Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan passed the Danta assessment as an Advanced Seventh-Grade Alchemist, stunning the Five Great Families and prompting Elder Sheng to treat him as Danta’s future Young President. Xiao Yan then observed the families’ assessments, which ended with the Dan Clan in first place and the Ye Clan last.

• Xiao Yan’s Advanced Seventh-Grade result shocked the gathered alchemists, while Dan Chen, Cao Ying, and Ye Xinlan each became more interested in him.
• Ye Xinlan told Ye Zhong that she wanted to learn Alchemy from Xiao Yan, while Ye Zhong considered whether connecting her to him could help the declining Ye Clan.
• Xiao Yan regretted wasting two batches of ingredients, and Elder Sheng praised him as Young President before hurrying to deliver his grade badge to the three Presidents.
• Xiao Yan asked Han Li to begin the Five Great Families’ assessments and observed them impartially through the day.
• The Dan Clan finished first, followed by the Cao Clan, the Qiu Clan, the Bai Clan, and the Ye Clan; Xiao Yan judged Dan Chen and Cao Ying talented and saw potential in Ye Xinlan despite her modest progress.

After the Five Great Families' assessment, Xuan Yi awarded Xiao Yan his High-Tier Seventh-Grade alchemist badge and gave him the President Token. Xiao Yan left Danta with Queen Medusa and Zi Yan to explore Holy Pill City, where Zi Yan rushed toward a cauldron-shaped building filled with medicinal ingredients.

• Xiao Yan left the assessment hall with Zi Yan and returned to his courtyard, where he found Xuan Yi chatting with Queen Medusa.
• Xuan Yi pinned Xiao Yan's High-Tier Seventh-Grade alchemist badge to his robe and promised to guide his Alchemy whenever he asked.
• Xiao Yan discussed the Five Great Families' young alchemists with Xuan Yi, who advised him to consider taking Ye Xinlan as a disciple.
• Xuan Yi gave Xiao Yan her President Token, allowing him to call on Danta's Enforcement Team, elders, and her own support.
• Xiao Yan took Queen Medusa and Zi Yan to Holy Pill City's inner district, where Zi Yan smelled rare ingredients and ran into a cauldron-shaped building.

Xiao Yan agreed to take Ye Xinlan as his registered disciple in exchange for the Ye Clan’s loyalty and access to its Sun Fire Altar. He planned to investigate the altar and take Xin Lan into Danta for a period of alchemy training.

• Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Zi Yan met Ye Zhong and Ye Xinlan, who invited them to the Ye Courtyard to discuss the Ye Clan’s troubles.
• Ye Zhong asked Xiao Yan to let Xin Lan study under him and offered the Ye Clan’s loyalty in return.
• Xiao Yan asked to examine the Ye Clan’s Sun Fire Altar, and Ye Zhong explained that it had stopped producing Sun Fire.
• Xiao Yan displayed his Heavenly Flames and said he would investigate the altar, while Ye Zhong granted him unrestricted access.
• Xiao Yan accepted Xin Lan as his registered disciple and told her he would take her into Danta to study alchemy in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan introduced Medusa as his wife and Zi Yan as Xin Lan’s junior grand-aunt.

Xiao Yan followed Xuan Kongzi’s orders to recruit Cao Ying and Dan Chen into the Danta, where they would study under his guidance while Xuan Kongzi planned to take them as disciples. After promising Dan Chen that he might be able to help with her unusual constitution, Xiao Yan left her waiting to hear what he believed he could tell her.

• Xiao Yan reported Cao Ying’s talent to Xuan Kongzi, who ordered him to bring Cao Ying and Dan Chen to the Danta and have them study under him.
• Xiao Yan visited the Cao Clan and, bearing Xuan Kongzi’s token, invited Cao Ying to join the Danta; Elder Cao and the clan welcomed the opportunity.
• Xiao Yan brought Cao Ying to the Dan Clan and explained that Xuan Kongzi wanted Dan Chen to study at the Danta and would try to resolve her constitution problem.
• Dan Xue brought out Dan Chen, who greeted Xiao Yan as her future senior brother and felt both fear and reassurance in his presence.
• Xiao Yan told Dan Chen he might be able to help her, then began to reveal something he believed he could tell her immediately.

Xiao Yan proved that Dan Chen's soul-devouring constitution could not harm him, persuaded her to return to Danta, and brought her and Cao Ying to his courtyard. Zi Yan met the new arrivals and privately concluded that Xiao Yan's growing circle of promising female alchemists spelled trouble.

• Xiao Yan held Dan Chen's hand without being harmed, promised to help resolve her constitution, and gained her agreement to return to Danta.
• Dan Xue thanked Xiao Yan and gave Dan Chen her blessing and a Storage Ring before Xiao Yan took Dan Chen and Cao Ying to Danta.
• Zi Yan warned that Dan Chen's constitution could interfere with her growth, then met and greeted Cao Ying and Dan Chen as her junior sisters.
• Xiao Yan introduced Cao Ying and Dan Chen to Ye Xinlan and said they could address one another as sisters while they studied Alchemy with him.
• Zi Yan watched Xiao Yan interact with the three young women and privately predicted that his charm would bring trouble.

Xiao Yan spent three months studying Alchemy under Danta’s Three Great Elders while teaching Ye Xinlan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen. After Ye Xinlan refined a Second-Grade Pill, she and her junior sisters admired Xiao Yan even more, and the chapter left them working toward greater skill under his guidance.

• Xiao Yan studied under Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi, then successfully refined an Eighth-Grade Pill and began mastering the Spirit Ascension Method from Old Yao.
• Xuan Yi invited Venerable Feng to Danta, but he was away, while Xiao Yan hoped to meet his disciple Mu Qingluan for help with a future visit to the Beast Domain.
• Xuan Kongzi asked Xiao Yan to take Cao Ying and Dan Chen as disciples, and Xiao Yan agreed, making Cao Ying the second senior sister and Dan Chen the youngest junior sister.
• Ye Xinlan proudly told Xiao Yan that she had successfully refined a Second-Grade Pill, while she resolved to work hard enough to become a worthy eldest senior sister.

After becoming an Eighth-Grade Alchemist, Xiao Yan met Venerable Feng and his new disciple, Mu Qingluan, at Danta. Venerable Feng reunited with Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan welcomed Mu Qingluan as his junior sister by giving her pills and a cache of Dou Techniques.

• Xiao Yan passed Danta's assessment as an Eighth-Grade Alchemist after refining a pill that produced two-colored pill lightning.
• Elder Sheng invited Xiao Yan to the reception hall, where he met Venerable Feng and Mu Qingluan.
• Venerable Feng learned that Xiao Yan was Yao Chen's disciple and lost control of his dou qi, but Xiao Yan protected Mu Qingluan and healed her.
• Xuan Yi brought Yao Chen out of her Storage Ring, and Yao Chen reunited with Venerable Feng and explained Han Feng's betrayal and death.
• Venerable Feng introduced Mu Qingluan as Xiao Yan's junior sister, and Yao Chen gave her pills while Xiao Yan gave her sealed Dou Technique teachings.

Xiao Yan gave his three disciples a final lesson before planning a visit to the Ye Clan and the Ancient Sun Fire Altar. He strengthened Cao Ying and Dan Chen, gave each disciple a Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame, and watched them successfully refine it.

• Xiao Yan told Ye Xinlan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen he would be away for several months, then agreed to take them to the Ye Clan and let them observe his plans for the Ancient Sun Fire Altar.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated refining the Three-Turn Qi Gathering Pill with three Heavenly Flames, gave pills to his disciples, and helped Cao Ying and Dan Chen absorb theirs, raising each of their auras by three stars.
• Xiao Yan refined a Fire Lotus Pill for Ye Xinlan while guiding the other two disciples, and Ye Xinlan absorbed the pill's medicinal energy.
• Xiao Yan gave each disciple a Fallen Heart Flame Sub-Flame, and all three girls endured the process and successfully refined their flames.
• Xiao Yan formed robes from Dou Qi for the girls, who gathered affectionately around him after waking.

Xiao Yan publicly refined a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill at Danta, demonstrating his mastery as an Eighth-Grade Alchemist before its elders and members. The pill summoned three-colored Pill Lightning, and Xiao Yan began using Spirit Ascension to improve its quality further.

• Xiao Yan gathered Danta's members to watch him refine a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, explaining that he would elevate the seventh-grade formula to eighth-grade.
• Xiao Yan used the Beast Fallen Lotus Heart Flame to refine the ingredients, then spent half a month fusing their medicinal essences without making a mistake.
• Xiao Yan opened the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and the pill's energy formed thunderclouds that grew from two colors to three.
• Xuan Yi recognized that Xiao Yan's hand seals showed he intended to take the pill beyond three-colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan thrust his palm into the pillar of light and began Spirit Ascension, Old Yao's alchemical technique for raising a pill's spirituality and quality.

Xiao Yan refined an Eighth-Grade Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and used Old Yao’s Spirit Ascension method to make it summon Six-Colored Pill Lightning. After absorbing the lightning and retrieving the pill, he was formally recognized as Danta’s Young President and graduated from his training.

• Xiao Yan infused the dark red pill with spiritual energy and soul blood using Old Yao’s Spirit Ascension method, causing Six-Colored Pill Lightning to form.
• Xiao Yan flew into the thunderclouds and absorbed the pill lightning to strengthen his body and Dou Qi while the onlookers watched in amazement.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, which held enough medicinal power to revive Venerable Skyfire.
• Danta’s elders and stewards congratulated Xiao Yan and accepted him as the Young President in name and reality.
• Old Yao declared Xiao Yan formally graduated, and Xiao Yan bowed toward Xuan Yi and the Bone Flame Ring.

Xiao Yan used the Ancient Sun Fire Altar to retrieve its Earth Core Fire Bead and prepare a new body for Venerable Skyfire. After five hours of refinement, the body was complete, and Venerable Skyfire began the final fusion that would bring him back to life.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Ye Clan Estate with Venerable Feng, Zi Yan, Mu Qingluan, and three young disciples, then asked Ye Zhong to take him to the Ancient Sun Fire Altar.
• Xiao Yan removed the Earth Core Fire Bead from the altar’s Earth Eye, absorbed the released energy, and restored the Sun Fire that the Ye Clan had lost.
• Xiao Yan placed the Earth Core Fire Bead in Venerable Skyfire’s skeleton and used Sun Fire, Heavenly Flames, beast essence blood, and the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill to form a new body.
• Venerable Skyfire entered the flaming body and endured five hours of refinement as flesh and blood repeatedly grew and burned away.
• Xiao Yan completed Venerable Skyfire’s handsome new body, with the Earth Core Fire Bead as its heart, and left him to finish fusing with it while Xiao Yan prepared to return to the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Yan returned to Xiao Sect as Xiao Yi Xian prepared to risk her life defending it from Demon Flame Valley. He offered to resolve her Woe Poison Body by helping her refine the Nether Poison Flame, then invited her and Han Yue to travel with him to the Central Plains.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Su Qian that she had forced her Woe Poison Body to raise her strength to Three-Star Dou Zong so she could protect Xiao Sect from Demon Flame Valley.
• Xiao Yi Xian vowed to fight Di Mo Old Ghost even at the cost of her life, but Han Yue and Su Qian persuaded her to keep holding on for Xiao Yan's return.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Xiao Sect as a Dou Zong, reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue and assuring them he had returned to resolve Xiao Yi Xian's problem.
• Xiao Yan proposed condensing a Poison Pill or refining the Nether Poison Flame to control Xiao Yi Xian's Woe Poison Body, and recommended the Nether Poison Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian chose to refine the Nether Poison Flame, and Xiao Yan invited her and Han Yue to accompany him to the Central Plains.

Xiao Yan went to Demon Flame Valley to avenge Xiao Sect and destroy the force that had endangered Xiao Yi Xian. He left Demon Flame Valley in ruins within fifteen minutes, while Di Mo Old Ghost burned in his five-colored flames.

• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue, then promised Su Qian that he had returned to resolve Xiao Yi Xian's problem.
• Xiao Yan invited Su Qian to accompany him to Demon Flame Valley and declared that he would exterminate it.
• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations to raise his strength to the peak of Eight-Star Dou Zong, then killed Fang Yan and the other elders with his soul power and Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan used Five Wheel Separation Fire Method to seal Demon Flame Valley inside a five-colored flame formation and burn almost everyone there to ashes.
• Xiao Yan sent Di Mo Old Ghost into the sea of flames, leaving Su Qian shocked as the valley became a wasteland of fire and molten lava.

Xiao Yan defeated Di Mo Old Ghost, looted Demon Flame Valley’s treasury, and refined the corpse into a powerful Earth Demon Puppet. After returning to the Xiao Sect, he left Su Qian to guide Jia Nan Academy students while the story ended with the puppet kneeling before him.

• Xiao Yan collected Di Mo Old Ghost’s corpse and soul, then led Su Qian to Demon Flame Valley’s treasury.
• Xiao Yan broke through the treasury’s barrier and took its treasured techniques, materials, and Heavenly Demon Puppet refinement method.
• Xiao Yan sent a Three Thousand Lightning Fire Body to gather the remaining treasures and returned to the Xiao Sect with Su Qian.
• Su Qian stayed at the Xiao Sect to guide Jia Nan Academy students, while Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue that he had destroyed Demon Flame Valley.
• Xiao Yan refined Di Mo Old Ghost’s corpse with a seventh-tier Magical Core and rare materials, creating an Earth Demon Puppet comparable to a Peak Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy and the Jia Ma Empire, strengthening his family and alliances while reuniting with friends and lovers. After visiting the Misty Cloud Sect, he left with Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue for the Chu Yun Empire, while Yun Yun chose to remain behind.

• Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy, gave Xiao Li and Xiao Ding resources and support, and introduced them to Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue.
• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Yu, then returned to Wutan City, reunited with Xiao Zhan, and brought Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue to meet his family.
• Xiao Yan visited the Snake-Person Tribe, where Hua She'er and Yue Mei welcomed him and he gave in to their advances.
• Xiao Yan gave Ya Fei an Earth Demon Puppet and caught up with Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong before visiting the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yun Yun and Xiao Mei, but Yun Yun decided to stay with Ya Fei rather than travel with him to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan left the Misty Cloud Sect with Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue and headed for the Chu Yun Empire.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Han Yue entered the Abyssal Poison Zone to search for the Nether Poison Flame, fighting poisonous beasts as they followed its growing traces. After Xiao Yan burned through a vast swarm of Soul Devouring Poison Spiders, he spotted a streak of purple light in the flames.

• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Han Yue traveled through the Chu Yun Empire and reached the Abyssal Poison Zone after ten days.
• Xiao Yan shielded Han Yue from the deadly miasma with the Beastfall Lotus Heart Flame while Xiao Yi Xian sensed that the Nether Poison Flame might be nearby.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan, and Han Yue killed a group of Poison Scale Crocodiles and found Fire Poison in their blood.
• The trio ventured deeper into the zone, where Xiao Yi Xian warned them that the poisonous sludge could corrode even a Dou Emperor's protective Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan destroyed a swarm of Soul Devouring Poison Spiders with poison and Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan spotted a streak of purple light within the flames.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian fought the intelligent Nether Poison Flame in the Abyssal Poison Zone and seized what appeared to be its Origin Flame Seed. Xiao Yan discovered that the seed was a decoy and captured the Nether Poison Flame’s hidden butterfly-like true body.

• Xiao Yan sensed the Nether Poison Flame nearby before the poisonous miasma formed a giant python that attacked him, Xiao Yi Xian, and Han Yue.
• Xiao Yan used all three Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations and struck the python with Eight Extremities Collapse, while Xiao Yi Xian absorbed its scattered poison fire.
• Xiao Yan bound the python with Soul Lock and the Five Wheel Separation Fire Array as Xiao Yi Xian sealed off the surrounding miasma and tore out its dark green Origin Flame Seed.
• Xiao Yan noticed a pale purple butterfly fleeing through the miasma and trapped it with Devouring Power.
• Xiao Yan explained that the seed was only an energy body and that the butterfly was the Nether Poison Flame’s true body.

Xiao Yan refined the Nether Poison Flame’s intelligence and used it with the Red Lotus Karma Flame Seed to advance the Burning Art to the low Heaven Tier. Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the flame and its stored energy, reaching Peak One-Star Dou Zun and resolving the Woe Poison Body’s hidden danger, though her destroyed clothes left her embarrassed.

• Xiao Yan used the Devouring Ancestral Symbol, his soul power, and Heavenly Flames to erase the Nether Poison Flame’s intelligence, leaving its Origin Flame Seed.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Nether Poison Flame and Red Lotus Karma Flame Seed, refined both, and fused their power to advance the Burning Art to the low Heaven Tier.
• Xiao Yan gave the weakened Nether Poison Flame to Xiao Yi Xian, who absorbed it as her Poison Pill while he prepared its dark green energy flame seed.
• Xiao Yan sent the energy flame seed into Xiao Yi Xian at the critical moment, and her Woe Poison Body fused with the flame and surged to Peak One-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s clothes were revealed to have burned away during the fusion, and she screamed in embarrassment as Xiao Yan and Han Yue looked aside.

After refining the Nether Poison Flame, Xiao Yi Xian resolved the danger of her Woe Poison Body and advanced to Dou Zun. She confessed her love to Xiao Yan, who accepted her as his woman, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue teaming up to subdue him.

• Xiao Yi Xian dressed after Xiao Yan and Han Yue saw her naked during her breakthrough, then celebrated mastering the Nether Poison Flame and reaching Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian confessed that she wanted to become Xiao Yan’s woman, and Xiao Yan embraced and kissed her.
• Han Yue happily watched the pair kiss, while Xiao Yan teased Xiao Yi Xian about her lips afterward.
• Xiao Yi Xian threatened to beat Xiao Yan if he teased her again, and he hid behind Han Yue and asked her to stop Xiao Yi Xian.
• Han Yue sided with Xiao Yi Xian and offered to help subdue and tie up Xiao Yan as violet flames rose in Xiao Yi Xian’s eyes.

After Xiao Yan left the Abyssal Poison Zone with Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue, Chu Yun Empire poison masters ambushed them, and he quickly killed them. He sent his Three Thousand Lightning Fire Body into the empire and declared that he would destroy it, while Xiao Yi Xian understood he was acting for her sake.

• Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue apologized for teasing Xiao Yan, and Han Yue whispered a promise that softened his feigned anger.
• Two Dou Zongs and six Dou Emperors from the Chu Yun Empire emerged from the poisonous miasma and tried to attack Xiao Yan's group.
• Xiao Yan killed the poison masters, absorbing the Red Lotus Karma Flame Seed's energy to raise his strength to Peak Four-Star Dou Zong; he kept the two Dou Zong corpses and souls to make puppets.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xiao Yi Xian and Han Yue after leaving the Abyssal Poison Zone, then prepared his Three Thousand Lightning Fire Body for a mission.
• Xiao Yan sent the Three Thousand Lightning Fire Body toward the Chu Yun Empire and said he would destroy it, and Xiao Yi Xian realized he was doing it for her.