Chapter Summaries

Amon prepared to infiltrate the Ancient Realm by targeting the Black Nirvana Army and taking the place of Gu Yin, hoping to enter the Heavenly Tomb without provoking Gu Yuan. Three days later, Zhou Mingrui remained with the Black Nirvana Army as Gu Qingyang and Gu Zhen arrived to meet him on the clan leader’s orders.

• Amon refined three more ninth-grade Heavenly Snake Blood Condensing Pills and gave them to Cailin before traveling with Zhou Mingrui to Ancient Holy City.
• Amon learned that the Ancient Clan guarded the Space Wormhole and decided to exploit the Black Nirvana Army’s rotation to enter the Ancient Realm and borrow the Heavenly Tomb.
• Using Zhou Mingrui’s information, Amon selected Gu Yin as his target and hypnotized him, taking his appearance and identity.
• Three days later, Lin Xiu greeted Gu Zhen and Gu Qingyang as they arrived to meet Zhou Mingrui, whom the clan leader had singled out as an exceptional young man.
• After the shift handover, Lin Xiu departed through the Space Wormhole, and Zhou Mingrui greeted Gu Qingyang and Gu Zhen.

After refining the Fallen Heart Flame for more than half a year, Xiao Yan escaped the magma world with Qing Meng and a juvenile Fallen Heart Flame. He left the tower as the Fire Lizardman leaders let him pass, and emerged into the sky above Jianan Academy.

• Xiao Yan completed his refinement of the Fallen Heart Flame, reaching peak Dou Wang, while Yao Chen rested in the Bone Flame Ring.
• Xiao Yan followed Qing Meng into the magma, killed a Fire Lizardman, and discovered that its crimson bead contained dense fire-attributed energy.
• Qing Meng found Yao Tianhuo guarding a juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and offered a Three-Colored Fire Lotus, whose explosion destroyed Yao Tianhuo's soul and skeleton.
• Two powerful Fire Lizardman leaders sensed Xiao Yan fleeing, but stopped when Qing Meng's posture reminded them of the Graveyard Keeper.
• Qing Meng returned to Xiao Yan carrying the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan decided Jianan Academy could use it.
• Xiao Yan shattered the seal at the base of the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and flew out through its roof.

Xiao Yan returned to Jianan Academy with the infant Fallen Heart Flame, but learned that Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, Xiao Mei, and his brothers had disappeared. As he prepared to return to the Gama Empire and face Yun Shan, the war there continued, and two mysterious figures discussed the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Su Qian and the academy elders recognized Xiao Yan, who fled when Hu Jia noticed he had forgotten to put his wig back on.
• Xiao Yan gave Su Qian the infant Fallen Heart Flame, and Su Qian told him that Xiao Yu, Xiao Ning, Xiao Mei, and his brothers had gone missing.
• Xiao Yan suspected the Soul Hall was responsible and considered confronting Yun Shan early, while Su Qian warned him that the Gama Empire was at war with the Chu Yun Empire.
• In the Tagor Desert, Yun Yun and Jia Xingtian struggled to hold their own against the increasingly powerful Heavenly Poison Girl.
• Two black-robed figures discussed the clan's undecided position toward the Misty Cloud Sect, and the woman scoffed at the sect.

Xiao Yan trained at Jianan Academy until he could refine a sixth-tier pill and advanced to Dou Huang, then gathered Black-Corner Region fighters to accompany him to the Gama Empire for his confrontation with Yun Shan. As the group set out, Amon Avatars discussed the approaching events, while Yun Shan watched the distant sky with a smile.

• Xiao Yan reviewed Su Qian’s intelligence about the Misty Cloud Sect and decided to prepare for possible conflict with Yun Shan by improving his alchemy and gathering allies.
• With Su Qian’s support, Xiao Yan practiced pill refinement for three months, mastered fifth-tier pills, refined a Dou Ling Pill on his fifth attempt, and advanced to Dou Huang.
• Su Qian gave Xiao Yan detailed intelligence on the Black-Corner Region and warned him not to trust the fighters he recruited.
• Xiao Yan hired Old Ban, Fan Lao, Old Yin Gu, Tie Wu, Su Mei, and the Gold and Silver Elders to travel with him, while agreeing to face Yun Shan himself.
• The group departed Black Wind City on Black-Backed Eagles, and an Amon there sent word to the Avatars that Xiao Yan’s confrontation was about to begin.
• Yun Shan watched the distant sky beside Yun Yun and said he had thought of something interesting.

Xiao Yan and his allies reached Ghost-Suppressing Pass, where he reunited with Yun Meng and learned that Yun Yun was fighting in the Tagor Desert. Yun Meng said Yun Shan was waiting for Xiao Yan in Shi Mo City, and Xiao Yan affirmed that he was prepared to face him.

• Xiao Yan reached Ghost-Suppressing Pass with Fan Lao and the other Black-Corner Region Dou Huang experts, who congratulated him on his recent breakthrough.
• The fortress soldiers attacked the unfamiliar Black-Backed Eagles, but Xiao Yan stopped Fan Lao and the others from retaliating.
• Yun Meng halted the attack and recognized Xiao Yan, teasing him about his distinctive hair.
• Yun Meng told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun was fighting in the Tagor Desert and that Yun Shan was waiting for him in Shi Mo City.
• Yun Meng warned Xiao Yan that Yun Shan was terrifyingly strong, and Xiao Yan said he had prepared to face him.

Xiao Meng learned that Xiao Yan was returning to the Gama Empire to face a stronger Yun Shan, and an Amon Avatar persuaded her to help Xiao Yan in hopes of eventually gaining freedom from the Main Body. She agreed to their plan, though she realized the Avatar had deceived her as she traveled through the Space Wormhole.

• Xiao Meng searched the Heavenly Snake Kingdom for a Heavenly Flame until an Amon Avatar told her that Xiao Yan had already left Jianan Academy and that Yun Shan had grown stronger.
• The Amon Avatar warned Xiao Meng that Xiao Yan might die in his coming battle and explained that the Main Body considered him less important than before.
• The Avatar argued that Xiao Yan could become a Ruler and free Xiao Meng and the other Avatars from the Main Body’s control, then asked her to take them with her if that happened.
• Xiao Meng agreed to help Xiao Yan and the Avatars opened a Space Wormhole to the Gama Empire for her.
• After Xiao Meng left, another Amon appeared and the Avatar admitted that he had manipulated her; inside the wormhole, Xiao Meng cursed him as a liar.

The Gama Empire’s forces defeated the Chu Yun Kingdom’s army after “Yun Shan” drove Xie Biyan from the battlefield, ending the war and expanding the Misty Cloud Sect’s influence. That night, “Yun Shan” negotiated with Protector Wu over Xiao Yan, who was approaching with seven Dou Huangs.

• Little Fairy Doctor, Yun Yun, and Jia Xingtian joined the battle as “Yun Shan” faced Xie Biyan.
• “Yun Shan” defeated Xie Biyan, whose retreat triggered the Chu Yun Kingdom’s forces to flee or be killed, ending the war.
• Yun Yun asked why “Yun Shan” had delayed ending the conflict, and he explained that the Misty Cloud Sect needed influence to secure cultivation resources rather than to rule the empire.
• At a banquet, Jia Xingtian questioned Yun Yun about the Jia Ma Imperial Family, and she assured him that “Yun Shan” did not intend to replace it.
• Protector Wu confronted “Yun Shan” over ending the war before he had collected enough souls, and “Yun Shan” offered him two Dou Zong souls in exchange for leaving Xiao Yan to the Misty Cloud Sect.

Xiao Yan encountered surviving members of his clan and learned that the Misty Cloud Sect may have been involved in its destruction. In Shi Mo City, he reunited with Yun Yun, who agreed to investigate the sect while Xiao Yan prepared to confront Yun Shan at the Snake-Person Holy City.

• Xiao Yan rescued Pain and Xiao Qing from desert beasts, and Xiao Qing told him that the Xiao Clan had been destroyed by the Jia Lie Clan and Aoba Clan with Misty Cloud Sect members present.
• Xiao Yan told his Black-Corner Region allies that they might face Yun Shan and doubled their payment; they agreed to continue with him.
• Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at Shi Mo City, where he called for Yun Shan and learned that Yun Shan was waiting at the Snake-Person Holy City.
• Xiao Yan reunited privately with Yun Yun, who said she had noticed some Misty Cloud Sect disciples gaining strength abnormally and that Yun Shan had refused to explain.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun about the Xiao Clan’s destruction and his suspicions about the Soul Hall; Yun Yun agreed to investigate the sect while Xiao Yan planned to question Yun Shan.

Xiao Yan learned from Jia Xingtian that Yun Shan may have colluded with the Soul Hall and helped destroy the Xiao Clan, so he traveled to the Snake-Person Holy City to confront him. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan demanding an explanation and “Yun Shan” losing his composure.

• Jia Xingtian told Xiao Yan about clues linking Yun Shan, the Misty Cloud Sect, and the Soul Hall to the Xiao Clan's destruction, and offered to support Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan vowed to make Yun Shan pay if he could not explain his role in the Xiao Clan's destruction; Jia Xingtian agreed to help and said Hai Bodong had died fighting Xie Shan.
• Xiao Yan gathered his Black-Corner Region allies and flew to the Snake-Person Holy City, followed by experts and spectators from the Gama Empire.
• Xiao Yan confronted “Yun Shan” and demanded to know why he had colluded with the Soul Hall and attacked the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Meng watched from behind a boulder as “Yun Shan” darkened his expression and abandoned his composed demeanor.

Xiao Yan confronted Yun Shan over the Misty Cloud Sect’s role in the destruction of the Xiao Clan, and Protector Wu confirmed the Soul Hall’s involvement. With Yao Chen and allies from the Black-Corner Region, Jia Xingtian, and Fa Ma joining the fight, Xiao Yan launched an attack on Yun Shan as Yun Yun withdrew from the battlefield.

• Yun Shan admitted that Yun Leng had acted against the Xiao Clan, but Xiao Yan accused him and the Soul Hall of concealing their deeper involvement.
• Protector Wu appeared and confirmed the Soul Hall’s connection to the Xiao Clan’s destruction, urging Yun Shan to kill Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen emerged from the Bone Flame Ring, and Xiao Yan promised the Black-Corner Region’s leaders rewards for helping fight the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Protector Wu sent six Soul Envoys against the Black-Corner Region’s group, while Jia Xingtian and Fa Ma joined their side.
• Yun Yun withdrew from the battlefield, and Xiao Yan charged at Yun Shan.

Xiao Yan fought the powerful impostor posing as Yun Shan while Yao Chen and their allies battled Protector Wu and the Soul Envoys. Xiao Meng arrived to rescue Su Mei, and Xiao Yan renewed his attack after rejecting Yun Shan’s offer to join the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan activated the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes and attacked “Yun Shan,” but was driven back by the impostor’s Great Wind Rending Sorrow Hand.
• Protector Wu attacked Yao Chen, whose Bone Chilling Flame clung to and forced back the black chain.
• The Soul Envoys overwhelmed the allied Dou Huang fighters, leaving Su Mei near defeat until Xiao Meng appeared and saved her with a silver flame and giant scythe.
• Xiao Yan recognized Xiao Meng, who said she had snuck away to help avenge Xiao Zhan, and told her to protect the others.
• “Yun Shan” offered to spare Xiao Yan if he joined the Misty Cloud Sect, but Xiao Yan rejected the offer and charged him, declaring that blood debts had to be repaid with blood.

Xiao Yan and Yun Shan fought fiercely, and Xiao Yan used a Three-Colored Fire Lotus to defeat him. Protector Wu seized Yun Shan’s soul and grew stronger, leaving Yun Yun to confront him as his attack threatened to strike her.

• Yun Shan’s Wind Extremity: Meteor Kill damaged Xiao Yan’s Heavy Profound Ruler and injured him, while Qing Meng failed to form a Four-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan and Qing Meng used a full-powered Three-Colored Fire Lotus to blast Yun Shan, and Yao Chen and Protector Wu pulled Xiao Yan and Yun Shan from the fire cloud.
• Protector Wu extracted Yun Shan’s soul, and the Misty Cloud Sect elders withdrew from the battle before turning against the Soul Envoys.
• Xiao Meng tried to stop Protector Wu with her Formless Hand, but he broke her seal and drove her back.
• Yun Yun attacked Protector Wu with Wind Extremity: Meteor Kill, and he shattered her sword and sent a chain toward her chest.

Xiao Meng saved Yun Yun and helped the Black-Corner Region defeat the Soul Envoys while Protector Wu grew stronger by consuming the elders’ souls. As Yao Chen struggled against him, Xiao Meng persuaded the region’s leaders to attack from a distance and stall until Protector Wu’s secret technique wore off.

• Xiao Meng rescued Yun Yun from Protector Wu, and Yun Yun refused to leave the battlefield.
• Protector Wu absorbed the souls of several Misty Cloud Sect elders, while Xiao Meng burned some of the souls and Yao Chen clashed with him.
• Xiao Meng ambushed and killed Soul Envoys, then joined the others in finishing off the remaining six.
• Xiao Meng asked the Spirit Worms for more power, but they refused because their mission was only to observe.
• Xiao Meng convinced the Black-Corner Region leaders to support Yao Chen from afar until Protector Wu’s secret technique ended, and they agreed.

Protector Wu captured Xiao Meng and escaped after Xiao Yan was too weakened to stop him. In the aftermath, Yun Yun disbanded the Misty Cloud Sect in accordance with Yun Shan’s final wishes, and Yun Meng approached Xiao Yan to speak privately.

• Protector Wu overwhelmed Yao Chen and Xiao Meng, then pierced Xiao Meng with a chain as she shielded Xiao Yan and dragged her away alive.
• Yao Chen chose not to pursue Protector Wu, while Xiao Yan recovered and assured the Black-Corner Region fighters he would honor his promise to them.
• Yun Meng announced Yun Shan’s final wish to disband the Misty Cloud Sect and gave Yun Yun his letters and the sect’s treasured belongings.
• Yun Yun confirmed Yun Shan’s wishes, disbanded the Misty Cloud Sect, and left to wait for Yanran to emerge from the Life and Death Gate.
• Xiao Yan asked Jia Xingtian to protect the former sect grounds, then agreed to speak privately with Yun Meng.

Yun Meng revealed that Yun Shan had ordered the Xiao Clan’s destruction under Protector Wu’s coercion and that he had secretly helped some of the clan survive. Xiao Yan was overcome with guilt over Yun Shan’s death and Xiao Meng’s capture, while Protector Wu continued transporting Xiao Meng toward the mysterious “That Lord.”

• Yun Meng confessed that he had arranged for the Jia Lie Clan and the Aoba Clan to attack the Xiao Clan under Protector Wu’s orders, while trying to preserve survivors and later escorting Xiao Yan’s brothers to Jianan Academy.
• Yun Meng asked Xiao Yan not to blame the other people of the Misty Cloud Sect and relayed Yun Shan’s request that Xiao Yan treat Yun Zhi well.
• Xiao Yan let Yun Meng leave, then collapsed and blamed himself for Yun Shan’s death and Xiao Meng’s capture before fainting.
• Protector Wu’s secret technique ended, and its backlash revealed that he was a soul body as he dropped the bound Xiao Meng in a remote mountain range.
• Xiao Meng taunted Protector Wu, who threatened to have her soul torn apart after That Lord took her flame, then stabilized his weakening aura with a medicinal pill and dragged her onward.

After reliving the deaths of Xiao Meng and Yun Zhi in a nightmare, Xiao Yan steadied himself, refined pills for the Black-Corner Region's leaders, and proposed an alliance to oppose the Soul Hall. The leaders accepted him as their alliance leader, and he named the group Xiao Men.

• Xiao Yan woke from a nightmare about Xiao Meng, Yun Zhi, and Yun Shan, then wandered to the lake where Cailin had evolved and swore to bring Xiao Meng back.
• Xiao Yan promised the Black-Corner Region's leaders he would refine their pills after resting for two days, and Tie Wu volunteered his ingredients first.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined Tie Wu's pill, then spent nearly half a month making the requested pills, helping several leaders advance by one star.
• Xiao Yan proposed a mutual-defense alliance against the Soul Hall and suggested strategic cooperation with Jianan Academy.
• Su Mei, Tie Wu, Old Yin Gu, Old Ban, Fan Lao, and the Gold and Silver Elders accepted Xiao Yan's proposal and recognized him as alliance leader.
• Xiao Yan named the alliance Xiao Men.

Hun Xiao left Soul Emperor City to travel through the northwest region, where Hun Miesheng told her to seek help from newly promoted Honored Elder Meng if needed. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan arrived in the Gama Empire and learned that the Misty Cloud Sect had disbanded, leaving him guilt-ridden over what had happened.

• Hun Xiao set out from Soul Emperor City and told Hun Miesheng she would travel without guards, carrying a Spatial Jade Slip to summon help.
• Hun Miesheng gave Hun Xiao a token for Honored Elder Meng and offered to hand over the captured Xiao Tribe souls to Hun Qiu.
• Hun Xiao departed for Human Hall on her way to the Northwest Region, surprised that Protector Meng had become an Honored Elder.
• Xiao Yan sent the Gold and Silver Elders and others to prepare for Xiao Men, then settled Pain and Xiao Qing with the Mittel Clan in the Gama Empire.
• Xiao Yan asked Mittel Ya Fei about the Misty Cloud Sect and learned it had disbanded; Yao Chen tried to console him while Ya Fei smiled at his guilt.

Xiao Yan left Yun Yun after mourning Yun Shan, then met Little Fairy Doctor, who asked him to help kill Xie Biyan and prevent the Chu Yun Empire from invading the Gama Empire. He agreed to join her, while Hun Xiao learned about new Soul Hall Protectors and the rising Xiao Men.

• Yun Yun told Xiao Yan she needed time alone, and Xiao Yan kowtowed to Yun Shan's grave before flying toward the Black-Corner Region.
• Hun Xiao delivered Hun Miesheng's token to Amon and met six newly appointed Soul Hall Protectors.
• Amon told Hun Xiao that a Dou Zun linked to Jianan Academy opposed him and that Xiao Men had allied with Jianan Academy.
• Little Fairy Doctor stopped Xiao Yan and warned that the weakened Gama Empire could be invaded by the Chu Yun Empire.
• Little Fairy Doctor revealed she led the Poison Sect and asked Xiao Yan to help kill Xie Biyan, promising not to attack the Gama Empire.
• Xiao Yan agreed to accompany Little Fairy Doctor, who said the Soul Hall Protectors had withdrawn from the Chu Yun Empire.

Little Fairy Doctor led Xiao Yan and the Poison Sect to attack the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, while Xiao Yan killed the traitor Wu Ya on the way. Their assault brought Xie Biyan out of seclusion, and Xiao Yan was shocked to discover that the supposedly injured sect master was a six-star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan agreed with Yao Chen to trust Little Fairy Doctor and traveled with her to the Poison Sect to challenge the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect.
• Little Fairy Doctor revealed that she had reached Dou Zong and ordered the Poison Sect to attack immediately, despite Wu Ya's objections.
• Wu Ya and two other elders secretly planned to warn Xie Biyan, but Xiao Yan intercepted Wu Ya and killed him with the Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler.
• Little Fairy Doctor and her followers reached Ten Thousand Scorpion Mountain with little resistance and demanded that Xie Biyan appear.
• Xie Biyan emerged from his secret chamber and released a powerful aura, leaving Xiao Yan shocked to sense that he was a six-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan, the Little Fairy Doctor, and Yao Chen fought Xie Biyan as the Poison Sect clashed with the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect. They killed Xie Biyan, but his final attack struck Xiao Yan with a Demonic Poison Spot.

• Xie Biyan revealed his Blood Soul Art transformation into a powerful half-scorpion monster and fought Xiao Yan, the Little Fairy Doctor, and Yao Chen.
• Two Poison Sect elders betrayed Xiao Yan, but Qing Meng hurled a Three-Colored Buddha Fury Fire Lotus that killed them and Xie Shan.
• Xiao Yan and his allies gained the upper hand, but Xie Biyan broke free and tried to escape.
• Xiao Yan caught up to Xie Biyan and struck him with the Mountain Opening Seal after the injuries inside Xie Biyan's body flared up.
• Xie Biyan unleashed a Demonic Poison Spot as he died, and the attack hit Xiao Yan.
• The Little Fairy Doctor recognized the black mark on Xiao Yan's chest as a Demonic Poison Spot.