Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan examined Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and began investigating how to reproduce their abilities. As the Desert Iron Mercenary Group prepared to deal with the Sand Mercenary Group and the Mo Clan, Xiao Yan noticed the Gray Mist Space was nearly clear and anticipated visiting a new world.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li discussed consolidating the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, enforcing its rules, and forming an Enforcement Hall.
• Xiao Ding warned Xiao Li that the Mo Clan behind the Sand Mercenary Group seemed suspicious, and they decided to wait for their enemies to act before striking.
• Xiao Yan stopped Qing Lin from undressing for an examination, studied her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and gave her cultivation methods and pills.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Gray Mist Space and experimented with reproducing the abilities of Qing Lin’s eyes.
• Xiao Yan saw that the mist in the Gray Mist Space had nearly vanished and prepared to explore the new world.

After giving up on further investigating his eyes, Xiao Yan entered a new world and awoke in a snowy wilderness, where foxes had brought him food. He followed them to their valley, discovered their unusual spiritual learning, and began to suspect he understood the world’s nature.

• Xiao Yan abandoned his experiments with his eyes and entered a passage into another world.
• A little fox found Xiao Yan lying in the snow and later left food beside him with two other foxes.
• Xiao Yan woke, sensed treasures within his body, ate a roasted sweet potato, and followed the foxes to their valley.
• An old fox in a scholar's robe greeted Xiao Yan after the foxes reported finding him.
• Xiao Yan praised the foxes' learning and potential, leaving the old fox stunned by words he recognized as his own.

Xiao Yan settled in West Mountain Secluded Valley, studied the Yang God world's cultivation texts, and helped Elder Tu's fox clan with pills. After seven days, he had memorized and refined the useful teachings in the Martial Canon and Dao Canon, then prepared to retrieve the hidden Past Amitabha Sutra.

• Xiao Yan confirmed he was in the Yang God world and sorted Elder Tu's disorderly collection of books with his soul force.
• Xiao Yan examined the Martial Canon and Dao Canon, recognized their dangerous errors, and recalled that the Past Amitabha Sutra was hidden among the fox clan's books.
• Elder Tu was impressed by Xiao Yan's abilities, and Xiao Yan accepted the foxes' invitation to dine while considering ways to help beasts cultivate.
• Xiao Yan refined medicinal herbs and spirit fruits into pills for Elder Tu and the foxes, including the little fox Xiao Sang.
• After seven days of study, Xiao Yan memorized and improved the useful contents of the Martial Canon and Dao Canon, then decided to burn a volume to reveal the Past Amitabha Sutra.

Xiao Yan watched Hong Yi and Elder Tu debate whether wine, lust, wealth, and anger hindered cultivation, then joked his way into confusing the little foxes. After returning to his room, he studied the Past Amitabha Sutra to heal Yao Lao and considered how to develop a martial arts method for opening acupoints.

• Elder Tu taught the little foxes to cast aside wine, lust, wealth, and anger, and Xiao Sang asked whether Mr. White was wrong to drink.
• Hong Yi argued that those things were not inherently harmful, and Xiao Yan offered a playful counterpoint that prompted Hong Yi and Elder Tu to correct the confused foxes.
• Xiao Yan returned to his room with the Past Amitabha Sutra, which he planned to use to heal Yao Lao’s soul.
• Xiao Yan compared the world’s soul and martial cultivation realms and concluded he still needed a method for opening acupoints beyond Martial Saint.
• Xiao Yan decided that if he could not find a suitable method, he would enumerate and test acupoints himself until he could create one.

Xiao Yan used the Yang God Method to explore the stages of soul cultivation, discovering that he could merge his body into his soul and divide his thoughts into independent selves. He tested Possession by planting a rebellious prophecy in a fish, leaving Hong Yi and Elder Tu to recognize his handiwork as he turned to the Past Sutra’s deeper teachings.

• Xiao Yan transformed his essence and qi into soul power, separated his soul from his body, and merged the body back into the soul to increase its power.
• Xiao Yan flew through the sky and studied the Past Amitabha Sutra, dismissing several cultivation stages as already beneath his abilities.
• Xiao Yan discovered that he could split off independent thoughts with his memories and abilities, then possess strands of his own flame.
• Xiao Yan sent a thought into a fish carried by little fox Xiao Sang, causing her to find a prophecy about Great Chu rising and Chen Sheng becoming king.
• Hong Yi and Elder Tu recognized the strange prophecy as Xiao Yan’s work, while Xiao Yan withdrew his thoughts and turned to the Past Sutra’s deeper meaning.

Xiao Yan comprehended the Past Amitabha Sutra and reshaped it into a technique suited to himself, leaving his soul able to recover rapidly. After leaving his chamber, he found Bai Ziyue’s soul pursuing Hong Yi and intervened by possessing the mastiffs chasing him.

• Xiao Yan visualized the Past Great Buddha and understood the sutra’s eternal, indestructible true meaning.
• Xiao Yan merged the sutra with his own methods, creating a personalized art that could rapidly restore his soul.
• Xiao Yan left his stone chamber and met Bai Ziyue, who asked him to wait while he settled an unfinished matter.
• Xiao Yan sensed that Bai Ziyue’s soul had left his body and that Hong Yi was missing, then sent a ball of fire toward the snowy forest.
• Xiao Yan found Bai Ziyue’s soul and Hong Yi surrounded by mastiffs, possessed the dogs, and taunted them that they could not outrun him.

Xiao Yan used the mastiffs to lead Hong Xuejiao, Jing Yuxing, and the other hunters on an exhausting search through the mountain, while he, Hong Yi, and Bai Ziyue watched and enjoyed wine and food. After the group returned without finding foxes, Bai Ziyue decided he might not need to move, and Xiao Yan offered to seal off the mountain.

• Xiao Yan possessed the mastiffs and sent them racing ahead, prompting the hunters to chase after them.
• Hong Xuejiao, Jing Yuxing, and the others spent hours pursuing the dogs through the snow as the mastiffs repeatedly waited for their exhausted riders.
• The mastiffs eventually found a nest of golden-furred mice and a golden-striped snake, but the group found no foxes and decided to head home.
• Xiao Yan, Hong Yi, and Bai Ziyue watched the hunt from the mountain valley while sharing refined Jade Nectar and a meal.
• Bai Ziyue said he might not need to move, and Xiao Yan offered to seal off the mountain.

Xiao Yan sealed the entrance to Qishan Secluded Valley with a mountain-moving divine ability, astonishing Bai Ziyue and Elder Tu. He then consumed medicinal pills to cultivate in seclusion, and the chapter ended as his Wheel Sea Realm reached fullness and radiant phenomena appeared.

• Xiao Yan decided to seal Qishan Secluded Valley’s entrance rather than flee from the fox-hunting nobles.
• Xiao Yan summoned his Flame Emperor’s Dharma Body and used fire, dao patterns, and the primordial energy of heaven and earth to fill the canyon entrance with stone and seal it.
• Bai Ziyue and Elder Tu were stunned by Xiao Yan’s mountain-moving ability, and Xiao Yan offered to teach them broadly applicable secret arts.
• Xiao Yan entered a hidden stone chamber and absorbed medicinal pills and heaven-and-earth energy to advance toward the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
• Xiao Yan’s body withered through repeated cultivation cycles before his heartbeat thundered and his vitality surged back.
• Xiao Yan’s Wheel Sea Realm reached fullness, and radiant phenomena bloomed from within his body.

Xiao Yan refined his Wheel Sea to fullness, forming the Endless Flame Domain and Fire Sea Planting Golden Lotus phenomena, then advanced into the Dao Palace Secret Realm. He reached the First Heaven of Dao Palace, where his Natal Flame triggered a sudden change in the Heart Divine Treasury.

• Xiao Yan fused his body and the Five Elements into his Wheel Sea, transforming his vitality into a golden lotus and gaining a greatly strengthened physical form.
• Xiao Yan discovered that his two phenomena, Endless Flame Domain and Fire Sea Planting Golden Lotus, could operate separately or combine.
• Xiao Yan entered the Dao Palace Secret Realm and chose the fire-aspected Heart Divine Treasury.
• Xiao Yan reached the First Heaven of Dao Palace as his essence, energy, and spirit transformed.
• Xiao Yan's Natal Flame, containing the forms of ten thousand beasts, separated from the flame at the center of his sea of humanity and entered the Heart Divine Treasury, causing a sudden change.

Xiao Yan created a self-cultivating Fire Deity in his Heart Divine Treasury and considered ways to strengthen it and develop his body’s apertures. He then focused on breaking through the life-and-death barrier to become a Ghost Immortal.

• Xiao Yan merged the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame’s origin into his Heart Divine Treasury and formed a powerful Fire Deity that could cultivate, deduce techniques, and fight for him.
• Xiao Yan gave the Fire Deity the Five Emperors Seal, arts from the Past Amitabha Sutra, and his own techniques to study and develop ultimate moves.
• Xiao Yan planned to strengthen the Fire Deity by consuming rare beasts and opening heart apertures, while considering how to create an aperture cultivation method.
• Xiao Yan resolved to strengthen his divine soul and break through to Ghost Immortal by attacking the life-and-death barrier without retreating.

After half a year in seclusion, Xiao Yan broke through to Ghost Immortal and returned to the valley, where his cultivation methods had strengthened Bai Ziyue, the foxes, and Hong Yi. Learning that Hong Yi was suppressing bandits and had run into trouble, Xiao Yan prepared to head out and aid him while seeking powerful opponents and valuable cultivation techniques.

• Xiao Yan shattered the barrier between life and death, reached Ghost Immortal, and concealed a vast Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus within the mountain.
• Xiao Yan returned to the secluded valley after more than half a year and found Bai Ziyue and the foxes greatly improved by his cultivation methods and treasures.
• Bai Ziyue told Xiao Yan that he had helped Hong Yi, who had gone to suppress bandits and gotten into trouble.
• Xiao Yan decided to seek out Hong Yi, hoping to confront the Great Luo Sect and obtain valuable techniques or treasures.

Hong Yi and his companions were ambushed by Zhao Feirong, but Xiao Yan arrived and easily overwhelmed her. After shattering her Peach Deity Sword and striking her down with the Heavy Xuan Ruler, he dismissed the idea of weighing the consequences of his actions.

• Zhao Feirong ambushed Hong Yi and his companions with an illusion, ghosts, and the Yin-Yang Peach Deity Sword.
• Xiao Yan arrived during Hong Yi’s attack and stopped the Explosive Flame Divine Talisman Sword before it could reach Zhao Feirong.
• Xiao Yan ignored Zhao Feirong’s sword shadows, walked through them unharmed, and challenged her to summon the Great Luo Sect’s leader.
• Zhao Feirong concentrated the Peach Deity Sword’s power into a strike at Xiao Yan’s forehead, but the sword shattered and she was gravely injured.
• Xiao Yan struck Zhao Feirong with the Heavy Xuan Ruler, leaving a vast crater and declaring that he never weighed the pros and cons.

Xiao Yan reunited with Hong Yi, gave him fragments of powerful cultivation methods, and brought him to White Cloud Manor to confront the Great Luo Sect’s crimes. The chapter left Xiao Yan poised to demonstrate his strength while Hong Yi watched.

• Xiao Yan joked with Hong Yi about his progress and shared information extracted from Zhao Feirong, including the All-Heavens Life-and-Death Wheel and Stellar Yin-Yang Dao.
• Xiao Yan refined two Ethylwood Spirit-Connecting Pills, swallowed one, and gave the other to Hong Yi.
• Hong Yi told Xiao Yan that the Great Luo Sect was involved in abducting girls and selling them into slavery, and Xiao Yan decided to attack its White Cloud Manor stronghold.
• Xiao Yan teleported himself and Hong Yi to White Cloud Manor, startling Chi Zhuiyang with his apparent spatial abilities.
• Xiao Yan stood above White Cloud Manor and invited Hong Yi to witness his methods, and Hong Yi asked him to demonstrate.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Great Luo Sect’s White Cloud Manor and prepared to wipe out its strongholds after uncovering the sect’s horrific crimes. He evacuated innocents from strongholds across the seven southern provinces, then sent his incarnations to annihilate them.

• Xiao Yan leveled White Cloud Manor with a single strike and collected its equipment and medicines, giving Hong Yi supplies for himself and his followers.
• After learning the locations of Great Luo Sect strongholds and seeing evidence of their crimes, Xiao Yan sent Hong Yi to suppress bandits and left to attack the sect.
• Hong Yi arranged for people to follow Xiao Yan and handle the aftermath, while Xiao Yan reached the Great Luo Sect’s headquarters in Shuiyang Province.
• Xiao Yan split his essence, qi, and spirit into 2,400 flame incarnations and sent them toward Great Luo Sect strongholds across the seven southern provinces.
• The incarnations moved every innocent person out of the strongholds and then destroyed them, leaving vast empty pits behind.

Xiao Yan attacked the Great Luo Sect headquarters at Mount Shuiyang while its leaders prepared to join the hunt for Meng Shenji. He overwhelmed the sect’s defenders, then brought down a colossal Heavy Xuan Ruler as Zhao Feier realized the sect was doomed.

• Zhao Feier gathered the Great Luo Sect’s leaders to discuss joining the siege against Meng Shenji, though she felt uneasy about her daughter Zhao Feirong.
• Xiao Yan appeared in the hall and declared that the assembled Great Luo Sect members would stay there; he instantly reduced a defiant elder to ash.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Great Luo Sect’s outposts across the seven southern provinces had already been wiped out, shocking Zhao Feier and Yan Zhenzong.
• Zhao Feier, Yan Zhenzong, and the elders attacked Xiao Yan, but their assaults failed and the elders were burned to ash or blasted into blood mist.
• Xiao Yan’s Heavy Xuan Ruler appeared above Mount Shuiyang as a blazing inferno filled the sky, and the enormous weapon began descending on the Great Luo Sect.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Great Luo Sect, harvested its treasures, and planted evidence implicating factions across the world. Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji found the clues impossible to interpret, while Xiao Yan left for Giant Whale Island.

• Xiao Yan wiped out the Great Luo Sect, refined Zhao Feier and Yan Zhenzong’s thoughts, and collected the sect’s treasures.
• Xiao Yan instructed Hong Yi to let Prince Jade handle the aftermath, then scattered fabricated clues implicating numerous factions before leaving Mount Shuiyang.
• Hong Xuanji discovered Zhao Feirong was gone and met with Yang Pan to investigate the Great Luo Sect’s destruction.
• Yang Pan and Hong Xuanji found traces pointing to many factions but could not deduce who was responsible, and they questioned whether the Supreme Dao had staged the attack.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Giant Whale Island, where Hong Yi asked whether a Buddha statue was the one Xiao Yan had mentioned.

Xiao Yan and Hong Yi uncovered the Aperture Chapter of the Now Tathagata Sutra inside a Buddha statue, and Xiao Yan used it to begin combining the Aperture Method with the Secret Realm Method. His experiment had already opened new doors of potential across his body.

• Xiao Yan joined Hong Yi in examining a Buddha statue that concealed a tiny Lesser Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan drew a scripture from the collapsing world, and Hong Yi identified it as the Aperture Chapter of the Now Tathagata Sutra, detailing methods to refine 108 acupoints.
• Xiao Yan gained insight from the destruction of the Lesser Thousand World, copied the scripture for Hong Yi, and departed.
• Half a month later, Xiao Yan cultivated the Aperture Method in a secret chamber near Hong Yi's military camp.
• Xiao Yan found that combining the Aperture Method with the Secret Realm Method had activated potential doors throughout his body.

Xiao Yan fused the Human Immortal aperture method and the Yang God method with his existing cultivation technique, creating the rudimentary Flame Emperor Scripture. After deciding to leave, he found Hong Yi reading a monk’s diary and joked that he never kept one because he hated mindless power fantasies.

• Xiao Yan studied the aperture methods and realized they could combine with the Secret Realm Method by resonating with his Wheel Sea.
• Xiao Yan entered enlightenment and created the rudimentary Flame Emperor Scripture, uniting the cultivation paths of essence, spirit, and qi.
• Xiao Yan judged the scripture powerful but dangerously difficult for anyone else to cultivate, and considered someday making a version others could learn.
• Xiao Yan resolved to return to the Dou Qi Continent, try his luck at finding a Dou Di’s hidden estate, and loot more before leaving.
• Hong Yi read Yin Yue’s diary and wished Xiao Yan kept one, but Xiao Yan appeared and joked that he hated mindless power fantasies.

Xiao Yan gave Hong Yi a universal body-tempering method and took the Futureless Sutra fragment and other scriptures he needed. He then traveled to the Wilds, where he headed straight for the Witch-Ghost Path’s headquarters, Heavenly Extinction Mountain, intending to destroy it.

• Xiao Yan gave Hong Yi his universal method for developing acupoints and accepted the Futureless Sutra fragment and other martial and soul-cultivation scriptures from him.
• Xiao Yan left Hong Yi’s ship and flew toward the Wilds, planning to find Jingren and the Qiankun Cloth Bag as well as confront the Witch-Ghost Path.
• Xiao Yan searched the seabed for spiritual materials and refined the ones he found with the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan reached the Wild Continent, sensed the evil qi rising from Heavenly Extinction Mountain, and chose to attack the Witch-Ghost Path before exploring the Wilds.

Xiao Yan saw through the Witch-Ghost Path’s illusion and discovered its people lived in misery amid sinister energy. He attacked the sect, wiped out its disciples and ghosts, and forced Yu Wutong and the three elders into a desperate fight, ending with four drops of his blood flying toward their escaping souls.

• Xiao Yan used his Fiery Golden Eyes to burn away the illusion concealing Heavenly Extinction Mountain and absorb its Dao resonance.
• Xiao Yan surveyed the Witch-Ghost Path’s impoverished territory and sent Hong Yi a thought showing him its condition.
• Xiao Yan shouted at the Witch-Ghost Path, killing its disciples and cleansing the land’s sinister energy as Yu Wutong and the elders emerged with their forces.
• Xiao Yan dispelled the Ten Thousand Ghosts Paying Homage Formation, freed the dead souls, damaged the elders’ thoughts, and dragged the fleeing Yu Wutong back.
• Yu Wutong and the three elders sent their souls Out-of-Body, and Xiao Yan flicked four drops of burning blood toward them.