Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chuan completed an Eight-Colored Medicinal Pill after Yao Tian refined a Six-Colored Enlightenment Pill, winning the alchemy competition. The Yao Clan conceded defeat as Xiao Chuan presented his pill for inspection.

• Yao Ling became a Tier 8 Intermediate Alchemist while Xiao Chuan and Yao Tian continued refining their pills.
• Yao Tian completed a Six-Colored Enlightenment Pill and dispersed its lightning tribulation.
• Xiao Chuan finished refining his pill on the fourteenth day, revealing an Eight-Colored Lightning Cloud.
• Xiao Chuan shattered the Eight-Colored Pill Lightning, contained the Ice Giant Dragon phantom, and sealed the pill in a jade bottle.
• Yao Tian realized he had lost, and Yao Ling acknowledged that none of the Yao Clan geniuses had beaten Xiao Chuan.
• Xiao Chuan presented his jade bottle to Elder Wanhuo and the others for inspection.

Xiao Chuan defeated Yao Tian in the alchemy competition and claimed his Heavenly Flame, then refined the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame in the Dan Tower. He emerged safely with two Heavenly Flames and prepared to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xiao Chuan won the competition with an eight-colored Ice Soul Pill, and Elder Wanhuo acknowledged the Yao Clan's defeat.
• Yao Tian gave Xiao Chuan the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, and Xiao Chuan promised to return it if a stronger member of his generation defeated him.
• Xiao Chuan entered the Dan Tower and refined the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame while Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and others waited outside.
• Zi Yan, Zhu Li, Gu Yuan, Xun Er, Tang Zhen, and Tang Huo'er arrived while Xiao Chuan was refining the flame.
• Xiao Chuan emerged safely with the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, gave Zi Yan her pills, and asked Xun Er whether Third Brother had let her down.

After the alchemy competition, Xiao Chuan received the Ancient Void Dragon's Dragon Seal from Zi Yan and prepared to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. He entered the Star Domain and reached the sealed flame, determined to claim it.

• Xun Er left with Gu Yuan after praising Xiao Chuan, then challenged her father to a bet about whether Xiao Chuan would reach Dou Di.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Chuan the Ancient Void Dragon's Dragon Seal and agreed to wait while he prepared to enter the Star Domain.
• Xiao Chuan's alchemy victory spread across the Central Plains, and Cao Ying and Dan Chen invited him to visit their clans after he returned from the Star Domain.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and the others warned Xiao Chuan that the Three Thousand Burning Flame was dangerous, but he assured them he was prepared.
• Xiao Chuan entered the Star Domain, reached the Three Thousand Burning Flame bound by the Dan Tower's chains, and prepared to subdue it.

Xiao Chuan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and emerged from the Star Domain, then faced Jiu Feng, who demanded Feng Qing’er be handed over. With the Dan Tower’s Grand Elder arriving to repel the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s Dou Sheng, Xiao Chuan challenged Jiu Feng to a fight, which Jiu Feng accepted.

• Xiao Chuan used the Ancient Void Dragon’s Dragon Seal to suppress the Three Thousand Burning Flame, implanted a Soul Imprint, and claimed it as his third Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Chuan returned from the Star Domain, reassured Zi Yan, and accepted Xuan Kongzi’s offer to become an Honorary Elder of the Dan Tower.
• Jiu Feng arrived with Eagle Phoenix and demanded that Xiao Chuan hand over Feng Qing’er, while Xuan Kongzi and Zhu Li stepped forward to defend him.
• Eagle Phoenix pressured the group until Old Monster Lin appeared and overwhelmed him with his Two-Star Dou Sheng strength.
• Xiao Chuan challenged Jiu Feng to defeat him to reclaim Feng Qing’er, and Jiu Feng accepted despite Eagle Phoenix’s warning.

Xiao Chuan killed Jiu Feng with a single punch, provoking the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, then visited the Cao Clan after Cao Ying invited him. The Cao Clan’s patriarch praised Cao Ying’s talent while considering Xiao Chuan a suitable match for her.

• Xiao Chuan killed Jiu Feng and erased his soul during their challenge outside Shengdan City.
• Old Monster Lin protected Xiao Chuan as Eagle Phoenix departed, and Zhu Li felt reassured about entrusting Zi Yan to him.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen both invited Xiao Chuan to visit their clans, and Xiao Chuan agreed to visit the Cao Clan first.
• Cao Ying brought Xiao Chuan to the Cao Clan, where he learned they had invited him for another matter.
• Patriarch Cao asked Xiao Chuan what he thought of Cao Ying, and Xiao Chuan praised her alchemy talent.

At a banquet, Xiao Chuan accepted Cao Ying and Dan Chen as alchemy disciples after their clans sought to connect them with him. Back at his residence in Shengdan City, he teased Cao Ying while Dan Chen watched, leaving both women flustered.

• Patriarch Cao asked Xiao Chuan to teach Cao Ying alchemy, and Cao Ying agreed to study under him.
• Patriarch Dan brought Dan Chen to seek Xiao Chuan's guidance, and Dan Chen agreed to become his disciple.
• The other three clans arrived with lavish gifts, which Xiao Chuan gave to Cao Ying and Dan Chen.
• Cao Ying helped Xiao Chuan back to his room, where he pulled her onto the bed and teased her.
• Dan Chen entered with hot water and watched as Xiao Chuan kept Cao Ying in his arms before sending both women to rest.

Xiao Chuan refined the Poison Pill for Xiao Yi Xian while Cao Ying and Dan Chen watched and learned from his techniques. After succeeding, he left the Dan Tower with Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Zi Yan to return to the Northern Region, where he headed for Feng City.

• Xiao Chuan asked Cao Ying to help him, and Dan Chen overheard and glimpsed them together, leaving her distracted through the night.
• Xiao Chuan summoned Cao Ying and Dan Chen to watch him refine Xiao Yi Xian's Poison Pill, and both women learned from his techniques.
• Xiao Chuan spent three days refining the Poison Pill, shattered the heavenly lightning, and completed it successfully.
• Dan Chen returned to study what she had learned, but sounds from Cao Ying's room distracted her again.
• Xiao Chuan left the Dan Tower with Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Zi Yan to return to the Northern Region, and learned that Xiao Yan had reached Seven-Star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Chuan led the group toward Feng City as the Mittal Auction House's intelligence network continued expanding.

Xiao Chuan returned to Feng City, cured Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body with the Poison Pill, and welcomed her among his women. At dinner, he decided to return home to bring his family to the Central Plains and seek a breakthrough beyond Peak Dou Venerate.

• Xiao Chuan returned to the Mittal Auction House, reunited with Ya Fei, and asked her to entertain Cao Ying and Dan Chen.
• Xiao Chuan found Xiao Yi Xian suffering from her Woeful Poison Body and told her that he had obtained three Heavenly Flames and could cure her.
• Xiao Yi Xian took the Poison Pill and gained control over her Woeful Poison Body, then embraced Xiao Chuan and became intimate with him.
• Xiao Chuan told Ya Fei and the others that Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body was resolved, and they joined the others for dinner.
• Xiao Chuan decided to return home to bring his father and family to the Central Plains and to pursue a breakthrough from Peak Dou Venerate.

Xiao Chuan visited Jia Nan Academy and gave Xiao Yan two Heavenly Flames, helping him break through to Dou Wang. As Xiao Yan refined the Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Chuan advanced to Half-Saint, then left for the Jia Ma Empire to prepare the Xiao Clan’s move to the Central Plains.

• After spending the night with Cao Ying and Ya Fei, Xiao Chuan left Feng City for the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen about going to the Central Plains, but Yao Chen urged him to keep cultivating at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Chuan arrived at Jia Nan Academy and gave Xiao Yan the Fallen Heart Flame and Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, along with pills and refining aids.
• Xiao Yan refined the Fallen Heart Flame and rose from Four Stars Dou Spirit to Two Stars Dou King Peak.
• Xiao Chuan advanced from Nine Revolutions Dou Venerate to Intermediate Half-Saint Peak, while his Flame Mantra surpassed Heaven Tier.
• Xiao Chuan gave Xiao Yan Dou Techniques, then left for the Jia Ma Empire to handle the Xiao Clan’s move to the Central Plains.

Xiao Chuan brought his people to Feng City, then took Zi Yan exploring and arrived in the territory of the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Clan. He entered the clan to meet its chief, while Zi Yan asked him to help her become an adult permanently.

• Xiao Chuan moved his people from the Jia Ma Empire and Black-Corner Region to Feng City, while Xiao Yan chose to travel to the Central Plains on his own after reaching Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Chuan reassured Queen Medusa that he was researching a way to separate her soul from the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python's, and agreed to bring her clanspeople to the Central Plains later.
• Xiao Chuan took Zi Yan to dangerous places to train, and they arrived in the Beast Region, where a member of the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Clan agreed to guide them.
• Xiao Chuan and Zi Yan reached the clan chief's grand hall, where Zi Yan asked Xiao Chuan to help her maintain her adult form.
• The clan chief of the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Clan appeared.

Xiao Chuan forced Yao Xiaotian to lead him to the Nine Serene Yellow Spring and the Yellow Spring Stele after killing the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Clan’s Second Elder and Grand Elder. At the stele, Yao Xiaotian fled as Xiao Chuan moved to stop him.

• Xiao Chuan claimed Yao Xiaotian was his friend, then killed the Second Elder when the elders could not name him.
• Xiao Chuan revealed his peak two-star Dou Sheng cultivation and killed the Grand Elder, leaving Yao Xiaotian to submit.
• Xiao Chuan made Yao Xiaotian lead him to the Nine Serene Yellow Spring, then asked for the Yellow Spring Stele.
• Yao Xiaotian took Xiao Chuan and Zi Yan to the ancient stele, where Xiao Chuan saw the inheritance marks for Yellow Spring Finger and Yellow Spring Palm.
• Yao Xiaotian guessed Xiao Chuan intended to attack him and fled, but Xiao Chuan pursued him.

Xiao Chuan defeated Yao Xiaotian, learned Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath, and freed Yao Ming from beneath the Nine Serene Yellow Spring in exchange for the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Clan's submission. After returning to Feng City, he learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan leader had come to Shengdan City seeking his life.

• Xiao Chuan crippled Yao Xiaotian and returned with him and Zi Yan to the Yellow Spring Stele.
• Xiao Chuan comprehended Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath, defeated the Yellow Spring Demon Saint's remnant soul, and sealed its essence blood in his Soul Body.
• Xiao Chuan found Yao Ming imprisoned beneath the Nine Serene Yellow Spring and freed him after Yao Ming agreed to make his clan submit.
• Yao Ming confronted Yao Xiaotian while Xiao Chuan and Zi Yan left for Feng City.
• Xiao Chuan's cultivation rose to Early Three-Star Dou Sheng, and Tang Huo'er told him the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan leader was seeking his life.

Xiao Chuan learned that Ya Fei and Feng Qing'er were pregnant and stayed in Shengdan City to be with them. Tang Huo'er confessed that she liked him, and Xiao Chuan asked how much she liked him.

• Xiao Chuan asked about Huang Tian and learned that the Dan Tower's ancestor had forced the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan leader to leave Shengdan City.
• Xiao Chuan heard that Ya Fei and Feng Qing'er were both pregnant and decided to stay with them.
• Tang Huo'er and Dan Chen worried that the pregnancies might put them behind Xiao Chuan's other women.
• Tang Huo'er waited for Xiao Chuan beneath the moonlight and confessed her feelings.
• Xiao Chuan drew close to Tang Huo'er and asked how much she liked him.

Xiao Chuan became intimate with Dan Chen, who later agreed to let Liu Fei join them. Nearly half a month later, Eagle Phoenix found Feng Qing'er in Feng City and confronted her, but Xiao Chuan appeared behind him and forced him to his knees.

• Xiao Chuan took Dan Chen to her chamber, and they spent the night together.
• The next morning, Liu Fei visited Dan Chen and asked to join her the next time she was with Xiao Chuan, and Dan Chen agreed.
• After nearly half a month in Feng City, Xiao Chuan was preparing for the child he expected with Feng Qing'er.
• Eagle Phoenix found Feng Qing'er and threatened to kill her for carrying Xiao Chuan's child, while she pleaded with him to stop opposing Xiao Chuan.
• Xiao Chuan appeared behind Eagle Phoenix, warned the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan not to harm Feng Qing'er, and pressed Eagle Phoenix to his knees.

Xiao Chuan defeated Eagle Phoenix and kept his soul prisoner so he could find the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, then arranged for Yao Ming to guard the Mittal Auction House. Nalan Yanran revealed that Yun Yun had given birth to Xiao Chuan’s daughter, and he reunited with Yun Yun and met the child at the Flower Sect.

• Xiao Chuan crushed Eagle Phoenix’s body and suppressed his fleeing soul, intending to learn the location of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Chuan asked Yao Ming to guard the Mittal Auction House after Yao Ming brought the Nine Serene Deep Earth Python Clan under his control.
• Nalan Yanran visited Xiao Chuan and told him that Yun Yun was at the Flower Sect and had given birth to his daughter.
• Xiao Chuan traveled with Nalan Yanran to the Flower Sect and met Yun Yun and their sleeping daughter, Lingling.
• Xiao Chuan placed Lingling in a rocking chair and embraced Yun Yun.

Xiao Chuan reunited with Yun Yun and their newborn daughter, Xiao Lingyun, and agreed that Yun Yun would raise her. He met Mother Flower in her cave and learned she was a Nine-Star Dou Venerate whose injuries and depleted lifespan left her paralyzed, though he believed he might eventually find a way to save her.

• Yun Yun asked Xiao Chuan to let her raise their daughter, and he agreed while insisting she tell him if anything happened to the child.
• Xiao Chuan named their daughter Xiao Lingyun and decided to stay with Yun Yun for a few more days.
• Yun Yun took Xiao Chuan and the baby to meet Mother Flower, the former Sect Master of the Flower Sect.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Chuan to heal Mother Flower, but he explained that her lifespan was nearly exhausted and that he could not yet save her.
• Xiao Chuan promised to seek a way to help Mother Flower and revealed that she was a Nine-Star Dou Venerate.

Xiao Chuan freed Mother Flower from the cave’s seal and instantly killed Xuan Mingzi, then confronted Hua Jin over her ties to the Heavenly Underworld Sect. As the Flower Sect’s elders arrived, Mother Flower offered Yun Yun the sect leadership, but Yun Yun refused, and Xiao Chuan challenged Hua Jin to stake her life on denying her companion’s allegiance.

• Mother Flower revealed to Yun Yun that she was the Flower Sect’s former Sect Master and explained how she had been betrayed and trapped.
• Xiao Chuan shattered the seal with a glance and killed Xuan Mingzi with the Yellow Spring Finger.
• Mother Flower asked Yun Yun to become the Flower Sect’s Sect Master, but Yun Yun declined because she wanted to live freely with her daughter, Lingling.
• Hua Jin accused Yun Yun and Xiao Chuan of violating the Flower Sect’s rules, and Xiao Chuan accused Hua Jin of colluding with the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Xiao Chuan challenged Hua Jin to bet her life that Evil Lord Demon Flower was not from the Heavenly Underworld Sect, and Hua Jin ordered him to seize Xiao Chuan.

Xiao Chuan exposed You Mingzi as a Heavenly Underworld Sect infiltrator, then killed him and Hua Jin after dealing with the Flower Sect’s internal crisis. Yun Yun chose to remain with the sect, while Fairy Hua offered to make her daughter its Young Sect Leader; the chapter ended with Xiao Chuan stabilizing Mother Flower’s grave condition temporarily.

• Xiao Chuan used his Dou Sheng pressure to subdue Hua Jin and Evil Lord Demon Flower, and You Mingzi admitted he had infiltrated the Flower Sect for the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Xiao Chuan released You Mingzi and then killed him with a finger strike, before turning Hua Jin to ashes when she begged for her life.
• Mother Flower told Fairy Hua and Fairy Qing that Xiao Chuan had helped kill You Mingzi, and Fairy Hua thanked him for helping the Flower Sect.
• Yun Yun declined Fairy Hua’s offer to become Sect Master, and Fairy Hua proposed that Yun Yun and Xiao Chuan’s daughter become the sect’s Young Sect Leader.
• Xiao Chuan examined Mother Flower and said he could keep her condition from worsening for now, though finding a lasting solution would be difficult.

Xiao Chuan helped Yun Yun and Mother Flower, then returned to the Mittel Family before setting out for the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan with Eagle Phoenix's soul and the Amethyst Winged Lion King. Huang Tian grew furious after his clan failed to find Eagle Phoenix.

• Xiao Chuan refined a Tier 8 Medicinal Pill that slowed Mother Flower's condition from worsening, and Fairy Hua and Fairy Qing saw his skill.
• Fairy Qing and Fairy Hua arranged a larger residence for Yun Yun and agreed to make Xiao Lingyun the Young Sect Leader; Xiao Chuan later returned to the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Chuan avoided the women seeking children by visiting Ya Fei, then summoned Eagle Phoenix's soul to guide him to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Xiao Chuan brought the Amethyst Winged Lion King along to the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan to help him find a wife.
• Huang Tian questioned Fenghuang and Kunhuang after the clan failed to locate Eagle Phoenix, and they silently considered that Xiao Chuan might have taken him.

Xiao Chuan entered the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s domain and slaughtered its members after killing Eagle Phoenix and Kunhuang and crippling Fenghuang. As Huang Tian confronted him, Xiao Chuan’s cultivation rose to Four-Star Dou Sheng, and Huang Tian prepared to kill him.

• Fenghuang and Kunhuang encountered Xiao Chuan with Eagle Phoenix, whose Soul Body Xiao Chuan destroyed with Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Chuan killed Kunhuang and burned his Soul Body, then crippled Fenghuang and gave him to Lao Wang as a servant.
• Xiao Chuan led Lao Wang into the Heaven Phoenix Mountain Range and killed Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members while Lao Wang picked out people he wanted.
• Huang Tian emerged and confronted Xiao Chuan as he slaughtered the clan, while Fenghuang begged the clan leader to save him.
• Xiao Chuan’s cultivation rose to Four-Star Dou Sheng, and Huang Tian, a Late Five-Star Dou Sheng, vowed to kill him.