Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan obtained a chance to absorb the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, then arrived at Cloud Mist Mountain to fulfill his three-year agreement. After challenging Yun Yun, he crippled Yun Leng with one blow, leaving the spectators questioning whether he had reached the Dou Emperor realm.

• Xiao Yan learned from Elder Yao that the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame could test his heart and that absorbing it carried a fifty-fifty chance of success, then chose to seize the opportunity.
• At the Cloud Mist Sect, the assembled guests assumed Xiao Yan would not come to meet Nalan Yanran, but he arrived displaying a flying Dou Technique and apparent Dou King strength.
• Xiao Yan confronted Nalan Yanran over the annulled marriage contract and challenged Yun Yun, the Cloud Mist Sect's sect master.
• Yun Leng attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan shattered Yun Leng's hand with a blood-red-flamed Eight Extremities Collapse and smashed him into the stone plaza.
• Jia Xingtian wondered aloud whether Xiao Yan had reached the Dou Emperor realm.

After Xiao Yan crippled Yun Leng, he challenged the entire Misty Cloud Sect, leaving its elders and the watching factions unwilling to intervene. As Xiao Yan prepared for another fight, Yun Leng summoned the former sect master, Yun Shan, whose overwhelming aura swept across the sect.

• Jia Xingtian and the other powerful spectators acknowledged that none of them could confidently withstand Xiao Yan's punch against Yun Leng.
• Xiao Yan planted his heavy ruler in the Misty Cloud Sect's floor and challenged all its experts to face him within a day.
• The assembled factions stayed silent, while Nalan Jie and Nalan Yanran regretted the broken engagement and the Nalan Family's role in driving Xiao Yan away.
• Xiao Yan sat down to cultivate and told Yao Lao that he had only recently absorbed the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and still had unstable Dou Qi.
• After recovering, Yun Leng learned that Xiao Yan was waiting outside and played a white flute to summon help.
• A crushing aura spread from the back peak, and Xiao Yan, Jia Xingtian, and Fa Ma recognized its source as the former Misty Cloud Sect master, Yun Shan.

Xiao Yan faced Yun Shan in a timed battle and endured long enough for the Misty Cloud Sect to forgive the past grievances. After the three-year agreement ended, Xiao Yan prepared to return home, while Yun Shan stripped Yun Leng of his authority for proposing retaliation.

• Yun Shan heard Yun Leng's account and offered to wipe away the grievances if Xiao Yan lasted one incense stick against him.
• Xiao Yan fought Yun Shan with the Heavy Profound Ruler, Eight Extremities Collapse, and his blood-colored flames, while both exchanged powerful attacks.
• Jia Xingtian reminded the onlookers that Xiao Yan only needed to endure for the allotted time, and Yun Shan ended the duel when it expired.
• A hidden Dou Emperor appeared after the battle, and Ling Ying later advised Xiao Yan to grow stronger before flying away.
• Xiao Yan said the three-year agreement was over and decided to return home.
• Yun Shan rebuked Yun Leng for suggesting an attack on Wutan City and ordered him to surrender his authority over the sect.

Xiao Yan returned to Wutan City after destroying the Mad Wolf Gang and went home to the Xiao Clan. His family learned that he had become a Dou Emperor, and the clan celebrated his return and victory.

• Xiao Yan destroyed the Mad Wolf Gang, collected its treasures, and told Yao Lao that the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame’s backlash had eased.
• Xiao Yan flew back to Wutan City and arrived at the Xiao Clan, where Li Yun welcomed him home.
• Xiao Yan encountered Aunt Rong and her son Xiao Feng, then went to the main hall to see Xiao Zhan and the Elders.
• Xiao Zhan and the Elders mistakenly tried to comfort Xiao Yan over the three-year agreement until a guard reported that Xiao Yan had defeated the Misty Cloud Sect’s Great Elder and former Sect Leader.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that he was a Dou Emperor, and Xiao Zhan announced the news as the Xiao Clan began celebrating.

After Xiao Yan defeated the Soul Hall Protector sent to the Xiao Clan, he learned that the Soul Hall wanted an indestructible jade kept by Xiao Zhan. Yao Lao suspected the jade might be connected to a Dou Di, leaving Xiao Yan with a new mystery to investigate.

• Xiao Yan celebrated his rise to the Dou Huang realm while Xiao Zhan continued boasting about his son and the Xiao Clan received gifts from its rivals.
• Yao Lao sensed a Soul Hall intruder and took control of Xiao Yan’s body to capture him.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao tortured Protector Jiu until he revealed that he had come to seize a piece of indestructible jade from Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan the jade and explained that Xiao Yan’s grandfather had said it was tied to the lives of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan tested the jade with his strength and the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, but it remained unharmed, and Yao Lao suspected it was related to a Dou Di.

Xiao Yan helped Yao Lao confront Han Feng and obtained the Sea Heart Flame before traveling to Jia Nan Academy. There, he reunited with Xiao Xun'er, gave her a rare pill, and received a kiss, while the chapter left Xiao Yan with more of his story still to tell her.

• Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng's guards and brought their bodies before him, allowing Yao Lao to confront his former disciple.
• Yao Lao left the Medicine Emperor Hall with the Sea Heart Flame and a fortune, and Xiao Yan flew toward Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Xun'er told Ruo Lin she would not enter the Inner Academy if Xiao Yan failed to arrive, then reunited with him when he appeared.
• Xiao Yan recounted his recent experiences to Xiao Xun'er and gave her a tier 7 Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
• Xiao Xun'er kissed Xiao Yan and ran away, while Xiao Yan smiled and noted that he still had something to tell her.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er entered Jia Nan Academy’s Fire Energy Hunting Competition, where Xun'er defeated teams of Inner Academy students while Xiao Yan concealed his strength. When dozens of students gathered to challenge them, Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Emperor cultivation and ended the competition with his overwhelming aura.

• Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy to investigate its Heavenly Flames and arranged for the Ancient Clan to protect the Xiao Clan in exchange for the Gu Yu.
• Xiao Xun'er defeated successive teams of Inner Academy students who tried to take their Fire Energy, including Sha Tie’s team and Luo Hou’s team.
• Luo Hou gathered Inner Academy students to confront Xiao Xun'er, while the new students rallied behind her.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes, stepped forward, and invited the fifty gathered students to attack him together.
• Xiao Yan released his Dou Emperor aura, incapacitated the encircling students, and declared victory in the Fire Energy Hunting Competition.

Xiao Yan trained with Zi Yan while traveling with her and Xun'er to find high-grade medicinal herbs, and he defeated a powerful Dark Silver Terrorclaw Bear. As they settled down for dinner, an angry stranger demanded to know who had taken his White Fragrant Berries.

• Xiao Yan sparred with Zi Yan and paid her with pills, while Xun'er counted the punches he had dodged.
• Xiao Yan traveled with Xun'er and Zi Yan toward the Heavenly Snake Mansion, continuing to train as they searched for medicinal herbs.
• Zi Yan led the group to a Dark Silver Terrorclaw Bear, and Xiao Yan defeated it with his techniques.
• Xiao Yan harvested White Fragrant Berries and gave Zi Yan the bear paws to wash before Xun'er roasted them for dinner.
• A stranger arrived and demanded to know who had taken his White Fragrant Berries.

Xiao Yan and his companions clashed with members of the Mystic Pattern Sect over White Fragrant Berries, then avoided a fight after the elders recognized the danger of their strength. Elsewhere, Qing Lin subdued a Jade Blood Demon Python and prepared to compete in the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly so she could earn permission to leave the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

• Mo Fa demanded Xiao Yan hand over the White Fragrant Berries, and Zi Yan attacked him before a Mystic Pattern Sect elder stopped her.
• Xiao Yan burned away the elder’s Spirit-Devouring Pattern and stood ready with Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan, prompting the Mystic Pattern Sect group to withdraw.
• Elder Ge and Elder Qin warned Mo Fa that Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame and his companions made a fight too costly, while Mo Fa vowed to challenge them at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• Qing Lin subdued a Jade Blood Demon Python with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and reached a new stage in her cultivation.
• Qing Lin reminded Aunt Chu that she wanted her freedom and agreed to strive for first place at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly for a chance to leave.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Zi Yan arrived in Tianlan City and visited the Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion to sell herbs and seek ingredients for Yao Lao's body. When they learned the Snow Bone Ginseng they needed was the prize in an alchemy competition, Xiao Yan decided to compete for it.

• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan through Tianlan City's Dou Wang passage and received identity jade tokens from the gate official.
• Xiao Yan asked for the city's largest herb shop and went with Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan to the Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan showed the attendant a Wind Bell Sunflower and met steward Tang Qi, who examined the rare herbs Xiao Yan wished to sell.
• Tang Qi said the pavilion had seven of the herbs Xiao Yan sought and one Snow Bone Ginseng, but the Pavilion Master had reserved it as the Medicine Ranking Nomination prize.
• Xiao Yan learned that alchemists could compete by refining a pill and decided to enter and win the Snow Bone Ginseng.

Xiao Yan entered the Medicine Ranking Nomination to win the Snow Bone Ginseng and began refining a superior sixth-grade pill despite having only a second-grade Alchemist badge. His Cauldronless Extraction technique silenced the skeptics and drew a crowd, while the pill remained unfinished.

• Tang Qi led Xiao Yan and his companions to the fourth floor, where Wan Qing completed a fifth-grade Spirit Attachment Pill and received praise.
• Xiao Yan chose to compete for the Snow Bone Ginseng and asked Tang Qi for the ingredients for a Qi Sea Spirit Returning Pill.
• Tang Qi questioned Xiao Yan’s second-grade Alchemist badge, while a fellow Alchemist mocked him for attempting to refine a high-grade pill.
• Xiao Xun'er intimidated the heckler, then warned the onlookers to stay quiet as Xiao Yan began refining with white flames.
• Yao Lao used Cauldronless Extraction to process the herbs, drawing more than fifty Alchemists to watch in silence.

Xiao Yan used Yao Lao’s guidance to refine a top-tier sixth-grade pill at the Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion, drawing the attention of its master and Xu Yingwu. After Xu Yingwu recognized a familiar alchemy technique, he rushed to tell his teacher Su Zhang, who urgently demanded to meet Xiao Yan.

• Yao Lao guided Xiao Yan through the final fusion and formation of the Qi Sea Spirit Returning Pill, while Alchemists watched in awe.
• Xiao Yan submitted the pill as his competition entry, and Tang Huang offered him an honorary elder position and a Purple-Gold Emblem, which he accepted.
• Xu Yingwu questioned Xiao Yan about gathering the pill’s escaping energy, then told him that important figures from the Heavenly Snake Mansion were in Tianlan City for the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly.
• After Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and their companion left the pavilion, Xu Yingwu hurried back to the Echo Sect and told Su Zhang that Xiao Yan’s alchemy techniques resembled his own.
• Su Zhang dropped his brush and ordered Xu Yingwu to take him to meet Xiao Yan at once.

Xiao Yan visited Qing Lin at the Heavenly Snake Mansion and offered to take her away, but Mansion Master Yang Yue refused. Before the dispute escalated, Su Zhang recognized Xiao Yan as the one who had refined a sixth-tier pill and asked him privately about Venerable Yao.

• At a meeting about the upcoming Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, Yang Yue and the elders debated whether Qing Lin should participate.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Xiao Xun'er and Zi Yan, and Qing Lin joyfully greeted him.
• When Qing Lin begged not to be left behind, Xiao Yan asked Yang Yue to let him take her away, and Yang Yue threatened to use force.
• Su Zhang burst into the hall searching for Yan Xiao, and Xu Yingwu introduced him to Xiao Yan.
• Su Zhang took Xiao Yan aside and asked whether Venerable Yao was well.

Su Zhang reunited with Yao Lao and revealed that Yao Lao’s old alchemy notes had guided him to become a master. After Yao Lao identified the flaws holding Su Zhang back, Yang Yue postponed his decision about Qing Lin until his old friend awakened.

• Xiao Yan grew wary when Su Zhang revealed that he knew about Yao Lao, but Su Zhang presented a carefully preserved booklet of alchemy notes.
• Yao Lao emerged, and Su Zhang recognized him as the Venerable who had once given him the notes while Su Zhang was a young attendant in the Pill Tower.
• Yao Lao advised Su Zhang that flaws in his divided-focus control and insufficient Dou Qi were keeping him from advancing beyond the sixth grade.
• Xiao Yan left Su Zhang to contemplate the advice, and Yang Yue acknowledged Xiao Yan’s strength and asked him to wait for his old friend to awaken before hearing his decision about Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan agreed to wait, while remaining prepared to take Qing Lin with him if she chose to leave.

Xiao Yan dealt with Zi Yan’s daily pill requests and Xu Yingwu’s questions about alchemy before witnessing Su Zhang emerge from seclusion as a Six-Star Dou Zong. Yao Lao accepted Su Zhang as his disciple, making him Xiao Yan’s Senior Brother and Xu Yingwu’s master, while Su Zhang gave Xiao Yan a Sappanwood Spirit Jade.

• Zi Yan collected her daily pills from Xiao Yan, including a Sixth-Grade Pill, then went to spend time with Xun Er.
• Xu Yingwu visited Xiao Yan to ask about alchemy, but their conversation was interrupted when Dou Qi surged toward Su Zhang’s room.
• Su Zhang emerged after ten days in seclusion and announced that he had advanced to Six-Star Dou Zong.
• Yao Lao accepted Su Zhang as his disciple, and Xiao Yan acknowledged him as Senior Brother.
• Su Zhang gave Xiao Yan a Sappanwood Spirit Jade and told Xu Yingwu that Xiao Yan was now his Martial Uncle.

Xiao Yan refused Yang Yue’s offer to take Qing Lin away for only ten years and vowed to win first place at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly to secure her freedom. After fifteen days of seclusion, he finished refining an Imperial Extreme Pill and prepared for the auction.

• Su Zhang told Yang Yue that Xiao Yan was his junior brother and credited Xiao Yan’s teacher with helping him break through to the seventh tier.
• Su Zhang invited Xiao Yan to visit the Echo Sect, then left with Xu Yingwu, who remained eager for Yao Lao’s guidance.
• Yang Yue offered to let Xiao Yan take Qing Lin away for ten years if he placed in the top three at the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, but Xiao Yan demanded first place and Qing Lin’s lasting freedom.
• In the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s Martial Arts Arena, Zi Yan sparred with Qing Lin’s Jade Blood Demon Python while Xiao Xun'er advised both girls on improving their skills.
• After fifteen days in seclusion, Xiao Yan refined an Imperial Extreme Pill and hoped the auction would be worthwhile.

Xiao Yan and his companions went to the auction held before the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly, where Xiao Yan clashed with the formidable Shi Meng. They joined Xu Yingwu’s father and Su Zhang in a VIP room as the auction crowd gathered.

• Xu Yingwu brought Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to the auction and described the valuable items and powerful guests it had attracted.
• Shi Meng challenged Xiao Yan with a forceful palm strike, but Xiao Yan’s Crimson Lotus Karma Flame injured Shi Meng as they exchanged blows.
• Xu Yingwu identified Shi Meng as a rival from Elephant Rhino Mountain and led the group to a VIP room.
• Xiao Yan met Xu Chengzze, who welcomed him and offered to let him charge any auction purchases to the Echo Sect.

Xiao Yan and his companions attended a grand auction hosted by Xue Ningyi, where rare pills drew fierce bidding. The auction ended the chapter with the unveiling of a pinnacle sixth-tier pill, the Qi Sea Spirit Returning Pill.

• Xiao Yan entered the packed grand auction hall with Xu Yingwu and Xu Chengzze and recognized that Xue Ningyi used a subtle charm technique.
• Xue Ningyi opened the auction with dozens of fourth-tier pills supplied by the Ten Thousand Medicines Pavilion, and the Earth Skin Pill sold for one million fifty thousand gold coins.
• The auction continued as Xiao Yan and Su Zhang discussed the pills, and Su Zhang's Imperial Extreme Pill sold for six million five hundred thousand gold coins.
• Xue Ningyi introduced the top-ranked Medicine Ranking Nomination pill, the pinnacle sixth-tier Qi Sea Spirit Returning Pill, which could replenish its user's Dou Qi for an entire day.

At the Ten Thousand Beasts Assembly auction, Xiao Yan’s Qi Sea Spirit Returning Pill drew fierce bidding from the Northwest Region’s great powers before the Mystic Pattern Sect bought it for sixteen million gold coins. As the auction continued, Su Zhang purchased more than a dozen items Xiao Yan liked, stopping only when Xiao Yan objected.

• Bidding on Xiao Yan’s Qi Sea Spirit Returning Pill climbed to ten million gold coins before VIP room number six, belonging to the Lion Underworld Sect, entered the auction.
• Xu Chengzze broke the deadlock by bidding twelve million gold coins, and the price continued rising until the Lion Underworld Sect offered fifteen million.
• Lu Zhi of the Mystic Pattern Sect bid sixteen million gold coins and secured the pill.
• Zi Yan told Xun Er and Xu Yingwu that she had once taught an ill-mannered Mystic Pattern Sect member a lesson.
• Su Zhang bought Xiao Yan more than a dozen items during the next three hours, then stopped when Xiao Yan explicitly objected.

Xiao Yan received the Blood Essence Demon Fruit from Xun Er, bringing Yao Lao’s resurrection closer. Yao Lao explained that one main ingredient and a Dou Zong corpse were still needed, while Xiao Yan resolved to find the remaining ingredient himself.

• Xiao Yan watched the auction with little interest while Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Xun Er sat with him in the VIP room.
• Xiao Yan held Xun Er’s hand and asked whether she wanted to buy him a gift, and she revealed she had obtained the Blood Essence Demon Fruit for him.
• Xiao Yan received the fruit and briefly let go of Xun Er’s hand, then held it again after she asked him not to let go.
• Yao Lao said that the Bone Chilling Flame, Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, and Sea Heart Flame could support his resurrection, but they still needed one main ingredient and a Dou Zong corpse.
• Xiao Yan resolved to search for the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine himself rather than rely on Xun Er to provide it.