Chapter Summaries

Xiao Bai completed a peak Rank 6 pill and received a visit from Misty Cloud Sect elders Yun Leng and Gu He, who invited him to their gathering. Suspecting their visit was connected to Wu Protector and the soul-restoring pill, Xiao Bai accepted the invitation while preparing for the sect’s upcoming event.

• Xiao Bai successfully refined two clusters of peak Rank 6 pill liquid, and Cai Lin and Zi Yan joined him as he went to meet the visitors.
• Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, Hai Bodong, Nalan Yanran, Ya Fei, and Xiao Yan arrived, and Xiao Yan introduced himself as the Alchemist Convention champion Yan Xiao.
• After sensing an unseen presence, Xiao Bai severed Xiao Yan’s connection to the Green Lotus Core Flame before Nalan Yanran brought in Yun Leng, Gu He, and Liu Ling.
• Yun Leng invited Xiao Bai to visit the Misty Cloud Sect and attend a gathering for its Young Sect Master, while Xiao Bai suspected the sect was trying to connect him with Wu Protector.
• Gu He praised Xiao Bai’s alchemy and expressed interest in exchanging techniques with him, and Xiao Bai agreed to meet again.

Xiao Bai reassured Xiao Yan about his sealed Na Ling, discussed his plans for Cai Lin and Jia Xingtian, and spent the night trying to understand Spatial Power through Zi Yan's talent. After Xiao Yan reported that Nalan Jie had arrived, Xiao Bai set out to deal with him, then agreed to go to the Misty Cloud Sect the next day with Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Bai released the seal on Xiao Yan's Na Ling and explained that Xiao Yan's Flame Mantra made it unnecessary as he mastered the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Bai told Cai Lin that he had a condition planned for Jia Xingtian, then tried to get intimate with her before she used Spatial Power to evade him.
• Xiao Bai spent the night observing Zi Yan's innate spatial talent, and by dawn he had begun sensing Spatial Power with his Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao saw that Xiao Bai had reached an extraordinary level of spatial perception, and Xiao Bai asked why Xiao Yan had come before learning that Nalan Jie had arrived.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Bai to visit the Misty Cloud Sect the next day, and Xiao Yan agreed to accompany him.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement and began fighting Nalan Yanran, while Yun Yun recognized his connection to A Niu and worried about the danger surrounding the match. As the duel continued, Xiao Bai watched from the Imperial Capital while a mysterious dragon remained inside a medicine cauldron.

• Xiao Yan climbed to the Misty Cloud Sect’s summit and declared that he had come to keep his appointment with Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Yun recognized Xiao Yan as the brother of A Niu, while Yun Leng presided over the agreement and accepted Xiao Yan’s demand that the duel be life or death.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began fighting after exchanging their views on her broken engagement and the Xiao Clan’s humiliation.
• The spectators were astonished that Xiao Yan could match Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun wondered whether A Niu had helped him grow so strong.
• Xiao Bai watched the distant duel from the Imperial Capital before turning his attention to the dragon sleeping inside his medicine cauldron, as Cai Lin and a small companion watched nearby.

Xiao Yan used the Purple Flame and revealed his identity as Yan Xiao during his duel with Nalan Yanran, then brought out the Green Lotus Core Flame. The Misty Cloud Sect recognized him as the person it had been hunting, and Yun Leng prepared to capture him as Yun Yun and the others reacted.

• Xiao Yan struck Nalan Yanran with Eight Extremes Collapse, but she recovered and gathered energy for her decisive attack.
• Xiao Yan recalled Bai Ge’s advice, chose to follow his instincts, and swallowed a pill before spitting out the Purple Flame.
• Fa Ma and Jia Xingtian recognized Xiao Yan as Yan Xiao, while Nalan Yanran realized that the man she had known as Yan Xiao was Xiao Yan.
• Yun Yun suspected that Xiao Yan’s secret was connected to Bai Xiansheng, and Gu He recognized the Green Lotus Core Flame as the flame the sect had sought.
• Yun Leng ordered the Misty Cloud Sect elders to wait until Nalan Yanran’s duel was over before capturing Xiao Yan, while Jia Xingtian hoped the conflict would draw Bai Xiansheng into the open.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran with his fire lotus, rejected Yun Yun’s offer to renew their engagement, and prepared to leave the Misty Cloud Sect. Yun Leng invoked the sect’s Inheritance Token to have Xiao Yan seized, while Xiao Yan remained calm and Yun Yun wondered if Bai Ge had come too.

• Xiao Yan’s Green Purple Fire Lotus collided with Nalan Yanran’s sword attack, and the resulting shock wave injured her and battered the square.
• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran and told her he had fought to reclaim his clan’s dignity, not to take revenge on her.
• Yun Yun appeared and offered to continue Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s engagement, but Xiao Yan refused and prepared to leave.
• Yun Leng accused Xiao Yan of being the wanted man and demanded that Yun Yun detain him, but she rejected his claims and defended Xiao Yan.
• Yun Leng raised the Misty Cloud Sect’s Inheritance Token and ordered the elders and deacons to seize Xiao Yan.
• Yun Yun warned Xiao Yan not to resist, but he stayed composed and she asked whether Bai Ge had come too.

Xiao Yan was trapped by Misty Cloud Sect elders, but Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian intervened to protect him. Yun Leng realized their actions were tied to Bai Xiansheng and, despite their opposition, prepared to summon help as the confrontation escalated.

• Xiao Bai revived the Little Golden Dragon in a Medicine Cauldron, and the dragon recovered its source energy.
• Yun Yun ordered the elders not to hurt Xiao Yan, but they trapped him inside a shrinking Wind-Fire-Wood Wall.
• Hai Bodong froze and shattered the barrier, then tried to escort Xiao Yan out while Misty Cloud Sect disciples sealed the square with the Yun Lan Mist Formation.
• Yun Leng attacked Xiao Yan, but Jia Xingtian blocked him, while Hai Bodong fought off three elders.
• Yun Leng recognized Xiao Yan as one of Bai Xiansheng's people and raised a cloud-white flute as voices called for him to stop.

Yun Shan arrived after Yun Leng summoned him and subdued Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, and Jia Xingtian, but Yao Lao broke free and confronted Wu Protector. As Wu Protector targeted Xiao Yan because of his surname, Xiao Yan called for help, and Xiao Bai announced his arrival at Misty Cloud Sect.

• Yun Leng summoned Yun Shan, who appeared as a Dou Zong and trapped Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, and Jia Xingtian with his wind techniques.
• Yao Lao broke the restraints and struck Yun Shan, but Wu Protector emerged from the sect hall and challenged him.
• Wu Protector ordered Yun Shan to capture Xiao Yan personally because Xiao Yan belonged to the Xiao Clan, then attacked Yao Lao with a black chain.
• Xiao Bai, who had been waiting for Wu Protector, flew toward Misty Cloud Mountain with Cai Lin following him.
• When Yun Shan confronted Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan called out for Brother Bai, and Xiao Bai announced that he had come to pay a visit to Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Bai arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect, shattered its protective array, and confronted Yun Shan while Cai Lin and Yao Lao battled Wu Protector. After trading powerful attacks with Yun Shan, Xiao Bai sought to borrow something from Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian to prepare for the next stage of the fight.

• Xiao Bai broke the Misty Cloud Sect’s Guardian Sect Array and revealed himself, surprising the disciples and reconnecting with Yun Yun.
• Xiao Bai struck Yun Leng, and Cai Lin intercepted Yun Shan’s counterattack before he could hit Xiao Bai.
• Cai Lin joined Yao Lao against Wu Protector while Xiao Bai stayed to face Yun Shan.
• Xiao Bai matched Yun Shan’s physical strike and answered his Dou Technique with a thunderbolt from the storm clouds.
• Xiao Bai told Yun Shan that his thunder attack had only been a test, then went to Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian to borrow something.

Xiao Bai borrowed Hai Bodong’s cultivation to reach Two-Star Dou Emperor, then fought Yun Shan with a Five Elements Thunder Dragon and overwhelmed him using close combat and Spatial Power. He ended the chapter holding Yun Shan by the neck while Yun Yun reminded him of his promise not to kill her teacher.

• Xiao Bai slashed Hai Bodong three times, temporarily lowering his cultivation and raising Xiao Bai’s strength to Two-Star Dou Emperor.
• Jia Xingtian offered his cultivation, but Xiao Bai saved that option as Yun Shan launched Wind Brake Obliteration.
• Xiao Bai’s Thunder Dragon. Space Rend clashed with Yun Shan’s giant sword, and both fighters were injured before exchanging blows at close range.
• Yun Yun blocked Xiao Bai and pleaded for Yun Shan’s life, so Xiao Bai promised not to kill him but refused to let him recover.
• Xiao Bai used Spatial Power to strike Yun Shan down and lifted him by the neck as Yun Yun reminded him of his promise.

Xiao Bai appeared to kill Yun Shan, but secretly placed seals on him to trap Wu Protector when he tried to reclaim his power. The seals weakened Wu Protector long enough for Yao Lao and Cai Lin to attack, but Wu Protector escaped into the black fog and reappeared beside Xiao Bai.

• Xiao Bai struck Yun Shan twice, leaving him apparently dead, and Yun Yun blamed Xiao Bai before withdrawing her sword and ending their relationship.
• Wu Protector blocked Cai Lin from reaching Xiao Bai, while Xiao Bai let Yun Yun threaten him without resisting.
• Xiao Bai pulled Yun Yun away from a black chain that shot from the void, and the collision injured him as Wu Protector entered the square.
• Wu Protector tried to harvest Yun Shan's soul, but a hidden seal entered Wu Protector and weakened him, allowing Yao Lao and Cai Lin to attack.
• Wu Protector pulled another seal from Yun Shan and escaped inside black fog, then Yao Lao warned Xiao Bai as a black shadow appeared beside him.

Wu Protector attacked Xiao Bai and stole Gu He's soul, but Xiao Bai used Yun Shan's cultivation to reach Eight-Star Dou Emperor and revealed his hidden seal. After warning Yao Lao and Cai Lin about the danger to their clans, Xiao Bai detonated the seal inside Wu Protector, leaving him badly shaken in the black fog.

• Wu Protector struck at Xiao Bai with a false palm, and Xiao Bai saw through it and dispersed it with his Golden Dragon Spear.
• Wu Protector ambushed Gu He, pulled out his soul, and fought off Cai Lin, Yao Lao, and Xiao Bai with his chains.
• Xiao Bai and Jia Xingtian used Yun Shan to raise Xiao Bai's cultivation to Eight-Star Dou Emperor, and Yun Yun realized that her teacher was still alive.
• Xiao Bai told Yao Lao and Cai Lin to fight Wu Protector with everything they had, then opened the vertical eye on his brow.
• Xiao Bai detonated the seal inside Wu Protector's Soul Origin, triggering an explosion that shook the black fog.

Wu Protector attacked Xiao Bai and the others with a giant Soul Body, but Xiao Bai disrupted it with his lightning and saved Xiao Yan from capture. As Wu Protector fled toward Wutan City, Xiao Bai tracked him with his vertical eye and repeatedly struck him with Five-Colored Lightning, leaving Wu Protector threatening to wipe out the Xiao Clan.

• Wu Protector formed a giant Soul Body from collected souls and unleashed it against Yao Lao, Cai Lin, and Xiao Bai.
• Xiao Bai spotted strange black mist inside the Soul Body and used Golden Thunder to disrupt its fusion before it exploded.
• Wu Protector fled in the ensuing darkness and nearly captured Xiao Yan, but Xiao Bai's Five-Colored Lightning forced him to retreat.
• Yao Lao chased Wu Protector with Cai Lin, while Wu Protector escaped toward the Demon Beast Mountain Range and considered investigating Wutan City for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Bai kept his vertical eye on Wu Protector and struck him with Five-Colored Lightning throughout his flight toward Wutan City.
• Wu Protector arrived near Wutan City badly weakened and vowed to wipe out the Xiao Clan.

After capturing Wu Protector, Xiao Bai collapsed from exhausting his Soul Strength and woke five days later in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital. As Yun Yun visited him and Cai Lin grew jealous, Zi Yan tried to defuse their rivalry by saying Xiao Bai liked everyone drinking tea together.

• Wu Protector realized Xiao Bai had planned his capture and was left for the Amethyst Winged Lion King to guard.
• Xiao Bai exhausted himself using the vertical eye, then fell into Yun Yun's arms and remained unconscious for five days.
• News of the battle spread across the Jia Ma Empire, making Xiao Bai famous as a young peak Dou King and Rank 6 Alchemist.
• Xiao Bai woke and learned Cai Lin had Wu Protector with Yao Lao, while his Soul Strength still needed to recover.
• Yun Yun reassured Xiao Bai that she did not blame him for the Misty Cloud Sect's losses, and she admitted the sect and Yun Shan mattered most to her.
• Cai Lin and Yun Yun exchanged pointed remarks over Xiao Bai until Zi Yan announced that Xiao Bai liked everyone drinking tea together.

Xiao Bai proposed an alliance between the Snake-People Race and major Jia Ma Empire powers to protect Cai Lin and Yun Yun from the Hall of Souls while he was away. Cai Lin agreed to serve as deputy alliance leader, and Yun Yun departed after sharing a private, affectionate moment with Xiao Bai.

• Zi Yan teased Xiao Bai about his devious smile, prompting him to call Yun Yun over and announce that he wanted to form an alliance.
• Xiao Bai outlined an alliance led by himself and built around the Snake-People Race, Misty Cloud Sect, Gama Royal Family, Alchemist Guild, and Mittel Family.
• Cai Lin questioned the plan because of the hatred between humans and the Snake-People Race, then agreed on the condition that she become deputy alliance leader.
• Xiao Bai explained that the alliance would protect Cai Lin and Yun Yun from the Hall of Souls while he was away, and reassured Cai Lin that he valued her more than any title.
• Yun Yun prepared to return to Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Bai privately comforted her before she left.

After recovering his Soul Strength, Xiao Bai gathered the Jia Ma Empire’s major factions and established the Divine Firmament Alliance to defend against neighboring empires. He appointed Medusa Queen and Yun Yun as vice alliance leaders, promised rewards to secure support, and prepared to enter seclusion to break through to Dou Emperor.

• Xiao Bai emerged from half a month of seclusion with his Soul Strength restored, while Cai Lin and Zi Yan welcomed him outside.
• Xiao Bai proposed uniting the Jia Ma Empire’s factions, and the Misty Cloud Sect, Mittel Family, imperial family, Alchemist Guild, Xiao Clan, and other factions agreed to join the alliance.
• Xiao Bai named the alliance Divine Firmament and appointed Medusa Queen and Yun Yun as vice alliance leaders, while Hai Bodong became chief elder.
• Xiao Bai promised Fa Ma help advancing to sixth-tier alchemist and offered Jia Xingtian a Sect Breaking Pill through the alliance’s contribution system.
• Xiao Bai promised alliance members access to strength-enhancing pills, then said he would enter seclusion to break through to Dou Emperor and left alliance affairs to the vice alliance leaders.

Xiao Bai questioned the captured Soul Hall Protector Wu Ying, learning how the Hall identified the Xiao Clan and why it had been searching for them. With the clan and Jia Ma Empire matters settled, Xiao Bai prepared to enter seclusion at the Misty Cloud Sect to break through to Dou Emperor, while Xiao Yan set off for Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Bai thanked Xiao Zhan for the Xiao Clan’s kindness and learned that the clan had relocated successfully and was managing Wutan City.
• Xiao Bai trapped Wu Ying with lightning and questioned him, learning that the Soul Hall sought a particular Xiao Clan through a blood-reactive crystal bead.
• Xiao Bai sealed Wu Ying back in the jade bottle and decided to enter seclusion at the Misty Cloud Sect to advance to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan left for Jia Nan Academy, while Yao Lao questioned Xiao Bai about the Xiao Clan and the promised resurrection research.
• Cai Lin announced she would return to her clan and warned Xiao Bai to stay alert around Yun Shan while he was at the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Bai entered seclusion in the Yun Lan Sect Forbidden Ground to advance from Dou Wang to Dou Emperor, drawing in an enormous amount of Heaven and Earth Energy. Yun Yun and Cai Lin arranged to protect him, and the chapter ended as an old man approached the spatial seal.

• Yun Yun brought Xiao Bai to her secluded cultivation cave, and they discussed his shattered Inner Armor before he entered seclusion.
• Xiao Bai began cultivating, releasing his suppressed Dou Qi and creating a massive energy vortex above the cave.
• Cai Lin arrived, used Space Lockdown to seal the mountain peak, and left Zi Yan to guard Yun Yun and Xiao Bai while she returned to make arrangements.
• Xiao Bai's Five Elements devoured Heaven and Earth Energy at an extraordinary rate, and several days passed as Yun Yun watched the vortex continue to grow.
• Zi Yan warned an old man not to touch the spatial seal and threatened to have Cai Lin beat him flat.

Yun Shan appeared at Xiao Bai’s breakthrough site, where Yun Yun and Zi Yan initially suspected he meant to harm Xiao Bai, but he helped break the spatial seal so more energy could reach him. After half a month, Xiao Bai successfully broke through to Dou Emperor and discovered that his soul was nearing the Spirit Realm.

• Yun Shan entered the sealed space, and Yun Yun confronted him when he said Xiao Bai’s inheritance could benefit the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Zi Yan and Yun Yun tried to stop Yun Shan from reaching the energy vortex, but he explained that he wanted to break the seal and help Xiao Bai’s breakthrough.
• Yun Shan shattered the spatial barrier, restoring the energy supply, and told Xiao Bai he supported Yun Yun’s relationship with him while entrusting the Misty Cloud Sect to Yun Yun.
• After half a month, the energy vortex poured its remaining energy into the cave, and Xiao Bai’s Dou Emperor aura surged across the region.
• Xiao Bai remained in seclusion after his breakthrough and sensed that his soul was close to reaching the Spirit Realm.

Xiao Bai received the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Thunder from the Divine Edict and discovered that it linked the five elements with yin and yang, briefly warping time and space around him. The effect faded after raising him to the peak of Two-Star Dou Emperor, leaving him unsure how to use the new dark-red lightning.

• Xiao Bai woke the Divine Edict, endured its lightning strikes, and received the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Thunder.
• The Thunder Seed entered Xiao Bai's Dantian, accelerated the balance of the five elements, and consumed the remaining Fallen Heart Flame.
• The resulting power warped time and space around the cave, making Zi Yan grow into an adult while Yun Yun became a little girl.
• Xiao Bai saw fleeting visions of possible past and future scenes and sensed a black-and-white yin-yang phantom in his Dantian.
• The strange power withdrew, and Xiao Bai's cultivation rose to the peak of Two-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Bai examined the dark-red lightning around his finger and wondered whether it was the power that had struck him when he was young.

Xiao Bai discovered that the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Thunder restored Wu Protector’s erased memories, revealing his past and hatred for the Hall of Souls. He considered using the thunder to recruit other protectors into a plan against the Hall of Souls, then emerged from the cave and found Yun Yun in a child’s body.

• Xiao Bai tested the Myriad Tribulations Reincarnation Thunder on Wu Protector and saw it tear through a hidden shackle in his soul.
• The thunder restored Wu Protector’s memories, and he revealed that he had been an unaffiliated Dou Zong named Wu Tian before the Hall of Souls captured him, erased his memories, and turned him into a Protector.
• Wu Protector declared that he wanted revenge on the Hall of Souls, and Xiao Bai offered him a chance before sealing him back in the bottle.
• Xiao Bai considered restoring the memories of other protectors and using them to undermine the Hall of Souls in the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Bai left the cave and found Yun Yun in a child’s body; he teased her by picking her up before setting her down.