Chapter Summaries

Chen Cheng finished refining a Hunyuan Bone Forming Pill while Yuwen Tuo kept the gathered experts at bay. When Chen Cheng finally emerged from the restaurant to meet the crowd, Yun Yun recognized his appearance and was left in disbelief.

• Fama, Mittel Tengshan, Nalan Yanran, Nalan Su, and Yun Yun gathered outside the restaurant and assessed Yuwen Tuo and the mysterious alchemist.
• Chen Cheng completed the Hunyuan Bone Forming Pill, which he planned to use to heal the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Chen Cheng planned to rest, strengthen his allies with pills, and seek the Green Lotus Core Flame in the desert.
• Chen Cheng sensed the visitors and called Li Xiaoyao and Xiao Qing outside to meet them.
• Chen Cheng, Li Xiaoyao, and Xiao Qing emerged above the restaurant, and Yun Yun recognized Chen Cheng and stared in disbelief.

After revealing himself as a Rank 6 Alchemist, Chen Cheng drew the attention of Jia Ma’s powerful figures and accepted Yun Yun’s invitation to visit Misty Cloud Mountain. Nalan Yanran and Nalan Su hoped he might help detoxify Nalan Jie.

• Yao Ye recognized Chen Cheng and abandoned her plan to meet him, still intent on avenging her great-grandfather despite his powerful allies.
• Nalan Yanran identified Chen Cheng as Murong Cheng, while Nalan Su realized his strength could make him a valuable ally.
• Chen Cheng acknowledged that he had refined the Rank 6 Pill, politely declined Fama’s invitation, and accepted Mittel Tengshan’s apology and offer to gather medicinal ingredients.
• Yun Yun invited Chen Cheng to Misty Cloud Mountain, and Chen Cheng publicly accepted, surprising Yun Yun and the onlookers.
• Chen Cheng privately told Yun Yun he was hungry and wanted to eat with her, so she led him away with an explanation for the crowd.
• Nalan Su urged Nalan Yanran to return to the Misty Cloud Sect and ask whether Chen Cheng could save Nalan Jie.

Chen Cheng agreed to stay at Misty Cloud Sect temporarily to help Yun Yun stabilize the sect before leaving to seek a Heavenly Flame. After Nalan Jie came to the sect for treatment, Chen Cheng’s pill refining produced a brilliant golden light that shocked him.

• Chen Cheng and Yun Yun watched the sunset, and Yun Yun asked about Chen Cheng’s alchemy rank and powerful companions before asking him to stay and help Misty Cloud Sect.
• Chen Cheng agreed to help Yun Yun, then planned to seek a Heavenly Flame in the desert and return to strengthen his constitution; that night, a Dou Ling Pill raised his cultivation to Four Star Dou Wang.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun to have Chen Cheng treat her poisoned grandfather, and Chen Cheng agreed to see Nalan Jie at his courtyard.
• Nalan Jie and Nalan Yanran waited outside Chen Cheng’s courtyard while he refined pills, then Nalan Jie saw golden light burst from the room and suspected Chen Cheng had made a high-grade tier-six pill.

Chen Cheng treated Nalan Jie by drawing out his poison and Dou Qi, leaving him cured but with his cultivation reduced to One Star Da Dou Shi. After Nalan Jie departed, Chen Cheng revealed that he had absorbed the power for himself and prepared to refine it, while Xiao Qing took the Imperial Extreme Pill he had made.

• Chen Cheng welcomed Nalan Jie and Nalan Yanran, then explained that Nalan Jie's poison had reached his bone marrow and that removing it would lower his cultivation.
• Nalan Jie agreed to the treatment after Chen Cheng warned that no one else could cure him and the poison would worsen.
• Chen Cheng used the Source of Deadly Poison and Star Absorbing Great Art to absorb Nalan Jie's poison and Dou Qi, leaving Nalan Jie cured but reduced to One Star Da Dou Shi.
• Chen Cheng gave Nalan Jie a list of precious medicinal ingredients as payment, and Nalan Jie left thanking him.
• Chen Cheng told Xiao Qing that he had taken Nalan Jie's Dou Qi and poison to strengthen himself, then gave her the Imperial Extreme Pill and asked her to keep others from interrupting him.

Chen Cheng advanced his pill refining and distributed pills to his companions and Misty Cloud Sect members, while Princess Yao Ye tried to draw Gu He toward the imperial family. After giving Yun Yun an Imperial Extreme Pill and Nalan Yanran a cultivation pill, Chen Cheng stayed behind to discuss important matters with Yun Yun.

• Chen Cheng reached Seven Star Dou King, and Xiao Qing advanced to Six Star Dou Huang after refining an Imperial Extreme Pill.
• Princess Yao Ye discussed Misty Cloud Sect’s growing influence with the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast and planned to recruit Gu He and send Xiao Yue to Jia Nan Academy.
• Gu He heard that Yun Yun had recruited another Rank 6 Alchemist, then agreed to meet with Princess Yao Ye after Liu Ling delivered her invitation.
• Chen Cheng refined four Imperial Extreme Pills and a Breaking Sect Pill, then gave an Imperial Extreme Pill to Li Xiaoyao and a Breaking Sect Pill to Yuwen Tuo before telling them to prepare for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Chen Cheng gave Yun Yun an Imperial Extreme Pill and Nalan Yanran a Listening Wind Spirit Guiding Pill, then asked Nalan Yanran to leave so he could speak privately with Yun Yun.

Chen Cheng returned to Wutan City, received news that Hai Bodong had only handed over half of the remnant map, and traveled to Desert City to confront him. He arrived with his companions and the recovered Amethyst Winged Lion King, while Hai Bodong assessed the power of Chen Cheng’s group.

• Yun Yun learned that Chen Cheng had departed and heard that he intended to propose marriage when he next visited Misty Cloud Sect.
• Chen Cheng returned to Yuan Lai Inn, praised Xing Hun’s progress, and told the servants to cultivate so they could receive suitable Cultivation Methods.
• Wei Zhuang reported that Hai Bodong had provided only one half of the remnant map and was still drawing the Strange Fire Map; Chen Cheng decided to visit Desert City himself.
• Chen Cheng healed the Amethyst Winged Lion King with a Hunyuan Bone Forming Pill, and the beast pledged to serve as his mount.
• Chen Cheng, Yuwen Tuo, Li Xiaoyao, Wei Zhuang, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King flew to Desert City and went to meet Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong met Chen Cheng and recognized the formidable strength of his companions and the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Chen Cheng negotiated with Hai Bodong for the Strange Fire Map and the Disaster Breaking Pill formula, agreeing to remove Hai Bodong’s seal in exchange for the remaining map fragment. Chen Cheng and his companions flew toward the desert to gather a Sand Mandala, while Hai Bodong wondered whether their growing power threatened the Jia Ma Empire.

• Chen Cheng confronted Hai Bodong about the split map fragment, and Hai Bodong admitted he had hidden the other half and demanded a Disaster Breaking Pill to remove his seal.
• Chen Cheng agreed to Hai Bodong’s condition, received the Strange Fire Map and pill formula, and accepted Hai Bodong’s request to retrieve a Sand Mandala.
• Chen Cheng left Nameless and Wei Zhuang to watch Hai Bodong, then flew with Yuwen Tuo, Li Xiaoyao, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King toward the marked point near Stone Desert City.
• Nameless and Wei Zhuang discussed improving their cultivation, with Wei Zhuang aiming to reach Dou Wang and Nameless expecting to break through to Dou Emperor within three months.
• Hai Bodong considered the strength of Chen Cheng’s group and worried that they could endanger the Jia Ma Empire if they became its enemies.

Chen Cheng and his companions intercepted Medusa Queen as she emerged from underground carrying the Green Lotus Core Flame. After Yuwen Tuo wounded her and Chen Cheng tried to negotiate, Medusa Queen fought back and injured Chen Cheng in a direct clash, leaving both sides ready to continue.

• Chen Cheng detected Medusa Queen fighting the Green Lotus Core Flame underground and waited with Yuwen Tuo, Li Xiaoyao, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King for her to emerge.
• Medusa Queen surfaced with the Green Lotus Core Flame, but Chen Cheng and his companions surrounded her and blocked her escape.
• Medusa Queen fled toward the Amethyst Winged Lion King, forced back its attack, and tried to escape through the gap.
• Yuwen Tuo and Li Xiaoyao caught up with Medusa Queen, and Yuwen Tuo struck her down with the Xuanyuan Sword, seriously injuring her.
• Chen Cheng offered to trade for the Green Lotus Core Flame, but Medusa Queen refused and attacked him.
• Chen Cheng and Medusa Queen exchanged palm strikes; Chen Cheng spat blood and took a healing pill, while Medusa Queen landed in a sandpit before leaping out to face him again.

Chen Cheng poisoned and defeated Medusa Queen while taking the Green Lotus Core Flame, then covered her with a robe before removing her veil and provoking her anger. With her Dou Qi depleted and unable to stand, Medusa Queen was left relying on Chen Cheng for help.

• Chen Cheng warned Medusa Queen that his toxin would spread faster if she used Dou Qi, but she could not purge it and grew weaker.
• Chen Cheng took the Green Lotus Core Flame from Medusa Queen and covered her with a black robe as her clothing burned away.
• Chen Cheng removed Medusa Queen's veil, angering her, and easily restrained her weakened attack.
• Medusa Queen's robe slipped as she struck Chen Cheng, and he apologized after she caught him staring.
• Chen Cheng released Medusa Queen's wrist and helped her stand when she could not rise on her own.

Chen Cheng treated the wounded Medusa Queen, refused to give up the Green Lotus Core Flame, and proposed an alliance between the Chen Family and the Snake-People Tribe. Medusa Queen accepted, and she agreed to stay with Chen Cheng until he refined the Heavenly Flame and removed her poison.

• Chen Cheng refused to return the Green Lotus Core Flame but gave Medusa Queen healing medicine and promised to help her break through after he refined it.
• Chen Cheng introduced himself as a member of the Chen Family in Anyang City and proposed an alliance with the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa Queen agreed to ally with the Chen Family, seeing benefits for her people and for her own breakthrough.
• Chen Cheng told Medusa Queen to stay with him until he refined the Heavenly Flame and could safely remove her poison, and she agreed.

Chen Cheng stored the Green Lotus Core Flame, then sent Yuwen Tuo to retrieve its lotus platform and seeds while he prepared to refine the Heavenly Flame the next day. As Chen Cheng carried Medusa Queen toward an oasis, she told him she had no personal name, and he suggested calling her Xiao Zi.

• Chen Cheng stored the Green Lotus Core Flame and told Yuwen Tuo to retrieve the lotus platform and seeds without damaging the flame's roots.
• Medusa Queen warned Chen Cheng that refining a Heavenly Flame was dangerous, but he said his physique could withstand it and planned to begin the next day.
• Yuwen Tuo returned with the lotus platform and eleven lotus seeds, while the Amethyst Winged Lion King ate the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake he had killed.
• Chen Cheng chose a nearby oasis as their destination, and Medusa Queen offered to guide the group through the desert.
• When Medusa Queen could not fly because her Dou Qi was restricted, Chen Cheng carried her and suggested Xiao Zi as her name after she told him she had none.

Chen Cheng used his monthly summoning opportunity and summoned Ao Bing, a Three Star Dou Zong dragon. Ao Bing arrived at the oasis, where Chen Cheng welcomed him as a new subordinate and said his ice powers would help with refining Heavenly Flames.

• At midnight, Chen Cheng used his monthly summoning opportunity and learned that Ao Bing, a Three Star Dou Zong from Ne Zha, had been summoned.
• Ao Bing's arrival spread a bone-chilling aura across the oasis, putting Yuwen Tuo, Li Xiaoyao, Medusa Queen, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King on guard.
• Chen Cheng revealed that the approaching dragon was his new subordinate, and Medusa Queen struggled against Ao Bing's bloodline suppression.
• Ao Bing descended and changed into human form, then greeted Chen Cheng as Young Master.
• Chen Cheng introduced Ao Bing to Yuwen Tuo and Li Xiaoyao and said Ao Bing would help him refine Heavenly Flames.

Chen Cheng spent five days refining the Heavenly Flame with Ao Bing’s help and emerged much stronger. The system rewarded him with a copying opportunity and a summoning opportunity.

• Li Xiaoyao and Yuwen Tuo welcomed Ao Bing, and everyone rested before Chen Cheng planned to refine the Heavenly Flame.
• The next morning, Chen Cheng assigned Yuwen Tuo, Li Xiaoyao, and Zi Jing to keep watch, while Ao Bing cooled the area with his icy aura.
• Chen Cheng guided the Heavenly Flame into his body over forty-eight hours, then spent another seventy-two hours refining it into a source flame.
• Medusa Queen sensed the surrounding flames bowing and realized Chen Cheng had successfully refined the Heavenly Flame.
• Chen Cheng stood up with greatly increased cultivation and physical strength, and the system offered him a copying opportunity and a summoning opportunity.

After refining a Heavenly Flame and advancing to Dou Huang, Chen Cheng summoned the tracking specialist Howling Celestial Hound and cured Medusa Queen’s poison. He examined Medusa Queen’s Evolution Method and offered a pill formula to improve her chance of evolving, leaving her to gather its rare ingredients.

• Chen Cheng used his summon chance and summoned the Four Star Dou Zong Howling Celestial Hound, whose tracking ability could help him find Gai Nie.
• Chen Cheng told Yuwen Tuo and Medusa Queen that refining the Heavenly Flame had raised his cultivation to Dou Huang.
• Chen Cheng removed the poison from Medusa Queen without absorbing her Dou Qi, then asked to study her Evolution Method.
• Medusa Queen gave Chen Cheng her handwritten Evolution Method, which used a Heavenly Flame to burn away her bodily limits but carried a high risk of death.
• Chen Cheng offered Medusa Queen a formula for a tier-seven intermediate Heavenly Serpent Blood Fusion Pill that could guarantee her breakthrough success.
• Medusa Queen read the pill’s ingredient list and began considering how to obtain the rare materials, including a bucket of blood from a tier-six snake-type magical beast.

Chen Cheng secured Medusa Queen’s help gathering pill ingredients and parted ways with her before heading toward Desert City. When he sensed Medusa Queen fighting a powerful stranger, he raced back with his companions to help her.

• Chen Cheng revealed that he was a Tier-7 Alchemist and gave Medusa Queen lists of ingredients to find for two pills.
• Howling Celestial Hound arrived and joined Chen Cheng, who received a Sand Mandala from Medusa Queen before she flew back to the Snake-People territory.
• Chen Cheng set out for Desert City with Yuwen Tuo, Ao Bing, Li Xiaoyao, the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and Howling Celestial Hound.
• Near the city border, Chen Cheng sensed Medusa Queen fighting an unfamiliar high-level Dou Huang and ordered his group to turn back.
• Ao Bing transformed into a giant white dragon and carried Chen Cheng toward the battle as Yuwen Tuo and Li Xiaoyao raced after them.

Medusa Queen relentlessly attacked Bai Ya after he flirted with her, until Lü Man arrived to help him. When Lü Man’s offer of a cultivation method failed to appease Medusa Queen, all three fought again.

• Medusa Queen pursued Bai Ya with a giant purple snake-shadow, smashed his defenses, and buried him in a vast sandpit.
• Medusa Queen continued attacking Bai Ya, leaving him with only two of his eight wings.
• Lü Man arrived and blocked Medusa Queen’s attack, then rebuked Bai Ya for provoking her.
• Medusa Queen rejected Lü Man’s offer of a Low-Rank Earth Grade Cultivation Method and demanded Bai Ya’s life.
• Lü Man and Bai Ya attacked Medusa Queen together, and the three Dou Huang resumed fighting.

Chen Cheng arrived during the battle between Medusa Queen, Lü Man, and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, rescuing the wounded Medusa Queen and revealing overwhelming reinforcements. He left Lü Man trapped and ordered Howling Celestial Hound to harvest the serpent’s blood and parts, while his attention turned to Lü Man.

• Medusa Queen, Lü Man, and the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor were badly wounded as six Snake-People Tribe commanders joined the fight.
• Ao Bing’s Dragon Might forced the commanders and Bai Ya to the ground, while Chen Cheng arrived with Ao Bing, the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and Howling Celestial Hound.
• Chen Cheng gave Medusa Queen a sixth-tier healing pill, and she clung to him as he agreed to take the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s blood for her.
• Chen Cheng used a copy chance on Lü Man and obtained a wood attribute physique, making him a genuine alchemist.
• Chen Cheng ordered Howling Celestial Hound to collect the serpent’s blood, Monster Core, wings, and bones, then turned his attention back to Lü Man.

Chen Cheng killed Lü Man and had the Snake-People commanders swear secrecy before bringing the injured Medusa Queen to the Snake-People Royal City. The city guards mistook the approaching group for an attack until Medusa Queen revealed herself and ordered them to stand down.

• Chen Cheng killed Lü Man, collected the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s remains, and gave its corpse to the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Chen Cheng spared the six Snake-People commanders at Medusa Queen’s request but made them swallow poison pills and warned them not to reveal what happened.
• Chen Cheng carried Medusa Queen toward the Snake-People Royal Palace on the Amethyst Winged Lion King while Ao Bing and Yuwen Tuo followed.
• The six commanders speculated that the Snake-People might grow powerful and discussed preparing to reclaim land from the Jia Ma Empire.
• City guards at the Snake-People Royal City mistook the approaching Amethyst Winged Lion King for an attack and raised their weapons.
• Medusa Queen flew ahead, identified herself as their king, and ordered the guards to withdraw; they lowered their weapons and prostrated themselves.

Chen Cheng refined pills and helped Medusa Queen recover before leaving the Snake-People Royal Palace for the Jia Ma Empire. He reached Desert City to collect the remaining half of Hai Bodong’s remnant map after delivering the Sand Mandala.

• Chen Cheng refined absorbed energy, raised his cultivation to Six Star Dou Huang, and spent more than ten days making pills from the snake-people race’s medicinal ingredients.
• Medusa Queen’s snake tail grew back, and Chen Cheng arranged to return if she gathered the materials for the Heavenly Serpent Blood Fusion Pill.
• Chen Cheng copied a Low-Rank Earth Grade Cultivation Method for the snake-people race and took the original before leaving the palace the next morning.
• Chen Cheng and his companions flew to Desert City, where Hai Bodong sensed Medusa Queen’s aura on him and reacted with fear.
• Chen Cheng gave Hai Bodong the Sand Mandala and asked him to hand over the other half of the remnant map.

Chen Cheng refined a Disaster Breaking Pill for Hai Bodong and received the remnant map in return, then used the Howling Celestial Hound to track down Gai Nie. He found Gai Nie training in a mountain clearing, where Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang began a fierce duel that ended with them launching a combined technique.

• Chen Cheng refined the Disaster Breaking Pill, gave it to Hai Bodong, and took the remnant map as promised.
• Wei Zhuang gave Chen Cheng fragments of Gai Nie’s Yuan Hong Sword, and the Howling Celestial Hound tracked Gai Nie’s aura.
• Chen Cheng’s group followed the hound to a cliff marked with sword scars and found Gai Nie practicing swordsmanship in a clearing below.
• Wei Zhuang attacked Gai Nie, and the two exchanged sword techniques for half an hour without either gaining the advantage.
• Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang unleashed their strongest techniques together and shouted, “Immortal Demon Love.”