Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan dealt with Poison Sect's traitor while the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect plotted to attack him. Xiao Yi Xian awakened and reunited with Xiao Yan, who began telling her about his journey and revealed that Queen Medusa had forced him to spar.

• Xiao Yan ordered Qian Du to strip Bai Shi of his cultivation and imprison him until Xiao Yi Xian could decide his fate.
• Xie Bi Yan warned Xie Shan that Xiao Yan's connections made him dangerous and urged him to attack the Poison Sect before reinforcements arrived.
• Xiao Yi Xian woke and mistook Xiao Yan for a fantasy, confessing her longing for him before realizing he was truly there.
• Xiao Yan comforted Xiao Yi Xian, and she embraced him while asking him to tell her what he had experienced.
• Xiao Yan recounted his journey from the Magical Beast Mountain Range, including his encounters with Nalan Yanran, Hai Bodong, and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian about his time with the Snake-People Tribe, including Queen Medusa forcibly taking him away to spar.

Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian how he found Nether Poison Flame and used it to save her, while Xiao Yi Xian openly confessed her jealousy and affection for him. When she refused the medicinal pill because faster cultivation could make her poison body erupt sooner, Xiao Yan considered using Nether Poison Flame in place of the Poison Pill Method to help her grow stronger.

• Xiao Yi Xian admitted she was unhappy that Xiao Yan had been intimate with Queen Medusa and confessed that she liked him.
• Xiao Yan explained how he had obtained Nether Poison Flame and used it to absorb the poison on Xiao Yi Xian's body and wake her.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized Nether Poison Flame might allow them to be physically close despite her Woe Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian refused Xiao Yan's medicinal pill because she feared greater cultivation would make her poison body erupt before he gathered the Poison Pill Method's materials.
• Xiao Yan considered using Nether Poison Flame to replace the Poison Pill Method and potentially raise Xiao Yi Xian's cultivation to high-star Dou Venerate.

Xiao Yan proposed using Xiao Yi Xian’s Nether Poison Flame to control her Woeful Poison Body and gave her pills to raise her cultivation. After reaching Nine-Star Dou Emperor, Xiao Yi Xian swallowed a Break-Ancestor Pill to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong while Xiao Yan guarded her.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that the Nether Poison Flame could serve as a growing core for her Woeful Poison Body instead of the Poison Pill Method.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian an Earth Nether Poison Pill and an Imperial Extreme Pill, and she explained how she had reached Three-Star Dou Emperor after her travels and awakening the Nether Poison Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian swallowed the Earth Nether Poison Pill and rose from Three-Star to Eight-Star Dou Emperor without destabilizing her Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yi Xian took the Imperial Extreme Pill and broke through to Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yi Xian swallowed a Break-Ancestor Pill to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong as Xiao Yan guarded her and prepared to absorb the Nether Poison Flame later.

After Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Zong, Xiao Yan began absorbing his Nether Poison Flame to strengthen his cultivation, technique, and physique. As he absorbed it, he underwent an unexpected transformation and left Xiao Yi Xian staring at a giant egg where he had been.

• Xiao Yi Xian shattered the Dou Zong barrier with the help of her Woe Poison Body and Xiao Yan's Break-Ancestor Pill, then demonstrated her new ability to wield spatial power.
• Xiao Yan placed the Earth Fire Lotus Platform in the wooden house and explained that he would absorb his Nether Poison Flame before replacing the Poison Fire in Xiao Yi Xian's body.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to stand guard as Xiao Yan swallowed the Nether Poison Flame seed and circulated it through his meridians with the Burning Mantra.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the flame's energy, improving his Burning Mantra, cultivation, and physique, and reached Three-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan found himself unable to open his eyes or move, enclosed in a warm, liquid-filled space as if he had not yet been born.
• Xiao Yi Xian saw an enormous egg on the Earth Fire Lotus Platform and exclaimed that Xiao Yan had turned into an egg.

Xiao Yan’s physique was transformed to the strength of a Tier 7 Magical Beast, giving him a body that could interfere with space and a voice that captivated Xiao Yi Xian. A spatial rift then transported them to the Wan Ling Emperor Inheritance Ground, where Xiao Yan recognized it as the source of the summons he had sensed.

• The egg liquid tempered Xiao Yan’s muscles, bones, blood, meridians, organs, and skin, completing his transformation as his physique reached Tier 7 Magical Beast strength.
• Xiao Yan broke free of the eggshell and tested his new strength by punching open a spatial rift.
• Xiao Yi Xian became entranced by Xiao Yan’s voice, and he reflected that his breakthrough had made him stronger and more attractive but had not awakened the talent he expected.
• Xiao Yan sensed that something was still approaching, and a spatial rift pulled him, Xiao Yi Xian, and their cabin away from the valley.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian emerged at the Wan Ling Emperor Inheritance Ground, where Xiao Yan realized the inheritance had summoned them.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian met the Wan Ling Emperor’s remnant at the inheritance site, where he examined Xiao Yan and learned the Wan Ling Sect had vanished and no Dou Emperor had appeared in ten thousand years. The Wan Ling Emperor was astonished by Xiao Yan’s abilities, then became confused when Xiao Yan described his father’s Da Dou Shi cultivation.

• Xiao Yan shielded Xiao Yi Xian when a soul fluctuation came from the stone monument, and the Wan Ling Emperor’s phantom appeared.
• Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Yan’s ring and identified the phantom as the Wan Ling Emperor, who said he was a remnant with the strength of a One-Star Dou Saint.
• Xiao Yan told the Wan Ling Emperor that the Wan Ling Sect no longer existed and the continent had produced no Dou Emperor for at least ten thousand years.
• The Wan Ling Emperor explained that he and his companions had left Origin Qi behind when they departed the continent, then asked how Xiao Yan had obtained the inheritance.
• The Wan Ling Emperor examined Xiao Yan and praised his age, four Heavenly Flames, Heaven-Swallowing Talent, physique, cultivation, and soul power.
• Xiao Yan said he was the son of a Xiao Clan member from Wutan City whose cultivation was only at the Da Dou Shi realm, and the Wan Ling Emperor asked what level that was.

Xiao Yan received Wan Ling Emperor’s true legacy and asked for help for Yao Lao and Xiao Yi Xian. Wan Ling Emperor confirmed Xiao Yi Xian’s method of controlling her Woe Poison Body and began passing more soul techniques to Xiao Yan.

• Wan Ling Emperor passed Xiao Yan the Emperor Rank Spirit Devouring Body Forging Mantra, which added five Heaven-Swallowing Talent slots, and Xiao Yan accepted him as his master.
• Xiao Yan asked Wan Ling Emperor for pills and treasures, but learned that the supplies had lost their effects and Wan Ling Emperor had no pill formulas.
• Xiao Yan requested a soul cultivation method to restore Yao Lao’s soul power, and Wan Ling Emperor passed a low Heaven Rank method to Yao Lao.
• Wan Ling Emperor confirmed that Xiao Yi Xian’s Nether Poison Flame could control her Woe Poison Body and advised her to practice fire-control techniques.
• Wan Ling Emperor offered Xiao Yan soul cultivation methods and Soul Dou Skills, and Xiao Yan asked to receive them.

Wan Ling Emperor passed his soul cultivation methods and Dou Skills to Xiao Yan before sending him, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yao Lao out of the inheritance space. Back at the Poison Sect, they learned that Xie Bi Yan had killed Xie Shan after failing to find them.

• Xiao Yan received Wan Ling Emperor’s soul methods and Dou Skills, and Wan Ling Emperor advised him to cultivate both his body and soul toward the Emperor Realm.
• Wan Ling Emperor’s remnant dissipated, and the inheritance space sent Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yao Lao back to the Poison Sect.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Yao Lao, and the three put aside their awkwardness as they teased one another.
• Qian Du entered the wooden house and told Xiao Yi Xian that Xie Bi Yan had arrived with Xie Shan and Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect experts one day earlier.
• Qian Du reported that Xie Bi Yan had killed Xie Shan after failing to find Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, leaving his head on a stone pillar in the plaza.

Xiao Yan explained why Xie Bi Yan had executed Xie Shan and agreed that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect no longer posed a threat. Xiao Yi Xian disbanded the Poison Sect, brought Qian Du along, and set out with Xiao Yan for the Snake-People Tribe after first planning to visit his brothers in Stone Desert City.

• Xie Bi Yan explained that executing Xie Shan had been a fallback to protect the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect if its attack failed to kill Xiao Yi Xian and Yan Xiao.
• Xiao Yan decided not to retaliate against the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, and Xiao Yi Xian confirmed that she wanted to disband her dwindling faction.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered Qian Du to distribute the Poison Sect's resources and let its members leave, but Xiao Yan agreed that Qian Du could accompany them.
• Qian Du disbanded the Poison Sect, arranged a Flying Boat to the Tagor Desert, and Xiao Yi Xian stored her wooden house before departing with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan planned to visit his brothers in Stone Desert City before going to the Snake-People Tribe, where Queen Medusa could help protect them while he treated Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body.

After half a month of travel and training, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in Stone Desert City, where the Desert Iron Mercenary Group had grown famous under Xiao Yan’s brothers. Xiao Yan reached his brothers’ courtyard, only to be greeted by a young girl who rushed into his arms.

• During the journey, Xiao Yan practiced his Dou Skills and learned the first move of Void Soul Prison and Soul Spirit Avatar, while Yao Lao struggled to learn an Upper Earth Rank Soul Dou Skill.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in Stone Desert City and heard that Xiao Yan’s brothers had become powerful leaders of the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yan considered bringing his brothers to the Black-Corner Region to help him establish a faction there.
• The mercenaries recognized Xiao Yan as their acting leader and welcomed him into the group’s headquarters.
• Xiao Yan opened the door to his brothers’ courtyard, and a young girl ran into his arms, telling him she had missed him.

Xiao Yan reunited with Qing Lin in Stone Desert City, then invited Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to join him in building a force in the Black-Corner Region. Xiao Yi Xian’s jealousy surfaced in an awkward imitation of Qing Lin, leaving her poisoned body on the verge of erupting.

• Qing Lin embraced Xiao Yan and insisted she was his maidservant rather than his younger sister, while she and Xiao Yi Xian sized each other up.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Qing Lin and reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, who teased him about his romantic entanglements.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to leave Stone Desert City and help him establish a faction in the Black-Corner Region, and they agreed to bring trusted mercenaries.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan she had reached the Da Dou Shi level and had come to visit, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li revealed she often visited Xiao Yan’s old room.
• Xiao Yi Xian impulsively copied Qing Lin’s bashful manner and called Xiao Yan “Young Master Xiao Yan,” then felt mortified as her poison threatened to erupt.

After visiting his brothers, Xiao Yan traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the Snake-People Holy City, where they found the tribe under attack by the Heavenly Snake Mansion. As the Mansion Master threatened the tribe over Qing Lin’s whereabouts, Xiao Yan stepped forward to confront him.

• Xiao Yi Xian pretended to faint so Qian Du would take her away, while Xiao Yan and his brothers shared drinks and family news in Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan left medicinal pills and soul cultivation techniques for Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, then departed with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Qing Lin revealed that she had mastered Pupil Technique Space and contracted with White Fang, the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor, helping the group reach the desert quickly.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Master restrained the Snake-People Tribe’s elders and commanders and demanded that they reveal where Qing Lin was.
• The Snake-People elders refused to betray Qing Lin, and the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master prepared to attack them.
• Xiao Yan flew forward and confronted the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master as he was about to act.

Xiao Yan rejected the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master's offer to recruit him and protect the Snake-People Tribe, declaring that he intended to seize the Heavenly Snake Mansion's resources by force. As the two fought, Xiao Yan summoned a five-meter-tall Soul Spirit Avatar to face the Mansion Master and his Dou Qi Poison Snake.

• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Master recognized Xiao Yan and discovered that Qing Lin possessed the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Master offered Xiao Yan a position as a guest elder and promised to take only Qing Lin if Xiao Yan agreed.
• Xiao Yan pretended to consider cooperating, then declared he would take the Heavenly Snake Mansion's resources by force.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Master attacked Xiao Yan with a venomous snake, but Xiao Yan absorbed its poison and tore it in two.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Master unleashed Ten Thousand Snakes Facing Heaven, and Xiao Yan fought the giant Dou Qi Poison Snake with Flame Burst Fist.
• As the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master charged at him, Xiao Yan formed a five-meter-tall Soul Spirit Avatar.

Xiao Yan defeated the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master by overwhelming his Dou Qi Poison Snake and trapping him with a soul skill. He left the mansion master alive but enslaved by a flame hidden inside his body.

• Xiao Yan used Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to batter the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master's Dou Qi Poison Snake while his Soul Spirit Avatar blocked the mansion master.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Master broke through the avatar's flame barrier but was trapped by Xiao Yan's Soul Skill, Void Soul Prison, First Form, Soul Net.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the Dou Qi Poison Snake with a three-flame Flame Burst Fist, weakening the bound Heavenly Snake Mansion Master.
• Xiao Yan forced a pill containing a hidden wisp of flame into the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master's mouth, then let him go.
• The Heavenly Snake Mansion Master tried to flee, but Xiao Yan made him collapse and told him to be a good dog.

After defeating the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master, Xiao Yan stayed with the Snake-People Tribe while Queen Medusa campaigned against the Luo Yan Empire. He spent the wait with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and the story left off with Queen Medusa returning on the fifteenth day.

• Xiao Yan spared the defeated Heavenly Snake Mansion Master, freed the Snake-People Tribe elders and commanders from their seals, and ordered the Great Elder to imprison and suppress the captive.
• The Snake-People Tribe Great Elder told Xiao Yan that Queen Medusa had taken Yue Mei and other officers to conquer the Luo Yan Empire and secure new territory for the tribe.
• Xiao Yan asked the Great Elder to arrange quarters for Xiao Yi Xian and introduced her as an important friend.
• Qing Lin happily embraced Xiao Yan, then began attending to him daily; Xiao Yan accepted her devotion and taught her a low-tier Earth Rank soul cultivation technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian also began visiting Xiao Yan every day, and the three remained together while Xiao Yan’s cultivation and skills improved.
• On the fifteenth day of Xiao Yan’s stay, Queen Medusa returned.

Queen Medusa returned to the Snake-People Holy City and learned that Xiao Yan had defeated the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master while protecting Qing Lin. She reunited with Xiao Yan, sparred verbally with Xiao Yi Xian, and gave him the Heavenly Goose Nine-Row Wings, then hinted that she expected a tangible reward.

• The Great Elder told Queen Medusa that the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master had come for Qing Lin, but Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian had helped defeat and imprison him.
• Queen Medusa hurried to Xiao Yan's bedchamber and found him teaching Xiao Yi Xian to control the Nether Poison Flame while Qing Lin cultivated nearby.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa exchanged pointed remarks about their relationships with Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan's attempt to interrupt them went ignored.
• Medusa gave Xiao Yan the Heavenly Goose Nine-Row Wings, which she had found after destroying the Golden Goose Sect.
• Medusa pressed a finger to Xiao Yan's lips and said she wanted tangible gratitude, leaving him with a bad premonition.

Xiao Yan gave Queen Medusa a soul cultivation technique, and she repaid him with an intense daylong sparring session. Afterward, he began treating Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body on a secluded island, using his Heavenly Flames to draw her toxins together and preparing to exchange Poison Fire.

• Xiao Yan sent Queen Medusa information about a soul cultivation technique, and she insisted on returning a gift by teaching him Dou Techniques.
• Queen Medusa took Xiao Yan to her bedchamber for a daylong sparring session, while Xiao Yi Xian waited outside with Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa emerged, and Xiao Yi Xian asked him to control her Woe Poison Body with Queen Medusa guarding them.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian went to the secluded island where Medusa had evolved, and Medusa stood guard as Xiao Yan prepared the Poison Pill Method.
• Xiao Yi Xian undressed, and Xiao Yan used three Heavenly Flames to draw the toxins in her body inward before asking her to exchange Poison Fire with him.

Xiao Yan helped Xiao Yi Xian replace the Nether Poison Flame in her body so she could use it to control her Woe Poison Body, then absorbed the stronger flame himself. After gaining several advances in strength, he decided to leave the Snake-People Tribe for the Black-Corner Region while Xiao Yi Xian continued merging with the flame under Queen Medusa’s protection.

• Xiao Yi Xian expelled the Nether Poison Flame from her body while Xiao Yan used three Heavenly Flames to keep her toxins under control.
• Xiao Yan transferred his own Nether Poison Flame to Xiao Yi Xian, who began merging with it as the core of her Woe Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Nether Poison Flame extracted from Xiao Yi Xian and used the Burning Mantra to absorb it.
• The flame evolved Xiao Yan’s Burning Mantra to mid-level Earth Rank, strengthened his physique, and raised his cultivation from Three-Star Dou Huang to Six-Star Dou Huang.
• Xiao Yan decided to visit Demon Flame Valley in the Black-Corner Region to obtain a Heavenly Demon Puppet, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to continue her transformation under Queen Medusa’s protection.

Xiao Yan left Xiao Yi Xian under Queen Medusa’s protection while she slowly fused with the Heavenly Flame, then set out for the Black-Corner Region to build a faction and gather resources. He recruited his brothers, Ya Fei, Hai Bodong, and others in the Jia Ma Empire, and prepared to depart with them.

• Xiao Yan protected Xiao Yi Xian with four fused Heavenly Flames and asked Queen Medusa to watch over her while he traveled to the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa that he intended to establish himself in the Black-Corner Region, and she agreed to protect Xiao Yi Xian and manage the Heavenly Snake Mansion Master.
• Queen Medusa reminded Xiao Yan that she would accept his existing friends but would not accept any more, then sent him off with Qing Lin as Qian Du joined his journey.
• Xiao Yan and Qian Du reached Stone Desert City and learned that Xiao Ding and Xiao Li had disbanded the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and were ready to leave with its veteran members.
• Xiao Yan, Qian Du, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li traveled by Flying Boat to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, where Mittel Teng Shan supplied capable personnel including Ya Fei.
• Hai Bodong volunteered to accompany Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan welcomed his progress to seven-star Dou Emperor and planned to research pills that could raise Dou Emperor cultivation.

Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to reunite with Xiao Zhan, then prepared to leave the Jia Ma Empire for the Black-Corner Region. As his group boarded their Flying Boats, Gu He and Liu Ling arrived seeking to learn alchemy from him, and Xiao Yan welcomed them aboard.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li returned to the Xiao Clan, where they reunited with Xiao Zhan and shared a meal before the brothers set out again.
• Xiao Yan left Xiao Zhan medicinal pills and cultivation resources, including Earth Rank methods and soul cultivation methods.
• In the Imperial Capital, Xiao Yan met Jia Xingtian and Fama, who remained in the Jia Ma Empire while Fama continued supporting Xiao Yan's allies with alchemy.
• Xiao Yan and his companions boarded two Flying Boats with mercenaries and Mittel Family personnel bound for the Black-Corner Region.
• Gu He and Liu Ling arrived and asked to accompany Xiao Yan to learn alchemy, and Xiao Yan welcomed Gu He aboard.