Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan and told Xiao Zhan about his astonishing achievements and experiences over the past two years, leaving his father overwhelmed with pride and shock. Just as Xiao Yan prepared to rest before the Three-Year Agreement, Yun Yun arrived with Nalan Yanran to visit.

• Xiao Zhan was stunned to learn Xiao Yan had become a Dou Emperor before turning eighteen, and Xiao Yan recounted his adventures and concealed some details of his cultivation.
• Xiao Zhan learned about Xiao Yan's relationships with Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Zhi, Qing Lin, and Queen Medusa, and asked how he would settle them while Xun Er waited for him.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan he had refined a Tier 7 Medicinal Pill at the Alchemist Conference, prompting his father to laugh with pride and worry about his son's hardships.
• Xiao Zhan urged Xiao Yan to rest before the Three-Year Agreement, and Xiao Yan agreed to return to his courtyard.
• A Xiao Clan attendant announced that Misty Cloud Sect Leader Yun Yun had arrived with her disciple Nalan Yanran to pay a visit.

Nalan Yanran apologized to Xiao Zhan for breaking her engagement with Xiao Yan, then chose to take the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill to prepare for their Three-Year Agreement. The agreement began the next day in Wutan City before a crowd of prominent guests, with Xiao Yan waiting in the plaza.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran visited the Xiao Clan, where Nalan Yanran bowed to Xiao Zhan and apologized for how she had ended her engagement three years earlier.
• Xiao Zhan accepted the apology but said the Three-Year Agreement would settle the matter after the following day, and Nalan Yanran left without seeking to restore the engagement.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun for the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, hoping to improve her cultivation before facing Xiao Yan, and Yun Yun gave it to her.
• Prominent figures from across the Jia Ma Empire arrived in Wutan City for the Three-Year Agreement, and Xiao Zhan received them at the Xiao Clan plaza.
• Xiao Yan waited beside a massive ruler at the center of the plaza, viewing the agreement as a chance to settle his grievances with Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Agreement duel using only his physique and Heavy Profound Ruler. After apologizing and offering to help her up, he left Nalan Yanran wondering whether they had met before.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran agreed that the duel’s winner would settle their past dispute, and both promised to have nothing more to do with the other afterward.
• Nalan Yanran attacked, but Xiao Yan dodged her sword without moving his feet, revealing the gap between them.
• Nalan Yanran revealed that she had reached Nine-Star Da Dou Shi and unleashed the Misty Cloud Sect technique Extreme Wind: Sunset Shine.
• Xiao Yan shattered Nalan Yanran’s sword energy with the Heavy Profound Ruler without using Dou Qi, then declared his victory.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Nalan Yanran and offered her his hand, but she grabbed his wrist and asked whether they had met before.

After defeating Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan, where Xiao Zhan gave him magical beast essence blood and the Ancient Jade. Xiao Yan planned to trade the jade to the Ancient Clan for resources and protect his clan, while Yun Yun visited him about Nalan Yanran suspecting his identity; as Yun Yun left, someone confronted her about going to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran and left her realizing that he was Yan Xiao, while Yun Yun took her away from the arena.
• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan a Storage Ring containing magical beast essence blood and entrusted him with the Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Yan considered trading the Ancient Jade to the Ancient Clan for resources and to lessen the Soul Clan's interest in the Xiao Clan.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran seemed to have guessed his identity, and Xiao Yan said Yun Yun could tell her the truth.
• Yun Yun left the Xiao Clan, but someone behind her asked, "Master, why did you just go to the Xiao Clan?"

After returning to the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan said goodbye to his father and traveled back to his courtyard, where Nalan Yanran came to ask whether he was really Yan Xiao. Yun Yun had left the truth for Nalan Yanran to discover herself, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan recognizing that she had noticed his hand.

• Nalan Yanran pressed Yun Yun to tell her the truth, and Yun Yun suggested she ask Xiao Yan or Yan Xiao herself.
• Xiao Yan spent two days with the Xiao Clan, refining medicinal pills and leaving them for the clan before departing.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Zhan a ring of pills and said goodbye, while Xiao Zhan promised to work hard to improve his cultivation.
• Aboard the Flying Boat, Xiao Yan learned that Jia Xingtian had returned to the Imperial Capital and entered seclusion to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• After reaching his courtyard, Xiao Yan received Nalan Yanran, who fixed her gaze on his exposed hand, and he realized why she had come.

Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran after she confessed her feelings, insisting that she had only loved Yan Xiao and that their agreement left them with no future together. Two days later, Queen Medusa and Ling Ying arrived as reinforcements for the coming battle with the Misty Cloud Sect, and Queen Medusa whisked Xiao Yan into his bedroom.

• Xiao Yan removed his mask and confirmed to Nalan Yanran that he was Yan Xiao.
• Nalan Yanran asked whether they could stay in touch, then confessed that she liked Xiao Yan and begged him for a chance.
• Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran, telling her she loved only the celebrated Yan Xiao, not the former cripple Xiao Yan, and had the Mittel Family attendant escort her out.
• Nalan Yanran left in tears, regretting their broken engagement and realizing she had not asked how her master knew Xiao Yan.
• After two days, Queen Medusa and Ling Ying arrived at Xiao Yan's courtyard as reinforcements for the coming battle with the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Queen Medusa teased Xiao Yan, then took him into his bedroom and sealed the room from outside; Ling Ying watched in confusion.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Yan learned that Jia Xingtian had broken through to Dou Zong and asked him to help attack the Misty Cloud Sect. When Jia Xingtian hesitated, Xiao Yan prepared to reveal his identity.

• Ling Ying told Xiao Yan that Hai Bodong had come looking for him while he was inside with Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yan summoned Hai Bodong, who reported Jia Xingtian's breakthrough to Dou Zong and warned that the Jia Ma Empire would become unsettled.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong that he planned to attack the Misty Cloud Sect and asked him to arrange a meeting with Jia Xingtian.
• At the Mittel Family auction house, Jia Xingtian thanked Xiao Yan for the Break-Ancestor Pill and offered to repay him.
• Xiao Yan asked Jia Xingtian to help attack the Misty Cloud Sect, but Jia Xingtian hesitated because of the risks of fighting Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan stopped Jia Xingtian from refusing and said he would reveal his true face beneath the mask.

Xiao Yan revealed his identity and extraordinary talent to Jia Xingtian, securing his support for the coming attack on the Misty Cloud Sect. After helping Queen Medusa advance to Five-Star Dou Zong, Xiao Yan trained and prepared for the confrontation with Yun Shan, and the appointed day arrived.

• Xiao Yan removed his mask and revealed to Jia Xingtian that Yan Xiao was his alias, persuading Jia Xingtian to commit the Imperial Family to the attack on the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa sparred in the bedroom, where he used the force-stacking method of Eight Extremities Collapse to win their second round.
• Xiao Yan gave Medusa an Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill, which she used to advance from Four-Star Dou Zong to Five-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan trained to apply Eight Extremities Collapse's force-stacking method to other Dou Techniques and refined pills to prepare for battle.
• Xiao Yan finished preparing, and the appointed day to meet Yun Shan at the Misty Cloud Sect arrived.

Xiao Yan visited the Misty Cloud Sect, unsettled Nalan Yanran by claiming he would choose Yun Yun over her, and rejected Yun Shan’s cruel soul-refining pill formula. Yun Shan and a hidden ally then pressed Xiao Yan to trade for the Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill, and the ally ordered Yun Shan to attack.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and followed Yun Yun to a reception room, where Nalan Yanran served him tea.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun that she was the one he would choose and reminded her that they had met while she sought Purple Spirit Crystal for Nalan Yanran; Nalan Yanran ran out in shock.
• Xiao Yan admitted he had used Yun Yun’s words partly to provoke Nalan Yanran, then hinted that his feelings were not entirely feigned, leaving Yun Yun wondering what he meant.
• Yun Shan showed Xiao Yan a Tier 7 Spirit-Transforming Soul-Ascension Pill formula, and Xiao Yan rejected it as cruel and evil.
• Yun Shan asked Xiao Yan to trade for the Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill, but Xiao Yan refused and the room turned tense.
• A hidden voice angrily ordered Yun Shan to attack Xiao Yan.

Yun Shan tried to seize Xiao Yan’s pills, but Xiao Yan’s allies arrived to confront the Misty Cloud Sect. Yun Yun chose to stand against her master, and Yun Shan called for Sect Master Yan as the standoff escalated.

• Yun Shan attacked Xiao Yan, who retreated to the plaza and summoned Jia Xingtian and Ling Ying to face the sect’s forces.
• Yun Leng led the elders and disciples in forming the Cloud Mist Sun-Covering Formation.
• Yun Yun asked what had happened, then learned Yun Shan had tried to take Xiao Yan’s pills by force.
• Yun Yun approached Xiao Yan as if to capture him, but turned to protect him and urged Yun Shan to stop making mistakes.
• Yun Shan accused Yun Yun of betraying him for love and called on Sect Master Yan to make his move.

Xiao Yan faced Yan Luotian, the Two-Star Dou Zong backing Yun Shan, and defeated him with a single powerful punch. With Yan Luotian dead, Jia Xingtian remained to confront Yun Shan.

• Yan Luotian arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and joined Yun Shan in confronting Xiao Yan and Jia Xingtian.
• Xiao Yan assigned Jia Xingtian to handle Yun Shan and took on Yan Luotian himself.
• Xiao Yan used the Heaven-Swallowing Talent to absorb some of Yan Luotian's golden sword attacks while defending with the Heavy Profound Ruler.
• Yan Luotian used his golden wings to strike Xiao Yan and leave three bloody gashes across his abdomen.
• Xiao Yan caught Yan Luotian with Flash Step and killed him with his Earth Rank Dou Technique, Flame Burst Fist.

Xiao Yan killed Yan Luotian, then pretended his strength had collapsed to lure Soul Hall Protector Wu out of hiding. After trapping Protector Wu inside the Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Yan summoned a powerful ally whose nine-colored radiance appeared as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yan killed Yan Luotian with one punch, and Ling Ying shattered the Misty Cloud Sect's Cloud Mist Sun-Covering Formation.
• Xiao Yan pretended that a secret technique had exhausted his strength, prompting Yun Shan to call for Protector Wu.
• Protector Wu emerged from the main hall and demanded Xiao Yan's secret technique and soul.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had trapped Protector Wu within the Misty Cloud Sect and explained that he had suspected the Soul Hall's involvement.
• Xiao Yan called for His Majesty, and nine-colored radiance and a powerful aura appeared beyond the sect.

Queen Medusa overwhelmed Protector Wu as he turned on Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect elders, exposing the danger of Soul Hall’s control over those who used its techniques. Xiao Yan agreed to help Yun Shan at Yun Yun’s request and began using three Heavenly Flames to remove the mark in Yun Shan’s soul.

• Queen Medusa arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and injured Protector Wu with her nine-colored Dou Qi, then confronted Yun Yun over her scent on Xiao Yan.
• Protector Wu tried to seize Yun Shan’s soul, then absorbed the souls of Yun Leng and other elders who had used Soul Hall techniques.
• Yun Yun realized the Misty Cloud Sect was ruined and feared that her master, Yun Shan, would also lose his soul to Soul Hall.
• Yun Shan begged Yun Yun to save him, and Xiao Yan persuaded her to repay her master’s kindness once before severing their ties.
• Queen Medusa attacked Protector Wu while Xiao Yan told Yun Shan to open his mind and fused three Heavenly Flames to challenge the Soul Hall mark.

Xiao Yan freed Yun Shan from the Soul Hall’s mark, captured Protector Wu, and spared the Misty Cloud Sect from disbanding in exchange for its resources and properties. Yun Yun resigned and planned to train in the Central Plains, while Ling Ying’s promise to report Xiao Yan’s relationships to the Young Lady left him uneasy.

• Xiao Yan burned away the Soul Hall’s mark inside Yun Shan with his Heavenly Flame, ending the pull on Yun Shan’s soul.
• Medusa overwhelmed Protector Wu, and Xiao Yan captured him in a bottle so the Soul Hall would not be alerted by his death.
• Xiao Yan agreed to let the Misty Cloud Sect remain as long as it handed over its resources and properties.
• Yun Yun resigned as Sect Master, planned to travel to the Central Plains, and accepted a wisp of the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame from Xiao Yan to keep in contact.
• Medusa teased Xiao Yan about his closeness with Yun Yun, but Yun Yun left without confronting her.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Yan he would report his relationships with Medusa and Yun Yun to the Young Lady, making Xiao Yan worry about going to Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Yan received medicinal herbs from the Misty Cloud Sect, Jia Ma Imperial Family, Mittel Family, and Mu Clan, then spent a month with Medusa and refining pills. He prepared for the Black-Corner Region but set out for the Chu Yun Empire to see Xiao Yi Xian and pursue the Nether Poison Flame.

• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan four Storage Rings of medicinal herbs from the Misty Cloud Sect, Jia Xingtian, the Mittel Family, and the Mu Clan.
• Xiao Yan accepted the herbs and inspected the rings, planning to refine valuable pills and trade them for Beast Flames in the Black-Corner Region.
• Medusa spent seven days with Xiao Yan, became jealous after learning about Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian, and eventually returned to the Snake-People Tribe.
• Xiao Yan refined cultivation and healing pills, made an Ice-Fire Energy Gathering Pill, and used collected magical beast corpses to produce five Myriad Beast Blood Pills.
• Xiao Yan set out for the Chu Yun Empire to see Xiao Yi Xian and seek the Nether Poison Flame.

Xiao Yan refined a Tier 7 Earth Nether Poison Pill for Xiao Yi Xian, gave parting gifts to his friends, and traveled to the Chu Yun Empire. As an Anti-Poison Sect Alliance plotted against Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan flew toward the Nether Poison Flame and sensed that it was still there.

• Xiao Yan refined the Tier 7 Earth Nether Poison Pill with Yao Lao’s guidance and prepared to leave for the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, and Yun Yun Storage Rings full of pills, then left them flame wisps to contact him.
• Yan Li attended a meeting where sect leaders and factions formed an Anti-Poison Sect Alliance to attack the Poison Sect and seize its Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Chu Yun Empire’s border, checked Jia Xingtian’s map, and flew toward the marked poisonous miasma.
• Xiao Yan sensed a thrill as he approached and realized the Heavenly Flames might not have been taken.

Xiao Yan obtained the Nether Poison Flame from a poisonous swamp and learned that the Anti-Poison Sect Alliance was attacking the Poison Sect. He hurried to find Xiao Yi Xian, who was unconscious as Elder Qian Du struggled to defend the sect.

• Xiao Yan followed his senses into a poisonous swamp, endured its miasma, and placed the Nether Poison Flame’s seed in an Earth Fire Lotus Platform.
• Xiao Yan visited a restaurant in the Chu Yun Empire, where the owner told him that Green Mist had formed the Anti-Poison Sect Alliance and was targeting the Poison Sect.
• Xiao Yan left for the Poison Sect, worried that something had happened to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Elder Qian Du watched over the unconscious Xiao Yi Xian and worried that the sect could not withstand the alliance’s attacks.
• A Poison Sect disciple told Qian Du that a Sixth-Rank Alchemist had arrived seeking the Sect Leader.

Xiao Yan reached the Poison Sect and learned that Xiao Yi Xian had been unconscious after obtaining an emerald-green Nether Poison Flame. He concluded that its endless toxins were keeping her asleep and decided he needed to control the Poison Fire to wake her safely.

• Xiao Yan revealed his Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to Qian Du, who mistook his silence for confirmation that he was Xiao Yi Xian’s lover.
• Qian Du told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yi Xian had been unconscious for a long time and that Green Mist and his forces were threatening the Poison Sect.
• Qian Du led Xiao Yan to Xiao Yi Xian’s secluded wooden house, where he found her unconscious with white hair and a seven-colored complexion.
• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had obtained an emerald-green Heavenly Flame and realized it was the Nether Poison Flame keeping her unconscious.
• Xiao Yan ruled out forcibly extracting the Poison Fire and decided to find a way to control it inside Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yan used the Nether Poison Flame to absorb the toxins around Xiao Yi Xian and made contact with her, discovering that her Heavenly Flame had taken root directly in her body. At the Poison Sect plaza, Qian Du faced Green Mist Dou Emperor and the traitor Bai Shi, and Xiao Yan arrived just as Green Mist attacked her.

• Xiao Yan used the Nether Poison Flame to thin the toxins on Xiao Yi Xian's skin, then held her hand and sent his Dou Qi into her body.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Xiao Yi Xian had no Spirit Container and that her Heavenly Flame had rooted directly in her body, suggesting a possible way to resolve the Woe Poison Body's fatal flaw.
• Qian Du found Green Mist Dou Emperor and his Anti-Poison Sect Alliance occupying the Poison Sect plaza and learned that Bai Shi had betrayed the Sect Master.
• Qian Du admitted that Xiao Yi Xian was unconscious but warned Green Mist that she might awaken; Green Mist responded by attacking her with a poisonous-mist palm.
• A fire wave swept in to intercept Green Mist's attack as Xiao Yan arrived in his Alchemist's robe.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Poison Sect’s square and revealed his identity as the Seventh-Rank Alchemy Grandmaster Yan Xiao, forcing the Anti-Poison Sect Alliance to back down. After Green Mist exposed the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s role in the attack, Xiao Yan killed him and threatened the sect with destruction unless Xie Shan came to the Poison Sect within a month.

• Xiao Yan arrived before Qian Du and confirmed that Green Mist was leading the Anti-Poison Sect Alliance.
• Yan Li recognized Xiao Yan as Master Yan Xiao, and the crowd realized he was a Seventh-Rank Alchemist and began backing away.
• Green Mist claimed the alliance had come peacefully and offered Xiao Yan his treasures, which Xiao Yan accepted for the Poison Sect.
• Xiao Yan seized Green Mist and forced him to reveal that Sect Master Xie Shan of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect had ordered him to probe the Poison Sect and seize its special flame.
• Xiao Yan snapped Green Mist’s neck, burned his corpse, and ordered the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect to send Xie Shan to the Poison Sect within a month or face annihilation.