Chapter Summaries

Liuli fought the peak Dou Zong monster with her nine swords, but Dark Mist sabotaged her ultimate attack and left her captured. Xiao Yan and Old Yao found Liuli’s body in the cave, unaware that she had sent a speck of silver light away before the monster seized her.

• Xiao Yan saw the monster carrying Liuli and considered staying to help, but Old Yao urged him to prioritize his mission and check on Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao entered the cave and found Liuli standing before Zi Yan’s purple cocoon, though Liuli said the circumstances were complicated.
• Liuli drove the monster toward its Rift Valley lair and summoned her nine divine swords to perform Nine Heavens Absolute Sound.
• As Liuli’s sword formation took shape, Dark Mist spread through her meridians, caused her to collapse, and extinguished her flames.
• Liuli sent a speck of silver light five li away before the monster bound her hands and feet and dragged her toward it.

Liuli explained how Monster had defeated her true body and asked Xiao Yan to retrieve her Storage Ring, which contained something capable of dealing with the beast. To help him survive the Dark Mist, she gave Xiao Yan a pearl that let him control the Yin Yang Twin Flames and shared her Sword Clan bloodline, raising his strength to Four-star Dou Spirit.

• Liuli explained that Monster's toxins mixed with Heaven and Earth Energy had blocked her true body's Dou Qi, and that Monster had taken all her Storage Rings.
• Old Yao urged Xiao Yan to retreat, but Liuli pleaded for help retrieving her Storage Ring from Monster's lair.
• Liuli said her Doppelganger could not travel more than five li from her true body and that Heavenly Flames could counter the Dark Mist in the lair.
• Liuli gave Xiao Yan a Black and White Pearl that let him control the Yin Yang Twin Flames.
• Liuli gave Xiao Yan a drop of her Sword Clan Essence Blood, granting him the Sword Clan's Dou Di bloodline and raising him to Four-star Dou Spirit.

Xiao Yan gained the Sword Clan's Dou Di bloodline and used it to raise his strength before setting out to retrieve Liuli's Storage Ring. He found the ring hanging from a smaller monster's horn beside a lava pool deep in the Rift Valley.

• Xiao Yan's cultivation rose to Peak Four-star Dou Spirit, and his Seven-Colored Sword Mark pushed him to Nine-Star Dou Ling when he activated the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations.
• Liuli asked Xiao Yan to retrieve her Storage Ring, then doubled over in pain as the monster attacked her original body.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan to hurry, and Xiao Yan flew from the cave while Old Yao stayed behind to protect Liuli.
• Xiao Yan entered the Rift Valley and used his Green Lotus Core Flame to burn away the Dark Mist as he searched among bones and rocky ledges.
• Xiao Yan reached a lava pool and spotted a sleeping smaller monster with Liuli's blue-glowing Storage Ring hanging from its horn.

Xiao Yan defeated the Fifth-tier Magical Beast guarding the cave and recovered Miss Liuli’s Storage Ring, though its gold coins spilled into the Lava Pool. He then collected hundreds of Magical Cores from the cave before discovering something incredible deeper inside.

• Xiao Yan recognized the monster’s Fifth-tier strength and attacked it with the Green Lotus Core Flame, which burned through its slime and injured its tentacles.
• Xiao Yan dodged the monster’s remaining tentacles and used Flame Splitting Wave Crushing Ruler to destroy its head and nearly split its body apart.
• Xiao Yan found Miss Liuli’s Storage Ring amid a torrent of gold coins, stopped it from spewing, and watched much of the gold flow into the Lava Pool.
• Xiao Yan entered the cave, protected himself from the black slime with Heavenly Flames, and collected several hundred Magical Cores.
• Xiao Yan ventured deeper into the cave, turned a corner, and discovered something incredible.

Liuli and Old Yao fought to protect Zi Yan’s advancement while waiting for Xiao Yan to return. Xiao Yan arrived, helped Liuli repel the pursuing beasts, and returned her Storage Rings, then Liuli revealed a mysterious compass-like object.

• Old Yao used the Bone Cold Spirit Fire to hold off a Peak Dou Zong Magical Beast, though his Soul Power was nearly exhausted.
• Liuli fought off the Beast Tide near the cave, killing several Fifth-tier Magical Beasts while protecting Zi Yan’s advancement.
• Xiao Yan arrived with dozens of pursuing Magical Beasts, and he and Liuli worked together to kill them.
• Liuli asked Xiao Yan for her Storage Ring, and he returned her rings while admitting he had destroyed the outermost one and melted over a million gold coins.
• Xiao Yan promised to compensate Liuli, who privately enjoyed making him feel indebted, then she showed him a compass-like object and tossed it into the sky.

Liuli used a compass to unleash a peak Dou Venerate’s Annihilation Slash, erasing the Beast Tide and several mountains while protecting Xiao Yan and Zi Yan. With Monster still holding Liuli’s true body captive, Liuli and Xiao Yan prepared to attack it and deliver pills to her.

• Liuli gave Xiao Yan a blue pill, shielded him, and activated the compass’s Annihilation Slash after protecting Zi Yan’s cocoon with a formation.
• The attack erased the nearby battlefield and Beast Tide, leaving Xiao Yan stunned as Liuli explained that the compass had used a peak Dou Venerate’s ultimate move.
• Monster stopped fighting Old Yao in fear of a Dou Venerate, then resumed its confidence when it realized no Dou Venerate had arrived and struck Liuli’s captive true body.
• Liuli loaded three pills into a crossbow-like device and asked Xiao Yan to help deliver them to her true body while Old Yao attacked Monster’s back.
• Old Yao agreed to fight with everything he had after Xiao Yan relayed Liuli’s mention of Mysterious Spirit Secluded Bamboo, and Xiao Yan flew after Liuli.
• An old man who had finished killing the last Sixth-tier Magical Beast headed toward the site of the attack.

Xiao Yan and Liuli fought the regenerating monster aboard the pirate ship, with Xiao Yan blasting open a gap so Liuli could inject pills into her bound body. Liuli awakened at Nine-Star Dou Zong strength and began overpowering the monster.

• Old Yao suppressed the monster with Bone Spirit Cold Flame while Xiao Yan and Liuli moved closer, and Xiao Yan prepared a Two-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan blasted through the monster's tentacles with the Fire Lotus, but its howl knocked him unconscious.
• Liuli caught Xiao Yan, gave him a pill, then flew through the opening and fired three medicinal bolts into her bound actual body.
• Liuli's Doppelganger merged with her actual body, and the awakened Liuli used pills and Sword Heart to reach Nine-Star Dou Zong strength.
• Liuli cut through the tentacles, forced the monster to its knees, and hammered its back with her fists.

Liuli defeated Monster with the Tai A Sword, but Monster transformed and severed Xiao Yan’s arm before Old Yao and Su Qian joined the fight. As Monster tried to escape, Liuli trapped him with a Scroll Painting and prepared to stop him.

• Liuli overwhelmed Monster with her Heavenly Flames and cut him into eight pieces with the Tai A Sword.
• Monster reformed as a horned Black-haired Man and severed Xiao Yan’s arm, while Liuli stabilized Xiao Yan with White Flame and Spirit Healing Pills.
• Old Yao attacked Monster with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but Monster regenerated from the damage.
• Su Qian arrived with Mang Tian Chi’s Golden Short Sword, which wounded Monster and suppressed his regeneration.
• Monster fled through Dark Mist but struck an invisible barrier, and Liuli confronted him with an unfolded Scroll Painting.

Liuli and Su Qian destroyed the monster threatening Jia Nan Academy, while Liuli stabilized Xiao Yan’s injuries and helped him leave with Old Yao. Zi Yan emerged from her advancement as a Sixth-tier Magical Beast, but Xiao Yan and Liuli were already gone.

• Su Qian trapped the monster with Liuli’s Scroll Painting, and Liuli burned it to nothing with her Heavenly Flames.
• Su Qian recognized Old Yao as Venerable Yao after seeing him summon the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Liuli used Life Flame to stabilize the meridians in Xiao Yan’s severed left arm, and she and Old Yao carried him away for treatment.
• Liuli told Su Qian that Zi Yan’s advancement, fueled by Primordial Void Dragon’s Essence Blood, had drawn the monster out of the Rift Valley.
• Zi Yan emerged from her purple cocoon with the strength of a Dou Emperor, found only Su Qian waiting, and shrank back to her original height.

Liuli and Old Yao treated the unconscious Xiao Yan, whose soul was badly damaged and whose left arm had been destroyed by Monster. Liuli left for the Elder Tower to seek a human bone for his replacement arm, but learned that Bai Hui’s corpse had been eaten and only White Yin’s remained.

• Liuli gave Old Yao a Mysterious Spirit Secluded Bamboo and rare herbs so he could restore Xiao Yan’s Soul Power.
• Old Yao began healing Xiao Yan’s soul while Liuli refined pills and planned to build a replacement arm from Magical Beast bones.
• Liuli realized a human bone could improve the chances of Xiao Yan’s arm healing successfully and flew to the Elder Tower.
• Liuli asked Su Qian whether White Yin and Bai Hui’s corpses were still available.
• Su Qian told Liuli that White Yin’s corpse had been kept, but Bai Hui’s body had been torn apart by animals and Magical Beasts.
• Liuli worried that White Yin’s Dou Zong bones might be too incompatible with Xiao Yan because of their difference in strength.

After waking, Xiao Yan discussed the loss of his arm with Liuli, who weighed the risks of attaching White Yin’s Dou Zong arm bone against the limits it might impose on his future cultivation. Xiao Yan produced a bottle of purple blood as a possible alternative, leaving Liuli surprised.

• Old Yao finished treating Xiao Yan, whose Soul Power had risen to the level of a Sixth-grade Alchemist, then left him and Liuli alone.
• Liuli apologized for Xiao Yan losing his arm and lamented her lack of combat experience, so Xiao Yan offered to train with her after he recovered.
• Liuli explained that White Yin’s arm bone could be forged into a replacement, but warned that it might limit Xiao Yan’s future cultivation; Xiao Yan affirmed that he believed he could become a Dou Saint.
• Liuli described other ways to restore the arm, including using powerful blood energy, though the method had less than a thirty percent chance of success.
• Xiao Yan took a bottle of purple blood from his Storage Ring and showed it to Liuli, who was startled.

Xiao Yan chose a painful treatment to restore his body using Primordial Void Dragon blood, with Liuli, Zi Yan, and Old Yao assisting him. Elsewhere, Han Feng and Hua Ji investigated the ruined battlefield, recognized that a powerful Dou Venerate had fought there, and prepared to target Jia Nan Academy’s Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan showed Liuli the Primordial Void Dragon blood he had found in the monster’s cave, and Liuli realized the monster had absorbed blood lost by the Old Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan chose Liuli’s risky treatment method rather than the safer option, and Liuli brought Zi Yan back to plan the procedure with Old Yao.
• Liuli assigned Zi Yan to transfer the blood essence’s power to Xiao Yan, while she stimulated his healing with the Yin Yang Twin Flames and Old Yao reshaped his meridians and bones.
• Xiao Yan endured a night of intense pain while the others carried out the treatment.
• Han Feng and Hua Ji examined the devastated battlefield, where Han Feng sensed four Dou Zong auras and three Heavenly Flame auras.
• Hua Ji concluded that a powerful Dou Venerate had ended the battle, then agreed to help Han Feng deal with Jia Nan Academy’s two Dou Zongs as he pursued its Heavenly Flame.

After waking from the arm-restoration procedure, Xiao Yan learned that Old Yao was safe and spent time with Liuli and Zi Yan. Liuli then revealed that finding Xiao Yan's father was connected to the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan woke to find his restored left arm and searched for Old Yao, whom Liuli said was recovering inside a spatial bamboo stalk.
• Liuli told Xiao Yan he had been unconscious for about two days and six hours, then teased him about calling for Xun Er and explained how she had comforted him during the treatment.
• Xiao Yan ate Liuli's roasted Kuai Le Water Buffalo and joked with her about marriage, while Liuli insisted she had no interest in marrying anyone.
• Xiao Yan said he wanted to find his father and help Old Yao obtain a physical body, then admitted he had no leads on his father's whereabouts.
• Liuli told Xiao Yan that his father's whereabouts were related to the Misty Cloud Sect, leaving him shocked.

Liuli told Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall had likely abducted his father to obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade and that Yun Shan had become its pawn. After Xiao Yan returned to Panmen, he found Xun Er’s urgent letter saying the Xiao Family was in trouble, and he suspected the Misty Cloud Sect was responsible.

• Liuli revealed that the Soul Clan controlled the Soul Hall and that the organization had likely captured Xiao Yan’s father for the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Liuli told Xiao Yan that Yun Shan had relied on the Soul Hall to become a Dou Zong and urged Xiao Yan to return to the Misty Cloud Sect to question its Soul Hall Protector.
• Xiao Yan thanked Liuli for her information, and they continued eating roasted meat together.
• When Xiao Yan returned to Panmen, a gatekeeper told him that Xun Er had urgently asked him to go to her dormitory.
• Xiao Yan found Xun Er’s letter directing him to the Outer Court because something had happened to the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the Misty Cloud Sect was the only force likely to have caused the Xiao Family trouble.

Xiao Yan learned that the Misty Cloud Sect had massacred most of the Xiao Family and crippled his brothers. Xiao Xun'er stopped him from rushing to his death, leaving him grieving and resolved to grow stronger before confronting the sect.

• Xiao Yan reached the Outer Court and learned Xiao Yu had gone to Instructor Ruo Lin, then hurried to find her.
• Xiao Yan arrived at a gathering with Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yu, Ruo Lin, and Hai Bodong, who revealed that the Misty Cloud Sect had attacked the Xiao Family during its attempted evacuation.
• Hai Bodong reported that only eighty-two Xiao Family members had survived, including Xiao Yan's crippled Elder Brother and injured Second Brother.
• Xiao Yan counted the dead and vowed to destroy the Misty Cloud Sect, then tried to leave and attack it immediately.
• Xiao Xun'er restrained Xiao Yan and reminded him that Yun Shan was a Dou Zong and that the clan needed him alive.
• Xiao Yan stopped struggling, asked what he could do, and wept as Xiao Xun'er urged him to grow stronger.

Xiao Yan reunited with his displaced Xiao Family and learned how Hai Bodong had rescued and relocated them. After seeing his injured brothers and hearing that some clansmen remained trapped in the Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Yan rejected Xiao Ding’s plan to move the family to the Black Corner Region and promised to find them a safer home.

• Hai Bodong told Xiao Yan that he had helped the Xiao Family escape the Jia Ma Empire and settle near Jia Nan Academy.
• Hai Bodong led Xiao Yan to the family’s camp, where the clansmen greeted Xiao Yan as the Third Young Master.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xiao Li, saw that his second brother had lost both forearms, and vowed revenge against the Misty Cloud Sect and Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding, who was confined to a wheelchair, and learned that about fifty Xiao Family members were still in the Jia Ma Empire under Mittel Family protection.
• Xiao Ding proposed moving the family to the Black Corner Region, but Xiao Yan rejected the dangerous plan and said he would find another place for them.

Liuli learned that the Misty Cloud Sect had devastated the Xiao Family and broke down in guilt and fear over the deaths, while promising to help Xiao Yan shelter his surviving relatives. After seeing Xiao Yan off, she crushed a spatial talisman and entered a Space Passage.

• Liuli waited for Xiao Yan to practice with her, but he arrived late and explained that the Misty Cloud Sect had attacked the Xiao Family.
• Liuli became distraught over the deaths and injuries, while Xiao Yan vowed to take revenge on the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan told Liuli that many surviving adults were badly hurt, including his elder and second brothers, and that his family needed a safe place to recover.
• Liuli offered to help Xiao Yan relocate his clansmen, and Xiao Yan thanked her.
• After Xiao Yan left, Liuli crushed a Spatial Jade Slip-like object and stepped into the Space Passage it opened.

Liuli collected skeletons and medicinal materials from the Sword Clan’s Resource Repository, but Gongsun Lin confronted her about her weakened bloodline and discovered she had drained it to save Xiao Yan. After Liuli claimed the Soul Clan had attacked the Xiao Family, Gongsun Lin went to investigate and ordered her to wait at Jia Nan Academy.

• Liuli asked Gongsun Mo for seven Dou Ling skeletons, four Dou Wang skeletons, and medicinal materials, claiming she wanted to try unusual Pill Refining methods.
• Gongsun Lin confronted Liuli after sensing that her Dou Di bloodline had weakened, then examined her and demanded an explanation.
• Liuli admitted she had dispersed some of her bloodline power to save Xiao Yan, prompting Gongsun Lin to scold her and forbid her from leaving the clan until she reached Dou Venerate.
• Liuli claimed the Soul Clan had attacked the Xiao Family to seize the Tou She Ancient God Jade and that she had driven off their Dou Zong Protector.
• Gongsun Lin went to investigate the Xiao Family and told Liuli to wait for him at Jia Nan Academy, while Liuli breathed a sigh of relief.

Gongsun Lin confronted Hun Tiandi over the Soul Clan’s attack on the Xiao Family and warned him against killing its clansmen. After Gongsun Lin left, Hun Tiandi identified the Sword Clan’s Ancient Emperor Jade as the hardest to obtain.

• Gongsun Lin entered the Hun Realm and swiftly defeated the Four Demon Saints of the Hun Clan.
• Gongsun Lin’s sword attack forced Hun Tiandi to intervene to save Hun Jing, and Hun Tiandi invited Gongsun Lin to meet at a mountain pavilion.
• Gongsun Lin accused the Soul Clan of slaughtering the Xiao Family, and Hun Tiandi said the Soul Hall’s subordinates had likely acted without his order.
• Gongsun Lin allowed the Soul Clan to take the Xiao Family’s Ancient Emperor Jade but threatened to kill Soul Clan Dou Venerates if it harmed other Xiao Family members, and threatened a Dou Saint if it harmed the jade’s bearer afterward.
• After Gongsun Lin departed, Hun Tiandi told the Black Flame Figure that Gongsun Lin matched him in strength, then resolved to focus on obtaining the Sword Clan’s Ancient Emperor Jade.

Liuli arranged for the Xiao Family to relocate to Jia Nan City and promised to make prosthetic limbs for its injured members. As Xiao Yan prepared to secure funds and refine the Earth Spirit Pill, Liuli arrived with academy escorts and renewed his hope for the clan’s future.

• Liuli left after Gongsun Lin departed and began researching how to compensate Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan sent a clan member and four Mittel Family Shadow Guards to auction five Two-patterned Green Spirit Pills in the Black Corner Region to raise funds for the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao prepared to leave and refine the Earth Spirit Pill, but a group of flying beasts arrived carrying an academy elder, a rugged man, and Liuli.
• The elder said he had come under the Great Elder’s orders to escort the Xiao Family clansmen to Jia Nan City for resettlement, and Xiao Yan thanked Liuli for arranging it.
• Liuli examined the injured clansmen and recorded their injuries and measurements so she could make them movable prosthetic limbs.