Chapter Summaries

The Medicine Clan summoned the Yan Clan and Burning Flame Valley to its Great Hall with urgent Medicine Emperor Invitations, prompting both forces to question the reason. Yao Wanhuo revealed that the Medicine Clan wanted their Heavenly Flames, leaving the gathering on the verge of conflict.

• Tang Zhen questioned why Burning Flame Valley had received a special invitation when the Medicine Ceremony was still some time away.
• Yan Jin arrived at the Medicine Clan Great Hall with Huo Xuan, Huo Yao, Huo Zhi, and other Yan Clan geniuses.
• Yan Jin asked Yao Wanhuo whether the invitation was connected to the Soul Clan's attack on the Pill Region.
• Yao Wanhuo condemned the Soul Clan and suspected it had also destroyed the Stone Clan and Spirit Clan while pursuing the Ancient Emperor Jade.
• Yao Wanhuo told Yan Jin and Tang Zhen that the Medicine Clan had summoned them to obtain their Heavenly Flames.

Yao Wanhuo persuaded Yan Jin and Tang Zhen to bring their clan members with Heavenly Flames to meet a mysterious young man. Yan Jin agreed that the group would challenge him, leaving the young men anxious to learn who he was.

• Yao Wanhuo asked Yan Jin and Tang Zhen for their Heavenly Flame origins, angering them until he clarified that neither he nor the Medicine Clan wanted the flames.
• Yao Wanhuo shielded his conversation with Yan Jin and Tang Zhen for two hours, after which the three reached an agreement.
• Yan Jin brought the members of his clan who possessed Heavenly Flames through the Medicine Clan Space to a scenic place with small bridges and flowing water.
• Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, Huo Yao, and the others questioned why they had been brought there, and Yan Jin warned them that giving up half their Heavenly Flame origins would be a small price if they met the mysterious young man.
• Yan Jin said the young men could fight the kid and would only have to hand over their Heavenly Flames if they lost, leaving them wondering who he was.

Su Qingyun prepared to reveal the Tou She Ancient God Jade and Tou She Ancient God's Cave Mansion to the Central Plains, drawing the Yan Clan and Burning Flame Valley into the Medicine Clan Space. Old Ya reflected on how his return to the Medicine Clan fulfilled an old wish, while Xiao Yan learned that the secret would soon become public.

• Old Ya was welcomed by Medicine Clan elders, who praised his achievements and offered to honor him and his parents on the clan stele and in the Ancestral Hall.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Qingyun whether the Yan Clan and Burning Flame Valley would willingly share the Heavenly Flames source, and Su Qingyun said no one would turn down a Dou Di secret realm.
• Su Qingyun told Xiao Yan that Elder Shennong, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and major clans and experts already knew about the Tou She Ancient God Jade and Cave Mansion, and that the news would soon spread across the Central Plains.
• Su Qingyun descended into view of the arriving Yan Clan and Burning Flame Valley experts.
• Old Ya explained to Xiao Yan that exposing the Cave Mansion could help their side, which was being hunted by the Soul Clan, by preventing the Soul Clan from keeping the secret to itself.

Su Qingyun arrived in the valley, and his presence astonished Yan Jin, Tang Zhen, Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and the others. After Yan Jin offered up his Heavenly Flame origins, the others followed, and their flames rushed toward Su Qingyun as the merging began.

• Su Qingyun descended into the valley and left the gathered experts awestruck.
• Tang Zhen recognized Su Qingyun, and Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and the others realized he had come for their Heavenly Flames.
• Yan Jin told the others they could refuse if they wished, then sent the origins of two Heavenly Flames toward Su Qingyun.
• Huo Xuan, Huo Zhi, and the others chose not to fight Su Qingyun and offered their Heavenly Flame origins.
• Seven or eight kinds of Heavenly Flames surged toward Su Qingyun, and their merging began before he could prepare.

Su Qingyun drew the Heavenly Flame essence from Yan Jin and the other leaders, gathering twenty-three flames as he continued to fuse them. Elder Shennong and the Pill Tower Ancestor secured Yan Jin’s willingness to cooperate against the Soul Clan, and the Lei Clan arrived with an Ancient Clan man, opening the way for an alliance.

• Su Qingyun’s presence caused the Heavenly Flames to abandon their masters, and he gathered twenty-three flames around himself.
• Yan Jin, Tang Zhen, Huo Xuan, and the others withdrew to a mountain peak, distressed after losing most of their Heavenly Flame essence.
• Elder Shennong reassured the leaders that Su Qingyun could restore their flames if he survived the Soul Clan’s threat, and the Pill Tower Ancestor urged them to bring the Lei Clan into an alliance.
• Yan Jin said he would cooperate with the Lei Clan against the Soul Clan, and the Pill Tower Ancestor called for the Lei Clan Head.
• The Lei Clan arrived at Medicine Clan Mountain Valley alongside a powerful man from the Ancient Clan.

Yan Jin agreed to help destroy the Soul Clan only if Su Qingyun married a woman of the Flame Clan. He revealed Huo Zhi as his proposed bride, and she eagerly accepted the idea of marrying Su Qingyun.

• Yan Jin, Lei Ying, and the other clan leaders confirmed their alliance against the Soul Clan and discussed how to divide the spoils.
• Yan Jin privately asked Huo Zhi whether she liked Su Qingyun, and she admitted she did.
• Yan Jin asked whether Huo Zhi would marry Su Qingyun, and she eagerly agreed.
• Yan Jin challenged Gu Lie and argued that the Ancient Clan would benefit most from Su Qingyun's future rise.
• Yan Jin demanded that Su Qingyun marry a woman of the Flame Clan and proposed Huo Zhi in exchange for the Flame Clan's help against the Soul Clan.

Yan Jin proposed a marriage alliance between the Yan Clan and Su Qingyun, prompting the Yao and Lei Clans to demand the same chance. As the clans pressed Qingyun for an answer, Tang Zhen was left nursing a bruised face after Gu Lie struck him.

• Yan Jin offered to share the Soul Clan’s spoils with the Yan Clan in exchange for Su Qingyun marrying Huo Zhi.
• Lei Ying and Yao Wanhuo supported Yan Jin’s proposal and offered women from their clans as wives or concubines for Qingyun.
• Tang Zhen asked whether Burning Flame Valley could also arrange a marriage, and Gu Lie slapped him into a mountain.
• Tang Zhen emerged with a swollen face and complained while the clan leaders urged Qingyun to choose fairly among them.

Su Qingyun told the Ancient Families that he was already married to Xun'er and had other wives and a daughter, hoping to avoid further marriage arrangements. Yan Jin and Lei Ying ignored his reluctance and continued offering women from their clans, leaving Su Qingyun exasperated.

• Su Qingyun explained that he loved Xun'er, had married her, and already had a wife and daughter from the Jia Ma Empire.
• Gu Lie welcomed Su Qingyun's marriage news and felt reassured about Xun'er's choice.
• Yan Jin learned that Su Qingyun had several wives and argued that he should marry even more women for the sake of family prosperity.
• Huo Zhi said she did not mind Su Qingyun's existing wives and offered to bear his children and serve him for life.
• Lei Ying agreed with Yan Jin and offered any direct-line woman of the Lei Clan, including his granddaughter, prompting Su Qingyun's dismay.

Su Qingyun worried that a marriage alliance with the Yan, Lei, and Yao Clans would create a painful tangle with the women already close to him. Old Ya told him that Xun'er and Queen Medusa accepted the arrangement, and that he would begin choosing a wife the next day.

• Old Ya praised Su Qingyun's poetry and imagined him marrying several women and having many children.
• Su Qingyun listed the women he already had to consider and feared that marrying women from the three clans would upset Xiao Yi Xian and Green Scales.
• Old Ya agreed that Su Qingyun had reason to worry but encouraged him to marry them all together.
• Old Ya revealed that Xun'er and Queen Medusa had sent letters accepting a marriage if it helped unite the clans against the Soul Clan.
• Old Ya announced that the three clans would bring their candidates the next day for Su Qingyun to choose a wife, then left delighted while Su Qingyun wondered if he could avoid consummating the marriage.

Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan traveled across the continent while preparing for their coming battle with the Soul Clan, growing stronger and sharing a heartfelt conversation about what would happen if Su Qingyun died. They deliberately let the Soul Clan track them and returned to the Jia Ma Empire, where their journey had begun.

• Su Qingyun let the Three Great Clans decide which women would compete to marry him, postponing the marriage alliance until after the Soul Clan was destroyed.
• Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan traveled across the Dou Qi Continent, and Su Qingyun helped Xiao Yan absorb additional Heavenly Flame sources.
• Su Qingyun reached Nine-Star Dou Zun, while Xiao Yan broke through to Seven-Star Dou Zun.
• Su Qingyun told Xiao Yan to survive and seek revenge if he died, and asked him to look after his daughters; Xiao Yan insisted Su Qingyun would live and joked about arranging a future engagement between their children.
• Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan deliberately left their tracks for the Soul Clan to find and returned to the Jia Ma Empire.

Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan returned to the Jia Ma Empire and headed for the Snake-People Race in the Tagor Desert. Outside Golden Snake City, Hall of Souls members demanded that the Snake-People hand over two daughters of Su Qingyun, leaving him and Xiao Yan baffled about the children’s identities.

• Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan arrived in the Jia Ma Empire and crossed the Tagor Desert toward the Snake-People Race.
• Su Qingyun reflected on his past with Queen Medusa and said he wanted to see how the Snake-People were doing.
• An Eight-Star Dou Zong from the Hall of Souls threatened to destroy the Snake-People Race unless they handed over two of Su Qingyun’s daughters.
• Xiao Yan wondered why Su Qingyun’s daughters were in Golden Snake City and accused him of hiding more confidantes and sisters-in-law.
• Su Qingyun admitted he did not know where the two girls had come from or how many children he had.

Die and the Snake-People Race faced the Hall of Souls, which sought to seize White Snake Woman and Yellow Snake Woman’s children to threaten Su Qingyun. With the defenders exhausted after months of fighting, the snake women considered killing the children rather than letting the Hall of Souls take them, while Die prepared for a final battle.

• Hua She'er returned to Golden Snake City with the corpses of scouts whom the Hall of Souls had killed, and Die vowed to resist its attack.
• The chapter recounted how White Snake Woman and Yellow Snake Woman gave birth to Su Qingyun’s daughters, while the Hall of Souls’ assault caused Die to miscarry and awaken an ancient bloodline.
• Die rose to Nine-Star Dou Zong and killed several Hall of Souls experts, but the continued fighting left her and the three snake women nearly exhausted.
• White Snake Woman and Yellow Snake Woman urged Die to let them kill their daughters to prevent the Hall of Souls from using them against Su Qingyun.
• Die refused to let the children die before her and advanced to fight, while the three snake women told Hua She'er to kill the children if they fell and hoped a miracle might still save them.

Su Qingyun returned to Golden Snake City and saved the Snake-People Race from Soul Hall, reuniting with Die and learning that Soul Hall had caused her to miscarry their child. Enraged, he resolved to destroy Soul Hall and the Soul Clan.

• Su Qingyun’s flying sword killed the Soul Hall experts attacking the Snake-People Race, and his mysterious flame burned their bodies and souls to ash.
• Die and the Three Guardian Snake-Girls recognized Su Qingyun when he arrived at Golden Snake City and broke down in tears as Die threw herself into his arms.
• Die told Su Qingyun that she had lost one of their three children, and the White Snake Woman explained that Soul Hall had forced Die to miscarry.
• Su Qingyun learned that his unborn child had been innocent and vowed to destroy Soul Hall and the Soul Clan.

Two young men arrived in Black Rock City and killed every Soul Hall member there after one of them confirmed their numbers. Lin Fei and Xue Mei recognized the returning Su Qingyun as he departed, leaving them with a letter.

• The Soul Hall's growing power oppressed Black Rock City, where Lin Fei and Xue Mei feared the Protectors would target the city's alchemists.
• Corpses of Soul Hall experts fell over Black Rock City, and the city's Protectors discovered that their souls had been annihilated.
• Two young men approached, and the man in black reported that he had killed 132 Soul Hall members and identified 38 more in the city.
• A Killing Sword struck down every Soul Hall member in Black Rock City, including the Half-Venerate and Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Lin Fei and Xue Mei recognized Su Qingyun as the two men left, and they found a letter drifting down from space.

After leaving Black Rock City, Su Qingyun and another young man swept through the Jia Ma Empire, killing Soul Hall forces and trapping those who remained. Soul Hall gathered near the Imperial Capital and took Su Qingyun’s old acquaintances hostage, including Nalan Yanran, whom they planned to use as a bargaining chip.

• Su Qingyun left Lin Fei and Xue Mei pills and urged them to stay hidden in Black Rock City, and the two women cried over his departure.
• Su Qingyun and another young man crossed the Jia Ma Empire, annihilating Soul Hall forces and killing the four Lesser Heavenly Venerates sent to oversee its directions.
• The black-robed young man headed for Wu Tan City to rescue his clansmen, while Su Qingyun went to the Imperial Capital to destroy Soul Hall’s remaining forces.
• Su Qingyun used an Ancient Clan treasure and Immortal Qi Accumulation to prevent anyone below the Dou Zun Realm from leaving the Jia Ma Empire.
• Soul Hall forces besieged the Imperial Family, the Mittel Family, and the Misty Cloud Sect, fighting Yaoye, Jia Xingtian, and Hai Bodong while seizing people close to Su Qingyun.
• A Soul Hall Dou Zong captured Yun Shan and Nalan Yanran, and Soul Hall members proposed using Nalan Yanran as a hostage because they believed she was Su Qingyun’s wife.

Hall of Souls forces attacked the Misty Cloud Sect and the Mittel Family, seeking Yun Shan, Nalan Yanran, Hai Bodong, and Ya Fei. As Hai Bodong fought to protect his clan and Ya Fei, Hall of Souls corpses appeared across the Imperial Capital, followed by the message, “I am here.”

• Hall of Souls experts tried to seize Yun Shan and Nalan Yanran, and Nalan Yanran fought back rather than become a hostage.
• Two Hall of Souls Dou Zong attacked the Mittel Family and demanded Hai Bodong and Ya Fei surrender.
• Hai Bodong unleashed his strength and fought the attackers while telling Ya Fei to take people and find Su Qingyun.
• Hall of Souls corpses crashed into the Imperial Capital and targeted the attackers.
• The words “I am here” rang out across the Imperial Capital.

Su Qingyun returned to the Jia Ma Empire and swiftly wiped out Hall of Souls forces across the Imperial Capital. His old companions recognized him and celebrated his return, while he reunited with Hai Bodong at the Mittel Family.

• Hall of Souls experts panicked as Su Qingyun returned and their corpses fell across the Imperial Capital and Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Shan cheered Su Qingyun’s return, while Nalan Yanran recalled their first meeting and rejoiced that he was back.
• Jia Xingtian welcomed Su Qingyun’s return while fighting a Dou Zong, and Yaoye and Yaoyue prepared to find him as the palace fighting subsided.
• Su Qingyun erased the Soul Clan forces around the Mittel Family and greeted Hai Bodong, who joyfully welcomed him back.

Su Qingyun discussed the danger posed by the Hall of Souls with Hai Bodong, who then urged him to accept Ya Fei as a wife or concubine. Hai Bodong placed Ya Fei's hand in Su Qingyun's and asked him to give her a chance.

• Hai Bodong welcomed Su Qingyun back and worried about the Hall of Souls experts he had defeated.
• Su Qingyun explained that he and Little Yanzi had attacked from two directions and that he feared stronger Hall of Souls forces might arrive.
• Hai Bodong told Su Qingyun not to hesitate to kill if the Hall of Souls took his friends hostage.
• Hai Bodong explained that Ya Fei had refused other marriages and had waited for Su Qingyun to return.
• Hai Bodong joined Ya Fei's hand with Su Qingyun's and asked him to take her as a concubine or bedchamber maid.

Hai Bodong urged Ya Fei to confess her feelings to Su Qingyun, and she admitted she loved him despite fearing she would burden him. Su Qingyun accepted her devotion, and Ya Fei kissed him as Hai Bodong left the courtyard, believing the match was settled.

• Hai Bodong asked Ya Fei whether she was willing to be with Su Qingyun, and she said she would marry only him while worrying that her family's weakness would make her a burden.
• Su Qingyun told Ya Fei he already had a wife and daughter, could not promise her an exclusive or carefree life, and might die fighting the Hall of Souls.
• Ya Fei covered Su Qingyun's mouth, insisted he would survive, and said she would not live on without him if he died.
• Ya Fei threw herself into Su Qingyun's arms and kissed him, while Hai Bodong quietly left the courtyard.
• Teng Shan asked Hai Bodong how things had gone, and Hai Bodong said Ya Fei and Su Qingyun were probably a done deal.

Ya Fei told Hai Bodong and Mite'er Teng Shan that Su Qingyun had left after promising to answer her marriage wish if he survived his coming battle with the Soul Clan. She believed in him and resolved to become strong while he was away.

• Hai Bodong and Mite'er Teng Shan questioned Ya Fei about her night with Su Qingyun and were disappointed that she had not conceived a child.
• Ya Fei explained that Su Qingyun had spent the night watching the stars with her and warned that the Soul Clan's strength threatened his wives and children.
• Su Qingyun asked Ya Fei to have the Snake-People Tribe and Misty Cloud Sect protect his family if he fell to the Soul Clan.
• Su Qingyun gave Ya Fei a Soul-Nourishing Card that could strengthen and protect her, and promised to marry her if he returned safely.
• Hai Bodong and Mite'er Teng Shan complained that Ya Fei had missed her chance to conceive and talked about finding Su Qingyun to force the marriage.