Chapter Summaries

Nalan Chaoge rescued Qing Lin and fled, but the Green-clothed Woman summoned the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor to stop him. As the serpent engaged Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Elder, the Green-clothed Woman chased Nalan Chaoge, who descended to the ground while preparing a decisive move.

• Nalan Chaoge used a clone and a surprise attack to free Qing Lin from the Green-clothed Woman, then escaped with her.
• Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Elder pursued Nalan Chaoge, while the Green-clothed Woman summoned the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, White Fang.
• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor agreed to hold off Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Elder while the Green-clothed Woman tried to recapture Qing Lin.
• Nalan Chaoge fled from the Green-clothed Woman, descended to the ground, and continued running as he prepared to use one decisive attack.

Nalan Chaoge fought the Green-clothed Woman to stop her from taking Qing Lin, using clones and a series of techniques to overcome her powerful Wood Attribute attacks. He trapped the badly burned woman beneath a towering tree, leaving her bound and unable to escape.

• The Green-clothed Woman agreed to stop and fight Nalan Chaoge, and he set Qing Lin down somewhere safe.
• Nalan Chaoge attacked with clones and Byakugan techniques, but the Green-clothed Woman blocked his strikes with vines and destroyed three clones.
• The Green-clothed Woman’s giant vine fist struck Nalan Chaoge, who countered with Earth Opening Rising Mound and raised a volcano.
• Nalan Chaoge turned the ground into a swamp, then attacked the trapped Green-clothed Woman with Dragon Flame Song, burning her vines and injuring her.
• Nalan Chaoge used Wood Release: Tree Binding Eternal Burial, and a growing vine bound the Green-clothed Woman beneath a towering tree.

Nalan Chaoge trapped the Green-clothed Woman in a summoned barrier and killed her, then claimed her Na Ring and advanced to ten-star Dou Wang. The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor escaped Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Elder and rushed toward the fight, leaving the others to follow.

• Nalan Chaoge restrained the Green-clothed Woman and sealed her acupoints, but she burned her life and broke free of his tree binding.
• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor unleashed a black-flame attack that battered Xiao Yan and the Black-Robed Elder, then fled toward Lu Man as they let him go and followed.
• Nalan Chaoge recognized that the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor was approaching and summoned Toad Trap, drawing himself and the Green-clothed Woman into an isolated barrier.
• Nalan Chaoge ambushed the Green-clothed Woman with Big Ball Rasengan and sent her into the Gourd Toad’s acidic stomach fluid, killing her.
• Nalan Chaoge opened the Green-clothed Woman’s Na Ring, took its treasures, and advanced from Five-Star Dou Wang to ten-star.

Xiao Yan fused Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Mysterious Yellow Flame into Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus and hurled it at the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor. As the lotus exploded, Nalan Chaoge darted out and remembered Qing Lin was still in the serpent's grasp.

• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor found Qing Lin unconscious and fled with her wrapped in his tail while Nalan Chaoge stayed hidden inside the barrier.
• Xiao Yan arrived, saw the serpent escaping with Qing Lin, and ordered the Black-Robed Elder to stop him.
• The Black-Robed Elder engaged the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor while Xiao Yan summoned Bone Spirit Cold Flame and Mysterious Yellow Flame.
• Xiao Yan brought the two heavenly flames together and formed a small blue-and-white Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus as the others retreated and watched.
• Xiao Yan threw the lotus at the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, and it exploded before reaching him.
• Nalan Chaoge darted out after the explosion and realized Qing Lin was still held by the giant serpent.

Nalan Chaoge saved Qing Lin from Xiao Yan’s devastating Fire Lotus attack, then drove off Xiao Yan’s rescuers and pursued the badly wounded Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor. He crippled the serpent’s tail, but the beast answered with a black-flame replica and charged at him.

• Nalan Chaoge used Magic Mirror Ice Mirror to rescue Qing Lin, then protected them with Triple Rashomon from Xiao Yan’s Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus.
• The blast devastated the area and badly wounded the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, while Nalan Chaoge emerged with Qing Lin safe.
• A Black-Robed Elder rescued Xiao Yan and fled, so Nalan Chaoge turned his attention to the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.
• Nalan Chaoge taunted the serpent until it began to retreat, then chased it and struck it with Lightning Release: Thousand Bird Senbon and Eight Extremes Collapse, blasting apart its tail.
• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor formed a giant replica of itself from black beast flame and charged at Nalan Chaoge.

Nalan Chaoge sealed the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s origin beast fire, survived its desperate attack, and killed it before leaving with Qing Lin. Jia Xing Tian and Yun Yun arrived afterward, and Yun Yun recognized a fragment of Sea Heart Armor as Nalan Chaoge’s.

• Nalan Chaoge sealed the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s origin beast fire, but the serpent emperor’s Energy Orb shattered his defenses and badly injured him.
• Nalan Chaoge used Lightning Release: Chidori Sharp Spear to behead the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and take its Tier 6 Demonic Core.
• Nalan Chaoge gathered Qing Lin and flew away as Jia Xing Tian and Yun Yun arrived at the battlefield.
• Jia Xing Tian and Yun Yun surveyed the destruction and discussed the powerful fighters who had been there.
• Yun Yun found a fragment of Sea Heart Armor and realized that Nalan Chaoge had been at the battle.

Yun Yun and Jia Xing Tian investigated the battle in Salt City and learned that Nalan Chaoge had been involved in a fight over the legendary Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. After Yun Yun stabilized the Mo Family and searched unsuccessfully for Nalan Chaoge, she and Nalan Yanran headed back toward the empire, where Nalan Jie had fallen ill.

• Yun Yun recognized fragments of the Sea Heart Armor and joined Jia Xing Tian in investigating the deadly battle near Salt City.
• Yun Yun and Jia Xing Tian gathered witnesses’ accounts and identified the Green-clothed Woman as Lu Man and the Black-Robed Elder as Mu Chen, whom Yun Yun said was dead.
• Nalan Yanran recounted the battle, and Yun Yun and Jia Xing Tian realized the fighters had been pursuing someone with the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Yun Yun issued a wanted notice for the Man in Black and ordered the Mo Family to end its cruel practices and obey Misty Cloud Sect rules in exchange for the sect’s protection.
• After several days without news of Nalan Chaoge, Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran left Salt City; Nalan Yanran also needed to return home because Nalan Jie had fallen ill.

Nalan Yanran learned that Nalan Jie was dying from an incurable Poison Mark, while Nalan Chaoge traveled through the Magical Beast Forest with Medusa after recovering from his injuries. The chapter left Chaoge carrying Medusa despite his newly broken ribs.

• Fa Ma and Gu He diagnosed Nalan Jie with Poison Mark from the Fiery Poison Seal Python, and they said they could not save him.
• Nalan Yanran realized Nalan Jie had been poisoned while helping Nalan Chaoge and worried that Chaoge would not return before his grandfather died.
• Nalan Chaoge and Medusa traveled through the Magical Beast Forest to find a missing Snake-People elder, after leaving Qing Lin with the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa caught Nalan Chaoge spying on her bath with his homemade telescope and discovered that his chest had already healed.
• Medusa made Nalan Chaoge carry her, then broke his ribs again after he let his hands wander.

Nalan Chaoge and Medusa continued their journey while seeking herbs for the Spirit Fusion Pill, and they obtained a Dragon Lion Flower after helping Luo Di recover from snake venom. Luo Di’s account of Qing Lin’s abduction led Nalan Chaoge to suspect that the Black-Robed Elder traveling with Xiao Yan had engineered the incident to provoke a feud between Xiao Yan and the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Nalan Chaoge fled Medusa’s punch, then soaked in her bathwater while she continued to act coldly toward him.
• Medusa spent the night in a neighboring room, and Nalan Chaoge heard a mercenary scream before she emerged the next morning.
• A little girl offered Nalan Chaoge a box of herbs, and Medusa seized the Dragon Lion Flower inside after the girl asked them to cure her grandfather.
• Medusa cured Luo Di of venom from a fourth-rank snake-type magical beast, and Luo Di explained that he had once served in the Sand Mercenary Group before it was absorbed by the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Luo Di told Nalan Chaoge that a Black-Robed Elder had abducted Qing Lin, and Nalan Chaoge recognized the man as Xiao Yan’s companion.
• Nalan Chaoge suspected the Black-Robed Elder had arranged Qing Lin’s abduction to intensify the conflict between Xiao Yan and the Misty Cloud Sect, but he could not determine the elder’s motive.

Nalan Chaoge met a child named Kimimaro and arranged for her and Luo Di to travel to the Imperial Capital, while he and Medusa continued searching for medicinal herbs and Tier 6 Demonic Cores. Ten days later, they reached the Amethyst Winged Lion King's territory, where Nalan Chaoge planned to hunt the Lion King.

• Nalan Chaoge learned that Luo Di had named the little girl Kimimaro, questioned her, and arranged for Luo Di and the child to meet Nagato at the Imperial Capital.
• Nalan Chaoge revealed Medusa's identity to Luo Di, who panicked and later decided to travel to the Imperial Capital with Kimimaro.
• Nalan Chaoge and Medusa searched for Spirit Fusion Pill ingredients and hunted magical beasts as he sought three Tier 6 Demonic Cores to upgrade the system.
• Nalan Chaoge and Medusa fled from a high-level seventh-tier beast, but he remained determined to collect more magic cores.
• Ten days later, Nalan Chaoge and Medusa reached the Amethyst Winged Lion King's territory, and Nalan Chaoge planned to kill the Lion King for its core.

Nalan Chaoge sneaked into the Amethyst Winged Lion King's cave while Medusa fought the male Lion King outside, but discovered a second Lion King guarding the treasure chamber. After taking the purple spirit crystals, he fled the female Lion King's attacks and ended the chapter hovering above her as her son remained inside the cave.

• Medusa battled the Amethyst Winged Lion King while Nalan Chaoge ambushed a Three-Eyed Spirit Fox and subdued a Two-Headed Demonic Wolf; the third fifth-order magical beast fled.
• Nalan Chaoge burrowed into the Lion King's cave to search for purple spirit crystals and companion amethyst source.
• A second Amethyst Winged Lion King found Nalan Chaoge inside the cave and attacked him, forcing him deeper into the cave mansion.
• Nalan Chaoge discovered more than a dozen purple spirit crystals, stored them in his Na Ring, and became trapped when the female Lion King blocked the entrance.
• The female Lion King fired a beam of purple flame, but Nalan Chaoge dodged beneath her and took to the air with his Transformation Wings, warning her that her son was still inside.

Nalan Chaoge trapped the Amethyst Winged Lion King in a green-flame formation, but withdrew the flames after learning the Lion King was pregnant and trying to protect its child. He spared the family and left with Medusa after she subdued the male Lion King, promising to repay her and help with the Fragment Map.

• Nalan Chaoge used his heavenly flame and a Four Green Flame Array to trap and roast the Amethyst Winged Lion King, who surrendered to protect its unborn child.
• Nalan Chaoge learned the Lion King was pregnant, extinguished the flames, returned the Purple Spirit Crystal, and left pills behind.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King promised to fulfill its submission pledge after giving birth, while Nalan Chaoge left the cave mansion.
• Medusa brought the battered male Lion King to Nalan Chaoge, and the Lion King offered his magic core in exchange for his wife and child’s safety.
• Nalan Chaoge assured the male Lion King that his family was safe, then left with Medusa and promised to repay her and help with the Fragment Map.

Nalan Chaoge and Medusa failed to find Xiao Yi Xian’s cave near Qingshan Town, while Bai Luoyu and Ye Qingge watched them from afar. After days of searching, Nalan Chaoge decided to return to town and resume the search later with the herb-gathering team.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King pledged to follow Nalan Chaoge after settling her affairs, but he told her to remain ruler of her mountain.
• Bai Luoyu and Ye Qingge appeared after Nalan Chaoge and Medusa left, and Ye Qingge identified Nalan Chaoge as someone who showed compassion toward magical beasts.
• Bai Luoyu threatened to kill Nalan Chaoge, but Ye Qingge called him back before he could act.
• Nalan Chaoge and Medusa sensed powerful killing intent, then searched near Qingshan Town for several days without finding the cave.
• Nalan Chaoge stopped the search and prepared to return to Qingshan Town, then fed Sisi two fifth-rank pills before she retreated into his sleeve.

Nalan Chaoge arrived in Qingshan Town and learned that Xiao Yi Xian had left after the Wolf Head Mercenary Group threatened her. He befriended Ge Ci, who agreed to guide him to her herb-gathering sites and help him seek a place on the Tiger Head Mercenary Group’s next expedition.

• Nalan Chaoge entered the Myriad Medicine Pavilion and saw a woman mistaken for Xiao Yi Xian, then learned from Ge Ci that Xiao Yi Xian had left Qingshan Town.
• Ge Ci told Nalan Chaoge that Xiao Yi Xian had saved his life and left after the Wolf Head Mercenary Group tried to force her into becoming a concubine; the group had since been wiped out.
• Nalan Chaoge invited Ge Ci to drink and asked him to guide him to the places where Xiao Yi Xian gathered herbs, and Ge Ci agreed to guide him for three days without payment.
• Ge Ci explained that the Tiger Head Mercenary Group guarded the Myriad Medicine Pavilion’s monthly herb-gathering trips and required recruits to be at least three-star Dou Zhe.
• Nalan Chaoge asked Ge Ci to take him to the Tiger Head Mercenary Group, and Ge Ci agreed to apply for a job and help him try to pass their screening.

Nalan Chaoge stayed with Ge Ci's family in Qingshan Town and learned that Ge Ci's son might have the talent to become an alchemist. At the Mercenary Guild, Nalan Chaoge secured a place on the Myriad Medicine Pavilion's herb-gathering trip by revealing he was an alchemist, then turned the crowd against Jin Cheng with a pill reward.

• Nalan Chaoge stayed at Ge Ci's home, overheard Ge Ci and his wife discuss their son's possible alchemy talent, and encouraged Ge Ci about the upcoming test.
• Nalan Chaoge accompanied Ge Ci to the Mercenary Guild, where Man Bu recruited mercenaries for the Myriad Medicine Pavilion's herb-gathering trip with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Ge Ci claimed a place and offered the final spot to Nalan Chaoge, but Jin Cheng challenged him and mocked Nalan Chaoge's low cultivation.
• Nalan Chaoge revealed he was an alchemist and gave Man Bu a Grade 2 Healing Pill, securing permission to join the trip.
• Nalan Chaoge offered another Healing Pill to whoever beat Jin Cheng, prompting the crowd to mob him as Ge Ci moved to protect Nalan Chaoge.

Nalan Chaoge revealed to Ge Ci that he was a three-star Dou Zhe and a Grade 2 Alchemist, then warned Ge Ci's family that Jin Cheng posed a danger. The next morning, Ge Ci stayed behind while Nalan Chaoge reported to the Mercenary Guild and prepared to enter the Magical Beast Forest.

• Nalan Chaoge admitted his strength and alchemist rank to Ge Ci, then claimed his real name was Yi Shui.
• Ge Ci and Xiu Lian treated Nalan Chaoge with new deference, but he urged them to act as they had before and told them Ge La had a good chance of becoming an alchemist.
• Nalan Chaoge gave Ge Ci's family ten thousand gold coins, Healing Pills, an Advanced Na Ring, and an alchemy manual for Ge La.
• Nalan Chaoge warned Ge Ci and Xiu Lian that Jin Cheng had advanced to four-star Dou Zhe and advised them to avoid the Magical Beast Forest and consider leaving Qingshan Town.
• Ge Ci followed Nalan Chaoge's advice and stayed behind when Nalan Chaoge reported to the Mercenary Guild the next morning.

Nalan Chaoge joined the Myriad Medicine Pavilion’s herb-gathering party and discovered a strange mist in the Magical Beast Forest that concealed the area from soul probing and kept magical beasts away. He finally located the hidden cave containing the herb-gathering site as the party prepared to continue onward.

• Nalan Chaoge traveled with the Tiger Head Mercenary Group’s Young Leader and the woman posing as Xiao Yi Xian, while the Young Leader tried to persuade him to stay.
• Nalan Chaoge sensed a faint mist spreading through the forest, then avoided the woman when she secretly entered his tent and joined the mercenaries around their campfire.
• The party encountered no magical beasts on its second day, leaving the veteran mercenaries and the Young Leader unsettled.
• Nalan Chaoge realized the mist blocked soul probing and thinned starting on the second day of each month, explaining the Myriad Medicine Pavilion’s herb-gathering schedule.
• Nalan Chaoge sensed a cave in a nearby cliff and realized he had found the hidden herb-gathering site.

Nalan Chaoge used a Wood Style Shadow Clone to remain with the mercenaries while he and Medusa secretly explored a cliffside cave tied to Medusa’s past. After fighting Rock Snakes, they found a glowing stone gate sealed by an incomplete Earth Style Formation.

• The mercenaries noticed fresh tracks showing that magical beasts had been avoiding their party, then reached the Sunken Basin and made camp.
• Nalan Chaoge created a Wood Style Shadow Clone to monitor the camp in real time and left with Medusa under cover of night.
• Nalan Chaoge and Medusa landed at a cave entrance, where Nalan Chaoge killed several Rock Snakes with Lightning Release: Thousand Bird Senbon.
• Medusa sensed the lingering aura of her elder inside the hand-carved cave and led Nalan Chaoge deeper within.
• They found a glowing stone gate protected by an incomplete Earth Style Formation, and Nalan Chaoge offered to open it.

Nalan Chaoge and Medusa discovered that the Mountain Cave’s treasures and skeleton were part of Qing Ya’s trap, intended to draw Medusa there and deliver the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame’s remnant soul to her. Qing Ya attacked them with Tobacco Moths, explosive-filled pythons, and an iron cage, but Nalan Chaoge revealed his heavenly flame and prepared to counter him.

• Medusa smashed open the stone gate, and Nalan Chaoge suspected the cave’s skeleton and treasures had been staged to lure visitors.
• Inside the chamber, Medusa destroyed the skeleton, releasing poisonous Tobacco Moths, and Nalan Chaoge pulled her away from the smoke.
• Qing Ya emerged and revealed that he had used the cave, a fake Fragment Map, and the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture to lure Medusa and manipulate Xiao Yi Xian’s discovery.
• Qing Ya trapped Nalan Chaoge and Medusa in an iron cage surrounded by Tobacco Moths and explosive-filled pythons, then explained his plan to kill them.
• Nalan Chaoge asked Qing Ya about the stolen scripture, and Qing Ya admitted he had discovered Xiao Yi Xian’s constitution and arranged for her to obtain it.
• After Medusa gave Nalan Chaoge permission to kill Qing Ya, Nalan Chaoge unleashed his Green Lotus Core Flame and burned the Tobacco Moths; Qing Ya triggered the explosives.

Nalan Chaoge helped Medusa kill Qing Ya and recover the Snake-People Tribe’s Seven-Colored Poison Scripture map and valuable ingredients. Medusa set out to find Xiao Yi Xian and reclaim the scripture, while Nalan Chaoge prepared to return to the empire after embracing her.

• Nalan Chaoge killed Qing Ya with a Sage Mode Big Ball Rasengan, and Medusa crushed Qing Ya’s fleeing energy soul.
• Medusa took Qing Ya’s magic core and found the ancient fragment map in his ring.
• Nalan Chaoge and Medusa collected an Eight-Colored Magic Juice Fruit and other treasures from the cave.
• Medusa learned that Xiao Yi Xian had obtained the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and that she possessed the woeful poison body.
• Medusa decided to search for Xiao Yi Xian, and Nalan Chaoge said he would return to the empire before embracing her.