Chapter Summaries

While refining the Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame, Xiao Se said goodbye to the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python as she yielded control to Queen Medusa. Half a year later, Xiao Se remained at work refining the flames, while the Inner Academy changed and the Sea King Palace emerged in the Black-Corner Region.

• Xiao Se began refining the Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame with the help of an Earth Spirit Pill.
• The Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python told Xiao Se goodbye, and he named her Xiao Cai before she entered the Fallen Heart Flame and transformed as Queen Medusa’s soul merged with her body.
• Xiao Se resisted the temptation to take advantage of the unconscious Queen Medusa and resumed refining the Heavenly Flames.
• Half a year after Han Feng’s invasion, Xiao Xun’er placed first and Xiao Yu fifth in the Inner Courtyard Selection Competition.
• Little Fairy Doctor, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zi Yan disappeared from public view, while the Sea King Palace rose as a mysterious force in the Black-Corner Region.

After eight months refining Heavenly Flames and fusing with the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, Xiao Se and Queen Medusa woke in the magma, both naked and greatly changed. Xiao Se discovered he had reached Seven-Star Dou Huang and evolved the Burning Art, while Long Kui appeared and explained what had happened; they still needed to find a way out.

• Xiao Se's pink flame absorbed the deep-blue and milky-white flames in his consciousness space and became a golden lotus before vanishing with him.
• Xiao Se and Queen Medusa woke in the golden flames, and Medusa covered herself and attacked him before he easily dispersed her strike.
• Xiao Se checked his personal panel and realized eight months had passed, his cultivation had reached Seven-Star Dou Huang, and his Burning Art had advanced to Earth High Rank.
• Queen Medusa checked her body, confirmed nothing else was wrong, and told Xiao Se to dress and find a way out.
• Long Kui emerged from Xiao Se's Demon Sword Tattoo and said he had refined the Fallen Heart Flame and Sea Heart Flame while Medusa fused with Xiao Cai.

After refining the Fallen Heart Flame, Xiao Se was overcome by the wicked fire caused by fusing Heavenly Flames and used a travel ticket to escape the magma world with Queen Medusa and Long Kui. He arrived in a desert and sent Medusa away, where she spotted a mysterious figure who looked like her before her evolution and realized the surroundings were familiar.

• Xiao Se teased Queen Medusa about throwing herself into his arms, then located the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower’s exit and said he would stay to return a second Fallen Heart Flame to Canaan Academy.
• Xiao Se stored the fused Heavenly Flames in his Na Ling and felt the Fallen Heart Flame’s Heart Fire begin tempering his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Se was suddenly consumed by wicked fire, so he sent Long Kui into the Demon Sword and Medusa into his pouch before using the Battle Through the Heavens Travel Ticket.
• Xiao Se emerged in a blazing desert, released Medusa from the pouch, and urged her to get away from him.
• Medusa saw a masked, snake-tailed figure with an aura like her own before evolution and recognized the familiar surroundings, while Xiao Se kept the Demon Sword’s entrance closed to protect Long Kui.

Xiao Se succumbed to the wicked fire and slept with Queen Medusa, then learned they had been transported twenty years into the past. He set out with her to save her younger sister Die and encountered the younger Queen Medusa flying toward him.

• Xiao Se seized Queen Medusa while the wicked fire overwhelmed him, and the two spent the day and night together.
• A masked woman hired a middle-aged man in an inn to find someone and bring her back.
• The next morning, Queen Medusa told Xiao Se that they were in the Tagor Desert twenty years in the past and asked him to help save Die.
• Xiao Se and Queen Medusa set off toward Mo City, where Die had been found in the original story.
• Xiao Se sensed a familiar aura and recognized the approaching figure as Queen Medusa from twenty years earlier.

Xiao Se found Die, who had lost her memories and been captured by human traffickers, and rescued her from the desert. He flew away with her toward safety as Hai Bo Dong recognized her and gave chase.

• The Queen Medusa recognized Xiao Se as an exceptionally dangerous Dou Huang, and Xiao Se learned from her that Die had been taken southwest of Mo City.
• Xiao Se arrived as a human trafficker tried to assault Die and burned the traffickers with the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Se freed Die and stopped the flames from killing the traffickers after she pleaded for them.
• Xiao Se carried Die into the sky, and Hai Bo Dong recognized her from the cart and pursued them with his Ice Wings.

Xiao Se escaped the human traffickers with Die and avoided a confrontation with Hai Bo Dong, then settled with Die in a cave near the Tagor Desert. Queen Medusa asked him to bring her sister back to their own time, and he agreed to wait two days before reuniting them.

• Xiao Se stopped to face Hai Bo Dong, who warned him that the Snake-People Race was hunting Die and let him leave.
• Xiao Se's golden flame reduced the human traffickers to ashes, and Queen Medusa arrived as Hai Bo Dong prepared to return to his water cart.
• Xiao Se fed Die barbecue and fruit juice in a cave while Queen Medusa called him outside to discuss her sister.
• Xiao Se said he could bring Medusa's sister back in the Treasure Pouch but advised waiting two days, since she had lost her memories and might flee or alert the Snake-People Race.
• Medusa warned Xiao Se not to pursue her sister, and he teased her before pulling her into his embrace.

Xiao Se promised to marry Queen Medusa and protect Die, who had lost her memories, as the two grew closer in the desert. When Xiao Se’s travel ticket was about to expire, he prepared to leave with Die while Medusa worried about Die’s growing affection for him.

• Xiao Se promised to take responsibility for Queen Medusa and marry her, and she agreed while warning him to stay away from her younger sister.
• Long Kui reminded Xiao Se that he had promised to marry her first, and he assured her he would.
• Xiao Se met Die in the cave and promised to protect her; after she could not remember her name, he suggested she call herself Die after a butterfly.
• Xiao Se saved Die from Sand Scorpions, and Medusa noticed that Die had begun looking at him with affection.
• Xiao Se received a warning that his travel ticket would expire in five minutes and told Die they had to leave; Die clung to him, afraid to remain alone in the desert.

Xiao Se returned to the magma world and found Yao TianHuo beside the infant Fallen Heart Flame. Yao TianHuo offered the flame and his Five Round Li Fire Method in exchange for help restoring his soul, and Xiao Se agreed after securing a promise against betrayal.

• Xiao Se stored Die in the Wishful Treasure Sack and used his expired travel ticket to return to the magma world, while a masked snake person arrived at the cave and destroyed it.
• Xiao Se sensed the infant Fallen Heart Flame and followed it deep through the magma to a ring of light surrounding Yao TianHuo's skeleton.
• Yao TianHuo appeared before Xiao Se and explained that his soul was fading after his fall.
• Yao TianHuo offered Xiao Se the infant Fallen Heart Flame and the Five Round Li Fire Method if Xiao Se repaired his soul injuries, and swore he would never harm him.
• Xiao Se gave Yao TianHuo a sixth-tier Soul Fusion Pill after Yao TianHuo promised not to betray him.

Xiao Se took Han Feng’s treasures and the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, then secured Yao TianHuo’s help by offering to forge him a body. After eight months trapped in the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower, Xiao Se returned to Canaan Academy, where Xiao Yu and Xun Er had been grieving for him.

• Xiao Se inspected Han Feng’s Nether Sea Storage Ring, claimed the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame, and offered to revive Yao TianHuo if he served as a guest elder.
• Yao TianHuo accepted Xiao Se’s offer and entered a ring, which Xiao Se stored with the elder’s skeleton before leaving the magma world.
• At Canaan Academy, Xiao Yu mourned before Xiao Se’s statue while Xun Er tried to comfort her and worried that he had not emerged from the tower.
• The Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower’s roof shattered, and magma erupted as the academy’s elders gathered to contain the apparent Fallen Heart Flame outbreak.
• Xiao Se emerged from the tower in golden flames and reunited with Xiao Yu and Xun Er.

Xiao Se reunited with Xiao Yu and returned to Canaan Academy after surviving the Fallen Heart Flame, giving Su Qian a new flame that could restore the Sky Burning Qi Refining Tower. He went back to his residence with Xiao Yu and Xun Er, where Xiao Yu asked who he had meant to introduce to them.

• Xiao Yu embraced Xiao Se and scolded him for making her worry, while Xun Er watched from nearby.
• Xiao Se told Su Qian that he had subdued the intelligent Fallen Heart Flame and presented him with a new, infant Fallen Heart Flame in the Fire Gathering Pot.
• Su Qian told Xiao Se that Little Fairy Doctor had established the Sea King Palace with Zi Yan and Zhu Qing, and that the group had taken control of several Black-Corner Region factions.
• Xiao Se left the plaza with Xiao Yu and Xun Er, then told Xiao Yu they would return to his residence rather than go to Maple City.
• Xiao Se greeted Han Yue at his residence and went inside with Xiao Yu and Xun Er, where Xiao Yu asked whom he planned to introduce.

Xiao Se introduced Queen Medusa and Die to Xiao Yu and Xun Er, and Die recovered her memories after seeing her sister. Medusa urged Xiao Se to return with her to the Snake-People Race, while Xiao Se planned to visit Maple City first and began sending a mysterious power into Xiao Yu before leaving.

• Xiao Se summoned Medusa and Die from his Wishful Treasure Sack and introduced them to Xiao Yu and Xun Er.
• Die said she had recovered her memories after seeing Medusa and thanked Xiao Se, then Medusa pulled her away when she embraced him.
• Xiao Se vaguely explained his relationship with the sisters, while Xun Er suspected he had won over Medusa.
• Medusa asked when Xiao Se would return with her to the Snake-People Race so Die could receive her inheritance, and Xiao Se proposed first visiting Maple City to find Little Fairy Doctor and Zhu Qing and gather ingredients for a Transformation Pill.
• Xiao Yu grew sad when she heard Xiao Se would leave, and Xiao Se told her to close her eyes before sending a warm current and milky-white flames into her body.

Xiao Yan returned to the Dou Zhe realm after years of cultivation and faced the choice of whether to learn the dangerous Burning Art. Fearing both Nalan Yanran’s humiliation and losing Xun Er, he chose the black scroll and opened it.

• Xiao Se left Xiao Yu with Fallen Heart Flame sub-flames and gave Xun Er the Ninefold Phoenix Fire Art before departing with Medusa and Die.
• Xiao Yan celebrated reaching Dou Zhe after four years, and Yao Lao praised how quickly he had advanced from Three Stages of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao for the Dou Qi technique that could evolve by devouring Heavenly Flames, and Yao Lao warned that failure could destroy his soul.
• Yao Lao challenged Xiao Yan to face his feelings for Xun Er, and Xiao Yan admitted he would be devastated if she were with another man.
• Yao Lao presented Xiao Yan with an Earth Low Rank technique and the Burning Art, and Xiao Yan chose the black scroll despite its deadly risks.

Xiao Yan began converting to the Burning Art while Yao Lao discovered that its scroll had somehow become an erotic picture. In Maple City, Xiao Se returned to Sea King Palace with Medusa and Die, reuniting with Little Fairy Doctor and Zi Yan.

• Xiao Yan questioned the strange Burning Art scroll, and Yao Lao confirmed it had turned into an erotic picture before transmitting the cultivation method to him.
• Yao Lao sent Xiao Yan the method for circulating qi with Soul Power, and Xiao Yan sat down to convert his Dou Qi.
• In Maple City, Zi Yan complained to Little Fairy Doctor that Xiao Se had been gone for eight months and that she had run out of his pills.
• Xiao Se arrived at Sea King Palace with Medusa and Die, and Little Fairy Doctor threw herself into his arms and cried with relief.
• Xiao Se introduced Medusa as Little Fairy Doctor's sister and introduced Medusa's younger sister, Die.

Xiao Se reunited Die with Medusa, Little Fairy Doctor, and Zi Yan, then learned that a Soul Hall Protector had tried to recruit Sea King Palace and promised to cure Little Fairy Doctor’s Calamity Poison Body. He warned them about Soul Hall and proposed using a pill auction to gather rare ingredients, including materials that could help cure Little Fairy Doctor.

• Xiao Se refined pills for Zi Yan and introduced Die to her and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Little Fairy Doctor and Zi Yan learned what had happened between Xiao Se, Medusa, and Die, and Xiao Se promised to marry Medusa and Little Fairy Doctor as well.
• Little Fairy Doctor told Xiao Se that a Soul Hall Protector had tried to recruit Sea King Palace and offered to resolve her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Se explained Soul Hall’s power and warned that they would likely clash with its Protectors in the future.
• Xiao Se gave Little Fairy Doctor lists of rare ingredients and suggested auctioning high-grade pills in Black Seal City to obtain them.

Xiao refined a Heaven Soul Blood Fusion Pill for Medusa, then spent the night with Little Fairy Doctor before sneaking into Zhu Zhuqing's room. The chapter ended with Xiao embracing the sleeping girl, unaware that something about her seemed different.

• Xiao explained to Medusa that he was refining the pill because of the Snake-People Race's infant-nourishing secret technique, and Medusa warmly held his hand.
• Xiao entered Little Fairy Doctor's room, learned that Zhu Qing had left Canaan Academy to train, and spent the night with Little Fairy Doctor.
• Xiao left Little Fairy Doctor's room at three in the morning and quietly went to the third floor, intending to surprise Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao climbed into the bed beside the sleeping Little Kitten and noticed that her body and fragrance seemed different from what he remembered.
• Thunder startled the girl awake, and she turned toward Xiao, wrapping her arms around his neck.

Xiao Se mistook Zi Yan for Zhu Qing in the dark and kissed her before realizing his mistake. Zi Yan figured out what happened and attacked him, while Xiao Se tried to keep her from exposing the incident.

• Xiao Se entered Zhu Qing's room during the storm, mistook the sleeping Zi Yan for her, and kissed her.
• Zi Yan woke and asked Xiao Se whether he had seen Zhu Qing; he claimed he had come to check on her because she feared thunder.
• After Xiao Se left, Zi Yan realized he had mistaken her for Zhu Qing and had kissed her, then shrieked.
• Xiao Se covered Zi Yan's mouth and admitted his mistake, persuading her not to scream by appealing to their friendship and threatening to stop making pills for her.
• Zi Yan noticed her opened sleepwear and the medicinal fragrance on her mouth, accused Xiao Se of kissing her, and bit him after he called her a little shrimp.

After mistaking Zi Yan for Zhu Qing, Xiao Se accidentally kissed Zi Yan and promised to compensate her with a Transformation Pill and fifty thousand pills. He then found Zhu Zhuqing, spent the night with her, and learned that she accepted his responsibility toward the pregnant Medusa.

• Zi Yan accused Xiao Se of taking her first kiss, and he explained that their lips had touched by accident while he mistook her for Zhu Qing.
• Zi Yan accepted Xiao Se's offer of a Transformation Pill and fifty thousand pills in exchange for keeping the incident secret.
• Zi Yan told Xiao Se that Zhu Qing had gone to his room on the fifth floor, where she often stayed when she missed him.
• Xiao Se confirmed Zhu Zhuqing was in the room and spent the night with her.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked Xiao Se to take responsibility for Medusa's pregnancy, and he promised he would.

Xiao Se began refining two Transformation Pills in the Bamboo Forest while his companions guarded him against interference. On the third day, pill lightning gathered over Maple City, and he withdrew his protective cover and drew the Demon Sword to face it.

• At breakfast, Xiao Se told the group that he had enough ingredients to refine Transformation Pills and asked them to stand guard.
• Little Fairy Doctor and Medusa established a Space Lock around the clearing, and Xiao Se began refining pills inside the Vast Sea Bodyguard Cover.
• Xiao Se used the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron and his Heavenly Flame to refine the ingredients, intending to make two pills at once.
• On the third day, pill lightning formed over Maple City, and Little Fairy Doctor warned Zhu Zhuqing to take shelter behind her.
• After lightning struck and shook the protective cover, Xiao Se withdrew it and summoned the Demon Sword.

Xiao Se defended the Rank 7 Transformation Pills he was refining from powerful pill lightning, astonishing the onlookers with his sword techniques. The chapter left the pill lightning dispersed and the watching experts stunned by a strike that seemed to surpass an earth-tier Dou Technique.

• Xiao Se used his sword to break apart successive waves of pill lightning above the medicine cauldron.
• Black-Corner Region experts recognized the Rank 7 pill lightning and hurried to report the Sea King Palace’s new alchemist to their leaders.
• Su Qian arrived in Maple City, learned Xiao Se was refining Transformation Pills for Zi Yan and Die, and watched him fight the lightning.
• Little Fairy Doctor and Medusa used Space Lock to protect Maple City from the clashes as Xiao Se blocked more bolts.
• When a massive bolt descended, Xiao Se used Mirror Flower Destruction to freeze and shatter it, leaving the onlookers stunned.

After surviving the pill lightning, Xiao Se faced Mo Tianxing and Earth Demon Old Ghost, who had come to Maple City. The chapter ended with Xiao Se and his allies preparing to fight Earth Demon Old Ghost after Xiao Se rejected his offer to join Demon Flame Valley.

• Xiao Se gave Die and Zi Yan Transformation Pills and sent Die, Zhu Zhuqing, and Zi Yan back inside before flying to Maple City's outskirts with Little Fairy Doctor, Medusa, and Su Qian.
• Mo Tianxing appeared and revealed that Earth Demon Old Ghost was hiding nearby, prompting the elder to emerge.
• Mo Tianxing praised Xiao Se's strength and alchemy, while Earth Demon Old Ghost offered Xiao Se a high position in Demon Flame Valley.
• Xiao Se refused Earth Demon Old Ghost's offer, drew the Demon Sword, and unleashed golden flames as Little Fairy Doctor, Medusa, and Su Qian prepared to fight.