Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan rescued Han Yue and the Han Family convoy from Xia Mang and the snake beasts in Ten Thousand Snake Gorge. After Han Yue found Han Lin gravely injured, Xiao Fan offered to examine him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Han Yue explained that Xia Mang and his snake beasts had attacked the Han Family convoy while she was traveling home.
• Xiao Fan severed Xia Mang's arm and unleashed a sea of lightning that destroyed the attacking snakes while sparing Han Yue and the convoy.
• Xiao Fan killed Xia Mang with a lightning palm seal and dispelled the lightning.
• Han Yue thanked Xiao Fan, then hurried to examine the wounded Han Lin and judged that he was near death.
• Xiao Fan offered to examine Han Lin and suggested that Han Yue need not give up hope.

Xiao Fan healed Han Lin and accompanied Han Yue’s group to the Han Family in Tianbei City, where the family questioned his youth despite welcoming him. As Han Chi hosted the guests, a disturbance erupted and an intruder smashed open the main hall doors.

• Xiao Fan used Dou Qi infused with life energy to heal more than half of Han Lin’s internal injuries.
• Han Yue invited Xiao Fan, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to the Han Family, and they arrived in Tianbei City seven days later.
• Han Yue introduced Xiao Fan to her father, Han Chi, as the Jia Nan Academy elder who had saved her, while Han Xue doubted his strength.
• Han Chi welcomed Xiao Fan’s group and hosted them in the main hall, where he thanked Xiao Fan for saving Han Yue.
• Han Chi heard a commotion outside and realized there was trouble, then an intruder smashed open the main hall doors.

Hong Chen forced his way into the Han Family and demanded that Han Yue and Han Xue marry him, then threatened Zi Yan and Qing Lin. Zi Yan killed Hong Chen with one punch, and she and Qing Lin eliminated his four followers, leaving the Han Family stunned by their strength and Xiao Fan’s influence.

• Hong Chen entered the Han Family hall with four companions and demanded that Han Yue and Han Xue marry him.
• Han Chi rejected Hong Chen’s demand, and two of Hong Chen’s followers pressured him with their Dou Zong auras.
• Hong Chen insulted the Han Family’s guests and threatened to take Zi Yan and Qing Lin for himself.
• Zi Yan killed Hong Chen with a single punch after hearing his threat.
• Qing Lin joined Zi Yan in battle, and the two girls killed all four of Hong Chen’s companions.
• Han Xue asked Han Yue whether Jia Nan Academy students were all so powerful, and Han Yue credited Xiao Fan with Zi Yan and Qing Lin’s rapid improvement.

After Zi Yan killed Hong Chen, Xiao Fan assured the Han Family that he and his companions would deal with the Hong Family and Wind and Thunder Pavilion. Xiao Fan set out for the Hong Family with Han Yue and Han Xue, while Hong Li and Elder Yun celebrated Hong Chen’s prospects, unaware of what had happened.

• Han Chi urged the Han Family to prepare for conflict with the Hong Family and Wind and Thunder Pavilion, and the family discussed sending its elite disciples away.
• Xiao Fan said he and his companions would take responsibility for Hong Chen’s death and deal with the two factions; Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan agreed to fight.
• Han Chi offered the Han Family’s support, and Han Yue and Han Xue volunteered to guide Xiao Fan to the Hong Family.
• Xiao Fan left for the Hong Family with Han Yue and Han Xue.
• At a banquet in the Hong Family hall, Hong Li and the elders praised Hong Chen and welcomed Elder Yun, until a panicked guard rushed in with alarming news.

Xiao Fan and his companions stormed the Hong Family after Hong Chen targeted his women, and Zi Yan killed Hong Li and a Hong Family elder. Xiao Fan stopped Elder Yun as he tried to flee and confronted him over the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s connection to Hong Chen.

• A guard warned Hong Li that the Han Family had attacked with helpers, and the intruders soon broke into the hall.
• Xiao Fan said he had come to hold the Hong Family accountable because Hong Chen had set his sights on his women.
• Zi Yan demonstrated her strength by killing a Hong Family elder with one punch, then killed Hong Li when he attacked her.
• Elder Yun tried to escape, but Xiao Fan blocked him and revealed that he knew Elder Yun belonged to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• Elder Yun offered to mediate, saying Hong Chen was only an outer disciple, while Xiao Fan regarded him with a calm, pressuring gaze.

Xiao Fan and his companions destroyed the Hong Family after Xiao Fan killed Hong Tianxiao, then gave the Han Family control of Tianbei City. Han Chi proposed that the Han Family seek Xiao Fan’s support, and Han Yue considered his suggestion.

• Elder Yun agreed to guide Xiao Fan to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, while Xiao Fan and his companions attacked the Hong Family.
• Hong Tianxiao emerged to defend the family, but Xiao Fan crushed him with a Thunder Giant Hand.
• Xiao Fan and his companions wiped out the Hong Family and took eighty percent of its treasury.
• Xiao Fan told Han Yue to have the Han Family claim the Hong Family’s territory and rule Tianbei City.
• Han Chi told Han Yue that the Han Family should attach itself to a powerful force, and she asked if he meant aligning with Xiao Fan.

The Han Family pledged allegiance to Xiao Fan after he destroyed the Hong Family, while Han Chi and Han Fei prepared for the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s retaliation. Han Yue and Han Xue both grappled with their feelings about Han Chi’s plan to connect Han Yue to Xiao Fan, and Han Xue offered to take her sister’s place.

• Han Chi told Han Yue he hoped she might marry Xiao Fan, and she considered that she would not resist the match despite lacking romantic feelings for him.
• Han Chi persuaded Han Fei that the Han Family had to pledge allegiance to Xiao Fan, and Han Fei agreed while ordering some younger members secretly moved out of Tianbei City.
• Han Chi led the Han Family elders to Xiao Fan, who accepted their allegiance and warned them against betrayal; Han Chi and the others then went to take over the Hong Family’s assets.
• Han Fei met Xiao Fan and became more certain of the pledge, while Elder Yun privately vowed revenge on the Han Family after the Wind and Thunder Pavilion dealt with Xiao Fan.
• Han Yue tried to grow closer to Xiao Fan, while Han Xue grew anxious about their father’s matchmaking plan and asked Han Yue whether she could take her place.

Han Yue and Han Xue both showed interest in Xiao Fan, while Han Chi tried to arrange for Han Yue to travel with him. The chapter ended with Han Chi torn over whether to let Han Xue join them, since allowing both sisters to accompany Xiao Fan would contradict the Han Family’s stance against sharing a husband.

• Han Yue asked Han Xue whether she had fallen for Xiao Fan, and Han Xue denied it despite Han Yue recognizing her feelings.
• Han Yue warned Han Xue that pursuing Xiao Fan could make her forget Han Chi’s instructions to strengthen ties between the Han Family and Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan prepared to leave for the Wind and Thunder North Pavilion, and Han Chi asked him to remain with the Han Family for safety.
• Han Chi proposed that Han Yue accompany Xiao Fan, and Han Yue agreed after Xiao Fan said she could come if she wished.
• Han Xue also asked to travel with Xiao Fan, leaving Han Chi conflicted because the Han Family had opposed both sisters marrying the same man.

Xiao Fan destroyed the Wind and Thunder North Pavilion’s leadership and began absorbing it into a new Xiao Family foothold in the Central Plains. Meanwhile, Xiao Feng joined the Myriad Worlds Chat Group during the Beggar Sect’s attempted rebellion and learned that its members might know why his friends had betrayed him.

• Han Xue joined Xiao Fan’s group, and they traveled with Elder Yun to the Wind and Thunder North Pavilion.
• After the pavilion rejected Xiao Fan’s demands and tried to kill him, Xiao Fan’s group eliminated its upper and middle ranks and absorbed its remaining disciples.
• Xiao Fan decided to reorganize the pavilion as a Xiao Family base, with Xiao Yan and the four women helping him.
• Xiao Feng and Su Mucheng joined the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, and Xiao Fan invited Su Xiaoxiao to tell them about their original lives.
• At Apricot Forest, Xiao Feng joined the chat group while questioning why the Four Great Elders had rebelled, then appeared blank and distracted to the Beggar Sect members.

At the Apricot Forest Assembly, Xiao Feng learned from the chat group that he was Khitan and would become an enemy of the Central Plains martial world. As Elder Xu and Kang Min arrived and suspicion turned against him, a mysterious young man descended into the forest through a Light Gate.

• Su Xiaoxiao told Xiao Feng that his real name was Xiao Feng, revealed his Khitan origins, and explained the truth behind the battle outside Yanmen Pass.
• Xiao Fan confirmed Xiao Feng’s origins and warned that Elder Xu would soon expose him at the assembly.
• The Great Wisdom Branch leader brought Xiao Feng a wax-sealed message, but Elder Xu arrived and stopped him from reading it.
• Elder Xu and other martial artists arrived with Kang Min, who mourned Ma Dayuan and implied that Xiao Feng had killed her husband.
• Xiao Feng saw the Beggar Sect members grow suspicious of him and realized the chat group’s revelations were true.
• A mysterious Light Gate appeared above Apricot Forest, and a handsome young man in azure robes descended from it.

Xiao Fan arrived at the Apricot Forest Assembly and watched Xiao Feng’s identity and the old conspiracy come to light. After Xiao Fan stopped Master Zhiguang from destroying evidence, Xiao Feng read Wang Jiantong’s order and broke down in grief; Xiao Fan then questioned Elder Xu about the letters.

• Xiao Fan traveled from the Dou Qi World to the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils world and descended into Apricot Forest, stunning the assembly.
• Xiao Feng greeted Xiao Fan, who suggested he call himself Xiao, but Xiao Feng said he was accustomed to the name Qiao Feng.
• Kang Min renewed her accusations against Xiao Feng, and Elder Xu, Master Zhiguang, and the others recounted the battle outside Yanmen Pass and revealed Xiao Feng’s origins.
• Elder Xu offered a letter to Xiao Feng, but Master Zhiguang seized it and tried to destroy its signature before Xiao Fan took it away and gave it to Xiao Feng.
• Xiao Feng read the letter identifying Abbot Xuanci as its author, then read Wang Jiantong’s order permitting the Beggar Sect to kill him and wept.
• Xiao Fan asked Elder Xu how and when he had obtained the two letters.

Xiao Fan exposed Kang Min’s role in Ma Dayuan’s murder and her plot to frame Xiao Feng, leading Bai Shijing to kill himself. Xiao Feng gave up the Beggar Sect’s leadership and left Apricot Forest with Xiao Fan.

• Xiao Fan used the Soul Absorption Technique on Kang Min, who confessed that she and Bai Shijing had killed Ma Dayuan.
• Kang Min revealed that she hated Xiao Feng for ignoring her and had conspired with Quan Guanqing and Elder Xu to ruin his reputation.
• Bai Shijing admitted his guilt and struck himself dead.
• Xiao Feng relinquished the Dog Beating Staff and said the Beggar Sect should choose a new chief.
• Xiao Feng asked Xiao Fan to leave with him, and the two departed Apricot Forest together.

Xiao Fan received the Heavenly Dragon Heart Sutra, then rescued A Zhu and A Bi from Western Xia Warriors after Xiao Feng left for Shaolin Temple. He searched the warriors for an antidote to the poison afflicting the two women.

• Xiao Fan successfully signed in and obtained the Heavenly Dragon Heart Sutra, which he planned to merge into the Thunder Emperor Art later.
• Xiao Feng learned that his father was alive and disguised as a Shaolin monk, then left for Shaolin Temple to find him.
• Xiao Fan found A Zhu and A Bi held captive by Western Xia Warriors and killed the warriors who attacked him.
• Xiao Fan defeated the remaining Western Xia Warriors with soul attacks and learned that A Zhu and A Bi had been poisoned by Grief-stricken Soft Breeze.
• Xiao Fan began searching the Western Xia Warriors' bodies for an antidote while A Zhu and A Bi watched anxiously.

Xiao Fan freed A Zhu and A Bi from poison and accompanied them to find Wang Yuyan, only to discover her and Duan Yu facing a disguised Western Xia warrior. He exposed the warrior as Murong Fu, leaving Wang Yuyan shocked and asking her cousin why he had done it.

• Xiao Fan found the antidote to Grief-stricken Soft Breeze and restored A Zhu and A Bi to normal.
• A Zhu told Xiao Fan how Western Xia Warriors had attacked Apricot Forest and captured them, and Xiao Fan agreed to help find Wang Yuyan.
• Xiao Fan, A Zhu, and A Bi found Wang Yuyan and Duan Yu being threatened by Murong Fu, who was disguised as Li Yanzong.
• Xiao Fan revealed that the supposed Western Xia expert was a known Central Plains figure and removed Murong Fu's disguise with a palm strike.
• Wang Yuyan recognized Murong Fu and asked why he was trying to harm her.

Xiao Fan defeated Murong Fu and forced him to agree to never oppose him and to give Wang Yuyan, A Zhu, and A Bi to him as maids. After Murong Fu fled, A Zhu treated Wang Yuyan’s poison, and Wang Yuyan prepared to return to Mantuo Manor while asking A Bi whether she would come with her.

• Wang Yuyan recalled how Murong Fu had ignored the Western Xia Warriors’ attack on her, while Duan Yu and the others were appalled by his conduct.
• Murong Fu attacked Xiao Fan with his family’s sword technique, but Xiao Fan crushed the sword and trapped him in an illusory giant hand.
• At Wang Yuyan’s plea, Xiao Fan offered to spare Murong Fu if he promised never to oppose him and gave Wang Yuyan, A Zhu, and A Bi to him as maids; Murong Fu agreed.
• Xiao Fan released Murong Fu, who fled while secretly intending to avenge himself and disregarding his promise.
• A Zhu used Xiao Fan’s antidote to cure Wang Yuyan, who asked to return to Mantuo Manor; A Zhu refused to go with her, saying she was Xiao Fan’s maid, and Wang Yuyan asked A Bi if she would return.

Xiao Fan took A Zhu to Leigu Mountain to inherit Wu Yazi’s skills and become the Xiaoyao Sect’s successor. After A Zhu solved the Zhenlong Chess Game and received Wu Yazi’s power, Su Xinghe asked what instructions Wu Yazi had left her.

• A Bi chose to return to Murong Fu, and Wang Yuyan and Duan Yu left with her.
• Xiao Fan took A Zhu to Deaf-Mute Valley to obtain Wu Yazi’s inheritance for her.
• Xiao Fan revealed that Su Xinghe had been pretending to be deaf and mute, then secretly guided A Zhu through the Zhenlong Chess Game.
• A Zhu entered Wu Yazi’s hut, accepted his inheritance, and promised to avenge him before he died.
• Su Xinghe mourned Wu Yazi, learned A Zhu’s name, and asked whether his master had left any instructions.

After A Zhu succeeded Wu Yazi as Xiaoyao Sect Leader, Xiao Fan returned to the Dou Qi World and helped establish the Thunder Flame Sect. The Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s Thunder Honored One arrived with his experts to confront the new sect.

• Su Xinghe mourned Wu Yazi, recognized A Zhu as the new Xiaoyao Sect Leader, and began arranging Wu Yazi’s funeral with her.
• Xiao Fan left A Zhu in Su Xinghe’s care and returned to the Dou Qi World, where Qing Lin had been guarding his room.
• Xiao Yan suggested that the faction formed from the absorbed Wind and Thunder North Pavilion needed a new name, and Xiao Fan named it the Thunder Flame Sect.
• Thunder Honored One learned that the North Pavilion had fallen and led Wind and Thunder Pavilion experts through a Space Wormhole to confront the Thunder Flame Sect.
• Thunder Honored One emerged before Xiao Fan and his companions and accused them of destroying the North Pavilion.

Xiao Fan killed the Thunder Honored One and brought the Wind and Thunder Pavilion under the Thunder Flame Sect’s control. As news of the pavilion’s destruction shook the Central Plains, Xiao Fan turned his attention back to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group and the world Su Mucheng came from.

• Xiao Fan killed the Thunder Honored One with a lightning spear and demanded that the Wind and Thunder East Pavilion experts submit or die.
• The Wind and Thunder East Pavilion experts joined the Thunder Flame Sect, and Xiao Fan left Xiao Yan to arrange their positions and duties.
• Xiao Fan and his companions subdued the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s remaining branch pavilions, eliminating the stubborn holdouts; he did not find Feng Qing'er.
• News that the Wind and Thunder Pavilion had been absorbed by Xiao Fan’s group spread across the Central Plains and caused an uproar.
• Xiao Fan let Xiao Yan and the others reorganize the Thunder Flame Sect, then immersed his consciousness in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group to check out Su Mucheng’s world.

Xiao Fan traveled to Su Mucheng’s world and revived her brother, Su Muqiu, after repairing his injured organs. He left the siblings together and prepared to sign in before returning.

• Su Mucheng asked Xiao Fan to revive her brother, and he agreed after learning Su Muqiu’s body remained intact.
• Xiao Fan traveled to Su Mucheng’s apartment and repaired Su Muqiu’s damaged organs before reviving him.
• Su Muqiu woke up confused, and Su Mucheng introduced Xiao Fan as the person who had saved him.
• Xiao Fan declined Su Mucheng’s offer of a meal and left the apartment while she returned to tell Su Muqiu what had happened.
• After leaving, Xiao Fan issued a sign-in command before returning to his world.

Xiao Fan received the growth-type Thousand Machine Umbrella, then strengthened the Thunder Flame Sect and helped Han Yue and Han Xue reach three-star Dou Zun. He returned to the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils and arrived beside Xiao Feng in the middle of a fierce battle.

• Xiao Fan obtained a Saint Weapon Thousand Machine Umbrella that could transform into weapons from all realms and grow stronger with him.
• Xiao Fan gave Han Xue and Han Yue Golden Fluid Jade Nectar Pills and reorganized the Thunder Flame Sect with Xiao Yan and the others.
• After seven days of seclusion, Han Yue and Han Xue both reached three-star Dou Zun and thanked Xiao Fan for the pills.
• Xiao Fan traveled to the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, intending to find A Zhu, but arrived beside Xiao Feng during an intense battle.