Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian returned to Cold Pool, gathered Xiao Ling'er, Liu Yan, and Chi Han, and set out for the Tagor Desert after stopping in Blackrock City. The group arrived in the bustling city and settled at an inn for the night, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to pursue her plans there the next day.

• Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Xiao Ling'er, Liu Yan, and Chi Han and announced that they would travel to Blackrock City before heading to the Tagor Desert to meet someone and gather useful things.
• Chi Han carried Xiao Yi Xian and the others toward Blackrock City, where Xiao Yi Xian shrank him into a white ornament on her wrist before they entered the city.
• Xiao Yi Xian and her companions explored the bustling streets, bought candied hawthorns, and she remembered Xiao Yan's wish to become an alchemist.
• Xiao Yi Xian booked two private rooms at Yuelai Inn, while Xiao Ling'er amused herself by poking the shrunken Chi Han with a stick.

Xiao Yi Xian and Liu Yan visited Gute in Blackrock City, enduring his dangerous pranks on the way to his room. Xiao Yi Xian’s intimidating aura made Gute wary as he asked why they had come.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Liu Yan about Gute and said that she and Xiao Ling'er had come to see him.
• Liu Yan led Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Ling'er through Blackrock City to Gute’s strange, secluded building.
• Gute’s traps covered Liu Yan in black powder and subjected the visitors to more chaotic attacks as they climbed the building.
• Liu Yan injured his foot on Gute’s steel door, then burned the door away and subdued Gute with his soul force.
• Xiao Yi Xian released a powerful aura that frightened Gute, who cautiously asked what had brought them to his home.

Xiao Yi Xian traded a bottle of Companion Amethyst Crystal Source for Gute’s rare Nether Scorpion poison and found little else she wanted in his collection. The chapter ended with Xiao Ling'er asking to take a worthless beast core, which Gute reluctantly allowed.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Gute to trade her the Fifth-order Nether Scorpion poison, and Gute reluctantly handed it over.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Gute a bottle of purple liquid, and he recognized it as the rare Companion Amethyst Crystal Source after consulting a book.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the source was valuable to cultivators of fire-attributed techniques but mostly useless to her.
• Xiao Ling'er asked to keep a depleted beast core, and Gute let her take it under Xiao Yi Xian's pressure.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions flew toward the Tagel Desert, where Chi Han fought and defeated the Azure Serpent Python. After the battle, they rested beside the lake, ate snake meat, and watched the stars.

• Xiao Ling'er told Xiao Yi Xian that the beast core she carried had belonged to a senior of her clan and could help her.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Ling'er, Liu Yan, and Chi Han flew from Blackrock City toward the Tagel Desert and stopped beside a lake at sunset.
• The Azure Serpent Python challenged the group for entering its territory, and Chi Han faced it in battle.
• Chi Han defeated the Azure Serpent Python, took its beast core, and began recovering from her wounds.
• Xiao Yi Xian gathered nonpoisonous meat from the serpent, and the group cooked and ate beside the lake before watching the stars.

Xiao Yi Xian, Liu Yan, Xiao Ling'er, and Chi Han became trapped in a misty region and discovered a broken stele naming the Ancient Spirit Forbidden Land. Touching the inscription transported them into a palace, where its inhabitants demanded to know why they had trespassed.

• Xiao Yan arrived in Blackrock City with Yao Chen to take the Alchemist Guild examination, gather medicinal ingredients, and travel to the Tagel Desert.
• Chi Han lost his way in the mist, and Xiao Yi Xian, Liu Yan, Xiao Ling'er, and Chi Yan found their soul power and visibility severely restricted.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Liu Yan discovered a broken stele whose inscription Xiao Ling'er identified as “Ancient Spirit Forbidden.”
• Xiao Ling'er touched the inscription, triggering a beam of light that transported the group into a silver-white palace.
• The palace’s gold-and-white-clad inhabitants surrounded Xiao Yi Xian and her companions, and one demanded to know why they had trespassed.

Xiao Yi Xian entered the Flower and Grass Elf clan’s small world and used a powerful aura to make Queen Fu Ya treat her as a Dou Zong. After learning that the only known way out led through the clan’s forbidden land, she agreed to explore it the next day and discovered the small world was inhabited entirely by women.

• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed a Dou Zong-level aura, startling Fu Ya and everyone in the hall.
• Fu Ya introduced herself as the queen of the Flower and Grass Elf clan and explained that they were inside its small world.
• Fu Ya said the way out might lie deep within the clan’s forbidden land, so Xiao Yi Xian agreed to explore it.
• Fu Ya invited Xiao Yi Xian and her companions to stay in the palace overnight before setting out the next day.
• A maidservant guided Xiao Yi Xian away from the palace, where she saw a giant tree, a green barrier, and a society populated entirely by women.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions entered a mysterious forbidden land after Fu Ya arranged for the Saintess, Yue Lin, to guide them there. They arrived in a desolate battlefield where skeletal creatures began rising from the ground.

• Fu Ya and an old woman decided to send the Saintess with Xiao Yi Xian and her companions to the land of opportunity.
• Xiao Yi Xian explored the all-female kingdom and sensed an ancient expert's presence in the writing at Qingyun Hall.
• Yue Lin led Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Ling'er, Liu Yan, and Chi Han to a light array while Fu Ya and four elders opened a white gate.
• Yue Lin entered the gate first, and Xiao Yi Xian and the others followed into a dim world littered with broken weapons and blood-red soil.
• Xiao Yi Xian snapped Yue Lin out of an apparent illusion, and white skeletons began crawling up from the ground around them.

Inside the Inner World, Xiao Ling'er used her Ice Element to freeze the endlessly reviving skeletons after Chi Han failed to defeat them. She collapsed from exhaustion, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to carry her as Liu Yan and Chi Han reconsidered how powerful she was.

• An old woman questioned Fu Ya’s confidence in the Saintess as they looked toward the towering tree.
• Chi Han scattered the skeletons, but they repeatedly reassembled stronger until the exhausted beast collapsed.
• As the skeletons advanced, Xiao Ling'er reassured Xiao Yi Xian and stepped forward to fight.
• Xiao Ling'er summoned snow that froze the skeletons into ice sculptures, leaving their ghostfire still flickering.
• Xiao Yi Xian praised Xiao Ling'er and held her as she fell unconscious, while Liu Yan and Chi Han were astonished by her strength.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions crossed a Forbidden Sky Land and entered a dangerous lake where flying and Dou Qi were restricted. As Chi Han struggled across the water, fish-like monsters attacked, and the group fought them while a huge shadow moved beneath the lake.

• Yue Lin recognized the area as a Forbidden Sky Land after Xiao Yi Xian and Chi Han failed to fly.
• The group reached a vast lake, and Liu Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yue Lin sensed that something dangerous lurked beneath its calm surface.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered Chi Han to swim across the lake, where the water hindered its movement and prevented the use of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yi Xian struck the water with You Su, and Liu Yan knocked Yue Lin unconscious before fish-like monsters appeared.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Ling'er, and Liu Yan fought off the attacking monsters as Chi Han pressed onward.
• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, killing many fish monsters as an enormous black shadow passed beneath the lake.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions encountered a gigantic great white shark in the lake while fleeing toward a nearby island. She swallowed Fifth-order Nether Scorpion poison and unleashed poisoned Sword Qi against the shark, which dived beneath the water as she prepared for its next attack.

• The fish monsters retreated, and Xiao Yi Xian and Liu Yan realized that a more dangerous creature was approaching.
• A powerful current blasted Chi Han and his riders away, but Liu Yan gave Chi Han a pill, and Chi Han recovered enough to hurry toward the island.
• A gigantic great white shark appeared, and Xiao Yi Xian told Chi Han to head for the shallow shore while Liu Yan guarded Xiao Ling'er and Yue Lin.
• Xiao Yi Xian swallowed the Fifth-order Nether Scorpion venom, transformed, and used You Su to strike the shark with poisonous Sword Qi.
• The Sword Qi failed to pierce the shark's skin, but the poison entered its organs as it dived underwater, and Xiao Yi Xian prepared for its next move.

After defeating the great white shark, Xiao Yi Xian collapsed and found herself back in the modern life of her previous life, unsure whether her adventures had been a dream or an illusion. Her little sister’s words brought back memories of the physician who had saved her, and Xiao Yi Xian ended by asking what they should live for.

• Xiao Yi Xian sent sword phantoms at the great white shark, which fell into the lake as she landed on the island and approached the waiting figures.
• Xiao Yi Xian collapsed and woke in her previous life, returned home in tears, and hugged her confused little sister before falling asleep.
• After waking on the sofa, Xiao Yi Xian questioned whether her memories of becoming a powerful woman and saving others had been real.
• Her little sister told Xiao Yi Xian that she had spoken in her sleep about healing the world and being a Poison Master, prompting Xiao Yi Xian to remember the physician who had saved her.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked her little sister what she lived for, and her little sister said she lived for herself, her family, those she cared about, and the wishes in her heart.

Xiao Yi Xian escaped an illusion and faced a powerful white figure who recognized You Su as the sword of Lu Chuan's successor. After forcing her to demonstrate Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, the white figure remained unharmed and was swept into memories of someone from his past.

• Xiao Yi Xian escaped her illusion and resolved to return to Earth after becoming an emperor and shattering the void.
• A white phantom appeared, revealed that he was a soul fragment fused with the illusion, and pressed Xiao Yi Xian into the ground with his power.
• You Su flew from its sword case, and the white figure recognized Xiao Yi Xian as Lu Chuan's successor before demanding that she use Myriad Swords Returning to Origin.
• Xiao Yi Xian unleashed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin, but the white figure emerged unharmed while she collapsed half-kneeling and bleeding.
• The white figure saw Xiao Yi Xian's gaze and was pulled into memories of someone from his distant past.

Xiao Yi Xian recovered in a spirit spring that strengthened her foundation and helped her balance poison gas with Sword Qi. She reunited with Liu Yan and Chi Han, but they still did not know how to leave while Yue Lin pursued the inheritance.

• Long Yuan recognized Xiao Yi Xian as Lu Chuan's successor and sent her to recuperate in the spirit spring, promising that the others would not be harmed.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the spring's energy, and her cultivation fell from three-star Da Dou Shi to one-star Da Dou Shi as her foundation and hidden injuries improved.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized that her poison gas and Sword Qi were beginning to merge, then sensed Xiao Ling'er nearby and placed her sleeping form in the mark space.
• Xiao Yi Xian found Liu Yan and Chi Han asleep, awakened them, and explained what had happened.
• Liu Yan and Chi Han asked how they could leave while Yue Lin was away accepting the inheritance.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions left the small world and flew toward the Tagor Desert, where they planned to meet Qing Lin and pursue the Heavenly Flames. The chapter ended as they approached the desert city, while a separate white-winged woman emerged from the Ancient Spirit Forbidden Land and flew away.

• Xiao Yi Xian and her companions grilled red carp while recovering, and she observed that Xiao Ling'er, Liu Yan, and Chi Han had strengthened their foundations during the journey.
• Yue Lin returned, explained that she had taken control of the small world, and opened a gate so Xiao Yi Xian and the others could leave.
• Xiao Yi Xian led the group through the gate and out of the Ancient Spirit Forbidden Land, then Chi Han flew toward the Tagor Desert.
• A white-winged woman emerged from the Ancient Spirit Forbidden Land and flew toward an unfamiliar destination.
• A few days later, Xiao Yi Xian and her companions neared the Tagor Desert, where she planned to help Xiao Yan obtain the Heavenly Flames and see Queen Medusa.

Xiao Yi Xian and her companions entered Mo City, where they encountered strict gate guards and drew deference because Liu Yan wore the robes of a Fifth-grade Alchemist. She decided they would stay in the city for a few days and wait for someone before traveling into the desert together.

• Xiao Yi Xian slowed Chi Han outside Mo City, and she, Xiao Ling'er, and Liu Yan approached the city on foot.
• Xiao Yi Xian observed the desert city's heat and fire- and earth-rich environment as they neared its gates.
• Xiao Yi Xian paid the entrance fee, and the soldiers stopped challenging the group when they recognized Liu Yan's Fifth-grade Alchemist robes.
• A soldier warned Liu Yan that the Snake People in the Tagor Desert had recently become restless.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Liu Yan they would stay in Mo City for a few days, wait for someone, and then travel to the Tagel Desert together.

Xiao Yi Xian searched Stone Desert City and found Qing Lin, a lonely girl shunned for her snake-person heritage. After comforting her, Xiao Yi Xian invited Qing Lin to come with her, and Qing Lin asked if she could follow.

• Xiao Yi Xian left Liu Yan at the inn to cultivate and explored Stone Desert City in search of someone.
• Xiao Yi Xian found Qing Lin washing clothes by the canal while passersby avoided her because of the green scales on her wrist.
• Xiao Yi Xian caught Qing Lin when she nearly fell, then asked her name.
• Qing Lin revealed that she was the child of a snake-person and a human, and Xiao Yi Xian reassured her that she was not to blame for her birth.
• Xiao Yi Xian invited Qing Lin to come with her, and Qing Lin tearfully asked if she could follow.

Xiao Yi Xian welcomed Qing Lin, a mixed-blood Snake Person, and Xiao Ling'er comforted her, giving the girl hope for a happier life. When Scarface threatened them, Xiao Yi Xian killed him instantly, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Xiao Yi Xian explained Qing Lin's mixed-blood heritage and the prejudice she had endured.
• Xiao Yi Xian took Qing Lin's hand and promised she could stay by her side, and Qing Lin happily accepted.
• Xiao Ling'er emerged from Xiao Yi Xian's mark, embraced Qing Lin, and promised they would face their hardships together.
• Scarface approached the girls and threatened them while the bystanders warned that he was a Dou Master.
• Xiao Yi Xian pierced Scarface's forehead with Sword Qi, killing him as the crowd stared in shock.

Xiao Yi Xian brought Qing Lin to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and asked to speak with its captain, Xiao Ding. After learning she had come because of Qing Lin, Xiao Ding and Xiao Li agreed that Qing Lin could follow her.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke with Xiao Ling'er and Qing Lin sprawled across her, then decided to take Qing Lin to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Qing Lin she would follow her from then on and brought her, Liu Yan, and the others to the mercenary group.
• The guards saw Liu Yan’s Fifth-grade Alchemist badge and escorted Xiao Yi Xian’s party to the main hall.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li met the visitors, and Xiao Ding recognized Qing Lin as the mixed-blood Snake Person he had taken in.
• Xiao Yi Xian removed her mask and said she had come because of Qing Lin, and Xiao Ding and Xiao Li agreed that Qing Lin could leave with her.

Xiao Yi Xian took Qing Lin with Xiao Ding’s group and intervened when the Sand Mercenary Group attacked their mining grounds. She slaughtered the mercenaries, including Sha Luo, and left Xiao Ding impressed by her strength.

• A wounded mercenary reported that the Sand Mercenary Group had attacked Xiao Ding’s people at the mining grounds, and Xiao Li wanted to rush to their aid.
• Xiao Ding stopped Xiao Li from walking into an ambush, but Xiao Yi Xian offered to help and carried everyone to the mining grounds on a flying sword.
• Sha Luo’s archers fired at the group, but Chi Han blocked the arrows; Xiao Yi Xian then leaped down with You Su and confronted the mercenaries.
• Sha Luo tried to make his mercenaries surround Xiao Yi Xian, but they fled as she cut through the crowd and unleashed Myriad Swords Returning to Origin.
• Xiao Yi Xian killed Sha Luo and the remaining mercenaries, leaving the battlefield covered in corpses as Xiao Ding watched with admiration.

After recovering her strength, Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Xiao Yan, who had arrived in Mo City. She asked about the Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan said he had obtained the map and was ready to search for one.

• Mo City celebrated the Sand Mercenary Group's destruction while the Desert Iron Mercenary Group held a banquet; Xiao Yi Xian drank alone beneath the moon as Xiao Ding watched from nearby.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed poison for several days and returned to the three-star Da Dou Shi level, with her Dou Qi and meridians strengthened.
• Xiao Ling'er told Xiao Yi Xian that Xiao Yan had arrived, and Xiao Yan soon greeted her while Yao Lao complained to her through his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked about news of the Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan said he had obtained the map and would soon set out to search for one.