Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yao killed the Blazing Flame Python after activating the All-Character Secret, then reunited with Xun'er and concealed his victory from Xiao Zhan. The Xiao Clan party reached a camp outside the Magic Beast Mountain Range, where Xiao Yao cooked bear meat for everyone before he and Xun'er retired for the night.

• Xiao Yao activated the All-Character Secret, rose to the Da Dou Shi realm, killed the Blazing Flame Python, and took its second-tier fire-attributed Magic Core.
• Xiao Yao reunited with Xun'er, and they returned to Xiao Zhan, who had killed a Crimson Flame Bear.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Zhan that the Blazing Flame Python had escaped, and Xun'er backed up his story.
• Xiao Zhan led the Xiao Clan party out of the outer region of the Magic Beast Mountain Range and ordered everyone to rest for the night.
• Xiao Yao roasted Crimson Flame Bear meat for Xun'er, Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan, and the gathered camp, and they enjoyed the meal together.
• Xiao Yao and Xun'er returned to their tent and went to bed, reflecting on the day's events.

Xiao Zhan brought Xiao Yan, Xiao Yao, and Xun'er to the Nalan Household, where they met Nalan Yanran and spent several happy days playing together. Xiao Yao wondered whether Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran's close bond would change the future Three-Year Pact.

• Xiao Zhan arrived at the Nalan Household with the three children and greeted the Nalan patriarch.
• The Nalan patriarch praised Xiao Yan's and Xiao Yao's cultivation and welcomed the children as guests.
• Nalan Yanran introduced herself, and Xiao Zhan sent her outside with Xiao Yan, Xiao Yao, and Xun'er.
• The children played games together in the garden, and Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran stories about the Desolate Heavenly Emperor.
• Xiao Yao watched Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran grow close and wondered whether the Three-Year Pact would still happen.

After leaving the Nalan Household, Xiao Yao and Xun Er trained together for three years. Their sparring triggered Xiao Yao’s breakthrough, and the chapter ended with him reaching Da Dou Shi at age ten.

• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yao, and Xun Er said farewell to the Nalan clan leader, and Nalan Yanran gave Xiao Yan a bundle of pastries and gifts before they departed.
• Three years later, Xiao Yao and Xun Er sparred in a courtyard, where Xun Er tested her newly learned Golden Light Palm.
• Xun Er asked Xiao Yao to fight her seriously, and he agreed to stop relying so readily on the Traveling Secret to evade her attacks.
• After their fierce sparring match, Xiao Yao’s Dou Qi surged, and he asked Xun Er to keep his cultivation secret as he began to break through.
• Xun Er realized Xiao Yao had been a Nine-Star Battle Master, and Xiao Yao successfully advanced to Da Dou Shi at age ten.

After reaching Da Dou Shi, Xiao Yao accepted new long-term missions and prepared to travel to the Magic Beast Mountain Range to refine his Heavenly Flames and train. The chapter ended with him disguised and trading pills for medicinal ingredients before his journey.

• The system rewarded Xiao Yao with a Heaven-Grade Puppet and a Heavenly Flame Fusion Card, then issued three long-term missions that he accepted.
• Xun'er discovered Xiao Yao had reached Da Dou Shi, and Xiao Yan visited with his cultivation at Five-Star Dou Practitioner.
• The black ring on Xiao Yan's hand flashed, leading Xiao Yao to anticipate that Yao Lao would soon begin absorbing Xiao Yan's Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yao checked his character panel, reviewed his missions and rewards, and learned how to activate the Heavenly Flame Fusion Card.
• Xiao Yao decided to travel to the Magic Beast Mountain Range, gathered supplies, and traded Second- and Third-Grade pills for medicinal ingredients while disguised.

Xiao Yao left Wutan City to train and reached Green Mountain Town near the Magic Beast Mountain Range. After learning that Xiao Yi Xian had already arrived in town, he began looking over the herbs at Myriad Medicine Pavilion.

• Xiao Yao told Xiao Zhan that he was leaving to gain experience and displayed his suppressed cultivation as a One-Star Battle Master.
• Xiao Yao gave Xiao Yan a Fighter Pill, then told Xun'er he would be away and comforted her with snacks and a promise to return.
• After Xiao Yao left the Xiao Clan, Xun'er ordered Ling Ying to secretly protect him, and Ling Ying agreed.
• Five days into his journey, Xiao Yao reached Green Mountain Town and entered Myriad Medicine Pavilion to inspect its herbs.
• Xiao Yao overheard clerks say that the shop owner had brought back a young healer named Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yao met Little Fairy at the Myriad Medicine Pavilion and gained her agreement to get to know him. He then fought a third-tier Tiger-Headed Leopard in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, broke through in cultivation, and set out to find a place to rest.

• Xiao Yao accepted a hidden mission to befriend Little Fairy and earn her favorability in exchange for the Kunpeng Wings flight Dou skill.
• Xiao Yao introduced himself to Little Fairy, and she agreed to get to know him before he left the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.
• Xiao Yao encountered a third-tier Tiger-Headed Leopard in the Magic Beast Mountain Range and fought it with his sword before swallowing a Qi-Recovery Pill.
• Xiao Yao put away his sword and used the Traveling Secret and physical attacks to defeat the Tiger-Headed Leopard.
• Xiao Yao absorbed his condensed Dou Qi, rose one star in cultivation, stored the beast's corpse, and went to find a place to rest.

Xiao Yao refined the Fallen Heart Flame, which rapidly increased his cultivation and evolved the Myriad Devouring Art. He then used the flame to refine a Fifth-Grade Battle Spirit Pill and continued preparing pills in the cave.

• Xiao Yao found a concealed cave beside the waterfall, secured its entrance, and rested there.
• Xiao Yao used a Heavenly Flame Fusion Card to refine the Fallen Heart Flame into his body overnight.
• Xiao Yao reached Five-Star Da Dou Shi from refining the flame, then advanced to Five-Star Dou Ling as the Myriad Devouring Art evolved to low Earth Tier.
• Xiao Yao received system rewards, including a Violet Star Flute and three medicinal material packs, and obtained a Fire Lotus Fruit among the materials.
• Xiao Yao used Fallen Heart Flame to refine a Fifth-Grade Battle Spirit Pill, earning mastery of Sixth-Grade pill formulas and medicinal materials.
• Xiao Yao continued refining healing and Dou Qi-restoring pills in the cave.

Xiao Yao watched a woman battle the Purple-Gold Winged Lion King, then found her injured and unconscious in his cave after the fight. He treated her wounds, and the chapter ended with him tending to a deep injury on her back.

• Xiao Yao left his cave after hearing a powerful beast roar and spotted a woman fighting the Purple-Gold Winged Lion King.
• The woman unleashed her ultimate attack, wounded the Lion King, and fled as it pursued her.
• Xiao Yao returned to his cave and discovered the woman unconscious on his sleeping place.
• The woman woke and questioned Xiao Yao, then relaxed after realizing he lived in the cave.
• Xiao Yao treated the wounds on her thigh and back while the woman endured the pain.

After treating Yun Zhi's wounds, Xiao Yao shared food and conversation with her in the Magic Beast Mountain Range. He left her amused and unconvinced after inventing an extravagant story about his origins.

• Xiao Yao treated Yun Zhi's wounds, and they introduced themselves using the aliases Yun Zhi and Yao Xiao.
• Xiao Yao roasted Tiger-Headed Leopard meat and shared it with Yun Yun, who praised his cooking.
• Yun Yun said she had come to the Magic Beast Mountain Range to train and seek a fortuitous opportunity, while Xiao Yao claimed he came from a small Lineage.
• Yun Yun questioned how a newly advanced Great Dou Master from a small Lineage had hunted a peak third-tier Magic Beast, and Xiao Yao offered to explain his background.
• Xiao Yao described fantastical birth phenomena, but Yun Yun teased him that she did not believe his story.

Xiao Yao teased Yun Yun by inventing a story in which Yun Shan offered his disciple’s hand in marriage to Yao Xiao, provoking Yun Yun’s embarrassed anger. After she forgave him over dinner, they shared Sprite and rested peacefully in the cave.

• Xiao Yao began a fabricated tale about Yao Xiao, a young genius from Little Stone Village, whom Yun Shan invited to join the Misty Cloud Sect and promised his disciple in marriage.
• Yun Yun grabbed Xiao Yao, kicked him into the cave wall, and rebuked him for joking about someone’s marriage.
• Xiao Yao apologized and cooked Yun Yun a steak, and she forgave him for the sake of the food.
• Xiao Yao shared Sprite with Yun Yun, who drank it and began burping, embarrassing herself as he explained the drink’s effects.
• Xiao Yao and Yun Yun rested separately through the peaceful night.

Xiao Yao cared for Yun Yun as her wounds healed, and the two grew closer before she prepared to leave. At their farewell, he revealed his real name and face, while Yun Yun disclosed her identity and flew away, believing they would never meet again.

• Xiao Yao changed Yun Yun’s bandages, healed the scar on her thigh, and tended to the wound on her back.
• Yun Yun teased Xiao Yao, and he pulled her close before she pushed him away; they later shared roasted Tiger-Headed Leopard meat.
• Two days later, Yun Yun told Xiao Yao she was leaving, and they hugged goodbye outside the cave.
• Xiao Yao revealed that his name was Xiao Yao and removed his disguise mask; Yun Yun then told him she was the Misty Cloud Sect Master’s beloved disciple and flew away.
• Yun Yun looked back at the Magic Beast Mountain Range and felt a sense of loss, believing she would never see Xiao Yao again.

After months of training, Yao Xiao broke through to Dou Wang and triggered terrifying tribulation clouds that spread across the Jia Ma Empire. As observers worried about the spectacle, Yao Xiao faced the coming lightning alone in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

• Yao Xiao reached half-step Dou Wang, swallowed a Battle Spirit Pill, and broke through to Dou Wang.
• Yao Xiao sensed tribulation lightning approaching as immense thunderclouds formed over the Magic Beast Mountain Range and spread across the Jia Ma Empire.
• Mercenaries near the Magic Beast Mountain Range panicked, with some preparing to flee and others staying to watch.
• Yun Yun saw the spectacle from Misty Cloud Sect and worried that Yao Xiao was in danger.
• Teng Shan, Nalan Jie, and Jia Xing Tian discussed the tribulation and chose to observe it from a distance.
• Xiao Zhan and Xun'er worried that Yao Xiao remained in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

Xiao Yao survived his tribulation with the help of a Heaven-Grade Puppet, which absorbed the lightning and evolved into a One-Star Dou Zong. After gaining new rewards and naming the puppet Heavenly Thunder Son, Xiao Yao escaped approaching experts and arrived elsewhere in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yao used the Heaven-Grade Puppet to absorb the second and third Tribulation Lightning bolts, raising it from One-Star Dou Emperor to One-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yao absorbed the tribulation’s gift of heaven and earth energy and reached Four-Star Dou Wang.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yao with new techniques, achievements, and a Heavenly Flame gift pack, which contained the ninth-ranked Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yao thanked the puppet and named it Heavenly Thunder Son.
• When unknown experts approached, Xiao Yao ordered Heavenly Thunder Son to take him away, and the puppet opened a spatial crack that transported them elsewhere in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.

Xiao Yao mastered new techniques, including a short-range use of the Great Void Technique, then joined Myriad Medicine Pavilion’s expedition to the Magic Beast Mountain Range as Little Fairy’s personal guard. The team rested on the way to the herb-gathering area while Xiao Yao reunited with Little Fairy and revealed that he had reached the Battle Master realm.

• Xiao Yao mastered the first two fingers of the Great Wilderness Heaven-Prisoning Finger, advanced his Secret of the Battle Character, and used the Great Void Technique to travel several hundred meters through space.
• Xiao Yao returned to Green Mountain Town and joined Myriad Medicine Pavilion’s herb-gathering expedition after demonstrating that he had reached the Battle Master realm.
• The Myriad Medicine Pavilion recruiter offered Xiao Yao double pay to personally protect Little Fairy, and Xiao Yao accepted.
• Xiao Yao traveled with the expedition into the Magic Beast Mountain Range, where the guard leader ordered the group to rest before reaching the herb-gathering area.
• Xiao Yao reunited with Little Fairy, showed her his Battle Qi Veil, and chatted with her while other team members remarked on their closeness.

Xiao Yao and Xiao Yi Xian’s mercenary group encountered a wolf pack led by a Heavenly Thunder Wolf that claimed the forest as its territory. When the wolves overwhelmed the mercenaries, Xiao Yao secretly used his Soul Force to force them to retreat, and Xiao Yi Xian seemed to realize he had intervened.

• After repeated minor Magical Beast attacks, Xiao Yao warned the mercenaries that a large wolf pack was approaching.
• The Heavenly Thunder Wolf demanded that the humans leave its territory, but the mercenary leader refused to retreat without a fight.
• The wolf pack attacked, and the mercenaries were driven back as Xiao Yi Xian prepared to defend herself.
• Xiao Yao secretly released his Soul Force, pinning the wolves and the Heavenly Thunder Wolf in place.
• Xiao Yao pretended to be a mysterious senior and ordered the wolves to flee, so the Heavenly Thunder Wolf led its pack away.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Yao a mysterious smile before tending to the wounded mercenaries, leaving him wondering whether she had discovered his intervention.

Xiao Yao and Little Fairy gathered herbs in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, where Little Fairy realized he had driven away the magic beasts and learned that he was an alchemist. After they became friends, Xiao Yao gained the Kunpeng Wings from the system, and the group returned to Green Mountain Town, where he parted from Little Fairy to go home.

• The group reached a herb-rich area, and Little Fairy wondered whether the Tribulation Lightning had caused its unusual growth.
• Little Fairy found Dragon Blood Grass and celebrated her plentiful harvest before the mercenary leader called everyone to rest for the night.
• Little Fairy confronted Xiao Yao about secretly driving away the magic beasts, and he admitted it and told her he was an alchemist.
• Xiao Yao offered to refine pills for Little Fairy because they were friends, and the system announced that he had completed the hidden mission and fused the Kunpeng Wings into his body.
• The group returned safely to Green Mountain Town, where Xiao Yao accepted the remaining five hundred gold coins from the middle-aged man.
• Xiao Yao told Little Fairy he was returning home, and she said goodbye before leaving.

Xiao Yao returned to the Xiao Clan after months of training and reunited with Xun'er, who had worried about him and missed him. The next morning, Xiao Yan asked him for a breakthrough pill, and Xiao Yao warned him against relying too heavily on pills.

• Xun'er learned from Elder Ling that Xiao Yao had survived the Tribulation Lightning with the help of a puppet that advanced to the Dou Zong level.
• Xiao Yao arrived at the Xiao Clan, spoke with Xiao Zhan, and learned that Xun'er had spent the past few months missing him.
• Xun'er ran to Xiao Yao and embraced him, and they confessed how much they had missed each other.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yao for a pill to help him break through to the Battle Master level.
• Xiao Yao warned Xiao Yan that relying on pills could weaken his foundation, and Xiao Yan reconsidered his dependence on them.

Xiao Yao advised Xiao Yan to rely less on pills, then attended the Xiao clan’s Dou Qi assessment with Xun'er. Xiao Yan revealed that he had become an eleven-year-old One-Star Battle Master, while Xiao Yao concealed his strength and left the assessment listed as a Four-Star Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Yao gave Xiao Yan a pill and told him to consolidate his cultivation before taking it; Xiao Yan agreed to follow his advice.
• Xiao Yao and Xun'er attended the clan assessment, where Xiao Yan tested as a One-Star Battle Master and amazed the crowd.
• Xiao Yu tested as an Advanced Ninth-Duan, and Xiao Mei tested as an Intermediate Fourth-Duan before joining Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan thanked Xiao Yao for his help, and Xiao Yao went to take his own assessment.
• Xiao Yao used the Breath-Concealing Art and tested as a Four-Star Dou Zhe, surprising the crowd with his modest progress.

After Xun'er reached the Dou Practitioner realm, Xiao Yao celebrated by grilling food for her, Xiao Yan, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Yu. He then told them Ye Fan's story, ending after Ye Fan returned home more than twenty years later to find his loved ones dead.

• Xun'er tested as a one-star Dou Practitioner, so Xiao Yao promised to make food and tell her a new story.
• Xiao Yao prepared a barbecue in his courtyard, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Mei joined Xun'er to eat.
• Xiao Yu arrived and, after teasing the others for not inviting her, sampled Xiao Yao's grilled meat.
• After the group finished eating, Xiao Yao told them about Ye Fan boarding the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin and entering a strange cultivation world.
• Xiao Yao recounted Ye Fan's adventures and his return home after more than twenty years, when he found that his loved ones had died, then stopped the story as his listeners sat in shock.

Xiao Yao played the Desolate melody for Xun'er, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yu, then secretly let Xiao Yan face his Dou Qi Regression as a trial. The System rewarded Xiao Yao with a Phoenix Egg, which absorbed his fire-attributed Dou Qi and Heavenly Flame energy and grew closer to him.

• Xiao Yao played the Desolate melody, and Xun'er and Xiao Yan recognized it as a musical telling of Shi Hao's rise while Xiao Yu asked to hear the story.
• Xun'er told the story beside a bonfire as Xiao Yao accompanied its climaxes on the Astral Flute.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yao that his Dou Qi had regressed from Battle Master to Two-Star Dou Zhe, and Xiao Yao examined him but found nothing wrong.
• Xiao Yan went to seek his father, while Xiao Yao thought the regression was a crucial trial and the System awarded him a Phoenix Egg.
• Xiao Yao fed the Phoenix Egg his fire-attributed Dou Qi and Heavenly Flame energy, causing it to glow, develop a Heavenly Flame mark, and form a closer connection with him.