Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and his companions emerged safely from the magma, and he promised Xun'er and Xiao Yixian he would stop pursuing other women before discussing his complicated relationships with them. Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders arrived, followed by an armored group whose handsome leader saw Xun'er and Xiao Yixian in Xiao Yan’s arms.

• Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Xiao Yixian reached the surface, while Medusa and Nalan Yanran departed.
• Xiao Yan embraced Xun'er and Xiao Yixian, thanked them, and promised not to provoke other women.
• Xun'er and Xiao Yixian questioned Xiao Yan about Yun Yun, Yao Ye, Ya Fei, Nalan Yanran, and Medusa, and Xiao Yan explained how he would handle those relationships.
• Xun'er explained that Nalan Yanran’s hatred had become love, while Xiao Yixian warned Xiao Yan she would not stay if Medusa were there.
• Xiao Yixian told Xiao Yan she had come after hearing he was in trouble and explained her hostility toward Medusa over the Snake People.
• Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders arrived, then an armored group’s handsome leader saw Xun'er and Xiao Yixian in Xiao Yan’s embrace.

Ling Quan tried to take Xun'er back to the Ancient Clan, but Xiao Yan defeated him and the Black Annihilation Army. A powerful golden palm then struck Xiao Yan and crushed him into the ground, leaving him unconscious.

• Ling Quan arrived to bring Xun'er back to the Ancient Clan, and Xiao Yan refused to let him take her by force.
• Ling Quan attacked Xiao Yixian, but Xiao Yan stopped him and knocked him down with one punch.
• Ling Quan rallied nine Black Annihilation Army soldiers, formed an array with them, and fought Xiao Yan in the sky.
• Xiao Yan countered Ling Quan's Mountain-Opening Seal with the Cloud-Discharging Palm, sending Ling Quan and his soldiers crashing to the ground while ensuring none had died.
• A huge golden palm emerged from a rift in the sky, pinned Xiao Yan in place, and crushed him underground until he lost consciousness.

After waking from more than a month in the Black-Corner Region, Xiao Yan learned that Xun'er had been taken away and Xiao Yixian had returned to the Chu Yun Empire. He reconciled with Nalan Yanran, gave her powerful gifts, and established the Tianxia Guild with her as the hall master of its Wind God Hall.

• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Yan that Xun'er had been taken away by the person who injured him and that Xiao Yixian had gone to the Chu Yun Empire, urging him to visit because she might be in trouble.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Nalan Yanran, then learned she had no plans for the future and invited her to help establish a faction in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan named the faction the Tianxia Guild, made Nalan Yanran the hall master of its Wind God Hall, and gave her the Earth-tier battle skill Wind God Leg.
• Xiao Yan sent Nalan Yanran a child flame of the Yin-Yang Twin Flame, explaining that it would boost her combat strength and help her cultivate faster.
• Medicine Elder emerged from Xiao Yan's Storage Ring, and Xiao Yan said the Yin-Yang Twin Flame could help him condense a body within half a year if he found a strong bloodline catalyst.
• Xiao Yan left to refine pills and promised Nalan Yanran an Imperial Pill in two days.

Xiao Yan refined three Imperial Pills and set out for the Chu Yun Empire after learning that Xiao Yixian might be in danger. There, Xiao Yixian was left surrounded and badly injured as the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect and its allies tried to capture or kill her.

• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that Xun'er's father had attacked him, and Xiao Yan began refining the ingredients he had seized at the Alchemist Grand Ceremony.
• Xiao Yan quickly refined three Imperial Pills, gave them to Nalan Yanran, and hurried toward the Chu Yun Empire to check on Xiao Yixian and the Poison Sect.
• Xie Shan offered to spare Xiao Yixian if she submitted to the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect, while Wu Ya revealed that he and the other betrayers had been spies from the Heavenly Scorpion Gate.
• Xiao Yixian refused to submit and fought Xie Shan, Yan Luotian, the Three Elders of Mulan, and their forces while badly injured.
• Xie Shan summoned a Four-Winged Heavenly Demon Scorpion, which caught Xiao Yixian in its pincers as her enemies closed in.

Xiao Yan arrived just in time to save Xiao Yixian, then killed Yan Luotian and the Three Elders of Mulan. After he and Xiao Yixian shared a kiss, four powerful newcomers approached, including two familiar faces.

• Xiao Yan attacked the Four-Winged Heavenly Demon Scorpion with Three Points Return to Origin Qi, devastating the battlefield and severely injuring the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect fighters.
• Xiao Yan caught Yan Luotian as he fled and killed him with Death Finger.
• Xiao Yan summoned three golden dragons that swallowed and destroyed the Three Elders of Mulan.
• Xiao Yan checked on Xiao Yixian, and the two kissed after he mistook her blush for a sign of injury.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian sensed four powerful newcomers approaching, and Xiao Yan recognized two of them.

Xiao Yan confronted Jia Xingtian and three Soul Hall allies while secretly healing Xiao Yixian. After Xiao Yixian joined him and refused Wu Protector’s offer, the enemies prepared to attack.

• Jia Xingtian revealed that he had survived as a soul and defected to the Soul Hall, while Wu Protector and Iron Protector confronted Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan burned Wu Protector’s iron chain with Heavenly Flame and stalled as he secretly healed Xiao Yixian behind a barrier.
• Xie Bi Yan recognized Xiao Yixian and discussed the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect’s alliance with the Falling Geese Sect and Mulan Valley against the Poison Sect.
• Wu Protector offered to resolve Xiao Yixian’s Calamity Poison Body if she helped capture Xiao Yan, but she refused and stood by him.
• Wu Protector ordered Xie Bi Yan to hold back Xiao Yixian as he, Jia Xingtian, and Iron Protector formed a formation and began casting hand seals.

Xiao Yan and Wu Protector used giant-form secret arts and battled with strength close to a Dou Zun, leaving the Poison Sect in ruins. As the evenly matched fight dragged on, Xiao Yan enclosed the two of them within an invisible barrier and prepared to change the battle.

• Medicine Elder warned Xiao Yan that Wu Protector’s Soul Hall secret art fused three people’s strength, while Xiao Yan prepared to test his Law of Heaven and Earth.
• Xiao Yan combined Dou Qi, soul power, Force Qi, and Heavenly Flame to grow over a hundred meters tall, and Wu Protector expanded to match him.
• Xiao Yan and Wu Protector clashed with an iron rod and scythe, and the shockwaves destroyed the Poison Sect’s buildings.
• Xiao Yixian and Xie Bi Yan watched as the two giants fought, while Xie Bi Yan taunted Xiao Yixian about the ruined Poison Sect.
• Xiao Yan realized that their evenly matched battle could drag on, then formed hand seals and enclosed himself and Wu Protector within an invisible barrier.

Wu Protector used the Soul Hall secret art Myriad Manifestations: Soul Funeral to fill the barrier with red mist and attack Xiao Yan from every direction. Xiao Yan realized the mist was Wu Protector’s body and began devouring it, leaving Wu Protector desperate enough to threaten Xiao Yan’s father.

• Wu Protector failed to break Xiao Yan’s barrier and, after being struck by Xiao Yan, fled as black mist before consuming the soul bodies in three bags.
• Wu Protector’s ritual turned the barrier blood-red, obscuring Xiao Yan’s sight and soul perception while Xiao Yi Xian worried outside and Xie Bi Yan welcomed the Soul Hall’s apparent advantage.
• Wu Protector attacked Xiao Yan from within the mist, wounding him repeatedly, but Xiao Yan recovered each time and deduced that Wu Protector was the red mist itself.
• Xiao Yan used Flames Soaring to the Heavens to draw in and devour the mist, causing Wu Protector severe pain.
• Wu Protector threatened Xiao Yan’s father, but Xiao Yan dismissed him, prompting Wu Protector to ask how Xiao Yan knew so much about the Soul Hall.

Xiao Yan defeated Xie Bi Yan, captured his soul, and recovered from the exhaustion of battle under Xiao Yixian’s care. With the Poison Sect now controlling Chu Yun Empire, Xiao Yan proposed taking advantage of the neighboring empires’ losses to unite their forces.

• Xiao Yan stored the weakened souls of Wu Protector, Jia Xingtian, and Iron Protector in jade bottles, then pulled the fleeing Xie Bi Yan back with Dragon-Grasping Hand.
• Xie Bi Yan revealed his Blood Soul Art and transformed into a half-scorpion monster, but Xiao Yan crushed him with three punches and sealed his soul in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yan collapsed from exhaustion after returning to normal size, and Xiao Yixian took him to her cultivation cave to rest.
• Xiao Yixian told Xiao Yan that the Poison Sect had seized Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect’s headquarters and now controlled Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yan proposed uniting forces while Mulan Empire had lost its Three Elders and Falling Goose Empire had lost Yan Luotian, and Xiao Yixian asked about his plans.

Xiao Yan summoned the Northwestern Continent’s factions to the Poison Sect as he prepared to unify the region, while Yun Shan urged Yun Yun to bring the Misty Cloud Sect under Xiao Yan’s authority. At the gathering three months later, Xiao Yan noticed that many factions from the Falling Goose and Mulan Empires had failed to attend and silently marked them for death.

• Xiao Yan ordered Xiao Yixian to invite powerful factions across the Northwestern Continent to gather at the Poison Sect in three months, including the Misty Cloud Sect.
• After reading Xiao Yan’s invitation, Yun Shan told Yun Yun that resisting him would doom the Misty Cloud Sect and advised her to bring the sect over voluntarily.
• Yun Shan joked that the Misty Cloud Sect could become Xiao Yan’s dowry and asked Yun Yun to request pills from him.
• Three months later, faction leaders gathered at the Poison Sect, where some small-faction leaders underestimated Xiao Yan while the stronger factions treated him cautiously.
• Xiao Yixian reported that nearly all factions from the Chu Yun and Jia Ma Empires had arrived, but fewer than two-thirds from the Falling Goose and Mulan Empires had come, and Xiao Yan decided the absent factions would die.

Xiao Yan invited the Jia Ma Empire’s factions to join the Tianxia Guild, promising rare pills and improved aptitude to help them advance. Several groups joined, including Medusa’s Snake People, who asked Xiao Yan to find them a suitable home and give Medusa status equal to Xiao Yixian; their rivalry flared again before Xiao Yan stopped them.

• Xiao Yan announced that joining the Tianxia Guild was voluntary and promised members pills and help improving their aptitude.
• Ya Fei testified that Xiao Yan had improved her aptitude, allowing her to reach Dou Wang in just over three years.
• Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Fama each declared that their factions would join, followed by leaders of several smaller factions.
• Medusa announced that the Snake People would join if Xiao Yan found them a suitable place to live and gave her status equal to Xiao Yixian.
• Xiao Yixian and Medusa argued over Medusa’s demand, and Xiao Yan ordered them to stop.

Xiao Yan explained Tianxia Guild’s structure and offered its members the chance to have sixth-tier pills refined from their own ingredients. He began refining more than fifty batches of Imperial Pills in public, while the guild’s doubters watched the extraordinary disturbance in the sky.

• Xiao Yan let the forces that refused to join Tianxia Guild leave, then toasted those who had joined.
• Xiao Yan outlined the guild’s ranks, appointed halls, rules, and rewards, and offered each member one sixth-tier pill refinement in exchange for ingredients.
• Ya Fei registered the ingredients for more than fifty batches of Imperial Pills after the members traded among themselves.
• Xiao Yan took the ingredients to Blue Stone Square and began refining the Imperial Pills in the Heart of the Earth.
• A vast vortex appeared in the sky as the pill formed, drawing the attention of both guild members and the departing factions that had refused to join.

Xiao Yan arranged Tianxia Guild’s new territories and leadership after a series of pill phenomena drew attention to the guild’s growing power. He then asked Yao Ye to help unify the empires of the Northwestern Continent, offering her a chance to secure Jia Xingtian’s release.

• Fifty-five pill phenomena appeared over several days, and Luo Yun left Tianxia Guild much stronger after taking an Imperial Pill.
• Xiao Yan rejected the returning sect members’ request to join Tianxia Guild, assigned the Snake People the former territory of the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and put Ya Fei in charge of the guild’s finances.
• Fama explained that he had joined Tianxia Guild to focus on pill research, and Xiao Yan promised he would soon meet his master.
• Xiao Yan traveled to the Jia Ma Empire and asked Yao Ye to help unify the empires of the Northwestern Continent.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Ye that Jia Xingtian was imprisoned and offered him a chance at a new life if she performed well.

Xiao Yan assigned Yao Ye to unify the Northwestern Continent under the Tianxia Guild within three years, then traveled to the Black-Corner Region to watch the conflict between Canaan Academy and the Black Alliance. Nalan Yanran and her allies had the upper hand against Han Feng, while Xiao Yan stayed hidden and watched for the reinforcements lurking nearby.

• Xiao Yan gave Yao Ye authority and Tianxia Guild resources, ordering her to unify the Northwestern Continent within three years.
• Xiao Yan left for the Black-Corner Region to attend the Black Emperor City auction and obtain the Heavenly Demon Puppet refining method.
• Nalan Yanran and Canaan Academy’s elders besieged Maple City with help from a powerful rising force that had joined Canaan Academy against Han Feng’s Black Alliance.
• Nalan Yanran intercepted Han Feng while Su Qian fought the Gold and Silver Elders, and Han Feng tried to turn her against Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Yan recognized his elder and second brothers among Nalan Yanran’s allies, then gave Ziyan pills as she urged him to join the battle.
• Xiao Yan refused to intervene and remained hidden, wary of the reinforcements waiting in the shadows.

Han Feng summoned Fang Yan and two Demon Flame Valley experts to help the Black Alliance fight Canaan Academy, shifting the battle against Su Qian and Nalan Yanran. As Su Qian began to falter, Fang Yan and his companions formed a massive firebird to attack him.

• Han Feng agreed to Demon Flame Valley's terms and called Fang Yan and two companions to reinforce the Black Alliance.
• Fang Yan dismissed Su Qian's warning about Canaan Academy's headmaster, while Su Qian refused to retreat and Hu Gan returned to battle.
• Fang Yan and his companions combined their flames and attacked Su Qian with a fiery bird as the Gold and Silver Elders pressed their assault.
• The Gold and Silver Elders and Fang Yan's group forced Su Qian back, while Han Feng continued driving Nalan Yanran into retreat.
• Fang Yan ordered his companions to finish Su Qian, and the three formed a giant grayish-brown firebird at the cost of their strength.

Xiao Yan secretly stopped Fang Yan’s attack on Canaan Academy, helping Su Qian and Nalan Yanran defeat the Black Alliance. Afterward, as Su Qian questioned who truly controlled the Tianxia Guild, Xiao Yan appeared and reunited with his brothers.

• Fang Yan sent the Blazing Phoenix’s flames raining toward Canaan Academy, but Xiao Yan’s invisible barrier stopped them and his Yin-Yang Twin Flame destroyed the phoenix.
• Fang Yan and the two elders fled, but Xiao Yan’s power killed them; Su Qian and Nalan Yanran then led their forces against the Black Alliance.
• Gold and Silver Elders and Han Feng retreated, while the remaining Black Alliance forces surrendered and the battle ended.
• Su Qian and Nalan Yanran bargained over Maple City and the Tianxia Guild’s future, while Xiao Ding argued that the Guild could protect Canaan Academy’s students.
• Su Qian asked who stood behind the Tianxia Guild, and Xiao Ding called Xiao Yan into the hall, where Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, secured Canaan Academy’s support for the Tianxia Guild by giving it a child flame, and learned of a major auction in Black Emperor City. After arriving in the city with Nalan Yanran and Ziyan, he threw members of the Kui Wolf Gang away from the gate, provoking their threats.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li explained that Nalan Yanran had defeated them before they recognized their connection to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan promised Canaan Academy opportunities to have medicinal pills refined and gave Su Qian a child flame of the Yin-Yang Twin Flame for the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower.
• Ziyan stayed with Xiao Yan while Su Qian returned to Canaan Academy with the elders.
• Xiao Ding told Xiao Yan that Black Emperor City would hold a major auction in a month.
• Xiao Yan arrived in Black Emperor City with Nalan Yanran and Ziyan, then used golden dragon claws to fling the Kui Wolf Gang members harassing people at the city gate.
• The Kui Wolf Gang members returned and threatened Xiao Yan, demanding that he let them have their way with Nalan Yanran and Ziyan.

Xiao Yan entered Black Emperor City under the name Xiongba and secured lodging at Black Emperor Pavilion with Nalan Yanran and Ziyan. Earth Demon Old Ghost arrived and immediately attacked Xiao Yan, who recognized that the old man possessed something he wanted.

• Nalan Yanran killed the dozen men who had attacked Xiao Yan’s group and cleaned her treasured sword afterward.
• An old man in yellow gave Xiao Yan a Purple-Gold Token after learning he was the Guild Master of the Tianxia Guild.
• Xiao Yan presented the token at Black Emperor Pavilion and entered with Nalan Yanran and Ziyan.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost arrived at Black Emperor Pavilion, and Xiao Yan recognized him as the owner of something he had long coveted.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost suddenly appeared before Xiao Yan and struck at his chest with a palm filled with icy force.

Xiao Yan clashed with Earth Demon Old Ghost until Mo Tianxing intervened to protect the Black Emperor Sect’s auction. Xiao Yan then settled into a heaven-grade residence with Nalan Yanran and Ziyan, where he judged himself evenly matched with Earth Demon Old Ghost and prepared to compete for the auction’s treasures.

• Xiao Yan and Earth Demon Old Ghost exchanged attacks, and Xiao Yan prepared to reflect the old ghost’s ice spikes.
• Mo Tianxing appeared, stopped the fight, and persuaded both men to wait until after the auction to settle their grievances.
• Mo Tianxing arranged for Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran, and Ziyan to stay in a heaven-grade residence ahead of the auction in three days.
• Nalan Yanran asked about Earth Demon Old Ghost, and Xiao Yan said they were evenly matched but believed his strength and recovery would give him the advantage in a prolonged battle.

Xiao Yan attended the Black Emperor Sect’s crowded auction, where he and Earth Demon Old Ghost agreed not to cause trouble. Mo Tianxing opened the auction and presented a finger technique Dou Skill as the first item.

• Xiao Yan and Earth Demon Old Ghost exchanged barbed remarks at the plaza before entering separate places in the auction hall.
• Xiao Yan waited in a private room as the auction platform was secured and Mo Tianxing emerged to address the crowd.
• Mo Tianxing warned attendees against disrupting the auction and received Xiao Yan’s and Earth Demon Old Ghost’s assurances that they would not interfere.
• Mo Tianxing introduced the Heavenly Feather Finger, a mid-tier Profound Rank Dou Skill, and opened bidding at one hundred thousand gold coins, with a cap of eight hundred thousand.