Chapter Summaries

At the Xiao Family’s preliminary assessment, Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yan revealed striking results before Xiao Lei returned and took his own test. The chapter ended with the black stone tablet announcing Xiao Lei’s cultivation as an Eight-Star Dou Shi.

• Xiao Xun'er tested as a Four-Star Dou Zhe, shocking the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan tested at Seven Stages of Dou Qi, surprising the crowd and exciting Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Lei returned to the assessment, and touching Gu Xun'er earned him the Thunder Ancestral Symbol.
• Xiao Lei congratulated Xiao Yan, then stepped up to test his cultivation.
• Xiao Lei’s assessment revealed that he was an Eight-Star Dou Shi.

Xiao Lei revealed himself as an Eight-Star Dou Shi at the Xiao Family tests, then returned to his residence and began mastering the Thunder Ancestral Symbol. The symbol gathered his Peak Mortal Realm soul power, which seemed to be nurturing something but could not yet bring it forth.

• Xiao Lei revealed Eight-Star Dou Shi cultivation at the testing stele, surprising the Xiao Family and spurring Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er to resolve to improve.
• Xiao Zhan announced that failed test-takers could challenge qualified participants, and Xiao Ke challenged Xiao Yan but lost in one move.
• Xiao Zhan concluded the tests and announced matters for the coming-of-age ceremony, while Xiao Lei and Xiao Xun'er left together after turning away the other descendants.
• Xiao Lei returned to his clean residence, recognized Xun'er's care, and took out the Thunder Ancestral Symbol from the System Space.
• Xiao Lei drew the Thunder Ancestral Symbol into his mind, where it gathered his soul power into a pulsing form that seemed to be nurturing something.

Xiao Lei gained the Great Bell Dao Body and advanced to Nine-Star Dou Master, then attended the Xiao Family Coming-of-Age Ceremony. When Xiao Yu confronted Xiao Yan, Xiao Lei stepped in to prevent a fight and agreed to spar with her after the ceremony.

• Xiao Lei failed to break through to the Spirit Realm without a soul cultivation art but awakened the Great Bell Dao Body after the Thunder Ancestral Symbol tempered him.
• Xiao Lei refined the Thunder Ancestral Symbol, advanced from Three-Star Dou Master to Nine-Star Dou Master, and spent the following month consolidating his cultivation.
• Xiao Lei and Xun Er attended the Xiao Family Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where Xiao Lei noticed Ya Fei among the guests.
• Xiao Yu confronted Xiao Yan, and Xiao Lei stepped in, reminding her that their fight would embarrass the Xiao Family in front of its guests.
• Xiao Yu left after agreeing to verify Xiao Lei's strength in a spar after the ceremony, and Xiao Yan thanked Xiao Lei for intervening.

Cousin Xiao Lei obtained the Chaos God Grinding Visualization Method and attended the Xiao Family’s coming-of-age ceremony. His retest revealed Nine-Star Dou Shi cultivation, leaving the entire audience stunned.

• Cousin Xiao Lei received the Chaos God Grinding Visualization Method after helping Xiao Yan, delighting in the soul cultivation method he had long wanted.
• Xiao Zhan thanked Cousin Xiao Lei for protecting Xiao Yan, while Ya Fei learned that he had reached Eight-Star Dou Shi and reconsidered her view of the Xiao Family.
• Cousin Xiao Lei completed the coming-of-age ceremony’s lengthy rituals and stepped forward for the Ritual Retest.
• Xiao Yu asked Xiao Ning whether Cousin Xiao Lei had reached Eight-Star Dou Shi, and Xiao Ning confirmed his rapid progress.
• The Black Stone Testing Stele displayed Cousin Xiao Lei’s result as Nine-Star Dou Shi, shocking the gathered guests and audience.

Xiao Lei’s Nine-Star Dou Shi cultivation stunned the Xiao Clan and its guests, and his coming-of-age ceremony ended without anyone daring to challenge him. Later, he began cultivating the Chaos God Grinding Visualization Method in seclusion on the Xiao Family Back Mountain, where a mysterious gleam appeared in his inner darkness.

• Xiao Lei revealed that he had reached the Nine-Star Dou Shi realm, astonishing the guests and delighting Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders.
• Ya Fei decided to build closer ties with the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Yu and Xiao Ning realized they could not compete with Xiao Lei.
• No one accepted the Second Elder’s invitation to challenge Xiao Lei, and Xiao Lei returned to Xun Er, exchanging affectionate words with her.
• The coming-of-age ceremony ended, and Xiao Lei spent the following days relaxing rather than choosing a cultivation method from the Douqi Pavilion.
• Xiao Lei went alone to the Xiao Family Back Mountain, set his Three-Star Dou Ling-level puppet to guard him, and began cultivating the Chaos God Grinding Visualization Method.
• Xiao Lei sensed the jade slip’s imprint in the darkness of his soul, where a faint, unfathomable gleam began to revolve.

Xiao Lei used the Chaos God Grinding Visualization Method to break through to the Spirit Realm, and the resulting soul pressure alarmed people throughout Wu Tan City. After returning to ordinary life, he encountered the Great Elder and two other elders rushing toward the family council hall.

• Xiao Lei repeatedly let the divine mill grind his soul until it reached the Void Realm, equivalent to the Spirit Realm on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Xiao Lei’s breakthrough unleashed soul pressure across Wu Tan City, alarming Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, Xiao Xun’er and Ling Ying, and other local figures.
• Xiao Lei’s soul returned to his body, and he realized he could use soul power to attack even Dou Emperor opponents.
• Xiao Lei resumed cultivation and spent time with Xun’er while waiting for Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment team.
• Xiao Lei and Xun’er saw the Great Elder and two other elders hurry toward the family council hall, looking angry and gloomy, and Xiao Lei asked what had happened.

Xiao Lei learned that the Ao Ba Family had taken much of the Xiao Family’s market business with help from a Tier 3 Alchemist and decided to confront them. He infiltrated the Ao Ba Family’s council hall and began summoning the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Finger.

• The Xiao Family elders told Xiao Lei that the Ao Ba Family’s Tier 3 Alchemist had drawn merchants away from their markets, while their guards made retaliation difficult.
• Xiao Lei decided the Ao Ba Family had to be eliminated and later traveled there under his Invisibility Cloak.
• Oba Pa told Master Yan that they could not identify the Dou Ling-level expert who destroyed the Jia Lie Family and killed Liu Xi.
• Master Yan ordered the Ao Ba Family to crush the Xiao Family, blaming them for Liu Xi’s death.
• Xiao Lei appeared in the Ao Ba Family’s council hall, declared that he had come to kill, and began forming the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Finger as a Purple Giant Finger gathered overhead.

Xiao Lei destroyed the Ao Ba Family after killing Oba Pa and a Tier 3 Alchemist, then ordered his Dou Ling Puppet to leave no survivors. Witnesses in Wu Tan City connected the attack to the Xiao Family, while Ya Fei asked Master Gu Ni whether the Dou Ling expert was allied with them.

• Xiao Lei killed Oba Pa with the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Finger, destroying the Ao Ba Family's council hall in the process.
• Xiao Lei killed the Tier 3 Alchemist with a hidden Black Lightning Beam after the alchemist urged the Ao Ba Family's upper ranks to attack.
• The Ao Ba Family's upper ranks fled, and Xiao Lei ordered his Dou Ling Puppet to kill everyone in the estate.
• The puppet began slaughtering the fleeing family members as onlookers gathered outside and compared the destruction to the Jia Lie Family's earlier extermination.
• Xiao Zhan wondered whether the Dou Ling expert was protecting the Xiao Family, while Ya Fei asked Master Gu Ni if he believed the expert was connected to them.

After the Ao Ba Family was destroyed, Xiao Lei revealed to Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders that he had ordered Ling Kui to eliminate both the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families. The elders proposed making Xiao Lei the Xiao Family's Young Patriarch, leaving Xiao Zhan to respond.

• Xiao Lei plundered the Ao Ba Family estate and left Wu Tan City’s factions waiting outside for the vanished Dou Ling expert.
• Xiao Zhan warned the Three Great Elders that the unknown Dou Ling expert might target the Xiao Family next.
• Xiao Lei arrived with Ling Kui and told Xiao Zhan and the elders that Ling Kui was a servant left to him by his master.
• Xiao Lei explained that he had sent Ling Kui to destroy the Jia Lie Family after learning of its plan against the Xiao Family, and later to destroy the Ao Ba Family for its role in avenging Liu Xi.
• The Three Great Elders praised Xiao Lei, and the second and third elders supported making him the Young Patriarch.
• First Elder asked Xiao Zhan whether he agreed to appoint Xiao Lei as Young Patriarch.

Xiao Lei rejected the position of Young Patriarch, gave Xiao Zhan an Earth Rank Elementary Wind Attribute Cultivation Method, and went to the Mittel Auction House to sell spoils and seek an alliance for the Xiao Family. The chapter ended as Ya Fei asked what Xiao Lei would offer the Mittel Auction House in return.

• Xiao Lei told Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders that he did not want to become Young Patriarch, and they dropped the matter.
• Xiao Lei gave Xiao Zhan an Earth Rank Elementary Wind Attribute Cultivation Method for the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Lei brought items from the destroyed Jia Lie Family and Ao Ba Family to Ya Fei, who recognized their origins and learned that Xiao Lei claimed a Dou Ling expert was his master's servant.
• Ya Fei valued the items at roughly five or six hundred thousand Gold Coins, and Xiao Lei spent the proceeds on medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Lei asked Ya Fei to deepen the Mittel Auction House's cooperation with the Xiao Family and help protect it while he was away, and Ya Fei asked what he could offer in return.

Xiao Lei formed a partnership with Ya Fei and gave her a Rebirth Pill that greatly improved her cultivation aptitude. After leaving the Mittel Auction House, he went to a secluded spot in the Xiao Family Back Mountain to test his newly obtained Yi Wood Azure Lotus Lightning.

• Xiao Lei offered to help Ya Fei rise within the Mittel Family, and she agreed to partner with him.
• Touching Ya Fei earned Xiao Lei the Yi Wood Azure Lotus Lightning from the system.
• Xiao Lei gave Ya Fei a Rebirth Pill, which she swallowed and absorbed.
• Ya Fei discovered her cultivation speed had increased dozens of times, then kissed Xiao Lei's cheek in excitement.
• Xiao Lei left the Mittel Auction House and returned to the Xiao Family Back Mountain to test the Yi Wood Azure Lotus Lightning.

Xiao Lei absorbed the Yi Wood Azure Lotus Lightning and advanced from a Nine-Star Dou Master to a Three-Star Dou Ling. After the Xiao family enjoyed a period of peace, Wu Tan City turned its attention to Jia Nan Academy’s student recruitment.

• Xiao Lei used the Thunder Ancestral Symbol to seize and consume the Yi Wood Azure Lotus Lightning’s origin seed.
• Xiao Lei refined the lightning, which saturated his Dou Crystal and raised his cultivation to Three-Star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Lei tested his enhanced strength in the Xiao Family Back Mountain, then returned to his residence and kept his aura restrained.
• The Xiao family stood supreme in Wu Tan City, and Xiao Lei’s life returned to peace after the Jia Lie and Ao Ba families were destroyed.
• Wu Tan City focused on Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment after learning its team would be stationed there.

Xiao Lei and the Xiao Family youths reached Jia Nan Academy’s admissions plaza, where Xiao Yu used her connections to get them tested. Luo Bu challenged Xiao Lei to a fight over the admissions rules, and Xiao Yu warned Xiao Lei not to beat him to death as Luo Bu confronted him.

• Xiao Yu led Xiao Lei, Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and the other Xiao Family youths through the troops with help from her token and her friend Xue Ni.
• Xue Ni told Xiao Yu that Luo Bu had joined the admissions team and had advanced to four-star Dou Zhe.
• Luo Bu appeared, tested Xiao Lei and the others with a crystal ball, and ordered them to wait outside in the sun.
• When Xiao Yu objected, Luo Bu proposed that Xiao Lei spar with him and last ten moves to settle the matter.
• Xiao Yu stepped aside and warned Xiao Lei not to kill Luo Bu, who then challenged Xiao Lei to show his strength.

Xiao Lei defeated Luo Bu with a single Dou Qi strike, revealing that he had reached the Dou Grandmaster realm. After Instructor Ruo Lin welcomed the new students and began recording their details, Xiao Lei announced he was a sixteen-year-old One-Star Dou Master, astonishing everyone.

• Xiao Lei struck Luo Bu with invisible Dou Qi and sent him crashing to the ground, leaving him badly injured but alive.
• The students and Xiao Lei’s family were shocked when they realized he was a Dou Grandmaster, and Luo Bu’s companions backed away.
• Instructor Ruo Lin appeared, greeted Xiao Yu, treated Luo Bu, and invited the new students into the tent.
• Instructor Ruo Lin explained Jia Nan Academy’s admission standards and began recording each student’s name, cultivation level, and age.
• Xiao Lei told Instructor Ruo Lin he was a sixteen-year-old One-Star Dou Master, and she exclaimed that even an S rank could not represent his potential.

After Xiao Yan secured a year of leave by passing Instructor Ruo Lin’s twenty-move test, Xiao Lei challenged her for leave of his own. Xiao Lei survived fifty moves against her and earned her agreement to grant him leave, though its duration remained undecided.

• Instructor Ruo Lin finished registering the new students and announced that the academy’s carriage convoy would arrive in Wu Tan City in seven days.
• Xiao Yan asked for leave to handle personal matters, and Instructor Ruo Lin agreed to grant him a year off if he could last twenty moves against her; with Yao Chen’s help, he passed.
• Xiao Lei also requested leave, so Instructor Ruo Lin set a tougher condition: he had to last fifty moves against her while she fought without holding back.
• Xiao Lei used Thunderbolt Palm and Wind Thunder Leg to counter Instructor Ruo Lin’s water-serpent attack and withstand her assault without injury.
• After Xiao Lei completed fifty moves, Instructor Ruo Lin honored their agreement and asked how long he wanted to take leave.

Instructor Ruo Lin accepted the Xiao Family’s invitation to stay with them before the Jia Nan Academy group departed. Xiao Lei gave Xiao Yan Coexisting Purple Crystal Source and arranged to receive pill formulas, then prepared to leave Wu Tan City for further training.

• Xiao Yu, Xiao Lei, and the others persuaded Instructor Ruo Lin to stay at the Xiao Family, where Xiao Zhan and the elders welcomed her and the Jia Nan Academy students.
• Xiao Lei gave Xiao Yan two bottles of Coexisting Purple Crystal Source and asked him for pill formulas, which Yao Chen agreed to provide the next day.
• Xiao Lei gave Xiao Yan medicinal herbs to refine pills for the family, and touching Xiao Yan earned him a Spirit Medicine Sand Mandala from the system.
• Xiao Lei bought travel supplies at the Mittel Auction House and asked Ya Fei to keep an eye on the Xiao Family while he was away.
• Xiao Lei told Ya Fei he expected to be gone for one or two years, then put an arm around her waist, making her blush.

After obtaining the Thunder Emperor Scepter, Xiao Lei prepared to travel west toward the Tagor Desert to seek Queen Medusa, with the Green Lotus Core Flame as a possible side goal. He reached Hei Yan City and joined the queue to buy passage on an aerial transport bird.

• Xiao Lei received the Thunder Emperor Scepter after touching Ya Fei, then returned to the Xiao Family and examined the lightning-wreathed weapon.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Lei a collection of pill formulas and said he planned to prepare for training outside the city.
• Xiao Lei spent three days with Xiao Xun'er, left the Three-Star Dou Ling Puppet with Xiao Zhan, and departed alone after reaching the Four-Star Dou Ling realm.
• Xiao Lei traveled to Hei Yan City to find civilian aerial transport that could take him across the Jia Ma Empire toward the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Lei arrived at the aerial transport station, saw the Thick-Winged Birds, and joined the ticket line.

Xiao Lei traveled to Mo City to find a map of the Tagor Desert and met the mapmaker Hai Bo Dong, who possessed a matching map fragment. After revealing that he needed a sixth-tier Breaking Pill to undo his seal, Hai Bo Dong identified himself as the Ice Emperor, and Xiao Lei asked him for additional compensation for the pill.

• Xiao Lei took a Thick-Winged Bird to Mo City and learned where to find the city's best map shop.
• At Ancient Map, Xiao Lei found a damaged map fragment that complemented the one he had found with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Lei asked the scarred shopkeeper to sell him the fragment and offered Gold Coins, spirit herbs, Magic Cores, or medicinal pills.
• The shopkeeper tested Xiao Lei by asking about the Breaking Pill, and Xiao Lei deduced that the man's strength had been sealed and that he had once been a Dou Emperor.
• The shopkeeper revealed that he was Hai Bo Dong, the Ice Emperor, and Xiao Lei offered to have his master refine the Breaking Pill in exchange for additional compensation.

Xiao Lei and Hai Bodong struck a bargain involving a Breaking Pill, a fragmentary map, and information about Heavenly Flames, then traveled together toward Shi Mo City. On the desert road, they encountered the Mo Tie Mercenary Group fleeing a pack of Sand Scorpions, and Xiao Lei stopped when he heard the group's name.

• Xiao Lei negotiated with Hai Bodong, who agreed to guard him for one year and give him another fragmentary map if he found more pieces.
• Hai Bodong offered his research on likely Heavenly Flame locations in exchange for Xiao Lei finding Sand Mandala, and Xiao Lei agreed despite already possessing the herb.
• Hai Bodong showed Xiao Lei a map marking three possible Heavenly Flame locations in the Tagor Desert and warned him to avoid the western site near Queen Medusa's territory.
• Xiao Lei asked Hai Bodong to accompany him to Shi Mo City, and Hai Bodong packed some belongings before leaving Mo City with him.
• Xiao Lei and Hai Bodong encountered the Mo Tie Mercenary Group fleeing dozens of Sand Scorpions, and the group's curly-haired captain stopped to cover his companions' retreat.
• The mercenaries refused to abandon their captain, and Xiao Lei stopped when he heard the name Mo Tie Mercenary Group.

Xiao Lei rescued the Mo Tie Mercenary Group from a swarm of sand scorpions and traveled with them to Shi Mo City. He reunited with Xiao Li and Xiao Ding, who asked what had brought him there.

• Xiao Lei introduced himself to Chuan Pu as the cousins of the Mo Tie Mercenary Group's leaders and used his Thunder Bow to destroy all the attacking sand scorpions.
• Xiao Lei told Hai Bodong and the mercenaries he was sixteen, then agreed to travel with Chuan Pu's group to Shi Mo City.
• Xiao Lei, Hai Bodong, and the mercenaries reached Shi Mo City and went to the Mo Tie Mercenary Group's estate.
• Xiao Li welcomed Xiao Lei and brought him into the hall to see Xiao Ding.
• After the cousins reminisced, Xiao Ding asked Xiao Lei why he had come to Shi Mo City and whether he needed help.