Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan considered leaving Jia Nan Academy to focus on cultivation and caught up with Han Yue about the Inner Academy and the upcoming Strong Ranking Tournament. Their private kiss was interrupted by Zi Yan, who had come to ask him for more medicinal pills.

• Xiao Yan reviewed the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and considered leaving the Inner Academy for the Jia Ma Empire.
• Han Yue gave Xiao Yan messages from former seniors and a piece of fragrant warm jade left by Hu Qingqing, which he could not identify.
• Han Yue told Xiao Yan about the approaching Strong Ranking Tournament, and he declined to compete, agreeing only to make an appearance if needed.
• Xiao Yan kissed Han Yue and began caressing her, but urgent knocking from Zi Yan interrupted them.
• Han Yue fled in embarrassment, and Xiao Yan asked Zi Yan whether she had finished all her pills again.

Xiao Yan took Zi Yan to the Back Mountain to practice the Three Thousand Lightning Movement after she visited him and received pills. Zi Yan offered to share her Ancient Void Dragon blood so he could learn her clan’s techniques, but Xiao Yan refused and warned her not to believe Hun Li Li’s claim that he would have to call Zi Yan “Mom.”

• Zi Yan visited Xiao Yan, denied coming for pills, then happily accepted the bottles he offered and hugged him to show she had missed him.
• Xiao Yan carried Zi Yan out and told Han Yue to hand off sect duties, focus on cultivation, and train with Xiao Yi Xian in the Black Corner Region after reaching Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan flew with Zi Yan to a swamp in the Back Mountain to practice the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Zi Yan explained that she could replace Xiao Yan’s blood with her essence blood so he could learn her clan’s techniques, but Xiao Yan refused to risk harming her.
• Zi Yan said Hun Li Li had told her Xiao Yan would have to call her Mom if her blood flowed in him, and Xiao Yan realized Hun Li Li had misled her.

Xiao Yan decided to cultivate the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and accepted Zi Yan’s help drawing in powerful astral wind and lightning. After she marked him with a Dragon Seal, Zi Yan activated her clan’s secret method, and Xiao Yan began absorbing the descending forces.

• Xiao Yan explained that he needed to extract the wind and lightning power sealed in the scroll to begin cultivating the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Zi Yan offered to use her clan’s secret method to draw in wind and lightning, but warned that its power could be dangerous even for her.
• Zi Yan’s hunger surged as she neared an advance, and Xiao Yan gave her a Jade Heart Pill after she nearly bit him and reacted strangely to his punishment.
• Zi Yan used three drops of her essence blood to place a Dragon Seal on Xiao Yan’s palm, explaining that it connected their conditions.
• Zi Yan activated the secret method, tearing open the sky and bringing astral winds and lightning down toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan sent Zi Yan to safety and used the Myriad Beast Lotus Heart Flame to refine the incoming wind and lightning before letting it enter his body.

Xiao Yan endured Zi Yan’s Wind Lightning Power and formed a Wind Lightning Seed, then used it to learn Three Thousand Lightning Movement. His first attempt launched him a hundred meters beyond the mountain, where he began falling into an abyss without forming wings.

• Zi Yan watched anxiously as Xiao Yan endured the Wind Lightning Power and refined it into a Wind Lightning Seed.
• After the power stopped, Xiao Yan recovered, and Zi Yan accepted his Sixth-Grade pill before agreeing to keep watch as he studied Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Xiao Yan injected Wind Lightning Power into the silver scroll, absorbed its sealed power, and received the technique’s cultivation method in his mind.
• Xiao Yan channeled Wind Lightning Power through his feet and took his first step, shooting a hundred meters beyond the mountain peak.
• Xiao Yan realized he was falling toward a bottomless abyss without Dou Qi Transformation Wings and cried out in alarm.

Xiao Yan mastered the first stage of Three Thousand Lightning Movement and returned to the Inner Academy during the Strong Ranking Tournament. He reunited with the Student Union sisters, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan openly embracing five women while Zi Yan sat on his shoulder.

• Xiao Yan mastered the Lightning Flash stage of Three Thousand Lightning Movement after half a month of cultivation.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan returned to the Inner Academy during the Strong Ranking Tournament and watched Han Yue and the other sisters from a rooftop.
• Yao Ling teased Huo Zhi about joining Xiao Yan's group of girlfriends, and Huo Zhi openly said she wanted to ask Xiao Yan to accept her.
• Ling Yanfei spotted Xiao Yan and waved to him, prompting Yao Ling to fly over and throw herself into his arms.
• Xiao Yan joined the Student Union stand, where Shi Xuanxuan, Han Yue, Huo Zhi, and Ling Yanfei crowded around him as Zi Yan sat on his shoulder.
• The students watched Xiao Yan embrace the five women, and Sun Qingyang declared that the president deserved to die.

After leaving the Strong Ranking Tournament, Xiao Yan returned to the pavilion with the girls and grew closer to Huo Zhi, who confessed that she liked him. He then told them he planned to leave Jia Nan Academy for the Jia Ma Empire and the Heavenly Snake Empire, prompting them to consider their own plans.

• Xiao Yan left the tournament with the girls, while Sun Qingyang handled the Student Union's affairs and Su Qian decided to report Xiao Yan's relationships to the Headmaster.
• Back at the pavilion, Ling Yanfei slipped out of Xiao Yan's arms, and Xiao Yan reflected on his attraction to her and his gratitude toward Huo Zhi.
• Huo Zhi told Xiao Yan she liked him and wanted to become one of his girlfriends, and Xiao Yan agreed to get closer to her.
• Zi Yan kissed Xiao Yan on the cheek, and the other girls accused him of deserving punishment before he explained that Zi Yan was fooling around.
• Xiao Yan announced he planned to visit the Jia Ma Empire and then the Heavenly Snake Empire, leaving the girls to consider whether to stay at the academy or pursue other opportunities.

Xiao Yan left the academy for the Jia Ma Empire with five companions, while Han Yue stayed behind to manage the Student Union and Xiao Sect. After arriving at Ghost Suppression Pass, Xiao Yan killed the corrupt deputy commander Meng Li, learned of recent changes in the empire, and prepared to travel to Wutan City.

• Xiao Yan planned his return to the Jia Ma Empire, and Han Yue chose to remain at the academy while Yao Ling, Shi Xuanxuan, Huo Zhi, Ling Yanfei, and Zi Yan decided to accompany him.
• Xiao Yan comforted Han Yue, gave her pills, promised to return within three years, and departed with the other girls.
• Xiao Yan's group traveled on a Golden Feather Gale Eagle while he cultivated, then reached Ghost Suppression Pass and entered the fortress to gather information.
• Deputy Commander Meng Li tried to seize Xiao Yan's group, but Xiao Yan defeated him, removed the Misty Cloud Sect's Tracking Seal, and killed him.
• Mu Tie met Xiao Yan at the City Lord Mansion and reported that Yun Leng had been stripped of his elder position and that the Mittel Family had helped the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that Patriarch Xiao was his father, and Mu Tie offered a military flying transport team to take him to Wutan City.

After a week aboard a military flying transport, Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City with Yao Ling, Shi Xuanxuan, Huo Zhi, Ling Yanfei, and Zi Yan. Meanwhile, Ya Fei missed him and Hai Bodong sensed his arrival, deciding to bring her to the Xiao Family and secretly arrange their engagement.

• Xiao Yan and the five girls left Ghost Suppression Pass aboard an Iron Wing Bird convoy, and he spent the journey cultivating while they enjoyed the flight.
• After crossing the empire in a week, Xiao Yan spotted the Monster Mountain Range and Wutan City, and Yao Ling comforted him as he grew apprehensive about returning home.
• The Xiao Family had become Wutan City's dominant force with help from Ya Fei and Hai Bodong, and Xiao Zhan and other family members had grown stronger.
• Ya Fei told Hai Bodong that she missed Xiao Yan and wondered whether he had become a Dou King, and Hai Bodong teased her about marrying him after her coming-of-age ceremony.
• Hai Bodong sensed Xiao Yan's arrival aboard the military convoy and followed Ya Fei toward the Xiao Family, intending to help arrange their engagement.

Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City with his senior sisters and Zi Yan, where he reunited with Ya Fei, Hai Bodong, and his father, Xiao Zhan. Hai Bodong proposed a marriage alliance, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan and Ya Fei becoming engaged as the Xiao Clan prepared a banquet.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Xiao Mansion and reunited with Ya Fei and Hai Bodong, then introduced his companions to them.
• Xiao Yan met his father, Xiao Zhan, and revealed that he had reached Seven-Star Dou Wang.
• Hai Bodong proposed an engagement between Xiao Yan and Ya Fei to strengthen the Xiao Clan and the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Zhan approved the match after Xiao Yan clarified that his engagement to the Nalan Clan's young lady had been annulled.
• Ya Fei accepted Xiao Zhan's blessing, and Xiao Yan and Ya Fei openly celebrated their engagement.
• Xiao Zhan ordered a grand banquet, and the Xiao Clan elders began preparing the celebration.

Hai Bodong took the Restoration Purple Pill and Imperial Extreme Breaking Pill to restore his strength as Xiao Yan discussed the Xiao Family’s past and his powerful connections with Xiao Zhan. Xiao Yan received the family’s ancestral jade and learned that Yun Yun had quietly supported the clan, leaving him to consider how to repay her kindness.

• Hai Bodong swallowed the Restoration Purple Pill and prepared to use the Imperial Extreme Breaking Pill to raise his cultivation.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that the Mittel Family had supported the Xiao Family more faithfully than the Nalan Clan and described the attack that had forced the Xiao Family to flee the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan the Xiao Family’s ancestral jade, which Xiao Yan recognized as a piece of the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that Xun Er’s father was a Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint and that his senior sisters came from powerful clans, prompting Xiao Zhan to worry about their family’s standing.
• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Zhan that he only needed to become a Dou Emperor to handle those powerful families.
• Xiao Zhan asked Xiao Yan to visit the Misty Cloud Sect and repay Yun Yun for the resources she had secretly sent to the Xiao Family.

Xiao Yan and Ya Fei celebrated their engagement with a night together, while Nalan Yanran continued training at the Misty Cloud Sect and worried about threats to it. Yun Yun prepared to leave the sect, entrusting Nalan Yanran with a token to help protect it.

• Xiao Yan comforted Ya Fei, answered her questions about the other women in his life, and promised that she had a place in his heart.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan she would stay in Jia Ma to guard the Xiao Family's home, and they kissed before going to his courtyard together.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei spent the night together, with Ya Fei declaring herself satisfied to be his first woman.
• Nalan Yanran practiced swordsmanship on Misty Cloud Mountain and told Yun Yun she was worried about Yun Shan's seclusion and Yun Leng's conduct.
• Yun Yun said she would leave the sect for a few days and gave Nalan Yanran a Sect Master Token that could help her contend with a Dou Wang expert.

Xiao Yan spent the morning with Ya Fei before taking his Senior Sisters shopping around Wutan City and bringing them to a secluded valley in the Monster Mountain Range. He reunited with the Blue Eagle and promised to take it to Xiao Yi Xian once it reached the Fifth Tier.

• Xiao Yan woke beside Ya Fei, then joined Ling Yanfei, Huo Zhi, Shi Xuanxuan, and Yao Ling in the courtyard, where Huo Zhi suggested they give him and Ya Fei time alone.
• Xiao Yan left Double Spirit Ascension Pills and a jade slip with instructions beside Ya Fei, then took his Senior Sisters around Wutan City to shop.
• Xiao Yan and his group flew to the Monster Mountain Range, where he briefly stopped in Green Mountain Town before heading to the valley he had shared with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan reunited with the Blue Eagle, gave it pills, and promised to take it to Xiao Yi Xian after it reached the Fifth Tier.

Xiao Yan settled into the valley and reflected on his plans for cultivation and his relationships before Yao Ling came to his room seeking his company. After Xiao Yan promised to help protect the Yao Clan, Yao Ling confessed her affection through a kiss.

• Xiao Yan settled in the valley, and Xiao Lan consumed his medicinal pills and prepared to break through to the Fourth Tier.
• Xiao Yan returned to the old cabin, considered his relationships and future plans, and decided to postpone refining the Sea Heart Flame.
• Yao Ling arrived at night, unable to sleep, and asked Xiao Yan to keep her company.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Ling about his past and recognized that she had come to the Inner Academy because of her deep feelings for him.
• Xiao Yan promised Yao Ling he would help protect the Yao Clan, and Yao Ling kissed him.

Yao Ling returned to Xiao Yan after spending the night with him, while Zi Yan woke from a troubling dream and resolved to cultivate harder. Yun Yun arrived at the Monster Mountain Range to obtain Purple Spirit Crystals for Xiao Yan and confronted the Amethyst Winged Lion King when negotiations failed.

• Yao Ling left Xiao Yan after their night together, then told Shi Xuanxuan she had spent the night receiving pill-refining guidance from him.
• Ling Yanfei accepted Yao Ling’s growing closeness with Xiao Yan, while Huo Zhi continued cultivating and Zi Yan woke from a nightmare about Xiao Yan facing danger because of her.
• Yun Yun reached the Monster Mountain Range, hoping to obtain Purple Spirit Crystals and send them to Xiao Yan as a birthday gift.
• Yun Yun asked the Amethyst Winged Lion King for five Purple Spirit Crystals and offered an exchange, but the Lion King demanded a Human Transformation Pill for only three.
• Yun Yun recognized that the Amethyst Winged Lion King had no intention of negotiating and drew her sword, declaring that she would take the crystals herself.

Xiao Yan searched the Monster Mountain Range for the Amethyst Winged Lion King and found Yun Yun fighting it over the Purple Spirit Crystal. After Yun Yun was badly injured and fell from the sky, Xiao Yan caught her as she lost consciousness.

• Xiao Yan left the valley and searched the Monster Mountain Range, killing a Red Poison Forest Python along the way.
• Xiao Yan sensed a battle and rushed toward the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s territory, where Yun Yun was fighting the beast.
• Yun Yun evaded the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s attacks until it used Amethyst Seal to suppress her Dou Qi.
• Yun Yun severed the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s horn with Wind Extremity: Meteor Kill, but its claws struck her and she fled.
• Yun Yun’s wings dissipated as she fell, and Xiao Yan caught her before she hit the ground.
• Yun Yun recognized Xiao Yan, thanked him, and lost consciousness in his arms.

Xiao Yan hid the gravely wounded Yun Yun in a cave and treated her injuries, but feeding her medicine led to an awkward kiss before he woke her. Yun Yun realized she had also kissed him while unconscious, then pretended to sleep and let him tend to her wounds, leaving him to remove her armor.

• Xiao Yan found a concealed cave and examined Yun Yun, discovering that the Amethyst Seal suppressed her Dou Qi and that she had serious internal and external injuries.
• Xiao Yan prepared healing medicine and fed it to Yun Yun mouth to mouth after she could not swallow it, and she unconsciously kissed and embraced him.
• Xiao Yan awakened Yun Yun with soul power, and she angrily pushed him away before realizing she had participated in the kiss while unconscious.
• Yun Yun recalled a dream involving a man called Yao Yan and concluded that she had kissed Xiao Yan while he was treating her, then hid her embarrassment by pretending to sleep.
• Yun Yun let Xiao Yan handle her injuries, and he lifted her up and began removing her clothing and inner armor to apply medicine.

Xiao Yan treated Yun Yun’s severe wounds in a cave while she pretended to sleep and struggled with shame and unfamiliar desire. Yun Yun fainted from emotional strain, and Xiao Yan realized her reaction had been more intense than he expected before returning to cultivation.

• Xiao Yan removed Yun Yun’s inner armor and carefully cleaned the blood and grime around her wounds.
• Xiao Yan applied healing ointment, and Yun Yun tried to suppress her physical and emotional reactions while pretending to sleep.
• When Xiao Yan wondered aloud whether he should remove Yun Yun’s ruined skirt, Yun Yun woke and begged him not to before fainting.
• Xiao Yan checked that Yun Yun was stable and noticed a damp stain on her skirt, which convinced him she had reacted to his treatment.
• Xiao Yan took a Jade Heart Pill to calm himself and resumed cultivating.

Yun Yun woke in the cave and struggled with shame and confusion over how she had acted while injured, while Xiao Yan reassured her that he had only cared for her. After learning they had both come seeking treasures from the Amethyst Winged Lion King, Yun Yun’s thoughts about Xiao Yan grew even more complicated.

• Yun Yun woke on the Green Lotus Throne and remembered her embarrassing reactions to Xiao Yan treating her injuries.
• Yun Yun watched Xiao Yan cultivate, then shut her eyes when he noticed her and asked how she felt.
• Xiao Yan left Yun Yun clothes and stood guard outside while she changed, and Yun Yun wondered why the garments fit her so well.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan why he had come, and he told her he sought the Companion Amethyst Origin while she had sought the Purple Spirit Crystal as a birthday gift for him.
• Xiao Yan comforted Yun Yun and said caring for her was his responsibility, leaving her warm but increasingly confused by her thoughts about him.

Yun Yun questioned Xiao Yan about the clothes he had prepared for her and learned that he was engaged to Ya Fei and traveling with four close senior sisters. Worried about Nalan Yanran’s prospects and the broken marriage agreement, Yun Yun resolved to help her disciple, while Xiao Yan explained that Yanran had ended the agreement because she felt inferior and reassured Yun Yun that their teacher-disciple bond would remain unchanged.

• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan how he had obtained clothes and undergarments that fit her so well, and he explained that Ya Fei was involved.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun that he and Ya Fei had become engaged three days earlier and that four senior sisters were accompanying him home.
• Yun Yun worried that Xiao Yan’s engagement and many close female companions left Nalan Yanran at a disadvantage, then asked about his marriage agreement with her.
• Xiao Yan explained that Nalan Yanran had voluntarily dissolved their agreement and that Ya Fei and Elder Hai had supported the Xiao Family when the Nalan Clan had not.
• Xiao Yan said Yanran had ended the agreement because she could not overcome her feelings of inferiority, and Yun Yun prepared to help her while accepting that Xiao Yan had little affection for Yanran or the Nalan Clan.
• Xiao Yan reassured Yun Yun that the broken agreement would not affect their bonds as fellow disciples or as teacher and disciple, then handed her her medicine.

Yun Yun worried that Nalan Yanran would lose Xiao Yan to the women around him, while recognizing her own growing taboo attraction to her disciple. She asked Xiao Yan to use his Heavenly Flames to help break her seal, and the close contact intensified their attraction as Yun Yun resolved to continue testing their boundaries.

• Yun Yun drank the medicine Xiao Yan gave her and questioned whether the clothes he had chosen belonged to Ya Fei.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had bought Yun Yun’s outfit while shopping with Ya Fei and four senior sisters, leading Yun Yun to suspect he was intimate with those women.
• Worried about Nalan Yanran’s chances and stirred by her own feelings, Yun Yun devised a plan to draw Xiao Yan’s attention and asked him to help break her seal.
• Xiao Yan agreed to use his Heavenly Flames, and Yun Yun sat cross-legged as he pressed his palm against her lower abdomen and sent flame energy into her body.
• The Heavenly Flames weakened the seal while the close contact heightened Yun Yun’s feelings, and she resolved to continue her dangerous plan.