Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Yu beat Xiao Yan, Qin Yu stayed overnight at the Xiao Household and sensed something unusual in the earth vein beneath it. The next morning, Xiao Yan apologized and asked Qin Yu for cultivation guidance, but Qin Yu refused to reveal what he knew and left him with a brief encouragement.

• Xiao Yu stopped beating Xiao Yan, who apologized to the First Elder and left the courtyard, where he met Gu Xun'er.
• The First Elder invited Qin Yu to stay at the Xiao Household, and Qin Yu sensed an unusual power in the earth vein beneath the estate.
• Xiao Yan waited outside Qin Yu's room the next morning, apologized, and offered him a stick if he wanted to beat him again.
• Xiao Yan asked Qin Yu to diagnose why his Dou Qi kept disappearing and to share cultivation advice, but Qin Yu said his cultivation method could not help him.
• Qin Yu told Xiao Yan to do what he was supposed to do, then left Xiao Yan pondering his words.

Xiao Yan took Qin Yu’s advice to heart and resumed cultivating despite his disappearing Dou Qi, while Qin Yu spent his last days in Wutan City with Xiao Yu. The Grand Elder showed off Qin Yu and Xiao Yu’s progress to Xiao Zhan, leaving the patriarch frustrated and helpless over Xiao Yan’s stagnation.

• Xiao Yu learned from Xiao Ning that Qin Yu had gone looking for her, while Qin Yu could not find her for their planned visit to the admissions office.
• Xiao Yan reflected on Qin Yu’s words, chose to keep cultivating, and resolved to persist even if his Dou Qi continued to vanish.
• Qin Yu spent several leisurely days cultivating and exploring Wutan City with Xiao Yu as Instructor Ruo Lin conducted admissions and found the recruits unremarkable.
• The Grand Elder brought Qin Yu to the clan council hall and showed Xiao Zhan that Qin Yu had reached Seven-Star Battle Master at a young age.
• The Grand Elder boasted that Xiao Yu had advanced to Four-Star Dou Practitioner in a year and offered Qin Yu’s cultivation guidance to the Xiao Household’s younger members.
• Xiao Zhan reluctantly agreed to the arrangement, then sat alone feeling helpless about Xiao Yan’s unchanged Third-Stage Battle Qi.

Qin Yu left the Xiao Household, but a Jia Lie Clan ambush in an alley forced him to reconsider leaving Wutan City. After killing the four attackers, he returned to the Xiao Household before dawn to gather information and plan to destroy the clan.

• Qin Yu left the Xiao Household at night and headed toward the little house before departing Wutan City.
• Four Jia Lie Clan attackers ambushed Qin Yu in an alley, and he killed them all despite his shock at taking lives for the first time.
• Qin Yu found a token on the Two-Star Battle Master and decided the Jia Lie Clan remained a threat he had to eliminate before leaving.
• Qin Yu dragged away the attackers' corpses, cleaned the blood from outside the little house, and returned to the Xiao Household to seek intelligence on the Jia Lie Clan.
• Qin Yu retrieved his farewell letter from beneath a teacup and waited in his guest room for dawn.

After surviving an ambush by Jia Lie Clan assassins, Qin Yu obtained intelligence from the First Elder and planned to eliminate the clan’s High-Rank Battle Masters. He left the Xiao Household to scout Jia Lie territory, intending to draw the Jia Lie Clan into a vulnerable position.

• Qin Yu told the First Elder that four Jia Lie Clan fighters had tried to kill him, and that he had dealt with their bodies.
• Qin Yu asked for information on the Jia Lie Clan, and the First Elder gave him a dossier detailing its fighters and their movements.
• The First Elder revealed that Jia Lie Kun would soon escort a shipment, giving Qin Yu a chance to target him.
• Qin Yu declared that he would keep killing Jia Lie Clan fighters until the clan was unable to threaten him, and the First Elder offered the Xiao Household’s possible support.
• Qin Yu left the Xiao Household for Jia Lie territory to scout his targets before beginning his attacks.

Qin Yu killed three high-ranking Jia Lie Clan Battle Masters in separate attacks. Jia Lie Bi learned Jia Lie Kun had also been killed, leaving the clan leader facing a mysterious attacker.

• A messenger told Jia Lie Ping that Jia Lie Hong had been murdered, then Qin Yu killed Jia Lie Ping with a single punch at the market.
• Qin Yu crossed Wutan City’s rooftops and headed for the Magic Beast Mountains to find the last target, Jia Lie Kun.
• Qin Yu ambushed Jia Lie Kun’s convoy in Lin and killed him with a punch before vanishing.
• Jia Lie Bi questioned witnesses about Jia Lie Hong and Jia Lie Ping’s deaths, then received news that Jia Lie Kun had also been killed.

After Qin Yu killed three Jia Lie Household experts, Jia Lie Bi suspected him and ordered an investigation while Ling Ying killed a Jia Lie spy near Xiao Xun’er’s room. Qin Yu assured Xiao Zhan he could face a Two-Star Great Dou Master, but warned the Xiao Household not to attack yet.

• Jia Lie Bi ordered his people to investigate Qin Yu’s connection to the Xiao Household after recalling the failed mission to kill him.
• Ling Ying caught and killed an Eight-Star Battle Master he suspected belonged to the Jia Lie Household after the man approached Xiao Xun’er’s room.
• Xiao Zhan asked Qin Yu whether he could deal with a Two-Star Great Dou Master, and Qin Yu said he could.
• Qin Yu recalled sparring with Instructor Ruo Lin and nearly breaking her Dou Qi Armor while holding back his earth-restoring power.
• Xiao Zhan and the First Elder agreed that the Xiao Household should retaliate against the Jia Lie Household, but Qin Yu said it was not yet time.

Qin Yu persuaded Xiao Zhan to wait for the Jia Lie Clan to expose a weakness, then learned Jia Lie Nu would leave Wutan City and decided to intercept him alone. The chapter left Qin Yu preparing to take on the Two-Star Great Dou Master while Xiao Zhan and the elders stayed behind to avoid alerting the Jia Lie Clan.

• Qin Yu told Xiao Zhan and the First Elder to wait until one of the Jia Lie Clan’s remaining Da Dou Shi was isolated, and Xiao Zhan agreed to have the clan watch for an opportunity.
• Xiao Zhan thanked Qin Yu for advice that had helped Xiao Yan’s cultivation, leaving Qin Yu baffled about what he had said.
• Two days later, Instructor Ruo Lin and the newly recruited students departed Wutan City, while Qin Yu stayed behind.
• Xiao Zhan informed Qin Yu that Jia Lie Nu would leave the next day, and Qin Yu suspected he was going to meet the One-Grade Alchemist Liu Xi.
• Qin Yu refused Xiao Zhan and the elders’ offer to accompany him, explaining that their departure could alert the Jia Lie Clan, and said he could handle Jia Lie Nu alone.

Qin Yu ambushed Jia Lie Nu on the road and fought the Two-Star Da Dou Shi after destroying his carriage. Qin Yu killed Jia Lie Nu, took his Storage Ring, and left after checking that the driver was dead as well.

• Qin Yu lay in ambush outside the city and waited for Jia Lie Nu to arrive.
• Jia Lie Nu escaped his carriage when Qin Yu's attack crushed it and confronted him with his spear.
• Qin Yu overwhelmed Jia Lie Nu in a barrage of punches and countered his Wave Overlap with Earth Dragon Overturning.
• Qin Yu shattered Jia Lie Nu's Dou Qi Armor and knocked him down with successive punches.
• Qin Yu killed Jia Lie Nu, took his Storage Ring, and ensured the driver was dead before leaving.

After killing Jia Lie Nu, Qin Yu returned to Wutan City and helped Xiao Zhan launch a surprise attack on the Jia Lie Clan. The Xiao Household crushed its resistance, and Qin Yu’s intervention foiled Jia Lie Bi’s plan to summon the Oba Clan, leaving the Jia Lie Clan defeated.

• Qin Yu checked Jia Lie Nu’s Storage Ring, then returned to Wutan City and reported the kill to Xiao Zhan and the elders.
• Xiao Zhan decided the Xiao Household would attack the Jia Lie Clan that night while Jia Lie Nu was gone.
• Xiao Zhan led the Xiao Household elites into the Jia Lie residence, where they quickly overwhelmed its guards.
• Jia Lie Bi revealed that he had sent messengers to alert the Oba Clan and threaten the Xiao Household’s undefended residence.
• Qin Yu arrived with the messengers’ corpses, and Xiao Zhan and the First Elder used Jia Lie Bi’s distraction to kill him.
• The Xiao Household swiftly defeated Jia Lie Gang, completing the Jia Lie Clan’s fall.

After the Xiao Household destroyed the Jia Lie Clan, Xiao Zhan gave Qin Yu half its assets, and Qin Yu prepared to leave Wutan City. Realizing Qin Yu had stayed to protect a shabby house in Gourd Alley, Xiao Zhan ordered his stewards to keep it safe.

• The Xiao Household took over the Jia Lie Clan’s estate, and Xiao Zhan chose not to confront the Oba Clan yet.
• Xiao Zhan gave Qin Yu a Storage Ring containing half the Jia Lie Clan’s assets, and Qin Yu accepted it before announcing his departure.
• After Qin Yu left, Xiao Zhan concluded that he had destroyed the Jia Lie Clan to protect a little house in Gourd Alley.
• Xiao Zhan instructed Xiao An to regularly maintain the house without changing it.

Qin Yu entered the Magic Beast Mountain Range, where absorbing Wood Attribute energy helped him break through to Eight-Star Battle Master. He reached Qingshan Town to rest before searching for the cave containing the Purple Cloud Wings.

• Qin Yu sensed the Wood Attribute energy in the mountain Earth Veins and advanced to Eight-Star Battle Master.
• Qin Yu killed a Rock-Armored Lizard and collected its magic core and scales.
• Qin Yu traveled toward Qingshan Town, intent on finding the cave containing the Purple Cloud Wings and hoping to meet Xiao Yi Xian.
• Qin Yu reached Qingshan Town after sunset and checked into an inn for the night.

Qin Yu joined Xiao Yi Xian’s herb-gathering team to search the Magic Beast Mountains for a hidden cave near Qingshan Town. After learning that cliffs lay along a dangerous route to the north, he told Xiao Yi Xian about the supposed treasure, and she asked to accompany him.

• Qin Yu used his Battle Qi Gauze to persuade the full team to let him join, drawing the attention of Mu Li.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived, greeted Qin Yu, and set out with the team while Mu Li watched her.
• Qin Yu tried to locate the hidden cave through Earth Vein Perception but found the mountain’s Earth Vein Force too chaotic.
• Qin Yu asked Xiao Yi Xian about routes with cliffs, and she told him that dangerous cliffs lay north of town.
• Qin Yu told Xiao Yi Xian about a rumored treasure in a cliffside cave, and she asked to go with him.

Qin Yu agreed to take Xiao Yi Xian to a hidden cave in the Magic Beast Mountains, where a treasure and the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture awaited. After carrying her across the mountains at great speed, he sensed the cave and left her stunned by the distance of his perception.

• Qin Yu effortlessly killed the Magic Beasts on the herb-gathering trip, and the party returned safely to Qingshan Town.
• Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian met after nightfall and headed north into the Magic Beast Mountains.
• When Xiao Yi Xian could not keep up, Qin Yu carried her through the mountains until they reached a cliff.
• Qin Yu sensed a cave nearby, and Xiao Yi Xian nearly fell from the cliff when he startled her.
• Qin Yu carried Xiao Yi Xian several li to the cave's hidden location, leaving her amazed by his sensing range.

Qin Yu and Xiao Yi Xian entered a hidden cave, where Qin Yu found a flying combat technique and a poison scripture. Xiao Yi Xian admitted she wanted the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.

• Qin Yu used his earth-controlling ability to expose a Rock Snake and raise a stone ridge, then carried Xiao Yi Xian across to the cave entrance.
• Qin Yu smashed through the sealed stone door and led Xiao Yi Xian into the cave, holding her hand as they walked through the darkness.
• Xiao Yi Xian gathered herbs while Qin Yu took three stone keys and a fragmentary map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame from the skeleton.
• Qin Yu opened a stone box and obtained the Mystic Tier High-Rank flying combat technique Eagle's Wings.
• Qin Yu found the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture in a second stone box, and Xiao Yi Xian admitted that she wanted it.

Qin Yu healed Xiao Yi Xian's burned hand with Wood Attribute energy and kept the Ice Spirit Flame Grass. As they left the cave, he reassured her that he trusted her despite her worries about the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, and she climbed onto his back for the journey onward.

• Qin Yu opened the third stone box and took the Crazy Lion's Roar technique scroll.
• Xiao Yi Xian burned her hand while gathering the Ice Spirit Flame Grass, and Qin Yu healed it with Wood Attribute energy.
• Qin Yu picked the Ice Spirit Flame Grass after Xiao Yi Xian told him to keep it, and they headed out of the cave.
• Qin Yu asked whether the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture troubled Xiao Yi Xian, and told her he did not believe she would willingly use it to harm someone.
• Xiao Yi Xian climbed onto Qin Yu's back as they left, then quietly called him a strange guy.

After finding the treasure, Qin Yu carried Xiao Yi Xian back toward Qingshan Town and encouraged her to imagine a life beyond it. They parted at dawn, leaving Xiao Yi Xian wondering whether they would meet again.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked about Qin Yu’s healing ability and his plans to travel through the Jia Ma Empire and the Tagor Desert.
• Qin Yu asked whether Xiao Yi Xian wanted to see the world, but she insisted she would stay in Qingshan Town and treat patients.
• Xiao Yi Xian fell asleep on Qin Yu’s back, and he carried her to Qingshan Town before dawn.
• Xiao Yi Xian woke up embarrassed after drooling on Qin Yu’s clothes, and the two laughed together before saying goodbye.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned to the Ten Thousand Medicine Hall, told Mr. Yao she had gone for a walk, and privately wondered if she would see Qin Yu again.

Qin Yu mastered the Purple Cloud Wings and searched the Magic Beast Mountain Range for a place with dense Wood Attribute power to help him cultivate. He found Xiao Yi Xian’s hidden herb valley and reunited with her, where she asked whether he had come there to cultivate.

• Qin Yu refined the Purple Cloud Wings, struggled to fly at first, and gradually learned to control them.
• Qin Yu sensed unusually powerful Fire Attribute energy near the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s cave and sought a nearby place with enough Wood Attribute power to safely cultivate.
• After three days of searching, Qin Yu found a secluded, forested valley and discovered Xiao Yi Xian gathering herbs there.
• Xiao Yi Xian wondered how Qin Yu had found her secret valley, and he explained that he had been seeking dense Wood Attribute power.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted Qin Yu’s arrival and asked whether he had come to the valley to cultivate.

Qin Yu used Wood Attribute energy to resist the poison that suddenly erupted from Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body. He calmed the poison enough to save her, and she broke down in tears against him.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Qin Yu why he had shared his cultivation method, and he explained that few people could master it.
• Qin Yu began cultivating by drawing Wood Attribute energy from the Earth Vein, but poison mist escaping Xiao Yi Xian's cottage invaded his body.
• Qin Yu used Wood Attribute energy to suppress the poison in his meridians and rushed into the cottage.
• Qin Yu held Xiao Yi Xian's hand and continuously drew Wood Attribute energy from the Earth Vein to calm the poison throughout her body.
• Xiao Yi Xian's poison subsided, and she silently cried against Qin Yu's chest before apologizing repeatedly.

Qin Yu examined Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and worked out the principles behind a possible cure, though he still needed to devise a method. Xiao Yi Xian agreed to leave with him, and the pair set off the next morning on her Blue Eagle.

• Qin Yu entered Xiao Yi Xian’s poison-filled house, examined her condition, and refused to leave despite her warning that her constitution was dangerous.
• Qin Yu told Xiao Yi Xian he understood the Woeful Poison Body’s principles and believed it could eventually be resolved, so she challenged him to cure her and said she would stay with him.
• Qin Yu reasoned through the Poison Pill Method’s steps of gathering, containing, and transforming the poison, then asked Xiao Yi Xian to make dinner.
• Xiao Yi Xian packed her belongings and prepared to leave with Qin Yu the next morning, bringing her Blue Eagle to carry her.

Qin Yu broke through to Nine-Star Battle Master by refining the power of fire and wood, then developed a complete Five Elements mutual-generation cycle. He left with Xiao Yi Xian for Heiyan City, believing his new method could help resolve her Woeful Poison Body.

• Qin Yu burned away the wood power taking root in his body and broke through to Nine-Star Battle Master.
• Qin Yu refused Xiao Yi Xian's request to suppress her poison because doing so would lock her cultivation, and led her away from the unsafe cave.
• Qin Yu considered how to complete the Five Elements cycle and found that earth power alone could not safely suppress Xiao Yi Xian's poison.
• While Xiao Yi Xian slept, Qin Yu cycled his Dou Qi through metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, producing purer Earth Origin Power.
• Qin Yu explained his new method to Xiao Yi Xian and said they would continue toward Heiyan City to find a way to resolve her constitution problem.