Chapter Summaries

Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian grew closer before joining the spectators at Misty Cloud Sect for the Three Year Agreement. Xiao Yan arrived to face Nalan Yanran, and their battle began with Xiao Yan matching her strength.

• Su Yun comforted Xiao Yi Xian after their first night together and spent several days with her before cultivating in seclusion.
• On the day of the Three Year Agreement, Xiao Yan trained with his Heavy Xuan Ruler, recovered, and set out for Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Hai Bodong arrived at Misty Cloud Sect, where Jia Xingtian and Fa Ma later joined them.
• Xiao Yan reached the martial arts square and declared that he had come to fulfill the agreement, while Nalan Yanran prepared to defend the Misty Cloud Sect and the Nalan Family's dignity.
• Yun Yun began the match, and Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran clashed; their first exchange showed that Xiao Yan could match her, prompting Hai Bodong to suggest a bet on the winner.

Hai Bodong and Jia Xingtian wagered on the outcome of Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s duel, while Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran and burned their marriage contract. As Xiao Yan prepared to leave, Yun Leng tried to keep him at the Misty Cloud Sect, and Hai Bodong confronted him.

• Hai Bodong wagered his Earth Tier Dou Technique against three treasures from Jia Xingtian’s inner treasury, with Jia Xingtian betting on Nalan Yanran and Hai Bodong betting on Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran unleashed their strongest attacks, and Xiao Yan remained standing while Nalan Yanran fell unconscious.
• Yun Yun declared Xiao Yan the winner, and Xiao Yan burned the marriage contract, ending his ties with Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Leng invited Xiao Yan to stay at the Misty Cloud Sect, but Hai Bodong placed a hand on Xiao Yan’s shoulder and asked Yun Leng what he was trying to do.

Su Yun helped Hai Bodong escort Xiao Yan away from Misty Cloud Mountain, then treated Nalan Yanran and visited Yun Yun. After Hai Bodong left, Medicine Elder warned Xiao Yan that a terrifying enemy was watching him from the shadows.

• Su Yun sensed a sinister aura, told Hai Bodong through Soul Transmission to escort Xiao Yan down the mountain, and then return to the Mittel Family.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian visited Yun Yun, and Su Yun examined Nalan Yanran and gave her a Pure Yang Pill to reduce the deathly aura left by Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame.
• Hai Bodong escorted Xiao Yan to the foot of Misty Cloud Mountain, then flew back toward the Imperial Capital.
• Medicine Elder warned Xiao Yan that someone more terrifying than the Misty Cloud Sect was watching him from the shadows and was waiting until Hai Bodong had gone farther away.

Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder escaped Protector Wu by exploiting the Yin Fire’s power against Soul Bodies. On Misty Cloud Mountain, Su Yun persuaded Yun Yun to take him and Xiao Yi Xian to the Gate of Life and Death, and she opened the barrier protecting it.

• Medicine Elder took control of Xiao Yan’s body and used Yin Fire to injure Protector Wu, then fled and trapped him in black flames.
• Protector Wu recognized Medicine Elder as Yao Chen and pursued him after he escaped.
• Su Yun asked Yun Yun to show him the Gate of Life and Death, and Xiao Yi Xian helped persuade her by mentioning their past aid.
• Yun Yun agreed to take them to the restricted area because she led the Misty Cloud Sect while her teacher was in seclusion.
• Yun Yun formed a hand seal that opened the Space Barrier before the forest concealing the Gate of Life and Death.

Su Yun found the Gate of Life and Death but postponed entering it, then returned to the Mittel Family and prepared to secretly obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade from the Xiao Family. He reached Wutan City and began watching Xiao Zhan and the three Xiao Family elders, planning to take the jade without alerting the Hall of Souls.

• Yun Yun led Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian to the Gate of Life and Death, but explained that only sect masters could enter.
• Su Yun returned to the Mittel Family, warned Hai Bodong not to approach Xiao Yan without permission, and gave him the upgraded Calamity Breaker.
• Su Yun checked Qing Lin's condition, then told Hai Bodong and Xiao Yi Xian he would leave for a few days.
• Su Yun flew to Wutan City to seek the Tou She Ancient God Jade before the Hall of Souls could capture Xiao Zhan.
• Su Yun secretly found Xiao Zhan and the three Xiao Family elders and planned to make them sleep before copying their memories.

Su Yun stole the Xiao Family’s ancient jade and Confusing Valley Box, then entered the space behind the Gate of Life and Death. He discovered several dozen Misty Cloud Sect Soul Bodies storing energy for future sect masters, while remaining hidden beside them.

• Su Yun drugged Xiao Zhan, scanned and recycled his memories, and found the hidden Confusing Valley Box in the Xiao Family’s Library Pavilion.
• Su Yun opened the box, took the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe Jade Fragment, and left the Xiao Family for the Imperial Capital.
• Su Yun used the System and System Space to bypass the Gate of Life and Death’s barrier and enter the space behind it.
• Su Yun sensed several dozen Soul Bodies, including one with Spirit Realm Soul Power, and secretly approached them.
• The Soul Bodies discussed storing energy for future sect masters, and their leader said they hoped a prodigy would eventually uncover the space’s mystery.

Su Yun discovered that Yun Potian, the Misty Cloud Sect’s founding ancestor, had become a One-Star Dou Venerate Soul Body in the sealed space. He crafted and unleashed a Five-Colored Fire Lotus, leaving Yun Potian and the other Soul Bodies caught in its devastating explosion.

• Su Yun used the System to identify the Spirit Realm Soul Body as Yun Potian, the former Dou Venerate founder of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Su Yun forged a Four-Colored Fire Lotus, then exchanged three Sixth Tier Magic Cores for the Fallen Heart Flame source and fused it into the lotus.
• After struggling to control the Five-Colored Fire Lotus, Su Yun completed it inside the System Space and prepared to attack Yun Potian.
• Su Yun tossed the Fire Lotus toward Yun Potian and immediately retreated into the System Space.
• Yun Potian sensed the deadly threat and fled, but the other Soul Bodies were caught in the explosion, which tore open dozens of spatial cracks and created a vast spatial pit.

Su Yun defeated Yun Potian, recovered his memories, and learned the secret art behind the Energy Cores. After gathering the remnants of Soul Power and returning to the Mittel Family, he found that Qing Lin had broken through to Dou Emperor.

• Su Yun emerged from the System Space and used a soul attack to knock the badly injured Yun Potian unconscious.
• Su Yun scanned and recovered Yun Potian's memories, then gathered the scattered Soul Power and Energy Cores and stored Yun Potian in the System Space.
• Su Yun examined Yun Potian's memories and learned that he had created a secret art to refine his own energy of heaven and earth into tiny Energy Cores.
• Su Yun returned to the Mittel Family and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, who told him that Qing Lin was cultivating in the secret room.
• Qing Lin emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Dou Emperor, and Su Yun praised her.

After Qing Lin’s breakthrough, Su Yun prepared to return to Jia Nan Academy and warned Ya Fei against using schemes to curry favor with him. Ya Fei asked for strength, and Su Yun told her to follow him.

• Qing Lin reached Dou Emperor, and Su Yun set their departure for Jia Nan Academy three days later while asking Hai Bodong to manage the Mittel Family.
• Su Yun spent the night with Xiao Yi Xian, while Fa Ma discovered that the Alchemist Guild’s medicinal ingredients had vanished.
• Ya Fei visited Su Yun, who warned her to stop using tricks to win his favor and acknowledged her service to the Mittel Family.
• Ya Fei asked Su Yun for power and said an assassination had shown her that only strength could protect her fate.
• Su Yun told Ya Fei to come with him and walked toward a room.

Su Yun planted a Fallen Heart Flame sub-flame in Ya Fei to double her cultivation speed, then set off with his companions for Jia Nan Academy. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan hid in the Imperial Capital as its authorities searched for the culprit behind a wave of medicinal-ingredient thefts.

• Su Yun planted a Fallen Heart Flame sub-flame inside Ya Fei, promising further help if she proved herself.
• Su Yun finished speaking with Ya Fei, who left considering whether becoming his woman might help her rise.
• Su Yun and his companions departed for Jia Nan Academy aboard a large serpent controlled by Qing Lin.
• Zi Yan asked Su Yun to refine the medicinal ingredients she had gathered, and he agreed to do so after they reached the academy.
• Xiao Yan and his teacher learned that the Imperial Capital's patrols were searching for whoever had robbed the medicine storehouses of major clans, the Imperial Family, and the Alchemist Guild.

Xiao Yan learned that the Misty Cloud Sect was sending elders and disciples to attack the Xiao Family, and he rushed back to Wutan City with Medicine Elder. Meanwhile, Su Yun returned to Jia Nan Academy, refined a Sect Breaking Pill for Qi Yin, and began preparing to acquire treasures at Eight Gates’ upcoming auction; he then encountered Vice Dean Hu.

• Medicine Elder let Xiao Yan overhear that the Misty Cloud Sect was sending people to make trouble for the Xiao Family, and Xiao Yan decided to return to Wutan City.
• Su Yun returned to the Inner Academy and learned from Su Qian that Qi Yin needed a Sect Breaking Pill to continue his breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Su Yun refined a Sect Breaking Pill in one attempt and gave it to Su Qian for Qi Yin.
• Su Yun planned to obtain the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Fragment Map and Three Thousand Lightning Movement at Eight Gates’ auction, then sent Hai Bodong to learn the auction date in the Black Corner Region.
• Su Yun met Hu Gan, the Vice Dean of Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy, on his way back to the small pavilion.

Su Yun refined pills and Soul Origin for Hu Gan, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin, then absorbed Energy Cores to break through to Eight-star Dou Emperor. He arrived in disguise at Eight Gates' auction, where he spotted Mo Ya but found Xiao Yan absent.

• Hu Gan asked Su Yun to refine a Sect Breaking Pill, and Su Yun agreed to do so in three days.
• Over five days, Su Yun refined Hu Gan's pill, Zi Yan's pills, and Qing Lin's Soul Origin, and gave Qing Lin Energy Cores.
• Hai Bodong told Su Yun that Eight Gates' auction would take place in five days and reported on Black Emperor Sect and Demonic Flame Valley.
• Su Yun trained with Energy Cores for three days and broke through from peak Seven-star Dou Emperor to Eight-star Dou Emperor.
• Su Yun attended the Eight Gates auction in disguise, spotted Mo Ya among the guests, and wondered why Xiao Yan was absent.

Su Yun confirmed that Xiao Yan had come to the Black Corner Region and waited at an auction for the Heavenly Flame Fragment Map and Three Thousand Lightning Movement. Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder recognized the map’s unusual material and prepared to bid as the auction began.

• Xiao Yan arrived in the Black Corner Region seeking ingredients to refine Soul Nurturing Saliva after failing to save the Xiao Family and escaping the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Su Yun detected Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder at the auction, then waited for the Heavenly Flame Fragment Map and Three Thousand Lightning Movement to appear.
• The auctioneer presented the damaged fragment map, and Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that its rare material suggested it was extraordinary.
• A guest in a Heaven-rank private room bid one hundred thousand Gold Coins for the map.
• Medicine Elder advised Xiao Yan to wait until the auctioneer was about to close the bidding before making his own bid.

Su Yun used his Eight-star Dou Emperor strength to secure a remnant map at the auction, while Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder recognized that the final item, Three Thousand Lightning Movement, was a powerful technique tied to Wind Lightning Pavilion. As bidding continued, Su Yun let Mo Ya pursue the technique, and Medicine Elder warned Xiao Yan that Su Yun had likely come to the auction for it.

• Xiao Yan and Su Yun bid for the remnant map, and Su Yun's displayed strength made Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder stop bidding.
• The auctioneer awarded the remnant map to Su Yun after no one else challenged his bid.
• The auction began bidding on Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan it was Wind Lightning Pavilion's inherited movement technique.
• Mo Ya repeatedly raised his bid for Three Thousand Lightning Movement on his father's orders, while Su Yun watched without bidding.
• Medicine Elder reasoned that Su Yun had come for Three Thousand Lightning Movement and was likely waiting to obtain it after the auction.

Su Yun and Xiao Yan waited to ambush Mo Ya after the auction, where Mo Ya had bought Three Thousand Lightning Movement. Su Yun struck the Black Emperor Sect Great Elder on the way back to the sect, and Mo Ya rushed to his wounded ally.

• Mo Ya won Three Thousand Lightning Movement for ten million Gold Coins, and the Black Emperor Sect Great Elder appeared with peak Dou Emperor strength.
• Su Yun recovered the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s remaining memories, secured his third fragment map, and waited outside Eight Gates for Mo Ya’s group.
• Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder also hid nearby as other ambushers watched Mo Ya and the Great Elder leave the auction.
• Mo Ya and the Great Elder flew toward the Black Emperor Sect, while Su Yun and Xiao Yan followed them in secret.
• On a barren mountain, Su Yun emerged and slashed the Great Elder with an icy sword aura, leaving him badly wounded as Mo Ya came to his side.

Su Yun killed the Black Emperor Sect's Great Elder, captured Mo Ya, and took the Three Thousand Lightning Movement technique. After discovering Medicine Elder possessing Xiao Yan, Ling Ying, and Yuan Yi hiding nearby, he turned his attention toward them.

• Mo Ya recognized Su Yun, and the Black Emperor Sect's Great Elder shoved him to safety before Su Yun's sword strikes mortally wounded the elder.
• Su Yun killed the Great Elder and pursued Mo Ya, whose desperate attempt to escape pushed his speed beyond its limits.
• Su Yun broke through Mo Ya's defense, knocked him unconscious, took his Ring of Holding, and obtained Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Su Yun scanned and recycled Mo Ya's memories, then carried him down and released him to fall safely to the ground.
• Su Yun sensed Medicine Elder possessing Xiao Yan, Ling Ying, and Yuan Yi hiding nearby, and attacked a distant mountain with Extreme Cold Sword after Medicine Elder said Su Yun had discovered someone else.

Su Yun killed Yuan Yi, looted the Eight Gates, and returned to the Inner Academy, where he learned the Bodhi Transforming Body Saliva had not yet reached the Black Emperor Sect. He learned Three Thousand Lightning Movement and began secluded cultivation, while Old Man Mugu received alarming news from the Northwest Continent.

• Su Yun chased down Yuan Yi, cut off his hands, and killed him when he begged for mercy.
• Su Yun looted the Eight Gates, returned to Jia Nan Academy, and learned from Mo Ya's memories that the Black Emperor Sect did not yet have the Bodhi Transforming Body Saliva.
• Su Yun told Hai Bodong that Yuan Yi was dead, then fused the Three Thousand Lightning Movement into himself using one Fifth Tier Energy Crystal Block.
• Su Yun planned to refine his remaining Energy Cores and began secluded cultivation to reach Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Old Man Mugu read a letter from Protector Wu and exclaimed in shock, releasing an aura that sent the dancers tumbling onto Yao Chen's grave.

Old Man Mugu learned that Yao Chen was alive and ordered Protector Wu and Protector Xuan to capture Xiao Yan. After two months of cultivation, Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor and visited the Inner Academy arena, where Lin Xiuyai recognized someone in the judges’ seats and reacted with shock.

• Old Man Mugu exposed and destroyed the fake grave’s skeleton, then ordered Protector Wu and Protector Xuan to join forces to capture Xiao Yan.
• Two months later, Su Yun emerged from seclusion at Nine-Star Dou Emperor and learned that Xiao Yi Xian had reached the same level a month earlier.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian strolled to the Inner Academy arena and sat with Elder Su to watch Lin Xiuyai compete.
• Lin Xiuyai defeated his opponent, prompting an enthusiastic crowd of female students to cheer for him.
• As Lin Xiuyai looked toward the judges’ seats, his pupils shrank in apparent shock.

Lin Xiuyai and Yan Hao discussed Su Yun’s overwhelming strength while Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian watched the arena from the judges’ seats. Xiao Yan recognized Su Yun as Zhang Xiaofan, and Xiao Xun'er confirmed Su Yun’s identity before Xiao Yan decided to greet him.

• Lin Xiuyai left the stage after facing Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, then Yan Hao asked why he did not challenge the top-ranked Su Yun.
• Lin Xiuyai told Yan Hao that Su Yun was at least a peak Dou King, and Yan Hao admitted he would not dare challenge him.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er entered the arena, and Medicine Elder pointed out the couple in the judges’ seats.
• Xiao Yan recognized Xiao Yi Xian as the woman who had been with Zhang Xiaofan and suspected the man beside her was Zhang Xiaofan.
• Xiao Xun'er explained that the man was Su Yun and that Hai Bodong, a Dou Zong, had accompanied them to the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Yan accepted that Su Yun was Zhang Xiaofan and invited Xiao Xun'er to greet him.

Su Yun reunited with Xiao Yan at the Inner Academy and learned that Zi Yan had entered a cocoon while advancing. After agreeing to help her, Su Yun accepted a challenge from Xu Jie, a Peak Dou Ling student who had not realized how powerful he was.

• Xiao Yan recognized Su Yun as Zhang Xiaofan and greeted him and Xiao Yi Xian near the judges' seats.
• Su Qian arrived and told Su Yun that Zi Yan had swallowed many pills, entered a purple cocoon, and was about to advance.
• Su Yun agreed to help shorten the time Zi Yan would spend in the cocoon.
• Xu Jie challenged Su Yun, and Su Qian encouraged Su Yun to accept so the students could see his strength.
• Su Yun flew into the arena, and Xu Jie followed after discovering that Su Yun was a Dou Wang; Xu Jie then asked him to go easy.