Chapter Summaries

Venerable Lei challenged Yao Xuan to a one-on-one duel over his use of Three Thousand Lightning Movement, with the winner deciding whether the Wind and Lightning Pavilion would drop the matter. Yao Xuan accepted, leaving the two Venerables poised to fight.

• Venerable Lei accused Yao Xuan of using the Wind and Lightning Pavilion’s secret art and demanded an explanation.
• Venerable Feng and Heavenly Flame Venerable appeared beside Yao Xuan and warned Venerable Lei against bullying a junior.
• Venerable Lei argued that the Wind and Lightning Pavilion could not ignore an outsider displaying its technique, while Venerable Feng said they could go to war if necessary.
• Venerable Lei proposed a solo spar: if he lost, the pavilion would drop the matter, but if Yao Xuan lost, he would never use Three Thousand Lightning Movement again.
• Yao Xuan accepted Venerable Lei’s challenge.

Yao Xuan defeated Venerable Lei in one strike at the Four Pavilions Assembly and announced that Starfall Pavilion would recruit cultivators across the Central Plains. Half a month later, Yao Ye learned that Yao Chen had founded the pavilion and resolved to kill both him and Yao Xuan.

• Venerable Lei unleashed his lightning techniques, but Yao Xuan evaded his attacks and crushed him with the Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm.
• Yao Xuan announced that Starfall Pavilion would welcome aspiring cultivators and provide them with cultivation resources.
• In the Medicine Realm, Yao Xingji reached the One-Star Battle Venerable level as Yao Ye spoke of his branch's hopes resting on him.
• Yao Li reported that Yao Xuan had joined Starfall Pavilion and defeated a Three-Star Battle Venerable in one strike.
• Yao Li revealed that Yao Chen had founded Starfall Pavilion, and Yao Ye vowed to kill both Yao Chen and Yao Xuan.

Yao Xuan created an Eighth-Rank Dragon-Blood Tempering Spirit Pill to refine Zhu Kun’s inverse-scale dragon blood, then used it to break through to Six-Star Battle Venerable. He remained in secluded cultivation after stabilizing his new realm.

• Yao Xuan studied the medicinal herbs in Dan Yuanzi’s Storage Ring and devised a unique formula for the Dragon-Blood Tempering Spirit Pill.
• Yao Xuan used the Huan Yuan Heavenly Cauldron and Six-Colored Heavenly Flame to concoct the pill, which drew Three-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Yao Xuan swallowed the pill and found that its medicinal power loosened and refined the dormant Zhu Kun dragon blood.
• Yao Xuan circulated the Heaven Rank Flame Mantra and advanced from Four-Star Battle Venerable to Six-Star Battle Venerable.
• Yao Lao reassured Venerable Feng that Yao Xuan’s energy surge signaled another breakthrough.

After ending his seclusion, Yao Xuan witnessed Starfall Pavilion’s growing prominence as Tang Zhen visited to forge an alliance and ask after Yao Chen. Cao Ying then arrived on behalf of the Pill Tower and invited Yao Xuan to join, leaving him to answer the offer.

• Yao Xuan ended his seclusion, reflecting that he would need a Ninth-Rank Pill to fully absorb Zhu Kun’s Inverse-Scale Blood Essence.
• Tang Zhen visited Starfall Pavilion, asked Venerable Feng whether Yao Chen had returned, and explained that Flame Valley needed a master alchemist to refine a difficult pill.
• Tang Zhen and Venerable Feng established friendly ties and an alliance between Flame Valley and Starfall Pavilion before Tang Zhen departed with his delegation.
• Cao Ying arrived with Pill Tower representatives and met Yao Xuan, whose aura had grown stronger since their previous meeting.
• Cao Ying congratulated Starfall Pavilion on its Four Pavilions Assembly victory and formally invited Yao Xuan to join the Pill Tower, offering to grant any request within its power.

Yao Xuan accepted Pill Tower’s offer to become a guest elder and asked Cao Ying to help find ingredients for the pill needed to revive Yao Lao. As the Three-Year Pact approached, Xiao Yan refused to bring Starfall Pavilion’s forces to Misty Cloud Sect, and Yao Xuan set out with him for the duel.

• Yao Xuan accepted Pill Tower’s guest elder position, and Cao Ying agreed to search for the medicinal ingredients he needed.
• Venerable Feng suggested that Xiao Yan take twenty Dou Zongs to Misty Cloud Sect, but Xiao Yan refused so the duel with Nalan Yanran would remain fair.
• Yao Xuan supported Xiao Yan’s decision and offered to accompany him to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yao Lao agreed that Yao Xuan could travel with Xiao Yan as long as he did not interfere in the duel.
• Yao Xuan enveloped Xiao Yan in his aura, and the two departed from the main hall.

Xiao Yan arrived at Misty Cloud Mountain with Yao Xuan to fulfill his three-year pact with Nalan Yanran. He revealed that he had reached Five-Star Dou Spirit, shocking the assembled experts, while Nalan Yanran entered the arena determined to fight.

• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan arrived above the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, and Xiao Yan asked Yao Xuan not to reveal his strength unless necessary.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Xuan reached Misty Cloud Mountain, where the spectators expected Nalan Yanran to defeat the supposedly weak Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan announced that he had come to challenge the Misty Cloud Sect and fulfill the pact, and Nalan Yanran belittled him before displaying her Great Dou Master cultivation.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Five-Star Dou Spirit strength, stunning the spectators and unsettling Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Ling urged Nalan Yanran not to panic and claimed Xiao Yan's power came from a temporary secret technique, then Nalan Yanran took up her wind sword and declared she would not lose.

Xiao Yan decisively defeated Nalan Yanran in their arena duel, proving his Five-Star Dou Spirit strength was stable and bolstered by the Five-Colored Heavenly Flame. Nalan Yanran collapsed in defeat, while Yun Ling struggled to accept the result and protect the Misty Cloud Sect’s dignity.

• Nalan Yanran circled and probed Xiao Yan, believing his cultivation came from a temporary secret technique.
• Xiao Yan struck the arena with his Black Heavy Ruler, unleashing stable Dou Qi and a blast that sent Nalan Yanran flying and made her spit blood.
• Nalan Yanran rose, gathered her strength, and launched Wind Technique: Sunset Radiance at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan answered with Flame-Splitting Tsunami Ruler, and his Five-Colored Heavenly Flame clashed with Nalan Yanran’s golden wind attack.
• After the dust cleared, Nalan Yanran’s Dou Qi Armor had shattered and she collapsed to her knees, while Xiao Yan remained standing without retreating.
• Yun Ling struggled to accept Nalan Yanran’s crushing defeat as Xiao Yan told her she had lost.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Pact and burned the letter of repudiation, ending their past ties. Yun Ling then declared the match invalid and ordered Xiao Yan to remain for an examination, while Yao Xuan watched without intervening.

• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran and burned the letter of repudiation, settling their marriage contract and past grudges.
• The crowd on Misty Cloud Mountain erupted in astonishment, while Yao Xuan remained calm in the stands.
• Yun Ling accused Xiao Yan of using a secret technique to fake his strength and declared the match invalid.
• Yun Ling ordered Xiao Yan to stay for a thorough examination and hovered above the arena to block his departure.
• Nalan Yanran admitted that Xiao Yan had truly beaten her, but Yun Ling dismissed her statement and told her to leave.

After Xiao Yan rejected Yun Ling’s demand to remain for an investigation, Yun Ling attacked him and was struck down by an unseen force from Yao Xuan. Yun Ling then activated the Misty Cloud Sect’s guardian formation to trap Xiao Yan, prompting Yao Xuan to enter the arena and condemn the sect.

• Xiao Yan refused Yun Ling’s demand for an inspection and started to leave the arena.
• Yun Ling attacked Xiao Yan, but Yao Xuan secretly struck him with an invisible force and sent him crashing into a mountain wall.
• Yun Ling accused the gathered Battle Emperors of intervening, then insisted Xiao Yan had used forbidden techniques when they denied it.
• Yun Ling ordered the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to activate the Cloud-Smoke Sun-Covering Formation and seal Xiao Yan inside it.
• Yao Xuan stepped through the formation, landed beside Xiao Yan, and rebuked Yun Ling and the Misty Cloud Sect.

Yao Xuan killed Yun Ling after Yun Ling threatened him, and the Misty Cloud Sect’s former leader Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong. The chapter left Yun Shan asking where Yun Ling was and learning that he had fallen.

• Yao Xuan’s presence stunned Jia Xingtian, Fama, and Hai Bodong with his apparent Half-Step Dou Zong strength.
• Yun Ling tried to intimidate Yao Xuan by invoking the Misty Cloud Sect’s power, but Yao Xuan treated his words as a threat.
• Yao Xuan unleashed invisible pressure that shattered Yun Ling’s meridians and annihilated him.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion with a Dou Zong aura, astonishing Jia Xingtian, Fama, and the others.
• Yun Shan appeared above the arena and asked where Yun Ling was, and another Misty Cloud Sect elder told him Yun Ling had fallen.

Yao Xuan confronted Yun Shan over Yun Ling’s death and revealed that he was a Six-Star Battle Venerable, far stronger than the Misty Cloud Sect master. As the onlookers fled and Yun Shan tried to escape, Yao Xuan shattered the space around him and seized him with a massive Dou Qi palm.

• Yun Shan demanded an explanation for Yun Ling’s death and threatened to kill Yao Xuan and his brother, while Yao Xuan defended the killing as justice for his brother.
• Yun Yun arrived, comforted Nalan Yanran after her defeat, and then condemned Yao Xuan for killing a Misty Cloud Sect elder.
• Yao Xuan criticized Yun Shan and the sect for abusing their power, then unleashed his Six-Star Battle Venerable aura before the shocked witnesses.
• Yao Xuan told the onlookers to leave, and Jia Xingtian, Fama, and Hai Bodong immediately fled.
• Yun Shan attempted to escape, but Yao Xuan shattered the space around him and reached for him with a massive Dou Qi palm.

Yao Xuan killed Yun Shan and, after Xiao Yan condemned the Misty Cloud Sect for its past actions, destroyed the sect and its cultivators. As the surviving Jia Ma Empire leaders realized how thoroughly the empire would change, Yao Xuan called out someone hiding in the mountain’s forbidden grounds.

• Yao Xuan crushed Yun Shan to death, and Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran watched in shock.
• Yun Yun charged Yao Xuan but was pinned down by his Battle Venerable pressure, and he asked Xiao Yan how to deal with the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan blamed the sect for supporting Nalan Yanran’s broken engagement and for later slandering him and Yao Xuan.
• Yao Xuan told Xiao Yan that enemies with the power to strike back should be eliminated, then wiped out the Misty Cloud Sect’s cultivators at the Dou Spirit level and above, including Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran.
• Jia Xingtian, Fama, and Hai Bodong sensed the massacre from afar and recognized that the Jia Ma Empire would be transformed.
• Yao Xuan sensed someone in the forbidden grounds behind the mountain and ordered them to come out.

Yao Xuan confronted Wu Ying, a Soul Hall Protector who offered him a high-ranking position in exchange for Xiao Yan. When Wu Ying threatened Yao Xuan’s clan and reached for a spatial jade slip, Yao Xuan killed him and captured his soul.

• Wu Ying appeared after the Misty Cloud Sect’s destruction and recognized Yao Xuan from his reputation in the Central Plains.
• Wu Ying introduced himself as a ground-rank Soul Hall Protector and offered Yao Xuan a Venerable Elder position, cultivation resources, and a path to becoming a Heaven Venerable.
• Wu Ying revealed that Yao Xuan had to hand over Xiao Yan to complete the deal, and Xiao Yan sensed the danger.
• Wu Ying threatened Yao Xuan, the Starfall Pavilion, his clan, and his relatives, then prepared to use a spatial jade slip to summon Soul Hall experts.
• Yao Xuan appeared behind Wu Ying, crushed his body before he could use the jade slip, and seized his surviving soul.

Yao Xuan told Xiao Yan that the Xiao Household descended from the once-powerful Xiao Clan, one of the Ancient Eight Clans, and warned that Wu Ying had likely targeted them. They discovered Clan Chief Xiao Zhan had been abducted, and Yao Xuan searched Wu Ying’s soul for information, leaving Xiao Yan waiting to learn where his father was.

• Yao Xuan revealed that Xiao Yan’s family belonged to the Ancient Eight Clans and suspected Wu Ying had targeted the Xiao Household because of its past.
• Yao Xuan and Xiao Yan rushed to Wu Tan City, where they found the Xiao Household unharmed but Xiao Zhan missing.
• The First Elder told Xiao Yan that Xiao Zhan had vanished half a month earlier and gave him the Xiao Household’s ancestral Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Yao Xuan confirmed Wu Ying had abducted Xiao Zhan and summoned Wu Ying’s bound soul to question him.
• Wu Ying threatened Yao Xuan, who tortured and searched his soul before destroying it; Xiao Yan then asked where his father was.

After learning that Soul Hall had taken Xiao Yan’s father to its core territory, Yao Xuan stopped Xiao Yan from rushing to rescue him and helped him plan the Xiao Household’s relocation. Yao Xuan approached Hai Bodong to recruit him as the clan’s protector, while Jia Xingtian feared the Miter Lineage would share the Misty Cloud Sect’s fate.

• Yao Xuan told Xiao Yan that Soul Hall had taken Clan Head Xiao to its core territory and that the Ancient Jade kept him safe for now.
• Yao Xuan restrained Xiao Yan from charging into Soul Hall and urged him to grow stronger before attempting a rescue.
• Xiao Yan decided to move the Xiao Household from Wu Tan City to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, and Yao Xuan proposed finding an expert to protect them.
• Yao Xuan traveled to the Miter Lineage residence and asked Hai Bodong to guard the Xiao Household, offering to help him reach the Dou Zong realm or higher.
• Jia Xingtian sensed Yao Xuan at the Miter Lineage and worried that Hai Bodong and the Miter Lineage would suffer the same fate as the Misty Cloud Sect.

Yao Xuan restored Hai Bodong’s strength and raised him to the Nine-Star Battle Emperor Realm, securing his promise to protect the Xiao Household after its relocation to the Imperial Capital. With the Xiao Household safely settled, Yao Xuan told Xiao Yan they needed to grow stronger before attempting to rescue the Xiao Clan Head, and suggested the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life-and-Death Gate.

• Yao Xuan refined a Purple Recovery Pill that healed Hai Bodong’s hidden injuries and restored him to his Peak Five-Star Battle Emperor strength.
• Yao Xuan refined an Emperor’s Pill that raised Hai Bodong to the Nine-Star Battle Emperor Realm, then gave him pills to support his future cultivation and Dou Zong breakthrough.
• Hai Bodong promised to house and protect the Xiao Household in the Miter Lineage’s western courtyard complex.
• Xiao Yan and the Xiao Household’s leaders brought the clan from Wu Tan City to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, where Yao Xuan introduced Hai Bodong as their protector.
• Yao Xuan urged Xiao Yan to focus on gaining strength before confronting the Soul Hall and proposed the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life-and-Death Gate instead of returning to Starfall Pavilion.

Yao Xuan brought Xiao Yan to the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life-and-Death Gate so he could cultivate in its powerful secret realm. After discovering a hidden Yin-Yang Twin Flame Origin, Yao Xuan left Xiao Yan there and set out to seize the Soul Origins stored at a nearby Soul Hall branch.

• Yao Xuan explained that the Life-and-Death Gate could help Xiao Yan consolidate his foundations and advance, so they flew to the ruined Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Yao Xuan broke the seal on the Life-and-Death Gate and entered the secret realm with Xiao Yan, where dense spiritual energy filled the air.
• Yao Xuan examined the realm and discovered its miniature origin space structure and a concealed wisp of Yin-Yang Twin Flame Origin.
• Yao Xuan let Xiao Yan remain in the realm to cultivate while he left to handle an important matter.
• Yao Xuan recalled Wu Ying’s memories of the Northwest Soul Hall Branch and headed there to obtain its stored Soul Origins.

Yao Xuan attacked Soul Hall’s Ten-Thousand Souls Lair in Cloud Empire, destroyed its guards, and seized its stored Soul Origin. After extracting the location and strength of the Heavenly Heart Branch Hall from Mu Protector, he set off toward his next target.

• Yao Xuan used Wu Ying’s memories to locate the Ten-Thousand Souls Lair, an outer Soul Hall stronghold in Cloud Empire.
• Mu Protector and the lair’s Soul Hall guards confronted Yao Xuan, but he killed the guards and captured Mu Protector’s soul.
• Yao Xuan searched Mu Protector’s memories and learned the Heavenly Heart Branch Hall’s location, personnel, and strength.
• Yao Xuan collected the lair’s small stockpile of Soul Origin, destroyed the stronghold, and headed toward the Heavenly Heart Empire.

Yao Xuan infiltrated Soul Hall’s Heavenly Heart Branch Hall and discovered Qing Lin imprisoned there. He unleashed his full power against the hall’s two Three-Star Battle Venerable elders, and the chapter ended as he attacked them with the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method.

• Yao Xuan reached the Heavenly Heart Branch Hall in the Valley of Ten Thousand Evils and secretly investigated its defenses.
• Yao Xuan sensed Qing Lin imprisoned under soul-locking restrictions and found her aura weak.
• Yao Xuan revealed his Battle Venerable pressure, drawing out the two elders guarding the branch hall.
• Yao Xuan displayed the power of a Six-Star Battle Venerable and struck at the elders with the Profound Flame Suppressing Wilderness Palm.
• Yao Xuan appeared behind the elders and unleashed the Five-Wheel Separation Flame Method, filling the sky with Heavenly Flames.

Yao Xuan destroyed the Heavenly Heart Branch Hall, rescued Qing Lin, and seized the branch’s Soul Origin and soul-gathering formation. He brought Qing Lin out of the Valley of Ten Thousand Evils, and she chose to accompany him to Starfall Pavilion rather than return to the Heavenly Serpent Prefecture.

• Yao Xuan killed the two Soul Hall venerables guarding the branch hall and burned its remaining members to ash.
• Yao Xuan found Qing Lin unconscious in the underground prison, freed her from the soul-locking chains, and restored her health.
• Qing Lin refused to explain why Soul Hall had captured her, and Yao Xuan did not press her.
• Yao Xuan collected the Soul Origin light clusters and stored the soul-gathering formation foundation in his Storage Ring.
• Yao Xuan offered to take Qing Lin to Starfall Pavilion or the Heavenly Serpent Prefecture, and Qing Lin chose Starfall Pavilion.
• Yao Xuan and Qing Lin left the Valley of Ten Thousand Evils, where Qing Lin remarked that he had grown even stronger.