Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan stunned the Xiao Clan by testing at Three-Star Dou Zhe after recovering his cultivation, and Xiao Xuan explained the reasons behind his rapid progress. As the clan reacted to Xiao Yan’s strength, Xuan Tengying watched Xiao Xuan from the shadows.

• Xiao Yan took the clan test and revealed that he had reached Three-Star Dou Zhe, shocking the Xiao Clan.
• The Testing Elder repeated the test and examined Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi vortex before confirming the result was genuine.
• Xun'er and Ling Ying were stunned, while Xiao Zhan worried that Xiao Yan had suffered cultivation deviation.
• Xiao Xuan explained that Xiao Yan’s activated Dou Di bloodline, inherited cultivation method, Yao Chen’s pills, and prior cultivation experience had enabled his rapid progress.
• Xuan Tengying, hired by Oba Pa for 800,000 gold coins, watched Xiao Xuan from the shadows.

Xuan Tengying ambushed Xiao Xuan at the Xiao Clan grounds, expecting to kill a mere Dou Ling, but Xiao Xuan effortlessly dispelled his attack and terrified him with a glance. Xuan Tengying realized Oba Pa had deceived him about Xiao Xuan’s strength.

• Xuan Tengying waited for Xiao Xuan to emerge from seclusion so he could fulfill Oba Pa’s contract to kill him and the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yan drew the younger clan members’ attention after regaining his talent and advancing to Three-Star Dou Zhe, then left to speak with Xun’er.
• Xuan Tengying launched his King-Slaying Slash at Xiao Xuan in a surprise attack, alarming Xiao Zhan and the elders.
• Xiao Zhan remembered that Xiao Xuan was a Nine-Star Dou Sheng and told the elders to sit back down.
• Xiao Xuan dispelled the attack with a glance and frightened Xuan Tengying into realizing that Oba Pa had lied about Xiao Xuan’s rank.

Xiao Xuan killed the assassin Xuan Tengying and learned that Oba Pa had hired him to attack the Xiao Clan. He annihilated the Ao Ba and Jia Lie families in Wutan City, leaving the Xiao Clan as the city’s only great family.

• Xiao Xuan crushed Xuan Tengying after the Dou Wang tried to attack him, then read his memories and discovered Oba Pa had hired him.
• Xiao Xuan unleashed the Saint-Slaying Finger and destroyed the Ao Ba and Jia Lie family estates from the Xiao Clan grounds.
• Oba Pa witnessed Xuan Tengying’s death and the destruction of his family’s estate, but Xiao Xuan sensed him and killed him as well.
• Xiao Zhan learned from a guard that the Ao Ba and Jia Lie families had been annihilated and realized Xiao Xuan had struck them down.

After Xiao Xuan destroyed the Jia Lie and Ao Ba Families, he revealed the Xiao Clan’s history and inherited technique to its members, spurring them to cultivate and revitalize the clan. Two days later, Misty Cloud Sect members arrived in Wutan City and headed for the Xiao Clan.

• Ya Fei and Gu Ni learned that Xiao Xuan had destroyed two families and reported the Xiao Clan’s emergence to the Mittel Auction House headquarters.
• Xiao Zhan informed the clan members of Xiao Xuan’s return and the Xiao Clan’s former glory at Xiao Xuan’s instruction.
• Xiao Mei apologized to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan accepted her apology as they agreed to work together to revitalize the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan passed down the Xiao Clan Inherited Technique, and clan disciples activated their Dou Di Bloodlines, prompting many to break through.
• Two days later, several Misty Cloud Sect members entered Wutan City and headed toward the Xiao Clan.

Nalan Yanran arrived in Wutan City with Ge Ye and Chu Hong to break off her engagement to Xiao Yan, while the Xiao Clan celebrated its rapid cultivation gains under Xiao Xuan's guidance. After the visitors reached the Xiao Clan's gates, Xiao Zhan ordered them admitted, and Xiao Xuan asked who they were.

• Nalan Yanran rebuked Chu Hong for insulting Wutan City as they hurried toward the Xiao Residence with Ge Ye.
• Nalan Yanran recalled her long-standing engagement to Xiao Yan and resolved to end it despite her family's opposition.
• Ge Ye announced Nalan Yanran's visit to the Xiao Clan's guard, while Chu Hong disparaged the clan's gates.
• Xiao Zhan reported that he and the Xiao Clan's elders had advanced rapidly after receiving new cultivation methods and pills.
• A guard told Xiao Zhan that Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran had arrived, and Xiao Zhan ordered them admitted.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Zhan who Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran were.

Xiao Zhan learned that Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran had come at Yun Yun’s request to dissolve Nalan Yanran’s engagement to Xiao Yan. As Ge Ye delivered the request, Xiao Xuan finally addressed Nalan Yanran, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Xiao Zhan explained that Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran had been engaged because their grandfathers were close friends.
• Ge Ye arrived with Nalan Yanran and Chu Hong, then asked Xiao Zhan to summon Xiao Yan because the matter concerned him.
• Xiao Yan arrived with Xun'er after reaching Four-Star Dou Zhe, and Chu Hong insulted him as useless.
• Xiao Zhan rebuked Chu Hong, and Ge Ye revealed that Yun Yun wanted the engagement dissolved because Nalan Yanran was being groomed to lead the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Xuan set down his teacup and asked Nalan Yanran whether she wanted to break off her engagement with the Xiao Clan.

Nalan Yanran came to the Xiao Clan to break off her engagement to Xiao Yan, provoking Xiao Zhan and Xun'er. When Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran rebuked Xun'er, Ling Ying revealed his Dou Emperor aura and shocked them.

• Ge Ye announced that Nalan Yanran had come to end her engagement to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Zhan demanded to know who had ordered it.
• Nalan Yanran claimed the decision was hers and argued that she and Xiao Yan were too different in status and strength for the marriage to make sense.
• Xun'er laughed at Nalan Yanran's remarks and accused her of being ignorant of Xiao Yan's true potential and the Xiao Clan's past glory.
• Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye rebuked Xun'er, and Ling Ying appeared behind her and released his Dou Emperor aura.
• Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran turned pale when they realized Ling Ying was a Dou Emperor.

Ling Ying forced Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran to apologize to Xun'er after Nalan Yanran insulted her, but Nalan Yanran then pressed ahead with breaking off her engagement to Xiao Yan. She offered the Xiao Clan Qi Gathering Powder as compensation, only for the clan to dismiss it as worthless beside Yao Lao's pills.

• Ling Ying revealed his Dou Emperor aura and warned Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye against disrespecting Xun'er.
• Ge Ye apologized and urged Nalan Yanran to do the same, but she accused Xun'er of using her influence to bully others.
• Xun'er reminded Nalan Yanran that she had come to the Xiao Clan using the Misty Cloud Sect's backing to break her engagement to Xiao Yan.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Zhan to end the engagement and offered the Xiao Clan compensation from her Storage Ring.
• Nalan Yanran presented a Qi Gathering Powder refined by Gu He, but the Xiao Clan's elders and Xiao Zhan scorned it as inferior to Yao Lao's pills.

Xiao Xuan intervened when Ge Ye and Nalan Yanran’s engagement-breaking visit humiliated the Xiao Clan, and the system offered him the clan’s ancestral Flame-Searing Spear and Dou Di Points for dealing with the matter. He warned Ge Ye that he would remember the offense, leaving the debt between them unresolved.

• Ge Ye defended the Qi Gathering Powder, while the Xiao Clan’s elders rejected it as another insult from the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Xuan stopped the argument, and Xiao Zhan introduced him as the Xiao Clan’s ancestor before apologizing for the clan’s disgrace.
• Xiao Xuan reassured Xiao Zhan and reflected that the Misty Cloud Sect and Nalan Family would not have treated the Xiao Clan this way if it were still powerful.
• The system assigned Xiao Xuan a mission and offered the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Emperor Flame-Searing Spear and 3,000 Dou Di Points as rewards.
• Xiao Xuan’s presence frightened Ge Ye, Nalan Yanran, and Chu Hong, and he told Ge Ye he would remember the debt for bringing shame upon the Xiao Clan.

At the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan confronted Nalan Yanran over her demand to dissolve their engagement and rejected her three-year challenge in favor of fighting immediately. He revealed that he had recovered his cultivation and reached Five-Star Dou Zhe, shocking Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye.

• Ge Ye regretted bringing Nalan Yanran to the Xiao Clan but pressed Xiao Xuan to let the engagement be dissolved for the Misty Cloud Sect's sake.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan to handle the matter himself, and Xiao Yan explained that accepting the annulment would humiliate his father and the Xiao Clan.
• Nalan Yanran released her Three-Star Dou Zhe aura, argued that she and Xiao Yan had no future together, and proposed that he challenge her at the Misty Cloud Sect in three years.
• Xiao Yan accused Nalan Yanran of looking down on him, accepted the challenge, and insisted they fight that day instead.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Five-Star Dou Zhe cultivation, leaving Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye stunned.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached Five-Star Dou Zhe, and Nalan Yanran postponed their duel for a month. As the Misty Cloud Sect party departed, Xiao Xuan gravely wounded Ge Ye and dismissed Nalan Yanran’s threat of retaliation.

• Xiao Yan overwhelmed Nalan Yanran with his Five-Star Dou Zhe aura and challenged her to fight.
• Nalan Yanran declined to duel immediately and arranged to meet Xiao Yan at the Misty Cloud Sect in a month.
• Xiao Xuan stopped the departing Misty Cloud Sect party and struck Ge Ye with a wisp of aura, leaving him near death.
• Nalan Yanran used several of Gu He's lifesaving pills to keep Ge Ye alive, then accused Xiao Xuan of mistreating guests.
• Xiao Xuan called the Misty Cloud Sect enemies of the Xiao Clan and asked how many Dou Sheng they had.

Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye left the Xiao Clan after Xiao Xuan forced them to back down, while Nalan Yanran planned to prepare for her duel with Xiao Yan in a month. Xiao Xuan received a new mission to help Xiao Yan defeat her, and the promise of Resurrection Cards drove him to plan an intense training regimen—though the system forbade him from taking shortcuts.

• Ge Ye stopped Nalan Yanran from provoking Xiao Xuan further and led the Misty Cloud Sect group out of the Xiao Clan.
• Nalan Yanran vowed to return with her teacher's help and said she would train with Gu He's pills and learn the Extreme Wind Dou Technique before fighting Xiao Yan.
• The system gave Xiao Xuan a mission to help Xiao Yan improve and defeat Nalan Yanran in a month, with additional Resurrection Cards based on Xiao Yan's final strength.
• Xiao Xuan learned that Resurrection Cards could revive anyone below Dou Di who had existed in the timeline, including the Xiao Clan's fallen Dou Sheng.
• The system warned Xiao Xuan that Xiao Yan had to improve through his own efforts and prohibited artificially boosting his cultivation.
• Xiao Xuan abandoned his idea of giving Xiao Yan a Dou Sheng body and looked forward to training him, leaving Xiao Yan uneasy about his ancestor's expression.

Xiao Xuan began personally training Xiao Yan for his upcoming match with Nalan Yanran, giving him powerful techniques and preparing to take him to a superior cultivation site. The chapter ended with Gu Xun'er and Ling Ying realizing Xiao Xuan planned to visit the Gu Clan's Heavenly Tomb.

• Xiao Xuan took Xiao Yan as his student and sent several simplified Heaven Rank Dou Techniques into his mind.
• Xiao Yan chose Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and the Five Emperors Great Handprint to prepare for his duel with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Xuan explained the techniques and warned Xiao Yan that mastering Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations would require him to endure heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan tried to return to his courtyard to cultivate, but Xiao Xuan said he would take him somewhere with better time flow and Dou Qi.
• Xiao Xuan named the Gu Clan's Heavenly Tomb as their destination, alarming Gu Xun'er and Dou Emperor Ling Ying.

Ancestor Xiao Xuan took Xiao Yan, Xiao Zhan, Yao Chen, Xun'er, and Ling Ying to Ancient Saint City in the Central Plains, intending to visit the Ancient Clan and reclaim the Xiao Clan’s standing. They entered the city despite lacking an invitation, drawing curious looks because Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan were far weaker than the local cultivators.

• Xiao Xuan explained that the Heavenly Tomb had once been managed by the Xiao Clan and said he would take the group to the Ancient Clan to enter it.
• Xiao Xuan opened a spatial rift and brought Xiao Yan, Xiao Zhan, Yao Chen, Xun'er, and Ling Ying from the Jia Ma Empire to Ancient Saint City.
• Xiao Zhan lamented that the world remembered the Ancient Clan but had forgotten the Xiao Clan, frightening Ling Ying and worrying Xun'er.
• Xiao Xuan recalled the Ancient Clan’s prosperity and led the group into Ancient Saint City, while Yao Chen described how even powerful outsiders had been barred from entering.
• Xiao Zhan questioned whether they could enter without an invitation, and the group drew stares because he and Xiao Yan were only a Da Dou Shi and a Dou Zhe among powerful cultivators.

Xiao Xuan brought the Xiao Clan to Ancient Saint City, but Ling Quan refused them entry and insulted them. When Ling Quan attacked Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan, Xiao Zhan's Furious Lion Vajra surged to nine-star Dou Sheng strength and killed him, leaving Gu Zhen arriving to face the overwhelming technique.

• Ling Quan and the Black Annihilation Army confronted Xiao Xuan's group and demanded an invitation to enter Ancient Saint City.
• Xiao Xuan told Ling Quan to inform Gu Yuan that his old friend had come to visit, but Ling Quan mocked the Xiao Clan and ordered them to leave.
• Xiao Yan challenged Ling Quan for insulting Xiao Xuan, and Ling Quan attacked him with his spear.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan fought back with Eight Extremes Collapse and Furious Lion Vajra, which suddenly rose to nine-star Dou Sheng power and killed Ling Quan.
• Ling Quan crushed a distress jade slip before dying, and Gu Zhen rushed from Ancient Saint City to find the colossal Furious Lion Vajra devouring the battlefield.