Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo broke through Tong Pass, raided the Heavenly Fire Dynasty, and returned to Tianlin Commandery with his surviving troops and spoils. After fulfilling his promise to Liu Hong, he tried to advance to Eight-Star Dou Emperor but failed, concluding that the breakthrough might take at least a year.

• Xiao Mo attacked Tong Pass, sent twenty thousand troops around the pass to draw defenders away, and broke through after six days of fighting.
• Xiao Mo led his army through the Guanzhong Region for three months, lost eighteen thousand soldiers, gained treasure, and returned to Tianlin City at peak Seven-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo reunited with Wang Miaojun, then visited Liu Hong to return the Tiger Tally and received a promise of a Dou Huang Pill.
• Xiao Mo took a high-quality Dou Huang Pill in the Wang Residence's Cultivation Room but failed to break through to Eight-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo decided that his next breakthrough would likely take at least a year.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun traveled to Jia Nan Academy, where Xiao Mo reunited with Xiao Yan and tried to advance his cultivation without success. They went to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to claim a Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower for Wang Miaojun, and the chapter ended as Xiao Mo attacked the cultivators gathered there.

• Xiao Mo returned to Jia Nan Academy with Wang Miaojun and reunited with Xiao Yan, who had reached One-Star Dou Wang after resolving the matter with Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Mo told Xiao Yan that he had reached the peak of Seven-Star Dou Emperor, and they talked about cultivation, Yun Yun, and Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Mo spent a month cultivating in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower but failed to break through to Eight-Star Dou Emperor.
• Wang Miaojun told Xiao Mo that a Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower would appear in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and they agreed to seek it for her.
• Xiao Mo located the flower with the system's scan, then attacked the eleven cultivators competing for it and killed a Dou Wang with Vermilion Bird Finger.

Xiao Mo killed the Dou Emperors competing for the thousand-year seven-colored flower and gave it to Wang Miaojun, who absorbed it and advanced to Six-Star Dou Emperor. After a month of cultivation, Xiao Yan invited Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun to celebrate Xiao Xun'er's birthday, and Xiao Mo planned a banquet in the Jia Ma Empire's Holy City.

• Xiao Mo killed the Dou Emperors who refused to leave the thousand-year seven-colored flower, while Wang Miaojun stayed behind him.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned the flower to Jia Nan Academy, and Xiao Mo gave it to Wang Miaojun to absorb.
• Wang Miaojun absorbed the flower and advanced to Six-Star Dou Emperor, then she and Xiao Mo cultivated together for another month.
• Xiao Yan contacted Xiao Mo and invited him and Wang Miaojun to Xiao Xun'er's birthday celebration.
• Xiao Mo agreed to help prepare a birthday banquet in the Holy City of the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Mo hosted Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, Wang Miaojun, and Yun Yun for Xiao Xun'er's birthday, and learned more about the dangers of the Central Plains Continent. Xiao Xun'er said Xiao Mo could remain her friend if he survived there and made contact with the Gu Clan, but he was content to stay in the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Yan invited Yun Yun to Xiao Xun'er's birthday banquet, and Xiao Mo welcomed her to join them.
• Xiao Mo hosted Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and Wang Miaojun at the Wang Residence, where the Strongest Best Brother System bound Xiao Xun'er as a new host and awarded Xiao Mo points.
• Xiao Mo booked the Drunken Moon Tower for Xiao Xun'er's birthday, and Yun Yun joined the group for the banquet and a night of drinking.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yan she had reached Peak Dou Emperor, while Xiao Yan said he was a two-star Dou Wang.
• Xiao Xun'er explained to Xiao Mo that the Central Plains Continent was dangerous for the weak and said they could remain friends if he survived there and contacted the Gu Clan.
• Xiao Mo said he was content to remain in the Jia Ma Empire for the rest of his life.

Xiao Mo captured a second Fire Cloud Water Flame and fused it with his other three Heavenly Flames, creating a new flame he named the Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame. He finished merging with it, but whether it would help him reach Eight-Star Dou Emperor remained uncertain.

• Xiao Mo learned that a second Water Cloud Flame had appeared in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and decided to risk retrieving it.
• Xiao Mo took the Fire Cloud Water Flame, then used Dou Zong Talismans to kill the seventy-odd Peak Dou Wang Fierce Beasts pursuing him.
• Xiao Mo returned to the Wang Residence and admitted to Wang Miaojun that he had obtained his Dou Zong Talismans through the system.
• Xiao Mo entered the system's exclusive space and fused four Heavenly Flames into a new unranked flame.
• Xiao Mo named the new flame the Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame after fully merging with it.

After absorbing the Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame, Xiao Mo visited Lu Yixue and agreed to take her as his concubine despite already being married to Wang Miaojun. He helped Lu Yu’s tribe by clearing beasts from a Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower, then gave the flower to Lu Yixue and agreed to take her to the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Mo absorbed the Three Thousand Starry Sky Flame but did not break through to eight-star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo returned to Lu Yu’s tribe and reunited with Lu Yixue, who had grown into a young woman.
• Lu Yixue asked to be Xiao Mo’s wife, and Xiao Mo accepted her as his concubine despite being married to Wang Miaojun.
• Lu Yu asked Xiao Mo to remove a Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower that would attract dangerous magical beasts as it grew.
• Xiao Mo defeated the beasts guarding the flower, gave it to Lu Yixue, and agreed to take her to the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Mo considered Lu Yixue’s plea to marry him and promised to take her to the Jia Ma Empire and discuss it with his wife, Wang Miaojun. As he left the Magical Beast Mountain Range with Lu Yixue, he said he would help her escape the tribe’s control.

• Lu Yixue gave Xiao Mo a thousand-year seven-colored flower and pleaded to become his wife or concubine rather than marry another warrior in her tribe.
• Xiao Mo promised to take Lu Yixue to the Jia Ma Empire and find a way for her to choose her own future.
• Lu Yu explained that his tribe had grown to a population of a hundred thousand and that he had reached the Half-Step Dou Zong stage.
• Lu Yu told Xiao Mo that Lu Yixue wanted to leave the wilderness and saw Xiao Mo’s status as King of Chu, cultivation, and alchemy skills as her chance.
• Xiao Mo told Lu Yixue he would ask Wang Miaojun’s opinion before marrying her as his consort.
• Xiao Mo left the Magical Beast Mountain Range with Lu Yixue and promised not to abandon her.

Xiao Mo asked Wang Miaojun and Wang Wenxing for permission to take Lu Yixue as a concubine, and both agreed. He returned to the Xiao Residence with Lu Yixue, learned she was a Six-Star Dou King, and stayed beside her as she fell asleep.

• After resting in the Holy City for more than ten days, Xiao Mo settled Lu Yixue into the Xiao Residence and returned to the Wang Residence.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he wanted to take a concubine, and she agreed on the condition that she remain his highest-ranking wife.
• Xiao Mo asked Wang Wenxing for his approval, and Wang Wenxing agreed as long as Wang Miaojun consented.
• Xiao Mo told Lu Yixue he could not hold a wedding, gave her the Xiao Residence and fifty million spirit stones, and learned she was a Six-Star Dou King.
• Lu Yixue said she would wait for Xiao Mo at the Xiao Residence, then fell asleep in his arms as he stayed beside her.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain, where they found a hundred-thousand-year-old Seven-Colored Flower. Xiao Mo fought ten Peak Six-Star Dou Emperors to protect it, killing five before the remaining opponents rallied to keep fighting.

• Xiao Mo left Lu Yixue at the Xiao Residence and returned to Wang Miaojun, who told him about the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain opening in five days.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun traveled to the immortal domain and entered its ruins, where Wang Miaojun comforted Xiao Mo as he reflected on his cultivation and feelings.
• Xiao Mo used the system's spiritual sense to locate a palace garden and discovered a hundred-thousand-year-old Seven-Colored Flower.
• Ten Peak Six-Star Dou Emperors confronted Xiao Mo as he tried to take the flower, and he used two Dou Emperor Talismans to raise his strength to Peak Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo broke through to the Dou Zong Realm during the battle, killed five of the attackers, and offered the five survivors a chance to leave.
• One of the remaining Dou Emperors urged the others to keep fighting for the Seven-Colored Flower and its chance to advance to seven-star Dou Emperor.

Xiao Mo defeated five peak six-star Dou Emperors to claim the Hundred-Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower, then rested with Wang Miaojun before they ventured deeper into the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain. After taking a Thousand-Year Ice Spirit Grass, Xiao Mo faced a peak eight-star Dou Emperor and refused to back down.

• Xiao Mo fought the five Dou Emperors for an hour, killed three with the Chaos Immortal Seal, and drove the other two away from the Hundred-Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discussed whether to leave the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain, then chose to continue pursuing a breakthrough to eight-star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo rested for ten days in the system's enclosed space before he and Wang Miaojun headed deeper into the domain.
• Xiao Mo used the system's divine sense scan to find a Thousand-Year Ice Spirit Grass and took it into his Storage Ring.
• A peak eight-star Dou Emperor confronted Xiao Mo and demanded the immortal herb, but Xiao Mo resolved to fight while Wang Miaojun stood by him.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun recovered after Xiao Mo killed a peak eight-star Dou Emperor expert, and Xiao Mo’s cultivation began showing signs of a breakthrough. They planned to return to Jia Nan Academy, where Wang Miaojun expected Great Elder Su Qian to recruit Xiao Mo to help with the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Xiao Mo used two Dou Emperor Talismans to fight the peak eight-star Dou Emperor expert for an hour, then snapped his neck and nearly collapsed from exhaustion.
• Wang Miaojun helped Xiao Mo retreat to the Strongest Best Brother System’s enclosed space, where he rested and absorbed the Hundred-Thousand-Year Seven-Colored Flower over five days.
• Xiao Mo found no immediate breakthrough and agreed with Wang Miaojun to return to the Wang Residence before going to Jia Nan Academy.
• After ten days in the system space, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun reached the Wang Residence, where he recovered and his signs of an eight-star Dou Emperor breakthrough returned.
• Wang Miaojun predicted that Great Elder Su Qian wanted Xiao Mo to visit Jia Nan Academy and help with the Fallen Heart Flame by leaving some of his Heavenly Flames for the students.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun reflected on their life together and the difficulty of advancing beyond Dou Emperor, while reaffirming their commitment to one another. At the Wang Residence, Xiao Mo learned that Wang Miaojun’s mother, Feng Ningyan, was the Minister of Revenue and resolved to visit her.

• Wang Miaojun told Xiao Mo that they should be content with their wealth and accept that reaching the Central Plains Continent might be too difficult.
• Xiao Mo said he could break through to eight-star Dou Emperor at Jia Nan Academy but feared further cultivation would be nearly impossible; Wang Miaojun encouraged him to keep pursuing strength.
• The Strongest Best Brother System awarded Xiao Mo 5,000 points after his affection level with Wang Miaojun reached 18,000.
• Xiao Mo confessed that he wanted to spend his life with Wang Miaojun and worried that his cultivation would stop at eight-star Dou Emperor; she promised to remain by his side regardless of his strength.
• After waking the next day, Xiao Mo found Wang Miaojun reading in the courtyard, and they went to eat together.
• Wang Wenxing told Xiao Mo that Wang Miaojun’s mother, Feng Ningyan, served as Minister of Revenue, and Xiao Mo said he would visit her.

Xiao Mo met Feng Ningyan and gave her a Divine Longevity Pill before leaving Wang Miaojun to cultivate at Jia Nan Academy. After half a year, he broke through to eight-star Dou Emperor, and Great Elder Su Qian summoned him to discuss two matters, beginning with an invitation to join the academy.

• Xiao Mo met Feng Ningyan, admitted he had taken concubines, and gave her a Divine Longevity Pill; she approved of his marriage to Wang Miaojun.
• Xiao Mo returned to Wang Miaojun and agreed to leave for Jia Nan Academy the next day to improve his strength.
• Xiao Mo entered secluded cultivation in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and spent half a year breaking through to eight-star Dou Emperor.
• Great Elder Su Qian met Xiao Mo outside the tower and brought him to the Elder Hall to discuss two matters.
• Su Qian asked Xiao Mo whether he was interested in joining Jia Nan Academy.

After helping Jia Nan Academy nurture the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Mo returned home and prepared to enter a subsidiary secret realm with Wang Miaojun. They found a rare medicinal herb, but four Dou Emperors challenged them for it, and Xiao Mo began fighting while Wang Miaojun stayed hidden.

• Xiao Mo gave part of his Three Thousand Starry Sky Fire to the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower and spent more than ten days consolidating his Eight-Star Dou Emperor cultivation.
• Xiao Mo returned to the Wang Residence, promised Wang Miaojun he would take her wherever he went, and agreed to visit the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain's subsidiary secret realm with her.
• Xiao Mo redeemed and mastered the Azure Dragon Saint Art, a Heaven Rank Low Grade offensive Spirit Technique with twelve seals.
• Ten days later, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the secret realm, where Xiao Mo's system scan revealed a stalk of Heavenly Dust Purple Fire Grass.
• Four Dou Emperors confronted Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun over the herb, and Xiao Mo fought them while Wang Miaojun hid nearby.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun collected a rare ice spirit grass, then traveled to Jia Nan Academy and repeatedly braved the Magical Beast Mountain Range to strengthen themselves. The chapter leaves them in the mountain range’s blood-shrouded Central Core Area, wary of the danger ahead.

• Xiao Mo killed four Six-Star Dou Emperors who refused to leave the Heavenly Dust Purple Fire Grass behind, then continued exploring with Wang Miaojun.
• Xiao Mo found a 100,000-year ice spirit grass and gave it to Wang Miaojun, who absorbed it and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Mo spent a month at Lu Yixue’s residence before returning to Wang Miaojun, and the two agreed to travel to Jia Nan Academy and train in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun fought off a nighttime attack by magical beasts, rested for three days, and resolved to keep training together despite Xiao Mo’s guilt over taking a concubine.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun ventured into the Central Core Area of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Xiao Mo sensed danger beneath a blood-shrouded sky.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to the heart of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Xiao Mo killed four Level Eight Magical Beasts and took their magic cores. After absorbing the cores without improving his cultivation, Xiao Mo prepared to return to the Chu Yun Empire for military merits, and Wang Miaojun insisted on going with him.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun first fought four Level Eight Magical Beasts, then retreated to Jia Nan Academy to recover for a month.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Xiao Mo used a Dou Emperor Talisman and killed all four Level Eight Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Mo gave Wang Miaojun two of the magic cores, but absorbing the cores in the Heavenly Burning Qi Refining Tower did not improve Xiao Mo's cultivation.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he planned to return to the Chu Yun Empire for military merits, and she insisted on joining him.
• Xiao Mo agreed to take Wang Miaojun to Tiger-Suppressing Pass, and they left Jia Nan Academy for the Wang Residence.

Xiao Mo rested at the Wang Residence and Xiao Residence before preparing to travel to Tiger-Suppressing Pass with Wang Miaojun. He planned to meet Xiao Yan first, then stay at the pass until he advanced to One-Star Dou Zong, before venturing into the Black-Corner Region.

• Xiao Mo returned to the Wang Residence with Wang Miaojun and promised not to leave her behind when he went to Tiger-Suppressing Pass.
• Xiao Mo visited Lu Yixue at the Xiao Residence, gave her twenty million spirit stones to manage the estate, and stayed with her for over ten days.
• Wang Miaojun confronted Xiao Mo after he returned, then comforted him as he expressed his distress over their relationship.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discussed Daoist teachings and agreed to head for Tiger-Suppressing Pass after he met Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Mo brought Wang Miaojun to Jia Nan Academy, explaining that Xiao Yan currently earned him the most system points.

Xiao Mo reunited with Xiao Yan at Jia Nan Academy before securing command of 300,000 elite Divine Strategy Army soldiers from Yao Xuanchen. He brought the troops to Tiger-Suppressing Pass, where he declared his ambition to conquer the Chu Yun Empire and prepared to begin his campaign.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun visited Jia Nan Academy, shared a meal and three days with Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, then said goodbye.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he planned to train at Tiger-Suppressing Pass until he reached Peak Dou Emperor and went to meet Yao Xuanchen for command of troops.
• Xiao Mo asked Yao Xuanchen for 300,000 elite soldiers, and Yao Xuanchen granted them while warning that Xiao Mo would lose his King of Chu title if he failed to earn merit.
• Xiao Mo received the Tiger Tally and told Wang Miaojun that he intended to conquer the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Mo arrived at Tiger-Suppressing Pass with 300,000 Divine Strategy Army soldiers, and Li Wei cautioned him that determination alone would not guarantee success.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun rested at Tiger-Suppressing Pass, where Wang Miaojun promised to support him.

Xiao Mo led the Divine Strategy Army to destroy Commandery City and defeat four hundred thousand Chu Yun Empire troops, then held Tiger-Suppressing Pass against repeated assaults by the empire’s Death Warriors. After the Chu Yun forces retreated, Yao Xuanchen personally arrived at the front line to reward the victorious troops.

• Xiao Mo led eighty thousand Divine Strategy Army soldiers in a raid on Commandery City, then defeated four hundred thousand Chu Yun Empire reinforcements at the cost of eight thousand men.
• Xiao Mo declared his intention to conquer the Chu Yun Empire, and Li Wei reinforced the twelve Forward Bases as the enemy prepared a major offensive.
• Xiao Mo defended the first Forward Base with fifty thousand Divine Strategy Army soldiers against fifty thousand Death Warriors, inflicting heavy casualties and holding the stronghold.
• After resting for three days, Xiao Mo’s forces defended the front line for another ten days until the exhausted Chu Yun Empire troops retreated.
• Xiao Mo rested the Divine Strategy Army and returned to Tiger-Suppressing Pass, where Yao Xuanchen arrived with supplies to reward the troops.

After Yao Xuanchen rewarded Xiao Mo and Li Wei for their victory, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun left Tiger-Suppressing Pass to return to the Wang Residence. There, they learned that the dangerous Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain had become a permanently open secret realm.

• Yao Xuanchen made Li Wei the lifelong governor of Tiger-Suppressing Pass and granted Xiao Mo freedom to come and go, command his 300,000 soldiers, and rely on the empire for their provisions and pay.
• Yao Xuanchen celebrated with the troops for three days before leaving, and Xiao Mo and Li Wei agreed to continue working together.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun left Tiger-Suppressing Pass and discussed their plans to rest at the Wang Residence and release Kongming Lanterns together.
• Xiao Mo asked Wang Miaojun about the Poetry Treasure Pavilion, and she told him business was good and Lin Xinzhe had become a Seventh-Tier Alchemy Master.
• After returning to the Wang Residence, Xiao Mo asked Wang Miaojun about spirit medicine opportunities, and she told him the Heavenly Mansion Immortal Domain had become a permanently open secret realm.