Chapter Summaries

Xiao Wu learned that Xiao Shaobei had secretly helped a Hun Clan Saint Daughter escape, leaving him worried about what the revelation meant for the Xiao Clan. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan prepared to leave the Imperial Capital after asking Yao Ye to support his Alliance, and Xiao Wen arrived with a group of youths.

• Xiao Wu tortured a Hun Clan woman and learned how the World Soul Stone had come into Yun Potian's possession.
• The woman revealed that Xiao Shaobei had sheltered a Hun Clan Saint Daughter and her relatives, and Xiao Wu decided His Highness the Emperor's Son should learn the secret.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Ye that his Alliance would become a major power and arranged for experts to help her and Ya Fei manage its affairs.
• Yao Ye teased Xiao Yan about failing to win over Sect Master Yun, then persuaded him to stay with her before his departure.
• Three days later, Xiao Wen emerged from a Spatial Rift above the Imperial Capital with a large group of youths.

Xiao Yan reunited with his Xiao Clan relatives in the Jia Ma Empire, where their young cultivators astonished the capital and Xiao Li easily overpowered its strongest experts. Xiao Yan asked Xiao Li to watch over the capital while he pursued two more heavenly flames and prepared to establish a new faction.

• Xiao Li arrived in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, and Xiao Yan introduced him and the Xiao Clan members to Ya Fei, Yao Ye, and Nalan Yanran at a banquet.
• Xiao Mei teased Xiao Yan and provoked Nalan Yanran, while Xiao Feng complained about his grandfather’s harsh training and vowed to grow stronger.
• The Xiao Clan youngsters overwhelmed their peers across the capital, and Xiao Li challenged the empire’s strongest experts, pinning Yun Shan with ease.
• Xiao Yan proposed that Xiao Li establish a new faction in the Northwest Continent after Xiao Yan returned from seeking two heavenly flames.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Li to watch over the Jia Ma Imperial Capital while he departed to pursue the heavenly flames.

Xiao Yan left his clansmen and companions in the Imperial Capital under Xiao Li’s supervision, then traveled to Qingshan Town to find Xiao Yi Xian. He spotted her returning with a band of mercenaries outside the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.

• Xiao Yan departed after entrusting Xiao Li with the Xiao Clan youths, and Xiao Li ordered them to keep a low profile and cultivate under Xiao Yu’s watch.
• Xiao Yan changed course near the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while Yun Yun remained troubled by memories of her night with him.
• Gu He visited Yun Yun and asked for her help with something, still recovering from his defeat and Yun Shan’s punishment.
• Xiao Yan reached Qingshan Town and paid a middle-aged man for information about Xiao Yi Xian, who worked at the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan saw Xiao Yi Xian among a returning band of mercenaries and watched her approach.

Xiao Yan approached Xiao Yi Xian and defeated Mu Li and his men with a series of slaps, then declared that he was joining their mercenary party. The party accepted his strength, but its members worried that he had set his sights on Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yan left the middle-aged man and approached Xiao Yi Xian, introducing himself and asking to know her.
• Mu Li warned Xiao Yan to stay away from Xiao Yi Xian and threatened him, so Xiao Yan slapped him twice.
• Mu Li ordered his men to attack Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan knocked them unconscious with slaps.
• Xiao Yan announced that he was joining the mercenary party, and none of the mercenaries dared object.
• Xiao Yan let the middle-aged man keep the gold coins and apologized to Xiao Yi Xian for being rough, while the mercenaries worried about his interest in her.

Xiao Yan flirted with Xiao Yi Xian and showed off his overwhelming strength during the mercenary party’s return to the Magical Beast Mountain Range. After killing a Blizzard Demon Ape, he gave its magic core to Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yan sat with Xiao Yi Xian outside the Myriad Medicine Pavilion and boldly told her he had come to Qingshan Town because he had heard of her beauty.
• Xiao Yi Xian called Xiao Yan a little brat and left, while he ate the fruit she had left behind.
• Over the next few days, Xiao Yan chatted with Xiao Yi Xian until the mercenary party set out for the Magical Beast Mountain Range again three days later.
• Xiao Yan pulled Xiao Yi Xian close as they walked, then killed a charging Tier 2 Blizzard Demon Ape with one palm strike.
• Xiao Yan took the Blizzard Demon Ape’s magic core and gave it to Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yan used his strength and schemes to impress Xiao Yi Xian and protect the mercenary party from a Greenwood Wolf Pack. After saving her from the Greenwood Wolf King, he left Xiao Yi Xian shaken and grateful.

• Mu Li watched Xiao Yan show off and held back his killing intent because he feared Xiao Yan's strength.
• Xiao Yi Xian refused Xiao Yan's magic core, and Xiao Yan teased her and threatened the mercenaries when she protested.
• The party encountered several Tier 2 Magical Beasts, which Xiao Yan killed with single palm strikes.
• When a Greenwood Wolf Pack attacked, Xiao Yan agreed to help after Xiao Yi Xian asked him, then killed dozens of wolves with stone fragments.
• The Greenwood Wolf King attacked Xiao Yi Xian, but Xiao Yan pulled her close, snapped the wolf's neck, and drove off the remaining wolves.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian continued traveling after defeating the Greenwood Wolves, trading teasing remarks as Xiao Yan demonstrated his knowledge of poisons and alchemy. The group reached a cliff, where Xiao Yi Xian asked to rest, her nervousness hinting that something awaited them there.

• Xiao Yan let the mercenaries keep the ordinary Greenwood Wolf carcasses and took only the wolf king's magic core.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Yan a fruit to thank him, and he teased her about being afraid to like someone.
• Xiao Yi Xian found a meridian-burning lotus, and Xiao Yan explained its poison, antidotal properties, and uses in alchemy.
• Xiao Yan claimed to be a seventh-rank alchemist and caught Xiao Yi Xian's ankle when she kicked him, then let go.
• Mu Li watched Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian with hatred and vowed to kill Xiao Yan with his hidden divine weapon.
• The group reached a cliff, and Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Yan if they could rest there.

Xiao Yan followed Xiao Yi Xian to a hidden cave beneath a cliff and joined her exploration after revealing that he knew about it. They entered the cave, where Xiao Yan killed a Rock Snake and smashed through a stone door.

• Xiao Yi Xian left the mercenary group, and Xiao Yan followed her to the cliff while Mu Li and several underlings pursued him.
• Xiao Yan caught Xiao Yi Xian as she climbed up from below the cliff and exposed that he knew she was exploring a cave.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Xiao Yi Xian to explore the cave with him, and they descended together by rope.
• A Rock Snake appeared inside the cave, and Xiao Yan killed it and tossed its carcass off the cliff.
• Xiao Yan led Xiao Yi Xian to a stone door and smashed it into rubble with his fist.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian explored the cave abode, where she collected medicinal herbs while he took a mysterious scroll fragment. After Xiao Yan revealed a Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, Xiao Yi Xian suddenly reached for it.

• Xiao Yan led Xiao Yi Xian into the cave abode and let her collect its medicinal herbs and gold.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Yan the ice-flame spirit herb, which he pulled from the flower bed and joked was used for iced tea.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian opened three boxes of cultivation methods and combat skills, and Xiao Yan took a scroll fragment from the Old Corpse Master's remains.
• Xiao Yan let Xiao Yi Xian keep the remaining treasures and deliberately read aloud the title of a Seven-Colored Poison Scripture.
• Xiao Yi Xian suddenly reached for the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and demanded that Xiao Yan give it back.

Xiao Yan offered Xiao Yi Xian a Storage Ring, but she rejected his affection and told him to stop bothering her. When Mu Li arrived with armed men and they fired pistols at Xiao Yan, he emerged unharmed and asked Mu Li, “Odd changes, even stays the same?”

• Xiao Yan let Xiao Yi Xian keep the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and offered her a white Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yi Xian pulled away from Xiao Yan, cried, and demanded that he stop pursuing her.
• Xiao Yan sensed Mu Li approaching the cave with a group of men, and Xiao Yi Xian quickly regained her composure.
• Mu Li and his men drew pistols and fired every round at Xiao Yan, but the bullets fell at his feet without injuring him.
• Xiao Yan approached the terrified Mu Li and asked, “Odd changes, even stays the same?”

After discovering a pistol, Xiao Yan took Mu Li to find its source, leaving Xiao Yi Xian with the mercenaries and revealing himself as a young Dou Wang. He arrived at the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s stronghold and called for Mu She to face him.

• Xiao Yan questioned Mu Li about the pistol, learned that Mu Li’s father had obtained it, and demanded that Mu Li take him to his father.
• Xiao Yan carried Mu Li and Xiao Yi Xian out of the cave, shocking them and the mercenaries by revealing his Dou Qi Wings and Dou Wang strength.
• Xiao Yan left Xiao Yi Xian with the mercenaries and flew away with Mu Li toward the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• The mercenaries urged Xiao Yi Xian to seize her chance with Xiao Yan, but she worried that her secret would prevent anyone from marrying her.
• Xiao Yan reached the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s stronghold with Mu Li and called for Mu She to come out and face him.

Xiao Yan confronted Mu She over the firearms found among the Wolf Head Mercenary Group and traced them to a skeleton in a mountain cave. After discovering a token marked “Hun An,” he summoned Wen and Wu to investigate whether the dead man belonged to the Hun Clan.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Wolf Head Mercenary Group’s stronghold with Mu Li and demanded to know where the guns had come from.
• Mu She said he had found the weapons, and Xiao Yan used his soul power to gather the group’s firearms and force Mu She to lead him to their source.
• Mu She took Xiao Yan to a cave, where he showed him a skeleton and the Storage Ring he had found on it ten years earlier.
• Xiao Yan examined the Storage Ring and found an iron token bearing the name “Hun An.”
• Xiao Yan summoned Wen and Wu, who produced an old woman’s spirit from a jade bottle and restrained her when she tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan asked the old woman whether the skeleton belonged to a member of the Hun Clan.

Xiao Yan confirmed that the dead figure had Hun Clan blood and realized the firearms suggested another transmigrator had contacted the Hun Clan. After taking the weapons and warning Mu She, Xiao Yan returned to find Xiao Yi Xian gone and flew off after learning she had left on a Blue Eagle.

• Xiao Wen confirmed that the dead figure had Hun Clan blood, but the black iron token could no longer track the clan.
• Xiao Yan suspected another transmigrator was working with the Hun Clan and decided to identify them before choosing whether to cooperate or strike first.
• Xiao Yan gave Mu She Qi Gathering Powder, took the firearms, and warned him to stop the Wolf Head Mercenary Group's wicked deeds.
• Mu She ordered his subordinates to stop doing bad things after Xiao Yan left the stronghold.
• Xiao Yan returned to the herb-gathering party and learned that Xiao Yi Xian had ridden away on a Blue Eagle.
• Xiao Yan rewarded the mercenaries with magic cores and flew off, his expression easing as he thought he understood Xiao Yi Xian's departure.

Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian in a secluded basin and learned that she had discovered her woeful poison body. He promised he could eventually help her control it, and their flirtation ended with Xiao Yan pulling her close for a kiss.

• Xiao Yan searched the mountains and found a secluded basin where he sensed an ancient powerhouse might have fallen.
• Xiao Yi Xian read the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and despaired after learning about the dangers of her woeful poison body.
• Xiao Yan appeared at Xiao Yi Xian's cottage and told her he knew about her condition and could resolve it in the future.
• Xiao Yan explained that heavenly flames would help him control Xiao Yi Xian's poisonous energy, and she thanked him.
• Xiao Yi Xian kissed Xiao Yan's cheek, and he pulled her close and kissed her.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian grew closer, then he discovered an underground chamber containing the remains of an eighth-rank Netherworld Demon Serpent and rare treasures. As Xiao Yan reached for a Netherworld Demon Lotus, the black pool suddenly stirred.

• Xiao Yan stopped short of taking Xiao Yi Xian’s first time, then left to search for a place to cultivate.
• Xiao Yan remembered the green lotus core flame and followed Xiao Wen to a low mountain where an eighth-rank magical beast had supposedly died.
• Xiao Yan punched open the mountain and entered a hidden chamber, where he found a Netherworld Demon Serpent skeleton surrounded by its blood and Netherworld Demon Lotuses.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Wen identified two seven-colored scales in the skeleton’s hand as belonging to a Dou Sheng-level Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Yan reached for a Netherworld Demon Lotus, and bubbles began rising in the pool.

Xiao Yan captured the Netherworld Demon Snake's remnant soul and questioned him about two Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python scales. The soul revealed that the scales could lead to the Seven-Colored Demon Saint's inheritance, leaving Xiao Yan with a reason to seek the remaining scales.

• Xiao Wen caught the black sphere, and the Netherworld Demon Snake's remnant soul emerged from it.
• Xiao Yan questioned the Netherworld Demon Snake about the scales, and the soul said they belonged to the Seven-Colored Demon Saint.
• The Netherworld Demon Snake explained that his grandfather had served the Seven-Colored Demon Saint and later joined the Nine Netherworld Python Clan.
• Xiao Wu revealed that the Xiao Clan had wiped out the Hun Clan, prompting the Netherworld Demon Snake to become respectful and cooperate.
• The Netherworld Demon Snake summoned the two scales and said that gathering all seven of the Seven-Colored Demon Saint's Life-Bound Reverse Scales could unlock his inheritance.

Xiao Yan learned that seven reverse scales could lead to the Seven-Colored Demon Saint's inheritance, which included the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, and decided to pursue it. After recruiting You Mo as a guardian magical beast and collecting the Netherworld Demon Lotus, Xiao Yan settled in a cave and turned his attention to the Beast Venerable.

• The Netherworld Demon Serpent told Xiao Yan that the seven reverse scales could unlock the Seven-Colored Demon Saint's inheritance and that it contained the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.
• You Mo revealed that the Beast Venerable, an Illusory Light Purple Thunder Eagle, held two reverse scales and had once defeated him during their contest for the inheritance.
• The Netherworld Demon Serpent explained how the scales could sense one another, and Xiao Yan decided to spare You Mo and invite him to serve the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Wu stored You Mo inside his magic core along with the Netherworld Demon Lotus and the pool of blood.
• Xiao Yan found a cave to cultivate, resolved to deal with the Beast Venerable, and noticed cooking smoke rising from a distant thatched cottage.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian settled into a quiet life in the basin while his strength continued to grow. After a month of cultivation, Xiao Yan broke through to Nine-Star Dou Emperor, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to wonder how she could catch up to him.

• Xiao Yan chose to cultivate instead of returning to the Thatched Cottage, while Xiao Yi Xian waited with the porridge she had cooked and eventually fell asleep.
• Xiao Yan covered the sleeping Xiao Yi Xian with his black robe, then made her breakfast, which she eagerly ate.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian strolled through the basin together and gradually settled into a life of unspoken understanding.
• After a month in the basin, Xiao Yan reached the peak of Eight-Star Dou Emperor and began his breakthrough to Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan refined energy from the basin with the yin-yang saint flame and broke through, shaking the mountain and basin.
• Xiao Yi Xian watched the breakthrough, lamented that catching up to Xiao Yan would be difficult, and took out a packet of black medicinal powder.

After nine months of cultivation, Xiao Yan reached the Nine-Star Dou Emperor level and went to see Xiao Yi Xian, who had eaten poison and feared he would recoil from her changed appearance. He reassured her that her Woeful Poison Body could not harm him, and the two confessed their feelings and grew intimate.

• Xiao Yan recovered to the Nine-Star Dou Emperor level and flew to Xiao Yi Xian's cottage.
• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian hiding under a quilt after eating poison, and she confessed that she feared he would see her as ugly and dangerous.
• Xiao Yan kissed Xiao Yi Xian to test her poison and used the Yin-Yang Saint Flame to refine it away.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he could cure her Woeful Poison Body and promised to stay by her side.
• Xiao Yi Xian admitted she liked Xiao Yan and leaned toward him as they became intimate.

Xiao Yan spent half a month living with Xiao Yi Xian in a secluded basin, where their intimacy and poison testing helped her cultivation advance. When a Dou Huang aura appeared in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Yan left to investigate and pursue other plans.

• Xiao Yan woke beside Xiao Yi Xian and teased her about their night together before they shared another intimate morning.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian about his other women, and she accepted her place in his life while asking him not to grow tired of her.
• Xiao Yan spent the following half month with Xiao Yi Xian in the basin, where she gathered medicinal herbs and continued cultivating.
• A Dou Huang aura flashed above the basin, reminding Xiao Yan of Yun Yun and prompting him to consider seeking the Beast Venerable and the Seven-Colored Demon Saint's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he would be gone for a few days, reassured her, and flew toward the aura; after about an incense stick, he sensed a powerful surge of energy.