Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan battled Tang Qiying after Tang activated the medicinal garden’s great formation, which gave him power comparable to more than ten peak Dou Zongs. Xiao Yan broke through the formation’s energy net to draw out a hidden Heavenly Luan Clan expert, who stopped the fight and was revealed as Tang Qiying’s teacher.

• Tang Qiying used the medicinal garden’s great formation to attack Xiao Yan with powerful elemental strikes.
• Xiao Yan shattered the attacks with the Wild Desolation Ruler, but Tang Qiying trapped him in a net of formation energy.
• Xiao Yan raised his strength to the peak of the nine-star Dou Zong realm and launched the Wild Desolation Ruler’s Shattering Abyss at the formation.
• Xiao Yan’s avatar broke the energy net, and Xiao Yan escaped as Tang Qiying lost his connection to the formation.
• A hidden middle-aged Heavenly Luan Clan expert appeared, calmed the battle, and was greeted by Tang Qiying as his teacher.

Chen Wei stopped Tang Qiying from seizing Xiao Yan and allowed Xiao Yan to explore the Heavenly Luan Clan’s medicinal garden. There, Xiao Yan discovered that miniature formations beneath the Green Autumn Fruit trees were responsible for their unusual quality.

• Chen Wei assessed Xiao Yan, rejected Tang Qiying’s accusations, and ordered him to escort Mu Qianxue away.
• Mu Qianxue’s eyes flashed black and white when Tang Qiying tried to take her hand, leaving him injured and unconscious.
• Chen Wei let Mu Qingluan take Mu Qianxue to find the Ancestor, then gave Xiao Yan permission to inspect the medicinal garden.
• Xiao Yan examined the Green Autumn Fruit trees and found miniature formations operating beneath them.

Xiao Yan examined Chen Wei’s medicinal garden formations and praised his skill, prompting Chen Wei to demonstrate their power and urge Xiao Yan to become his disciple. Xiao Yan remained loyal to Yao Lao, while Chen Wei argued that mastering formations could make him a world-changing figure.

• Xiao Yan studied the medicinal garden’s formations and determined that they absorbed water-attributed Dou Qi from the air and earth-attributed Dou Qi from underground.
• Chen Wei revealed that he had conceived the formations in both the medicinal garden and Treasure Mountain, and Xiao Yan praised him as a formation grandmaster.
• Chen Wei asked Xiao Yan to become his disciple, but Xiao Yan explained that he already had a teacher and could not abandon Yao Lao.
• Chen Wei formed a small formation that triggered the garden’s thirteen patterns, producing effects including rain, snow, magma, and radiant light.
• Chen Wei warned that Tang Qiying’s formation skills could make his odds against Xiao Yan even, then urged Xiao Yan to study formations and promised to cultivate him into a figure comparable to a ninth-tier alchemist.

Xiao Yan refused Chen Wei’s offer to teach him formations, choosing to focus on cultivation and alchemy. After discovering his wounds healed rapidly without pain, he became concerned that his body was changing beyond his control.

• Xiao Yan declined Chen Wei’s invitation to study formations, explaining that he lacked the time and needed to pursue greater strength.
• Chen Wei accepted Xiao Yan’s decision but told him he could seek him out if he changed his mind.
• Xiao Yan explored the herb garden, confirmed that formation-enhanced medicinal herbs were rare, and then joined Mu Qingluan after she came to collect him.
• Xiao Yan attended dinner with Mu Xinyuan and Mu Qingluan’s parents, then reflected on his family’s safety and his struggle against the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan tested his rapid healing by cutting his neck and arm with a dagger, discovering that his wounds closed quickly without pain or significant bleeding.

Xiao Yan discovered that injuries to his body were being transferred to his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body, which healed them slowly. Meanwhile, Chen Wei reprimanded Tang Qiying for provoking Mu Qianxue and gave him a formation blueprint to master within a month.

• Xiao Yan tested his rapidly healing wounds and realized that his injuries appeared as illusory marks on his avatar.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that the avatar gradually recovered as it absorbed the energy of heaven and earth, and continued testing the ability.
• Tang Qiying asked Chen Wei what had happened, and Chen Wei explained that Qianxue had made her move.
• Chen Wei rebuked Tang Qiying for provoking Mu Qianxue and warned that his ambitions and desire for control could endanger them both.
• Chen Wei gave Tang Qiying a formation blueprint and ordered him to comprehend and complete it within one month.

Xiao Yan tested the regenerative power of his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and discovered that it could take injuries in place of his true body. On the fourth day, he watched the Heavenly Luan Clan open the Young Luan Pool, and the clan’s members welcomed their Ancestor.

• Xiao Yan tested his clone by inflicting fatal wounds on himself and confirmed that it could withstand damage for him.
• Xiao Yan decided to seek the Yellow Spring Pavilion’s Heartblood Clay Puppet after settling matters with the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Mu Qingluan brought Xiao Yan out to watch the Heavenly Luan Clan’s five Dou Zun experts gather at dawn.
• Tang Qiying, Mu Jin, and the clan members took flight and formed a vast Dou Qi tornado above the mountain formation.
• The Heavenly Luan Clan patriarch directed the tornado into the formation, revealing the Young Luan Pool.
• The Heavenly Luan Clan members shouted together to welcome their Ancestor.

The Heavenly Luan Clan’s ancestor revealed power approaching the Dou Sheng realm, and Xiao Yan sensed that she had subtly affected him. At the Young Luan Pool, Mu Xinyuan named Xiao Yan as an additional alchemist to help the clan, drawing scorn from the five hired alchemists.

• The Heavenly Luan Clan’s ancestor appeared and controlled the energy across the clan’s territory before vanishing again.
• The Heavenly Luans placed their unhatched eggs into the Young Luan Pool, and the clan gathered there with the five hired alchemists.
• Mu Que welcomed the alchemists, while Mu Qingluan told Xiao Yan that Valley Master Tang had helped the clan in previous years.
• Mu Xinyuan announced that the clan had prepared an additional assistant, surprising Mu Que and the other elders.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward at Mu Xinyuan’s signal, and the five alchemists looked down on him for his youth.
• The fattest alchemist accused Xiao Yan of wanting the magic core badly enough to go mad.

The Heavenly Luan Clan brought Xiao Yan and five alchemists to a hidden cavern containing a Spirit Spring pool and a formation made from volcanic fusion crystals. Mu Que revealed that the alchemists were needed to charge the formation, though Xiao Yan recognized the pool’s value and the chapter left the formation’s full purpose unexplained.

• Huang Tu accused Xiao Yan of trying to swindle the Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core, while Mu Zi'er defended Xiao Yan.
• Bai Xun asked Mu Que to explain what the Heavenly Luan Clan needed, and Mu Que required everyone to keep the matter secret.
• Mu Que led the group through a passage filled with formations into a cavern containing a small pool and dozens of volcanic fusion crystals.
• Xiao Yan recognized the pool’s liquid as Spirit Spring water and realized the crystals formed a complex formation that channeled its mist into the Young Luan Pool.
• Mu Que asked the alchemists to charge the volcanic fusion crystal formation, and Chen Wei explained that doing so required high-quality flames.

Xiao Yan revealed his seventh-tier intermediate alchemist badge and a Dan Clan jade pendant after Bai Xun’s group dismissed him as useless. Bai Xun refused to let him join the effort to charge the Heavenly Luan Clan’s formation and revealed that his master was Venerable Yao, Yao Chen.

• Mu Que and Chen Wei explained how the thirty volcanic fusion crystals fed the formation, and Mu Que noted that Tang Zhen had previously charged it to crimson with the Nine Dragon Thunder Fire.
• Mu Xinyuan urged Bai Xun’s group to let Xiao Yan help, but the five alchemists laughed off the suggestion.
• Xiao Yan displayed his seventh-tier intermediate Alchemist Badge, silencing the group and surprising the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Huang Tu questioned the badge’s authenticity, so Xiao Yan showed a Dan Clan jade pendant to prove its origin.
• Bai Xun refused to include Xiao Yan despite Mu Que’s offer to negotiate the reward, claiming his group had a special Flame Gathering Method.
• Bai Xun revealed that his master and creator of the method was Venerable Yao, Yao Chen.

Bai Xun claimed that Venerable Yao was his master and said he had inherited Yao's legacy, convincing the Heavenly Luan Clan despite Xiao Yan knowing the story was false. As Bai Xun and four seventh-grade alchemists began charging a magic core, Xiao Yan waited for their attempt to fail so he could take over.

• Bai Xun named Venerable Yao as his master, shocking the Heavenly Luan Clan while Mu Qingluan struggled to hide her laughter and Xiao Yan recognized the lie.
• Xiao Yan asked where Venerable Yao was, and Bai Xun claimed his teacher had died and left behind an inheritance that he had found.
• The Heavenly Luan Clan accepted Bai Xun's explanation, and Mu Que and the four seventh-grade alchemists grew impressed by his supposed lineage.
• Bai Xun ordered Huang Tu and the other three alchemists to release their beast flames, then used his soul force to draw their flames together.
• Mu Qingluan asked Xiao Yan why he was waiting, and Xiao Yan said he would intervene if the others failed to charge the magic core.

Bai Xun used the Fire Gathering Method to combine five alchemists’ Beast Flames and charge the great array’s volcanic melt crystal. When the exhausted group stalled before the next stage, Bai Xun asked Xiao Yan for help, and Xiao Yan released his Red Lotus Core Flame.

• Bai Xun guided five Beast Flames into a stable rotation, increasing their heat and energy severalfold.
• The five alchemists began charging the volcanic melt crystal, and its orb core turned yellow after three hours.
• Bai Xun ordered the alchemists to pour in more Dou Qi, and after four more hours they had turned most of the core pale red but left a stubborn yellow patch.
• With the five alchemists nearly exhausted, Bai Xun pleaded with Xiao Yan to lend a hand and promised him all the Magic Cores.
• Xiao Yan warned Bai Xun that he might not be able to control his flame, then released the purple-red Red Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan took over charging the Heavenly Luan Clan’s grand formation after Bai Xun and the others lost control of their flames. His Red Lotus Core Flame rapidly advanced the charging, while Mu Que stopped Huang Tu from attacking him.

• Xiao Yan released the Red Lotus Core Flame, disrupting Bai Xun and the other four men’s beast flames and causing their combined flames to explode.
• Mu Que recognized Xiao Yan’s flame as a Heavenly Flame and asked him to complete the charging, promising the Heavenly Luan Clan would reward him.
• Xiao Yan sent the Red Lotus Core Flame toward the molten volcanic crystal, quickly clearing the stubborn yellow patch and turning the core from light red toward pure red.
• Mu Que realized Xiao Yan’s flame charged the formation faster than Tang Zhen’s Nine Dragon Thunder Fire and wondered whether it was the legendary first-ranked Heavenly Flame.
• Huang Tu attacked Xiao Yan from behind, but Mu Que intercepted him and hurled him into the stone wall.

Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flame to charge the grand formation far faster than the five alchemists could, while Mu Que learned more about Xiao Yan and the Ancestor’s interest in him. Bai Xun identified the flame as a Heavenly Flame and restrained the others from acting on their greed, as Xiao Yan continued charging the formation.

• Mu Que knocked Huang Tu unconscious after Huang Tu threatened Xiao Yan, then checked that he had not killed him.
• Mu Que questioned Mu Xinyuan about Xiao Yan and learned he was twenty-three and that the Ancestor had ordered the clan not to act rashly.
• Bai Xun identified Xiao Yan’s flame as a Heavenly Flame and warned the other alchemists that Xiao Yan had ties to the Dan Clan.
• The other alchemists remained covetous of Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame despite Bai Xun’s warning.
• Xiao Yan turned the core bead from light red to true red in less than an hour and continued charging the formation.

Xiao Yan charged the Heavenly Luan Clan’s formation far beyond the level anyone expected, bringing its core close to perfect charging before it stalled. As he appeared ready to stop, his flames suddenly changed into three colors, revealing that he wielded three Heavenly Flames.

• Xiao Yan continued charging the formation past the true-red stage, while Mu Que asked Chen Wei whether he could reach the final stage.
• Chen Wei judged perfect charging unlikely, and Mu Que regretted that the Heavenly Luan children might miss out on its benefits.
• Huang Tu feared Xiao Yan’s retaliation, while Bai Xun considered spreading word of Xiao Yan’s talent to get him killed by others.
• After two hours, Xiao Yan brought most of the spherical core to blackish red, but its transformation stalled with the upper tenth still unfinished.
• As Mu Que began telling Xiao Yan he could stop, Xiao Yan’s purplish-red flame transformed into blood red, sea blue, and crystalline green, startling the onlookers.

Xiao Yan used his three Heavenly Flames to complete and then push beyond the formation’s charging, astonishing the Heavenly Luan Clan before Mu Que stopped him from damaging it. After helping the clan, Xiao Yan received the two eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic cores he needed, while Bai Xun secretly resolved to kill him for his flames.

• Xiao Yan separated the Green Lotus Core Flame, Sea Heart Flame, and Crimson Lotus Karma Flame, drawing the Heavenly Luan Clan’s attention and shocking Mu Xinyuan, Tang Qiying, and Mu Zi'er.
• Bai Xun grew greedy for Xiao Yan’s three Heavenly Flames and decided that Xiao Yan had to die for the flames or the Bai Clan’s future.
• Xiao Yan used the three flames to break the formation’s final restraint, perfect the bead core, and activate the formation, then continued charging it until Mu Que asked him to stop.
• Xiao Yan recalled the flames into his body, accepted Mu Que’s thanks, and said Starfall Pavilion’s ties to the Heavenly Luan Clan made his help natural.
• Huang Tu and Bai Xun handed Xiao Yan the two magic cores he needed, but Xiao Yan stopped Mu Que from dismissing Bai Xun.

Xiao Yan confronted Bai Xun for falsely claiming to be Venerable Yao’s disciple and revealed that Yao Lao was alive and had personally taught him. Bai Xun denied the accusation and demanded that Yao Lao appear, while a mysterious figure arrived unnoticed.

• Xiao Yan questioned Bai Xun about claiming Venerable Yao as his master, and Bai Xun said he had inherited Yao Lao’s legacy without meeting him.
• Bai Xun told Xiao Yan that he had buried his benefactor and planned to inform Venerable Wind, but Xiao Yan revealed that Yao Lao was his teacher and was still alive.
• Mu Qingluan identified Xiao Yan as Yao Lao’s genuine disciple, and Mu Xinyuan and the Heavenly Luan Clan reacted with excitement and belief in Xiao Yan.
• Bai Xun accused Xiao Yan and the Dan Clan of framing him, then demanded that Yao Lao appear as proof.
• A figure silently appeared nearby without anyone noticing her arrival.

Mu Yaoyin, the Heavenly Luan Clan’s Saint-tier ancestor, exposed Bai Xun’s plan to steal Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames and killed him. She spared Bai Xun’s companions but sent them away with a message for the Pill Tower Bai Clan, then announced she would use the Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique the next day.

• Mu Yaoyin appeared before Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Luan Clan, and Xiao Yan thanked her for her assistance.
• Mu Yaoyin revealed Bai Xun’s thoughts and his plan to ambush Xiao Yan for a Heavenly Flame.
• Bai Xun tried to flee, but Mu Yaoyin killed him with a single strike that destroyed his body and soul.
• Huang Tu and the other three begged for mercy, and Mu Yaoyin ordered them to tell the Pill Tower Bai Clan to come seek revenge at the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Tang Qiying took the four men’s Storage Rings before they left, and Mu Yaoyin told Mu Que to prepare for the Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique the next day.

Mu Yaoyin decided to use the Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique, a secret art that could answer questions about the future but permanently blinded its user and allowed only five uses. She believed Xiao Yan’s arrival signaled the Heavenly Luan Clan’s chance to rise, and at dawn the next day, Xiao Yan witnessed the heavens and earth change color.

• Mu Qingluan explained to Xiao Yan that the Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique could reveal answers about the future at the cost of permanent blindness and eventual death.
• Mu Xinyuan and Mu Que begged Mu Yaoyin not to use the technique for Xiao Yan, while Chen Wei argued that Mu Yaoyin must have noticed something they had not.
• Mu Yaoyin recalled the clan’s devastating war with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan and said she had sensed that the Heavenly Luan Clan’s seclusion would not last forever.
• Mu Yaoyin declared that Xiao Yan’s arrival felt like the clan’s opportunity to replace the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and said she was willing to spend her fourth use of the technique for the clan.
• At dawn the next day, Xiao Yan witnessed the heavens and earth change color.

Mu Yaoyin used the Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique to glimpse the future of the Heavenly Luan Clan and Xiao Yan, but the vision rapidly drained her vitality. She returned to human form and named Xiao Yan the Lord of the Heavenly Luan, ordering the clan to serve him unto death.

• Mu Yaoyin transformed into her azure luan form and created a vast pattern to peer into the secrets of heaven.
• A translucent region appeared between the sun and moon, and Mu Yaoyin entered it to seek the future of her clan and Xiao Yan.
• Mu Yaoyin saw Xiao Yan in the Central Plains surrounded by multicolored flames and facing several figures, while the light sustaining her vision rapidly faded.
• Mu Yaoyin slowed the fading light with a piercing luan cry, then ended the divination and returned to human form as her vitality waned.
• Mu Yaoyin declared Xiao Yan the Lord of the Heavenly Luan and commanded every clan member to serve him unto death.

Mu Yaoyin declared that the Heavenly Luan Clan would recognize Xiao Yan as its master, leaving Xiao Yan and the clan stunned. The clan members accepted her decision, though Tang Qiying concealed his resentment, and Xiao Yan asked Mu Yaoyin why she had chosen him.

• Mu Yaoyin announced that the entire Heavenly Luan Clan would recognize Xiao Yan as their master, shocking the clan and Xiao Yan.
• Mu Qingluan marveled at the future Mu Yaoyin must have foreseen, while Xiao Yan suggested there might have been a misunderstanding.
• Mu Yaoyin knelt before Xiao Yan and swore the clan’s loyalty, followed by Mu Que and the other clan leaders.
• Tang Qiying reluctantly knelt with the others, hiding his anger and jealousy over Xiao Yan’s new authority.
• After Mu Yaoyin ordered the clan members to rise at Xiao Yan’s request, Xiao Yan asked why she had made the decision.