Chapter Summaries

Xiao Han returned to the Douqi Continent at One-Star Dou Zong and prepared to refine pills, while Yun Shan’s Misty Cloud Sect expanded under Shan Han’s control. The chapter ended with Yun Shan kneeling before Shan Han, who had secretly enslaved the sect through Soul Seeds.

• Xiao Han returned to Jia Nan Academy with several unconscious girls and realized the magic power he had absorbed had raised his cultivation to One-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Han planned to absorb the Sea Heart Flame and remembered he had promised to refine pills for the academy, so he went to fulfill that duty.
• Yun Yun told Yun Shan that the Misty Cloud Sect’s disciples were advancing unusually quickly and that the sect had doubled in size, while she worried about its conflicts with the Jia Ma Empire’s powers.
• Yun Shan reassured Yun Yun that the sect’s expansion and its casualties were necessary, then sent her away after she accepted his rebuke.
• Shan Han appeared before Yun Shan, and Yun Shan knelt to pay respects to his master, revealing his continued submission to the Soul Hall Protector.

Shan Han sent Yun Shan to search Misty Cloud Sect records for the Xiao Family while he used him to probe the Gu Clan. Xiao Han returned to Wutan City, reunited with Cai Lin, and found the city transformed by the Xiao Family’s prosperity before encountering Princess Yao Yue at the Alchemist Guild.

• Shan Han asked Yun Shan to search the sect’s records for information about the Xiao Family and planned to use him to test the Gu Clan’s response.
• Xiao Han’s alchemy work led the Inner Courtyard to mistakenly believe he was exhausted, and he received gifts and well-wishes from its students and elders.
• Xiao Han returned to the Xiao Family compound, reunited with Cai Lin, and took her to their old residence in Wutan City.
• Xiao Han saw that the Xiao Family’s pill business and dealings with the Alchemist Guild had made Wutan City wealthy and dramatically changed.
• Xiao Han visited the Wutan City branch of the Alchemist Guild and recognized Princess Yao Yue.

Xiao Han returned to the Wutan City Alchemist Guild and helped Master Audi perfect an unfinished pill formula. He then confronted Princess Yao Yue about failing to reach Dou Zhe within a year, leaving her desperate to keep him from rejecting her as a master.

• Xiao Han saw that Yao Yue had recently advanced to Dou Zhe and realized she had lost their year-long bet.
• Xiao Han entered the guild disguised as a Second Grade Alchemist and met Master Audi, who reproached him for being away.
• Xiao Han revised Audi's unfinished Fourth Grade pill formula, astonishing Audi and earning his confidence.
• Xiao Han asked Audi about Yao Yue, then had him send her into the office.
• Yao Yue called Xiao Han her master, but he reminded her he had never accepted her as an apprentice and asked whether she had reached Dou Zhe within a year.

Xiao Han refused to take Yao Yue as his disciple after she failed to advance enough in a year, but gave her alchemy knowledge. In Wutan City, he found Xiao Yi Xian treating a gravely wounded mercenary and offered to help when she could not save him.

• Xiao Han told Yao Yue that she had missed her chance to become his disciple, then gave her a jade piece containing alchemy information as a gift.
• Xiao Han explained that Yao Yue's talent was modest compared with geniuses elsewhere and left her holding the jade piece.
• Xiao Han disguised himself and explored Wutan City's bustling market, where he heard about a physician at Green Mountain Clinic.
• Xiao Han recognized the clinic as Xiao Yi Xian's and teleported inside, where she was struggling to treat a mercenary nearly torn in half by a Tier 3 magical beast.
• Xiao Han asked Xiao Yi Xian if she wanted him to try saving the patient.

Xiao Han healed one of Xiao Yi Xian’s patients and gave her the Bodhi Transformation Saliva and proof that he possessed three Heavenly Flames, lifting her hopes of curing her Disaster Poison Body. After deepening his control over her and taking her first kiss, he left the clinic and set his sights on Qinglin.

• Xiao Han healed Xiao Yi Xian’s dying patient, then used Mental Control to make the witnesses remember that he had used a Wood Attribute Dou Technique.
• Xiao Han showed Xiao Yi Xian the Bodhi Transformation Saliva, one of the ingredients required for the Poison Pill Method, and she embraced him in gratitude.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried that finding three different Heavenly Flames was impossible, so Xiao Han revealed three flames: a blue Demonic Flame, the Green Lotus Core Flame, and the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Han strengthened the Enslavement Technique on Xiao Yi Xian, took her first kiss, and left the clinic.
• Xiao Han turned his attention toward the Xiao Family compound and Qinglin.

Xiao Han sensed a Soul Hall presence surveying the Xiao Family and suspected the Misty Cloud Sect was involved. Shan Han ordered Yun Shan to lead an attack on the Xiao Family in one day, while he planned to hunt its clansmen from the shadows.

• Xiao Han detected a concealed Soul Hall presence near Wutan City and realized it had surveyed the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Han suspected Yun Shan's advancement to Dou Zong was connected to the Soul Hall's new activity and warned the Misty Cloud Sect not to provoke him.
• Yun Shan told Shan Han he had found an outsider Xiao family matching the clues Shan Han had given him.
• Shan Han rebuked Yun Shan for underestimating the Xiao Family and claimed it had three Dou Wangs, one Dou Emperor, and one Dou Ancestor.
• Shan Han ordered Yun Shan to bring the Misty Cloud Sect's forces to the Xiao Family in one day, fight its Dou Ancestor, and use a Jade Bottle that would heal him and temporarily raise his cultivation by two stars.

The Misty Cloud Sect mobilized to attack the Xiao Family in Wutan City, while Xiao Han prepared to defend the family despite the girls who could help him being asleep. He set up a spatial formation to transport Wutan City into another world, leaving the Misty Cloud Sect to face Cai Lin and the Xiao Family’s guardians.

• Families across Jia Ma Holy City watched the Misty Cloud Sect’s massive force depart, and Yun Shan told Yun Yun that the Xiao Family was their enemy.
• Yun Yun worried about Nalan Yanran’s past Marriage Contract with Xiao Yan, while Nalan Yanran excitedly joined the expedition.
• Xiao Han found Xiao Jiana and the other girls still unconscious, then returned to Wutan City to warn Xiao Zhan and Cai Lin about the approaching threat.
• Xiao Han explained that he could not rely on Xiao Jiana and might also face a Dou Zun sent by the Soul Hall, then assigned Cai Lin and the guardians to hold off the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Han began preparing a vast Magic Array that would pull Wutan City into another world when the attack began.

Xiao Han and the Xiao Family’s allies confronted Yun Shan and the Yunlan Sect as they advanced toward Wutan City, and the battle began. Nearby, Shan Han tortured a Sixth-Grade Alchemist while preparing to carry out a secret mission against the Xiao Family.

• Xiao Han showed the approaching Yunlan Sect on a projection and gave Cai Lin and the other fighters Child Flames from his Demonic Flame.
• Yun Shan led Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the Yunlan Sect forces toward Wutan City, where Xiao Han and his allies blocked their path.
• Cai Lin challenged Yun Shan, and the two clashed after Yun Shan claimed the Yunlan Sect had come to punish the Xiao Family for treason.
• Xiao Han’s four protectors attacked the Yunlan Sect’s fighters as Cai Lin and Yun Shan fought, beginning the battle.
• Shan Han watched from nearby while torturing a Sixth-Grade Alchemist, revealing plans to recover the Tou She Ancient God Jade and drain the Xiao Family’s blood.

Xiao Han lured Shan Han away after Shan Han captured Gu He and tried to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade. In the Mirror World, Xiao Han overwhelmed and sealed Shan Han, leaving Wutan City protected from the Soul Hall emissary.

• Shan Han extracted Gu He's soul, sealed it in a Storage Ring, and headed to Wutan City to carry out his mission.
• Xiao Han pulled Wutan City into the Mirror World and confronted Shan Han, pretending to be a rival Soul Hall member competing for the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Shan Han warned Xiao Han that Gu Clan spies might discover them, but Xiao Han then dragged him into the Mirror World.
• Xiao Han used the Mirror World's shifting mountains and sealed space to wear Shan Han down while Shan Han fought back with Soul Chains and black-mist attacks.
• Xiao Han seized Shan Han's Soul Chain Python with Spirit Realm Soul Power and sent it through a Space Gate, severing it and injuring Shan Han.
• After Shan Han surrendered, Xiao Han used more than a hundred mountains and a Space Cage to seal him with his Pseudo—Earth Explosion Star technique.

Xiao Han defeated Yun Shan and exposed the Misty Cloud Sect’s real mission: to seize a treasure and wipe out the Xiao Family. Yun Shan died suddenly after revealing the orders, leaving Yun Yun to ask Xiao Han how he would deal with the sect.

• Xiao Han sealed Shan Han beneath a hundred mountains and left him trapped in the Mirror World.
• Cai Lin battled Yun Shan while the Xiao Family Protectors held off the Misty Cloud Sect’s formation.
• Xiao Han appeared in Demon Armor, crippled Yun Shan with Spatial Power, and broke the Misty Cloud Sect’s formation.
• Xiao Han enslaved Yun Shan and learned that a Soul Hall Protector had ordered him to seize something and kill everyone in the Xiao Family.
• Yun Shan exploded into Blood Mist and died, prompting Yun Yun to ask Xiao Han what he would do with the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Han defeated the Misty Cloud Sect and appeared to slaughter its members, sparing only Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran before sealing them in the Mirror World. He revealed that he had used an illusion and enslaved the sect’s forces, then hinted that he planned to establish a major faction.

• Xiao Han asked Cai Lin what she would do to captured enemies and appeared to kill the Misty Cloud Sect’s elders and fighters with Spatial Power.
• Xiao Han spared Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, knocked them unconscious, and sealed them inside the Mirror World.
• Cai Lin learned that Xiao Han had only used an illusion to make Yun Yun believe the sect’s members had been killed.
• Xiao Han revealed that he had enslaved the Misty Cloud Sect’s forces rather than slaughtering them, intending to put them to work.
• Cai Lin inferred that Xiao Han planned to establish a major faction with the sect’s forces.

After the Misty Cloud Sect threat was dealt with, Xiao Han decided to relocate the Xiao Family and use Yun Yun’s memories to impersonate the sect’s leaders and plunder its treasury. He revealed that the takeover would fund a new settlement for Cai Lin’s Serpent-Human Clan, after which they would leave the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Han reassured Xiao Zhan that the Xiao Family could escape future threats by relocating, and Xiao Zhan began calling the clan members back from their businesses.
• Xiao Han read Yun Yun’s memories, discovered she had intended to exterminate the Xiao Family, and learned the location of the Misty Cloud Sect’s hidden treasury.
• Xiao Han used a secret technique to transform Cai Lin into Yun Yun and explained that her memories would help her impersonate the sect leader.
• Xiao Han transformed himself into Yun Shan and told Cai Lin to prepare to return to Jia Ma Holy City with the enslaved people and plunder the Misty Cloud Sect’s treasury.
• Xiao Han told Cai Lin that the spoils would help her Serpent-Human Clan relocate and that they would leave the Jia Ma Empire afterward.

Xiao Han enslaved the Misty Cloud Sect’s core members, ordered them to sell the sect’s properties, and looted its hidden treasure vault. In the Mirror World, he revealed his identity as the Dou Zun expert to the captive Yun Yun and asked what had made her go quiet.

• Xiao Han turned the Misty Cloud Sect’s core members into servants and returned with Cai Lin, disguised as Yun Yun, to the sect.
• Xiao Han ordered Yun Leng and the elders to sell the sect’s properties across the Jia Ma Empire, then tasked Cai Lin with managing the proceeds.
• Xiao Han opened the Misty Cloud Sect’s secret vault and took its treasures, including valuable techniques and cultivation resources.
• Xiao Han moved Shan Han to another space in the Mirror World and brought Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran out of captivity.
• Xiao Han revealed his identity as the Dou Zun expert to the immobilized Yun Yun, who asked what he wanted from her.

Xiao Han teased Cai Lin after they left the Mirror World and reassured her that he had not been intimate with Yun Yun. He told Cai Lin he had found a potential new home for the Snake-People Tribe in the Black Corner Region and planned to use the Misty Cloud Sect's resources to help rebuild it.

• Xiao Han and Cai Lin discussed the Misty Cloud Sect's resource consolidation, which Cai Lin estimated would take about a week to complete.
• Cai Lin asked whether Xiao Han had enjoyed himself with Yun Yun, and Xiao Han picked her up and assured her that nothing had happened between them.
• Xiao Han teased Cai Lin by blowing into her ear, and she angrily started to leave.
• Xiao Han told Cai Lin that he had found a possible settlement for the Snake-People Tribe in the Black Corner Region, with forests and a vast mountain range.
• Xiao Han explained that the resources gathered from the Misty Cloud Sect would help rebuild the Snake-People Tribe, and Cai Lin embraced him.

Xiao Jiana revealed that she had acquired the dangerous Zygella Flower, whose pollen could trap people in Zett's illusions, but Xiao Han's Demon Armor protected him. Xiao Han took her to the Black Corner Region and ordered her to spread the pollen and control the region, then searched for a reward she would accept.

• Xiao Han returned to Wutan City, where Xiao Jiana nearly crushed him with her killing intent before apologizing.
• Xiao Han realized Xiao Jiana had changed during her long sleep, and she produced a Zygella Flower from her body.
• Xiao Han inhaled the flower's pollen, but his Demon Armor devoured it and kept him safe from Zett's hallucinatory world.
• Xiao Han learned Xiao Jiana could control the flower's pollen and took her to the Black Corner Region to spread it and make the region their base.
• Xiao Jiana demanded a proper reward, and Xiao Han reached into the void and produced two figurines.

Xiao Han brought Zi Yan to the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, where she reunited with her father, Zhu Kun. After thanking Xiao Han, Zhu Kun offered to remove a hidden restriction from the Essence Blood he had given him.

• Xiao Jiana recognized the shrunken Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, learned they were captives from the attack on the Xiao Family, and put them in a pocket dimension.
• Xiao Han learned that Aisite, Xiao Cai, and Zi Yan had gained new abilities after their slumber, then sent Aisite and Xiao Cai to assist Xiao Jiana.
• Xiao Han took Zi Yan through a spatial portal to the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode, where she and Zhu Kun recognized each other as father and daughter and tearfully reunited.
• Zhu Kun thanked Xiao Han for bringing him and Zi Yan together, then warned that the Essence Blood he had given Xiao Han carried a restriction.
• Xiao Han produced the drop of Essence Blood so Zhu Kun could remove the restriction if Xiao Han had already used it.

Xiao Han gave Zi Yan Zhu Kun’s Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and left her to refine it with her father. In the Lava Sea, he used another drop of Zhu Kun’s Essence Blood to earn the Lizardmen’s trust and shared cultivation methods and Dou Techniques with their chiefs, leaving as a friend of their tribe.

• Xiao Han gave Zi Yan the first drop of Zhu Kun’s Essence Blood, and Zhu Kun offered Xiao Han a second drop as a gift.
• Xiao Han left Zi Yan a Spatial Jade Slip and exited the Ancient Emperor Space into the Lava Sea.
• Xiao Han showed the Lizardman chiefs Zhu Kun’s Essence Blood, and they stopped their army from attacking him.
• Xiao Han gave the chiefs jade slips containing Fire Attribute cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, which they recognized as a great benefit to their tribe.
• The older Lizardman chief named Xiao Han a friend of the tribe, and Xiao Han departed after asking the Lizardmen not to attack him in the future.

Xiao Han fused the Sea Heart Flame, grew stronger, and began taking control of the Black Corner Region. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan traveled toward Central Plains in disguise, carrying the Green Lotus Core Flame and trying to avoid the romantic attention of two twin Young Misses.

• Xiao Han absorbed the Sea Heart Flame, advanced to Four-Star Dou Zong, and strengthened his Demonic Flame by fusing it with his other Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Han returned to the Black Corner Region, where Xiao Jiana reported that the Zygella Flower pollen had made its inhabitants addicts; Xiao Han sent Aisite away with the unconscious Xiao Cai.
• Xiao Han and Xiao Jiana traveled through the Black Corner Region as Xiao Han enslaved its remaining sects to clear the way for his planned settlement there.
• Xiao Yan, disguised as the seventh-tier alchemist Yan Xiao, boarded a Space Shuttle from Tianya City toward Central Plains after gaining the Green Lotus Core Flame and leaving the Jia Ma Empire.
• Old Man Yao teased Xiao Yan about rejecting the affections of two beautiful twin Young Misses, while Xiao Yan insisted he needed to focus on cultivation.

Xiao Han finished enslaving the Black Corner Region’s leaders, left Xiao Jiana to guard the region, and returned with Cai Lin to the Snake-People. When Xiao Han and Cai Lin were interrupted just as they were about to become intimate, they discovered that someone had entered the Queen’s palace.

• Xiao Han enslaved the last leader in the Black Corner Region and asked Xiao Jiana to guard the region while he traveled to Central Province.
• Xiao Han met Cai Lin at the Misty Cloud Sect, where she said Yun Leng and the others could manage affairs in their absence.
• Xiao Han changed Cai Lin back to her shorter form and carried her through a spatial portal to the Snake-People’s Queen’s palace.
• Xiao Han restored Cai Lin’s regal appearance and carried her onto the Queen’s bed, but a sudden scream behind them interrupted them.

After Hua Sher'er caught Xiao Han and Cai Lin together, she reported their relationship to the elders and escorted Xiao Han to meet them. Xiao Han openly admitted he was involved with Medusa, leaving the elders unsure how to respond.

• Hua Sher'er walked in on Xiao Han and Cai Lin, then fled the palace and reported what she had seen to the elders.
• Cai Lin panicked that the elders would learn of their relationship, while Xiao Han left her palace after she rejected his advances.
• Hua Sher'er escorted Xiao Han through the Snake-People's city to the Elders' Pavilion, explaining that she hoped Cai Lin would find someone she loved.
• Xiao Han entered the elders' bamboo house and calmly withstood their show of power.
• The Great Elder confronted Xiao Han about his relationship with Medusa, and Xiao Han openly confirmed it, leaving the elders speechless.