid, claiming his teacher's friend had refined an entire pool of it.
• Xiao Yan presented three sets of Power Armor, and Xiao Zhan tested one before Xiao Yan reassured him that stronger models remained available.

Xiao Yan prepared to leave for the Monster Mountain Range after Jia Nan Academy's recruitment, while concealing his rapidly advancing cultivation. At the academy's admission interview, Xun Er revealed that she was a sixteen-year-old Six-star Dou Practitioner.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan he would leave in ten days, revealed his Eight-star Dou Practitioner cultivation, and reassured his father that he could manage Jia Nan Academy's admission.
• Xiao Yan trained for nine days, reached Nine-star Dou Practitioner, and stopped short of breaking through to Dou Shi at Old Man Yao's advice.
• Jia Nan Academy's recruitment team arrived in Wutan City, and Xiao Yu led Xiao Yan, Xun Er, and the other Xiao Clan youths to Instructor Ruo Lin's testing area.
• Instructor Ruo Lin explained the academy's potential rankings and began interviewing candidates; the Xiao Clan youths tested before Xiao Yan and Xun Er.
• Xun Er went first and announced that she was sixteen and a Six-star Dou Practitioner.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er registered for Jia Nan Academy, where Xiao Yan won a year’s leave by surviving twenty exchanges with Instructor Ruo Lin. Elsewhere, Su Haoming tested Lin Yu’s Nine-patterned Azure Spirit Pill, broke through to the ninth layer of Qi Nourishment, and learned how powerful his cultivation had become.

• Xun Er revealed that she was a Six-star Dou Practitioner, and Xiao Yan disclosed that he had reached Seven-star Dou Practitioner.
• Instructor Ruo Lin registered Xiao Yan and Xun Er for Jia Nan Academy and agreed to grant Xiao Yan a year’s leave if he endured twenty exchanges with her.
• Xiao Yan relied on Old Man Yao to withstand Ruo Lin’s attacks and secured his leave so he could prepare for training in the Monster Mountain Range.
• Su Haoming told Lin Yu that one Nine-patterned Azure Spirit Pill had advanced him from the eighth to the ninth layer of Qi Nourishment, though its violent energy had nearly damaged his dantian.
• Lin Yu explained that Su Haoming’s ninth-layer cultivation gave him combat power comparable to a Dou Emperor and that Foundation Establishment could let him face a high-star Dou Zong.

Lin Yu compared Su Haoming’s cultivation with the power levels in Battle Through the Heavens, then decided to seek out Dou Qi after admitting he had no leads for the Nascent Soul Chapter. Meanwhile, the Han armies advanced toward Luoyang, and Xiao Yan completed a grueling training period in the Monster Mountain Range, reaching two-star Dou Shi.

• Lin Yu told Su Haoming that Golden Elixir cultivators could rival peak Dou Venerates or Half-Saints in destructive power and were exceptionally hard to kill, but he had made no progress on the Nascent Soul Chapter.
• Su Haoming returned to the Three Kingdoms World, while Lin Yu decided to visit the Dou Po World to study its power system.
• Zhuge Liang routed Sima Yi’s hundred-thousand-strong relief army, and Li Shimin captured Chang'an before advancing toward Luoyang with Zhuge Liang’s forces.
• Xiao Yan obtained Purple Cloud Wings and a fragmentary map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then defeated Mu Li and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group in Qingshan Town.
• After entering the Monster Mountain Range, Xiao Yan trained under Old Man Yao, broke through to Dou Shi, and surged to two-star Dou Shi.

After reaching Six-star Dou Master, Xiao Yan agreed to help Lin Yu study Spirit Flames by obtaining the Amethyst Winged Lion King's Purple Flame. Two days later, he stole the beast's Amethyst Crystal and fled in protective armor as the enraged king pursued him.

• Xiao Yan reflected that his Yellow-tier low-grade Flame Mantra needed to evolve, but obtaining the Purple Flame early meant confronting the Sixth-order Amethyst Winged Lion King and potentially missing Yun Yun.
• Lin Yu told the Chat Group that new members would now arrive every one hundred and eighty days, and the members suspected the change was tied to the group's size.
• Xiao Yan asked Lin Yu about his research into Spirit Flames, and Lin Yu urged him to obtain the Amethyst Winged Lion King's Purple Flame for further study.
• Xiao Yan agreed to try despite the danger, and Lin Yu told him to call the group for help if he could not handle the beast.
• Two days later, Xiao Yan fled through the Monster Mountain Range after stealing the Amethyst Crystal, while the Amethyst Winged Lion King attacked him with Purple Flame.
• Xiao Yan's black armor deflected the fire, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King sent a sweeping wave of flames after him.

Xiao Yan stole the Purple Spirit Stone and the Amethyst Crystal Source from the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s lair, then fled as the enraged beast pursued him. Yun Yun intervened to save him, but when she asked for the Purple Spirit Stone as payment, Lin Yu appeared and confronted her.

• Xiao Yan took the Purple Spirit Stone and the Amethyst Crystal Source while the Amethyst Winged Lion King fought three Fifth-order Demonic Beasts, then escaped with the cub in pursuit.
• Xiao Yan fled the Amethyst Winged Lion King and asked Old Man Yao to help, but Old Man Yao refused to intervene unless Xiao Yan faced a true life-or-death crisis.
• Xiao Yan sent the Amethyst Crystal Source to Lin Yu in a red packet, and the Jade Pendant revealed Yun Yun’s presence nearby.
• Xiao Yan threatened to return the Purple Spirit Stone unless Yun Yun stopped watching, so she descended and blocked the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s attack.
• Yun Yun agreed to help Xiao Yan in exchange for the Purple Spirit Stone, and Lin Yu appeared behind him, warning her not to target one of his people.

Lin Yu arrived to check on Xiao Yan and effortlessly defeated the Amethyst Winged Lion King after it attacked them. He captured the wounded beast in the White Marsh Myriad Spirits Diagram and left it as a tiny creature in his arms.

• Lin Yu told Xiao Yan that the Chat Group had sent him to check on Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan realized Lin Yu had spent a thousand Points on a Realm-Breaking Talisman.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King attacked the group, but Lin Yu dispelled its violet flames and tore off its wings with spatial power.
• Lin Yu formed an enormous energy palm, endured the beast's Amethyst Seal, and struck it down while keeping it alive.
• Lin Yu used the White Marsh Myriad Spirits Diagram to capture the Amethyst Winged Lion King and reduce it to a kitten-sized beast.
• Xiao Yan reached to pet the little beast, which tried to bite his fingers before Lin Yu stopped it.