Chapter Summaries

Caidie won over Xuanyi with an enthusiastic greeting, and Xuanyi took Caidie and Zi Yan on a tour of the Danta. Su Baichen was left baffled as the three women bonded without him.

• Caidie greeted Xuanyi warmly, hugged her arm, and showered her with praise.
• Xuanyi's suspicion softened, and she offered to show Caidie around the Danta while teasing Su Baichen.
• Caidie privately celebrated her plan to secure her place in Su Baichen's inner circle.
• Zi Yan realized that befriending Xuanyi could mean access to food and pills, then hurried after her and Caidie.
• Xuanyi spent more than half the day showing Caidie and Zi Yan around the Danta while Su Baichen remained behind, bewildered.

Xuanyi accepted Caidie and Zi Yan as her younger sisters, while Su Baichen waited in vain for their long-awaited reunion. He went to Xuanyi’s room and reunited with her, and she fell asleep in his arms after they spent the night together.

• Xuanyi invited Caidie and Zi Yan to call her Sister, and both eagerly accepted.
• Caidie and Zi Yan left after dinner, but Xuanyi returned to her private chamber instead of joining Su Baichen.
• After waiting alone for an hour, Su Baichen went to Xuanyi’s room and carried her to the bed.
• Xuanyi challenged Su Baichen’s threat to punish her, and they spent the night together.
• Su Baichen told Xuanyi he was back, and she nodded before falling asleep with a smile.

Xuanyi woke after spending the night with Su Baichen and found the meal he had prepared for her. Su Baichen and Caidie then learned that Cao Ying had arrived at Danta with a severely injured unconscious woman and had asked Xuanyi for help.

• Xuanyi woke alone, read Su Baichen’s note, and ate the warm fish soup he had left for her.
• Caidie teased Su Baichen about his night with Xuanyi, and he boasted about his abilities before flicking her forehead.
• A subordinate told Su Baichen that Cao Ying had arrived at Danta with an unconscious, severely injured woman and had requested Xuanyi’s help.
• Su Baichen and Caidie rushed out toward the main hall after hearing that Cao Ying had arrived.

Xuanyi found Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body on the brink of a fatal backlash after Ice Venerable’s failed attempt to seize it. Su Baichen arrived and began treating Xiao Yi Xian alone, leaving Cao Ying and the others to guard the room and hope he had prepared a cure.

• Xuanyi examined Xiao Yi Xian and warned Cao Ying that the poison had fused with her life force and could not safely be suppressed.
• Cao Ying recounted how Ice Venerable had captured Xiao Yi Xian and tried to refine her Woeful Poison Body, only for it to absorb his poison power.
• Su Baichen appeared and explained that the protective sword qi he had left in Xiao Yi Xian’s soul had wounded Ice Venerable, causing his technique to backfire.
• Cao Ying knelt and asked Su Baichen to punish her for taking Xiao Yi Xian into danger, but he postponed her punishment and sent her and Xuanyi outside.
• Xuanyi told Caidie that Xiao Yi Xian might die within three days, while Cao Ying argued that Su Baichen likely had a way to save her.

Caidie reminded Cao Ying that her master still planned to punish her for secretly taking Xiao Yi Xian away, but Xiao Yi Xian’s crisis took priority. Su Baichen let the Woeful Poison Body destroy Xiao Yi Xian’s body, then rebuilt it with Divine Bones and restored her soul, leaving her asleep and breathing steadily.

• Caidie teased Cao Ying about her master’s promised punishment for taking Xiao Yi Xian to the Central Plains, leaving Cao Ying terrified of the coming reckoning.
• Su Baichen told Xiao Yi Xian to stop resisting and protected her soul as the Woeful Poison Body consumed her body.
• Su Baichen shielded Xiao Yi Xian’s heart and refined six Divine Bones with the Liuli Burning Heaven Flame.
• Su Baichen fused the Divine Bone origins into Xiao Yi Xian’s ruined body and poured energy from the Tianxuan Bead into it.
• Su Baichen guided Xiao Yi Xian’s preserved soul into her reborn body, and she began breathing steadily in an ethereal new form.

Su Baichen confirmed Xiao Yi Xian had recovered and helped her adjust to her new body, giving her the Ice-Fire Wings to manage her Woeful Poison Body. When Xiao Yi Xian asked about waking up without clothes, Su Baichen's blunt answer embarrassed her into fleeing the room.

• Su Baichen told Xuanyi and Caidie that Xiao Yi Xian was safe, then dragged Cao Ying away and silenced her for testing her Concentration Incense.
• After several days, Xiao Yi Xian began adapting to her powerful new body, while Su Baichen visited Ice River Valley and took some of its accumulated reserves.
• Su Baichen explained the source power within Xiao Yi Xian's body and advised her to master her new form before absorbing it.
• Su Baichen gave Xiao Yi Xian the Ice-Fire Wings, which could help channel and share the toxic backlash of her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Su Baichen about seeing her naked after she woke, and he teased that she had grown up, prompting her to storm out in embarrassment.

Su Baichen used two Deduction Cards to fuse and elevate his soul-slaying sword techniques, gaining deeper insight into the laws of heaven and earth. Meanwhile, Xiao Yi Xian’s cultivation regressed to Early Eight-Star Dou Zun as her foundation consolidated, and her Ice Fire Wings awakened the dormant origin of her Woeful Poison Body.

• Su Baichen reviewed his Dou Techniques, judged his Earth-Tier sword arts insufficient, and chose not to spend points on a Heaven-Tier technique.
• Su Baichen used two Deduction Cards on the Seven Star Soul-Slaying Art and Nine Soul-Slaying Swords, fusing their strengths and deepening his understanding of the Heavenly Book’s laws.
• After three days of cultivation, Xiao Yi Xian’s realm settled at Early Eight-Star Dou Zun as her unstable foundation was strengthened.
• Xiao Yi Xian manifested one ice-blue wing and one crimson wing, whose opposing energies formed a brief balance.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s dormant Poison Pill trembled, and the awakened origin of her Woeful Poison Body spread through her meridians and onto her wings.

Xiao Yi Xian fused ice, fire, and poison into her dragon wings, breaking through to mid-Eight-Star Dou Zun and gaining powerful new abilities. She then sent Cao Ying away with a seventh-tier magic core so she could face her master alone after he had accidentally seen something he should not have.

• The Ice Fire Poison Emperor Wings fused with Xiao Yi Xian, stabilizing her power and raising her cultivation to mid-Eight-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian discovered that the wings had greatly enhanced her abilities and given her lethal cold poison and fire poison.
• Seeing her master's note that he was in critical seclusion, Xiao Yi Xian decided to send Cao Ying away before he could sense what was happening.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Cao Ying to return to the Cao Clan, then asked for the seventh-tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core and offered to take the blame.
• Cao Ying gave Xiao Yi Xian the magic core and hurried to the Cao Clan, trusting her junior sister's promise to handle the trouble.
• Alone in the Alchemy Room, Xiao Yi Xian admitted she had used Cao Ying's trust because she needed to face her master over what he had accidentally seen.

Su Baichen advanced his soul techniques and Dou Qi cultivation, then Xiao Yi Xian asked him to help her begin the Poison Pill Method. Meanwhile, Cao Ying returned to her family and revealed her achievements, leaving her parents stunned.

• Su Baichen deduced the Seven Star Soul-Slaying Art and Nine Soul-Slaying Swords to Intermediate Heaven Tier and advanced to Mid-Stage Four-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Su Baichen for Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and presented a seventh-rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magical core, ready to cultivate the Poison Pill Method.
• Cao Ying returned to the Cao Clan residence and told her mother that Su Baichen treated her well and that she had become a Dou Zun.
• Cao Ying revealed that she was also a high-level Tier 7 Alchemist, shocking Father Cao and delighting both her parents.

Su Baichen prepared to use his improved Poison Pill Method to treat Xiao Yi Xian, but she misunderstood the procedure and undressed, leaving him flustered. The chapter ended with Su Baichen acknowledging that her reasoning about removing the obstruction of clothing had some clinical merit.

• Su Baichen let Xiao Yi Xian into the room and instructed her to follow his directions while he prepared to condense a Poison Pill for her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian sat on the bed, then began removing her clothes, believing the treatment required her to be unclothed.
• Su Baichen was shocked and tried to stop her, but Xiao Yi Xian explained that clothing might interfere with his control of the Heavenly Flames and poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Su Baichen about having seen her before when he saved her in the secret chamber, then quoted his own advice about not fussing over trivial details.
• Su Baichen tried to regain his composure and admitted that, for the precise treatment, her argument about clothing causing an obstruction made some sense.

Su Baichen began treating Xiao Yi Xian by guiding the poison energy in her body toward her dantian to form a Poison Pill. He installed a modified magic core as its anchor and refined Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva into a Bodhi Seed, leaving the treatment poised to continue.

• Su Baichen calmed himself, summoned the Nether Poison Flame, Flame of Life, and Liuli Burning Heaven Flame, and explained the procedure to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to endure the pain and cooperate as Su Baichen used the three flames to drive her poison energy toward her dantian while healing any damage.
• Su Baichen modified a seventh-rank Heaven Scorpion Poison Dragon Beast magic core and placed it in Xiao Yi Xian's dantian as an anchor for the poison energy.
• Su Baichen refined the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva with the Liuli Burning Heaven Flame and produced a life-filled Bodhi Seed.

Su Baichen helped Xiao Yi Xian condense her Woeful Poison Body’s source poison into a Poison Pill, resolving its fatal danger. The Nether Poison Flame fused with the pill, and Xiao Yi Xian’s cultivation surged to Seven-Turn Dou Zun.

• Su Baichen applied Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva to Xiao Yi Xian’s dantian, while the Liuli Burning Heaven Flame suppressed her source poison.
• Su Baichen instructed Xiao Yi Xian to compress the poison aura into her demon core and forge a Poison Pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian condensed the Poison Pill, and the Nether Poison Flame merged with it as its new home.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s cultivation rose from Late Eight-Star Dou Zun to Seven-Turn Dou Zun as the Poison Pill transformed her power.
• Su Baichen confirmed that the Poison Pill had resolved the Woeful Poison Body’s danger and that Xiao Yi Xian could now wield the Nether Poison Flame.

Xiao Yi Xian successfully resolved her Woeful Poison Body, but a strange heat overtook her and Su Baichen. Outside the door, Xuanyi and Caidie revealed that they had secretly helped Xiao Yi Xian approach him, while Cao Ying sensed that someone had beaten her to it.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke after the Poison Pill formed, and Su Baichen confirmed that her Woeful Poison Body had been resolved.
• Xiao Yi Xian suddenly grew feverish and clung to Su Baichen, who felt the same strange heat spreading through his body.
• Outside the door, Caidie worried that Su Baichen would be angry, while Xuanyi admitted she had prepared the colorless, odorless powder Xiao Yi Xian used.
• Xuanyi and Caidie wondered whether they and Xiao Yi Xian could handle Su Baichen, then accepted that they could only adapt to what happened next.
• Far away in the Cao Clan, Cao Ying sensed that someone had beaten her to it.

After waking beside Xiao Yi Xian, Su Baichen blamed himself for their intimacy, but she confessed her long-held love and said she wanted to pursue him, and he accepted her feelings. They kept their relationship discreet, while Xuanyi and Caidie hid their role in the scheme that had led to the incident.

• Su Baichen woke beside Xiao Yi Xian and apologized, promising to take responsibility for what had happened.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Su Baichen she had loved him for years and wanted to pursue him openly, and he responded with tenderness and acceptance.
• In the following days, Xiao Yi Xian continued to call Su Baichen Master in public while they shared private, knowing looks; Xuanyi and Caidie kept their involvement secret.
• Cao Ying returned and asked Xiao Yi Xian whether Su Baichen's anger had subsided, and Xiao Yi Xian blushed and hurried away without explaining.
• Cao Ying dismissed Xiao Yi Xian's odd behavior and went to share her newly gathered snacks with Zi Yan.

Cao Ying struggled with the gap between her cultivation and Xiao Yi Xian’s, then refined a Sub-Flame from Su Baichen and advanced one minor realm. When Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian showed Su Baichen a map and jade key from an ancient ruin, he identified a Dou Sheng Ruins in the Beast Region and planned an expedition.

• Cao Ying learned that Xiao Yi Xian had reached Seven-Turn Dou Zun and grew frustrated that she could not catch up.
• Su Baichen gave Cao Ying a wisp of the Flame of Life’s Sub-Flame, which she refined to break through a minor realm.
• Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian brought Su Baichen a restricted map they had found in an ancient ruin, and he broke the restriction with his Soul Force.
• Su Baichen recognized the map as a complete guide to Dou Sheng Ruins in the Beast Region and identified Cao Ying’s jade stone as the key to its entrance.
• Su Baichen told Cao Ying to have Xuanyi prepare for their departure in three days.
• Cao Ying asked Su Baichen for the special cultivation tutoring Xiao Yi Xian received, but he refused and sent both women from the courtyard.

Su Baichen confronted the remnant soul in the map, and Saint of Creation recounted his past and offered his legacy to one of Su Baichen’s disciples. Su Baichen rejected the tale and struck him, then suspected the old man had possessed a Heaven Realm soul and ambushed the Shi Clan’s Third Elder.

• Su Baichen called the old man out of the map, and Saint of Creation appeared as a faint phantom.
• Saint of Creation said he had fled the Shi Clan’s Third Elder into the ruins, hidden his legacy there, and sent out a map and key.
• Saint of Creation asked Su Baichen to let the blue-clad disciple inherit his Great Creation Art.
• Su Baichen dismissed Saint of Creation’s story and attacked him with the Nine Soul-Slaying Swords: Soul Severing.
• Saint of Creation blocked the attack with a soul shield, but the sword qi broke through and gravely weakened him.
• Su Baichen recognized the strength of Saint of Creation’s soul and suspected he had ambushed the Shi Clan’s Third Elder.

Su Baichen destroyed the Saint of Creation's remnant soul and uncovered his plan to lure a successor into a trap, steal their body, or be reborn through the Shi Clan Third Elder's skeleton. The map became an ordinary scroll, and Su Baichen reflected on how narrowly his disciples Ying'er and Xian'er had escaped danger.

• Su Baichen struck the Saint of Creation with a second Soul Severing sword aura, erasing his remnant soul.
• Su Baichen extracted and refined the Saint of Creation's source Soul Power to read his memories.
• Su Baichen learned that the Saint of Creation had killed the Shi Clan's Third Elder and planned to use his skeleton for rebirth.
• Su Baichen discovered that the Beast Soul Map and the supposed inheritance were tools to guide and control a victim.
• Su Baichen realized the Saint of Creation's Slumber Restriction had prevented him from detecting Ying'er and Xian'er's peculiarities.
• Su Baichen looked toward the direction his disciples had gone and considered the hidden dangers awaiting them.

Su Baichen led Xuanyi, Xiao Yi Xian, Cao Ying, and Zi Yan into the Dou Sheng Ruins through a hidden passage. Zi Yan sensed a bloodline connection deep in the forest, and Su Baichen revealed that a great opportunity there belonged to her as they set off to find it.

• Su Baichen opened a hidden spatial passage into the Dou Sheng Ruins, bypassing the traps at the White Bone Altar.
• The group emerged in an ancient forest where Cao Ying noticed the natural energy was exceptionally dense and Xuanyi sensed powerful hidden auras.
• Zi Yan felt her Ancient Void Dragon Bloodline stir and sensed a call from deep within the forest.
• Su Baichen said the call was connected to a great opportunity meant for Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan rushed toward the source, and Su Baichen led Xuanyi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Cao Ying after her.

Su Baichen and the others followed Zi Yan’s bloodline call to a hidden altar, where they discovered a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit. Su Baichen explained its rare origins as Zi Yan’s desire to claim it intensified.

• Su Baichen used his Dou Sheng aura to keep the forest’s powerful magical beasts from approaching as the five traveled deeper.
• Zi Yan sensed the call in a meadow, and her Ancient Void Dragon blood opened a concealed Spirit Beast Barrier.
• The group crossed into a desolate plain and reached an ancient altar, where Su Baichen shielded Xuanyi, Cao Ying, and Xiao Yi Xian from its oppressive force.
• Zi Yan and Su Baichen flew to the altar’s summit and found a violet-gold fruit growing on a small sapling, with dragon and phoenix phantoms circling it.
• Su Baichen identified the fruit as a Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit and explained that it required the life and bloodline essence of a mature Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix to form.

Su Baichen secured the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan, then used the Tianxuan Bead to remove the ancient altar and the remains beneath it, causing the ruin space to collapse. After escaping, the group split up to search the ruins and regrouped at the Main Hall with valuable finds.

• Su Baichen warned Zi Yan not to eat the Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit yet, then took it from her and sealed it in his Storage Ring.
• Su Baichen used the Tianxuan Bead to remove the altar and the Ancient Void Dragon and Ancient Heaven Phoenix corpses beneath it, triggering the ruin space's collapse.
• Su Baichen led the group through a spatial rift and explained that removing the altar and corpses had taken away supports that stabilized the space.
• Su Baichen gave Xuanyi a map reconstructed from the Saint of Creation's memories and split the group into two teams to search the ruins.
• Su Baichen and Cao Ying found rare medicinal ingredients and captured unusual serpent-like magical beasts, while Xuanyi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan found storage chambers and a medicinal garden.
• The two groups reunited before the Main Hall, bringing their gains and turning their attention to the ancient hall.