Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan exposed Zhao Jin’s role in a clash with the Ouyang Clan, forcing the Xiao Clan to confront Zhao Jin’s violation of its rules. Zhao Jin’s own slip revealed his guilt, and Xiao Mingyuan called for the Zhao Clan to be punished as Xiao Dingtian watched.

• Xiao Mingyuan confirmed the Xiao Clan rule against provoking the other great clans, and Xiao Yan said he had witnessed Zhao Clan men fighting under Ouyang Clan territory.
• Xiao Mingyuan angrily accused Zhao Jin of defying clan rules and endangering the Xiao Clan, while Zhao Jin claimed Xiao Yan was framing him.
• Xiao Dingtian tried to end the dispute, but Xiao Yan mentioned that an Ouyang Clan Yuan Zun had died in the battle.
• Zhao Jin blurted out that a dozen Origin Kings could not have killed a Yuan Zun, revealing that he knew details he should not have known.
• Xiao Mingyuan declared that the Zhao Clan must be punished, and Xiao Clan disciples joined his call as Zhao Jin looked to Xiao Dingtian for help.

Xiao Dingtian judged Zhao Jin and Xiao Yan after Zhao Jin’s attack on the Ouyang Clan, imposing penalties that threatened both men. Xiao Yan challenged Xiao Dingtian’s reasoning and accepted a duel to secure his chance to attend the clan gathering.

• Xiao Mingyuan demanded that Zhao Jin be punished, but Xiao Dingtian insisted on handling the matter and proposed a verdict in front of everyone.
• Xiao Dingtian stripped Zhao Jin of his honorary elder title and revoked the Zhao Clan’s privileges in Liyang City, while postponing Xiao Yan’s admission and barring him from the clan gathering.
• Xiao Yan argued that his meeting with Ouyang Miao at North Sea Academy was no crime and accused Xiao Dingtian of targeting him without investigating.
• Xiao Dingtian told Xiao Yan to defeat Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin when they returned the next day or leave the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Xiao Dingtian left Zhao Jin to Xiao Mingyuan’s discretion.

Xiao Yan prepared for his battle against Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin while consolidating his cultivation. He discovered that the altered Creation Pill was consuming Bai Hua’s white portion, then met Xiao Mingyuan the next morning as Xiao Feng arrived at the residence.

• Xiao Qingtang led Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan, and Lian'er to their residence in the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan warned Xiao Yan that Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin had been Two-Star Yuan Zong years earlier and might now be at least Four-Star Yuan Zong.
• Xiao Yan cultivated through the night to consolidate his recent breakthrough, then saw that black was gradually overtaking the white portion of the pill formed from Bai Hua and the Creation Pill.
• Xiao Mingyuan worried that Xiao Yan had accepted a battle against Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin, but Xiao Yan said he could not avoid Xiao Dingtian's challenge.
• Xiao Feng arrived at the courtyard as Xiao Yan and Xiao Mingyuan spoke.

Xiao Feng tried to dissuade Xiao Yan from fighting Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin, but Xiao Yan refused, furious that the Xiao Clan had failed to protect Bai Hua. Xiao Tian then brought a formal invitation, and Xiao Yan sealed his commitment to the fight, causing his name to appear on the clan’s martial arena stele.

• Xiao Feng visited Xiao Yan and warned that fighting Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin would leave him certain to lose.
• Xiao Yan rejected Xiao Feng’s concern and angrily confronted Xiao Mingyuan over the clan’s failure to intervene when Bai Hua was in danger.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Feng and Xiao Mingyuan away, then returned to his room to rest.
• Xiao Tian arrived and told Xiao Feng he had come to summon Xiao Yan to the fight, not dissuade him.
• Xiao Tian gave Xiao Yan a formal invitation, and Xiao Yan opened it and stamped it with his flame mark.
• Xiao Yan’s name appeared beneath Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin’s on a stone stele in the martial arena.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Xiao Clan martial arena for his challenge match against Xiao Lei, a clash tied to whether Xiao Yan and Xiao Xuan could remain in the clan. As Xiao Yan approached the platform, Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin recognized his Three-Star Yuan Zong cultivation and learned he was also an accomplished alchemist, making Xiao Lei take him more seriously.

• Xiao Dingtian grew impatient at Xiao Yan’s absence and ordered a guard to summon him, threatening to declare him the loser if he did not arrive within half an hour.
• Xiao Yan entered the arena with Xiao Mingyuan, Xiao Feng, Xiao Tian, and their companions, drawing an uproar from the crowd.
• Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin sensed that Xiao Yan was a Three-Star Yuan Zong and privately questioned why they had been ordered to suppress him.
• Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin discussed their absent siblings and their sister’s near-tier-seven alchemy.
• Xiao Zhuobin mentioned that Xiao Yan was also an alchemist, and Xiao Lei grew solemn as Xiao Yan approached the platform.

Xiao Yan faced Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin in a battle to prove he deserved to attend the clan gathering and remain in the Xiao Clan. Though Xiao Lei offered to have Xiao Zhuobin fight him first, Xiao Yan challenged them both at once.

• Xiao Dingtian told Xiao Yan that he would have to leave the clan if he lost, and Xiao Yan calmly accepted the condition.
• Xiao Dingtian and Xiao Qian discussed Xiao Xuan’s unusual cultivation and the possibility that his cultivation method was responsible.
• Xiao Lei reassured Xiao Yan that he belonged in the clan and proposed that Xiao Zhuobin fight him first.
• Xiao Yan said he wanted to prove his worth to the elders and asked Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin to attack him together.

Xiao Yan challenged Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin at the same time, revealing his strength as a Three-Star Yuan Zong and surprising the Xiao Clan. He gained the upper hand by wielding a flame-wreathed ruler and using the Great Dao of the Void, but the two opponents prepared to unleash their signature techniques against him.

• Xiao Yan summoned his black ruler, covered it in flames, and announced that he would fight Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin together.
• Xiao Zhuobin revealed that he was a Four-Star Yuan Zong, while Xiao Lei revealed that he was a Five-Star Yuan Zong.
• Xiao Yan charged the pair and traded blows with Xiao Lei, then used the Sevenfold Heaven-Breaking Ruler to break Xiao Zhuobin's sword shadows.
• Xiao Yan evaded Xiao Zhuobin's sword strike with the Great Dao of the Void and sent him flying, surprising both opponents.
• Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin regrouped and challenged Xiao Yan to pit his Fire God's Wrath against their Thunder God's Fury and Wind God's Fury.

Xiao Yan fought Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin after they unleashed their self-created wind and lightning arts. The battle left the arena in ruins, and the brothers prepared a combined technique for Xiao Yan to face.

• Xiao Lei summoned the Thousand Lightning Domain while Xiao Zhuobin unleashed Falling Wind Abyss against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan combined Giant Elephant Art with Fire God's Wrath and charged at the two men.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Lei, and Xiao Zhuobin exchanged powerful blows, reducing the fighting arena to rubble.
• Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin joined their wind and thunder energies into a single phantom and challenged Xiao Yan to defeat it.
• Xiao Yan accepted the challenge, opened his eyes with Heavenly Flames flaring, and called for them to fight.

Xiao Yan faced Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin in the ruined arena as they unleashed their powerful fusion Dou Technique, Wind and Lightning Fury. He answered with a Fire Lotus formed from four Heavenly Flames, and the chapter ended as their attacks collided.

• Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin warned Xiao Yan about their wind-and-lightning fusion Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan revealed four Heavenly Flames, shocking the spectators, and fused them together.
• Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhuobin strengthened their apparition and named their attack Wind and Lightning Fury.
• Xiao Yan formed and launched his Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Wind and Lightning Fury and the Fire Lotus collided in an earth-shaking impact.

Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus endured Xiao Lei and his companion’s Wind and Lightning Fury, reversing the apparent outcome of the battle. The arena was left in ruins, and the spectators realized Xiao Yan had won.

• Xiao Xuan formed a barrier around the arena and reinforced it when the battle’s energy threatened to break through.
• Xiao Lei and his companion’s purple lightning and cyan wind battered Xiao Yan’s Fire Lotus, leading the spectators to believe Xiao Yan had lost.
• Xiao Dingtian thought he had won his wager and regretted that Xiao Yan would have to leave the clan.
• Xiao Qian and Xiao Dingtian noticed something emerging as the arena’s energy dissipated.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Lei, and his companion stood wounded above the crater while the Fire Lotus’s tiny core and flame remained intact.
• Xiao Lei and his companion gave Xiao Yan thumbs-up, and the spectators recognized that Xiao Yan had won.

After stabilizing his cultivation, Xiao Yan began refining the high-grade tier-seven Ancestor Transformation Pill, which required his only stalk of Sumeru Grass. He completed the extraction of every ingredient and began the crucial Pill Fusion, leaving the pill’s success or failure undecided.

• Xiao Yan recovered in a secret chamber and consolidated the power he had gained from his breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan reviewed the Ancestor Transformation Pill’s refinement method and prepared the rare ingredients and Luo Heavenly Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan used Heavenly Flames to refine the ingredients over three days, carefully processing each one.
• Xiao Yan combined the purified ingredients in the cauldron and began Pill Fusion for his single attempt at refining the pill.

Xiao Yan spent two months forcing the ingredients for the Ancestor Transformation Pill to fuse, producing an embryonic pill and beginning Pill Nurturing. During his seclusion, Xiao Xuan finally broke through the barrier between Origin Emperor and Yuan Zong.

• Xiao Yan used his Spiritual Strength and Heavenly Flames to control the unstable medicinal ingredients until they fused into a fist-sized mass.
• Xiao Yan slowly condensed the medicinal mass into a misshapen embryonic pill and prepared to begin Pill Nurturing.
• Two months passed as the Xiao Clan’s younger generation intensified its cultivation ahead of the clan gathering, and some members advanced.
• Xiao Xuan repeatedly attacked the barrier between Origin Emperor and Yuan Zong with sword Qi.
• Xiao Xuan’s invisible sword struck the barrier, and he broke through as energy from heaven and earth poured into him.

Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough stirred reactions from Xiao Zhen, an old man outside the Xiao Clan, and Ouyang Yu, whose Orchid Sword appeared to respond to Xiao Xuan. A month later, Xiao Tian’s attempt to obtain a Barrier-Breaking Pill failed, but a tier-seven pill began forming at Xiao Yan’s residence, where Xiao Mingyuan guarded the courtyard.

• Xiao Zhen sensed Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough and wondered whether Xiao Yan had helped him advance.
• Ouyang Yu’s Orchid Sword reacted to Xiao Xuan’s breakthrough, so Ouyang Yu sealed it away and accepted that the Ouyang Clan had lost the sword.
• Elder Xiao Ming failed to refine a Barrier-Breaking Pill for Xiao Tian, leaving Xiao Jinghong worried about the approaching clan assembly.
• Xiao Jinghong, Xiao Tian, and Xiao Ming noticed signs that a tier-seven pill was forming at Xiao Yan’s residence and hurried there.
• Xiao Jinghong and the others found Xiao Mingyuan guarding the courtyard, where someone was refining the pill.

Xiao Yan’s tier seven pill stunned the Xiao Clan, revealing that he was both a formidable cultivator and a Tier Seven Alchemist. As Pill Lightning struck the Northern King, the puppet absorbed its power and displayed signs of belonging to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Xiao Mingyuan and the Xiao Clan elders gathered outside Xiao Yan’s residence after a tier seven pill stirred the thunderclouds.
• Xiao Mingyuan revealed that Xiao Yan was refining the pill, shocking Xiao Jinghong, Xiao Tian, Elder Xiao Ming, and the other onlookers.
• Xiao Jinghong realized Xiao Yan’s alchemy achievements would make his standing in the Xiao Clan unshakable.
• A bolt of Pill Lightning descended toward the courtyard, and the Northern King shot out of Xiao Yan’s sealed room to meet it.
• The Northern King absorbed the lightning, grew more lustrous, and developed dragon scales across his head and neck.
• Xiao Mingyuan recognized that the puppet came from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

The Northern King absorbed nearly a hundred bolts of Pill Lightning, raising his strength to Five-Star Yuan Zong while Xiao Yan completed the Ancestor Transformation Pill. The Xiao Clan elders began coveting the puppet, and Xiao Yan emerged to present the pill to Xiao Xuan.

• The Northern King swallowed successive bolts of Pill Lightning, growing stronger as the Xiao Clan elders watched in astonishment.
• After the thunderclouds unleashed a massive final bolt, the Northern King swallowed it and reached Five-Star Yuan Zong strength.
• The Xiao Clan elders imagined nurturing the Northern King into a Yuan Zun or Yuan Sheng and realized they would need Xiao Yan to surrender control of him.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the completed Ancestor Transformation Pill from the medicinal cauldron.
• Xiao Yan stepped outside, saw the gathered figures, and told Xiao Xuan that he had completed the Ancestor Transformation Pill.

Xiao Yan presented the Ancestor Transformation Pill to Xiao Xuan, who revealed that he had already advanced and no longer needed it. When Xiao Huan demanded that Xiao Yan surrender the Northern King to the Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan ordered the puppet to attack him, leaving Xiao Huan badly injured.

• Xiao Yan offered the Ancestor Transformation Pill to Xiao Xuan, who nodded to show that he had advanced beyond needing it.
• Xiao Jinghong realized the pill could help Xiao Tian break through to Yuan Zong, but Xiao Tian said Xiao Yan would not give it to him.
• Xiao Huan and three other Yuan Zong experts descended and demanded that Xiao Yan contribute the Northern King to the clan.
• Xiao Yan refused Xiao Huan's demand and challenged him to defeat the Northern King if he wanted to decide the puppet's fate.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Northern King to kill Xiao Huan, and the puppet crushed Xiao Huan in their first exchange.

The Northern King nearly killed Xiao Huan after Xiao Mingyuan chose not to intervene, but Xiao Jinghong stopped the final blow. Xiao Jinghong then kicked the battered Xiao Huan away, leaving the gathered Xiao Clan members stunned.

• The Northern King pursued Xiao Huan and battered him, while Xiao Mingyuan withheld help to avoid turning Xiao Yan against the clan.
• Xiao Mingyuan prepared to intervene when the Northern King charged at Xiao Huan for a potentially fatal blow.
• Xiao Jinghong stepped between them and stopped the Northern King, who had halted as soon as he intervened.
• Xiao Huan begged Xiao Jinghong to uphold the clan's rules against Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Jinghong kicked Xiao Huan away, stunning everyone present.

Xiao Yan watched Xiao Jinghong punish Xiao Huan, then learned Xiao Xuan had advanced to Three-Star Yuan Zong. Xiao Jinghong asked Xiao Yan for an Ancestor Transformation Pill for Xiao Tian, and Xiao Yan gave one to him after recognizing Xiao Jinghong’s intervention had shown a rare act of compassion in the clan.

• Xiao Jinghong stripped Xiao Huan of his inner cabinet elder position and confined him for a month after kicking him away.
• Xiao Yan returned to the main hall with Xiao Xuan and learned Lian'er had been cultivating for over three months; Xiao Xuan revealed he had reached Three-Star Yuan Zong.
• Xiao Jinghong arrived with Xiao Tian and asked Xiao Yan to give Xiao Tian an Ancestor Transformation Pill in exchange for ending their enmity and helping him in clan affairs.
• Xiao Tian rejected the request and tried to leave, but Xiao Yan threw him a jade bottle containing the pill.
• Xiao Yan explained that Xiao Jinghong’s earlier intervention to save Xiao Huan had moved him, then left for his bedroom.

After recovering from refining the Ancestor Transformation Pill, Xiao Yan studied the Eight Emperor Seal Techniques and began cultivating them in the Xiao Clan’s back mountain. As he trained for the approaching clan gathering, a strange pill in his Storage Ring quietly fused into a new power.

• Xiao Yan left the Xiao Clan disciples watching him and flew to a secluded cliff in the back mountain.
• Xiao Yan studied the Eight Emperor Seal Techniques from the jade slip Ouyang Miao had given him and learned that its final three seals could rival a Saint Class Dou Technique when combined.
• Xiao Yan practiced the first five seals and blasted a boulder with their newly strengthened power.
• Xiao Yan continued cultivating the Eight Emperor Seal Techniques while the strange pill in his Storage Ring underwent a mysterious fusion.

After mastering the Mountain and River Seal, Xiao Yan discovered that the fused medicinal pill had transformed Bai Hua into a ruthless monster. As the creature attacked Xiao Yan, Xiao Xuan appeared and struck it back.

• Xiao Yan practiced the Mountain and River Seal in the Xiao Clan's back mountains and decided to return after making progress.
• Xiao Yan's Storage Ring shook violently, and he found that the jade box holding the fused medicinal pill had shattered.
• Black mist erupted from the box, withering the surrounding forest, and revealed Bai Hua in black robes with eerie white eyes.
• Xiao Yan realized that a monster had taken over Bai Hua's body and froze as it lunged at his throat.
• A golden barrier stopped the attack, and Xiao Xuan appeared, pushed Xiao Yan away, and struck the monster in the chest.