Chapter Summaries

After Xue Rou separated from Xiao Jian, an old man destroyed the jewelry Xiao Jian had left behind and planned a deadly confrontation for three years later. At the Xiao Clan Branch, Xiao Yuting mistook Xiao Jian’s blood-written divorce letter for Xiao Yan’s and confronted him, only for Xiao Yan to admit he had written a divorce letter before.

• Xiao Jian wrote a blood-stained divorce letter for Xue Rou, then walked away from her as they parted.
• An old man revealed that he planned to expose Xiao Jian and Xue Rou’s identities and have them fight to the death in three years, then crushed the jewelry Xiao Jian had chosen.
• Xiao Jian returned to the Xiao Clan Branch and ordered Xiao Yan to burn his bedding and belongings.
• Xiao Yuting arrived, read the paper Xiao Yan had picked up, and accused him of writing a divorce letter without understanding his wife’s feelings.
• Xiao Yan admitted he had written a divorce letter, and Xiao Yuting threw the paper at him before leaving.

Xiao Yan confronted Xiao Yuting about the battle skill she had thrown away, then cleared up her mistaken assumptions about his wife and divorce letter. Xiao Yuting offered to help with his debt, and Xiao Yan accepted her as family, deciding that family mattered more than the lost battle skill.

• Xiao Yan searched for Xiao Yuting, worried that she had thrown away the battle skill bought for one billion spirit coins.
• Xiao Yuting warned Xiao Yan that Ning Jing, a manager of the World-Creation Continent Business Association, had tricked him.
• Xiao Yuting revealed that Elder Xiao Xuan had thrown the battle skill into Ten-Thousand-Zhang Mountain and offered to shoulder part of Xiao Yan's debt.
• Xiao Yuting urged Xiao Yan to cherish his family, believing he needed to reconcile with his wife over the divorce letter.
• Xiao Yan explained that Xiao Jian had given him the divorce letter and quilts, and that he would never divorce his wife.
• Xiao Yan forgave Xiao Yuting and decided that gaining another family member mattered more than the battle skill.

Xiao Jian’s sudden strength and fury alarmed Xiao Yan after Xiao Yuting confronted him, while Xiao Yan wondered whether Xiao Jian’s wife had ended their relationship. Driven to grow stronger, Xiao Jian challenged a powerful Arena fighter to a life-and-death match, leaving the Xiao Clan Branch awaiting the fight at dawn.

• Xiao Yuting went to Xiao Jian’s room to confront him, and Xiao Yan followed in case she was in danger.
• Xiao Jian cut a strand of Xiao Yuting’s hair with his sword and warned her not to provoke him again.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yuting to become stronger, then wondered whether Xiao Jian’s wife had broken off their relationship.
• Xiao Yan considered how to improve his strength and decided to seek an opportunity to advance his alchemy.
• Xiao Jian entered the Xiao Clan Branch Arena and challenged a Mid-Grade Emperor Spirit Realm expert with nine consecutive victories to a life-and-death match.
• The challenge stirred an uproar, and Xiao Jian stood on the fighting stage that night before the match scheduled for dawn.

Xiao Jian fought Xiao Leng in a battle of life and death, but the stronger opponent quickly gained the advantage and prepared to kill him with his own sword. Xiao Jian refused Xiao Jun and the others’ pleas to intervene, insisting that the fight was his alone.

• Xiao Jun and the others watched anxiously as Xiao Jian faced Xiao Leng, and Xiao Jun vowed to save him if necessary.
• Xiao Jian attacked Xiao Leng with his longsword, but Xiao Leng dodged and struck him three times in the abdomen.
• Xiao Leng taunted Xiao Jian and advanced with two daggers, pressuring him into launching a two-sword attack.
• Xiao Leng caught both swords with his Dou Qi-wrapped fists, disarmed Xiao Jian, and went to retrieve the sword he intended to use to kill him.
• Xiao Jun and the others urged Xiao Jian to leave the platform, but Xiao Jian rejected their help and stood his ground.

Xiao Jian defeated Xiao Leng at the Arena by trading a dagger wound for a fatal sword strike, and Xiao Yan decided to seek the combat technique in the Magic Beast Settlement to give himself a new goal. After three days, Xiao Yan left for the technique’s location, unaware that an uninvited guest had arrived at the Xiao Clan and the technique might already be gone.

• Xiao Jian used his master-recognizing sword to sever Xiao Leng’s arm, then let Xiao Leng stab him so he could kill him with a powerful counterattack.
• Xiao Yan watched Xiao Jian’s fight and decided to risk traveling to the Magic Beast Settlement to obtain the combat technique.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help Xiao Yuting support Xiao Wanqing and fight the Xue and Qin families, but refused to kill anyone for them.
• Xiao Jun observed that Xiao Jian’s sword control had improved and suggested that he had formed a resonance with the weapon.
• Three days later, Xiao Yuting prepared supplies and revealed the combat technique’s location, and Xiao Yan departed without knowing an uninvited guest had arrived at the Xiao Clan.

Ning Jing reunited with Xiao Wanqing and revealed that the Immortal-rank battle skill sent to the Xiao Clan was compensation intended for her. When Xiao Yan entered the Beast Zone searching for it, Ning Jing took the skill and went after him, promising to keep him alive.

• Ning Jing visited Xiao Wanqing in the Xiao Clan’s back mountains, and the two reconciled as sisters despite their past separation.
• Ning Jing explained that Xiao Yan had offended her at the auction house and that she had spent one hundred million Spirit Coins on an Immortal-rank battle skill meant to compensate Xiao Wanqing and help break her seal.
• Xiao Wanqing learned that Ning Jing had already sent the battle skill to Xiao Yan and arranged for his seal to be removed as payment for a debt and a favor he owed Ning Jing.
• Elder Xiao Xuan reported that Xiao Yuting had told him to discard the battle skill in the Beast Zone, and that Xiao Yan had gone there alone to retrieve it.
• Xiao Wanqing said the battle skill belonged to Xiao Yan, but Ning Jing took it from Elder Xiao Xuan and left to find Xiao Yan, promising she would not let him die.

Xiao Yan secluded himself in a cave to refine Qi-Recovery Pills, overcoming a prescription sabotaged by a Xiao Clan elder and successfully making his first pill. After spending several months refining the prepared ingredients, he left the cave ready to pursue the battle skill, while Ning Jing had waited outside for him.

• Xiao Yan entered a cave near the Beast Zone and began refining Qi-Recovery Pills with ingredients and a prescription Xiao Yuting had prepared.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly failed to refine the Purple Spirit Fruit before realizing the prescription's temperature requirement was wrong and adjusting the heat.
• Xiao Yan extracted the ingredients and fused their medicinal liquids, then successfully refined his first medicinal pill.
• Xiao Yan ate and continued refining for several months as Ning Jing waited outside the cave and regretted having to guard him.
• Xiao Yan finished bottling the pills, rested, and decided it was time to leave the cave and seek the battle skill.

After emerging from seclusion, Xiao Yan was hunted through the Beast Zone by powerful Devil Beasts while Ning Jing secretly watched over him. Several months later, he had survived repeated close calls and become more experienced at adapting to danger, though his strength and soul power had not increased.

• Xiao Yan broke out of his cave and ran into a powerful tiger that chased him through the forest.
• After exhausting much of his battle qi and soul power while fleeing, Xiao Yan turned to fight the tiger but was quickly injured and forced to escape again.
• Ning Jing secretly released an aura that frightened the tiger into fleeing, then continued watching Xiao Yan from hiding.
• Xiao Yan spent several months being hunted by Devil Beasts throughout the Beast Zone and nearly being swallowed several times.
• Xiao Yan gained experience and improved his ability to adapt, but his strength and soul power remained unchanged.

Xiao Yan escaped the Devil Beasts into a strange place hidden behind a barrier, where he recovered and discovered a talking boulder. Ning Jing failed to enter the place, and Xiao Yan began negotiating with the trapped half-immortal.

• Ning Jing noticed that Xiao Yan had vanished from her soul-force detection and went to investigate a strange place she could not sense through.
• Xiao Yan fled the Devil Beasts into a small clearing, where he recovered beside an enormous boulder and found his soul force could not reach beyond his sight.
• Ning Jing tried to break through the barrier surrounding the clearing, was injured by its recoil, and speculated about why Xiao Yan could enter.
• The boulder’s voice warned Xiao Yan about a fairy outside and offered him a wish, a fortune, medicinal formulas, and a fifth-grade pill in exchange for help.
• Xiao Yan questioned the half-immortal and began to state what he wanted from it.

Xiao Yan freed the sealed Spirit-Extinguishing Water after learning it was a Heavenly Water and negotiated for its knowledge and help. It agreed to follow him and seek revenge on Spirit Life Water, while a mysterious voice beneath Iron Chain Bridge noted the broken seal and Xiao Yan’s chance to obtain a fighting technique.

• Xiao Yan heard a sealed being offer to follow him if he rescued it and promised revenge, and he agreed to learn how to release it.
• Xiao Yan shattered the boulder and found a ring containing a droplet of Heavenly Water, but refused to crush the ring until the being revealed what it knew.
• The being sensed Qingcheng’s aura on Xiao Yan and agreed to follow him, asking him to cultivate a method that could fuse Heavenly Fire and Heavenly Water and eventually defeat Spirit Life Water.
• The being introduced herself as Spirit-Extinguishing Water, ranked twentieth on the Heavenly Water Ranking, and identified the ring as a Spirit-Storing Demon Ring.
• Xiao Yan demanded the pill formulas and pills, while a voice in the abyss beneath Iron Chain Bridge said the seal had broken and wondered if Xiao Yan could obtain a fighting technique.