Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo defeated Nalan Yanran in the Misty Cloud Sect’s Inner Sect competition, won first place, and was named Yun Yun’s second Direct Disciple. While Chen Mo recovered from his injuries, Yun Yun kept Nalan Yanran away from his bedside, and a figure slipped into the side hall late that night.

• The Thunder Giant Elephant struck Nalan Yanran, and Chen Mo caught her before he collapsed from exhausting his Dou Qi.
• Nalan Yanran admitted defeat, and the referee declared Chen Mo the winner of the competition.
• Yun Yun treated Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran, then named Chen Mo her second Direct Disciple and the competition’s first-place winner.
• Mu Chen, Mitel Tengshan, and Nalan Su discussed Chen Mo’s victory and his prospects with Nalan Yanran, while Fa Ma and Gu He considered his potential as an alchemist.
• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that Chen Mo had suffered a similar, worse condition two nights earlier and led her away to recuperate instead of letting her care for him.
• Late at night, after confirming Nalan Yanran was asleep, a figure quietly entered the side hall where Chen Mo lay.

After waking refreshed, Chen Mo found Nalan Yanran caring for him with unexpected tenderness and bringing him soup. She presented him with invitations and rewards from powerful factions, then arranged for him to visit her family, while his status showed he was a two-star Dou Master with 2040 Fortune Points.

• Nalan Yanran fed Chen Mo All-Nourishing Soup, but he choked and splashed it onto her robe.
• Nalan Yanran changed clothes and returned, then explained the Name Cards and offers sent by various factions.
• Nalan Yanran gave Chen Mo the Great Elder's Storage Ring, which contained high-grade fire- and lightning-attributed herbs and pills.
• Chen Mo agreed to visit the Nalan Family after Nalan Yanran said her father had invited him.
• Nalan Yanran hurried off to reply to her father, leaving her handkerchief behind, and Chen Mo checked his system status.

After reaching Two-star Dou Master, Chen Mo used his Fortune Points to draw pills and a Dou Ancestor Experience Card, then went to the Misty Cloud Sect Scripture Depository to find a movement Dou Technique. There, Liu Zilong and Liu Xuanyue introduced techniques suited to him.

• Chen Mo spent Fortune Points on Silver Treasure Chests and received an Advancement Pill and a Wood Origin Pill among several failed draws.
• Chen Mo opened a Gold Treasure Chest and obtained a Dou Ancestor Experience Card that granted temporary Dou Ancestor strength.
• Gu He told Yun Yun that Queen Medusa possessed Heavenly Flames and asked her to join an attempt to obtain them; Yun Yun agreed to go once their preparations were complete.
• Chen Mo entered the Scripture Depository's fifth and sixth floors to search for a movement Dou Technique after disciples discussed his victory over Nalan Yanran.
• Liu Zilong and Liu Xuanyue introduced Chen Mo to the sect's movement and offensive Dou Techniques, including the lightning-attributed Body Like a Swimming Dragon.

Chen Mo became Gu He's disciple after a faint trace of wood qi was discovered in him, and he began learning alchemy while founding Lingyan Pavilion in the Misty Cloud Sect. The chapter ended with an embellished account of his exploits spreading through a tavern in Qingshan Town, where listeners questioned the story but eagerly bought fanfiction books about him.

• Chen Mo agreed to Gu He's examination, and Gu He discovered a faint trace of wood qi in his Qi Cyclone.
• Chen Mo accepted Gu He as a second master after Yun Yun gave her approval, and Gu He promised to teach him alchemy and refine him a Dragon Strength Pill and a Blood Lotus Pill.
• Chen Mo established Lingyan Pavilion in the Misty Cloud Sect, and its membership grew to 110 within three days.
• Chen Mo checked Lingyan Pavilion's territory and found that only Nalan Yanran and Yun Hai had sense-of-belonging values above fifty.
• An elderly storyteller in Qingshan Town recounted exaggerated stories about Chen Mo, and tavern customers bought fanfiction books despite doubting his claims.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian heard exaggerated stories about Chen Mo, while Chen Mo cultivated through lightning strikes in Misty Cloud Sect's Back Mountain. He broke through to the peak of the Three-star Dou Master realm, and Liu Ling recognized his name after returning to the sect.

• Xiao Yan angrily disputed a storyteller's account of Chen Mo and bought a booklet with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Three days later, Chen Mo used a bamboo plaque and rope to draw lightning into his body as he cultivated in Misty Cloud Sect's Back Mountain.
• Chen Mo awakened two more giant elephants and advanced from a Two-star Dou Master to the peak of the Three-star Dou Master realm.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran watched Chen Mo's cultivation, and Yun Yun chided him for not keeping a lower profile.
• Pill King Gu He arrived with Liu Ling, who had just passed the third-tier alchemist examination, and told him Chen Mo was the Inner Sect Competition winner and his new junior disciple.
• Liu Ling recognized Chen Mo's name from hearing President Fa Ma mention him at the Alchemist Association in the Imperial Capital.

Chen Mo demonstrated that he had quickly mastered two Mysterious Tier Middle Grade Dou Techniques, then met Liu Ling and told the elders he had no special method for his progress. A system task to abduct Queen Medusa appeared as Yun Yun prepared to leave with Gu He to pursue a Heavenly Flame, while Nalan Yanran was forbidden from joining them.

• Chen Mo displayed his mastery of Body Like a Swimming Dragon and the Thousand Thunder Art, naming his lightning-mutated Purple Fire Thunder Fire.
• After healing his lightning injuries, Chen Mo returned to the palace and met Liu Ling, Gu He's chief disciple and Nalan Yanran's senior brother.
• Yun Leng asked Chen Mo how he had learned two Mysterious Tier Middle Grade Dou Techniques so quickly, and Chen Mo said that being struck by lightning was the only explanation he had.
• The system issued Chen Mo a task to abduct Queen Medusa, offering Fortune Points and a King's Treasure Chest Draw upon success.
• Yun Yun told Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran that she and Gu He would leave the next day, then refused Nalan Yanran's request to accompany them.

Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran left the Misty Cloud Sect under the cover of a mission and traveled toward the Tagor Great Desert, where Chen Mo planned to enter the Snake People Tribe’s territory. The Elder Council secretly sent Sixth Elder after them, while Nalan Yanran grew worried as they neared the lawless border region.

• Yun Yun prepared to leave, and Chen Mo agreed to let Nalan Yanran accompany him after first trying to put off their plans.
• Chen Mo found Yun Yun and Gu He gone from the Alchemy Room, packed pills, and met Nalan Yanran and Liu Ling there.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran accepted a cover mission, drew attention from disciples, and registered their departure from the sect.
• The Great Elder ordered Sixth Elder to follow Chen Mo and Yanran in secret after learning they had left together.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran traveled east on Green Beak Eagles, and Chen Mo admitted their real destination was the Tagor Great Desert.
• Nalan Yanran realized Chen Mo intended to enter Snake People Tribe territory and worried that the empire’s borderlands were dangerous.

Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran arrived in Black Rock City to rest, where Chen Mo gave her a Jade Hairpin and noticed that people seemed afraid of him. After leaving the restaurant, Chen Mo caught the book seller who had fled from him, trapping the man with Nalan Yanran.

• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran landed at Black Rock City's gates and entered the city with their Green Beak Eagle.
• Chen Mo bought Nalan Yanran a Jade Hairpin and placed it in her hair, delighting her.
• At a restaurant, Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran found the storyteller and owner acting terrified, though Chen Mo did not learn why.
• Chen Mo spotted the book seller who had fled earlier and used Body Like a Swimming Dragon to catch him.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran blocked the book seller from both sides and trapped him in the street.

Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran discovered and destroyed a bookshop printing illicit books about them, and Chen Mo gained Fortune Points from killing its owner. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan traveled toward the Tagor Great Desert, and Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran reached Xi Town, where they took the inn’s last room.

• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran confronted a book seller and learned that a bookshop outside the city was producing the books in bulk.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran flew to the bookshop, defeated its workers, and Chen Mo killed its owner, One-Eyed.
• Chen Mo burned down the bamboo house and discovered his Fortune Points had increased from 40 to 160.
• Xiao Yan obtained a free flight as an alchemist and set off toward the empire’s eastern border near the Tagor Great Desert.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran arrived in Xi Town and accepted the luxurious inn’s only available room.

Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran reached Desert City and found the map shop of Ice Emperor Hai Bodong. Chen Mo revealed that he knew Hai Bodong’s identity, and Hai Bodong filled the shop with ice and demanded they leave.

• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran shared a room, but after Chen Mo leaned in to kiss her, she sprained her ankle and they left the inn the next morning.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran traveled by Green Beak Eagle to Desert City, where guards questioned them and charged an entry tax.
• Yue Mei told Mo Bas and the other Snake People Tribe leaders that a group of human experts was searching for Her Majesty the Queen, so they decided to prepare their defenses.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran searched Desert City and entered the largest map shop to find Ice Emperor Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong sensed a familiar aura around Nalan Yanran, but he tried to dismiss the visitors and send them away.
• Chen Mo named Hai Bodong as the former Ice Emperor, prompting Hai Bodong to fill the shop with ice and demand that Chen Mo leave.

Chen Mo recruited Hai Bodong into Lingyan Pavilion by promising to remove his seal, then obtained the Barrier Breaking Pill recipe and information about a Heavenly Flame. He and Nalan Yanran reached the desert and began searching for the flame’s location.

• Chen Mo convinced Hai Bodong that he could eventually break Queen Medusa’s seal and secured his agreement to join Lingyan Pavilion, with no duties until the seal was removed.
• Hai Bodong gave Chen Mo the Barrier Breaking Pill recipe, information about Heavenly Flames, and a map marking a Heavenly Flame’s location; Chen Mo also asked him to keep the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragment Map safe.
• After Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran left, a youth carrying an enormous black ruler entered Hai Bodong’s shop.
• Nalan Yanran questioned Chen Mo about recognizing Hai Bodong, and Chen Mo claimed again that he was from the Central Continent.
• Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran reached the desert, where Chen Mo reasoned that the passage to the Heavenly Flame lay beneath the sand and decided to seek help from nearby mercenary groups.

Chen Mo and Nalan Yanran confronted the Sand Mercenary Group after its Second Commander harassed her, and Chen Mo killed him before facing commander Shaluo. With the Sixth Elder’s Dou Wang aura backing him, Chen Mo forced Shaluo to accept the group’s recruitment into Lingyan Pavilion, leaving Shaluo as its Desert City branch master.

• The Sand Mercenary Group’s Second Commander tried to touch Nalan Yanran, and she knocked him away.
• Chen Mo burned the Second Commander to death with Thunder Fire, then Shaluo emerged and challenged him.
• Chen Mo dodged Shaluo’s attack and demonstrated the Thousand Thunder Art, causing Shaluo to reconsider fighting him.
• The Sixth Elder released his Dou Wang aura, and Chen Mo used the show of force to recruit the Sand Mercenary Group.
• Chen Mo renamed the group Lingyan Pavilion, appointed Shaluo as its Desert City branch master, and offered him Tier 3 Pills.

Chen Mo killed the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake beneath the desert and obtained the Lotus Seat of the Green Lotus Core Flame. When Xiao Yan arrived and found Chen Mo with Nalan Yanran, he attacked in a rage, and Chen Mo began fighting him while Xiao Yan’s master controlled his body.

• Shaluo accepted Chen Mo’s pills, and Lingyan Pavilion members searched the desert until they found the passage.
• Xiao Yan joined Xiao Ding and Xiao Li at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, then went with them to investigate Shaluo’s search.
• Chen Mo used a Dou Ancestor Experience Card to kill the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and stored the Lotus Seat of the Green Lotus Core Flame in the system.
• Xiao Yan saw Nalan Yanran with Chen Mo and charged out from behind a dune in fury.
• Chen Mo’s lightning pillar forced Elder Ya to take control of Xiao Yan, and their clash tore open the desert and released magma.
• Chen Mo protected his followers, attacked again, and closed in to strike Xiao Yan with a powerful punch.

Chen Mo overwhelmed the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and nearly killed Xiao Yan before Ling Ying appeared to protect him. Chen Mo negotiated compensation from Ling Ying, who finally fled with Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li when Chen Mo demanded payment for their subordinates too.

• Chen Mo’s attack sent Xiao Yan flying, while magma devastated the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and Lingyan Pavilion charged into battle.
• Chen Mo tried to finish Xiao Yan with the Underworld God’s Spear, but Ling Ying appeared and shielded Xiao Yan.
• Chen Mo demanded that Ling Ying take Xiao Yan out of the Tagor Great Desert, but Xiao Yan refused, so Ling Ying agreed to negotiate instead.
• Chen Mo claimed compensation for Xiao Yan and his two brothers, prompting Lingyan Pavilion members and Shaluo to feign injuries and Ling Ying to hand over supplies.
• When Chen Mo demanded compensation for the brothers’ subordinates as well, Ling Ying grabbed Xiao Yan, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li and fled.

Chen Mo brought Qing Lin and most of the captured Desert Iron Mercenary Group into Lingyan Pavilion, then traveled to the Snake People Tribe as Xiao Yan and his companions retreated. As fighting broke out in the tribe, Chen Mo infiltrated its central city and dove into the lake near Medusa’s temple.

• Chen Mo stopped Shaluo from mistreating Xuelan and discovered that Qing Lin had snake scales on her wrist.
• Chen Mo welcomed Qing Lin into Lingyan Pavilion and offered the surviving Desert Iron Mercenary Group members a place in the organization; thirteen, including Xuelan, joined.
• Chen Mo sent Nalan Yanran to recruit mercenary groups in Desert City and rode a Green Beak Eagle toward the Snake People Tribe.
• Ling Ying treated Xiao Ding’s severed spine as Xiao Yan blamed himself, and Elder Ya advised Xiao Yan to go to the Black Corner Region.
• After negotiations failed and fighting began at the Snake People Tribe, Chen Mo concealed himself, entered the central city, and plunged into the lake beside the temple after taking venom-neutralizing pills.

Chen Mo watched Queen Medusa swallow the Green Lotus Core Flame and believed her evolution had failed when her giant snake form was burned black in the Ice Spirit Cold Spring. The charred body cracked open, revealing that Medusa had successfully evolved into a tiny seven-colored snake.

• Chen Mo crossed the poisonous lake, escaped a giant snake, and reached the island where Queen Medusa prepared to evolve.
• Queen Medusa transformed into a giant purple snake and swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame before plunging into the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.
• The Heavenly Flame engulfed Medusa, and the black-robed figure outside the city believed her evolution had failed and flew away.
• Chen Mo approached the pool, wondering why the system had not declared his mission failed, as the charred snake body began to crack.
• A tiny snake of seven-colored light crawled out of the shattered body, revealing that Queen Medusa had evolved successfully.

Chen Mo captured the evolved Medusa in her Seven-Colored Skyswallowing Python form and escaped the Snake People city, only to be surrounded by eight Dou Wangs. When they threatened him, he revealed the little snake and claimed that their queen was in his hands.

• Chen Mo coaxed the Seven-Colored Skyswallowing Python with Green Lotus seeds, and the sleeping snake climbed into his clothes as the system awarded him 1600 Fortune Points and a King's Treasure Chest.
• Chen Mo slipped out of the temple, but Snake People guards spotted him during the city lockdown, so he fought his way through the closing gates and fled.
• Yue Mei and the other tribal leaders chased Chen Mo and soon surrounded him, while Yun Yun learned from the Sixth Elder that Chen Mo had entered the Snake People Tribe and flew there.
• Yue Mei stopped Yan Ci from striking Chen Mo after recognizing the Seven-Colored Skyswallowing Python as Her Majesty the Queen.

Chen Mo fled the Snake People chiefs with the Seven-Colored Skyswallowing Python, who attacked Yan Ci with the Green Lotus Core Flame but was too hungry to attack again. As the chiefs cornered them, Yun Yun arrived to protect Chen Mo, and Yan Ci ordered the chiefs to form a seal against her.

• The Seven-Colored Skyswallowing Python woke, unleashed a terrifying aura, and burned Yan Ci with the Green Lotus Core Flame before the other chiefs put out the fire.
• Chen Mo used the little snake to deter the chiefs, then stuffed her into his clothes and fled while the eight tribal chiefs pursued him.
• Yue Mei overtook Chen Mo and helped the chiefs surround him, but he refused her offer to make him her attendant.
• Yun Yun arrived and blocked a green wind blade aimed at Yue Mei, prompting Chen Mo to greet her as Sister Yun Yun.
• Yue Mei recognized Yun Yun as the mysterious Dou Emperor, and Yan Ci ordered the eight chiefs to form a seal and keep them there.

Yue Mei and the leaders of the Eight Great Tribes attacked Chen Mo and Yun Yun with the Eight Snake Asura Seal, but Gu He and the others intervened and forced the Snake-People to retreat. The group turned to Chen Mo afterward, wondering why the leaders had singled him out with such hatred.

• The eight Snake-People leaders formed the Eight Snake Asura Seal and sent its enormous energy serpent after Yun Yun and Chen Mo.
• Yun Yun struck the serpent with Extreme Wind, Meteor Kill, but only managed to wound it slightly before she dodged its attacks.
• Gu He, Yan Shi, and Feng Li arrived and attacked the leaders, forcing Yue Mei to change the seal and split her forces.
• Yue Mei ordered a retreat after realizing the Snake-People were at risk of defeat, and she and the others escaped across the desert.
• Yun Yun and the others refrained from pursuing the Snake-People and turned their attention to Chen Mo.

Chen Mo and Yun Yun left the Snake-People Race’s territory after the others discovered that Queen Medusa had evolved into the Seven-Colored Skyswallowing Python and refined a Heavenly Flame. They returned to Desert City, where Nalan Yanran and Lingyan Pavilion’s followers saw the powerful group arrive together, while Nalan Yanran wondered how her teacher and junior brother had met.

• Yun Yun, Gu He, Yan Shi, and Feng Li recognized the Seven-Colored Skyswallowing Python as the evolved Queen Medusa, and Feng Li narrowly escaped her Heavenly Flame.
• Yun Yun urged the group to leave Snake-People Race territory before the Great Priest appeared, and Yan Shi carried Chen Mo through the air because he could not fly.
• In Desert City, Lingyan Pavilion persuaded more than half of the local mercenary groups and gangs to join its ranks while Nalan Yanran worried about Chen Mo.
• Five Dou Wangs arrived in Desert City with Chen Mo and Yun Yun, and their friendly meeting with Lingyan Pavilion’s people astonished the city’s residents.
• Nalan Yanran recognized her teacher and wondered whether Chen Mo had known Yun Yun was headed to the Snake People Tribe.