Chapter Summaries

Xiao Lin, the Dou Qi Continent’s weakened Plane Embryo, watched the Shi Clan discover the Desolate Ancestral Symbol and explained how he had created it and the continent’s Double Pupils. He turned his attention to other newly emerging talents and strange events, ending with his gaze on Xiao Yan in the Jia Ma Empire.

• Shi Yi told his mother that his baby brother had a rune-covered bone, and she ordered him to keep the discovery secret, especially from his father.
• Xiao Lin used Plane Eye to observe the Shi Clan and revealed that he had brought the Double Pupils and Desolate Ancestral Symbol into the continent using the Plane Embryo’s power.
• Xiao Lin reflected on his fusion with the damaged Plane Embryo and planned to cultivate a new generation of exceptional figures to help restore it.
• Xiao Lin surveyed the continent and spotted gifted youths at the Pill Tower, a soul-devouring black shadow, the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and a bloodied masked fugitive.
• Xiao Lin looked toward a small city in the Jia Ma Empire, where Xiao Yan had drawn the Heavenly Dao’s attention.

Ge Ye arrived at the Xiao Clan to demand that Xiao Yan’s engagement to Nalan Yanran be dissolved, explaining that she had become an Inheritor. As Yun Xiaotian revealed that he had also received a heavenly inheritance, he introduced a Dou Technique from another world.

• Ge Ye asked Xiao Zhan to dissolve Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran’s engagement, and Xiao Zhan’s display of strength revealed that he had reached the Dou Ling level.
• Ge Ye offered the Xiao Clan a tier 4 Qi Gathering Powder as an apology and explained that Nalan Yanran had become an Inheritor favored by the heavens.
• Yun Xiaotian insulted Xiao Yan as a talentless waste unworthy of Nalan Yanran, prompting Xiao Zhan’s anger.
• Yun Xiaotian told Nalan Yanran that he had discovered an unfamiliar Dou Technique within his soul and had also obtained a heavenly inheritance.
• Yun Xiaotian announced that his inherited technique was called Gale Demon Wolf, Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes and came from the Douluo Continent.

Xiao Lin discovered the power and opportunity behind Yun Xiaotian’s new inheritance while Xiao Yan learned that the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritor was a Dou Zhe. Enraged by the engagement humiliation, Xiao Yan revealed his recovered strength and challenged Yun Xiaotian, leaving the two poised to fight.

• Xiao Lin inspected Yun Xiaotian and saw that he had gained the Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen whether Yun Xiaotian’s inheritance made him formidable, and Yao Chen reassured him that Yun Xiaotian could not unleash powerful techniques at his current level.
• Xiao Yan used a Movement Dou Technique to appear behind the Misty Cloud Sect members, while a young girl in green recognized that he had been hiding his strength.
• Xiao Yan revealed Dou Zhe-level power and drove his Heavy Xuan Ruler into the floor, shocking the Xiao Clan and Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Xiaotian challenged Xiao Yan to fight and demanded that he publicly end the engagement if he lost.
• Xiao Yan rejected the idea that he cared about Nalan Yanran and challenged the Misty Cloud Sect’s claim to have an inheritor.

Xiao Yan fought Yun Xiaotian in the Xiao Clan hall after Yun mocked his claims of possessing an otherworldly inheritance. Yun Xiaotian’s flying technique and escalating sword strikes pressured Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan broke his momentum and defeated him with Eight Extremes Collapse, leaving the ruler pointed at his throat.

• Yun Xiaotian attacked Xiao Yan with Wind-Walking Sword, but Xiao Yan shattered the sword aura with Fire-Blowing Palm.
• Yun Xiaotian revealed his illusory Demon Wolf Wind Wings, surprising Ge Ye, Nalan Yanran, and the Xiao Clan elders.
• Yun Xiaotian began his Gale Demon Wolf Thirty-Six Consecutive Slashes, and Xiao Yan defended against the increasingly powerful attacks with the Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Xiao Yan threw the ruler to interrupt Yun Xiaotian’s accumulated momentum, then used his movement technique to strike the root of Yun Xiaotian’s wings with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Xiao Yan shattered Yun Xiaotian’s wings and sent him crashing into the hall doors, then pointed the Heavy Xuan Ruler at his throat.

Xiao Yan defeated Yun Xiaotian, rejected Nalan Yanran’s proposed three-year engagement challenge in favor of a Divorce Letter, and exposed the Qi Gathering Powder brought by the Misty Cloud Sect as a flawed pill. The chapter ended with Ge Ye scrambling to explain the sect’s embarrassment while Xiao Yan displayed a flawless pill of his own.

• Xiao Yan pinned Yun Xiaotian with his Heavy Xuan Ruler despite warnings from Ge Ye and Xiao Zhan, and Nalan Yanran intervened with her wind power.
• Nalan Yanran offered to postpone dissolving the engagement for three years and challenged Xiao Yan to face her at the Misty Cloud Sect, boasting about her inheritance from Sylph, a god from the Teyvat Continent.
• Xiao Yan accepted the challenge but declared he had no interest in Nalan Yanran, then wrote a Divorce Letter expelling her from the Xiao Clan; Xiao Lin sensed Xiao Yan’s fortune value rise from 161 to 319.
• Xiao Yan rejected the Qi Gathering Powder as an insult and told Nalan Yanran to never scorn a youth for being poor, earning Xiao Zhan’s approval.
• Yun Xiaotian questioned whether Xiao Yan had ever taken Qi Gathering Powder, and Xiao Yan described flaws in Ge Ye’s pill before revealing a flawless, pill-patterned one.
• Ge Ye blushed and blamed the Misty Cloud Sect’s disciples for mishandling the pill, unwilling to name the alchemist who had refined it.

After the broken engagement, Nalan Yanran vowed to win while Ge Ye and Yun Xiaotian reeled from the Xiao Clan’s hidden strength. Xiao Yan refined pills with Yao Chen and learned about other clans’ inheritors, as Xiao Xun’er discussed those threats with Ling Ying before a visitor called to her.

• Nalan Yanran vowed to surpass Xiao Yan, while Ge Ye worried that the Xiao Clan concealed powerful experts and Yun Xiaotian swore revenge on Xiao Yan and the clan.
• Xiao Yan refined pills as Yao Chen reflected on how he had tempered Xiao Yan’s character and explained that the soul-nurturing wood had helped him awaken.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether Xiao Tian was an inheritor, and Yao Chen confirmed that Xiao Tian seemed far more formidable than Yun Xiaotian.
• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to sell his pills and travel to gain experience, and Xiao Yan revealed that he had given Xiao Ning the perfect Qi Gathering Powder meant for him.
• Xiao Xun’er discussed the powerful inheritors of the Stone, Lei, Spirit, and Hun Clans with Ling Ying, then heard someone call for her from outside.

Xiao Tian visited Xiao Xun'er to question her about inheritances, the Great Thousand World, and cultivation techniques, but she revealed little about sensitive matters. After Xiao Tian left, Xiao Yan was surrounded by Xiao Clan youths praising his rare Qi Gathering Powder, then saw Xiao Tian emerge from Xun'er's courtyard.

• Xiao Tian visited Xiao Xun'er at dusk and noticed a golden aura in the lamp within her room.
• Xiao Tian asked whether Xun'er knew of the Great Thousand World and ways to create incarnations, and she denied knowing the former while describing rumors about clones and puppet-refining arts.
• Xiao Tian realized Xun'er would discuss strange stories but kept her distance when he asked about inheritances, then left determined to grow stronger and uncover the truth.
• Xiao Ning and Xiao Mei praised Xiao Yan after Nigu appraised his Qi Gathering Powder as exceptionally valuable, while Xiao Yan watched Xun'er's lit window.
• Xiao Yan froze when Xiao Tian emerged from the courtyard as the youths gathered nearby.

Xiao Lin learned that Xiao Tian possessed an unawakened inheritance tied to the Great Thousand World while watching his encounter with Xiao Yan. Xiao Tian awakened One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones, created two avatars, and decided to leave the Xiao Clan as Xiao Lin’s Plane Embryo recovery reached 15%.

• Xiao Lin watched Xiao Yan question Xiao Tian about visiting Xun'er and learned that Xiao Tian had inherited One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones from the Ancient Heavenly Palace.
• Xun'er asked Ling Ying about the Great Thousand World and told him to have her father investigate Xiao Tian’s background.
• Xiao Tian returned to his room, broke through to Dou Shi, and used One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones to create blue- and black-robed avatars.
• Xiao Tian decided that it was time to leave the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Lin received a report that Plane Embryo recovery had reached 15%.

Xiao Lin used newly gained plane origin energy to send an ancient ice rune to the Dou Qi Continent, breaking Hai Bodong’s seal and restoring his strength. In the Gu Clan, Ling Ying told Xun'er that Gu Yue might have survived his apparent death and that the clan was searching the northwestern region for unusual people, especially anyone surnamed Gu.

• Xiao Lin seized icy power from the plane torrent and sent an ancient rune through the planar barrier.
• Hai Bodong touched the rune, broke the seal suppressing his Dou Qi, and regained his strength as an Ice Emperor.
• Ling Ying told Xun'er that the Gu Clan elders suspected the Great Thousand World was connected to ancient Dou Di and feared the Hun Clan might cause turmoil.
• Ling Ying revealed that Gu Yue, a Gu Clan descendant and possible [Inheritor], might have survived his self-detonation by escaping through space and time.
• Xun'er learned that the Gu Clan had ordered Ling Ying to watch the northwestern region for unusual beings, especially people surnamed Gu.

Xiao Lin observed the Xiao Clan and learned of the Ancient Clans’ latest developments, then watched Shi Yi break through to Dou Zhe and awaken his Double Pupils. Shi Yi’s eyes revealed a mysterious space beyond the Stone Realm as Shi Yuan stood ready to protect him.

• Xiao Lin reviewed the Xiao Clan’s fortune and inscribed Xiao Tian’s three wisps of pure qi into the Plane Core.
• Gu Xun'er questioned Ling Ying about the other Emperor Clans and learned of the Stone Clan’s Double-Pupiled One and a child with a rune-inscribed bone.
• Xiao Lin descended into the Central Plains and observed Shi Yi cultivating in the Stone Realm.
• Shi Yi condensed three Dou Qi Vortices and told Shi Yuan that adding more would only follow the old rules.
• Shi Yi awakened his Double Pupils, whose chaotic light pierced the Stone Realm and revealed an ethereal space reflected in his eyes.

Shi Yi briefly glimpsed a mysterious place through his newly awakened Double Pupils, then asked to study the Stone Clan’s books about the continent’s hidden secrets and what lay beyond Dou Di. Meanwhile, Xiao Lin received a surge of energy from Shi Yi’s awakening, and Yao Chen brought Xiao Yan a powerful ape’s beast flame that might improve the Flame Mantra.

• Shi Yi’s Double Pupils let him glimpse the world’s core before the Heavenly Dao’s power expelled his probing and left him shaken.
• Shi Yuan praised Shi Yi’s strength and mentioned that Shi Yi’s mother was preparing an ancient Spirit Clan ritual to aid his cultivation.
• Shi Yi asked to consult the Stone Clan’s collection about the continent’s hidden secrets and what lay beyond Dou Di.
• Xiao Lin absorbed energy from Shi Yi’s awakening, saw the Plane Embryo’s restoration reach 28.7%, and noted Shi Yi’s fortune value had surpassed those of Xun’er, Xiao Tian, and Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen returned to Xiao Yan with a slain, immature fifth-rank ape and the magic core of a third-rank Blazing Fire Scorpion.
• Yao Chen explained that the ape’s beast flame could help raise the Flame Mantra’s tier, and Xiao Yan asked whether he had to eat it.

Xiao Yan swallowed the masterless demonic flame and endured it scorching his meridians as he circulated the Flame Mantra. He successfully integrated it, advancing the technique to Low Xuan Tier and his cultivation to eight-star Dou Zhe, and learned that the flame was called Fatal flame.

• Yao Chen suppressed the beast flame with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and instructed Xiao Yan to swallow it and refine it into his Dou Qi vortex.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the flame along with protective pills and guided it through the Flame Mantra's cultivation meridians.
• The demonic flame pierced the pills' protection and scorched Xiao Yan's organs and meridians, so Yao Chen used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to cool the damage and urged him to keep circulating the technique.
• Xiao Yan endured the pain and integrated the flame into the Flame Mantra, which advanced to Low Xuan Tier as his cultivation rose to eight-star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Yan conjured a wisp of crimson flame and recalled that the strange images in his consciousness had revealed its name: Fatal flame.

Xiao Yan went to the Mittel Auction House with the Xiao Clan while weighing Yao Chen’s advice to join Jia Nan Academy for its heavenly flames. At the auction, Jia Lie Bi bought a dangerous Qi Burst Pill, and Ya Fei introduced the Xuan-tier Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer as the next lot.

• Xiao Yan told Xun'er and Xiao Ning that he had no interest in studying at Jia Nan Academy, while Xiao Mei asked after his injuries and received a distant reply.
• Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to join Jia Nan Academy because it possessed the Fallen Heart Flame and might be near the Sea Heart Flame.
• Ya Fei auctioned the final six bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid to the city lord for 280,000 gold.
• Ya Fei presented the Qi Burst Pill and warned that its temporary power boost would severely damage the user's meridians afterward.
• Jia Lie Bi outbid Oba Pa and Xiao Zhan, winning the Qi Burst Pill for 500,000 gold.
• Ya Fei announced the next lot, the Xuan-tier Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

The auction’s crowning treasures were a High Xuan Tier cultivation method and its matching Dou Technique, which sent Xiao Zhan into a bidding frenzy. The price climbed to seven hundred thousand gold coins as rival families tried to block him, while Yao Lao sensed that the treasures might come from another world.

• Ya Fei introduced the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, and the Ao Ba Family won it for two hundred and ninety thousand gold coins.
• Ya Fei revealed the Lion King Heart-Tempering Art and its companion Dou Technique, the Raging Wind Sword Aura, as a High Xuan Tier matched set.
• Xiao Zhan recognized the cultivation method’s resemblance to the Xiao Clan’s Furious Lion Vajra and bid eagerly for the set.
• The city lord, Jia Lie Bi, and Oba Pa drove up the price, and Xiao Zhan raised his bid to six hundred thousand gold coins.
• Jia Lie Bi bid seven hundred thousand gold coins, while Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that the treasures seemed to carry traces of another world.

Xiao Zhan won the auction for a High Xuan Tier cultivation method and matching Dou Technique, while Xiao Yan collected the proceeds from his pills and the medicinal herbs Yao Chen had requested. As Xiao Yan left the auction house, he startled Wutan City's prominent families by flying away beneath a black robe with Crimson Wings shaped from Soul Power.

• Xiao Zhan bid eight hundred thousand gold coins and won the cultivation method and Dou Technique, leaving Jia Lie Bi unable to compete.
• A white-robed figure collected a Storage Ring and departed unnoticed after selling the scrolls on behalf of the Heavenly Palace legacy.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Appraisal Room disguised in a black robe, where Ya Fei gave him the proceeds from the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and Qi Burst Pill.
• Yao Chen checked the medicinal herbs Gu Ni had brought and gave Ya Fei another list, leaving the gold from the sale for her to find them.
• As Xiao Yan left the auction house, Soul Power shaped Crimson Wings beneath his robe and carried him into the sky before the gathered city families.

Yao Chen revealed his strength to protect the Xiao Clan and took Xiao Yan to refine pills, but they had no money for more ingredients. Yao Chen sent Xiao Yan to the Jia Lie Family estate at midnight to seize gold, where Xiao Yan confronted Jia Lie Bi.

• Yao Chen explained that he had displayed his Dou Wang strength to deter anyone who might target the Xiao Clan after they left Wutan City.
• Yao Chen prepared ingredients for a Fourth-Grade Rapid Rotation Pill, and Xiao Yan worried that they had run out of money.
• Yao Chen proposed that Xiao Yan take gold from the Jia Lie Family, citing Jia Lie Bi's earlier attempt on his life.
• At midnight, Xiao Yan entered the Jia Lie Family estate and confronted Jia Lie Bi, who recognized him as the Dou Wang expert from the auction.
• Xiao Yan struck Jia Lie Bi with Dou Qi, wrecked the study, and demanded the Qi Burst Pill Jia Lie Bi had won at the auction.

Yao Chen defeated the Jia Lie Family’s leaders and elders, then staged a plot to make the Jia Lie Family appear to have attacked the Ao Ba Family. Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan with the plan, and the chapter ended as Xiao Zhan heard that the families’ leaders had disappeared.

• Yao Chen forced Jia Lie Bi to take a Qi Burst Pill, then knocked him unconscious and subdued two Jia Lie Family elders.
• Yao Chen raided the Jia Lie Family’s treasure vaults and took the unconscious men to the Ao Ba Family residence.
• Yao Chen knocked out Oba Pa and his companion, planted false memories implicating Jia Lie Bi, and suggested the Xiao Clan would benefit from the families turning against each other.
• Xiao Yan praised Yao Chen’s scheme and returned to tell Xiao Zhan and the First Elder, while Yao Chen told him to take the families’ stored wealth.
• A clansman reported to Xiao Zhan that the leaders of the Jia Lie Family and Ao Ba Family, along with a Jia Lie Family elder, had disappeared.

After the Jia Lie Family’s experts disappeared or died, Xun'er warned Xiao Yan that the missing men had likely met with disaster and hinted at Xiao Zha. Three days later, as Wutan City reeled from the family’s collapse, Xiao Yan encountered Xiao Zha with four ominous attendants.

• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan that one Jia Lie Family elder had been found dead and three others had disappeared, while Yao Chen suspected someone had struck after they left.
• Xiao Yan sorted the treasures taken from the Jia Lie Family, and Xun'er confirmed that she knew he and his teacher had visited the family before suggesting the missing men were likely dead.
• Xun'er asked Xiao Yan whether he remembered Xiao Zha, then left without explaining why she had brought him up.
• The Jia Lie Family sold marketplaces and prepared a funeral, but the dead elder’s body vanished from its coffin; the Ao Ba Family also bowed to the Xiao Clan after losing its patriarch.
• Xiao Yan met Xiao Zha in the clan courtyard and saw four gaunt, black-robed figures behind him, while Xiao Zha’s usual attendant was missing.

Xiao Yan discovered that Xiao Zha traveled with four human-derived puppets, then broke through to Dou Shi after ten days of cultivation. He decided to test his new strength against Xiao Zha before facing Nalan Yanran and Xiao Tian.

• Xiao Zha greeted Xiao Yan and explained that his four black-robed companions were outside friends interested in the Xiao Clan.
• Yao Chen identified the companions as puppets refined from living people, while Xiao Yan grew wary of Xiao Zha’s methods.
• Xiao Lin observed Xiao Zha’s Profound Yin Art and hoped he would not refine the Xiao Clan into puppets.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen sold the Jia Lie and Aoba clans’ treasures, kept a mysterious hammer technique, and bought medicinal ingredients and a disguising mask.
• Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Shi in a secluded cave, and Yao Chen praised how the fatal flame and Rotation-Speed Pill had aided his progress.
• Xiao Yan vowed to face Nalan Yanran and Xiao Tian and chose Xiao Zha as his first test after the breakthrough.

Disguised as a sinister middle-aged man, Xiao Yan infiltrated Xiao Zha’s courtyard and fought a powerful attacker who turned out to be Jia Lie Bi. Xiao Zha then attacked Xiao Yan, and the chapter ended as Xiao Yan countered his Yin Fire Thunder with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.

• Xiao Yan wore the Thousand Illusion Mask and entered Xiao Zha’s courtyard while Yao Chen concealed his aura and told him to fight on his own.
• A black figure ambushed Xiao Yan, who traded blows with him using his heavy sword and Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan knocked off the attacker’s bamboo hat and recognized the withered figure as Jia Lie Bi.
• Xiao Zha came out of his house, questioned the disguised Xiao Yan, and lunged at him with Mystic Soul Thorn.
• Xiao Yan blocked Xiao Zha’s attacks with his heavy sword and Fatal Flame, then pretended to retreat toward the courtyard wall.
• Xiao Zha launched Yin Fire Thunder at Xiao Yan’s back, and Xiao Yan turned to counter it with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.