Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan forced the Black-Corner Region’s gathered leaders to submit and announced that their forces would merge into the Azure Lotus Path. He left them under orders to assemble in Feng City within seven days, with death threatened for anyone who failed to appear.

• Elder Ban realized Gold Elder had reached the Dou Zong realm, and the gathered leaders recognized Xiao Yan’s connection to the Gold and Silver Elders’ breakthrough.
• Wang Haoyu, the Blood Sect’s new sect master, offered to surrender, prompting most of the assembled forces to submit.
• Xiao Yan gave the leaders azure lotus flames containing the Azure Lotus Transformation, and they swallowed them despite suspecting the technique carried a restriction.
• Xiao Yan ordered every force to disband and merge into the Azure Lotus Path, named himself its first leader, and set Feng City as its headquarters.
• When several leaders protested, their lotus imprints caused them pain, and an exploding Dou Wang demonstrated Xiao Yan’s control over them.
• The leaders accepted Xiao Yan’s decree and agreed to gather in Feng City within seven days or face execution.

Xiao Yan established the Azure Lotus Path and ordered it to absorb every major Black-Corner Region faction with Dou Wang or Dou Emperor experts. The Path’s forces arrived at the Beast Taming Sect, where its Sect Master and elders prepared to repel them.

• Xiao Yan ordered the Azure Lotus Path to make all qualifying Black-Corner Region forces disband and merge, threatening to destroy those that refused.
• Xiao Yan revealed he was a peak Sixth-Grade Alchemist and promised high-grade pills in exchange for organizational contributions.
• The Azure Lotus Path sent a large force to the Beast Taming Sect to take advantage of its beast-taming skills and resources.
• The Beast Taming Sect’s bell warned of invading experts, and its Sect Master, Great Elder, and three other elders flew to the mountain gate.
• The Beast Taming Sect Master arrogantly demanded to know who had come to challenge the sect.

Yuan Yi led the Azure Lotus Path in forcing Black-Corner Region factions to submit or face destruction. After the Beast Taming Sect and Demon Blade Sect surrendered and the Kui Wolf Gang was wiped out, the group headed for the Heaven-Splitting Sect.

• Yuan Yi demanded the Beast Taming Sect submit to the Azure Lotus Path, and its Sect Master surrendered despite the Great Elder's objections.
• Yuan Yi's forces overwhelmed the Demon Blade Sect, and its Master learned that the Azure Lotus Path had been created by Xiao Yan before being taken away.
• Kui Sha fled while the Azure Lotus Path attacked the Kui Wolf Gang, but Mo Tian killed him and identified himself as an Azure Lotus Path elder.
• Yuan Yi ordered his forces to kill the Kui Wolf Gang's remaining resisters, and they burned the headquarters after half an hour.
• Elder Wang named the Heaven-Splitting Sect as the next target, and Yuan Yi led the Azure Lotus Path toward it.

The Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley joined forces to confront the Azure Lotus Path, which had rapidly taken over much of the Black-Corner Region. When Mo Tianxing and his allies arrived at Yan City, they found the Path already guarded by a force matching or exceeding their own.

• Che Cheng and Qi Shan urged Mo Tianxing to stop the Azure Lotus Path, and Mo Ya proposed warning it with the Demon Flame Valley’s help.
• Che Cheng returned with word that Demon Flame Valley would join the expedition, though its Valley Master, Earth Demon Old Ghost, would remain in seclusion.
• Yuan Yi reported that the Azure Lotus Path had subdued nearly every faction in the Black-Corner Region except several super-first-rate groups.
• Xiao Yan sensed the approaching visitors and ordered Yuan Yi to gather the elders.
• Mo Tianxing and Fang Yan arrived at Yan City with more than twenty experts, but the Azure Lotus Path’s guards rose to meet them and forced them to halt.
• Mo Tianxing recognized several former Black-Corner Region faction leaders among the opposing force, and Yuan Yi clarified that he had submitted to Xiao Yan, not Jia Nan Academy.

Mo Tianxing challenged the Azure Lotus Path, but Xiao Yan’s forces met him and the Demon Flame Valley experts in battle. The Gold and Silver Elders confronted Mo Tianxing while Yuan Yi led the Path’s fighters against Fang Yan’s group, whose Flame Manipulation Art produced a dangerous Life-Generating Fire.

• Mo Tianxing pressured Yuan Yi, but Elder Ban and three Advanced Dou Emperors boosted Yuan Yi’s aura enough to break through the attack.
• Xiao Yan sent the Gold and Silver Elders to confront Mo Tianxing, and the newly ascended Dou Zong brothers drove him away from the group.
• Fang Yan decided Demon Flame Valley would fight the Azure Lotus Path, while Yuan Yi assigned Elder Ban and three Dou Emperors to hold off Fang Yan and his companions.
• Yuan Yi led the Azure Lotus Path into battle as Elder Ban traded insults with Fang Yan.
• Fang Yan and two Demon Flame Valley elders fused their flames into a Life-Generating Fire, and Elder Ban’s group struck it with four streams of Dou Qi.

Fang Yan and his allies used the Starry Sky Fire Phoenix to overwhelm Elder Ban and nearly kill him, but Xiao Yan sent the Great Ming King to save him. Elder Ban rejoined the Azure Lotus Path fighters, who watched as the Great Ming King prepared to act.

• Elder Ban and three Azure Lotus Path Dou Emperors stalled Fang Yan and his two allies while their Flame Manipulation Art drained Fang Yan’s strength.
• Fang Yan and his allies unleashed the Starry Sky Fire Phoenix, forcing Elder Ban’s group into danger and setting fire to Elder Ban’s robes.
• Xiao Yan noticed Elder Ban was in trouble and sent the Great Ming King to help.
• The Great Ming King blocked the Starry Sky Fire Phoenix’s attack, allowing Elder Ban to escape and regroup with the other three.
• Elder Ban complained that Xiao Yan’s impartial battle-merit recorder, Wang Haoyu, would discount their contribution, then the group turned to watch the Great Ming King act.

The Great Ming King devoured the Starry Sky Fire Phoenix, severely injuring Fang Yan and the other two Demon Flame Valley elders. Elder Ban and the Azure Lotus Path captured them, while Xiao Yan waited for the Gold and Silver Elders to finish their battle with Mo Tianxing.

• The Great Ming King ignored Fang Yan and the others’ attempts to recall the Starry Sky Fire Phoenix and swallowed it, causing them to spit blood and fall to One-Star Dou Emperor strength.
• The Great Ming King flew back into the clouds, and Xiao Yan let the fighting continue so the Azure Lotus Path experts could temper themselves.
• Elder Ban and three allies surrounded the weakened Fang Yan and the other two, then knocked them unconscious and captured them.
• Elder Ban delivered the three Demon Flame Valley elders to Xiao Yan, who said the Gold and Silver Elders’ battle with Mo Tianxing was nearly over.

After Azure Lotus Path defeated the Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley, Xiao Yan offered the captured experts a place in his ranks. Yuan Yi began forcing them to swallow azure energy clusters, killing those who refused.

• Gold and Silver Elders defeated Mo Tianxing, captured him, and brought him to the other Black Emperor Sect prisoners, including Mo Ya.
• Xiao Yan asked the captured Black Emperor Sect and Demon Flame Valley experts to join Azure Lotus Path, then ordered Yuan Yi to administer its precepts.
• Yuan Yi ordered Xie Zhen to swallow an azure energy cluster, and killed him when he refused.
• Yuan Yi killed another Demon Flame Valley elder for hesitating, then gave a third elder an energy cluster after he agreed to swallow it.
• The third elder swallowed the cluster, and an azure lotus mark appeared on his forehead.

Yuan Yi forced the Demon Flame Valley elders and the Black Emperor Sect to swallow restrictions that placed them under his control. After Mo Tianxing and Mo Ya submitted, Yuan Yi finished imposing the precepts on everyone.

• Fang Yan swallowed the restriction, then followed Yuan Yi's directions to join the others; the Second Elder swallowed his restriction and urged the Third Elder to do the same.
• Mo Tianxing told Mo Ya that survival mattered more than pride and explained how he had become sect master by outlasting his rivals.
• Yuan Yi interrupted Mo Tianxing's speech and forced him to swallow the restriction.
• Mo Ya swallowed the restriction after his father urged him to comply.
• Yuan Yi finished giving the precepts to everyone half an hour later.

Xiao Yan established rules for the Azure Lotus Path and ordered its new members to move their forces to the Yan City headquarters. He planned to absorb Demon Flame Valley and recruit Old Man Ying Shan before breaking the Black-Corner Region’s resistance.

• Commander Yuan Yi explained the Azure Lotus Path’s ranks and strict laws, and Xiao Yan assigned Mo Tianxing to transfer the Black Emperor Sect’s affairs to the headquarters within three days.
• Xiao Yan told Fang Yan he would negotiate with Demon Flame Valley’s Valley Master and gave Fang Yan a Break Sect Pill to help him recover and pursue Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan instructed Yuan Yi to provide Fang Yan with healing pills and learned that Old Man Ying Shan had refused the Path’s invitation while living in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan sent the Gold and Silver Elders to bring Old Man Ying Shan back, intending to take him to meet Earth Demon Old Ghost.
• Xiao Yan told Yuan Yi to continue recruiting and said he would fully integrate the Black-Corner Region after defeating Earth Demon Old Ghost, while refusing submission would mean death.

Xiao Yan recruited Old Man Ying Shan into the Azure Lotus Path and led his forces to Demon Flame Valley, where Earth Demon Old Ghost awoke to find most of his faction's experts missing. The chapter ended with Earth Demon Old Ghost confronting Fang Yan, bewildered that his longtime Great Elder had joined Xiao Yan and taken the valley's elite forces with him.

• Xiao Yan made Old Man Ying Shan an Earth-Rank Elder of the Azure Lotus Path, and Ying Shan accepted after the Azure Lotus brand appeared on his forehead.
• The Gold and Silver Elders escorted Ying Shan away to familiarize him with the Azure Lotus Path before their departure the next morning.
• Xiao Yan and his experts arrived at Demon Flame Valley, where Earth Demon Old Ghost learned that Fang Yan and most of the valley's experts had not returned.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost prepared to investigate the Azure Lotus Path, but Xiao Yan and his group appeared directly above the valley's square.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost saw Fang Yan beside Xiao Yan and demanded to know why his Great Elder had joined the Azure Lotus Path and taken most of Demon Flame Valley's elite forces.

Fang Yan rejected Earth Demon Old Ghost’s invitation to return to Demon Flame Valley by publicly denouncing him, cementing his place with Azure Lotus Path. Earth Demon Old Ghost threatened Fang Yan and then attacked Xiao Yan, who faced the seven-star Dou Zong’s strike.

• Xiao Yan prompted Fang Yan to speak, and Fang Yan angrily listed Earth Demon Old Ghost’s appearance, behavior, boasts, and lack of cultivation progress.
• Fang Yan regretted his outburst, while Xiao Yan praised his loyalty to Azure Lotus Path and Earth Demon Old Ghost’s elders denied believing the accusations.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost threatened to kill Azure Lotus Path’s people and punish Fang Yan, but Xiao Yan claimed authority over Fang Yan as Path Master.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost formed a massive black hand and attacked Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan called Medusa to confront Earth Demon Old Ghost, who had failed to break through the Four Symbols Array. Medusa agreed to kill him, and Earth Demon Old Ghost grew furious after she mocked his long stagnation at seven-star Dou Zong.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost attacked Xiao Yan, but the four Azure Lotus Dao elders formed the Four Symbols Array and blocked his strike.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had invited an expert of Earth Demon Old Ghost's level and summoned the supposed Great Elder of Azure Lotus Dao.
• Medusa appeared beside Xiao Yan, linked arms with him, and asked whom she should kill.
• Xiao Yan pointed out Earth Demon Old Ghost, and Medusa called him ugly before agreeing to kill him.
• Medusa mocked Earth Demon Old Ghost for remaining at seven-star Dou Zong for thirty years, prompting him to suspect Fang Yan had leaked the news.

Medusa battled Earth Demon Old Ghost, overwhelming his attacks and turning one of his blasts against the Demon Flame Valley elders. She then launched a seven-colored serpent at him, and after his ice sword broke apart, Earth Demon Old Ghost met the serpent with a freezing fist.

• Earth Demon Old Ghost offered to withdraw and let Fang Yan go, but Medusa attacked him before he could escape.
• Medusa blocked Earth Demon Old Ghost’s Thousand Illusion Profound Ice Spikes with a seven-colored canopy and redirected it toward the Demon Flame Valley elders, killing one and injuring several others.
• Medusa summoned a venomous energy serpent, and Earth Demon Old Ghost’s hastily formed Ice Condensation Sword Art failed to stop it.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost advanced and struck at the serpent with his frost-wreathed fist.

Medusa overpowered Earth Demon Old Ghost and unleashed her Myriad Manifestations formation against his strongest defensive technique. The two enormous energy constructs collided, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Medusa countered Earth Demon Old Ghost’s attack and slammed him into the plaza, where he rose injured and warned her to withdraw.
• Xiao Yan mocked Earth Demon Old Ghost for remaining a seven-star Dou Zong because Lord Mang Tianchi was absent.
• Medusa used Myriad Manifestations to form a vast array of seven-colored energy pythons and attack Earth Demon Old Ghost.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost sacrificed Essence Blood to create a black-red freezing fog defense that chilled the battlefield and weakened Azure Lotus Path elders.
• Xiao Yan used the Azure Fire Phoenix to dispel the chill from the elders, while Medusa grew angry at Earth Demon Old Ghost’s insult and attacked again.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost poured all his Dou Qi into expanding his fog defense as Medusa’s formation struck it in a thunderous collision.

Xiao Yan and Medusa defeated Earth Demon Old Ghost, who offered to join the Azure Lotus Dao to save himself. Xiao Yan refused and had Medusa kill him so he could preserve the body and soul for a puppet, while privately hoping to find a Dou Sheng body for his teacher.

• Medusa defeated Earth Demon Old Ghost, who pretended to be unconscious before surrendering and offering to become an elder of the Azure Lotus Dao.
• Xiao Yan refused to spare Earth Demon Old Ghost, saying he wanted his body rather than him.
• Medusa killed Earth Demon Old Ghost, and Xiao Yan collected his soul in an Ice Jade Bottle.
• An ice-element Dou Emperor sealed Earth Demon Old Ghost's corpse in an ice coffin, which Xiao Yan stored in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan told Medusa that he planned to refine a puppet and would prefer to find a Dou Zun body if time allowed.

Xiao Yan and the Azure Lotus Path took control of Demon Flame Valley, then searched its treasury for resources. Fang Yan led Xiao Yan and Medusa to the hidden vault, where they found Earth Demon Old Ghost’s sealed collection, which Fang Yan could not open.

• Xiao Yan ordered the Azure Lotus Path to capture Demon Flame Valley and allowed Fang Yan to persuade his former subordinates to surrender.
• Fang Yan reported that the valley was under Azure Lotus Path control and led Xiao Yan toward its treasury.
• Medusa subdued the fifth-rank guardian Magical Beast and wore it as an earring, but tossed it aside after Xiao Yan admitted he disliked a snake watching them be intimate.
• Xiao Yan ordered Demon Flame Valley’s cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, magical cores, and herbs moved to the Azure Lotus Path’s secret vault.
• Fang Yan showed Xiao Yan four wooden boxes behind an energy barrier that only Earth Demon Old Ghost knew how to open.

Xiao Yan led Azure Lotus Path to conquer the Black-Corner Region and began imposing its rule, while Jia Nan Academy reacted to the crackdown. After ordering tighter recruitment and discipline, he learned that Medusa had completed a task he had entrusted to her.

• Xiao Yan took Demon Flame Valley’s treasures after Medusa smashed the barrier, then sent Azure Lotus Path forces to seize the valley and kill Earth Demon Old Ghost.
• Azure Lotus Path demanded that all Dou Wang-level experts in the Black-Corner Region report within seven days, and it unified the region a month later.
• Su Qian objected that the decree could make Jia Nan Academy an illegal organization, while Qin Xuan said Xiao Yan planned to return and discuss the matter.
• Yuan Yi reported the newly recruited elders to Xiao Yan, who ordered recruitment to pause and warned that Dou Ling-level experts would be the next targets.
• Xiao Yan ordered strict enforcement of Azure Lotus Path’s laws and harsh punishment for elders who violated them.
• Medusa embraced Xiao Yan and told him she had finished the task he had assigned her.

Medusa brought Xiao Yan three Tier 7 Behemoths, and he refined their Essence Blood while debating how to restore Venerable Skyfire. After delaying the pill until he could find a Dou Sheng skeleton, Xiao Yan returned to the Inner Academy and startled Su Qian in his office.

• Medusa killed three adult Tier 7 Behemoths and brought their corpses to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan extracted their Magic Cores and refined their Essence Blood with Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan received ten sets of ingredients from Yuan Yi and decided to wait for a Dou Sheng skeleton before refining a body for Venerable Skyfire.
• Medusa questioned Xiao Yan's confidence in the restrictions he had placed on the Azure Lotus Path, and he explained that even a Dou Sheng could not remove them.
• Xiao Yan returned alone to the Inner Academy and startled Su Qian, who complained that he had nearly scared him to death.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy, argued with Su Qian about the Inner Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame and training opportunities, and revealed that he needed to revive his clan. He then visited Wangtian, where he teased a former classmate who now captained the gate guards, and prepared to give him a gift.

• Xiao Yan greeted Su Qian and was mockingly threatened with expulsion for neglecting his Inner Academy duties.
• Su Qian criticized Xiao Yan for unifying the Black-Corner Region through the Azure Lotus Path, while Xiao Yan offered to have his people challenge academy students during training.
• Xiao Yan said he had returned to raise his strength, and told Su Qian that he needed to revive his clan because he was a descendant of an Emperor Clan.
• Su Qian offered the Inner Academy’s support, and Xiao Yan said he needed to go somewhere.
• Xiao Yan visited Wangtian and teased a former classmate who served as captain of its gate guards before offering him a gift.