Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his companions settled into an expensive inn before exploring a marketplace, where Xiao Yan challenged a vendor selling a supposed Sky-Patching Stone. The vendor could not explain the stone’s use, and Xiao Yan’s sudden show of power left him frightened on the ground.

• Xiao Yan booked five premium rooms for ten days and gave White Fang money and medicinal pills to spend.
• Xiao Yan took White Fang and Protector Mo to a marketplace while Fei Tian stayed behind to watch Zi Yan.
• A vendor claimed his stone was a legendary Sky-Patching Stone, and shoppers competed to buy it.
• Xiao Yan bid ten million gold coins and showed an Imperial Extreme Pill, while Protector Mo stopped the vendor from grabbing it.
• Xiao Yan demanded to know what the stone did, then frightened the vendor with his surging aura when the vendor admitted he did not know.

Xiao Yan exposed a market scam, then turned to find White Fang confronting Huang Feng'er, the city lord's granddaughter. White Fang killed her guards and defeated her Fourth Uncle, Huang Yu, leaving the confrontation unresolved as the crowd gathered.

• Xiao Yan revealed that the Sky-Patching Stone was a fraud, forced the stall owner and his shill to flee, and received an Intermediate Summoning Talisman from the system.
• Xiao Yan noticed White Fang arguing with Huang Feng'er after her white horse nearly ran him over.
• Huang Feng'er ordered her four Dou Emperor guards to attack White Fang, and he killed them and swallowed her horse.
• Huang Feng'er called for her Fourth Uncle, Huang Yu, who challenged White Fang and was knocked into the street with one blow.

White Fang fought Huang Feng'er’s people in Phoenix City after they blamed him for her white horse’s death, and his attack devastated the city. City Lord Huang Yan arrived and restrained White Fang, but White Fang broke free and gathered lightning for a counterattack.

• White Fang tried to leave, but Huang Yu ordered his men to form an array and summon the old master.
• White Fang attacked Huang Feng'er with divine lightning, then punched Huang Yu and the others into a massive crater in Phoenix City.
• Xiao Yan watched the destruction while Protector Mo questioned which of them was really from the Soul Hall.
• City Lord Huang Yan arrived, pinned White Fang with a giant hand, and rescued Huang Yu and the others from the crater.
• White Fang broke free by summoning lightning and began drawing the lightning into his body as Huang Yan prepared to capture him.

White Fang and Protector Mo battled Huang Yan outside Phoenix City while Xiao Yan dealt with Huang Yu’s group. After Xiao Yan merged with Elder Yao, Huang Yan trapped White Fang and Protector Mo with a technique and attacked them, but a lightning fist blocked his blow.

• Huang Yan caught White Fang’s lightning bolt and hurled it into a hill, flattening it.
• Protector Mo joined White Fang against Huang Yan, and their battle damaged much of Phoenix City before they drew him outside.
• Huang Yu led his injured group toward Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan killed a Dou Emperor who tried to seize him.
• Xiao Yan merged with Elder Yao, startling Huang Yan and prompting White Fang and Protector Mo to taunt the city lord.
• Huang Yan slowed White Fang and Protector Mo’s Dou Qi and movement, then sent a massive Dou Qi fist at them.
• A lightning fist blocked Huang Yan’s attack.

Fei Tian defeated Huang Yan with a powerful lightning attack, while Xiao Yan subdued Huang Yu’s group and let them leave. The group brought the gravely injured Huang Yan back to the City Lord Mansion to seek a solution.

• White Fang and Protector Mo left Huang Yan’s fight to check on the Sect Master, and Fei Tian attacked Huang Yan with lightning.
• Fei Tian’s lightning blade detonated inside Huang Yan, leaving the nine-star Dou Zong expert badly injured and revealing that Fei Tian had begun approaching the Dou Zun threshold.
• Xiao Yan released Huang Yu, Huang Feng'er, and their group after defeating them, and they pleaded with him to spare Huang Yan.
• Xiao Yan, White Fang, Protector Mo, and Zi Yan found Fei Tian beside the injured Huang Yan, and Xiao Yan used a sixth-tier medicinal pill to keep him alive.
• Xiao Yan ordered White Fang to carry Huang Yan back to the City Lord Mansion.

Xiao Yan agreed to refine a Tier 7 pill to save Huang Yan, then used the system to advance to a beginner Tier 7 Alchemist. He left the story preparing for the difficult refinement while Huang Yu searched for the rare ingredients.

• Xiao Yan brought Huang Yan to the City Lord Mansion, where Huang Yu learned that only a Tier 7 Blood-Generating Bone-Forging Pill could fully heal him.
• After Zi Yan and White Fang urged Xiao Yan to try, he agreed to refine the pill and asked Huang Yu to gather five sets of ingredients within three days.
• Xiao Yan learned from the system that Fei Tian could use powerful pill lightning to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan spent ten thousand Summoning Points to become a beginner Tier 7 Alchemist and received an Alchemist Gift Pack containing an intermediate Summoning Talisman, Summoning Points, increased soul power, and a pill formula.

Xiao Yan gathered the ingredients for the Third Turn Supreme Emperor Pill while preparing for Soul Hall’s interest in his group. With Elder Yao’s help, he began refining the middle-grade seventh-tier pill as Soul Hall protectors watched Phoenix City from afar and waited for them to travel to the Central Plains.

• Xiao Yan told Elder Yao that he could refine seventh-tier pills and promised to seek materials to restore his teacher once they reached the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan gave White Fang thirty million gold coins and ordered him to collect the ingredients for the Third Turn Supreme Emperor Pill, while Protector Mo reported Soul Hall had tracked their location.
• Xiao Yan ordered White Fang and Protector Mo to gather every ingredient before nightfall and told Fei Tian to absorb the pill lightning gradually.
• White Fang and Protector Mo delivered enough ingredients for at most two batches, and Xiao Yan asked Elder Yao to assist him with the first refinement.
• Protector Fu, Protector Zhao, and Protector Zhou watched Phoenix City from afar and decided to wait for Xiao Yan’s group to enter the Central Plains before attacking.

After Xiao Yan completed a pill breakthrough, he summoned the enhanced Iron Sword Venerable, who reunited with Elder Yao and learned of Han Feng’s betrayal. The Soul Hall protectors attacked the city, but Iron Sword Venerable swiftly killed them without drawing his sword.

• Huang Yu and the others returned to the city and saw pill-refinement lightning over the City Lord Mansion as Protector Zhao and Protector Zhou led Soul Hall forces toward it.
• Xiao Yan took the Third Turn Supreme Emperor Pill, reached nine-star Dou Emperor, summoned Iron Sword Venerable, and used his enhancement opportunity on Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong’s strength rose to late six-star Dou Zong, while Fei Tian withstood the pill lightning and felt his breakthrough shackles loosen.
• Iron Sword Venerable reunited with Elder Yao, heard that Han Feng had betrayed him, and learned that Soul Hall members had arrived.
• Iron Sword Venerable confronted Protector Fu, Protector Zhou, and Protector Zhao, then killed them with an unseen sword strike.

Xiao Yan defeated the Soul Hall forces and refined a Blood-Generating Bone-Forging Pill with Elder Yao’s help, hoping to restore his teacher’s body. The pill succeeded after three days, and Xiao Yan left the room holding it.

• Xiao Yan told Iron Sword Venerable that Yao Chen could return once he had the materials to forge a body, then accepted Huang Yu’s medicinal ingredients and asked him to prepare a spatial-travel ship.
• Xiao Yan began refining the Blood-Generating Bone-Forging Pill, while White Fang and Protector Mo collected the Soul Hall corpses to sell for cultivation resources.
• White Fang and Protector Mo agreed to use the money from the corpses to buy items that could strengthen their bloodline power and Soul Power.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan and Elder Yao completed the pill, which Xiao Yan praised as surpassing the intermediate seventh tier, before Elder Yao returned to his ring to recover.

Xiao Yan and his companions left Phoenix City aboard a Space Ship and entered the spatial passage toward the Central Plains. As they traveled, Fei Tian explained the Gold-Devouring Rat Tribe’s influence, while Xiao Yan considered the challenges ahead.

• Fei Tian absorbed the pill lightning, and Xiao Yan gave Huang Yu the pill to save Huang Yan.
• Zi Yan complained that White Fang and Protector Mo had stopped playing with her, while the two revealed that selling Soul Hall Protector corpses had earned them money and strengthened them.
• The group prepared to depart on Huang Yan’s Space Ship, with Iron Sword Venerable agreeing to pilot it.
• After recovering, Huang Yan learned what had happened and gave the Space Ship to Xiao Yan’s group as an apology; he named Huang Yu the new City Lord of Phoenix City.
• Xiao Yan’s six companions traveled through the spatial passage, expecting to reach the Central Plains in about two months.
• Fei Tian told Xiao Yan that the Gold-Devouring Rat Tribe had fought the allied human army to a standstill, and Xiao Yan considered other ways to achieve his goals.

After two months of recovery, Xiao Yan and his companions arrived in Hidden Sword City to avoid the Soul Hall and explore the sword-renowned city. There, they encountered a Dou Wang selling a supposedly extraordinary sword, and Xiao Yan suspected something was amiss.

• Xiao Yan gave White Fang and Protector Mo a card containing one hundred million gold coins after they reached eight-star Dou Zong.
• Zi Yan sensed her clansmen nearby and left the group through the spatial passage, while Xiao Yan reassured everyone that she would be safe.
• Iron Sword Venerable brought Xiao Yan and the others to Hidden Sword City, where they walked through streets filled with sword-related goods.
• The group came upon a Dou Wang hawking a sword he claimed was forged with Heavenly Flames and could help anyone comprehend superior sword intent.
• Xiao Yan sensed something unusual about the seller, who offered him the sword for ten million gold coins.

Xiao Yan and his companions confronted Chen Pi, a sword attendant using Sword King Mansion’s name to extort people, until Tang Ying of the Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion exposed him. Chen Pi attempted to ambush Tang Ying and was killed by White Fang, while Tang Ying promised to report the matter himself.

• Chen Pi claimed his broken sword was worth ten million gold coins and threatened Xiao Yan after revealing his ties to Sword King Mansion.
• Tang Ying arrived with Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion disciples and identified Chen Pi as Chen Yuanqing’s former sword attendant.
• Chen Pi knelt and begged Tang Ying not to report him, then suddenly lunged at him.
• White Fang killed Chen Pi before he could harm Tang Ying.
• Tang Ying thanked Xiao Yan and his companions and said he would inform Sword King Mansion about Chen Pi.

Xiao Yan explored Hidden Sword City with Tang Ying, who invited him to the upcoming Sword Discussion Assembly and brought him to the Treasure Sword Pavilion. They went upstairs to inspect its rare swords, where the lavish surroundings hinted at the pavilion owner’s considerable power.

• After Xiao Yan helped Tang Ying, Tang Ying followed him and offered to show his gratitude; Xiao Yan sent White Fang and Protector Mo to book rooms at a nearby inn.
• Tang Ying told Xiao Yan about the Sword Discussion Assembly hosted by Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion and offered him invitations, which Xiao Yan accepted.
• Tang Ying led Xiao Yan to an upscale shopping district, where they entered the Treasure Sword Pavilion and met its attendant, Ru Yan.
• Tang Ying asked Ru Yan to take them straight to the second floor, and Xiao Yan admired its extravagant furnishings and treasures.

Xiao Yan met Chen Yuanqing on the second floor of the treasure house and bought a mysterious sword with pills and gold. Just as he took the sword, He Feng arrived and claimed he wanted it for himself.

• Xiao Yan sensed powerful alchemists and cultivators on the second floor, then met Chen Yuanqing, the third young master of the Sword King Mansion.
• Chen Yuanqing offered to buy Xiao Yan any sword, and the three men browsed the second floor together.
• Elder Yao urged Xiao Yan to buy a snow-white sword that contained a powerful Dou Technique, and the owner demanded three Earth-tier Dou Techniques for it.
• Xiao Yan paid with six Imperial Extreme Pills, five Dou Ling Pills, and fifteen million gold coins, while Chen Yuanqing agreed to let him pay for the sword himself.
• He Feng arrived with several lackeys and declared that he had taken a fancy to the sword Xiao Yan was holding.

Xiao Yan challenged He Feng’s attempt to take a sword that Chen Yuanqing had already paid for by offering a competing trade. The shopkeeper and He Feng dismissed his jade bottle until its fragrance suggested it contained a seventh-grade pill.

• He Feng offered five Earth-rank battle skills for the sword and claimed the highest bidder should get it, while Chen Yuanqing and Tang Ying protested that Xiao Yan had already bought it.
• The shopkeeper sided with He Feng, explaining that the transaction was not complete and that he would sell to the higher bidder.
• Xiao Yan stopped He Feng from taking the sword and said he could make a better offer because he was an alchemist.
• He Feng dismissed the bottle as likely containing a sixth- or fifth-grade pill, but Xiao Yan opened it and released a powerful fragrance.
• The shopkeeper wondered whether the bottle contained a seventh-grade pill.

Xiao Yan proved that he had refined a genuine seventh-tier pill and traded it for a treasured sword, impressing Grandmaster Taibao and revealing Yao Chen as his master. After He Feng left and the crowd dispersed, Tang Ying and Chen Yuanqing relaxed when Xiao Yan asked them to treat him as before.

• Xiao Yan offered his seventh-tier pill and other items to the owner in exchange for the treasured sword, but He Feng challenged the pill’s authenticity.
• Grandmaster Taibao inspected the pill and confirmed it was a peak-quality initial-grade seventh-tier pill, then tested Xiao Yan’s Soul Power and verified that he had refined it.
• The owner handed the sword to Xiao Yan, and He Feng left with his people after Grandmaster Taibao confirmed Xiao Yan’s skill.
• Grandmaster Taibao asked who had taught Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan named Yao Chen, prompting Taibao to recognize the legendary Venerable Yao.
• After Grandmaster Taibao and the onlookers left, Tang Ying and Chen Yuanqing acted awkwardly around Xiao Yan, but relaxed when he asked them to behave as before.

After studying the treasured sword, Elder Yao extracted a Heaven-tier Dou Technique, but Xiao Yan’s body could not withstand its information. The system simplified it into a technique Xiao Yan could use, and he left with Iron Sword Venerable when Tang Ying came to fetch him for the Sword Discussion Assembly.

• Xiao Yan returned with the treasured sword, and Elder Yao examined it before extracting the Great Desolation Imprisoning Heaven Finger and passing its information to him.
• Xiao Yan was knocked unconscious by the Heaven-tier Dou Technique’s information, and the system explained that his strength could not withstand it.
• Xiao Yan agreed to let the system simplify the technique into the Earth-tier High-level Great Desolation Imprisoning Saint Finger, which the system said he had mastered.
• Xiao Yan woke after several days and told White Fang to stay behind while he went out with Iron Sword Venerable.
• Tang Ying arrived with a middle-aged man and invited Xiao Yan to the Sword Discussion Assembly, and Xiao Yan agreed to go with him.

Sword Venerable invited Xiao Yan to the Sword Discussion Assembly, where Tang Ying explained the forces gathered in Hidden Sword City. The competition advanced to one-on-one duels, while the leaders and representatives of the city’s major powers watched from the high platform.

• Tang Ying introduced Sword Venerable to Xiao Yan, and Sword Venerable invited Xiao Yan to join the Sword Discussion Assembly.
• Sword Venerable transported Xiao Yan, Iron Sword Venerable, and Tang Ying to the assembly venue, where Tang Ying showed them the VIP seats.
• Tang Ying explained the five major powers, the three great sects, and the City Lord Mansion’s Sword God title.
• The assembly eliminated most competitors in three rounds, leaving a few dozen fighters, mostly Dou Wangs or stronger.
• The remaining competitors began one-on-one duels as Xiao Yan watched the gathered representatives and their sword techniques.

Tang Ying faced He Feng in the tournament and was eliminated after suffering two losses. Xiao Yan was then paired against He Feng, who threatened to humiliate him, and the chapter ended as they faced off on the arena.

• Tang Ying explained the tournament selection process, and he and Xiao Yan discussed He Feng’s hostility and Xiao Yan’s possible matches.
• Tang Ying fought He Feng, failed to land his Ask Heaven Sword, and returned to Xiao Yan’s side to concede.
• Tang Ying later defeated a Jade Sword Sect contestant but lost to a Spirit Sword Sect contestant, ending his bid.
• Xiao Yan’s name was called alongside He Feng’s, and Tang Ying worried that He Feng might hurt him.
• Xiao Yan challenged He Feng’s confidence and met him on the arena, provoking He Feng into anger.

Xiao Yan defeated He Feng with one palm, then faced accusations and threats from Demon Sword Sect elder Venerable Mo Yan. Sword Venerable and Iron Sword Venerable intervened to protect him, and Xiao Yan stood his ground as Venerable Mo Yan threatened the sect’s power in Hidden Sword City.

• Xiao Yan defeated He Feng with his Mountain Opening Seal and declared that no one below the Dou Zong realm could defeat him.
• Venerable Mo Yan accused Xiao Yan of falsifying his age and tried to remove him from the competition, but Xiao Yan denied the charge and challenged the elder to prove it.
• Sword Venerable blocked Venerable Mo Yan from attacking Xiao Yan and asserted his authority as host of the tournament.
• Venerable Mo Yan demanded that Xiao Yan be handed over to the Demon Sword Sect, while Xiao Yan refused to leave.
• Venerable Mo Yan attacked Xiao Yan with a massive Dou Qi palm, but Iron Sword Venerable pierced and dispersed it.
• Xiao Yan gave Iron Sword Venerable his treasured sword, then challenged Venerable Mo Yan to defy the City Lord Mansion in Hidden Sword City.