Chapter Summaries

Cao Ying, Xun'er, and Huo Zhi learned more about Yao Ling and considered her formidable talent, while Xiao Ting meditated after writing a warning about the Yao Clan in the Notes. Yao Ling received a blessing that let her absorb a pill's energy and advance to Two-Star Dou Zong, then decided to approach Xiao Ting gently rather than use force.

• Cao Ying prayed for Xiao Ting to come to her and help her surpass Yao Ling as an alchemist.
• Xun'er and Huo Zhi reflected on Yao Ling's exceptional soul talent and standing among the Di Clan's younger generation.
• Xiao Ting wrote that he would help Yao Lao seek justice against the Yao Clan before it became history, then began meditating on the Purple Heaven Sky Flame.
• Yao Ling's pill lightning vanished after she received a blessing that let her absorb the forming pill's energy, and she advanced to Two-Star Dou Zong.
• Yao Ling concluded the Yao Clan faced ruin and decided to win Xiao Ting over with gentleness instead of force.
• Yao Ling told Ninth Grandpa that her alchemy had succeeded and her physique had absorbed the pill after it formed.

Yao Ling persuaded Ninth Grandpa to let her leave the Yao Realm and gain experience on the Dou Qi Continent. After Xiao Ting succeeded in refining many First-Grade Medicinal Pills, Xiao Yan summoned him to meet Yun Yun, the Misty Cloud Sect’s sect leader.

• Yao Ling asked Ninth Grandpa to let her travel beyond the Yao Realm, and he agreed to allow her to go with an elder for six months, with extensions depending on her progress.
• Xiao Ting refined nearly a thousand First-Grade Medicinal Pills under Yao Lao’s guidance.
• Xiao Yan waited anxiously for Xiao Ting to finish refining medicine and asked whether he had succeeded.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ting that Yun Yun wanted to see him and that Xiao Zhan had asked him to bring Xiao Ting to the Reception Hall.

Xiao Ting met Misty Cloud Sect Master Yun Yun, who invited him to cultivate under Pill King Gu He, while Xiao Yan confronted her over Nalan Yanran’s public annulment of their engagement. Yun Yun admitted Yanran had handled the matter badly and revealed that Old Master Nalan Jie had been gravely injured after learning of it.

• Xiao Ting and Xiao Yan speculated about why Yun Yun wanted to meet, and Xiao Yan guessed she hoped to recruit Xiao Ting as a disciple.
• Xiao Ting met Yun Yun in the Xiao Clan’s Reception Hall, where she invited him to join the Misty Cloud Sect and offered to arrange for Gu He to teach him.
• Xiao Ting questioned whether Yun Yun had forgotten the Three Year Agreement, and Yun Yun said she would still support Nalan Yanran’s decision to annul the engagement.
• Xiao Yan challenged Yun Yun over the public humiliation of the Xiao Clan and Nalan Clan, and Yun Yun acknowledged that Yanran had handled the annulment poorly.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yan that Nalan Jie had been angered by the affair and was now severely injured and recuperating.

Yun Yun offered Xiao Ting a place in the Misty Cloud Sect and the chance to become Pill King Gu He's disciple, but he refused in favor of Jia Nan Academy and mocked her over Nalan Yanran's broken engagement. Yun Yun restrained her anger and concealed her connections, while Xiao Ting left convinced his improbable run of good fortune made him a Child of Luck.

• Yun Yun insisted that Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran settle their dispute through the Three Year Agreement, and Xiao Yan vowed to reclaim his clan's humiliation.
• Yun Yun invited Xiao Ting to become Pill King Gu He's disciple, but Xiao Ting chose Jia Nan Academy for its cultivation opportunities and freedom.
• Xiao Ting teased Yun Yun about interfering in marriage contracts, and Xiao Yan privately consulted Yao Lao about whether they could withstand her if she attacked.
• Yao Lao reassured Xiao Yan that he could protect him and said Xiao Ting's allies could easily deter Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun privately vented to Xun'er and the others, then acted angry toward Xiao Ting while asking them to help her avoid exposing herself.
• Xiao Ting stood his ground before Yun Yun and concluded that his fortunate encounters proved he was a Child of Luck.

Xiao Ting challenged Yun Yun, who left after setting a meeting with the Xiao Clan for two years later. Xiao Yan and Xiao Ting revealed their rapid cultivation progress, and Xiao Ting asked the clan to gather ingredients for pills that could strengthen its members.

• Xiao Ting provoked Yun Yun, but she chose not to retaliate and said they would meet on Misty Cloud Mountain in two years.
• Xiao Zhan praised Xiao Ting, then learned that Xiao Yan had reached Two-Star Dou Zhe and Xiao Ting had become a Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Ting asked Xiao Zhan to gather ingredients for pills that could raise the clan's Da Dou Shi members to Seven-Star Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan returned to his courtyard and asked Yao Lao about Xiao Ting's alchemy talent; Yao Lao said it surpassed his own and Xiao Yan's.
• Xiao Yan resolved to cultivate harder and help Xiao Ting face the pressure from the force behind Xun'er.

Xiao Ting’s Notes revealed that the Hun Clan had manipulated Yun Shan into actions that would make the Misty Cloud Sect and Xiao Clan mortal enemies, while Yun Yun tried to understand the danger surrounding her sect. The chapter left Yun Yun facing Xun’er’s threat and the copy holders alarmed by the Hun Clan’s thousand-year plan.

• Xiao Ting wrote that Yun Yun had visited the Xiao Clan and that joining the Misty Cloud Sect would lead to his death and the Xiao Clan’s disappearance.
• Cao Ying, Huo Zhi, Tang Huo’er, and Feng Qing’er reacted to Yun Yun’s actions, and Feng Qing’er befriended Tang Huo’er and exchanged ways to communicate.
• Yun Yun met Xun’er, Little Fairy Doctor, Qing Lin, and Medusa, hoping to learn why Xiao Yan and the Misty Cloud Sect were destined to fight.
• Xiao Ting’s Notes explained that Protector Wu had recruited Yun Shan to search for the Xiao Clan, gifted soul cultivators, and places with dense natural energy as part of the Hun Clan’s plan.
• Xun’er warned Yun Yun that she might die that day if she insisted on becoming the Xiao Clan’s enemy.

Yun Yun learned that Xun'er suspected her because she possessed a Notebook Copy and feared the Misty Cloud Sect might threaten Xiao Ting. After Xun'er and Medusa frightened her with the prospect of killing her and Yun Shan, Yun Yun resolved to prevent Yun Shan from allying with the Soul Hall, while Xiao Ting hinted that Yun Shan had already changed.

• Xun'er threatened Yun Yun, saying she might kill her if she continued to oppose Xiao Ting, and Medusa proposed that Yun Yun kill Yun Shan to prove her loyalty.
• Yun Yun pleaded for a chance to persuade Yun Shan to reject the Soul Hall, and Xun'er agreed to give her that opportunity.
• Medusa and Xun'er revealed that they had been teasing Yun Yun to make her take the danger seriously, and Yun Yun identified Yun Shan's cooperation with the Soul Hall as the root of the coming conflict.
• Yun Yun asked Medusa to hunt Soul Hall Soul Envoys so she could use evidence of the Soul Hall's crimes to persuade Yun Shan.
• Xiao Ting reflected that the Xiao Clan and Misty Cloud Sect conflict could be delayed but not resolved, and he noted that Yun Shan had already changed before planning a future gift for Yun Yun through the Notes.

Xiao Ting visited Xun'er, showed off his progress in pill refining, and learned that she had been waiting for him. Meanwhile, the women planned to help Qing Lin awaken her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Xiao Yan later interrupted an outing to complain about Yao Lao and ask Xiao Ting for food.

• Xiao Ting visited Xun'er, praised her Flower Pastry, and showed her the First-Grade Medicinal Pills he had refined.
• Xiao Ting told Xun'er that Yun Yun had tried to take him as her disciple, and Xun'er encouraged him to keep improving.
• After Xiao Ting left, Xun'er, Yun Yun, Medusa, and the others planned to lure a Double-Headed Fire Spirit Snake so Qing Lin could awaken and use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Over five days, Xiao Ting's soul power, cultivation, and pill-refining skills improved, while Yao Lao's harsh treatment of Xiao Yan after his first successful batch of healing pills discouraged him.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Ting, Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin on an outing and complained about Yao Lao before revealing he wanted Xiao Ting to cook for him.

Xiao Yan asked Xiao Ting to help retrieve the Green Lotus Core Flame by allowing Yao Lao to possess his body. Meanwhile, Huo Ling found the Xuanhuang Flame with Huo Zhi, who declared she would become a Dou Di, leaving Huo Ling curious about her confidence.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ting he wanted to retrieve the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Xiao Ting agreed to help.
• Xiao Yan explained that Yao Lao would possess Xiao Ting to wield strength near the Dou Zong level and take the flame.
• Huo Zhi read the Notes’ description of the Emperor Grade Dou Technique Ghost Possession and considered how powerful possession could be.
• Huo Ling appeared before Huo Zhi and revealed that she had found the Xuanhuang Flame in the Northwest Continent.
• Huo Ling told Huo Zhi about Xiao Xuan’s Heavenly Flames and the fading bloodlines of the Di Clans.
• Huo Zhi declared she would become a Dou Di, and Huo Ling asked where her confidence came from.

Huo Zhi and Huo Ling explored the Northwest Continent before the story returned to Xiao Ting’s dinner, where Queen Medusa reluctantly tasted his cooking and ate far more than she admitted. Xiao Ting used her embarrassment to ask her for a favor.

• Huo Zhi told Huo Ling that she had a secret plan, and the two joked together before leaving the cave where Huo Ling had sought the Xuanhuang Flame.
• Huo Ling explained that the Northwest Continent had once been the Xiao Tribe’s territory and had suffered greatly after the battle between the Hun Clan and the Xiao Tribe.
• Xun'er agreed to obtain the Green Lotus Core Flame and sent Ling Yue, while Xiao Ting prepared dinner with Xiao Yan and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Ting invited Queen Medusa to eat, and although she claimed she abstained from food, she accepted after watching everyone else enjoy the meal.
• Medusa criticized the dishes while eating three bowls of rice, then denied enjoying the food when the others pointed out how much she had eaten.
• Xiao Ting asked Medusa to help him with a favor after she had eaten so much.

Xiao Ting secured Queen Medusa’s help to retrieve the Green Lotus Core Flame and set off with Xun'er, Qing Lin, and Medusa. As they neared Shimo City, Xun'er suggested stopping in Mo City for the night, giving Xiao Ting a chance to attend to his business there.

• Xiao Ting asked Queen Medusa to help a Dou Zong expert retrieve the Green Lotus Core Flame, and she agreed in exchange for future meals and a promise to stay with him until he fulfilled it.
• Xiao Ting arranged a secluded courtyard and maids for Medusa, then privately wrote Notes praising her strength and considering how to persuade Xun'er to cultivate Fen Jue.
• Xiao Ting, Xun'er, Qing Lin, and Medusa flew toward Shimo City on Xiao Lan the Blue Eagle, with Xun'er's guards following in secret.
• As the group approached the city at sunset, Xun'er proposed staying in Mo City overnight, and Xiao Ting agreed to rest before heading near Shimo City the next day.

Xiao Ting explained why he wanted to befriend Hai Bodong and secure a reliable ally for the Xiao Clan, then invited the women to explore Mo City. Queen Medusa initially refused to go out, but changed her mind after Xiao Ting declined to ask her again.

• Xiao Ting wrote that he planned to visit Mo City, retrieve a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map from Hai Bodong, and befriend him while obtaining the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Ting described Hai Bodong's character, talent, and history with Xiao Yan, explaining that he wanted Hai Bodong and the Mittel Family to look after the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Ting suggested that the group explore Mo City after eating, and Xiao Yi Xian and Xun'er agreed while Queen Medusa refused because her appearance would draw attention.
• Xiao Ting told Queen Medusa it would be thoughtless to invite her again when going out would be inconvenient for her, so she changed her mind and decided to join them.

Xiao Ting took Medusa, Xun'er, and Qing Lin shopping in Mo City before visiting the Gu Tu map shop to search for a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map. There they encountered Hai Bodong, who recognized Medusa and trembled in fear.

• Xiao Ting coaxed Medusa into joining the outing by pretending he did not want her to come.
• Medusa went on a shopping spree, and Xiao Ting eventually chose several pairs of shoes for her.
• Xiao Ting told the group he wanted maps of the Jia Ma Empire and its surroundings, then led them to the Gu Tu map shop.
• Xiao Ting found a damaged fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map among the shop's discarded maps.
• Hai Bodong emerged and recoiled in terror when he recognized Medusa.

Xiao Ting stopped Queen Medusa from killing Hai Bodong and negotiated for the fragment map Hai Bodong had obtained years earlier. After Medusa accepted a promise of a Seventh Rank Heaven Soul Blood-Melting Pill in exchange for the map, Hai Bodong asked Xiao Ting to arrange a Po'e Pill to break his seal, but Xiao Ting noted he would soon leave for Jia Nan Academy.

• Queen Medusa recognized Hai Bodong as the former Ice Emperor and prepared to kill him over their past encounter.
• Xiao Ting intervened, and Hai Bodong explained how Medusa had sealed his strength after he took the belongings of two dead fighters.
• Xiao Ting persuaded Medusa to spare Hai Bodong in exchange for the items he had taken, and Hai Bodong handed over his Storage Ring containing a fragment map.
• Xiao Ting offered Medusa a Seventh Rank Heaven Soul Blood-Melting Pill in exchange for the fragment map, and she agreed.
• Hai Bodong asked Xiao Ting to obtain a Po'e Pill to restore his Dou Emperor strength and offered five years as his guard, but Xiao Ting pointed out he would soon attend Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Ting and Hai Bodong agreed that Hai Bodong would protect Xiao Ting before he left for Jia Nan Academy, then lead the Mittel Family in cooperating with and protecting the Xiao Clan. Medusa removed Hai Bodong’s seal, restoring his strength, while her stubborn back-and-forth with Xiao Ting amused the women.

• Xiao Ting clarified that he wanted Hai Bodong to protect the Xiao Clan through the Mittel Family rather than remain his guard, and Hai Bodong agreed to the arrangement for at least ten years.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Ting the Po'e Pill formula, but Xiao Ting asked Medusa to remove the seal instead of taking the gathered ingredients.
• Medusa protested Xiao Ting’s request, then relented when he suggested asking Senior Ling Yue through Xun'er.
• Medusa removed the seal, and Hai Bodong regained his Dou Emperor strength and returned to his middle-aged appearance.
• Medusa warned Hai Bodong to rein in his Dou Qi, and Xiao Ting praised her while the women teased her stubbornness.

Xiao Ting arranged a pill to restore Hai Bodong’s cultivation, then returned to the Xiao Clan, where Yao Lao began refining two Three-Veined Green Spirit Pills. The refining stalled when Yao Lao’s Bone Chilling Flame reacted with fear to Xiao Ting’s Purple Heaven Sky Flame.

• Hai Bodong told Xiao Ting his sealed cultivation had fallen from five-star Dou Emperor to three-star, and Xiao Ting promised to refine a Recovery Spirit Purple Pill for him.
• Hai Bodong left for the Imperial Capital, and Xiao Ting brought the others back to Mo City before traveling with Xun’er to meet Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in Shimo City.
• Qing Lin sensed energy drawing her east, and Xiao Ting and Xun’er flew out to find Medusa and Ling Yue returning with the Green Lotus Core Flame and a captured Double-Headed Spirit Snake.
• Ling Yue secretly stored the Green Lotus Core Flame in the Xiao Clan’s back mountain after the group returned to Wutan City.
• Xiao Ting asked Yao Lao to refine two Three-Veined Green Spirit Pills with help from Xiao Ting’s and Xiao Yan’s flames.
• Yao Lao’s Bone Chilling Flame became unstable and expressed fear when he tried to guide Xiao Ting’s Purple Heaven Sky Flame into the medicinal cauldron.

Xiao Ting's Purple Heaven Sky Flame disrupted Yao Lao's pill refinement, but a wisp of Green Lotus Core Flame let Yao Lao finish a Three-Veined Green Spirit Pill. After probing Xiao Ting's flame and nearly losing control of the Bone Chilling Flame, Yao Lao mistook it for Di Yan, while Xiao Ting wondered whether it could draw Tou She Ancient God's inheritance to him.

• Yao Lao sensed that the Bone Chilling Flame feared Xiao Ting's Purple Heaven Sky Flame and warned him to withdraw it before the medicinal cauldron exploded.
• Xiao Ting recalled the Purple Heaven Sky Flame and supplied a wisp of Green Lotus Core Flame, allowing Yao Lao to refine a Three-Veined Green Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Ting took the pill and offered Yao Lao more ingredients, prompting Yao Lao to ask to examine his extraordinary flame.
• Xiao Ting summoned the Purple Heaven Sky Flame, and Yao Lao's Bone Chilling Flame tried to break free and submit to it.
• Yao Lao guessed that Xiao Ting's flame was Di Yan, and Xiao Ting recorded the incident and wondered whether it could attract Tou She Ancient God's inheritance.

Xiao Ting received a Plane Blessing that helped him break through to Dou Ling, then left seclusion and found Qing Lin controlling the Fire Spirit Snake. Xun'er told him Qing Lin had awakened the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and he pretended to be surprised.

• Huo Zhi, Tang Huo'er, and Yao Ling decided not to cultivate Fen Jue and instead focused on befriending Xiao Ting.
• Xiao Ting received a Plane Blessing that infused his body with heaven-and-earth spiritual energy as he cultivated.
• Xiao Ting transformed his Dou Crystal and successfully broke through to the Dou Ling realm at fifteen.
• Xun'er told Qing Lin to prepare herself to explain her awakened Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to Xiao Ting.
• Xiao Ting left seclusion and saw Qing Lin directing the Fire Spirit Snake in Xun'er's courtyard.
• Xun'er announced Qing Lin's awakening, and Medusa joked that Xiao Ting's surprised reaction made him fit to join the Nanqu Troupe and sing opera.

Xiao Ting learned that Qing Lin had awakened the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and celebrated by cooking noodles with her and the women. Later, his Notes revealed Mo Cheng’s plan to capture Qing Lin and steal her eyes, prompting Yun Yun to condemn him.

• Xun'er explained Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to Xiao Ting, who accepted the awakening and celebrated it alongside his breakthrough to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Ting cooked different noodles for Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Qing Lin, then taught Qing Lin about Pian Er Chuan noodles.
• Xiao Ting wrote in his Notes that he had missed Qing Lin's awakening and wondered whether Mo Cheng would still encounter her.
• Yun Yun read Xiao Ting's account identifying Mo Cheng as a Misty Cloud Sect deacon who planned to capture Qing Lin and transplant her eyes into himself.
• Yun Yun decided that Mo Cheng had earned his death.

Yun Yun read Xiao Ting’s account of Mo Cheng’s death and the Misty Cloud Sect’s disastrous choices, then learned about Qing Lin’s future and the treasures in the Beast Region’s Dou Sheng Ruins. Xiao Ting closed his Notes and began cultivating, while Feng Qing’er became fixated on the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.

• Yun Yun read that Xiao Yan had rescued Qing Lin by killing Mo Cheng, and that Ge Ye and Yun Leng later used the incident to provoke Xiao Yan at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Medusa, Xun’er, Qing Lin, and Yun Yun discussed the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s possible interest in Qing Lin and the Misty Cloud Sect’s past mistakes.
• Xiao Ting wrote that Qing Lin would eventually escape the Heavenly Snake Mansion and listed valuable treasures inside the Beast Region’s Dou Sheng Ruins.
• Xiao Ting closed his Notes and began cultivating, leaving the women unsettled by the treasures he had revealed.
• Feng Qing’er learned that the ruins contained a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and wished she could abduct Xiao Ting to obtain it.