Chapter Summaries

Xiao Chen exposed a flaw in the Wind Walk Pill recipe and completed the round without a failed attempt, while most contestants struggled. After the day’s competition ended, he declined Yao Ye’s banquet invitation and left with Xian Er and Xiao Yi Xian to rest before the remaining tests.

• Xiao Yan, Yao Yue, Liu Ling, and most of the other Alchemists failed their first attempts after their cauldrons exploded, while Xiao Chen waited and recognized that the recipe was flawed.
• Xiao Chen refined the Wind Walk Pill successfully by discarding Thick Earth Ganoderma, and his green-lit jade mirror drew attention from the contestants and spectators.
• Xiao Chen’s demonstration helped other Alchemists identify the recipe’s flaw, and fewer than a hundred contestants remained when the hourglass ran out.
• Fa Ma ended the day’s competition and announced that the final round would take place the next day.
• The Gray-robed Youth watched Xiao Chen leave and declared that he would win the competition.
• Xiao Chen declined Yao Ye’s banquet invitation, took Xian Er and Xiao Yi Xian by the hand, and left to rest.

Xiao Chen prepared to refine a sixth-tier high-grade Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill in the conference’s final assessment, using his rare flames and the only set of ingredients he had. The assessment began with the contestants planning their own pills, and Xiao Chen’s Green Lotus Core Flame and Eternal Flame stunned the crowd.

• The morning after leaving the inn with Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran, Xiao Chen joined Xian Er, Queen Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin for breakfast, where Qing Lin noticed marks on Xian Er’s neck.
• Fa Ma announced that the final assessment required contestants to provide their own formulas and ingredients and refine a pill within the allotted time, with the winner judged by the pill’s grade and practical value.
• Hai Bodong told Fa Ma to ensure Yan Li stayed in the Jia Ma Empire after the conference, and Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian agreed as they watched the Gray-robed Youth.
• Xiao Chen brought out his Cosmos Cauldron and prepared to refine a sixth-tier high-grade Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill with his single set of ingredients.
• Xiao Chen revealed the Green Lotus Core Flame and Eternal Flame from his Chaos Fire, making the flames across the square sway toward them and leaving the spectators stunned.

Xiao Chen revealed that he possessed three flames, which made every flame in the plaza bow toward his Chaos Fire, then used them to refine the ingredients for a Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill. As the competition continued, Yao Yue, Liu Ling, and Yan Li neared completion with pills of increasing rank, while Xiao Chen's result remained unknown.

• Xiao Chen's Green Lotus Core Flame, Eternal Flame, and Chaos Fire appeared, and the plaza's flames swayed toward the Chaos Fire.
• Fa Ma recognized the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Queen Medusa and Yun Yun watched Xiao Chen with memories of their past encounters with his flames.
• Xiao Chen put the three flames into his Cosmos Cauldron and began refining the ingredients for a Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill.
• Yao Yue and Liu Ling produced rich fragrances from their Fourth-Rank Pills, while Yan Li boasted that he would win the convention.
• Yan Li's cauldron released violet pill fragrance, which Fa Ma said likely came from a pill at the peak of the Fourth Rank.
• The fragrances from Yao Yue, Liu Ling, and Yan Li grew stronger, while Xiao Chen continued refining without any visible result.

Xiao Chen won the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Convention after refining a high-tier sixth-grade Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill. He left the plaza with Xian Er and the others, confident that his plan had only begun.

• Xiao Chen refined a pill that formed a pillar of light and tried to flee, then stopped it and revealed its Pill Markings.
• Fa Ma and other master Alchemists inspected the contestants’ pills, and Fa Ma declared Xiao Chen the champion for refining a high-tier sixth-grade Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill.
• Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, and others reacted to the pill’s grade, while Xiao Yan and the gathered women congratulated or watched Xiao Chen.
• Yun Yun recalled her past encounters with Xiao Chen, then left the plaza with faint anger as Nalan Yanran noticed her reaction.
• Xiao Chen discovered Yan Li had fled, bade farewell to Ya Fei and Yao Ye, and left with Xian Er and the other women.
• Qing Lin praised Xiao Chen on their way back to the inn, where he went to sleep after thinking that his plan had only begun.

Xiao Chen proposed forming an Alliance with the Jia Ma Empire’s leading powers and the Snake-People Tribe, offering cultivation resources and a share in its leadership. Hai Bodong agreed first, while the others remained hesitant as Xian Er joked about killing them instead.

• Xiao Chen arrived at the Alchemist Guild with Queen Medusa and Xian Er to meet Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and the three great family heads.
• Xiao Chen proposed an Alliance that would include the empire’s major factions and the Snake-People Tribe, revealing that Queen Medusa had become a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Chen offered cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, medicinal pills, entry into Azure Sky Hall, and promised advances in cultivation for Alliance members.
• Xiao Chen placed a Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill before Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian and gave Fa Ma part of a soul-power cultivation skill.
• Xiao Chen outlined an Elder Council with a seat for each founding family and offered the Snake-People Tribe territory within the Jia Ma Empire.
• Hai Bodong agreed to join, while Xian Er teased Xiao Chen about wiping out the hesitant leaders, and Xiao Chen replied that peace was precious.

Xiao Chen formed the Xiao Alliance by securing the support of the Alchemist Guild, the imperial family, and the major clans with promises of pills, cultivation methods, and future advancement. After the alliance meeting, Xiao Chen, Xian Er, and Queen Medusa departed, leaving the others to consider Xiao Chen’s strength and the alliance’s prospects.

• Xiao Chen promised Hai Bodong a Dou Zong Breakthrough Pill and offered Mittel Tengshan help advancing to Dou Emperor within ten years.
• Xiao Chen persuaded Fa Ma to bring the Alchemist Guild into the alliance by offering access to the Soul Codex and future alchemists.
• Nalan Jie, Mu Zhan, and Jia Xing Tian agreed to join after Xiao Chen promised benefits and warned that Yun Shan would soon reach Dou Zong.
• The assembled leaders named the alliance the Xiao Alliance and accepted Xiao Chen as its leader, though he said it belonged to everyone.
• Fa Ma gave Xiao Chen the Alchemist Convention champion’s reward, and Xiao Chen left with Xian Er and Queen Medusa using Space Power.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian discussed Xiao Chen’s formidable strength and agreed that befriending him was best.

Xiao Chen assigned Xian Er to watch the Misty Cloud Sect, then saw a vision of Xiao Xuan confronting Hun Tiandi during the Soul Clan’s attack on the Xiao Clan. He woke in the present unsure whether Time Power or Time-Space Power had caused him to witness the past.

• Xiao Chen decided to move some Xiao Clan members from Wutan City to Gama Holy City and left Ya Fei to handle the arrangements.
• Xian Er offered to deal with forces in the surrounding empires, but Xiao Chen told her to watch the Misty Cloud Sect and capture or kill any Soul Hall Protector she found.
• Xiao Chen began cultivating and suddenly found himself above a golden river, where he witnessed Xiao Xuan and Hun Tiandi discussing Origin Qi and the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Hun Tiandi ordered the Soul Clan to slaughter the Xiao Clan, and Xiao Xuan prepared to fight as Xiao Chen watched the vision fade.
• Xiao Chen returned to the present and wondered whether Time Power or Time-Space Power had let him view the past.

Xiao Chen learned the Xiao Clan’s fate after witnessing the past, then met with the Snake-People Tribe elders to settle their concerns about joining the Xiao Alliance and relocating. The elders agreed after securing Xiao Chen’s guarantee and a marriage alliance with Queen Medusa, whom Xiao Chen called his fiancée as they departed.

• Xiao Chen recalled how Xiao Xuan’s defeat in the Heavenly Tomb led the surviving Xiao Clan members to settle in Wutan City, and wondered whether he could revive Xiao Xuan after becoming a Dou Di.
• Xiao Chen discussed the Xiao Alliance’s economic plans and the construction of a Xiao Mansion with Ya Fei, who agreed to oversee the move from Wutan City.
• Queen Medusa told Xiao Chen that the Snake-People Tribe elders wanted to meet him, and he traveled with her to their temple in the Tagor Desert.
• The four elders questioned whether the Snake-People Tribe would be safe after relocating, and proposed a marriage alliance between Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Chen reassured the elders, who agreed to relocate; as he took Queen Medusa’s hand to leave, he told her she could be considered his fiancée.

Xiao Chen visited Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect, then worked with the Jia Ma Empire’s forces to plan the Xiao Alliance’s development while Ya Fei oversaw construction. Half a month later, the Xiao Mansion was finished, and Xiao Chen arrived with his companions to inspect it.

• Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa entered a Space Passage, and the Snake-People Tribe Elders praised his strength and potential.
• Xiao Chen visited Yun Yun, who asked whether he had deliberately caused their encounter in the Magical Beast Mountain Range; they spoke privately before he left, and Yun Yun found a faint kiss mark on her neck.
• Xiao Chen met with representatives of the Gama Imperial Family, the Mittel Family, the Nalan Family, and the Snake-People Tribe to discuss the Xiao Alliance’s future.
• Ya Fei supervised construction of the Xiao Mansion and the Xiao Alliance palace, and sent people to Wutan City to arrange the Xiao Family’s move.
• After the Xiao Mansion was completed, Xiao Chen arrived with Xian'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin; Ya Fei asked how he would repay her efforts, and he flirted with her.

Xiao Chen moved into Xiao Mansion as the Xiao Alliance expanded, then visited the Snake-People Tribe and named Queen Medusa Cai Lin. She agreed to accompany him on a trip to neighboring empires, but their return was interrupted when Mo Bas challenged Xiao Chen over his relationship with her.

• Xiao Chen moved into Xiao Mansion with the women, and the Xiao Alliance spread across the Jia Ma Empire and neighboring empires as smaller factions joined.
• Xiao Chen visited the Snake-People Tribe settlement and asked Queen Medusa whether she had a name.
• Xiao Chen named Queen Medusa Cai Lin despite her dislike of the name, then invited her to accompany him to neighboring empires, and she agreed.
• Mo Bas attacked Xiao Chen and challenged his marriage alliance with Queen Medusa, but Xiao Chen sent him flying with a slap.
• Queen Medusa rebuked Mo Bas and ordered him to stop.

Xiao Chen stopped Mo Bas from attacking him and returned to pill refining, then traveled with Queen Medusa to Chu Yun Empire to complete a sign-in and gather poisons for Xiao Yi Xian. The sign-in rewarded him with the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations, including the method for cultivating the Xiao Clan Crest.

• Queen Medusa stopped Mo Bas from attacking Xiao Chen and reprimanded him in front of the Snake-People Tribe.
• Xiao Chen returned to Xiao Mansion, refined hundreds of pills, and delivered them to Ya Fei at the Mittel Auction House.
• After receiving a new sign-in location, Xiao Chen traveled with Queen Medusa to Chu Yun Empire, intending to handle hidden dangers and collect poisonous materials for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Chen entered Chu Yun Empire and signed in, receiving the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and its Xiao Clan Crest cultivation method.

Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa attacked the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate, where Xie Bi Yan and the gate’s forces fought back. The chapter left Xiao Chen facing Xie Shan and a Four-Winged Sky Demon Scorpion while Queen Medusa was wounded in her duel with Xie Bi Yan.

• Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa destroyed the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate’s entrance and killed the Dou Wang and Dou Emperor experts who confronted them.
• Xie Bi Yan emerged and battled Queen Medusa, gradually forcing her onto the defensive.
• Xiao Chen killed a Dou Wang with a single attack, then quickly slew several more Dou Wang experts.
• Xie Shan summoned a Four-Winged Sky Demon Scorpion with a whistle, and the creature attacked Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen saw Queen Medusa bleeding and injured as Xie Shan and the Four-Winged Sky Demon Scorpion closed in on him.

Xiao Chen killed Xie Shan and helped Queen Medusa defeat Xie Bi Yan, but Xie Bi Yan’s dying attack struck her with a Demon Poison Spot. The Four-Winged Sky Demon Scorpion was defeated, and Xiao Chen flew toward the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate.

• Xiao Chen summoned nine divine spears, killed Xie Shan, and wounded Xie Bi Yan while Queen Medusa kept him from intervening.
• Xie Bi Yan feigned a self-destructive attack, then fired a black beam into Queen Medusa as she rushed to kill him.
• Queen Medusa killed Xie Bi Yan, but the black beam left a Demon Poison Spot on her chest that began spreading through her body.
• Xiao Chen identified the poison, and his Dragon Phoenix Shadow defeated the Four-Winged Sky Demon Scorpion.
• Xiao Chen flew toward the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate.

Xiao Chen used his Heavenly Flames to seal Queen Medusa’s Demon Poison Spot and began refining its poison into energy for her. He then took her to the Luo Yan Empire, where signing in at the Golden Goose Sect earned him Hellfire, which the Chaos Fire devoured.

• Xiao Chen explained the Demon Poison Spot to Queen Medusa and reassured her that his Heavenly Flames could treat it.
• In a mountain cave, Xiao Chen used his flames to force the poison threads back into the spot and refine some of the poison into energy for Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Chen sealed the Demon Poison Spot and told Queen Medusa that he would need to inject flames each day to continue refining it.
• Xiao Chen opened a spatial gate and traveled with Queen Medusa to the Luo Yan Empire.
• At the Golden Goose Sect, Xiao Chen signed in and received Hellfire, which the Chaos Fire devoured, growing several times more powerful.

Xiao Chen killed Luo Yan Tian and looted the Golden Goose Sect, then signed in at the Mu Lan Empire and obtained the Netherworld Flame. He and Queen Medusa defeated the Three Mu Lan Elders, plundered Mu Lan Valley, and returned to the Jia Ma Empire after eliminating the region’s external threats.

• Xiao Chen used space and time techniques and a soul attack to immobilize Luo Yan Tian, then killed him and destroyed his body and soul.
• Xiao Chen killed several Golden Goose Sect Dou Emperor experts and looted the sect before Ling Er announced a new sign-in location in the Mu Lan Empire.
• Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa arrived at Mu Lan Valley, where Xiao Chen signed in and received the Netherworld Flame, which Chaos Fire swallowed.
• Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa fought the Three Mu Lan Elders, killing all three after more than a dozen exchanges.
• Xiao Chen thoroughly looted Mu Lan Valley, then returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Queen Medusa after clearing the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate, Golden Goose Sect, and Mu Lan Valley.

After returning to Xiao Mansion, Xiao Chen reunited with his family, gave Queen Medusa resources for the Snake-People Tribe, and entrusted Ya Fei with supplies from three defeated factions. He then visited the imperial family, where Jia Xing Tian asked him to heal the weakened Nether Sea Serpent Beast with a Primordial Bone-Molding Pill.

• Xiao Chen returned to Xiao Mansion with Queen Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and reunited with Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li.
• Xiao Zhan urged Xiao Chen not to let down the women in his life, and Xiao Chen gave Queen Medusa cultivation resources for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Xiao Chen visited Ya Fei, gave her resources seized from the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate, Golden Goose Sect, and Mu Lan Valley, and told her about defeating those factions.
• Xiao Chen visited Hai Bodong, Nalan Jie, Nalan Yanran, Jia Xing Tian, and the two princesses.
• Jia Xing Tian showed Xiao Chen the injured Nether Sea Serpent Beast and asked him to refine a Primordial Bone-Molding Pill, which Xiao Chen said he could do.

Xiao Chen healed the Nether Sea Serpent Beast and considered the royal family’s proposed Marriage Alliance before deciding to travel to Jia Nan Academy. He left for the academy after saying farewell to Queen Medusa, then used their mark to remind her of their bond.

• Xiao Chen refined a Primordial Bone-Molding Pill and used it to heal most of the Nether Sea Serpent Beast’s injuries.
• Jia Xing Tian thanked Xiao Chen and asked Yao Ye to consider forming a Marriage Alliance with him.
• Xiao Chen returned to Xiao Mansion, praised Qing Lin’s progress, and decided to visit Jia Nan Academy for Xun'er and the Ancient Emperor Cave Abode.
• Xiao Chen said farewell to Yun Yun and Ya Fei, then told Queen Medusa he was leaving for Jia Nan Academy.
• Queen Medusa refused to accompany Xiao Chen, so he invoked the mark linking them and called her his fiancée and slave.

Xiao Chen traveled with Queen Medusa toward Jia Nan Academy, teasing and angering her along the way. They reached the Black-Corner Region, where Xiao Chen learned Black Seal City would hold its annual auction convention in three months.

• Xiao Chen restrained Queen Medusa and provoked her into calling him “Master,” then left her furious and flustered.
• Three days later, Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa departed the Jia Ma Empire and traveled through the Space Passage toward Jia Nan Academy.
• After seven days of spatial travel, Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa arrived at the Black Domain Great Plains outside the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa entered a small city, where Xiao Chen heard that Black Seal City’s annual auction convention would take place in three months.

Xiao Chen entered the Black-Corner Region, checked in at the location, and received the Dragon-Snake Soul, which he planned to have Qing Lin subdue. He and Queen Medusa reached Black Seal City and visited the Thousand Medicines Shop, while events elsewhere showed Xiao Chen’s growing influence and the tangled relationships around him.

• Ling Er announced that the Black-Corner Region was a new check-in location, and Xiao Chen checked in to receive the Dragon-Snake Soul, which could evolve into an ancient dragon-snake.
• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that Xiao Chen had said he wanted the two of them to serve him in bed together, while Xian Er listened from the shadows.
• Ya Fei wondered whether Xiao Chen had gone to Jia Nan Academy to see Xiao Xun'er, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin read and cultivated at Xiao Mansion.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that he had reached the Da Dou Shi realm, and Yao Lao agreed they would leave for Jia Nan Academy in three days to search for the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Hai Bodong, Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and the three great families' patriarchs discussed Xiao Chen's destruction of three factions in neighboring empires.
• Xiao Chen and Queen Medusa entered Black Seal City, saw the region's violence, and went to the Thousand Medicines Shop, where valuable goods were traded rather than bought with Gold Coin.

Xiao Chen traveled from the Black-Corner Region to Jia Nan Academy, passing through Peace Town and confirming his student identity. He checked in at the academy and received a Nine-Colored Origin Stone.

• Meng Er rejected the alluring voice in her mind and continued searching for a passage back to the Dou Qi Continent to reunite with Xiao Chen.
• Xiao Chen told Queen Medusa he would go to Jia Nan Academy for three months and gave her twenty million Gold Coin before leaving.
• Xiao Chen reached Peace Town, where Jia Nan Academy officials explained the town's rules and verified his identity as a student recruited by Instructor Ruo Lin.
• Xiao Chen traveled onward and entered Jia Nan Academy around noon.
• Xiao Chen checked in at Jia Nan Academy and received a Nine-Colored Origin Stone.