Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yao intervened when Nalan Yanran broke off her engagement with Xiao Yan, defeating her and earning Xiao Yan’s gratitude. After Yao Chen rejected him as an alchemy disciple, Xiao Yao resolved to pursue power on his own, and the Heaven-Defying Fate System activated.

• Xiao Yan established a Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yao stepped in to confront her.
• Xiao Yao defeated Nalan Yanran with one punch and promised to support Xiao Yan, who thanked him.
• Xiao Yao followed Xiao Yan to the back mountain and asked Yao Chen to accept him as an alchemy disciple.
• Yao Chen judged Xiao Yao unsuited to alchemy and gave him a Marrow Cleansing Pill instead.
• Xiao Yao decided to seek power and Heavenly Flames on his own, triggering the Heaven-Defying Fate System.

Xiao Yao activated the Heaven-Defying Fate System and gained an Innate Dao Body by consuming a powerful pill. The Yin-Yang Creation Ring drew his consciousness into Tushita Palace, where he met Taishang Laojun and learned the ring and pill came from Laojun.

• Xiao Yao's system activated after he altered the engagement plot point, and he received a beginner's gift pack containing a Yin-Yang Creation Ring and a Primordial Creation Pill.
• The pill's energy shook the Dou Qi Continent, prompting Hun Tiandi, Gu Yuan, and other powerful figures to investigate the phenomenon.
• Xiao Yao swallowed the pill and endured its violent energy as it remade his body, while a voice from the ring calmed the energy.
• The system announced that Xiao Yao had gained an Innate Dao Body with supreme comprehension, and his consciousness entered the ring.
• Xiao Yao found himself in Tushita Palace, recognized Taishang Laojun, and bowed to him.
• Taishang Laojun explained that the ring came from his Purple Gold Red Gourd and that the pill was a Nine Revolutions Immortal Pill containing a trace of the Great Dao.

Xiao Yao earned Taishang Laojun's acceptance as a disciple and received teachings and treasures from both Laojun and Patriarch Bodhi. He returned to the Xiao Family with a new immortal cultivation system and power far beyond his former level, determined to change the Dou Qi Continent.

• Xiao Yao told Taishang Laojun that he sought eternal life and control over his own destiny, and Laojun accepted him into the Taishang lineage.
• Patriarch Bodhi arrived, recognized Xiao Yao's resemblance to his former disciple, and taught him the Great Grade Heavenly Immortal Art and Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.
• Taishang Laojun gave Xiao Yao the Ming Xin Jian Xing Jue, the true interpretation of the Dao De Jing, an Eight Trigrams Furnace, the Dan Dao Origin Book, and a seed of Samadhi True Fire.
• Taishang Laojun upgraded Xiao Yao's system into the Daoist Immortal System and revealed that Blue Star's Heavenly Dao had sent him to become the ruler of this world.
• Xiao Yao awoke in his Xiao Family bedroom with an Innate Dao Body and immortal mana, then discovered that he could fly without Dou Qi wings.
• Xiao Yao realized his perfected Refining Essence into Qi realm was equivalent to a Dou Zong and vowed to change the world.

After awakening an Innate Dao Body and gaining immortal mana, Xiao Yao flew to the Monster Mountain Range to cultivate and examine the treasures bestowed by Taishang Laojun. When he tried to claim the Eight Trigrams Furnace, an ancient consciousness inside it confronted him about his inheritance and the furnace’s origins.

• Xiao Yao discovered that his dou qi had become immortal mana and demonstrated that he could fly using his soul power.
• Xiao Yao flew to the Monster Mountain Range and carved a concealed cave dwelling into a cliff.
• Xiao Yao assessed his cultivation and used the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to transform into a mosquito.
• Xiao Yao summoned the Three Supreme Treasures and began trying to claim the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• The furnace’s ancient consciousness awakened, recognized traces of the Daoist Sect and its Ancestral Master in Xiao Yao, and demanded to know who he was.

Xiao Yao awakened the Eight Trigrams Furnace’s spirit, Grandpa Lu, who judged the Dou Qi Continent’s alchemy crude and offered to guide him. Grandpa Lu planned to teach Xiao Yao to refine a Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill, and Xiao Yao set out to hunt powerful Magical Beasts for its ingredients.

• Xiao Yao introduced himself as a disciple of Supreme Master, and Grandpa Lu recognized his inheritance and praised his cultivation and Innate Dao Body.
• Grandpa Lu condemned the pills Xiao Yao showed him, including Old Man Yao’s Marrow Cleansing Pill, and explained his view of true alchemy.
• Grandpa Lu directed Xiao Yao to the Heaven Mending Immortal Pill formula in the Chaos Jade Slip, then proposed a weakened Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill using local ingredients.
• Grandpa Lu told Xiao Yao to gather heart’s blood and beast flames from adult Dou Wang-class Magical Beasts, along with aged Spirit Grass, and warned him not to use the Samadhi True Fire before its spirit recognized him.
• Xiao Yao shattered the cave entrance, sensed powerful Magical Beasts across the Monster Mountain Range, and charged into the jungle to hunt them.

After breaking through, Xiao Yao hunted for ingredients to refine the Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill and demonstrated the strength of his new body and techniques. With two herbs obtained, he headed toward the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to claim its Purple Crystal Source, the final catalyst he needed.

• Xiao Yao followed Grandpa Lu’s guidance to a ravine and killed the Silver Moon Wolf King with three moves of Eight Extremes Fist, then took its Magic Core and Silver Leaf Heart-Protecting Grass.
• Xiao Yao found human remains in the Earth King Bears’ cave and killed both bears with Immortal Technique · Sky-Burning Martial Display.
• Xiao Yao entered the cave and took the Spirit-Descending Immortal Grass.
• Grandpa Lu told Xiao Yao that he needed a catalyst rich in origin energy and identified the Purple Crystal Source of the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King as the final ingredient.
• Xiao Yao flew toward the volcanic region in the eastern Monster Mountain Range to confront the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.

Xiao Yao defeated the weakened Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, took Purple Crystal Source, and sealed her and her newborn cub inside the cave. Three days later, he finished refining a pill with Grandpa Lu’s guidance, but the pill’s emergence triggered a massive Pill Lightning in the sky.

• Xiao Yao arrived at the volcano and found the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King injured after giving birth, with her newborn cub inside the cave.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King burned her origin blood essence and attacked Xiao Yao, but he froze her purple fireballs with space power and crushed her with a golden mana hand.
• Xiao Yao took more than half of the Purple Crystal Source, sealed the cave, and left the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King alive with her cub.
• Three days later, Xiao Yao used the Eight Trigrams Furnace, Golden Mana, and Grandpa Lu’s guidance to refine the prepared ingredients into a pill.
• The pill’s energy burst through the cave and formed a seven-colored pillar of light, drawing black storm clouds and lightning over the Monster Mountain Range.

Xiao Yao refined a Seventh Grade Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill, then used its Pill Lightning to temper his body and master the Wind Fire Two Tribulations technique. He survived the tribulation, destroyed the thunderclouds, and ended the chapter considering the power he had gained.

• Xiao Yao refined a Seventh Grade Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill, while Grandpa Lu explained that his help had raised the ingredients' medicinal properties and cautioned Xiao Yao about his limited alchemy skills.
• Grandpa Lu told Xiao Yao that the Pill Lightning could become a fortune, and Xiao Yao charged into it to temper his body with the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts.
• Xiao Yao used the Daoist Immortal System's thousand merit points to unlock Wind Fire Two Tribulations and practiced the movement technique while absorbing the lightning.
• Xiao Yao gathered his newfound strength into a punch that shattered the thunderclouds and ended the Pill Lightning tribulation.
• Xiao Yao stored the nearly perfect low-grade Seventh Grade pill and descended, charred but strengthened, thinking about the Pill Lightning and Merit Mall.

Xiao Yao realized that the Dou Qi Continent’s declining spiritual energy was behind Pill Lightning and concluded that restoring the world would earn Heavenly Dao Merit. He resolved to gather Heavenly Flames, then headed for Wutan City with a seventh-grade pill intended for Xiao Xun’er.

• Xiao Yao learned from Grandpa Lu that the world’s incomplete laws and dwindling energy caused Pill Lightning to suppress powerful pills.
• Xiao Yao decided that gathering Heavenly Flames and ascending to the Great Thousand World could help restore the world and earn merit.
• Grandpa Lu told Xiao Yao that his Samadhi True Fire could subdue Heavenly Flames and that absorbing them would prepare him for the Calamity of Yin Fire.
• Xiao Yao decided to offer his Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill to Xiao Xun’er as an investment in the Ancient Clan.
• Xiao Yao set off for Wutan City after determining the direction of the Xiao Family.

Xiao Yao returned to the Xiao Family and confronted Xun'er about her identity as the Ancient Clan's Young Lady. Above Wutan City, Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to move against the Xiao Family and seize its Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Xiao Yan remained unaware of the danger.

• Xiao Yao returned to the Xiao Family, where the clansmen celebrated his strength and Xiao Mei tried unsuccessfully to get close to him.
• Xiao Yao recalled the powerful auras he had sensed near Wutan City and wondered whether Hun Tiandi had come searching for a treasure.
• Hun Tiandi and Hun Miesheng confirmed that Gu Yuan had found no treasure, then Hun Tiandi ordered Soul Clan operatives in the Jia Ma Empire to destroy the Xiao Family and take its Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Yan gathered medicinal ingredients with Old Man Yao, unaware that the Soul Clan's threat hung over the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yao visited Xun'er and addressed her as the Ancient Clan's Young Lady, Gu Xun'er.

Xiao Yao revealed himself as the inheritor of the Ancient Xiao Clan and said he had come to make a major deal with the Ancient Clan. Gu Yuan arrived in Wutan City, and Xiao Yao confronted him over how he had failed to care for the Xiao Family’s descendants.

• Xiao Yao identified Ling Ying as Xun'er’s guard, then knocked the Eight-Star Dou Emperor flying with a casual slap.
• Xun'er activated her protective jade token and demanded to know Xiao Yao’s identity and purpose.
• Xiao Yao claimed to be the inheritor of the Ancient Xiao Family and said he would wait for an Ancient Clan authority to hear his proposed deal.
• Gu Yuan and an elderly companion appeared, and Xun'er recognized Gu Yuan as her father.
• Gu Yuan praised Xiao Yao and recalled his friendship with Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Yao sarcastically challenged him over neglecting the Xiao Family’s descendants.

Xiao Yao used Grandpa Lu’s Emperor Realm soul pressure to make Gu Yuan take him seriously, then traded a Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill for the Ancient Clan’s Imperial Seal Art and ten Eighth-Grade Medicinal Herbs. Gu Yuan left with Xun’er to awaken her Divine Bloodline, while Xiao Yao stayed behind with his new spoils.

• Xiao Yao dismissed Gu Yuan’s neglect of the Xiao Family and learned from Grandpa Lu that his Emperor Realm soul and Samadhi True Fire could protect him.
• Gu Dao attacked Xiao Yao with Dou Saint pressure, but Grandpa Lu’s soul pressure overwhelmed him and shocked Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Yao presented the Human-Supplementing Immortal Pill and offered it to awaken Xun’er’s Divine Bloodline in exchange for the Imperial Seal Art and ten Eighth-Grade Medicinal Herbs.
• Gu Yuan accepted the deal and handed Xiao Yao an ancient jade recording the Imperial Seal Art and a storage ring of herbs.
• Gu Yuan left with Xun’er and Gu Dao after Xun’er sent Xiao Yan a brief message, while Xiao Yao remained in the courtyard with the ancient jade.

Xiao Yao mastered the first four Imperial Seal Art techniques and created a prototype of the Carefree Seal before destroying the Gale and Ouba Families. He left the Xiao Family with resources and protection, then headed toward the Monster Mountain Range to find Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yao mastered the first four seals of the Imperial Seal Art in one night and began developing the Carefree Seal.
• After three days of seclusion, Xiao Yao destroyed the Gale Family with the Mountain Splitting Seal and the Ouba Family with the Sea Turning Seal.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Zhan and the elders that his master had dealt with the rival families, then gave the Xiao Family pills, cultivation methods, techniques, and a Life Devouring Pill.
• Xiao Yao refused the position of young clan leader and left Wutan City to train under a Dou Emperor expert.
• Xiao Yao set out for the Monster Mountain Range to retrieve the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment and find Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yao learned how the stages of immortal cultivation and their calamities compared with the Dou Qi realm, then resolved to follow his heart and protect those he cared about. He arrived in Qingshan Town and saw Xiao Yi Xian for the first time.

• Xiao Yao witnessed Xiao Yan return to the seventh stage of Dou Qi, only to find that his clansmen were absorbed in Xiao Yao’s gifts and that Xun’er had left for the Ancient Clan.
• Grandpa Lu explained the four cultivation realms and their calamities, including how refining Heavenly Flames could help Xiao Yao resist the Yin Fire calamity while increasing his desire.
• Grandpa Lu urged Xiao Yao to follow his heart and pursue freedom, prompting Xiao Yao to resolve to free those he loved from fate’s constraints.
• Xiao Yao reached Qingshan Town and entered the Myriad Medicine House with his aura concealed.
• Xiao Yao saw Xiao Yi Xian tending a mercenary’s wound behind the counter.

Xiao Yao approached Xiao Yi Xian at the Myriad Medicine Studio and revealed his immense strength to convince her to explore a hidden valley with him. She accepted his fifty-fifty treasure-hunting offer, flustered when he openly admitted he wanted to court her, and he stayed to help her sort herbs.

• Xiao Yao pretended to be ill so Xiao Yi Xian would examine him, then told her about a mysterious cave beneath a cliff in the Monster Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yi Xian grew eager at the mention of the cave but warned Xiao Yao that returning there would be dangerous.
• Xiao Yao revealed his Nine-Star Dou Grandmaster strength, shocking Xiao Yi Xian and the people in the medicine shop.
• Xiao Yao invited Xiao Yi Xian to explore the cave with him and offered to split all discoveries equally; she agreed.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether Xiao Yao was being generous because he wanted to court her, and he openly said he admired her and wanted a chance to pursue her.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she needed to finish treating patients and prepare, while Xiao Yao offered to wait and began sorting herbs at the shop.

Xiao Yao impressed Xiao Yi Xian with his medicinal knowledge and promised to help her become an alchemist. He carried her toward a cave in the Monster Mountain Range, effortlessly killing the Magic Beasts that attacked them along the way.

• Xiao Yao diagnosed patients and prepared treatments at Myriad Medicine House, astonishing Xiao Yi Xian with his knowledge of medicinal principles.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Yi Xian he was an alchemist and offered to help her achieve her dream, and she believed him when he claimed to be third rank.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Yi Xian left Myriad Medicine House and set off for the inner region of the Monster Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yao carried Xiao Yi Xian at high speed and killed several Ice Crystal Snakes and a He Yuan with ease.
• Xiao Yi Xian blushed and urged Xiao Yao to hurry toward the cave.

Xiao Yao and Xiao Yi Xian explored a hidden cave in the Monster Mountain Range and found its treasure chamber. Xiao Yao took a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, while Xiao Yi Xian gathered rare herbs and opened the treasure chests.

• Xiao Yao and Xiao Yi Xian descended a cliff and entered a vine-hidden cave, where Xiao Yao killed the attacking Rock Snakes.
• Xiao Yao took Xiao Yi Xian's hand as they traveled through the dark passage, then smashed through the stone door blocking their way.
• Xiao Yi Xian found rare medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yao offered to split the chamber's treasures with her and directed her to the locked chests.
• Xiao Yao bowed to the dried skeleton, took a weathered scroll from its bones, and recognized it as a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map.

Xiao Yao found the first fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map and improved Eagle Wings, while Xiao Yi Xian learned the truth about her Calamity Poison Body. He reassured her and sealed her poison craving, then sensed someone approaching the cave entrance.

• Xiao Yao stored the map fragment and considered how to locate the remaining pieces and earn merit for the Lesser Heavenly Secret Technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian opened the treasure chests, chose the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and medicinal herbs, and gave Xiao Yao the Eagle Wings scroll.
• Xiao Yao quickly mastered Eagle Wings and enhanced it to rival an ordinary mid-tier Earth-tier Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian read the poison scripture, discovered her Calamity Poison Body, and feared she would endanger Xiao Yao and others.
• Xiao Yao comforted Xiao Yi Xian, explained her physique, and used golden magical power to seal her craving for poison.
• Xiao Yao sensed someone near the cave entrance and reacted with alarm.

Xiao Yao revealed his Dou Zong power to save Xiao Yi Xian from Mu She’s ambush, then took her to a secluded valley and explained how he planned to cure her Calamity Poison Body. The chapter ended with Xiao Yi Xian offering herself to him, but Xiao Yao refusing until her body was strong enough.

• Mu She, Boss Yao, two High-Rank Da Dou Shi, and their mercenaries confronted Xiao Yao and Xiao Yi Xian in the treasure chamber.
• Xiao Yao revealed his Dou Zong aura and annihilated the attackers with spatial power.
• Xiao Yao carried Xiao Yi Xian away, confessed he was a Dou Zong and Grade Seven Alchemist, and received her kiss.
• Xiao Yao brought Xiao Yi Xian to a valley and described his plan to use the Netherworld Poison Flame and a Xuanmen Clear Spirit Pill to transform her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian approached Xiao Yao in his tent and asked him to take her, but he held back because her body was still too weak.

Xiao Yao attacked the Poison Sect and declared that he would give the Chu Yun Empire to Xiao Yi Xian as her cultivation foundation. After defeating the Poison Sect’s elders, he faced Xie Bi Yan and a Soul Hall protector, who called for a joint attack.

• Xiao Yi Xian resolved to face her Calamity Poison Body by cultivating in the Chu Yun Empire, and Xiao Yao promised to give her the empire.
• Xiao Yao shattered the Poison Sect’s defenses and killed two Dou Emperor elders with his Golden Flame spear.
• Xiao Yao purified the Poison Sect Master’s deadly poison and severely wounded her with Eight Extremes Fist.
• Xie Bi Yan arrived from the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, and Xiao Yao sensed Soul Hall’s presence and demanded that its hidden protector appear.
• Iron Protector revealed himself, threatened to extract Xiao Yao’s soul, and ordered Xie Bi Yan to attack alongside him.