Chapter Summaries

Xiao Long found Yun Yun unconscious and sealed after the Purple Gold Winged Lion King defeated her, and he arranged to have her brought into a cave and her seal removed. He sent the others away, leaving Qing Lin curious about what he intended to do.

• Xiao Long patted Qing Lin on the head after she showed her strength.
• A fourth-tier magical snake arrived carrying the unconscious Yun Yun, whom the Purple Gold Winged Lion King had defeated.
• Xiao Long ordered the snake to take Yun Yun into the cave, and the Purple Gold Winged Lion King made it obey.
• Xiao Long released his aura to scatter the gathered magical beasts.
• Xiao Long ordered the Purple Gold Winged Lion King to undo Yun Yun's seal, and her Dou Qi began circulating again.
• Xiao Long told everyone to leave, but Qing Lin stayed and asked what he planned to do.

After Xiao Long saved Yun Yun, she woke and discovered her clothes had been changed. Believing he had ruined her innocence, she tried to kill him, but he stopped her sword effortlessly.

• Xiao Long teased Qing Lin by pretending he would eat her, and she fled in fright.
• Yun Yun woke, found that her clothes had been changed, and cautiously left the cave.
• Yun Yun decided to kill Xiao Long to protect her reputation and drew her sword behind him.
• Xiao Long noticed Yun Yun's attempt but kept watching the scenery, confident she could not harm him.
• Yun Yun lunged at Xiao Long, who turned and caught the sword tip between two fingers.
• Yun Yun accused Xiao Long of ruining her innocence and pressed harder against his grip.

Xiao Long argued with Yun Yun after she accused him of ruining her chastity, then chased after her when she called him cold and carried her to the stone bed. Yun Yun clung tightly to him in an attempt to stop him, leaving them in a suggestive embrace.

• Xiao Long snapped the tip off Yun Yun's sword and insisted he had only changed her clothes and had not touched her.
• Yun Yun retrieved her belongings from the cave and muttered that Xiao Long was a man who turned cold after getting what he wanted.
• Angered by Yun Yun's accusation, Xiao Long chased after her, lifted her into his arms, and said he would prove otherwise.
• Xiao Long placed Yun Yun gently on the stone bed, but she wrapped her arms and legs around him to keep him from doing anything.

Xiao Long teased Yun Yun while she clung to him, then offered not to take her purity if she was still a virgin. Yun Yun admitted she was and asked him to stop touching her, leaving him promising to keep his word.

• Xiao Long taunted Yun Yun and teased her body while she held on to him.
• Yun Yun begged Xiao Long to let her go, but he said his body disagreed with her request.
• Xiao Long asked whether Yun Yun was a virgin and said he would spare her purity if she was.
• Yun Yun said she was still a virgin, explaining that no man had met her standards.
• Xiao Long agreed not to take her purity, and Yun Yun warned him not to touch her; he promised to keep his word.

Xiao Long teased Yun Yun and made her massage him before secretly leaving her some benefits. He then visited the Xiao Family, discovered Xiao Yan had already left again, and departed after giving the family techniques, pills, and two Demonic Puppets for protection.

• Xiao Long tricked Yun Yun into releasing him, then fell on top of her and warned her not to struggle.
• Xiao Long had Yun Yun massage his legs and shoulders, then kept her occupied until the next day.
• Xiao Long secretly left benefits for Yun Yun before parting from her.
• Xiao Long traveled with Qing Lin to Wuketan City and learned from Xiao Zhan that Xiao Yan had returned briefly and left again.
• Xiao Long gave the Xiao Family cultivation techniques, Dou Skills, medicinal pills, and two Demonic Puppets before leaving.

Xiao Long returned to the Jia Ma Empire capital as Hai Bodong emerged from seclusion and confronted Ya Fei over her relationship with a man. The chapter ended with Xiao Long arriving and Hai Bodong immediately backing down.

• Xiao Long left after helping the Xiao Family and returned to the Imperial Capital to pursue his goal of earning Exchange Points.
• Hai Bodong emerged from seclusion with seven-star Dou Emperor strength and hoped to recover his former nine-star cultivation.
• Hai Bodong questioned Ya Fei about rumors that she was living with a man, and Ya Fei calmly said she and Xiao Long were already husband and wife.
• Ya Fei told Hai Bodong that Xiao Long had claimed to be a Dou Zun, but Hai Bodong became furious and refused to believe her.
• Xiao Long arrived and challenged Hai Bodong for threatening his woman, and Hai Bodong immediately backed down.

Xiao Long took Ya Fei and Qing Lin to explore the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Capital, while Hai Bodong arranged for workers to build pavilions. Qing Lin and the Purple Gold Winged Lion King spent lavishly, attracting the attention of mercenary groups.

• Xiao Long ordered Hai Bodong to find skilled construction workers to build pavilions, and Hai Bodong obeyed.
• Xiao Long took Ya Fei and Qing Lin out to see the Imperial Capital, and Qing Lin eagerly rode on his shoulders.
• The Purple Gold Winged Lion King followed them into the city to see the human world.
• Qing Lin bought unusual goods with her wealth, and unscrupulous merchants overcharged her.
• The Purple Gold Winged Lion King also spent freely, and mercenary groups began targeting the pair.

Xiao Long and Ya Fei went shopping together, but Mu Zhan confronted them with nearly a hundred Mu Family soldiers. Mu Zhan demanded that Xiao Long release Ya Fei, having concluded that Xiao Long was not connected to any major power in the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Long took Ya Fei out to shop while Qing Lin and the Purple Gold Winged Lion King stayed behind.
• Ya Fei said the Imperial Capital had nothing worth buying and asked Xiao Long for a gift.
• Mu Family soldiers surrounded Xiao Long and Ya Fei in the street.
• Mu Zhan appeared and ordered Xiao Long to let Ya Fei go, threatening to spare his life if he complied.
• Mu Zhan revealed that he had investigated Xiao Long and found no connection to the Jia Ma Empire's major powers.

Mu Zhan tried to take Ya Fei away from Xiao Long, believing his men could defeat Xiao Long and that Ya Fei might return to him. Xiao Long and Ya Fei played along with Mu Zhan’s hopes, then openly mocked him, leaving him stunned by Ya Fei’s change of heart.

• Mu Zhan gathered more than a dozen Da Dou Shi and a Dou Ling and confronted Xiao Long and Ya Fei in the Imperial Capital’s market district.
• Xiao Long asked Ya Fei whether she wanted to leave with Mu Zhan, and she tearfully claimed she was no longer worthy of him.
• Mu Zhan reached for Ya Fei, but Xiao Long pulled her back before he could touch her.
• Xiao Long teased Ya Fei about returning home with him, and she answered coquettishly.
• Mu Zhan was left bewildered when Ya Fei’s response contradicted her earlier words.

Xiao Long publicly humiliated Ya Fei and Mu Zhan before killing Mu Zhan after he ordered his soldiers to attack. The soldiers were defeated, and Xiao Long left Ya Fei’s reputation in the Imperial Capital ruined.

• Ya Fei told Mu Zhan she belonged to Xiao Long, but Mu Zhan refused to believe her and begged her to return to him.
• Xiao Long touched Ya Fei in front of the onlookers, embarrassing her and enraging Mu Zhan.
• Mu Zhan ordered his hundred soldiers to kill Xiao Long and seize Ya Fei.
• Xiao Long’s Dou Qi sent the soldiers flying, and he appeared beside Mu Zhan.
• Xiao Long snapped Mu Zhan’s neck for insulting Ya Fei.

After Mu Zhan’s death sparked chaos, Xiao Long left with Ya Fei and began building a sect headquarters in the Monster Forest. He finished the grounds and prepared pavilions to store cultivation methods, Dou Skills, and alchemical formulas.

• Xiao Long took Ya Fei away from the uproar after Mu Zhan’s death caused a commotion over the empire’s laws against murder.
• Three days later, Hai Bodong recruited famous architects and a thousand workers, and Xiao Long led them to the Monster Forest to build his headquarters.
• Xiao Long marked out a circular plot and brought out his collection of cultivation methods, Dou Skills, and alchemical formulas, keeping his rarest Heaven-grade items and Ninth-grade Pill Recipes in reserve.
• After half a month, the workers completed the grounds, but Xiao Long disliked the marketplace-like pavilion they had built for storage.
• Xiao Long exchanged points for the Linglong Tower to house cultivation methods and Dou Skills, and the Doushuai Palace to store alchemical formulas and later sell pills.

Xiao Long recruited Heavenly Flame Venerate and his Dou Zun-level helpers to try to raise his estate into the air after the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe's Second Elder disappeared with Zi Yan. Meanwhile, Xiao Xun’er returned to the Ancient Realm and found an unfamiliar middle-aged man in her former home.

• Xiao Long failed several times to lift his estate and realized Heavenly Flame Venerate’s spatial power might help.
• Xiao Long found Heavenly Flame Venerate in the Black Corner Region and learned that the Second Elder had returned to the Ancient Void Dragon Tribe with Zi Yan.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate found the task difficult, so Xiao Long called on Saint Tian Yi and his Dou Zun-level Demonic Puppets to assist.
• Xiao Long planned to deal with Gu Xiang and Saint Gu You before opening his sect, to strengthen its defenses.
• Xiao Xun’er returned to the Ancient Realm and entered the Lavender Garden, where she found a mature middle-aged man sitting inside.

Xiao Xun'er revealed her divine-grade bloodline and Six-star Dou Venerate strength to her father, Gu Yuan, then told him about Xiao Long and the Flame Mantra. Gu Yuan became intensely interested in the Flame Mantra’s potential to help him reach the Dou Di realm.

• Xiao Xun'er activated a bloodline disk and revealed that her bloodline had reached divine grade.
• Gu Yuan questioned Xiao Xun'er about her strength and relationship with Xiao Long, and she agreed to explain.
• Gu Yuan said he was open to Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Long being together because of Xiao Long's exceptional talent.
• Xiao Xun'er told Gu Yuan about Xiao Long's deeds, his Heavenly Flames, and his plans for the Pill Tower's Three Thousand Burning Flames.
• Gu Yuan asked whether the Flame Mantra was truly miraculous after hearing that it might offer a path beyond the Dou Saint realm.

Gu Yuan learned that the Flame Mantra could lead its cultivator to Dou Di and decided he wanted it for himself. The chapter ended with him calculating how to seize Heavenly Flames from Xiao Long and the other clans to strengthen his path to the breakthrough.

• Gu Yuan recalled how Xiao Xuan’s failed attempt at becoming a Dou Di had convinced him that he needed another path to reach the realm.
• Xiao Xun’er told Gu Yuan that she and Xiao Long had cultivated the Flame Mantra and used Heavenly Flames to raise their strength.
• Gu Yuan asked Xiao Xun’er to show him the Flame Mantra, revealing that he wanted to cultivate it himself.
• Gu Yuan considered using the Ancient Clan’s Heavenly Flames, including the sealed Nihility Devouring Flame, to grow stronger and pursue the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Gu Yuan calculated that Xiao Long, the Yan Clan, and the Yao Clan possessed additional Heavenly Flames he could potentially claim.

Gu Yuan deceived Xiao Xun'er into revealing Flame Mantra, claiming he only wanted to study it and would not compete with her. After she handed it over, he demanded the Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame fused with her, and she warned that taking it would cripple her.

• Xiao Xun'er hesitated to give Gu Yuan Flame Mantra because she had promised Xiao Long not to pass it on.
• Gu Yuan promised to study the technique without competing with her and agreed to let her reunite with Xiao Long.
• Xiao Xun'er wrote down Flame Mantra and gave it to Gu Yuan.
• After examining the technique, Gu Yuan demanded the Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame within Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Xun'er warned that the Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame had fused with her and removing it would leave her gravely injured and crippled.

Gu Yuan took the Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame and the Fallen Heart Flame from Xiao Xun'er, leaving her gravely injured and held in the Lavender Garden while he prepared to cultivate the Flame Mantra and pursue the Dou Di realm. Meanwhile, Xiao Long's Nine Heavens Heavenly Court was lifted into the clouds, where he began strengthening it and laid an illusion array.

• Gu Yuan declared that the Golden Emperor Heavenly Flame belonged to him and took it, along with the Fallen Heart Flame, from Xiao Xun'er despite her plea to spare Xiao Long.
• Gu Yuan left Xiao Xun'er in the Lavender Garden under Ling Ying's guard and promised she could regain her power after he became a Dou Di.
• Gu Yuan decided to use Xiao Xun'er to make Xiao Long surrender his Heavenly Flames, then returned home to cultivate the Flame Mantra.
• After five days of work from Heavenly Flame Venerate, Xiao Long's Nine Heavens Heavenly Court headquarters was installed in a vast white cloud.
• Xiao Long continued reinforcing the Heavenly Court and set up an illusion array in the clouds around it.

Xiao Long finished preparing the Heavenly Court and planned to announce its establishment, while Ya Fei questioned how anyone could reach the lofty headquarters. He took her to the edge of the Heavenly Court to show her the starry illusion and projectors concealing its defenses.

• Xiao Long, Gu Xiang, and Saint Gu You completed the refinement of the remaining Corpse Puppets as Ya Fei and the others organized the Heavenly Court’s Cultivation Techniques and Dou Skills.
• Xiao Long finished arranging the Linglong Tower, its auction platform, and its attendants, then declared that the Heavenly Court was ready to open for business.
• Ya Fei asked Xiao Long how customers could reach a headquarters too high for even Dou Zongs to reach, and Xiao Long teased her before comforting her when she began to cry.
• Xiao Long led Ya Fei to the Heavenly Court’s edge and showed her the starry-sky illusion created by the illusory array and projectors.

Xiao Long created a Space Wormhole linking the Heavenly Court to the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Capital so visitors could reach his hidden domain. After the wormhole appeared above the capital, the Jia Ma Imperial Family, Misty Cloud Sect, and three great families gathered to investigate.

• Xiao Long opened a Space Wormhole between the Heavenly Court and the Imperial Capital while explaining its purpose to Ya Fei.
• Xiao Long told Ya Fei to have the maids prepare to receive guests, and she left to give the order.
• The wormhole appeared above the Imperial Capital and alarmed its people, drawing the Jia Ma Imperial Family, Misty Cloud Sect, and three great families.
• The imperial family sent Empress Yao Ye, while the Misty Cloud Sect sent First Elder Yun Ling to investigate the wormhole.
• Yun Ling asked Yao Ye what she planned to do, while lecherously eyeing her.

Mite'er Tengshan revealed that the Space Wormhole led to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court, then praised its power and provoked Yun Ling and Mu Chen. After Yao Ye objected to his remarks, Tengshan prepared to leave.

• The Misty Cloud Sect and Jia Ma Imperial Family worried that the Space Wormhole might lead to a powerful faction, and Mite'er Tengshan announced that it led to the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court.
• Mite'er Tengshan described the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court as a powerful source of cultivation techniques, skills, and medicinal pills.
• Yun Ling challenged Tengshan's claims and threatened him, while Mu Chen sided with Yun Ling to antagonize the Mittel Family.
• Mite'er Tengshan declared that the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court offered a path to the Dou Zong, Dou Zun, and Dou Saint realms, then prepared to leave.
• Yao Ye expressed displeasure and asked Tengshan whether the Jia Ma Imperial Family had provoked him.

Mite'er Tengshan's boast that the Jia Ma Empire was insignificant drew several powerful figures to confront him. Hai Bodong backed him up and declared that the Mittel Family would rise as a vassal of the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court.

• Jia Xingtian challenged Mite'er Tengshan after hearing his contemptuous remarks about the Jia Ma Empire.
• Fama, Yun Yun, Gu He, and Nalan Yanran arrived, intensifying the standoff around Mite'er Tengshan.
• Hai Bodong appeared to support Mite'er Tengshan, shocking Jia Xingtian, Fama, Nalan Can, and the others with his return.
• Hai Bodong boasted that he would surpass the other experts and reach realms they could never attain.
• Mite'er Tengshan announced that the Mittel Family served the Nine Heavens Heavenly Court and would become a major force in the Jia Ma Empire and Northwest Region.