Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan cultivated Three Insights of Bodhi to temper his heart and resist the effects of the Fallen Heart Flame Special Medicine. He realized his cultivation was progressing, but Yun Yun risked becoming ill if the medicine’s effects continued.

• Xiao Yan considered the cost of using a seventh-tier pill to condense a Fallen Heart Flame seed and decided to cultivate Three Insights of Bodhi instead.
• Xiao Yan circulated his secret art and formed a purple-black lotus beneath himself, using it to purify and strengthen his heart.
• Xiao Yan entered a deep cultivation state as golden light spread across the lotus and his sensitivity to the energy of heaven and earth increased.
• Xiao Yan opened his eyes and resisted Yun Yun’s intensified allure by rapidly circulating Three Insights of Bodhi.
• Xiao Yan noticed Yun Yun was still suffering from the medicine’s effects and worried that she would burn herself sick.

Xiao Yan used Three Insights of Bodhi to cleanse Yun Yun’s marrow and tendons, refining her Dou Qi and strengthening her body. As the treatment ended, Yun Yun’s cultivation method absorbed the surrounding energy of heaven and earth at an unprecedented pace.

• Xiao Yan calmed Yun Yun’s burning restlessness with the golden radiance of Three Insights of Bodhi.
• Xiao Yan used the secret art to send golden energy through Yun Yun’s body and examined her physical condition.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the Life-and-Death Gate had likely left Yun Yun and Yun Shan with flaws in their cultivation.
• Yun Yun felt the golden energy condense her Dou Qi and strengthen her meridians and bones.
• Yun Yun’s cultivation method began absorbing energy of heaven and earth rapidly, and by the end of the treatment her body devoured it like a black hole.

While Yun Yun began breaking through to the four-star Dou Emperor level, Xiao Yan refined Three Insights of Bodhi and discovered vast worlds inside his cells, where golden-armored beings fought demonic insects. He realized the insects’ recent growth was likely caused by the medicinal pills he had consumed over the past few years.

• Xiao Yan recognized that Yun Yun was on the verge of breaking through and left her to cultivate in the cave.
• Xiao Yan ate the fish Yun Yun had left, felt their potent seasonings overwhelm him, and used Three Insights of Bodhi to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan began modifying the secret art to strengthen its effect on the body as well as the mind.
• Xiao Yan explored worlds inside his cells and witnessed golden-armored lifeforms defeat demonic insects.
• Xiao Yan spoke with the lifeforms and learned that the insects had grown more numerous and powerful in recent years.
• Xiao Yan connected the insects’ growth to the medicinal pills he had consumed in large quantities.

Xiao Yan cultivated the perfected Three Insights of Bodhi while Yun Yun recovered from the previous night and discovered that she had advanced to four-star Dou Emperor. After deciding to keep her identity secret and avoid Yao Yan, Yun Yun flew to seek the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King for the Purple Spirit Crystal Yanran needed.

• Xiao Yan used the perfected Three Insights of Bodhi to purge accumulated pill toxins from his body.
• Yun Yun awoke, remembered the previous night, and realized she had advanced from three-star to four-star Dou Emperor.
• Yun Yun felt relieved that she had used a false name and resolved to obtain the Purple Spirit Crystal before avoiding Yao Yan.
• Yun Yun dressed, found her sword, and flew deeper into the Magical Beast Mountains.
• Yun Yun called for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King so she could negotiate for the Purple Spirit Crystal.

Yun Yun sought to trade with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King for Purple Spirit Crystal, but negotiations turned into a fight before Xiao Yan intervened and stopped both attacks. He then revealed his interest in the crystal and the Amethyst Winged Lions, leaving Yun Yun alarmed that he had become her rival.

• Yun Yun asked the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to trade Purple Spirit Crystal, but it demanded a Transformation Pill and she drew her sword when they could not agree.
• Yun Yun and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King launched their strongest Dou Techniques at each other.
• Xiao Yan rushed between the attacks and used his techniques to redirect their force and calm the battlefield.
• Yun Yun offered beast cores, a cultivation method, and a Dou Technique, but the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King refused anything but a Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Yan declared his interest in the Purple Spirit Crystal and the Amethyst Winged Lions, then told Yun Yun she would have to pay for using his secret technique to reach four-star Dou Emperor.

Xiao Yan captured Yun Yun after refusing to fight the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and brought her back to the valley. He demanded a valuable item in exchange for helping her obtain a Purple Spirit Crystal, then left her three days to decide while he prepared to refine puppets.

• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King proposed joining forces with Yun Yun, but Xiao Yan seized her, sealed her Dou Qi, and carried her to the valley.
• Xiao Yan told the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to give its answer in three days, and the Lion King accepted the delay without fear.
• Yun Yun asked Xiao Yan for a Purple Spirit Crystal, and he explained that he needed it to reforge the Black Heavy Ruler.
• Xiao Yan demanded Yun Yun's Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill Dou Technique, but she refused because it was a secret inherited technique.
• Xiao Yan then asked for Yun Yun's Sea Heart Inner Armor, and she hesitated before offering an Imperial Pill or to leave with him instead.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun to consider his demands for three days, then entered the cave to refine the bodies and souls from the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect into puppets.

Yun Yun misread Xiao Yan’s retreat into the cave as a rejection, while Xiao Yan refined Wu Ya’s corpse into a stronger puppet using the Netherworld Poison Flame and selected Magic Cores. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan preparing to use Iron Protector’s soul as part of the puppet, as Iron Protector mistakenly believed Xiao Yan planned to free him.

• Yun Yun realized Xiao Yan had gone into the cave to cultivate, grew frustrated, and kicked apart a boulder before calming herself.
• Yun Yun guessed that Xiao Yan’s unusual cultivation method used feminine beauty to aid cultivation and reflected on her feelings for him.
• Xiao Yan sealed the cave entrance and used the Netherworld Poison Flame to refine Wu Ya’s corpse, fusing its corpse poison into the bones.
• Xiao Yan opened five holes in Wu Ya’s body and placed four top-quality fire-attributed sixth-tier Magic Cores into its chest.
• Iron Protector heard Xiao Yan promise him freedom and praised the Soul Hall, believing Xiao Yan intended to recruit him.

Xiao Yan refined Iron Protector’s soul into Wu Ya’s corpse, creating a powerful puppet and testing its strength. After the test shook the cave, he stored the puppet and kept the Soul Hall branch location in mind.

• Xiao Yan ignored Iron Protector’s plea to join the Soul Hall and refined his consciousness away in flames.
• Xiao Yan infused Iron Protector’s soul into Wu Ya’s corpse and forged the corpse with rare metals into an armored puppet.
• Xiao Yan imprinted the puppet with his blood and soul, then ordered it to attack him.
• The puppet’s punch forced Xiao Yan to use the Reincarnation Tribulation, Void Extinction, and Stellar Transformation, shaking the cave and alerting Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan judged the puppet capable of rivaling Xie Bi Yan in his normal state and stored it in the Bone Flame Ring.

Xiao Yan studied Xie Bi Yan’s Blood Soul Art and considered adapting it to create equipment that could temporarily enhance strength using a portion of a Heavenly Flame. He intended the equipment to help his weak father, Xiao Zhan, prepare for the threat of the Soul Hall.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the cave, reassured Yun Yun, and began grilling fish while reading a blood-colored scroll.
• Xiao Yan examined the Blood Soul Art and considered how it could combine with a sealed soul to boost strength.
• Xiao Yan thought about using a portion of a Heavenly Flame in an object to create strength-enhancing equipment without causing injury.
• Xiao Yan decided the equipment could help his father, Xiao Zhan, whose limited cultivation strength left him vulnerable to the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan weighed ways to improve Xiao Zhan’s strength and concluded that external assistance was more practical than pills or a better cultivation method.

Xiao Yan deduced a new method for storing Heavenly Flames in a robe, hoping to use it to greatly increase his father Xiao Zhan’s strength. He realized he still needed to master sealing techniques and find durable magical beast hide, while Yun Yun postponed her decision until the next day.

• Xiao Yan offered Yun Yun grilled fish, and she accepted it while explaining that she would give him an answer tomorrow.
• Xiao Yan reread the Blood Soul Art and combined it with his knowledge of the Flame Mantra and puppet construction.
• Xiao Yan experienced an epiphany and comprehended the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment, which stored Heavenly Flames in magical beast hide for a temporary boost in strength.
• Xiao Yan concluded that he needed sealing expertise and multiple Heavenly Flames to make the garment powerful enough for Xiao Zhan to contend with Soul Hall Protectors.
• Xiao Yan planned to subdue the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, study its Amethyst Seal, and have it help find high-level magical beast hide.

Xiao Yan negotiated with Yun Yun to stay and help him cultivate for three months in exchange for sixth-tier beast fire, then called for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. Yun Yun doubted he could face the sixth-tier beast and its followers alone as Xiao Yan waited calmly for someone else to act.

• Yun Yun refused to give Xiao Yan her Dou techniques or Sea Heart Inner Armor and asked how she could help him cultivate.
• Xiao Yan agreed to limit Yun Yun’s stay to three months if she obtained sixth-tier beast fire, and Yun Yun offered to ask a sixth-tier alchemist for help.
• Xiao Yan explained that Yun Yun’s beauty qualified her to help him cultivate, easing her anger somewhat.
• Yun Yun warned Xiao Yan that the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had powerful magical beast subordinates, but Xiao Yan said he did not need to fight it himself.
• Xiao Yan called for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King after the three days had passed, while Yun Yun searched the area for a hidden expert.

The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King surrounded Yun Yun and Xiao Yan with its Magic Beast army and attacked alongside five Four-Winged Wind Demon Wolves. Xiao Yan revealed six black-armored warriors who stopped the wolves’ attacks, leaving both Yun Yun and the beasts stunned.

• Yun Yun searched for a hidden expert but found no one and doubted Xiao Yan’s claims.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King encircled Yun Yun and Xiao Yan with Magic Beasts and accused Yun Yun of joining forces with Xiao Yan.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King summoned five Four-Winged Wind Demon Wolves and launched a combined attack with them.
• Xiao Yan summoned six black-armored warriors from his Bone Flame Ring, and their presence nullified the wolves’ attacks.

Xiao Yan defeated the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King with a Dou Zong puppet and offered it a choice between becoming his mount or being killed for its materials. He then wagered with Yun Yun that the beast would accept, with Yun Yun’s voluntary kiss as the prize.

• Xiao Yan summoned six black-armored puppets, including a Dou Zong, shocking Yun Yun with their strength.
• The Dou Zong puppet blasted the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King into a mountain wall, dragged it free, and subdued it while five Dou Emperor puppets defeated the Four-Winged Wind Demon Wolves.
• The other magical beasts fled after seeing their king captured.
• Xiao Yan offered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King a choice between becoming his mount and surrendering its Purple Spirit Crystals or becoming magical beast material.
• Yun Yun warned Xiao Yan that forcibly taming a powerful magical beast would likely fail, and Xiao Yan wagered that the beast would accept in exchange for Yun Yun kissing him voluntarily.

Xiao Yan persuaded the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to become his mount, leaving Yun Yun to accept that she had lost their wager. He then used a Beast-Controlling Flame Seal on the lion king, whose soul felt an unfamiliar force invading it.

• Xiao Yan wagered with Yun Yun over whether the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King would become his mount, and Yun Yun agreed to the terms.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King submitted to Xiao Yan to protect its son and the treasures in its cave.
• Yun Yun accepted her loss but said she would pay the wager later, then worried that the lion king might betray Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan formed a blazing Beast-Controlling Flame Seal and launched it at the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King while a puppet restrained it.
• The flame seal struck the lion king, and an inexplicable force invaded its soul.

Xiao Yan subdued the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King with the Beast-Controlling Flame Seal, then restored its strength with a pill and recruited it as his mount. The five Four-Winged Wind Demon Wolves also submitted, and Xiao Yan set off with Yun Yun for the lion king’s cave dwelling.

• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King sensed Xiao Yan could control its life and stopped resisting, while Yun Yun recognized his technique as a beast-controlling secret art.
• Xiao Yan gave the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King a pill that restored its strength and promised Yun Yun that she could learn his secret art if she helped him cultivate.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King thanked Xiao Yan for the medicine and accepted his offer of five fifth-tier magical beast cores each year as its mount’s compensation.
• Xiao Yan told the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to recruit the five Four-Winged Wind Demon Wolves, and they begged for mercy and submitted.
• Xiao Yan used the Beast-Controlling Flame Seal on the five wolves, then took Yun Yun to the lion king’s cave dwelling on its back.

Xiao Yan and Yun Yun rode with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to its cave to obtain a Purple Spirit Crystal. While Yun Yun searched for the crystal she needed, Xiao Yan noticed a vast amethyst platform and wondered whether it held a treasure Yao Lao had overlooked.

• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King flew at bursts of extreme speed, leaving Yun Yun clinging to Xiao Yan as they traveled.
• The Lion King carried Xiao Yan and Yun Yun through its hot, crystal-studded cave to a chamber glowing with purple light.
• Xiao Yan scanned the chamber and focused on the Companion Amethyst Source and the amethyst platform beneath it, suspecting the platform might be valuable.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King returned with a newly shed, fist-sized Purple Spirit Crystal and its curious young cub.

Xiao Yan discovered that the sturdy Purple Spirit Crystal Platform was made from crystals tempered by the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and offered to help it take revenge in exchange for the platform. Yun Yun recognized the Companion Amethyst Source atop it, whose contents were nearly impossible to extract by force.

• Xiao Yan tested the Purple Spirit Crystal Platform with a Pure Yang Palm strike, but it remained intact.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King explained that it had fused years of Purple Spirit Crystals into the platform after its mate was killed in a battle with a pair of sixth-tier magical beasts.
• Xiao Yan offered to defeat the two beasts in exchange for the Purple Spirit Crystal Platform, hoping to use it in a powerful weapon and hunt other magical beasts.
• Yun Yun recognized the sphere atop the platform as a Companion Amethyst Source and explained that its shell absorbed attacks, making its contents nearly impossible to obtain by force.

Xiao Yan traded potent fire-attributed medicinal liquid for access to the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King’s cave treasures, then collected the Companion Amethyst Source and Purple Spirit Crystal Platform. Yun Yun eventually gave him a bottle of Yun Zhi Saliva in exchange for the Purple Spirit Crystal and left to search for beast flames, while Xiao Yan prepared to pursue the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.

• Xiao Yan gave the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King medicinal liquid for its son and took half of the Companion Amethyst Source, collecting six bottles and saving the shattered shell.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King uprooted the Purple Spirit Crystal Platform for Xiao Yan, who stored it before leaving the cave with Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan asked Yun Yun for a bottle of Yun Zhi Saliva, and she blushed and fled into the forest before returning with the filled bottle.
• Xiao Yan exchanged the fist-sized Purple Spirit Crystal for Yun Yun’s bottle of Yun Zhi Saliva.
• Yun Yun said she would search for beast flames and return in seven days to half a month, then flew away as Xiao Yan anticipated forming the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.

Xiao Yan refined a Super Purple Flame Pill from Companion Amethyst Source, creating a powerful Beast Flame for his plan to condense Myriad Beast Spirit Flame. Meanwhile, Yun Yun asked Gu He to obtain a sixth-tier Beast Flame, but Gu He learned the Jia Ma Imperial Family had already received a similar offer from the Mittel Family.

• Xiao Yan used the Black Demon Cauldron, Heavenly Flames, medicinal herbs, Companion Amethyst Source, and Yun Zhi Saliva to refine the Super Purple Flame Pill.
• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and asked Gu He to arrange pills for Yanran and obtain a sixth-tier Beast Flame for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Gu He agreed to seek a Beast Flame from the Jia Ma Imperial Family, while Yun Yun flew back to her residence.
• Xiao Yan completed the Super Purple Flame Pill and decided to wait for Yun Yun before using it to condense Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.
• Gu He offered Jia Xing Tian two sixth-tier Dou Ling Pills in exchange for the guardian beast's Beast Flame, but Jia Xing Tian said the Mittel Family had already made a similar offer.

Gu He secured the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s agreement to provide beast fire and began refining pills, while Xiao Yan developed and tested a method for merging Storage Stones into a beast-storage artifact. Nalan Yanran received Gu He’s Purple Crystal Pill and began cultivating with it, as Liu Ling and Mo Li competed over her and Mo Li quietly nursed ambitions of his own.

• Jia Xing Tian agreed to provide beast fire to Gu He after Gu He offered a Dou Ling Pill and fire-attribute medicinal liquid in return.
• Xiao Yan devised the Beast Storage Ring Creation Method and began merging Storage Stones with Heavenly Flames.
• Gu He refined a Purple Crystal Pill overnight and sent it to Nalan Yanran through Liu Ling.
• Liu Ling warned Mo Li to keep his distance from Nalan Yanran and said he intended to pursue marriage with her after the Alchemist Grand Meeting.
• Mo Li resented Liu Ling and privately imagined gaining power through Nalan Yanran.
• Nalan Yanran swallowed the Purple Crystal Pill and began cultivating with the Misty Cloud Sect’s method, drawing in its purified medicinal power.