Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan studied the Origin Martial Continent’s cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, then encountered an arrogant young man and woman at an inn. When their guard attacked him, Xiao Yan effortlessly sent the guard crashing into a pillar.

• Xiao Yan read about the ranks and powers of cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, including the dangerous Saint Taboo techniques.
• Xiao Yan finished reading and went to the Ten Thousand Blessings Pavilion to eat.
• A young man in green and a woman named Sister Rong approached Xiao Yan’s table and demanded that he leave.
• The young man ordered Elder Mo to attack Xiao Yan, while he and Sister Rong warned the guard not to dirty the table.
• Xiao Yan stopped Elder Mo’s punch with one hand and pushed him into a pillar, frightening the old man.

Xiao Yan faced the Wu Clan after its elder and young master attacked him, while the Liu Clan head, Liu Huabai, chose to protect him. The Wu Clan declared it would assault the Liu Clan the next day, and Xiao Yan accepted Liu Huabai’s invitation to stay at the Liu Clan residence.

• The black-clad elder tried to flee with the green-clad man and the girl, but Xiao Yan immobilized him and knocked the other two unconscious with soul pressure.
• The elder sent the green-clad man back to warn the Wu Clan head and then falsely claimed he was related to the Liu Clan through Liu Xiang.
• The Wu Clan head arrived and joined the elder in a surprise attack on Xiao Yan, but Liu Huabai appeared and blocked them.
• Liu Huabai rejected the Wu Clan head’s offer to spare his clan and stood between him and Xiao Yan, prompting the Wu Clan head to threaten an assault the next day.
• Liu Huabai invited Xiao Yan to stay at the Liu Clan residence, and Xiao Yan left with him and Liu Xiang.

At the Liu Clan residence, Xiao Yan revealed overwhelming strength after Liu Huabai committed the clan to fighting the Wu Clan, silencing dissent among the clan elders. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan offering to cure Liu Huabai’s hidden injury.

• Liu Huabai asked Xiao Yan where he came from, and Xiao Yan said he was a wandering cultivator with no fixed home.
• Liu Huabai rallied the Liu Clan to join forces with Xiao Yan and fight the Wu Clan, and the clan members shouted their support.
• Five Liu Clan elders challenged Liu Huabai’s decision, and Xiao Yan sent them flying with a single wave before sparing their lives at Liu Huabai’s request.
• Liu Huabai ordered the elders taken to the clan prison and accepted Xiao Yan’s warning that he needed to manage his clan properly.
• Xiao Yan followed Liu Huabai to his bedroom, identified his hidden injury, and offered to remove it himself.

Xiao Yan healed Liu Huabai and watched as the Wu Clan prepared to destroy the Liu Clan. Liu Huabai rallied his people to fight, and the chapter ended with the Wu Clan’s hemp-robed grand elder revealing he had become a Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yan examined Liu Huabai’s accumulated injuries and gave him a pill to heal them.
• Wu Bai summoned the Wu Clan’s forces after the grand elder emerged from seclusion, and they marched on the Liu estate.
• Liu Huabai urged his frightened clan members to fight, prompting Xiao Yan to consider helping them.
• The Liu Clan faced the Wu Clan at the estate gates, where the injured first elder joined Liu Huabai.
• The hemp-robed elder revealed that he had survived and attained Dou Zun strength, shocking the Liu Clan’s first elder.

Xiao Yan intervened when the Wu Clan attacked the Liu Clan, killing Wu Kui and the invading clan members with overwhelming power. He rewarded Liu Xiang with an Eighth-Rank Alchemy Grandmaster’s insights but said Liu Xiang would need to become an Alchemy Grandmaster before he could qualify as Xiao Yan’s disciple.

• Liu Huabai recognized Wu Kui as the Wu Clan’s former First Elder and led the Liu Clan in a desperate charge against the Wu Clan.
• As Wu Kui moved to attack Liu Xiang, Xiao Yan stopped him from inside the estate and appeared at the gate.
• Wu Kui tried to flee after Xiao Yan refused to spare the invaders, but Xiao Yan struck him down and killed the rest of the Wu Clan members present.
• Xiao Yan asked Liu Xiang about his alchemy and gave him a scroll containing an Eighth-Rank Alchemy Grandmaster’s lifetime insights.
• Liu Xiang tried to bow and call Xiao Yan his master, but Xiao Yan said he would only consider it after Liu Xiang reached the level of an Alchemy Grandmaster.

Liu Huabai and the Liu Clan thanked Xiao Yan and pledged to follow him, then he led Xiao Yan to the clan library. Xiao Yan discovered that the library plaque contained an ancestor’s cultivation insight, and Liu Huabai broke through to Early-Stage Dou Zun before offering the plaque to Xiao Yan with the elders’ support.

• Liu Huabai and the Liu Clan elders knelt before Xiao Yan, thanked him, and vowed to follow his guidance; Xiao Yan asked to visit their library.
• Liu Huabai led Xiao Yan to the library, where Xiao Yan noticed the golden plaque and learned it had stood there for centuries.
• Xiao Yan explained that a Liu Clan ancestor had infused the plaque with cultivation insights, and Liu Huabai removed it and began cultivating on the stone cushion beneath it.
• Liu Huabai used the plaque to advance from Eight-Star Dou Zong to Early-Stage Dou Zun while Xiao Yan and the library guardians watched.
• Liu Huabai offered the plaque to Xiao Yan in gratitude, and Liu Xincheng publicly supported the decision on behalf of the elders.

Xiao Yan accepted the Liu Clan’s request to help preserve its future in exchange for the Gold-Inscribed Plaque’s inheritance. After swearing a Lightning Punishment Oath to protect the clan, he made the Liu Clan’s ancestor swear an oath binding the clan in return.

• Liu Xincheng apologized to Xiao Yan, who accepted the Liu Clan’s offer to use the Gold-Inscribed Plaque.
• Xiao Yan entered the plaque’s inner world and met the Liu Clan’s powerful ancestor, who asked him to help restore the clan’s standing.
• The ancestor offered Xiao Yan his cultivation insights, and Xiao Yan agreed to protect the Liu Clan when it faced danger.
• The ancestor asked Xiao Yan to swear a Lightning Punishment Oath, and Xiao Yan swore to safeguard the Liu Clan for as long as he lived.
• Xiao Yan insisted that the ancestor also swear an oath binding the Liu Clan, and the ancestor agreed.
• The Liu Clan members felt the oath’s binding force as thunder sounded outside the plaque, while Xiao Yan and the ancestor continued their conversation.

Xiao Yan received Liu Feng’s inheritance and endured the dangerous process of refining its power. After half a month, he broke through and released a presence that shook Qingyang City and the beasts across the region.

• Liu Feng introduced himself as the former Wind Emperor and warned Xiao Yan that separating the inheritance from his remnant soul could fail.
• Liu Feng successfully formed the inheritance into a pale cyan energy ball, then vanished after Xiao Yan took it.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the energy ball, returned from the golden inscribed plaque, and used his Heavenly Flames to refine its power despite severe pain.
• Xiao Yan cultivated for half a month while Liu Huabai and the Liu Clan’s grand elder waited outside the ruined bamboo grove.
• Xiao Yan broke through, unleashed a towering presence and roar that shook Qingyang City and subdued nearby magical beasts, then flew out to meet Liu Huabai and the others.

Xiao Yan confronted Liu Huabai about the Liu Clan ancestor’s scheme, then searched the clan library for knowledge about rare medicinal ingredients. He remained in the Liu Clan for several days, and when Liu Huabai invited him to Qingyang City’s annual auction, Xiao Yan agreed to attend.

• Xiao Yan told Liu Huabai that the ancestor’s objective had mostly been achieved, warned him about the heavenly lightning oath, and threatened the Liu Clan if its members caused trouble.
• Xiao Yan entered the library pavilion and planted a small emerald-green flame in the ground among the ruins, which later became a lush bamboo grove.
• Xiao Yan found a book describing rare medicinal ingredients, including the purple wisteria tendril and evil soul demon fruit, and spent hours reading it.
• Xiao Yan stayed at the Liu Clan for several days, reassuring Liu Huabai that his presence would deter trouble in Qingyang City.
• After Xiao Yan had been in the other world for a month, Liu Huabai invited him to the annual auction, and Xiao Yan agreed to go.

Xiao Yan accompanied Liu Huabai and the Liu Clan to Qingyang City's annual auction, where he made clear that he would protect the clan from anyone who tried to destroy it. Xiong Man pledged to support the Liu Clan after Xiao Yan left, and then led the group into the auction house.

• Liu Huabai took Xiao Yan toward the Heavenly Cloud Auction House and explained the Heavenly Cloud Chamber of Commerce's influence.
• The Liu Clan gathered outside its residence with a carriage, but the Blazing Sun Colt trembled before Xiao Yan, who chose to walk to the auction.
• The crowd recognized Liu Huabai's group at the auction house, and Xiong Man silenced the onlookers before greeting them.
• Xiao Yan said he had been entrusted with helping the Liu Clan gain a foothold in the southwestern region and warned that he would retaliate against anyone who tried to wipe it out.
• Xiong Man pledged to stay in Qingyang City and help Liu Huabai build up the city and protect the Liu Clan, then led the group into the auction.

Xiao Yan and the others watched the Qingyang City Heavenly Cloud Auction begin, where bidders competed for a rare sword and a seventh-tier Sect Breaking Pill. Liu Huabai outbid Mo Bei with one hundred spirit coins, leaving the pill’s sale unresolved.

• Xiao Yan, Liu Huabai, and the others entered a luxurious private room at the auction house with Xiong Man.
• The auction opened, and the Jade Water Orchid Sword sold to a man in green for fifteen million gold coins.
• The auctioneer presented a low-grade seventh-tier Sect Breaking Pill that could improve a Peak Dou Emperor’s chance of reaching Dou Zong by half.
• Xiong Man left the private room, and after he killed cultivators who tried to seize the pill, bidding among the major factions began.
• Mo Bei raised the Sect Breaking Pill’s price to seventy million gold coins, forcing Liu Huabai to stop bidding temporarily.
• Liu Huabai returned with a bid of one hundred spirit coins, and Mo Bei withdrew in chagrin.

Liu Huabai bought a Sect Breaking Pill, and Xiao Yan learned about Spirit Coins while the auction continued. After Mo Bei won a Scarlet Fire Vermilion Fruit, Xiong Man announced that an unknown senior had more items to auction, and bidding would resume using Spirit Coins.

• Liu Huabai won the seventh-tier Sect Breaking Pill for one hundred Spirit Coins, angering the other Liu Clan elders.
• Xiao Yan asked Liu Huabai to explain Spirit Coins, and Liu Huabai described their value, uses, and grades.
• The auctioneer offered a four-hundred-year-old Scarlet Fire Vermilion Fruit, and Mo Bei secured it for three thousand Spirit Coins after prolonged bidding.
• Xiong Man stopped the auction’s closing announcement and said he would offer more items on behalf of a senior.
• Xiong Man announced that the auction would continue and that the new items could only be bought with Spirit Coins.

Xiong Man auctioned an Eighth-Tier Clear Spirit Pill and an advanced earth-rank cultivation method entrusted by Xiao Yan, while Mo Bei tried to seize the second item. Xiao Yan’s chilling warning stopped him, and the auction continued under strict observance of the rules.

• Xiong Man introduced the Eighth-Tier Clear Spirit Pill, and Mo Bei and the other bidders competed for it.
• A bidder in Xiao Yan’s VIP box offered five thousand Spirit Coins, winning the pill for Liu Huabai.
• Xiao Yan briefly opened his eyes before falling asleep again as Xiong Man introduced the Thunder Dragon Howling Heaven Method.
• Mo Bei tried to approach the stage to inspect the method, but Xiong Man stopped him with a Dou Qi attack and reprimanded him.
• Xiao Yan warned that he would personally punish anyone who disrupted the auction again, and Mo Bei backed down.
• Xiong Man resumed the auction, and the crowd followed the rules without further threats or attempts to seize the items.

Xiao Yan’s intimidating presence forced bidders to obey his rules as the Heavenly Cloud Auction House sold his items, including a powerful lightning cultivation method and Dou Technique. After the auction ended, Xiao Yan returned to the Liu residence and counted 280,000 spirit coins in earnings before going to sleep.

• Xiong Man presented the Thunder Dragon Howling Heaven Method and its complementary Thunder Dragon Breaks Heaven Style, prompting eager bidding.
• Mo Bei tried to secure the set for 10,000 spirit coins, but Xiao Yan pressured him, struck him down, and made him pay all the spirit coins in his Storage Ring.
• Xiong Man sold the set to Mo Bei for 28,000 spirit coins, and bidders thereafter kept item prices at 10,000 or more to avoid Xiao Yan’s displeasure.
• The auction continued through the day, ending with a short, plump merchant buying the final consigned item for 40,000 spirit coins.
• Xiong Man thanked Xiao Yan and declared the auction concluded, after which Xiao Yan returned to the Liu residence and counted 280,000 spirit coins in earnings.

Liu Huabai and Liu Xincheng forced the Liu Clan elders to confront the danger they had brought upon themselves by disrespecting Xiao Yan, then ordered them to kneel and seek his forgiveness. While the elders waited outside his room, Xiao Yan finished cultivating and opened the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art scroll.

• A Liu Clan elder insulted Xiao Yan, so Liu Huabai and Liu Xincheng struck him and sent him crashing through the hall doors.
• Liu Xincheng explained that Liu Kai had nearly been killed, and Liu Huabai ordered the elders to kneel outside Xiao Yan's room until he forgave them.
• The elders reluctantly gathered in Xiao Yan's courtyard, where Liu Clan disciples watched until they were driven away.
• Liu Huabai told Liu Xincheng that the elders' fate depended on Xiao Yan's mercy, and the two men left them to decide what to do.
• Xiao Yan finished cultivating, opened his eyes, and unfurled a scroll titled Nine Revolutions Avatar Art.

Xiao Yan discovered how to begin cultivating the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art, then left Qingyang City to train in the Ancient Desolate Forest. He struggled to form and split the first soul avatar into nine, finding the technique far harder to start than the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body.

• Xiao Yan explored the scroll's vast Void Space and realized it contained the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art's cultivation method: nine figures representing its introductory stage.
• Xiao Yan resolved to seek Elder Hai in the Northern Region to gain enough strength to protect himself, then spent five days cultivating in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan emerged to find the Liu Clan elders still kneeling; he released them and gave several elders pills before leaving Qingyang City.
• Several days later, Xiao Yan practiced the Nine Revolutions Avatar Art in the Ancient Desolate Forest but repeatedly failed to form and split an illusory soul body into nine avatars.

Xiao Yan successfully condensed nine soul avatars after entering a state of empty clarity, then spent two months refining and tempering them in the Ancient Desolate Forest. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan leaving camp at dawn, his avatars still too fragile to cultivate independently.

• Xiao Yan repeatedly failed to condense a soul phantom until he matched the hand-seal rhythm in a state of empty clarity and formed nine avatars.
• Gu You explained that Xiao Yan had already used his single chance to call on each of the five Heavenly Flame spirits when he asked for help in the Ancient Desolate Forest.
• Xiao Yan caught a rabbit for food as Gu You spoke about the strong preying on the weak.
• Two months after arriving in this world, Xiao Yan used the Fallen Heart Flame and Heavy Soul Beads to temper his nine avatars because he lacked attributed Spirit Stones to give them independent cultivation methods.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan dismissed his avatars and left the forest.

Liu Xincheng gave Xiao Yan the Liu Clan’s treasured Heavenly Severing Steps, which Xiao Yan urgently needed as a movement technique. Xiao Yan thanked the elders with piles of pills and treasures and left them to care for his little beast, while the courtyard grew suddenly hot after he returned indoors.

• Liu Xincheng told Liu Huabai he had decided to give the Liu Clan’s most important possession to Xiao Yan to protect the clan and secure its future.
• Xiao Yan sent Heavy Soul Beads into his nine avatars as Liu Huabai and Liu Xincheng arrived at his courtyard.
• Liu Xincheng presented Xiao Yan with the silver-white scroll of Heavenly Severing Steps, and Xiao Yan happily accepted it because he needed a movement Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan offered Liu Huabai and Liu Xincheng piles of pills and natural treasures as thanks, and asked them to look after his little beast.
• The little beast swallowed an Eighth-Tier Pill, and Xiao Yan returned to his room while the courtyard abruptly became hot and dry.

Xiao Yan refined a vast supply of pills for the Liu Clan and learned from Liu Xincheng about the legendary Heavenly Severing Steps. The Liu Clan revealed that the three techniques of Venerable Heavenly Severing were needed to open his tomb, leaving Xiao Yan with the secrets behind the opportunity awaiting in the Western Region.

• Xiao Yan refined thousands of pills, and Liu Huabai and Liu Xincheng guarded his courtyard when pill Qi formed a dragon.
• Xiao Yan gave the Liu Clan the pills and a Storage Ring of Eighth-Tier Pills for the little beast, warning them not to take them.
• Liu Xincheng urged Xiao Yan to hear an explanation about the Heavenly Severing Steps before he left, and Xiao Yan agreed to listen.
• Liu Xincheng explained that Venerable Heavenly Severing had left three famous Human Class Dou Techniques: the Heavenly Severing Palm, the Heavenly Severing Finger, and the Heavenly Severing Steps.
• Xiao Yan learned that all three techniques were required to open the Tomb of Heavenly Severing, a great treasure of the Western Region.

Xiao Yan learned why Liu Xincheng had given him the Heavenly Severing Steps, then left the Liu Clan to avoid bringing them harm. In Qingyang City, he intervened when a poisonous young girl named Lian'er was threatened and asked her to come with him.

• Xiao Yan learned that Liu Xincheng had given him the Heavenly Severing Steps to befriend him and bind him to the Liu Clan, though he had already decided to protect the clan.
• Xiao Yan told Liu Huabai he would leave the Liu residence that day because he expected a battle and did not want to endanger the Liu Clan, and he left a small furry beast with them.
• While walking through Qingyang City's slums, Xiao Yan found Lian'er confronting two armed men after their companion had died from poison.
• Lian'er released poisonous mist at the men, but Xiao Yan appeared and dispersed it before it could kill them.
• Xiao Yan reassured Lian'er that he would not hurt her and asked her to come with him.