Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge arrived as the Yin Snake Mercenary Group attacked the Blood Rose Mercenary Group and used his powers to save Yang Mei, Zi Lan, and their companions. After killing the attackers, he flew away, leaving Yang Mei and Zi Lan wondering who he was.

• Qing Lian admitted she betrayed the Blood Rose Mercenary Group because she felt excluded, and Mu Huan revealed he had manipulated her and used her map of the camp's guards.
• Zi Lan confronted Mu Huan, who ordered the Yin Snake Mercenary Group to attack the Blood Rose Mercenary Group.
• Bai Ge appeared and used his Seven Sins Domain to make Mu Huan and the other Yin Snake mercenaries collapse in agony.
• Bai Ge healed Zi Lan's Shaman Viper Poison and restored the Blood Rose members' injuries.
• Bai Ge killed Mu Huan, Zong Li, and the rest of the Yin Snake Mercenary Group, then flew away as Yang Mei wondered who he was.

The Snake People elders debated which of two candidate queens, Lin and Die, should become Queen Medusa, wary of repeating a historical split that nearly destroyed their people. They chose Lin and planned to announce her coronation after she returned to the temple.

• The Great Elder rejected Elder Mei She’s suggestion to let both candidates rule, citing the Snake People’s history of division and defeat.
• The Great Elder argued that Lin’s temperament and leadership made her a better choice than the more talented but kindhearted Die.
• The Great Elder and Elder Black Snake voted for Lin, while Elder Du She and Elder Mei She abstained, and the Great Elder declared Lin the winner.
• A guard reported that Die was in the temple and Lin was inspecting the tribes with patrol guards.
• The Great Elder ordered the guard to summon Lin and Die when Lin returned and said Lin’s coronation would be held the next day.

Lin returned to the Snake People city with captured human mercenaries and reunited with her younger sister, Die. The Great Elder summoned them to the Sacrificial Temple, where he chose Lin to inherit the Queen’s position and ordered her to kill Die.

• Lin led her patrol and captured human mercenaries back to the Snake People city, where she reunited with Die in the temple.
• Moga told Lin that the Great Elder wanted her and Die to come to the Sacrificial Temple.
• Lin escorted Die to the Sacrificial Temple, determined to protect her younger sister.
• The Great Elder announced that Lin had been chosen to inherit the Queen’s position and said she had to kill Die to become Queen Medusa.

Lin withdrew from the contest for Queen Medusa rather than fight Die, making Die the new queen, but Die could not bring herself to kill captured human mercenaries. In her bedchamber, Die decided to give up the throne so Lin could fulfill her dream, while she pursued the freedom she had always wanted.

• Lin gave Die the Snake Blade and withdrew from the contest, then surrendered herself to the guards to await judgment.
• The Great Elder declared Die the new queen and ordered her prepared for a coronation the following day.
• The Great Elder told Die to execute captured human mercenaries who had attacked a Snake People village, but Die dropped the Snake Blade and fled in tears.
• The Great Elder ordered the guards to kill the mercenaries and left to prepare for Die's coronation.
• Die thought about her dream of freedom and decided to let Lin become queen in her place.

Die used the Space Forbidden Technique to escape the ritual and leave Lin as Queen Medusa, despite knowing the technique could kill her. Lin vowed to bring her younger sister back, while a small black snake secretly watched the ritual.

• A Snake People maid told Die that the ritual was about to begin, and Die left for the cavern.
• Die ignored the Great Elder’s order to kill Lin and placed her clothes and ornaments on her elder sister before freeing her from the anti-magic chains.
• Die repelled the guards and used the Space Forbidden Technique to vanish, despite Lin’s warning about the deadly backlash.
• The Great Elder and guards acknowledged Lin as Queen Medusa, and Lin vowed to bring Die back.
• A small black snake watched the events before slipping into a hole in the rock wall.

Mo Liao and Purple Huang planned to use Hai Bodong as a distraction while they secretly seized the escaped candidate Queen Medusa. Meanwhile, Bai Ge searched the desert and found an unconscious female Snake Person falling from a spatial disturbance.

• Mo Liao learned that a candidate Queen Medusa had escaped the Snake People Temple using a Space Forbidden Technique and suffered a severe backlash.
• Purple Huang persuaded Mo Liao to lure Hai Bodong into searching for the escaped candidate with the Dou Huang Pill as bait, while they acted in secret.
• Mo Liao and Purple Huang flew toward Mo City to meet Hai Bodong.
• Bai Ge searched the desert from the sky with his Spiritual Power for the Snake People oasis.
• Bai Ge sensed an unconscious female Snake Person appear in midair and flew toward where she fell.

Bai Ge rescued Die, a candidate Queen Medusa, and learned that truly changing her fate meant persuading the Snake People to accept two queens. He began considering a peaceful way to ease the conflict between humans and Snake People, then carried the unconscious Die to a cave in the Gobi desert.

• Bai Ge found Die and learned from the system that changing her fate could earn a Gold Rank Lottery Chance if he helped the Snake People accept two Queen Medusas.
• Bai Ge considered creating a more profitable and safer business for the Snake People to reduce conflict with humans.
• Bai Ge discovered that Die's chaotic energy came from backlash after using a forbidden space technique to escape the Snake People Temple.
• Bai Ge carried Die to a cave in the Gobi desert, killed a Gray Rock Python with his Spiritual Power, and lit a fire.

Bai Ge woke Die in a desert cave and convinced her to stay with him, claiming she had lost her memory and would be in danger among humans. In Black Rock City, Hai Bodong received a letter from an unknown Dou Huang offering a Dou Huang Pill and wondered who had sent it.

• Bai Ge found no Magic Core in the Gray Rock Python, ate some of its meat, and slept in the cave.
• Die woke thirsty, drank a little snake blood, and suffered a painful bout of confusion about her identity and location.
• Bai Ge told Die she had lost her memory and warned that humans might enslave her, persuading her to avoid returning to the Snake People and remain with him.
• Bai Ge said they needed supplies from a human town and promised to protect Die if she stayed by his side.
• A waiter delivered Hai Bodong a letter from a Dou Huang, and Hai Bodong read an offer involving a Dou Huang Pill that left him doubtful about the sender.

Hai Bodong inspected Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake’s Dou Huang Pill and agreed to consider their offer after they swore blood oaths. They asked him to capture the gravely injured Queen Medusa who had escaped the Snake People Temple, promising the pill if he brought her to them.

• Hai Bodong decided to meet the stranger who had offered a Dou Huang Pill as payment for a task.
• Hai Bodong met Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake in a barren area, where they showed him a pill he judged likely to be a Dou Huang Pill.
• Hai Bodong questioned whether Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake would honor their bargain, and both swore blood oaths.
• The Purple Huang You Snake revealed that a second Queen Medusa had escaped the Snake People Temple after using a Space Forbidden Technique and was badly injured.
• The Purple Huang You Snake asked Hai Bodong to bring the escaped Queen Medusa to them in exchange for the Dou Huang Pill.

Hai Bodong agreed to help Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake capture the injured Queen Medusa in exchange for a Dou Huang Pill, while Bai Ge and Die traveled to Green Water Town. The chapter left Bai Ge at a shop, where he asked to buy a storage ring.

• Mo Liao explained why his faction wanted Hai Bodong to capture Queen Medusa and offered him a Dou Huang Pill in return.
• Hai Bodong accepted the offer, took a portrait of Queen Medusa, and left to pursue her.
• Back in Black Rock City, Hai Bodong used the Mittel Family's influence to post a bounty for information on Die.
• Bai Ge subdued a Yellow Sand Giant Scorpion, tamed it as a mount, and traveled with Die toward Green Water Town.
• At dusk, Bai Ge and Die arrived in Green Water Town, where mercenaries eyed Die but did not dare approach them.
• Bai Ge took Die into a shop and asked the owner about storage rings, and the owner showed him a black one.

Bai Ge bought a small storage ring and supplies, then took Die to an inn in Green Water Town. After they went upstairs, innkeeper Zhang San recognized Die from a wanted portrait and set off to claim the bounty in Black Rock City.

• Bai Ge bought a two-cubic-meter storage ring and thirty sets of daily necessities using Mu Huan's crystal card.
• Bai Ge and Die rode the Yellow Sand Giant Scorpion to the finest inn in Green Water Town, where Bai Ge paid a waiter to find the scorpion a place to stay.
• Bai Ge changed his booking from two rooms to one after Die said she did not want to be alone.
• Innkeeper Zhang San recognized Die from a portrait and hurried out to claim the bounty in Black Rock City.

Bai Ge discovered that the inn had poisoned the breakfast because the Mittel Auction House had placed a bounty on Die, so he fled Green Water Town with her. He identified Hai Bodong and the Mittel Family as his first target while planning to build his strength in the Jia Ma Empire before pursuing the path to Dou Di.

• Bai Ge sensed poison in the inn's breakfast and told Die to pack so they could leave.
• Bai Ge confronted the innkeeper, who revealed that the Mittel Auction House had offered a bounty for information about Die and a larger reward for capturing her.
• Bai Ge comforted Die and rode the Yellow Sand Giant Scorpion with her out of the inn and toward the edge of Green Water Town.
• Bai Ge concluded that Hai Bodong and the Mittel Family were his first target and resolved to grow stronger in the Jia Ma Empire before challenging the Central Continent.

Bai Ge escaped Green Water Town with Die, but Hai Bodong caught up with them in the desert and demanded that Bai Ge hand her over. Bai Ge refused, and Hai Bodong prepared to fight.

• Hai Bodong arrived at the inn after Bai Ge had left and flew after him alone.
• Bai Ge reassured Die that she was safe and told her she could call him by his name when they were alone.
• Hai Bodong landed in front of Bai Ge and Die, bringing snow and freezing cold to the desert.
• Hai Bodong offered Bai Ge Gold Coins and a Dou Qi cultivation technique for Die, but Bai Ge refused and called her a priceless treasure.
• Hai Bodong froze part of the rocky wasteland and threatened Bai Ge, who challenged him to take Die by force.

Bai Ge fought Hai Bodong to stop him from taking Die, overpowering his ice spear and using gravity attacks to force him to evade. Hai Bodong escaped Bai Ge’s assault with an illusion technique and counterattacked with a storm of ice spikes.

• Hai Bodong attacked Bai Ge with an ice spear, but Bai Ge caught it barehanded and tore it from his grasp.
• Bai Ge flew into the sky with Die and hurled the Yellow Sand Giant Scorpion away to keep it from being caught in the fight.
• Bai Ge used his Gravity Domain to bombard Hai Bodong, who dodged the attacks and created numerous phantoms with Ice Mirror Illusion.
• Bai Ge shattered Hai Bodong’s phantoms with a wide-ranging gravity wave, but Hai Bodong hid behind a stone peak and took flight.
• Hai Bodong unleashed Thousand Thorn Ice Kill, sending countless ice spikes surging up from the desert toward Bai Ge.

Bai Ge escalated his fight with Hai Bodong by summoning the Holy Demon Titan Asura Emperor True Body and using its Clear Sky Hammer to destroy Hai Bodong’s ice dragon. He left Hai Bodong badly injured after blasting him into the ground with an amplified Gravity Domain.

• Hai Bodong formed an ice dragon with Mysterious Ice Dragon Dive and sent it charging at Bai Ge.
• Bai Ge summoned the Holy Demon Titan Asura Emperor and enlarged it with Holy Demon Titan Asura True Body.
• Bai Ge used Clear Sky True Body to enlarge the Clear Sky Hammer and smash the ice dragon apart, then shattered a stone peak with the same blow.
• Bai Ge amplified his Gravity Domain and slammed Hai Bodong into the ground, severely injuring him.
• Hai Bodong struggled to his feet, asked who Bai Ge was, and stared at him in terror.

Bai Ge defeated Hai Bodong, planted a Soul Seed in his mind, and forced him to submit as his subordinate. Hai Bodong revealed that two mysterious Dou Huangs had hired him to capture Little Die, leaving Bai Ge investigating the force behind the commission.

• Bai Ge explained that he used Soul Power, then planted a Soul Seed in Hai Bodong's mind and tormented him until he agreed to submit.
• Hai Bodong accepted Bai Ge as his Young Master and learned that disobedience or hostile thoughts could trigger pain through the Soul Seed.
• Bai Ge asked Hai Bodong why he had tried to capture Little Die, and Hai Bodong denied taking any bounty mission.
• Hai Bodong revealed that two mysterious Dou Huangs had commissioned him with a Dou Huang Pill to capture Little Die.
• Hai Bodong described one commissioner as a Dou Huang who used earth-attributed battle qi and traveled with a Sixth Order magical beast, prompting Bai Ge to suspect the man was from outside the Jia Ma Empire.

Bai Ge confronted Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake for trying to capture Die, then learned the snake planned to use her body to evolve with a Heavenly Flame. He spared them after they agreed to serve him and bound them with Soul Seeds, leaving them under threat and promise of greater strength.

• Hai Bodong led Bai Ge and Die to the Gobi wasteland, where they found Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake.
• Bai Ge restrained Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake with the Holy Demon Titan Asura Emperor's Gravity Domain and demanded to know why they had targeted Die.
• The Purple Huang You Snake admitted it wanted Die's body so it could evolve through Heavenly Flames after reaching the peak of the Dou Emperor realm.
• Bai Ge spared the two after they offered to serve him, then placed Soul Seeds in their minds to ensure their obedience.

Bai Ge recruited Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake, then set out with Die and Hai Bodong for the Snake People so he could try to resolve Die’s status as their candidate Queen Medusa. After healing Hai Bodong and securing a luxurious carriage, the group prepared to depart for the journey.

• Mo Liao told Bai Ge that he and the Purple Huang You Snake came from the Heavenly Snake Manor, and both pledged to obey him.
• Bai Ge ordered the pair to remain in the Jia Ma Empire and announced that they would visit the Snake People with Die.
• Die reluctantly agreed to return with Bai Ge, who hoped to persuade the Snake People to let her go without destroying them.
• Bai Ge used the Nine Spirit Begonia to heal Hai Bodong’s injuries and restore his Dou Qi.
• Hai Bodong found a luxurious Earth Dragon Carriage, and Bai Ge, Die, Mo Liao, Hai Bodong, and the Purple Huang You Snake prepared to set off.

Bai Ge received a Silver Rank Lottery Chance for subduing Hai Bodong, Mo Liao, and the Purple Huang You Snake, then won a Dragon Yuan. The Earth Dragon Carriage was stopped by a masked snake person demanding the snake person inside, and the chapter ended as Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake joined Hai Bodong against the Dou Emperor.

• Hai Bodong drove the Earth Dragon Carriage into the Tagor Desert with Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake outside and Bai Ge and Die inside.
• Bai Ge received a Silver Rank Lottery Chance for subduing three powerful beings and used it to obtain a Dragon Yuan.
• Bai Ge spotted a masked snake person blocking the carriage and demanding that the snake person inside be handed over.
• Hai Bodong challenged the masked figure, but recognized from their aura that they were a Dou Emperor.
• Mo Liao and the Purple Huang You Snake joined the confrontation, startling the masked snake person.

Bai Ge intervened when Lin came to seize Die and revealed that he knew she was Die’s elder sister. He insisted on taking Die to the Snake People and challenged Lin’s objection, ending the chapter as he easily blocked her sword strike and sent her flying.

• Lin threatened Hai Bodong and the others, refusing to leave despite facing three powerful opponents.
• Bai Ge left the carriage and ordered Hai Bodong, Mo Liao, and the Purple Huang You Snake to stay behind as he drew Lin away.
• Bai Ge told Lin that he knew she was Die’s elder sister and promised to protect Die.
• Bai Ge said he was taking Die to the Snake People, while Lin warned that the trip would lead to Die’s death because the Snake People would not allow two Queen Medusas.
• Lin attacked Bai Ge with her greatsword, but he blocked it with the Seven Kill Sword and knocked her away.