Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated Xiao Ke and spent a day with Xun'er before returning to cultivation. In the Magical Beast Mountain Range, a Soul Hall Protector harvested beast souls to refine a pill, while Amon learned of the scheme and began freeing mass for a major move by eliminating avatars.

• Xiao Ke challenged Xiao Yan, who defeated him with one strike of Stone Crushing Palm, while Xiao Ning resolved to crush Xiao Yan at the coming-of-age ceremony.
• Xiao Yan kept his promise to accompany Xun'er for a day, then returned to cultivation.
• A Soul Hall Protector slaughtered magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, collected their souls, and refined them into a Soul-Enhancing Pill for a transaction.
• Amon revealed that he had used an avatar to lure the Soul Hall Protector and had hoped to infiltrate the Soul Hall, then speculated that the pill could lead to a valuable opportunity.
• Amon's total mass reached its limit, so Wu Meng and other avatars killed Spirit Worms to free mass for the Main Body, while Lord Ape stopped weakening itself to avoid endangering its survival.

Yun Shan accepted Protector Wu’s offer to help him break through to Dou Zong in exchange for collecting souls for Soul Hall. After receiving a dangerous Soul-Enhancing Pill and the technique to consume it, he entered a sealed cultivation chamber to prepare for the breakthrough.

• Protector Wu introduced himself as a Soul Hall member and offered to help Yun Shan become a Dou Zong in exchange for one Dou Huang soul every five years.
• Protector Wu threatened that Yun Shan could become another faction’s prey if he refused, and Yun Shan agreed to cooperate.
• Protector Wu gave Yun Shan a Soul-Enhancing Pill, explaining that it could boost his chance of breaking through by thirty percent but could damage his potential and overwhelm his identity with other souls.
• Protector Wu handed Yun Shan a Jade Slip containing the Soul-Exit Secret Technique and vanished.
• Yun Shan sealed himself inside a hidden cultivation chamber and studied the technique, learning that using it too often could prevent his soul from returning to his body.

Amon’s Spirit Worms used the Soul-Enhancing Pill to parasitize Yun Shan and take control of his body. Yun Shan assigned Yun Meng to remain in charge of the Misty Cloud Sect region, then introduced him to Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran as his new disciple.

• Yun Shan separated his soul from his body and swallowed the Soul-Enhancing Pill, which contained Amon’s Spirit Worms.
• The Spirit Worms merged with Yun Shan’s soul and subdued him, while he realized too late that Protector Wu had not merely tampered with the pill.
• Amon took control of Yun Shan and returned the excess mass quota to his avatars; Lord Ape’s Spirit Worm began recovering, while Wu Meng chose not to consume his quota.
• Yun Shan met Yun Meng in Misty Cloud Mountain and kept him responsible for the Misty Cloud Sect region, explaining that controlling Yun Shan had slowed the Main Body’s cultivation.
• Yun Shan brought Yun Meng to meet Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, introducing him as his newly accepted disciple and their junior and martial uncle.

At the Xiao Clan coming-of-age ceremony, Xiao Yan dealt with teasing from Xiao Yu and the attention of Ya Fei before his retest revealed that he had reached the eighth stage of Dou Qi. The ceremony’s challenge began, but Xiao Ning hesitated after Xiao Yu reminded him that Xiao Yan had once reached the Dou Practitioner level.

• Xiao Yan spoke with Xiao Meng and Xun'er about Ya Fei and Xiao Yu, who had returned from Jianan Academy and still resented him for accidentally touching her thigh.
• Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Yan to Ya Fei and praised his progress from the third to the seventh stage of Dou Qi in a year.
• During the ceremony, Xiao Yan provoked Xiao Yu by staring at her legs, and Xiao Ning restrained her from attacking him.
• Xiao Yan completed the ceremony and retested at the Black Stone Stele, which displayed that he had reached the eighth stage of Dou Qi.
• After the Second Elder called for a challenge, Xiao Ning considered stepping forward, but Xiao Yu warned him that Xiao Yan had once reached the Dou Practitioner level.

Xiao Ning challenged Xiao Yan at the coming-of-age ceremony, but Xiao Yan defeated him with a combination of Dou techniques. Xiao Yu confronted Xiao Yan afterward, and Xiao Meng stepped in to challenge her as Xiao Ning fainted again.

• Xiao Yu gave Xiao Ning a Qi-Boosting Powder pill to help him challenge Xiao Yan, and Xiao Ning stepped onto the stage despite her warnings.
• Xiao Yan accepted Xiao Ning's challenge while Xiao Zhan worried that Xiao Yan lacked experience with Dou techniques.
• Xiao Ning used Rending Claw Strike, but Xiao Yan combined Sucking Palm with Fire Blowing Palm and knocked him down, leaving the gathered guests impressed.
• Ya Fei suggested closer cooperation with the Xiao Clan, while First Elder praised Xiao Yan after seeing the change in her attitude.
• Xiao Yu gave the unconscious Xiao Ning a healing pill, then challenged Xiao Yan, and Xiao Meng stepped between them and offered to fight Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Ning fainted again after hearing Xiao Meng call him useless.

After Xiao Yan’s coming-of-age ceremony, Yao Chen revealed that strange beings had infiltrated his soul and might be influencing people across Wutan City through subtle changes such as wearing monocles. Xiao Yan chose not to expose his suspicions, while the Amons decided to set Jia Liebi’s plan for Xiao Yan in motion.

• The First Elder stopped Xiao Yu from confronting Xiao Yan and protected him to preserve the Xiao Clan’s interests.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that unknown creatures had eroded his soul, altered his habits, and secretly communicated with others.
• Xiao Yan noticed that many faction leaders wore monocles and worried they might also be influenced, but Yao Chen advised him to stay calm and avoid alerting them.
• Xiao Yan withheld his suspicions from Xun’er and warned her to be cautious around people wearing monocles.
• Ya Fei and the Amons discussed how Xiao Yan had discovered their presence, then contacted Jia Liebi about his plans with Alchemist Liu Xi.
• The Amons voted to follow the normal plan and begin Xiao Yan’s path as an Alchemist, excluding Xiao Meng and her subordinate Spirit Worms from the vote.

Yun Shan bargained with Protector Wu for more time to reach Dou Zong, while Xiao Meng’s unusual attribute test left Xiao Yan and Yao Chen without a cultivation method for her. On the way to Wutan City, Yun Meng revealed his partnership with Yun Shan and won Yun Leng’s service with the promise of a pill.

• Yun Shan persuaded Protector Wu to give him two years to break through to Dou Zong, with a Dou Huang-level soul as a possible basis for requesting more time.
• Xun'er and Xiao Yan tested as having fire attributes, while Xiao Meng’s test shattered the crystal and revealed faint spatial fluctuations and traces of Soul Power to Yao Chen.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that he had no cultivation method suitable for Xiao Meng.
• Yun Meng told Yun Leng that he and Yun Shan were partners, with Yun Meng helping Yun Shan reach Dou Zong in exchange for support in the Northwest Continent.
• Yun Meng offered Yun Leng a pill comparable to a Dou Ling Pill for one year of service, and Yun Leng agreed to follow his orders.

Yun Meng and Yun Leng arrived in Salt City and confronted the Mo Clan over its secret technique for grafting magical beast limbs. The chapter ended with Yun Meng demanding that Mo Cheng hand over the technique for him to inspect.

• Yun Meng and Yun Leng flew to Salt City on a Purple-Winged Bird and headed for the Mo Clan estate.
• Yun Meng told Yun Leng that he wanted the Mo Clan’s secret art of fusing with magical beasts and grafting their limbs onto people.
• Yun Meng kicked aside the Mo Clan guards, and Mo Cheng arrived with Mo Lan and greeted Yun Leng as the Misty Cloud Sect’s First Elder.
• Yun Leng introduced Yun Meng as Yun Shan’s new disciple and warned Mo Cheng to comply with his requests.
• Yun Meng asked Mo Cheng about the Mo Clan’s secret art, then demanded that he bring it out for inspection.

Yun Meng seized the Mo Clan’s Beast Limb Grafting Technique and used Spirit Worms to control Mo Lan and Mo Cheng. After a failed grafting experiment, he learned the clan had Barbarian Tribe ancestry and demanded information about the Northern Continent in exchange for sparing them.

• Yun Leng knocked Mo Cheng and Mo Lan unconscious, and Yun Meng parasitized them with soul-specialized Spirit Worms.
• Mo Lan and Mo Cheng cooperated with Yun Meng, who obtained the Beast Limb Grafting Technique from the Mo Clan.
• Yun Meng tried grafting Iron-Armed Ape arms onto an unconscious man, but the procedure failed when the man’s body convulsed and fell silent.
• Yun Meng loosened his control over Mo Lan and questioned him about the Mo Clan’s origins, learning that its bloodline carried Barbarian Tribe ancestry from the Northern Continent.
• Yun Meng offered to spare the Mo Clan if Mo Lan shared what he knew about the Northern Continent and the Barbarian Tribe, while declaring that Mo Lan and Mo Cheng would remain under his control.

Yun Meng questioned Mo Lan about the Barbarian Tribe’s magical-beast fusion technique and learned how it related to the Mo Clan’s bloodline and Beast Limb Grafting Technique. He spared the Mo Clan, returned toward Misty Cloud Mountain, and considered whether the Barbarian technique could improve his Parasitism.

• Mo Lan explained the Northern Continent’s Barbarian Tribe, its ten great families, and the coming-of-age ritual that fused warriors with magical beasts.
• Mo Lan revealed that the fusion could use a beast’s corpse or part of one, and that the Mo Clan’s Beast Limb Grafting Technique came from a fragment of the great Mo Clan’s secret technique.
• Yun Meng accepted Mo Lan’s information, spared the Mo Clan, and instructed him to say that the conflict had ended after the clan admitted its wrongdoing and the First Elder was severely injured.
• Yun Meng left the Mo Clan’s secret chamber and reflected that the Barbarian Tribe’s fusion technique might complement his Parasitism.
• Yun Leng used a bone whistle to send the Purple-Winged Bird toward Misty Cloud Mountain as Yun Meng thought about his limited capacity and the many Amons serving elsewhere.

Xiao Yan learned that the Jia Lie Clan’s Rejuvenation Powder was hurting the Xiao Clan’s marketplace and confronted Liu Xi after he harassed Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Meng. That night, Xun'er attacked Liu Xi, and Xiao Meng followed by striking him again, leaving Xiao Yan and Yao Chen puzzled about her unseen means of entering the Jia Lie residence.

• Xiao Yan agreed to register for Jianan Academy after Yao Chen reminded him that it held the Fallen Heart Flame, and he went shopping with Xiao Meng.
• Xiao Yan found the Xiao Clan marketplace nearly deserted because customers were buying the Jia Lie Clan’s Rejuvenation Powder, and he asked Pain to provide a sample.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Meng, and Xiao Yu beat Liu Xi after he harassed them, while Pain and the guards kept Jia Lie'ao from intervening.
• Jia Lie'ao told Jia Liebi about the beating, and Jia Liebi questioned why he kept visiting the Xiao Clan marketplace despite Xiao Meng repeatedly taking his money.
• Xun'er secretly attacked Liu Xi at night, then Xiao Meng entered the Jia Lie residence unseen and struck him eighteen times with a firewood cleaver.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen how Xiao Meng had passed the guards, but Yao Chen admitted he had no explanation for her apparent ability.

Yun Meng reported his discoveries at the Mo Clan to Amon, who decided to pursue a Humanoid Transformation Pill by arranging a trade involving Gu He and Queen Medusa’s Heavenly Flame. Amon ended his secluded cultivation to seek opportunities, while Yun Meng continued overseeing the Misty Cloud Sect and monitoring Xiao Yan’s progress.

• Yun Meng rode a Spirit Worm-controlled Rock-Breaking Rhino to Amon’s cave, where Amon’s Main Body cultivated within a vortex of worms.
• Yun Meng gave Amon a Jade Slip with information about the Mo Clan, the Northern Continent, the Barbarian Tribe, and a magical-beast fusion technique.
• Amon ordered Yun Shan to tell Gu He about Queen Medusa’s Heavenly Flame, arrange a trade for a Humanoid Transformation Pill, and kill Gu He afterward to obtain his soul.
• Amon decided to end his secluded cultivation and told Yun Meng to keep watch over the Misty Cloud Sect and report on Xiao Yan’s situation.
• Yun Meng spoke about Xiao Meng and his hope to choose his own Fate, and Amon agreed to give him a chance.

Amon left the Magical Beast Mountain Range with three powerful magical beasts and traveled toward Mo City, while his avatars’ growing independence remained a concern. At the city gates, he met members of the Sand Mercenary Group and hinted that he might have work for them.

• After speaking with Yun Meng, Amon gathered Starlight from nearby magical beasts and summoned Cloud Tiger, Moon Wolf, and Corpse Dance Crow to accompany him.
• Amon left Spirit Worms behind to monitor the region, then flew toward the Tagor Desert inside Corpse Dance Crow’s body.
• Near Mo City, Amon emerged from the crow and walked toward the city with the three magical beasts.
• Liu Ye picked up Moon Wolf to shield it from the sand, and her brother Liu Yan introduced himself as a member of the Sand Mercenary Group.
• Amon traveled with Liu Yan and Liu Ye to Mo City and suggested he might hire their group for a commission.

Amon entered Desert City, found a fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map in Hai Bodong’s shop, and provoked the former Ice Emperor into a fight. Hai Bodong was trapped between Amon’s fifth-tier Cloud Tiger and Moon Wolf, and Amon asked whether he had any tricks left.

• Liu Yan and Liu Ye parted ways with Amon after he entered Desert City, leaving Moon Wolf in his care.
• Amon found a fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame map in the Ancient Map Shop and put it in his Storage Ring.
• Hai Bodong demanded that Amon return the map, but Amon offered to pay with Hai Bodong’s life.
• Hai Bodong attacked Amon with Ice Binding Spear while retreating, and Cloud Tiger revealed its fifth-tier form and chased him.
• Hai Bodong used Cloud Tiger’s diversion to strike at Amon, but Moon Wolf revealed its fifth-tier form and surrounded him alongside Cloud Tiger.
• Hai Bodong asked whether Amon belonged to the Misty Cloud Sect or Jia Ma Imperial Family, and Amon challenged him to show any remaining tricks.

Amon took both halves of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame fragment map from Hai Bodong, then parasitized him and began breaking Queen Medusa’s seal. After studying Hai Bodong’s map of the Green Lotus Core Flame, Amon decided to search for the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake while keeping Queen Medusa in mind.

• Hai Bodong revealed that he had kept the second half of the fragment map in his Storage Ring and threatened to destroy it, but Amon’s Crow pierced his chest and seized it.
• Amon explained that the map could not be destroyed and blocked Hai Bodong’s Mystic Ice Finger before Cloud Tiger knocked him unconscious.
• Amon parasitized Hai Bodong and sent Spirit Worms to wear down Queen Medusa’s seal on his body.
• Amon searched Hai Bodong’s Storage Ring, took his Green Lotus Core Flame map, and identified a broad search area east of Shi Mo City.
• Amon planned to locate the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake first and hoped Gu He’s group would reach the Heavenly Flame before Queen Medusa.

Yun Shan recruited Gu He to help obtain the Heavenly Flame from Queen Medusa, while Medusa planned to risk evolving with it to secure a future for her tribe. In Wutan City, Xiao Yan successfully refined his first medicinal concoction and resolved to grow stronger for Xun'er and Xiao Meng.

• Yun Shan told Gu He that Queen Medusa possessed a Heavenly Flame and offered to accompany him in trading for it, while also proposing that Gu He pursue Yun Yun.
• Gu He accepted Yun Shan's proposal and agreed to prepare valuable items for a trade with Queen Medusa.
• Medusa told Hua She'er that she would seek the Heavenly Flame and risk evolving into a Dou Zong to find safer lands for the Snake-Person Tribe.
• Xiao Yan refined Blood-Coagulation Powder with Yao Chen's guidance, though Yao Chen warned him that the result did not yet qualify as first-tier medicine.
• Yao Chen cautioned Xiao Yan that Xun'er and Xiao Meng might have powerful clansmen who could come for them, and Xiao Yan vowed to become stronger.

Xiao Yan secured the Xiao Clan’s marketplace by supplying Blood-Coagulation Powder, then prepared to leave with Yao Chen for training after registering at Jianan Academy. The chapter ended with Xiao Yu leading the Xiao Clan group through the academy’s recruitment camp to meet her mentor.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen supplied the Xiao Clan with Blood-Coagulation Powder, and Xiao Zhan accepted the Jia Lie Clan’s retreat without pressing their advantage.
• Xiao Yan left the clan a large stock of Blood-Coagulation Powder, and Yao Chen personally refined more after seeing him exhaust himself.
• Disguised as an old Alchemist, Yao Chen gave the powder to Xiao Zhan and said Xiao Yan would travel with him, while allowing the Xiao Clan to use the profits as needed.
• Yao Chen planned Xiao Yan’s training route and warned that he would not intervene unless Xiao Yan faced mortal danger.
• Xiao Yan joined Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, Xiao Mei, Xiao Meng, and Xun'er to register for Jianan Academy after Yao Chen advised him to enroll before leaving.
• Xiao Yu used her mentor’s connection to take the group past the recruitment queue and through the soldiers guarding the camp.

Xiao Yan and his clan arrived for the Academy entrance test, where Xiao Meng defeated Luo Bu after he tried to make the newcomers stand in the sun. Rumors about Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran spread among the applicants as Luo Bu remained outside, embarrassed by his defeat.

• Xiao Yu introduced Xiao Yan and the others to her Academy companions, including Xueni, who openly admired Xiao Yan and Xiao Meng.
• Luo Bu used a testing crystal to confirm that the Xiao Clan members met the entrance standard, then ordered them to stand in the sun as a lesson for new students.
• When Luo Bu singled out Xiao Yan for punishment, Xiao Meng struck him down, sealed his Dou Qi, and ordered him and his followers outside.
• Other newcomers resisted the old students’ treatment after seeing Xiao Meng’s victory, but Luo Bu’s lackey suppressed them and Luo Bu added another half hour in the sun.
• Applicants exchanged conflicting rumors about whether Xiao Yan had been rejected by Nalan Yanran or had disdained her, and Xiao Meng’s service to him made the latter story seem plausible.
• A woman questioned Luo Bu about why he and the other old students were standing in the sun, and he awkwardly claimed the tent was too cold.

After enrolling in Jianan Academy, Xiao Yan secured a year-long leave and left Wutan City to train with Yao Chen, while Xiao Meng and the others discussed the threat to the Xiao Clan. Xiao Yan reached Green Mountain Town and encountered Mu Li, the young master of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, whose monocled mercenaries unsettled him.

• Ruolin tested the Xiao Clan group, and Xiao Yan earned a year-long leave by surviving twenty exchanges with her.
• Xiao Yan asked Ya Fei to protect the Xiao Clan while he was away, and Xiao Meng questioned Ya Fei and Wu Meng about the Main Body, the All-Amon Referendum, and the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan said farewell to his family and friends and departed Wutan City with Yao Chen to begin arduous training.
• Yao Chen made Xiao Yan carry the Heavy Profound Ruler as he traveled toward Green Mountain Town, where Xiao Yan used a Qi Recovery Pill to keep going.
• In Green Mountain Town, Xiao Yan noticed that a group of returning mercenaries wore Monocles, and Mu Li introduced himself as the young master of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

Amon disguised himself as Gu He and hired the Sand Mercenary Group to search east of Shi Mo City for places rich in fire-attributed energy. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan encountered monocle-like white rings everywhere in Green Mountain Town and suspected that Amon’s influence was haunting him.

• Amon parasitized a group of snake-people and ordered them to watch for clues about the Snake-Person Tribe near Shi Mo City.
• Amon entered Shi Mo City, transformed himself to look like Gu He, and went to the Sand Mercenary Group’s headquarters.
• Amon offered Sha Luo a Dou Technique or medicinal pills in exchange for a search for areas with dense fire-attributed energy, and Sha Luo accepted.
• In Green Mountain Town, Xiao Yan saw a Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion clerk misidentify a Blood Essence Lotus, then noticed monocles on people around town.
• Xiao Yan accepted Mu Li’s invitation to escort the Little Fairy Doctor into the mountains and killed two attacking magical beasts.
• Xiao Yan noticed white rings around the beasts’ right eyes and complained that the strange phenomenon would not leave him alone, while Yao Chen stayed silent.