Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan told Ya Fei that he had given Yun Yun two Sect Breaking Pills and planned to auction off powerful pills and cultivation manuals, leaving Ya Fei eager to join him. Meanwhile, Gu He returned from seclusion hoping to win Yun Yun with a future Sect Breaking Pill, but she told him the matter was already settled and thought instead of Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan explained to Ya Fei that Yun Shan was dying and that he had given Yun Yun two Sect Breaking Pills to help.
• Ya Fei learned Xiao Yan planned to auction three Emperor's Extreme Pills, ten Dou Ling Pills, and other treasures, and kissed him.
• Gu He emerged from seclusion with his second Emperor's Extreme Pill and told Liu Ling he hoped to refine a Sect Breaking Pill within five years to win Yun Yun's favor.
• Gu He visited Yun Yun and offered to help her and Yun Shan break through to Dou Zong, but Yun Yun said the Sect Breaking Pill matter was resolved.
• After Gu He left, Yun Yun sighed over Xiao Yan, calling him an exasperating rascal.

Gu He learned about Xiao Yan’s arrival and decided to attend the Mittel Auction House’s grand auction. As Ya Fei opened the event, Xiao Yan watched from a VIP room while Gu He, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran waited among the guests.

• Liu Ling told Gu He that a young Dou Emperor had arrived in the Jia Ma Empire with two powerful Guardian Daoists and had ties to the Nalan Family and Misty Cloud Sect.
• Gu He learned that Xiao Yan would auction valuable items at the Mittel Auction House and decided to attend with Liu Ling.
• Xiao Yan praised the auction house and encouraged Ya Fei, who worried about handling the valuable items he had provided.
• Gu He and Liu Ling took a VIP room, while Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran also attended and discussed Xiao Yan.
• Ya Fei entered the auction hall and declared the grand auction open.

Ya Fei auctioned a series of rare pills and other treasures, drawing fierce bids from powerful figures across the region. When the Sect Breaking Pill became the final item, Xiao Yan secretly helped Jia Xingtian bid for it, but a lightning-wielding attacker then lunged at Ya Fei.

• Ya Fei opened the auction with an Emperor's Extreme Pill, which Jia Xingtian won for thirteen million gold coins.
• Ya Fei auctioned Dou Ling Pills and valuable Cultivation Methods and Combat Skills, bringing in enormous sums.
• Ya Fei revealed the Sect Breaking Pill, and Dou Huang experts competed fiercely for the chance to advance to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan sent Jia Xingtian a soul-power message, and Jia Xingtian thanked him before bidding eighteen million gold coins.
• A figure unleashed Lightning Attribute Dou Qi and shot toward Ya Fei, declaring that the Mittel Family could not keep the Sect Breaking Pill.

At the Mittel Family auction, an unseen expert killed the Thunder Sound Emperor when he attacked Ya Fei, terrifying the gathered powers and cementing the family’s growing reputation. After the auction, Ya Fei told Xiao Yan the goods had sold for 230 million gold coins, and he flirted with her as she blushed.

• The Thunder Sound Emperor attacked Ya Fei, but an unseen expert froze him and burned him to ash without harming her.
• Ya Fei composed herself and resumed the auction, where Mr. Kui Lou won the Sect Breaking Pill for 28 million gold coins.
• Gu He and Nalan Yanran marveled at Xiao Yan’s lavish offerings, while Yun Yun felt a flicker of jealousy over the gifts he had given Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran.
• The auction’s success made the Mittel Family and Jia Ma Empire the talk of neighboring nations, and witnesses speculated that a Dou Zun backed them.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan the auction had earned 230 million gold coins, and he flirted with her until she blushed and teased him about his kinky tastes.

Nalan Yanran waited at the Mittel Family to deliver the Seven-Colored Illusory Spirit Saliva and witnessed Xiao Yan’s breakthrough. Afterward, Xiao Yan took her to the small lake to receive the item.

• Nalan Yanran arrived at the Mittel Family with her grandfather’s Seven-Colored Illusory Spirit Saliva and waited outside Xiao Yan and Ya Fei’s room.
• Xiao Yan’s soul power spread across the Imperial Capital as he broke through, while two Heavenly Flame dragons absorbed the gathered energy.
• Nalan Yanran entered the room after Xiao Yan called her in, and he told her Ya Fei had fallen asleep from exhaustion.
• Xiao Yan led Nalan Yanran to the small lake and asked her to take out the Seven-Colored Illusory Spirit Saliva.
• Nalan Yanran produced a foot-long Cold Jade Box from her Storage Ring.

Xiao Yan refined the Seven-Colored Illusory Spirit Saliva with his Yin-Yang Twin Flames to restore Yun Potian’s soul while Nalan Yanran watched and spoke with him and Ya Fei. By sunset, Yun Potian emerged from the flames and thanked Xiao Yan for saving his life.

• Xiao Yan used the Yin-Yang Saint Flame to refine the Seven-Colored Illusory Spirit Saliva and teased Nalan Yanran about her cultivation and appearance.
• Ya Fei woke, greeted Nalan Yanran, and revealed that she had reached four-star Dou Shi, leaving Nalan Yanran discouraged.
• Xiao Yan placed Yun Potian’s dim soul orb into the flames alongside the refined extract, and the Yin-Yang Fish began restoring it.
• As the sun set, Yun Potian’s soul emerged from the Yin-Yang Fish and bowed to Xiao Yan in gratitude.

Xiao Yan helped Yun Potian return to the Misty Cloud Sect, where the founder promised Nalan Yanran support and left Xiao Yan a pair of high-grade Earth-tier techniques. The sect celebrated Yun Shan’s breakthrough to Dou Zong, then Yun Potian appeared before its experts.

• Yun Potian thanked Nalan Yanran for helping Xiao Yan rescue him and learned that the Misty Cloud Sect had declined since his disappearance.
• Xiao Yan demanded a reward from Yun Potian, who gave him the Heavenly Cloud Sky-Piercing Art and the Heavenly Cloud Sky-Piercing Sword before returning with Nalan Yanran to the sect.
• Yun Potian sensed that one of his successors had broken through to Dou Zong as a powerful aura spread from the Misty Cloud Sect to the Imperial Capital.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zong, and Yun Yun and the sect’s elders congratulated him.
• Yun Potian appeared before Yun Shan and the Misty Cloud Sect’s experts, who recognized their founding ancestor.

Xiao Yan offered Jia Xingtian a Sect Breaking Pill and proposed an alliance to strengthen the Jia Ma Empire and its neighbors. After the banquet, Yao Ye invited Xiao Yan to her quarters, and he accepted.

• Yun Potian returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, promised to restore its lost techniques, and inspired Yun Shan and the elders to celebrate the sect’s rise.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Imperial Palace, where Princess Yao Ye welcomed him and led him to Jia Xingtian.
• Xiao Yan told Jia Xingtian that a Sect Breaking Pill had helped Yun Shan reach Dou Zong and offered Jia Xingtian another pill.
• Xiao Yan proposed an alliance spanning the Jia Ma Empire and nearby powers, declaring that he would establish a force capable of changing the Northwest Continent’s balance of power.
• Yao Ye invited Xiao Yan to her quarters to ask for guidance on dou techniques, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Xiao Yan spent the night with Yao Ye at Starry Night Palace and encouraged her ambitions to become empress before returning to the Mittel Family. There, he found Ya Fei teaching Hun Xin to read, and Ya Fei teased him about his night with the princess.

• Yao Ye brought Xiao Yan to Starry Night Palace, where she bathed and revealed that she wanted to become his lover.
• Xiao Yan spent the night with Yao Ye, then told her to wear empress's robes and encouraged her to pursue power.
• Yao Ye wondered whether she had been shameless, and Xiao Yan said he understood her motives and wanted her to be his lover like Ya Fei.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Mittel Family and found Hun Xin learning characters from Ya Fei while asking for more sweet and sour pork.
• Ya Fei teased Xiao Yan about his night with Yao Ye, and he called the princess juicy.

Xiao Yan accepted the Misty Cloud Sect’s invitation to a banquet, while Yun Shan planned to use Yun Yun’s connection to him to strengthen the sect. Yun Yun refused to seduce Xiao Yan and told Yun Shan that he had changed.

• Ya Fei gave Xiao Yan the Misty Cloud Sect’s invitation, and Xiao Yan agreed to visit the sect in three days when Nalan Yanran invited him.
• At a banquet, Yun Shan and Yun Potian discussed the Misty Cloud Sect’s decline, and Yun Potian promised to pass on new cultivation methods.
• Yun Shan instructed Nalan Yanran to make sure Xiao Yan attended the banquet and suggested she could become the sect’s young sect master.
• Yun Shan privately urged Yun Yun to win Xiao Yan’s affection, even as a concubine, to help her advance and benefit the sect.
• Yun Yun refused and accused Yun Shan of changing; Yun Shan admitted that he had changed.

Yun Shan pressed Yun Yun to accept his plan to win over Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan woke from a vivid nightmare about a blood-soaked Great Thousand World and grew uneasy about a looming threat. Meanwhile, Hun Xin struggled through Yao Ye’s attempt to teach her to read and returned to the Mittel Family, where she encountered a tall young woman.

• Yun Shan told Yun Yun that he had to win over Xiao Yan and gave her time to accept the outcome.
• Xiao Yan dreamed of a devastated Great Thousand World, where Xiao Xuan and Shi Hao died fighting a spreading black miasma.
• Xiao Yan woke beside Ya Fei and wondered whether his dream, the Great Thousand World, and the Extraterrestrial Evil Race were connected to the strange power he had encountered.
• Yao Ye confirmed that Hun Xin was Xiao Yan’s disciple and tried to teach her to read, but Hun Xin could not learn and spent the day eating.
• Hun Xin took chicken drumsticks from the palace for Xiao Yan and Ya Fei, then returned to the Mittel Family and saw a tall, beautiful, flat-chested young woman at the entrance.

Nalan Yanran visited Xiao Yan and invited him to a banquet at the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Shan confronted the bedridden Yun Leng over his resentment and corruption. Yun Shan revealed his intent to kill Yun Leng, leaving the Great Elder pleading for his life.

• Hun Xin begged Nalan Yanran for candy, and Nalan Yanran gave her some before joining Xiao Yan in the courtyard.
• Nalan Yanran watched Xiao Yan cultivate and marveled at how quickly his strength was rising.
• Nalan Yanran invited Xiao Yan to a Misty Cloud Sect banquet, and he flew there with her while teasingly grabbing her bottom.
• Yun Shan asked Yun Leng about his grudge against Xiao Yan and told him to put aside his resentment toward the sect's benefactor.
• Yun Shan accused Yun Leng of embezzling from the Misty Cloud Sect and undermining Yun'er, then threatened to kill him as Yun Leng begged for his life.

Xiao Yan visited the Misty Cloud Sect and proposed an alliance that could reshape the Northwest Continent. He left Yun Potian and Yun Shan stunned by offering to bring Yun Potian back to life.

• Yun Shan killed Yun Leng and planned to keep the Misty Cloud Sect aligned with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect with Nalan Yanran, where Yun Shan and Yun Yun welcomed him to a lavish banquet.
• Xiao Yan flirted with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran during the banquet, angering Gu He and Liu Ling.
• Xiao Yan declined Yun Shan's offer to erect a statue of him and proposed that the Misty Cloud Sect join his planned alliance.
• Xiao Yan promised the alliance could eventually have at least ten Dou Zun experts and asked Yun Potian to become its first.
• After Yun Potian explained that his ghostly state limited him to Dou Zong strength, Xiao Yan offered to bring him back to life.

Xiao Yan promised to resurrect Yun Potian within three years, winning the Misty Cloud Sect’s gratitude, but his teasing of Yun Yun provoked Gu He. After Xiao Yan revealed he was a seventh-rank alchemist, Gu He challenged him to an alchemy contest, and Xiao Yan accepted.

• Xiao Yan told Yun Potian and the Misty Cloud Sect that he was confident he could resurrect Yun Potian within three years, and Yun Potian and the elders bowed in gratitude.
• Xiao Yan privately teased Yun Yun, then restarted the banquet; Gu He and Liu Ling watched unhappily.
• Gu He confronted Xiao Yan over his behavior toward Yun Yun, but Xiao Yan dismissed Gu He as a mere sixth-rank alchemist and called him Yun Yun’s lapdog.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the seventh rank in alchemy, stunning the banquet guests and enraging Gu He.
• Gu He challenged Xiao Yan to compete in alchemy, and Xiao Yan accepted.

Xiao Yan challenged Gu He to an alchemy contest before the Misty Cloud Sect and let Gu He finish refining an Emperor's Extreme Pill. Xiao Yan then began refining a Heavenly Thunder Body-Tempering Pill with rare seventh-rank ingredients and revealed a black-and-white flame, leaving the gathered Alchemists stunned.

• Gu He accepted Yun Shan's warning and began preparing for the alchemy contest against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan confidently invited Gu He to go first, while Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the gathered Alchemists watched.
• Gu He spent two days refining an Emperor's Extreme Pill as Xiao Yan meditated and waited.
• Xiao Yan brought out over a hundred rare ingredients for a Heavenly Thunder Body-Tempering Pill that could temper the body to withstand Dou Emperor attacks.
• Xiao Yan raised a black-and-white flame, shocking every Alchemist present.

Xiao Yan refined a seventh-rank pill before the Misty Cloud Sect, astonishing the alchemists and leaving Gu He overwhelmed by the gap between them. Pill lightning appeared above the sect, confirming the pill’s success, and Gu He coughed up blood and collapsed.

• Xiao Yan revealed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames and displayed seventh-rank soul power, shocking Gu He and the gathered alchemists.
• Xiao Yan used the Yin-Yang Saint Flame to refine the three main ingredients, then extracted more than a hundred other ingredients in successive batches.
• Xiao Yan fused the medicinal extracts and refined them into a silver pill, while Gu He watched in despair.
• Pill lightning darkened the sky above the Misty Cloud Sect, confirming that Xiao Yan had refined a seventh-rank pill.
• Gu He coughed up blood and fell backward.

Xiao Yan refined the Heavenly Thunder Body-Tempering Pill by feeding it eighty bolts of pill lightning, then shattered the final bolt with his bare fist. After winning the Misty Cloud Sect’s admiration, he accepted Yun Shan’s invitation to rest and left with Nalan Yanran, whose face turned red when he teased her.

• Gu He collapsed in despair as the black clouds gathered above the square and Xiao Yan prepared for the pill lightning.
• Xiao Yan sent the Heavenly Thunder Body-Tempering Pill into the lightning and used his yin-yang saint flame to refine the increasingly powerful bolts.
• Xiao Yan punched apart the eightieth and final bolt, then refined its sparks into the pill as the spectators watched in awe.
• Yun Shan invited Xiao Yan to rest at the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Nalan Yanran carried Xiao Yan away, blushed when he teased her, and heard him ask why her face was so red.

Xiao Yan teased and kissed Nalan Yanran, who confessed her hurt over his broken engagement before clinging to him. Meanwhile, Yun Shan sealed Yun Yun’s Dou Qi and arranged to drug her into winning Xiao Yan over, then summoned him to the Sect Master’s Main Hall.

• Xiao Yan left the Square, and Yun Shan dismissed the gathered disciples while warning Gu He that he would deal with him later.
• Yun Potian returned to the Memorial Hall and wondered whether Xiao Yan could restore him to a living body.
• Xiao Yan drew Nalan Yanran into a Side Hall, where she cried over his broken engagement before biting his arm and finally settling into his embrace.
• Yun Yun refused Yun Shan’s demand that she win Xiao Yan over, so Yun Shan sealed her Dou Qi and sent smoke into her face.
• Yun Shan told a female elder to summon Xiao Yan to the Sect Master’s Main Hall, interrupting his time with Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Yan found Yun Yun restrained and drugged in bridal robes, but stopped when she slapped him and freed her from the drug instead. He left the Misty Cloud Sect, resolved to stop pursuing her, and returned to Ya Fei, who noticed something was troubling him.

• Xiao Yan left Nalan Yanran and went to the sect master's main hall to find Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan discovered Yun Yun restrained and drugged in bridal robes, freed her, and tried to draw close to her.
• Yun Yun slapped Xiao Yan and pleaded with him not to force her, so he gave her a pill to counter the drug.
• Xiao Yan apologized, said he would stop pestering Yun Yun, and flew away from the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan returned to Ya Fei late at night, and she noticed his mood was unusual as she teased him.

Nalan Yanran found Yun Yun heartbroken after Xiao Yan left without anything happening between them, while Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Jia Ma Empire after helping Ya Fei advance. Hun Xin revealed that several women had been feeding her snacks, and the chapter ended with Xiao Wu interrogating an old Hun Clan woman in a Spatial Rift.

• Nalan Yanran found Yun Yun in a Red Wedding Dress and listened as Yun Yun wondered whether she had done something wrong.
• Xiao Yan told Ya Fei he planned to leave the Jia Ma Empire to search for heavenly flames, and Ya Fei insisted he help her reach Da Dou Shi first.
• Yun Shan learned that nothing had happened between Yun Yun and Xiao Yan, but he lowered his raised hand and accepted that the Misty Cloud Sect would have to face its fate.
• Hun Xin told Xiao Yan that Yao Ye was waiting for him at the Imperial Palace, and Xiao Yan said he would go after helping Ya Fei advance.
• Xiao Yan took Hun Xin's snacks and learned that Ya Fei, Yao Ye, and Nalan Yanran had given them to her.
• Xiao Wu questioned an old Hun Clan woman in a Spatial Rift about how many Hun Clan remnants remained.