Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yuan left Wutan City for the Magical Beast Mountain Range to train and reached its outskirts after three days. He began hunting magical beasts to hone his combat skills and replenish his Dou Qi, killing the pack leader of a group of Azure Wind Wolves.

• Xiao Yuan told Xiao Yan he was leaving to train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Xiao Yan wished him well.
• Xiao Yuan departed Wutan City at dawn and used Thunderflash to travel toward the mountains.
• After three days, Xiao Yuan reached the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and replenished his Dou Qi by absorbing a Tier 1 Wind Attribute Magic Core.
• Xiao Yuan spotted eight Azure Wind Wolves and attacked their pack, dodging their leader’s wind blades with Thunderflash.
• Xiao Yuan struck the pack leader’s skull with Thunderclap Finger, killing it.

Xiao Yuan hunted Azure Wind Wolves in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, using the fights to sharpen his skills and sense that he was nearing the One-Star Dou Shi realm. At night, he spotted Xiao Yi Xian secretly gathering herbs and startled her by speaking beside her.

• Xiao Yuan killed eight Azure Wind Wolves and collected four magic cores.
• Xiao Yuan crushed two magic cores to replenish his Dou Qi, then continued hunting and training in the forest.
• After night fell, Xiao Yuan heard a Myriad Medicine Pavilion herb-gathering team working in a valley and concealed himself nearby.
• Xiao Yuan recognized Xiao Yi Xian hiding apart from the team and secretly picking a purple spirit herb from a cliff.
• Xiao Yi Xian approached a concealed ledge, and Xiao Yuan startled her by speaking close to her ear.

Xiao Yuan confronted Xiao Yi Xian on a cliff and discovered a hidden cave containing treasures from the original story. After Xiao Yi Xian attacked him with poison powder, he evaded it effortlessly and insisted he meant her no harm.

• Xiao Yuan startled Xiao Yi Xian while she gathered Purple Glow Grass on a cliff and told her he had watched her pick it.
• Xiao Yuan spotted a concealed cave below the cliff and considered taking its map fragment to trade with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yi Xian secretly threw Miasma Poison Powder at Xiao Yuan while he was distracted.
• Xiao Yuan used Thunderflash to dodge the poison, leaving Xiao Yi Xian stunned.
• Xiao Yi Xian conceded defeat, and Xiao Yuan sighed and told her he had no intention of hurting her.

Xiao Yuan brought Xiao Yi Xian to the hidden cave entrance and faced the Rock Snake guarding it. He wounded the beast, but it retreated into the cliff’s crevices and evaded his Thunderclap Finger.

• Xiao Yuan decided to keep Xiao Yi Xian close and carried her safely down the cliff to the ancient cave entrance.
• A Rock Snake burst through the vines and attacked Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yuan struck the Rock Snake with a lightning blade, tearing through its scales and wounding it.
• The Rock Snake fled into a crevice in the cliff, using the rocks to hide from Xiao Yuan.
• Xiao Yuan fired his Thunderclap Finger into the Rock Snake’s hiding place, but hit only stone.

Xiao Yuan killed the Rock Snake and led Xiao Yi Xian into the ancient cave, where he found and opened a hidden mechanism in a stone door. They discovered a chamber containing a skeleton, three wooden boxes, scattered gold coins, and a small herb garden, including Ice Spirit Flame Grass.

• Xiao Yuan struck the Rock Snake with Thunderstorm lightning and killed it while Xiao Yi Xian watched in astonishment.
• Xiao Yuan tore away the vines covering the cave entrance and entered with Xiao Yi Xian, using his soul power to search for danger.
• Xiao Yuan found a concealed protrusion at the bottom of a massive stone door and pressed it to open the way forward.
• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Xiao Yuan about how easily he found the mechanism, and he claimed he had read books about mechanisms.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian entered the chamber and saw a seated skeleton, three wooden boxes, gold coins, and a garden of spiritual herbs.
• Xiao Yi Xian recognized the Ice Spirit Flame Grass in the garden.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian opened the three wooden boxes in the cave chamber and found two valuable Dou Techniques before Xiao Yi Xian uncovered the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture. The chapter ended with her recognizing the poison arts volume and reacting in shock.

• Xiao Yuan searched the chamber with his soul power, retrieved three keys from the skeleton, and secretly took a Demonic Flame Remnant Map.
• Xiao Yuan opened the first box and found the High Xuan Tier Flying Dou Technique, Eagle Wings.
• Xiao Yuan opened the second box and found the Mid Xuan Tier sonic Dou Technique, Mad Lion's Roar.
• Xiao Yuan gave Xiao Yi Xian the third key, and she opened the last box to reveal the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.

Xiao Yi Xian discovered that the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture identified her strange condition as the Woeful Poison Body. Xiao Yuan reassured her that he knew three ways to treat it and began explaining the Poison Pill Method, leaving the other two methods unrevealed.

• Xiao Yi Xian read the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and recognized its description of the Woeful Poison Body as the source of her hidden seven-colored mark and poisonous nature.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized her condition was a constitution rather than an illness, and the revelation brought her to tears.
• Xiao Yuan comforted Xiao Yi Xian and told her that the scripture did not prove the Woeful Poison Body was incurable.
• Xiao Yuan claimed he knew three ways to treat the constitution, replacing Xiao Yi Xian's despair with hope.
• Xiao Yuan explained that the Poison Pill Method gathered and compressed her poison into a natal pill that could contain and control it.

Xiao Yuan explained three ways to control Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, then offered to use his cultivation art to clear the excess poison from her meridians. When he called the treatment a kind of dual cultivation, Xiao Yi Xian blushed and questioned what he meant.

• Xiao Yuan explained that a high-grade poison-attribute magic core and medicinal ingredients could treat Xiao Yi Xian’s poison body.
• Xiao Yuan described how the Netherworld Poison Flame could nourish and control her poison, and might let her become an Alchemist.
• Xiao Yi Xian grew discouraged when she learned that the magic core and heavenly flame were difficult to obtain.
• Xiao Yuan offered to regularly channel his Dou Qi through Xiao Yi Xian’s meridians and devour the accumulated poison with his cultivation art.
• Xiao Yuan called their treatment a kind of dual cultivation, and Xiao Yi Xian blushed and asked how clearing her residual poison could count as that.

Xiao Yuan explained how he could use his cultivation method to suppress Xiao Yi Xian’s poison body by absorbing its toxins, and they agreed to seek a permanent cure later. They divided the cave’s treasures, but Xiao Yuan refused to give Xiao Yi Xian the ice spirit flame grass because he needed it for a planned exchange with Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.

• Xiao Yuan explained that he could absorb the toxins produced by Xiao Yi Xian’s poison body, though doing so carried some risk and required regular effort.
• Xiao Yuan assured Xiao Yi Xian they would suppress the poison body while searching for a way to cure it permanently.
• Xiao Yuan claimed the Eagle Wings and Mad Lion's Roar Dou Techniques, while Xiao Yi Xian accepted the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and they agreed to split the Gold Coins.
• Xiao Yuan offered Xiao Yi Xian the cave’s other medicinal herbs, but she asked only for the ice spirit flame grass.
• Xiao Yuan refused to give Xiao Yi Xian the ice spirit flame grass and offered his share of the Gold Coins instead, explaining that he needed the herb for Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian divided the treasures in the cave and left with the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and other spoils. Outside, they encountered a Myriad Medicine Pavilion search party, whose manager, Lu, questioned Xiao Yuan about his identity and faction.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to let Xiao Yuan have the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and accepted the cave's Gold Coins as compensation.
• Xiao Yuan took the two Dou Technique scrolls and the Ice Spirit Flame Grass, while Xiao Yi Xian collected the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and the remaining herbs.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian left the cave and discovered that dawn had arrived.
• Xiao Yuan spotted Myriad Medicine Pavilion members approaching, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized them as people who had come to search for her.
• Manager Lu found Xiao Yi Xian, questioned why she had been alone in the mountains, and probed Xiao Yuan about his identity and faction.

After parting from Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yuan trained in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and advanced to One-Star Dou Shi. Drawn by an unusual flame aura, he found a Crimson Flame Tiger in a valley and began battling it.

• Xiao Yuan declined the Myriad Medicine Pavilion steward's offer to travel with the party, and Xiao Yi Xian returned to camp with them.
• Xiao Yuan chose to keep training in the mountain range, collecting spirit herbs while saving the ice spirit flame grass for a future exchange with Xiao Yan.
• After roughly two months of battles, Xiao Yuan advanced to One-Star Dou Shi and sensed a strange flame aura coming from a valley.
• Xiao Yuan crept into the valley and spotted a likely Tier 2 Crimson Flame Tiger resting on a lava rock.
• The Crimson Flame Tiger spotted Xiao Yuan and attacked; he dodged its strikes, shattered its fire blades with Mad Lion's Roar, and wounded it with a Thunderfire palm strike.
• The enraged Crimson Flame Tiger formed a massive fireball in its mouth and blasted it toward Xiao Yuan.

Xiao Yuan defeated the Crimson Flame Tiger, then absorbed its Beast Soul when it invaded his body. After the Ten Thousand Transformations Source-Dividing Art subdued the tiger’s will and refined its flame, Xiao Yuan’s Dou Qi and cultivation improved.

• Xiao Yuan used Thunderfire Dou Qi to wound the Crimson Flame Tiger, which collapsed and appeared to be dead.
• Xiao Yuan found that the tiger’s body dissolved into a crimson Beast Soul, which rushed into his body when he reached toward it.
• The Beast Soul rampaged through Xiao Yuan’s meridians and Consciousness Sea, trying to seize his dantian and overwhelm his sanity.
• The Ten Thousand Transformations Source-Dividing Art defeated the Beast Soul’s will and drew its flame Origin into Xiao Yuan’s dantian.
• Xiao Yuan refined the remaining beast flame, gaining stronger Fire Attribute Dou Qi, improved cultivation, and a slight increase in his soul strength.

After recognizing the valley’s flame-controlled beasts as child flames of the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, Xiao Yuan decided to hunt weaker Beast Spirits one at a time rather than risk entering the cave. He ambushed a Second Tier Rockscale Giant Serpent, but its stone scales resisted his opening punch.

• Xiao Yuan identified the aura in the cave as the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and realized the Crimson Flame Tiger had been one of its child-flame puppets.
• Xiao Yuan chose to weaken the flame by hunting its outer Beast Spirits individually, beginning with Second Tier targets.
• Xiao Yuan hid on a rise and watched the valley until a Rockscale Giant Serpent emerged to patrol the outskirts.
• Xiao Yuan ambushed the Rockscale Giant Serpent with a Thunderfire punch, but its hard stone scales absorbed the blow and left his arm numb.

Xiao Yuan fought and defeated the Rockscale Giant Serpent to obtain its child flame. He refined the serpent-shaped Beast Soul and absorbed its scarlet child flame into his dantian.

• Xiao Yuan used Mad Lion's Roar and a lightning-charged punch to wound the Rockscale Giant Serpent, then dodged its fire attacks.
• Xiao Yuan wrapped the serpent in Thunderfire Dou Qi, weakening its flame scales and unraveling their outer shell.
• Xiao Yuan repeatedly stunned the serpent with Mad Lion's Roar and struck its head with Thunderclap Finger until it dissolved into a Beast Soul.
• Xiao Yuan trapped the serpent-shaped Beast Soul with the Ten Thousand Transformations Source-Dividing Art and resisted its attempt to invade his Consciousness Sea.
• Xiao Yuan refined the Beast Soul and absorbed its scarlet child flame into his dantian.

Xiao Yuan escaped the Valley after absorbing two Child Flames and being pursued by several Beast Spirits, including a Third Tier Beast Spirit. He hid in a cave to recover and refine the flames, then consolidated his breakthrough to an early-stage two-star Dou Shi.

• Xiao Yuan sensed three Second Tier Beast Spirits and a Third Tier Beast Spirit approaching after he claimed the second Child Flame.
• Xiao Yuan used Mad Lion's Roar, Thunderflash, and Thunderclap Finger to break through the Beast Spirits' pursuit and flee into the forest.
• Xiao Yuan escaped the Third Tier Beast Spirit's pressure, found a secluded cave, and blocked its entrance with rocks.
• Xiao Yuan circulated the Ten Thousand Transformations Source-Dividing Art to restore his Dou Qi and refine the two Child Flame Origins.
• Xiao Yuan stabilized the tiger and python markings in his Thunderfire Dou Qi and consolidated his cultivation at the early stage of a two-star Dou Shi.

After breaking through to a two-star Dou Shi, Xiao Yuan hunted a lone Second Tier Beast Spirit on the outskirts of the valley and absorbed its Beast Soul. He grew stronger but recognized that his limited Dou Techniques left him vulnerable to multiple enemies and Third Tier Beast Spirits.

• Xiao Yuan judged that he was not ready to face a Third Tier Beast Spirit and decided to hunt only lone Second Tier Beast Spirits on the valley's outskirts.
• Xiao Yuan found a wounded Ironspine Boar Beast Spirit alone and prepared to attack it from concealment.
• Xiao Yuan used Mad Lion's Roar to stun the Ironspine Boar, then killed it with Thunderflash and Thunderclap Finger.
• Xiao Yuan absorbed the Ironspine Boar's Beast Soul, gaining its Origin and strengthening his Thunderfire Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yuan reflected on how his three Dou Techniques left him without reliable offense against groups or defense against varied attacks.

Xiao Yuan left the Valley to strengthen his combat skills, mastering new fire-control and spear techniques during three months of seclusion and advancing to Six-Star Dou Shi. After returning to Qingshan Town, he learned Mu Li was pursuing Xiao Yi Xian and went to the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, where he discovered she had become a Two-Star Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Yuan withdrew from the Valley and entered the Legacy Space, where he learned the Gilded Flame Canon and Ninefold Thunder Spear.
• Xiao Yuan spent three months cultivating in his cave, mastered his new techniques, and advanced from Two-Star Dou Shi to Six-Star Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yuan left the mountains and returned to Qingshan Town to rest, replenish supplies, and learn what had happened during his absence.
• Xiao Yuan overheard mercenaries say Mu Li had been pursuing Xiao Yi Xian at the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, so he went there instead of to an inn.
• Xiao Yuan saw Mu Li offering Xiao Yi Xian jewelry and realized she had reached Two-Star Dou Zhe; Xiao Yi Xian rejected Mu Li and told him to stop bothering her.

Xiao Yuan returned to Qingshan Town and stopped Mu Li from harassing Xiao Yi Xian, driving him away with his superior cultivation. After reuniting, Xiao Yuan warned Xiao Yi Xian about the growing danger of her woeful poison body, and she admitted she feared losing control of its toxins.

• Mu Li pressured Xiao Yi Xian to accept his Jade Beads and became hostile when she rejected him.
• Xiao Yuan stepped in as Mu Li tried to grab Xiao Yi Xian, revealing the pressure of his Six-Star Dou Shi cultivation.
• Xiao Yuan condemned Mu Li's behavior and forced him to flee in disgrace.
• Xiao Yi Xian welcomed Xiao Yuan back and asked whether he had been safe in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yuan sensed the poisonous power within Xiao Yi Xian and warned her about the risks of her rapidly rising cultivation.
• Xiao Yi Xian admitted that deadly poison sometimes surged through her body and that she feared becoming unable to control it.

Xiao Yuan reassured Xiao Yi Xian that his cultivation method might suppress the poison in her Woeful Poison Body, then spent the day shopping with her and preparing to return to the mountains. Their peaceful stroll ended when Mu She and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group blocked the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, with Mu Li identifying Xiao Yuan as the one who had humiliated him.

• Xiao Yuan told Xiao Yi Xian that the Gilded Flame Canon might suppress the poison in her body, though he could not promise to cure it completely.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Xiao Yuan that Mu Li would likely return with reinforcements, but Xiao Yuan said he was willing to face Mu She.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yi Xian walked through Qingshan Town as he bought pills and supplies for his return to the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame's valley.
• Xiao Yuan bought Xiao Yi Xian candied spirit fruit, and she accepted it before they headed toward the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.
• Mu She and dozens of armed mercenaries surrounded the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, and Mu Li pointed out Xiao Yuan as the man who had humiliated him.