Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xuan emerged from the Tou She Ancient God Jade and confronted Yao Chen, then revealed himself to Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan as an ancestor of the Xiao Clan. He recognized something unusual about Xiao Yan and reflected on his return to the Dou Qi Continent.

• Xiao Xuan appeared beside Yao Chen and stopped him from boasting to Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen sensed Xiao Xuan’s overwhelming presence and apologized after learning he was an ancestor of the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Zhan arrived, greeted Xiao Xuan, and explained to Xiao Yan that he could trust their ancestor.
• Xiao Xuan sent Yao Chen back into Xiao Yan’s ring and said he would make arrangements for him later.
• Xiao Xuan identified Xiao Yan as Xiao Zhan’s son and recognized a faint, unusual presence within him.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Zhan that he had been the Xiao Clan’s patriarch a thousand years earlier and resolved to rise again on the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Xuan revealed how his failed attempt to become a Dou Di had led to the Xiao Clan's decline, then began strengthening its surviving members. The chapter left Xiao Zhan newly empowered and equipped to lead the clan while Xiao Xuan reserved special plans for Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Xuan explained that his failure to break through to Dou Di a thousand years earlier had helped bring about the Xiao Clan's decline.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Zhan to develop the clan and expand its numbers, while Xiao Yan insisted that strength came through struggle.
• Xiao Xuan gathered natural Qi and distributed Dou Qi Seeds among the Xiao Clan members, helping Xiao Zhan advance from Da Dou Shi to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Xuan said he had other arrangements for Xiao Yan, whom he considered the only present-day clansman with promise.
• Xiao Xuan gave Xiao Zhan a powerful wooden sword and a special Dou Qi Seed that could help him reach Dou Zun.

Xiao Xuan explained why he valued Xiao Yan: Xiao Yan’s soul carried traces of another world that might help Xiao Xuan break through to Dou Di. He promised to protect and aid Xiao Yan, but left him to cultivate on his own and charged him with protecting the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Zhan thanked Xiao Xuan for strengthening the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Xuan sent him back to handle clan affairs.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that his unusual soul essence, rather than his early talent, had drawn his attention.
• Xiao Xuan revealed that he knew Xiao Yan came from another world and believed the foreign Origin Qi in his soul could help him break through to Dou Di.
• Xiao Xuan assured Xiao Yan he would keep his origins secret and said Xiao Yan would need to reach Peak Dou Sheng before that power could aid the breakthrough.
• Xiao Yan thanked Xiao Xuan, who asked him to protect the Xiao Clan after the breakthrough and refused to give him a Dou Qi Seed or much direct cultivation help.

Xiao Xuan arranged for Yao Chen to become Xiao Yan’s master and gave Yao Chen a new body. After discovering a cultivation method in Yao Chen’s Storage Ring, Xiao Xuan revealed its connection to Tou She Ancient God and explained that the ancient Dou Di had been a sentient Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Xuan summoned Yao Chen and told him to take Xiao Yan as his disciple and teach him alchemy.
• Xiao Xuan shaped a body from primordial Qi of heaven and earth, then sent Yao Chen’s soul into it.
• Yao Chen thanked Xiao Xuan and promised to treat Xiao Yan as his own, while Xiao Yan performed the ceremony to acknowledge Yao Chen as his master.
• Xiao Xuan searched Yao Chen’s Storage Ring and found a cultivation method whose lingering presence resembled the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Xiao Xuan explained that the method advanced by devouring Heavenly Flames, then revealed that Tou She Ancient God had been a Heavenly Flame that gained sentience.

Xiao Xuan recommended that Xiao Yan cultivate the Flame Mantra and promised to help him find Heavenly Flames. After learning Xun'er was staying with the Xiao Clan, he proposed betrothing her to Xiao Yan, then suggested another Xiao Clan youth when Xiao Yan hesitated.

• Xiao Xuan explained that Tou She Ancient God had reached Dou Di by using the Flame Mantra to devour Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yan trusted Xiao Xuan to choose his cultivation path and agreed to cultivate the Flame Mantra despite its pain.
• Xiao Xuan infused Xiao Yan with soul power and natural Qi, then asked Xiao Zhan how Xun'er had come to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Xuan decided Xun'er should be betrothed to Xiao Yan, and Xiao Zhan agreed while Xiao Yan protested that he saw her as a younger sister.
• When Xiao Yan rejected the match, Xiao Xuan told Xiao Zhan to find another suitable Xiao Clan youth to betroth to Xun'er.

Xiao Xuan arranged for Xiao Yan and Xun'er to be betrothed, then left the Xiao Clan to seek resources and promising youngsters. After surveying the surrounding lands, he took the Amethyst Winged Lion King as his mount and continued cultivating while considering how to create a suitable body for himself.

• Xiao Xuan approved Xiao Yan and Xun'er’s betrothal, and Xiao Yan reluctantly accepted.
• Xiao Xuan instructed Yao Chen and Xiao Zhan to protect the Xiao Clan, then left to gather resources and recruit potential Dou Shengs.
• Xiao Xuan used his Emperor Realm Soul to survey the surrounding region and locate resources and promising youngsters.
• Xiao Xuan captured the Amethyst Winged Lion King and allowed it to bring its cub along as they set off.
• Xiao Xuan cultivated on the journey and considered finding heavenly treasures to forge a body capable of containing his soul.

Xiao Xuan planned to advance his soul and find or create a powerful physical body, then chose Xiao Yi Xian as his first disciple because her Woeful Poison Body had the potential to reach Dou Sheng. He brought her into the forest, where she realized he was a powerful expert and feared she had offended him.

• Xiao Xuan decided to pursue a new path to strength by advancing his Emperor Realm Soul and obtaining or creating a suitable body.
• Xiao Xuan identified Xiao Yi Xian as a promising disciple whose Woeful Poison Body could reach Dou Sheng with proper guidance.
• Xiao Xuan transformed Little Zi into a small purple puppy and promised to give him a Transformation Pill later.
• Xiao Xuan introduced himself to Xiao Yi Xian and said he would take her as his disciple.
• Xiao Xuan transported Xiao Yi Xian and Little Zi to an open stretch of forest, where Xiao Yi Xian recognized his ability to stand in midair and feared she had offended a Dou Huang expert.

Xiao Xuan revealed Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, took her as his disciple, and prepared to bring her away with her companions. As they set off, he lifted Little Zi’s size restriction, startling Xiao Yi Xian with the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s true form.

• Xiao Xuan demonstrated his power by condensing the essence of the mountain forest into a core and gave it to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Xuan activated Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and explained that it could aid her cultivation without preventing her from becoming an alchemist.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted Xiao Xuan as her master, and he explained how the essence core and poison could help her control and cultivate her constitution.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked to bring Little Lan, so Xiao Xuan found the Blue Eagle, improved his intelligence and foundation, and let him join them.
• Xiao Yi Xian played with Little Zi and teased him with Little Lan, while Xiao Xuan lifted Little Zi’s size restriction and made her scream.

Xiao Xuan traveled toward the Tagor Desert with Xiao Yi Xian and the shrunken magical beasts, sensing a Heavenly Flame and finding other promising talents along the way. He reached Qing Lin, a girl with Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and approached her as Xiao Yi Xian reacted jealously to the prospect of gaining a junior sister.

• Xiao Xuan ended his teasing of Xiao Yi Xian and continued the journey toward the Tagor Desert on the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Xuan sensed a weak Heavenly Flame and reflected on Xiao Yan's remarkable luck in encountering it.
• Xiao Xuan shrank the magical beasts to the size of cats and dogs and gave nearby Xiao Clan descendants Dou Qi Seeds before sending them home.
• Xiao Xuan sensed his disciple Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and told Xiao Yi Xian that he would take another disciple.
• Xiao Xuan sealed off the nearby area and gently addressed Qing Lin, while Xiao Yi Xian grew upset at the thought of a junior sister.

Xiao Xuan took Qing Lin as a disciple and gave her and Xiao Yi Xian a Heaven Tier foundation-building technique. He then led them toward a nearby Heavenly Flame for a clan member, but sensed that he had arrived too late.

• Xiao Yi Xian persuaded Qing Lin to become Xiao Xuan’s disciple, and Qing Lin agreed to help protect his clan when she grew stronger.
• Xiao Xuan began instructing Qing Lin to strengthen her Dou Qi, will, and soul, then gave both girls the Yuan Transformation Art.
• Xiao Yi Xian complained that Xiao Xuan had not given her a cultivation technique, so he told her to practice the same art as Qing Lin.
• Xiao Xuan said they were heading to a nearby trace of a Heavenly Flame that a youngster in his clan needed, and the group set off.
• Xiao Xuan sensed the heat beneath a stretch of desert, then realized he had arrived too late.

Xiao Xuan led Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian through the desert, where Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils awakened under threat. After stabilizing her, Xiao Xuan helped her subdue a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which became a bracelet and a resource for her cultivation.

• Qing Lin sensed that a powerful snake-type magical beast had been in the area and urged Xiao Xuan not to pursue it, but he reassured her and decided to continue.
• Xiao Xuan identified the Earth Flame Green Lotus and its seeds, then prepared to leave after gathering them, but a beast hidden in the lava attacked.
• Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils awakened during the attack, and Xiao Xuan calmed her, condensed her surging power into an essence core, and helped her reach Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Xuan suppressed the attacking Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and encouraged Qing Lin to try subduing it.
• Qing Lin used her awakened pupils to absorb the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake into a mysterious space, where it became a bracelet around her wrist.

Xiao Xuan arrived at Queen Medusa’s secluded island with his disciples as she attempted to evolve using the Green Lotus Core Flame. After surviving the Heavenly Flame and a lightning tribulation, she transformed into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, though she remained asleep.

• Xiao Xuan brought Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin into the Snake-People lands to watch Queen Medusa’s evolution and claim her as a guardian Magical Beast for the Xiao Clan.
• Queen Medusa endured the Green Lotus Core Flame’s destructive power rather than abandon her attempt to evolve.
• A heavenly tribulation struck Queen Medusa, and Xiao Xuan shielded his disciples while allowing her to face it without interference.
• After the lightning destroyed most of her old body, Xiao Xuan sensed Queen Medusa had transformed into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Xiao Xuan retrieved the sleeping little snake and concluded that her body and soul had changed, with Queen Medusa’s consciousness still likely to awaken.

Xiao Xuan returned to Wutan City with treasures and the Green Lotus Core Flame, intending to build up the Xiao Clan and give Xiao Yan the Heavenly Flame. He reprimanded Xiao Zhan for delaying the clan’s expansion, then summoned Xiao Yan and Yao Chen and was surprised to see Xun’er with them.

• Xiao Xuan gave the snake he named Little Qi to Qing Lin after Xiao Yi Xian refused to take it.
• Xiao Xuan returned to Wutan City with a haul of treasures and planned to make it the prosperous heart of the northwest.
• Xiao Xuan discovered that Xiao Zhan had not begun taking the surrounding cities, punished him with a soul restriction, and ordered him to seize Wutan City after reflecting.
• Xiao Xuan summoned Yao Chen and Xiao Yan to show them the Green Lotus Core Flame, then noticed that Xun’er had come with them.

Xiao Xuan announced that Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er would marry that night, despite their protests, and insisted their marriage would benefit the Xiao Clan. The chapter ended with him identifying himself as Xiao Xuan and warning that the Gu Clan had forgotten the Xiao Clan's might.

• Gu Xun'er greeted Xiao Xuan as a senior of the Xiao Clan and revealed that her father was the Ancient Clan Chief, Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Xuan told Gu Xun'er that he had arranged her marriage to Xiao Yan and declared that they would marry that night.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er objected, citing their youth, the need for Gu Clan elders to attend, and the risks to Gu Xun'er's bloodline.
• Xiao Xuan summoned Xiao Zhan and ordered him to prepare the wedding and ensure the couple consummated the marriage.
• When Xiao Zhan hesitated and Gu Xun'er protested, Xiao Xuan warned that the Gu Clan had forgotten the Xiao Clan's might and declared, "Xiao Xuan!"

Xiao Xuan rejected Xiao Yan’s objection to a marriage with Gu Xun'er, then took the Origin of her Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame. The story left Gu Xun'er without the Flame Origin and Xiao Yan determined to pursue his future with her himself.

• Gu Xun'er recognized Xiao Xuan as the legendary Xiao Clan patriarch, and Xiao Xuan declared that Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er would marry that night.
• Xiao Yan objected to forcing Gu Xun'er into marriage, and Xiao Xuan warned he would no longer support their match with Gu Yuan.
• Xiao Yan insisted he believed he could make Gu Xun'er happy, and Gu Xun'er felt reassured by his support.
• Xiao Xuan demanded a trace of Gu Xun'er's Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame Origin and dismissed her warning about the Gu Clan's reaction.
• Xiao Xuan effortlessly pulled the sealed Flame Origin out of Gu Xun'er.

Xiao Xuan extracted most of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame Origin from Gu Xun'er, then gave Yao Chen the Green Lotus Core Flame for Xiao Yan to refine. He insisted Xiao Yan begin refining flames despite being only a Dou Shi, and remembered that Little Zi could breathe fire.

• Xiao Xuan pressed most of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame Origin back into Gu Xun'er, restricted her from revealing him, and summoned Yao Chen to treat her injuries.
• Yao Chen mourned the Eighth-Tier Spirit Recovery Pills he had lost during refinement, then agreed to Xiao Xuan's orders.
• Xiao Xuan gave Yao Chen the Green Lotus Core Flame and told him to supervise Xiao Yan's subduing it.
• Yao Chen argued that Xiao Yan's Dou Shi cultivation was too low, but Xiao Xuan blamed Xiao Yan's slow progress on focusing too much on building a foundation.
• Xiao Xuan recalled that Little Zi could breathe fire and decided the flame-breathing creature could help temper Xiao Yan before he refined the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Zhan asked Xiao Xuan and Yao Chen to support the Xiao Clan’s plans to control the Jia Ma Empire, but Xiao Xuan instead assigned Xiao Yan a trial against the Misty Cloud Sect’s Dou Zong. The chapter ended with Xiao Xuan urging Xiao Yan and Gu Xun’er to marry and have two children within three years.

• Xiao Zhan asked Yao Chen to help the Xiao Clan take control of the Jia Ma Empire, and Yao Chen advised the clan to act behind the scenes.
• Xiao Xuan sensed the Hun Clan’s influence at Misty Cloud Mountain and identified a Dou Zong there as a likely target.
• Xiao Zhan mentioned Xiao Yan’s broken engagement to Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan to face the Misty Cloud Sect’s Dou Zong after refining a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan reluctantly accepted the trial and thought he would need Yao Chen’s help to stand a chance.
• Xiao Xuan declared Nalan Yanran a reward for Xiao Yan, then told Xiao Yan and Gu Xun’er to marry and have two children in three years.

Xiao Xuan visited the Misty Cloud Sect and freed Yun Shan from a soul-control technique planted by the Hall of Souls. He told Yun Shan that a young member of his clan would visit the sect for a trial, and Yun Shan asked whether they should stage a fight.

• Xiao Xuan sent Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan, and Gu Xun'er away, then told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to find a place to stay and cultivate.
• Xiao Xuan traveled through a Space Wormhole to the Misty Cloud Sect to investigate the presence of someone from the Hall of Souls.
• Xiao Xuan found Yun Shan recovering from his forced breakthrough to Dou Zong and recognized that the Hun Clan's pill had planted black Qi in his soul.
• Xiao Xuan removed the black Qi, and Yun Shan pledged his loyalty after realizing the mysterious benefactor had tried to control him.
• Xiao Xuan said a young member of his clan would visit the Misty Cloud Sect for a trial, and Yun Shan asked if he meant they should stage a fight.

Xiao Xuan learned that Nalan Yanran’s broken engagement with a youngster from his clan had brought the Misty Cloud Sect into danger, then entered its forbidden ground, the Gate of Life and Death. Yun Shan confronted Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran over the sect’s predicament, leaving Nalan Yanran frightened as he addressed her directly.

• Yun Shan asked Xiao Xuan why the young master held a grudge against the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Xuan explained that Nalan Yanran had broken off her betrothal to a youngster from his clan.
• Yun Shan promised to clean house in the sect, and Xiao Xuan asked to inspect the forbidden ground, the Gate of Life and Death.
• Xiao Xuan entered the Gate of Life and Death while Yun Shan summoned Yun Yun and learned that Nalan Yanran was her disciple.
• Yun Shan rebuked Yun Yun for taking Nalan Yanran as her disciple and warned that her actions could lead to the Misty Cloud Sect’s destruction.
• Yun Yun knelt and asked for guidance, while Yun Shan turned to the frightened Nalan Yanran and called her by name.

Yun Shan warned Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun that the Xiao Clan’s powerful expert threatened the Misty Cloud Sect, then reorganized the sect around the Three-Year Agreement. Inside the Gate of Life and Death, Xiao Xuan explored Yun Yangtian’s ruined small world, collected his treasures, and questioned the spirit of a Ninth-Tier Xuan Pill.

• Yun Shan scolded Nalan Yanran for breaking off her engagement without investigating the Xiao Clan and told her she would serve as Xiao Yan’s whetstone in the Three-Year Agreement.
• Nalan Yanran rejected the idea of marrying Xiao Yan, and Yun Shan knocked her unconscious before reprimanding Yun Yun for failing to guide her disciple.
• Yun Shan told Yun Yun that an expert from the Xiao Clan had visited and was still inside the Gate of Life and Death, then took back the sect master position and ordered preparations for the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Xuan examined Yun Yangtian’s small world and learned that its Peak Dou Sheng creator had tried to draw Emperor’s Origin from a higher realm before dying there.
• Xiao Xuan collected Yun Yangtian’s treasures, released the spirit of a Ninth-Tier Xuan Pill, and asked it about its identity.