Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen reunited with Tang Chengxuan, who claimed he had come to reminisce but secretly ordered Xiao Yan monitored. Before Tang Chengxuan could decide how to deal with Xiao Chen, a powerful woman forced him and his attendants to their knees and warned him to stay away from Xiao Chen.

• Xiao Chen introduced Tang Chengxuan, patriarch of the Tang Clan, to Xiao Yan and explained that Tang Chengxuan possessed the Eye of Insight and used beatings to neutralize its poison.
• Tang Chengxuan revealed that his Eye of Insight could not see through Xiao Chen or Xiao Yan, and he and Xiao Chen shared a meal before Tang Chengxuan departed.
• After Tang Chengxuan reached the Southeast Region, he ordered a man and a woman to monitor Xiao Yan in the Jia Ma Empire and wondered what to do about Xiao Chen.
• A powerful woman overwhelmed Tang Chengxuan and his attendants, then spared him because he was Tang Guichen’s grandson and warned him not to target Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan reached Qingshan Town, where Xiao Chen discovered Blood Lotus Essence disguised among cheap Yellow Lotus Essence. After gathering the ingredients they needed, they entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range and found Ice Spirit Flame Grass growing on a cliff.

• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan browsed the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, where Xiao Chen bought all seventy-seven pieces of Yellow Lotus Essence after spotting Blood Lotus Essence hidden among them.
• Xiao Yan realized they now needed Ice Spirit Flame Grass and a fourth-tier ice-attribute Magic Core to refine a Blood Lotus Pill, and Xiao Chen told him to rest before their journey.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan left Qingshan Town the next morning and entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range without joining a mercenary group.
• Xiao Yan defeated four Green Vine Lizards and five Crimson Ice Snakes, obtaining a wood-attribute Magic Core from the lizards.
• Xiao Chen found Ice Spirit Flame Grass growing along a steep cliff after they searched the mountain range for most of the day.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan opened the hidden chamber and claimed its treasures, including the map fragment, before Mu Li and his men arrived. The chapter ended with Xiao Chen questioning why Mu Li had come.

• Xiao Chen opened the mechanical stone door and entered the chamber with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan found the Ice Spirit Flame Grass, while Xiao Chen collected the skeleton and its three keys to secure the map fragment.
• Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan opened the Stone Boxes and found the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, Eagle Wings, Mad Lion's Roar, and the Purple Extremity Flame Sun Art.
• Xiao Yan sensed approaching footsteps, and Mu Li entered the chamber with more than a dozen men.
• Mu Li eyed the treasure and the opened boxes, and Xiao Chen asked him what he was doing there.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Chen defeated Mu Li and his mercenaries, while Mu She blamed Xiao Yi Xian for his son's death and used a rumor about her to turn others against her. Xiao Yi Xian was left trapped among the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, unsure who she could trust.

• Xiao Chen ordered Xiao Yan to kill Mu Li and the mercenaries who blocked their way.
• Xiao Yan defeated the mercenaries and killed Mu Li with a single punch.
• Xiao Chen went into the dark passage while Xiao Yan gathered useful items from the bodies.
• He Meng confronted Xiao Yi Xian at her tent and demanded that she come to the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• Mu She accused Xiao Yi Xian and her companions of killing Mu Li, then revealed he had spread a rumor that she possessed an expert's belongings and a Xuan-tier Dou Qi cultivation method.

Xiao Chen and Xiao Yan attacked the Wolf Head Mercenary Group headquarters to rescue Xiao Yi Xian, whom Mu She was threatening over Mu Li’s death. Xiao Chen killed Mu She after asking where Xiao Yi Xian was, while Xiao Yan fought the remaining mercenaries.

• Mu She threatened to force Xiao Yi Xian to bear him a child and harm her if she would not reveal who killed Mu Li, though she insisted she had nothing to do with his death.
• A mercenary reported that two teenage boys had entered the headquarters, and Mu She ordered his men to confront them, believing they were decoys.
• Xiao Chen entered the headquarters, killed two guards, and cut down mercenaries who attacked him.
• Mu She arrived in the courtyard and tried to learn why Xiao Chen had come, while Xiao Yan charged in to fight the other mercenaries.
• Xiao Chen asked where Xiao Yi Xian was, and when Mu She accused him of killing Mu Li, Xiao Chen suddenly pierced Mu She's throat with his sword.

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.