Chapter Summaries

Sun Buxiao met Mittel Tengshan at the Mittel Family headquarters and revealed that he had come to watch the Alchemist Conference under an alias. Yao Lao sensed Sun Buxiao near Xiao Yan, who waited for him on the street and was met by a hooded man making a bizarre introduction.

• Hai Bodong introduced Sun Buxiao to Mittel Tengshan, then claimed he had a seventy percent chance of losing to Sun Buxiao in a fight.
• Tengshan worried that Sun Buxiao had come to confront the Misty Cloud Sect, but Sun Buxiao said he was in the Holy City to watch a friend compete in the Alchemist Conference.
• Sun Buxiao asked Tengshan to keep his identity secret because he was using an alias while wanted by the Misty Cloud Sect.
• After treating Nalan Jie, Xiao Yan heard Yao Lao say Sun Buxiao was at the Mittel Family residence and was heading toward him.
• Xiao Yan waited on a street, and a hooded man appeared and introduced himself as Carry Carry Second Senior Brother.

Xiao Yan reunited with Sun Buxiao, who explained how to awaken Medusa and discussed Xiao Yan’s upcoming three-year agreement. Sun Buxiao agreed to travel with Xiao Yan to Cloud Mist, where he planned to confront Yun Yun.

• Xiao Yan met Sun Buxiao, who was using the alias Sakigawa, and learned that his myriad beast spirit flame was nearing completion.
• Xiao Yan showed Sun Buxiao the sleeping Medusa and asked what to do; Sun Buxiao and Yao Lao explained that a few drops of Soul Solution could fully awaken her.
• Xiao Yan realized that a recovered Medusa would be a Dou Zong he could not handle, and Sun Buxiao suggested that he try negotiating with her.
• Sun Buxiao noted that Xiao Yan was prepared for his three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan resolved to fuse his green lotus core flame with the spark of netherworld poison flame.
• Sun Buxiao said he would go with Xiao Yan to Cloud Mist to confront Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan felt reassured by his company.

Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian experimented with using her Woeful Poison Body to reproduce medicinal properties, and Xiao Yi Xian successfully created a drop of blood with the properties of fernwood grass. Xiao Yi Xian thanked and briefly embraced Sun Buxiao before Qing Lin returned, leaving the pair flustered.

• Sun Buxiao browsed the market with Xiao Yan and Ya Fei, then bought herbs to test with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian ate medicinal herbs so Xiao Yi Xian could study their effects and reproduce them using her poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian successfully produced a drop of blood that reproduced fernwood grass's medicinal components.
• Sun Buxiao praised Xiao Yi Xian, who excitedly asked whether their experiment had truly worked.
• Xiao Yi Xian thanked Sun Buxiao and hugged him briefly before Qing Lin returned and found them acting strangely.

After winning the Alchemist Tournament as Yan Xiao, Xiao Yan prepared to face Nalan Yanran at the Misty Cloud Sect, while Sun Buxiao planned to settle his own score afterward. They set out together for the Three-Year Agreement.

• Fa Ma announced Yan Xiao as the Alchemist Tournament champion, and Xiao Yan calmly accepted the attention while keeping his distance from Nalan Yanran.
• Sun Buxiao showed Xiao Yan an invitation to the Misty Cloud Sect and explained that the Three-Year Agreement had drawn prominent families to watch the duel.
• Xiao Yan changed back into his Xiao Clan clothes, took up the Heavy Black Ruler, and declared that he would never lose to Nalan Yanran.
• Sun Buxiao examined his Misty Cloud Sect wanted poster and joked about claiming the five-million-gold bounty before deciding to wait until Xiao Yan had finished his fight.
• Xiao Yan and Sun Buxiao left for the Misty Cloud Sect, with Xiao Yan set on taking revenge and Sun Buxiao intent on settling his own score.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to face Nalan Yanran in their Three-Year Agreement duel, accompanied by the mysterious Sun Buxiao. As the sect’s guests watched and Yun Yun tried to place Sun Buxiao, Xiao Yan announced himself at the plaza.

• Yun Yun considered the Misty Cloud Sect’s weakened position and her reasons for supporting Nalan Yanran’s duel with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Sun Buxiao climbed toward the Misty Cloud Sect summit as onlookers watched them.
• Sun Buxiao flew up to join the invited experts, and Yun Yun welcomed him to observe the duel.
• Sun Buxiao declined Yun Yun’s offered seat and told her to focus on what deserved her attention.
• Xiao Yan reached the plaza, grasped his heavy ruler, and announced himself as Xiao Yan of the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect to face Nalan Yanran in their three-year duel, shocking the gathered dignitaries with his composure and strength. The fight began after both accepted that life or death would be left to fate, and Xiao Yan revealed he had reached the Da Dou Shi level.

• Jia Xingtian and Mu Chen judged the Nalan Family for failing to repair its rift with Xiao Yan, while Nalan Jie regretted his family's choices.
• Hai Bodong arrived with Mittel Tengshan to watch the duel and handed him sunflower seeds.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan exchanged names before Yun Leng announced the duel; Xiao Yan demanded a fight to the death, and Nalan Yanran agreed.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran declared their reasons for fighting, then Yun Leng started the duel.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Da Dou Shi cultivation and charged Nalan Yanran with his Heavy Black Ruler as Yun Yun and Fa recognized clues to his unusual flames.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Nalan Yanran with Eight Extremes Collapse, but she rose and unleashed the Misty Cloud Sect’s supreme technique. Xiao Yan blocked it with a Heavenly Flame, revealed himself as Yan Xiao, and began compressing a second Heavenly Flame alongside the first.

• Nalan Yanran attacked with Wind Spirit Splitting Sword, but Xiao Yan shattered her sword and struck her with Eight Extremes Collapse, sending her flying and making her cough up blood.
• Nalan Yanran stood again and launched Thousand Wind Gale, then followed with the Misty Cloud Sect’s supreme art, Extreme Wind: Setting Sun Radiance.
• Xiao Yan blocked Nalan Yanran’s attack with green lotus core flame, and Chairman Fa Ma announced that Xiao Yan was Yan Xiao.
• Xiao Yan revealed netherworld poison flame as a second Heavenly Flame and began compressing it together with green lotus core flame, alarming Pill King Gu He and Hai Bodong.

Xiao Yan unleashed his Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, an attack estimated to match a Dou Zong's full-power strike, while Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect scrambled to save Nalan Yanran and defend the sect. The Fire Lotus exploded on Misty Cloud Mountain, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Xiao Yan formed a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus from his green lotus core flame and netherworld poison flame and aimed it at Nalan Yanran.
• Pill King Gu He warned Yun Yun that the Fire Lotus could destroy the Misty Cloud Sect and urged everyone to build a defensive formation.
• Yun Yun sent Yun Leng and the elders to help Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and Hai Bodong construct the formation, then rushed to rescue Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan released the Fire Lotus and retreated as Yao Lao formed burning white armor around him and Sun Buxiao moved away.
• The Fire Lotus exploded, and a mushroom cloud rose from the summit of Misty Cloud Mountain.

Xiao Yan’s two-flame Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus devastated the Misty Cloud Sect plaza, leaving Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun gravely injured. Sun Buxiao confronted Yun Leng, but just as he attacked, the former sect master Yun Shan appeared and stopped him.

• Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran suffered severe injuries from the explosion, while the Misty Cloud Sect’s defenders endured the shock waves outside the plaza.
• Yun Leng charged at the weakened Xiao Yan, but Sun Buxiao intervened and warned him not to interfere in the duel.
• Sun Buxiao revealed his identity and heavenly-flame wings, then challenged the Misty Cloud Sect over its role in the Mo Family’s attack.
• Sun Buxiao attacked Yun Leng, who countered with Wind Blades, but Sun Buxiao swept them aside and prepared a flying kick.
• Yun Shan appeared in the sky and blocked Sun Buxiao’s attack with a spinning wind shield.

Yun Shan emerged from seclusion after Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus destroyed the Misty Cloud Sect’s mountain gate and interrupted his attempted breakthrough. Sun Buxiao challenged Yun Shan, and the two began fighting while Yun Shan feared the consequences of killing someone with a woeful poison body.

• Yun Shan arrived at the destroyed mountain gate, demanded an explanation from Yun Leng, and hurried to check the injured Yun Yun.
• Jia Xingtian, Fa Ma, and Hai Bodong judged that Yun Shan had not reached Dou Zong and that his cultivation might have become unstable.
• Hai Bodong told Jia Xingtian that Sun Buxiao had a woeful poison body, prompting Jia Xingtian to fear what would happen if Sun Buxiao died.
• Sun Buxiao taunted Yun Shan about his interrupted breakthrough and warned him against killing someone with a woeful poison body.
• Sun Buxiao attacked with Purple Nightmare Piercing Thorn, and Yun Shan retreated while using Myriad Wind Binding to restrain him.

Sun Buxiao poisoned Yun Shan during their fight, but Yun Shan used the turmoil to break through to Dou Zong with help from a soul imprint tied to the Hall of Souls. Now vastly more powerful, Yun Shan faced Sun Buxiao, who revealed he held the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade and asked him to pass a message to Protector Wu.

• Sun Buxiao poisoned Yun Shan and asked whether Protector Wu had broken through, alarming Yun Shan and making him question Sun Buxiao's identity.
• Yun Shan sealed the poisoned half of his body, then began absorbing worldly energy to force a breakthrough in battle.
• Jia Xingtian and Fa Ma realized Yun Shan was risking his future cultivation, while Sun Buxiao and Yao Lao sensed the Hall of Souls' influence through Yun Shan's soul imprint.
• Yun Shan successfully broke through to Dou Zong and challenged Sun Buxiao, convinced his new strength made him invulnerable.
• Sun Buxiao showed Yun Shan the Xiao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade and said it was in his hands, asking Yun Shan to relay the message to Protector Wu.

Sun Buxiao used the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade and a threat to destroy much of the Jia Ma Empire to force Yun Shan to negotiate. Yun Shan gave him a Misty Cloud Sect movement technique as compensation, while Yun Leng faced Yun Shan's anger.

• Sun Buxiao revealed that Yun Shan carried Protector Wu's soul imprint and threatened to detonate himself, destroying the Ancient Jade and devastating the Jia Ma Empire.
• Sun Buxiao demanded an explanation for the Misty Cloud Sect's low bounty after he destroyed the Mo Family, and Yun Shan learned that Yun Yun and Yun Leng had not told him about the affair.
• Yun Yun accepted responsibility and offered compensation to protect the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Shan suspected Yun Leng was more at fault.
• Yun Shan gave Sun Buxiao a Profound Tier High Grade movement Dou Technique and told Yun Leng he would deal with him later.
• Sun Buxiao accepted the technique.

After defeating Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan asked Sun Buxiao to reveal who had murdered Yao Lao, while Sun Buxiao reprimanded him for using a devastating Fire Lotus in the duel. Sun Buxiao named Han Feng and the Hall of Souls as Xiao Yan’s targets, then began a private discussion with Yao Lao about the organization.

• Sun Buxiao scolded Xiao Yan for nearly killing Nalan Yanran and causing severe damage with his Fire Lotus.
• Yao Lao said the Fire Lotus’s power came from the clash of heavenly flames and could not easily be assigned a Dou Technique rank.
• Sun Buxiao told Xiao Yan that Han Feng had betrayed and killed Yao Lao and belonged to the Hall of Souls, an organization backed by Dou Sheng-level figures.
• Sun Buxiao said Han Feng was in the Black-Corner Region and planned to kill him after dealing with a Seventh-Rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• Xiao Yan asked to deliver the finishing blow to Han Feng, and Sun Buxiao agreed before asking Yao Lao to speak privately about the Hall of Souls.

Sun Buxiao secured Yao Lao’s partnership and prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy, while Nalan Yanran woke after her defeat and decided to visit the Gate of Life and Death. Yun Shan contacted Protector Wu with news to report, and Protector Wu received his message.

• Sun Buxiao and Yao Lao agreed to work together, and Sun Buxiao gave him Soul Solutions.
• Yao Lao asked Sun Buxiao about the woman he had seen in his fear, but Sun Buxiao did not identify her.
• Sun Buxiao ordered Xiao Yi Xian to wake Qing Lin and prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy with Hai Bodong.
• Nalan Yanran woke and learned from Yun Yun that Xiao Yan had defeated her; she later asked to visit the Gate of Life and Death once she recovered.
• Yun Shan contacted Protector Wu through the soul imprint, and Protector Wu received his message from afar.

Sun Buxiao used a Lotus Seed to complete the myriad beast spirit flame’s birth, while his allies formed a barrier around it. The newly born flame took the shape of a lion and turned on Sun Buxiao with killing intent.

• Sun Buxiao told Qing Lin to retreat with Little Shuang and Xiao Mao, while Xiao Yi Xian, Little Yanzi, and Hai Bodong guarded him.
• Sun Buxiao crushed a Lotus Seed and fed its fire-attribute energy to the myriad beast spirit flame, which greedily absorbed it.
• Sun Buxiao and the others linked their Dou Qi to contain the flame’s aura as it gathered its energy.
• A beast-shaped cloud formed overhead, and the myriad beast spirit flame roared as it was born.
• The flame took the shape of a lion, then fixed Sun Buxiao with a savage grin and killing intent; Sun Buxiao responded with an intrigued smile.

Sun Buxiao subdued the newly formed Myriad Beast Spirit Flame, then learned from Yao Lao how to use his soul power against the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast. He also told Xiao Yan that Jia Nan Academy held another Heavenly Flame, the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Sun Buxiao chased and beat the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame until it submitted and returned to his bowl the next day.
• Yao Lao advised Sun Buxiao that his Spirit Realm soul and Netherworld Poison Flame could strengthen his soul attacks, giving him an approach for fighting the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• Sun Buxiao realized he could use a spiritual elbow strike against the beast and needed its seventh-rank Magic Core.
• Hai Bodong reported that he had dealt with the troublemakers drawn by the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame's birth.
• Sun Buxiao told Xiao Yan that Jia Nan Academy possessed the fourteenth-ranked Heavenly Flame, the Fallen Heart Flame, beneath its tower.

Sun Buxiao brought Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian through the Black-Corner Region, stopping in Black Seal City to ask Yuan Yi about the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast. After Sun Buxiao threatened the city and the Eight Gates, Yuan Yi reluctantly invited him inside to talk.

• Sun Buxiao disguised himself and Xiao Yi Xian in black robes as the group crossed the Black Domain Great Plains toward Black Seal City.
• Sun Buxiao said he wanted to ask Yuan Yi about the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast before taking Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to Jia Nan Academy.
• The group arrived in Black Seal City, where Xiao Yan marveled at the Eight Gates' enormous auction house and Sun Buxiao dismissed the Black List experts.
• Sun Buxiao spread his Amethyst Wings and Netherworld Poison Flame, unleashing his aura to summon Yuan Yi from the auction house.
• Yuan Yi recognized Sun Buxiao, and Sun Buxiao threatened to slaughter Black Seal City and seize the Eight Gates' assets if Yuan Yi refused to talk.
• Yuan Yi gave in and invited Sun Buxiao inside.

Sun Buxiao learned that a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast might live in the Youlan Kingdom and discovered that he and Xiao Yan each possessed a fragment of the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Fragment Map. After revealing that the map led to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, Sun Buxiao left the Black-Corner Region with his group, while Yuan Yi decided not to tell the Medicine Emperor about him.

• Yuan Yi told Sun Buxiao that his men had found a possible Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast in a poisonous marsh in the Youlan Kingdom, and Sun Buxiao said he would investigate Jia Nan Academy himself.
• Sun Buxiao stayed with his group for Yuan Yi's auction, then showed Xiao Yan a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map; Xiao Yan revealed that he had another piece, and together they formed half the map.
• Sun Buxiao explained that the completed map was a key to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, which rivaled a Dou Sheng in strength, and took precautions to have Yuan Yi intercept another fragment.
• After Sun Buxiao threatened and tempted Yuan Yi, he took his group away from the Black-Corner Region the next day, leaving Yuan Yi relieved but fearful of his growing power.
• Yuan Yi considered informing the Medicine Emperor about Sun Buxiao but chose not to, while Bai Kun secretly watched him.

Sun Buxiao brought Xiao Yan and Qing Lin to Jia Nan Academy and learned that a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core could be obtained in six months. Because Xiao Yi Xian’s poison lines could not wait, he decided to seek another core instead.

• Sun Buxiao and his companions entered Peace Town, took the academy’s precautions, and flew to Jia Nan Academy with an enforcement captain guiding them.
• Xiao Xun'er sensed Sun Buxiao’s arrival and hoped Xiao Yan had come with him.
• Sun Buxiao introduced Xiao Yan and Qing Lin to Su Qian, who praised their strength and talent.
• Sun Buxiao reassured Qing Lin that he would visit her after leaving her at Jia Nan Academy for safety and training.
• Su Qian told Sun Buxiao that the headmaster’s resources included a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core that would arrive in six months.
• Sun Buxiao declined to wait because Xiao Yi Xian’s poison lines could not be delayed and said he would search for another core.

Sun Buxiao, Xiao Yi Xian, and Hai Bodong traveled toward the Youlan Kingdom to investigate a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and the possibility of another netherworld poison flame. Sun Buxiao outlined a plan to confront the flame without absorbing its toxins, though he kept a riskier backup method to himself, and the group approached the edge of the Black-Corner Region.

• Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian flew northwest with Hai Bodong toward the Youlan Kingdom after leaving Jia Nan Academy and the two children.
• Sun Buxiao showed Xiao Yi Xian and Hai Bodong an Insect Molt and explained that another netherworld poison flame might have formed in the kingdom’s tidal marsh.
• Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian realized the flame’s poison could kill them because their Woeful Poison Bodies were near their limits, while Hai Bodong feared he would die alongside them.
• Hai Bodong agreed to continue, and Sun Buxiao proposed sealing themselves off from outside toxins, defeating the flame’s beast thralls, and sealing the flame inside its Insect Molt.
• Sun Buxiao kept a risky fallback method to himself as the group neared the edge of the Black-Corner Region and prepared to stop and rest.