Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan, a fifteen-year-old Nine-Star Dou Emperor in a radically altered Battle Through the Heavens worldline, watched the Gu Clan arrive and wondered whether he would meet Xun'er as he might have in the original story. His thoughts were interrupted when a youth warned that his sister was about to get into a fight.

• Xiao Yan impressed the Xiao Clan with his Nine-Star Dou Emperor test result, while Xiao Mei revealed she had reached one-star Dou Ling and fawned over him.
• The Gu Clan arrived, and Xiao Yan noticed the young girl flying beside a middle-aged man and wondered if she was Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan recalled his transmigration and how Xiao Xuan's rise to Dou Di had changed the world, leaving his family powerful and his own life exceptionally smooth.
• A tall youth ran to Xiao Yan and warned him that his sister was about to get into a fight.

Xiao Yan rushed to White Jade Mountain after Xiao Ning warned that Xiao Yu was being harassed by Xiao Jiande. He defeated Xiao Jiande and revealed that his own grandfather was a Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Ning told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yu was facing trouble with Xiao Jiande near White Jade Mountain, and Xiao Yan flew there while Xiao Ning sent for Xiao Li.
• Xiao Yu rejected Xiao Jiande's advances and mocked him, prompting him to order his Dou Emperor subordinates to attack her three teammates.
• Xiao Yan arrived, joked with Xiao Yu, and promised to break Xiao Jiande's legs after learning what had happened.
• Xiao Jiande ordered his men to attack everyone except Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yan used Heavenly Illusory Nine Shadows to strike him and seize him by the neck.
• Xiao Jiande threatened Xiao Yan with his Seven-Star Dou Zun grandfather, and Xiao Yan replied that his own grandfather was a Dou Sheng.

Xiao Yan beat Xiao Jiande for bullying others and returned to the Xiao Clan with Xiao Yu, where he reunited with Xiao Li and the younger clan members. Xiao Yan then proposed a party and persuaded Xiao Yu that they could catch some of her grandfather’s Heavenly Dragon Fish.

• Xiao Yan broke Xiao Jiande’s legs and sent him away with the Dou Emperors, warning that he was ready for revenge.
• Xiao Yu praised Xiao Yan and kissed his cheek, and the cousins later flew back toward home.
• Xiao Yan reflected on his powerful place in the Xiao Clan as he and Xiao Yu crossed the Xiao Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu arrived at the square, where they met Xiao Li and the clan youths.
• Xiao Ning suggested a party, and Xiao Yan proposed catching Heavenly Dragon Fish; Xiao Yu agreed that taking a reasonable number might be acceptable.

Xiao Yan used a pair of gold rods and Xiao Li’s lightning dou qi to catch Sky Dragon Golden-Scaled Fish, but the Grand Elder caught them. He let the group keep the fish, then tried the New Energy Fishing Rod himself.

• Xiao Yan melted gold coins into two rods and told Xiao Li to use his lightning dou qi to channel electricity into the lake.
• Xiao Li electrofished more than twenty Sky Dragon Golden-Scaled Fish, but the Grand Elder appeared and caught him in the act.
• Xiao Yan took responsibility, and the Grand Elder praised the youths, let them take the fish, and told Xiao Li to leave the golden rods behind.
• After the group departed, the Grand Elder put the rods into the lake and tested them with his own electricity.

Xiao Yan encouraged Xiao Cheng and Xiao Feng while guiding their group, then listened as Xiao Yu described the outside world. That night, the youths watched the white sun collide with the black moon until the sun vanished and the moon lit the Xiao Realm.

• Xiao Yan urged Xiao Cheng to steal wine, but Xiao Feng volunteered to take wine from his own grandfather instead.
• Xiao Li rebuked Xiao Feng for neglecting his cultivation and unfilial remarks, then left after Xiao Yan intervened.
• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Cheng that he would not judge him for having less to offer and reflected on how careful guidance could help him grow stronger.
• The youths gathered around bonfires to roast Heavenly Dragon Fish while Xiao Yu described the Central Plains and the sun and moon beyond the Xiao Realm.
• The white sun and black moon collided in the sky until the sun disappeared, leaving the black moon to cast its cool light over the ground.

Xiao Yan was summoned from a drunken celebration to meet Xiao Xuan, the Xiao Clan’s Dou Di ancestor, who revealed that he knew Xiao Yan was an otherworldly visitor. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan dropping a Jade Book after recognizing its title.

• Xiao Yan sang and celebrated with the other youths until Xiao Lin arrived and said the ancestor wanted to see him.
• Xiao Lin brought Xiao Yan through a spatial rift to an ancient hall, where Xiao Yan met Xiao Xuan, the legendary Dou Di.
• Xiao Yan prostrated himself before Xiao Xuan and praised him, amusing the ancestor and prompting him to send Xiao Lin away.
• Xiao Xuan tossed Xiao Yan a Jade Book, and Xiao Yan dropped it after recognizing its title.
• Xiao Xuan asked Xiao Yan whether he had read the story before and called him an otherworldly visitor.

Xiao Xuan revealed that Xiao Yan’s transmigration and the jade book might be tied to fate and another worldline, then appointed him the Xiao Clan’s Emperor’s Son. He granted Xiao Yan the complete Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and sent him out to temper himself, before the heads of the ten great Emperor Lineages appeared.

• Xiao Yan recognized the white jade book as Battle Through the Heavens and questioned Xiao Xuan about his transmigration.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the jade book had brought Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, helped him become a Dou Di, and led him to await a visitor from another world.
• Xiao Xuan said a new Dou Di would soon emerge and warned that descendants of the Hun Clan would join the struggle, then offered Xiao Yan the status of Emperor’s Son.
• Xiao Yan accepted, and Xiao Xuan passed on the complete Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and gave him the Emperor’s Son Seal.
• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Yan away to temper himself, and the heads of the ten great Emperor Lineages appeared around him.

Xiao Xuan named Xiao Yan the Xiao Clan’s third Emperor’s Son and warned the clan elders not to harm him. Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Xiao Realm for the Jia Ma Empire, then visited the Scripture Hall, where Elder Qing recognized his new status.

• Xiao Xuan told the lineage heads that Xiao Yan could become a Dou Di and threatened to kill anyone who acted against him before Xiao Yan became a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Xiao Wu and Xiao Wen, who had been assigned as Xiao Yan’s guards after learning he was the ancestor’s chosen Emperor’s Son.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Lin he planned to travel to the Jia Ma Empire, and Xiao Lin revealed his old promise to betroth Xiao Yan to Nalan Jie’s granddaughter.
• Xiao Lin advised Xiao Yan to break off the engagement and compensate the Nalan Family to protect them from the consequences of a marriage alliance between ancient clans; Xiao Yan agreed.
• Xiao Yan went to the Scripture Hall with Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu, where Elder Qing opened his eyes and recognized him as the newly appointed Emperor’s Son.

Xiao Yan explored the Xiao Clan’s Scripture Hall and selected the high-grade Earth-tier Crimson Refining Flame Demon Body, which could strengthen him through flame tempering. He climbed to the seventh floor despite its crushing pressure and found a collection of Heaven Rank techniques, but decided they were not useful for him yet.

• Elder Qing welcomed Xiao Yan to the Scripture Hall because Xiao Xuan had chosen him as the clan’s Emperor’s Son.
• Xiao Yan toured the lower floors with Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu, browsing the clan’s archives and selecting Earth-tier cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, and pill formulas.
• On the sixth floor, Xiao Yan chose the Crimson Refining Flame Demon Body, a technique that required flame tempering and could eventually let his body contend with a Dou Zun.
• Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu stopped at the seventh-floor entrance because they lacked permission to go higher, and they warned Xiao Yan about the floors’ pressure.
• Xiao Yan endured the seventh floor’s intense pressure, inspected its Heaven Rank techniques, and decided not to study them for now.

Xiao Yan visited the Xiao Clan’s Scripture Repository Hall and then explored the Heavenly Flames Valley, where Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu showed him the clan’s collection of heavenly flames. The group reached a flame-formed palace, where a black-robed man sat waiting.

• Xiao Yan left the Scripture Repository Hall after failing to withstand the pressure on the eighth floor and took a dozen Earth-tier cultivation methods and combat skills.
• Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu guided Xiao Yan to the Heavenly Flames Valley and explained that the gorge had been formed by the clan ancestor to nurture heavenly flames.
• Xiao Wen showed Xiao Yan the Green Lotus Core Flame, Mysterious Yellow Flame, Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, Volcanic Stone Flame, Fire Cloud Water Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, and Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.
• Xiao Wen introduced the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and mentioned that an alchemist cast out by the Yao Clan had obtained one and might reach the ninth tier.
• Xiao Yan and his companions inspected more heavenly flames, including the Nine Nether Wind Flame, Eight Desolations Destruction Flame, and Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, before reaching the central palace and spotting a black-robed man.

Xiao Yan visited Nihility Devouring Flame in Heavenly Flames Valley and witnessed him and Purifying Lotus Demon Flame fighting over their guard shift. Purifying Lotus Demon Flame gave Xiao Yan a copy of his book and relayed Xiao Xuan’s order that Xiao Yan would receive no Heavenly Flames in the valley.

• Xiao Wen introduced Xiao Yan to Nihility Devouring Flame, who pressured Xiao Yan and mocked his appointment as Emperor’s Son.
• Xiao Yan provoked Nihility Devouring Flame, but Purifying Lotus Demon Flame appeared to take over the guard shift.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and Purifying Lotus Demon Flame argued and wrestled until Xiao Xuan’s voice made Nihility Devouring Flame leave.
• Purifying Lotus Demon Flame gave Xiao Yan a copy of Pure Lotus Demon Saint’s Romantic Affairs and told him Xiao Xuan would not let him take any Heavenly Flames from the valley.

Xiao Yan completed the first stage of cultivating the Crimson Refining Flame Demon Body by tempering himself with two rare liquids and the Green Lion Demon Flame. The chapter ended with Xiao Yu arriving in anger to tell him that something had happened.

• Nihility Devouring Flame mourned his thousand years of guarding the Xiao Realm and missed his former life in the Hun Clan.
• Xiao Jiande, unable to retaliate against Xiao Yan directly, decided to target his friends and the Descendants instead.
• Xiao Yan used Stone Flame Body-Refining Paste and a spiritual liquid made by Yao Xian to temper his body with the Green Lion Demon Flame.
• Xiao Yan endured nearly an hour of agony and completed his first flame tempering, leaving a green lion tattoo on his back.
• Xiao Yu flew to Xiao Yan and told him that something had happened.

After learning that Xiao Jiande had targeted Xiao Niu and Xiao Ma’s village, Xiao Yan flew there and found it devastated by a stampede that had killed two villagers and badly injured others. With the villagers unable to prove who caused the disaster, Xiao Yan resolved to use his authority as the Xiao Clan’s Emperor’s Son to crush Xiao Jiande.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan that Xiao Jiande had arranged attacks on Xiao Niu and Xiao Ma’s people after failing to take revenge on Xiao Yan directly.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu flew to Seven Spirit Village, where more than ten thousand White Brocade Rainbow Cloud Cows had destroyed the village and left two dead and nearly ten gravely injured.
• Xiao Niu, Xiao Ma, and the village chief mourned the dead and injured, including a promising ten-year-old girl who had lost her right arm.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Xiao Jiande had caused the disaster, and the village chief said they had no conclusive evidence.
• Xiao Yan decided to use his standing as the Xiao Clan’s Emperor’s Son to make Xiao Jiande experience the force of greater power.

Xiao Yan summoned the Punishment Hall to investigate the destruction of Seven Spirit Village and used powerful medicines to heal the injured villagers. The Light Punishment Saint’s Time Reversal revealed two Peak Dou Emperors secretly caused the stampede, and he prepared to arrest them.

• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu how to expose the mastermind behind the attack, and Xiao Wen brought the Light Punishment Saint from the Punishment Hall.
• Xiao Yan gave the injured little girl a Flesh and Bone Regeneration Pill and distributed healing pills to the wounded villagers.
• The Light Punishment Saint used Time Reversal to view the events of the previous night in Seven Spirit Village.
• The reversed images showed two Peak Dou Emperors scattering white powder through the village before thousands of White Brocade Rainbow Cloud Cows stampeded through it.
• The Light Punishment Saint collected the evidence and announced that he would go make the arrests.

Xiao Yan brought evidence that Xiao Jiande had attacked Seven Spirit Village to the Xiao Lu Lineage and demanded justice. With the Light Punishment Saint revealing Xiao Yan’s status as Emperor’s Son, the lineage head agreed to let him deal with the offenders, leaving Xiao Jiande facing punishment.

• Xiao Yan thanked the Light Punishment Saint and asked him to enforce the law against the Xiao Lu Lineage.
• Xiao Yan confronted Xiao Jiande at the lineage’s mountain and showed a Recording Stone depicting the persecution of Seven Spirit Village.
• Xiao Jiande’s cousin and grandfather tried to stop Xiao Yan, but the Light Punishment Saint struck the purple-robed elder down.
• The Light Punishment Saint identified Xiao Yan as the Emperor’s Son, and Xiao Lu paid his respects.
• Xiao Lu agreed to let Xiao Yan deal with the clan’s degenerates, and Xiao Yan asked the Light Punishment Saint to carry out the sentence.

Xiao Yan punished Xiao Jiande and the men who attacked Seven Spirit Village, then helped the villagers rebuild and secured their land. He left the village with Xiao Yu, intending to leave the Xiao Realm and see the sunset clouds over the Dou Qi Continent.

• The Light Punishment Saint brought Xiao Jiande and the two Dou Emperors who attacked Seven Spirit Village before Xiao Yan, who abolished their Dou Qi and demoted them to Descendants.
• Xiao Yan sentenced Xiao Jiande's grandfather, a purple-robed Seven-Star Dou Zun, to a hundred years in the Demon Suppression Tower and warned Xiao Lu not to interfere.
• The Light Punishment Saint took the four prisoners away, while Xiao Lu ordered his branch's Dou Zun elders to assemble and tighten family rules.
• Xiao Yan returned to Seven Spirit Village, explained the punishment to the village chief, gave the villagers fourth-tier pills, and promised to purchase the basin to protect it.
• Xiao Yu asked Xiao Yan when he had become an Emperor's Son, and he teased her instead of answering.
• Xiao Yan flew away with Xiao Yu, thinking it was time to leave the Xiao Realm and see the Dou Qi Continent's sunset clouds.

Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Xiao Realm, receiving travel supplies from Xiao Lin, Yao Xian, and several elders before departing through the Boundary Gate with Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu. After he left, the elders gathered to plan how to punish the troublesome younger clan members he had kept in line.

• Xiao Lin gave Xiao Yan two Storage Rings, one containing compensation for the Nalan Family and the other filled with resources for his journey.
• Yao Xian gave Xiao Yan another Storage Ring of supplies while Xiao Zhan joked that he had nothing valuable to offer.
• Xiao Yan visited the clan elders before leaving, coaxing gifts from some and threatening the Fifth Elder with the Demon Suppression Tower.
• Xiao Yan said farewell to Xiao Ning, his followers, and his family, then entered the Boundary Gate with Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu.
• After Xiao Yan departed, the First Elder, Third Elder, Fifth Elder, and other elders complained about the younger generation and planned to put them through the wringer.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Starfall Pavilion with two Half-Saints and asked Yao Chen to accept him as a disciple. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan revealing that he wanted to learn the Flame Mantra, shocking Yao Chen.

• Xiao Yan arrived in Xuan Emperor City with Elder Wen and Elder Wu, then learned where the Starfall Pavilion was and traveled there.
• Xiao Yan called for Yao Chen, but Han Feng came out first and challenged his right to demand an audience.
• Xiao Wu injured Han Feng and broke part of the Starfall Grand Array with his Half-Saint power, forcing Yao Chen and Feng Xian to appear.
• Xiao Yan stopped Xiao Wu from escalating matters and respectfully asked Yao Chen to take him as a disciple.
• Yao Chen questioned why a prodigy of the Xiao Clan needed him as a teacher, and Xiao Yan said he wanted to learn the Flame Mantra, startling Yao Chen.

Xiao Yan pressured Yao Chen into accepting him as a disciple and demonstrated his exceptional alchemy talent by refining an Earth Dragon Pill. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan telling Yao Chen to become a Dou Sheng and a ninth-tier alchemist soon.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he knew about the Flame Mantra and warned Yao Chen that Han Feng secretly coveted it.
• Xiao Yan used Wen and Wu’s strength to pressure Yao Chen, who explained the dangers of cultivating the Flame Mantra before agreeing to take Xiao Yan as his disciple.
• In the Star Realm, Yao Chen said he would test Xiao Yan’s alchemy aptitude, and Xiao Yan offered to refine a pill.
• Xiao Yan refined a high-quality Earth Dragon Pill, impressing Yao Chen with his skill and powerful soul.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen to become a Dou Sheng and a ninth-tier alchemist soon so he would not be embarrassed to mention his teacher.

Xiao Yan began cultivating the Flame Mantra, replacing his powerful Earth-tier method with its Yellow-tier formula despite the severe loss of strength. After completing the initial conversion, he rested and prepared to devour the Green Lion Demon Flame to evolve the method.

• Yao Chen secluded himself to cultivate a Heaven-tier method, Feng Xian happily accepted Xiao Yan’s Earth-tier Dou Technique, and Han Feng was beaten after asking Xiao Yan for a gift.
• Xiao Yan brought out the Flame Mantra on a guarded mountain summit and confirmed he would abandon his High-grade Earth-tier cultivation method to practice it.
• Xiao Yan circulated his Dou Qi through the Flame Mantra’s new meridian route, completing eighty-one circuits and falling to One-Star Dou Emperor with pale-yellow Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan replenished his strength with pills and considered devouring the Green Lion Demon Flame to evolve the Flame Mantra, but decided to rest first.