Chapter Summaries

Xiao Xie arrived at the Mo Tie Mercenary Group in Stone Desert City and reunited with his cousins Xiao Ding and Xiao Li. He took Qing Lin under his care, then reassured her after revealing that she was the child of a snake-person and a human.

• Xiao Xie rode the Amethyst Winged Lion King to the Mo Tie Mercenary Group and asked Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to host him while he stayed in Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed Xiao Xie and held a banquet for him that night.
• Qing Lin entered Xiao Xie's room the next morning to help him wash, and he taught her to use a toothbrush and toothpaste before asking her to follow him.
• Xiao Xie introduced Qing Lin to Xiao Yi Xian as his new maid and revealed the green scales on Qing Lin's wrist.
• Qing Lin trembled and apologized, but Xiao Xie held her and promised that no one would bully her while he was there.

Xiao Xie reassured Qing Lin and helped her find acceptance with Xiao Yi Xian, then supported the Mo Tie Mercenary Group’s rise to dominance in Stone Desert City. The chapter ended as Xiao Xie arrived at the group’s gathering and met its commanders, including Luo Bu.

• Xiao Xie promised Qing Lin he would never abandon her, and Xiao Yi Xian comforted her, called her little sister, and gave her a poison-repelling sachet.
• Xiao Xie noticed signs that Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils might be awakening, then went with her and Xiao Yi Xian to meet Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Xiao Xie offered to supply pills so the Mo Tie Mercenary Group could unify Stone Desert City, and Xiao Ding said he could achieve that within half a month.
• Half a month later, Xiao Xie woke up for the Mo Tie Mercenary Group’s formal rise to the city’s top position, while the Sand and Storm Mercenary Groups had submitted to it.
• Xiao Ding welcomed Xiao Xie at the gathering and introduced Luo Bu, the former Sand Mercenary Group leader and current third commander of the Mo Tie Mercenary Group.

Xiao Xie had the Mo Tie Mercenary Group search for a Heavenly Flame, and a mercenary squad discovered a hot underground passage east of Stone Desert City. Xiao Xie entered it with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and the Flame Mantra began reacting as they approached the passage’s end.

• Xiao Xie gave Xiao Ding a storage ring full of pills and Dou Skills, then ordered the Mo Tie Mercenary Group to search for a Heavenly Flame or underground magma.
• After half a month without news, Xiao Ding summoned Xiao Xie because a mercenary squad had found a hot underground passage beneath the desert.
• Xiao Xie recognized the passage as a likely route to the Green Lotus Core Flame and descended with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Xie sensed the strongest fire-element energy and led the group into one of the underground tunnels.
• As they neared the end of the passage, Xiao Xie felt the Flame Mantra circulate on its own and drive his Amaterasu Flame battle qi faster.

Xiao Xie and Xiao Yi Xian helped Qing Lin activate her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils while subduing the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake in the magma cavern. Qing Lin formed a compulsory connection with the snake, but the first activation left her exhausted.

• Qing Lin sensed a creature in the magma, and Xiao Xie used explosions to draw out the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.
• The Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake attacked Xiao Xie, but Xiao Yi Xian poisoned it with her Poison Dou Qi.
• Xiao Xie urged Qing Lin to try subduing the weakened snake, and she approached it and gently spoke to it.
• Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils activated and marked both of the snake's heads with green flowers, forming a connection.
• Qing Lin grew tired and Xiao Yi Xian caught her; Xiao Xie gave her a medicinal pill and explained the pupils' abilities.

Xiao Xie followed the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake deep into the magma and found the Green Lotus Core Flame. He approached the flame’s green lotus, preparing to claim it.

• Qing Lin recovered, controlled the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, and learned that the Heavenly Flame lay beneath the Magma Lake.
• Xiao Yi Xian removed the poison from the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which then guided Xiao Xie into the magma.
• Xiao Xie protected himself with Amaterasu Flame and followed the snake through increasingly hot magma.
• Xiao Xie found the Green Lotus Core Flame and entered the green radiance surrounding its eight-petaled lotus.
• Xiao Xie examined the lotus and its platform, where fire-attributed lotus seeds had formed.

Xiao Xie retrieved the Green Lotus Core Flame and devoured it, raising his cultivation to Five Star Dou Ling before going to look for Xiao Yi Xian. Meanwhile, Queen Medusa learned that the Jia Ma Empire planned to attack the Snake-People Tribe in three days and prepared to fight back.

• Xiao Xie cut the Green Lotus Core Flame’s green lotus free, returned from the magma with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and brought the lotus back to his room.
• Xiao Xie used the Amaterasu Flame and an Amethyst Pill to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame, advancing to Five Star Dou Ling and evolving the Flame Mantra into a Mystic High-Rank Skill.
• Xiao Xie learned that Xiao Yi Xian had gone out to buy poison, then left with Qing Lin to find her and walk through the streets.
• A Snake-Person reported that the Jia Ma Empire would send three Dou Emperors and five Dou Wangs to attack the Snake-People Tribe in three days.
• Queen Medusa ordered the Eight Great Tribes’ leaders to assemble and the tribes to prepare for battle, then declared that she would see who destroyed whom.

Xiao Xie followed Yun Yun’s expedition to the Snake-People’s temple city, where Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and Yun Yun confronted Queen Medusa. Medusa badly wounded Jia Xingtian and prepared to press her advantage against Yun Yun and Hai Bodong.

• Snake-People patrols searched the desert after learning that the Jia Ma Empire had sent three Dou Huangs and five Dou Wangs toward Queen Medusa’s territory.
• Xiao Xie spotted Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and their companions flying from Stone Desert City, then followed them with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Jia Xingtian, Hai Bodong, and Yun Yun reached the temple city and challenged Queen Medusa, while Yue Mei led the other Snake-People leaders against the five Dou Wangs.
• Queen Medusa fought the three Dou Huangs and struck Jia Xingtian with a powerful attack, leaving him severely injured and unable to continue fighting.
• Queen Medusa revealed that she had deliberately appeared vulnerable, then threatened Yun Yun and Hai Bodong.

Xiao Xie stopped Queen Medusa from pursuing Yun Yun and offered her a Heavenly Flame in exchange for her help after she reached Dou Zong. Queen Medusa accepted and took Xiao Xie to a secluded island so he could begin her evolution.

• Queen Medusa and the Snake-People chieftains overwhelmed the wounded Jia Xingtian, Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and the five Dou Wangs, forcing them to retreat.
• Yue Mei killed one of the five Dou Wangs, and Yun Yun helped the survivors escape while Queen Medusa pursued her.
• Xiao Xie ordered Arno to stop Queen Medusa, then offered her a deal involving his Heavenly Flame and her future help; Queen Medusa agreed.
• In her palace, Queen Medusa saw Xiao Xie's Green Lotus Core Flame and asked him to begin her evolution.
• Queen Medusa led Xiao Xie to a small island surrounded by a lake, while he left Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin behind.

Xiao Xie helped Queen Medusa begin her evolution by letting her use the Green Lotus Core Flame, which burned her through a brutal transformation. After she lay motionless in the flames, tribulation clouds gathered, signaling that her evolution had succeeded.

• Xiao Xie followed Queen Medusa to a pool of Ice Spirit Cold Spring and summoned the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Queen Medusa undressed, formed seals, and used the flame to initiate her evolution into a massive purple snake.
• The purple snake plunged into the Green Lotus Core Flame, where it writhed and screamed as its scales burned away and its body shrank.
• Xiao Xie watched the flames consume the pool and surrounding Bamboo Forest while Queen Medusa endured half an hour of torment.
• Queen Medusa lay motionless in the flames as dark clouds gathered overhead, and Xiao Xie recognized the sign of successful evolution.

Queen Medusa completed her evolution into a Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, and Xiao Xie brought her back to the palace. After a Senzu Bean restored her human form, she confronted Xiao Xie, who began explaining what he wanted her help with.

• A bolt of lightning struck the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Queen Medusa's charred snake body began to shed its skin before bursting apart.
• The Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python emerged from the dust and landed in Xiao Xie's palm, while the snake people celebrated Queen Medusa's successful evolution.
• Xiao Xie returned to the palace, where Qing Lin used the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to form a bond with the little snake and named her Xiao Qi.
• Xiao Xie fed Xiao Qi a Senzu Bean, restoring Queen Medusa to human form, and Xiao Yi Xian covered her with clothing as Medusa angrily confronted Xiao Xie.
• Qing Lin stood between Medusa and Xiao Xie, and Medusa relented before returning to the throne and asking Xiao Xie what help he wanted.

After a month of growing fame and gathering points, Xiao Xie made several lottery draws and learned powerful abilities, including an ice forbidden spell. He discovered that the Smiling Proud Wanderer World Challenge Card would strip away abilities from outside its world, then began enhancing a Cat Cat Fruit.

• Xiao Xie’s Fifth-Rank Alchemist achievement spread through the Jia Ma Empire, bringing him more than a hundred thousand Worship Points over the month.
• Xiao Xie drew armor, techniques, Devil Fruits, an ice forbidden spell, and a Smiling Proud Wanderer World Challenge Card, while recycling a powerless universe battleship for ten million Points.
• Xiao Xie learned the Transformation Technique, Flash Step, and Ten Thousand Miles of Ice Seal, and set aside the Iron Man Armor and Stone Giant Monster Card for Qing Lin.
• Xiao Xiao explained that a Challenge Card required a mission and barred Xiao Xie from using abilities that did not belong to its world, though he could convert his Dou Qi into internal energy.
• Xiao Xie put the Cat Cat Fruit into the Enhancement Furnace and saw options to enhance it into a side-effect-free Sabertooth Tiger Fruit or Nine Lives Mystic Cat Fruit.

Xiao Xie enhanced the Cat Cat Fruit into the Nine Lives Mystic Cat Fruit and prepared for Queen Medusa’s attack on the Misty Cloud Sect, planning to intervene as a savior afterward. The chapter ended with him showing Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin his Transformation Technique by turning into Qing Lin.

• Xiao Xie enhanced and ate the Nine Lives Mystic Cat Fruit, gaining the ability to control up to nine souls and transfer fatal injuries to them.
• Xiao Xie enhanced the Stone Giant Monster Card into an Earth Giant Monster Card and gave it to Qing Lin, teaching her how to use it.
• Xiao Xie told Queen Medusa that his plan had begun, and she flew toward the Misty Cloud Sect to take revenge.
• Xiao Xie explained to Xiao Yi Xian that he planned to stop Medusa after letting her attack for a while, then appear as humanity’s savior.
• Xiao Xie learned that Xiao Yi Xian had reached Four-Star Great Dou Shi and Qing Lin had reached three-star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Xie used the Transformation Technique to turn into Qing Lin for Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to see.

Xiao Xie used Transformation Technique to prank Xiao Yi Xian and was beaten, while Queen Medusa overwhelmed the Misty Cloud Sect until Yun Ling summoned the sect’s former leader, Yun Shan. Yun Shan emerged as a One Star Dou Zong and demanded to know who had injured Yun Yun.

• Xiao Xie transformed into a naked version of Xiao Yi Xian and was beaten after she caught him pretending to grope her.
• Queen Medusa told Yun Yun that the Misty Cloud Sect would be destroyed unless it had another way to resist her.
• Yun Yun told Yun Ling to summon Yun Shan, and Yun Ling used a flute to call him out of seclusion.
• Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong sensed Yun Shan’s immense aura and realized he had reached the Dou Zong level.
• Yun Shan arrived at the plaza, and Queen Medusa sensed that he was a One Star Dou Zong.
• Yun Shan demanded that Yun Ling explain the crisis, then asked Yun Yun who had injured her.

Queen Medusa fought Yun Shan at the Misty Cloud Sect after demanding that he surrender the people who had invaded the Snake-People Tribe. Their battle devastated the sect until Xiao Xie appeared and interrupted them.

• Queen Medusa confronted Yun Shan over the attack on the Snake-People Tribe, and he refused to hand over Yun Yun and the others.
• Queen Medusa and Yun Shan traded powerful Dou Techniques, wrecking the Misty Cloud Sect’s plaza as onlookers fled the shockwaves.
• Queen Medusa grew stronger during the prolonged battle and continued attacking despite Yun Shan’s efforts to stop.
• Xiao Xie appeared between Queen Medusa and Yun Shan with a blue-black Flame Lotus, and both fighters turned toward him in shock.

Xiao Xie arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and stopped Queen Medusa and Yun Shan from continuing their battle, securing a truce between them. Afterward, he left with Yun Yun, and their walk ended with Xiao Xie kissing her.

• Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, and the others were shocked to see Xiao Xie display power that seemed to rival a Dou Zong.
• Xiao Xie threatened to join Yun Shan against Queen Medusa, prompting Yun Shan to promise that the Misty Cloud Sect would leave the Snake-People Tribe alone.
• Queen Medusa withdrew, privately revealing that the conflict had been an act arranged beforehand.
• Yun Shan thanked Xiao Xie and invited him to stay, but Xiao Xie declined and went for a walk with Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun gave Xiao Xie a White Jade Token promising the Misty Cloud Sect would fulfill one request, and Xiao Xie embraced and kissed her.

After leaving the Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Xie visited the Mitel Auction House in the imperial capital, where his Fifth-Rank Alchemist badge earned him immediate respect. Inside, he noticed a striking woman in brocade robes whose attention was drawn to him.

• Yun Yun accepted a Senzu Bean from Xiao Xie, then coyly called him a bad guy as he left.
• Xiao Xie strolled through the crowded imperial capital on the day of the Mitel Auction House auction.
• Xiao Xie entered the auction house, and its guards withdrew their scrutiny after seeing his Fifth-Rank Alchemist badge.
• Xiao Xie noticed a brocade-robed woman in red boots, and the crowd watched their encounter with surprise and respect.

Xiao Xie reunited with Ya Fei at the Mittel Family auction house, where she had gained authority with help from Hai Bodong. The two became lovers, then joined the auction as Ya Fei prepared to host it.

• Ya Fei greeted Xiao Xie at the auction house and learned that he had asked Hai Bodong to look after her.
• Xiao Xie and Ya Fei left the crowded hall for her bedroom, where they reunited intimately.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Xie that Hai Bodong's support had helped her take charge of the auction house.
• Xiao Xie gave Ya Fei a Jade Clarity Pill to heal her soreness, and she recovered quickly.
• Ya Fei took Xiao Xie to a private VIP room to wait for the auction to begin.

Luo Ke opened the Mitel Auction House’s auction, where weapons sold to eager bidders while Xiao Xie stayed uninterested in his VIP room. The auction moved on to Li Yena’s jewelry, and a dazzling necklace was presented as the first accessory.

• Luo Ke welcomed the guests, including Fa Ma and Yao Ye, and explained the auction rules.
• The old man introduced the low-grade Profound Weapon Staff of Life, which sold for 120,000 Gold Coins while Xiao Xie declined to bid.
• The old man auctioned several more weapons as bidding across the hall grew fierce.
• The old man announced an auction of accessories designed by Li Yena, drawing interest from the crowd and the VIP rooms.
• A beautiful woman displayed a deep-blue necklace set with a sparkling teardrop-shaped crystal.

Xiao Xie lavishly bought jewelry for Ya Fei at the imperial auction and won the rare Earth Rank Low-Level soundwave Dou Skill Tiger's Roar for three million Gold Coins. A month later, he had settled in the imperial capital with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian, where his fame and Worship Points continued to grow.

• Xiao Xie bought the Tear of Love Necklace for 30,000 Gold Coins and purchased the next seven pieces of jewelry for Ya Fei.
• Xiao Xie won the bidding for Tiger's Roar at three million Gold Coins, and the auction concluded successfully.
• Ya Fei accompanied Xiao Xie as he collected his purchases, including the jewelry, the Dou Skill scroll, and some pills.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Xie a manor, where Xiao Xie settled with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian after bringing them from Queen Medusa.
• News of Xiao Xie's achievements spread through the Jia Ma Empire, and his Worship Points rose by over two hundred thousand in a month.

Xiao Xie sent Yun Yun to Xiao Yi Xian for help curing Nalan Jie's Branding Poison, which let Xiao Yi Xian refine the poison and advance to Dou Ling. Half a month later, Xiao Xie, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin headed to the Alchemist Convention, where Xiao Xie was serving as a judge.

• Xiao Xie agreed to help Yun Yun with Nalan Jie's Branding Poison but suggested that Xiao Yi Xian handle the cure.
• Xiao Yi Xian purged Nalan Jie's poison and refined it, advancing to One Star Dou Ling.
• The Alchemist Convention began in Gamma Holy City, and Xiao Xie prepared to attend as a judge.
• Xiao Xie set out for the Alchemist Guild with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, drawing attention in his Fifth-Rank Alchemist robe.