Recaps

Chief Steward Meng emerged from seclusion as a Dou Zun and tried to stop Lin Shu from killing Yan Xiao, but Lin Shu unleashed a devastating trump card that appeared to kill him. Lin Shu then attacked Yan Xiao, who revealed a Four-Colored Fire Lotus, while Xiao Yan secretly arranged for Ling Ying to track Lin Shu’s escape attempt.

• Fa Ma warned Jia Xingtian that the fighters were heading toward the palace, and they flew after them.
• Chief Steward Meng broke through to Dou Zun, appeared before Lin Shu, and tried to protect Yan Xiao, but Lin Shu resisted his attack and unleashed Qing Zhi’s dragon-claw strike.
• Chief Steward Meng escaped with a Silver Talisman, but the pursuing dragon claw struck him in the wilderness, and the alliance members assumed he was dead.
• Lin Shu attacked Yan Xiao, who used a Four-Colored Fire Lotus to engulf him in flames, while Xiao Yan heard Lin Shu’s Inner Voice and told Ling Ying to locate him through spatial fluctuations.
• The Flame-Slaying Alliance praised Chen Beixuan and urged him to take the lead, but Chen Beixuan declined Feng Lie’s attempt to make him test whether Yan Xiao had any trump cards left.

Feng Lie’s Flame-Slaying Alliance withdrew after Chief Steward Meng protected Xiao Yan, then recruited Yan Li, who admitted he had secretly killed Xiao Yan once and possessed a deadly cursing system. Xiao Yan learned the truth, claimed Lin Shu’s system and Devouring Ancestral Symbol, promoted Ling Ying, and sent his puppet to the Mittel Family, where it encountered Night Spirit.

• Chief Steward Meng returned unharmed, defended Xiao Yan, and persuaded Feng Lie’s alliance to leave the imperial palace; Jia Xingtian hoped Meng’s strength would restore the imperial family’s power.
• The Flame-Slaying Alliance planned to wait for another chance to attack Xiao Yan, and Yan Li arrived claiming he could curse anyone to death and had killed Xiao Yan once before.
• Xiao Yan learned from Chen Beixuan about Yan Li, then flew out of the Imperial Capital to take Lin Shu’s system.
• Xiao Yan cremated the barely surviving Lin Shu and plundered his Devouring Ancestral Symbol and Strongest Storytelling System, advancing his own system to LV4.65.
• Xiao Yan promoted Ling Ying to Outer Sect Elder and ordered him to protect Puppet Xiao Yan, who had gone to the Mittel Family.
• Puppet Xiao Yan met Night Spirit on a street in the Imperial Capital, and she asked whether he was Xiao Yan.

A disguised Xiao Yan and the puppet Xiao Yan both arrived in the Imperial Capital, raising suspicions among Thunder God and Night Spirit about which one was genuine. At the Alchemist Conference, Xiao Yan used Pill God Possession to refine five Sect Breaking Pills, stunning the crowd as the competition was disrupted.

• Night Spirit met the puppet Xiao Yan and learned that another Xiao Yan was already in the Imperial Capital, then vanished to investigate which one was an impostor.
• Thunder God and Night Spirit questioned Yan Xiao about the other Xiao Yan, his unexpected strength, and Hai Bodong's absence, while Xiao Yan urged them to wait until after the Alchemist Conference.
• Xiao Yan privately told Yan Xiao that he believed him, and Yan Xiao resolved to eliminate the real Xiao Yan and claim his achievements.
• President Fa Ma announced that the Alchemist Conference would have only one round, and the spectators were shocked to see two Xiao Yans among the competitors.
• Xiao Yan activated Pill God Possession and refined a Sect Breaking Pill so rapidly that energy ripples shook the plaza and forced the other alchemists to stop.

Feng Lie and the Flame-Slaying Alliance tried to recruit Nalan Yanran and threatened Yun Yun, but Chen Beixuan protected the two women and they left. Xiao Yan won the Alchemist Conference with a Sect Breaking Pill, while Thunder God stopped Yan Xiao from fleeing and demanded that he confront the other Xiao Yan.

• Feng Lie proposed helping Nalan Yanran defeat Xiao Yan, but Chen Beixuan secretly warned her that the Flame-Slaying Alliance might harm or control her and pointed her toward Ye Fan.
• Nalan Yanran rejected Feng Lie's offer, and the Flame-Slaying Alliance threatened her and Yun Yun; Chen Beixuan stopped Yun Yun from attacking and secured their release.
• Xiao Yan finished refining a Sixth-Grade Sect Breaking Pill, and Fa Ma named Ye Fan the conference champion while Jia Xingtian awarded the puppet Xiao Yan second place.
• The puppet Xiao Yan approached Yan Xiao, who tried to flee, but Thunder God intercepted him and demanded that he prove which Xiao Yan was real.
• The Flame-Slaying Alliance members watched the confrontation and debated which Xiao Yan was genuine, noting that both possessed the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Yan Xiao and the real Xiao Yan headed to the Misty Cloud Sect with the Flame-Slaying Alliance to determine which Xiao Yan was genuine, while a transmigrated Yun Shan gained an Invincible Domain System and killed Protector Wu. The visitors entered the sect, where Xingyu discovered Yun Shan was invincible within its territory, leaving Xiao Yan and the others in danger.

• Yan Xiao and the Puppet Xiao Yan matched each other's weapons, flames, and techniques, so Ye Fan suggested checking their histories with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• A transmigrated Yun Shan received the Invincible Domain System, seized Protector Wu, and killed him.
• Yun Shan learned about the powerful visitors coming to the Misty Cloud Sect and ordered the Cloud Smoke Covering Sun Formation deactivated so they could enter.
• Xiao Yan and his companions arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and entered its main hall, where Yun Shan welcomed them confidently.
• Xingyu appraised Yun Shan and discovered that his system made him invincible within ten li of the Misty Cloud Sect, while Xiao Yan heard Xingyu's worried inner thoughts.

Yun Shan’s invincible-domain power prompted most of the Flame-Slaying Alliance to pledge allegiance to the Misty Cloud Sect, while Jia Xingtian was trapped as he tried to leave. Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran exposed Yan Xiao as a fake Xiao Yan, though the chapter ended before the impostor’s fate was decided.

• Xingyu and Yan Li joined the Misty Cloud Sect after their systems revealed the danger of opposing Yun Shan, and the rest of the Flame-Slaying Alliance followed their lead.
• Yun Shan froze Jia Xingtian in place when he tried to leave, then agreed to help Thunder God identify which of two Xiao Yans was genuine.
• Yun Shan isolated Yan Xiao while the puppet Xiao Yan recounted his experiences, and Nalan Yanran confirmed his account of their broken engagement.
• Yan Xiao gave a conflicting version of events, claiming Yun Yun had met him in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and given him her Heart of the Sea Armor.
• Yun Yun denied Yan Xiao’s claims, and Nalan Yanran testified that Yun Yun had always worn her armor and that the events at the Xiao Clan had happened differently.

Yan Xiao escaped Yun Shan’s judgment by joining Xiao Yan’s Dao Sect, while Xiao Yan maneuvered events around the Misty Cloud Sect and the approaching Three-Year Agreement. Yun Shan planned to kill Xiao Yan and the dissenting Otherworlders after the duel, while Feng Lie revealed his Contract System as a way to control the sect’s new members.

• Yun Shan condemned Yan Xiao for impersonating Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan secretly guided Yan Xiao into joining the Dao Sect, where he vanished from the Misty Cloud Sect.
• At the Dao Sect plaza, Xiao Li took charge of the unconscious Yan Xiao, Medicine Emperor arrived, and he nearly killed Ling Ying before Xiao Yan explained that Medicine Emperor was his Teacher.
• Xiao Yan’s puppet asked to hold the Three-Year Agreement early, and Yun Shan scheduled the duel for three days later while deciding to kill Xiao Yan and take the Xiao Clan’s Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Yun Shan told the Misty Cloud Sect’s Otherworlders that he was one of them and asked them to help oppose Xiao Yan; Thunder God, Night Spirit, and Xiao Yan refused, while Chen Beixuan pledged himself to Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan offered Thunder God and Night Spirit a way to survive by joining his faction, while Yun Shan planned to invite Xiao Zhan to the sect.
• Feng Lie revealed that his Contract System could bind the Otherworlders through their blood essence, and Yun Shan proposed using it as a safeguard when they left on missions.

Chen Xiu sent the Three Otsutsuki to capture Xiao Zhan, while Xiao Yan recruited five chat-group members to protect his father. In Wutan City, Yun Leng and the Otsutsuki confronted Xiao Zhan, and Urashiki exposed Lin Dong’s Shadow Clone, leaving the Xiao Clan facing a dangerous fight.

• Chen Xiu summoned Momoshiki Otsutsuki, Kinshiki Otsutsuki, and Urashiki Otsutsuki, and Yun Shan ordered Yun Leng to take them to Wutan City to capture Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Yan learned that his father was in danger, recruited Thunder God and Night Spirit into the Dao Sect, and posted a chat-group mission to protect Xiao Zhan.
• Han Tianzun, Naruto Uzumaki, the Sealed Otherworldly Demon Emperor, Sun Wukong, and the Saint Seiya accepted Xiao Yan’s mission.
• Xiao Zhan defeated Oba Pa and celebrated the Xiao Clan’s growing power, unaware that Lin Dong’s Shadow Clone had secretly supplied him with pills and techniques.
• Yun Leng arrived in Wutan City with the Three Otsutsuki and announced that he had come to take Xiao Zhan to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Urashiki detected Lin Dong’s Shadow Clone and attacked him, but Lin Dong blocked the strike with the Heavy Xuan Ruler.

Shaka and the chat group members subdued the Otsutsuki trio in Wutan City, then set out for the Misty Cloud Sect with Xiao Zhan. There, Nalan Yanran asked Ye Fan, who was really Xiao Yan, to help her win their Three-Year Agreement, while Xiao Yan warned the group that Yun Shan was invincible within the sect’s rule-based domain.

• Shaka deprived the Otsutsuki trio and Yun Leng of their five senses, but Sun Wukong and the Otherworld Demon Emperor demanded a chance to fight them.
• Han Li suggested restoring the Otsutsuki’s strength by feeding them their own eyes or Kinshiki Otsutsuki, and the two fighters began tormenting Momoshiki and Urashiki.
• Naruto Uzumaki, Han Li, Shaka, and Xiao Zhan teleported to the Misty Cloud Sect, while Lin Dong dispelled his Shadow Clone and reassured the Xiao Clan.
• Nalan Yanran asked Ye Fan to help her become strong enough to beat Xiao Yan in their Three-Year Agreement, and Xiao Yan learned she wanted to preserve their destined marriage.
• Yun Shan invited the newcomers into the sect, and Xiao Yan warned the chat group that Yun Shan was invincible inside the Misty Cloud Sect unless someone could override his rules.

Sun Wukong, Shaka, and the Foreign Demon Emperor entered the Misty Cloud Sect to challenge Yun Shan, who effortlessly defeated each of them and tried to recruit them. After Xingyu revealed Xiao Zhan was Xiao Yan’s father, Yun Shan approached him to invite him to witness the Three-Year Agreement, while Sun Wukong and the others remained wary.

• Han Li stayed outside the Misty Cloud Sect to observe, while Sun Wukong and the Foreign Demon Emperor handed him the Otsutsuki corpses before entering with Shaka, Naruto Uzumaki, and Xiao Zhan.
• Xingyu appraised Xiao Zhan and discovered he was Xiao Yan’s father, but withheld the information until Yun Shan defeated the Foreign Demon Emperor with a single palm.
• Shaka attacked Yun Shan with the Heavenly Dance Treasure Wheel, but Yun Shan blocked his strikes and shattered the technique with the Great Compassion Wind-Rending Hand.
• Sun Wukong attacked with his Golden Cudgel and began to use Heaven-and-Earth Form, but Yun Shan bound him with Myriad Wind Binding before he could grow beyond the sect.
• Yun Shan invited the Foreign Demon Emperor and Shaka to join the Misty Cloud Sect, then walked toward Xiao Zhan and Naruto Uzumaki as Sun Wukong challenged him to fight somewhere outside the sect.

Yun Shan seized the Tou She Ancient God Jade and imprisoned Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan struggled to find a way to save his father. Xiao Lin resurrected with the Invincible Dad System and arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect, where he confronted Yun Shan to avenge Xiao Zhan.

• Yun Shan defeated Naruto Uzumaki, broke Sun Wukong’s protective circle, and forced Xiao Zhan to reveal that he carried the Ancient Jade.
• Han Li learned that the others had been beaten, while Xiao Yan used puppets to stall Yun Shan and discovered that Yun Shan’s system made him invincible within its domain.
• Xiao Lin resurrected, received the Invincible Dad System, and entered a spatial vortex after learning that Xiao Zhan’s life was in danger.
• Yun Shan broke Xiao Zhan’s bones, restrained Puppet Xiao Yan, took the Tou She Ancient God Jade, and ordered Feng Lie to use his Contract System on father and son.
• Chen Beixuan exposed the limits of Yun Shan’s domain, prompting several allies to flee before Yun Shan sealed the space and trapped the others.
• Xiao Lin emerged through the sealed space, found Xiao Zhan gravely injured, and prepared to fight Yun Shan with the Furious Lion Vajra technique.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Lin defeated Yun Shan, then Xiao Yan dismantled the Flame-Slaying Alliance and recruited Xiao Lin into the Dao Sect by plundering his invincible dad system. Xiao Yan killed Yun Shan and began plundering his fleeing invincible domain system.

• Xiao Lin defeated Yun Shan and knocked him outside his invincible domain, freeing Sun Wukong, Shaka, and the Foreign Demon Emperor from their restraints.
• Sun Wukong immobilized Yun Shan while Shaka and the Foreign Demon Emperor sealed the area, and Xiao Yan treated Xiao Zhan and restrained the Flame-Slaying Alliance’s Otherworlders.
• Xiao Yan stripped the Flame-Slaying Alliance members of their senses, plundered their systems, and killed them, earning the netherworld poison flame as a reward.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Xiao Lin to join the Dao Sect and plundered his invincible dad system, leaving it unfused while he dealt with Yun Shan.
• Xiao Yan burned Yun Shan to ashes, and Yun Shan’s purple-gold invincible domain system tried to escape before Xiao Yan used Plunder.

After Sun Wukong warned the chat group that the Dou Qi Continent hid far more powerful forces than they had expected, Xiao Yan used Yun Shan and Li Feiyu’s identities to bring the empire’s major factions under the Dao Sect. The chapter ended with Ling Ying stopping Chief Steward Meng from fleeing the Imperial Palace.

• Sun Wukong, Shaka, and the Foreign Demon Emperor left the Misty Cloud Sect, and Sun Wukong told the chat group that powerful Buddhist, demonic, beast, and ghostly forces inhabited the continent.
• Xiao Yan sent a Yun Shan puppet and his Li Feiyu clone to reassure Yun Yun and announce a reconciliation between Yun Shan and Xiao Yan through the Dao Sect.
• Xiao Yan invited the major factions to join the Dao Sect, and Mittel Tengshan and Mu Chen accepted after Xiao Yan secretly raised them to Dou Huang.
• Xiao Yan had Yun Shan pressure Jia Xingtian, while Li Feiyu promised the Dao Sect would leave the empire’s internal affairs alone; Jia Xingtian agreed to submit and proposed a marriage alliance.
• Ling Ying stopped Chief Steward Meng from fleeing the Imperial Palace and ordered him to wait.

Ling Ying used the Medicine Emperor to stop Chief Steward Meng from leaving the imperial palace, while Xiao Yan chose to settle the three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran at the Misty Cloud Sect. After surviving her attack, Xiao Yan revealed his feelings and accepted Nalan Yanran as his fiancée, leaving Yun Yun and Xiao Zhan to witness their relationship becoming official.

• Ling Ying summoned the Medicine Emperor, whose soul attack forced Chief Steward Meng to stay and wait.
• Xiao Yan chose the reward of Nine-Thousand Lei Dong and Nine-Thousand Lightning Illusion Body, then insisted that Nalan Yanran decide whether to fulfill their agreement.
• Nalan Yanran agreed to fight Xiao Yan and attacked with Extreme Wind: Sunset Radiance, but her sword energy left him unharmed.
• Xiao Yan caught Nalan Yanran as she fell and explained that he had written the repudiation letter out of insecurity, then told her to become the Xiao Clan's daughter-in-law.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan asked Yun Yun to witness their relationship becoming official.

Xiao Yan secured the Jia Ma Empire for the Dao Sect, then began merging ten systems, sending his system into a one-year slumber. With Night Spirit, he left for Jia Nan Academy and recruited Sun Wukong to protect the empire, leaving the story poised to begin the academy arc.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran confirmed their engagement, and Ling Ying exposed Chief Steward Meng as an Otherworlder before taking Yao Ye and Yao Yue captive.
• Li Feiyu invited Chief Steward Meng into the Dao Sect, and Chief Steward Meng accepted under pressure; Xiao Yan took his systems and had Nalan Yanran kill him.
• The Dao Sect spread across the Jia Ma Empire, completing its mission and raising its members' cultivation; Xiao Yan then merged ten systems, causing his system to slumber for a year.
• Xiao Yan prepared to travel to Jia Nan Academy, entrusted the Jia Ma Empire's defense to his allies, and departed with Night Spirit after saying farewell to Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun.
• Xiao Yan asked Sun Wukong to draw a protective circle around the Jia Ma Empire and offered him a memory copy of Journey to the West: The Sequel to secure his help.

Xiao Yan and Night Spirit entered the Black-Corner Region, where Xiao Yan’s clones uncovered the influence of the Myriad Worlds Library and Han Feng received a system after an Otherworlder took over his body. At Jia Nan Academy, Xun’er eagerly awaited Xiao Yan, convinced a book foretold their future, until a golden-robed woman appeared to challenge her assumptions.

• Sun Wukong drew a protective circle over the Jia Ma Empire and the Snake-People Tribe, while Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun about her previous life and the changed future.
• Xiao Yan sent over a thousand Shadow Clones into the Black-Corner Region, then joined Night Spirit in fighting the Azure Flame Tribe so she could absorb their fear.
• An Otherworlder named Han Feng gained the Fortune Plunder Critical-Hit System, learned that the Myriad Worlds Library’s books and comics circulated throughout the region, and left Maple City to investigate Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan’s clones reported that the Black-Corner Region had few Otherworlders but widespread arguments inspired by the Myriad Worlds Library, and Xiao Yan recognized the library’s growing influence.
• At Jia Nan Academy, Ling Ying told Xiao Xun’er that Xiao Yan would soon arrive, and Xun’er interpreted Martial Universe as proof that Xiao Yan would become a great powerhouse and that she would be beside him.
• A golden-robed woman appeared from Xun’er’s golden flames and told her that a book could not predict the future.

Xiao Yan and Night Spirit reached Black Seal City, reunited with Ling Yu and Chen Xiu, and attended the Eight Gates auction. The Supreme Bone sparked a struggle among major factions, and the chapter ended as its owner prepared to announce who would receive it.

• Xun'er insisted to the Golden Emperor that Xiao Yan was her Brother Xiao Yan and described her progress at Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Yan and Night Spirit entered the Black-Corner Region and traveled to Black Seal City, where they reunited with Ling Yu and Chen Xiu at the Sanctuary inn.
• Ling Yu invited Xiao Yan and Night Spirit to join their group at the Eight Gates auction, and Xiao Yan accepted while recognizing Han Feng in the crowd.
• The auction sold Byakugan and Sharingan before presenting the Supreme Bone, which required its recipient to fulfill three requests for its owner.
• Fan Ling, Mo Erhan, and Elder Qing each declared interest in the Supreme Bone, while Xiao Yan and Chen Xiu considered claiming it after the auction.
• Ling Yu asked Xiao Yan for a Sect Breaking Pill, and Xiao Yan promised to give him one after the auction as the Supreme Bone's owner prepared to announce its recipient.

At the Black Seal City auction, Xiao Yan and the other Otherworlders watched new treasures change hands while Wutian Buddha joined the chat group. After the factions left the city, the Black Skull Tomb, Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Blood Sect joined forces against the people stalking them, as Xiao Yan and his companions followed in disguise.

• Fan Ling gave the Supreme Bone to Elder Qing of the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and later won Han Feng’s Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill while Mo Erhan bought the Virgo Gold Cloth.
• Xiao Yan asked Shaka about learning Cosmo and the Virgo Gold Saint’s techniques, then welcomed Wutian Buddha, Nemesis of Tathagata, to the chat group.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map failed to appear, and Chen Xiu and Ling Yu spotted nearly a hundred of Xiao Yan’s Shadow Clones in the auction hall.
• Han Feng recognized Xiao Yan’s clones, failed to bind them with his system, and decided to visit the Myriad Worlds Library after the auction.
• After the factions left Black Seal City, Xiao Yan and Night Spirit followed them in disguise, Chen Xiu sent a Dou Zun-level otherworldly demon after them, and Ling Yu stayed behind to cultivate.
• Outside the Black-Corner Region, the Black Skull Tomb, Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Blood Sect agreed to eliminate their pursuers; Fan Ling used people with the Byakugan to expose them and unleashed black flames.

Fan Ling watched Mo Erhan defeat a group of Mangekyo wielders with the Black Dragon Sky-Shattering Seal, then Elder Qing repelled immortal cultivators seeking her Supreme Bone. Xiao Yan’s Shadow Clone questioned the fleeing Qin Luo about the Black-Corner Region and learned that The Great Ruler could eventually reveal Xiao Yan’s identity as the Flame Emperor.

• Fan Ling let Mo Erhan face the Akatsuki-clad attackers, and Mo Erhan used the Black Dragon Sky-Shattering Seal to kill them after surviving their coordinated Mangekyo ambush.
• Qin Luo and his fellow immortal cultivators attacked Elder Qing to obtain her Supreme Bone, but Elder Qing seized their magical treasures and Qin Luo escaped with the Blood Escape Technique.
• Xiao Yan’s Shadow Clone intercepted Qin Luo and asked him about the Black-Corner Region’s established and newly formed factions.
• Qin Luo recommended books from the Myriad Worlds Library, especially The Great Ruler, and explained that its Flame Emperor shared Xiao Yan’s name.
• Xiao Yan’s Shadow Clone realized that later parts of The Great Ruler might expose Xiao Yan as the Flame Emperor, then left to warn his original self.

Xiao Yan killed a genuine Otherworldly Demon and the other survivors after they fought over the spoils, then left with Night Spirit and headed for Peace Town. Disguised, they arrived at its guarded gates, where Jia Nan Academy's Enforcement Team demanded that entrants register their identities and swallow a pill.

• Fan Ling, Mo Erhan, Elder Qing, and the other survivors faced a genuine Otherworldly Demon, while Xiao Yan confined the gathering and killed the demon with a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and Ancestral Symbols.
• Night Spirit broke through to Nine-Star Dou Zong, then collected the Storage Rings and took Fan Ling's Eternal Mangekyo and Mo Erhan's Black Dragon Sky-Shattering Seal.
• Xiao Yan and Night Spirit destroyed the survivors and the evidence, then left without returning to Black Seal City while Xiao Yan's Shadow Clone dealt with Chen Xiu and Ling Yu.
• In the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, Wutian Buddha and Sun Wukong discussed cooperating to obtain the Tripitaka Sutra, while Shaka uploaded the Virgo Cosmo cultivation method and skills for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Night Spirit disguised themselves and arrived at Peace Town to investigate the Myriad Worlds Library.
• At Peace Town's gate, Jia Nan Academy's Enforcement Team demanded that travelers report their identities and swallow a pill.

Xiao Yan entered Peace Town disguised as Wang Fugui with Night Spirit, while his Shadow Clone arrived as Xiao Yan and reunited with Instructor Ruo Lin at the Myriad Worlds Library. Night Spirit gained the Ancestral Stone from reading Martial Universe, and Zhao Hao appeared as Xiao Yan asked to buy Fox Spirit Matchmaker comics.

• Xiao Yan and Night Spirit used the identities Wang Fugui and Zhang San to enter Peace Town with Instructor Huo De, while Xiao Yan's Shadow Clone also claimed to be Instructor Ruo Lin's student.
• Instructor Huo De brought them to the Myriad Worlds Library, where Instructor Ruo Lin recognized Wang Fugui and Xiao Yan and scolded Xiao Yan over his long absence and the other students' disappearances.
• The Shadow Clone offered to buy Instructor Ruo Lin a book, and Xiao Yan went to the counter to ask the price of a complete set of Fox Spirit Matchmaker comics.
• Night Spirit read Martial Universe and obtained the Ancestral Stone, drawing the attention of nearby students, including Xue Beng.
• Zhao Hao emerged from inside the library as Xiao Yan asked to buy the available Fox Spirit Matchmaker comics.

Xiao Yan bought books from Zhao Hao’s Myriad Worlds Library and reunited with Xun'er at Jia Nan Academy before the Inner Academy Selection Tournament. As they read through the night, Xun'er began connecting Xiao Yan to the Flame Emperor in The Great Ruler, while Xiao Yan awakened his Cosmo.

• Xiao Yan paid Zhao Hao fifty million gold coins for Fox Spirit comics, and Zhao Hao then gave him and his Shadow Clone ten additional books for free while warning them about Jia Nan Academy.
• Zhao Hao blacklisted Xue Beng and his companions after they asked for free books, then considered whether to put Battle Through the Heavens on the shelves.
• Instructor Ruo Lin brought Xiao Yan, Night Spirit, and the others to Jia Nan Academy and warned Xiao Yan that the Inner Academy Selection Tournament would begin in two days.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er, promised to spend more time with her, and shared the books he had received from Zhao Hao.
• Xun'er read The Great Ruler and suspected that its Flame Emperor was Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan read Saint Seiya and awakened his Cosmo and some of Shaka's secret arts.
• At dawn, Xun'er asked Xiao Yan whether the Flame Emperor in the book was him.

Xiao Yan and his companions entered the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, where the mysterious Ghost-Faced Referee assigned bizarre contests that eliminated contestants under his own rules. Xiao Yan’s match against Xun’er’s admirer Bai Shan began as a deadly No-Rules Battle, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Xun’er wondered whether The Great Ruler and its Flame Emperor revealed Xiao Yan’s future, but Xiao Yan changed the subject and continued reading.
• The Ghost-Faced Referee appeared at the tournament and set Night Spirit, disguised as Zhang San, against Xue Beng in a weapons contest; Night Spirit destroyed his Amber Purifying Bottle and won.
• Xiao Ning faced Luo Bu in a Pet Showdown and won after Agumon digivolved into WarGreymon and blasted Luo Bu and his Charmander from the arena.
• The academy’s senior staff objected to the referee’s unpredictable tournament, but Hu Gan said they could challenge him directly if they disagreed.
• The referee paired Xiao Yan with Bai Shan and selected a No-Rules Battle, which could end only with one contestant’s death.
• Bai Shan declared that he intended to kill Xiao Yan, while the referee withdrew and left them to fight.

Xiao Yan and Bai Shan fought as Gold Saints in the Inner Academy Selection Tournament, with Bai Shan using Aquarius’s Freezing Coffin to stall the no-rules match. Xiao Yan shattered it with a Libra weapon, killed Bai Shan, and asked the Ghost-Faced Referee to declare him the winner.

• Bai Shan revealed the Aquarius Gold Cloth and challenged Xiao Yan, who answered by donning the Virgo Gold Cloth.
• Xiao Yan and Bai Shan exchanged blows at light speed until Xiao Yan trapped Bai Shan’s Aurora Execution with the Heavenly Dance Treasure Wheel.
• Bai Shan sealed himself inside an indestructible Freezing Coffin, and the Ghost-Faced Referee said the match could end only when one side died.
• Xiao Yan revealed a Libra Golden Trident and moved to break the coffin, while Bai Shan tried to surrender and the referee refused to accept it.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Freezing Coffin with the Golden Trident and killed Bai Shan, then asked the referee whether he could count the match as his victory.

Xiao Yan won his first-round battle, sold the Aquarius Gold Cloth through the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, and reunited with Xun'er before the tournament continued. The next day, Xiao Yu won a spiritual-power contest, and Xiao Yan faced Lu Mu as the screen announced a no-defense battle.

• Xiao Yan won the no-rules battle, took Bai Shan's Aquarius Gold Cloth, and listed it in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group store for 10,000 points.
• Xiao Yan revealed the group's buyback feature, prompting members to sell spare treasures and techniques for points.
• Hu Jia confronted Xiao Yan and Xun'er, declared she would compete with Xiao Yan for Xun'er, and Xiao Yan left with Xun'er; Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei also won their first-round matches.
• Instructor Ruo Lin returned Xiao Yan's Fox Demon comic, borrowed Akame ga Kill!, and the second round began the following day.
• Xiao Yu defeated Luo Fu in a spiritual-power contest using a technique from the Heavenly Profound Continent.
• Xiao Yan took the stage against Lu Mu, and the contest screen announced a no-defense battle.