Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan learned why Mu Yaoyin had used her Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique on him and struggled to accept the Heavenly Luan Clan’s decision to acknowledge him as their master. The chapter ended when Mu Qingluan brought him a cracked communication jade, signaling that Soul Hall had threatened the Starfall Pavilion.

• Mu Que warned Xiao Yan that Mu Yaoyin could die if she revealed what she had seen of the future, and Mu Yaoyin agreed to answer only what she could safely discuss.
• Mu Qingluan urged Mu Yaoyin to explain the situation in private, and the group moved to the council hall, where Mu Yaoyin insisted that Xiao Yan take the seat of honor.
• Mu Yaoyin told Xiao Yan that she had sensed an unfamiliar aura around him and used her fourth Luan Eye Heaven-Peering Technique after observing him for several days.
• Mu Qingluan rushed into the council hall with Xiao Yan’s cracked communication jade and warned him that the situation was dire.
• Xiao Yan realized that Soul Hall had threatened the Starfall Pavilion only a little over ten days after he left the Wind Lightning Pavilion.

Xiao Yan enlisted the Heavenly Luan Clan to rush to Starfall Pavilion, where five Dou Zuns from the Soul Hall threatened to destroy it unless Feng Xian surrendered Xiao Yan and the Woeful Poison Body. The clan set out using Luan Wind Ten Thousand Miles, but the attackers were already gathered outside Starfall Pavilion.

• Xiao Yan learned Starfall Pavilion was in danger and asked the Heavenly Luan Clan to help rescue it.
• Mu Yaoyin pledged the clan's aid and said Luan Wind Ten Thousand Miles could carry them to Starfall Pavilion in half a day.
• Mu Yaoyin ordered Mu Zhao to guard the clan while she and four others prepared to accompany Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan reassured Mu Qingluan before the group transformed into green luans and flew toward Starfall Pavilion.
• Five Dou Zuns surrounded Starfall Pavilion and demanded that Feng Xian surrender Xiao Yan and the Woeful Poison Body or face its destruction.

Ice Venerable Bing He led Ice River Valley, Wind Lightning Pavilion, and Yellow Spring Pavilion in an assault on Starfall Pavilion to seize Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian. With Venerable Spirit Wood withdrawing and the defenses under attack, Venerable Wind and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to defend the pavilion until Xiao Yan returned.

• Ice Venerable Bing He demanded Xiao Yan and the Woeful Poison Body, while Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring joined him in declaring war on Starfall Pavilion.
• Venerable Wind returned to the pavilion with Xiao Yi Xian, Iron Sword Venerable, and Venerable Spirit Wood, then told them they could leave if they wished.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Iron Sword Venerable chose to stay, but Venerable Spirit Wood departed and told Ice Venerable he would not oppose him.
• Ice Venerable ordered his forces to attack Starfall Pavilion's defenses, while Venerable Wind warned his remaining allies to escape if the situation became hopeless.
• Xiao Yi Xian refused to leave, saying she would guard Starfall Pavilion because Xiao Yan had called it his home.

Xiao Yan rushed with the Heavenly Luan Clan toward Starfall Pavilion after Venerable Wind’s warning showed the crisis was worse than expected. He arrived at the Sky Star Mountain Range only to find the Soul Hall’s Fourth and Fifth Heavenly Venerates blocking the way.

• Venerable Wind ordered Starfall Pavilion to prepare for the allied forces of Ice River Valley, Wind Lightning Pavilion, and Yellow Spring Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan’s jade token shattered during the journey, signaling that Venerable Wind had told him not to come, but Xiao Yan continued toward Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan used the Soul-Turning Secret Technique to convert his Dou Qi into soul power, temporarily raising it to a level that could contend with a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan and the Heavenly Luan Clan reached the Sky Star Mountain Range and sensed Starfall Pavilion’s fierce battle.
• The Soul Hall’s Fifth Heavenly Venerate, the Sacrificial Spirit Venerable, and the Fourth Heavenly Venerate appeared to bar their way.

Mu Que fought the Soul Hall's Fourth Heavenly Venerate, Blood River, and overwhelmed his blood tide with a powerful saber strike. As the Soul Hall tried to reach Xiao Yan, Chen Wei trapped the Fifth Heavenly Venerate in an array, and Mu Yaoyin warned Xiao Yan that only Mu Xinyuan and Mu Zi'er could protect him from then on.

• Mu Que challenged Blood River and split apart the Fourth Heavenly Venerate's crimson tide with his saber, leaving him badly shaken.
• Sacrificial Spirit Heavenly Venerate reminded Blood River that the Soul Hall's mission was to capture Xiao Yan, but Blood River charged at Mu Que again after being provoked.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerate moved to seize Xiao Yan, while Chen Wei appeared to block him.
• The Fifth Heavenly Venerate's attacks seemed to destroy Chen Wei, but he became trapped in an ancient array as more formations formed around him.
• Mu Yaoyin told Xiao Yan that Mu Xinyuan and Mu Zi'er would have to protect him from there on.

Xiao Yan hurried toward Starfall Pavilion with Mu Zi'er and Mu Xinyuan while Mu Yaoyin stayed behind to face Soul Hall’s hidden Dou Sheng, Soul Qing Saint. The battle stalled, and Soul Qing Saint insisted that the outcome would be decided without their intervention.

• Xiao Yan realized Soul Hall likely had a Dou Sheng waiting in ambush and rushed toward Starfall Pavilion with Mu Zi'er and Mu Xinyuan.
• Mu Yaoyin summoned Soul Qing Saint from hiding after Xiao Yan and the others departed.
• Blood River and Ji Ling paid their respects to Soul Qing Saint, who greeted Mu Yaoyin as his senior and invited her to join Soul Hall.
• Mu Yaoyin rejected Soul Qing Saint’s offer and attacked him, while Mu Que and Chen Wei engaged Blood River and Ji Ling.
• The Fifth Venerable called on Soul Qing Saint to help with their mission, but Soul Qing Saint said the battle would reach its outcome without them acting.

Xiao Yi Xian was driven to the brink by Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring as Starfall Pavilion struggled against the invading factions. When she unleashed the Woeful Poison Body, Xiao Yan arrived just in time to tell her to hold on.

• Ice Venerable, Venerable Lei, and Venerable Yellow Spring pressed their attacks while Starfall Pavilion's fighters were pushed toward defeat.
• Venerable Lei urged Xiao Yi Xian to surrender, while Venerable Yellow Spring taunted her about Xiao Yan's absence.
• Nearly out of Dou Qi, Xiao Yi Xian decided to stop suppressing her Woeful Poison Body and release its power.
• Venerable Lei mistook Xiao Yi Xian's transformation for a self-destruction attempt and struck her, but his attack failed to harm her.
• Xiao Yan arrived behind Xiao Yi Xian and told her to hold on to her consciousness.

Xiao Yan arrived to rescue the severely injured Xiao Yi Xian and temporarily suppressed her Woeful Poison Body. After sending her to safety, he faced Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring and unleashed the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire to fight them.

• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian badly injured and used the Heavenly Flames to suppress her Woeful Poison Body long enough to stabilize her.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Yi Xian aside with his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body and told Mu Xinyuan to support Venerable Wind while he faced Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring.
• Mu Xinyuan left Xiao Yan to help Venerable Wind, while Mu Zi'er continued fighting Ice River Valley's two Dou Zuns and Mu Xinyuan faced Ice Venerable.
• Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring attacked Xiao Yan, who raised his aura to half-step Dou Zun with the first two changes of the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the third change, Red Lotus Change, and vowed to kill Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring.

Xiao Yan unleashed his full power against Venerable Yellow Spring and Venerable Lei, overwhelming them with a series of attacks. As Venerable Yellow Spring launched a desperate counterattack, Xiao Yan confronted him with the devouring power of his right hand.

• Venerable Yellow Spring and Venerable Lei dismissed Xiao Yan's apparent rise in strength until Xiao Yan shattered Venerable Yellow Spring's protective Dou Qi and sent him flying with a single punch.
• Xiao Yan attacked Venerable Lei with flames, then used a black vortex to absorb both the flames and Venerable Lei's lightning.
• Venerable Lei raised his power and formed a lightning sphere, but Xiao Yan slipped through it and struck him with the Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Overturning Seal.
• Venerable Yellow Spring recovered and attacked Xiao Yan from behind, but the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame ignited within him and Xiao Yan's soul power exposed his stealth.
• Venerable Yellow Spring unleashed dark cross-shaped energy blades as Xiao Yan appeared before him with a black vortex spinning in his right hand.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Venerable Yellow Spring with his soul power and relentless attacks while Venerable Lei tried to intervene. The chapter left Xiao Yan closing in on Yellow Spring after devouring Venerable Lei’s thunder dragon and unleashing the Red Lotus Core Flame.

• Xiao Yan absorbed Venerable Yellow Spring’s attack and crushed him with a powerful surge of soul energy.
• Venerable Yellow Spring launched Yellow Spring Phantom Kill, but the two Venerables’ attacks left him injured and Xiao Yan pressing forward.
• Venerable Lei warned Yellow Spring to avoid direct clashes and sent Thundercloud Dragon Gathering to stop Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan ignored the thunder dragon, used Void Devours Heaven to swallow Venerable Lei’s attack, and continued toward Yellow Spring.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Red Lotus Core Flame at Venerable Yellow Spring as he ran out of room to escape.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Venerable Yellow Spring and wounded Venerable Lei with relentless attacks, though both opponents believed he had exhausted himself. He reappeared with a three-colored flame lotus and vowed to finish them.

• Xiao Yan engulfed Venerable Yellow Spring in a firestorm and defeated him with a powerful Soul Power attack.
• Xiao Yan shattered Venerable Lei’s lightning clones and struck at his main body with successive ruler techniques.
• Venerable Lei pierced Xiao Yan’s chest, but Xiao Yan used the opening to hit him with the Sea Overturning Seal at close range.
• Venerable Lei fell from the sky badly wounded as Xiao Yan was struck by lightning, while Venerable Yellow Spring escaped the flames.
• Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring regrouped and assumed Xiao Yan had run out of strength, but Xiao Yan appeared holding a three-colored flame lotus and threatened them.

Xiao Yan unleashed a Three-Colored Fire Lotus against Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring, then redirected its flames into the allied forces besieging Starfall Pavilion. The attack devastated the enemy formation, but the two Dou Zuns survived, and Xiao Yan rushed to press his advantage as his own strength neared its limit.

• Xiao Yan trapped Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring with a black devouring vortex and sent a Three-Colored Fire Lotus after them.
• Xiao Yan guided the fire waves into the allied forces of the three factions, killing dozens and destroying their formation while Starfall Pavilion's fighters seized the opportunity to counterattack.
• Xiao Yan felt his body weakening as the Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body approached its limit, which threatened to end his ability to fight at the Dou Zun realm.
• Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring emerged from the flames alive; Venerable Lei was badly burned and weakened, while Venerable Yellow Spring's Heartblood Clay Puppet had been destroyed.
• Xiao Yan shot down toward the injured Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring to continue his attack.

Xiao Yan relentlessly pursued Venerable Lei and refused his pleas for mercy after Venerable Lei admitted the Wind Lightning Pavilion would withdraw. Xiao Yan killed Venerable Lei, then turned his attention to the fleeing Venerable Yellow Spring.

• Xiao Yan struck Venerable Lei and Venerable Yellow Spring with his Soul Power, leaving both badly injured.
• Venerable Lei offered to withdraw and provide compensation, but Xiao Yan demanded his head because he had hurt her.
• Venerable Yellow Spring fled instead of helping Venerable Lei, and Xiao Yan reignited the heartfire inside Venerable Lei.
• Xiao Yan used the Mountain Opening Seal and Sea Overturning Seal to break Venerable Lei's defenses, then destroyed his soul with the Red Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan tracked the fleeing Venerable Yellow Spring and swung his flame-wreathed ruler at him from afar.

Xiao Yan unleashed his final ruler attack against Venerable Yellow Spring, but the latter survived until Xiao Yi Xian’s poison took effect. With Venerable Yellow Spring and the Wind Lightning Pavilion forces retreating, Xiao Yan collapsed from his injuries and exhaustion, and Xiao Yi Xian tended to him.

• Xiao Yan used Sovereign's Descent, but Venerable Yellow Spring’s defensive technique let him withstand the ruler shadows.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body paralyzed Venerable Yellow Spring, allowing the remaining ruler shadows to destroy his body.
• Venerable Yellow Spring’s soul fled, and he ordered the Yellow Spring Pavilion to retreat; the Wind Lightning Pavilion also withdrew after Venerable Lei’s death.
• Xiao Yan collapsed from exhaustion after watching the enemies leave, and Xiao Yi Xian supported him and eased his pain.

Xiao Yan recovered enough to reunite with Xiao Yi Xian as the battle around Starfall Pavilion shifted after Venerable Lei died and Venerable Yellow Spring fled badly injured. Ice Venerable continued fighting Mu Xinyuan and demanded Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan, but Mu Xinyuan refused to hand them over.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan she had temporarily controlled her Woeful Poison Body with the Heavenly Flames and had prepared her earlier attack in advance.
• Xiao Yan said his desperate fight had changed the wider battle, while Xiao Yi Xian hid her pleased reaction and urged him to stand on his own.
• Wind Lightning Pavilion and Yellow Spring Pavilion retreated, while Ice River Valley and Starfall Pavilion held their positions and waited for the Dou Zun battles to end.
• Mu Zi'er struggled to hold off two Ice River Valley Dou Zuns, while Ice Venerable gained the advantage against Mu Xinyuan and Venerable Wind in their separate fights.
• Ice Venerable unleashed his peak five-star Dou Zun strength and offered to leave if Mu Xinyuan surrendered Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan.
• Mu Xinyuan refused to give up the people he intended to protect.

Ice Venerable overwhelmed Mu Xinyuan and Venerable Wind as he closed in on Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian. With Xiao Yan unable to fight, Xiao Yi Xian stepped forward to surrender herself, but Xiao Yan stopped her and warned that her uncontrolled Woeful Poison Body would kill her.

• Ice Venerable froze Mu Xinyuan with a sneak attack, while Mu Zi'er was wounded and kept from reaching him by two Ice River Valley elders.
• Venerable Wind tried to hold Ice Venerable back and urged Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to run, but Ice Venerable broke through the tornado and struck him down.
• Ice Venerable approached Xiao Yi Xian and promised not to hurt her, intent on taking her because of her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian clasped Xiao Yan's hand and stepped forward to protect him, but Xiao Yan stopped her and warned that her uncontrolled Woeful Poison Body would kill her.

Mu Que struck Ice Venerable with a devastating blade, and Ice Venerable escaped after losing his right arm. With the Heavenly Luan Clan now involved, Ice River Valley could no longer safely threaten Starfall Pavilion, while Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body remained difficult to suppress.

• Mu Que attacked Ice Venerable with a massive blade strike that tore through the sky and endangered the battlefield.
• Ice Venerable used his Ice Venerable Strength to raise an ice wall, then called on the Ice River Valley disciples to form the Ice River Freezing Heaven Formation.
• Ice Snake gathered the disciples’ Dou Qi into a river of frost that helped Ice Venerable resist Mu Que’s attack temporarily.
• Mu Que’s hidden blade intent broke through Ice Venerable’s defense and severed his right arm.
• Ice Venerable fled through a spatial rift with the Ice River Valley members, abandoning his attempt to obtain the Woeful Poison Body.
• Mu Yaoyin tried to suppress Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body while Xiao Yan guarded them, but the task was proving difficult.

After Mu Yaoyin took over helping Xiao Yi Xian control her Woeful Poison Body, Xiao Yan resolved to change things between them once the crisis passed. As the Heavenly Luan Clan treated Starfall Pavilion’s wounded, Mu Que and Chen Wei learned of Xiao Yan’s feats and began to reconsider him, while Venerable Wind remained confused about why the clan had intervened.

• Xiao Yan resolved to change many things after seeing Xiao Yi Xian struggle and deciding he could no longer hesitate.
• Mu Que and Chen Wei freed the injured Mu Xinyuan from the ice, and Mu Xinyuan noticed Mu Zi'er had gone to Venerable Wind.
• Mu Que and the others treated Starfall Pavilion’s wounded, and Venerable Wind thanked the Heavenly Luan Clan for saving the pavilion.
• Mu Xinyuan told Venerable Wind that they would likely be family, leaving Venerable Wind puzzled about the clan’s involvement.
• Mu Zi'er told Mu Que and Chen Wei that Xiao Yan had killed Lei Yin and destroyed Yellow Spring’s physical body, astonishing them.

After Mu Yaoyin saved Xiao Yi Xian from losing control of her Woeful Poison Body, she sealed it for two months and warned that she must not use Dou Qi. Xiao Yan vowed to find the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, while the Heavenly Luan Clan’s view of him shifted after learning of his strength.

• Mu Que and Yang Yue realized Xiao Yan had nearly killed two renowned Dou Zun experts while still a Dou Zong, and Mu Que understood why the Heavenly Luan Clan supported him.
• Xiao Yi Xian woke after an hour with her Woeful Poison Body under control, and Xiao Yan checked on her.
• Xiao Yi Xian thanked Mu Yaoyin for saving her, and Mu Yaoyin recognized Xiao Yi Xian’s strong feelings for Xiao Yan and firm convictions.
• Mu Yaoyin warned that her seal would last only two months and that Xiao Yi Xian could not circulate Dou Qi or risk making her condition irreversible.
• Xiao Yan promised to find the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, then asked Mu Yaoyin whether the Soul Hall forces had retreated.

Mu Yaoyin and the Heavenly Luan Clan helped Xiao Yan defeat the Soul Hall’s experts, and the clan agreed to acknowledge him as their master with the right to end the relationship whenever they wished. After the battle, Xiao Yan was left to confront his complicated feelings for Xiao Yi Xian and Xun Er.

• Mu Yaoyin gave Xiao Yan Venerable Yellow Spring’s Storage Ring, and Xiao Yan found four Heartblood Clay Puppets and medicinal herbs inside.
• Mu Yaoyin explained that the Heavenly Luan Clan would withstand any trouble from the Soul Hall and advised Xiao Yan to seek the Pill Tower through his Dan Clan connections.
• The Heavenly Luan Clan agreed to acknowledge Xiao Yan as their master on the condition that they could dissolve the relationship at any time.
• Venerable Wind assigned Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to share a room so Xiao Yan and Mu Yaoyin could help control Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan approached the room while wondering how to face his feelings for Xiao Yi Xian and his commitment to Xun Er, as Xiao Yi Xian waited anxiously inside.