Chapter Summaries

Yan Di used his Great Flame Sun Art to transform into a flaming three-legged crow and tried to destroy the Flame Clan’s spatial passage, forcing the Soul Hall’s Holy Lord to reveal himself. The Holy Lord suppressed Yan Di, who met him with mockery.

• Sacrificial Spirit Heavenly Venerate chased Yan Di and joined Venerable Hui You in trying to block him.
• Yan Di swallowed fire-energy liquid and entered the blazing sun, transforming it into a flaming three-legged crow with the Great Flame Sun Art—Flame Sun Burns Heaven.
• The flaming three-legged crow struck the spatial passage, threatening to destroy it.
• The black-robed Holy Lord descended and suppressed the crow with one hand.
• Yan Di looked at the Holy Lord and said that he had finally acted.

Yan Di sacrificed himself to teleport Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian away from a Soul Clan ambush, leaving their destination unknown. Sacred Lord Hun Huang ordered his subordinates to report the failure, erase the evidence, and hunt down the fugitives.

• Yan Di sent Xiao Yan and the others through space, gave Xiao Yan a storage ring, and remembered Huo Zhi growing up under his protection.
• The Soul Clan Dou Saint demanded to know where the group had gone, but Yan Di refused to reveal their destination.
• Yan Di explained that he had burned his body and soul to protect Huo Zhi and preserve the spatial passage, then died before the Soul Clan Dou Saint could save him.
• The Soul Clan Dou Saint reduced Yan Di's remains to dust and condemned Sacrificial Spirit Heavenly Venerate and Venerable Hui You for failing.
• Sacred Lord Hun Huang ordered Sacrificial Spirit Heavenly Venerate to report to the Hall Master and hunt the fugitives, while Venerable Hui You erased the traces of the ambush.

After Yan Di sacrificed himself to teleport Xiao Yan and the others away, Xiao Yan tried to keep the critically injured Xiao Yi Xian alive. Her life force stabilized, but the Woeful Poison Body remained an urgent threat as the group continued through space without Yan Di.

• Huo Zhi realized Yan Di had sacrificed himself, and Xiao Yan knocked her unconscious during the teleportation.
• Xiao Yan assessed Xiao Yi Xian and found her heart and other organs gravely damaged while the Woeful Poison Body prevented him from healing her with Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan used a seventh-tier Life-Returning Pill and a sixth-tier Blood Source Pill to treat Xiao Yi Xian.
• The pills stabilized Xiao Yi Xian's life force and restored her blood, but the Woeful Poison Body continued to endanger her mind and body.

Xiao Yan and his companions were swept into a spatial storm while traveling toward the Central Plains. After Zi Yan’s barrier was shattered, Xiao Yan sent Zi Yan and Huo Zhi out of the storm, but he and Xiao Yi Xian remained trapped inside.

• Xiao Yan examined Yan Di’s storage ring and found the Green Lotus Core Flame, looking forward to combining it with his other Heavenly Flames.
• The spatial passage trembled, and Xiao Yan and Zi Yan discovered a spatial storm blocking their route.
• Zi Yan transformed into her adult dragon form and shielded Xiao Yan, Huo Zhi, and Xiao Yi Xian as they charged through the storm.
• Huo Zhi woke and warned the others about the danger, but a surge of spatial power shattered Zi Yan’s barrier and scattered them.
• Xiao Yan used Blow Fire Palm to send Zi Yan and Huo Zhi out of the storm, leaving himself and Xiao Yi Xian exposed to its spatial energy.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian escaped the spatial storm into a magma-filled region, where Xiao Yan tried to treat her injuries. He discovered that the Woeful Poison Body had nearly overwhelmed Xiao Yi Xian, leaving her condition critical and its treatment uncertain.

• Xiao Yan used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire and his Soul Power to guide Xiao Yi Xian toward the spatial barrier, then shoved her out before the storm blasted him through after her.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian landed in a sea of magma, and Xiao Yan found no trace of Huo Zhi or Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian seventh-tier and sixth-tier medicinal pills, then sat down to recover his depleted Dou Qi and burn away spatial power inside his body.
• An hour later, Xiao Yan noticed purple poisonous gas seeping from Xiao Yi Xian and found that the Woeful Poison Body was absorbing medicinal power and Dou Qi while spreading through her body.
• Xiao Yan realized Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body had reached a dangerous stage beyond the treatment method he had learned from Yao Lao.

Xiao Yan used two sixth-tier healing pills and Crimson Lotus Karma Flame to stabilize Xiao Yi Xian’s life-threatening injuries, then broke through to Dou Zong. When Xiao Yi Xian woke and attacked on instinct, Xiao Yan tried to escape into the magma, but a streak of gray light swept toward him.

• Xiao Yan carefully transferred medicinal liquid into Xiao Yi Xian’s mouth while using Crimson Lotus Karma Flame to clear poison and protect her heart.
• Xiao Yan treated Xiao Yi Xian with a second sixth-tier pill, and her breathing gradually steadied.
• Xiao Yan suppressed his weakened state and broke through from nine-star Dou Emperor to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yi Xian suddenly woke and attacked Xiao Yan while still acting on instinct.
• Xiao Yan dodged her poison-wreathed strikes and entered the magma, but a streak of gray light swept toward him.

Xiao Yan struggled to contain Xiao Yi Xian’s poison and the two loose Heavenly Flames in the magma chamber, then swallowed the Sea Heart Flame and began refining it. As the process continued, Xiao Yi Xian grabbed him, leaving him to hold her down and kiss her while the flame burned within him.

• Xiao Yi Xian attacked Xiao Yan, and her poisonous gas corroded his hand and shattered the storage rings holding the Sea Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the Sea Heart Flame and fought Xiao Yi Xian with the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, while the restrictions on the loose Heavenly Flames began to fail.
• Xiao Yan struck Xiao Yi Xian with the Mountain Opening Seal, igniting her heartfire and making her fall from the air.
• Xiao Yan drank Cold Spring Earth Milk and swallowed the Sea Heart Flame, which the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame surrounded as he began refining it.
• Xiao Yi Xian grabbed Xiao Yan during the refinement, and he pinned her down and kissed her to keep her from attacking.

While Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame in the magma, Xiao Yi Xian's poisonous aura broke the restriction on the Green Lotus Core Flame and triggered a chain of dangerous changes. Seven-colored light then healed them both, purified the medicinal energies they had absorbed, and drew the Green Lotus Core Flame into Xiao Yan to merge with his other Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan restrained Xiao Yi Xian while the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame stirred her heartfire, allowing him to continue refining the Sea Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian's poisonous aura damaged the Green Lotus Core Flame's restriction, and its heat caused Xiao Yan's storage rings to fail and spill their contents into the magma.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame melted the herbs and pills into a multicolored medicinal liquid that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian unconsciously absorbed.
• Seven-colored light emerged from Xiao Yan, healed both of them, separated and purified the mixed medicinal energies, and extinguished Xiao Yi Xian's heartfire.
• The seven-colored light compressed Xiao Yi Xian's poison into her dantian and restored her consciousness as the Green Lotus Core Flame entered Xiao Yan and began merging with his other Heavenly Flames.

Qing Lin cultivated with Little Cold in the Nine Serene Cold Spring and advanced to Two-Star Dou Zun over three years. After emerging, she reunited with Xun'er, who praised her remarkable progress while leaving her secret unexplained.

• Xun'er watched Qing Lin and Little Cold cultivate in the Nine Serene Cold Spring, where their powers complemented each other.
• Qing Lin grew stronger as the spring's cold energy refined her Dou Qi and deepened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Little Cold also advanced, and Qing Lin summoned the python into the space within her pupils.
• Qing Lin emerged from the spring and told Xun'er she was ready.
• Xun'er praised Qing Lin's rise from a new Dou Huang to Two-Star Dou Zun in three years, and Qing Lin credited the spring while Xun'er noted that it could not explain all her progress.

Qing Lin and Xun Er worried over Xiao Yan’s absence while he awakened from a long slumber as an eight-star Dou Zong, having successfully fused three Heavenly Flames into the Red Lotus Core Flame. He reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, who had recovered, and learned that his belongings had been destroyed in the magma.

• Qing Lin asked Xun Er for news of Xiao Yan, and Xun Er said he had not appeared in the Central Plains for over two years.
• Xun Er comforted Qing Lin by saying Xiao Yan would make a name for himself, unaware that he had just awakened.
• Xiao Yan rose from the magma as an eight-star Dou Zong and discovered that the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, Sea Heart Flame, and Green Lotus Core Flame had fused into the Red Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian meditating nearby and saw that she had regained her senses.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the magma had destroyed his storage rings and most of his resources, while Xiao Yi Xian gave him a ring containing clothes.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi Xian how long she had been awake, and she said she had awakened about a month before him.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian woke with no clear memory of how they had survived, and Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had advanced to a two-star Dou Zun. Xiao Yan gave her the Poison Pill Method to resolve the remaining dangers of her Woeful Poison Body, but its final requirement seemed nearly impossible.

• Xiao Yan offered to take responsibility for what had happened between them, but Xiao Yi Xian suggested they pretend nothing happened and guessed that he had a girlfriend named Xun Er.
• Xiao Yi Xian said the poison in her mind had been dissolved, though her Woeful Poison Body remained only temporarily suppressed and could still spread.
• Xiao Yan found a surviving scroll and gave Xiao Yi Xian the Poison Pill Method, which could eliminate the hidden dangers and let her use her Woeful Poison Body without restraint.
• Xiao Yi Xian identified the method's requirements as a seventh-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core, Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, and three Heavenly Flames used at the same time.

Xiao Yan revealed that he could provide the three Heavenly Flames needed to help Xiao Yi Xian control her Woeful Poison Body. Xiao Yi Xian recounted how her power and loss of control had led to countless deaths, and explained that the Jia Ma Empire’s sudden moves had triggered the crisis that drove her to force her strength higher.

• Xiao Yan displayed three Heavenly Flames, reassuring Xiao Yi Xian that they could pursue a way to control her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked how many people she had killed, and Xiao Yan told her that Jia Ma Empire estimates put the death toll at around five hundred thousand.
• Xiao Yi Xian described losing control after advancing to Dou Ling and poisoning everyone in the village where an elderly couple had taken her in, including the couple and a newborn child.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that she later founded the Poison Sect in the Chuyun Empire and became known as the Heavenly Poison Maiden.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the Jia Ma Empire’s strike against the Mad Wolf Gang and Yun Shan’s emergence pushed Chuyun’s factions toward war, so she forcibly raised her strength and lost control of her mind.

Xiao Yan explained to Xiao Yi Xian how his past actions had triggered her cultivation crisis, easing her guilt and renewing their friendship. After leaving the magma, they searched the desert for Zi Yan and Huo Zhi but found no trace of them, so they decided to head to Tianbei City.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian how the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame had led him to attack Misty Cloud Sect and slaughter the Mad Wolf Gang, incidents that had triggered her cultivation going out of control.
• Xiao Yi Xian recalled their promise from the Magic Beast Mountain Range and asked Xiao Yan to help her save more people, and he agreed.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the magma into a desert and began searching for Zi Yan and Huo Zhi.
• After days of searching without finding the two women, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian decided to visit Tianbei City to seek information and continue their plans.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian discovered a human convoy being overwhelmed by snake-like magical beasts in a gorge. A three-star Dou Emperor wielding a battle axe arrived to fight their leader, Xia Mang, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian entered a gorge on the road to Tianbei City after sensing a fight inside.
• Xiao Yan saw Xia Mang, a six-star Dou Emperor, toy with and injure a young woman while his snake swarm threatened her convoy.
• Xiao Yi Xian prepared to intervene, but Xiao Yan stopped her because another fighter was approaching.
• A three-star Dou Emperor armed with a battle axe attacked Xia Mang and challenged him to a fight.
• The axe-wielding man used unusual footwork to evade Xia Mang's attacks and repeatedly wounded him.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian watched the battle before Xia Mang tried to seize Han Xue, but Xiao Yi Xian poisoned him and Xiao Yan’s flames burned him to ashes. After Xiao Yi Xian treated the caravan’s wounded, the young axe-wielding Dou Emperor asked Xiao Yan if he was Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian remarked on the young Dou Emperor’s unusual movement technique as he fought Xia Mang.
• Xia Mang suddenly abandoned the fight and lunged for Han Xue, but Xiao Yi Xian’s poison spread through his hand and forced him to cut it off.
• Xia Mang fled, but purplish-red flames erupted from his body and burned him to ashes, leaving his magical core for Xiao Yan.
• Han Xue thanked Xiao Yan and the young Dou Emperor, while Xiao Yi Xian distributed medicine and instructions to the caravan’s injured.
• The young axe-wielding Dou Emperor asked Xiao Yan whether he was Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian joined Han Xue and Lin Yan on the journey to Tianbei City, where Xiao Yan learned about the Central Plains’ major powers and spoke with Han Family guard Han Chong. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan realizing he had no pills to give Han Chong after learning the guard had been stuck at the peak of the Dou Ling realm for five years.

• Lin Yan recognized Xiao Yan as the Jia Nan Academy powerhouse who had defeated Zi Yan, and Han Xue invited Xiao Yan and his companions to Tianbei City.
• Xiao Yan agreed to travel with the Han Family convoy, while Xiao Yi Xian and Han Xue rode in Han Xue’s carriage and Xiao Yan chatted with the guards.
• Han Chong told Xiao Yan about the Central Plains’ dominant forces, including Soul Hall, Pill Tower, the Two Sects, Three Valleys, and Four Pavilions.
• Xiao Yan learned that Han Chong had been stuck at the peak of the Dou Ling realm for five years and tried to offer him pills, but discovered his Storage Ring had none.

Xiao Yan accepted Han Chong’s offer to visit the Han Family in Tianbei City after learning about its rivalry with the Hong Family. When Hong Family elders ambushed the convoy to seize Han Xue, Xiao Yi Xian swiftly incapacitated them and their forces.

• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Yan a jade bottle, which he passed to Han Chong as medicine to help him advance to Dou Wang.
• Han Chong told Xiao Yan that the Hong Family had surpassed the Han Family with support from the Wind Lightning Pavilion, and that Hong Chen intended to marry both Han Family young ladies.
• Xiao Yan agreed to rest at the Han Family, but Hong Mu and Hong Lie blocked the convoy and demanded that Han Xue come with them.
• Hong Lie attacked Han Xue, and Xiao Yi Xian appeared behind her to catch her fall.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned the Hong Family forces to leave within ten breaths, then caused them all to collapse before they could attack.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Han Xue that the two Hong Family elders were alive and that there was no need to collect the other attackers’ corpses.

Xiao Yi Xian killed the Hong Family experts who had tried to force Han Xue into marriage, then considered Han Xue’s request to learn poison. After the Han Family convoy reached Tianbei City, Han Lin welcomed them and offered to obtain whatever medicinal ingredients Xiao Yi Xian needed.

• Xiao Yi Xian poisoned the Hong Family experts, and the Han Family took Hong Mu and Hong Lie away while leaving the other survivors untouched.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi Xian why she had acted, and she explained that she could not hold back after seeing the Hong Family try to force Han Xue into marriage.
• Han Xue asked Xiao Yi Xian to teach her poison, and Xiao Yi Xian told her to think carefully before deciding to become a Poison Master.
• Xiao Yan entered Tianbei City with the Han Family convoy and noticed the family’s influence there.
• Han Lin greeted Han Xue and showed interest in Xiao Yi Xian, who asked where she could buy medicinal ingredients.

Xiao Yan's group arrived at the Han Family estate and found Hong Chen pressuring the family into a wagered battle. Han Yue accepted his challenge to protect Han Xue, and Han Xue returned claiming she had found someone who could defeat him.

• Han Lin brought Xiao Yan's group to the Han Family estate, where they learned that Hong Chen and the Hong Family had come to provoke the Han Family.
• Hong Chen revealed he had become an inner disciple of the Wind Lightning North Pavilion and demanded that Han Xue and Han Yue marry him.
• Hong Chen wagered that the Han Family would have ten years of peace if a younger fighter defeated him in three days, but that otherwise Han Xue and Han Yue would be his.
• Han Yue accepted the challenge on the condition that only she would marry Hong Chen if her side lost, and admitted she did not expect to defeat him.
• Han Xue returned and told Han Chi and Han Yue that she had found someone who could defeat Hong Chen.

Xiao Yan and his companions stayed with the Han Family after helping Han Xue, and Han Chi offered to gather the rare medicinal ingredients Xiao Yan needed. Xiao Yan’s blunt dismissal of the Han Family’s fifth-tier alchemist Zhu Gan left the two men at odds.

• Han Yue recognized Xiao Yan as the person who had taken Zi Yan away, and Han Xue explained how Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Lin Yan had helped her against Xia Mang and the Hong Family.
• Han Chi thanked the three guests and invited them to stay while the Han Family gathered medicinal ingredients and looked into information for them.
• Xiao Yan accepted Han Chi’s offer, and Lin Yan agreed to stay with the Han Family as well.
• Xiao Yan handed Han Chi a list of medicinal ingredients, but said Zhu Gan could not help with what he needed.
• Zhu Gan challenged Xiao Yan’s judgment, studied the list, and demanded to know who had written it; Xiao Yan told him to gather the ingredients himself, prompting Han Chi to worry about the tension.