Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect during Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s three-year agreement, drawing the attention of the gathered experts. Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began their duel, and the chapter ended with both fighters defending against each other’s attacks in Dou Qi armor.

• Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan appeared at the mountain gate, and Xiao Yan greeted Xiao Yi before continuing his match.
• Nalan Yanran mistook Xiao Yi’s presence for a show of borrowed strength, while Yun Ling welcomed the three and announced that the duel could end in death.
• Nalan Yanran opened the fight with a sword attack, but Xiao Yan dodged and countered with the Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Xiao Yan pressed Nalan Yanran with Explosive Step and Eight Extremes Collapse, forcing her to evade and activate Dou Qi Armor.
• Nalan Yanran formed a long sword aura, and Xiao Yan blocked it with his Heavy Xuan Ruler after activating his own Dou Qi Armor.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their three-year agreement and burned the divorce letter, ending their personal ties. When Yun Ling tried to detain Xiao Yan and Misty Cloud Sect elders attacked him and Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi Xian intervened, leaving the confrontation with Yun Ling unresolved.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran unleashed their strongest techniques, and Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Lotus overwhelmed her Wind's Extremity: Sunset Radiance.
• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, who admitted her loss, and he burned the divorce letter to sever their ties.
• Xiao Yi congratulated Xiao Yan, then taunted Nalan Yanran by asking whether she still dared challenge him.
• Yun Ling ordered Xiao Yan to stay for an investigation, but Xiao Yan refused and walked away with Xiao Yi.
• Three Misty Cloud Sect Dou Wang elders attacked Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi, and Xiao Yi Xian knocked them back and threatened to kill them if they advanced.
• The elders halted and looked to Yun Ling as he relied on the Misty Cloud Sect's power and Yun Shan's backing.

Xiao Yi protected Xiao Yan from Yun Ling and revealed Dou Emperor-level power as the Misty Cloud Sect prepared its defensive formation. After Xiao Yi pierced Yun Ling with a Dou Qi spear, Yun Ling summoned the sect's former master, Yun Shan, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Xiao Yi Xian slapped Yun Ling and was stopped by Xiao Yi before she could kill him.
• Yun Ling tried to detain Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yi reflected his attack and wounded him, shocking everyone present.
• Yun Ling ordered the Misty Cloud Sect to form the Cloudy Smoke Covering Sun Formation, while Hai Bodong moved to protect Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi rose through the air, revealed his Dou Emperor strength, and speared Yun Ling's left hand, pinning him to a stone wall.
• Yun Ling played a jade flute, and the Misty Cloud Sect's former sect master, Yun Shan, appeared in the sky.

Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong and confronted Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan at the Misty Cloud Sect. Xiao Yi killed Yun Ling in front of him, prompting Yun Shan to attack, while Hai Bodong stepped in to shield Xiao Yi.

• Yun Shan appeared before Yun Ling, and Hai Bodong urged Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi to flee from the newly advanced Dou Zong.
• Hai Bodong offered to hold Yun Shan off, but Xiao Yi said Yun Shan could not harm him and told Xiao Yan not to keep explaining.
• Yun Shan dismissed Xiao Yan’s defense of Mo Cheng and challenged Xiao Yi to escape the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yi formed a crimson Dou Qi spear and killed Yun Ling with a strike through the heart.
• Yun Shan erupted in anger and unleashed his Dou Zong pressure, but Hai Bodong moved in front of Xiao Yi to block it.

Xiao Yi revealed that he had reached the Dou Zun realm and overwhelmed Yun Shan during their confrontation at the Misty Cloud Sect. After Yun Shan begged for mercy, Xiao Yi demanded the lives of the sect members, and Yun Shan prepared to fight back.

• Hai Bodong tried to shield Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan from Yun Shan, but Xiao Yi deflected Yun Shan’s pressure and reassured Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yi appeared before Yun Shan and revealed his Dou Zong strength, which surpassed Yun Shan’s.
• Xiao Yi vanished into the void to evade Yun Shan’s attack, then reappeared and revealed that he was a Dou Zun.
• Hai Bodong recognized Xiao Yi’s Dou Zun Ring, while Xiao Yan learned that Yao Lao had awakened and celebrated Xiao Yi’s strength.
• Yun Shan begged Xiao Yi for forgiveness and offered compensation, but Xiao Yi demanded the lives of everyone in the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Shan realized they could not make peace and launched the Great Compassion Wind-Ripping Hand against Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi killed Yun Shan and exposed a Misty Cloud Sect elder’s lies, leaving the sect in ruins and Nalan Yanran overwhelmed with regret. After Yun Yun arrived and learned that Yun Shan had been killed, she drew her sword and charged at Xiao Yi.

• Xiao Yi crushed Yun Shan with a crimson palm, killing him in an instant.
• Hai Bodong and the others witnessed Xiao Yi’s strength, while Nalan Yanran regretted the Xiao Clan’s broken engagement.
• Yun Yun arrived at the ruined Misty Cloud Sect, and Nalan Yanran embraced her in tears.
• A Misty Cloud Sect elder blamed Xiao Yan for the conflict and claimed Xiao Yi had killed Yun Shan; Xiao Yi killed the elder for lying.
• Xiao Yan recognized Yun Yun as the woman he had met in the desert, and Yun Yun charged at Xiao Yi despite knowing she was no match.

Xiao Yi overpowered Yun Yun and rejected Nalan Yanran’s pleas for mercy, reminding them of the Xiao Clan’s humiliation three years earlier. He seized Protector Wu, revealed his knowledge of the Soul Hall, and captured the protector’s soul to pursue the Soul Hall branch.

• Xiao Yi used his Dou Zun aura to force Yun Yun from the air as she attacked him.
• Nalan Yanran knelt and apologized for breaking off her engagement three years earlier, begging Xiao Yi to spare Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yi challenged Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun over their past reliance on the Misty Cloud Sect’s power to intimidate the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yi sensed Protector Wu trying to escape from the Misty Cloud Sect’s back mountain and dragged him through a crack in space.
• Protector Wu threatened Xiao Yi with the Soul Hall, but Xiao Yi crushed his body and sealed his soul in a jade bottle.

Xiao Yi destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect, crippled Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, and spared their lives. He then prepared to return to the Xiao Clan with Xiao Yan, while Hai Bodong asked about the promised pill.

• Nalan Yanran begged Xiao Yi to spare Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect, but he rejected her offer to become his servant.
• Xiao Yi killed every Misty Cloud Sect member above the Da Dou Shi level except Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, crippling the sect.
• Xiao Yi shattered Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran’s meridians, stripped them of their cultivation, and left them alive among the ruins.
• Xiao Yi ordered the remaining Misty Cloud Sect disciples to flee, and Jia Xing Tian and the others departed.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan agreed to return to the Xiao Clan, and Hai Bodong reminded Xiao Yan of the promised Purple Spirit Recovery Pill.

After Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan following the Misty Cloud Sect’s destruction, Xiao Zhan welcomed them home and reminded them that home would always be open to them. He then asked Xiao Yi to come to the ancestral hall, where he prepared to entrust something to him.

• Xiao Yi thanked Hai Bodong for helping Xiao Yan and promised him a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill and help advancing to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan left the Misty Cloud Sect, leaving the crippled Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran behind.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan, where Xiao Zhan embraced them and arranged a celebratory banquet.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Yan sat together in the back mountain, and Xiao Zhan told them to remember that home would always welcome them.
• Xiao Zhan took Xiao Yi to the ancestral hall and began entrusting him with something from a wooden brocade box.

Xiao Zhan entrusted the Tou She Ancient God Jade to Xiao Yi, who promised to lead the Xiao Clan’s rise. At the Xiao Clan Back Mountain, Xiao Yi protected Xiao Yan from Queen Medusa, and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python absorbed energy from Xiao Yi’s Fallen Heart Flame before falling asleep.

• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yi the Tou She Ancient God Jade and asked him to safeguard it, and Xiao Yi promised the Xiao Clan would rise.
• Xiao Yi sensed a Dou Zong aura at the back mountain and found Queen Medusa threatening Xiao Yan over the Spirit Fusion Pill.
• Xiao Yi blocked Medusa’s attack and sent her flying, making her realize she could not defeat him.
• Medusa left but the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python took control of her body and returned to the back mountain, where Xiao Yan explained their need for the pill to Xiao Yi.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python rubbed against Xiao Yi, who offered it the Fallen Heart Flame; it absorbed the flame’s energy and fell asleep.

Xiao Yi showed Xiao Yan his two Heavenly Flames and explained that Xiao Xuan's soul cultivation method let him control them. He gave Yao Chen Han Feng's soul to deal with, and Han Feng revealed he still felt no remorse for betraying his former teacher.

• Xiao Yi showed Xiao Yan the Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame, explaining that strong soul power let him control both.
• Xiao Xuan praised Xiao Yan's progress, urged Yao Chen to guide him, and noted that Xiao Yan had good talent but lacked opportunities.
• Xiao Yi handed Yao Chen a jade bottle containing Han Feng's soul, which Xiao Xuan had captured after killing him.
• Yao Chen released Han Feng's soul, rejected his pleas for forgiveness, and told him he had brought his fate upon himself.
• Han Feng stopped pretending to regret his betrayal and accused Yao Chen of deserving his suffering.

Yao Lao destroyed Han Feng's soul with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, then Xiao Yi restrained Wu Protector to interrogate him about the Soul Hall. Wu Protector began describing the organization's reach and hierarchy, leaving Xiao Yi with information to pursue its branch in the Northwestern Continent.

• Yao Lao admitted his mistake in taking Han Feng as a disciple and annihilated Han Feng's soul with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yi released Wu Protector's soul from a jade bottle, and Wu Protector begged for his life by offering the Soul Hall's friendship.
• Xiao Xuan recognized the Soul Clan's influence behind the Soul Hall and nearly destroyed Wu Protector, but Xiao Yi stopped him so they could question the captive.
• Xiao Yi seized Wu Protector with the Fallen Heart Flame and demanded that he answer questions about the Soul Hall.
• Wu Protector explained that the Soul Hall had branches across the Dou Qi Continent and ranked its Protectors as Heaven, Earth, and Human, identifying himself as a Human Protector.

Xiao Yi learned that the Soul Hall’s Northwestern Branch was in Heaven Burial Ravine and resolved to destroy it with Xiao Xuan. Meanwhile, the Xiao Clan prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial capital, and Xiao Yi set out for the Heavenly Heart Empire.

• Wu Protector revealed the Northwestern Branch’s location in Heaven Burial Ravine and was killed by Xiao Yi after answering his questions.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yi to protect the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Xiao Yi vowed to restore the clan’s greatness.
• Xiao Yi proposed that Xiao Zhan move the Xiao Clan to the imperial capital, and Xiao Zhan agreed.
• Xiao Yi left Xiao Yan with the Xiao Clan and asked Xiao Xuan to join him in attacking the Soul Hall branch.
• Xiao Yi and Xiao Xuan set out for the Heavenly Heart Empire, with Xiao Yi traveling through shattered space.

Xiao Yi reached Heaven Burial Ravine and attacked the Soul Hall branch, revealing his Dou Zun strength as he overwhelmed its Protectors. After killing Iron Protector, he left the Heaven-tier Protector realizing Xiao Yi had come deliberately to destroy the branch.

• Xiao Yi followed Wu Protector’s map to Heaven Burial Ravine and located the Soul Hall branch with his soul power.
• Xiao Yi killed the branch’s Dou Emperor guards by snapping his fingers and engulfing them in colorless flame.
• The Heaven-tier Protector attacked Xiao Yi with soul-mist chains, but Xiao Yi caught them and revealed his Dou Zun aura.
• Iron Protector tried to flee, but Xiao Yi dragged him back and killed him with Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Heaven-tier Protector realized Xiao Yi had come to take revenge on the Northwest Branch Hall.

Xiao Yi killed the Heaven-tier Guardian and faced Venerable Qing Hai, who offered him a place in the Soul Hall or death. Xiao Xuan appeared and easily eliminated the other Guardians, then restrained Venerable Qing Hai so Xiao Yi could fight him.

• Xiao Yi gravely wounded the Heaven-tier Guardian and prepared to devour him with Fallen Heart Flame.
• Venerable Qing Hai arrived with five Guardians, but Xiao Yi killed the Heaven-tier Guardian with Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame before he could intervene.
• Venerable Qing Hai offered Xiao Yi a choice between joining the Soul Hall and dying, and Xiao Yi insulted him and refused.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from Xiao Yi's storage ring and killed the five Guardians with his aura.
• Xiao Xuan caught Venerable Qing Hai as he tried to flee, then released him at Xiao Yi's request so Xiao Yi could test himself against a fellow Dou Zun.

Xiao Yi overwhelmed Venerable Qing Hai after revealing he was a Xiao Clan member, but Qing Hai attempted to kill them both by self-destructing. Xiao Xuan intervened, protected Xiao Yi, and erased Qing Hai’s remaining soul, leaving no Soul Hall survivor behind.

• Xiao Yi used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame to rise to four-star Dou Zun strength and overpower Venerable Qing Hai.
• Xiao Yi revealed that he was Xiao Yi, a Xiao Clan member the Soul Hall had been monitoring, and attacked Qing Hai with Myriad Phenomena Converging Finger.
• Venerable Qing Hai triggered a self-destruction and charged into Xiao Yi’s attack, trapping Xiao Yi inside the blast barrier.
• Xiao Yi struck the barrier with Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame, but only managed to crack it.
• Xiao Xuan shattered the barrier, moved Xiao Yi to safety, calmed the explosion, and erased Venerable Qing Hai’s remaining soul.

Xiao Xuan explained how the Soul Clan destroyed the Xiao Realm after his failed attempt to become a Dou Di, and warned Xiao Yi that the clan’s ambitions still threatened the continent. After destroying the Soul Hall’s Northwest Branch Hall, Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Clan in the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial capital and arranged a meeting with the empire’s major factions.

• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yi that the battle between the Xiao Clan and the Soul Clan had taken place in the Xiao Realm after Hun Tiandi invaded while Xiao Xuan was weakened by his failed breakthrough.
• Xiao Xuan warned that the Soul Clan remained ambitious and proposed returning to the Xiao Realm’s ruins, while Xiao Yi stressed the need to secure the Xiao Clan’s position.
• Xiao Yi used the Fallen Heart Flame to destroy the Soul Hall’s Northwest Branch Hall and then left for the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial capital.
• Xiao Yi returned to the Xiao Clan’s new residence, where Xiao Yan described the reactions of the empire’s major factions.
• Xiao Yi asked Xiao Yan and Elder Hai to gather the empire’s powerful families at the Xiao Clan that night.

Xiao Yi gathered Jia Ma Empire’s major factions and established the Nine Harmonies Alliance under the Xiao Clan’s leadership. He rewarded Hai Bodong for his loyalty and promised to help him reach the Dou Zong realm within a year.

• Xiao Yi challenged the faction leaders’ reluctance to accept the Xiao Clan’s return and asked whether they would join an alliance after the Misty Cloud Sect’s destruction.
• Xiao Yi warned the leaders that the Xiao Clan was offering them a place in the alliance, and Nalan Jie, Mu Chen, Fa Ma, and Jia Xing Tian agreed to follow the Xiao Clan.
• Gu He offered to join the alliance if Xiao Yi let him take Yun Yun away, but Xiao Yi refused and reaffirmed that Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran must remain on the mountain for life.
• Xiao Yi established the Nine Harmonies Alliance, named himself its leader, and made the attending faction leaders elders.
• Xiao Yi gave Hai Bodong the Purple Spirit Recovery Pill and promised to help him break through to the Dou Zong realm within a year.

After the Misty Cloud Sect fell, Xiao Yi brought Xiao Yan to its hidden Life-and-Death Gate, a dangerous inheritance ground that could rapidly increase a cultivator’s strength. They entered the gate, where Xiao Yi noticed time passed more slowly than in the outside world.

• Jia Xing Tian regretted not helping Xiao Yi and Hai Bodong, then focused on preserving the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s standing in the alliance.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi about his plans, and Xiao Yi said he would keep traveling after exploring opportunities left at Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Xiao Yi used his soul power to find a concealed cave and explained that the Life-and-Death Gate had served as the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritance ground.
• Xiao Yi broke the seal on the bronze gate, causing a pillar of light to rise as Yun Yun watched helplessly from hiding.
• Xiao Yi led Xiao Yan into the Life-and-Death Gate, where he sensed that time moved more slowly than outside.

Xiao Yi explored the ninth level of the Life-and-Death Gate and encountered the remnant soul of Yun Potian, the Misty Cloud Sect’s founder. Yun Potian accepted the sect’s destruction and began revealing why he founded it in the Jia Ma Empire, hinting that the Life-and-Death Gate was only part of the reason.

• Xiao Yan entered the Life-and-Death Gate with Yao Lao while Xiao Yi went to investigate the ninth level.
• Xiao Yi found seven stone coffins and awakened the remnant soul of Yun Potian, who asked whether the Misty Cloud Sect had been destroyed.
• Xiao Yi admitted he had destroyed the sect because it had grown corrupt and colluded with the Soul Hall.
• Yun Potian recounted how he had risen to Dou Zun as an independent cultivator and founded the Misty Cloud Sect in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yun Potian offered to reveal the Life-and-Death Gate’s secrets and opportunities, then confirmed that the gate was one reason he chose the Jia Ma Empire.