Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan left the Beast Mountain Range with Xiao Yi Xian and stopped briefly in the Jia Ma Empire’s Imperial Capital, where he revealed his fifth-grade alchemist status. He then continued to Mo City to find Ice Emperor Hai Bodong, arriving at Gu Tu’s map shop after detecting an unusual Ice Attribute aura inside.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian flew toward the Imperial Capital on Xiao Lan, discussing the Calamity Poison Body and Heavenly Flames along the way.
• Jia Xing Tian and Yun Yun intercepted Xiao Yan near the Imperial Capital, and Xiao Yan told Jia Xing Tian he had become a Fifth Grade Alchemist.
• Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma were stunned by Xiao Yan’s cultivation and alchemy progress as he left the Imperial Capital to continue toward the Tagore Desert.
• Xiao Yan reached Mo City on Xiao Lan, entered the city wearing his Fifth Grade Alchemist badge, and drew respectful attention from its residents.
• Xiao Yan found Gu Tu’s map shop, sensed a Dou Ling with an unusual Ice Attribute aura inside, and entered.

Xiao Yan met the reclusive Ice Emperor Hai Bodong in a map shop and learned that Hai Bodong possessed information about possible Heavenly Flames and a Fragmented Map tied to a great secret. Xiao Yan agreed to refine a seal-breaking pill for Hai Bodong after reaching Sixth Grade, in exchange for the rest of the map, and asked whether Hai Bodong could obtain the required herbs.

• Hai Bodong recognized Xiao Yan as a young Fifth Grade Alchemist and revealed that he was the former Ice Emperor.
• Hai Bodong offered Xiao Yan a desert map marked with possible Heavenly Flame locations and told him Queen Medusa had cursed him and sealed his strength decades earlier.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan a Fragmented Map and explained that he hoped its secret could help him break the seal.
• Xiao Yan said the Fragmented Map was valuable and promised to refine Hai Bodong's pill after reaching Sixth Grade, provided Hai Bodong handed over the remaining map fragment.
• Hai Bodong agreed, and Xiao Yan asked whether he could gather the rare herbs needed to refine the pill.

Xiao Yan agreed to help Hai Bodong find the Sand Mandala, then traveled to Stone Desert City to reunite with Xiao Li and prepare his brothers for the disturbance caused by refining a Heavenly Flame. He introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Xiao Li, who mistook her for Xiao Yan’s wife.

• Hai Bodong asked Xiao Yan to gather Sand Mandala in the Tagor Desert, and Xiao Yan agreed because of his favorable impression of the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that he planned to send Xiao Ding and Xiao Li back to the Xiao Family before refining a Heavenly Flame near Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian landed outside Stone Desert City and walked to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s courtyard.
• Xiao Li greeted Xiao Yan with a hug and asked about his cultivation, but Xiao Yan postponed answering until they went inside.
• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian as his junior brother, and Xiao Li called her his sister-in-law before Xiao Yan dragged him into the courtyard.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, arranged preparations for his search for the Heavenly Flame, and met Qing Lin, whom he decided to take under his care. After rapidly refining the mercenary group’s medicinal-herb stock, he worried about sharing a room with Xiao Yi Xian again.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding to split the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s forces, sell assets, buy medicinal herbs, and later move the willing mercenaries to Wutan City while he searched for the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he was a one-star Dou Ling and a Fifth Grade Alchemist, then gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li pills to help them advance.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian shared a room after the banquet, but the next morning she revealed that he had vomited on her while drunk and slapped him for joking about his virginity.
• Xiao Yan met Qing Lin outside the room, recognized her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and told her to follow him instead of continuing to serve others.
• Xiao Yan left breakfast for Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then used nearly all the mercenary group’s medicinal herbs in a morning of rapid pill refining.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether his innate yang energy would remain intact if he shared a room with Xiao Yi Xian again.

Xiao Yan refined a fire-attribute Fifth Grade Body Tempering Pill, then entered the underground cavern in search of a Heavenly Flame. He drew out the Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake and faced it down, hoping to secure its help.

• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and later slept beside Xiao Yi Xian.
• The Desert Iron Mercenary Group found the underground passage, and Xiao Ding and Xiao Li led several hundred mercenaries toward Wutan City while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin watched over them from the air.
• Xiao Yan entered the passage alone and followed Old Yao’s guidance to a cavern filled with magma.
• Xiao Yan used an Ancestral Return Pill to reveal a creature in the magma, then offered a Fifth Rank Fire Attribute Snake Magical Core in exchange for help finding the Heavenly Flames.
• The Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake attacked Xiao Yan with a magma pillar, but he blocked it and challenged the beast to emerge.
• The Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake rose from the magma, glaring at Xiao Yan with killing intent and wariness.

Xiao Yan retrieved the Green Lotus Core Flame from beneath the lava with Old Yao’s help, then traveled to a desolate Gobi wilderness to prepare to refine it. The chapter ended with Old Yao urging him to consider waiting until his cultivation was higher before attempting the dangerous refinement.

• Xiao Yan persuaded the Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake to guide him through the lava by offering it pills and a Magical Core, then used Old Yao’s Bone Spirit Cold Flame to prove he could protect himself.
• The Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake led Xiao Yan to the Green Lotus Core Flame, where Old Yao formed a Jade Ruler that Xiao Yan used to cut the Green Lotus from its stem.
• Xiao Yan stored the Green Lotus Core Flame in an empty Storage Ring, gave the Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake ten Ancestral Return Pills, and left the lava passage as mercenaries approached.
• Xiao Yan flew to a desolate Gobi wilderness and recovered his Dou Qi before preparing to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that waiting until he reached Dou Wang could improve his chances of surviving the refinement.

Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Old Yao decided he should first consume an Earth Fire Lotus Seed to strengthen his body and improve his compatibility with the flame. The seed’s energy triggered a dangerous reaction in Xiao Yan’s Purple Crystal Heart, but he released it through his Purple Crystal Wings and emerged with a green heart and a stronger body.

• Xiao Yan asked whether consuming an Earth Core Lotus Seed would improve his chances of refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Old Yao approved the plan.
• Xiao Yan stored ten Earth Fire Lotus Seeds and swallowed the remaining seed to cultivate the Molten Earth Splitting Body.
• Xiao Yan refined the seed’s energy, strengthening his meridians as green flames compressed into droplets of lava over his skin.
• Xiao Yan’s Purple Crystal Heart absorbed more than half of the refined energy, causing intense pain and alarming Old Yao.
• Xiao Yan activated his Purple Crystal Wings to release the trapped energy through his body, turning his heart green and merging his purple crystal layer with the green lava.
• Old Yao saw that Xiao Yan’s condition had stabilized and withdrew the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

After absorbing the Earth Fire Lotus Seed, Xiao Yan’s body grew strong enough to withstand terrifying heat, and he began refining the Green Lotus Core Flame. The Flame Seed gathered into green magma inside him, damaging his meridians and steadily exhausting the Earth Spirit Pill’s protection.

• Xiao Yan completed his transformation, gaining immense physical strength despite remaining at the peak of one-star Dou Ling.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that refining a Heavenly Flame was still a near-death ordeal, then explained that the Green Lotus Core Flame could raise the Flame Mantra to the Di Tier.
• Xiao Yan prepared in a cool cave, swallowed the Earth Spirit Pill, activated his protective techniques, and drew the Green Lotus Core Flame’s seed into his body.
• Xiao Yan guided the scattered green points of light along the Flame Mantra route, where they absorbed his Dou Qi and gradually merged into a stream of green magma.
• The complete Flame Seed pierced Xiao Yan’s protections and damaged his meridians as the Earth Spirit Pill’s medicinal power weakened, while a faint disturbance stirred in his heart.

Xiao Yan endured the Green Lotus Core Flame’s destructive cycles by diverting it through his Purple Crystal Wings, then used his Soul Power to regain control. After the flame replenished his Dou Qi and broke him through to Two-star Dou Spirit, he swallowed an Earth Fire Lotus Seed to supply its stalled evolution, causing his aura and soul to begin evolving as Old Yao watched in alarm.

• Xiao Yan routed the cyan magma through his Purple Crystal Wings, which absorbed some of the damage and began turning cyan under the Green Lotus Core Flame’s influence.
• Xiao Yan endured repeated cycles of injury and healing as his pills’ medicinal power dwindled and the Green Lotus Core Flame continued consuming his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan withdrew his Dou Qi to guide the flame with Soul Power, but the Green Lotus Core Flame rushed to his Dou Qi Vortex and replenished it with jade-like droplets, making him a Two-star Dou Spirit.
• Xiao Yan sensed that the Green Lotus Core Flame was trying to evolve but lacked energy, so he swallowed an Earth Fire Lotus Seed to feed it.
• Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi and soul began to grow, leaving Old Yao bewildered by the unexpected effects of refining the Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan’s Green Lotus Core Flame evolved inside his body, transforming his wings, heart, and Dou Qi while greatly strengthening him. After discovering he could wield the flame without spending Dou Qi, he devoured it to evolve the Flame Mantra, which advanced to Di Tier Low.

• Xiao Yan swallowed seven Earth Fire Lotus Seeds as the Green Lotus Core Flame absorbed their energy and completed another compression.
• The evolved flame entered Xiao Yan’s heart, transformed his Purple Crystal Wings into Green Crystal Wings, and strengthened his soul, body, and Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the process, and Old Yao put away the Na Ling after learning that Xiao Yan’s heart had become the flame’s new dwelling place.
• Xiao Yan summoned the azure flame, and Old Yao judged its power comparable to the seventeenth-ranked Volcanic Stone Flame.
• Xiao Yan realized he could use the flame without consuming Dou Qi, and Old Yao suggested it might draw on the fire seed’s own energy.
• Xiao Yan devoured the Green Lotus Core Flame, causing the Flame Mantra to evolve smoothly into a Di Tier Low cultivation method.

Xiao Yan confronted Queen Medusa and talked his way into becoming the Snake People Clan’s Chief Alchemist. Queen Medusa proposed an alliance with the Jia Ma Empire in exchange for his help with her evolution, leaving their arrangement awaiting Xiao Yan’s response.

• Xiao Yan sensed Queen Medusa approaching and tried to distract her with his Fifth Grade Alchemist badge and confident claims about his abilities.
• Queen Medusa considered making Xiao Yan the Snake People Clan’s Chief Alchemist, and Xiao Yan immediately accepted.
• Xiao Yan claimed his master was an Eighth Grade Alchemist who could summon a Dou Zun, making Queen Medusa wary of provoking him.
• Xiao Yan argued that helping Queen Medusa evolve with the Heavenly Flames could give her the strength to lead her clan out of the Great Desert.
• Queen Medusa proposed that Xiao Yan help her evolve and that she lead the Snake People Clan into the Jia Ma Empire, offering to assist him and requesting a Sixth Grade Pill for each favor.

Queen Medusa brought Xiao Yan to the Snake People Clan and appointed him its Chief Alchemist, granting him access to the clan’s medicinal herbs. Xiao Yan left with Hua She’er to find out how many sets of ingredients they could gather for a Dou Ling Pill.

• Xiao Yan agreed to help Queen Medusa lift a Dou Emperor’s seal after her evolution and gave her a Jade Slip for sending Soul Messages.
• Queen Medusa invited Xiao Yan to the Snake People Clan, and he eagerly accepted in hopes of finding useful resources there.
• Queen Medusa flew Xiao Yan to the Temple at the heart of the Snake People Clan’s territory and introduced him to Hua She’er.
• Queen Medusa named Xiao Yan the clan’s Chief Alchemist, granted him authority over its medicinal herbs, and ordered Hua She’er to protect him.
• Xiao Yan gave Hua She’er the Dou Ling Pill recipe and asked her to find out how many sets of ingredients the clan could gather.

Xiao Yan refined pills for the Snake People Clan until Mo Bass disrupted his work, prompting him to seek Queen Medusa’s support against the clan’s elders. He then revealed that he had suffered backlash while attempting a Sixth Grade Pill, leaving Queen Medusa and Hua She’er alarmed.

• Xiao Yan gave Hua She’er the Pure Yuan Blood Changing Pill recipe, and Elder Jing Gu supplied pill recipes and ingredients for him to refine.
• Xiao Yan’s pill refining was interrupted when Mo Bass confronted him, fought Hua She’er, and threatened to report Queen Medusa to the elders.
• Xiao Yan asked Hua She’er to arrange an audience with Queen Medusa and told Old Yao to severely injure any elder who challenged him.
• Queen Medusa praised Xiao Yan’s alchemy, and he spat blood, explaining that he had suffered soul damage while attempting to refine a Sixth Grade Pill after Mo Bass interrupted him.

Queen Medusa gave Xiao Yan the Snake People Clan’s Spirit Transformation Heavenly Soul Fruit in exchange for his promise to refine an Eighth Grade Pill, then pledged the clan’s loyalty to him. When four elders tried to control Xiao Yan, Old Yao’s protective power severely injured them, and Queen Medusa promised to answer for their actions.

• Queen Medusa offered Xiao Yan her Spirit Transformation Heavenly Soul Fruit to help with his soul injuries, and Xiao Yan explained the fruit’s value and the ranks of Soul Realms.
• Xiao Yan promised to refine an Eighth Grade Pill for the Snake People Clan in exchange for the fruit, and Queen Medusa gave it to him and pledged her clan’s loyalty.
• Old Yao asked Xiao Yan whether he still wanted the elders taught a lesson, and Xiao Yan said he wanted his subordinates to see the benefits of following him.
• Four Snake People Clan elders targeted Xiao Yan, but Old Yao’s protective aura severely injured them.
• Queen Medusa promised Xiao Yan a satisfactory explanation and ordered Hua She'er to take him to rest.

Queen Medusa considered testing Xiao Yan’s feelings for her while he recovered, and Xiao Yan asked Old Yao about Soul Power cultivation and pills to strengthen his Dou Qi. Old Yao explained the limits of Xiao Yan’s current cultivation and gave him recipes for a risky breakthrough pill and two recovery pills, leaving Xiao Yan to request their ingredients from Hua She'er.

• Queen Medusa rejected the Elders’ teasing, agreed that Mo Bass should receive Ten Thousand Snakes Devouring the Body, and privately weighed the risks of a marriage alliance with Xiao Yan.
• Queen Medusa decided to visit the injured Xiao Yan and test whether he had taken a liking to her.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao about Soul Power cultivation methods, and Old Yao explained that Xiao Yan needed stronger Dou Qi before he could refine Seventh Grade Pills or learn soul techniques.
• Old Yao gave Xiao Yan recipes for the Blood Burning Spirit Ascension Pill, the Qi Nourishing Body Recovery Pill, and the Blood Generating Pill.
• Xiao Yan wrote down the required herbs and asked Hua She'er to fetch several sets of ingredients.

Xiao Yan refined several pills and used the Blood Burning Spirit Ascension Pill to cultivate, relying on the Green Lotus and other pills to manage its dangerous effects. After half a month, he broke through to Six-star Dou Ling.

• Queen Medusa brought Xiao Yan medicinal herbs, and he asked her an embarrassing question about how the Snake People Clan gave birth, prompting her to fly away in anger.
• Hua She'er delivered suitable herbs and asked Xiao Yan what he had said to Queen Medusa, while Old Yao refused to answer Xiao Yan's question.
• Xiao Yan refined the Blood Burning Spirit Ascension Pill, Qi Nourishing Body Recovery Pill, and Blood Generating Pill, but failed to refine a Fourth Grade Blood Generating Pill with a Pill Pattern.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Blood Burning Spirit Ascension Pill and used the Green Lotus, Blood Generating Pills, and Qi Nourishing Body Recovery Pills to sustain his cultivation.
• After half a month of consuming the pill's remaining medicinal power, Xiao Yan broke through to Six-star Dou Ling.

Xiao Yan trained for a month before helping Queen Medusa begin her dangerous evolution by burning her transformed serpent body with the Green Lotus Core Flame. He withdrew the flames after her body nearly stopped moving, as the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python was about to emerge.

• Xiao Yan refined his Dou Techniques and pills during a month of training, then prepared Calm Heart Pills for Queen Medusa's evolution.
• Hua She'er told Xiao Yan that Queen Medusa planned to evolve within the next few days.
• Queen Medusa made her final arrangements with Xiao Yan and swallowed a Qi Nourishing Body Recovery Pill before beginning.
• Queen Medusa transformed into a Purple Giant Serpent and plunged into the Green Lotus Core Flame, enduring half an hour of agony as her body burned and shrank.
• Xiao Yan withdrew the flames when the serpent's body nearly stopped moving, while World Energy began to riot and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python was about to emerge.

After Queen Medusa completed her evolution, Xiao Yan tried to leave before she could examine his awkward reaction, then learned that Pill King Gu He had entered Snake People territory with a small party. Xiao Yan ordered the elders to capture Gu He and demand ransom from the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Queen Medusa completed her evolution into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, reaching the level of a One-Star Dou Ancestor, and asked Xiao Yan to supply healing pills while she recuperated.
• Xiao Yan escaped from Queen Medusa and used the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler three times in the desert to cool himself down.
• Hua She'er told Xiao Yan that humans had made moves against the Snake People Clan and was taking him back to the temple when Yue Mei caught up with them.
• Yue Mei reported that Pill King Gu He had arrived with one Dou Emperor, two Dou Wangs, and two Dou Spirits.
• Xiao Yan ordered the Snake People Clan's Peak Dou Emperor elders to return, capture Gu He, and make the Misty Cloud Sect pay to ransom him.

Xiao Yan and the Snake People Clan prepared to confront Gu He’s party, who came seeking the Heavenly Flames. After Yun Yun recognized Queen Medusa’s evolution into a Dou Zong, Xiao Yan revealed his authority in the clan and ordered the Misty Cloud Sect to help arrange the Snake People’s migration.

• Hua She'er and Yue Mei returned Xiao Yan to Queen Medusa, and the elders agreed to let him handle negotiations while they prepared to capture the invaders.
• Gu He led Yun Yun, Yan Shi, and Feng Li through the city gates and into Queen Medusa’s temple, where they found Xiao Yan seated beside her.
• Yun Yun recognized Queen Medusa’s human form as evidence of her breakthrough to Dou Zong and congratulated her, prompting Gu He to offer a Dou Ling Pill.
• Yun Yun apologized to Xiao Yan for Nalan Yanran breaking off their engagement, and Gu He offered compensation for the Snake People’s losses before trying to leave.
• Xiao Yan pointed out that Snake People had died, and Queen Medusa explained that Xiao Yan had enabled her evolution and held status equal to hers in the clan.
• Xiao Yan ordered Yun Yun and Gu He to remain with the Snake People, while Yan Shi and Feng Li were told to arrange land and a migration route with the Jia Ma Imperial Family at the Misty Cloud Sect’s expense.

After Yun Yun and Gu He failed to capture Xiao Yan, Queen Medusa subdued Yun Yun, and the pair surrendered their Storage Rings and stayed with the Snake People Clan. Xiao Yan kept their valuable alchemy resources and persuaded Gu He to refine pills for the clan by promising him a chance to advance toward the Pill Tower.

• Yun Yun evaded Queen Medusa's attack but failed to strike Xiao Yan, who blocked her sword with his Heavy Black Ruler and escaped on his wings.
• Yun Yun surrendered to Queen Medusa's Snake Seal Curse, and Gu He agreed to stay with her while Yan Shi and Feng Li went to inform the Misty Cloud Sect and Jia Ma Imperial Family.
• Xiao Yan demanded the Storage Rings, and Gu He handed over his ring and a Form Transformation Pill while Yun Yun surrendered hers after keeping three scrolls.
• Xiao Yan kept Gu He's cauldron, pill recipes, and Di Tier cultivation method, then assigned Gu He to refine low-grade pills for the Snake People Clan.
• Xiao Yan told Gu He that his teacher was a Pill Tower Elder and offered to recommend him to the Pill Tower, prompting Gu He to eagerly accept the work.