Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan forced three Origin Transformation Realm experts to pay for the damage they caused before unveiling the five Origin Gathering Pills he had refined. He sent the Northern King to devour their Pill Lightning, but the lack of a major change left him wondering how to help it advance further.

• Xiao Yan stopped the three injured experts as they tried to flee, pressured them into leaving more than a hundred Spirit Stones each, and sent them running.
• The people of the city cheered for Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yi Xian, Liu Jin, and the others saw how greatly his victory strengthened Xiao Gate’s standing.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined five Origin Gathering Pills after three months of work and sent the Northern King to confront the resulting Pill Lightning.
• The Northern King smashed apart the lightning and spent half an hour devouring it as Xiao Yan hoped it would advance toward the Origin Return Realm.
• The Northern King returned with little visible change, and Xiao Yan concluded that fifth-tier Pill Lightning was no longer enough to greatly improve its strength.

Xiao Yan reviewed Xiao Gate’s growth in Feng City and offered Origin Gathering Pills and an Ultimate Transformation Pill to persuade three experts to accompany him to the Western Region. The three agreed to prepare for the journey, which Xiao Yan planned to begin in three months.

• Xiao Yi Xian reported that Xiao Gate had recruited many Dou Di experts and taken control of Feng City’s businesses.
• Fang Tonghui and Liu Cheng brought their families into Feng City and pledged their families’ loyalty to Xiao Gate.
• Xiao Yan presented three Origin Gathering Pills, then explained that he had founded Xiao Gate to gather strength against a powerful enemy in the Western Region.
• Xiao Yan promised the three experts the pills and an additional Ultimate Transformation Pill if they accompanied him, while leaving their families in the Northern Region.
• The three experts agreed to go, and Xiao Yan told them to prepare for the journey in three months.

Xiao Yan strengthened Xiao Gate, then chose a select group of experts to accompany him to the Western Region while the rest remained to guard Feng City. After traveling through a teleportation array, he arrived in the Western Region and declared that he had returned for Ye Luotian.

• Xiao Gate rapidly expanded its territory and forces, but infighting and defections left it disorganized and reduced its Dou Di experts to fifty-seven.
• Xiao Yan appeared above Feng City and promised rewards to those who joined his campaign into the Western Region, then tested them with his oppressive presence.
• Six people earned fifth-tier medicinal pills within ten minutes, and after Xiao Yan eased the pressure, thirty-one High-Level Dou Di joined his expedition.
• Xiao Yan led the chosen experts, alongside Liu Jin and two others, through Wu City's teleportation array to the Western Region.
• Xiao Yan arrived in the Western Region and said he had returned for Ye Luotian.

Xiao Yan led the Xiao Gate to Qingtuo Mountain, where they crushed the Withered Leaf Sect’s remaining elders and questioned a grand elder about Ye Luotian. After hearing the old man’s report, Xiao Yan killed him and headed for the Xilin Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yan led the Xiao Gate south to Qingtuo Mountain, the former territory of the Four Great Sects.
• Xiao Yan’s group killed several Withered Leaf Sect elders and captured a yellow-robed grand elder for questioning.
• Xiao Yan pressured the grand elder into revealing Ye Luotian’s situation, and his expression grew increasingly grim as he listened.
• Xiao Yan killed the grand elder and ordered the group to go to the Xilin Mountain Range.

Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian invaded the Xilin Mountain Range to capture Leng Bingshuang, leaving Tian Ying and his allies facing an overwhelming attack. Leng Bingshuang finally intervened to protect Tian Ying, and the invaders recognized her Great Dao of Ice.

• The yellow-robed elder explained that Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian had spent four years conquering the Western Region and had expanded into the Western Lin Region.
• Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian attacked the Xilin Mountain Range, burning its forests and slaughtering magical beasts as they sought to capture Leng Bingshuang.
• Tian Ying confronted the invaders, while the blue-robed middle-aged man taunted Leng Bingshuang about her injuries and cold poison.
• The middle-aged man attacked Tian Ying, but Lin She took the blow and was badly wounded.
• The middle-aged man struck at Tian Ying again, and Leng Bingshuang appeared with a mirror of ice to block the attack.

Qin Shuo and Leng Bingshuang fought in the Xilin Mountain Range after Qin Shuo learned that Xiao Yan had cured her cold poison, but Ye Luotian intervened when Leng Bingshuang gained the advantage. As Ye Luotian moved to kill her, a black-robed figure appeared and struck at him with pale-blue flames.

• Leng Bingshuang revealed that her cold poison was gone and faced Qin Shuo, who planned to avenge his son and settle their old score.
• Qin Shuo and Leng Bingshuang exchanged hundreds of blows, and Leng Bingshuang gradually gained the upper hand.
• Ye Luotian struck Leng Bingshuang from behind, wounding her and disrupting her Origin Qi.
• Ye Luotian injured Tian Ying and the others, then approached Leng Bingshuang and raised his palm to kill her.
• A black-robed figure appeared before Leng Bingshuang and slammed a pale-blue-flame-covered hand into Ye Luotian's palm.

Xiao Yan arrived in time to save Leng Bingshuang and Tian Ying's group, then fought Qin Shuo and the Qinhuang Lost Valley experts. Ye Luotian escaped with the badly injured Qin Shuo, while Leng Bingshuang suddenly fell unconscious as ice spread over her body.

• Xiao Yan blasted Ye Luotian away, gave Leng Bingshuang a medicinal pill, and carried her to Tian Ying and the others.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Qin Shuo and attacked him as Qin Shuo charged with two short spears.
• Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flames melted Qin Shuo's spears, and his fist broke Qin Shuo's chest before Xiao Yan killed the other Qinhuang Lost Valley experts.
• Ye Luotian returned, blasted Xiao Yan back, and fled with Qin Shuo.
• Leng Bingshuang lost consciousness as a thin layer of ice spread across her body.

Xiao Yan struggled to save Leng Bingshuang after she swallowed an extreme cold ice soul to gain power against Qin Shuo. As he tried to contain its deadly cold, Leng Bingshuang began absorbing it herself, and Xiao Yan recognized signs of an extreme yin physique.

• Xiao Yan discovered that the extreme cold ice soul Leng Bingshuang had swallowed was freezing her organs and draining her vitality.
• He melted the ice around her and used Heavenly Flames to protect her mind and limbs from the cold Qi.
• Xiao Yan spent two hours expelling the yin-cold power from Leng Bingshuang's meridians while carefully avoiding further injury.
• He began refining the power remaining in the extreme cold ice soul, but a suction force in Leng Bingshuang's Qi vortex pulled the cold power toward it.
• Leng Bingshuang's body grew colder and ice-blue lines appeared on her arms, leading Xiao Yan to identify her condition as an extreme yin physique.

Leng Bingshuang’s Extreme Yin Physique erupted after she absorbed the Extreme Cold Ice Soul, and she attacked Xiao Yan while freezing the volcanic cavern around them. As her power neared the Origin Return Realm, Xiao Yan resolved to stop her by using his fiery physique and taking responsibility for what followed.

• Leng Bingshuang awakened with her eyes turned pale and attacked Xiao Yan with a chilling presence.
• Xiao Yan dodged her rapid strikes as she unleashed the Great Dao of Frost and froze the cavern, including its magma.
• Xiao Yan recalled Yao Lao’s theory that an utterly firm and fierce physique might counter the Extreme Yin Physique.
• With Leng Bingshuang close to the Origin Return Realm, Xiao Yan used the Three Image Technique, covered himself in flames, seized her hand, and tore her dress apart with an invisible force.

Xiao Yan advised Cai’er about moving forward and tried to mediate the tension between Xiao Yi Xian and Leng Bingshuang, only for both women to slap him. A messenger from Qinhuang Lost Valley delivered Xiao Yan a jade slip and was killed by Leng Bingshuang.

• Xiao Yan sent Tian Ying and the thirty-odd Dou Di experts to rest in his cave dwelling.
• Xiao Yan stopped Cai’er from confronting Leng Bingshuang and urged her to think about her own path instead of remaining trapped in the past; Cai’er left after remembering her brother.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Leng Bingshuang exchanged a tense stare, then slapped Xiao Yan together when he stepped between them.
• A yellow-robed Mid Seven-Star Dou Di from Qinhuang Lost Valley delivered a jade slip to Xiao Yan and tried to flee.
• Leng Bingshuang struck the messenger from behind Xiao Yan and killed him instantly.

Xiao Yan and his allies learned that Qinhuang Lost Valley and Ye Luotian’s forces had challenged them to fight at Shahepu in ten days, threatening the Xilin Mountain Range. After discovering the enemy had more Origin Transformation Realm experts than expected, Xiao Yan realized he needed reinforcements and thought of Lin She.

• Leng Bingshuang killed the yellow-robed man, and Xiao Yan played a recording in which Qin Shuo and Ye Luotian challenged them to battle at Shahepu in ten days and threatened to destroy the Xilin Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan crushed the jade slip and ordered Xiao Gate to prepare for the battle, then froze when Leng Bingshuang and Xiao Yi Xian stared at him coldly.
• Xiao Yi Xian briefed Xiao Yan and Xiao Gate’s senior members on the coming battle, and Tian Ying estimated that Qinhuang Lost Valley commanded more than fifty Dou Di experts.
• Leng Bingshuang revealed that Qinhuang Lost Valley had two additional Origin Transformation Realm experts, worsening Xiao Yan’s concern that Ghost Hall would also send powerful fighters.
• Xiao Yan realized he needed outside help and, after looking at Lin She, recalled another possible Origin Transformation Realm expert in the Western Region.

Xiao Yan brought Leng Bingshuang, Tian Ying, and the others to the lake containing the entrance to the Ancient Ruins and tried to reopen it with his Spiritual Strength. After the entrance resisted him for half an hour, a scarlet blood arrow shot out, and Leng Bingshuang rushed to shield him.

• Xiao Yan led the group to the lake, where Lin She and Leng Bingshuang recognized the entrance to the Ancient Ruins.
• Xiao Yan explained that he hoped to reopen the ruins and recruit the powerful expert inside, while Leng Bingshuang warned him about the danger.
• Xiao Yan teased Leng Bingshuang about worrying for him, and she blushed and turned away without getting angry.
• Xiao Yan used his Spiritual Strength to part the lake and reveal the scarlet barrier, but he could not open the entrance.
• After Xiao Yan strained against the barrier for half an hour, a blood arrow shot toward him, and Leng Bingshuang darted in front of him to block it.

Xiao Yan returned to the ruins with Lin She and sought out the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape. The ape awoke beneath the stone platform, and Xiao Yan prepared to free it from the seals.

• Lin She dispelled the blood arrow and opened the ruins entrance with his control over the Ancient Ruins.
• Xiao Yan and Lin She entered the ruins after Xiao Yan used pale blue flames to clear away the blood mist.
• Xiao Yan used his Spiritual Strength to locate the ferocious presence in the wooded mountains and led Lin She to it.
• Xiao Yan found the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape beneath a stone platform surrounded by six standing pillars and a broken seventh.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape awoke and roared, then called for help destroying the seven seals.

Xiao Yan returned to the Ancient Ruins and bargained with the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape to secure its freedom in exchange for joining his faction. After Xiao Yan broke the seal, he learned that the ape’s cultivation had fallen to Eight-Star Dou Di because another seal had suppressed its strength.

• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape recognized Xiao Yan as the human who had spied on him years earlier and was shocked by his rapid growth.
• Xiao Yan offered to free the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape if it joined his faction, and the ape refused.
• Xiao Yan and Lin She began to leave, prompting the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape to agree to join him.
• Xiao Yan used the Sevenfold Heaven-Breaking Ruler to smash the six stone pillars and release the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape.
• Xiao Yan questioned why the freed ape was only at Eight-Star Dou Di, and the ape explained that one of its two seals had suppressed its cultivation.

Xiao Yan learned that the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape could recover his cultivation with a Purple Jade Pill, but refining it in the ten days before Xiao Gate’s battle seemed impossible. The ape revealed a time-slowing node beneath the ruins’ stone platforms, and Xiao Yan entered the cave to see if he could use it.

• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape told Xiao Yan that a fifth-tier Purple Jade Pill could restore his cultivation and offered to join Xiao Yan’s faction if he refined it.
• Xiao Yan said there was not enough time before the battle with Qinhuang Lost Valley and started to leave with Lin She.
• The ape explained that a node beneath the seven stone platforms slowed time, potentially giving Xiao Yan enough time to make the pill.
• Xiao Yan instructed Lin She to watch the ape and leaped into the cave beneath the platforms.
• Xiao Yan found the energy node with his Spiritual Strength, approached it, and felt his Great Dao of the Void gather around him.

Xiao Yan took control of the Great Dao of the Void energy node and began refining the Purple Jade Pill inside its time-slowing space. Outside the ruins, Xiao Yi Xian asked Leng Bingshuang to walk with her so they could speak privately.

• Xiao Yan merged his Power of the Great Dao with the energy node, gaining control of it and discovering its time-slowing effect.
• Xiao Yan told Lin She that he had taken control of the node, while Lin She guarded the cave and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape waited for the Purple Jade Pill.
• Xiao Yan activated the node’s power around himself, then summoned the Luo Heavenly Cauldron and began refining the pill with five sets of ingredients.
• After two outside days passed, Lin She and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape remained in a standoff while Leng Bingshuang and the others waited outside the Ancient Ruins.
• Xiao Yi Xian approached Leng Bingshuang and asked her to take a walk in the woods to talk, and Leng Bingshuang agreed.

Xiao Yan completed the Purple Jade Pill and faced the Pill Lightning alone, using the lightning to strengthen himself. After entering the thunderclouds, he devoured and refined their remaining lightning with twenty black curtains, including energy nodes from the cave array.

• Pill Lightning appeared over the cave, and Lin She and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape realized Xiao Yan had completed the Purple Jade Pill.
• High-level magical beasts charged toward the cave as Xiao Yan emerged and punched away the first bolt of lightning, then refined the lightning that entered his body.
• Xiao Yan withstood dozens of lightning bolts, using their power to raise his cultivation while Lin She and the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape watched in shock.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Wasteland-Spanning Finger against a stronger bolt, and their collision opened the void, where Xiao Yan disappeared.
• The Pill Lightning weakened and began drawing its power back as Xiao Yan was revealed inside the thunderclouds, refining lightning with twenty black curtains, half of them from the cave’s energy nodes.

Xiao Yan absorbed the lightning power, strengthening his cultivation and his Power of the Great Dao, then gave the Purple Jade Pill to the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape. When the ape recovered only to the Middle Origin Transformation Realm and tried to leave, Xiao Yan subdued him with Heavenly Flames and forced him to honor his promise before leading him and Lin She out of the Ancient Ruins.

• Xiao Yan refined the lightning power and advanced his cultivation beyond the Late Origin Transformation Realm.
• Xiao Yan gave the Purple Jade Pill to the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape, who swallowed it and broke the seal on his cultivation.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape recovered only to the Middle Origin Transformation Realm and accused Xiao Yan of deceiving him.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape tried to leave the ruins, but Xiao Yan covered him in Heavenly Flames and warned him not to mobilize his Origin Qi.
• The Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape agreed to join Xiao Yan's faction, and Xiao Yan led him and Lin She toward the edge of the Ancient Ruins.

Xiao Yan returned from the Ancient Ruins with the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape and reunited with his companions, then met Murong Xuan, who had come to see Leng Bingshuang. After learning that Murong Xuan had once been targeted by Qinhuang Lost Valley, Leng Bingshuang invited him to join the battle against them in ten days.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Ancient Ruins with the Heaven-Reaching Giant Ape, whose bloodline fear made him tremble before Leng Bingshuang.
• Xiao Yan and his companions returned to the depths of the Xilin Mountain Range and found Murong Xuan surrounded by wary Xiao Gate experts.
• Murong Xuan recognized Xiao Yan, was shocked by his cultivation, and explained that he had come to speak with Leng Bingshuang.
• Xiao Yan recalled how Ye Luotian and Qin Yun had nearly killed Murong Xuan, prompting Leng Bingshuang to resolve to make Qinhuang Lost Valley pay.
• Leng Bingshuang told Murong Xuan to stay and reclaim his honor in the decisive battle against Qinhuang Lost Valley in ten days.

Murong Xuan was drawn into Xiao Gate’s preparations for its looming battle with Qinhuang Lost Valley, while Xiao Yan welcomed another Origin Transformation Realm visitor, Bai Zhan. Bai Zhan said he had come to share important information and asked whether Xiao Yan remembered the Withered Leaf Gu.

• Leng Bingshuang and the others told Murong Xuan that Xiao Gate would fight Qinhuang Lost Valley, and he reluctantly agreed to take part.
• Murong Xuan explained that his clan wanted Leng Bingshuang to visit, but he stayed vague when she pressed him for details.
• On the fourth day of the waiting period, Xiao Yan and the others sensed a powerful newcomer approaching the Xilin Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan recognized the visitor as Bai Zhan, who revealed that he knew about Xiao Yan’s recent fight with Qinhuang Lost Valley and denied ties to Qinhuang Lost Valley or Ye Luotian.
• Bai Zhan said he had come to give Xiao Yan important information and asked whether he remembered the Withered Leaf Gu.