Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu demonstrated how to refine a Soul Ascension Pill, impressing the Alchemy Department and inviting its members to join the Underworld. He then left with Zi Yan and planned to visit Heavenly Snake Valley to find someone.

• Xiao Yu used the Chaos Flame to refine a Soul Seizing Flower while the alchemists watched, and Huo Yue'er sensed her flame react fearfully to it.
• Xiao Yu refined the ingredients and fused them into a Sixth Grade Soul Ascension Pill, earning the crowd's respect and giving several alchemists new insight.
• Elder Huo explained that Xiao Yu was an Inner Academy elder who had founded the Underworld, and Xiao Yu invited the alchemists to join after graduation.
• Xiao Yu left with Zi Yan and said they were going to Heavenly Snake Valley to find someone, while Zi Yan teased him about chasing girls.

Nalan Yanran waited in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower while Xiao Yan remained unconscious deep beneath the magma, sealed by Yao Lao as he absorbed the Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame. Back at the residence, Xiao Yu invited Yun Yun and Cai Lin to visit Heavenly Snake Valley the next day, then carried Yun Yun upstairs.

• Nalan Yanran practiced sword techniques in the cavern and worried that Xiao Yan had not emerged.
• Yao Lao used the last of his Soul Power to seal Xiao Yan in a cocoon beneath the magma, hoping he would finish devouring Fallen Heart Flame.
• Pale-blue flame flickered within Xiao Yan as the two Heavenly Flames began changing, suggesting he would soon awaken.
• Xiao Yu asked Yun Yun and Cai Lin to accompany him to Heavenly Snake Valley, and Cai Lin agreed to leave the next day.
• Xiao Yu asked Yun Yun where Little Xiao Nian was, flirted with her, and carried her upstairs.

Xiao Yu and his companions set out for the Heavenly Snake Mansion as its leaders debated pairing Saintess Qing Lin with Lin Guannan. Green Man warned that Qing Lin loved Xiao Yu, and Lin Qingge went to question Qing Lin directly.

• Xiao Yu, Yun Yun, Little Xiao Nian, Cai Lin, and Zi Yan set out for the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Lin Qingge told the mansion elders she wanted Qing Lin to marry her son, Lin Guannan.
• Green Man and Elder Qing objected, and Green Man revealed that Qing Lin loved Xiao Yu, a Jia Nan Academy student said to be able to kill Dou Emperors despite being a Dou Wang.
• Elder Xuan agreed to investigate Xiao Yu, and Lin Qingge asked Green Man to take her to Qing Lin.
• Lin Qingge visited Qing Lin and said she wanted to ask her something.

Lin Qingge tried to convince Qing Lin that her feelings for Xiao Yu were only dependence and that she should choose Lin Qingge’s son Guan Nan instead. Three days later, Xiao Yu and his companions reached the hidden entrance to Heavenly Snake Valley and discovered it was concealed by a powerful spatial barrier.

• Lin Qingge told Qing Lin that Xiao Yu likely valued her talent rather than loved her, and urged her to consider whether her feelings were genuine.
• Lin Qingge told Green Man she intended for Qing Lin to marry Guan Nan so the talented Saintess would remain with Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Three days later, Xiao Yu, Yun Yun, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Little Xiao Nian searched the mountains for Heavenly Snake Valley, and Zi Yan sensed its location through nearby medicinal herbs.
• Cai Lin promised Zi Yan they would raid Heavenly Snake Mansion’s medicinal storehouse, then Xiao Yu’s group followed Zi Yan’s directions to a secluded valley.
• Yun Yun and Cai Lin sensed a spatial barrier at the valley entrance and concluded that a Dou Zun expert or stronger had created it.

Xiao Yu visited the Heavenly Snake Mansion to see Qing Lin, who rushed out to welcome him. After the Mysterious Underworld Elders challenged him, Mansion Lord Lin Qingge stopped them and invited Xiao Yu and his companions inside.

• Yun Yun recognized the valley's barrier as a Spatial Lock cast by a Dou Zun, and Xiao Yu called out to request entry.
• Qing Lin heard Xiao Yu and hurried out to embrace him, then explained that she had missed him.
• Lin Qingge and the Mysterious Underworld Elders emerged and found Qing Lin with Xiao Yu.
• The Mysterious Underworld Elders accused Xiao Yu of disrespect and attacked, but Xiao Yu blocked their force without moving.
• Lin Qingge stopped the elders, introduced herself to Xiao Yu, and invited him and his companions into the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

Xiao Yu entered Heavenly Snake Valley to visit Qing Lin and learned that his system had updated to Check-In System 2.0, adding a points-based mall and monthly check-ins. As the group settled in, they suspected Lin Qingge was hostile toward Xiao Yu because of Qing Lin, while Xiao Yu planned to inspect the new mall that night.

• Lin Qingge led Xiao Yu and his companions into Heavenly Snake Valley, where Xiao Yu sensed the mansion’s formidable strength and a Dou Venerate Mansion Lord.
• The system told Xiao Yu it had updated to Check-In System 2.0, unlocked a points-based System Mall, and changed check-ins to once per month; Xiao Yu postponed checking in.
• Xiao Yu told Lin Qingge he had come to visit Qing Lin, and Lin Qingge invited Qing Lin to show him around the valley.
• Yun Yun and Cai Lin noticed Lin Qingge’s hostility toward Xiao Yu and linked it to Qing Lin, while Xiao Yu decided to stay a few days because Qing Lin seemed happy.
• Cai Lin reminded Xiao Yu that he had not kept his promise to her, then said she would find the medicinal ingredients herself.
• After Qing Lin took the group back to her room, Xiao Yu eagerly opened the system to inspect the newly unlocked System Mall.

Xiao Yu visited Heavenly Snake Mansion to see Qing Lin and learned that the system had upgraded, adding a points-based System Mall and changing check-ins to once a month. As the group explored the valley, they suspected Lin Qingge was hostile toward Xiao Yu because of Qing Lin, while Cai Lin hinted that she still expected him to fulfill a promise.

• Xiao Yu and his companions entered Heavenly Snake Valley, where he sensed powerful Dou Emperor and Dou Zong experts among Heavenly Snake Mansion’s members.
• The system told Xiao Yu that its upgrade had opened the System Mall and changed check-ins to once per month, but Xiao Yu chose not to check in.
• Xiao Yu told Lin Qingge that he had come mainly to visit Qing Lin, and Lin Qingge welcomed the group to explore the valley with her.
• Yun Yun and Cai Lin pointed out Lin Qingge’s hostility toward Xiao Yu, which they believed was connected to Qing Lin.
• Cai Lin reminded Xiao Yu that he had not fulfilled his promise to her, then said she would find the medicinal ingredients herself.
• After Qing Lin led them back to her room, Xiao Yu eagerly opened the system to inspect the new System Mall.

Xiao Yu explored the System Mall, learned how its kill-based points worked, and discovered that its most valuable items were far beyond his current means. The next day, he began thinking of the Soul Clan as his best source of points while keeping the mall’s Prison Suppressing Divine Body claim secret.

• Xiao Yu entered the System Mall and learned that points came from killing powerful cultivators, with restrictions against deliberately targeting those far weaker than himself.
• The system listed point rewards by cultivation level, including five million points for killing a Dou Di.
• Xiao Yu saw the mall’s costly items, complained about their prices, and learned he had only sixteen thousand points.
• Xiao Yu left the mall and cultivated, postponing his claim of the Prison Suppressing Divine Body to avoid attracting attention.
• The next day, Xiao Yu saw Yun Yun, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Little Xiao Nian and reflexively thought about the points their strength represented.
• Xiao Yu decided that the Soul Clan would be his best target for earning points.

Xiao Yu left Heavenly Snake Valley with Qing Lin and returned to Maple City, where he learned Ya Fei had reached the Dou Wang realm and gave her a new cultivation technique. After their intimate encounter, he remembered he had not claimed his sign-in reward, the Prison Suppressing Divine Body.

• Lin Qingge decided to let Qing Lin remain with Xiao Yu’s group, trusting that her son Guan Nan would eventually win Qing Lin’s heart.
• Xiao Yu said farewell to Qing Lin and left Heavenly Snake Valley with Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and the others for Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu returned to Maple City and summoned Ya Fei, who told him she had broken through to the Dou Wang realm.
• Xiao Yu gave Ya Fei the Heavenly Charm Technique, and she asked him to be her reward.
• After leaving Ya Fei’s room, Xiao Yu remembered to claim his Prison Suppressing Divine Body sign-in reward and headed outside.

Xiao Zhan warned Xiao Yu that the Underworld was running short of high-grade pills, prompting Xiao Yu to seek more alchemists. Huo Yue'er arrived to learn alchemy from him and advance from fifth-grade to sixth-grade, offering help with the Underworld's shortage.

• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yu that the Underworld's supplies of fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade pills were running low and that several cities and factions needed more.
• Xiao Yu introduced Yun Yun to Xiao Zhan as his future daughter-in-law, and Xiao Zhan greeted her before returning to his work.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yu that an alchemist from Jia Nan Academy had come to see him.
• Xiao Yu found Huo Yue'er waiting outside, and she explained that she had come without Elder Huo's knowledge to learn alchemy.
• Huo Yue'er said she had recently become a Fifth-grade Alchemist and wanted Xiao Yu to guide her toward the sixth grade.

Xiao Yu assigned Huo Yue'er a month of alchemy practice, then claimed the Prison Suppressing Divine Body and endured its painful transformation. After reaching minor accomplishment and learning his next sign-in reward was a Bodhi Fruit, he left the forest and found Yun Yun and Cai Lin waiting.

• Xiao Yu gave Huo Yue'er three Fifth Grade Pill recipes and instructed her to refine fifty portions of each within a month, aiming for an eighty-percent success rate.
• Xiao Yu claimed the Prison Suppressing Divine Body in a forest outside Maple City, triggering a violent transformation that drew Yun Yun and Cai Lin to him.
• Xiao Yu's transformation created crushing gravity that stopped Yun Yun and Cai Lin from approaching, so they retreated and waited nearby.
• Xiao Yu emerged from the earth with the Prison Suppressing Divine Body at minor accomplishment and discovered he could control his weight and had gained immense physical toughness.
• The system announced that Xiao Yu's next sign-in reward would be a Bodhi Fruit and confirmed sign-ins were no longer location-restricted.
• Xiao Yu left the forest and found Yun Yun and Cai Lin waiting at its outskirts.

Xiao Yu gave Cai Lin two drops of Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python true blood in exchange for her staying by his side for ten years, then returned to Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan to recruit talented students for the Underworld. There, he encountered Lin Yan, who had become an Inner Academy elder.

• Xiao Yu revealed that he had reached Six-Star Dou Emperor and showed Cai Lin two drops of Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python true blood.
• Cai Lin agreed to protect Xiao Yu for ten years in return for the true blood, while keeping the right to act if the Snake People Clan faced trouble.
• Xiao Yu announced that the group would leave for Black Mountain Fortress in one month, then returned to Maple City with Cai Lin and Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yu brought Zi Yan back to Jia Nan Academy to recruit talented students for the Underworld, suspecting that she was close to a breakthrough.
• Xiao Yu and Zi Yan ran into Lin Yan, who was now dressed as an Inner Academy elder.

Xiao Yu returned to the Inner Academy, learned that Pan Men had become dominant, and reunited with its members. He headed to Moon Spirit’s headquarters to seek Han Yue about joining the Underworld.

• Lin Yan told Xiao Yu that he, Lin Xiuya, and Yan Hao had become Dou Wang elders, and that Pan Men had pushed most rival factions to the brink.
• Xiao Yu decided to ask Han Yue whether she would join the Underworld.
• Xiao Yu reunited with Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning at Pan Men’s residence and learned that the younger students had entered the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yu promised to take them to the Central Plains once they were strong enough, and they resolved to cultivate toward the Dou Emperor realm.
• Xiao Yu left for Moon Spirit’s headquarters to find Han Yue.

Xiao Yu recruited Han Yue and nearly a hundred Inner Academy students to join the Underworld in Maple City, promising to help them grow stronger. After returning to Maple City, he refined pills for the new recruits, and a month later he opened his door to find a slender figure waiting outside.

• Xiao Yu visited Han Yue at Moon Spirit and offered to help her reach Dou Emperor within two years if she joined the Underworld.
• Han Yue agreed to join Xiao Yu and said the graduating sisters of Moon Spirit would go with her to Maple City.
• Xiao Yu recruited nearly a hundred people from the Inner Academy and told Great Elder Su Qian that the Underworld would maintain friendly relations with Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu brought Zi Yan and the recruits to Maple City, where Ya Fei settled them and Xiao Yu began refining Fifth Grade and Sixth Grade Pills.
• A month later, Xiao Yu opened his door and found a slender figure standing before him.

Huo Yue'er delivered the pills she had refined to Xiao Yu, who invited her to become his disciple and brought her along to the Jia Ma Empire. At Black Mountain Fortress, Yao Zhantian met the Alchemist Guild delegation and reunited with his niece, Yao Yue.

• Huo Yue'er told Xiao Yu she had successfully refined 148 of 150 batches, and he praised her alchemy skills.
• Xiao Yu offered to teach Huo Yue'er and give her the Underworld's Medicine Hall if she became a Sixth Grade Alchemist; she agreed to travel with him to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yu received an Imperial Pill, gained one minor realm after consuming it, and left Maple City with Yun Yun, Little Xiao Nian, Cai Lin, Huo Yue'er, and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yu's group traveled to Black Mountain Fortress as the Alchemist Tournament approached, while Yao Zhantian welcomed President Fama and the Jia Ma Empire's alchemists.
• Yao Yue approached Yao Zhantian, and the two recognized each other after years apart.

Yao Yue reunited with Yao Zhantian and revealed that she had become a Fourth-grade Alchemist, while Lin Fei and Xue Mei discussed the upcoming tournament and their unease about it. In the Chuyun Empire, Poison Sect Master Xiao Yi Xian learned that the royal family and three factions planned to target her sect, and she prepared to retaliate while thinking of Xiao Yu.

• Yao Yue showed Yao Zhantian her Fourth-grade Alchemist badge and discussed the tournament’s uncertain motives with him.
• Lin Fei and Xue Mei talked about the alchemists expected at the tournament, wondered whether Xiao Yu would attend, and worried that trouble might occur.
• A subordinate told Xiao Yi Xian that the Chuyun royal family and three major factions had joined a plan and intended to turn against the Poison Sect afterward.
• Xiao Yi Xian threatened to make her enemies experience losing their power, then wondered whether Xiao Yu was well.

Xiao Yu and his group traveled from the Black Corner Region toward Black Mountain Fortress, stopping in Wan Yan Country before entering the Jia Ma Empire. Yun Yun chose to visit the ruined Misty Cloud Sect with Little Xiao Nian, while Xiao Yu continued toward the fortress with Cai Lin and the others.

• Xiao Yu agreed to rest with his group in Wan Yan Country after Zi Yan complained about the long journey.
• Xiao Yu asked Yun Yun whether she blamed him for killing Yun Shan, and Yun Yun said she understood why it happened and had no resentment toward him.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yu that she had fallen in love with him after seeing him swallowed by the Heavenly Flames during Cai Lin's evolution.
• Xiao Yu taught Huo Yue'er pill-refining knowledge from the Alchemy Canon.
• After five more days of travel, Xiao Yu's group entered the Jia Ma Empire, and Yun Yun went to the Misty Cloud Sect with Little Xiao Nian while Xiao Yu headed toward Black Mountain Fortress.
• Yun Yun and Little Xiao Nian arrived at the desolate Misty Cloud Sect and walked toward its main hall.

Yun Yun returned to the weakened Misty Cloud Sect and revealed herself to the remaining disciples. She asked them to follow her to the Black Corner Region, leaving them to wonder why she wanted to go there.

• Yun Yun and Little Xiao Nian were stopped at the main hall by Yun Sheng, who told Yun Yun that the sect had dwindled to fewer than a hundred members and that Nalan Yanran had disappeared.
• Yun Yun removed her veil and proved to Yun Sheng that she was the sect master, then asked him to gather the remaining disciples.
• Yun Sheng rang the sect bell, and the disciples gathered at the plaza, fearing that the sect was about to dissolve.
• Yun Yun appeared before the disciples, who cheered at her return, and thanked them for staying loyal to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Yun told the disciples she had stepped down as sect master but wanted them to go with her to the Black Corner Region, and Yun Sheng asked why.

Yun Yun urged the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to relocate to the Black Corner Region and join the Underworld, while Xiao Yu and his companions arrived at Black Mountain Fortress ahead of the Alchemist Tournament. There, they approached a conspiracy by rival empires to weaken the Jia Ma Empire and seize the fortress.

• Yun Yun told the Misty Cloud Sect disciples that Nalan Yanran was in the Black Corner Region and advised them to join the Underworld, founded by Xiao Yu, rather than remain at their declining sect.
• Half a month later, Lin Fei agreed to accompany Xue Mei to search Black Mountain Fortress for medicinal ingredients despite the fierce sandstorm.
• Yan Luotian, Xie Shan, and the Mulan Three Elders discussed defeating the Jia Ma Empire’s alchemists at the tournament and seizing Black Mountain Fortress, though Xie Shan and the elders nearly fought.
• Xiao Yu, Cai Lin, Zi Yan, and Huo Yue'er reached Black Mountain Fortress after a grueling journey, and Xiao Yu wore his Sixth Grade Alchemist robe to enter.
• The fortress guards welcomed Xiao Yu’s group after seeing his six-ripple alchemist badge and speculated that he had come for the tournament.

Xue Mei and Lin Fei found Thousand Spirit Grass at Black Mountain Pharmacy, but the shopkeeper demanded an inflated price and threatened them. Cai Lin and Zi Yan confronted him, and just as Cai Lin was about to strike, Xiao Yu arrived and stopped her.

• Xue Mei and Lin Fei found Thousand Spirit Grass and asked the shopkeeper its price.
• The shopkeeper demanded one thousand Gold Coins and threatened to prevent other pharmacies from selling the herb to them.
• The shopkeeper revealed his Dou Wang strength and intimidated Xue Mei and Lin Fei, who were only First-grade Alchemists and Da Dou Shi.
• Zi Yan and Cai Lin entered the pharmacy, and Cai Lin's aura frightened the shopkeeper into offering them any medicinal ingredients they wanted.
• Zi Yan urged Cai Lin to kill the shopkeeper, but Xiao Yu arrived and stopped Cai Lin's hand before she struck.