Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan arrived at Jia Nan City after losing the Three-Year Agreement and reunited with Xiao Ning, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei at Jia Nan Academy. He asked to see Xun'er, but learned she was in the Inner Academy and together with the Yunlan Saint Son, Ji Changqing.

• Xiao Yan arrived in Jia Nan City and headed toward Jia Nan Academy after hearing about the Black Seal City auction.
• Ji Changqing and Xiao Xun'er sparred at their residence, then discussed Xiao Yan's expected arrival and the coming Inner Academy selection competition with Han Yue.
• Xiao Yan rescued Xiao Ning from a student who was beating him, and the two cousins reconciled.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei asked Xiao Yan about the Three-Year Agreement, and he admitted that he had lost.
• Xiao Yan asked where Xun'er was, and Xiao Yu told him that Xun'er had gone to the Inner Academy and was together with the Yunlan Saint Son.

After learning that Xun'er was with Ji Changqing, Xiao Yan broke down but resolved to enter the Inner Academy and prove himself. He advanced to the final four of the selection tournament, and the chapter ended as news from its decisive battle spread through Jia Nan Academy.

• Xiao Ning told Xiao Yan that Xun'er had been with Ji Changqing since he arrived at Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Yan broke down in tears.
• The Xiao Family Trio encouraged Xiao Yan, who eventually asked to register for the Inner Academy Selection Tournament so he could confront Xun'er and prove he was no worse than Ji Changqing.
• Xiao Yan registered and fought his way into the final four, badly injuring his opponents and worrying the Xiao Family Trio with his ruthlessness.
• Before the final battle, Bai Shan suggested that he, Hu Jia, and Wu Hao eliminate Xiao Yan first, and they agreed.
• The Inner Academy Selection Tournament ended, and news about its outcome spread across Jia Nan Academy and into the Inner Academy.

Ji Changqing, Xiao Xun'er, and Han Yue decided to watch the Fire Energy Hunt Competition as Xiao Yan trained intensely to surpass Ji Changqing and enter the Inner Academy. The competition began with Xiao Yan rushing into the forest, while Ji Changqing and the others waited at the Inner Academy gates.

• Ji Changqing saw Xiao Yan's name on the Fire Energy Hunt list and agreed to watch the competition with Xiao Xun'er and Han Yue.
• Xiao Yan trained relentlessly in Three Thousand Thunder Movement and Lion Tiger Shattering Gold Chant until Yao Lao stopped him and warned that he could injure himself.
• Yao Lao encouraged Xiao Yan, saying he could surpass Ji Changqing, and Xiao Yan vowed to prove himself and speak with Xun'er.
• Three days later, an Outer Academy elder explained the competition rules and announced its start.
• Xiao Yan charged into the forest as Ji Changqing, Xiao Xun'er, Han Yue, Zi Yan, and the Moon Spirit senior sisters watched from the Inner Academy gates.

Ji Changqing watched the Fire Energy Hunt Competition from the Inner Academy gates as the freshmen, led by Xiao Yan, defeated the Inner Academy team. The chapter ended as Xiao Yan emerged from the forest, setting up his direct encounter with Ji Changqing.

• Liu Qing avoided Ji Changqing, and Lin Xiuya learned that Liu Qing feared him because of what Ji Changqing had done during a mission a year earlier.
• Liu Qing told Lin Xiuya that Liu Fei had died because of her own actions and his weakness, and warned him that witnessing Ji Changqing fight could destroy his confidence.
• Zi Yan asked Ji Changqing to search for spiritual herbs, but he told her to watch the competition, while Han Yue questioned why he had sent only relatively weak Moon Spirit members.
• Several Moon Spirit members returned from the forest and admitted defeat, and Ji Changqing rewarded them with medicinal pills.
• The Inner Academy students learned that Xiao Yan and the freshmen had won the Fire Energy Hunt Competition, and Xiao Yan emerged from the forest.

Xiao Yan emerged from the Fire Energy Hunt Competition and found Xun'er holding Ji Changqing's hand, then resolved to challenge him. Ji Changqing agreed to handle the confrontation himself as Xiao Yan announced his challenge before the Inner Academy students.

• Xiao Yan and his companions emerged from the forest before the Inner Academy students.
• Xiao Yan saw Xun'er holding Ji Changqing's hand, and her affectionate words to Ji Changqing deepened his grief.
• Xiao Yan decided to defeat Ji Changqing, while Bai Shan encouraged the challenge and the other freshmen urged caution.
• Ji Changqing stopped Zi Yan and Han Yue from intervening and told Xiao Yan that he owed him no favors.
• Xiao Yan said he had once hoped to become Ji Changqing's brother, then planted his ruler in the ground and formally challenged him.

Xiao Yan challenged Ji Changqing and unleashed his powerful Flame Splitting Wave Palm, but Ji Changqing did not defend himself. As the dust settled, a figure in green appeared, leaving the result of the attack unclear.

• Inner Academy students and elders gathered to watch Xiao Yan challenge Ji Changqing, while Xiao Xun'er and Han Yue stayed calm at Ji Changqing's request.
• Xiao Yan drew his Black Heavy Ruler and built up enough Dou Qi to trigger the energy resonance of an Earth Tier Fighting Skill.
• Xiao Yan unleashed Flame Splitting Wave Palm at Ji Changqing, who remained still and made no attempt to defend.
• The attack struck with enough force to crack the ground for more than a hundred meters and raise a cloud of dust.
• As the dust settled, a figure in green slowly appeared before the watching crowd.

Xiao Yan’s strongest attack failed to harm Ji Changqing, but Yao Lao urged him to use the Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus with two Heavenly Flames. Ji Changqing revealed that he also possessed two Heavenly Flames and began fusing them, leaving Xiao Yan shocked as both prepared to unleash the same technique.

• Ji Changqing emerged from the dust completely unharmed, and the spectators realized he had effortlessly neutralized Xiao Yan’s Flame Splitting Wave Palm.
• Xiao Yan accepted that he had lost, but Yao Lao persuaded him to fight once more with the Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus and promised he could withstand its impact.
• Xiao Yan summoned two Heavenly Flames, astonishing the Inner Academy students and elders.
• Ji Changqing revealed two Heavenly Flames of his own, deepening Xiao Yan’s shock and erasing his perceived advantage.
• Yao Lao reminded Xiao Yan that his strength lay in the Buddha’s Rage Fire Lotus, and Xiao Yan began bringing his flames together.
• Xiao Yan saw Ji Changqing make the same motion to fuse his two Heavenly Flames.

Ji Changqing and Xiao Yan formed Buddha's Rage Fire Lotuses from Heavenly Flames during their confrontation. Ji Changqing completed his first, leaving Xiao Yan shaken but still working to finish his own.

• Xiao Yan lost focus when he saw Ji Changqing combining Heavenly Flames, and the flames in his hands exploded, tearing his skin.
• Yao Lao steadied Xiao Yan and urged him to concentrate, while Ji Changqing calmly balanced his flames using what he had learned through observation and repeated practice.
• The Inner Academy students and elders watched the pair form their Fire Lotuses, and Su Qian prepared to protect the crowd if the flames exploded.
• Ji Changqing finished a blue-and-green Fire Lotus before Xiao Yan, who recognized it as his own signature Fighting Skill and became despondent.
• Yao Lao stabilized Xiao Yan's rampaging flames and urged him to keep going, and Xiao Yan eventually formed a dark-yellow-and-pale-white Fire Lotus.

Ji Changqing and Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotuses collided, unleashing a disaster that threatened Jia Nan Academy before an expert from the Misty Cloud Sect stopped it. After the battle, Ji Changqing returned to his courtyard, where Hun Tiandi’s order to his undercover avatar at the Corpse Soul Mountain Range Branch Hall caught his attention.

• Ji Changqing and Xiao Yan exchanged taunts, threw their Fire Lotuses at each other, and fled before the flames collided.
• The four-colored Heavenly Flames shattered the elders’ attempt to contain them and swept toward the students and Inner Academy.
• An aged hand emerging from azure mist drew in the flames and ended the disaster, after which Su Qian ordered Xiao Yan to receive treatment.
• Ji Changqing returned to his courtyard to eat roast meat while Xiao Yan remained injured and unconscious.
• Hun Tiandi sent an order to his avatar undercover at the Corpse Soul Mountain Range Branch Hall, and Ji Changqing sensed it.

Ji Changqing, undercover as Qin Tian in Soul Hall, faced Hun Tiandi’s questions about the search for the Tuoshe Ancient Jade. He claimed the Xiao Family could not be found, but Old Man Mu Gu revealed that a new power had blocked Soul Hall from entering the Northwest Region.

• Ji Changqing went to meet Old Ghost Star-Picking at the Wanhun Mountain Range Branch Hall and found Old Man Mu Gu waiting there.
• Old Ghost Star-Picking announced that the Clan Leader was coming, and Hun Tiandi appeared before the three Dou Venerates.
• Hun Tiandi asked about the Ancient Jade, and Ji Changqing nervously claimed that Soul Hall had searched the Jia Ma Empire without finding the Xiao Family.
• Old Man Mu Gu told Hun Tiandi that a new power had killed many Soul Hall experts and made the Northwest Region inaccessible.

Ji Changqing learned that Hun Tiandi had ordered the Misty Cloud Sect destroyed and the Ancient Jade retrieved, then confronted Xiao Yan at Jia Nan Academy to demand the Xiao Family Clan Leader’s jade token. Xiao Yan refused, and Ji Changqing threatened to kill him as the chapter ended.

• Hun Tiandi ordered Old Man Mu Gu to join the Great Heavenly Venerable and Second Heavenly Venerable in wiping out the Misty Cloud Sect and retrieving the Ancient Jade within seven days.
• Ji Changqing pretended to congratulate Old Man Mu Gu, then resolved to kill him for ruining his plans.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Ji Changqing paid Xiao Yan’s medical debt and told him he had monopolized the academy’s pill business.
• Ji Changqing demanded the jade token proving Xiao Yan’s position as Xiao Family Clan Leader, but Xiao Yan refused to trade it.
• After Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan not to hand over the token, Ji Changqing threatened to kill Xiao Yan and said no one could stop him.

Ji Changqing forced Xiao Yan to hand over the Xiao Family Ancient Jade, then left with Xiao Xun'er and Han Yue to return to the Misty Cloud Sect. The chapter ended with Ji Changqing reflecting on a Soul Clan Dou Saint.

• Yao Lao emerged from the Bone Flame Ring, but a stronger soul force shattered his attack and drove him back into hiding.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to surrender the Xiao Family Ancient Jade, warning him that survival mattered more than pride.
• Ji Changqing threatened to kill Xiao Yan and take the token, prompting Yao Lao to offer to help Xiao Yan escape.
• Xiao Yan threw the bloodstained Jade Token to Ji Changqing, who accepted it and refused Xiao Yan's request involving Xun'er.
• Ji Changqing told Xiao Xun'er and Han Yue he needed to return to the Misty Cloud Sect, then traveled back through a wormhole with them.

After returning to the Misty Cloud Sect, Ji Changqing hid his fear of Hun Tiandi from Yun Yun and the others, then secretly prepared a trap for the Soul Clan. He waited at the center of an array network designed to detect and intercept any Soul Hall Dou Saint approaching the sect.

• Ji Changqing returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and learned that Yun Yun and the experts were discussing the destruction of the Shi Ming Sect.
• Ji Changqing spent the evening with Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran, then privately comforted Yun Yun while concealing his worries about the Soul Hall.
• Ji Changqing told Yun Yun and the others he was leaving, but sent an ordinary energy body through the Space Wormhole while he went to a cave a thousand li away.
• Ji Changqing joined his Three Corpses Clone and set spiritual seals across the surrounding area to detect Soul Hall Dou Saints and intercept them.
• After completing the arrays a day later, Ji Changqing waited at their center for a Soul Clan Saint to enter his trap.

Ji Changqing prepared a Fire Lotus while the Soul Hall’s Great Heavenly Venerable, Second Heavenly Venerable, and Old Man Mu Gu traveled toward Misty Cloud Sect. The Great Heavenly Venerable sensed danger and fled, but Ji Changqing’s flames engulfed Mu Gu and the others.

• Ji Changqing spent two days adjusting his condition, then began kneading a Fire Lotus as the enemy approached.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable ordered Old Man Mu Gu to investigate Xiao households in the Jia Ma Empire and destroy Misty Cloud Sect after settling the matter there.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable sensed formations around the group and repeatedly called for the hidden Saint to reveal himself.
• Ji Changqing and his avatar combined Heavenly Flames into an eight-colored Fire Lotus, which destroyed the concealing formations.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable burned his essence blood and fled as the Fire Lotus’s sea of flames swept over Old Man Mu Gu, the Second Heavenly Venerable, and him.

Ji Changqing captured the Great Heavenly Venerable, the Second Heavenly Venerable, and Old Man Mu Gu, then used the Great Heavenly Venerable’s identity to infiltrate the Soul Hall. He left the Misty Cloud Sect ruling the Northwest Region while reporting to Hun Tiandi that he had brought the sect and its hidden Dou Saint under control.

• Ji Changqing drew the three Soul Hall experts’ souls into the Blazing Banner, where the Great Heavenly Venerable blamed Old Man Mu Gu for failing to detect a five-star Dou Saint.
• Ji Changqing entered the banner, killed Old Man Mu Gu and the Second Heavenly Venerable with his Heavenly Realm Soul, and forced the Great Heavenly Venerable to reveal cultivation methods and Human Hall affairs.
• Ji Changqing transformed into the Misty Cloud Sect’s Mysterious Elder Grandma while his clone took the Great Heavenly Venerable’s appearance and used energy bodies to imitate his companions.
• The disguised clone entered the Misty Cloud Sect, and the sect later launched a campaign against several first-rate Northwest Region powers, establishing dominance over the region.
• The Great Heavenly Venerable returned to the Human Hall and reported to Hun Tiandi that the Second Heavenly Venerable and Old Man Mu Gu had fallen and that the Misty Cloud Sect and its hidden Dou Saint were under his control.

Ji Changqing’s clone deceived Hun Tiandi with a forged Xiao Family Ancient Jade and earned his trust, while Ji Changqing’s true body returned safely to the Misty Cloud Sect. He encountered Ya Fei near a field of spirit herbs.

• Hun Tiandi examined Ji Changqing’s forged Jade Token, mistook its Emperor aura for genuine, and rewarded him with the Soul Clan’s Earth Tier High-level Fighting Skill, Sorrowful Life Seal.
• Ji Changqing planned to keep a clone hidden to protect the Misty Cloud Sect and later arrange for his Great Heavenly Venerable clone to fake its death and recruit Protector Liu.
• Ji Changqing’s true body returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, where the sect’s disciples respectfully greeted him as the Northwest Region’s number one alchemy genius.
• Ji Changqing strolled toward the Bamboo House and met Ya Fei near a field of spirit herbs; she greeted him with a radiant smile.

Ji Changqing reunited with Ya Fei at his old residence in the Misty Cloud Sect, where an unexpected formation trapped them together before they parted on friendly terms. After returning to Jia Nan Academy, he learned Xiao Xun'er had been searching for him and saw a mysterious middle-aged man in her courtyard.

• Ji Changqing met Ya Fei at the Misty Cloud Sect and teased her about her past misunderstanding that he had come to see her.
• Ji Changqing showed Ya Fei the Bamboo House where he had first lived, and they found its courtyard preserved as he remembered it.
• A formation compressed the courtyard and pushed Ya Fei against Ji Changqing, but he quickly broke it and reassured her it was an accident.
• Ji Changqing and Ya Fei grew more familiar as they chatted on their way back, then Ya Fei invited him to visit the Mite'er Auction House.
• After spending a day at the Misty Cloud Sect, Ji Changqing returned to Jia Nan Academy and learned Xiao Xun'er had sought him several times.
• Ji Changqing rushed to Xiao Xun'er's courtyard and saw a middle-aged man in coarse cloth looking directly at him.

Ji Changqing met Gu Yuan, Xiao Xun’er's father, who came to take her back to the Gu Clan for her Bloodline Awakening. Gu Yuan invited Ji Changqing to accompany them, warning him that the clan’s talented youths would likely be hostile toward him.

• Ji Changqing met Gu Yuan at Xiao Xun'er's courtyard and endured the pressure of his powerful soul.
• Xiao Xun'er clung to Ji Changqing, and Gu Yuan questioned him about the Misty Cloud Sect's hidden Dou Saint and her Heaven-tier Fighting Skill.
• Gu Yuan told Xiao Xun'er to return to the Gu Clan for her imminent Bloodline Awakening, and she promised Ji Changqing she would secretly visit him afterward.
• Ji Changqing promised to find Xiao Xun'er, and Gu Yuan invited him to come to the Gu Clan while warning him about hostile young talents.

Ji Changqing agreed to accompany Gu Yuan to the Gu Clan and arranged to return home before departing. On his way to find Han Yue, he confronted Xiao Yan, who was left wondering whether he could ever catch up to him.

• Ji Changqing agreed to go to the Gu Clan with Gu Yuan and asked to return home first; Gu Yuan set their departure for the day after tomorrow.
• Ji Changqing and Xiao Xun'er went to gather ingredients for dinner, and Xun'er asked him to warn Han Yue not to come looking for them.
• Ji Changqing noticed Xiao Yan following him and burned away a thicket to reveal him.
• Xiao Yan accused Ji Changqing of being involved with Han Yue despite having Xun'er, and Ji Changqing mocked his nice-guy attitude.
• Ji Changqing revealed his Yin Yang Flame, shocking Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, then left Xiao Yan wondering if he could ever catch up to him.

Ji Changqing visited Han Yue to say farewell before leaving for the Gu Clan with Xiao Xun'er, then returned to the Misty Cloud Sect to announce a long training journey. He secretly met Yun Yun at night, who learned that Mysterious Elder Grandma would accompany him and suspend their cultivation sessions until she returned.

• Ji Changqing visited the Moon Spirit Business Tower, reunited with Han Yue, and explained that he had to travel to the Gu Clan with Xiao Xun'er.
• Han Yue embraced Ji Changqing, accepted that he had to leave, and promised to wait for his return.
• Ji Changqing returned to Xiao Xun'er, and they joined Gu Yuan for a meal before Gu Yuan went to his prepared residence.
• Ji Changqing returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, told Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Yanran he would be away training, and shared a meal with them.
• That night, Mysterious Elder Grandma visited Yun Yun and said she would accompany Ji Changqing, suspending their cultivation sessions until she returned.