Chapter Summaries

After surviving Yan Mo’s devastating attack, Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached lesser mastery of the Heavenly Severing Steps’ Wind Movement Realm. When the Third Hall Master recognized the technique, Xiao Yan prepared to kill him, then began forming hand seals as the confrontation continued.

• The Third Hall Master searched the battlefield for Xiao Yan and blamed Old Ghost Yan Mo for his disappearance.
• Xiao Yan appeared behind the Third Hall Master, battered but in much better condition than the injured attackers.
• The Third Hall Master punched Xiao Yan, only to discover he had struck an afterimage.
• The Third Hall Master recognized Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Severing Steps, and Xiao Yan resolved to kill him to protect the technique’s secret.
• Xiao Yan recalled breaking through to lesser mastery of the Wind Movement Realm as he dodged Yan Mo’s fatal attack.
• The Third Hall Master guarded against Xiao Yan while Xiao Yan gathered energy, then began forming hand seals.

Xiao Yan used the threat of Buddha's Fury Reincarnation to distract the Third Hall Master while he prepared the Human Class Dou Technique. The Third Hall Master consumed six injured figures to heal and strengthen himself, and the chapter ended as Xiao Yan unleashed his attack.

• Xiao Yan began forming the seals for Buddha's Fury Reincarnation, terrifying the Third Hall Master with the revelation that it was a Human Class Dou Technique.
• The Third Hall Master realized Xiao Yan had used his words to distract him while preparing the attack.
• The Third Hall Master summoned black fog to devour six injured figures, leaving Old Ghost Yan Mo untouched.
• The Third Hall Master's injuries healed and his strength increased as black armor formed over his body.
• Xiao Yan completed the technique, raised his hand toward the Third Hall Master, and declared, "Human Class Dou Technique, Buddha's Fury Reincarnation!!"

Xiao Yan and the Third Hall Master unleashed their strongest attacks against each other, leaving both gravely wounded. The Third Hall Master took a medicinal pill and collapsed before reaching Xiao Yan, while both began recovering where they had fallen.

• Xiao Yan drove Buddha's Fury Reincarnation through the Third Hall Master's energy shields, which were absorbed into the attack as it advanced.
• The Third Hall Master recalled his remaining shields and met Xiao Yan's attack with Yin Soul Palm.
• The clash erupted into a massive explosion that blasted Xiao Yan and the Third Hall Master away.
• Xiao Yan struck the ground, suffering broken bones and tendons, while the Third Hall Master was also badly injured but remained in better condition.
• The Third Hall Master took a medicinal pill, staggered toward Xiao Yan, then collapsed and sat cross-legged to refine the pill's power.

Gravely wounded after fighting the Third Hall Master, Xiao Yan escaped to a mountain forest and began treating his injuries with Tier Nine Recovery Pills. Meanwhile, Yuan Qing arrived at the battlefield, mistakenly believed Xiao Yan had died, and vowed to avenge him before leaving.

• Xiao Yan used a Tier Nine Recovery Pill to treat his shattered meridians, then kicked the approaching Third Hall Master down and fled the ruins.
• Xiao Yan collapsed in a mountain forest, woke to Gu You's voice, and resumed refining the pill despite his worsening injuries.
• Xiao Yan took another Tier Nine Recovery Pill and focused on healing while Yuan Qing arrived at the devastated battlefield and found the Third Hall Master and Old Ghost Yan Mo gone.
• Yuan Qing mistakenly believed Xiao Yan was dead and swore to avenge him, but the heavenly thunder that was supposed to seal his oath dispersed.
• Xiao Yan sneezed while refining the pill, cursed whoever he thought was wishing him dead, and Yuan Qing flew away in another direction.

After recovering for half a month, Xiao Yan nearly healed from his injuries and used a Supreme Unity Blood Recovery Pill to repair the remaining damage. Once he finished refining it, he collapsed into an unconscious sleep.

• Xiao Yan completed his recovery cultivation, and Gu You remarked on his resilience and Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline.
• Xiao Yan blamed the man in black for his injuries, then used his Soul Power to catch and cook a wild rabbit.
• The next day, Xiao Yan swallowed a Supreme Unity Blood Recovery Pill and began refining its potent medicinal energy.
• After six hours, Xiao Yan finished refining the pill, which repaired his internal injuries, and he fell unconscious on the grass.

Half a month after his battle with the Third Hall Master, Xiao Yan had recovered from his injuries but found the Heavy Xuan Ruler badly damaged. He tried to repair it with refined energy from magical beasts, but the ruler remained unchanged, and he called out to the hidden observer watching him.

• Xiao Yan recovered from his injuries and examined the cracked Heavy Xuan Ruler, recalling his time with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan searched the mountain forest with his Soul Power and killed the magical beasts he found there.
• Xiao Yan refined the beasts' Magic Cores into pure energy and used it with Heavenly Flames in an attempt to repair the Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• A young man in a long green robe watched Xiao Yan from a nearby ancient tree and decided to let him do the work for him.
• After dozens of hours, Xiao Yan saw that the Heavy Xuan Ruler had not been repaired and called on the hidden observer to reveal himself.

Xiao Yan followed Luo Jin, a young Four-Star Half-Emperor who had been watching him repair the Heavy Xuan Ruler. Luo Jin hinted that he could help repair it, and the two introduced themselves, leaving Xiao Yan with a possible solution for his weapon.

• Xiao Yan sensed a young man in green robes watching him and bluntly told him to leave.
• Luo Jin departed into the forest, and Xiao Yan pursued him after suspecting he knew something about the Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Xiao Yan and Luo Jin crossed the forest, alarming a powerful ninth-tier Magical Beast with their passing presence.
• Luo Jin remarked on Xiao Yan's speed, and Xiao Yan said he had followed because Luo Jin could repair his ruler.
• Luo Jin introduced himself, and Xiao Yan gave the name Yan Xiao.

Luo Jin told Xiao Yan that the Heavy Xuan Ruler was close to breaking and offered a way to repair it using Flame-Fallen Black Iron. The material was guarded by a powerful Cloud-Splitting Wolf, so Xiao Yan agreed to consider joining Luo Jin in confronting it.

• Luo Jin warned Xiao Yan that the Heavy Xuan Ruler’s deep cracks could cause it to break, and that forcing the damage together would make it worse.
• Luo Jin asked whether the Heavy Xuan Ruler was made from Flame-Fallen Black Iron, then revealed that he knew where a large piece could be found.
• Luo Jin explained that an eight-star Half-Emperor-level magical beast guarded the Flame-Fallen Black Iron, and Xiao Yan decided the ruler was worth the risk.
• Luo Jin identified the guardian as a Cloud-Splitting Wolf living alone on Qinggang Mountain in the Lianyun Mountain Range, and described its formidable strength.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the Cloud-Splitting Wolf’s power and blamed Ghost Fiend Gate for forcing him to act.

Xiao Yan and Luo Jin prepared to hunt the Cloud-Splitting Wolf, waiting until daylight because it was stronger at night and feared sunlight. Luo Jin explained their plan and asked Xiao Yan to retrieve the Heavenly Palace Jade Essence from the wolf's cave, leaving their hunt about to begin.

• Xiao Yan asked Luo Jin when they would set out, and Luo Jin said they should avoid fighting the Cloud-Splitting Wolf at night because moonlight strengthened it.
• Xiao Yan cultivated while Luo Jin hunted rabbits, then they shared a meal after Luo Jin's poorly cooked meat proved inedible.
• At dawn, Xiao Yan and Luo Jin flew deeper into the forest and discussed how to defeat the Cloud-Splitting Wolf.
• Luo Jin proposed luring the wolf from its cave, having Xiao Yan block the entrance while sunlight weakened it, and then attacking it with a Dou Technique.
• Luo Jin asked Xiao Yan to retrieve the Heavenly Palace Jade Essence and offered him the Heavenly Palace Flowers and an enormous favor in return.

Xiao Yan and Luo Jin entered the Lianyun Mountain Range to seek the Heavenly Palace Jade Essence, while Gu You revealed how valuable it was. Inside the Cloud-Splitting Wolf’s cave, Xiao Yan countered Yun Lang’s roar, and Yun Lang appeared ready to confront them.

• Gu You told Xiao Yan that Heavenly Palace Jade Essence could greatly increase his strength, and Xiao Yan decided to help Luo Jin obtain it.
• Xiao Yan and Luo Jin entered the Lianyun Mountain Range and approached the Cloud-Splitting Wolf’s cave.
• Yun Lang sensed the two approaching and dismissed them as weak intruders on his territory.
• Inside the cave, Yun Lang used his Cavern Mountain Roar against Xiao Yan and Luo Jin, but Xiao Yan countered it with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath.
• Luo Jin praised Xiao Yan for suppressing the roar, and Yun Lang roared that the intruders had provoked him at Qinggang Mountain.

Xiao Yan and Luo Jin were caught by Yun Lang as they tried to leave the Cloud-Splitting Wolf's cave, and Xiao Yan battled the Eight-Star Half-Emperor with his powerful techniques. After Yun Lang nearly defeated him, Xiao Yan secretly entered the cave to search for the Heavenly Palace Jade Essence while Luo Jin stayed behind to hold Yun Lang off.

• Yun Lang struck Xiao Yan into Qinggang Mountain, and Luo Jin rushed to help him before a dangerous flame inside Xiao Yan burned Luo Jin's soul.
• Xiao Yan transformed into his golden giant form and clashed with Yun Lang, trading Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and Cavern Mountain Roar before using Earth Core Flame to counter Yun Lang's attack.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Lang fought with their physical strength, but Yun Lang gained the advantage and shattered Xiao Yan's Vajra Glazed Body with a punch.
• Xiao Yan evaded Yun Lang using his movement technique and told Luo Jin he had entered the cave to find the Heavenly Palace Jade Essence.
• Luo Jin charged at Yun Lang and resolved to hold him off until Xiao Yan returned.

Xiao Yan searched the Cloud-Splitting Wolf’s cave while Luo Jin fought Yun Lang outside and used a replica Taiyi Star Disk to restrain him. After taking severe injuries, Luo Jin performed a blood-seal technique that raised his strength to that of a Five-Star Half-Emperor, and began forming another powerful technique as Yun Lang remained trapped.

• Xiao Yan illuminated the Cloud-Splitting Wolf’s cave with Heavenly Flames, sent fireballs carrying his Soul Power through its passages, and continued searching while speaking with the recovered Huo Yi.
• Luo Jin struggled against Yun Lang, then summoned a replica Taiyi Star Disk and struck him with it, sending their clash into the void.
• The collision badly injured Luo Jin, while Yun Lang let out a pained howl; inside the cave, Xiao Yan asked Gu You to check on Luo Jin and then hurried deeper.
• Yun Lang roared that he would kill Luo Jin once he broke the Taiyi Star Disk formation, which could suppress but not fully subdue him.
• Luo Jin spat out blood, formed a blood seal with more than three hundred hand seals, and raised his strength to that of a Five-Star Half-Emperor.
• Luo Jin changed his hand seals again before Yun Lang, preparing another powerful move.

While Xiao Yan searched the Cloud-Splitting Wolf's cave for Flame-Fallen Black Iron, Luo Jin unleashed the Annihilation Palm against Yun Lang and was blasted away. Xiao Yan broke through a hidden barrier and found the Flame-Fallen Black Iron, prompting the resting Cloud-Splitting Wolf to awaken in fury.

• Xiao Yan explored the caves with his Soul Power but could not find the Flame-Fallen Black Iron behind the rock walls.
• Luo Jin completed the Annihilation Palm, and Yun Lang took the blow while trapped in the Taiyi Seven Star Formation.
• The Annihilation Palm exhausted Luo Jin and left Yun Lang wounded but still trapped and slowly recovering.
• Gu You prompted Xiao Yan to examine a seemingly solid wall, and Xiao Yan smashed through it to reveal a curtain of light.
• Xiao Yan shattered the curtain with Eight Extremes Collapse and discovered a thirty-foot piece of Flame-Fallen Black Iron.
• The Cloud-Splitting Wolf opened his eyes and erupted with rage when the barrier broke.

Xiao Yan broke through the barrier in Yun Lang’s cave and found the Heavenly Que Demon Flower growing from heavenly palace jade essence, while Luo Jin struggled to hold off Yun Lang outside. After harvesting the flower and jade essence, Xiao Yan learned that the treasure would not raise Luo Jin’s strength as much as he had expected.

• Xiao Yan used his soul power to send the flame-fallen black iron into a hidden space, then repeatedly struck the Dou Qi screen with Eight Extremes Collapse until it shattered.
• Yun Lang broke free of the star disc and immortal threads with a roar, then attacked Luo Jin as Luo Jin used a precious pill to recover his injuries.
• Xiao Yan found the Heavenly Que Demon Flower beyond the screen, and Gu You warned him to pull it up with the heavenly palace jade essence rather than cut it.
• Xiao Yan used the Vajra Glazed Body to pull the flower and its roots from the ground, then removed the jade essence without taking it for himself.
• Yun Lang sent Luo Jin crashing into a mountain, but Luo Jin rose and gathered his remaining Dou Qi to fight on.
• Gu You explained that much of the jade essence’s power had already dissipated, so refining it would raise Luo Jin only to quasi-eight-star half-emperor at most.

Xiao Yan rescued Luo Jin and fought Yun Lang, an Eight-Star Half-Emperor, after breaking through to Three-Star Half-Emperor with the Heavenly Que Demon Flower. After a prolonged stalemate, Xiao Yan launched a mysterious black pillar of light that devoured space and threatened to turn the battle around.

• Yun Lang shattered Luo Jin's defense and nearly killed him, but Xiao Yan arrived, rescued him, and gave him a medicinal pill.
• Xiao Yan confronted Yun Lang over the Heavenly Que Demon Flower and countered his Billows of the Four Seas with the power of his Heavenly Flames.
• Yun Lang stunned Xiao Yan with Cavern Mountain Roar, but Huo Yi controlled Xiao Yan's body and struck Yun Lang with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Yun Lang transformed into his true wolf form and fought Xiao Yan through seven hundred exchanges, while Xiao Yan used his Heavenly Flames and Heavy Xuan Ruler to hold him at bay.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Lang clashed with Flame Splitting Tsunami and a cross-shaped blast of Dou Qi, then a pitch-black pillar of light shot through the flames and began devouring space.

Xiao Yan and Yun Lang clashed in a battle of powerful techniques, with Yun Lang using Heavenly Dipper Protection to withstand Buddha's Fury Reincarnation. As Yun Lang activated Heavenly Wolf Howls at the Moon and began recovering his strength, Xiao Yan brought out the second-ranked Heavenly Flame, Nihility Devouring Flame.

• Yun Lang used Heavenly Dipper Protection to absorb the surrounding energy and shield himself from Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Reincarnation.
• Xiao Yan consumed ninth-grade Qi Recovery Pills to restore his Dou Qi while Yun Lang poured his strength into maintaining the shield.
• Yun Lang attacked Xiao Yan's soul, but Xiao Yan used Heaven-Spanning Hand to seize Yun Lang's Soul Power.
• Yun Lang severed his connection to part of his Soul Power and activated his innate ability, Heavenly Wolf Howls at the Moon, summoning a brilliant moon that helped restore his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan revealed Nihility Devouring Flame, and Luo Jin recognized it as the second-ranked Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan severed his connection to the Nihility Devouring Flame and faced the Cloud-Splitting Wolf while nearly exhausted. With Gu You’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame, he began preparing a four-flame Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus as the wolf’s attack closed in.

• Luo Jin realized Xiao Yan held only a wisp of Nihility Devouring Flame’s origin, and Xiao Yan erased the Soul Imprint connecting him to it.
• Hei Yan sensed Xiao Yan sever the connection and said he wanted to see whether the Flame Emperor could make him bow his head.
• The Cloud-Splitting Wolf drew power from the moon and shattered Xiao Yan’s Buddha's Fury Reincarnation, leaving him close to defeat.
• Xiao Yan asked Gu You to lend him Bone Spirit Cold Flame, then swallowed the Nihility Devouring Flame to replenish his strength and blasted apart the wolf’s attack.
• Xiao Yan summoned Bone Spirit Cold Flame, Nihility Devouring Flame, Purifying Lotus Demon Flame, and Emperor Flame to form his most powerful Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, despite Huo Yi warning that the fusion might fail.

Xiao Yan fused four peak Heavenly Flames into Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus while the Cloud-Splitting Wolf launched a deadly attack. The Fire Lotus overwhelmed the wolf’s beam, and Xiao Yan ordered it to explode as the wolf realized he had been tricked.

• Xiao Yan painfully fused the nihility devouring flame and bone spirit cold flame, then combined them with the purifying lotus demon flame and Emperor Flame.
• As the Cloud-Splitting Wolf sent another Heavenly Wolf Howls at the Moon attack toward him, Xiao Yan used essence blood to stabilize the newly formed Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan launched the four-layer Fire Lotus at the incoming beam, and the Cloud-Splitting Wolf recognized its power as a High-Level Human Class Dou Technique.
• The Fire Lotus destroyed the beam and drifted toward the Cloud-Splitting Wolf, who offered Xiao Yan treasures and safe passage in exchange for stopping it.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Fire Lotus could not be recalled and commanded it to explode, prompting the Cloud-Splitting Wolf to accuse him of trickery.

Xiao Yan’s Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus completed Dou Technique Spirit Manifestation, revealing itself as a High-Level Human Class Dou Technique, and he unleashed it against the Cloud-Splitting Wolf. The final explosion overwhelmed Xiao Yan and Luo Jin with immense pressure, leaving their fate uncertain.

• The Fire Lotus gathered black specks of light and a trace of Xiao Yan’s Soul Power, forming an illusory figure identical to him.
• Luo Jin identified the phenomenon as Dou Technique Spirit Manifestation, while the Cloud-Splitting Wolf refused to believe it and became increasingly delusional.
• Xiao Yan sent the Fire Lotus toward the Cloud-Splitting Wolf, and successive blasts devastated the surrounding land and sky.
• The blast pressure knocked Luo Jin downward, and Xiao Yan caught him while admitting he could not fully control the technique.
• The Fire Lotus’s final explosion released overwhelming pressure over Xiao Yan and Luo Jin, deepening the abyss beneath them.

Xiao Yan and Luo Jin recovered after their battle, and Xiao Yan brought out flame-fallen black iron while seeking help to repair the Heavy Xuan Ruler. Luo Jin pointed him toward Elder Luo in Ancient Wilderness City, where Xiao Yan also planned to attend the Alchemist Grand Meeting and confront someone waiting for him.

• Xiao Yan emerged from cultivation and showed Luo Jin the heavenly palace jade essence, while Luo Jin recognized that Xiao Yan had no designs on it.
• Xiao Yan pulled a massive block of flame-fallen black iron from a spatial rift, astonishing Luo Jin with its weight and Xiao Yan's strength.
• Xiao Yan asked Luo Jin about weapon refinement, but Luo Jin admitted he had never learned the craft.
• Luo Jin told Xiao Yan that Elder Luo in Ancient Wilderness City could repair the Heavy Xuan Ruler, and Xiao Yan decided to go there.
• Luo Jin explained that the Alchemist Grand Meeting would award its winner a fragmentary formula for a tier-six medicinal pill, though no Emperor Grade Pill Formula was available.