Chapter Summaries

Xiao Kun kissed Medusa in his courtyard, prompting her to realize she had begun to fall for him even as she remained angry about losing her first kiss. Determined to build on their progress, he followed her and arranged for Zi Yan to invite her to stay with the Xiao Family.

• After Yue Mei and the Snake-People elders left, Xiao Kun cornered Medusa against a wall and kissed her.
• Xiao Kun pulled Medusa close, but she bit his tongue and shoved him away when he went too far.
• Medusa considered why she had allowed Xiao Kun to approach her and concluded that she had developed feelings for him, though she still glared at him and left.
• Xiao Kun decided to keep Medusa from returning to the Chu Yun Empire and secretly followed her as the day passed.
• When the Snake-People had not finished shopping by nightfall, Xiao Kun paid Zi Yan five Seventh-grade Medicinal Pills to invite Medusa to stay at the Xiao Family.

Zi Yan brought Medusa to Xiao Manor, where Xiao Kun arranged to keep the Snake-People Race in Xiao City longer. That night, Xiao Kun entered Zi Yan’s room despite Medusa’s objection and offered Zi Yan an Eighth-grade pill.

• Zi Yan found Medusa outside an inn and persuaded her to come stay at Xiao Manor.
• Xiao Kun praised Zi Yan for bringing Medusa to the Xiao Family and planned to delay the Snake-People Race’s purchases in Xiao City.
• After night fell, Xiao Kun went to Zi Yan’s courtyard and heard her and Medusa discussing the Snake-People Race.
• Xiao Kun entered the bedroom after Zi Yan welcomed him and Medusa told him not to come in.
• Xiao Kun offered Zi Yan a True Dragon Strength Pill, saying he had thought of her when he obtained it.

Xiao Kun helped Zi Yan absorb an eighth-tier pill, then pressured Medusa into agreeing to become his woman and stole a kiss. The chapter left Medusa embarrassed and resentful while Zi Yan remained unaware of what had happened.

• Zi Yan swallowed Xiao Kun's eighth-tier True Dragon Power Pill, and Xiao Kun used the Green Lotus Saint Seat to help her control its medicinal power.
• Xiao Kun sat beside Medusa and asked about the Snake-People Race's supplies, concealing that he had arranged to keep her from gathering them soon.
• Xiao Kun grabbed Medusa's hand and refused to release it until she agreed to become his woman.
• Xiao Kun pulled Medusa toward him and kissed her, then released her when Zi Yan began to wake.
• Zi Yan mistook Medusa's flushed face for the effect of a special pill, and Xiao Kun told her she could not take it until she reached the Dou Sect Late Stage.
• Xiao Kun chatted with Medusa and Zi Yan before returning to his room.

Medusa exposed Xiao Kun's scheme to keep the Snake-People Race from finding resources, then demanded compensation for the race. Xiao Kun gave her a generous supply of pills and arranged for Yue Mei and an elder to return home with them, leaving him alone with Medusa.

• Medusa confronted Xiao Kun after discovering he had caused shortages of the resources the Snake-People Race needed.
• Xiao Kun offered the race a large supply of pills as compensation, and Medusa accepted.
• Xiao Kun asked Ya Fei to keep Zi Yan away for the night, promising to spend two days alone with Ya Fei afterward.
• Xiao Kun opened a Space Channel so Yue Mei and a Snake-People Race elder could take the pills home.
• Xiao Kun returned half an hour later, and he and Medusa spent time snuggling and talking.

Xiao Kun and Medusa became lovers and agreed to hold an engagement ceremony and wedding with Yun Yun and Ya Fei. After introducing Medusa to the Xiao family, Xiao Kun departed with a grand procession for the Snake-People Race Royal City.

• Xiao Kun and Medusa spent the night together, and Medusa woke the next day exhausted but stayed close to him.
• Xiao Kun and Medusa spent two more days together before Medusa said she had to return to lead the Snake-People Race.
• Xiao Kun proposed holding their wedding together with Yun Yun and Ya Fei in a year and arranged an engagement ceremony for Medusa.
• Xiao Kun introduced Medusa to Xiao Zhan and his brothers, and Xiao Zhan scolded Xiao Ding and Xiao Li for not finding partners.
• Xiao Kun rode the Amethyst Winged Lion King with a grand procession toward the new Snake-People Race Royal City.

Xiao Kun celebrated his engagement to Medusa, then pursued rapid cultivation by using critical-hit rewards to obtain Nine-Revolving Revered Breaking Pills. After a year in seclusion, he reached Peak Three-turn Dou Venerate and emerged to prepare for the wedding.

• Xiao Kun and Medusa formally agreed to marry, exchanged gifts, and announced their wedding date.
• Xiao Kun gave Xiao Zhan hundreds of Sixth-grade pills to trigger critical-hit rewards, gaining powerful medicinal pills and a Three-Star Dou Saint puppet.
• Xiao Kun repeated the exchange the following week and obtained fifty Nine-Revolving Revered Breaking Pills.
• Xiao Kun swallowed the pills in seclusion and broke through to Peak One-turn Dou Venerate after four months.
• Xiao Kun continued cultivating, reached Peak Three-turn Dou Venerate after a year, and emerged to help prepare for the wedding.

One year later, Xiao Kun and the people around him had grown much stronger, and the Xiao Family had become a major force in the Northwest Continent. As preparations for his three successive weddings filled Xiao City with red medicinal flowers, powerful forces began arriving to offer congratulations.

• Xiao Yan reached Five-star Dou Zong, Zi Yan reached Four-star Dou Zong, and Medusa, Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and other members of their circle made major breakthroughs.
• Xiao Kun's growing family and influence helped make Xiao City the Northwest Continent's largest and most prosperous city.
• Xiao Kun arranged three seven-day weddings in succession, with Medusa first, Ya Fei second, and Yun Yun last.
• Xiao Kun used the Flame of Life to decorate Xiao City and the road outside it with red medicinal flowers, while the Xiao Family guards maintained order.
• Nearly every known first-rate Northwest Continent force with a Dou Zong arrived to congratulate Xiao Kun, whose status as an alchemist heightened their interest and caution.

Xiao Kun held his wedding with Medusa, using a grand procession to bring her from the Snake People Royal City to Xiao City before completing the ceremonies. After entertaining the guests, he entered the bridal chamber, where Medusa awaited him.

• Xiao Kun opened a temporary Space Channel and led a red-clad procession to fetch Medusa from the Snake People Royal City.
• Xiao Kun reassured the Snake-People elders, took Medusa from Zi Yan, and brought her back to Xiao City on the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Xiao Kun's procession scattered medicinal flower petals along the return route, astonishing spectators with their value.
• Xiao Kun and Medusa completed their wedding ceremonies, and he sent Medusa to the bridal chamber before entertaining the guests.
• Xiao Kun entered the bridal chamber at night, and Zi Yan left him alone with Medusa.

After Xiao Kun married Medusa, Ya Fei, and Yun Yun, the Snake-People Race elders revealed that Medusa was pregnant. Xiao Kun and Medusa accepted the news together, and the elders began explaining how to nourish the child.

• Xiao Kun lifted Medusa's bridal veil, and they shared their wedding night before he married Ya Fei and Yun Yun as well.
• Xiao Kun spent a month with his three wives, then returned his attention to cultivation while none of them showed signs of pregnancy.
• The Snake-People Race elders told Xiao Kun that their Secret Art had detected Medusa's pregnancy, leaving him stunned before joy took over.
• Xiao Kun reassured the flustered Medusa, and they held each other as they accepted that they would become parents.
• A Snake-People Race elder explained that Medusa's powerful bloodline meant the child needed medicinal pills while still in the womb.

Xiao Kun gave Medusa a Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill to strengthen their unborn child, then gathered the ingredients and beast blood needed to refine a better version. With everything prepared, he began refining the pill in the mountains outside Xiao City, assisted by a clone.

• A Snake-People Race elder explained that the Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill could raise a Medusa child's potential to the Dou Zun realm, and Xiao Kun promised to refine one.
• Xiao Kun produced a supreme-quality Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill, which the elder authenticated and gave to Medusa.
• The elders taught Xiao Kun and Medusa about pregnancy care, and Xiao Kun rewarded them with Seventh-grade Sect Augmenting Pills.
• Medusa took the pill under Xiao Kun's watch, and their family and friends later congratulated them on her pregnancy.
• Xiao Kun postponed seclusion, gathered the pill ingredients and magical beast blood essence within a month, and started refining the Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill with a clone in a remote mountain range.

Xiao Kun used the Blood Sacrifice Secret Art to raise the grade of a Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill from seventh to mid-grade eighth, triggering two clusters of four-colored pill lightning. Experts near Xiao City gathered to witness the tribulation as Xiao Kun and his clones prepared to resist it.

• Xiao Kun chose two drops of eighth-tier Magic Beast blood essence and used the Blood Sacrifice Secret Art to enhance the Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill.
• After a week of refining the ingredients and another day of fusing the blood essence, Xiao Kun formed the pill and began the Blood Sacrifice.
• The pill advanced to mid-grade eighth grade, and two clusters of four-colored thunderclouds gathered above the mountain range.
• Xiao Kun created two clones to face the pill lightning while experts from around Xiao City arrived to investigate.
• Fa Ma recognized the four-colored thunderclouds and announced that Xiao Kun had refined a mid-grade eighth-grade pill on his first attempt.

Xiao Kun successfully refined two eighth-grade Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pills and gave one to Medusa to strengthen their child. The system rewarded him with a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill: Bodhi Great Reversion Pill.

• Fa Ma and Gu He could not identify Xiao Kun’s pill, while Medusa recognized it as an upgraded Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill.
• Xiao Kun’s avatars destroyed the four-colored pill lightning, and he collected two successful eighth-grade pills.
• Xiao Kun left the gathering and returned to Medusa’s room, where she thanked him for his efforts for their child.
• Xiao Kun gave Medusa one Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill and told her to take it after refining the previous one.
• The system triggered a hundredfold critical-hit compensation and awarded Xiao Kun a Bodhi Great Reversion Pill.

After a ten-thousandfold critical hit gave Xiao Kun a Glazed Creation Pill that could transform his unborn child’s potential and grant her the Glazed Immortal Body, he waited until Cailin had recovered from another pill’s effects before revealing it. Cailin embraced him gratefully, and their daughter’s future potential was set to rise dramatically.

• Xiao Kun gave Medusa a Heavenly Soul Blood Bone Pill and received a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, the Glazed Creation Pill, through a critical-hit reward.
• Xiao Kun learned that the Glazed Creation Pill would give the child in Cailin’s womb the potential to reach Dou Sheng and the Glazed Immortal Body.
• Xiao Kun named Medusa Cailin, and she happily accepted her new name.
• Half a year later, Xiao Kun had reached the peak of the fifth-turn Dou Zun realm, and Cailin had absorbed nearly all the pill’s effects.
• Xiao Kun revealed the Glazed Creation Pill to Cailin and explained how it would benefit their unborn daughter.
• Cailin embraced Xiao Kun, moved by his care for their daughter.

Xiao Kun helped Cailin begin using the Glazed Creation Pill, then advised Fa Ma on his alchemy bottleneck and gave him a soul cultivation secret technique. A year and a half passed afterward.

• Cailin swallowed the Glazed Creation Pill, and its medicinal power flowed to her unborn daughter while also improving Cailin’s cultivation.
• After the pill’s effects stabilized, Xiao Kun prepared to enter seclusion, but Fa Ma arrived to ask for help advancing as an alchemist.
• Xiao Kun explained the four soul realms and told Fa Ma that his soul power was holding back his progress.
• Xiao Kun gave Fa Ma an incomplete soul cultivation secret technique and warned him not to share it without permission.
• Xiao Kun gave Xiao Zhan a copy of the technique for rewarding other alchemists, and a year and a half passed.

After a year and a half in seclusion, Xiao Kun reached Peak Nine-Revolving Dou Venerate and Heaven Realm Great Perfection, then reunited with his family and strengthened his ties with Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Cailin. When he detected two Soul Hall Dou Zun experts heading toward Xiao City, he left to confront them.

• Xiao Kun broke through to Peak Nine-Revolving Dou Venerate and Heaven Realm Great Perfection, then spent two months consolidating his cultivation.
• Xiao Kun emerged from seclusion, learned about the Xiao Family's growth, and spent a week with Yun Yun, Ya Fei, and Cailin.
• Xiao Kun discovered that his Soul Power could detect Soul Hall members despite their concealment Secret Art.
• Xiao Kun sensed two Soul Hall Dou Zun experts approaching Xiao City, opened a Space Channel, and flew to intercept them.

After reaching Heaven Realm Great Perfection Soul Power, Xiao Kun discovered and captured two Soul Hall Dou Zuns who had come to the Jia Ma Empire to abduct someone close to him. Their matching accounts eased his suspicions about Soul Hall’s plans, and he found valuable eighth-grade healing pills among their spoils.

• Xiao Kun used his Soul Power to slam the two fleeing Soul Hall Dou Zuns into the ground and dragged them to him.
• Xiao Kun tortured one captive with the Fallen Heart Flame until he revealed that they planned to infiltrate the Jia Ma Empire and capture someone close to Xiao Kun.
• The captive explained that Soul Hall sent two late-stage Dou Zuns because Xiao Kun had given his relatives Dou Zun puppets, while avoiding a Dou Sheng deployment that could alert the Ancient Clans.
• Xiao Kun interrogated the second Soul Hall Dou Zun and received the same account before searching their Storage Rings.
• Xiao Kun found two eighth-grade healing pills in each ring and suspected they were payment for the dangerous mission.

After thwarting Soul Hall’s scheme, Xiao Kun used two Bodhi Great Reversion Pills to break through to Half-Saint and learned he could instantly travel to loved ones in danger. News that the Black Emperor Pavilion would auction the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid set his next destination: the Black Corner Region, where he hoped to help Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Kun returned to the Xiao Family, warned Yun Yun, Medusa, Ya Fei, and Xiao Zhan about Soul Hall, and gifted Xiao Zhan four eighth-grade Healing Medicinal Pills, triggering a reward of three Recovery and Reattachment Pills and one Lightning Tribulation Pill.
• Xiao Kun entered secluded cultivation and swallowed a Bodhi Great Reversion Pill, but after three months he had not broken through, so he took a second pill.
• After another three months, Xiao Kun broke through to Half-Saint, gaining vastly greater strength, spatial displacement, and a Soul Power nearing the Emperor Realm.
• Xiao Kun shared his breakthrough with Yun Yun and the others, then learned from the Qian Alliance that the Black Emperor Pavilion would auction Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid in about two weeks.
• Xiao Kun decided to head to the Black Corner Region to obtain the fluid for Xiao Yi Xian, whose worsening poison made refining a Poison Pill urgent.

Xiao Kun explained to Xiao Yi Xian how he had anticipated the Black Emperor Pavilion auctioning the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid and agreed to take her to bid for it. He also agreed to bring Zi Yan to the Black Corner Region, leaving the three of them set to depart shortly before the auction.

• Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Kun about the Bodhi Body Transformation Fluid, and he explained why he expected the Black Emperor Pavilion to auction it.
• Xiao Kun decided to attend the auction himself and bring Xiao Yi Xian, who wanted to help obtain the fluid.
• Xiao Kun asked Xiao Yi Xian to call him by his name, and they set their departure for three days before the auction.
• Zi Yan entered after Xiao Yi Xian left, asked to join the trip to see Su Qian, and boasted about reaching Six-star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Kun agreed to take Zi Yan, making Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan his companions for the journey to the Black Corner Region.

Xiao Kun left his family and traveled with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to Black Emperor City, where they arrived in moments thanks to his Half-Saint strength. At the city’s privileged entrance, Black Emperor Sect guards recognized them as formidable experts and respectfully asked their names and faction.

• Xiao Kun made ten jade plaques that could summon him in an emergency, giving them to Cailin, Yun Yun, Ya Fei, Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Xiao Zhan to distribute.
• Ten days later, Xiao Kun said farewell to his family and entered a Space Channel with Zi Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Kun, Zi Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian emerged near Black Emperor City, and Xiao Kun marveled at its immense walls built with Black Mirror Stone.
• The three approached the purple gate, where guards treated them respectfully after recognizing their teleportation-like arrival as proof of great strength.
• An elderly Black Emperor Sect official hurried to greet Xiao Kun's group and asked which faction they belonged to and what their names were.

Xiao Kun arrived in Black Emperor City with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, where the Black Emperor Sect learned he was a Dou Zun attending its auction and hurried to alert its leader. As the three wandered the city, Xiao Kun crushed a group of men who harassed his companions with overwhelming pressure.

• Xiao Kun identified himself to the Black Emperor Sect elders, who recognized him as the Qian Alliance leader and respectfully welcomed him to the auction.
• The green-robed elder mistook Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan for Xiao Kun’s wives, and Zi Yan corrected him; Xiao Kun accepted a token for lodging at Black Emperor Pavilion.
• After Xiao Kun’s group entered Black Emperor City, the yellow-robed elder sent the green-robed elder to warn the Sect Master that a Dou Zun had come to the auction.
• Xiao Kun wandered through the city with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, then used his pressure to crush a group of burly men who insulted them.