Recaps

Xiao Chen killed Mu She and the remaining Wolf Head Mercenary Group members, then explained Xiao Yi Xian's awakened woeful poison body and its deadly risks. He offered to help her control it, accepted her as his disciple, and took her and Xiao Yan to the valley she had discovered as news of Mu She's death spread through Qingshan Town.

• Xiao Chen killed He Meng and Gan Mu after killing Mu She, then found Xiao Yi Xian in the front hall.
• Xiao Chen explained to Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan that her woeful poison body had awakened and that consuming poison could eventually cause her death.
• Xiao Yi Xian admitted she had tried to poison herself, then broke down after reading the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture's warning about her constitution.
• Xiao Chen promised he could help control Xiao Yi Xian's woeful poison body and asked her to become his disciple, which she accepted.
• Xiao Chen, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan rode Little Gold toward the valley Xiao Yi Xian had discovered, while word of Mu She's death spread through Qingshan Town.

Xiao Chen brought Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to a hidden valley and explained several ways to control Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body. When he sensed a woman approaching to fight the Amethyst Winged Lion King, he set out to watch, taking Xiao Yi Xian and having Yao Lao control Xiao Yan’s body so they could follow.

• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian reached a secluded valley filled with energy and rare medicinal herbs, where Xiao Chen planned to address her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yi Xian a scroll describing the Poison Pill Method and reassured her that he could obtain its difficult ingredients.
• Xiao Chen showed Xiao Yi Xian a map fragment pointing to the Netherworld Poison Flame and a jade tablet containing three cultivation methods that could resolve her condition.
• Xiao Chen sensed a woman coming to fight the sixth-rank Amethyst Winged Lion King and invited Xiao Yi Xian to watch.
• Xiao Chen ordered Yao Chen to take control of Xiao Yan’s body, and Yao Chen used Xiao Yan’s Purple Cloud Wings to follow Xiao Chen.

Yun Yun fought the Amethyst Winged Lion King to obtain its Purple Spirit Crystal, while Xiao Chen watched with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian. When Xiao Chen intervened, he overwhelmed the Lion King with a single command, leaving Yun Yun to realize he was a Dou Zong expert.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian watched as Yun Yun asked the Amethyst Winged Lion King for its Purple Spirit Crystal and offered a trade.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King rejected Yun Yun’s offer, and the two fought in the sky for six hours.
• Xiao Chen called out the Lion King for making too much noise, and it warned him to leave its territory.
• Xiao Chen vanished, appeared above the Lion King, and forced it into the ground with a single blow.
• Yun Yun recognized Xiao Chen’s ability to walk through the air and wondered when a Dou Zong expert had appeared in the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Chen forced the Amethyst Winged Lion King to serve him and arranged to take Yun Yun’s purple spirit crystal in exchange for something else. Three days later, he accepted the Lion King’s cub and received the crystal, then confronted the Lion King about its companion amethyst source.

• Xiao Chen broke the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s spine, compelled it to become his mount, and placed a soul-devouring bead in its brow to prevent betrayal.
• Xiao Chen recognized Yun Yun as the Misty Cloud Sect Master and agreed to let her have the purple spirit crystal in exchange for something else.
• Three days later, Xiao Chen prepared to leave with Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King arrived after tending to its affairs.
• Xiao Chen agreed to take in the Lion King’s cub, and the Lion King offered him Storage Rings containing ordinary Dou Techniques and cultivation methods.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King gave Xiao Chen the purple spirit crystal, and Yao Lao explained that it might possess valuable companion amethyst source.
• Xiao Chen asked where the companion amethyst source was, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King insisted it had always intended to give it to him.

Xiao Chen exchanged the amethyst source for Yun Yun’s Heart of the Sea Armor and set out with Xiao Yi Xian for Poison Cloud Mountain, while Xiao Yan recovered from absorbing the source and learned why Yao Lao had restrained its power. The chapter left Xiao Yan alone with a note explaining where Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian had gone.

• Xiao Yan smashed open the companion amethyst source, and Xiao Chen collected most of its purple liquid before Xiao Yan licked the spilled drops from the stone platform.
• Yun Yun offered cultivation techniques, Dou Techniques, and rare herbs for the purple spirit crystal, but Xiao Chen demanded the Heart of the Sea Armor as well.
• Yun Yun flew away, then changed her mind and returned to give Xiao Chen the armor, which he intended for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Three days later, Xiao Yan woke at five-star Dou Master and learned from Yao Lao that the amethyst source could have overwhelmed his body if its power had not been controlled.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian had gone to Poison Cloud Mountain and directed him to read the note beside him.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian headed to Poison Cloud Mountain and joined a group led by a girl in military garb, with Yin Yuandong guiding them. As they climbed into the mountain, Yin Yuandong described a ruined hall and a headless Dou Di statue, prompting Xiao Chen to speculate that it was connected to Buddhism.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan he would no longer intervene in trouble unless Xiao Yan faced mortal danger, and ordered him to hunt at least five Tier 2 Magical Beasts daily for a month before trying to devour the Purple Flame.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at Poison Cloud Mountain, where they encountered a girl in military garb, her retainers, and the familiar Yin Yuandong.
• Xiao Chen proposed traveling with the group, and the girl agreed after Xiao Yi Xian explained they wanted to gather medicinal herbs; she assigned Uncle Gong to watch over them.
• As the group climbed through the mist and neglected graves, Yin Yuandong asked Xiao Chen why he had come, and Xiao Chen asked him to describe the mountain's strange places.
• Yin Yuandong told them about a ruined hall containing a headless Dou Di statue seated with its back to the entrance, and Xiao Chen suggested it might have come from Buddhism.

Xiao Chen and his companions entered Poison Cloud Mountain, where they encountered poisonous mists and a Bat Monster before reaching a hall dedicated to a statue of a Dou Di. After sensing someone at the hall and finding a skull nearby, the group halted, uncertain who else had come to the mountain.

• Yin Yuandong described Poison Cloud Mountain's dangerous Purple Wood Forest, pitch-black trail, and summit poison pool, and the young woman in military attire ordered him to lead them to a garden.
• Xiao Chen agreed to travel with the group, and they entered Poison Cloud Mountain beneath dark, clouded skies.
• A Bat Monster attacked the group, but the black-robed middle-aged guard killed it with a single saber strike.
• After four hours, the group reached the mountainside and spotted the hall Yin Yuandong had described, then changed course when they sensed someone nearby.
• The group arrived at the hall, where the young woman stumbled over a skull in the leaves, and everyone stopped shortly afterward.

Xiao Chen and the others found Ghost-Faced Insect corpses near a Buddhist hall on Poison Cloud Mountain, where a red-robed man attacked them and was killed by Uncle Gong. Xiao Chen explored the hall while the military-attired girl grew angry with him, and her guard offered to punish or kill him.

• Xiao Chen and the group discovered more than a hundred Ghost-Faced Insect corpses, and Uncle Gong suspected the supposedly extinct race had living members nearby.
• The military-attired girl decided to investigate the hall, and Yin Yuandong led the group onward.
• A red-robed old man emerged from the hall, blew a warning whistle, and was killed by Uncle Gong with a saber strike.
• The military-attired girl accused Xiao Chen of failing to thank them for saving him, but Xiao Chen told her to go her own way and continued into the hall.
• Xiao Chen examined the ruined Buddhist hall and its damaged paintings while a guard offered to teach him a lesson or kill him.

The girl in military attire resented Xiao Chen’s disrespect while the party waited out a storm in the hall. Ghost-Faced Insects attacked and killed several guards, and as Xiao Chen warned that the attack was only beginning, a mysterious figure entered the hall.

• The girl in military attire ordered her guards not to help Xiao Chen unless he begged, while Yin Yuandong praised Xiao Chen’s martial tournament victory.
• A storm drove the party to shelter in the hall, where they ate and rested around a fire.
• Ghost-Faced Insects burst into the hall, and Xiao Chen protected Xiao Yi Xian while fighting the insects with his sword.
• The insects retreated after a strange signal, and the party discovered that Lü Yan and other guards had been devoured.
• Xiao Chen warned that the insects were only the first wave, the girl argued with him, and a figure strolled into the hall.

A mysterious middle-aged man who controlled the Ghost-Faced Insects demanded that the group submit, revealing he was a former Dou Zong whose current strength had fallen to Nine-Star Dou Ling. When Uncle Gong resisted with the golden saber Sun Devourer, the man attacked the girl in military attire to gain the advantage.

• The middle-aged man admitted he controlled the Ghost-Faced Insects and demanded that the group serve him, briefly using his eerie gaze to enthrall the girl in military attire before the black-robed man woke her.
• The black-robed man attacked, but the middle-aged man caught his saber between two fingers and knocked him back with one punch.
• The middle-aged man revealed he had once been a Dou Zong but now possessed the strength of a Nine-Star Dou Ling.
• The girl gave Uncle Gong the golden saber Sun Devourer, which contained some of the power of the Dou Huang Duan Ruifeng.
• The middle-aged man fought Uncle Gong with a blood-colored sword and a swarm of Ghost-Faced Insects, then abandoned his attempt to seize the saber and charged toward the girl.

Xiao Chen confronted the mysterious middle-aged man after he gravely wounded Uncle Gong, revealing the Azure Nether Freedom Sword Scripture and overwhelming the former Dou Zong’s attack. The chapter left the middle-aged man struck by Xiao Chen’s swordlight, with his fate unresolved.

• The middle-aged man broke Uncle Gong’s golden Dou Emperor attack with a blood-colored talisman, then wounded him with a palm strike.
• As the girl in military attire and her guards faced despair, Xiao Chen walked toward the middle-aged man and told him to kneel and beg for mercy.
• Xiao Chen asked the middle-aged man when he had acquired his body, exposing that an ancient soul had taken possession of it.
• Xiao Chen manifested nine azure silhouettes and formed a brilliant swordlight with the Azure Nether Freedom Sword Scripture.
• The middle-aged man unleashed a blood-colored torrent, but Xiao Chen’s sword intent pierced through it and struck him.

Xiao Chen killed the former Dou Zong with a single strike of the Azure Nether Freedom Sword Scripture, saving Gong Feng and the guards. After the girl in military attire angrily blamed him for not acting sooner, Gong Feng and the guards rebuked her until she apologized to Xiao Chen.

• Xiao Chen used the Azure Nether Freedom Sword Scripture to cleave the middle-aged man in two, stunning the survivors.
• Gong Feng and the guards thanked Xiao Chen and bowed, recognizing his overwhelming strength.
• The girl in military attire confronted Xiao Chen for failing to save Chuang Yan and the others from the Ghost-Faced Insects sooner.
• Yin Yuandong, Gong Feng, and the guards rebuked the girl for her disrespect toward the man who had saved them.
• The girl in military attire bowed and apologized to Xiao Chen, while Gong Feng asked him to forgive her.

After killing the middle-aged man, Xiao Chen joined Duan Chenfei’s party for a meal and learned why they had come to Poison Cloud Mountain. He sent Little Gold to find their medicinal herb so they could leave, while keeping his attention on Yin Yuandong’s purpose.

• Xiao Chen searched the middle-aged man’s belongings and found soul-nourishing herbs and scrolls about Ghost-Faced Insects.
• Gong Feng invited Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian to dine, and the party gradually relaxed around Xiao Chen.
• Gong Feng explained that they served Duan Ruifeng and had come to Poison Cloud Mountain to find Purple Dragon Profound Grass for Duan Chenfei’s Crimson Flame Snow Wolf.
• Xiao Chen conjectured that his arrival and Yin Yuandong’s presence might have changed the fates of Duan Ruifeng and the slain middle-aged man.
• After seeing the ancient scroll’s illustration, Xiao Chen sent Little Gold to find the Purple Dragon Profound Grass and told Duan Chenfei’s party to leave once they had it.

Xiao Chen left the great hall after Little Gold found the Purple Dragon Profound Grass and pursued Yin Yuandong, who had discovered a female ghost on Poison Cloud Mountain. Xiao Chen forced Yin Yuandong to give up the ghost and began questioning her about her origins.

• Duan Chenfei apologized to Xiao Chen, and he praised her for wanting to eliminate the Ghost-Faced Insects.
• Little Gold returned with the Purple Dragon Profound Grass, and Xiao Chen told Duan Chenfei that he planned to visit Duan Ruifeng.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian left the great hall, and Xiao Chen went looking for Yin Yuandong after noticing he had disappeared.
• Yin Yuandong broke open a blood-colored jade pendant and revealed a red-robed female ghost who pleaded that she had never harmed anyone.
• Xiao Chen confronted Yin Yuandong and claimed the ghost was bound to him by fate; after Little Gold intimidated Yin Yuandong, he left the ghost behind.
• Xiao Chen offered the female ghost a way to survive if she told him where she came from and everything she knew.

Xiao Chen found Miaohan, an amnesiac soul tied to a blood-red Soul-Nourishing Jade pendant, and brought her under his protection. He then helped Xiao Yi Xian begin cultivating the Myriad Calamities Poison Canon in a poison pool, where her woeful poison body absorbed the poisonous mist and grew stronger.

• Miaohan told Xiao Chen that she remembered only her name, the blood-red jade pendant, and hiding at Buddha Fate Mountain before falling asleep.
• Xiao Chen recognized the pendant as Soul-Nourishing Jade and let Miaohan enter it, promising to nourish her soul and eventually rebuild her body if she worked for him.
• Xiao Chen took Xiao Yi Xian to Poison Cloud Mountain, where she chose to cultivate the Myriad Calamities Poison Canon.
• Xiao Yi Xian entered the poison pool, and her body drew in its dark green poisonous mist as her aura rose.

Xiao Chen helped Xiao Yi Xian master the Woeful Poison Body and absorb Poison Cloud Mountain’s deadly poison, guiding her from Dou Ling to Dou Wang and into the poisonous swamp to pursue a breakthrough. After forty-five days, Xiao Yi Xian emerged as a Three-Star Dou Emperor, while Xiao Chen considered whether to break the formation enclosing the mountain.

• Xiao Yi Xian completed her mastery of the Woeful Poison Body, and Xiao Chen took her to the Purple Wood Forest to absorb its poisonous miasma.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the forest’s poison and advanced to Five-Star Dou Wang, then flew with Xiao Chen to the poisonous swamp.
• Xiao Yi Xian descended to the swamp’s bottom and cultivated inside a poison cocoon while Xiao Chen waited outside.
• Over forty-five days, Xiao Chen explored Poison Cloud Mountain and discovered that a formation enclosed it, while the swamp’s toxins were depleted.
• Energy surged around the swamp, and Xiao Yi Xian emerged with the aura of a Three-Star Dou Emperor.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian traveled on foot toward Mo City and took shelter from a storm in a mountain cave, where several powerful strangers gathered. A confrontation began when the newcomers moved to capture Kong Ruonan, leaving Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian watching from the cave.

• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yi Xian to gather poisonous plants on Poison Cloud Mountain, then chose to walk with her toward Mo City as a cultivation journey.
• Ten days later, Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian sheltered in a mountainside cave during a torrential storm.
• Kong Ruonan entered the cave to escape the rain, and Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian kept their distance from him.
• You Yingluo and a huge-axed man arrived and confronted Kong Ruonan, who claimed he could defeat them both.
• A black-robed man with an ink-black spear arrived and demanded that Kong Ruonan come with him; Kong refused, and the man threatened to kill him.

Kong Ruonan fought Fei Jiamu and two other Dou Emperors to give Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian a chance to escape. As Kong Ruonan was disarmed and stabbed in the back, Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian remained in the grotto.

• Kong Ruonan promised to protect Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian, while the axe-wielding man threatened Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Chen asked Kong Ruonan if he had once been one of the Jia Ma Empire's Ten Great Experts alongside Hai Bodong, and Kong Ruonan confirmed it.
• Kong Ruonan charged out of the grotto and fought Fei Jiamu, the woman in red, and the axe-wielding man in the rain.
• Kong Ruonan held the three Dou Emperors back with desperate attacks and urged Xiao Chen and Xiao Yi Xian to flee.
• Xiao Chen realized Kong Ruonan and Duan Ruifeng had both died during this period, explaining why only Hai Bodong remained renowned later.
• Kong Ruonan's saber was knocked away, and the woman in red stabbed him in the back.

Xiao Yi Xian intervened to save Kong Ruonan, and Xiao Chen gave her permission to act as she wished. When their attackers turned on them, Xiao Yi Xian killed the axe-wielding man with her poisonous swordsmanship, while Little Gold helped Xiao Chen kill the fleeing black-robed man; the woman in red realized they faced a true expert.

• Kong Ruonan fell wounded, and Xiao Yi Xian stepped in to block the axe-wielding man's strike before he could kill him.
• Xiao Yi Xian called Xiao Chen her teacher and said she wanted to save Kong Ruonan, and Xiao Chen told her to do as she wished.
• Xiao Chen declared that they would kill their attackers, and the axe-wielding man charged at Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian cut the axe-wielding man with her sword, and her poison dissolved him into a puddle of black blood.
• The black-robed man fled, but Little Gold used spatial power to bring him back, and Xiao Chen killed him with a golden strike.
• The woman in red stared in shock, suspecting Xiao Chen was a Dou Zun.

Xiao Chen killed the red-dressed Dou Huang woman and recruited Kong Ruonan as a fighter after learning that experts from the Luo Yan Empire had hunted him. The three set out together at dawn, while Xiao Yi Xian grew troubled by her approaching separation from Xiao Chen.

• The red-dressed woman begged Xiao Chen for mercy, then lunged at Xiao Yi Xian and was killed by Xiao Chen's golden light.
• Xiao Chen questioned Kong Ruonan, who explained that he had withdrawn from the world before You Yingluo and the other Luo Yan Empire experts found him.
• Xiao Chen offered Kong Ruonan a place as his fighter, and Kong Ruonan agreed to follow him.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Kong Ruonan the spoils and healing pills after Xiao Chen explained that Kong Ruonan had risked his life to protect them.
• At dawn, Xiao Chen, Xiao Yi Xian, and Kong Ruonan left the grotto together, while Xiao Yi Xian felt increasingly downcast about parting with her teacher.

Xiao Chen parted from Xiao Yi Xian and sent her to rule the Chu Yun Empire while he continued toward the Tagor Desert. After obtaining a Second-Rank Alchemist Badge, he used it to secure free transport on a flying mount.

• Xiao Chen told Xiao Yi Xian they had to part, and she confessed that she did not want to leave him.
• Xiao Chen promised to take Xiao Yi Xian with him in the future and gave her an Azure Origin Spirit Ring for protection and storage.
• Xiao Chen tasked Xiao Yi Xian with ruling the Chu Yun Empire, and she set out with Kong Ruonan the next morning.
• Xiao Yi Xian cried after Xiao Chen departed, then touched her ring and wondered about her feelings for him.
• Xiao Chen obtained a Second-Rank Alchemist Badge in a nearby city and used it to claim free flying transport in Qingyuan City.

Xiao Chen attempted to refine a fifth-grade Blood Lotus Pill aboard a flying Magic Beast bound for Mo City, using Little Gold’s Natal Dragon Flame. After two and a half days, the pill entered its final stage, and its powerful energy and fragrance stirred the beast and drew attention from the other passengers.

• Xiao Chen boarded the flying Magic Beast to Mo City and settled into an empty room, ignoring the attendant’s advances.
• After being woken by noises from a neighboring room, Xiao Chen brought out the ingredients and asked Little Gold to lend him his Natal Dragon Flame.
• Xiao Chen refined the ice-attribute Magic Core and Blood Lotus Essence, then used the Ice Spirit Flame Grass to balance and fuse their energies.
• Xiao Chen restored his exhausted soul power with a blue-green pill and successfully stabilized the ingredients inside the cauldron.
• After two and a half days of tempering, Xiao Chen brought the Blood Lotus Pill to its final condensation stage, causing the flying beast to sway and the pill’s rich fragrance to spread through the air.

Five alchemists tried to force their way into Xiao Chen's room after smelling his pill, but a young man with a crimson staff tried to stop them. The two Third-Rank Alchemists broke down the door, only for Xiao Chen to seize one of them by the neck.

• Five alchemists smelled the medicinal fragrance from Xiao Chen's room and decided to investigate.
• A young man with a Second-Rank Alchemist badge ordered the five to leave Xiao Chen alone, then struck back when the burly man tried to shove him.
• The first old man called Ying Ming and You Kang to attack, and the three middle-aged alchemists tried to hold the young man back.
• The two Third-Rank Alchemists reached Xiao Chen's door, smashed it open, and threatened to deal with him.
• Xiao Chen appeared and lifted the old man who had broken the door by the neck.

Xiao Chen subdued Liang Lei and the other men who tried to steal his pill, then killed Liang Lei and Jing Yuan with golden flames. As the remaining passengers faced death, You Kang murdered his fellow disciple Ying Ming and begged Xiao Chen to spare him.

• Xiao Chen revealed the pill and effortlessly restrained Liang Lei, exposing the men’s attempt to seize it.
• Liang Lei pretended the group had acted out of concern, then secretly prepared to throw dark green powder at Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen burned Liang Lei to ashes with golden flames and demanded that the four remaining men jump from the flying beast.
• Jing Yuan attacked the young man, but Xiao Chen killed Jing Yuan with a wisp of golden flame.
• You Kang stabbed Ying Ming, then pleaded with Xiao Chen to spare his life.

Xiao Chen crippled You Kang and Zhang Yan after they begged for their lives, then brought Leng Chenxuan to the Tagor Desert and offered him a place at his side. After explaining that he valued Leng Chenxuan’s righteousness and promising to help him grow, Xiao Chen received his pledge of loyalty.

• You Kang and Zhang Yan begged Xiao Chen to spare them, but he crippled their cultivation and left them for the young man to deal with.
• The young man killed You Kang and Zhang Yan, and Xiao Chen invited him to travel onward together to avoid trouble when the bird landed.
• Xiao Chen took the young man through the air to the sand near Mo City, where he learned the young man was named Leng Chenxuan.
• Xiao Chen offered Leng Chenxuan a place working for him and explained that he valued his righteousness, character, and perseverance.
• Xiao Chen promised to help Leng Chenxuan improve his strength and alchemy, adding that Heavenly Flames were not precious to him.
• Leng Chenxuan bowed and knelt, pledging to follow Xiao Chen and fulfill his commands.