Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and the women stayed at the Snake-Person Tribe Camp as the engagement ceremony approached, and guests from across the Jia Ma Empire arrived to congratulate him and Queen Medusa. On the eve of the ceremony, Zi Yan asked Xiao Yan to wait for her to grow up, while Medusa reminded him to keep appropriate boundaries.

• Queen Medusa welcomed Yao Ling, Huo Zhi, Shi Xuanxuan, and Ling Yanfei to stay at the camp, and Xiao Yan spent the following days with her and cultivating.
• Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and leaders from the Jia Ma Empire arrived to congratulate Xiao Yan, and Medusa, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei greeted one another as sisters.
• Xiao Yan led the visitors and Snake-Person Tribe leaders through a friendly exchange, then discussed the engagement ceremony and the risk of trouble in Wutan City.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Yan she wanted him to wait until she grew up so they could become engaged and marry, then ran off before he could answer.
• Queen Medusa cautioned Xiao Yan that Zi Yan was still a child, and Xiao Yan assured her he understood while looking forward to their engagement the next day.

Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa formally exchanged engagement tokens in Wutan City, strengthening the alliance between the Jia Ma Empire and the Snake-Person Tribe. That night, Medusa admitted her love for Xiao Yan and kissed him in their wedding chamber.

• Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa traveled to Wutan City with their allies and Snake-Person Tribe guards for the engagement ceremony.
• Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa exchanged Storage Rings before the gathered guests, formally declaring their engagement and alliance.
• Xiao Yan left the celebration's social duties to Xiao Zhan as the Xiao Family attracted attention from powerful factions.
• Xiao Yan joined Medusa in their candlelit chamber and reassured her that she could remain herself with him.
• Medusa told Xiao Yan she loved him, pulled him onto the bed, and kissed him.

After spending three days with Queen Medusa, Xiao Yan prepared to leave for the Sect Assembly with her, Ya Fei, and Yun Yun. He left the Snake-Person Tribe guarded and supplied with weapons and medicinal pills, then set off aboard a blue fire dragon.

• After emerging from his room, Xiao Yan reunited with Ya Fei and Yun Yun, who told him the Sect Assembly was about to begin and they needed to depart.
• Xiao Yan arranged for Queen Medusa to join their journey, and she agreed to handle the Snake-Person Tribe's affairs before traveling with him.
• Queen Medusa appointed Hua She'er to oversee the tribe while Xiao Yan gave her Fire Lotus Bottles and medicinal pills to protect their homeland.
• Xiao Yan learned that Zi Yan and his four senior sisters had already left, then summoned a blue fire dragon resembling an Ancient Void Dragon.
• Xiao Yan, Queen Medusa, Ya Fei, and Yun Yun departed for the Sect Assembly aboard the fire dragon.

Xiao Yan and his companions arrived in Tianxin City for the Sect Assembly, reunited with Zi Yan, and learned the Yan Alliance would face powerful rivals. Hai Bodong revealed that a major auction that night would feature a Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan, Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Ya Fei reached Tianxin City, where they met Zi Yan outside the gates.
• Zi Yan led the group to the Yan Alliance’s residence, where Xiao Yan reunited with Hai Bodong, Fa Ma, and Jia Xingtian.
• Jia Xingtian and Fa Ma reported that powerful neighboring sects had arrived and explained the Sect Assembly’s ranking battles.
• Xiao Yan assigned Yun Shan and Queen Medusa to handle sect leader battles while he planned to enter the Dou Emperor arena and conceal his greater strength.
• Hai Bodong told Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s auction that night would include a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan learned that the Tianbao Auction House would sell clues to the Nether Poison Flame and an ancient Fragmented Map, then attended the auction with his companions. When he recognized the Fragmented Map as part of the map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, he decided to obtain it at any cost.

• Hai Bodong told Xiao Yan that the auction's finale might involve the Nether Poison Flame, and Xiao Yan arranged for the Yan Alliance to fund their bidding.
• Xiao Yan, Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, Ya Fei, Zi Yan, Queen Medusa, and Yun Yun went to the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion auction in Tianxin City.
• Xiao Yan bought Soul Condensing Grass and Soul Nourishing Flower, along with cultivation methods and Dou Skills for Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong.
• Qian Wanguan revealed information placing the Nether Poison Flame in the Ancient Poison Swamp and offered a Fragmented Map said to be connected to a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Fragmented Map as similar to the two maps to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame that he already owned, and resolved to claim it.

Xiao Yan won the auction for clues to the Nether Poison Flame and a mysterious Fragmented Map, then set his sights on the Advanced Earth Tier movement Dou Skill Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body. As bidding for the skill escalated, he sensed a concealed aura that might belong to someone from the Wind Lightning Pavilion.

• Xiao Yan bid twenty million gold coins for the Nether Poison Flame clue and Fragmented Map, but Si Ming won them with a bid of twenty million five hundred thousand.
• Xiao Yan secretly marked Si Ming's private room with his Soul Seal and decided to find a way to take the items from him.
• Qian Wanguan presented Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body as the auction's final item, and Xiao Yan recognized it as Wind Lightning Pavilion's treasured movement Dou Skill.
• The Lion Underworld Sect and other factions drove the bidding past thirty million gold coins while Xiao Yan waited and sensed a concealed aura that might belong to a Wind Lightning Pavilion expert.

Xiao Yan watched the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body sell for forty-five million gold coins, then learned that the auction’s final offering was access to an ancient Peak Dou Zun’s abode. As experts rushed to register for the expedition, Xiao Yan prepared to follow them while wondering whether the Sect Assembly would still take place.

• Xiao Yan identified Wind Lightning Pavilion members in the auction hall and decided to let another bidder draw their attention before pursuing the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body himself.
• An unnamed guest won the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body for forty-five million gold coins, and the Wind Lightning Pavilion members focused on the buyer’s private room.
• Qian Wanguan announced that the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion had discovered an ancient abode in the Soul Burial Mountain Range and would sell exploration tickets for one million gold coins each.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that the public announcement and ticket sale might conceal the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s ill intentions, while Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong to buy a ticket and learn the location.
• Experts, including the Wind Lightning Pavilion members, rushed to register for the expedition, and Xiao Yan asked Jia Xingtian whether the Sect Assembly would still happen; Jia Xingtian admitted he did not know.

Xiao Yan suspected that Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s ancient cave abode auction concealed a Soul Hall plot to gather the factions’ experts, so he ordered the Yan Alliance members to evacuate while he investigated. After learning that Yao Ling and the others were safe with a Ling Clan senior, he headed for Heavenly Snake Mansion to meet Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yan and the others suspected that Heavenly Treasure Pavilion’s cave-abode auction was a scheme to gather powerful factions, and Hai Bodong brought back its location and gathering time.
• Xiao Yan identified Soul Hall as the likely force behind the plot and explained its power, prompting the group to fear that the Sect Assembly attendees could be trapped and slaughtered.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Yan Alliance members to evacuate, kept Queen Medusa and Zi Yan with him, and went to investigate the disappearance of Yao Ling and the others.
• Old Yao detected faint spatial traces where the women had vanished, and Xiao Yan found a dark red jade fragment hidden inside a roadside lantern.
• Huo Zhi’s message told Xiao Yan that a Ling Clan senior had taken the women to safety and that he could summon a Yan Clan expert by crushing the Red Lotus Karma Flame she left behind.
• Xiao Yan relaxed after hearing the message and set out for Heavenly Snake Mansion to meet Qing Lin.

Xiao Yan secretly entered the Heavenly Snake Mansion and discovered that Qing Lin and Lv Man had bought information about the Heavenly Flames. Si Ming learned that the Yan Alliance leader was their beloved Young Master Yan, and the chapter ended with him stunned to discover they meant Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan used Old Yao's concealment to slip into the Heavenly Snake Mansion, where he traced the stolen Heavenly Flames clue.
• Si Ming told Qing Lin and Lv Man that he had spent over twenty million gold coins to obtain the information and had offended a Seventh-Tier Alchemist.
• Si Ming described the Yan Alliance leader's rise in the Jia Ma Empire, and Qing Lin and Lv Man realized he was Young Master Yan.
• Lv Man revealed that Qing Lin had served Xiao Yan as a little maid and that she and Qing Lin both loved him.
• Si Ming learned that Lv Man also intended to marry Xiao Yan and ended by asking who Young Master Yan was.

Xiao Yan secretly entered Heavenly Snake Mansion’s base and reunited with Qing Lin and Lv Man, who eagerly embraced him and presented the Heavenly Flame information they had bought for him. After thanking them and giving Si Ming a meeting gift, Xiao Yan left Si Ming stunned when he recognized the bottle’s contents as an Imperial Extreme Pill.

• Si Ming spoke of wanting to meet Young Master Yan, and Xiao Yan appeared from the shadows and revealed himself.
• Qing Lin joyfully embraced Xiao Yan, then Lv Man threw herself into his arms while Si Ming watched in dismay.
• Lv Man dismissed Si Ming’s complaints, and Xiao Yan pulled her away to say he had important matters to discuss.
• Si Ming gave Qing Lin a jade slip and Fragmented Map, which she presented to Xiao Yan as information about a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan thanked Qing Lin and Lv Man, then gave Si Ming a jade bottle as a meeting gift.
• Si Ming opened the bottle, smelled its contents, and exclaimed that it held an Imperial Extreme Pill.

Xiao Yan warned Lv Man, Qing Lin, and Si Ming that Soul Hall had turned the rumored Ancient Dou Zun Peak Abode into a trap for the Northwest Continent’s strongest factions. After arranging to take them away from danger, he tore open space and pulled Si Yuan through, leaving Si Ming’s father wondering whether Xiao Yan was a Dou Zun expert.

• Xiao Yan gave Si Ming a top-quality Imperial Extreme Pill and said no alchemist below the Eighth-Grade could refine one better.
• Lv Man learned Xiao Yan was only fourteen, teased him about Medusa, and bluntly declared she wanted to become his woman; Qing Lin supported her.
• Xiao Yan warned that Soul Hall was using the Ancient Dou Zun Peak Abode to lure and kill the Northwest Continent’s young elites and gather their souls.
• Si Ming checked a map and found that the ancient abode lay only one mountain away from a Soul Hall branch, strengthening his belief in Xiao Yan’s warning.
• Xiao Yan said he would take Lv Man, Qing Lin, and Si Ming away, then tore open space and brought Si Yuan to them.
• Si Yuan stared at Xiao Yan in shock and asked whether he was a Dou Zun expert.

Xiao Yan brought Heavenly Snake Mansion into his plan to investigate Soul Hall’s trap at Soul-Severing Ravine, winning Si Yuan’s support with his Danta connections. After Xiao Yan left with Lv Man and Qing Lin, Si Yuan told Si Ming that Lv Man had disguised herself as Xiao Qianyan to draw Soul Hall’s attention away from Xiao Yan.

• Si Yuan learned from Si Ming that Xiao Yan had come to warn them about Soul Hall’s possible trap, then questioned Xiao Yan about his age and Danta connections.
• Xiao Yan and Si Yuan jokingly called each other brother-in-law and agreed that Si Yuan would secretly gather the mansion’s people so Xiao Yan could send away those too weak to join the mission.
• Si Yuan placed Heavenly Snake Mansion’s three Dou Zongs under Xiao Yan’s command and agreed to keep the plan confidential until they gathered.
• After Xiao Yan departed with Lv Man and Qing Lin, Si Yuan urged Si Ming to respect Xiao Yan and revealed that Lv Man had likely posed as Xiao Qianyan to divert Soul Hall’s attention.
• Si Yuan speculated that Lv Man and Qing Lin had fallen for Xiao Yan, while Si Ming complained that he was nearly thirty and still had no romantic experience.

Xiao Yan reunited Lv Man and Qing Lin with his fiancées, then introduced them to Zi Yan, whose identity as an Ancient Void Dragon triggered a powerful bloodline awakening. Zi Yan’s memories began to return, and Xiao Yan caught her as the awakening subsided.

• Xiao Yan brought Lv Man and Qing Lin to meet Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Queen Medusa, who welcomed them as sisters and accepted Lv Man’s oath of loyalty.
• Ya Fei urged Qing Lin to stop calling them young mistresses and to address them as sisters.
• Zi Yan arrived and settled on Xiao Yan’s shoulder, prompting Qing Lin and Lv Man to wonder about her closeness to him.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Zi Yan was an Ancient Void Dragon and warned Lv Man and Qing Lin to keep her identity secret.
• Zi Yan’s memories stirred, unleashing overwhelming dragon pressure and spatial cracks as her Ancient Void Dragon bloodline awakened.
• After about half an hour, Zi Yan’s aura faded; Xiao Yan caught her, and she told him that something extra seemed to be in her head.

After Zi Yan awakened her Ancient Void Dragon spatial abilities, Xiao Yan used her help to infiltrate Yan Luotian’s estate and seize the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body. He slaughtered the Golden Goose Sect members and left Yan Luotian isolated inside a sealed space, promising the seal would lift in three days.

• Zi Yan revealed that she could open stable spatial passages without causing ripples, then ate the energy pills Xiao Yan had prepared.
• Xiao Yan asked Ya Fei and Yun Yun to oversee the evacuation, then took Zi Yan through a spatial rift to obtain the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself as a Wind Lightning Pavilion expert and confronted Yan Luotian, who had secretly bought the incomplete Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body scroll.
• Yan Luotian activated the Golden Feather Space-Locking Array and attacked, but Xiao Yan used Zi Yan’s spatial control to conceal the estate and began killing the Golden Goose Sect members.
• Xiao Yan killed the elders and took their Storage Rings, leaving only Yan Luotian alive; he then revealed that the space was sealed and that Yan Luotian would not survive until the seal lifted.

Xiao Yan killed Yan Luotian and seized a crippled Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body, then impersonated a Soul Hall Dou Zun to destroy Fei Tian and the North Wind Lightning Pavilion elders and learn the technique’s missing key. He left with Zi Yan, while Thunder Venerable learned of the deaths and set out for the Northwest Continent.

• Yan Luotian launched a barrage of golden feathers at Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan dodged them and killed him with a lightning-powered punch.
• Xiao Yan took Yan Luotian’s Storage Ring and discovered its Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body scroll was incomplete, then traveled with Zi Yan to find Fei Tian and the Wind Lightning Pavilion group.
• Xiao Yan disguised himself as a Soul Hall Dou Zun, sealed the space around Fei Tian and the four elders, and killed them with Space Strangulation.
• Xiao Yan searched the five souls with the Blood Soul Art, learned the key to unlocking the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body, and sacrificed their souls to the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire.
• Thunder Venerable learned that the five North Wind Lightning Pavilion members had died and headed for the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Yan secluded himself to master the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body, quickly condensed a clone, and discovered he could strengthen it with the Great Sun Separation Fire Body and Heavenly Flames. He left the clone tempering itself while planning to study Yun Shan’s Cloud Mist Shadow Transformation and eventually use the clone as a stand-in to protect Old Yao.

• Xiao Yan studied the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body’s cultivation method and trained until he successfully condensed a weak, semi-transparent clone.
• Xiao Yan brought the clone into his soul consciousness sea and used Fallen Heart Flame to test tempering it with the Great Sun Separation Fire Body.
• Xiao Yan found that the clone could practice the Great Sun Separation Fire Body on its own, gradually becoming more solid as it tempered itself.
• Xiao Yan told Old Yao about his discovery and planned to study Cloud Mist Shadow Transformation while the clone trained.
• Xiao Yan offered to temper all his Heavenly Flames into the clone and use Bone Chilling Flame and Old Yao’s aura to make it a protective stand-in for his teacher.

Xiao Yan fused two clone techniques into the Three Thousand Wind Lightning Body, giving himself the strength of two Dou Zong-level fighters. After arranging the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s evacuation from Tianxin City, he led Si Yuan and his companions through a spatial passage toward their next destination.

• Xiao Yan fused the Three Thousand Lightning Illusion Body with Cloud Mist Shadow Transformation and created the Dou Zong-level Three Thousand Wind Lightning Body.
• Xiao Yan discussed plans to revive Venerable Skyfire and help Old Yao recover, then returned to the Yan Alliance residence.
• Si Yuan revealed that most of the Heavenly Snake Mansion had already left Tianxin City, leaving Qing Lin, Lv Man, Si Ming, and two Five-Star Dou Zong elders behind.
• Xiao Yan opened a spatial passage and sent the Yan Alliance members, Qing Lin, Lv Man, and Si Ming to safety.
• Xiao Yan introduced Queen Medusa and Zi Yan to Si Yuan, then led the remaining group through another spatial passage to a desolate mountain peak.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached Soul-Severing Ravine and discovered that Soul Hall had sealed the area in a trap. Zi Yan opened the seal and led them into the ruins, where signs of an ancient sect and a devastating battle left Xiao Yan uneasy.

• Xiao Yan detected that Soul Hall had secretly sealed Soul-Severing Ravine with a grand array powerful enough to trap an ordinary Peak Dou Zong.
• Zi Yan transformed into her mature form and tore open the spatial seal with her Ancient Void Dragon powers.
• Xiao Yan, Queen Medusa, Zi Yan, Si Yuan, Teng She, and Ku Rong entered the ruins and found an enormous hollow mountain filled with dense natural energy.
• Old Yao sensed something ahead that repelled Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames, so Xiao Yan led the group through a long passage.
• Xiao Yan struck the dark-gold stone plaza but could not mark it, and Old Yao concluded the site was likely an ancient sect's ruins rather than a Dou Zun's cave abode.

Xiao Yan and his companions explored the ancient ruins and discovered unfamiliar crimson pills that he recognized as Nirvana Pills from Tianxuan Continent. Though the discovery left Xiao Yan fearing a connection to Alien Demons, Zi Yan believed she could still take them out, and Xiao Yan concluded they were still on the Dou Qi Continent, leaving Medusa and Zi Yan stunned.

• Xiao Yan and Si Yuan split up to investigate the ruins after Xiao Yan warned that the jade shard could summon help.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Queen Medusa found strange runes and a pill chamber whose structures and spatial laws seemed unlike anything on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a crimson pill and found that it strengthened his Great Sun Separation Fire Body; Zi Yan ate another and confirmed its benefits.
• Xiao Yan consumed the remaining pills, condensed a matching sphere from reddish energy in the air, and identified the pills as Nirvana Pills containing Nirvana Qi from Tianxuan Continent.
• Xiao Yan feared the ruins might bring Alien Demons to the Dou Qi Continent, but Zi Yan said she could probably lead them out, prompting Xiao Yan to conclude they were still on their own continent.

Xiao Yan discovered that the ancient sect space might come from another continent and received a memory showing the Master of Devouring fighting Alien Demons. After recovering from the potent Nirvana Pills, he decided to bury the skeleton and investigate the ruins’ depths to confirm whether Alien Demons remained.

• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa and Zi Yan that the strange space might be a fragment of another world, and Old Yao sensed an aura deeper inside.
• Xiao Yan, Queen Medusa, and Zi Yan found a jade-like skeleton holding a Qiankun Bag, which disintegrated after Xiao Yan opened it and collected its contents.
• The skeleton seized Xiao Yan and showed him a memory of the Master of Devouring and four Devouring Heavenly Corpses fighting the Alien Demons.
• Xiao Yan realized the space might have been invaded by Alien Demons again, then accepted two potent Nirvana Pills from Zi Yan and refined them while Queen Medusa supported him.
• Xiao Yan treated Queen Medusa’s overheated skin with Ice Spirit Cold Spring and said they would bury the skeleton before heading deeper into the ruins.