Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan shattered the Misty Cloud Sect’s formation and confronted Yun Shan, who had emerged as a Dou Zong. Yun Shan attacked with three techniques at once, and Xiao Yan unleashed his secret transformation and Fire God technique to counter him.

• Xiao Yan’s attack shattered the Cloud-Smoke Sun-Covering Formation, severely injuring the Misty Cloud Sect’s disciples and elders and leaving Nalan Yanran regretful.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong, and after hearing Yun Ling’s account, he demanded that Xiao Yan stay at the sect to restore its reputation.
• Xiao Yan accepted Yun Shan’s challenge, shattered his Gale Hand Seal, and faced attacks from Yun Shan’s true body and two afterimages.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations to raise his cultivation from Two-Star Dou Emperor to Seven-Star Dou Emperor, then unleashed Wrath of the Fire God to destroy the afterimages’ attacks.
• Xiao Yan’s flaming palm collided with Yun Shan’s Wind-Killing Annihilation Force, erupting in a blinding explosion.

Xiao Yan defeated Yun Shan with a two-colored fire lotus, then revealed his strength was largely intact and summoned the Four Directions Grand Formation against Guardian Wu. Guardian Wu and the trapped Misty Cloud Sect faced four Heavenly Flame-powered beasts as Xiao Yan prepared to fight them.

• Xiao Yan survived Yun Shan’s full-power attacks and wounded him, shocking the onlookers.
• Yun Shan ambushed Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan evaded the strike and detonated a two-colored fire lotus that nearly killed him.
• Guardian Wu emerged from the Misty Cloud Sect’s main hall and rescued Yun Shan from the flames.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had barely expended any Dou Qi, unsettling Guardian Wu and Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan activated the Four Directions Grand Formation, summoning four divine beasts powered by Heavenly Flames to surround the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Guardian Wu recognized Xiao Yan’s formation mastery and grew wary of the danger he posed.

Xiao Yan exposed how he had turned Yun Shan against Guardian Wu and defeated Guardian Wu with the Four Symbols Grand Formation. Guardian Wu was captured and learned that Xiao Yan had concealed the battle from Soul Hall, while Yao Lao laughed at his enemy’s downfall.

• Yun Shan struck Guardian Wu from behind and declared himself an enemy of Soul Hall after Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame suppressed the method implanted in his soul.
• Xiao Yan explained that Yun Shan had discovered Soul Hall’s control over him and had chosen to defect in exchange for help removing it.
• Guardian Wu devoured the souls he had collected, raised his strength to Six-Star Dou Zong, and attacked Xiao Yan with a giant black skull.
• Xiao Yan commanded the Four Symbols Grand Formation to destroy Guardian Wu’s attack and badly damage his soul body.
• Xiao Yan bound Guardian Wu with Soul-Binding Chains and revealed that his concealment formation prevented anyone below Dou Venerable from detecting the battle.
• Yao Lao laughed at Guardian Wu’s defeat from within the Bone Flame Ring.

Xiao Yan used Soul Search on Guardian Wu, refined his soul into Soul Origin, and used it to make a Mid-Grade Seventh-Rank Origin Soul-Nurturing Pill. The pill’s formation brought Pill Lightning, and the crowd was still reacting to Xiao Yan’s achievement when Queen Medusa appeared beside him.

• Xiao Yan seized Guardian Wu with Soul Power, searched his memories, and left him unconscious.
• Xiao Yan refined Guardian Wu’s soul into Soul Origin and began making an Origin Soul-Nurturing Pill in the Azure Nether Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan combined the Soul Origin with dozens of medicinal ingredients and refined them into a glazed azure pill.
• The completed Seventh-Rank Pill summoned silver Pill Lightning, astonishing Fa Ma, Jia Xingtian, and the others.
• Yun Shan abandoned his remaining ill intent and guarded Xiao Yan while the pill was being refined.
• Queen Medusa appeared beside Xiao Yan, leaving Jia Xingtian and the others stunned that she had survived her evolution and reached Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan refined a mid-grade Seventh-Rank Pill, absorbed its Pill Lightning to strengthen his cultivation, and captured the pill when it tried to flee. In the Misty Cloud Sect’s main hall, he revealed the Soul Hall’s threat and proposed forming the Flame Alliance, with Fa Ma joining first and the other leaders weighing the cost of pledging their families to it.

• Cai Lin offered to break apart the pill cloud, but Xiao Yan entered it himself, absorbed its lightning, and advanced to the Three-Star Dou Emperor realm before capturing the escaping pill.
• Cai Lin warned Yun Shan to submit to Xiao Yan, and the assembled leaders overheard her call Xiao Yan her husband.
• Xiao Yan gathered the Jia Ma Empire’s leaders in the Misty Cloud Sect main hall and revealed that Guardian Wu had served the Soul Hall, which would likely send another guardian to the empire.
• Xiao Yan proposed the Flame Alliance to unite the empire’s major forces against the Soul Hall, while Cai Lin’s aura pressured those present to consider joining.
• Fa Ma immediately pledged the Alchemist Guild to the alliance, and Xiao Yan explained that members must put the alliance before their families but would receive founding seats on its Council of Elders.

Xiao Yan unified the Jia Ma Empire under the Flame Alliance and planned a Powerhouse Assembly to reshape the Northwest Continent. In the rear mountain, Nalan Yanran discovered his relationship with Yun Yun and fled in shock, while Xiao Yan gave Yun Yun powerful rewards to help her grow stronger.

• Hai Bo Dong, Yun Yun, Medusa, and the Mu Clan, Nalan Clan, and Jia Ma Royal Family agreed to join the Flame Alliance, completing Xiao Yan's unification of the empire.
• Xiao Yan promised the alliance's clans access to powerful resources and gave each faction valuable pills, cultivation techniques, or skills as joining gifts.
• Xiao Yan ordered Yun Shan to conceal the Flame Alliance's power and convene a Powerhouse Assembly with the Falling Goose, Mulan, and Cloud Empires; Jia Xingtian agreed to grant the Snakefolk Tribe territory in exchange for an Emperor's Extreme Pill.
• Yun Shan announced his Dou Zong breakthrough and called for the Powerhouse Assembly, while Jia Xingtian, Hai Bo Dong, and others publicly backed him.
• Nalan Yanran discovered Xiao Yan embracing Yun Yun and learned of their relationship; Xiao Yan teased her by calling her his grandmaster, and she ran away in shock.
• Xiao Yan gave Yun Yun the Wind God Pill, the Xun Wind Cloud-Shaking Art, and a Supreme Imperial Zenith Pill, and Yun Yun accepted them and promised to become stronger.

After learning how Yun Yun and Xiao Yan became involved, Nalan Yanran chose to enter the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life-and-Death Gate to grow stronger. Xiao Yan disguised himself as the supposedly dead Guardian Wu to infiltrate the Soul Hall guardians at the Powerhouse Assembly, where forces from several empires gathered to challenge the Jia Ma Empire.

• Yun Yun explained to Nalan Yanran how Xiao Yan had saved her in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, easing Nalan Yanran’s resentment and guilt.
• Nalan Yanran resolved to enter the Life-and-Death Gate despite the danger, and Yun Yun and Xiao Yan sent her inside the next morning.
• Xiao Yan transformed into Guardian Wu and revealed his plan to use the disguise to ambush the Soul Hall guardians at the Powerhouse Assembly.
• The Powerhouse Assembly began at Black Mountain Fortress, where leaders and fighters from the Jia Ma, Luoyan, Mulan, and Cloud Empires assembled.

Yun Shan and the Jia Ma Empire’s experts gathered at Black Mountain Fortress to face the forces of the Cloud, Falling Goose, and Mulan Empires at the Powerhouse Assembly. As the confrontation began, Yan Luotian, the Mulan Three Elders, and Xie Bi Yan challenged the Jia Ma Empire, while the rival empires hesitated over who would fight first.

• The Jia Ma Empire assembled its experts and troops at Black Mountain Fortress as the three rival empires approached.
• Yun Shan arrived and joined Yun Yun, Fa Ma, and the other defenders, who prepared to meet the visiting experts.
• Yan Luotian taunted Yun Shan, the Mulan Three Elders questioned his confidence, and Xie Bi Yan emerged as the strongest opposing Dou Zong.
• Yun Shan declared that the Jia Ma Empire would accept challenges, and Xie Bi Yan proposed that the three empires take turns testing its strength.
• Yan Luotian and the Mulan Three Elders considered who should fight first, wary of both the Jia Ma Empire and one another.

The Mulan Three Elders challenged the Jia Ma Empire’s forces, while Guardian Wu lured Xuan Guardian and Iron Guardian into helping him target Yao Chen and Xiao Yan. Yun Yun then faced the Mulan Three Elders alone and blocked their Dou Zong-level attack, leaving them shocked.

• Yan Shi and Ye Zhiqiu began fighting in the air as the armies’ powerhouses started battling across the field.
• Guardian Wu deceived Xuan Guardian and Iron Guardian by claiming Yao Chen was beside Xiao Yan and asking for a share of their souls.
• Yun Yun challenged the Mulan Three Elders, who joined their power through the Three-Beast Desolate Art.
• Lion Elder struck Yun Yun with a Dou Zong-level fist while the other two elders lent him their Dou Qi.
• Yun Yun used her Wind God Sword and Windshadow Sky-Splitting Slash to block the strike without injury, stunning the Mulan Three Elders.

Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian revealed their strength and wiped out the Mulan Three Elders and Yan Luotian, while Queen Medusa joined the battle against the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect. Xie Bi Yan stayed behind to cover his followers’ escape as Yun Shan, Jia Xingtian, and Queen Medusa surrounded him.

• Yun Shan fought Yan Luotian, then joined Jia Xingtian in killing the Golden Wild Goose Sect leader through a surprise attack.
• Jia Xingtian revealed that he had become a Dou Zong, and he and Yun Shan joined Yun Yun in defeating the Mulan Three Elders.
• Yun Yun killed Lion Elder, the last of the Mulan Three Elders, while Yun Shan collected the elders’ Storage Rings.
• Queen Medusa appeared beside Xie Bi Yan, and Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian closed in as the remaining forces of the Mulan and Luoyan Empires were routed.
• Xie Bi Yan sent Xie Shan and the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect’s elites fleeing through a passage he blasted open, then faced Queen Medusa, Yun Shan, and Jia Xingtian alone.

Xiao Yan ambushed Iron Guardian and Xuan Guardian, then let Yao Lao use his restored Dou Venerable strength to capture them. As Cai Lin, Jia Xingtian, and Yun Shan cornered Xie Bi Yan, he unleashed the Blood Soul Art and transformed into a half-human, half-scorpion monster.

• Xie Bi Yan tried to persuade Queen Medusa to abandon her alliance with the Jia Ma Empire, but Jia Xingtian dismissed his attempt to sow discord.
• Iron Guardian and Xuan Guardian appeared with Xiao Yan disguised as Guardian Wu, but Xiao Yan struck them from behind with the Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame and revealed himself.
• Iron Guardian and Xuan Guardian consumed stored souls to boost their strength, but Yao Lao possessed Xiao Yan and used his One-Star Dou Venerable power to imprison them in black spheres.
• Cai Lin, Jia Xingtian, and Yun Shan dropped their pretense and joined forces against Xie Bi Yan, who was overwhelmed and wounded.
• Xie Bi Yan revealed that he had sealed a Blood Demon Scorpion Emperor’s soul within himself, then used the Blood Soul Art to transform into a half-human, half-scorpion monster.

Xiao Yan and the Jia Ma Empire’s allies defeated Xie Bi Yan, but the dying Dou Zong struck Xiao Yan with a Demonic Poison Mark. Xiao Yan burned away the poison, absorbed its energy, and broke through to Five-Star Dou Emperor.

• Cai Lin used the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Slash to shatter Xie Bi Yan’s pincers, sever his arm, and leave him gravely wounded.
• Xie Bi Yan recognized Xiao Yan’s role in the battle and, as his strength faded, launched a Demonic Poison Mark at Yun Yun that redirected toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan let the black light enter his body, alarming Cai Lin, Yun Yun, Yun Shan, Jia Xingtian, and Fa Ma as Fa Ma explained the mark’s deadly effects.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had anticipated the attack and used the Azure Nether Myriad-Forms Flame to burn away the Demonic Poison Mark.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the energy left by Xie Bi Yan’s poison and advanced from Three-Star Dou Emperor to Five-Star Dou Emperor.

After defeating Xie Bi Yan, Xiao Yan helped the Flame Alliance conquer the three neighboring empires and returned with Cai Lin to the Snakefolk Tribe. There, he admitted breaking the tribe’s rules by taking Cai Lin as his woman and confronted the elders when they threatened to punish him.

• Xie Bi Yan died after his desperate attack failed, and Xiao Yan stored his corpse alongside Yan Luotian’s.
• Xiao Yan assigned his allies to conquer the three empires, then sealed Black Mountain Fortress for a month and gave Yao Ye control of its Azure Dragon formation.
• The Flame Alliance defeated the weakened empires, and Xiao Yan handed its affairs to Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and the others before traveling with Cai Lin to the Snakefolk Tribe.
• Cai Lin introduced Xiao Yan to the four elders, who thanked him for helping her evolve but questioned him about violating the tribe’s rules.
• Xiao Yan admitted that he had taken Cai Lin as his woman, and when the elders invoked the Ten Thousand Snakes Devouring the Body punishment, he released his aura and threatened them.

Xiao Yan learned that Cai Lin was pregnant and devised an Eighth-Rank pill and secret technique to strengthen their unborn child. After Cai Lin completed the altar cleansing ritual, Xiao Yan took her to Heavenly Poison City to find Little Doctor Fairy, killing men who threatened them along the way.

• The First Elder revealed that the elders had discovered Cai Lin’s pregnancy, and Xiao Yan said he had sensed the child earlier.
• The elders asked Xiao Yan to refine a Heavenly Soul Blood-Melding Pill, but he presented his own Nine-Colored Sacred Fetus Pill formula and promised to refine the Eighth-Rank pill for their child.
• The elders agreed to use Xiao Yan’s stronger secret technique, and three days later Cai Lin completed the altar cleansing ritual.
• Xiao Yan and Cai Lin traveled to Heavenly Poison City, where Xiao Yan killed a poison master who targeted Cai Lin and discussed purging the Cloud Empire after the Flame Alliance took control.
• Xiao Yan flew with Cai Lin toward the Poison Sect to find Little Doctor Fairy, while the poison masters below watched them leave in fear.

Little Doctor Fairy broke through to Six-Star Battle King before Xiao Yan arrived at the Poison Sect three years earlier than promised. They reunited, and Xiao Yan left her wondering how he could withstand the deadly poison of her Calamitous Poison Body.

• Little Doctor Fairy reached Six-Star Battle King and thought fondly of Xiao Yan as she prepared to leave her chamber.
• The Glazed Illusion Butterfly told Little Doctor Fairy that Xiao Yan had arrived, and Xiao Yan appeared with Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yan rewarded the Glazed Illusion Butterfly with a Transformation Pill, which let her take human form; Little Doctor Fairy named her You Li.
• Xiao Yan sent You Li and Cai Lin to explore the area, then embraced and kissed Little Doctor Fairy.
• Little Doctor Fairy warned Xiao Yan that her body was poisonous and wondered why he was unharmed.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and confirmed that he had gathered the Heavenly Flames needed for the Poison Pill Method, while she agreed to leave the Poison Sect with him to obtain the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva. Xiao Yi Xian revealed a map to the Netherworld Poison Flame, and she set out to dissolve the sect before they departed to find it.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and showed her the three Heavenly Flames he had gathered, confirming that he had fulfilled the flame requirement for the Poison Pill Method.
• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to dissolve the Poison Sect and travel with Xiao Yan to the Black-Corner Region to obtain the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan about her years away, including her poison-body eruption, her Calamity Venerable inheritance, and the Glazed Illusion Butterfly's transformation.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Yan a map that she believed marked the location of the Netherworld Poison Flame in the Cloud Empire's Netherworld Poison Marsh.
• Xiao Yi Xian blushed at Xiao Yan's teasing and hurried away, saying she would dissolve the Poison Sect and that they would leave in three days to find the flame.

Xiao Yan's group found the Netherworld Poison Flame in the Netherworld Poison Marsh, and Xiao Yan refined it, advancing to an Eight-Star Dou Emperor. The system then gave him a Calamitous Poison Pill Technique that could resolve Xiao Yi Xian's Calamitous Poison Body, and the group returned to the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan summoned Zi Ling and led Xiao Yi Xian, Cai Lin, and You Li toward the Netherworld Poison Marsh, killing the Cloud Emperor's resistance along the way through Medusa's sword strike.
• Xiao Yan defeated the Netherworld Poison Flame's attack with the Undying Divine Flame and swallowed the flame.
• Xiao Yan refined the Netherworld Poison Flame, rising to an Eight-Star Dou Emperor and strengthening his Myriad-Flame Body.
• The system rewarded Xiao Yan with the Calamitous Poison Flame, the Calamitous Poison Pill Technique, and the Wasteland Heaven-Imprisoning Finger, giving him a way to save Xiao Yi Xian without gathering the usual ingredients.
• Xiao Yan's group returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Yun and Ya Fei welcomed him.

Xiao Yan revealed the Calamitous Poison Pill Technique to Xiao Yi Xian, offering a way to control her Calamitous Poison Body without rare materials and to become an Alchemist. He began condensing the poison pill inside her with three Heavenly Flames and the Calamitous Poison Flame, and Xiao Yi Xian endured the dangerous process as it continued.

• Xiao Yan ordered Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, and the others to take over and properly manage the Cloud Empire.
• After the others left, Yun Yun embraced Xiao Yan, and he then took Xiao Yi Xian to his secluded pill-refining chamber.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian the Calamitous Poison Pill Technique and explained that the Calamitous Poison Flame could control her poison and help her become an Alchemist.
• Xiao Yi Xian read the technique, rejoiced that it required neither the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast's Magic Core nor Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, and thanked Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan explained the procedure, and Xiao Yi Xian prepared herself before he used the Green Lotus Core Flame, Netherworld Poison Flame, and Myriad-Beast Spirit Flame to guide the Calamitous Poison Flame into her dantian.
• Xiao Yan began refining and merging Xiao Yi Xian's toxins with the Calamitous Poison Flame while she trembled and endured the pain.

Little Doctor Fairy resolved her Calamitous Poison Body, and Xiao Yan gained new techniques and advanced his cultivation through dual cultivation. After spending three months with his loved ones, he brought the Xiao Clan to a grand new residence in the Imperial Capital, where Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li learned how powerful Xiao Yan had become.

• Little Doctor Fairy condensed a poison pill, broke through to Three-Star Dou Emperor, and gained control of her Calamitous Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan and Little Doctor Fairy became intimate, and the system rewarded Xiao Yan with the Emperor's Inner Scripture, the Immovable Wisdom King Art, and the Nine Netherworld Soul-Devouring Miasma.
• Xiao Yan used the Emperor's Inner Scripture with Little Doctor Fairy and advanced to Nine-Star Dou Emperor before releasing Yao Lao, who gave him two portions of Soul Origin and his Eighth-Rank Alchemist refining insights.
• Xiao Yan spent three months with his loved ones and moved the Xiao Clan to the Imperial Capital, leaving an elder and branch-clan members to manage their stronghold in Wutan City.
• Jia Xingtian arranged an autonomous territory and grand residence for the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li learned about Xiao Yan's strength, alchemy, and Flame Alliance.

Xiao Yan reunited his father and brothers with his four partners at the Xiao Clan residence, winning their acceptance and revealing that Cai Lin was pregnant. He spent a month with his family while dual cultivation helped Yun Yun and Ya Fei rapidly advance, before his planned trip to the Black-Corner Region.

• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Zhan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li into the new Xiao Clan residence and introduced them to Ya Fei, Little Doctor Fairy, Yun Yun, and Cai Lin.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Ya Fei and Little Doctor Fairy as daughters-in-law and told Yun Yun he would not oppose her relationship with Xiao Yan despite the past conflict with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Cai Lin, also known as Queen Medusa, was pregnant, and Xiao Zhan and his sons celebrated the news.
• Xiao Yan spent a month with his family instead of cultivating or heading to the Black-Corner Region, while Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and Little Doctor Fairy pursued dual cultivation with him.
• Yun Yun reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor after advancing through dual cultivation and consuming a Supreme Imperial Zenith Pill, while Ya Fei rose from Four-Star Dou Spirit to One-Star Battle King.