Chapter Summaries

Jia Xingtian recognized Xiao Yan’s strength and moved the Jia Ma Imperial Family to support him, while Yun Shan learned that Xiao Yan had powerful allies and remained defiant. Xiao Yan later teased Liuli and exposed Zi Yan for stealing medicinal herbs, leaving the girls to confront each other.

• Jia Xingtian told Yao Ye that Xiao Yan was a Three-star Dou Huang who could rival a Dou Zong, then ordered her to block Misty Cloud Sect forces and prepare to visit the Mittel Family.
• Protector Wu warned Yun Shan that Xiao Yan had hired powerful experts from the Black Corner Region and urged him to seek help, but Yun Shan insisted the Five Sects Gathering would restore the Misty Cloud Sect’s standing.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Liuli for forgetting to call her Sister Liuli and left after she angrily refused to discuss their plans to attack the Misty Cloud Sect in five days.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that she had stolen medicinal herbs again, and Xiao Yan called out to Liuli to expose her.
• Liuli stormed out and dragged Zi Yan toward the courtyard while Xiao Yan watched before following them.

Xiao Yan rallied the Jia Ma Empire’s major powers to form an allied army against the Misty Cloud Sect. The Alchemist Guild and the Nalan Family joined the alliance, leaving the empire’s forces united behind him.

• Xiao Yan called on the gathered leaders to join him in destroying the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yao Ye pledged the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s support.
• Liuli teased Zi Yan while the leaders discussed the campaign, and Jia Xingtian asked Xiao Yan how likely he was to win; Xiao Yan said he was eighty percent confident.
• Fa Ma hesitated to commit the Alchemist Guild to battle, but Gu He announced that the Guild should join the alliance because the Misty Cloud Sect had taken the woman he loved.
• Mu Chen pledged the Mu Family’s support, citing the Misty Cloud Sect’s interference in its military positions.
• Xiao Yan reassured Nalan Jie that his grievances with Yan Ran had ended, and Nalan Jie pledged the Nalan Family’s support.

As the Allied Army prepared to challenge the Misty Cloud Sect, the sect hosted Yun Yun’s wedding and an alliance gathering with four other major sects. The Heavenly Poison Woman arrived as the ceremony’s final guest, while the Allied Army’s confrontation with the Misty Cloud Sect remained imminent.

• The Jia Ma Imperial Family and allied factions strengthened their defenses and forces, while local groups rose against Misty Cloud Sect-backed rulers.
• Xiao Yan cured the Imperial Family’s Six-star You Hai Jiao Beast with a Sixth-grade Hunyuan Bone-Shaping Pill, and spent several peaceful days exploring the Imperial Capital with Liuli, Zi Yan, and Medusa.
• On the fourth day after the Allied Army formed, Yun Yun’s wedding and the Misty Cloud Sect’s alliance ceremony began at Yun Lan Peak.
• Yun Shan and Yan Luotian welcomed the Mulan Three Elders, who arrived with their sect’s fighters.
• Ling Yun Gate Master Xia Houduo revealed himself at the gathering, and the Heavenly Poison Woman arrived in a deadly purple mist.

Yun Shan gathered the leaders of the five sects to propose an alliance, but Xiao Yan arrived with a powerful force and exposed Yun Shan’s alliance with the Soul Hall. The chapter ends with Protector Wu recognizing the pink-haired girl beside Xiao Yan as a formidable threat.

• The Poison Sect Leader arrived above the Misty Cloud Sect and refused to descend, while Yun Shan began discussing a Five Sects Alliance with the other leaders.
• The Mulan Three Elders challenged Yun Shan about Xiao Yan’s strength, and Yan Luotian promoted the alliance’s potential power and influence.
• Xiao Yan’s group appeared with dozens of Dou Wangs, eight Dou Emperors, and two Dou Zongs, prompting the Mulan Three Elders to accuse Yun Shan of hiding the danger from them.
• Yun Shan called on Protector Wu to demonstrate the Soul Hall’s strength, and Protector Wu emerged from Yun Shan’s shadow.
• Xiao Yan accused Protector Wu of involvement in his father’s disappearance and the slaughter of the Xiao Family, while Protector Wu recognized the pink-haired girl and retreated in fear.

Xiao Yan and the allied army attacked Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect while eight Soul Hall Protectors prepared a powerful formation. Xiao Yan confronted Yun Shan and struck with a surprise attack, while the battle across Yun Lan Peak began.

• Protector Wu summoned seven other Protectors, and Liuli agreed to take them on while Xiao Yan prepared to face Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan ordered the allied army to attack the Misty Cloud Sect, and Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and the others charged into battle.
• Ke Protector and the seven Soul Hall Protectors formed the Thousand Soul Bone Erosion Array, creating a black sphere that alarmed both armies.
• Yun Shan promised the five great sects a share of Xiao Yan's resources, and the Poison Sect Leader reacted to hearing Xiao Yan's name.
• Xiao Yan reached Peak Dou Huang and attacked Yun Shan, who dodged his flaming palm strike; Xiao Yan mocked him for fleeing from a Dou Huang.

Xiao Yan faced Yun Shan and three other Dou Zongs, relying on Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade their attacks while Yan Luotian pursued him for the technique. As Liuli guarded the Soul Hall Protectors and watched the fight, the Fusion Protector emerged with Peak Dou Zong strength, prompting her to turn her attention to its chains.

• Yun Shan called on Yan Luotian, Mulan Three Elders, Xia Houduo, and the Poison Sect Leader to attack Xiao Yan, and four of them joined the fight while the Poison Sect Leader held back.
• Xiao Yan evaded the group with Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and Yan Luotian grew greedy for the technique and urged the others to help pin him down.
• Yan Luotian intercepted Xiao Yan as he dodged Yun Shan's Wind Blades, and Xia Houduo struck him, grazing his shoulder before Xiao Yan escaped again.
• Liuli chose not to help Xiao Yan, reasoning that he had to defeat Yun Shan himself, and kept watch over the eight Soul Hall Protectors.
• The black mist sphere cracked apart and released the Fusion Protector, whose aura reached Peak Dou Zong, and Liuli prepared to cut off its chains.

Protector Ke’s fused form fought Liuli, while Xiao Yan struggled against Yun Shan and the other Dou Zong experts. The White-haired Woman stopped Xia Houduo’s attack, removed her veil, and revealed herself as Xiao Yi Xian.

• Protector Ke attacked Liuli, but she used the Heart Rain Sword to strike him and send him flying with a flood.
• Protector Ke gathered pitch-black energy to form a massive skeletal figure as Liuli watched from a high point.
• Xiao Yan struggled to defend himself against Yun Shan, Yan Luotian, Xia Houduo, and the other Dou Zong experts.
• The White-haired Woman released purple mist to block Xia Houduo from attacking Xiao Yan.
• The White-haired Woman removed her veil and revealed herself to be Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yan faced the allied Dou Zong forces as Xiao Yi Xian revealed herself as the Poison Sect Leader and joined his side, while the battle for Misty Cloud Sect intensified below. As the Imperial Guards charged after hearing Yun Shan was dead, a mysterious young man appeared and began killing anyone who approached him, declaring that he had come to kill Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan recognized the Poison Sect Leader as Xiao Yi Xian, and she agreed to help him deal with the enemy forces.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Medusa to join the fight, and she flew to help Xiao Yi Xian restrain Xia Houduo while Xiao Yan confronted Yun Shan.
• Eight Dou Zongs clashed above Misty Cloud Mountain as the Imperial Guards and Misty Cloud Sect disciples fought below.
• Yao Ye heard a claim that Yun Shan was dead, then ordered the Imperial Guards to charge the panicked Misty Cloud Sect defenders.
• A mysterious young man arrived on the battlefield and killed Imperial Guards and Misty Cloud Sect disciples alike, saying he had come to kill Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan's Three-Colored Fire Lotus devastated Misty Cloud Mountain and left Yun Shan near death. Xiao Yan killed him and captured his Soul Body, but an unseen attacker suddenly pierced Xiao Yan's chest and seized his heart.

• Xiao Yan's Three-Colored Fire Lotus exploded, destroying the summit and gravely injuring Yun Shan and Yan Luotian.
• Yan Luotian fled with his Nine-Line Sky Goose Wings while Xiao Yan waited for the flames to subside.
• Xiao Yan smashed Yun Shan's head, caught his fleeing Soul Body, and sealed him in a Jade Bottle.
• The Mulan Three Elders and Xia Houduo withdrew after Yun Shan's death, leaving the Misty Cloud Sect elders and Soul Hall Protectors to face Xiao Yan's side.
• An unseen attacker pierced Old Yao's defense, tore open Xiao Yan's chest, and dug into his heart.

Yun Shenghao attacked Xiao Yan on his master's orders, but Liuli arrived in time to save him and used her life force to stabilize his grave wounds. As Xiao Yi Xian carried the unconscious Xiao Yan away, Liuli confronted Yun Shenghao and stepped into the Dou Venerate realm.

• Yun Shenghao pierced Xiao Yan's chest, and Old Yao tried to restrain him and urged Xiao Yan to flee.
• Liuli rescued Xiao Yan from Yun Shenghao and treated his wounds with the Yin Yang Twin Flames, pills, and her life force.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Cai Lin arrived, and Xiao Yi Xian carried the stabilized but unconscious Xiao Yan away after noticing signs of a breakthrough.
• Yun Shenghao reappeared and attacked Xiao Yan, but Liuli's dark golden longsword blocked his punch.
• Liuli confronted Yun Shenghao, learned his name, and broke into the Dou Venerate realm as she attacked him.

Liuli fought Yun Shenghao to keep his power from devastating the gathered forces at Misty Cloud Mountain, while Medusa and Old Yao evacuated the others and protected Xiao Yan. Liuli discovered that Yun Shenghao’s golden barrier absorbed incoming attacks and reflected their energy back at her.

• Liuli attacked Yun Shenghao, and the clash between her Sword Qi and his golden barrier sent spatial cracks spreading across Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Hai Bodong led Miter Tengshan and the fleeing factions away, while Medusa carried Zi Yan toward the Imperial Capital.
• Old Yao shielded Xiao Yi Xian and the unconscious Xiao Yan with his Bone Spirit Cold Flame, then helped them retreat from the battlefield.
• Yun Shenghao shattered Liuli’s sword attack, struck her with reflected Space Power, and sent her crashing into the Misty Cloud Mountain main peak.
• Liuli rose from the dust and realized Yun Shenghao’s barrier absorbed attacks and returned their energy to her.

Liuli fought Yun Shenghao, but he overpowered her and devastated Yun Lan Peak, killing tens of thousands of people. After he blamed her for drawing him there and mocked her Sword Clan swordsmanship, Liuli awakened a mysterious power and severed his arm with Sword Qi.

• Liuli challenged Yun Shenghao, who vanished and used surprise attacks while she searched for him with Soul Power.
• Yun Shenghao trapped Liuli in an illusion and then subdued her, dropping her back to Peak Dou Zong with a punch to the abdomen.
• Yun Shenghao revealed that his Master sent him because Liuli would be there, and that he had come to kill Xiao Yan, capture Yao Chen, and deliver the Ancient Emperor Jade to the Soul Clan.
• Yun Shenghao's attack obliterated more than half of Yun Lan Peak, killing tens of thousands of people in the fighting below.
• Liuli stopped trembling, blocked Yun Shenghao's next punch with an invisible Sword Qi Barrier, and sliced his arm in two.

Liuli’s dormant persona took control, sealed Yun Lan Peak, and defeated Yun Shenghao with the Sword Clan’s techniques. After the persona collapsed unconscious, Mo Yuan arrived at the ruined Misty Cloud Mountain and found her.

• Liuli’s other persona sealed the area, stopped Yun Shenghao’s escape, and severed his arms with the first sword.
• The persona used the second sword to overwhelm Yun Shenghao’s transformed body, killing him with a torrent of Sword Qi.
• The persona removed her hairpin, let the barrier around Misty Cloud Mountain dissolve, and fell unconscious as Liuli’s pink hair returned.
• Mo Yuan found a white particle among the ruins and sealed it in a Jade Bottle, then discovered the unconscious girl.
• Mo Yuan fed the girl a medicinal pill, laid her against a broken wall, and vanished.

Mo Yuan reported Yun Shenghao’s death to the figure beyond the black door and was ordered to retrieve an item when the Spirit Imprisonment Realm opened. Meanwhile, Old Yao discovered that Han Feng had fused with the Fallen Heart Flame and was making it rampage inside Xiao Yan, leaving Xiao Yan’s fate uncertain.

• Mo Yuan delivered Yun Shenghao’s Soul Imprint to the figure beyond the black door and accepted an order to remain in the Northwest Region until the Spirit Imprisonment Realm opened.
• After Mo Yuan left, the White Figure emerged, picked up the Jade Bottle, and crushed it.
• Xiao Yan’s body burned as his Dou Qi and Heavenly Flame clashed, so Xiao Yi Xian left the cave after Old Yao promised to save him.
• Old Yao entered Xiao Yan’s sea of Qi and discovered that Han Feng had fused with the Fallen Heart Flame and hidden within it.
• Han Feng revealed that he wanted Xiao Yan to perish with him and warned Old Yao that Soul Infusion was the only way to remove him without killing Xiao Yan.
• Han Feng drove the Fallen Heart Flame through Xiao Yan’s body while chanting, “Soul Infusion, life for life!”

Old Yao helped Xiao Yan survive Han Feng’s attack and advance his Soul Power, leaving himself weakened and forced to sleep. A month later, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a seven-star Dou Huang, but Old Yao sealed Medusa’s Dou Qi and trapped her with him as Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames triggered a dangerous frenzy.

• Old Yao used the Mysterious Spirit Secluded Bamboo and part of his Soul Origin to help Xiao Yan reach the Spiritual Realm, then prepared to sleep for about a year.
• Medusa and Zi Yan cared for the unconscious Liuli at the Xiao Family New Mansion, where Liuli had remained asleep for a month.
• Medusa sensed Xiao Yan’s powerful aura and found him in a secret chamber, where he had broken through to seven-star Dou Huang and gained formidable Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan expelled Han Feng’s consciousness and began absorbing the three Heavenly Flames while Old Yao warned Medusa that Xiao Yan would go berserk.
• Old Yao sealed Medusa’s Dou Qi and trapped her in the chamber with Xiao Yan, who opened his red-glimmering eyes and turned toward her.

Liuli woke after nearly a month unconscious and learned that Zi Yan and Cai Lin had found her in the ruins of Misty Cloud Mountain. She went to check on the recovering Xiao Yan but found him and Medusa together in a pool, then fled the cave in embarrassment.

• Zi Yan watched Medusa leave, then discovered Liuli had awakened and tried to slip away after smearing dirt on her face.
• Liuli questioned Zi Yan about what had happened and learned she had been found in the ruins after Misty Cloud Mountain went quiet.
• Liuli punished Zi Yan for leaving dirt on her, gave her a bottle of Pills, and learned that Xiao Yan was recovering in a cave southwest of the Imperial Capital.
• Liuli went to the cave and found a barrier sealing it off from the outside.
• Liuli saw Xiao Yan and Medusa having sex in the pool and fled in a panic.

Liuli returned from witnessing Xiao Yan and Medusa together, only to discover that she was crying without knowing why. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan apologized to Medusa after the encounter and asked her to stay as his woman, leaving her stunned.

• Liuli wondered how Xiao Yan and Medusa had become intimate and reasoned that their early bond might benefit them all.
• Liuli returned to the courtyard, where Zi Yan noticed she was crying, though Liuli did not know why.
• Xiao Yan finished restoring Medusa with the Life Origin Fluid and apologized for what he had done while absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Medusa tried to leave for the Snake People Clan but struck Old Yao's barrier and fell into the pool.
• Xiao Yan let Medusa strike him, then asked her to stay and be his woman, leaving her confused and disbelieving.

Xiao Yan discovered why Liuli had shut him out and returned her Yin Yang Twin Flames, while the two confronted their feelings and agreed to take a month to think things over. After Liuli joined the Flame Alliance, she suddenly suffered severe pain as she tried to refine the flames again.

• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan that Liuli had visited him after waking, seen him with Cai Lin, and returned in tears.
• Xiao Yan called out to Liuli about the Yin Yang Twin Flames, and she rushed out and kissed him to absorb the flames back into her body.
• Liuli asked Xiao Yan for a month apart to think, but he explained what had happened with Cai Lin and reassured her that he had not said he disliked her.
• Xiao Yan invited Liuli to join the Flame Alliance, and she agreed while demanding twice the salary of the others.
• Liuli suddenly clutched her abdomen and collapsed in pain while trying to return and refine the Yin Yang Twin Flames.

Xiao Yan learned that Liuli’s Sword Heart had worsened after she returned the Yin Yang Twin Flames fire seed, but she hid how serious the danger was and teased him about their future seniority. The chapter left Xiao Yan preparing to enter the Northwest Region Sect Competition to obtain the Six Yang Fire Marrow Grass needed for a pill.

• Liuli woke from a dream in which she and Xiao Yan had married in her original world, then remembered that she had kissed him while half-asleep.
• Xiao Yan asked about Liuli’s chaotic Dou Qi, and she told him her condition would need to be resolved by herself.
• Liuli reassured Xiao Yan and joked that she had helped him so he would still have to call her big sister after becoming a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan told Liuli he planned to compete in the Northwest Region Sect Competition.
• Xiao Yan showed Liuli that the competition’s top-twenty rewards included the Six Yang Fire Marrow Grass, the last core ingredient needed for the Six Yang Evil Dispelling Pill.

Xiao Yan outlined the Flame Alliance’s plans for the Sect Competition and rewarded its members as he prepared to travel to the Northwest Region with Liuli. A letter arrived and changed his expression, leaving its contents unknown.

• Xiao Yan proposed that the Flame Alliance enter the Sect Competition, and Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and Fa Ma recalled their past failure to rank among the top hundred.
• Xiao Yan gave Jia Xingtian Yun Leng’s Dou Zong Arm Bone for free and promised rewards to those who contributed to the alliance.
• Xiao Yan distributed Imperial Pills to Dou Emperors and Spirit Dou Pills to Dou Kings who had helped defeat the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan said that he and Liuli would go to the Sect Competition while Queen Medusa, Jia Xingtian, and the others guarded the empire.
• A Mittel Family Hidden Guard delivered Xiao Yan a letter, and Xiao Yan’s expression changed after he read it.