Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan cured Nalan Jie’s Brand Poison, and Nalan Yanran thanked him as they discussed Yun Yun’s secluded cultivation and her own desire to grow stronger. Back at the Xiao Clan, Medusa told Xiao Yan that his mother wanted to hold their wedding in Jia Ma Sacred City.

• Xiao Yan stepped away from Nalan Jie’s bedside, and Nalan Jie woke, free of the Brand Poison.
• Nalan Jie and Xiao Lin recognized that the young people had dissolved the elders’ marriage agreement themselves, while Nalan Su asked Nalan Yanran to show Xiao Yan around.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran walked through the Nalan estate, where she thanked him for saving her grandfather and told him Yun Yun had entered the Life-and-Death Gate for secluded cultivation.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan with Xiao Lin and discussed cultivation with Medusa in their room.
• Medusa told Xiao Yan that his mother wanted to hold their wedding in Jia Ma Sacred City, and Xiao Yan replied that she was Medusa’s mother too.

After Xiao Yan and Medusa held their wedding, Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bo Dong warned him that the Mulan and Luoyan Empires had launched a massive invasion of Jia Ma. Xiao Yan set out for the border with them on the transformed Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, leaving his family to guard the rear.

• Xiao Yan and Medusa held a grand wedding, while news spread that Nalan Jie had been saved and the Flame Alliance had unified Jia Ma's major powers.
• Hai Bo Dong and Jia Xing Tian told Xiao Yan that the Mulan and Luoyan Empires had joined forces to attack the border with a million troops.
• Jia Xing Tian described the strength of Yan Luotian and the Golden Wild Goose Sect, as well as Mulan Valley's Three Beasts Savage Technique.
• Hai Bo Dong reported that the Serpent-People Tribe and the Jia Ma Empire's Black Mountain Fortress were holding the invading forces in a pincer formation.
• Xiao Yan left for the border with Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bo Dong aboard the seventh-tier Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.

Xiao Yan, Hai Bo Dong, and Jia Xing Tian reached the battlefield and found Yue Mei pursued by three members of the Golden Wild Goose Sect. Yue Mei killed them with her Soul Hooks, then joined Xiao Yan’s group and explained that the invading alliance had also threatened the Serpent-People Tribe.

• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King carried Xiao Yan, Hai Bo Dong, and Jia Xing Tian from Jia Ma Sacred City to the battlefield at great speed.
• Xiao Yan recognized Yue Mei as three Golden Wild Goose Sect men pursued her, and Hai Bo Dong held back his attack.
• The Golden Wild Goose Sect men threatened Yue Mei and attacked with their poisoned Wild Goose Feather Rings.
• Yue Mei used the demonic sound of her Soul Hooks to stun the men, then killed all three with Thousand Blades, Ten Thousand Tortures.
• Xiao Yan welcomed Yue Mei aboard and asked why she was there, and she said the Luoyan and Mulan Empires’ allied forces had threatened the Serpent-People Tribe.

Xiao Yan and the Jia Ma Empire’s defenders confronted the million-strong allied army at Black Mountain Fortress, where he challenged Golden Wild Goose Sect powerhouse Yan Luotian. Xiao Yan countered Yan Luotian’s attacks and unleashed a devastating wolf-claw strike, leaving their battle unresolved.

• Yue Mei proposed her Greedy Snake Tactic: lure out small groups of enemies and defeat them repeatedly.
• Xiao Yan, Yue Mei, Jia Xing Tian, and Hai Bo Dong arrived above Black Mountain Fortress and saw the allied armies massed before it.
• Yan Luotian and three other powerhouses rose from the enemy army, and Yan Luotian taunted Jia Xing Tian.
• Xiao Yan charged Yan Luotian, who evaded with his movement techniques and attacked with his Goose Feather Sword and feather projectiles.
• Xiao Yan used Void Extinction and Reincarnation Tribulation to neutralize Yan Luotian’s attacks and turn their force against him.
• Xiao Yan formed a massive starlit wolf claw and swung it at Yan Luotian’s head.

Xiao Yan killed Yan Luotian and refined his flight Dou Technique from the corpse, greatly increasing his speed. He then faced the Mulan Three Elders, who joined their strength with the Three Beasts Savage Technique, and began overpowering them.

• Xiao Yan's Emperor Flame engulfed Yan Luotian's corpse as Jia Xing Tian, Hai Bo Dong, and the Mulan Three Elders watched in shock.
• Xiao Yan absorbed Yan Luotian's flight Dou Technique, evolving his flame wings and claiming the corpse's storage ring.
• The Mulan Three Elders formed the Three Beasts Savage Technique, combining their strength into a shared aura.
• The tiger-headed elder charged Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan struck him back and pursued him at overwhelming speed.
• Xiao Yan intercepted the bear-headed elder, shifted his attack through several moves, and overwhelmed him when their palms met.

Xiao Yan defeated the Mulan Three Elders and comprehended the Origin Spirit True Scripture, a cultivation technique that let him gather the strength of the living beings in his inner world. As the allied army fell into chaos, a powerful Soul Hall member appeared, seized the two surviving elders, and confronted Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan killed Lion-Head Elder with the Eight Extremes Sky Cannon, breaking the Three Beasts Savage Technique and sending the two surviving elders crashing down.
• Xiao Yan used his understanding of the Three Beasts Savage Technique and the Cloud-Smoke Covering Sun Formation to comprehend the Origin Spirit True Scripture.
• Xiao Yan gathered the strength of the Fire Spirits through the new technique, raising his power from that of a one-star Dou Venerate to a two-star Dou Venerate.
• The allied army descended into chaos after its four great experts fell, until a black fog enveloped the sky and silenced the forces.
• A Soul Hall member appeared, seized the two injured Mulan Elders, and challenged Xiao Yan, who answered with a cold smile.

Xiao Yan ambushed Nan Gui Dou Zun with an explosion fueled by the Mulan Two Elders and Super Fallen Heart Flame, then learned why Nan Gui had let Silver Protector act unchecked. Nan Gui attacked Xiao Yan with soul chains, but Xiao Yan unleashed a powerful aura as the chains closed in.

• Xiao Yan detonated the Super Fallen Heart Flame inside the Mulan Two Elders, blasting Nan Gui Dou Zun out of the clouds and into the ground.
• Nan Gui recovered and revealed that he had known Silver Protector and his team were dead, and had allowed Silver Protector to test the Xiao Clan’s strength.
• Xiao Yan realized Nan Gui had stayed nearby and waited until Silver Protector’s actions exposed the clan’s true capabilities.
• Nan Gui declared that he would take Xiao Yan’s soul and sent several soul chains toward him.
• As the soul chains neared Xiao Yan, he unleashed a powerful aura.

Xiao Yan used the Origin Spirit True Scripture to draw on the Fire Spirits’ strength, rising to two-star Dou Zun and turning the fight against Nan Gui around. He summoned a sacred Spirit-Bound Weapon and pursued Nan Gui, who tried to escape toward the million-strong army.

• Xiao Yan linked his strength with the Fire Spirits and rapidly advanced from five-star Dou Emperor to two-star Dou Zun.
• Nan Gui attacked Xiao Yan with soul chains, but Xiao Yan’s Super Fallen Heart Flame destroyed them and blasted Nan Gui away.
• Hai Bo Dong and Jia Xing Tian watched in shock as Xiao Yan overwhelmed Nan Gui.
• Xiao Yan charged after Nan Gui, who tried to flee to the million-strong army and threatened to devour its souls to boost his power.
• Xiao Yan summoned a golden Spirit-Bound Weapon in the form of a sacred sword, which made Nan Gui feel deeply uncomfortable.

Xiao Yan used his newly comprehended Dreamlike Bubble Mirage to defeat Southern Ghost Dou Zun and transfer the million-strong army into the Endless Flame Domain. The soldiers survived as its first inhabitants, while Xiao Yan welcomed them to a new life centered on cultivation.

• Xiao Yan's Spirit-Bound Weapon broke through Southern Ghost Dou Zun's black spheres, purified the surrounding mist, and disabled his ability to tear out souls.
• Xiao Yan comprehended Dreamlike Bubble Mirage and enveloped the army and Southern Ghost Dou Zun in an altered space.
• Xiao Yan's sword filled the water spheres around them with sword qi, killed Southern Ghost Dou Zun, and transferred the million soldiers into the Endless Flame Domain.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the soldiers had survived and told them their new world offered a chance to break through their limits.
• Xiao Yan imparted the Chaos Life-Nourishing Technique to the soldiers, who learned they could grow stronger through focused cultivation.

After defeating the allied armies, Xiao Yan arranged for Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bo Dong to bring the Luoyan and Mulan Empires into the Flame Alliance and gather information. He then flew toward the Black-Corner Region, where he reunited with Yao Lao and Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yan told Jia Xing Tian that the weakened Luoyan and Mulan Empires should be brought into the Flame Alliance without causing further slaughter.
• Xiao Yan gave Jia Xing Tian a squad of powerful puppets to lead into the two empires and tasked Hai Bo Dong with expanding the Mittel Family's business and gathering information.
• Xiao Yan put the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King into his Beast Storage Ring and flew alone toward the Black-Corner Region.
• Yao Lao emerged from the space near Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan recognized that Yao Lao's strength had greatly increased.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived and greeted Yao Lao and Xiao Yan, revealing that she had reached the one-star Dou Zun realm.

After defeating the Soul Hall expert, Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Lao, then arranged to connect the Chu Yun Empire and Jia Ma Empire with a spatial wormhole. Yao Lao departed for the Chu Yun Empire while Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the Black-Corner Region, and he gave Xiao Yi Xian guidance on advancing her Three Paths Poison Codex.

• Xiao Yan asked how Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Lao had come to the Jia Ma Empire, and Yao Lao explained that he had waited there after sensing powerful experts nearby.
• Yao Lao said he had grown stronger during his travels and could defeat the Soul Hall expert in fewer than three moves.
• Xiao Yan proposed building a spatial wormhole between the Chu Yun Empire and Jia Ma Empire, and Yao Lao agreed to establish the connection.
• Xiao Yan said he would go to the Black-Corner Region to prepare a new spatial node, while Yao Lao set off for the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yi Xian admitted she had not reached the fourth realm of the Three Paths Poison Codex, so Xiao Yan gave her a jade slip with guidance on cultivating gu insects.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Black-Corner Region with Ya Fei and entered Black Mark City to begin building influence through its auction house. The chapter left them inside the Black Mark Auction House, ready to make their first move there.

• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian a jade slip about Spirit-Bound Weapons and the Gu King, then sent her to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the Black-Corner Region while residents of his Endless Flame Domain adopted the Chaos Life-Nourishing Technique, helping him advance to six-star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan summoned Ya Fei and told her that Black Mark City would be their first stop and an important battle.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei arrived in Black Mark City and examined the heavily guarded Black Mark Auction House.
• Xiao Yan explained that the auction house could gather resources and spread information, then entered with Ya Fei.

Xiao Yan and Ya Fei confronted Eight Gates at the Black Mark Auction House, where Xiao Yan offered its leader Yuan Yi the choice to join the Flame Alliance or face him. After Yuan Yi chose to fight, Xiao Yan subdued him with the Super Fallen Heart Gu, leaving Yuan Yi pleading for his life.

• Xiao Yan told the maid he intended to buy the Black Mark Auction House, prompting her to summon dozens of Dou Master guards.
• The guards attacked Xiao Yan and Ya Fei, but an invisible force stopped them, melted their weapons, and hurled them into the walls.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei appeared on the auction house roof, where Yuan Yi arrived and asked who they were.
• Xiao Yan identified himself as the Flame Alliance's leader and offered Yuan Yi the choice to join or test his strength.
• Yuan Yi chose to fight, but Xiao Yan planted the Super Fallen Heart Gu in him, forcing him to beg for mercy.

Xiao Yan and Ya Fei searched the Black Mark Auction House treasury, where Xiao Yan claimed a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment and the Three Thousand Lightning Movement scroll. He considered how the scroll and a powerful body might help prepare for Yao Lao’s resurrection.

• Yuan Yi led Xiao Yan and Ya Fei into the Black Mark Auction House treasury and explained that its goods included both auction-house property and entrusted items.
• Ya Fei examined the treasury’s many Xuan-tier and Earth-tier scrolls, while Xiao Yan identified a flight Dou Technique made from thunder bat wings and let her inspect it.
• Xiao Yan found and stored the third fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, leaving one fragment still missing.
• Xiao Yan took the Three Thousand Lightning Movement scroll, whose strange diagrams concealed a technique that required absorbing sealed wind and lightning power.
• Xiao Yan considered Venerable Lei and Ice River as possible Dou Zun-level bodies for Yao Lao’s resurrection and thought the scroll might help Yao Lao later.

Yuan Yi showed Xiao Yan and Ya Fei the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill, a seventh-tier pill that could transform someone after grave injury. Xiao Yan took it for Medusa’s future cultivation, rejected Yuan Yi’s suggestion to ally with Han Feng, and prepared to deal with the Medicine Emperor when he appeared.

• Yuan Yi presented the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill and explained how it had helped Wind Venerable Gu Ling rise from Dou Zong to Dou Zun after a devastating battle.
• Ya Fei recognized the pill’s power, and Xiao Yan opened its box to reveal two dragon-shaped streams of golden airflow within the pill.
• Xiao Yan stored the pill in his Bone Flame Ring and decided it would be more useful for Medusa during her reincarnation period.
• Yuan Yi revealed that Han Feng owned the pill and wanted the recipient to do two things for him, then suggested joining forces with the Medicine Emperor.
• Xiao Yan rebuked Yuan Yi, claimed the pill, and said Han Feng could come to the auction house to settle matters with him.

Xiao Yan watched as the Blood Sect and Black Skull Tomb moved against the Black Mark Auction House, then offered their leaders a chance to join the Flame Alliance. Yuan Yi fought Fan Lao after declaring his allegiance, and the chapter ended with Yuan Yi charging through Fan Lao’s blood attacks.

• Xiao Yan, Yuan Yi, and Ya Fei awaited the intruders at the Black Mark Auction House, where Fan Ling and a Black Skull Tomb expert arrived to seize the opportunity created by recent turmoil.
• Fan Lao appeared, killed the Black Skull Tomb expert by absorbing his blood, and declared his intention to take the auction house and its collection.
• Xiao Yan told Fan Lao he intended to subdue both factions and offered him a choice between the Blood Sect and Black Skull Tomb if he joined the Flame Alliance, but Fan Lao rejected the offer.
• Yuan Yi attacked Fan Lao in defense of the Flame Alliance, and Fan Lao’s blood threads melted away when they neared Yuan Yi.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Super Fallen Heart Gu gave Yuan Yi benefits, and Yuan Yi surged through the blood threads as Fan Lao launched a blood snake at him.

Yuan Yi defeated and killed Fan Lao with help from the Super Fallen Heart Flame Gu, then wiped out the Blood Sect members accompanying Fan Ling. Just as Yuan Yi thought the battle was over, Green Man of the Sky Serpent Mansion appeared before Xiao Yan and the others.

• Yuan Yi shattered Fan Lao’s blood snake with a punch empowered by the Super Fallen Heart Flame Gu.
• Fan Lao used the Blood Devouring Seal, but Yuan Yi’s moonlight blade destroyed it and split Fan Lao’s armor and body.
• Yuan Yi defeated the Blood Sect members led by Fan Ling, leaving them sprawled across the ground.
• Green Man of the Sky Serpent Mansion emerged with several women, surprising Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan reunited with Green Man, who delivered Sky Serpent Mansion’s records on cultivating the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. He gave her a Super Fallen Heart Gu and warned her to leave Black Mark City, but Green Man lingered while Ya Fei teased him about her.

• Ya Fei recognized Green Man as Xiao Yan’s old acquaintance, and Green Man gave Xiao Yan a scroll containing Sky Serpent Mansion’s cultivation records for the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Green Man explained that Sky Serpent Mansion’s founder had awakened the pupils and developed her own cultivation path before founding the mansion.
• Xiao Yan gave Green Man a Super Fallen Heart Gu that refined Dou Qi and could accelerate cultivation.
• Xiao Yan told Green Man that Qing Lin was cultivating well and explained that the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor could not return to Sky Serpent Mansion.
• Xiao Yan warned Green Man that Black Mark City could become more dangerous after a Dou Emperor expert’s death, but Green Man flirted with him and Ya Fei teased him about her.

Xiao Yan assigned the Sky Serpent Mansion, Yuan Yi, Ya Fei, and Zi Yan roles in his plans for the Black-Corner Region and Jia Nan Academy. The chapter ended with Zi Yan studying Xiao Yan’s design for a large fire-powered cultivation facility.

• Xiao Yan sent Green Man and the Sky Serpent Mansion back to spread news of the special Super Fallen Heart Gu, then discussed the mansion’s strategic value with Ya Fei.
• Xiao Yan told Yuan Yi to take over the Blood Sect after recovering, and placed Ya Fei in charge of the Black Mark Auction House.
• Xiao Yan summoned Zi Yan, revealed that he had perfected a weapon blueprint requiring extensive materials and manpower, and assigned Ya Fei to gather them.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan a jade slip outlining plans to transform Jia Nan Academy into a large fire-powered cultivation facility, and Zi Yan began considering its power source and energy transmission.

Xiao Yan created the Lovesickness Gu for Ya Fei to boost her cultivation, then rushed to Jia Nan Academy. He arrived openly at Peace Town, alarming passersby who expected the academy to punish him.

• Xiao Yan decided to modify the Black Heavy Ruler and promised Ya Fei an upgraded Super Fallen Heart Gu.
• Xiao Yan implanted the Emperor Flame-condensed Lovesickness Gu in Ya Fei, which released pure fire-attributed energy to accelerate her cultivation.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan traveled toward Peace Town, where Jia Nan Academy stood in the heart of the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan streaked across the sky near the town entrance, and passersby watched in shock, predicting that his corpse would soon hang from the Dead Spirit Tree.