Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge reflected on Qing Lin’s difficult childhood and the affection she had developed for him after he took her in. During their reunion, Qing Lin asked him to stay the night and have children with her when she grew up, and Bai Ge fled after postponing the conversation.

• Bai Ge recalled how Qing Lin had been rejected by humans and Snake People until the Snake People discovered her Jade Snake Three-Flower Pupils and she met him.
• Bai Ge asked Qing Lin about her years at Jia Nan Academy, and she said Little Doctor Immortal, Yun Yun, and Little Red had helped keep her safe.
• Qing Lin told Bai Ge that a purple-haired girl ranked first on the Inner Academy Strong Ranking and that Little Red feared her.
• Qing Lin offered to return the Bai Men master position to Bai Ge, but he told her to remain its leader so its influence could aid him.
• Qing Lin asked Bai Ge to stay the night and reminded him that he used to sleep holding her, then said she was willing to have children with him when she grew up.
• Bai Ge told Qing Lin they could discuss it when she was older, tore open space, and left; Qing Lin called after him that he must keep his promise.

After three months of cultivating in the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, Bai Ge reached three-star Dou Zun and planned how to use the academy’s looming crisis to obtain the Falling Heart Flame. With his Fire Energy nearly gone, he chose three Pills to sell in the Inner Academy and headed to the trading market to find their missing ingredients.

• Bai Ge used the Falling Heart Flame to purify his Dou Qi while consuming Fire Spirit Pills, advancing to three-star Dou Zun.
• Bai Ge considered exploiting Han Feng’s future attack on Jia Nan Academy to refine the Falling Heart Flame and gain the academy’s favor.
• Bai Ge decided to remain outside the Central Continent until Xiao Yan’s journey began, while Little Doctor Immortal and Yun Yun made arrangements there.
• Bai Ge chose Green Ganoderma Fire Spirit Paste, Swift Spirit Wind Pill, and Ice Spirit Pill to meet Inner Academy cultivators’ needs.
• Bai Ge realized he lacked ingredients for all three Pills and planned to look for them at the Inner Academy’s trading market.

Bai Ge visited the Inner Academy trading market to find herbs for several Pills and exchanged an Essence Condensing Pill with Mu Qian for Thousand Spirit Grass. After finding the rest of the herbs he needed, he spotted a rare Withered Glory Nether Soul Grass among a stall’s wares.

• Bai Ge traded a second-grade Essence Condensing Pill with Mu Qian for Thousand Spirit Grass and asked him to look out for more medicinal herbs.
• Bai Ge reached tentative agreements with several stall owners to gather herbs for him during their future training trips.
• Bai Ge found the remaining herbs he needed and continued browsing the market with more than two hundred Fire Energy points left.
• Bai Ge noticed a withered black-purple herb and recognized it as Withered Glory Nether Soul Grass.

Bai Ge spotted Withered Glory Nether Soul Grass at a trading stall and pretended to bargain for other herbs so he could acquire it cheaply. Just as the stall owner was about to give him the unwanted herbs, Bai Cheng arrived and offered to buy everything.

• Bai Ge recognized the Withered Glory Nether Soul Grass and approached the stall while acting interested in the stall owner's other medicinal herbs.
• The stall owner grew irritated as Bai Ge inspected herb after herb without buying anything.
• Bai Ge claimed he wanted to buy all the herbs but had only a little over two hundred points of Fire Energy, then said he needed herbs for practicing alchemy.
• The stall owner agreed to include the unwanted herbs, including the Withered Glory Nether Soul Grass, when Bai Cheng interrupted them.
• Bai Cheng mocked Bai Ge and offered the stall owner three hundred points of Fire Energy for all the medicinal herbs.

Bai Cheng outbid Bai Ge for a stall owner's herbs, including Bai Ge's Withered Glory Nether Soul Grass, and left the Inner Academy with his men. Bai Ge secretly followed them and discovered they were joining Yue Zhong and Luo Ci to obtain four Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruits.

• Bai Cheng raised his offer to five hundred Fire Energy points and bought all the stall owner's medicinal herbs, while Bai Ge concealed his anger over losing the Withered Glory Nether Soul Grass.
• Bai Cheng and his subordinates packed up the herbs and left the trading area, and Bai Ge followed them toward the Inner Academy exit.
• Bai Ge used the Heavenly Snake Breath Concealment Method to trail Bai Cheng's group outside the Inner Academy to a small forest.
• Bai Ge saw Yue Zhong and Luo Ci waiting for Bai Cheng, and realized the three Strong Ranking experts and Bai Gang elites were preparing to seize a treasure.
• Luo Ci and Yue Zhong discussed the four Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruits, and Bai Cheng assured them no one had followed before the group set out.

Bai Ge followed Bai Cheng and his companions to a valley where a pregnant Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast guarded a Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruit tree. As the beast began laying eggs, the fruits matured, leaving Bai Cheng’s group poised to make their move.

• Bai Ge secretly followed Bai Cheng and his companions into a valley after learning they were searching for Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruit.
• Bai Ge discovered the fruits beside a pregnant Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast and realized Bai Cheng’s group planned to take advantage of its weakness during childbirth.
• Bai Cheng lit a custom Calming Fetal Induction Incense to hasten the beast’s labor.
• The Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast moved away from the tree and began laying its Dragon Eggs.
• The Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruits matured and shone with brilliant red light.

Bai Cheng and the Bai Gang attacked the Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast while Luo Ci stole the ripened Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruits. As Bai Cheng’s group prepared to escape, Bai Ge redirected their attacks into the Dragon Eggs, shattering them all and leaving the beast and the attackers stunned.

• The ripened Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruit attracted nearby magical beasts, but the Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast drove them away with its roar.
• Bai Cheng ordered Luo Ci to pick the fruit while the rest of the Bai Gang weakened the beast and held it off by attacking its Dragon Eggs.
• Bai Ge watched from concealment as Bai Cheng and his group launched their operation.
• The Bai Gang doused the exhausted beast with Poison Powder and attacked its Dragon Eggs while Luo Ci collected the Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruits.
• Bai Cheng’s group began retreating after Luo Ci secured the fruit, but Bai Ge used the Heavenly Demon Force Field to redirect their attacks into the Dragon Eggs.
• All the Dragon Eggs shattered, stunning the Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast and Bai Cheng’s group.

After Bai Gang accidentally shattered the Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast’s Dragon Egg, the enraged beast pursued the fleeing group. Bai Ge ambushed Bai Cheng, stole his storage ring, and sent him flying toward the beast while escaping with the Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruit.

• Bai Cheng and the others fled after the Dragon Egg shattered, and the enraged Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast charged after them.
• Bai Cheng ordered the group to split up, and the beast chose to pursue Luo Ci, who carried the Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruit.
• Luo Ci called Bai Cheng over and handed him the fruit before fleeing in another direction.
• Bai Cheng took the fruit and fled, drawing the Crimson Flame Fire Dragon Beast after him.
• Bai Ge ambushed Bai Cheng from a tree, stole his storage ring, and kicked him toward the beast before escaping.

Bai Ge searched the Endless Mountains for medicinal herbs and discovered a rare Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng guarded by a powerful magical beast. He confronted its guardian and asked to take the herb, leaving their encounter unresolved.

• Bai Ge fled after stealing the Heavenly Net Fire Dragon Fruit and continued gathering medicinal herbs in the Endless Mountains.
• Bai Ge used his Spiritual Power to collect herbs and obtain Magic Cores, sparing magical beasts when he did not need their cores.
• Bai Ge discovered a Seventh-grade Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng and decided it could help the girls around him refine a Purple Rhyme Spirit Ascension Pill.
• Bai Ge found the herb guarded by a nearly sixth-tier-limit Purple Cloud Ghostwing Snake that planned to consume it and break through to the Seventh Order.
• Bai Ge approached the Purple Cloud Ghostwing Snake and asked to borrow the ginseng, but the snake remained wary.

Bai Ge subdued the Purple Cloud Wing Snake after it refused to give up its Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng. Just as he approached the treasure, a mysterious purple shadow snatched it away.

• Bai Ge offered the Purple Cloud Wing Snake a Human Transformation Pill in exchange for the Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng, but it refused and challenged him to a fight.
• The Purple Cloud Wing Snake charged Bai Ge and attacked with its purple Beast Fire, then tried to strike him with its tail.
• Bai Ge used his Green Lotus Core Flame and Holy Demon Titan Asura Emperor Martial Soul to overpower and repeatedly smash the Purple Cloud Wing Snake into the ground.
• Bai Ge used the Soul Shifting Great Method to control the half-conscious Purple Cloud Wing Snake, shrank it, and looped it around his wrist for Qing Lin.
• Bai Ge headed for the Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng, but a mysterious purple shadow appeared and stole it before he could reach it.

Bai Ge stopped Zi Yan from eating the Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng and persuaded her to let him refine it into pills. After Zi Yan demanded a sample, she devoured a bottle of Bai Ge’s pills and eagerly asked for more.

• Zi Yan uprooted the Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng and tried to eat it, but Bai Ge stopped her and claimed it as his after defeating the beast that guarded it.
• Zi Yan refused to give up the ginseng, explaining that she needed to eat enough to grow, so Bai Ge offered to refine it into more effective pills.
• Zi Yan distrusted Bai Ge’s claims until he explained that youthful fighters could still be powerful, then demanded pills as proof of his alchemy.
• Bai Ge gave Zi Yan a bottle of pills, and she ate them all at once before asking whether he had any more.

Bai Ge traded daily Pills for Zi Yan’s Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng and learned why she had found him in the Endless Mountains. He sent Zi Yan back to the Inner Academy separately, then used spatial travel to return discreetly and met her at Bai Men’s base.

• Bai Ge gave Zi Yan several bottles of Pills, and she handed him the Purple Veined Earth Dragon Ginseng in exchange for daily meals of Pills.
• Bai Ge and Zi Yan headed back toward the Inner Academy, where Zi Yan explained that she sensed the spatial fluctuations from his earlier travel and followed them.
• Bai Ge told Zi Yan to return to the Inner Academy without him because he wanted to avoid suspicion over Bai Cheng’s death.
• After Zi Yan left, Bai Ge used spatial travel to reach an uninhabited forest inside the Inner Academy and walked to Bai Men’s base.
• Zi Yan arrived at Bai Men first and waited beneath a patch of shade until Bai Ge joined her.

Bai Ge brought Zi Yan to Bai Men headquarters to give Qing Lin a Peak Sixth-tier Purple Cloud Winged Snake. Qing Lin subdued the snake with her Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake and stored it in their summoning space.

• Bai Ge arrived at Bai Men headquarters with Zi Yan, who asked why he had come.
• Bai Ge met Qing Lin in her study and introduced Zi Yan, the Inner Academy's top-ranked student.
• Bai Ge gave Qing Lin the Purple Cloud Winged Snake as a gift and warned her to subdue it before it woke.
• Qing Lin activated her Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake and subdued the Purple Cloud Winged Snake.
• Qing Lin stored the shrunken snake in the summoning space within her eyes.

Bai Ge discussed Qing Lin’s Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake and her need to tame more Serpentine Magical Beasts. Han Yue invited Qing Lin to help retrieve Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, and Bai Ge and Zi Yan joined the expedition, which was set to leave the next day.

• Qing Lin explained that her Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake could absorb controlled Serpentine Magical Beasts only after storing them in their inner space, and Bai Ge said they would need to find her more beasts.
• Han Yue visited Qing Lin and asked her to use the Seven-Headed Fire Spirit Snake to defeat a Snow Demon Sky Ape guarding Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, offering Qing Lin half of the supply.
• Zi Yan demanded to join the expedition, but Han Yue worried the Fifth Order Snow Demon Sky Ape could hurt her, so Bai Ge promised to make Zi Yan Pills from the milk.
• Bai Ge asked to accompany Han Yue and Qing Lin, and Han Yue agreed that they could come along when the group set out the next day.

Bai Ge joined Han Yue and several Inner Academy Strong Ranking members on a journey to find the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, while Zi Yan and Qing Lin defended him from Yan Hao’s hostility. The group reached the valley guarded by a Snow Demon Sky Ape and stopped in the nearby forest before confronting it.

• Bai Ge arrived with Zi Yan and Qing Lin, and Han Yue introduced them to Lin Xiuyai, Su Moyu, Luo Hongxuan, and Yan Hao.
• Yan Hao showed hostility toward Bai Ge, but Zi Yan threatened him and Qing Lin warned the group she would withdraw if Bai Ge were harmed.
• Han Yue explained that Yan Hao was friends with Bai Cheng’s cousin, revealing why Yan Hao disliked Bai Ge.
• The group traveled through the forest for less than two hours and reached the valley where the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk was guarded by a Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• Han Yue’s group stopped in a patch of forest near the valley instead of immediately confronting the Snow Demon Sky Ape.

Han Yue’s group put a plan into action to lure the Snow Demon Sky Ape away from the valley and protect the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk. Yan Hao, Su Moyu, and Luo Hongxuan provoked the beast, but Han Yue and Lin Xiuyai were spotted sneaking toward the entrance and fled.

• Han Yue proposed splitting the group so some would lure the Snow Demon Sky Ape away while others pretended to enter the valley, with Qing Lin ready to summon her magical beast if needed.
• The group assigned Yan Hao, Su Moyu, and Luo Hongxuan to lure the beast, while Han Yue and Lin Xiuyai would approach the valley entrance; Bai Ge, Qing Lin, and Zi Yan waited in the grove.
• Yan Hao insulted the Snow Demon Sky Ape, and it rose in anger after the three men’s attacks failed to harm it.
• Yan Hao, Su Moyu, and Luo Hongxuan fled as the Snow Demon Sky Ape pursued them.
• Han Yue and Lin Xiuyai stepped onto the thin ice at the valley entrance, alerting the Snow Demon Sky Ape, and Han Yue shouted for them to run.

Yan Hao, Su Moyu, Luo Hongxuan, Han Yue, and Lin Xiuyai joined forces against the Snow Demon Sky Ape, which was guarding the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk. As the beast chased them toward Qing Lin, she summoned the Purple Cloud Netherwing Snake, which knocked it down and bound it.

• The Snow Demon Sky Ape abandoned Yan Hao's group and charged at Han Yue and Lin Xiuyai near the valley entrance.
• Yan Hao, Su Moyu, and Luo Hongxuan attacked the beast, but it blocked Yan Hao's hammer and sent him flying.
• Han Yue struck at the Snow Demon Sky Ape with ice spikes, and Lin Xiuyai wounded its abdomen with Azure Gale Kill.
• The enraged Snow Demon Sky Ape froze its wound and pursued the five humans, smashing through trees as it closed in.
• Han Yue called for Qing Lin's help, and Qing Lin summoned the Purple Cloud Netherwing Snake from the Three-Flower Pupils of the Jade Snake.
• The Purple Cloud Netherwing Snake knocked the Snow Demon Sky Ape through the trees and coiled tightly around it, overpowering its struggle.

Qing Lin’s Purple Cloud Netherwing Snake killed the berserk Snow Demon Sky Ape, and Bai Ge’s group collected its core and divided its remains. They entered Sky Valley and found the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk in an underground stalactite cavern.

• Qing Lin explained that her recently tamed Purple Cloud Netherwing Snake was a Sixth Order Magical Beast as it constricted the Snow Demon Sky Ape.
• The Snow Demon Sky Ape awakened its berserk bloodline, but the Purple Cloud Netherwing Snake tightened its coils and killed it.
• Bai Ge took the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s Magic Core, and Han Yue, Yan Hao, Su Moyu, and Luo Hongxuan divided its body.
• Bai Ge led the group into Sky Valley, where Lin Xiuyai revealed the hidden cave entrance beneath green vines.
• Bai Ge illuminated the cave with a flame, and Zi Yan hurried deeper into the stalactite cavern after catching the scent of the treasure.
• The group found a pool of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk beneath an enormous stalactite, and Lin Xiuyai realized it was the real treasure.

Han Yue and the others divided the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk in the cave and collected lesser Earth Core Milk, while Bai Ge secretly returned with Qing Lin and Zi Yan to retrieve the true treasure hidden inside the largest Stone Dripping. He carved out its emerald core and refused to let Zi Yan consume it directly, promising to refine it into Pills instead.

• Han Yue divided the accumulated Earth Core Body Tempering Milk among Qing Lin and the others, giving Qing Lin half and splitting the rest equally.
• Bai Ge explained that the cave's older Stone Drippings produced valuable Earth Core Milk, prompting Lin Xiuyai, Yan Hao, Su Moyu, Luo Hongxuan, and Han Yue to collect it.
• Bai Ge reassured Zi Yan that he had a plan, then stayed behind after the others left and returned to the cave with Qing Lin and Zi Yan.
• Bai Ge used his jade knife to carve the emerald-glowing section from the largest Stone Dripping, revealing the true Earth Core Body Tempering Milk inside.
• Zi Yan asked Bai Ge to give her the emerald liquid, but he refused and said he would refine it into Pills for her.

Bai Ge refined batches of Earth Spirit Snow Jade Pills overnight and gave one to Xiao Xun'er to help her advance. Xiao Xun'er used the pill to break through to the Dou Spirit realm.

• Bai Ge refined six Earth Spirit Snow Jade Pills in his first batch, then continued making pills through the night.
• Bai Ge completed ten batches, producing nearly seventy pills, and prepared one for Xiao Xun'er.
• Bai Ge gave Xiao Xun'er an Earth Spirit Snow Jade Pill and revealed that he had already reached the Dou Spirit realm.
• Xiao Xun'er swallowed the pill and advanced from an Eight-star Great Dou Master to the Dou Spirit realm.