Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chuan secured the Jia Ma Empire’s marriage alliance, arranged for the Xiao Clan to move to Jia Ma Holy City, and prepared to travel to the Black-Corner Region to find medicine for Hai Bo Dong. After his strength and alchemy advanced, he visited his fiancée Yao Ye and began their wedding night.

• Xiao Chuan told Jia Xingtian he would refine the Hunyuan Bone-Shaping Pill after the Jia Ma Empire agreed to a marriage alliance with one of its princesses.
• Xiao Chuan told Hai Bo Dong he planned to visit the Black-Corner Region to find medicinal ingredients that could restore his strength, and promised to leave after the Xiao Clan arrived.
• More than a month later, the Xiao Clan moved to Jia Ma Holy City, while Xiao Chuan advanced to Six-Star Dou Huang cultivation and Tier 7 alchemy.
• Xiao Chuan visited the palace, where Jia Xingtian and Queen Medusa were astonished by his increased cultivation.
• Xiao Chuan met Yao Ye, his fiancée, and carried her away to spend their wedding night.

After spending the night with Yao Ye, Xiao Chuan left the Mittel Family in Hai Bo Dong’s care and headed toward the Black-Corner Region. He stopped at the Misty Cloud Sect, where he claimed the title of Nalan Yanran’s grandmaster and unsettled her by embracing Yun Yun.

• Xiao Chuan spent the night with Yao Ye, then hid beneath the blankets when Xiao Yao Yue came to visit her.
• Xiao Chuan entrusted his family and the Mittel Family to Hai Bo Dong before setting out for the Black-Corner Region with the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Chuan stopped at the Misty Cloud Sect while Yun Yun was teaching Nalan Yanran and sent Nalan Yanran away.
• Xiao Chuan called himself Nalan Yanran’s grandmaster and told her that Xiao Yan had recovered his cultivation and reached six-star Dou Practitioner.
• Xiao Chuan embraced Yun Yun in front of Nalan Yanran and said he still needed to get intimate with her teacher.

Xiao Chuan left the Jia Ma Empire for the Black-Corner Region, intending to defeat Han Feng and eventually join Jia Nan Academy. On the way, he met Mentor Ruo Lin and her students, offered them pills, and asked her to admit his younger brother Xiao Yan despite his absence from the assessment.

• Xiao Chuan stopped Yun Yun from following Nalan Yanran and told her he was leaving for the Black-Corner Region to pursue his ambitions.
• Xiao Chuan promised the Amethyst Winged Lion King a Humanoid Transformation Pill and a Heavenly Demon Phoenix wife, winning its loyalty as they flew across the Black-Domain Great Plain.
• Xiao Chuan encountered Mentor Ruo Lin and Jia Nan Academy's students traveling to the Jia Ma Empire to recruit students.
• Xiao Chuan told Ruo Lin that his cousin Xiao Yu studied at Jia Nan Academy and asked her to admit his younger brother Xiao Yan, who was away gaining experience.
• Xiao Chuan gave Ruo Lin and the students medicinal pills, including a Three-Striped Green Spirit Pill, and said he intended to become an elder and mentor at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Chuan offered to help Ruo Lin break through to Dou Spirit and departed, leaving her to consider his motives.

Xiao Chuan arrived in Heiyin City and used his strength and claimed Tier 7 alchemist status to attract the attention of Su Mei and the Black-Corner Region. He settled in Su Mei’s mansion and began accepting requests for pills, while preparing to prove his alchemy skills.

• Xiao Chuan and the Amethyst Winged Lion King reached Heiyin City, where his Dou Emperor aura drew attention from the city’s experts.
• Su Mei of the Rakshasa Sect offered to guide Xiao Chuan and learned that he claimed to be a Tier 7 alchemist.
• Xiao Chuan gave Su Mei a long list of medicinal ingredients, and she offered to help gather them and find him a place to stay.
• Word of Xiao Chuan’s identity spread through Heiyin City, and people brought ingredients, cultivation methods, and Dou Techniques in hopes of obtaining pills.
• Xiao Chuan moved into Su Mei’s mansion, accepted requests from the people waiting there, and asked Su Mei to assist him with alchemy.

Xiao Chuan established his reputation as a Tier 7 Alchemist, drew Su Mei close, and summoned the Black-Corner Region’s Dou Emperor leaders to declare that he would set his own rules. He offered them Huangji Pills and Pozong Pills in exchange for submission, leaving them to make a single choice.

• Xiao Chuan finished refining pills and handed them to Su Mei, who offered herself to him; the two spent the day together in the alchemy room.
• Yin Gu Lao, Yuan Yi, Fan Lao, Tie Wu, and the Gold and Silver Elders waited for Xiao Chuan, hoping to secure his pill-refining services.
• Xiao Chuan emerged alone and received the visiting Dou Emperor Experts in the main hall.
• Xiao Chuan promised to refine Huangji Pills and Pozong Pills with a one hundred percent success rate for those who submitted to him and supplied the ingredients.
• Xiao Chuan warned the leaders they had only one chance to choose, leaving them silent as they considered his offer.

Xiao Chuan recruited powerful figures from the Black-Corner Region by offering to refine Huangji Pills, then went to Jia Nan Academy to propose joining forces against Han Feng. Su Qian and Hu Gan were stunned by his blunt offer.

• Yin Gu Lao, Tie Wu, Yuan Yi, Fan Lao, and the Gold and Silver Elders agreed to follow Xiao Chuan after he promised to refine Huangji Pills for them.
• Xiao Chuan sent the group to search for pill ingredients and considered targeting Han Feng for his treasures, though Han Feng had the backing of Wu Protector.
• Xiao Chuan returned to Su Mei, then traveled alone to Peace Town to seek a meeting with Su Qian.
• Hu Gan escorted Xiao Chuan to Su Qian after Xiao Chuan revealed he was a Tier 7 Alchemist.
• Xiao Chuan proposed that Jia Nan Academy join him in eliminating Han Feng, leaving Su Qian and Hu Gan astonished.

Xiao Chuan secured Su Qian’s agreement to make him an Honorary Elder of Jia Nan Academy and enlisted the academy to watch Han Feng’s allies while he dealt with Han Feng himself. As Han Feng traveled to Heiyin City to investigate Xiao Chuan and witness his alchemy, Xiao Chuan prepared to publicly refine a Huangji Pill under the protection of eager Dou Emperor Experts.

• Xiao Chuan offered to join forces with Jia Nan Academy against Han Feng, and Su Qian agreed to make him an Honorary Elder after hearing that Han Feng had committed parricide and betrayal.
• Xiao Chuan told Su Qian he would handle Han Feng alone and asked the academy to keep watch over anyone who might assist him.
• After half a month of failed inquiries, Han Feng learned from the Gold and Silver Elders that Xiao Chuan promised to refine Huangji Pills and Pozong Pills for them.
• Han Feng joined the Gold and Silver Elders on their way to Heiyin City to see Xiao Chuan refine a Huangji Pill and assess whether he was truly a Tier 7 Alchemist.
• Outside Heiyin City, Xiao Chuan began preparing for a public Huangji Pill refinement while Yin Gu Lao, Fan Lao, and other Dou Emperor Experts guarded him.

Xiao Chuan refined a Huangji Pill in less than half a day, convincing the gathered experts that he was a Tier 7 Alchemist. After Fan Lao used the pill to advance two Minor Realms, the Black-Corner Region's leaders pledged themselves to Xiao Chuan, while Han Feng prepared to leave and was confronted by him.

• The Gold and Silver Elders, Han Feng, and Su Qian arrived to watch Xiao Chuan refine a Huangji Pill, and Han Feng was shocked by Xiao Chuan's youth.
• Xiao Chuan completed the Huangji Pill in less than half a day, and the pill's successful formation convinced the spectators that he was a Tier 7 Alchemist.
• Xiao Chuan gave the Huangji Pill to Fan Lao, who advanced from Four-Star Dou Huang to Six-Star Dou Huang after consuming it.
• Fan Lao pledged to follow Xiao Chuan, and Yin Gu Lao, the Gold and Silver Elders, and others knelt to declare their loyalty as Han Feng felt humiliated.
• As Han Feng prepared to leave, Xiao Chuan called him a dog who had betrayed his master and invited him to stay for a meal.

Xiao Chuan confronted Han Feng and drove away the allies Han Feng tried to recruit. After Han Feng fled and was badly injured, Xiao Chuan promised to spare him if he survived one punch, then killed him with a single strike.

• Xiao Chuan blocked Han Feng from leaving and accused him of betraying his master and ancestors.
• Han Feng asked the Gold and Silver Elders and Yin Gu Lao's group to help him, but they sided with Xiao Chuan.
• Han Feng fled, and Xiao Chuan caught up with him and struck him down with Flame Blowing Palm.
• Han Feng begged for his life, and Xiao Chuan offered to spare him if he could withstand one punch.
• Xiao Chuan killed Han Feng with Baji Collapse, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Xiao Chuan defeated Han Feng, captured his soul, and claimed his treasures while securing Jia Nan Academy’s gratitude. After gaining a major boost to his Soul Power, he offered Queen Medusa a way to take full control of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s body.

• Xiao Chuan destroyed Han Feng’s physical body, captured his soul, and sealed it in a Soul Container despite Han Feng’s threat of Soul Hall retaliation.
• Xiao Chuan declared himself an Honorary Elder of Jia Nan Academy and gained Su Qian’s support by promising to protect its students.
• Xiao Chuan tortured Han Feng while questioning him, and the system raised Xiao Chuan’s Soul Power to the Heaven Realm Initial Stage.
• Xiao Chuan raided Han Feng’s lair for treasures, then left Su Qian and returned with his spoils.
• Xiao Chuan fed the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Companion Amethyst Source and told Queen Medusa that a Yin Yang Destiny Pill could fuse her soul with the body, asking if she wanted it.

Xiao Chuan returned to Jia Nan Academy as a young Tier 7 Alchemist and Honorary Elder, drawing the students’ admiration with an offer to recruit helpers for his medicinal garden. He opened his residence to the eager applicants, including Han Yue and Liu Fei.

• Xiao Chuan teased Queen Medusa with the promise of a Yin Yang Destiny Pill, then spent the night with Su Mei while the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python watched.
• Su Qian welcomed Xiao Chuan to Jia Nan Academy and introduced him to the students as a Tier 7 Alchemist and Honorary Elder.
• Liu Fei and Han Yue became interested when Xiao Chuan offered two students the chance to tend his medicinal garden.
• Xiao Chuan planted Han Feng’s medicinal ingredients and found a crowd waiting outside to apply for the garden work.
• Liu Fei mocked Han Yue for competing for the job, but Han Yue ignored her and entered Xiao Chuan’s courtyard with the other applicants.

Xiao Chuan recruited Liu Fei and Han Yue as administrators for his Medicine Garden, then learned that the Soul Hall had captured Fan Lao and killed his son. After Wu Protector challenged him to leave Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Chuan prepared to go rescue Fan Lao.

• Xiao Chuan recruited Liu Fei to help assess applicants, then screened the students and chose Liu Fei and Han Yue to manage his Medicine Garden.
• Over the next half month, Xiao Chuan refined pills for Jia Nan Academy's elders, advanced to Eight Star Dou Emperor, and studied his Heaven Tier Soul Power.
• Liu Fei brought Su Mei to see Xiao Chuan, and Su Mei told him that the Soul Hall had captured Fan Lao and killed his son.
• Su Mei explained that the Soul Hall was forcing Xiao Chuan to leave Jia Nan Academy so Wu Protector could make a move against him.
• Xiao Chuan decided he would go after Wu Protector and rescue Fan Lao, confident that he could kill the Dou Zong.

Xiao Chuan and Su Mei left Jia Nan Academy to draw Wu Protector into an ambush, where Queen Medusa fought him while Xiao Chuan prepared to strike. After Wu Protector blocked Xiao Chuan’s punch, Xiao Chuan unleashed his formidable Soul Power, leaving Wu Protector unable to escape.

• Wu Protector waited outside Jia Nan Academy, planning to capture Han Feng’s soul and seize Xiao Chuan for the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Chuan left the academy with Su Mei and told Liu Fei to care for the Medicine Garden while he was gone.
• Wu Protector caught up with Xiao Chuan and Su Mei, and Queen Medusa emerged to help confront him.
• Queen Medusa struggled against Wu Protector’s black mist and Soul Locking Chains while Xiao Chuan waited for an opening.
• Xiao Chuan rushed Wu Protector with a punch, but Wu Protector blocked it and mocked his strength.
• Xiao Chuan unleashed his Soul Power, shocking Wu Protector and preventing him from fleeing.

Xiao Chuan killed Wu Protector with a soul attack and returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Liu Fei confessed to ruining a Tier 7 medicinal herb and offered herself to him to avoid being sent away. The chapter ended with Xiao Chuan declaring that he would punish her severely.

• Xiao Chuan struck Wu Protector with a Heaven Realm soul attack, shattering his soul and killing him.
• Xiao Chuan told Su Mei to take Wu Protector's corpse back and search for Fan Lao, then sent Queen Medusa back into her snake form.
• Liu Fei became distracted while watering medicinal herbs and ruined a herb used to refine a Tier 7 pill.
• Liu Fei followed Xiao Chuan into his room, confessed what she had done, and offered to do anything if he would not dismiss her.
• Xiao Chuan had Liu Fei sit on his lap and said he had to punish her severely.

Xiao Chuan refined a Spirit Recovery Purple Pill, then persuaded Su Qian to let him deal with the Fallen Heart Flame by claiming he could preserve its origin fire. When the seal was removed, Xiao Chuan fled and relied on the Thousand Leaf Elders to handle the escaping flame, leaving Su Qian realizing he had been tricked.

• Han Yue peeked into Xiao Chuan's room, saw him and Liu Fei together, and hurried away in embarrassment.
• Xiao Chuan carried the exhausted Liu Fei to his bed, then refined a tier five Spirit Recovery Purple Pill for Hai Bo Dong.
• Xiao Chuan joined Su Qian at the trembling Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower and offered to refine the Fallen Heart Flame's fire spirit while leaving its origin fire behind.
• Su Qian agreed to remove the seal after Xiao Chuan assured him he had backing.
• Xiao Chuan ran as soon as the seal was broken, telling Su Qian that the Thousand Leaf Elders would come save the day.

Xiao Chuan let Fallen Heart Flame swallow him so Queen Medusa could seal off its connection to the magma and help him refine it. After absorbing the flame, he succumbed briefly to its Heart Flame and took advantage of the weakened Queen Medusa; he left to search for Fallen Heart Flame's Young Flame on Heavenly Fire Venerable's remains.

• Fallen Heart Flame emerged from beneath the magma, and Xiao Chuan left Su Qian to protect Jia Nan Academy before letting the flame swallow him.
• Xiao Chuan used Green Lotus Core Flame to protect himself while Queen Medusa sealed Fallen Heart Flame's internal space and cut off its energy supply.
• Xiao Chuan battered Fallen Heart Flame until its body collapsed, then caught and refined its flame seed while Queen Medusa held it in place.
• After refining Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Chuan succumbed to its Heart Flame and kissed the exhausted Queen Medusa before its influence faded and her soul fell into slumber.
• Xiao Chuan tucked the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python into his sleeve and set out to find Fallen Heart Flame's Young Flame on Heavenly Fire Venerable's remains.

Xiao Chuan found Heavenly Fire Venerable and the young flame of Fallen Heart Flame, then persuaded the venerable to enter his Soul Tool. After Xiao Chuan escaped the sealing site alive, he returned to find Liu Fei mourning him and embraced her.

• Xiao Chuan found Heavenly Fire Venerable's remains and the young flame, then revealed he was a Tier 7 Alchemist who could help restore the venerable's body.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable agreed to enter Xiao Chuan's Soul Tool, where he discovered Han Feng and learned that Xiao Chuan had captured him too.
• Su Qian and the others heard Xiao Chuan call from the sealing site, opened the seal, and welcomed him back alive.
• Xiao Chuan told Su Qian and the others what had happened and said he would return to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Chuan found Liu Fei crying over his supposed death and embraced her from behind.

Han Yue wavered after Liu Fei falsely claimed Xiao Chuan had called her name, but Xiao Chuan confronted Liu Fei and made her follow through on the lie. He then left Jia Nan Academy for Heiyin City with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and gained cultivation feedback from Xiao Yan.

• Han Yue admitted she envied Liu Fei and considered Liu Fei’s suggestion that she pursue Xiao Chuan.
• Liu Fei told Han Yue that Xiao Chuan had called her name, though she had made it up to tempt her.
• Xiao Chuan confronted Liu Fei about the lie and insisted she make it come true.
• Xiao Chuan left Jia Nan Academy for Heiyin City with the Amethyst Winged Lion King, promising to refine a Humanoid Transformation Pill after reaching Dou Zong.
• Xiao Chuan received feedback that Xiao Yan had advanced to Nine Star Dou Zhe, granting him the cultivation of a Nine Stars Dou Emperor.

Xiao Chuan returned to the Jia Ma Empire as a Dou Zong and went to find Xiao Yan in Black Rock City. After Xiao Yan passed the Tier 2 Alchemist assessment, the brothers reunited, and Xiao Chuan revealed that he had brought back Han Feng and his Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Chuan advanced to Dou Zong, reminded Queen Medusa of their agreement, and returned to the Mittel Family, where Hai Bo Dong welcomed him.
• Xiao Chuan learned from Xiao Ding that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Master and was taking an Alchemist assessment, then headed for Black Rock City.
• Xiao Yan passed the Tier 2 Alchemist assessment, and Xiao Chuan arrived to reunite with him.
• Xiao Chuan told Xiao Yan that he had killed a man who possessed a Heavenly Flame and summoned Han Feng's Soul Power.
• Han Feng threatened Xiao Chuan with the Soul Hall, and Xiao Yan slapped him while Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to hit him again.

Xiao Chuan offered Xiao Yan his Heavenly Flames and helped him refine the Green Lotus Core Flame, strengthening Xiao Yan’s cultivation and Flame Mantra. Xiao Yan tearfully revealed that he cultivated the Flame Mantra, while Xiao Chuan promised to support him and gave him several Dou Techniques; Xiao Yan decided to stabilize his cultivation before refining the Sea Heart Flame.

• Xiao Yan slapped Han Feng’s Soul Body again, then Xiao Chuan confirmed that Han Feng held the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Chuan offered Xiao Yan the Sea Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, and revealed that he also possessed the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Chuan that he cultivated a technique that could absorb Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Chuan agreed to give him the Green Lotus Core Flame too.
• Xiao Chuan helped Xiao Yan refine the Green Lotus Core Flame, raising Xiao Yan to Five Stars Dou Ancestor and advancing his Flame Mantra to Xuan Tier Middle.
• Xiao Yan postponed refining the Sea Heart Flame to stabilize his cultivation, and Xiao Chuan gave him several Dou Technique manuals.