Chapter Summaries

The Deputy Hall Master learned that Wu Ying had died during a failed mission to the Northwest Continent and ordered Qing Hai to contact Han Feng about Yao Chen. At Jia Nan Academy, Xun Er heard Ling Ying’s account of Xiao Yu’s involvement with the Xiao Clan and resolved to hear his explanation about his child with Yun Yun.

• Qing Hai reported that Wu Ying had died at the Misty Cloud Sect and that the Xiao Clan appeared connected to the Ancient Clan.
• The Deputy Hall Master ordered an investigation into Wu Ying’s death, then directed Qing Hai to tell Han Feng that Yao Chen might be in the Black Corner Region.
• Ling Ying returned to Jia Nan Academy and told Xun Er about the Soul Hall’s involvement and the events at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xun Er learned that Xiao Yu had a child with Yun Yun and said she expected him to explain the matter to her personally.
• Ling Ying told Xun Er that Xiao Yu was a Six Star Great Dou Master, then agreed to stay near Jia Nan Academy.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan left the Jia Ma Empire for Jia Nan Academy, traveling day and night until they reached the Black Domain Plains. Meanwhile, Ya Fei watched Xiao Yu depart, and Nalan Yanran entered the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death to train.

• After reaching Dou Ling through a heavenly tribulation, Xiao Yu set out with Xiao Yan and their companions, though he and Xiao Yan planned to travel ahead of the others.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan said farewell to the people gathered outside the Imperial Capital and departed, while Ya Fei watched them leave from the city gate tower.
• Nalan Yanran entrusted Misty Cloud Sect affairs to Nalan Su and Nalan Jie, then entered the Gate of Life and Death to train.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan crossed the empire’s border and traveled through the mountains for half a month before reaching the Black Domain Plains.
• After resting to recover, Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Black Corner Region, while the little fellow’s strength advanced to the Dou Zhe realm.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan entered the Black Corner Region and arranged to travel to Black Seal City with Duo Ma’s caravan. Xiao Yu received a system notification naming the Black Seal City Auction House as his next sign-in location and promising the Wind Xun Dou Technique.

• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan arrived in the Black Domain Plains, and Xiao Yan explained the dangers of the region as they headed toward Black Seal City.
• Shan Ke’s men tried to stop them, but Shan Ke recognized Xiao Yan as Yao Yan and led them to a departing caravan.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Great Dou Master aura to persuade Duo Ma to let them travel with the caravan without payment.
• Duo Ma said the caravan needed to reach Black Seal City by the next afternoon for its annual auction.
• Xiao Yu received a system notification that the Black Seal City Auction House was his next sign-in location, with Wind Xun as the reward.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan joined Duo Ma’s caravan bound for Black Seal City, where they planned to attend the auction and discussed the Black Corner Region’s powerful figures. A Black Windstorm swept over the caravan, and the two spotted a Soul Hall figure with a captured soul body, preparing to interfere.

• Duo Ma welcomed Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu as guards, and his caravan set off for Black Seal City.
• During the journey, Xiao Yan described the city’s dangerous auction and explained the Black List, including Han Feng’s ranking and his own intent to kill him.
• Xiao Yu revealed his interest in the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment and the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
• A Black Windstorm forced Duo Ma’s caravan to stop and brace against the gale.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan spotted a Soul Hall figure holding a soul body, and Xiao Yu suggested they mess with it.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan destroyed a Soul Hall creature during the Black Windstorm and reached Black Seal City, where they planned to gather ingredients and funds. At the Thousand Medicine Pavilion, a white-robed young man’s attendant attacked Xiao Yan without warning.

• Xiao Yu bound the black mist with Heavenly Flames while Xiao Yan burned it with the Fallen Heart Flame until it turned to ash.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan reunited with Duo Ma after the Black Windstorm passed and continued with the caravan to Black Seal City.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yu that Xun Er was waiting for him and that the Inner Academy Selection Tournament would soon take place; Xiao Yu resolved not to let the Inner Academy exclude him.
• Xiao Yan led Xiao Yu to the Thousand Medicine Pavilion to buy ingredients and raise funds before visiting the auction house.
• A white-robed young man’s Three-Star Dou Ling attendant lunged at Xiao Yan’s throat, and Xiao Yan countered with a punch while the young man watched.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan killed a man who attacked them, then agreed to guard Xiao Qian at the Black Seal City auction in exchange for payment and discounted ingredients. Xiao Qian secretly planned to use the auction’s rival factions to kill them, while the brothers stocked up on ingredients for pill refining.

• Xiao Yu pierced the old man's neck with a dark glimmer, and Xiao Yan struck him down, killing him.
• Xiao Qian identified himself as the young master of Thousand Medicine Pavilion and offered to hire Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan as guards for the auction.
• Xiao Yan negotiated for one hundred thousand Gold Coins per person, while Xiao Yu secured a twenty percent discount on their purchases; Xiao Qian agreed to meet them the next day.
• Xiao Qian left and privately plotted to trick the brothers into their deaths at the auction, which would attract powerful Black Corner Region factions.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan bought ingredients for multiple batches of pills, spending their available wealth while the steward worried over the discounted sales.

After Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan left the Thousand Medicine Pavilion with discounted medicinal ingredients, Xiao Qian vowed revenge. Medusa appeared in Xiao Yu’s room, demanded a Spirit Fusion Pill within a year, and then insisted on accompanying him to the Black Seal City auction, leaving their uneasy partnership set to continue.

• Xiao Qian raged over Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan’s bargain and ordered a subordinate to find him a snakewoman.
• Xiao Yan returned to refining medicine while Xiao Yu discovered that Queen Medusa had emerged from his sleeve and was waiting in his room.
• Medusa demanded that Xiao Yu refine a Spirit Fusion Pill within a year, but Xiao Yu told her to find the ingredients herself and suggested she ask Gu He instead.
• Medusa attacked Xiao Yu with her snake tail, then said she would accompany him to look for medicinal ingredients the next day.
• Xiao Yu explained that he was heading to the Black Corner Region for Jia Nan Academy, and Medusa transformed her tail into legs so she could travel with him.
• Medusa explained that she and Cai Die had slept after Xiao Yu fed the Sky Swallowing Python too much Companion Purple Crystal Source, then revealed she was a one-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yu gave Medusa the human-world name Cai Lin and brought her a veil and shoes, then watched her grow fond of Xiao Nian while she held the baby. He refined Green Spirit Pills and left with Xiao Yan, both ready to head out.

• Xiao Yu told Medusa to change her appearance and chose the name Cai Lin for her, which she quietly liked.
• Xiao Yu returned to the inn with a veil and shoes, then brought Xiao Nian out and fed her.
• Cai Lin denied liking Xiao Nian but accepted the baby when Xiao Yu placed her in Cai Lin's arms.
• Xiao Yu refined six batches of Green Spirit Pills, producing four Two-patterned pills and two Three-Patterned pills.
• Xiao Yu left Cai Lin with Xiao Nian and met Xiao Yan, who was prepared to depart with him.

Xiao Yu appraised pills at the Black Seal City Auction House and received a First-Class VIP Card before joining Xiao Yan and Cai Lin for the auction. Fan Ling and an elder sensed something strange about Xiao Yu and decided to watch him.

• Xiao Yu presented six Two-patterned Green Spirit Pills and three Three-patterned Green Spirit Pills for appraisal, then arranged for them to be auctioned and received a First-Class VIP Card.
• Li Quan and Elder Zhao separately encountered extraordinary people and went to report to the Sect Master.
• Xiao Yu moved into another inn room after Cai Lin claimed their room, then brought her along with Xiao Yan to the Thousand Medicine Pavilion the next day.
• Xiao Qian met Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, and Cai Lin outside the Thousand Medicine Pavilion, and Cai Lin frightened him with her icy gaze.
• At the auction, Xiao Yan identified Fan Ling as the young sect master of the Blood Sect, and Fan Ling and his elder decided to keep an eye on Xiao Yu and approach him after the auction.

At the Eight Fan Sect auction, Xiao Yu bid on a sword as a gift for Instructor Ruo Lin, provoking Fan Ling and drawing in Elder Qing of the Heavenly Snake Mansion. The auction continued with Xiao Yu’s and Xiao Yan’s pills selling for high prices, while Xiao Qian left after helping spark tensions with the Blood Sect.

• Xiao Yu bid on the azure longsword Cold Edge, explaining to Xiao Yan that he intended to give it to Instructor Ruo Lin.
• Fan Ling raised the bid to two hundred thousand Gold Coins to provoke Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu called him stupid and rich.
• Elder Qing mocked Fan Ling, who ultimately won the sword before the auction continued.
• Xiao Yan asked whether they should take the sword back later, and Xiao Yu said they could deal with the Blood Sect afterward with Cai Lin’s help.
• Xiao Qian left with his subordinates after telling Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu that Thousand Medicine Pavilion would await their visit to collect its fee.
• Xiao Yu’s Two-patterned Green Spirit Pills and Xiao Yan’s Spirit Replenishing Qi Pills sold for excellent prices.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan attended the auction, where Xiao Yu profited from selling pills and helped drive up the price of Thunder Bat Sky Wings against Fan Ling. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan recognizing the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma as an essential ingredient for the Earth Spirit Pill and resolving to obtain it.

• Black Skull Tomb and the Blood Sect bid against each other for Xiao Yu’s Two-patterned Green Spirit Pills, which the Blood Sect bought for five hundred and fifty thousand Gold Coins each, while Xiao Yan’s Spirit Replenishing Qi Pills sold for five hundred thousand each.
• The auctioneer presented the Thunder Bat Sky Wings, and Xiao Yan expressed interest in buying the flying Dou Technique.
• Fan Ling and Xiao Yu competed for the Thunder Bat Sky Wings, and Xiao Yu verified his funds before Fan Ling won the bid at two million five hundred thousand Gold Coins.
• Fan Ling ordered his men to prepare to kill Xiao Yu, while Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan discussed taking the technique from him later.
• Xiao Yu’s Three-Patterned Green Spirit Pills sold to the Heavenly Snake Mansion for one million five hundred thousand Gold Coins each.
• The auctioneer presented the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma, and Xiao Yan recognized it as one of the four ingredients needed to refine the Earth Spirit Pill and resolved to obtain it.

Xiao Yan bought the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma bundled with a damaged map that Xiao Yu recognized, then watched the auction’s factions compete for the Earth-tier Three Thousand Lightning Movement. The Black Skull Tomb won the technique with a bid of 10.2 million Gold Coins, while the major factions held back from the final auction item.

• Xiao Yu recognized the damaged map as a fragment connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and told Xiao Yan she wanted it.
• Xiao Yan bid 1.2 million Gold Coins for the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma and secured it with the map after Fan Ling chose not to compete.
• Xiao Yan also bought an Eight Directions Bright Fire Cauldron for four hundred thousand Gold Coins.
• The auctioneer presented the Earth Tier Low-Grade movement Dou Technique Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and Xiao Yu explained that it was the foundation for the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.
• The Black Skull Tomb’s middle-aged bidder offered 10.2 million Gold Coins for Three Thousand Lightning Movement, prompting the Blood Sect and Heavenly Snake Mansion to withdraw.

At the Black Corner Region auction, the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill sparked a fierce bidding contest between Heavenly Snake Mansion and the Blood Sect, while Yao Lao awakened and questioned Xiao Yu about the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan left the auction, noticing a Thousand Medicine Pavilion observer and deciding to teach the faction a lesson.

• Fan Ling and Elder Qing traded threats as they competed for the final auction item, while the auctioneer raised a protective iron cage around the platform.
• The auctioneer revealed the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill, and Xiao Yan recognized it as a rare Seventh-grade Pill.
• Yao Lao awakened and told Xiao Yan that he would explain his anger about the pill after they returned to the academy.
• Yao Lao contacted Xiao Yu and asked how he had obtained the Bone Spirit Cold Flame; Xiao Yu said he found it behind the Xiao Clan, and Yao Lao accepted that it had chosen Xiao Yu as its master.
• Heavenly Snake Mansion and the Blood Sect drove the pill's price to eight million, and Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan they should leave before a good show began.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan spotted someone from Thousand Medicine Pavilion watching them and agreed to teach the faction a lesson.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan collected their auction proceeds, rejected the Eight Fan Sect master's offer, and went to Thousand Medicine Pavilion to buy medicinal ingredients. The Eight Fan Sect ordered them watched and threatened to kill them if they could not be recruited, while Xiao Yu noticed that multiple groups were following them.

• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan collected their auction money and items from Manager Xu, and Xiao Yu transferred Xiao Yan an extra 320,000 Gold Coins for the map.
• Manager Xu invited Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan to meet the Eight Fan Sect master, but they declined and left the auction house.
• Xiao Yu received the Earth Tier High-Grade Dou Technique Wind Xun through the system, while the Eight Fan Sect master ordered Manager Xu to recruit the two men or eliminate them.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan noticed that people from the Eight Fan Sect and Thousand Medicine Pavilion were following them as they headed to Thousand Medicine Pavilion.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan bought four million Gold Coins' worth of medicinal ingredients, and the manager went to report their visit to Xiao Qian.

Xiao Yu evaded the Thousand Medicine Pavilion’s followers, burned its storeroom, and reunited with Xiao Yan and Cai Lin. The three left the city for a forest where Xiao Yu expected the Blood Sect to ambush the Heavenly Snake Mansion, while Cai Lin negotiated terms to watch Fan Ling.

• Xiao Yu slipped away from the Thousand Medicine Pavilion’s men and let the Eight Fan Sect attack them in an alley.
• Xiao Yu changed clothes, returned to the Thousand Medicine Pavilion, and set its storeroom ablaze with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan met Cai Lin at the inn and left the city together to watch for a likely ambush.
• Xiao Yu led Xiao Yan and Cai Lin to a forest where he expected the Blood Sect to attack the Heavenly Snake Mansion over the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
• Xiao Yu asked Cai Lin to watch Fan Ling in Black Seal City because Fan Ling had something Xiao Yan needed, and Cai Lin demanded terms.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan anticipated the Blood Sect’s ambush on Elder Qing’s group, and Cai Lin returned to support them after taking the Eight Ridges Magic Needle Fruit as payment for helping refine the Spirit Fusion Pill. As Fan Lao confronted the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s riders, Xiao Yu hesitated over whether to intervene because of Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yu asked Xiao Yan for an Eight Ridges Magic Needle Fruit, and Cai Lin took it and agreed to help him once.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan sensed that the Blood Sect was approaching, while Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Fan Lao’s group was concealed nearby.
• Cai Lin returned and confirmed that Fan Ling’s group was heading toward the ambush; Xiao Yu persuaded her to stay by reminding her that she needed him to refine the Spirit Fusion Pill.
• Elder Qing led the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s riders toward the forest, where an arrow destroyed her scouting energy snake and revealed the ambush.
• Fan Lao appeared and confronted Elder Qing, while Xiao Yu wondered whether to help the Heavenly Snake Mansion because of Qing Lin.

Fan Lao’s Blood Sect ambushed the Heavenly Snake Mansion to seize the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill while Fan Ling hurried to join his father. Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan intercepted Fan Ling’s group, and Fan Ling died when Xiao Yan drove his own Blood Corrosion Arrow through his throat.

• Elder Qing ordered the Heavenly Snake Mansion members to flee, but poisoned arrows and Blood Sect warriors surrounded them.
• Fan Ling dismissed Elder Luo’s concerns about the two black-robed men and rushed toward Fan Lao with Elder Luo and Elder Han.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan ambushed Fan Ling’s group, with Xiao Yu attacking the elders and Xiao Yan confronting Fan Ling.
• Xiao Yu shattered Elder Luo’s arm with a single punch and engaged Elder Han.
• Xiao Yan caught Fan Ling’s Blood Corrosion Arrow with his flame-covered hand and hurled it back at him.
• Fan Ling formed Dou Qi armor to stop the arrow, but Xiao Yan shoved it through the armor and into his throat, killing him.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu killed Fan Ling, Elder Han, and the remaining Blood Sect warriors, while Fan Lao attacked Elder Qing during the battle between the Blood Sect and the Heavenly Snake Mansion. Cai Lin intervened with overwhelming strength, rescued Elder Qing, and sent Fan Lao reeling as he demanded to know where Fan Ling was.

• Xiao Yu killed Elder Han after Fan Ling's death, and Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan wiped out the remaining Blood-clothed Death Warriors.
• Xiao Yan recovered the Thunder Bat Sky Wings scroll from Fan Ling's Storage Ring, and Xiao Yu kept the Cold Edge Long Sword for Instructor Ruo Lin.
• Fan Lao noticed Fan Ling had not arrived and attacked Elder Qing, breaking her barrier and injuring her during their fight.
• Elder Qing unleashed a secret technique and charged Fan Lao, but Cai Lin appeared, broke Fan Lao's ribs, and rescued her.
• Cai Lin knocked the surrounding Blood Sect warriors away, and Fan Lao recognized her as a possible Dou Zong expert before asking where Ling'er was.

Xiao Yu and his companions rescued Elder Qing and Green Man from Fan Lao, who fled after Xiao Yu revealed that he had killed Fan Ling. Green Man recognized Xiao Yu and told him Qing Lin was the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s Saintess, while Xiao Yu continued toward Jia Nan Academy with Xiao Yan and Cai Lin.

• Xiao Yu admitted to Fan Lao that he had killed Fan Ling, and Fan Lao attacked before Green Man arrived to defend the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Fan Lao escaped when Green Man charged him, and Cai Lin and Green Man let him flee.
• Green Man recognized Xiao Yu after he showed his Heavenly Flame, and she told him Qing Lin was a Three-Star Dou Ling who missed him.
• Green Man revealed that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had bought the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill for Qing Lin, and Xiao Yu said he would visit her when he had time.
• Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, and Cai Lin set off for Jia Nan Academy while Green Man led the surviving Heavenly Snake Mansion members home.

Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, and Cai Lin reached Peace Town near Jia Nan Academy, where the academy’s rules were enforced by Instructor Huo De and his squad. Huo De recognized Xiao Yan as a student of Instructor Ruo Lin and asked to see his badge.

• Xiao Yan mastered the Thunder Bat Sky Wings technique as the group traveled toward Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan landed outside Peace Town, where Xiao Yan warned that forced flight near the academy would provoke its enforcement squad.
• Xiao Yan explained Jia Nan Academy’s outer and inner academies while Xiao Yu boasted that few people his age could surpass him.
• The group entered Peace Town and saw the Death Spirit Tree, where the bodies of those who broke the academy’s rules were displayed.
• Instructor Huo De and his squad surrounded the group after sensing Cai Lin, and Xiao Yan identified himself as Instructor Ruo Lin’s student.
• Huo De recognized Xiao Yan’s name and asked to see his badge, which Xiao Yan handed over.