Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan traveled from the Central Plains to the Northwest Continent with Wen and Wu, then located Wutan City near the Magical Beast Mountain Range. The chapter left him looking down at the city, ready to arrive.

• Pill Tower elders celebrated Xiao Yan’s departure and plotted to torment his students, with Elder Li singling out Shi Hao and his master.
• Xiao Yan traveled with the two Dou Saints to the Northwest Continent, reflecting on the continent’s vast size and powerful inhabitants.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Wu found the Spirit-Sinking Silver Frog in its lair, forced him to identify their location on a map, then let him go.
• Xiao Yan reached Wutan City and smiled as he looked down at the city from the sky.

Xiao Yan arrived in Wutan City to check for remnants of the Hun Clan and learned that the city was controlled by three great families. At the Mittel Auction House, he confronted their patriarchs and revealed his overwhelming strength, leaving them terrified.

• Xiao Yan questioned an information seller about Wutan City’s factions and learned there was no powerful Hun Family.
• Xiao Yan learned the three family patriarchs were meeting Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House and went there.
• Ya Fei negotiated the sale of medicinal ingredients with the patriarchs of the Zhang Family, Ao Ba Family, and Jia Lie Family.
• Gu Ni brought Xiao Yan into the VIP room, where Xiao Yan introduced himself to Ya Fei and demanded the patriarchs’ help.
• Jia Lie Bi challenged Xiao Yan’s authority, and Xiao Yan released a Dou Wang aura that horrified the three patriarchs.

Xiao Yan used his overwhelming strength to order Wutan City's three family heads to gather everyone surnamed Hun, while making Ya Fei serve him in the Mittel Auction House. By sunset, nearly a hundred people had been assembled, and Xiao Yan asked whether any of them was named Hun Yan.

• Xiao Yan intimidated the three family heads and ordered them to find everyone surnamed Hun, especially anyone under twenty whose talent had suddenly vanished.
• Xiao Yan sent Gu Ni away, then pressured Ya Fei to massage his shoulders while she reluctantly complied.
• The three family heads mobilized their followers to seize and bring people surnamed Hun from across Wutan City.
• By sunset, nearly a hundred people surnamed Hun had gathered at the Mittel Auction House, where Xiao Yan asked if anyone was named Hun Yan.

Xiao Yan searched the Hun descendants for the person he had come to repay, then discovered that the young Hun Xin had exceptional aptitude and might be a chosen one. Rather than risk making an enemy of her, he tried to win her over by offering to become her teacher and promising endless snacks.

• Xiao Yan used Qi Gathering Powder to draw out Hun descendants, exposed Hun Yan's false claim, and ordered him thrown out.
• Xiao Yan questioned and examined the descendants, then kept Hun Dan, Hun Sen, Hun Yao, and the little girl Hun Xin behind.
• Xiao Yan stole Hun Xin's lollipops, learned that she had the phrase and temperament of a potential protagonist, and identified her as the person he sought.
• Xiao Yan examined Hun Xin's meridians, found her aptitude exceptional, and offered to take her as his disciple instead of risking a confrontation.
• Hun Xin initially rejected Xiao Yan, but brightened when he promised she could have more lollipops and snacks than she could eat.

Xiao Yan rewarded the three families and offered Ya Fei power, wealth, and faster cultivation in exchange for becoming his concubine and practicing dual cultivation. Ya Fei accepted his offer and rested her head on his shoulder, saying she was tired.

• Xiao Yan promised three impoverished people ten thousand gold coins each and arranged for Hun Xin to go home with lollipops and an invitation to study under him.
• Xiao Yan gave Ya Fei Qi Gathering Powder to cover the Mittel Auction House's expenses and handed one bottle to each of the three family patriarchs.
• Xiao Yan instructed the patriarchs to persuade Hun Xin's parents to send her to study under him, offering them more money if necessary.
• Xiao Yan offered Ya Fei more Qi Gathering Powder to become his concubine, but she refused to trade her principles for wealth.
• Xiao Yan promised to help Ya Fei become the Mittel Family patriarch and a leading merchant, and said dual cultivation could help her reach Dou Emperor.
• Ya Fei accepted Xiao Yan's offer, rested her head on his shoulder, and said she was tired.

Xiao Yan took Ya Fei and Hun Xin to the Imperial Capital by Lion Kite, reassuring Ya Fei about her choices and drawing closer to her along the way. After three days of travel, they arrived at Jia Ma Holy City, where Xiao Yan prepared to face Nalan Yanran, the Misty Cloud Sect, and the Mittel Family.

• After giving Ya Fei three days, Xiao Yan set out for the Imperial Capital with her and Hun Xin aboard a Lion Kite.
• Hun Xin cried for her parents until Xiao Yan gave her a lollipop, and Ya Fei teased Xiao Yan about the girl's resemblance to him.
• Ya Fei asked whether she was a bad woman for compromising her principles to achieve her goals, and Xiao Yan told her not to care about worldly judgment.
• Xiao Yan told Ya Fei that he admired her determination and admitted he was a scumbag who liked bad women, while Hun Xin quietly ate her candy beside them.
• After three days of flight, Xiao Yan, Ya Fei, and Hun Xin reached Jia Ma Holy City, and Xiao Yan anticipated facing Nalan Yanran, the Misty Cloud Sect, and the Mittel Family.

Xiao Yan brought Ya Fei and a little girl to the Mittel Family estate, where he confronted Lei Le and the relatives who opposed Ya Fei. When an old man arrived to retaliate, Wen and Wu killed him with a blast of red light, leaving the family facing Xiao Yan’s overwhelming power.

• Xiao Yan arrived in the imperial capital with Ya Fei and a little girl, drawing attention as he held Ya Fei’s hand in public.
• Ya Fei brought Xiao Yan to the Mittel Family grounds to meet the Great Elder, and the gate guards let them enter.
• Lei Le insulted Ya Fei and Xiao Yan and blocked their way, so Xiao Yan slapped him down and demanded he summon his backers.
• An old man arrived to defend Lei Le, but Wen and Wu emerged from concealment and burned him to nothing with a pillar of red light.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Mittel Family with Ya Fei, declared her his woman, and made it clear that she would take charge of the clan. The next morning, Mittel Teng Shan called the elders together and demanded to know who supported Ya Fei as clan head.

• Xiao Wu urged Xiao Yan to exterminate the Mittel Family for insulting him, but Xiao Yan stayed calm as Mittel Teng Shan arrived.
• Xiao Yan took Ya Fei's hand and told Mittel Teng Shan that she was his woman and that the Mittel Family's leadership needed to change.
• Over a meal, Teng Shan learned about Xiao Yan's powerful background and agreed that Ya Fei should become clan head; Hun Xin also cried after Xiao Yan threatened to withhold her lollipops.
• The next morning, Teng Shan addressed the elders and declared his full support for Ya Fei becoming the Mittel Family's clan head.
• Teng Shan asked the elders who were in favor and who were against Ya Fei's appointment.

Teng Shan secured support for Ya Fei to lead the Mittel Family by revealing Xiao Yan’s overwhelming power and forcing her former oppressors to step aside. After Ya Fei thanked Xiao Yan in her parents’ courtyard, their romantic evening was interrupted when Hun Xin arrived and said she had wet the bed.

• Teng Shan struck down an elder who objected to Ya Fei’s leadership and warned the other elders that Xiao Yan’s strength and guardians made opposing her dangerous.
• Teng Shan pressured the elders who had persecuted Ya Fei to surrender their positions and warned others to settle their past grievances with her.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan that the elders’ changed treatment had eased her burdens, and she thanked him for helping her.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei shared a romantic evening, but a knock interrupted them as they were about to go to bed.
• Xiao Yan opened the door and found Hun Xin, who bluntly told him that she had wet the bed.

Xiao Yan visited the Nalan Family to meet Nalan Yanran, his arranged fiancée, and revealed his overwhelming strength before telling Nalan Jie he had come to break off their engagement. The chapter ended with Nalan Yanran and Nalan Jie confronted by Xiao Yan’s unexpected decision.

• Ya Fei introduced Xiao Yan to Nalan Jie, who warmly welcomed him as Xiao Lin’s grandson.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Jie he wanted to meet his fiancée, Nalan Yanran, and Ya Fei reflected on their engagement and her own place in Xiao Yan’s life.
• Nalan Yanran returned and met Xiao Yan, learning from Nalan Jie that he was the fiancé arranged for her years earlier.
• Xiao Yan sealed the room with his dou qi, revealing to Nalan Jie and Nalan Yanran that he was a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Nalan Jie and said he had come to break off his engagement to Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Yan broke off his engagement to Nalan Yanran and offered the Nalan Family enormous gifts, then had Xiao Wu cure Nalan Jie’s poison. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan declaring that the Xiao Clan would protect the Nalan Family for a hundred years.

• Xiao Yan told Nalan Jie he wanted to dissolve his engagement to Nalan Yanran, explaining that his Clan Ancestor had arranged another marriage for him.
• Xiao Yan offered the Nalan Family two Storage Rings filled with valuable pills, treasures, and an Intermediate Earth Tier cultivation method as compensation.
• Nalan Jie asked Nalan Yanran whether she would accept the dissolution, and she agreed despite feeling humiliated.
• Xiao Yan ordered Xiao Wu to cure Nalan Jie’s deadly poison, and Xiao Wu expelled it with a streak of fire attribute Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan declared through a giant Dou Qi avatar that the Xiao Clan would protect the Nalan Family for a hundred years and kill anyone who attacked it.

Xiao Yan settled the Nalan Family matter and left Nalan Yanran determined to challenge him, while his immense power drew the attention of factions across the region. Yun Yun then sought an introduction to Xiao Yan, hoping to save her dying teacher, and Nalan Yanran was left despairing beneath the moon before a sinister stranger approached her.

• Xiao Yan’s thousand-zhang Dou Qi avatar stunned the Imperial Capital and neighboring factions, prompting them to investigate the mysterious expert.
• Xiao Yan released the Nalan Family from his grandfather’s task, warned Nalan Jie against abusing the clan’s name, and departed after Nalan Yanran vowed to defeat him.
• Nalan Yanran collapsed and wept after Xiao Yan left, while Nalan Jie accepted that Xiao Yan was not to blame for their situation.
• Yun Shan and Yun Yun reacted to the manifestation, and Yun Yun asked Nalan Yanran to introduce her to Xiao Yan because Yun Shan was near death.
• Nalan Yanran sat alone beneath the moon, despaired of ever surpassing Xiao Yan, and heard a sinister chuckle beside her.

Nalan Yanran encountered Hun Chen, who tempted her with a promise of power in exchange for freeing him, while Imperial Family leaders learned more about Xiao Yan and planned to approach him. As invitations from across the region arrived, Xiao Yan suggested that Ya Fei host one banquet to gather his would-be suitors in one place.

• Hun Chen offered to make Nalan Yanran his disciple and teach her an Earth Tier Cultivation Method, but she said she would think about it and left.
• Jia Yao Ye told Jia Xingtian that Xiao Yan had ties to both the Nalan Family and Ya Fei, and that his guardian had effortlessly killed Elder Thunder Puppet.
• Jia Xingtian asked how the Imperial Family could win Xiao Yan over, and Yao Ye proposed inviting him to a banquet and possibly using her own appeal.
• Factions throughout the Imperial Capital and beyond sent banquet invitations to the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Yan suggested that Ya Fei hold a banquet in the Mittel Family's name so he would not have to attend the invitations one by one.

Xiao Yan supported Ya Fei by hosting a prestigious banquet in the Mittel Family’s name, where he met Jia Xingtian and Princess Yao Ye. As the banquet continued, he turned his attention to a breathtaking master and disciple arriving in moon-white robes.

• Xiao Yan reassured Ya Fei that he would support her and would not forget her.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei welcomed influential guests to the Mittel Family banquet, where Xiao Yan’s presence earned them deference.
• Jia Xingtian arrived with Princess Yao Ye and greeted Xiao Yan, while Yao Ye suggested that she learn from him.
• Ya Fei recognized Yao Ye’s interest in Xiao Yan and teased her, then showed jealousy when Xiao Yan watched her leave.
• Xiao Yan noticed a beautiful master and disciple in moon-white robes approaching the banquet.

At the Imperial Capital banquet, Yun Yun invited Xiao Yan to the Misty Cloud Sect, hoping to ask for help with her ailing teacher. Back at the sect, Nalan Yanran heard Yun Potian’s voice plead for rescue from the rock where an old woman’s face appeared.

• Xiao Yan met Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran at the banquet, and Yun Yun invited him to visit the Misty Cloud Sect the next day.
• Ya Fei suspected Yun Yun was hiding trouble, while Xiao Yan agreed to visit and gently squeezed Ya Fei’s hand when he noticed her dejection.
• Xiao Yan announced an auction in ten days and toasted the empire’s powerful figures, who recognized his influence and connection to Ya Fei and the Nalan Family.
• Nalan Yanran returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Yun Yun, then approached the rock where the old woman’s face had appeared.
• The old woman told Nalan Yanran to find a Soul Stone to free her, but Yun Potian’s voice interrupted and begged Nalan Yanran to save him.

Nalan Yanran fled a trap set by a dangerous old woman and decided to seek Xiao Yan’s help, while Xiao Yan traveled to the Misty Cloud Sect the next morning. He arrived at its sacred grounds and was confronted by an elder.

• Nalan Yanran heard the trapped elder warn her to find a Dou Zong, escaped the old woman, and resolved to ask Xiao Yan for help.
• Hun Xin admitted she had learned only five characters, prompting Xiao Yan to restrict her food for three days before he flew toward the Misty Cloud Sect alone.
• Xiao Yan admired the sect’s mountain landscape and recalled its fallen status after its founding patriarch Yun Potian died.
• An old man flew out to challenge Xiao Yan for trespassing on the Misty Cloud Sect’s sacred grounds.

Xiao Yan struck Yun Leng and accompanied Yun Yun to ask Yun Shan for help breaking through to Dou Zong. He offered a Sect Breaking Pill in exchange for Yun Yun pledging herself to him, but stopped her as she began to undress; Nalan Yanran then opened the door and saw them together.

• Xiao Yan recognized Yun Leng, slapped him into a mountain cliff, and warned Yun Yun that explaining his grudge could mean Yun Leng's death.
• Yun Yun took Xiao Yan to her teacher Yun Shan, who asked for a way to break through to Dou Zong, and she pleaded with Xiao Yan to save him.
• Xiao Yan's concealed elders reported finding no remnants of the Hun Clan in Yun Shan's cave.
• Xiao Yan demanded that Yun Yun pledge herself to him in exchange for helping Yun Shan, then revealed he had a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Yun Yun agreed and began removing her outer robe, but Xiao Yan caught it and lifted it back into place.
• Nalan Yanran entered the side hall and froze when she saw Xiao Yan holding Yun Yun's robe.

Nalan Yanran walked in on Xiao Yan and her teacher Yun Yun, then told them that the stone where she cultivated contained the remnant souls of Yun Potian and a Nine-Star Dou Zun from the Hun Clan. Xiao Yan reacted sharply to the Hun Clan and insisted that Nalan Yanran take him to the stone at once.

• Nalan Yanran discovered Yun Yun with Xiao Yan and slapped herself in disbelief.
• Xiao Yan comforted Yun Yun, healed Nalan Yanran's face, and explained that he had coerced Yun Yun into becoming his concubine.
• Xiao Yan gave Yun Yun a Sect Breaking Pill and said he wanted her to offer herself willingly.
• Nalan Yanran reported hearing the five-hundred-year-dead Yun Potian calling for help from the stone where she cultivated.
• Nalan Yanran revealed that a stronger Nine-Star Dou Zun remnant from the Hun Clan was also trapped there and asked Xiao Yan for help.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran to take him to the stone immediately.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran discovered a World Soul Stone hidden inside a boulder at the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Potian had been cultivating. When the Xiao Clan elders released the soul inside, they captured a furious Hun Clan remnant and revealed their power to Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Yan flew Nalan Yanran to her usual cultivation peak, with Yun Yun following behind them.
• Xiao Yan scanned the boulder with his soul power and found a smaller stone hidden inside it.
• Xiao Wen broke open the boulder and identified the inner stone as a World Soul Stone that could conceal and imprison souls.
• Xiao Wen shattered the World Soul Stone, releasing a black-mist remnant and a dim white ball of light.
• Xiao Wu trapped the black-mist soul, which revealed itself as a Hun Clan remnant and panicked at discovering that the Xiao Clan's Half-Saints had captured it.

Xiao Yan captured the old woman’s soul, began restoring Yun Potian’s soul, and left Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran indebted to him and unsettled by their feelings. Yun Yun brought a Sect Breaking Pill to her teacher Yun Shan, who took it eagerly to attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong.

• Xiao Wu captured the old woman’s soul in a Black Jade Bottle, and Xiao Yan soothed Yun Potian’s soul with Soul-Nourishing Liquid.
• Xiao Yan asked Nalan Yanran to bring Seven-Colored Illusory Spirit Saliva to him in three days and promised Yun Yun he would return Yun Potian after repairing his soul.
• Xiao Yan teased Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, then left with Wen and Wu while the two women wondered about their feelings for him.
• Yun Yun brought Yun Shan a Sect Breaking Pill and urged him to attempt his breakthrough.
• Yun Shan wondered why Xiao Yan had not touched Yun Yun, then swallowed the Sect Breaking Pill with renewed hope.