Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ting arrived at the recruitment camp and stunned Ruo Lin by revealing that he was only fifteen and already a Six-Star Dou Spirit. After Xiao Ting gave Xiao Yan a bottle of Millennium Stalactite Liquid, Ruo Lin tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to part with some for her own cultivation.

• Xiao Yan told Ruo Lin that Xiao Ting had discovered Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin's talents, and that both had risen from ordinary backgrounds in just half a year.
• Xiao Ting arrived at the tent, where Ruo Lin offered him special treatment and explained the academy's assessment process.
• Xiao Ting stated that he was fifteen and a Six-Star Dou Spirit, astonishing Ruo Lin and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ting explained that he was holding back to strengthen his foundation and planned to use the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower to break through to Dou Wang.
• Xiao Ting offered Xiao Yan a bottle of Millennium Stalactite Liquid, and Xiao Yan quickly abandoned his threat to stop speaking to him.
• Ruo Lin recorded Xiao Ting's details and asked him for some Millennium Stalactite Liquid, but Xiao Ting said the rest was reserved for strengthening his clan's Da Dou Shi members.

Xiao Ting left the admissions team with Xun'er and the others, then shared Millennium Stalactite Liquid with Xiao Zhan to strengthen the Xiao Clan before departing for Jia Nan Academy. Meanwhile, the women used the Notes to identify Ye Xinlan and Han Yue as people connected to Xiao Yan’s future.

• Xiao Ting told Mentor Ruo Lin he might trade her Millennium Stalactite Liquid later and agreed to leave for Jia Nan Academy with the admissions team in three days.
• Xiao Ting returned to the clan with Xun'er and the others, then wrote in the Notes about Mentor Ruo Lin and the opportunities Xiao Yan gained at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xun'er, Cao Ying, Zi Yan, and the others discussed Ye Xinlan and Han Yue, and Zi Yan and Cao Ying agreed to look into them.
• Xiao Ting gave Xiao Zhan several bottles of Millennium Stalactite Liquid so the Xiao Clan could produce more Dou Ling and Da Dou Shi experts.
• Xiao Ting told Yun Yun she would have to serve as his personal maid for a while.

Xiao Ting told Yun Yun he wanted her to pose as his maid and accompany him to Jia Nan Academy, supposedly to keep her from causing trouble while he was away. He then offered to let her return to the Misty Cloud Sect to arrange its affairs, leaving Yun Yun wary but willing to play along.

• Xiao Ting clarified to Yun Yun that she would only pretend to be his personal maid, then took her to his courtyard to discuss the arrangement.
• Xiao Ting revealed that Caili had evolved into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and become a Dou Zong, alarming Yun Yun and prompting Caili to expose Yun Yun’s feigned hostility.
• Xiao Ting explained that he planned to attend Jia Nan Academy with Caili and wanted Yun Yun to accompany him as a maid so he could keep watch over her.
• Xiao Ting argued that his talent would allow him to enter Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy directly and bring Yun Yun along, while Yun Yun concealed that the arrangement suited her.
• Xiao Ting offered to let Yun Yun return to the Misty Cloud Sect to make arrangements before traveling with him, and Yun Yun questioned whether he had an ulterior motive.

Yun Yun sparred with Xiao Ting and was defeated, then learned from his Notes that Soul Hall Protector Wu had manipulated Yun Shan and planned to use the Misty Cloud Sect as a resource. Yun Yun confronted the truth and messaged Caili that she had a new script.

• Yun Yun refused to return to the Misty Cloud Sect, explaining that Plane Blessing helped her cultivation and that the sect could manage without her for now.
• Yun Yun challenged Xiao Ting to a spar, but his lightning-based techniques overcame her and left her pinned and embarrassed.
• Xiao Ting wrote in the Notes that Yun Yun feared lightning and that Caili would accompany her if she returned to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Yun read Xiao Ting's account of how Protector Wu altered Yun Shan's personality and intended to exploit the Misty Cloud Sect and its elders.
• Yun Yun shattered her room's door in anger and sent Queen Medusa a private message saying she had a new script.

Yun Yun asked Caili to help expose how the Soul Hall had tampered with Yun Shan and prevent a feud between the Misty Cloud Sect and the Xiao Clan. After returning to the Misty Cloud Sect with Caili, Yun Yun led her to Yun Shan’s secluded peak, where Caili sensed a disturbing presence.

• Yun Yun explained her plan to bring Caili to the Misty Cloud Sect and reveal the Soul Hall’s influence over Yun Shan.
• Xiao Ting sent the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python with Yun Yun and loosened part of her seal so she could use Dou Wang-level Dou Qi.
• Caili transformed into her Dou Zong form during the journey, and Yun Yun remarked that she seemed more womanly than before.
• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, arranged matters with her trusted subordinates, and took Caili through the rear mountain’s spatial formation.
• Caili sensed an uncomfortable aura near the peak where Yun Yun said Yun Shan was in seclusion.

Caili confronted Yun Shan at the Misty Cloud Sect and revealed that a Soul Hall mark was corrupting his soul and temperament. Yun Shan admitted he had cooperated with a Soul Hall Protector, while Yun Yun accused him of betraying the sect.

• Caili attacked Yun Shan, who appeared and objected to Queen Medusa taking Yun Yun away.
• Yun Yun explained how Medusa had sealed her cultivation and how Xiao Ting had offered to help secure her release.
• Caili warned Yun Shan that his soul bore a mark that could alter his personality and let its maker control his life.
• Yun Yun offered to return with Medusa and swore to meet some of her demands in exchange for learning what was wrong with Yun Shan.
• Yun Shan admitted a Soul Hall Protector had approached him, and Yun Yun interrupted him to condemn him as a traitor to his master and ancestors.

Yun Yun convinced Yun Shan that the Soul Hall had murdered the Misty Cloud Sect's founder and that Soul Hall sacrifices unlocked the Life and Death Gate's inheritance. After confirming the gate's power, Yun Shan resolved to sacrifice himself so Yun Yun could grow strong enough to seek revenge.

• Yun Yun told Yun Shan that the Soul Hall had killed Patriarch Yun Potian and explained how a Soul Hall corpse had unlocked the Life and Death Gate for her.
• Yun Shan realized the gate's cryptic inheritance concerned destroying the Soul Hall and asked Yun Yun for more Soul Hall corpses.
• Yun Shan and Yun Yun agreed to cooperate with Caili and went to the Life and Death Gate, where Yun Yun sacrificed three Soul Hall Soul Envoys.
• The gate granted Yun Shan new information and inheritance, confirming Yun Yun's account and filling him with resolve to fight the Soul Hall.
• Yun Shan told Yun Yun to raise her cultivation and vowed to sacrifice himself after reaching Dou Zong, passing his inheritance to her so she could take revenge.

Yun Yun, Caili, and Yun Shan set out for the Xiao Clan so Yun Shan could seek Xiao Ting’s help with the Soul Hall Protector’s influence on his soul. Meanwhile, Cao Ying met Ye Xinlan in Ye City and began testing whether she was another Notebook Copy companion.

• Yun Shan explained that the Soul Hall Protector’s influence was changing him and said he would rather sacrifice himself than endanger the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Yun told Yun Shan that Xiao Ting might help, citing his Tier 7 Alchemist connections, his own alchemy talent, and his strength as a fifteen-year-old Six-Star Dou Spirit.
• After consulting Caili and Xun'er through the Notebook Copy, Yun Yun agreed to take Yun Shan to the Xiao Clan, and Caili accompanied them.
• In Ye City, Cao Ying declined Ye Zhong’s offer to meet the other clans’ younger generation and asked Ye Xinlan to show her around instead.
• Cao Ying took Ye Xinlan to a teahouse, ordered pastries, and asked whether Ye Xinlan knew why she had come to find her.

Cao Ying discovered that Ye Xinlan planned to reach Xiao Ting through Jia Nan Academy and brought her into the Notebook Copy group, where Xinlan learned that others had already received similar opportunities. Meanwhile, Yun Shan reprimanded Yun Yun for interfering in the Nalan and Xiao clans' marriage dispute and ordered the Three Year Agreement moved away from the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Cao Ying questioned Ye Xinlan about her decision to attend Jia Nan Academy early and invited her to summon her Notebook Copy.
• Ye Xinlan joined the group chat and learned from Xun'er about the others who had received opportunities through their Notebook Copies.
• Caili reminded Yun Yun that the Misty Cloud Sect had annulled Nalan Yanran's marriage contract with Xiao Yan, prompting Yun Yun to explain the matter to Yun Shan.
• Yun Shan reprimanded Yun Yun for meddling in the Nalan and Xiao clans' dispute without the clans' consent or compensation.
• Yun Shan ordered the Three Year Agreement to be held outside the Misty Cloud Sect and planned apologies to both clans.

Yun Shan returned to Wutan City with Yun Yun and met Xiao Ting, then revealed that the Soul Hall had recruited him to gather information on powerful clans, alchemists, and people with exceptional soul talent. His warning alarmed Xiao Yan, who suspected the Soul Hall was targeting the Xiao Clan.

• Yao Ling grew furious at Cao Ying’s confidence in Xiao Ting’s backing and vowed to win Xiao Ting’s support herself.
• Yun Shan and Yun Yun arrived at the Xiao Clan, where Caili transformed into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and returned to Xiao Ting’s arms.
• Xiao Ting learned Yun Shan would not demand Yun Yun’s release and offered to negotiate on Caili’s behalf, but Yun Shan said Yun Yun would have to resolve her situation herself.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Ting to introduce them to Xiao Yan’s teacher, and Xiao Ting led them to Xiao Yan’s courtyard.
• Yao Lao appeared before Yun Shan, who explained that a Soul Hall protector had empowered him and ordered him to record information about Xiao-surnamed clans, talented cultivators, alchemists, and people with exceptional soul talent.
• Xiao Yan became alarmed and suspected the Soul Hall was coming after the Xiao Clan.

Yun Shan revealed that the Soul Hall was targeting the Xiao Clan and asked Yao Lao to remove a soul mark left by Protector Wu. The Misty Cloud Sect and Xiao Clan agreed to cooperate, and Yun Yun arranged to accompany Xiao Ting to Jia Nan Academy disguised as his maid.

• Yao Lao explained that the Soul Hall had long searched for something and targeted alchemists, while Yun Shan described Protector Wu's soul mark and the Soul Hall's role in the Misty Cloud Sect's history.
• Yun Shan vowed that the Misty Cloud Sect would never coexist with the Soul Hall and offered to protect the Xiao Clan in exchange for Yao Lao's help.
• Yao Lao offered to refine a Soul-Cleansing Pill if Yun Shan gathered the herbs, and Xiao Ting proposed entering the Life and Death Gate as the price for cooperation.
• Yun Shan explained that the Life and Death Gate altar could convert sacrificed Soul Hall members' cultivation into energy, and Xiao Ting accepted an alliance without further compensation.
• Yun Shan suggested that Yun Yun accompany Xiao Ting to Jia Nan Academy as his maid, and Xiao Ting began calling her Xiao Yun'er to hide her identity.

Xiao Ting accompanied Yun Shan and Yun Yun to the Misty Cloud Sect, where he unexpectedly gained Yun Potian’s recognition and was sent to claim the sect founder’s inheritance. Yun Shan struggled with an outsider receiving the inheritance, then proposed marrying Yun Yun to Xiao Ting so their future children could bring it back to the sect.

• Xiao Ting, Xiao Yan, Yun Shan, and Yun Yun traveled to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Ting recorded his surprise at visiting before the Three Year Agreement.
• At the Life and Death Gate altar, Xiao Ting learned that revealing his soul realm and Purple Heaven Sky Flame could earn Yun Potian’s recognition and grant him access to the eighth level.
• Xiao Ting activated the altar with his flame and soul power, gained Yun Potian’s recognition, and vanished in a burst of azure energy.
• Yao Chen explained that Yun Potian had been a Peak Dou Zun, and Xiao Yan rejoiced that Xiao Ting would likely receive his inheritance.
• Yun Shan lamented that an outsider had obtained the sect’s inheritance, but Yun Yun reminded him that he had promised to respect Yun Potian’s choice.
• Yun Shan suggested marrying Yun Yun to Xiao Ting so their children could return the inheritance to the Misty Cloud Sect and inherit the sect leadership.

Yun Shan urged Yun Yun to marry Xiao Ting for the sake of her future and the Misty Cloud Sect, while Xiao Ting received Yun Potian’s inheritance in the Life and Death Gate. He gained a growth-type sword technique and information about a wild Heavenly Flame, leaving him considering how to obtain it for Xun'er.

• Yun Shan told Yun Yun that marrying Xiao Ting would benefit her and the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Yun said she would consider the matter herself.
• Xiao Ting accepted Yun Potian’s inheritance on the eighth level of the Life and Death Gate, receiving the high-grade Earth Tier Wind Flame Meteor Slash and its wind sword-intent seed.
• Yun Potian’s voice explained that Xiao Ting could use the Gate’s sword intent to temper sacrifices and asked him to protect the Misty Cloud Sect or kill members of the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Ting learned that Wind Fury Dragon Flame appeared in desert tornadoes near the Mu Lan Empire and planned to find it and give it to Xun'er.
• Yun Yun wondered whether Xiao Ting would teach her the inherited technique.

Xiao Ting helped the Xiao Clan and Misty Cloud Sect establish a secret alliance against the Soul Hall, while Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran renewed their challenge to settle their engagement dispute in two years. After half a month of seclusion, Xiao Ting reached peak Dou Ling and asked Yun Yun for pills to help him break through, leaving her to reconsider the cost of Yao Chen’s services.

• Xun'er cultivated the Fen Jue and planned to grow strong enough to reunite with Xiao Ting at Jia Nan Academy, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin pursued similar goals.
• Xiao Ting told the others he would cultivate on the Life and Death Gate’s eighth floor and agreed on behalf of the Xiao Clan to cooperate with the Misty Cloud Sect against the Soul Hall.
• Yao Chen arranged to refine a Soul-Cleansing Pill for Yun Shan, and Yun Shan agreed to keep the alliance secret until his soul’s hidden danger was resolved.
• Xiao Yan encountered Nalan Yanran, challenged her to settle their engagement dispute at the Nalan Clan in two years, and left her shocked by his Flight Dou Technique.
• After half a month, Xiao Ting reached peak Dou Ling and asked Yun Yun for pills to help him break through, then explained the high price Yao Chen would charge for refining the Soul-Cleansing Pill.

Xiao Ting used his authority over the Life and Death Gate to bring Yun Yun to its eighth level, where they prepared to cultivate. Seven days later, Ruo Lin’s recruitment team returned to Peace Town, where rival instructors challenged her results.

• Yun Yun gave Xiao Ting a King-Ascension Pill and a Dou Spirit Pill, and Xiao Ting used Spatial Power to take them.
• Yun Yun learned Xiao Ting could enter every level of the Life and Death Gate, then questioned why her sect’s leaders had never reached the eighth level.
• Xiao Ting brought Yun Yun to the eighth level, where she and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python joined him as he prepared to break through.
• Xiao Ting encouraged Yun Yun to cultivate in the dense wind-attributed energy, and she acknowledged that the eighth level belonged to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Seven days later, Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment teams returned to Peace Town, and Tie Shan mocked Ruo Lin for her past recruitment results.
• Huo Qing'er challenged Ruo Lin’s boast about this year’s recruits, while Xiao Yan and the others reacted strangely to the mention of an A-grade student.

Jia Nan Academy began its formal enrollment examination, where Huo Qing'er presented Han Yue as a Seven-Star Da Dou Shi and challenged Ruo Lin to match her. The examination revealed the exceptional talents of Ruo Lin’s students, and Xun’er stunned everyone by testing as a Two-Star Dou Shi at fifteen.

• Huo Qing'er introduced Han Yue, a nineteen-year-old Seven-Star Da Dou Shi she had recruited from Tianbei City, and declared that she would contend for first place.
• Ruo Lin insisted that Han Yue would not take first place this year, while Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin recognized Han Yue as a girl with a Notebook Copy.
• Qian Sen directed the instructors and students to the airship plaza, where the academy’s formal enrollment examination began.
• The examination revealed that Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan had talent beyond S-rank, though Huo Qing'er continued to favor Han Yue.
• Xun'er tested at fifteen years and three months old with a Two-Star Dou Shi cultivation, shocking everyone present.

At Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment, Xun’er revealed that Ruo Lin had found a fifth prodigy, Xiao Ting, whose strength surpassed her own. Hu Gan rushed to find Xiao Ting after hearing he had reached Six-Star Dou Ling before turning sixteen.

• The elders praised Xun’er’s extraordinary talent, while the boys admired her, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Han Yue; Xiao Yan teased them and thought of Xiao Ting.
• Huo Qing’er congratulated Ruo Lin for recruiting four geniuses, but Ruo Lin said she had found a fifth.
• Xun’er announced that her Brother Xiao Ting was even more talented than she was, and Ruo Lin identified him as Xiao Yan’s cousin from the Xiao Clan.
• Ruo Lin revealed that Xiao Ting, only a month older than Xun’er, had reached Six-Star Dou Ling, stunning the crowd.
• Hu Gan arrived and demanded to know where Xiao Ting was.

Xiao Ting arrived in Peace Town after gaining a great opportunity and entered the academy assessment despite breaking the town’s flight rules. His age and cultivation stunned everyone, revealing him as a fifteen-year-old Two-Star Dou Wang.

• Ruo Lin told Hu Gan that Xiao Ting had taken time off before enrolling, and Hu Gan offered to grant him a year.
• Xiao Ting flew into Peace Town, prompting Wu Tianlang and the Enforcement Team to confront him for breaking the flight rules and failing to take the required pill.
• Hu Gan vouched for Xiao Ting as a new student, and Xiao Ting greeted Xun'er, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Ting began the enrollment assessment, and the Test Stele recorded his age as fifteen years and four months.
• Xiao Ting's Magic Test Stele reading showed that he was a Two-Star Dou Wang, shocking everyone present.

Xiao Ting stunned Jia Nan Academy’s instructors by testing as a Two-Star Dou Wang and earning direct admission to the Inner Academy. When he asked about rewards for killing Demon Flame Valley members, he revealed that he had already slain a Dou Wang elder on his way to enroll.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed Xiao Ting’s exceptional talent and the obstacles he might face if he wanted to be with Xun’er.
• Hu Gan confirmed Xiao Ting’s test result and arranged his direct admission to the Inner Academy with special treatment.
• Xiao Ting asked whether killing Demon Flame Valley members earned academy rewards, and Huo Qing’er and Ruo Lin explained the merit system.
• Xiao Ting recounted killing several robbers and then a One-Star Dou Wang elder from Demon Flame Valley on the way to Peace Town.
• Xiao Ting produced the elder’s corpse, leaving the instructors and elders shocked by his casual achievement.

Xiao Ting earned recognition from Jia Nan Academy after killing Blood Skull Elder and was invited to enter the Inner Academy directly. As he traveled there with Su Qian, he asked to claim his merit by visiting the Scripture Library.

• Huo Qing'er recognized Blood Skull Elder's corpse and rejoiced that Xiao Ting had avenged her brother, Huo Jiu.
• Ruo Lin thanked Xiao Ting, and Su Qian confirmed Blood Skull Elder's identity and declared Xiao Ting's deed a great merit.
• Su Qian invited Xiao Ting to enter the Inner Academy directly and study under him, and Xiao Ting accepted.
• Xiao Ting said goodbye to Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan, then received special permission to travel freely between the Inner and Outer Academies.
• Xiao Ting flew with Su Qian toward the Inner Academy and asked to visit the Scripture Library to choose his reward.