Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan left Hidden Sword City with his companions, intending to set the Demon Sword Sect and Soul Hall against each other. Outside the city, Iron Sword Venerable killed a Soul Hall Honored Elder and fled after provoking the Soul Hall Venerables into chasing him.

• Xiao Yan told White Fang and the others to leave Hidden Sword City, saying he had a plan that could achieve two goals at once.
• Three Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables and several Dou Zun experts waited outside the city for Xiao Yan and his group.
• The Demon Sword Sect elders decided to wait until Xiao Yan left Hidden Sword City before acting against him.
• After learning that Xiao Yan had left, the Third Elder led Venerable Mo Yan and other Dou Zun experts out of the city in pursuit.
• An Honored Elder informed the Soul Hall Venerables that Xiao Yan's group was heading toward them, but Iron Sword Venerable killed him with one sword strike.
• Iron Sword Venerable claimed to represent the Demon Sword Sect and fled, prompting Black-White Venerable to order the Soul Hall to chase him.

Xiao Yan’s scheme set the Soul Hall and Demon Sword Sect against each other, earning him a system reward that advanced Fei Tian to Dou Zun. The battle escalated when Ninth Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu arrived, leaving both sides facing a powerful new threat.

• Protector Mo escaped after Iron Sword Venerable cut apart Venerable Mo Yan’s attack, and Third Elder ordered the Demon Sword Sect group to pursue him.
• Xiao Yan’s arrangements brought the Soul Hall and Demon Sword Sect into battle, where Third Elder’s Seven-Star Dou Zun strength forced Black-White Venerable and Old Ghost Zhaixing to join forces against him.
• Xiao Yan received the Prank Master title and used its reward to advance Fei Tian to the One-Star Dou Zun level.
• As the Demon Sword Sect and Soul Hall fighters tried to retreat and block one another, Black-White Venerable opened a spatial passage and summoned Ninth Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu.
• Xiao Yan recognized Mo Yu and worried about the danger, while Third Elder challenged the Soul Hall over the prospect of war with Hidden Sword City.

Xiao Yan and his companions survived a confrontation between the Soul Hall and Demon Sword Sect when the City Lord Mansion intervened. They left Hidden Sword City and headed toward the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, planning to travel through Sound Valley to find a spatial passage.

• Ninth Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu drove back Blood Sword Venerable and demanded that the Demon Sword Sect reveal Xiao Yan's whereabouts, but fled when he sensed someone approaching.
• Commander Liu arrived with City Lord Mansion sword cultivators, ordered the Demon Sword Sect experts to return for punishment, and led them away.
• Xiao Yan and his companions emerged from hiding and decided to leave Hidden Sword City before another faction found them.
• Xiao Yan led the group toward the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, intending to cure Jin Shi's fire poison and gain access to the pool's depths.
• Xiao Yan studied the map and chose to head for Sound Valley, the nearest place with a spatial passage.

Xiao Yan and his companions searched for Sound Valley across a frozen wasteland and concluded that the sect might occupy a hidden space. After the Iron Sword Venerable disturbed the space with his sword, Sound Valley’s people appeared, and Xiao Yan asked to borrow their spatial passage.

• Xiao Yan asked what the others knew about Sound Valley, and Fei Tian and the Iron Sword Venerable described it as a mysterious but powerful force.
• Xiao Yan decided to visit Sound Valley, and the group traveled for a month to reach the snow-covered region shown on their map.
• Xiao Yan and his companions searched the area for a day but could not find Sound Valley.
• Elder Yao suggested that Sound Valley might have hidden itself in a separate space, and Xiao Yan shared the possibility with the others.
• The Iron Sword Venerable slashed at the space, causing several figures from Sound Valley to emerge.
• Xiao Yan told Sound Valley’s leader that his group came from Hidden Sword City and asked to borrow their spatial passage to reach the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.

Xiao Yan tried to persuade Sound Valley to let him use its spatial passage, claiming his business concerned the Soul Clan. Venerable Jiuzhang admitted him and his companions into Sound Valley's Sound Realm, where he led them toward Sound City.

• Sound Valley's leader refused Xiao Yan's request to use the spatial passage, despite Xiao Yan asking to speak with a superior.
• Xiao Yan shouted that he had come to discuss the Soul Clan, and the leader agreed to make them wait.
• While they waited, Iron Sword Venerable noted the leader's strength, and White Fang and Protector Mo complained about the dangers of the Central Plains.
• Venerable Jiuzhang arrived and asked Xiao Yan for more information before allowing him to enter.
• Xiao Yan said his business concerned Sound Valley's concerns about the Soul Clan and asked only to borrow the spatial passage.
• Venerable Jiuzhang brought Xiao Yan and his four companions into the Sound Realm and led them toward Sound City.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered Sound Valley to borrow its spatial passage, but Elder Yao sensed danger and warned Xiao Yan to escape. Elder Chen revealed that Sound Valley was a secret base of the Spirit Clan and asked whether Xiao Yan knew its secrets.

• Venerable Jiuzhang led Xiao Yan and his companions through Sound City, warning them to keep what they saw in Sound Valley secret.
• As they entered the central building, Elder Yao warned Xiao Yan that the place was dangerous and urged him to escape.
• Xiao Yan saw a girl's Clan Markings and was then separated from his companions by Elder Chen, who summoned Elder Yao from within Xiao Yan.
• Elder Chen and Elder Yao recognized each other, and Elder Yao explained that the girl's markings belonged to the ancient Spirit Clan.
• Elder Chen revealed that Sound Valley had been established by the Spirit Clan and asked whether Xiao Yan truly knew its secrets.

Xiao Yan revealed his theory that the Spirit Clan had discovered the Soul Clan’s connection to the Tunling Clan, leading to its destruction. Elder Chen gave Xiao Yan a transmission jade pendant and hoped he might one day save the Spirit Clan.

• Xiao Yan told Elder Chen that the Spirit Clan had discovered the Soul Clan’s connection to the Tunling Clan, and Elder Chen’s reaction confirmed his guess was correct.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Soul Clan had taken in surviving members of the Tunling Clan and used Nihility Devouring Flame to convert other clans’ bloodlines into its own.
• Elder Chen questioned Xiao Yan about the Soul Clan’s motives, and Xiao Yan said its ambitions went beyond preserving its bloodline.
• Elder Chen warned Xiao Yan that Soul Hall had set its sights on him and gave him a jade-green transmission pendant to summon help.
• Elder Chen said he hoped Xiao Yan might one day save the Spirit Clan, surprising Elder Yao with how highly he regarded him.

Xiao Yan and Elder Yao left Sound Valley after discussing the Heavenly Underworld Sect and traveled to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range. There, Xiao Yan sought permission to use the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, but Jin Gu directed him to consult the Four Square Pavilions.

• Xiao Yan asked Elder Chen about the Heavenly Underworld Sect and its connection to Song Yi and Song Zhan, and learned that the sect had been expanding across the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yan and Elder Yao departed Sound Valley with Venerable Jiuzhang and reunited with White Fang and the others outside the teleportation passage.
• The group used Sound Valley's passage to reach the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, where White Fang and Protector Mo caused a massive disturbance.
• Jin Gu, an elder of the Gold-Devouring Rat Tribe, confronted the group and said the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool was not due to open.
• Xiao Yan asked to use the pool to break through, and Fei Tian challenged Jin Gu's explanation, telling him he could not fool him.

Xiao Yan persuaded the Gold-Devouring Rat Tribe to let him cultivate in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and offered to treat Jin Shi’s fire poison. Jin Shi revealed that the pool contained a deeper world with powerful cultivation benefits, and Xiao Yan entered it despite its fire poison.

• Jin Gu reluctantly agreed to take Xiao Yan and his companions to the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, and Xiao Yan said he would be the only one entering.
• Xiao Yan assigned Iron Sword Venerable to wait for him, sent White Fang and Protector Mo to cultivate elsewhere, and asked Fei Tian to search for news of Venerable Feng.
• Xiao Yan met Jin Shi and recognized that fire poison had entered the clan chief’s body, then offered him medicinal liquid to treat it.
• Jin Shi promised Xiao Yan an opportunity to improve his chances of reaching the Dou Zong class if he could cure the fire poison.
• Jin Shi explained that the deepest part of the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool held a separate world with better cultivation benefits, though fire poison limited how long cultivators could remain there.
• Xiao Yan reassured Jin Shi and entered the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.

Xiao Yan spent half a year cultivating in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool and broke through to Dou Zong, then used his system rewards to strengthen his allies. After reuniting with them and learning that Venerable Feng had returned to Starfall Pavilion, Xiao Yan set off there with plans to restore Elder Yao in the future.

• Jin Shi and Jin Gu watched Xiao Yan descend into the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, while Jin Shi wondered whether he could endure its heat.
• After half a year, Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Zong inside the pool and used his system rewards to enhance White Fang and Protector Mo, raise his soul power, and boost his allies.
• White Fang, Protector Mo, Fei Tian, Iron Sword Venerable, and Yun Potian reached or strengthened their Dou Zun-level power, while Xiao Yan worried they still lacked a top-tier combatant.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the pool, and Jin Shi thanked him because his medicine had cured the clan chief's fire poison.
• Fei Tian told Xiao Yan that he and Iron Sword Venerable had fought Thunder Venerable and that Venerable Feng had returned to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan promised to obtain the best materials to restore Elder Yao, then led everyone toward Starfall Pavilion.

Iron Sword Venerable revealed that Yao Chen was alive, allowing him to reunite with Feng Xian at Starfall Pavilion. Xiao Yan left as the pavilion’s new Young Pavilion Master and headed toward Burning Flame Valley, where he encountered Chen Xian and other old enemies.

• Iron Sword Venerable arrived at Starfall Pavilion and told Feng Xian that Yao Chen was still alive.
• Feng Xian met Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, then sealed off Starfall Pavilion while Yao Chen reunited with his old friend.
• Xiao Yan said he planned to visit Burning Flame Valley for the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations before returning to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Feng Xian offered help toward restoring Yao Chen’s body and named Xiao Yan the Young Pavilion Master of Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan left Starfall Pavilion with White Fang and the others, then encountered Chen Xian, the Black and White Elders, and Ye Lun on their way to Mystic Underworld Sect.

Xiao Yan’s group confronted Chen Xian and the Mystic Underworld Sect, and Xiao Yan demanded to know who their main family was. The chapter ended with Chen Xian and Ye Lun accepting Xiao Yan’s challenge to fight him together.

• Fei Tian spotted Chen Xian’s group, and Xiao Yan led his companions over to confront them.
• Chen Xian and his companions argued about the rumors surrounding Xiao Yan and discussed how the Mystic Underworld Sect could no longer oppose his group.
• Xiao Yan revealed himself and asked Chen Xian who the main family behind the Mystic Underworld Sect was.
• Elder Bai, Old Hei, and Ye Lun prepared to help Chen Xian escape, while Chen Xian tried to stall Xiao Yan by demanding a one-on-one fight.
• Xiao Yan accepted and challenged Chen Xian and Ye Lun to fight him together, while White Fang joked that they would be beaten badly.

Xiao Yan and his companions wiped out Chen Xian’s group, then faced Chen Tiannan and Chen Tianbei, who attacked White Fang together. White Fang unleashed his full power but soon called on Xiao Yan for help.

• Xiao Yan killed Ye Lun with the Great Desolation Imprisoning Saint Finger and annihilated Chen Xian with the Flame Cloud Fist.
• White Fang swallowed Elder Bai and Old Hei before they could self-destruct, while Protector Mo dismissed their lack of valuables.
• Chen Tiannan arrived after learning of Chen Xian’s death and confronted Xiao Yan’s group.
• White Fang charged Chen Tiannan, then fought alongside his sworn brother Chen Tianbei, Sect Master of the Yellow Underworld Sect.
• White Fang revealed his demonic beast form and unleashed a storm of lightning, but called to Xiao Yan for help as the two Dou Venerables pressed him.

Protector Mo and White Fang fought Chen Tiannan and Chen Tianbei while Xiao Yan’s allies held off the arriving Earth Underworld Sect experts. As the battle widened, Xiao Yan summoned four Heavenly Flames to bring the clash to an end.

• Protector Mo struck Chen Tiannan and joined White Fang against Chen Tiannan and Chen Tianbei, turning the fight in their favor.
• Fei Tian warned Xiao Yan that more people were approaching, and Xiao Yan decided they could not stay long.
• Demon Flower Evil Lord arrived with two Earth Underworld Sect Dou Zuns, prompting Fei Tian and Iron Sword Venerable to engage them.
• Iron Sword Venerable fought Demon Flower Evil Lord while Fei Tian battled the two Dou Zuns.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Fallen Heart Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, and Sea Heart Flame for a powerful attack.

Xiao Yan defeated Chen Tiannan and Chen Tianbei with his Four-Colored Fire Lotus while Iron Sword Venerable and the others finished the remaining Earth Underworld Sect fighters. After escaping through a spatial passage, Xiao Yan reached Burning Flame Valley and was escorted inside to meet its leaders.

• Xiao Yan fused four Heavenly Flames into a Four-Colored Fire Lotus and killed Chen Tiannan and Chen Tianbei with its explosion.
• Demon Flower Evil Lord fled, and Iron Sword Venerable stopped two Earth Underworld Sect Dou Zuns from self-destructing and killed them.
• Xiao Yan urged everyone to leave before Soul Hall could discover their route, and Iron Sword Venerable opened a spatial passage for them.
• Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at Burning Flame Valley, where White Fang declined to force their way through after hearing about Tang Zhen's strength and his Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire.
• Xiao Yan announced himself at the spatial barrier, and an elderly man escorted him into Burning Flame Valley.

Xiao Yan visited Burning Flame Valley and demanded the return of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, which he said belonged to the Xiao Clan. After insults and a clash of pressure between their Dou Zun experts, he stood firm against Tang Zhen and the valley elders.

• Xiao Yan and his companions entered Burning Flame Valley, where disciples doubted his claim that he came from the Xiao Clan.
• A five-star Dou Emperor challenged White Fang, but the old man stopped the fight and Xiao Yan urged White Fang to avoid causing trouble.
• Tang Zhen questioned Xiao Yan's identity, and the Third Elder mocked his ambition to become a Dou Saint.
• White Fang released his Dou Zun pressure after the Third Elder insulted him, and the First Elder countered with his own strength.
• Xiao Yan declared that he had come to reclaim the Xiao Clan's Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, while Fei Tian checked the First Elder's attempt to attack him.
• Tang Zhen refused to surrender Burning Flame Valley's treasured technique, but Xiao Yan insisted it belonged to the Xiao Clan regardless of the valley's consent.

Xiao Yan confronted Tang Zhen over the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations, then offered to prove his Xiao Clan lineage through alchemy. Tang Zhen agreed to let him attempt a high-grade seventh-tier pill in exchange for the technique, and the two sides left to prepare the ingredients.

• Xiao Yan and Iron Sword Venerable faced off against Tang Zhen and Burning Flame Valley’s elders, while White Fang and Protector Mo added pressure with their auras.
• Xiao Yan demanded the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and accused Burning Flame Valley of forgetting its debt to the Xiao Clan.
• Tang Zhen demanded proof of Xiao Yan’s identity, and Xiao Yan proposed demonstrating his alchemy skills.
• Xiao Yan claimed he could refine any pill below the eighth tier, and Tang Zhen challenged him to refine a high-grade seventh-tier pill.
• Tang Zhen promised to hand over the technique if Xiao Yan succeeded and led him and the others to prepare the ingredients for a Fire Bodhi Pill for Tang Huo'er.

Xiao Yan agreed to refine a Fire Bodhi Pill for Tang Zhen’s daughter and used Summoning Points to become a Peak Seventh-Tier Alchemist. When the First Elder questioned his abilities, Xiao Yan offered to prove his soul strength at Burning Flame Valley’s Soul Monument.

• Tang Zhen told Xiao Yan that his daughter had suffered a severe backlash after absorbing the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire, and Xiao Yan identified the needed pill as a Fire Bodhi Pill.
• Xiao Yan assured Tang Zhen that he could refine a peak seventh-tier or pseudo-eighth-tier Fire Bodhi Pill alone, then spent 50,000 Summoning Points to reach Peak Seventh-Tier Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan learned that reaching eighth-tier alchemist would cost 100,000 Summoning Points and arrived at a crowded plaza in Burning Flame Valley, where he prepared to refine the pill.
• Xiao Yan told Fei Tian to withstand the pill’s heavenly lightning, and Fei Tian said he might break through to three-star Dou Zun.
• The First Elder demanded that Xiao Yan’s soul power be tested before the valuable ingredients were used, and Xiao Yan agreed to demonstrate it at the Soul Monument.

Xiao Yan proved his soul power by shattering Burning Flame Valley’s soul-testing stele, then refined the Fire Bodhi Pill over three days and nights. After Fei Tian faced its pseudo-eighth-tier pill lightning, Xiao Yan handed the completed pill to Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er.

• Xiao Yan unleashed his Spiritual Realm soul power into the testing stele, overwhelming the crowd and shattering the ancestral treasure.
• Tang Zhen ordered the First Elder to accept punishment and repair the stele, while Tang Huo'er asked who Xiao Yan was.
• Xiao Yan refined all eight hundred and eighty-eight medicinal ingredients and formed the Fire Bodhi Pill, whose grade neared the eighth tier.
• Xiao Yan called for Fei Tian to take the pseudo-eighth-tier pill lightning, and Fei Tian endured it with his body as White Fang and Protector Mo discussed their enhanced abilities.
• Xiao Yan presented the Fire Bodhi Pill to Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er.

Xiao Yan obtained the complete Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations from Tang Zhen and headed back to the Northwest Continent to unify its forces. During the half-year journey, he and his summoned allies advanced in strength, leaving Xiao Yan ready to begin his campaign.

• Tang Huo'er thanked Xiao Yan for refining her pill and asked him to spar, but Xiao Yan declined.
• Fei Tian absorbed the heavenly lightning and advanced to three-star Dou Venerable, while White Fang asked Xiao Yan to refine more pills for him.
• Xiao Yan mastered all three transformations of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and left Tang Zhen to return with his companions to the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yan explained that he planned to unify the Northwest Continent, and White Fang and Protector Mo agreed to handle its lesser forces.
• Xiao Yan and his companions traveled through a spatial passage aboard their Space Ship for half a year, during which Xiao Yan reached four-star Dou Zong and several of his allies advanced in rank.