Chapter Summaries

Gu Fang killed Hua Xuan, but Hua Xuan’s brother used an ancient bloodline to transform into a Dou Emperor and attack Gu Fang. Medusa intervened and demanded to know how he had obtained the Snake-People Tribe’s ancient bloodline.

• Gu Fang defeated Hua Xuan and killed him after rejecting his offer to spare the women of the Enchanting Snake Demon Group.
• Hua Xuan’s One-Eyed Dou Wang brother crushed an emerald jade stone and absorbed a dark brown liquid that drove his strength toward the peak of Dou Wang.
• The One-Eyed Dou Wang survived Gu Fang’s attack, transformed into a Dou Emperor, and blasted Gu Fang backward with Heavy Rock Slash.
• Gu Fang prepared to unleash the combined Mountain Splitting Seal and Sea Turning Seal, but Medusa appeared and seized the One-Eyed Dou Wang.
• Medusa demanded that the captive explain how he had obtained the Snake-People Tribe’s ancient bloodline, and Gu Fang recognized the source of the strange energy he had sensed.

Gu Fang comforted Qing Lin after the battle, while Medusa tortured a captive until he revealed where the captured Snake-People were being held. Medusa reached the cave and found her clansmen bound and drained of blood, then stopped herself from attacking a woman when one of the prisoners cried out.

• Gu Fang reassured Qing Lin that he was fine, and she vowed to remain by his side even as she grew stronger.
• Medusa tortured a captive with the Snake-People Tribe's ancient bloodline until he disclosed a karst cave south of Windfall Ravine where the captives were held.
• Medusa gave Gu Fang a scale that would identify him to the Snake-People and let her track him, then left for the cave while Gu Fang and Qing Lin headed toward the settlement.
• Medusa fought her way through the cave, killing guards who tried to stop her, and found hundreds of Snake-People bound to crosses and drained of blood.
• When a woman emerged from an opening, Medusa moved to crush her, but a Snake-Person shouted for her to stop.

Medusa rescued her clansmen and uncovered a plot that exploited snake-people and human children, then treated the conflicting bloodlines of Chen Wanzhen and the Enchanting Snake Demon Group. The ordeal softened her resistance to Gu Fang helping her break through, while Gu Fang and Qing Lin encountered a Dou Wang in the air.

• A wounded snake-person pleaded with Medusa to spare Chen Wanzhen, and Medusa ordered Chen Wanzhen to stay and answer her questions.
• Medusa summoned nearby snake-person squads to rescue their captured clansmen and learned that humans had manipulated villages and forcibly fused survivors with snake-person bloodlines.
• Medusa calmed the bloodline inside Chen Wanzhen and the nine women of the Enchanting Snake Demon Group, then reflected on her tribe's weakness and Gu Fang's Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Gu Fang carried Qing Lin through the sky, and a snake-woman with Dou Qi Wings rose to confront them.

Gu Fang entered the Snake People Empire with Queen Medusa’s Heart Scale and traveled to the Holy City, where Medusa took him to a guarded lake. The chapter ended as Medusa led him across the lake’s energy restriction toward its central island.

• Yue Mei confronted Gu Fang, then recognized Queen Medusa’s Heart Scale and allowed him to continue toward the Holy City.
• Gu Fang flew toward the Holy City with Qing Lin while several snake people watched from a distance.
• Hua She’er met Gu Fang at the city gates, saluted him, and escorted him inside.
• Medusa arrived and told Gu Fang they needed to leave quickly, while Qing Lin stayed behind in Hua She’er’s care.
• Medusa led Gu Fang to a lake with an energy restriction and took his hand to cross it together.

Gu Fang helped Medusa use the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and the Ice Spirit Cold Spring to attempt her evolution. After surviving a heavenly lightning strike, Medusa emerged as a Dou Zong in human form and clung to Gu Fang, saying she was hungry.

• Gu Fang and Medusa crossed the lake and reached the Ice Spirit Cold Spring on the island.
• Medusa transformed into a giant serpent and formed an energy barrier around the island while Gu Fang prepared the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Gu Fang sent the flame toward Medusa, and she became encased in ice as her energy weakened and a small life began to form within her.
• Black clouds gathered over the Holy City, and a lightning bolt shattered the ice and struck Medusa.
• Medusa's evolution succeeded, briefly releasing a Dou Zong's aura before she transformed into human form and pounced into Gu Fang's arms, saying she was hungry.

Gu Fang discovered that a newly born soul was controlling Queen Medusa’s body and feeding its hunger. After the soul ate the energy in the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and transformed into a tiny seven-colored snake, Queen Medusa took control and confronted Gu Fang.

• Gu Fang realized Queen Medusa’s soul was asleep and a newly born soul was clinging to him and demanding food.
• Gu Fang resisted taking advantage of the newborn soul and tried to pull Medusa away, but her Dou Zong-strength body kept returning to his embrace.
• Gu Fang fed the newborn soul the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, including the energy Medusa had absorbed during her evolution.
• After eating, Medusa shrank into a tiny seven-colored snake, and Queen Medusa regained control of the body.
• Queen Medusa accused Gu Fang of trying to raise her like a pet, and Gu Fang reminded her that her newborn soul had been the one clinging to him.

Queen Medusa reached Dou Zong strength but could not fully control the newly born Sky Swallowing Python's soul, and a mysterious force stopped her from attacking Gu Fang. She accepted that he was protected by an overwhelming power, then ordered Hua She'er to announce her breakthrough while delaying the Snake-People Tribe's expansion.

• As Medusa prepared to attack Gu Fang, a mysterious force brushed past and made her realize his hidden protector could erase her.
• Hua She'er requested an audience, and Medusa told Gu Fang she would not repay his kindness with enmity, though she demanded respect while she assimilated the beast's soul.
• Medusa used spatial power to leave the island, then revealed her giant snake form as Hua She'er congratulated her on evolving.
• Medusa told Hua She'er not to gather the other tribe leaders or conceal her breakthrough, saying she would visit nearby empires and had her own plans.
• After Hua She'er left, Medusa reflected that the Sky Swallowing Python's soul could seize control of her body, making a full-strength fight too dangerous.

Queen Medusa left the Snake People Empire with Gu Fang while her soul merged with the Sky Swallowing Python, and Gu Fang and Qing Lin returned to Stone Desert City. There, Qing Lin intervened in a fight and revealed her control over the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, leaving Xue Lan stunned.

• Medusa's appearance across neighboring empires unsettled them, but she left before anyone could learn where she had gone.
• Gu Fang traveled with the sleeping Medusa and Qing Lin, returning to Stone Desert City after Medusa agreed to leave with him while her soul fused with the Sky Swallowing Python.
• A fierce fight erupted at Stone Desert City's gate, and a wounded woman named Xue Lan was knocked to the ground by her pursuers.
• Qing Lin summoned the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which killed the two Peak Battle Masters pursuing Xue Lan with blasts of scorching magma.
• Qing Lin approached Xue Lan, who warned her to flee from the beast, only to see it bow its heads submissively to Qing Lin.

Qing Lin subdued a terrifying beast and learned that the Xiao brothers were in danger as the Black Cloud Mercenary Group attacked the Iron Mercenary Group. Just as a hidden Dou Ling moved to kill Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, two pillars of magma destroyed his spears.

• Qing Lin calmed Xue Lan by revealing that the beast would obey her, then demanded to know what had happened to the leaders.
• The Black Cloud Mercenary Group demanded the Iron Mercenary Group surrender its seized goods and merge with them, but Xiao Li and the group members refused.
• Xiao Ding recognized a black-robed figure among the attackers, who revealed himself and struck Xiao Ding and Xiao Li with Dou Ling-strength attacks.
• The black-robed man ordered Xiao Ding and Xiao Li killed, but two magma pillars shattered the spears aimed at them.

Gu Fang, Qing Lin, and Xue Lan arrived as Mo Cheng attacked the Iron Mercenary Group, and Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to command the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake. Mo Cheng recognized Qing Lin’s eyes and tried to seize her, but Gu Fang killed him with a single strike.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li recognized Xue Lan, Qing Lin, and Gu Fang when they joined the fight against the black-robed attacker.
• Qing Lin controlled the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which fought Mo Cheng and forced him to reveal his identity as the Mo Family’s Great Elder.
• Mo Cheng recognized Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, grew greedy, and ordered the Mo Family to kill everyone who was not one of them.
• Mo Cheng empowered his arm with the Mountain Breaking Arm and knocked the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake into the rubble before charging at Qing Lin.
• Gu Fang intercepted Mo Cheng with the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd and killed him with a single strike.

Gu Fang killed the Mo Family's Great Elder and the other Mo Family members, then confronted Green Barbarian and White Fang, who had come to claim Qing Lin for her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. Medusa appeared as White Fang spoke of wanting to spar with her, leaving the encounter poised to begin.

• Gu Fang killed the Mo Family's Great Elder with the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd and comforted Qing Lin.
• Gu Fang burned the remaining Mo Family members with pale white flames, then called out to two hidden onlookers.
• The Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor descended with Green Barbarian, a Dou Emperor from the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, and Gu Fang recognized that they had come for Qing Lin.
• Green Barbarian and White Fang celebrated finding Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and discussed taking her back to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• White Fang said it wanted to spar with Medusa, and Medusa emerged from Gu Fang's sleeve.

Medusa revealed her Dou Zong strength and easily defeated White Fang after he made advances toward her. Green Barbarian then tried to recruit Qing Lin, but Gu Fang refused and weighed her sect’s offer against the resources of his own family.

• Medusa transformed, identified herself to White Fang, and battered him into a mountain peak while leaving him alive.
• Green Barbarian realized Medusa had reached the Dou Zong realm and that she and White Fang could not challenge her.
• Green Barbarian assured Gu Fang she and White Fang had come without ill intent, then asked to take Qing Lin so her sect could nurture her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Gu Fang refused, saying Qing Lin would stay with him and that he could provide her with training.
• Green Barbarian argued that her sect’s long experience nurturing the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils made its guidance uniquely valuable.

Qing Lin chose to leave with Green Barbarian so she could grow stronger and someday stand beside Gu Fang as his right-hand. Gu Fang accepted her decision, and Green Barbarian departed with Qing Lin and the unconscious White Fang.

• Gu Fang considered keeping Qing Lin with him and arranging her training, but Qing Lin asked whether Green Barbarian could be trusted.
• Qing Lin declared that she wanted to leave with Green Barbarian and become strong enough to help Gu Fang.
• Gu Fang accepted Qing Lin’s choice, warned Green Barbarian to protect her, and promised Qing Lin she could always return to him.
• The Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor declared its desire to obtain Medusa, and Medusa struck it back into the mountain.
• Green Barbarian bid farewell to Gu Fang, picked up the unconscious White Fang, and flew away with Qing Lin.

Gu Fang prepared to enter the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death to seek the Death Soul Flower, while avoiding the Hall of Souls’ attention. After returning to the valley to cultivate, he broke through from Da Dou Shi to Dou Ling with the help of his Origin Flame.

• Ling Wu told Gu Fang that the family had secured him entry to the Gate of Life and Death but warned him that Dou Zong protectors from the Hall of Souls were at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Ling Wu gave Gu Fang a Misty Cloud Token and explained that he could use it to enter the Life and Death Realm during the sect’s recruitment ceremony in half a month.
• Gu Fang decided to return to Xiao Yi Xian’s valley, refine medicine, and strengthen himself before visiting the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Ten days later, Gu Fang drew chaotic battle energy into his body as he cultivated in the valley, and Medusa prepared to save him from its impurities.
• Gu Fang’s Origin Flame burned away the impurities, allowing him to break through from Da Dou Shi to Dou Ling.

Gu Fang consolidated his breakthrough to Dou Ling, tested his new abilities, and unleashed a powerful Blood Fiend Origin Halberd attack that Medusa judged to be near Dou Emperor strength. As Medusa returned to her small snake form, Gu Fang sensed Xiao Yi Xian approaching the valley.

• Gu Fang broke through to Dou Ling and quickly consolidated his new strength as Medusa watched in shock.
• Gu Fang tested his power by destroying a boulder with a casual long-range Dou Qi strike and reflected on his ability to use high-rank Dou Skills more fully.
• Gu Fang tried and failed to break the next seal on the Blood Fiend Origin Halberd, then estimated that he would need to reach seven- or eight-star Dou Ling to open it.
• Gu Fang unleashed a halberd attack that expanded across the valley sky, and Medusa said its power had reached the threshold of Dou Emperor.
• Gu Fang thanked Medusa for watching over him, and she returned to her small snake form before he sensed Xiao Yi Xian approaching.

Gu Fang reunited with Xiao Yi Xian after breaking through to Dou Ling and reassured her that he would help control her Calamity Poison Body. Xiao Yi Xian embraced him without letting him finish his answer about why he cared, then warned that she might leave for the Cloud Empire as her poison began to emerge.

• Xiao Yi Xian noticed Gu Fang's successful breakthrough and praised his rapid cultivation, while he praised her own progress.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed her fear that her Calamity Poison Body would make others hate her and might eventually cause her to lose control.
• Gu Fang flicked Xiao Yi Xian's forehead, then promised he would help her control the Calamity Poison Body before it matured.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked why Gu Fang was helping her, and she embraced him before he could finish saying they were friends.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Gu Fang that she might have to leave for the Cloud Empire when her body began releasing poisonous gas.

Xiao Yi Xian explained that her Calamity Poison Body released a dangerous poison domain whenever she absorbed poison, making her consider leaving Qingshan Town for the Cloud Empire. When her body suddenly began absorbing poison, Gu Fang used his Poison Puppet to conceal the poisonous gas and began seeking a way to protect her identity.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Gu Fang that her poison naturally dispersed while she slept to absorb poison, which could expose her as a Poison Master and drive her from Qingshan Town.
• Gu Fang considered Xiao Yi Xian's possible future in the Cloud Empire and resolved to find a way to keep her from becoming the feared Heavenly Poison Girl.
• Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body suddenly acted up, so she took black powder and fell unconscious as poisonous mist seeped from her body.
• Gu Fang burned away the nearby mist with Origin Flame, then summoned his Poison Puppet, which absorbed the remaining poison gas and concealed Xiao Yi Xian's poison domain.

Gu Fang offered to refine a Spirit Fusion Pill to help Medusa fuse her soul with the Sky Swallowing Python’s soul, improving her ability to protect him at the Misty Cloud Sect. He gave Medusa the pill formula and asked her to gather its ingredients while he waited in the valley for three days.

• Gu Fang confirmed that Xiao Yi Xian was safely sleeping while her strength continued to increase.
• Gu Fang asked Medusa whether she could hold off two early-stage Dou Zongs, and she said she could only do so if she risked her life and fused with the Sky Swallowing Python’s soul.
• Gu Fang recalled the Spirit Fusion Pill formula and gave it to Medusa, explaining that the pill could fuse her soul and body.
• Gu Fang asked Medusa to gather the required ingredients from the Snake People Empire within three days so he could refine the pill.
• Medusa questioned Gu Fang’s confidence in refining a Sixth-grade Pill, and he said that even a seventh-grade pill would not be a problem before going to cultivate.

After Medusa gathered most of the ingredients for the Spirit Fusion Pill, Gu Fang set out for the Imperial City to search for the remaining ingredients and prepare for the events at the Misty Cloud Sect. Xiao Yi Xian watched him leave and returned to Qingshan Town.

• Xiao Yi Xian awoke and learned that the Poison Puppet could help conceal her identity and grow stronger alongside her Calamity Poison Body; Gu Fang entrusted it to her.
• Medusa brought Gu Fang a large batch of medicinal ingredients, but two ingredients were still missing and three others were available for only one refinement attempt.
• Medusa left to search the storehouses of nearby major families for more ingredients.
• Gu Fang preserved the ingredients and flew toward the Imperial City of the Jia Ma Empire to ask Jia Xingtian about the imperial treasury and check on the upcoming Misty Cloud Sect events.
• Xiao Yi Xian watched Gu Fang depart, then guided the Blue Eagle toward Qingshan Town.

Gu Fang refined a Spirit Fusion Pill in the Heart of the Earth after Medusa brought him the final two ingredients. The pill was completed at dawn, leaving Medusa hopeful that it would raise her strength.

• Gu Fang left the Monster Mountain Range for the Jia Ma Empire, then received Medusa's message that she had found the last two ingredients.
• Gu Fang hid in a forest cave, brought out the Heart of the Earth, and began refining the Spirit Fusion Pill.
• Medusa arrived with the final ingredients and watched Gu Fang refine them alongside the auxiliary ingredients he had prepared.
• Medusa noticed Gu Fang's flame seals on the jade bottles and gained confidence in his alchemy.
• After refining the pill through the night, Gu Fang completed the Spirit Fusion Pill as emerald light and a blue pillar of light erupted from the cauldron.