Chapter Summaries

Medusa evolved into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and fell asleep, while Xiao Huo announced her future strength and called on the Snake People Tribe to join the Sacred Flame Sect. The tribe pledged itself to him, and Yun Yun arrived, astonished to see everyone kneeling before Xiao Huo.

• Medusa emerged as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, absorbed the Companion Purple Crystal Source, and fell asleep after the system said she would eventually reach peak Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Huo collected the Green Lotus Core Flame and flew to the city, where he told the Snake People Tribe that Medusa had evolved successfully and would return at peak Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Huo announced his plans for the Sacred Flame Sect and asked the Snake People to join; Yue Mei, Mo Bass, and countless others pledged themselves to him.
• The Snake People knelt and cheered for Xiao Huo, and Yun Yun arrived, stunned to see the tribe submitting to him.

Xiao Huo won the Snake People Tribe’s devotion, promised its warriors Humanoid Transformation Pills, and reunited with Yun Yun after controlling the Green Lotus Core Flame. He learned from the system that pregnancy could prevent Yun Yun and Xun’er from awakening their bloodlines and traveling with him to other planes, leaving him to restrain himself for now.

• Xiao Huo empowered the Snake People Tribe, whose members broke through and pledged their loyalty to him.
• Xiao Huo promised that serpentfolk who reached Dou Wang and joined the Sacred Flame Sect could receive Humanoid Transformation Pills.
• Xiao Huo reunited with Yun Yun and showed her the Green Lotus Core Flame kneeling before him.
• Xiao Huo kissed Yun Yun, and the system warned that pregnancy would prevent her from forming a Phoenix bloodline and reaching Dou Di.
• Xiao Huo asked about Yu’er and Ling’er, and the system cautioned him that Yun Yun and Xun’er had a 100% chance of becoming pregnant.
• The system revealed that it could eventually take virtual form and be summoned once a month, while Xiao Huo resolved to avoid pregnancy risks so he could travel with the women to other planes.

Xiao Huo and Yun Yun parted after agreeing to reunite and marry in three months, when the Misty Cloud Sect’s plans for Nalan Yanran and its growing power threatened them. Yun Yun returned to the sect, while Xiao Huo prepared to strengthen the Sacred Flame Sect and confront the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Huo and Yun Yun discussed their separation and promised to meet again in three months, when he would marry her and Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Yun said she would protect Nalan Yanran and follow Xiao Huo even if he fought the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Yun warned that Yun Shan might emerge from seclusion as a Dou Zong and intended to arrange Nalan Yanran’s marriage to someone else.
• Yun Yun kissed Xiao Huo goodbye and flew back to the Misty Cloud Sect, believing only Xiao Huo could change its dangerous situation.
• Xiao Huo resolved to strengthen the Sacred Flame Sect, bring the Jia Ma Imperial Family under his control, and defeat the Misty Cloud Sect in three months.

After advancing to Dou King 1-star, Xiao Huo trained and announced that the Snake People would join him in three months to attack the Misty Cloud Sect. He then reached Dou King 2-star, prepared to take Qing Lin and destroy the Mo Clan, while rumors of his feats spread through the city.

• Xiao Huo canceled the Yun Yun Trial Card and resolved to rely on his own strength to prepare for the coming conflict.
• Xiao Huo demonstrated the Nine Strikes of Heavenly Travel in the mountains, then told Yue Mei and the Snake People experts to accompany him to the Misty Cloud Sect in three months.
• The system rewarded Xiao Huo for gaining the Snake People’s trust and announced his advancement to Dou King 2-star.
• Xiao Huo decided to take Qing Lin and destroy the Mo Clan, with plans to send her to cultivate at the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Hai Bodong heard city residents recount rumors about Xiao Huo conquering the Snake People, defeating Gu He’s forces, and preparing to marry Nalan Yanran, but he doubted their claims.

Xiao Huo brought Medusa to Hai Bodong, who was shocked to see Queen Medusa acting intimately with him. Xiao Huo gave Hai Bodong pills to restore and raise his cultivation, leaving Hai Bodong sworn to serve him.

• Xiao Huo arrived at Hai Bodong’s room and revealed that Medusa was with him, holding her hand.
• Medusa reproached Xiao Huo for summoning her and showing off their closeness, but she rested in his room while Hai Bodong watched in amazement.
• Xiao Huo gave Hai Bodong a Po E Pill to restore him to the Dou Emperor realm and a Pipi Experience Pill to help him reach peak Dou Emperor.
• Hai Bodong knelt and pledged his life and loyalty to Xiao Huo.

Xiao Huo strengthened Hai Bodong, returned to Desert City, and reunited with Qing Lin. He took Qing Lin to his room, leaving their encounter there.

• Xiao Huo used a Pipi Experience Pill to raise Hai Bodong to peak Dou Emperor and ordered him to accompany him to confront the Mo Clan over Qing Lin.
• Hai Bodong asked about Yun Yun, and Xiao Huo said she was his fiancée, leaving Hai Bodong stunned.
• Xiao Huo cared for the weakened Medusa, who transformed into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and settled in his arms after warning him not to take advantage of her.
• Xiao Huo and Hai Bodong arrived at Desert City, where the mercenaries welcomed Xiao Huo and Qing Lin rushed into his arms.
• Xiao Huo spent time with Qing Lin, then carried her into a room as she questioned what he intended to do.

Xiao Huo took Qing Lin as his woman, promised to marry her, and set out to destroy the Mo Clan for harming her. As Xiao Huo, Qing Lin, and Hai Bodong reached Salt City, Mo Clan Second Miss Ling Lin spotted them and ordered her people to stop Xiao Huo.

• Xiao Huo undressed Qing Lin, then held and kissed her while telling her he would not go further; Qing Lin realized he had tricked her.
• The next morning, Qing Lin asked Xiao Huo to marry her, and he agreed before declaring that the Mo Clan would pay for hurting her.
• The system rewarded Xiao Huo with a breakthrough to Three-star Dou King, triggered a quest to eliminate the Mo Clan, and reported that Nalan Yanran was also going there.
• Xiao Huo carried Qing Lin toward the Mo Clan with Hai Bodong following, while people in Desert City watched them fly away in awe.
• At Salt City, Ling Lin saw Xiao Huo fly over the city and ordered her people to go stop him.

Xiao Huo attacked Salt City and overwhelmed the Mo Clan’s Dou King defenders with his evolved Seven-Colored Flame. Ling Lin recognized his identity and begged for mercy, leaving Xiao Huo’s next move against the Mo Clan unresolved.

• Ling Lin and Mo Li sent three Dou King experts to attack Xiao Huo after he ignored their warnings.
• Xiao Huo unleashed his evolved Seven-Colored Flame, destroying the three experts’ Dou Techniques and blasting them into the ground.
• The flames engulfed the wounded Dou Kings, killing them as the onlookers watched in horror.
• Ling Lin recognized Xiao Huo as the powerful figure feared in the Tagor Desert and fell to her knees to plead for her life.

Xiao Huo confronted Mo Li after learning that Mo Li claimed to be Nalan Yanran’s fiancé. As Xiao Huo launched a devastating attack, Mo Li realized that the man before him was Nalan Yanran’s true fiancé, Xiao Huo.

• Ling Lin knelt before Xiao Huo while Mo Li tried to pull her away, and Xiao Huo struck Mo Li twice when he got in the way.
• Mo Li claimed that he was Nalan Yanran’s fiancé, with Yun Shan’s approval and the Misty Cloud Sect behind him.
• Xiao Huo recognized the claim as a secret and unleashed the Great Desolate Prison Heaven Finger against Mo Li.
• The Mo Clan’s ten Dou Wang experts, Mo Cheng, and Xiao Yan arrived or reacted to the destruction, but none dared interfere.
• Mo Li remembered Nalan Yanran saying that Xiao Huo was her fiancé and understood why Ling Lin had tried to stop him from revealing the engagement.

Xiao Huo killed Mo Li after learning he claimed Nalan Yanran as his fiancée, then overwhelmed the Mo Family's forces when Mo Cheng ordered them to attack. The chapter left Mo Cheng facing Xiao Huo after a single staff strike defeated all thirteen Dou King experts.

• Xiao Huo killed Mo Li with the Great Desolate Prison Heaven Finger, leaving him to die at Mo Cheng's feet.
• Mo Cheng arrived too late to save Mo Li and ordered his thirteen Dou King experts to attack Xiao Huo.
• The thirteen Dou King experts charged Xiao Huo, expecting their combined strength to defeat him.
• Xiao Huo used one strike of the Nine Strikes of Heavenly Travel to defeat all thirteen experts, killing three and incapacitating or terrifying the rest.

Xiao Huo killed the Mo Clan’s thirteen Dou King experts with a single staff strike, leaving Salt City’s onlookers horrified. When Mo Cheng called on Xiao Yan for help, he discovered that Xiao Yan had already fled.

• Xiao Huo unleashed a staff strike that killed the thirteen Dou King experts, while prominent clans and Salt City residents stared in terror.
• Ling Lin and the young women present admired Xiao Huo, while Mo Cheng mourned the Mo Clan’s dead and demanded to know why Xiao Huo had attacked them.
• Xiao Huo said he had come because Qing Lin was his woman, and Mo Cheng revealed that he had tried to capture her for her Three-Colored Lotus Flame Pupils.
• Mo Cheng called for Xiao Yan to kill Xiao Huo, but saw Xiao Yan fleeing in the distance and cursed him for abandoning the Mo Clan.

Xiao Huo killed Mo Cheng and received the system’s mission reward, then decided to marry Nalan Yanran that night instead of waiting three months. He flew toward the Misty Cloud Sect, intending to face Yun Shan and settle Nalan Yanran’s grievances.

• Mo Cheng begged Xiao Huo for mercy, but Xiao Huo burned him to death with a seven-colored Heavenly Flame.
• Bo Er and the people of Salt City knelt and pledged loyalty to Xiao Huo, who ignored them.
• The system announced that Xiao Huo had completed the mission to destroy the Mo Clan and awarded him experience.
• Xiao Huo told the system he would marry Nalan Yanran that night and planned to confront Yun Shan at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Huo rose into the air and flew toward the Misty Cloud Sect while the system complained that he was making her fight Yun Shan.

Confined to Moon Gazing Mountain, Nalan Yanran longed for Xiao Huo and recalled how their relationship had led to her imprisonment. After learning Xiao Huo would come to marry her, she worried that Yun Shan and the mysterious force behind the Misty Cloud Sect might threaten him.

• Nalan Yanran remembered meeting Xiao Huo and falling in love with him despite the Misty Cloud Sect's ridicule of her engagement to a supposedly weak fiancé.
• She recalled secretly leaving the sect to see Xiao Huo, receiving his Earth Tier Dou Technique, and watching Yun Shan confiscate it and confine her and Yun Yun.
• Nalan Yanran remembered that Yun Leng had inspected her virginity and that Yun Shan planned to marry her to someone else.
• Yun Yun had told Nalan Yanran that Xiao Huo, now the Sacred Flame Sect Master, would come to marry her.
• Nalan Yanran worried that Yun Shan, possibly a Dou Zong, and the mysterious faction backing the Misty Cloud Sect could endanger Xiao Huo.

Xiao Huo secretly reached Nalan Yanran on Moon Gazing Mountain, where they reunited and shared an intimate night. The chapter leaves them together on the mountain, with Xiao Huo determined to claim Nalan Yanran despite the Misty Cloud Sect's defenses.

• Nalan Yanran worried that Xiao Huo could not safely enter the Misty Cloud Sect and resolved to cultivate harder so she could catch up to him.
• Nalan Yanran sensed someone approaching and drew her sword, then recognized Xiao Huo and dropped it in shock.
• Xiao Huo took Nalan Yanran's hand, covered her with his clothes, and embraced her as she cried with relief.
• Nalan Yanran told Xiao Huo that she had missed him and wanted to become his true woman, while Xiao Huo reassured her that she already belonged to him.
• Xiao Huo and Nalan Yanran became intimate in the quiet of Moon Gazing Mountain, as he thought of Yun Shan's plan to marry her to someone else.

Xiao Huo secretly met Nalan Yanran on Moon Gazing Mountain, where Medusa unexpectedly appeared and called him a scumbag. Nalan Yanran urged Xiao Huo to leave and return in three months, while he resolved to strengthen the Sacred Flame Sect before challenging the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Huo told Nalan Yanran that he had slipped past Moon Gazing Mountain's guards by knocking them unconscious.
• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python transformed into Medusa, who called Xiao Huo a scumbag before returning to his robes.
• Nalan Yanran questioned Xiao Huo about Medusa and became upset, but Xiao Huo reassured her.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Huo to leave and return in three months, when he could marry her after growing the Sacred Flame Sect stronger.
• Xiao Huo acknowledged that the Misty Cloud Sect and its backers were too powerful for him to defeat yet, and planned to return with greater strength.

During the New Year celebrations, Yun Leng learned that the Mo Clan had been wiped out and set the Misty Cloud Sect against the unknown culprit. Xiao Huo planned to return in three months with the Sacred Flame Sect, while Yun Leng made his marriage approval conditional on Xiao Huo winning the sect tournament and proving he was a sixth-grade Alchemist.

• Xiao Huo and Nalan Yanran celebrated the New Year together as she worried about marrying him in three months.
• Yun Leng learned the Mo Clan had been destroyed, ordered an investigation, and decided the Misty Cloud Sect would retaliate against the culprit.
• Ge Ye urged Yun Leng to accept Xiao Huo and cited his strength, alchemy, and relationship with Nalan Yanran, but Yun Leng doubted the claims.
• Yun Leng said Xiao Huo could earn approval for the marriage by winning the Misty Cloud Sect's tournament in three months and proving he was a sixth-grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Huo resolved to visit the Jia Ma Empire and Jia Nan Academy before returning with Sacred Flame Sect experts to face the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Medusa confronted Xiao Huo after he embraced her and put his hand inside her clothes, then pointed sword qi at his throat.

On Moon Gazing Mountain, Xiao Huo’s intimate encounter with Nalan Yanran enraged Medusa, who later let him massage her before accusing him of touching her improperly. After bathing, she demanded that he marry her, and the chapter ended with her holding a sword to his throat when he hesitated.

• Medusa saw Xiao Huo with Nalan Yanran and angrily confronted him before changing back into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Medusa asked Xiao Huo for a massage, let him move his hand up her leg, then snapped her legs shut and attacked him when she opened her eyes.
• Xiao Huo defeated Medusa in a brief fight, and she then went to bathe in the lake while he guarded the area with restrictions.
• After bathing, Medusa told Xiao Huo that anyone who had seen her body had to marry her and insisted he marry her as the Queen of the Tagor Desert.
• When Xiao Huo hesitated, Medusa pressed her longsword against his throat.

Xiao Huo and Medusa agreed to belong to each other and held hands on Moon Gazing Mountain, while Medusa believed he would eventually marry into her family. At the mountain’s summit, Mo Qing discovered them after the guards had been knocked unconscious, and Xiao Huo and Medusa killed him.

• Xiao Huo accepted Medusa’s proposal, and the two sorted out who belonged to whom before she let him hold her hand.
• Xiao Huo called Medusa his wife and persuaded her that they could hold hands as lovers, so they stood together beneath the moonlight.
• Mo Qing mocked Xiao Huo and looked forward to the upcoming contest to choose Nalan Yanran’s husband.
• Mo Qing found the mountain guards and disciples unconscious and rushed to the summit, fearing Nalan Yanran had been abducted.
• Mo Qing saw Xiao Huo and Medusa at the summit, froze, and died.

On Moon Gazing Mountain, Medusa killed Mo Qing for spying on her and Xiao Huo, and Xiao Huo disposed of the body. Left alone together, Medusa and Xiao Huo flirted as he moved closer and asked what else they should do.

• Mo Qing saw Medusa and Xiao Huo together on Moon Gazing Mountain, and Medusa killed him with a glance.
• Xiao Huo turned Mo Qing's corpse into smoke, and Medusa said he had been killed by beauty.
• Medusa told Xiao Huo she would protect him if he married her, and he moved closer to kiss her.
• Medusa asked Xiao Huo what else he wanted to do after he put a hand on her waist.

Xiao Huo and Medusa shared a tender farewell before she transformed back into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. After gaining Medusa’s favor and advancing to Three-star Dou King, Xiao Huo resolved to grow strong enough to protect those around him.

• Xiao Huo reassured Medusa that he only wanted to stay by her side, and she promised to protect him once she recovered her cultivation.
• As Medusa’s time in human form ran out, Xiao Huo embraced her, and she transformed into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and slipped into his sleeve.
• Xiao Huo fed the snake several drops of Companion Purple Crystal Source, and the System rewarded him with Medusa’s Amulet for gaining her favor.
• The System announced that Xiao Huo had advanced to Three-star Dou King and received 2,000 Prestige Points and 300 Purple Crystal Value.
• Xiao Huo recalled hearing Medusa say she liked him and vowed to become stronger so he could protect everyone around him.