Recaps

Little Fairy Doctor began condensing a Poison Pill, but the resulting heavenly tribulation was not connected to her. Su Qian traced it beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, where Xiao Yan discovered that the Medusa Queen was alive in soul form and fighting against Canaan Academy.

• Little Fairy Doctor used bodhi transformation saliva to steady herself and began condensing a Poison Pill.
• A heavenly tribulation gathered over Canaan Academy and centered on the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, but Yao Lao and Little Fairy Doctor realized it was not connected to her.
• Su Qian examined the tribulation and led the elders toward its source below the tower, while Xiao Yan and Ling Ying discovered Nalan Ye was beneath the entire structure.
• At the bottom of the tower, Cai Lin reached the Dou Zong realm, triggered a heavenly tribulation, and drove back the Lizardmen.
• Su Qian and the elders found a soul-form Medusa Queen amid the fallen heart flame, and Xiao Yan recognized her as the queen he had seen self-detonate.
• Ling Ying revealed Nalan Ye's secrets and concluded that Medusa had turned against him.

Cai Lin tried to advance to Dou Zong with the Fallen Heart Flame beneath Canaan Academy, but Su Qian confronted her to protect the academy and its Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower. After demonstrating his Domain of the Dao, Su Qian stopped her flame attack, and Cai Lin escaped into the magma badly wounded.

• Su Qian ordered Cai Lin to leave the Fallen Heart Flame behind and depart, but she continued her tribulation despite his warning.
• Su Qian sent Hu Qian and the other Elders, along with Xiao Yan and Ling Ying, to protect the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower while he stayed to confront Cai Lin.
• Cai Lin attacked Su Qian with pythons of Fallen Heart Flame, but he shattered them and opened his Domain of the Dao, turning the magma around him into water.
• Cai Lin compressed and hurled the Fallen Heart Flame at Su Qian, who contained it in a curtain of water.
• Cai Lin detonated the Fallen Heart Flame and fled into the magma, but Su Qian struck her soul body from afar and gravely wounded her.

Cai Lin’s Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill continued her breakthrough, transforming her into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, but a Dou Zong-level Heavenly Tribulation struck her in the magma. Trapped underground with the Heavenly Flame Venerable, the narrator insisted that someone would follow the Soul Imprints and rescue them.

• Cai Lin fled Su Qian through the magma while the Fallen Heart Flame kept him occupied, and the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill’s remaining power continued her breakthrough.
• Canaan Academy elders, led by Hu Qian, struggled to resist the growing Heavenly Tribulation outside the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower as its power reached the Dou Zong level.
• Cai Lin’s body transformed into a small Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, but a lightning serpent emerged from a Space Channel and struck her, leaving her apparently lifeless.
• The Heavenly Tribulation dispersed, and the elders believed the Snake-People Queen was dead.
• The narrator asked the Heavenly Flame Venerable how they could escape their underground hiding place, and after he explained that he could not leave, the narrator said someone would follow the Soul Imprints to rescue them.

Little Fairy Doctor formed her Poison Pill and learned that Nalan Ye was trapped beneath Canaan Academy, while Xun Er was ordered to leave for the Ancient Clan. The elders sealed the passage to the magma despite Little Fairy Doctor’s pleas, leaving Nalan Ye’s fate unknown.

• Little Fairy Doctor completed her Poison Pill and rushed out of the secret chamber asking where Nalan Ye was.
• Xun Er learned Gu Xu would take her back to the Ancient Clan to protect her identity, and she asked to see Xiao Yan Gege once more.
• Little Fairy Doctor flew down the tower to find Nalan Ye, but Su Qian warned that he was likely dead and barred her from entering the restricted area.
• The Fallen Heart Flame surged toward the tower, so Su Qian and the elders formed a defense and began sealing the passage to the magma.
• Little Fairy Doctor attacked the sealing barrier, but Hu Qian stopped her as the elders closed the entrance and she cried out in anguish.

After waiting for rescuers for more than ten days, I remained trapped in the Heavenly Flame Venerable's little space and feared that events above had gone badly. A Seven-Colored Little Snake appeared, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable identified her as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, potentially their way out.

• I and Yao TianHuo waited in the little space, but no rescuers arrived, and Yao TianHuo retreated into his skeleton in despair.
• I worried about Little Fairy Doctor, Cai Lin, Xiao Yan, and the fate of the Jialian Empire as time passed without rescue.
• A Seven-Colored Little Snake crawled over me, startling me awake and making me shout in fear.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable recognized the snake as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and I suspected Cai Lin's soul had fallen asleep after her evolution.
• I told the Heavenly Flame Venerable that the snake could help us escape and asked him to erase the harmful presence within her.

Heavenly Flame Venerable explained that the newborn Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python had found the narrator because Cai Lin’s Soul Imprint connected them, and that the snake likely mistook him for a parent. After the snake returned his Ring of Holding, Yao TianHuo proposed a Shared Life and Death contract to free the narrator from Cai Lin’s control, leaving him to decide whether to accept the risky bond.

• Yao TianHuo examined the narrator and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, then refused to remove Cai Lin’s Soul Imprint because the narrator’s soul was too weak.
• Yao TianHuo explained that the newborn snake had followed the imprint’s connection and likely regarded the narrator as a parent.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python gave the narrator Cai Lin’s stolen Ring of Holding, and he found that his three Po Zong Pills were still inside.
• The narrator warned that Cai Lin could regain control of the snake and enslave or kill him once her soul recovered.
• Yao TianHuo proposed a Shared Life and Death contract that could replace the imprint as the bond between the narrator and the snake, then asked whether the narrator was willing to share her fate.

Nalan Ye learned a Heavenly Rank secret method from Yao TianHuo and used it to bind his life and death to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, Xiao Qi. The bond revealed a mysterious connection to Cai Lin, whose sleeping soul awoke and looked back at him.

• Yao TianHuo gave Nalan Ye a Heavenly Rank secret method and guided him through more than a month of study.
• Nalan Ye fed Xiao Qi symbiotic amethyst source and asked it to cooperate with him.
• Nalan Ye performed the secret method, merging a soul seal with Xiao Qi’s soul.
• Yao TianHuo confirmed that Nalan Ye and Xiao Qi now shared life and death.
• Nalan Ye sensed a fork in their soul connection and encountered Cai Lin’s awakened soul, then saw a flash of murderous intent in Xiao Qi’s eyes.

The narrator learned that he had bound his soul to Cai Lin’s with the Shared Life and Death technique, leaving neither able to kill the other, and kept her soul suppressed through the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. After two years of feeding and waiting, he prepared to leave.

• The narrator discovered he had accidentally bound himself to Cai Lin with the Shared Life and Death technique, and Heavenly Flame Venerable said he knew no way to undo it.
• The narrator explained Cai Lin’s Soul Severing Technique, and Heavenly Flame Venerable concluded it could not break the Shared Life and Death technique.
• The narrator decided to keep the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s soul suppressing Cai Lin’s soul and fed it symbiotic amethyst source.
• The narrator reflected on how Xun Er, Little Fairy Doctor, Xiao Meier, and Yun Yun had gone their separate ways as the years passed.
• After about two years, the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python had grown strong enough to fight a Dou Wang expert, and the narrator decided it was time to leave.

The narrator, the Heavenly Flame Venerable, and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python began their escape from the magma, planning to avoid the Flame Lizardmen, Fallen Heart Flame, and Canaan Academy. After reaching the magma lake’s surface, the narrator wondered whether they could bypass the academy through an underground fissure.

• The Heavenly Flame Venerable proposed escaping through the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower or using a secret technique to provoke the Fallen Heart Flame into fighting Canaan Academy.
• The narrator transformed into white mist and attached himself to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, while the Heavenly Flame Venerable collected the juvenile Fallen Heart Flame and the skeleton before joining them.
• The narrator calmed the restless Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and she swam upward through the magma with their auras concealed.
• The group avoided the Flame Lizardmen and reached the surface of the magma lake.
• The narrator asked whether they could find an underground fissure to bypass Canaan Academy, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable said the Fallen Heart Flame would have escaped through it if one existed.

The narrator and Yao TianHuo emerged from underground into Canaan Academy’s Back Mountain and set out to find a way out of its damaged Small World. Their journey stopped when they encountered a little girl on a cliff, whom Yao TianHuo sensed was a Magical Beast.

• The narrator and the Heavenly Flame Venerable finished digging a tunnel, and Xiao Qi surfaced in a secluded valley.
• Yao TianHuo reveled in returning to the outside world, then sensed that they were still inside the Canaan Inner Courtyard’s Small World.
• Yao TianHuo chose a northeast route toward the Small World’s boundary, but Xiao Qi initially slithered southwest because it had no sense of direction.
• Yao TianHuo identified the area as Canaan Academy’s Back Mountain and said no people were nearby.
• The narrator spotted a little girl sitting on a cliff, and Yao TianHuo sensed that she was a Magical Beast rather than a human.

Ye Wentian encountered Zi Yan on the Canaan Inner Courtyard’s Back Mountain while trying to keep Xiao Qi hidden and escape. After he pretended to be the lone survivor of a destroyed clan, Zi Yan sympathized with him and offered to share Nether Bloom Liquid, delaying his departure.

• Ye Wentian recognized Zi Yan and urged Xiao Qi to flee when she chased the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• As Zi Yan caught up, Ye Wentian revealed himself and introduced Xiao Qi as his friend.
• Ye Wentian claimed that his clan had once lived in the small world, had been destroyed, and that he was seeking revenge.
• Zi Yan said she was also alone and ate medicinal herbs to grow strong enough to find her kin.
• Zi Yan grabbed Ye Wentian and invited him to share half of the Nether Bloom Liquid she had found.

I followed Zi Yan through the valley, hoping to find nether bloom liquid that could help me regain a physical body. Zi Yan revealed that a Dou Wang monkey guarded the liquid in its cave, leaving me to consider whether we could defeat it.

• I confirmed with Heavenly Flame Venerable that nether bloom liquid was extremely rare and decided to follow Zi Yan to look for it.
• I told Zi Yan a fabricated story about my wife’s death, then asked her to show me around the valley.
• Zi Yan described the spiritual ingredients she ate and the troubles she had with Canaan Academy’s Great Elder.
• I gave Zi Yan a medicinal pill, and she eagerly asked whether I had more after tasting it.
• Zi Yan showed me the cave where a Dou Wang monkey lived and said she had seen a pool of nether bloom liquid inside.

The narrator and Zi Yan tried to obtain Nether Bloom Liquid from a cave guarded by Black-Haired Monkey, using Zi Yan to lure him away. The narrator entered the cave and found an unripe Nether Bloom Flower, while Heavenly Flame Venerable explained that the desired liquid formed only after the plant bloomed and rotted.

• The narrator proposed that Zi Yan lure Black-Haired Monkey away while he entered the cave to retrieve the Nether Bloom Liquid, and Zi Yan agreed.
• Zi Yan provoked Black-Haired Monkey, but he used his speed and the valley terrain to frustrate her as she chased him.
• The narrator urged Zi Yan to smash the cave entrance and lead Black-Haired Monkey away; she did so, and he pursued her into the mountains.
• The narrator attached himself to the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and entered the cave with it.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable identified a pale-purple bud as a Nether Bloom Flower and explained how the plant could rot into Nether Bloom Liquid after flowering.

Ye Wentian secured the nether bloom liquid from the Black-Haired Monkey’s cave and met Zi Yan to share it. Xiao Yan arrived too late to find the liquid gone, then encountered the returning Black-Haired Monkey and was forced into a fight.

• Ye Wentian bottled the nether bloom liquid and escaped the cave with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python before the Black-Haired Monkey returned.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao heard the fighting and went to the cave, where they found the liquid gone and the Seven-Colored Little Snake leaving.
• Xiao Yan ran into the returning Black-Haired Monkey and began fighting it.
• Ye Wentian reached the meeting place and gave Zi Yan half of the nether bloom liquid, which she drank and complained tasted awful.

Ye Wentian tried to persuade Zi Yan to leave Canaan Academy with him by promising medicinal pills and news of her clan, but she stayed behind. He then crossed the Canaan Small World's spatial barrier with the Heavenly Flame Venerable and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, leaving a letter for Zi Yan before returning to the Dou Qi Continent.

• Ye Wentian offered Zi Yan better-tasting medicinal pills and information about her clan to convince her to travel with him.
• Zi Yan doubted Ye Wentian's claims, and he left the hillside without her; she did not follow.
• Ye Wentian learned from the Heavenly Flame Venerable that Zi Yan remained behind and reluctantly decided not to return for her.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable searched the small world's spatial barrier and found a gap leading out.
• Ye Wentian wrote Zi Yan a letter about the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable sent it to her.
• The Heavenly Flame Venerable carried Ye Wentian and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python through the gap and back to the Dou Qi Continent.

Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan plotted to defeat the forces loyal to Nalan Ye, while Little Fairy Doctor waited for him at the Toxic Sect. The chapter ended with her considering leaving if Nalan Ye did not return after the coming war.

• Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan discussed their failed efforts to win over Hai Bodong and the Mo Lai Ni Family, which continued to support the Supervisory Left Division.
• Yun Shan claimed his backed factions could keep the Snake-People Tribe occupied while the Yun Lan Sect and Gama Royal Family attacked their rivals.
• Yun Shan revealed that Yun Yun would marry Gu He, securing the Sixth-Rank Alchemist's support for their alliance.
• Jia Xingtian said he would give Yun Yun the heads of the Xiao Family as a wedding gift and use their slaughter to threaten the powers supporting Nalan Ye.
• Little Fairy Doctor waited at the Toxic Sect and told the absent Nalan Ye she might leave if he did not appear after the war.

The narrator escaped Canaan Academy with Xiao Qi and the Heavenly Flame Venerable, then learned that Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian were stirring up trouble back in the Jialian Empire. He changed course for the Toxic Sect to find the Little Fairy Doctor, reaching the area near its mountain gate.

• The narrator had Xiao Qi hide from Su Qian, while the Heavenly Flame Venerable concealed their presence and outwitted the Canaan Academy elder’s search.
• After several days, the narrator and the Heavenly Flame Venerable questioned a merchant and learned that Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian were causing trouble in the Jialian Empire.
• The narrator listed Xiao Qi, the Little Fairy Doctor, Xiao Yan, and the Heavenly Flame Venerable as allies he could rely on against the two elders.
• The narrator promised to help the Heavenly Flame Venerable restore his body and redirected their journey toward the Toxic Sect to find the Little Fairy Doctor.
• The narrator, the Heavenly Flame Venerable, and Xiao Qi crossed into the Chuyun Protectorate and reached the area near the Toxic Sect Mountain Gate.

Nalan Ye reunited with the Little Fairy Doctor inside the Toxic Sect after two years apart. Meanwhile, Yun Yun faced her arranged marriage to Gu He, while Nalan Yanran urged her teacher not to sacrifice her own happiness for the Yun Lan Sect.

• Nalan Ye and the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python sneaked through the Toxic Sect toward a Dou Emperor's aura.
• A hidden attacker ambushed the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and the Little Fairy Doctor nearly struck Nalan Ye before recognizing his soul aura.
• Nalan Ye revealed himself, and the tearful Little Fairy Doctor realized he was alive.
• Nalan Yanran urged Yun Yun to tell Grandmaster that she did not love Gu He.
• Yun Yun said she would accept the marriage alliance and believed affection might grow between her and Gu He over time.

Nalan Ye reunited with Little Fairy Doctor at the Poison Sect and discussed refining a new body for himself and restoring Yao TianHuo. As Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian threatened the Toxic Sect and the Nalan Family, Nalan Ye planned to delay them and draw Gu He into the Toxic Sect.

• Little Fairy Doctor offered to gather materials to refine bodies for Nalan Ye and Yao TianHuo, and insisted that Nalan Ye receive the best possible body.
• Nalan Ye explained that refining the bodies required rare materials, while Yao TianHuo said he needed soul-nourishing resources before he could refine the Life Bone Blood Fusion Pills.
• Little Fairy Doctor said she had reached Eight Star Dou Huang and believed she could handle a Dou Huang Peak opponent.
• Nalan Ye noted that Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian might soon move against the Toxic Sect and the Nalan Family, and said they would need to stall them while Xiao Qi and Yao TianHuo recovered.
• Nalan Ye told Little Fairy Doctor to spread word that she would give an Exotic Flame to Gu He if he joined the Toxic Sect.

Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor used the Fallen Heart Flame as bait to draw Gu He toward the Toxic Sect while arranging resources for Heavenly Flame Venerable to regain his strength. As tensions rose between the Toxic Sect and the Yun Lan Sect, Yun Yun accepted that Gu He might choose the Exotic Flame over her.

• Nalan Ye refined a soul-nourishing pill, worried that he lacked a soul cultivation method, and fed Xiao Qi another pill.
• Little Fairy Doctor reported that she had displayed the Fallen Heart Flame and spread word that Gu He could have it by joining the Toxic Sect.
• Heavenly Flame Venerable offered to refine the Toxic Sect's poisons and materials to regain Dou Zong strength, and Little Fairy Doctor promised him the sect's reserves and more supplies.
• Nalan Ye refused to tell the Nalan Family about his situation and dismissed the Mitre Family and the Mo Lai Ni Family as fence-sitters.
• The Yun Lan Sect announced Yun Yun's marriage to Gu He, and the Toxic Sect countered by offering him the Fallen Heart Flame, escalating tensions across the Jialian Empire.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun what they should do if Gu He chose the Exotic Flame, and Yun Yun replied, "Let him."

Gu He chose to go to the Yun Lan Sect rather than pursue the Toxic Sect Master's Fallen Heart Flame, then told Yun Yun he loved her and offered to leave the empire with her. Yun Yun rejected the offer and said that staying in the Yun Lan Sect suited her.

• Liu Ling told Gu He that the Toxic Sect Master's exotic flame was likely the Fallen Heart Flame, but Gu He doubted he could safely reach the Toxic Sect or claim it.
• Gu He went to the Yun Lan Sect and made his choice clear to Yun Shan before meeting Yun Yun.
• Outside the hall, Liu Ling tried to persuade Nalan Yanran that Gu He had chosen Yun Yun over the exotic flame, and Nalan Yanran's expression softened.
• Gu He confessed that he had loved Yun Yun since they first met and said he would rather choose her than pursue another exotic flame.
• Yun Yun asked why Gu He did not simply leave the empire, and he offered to leave with her and live quietly elsewhere.
• Yun Yun rose and left, saying that staying in the Yun Lan Sect suited her.

Nalan Ye learned that the Gama Royal Family had destroyed most of the Xiao Family and realized the purge was meant to challenge his influence. He ordered his allies to rescue the survivors and send Xiao Yan the news, leaving the conflict with Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan poised to escalate.

• Nalan Ye and the Little Fairy Doctor discussed the Toxic Sect's preparations and decided they would rely on their own powerful allies rather than launch a large-scale war.
• The Little Fairy Doctor told Nalan Ye that Gu He had gone to the Yun Lan Sect and Elder Ling had left the Jialian Empire.
• An urgent report revealed that the Gama Royal Family had branded the Xiao Family of Wutan City rebels, killed most of the clan, and left only a handful of survivors.
• Nalan Ye concluded that Jia Xingtian had targeted the Xiao Family to provoke him and dispel fear of his return.
• Nalan Ye ordered the Nalan Family, Mitre Family, and Mo Lai Ni Family to rescue the surviving Xiao Family members and escort them to the Nalan Family, and he told the Little Fairy Doctor to inform Xiao Yan.

Xiao Li told Xiao Yan that the Gama Royal Family had destroyed the Xiao Family and killed its members, prompting Xiao Yan to prepare for revenge. He set out to contact the Nalan Family and the Toxic Sect, and a Toxic Sect Disciple arrived with a letter for him.

• Xiao Li arrived at Canaan Academy wounded, and Xiao Yan gave him a medicinal pill before asking what had happened.
• Xiao Li revealed that the Gama Royal Family had branded the Xiao Family rebels, slaughtered those who resisted, and publicly beheaded the remaining elderly, women, and children.
• Xiao Yan tried to return to the Gamma Empire to kill the Gama Royal Family, but Xiao Yu and Xiao Li stopped him and explained the political conflict that may have led to the attack.
• Xiao Yan decided to seek help from the Nalan Family and the Toxic Sect, while Xiao Yu and Xiao Meier insisted on joining him to avenge the Xiao Family.
• A Toxic Sect Disciple entered with a letter from the Sect Master for Xiao Yan.

Nalan Ye reunited with Xiao Yan at the Toxic Sect after surviving two years beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower, and the two agreed to avenge the Xiao Family. Nalan Ye set the Yun Lan Sect Master's wedding day as the time to attack the Gama Royal Family.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Toxic Sect with Xiao Li, Xiao Yu, Xiao Meier, and Canaan Academy experts to seek help avenging the Xiao Family.
• Nalan Ye hid in Little Fairy Doctor's ring while she received Xiao Yan's party, then summoned Xiao Yan to a secluded room.
• Nalan Ye revealed himself, and Xiao Yan was shocked to learn that he had survived and escaped from beneath the Heavenly Flame Training Gas Tower.
• Nalan Ye promised to help avenge the Xiao Family but told Xiao Yan to keep his existence secret, including from Xiao Meier, and wait at the Toxic Sect.
• Nalan Ye told Xiao Yan that they would strike on the day of the Yun Lan Sect Master's wedding.

The narrator gathered allies and Xiao Yan to prepare for an attack on the Gama Royal Family and Yun Lan Sect, relying on his position as Left Supervisor and Heavenly Flame Venerable’s strength. Three days later, Yun Yun’s wedding to Gu He began at Yun Lan Mountain, where Yun Shan expected trouble from the Nalan Family and Toxic Sect.

• The narrator introduced Heavenly Flame Venerable to Xiao Yan and confirmed that the Venerable still honored their agreement.
• The narrator told Xiao Yan that the wedding would take place in three days and proposed setting out for Yun Lan Mountain with their small group.
• The narrator argued that Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan could not safely avoid confronting him because the empire’s troops might defect to the Left Supervisor.
• Xiao Yan left briefly to say goodbye to Xiao Li, Xiao Meier, and the others before joining the group on its journey to Yun Lan Mountain.
• Three days later, Yun Lan Sect celebrated Yun Yun and Gu He’s wedding, while Yun Shan warned Gu He that the Nalan Family and Toxic Sect might cause trouble.
• Gu He vowed that no one would ruin his wedding with Yun Yun.