Chapter Summaries

At the Hong Family gathering, Hong Li tried to arrange a marriage between Hong Chen and Han Yue, while Shen Yun pressured Han Chi to accept. Xiao Yan interrupted Shen Yun, whose reaction to seeing him stunned the gathering.

• Hong Chen admired Han Yue, and Xiao Yan teased her about Hong Chen's wish to marry both Han sisters.
• Hong Li introduced Hong Chen's achievements and asked Han Chi to arrange a marriage with Han Yue, but Han Chi firmly refused.
• Shen Yun arrived from the North Wind Lightning Pavilion and questioned Han Chi about refusing the match.
• Han Xue urged Xiao Yan to help her father, and Xiao Yan promised he would.
• Xiao Yan cut off Shen Yun, and Hong Li rebuked him before Shen Yun shoved Hong Li aside and told him to back off.

Xiao Yan used his Dou Zong strength and Seventh-Grade Alchemist status to force the Hong Family to back down and secure the Han Family’s safety. Rumors of his possible connection to the Star Fall Pavilion spread across Tianbei City, leaving the city’s major families stunned.

• Shen Yun greeted Xiao Yan respectfully after learning he was a Dou Zong, and Xiao Yan claimed to be a disciple of Venerable Feng of the Star Fall Pavilion.
• Hong Li challenged Xiao Yan’s claim, but Xiao Yan said he was Mu Qingluan’s senior brother and invited Shen Yun to verify his identity at the Four Pavilions Heaven assembly in three months.
• Shen Yun left rather than risk offending Xiao Yan for the Hong Family’s sake.
• Xiao Yan warned Hong Li to behave by revealing that he was a Seventh-Grade Alchemist and demonstrating his condensed soul tendril.
• Xiao Yan departed with Han Chi and the Han Family, while Hong Li took Hong Chen away and the banquet guests dispersed.
• Word spread through Tianbei City that Xiao Yan was a Dou Zong, a Seventh-Grade Alchemist, and possibly Venerable Feng’s disciple, shocking the major families.

After leaving the Han Family, Xiao Yan headed to the Tianmu Mountain Range to enter the Tianmu Mountain Blood Pool and advance his cultivation. Yao Chen and Gu Ling learned that Xiao Yan had claimed to be Gu Ling’s disciple, while the mountain’s trials began with Mu Qingluan and a Wind Lightning Pavilion girl racing toward the first checkpoint.

• Xiao Yan left the Han Family, and Han Yue watched him go as Han Xue encouraged her to become stronger if she wanted to see him again.
• At Star Fall Pavilion, Gu Ling gave Yao Chen a report that Xiao Yan had claimed to be Gu Ling’s personal disciple and Mu Qingluan’s senior brother.
• Yao Chen predicted Xiao Yan would attend the Four Square Pavilions Assembly in three months, and Gu Ling agreed to arrange a reunion with his supposed disciple.
• Xiao Yan reached the Tianmu Mountain Range, sealed his Dou Zong cultivation down to the Nine-Star Peak Dou Emperor level, and flew toward the opening trials.
• Mu Qingluan rode her white crane into the lead toward the Maze Formation, and a girl from the Wind Lightning Pavilion arrived on a seven-colored crane as Xiao Yan followed.

Xiao Yan encountered Mu Qingluan on her crane and offered to help her get back at Feng Qing'er by posing as her senior brother. After Xiao Yan attacked Feng Qing'er and provoked her threats, Mu Qingluan warned him that the Wind Lightning Pavilion and Star Fall Pavilion might turn against him.

• Feng Qing'er used a suction force to overtake Mu Qingluan, who could not challenge her because Feng Qing'er was stronger.
• Xiao Yan appeared behind Mu Qingluan, offered to help her deal with Feng Qing'er, and got her to call him Senior Brother.
• Xiao Yan struck at Feng Qing'er with an azure energy hand, damaging her Seven-Colored Spirit Crane and forcing it to dodge.
• Feng Qing'er threatened Xiao Yan and left after deciding he was impersonating Mu Qingluan's senior brother.
• Xiao Yan smacked Mu Qingluan when she called him a kid, and she warned that she would no longer ask the Star Fall Pavilion elders to protect him.

Xiao Yan led Mu Qingluan through Tianmu Mountain’s maze and reached the Heavenly Stone Platform, where Jin Shi announced a trial to earn access to the Blood Pool. As the Rat Tide Sonic Formation began, Xiao Yan charged ahead with Mu Qingluan aboard his summoned Great Ming King, leaving her worried that they would be struck by the mice’s attacks.

• Xiao Yan used a wisp of Heavenly Flame to guide Mu Qingluan through the fog-shrouded Maze Formation and reach the mountain’s stone steps.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan arrived at the Heavenly Stone Platform, where they saw Feng Qing'er and met Jin Shi, the Gold-Devouring Mouse clan leader.
• Jin Shi explained that passing the Rat Tide Sonic Formation would earn the contestants a chance to enter the Tianmu Mountain Blood Pool.
• Xiao Yan set off with Mu Qingluan before the other contestants, despite her warning that the Gold-Devouring Mice’s sonic attacks would be dangerous.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Great Ming King beneath them and carried Mu Qingluan toward the mountaintop, while she protested that the creature would not protect them from the attacks.

Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan passed the Rat Tide Sonic Formation and reached the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool. Xiao Yan agreed to cure Jin Shi’s fire poison in exchange for access to a secret realm, then entered the Blood Pool with Mu Qingluan.

• Xiao Yan used the Great Ming King’s roar to defeat the Gold-Devouring Mice’s sonic attack and pass the trial with Mu Qingluan.
• Jin Shi replaced the exhausted mice, and Feng Qing’er and six others later passed the formation to fill all ten spots.
• Jin Shi led the group to the volcanic crater and explained that they could stay in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool for no more than three days.
• Xiao Yan identified the fire poison in Jin Shi’s lungs and agreed to treat it in exchange for access to the Gold-Devouring Mouse clan’s secret realm beneath the pool.
• Jin Shi gave Xiao Yan the secret-realm key, and Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan jumped into the Blood Pool when it opened.

Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan cultivated in the Gold-Devouring Mouse Clan’s secret Blood Pool, where Xiao Yan broke through to Two-Star Dou Zong and helped Mu Qingluan advance. More than twenty days later, both were still missing from the pool, leaving Jin Shi and Jin Gu worried about Mu Qingluan’s safety.

• Xiao Yan brought Mu Qingluan through the Space Barrier Mirror and used his Azure Sky Flame to protect her from the Blood Pool’s Fire Poison.
• Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan cultivated in the pool, and Xiao Yan’s absorption of energy also helped Mu Qingluan cultivate.
• After five days, Xiao Yan broke through to Two-Star Dou Zong and used his soul power to help Mu Qingluan break through her cultivation barrier.
• Xiao Yan stayed beside Mu Qingluan as she continued cultivating, while Feng Qing'er left the Blood Pool after reaching Three-Star Dou Emperor and later gave up waiting for Xiao Yan.
• More than twenty days after entering the pool, Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan had not emerged, prompting Jin Shi and Jin Gu to worry that Mu Qingluan was in danger.

Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan left the Gold-Devouring Mouse clan after he cured Jin Shi’s Fire Poison, then headed toward the Wind Lightning Mountain Range. Mu Qingluan warned Xiao Yan that Feng Qing’er and two powerful elders were waiting to intercept them, but he continued toward the exit.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Blood Pool with Mu Qingluan, who had advanced to Three-Star Dou Emperor, while he had reached Two-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan gave Jin Shi a list of medicinal ingredients to treat his Fire Poison, and five days later Jin Shi had recovered after Xiao Yan used his Seventh-Grade Alchemist skills.
• Xiao Yan told Mu Qingluan he would accompany her to meet Venerable Feng, and she warned him that Feng Qing’er had two Five-Star Dou Zong elders with her.
• Mu Qingluan tried to persuade Xiao Yan to avoid Feng Qing’er, but he flew toward the mountain range’s only exit, with Mu Qingluan chasing after him.
• Feng Qing’er waited outside the exit with two elders, having already waited there for twenty-five days.

Xiao Yan confronted Feng Qing'er and the Wind Lightning Pavilion elders after emerging from the mountain range, refusing her demand to surrender. With Mu Qingluan and Elder Liu present, Xiao Yan fought Elder Huo and used a feint to land a surprise strike on him.

• Feng Qing'er demanded that Xiao Yan return with her and accept ten years of imprisonment, but he refused.
• Mu Qingluan arrived and ordered Elder Liu to protect Xiao Yan from the Wind Lightning Pavilion.
• Feng Qing'er ordered Elder Huo to stop Elder Liu and Elder Mu to capture Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan attacked Feng Qing'er, but Elder Huo intercepted him, and the two fought evenly in their first clash.
• Xiao Yan struck Elder Huo from above and sent him plunging toward the ground.
• Elder Huo counterattacked, but Xiao Yan revealed his feint and struck him from behind with a silver arm.

Xiao Yan defeated Elder Huo and pursued Feng Qing'er and Elder Huo while the Earth Demon Puppet kept Elder Mu occupied. Elder Mu’s lightning attacks unexpectedly strengthened the puppet as Xiao Yan raced after the fleeing pair.

• Xiao Yan drove Elder Huo away with a silver-arm strike, leaving him with a ruined arm, and Mu Qingluan realized Xiao Yan had not needed help.
• Elder Huo urged Feng Qing'er to flee, while Elder Mu stayed behind to face Xiao Yan and was held back by the Earth Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yan pursued Feng Qing'er and Elder Huo, telling the Earth Demon Puppet to keep Elder Mu occupied.
• Elder Mu trapped the Earth Demon Puppet in a lightning domain, but the lightning refined it and made its attacks stronger.

Xiao Yan defeated the Wind Lightning Pavilion elders, captured Feng Qing'er and Elder Huo, and prepared to kill them. A powerful silver figure appeared and demanded that Xiao Yan spare them.

• Xiao Yan caught Feng Qing'er and Elder Huo after killing Elder Mu, then knocked them unconscious with a flaming hand.
• The Earth Demon Puppet defeated Elder Mu by absorbing her lightning attacks and stopping her attempted self-destruction.
• Xiao Yan returned with Feng Qing'er and Elder Huo and tossed them beside the wounded Elder Mu.
• Xiao Yan formed a spear of Azure Sky Flame and prepared to kill the three captives.
• A silver figure emerged from the void and called for Xiao Yan to spare them.

Xiao Yan faced Tian Leizi Fei Tian, the Wind Lightning Pavilion North Pavilion Master, after sending Mu Qingluan and the others away from the battlefield. The two unleashed their spears at each other, and the chapter ended as their attacks collided.

• Tian Leizi Fei Tian ordered Mu Qingluan and Elder Liu to withdraw, and Xiao Yan also sent the Earth Demon Puppet and the others a hundred zhang away.
• Fei Tian boasted of his Seven-Star Dou Zong strength and the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, while Xiao Yan mocked him and rose to meet him in the air.
• Fei Tian struck with lightning, but Xiao Yan vanished and attacked from behind, forcing Fei Tian to flee just before Xiao Yan's Azure Sky Flame fist hit him.
• Fei Tian summoned a storm of lightning and formed a purple-black spear as Xiao Yan gathered energy into a massive Azure Sky Flame spear.
• Xiao Yan hurled his Azure Sky Spear at Fei Tian, who answered with his lightning spear, and the two attacks collided in a thunderous explosion.

Xiao Yan fought Fei Tian and destroyed the soul-powered clone created by the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, learning that it held the technique’s cultivation method. Fei Tian then unleashed Thunder God Descent, raising his strength to the Nine-Star Beginner Dou Zong level.

• Fei Tian summoned a Five-Star Dou Zong clone with the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and attacked Xiao Yan alongside it.
• Xiao Yan used the Flame Splitting Wave-Severing Ruler to summon a Wolf Spirit, which struck Fei Tian and swallowed his clone.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Wolf Spirit had destroyed the clone with the Fallen Heart Flame and had learned its memories, including the complete cultivation method for the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body.
• Fei Tian activated Thunder God Descent, boosting his strength from Seven-Star Dou Zong to Nine-Star Beginner Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan fused with the Great Ming King and fought Fei Tian after Fei Tian used Thunder God Descent to reach Nine-Star Dou Zong. The Great Ming King defeated Fei Tian in their clash, though it was badly injured.

• Fei Tian used Thunder God Descent, raising his cultivation from Seven-Star Dou Zong to Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan dismissed the Wolf Spirit and fused with the Great Ming King, whose aura rose to Eight-Star Dou Zong.
• Fei Tian summoned his thunder hammer and unleashed the Extinguishing Thunder Hammer, creating a Single-Horned Thunder Beast.
• The Great Ming King charged into the Single-Horned Thunder Beast, and their collision sent a destructive energy storm across the battlefield.
• Elder Liu pulled Mu Qingluan away from an azure flame aftershock, and they saw the Great Ming King holding the injured Fei Tian in its claw.
• The Great Ming King told the North Pavilion Master that it had won, despite suffering serious injuries.

Xiao Yan killed Fei Tian and seized the Three Thousand Lightning Movement, then spared Feng Qing'er and the two elders at Mu Qingluan's request. He and Mu Qingluan departed for the Wind Lightning Mountain Range, while two golden-robed friends watched from nearby.

• The Great Ming King crushed Fei Tian, whose body was burned to ashes by the Azure Sky Flame.
• Xiao Yan recovered from the battle, demanded the Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and used the Earth Demon Puppet to silence Elder Huo before Feng Qing'er handed over the scroll.
• Mu Qingluan gave three reasons to spare Feng Qing'er and the elders, and Xiao Yan agreed to let them go.
• Feng Qing'er and the elders thanked Mu Qingluan and departed, while Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan set off on the white crane for the Wind Lightning Mountain Range.
• Two golden-robed figures revealed themselves near the Tianmu Mountain Range and discussed how Xiao Yan had surpassed them.

Xiao Yan trained the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and mastered its first level before heading to the Four Square Pavilions Assembly at Thunder Mountain. Disguised as a young Dou Wang, he learned the competition’s entry requirements from Meng Hu.

• Xiao Yan parted from Mu Qingluan and spent fifteen days cultivating the Three Thousand Lightning Movement in the mountains.
• Xiao Yan absorbed Wind Lightning Force during a storm, then completed the first level, Lightning Flash, after twelve days of training.
• Xiao Yan reached the crowded Wind Lightning Mountain Range and made his way to the registration area on Thunder Mountain.
• Xiao Yan disguised his cultivation as a One-Star Dou Wang and pretended to be Xu Yi while asking Meng Hu about the competition requirements.
• Meng Hu told Xiao Yan that participants had to be under twenty, reach at least Five-Star Dou Wang, and withstand three moves from a Dou Zong elder.

Xiao Yan attended the Four Square Pavilions Assembly disguised as a young Dou Wang and heard Meng Hu recount his recent victory over Fei Tian. In the Ancient Clan, Gu Xun'er learned that Xiao Yan had reached Two-Star Dou Zong and ordered Elder Ling to keep searching for him.

• Xiao Yan befriended Meng Hu and let him boast about his family and explain the Four Square Pavilions successors’ strength.
• Meng Hu told Xiao Yan that he had killed Fei Tian after breaking through at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, unaware that Xiao Yan was listening to a story about himself.
• Xiao Yan and Meng Hu reached the mountaintop and watched the assembly from a Silver Giant Tree.
• Elder Ling reported Xiao Yan’s Central Plains appearances and Two-Star Dou Zong strength to Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Xun'er was pleased that Xiao Yan had come to the Central Plains and asked Elder Ling to continue investigating his whereabouts.

The Four Square Pavilions Assembly began gathering its Pavilion Masters and spectators on Thunder Mountain, while Xiao Yan secretly reunited with Mu Qingluan. After Meng Hu challenged him to approach Venerable Feng, Xiao Yan accepted, just as Venerable Lei was about to open the assembly.

• Venerable Feng, Venerable Lei, Venerable Sword, and Venerable Huangquan arrived at Thunder Mountain with their companions as spectators discussed the Northern Pavilion Master's death.
• Mu Qingluan spotted Xiao Yan on a silver giant tree, and the two exchanged a quiet greeting from afar.
• Meng Hu mistook Mu Qingluan's smile for affection and challenged Xiao Yan to approach Venerable Feng, wagering that the loser would call the winner Father.
• Xiao Yan accepted Meng Hu's wager, and Venerable Lei began announcing the assembly before someone shouted to interrupt him.

Xiao Yan revealed himself at the Wind Lightning Pavilion and refused to surrender when Venerable Lei ordered the West and South Pavilion Masters to capture him. He transformed with the Great Ming King and struck the West Pavilion Master, leaving Venerable Lei and the other Venerables surprised by his power.

• Xiao Yan identified himself to Venerable Lei, who ordered the West and South Pavilion Masters to capture him.
• Mu Qingluan asked Venerable Feng to save Xiao Yan, and Venerable Feng secretly decided to let him struggle before intervening.
• The West Pavilion Master urged Xiao Yan to surrender, but Xiao Yan challenged him and attacked.
• Xiao Yan called out, “Great Ming King, merge with me!” and transformed into an azure-flamed Fire Phoenix.
• The Fire Phoenix’s punch drove the West Pavilion Master into the plaza, and Venerable Lei recognized it as a spirit born from a Heavenly Flame.

The Great Ming King and the West Pavilion Master fought fiercely, with the West Pavilion Master revealing that his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body could attack from the void. After the Great Ming King healed a fatal chest wound and began drawing in fire-attributed energy from Thunder Mountain, both fighters unleashed their strongest attacks, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• The West Pavilion Master battled the Great Ming King and used phantom-body clones to land a lightning strike through its chest.
• The Great Ming King healed its wound with azure flames and warned the West Pavilion Master that he had angered it.
• The Great Ming King absorbed fire-attributed particles from the Silver Plaza and Thunder Mountain, alarming the West Pavilion Master.
• The West Pavilion Master raised his strength to Nine-Star Peak Dou Zong, summoned his thunder maces, and fired two silver lightning beams.
• The Great Ming King formed a huge dark-red fireball and launched it toward the incoming lightning beams.