Chapter Summaries

Ning Su and Qing Lin subdued White Fang, while Queen Medusa returned after badly injuring Jia Xing Tian and failing to cripple Yun Shan. The Snake-People celebrated their victory, but Jia Xing Tian’s family learned that his wounds were grave and his cultivation would likely plummet.

• Ning Su beat White Fang until Qing Lin could use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control the Dou Emperor.
• Ning Su told Qing Lin to store White Fang and gradually absorb its Dou Qi.
• Queen Medusa said Jia Xing Tian had escaped with one arm severed and a sealing technique inflicted on him, while Yun Shan had escaped with help from a Soul Hall Protector.
• Ning Su and Queen Medusa discussed Sky Serpent Mansion and returned with the Snake-People after their victory.
• Yao Ye and Yao Yue summoned Gu He to treat Jia Xing Tian, and he warned that the elder’s injuries were severe and his cultivation would likely plummet.

After Queen Medusa severely injured Jia Xing Tian, the Jia Ma Empire feared a Snake-People counterattack. Qing Lin absorbed White Fang’s power and broke through to Two-Star Dou Huang, while Medusa prepared to reclaim the Snake-People Race’s lost territory.

• Jia Xing Tian was left with a severed arm and sealed strength, falling from Peak Dou Huang to Peak Dou King, and warned that the Snake-People Race might launch a full-scale counterattack.
• Qing Lin absorbed and refined White Fang’s cultivation, advancing from Dou Ling to Two-Star Dou Huang.
• Ning Su sparred with Qing Lin and guided her as she learned to control her new strength.
• Qing Lin asked whether she could now stay by Ning Su’s side and help him, and Ning Su agreed.
• Medusa learned that Qing Lin had reached Two-Star Dou Huang and announced her plan to pressure the Jia Ma Empire and reclaim the Snake-People Race’s lost territory.

Medusa decided to force the Jia Ma Empire to submit and led the Snake-People Race in a campaign that captured eight frontier cities. As Jia Xing Tian and the Empire's forces confronted her at Stone Desert City, Bai Man arrived as a Dou Zong expert.

• Medusa told Ning Su that the Snake-People Race had enough strength to pressure the Jia Ma Empire, and he agreed to follow her plan.
• Three days later, Medusa led the Eight Great Tribes against the frontier and captured several cities, including Stone Desert City, Desert City, Yellow Stone City, and Black Cliff City.
• Yao Ye and the Gama Royal Family received news of the attacks, and Jia Xing Tian prepared to confront Medusa.
• Over five days, the Snake-People Race captured eight cities, then waited in Stone Desert City for Jia Xing Tian's group.
• Medusa challenged Jia Xing Tian's claims about protecting civilians and declared that she would reclaim the Snake-People Race's lost lands.
• Bai Man arrived with the Jia Ma Empire's camp, and Medusa recognized him as a Dou Zong expert.

Queen Medusa defeated Bai Man and forced Jia Xing Tian to surrender territory rather than continue the war. The Snake-People Race celebrated its victory as Medusa reflected on her goal of improving her people's lives without sacrificing them in battle.

• Bai Man challenged Queen Medusa, but she defeated him and revealed that she had reached Four-Star Dou Zong.
• Queen Medusa offered Jia Xing Tian a choice between fighting to the death and paying compensation, and he agreed to yield.
• Queen Medusa demanded that the Jia Ma Empire cede the Myriad Spirit Mountain Range and the lands between it and the Tagor Desert.
• Jia Xing Tian led the Jia Ma Empire's army away, ending the war in victory for the Snake-People Race.
• Medusa told Ning Su that she wanted a victory shared by her people, not one bought with their lives.

After the Snake-People Race moved to its new territory and built a Royal City, Medusa rejected the elders’ proposal that she and Ning Su have a child to strengthen the race’s bloodline. She later visited Ning Su and told him she wanted to have a child with him.

• Medusa led the Snake-People Race’s migration to the new territory, where the clansmen settled into eight cities and built a grand Royal City and a side hall for Ning Su.
• The Four Great Elders urged Medusa to have a child with Ning Su to create a more powerful bloodline, but she rejected their proposal and sent them away.
• Medusa visited Ning Su at his palace after the tribe’s affairs had settled and told him the elders had raised the idea of strengthening the bloodline.
• Medusa told Ning Su that she wanted him to have a child with her.

Medusa considered Ning Su the best candidate to strengthen the Snake-People Race’s bloodline, but Ning Su insisted they should fall in love before having a child. After Medusa left, she began reflecting on her feelings for him, while Ning Su resolved to reach Dou Zong and began breaking through with a Sect-Breaking Pill.

• Medusa told Ning Su she might consider cultivating a bloodline with him if he reached Dou Zong or surpassed her.
• Ning Su kissed Medusa’s hand and said he would make her fall in love with him first; Medusa said he was taking advantage of her and left.
• In her bedchamber, Medusa felt her heart race as she remembered Ning Su’s help and considered how much he had done for her and the Snake-People Race.
• Ning Su refined a Sect-Breaking Pill and swallowed it to try to break through from Nine-Star Dou Huang to Dou Zong.
• Ning Su’s surging aura startled the entire Snake-People Royal City.

Ning Su evolved into a Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python and broke through to One-Star Dou Zong, joining Medusa as a second Dou Zong of the Snake-People Race. After the celebration banquet, a drunken Medusa kissed Ning Su and promptly fell asleep, leaving him stunned and vowing to get even.

• Ning Su consumed the Sect-Breaking Pill’s energy, evolved into a Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python, and reached One-Star Dou Zong.
• Medusa sensed their shared bloodline, while Ning Su told her he had been motivated by her words about having children; she called him a pervert and left.
• The Snake-People Race held a banquet to celebrate its victory, relocation, and Ning Su’s breakthrough.
• Ning Su escorted the drunken Medusa to her bedchamber after she explained she had chosen to experience drunkenness because she felt happy and safe.
• Medusa kissed Ning Su, then fell asleep before he could respond, and Ning Su resolved to get even with her.

Ning Su and Medusa began following Hua She'er’s advice on growing closer, spending the day eating, shopping, and holding hands. After a second kiss, Medusa admitted that her heart beat faster and that she did not dislike it, leaving their relationship to develop further.

• Medusa told Ning Su that she had kissed him while drunk and wanted to understand what came after two people got together.
• Ning Su kissed Medusa, and she noticed her heartbeat speed up before scolding him for not washing up.
• Medusa and Ning Su ate breakfast together, then went shopping and held hands on the streets.
• Ning Su encouraged Medusa to try on human dresses, and she bought several after seeing his reactions.
• Ning Su kissed Medusa again at sunset, and she said the feeling was subtle and that she did not dislike it.

Medusa and Ning Su shared an awkward kiss before she slapped him for touching her without permission. The pair set out for Dou Zun ruins in the Misty Mountain Range, while Han Feng also prepared to pursue rumors of a Heavenly Flame there.

• Hua She'er arranged a candlelit dinner for Medusa and Ning Su, but the meal did not bring them closer.
• Medusa asked Ning Su to kiss her, then slapped him when he touched her chest without permission.
• Medusa told Ning Su and the elders that Dou Zun ruins had appeared in the Misty Mountain Range, and she decided to go with him.
• Medusa and Ning Su departed for the ruins, and she warned him not to touch her without permission again.
• Han Feng confirmed reports of a Heavenly Flame and ordered his people to prepare for the Misty Mountain Range.

Ning Su and Medusa searched the Misty Mountain Range for the newly emerged Ruins while Xiao Yan learned that Han Feng, his teacher Yao Lao’s former disciple, had tried to kill him. The Ruins’ location was finally discovered, leaving Xiao Yan to pursue the exploration while hiding his connection to Yao Lao and the Flame Mantra.

• Ning Su and Medusa arrived in the Misty Mountain Range and followed a faint aura they sensed toward the Ruins.
• Han Feng led his subordinates through the mountain range in search of the Heavenly Flames, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao secretly followed.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Han Feng was his senior disciple and had secretly tried to kill him.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan to avoid Han Feng and conceal his identity because Han Feng also cultivated an incomplete Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan decided to hide his identity and fish in troubled waters as someone found the Ruins’ location.

Ning Su and Queen Medusa entered a trap-filled ruin and followed the Green Lotus Core Flame to its deepest chamber, where they encountered three rival groups. Ning Su recognized Xiao Yi Xian among them, while Queen Medusa confronted the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect over the treasures.

• Ning Su and Queen Medusa waited for the valley barrier to disappear, then entered the ruin after the first explorers triggered its traps.
• Ning Su sensed a Heavenly Flame and used a lotus formed from the Green Lotus Core Flame to guide Queen Medusa through the maze to a cave deep within the mountain.
• Ning Su and Queen Medusa found Han Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, Xie Shan, and their followers already gathered around the ruin's owner’s skeleton.
• Ning Su and Xiao Yi Xian recognized each other but did not speak, while Xiao Yi Xian recalled that Ning Su had given her a pill to suppress her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xie Shan recognized Queen Medusa, who told him that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect would not take the things in the ruin.

Medusa defeated Xie Shan and the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect members while Ning Su pursued the emerald-green Heavenly Flame alongside Han Feng and Xiao Yi Xian. The pursuit brought them to a hall where Xiao Yan joined the rivals, and Han Feng attacked the flame after no one accepted his offer to trade pills.

• The skeleton released poisonous mist and an emerald-green Heavenly Flame, which flew toward a cave entrance as Han Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ning Su chased it.
• Medusa stayed behind, crushed the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s Heavenly Poison Annihilation Array, and claimed the Dou Zun skeleton.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao searched the passages until the Heavenly Flame flew into a hall where Han Feng, Ning Su, and the others had gathered.
• Han Feng offered Six-Grade Pills in exchange for the Heavenly Flame, but Ning Su, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xiao Yan refused to yield it.
• Han Feng rushed toward the Heavenly Flame, which darted toward Xiao Yan as the weakest person in the hall.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao fought Han Feng over a Heavenly Flame, but Ning Su seized it while they were occupied. Xiao Yi Xian caught up with Ning Su to retrieve a poison Fighting Skill hidden inside the flame, and the two exchanged scrolls.

• Yao Lao took control of Xiao Yan's body and trapped the Heavenly Flame, while Han Feng attacked them and recognized the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Fen Jue.
• Han Feng realized Xiao Yan was connected to Yao Lao and attacked him with lethal force, preventing him from pursuing the Heavenly Flame.
• Ning Su seized the Heavenly Flame as Xiao Yan and Han Feng fought, then fled through the passage with Xiao Yi Xian following him.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Ning Su she wanted an object hidden inside the Heavenly Flame, and Ning Su pulled out a Thousand Poison Bud Palm scroll and gave it to her.
• Xiao Yi Xian exchanged an Earth-tier low-grade Sky Breaking Palm scroll for the poison Fighting Skill.

Xiao Yi Xian thanked Ning Su for the Heavenly Fire Pill that had saved her after her Calamity Poison Body erupted, and he offered to seal it temporarily with a Heavenly Flame. After Ning Su and Medusa left the ruins with a Dou Zun expert's skeleton, Xiao Yan escaped Han Feng and decided to return to Jia Nan Academy for protection.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Ning Su that the Heavenly Fire Pill had saved her life after she unleashed her Calamity Poison Body to defend the Poison Sect from an invasion.
• Ning Su offered to use a Heavenly Flame to temporarily seal Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body and told her she could seek him out in the Snake-People Race.
• Ning Su devoured the Netherworld Poisonous Fire, advanced to Two-star Dou Zong, and returned to Medusa after she defeated Xie Shan and the other intruders.
• Ning Su and Medusa collected the Dou Zun expert's skeleton and left the ruins before Xiao Yan and Han Feng emerged from their battle.
• Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to retreat when Han Feng gained the advantage, and Xiao Yan escaped after distracting him with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Han Feng vowed to hunt Xiao Yan in the Black Corner Region, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao planned to return to Jia Nan Academy for protection.

After returning to the Snake-People Race with a Dou Zun skeleton, Ning Su and Medusa refined its bones into energy-filled Fire Lotus Seeds and used them to strengthen themselves and their people. Medusa invited Ning Su to her bedchamber that night, leaving him wondering what she wanted.

• Medusa and Ning Su returned to the Snake-People Race with the Dou Zun skeleton, and Qing Lin welcomed them back.
• Ning Su and Medusa refined the skeleton’s bones into more than a hundred Fire Lotus Seeds and divided them among themselves, the elders, and the chieftains.
• Ning Su advanced from a One-Star Dou Zong to a Three-Star Dou Zong, while Medusa advanced from a Four-Star Dou Zong to a Five-Star Dou Zong.
• Medusa questioned Ning Su about his hidden strength, then told him to come to her bedchamber later that night.
• Ning Su gave Qing Lin her share of the Fire Lotus Seeds, prepared himself after bathing, and headed to Medusa’s bedchamber after nightfall.

Ning Su visited Medusa, who questioned him about the Heavenly Poison Girl and advised him to cultivate an alliance with her. Their conversation turned intimate when Ning Su kissed Medusa and pushed beyond her boundaries, leaving her wondering whether she had begun to fall for him.

• Ning Su combed Medusa's hair while explaining that he had met the Heavenly Poison Girl while seeking medicinal ingredients in the Chuyun Empire.
• Medusa identified the Heavenly Poison Girl as the Poison Sect's Sect Master and urged Ning Su to maintain a good relationship with her.
• Ning Su kissed Medusa, carried her to the bed, and restrained her wrists when she tried to stop his wandering hand.
• Medusa struck Ning Su when his hand slipped inside her clothes, then ordered him out of her bedchamber.
• After Ning Su left, Medusa blushed and wondered whether she had started accepting him because she had not resisted him at first.

Medusa and Ning Su strengthened the Snake-People Race, while Qing Lin made a remarkable cultivation breakthrough. Medusa then confronted envoys from three neighboring empires, accepting their gifts but warning that their past hostility remained unresolved.

• Medusa shared Fire Lotus Seeds with the Snake-People Race's leaders and elders, while Ning Su refined pills to help them advance.
• Ning Su helped Yin Shi reach One-Star Dou Huang, the Four Great Elders broke through to Dou Huang, and Qing Lin advanced from Two-Star Dou Huang to Five-Star Dou Huang.
• After lunch, Ning Su joined Medusa in the main hall to meet visitors from the Luoyan Empire, the Mulan Empire, and the Sky Serpent Empire.
• Mu Lanfu, Yan Luofeng, and Bai Luo introduced themselves and presented gifts on behalf of their factions.
• Medusa said the envoys had come because they feared the Snake-People Race's growing strength, accepted their gifts, and warned that the old debts remained.

Medusa explained that the Snake-People Race still held grudges against the empires that had driven them into the Tagor Desert. Ning Su found Qing Lin unconscious with a fever and stayed beside her as she recovered, while Han Feng learned Xiao Yan was in Jia Nan Academy and began gathering allies to kill him.

• Medusa told Ning Su that the Jia Ma Empire and neighboring empires had once attacked the Snake-People Race and driven them into the desert, and she still intended to make them pay.
• Ning Su found Qing Lin unconscious in her room, discovered she had a fever, and cared for her until her temperature dropped.
• Qing Lin asked Ning Su to stay with her, and he held her hand as she fell asleep.
• A subordinate told Han Feng that Xiao Yan had entered Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy, and Han Feng decided to enlist Elder Jin Yin and contact Elder Mu Gu.

Qing Lin recovered from her fever and felt embarrassed but happy that Ning Su had stayed by her side all night. After practicing Sky Breaking Palm, Ning Su decided to travel to the Black Corner Region to obtain the Falling Heart Flame and resolved to persuade Medusa to come with him.

• Qing Lin woke to find Ning Su asleep beside her, remembered clinging to his hand while ill, and felt both shy and grateful.
• Ning Su checked that Qing Lin's fever had subsided, advised her to rest, and left when she asked him to give her privacy.
• Ning Su practiced the Earth-tier low-grade Fighting Skill Sky Breaking Palm and mastered it after studying the scroll and practicing several times.
• Ning Su decided to head to the Black Corner Region to subdue the Falling Heart Flame and planned to bring Medusa and Qing Lin.
• Ning Su went to Medusa's bedchamber at night, determined to deepen their relationship before asking her to travel with him.

Ning Su persuaded Medusa to leave with him for the Black Corner Region and eventually the Central Continent so they could pursue greater strength. Medusa agreed, and the chapter ended with the two sharing an intimate moment.

• Hua She'er told Ning Su that Medusa was in a good mood and let him enter her bedchamber.
• Ning Su explained that the Snake-People Race would need to seek greater resources beyond the Northwest Continent to reach realms such as Dou Saint and Dou Emperor.
• Ning Su asked Medusa to travel with him to the Black Corner Region and Central Continent, and she agreed.
• Medusa embraced and kissed Ning Su, then shyly allowed him to put his hands inside her clothes just this once.