Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan denied Yun Leng’s accusations that he was connected to the destruction of the Mo Clan and the deaths of Misty Cloud Sect elders. When Yun Leng threatened to keep him at the sect, Xiao Yan refused to stay and walked away.

• Qing Lin asked Xiao Yao to help Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yao promised to protect his younger brother while telling Qing Lin, Zi Lin, and Zi Yan to stay back.
• Yun Leng accused Xiao Yan of being involved in the deaths of Misty Cloud Sect elders and the destruction of the Sand Mercenary Group and Mo Clan.
• Xiao Yan rejected Yun Leng’s claims as unsupported, and Yun Yun rebuked Yun Leng before asking Xiao Yan for an explanation.
• Xiao Yan denied involvement, but Yun Leng threatened to keep him at the Misty Cloud Sect until the deaths were investigated.
• Xiao Yan warned Yun Leng not to slander him without evidence and turned to leave.

Yun Leng tried to detain Xiao Yan at the Misty Cloud Sect and accused him of involvement in Mo Cheng’s and an elder’s deaths. As three Dou Wang elders trapped Xiao Yan in an energy barrier, he unleashed his rising cultivation and attacked it with his flame-covered Heavy Xuan Ruler.

• Yun Leng ordered the Law Enforcement Team to surround Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan repelled more than twenty disciples with one swing of his Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Xiao Yan tried to fly out of the sect, but three white-robed Dou Wang elders blocked his escape.
• Yun Leng accused Xiao Yan of harming the sect’s interests, while Yun Yun offered to keep him as an honored guest if he stayed.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Yan to maintain an imposing bearing and offered to help if needed.
• The three elders trapped Xiao Yan in a Wind-Fire-Wood Wall, and Xiao Yan raised his cultivation to one-star Dou Ling before striking the barrier with his flame-covered ruler.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Dou Ling class, and Hai Bo Dong intervened to protect him from the Misty Cloud Sect. As Yun Leng’s forces trapped the plaza in the Misty Cloud Fog Formation, Hai Bo Dong tried to break through the barrier with Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan shattered the barrier formed by three Dou Wangs, revealing his Dou Ling strength and shocking the crowd.
• Xiao Yan refused to explain himself to Yun Leng and challenged the Misty Cloud Sect to attack him.
• Hai Bo Dong appeared beside Xiao Yan and declared that he would protect him, while Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma wondered whether Xiao Yan’s brother might be powerful enough to help.
• Yun Leng ordered three elders to restrain Hai Bo Dong and the Misty Cloud Sect deacons to form the Misty Cloud Fog Formation around the plaza.
• Hai Bo Dong shielded Xiao Yan, broke through the elders’ formation, and struck the new barrier with icy energy, but it held as three attacks came from behind.

Hai Bo Dong fought the three Misty Cloud Sect elders while Yun Leng pursued Xiao Yan and forced him to use the Green Lotus Transformation to survive. Xiao Yan charged Yun Leng with his Dou Qi flowing into the Heavy Xuan Ruler, preparing a decisive strike.

• Hai Bo Dong sent Xiao Yan out of the battle zone and attacked the three elders with ice pellets while they defended themselves with their combined Dou Qi.
• Yun Leng broke away from the fight and chased Xiao Yan, who evaded his first attack with the Purple Cloud Wings.
• Yun Leng launched Mysterious Rock Cones at Xiao Yan, who used the Green Lotus Transformation to block them despite the technique's severe strain.
• Xiao Yan rushed toward Yun Leng, who hardened his arms and summoned a gray stone sword to meet him.
• Xiao Yan poured his Dou Qi into the Heavy Xuan Ruler, which turned fiery red as he closed in on Yun Leng for a decisive strike.

Xiao Yan severely injured Yun Leng with Flame Splitting Tsunami while Hai Bo Dong tried to break the energy barrier. As Yun Leng recovered and rallied the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to form the Cloud Smoke Shrouding Sun Formation, Xiao Yan’s secret technique expired and his escape remained uncertain.

• Xiao Yan used a spatial technique to appear behind Yun Leng and struck him with Flame Splitting Tsunami, sending him crashing into the plaza and crushing Nalan Yanran’s remaining pride.
• Xiao Yan urged Hai Bo Dong to break the barrier while Hai Bo Dong continued attacking it with icy energy.
• Yun Leng climbed out of the crater, swallowed a medicinal pill, and began recovering from his injuries.
• Hai Bo Dong intensified his attack and finally made a small crack in the energy barrier.
• Yun Leng ordered the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to form the Cloud Smoke Shrouding Sun Formation as Xiao Yan’s secret technique failed and his strength fell back to that of a one-star Dou Ling.
• Yun Leng called on the elders for their strength, and the white-robed elders scattered toward trees around the plaza while forming hand seals.

Xiao Yao appeared to protect Xiao Yan, stopped Yun Leng’s formation attack, and shattered the Misty Cloud Sect’s barrier with a powerful technique. With the sect’s defenses broken and its stewards injured, the confrontation remained unresolved as the onlookers wondered what Yun Yun would do.

• Yun Leng launched a cloud-energy sphere at Xiao Yan, who called for Brother Yao to help him.
• Xiao Yao appeared and stopped the sphere with one finger, revealing himself as a Dou Zong and shocking the crowd.
• Xiao Yao sent the sphere back toward Yun Leng, but Yun Yun intervened and dispersed it.
• Xiao Yao pointed at the Misty Cloud Sect’s barrier and shattered it with an enormous ancient finger, causing the surrounding stewards to spit blood.
• Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma recognized the power of Xiao Yao’s attack and feared the sect would suffer devastating casualties.

Xiao Yao stopped the Misty Cloud Sect elders from attacking Xiao Yan and confronted Yun Yun over the sect’s actions. Yun Yun agreed to accept any demand if he spared the sect, and Xiao Yao asked her to become his maid.

• Yun Yun apologized to Xiao Yao and Xiao Yan for the Misty Cloud Sect’s attack and asked Xiao Yao to spare its disciples.
• Yun Leng and the elders protested, so Xiao Yao seized Yun Leng by the neck and threatened to kill him.
• At Yun Yun’s request, Xiao Yao spared Yun Leng and threw him to the ground.
• Xiao Yan praised Xiao Yao, who teased him about Nalan Yanran becoming his maid and then asked Yun Yun to bear the consequences of the sect’s actions.
• Xiao Yao pulled Yun Yun into his embrace, and she agreed to do anything if he spared the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yao asked Yun Yun to become his maid, offering that she wash clothes, cook meals, and warm his bed.

Yun Leng summoned Yun Shan, who emerged from seclusion after breaking through to Dou Zong and arrived at the devastated Misty Cloud Sect square. Yun Shan saw Yun Yun held in Xiao Yao’s arms, but his reaction remained unreadable.

• Yun Leng blew a flute to summon Yun Shan, while Eagle Protector urged the old sect leader to confront Xiao Yao.
• Yun Shan agreed to repay the Soul Hall’s favor and released a powerful aura that made the Misty Cloud Sect disciples kneel.
• Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, Hai Bo Dong, Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun reacted to Yun Shan’s awakening, while Xiao Yao refused to let Yun Yun leave his embrace.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion and stepped through the air to the square, where he questioned Yun Leng about the devastation.
• Yun Leng warned Yun Shan that the sect might have been destroyed and Yun Yun abducted, and Yun Shan then noticed her in Xiao Yao’s arms.

Yun Shan confronted Xiao Yao over his relationship with Yun Yun and demanded that he pay for the damage to the Misty Cloud Sect. Xiao Yao promised Yun Yun he would spare her teacher, then unleashed a vast purple sea of fire against Yun Shan’s wind barrier.

• Yun Leng blamed Xiao Yan and Xiao Yao for past attacks on the Misty Cloud Sect and urged Yun Shan to act.
• Yun Shan questioned Yun Yun about her relationship with Xiao Yao, and she said he had not forced her.
• Xiao Yao pulled Yun Yun aside and promised to spare Yun Shan after she pleaded with him.
• Yun Shan challenged Xiao Yao and formed a massive dark-green wind wall around him and his companions.
• Xiao Yao summoned a boundless purple sea of fire that collided with and began melting Yun Shan’s wind wall.

Xiao Yao shattered Yun Shan’s wind wall with his purple-red Heavenly Flame and forced Yun Shan to unleash a powerful sword attack. The chapter ended with Xiao Yao’s Void Great Hand Seal catching the incoming longsword in a pitch-black hand.

• Xiao Yao’s Three Thousand Burning Flame formed a Flood Dragon that broke through Yun Shan’s wind wall despite Yun Shan’s Great Sorrow Wind-Rending Hand.
• Yao Lao identified Xiao Yao’s flame as the Three Thousand Burning Flame, ranked ninth on the Heavenly Flame Ranking, while Xiao Yan resolved to become a powerful expert like Xiao Yao.
• Yun Shan told Xiao Yao he could leave if he endured one more move, then summoned an azure longsword and launched his Wind Slaughter Annihilating Force.
• Xiao Yao used the Void Great Hand Seal to tear open space and seize Yun Shan’s approaching longsword.

Xiao Yao defeated Yun Shan and secured the Misty Cloud Sect’s promise to let the matter end. Yun Yun chose to leave the sect with Xiao Yao for a time, while Yun Shan agreed to manage it until she returned.

• Xiao Yao shattered Yun Shan’s longsword and sent him crashing through several peaks with a powerful kick.
• Yun Shan emerged from the rubble, acknowledged Xiao Yao’s victory, and allowed him to leave the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yao warned Yun Shan not to repeat the sect’s underhanded actions, and Yun Shan dismissed the guests and ended the gathering.
• Xiao Yao asked Yun Yun whether she wanted to leave or stay, and Yun Yun told Yun Shan she wanted to travel for a while.
• Yun Shan gave Yun Yun permission to go, and she joined Xiao Yao, saying she would leave with him.

Nalan Yanran insisted on leaving with Yun Yun after the Three-Year Pact, and Xiao Yan caught her when she collapsed. Xiao Yao’s group departed the Misty Cloud Sect, then reunited with Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Zi Lin on a forest path, where Zi Yan complained that Xiao Yao had discovered their concealment formation.

• Nalan Yanran used her remaining Dou Qi to fly to Yun Yun, then fell and was caught by Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan teased Nalan Yanran as he carried her, and Xiao Yao agreed to let her leave with them.
• Xiao Yao’s group departed the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Leng urged Yun Shan to retaliate and Yun Shan ordered him not to act without permission.
• Several hundred miles away, Xiao Yao stopped the group to wait for Qing Lin and the others, then revealed them by drawing in their formation banner.
• Zi Yan complained that Xiao Yao had found them despite the banner’s concealment, and Xiao Yao teased her about being tricked with medicinal pills or herbs.

Xiao Yao gave Hai Bo Dong a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill before setting out with Xiao Yan and the others for Wutan City, planning to return to the Xiao Clan and then take Xiao Yan to Jia Nan Academy. The group left together, with Xiao Yao’s flirtation stirring teasing and unease among his companions.

• Hai Bo Dong told Xiao Yan he planned to stay in the Imperial Capital, and Xiao Yao gave him a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill as they parted on good terms.
• Xiao Yao said he would return to the Xiao Clan with Xiao Yan before taking him back to Jia Nan Academy to see Xiao Yu and Instructor Ruo Lin.
• Xiao Yan worried about the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Yao reassured him that he had left their father with ways to protect himself and planned to buy supplies along the way.
• Xiao Yao invited Yun Yun to the Xiao Clan, teased her affectionately, and drew rebukes from Zi Yan, Qing Lin, and Nalan Yanran over his behavior toward women.
• Xiao Yan urged everyone to continue toward Wutan City, and Xiao Yao led the group into the air as they flew off together.

Xiao Yao and Xiao Yan brought their group to the Spirit Medicine Hall to buy rare medicinal ingredients, but learned that access to its upper floors was restricted to alchemists. Xiao Yao persuaded the staff to take them upstairs, where they browsed the second-floor stock and planned to inspect the Sixth Grade ingredients above.

• Xiao Yao and Xiao Yan gave the Spirit Medicine Hall's attendant lists of medicinal ingredients they wanted to purchase.
• The attendant explained that buying multiple portions of rare herbs required access to the upper floors, where only alchemists could trade ingredients or pills.
• Xiao Yao convinced the attendant to escort the group to the second floor, where other alchemists recognized Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan and the others examined the rare herbs on display, and Xiao Yao said they would need the third floor to see Sixth Grade ingredients.
• Zi Yan complained that Xiao Yao had delayed refining pills for her, and Xiao Yao put her off again.

Xiao Yao exchanged for a large supply of medicinal ingredients at the Spirit Medicine Hall using a Sixth-Grade Battle Spirit Pill. Elder Mo invited him and his companions to the third floor to inspect the hall’s rare treasures and gather the remaining ingredients.

• Xiao Yao asked Elder Mo to prepare the medicinal ingredients listed on his papers, and Elder Mo arranged the available stock.
• Elder Mo presented the ingredients, including a Storage Ring, and quoted the exchange requirements and an additional cost of eight hundred thousand gold coins.
• Xiao Yao offered a Sixth-Grade Battle Spirit Pill, astonishing Elder Mo and the alchemists in the hall.
• Elder Mo accepted the pill, deducted the gold coins from Xiao Yao’s Five-Pattern Purple-Gold Card, and offered to find the remaining ingredients on the third floor.
• Xiao Yao inspected and stored the ingredients, then followed Elder Mo upstairs with Xiao Yan and the others to view the rare objects.

Xiao Yao visited the Spirit Medicine Hall’s hidden treasure chamber and asked Elder Mo to gather high-quality array materials and five-element spiritual treasures, offering Sixth-Grade Pills in payment. As Elder Mo began searching for the items, a Soul Hall envoy approached Yun Shan with a new mission.

• Elder Mo used a jade slip to open the sealed chamber beneath the Spirit Medicine Hall’s third floor and showed Xiao Yao and the others its protected treasures.
• Elder Mo explained that the chamber’s pillars held a powerful protective array and revealed that the Spirit Medicine Hall’s main house was in Saint Pill City.
• Xiao Yao asked Elder Mo to find high-quality array materials and spiritual treasures of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, offering a high-grade Sixth-Grade Sect-Breaking Pill as payment.
• Elder Mo agreed to search for the requested items and said they could be gathered within one hour.
• A Soul Hall envoy appeared before Yun Shan and announced that the Soul Hall had issued an important new mission.

Soul Hall enlisted Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect to seize the jade fragment held by the Xiao Clan, while promising to handle Xiao Yan if he interfered. Xiao Yan and Zi Yan then disputed Elder Mo’s prices for five spiritual treasures, leaving the exchange unresolved.

• Eagle Protector and Xuan Protector told Yun Shan that Soul Hall wanted the Xiao Clan’s jade fragment and ordered him to obtain it or capture the Xiao Clan Head.
• Yun Shan warned that Xiao Yan’s strength could hinder the mission, and Eagle Protector promised Soul Hall would deal with him if necessary.
• Eagle Protector gave Yun Shan Soul Power Origin, and Yun Shan accepted the task before returning to gather trusted Misty Cloud Sect elders.
• Elder Mo presented five spiritual treasures and demanded a Sixth-Grade Pill for each one.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan challenged Elder Mo’s price for the Seventh-Rank Phoenix Feather, arguing that it was not worth a Sixth-Grade Pill.

Xiao Yao traded six Sixth-Grade Pills for five spiritual items and other supplies at Spirit Medicine Hall, then left with Xiao Yan and the others. Meanwhile, Yun Shan ordered Yun Leng and three elders to seize Xiao Zhan and retrieve the Xiao Clan’s jade fragment, leaving Yun Leng determined to make the mission succeed.

• Xiao Yao paid Elder Mo six Sixth-Grade Pills for five spiritual items, medicinal ingredients, and formation materials, and received a VIP jade token for Spirit Medicine Hall.
• Xiao Yao gave Xiao Yan the ingredients for the Spirit Fusion Pill, and the group left to return to the Xiao Clan.
• Onlookers discussed Xiao Yao’s group and marveled that one of them could fly without Dou Qi Transformation Wings.
• Yun Shan instructed Yun Leng and three elders to obtain the jade fragment held by Xiao Zhan and bring Xiao Zhan back if they could not secure it.
• Yun Leng left with the three elders and vowed that their operation against Xiao Zhan would succeed.

Yun Leng ordered a disguised attack on the Xiao Clan to seize its inherited Jade Fragment while Xiao Yao and the others were still traveling to Wutan City. The celebration turned into a battle, and the attackers injured clan members as Xiao Zhan refused to surrender the fragment.

• Yun Leng dismissed Yun Li's concerns and planned to capture Xiao Zhan in disguise, while Yun Shan admitted he had acted for the Soul Hall's offer.
• Xiao Yao and his companions flew toward Wutan City as the Xiao Clan celebrated Xiao Yan's victory over the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Zhan, the elders, and the clansmen praised Xiao Yan and Xiao Yao's achievements during the festivities.
• Yun Leng and three white-clad figures appeared above the Xiao Clan and demanded Xiao Zhan hand over the Jade Fragment.
• Yun Leng's group attacked with azure wind spirals, injuring clan members, and the Second Elder was blasted back when he tried to stop them.
• Xiao Zhan refused to surrender the Jade Fragment, calling it the foundation of the Xiao Clan's inheritance.

Xiao Zhan used a Dou Emperor-level puppet left by Xiao Yao to turn the battle against Yun Leng and the Misty Cloud Sect elders. After their barrier shattered, Yun Leng ordered a retreat, but Xiao Zhan sent the puppet after them.

• Xiao Zhan summoned a black Dou Emperor Puppet and ordered it to attack Yun Leng and the three white-robed men.
• The puppet battered the elders' barrier while Xiao Zhan revealed that Xiao Yao had left it as a safeguard for the Xiao Clan.
• The Second Elder refused to leave the fight despite his injuries, but the First and Third Elders helped him sit and take healing medicine.
• The puppet shattered the barrier, and Xiao Zhan accused the attackers of being sent by the Misty Cloud Sect over Xiao Yan's victory against Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Li advised Yun Leng to retreat, and Yun Leng agreed, but Xiao Zhan ordered the puppet to pursue them.