Chapter Summaries

Three years after Medusa and Ao Qing grew closer, their companions advanced in strength while Ao Qing watched the Xiao Clan and built a new home for the Snake-People Race. As Qing Lin prepared to face Nalan Yanran, Medusa and Ao Qing encouraged her to focus on her long road of cultivation.

• Over three years, Ao Qing reached the Three-Star Dou Saint realm, Medusa rose to peak Dou Zong, Zi Yan reached Eight-Star Dou Emperor, Qing Lin became Three-Star Dou Zhe, and Nalan Yanran became Six-Star Dou Zhe.
• Ao Qing continued monitoring Xiao Yan, who had become a Dou Zhe, and created a spatial world where the Snake-People Race moved to live.
• The continent’s alchemists turned their attention to the Pill Gathering, while Soul Hall accelerated its harvesting of Soul Bodies and the wider clans remained unaware of the approaching storm.
• Medusa encouraged Qing Lin before her upcoming match with Nalan Yanran and told her not to let the result distract her from cultivation.
• Qing Lin said she would compete calmly, and Ao Qing told her that becoming a Dou Saint would only be a step toward greater possibilities.

Ao Qing reunited with Medusa at the Misty Cloud Sect, while Qing Lin and Zi Yan visited Nalan Yanran before Qing Lin and Nalan Yanran’s upcoming match. Ao Qing and Medusa planned to leave the sect after the competition and continue traveling after he handled an unresolved matter.

• Ao Qing reunited with Medusa, and Qing Lin left them alone before stopping Zi Yan from entering the room.
• Zi Yan and Qing Lin went to Nalan Yanran’s residence and invited her to their secret lakeside hideout.
• Nalan Yanran told Zi Yan that Yun Yun wanted her to win the match, and she and Qing Lin agreed to give the competition their all.
• Zi Yan joked that she would help them avoid fighting, and the three friends spent the day talking together.
• Ao Qing told Medusa they would leave the Misty Cloud Sect after Qing Lin and Nalan Yanran’s match, then travel together after he returned briefly to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Nalan Yanran and Qing Lin fought their long-awaited decisive battle at the Misty Cloud Sect, while Yun Yun and Medusa agreed to put their past grievances aside afterward. Both contestants collapsed from their final attacks, leaving the match without a winner, and recovered with medicine from Ao Qing.

• Yun Yun and Medusa exchanged words before agreeing to let the past go after Nalan Yanran and Qing Lin's match.
• Nalan Yanran opened the battle with powerful sword techniques, and Qing Lin responded by summoning a serpent soul with her innate Dou Technique.
• Nalan Yanran unleashed Extreme Wind: Skybreaker, while Qing Lin detonated the serpent phantom to block the attack.
• The collision knocked Nalan Yanran unconscious and injured Qing Lin's soul, leaving both girls badly hurt and the match without a winner.
• Ao Qing sent Medusa medicine, and Nalan Yanran and Qing Lin gradually recovered.

Ao Qing told Yun Yun and Yun Shan that he would leave the Misty Cloud Sect the next day and warned them about the Soul Hall’s strength and danger. He gave them a jade talisman to summon his help if the Soul Hall tried to coerce them, then prepared to depart.

• Ao Qing told Yun Yun and Yun Shan that he was leaving the Misty Cloud Sect and ordered them not to preserve his residence.
• Ao Qing warned Yun Yun and Yun Shan that the Soul Hall harvested powerful souls and explained the strength of its leaders and forces.
• Yun Shan promised to avoid provoking or associating with the Soul Hall while refusing to let its members exploit the sect.
• Ao Qing gave Yun Yun and Yun Shan a jade talisman they could crush once to call for his intervention against the Soul Hall.

Ao Qing prepared to leave the Misty Cloud Sect with Medusa and the others, while Zi Yan and Qing Lin said goodbye to Nalan Yanran. After they departed at a leisurely pace, the story turned to Xiao Yan in Wutan City, whose carefree days were about to end.

• Ao Qing told Zi Yan he would wait two hours before leaving the Misty Cloud Sect, giving her time to take care of anything she needed.
• Zi Yan and Qing Lin visited Nalan Yanran and told her that they and Ao Qing, Medusa, and the others were leaving that day.
• Nalan Yanran wished her friends well and promised to keep training, then ran to her room after watching Zi Yan and Qing Lin leave.
• Ao Qing and Medusa waited outside the Mountain Gate and led Qing Lin and Zi Yan away from the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Ao Qing chose to travel slowly toward their destination, while Xiao Yan in Wutan City faced trouble ahead.

Xiao Yan celebrated becoming a twelve-year-old Dou Zhe by boasting to Xiao Xun'er and proposing they elope, but she rejected him and made clear her feelings had faded. Later, Yao Chen awakened in Xiao Yan's ring, drained his Dou Qi, and reduced him to Eight Stage Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan visited Xiao Xun'er to announce he had become a Dou Zhe at twelve and predicted he would win her clan's approval.
• Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yan that becoming a Dou Emperor would not satisfy her clan and rejected his proposal to elope.
• Xiao Yan returned to his courtyard, wondered why Xun'er had changed toward him, then began cultivating on his roof.
• Yao Chen awakened inside Xiao Yan's ring and absorbed the Dou Qi Xiao Yan had gathered.
• Xiao Yan's strength fell from a one-star Dou Zhe to Eight Stage Dou Qi, leaving him dumbfounded.

Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi drained away, and he discovered he could no longer cultivate. Unable to diagnose the problem, Xiao Zhan sought help and was directed to a mysterious alchemist west of Wutan City.

• Xiao Yan woke with only the third stage of Dou Qi remaining and found that any Dou Qi he drew into his dantian disappeared.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan that his cultivation had fallen and he could no longer cultivate, but Xiao Zhan could find no injury or cause.
• Xiao Zhan promised to seek help, then visited the Misty Cloud Sect outpost in Wutan City the next morning.
• The outpost Elder told Xiao Zhan that a mysterious alchemist lived fifty li west of Wutan City and might be able to help.

Xiao Zhan rushed to meet Ao Qing after receiving information about a way to help his son, while Xiao Yan remained at the Xiao Clan grieving his lost cultivation. Xiao Ning exposed Xiao Yan’s condition to the clan, leaving Xiao Yan alone after the elders ordered everyone to keep it secret.

• After Xiao Zhan left the Misty Cloud Sect, the stationed elder crushed his jade talisman, and Xiao Zhan hurried toward the agreed location while Ao Qing waited for him.
• Ao Qing sent Medusa and the others toward Jia Nan Academy with Zi Yan and continued his plan alone.
• Xiao Ning secretly watched Xiao Yan and overheard him lamenting that he had fallen from Dou Zhe to the third stage of Dou Qi and could no longer cultivate.
• Angered when Xiao Yan claimed Xiao Xun'er belonged to him, Xiao Ning attacked him, and the two fought until Xiao Clan members and elders arrived.
• Xiao Ning told the gathered clan members that Xiao Yan had become crippled, and the Grand Elder ordered them to keep the revelation secret before taking Xiao Ning away.

Ao Qing met Xiao Zhan and offered a Seventh Grade Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill to cure Xiao Yan in exchange for the Xiao Clan’s inherited Ancient Jade. Xiao Zhan agreed and hurried back to Wutan City to retrieve it, while Ao Qing waited.

• Xiao Zhan reached the meeting place and met Ao Qing, who had been waiting for him.
• Xiao Zhan explained Xiao Yan’s loss of Dou Qi, and Ao Qing suggested that a creature or Soul Body inside Xiao Yan might be consuming it.
• Ao Qing offered to treat Xiao Yan with a Seventh Grade Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill in exchange for the Xiao Clan’s Ancient Jade.
• Xiao Zhan agreed to the trade and said he would return to Wutan City to fetch the jade.
• Ao Qing told Xiao Zhan to keep the deal secret and stayed behind while Xiao Zhan rushed back to the city.

Xiao Zhan traded the Xiao Clan’s Tuo She Ancient Jade to Ao Qing for a Seventh Grade Pill to treat Xiao Yan. After warning Xiao Zhan to publicize the trade and forget his connection to the Misty Cloud Sect, Ao Qing vanished through space, leaving Xiao Zhan to decide how to protect his clan.

• Xiao Xun'er learned that Xiao Yan had lost his Dou Qi, while Ling Ying confirmed he had fallen to the third stage.
• Xiao Yan stayed locked in his room, waiting for Xiao Zhan to return with a way to help him.
• Xiao Zhan took the ancient jade to Ao Qing, who erased his memories of the Misty Cloud Sect and exchanged the jade for a Seventh Grade Pill.
• Ao Qing warned Xiao Zhan that powerful figures coveted the jade and advised him to spread word of the trade.
• Xiao Zhan watched Ao Qing tear through space and disappear, then resolved to follow his advice.

After returning to the Xiao Clan, Xiao Zhan reassured the Grand Elder that Xiao Yan could recover and arranged for a clan announcement the next day. Xiao Yan found renewed resolve after being treated coldly by the clan, and Xiao Zhan encouraged him to pursue cultivation without regrets.

• Xiao Zhan returned to the Xiao Clan and accepted the Grand Elder's apology for Xiao Ning's conflict with Xiao Yan.
• The Grand Elder asked about Xiao Yan's stalled cultivation, and Xiao Zhan said he had found the cause and believed Xiao Yan could recover.
• Xiao Zhan asked the Grand Elder to gather the clan members in the main hall the next day for an announcement.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the clan members' dismissive treatment and resolved to become strong again.
• Xiao Zhan visited Xiao Yan, urged him to face cultivation's hardships without regret, and warned him that Xun'er came from a powerful family in the Central Continent.

After Xiao Yan regained his ability to cultivate, Xiao Zhan revealed that the soul inside Xiao Yan’s ring had been absorbing his Dou Qi. Yao Chen awakened, offered to take Xiao Yan as his disciple, and Xiao Yan accepted.

• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan a Seventh Grade Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill, which he had obtained by trading the Ancient Jade.
• Yao Chen absorbed most of the pill’s medicinal power to restore his soul, then left a trace for Xiao Yan to cultivate with.
• Xiao Yan’s cultivation recovered to the ninth stage of Dou Qi, while Yao Chen awakened with power reaching the Dou Zong level and potentially Dou Zun in a crisis.
• Xiao Zhan called on the senior inside Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen emerged in soul form and admitted he had once absorbed Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi.
• Yao Chen offered to accept Xiao Yan as his disciple to settle their debt, and Xiao Yan knelt and accepted him as his master.

Xiao Zhan told the Xiao family that he had traded their inherited Ancient Jade for a way to restore Xiao Yan, and the clan accepted his decision. Gu Xun'er learned the jade was gone and ordered a Gu Clan elder to investigate who had taken it.

• Yao Chen offered to teach Xiao Yan alchemy, and Xiao Yan agreed to study under him after recovering and reaching Dou Zhe again.
• The Grand Elder summoned the Xiao family, and Xiao Zhan explained that he had traded the inherited Ancient Jade to restore Xiao Yan's cultivation.
• The Grand Elder defended Xiao Zhan's decision, and the Xiao family members accepted the exchange as worthwhile for Xiao Yan's future.
• Xiao Zhan instructed the family to spread word that the Ancient Jade had been traded for medicinal pills.
• Gu Xun'er learned the Ancient Jade had disappeared, and a Gu Clan elder admitted he had failed to track it.
• Gu Xun'er ordered the elder to investigate the jade's new owner, and he decided to question Xiao Zhan using extraordinary methods.

A Gu Clan Dou Saint discovered that Xiao Zhan had traded the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade to a mysterious Dou Saint, and the Gu Clan could not recover it. Fearing the Soul Clan might target Xun'er, Gu Yuan asked her to return to the Ancient Realm, but she chose to remain in the Xiao Clan for three years.

• A Gu Clan Dou Saint Elder extracted Xiao Zhan's memories and learned he had traded the Ancient Jade to a black-robed Dou Saint, then destroyed the area while searching for clues.
• Xiao Zhan woke and believed Xun'er's family had used a Secret Method on him, while Xiao Xun'er realized the Ancient Jade was unlikely to be recovered.
• A Dou Saint Elder told Gu Yuan that the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade had been taken by a mysterious Dou Saint, and Gu Yuan suspected the Soul Clan was responsible.
• Gu Yuan visited Xun'er and urged her to leave the Xiao Clan because she might be in danger.
• Xun'er refused to leave immediately, and Gu Yuan agreed to let her stay for three years before returning to the Ancient Realm.

Ao Qing reunited with Zi Yan, Queen Medusa, and Qing Lin at Jia Nan Academy after obtaining the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade. He prepared to take Queen Medusa and Zi Yan to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, leaving the jade with its Grand Elder and promising Zi Yan they would return to the academy in three years.

• Ao Qing returned to Jia Nan Academy with the Xiao Clan's Ancient Jade, while Zi Yan rushed to reunite with Grand Elder Su Qian.
• Zi Yan introduced Queen Medusa and Qing Lin to Su Qian, who welcomed them as guests at the Inner Academy.
• Ao Qing rejoined the group and teased Zi Yan after she caught him leaving Queen Medusa's room.
• Ao Qing decided to return to the Ancient Dragon World with Queen Medusa and Zi Yan, intending to leave the Ancient Jade in the Grand Elder's care.
• Ao Qing promised Zi Yan they would visit Jia Nan Academy again in three years, and he reassured a nervous Queen Medusa before their journey to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's ancestral land.

Ao Qing returned to the Ancient Dragon World with Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin, only to find its new barriers blocking their way. After the elders arrived and cleared up a misunderstanding, Ao Qing showed them the Xiao Clan’s Tuo She Ancient Jade and asked them to hide it, leaving the elders responsible for keeping it safe.

• Ao Qing brought Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to the sealed Ancient Dragon World, then crushed Grand Elder’s jade token to summon help.
• Grand Elder and several elders appeared in a defensive formation, believing Ao Qing had been attacked, but relaxed when he explained that the barriers had stopped him from entering.
• Fifth Elder Zhu Dui opened the barrier and explained that he had built it a year earlier to protect the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Ao Qing showed the elders the Tuo She Ancient Jade and clarified that he had obtained it from the fallen Xiao Clan rather than taking it from an Emperor Clan.
• Ao Qing asked the elders to hide the jade, and they agreed that Grand Elder would keep it safe.

Ao Qing introduced Zi Yan and Medusa to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders, who discovered that Zi Yan was likely the daughter of the missing Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun. The elders welcomed both women, and Ao Qing and his companions left to continue their cultivation and the clan’s affairs.

• Ao Qing explained that he had found Zi Yan on the Northwest Continent, and the elders recognized her royal Ancient Void Dragon bloodline as Zhu Kun’s legacy.
• The elders told Zi Yan that she was likely the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s princess, and she nervously greeted them as her uncles.
• Ao Qing introduced Medusa as his partner, and she greeted the elders and pledged to support Ao Qing and the clan.
• Ao Qing introduced Qing Lin, impressing the elders with her rare talent.
• Medusa and the others left the elders to cultivate as the day came to an end.

After three years of cultivation in the Ancient Dragon World, Ao Qing agreed to take Zi Yan and Qing Lin back to Jia Nan Academy. He went to tell the elders, who were preparing for Sixth Elder to begin teaching the clan members.

• Ao Qing reached Four-Star Dou Saint, Medusa became Two-Star Dou Zun, Zi Yan neared Dou Zun, and Qing Lin advanced to Dou Ling over three years of cultivation.
• Zi Yan reminded Ao Qing that he had promised they would leave after three years and asked to return to Jia Nan Academy.
• Ao Qing agreed to leave the next day, and Zi Yan ran off to tell Qing Lin.
• The elders joked about Sixth Elder's upcoming turn teaching the clan members and praised Zi Yan and Qing Lin's talent.
• Ao Qing arrived at the elders' cultivation grounds to meet with them.

Ao Qing told the elders that Zi Yan wanted to return to Jia Nan Academy, and they agreed to let her go while accompanying her to thank Su Qian. Medusa chose to travel with Ao Qing, and the group prepared to leave the Ancient Dragon World the next morning.

• Ao Qing explained to the elders that Zi Yan wanted to return to Jia Nan Academy after their promised three years, and they agreed to let her go.
• The elders decided to accompany Ao Qing and Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy to thank Su Qian, though they would not stay long.
• Ao Qing told Medusa about the journey, and she agreed to travel with him.
• Ao Qing and Medusa spent the night together, while Zi Yan packed her belongings and woke Qing Lin early the next morning.
• Ao Qing gathered Medusa, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to depart, and sent word to the elders before leaving.

Ao Qing brought Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon Clan elders to Jia Nan Academy, where they reunited with Grand Elder Su Qian and thanked him for caring for Zi Yan. The elders’ gratitude left Su Qian nervous as Ao Qing stepped forward to ease the encounter.

• The elders told Zi Yan they would accompany her to Jia Nan Academy to thank Su Qian, and she welcomed their decision.
• Ao Qing, Medusa, Zi Yan, and the elders traveled through spatial tunnels to the Taklamakan Desert and then Jia Nan Academy.
• The group arrived during a gathering at the academy, startling the students and instructors; Su Qian recognized Ao Qing and welcomed Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan introduced her uncles to Su Qian and explained that he had protected her while she was growing up.
• The Grand Elder thanked Su Qian on behalf of the elders, and Su Qian nervously insisted that he had only kept Zi Yan by his side because he felt an affinity with her.