Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yao met Xun Er’s father, Gu Yuan, who approved of their relationship and gave him a protective jade pendant. Xiao Yao declined Gu Yuan’s offer to meet Xiao Xuan for now, resolved to grow stronger first, and the chapter shifted to Hu Jia anxiously asking Su Qian about Xiao Yao and Xun Er.

• Gu Yuan revealed that he had watched Xiao Yao defeat Gu Yao and warned him that his Five-Star Dou Zun strength was too weak to face the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan gave Xiao Yao the Ancient Clan’s Heart-Protecting Jade and accepted Xiao Yao calling him Father-in-law after warning him to protect Xun Er.
• Gu Yuan offered to take Xiao Yao to meet Xiao Xuan, but Xiao Yao declined until he had grown stronger and was ready to enter the Central Plains.
• Gu Yuan returned to the Ancient Clan, and Xiao Yao resolved to enter seclusion to improve his strength.
• At the Inner Academy’s Immortal Fall Pavilion plaza, Hu Jia anxiously asked Su Qian whether Xiao Yao and Xun Er had left with the others.

Xiao Yao refined the Chaos Green Lotus Flame, advanced to Nine-Star Dou Zun, and broke through to the Spirit Body physique. After opening a Heavenly Flame reward pack and beginning further refinement, he used Lei Chenzi to absorb the lightning striking the mountain peak.

• Su Qian told Hu Jia that Xun Er had returned to the Ancient Clan and Xiao Yao had entered seclusion, and Hu Jia hoped he would soon become strong enough to bring Xun Er back.
• Xiao Yao fused the Chaos Green Lotus Flame and endured it tempering his meridians, bones, and body for three days and nights.
• Xiao Yao advanced to Nine-Star Dou Zun and gained the Spirit Body physique, earning a puppet and a Supreme-Grade Heavenly Flame Gift Pack from the System.
• Xiao Yao opened the gift pack, received three Heavenly Flames and three fusion cards, and began refining more flames to improve his cultivation method.
• Five days later, Xiao Yao sent Lei Chenzi to absorb the lightning striking the mountain peak, and the puppet swallowed the bolts without harm.

Xiao Yao named his fused Heavenly Flame Chaos Flame, advanced his cultivation and technique, and used nine Time Law Fragments to master the Law of Time while perfecting One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones. He summoned two equally powerful clones and began the system upgrade, which would take approximately three years.

• Lei Chenzi absorbed the heavenly lightning, reached the Seven-Star Dou Zong realm, and bowed to Xiao Yao before he returned it to his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yao named the pale green flame Chaos Flame and learned from the system that he had reached the Fifth-Turn Dou Zun realm and could start a three-year system upgrade.
• Xiao Yao chose three Time Law Fragments and used the system's special reward to perfect One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones.
• Xiao Yao fused nine Time Law Fragments and comprehended the Law of Time.
• Xiao Yao summoned two clones with cultivation equal to his own, then ordered the system to begin its upgrade.

After three months of seclusion, Xiao Yao stabilized his Fifth-Turn Dou Zun cultivation and mastered the combination of Time Force and Sword Dao Law. He learned that Xiao Yan and Qing Lin were at the Arena facing challengers from rival factions, and headed there with Hu Jia and Wu Hao.

• Xiao Yao used Time Force and Sword Dao Law together to erode a boulder, then left his secluded cultivation after reaching the limit of his current progress.
• Xiao Yao returned to Immortal Fall Pavilion and surprised Hu Jia and Wu Hao by revealing that he had reached Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yao asked where Qing Lin was, and Hu Jia said she had gone to the Arena with Xiao Yan and Immortal Fall Pavilion students.
• Wu Hao explained that rival factions had challenged Xiao Yan to regain their standing against Immortal Fall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yao set off with Hu Jia and Wu Hao to watch Xiao Yan's match and see how the others had improved.

Xiao Yan defeated a burly student in the Arena, and Xiao Yao’s arrival unsettled the faction leaders who had planned to target him. Xiao Yao reunited with Qing Lin and Zi Yan, who both asked to grow stronger so they could protect him.

• Xiao Yan defeated the burly student with a palm strike fueled by pale green flames, earning cheers from the Immortal Fall Pavilion students.
• The stands fell silent when Xiao Yao entered with Hu Jia and Wu Hao, and the faction leaders realized their plans to suppress Xiao Yan had failed.
• Hu Jia teased Xiao Yao about Xiao Yan’s growing strength, while Wu Hao said Xiao Yan might soon rival Liu Qing and Lin Xiuyan.
• Qing Lin greeted Xiao Yao and told him she trained hard because she wanted to help him and protect him.
• Xiao Yao comforted Qing Lin and said he should face danger for his disciple, while Zi Yan asked him to make medicinal pills so she could become stronger too.

Xiao Yao began training Qing Lin, Zi Yan, and Zi Lin at the Inner Academy's back mountain, while Xiao Yan joined them to sharpen his combat skills. Over a year of tailored cultivation and sparring, all four made progress, with Qing Lin developing her abilities and Xiao Yan refining his control of the Heavenly Flames.

• Zi Lin joined Qing Lin and Zi Yan in asking Xiao Yao to teach them cultivation, and Xiao Yao announced they would begin the next morning.
• Xiao Yan asked to join the training group so he could improve his combat experience, and Xiao Yao agreed to make him their sparring partner.
• At the back mountain, Xiao Yao assigned Zi Yan and Zi Lin to spar and use high-tier pills, while Qing Lin absorbed strength from White Fang and Ice Dragon and learned techniques suited to her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yao told Xiao Yan to spar with the others in his free time and said refining the two Heavenly Flames would help him surpass them.
• Over the following year, Zi Yan and Zi Lin sharpened their cultivation through battle, Qing Lin advanced her pupil techniques, and Xiao Yan improved his Heavenly Flame control and Dou Techniques through repeated sparring.

Xiao Yao passed Qing Lin several powerful secret arts and promised to teach Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Zi Lin one Dou Technique each through her. The group prepared to learn from Qing Lin, who agreed to teach them.

• Xiao Yao praised Qing Lin's progress with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and promised to teach her several secret arts.
• Xiao Yao transferred the formulas for the Secret of the Practitioner Character, the Secret of the Battle Character, the Traveling Secret, and the All-Character Secret into Qing Lin's consciousness.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan complained that they only served as sparring partners, while Zi Lin showed interest in learning from Xiao Yao.
• Zi Yan and Xiao Yan jokingly asked to become Xiao Yao's disciples, and Zi Lin silently hoped for the same.
• Xiao Yao declined to take new disciples but offered to teach each of them one Dou Technique and told them to learn it from Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin agreed to teach Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Zi Lin.

Xiao Yao refined a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill in the Chaos Cauldron, with Senior Skyfire guarding him. The pill formed with an extraordinary phenomenon above Jia Nan Academy, revealing that it was an Eighth-Grade Pill.

• Xiao Yao asked Senior Skyfire to guard him while he refined the pill and promised to craft a body for him afterward.
• Xiao Yao used the Chaos Flame and Chaos Cauldron to refine more than a hundred medicinal ingredients over three days.
• Xiao Yao condensed the ingredients into a blood-red pill whose nine patterns contained immense vitality and a faint strand of Chaos Qi.
• The pill completed, and a blood-red pillar of light shot into the sky as winds and clouds changed.
• The phenomenon stirred Jia Nan Academy, where thunderclouds gathered and crimson and purple light appeared, signaling the formation of an Eighth-Grade Pill.

Xiao Yao’s pill refinement stirred the Jia Nan Academy with a five-colored Pill Lightning phenomenon, revealing that he had reached the level of an Eighth-Grade Alchemist. As the lightning struck, Xiao Yao sent Lei Chenzi to meet it, leaving Lei Chenzi absorbing the storm in midair.

• The pill fragrance and blood-red pillar of light drew students and elders to the back mountain, while the phenomenon prompted breakthroughs across the academy.
• Elder Huo identified the colored thunderclouds as a sign of an Eighth-Grade Pill, and Su Qian revealed that Xiao Yao was refining it.
• Elder Qian noticed a fifth color in the clouds, and purple lightning appeared as Elder Bai and Elder Qian praised Xiao Yao’s potential.
• Xiao Yao faced the Five-Colored Pill Lightning without fear as it formed a massive bolt and struck toward him.
• Xiao Yao summoned Lei Chenzi and ordered it to intercept the lightning, which exploded across the sky and poured into Lei Chenzi’s body.

Xiao Yao completed an Eighth-Grade Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill, which transformed into a spirit and earned him new system rewards. He began using the pill, Yun Shan’s body, and Phoenix Essence Blood to prepare a new body for Skyfire Venerable, leaving the rebirth process underway.

• Lei Chenzi endured the Pill Lightning and advanced to Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong before returning to Xiao Yao’s side.
• The Eighth-Grade Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melding Pill transformed into a crimson tiger spirit and affectionately settled on Xiao Yao’s shoulder.
• Xiao Yao received system rewards for completing his mission and refining an Eighth-Grade Pill, while the Spirit Medicinal Field unlocked Ninth-Grade materials.
• Xiao Yao told Skyfire Venerable the pill could restore his cultivation, then prepared Yun Shan’s corpse as a body for him.
• Skyfire Venerable swallowed the pill, and Xiao Yao fused Phoenix Essence Blood into the corpse while tempering it with Chaos Flame.

Xiao Yao helped Skyfire Venerable begin a perilous rebirth, then emerged to announce a transaction with Jia Nan Academy. The academy agreed to gather high-grade ingredients in exchange for half of the pills Xiao Yao refined, with priority for its requests.

• Xiao Yao told Skyfire Venerable to enter the prepared body, and Skyfire Venerable's soul merged with it as flesh and meridians regenerated.
• Xiao Yao set up a protective formation, ordered Lei Chenzi to guard the place, and left.
• Su Qian and Elder Huo praised Xiao Yao's Eighth-Grade Pill and ordered the elders to keep others away from him.
• Xiao Yao assured the Qian Bai Two Elders that he remembered his promise, then asked Su Qian to make a transaction on behalf of Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yao requested that Jia Nan Academy gather as many high-grade alchemy ingredients as possible and offered half of the pills he refined, plus priority service, while limiting his work to pills of Sixth Grade and above.

Xiao Yao secured access to Jia Nan Academy’s high-grade medicinal ingredients and left with Qian Bai Two Elders to honor their agreement. The story then shifted to Purplefall Ridge, where the weakened Poison Sect’s Great Elder confronted a mysterious woman and discovered she was far more dangerous than she appeared.

• Xiao Yao told Elder Huo that the pill was within his abilities, and Su Qian offered him unrestricted use of the Academy’s Sixth-Grade and higher medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yao asked Su Qian to gather the ingredients quickly, then departed with Qian Bai Two Elders as the Academy’s leaders watched.
• The chapter described the Poison Sect’s decline after a disaster a year earlier had left it with fewer than a hundred disciples.
• The Poison Sect’s Great Elder and his disciples tried to seize a hooded woman’s bronze box, believing it contained a rare herb.
• The woman wounded a disciple with a flick of purple Dou Qi, frightening the Great Elder into offering her three bottles of pills as an apology.
• The woman rejected the apology and ordered the Great Elder to get lost, leaving him furious.

A hooded young woman with the Woeful Poison Body entered the Poison Market and neutralized the Great Elder’s attack, prompting him to summon reinforcements and pursue her. The Poison Sect’s Sect Master learned of her arrival and weighed whether to stop the Great Elder from provoking her.

• The Great Elder attacked the woman with Heart-Corroding Miasma after she ignored his threat and headed deeper into the Poison Market.
• The woman dissolved the miasma with purple Dou Qi and disappeared, and the Great Elder recognized her as possessing the Woeful Poison Body.
• The Great Elder ordered a disciple to alert the Sect Master and sent most of his disciples with him toward the auction house, suspecting she sought the Thousand Poisons Origin.
• The Sect Master received the report and considered using the woman to strengthen the Poison Sect.
• A gray-robed figure asked whether the Sect Master should intercept the Great Elder before he seized the woman and made an enemy of her.

A mysterious woman with the Woeful Poison Body tried to obtain the Thousand Poisons Origin from the Poison Market auction house, while the Poison Sect reinforced its defenses. The auction house master refused her offer and threatened her with the Poison Sect’s strength, leaving her weighing the cost of taking the Origin by force.

• A dark-robed man ordered the Shadow Poison Guards to reinforce the restrictions around the Thousand Poisons Origin and told the auction house master to destroy it if necessary.
• The woman with the Woeful Poison Body watched the Thousand Poisons Origin and offered the auction house master one low-grade Earth-Tier Dou Technique and two high-grade Xuan-Tier Dou Techniques for it.
• The auction house master demanded the cultivation method of her Woeful Poison Body, and she rejected the demand as an attack on the foundation that kept her alive.
• The auction house master warned that she could not take the Origin from the Poison Sect, which had two Dou Emperors.
• The woman declared that the Woeful Poison Body itself was what the Poison Sect feared most, but she recognized that fighting the sect could cost her a place to seek resources in the Chu Yun Empire.

The woman used her Dou Emperor-level puppet to break the Thousand Poisons Origin’s restriction and began refining it on the spot, rapidly raising her strength. As the Poison Sect’s Great Elder and Shadow Poison Guards attacked, the pavilion master intervened to protect her refinement, but a brief distraction caused the poison source to strike back.

• The woman attacked the pavilion master with poison needles and sent her puppet to shatter the restriction around the Thousand Poisons Origin.
• The woman began refining the Thousand Poisons Origin, and her cultivation rose from Two-Star Dou Wang to Four-Star Dou Wang.
• The Poison Sect’s Great Elder and Shadow Poison Guards broke into the pavilion and moved to stop her.
• The pavilion master blocked the Great Elder and Shadow Poison Guards, warning that disrupting the refinement could unleash the poison source across the market.
• The puppet and the woman repelled attacks from the Shadow Poison Guards, but the woman was distracted and suffered a backlash from the Thousand Poisons Origin.

A black-robed woman sealed the Thousand Poisons Origin inside her body, but the Poison Sect Great Elder trapped her and her puppet in the Thousand Poisons Demon-Sealing Formation. The puppet shattered the formation and attacked the Great Elder and Tower Master, only for a secret gray-robed elder to intervene and block its punch.

• The woman sealed the remaining Thousand Poisons Origin within her dantian and stabilized her energy.
• The Great Elder activated the Thousand Poisons Demon-Sealing Formation, trapping the woman and her puppet in poisonous mist.
• The woman warned the Poison Sect that the Poison Market would become their burial ground, and her puppet shattered the formation with a punch that wiped out nearby Shadow Poison Guards.
• The puppet attacked the Great Elder and Tower Master, revealing strength the Tower Master estimated was at least Mid-Stage Dou Emperor level.
• A secret gray-robed elder appeared and stopped the puppet's punch, though the impact numbed the meridians in his palm.

The woman and her black puppet escaped the Poison Sect’s assault in the Poison Market and fled into Purplefall Ridge. Badly wounded in a hidden cave, she struggled to suppress the Thousand Poisons Origin while the gray-robed old man vowed to hunt her down.

• The gray-robed old man joined the Grand Elder and Tower Master against the woman and her black puppet, but the puppet severely injured the Tower Master.
• The woman threw concentrated poison between the fighters and ordered the puppet to retreat, then used poison mist to cover their escape.
• The gray-robed old man damaged the puppet’s armor as it chased the woman into the forest, but she escaped deeper into Purplefall Ridge using more poison mist.
• The Grand Elder lamented that they might lose the Thousand Poisons Origin, while the gray-robed old man said he had sent people to surround Purplefall Ridge.
• In a hidden cave, the badly injured woman coughed blood and said even her Woeful Poison Body could barely suppress the Thousand Poisons Origin.

Xiao Yi Xian recalled how Poison Fang Valley’s attempt to seize her had forced her Woeful Poison Body to erupt, killing her attackers and driving the frightened villagers away. In the cave, she remembered Xiao Yao giving her the puppet to protect her and tenderly touched its damaged armor.

• Xiao Yi Xian had treated poisoned villagers in a mountain ravine, hoping to build a peaceful life in the Chu Yun Empire.
• Poison Fang Valley attacked her cottage and poisoned the villagers while trying to abduct her for her antidote secrets.
• When the valley’s disciples charged, Xiao Yi Xian unleashed her Woeful Poison Body and killed them, including their Dou Ling elder.
• The surviving villagers feared Xiao Yi Xian, so she left the ravine and its bamboo cottage behind.
• In the cave, Xiao Yi Xian remembered Xiao Yao giving her the puppet and gently stroked its dented armor.

Xiao Yi Xian slowly refined the Thousand Poisons Origin, reached the Dou Emperor realm, and destroyed the Poison Sect in revenge. After becoming known as the Heavenly Poison Woman, she spared the surviving outer disciples and faced the remaining survivors kneeling in the ruined main hall.

• Xiao Yi Xian found that the Secret of the Practitioner Character could not heal the poison in her meridians, so she began refining the Thousand Poisons Origin.
• Xiao Yi Xian endured the painful refinement for months and reached the Dou Emperor realm after completely refining the poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian and her puppet swept through the Poison Sect and its affiliated forces, earning her the name Heavenly Poison Woman across the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yi Xian stood among the Poison Sect headquarters' ruins and spared the trembling outer disciples who had not attacked her.
• Xiao Yi Xian entered the ruined main hall, where surviving disciples and stewards knelt before her in fear.

Xiao Yi Xian established the Toxic Sect with rules against harming innocents, while Xiao Yao prepared to leave for the Central Plains after two years of helping Xiao Li consolidate control over the Black-Corner Region. Xiao Li accepted Xiao Yao’s departure after seeing the powerful puppets he had prepared.

• Xiao Yi Xian abolished the Poison Sect and founded the Toxic Sect, forbidding its disciples from using poison to harm innocents or bully the weak.
• Xiao Yi Xian let the Poison Sect’s former members either join the Toxic Sect or leave after crippling their poison arts, and they chose to follow her.
• Two years later, Xiao Li visited Xiao Yao and asked whether he planned to leave for the Central Plains; Xiao Yao confirmed that he was ready to go.
• Xiao Li returned the Heavenly Thunder Son to Xiao Yao and said the Black-Corner Region’s factions had submitted under his control.
• Xiao Yao revealed two one-star Dou Saint puppets and three Half-Saint puppets, explaining that they had grown stronger by absorbing lightning from pills refined with the Inner Academy’s help.
• Xiao Li agreed to keep the Heavenly Thunder Son and urged Xiao Yao to explore the Central Plains while he and Eldest Brother secured the family’s affairs.