Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhen learned that the Jia Ma Empire would send powerful fighters to aid the Luoyan Empire against the Chu Yun Empire, then returned to his family. He was surprised by Medusa’s visit, and she hinted at their intimate relationship.

• Xiao Lin told Xiao Zhen that the Chu Yun Empire had attacked the Luoyan Empire and that Jia Ma would send at least three Dou Huang experts and several Dou Wang experts.
• Xiao Zhen found Xiao Yan telling Ash about a Crystal Onix and gave the boys pastries from the System Space.
• Ash told Xiao Zhen that Die and the other women had gone to an auction house to buy newly arrived wine, using money Xiao Lin had given Die.
• Xiao Zhen went to sleep, then awoke to find Medusa in his room, mistaken at first for Die.
• Medusa mentioned Xiao Zhen’s fame as the youngest Sixth-grade Alchemist before hinting that she had come because of their relationship.

Medusa asked Xiao Zhen to use his Green Lotus Core Flame to help her evolve and break through to Dou Zong, and he agreed after warning her of the danger. They flew toward a secluded valley where she had prepared for the attempt, while Medusa privately considered bringing Die back and keeping Xiao Zhen with her.

• Medusa revealed that Snake-people spies had learned Xiao Zhen possessed the Green Lotus Core Flame, and asked him to help her advance her bloodline.
• Xiao Zhen agreed to temper Medusa with his Heavenly Flame after warning her that it could kill her, and gave her a life-saving medicinal pill.
• Medusa showed Xiao Zhen seven barrels of Ice Spirit Cold Spring and said she had prepared a secluded valley for her breakthrough.
• Medusa and Xiao Zhen flew toward the valley, where she had tamed three fifth-tier magical beasts.
• Medusa privately resolved to bring Die back if she became a Dou Zong and to take Xiao Zhen back with her.

Xiao Zhen helped Medusa begin her evolution by burning her massive purple snake form with the Green Lotus Core Flame. After Medusa’s charred body stopped moving, Xiao Zhen found a faint trace of life within it.

• Medusa took Xiao Zhen to a desolate valley where she planned to advance, explaining that Hua She'er and the elders were handling the Snake-people Race’s affairs.
• Medusa swallowed a medicinal pill and several barrels of Ice Spirit Cold Spring, then transformed into a massive purple snake.
• Xiao Zhen engulfed Medusa in the Green Lotus Core Flame and raised its temperature at her insistence.
• Medusa’s scales fell and her body charred until she stopped moving, prompting Xiao Zhen to search for signs of life.
• Xiao Zhen detected a faint trace of Medusa’s life aura in the charred body.

Xiao Zhen confirmed Medusa had successfully evolved into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and sheltered her while she recovered. He brought her back to the Xiao Clan hidden in his sleeve, where Chiyu noticed the snake and sensed her powerful bloodline.

• Xiao Zhen examined the little snake's spiritual world and confirmed Medusa's evolution had succeeded without another soul forming.
• Medusa returned to human form, struggled to walk on her new legs, and agreed to stay with Xiao Zhen while she recovered.
• Medusa teased Xiao Zhen about her looks, and the two became intimate while she was still weakened from evolving.
• Xiao Zhen returned to the Xiao Clan with Medusa hidden in his sleeve, and she bit his arm when she noticed his smug mood.
• At dinner, Die asked Xiao Zhen to share his pastries, while Chiyu noticed the seven-colored snake and sensed its high-ranking bloodline.

Xiao Zhen secretly helped Medusa recover while preparing pills for his father, then refused to accompany her to the Snake-people Race. The family discovered that Ash and Xiao Yan had spent the night at a casino, and Xiao Zhen ordered their bodyguards to bring them home.

• Xiao Zhen refined eight batches of pills overnight, including two healing batches for Medusa and several for his father.
• After recovering some of her strength, Medusa invited Xiao Zhen to visit the Snake-people Race, but he firmly refused to go until he was stronger.
• Xiao Zhen learned that Ash and Xiao Yan had disappeared overnight, contacted bodyguard Xiao Yi, and found out the boys were at the Yellow Street Grand Casino.
• Xiao Zhen ordered Xiao Yi to bring the boys back, then warned Die not to visit the casino because she might lose the family fortune.
• Hanako blamed Xiao Zhen for failing to control Ash, while Die hugged Qing Lin protectively after hearing about the dangers of gambling.

Xiao Yan and Ash were caught gambling, but Xiao Lin rescued them by pretending to punish them. At the Xiao Clan’s farewell banquet, Xiao Zhen learned who would support the Luoyan Empire and decided to join the expedition, drawing Die aside to discuss it.

• The old madam scolded Xiao Yan and Ash for visiting a casino, while Xiao Zhan accepted blame for failing to discipline them.
• Xiao Yan tried to implicate Xiao Lin, who seized the boys and fled with them to the back mountain before asking how much Xiao Yan had lost.
• At the Xiao Clan’s farewell banquet, Xiao Zhen congratulated Xiao Shan on reaching Dou Wang and learned that Xiao Lin, Hai Bodong, Yun Yun, and seven Dou Wang experts would support the Luoyan Empire.
• Xiao Zhen decided to go see the fighting and dragged Die away from the feast to talk, while Chiyu quietly released a thread of Soul Power.

Jia Xingtian and Yun Yun led a group of experts from Jia Ma Empire to Luoyan Empire as reinforcements, while Xiao Zhen secretly disguised himself and boarded their transport. The group set off, unaware that Xiao Zhen had slipped aboard, and he left his motives uncertain.

• Jia Xingtian warned the experts to protect themselves and promised rewards for their support mission to Luoyan Empire.
• Gu He asked Yun Yun to let him join the expedition, but she refused because the battlefield was too dangerous and accepted his gift of Fifth-grade Medicinal Pills.
• Yun Yun led the experts to the aerial transport station, where they departed aboard three Thick-Winged Birds.
• Xiao Zhen sneaked aboard disguised as himself while Die impersonated him at the Xiao Clan.
• Queen Medusa questioned Xiao Zhen's reasons for coming, and he claimed he wanted to accompany his father, though he had become interested after learning Yun Yun would be involved.

Xiao Zhen sensed a Soul Hall Protector passing near the Jia Ma Empire delegation as it traveled to aid the Luoyan Empire. At the battlefield, Yan Luotian faced the Chu Yun Empire’s commander, Scorpion Mountain, who unleashed a Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion.

• Xiao Zhen used Soul Power to hypnotize a servant, then detected a dangerous aura and identified its source as Protector Tie, a three-star Dou Zong of the Soul Hall.
• Protector Tie noticed the gathered Dou Wangs and Dou Huangs but continued on rather than risk fighting them.
• The Jia Ma Empire delegation arrived in the Luoyan Empire, where the Golden Wild Goose Sect’s First Elder briefed them and arranged their lodging.
• Yan Luotian killed a Dou Wang on the battlefield, then confronted Scorpion Mountain while struggling with poison from an earlier fight.
• Scorpion Mountain summoned the Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion, causing panic among the Luoyan Empire’s troops.

Xiao Zhen observed the Golden Wild Goose Sect’s grip on the Luoyan Empire before Yan Luotian gathered foreign experts to ask for help against the invading forces. The Mulan Three Elders demanded twice their promised compensation, and the other guests turned to the Golden Wild Goose Sect’s First Elder to negotiate their own pay.

• Xiao Zhen slipped away from his group and wandered the streets, where he saw residents living under the Golden Wild Goose Sect’s control.
• Xiao Zhen saw the wounded Yan Luotian fly back from the front lines, prompting panic among the people of the Luoyan Empire.
• Yan Luotian summoned the invited experts and described the enemy’s advance, while withholding that a Dou Zong had ambushed him and forced him to flee.
• The Mulan Three Elders demanded double their promised compensation, and Yan Luotian reluctantly agreed to pay forty million gold coins.
• Hai Bodong and the other guests asked for increased compensation, but the Golden Wild Goose Sect’s First Elder said only Yan Luotian could decide.

The Luoyan Empire army marched to reclaim its second defensive line, but found Scorpion Mountain’s forces waiting and learned that Xie Biyan had advanced to Dou Zong. As the Mulan Three Elders fought Xie Biyan, Yan Luotian offered Hai Bodong three Profound-tier, High-grade Dou Techniques to help kill Scorpion Mountain.

• Yan Luotian ordered the army to advance after learning that Wang Qi had fallen and the second defensive line had been breached.
• Scorpion Mountain taunted Yan Luotian and displayed Wang Qi’s head while the opposing commanders traded insults for hours.
• Xie Biyan appeared in the sky, revealing himself as a Dou Zong and alarming Hai Bodong, the Mulan Three Elders, and Yan Luotian.
• Medusa told Xiao Zhen that she had fought Xie Biyan a century earlier, when he was still a Dou Huang.
• Xie Biyan ordered the Chu Yun Empire army to charge, and the Mulan Three Elders used their combined secret technique to hold him off.
• Yan Luotian offered Hai Bodong three Profound-tier, High-grade Dou Techniques in exchange for helping him kill Scorpion Mountain.

Xie Biyan and Protector Tie turned the tide against the Luoyan Empire, leaving its allies weighing retreat as the battlefield grew more dangerous. Xie Biyan offered Yan Luotian a chance to surrender, but Yan Luotian refused, and Xie Biyan prepared to kill him.

• Xie Biyan summoned Protector Tie, who revealed that he had joined the war to harvest battlefield souls for the Soul Hall.
• Yan Luotian asked Protector Tie to stop collecting souls, but Protector Tie refused and warned that more powerful souls might die in the fighting.
• Xiao Zhen asked Medusa to protect his father and companions during their retreat, and Medusa agreed.
• Hai Bodong prepared the Jia Ma Empire forces to flee if the battle turned against them, while the Dragon-Phoenix True Love Duo discussed abandoning the fight.
• Protector Tie attacked the Mulan Three Elders as Xie Biyan offered to spare Yan Luotian if he persuaded the Luoyan Empire to submit.
• Yan Luotian rejected Xie Biyan's offer, and Xie Biyan declared that he would kill him.

Xiao Zhen intervened as Xie Biyan tried to kill the injured Hai Bodong, blocking the Dou Zong’s poisonous attack and drawing his attention. Xie Biyan forced Xiao Zhen back, leaving him poisoned as he secretly used the Green Lotus Core Flame to purge it.

• After defeating Yan Luotian, Xie Biyan blocked Hai Bodong and the Jia Ma Empire group from retreating, then attacked them with poisonous Dou Qi.
• Xie Biyan’s poison weakened the group, killed two Dou Wangs, and left Hai Bodong badly injured.
• Xie Biyan descended to deliver a killing blow to Hai Bodong, but Xiao Zhen rushed in to shield him.
• Xiao Zhen met Xie Biyan’s palm strike, while Hai Bodong attacked Xie Biyan from behind with an ice spike.
• Xie Biyan forced Xiao Zhen back and shattered Hai Bodong’s ice attack; Xiao Zhen hid his poisoned hands and began purging the toxin with the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Zhen challenged the Dou Zong Xie Biyan alone to test his strength, while Hai Bodong recovered nearby and the other battlefield observers watched. After a grueling exchange, Xiao Zhen replenished himself with medicinal pills and prepared to continue fighting.

• Xiao Zhen saved Hai Bodong from Xie Biyan, dismissed the poison affecting him, and refused Hai Bodong's offer to join the fight.
• Xiao Zhen faced Xie Biyan alone as the battlefield's experts watched and judged his challenge reckless.
• Xiao Zhen and Xie Biyan clashed repeatedly in the sky, exhausting themselves as their Dou Qi shook the battlefield.
• Xiao Zhen took healing and antidote pills after being battered, then taunted Xie Biyan to resume fighting.
• Xie Biyan accused Xiao Zhen of relying on pills and claimed he would have won if he had not already spent so much Dou Qi.

Xiao Zhen summoned Medusa when he was close to defeat, and she tore off Xie Biyan’s arm before revealing herself as the Queen. As Medusa and Xie Biyan prepared to fight while Protector Tie battled the Mulan Three Elders, a powerful aura erupted from a hidden corner of the battlefield.

• Xie Biyan pressed his attack on the exhausted Xiao Zhen, while Hai Bodong tried to slow him with a trident.
• Xiao Zhen released Medusa, who grew into a giant python, dodged Xie Biyan’s attack, and tore off his arm.
• Medusa revealed herself to Xie Biyan and rejected his demand that she leave, asking instead for half of the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xie Biyan called on Protector Tie to defeat the Mulan Three Elders so they could join forces against Medusa.
• An astonishing aura erupted from a hidden corner of the battlefield and continued to grow stronger.

Yan Luotian broke through to Dou Zong during the battle, but the Mulan Three Elders and Medusa refused to help him pursue Xie Biyan. The fight ended when Xie Biyan unleashed poison across the battlefield, forcing Yan Luotian to abandon the chase to save his soldiers as Yun Yun witnessed the carnage.

• Yan Luotian broke through to Dou Zong, restoring the Luoyan Empire army’s morale and alarming Xie Biyan.
• Protector Tie fled, and the Mulan Three Elders and Medusa refused Yan Luotian’s requests to help defeat Xie Biyan.
• Xie Biyan and Yan Luotian prepared to resume their fight after Xie Biyan’s confidence returned.
• Xie Biyan spread poisonous Dou Qi across the battlefield, killing Luoyan Empire soldiers and forcing Yan Luotian to stop pursuing him.
• Xie Biyan escaped while Yun Yun watched the devastation and received comfort from a Misty Cloud Sect elder.

Chiyu killed the fleeing Xie Biyan, while Protector Tie escaped after deciding not to confront her. At a victory banquet in the Luoyan Empire, Yan Luotian openly pursued Medusa, provoking Xiao Zhen and the others.

• Xie Biyan escaped the battlefield by hiding inside a magical beast, but Chiyu ambushed and burned him to ashes.
• Protector Tie revealed himself and withdrew rather than risk fighting Chiyu, who chose not to pursue him because of the Soul Hall's backing.
• Chiyu reflected that Medusa was the Snake-people Race's queen and Die's older sister, while Xiao Zhen remained unaware that Chiyu had secretly followed him.
• At the Luoyan Empire's victory banquet, Yan Luotian delayed the Mulan Three Elders' promised reward and treated the Jia Ma Empire's guests with contempt.
• Yan Luotian asked Medusa to unveil herself, and after she said only her man could see her face, he openly asked to become her man.

Medusa rejected Yan Luotian’s advances and declared Xiao Zhen her partner, but she chose to remain in the Luoyan Empire to claim a reward from its treasury. Yan Luotian invited them to stay until the treasury opened the next day, while Xiao Zhen and Medusa both quietly viewed him as a threat.

• Medusa told Yan Luotian she already had a partner, and Xiao Zhen challenged Yan Luotian when he questioned whether Xiao Zhen deserved her.
• Medusa defended Xiao Zhen and rejected Yan Luotian’s offer of marriage and a new homeland for the Snake-people Race.
• Yan Luotian changed his attitude and offered Xiao Zhen and Medusa treasures from the Luoyan Empire’s treasury, but Xiao Zhen tried to leave with Medusa.
• Medusa stopped Xiao Zhen and insisted they stay to collect a reward, reminding him that he owed her ten Sixth-grade Medicinal Pills.
• Xiao Zhen added Yan Luotian to his kill list, while Medusa concealed her own killing intent toward him.
• Yan Luotian invited Xiao Zhen and Medusa to stay at the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion and promised to show them the treasury the next day.

Yan Luotian lured Xiao Zhen and Medusa into the treasure vault, where Snake-Bewitching Incense weakened Medusa and exposed his plan to capture them. Xiao Zhen struck back, and as Yan Luotian prepared to fight in earnest, Xiao Zhen announced he had a better way to deal with him.

• Yan Luotian led Xiao Zhen and Medusa to the treasure vault and let them browse its contents.
• Xiao Zhen noticed a strange fragrance from a golden incense burner but did not recognize its purpose.
• After half an hour, Medusa realized her Dou Qi had weakened and Yan Luotian revealed that the Snake-Bewitching Incense suppressed snake-people.
• Xiao Zhen attacked Yan Luotian with azure flames and a powerful punch, breaking his golden barrier and kicking him in the face.
• Medusa said she could use only about forty percent of her strength, while Yan Luotian recovered and vowed revenge.
• Xiao Zhen refused to hold Yan Luotian off for an hour and said he had a better way.

Xiao Zhen and Medusa looted Yan Luotian’s palace while Yao Chen fought and defeated him. Yan Luotian pleaded for his life, but Yao Chen still wanted his body for his resurrection.

• Medusa continued refining the medicinal power while she and Xiao Zhen prepared to break out, and she began taking treasures from Yan Luotian’s palace.
• Xiao Zhen summoned Yao Chen from his Black Ring, and Yao Chen revealed that Yan Luotian’s body could serve as a requirement for his resurrection.
• Yao Chen attacked Yan Luotian as Xiao Zhen and Medusa cleared the palace of its treasures and furnishings.
• Yao Chen struck Yan Luotian in the chest and used Bone Chilling Flame to corrode his meridians, leaving him unable to fight.
• Yan Luotian begged Yao Chen and Xiao Zhen to spare his life, offering them the remaining treasures.

Xiao Zhen and Yao Chen killed Yan Luotian, then arrived at the Luoyan Empire’s compensation negotiations and revealed his death. With the Golden Wild Goose Sect’s First Elder and the other factions reacting, Medusa killed a woman who attacked Xiao Zhen, then confronted him over his remark that the woman had been pretty.

• Xiao Zhen rejected Yan Luotian’s offer, crushed his throat, and killed him while Yao Chen devoured his Soul Body with the Bone Chilling Flame.
• At the imperial palace, the Golden Wild Goose Sect’s First Elder struggled to manage compensation demands from the Mulan Three Elders and Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Zhen and Medusa entered, and Xiao Zhen announced that Yan Luotian’s corpse was nearly cold after they had killed him.
• The Mulan Three Elders and Hai Bodong condemned the Golden Wild Goose Sect for allegedly repaying its benefactors by plotting against them.
• A young woman charged Xiao Zhen, and Medusa killed her with a blast of Dou Qi before grabbing Xiao Zhen’s ear over his regret that the woman had been pretty.