Chapter Summaries

Yun Yun fought the Amethyst Winged Lion King after failing to negotiate for its Purple Spirit Crystal, while Xiao Tianci and a concealed Xiao Yan watched from afar. As the battle intensified, a mysterious figure with black-and-white wings appeared, leaving Xiao Yan startled by the figure’s power and vaguely familiar appearance.

• Yun Yun offered the Amethyst Winged Lion King a Humanoid Transformation Pill or other treasures for its Purple Spirit Crystal, but it refused and told her to leave.
• Yun Yun attacked the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and their wind and purple-fire attacks collided in a powerful Dou Emperor battle.
• Xiao Tianci sensed Xiao Yan hiding across the valley, while Xiao Yan watched the fight and Yao Lao warned him not to approach.
• Yun Yun and the Amethyst Winged Lion King unleashed battle skills that devastated the valley.
• A figure with black-and-white wings rose into the sky, and Xiao Yan recognized the wings as a formidable flying battle skill and thought the figure looked familiar.

Xiao Tianci used his Great River Sword Intent to break through the Amethyst Winged Lion King's fire shield and wound him. Xiao Yan and Yun Yun watched in shock as the sword’s power revealed the vast gap between Xiao Tianci and ordinary fighters.

• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao about Xiao Tianci’s wings, and Yao Lao judged the flight Dou Technique to be at least Earth Tier High Level, possibly stronger.
• Xiao Tianci flew to Yun Yun and unleashed his Great River Sword Intent against the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King formed a purple fire shield, but Xiao Tianci’s sword sliced through it and shattered it into falling flames.
• Xiao Yan retreated with Yao Lao and learned that the sword’s power came from Xiao Tianci’s exceptional comprehension rather than his realm alone.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King absorbed much of the fire rain and strengthened his purple crystals, but Xiao Tianci’s strike cracked and shattered them, drawing purple blood.

Xiao Tianci’s Great River Sword Intent wounded the Amethyst Winged Lion King, who rejected Yun Yun’s offer and fought back against her. The Lion King called three magical beasts to join the battle, but Xiao Tianci remained confident as they approached.

• Xiao Tianci wounded the Amethyst Winged Lion King with the Great River Sword Intent, and Yun Yun again offered him magical beast cores and a cultivation technique.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King refused Yun Yun’s terms and attacked her, but she struck his existing wound and blocked his counterattacks with wind techniques.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao who would win, and Yao Lao judged that Yun Yun and the Lion King could fight for a long time unless Xiao Tianci intervened.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King called three magical beasts for help and promised each one a spirit herb, prompting them to approach the valley.
• Xiao Tianci dismissed the three beasts as no threat as the Amethyst Winged Lion King declared his intent to kill the humans.

Xiao Tianci faced three magical beasts while the Amethyst Winged Lion King gathered power for a powerful attack against Yun Yun. Xiao Tianci unleashed his Immortal Kneel strike as the Lion King condensed its violet energy into a pillar, leaving both battles on the verge of decisive blows.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King ordered three magical beasts to stall Xiao Tianci for a quarter of an hour while it prepared to fight Yun Yun.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the three beasts would not hold Xiao Tianci for long.
• The wolf-like beast fired a green energy pillar as the ape-like and bear-like beasts charged Xiao Tianci together.
• Xiao Tianci swung his longsword and used One strike, Immortal Kneel, terrifying the three beasts as the sword edge swept toward them.
• Yun Yun sensed the Lion King's gathering energy as violet light compressed into a powerful pillar and the valley began to tremble.

Yun Yun was injured by the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s Amethyst Seal, but a young swordsman intervened and killed three powerful magical beasts with one sword strike. The sword radiance then reached the Amethyst Winged Lion King and severed his horn.

• Yao Lao identified the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s attack as a seal and recognized the young swordsman’s overwhelming sword intent.
• Yun Yun’s Wind-Splitting Whirlwind Dance failed to stop the Amethyst Seal, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King injured her with his claws.
• The young swordsman unleashed a massive sword radiance that killed the bear-like, wolf-shaped, and gorilla-like magical beasts as they tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan watched in shock as Yao Lao said the young swordsman surpassed any prodigy he had encountered.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King tried to block the incoming sword radiance with his red horn, but the strike cut it off.

Xiao Tianci killed the Amethyst Winged Lion King with a single sword strike, then entered the beast’s cave with Yun Yun to search for the Purple Spirit Crystal and collect Purple Flame Orchids. The chapter ended with Xiao Tianci realizing Yun Yun was seriously injured and catching her as she staggered.

• Xiao Tianci’s sword cut the Amethyst Winged Lion King in half and continued on to split the mountain behind it.
• Xiao Yan watched in awe and asked Yao Lao to double his special training, then discussed taking the beast’s purple flames and other possessions.
• Xiao Tianci and Yun Yun entered the damaged cave to look for the Purple Spirit Crystal.
• Xiao Tianci found and collected the Purple Flame Orchids growing on a purple stone wall.
• Xiao Tianci noticed Yun Yun had grown pale and weak, then caught her in his arms as she swayed.

Xiao Tianci carried the gravely injured Yun Yun out of the cave while Xiao Yan watched three Soul Hall members arrive and prepare an ambush. Xiao Tianci evaded their attack with his Demon God Wings and faced them in the sky.

• Yun Yun told Xiao Tianci to leave because the Purple Spirit Crystal could trigger her seal, and he carried her toward the cave exit.
• Three black-robed Soul Hall members arrived above the valley, while Yao Lao concealed Xiao Yan and Xiao Yan recognized the danger.
• The Soul Hall leader ordered the group to attack Xiao Tianci as he emerged from the cave carrying Yun Yun.
• Xiao Tianci spread his Demon God Wings, dodged the three black chains, and declared that the Soul Hall members would not leave alive.

Xiao Tianci confronted three Soul Hall men who had come to capture him and summoned the Brahma Dharma Image to overpower them. After it shattered their Life Soul Chains, the Dharma Image gathered a powerful golden light, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• The three Soul Hall men tried to bind Xiao Tianci with their chains, while Yun Yun asked what Soul Hall was and Xiao Tianci set her down beneath a tree.
• Xiao Tianci revealed that the men were minor lackeys and prepared to end the fight quickly.
• The Soul Hall men released black mist and sent their chains toward Xiao Tianci, who summoned the Brahma Dharma Image with the Primordial True Art.
• The Dharma Image dispelled the black mist and shattered all three Life Soul Chains, causing the Soul Hall men’s auras to plummet.
• The Dharma Image gathered tyrannical golden light at its fingertip as the Soul Hall men watched in astonishment.

The Soul Hall members summoned a gigantic blood-red soul to attack Xiao Tianci, but his Samadhi True Fire destroyed it. With the three members weakened and trying to flee, Xiao Tianci moved to confront them while Xiao Yan learned that Yao Lao was safe.

• The three Soul Hall members combined their black mist and summoned a gigantic soul, then infused it with a drop of dark-red blood to make it grow stronger.
• Xiao Tianci used Samadhi True Fire and the Brahma Dharma Image to burn and destroy the blood-red soul.
• The blast’s aftershock further weakened the three Soul Hall members, and Xiao Tianci flew toward them as his Dharma Image dissipated.
• Xiao Yan asked about Xiao Tianci’s flame, and Yao Lao said it seemed more powerful than Bone Spirit Cold Fire and that he could no longer be detected by the Soul Hall members.
• The three Soul Hall members fled in separate directions, but their weakened souls abruptly stopped in midair.

Xiao Tianci captured three Soul Hall members in jade bottles, then found the Purple Spirit Crystal Yun Yun needed and carried her away from the mountain range. Xiao Yan watched them leave before Yao Lao urged him to search the cave for whatever they had left behind.

• Xiao Tianci used his divine sense to immobilize and capture the three Soul Hall members, keeping them alive to learn more about Soul Hall.
• Xiao Tianci found the crystal in Yun Yun's Storage Stone and followed its heat to uncover the Purple Spirit Crystal in the cave.
• Xiao Tianci stored the Purple Spirit Crystal and carried the unconscious Yun Yun away, aware that someone was lurking nearby.
• Xiao Yan watched Xiao Tianci and Yun Yun leave, then followed Yao Lao's suggestion to search the cave for remaining treasures.

Xiao Tianci treated the severely wounded Yun Yun in a cave after the Amethyst Winged Lion King's attack left her unable to use Dou Qi. He removed her damaged inner armor to reach her wounds, leaving Yun Yun intensely embarrassed and too weak to speak.

• Xiao Tianci examined Yun Yun's claw wounds and prepared Healing Pills because the Amethyst Seal prevented her from using Dou Qi.
• Yun Yun briefly opened her eyes as Xiao Tianci began treating her, then let him proceed because she could not move.
• Xiao Tianci discovered that Yun Yun's light-blue inner armor had been pierced by the Amethyst Winged Lion King's blow and needed to be removed.
• Xiao Tianci undid Yun Yun's inner armor, scraping her wound as he took it off and causing her to gasp in pain.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Tianci not to look, but she blushed and could not say more because of her severe injuries.

Soul Hall debated how to investigate the mysterious flame that defeated three of its men, while Xiao Tianci treated Yun Yun’s wounds in the cave. Yun Yun’s injuries healed, but the seal in her body still left her weak as Xiao Tianci wrapped her in his robe.

• Protector Tie scolded his subordinates for Soul Hall’s losses and ordered them to investigate the mysterious flame without acting recklessly.
• Xiao Tianci asked Yun Yun to turn so he could treat the wounds on her chest, and she reluctantly agreed.
• Xiao Tianci applied his healing ointments, which relieved Yun Yun’s pain and rapidly restored her skin.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Tianci to help her dress, and he wrapped her in a black robe from his Storage Ring.

Xiao Tianci used Samadhi True Fire to break the seal suppressing Yun Yun’s Dou Qi, but the process released strange violet vapor that clouded her mind and led to an intimate encounter. After the seal was removed and Yun Yun regained her senses, she told Xiao Tianci to improve his cultivation and alchemy, leaving him convinced she had accepted him.

• Xiao Tianci guided Samadhi True Fire through Yun Yun’s meridians to burn away the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s seal, discovering that its destruction released strange violet vapor.
• Yun Yun’s pain faded as the vapor, the robe’s aura, and the heat within her overwhelmed her reason, but Xiao Tianci did not hear her faint attempt to stop him.
• Yun Yun regained some strength, turned toward Xiao Tianci, and lunged at him, interrupting the seal-breaking process as her robes fell away.
• After their encounter, the seal was completely removed, and Yun Yun regained her senses and realized what had happened.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Tianci she was not a casual woman and urged him to improve his cultivation and alchemy, and Xiao Tianci understood that she had accepted him.

After Yun Yun left, Xiao Tianci refined and swallowed an Amethyst Pill to break through from nine-star Da Dou Shi. As the pill’s energy filled his Dou Crystal, it began to change, leaving his breakthrough underway.

• Yun Yun said goodbye to Xiao Tianci, warned him to protect his recovering meridians, and flew away after asking him to find her once he reached Dou Wang.
• Xiao Tianci resolved to raise his strength before Soul Hall returned and began refining the pills with his gathered materials.
• Xiao Tianci completed a fourth-grade Amethyst Pill whose energy could let a nine-star Da Dou Shi break through to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Tianci swallowed the Amethyst Pill and circulated its vast energy with the Green Emperor Longevity Art until the pill disappeared and his Dou Crystal began to change.

Xiao Tianci broke through to the Dou Ling realm, drew Two-Sleeve Green Snake and the Taiping Golden Pill, and used the pill to stabilize his foundation and rise to three-star Dou Ling. After receiving the Taiping Golden Pill Formula and a mission to obtain alchemist certification, he headed back toward Wutan City with the Green Ox.

• Xiao Tianci’s Dou Crystal transformed into a nine-spined, sea urchin-like crystal, and his breakthrough to Dou Ling released an energy wave that collapsed the cave around him.
• Xiao Tianci drew the Two-Sleeve Green Snake sword technique and a Taiping Golden Pill from the system.
• Xiao Tianci swallowed the Taiping Golden Pill, which stabilized his breakthrough and raised him to three-star Dou Ling.
• The system rewarded Xiao Tianci with the Taiping Golden Pill Formula for completing the first stage of the Read Ten Thousand Books, Travel Ten Thousand Miles mission.
• The system issued Xiao Tianci a mission to obtain alchemist certification, and he accepted it before setting off for Wutan City on the Green Ox.

Xiao Tianci returned to Wutan City, where his reunion with Xiao Yu turned intimate. Xiao Yu told him that Jia Nan Academy's recruiters would arrive the next day and offered to take him along, leaving his decision unresolved.

• Xiao Tianci returned to the Xiao Clan and cleaned his dusty room while a few disciples looked down on him.
• Xiao Yu visited Xiao Tianci, worried about his long absence, and he pulled her into an intimate encounter.
• Afterward, Xiao Yu scolded Xiao Tianci, then explained that Jia Nan Academy's recruiters would arrive in Wutan City the next day.
• Xiao Yu offered to take Xiao Tianci to see the recruiters, though he doubted Jia Nan Academy would help him.

Xiao Tianci went to watch Jia Nan Academy's recruitment assessment and joined Xiao Yu's group as she led them through the soldiers guarding the square. The chapter ended with Xiao Tianci remaining calm amid the soldiers' intimidating presence while Xiao Yan and the others struggled to breathe.

• Xiao Tianci saw Xiao Clan youths training in hopes of reaching Jia Nan Academy's Eighth Duan of Dou Qi requirement before turning eighteen.
• At the crowded recruitment square, Xiao Clan disciples mocked Xiao Tianci, but he went to join Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and the others.
• Xiao Yu said her instructor was in charge of recruitment and led the group to a guarded passage at the rear of the square.
• Xiao Yu showed an emerald-green plaque to an officer, then guided the group through the soldiers' ranks.
• Xiao Yan and the others felt intimidated by the soldiers, while Xiao Tianci showed no discomfort.

Xiao Tianci and the Xiao Clan group entered Jia Nan Academy’s assessment grounds after enduring Senior Ke’s test, where Xiao Ning belittled Xiao Tianci and the academy students looked down on him. Inside the tent, Xiao Yu’s friends teased her about Xiao Tianci before Luo Bu appeared, leaving Xiao Yu to greet him coldly.

• Xiao Tianci remained calm as he and the others crossed the soldiers’ murderous-aura test, impressing Senior Ke.
• Xiao Ning mocked Xiao Tianci as weak, and Xiao Yu rebuked him before leading the group into the square.
• Xiao Tianci saw newly accepted candidates waiting outside a tent where Jia Nan Academy students gathered.
• Xiao Yu introduced Xiao Tianci to her friends, who teased her about being involved with him, making her blush.
• Luo Bu interrupted the teasing, and Xiao Yu turned to greet him coldly.

Luo Bu insulted Xiao Tianci and refused to let him take the entrance test, so Xiao Tianci left the tent while Xiao Yu prepared to confront Luo Bu. Instructor Ruolin appeared and warmly greeted Xiao Yu, leaving Xiao Tianci’s conflict with Luo Bu unresolved.

• Luo Bu mocked Xiao Tianci as a fourth-stage Dou Qi failure and told him to leave the testing tent.
• Xiao Tianci defended Xiao Yu, then left the tent and warned Luo Bu not to regret his behavior.
• Luo Bu dismissed Xiao Tianci to a group of young men, who laughed at him.
• Instructor Ruolin appeared and praised the talents of the students Xiao Yu had brought.
• Xiao Yu rushed over and embraced Instructor Ruolin, telling her she had missed her.

Instructor Ruolin explained Jia Nan Academy’s Potential Value rankings and began registering the new students. Xiao Yan revealed that he was an A-Class prospect, and Xiao Xun'er reported that she was a sixteen-year-old Six-Star Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Yu reunited with Instructor Ruolin, who welcomed Xiao Yan and the others and brought the new students into the tent.
• Instructor Ruolin explained that students were ranked from F-Class to S-Class according to their strength, with Five-Star Dou Zhe qualifying for the highest rank.
• Instructor Ruolin began recording each student's name, rank, and age as the new students reported their information.
• Xiao Yan claimed that he was at least an A-Class prospect, surprising the students and pleasing Instructor Ruolin.
• Xiao Xun'er stepped forward and stated that she was a sixteen-year-old Six-Star Dou Zhe.