Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Han’s clash with the Soul Hall and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, Langya Pavilion became the center of attention across the Central Plains. Major factions sent envoys to cultivate ties, hoping Langya Pavilion would keep confronting the Soul Hall, but the Pavilion saw through their motives and turned them away.

• Yi Huang learned that Xiao Han had captured Dou Shengs from the Soul Hall and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan for ransom, then gone to confront the latter after they tried to seize the ransom back.
• News spread that Langya Pavilion had repelled the Soul Hall and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and rumors exaggerated Ice Saint’s role in the battle.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi discussed Langya Pavilion’s victory, and Xuan Kongzi decided that the Pill Tower should send congratulations.
• Tang Zhen ordered Burning Flame Valley to prepare a generous gift and visit Langya Pavilion.
• Envoys from major factions and hidden powers crowded Langya Pavilion, hoping to gain its favor and encourage it to keep opposing the Soul Hall.
• Langya Pavilion recognized that many visitors wanted it to bear the brunt of the conflict and brushed aside their overtures.

Xiao Han returned to Langya Pavilion and gave Yi Huang the spoils he had taken from Soul Hall and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. After discussing a ceasefire and Langya Pavilion’s approach to Soul Hall, he prepared to leave the Central Plains to investigate whether the Soul Clan and Evil Clan were cooperating.

• Xiao Han returned home, and Yi Huang scolded him before asking about his gains.
• Xiao Han handed Yi Huang storage rings containing advanced techniques, medicinal herbs, Ninth Grade Pills, Heaven Tier Dou Techniques, and Demon Phoenix Blood Jade.
• Xiao Han and Yi Huang agreed to keep fighting Soul Hall on a limited scale, and Xiao Han said Soul Hall would likely send representatives to discuss a ceasefire agreement.
• Xiao Han told Yi Huang he planned to investigate matters outside the Central Plains connected to the Sealed World and his suspicions about the Soul Clan and Evil Clan.
• Yi Huang reluctantly allowed Xiao Han to leave after he reassured her that the regions he would visit had no major experts.

Xiao Han left the Central Region after entrusting Fallen Thunder Crystal Ice with watching Langya Pavilion and the Soul Clan, while Langya Pavilion withdrew into silence. Back in the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan reached One-Star Dou Zhe and chose to cultivate Elder Yao’s dangerous, growth-type Burning Flame Art.

• Xiao Han asked Fallen Thunder Crystal Ice to monitor Langya Pavilion and the Central Region, then departed despite his friend’s warning about the Soul Clan.
• Langya Pavilion’s disciples and elders returned to the Langya Realm to cultivate after Soul Hall and Langya Pavilion negotiated peace.
• Xiao Yan tested at One-Star Dou Zhe less than a year after previously reaching Three Stages of Dou Zhi Qi, then went to meet Elder Yao.
• Elder Yao explained that the Burning Flame Art could fuse and devour Exotic Fires, but carried severe risks and had less than a twenty percent chance of reaching its highest realm.
• Xiao Yan agreed to cultivate the Burning Flame Art.

Xiao Yan agreed to cultivate the Burning Flame Art after learning Elder Yao needed multiple Strange Fires to refine a physical body of his own. With the Fallen Heart Flame at Canaan Institute as the only lead, Xiao Yan trained in the art and alchemy, and the chapter ended six months later when he told Xiao Zhan he wanted to attend the institute.

• Xiao Yan told Elder Yao he would cultivate the Burning Flame Art, and Elder Yao revealed that he hoped to use multiple Strange Fires to refine a body for himself.
• Xiao Yan asked Elder Yao about Strange Fires, and Elder Yao named the Fallen Heart Flame at Canaan Institute as a possible target.
• Xiao Yan questioned whether he needed to join Canaan Institute, but Elder Yao convinced him that its Strange Fire made the trip worthwhile.
• Elder Yao suggested Xiao Yan ask Xiao Zhan for help finding Strange Fire, then began teaching him alchemy as Xiao Yan practiced the Burning Flame Art.
• Half a year later, Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan he wanted to go to Canaan Institute, and Xiao Zhan reacted with disbelief.

Xiao Yan learned that his choice to train independently would cost him the Xiao Clan’s resource benefits, but a scroll from Xiao Zhan brought news of an Exotic Fire in Tagor Desert. He planned to seek it after enrolling at Canaan Institute, while Elder Yao urged him to reach Seven Star Dou Zhe first.

• Xiao Zhan beat Xiao Yan for wanting to go to Canaan Institute, then told him he could go wherever he liked.
• Xiao Yan explained to Elder Yao that clan members who trained independently gave up the Xiao Clan’s resource support.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Xiao Zhan had left him a scroll reporting possible Exotic Fire traces in Tagor Desert, based on intelligence from Xiao Ding.
• Elder Yao revealed that his training route already included Tagor Desert and urged Xiao Yan to reach Seven Star Dou Zhe before Canaan Institute began recruiting.
• Xiao Yan planned to enroll at Canaan Institute, request leave, and travel through the Magical Beast Mountain Range toward Tagor Desert.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er went to register for Canaan Institute, where their astonishing cultivation levels stunned the recruiters and students. The chapter ended with instructor Ruo Lin questioning her own years of cultivation after learning Xun Er was a Six Star Da Dou Shi at sixteen.

• Xiao Yan asked Xun Er why she wanted to attend Canaan Institute, and she said she wanted to enter the Inner Academy alongside him.
• Xiao Long and Xiao Zhan watched Xiao Yan and Xun Er together, then discussed Xiao Ding’s romantic prospects and worried that Xiao Li was still single.
• Xiao Li learned that Canaan Institute students had come to visit Xiao Gate and was relieved to hear that a certain female student was not with them.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er arrived at the crowded recruitment site, where Xiao Yan registered as a Seven Star Dou Zhe and Ruo Lin welcomed him.
• Xun Er reported that she was a Six Star Da Dou Shi at sixteen, leaving the crowd speechless and Ruo Lin wondering what she had been cultivating all these years.

Xiao Yan got his father's permission to train alone in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while Yun Shan learned that Nalan Yanran had broken off her engagement with Xiao Yan and agreed to a Three-Year Agreement. Fearing the Xiao Clan's response, Yun Shan went to apologize to Xiao Zhan.

• A Xiao Clan member told Xiao Zhan that Xiao Yan had secured leave from Instructor Ruo Lin and that Xun Er had joined Canaan Institute as a Six Star Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yan asked to train alone, and Xiao Zhan agreed, telling him to defeat Nalan Yanran at the Three-Year Agreement.
• Elder Yao urged Xiao Yan to prepare, and Xiao Yan announced he would enter the Magical Beast Mountain Range the next day.
• Yun Shan learned from Yun Yun that Nalan Yanran had annulled her engagement with Xiao Yan and set a Three-Year Agreement, and he feared the consequences for the Yun Lan Sect.
• Yun Shan decided to visit the Xiao Clan to apologize, and Xiao Zhan personally received him.

Yun Shan visited the Xiao Clan to apologize for Nalan Yanran breaking off her engagement, but Xiao Zhan dismissed the matter as a dispute between juniors. Meanwhile, Xiao Han found traces of Evil Qi near the Spirit Clan’s territory, met Ling Yi, and accepted her invitation to visit the Spirit Realm.

• Yun Shan apologized to Xiao Zhan for Nalan Yanran’s broken engagement, but Xiao Zhan said the engagement and Three-Year Agreement were not worth pursuing.
• Yun Shan left the Xiao Clan bewildered that the matter had been settled so easily.
• Xiao Han discovered traces of Evil Qi in the Ten Thousand Cloud Mountain Range and crushed an attack from Ling Yi.
• Ling Yi identified the mountain range as the entrance to the Spirit Realm, and Xiao Han introduced himself as the Ice Saint of Langya Pavilion.
• Ling Yi invited Xiao Han to the Spirit Realm, and he accepted.

Xiao Han visited the declining Spirit Race to investigate possible clues about the Evil Qi, while the clan debated how to receive the powerful Ice Saint. The Spirit Race welcomed him with extraordinary honors, leaving both Xiao Han and Ling Yi baffled.

• Xiao Han decided the Spirit Race was weak enough that it could not stop him and saw his visit as a chance to investigate the Evil Qi.
• The Spirit Race Clan Leader ordered the clan to receive Xiao Han with the etiquette given to honored guests of the Ancient Races, despite concerns about offending the other races.
• Ling Yi opened a massive portal and escorted Xiao Han into the Spirit Race, where butterflies, flowers, and a Five-Star Dou Sheng elder greeted them.
• Ling Yu Elder invited Xiao Han to a banquet with the Clan Leader, while Ling Yi wondered why her strict clan was treating him with such extraordinary courtesy.

Xiao Han was shocked when Spirit Race Clan Leader Ling Yuexian proposed a life-and-death alliance with Langya Pavilion, a force far weaker than the Spirit Race. Ling Yuexian explained the Spirit Race’s Spirit Awakening ability and revealed that her clan wanted an alliance with the Ice Saint at eight-star Dou Sheng strength.

• Ling Yuexian personally attended to Xiao Han, whose confusion grew over the Spirit Race’s unusually generous reception.
• Xiao Han asked whether the Spirit Race wanted something from him or Langya Pavilion, and Ling Yuexian proposed a life-and-death alliance.
• Xiao Han and the Spirit Race elders questioned the proposal because their forces were unequal and had no prior relationship.
• Ling Yuexian dismissed the other elders except Ling Yi and Ling Yu, then explained that Spirit Race bloodlines could awaken intelligence in certain beings, including Exotic Fires, but only members with God Grade Bloodlines could do so.
• Ling Yuexian said the Spirit Race wanted an alliance with the Ice Saint, whom she identified as an eight-star Dou Sheng, leaving the hall stunned.

Xiao Han’s Eight Star Dou Sheng cultivation was exposed to Ling Yuexian, who proposed an alliance with Langya Pavilion. After he refused, he deduced that the Spirit Race faced an approaching calamity and offered to help protect its bloodline, leaving Ling Yi and Ling Yu alarmed.

• Ling Yuexian explained that her Spirit Race Dou Qi Perception had revealed Xiao Han’s hidden Eight Star Dou Sheng cultivation.
• Xiao Han learned that Ling Yuexian had proposed an alliance because she recognized his strength, but he refused to form one.
• Xiao Han offered to help preserve the Spirit Race’s bloodline, prompting Ling Yu to challenge his suggestion that the clan might be destroyed.
• Xiao Han deduced that Ling Yuexian had proposed an alliance because she sensed a great calamity threatening the Spirit Race, and she confirmed his reasoning.
• Ling Yuexian asked Xiao Han to identify the Spirit Race’s enemy, while Ling Yi reacted with fear upon learning about the coming calamity.

Xiao Han questioned Ling Yuexian about her fear that another Ancient Race planned to destroy the Spirit Race, then agreed to shelter some of its descendants through Langya Pavilion. Ling Yuexian accepted his conditions, but Ling Yi could not be taken in because she was a Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Han asked Ling Yuexian what had led her to suspect the other Ancient Races, and she refused to reveal her information.
• Ling Yuexian explained that seeking help from the other Ancient Races could expose the Spirit Race’s danger and leave its descendants vulnerable to exploitation.
• Xiao Han suggested that the true culprit would keep its identity secret, giving Langya Pavilion a way to shelter selected Spirit Race juniors without drawing immediate suspicion.
• Ling Yuexian agreed to discuss cooperation through Ling Yi and send several talented younger members to Langya Pavilion.
• Ling Yuexian asked Xiao Han to take Ling Yi, but he refused because a Spirit Clan Dou Sheng could not disappear without putting Langya Pavilion at risk.

Xiao Han investigated a dangerous relic in the Ten Thousand Cloud Mountain Range and learned that a Seal lay beneath the Spirit Clan’s nose. Meanwhile, Nether Sky Glacial Crystal secretly persuaded Ling Yuexian that Xiao Han might be the one to break a deadlock.

• Xiao Han recalled how Ling Yuexian described a relic where Ling Yi had once fallen unconscious after being exposed to a power that threatened to consume her vitality.
• Twelve years earlier, Ling Yuexian rescued Ling Yi by using much of her Dou Qi to purge the strange power from her body, then banned the Spirit Clan from entering the relic.
• Xiao Han identified the power in Ling Yi’s body as Evil Qi but wondered how Ling Yuexian had managed to remove it.
• Nether Sky Glacial Crystal emerged from Ling Yuexian and insisted that her deduction about Xiao Han was reliable, despite Ling Yuexian’s doubts.
• Nether Sky Glacial Crystal regarded Xiao Han as the one who could break the deadlock, though Xiao Han did not know she was plotting around him.

Ling Yuexian learned that the Soul Clan had ambushed the Nether Sky Glacial Crystal, while Xiao Han found the broken Seal empty and moved on. Two months later, Yi Huang confirmed the Spirit Clan’s proposed cooperation with Langya Pavilion and finalized its details with Ling Yi.

• The Nether Sky Glacial Crystal told Ling Yuexian that illusory black-robed Soul Clan members had attacked her.
• Xiao Han found the broken Seal empty, then left through a Space Rift to search elsewhere.
• Ling Yi told Yi Huang that the Spirit Clan sought to cooperate with Langya Pavilion, and Yi Huang confirmed the arrangement with Xiao Han.
• Yi Huang welcomed Ling Yi after Xiao Han verified the cooperation and asked her to explain the agreed conditions.
• Ling Yi said five Spirit Clan Dou Zun juniors under thirty would join Langya Pavilion, and she and Yi Huang completed negotiations over the next two or three days.

Yi Huang realized the Spirit Clan’s unusually generous offer to Langya Pavilion was likely payment for a dangerous deal involving Xiao Han. News of the Spirit Clan’s visit spread through the Central Plains, while the Soul Clan dismissed Langya Pavilion as no threat and pressed a black-robed man to reach Nine Star Dou Sheng.

• Yi Huang and Ye Jianxin concluded that the Spirit Clan’s favorable terms meant it needed Langya Pavilion’s help, and Yi Huang suspected Xiao Han had made a dangerous deal.
• Ling Yi discovered that Yi Huang was an early Two-Star Dou Sheng and left with greater respect for Langya Pavilion.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi discussed the Spirit Clan’s visit and ruled out Langya Pavilion being its vassal after confirming the Ice Saint had no Dou Di Bloodline.
• Yao Dan and Yao Wangui disparaged the Spirit Clan’s cooperation with Langya Pavilion, while Ten Thousand Fires defended the Ice Saint’s strength.
• Soul Emperor dismissed Langya Pavilion as an incidental obstacle and urged the black-robed man to break through to Nine Star Dou Sheng; the man said he could do so within ten years.

Jia Xing Tian warned Hai Bo Dong, Fa Ma, and Yun Yun that the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect had taken over the Chu Yun Empire and was preparing for war against the Jia Ma Empire. The meeting ended with Hai Bo Dong asking whether they should inform the Xiao Clan.

• Hai Bo Dong questioned Jia Xing Tian about reports that the Chu Yun Empire would attack the Jia Ma Empire.
• Jia Xing Tian explained that the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect had taken control of the Chu Yun Empire and was driving the coming war.
• Jia Xing Tian identified Xie Bi Yan and his disciple Xie Shan as Dou Zong experts in the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect.
• Jia Xing Tian revealed that a mysterious expert called Poison Scorpion had appeared in the sect, but they knew nothing about his strength or identity.
• Yun Yun agreed to report the threat to her teacher, while Jia Xing Tian hoped Yun Shan would confront Poison Scorpion.
• Hai Bo Dong asked whether they should send the news to the Xiao Clan, making Yun Yun and the others uncomfortable.

Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bo Dong discussed the Xiao Clan’s role in the war between the Jia Ma and Chu Yun Empires, while Hai Bo Dong deliberately provoked the Yun Lan Sect. After learning that hostile forces had reached the Chu Yun Empire, Xiao Zhan ordered the clan to mobilize, leaving Xiao Yan unaware that he might be drawn into the next step of his plan.

• Hai Bo Dong reminded Jia Xing Tian of the Xiao Clan’s battlefield strength and needled Yun Yun about Nalan Yanran’s broken engagement, prompting Yun Yun and Fa Ma to leave.
• Jia Xing Tian asked Hai Bo Dong to use the Mittel Auction House to support the war, and Hai Bo Dong agreed while vowing to fight the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Zhan read a blood-marked letter, learned that enemies had gone to the Chu Yun Empire, and ordered all Xiao Clan combat members below Dou Zong and two Dou Zong elders to deploy.
• A Xiao Clan fighter received the clan’s orders and excitedly gathered his companions to set out, while dispersed clan members converged on the border.
• Xiao Zhan unleashed his aura and decided to advance his plan, lamenting that he might have to involve Yan Er.
• Xiao Yan felt an unexplained chill while training in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, but Elder Yao assured him that no magical beasts were nearby and ordered him to keep cultivating.

Xiao Yan and Elder Yao watched a battle between a female Dou Huang and a transformed Magical Beast, which defeated her with a sealing technique. When the woman fell near Xiao Yan’s cave, he carried her inside and hid the traces of his presence.

• Xiao Yan heard a roar during training and followed it with Elder Yao to watch two powerful figures fight.
• Xiao Yan realized the purple-haired man was a Sixth Order Magical Beast who had transformed, and Elder Yao suspected he had used Transformation Grass or a Transformation Pill.
• The Magical Beast used a sealing technique to defeat the female Dou Huang, and nearby Magical Beasts gathered around her fallen body.
• Xiao Yan rushed toward the woman when he realized she had fallen near his cave dwelling.
• Xiao Yan carried the unconscious woman into his cave and scattered medicinal powder to conceal his presence.

Xiao Yan and Yun Yun attacked the Amethyst Winged Lion King's cave so he could search for the Amethyst Spirit Crystal. After finding the Accompanying Amethyst Source and the crystal, Xiao Yan investigated a strange black hole until Elder Yao urgently told him to retreat.

• Xiao Yan agreed to help Yun Yun obtain the Amethyst Spirit Crystal, and she carried him to the cave while he distracted her with unwanted touching.
• Yun Yun drew the Amethyst Winged Lion King into battle, while Xiao Yan slipped past the cave guards and entered the cave.
• Xiao Yan found the Accompanying Amethyst Source, burned his hand trying to grab it, and learned from Elder Yao that the Amethyst Spirit Crystal could break it open.
• Xiao Yan lured the Little Amethyst Winged Lion King away, found the Amethyst Spirit Crystal, and continued deeper into the cave.
• Xiao Yan approached a strange black hole, and Elder Yao urgently ordered him to retreat.

Xiao Yan woke after surviving the Amethyst Winged Lion King's attack and learned that a mysterious protective light had saved him. Meanwhile, the Lion King received a pill from the Xiao Clan and prepared to break through to the Seventh Order, while Xiao Yan asked Elder Yao why he had urged him to leave the cave.

• Xiao Yan tried to escape the cave, but Yun Yun rescued him from the Amethyst Winged Lion King, which attacked after its son came out of the cave.
• Xiao Yan woke with minor injuries, and Elder Yao explained that a burst of light had prevented him from intervening and likely came from a life-saving measure placed by Xiao Yan's clan.
• Elder Yao told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun had treated his injuries and left him her inner armor, prompting the two to tease each other about her.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King met with three figures in secret and accepted a Blood Purification Pill from a clan emissary as thanks for looking after the clan's members.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King returned to his cave to prepare for a breakthrough, while Xiao Yan asked Elder Yao why he had told him to abandon the Accompanying Amethyst Source and leave.