Chapter Summaries

After Yan Li was exposed as a spy from the Chu Yun Empire, he accused Xiao Yu of disguising himself to enter the Alchemist Grand Meeting. Xiao Yu revealed his true face, shocking Nalan Yanran, then left with Ya Fei and told her he would soon depart.

• Elder Jia's guards found an Appearance Recovery Pill on the unconscious Yan Li, and Fa Ma used it to reveal Yan Li's true identity as the Chu Yun Empire Alchemist Guild's vice president.
• Yan Li accused Xiao Yu of impersonating someone to enter the Alchemist Grand Meeting, and Xiao Yu removed his Ice Silkworm Mask to reveal his youthful face.
• Yan Li attacked Xiao Yu in disbelief, but Hai Bodong blocked him with an ice shield and knocked him back.
• Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yu's face as resembling the youth she had seen in the Xiao Family's hall three years earlier, while Xiao Yu put his mask back on and left with Ya Fei.
• At the Miter Family Manor, Xiao Yu told Ya Fei he would soon leave, and she said she would seek him in the Black Corner Region after reaching the Da Dou Shi realm.

At the Alchemist Grand Assembly’s final round, Xiao Yu began refining a fifth grade pill while Xiao Yan and the other finalists used their own flames. As the pill neared completion, a system notification announced that Xiao Yu had continued his bloodline and granted his descendant the Divine Phoenix Fire Body.

• Nalan Jie told Nalan Su to investigate Xiao Shi Yi and said he should help bring him and Nalan Yanran together if she had feelings for him.
• Nalan Jie agreed to give Xiao Yan the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva after his Brand Poison was completely removed, while Nalan Yanran resolved to return to the Misty Cloud Sect once her grandfather recovered.
• Yao Lao predicted the final round would let contestants refine a pill of their choice and prepared Xiao Yan to make the Spirit Returning Qi Infusing Pill.
• Fa Ma announced the final round, and Xiao Yu chose to refine the fifth grade Seven Star Body Tempering Pill while Xiao Yan prepared his own pill.
• Xiao Yu used the Green Lotus Core Flame to refine the ingredients, and Fa Ma recognized the signs of a fifth grade pill taking shape.
• A system notification told Xiao Yu that he had continued his bloodline and rewarded his bloodline descendant with the Divine Phoenix Fire Body.

Xiao Yu learned that he had a child as a strange omen gathered above the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Shan discovered Yun Yun had given birth and Protector Wu demanded the infant’s soul. At the Alchemist Conference, Xiao Yu salvaged his pill after his cauldron exploded, while a phoenix cry from the sect drew everyone’s attention as the contest ended.

• Xiao Yu heard that he had a child and looked toward the seven-colored clouds gathering above the Misty Cloud Sect; Nalan Yanran hurried back to the sect.
• Yun Shan ordered the mountain gates sealed and went to the Back Mountain, where two maidservants told him Yun Yun had given birth to a baby girl.
• Protector Wu offered to trade for the infant’s soul, but a phoenix cry and a powerful emperor’s aura swept out from the clouds.
• Xiao Yu’s Cloud Turtle Cauldron exploded, but he shaped the Green Lotus Core Flame into a cauldron and finished refining a Seven Star Body Tempering Pill.
• The Alchemist Conference ended, and another phoenix cry from the Misty Cloud Sect drew everyone’s gaze toward the mountain.

Xiao Yu left the Alchemist Grand Meeting to investigate the Seven-Colored Cloud above the Misty Cloud Sect, where a golden Phoenix Phantom entered the child Yun Yun carried. After the system awarded Xiao Yu the championship reward, his cultivation rapidly rose to the peak of Five-Star Dou Ling.

• Xiao Yu gave Fa Ma his Seven Star Body Tempering Pill and flew to the Misty Cloud Sect, while Fa Ma later announced Xiao Shi Yi as champion and Xiao Yan as runner-up.
• Xiao Yu joined Elder Jia and Hai Bodong near the sealed Misty Cloud Sect and saw the Phoenix Phantom forming in the Seven-Colored Cloud.
• Yun Shan brought Yun Yun and the child out of the cave after Protector Wu warned that the cloud seemed to target it.
• The Phoenix Phantom enveloped Yun Yun and the child, then entered the child and left a golden Phoenix mark on her forehead.
• The system awarded Xiao Yu the Divine Phoenix Fire Body and the Alchemist Grand Meeting championship, then raised his cultivation to the peak of Five-Star Dou Ling.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Family members across the land suddenly grew stronger as their bloodline power returned. Xiao Yu decided to accompany Xiao Yan to the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Shan arranged for Yun Yun’s child to remain with the sect.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, Xiao Mei, Xiao Zhan, the Elders, and other Xiao Family members broke through to higher cultivation levels.
• Xiao Yu reached Dou Ling, then asked Hai Bodong and Elder Jia about attacking the Misty Cloud Sect; they warned him against it.
• Xiao Yu met Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li, and arranged to accompany Xiao Yan when he issued his challenge at the Misty Cloud Sect the next morning.
• Yun Shan told Yun Yun to return to lead the Misty Cloud Sect and said he would personally teach her child, whose father Yun Yun refused to identify.

Yun Shan traded the soul of Yun Yun’s child for half of Wu Ying’s secret technique, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement. Yun Yun prepared the sect and its guests to witness Xiao Yan’s challenge.

• Yun Shan demanded half of Wu Ying’s secret technique in exchange for the child’s soul, and Wu Ying agreed while secretly plotting against Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan went to the Misty Cloud Sect, where disciples initially blocked them before one went to report Xiao Yan’s arrival.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun about the gifted alchemist Yan Xiao and how he had cured her grandfather’s Brand Poison.
• A disciple announced that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu had arrived to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement, prompting Nalan Yanran to accept the fight.
• Yun Yun ordered the sect to gather, invited prominent families to watch, and led the Elders to welcome the Xiao Family.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect for the Three-Year Agreement, where Xiao Yan prepared to fight Nalan Yanran. Xiao Yu’s reunion with Yun Yun left her shaken, while the gathered guests learned he was the Alchemist Grand Meet champion Xiao Shi Yi.

• Elder Jia, Hai Bodong, Fa Ma, and representatives of the Nalan, Mu, and Mittel families gathered after receiving the Misty Cloud Sect’s invitation.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan entered the square, where Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan and Yun Yun was stunned to see Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yan announced that he had come to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement, while Yun Yun silently struggled with her feelings and the secret of their child.
• Xiao Yu stepped aside to watch Xiao Yan’s battle and greeted Hai Bodong and Fa Ma among the guests.
• Fa Ma recognized Xiao Yu as Xiao Shi Yi, the Alchemist Grand Meet champion, and the guests discussed his talent and the Xiao Family’s prospects.
• Xiao Yan gripped the Mysterious Heavy Ruler, and his battle with Nalan Yanran began.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began their Three-Year Agreement duel, each revealing strength beyond what the Misty Cloud Sect expected. The chapter left them facing off in Dou Qi armor, with Xiao Yan’s aura clearly stronger and Nalan Yanran preparing to fight with everything she had.

• Yun Yun let Yun Leng preside over the match, and Xiao Yan insisted that life and death be left to fate.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran clashed with their weapons, and their first exchange shook the arena.
• Nalan Yanran displayed her Two-Star Da Dou Shi strength and demanded that Xiao Yan show his true power.
• Xiao Yan revealed his own Dou Qi armor and a stronger aura, prompting Yun Leng to ask whether the match should be stopped.
• Yun Yun refused to halt the duel, and Nalan Yanran donned pale-green Dou Qi armor as she prepared to give her all.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Agreement, and his use of an invisible flame revealed that he was Yan Xiao. After the duel, Xiao Yu confronted Yun Yun before the Misty Cloud Sect, declaring that he had come to take her and their child away.

• Nalan Yanran unleashed Extreme of Wind: Sunset Glow, but Xiao Yan answered with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and defeated her in the ensuing clash.
• Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan's invisible flame and realized he was Yan Xiao, stunning the onlookers with the revelation that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu were brothers.
• Yun Yun declared the Three-Year Agreement settled, and Xiao Yan burned the marriage contract before calling Xiao Yu down from the giant tree.
• Xiao Yu declined to fight the injured Nalan Yanran and asked Yun Yun to speak with him, just as Yun Shan arrived from the Back Mountain.
• Xiao Yu told Yun Yun he had come to take her and their child away, and Yun Yun asked in shock how he knew about the child.

Xiao Yu confronted Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect, demanding that she and their child leave with him. Yun Yun refused to abandon her position, and as Yun Shan prepared to act, Xiao Yu secretly used a cultivation enhancement card.

• Xiao Yu revealed that Yun Yun was the mother of his child and demanded that she leave the Misty Cloud Sect with him.
• Yun Yun refused to leave the sect but also rejected Xiao Yu's demand to take their child away.
• Yun Shan ordered Xiao Yu to leave, while Yun Leng and the Misty Cloud Sect elders reacted angrily to his insults.
• Yun Shan revealed his Dou Zong strength and prepared to attack after Yun Yun refused Xiao Yu's final appeal.
• Yun Yun pleaded with Yun Shan not to attack Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu's aura began to soar after he crushed a cultivation enhancement card.

Xiao Yu used a secret technique to raise his strength to that of a three-star Dou Zong and challenged Yun Shan while demanding that Yun Yun leave with him and their child. After exposing Yun Shan’s connection to the Soul Hall, Xiao Yu sensed the child’s location and threatened Wu Ying.

• Xiao Yu’s aura rose from Dou Ling to Dou Emperor, and he insisted that Yun Yun leave with him and bring the child.
• Yun Shan ordered the Misty Cloud Sect Elders to attack Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu shattered their Misty Cloud Formation and incapacitated them.
• Xiao Yu’s strength reached three-star Dou Zong, and he accused Yun Shan of colluding with the Soul Hall.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall was a powerful, ruthless organization and urged him to flee if he could not defeat its members.
• Xiao Yu used his bloodline connection to locate his child, then recognized Wu Ying’s involvement and declared that Wu Ying was seeking death.

Xiao Yu attacked Wu Ying to rescue Yun Yun’s newborn child, but Yun Shan accepted Wu Ying’s offer and joined the fight against him. The chapter ended with Xiao Yu facing both Dou Zongs as the battle erupted.

• Xiao Yu struck down Yun Shan’s secluded mountain and found Wu Ying holding Yun Yun’s newborn child.
• Yun Yun begged Wu Ying to return the child, while Wu Ying offered Yun Shan power in exchange for helping him.
• Xiao Yu charged Wu Ying at incredible speed, and Fa Ma noticed that Xiao Yu had used Wind Attribute Dou Qi despite being an alchemist.
• Xiao Yu grabbed part of the child’s swaddling cloth, but Yun Shan cut it with an attack and helped Wu Ying fend him off.
• Yun Shan charged Xiao Yu, and Xiao Yu faced Yun Shan and Wu Ying together, vowing that both would die.

Xiao Yu fought Wu Ying to reclaim the child while Yun Shan tried to keep her, and Yun Yun finally confronted her former teacher. The battle between Yun Yun and Yun Shan began as Xiao Yu continued clashing with Wu Ying overhead.

• Xiao Yu wounded Yun Shan with Wind Demon Nine Fingers, then renewed his attack on Wu Ying, who tossed the child to Yun Shan in exchange for the rest of a Soul Clan secret art.
• Xiao Yu revealed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame alongside the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Ge Ye recognized him as the Dou Zong who had appeared in Yan City.
• Yun Yun demanded that Yun Shan return her child, but he refused and tried to persuade her to help him advance to a higher realm.
• Yun Yun declared that she would no longer call Yun Shan Teacher and attacked him with an azure sword after he refused to release the child.
• Xiao Yu and Wu Ying continued their fierce aerial battle as Yun Yun and Yun Shan began fighting below.

Yun Yun and Hai Bodong joined forces against Yun Shan while Xiao Yu fought Wu Ying. As Yun Shan’s threat to the Jia Ma Empire became clear, Elder Jia and Fa Ma entered the battle, leaving the fight against the Dou Zong to four Dou Emperors.

• Yun Yun attacked Yun Shan to rescue her child, but his secret technique strengthened him enough to withstand her wind-blade assault.
• Hai Bodong shattered Yun Shan’s wind wall and joined Yun Yun, declaring that he would help his friend Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu resumed fighting Wu Ying after seeing Hai Bodong join Yun Yun against Yun Shan.
• Fa Ma asked Gu He to choose a side, and Gu He said he would not interfere in the conflict between the Misty Cloud Sect and Xiao Yu.
• Elder Jia and Fa Ma agreed to oppose Yun Shan and charged into the battle alongside Yun Yun and Hai Bodong.

Yun Shan’s fight against Yun Yun, Xiao Yu, and their allies turned into a desperate struggle over the child. Yun Yun took Yun Shan’s fatal attack to protect the child, and Xiao Yu held her as her life faded.

• Yun Yun struck Yun Shan’s arm, knocking the child from his grasp, and rushed to catch her.
• Xiao Yu’s attack pierced Yun Shan’s Wind Extreme: Meteor Kill, while Yun Yun reached the falling child.
• Xiao Yan let Yao Lao take control of his body, and Yao Lao joined Elder Jia and the others to fight Protector Wu.
• Yun Shan fired another Wind Extreme: Meteor Kill at the child, and Xiao Yu struck him from behind but could not reach her in time.
• Yun Yun shielded the child with her body and took Yun Shan’s attack through her chest.
• Xiao Yu gathered Yun Yun and the child in his arms and wept as Yun Yun’s life faded.

Yun Yun died from Yun Shan’s attack, but Xiao Yu used the Life Divine Tree’s Heart of Life to revive her. With Yun Yun and her child safely stored in the system space, Xiao Yu turned his attention back to the battle and prepared to retaliate against Yun Shan.

• As Yun Yun’s life faded, she asked Xiao Yu to care for their child and bury her in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yu summoned the system, which explained that the Life Divine Tree’s Heart of Life could revive Yun Yun if the tree merged with her.
• Xiao Yu gave Yun Yun the Heart of Life, restoring her heartbeat and vitality, though the system said she would remain asleep for one to two years.
• The system opened a space where Xiao Yu placed Yun Yun and the child while the Life Divine Tree entered Yun Yun’s dantian.
• Xiao Yu crushed another Cultivation Boost Card and faced Yun Shan with renewed power and killing intent.

Xiao Yu used his surging power to defeat Yun Shan and shatter the Misty Cloud Sect’s formation, while Protector Wu seized Yun Shan’s soul to strengthen himself. As Protector Wu’s Soul Hall technique began consuming the elders’ souls, Nalan Yanran realized the Misty Cloud Sect was finished.

• Yun Shan summoned the Cloud Cover Sun Formation and attacked Xiao Yu with a cloud arrow, but Xiao Yu caught it and sent it back through Yun Shan’s defenses.
• Xiao Yu’s arrow pierced Yun Shan, and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame engulfed him; Xiao Yu then shattered the formation and knocked the Misty Cloud Sect elders unconscious.
• Protector Wu grabbed the falling Yun Shan and tore his soul from his charred body, then began using the Ninefold Soul Devouring Technique to consume it.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yu to interrupt Protector Wu, who turned into black mist and began pulling the souls from the unconscious elders.
• Nalan Yanran watched the Misty Cloud Sect fall into terror and despair, feeling powerless and concluding that the sect was finished.

Xiao Yu defeated the Soul Hall Protector Wu after raising his strength to Nine-Star Peak Dou Ancestor, while Xiao Yan lent him the Fallen Heart Flame to destroy Wu Ying. Xiao Yu spared the Misty Cloud Sect but declared that Yun Yun had left it and named Nalan Yanran its next Sect Master.

• Protector Wu broke free with an Eight-Star Dou Ancestor aura, and Xiao Yu stepped forward to confront him.
• Xiao Yu raised his strength to Nine-Star Peak Dou Ancestor, restrained Wu Ying, and destroyed the remaining black-mist creatures.
• Xiao Yan lent Xiao Yu the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yu burned Wu Ying to ashes after an hour.
• Xiao Yu told the Misty Cloud Sect disciples that he would spare their sect but that Yun Yun would no longer serve as their Sect Master.
• Xiao Yu told Nalan Yanran that Yun Yun was recovering and that Nalan Yanran should succeed her as Sect Master.

After the Misty Cloud Sect was defeated, Xiao Yu killed Yun Leng, named Nalan Yanran the sect leader, and prepared to return to Wutan City with Xiao Yan before leaving for Jia Nan Academy. At the inn, Xiao Yu revealed a child he had brought from the System Space and told Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that the child was his.

• Xiao Yu killed the unconscious Yun Leng and declared Nalan Yanran the Misty Cloud Sect's new sect leader.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan accepted honorary elder positions in the Alchemist Guild, while the gathered allies departed to handle their affairs.
• Ya Fei stayed with Xiao Yu, who promised to take her to the Black Corner Region in a couple of years.
• Xiao Yu told Nalan Yanran that Yun Yun would be alive and well within two years, then left with Ya Fei and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yu reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li at the inn and revealed that the child he had brought from the System Space was his.

Xiao Zhan reunited with his sons, learned that Xiao Yan had won against Nalan Yanran, and met Xiao Yu and Yun Yun’s daughter, Xiao Nian. Xiao Yu then encountered Ling Ying, confirmed that the danger from Soul Hall had passed, and said he would soon leave for Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that Yun Yun was injured and recovering, and Xiao Zhan arrived to cheer Xiao Yan on at the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that he had already fought Nalan Yanran and won.
• Xiao Zhan met Xiao Yu’s daughter, learned she was Yun Yun’s child, and helped feed her; Xiao Yu named her Xiao Nian.
• Xiao Yu sensed a Dou Emperor nearby, went to a forest, and attacked Ling Ying before Ling Ying explained that Xun'er had sent him to protect Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yu thanked Ling Ying, said Soul Hall’s Wu Ying was dead and the Jia Ma Empire was safe, and told Ling Ying he would soon set out for Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yu told Ling Ying to tell Xun'er the truth about Yun Yun and Xiao Nian, promising to explain it himself.