Chapter Summaries

Ye Yan refined an eighth-rank Lightning Tribulation Pill while also completing a Poria Green Pill, then wondered how Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin were doing. Xiao Xun'er learned that her father wanted Ye Yan to help her find the Tou She Ancient God Jade, while Qing Lin and Cailin waited for his return.

• Ye Yan used Heaven Burning Flame to refine five-colored heavenly lightning into an eighth-rank Lightning Tribulation Pill, while simultaneously refining an intermediate eighth-rank Poria Green Pill for Old Monster Lin.
• Ye Yan completed and stored the Lightning Tribulation Pill, estimating he might be able to consume it after reaching Late Dou Zong and planning to make more for Cailin.
• Ling Ying delivered Xiao Xun'er a letter from her clan, and Xiao Xun'er read that her father wanted Ye Yan to help her search for the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Xun'er wondered when Ye Yan would come and thought about Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Xiao Yu’s feelings for him.
• In the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Qing Lin asked Cailin why Ye Yan had not returned after four years, while Xiao Yi Xian sat quietly beside Cailin.

After four years away, Ye Yan tested an entry that briefly forced Ye Lin to strike a dramatic pose and speak a boast. He then completed refining the Life Flame, reaching peak nine-star Dou Zong as his cultivation art evolved to intermediate Heaven-tier.

• Cailin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin discussed Ye Yan’s long absence, and Xiao Yi Xian considered awakening her Woe Poison Body to grow strong enough to help him.
• Ye Yan used his entry on Ye Lin, who was briefly controlled and declared himself the man who walked the path of heaven and governed all things.
• The Heaven-Burning Cauldron stirred as the Life Flame’s refinement reached its final stage, and Ye Yan returned to his cultivation chamber.
• The Life Flame fused with the Heaven Burning Flame and formed a wood-element flame seed in Ye Yan’s liver.
• The newly solidified flame seed clarified Ye Yan’s cultivation art, advancing it to intermediate Heaven-tier and raising his cultivation to peak nine-star Dou Zong.

Ye Yan agreed to take Xuan Yi with him to the Northwest Region and planned to give her the Fallen Heart Flame. As they traveled through the Space Wormhole, Xuan Yi made clear that her past feelings for Yao Chen were over, easing Ye Yan’s concern as they continued toward the Northwest.

• Ye Yan agreed to let Xuan Yi accompany him and decided to leave the Fallen Heart Flame to her, while its remaining spark would stay with Jia Nan Academy.
• Xuan Yi handed her duties over to Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi, and Ye Yan and Xuan Yi set out from Sacred Pill City through the Space Wormhole.
• Ye Yan asked Xuan Yi whether she would give Yao Chen the materials for rebuilding his body, and she said the past was over.
• Ye Yan warned Xuan Yi that Yao Chen was not a good man in relationships, but Xuan Yi praised Ye Yan and listed Yao Chen’s shortcomings.
• Ye Yan realized Xuan Yi no longer had feelings for Yao Chen and felt relieved as they continued their journey.

A year after Yao Chen revealed himself, Xiao Yan’s talent had recovered enough for him to rise from Three-Stage to Six-Stage Dou Qi, while the Xiao Clan’s younger members still mocked him. Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan that he was nowhere near comparing himself with Ye Yan, who was heading toward the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Clan youths mocked Xiao Yan’s stalled cultivation, though one member suggested his borrowed money for medicine might mean he had recovered.
• Yao Chen refined Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and told Xiao Yan not to auction it because its quality would attract too much attention.
• Xiao Yan asked about Alchemist Ye, and Yao Chen explained that Ye Yan was Xuan Yi’s disciple from the Pill Tower.
• Yao Chen described Ye Yan as a monstrous talent who had been a Four-Star Dou Wang and Sixth-Grade Alchemist four years earlier, leaving Xiao Yan stunned by how far he might have advanced.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that he was still unqualified to compare himself with Ye Yan and handed him the jade bottle of medicine.

After four years away, Ye Yan returned to the Black Seal Auction House and met with Yuan Yi and his other subordinates before heading back to Jia Nan Academy with Xuan Yi. There, he provoked Xuan Yi’s jealousy by revealing that Yao Chen had once tried to recruit him, and the chapter ended with Xuan Yi turning away from him.

• Yuan Yi and Old Man Yin Gu discussed the Black Seal Auction House’s influence, their suspicions about Han Feng’s death, and their limited knowledge of the Soul Hall.
• Ye Yan stepped through a spatial rift into the hall, reunited with Yuan Yi and the others, and learned that Soul Hall agents were searching the Black Corner Region for information about Li Feiyu.
• Ye Yan gave Old Man Yin Gu Imperial Extreme Pills and left Yuan Yi several fifth- and sixth-rank pills before traveling with Xuan Yi to Jia Nan Academy.
• Xuan Yi tidied Ye Yan’s old residence on Green Mountain as Ye Yan told her that Yao Chen had once tried to recruit him and that he had introduced Yao Chen to another disciple instead.
• Xuan Yi grew upset that Ye Yan had kept Yao Chen’s attempt to recruit him from her, pinched his ear, and turned away as Ye Yan wondered whether she was truly angry.

After returning to Green Mountain, Ye Yan welcomed Jia Nan Academy’s elders and considered how to obtain the Fallen Heart Flame for Xuan Yi. Meanwhile, Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yi Xian that she wanted to go to the Xiao Clan and break off her engagement.

• Xuan Yi teased Ye Yan after Ye Yan asked whether she had really been angry, then noticed that several elders had arrived.
• Ye Yan welcomed Su Qian, Elder Huo, and Elder Hu, shared precious Central Plains tea with them, and asked about the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Su Qian warned Ye Yan not to set his sights on the Burning Sky Qi Refining Tower, but Ye Yan privately remained determined to secure a Heavenly Flame for Xuan Yi.
• At Doctor Yun’s Medicinal Garden, Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that she could decide for herself whether to break off her engagement.
• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yi Xian that she wanted to visit the Xiao Clan and end her engagement because she did not want to bind her life to someone she had never met.

Xiao Yi Xian advised Nalan Yanran to handle her planned engagement break discreetly and offer compensation rather than arrive with Misty Cloud Sect backing. Twenty-five days later, Xiao Yan broke through to the seventh stage of Dou Qi, and the story left him heading to the main hall after his father summoned him.

• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Nalan Yanran’s plan to break off her engagement and warned that bringing Misty Cloud Sect members would humiliate the Xiao Clan and damage both families’ relationship.
• Xiao Yi Xian advised Nalan Yanran to discuss the matter privately and offer compensation.
• After twenty-five days of cultivation, Xiao Yan broke through to the seventh stage of Dou Qi and celebrated his rapid progress.
• Yao Chen cautioned Xiao Yan against comparing himself to Central Plains geniuses and said they would leave the Jia Ma Empire once Xiao Yan reached Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan reflected that he had moved past the insults of his years of decline, then left for the main hall after a Xiao Clan disciple said the Clan Head had summoned him.

Ye Yan returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Xuan Yi, who eagerly wanted to meet Cailin and Xiao Yi Xian, while Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin went to watch Nalan Yanran cancel her engagement. Xiao Yan also arrived at the reception hall, where Xiao Xun'er learned that his cultivation talent had recovered, and Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yi Xian.

• Ye Yan and Xuan Yi emerged in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Xuan Yi insisted that he take her to meet Cailin and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Ye Yan visited Doctor Yun's medicinal garden, learned that Nalan Yanran had come to cancel her engagement, and explained the situation to Xuan Yi.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin that Ye Yan was returning soon, then led them toward the main hall to see the engagement cancellation.
• Xiao Yan met the three women on their way and followed them to the main hall, where Yao Chen warned him not to pursue Xiao Yi Xian.
• Ling Ying informed Xiao Xun'er that Xiao Yan's talent had recovered and that he had advanced from the third to the seventh stage of Dou Qi in a year.
• Nalan Yanran saw Xiao Yi Xian in the reception hall, and the middle-aged man beside her asked whether she knew the visitors.

Nalan Yanran arrived at the Xiao Clan with Nalan Su, intending to annul her engagement to Xiao Yan, while Ye Yan watched from above and wondered how his presence had changed events. Xiao Yan entered the reception hall without knowing why he had been summoned, as Nalan Yanran prepared to explain her decision.

• Nalan Yanran told Nalan Su that Xiao Yi Xian was her teacher's traveling companion and her friend, and Xiao Zhan welcomed Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Xun'er to sit.
• Ye Yan realized Nalan Su had accompanied Nalan Yanran and wondered whether the early annulment would prevent the Three Year Agreement.
• Xuan Yi urged Ye Yan to have a child with her, but Ye Yan promised to help her reach the Great Thousand World and said she would need to become a Battle Emperor.
• Xiao Yan entered the reception hall, greeted Xiao Zhan and the Elders, and took an empty seat among the gathered guests.
• Nalan Yanran insisted to Nalan Su that she wanted to control her own happiness, and he agreed to follow her decision to annul the engagement.
• Ye Yan sent a voice transmission to Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, asking whether they had come only to watch the engagement be annulled.

Ye Yan returned and watched as Nalan Yanran came to the Xiao Clan to end her engagement to Xiao Yan. Nalan Su began explaining the matter to Xiao Zhan, leaving the annulment unresolved.

• Ye Yan told Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian that he had returned, while they kept Qing Lin from leaving to find him before the engagement annulment was over.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran had come to the Xiao Clan to break off their engagement, and Xiao Yan moved from anger to acceptance.
• Nalan Su stood to address Xiao Zhan, saying that he had come secretly to ask the Xiao Clan for something.
• Nalan Su introduced Nalan Yanran and began telling Xiao Zhan that his visit concerned his daughter, while Xiao Zhan braced himself for the engagement annulment.

Nalan Su asked Xiao Zhan to dissolve Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s marriage agreement, and Xiao Yan took over the discussion. He asked Nalan Su to examine his cultivation, leaving the hall stunned when Nalan Su sensed Seven-Stage Dou Qi.

• Nalan Su told Xiao Zhan that Nalan Yanran wanted to dissolve the marriage agreement because they lacked feelings and Misty Cloud Sect rules barred her from romantic entanglements.
• Xiao Zhan asked Nalan Yanran whether those were truly her reasons, and she confirmed that they were.
• Xiao Yan said he did not value the childhood betrothal either, then asked Nalan Su to examine his cultivation instead of naming a demand.
• Nalan Su sensed Seven-Stage Dou Qi in Xiao Yan, surprising everyone in the hall.

Xiao Yan’s recovered talent changed the mood of the engagement meeting, but he and Nalan Yanran calmly agreed to end their engagement. After the contracts were torn up, Xiao Yan began to tell Nalan Yanran something, leaving his words unfinished.

• Xiao Zhan confirmed that Xiao Yan’s talent had recovered and that he had reached Seven-Stage Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Nalan Yanran had made up her mind, and she insisted that she still wanted to end the engagement.
• Xiao Yan accepted Nalan Yanran’s decision without anger, and Xuan Yi and Ye Yan discussed the pair’s possible future compatibility.
• Xiao Zhan and Nalan Su tore the marriage contracts, formally ending Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s engagement.
• Xiao Yan began addressing Nalan Yanran, but the chapter ended before he finished speaking.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran agreed to delay announcing their broken engagement and to spar as friends in three years. Ye Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Xun'er, and Qing Lin, then introduced them to his master, Xuan Yi.

• Xiao Yan asked Nalan Yanran to delay news of their broken engagement for a year, and she agreed.
• Xiao Yan challenged Nalan Yanran to a friendly spar in the Magical Beast Mountain Range three years later, and she accepted.
• Xiao Zhan invited Nalan Su and Nalan Yanran to a meal, while Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xiao Xun'er left to meet someone waiting outside.
• Xuan Yi opened a spatial rift, and Ye Yan stepped through into the courtyard, where Ling Ying tested his strength with a palm strike.
• Ye Yan reunited with Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Xun'er, gave Xiao Xun'er diluted milk tea, and told her he had met her father.
• Ye Yan introduced Xuan Yi to Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Xun'er, and Qing Lin, and Xuan Yi greeted them.

Xuan Yi met Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, while Ling Ying warned Ye Yan that members of the Ancient Clan had their eyes on him and Xiao Xun'er. Meanwhile, Cailin reached Nine-Star Dou Zong in the Tager Desert and waited for Ye Yan to return, unaware that his strength had advanced far beyond what she expected.

• Xuan Yi warmly greeted Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and said Ye Yan had told her about the two young women.
• Ling Ying questioned Ye Yan about his strength and warned that Ancient Clan elders were watching him because of Xiao Xun'er.
• Ye Yan joked that his looks, rather than any pursuit of women, explained his relationships, and Ling Ying told him to be careful.
• Cailin absorbed the energy around Lake Heart Island and broke through to Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Cailin wondered when Ye Yan would return and considered asking Xiao Yi Xian to investigate Xiao Xun'er's background.
• The Snake-People Tribe had mostly moved north of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, leaving a few settlements to guard the temple.

Ye Yan and Xuan Yi prepared to help Xiao Yi Xian control her Woe Poison Body, then visited Xiao Yan and Yao Chen. Their reunion revealed Ye Yan’s extraordinary strength and left Xiao Yan suspecting that the two men had conspired over his vanished Dou Qi.

• Ye Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that he had prepared what she needed to begin controlling her Woe Poison Body, and he instructed her to avoid others afterward.
• Xiao Xun'er guessed that the old fellow Ye Yan and Xuan Yi planned to visit might be connected to Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen praised Xiao Yan for handling the broken engagement calmly and urged him to cultivate for the match three years later.
• Yao Chen tested Ye Yan with his soul force, but Ye Yan’s protection brushed it aside, and Ye Yan remarked on Yao Chen’s recovered strength.
• Ye Yan revealed that he had cultivated a Spirit Realm Soul and was near Yao Chen’s former level, shocking Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan noticed how familiar Ye Yan and Yao Chen were and grew angry as he suspected they had planned the disappearance of his Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan learned that Yao Chen had lied to him to help him grow more patient and mature, and worried that his teacher would leave after restoring his Dou Qi. Ye Yan and Xuan Yi prepared nearly everything Yao Chen needed to rebuild his body, while Xuan Yi assessed Xiao Yan as promising but not yet exceptional.

• Ye Yan teased Xiao Yan about Yao Chen never explaining his reasons, and Xiao Yan realized he had not asked for the details of their agreement.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Yao Chen would leave, and Ye Yan revealed that the materials for reconstructing Yao Chen's body had been gathered.
• Xuan Yi arrived and told Yao Chen that she, Xuan Kongzi, and the others had assembled the needed materials, including a Half-Saint Skeleton.
• Xuan Yi judged Xiao Yan capable of participating in the Pill Gathering in more than ten years, while Yao Chen praised Ye Yan as a rare prodigy.

Xiao Yi Xian prepared poisons for awakening her Woe Poison Body, and Ye Yan brought her away through a spatial rift after reassuring her and approving Qing Lin’s choice to call Xuan Yi “Grandmaster.” Xiao Xun’er was left flustered by Ye Yan’s parting words, while Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen whether he planned to reconstruct his body.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Xun’er that she trusted Ye Yan to help her turn the Woe Poison Body’s danger into an opportunity.
• Xiao Xun’er wrestled with her feelings for Ye Yan as Ling Ying praised his cultivation speed and potential to reach the Patriarch’s level.
• Ye Yan returned with Xuan Yi, approved Qing Lin calling her Grandmaster, and told Xiao Yi Xian that he had prepared more poisons for her future needs.
• Ye Yan took Xiao Yi Xian through a spatial rift and invited Xiao Xun’er to visit the Magical Beast Mountain Range, leaving her embarrassed by his final words.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen whether he planned to reconstruct his body, and Yao Chen said he would do so eventually but was in no hurry.

Xiao Yi Xian activated her Woe Poison Body under Ye Yan’s guidance, enduring the transformation as the poison purified her Dou Qi and raised her to a Seven-Star Dou Shi. After Ye Yan left to meet someone approaching from the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Yi Xian and Xuan Yi discussed his relationship with Cailin and his past.

• Xiao Yi Xian drank the prepared poison, and the Woe Poison Body’s seven-colored mark and energy awakened inside her.
• Ye Yan contained the spreading toxic phenomenon with fire while Xiao Yi Xian’s poison transformed her Dou Qi, restoring her strength and advancing her to a Seven-Star Dou Shi.
• Ye Yan caught the exhausted Xiao Yi Xian and reassured her that he had prepared ways to help control her newly activated physique.
• Xuan Yi suggested Xiao Yi Xian call Ye Yan “Brother Yan,” but Ye Yan ended the conversation after sensing someone familiar approaching from the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xuan Yi she thought Cailin was approaching and described Cailin and Ye Yan’s close, teasing relationship.

Ye Yan reunited with Cailin after four years, and their meeting turned into a fight after he kissed her without warning. After realizing how much stronger Ye Yan had become, Cailin grew dejected, so he told her what she needed to become a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

• Cailin returned to the Snake-People Tribe’s flourishing territory and reflected on her power and the absence of Ye Yan.
• Ye Yan appeared, and Cailin attacked him before they had exchanged greetings.
• Ye Yan restrained Cailin and kissed her, prompting her to shove him away and angrily attack him.
• Cailin and Ye Yan exchanged over a thousand blows, with Ye Yan mostly defending as she realized he was far stronger than her.
• Cailin lowered her fists and turned away in dejection, and Ye Yan told her she needed the Nine-Colored Primordial Stone and a place with sufficient energy to become a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

Xuan Yi watched Ye Yan and Cailin’s awkward reunion, then warmly encouraged Cailin to accept her disciple. She left Cailin flustered and uncertain about their relationship, until Ye Yan returned to ask Xuan Yi for a private conversation.

• Xuan Yi watched as Ye Yan told Cailin he had found an energy-rich place and reminded her to search for the Nine-Colored Primordial Stone.
• Ye Yan revealed that his teacher, Xuan Yi, had returned with him as a Battle Sovereign, startling Cailin into straightening her clothes.
• Xuan Yi appeared, praised Cailin, and took her hand while teasing Ye Yan and extolling his virtues.
• Xuan Yi led Cailin toward the valley and told Ye Yan to repair the houses and prepare a cave for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xuan Yi told Cailin that only she and a few other women had entered Ye Yan’s heart, leaving Cailin conflicted.
• Ye Yan returned and said he needed to speak with Xuan Yi.