Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo survived the final moments of his match, eliminated his opponents, and won 7,000 Fire Crystals, though the fight left him badly exhausted. After resting with Wang Miaojun, he entered the next round, determined to strike quickly against the top experts despite expecting an even stronger opponent beyond it.

• Xiao Mo used his three heavenly flames and Dou Techniques to eliminate the remaining students and win the match.
• Xiao Mo collected 7,000 Fire Crystals, rested at Jia Nan Academy, and returned to the Dormitory, where Wang Miaojun worried over his condition.
• Xiao Mo slept, then ate Braised Fish with Wang Miaojun and asked whether he could keep winning; she encouraged him.
• Xiao Mo entered the next round, recognized that his opponents were top experts, and rushed at his opponent as the match began.

After winning a grueling tournament match, Xiao Mo decided to forfeit the next one and return to the Jia Ma Empire with Wang Miaojun to rest. There, he reunited with Xiao Yan and discussed their alchemy skills and hopes of reaching the Central Plains Continent.

• Xiao Mo used the Vermilion Bird Finger to break his opponent’s barrier and win 7,000 Fire Crystals, then decided to forfeit his next match.
• Xiao Mo gave Wang Miaojun 5,000 Fire Crystals, and they agreed to leave Jia Nan Academy and return to the Jia Ma Empire for a visit and rest.
• Xiao Mo contacted Xiao Yan and met him at the Alan Teahouse in Jia Ma Holy City.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan discussed the upcoming Pill Gathering and revealed that they were both Fifth-Tier Alchemy Masters.
• Xiao Mo encouraged Xiao Yan to keep pursuing cultivation and promised they would reach the Central Plains Continent someday.

Xiao Mo reunited with Xiao Yan, promised to accompany him to the Three-Year Agreement, and grew closer to Wang Miaojun. After discussing the upcoming Pill Gathering and their future, Xiao Mo vowed to reach the Peak Dou Sheng level and travel with her to the Central Plains Continent.

• Xiao Mo met Xiao Yan for tea, learned that Xiao Yan had reached Nine-Star Great Dou Master, and promised to accompany him to the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Mo gained 3,000 system points after his favorability with Xiao Yan reached 9,000.
• Xiao Mo returned to the Wang Residence and spent the night with Wang Miaojun, who had been waiting for him.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discussed the upcoming Pill Gathering, and Xiao Mo admitted he might not win first place.
• Wang Miaojun promised to follow Xiao Mo to the Central Plains Continent, and Xiao Mo vowed to become a Peak Dou Sheng expert.

Xiao Mo entered the Alchemist Guild’s Pill Gathering and won his first two matches on the opening day. He advanced through the second day’s first two matches and waited for the final showdown after the losers’ bracket concluded.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discussed his chances at the Pill Gathering, and he registered to compete.
• Xiao Mo won both of his first-day matches by refining top-grade sixth-tier pills.
• Xiao Mo reflected on his determination to grow stronger and protect Wang Miaojun before waking the next morning to continue the competition.
• Xiao Mo defeated a Fifth-Tier Alchemy Master in his first match of the day with a sixth-tier Great Luo Nine-Revolutions Golden Pill.
• Xiao Mo won his second match by refining a Seventh-Tier Pill and waited for the losers’ bracket final and the day’s last match.

Xiao Mo fought through successive elimination rounds at the Alchemist Guild's Pill Gathering, advancing by refining increasingly rare pills. He reached the top sixteen through his own efforts, while Xiao Yan remained in the competition and hoped to meet him in the finals.

• Xiao Mo defeated the losers' bracket champion with a top-quality seventh-tier Heaven Origin Pill and advanced to the next round.
• Xiao Mo continued winning elimination matches over the following days, and he and Xiao Yan agreed to do their best to meet in the finals.
• Xiao Mo won three matches in one day with a top-quality seventh-tier Heaven Origin Ice Heart Pill, leaving thirty-two contestants.
• Wang Miaojun comforted Xiao Mo after the exhausting matches, but Xiao Mo insisted he had to keep going to fulfill his promise to become a Dou Sheng Expert.
• Xiao Mo refined a Level Eight Five-Element Blood Condensation Pill, won an overwhelming victory, and advanced as the field narrowed to sixteen contestants.

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan advanced through the final rounds of the Alchemist Guild Pill Gathering and met in the championship match. Both refined Level Nine pills, and the Guild declared them joint first-place winners.

• Xiao Mo earned full marks for his Level Eight Antler Pill and advanced to the quarterfinals.
• Wang Miaojun learned Xiao Mo was a Seventh-Tier Alchemy Master and encouraged him to compete for first place again.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan won their quarterfinal and semifinal matches, then faced each other in the final.
• Xiao Mo attempted to refine a Level Nine Dou Zong Nirvana Pill while Xiao Yan refined a Level Nine pill with Venerable Yao's help.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan each received 1,500 points, and the Alchemist Guild announced that they tied for first place.

After tying with Xiao Yan for first place in the Alchemist Guild competition, Xiao Mo reunited with him and brought him to the Wang Residence to meet his wife, Wang Miaojun. Xiao Yan stayed there to drink and spend time with his brother.

• The Alchemist Guild named Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan joint champions, awarded them identical prizes, and made them lifetime Inner Cabinet elders.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan celebrated together at a teahouse, where Xiao Yan asked to stay with his brother for the night.
• Xiao Mo told Xiao Yan that he had married and brought him to the Wang Residence to meet Wang Miaojun.
• Wang Miaojun welcomed Xiao Yan and promised that the Wang Family would protect the Xiao Clan if the Misty Cloud Sect caused trouble after the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan ate, drank, and talked together at the Wang Residence, and Xiao Yan agreed to stay for a few days.

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan reunited as brothers, and Xiao Yan stayed at the Wang Residence before leaving for the Central Plains Continent. After learning that the Tianyuan Secret Realm would soon open in the southern Jia Ma Empire, Xiao Mo agreed to venture there with Wang Miaojun, and they planned to depart the next day.

• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan drank together, and Xiao Yan stayed at the Wang Residence for several days, where he praised Xiao Mo's life and said Xiao Mo was his last good friend.
• Xiao Yan left the Wang Residence, and Xiao Mo promised to join him in the Central Plains Continent; their affinity reached 10,000, earning Xiao Mo 5,000 system points.
• Wang Miaojun told Xiao Mo that the ancient Tianyuan Secret Realm was opening soon in the southern Jia Ma Empire and described the vanished sects and imperial families whose stores remained inside.
• Xiao Mo agreed to enter the Tianyuan Secret Realm with Wang Miaojun despite the danger, and they decided to prepare to leave the next day.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the Ancient Secret Realm, found a room full of gold, and were transported to a strange city resembling Dongying. Xiao Mo insisted on staying to earn more before returning to the Dou Qi Continent, while Wang Miaojun reluctantly followed him.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the Ancient Secret Realm despite the warning at its gate and found corpses near the entrance.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun reached a palace, entered a small room, and found a roomful of gold.
• A piercing sound sent Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun into an unfamiliar space, which Xiao Mo identified as spatial displacement rather than an illusion.
• Xiao Mo exchanged gold for local currency and took Wang Miaojun to an inn in a city with Dongying-style buildings.
• Wang Miaojun urged Xiao Mo to return to the Dou Qi Continent, but Xiao Mo chose to stay and seek more rewards, and they went out to investigate the city.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun offered to hunt a level six Snake Demon for Tianlin City's lord, Li Hongyi, and set out to find one. Though Wang Miaojun feared the danger and suspected they were being watched, Xiao Mo wanted to seek Demon Spirit Stones to grow stronger, and the chapter ended with his scan locating a level six Snake Demon.

• Xiao Mo persuaded Wang Miaojun to approach Tianlin City's City Lord's Estate and offer to deal with the Snake Demons.
• Xiao Mo promised Li Hongyi he would bring back a level six Snake Demon's corpse, and Li Hongyi explained why he could not leave the city to hunt them himself.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun left the estate, and Xiao Mo insisted they should take risks to pursue strength together.
• At breakfast, Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he wanted to use Demon Spirit Stones to improve their strength, and she agreed to take the risk with him.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun left Tianlin City, and Xiao Mo's system scan soon located a level six Snake Demon.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the Spiritual Power World, where Xiao Mo killed the Snake Demon Tribe and secured the title of King of Tianlin City and twenty million Demon Spirit Stones. After discovering that Li Hongyi planned to ambush him and realizing the world explained the vanished sects and empires, they escaped back to the Wang Residence, where Xiao Mo explained that those groups had ascended into the Alternate Dimension seeking spiritual energy.

• Xiao Mo killed a sixth-level Snake Demon and presented its corpse to City Lord Li Hongyi, then offered to eradicate the Snake Demon Tribe in exchange for becoming King of Tianlin City.
• After resting for a month, Xiao Mo used three Dou Wang Talismans to reach Peak Dou Wang and slaughtered three hundred Snake Demons before returning with two Snake Demon Leaders' corpses.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun noticed that Tianlin City was the only city on their map, and Xiao Mo accepted the title of King of Tianlin City and twenty million Demon Spirit Stones.
• Li Hongyi learned that Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun came from the Dou Qi Continent and ordered a move against Xiao Mo the next morning, but Xiao Mo used the Teleportation Array to escape with Wang Miaojun.
• Back at the Wang Residence, Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun that the vanished sects and empires had ascended into the Alternate Dimension to seek its abundant spiritual energy.

Xiao Mo explained to Wang Miaojun that the Southern Continent was a mirrored realm reserved for the dead, where its nations and sects gathered resources but could never leave. He revealed that they had escaped the tomb only because he had prepared a formation at the Wang Residence, leaving Wang Miaojun shaken by how close they had come to being trapped forever.

• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun that the Southern Continent’s nations and sects had never vanished but were concealed behind a facade, with places like Tianlin City among those still-existing powers.
• Xiao Mo explained that the Southern Continent was a realm for the dead, whose inhabitants used yin power to obtain resources but were bound to remain there.
• Wang Miaojun realized that the city lord’s notice had lured them into a trap and that they had been doomed to stay after entering the tomb.
• Xiao Mo said the corpses marked the boundary and mind-clouding incense began affecting them as soon as they entered the tomb.
• Xiao Mo revealed that a formation he had set up in the Wang Residence let them return instantly, while Wang Miaojun reproached him for risking their lives.

After returning from the Southern Continent, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun cultivated with their Demon Spirit Stones and prepared to explore an Ancient Secret Realm outside the Jia Ma Empire. Xiao Mo learned a new Dou Technique and reassured Wang Miaojun that he would prove he could protect her.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun discussed the dangers ahead and mourned their lost chance to reach Dou Emperor strength on the Southern Continent.
• Xiao Mo gave Wang Miaojun six million of their twenty million Demon Spirit Stones, and they cultivated at the Wang Residence.
• Xiao Mo reached peak Five-Star Dou Wang, while Wang Miaojun reached Four-Star Dou Wang.
• Wang Miaojun told Xiao Mo about the Ancient Secret Realm of the former Profound Origin Sect, and they decided to rest before setting out.
• Xiao Mo redeemed and practiced the Profound Soul Demon-Refining Fist, then embraced Wang Miaojun and promised to prove his reliability.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the Ancient Secret Realm, hunted magical beasts to strengthen themselves, and helped Wang Miaojun reach five-star Dou King. After entering a palace, they found themselves in another world where Dou Qi still existed.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered the ancient sect and learned that its disciples had sealed their souls there after the sect faded away.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun hunted magical beasts and collected magic cores, which Wang Miaojun absorbed to advance toward five-star Dou King.
• Xiao Mo gave Wang Miaojun more magic cores and returned with her to hunt until she gathered enough to reach five-star Dou King.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun decided to explore the sect for more cultivation opportunities and entered an imposing palace.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun awoke in another world, where they sensed Dou Qi and concluded it was not an illusion.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun accepted a bounty to capture a bandit leader and raided one of the bandits’ strongholds. After killing most of the bandits, Xiao Mo interrogated three survivors and demanded information about their other hideouts.

• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun entered a city inside the Sect, took temporary identity cards, and found a bounty notice offering advancement pills for capturing a bandit leader.
• Xiao Mo accepted the city lord’s bounty and received a map and information about former soldiers who had become bandits.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun surveyed a bandit hideout, rested in Xiao Mo’s portable space, and waited until four in the morning to attack.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun slaughtered the sleeping bandits and defeated those who came to fight, leaving three survivors tied up.
• Xiao Mo demanded that a captive reveal the bandits’ other hideouts and promised to spare his life if he cooperated.

Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun used information from captured bandits to destroy their stronghold and help the city lord eliminate the remaining hideouts. At a dinner with Liu Tianming, Xiao Mo learned that an enemy Dou Sheng had once annihilated the sect in the Ancient Secret Realm.

• Xiao Mo questioned two captured bandits, then shared their information with the city lord and announced his intention to wipe out the bandits.
• Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun launched a surprise attack on the main hideout, used Dou Wang Talismans, and killed the chief after Xiao Mo reached One-Star Dou Emperor strength.
• Xiao Mo captured one elder for questioning and returned with him to the city, where the city lord confirmed the stronghold had been destroyed.
• The city lord used the elder's information to destroy the remaining bandit hideouts and invited Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun to dine at his residence.
• Liu Tianming told Xiao Mo that a Dou Sheng expert had killed the sect's Dou Sheng elders and annihilated the once-glorious sect.

Liu Tianming explained how a three-star Dou Sheng ancestor created the Mystic Spirit Dynasty’s protected world and how the Mystic Spirit Sect was destroyed. After taking their rewards and reaching the peak of six-star Dou Wang, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun resolved to restore the sect and fulfill the ancestor’s wish, though Xiao Mo doubted he could ever reach Dou Sheng.

• Liu Tianming told Xiao Mo that a three-star Dou Sheng had destroyed the Mystic Spirit Sect after seeking revenge, despite the sect’s own three-star Dou Sheng ancestor.
• Liu Tianming explained that the Twelve Sacred Artifacts protected the Mystic Spirit Dynasty and strengthened cultivation within its borders, but kept its people from leaving the world.
• Liu Tianming gave Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun one supreme-grade Dou Wang Pill each and arranged lodgings for them.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun he wanted to restore the Mystic Spirit Sect’s glory, and the two entered the portable space to absorb their pills, reaching the peak of six-star Dou Wang.
• Wang Miaojun urged Xiao Mo to bring the Mystic Spirit Sect back into the light and fulfill the ancestor’s wish, while Xiao Mo wondered whether he could ever become a three-star Dou Sheng.

Xiao Mo told Liu Tianming he planned to destroy the Blue Flame Dynasty and the Heavenly Fire Dynasty, then rebuild the Mystic Spirit Sect to honor its fallen Dou Sheng ancestor. After Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun advanced to eight-star Dou Wang, they set out to save the world and revive the ancestor.

• Xiao Mo asked Wang Miaojun whether they could reach Dou Sheng, and she promised to stay by his side.
• Xiao Mo proposed that he and Liu Tianming defeat the Blue Flame Dynasty and the Heavenly Fire Dynasty, then establish the Mystic Spirit Sect.
• Xiao Mo explained that he wanted to rebuild the sect because he could not leave its Three-Star Dou Sheng ancestor forgotten, and Liu Tianming agreed to help.
• Xiao Mo gave Wang Miaojun a top-grade Dou Wang Pill, and they both absorbed their pills in the system's portable space to reach eight-star Dou Wang.
• Xiao Mo told Wang Miaojun they would save the world and revive the ancestor, and she recognized his resolve.

Xiao Mo led a raid on a commandery city outside the Heavenly Fire Dynasty, then faced a fifty-thousand-strong revenge force at Luo City. He led twenty thousand troops into battle and fought fiercely as the armies clashed.

• Xiao Mo told Liu Tianming he intended to plunder a commandery city rather than wage an all-out war, and Liu Tianming supplied an army.
• After resting for three days outside the city, Xiao Mo ordered his ten thousand troops to plunder it and return to Luo City with the spoils.
• Liu Tianming reported the raid to his imperial father, who authorized him to handle the matter, while the Heavenly Fire Dynasty confirmed Liu Tianming's responsibility.
• The Heavenly Fire Dynasty sent fifty thousand soldiers to surround Luo City, and Xiao Mo led twenty thousand troops out to attack them.
• Xiao Mo used a Dou Wang Talisman and continued fighting in the enemy ranks until the Heavenly Fire army withdrew at night, leaving both sides with casualties.

After returning from the war, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun reached Nine-Star Dou Wang and spent months consolidating their strength. With seven months remaining before Xiao Yan’s Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran, Xiao Mo promised to accompany and protect him, while both cultivators continued strengthening their mental discipline and soul power.

• Xiao Mo returned to Wang Miaojun after the war, and they used Supreme Dou Wang Pills to advance to Nine-Star Dou Wang before entering seclusion at Jia Nan Academy.
• After three months of cultivation, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun rested, read Daoist scriptures, and later returned to Wang Residence to recuperate.
• Xiao Mo met Xiao Yan in the Imperial Capital, learned Xiao Yan was still determined to demand justice from Nalan Yanran, and promised to accompany him as a Peak Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan stayed at Wang Residence for over ten days before leaving, and Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun returned to Jia Nan Academy to cultivate their mental discipline, soul power, and spiritual strength.
• After another three months of seclusion, Xiao Mo and Wang Miaojun emerged as the Three-Year Agreement approached, and Xiao Mo remarked that he would not bother with Nalan Yanran himself.