Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan completed the first Beast Storage Ring and tested it by storing the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, then organized magical beasts to build a lit forest and grassland inside it. As Xiao Yan wondered how Yun Yun was doing with the beast flame, Yun Yun prepared to return with a plan to tease him, and Nalan Yanran joined her in the bath.

• After seven days of refining, Xiao Yan completed the Beast Storage Ring and briefly stored the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King inside it.
• Xiao Yan decided the ring needed air, light, and a more natural environment, then brought Little Red back and had the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King recruit magical beasts.
• Little Red directed nearly a hundred magical beasts as they gathered soil, trees, grass, and moonstones to transform the ring's interior.
• After a day of work, Xiao Yan grilled fish and wondered how Yun Yun was doing with the Dry Blue Water Flame.
• Yun Yun looked at the beast flame and thought of Xiao Yan, then promised to teach him a lesson when she returned.
• Nalan Yanran entered Yun Yun's bath and asked why her teacher was not cultivating.

Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that a pill from Elder Gu He had helped her break through to a three-star Dou Zhe, while Yun Yun worried about her own future and the powerful person she had encountered. Xiao Yan devised a cultivation method and Dou Techniques for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and their creation triggered a vast heavenly phenomenon that left the Magical Beasts trembling.

• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that she had become a three-star Dou Zhe after taking a pill refined by Elder Gu He.
• Yun Yun teased Nalan Yanran about marrying her fiancé from the Xiao Clan, but Nalan Yanran rejected the engagement and insisted she would choose her own marriage.
• Xiao Yan decided to develop the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's talent for forging so it could help him.
• Xiao Yan achieved enlightenment and created the quasi-Heaven-tier cultivation method Purple Evolutionary Essence Refinement and its accompanying Dou Techniques.
• The creation shook the valley and spread purple radiance across the eastern Magical Beast Mountains, causing the Magical Beasts to prostrate themselves as purple crystals formed throughout the valley.

Xiao Yan returned from his cultivation and gave the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King the Purple Evolutionary Essence Refinement method, greatly strengthening its cultivation. After Yun Yun brought him a sixth-tier beast flame, Xiao Yan began condensing the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame by merging it with the many beast flames in his Spirit-Nascent Stone space.

• Xiao Yan completed his cultivation and realized that a cultivation method should improve potential as well as cultivation speed.
• Yun Yun returned with a sixth-tier beast flame, and Xiao Yan welcomed her before accepting the jade box containing it.
• Xiao Yan transmitted the Purple Evolutionary Essence Refinement method to the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, which began absorbing and refining energy at an extraordinary rate.
• Xiao Yan entered his cave, swallowed the beast flame with the Super Purple Flame Pill, and sent them into the Spirit-Nascent Stone space.
• Xiao Yan compressed and fused nearly a hundred beast flames, beginning the birth of the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.

Xiao Yan broke through to two-star Dou Emperor and tested the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's Amethyst Seal on himself. He challenged Yun Yun to a swordsmanship wager, and after they began fighting, he quickly gained the upper hand.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the cave after advancing to two-star Dou Emperor, startling Yun Yun with the strength he had possessed even before breaking through.
• Xiao Yan asked the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to seal him with its Amethyst Seal so he could study how it weakened Dou Qi, physical strength, and soul power.
• Xiao Yan reminded Yun Yun of their wager, then offered to forfeit it if she could beat him in swordsmanship; he demanded the Misty Cloud Sect's Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill if he won.
• Yun Yun accepted the wager and attacked with her Flying Catkins Movement Technique, while Xiao Yan formed a crimson soul sword with his Spirit Plow technique.
• Xiao Yan read Yun Yun's sword movements, disrupted her weapon with the Spirit Plow's force, and pressed her into a defensive disadvantage.

Xiao Yan defeated Yun Yun with a technique that concealed his true body, then collected on their wager before discovering a crystal hidden in her Sea Heart Inner Armor. Yun Yun pushed him away before he could examine it further, and the chapter ended with her admitting that she had not yet married him.

• Yun Yun attacked Xiao Yan with the Wind Spirit Profound Sword, but Xiao Yan revealed that she had been fighting one of his sword-qi forms and appeared behind her.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had adapted the Misty Cloud Sect technique and said Yun Yun would have lost much earlier if he had not wanted to see her Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan pursued Yun Yun after invoking their wager, stumbled over a purple crystal, and knocked her onto the grass.
• Xiao Yan sent the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King away, then kissed Yun Yun and struggled to undo her Sea Heart Inner Armor.
• Xiao Yan found a hard crystal beneath the armor, prompting Yun Yun to push him away and gather up her scattered dress.
• Xiao Yan complained that she had nearly attacked her husband, and Yun Yun bashfully replied that she had not yet become his wife.

Xiao Yan gave Yun Yun the Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill technique and brought her to rest with him in the cave. The next morning, Yun Yun offered to make grilled fish and secretly planned to add a substance she had bought to Xiao Yan’s seasonings.

• Yun Yun gave Xiao Yan the Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill scroll, and he persuaded her to rest with him.
• Xiao Yan carried Yun Yun into the cave and said she could decide how it was decorated.
• Xiao Yan reflected that Three Insights of Bodhi could still be useful if he changed his approach to it.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun slept in the cave and woke near midmorning.
• Yun Yun took Xiao Yan’s seasonings to prepare grilled fish and secretly planned to add the substance she had bought.

Yun Yun secretly tried to use a fever-inducing powder on Xiao Yan, but she had mistaken it for seasoning and unknowingly drugged herself instead. After Xiao Yan realized what the powder was, Yun Yun’s rising desire overwhelmed her and she threw herself at him.

• Yun Yun prepared grilled fish and secretly sprinkled powder from a jade bottle over it while Xiao Yan studied Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill.
• Xiao Yan analyzed the battle skill, then ate Yun Yun’s charred grilled fish without suspecting anything.
• When Xiao Yan showed no reaction, Yun Yun tasted the powder herself, decided it was fake medicine, and added more to both their fish.
• Yun Yun began feeling increasingly strange, and Xiao Yan discovered that the powder was a potent aphrodisiac.
• Yun Yun threw herself at Xiao Yan before he could question her about the powder.

Yun Yun accidentally took too much potent medicine, and Xiao Yan suppressed its effects before learning how she had mistaken his resistance for proof that the medicine was harmless. As he helped her deal with the rising effects, Xiao Yan comprehended the Vajra Four Principles and ended the chapter with Yun Yun pulling him into their encounter.

• Xiao Yan used soul power to suppress Yun Yun's medicinal agitation and asked what had happened.
• Yun Yun explained that she had tried the medicine after seeing Xiao Yan unaffected, then used it as seasoning, not realizing that his resistance came from his experience with poisons and medicines.
• Xiao Yan examined the seasonings, realized they had delayed the medicine's effects, and carried Yun Yun toward the cave when his suppression wore off.
• While reflecting on gradual cultivation and Buddhist teachings, Xiao Yan comprehended the secret art Vajra Four Principles.
• Yun Yun began undoing Xiao Yan's belt, and Xiao Yan seized her legs and pressed them over his shoulders.

Xiao Yan used his newly comprehended Vajra Four Principles to purify Yun Yun’s medicinal power and temper both their bodies as they cultivated. The experience gave him an insight into how spirits of Heavenly Flames might be born, and he began considering how to prepare for the threat posed by Wu Protector and the Soul Hall.

• Xiao Yan used Vajra Four Principles to clear the violent medicinal power from Yun Yun’s body, and she regained consciousness.
• The secret technique purified Yun Yun’s Dou Qi, strengthened her meridians, and improved her aptitude while Xiao Yan cultivated despite his sealed strength.
• As they cultivated through the day and night, Xiao Yan generated new Dou Qi outside his sealed Dou Qi vortex and gained a clearer understanding of Heavenly Flames’ potential to develop spirits.
• Xiao Yan recalled Wu Protector Wu Ying’s role in the Xiao Clan’s destruction, Xiao Zhan’s capture, and Yao Lao’s seizure, and judged him a dangerous, calculating enemy.
• Xiao Yan worried that Wu Protector might gather Soul Hall reinforcements near the Jia Ma Empire, leaving Yao Lao unable to protect every front.

Xiao Yan tried to understand how yin and yang might help nurture an infant Heavenly Flame, but could not reproduce his initial insight. While resting with Yun Yun, he combined ideas from Stellar Transformation and Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill to create a new defense-breaking Dou Technique.

• Xiao Yan reasoned that the harmony of yin and yang might explain how Heavenly Flames could develop intelligence and become a new form of life.
• Xiao Yan later failed to recapture the insight, then set the problem aside to focus on his other plans.
• Xiao Yan comforted Yun Yun by sharing grilled fish and easing her soreness with Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan reread Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill and combined it with Stellar Transformation to comprehend Armor-Piercing Sharp Seven-Spin Finger.

After comprehending a powerful Dou Technique, Xiao Yan spent time with Yun Yun in the Magical Beast Mountains before two sixth-order magical beasts arrived, drawn by a celestial phenomenon. He claimed he could defeat them with a flick of his finger, leaving Yun Yun doubtful of his strength.

• Xiao Yan finished reviewing his newly comprehended Dou Technique and kissed Yun Yun while they ate grilled fish.
• Xiao Yan teased Yun Yun and explained that Little Red was his tamed mount when the red wolf arrived in the valley.
• Little Red sensed the celestial phenomenon and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's departure, so it came to check on Xiao Yan.
• Two eagle cries and a crimson sky signaled the arrival of two sixth-order magical beasts stronger than the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Yan said he could destroy the beasts with a flick of his finger, and Yun Yun questioned whether he had lied about his strength.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached two-star Dou Emperor and bet Yun Yun he could kill a sixth-rank magical beast with one finger. When two Flame Feather Eagle Emperors arrived to claim the treasure and challenge the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, Xiao Yan assigned the male to himself and the female to the Lion King.

• Xiao Yan withdrew the Breath-Concealing Art and showed Yun Yun his two-star Dou Emperor strength, explaining that the Amethyst Seal had stopped working long ago.
• Xiao Yan bet Yun Yun that if he killed a sixth-rank magical beast with one finger, she would wear black thigh-high stockings that night.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and two Flame Feather Eagle Emperors arrived, and the eagles threatened to kill the Lion King and take the treasure.
• The Flame Feather Eagle Emperors mistook Xiao Yan for a weak human because he concealed his strength, while Yun Yun recognized that his violet-black wings came from a flying Dou Skill.
• Xiao Yan told the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to fight the female eagle and prepared to face the male himself.

Xiao Yan faced the Flame Feather Eagle Emperors while the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King engaged the female eagle. Xiao Yan used his new Armor-Piercing Sharp Seven-Spin Finger to split the male eagle apart, shocking Yun Yun, who recognized that the technique was not Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill.

• The female Flame Feather Eagle Emperor attacked Xiao Yan with a barrage of flaming feathers, but the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King intercepted them and absorbed them with its Purple Flame.
• Xiao Yan moved away to face the male Flame Feather Eagle Emperor and promised to leave the Magical Beast Mountains if it survived one of his attacks.
• Xiao Yan gathered his Dou Qi and unleashed Armor-Piercing Sharp Seven-Spin Finger, sending a brilliant streak of golden light through the sky.
• Yun Yun stood in shock and said Xiao Yan's technique was not Wind Extreme: Meteoric Kill.
• The golden light split the male Flame Feather Eagle Emperor's body apart, leaving it screaming as its flesh peeled from its skeleton.

Xiao Yan and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King killed the two Flame Feather Eagle Emperors after they invaded the valley. The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King showed Xiao Yan a self-created Dou Technique, and Xiao Yan gave it both sixth-rank magic cores to aid its cultivation.

• Xiao Yan killed the peak sixth-rank male Flame Feather Eagle Emperor with the Armor-Piercing Sharp Seven-Spin Finger, leaving its corpse intact.
• The female Flame Feather Eagle Emperor attempted to self-destruct, but the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King used Purple Evolutionary Essence Refinement and Divine Craft: Colossal Slash to break her defenses and fatally wound her.
• Xiao Yan was surprised that the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had devised a Dou Technique using its own body as a weapon.
• Xiao Yan collected both Flame Feather Eagle Emperors' magic cores and gave them to the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to help it cultivate.

Xiao Yan comprehended the Sacred Spirit Seal from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's sealing technique and prepared to forge the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment. As he began separating wisps of Heavenly Flame for the garment, he worried that his unusual cultivation method could make future encounters with wild Heavenly Flames dangerous.

• After returning to the valley, Xiao Yan told Yun Yun he would explain his Dou Technique after she changed clothes, and the next morning she found her black stockings torn.
• Xiao Yan studied the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's sealing technique and comprehended the Sacred Spirit Seal, which could suppress energy and seal Heavenly Flames or Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan combined power from his Heavenly Flames with the new seal technique, completing the conditions for crafting the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment.
• Xiao Yan took out the Flame Feather Eagle Emperor's hide and began cutting a test piece, intending to seal Heavenly Flame power inside it.
• Xiao Yan painstakingly separated five wisps of Heavenly Flame and considered how his cultivation might react if he later encountered a wild Heavenly Flame that overlapped with his own.

Xiao Yan completed and tested an ultra-low-spec Flame Spirit Sacred Garment that temporarily strengthened him, then cultivated Vajra Four Principles and considered how Fallen Heart Flame might evolve beyond its usual limits. The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King absorbed two sixth-tier magic cores and erupted with powerful energy, alarming Yun Yun.

• Xiao Yan sealed five wisps of Heavenly Flame into Flame Feather Beast hide and inscribed runes to complete an ultra-low-spec Flame Spirit Sacred Garment.
• Xiao Yan activated the garment and found that it raised his cultivation and Dou Qi for about a quarter of an hour before needing to replenish its energy.
• Xiao Yan restored his Dou Qi and cultivated Vajra Four Principles, which refined his energy and removed accumulated medicinal toxins.
• Xiao Yan reflected that the secret techniques born from Fallen Heart Flame's deviation might eventually surpass ordinary Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King absorbed two sixth-tier magic cores and released a burst of purple light as its strength increased.
• Yun Yun sensed the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's powerful pressure and wondered how its cultivation had risen so quickly.

Xiao Yan watched the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King complete its transformation and gave it materials and a blueprint to forge combination equipment. He left Zi Yan to begin work and teased Yun Yun, who hurriedly denied lacking anything after remembering their night together.

• Xiao Yan determined that the Flame Feather Beast Hide could safely contain no more than three kinds of Heavenly Flames and devised a plan to combine equipment effects.
• After three days, the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King transformed into a middle-aged man and introduced himself as Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan the Flame Feather Eagle Emperor's spinal bone, a weapon blueprint, and a storage ring, ordering him to forge the weapon within three months.
• Yun Yun marveled at Zi Yan's transformation and discipline, and Xiao Yan teased her about not being jealous of the gifts.
• Yun Yun began to answer what she lacked, then quickly insisted she lacked nothing as she recalled needing three days to recover after their night together.

Xiao Yan completed the Fire-Tip Spearhead and received the Demon-Subduing Staff forged by the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King. He prepared to test Yun Yun’s training and the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment in a sparring match, while his own strength was weakened.

• Xiao Yan finished forging the Fire-Tip Spearhead with three Heavenly Flames to attack souls, making it a weapon against Soul Hall protectors.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King presented Xiao Yan with the completed Demon-Subduing Staff, and Xiao Yan praised its work.
• Xiao Yan noted that Yun Yun had reached seven-star Dou Emperor after training in the valley for over two months.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun to activate the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment so he could test her strength, and Yun Yun agreed to spar.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun faced each other in the valley, with Xiao Yan weakened and wielding the Demon-Subduing Staff.

Xiao Yan trained Yun Yun in his custom swordsmanship and tested her improved combat abilities in a sparring match. As Yun Yun unleashed a powerful sword move, Xiao Yan gained an epiphany and comprehended the Nine-Marked Staff Technique.

• Xiao Yan explained the stages and moves of the swordsmanship he had developed for Yun Yun, including its path toward a formless sword realm.
• Yun Yun demonstrated her Willow-Floss Movement Technique and attacked Xiao Yan with Fading Snow Seals the Bridge.
• Xiao Yan blocked Yun Yun’s wind blades with the Demon-Subduing Staff, and their weapons clashed with enough force to crack the valley floor.
• Yun Yun recovered from Xiao Yan’s heavy blow and launched Moon Reflected in Jade Pool with strength comparable to a Di-class technique.
• Xiao Yan drew on his staff-technique knowledge and weapon experience to comprehend the high Di-class Nine-Marked Staff Technique.

Xiao Yan and Yun Yun tested equipment that dramatically increased their strength, then recovered from their fierce battle together. As Yun Yun asked whether he would marry her, Xiao Yan explained that his clan had arranged his engagement before he was born, leaving her to consider whether she could accept the constraints of his family.

• Yun Yun activated the Flame Spirit Sacred Garment and rose to the strength of a three-star Dou Zong, then battled Xiao Yan in the valley.
• Xiao Yan fused the Fire-Tip Spearhead with the Demon-Subduing Staff and used Heavenly Flame energy to restore his strength before clashing with Yun Yun's strongest sword technique.
• The battle ended when the Heavenly Flame energy ran dry, and Xiao Yan treated Yun Yun's burns before taking her to wash in a nearby pool.
• With the three-month deadline approaching, Yun Yun asked Yao Yan whether he would marry her.
• Xiao Yan said he had been engaged before birth and explained that strength did not make it easy to disregard one's family.