Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu returned to Wu Tan City with Cai Lin and Little Xiao Nian after spending the night with Ya Fei, intending to meet his father and prepare for the Xiao Clan’s move to the Black Corner Region. He learned from Pei En that Xiao Zhan was at the Jia Lie Family.

• Ya Fei told Xiao Yu that the Storage Ring she had given him was her mother’s keepsake, and they spent the night together.
• Xiao Yu prepared to return to Wu Tan City, while Ya Fei planned to join him in the Black Corner Region in a month.
• Cai Lin acted coldly toward Xiao Yu at breakfast, then flew with him and Little Xiao Nian to Wu Tan City.
• Xiao Yu arrived in his hometown and took Little Xiao Nian through the familiar streets, telling her she would soon meet her grandfather, Xiao Zhan.
• Pei En recognized Xiao Yu at a Xiao Clan market and told him that Xiao Zhan was at the Jia Lie Family.

Xiao Yu returned to the Xiao Clan with Cai Lin and his daughter, Xiao Nian, and reunited with his father and the elders. That night, he went to Xiao Zhan’s study to discuss the matters that had brought him home.

• Pei En told Xiao Yu that the Xiao Clan had become the strongest family in Wu Tan City, with Xiao Zhan reaching the Dou Wang realm.
• Xiao Yu arrived at the clan grounds with Cai Lin and Xiao Nian, and the guards recognized him and welcomed him inside.
• The elders greeted Xiao Yu and met Xiao Nian, whom he introduced as his daughter, while he introduced Cai Lin as his friend.
• Xiao Zhan returned from the Jia Lie Family, happily met Xiao Nian, and arranged rooms for Xiao Yu and Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yu went to Xiao Zhan’s study that night, and Xiao Zhan invited him to explain what he wanted to discuss.

Xiao Yu told Xiao Zhan about the Xiao Clan’s ancient history, Xun Er’s identity, and the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then urged the clan to leave Wu Tan City to escape the Soul Clan’s threat. Xiao Zhan agreed to move the clan temporarily and entrusted the Ancient Jade to Xiao Yu.

• Xiao Yu explained that Xun Er was the young mistress of the Ancient Clan and revealed that the Xiao Clan had once been one of the Eight Ancient Clans.
• Xiao Yu identified Xiao Zhan’s jade fragment as the Tou She Ancient God Jade, a key coveted by the Ancient Clan and the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yu warned Xiao Zhan that the Soul Hall threatened the Xiao Clan and proposed relocating the clan from Wu Tan City to the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Zhan agreed to discuss the move with the three elders and gave the Ancient Jade to Xiao Yu for safekeeping.
• Xiao Yu promised that he and his brothers would restore the Xiao Clan’s glory, and Xiao Zhan expressed pride in them.

Xiao Yu persuaded the Xiao Clan to leave Wu Tan City for the Black Corner Region because powerful enemies from their past had discovered them. The clan agreed to migrate, and Xiao Zhan arranged the transfer and lease of their marketplaces before their departure.

• Xiao Zhan announced the Xiao Clan's planned relocation, and Xiao Yu warned that their Central Plains enemies were far stronger than Dou Emperors.
• Xiao Yu told the clan that members could stay if they wished, but Xiao Qing and then the rest of the clan chose to follow him.
• During the ten days before departure, Xiao Zhan sold the Jia Lie and Ao Ba families their former marketplaces and leased them the Xiao Clan's marketplaces.
• Jia Lie Bi and Ao Ba Dun were stunned to learn that the Xiao Clan was relocating and agreed to lease its marketplaces.

The Xiao Clan left Wu Tan City for the Imperial Capital, then joined the Mittel Family on the journey to the Black Corner Region. In Maple City, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li heard three powerful factions ask whether the Underworld could restore the region’s pill supply.

• Xiao Zhan bid farewell to Jia Lie Bi and Ao Ba Dun as the Xiao Clan departed Wu Tan City aboard fifteen Griffin Beasts.
• Xiao Yu reunited with Ya Fei in the Imperial Capital, where Cai Die introduced herself, and the Xiao Clan stayed at Mittel Manor for five days.
• Xiao Yu, Ya Fei, and Teng Shan decided to relocate the Mittel Family to the Black Corner Region; Fama said Yao Yue could go only after reaching the Dou Wang realm.
• Yin Gu Lao, Tie Wu, and Su Mei visited Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in Maple City to seek cooperation with the Underworld.
• Yin Gu Lao and Su Mei asked whether the Underworld could resume producing pills in Maple City after Han Feng’s death cut off the region’s supply.

Xiao Yu returned to Maple City and reassured the Black Corner Region’s leaders that the Underworld could supply their pills. He invited their three factions to join the Underworld and left them until the pill auction in ten days to decide.

• Xiao Ding told Yin Gu Lao, Su Mei, and Tie Wu that Xiao Yu had not returned yet, while Zi Yan claimed Xiao Yu was a Sixth Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yu arrived with Cai Die, Ya Fei, and Little Xiao Nian, and promised Zi Yan he would refine more pills the next day.
• Xiao Yu told the three leaders that the Underworld could provide their pill supply and asked them to join the faction.
• Xiao Yu described the Underworld’s strength and connections, including its cities and ties to Jia Nan Academy, and the leaders asked for time to consider.
• Xiao Yu set the Maple City pill auction in ten days as the deadline for their answer, and the three leaders left.

Xiao Yu strengthened the Underworld by settling the Xiao Clan and Mittel Family in Maple City, launching the Mittel Auction House, and persuading three factions to join. After preparing to cultivate and visit Heavenly Snake Valley, he was preceded by the emergence of its Mansion Lord from seclusion.

• Xiao Ding questioned Xiao Yu's decision to recruit Yin Gu Lao and the other two faction leaders, but Hai Bodong assured him that the Underworld's strength would deter them from betrayal.
• Xiao Yu assigned Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to settle the Xiao Clan and Mittel Family and take over Maple City, Twilight City, and Black Rock City.
• Xiao Yu arranged for Ya Fei to open the Mittel Auction House and spent nine days refining pills for its auction.
• Yin Gu Lao, Su Mei, and Tie Wu agreed to join the Underworld, and Xiao Yu offered to refine Imperial Pills for them if they gathered the ingredients.
• Xiao Yu planned to stabilize his realm before traveling to Heavenly Snake Valley, where the Mansion Lord emerged from seclusion and was welcomed by the elders.

Lin Qingge, the Heavenly Snake Mansion Lord, recognized Qing Lin’s rare pupils and promised to personally guide her cultivation while directing the mansion to provide her with resources. Meanwhile, the Underworld drew the attention of the Black Emperor Sect, and Xiao Yu returned to Jia Nan Academy, where two months of seclusion brought him to the peak of nine-star Dou Wang but not to Dou Emperor.

• Lin Qingge appeared before the Heavenly Snake Mansion elders, recognized Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and took her on as a personal student.
• Lin Qingge ordered Green Man to give Qing Lin every available resource and said she had plans for Lin Guannan.
• Mo Ya asked Mo Tianxing whether the Black Emperor Sect should befriend the Underworld, and Mo Tianxing told him to monitor it instead.
• Xiao Yu left Maple City with Cai Die, Zi Yan, and the others, gave Ya Fei pills, and returned to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu cultivated in seclusion for two months and reached the peak of nine-star Dou Wang, but failed to break through or fuse his different attribute energies.

Yun Yun awakened after a year of sleep, gained the ability to cultivate two attributes, and faced a heavenly tribulation. She defeated the tribulation with a single sword strike, revealing that she had reached the Dou Zong realm.

• Xiao Yu sensed Yun Yun’s awakening and hurried with Zi Yan, Cai Lin, and the others to the back mountain.
• Xiao Yu explained that Yun Yun was Little Xiao Nian’s mother and that she had once been a Three Star Dou Huang.
• Yun Yun absorbed wood-attribute energy, triggering a heavenly tribulation, and Xiao Yu claimed four rewards from the system.
• The tribulation shattered Yun Yun’s cocoon, but she awakened and dispersed a bolt of lightning with her gaze.
• Yun Yun flew toward the tribulation and destroyed its clouds with a sword aura, astonishing Xiao Yu, Lin Yan, and Cai Lin with her Dou Zong strength.

Yun Yun absorbed the lightning tribulation and reunited with Xiao Yu after awakening from her long slumber. Xiao Yu brought her to see their daughter, Little Xiao Nian, and Yun Yun called out to her as she played in her room.

• Su Qian arrived at the Inner Academy after sensing Yun Yun's powerful aura, and Xiao Yu reassured him that she meant Jia Nan Academy no harm.
• Yun Yun absorbed the lightning tribulation, appeared before Xiao Yu, and reunited with him in an embrace, promising not to run away again.
• Cai Lin led Zi Yan away, while Xiao Yu and Yun Yun later returned to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yu introduced Yun Yun to Hu Jia and explained her history, including her connection to Xiao Nian and the fall of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yu brought Yun Yun to Little Xiao Nian's room, where Yun Yun saw her daughter playing and called her name.

Yun Yun awoke after a year and reunited with Xiao Yu and Little Xiao Nian, learning about the Misty Cloud Sect’s decline and Xiao Yu’s plans to face the Soul Hall. She learned that Nalan Yanran was beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with Xiao Yan, then accepted a cultivation technique from Xiao Yu and settled in with her daughter.

• Yun Yun embraced Little Xiao Nian, promised she would never leave her again, and listened as Xiao Yu recounted the past year.
• Xiao Yu told Yun Yun that the Soul Hall had manipulated her teacher and that he planned to head to the Central Plains after resting in the Black Corner Region.
• Xiao Yu explained that Nalan Yanran had followed his third brother, Xiao Yan, beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower to the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yun Yun worried about how Nalan Yanran’s feelings for Xiao Yan might affect their relationship, and Xiao Yu teased her until she blushed.
• Yun Yun said she was at the Six-Star Dou Zong level and could reach Seven-Star Dou Zong after refining the remaining energy from her lightning tribulation.
• Xiao Yu gave Yun Yun a cultivation technique, and she accepted it and later chose to stay in a separate room with Little Xiao Nian.

Yun Yun and Cai Lin argued over Xiao Yu and the Spirit Fusion Pill, while Xiao Yu failed to understand Cai Lin’s unusual concern for him. After gathering ingredients for several Sixth Grade Pills, Xiao Yu began a month-long refining session in a secret chamber.

• Yun Yun told Cai Lin to return to the Tagor Desert, and Cai Lin insisted she would leave once Xiao Yu gave her the Spirit Fusion Pill.
• Xiao Yu explained that he could refine the Spirit Fusion Pill once he found the ingredients, and Cai Lin left with Zi Yan.
• Yun Yun and Xiao Yu’s companions called him a blockhead for failing to notice that Cai Lin treated him differently.
• Yin Gu Lao, Tie Wu, and Su Mei brought Xiao Yu the ingredients for the Imperial Pill, which he agreed to refine within a month.
• Elder Hai brought ingredients for the Emperor Breaking Pill and pills for Ya Fei, and Xiao Yu began refining the Imperial Pill with his Chaos Flame.

Xiao Yu refined pills for a month, raising his Soul Power and awakening the Chaos Flame’s childlike intelligence. After emerging from the secret chamber, he reunited with Ya Fei and carried her to his room, where they spent time together.

• Xiao Yu refined a Sixth Grade Imperial Pill and continued making pills as the Chaos Flame absorbed spiritual energy from the ingredients.
• After a month, Xiao Yu finished refining the pills and discovered that the Chaos Flame had taken the form of a child and gained intelligence.
• The Chaos Flame called Xiao Yu “Daddy,” then agreed to call him “Boss” at his request.
• Xiao Yu left the secret chamber, and Ya Fei welcomed him with bathwater after his month of work.
• Xiao Yu carried Ya Fei to his room, where they bathed together and then returned to bed.

Xiao Yu spent the day with Yun Yun, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Xiao Nian before beginning a breakthrough from Dou Wang to Dou Emperor. As Yun Yun sealed the energy around him, she told Cai Lin how she and Xiao Yu met and suggested Cai Lin had fallen for him too, leaving Cai Lin unsettled by the possibility.

• Xiao Yu gave Ya Fei three pills to deliver and tossed several more to Zi Yan, then promised Cai Lin he would refine her Spirit Fusion Pill once its ingredients were found.
• Xiao Yu took Xiao Nian out to play, and Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan joined them for a day in Maple City.
• Xiao Yu returned to his room, sensed an opportunity to break through, and began cultivating as energy gathered around him.
• Yun Yun and Cai Lin arrived outside Xiao Yu's room, and Yun Yun used a Spatial Lock to contain the energy while telling Cai Lin about her first meeting with Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu broke through the barrier between Dou Wang and Dou Emperor, forcing Yun Yun to strengthen the Spatial Lock.
• Yun Yun told Cai Lin she might have fallen for Xiao Yu and no longer cared as much about gathering the Spirit Fusion Pill ingredients, leaving Cai Lin questioning her feelings.

Xiao Yu endured a lightning tribulation after breaking through, then learned that Chairman Fama had invited him to represent the Jia Ma Empire in an Alchemist Tournament at Black Mountain Fortress. He suspected the tournament might target the weakened empire and told Ya Fei to establish the Underworld’s intelligence network.

• Cai Lin admitted to Yun Yun that she might have feelings for Xiao Yu and asked her to keep them secret.
• Xiao Yu broke through and faced a powerful lightning tribulation outside Maple City, absorbing its energy before collapsing in a charred crater.
• Ya Fei and Yun Yun brought Xiao Yu back to Maple City, where he woke with the strength of a Three Star Dou Huang.
• Ya Fei gave Xiao Yu a letter from Chairman Fama inviting him to compete in an Alchemist Tournament outside Black Mountain Fortress.
• Xiao Yu agreed to return with Yun Yun and suspected the tournament could be aimed at the Jia Ma Empire, then told Ya Fei to establish the Underworld’s intelligence network.

Xiao Yu planned to recruit alchemists for the Mittel Family by sharing pill formulas and offering guidance, then decided to return to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan. At the academy, Elder Huo’s department elders remembered Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu and wondered which of them had become a Sixth Grade Alchemist.

• Xiao Yu gave Ya Fei second- and third-grade pill formulas and said he would seek alchemists at Jia Nan Academy after the Black Corner Region’s alchemists who had served Han Feng fled.
• Ya Fei went to distribute the formulas, while Cai Lin chose to cultivate and Yun Yun stayed with Little Xiao Nian.
• Zi Yan joined Xiao Yu on his trip back to Jia Nan Academy, saying she wanted to reclaim her Brute Force King reputation.
• Elder Huo told the Alchemy Department elders that they had reached a bottleneck in their alchemy skills.
• An elder reminded Elder Huo that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu had joined the department as gifted alchemists, prompting the elders to question whether one of them had reached Sixth Grade.

Xiao Yu and Zi Yan returned to the Inner Academy, where Xiao Yu sought help recruiting alchemists for the Underworld and learned Elder Huo was looking for him. They went to the Alchemy Department, but two students dismissed Xiao Yu when he asked to see Elder Huo.

• Elder Huo learned that Xiao Yu was a Sixth Grade Alchemist and ordered the elders to invite him to the Alchemy Department when he returned.
• Xiao Yu and Zi Yan visited Su Qian, and Su Qian scolded Zi Yan for taking herbs from the academy’s Medicine Stockpile.
• Xiao Yu explained the Underworld’s predicament and his need to recruit alchemists, and Su Qian told him the Alchemy Department was independent of the academy.
• Su Qian revealed that Elder Huo had been asking about Xiao Yu, so Xiao Yu and Zi Yan headed to the Alchemy Department.
• An Alchemy Department student mistook Xiao Yu and Zi Yan for customers, then sneered that Elder Huo was unavailable when Xiao Yu asked to see him.

Xiao Yu and Zi Yan searched the Outer Academy's Alchemy Department for Elder Huo, where they met the newly introduced Huo Yue'er and followed her to his bamboo house. Xiao Yu began a private discussion with Elder Huo while Zi Yan stayed after being teased about stealing herbs.

• Zi Yan struck a student who insulted her and Xiao Yu at the Alchemy Department.
• Huo Yue'er emerged from a refining chamber, revealed that Elder Huo was nearby, and led Xiao Yu and Zi Yan to him.
• Huo Yue'er left Xiao Yu and Zi Yan at Elder Huo's bamboo house, and Xiao Yu knocked to announce himself.
• Elder Huo greeted Xiao Yu excitedly and started to take him to meet the Alchemy Department, but Xiao Yu said he had something to discuss first.
• Elder Huo asked Zi Yan about her companionship with Xiao Yu and teased her about Elder Hao pursuing her over stolen herbs; Xiao Yu persuaded her to stay seated.

Xiao Yu agreed to guide the Alchemy Department’s alchemists in exchange for their freedom to join his new faction’s Medicine Hall. As Elder Huo gathered them for a demonstration, he revealed that Huo Yue'er had a mysterious pure white Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Yu saw her seated among the department’s alchemists.

• Elder Huo asked Xiao Yu to guide the Alchemy Department’s alchemists, and Xiao Yu agreed in exchange for help recruiting alchemists for his faction’s Medicine Hall.
• Elder Huo said the alchemists could choose whether to join Xiao Yu’s faction, and he gathered the department’s students and elders to witness Xiao Yu’s skills.
• Elder Huo revealed that his granddaughter Huo Yue'er was a peak Fourth-grade Alchemist and hoped she would advance to Fifth-grade.
• Xiao Yu told Elder Huo that Huo Yue'er had refined a Spirit Breaking Pill and displayed Fifth-grade ability, prompting Elder Huo to explain that she possessed an unknown pure white Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yu and Zi Yan followed Elder Huo to the plaza, where Xiao Yu saw Huo Yue'er seated among the Alchemy Department’s alchemists with a Fourth-grade badge.

Xiao Yu arrived at the Alchemy Department and was introduced by Elder Huo as a Sixth Grade Alchemist who would guide its students. He began by teaching extraction, arguing that neglected fundamentals could be the reason they had reached a bottleneck.

• Huo Yue'er recognized Xiao Yu and realized he was the talented alchemist her grandfather had wanted her to meet.
• Elder Huo introduced Xiao Yu to the Alchemy Department students as a Sixth Grade Alchemist, surprising the crowd and piquing Huo Yue'er's curiosity.
• Xiao Yu dismissed the students' doubts and agreed to give them guidance.
• Xiao Yu led the students to a medicine cauldron and began teaching extraction as the first step in alchemy.
• When a student questioned the need to review a basic skill, Xiao Yu pointed out that neglecting fundamentals might explain why the student had remained a Third-grade Alchemist for years, prompting Huo Yue'er to reflect.