Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi found the unconscious Xiao Yi Xian at Ice River Valley and attacked Ice Venerable after learning she had been kept there. He vowed to destroy the valley and overwhelmed Ice Venerable with a Heaven-tier Dou Technique.

• Ice Venerable revealed the sleeping Xiao Yi Xian and claimed she was merely tired.
• Xiao Yi froze Ice Venerable as he tried to flee, and Ice Venerable broke free by activating his acquired Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi gave Xiao Yi Xian a medicinal pill, then rejected Ice Venerable's pleas and declared he would erase Ice River Valley.
• Ice Venerable attacked Xiao Yi with an icy palm, but Xiao Yi effortlessly dispelled it with blue Dou Qi.
• Ice Venerable launched nine ice spears, and Xiao Yi shattered them with his Heaven-tier technique, Heavenly Cold Finger.

Xiao Yi killed Ice Venerable and erased Ice River Valley, then used the Heavenly Capital Fire Seal to suppress Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and wake her. With three years to find the materials needed to cure her, Xiao Xuan began to reassure Xiao Yi that the solution was not difficult.

• Xiao Yi killed Ice Venerable with a Heaven-tier Dou Skill and destroyed Ice River Valley with the Profound Frost Soul.
• Xiao Yi planned to use Ice Venerable’s corpse as a body for Skyfire Venerable’s resurrection.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yi that Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body was nearing an eruption, and Skyfire Venerable taught Xiao Yi the Heavenly Capital Fire Seal.
• Xiao Yi used Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame to seal Xiao Yi Xian’s poison aura, and Xiao Yi Xian awoke and embraced him.
• Xiao Yi considered the ingredients needed to form Xiao Yi Xian’s Poison Pill, while Xiao Xuan told him not to worry because the cure was not difficult.

Xiao Xuan revealed that the Yin-Yang Twin Flame could cure Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and that he had once controlled it, while Xiao Yi prepared to pursue both a Poison Pill and the flame. After Xiao Yi and his companions left the ruins of Ice River Valley, its destruction shook the Central Plains and prompted the Ancient Clan elders to suspect the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Xuan explained that the Yin-Yang Twin Flame’s powers of life and death could resolve Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and revealed that he had once controlled it alongside the Three Thousand Burning Flame and Volcanic Stone Flame.
• Xiao Yi decided to pursue both the Poison Pill method and the Yin-Yang Twin Flame, then urged Xiao Xuan and Skyfire Venerable to leave Ice River Valley before their presence drew attention.
• Xiao Yi helped Xiao Yi Xian leave, and news of Ice River Valley’s destruction spread across the Central Plains, alarming Music Valley and making Tang Zhen of Burning Flame Valley both pleased and wary.
• Tong Xuan and the Ancient Clan elders discussed Ice River Valley’s destruction, and Gu Xun and Gu Qian voiced concern that the Soul Clan was acting unchecked.

Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi Xian learned how Ice River Valley’s destruction had shaken the Central Plains, then Xiao Xuan urged Xiao Yi to visit Music Valley before seeking out Xiao Yan and Yao Lao. The chapter ended with Xiao Yi asking why they should go there, and Xiao Xuan preparing to explain.

• Gu Yuan ended the Ancient Clan’s discussion and ordered the elders to watch the Soul Clan’s movements, while Hun Miesheng ordered his people to identify who destroyed Ice River Valley within three days.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi Xian visited a Ye City tavern and heard that Music Valley had emerged and the Four Pavilions Tournament had been moved up to the next month.
• Two drunken men tried to accost Xiao Yi Xian, who used her Calamity Poison Body to kill them after Xiao Yi warned them to leave.
• Members of the Alchemist Association confronted Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi Xian, but Xiao Yi showed his Honorary Elder token and they let the pair go.
• Xiao Yi told Xiao Xuan he planned to find Xiao Yan and Yao Lao and use the Bone-Melting Blood-Replenishing Pill to revive Yao Lao, but Xiao Xuan advised him to visit Music Valley first.

Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Sword-Cry City to join Music Valley and investigate whether the Yin-Yang Twin Flame was there. They passed the preliminary selection, but Music Valley’s elder, Granny Miaoyin, required applicants to defeat her before they could join, and the chapter ended with her swiftly defeating the first challenger.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi that Music Valley might hold the Yin-Yang Twin Flame, and Xiao Yi decided to visit it with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in Sword-Cry City, where Music Valley was recruiting Dou Zun experts, and they passed the preliminary selection.
• Granny Miaoyin announced that applicants had to defeat her to join Music Valley as elders, explaining that the valley wanted strong fighters rather than large numbers of recruits.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Yi to take the test, but Xiao Yi chose to wait and watch the other applicants.
• A burly two-star Dou Zun challenged Granny Miaoyin, boasting about choosing a female disciple as a dual-cultivation partner, and she defeated him with her flute.

Xiao Yi entered the Music Valley assessment and overwhelmed Venerable Miaoyin with his strength, earning admission for himself and Xiao Yi Xian. He and the other successful candidates then arrived at Music Valley, where their new refuge lay hidden among green mountains.

• Several older Dou Zun experts defeated Venerable Miaoyin and passed the Music Valley assessment.
• Xiao Yi took the stage and told Venerable Miaoyin he wanted Music Valley’s protection and wished to join as an independent cultivator.
• Venerable Miaoyin attacked Xiao Yi with her palm and soundwave techniques, but he evaded and resisted them.
• Xiao Yi summoned the Dragon Abyss Formation-Breaking Spear, breaking Venerable Miaoyin’s soundwave formation and convincing her to accept him.
• Venerable Miaoyin allowed Xiao Yi Xian to join Music Valley with Xiao Yi.
• Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, and the other successful candidates followed Venerable Miaoyin into Music Valley.

Xiao Yi joined Music Valley as a guest elder and privately revealed to Valley Master Yin Die that he had come seeking a Heavenly Flame. Yin Die identified it as the black-and-white flame in the Dual Cultivation Tower, confirming Xiao Yi’s suspicion that the Yin-Yang Twin Flame was in the valley.

• Xiao Xuan sensed that the Yin-Yang Twin Flame had been reborn within Music Valley, giving Xiao Yi hope of curing Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body.
• Yin Die announced that Xiao Yi and the other assessors had become guest elders and offered them disciples as dual cultivation partners; Xiao Yi declined because his heart belonged to someone else.
• Yin Die spoke privately with Xiao Yi and questioned his strength, origins, and reasons for joining Music Valley.
• Xiao Yi used the false name Lin Yuan and told Yin Die he had come as an alchemist seeking the valley’s Heavenly Flame.
• Yin Die said the flame was likely the black-and-white flame within the Dual Cultivation Tower.

Xiao Yi offered Yin Die five seventh-tier medicinal pills and his service as an honorary elder in exchange for the Yin-Yang Twin Flame, but an attack on Music Valley interrupted their negotiations. At the tower, Xiao Yi and Yin Die confronted Soul Hall elder Mu Gu, and Xiao Yi rescued the disciples Mu Gu had taken hostage.

• Xiao Yi offered Yin Die five seventh-tier medicinal pills and displayed his eighth-tier alchemist badge to prove his claim.
• Energy erupted from the Dual Cultivation Tower, and Yin Die and Xiao Yi rushed there to find the tower destroyed and Music Valley disciples dead.
• Elder Miaoyin reported that a newly recruited outer-sect Dou Zun elder had attacked the tower and gone after the flame.
• Mu Gu revealed that he had come to take the Yin-Yang Twin Flame for the Soul Hall, and Yin Die attacked him.
• Mu Gu used Music Valley disciples as hostages to stop Yin Die, but Xiao Yi froze the area and rescued them.

Xiao Yi intervened when Soul Hall tried to seize Music Valley’s Yin-Yang Twin Flame, revealing his nine-star Dou Venerable strength and confronting the Ninth Heavenly Venerable. He stopped Mu Gu from reaching the flame and declared that Mu Gu would die if he continued to covet it.

• Venerable Yin struck Elder Mu Gu, but Mu Gu summoned the Ninth Heavenly Venerable with a jade token.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerable ordered Mu Gu to seize the Yin-Yang Twin Flame and said Soul Hall wanted him to persuade Yao Chen to submit.
• Xiao Yi revealed his nine-star Dou Venerable aura and warned that Soul Hall would not take the flame.
• Xiao Yi broke the Ninth Heavenly Venerable’s black-flame giant and pierced his defenses with the Dragon Abyss Formation-Breaking Spear.
• Mu Gu tried to steal the Yin-Yang Twin Flame, but Xiao Yi’s pressure pinned him in place, and Xiao Yi threatened to kill him.

Xiao Yi defeated the Soul Hall forces at Music Valley, drove off the Ninth Venerable, and captured Elder Mu Gu, who revealed that Yao Chen was imprisoned in the Human Hall. Music Valley’s master gave Xiao Yi the Yin-Yang Twin Flame, and he prepared to show it to Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yi attacked the Ninth Venerable with the Dragon Abyss First Awakening Art, but the Ninth Venerable escaped into the void.
• Xiao Yi froze Elder Mu Gu and stored him away after learning that Yao Chen was imprisoned in the Human Hall of the Heavenly Dipper Hall.
• Yin Die thanked Xiao Yi for helping Music Valley and offered him the Yin-Yang Twin Flame without requiring the promised pills.
• Xiao Yi insisted on giving Music Valley five tier-seven medicinal pills and promised to help as its honorary elder.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether Xiao Yi had been hurt, and Xiao Yi showed her the Yin-Yang Twin Flame.

Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the Yin-Yang Twin Flame, resolved her Calamity Poison Body, and rose to five-star Dou Zun. Xiao Yi then took her to the Four Pavilions Conference at Wind Lightning Pavilion to search for Xiao Yan, but had not found him by the end.

• Xiao Yi Xian used the Yin-Yang Twin Flame to cleanse her poison and reached five-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi Xian left Music Valley after Xiao Yi gave Yin Die five seventh-tier medicinal pills and a jade token.
• Xiao Yi headed for the Four Pavilions Conference to find Xiao Yan and learn why Yao Lao had been taken by Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at Wind Lightning Pavilion, where Xiao Yi told her to conceal her strength.
• Xiao Yi searched the conference crowd and spectator stands but did not find Xiao Yan.

At the Four Pavilions Conference, Xiao Yi found Xiao Yan competing among the independent cultivators and watched him reveal his Dou Zong strength. When Fei Tian attacked Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi intervened, exposed himself as a Dou Zun, and drew a conciliatory response from Venerable Lei.

• The Four Pavilion masters arrived at the conference, and Xiao Yi searched the crowd until he spotted Xiao Yan in a black robe and mask.
• Xiao Yan fought in the melee and stood out, prompting Feng Qing'er, Wang Chen, Tang Ying, and Mu Qingluan to join forces against him.
• Xiao Yan used the Three Thousand Lightning Movement, exposing his identity and provoking Venerable Lei to order Fei Tian to deal with him.
• Fei Tian charged Xiao Yan before he could reveal Yao Lao's storage ring, but Xiao Yi appeared and stopped Fei Tian's spear.
• Xiao Yi threw Fei Tian away with ease, and Venerable Lei recognized Xiao Yi as a Dou Zun and apologized for Fei Tian's offense.

Xiao Yi defended Xiao Yan against Venerable Lei’s demand to cripple him for possessing the Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and crippled Fei Tian instead. When Venerable Lei threatened them, Xiao Yi revealed his nine-star Dou Zun strength, leaving Venerable Lei desperate to appease him.

• Xiao Yan told Venerable Lei that he had obtained the Three Thousand Lightning Movement at an auction and asked him to investigate fairly.
• Venerable Lei demanded that Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi be crippled, so Xiao Yi crippled Fei Tian and tossed him at Venerable Lei’s feet.
• Xiao Yan warned Xiao Yi that Venerable Lei was a three-star Dou Zun and they were on Wind Lightning Pavilion territory, but Xiao Yi promised the pavilion could not harm him.
• Venerable Lei threatened that the Wind Lightning Pavilion would disband if Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan left safely, and Xiao Yi’s aura surged to nine-star Dou Zun.
• Venerable Lei apologized, called the dispute a misunderstanding, and offered a seventh-tier medicinal pill to calm Xiao Yi’s anger.

Xiao Yi subdued Venerable Lei and Feng Qing'er at the Four Pavilions Grand Meet, then left with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian after agreeing to settle matters with the Wind Lightning Pavilion another time. He summoned Venerable Feng, and Xiao Yan presented him with a black storage ring that stunned him.

• Xiao Yi forced Venerable Lei to his knees and pressured Feng Qing'er into submission after she challenged him.
• Xiao Yi Xian slapped Feng Qing'er and warned her that she would kill her if she spoke recklessly again.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi not to escalate the conflict, so Xiao Yi spared the Wind Lightning Pavilion and invited Venerable Feng to meet him.
• Xiao Yi, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian left through a spatial rift, while the Four Pavilions Grand Meet ended without a conclusion.
• Xiao Yan greeted Venerable Feng in a mountain valley and showed him a black storage ring, causing Venerable Feng's expression to freeze.

Xiao Yan proved to Venerable Feng that he was Yao Chen’s disciple and learned that Yao Chen was imprisoned in Soul Hall’s Human Hall. Xiao Yi froze Mu Gu after discovering the prison was guarded by Dou Saint experts, and the group faced the challenge of rescuing Yao Chen.

• Xiao Yan showed Venerable Feng the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and confirmed that Yao Chen was his master.
• Xiao Yan told Venerable Feng that Soul Hall had captured Yao Chen, and Venerable Feng swore revenge on Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yi released Mu Gu, and Xiao Yan and Venerable Feng demanded to know where Yao Chen was being held.
• Mu Gu revealed that Yao Chen was imprisoned in the Human Hall, which Xiao Yi learned was guarded by Soul Hall’s Great Venerable and Second Venerable, both Dou Saints.
• Venerable Feng proposed returning to Starfall Pavilion to seek help, but Xiao Yi said that bringing more Dou Zuns would not overcome the Dou Saints, then reassured Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yi told Xiao Yan and Venerable Feng that he would help rescue Yao Lao from Human Hall, but insisted they return to Starfall Pavilion while he sought another Dou Saint’s aid. After discussing the Soul Clan’s strength with Xiao Xuan, Xiao Yi activated Zi Yan’s dragon seal and traveled toward Dragon Island.

• Xiao Yi promised Xiao Yan and Venerable Feng that he would rescue Yao Lao and sent them with Xiao Yi Xian to wait at Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Xuan appeared and warned Xiao Yi about the Soul Clan’s ambitions and the Dou Saint guarding a branch hall of Soul Hall.
• Xiao Xuan offered to rescue Yao Lao himself, but Xiao Yi explained that his intervention could alert Hun Tiandi.
• Xiao Xuan accepted Xiao Yi’s decision and returned to the storage ring.
• Xiao Yi activated Zi Yan’s dragon seal and entered a spatial tunnel leading toward Dragon Island.

Xiao Yi visited Dragon Island to ask Zi Yan for help rescuing an old friend captured by Soul Hall. Zi Yan assigned two powerful Dragon Kings to join him and revealed that dozens of Ancient Void Dragon elders at the Dou Saint level had returned to the clan.

• Hei Qing welcomed Xiao Yi and brought him to the Dragon Palace, where he reunited with Zi Yan, now the Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yi asked Zi Yan to help rescue his old friend from Soul Hall, and she agreed to provide assistance from the Ancient Void Dragon clan.
• Xiao Yi requested two genuine Dou Saint experts for the dangerous operation, and Zi Yan summoned Elder Zhu Ye and Elder Zhu Cang.
• Dragon King Xuan Ye and Dragon King Cang Lan appeared, each possessing peak three-star Dou Saint strength.
• Zi Yan explained that many powerful Ancient Void Dragons had returned from seclusion, leaving the clan with dozens of Dou Saint elders.

Xiao Yi secured Ancient Void Dragon reinforcements from Zi Yan and prepared to rescue Yao Chen from the Soul Hall. He left for the mission with Xiao Yan and Zhuli while Venerable Feng and Xiao Yi Xian stayed behind at Starfall Pavilion.

• Zi Yan assigned Zhu Ye and Zhu Cang to help Xiao Yi and sent Zhuli along for his knowledge of the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yi promised to share his future Dou Di glory with the Dragon Clan in return for its aid.
• Xiao Yi and Zhuli left Dragon Island and arrived near Starfall Pavilion, while Zhu Ye and Zhu Cang concealed themselves in the void.
• Venerable Feng and Xiao Yan welcomed Xiao Yi, and Xiao Yi explained that the group needed to plan carefully before entering the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yi asked Venerable Feng and Xiao Yi Xian to remain at Starfall Pavilion as a safe place to regroup, and Venerable Feng agreed to guard it.

Xiao Yi learned that the Human Hall was in the Corpse-Burial Mountains and traveled there with Xiao Yan and Elder Zhuli to rescue Yao Chen. As they approached the hall, a powerful Soul Hall figure appeared and challenged Zhuli for entering its territory.

• Xiao Yi forced Mu Gu to reveal that the Human Hall was in the Corpse-Burial Mountains in western Central Plains, then froze him again.
• Elder Zhuli opened a spatial tunnel, and Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan traveled with him to the Corpse-Burial Mountains.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan sensed the Human Hall's oppressive presence, and Xiao Yan grew furious over Yao Chen's imprisonment.
• A dark-armored figure emerged from a fissure and told Zhuli that bringing two juniors into Soul Hall territory broke the rules.

Gu You, the Soul Hall’s Second Venerable, confronted Zhuli, who demanded that the Soul Hall hand over Yao Chen. As the two high-level Half-Saints fought to a stalemate, Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan slipped past them and headed toward the Human Hall to find Yao Lao.

• Gu You refused Zhuli’s demand to surrender Yao Chen and warned him to leave the area.
• Zhuli and Gu You began fighting, unleashing dragon flames and bone mist that devastated the surrounding mountains.
• Zhuli and Gu You exchanged powerful attacks, but neither could overcome the other and both were injured.
• Xiao Yi realized he could not join a Half-Saint battle and focused on locating Yao Lao in the Corpse-Burial Mountains.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan passed the battling Half-Saints and rushed toward the Human Hall while Gu You let them go.