Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu learned that Nalan Chaoge might still be alive, just as a force inside the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower began violently breaking free. When a magma eruption threatened Jia Nan Academy, a startled voice ordered it back into the tower.

• Xiao Yu blamed herself for Nalan Chaoge's fate, and Hu Jia told her that Yun Yun had said there was still no movement below the tower.
• Su Qian began the academy's annual collective cultivation session, but he ordered everyone evacuated when energy churned inside the tower.
• The tower shook as the sea heart flame and a powerful aura threatened to escape, prompting Su Qian and eighteen elders to reinforce the seal.
• A crimson column of magma burst through the tower's pinnacle, and the academy's people were paralyzed by the terrifying aura.
• An unknown speaker told the falling magma to return, and it surged back into the tower.

Nalan Chaoge burst out of the Qi Refining Tower after surviving three years in the magma, stunning the Inner Academy and proving he was alive. Xiao Yu welcomed him and helped him dress as the academy celebrated his return.

• Su Qian and the elders struggled to contain the erupting magma while Xiao Yi Xian sensed the crisis and led Tian Xiao toward Jia Nan Academy.
• Nalan Chaoge violently broke through the seal, sent the magma back into the Magma Fire Domain, and revealed himself alive to the Inner Academy.
• Wu Tianlang, Su Qian, Hu Gan, and the other elders recognized Nalan Chaoge and celebrated his survival.
• Xiao Yu rushed to Nalan Chaoge, helped him put on a robe, and returned to the plaza as the crowd cheered.
• Su Qian hoped Nalan Chaoge's return would allow Yun Yun's injuries to be healed.

Nalan Chaoge returned to Jia Nan Academy as a Dou Zun and learned that Yun Yun had permanently damaged her meridians while trying to obtain the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva for him. He promised to help heal her, then revealed that he had brought the Fallen Heart Flame’s true form to the Academy.

• Hu Jia teased Xiao Yu about her feelings for Nalan Chaoge, and Xiao Yu said she owed the Xiao Family’s debt to repay him.
• Nalan Chaoge reunited with Su Qian, Hu Gan, and the Academy’s Elders, who learned he had advanced to Dou Zun and that Xiao Yan had escaped three years earlier.
• Su Qian told Nalan Chaoge that Yun Yun had shattered her meridians with a Forbidden Technique while killing Mo Tianxing and still could not cultivate; Nalan Chaoge vowed to help her recover.
• Su Qian explained that the Academy’s Qi Refining Tower had lost its Fallen Heart Flame and warned that Jia Nan Academy would eventually decline without it.
• Nalan Chaoge revealed the Fallen Heart Flame’s true form, astonishing Su Qian and the gathered students and Elders.

Nalan Chaoge restored the Inner Academy’s Qi Refining Tower with a child flame, then learned that the Jia Ma Empire was under attack and Yun Yun had been captured. He prepared to return with Xiao Yi Xian and the others as the empire’s situation grew dire.

• Nalan Chaoge gave Su Qian a child flame for the Fire Gathering Pot, restoring the heart flame’s power in the Qi Refining Tower.
• Su Qian told Nalan Chaoge about the past three years, and Xiao Yi Xian and Kimimaro arrived to warn him about the attack on the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she had founded Tian Xiao in Nalan Chaoge’s name, and Nalan Chaoge reassured her that he would help control her woeful poison body.
• Cheng Fu reported that the Cloud Empire and Poison Sect had invaded the Jia Ma Empire, which had fallen except for the Holy City.
• Cheng Fu revealed that Yun Yun had been captured and that Medusa had failed to rescue her before the Mulan Empire and Falling Goose Empire joined the conflict.
• Xiao Yi Xian stood up and urged the group to leave for the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Yi Xian led the Poison Sect and allied empires to conquer the Jia Ma Empire, seeking revenge on Nalan Chaoge for the Xiao Family’s destruction. At the Battle of the Holy City, she demanded Yao Ye’s death and threatened the children, and the chapter ended as Yan Luotian charged at Yao Ye.

• After Xiao Yan disappeared and the Xiao Family was exterminated, Xiao Yi Xian rose to power in the Poison Sect and began a war against the Jia Ma Empire, drawing the Snake-People Tribe and other empires into the conflict.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s forces defeated the Jia Ma Empire and surrounded the Misty Cloud Sect, where Jia Xing Tian, Yun Shan, Nalan Qingcheng, Yun Chu Jiu, and the wounded magical beasts faced the invading sect leaders.
• Xiao Yi Xian held Yun Yun captive and demanded that Yao Ye kill herself and that Nalan Chaoge’s children be killed, threatening to destroy the Jia Ma Empire if her demands were refused.
• Yao Ye arrived and pleaded for her children’s lives, but Xiao Yi Xian rejected her terms and declared that the Jia Ma Empire would be destroyed because Nalan Chaoge had not returned.
• Xiao Yi Xian ordered Yan Luotian and Mu Lan Fu to attack, and Yan Luotian charged at Yao Ye.

Medusa, Yun Yun, and Yao Ye faced Xiao Yi Xian’s overwhelming poison attack as the Jia Ma Empire’s forces neared defeat. Yun Yun’s Green Lotus Core Flame appeared, and Nalan Chaoge returned as a Dou Zun, killing Yan Luotian with a casual strike.

• Medusa rescued Yun Yun and Yao Ye from Xiao Yi Xian and revealed that she had been injured while forcibly raising her strength with a Snake-People Tribe secret art.
• Medusa, Yun Yun, and Yao Ye chose to fight together, but Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous dragon broke through Medusa’s defense and killed or wounded nearly a thousand soldiers.
• Yun Yun’s Green Lotus Core Flame emerged and confronted Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous dragon.
• Nalan Chaoge appeared through space, and the Jia Ma Empire’s forces cheered at his return.
• Nalan Chaoge casually struck Yan Luotian, crushing his chest and leaving him struggling for his life, while Mu Lan Fu fled to Xiao Yi Xian.

Nalan Chaoge killed Mu Lan Fu and Yan Luotian, then reunited with Yun Yun, Medusa, and Xiao Yi Xian as the Poison Sect’s master challenged him. The Poison Sect’s master signaled her army to attack, and Yao Ye realized the battle was about to spread beyond the fighters.

• Mu Lan Fu summoned three ancient beasts to resist Yun Shan, but Nalan Chaoge stopped and destroyed them, allowing Yun Shan to kill Mu Lan Fu; Nalan Chaoge also took the Na Rings of Mu Lan Fu and Yan Luotian.
• Nalan Chaoge thanked Yun Yun and Medusa for protecting his wives, and told Medusa he had found the third Fragment Map to the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame.
• Medusa met Xiao Yi Xian and was shocked to learn another Woeful Poison Body existed; Xiao Yi Xian then faced the Poison Sect’s master, who declared Nalan Chaoge her opponent.
• Nalan Chaoge attacked the Poison Sect’s master, but she moved through the collapsing space and formed seals while sending a signal.
• Yao Ye recognized the signal as a command for the army to attack, raising the threat of a wider battle involving the Poison Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mu Lan Valley.

Nalan Chaoge stopped the Poison Sect's Sect Master's suicide attack from destroying the Holy City and saved Jia Ma Empire from the invading forces. After the survivors began planning a counterattack, he reunited with Yun Yun and Yao Ye and their children.

• Xiao Yi Xian tried to stop the Poison Sect's Sect Master from unleashing her Woeful Poison Body, but the Sect Master released the poison and detonated herself.
• Nalan Chaoge used Kamui to remove the explosion and Shinra Tensei to drive the poison into the sky, then formed a Six Red Yang Formation to contain it.
• Xiao Yi Xian began absorbing the poison while Nalan Chaoge rushed to Jia Ma Holy City, where the Poison Sect's infiltrators were attacking civilians.
• Nalan Chaoge used his soul power and invisible flames to find and kill every Poison Sect member in the Holy City.
• Jia Xing Tian and Yun Shan arranged to search for remaining enemies and reclaim lost cities, while Nalan Chaoge reunited with Yun Yun and Yao Ye and their children.

Nalan Chaoge reunited with Yao Ye and their children, then ordered preparations for a campaign against the Cloud Empire and Mulan Empire. As Xiao Yi Xian struggled to contain the Poison Sect master's poison gas, she released her own woeful poison body and combined the two clouds into a giant poison avatar.

• Nalan Qingcheng hesitated to recognize Nalan Chaoge as her father until Yun Chu Jiu drew her out and helped her call him Daddy.
• Nagato apologized for failing to protect Yun Yun, but Nalan Chaoge and Yun Yun reassured him before Nalan Chaoge ordered him to prepare to reclaim the lost cities and attack the Cloud Empire and Mulan Empire in one month.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Nalan Chaoge that she could not absorb the spreading poison gas and worried that her own woeful poison body might someday bring disaster to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Nalan Chaoge promised to help control Xiao Yi Xian's poison body, and she asked whether he trusted her before deciding to take a gamble.
• Xiao Yi Xian released her woeful poison body, causing her poison gas to merge with the Poison Sect master's; the Six Red Yang Formation shattered, and she formed the Corrosive Poison Demon Hand to contain the poison and manifest a colossal likeness of herself.

Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poison gas from the former Poison Sect Master’s Woeful Poison Body while Nalan Chaoge secured the Jia Ma Empire and prepared to expand into the Black-Corner Region. After seven days, Xiao Yi Xian’s aura surged as she began breaking through to Dou Zun.

• Xiao Yi Xian remained seated beneath a poison-gas phantom for three days while Nagato drove the invading forces from the Jia Ma Empire.
• Nalan Chaoge assigned Nagato to establish Tian Xiao throughout the Black-Corner Region and told him to find Yang Chao.
• Yun Chu Jiu and Nalan Qingcheng asked Nalan Chaoge for a Transformation Pill for A Zi, and he gave it to them after they agreed to sleep on their own that night.
• Nalan Chaoge told Yun Yun and Yao Ye that he would deal with the invading empires after Xiao Yi Xian finished and would later find a way to treat Yun Yun’s meridians.
• Xiao Yi Xian continued absorbing the poison gas for seven days, then unleashed a surge of energy as her aura showed she was about to break through to Dou Zun.

Xiao Yi Xian reached Dou Zun and learned that Nalan Chaoge considered her family, while she asked him to protect the Jia Ma Empire if her Woeful Poison Body ever went out of control. Three days later, Nalan Chaoge, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Kimimaro set out for the Cloud Empire to retaliate against the Poison Sect, arriving near their destination, Heavenly Poison City.

• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the poison gas and broke through to Dou Zun, startling the people of Jia Ma Holy City.
• Nalan Chaoge reassured Xiao Yi Xian that she was his family, and she asked him to send her to his alternate dimension if her Woeful Poison Body threatened the empire.
• Kimimaro showed off his speed with the Heavenly Goose Nine-Line Wings, and Xiao Yi Xian left after telling Nalan Chaoge to notify her when the attack on the Cloud Empire began.
• Three days later, Nalan Chaoge, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Kimimaro departed for the Cloud Empire to destroy the Poison Sect and avenge the deaths of the Snake-People Tribe and Jia Ma Empire.
• Medusa warned the group about the Cloud Empire’s Poison Masters, and the four headed toward Heavenly Poison City, the Poison Sect’s stronghold.

Nalan Chaoge destroyed Heavenly Poison City with Super Shinra Tensei to avenge the Jia Ma Empire’s dead, leaving the Cloud Empire’s court in panic. As Black Fiend fled, Nalan Chaoge stopped him with his power and prepared to confront him.

• Nalan Chaoge announced that he would slaughter Heavenly Poison City, then left Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian behind as he attacked alone.
• Black Fiend assured the Cloud Empire’s court that the Jia Ma Empire would not dare attack, but a guard reported that Heavenly Poison City had been destroyed.
• Nalan Chaoge reduced Heavenly Poison City to a vast crater, and his allies watched in shock as he declared himself responsible.
• Black Fiend fled after sensing Nalan Chaoge’s killing intent, while the ministers turned against him and called for peace.
• Nalan Chaoge raised a hand and trapped Black Fiend in place with rippling space.

Nalan Chaoge executed Black Fiend after learning that a Soul Hall agent had directed the attack on the Jia Ma Empire and gone to the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect. He confronted Xie Biyan and two Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables, whose arrival left a fierce battle unavoidable.

• Nalan Chaoge tore off Black Fiend’s legs and demanded to know who had orchestrated the attack on the Jia Ma Empire.
• Black Fiend revealed that a black Soul Body had persuaded the Poison Sect to attack and offered him leadership of the Poison Sect and the Cloud Empire.
• Black Fiend identified the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect as the Soul Hall agent’s likely destination, and Nalan Chaoge killed him before setting out with Medusa.
• Xie Biyan appeared and challenged Nalan Chaoge, while Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian stepped forward to protect him.
• Two Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables revealed themselves, and Nalan Chaoge struck one through space with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• The two Heavenly Venerables descended with overwhelming auras, and Nalan Chaoge realized a fierce battle was unavoidable.

Nalan Chaoge confronted Xie Biyan and the Soul Hall’s Black and White Heavenly Venerables, revealing four heavenly flames and summoning four fire spirits. The Heavenly Venerables fled, leaving Xie Biyan to face Nalan Chaoge alone and claim the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect had nothing to do with the attack on the Jia Ma Empire.

• Nalan Chaoge called on the Heavenly Fire Venerable to help fight the two Five-Star Dou Zun Heavenly Venerables and Xie Biyan.
• Nalan Chaoge revealed four heavenly flames and formed them into four enormous fire spirits with the Five Wheels Leaving Fire Method.
• Xie Biyan attacked Nalan Chaoge, but the Black and White Heavenly Venerables vanished and fled.
• Nalan Chaoge pointed out that the Heavenly Venerables had abandoned Xie Biyan, who froze and then nervously addressed him as Brother Nalan.
• Xie Biyan admitted he was guilty but insisted that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect had nothing to do with the attack on the Jia Ma Empire.

Nalan Chaoge ordered Xie Biyan and the Cloud Empire’s imperial family to make amends for the attack on the Jia Ma Empire while he waited in the Cloud Empire. Medusa then hinted that she wanted an heir with him, but their mutual misunderstandings left Nalan Chaoge stunned when she began to undress.

• Nalan Chaoge gave Xie Biyan three days to destroy the Golden Goose Sect and Mu Lan Valley, and Xie Biyan agreed to the task.
• Nalan Chaoge gave the Cloud Empire’s imperial family three days to satisfy Princess Yao Ye, or he would destroy their capital.
• Kimimaro teased Nalan Chaoge that Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian had fallen in love with him, prompting Xiao Yi Xian to leave with Kimimaro.
• Medusa told Nalan Chaoge that the Snake-People Tribe needed an heir and that its elders had urged her to bear one.
• Nalan Chaoge misunderstood Medusa’s request as a matter of preparing for a baby, while Medusa took his agreement as consent to conceive an heir together.
• Medusa began removing her gauze, and Nalan Chaoge finally realized that they had misunderstood each other.

Nalan Chaoge tried to avoid having a child with Medusa immediately, promising instead to seek a Bodhi Blood Merging Pill for her future child. Medusa took his reluctance as concern for her and ultimately began pleasuring him, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Medusa undressed and told Nalan Chaoge she would raise their child without asking for formal status, while he struggled to explain that he had not agreed to conceive one yet.
• Nalan Chaoge proposed a Bodhi Blood Merging Pill, claiming it could improve their child’s chances of reaching Dou Sheng, and promised to obtain the rare Bodhi body transformation saliva it required.
• Nalan Chaoge covered Medusa with her veil and persuaded her to wait until they were both ready, and Medusa believed he feared her snake form might put him off.
• Medusa noticed Nalan Chaoge’s arousal, knelt before him, and began pleasuring him.

Nalan Chaoge learned that Xiao Yi Xian had destroyed Xie Biyan and the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, along with Mu Lan Valley and the Golden Goose Sect, and discovered she wanted to match Medusa in what she could do. After the Three Great Empires surrendered, he returned to a warm welcome in the Holy City, where A Zi asked to become his disciple and Ya Fei watched him with regret.

• Medusa asked whether Nalan Chaoge would spare Xie Biyan, and he said he would deal with him discreetly after the threats of the Black and White Heavenly Venerables were gone.
• The Cloud Empire, Falling Goose Empire, and Mulan Empire sent Nalan Chaoge gifts, including three eighth-tier magic cores and medicinal herbs, while their rulers accepted Xie Biyan's attacks on Mu Lan Valley and the Golden Goose Sect.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned with Kimimaro and announced that she had eliminated Xie Biyan and the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, while Kimimaro reported that Mu Lan Valley and the Golden Goose Sect had also been wiped out.
• Kimimaro told Nalan Chaoge that Xiao Yi Xian had said she could do whatever Medusa could do, then added that she could do whatever Xiao Yi Xian could do too.
• After the Three Great Empires surrendered, Nalan Chaoge returned to the Holy City, where Yao Ye and Yun Yun welcomed him and his children ran to greet him.
• A Zi asked Nalan Chaoge to accept her as his disciple, and Ya Fei watched the family reunion while regretting that she had not chosen him earlier.

Nalan Chaoge entered Nalan Yanran’s life-and-death trial through the Mind Body Switch Technique, then left her to face it after exhausting himself. As he prepared to depart, Yun Yun accepted his relationship with Medusa and urged him to consider her request, leaving him questioning what faithful love meant.

• Nalan Chaoge learned from Yun Yun that Nalan Yanran could pass the Gate of Life and Death by resolving the yearning in her heart.
• Nalan Chaoge used the Mind Body Switch Technique while holding Nalan Yanran’s hands for seven days, then collapsed and left her to complete the trial herself.
• Nalan Chaoge spent a month unable to use dou qi and took three months to regain most of his strength, while Nalan Yanran remained unmoving.
• Nalan Chaoge told Yun Yun he was leaving to handle other matters and promised to seek a way to restore her meridians.
• Yun Yun deduced that Medusa had chosen Nalan Chaoge and asked how he would respond to Medusa’s request.
• Yun Yun said she would accept Medusa and hoped their marriage could end the long-standing conflict between the Misty Cloud Sect and the Snake-People Tribe, prompting Nalan Chaoge to reconsider faithful love.

Nalan Chaoge visited the Snake-People Tribe and was unexpectedly confronted by its Four Great Elders, who demanded he marry Medusa. After Medusa confessed her love and asked the elders not to pressure him, Nalan Chaoge agreed to marry her.

• Nalan Chaoge traveled to the Snake-People Tribe and Yue Mei escorted him to meet the Four Great Elders, where Medusa was waiting.
• The Great Elder asked Nalan Chaoge whether he had come to marry Medusa, and he hesitated because he already had two wives.
• Nalan Chaoge told the elders that he feared Medusa would be wronged because he was already married to Yao Ye and Yun Yun.
• Medusa knelt before the elders, confessed that she loved Nalan Chaoge, and asked them not to make things difficult for him.
• The Great Elder questioned how Medusa's child could lead the tribe without her having formal status, and Nalan Chaoge agreed to marry her.

Nalan Chaoge agreed to marry Medusa, and she used venom to weaken him before they spent three days together. After leaving the Snake-People Tribe, he reached Jia Nan Academy and obtained Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva from Nalan Treant, who revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was his big brother.

• Nalan Chaoge agreed to Medusa's marriage ceremony, and the Snake-People Tribe held their baptism and wedding rites.
• Medusa poisoned Nalan Chaoge's tea and used her venom to weaken him, then spent three days with him.
• Medusa told Nalan Chaoge she would send him the Bodhi Blood Merging Pill and gave him two Eighth Tier Magic Cores from the tribe's collection.
• Nalan Chaoge left the Snake-People Tribe, returned briefly to the Jia Ma Empire, and traveled to the Black-Corner Region before going alone to Jia Nan Academy.
• Nalan Treant gave Nalan Chaoge a bucket of Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and revealed that the Bodhi Ancient Tree was his big brother.