Chapter Summaries

After settling his clash with Gu Yuan, Hun Tiandi investigated Xun'er and ordered a search for whoever had revealed the Soul Realm's location. In Wutan City, Xiao Yan eagerly sought cultivation lessons, while Gu Yuan arrived at the Xiao Family and asked Xiao Zhan to foster Xun'er.

• Hun Tiandi learned about Xun'er's talent from Hun Tianyuan and ordered the Soul Clan to discover who had exposed the Soul Realm's location.
• Xiao Zhan offered to teach Xiao Yan cultivation if he accepted a condition, but left to receive a powerful visitor before explaining it.
• Xiao Yan grew excited about cultivation and secretly followed Xiao Zhan to the reception hall.
• Gu Yuan introduced himself to Xiao Zhan as a descendant of an old family ally and asked him to foster Xun'er while he attended to other matters.

Gu Yuan left Xun'er with the Xiao Family in Wutan City and secretly secured the surrounding forces to protect her. After choosing the Shadow Gate to provide a Dao Protector, he departed while Yun Shan and his wife discussed leaving the Snake People Tribe's Ancestral Land to a young woman who wished to stay.

• Gu Yuan entrusted Xun'er to Xiao Zhan, who accepted her into the Xiao Family and sent Xiao Yan to play with her.
• Gu Yuan gave Xiao Zhan a Storage Ring of Gold Coins and low-grade pills, then stayed in Wutan City until he was satisfied that Xun'er was treated like family.
• Gu Yuan subdued the Beast Emperors and powerful Magical Beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, forcing them to offer their life souls and restrain the beasts.
• Gu Yuan inspected Misty Cloud Sect and decided to find a concealed expert from Shadow Gate to serve as Xun'er's Dao Protector.
• Yun Shan and his wife agreed to let a young woman remain and manage the Snake People Tribe's Ancestral Land so they could spend time together.

Zhao Li reflected on how his actions had transformed the continent and took Ye Yunsheng to see Xiao Yan, curious about the changed story. Ten years later, he discovered Xiao Xun'er had grown unusually strong because of the Nirvana Pill and learned Gu Yuan had hidden her to protect her.

• The Yun Shan Couple left the Snake People King City to report to Zhao Li and ask for leave.
• Zhao Li considered how his influence had altered the continent and wondered how Xiao Yan's future would differ from the story he knew.
• Zhao Li invited Ye Yunsheng to travel with him to see Xiao Yan, and she agreed.
• Ten years later, Zhao Li visited the Xiao Family, observed Xiao Yan and Xun'er, and found that Xun'er had reached Condensing Qi Cyclone at around four years old.
• Zhao Li traced Xun'er's unusual strength to the Nirvana Pill and learned Gu Yuan had hidden her so she could develop safely.

Zhao Li speculated about Gu Yuan’s plans for Xun’er and considered how her altered circumstances might affect Xiao Yan’s future. In Wutan City, Yao Chen successfully combined his yin and yang Soul Bodies and achieved Emperor Realm Soul power.

• Zhao Li guessed that Gu Yuan had sent Xun’er to the Xiao Family as part of a larger plan, and Ye Yunsheng warned him to be wary of Gu Yuan.
• Zhao Li reflected on his strength and wondered whether Xun’er’s intact Fire Spirit Body would change her future relationship with Xiao Yan.
• Zhao Li decided to return to Wutan City as the story’s events approached.
• Xiao Yan cultivated by the lake but still could not store Dou Qi, unaware that light had flashed from his Black Ring.
• Yao Chen merged his two Soul Bodies through the Bone Chilling Flame and successfully condensed his Primordial Spirit, gaining Emperor Realm Soul power.

Yao Chen condensed a Primordial Spirit, while Xiao Yan rescued a girl from three young men despite having only three stages of Dou Qi. Xun'er drove off the attackers and accompanied Xiao Yan to the Xiao Family’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where he was called for testing.

• Yao Chen sensed that he had condensed a Primordial Spirit, and the Bone Chilling Flame surged toward his brow.
• Xiao Yan heard a girl calling for help and turned back to find three young men surrounding her.
• Xiao Yan tried to lead the girl away, but the men attacked him and forced her to raise a stick over his head.
• Xun'er kicked the three men away, checked Xiao Yan for injuries, and told him the Coming-of-Age Ceremony had begun.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er reached the Testing Ground, where the Third Elder called Xiao Yan’s name.

At the Xiao Family’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Xiao Yan arrived with Xun'er after his name had been called and faced the clan’s mocking stares. He went to take his test, leaving the crowd laughing as he made his way toward the platform.

• The Third Elder called Xiao Yan’s name twice, but he did not appear, so the ceremony continued with Xiao Mei'er and the other youths being tested.
• As the testing neared its end, Xiao Yan and Xun'er arrived together, drawing jealous and resentful looks from the crowd.
• Xiao Yan took Xun'er's hand and led her through the crowd, while she quietly used Dou Qi to clear their path.
• The Third Elder quieted the crowd and told Xiao Yan to take his missed test first.
• Xiao Yan released Xun'er's hand and walked around toward the platform’s stairs, prompting the youths to burst into laughter.

Xiao Yan tested at only the third stage of Dou Force and endured the crowd’s mockery, while Xiao Xun'er demonstrated her exceptional talent by reaching four-star Dou Zhe. Xiao Yan left alone, and Xun'er followed at a distance.

• The Third Elder announced that Xiao Yan remained at the third stage of Dou Force, prompting ridicule from the young people in the crowd.
• Xiao Yan returned to the back of the crowd, wounded by the mockery despite trying to appear indifferent.
• Xun'er tested at four-star Dou Zhe, astonishing the crowd and prompting Xiao Zhan to reflect on how Xiao Yan might have shared her success.
• Xun'er left the stage and moved toward Xiao Yan, but he turned away and walked off alone.
• Xun'er followed Xiao Yan from afar, giving him space as he struggled with the humiliation of the test.

After watching Xiao Yan endure his humiliation, Zhao Li reflected on his own path and entered a perilous transformation as his Golden Elixir resonated with Heaven and Earth. The struggle to complete its Plane Embryo prototype began, with Zhao Li’s survival and chance to become a Dou Di at stake.

• Xun'er followed Xiao Yan to the Back Mountain but stayed at a distance while he struggled with his feelings by the pool.
• Zhao Li watched the Xiao Family Initial Test and reflected on his century-long journey, his past plans, and his respect for Xiao Yan’s perseverance.
• Ye Yunsheng sensed Zhao Li’s ethereal state and reinforced the space around them.
• Zhao Li’s Golden Elixir began absorbing the rules of Heaven and Earth as Heaven and Earth tried to reclaim it.
• Zhao Li entered a life-or-death Contention for Dao Confluence, risking his cultivation and soul for a chance to evolve power comparable to Origin Qi.

The Misty Cloud Sect visited the Xiao Family, and Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Yanran, his childhood fiancée, had come with them. Xun'er suggested that the visitors had come to dissolve their engagement, leaving Xiao Yan shocked and angry.

• The Misty Cloud Sect elders and Nalan Yanran met with Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan and Xun'er joined the reception and recognized the visitors as members of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xun'er revealed that the young woman was Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan's fiancée from a childhood arrangement.
• Xun'er explained Nalan Yanran's rise as Yun Yun's disciple and suggested she wanted to end the engagement.
• Xiao Yan asked whether the Misty Cloud Sect had come specifically to dissolve his engagement.

Xiao Yan and the Xiao Family learned that Nalan Yanran had come to dissolve her engagement, while Xun'er comforted Xiao Yan and Ge Ye tried to present the request tactfully. Ge Ye offered the Xiao Family a fourth-tier Dou Crystal Tempering Pill as compensation, leaving the engagement dispute unresolved.

• Xiao Yan suspected that Nalan Yanran intended to annul their engagement and grew angry at the disgrace he believed it would bring the Xiao Family.
• Xun'er pressed Xiao Yan's clenched hand and told him that Nalan Yanran would regret her decision in the future.
• Nalan Yanran urged Ge Ye to explain their purpose, and he told Xiao Zhan that they had come to ask the Xiao Family to dissolve the engagement.
• Ge Ye presented a fourth-tier Dou Crystal Tempering Pill, made by the old Sect Master, as compensation for the Xiao Family's agreement.

Nalan Yanran came to the Xiao Family to annul her engagement to Xiao Yan, but their argument ended with Xiao Yan writing a Letter of Divorce and the two agreeing to settle the matter at his Coming-of-Age Ceremony in a year. Nalan Yanran left with Ge Ye after Xiao Yan challenged her to face him then.

• Ge Ye offered the Xiao Family a valuable Dou Crystal Pill as compensation, but Xiao Yan rejected the offer and asked whether Nalan Jie had agreed to the annulment.
• Nalan Yanran said the decision was hers, and she and Xiao Yan argued over their elders’ Marriage Arrangement and the shame the annulment would bring Xiao Yan’s father.
• Angered by Nalan Yanran’s remarks, Xiao Yan wrote a Letter of Divorce and threw it to her, prompting Ge Ye to threaten the Xiao Family with his aura.
• Nalan Yanran stopped Ge Ye from intervening and declared that she would return in a year, at Xiao Yan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, to settle the matter.
• Xiao Yan accepted her challenge and mocked her, and Nalan Yanran called him a cripple before leaving with Ge Ye.

Xun'er warned Nalan Yanran and the Misty Cloud Sect before frightening Ge Ye into fleeing, while Xiao Yan vowed to face Nalan Yanran himself in a year. From the Void, Ye Yunsheng wondered whether Zhao Li had foreseen or arranged the events.

• Xun'er warned Nalan Yanran that stronger people than Yun Shan existed, then revealed a golden flame in her eyes that terrified Ge Ye.
• Ge Ye hurried Nalan Yanran and the other Misty Cloud Sect members out of the hall, leaving Xiao Zhan to wonder about Gu Yuan and Xun'er's origins.
• Xiao Yan apologized to his family, vowed to settle the matter with Nalan Yanran in a year, and left the hall.
• Ye Yunsheng watched from the Void and wondered whether Zhao Li had predicted or planned what had happened.

Ye Yunsheng watched Zhao Li's mysterious Dao Confluence and wondered why he had taken such an interest in Xiao Yan. After Xiao Yan resolved to leave the Xiao Family and seek strength elsewhere, Yao Chen emerged from his ring and assessed him as a promising student.

• Ye Yunsheng suspected Zhao Li had anticipated or arranged the events surrounding Xiao Yan, but chose not to interfere with his mysterious state.
• Xiao Yan left the guest hall after Nalan Yanran's insult and decided to leave the Xiao Family to pursue strength beyond Wutan City.
• A voice from Xiao Yan's black ring identified itself as someone who could help him, and Xiao Yan asked the unseen speaker to reveal himself.
• Yao Chen appeared beside the cliff, and Xiao Yan recognized his ability to hover as a sign of Dou Zong strength.
• Yao Chen judged Xiao Yan to have strong Soul Power, suitable talent, and an unyielding temperament, while reflecting on how Zhao Li's Soul Cultivation Method had greatly strengthened him.

Yao Chen revealed how Zhao Li and Xiao Yan’s birth helped him reach the Emperor Realm, then considered taking Xiao Yan as his disciple to help him regain a physical body and pursue Dou Di. He offered Xiao Yan a chance to become stronger, leaving Xiao Yan asking whether he could surpass his rival within a year.

• Yao Chen explained that Zhao Li’s teachings and the energy connected to Xiao Yan’s birth had helped him break through to the Emperor Realm.
• Xiao Yan angrily charged at Yao Chen, passed through his soul form, and nearly fell off the cliff before Yao Chen rescued him.
• Yao Chen decided Xiao Yan might qualify as his disciple, while resolving to revive himself and rescue Han Shanshan.
• Yao Chen asked whether Xiao Yan wanted strength and respect, but Xiao Yan said he could grow strong on his own.
• Yao Chen warned that Xiao Yan’s rival would come to his door in a year, prompting Xiao Yan to ask if Yao Chen could help him surpass her by then.

Yao Chen offered Xiao Yan an Earth Tier cultivation technique, but Xiao Yan chose to become his disciple instead. After Yao Chen gave him a body-tempering technique, Xiao Yan fainted from a strange pain, leaving Yao Chen puzzled about his past and Zhao Li’s influence.

• Yao Chen offered Xiao Yan an Earth Tier Mid-Grade Fire Attribute cultivation technique as compensation, but Xiao Yan refused to settle for it and asked to become his disciple.
• Yao Chen accepted Xiao Yan after warning him to respect his teachers and the Dao, then gave him a cultivation technique to study.
• Xiao Yan recognized something familiar in the technique, suffered intense pain, and fainted.
• Yao Chen soothed Xiao Yan’s soul and wondered whether his reaction was connected to his birth, reincarnation, or Zhao Li.
• Yao Chen woke Xiao Yan as someone approached, while Ye Yunsheng realized Yao Chen had an Emperor Realm Soul and wondered why her husband had planned around Xiao Yan.

Zhao Li struggled against the World Origin in a Contention for Dao Confluence and realized he needed to shatter his Golden Elixir, though his first attempt failed. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan recovered, became Yao Chen’s disciple, and advanced to Dou Qi Stage Five through their combined training methods.

• Ye Yunsheng watched Zhao Li struggle and wondered why he cared so much about Xiao Yan.
• Zhao Li realized the World Origin would eventually assimilate him unless he turned its manifestations into nourishment, and resolved to shatter his Golden Elixir.
• Zhao Li’s first attempt to shatter the Golden Elixir failed because his power came from it, so he prepared to strike after the World Origin moved to seize it.
• Xiao Yan recovered from his coma, and Xun'er saw that he seemed like his old self again.
• Yao Chen formed a master-disciple bond with Xiao Yan and trained him with medicinal baths and Zhao Li’s body-tempering method.
• Xiao Yan reached Dou Qi Stage Five after breaking through two levels in a month.

Xiao Yan cultivated rapidly under Yao Chen’s guidance but worried about the growing cost of his medicinal ingredients, so he borrowed more money from Xun'er and became a middleman. Yao Chen then revealed that Xiao Yan had the aptitude to become an Alchemist and offered to teach him.

• Xiao Yan broke through to the fifth stage of Dou Qi within a month and asked Yao Chen whether his rapid progress would damage his potential.
• Yao Chen dismissed Xiao Yan’s concerns, and Xiao Yan decided to borrow money from Xun'er to keep buying medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan borrowed a large sum from Xun'er, and Yao Chen used his flames to turn the ingredients into medicinal liquid for him to sell.
• Yao Chen showed Xiao Yan the Bone Chilling Flame and asked whether he wanted to learn alchemy.
• Xiao Yan eagerly agreed, and Yao Chen explained that he had once noticed Xiao Yan’s talent but had forgotten to mention it.

Xiao Yan advanced rapidly in seclusion under Yao Chen’s guidance, reaching Seventh Stage Dou Qi in four months and becoming more eager to become a Dou Zhe. Their cultivation was interrupted by an uncanny winter thunderstorm that left Yao Chen as shaken as Xiao Yan.

• Yao Chen offered to teach Xiao Yan alchemy, then explained that Xiao Yan first needed to become a Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan gathered medicinal ingredients through the Auction House and began secluded cultivation, encouraged by the prospect of becoming an Alchemist.
• After four months, Xiao Yan reached Seventh Stage Dou Qi, surprising both himself and Yao Chen with his progress.
• A thunderous boom sounded under the winter sky, and Xiao Yan realized the seasons had changed while he cultivated.
• Xiao Yan lost contact with Yao Chen briefly, then reconnected with him; Yao Chen could not explain the strange thunder and was deeply alarmed by it.

A strange thunderclap over Wutan City stirred Yao Chen and Xiao Xun'er, who both sensed an extraordinary force in the sky. Yao Chen glimpsed something hidden within the Void, while Xun'er’s Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame trembled as she looked outside.

• Yao Chen sensed the thunderous phenomenon and wondered whether the Origin of Heaven and Earth had descended.
• Yao Chen probed the Void despite the force dissolving his Soul Power, and finally saw something within it.
• Xiao Xun'er visited the Xiao Family Training Ground and began studying Dou Techniques for Xiao Yan.
• A thunderclap startled the people at the Training Ground, and Xun'er felt her Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame tremble.
• Xun'er looked outside with a faint golden light in her eyes and began to react to what she saw.

After spending four months in the Ethereal State, Zhao Li emerged having shattered and transformed his Golden Elixir and resisted the Origin of Heaven and Earth. His first counterattack caused winter thunder across Wutan City, while he realized his control over the origin remained at ninety percent.

• Winter thunder drew the Xiao Family and the rest of Wutan City to speculate about its cause, while Xiao Xun'er found that the Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame recoiled from the sky.
• Ye Yunsheng realized Zhao Li had caused the disturbance as he emerged from the Ethereal State.
• Zhao Li sensed that his breakthrough had not raised his control over the Origin of Heaven and Earth beyond ninety percent, but had changed the foundation of his strength.
• Zhao Li explained that he had shattered his century-old Golden Elixir, made himself the anchor of his cultivation, and turned the tangible core back into an illusory concept.
• After Zhao Li shattered the core, the Origin of Heaven and Earth attacked him, and they spent three months refining each other as Zhao Li absorbed its power.
• Zhao Li grew strong enough to resist being refined, and his winter thunder marked his first counterattack against the Origin of Heaven and Earth.