Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan offered to help Medusa break through the Snake-People Race’s bloodline restriction by awakening her companion serpent’s Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline. Medusa accepted the painful transformation method, and Xiao Yan promised to help after subduing a Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan joked about pursuing Medusa, then reassured Xiao Yi Xian that she would never poison him and affectionately coaxed her.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Yan Alliance would gain Dou Zong and Dou Zun experts, prompting Medusa to decline the deputy alliance leader position because she feared she lacked the strength to hold it.
• Xiao Yan clarified that he could help Medusa reach the Dou Zong realm, but Medusa explained that the Snake-People Race’s companion-soul bloodlines made advancement exceptionally difficult.
• Xiao Yan offered to awaken the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline in Medusa’s Purple Nether Flame Serpent, giving her the potential to grow far stronger.
• Medusa accepted the painful transformation method, and Xiao Yan said he would help her after he subdued a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian acknowledged their feelings and spent the night together in her Heaven Poison Hall. Meanwhile, Medusa gathered the Snake-People Race elders at the King Palace.

• Medusa agreed to undergo bloodline evolution despite the pain, and Xiao Yan explained the role Exotic Flames played in his cultivation.
• After touring the Snake-People Race King City, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian teased each other about his feelings for Medusa and returned to Xiao Yi Xian’s Heaven Poison Hall.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Yi Xian to take their relationship further, and she agreed.
• Xiao Yan examined Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, and they spent the night together.
• Medusa gathered the Snake-People Race elders deep within the King Palace.

Queen Medusa and the Snake-People Race accepted Xiao Yan’s generous offer to join the Flame Alliance, while Hai Bodong recovered his full strength and set out to bring the Mittel Family into the alliance. After spending the night with Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan took her to find the Green Lotus Core Flame, and they entered its underground passage.

• Queen Medusa’s elders debated Xiao Yan’s offer, and the Snake-People Race decided to join the Flame Alliance despite concerns that he was pursuing the Queen.
• Hai Bodong fully recovered his strength in Desert City and departed for the Gama Imperial Capital to bring the Mittel Family into the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian woke together after becoming husband and wife, and Queen Medusa arrived to announce the Snake-People Race’s decision to join the alliance.
• Xiao Yan spent a day in Snake-People Race King City with Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan, then left Zi Yan behind and set out with Xiao Yi Xian for the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Green Lotus Core Flame beneath the desert near Shi Mo City, opened a passage with his spiritual power, and led Xiao Yi Xian underground.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian descended into the Magma Ocean, where Xiao Yan subdued the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake and found the Green Lotus Core Flame. After refining its source over three days, he broke through to the peak Huatian Realm, then used the flame’s side effects as an excuse to draw Xiao Yi Xian into an intimate embrace.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached the Magma Ocean, where Xiao Yan used a Soul Seal and an illusion to subdue the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian rode the snake through the magma and reached the Green Lotus Core Flame, which Xiao Yan collected as its source fire seed.
• Xiao Yan sat on the lotus platform and refined the Green Lotus Core Flame for three days while Xiao Yi Xian stood guard.
• Xiao Yan emerged at the peak Huatian Realm, then claimed the flame’s side effects required Xiao Yi Xian’s help and pulled her into his arms.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the magma after both breaking through, then reunited with Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Qing Lin. After bringing Qing Lin to the Snake-People Race King City and seeing her reunite with Zi Yan, Xiao Yan prepared to visit the Heavenly Serpent Mansion before establishing the Yan Alliance.

• Xiao Yan refined two Eighth Order Magical Cores and broke through to the Tongtian Realm, while Xiao Yi Xian broke through to the Dou Emperor level.
• Xiao Yan collected the Green Lotus Platform and lotus seeds, then left the magma with Xiao Yi Xian and released the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake from his soul imprint.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li in Mo Bei City, introduced Xiao Yi Xian as his wife, and told his brothers he intended to be with both her and Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Ding and Xiao Li toward the Gama Imperial Capital with Jade Talismans for Yun Shan, then brought Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the Snake-People Race King City.
• Xiao Qing Lin reunited with Zi Yan, and Xiao Yan told Medusa he would return after visiting the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to help establish the Yan Alliance.

Xiao Yan traveled to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to obtain Ninth Order Magical Beast essence blood from the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s remains. After offering the Mansion Lord and Old Mansion Lord a Heavenly Venerable Pill, he revealed that he wanted the entire Heavenly Serpent Blood Pool, leaving them stunned.

• Xiao Yan crossed the Heavenly Serpent Empire and arrived at the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, built atop the corpse of an Ancient Heavenly Serpent.
• Mansion Master She Hong welcomed Xiao Yan and agreed to bring him to the Old Mansion Lord after Xiao Yan mentioned his Heavenly Venerable Pill.
• While waiting in the main hall, Xiao Yan recognized Lü Man and asked her to pour his tea before She Jin arrived.
• Xiao Yan showed She Jin the Heavenly Venerable Pill and asked to enter the Heavenly Serpent Secret Realm.
• Xiao Yan explained that he wanted the Heavenly Serpent Blood Pool itself, not merely the chance to cultivate there.

Xiao Yan negotiated with She Jin for access to the Heavenly Serpent Blood Pool and then refined its blood, destroying the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s lingering will. He left the pool partly depleted but purified and gathered essence blood for Yao Lao’s resurrection and Cai Lin’s evolution, turning next to the Yan Alliance before preparing to revive his teacher.

• Xiao Yan offered She Jin a Heavenly Venerable Pill and promised to leave purified Heavenly Serpent blood in exchange for refining the pool’s essence blood; She Jin agreed after seeing Xiao Yan’s powerful flame.
• She Jin led Xiao Yan and She Hong into the Heavenly Serpent Blood Pool, then left Xiao Yan alone to work while the mansion’s elders and disciples withdrew.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Chaos Furnace and used Yellow Spring Heavenly Wrath to destroy the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s lingering will.
• Xiao Yan refined the pool’s blood into crystal-clear essence blood, filling jade bottles and reducing the pool to about a third of its original size.
• Xiao Yan decided to settle matters with the Yan Alliance before preparing to resurrect Yao Lao.

Xiao Yan traded refined Ancient Heavenly Serpent blood and a Heavenly Venerable Pill for the Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s agreement to join the Yan Alliance. As he prepared to leave with She Jin to find a teacher for his sister, he approached Lü Man and announced that he would take her with him.

• Xiao Yan gave She Jin and She Hong refined serpent blood, including two bottles of essence blood, and handed She Jin a Heavenly Venerable Pill.
• Xiao Yan invited the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to join the Yan Alliance and promised She Jin and She Hong they could reach peak Dou Zun within twenty years.
• She Jin accepted the invitation, and She Hong agreed to handle the alliance’s affairs; She Jin then decided to accompany Xiao Yan after learning his sister had Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan and She Jin prepared to leave for the Jia Ma Empire, but Xiao Yan spotted Lü Man and told She Jin he would take her along.

Xiao Yan secured Lü Man as protector for his sister and took She Jin with him back to the Jia Ma Empire, while the Heavenly Serpent Mansion discovered that the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s maddening will had vanished from its blood pool. After reviewing the forces gathered under his banner, Xiao Yan announced the Yan Alliance’s official establishment at the Flame God Hall.

• Xiao Yan joked with Lü Man before assigning her to protect his sister, then selected the Sixth Order Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor as her mount.
• Xiao Yan and She Jin sped ahead to the Jia Ma Empire, leaving Lü Man and the serpent behind; She Hong later showed the Heavenly Serpent Mansion elders the blood Xiao Yan had traded for the pool’s contents.
• She Hong and the elders discovered that the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s will had disappeared from the remaining blood pool, making it usable for cultivation.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Gama Imperial Capital, reviewed Yun Shan’s list of allies and updates, and ordered everyone listed to gather at the Flame God Hall the next morning.
• Xiao Yan formally established the Yan Alliance at the Flame God Hall, where hundreds of powerful allies and family members had gathered.

Xiao Yan announced the Flame Alliance’s leadership, but rejected Liu Chang and Li Sen’s objections to Medusa’s appointment and forced them to leave. He demonstrated the alliance’s strength and won Gu He’s gratitude with rare alchemy manuals, leaving the alliance’s recruitment prospects strengthened.

• Xiao Yan appointed Medusa as Deputy Leader, prompting Liu Chang and Li Sen to challenge the decision.
• Xiao Yan told the two men they could leave, then revealed Bai Han and Bai Xue as peak Nine Star Dou Zongs and appointed them Protector Elders.
• Liu Chang and Li Sen left the Flame Alliance after Xiao Yan dismissed their objections and Liu Chang questioned its supply of Seventh Grade Alchemists.
• Xiao Yan gave Gu He two alchemy manuals and promised him a Soul Cultivation Technique if he reached the peak of the seventh grade.
• Gu He knelt and thanked Xiao Yan for recognizing his talent.

Xiao Yan strengthened the Yan Alliance by offering its alchemists precious formulas and manuals and bringing the Heavenly Serpent Mansion into the alliance. After arranging his personal affairs and making Qing Lin She Jin’s disciple, Xiao Yan began refining pills in the Monster Mountain Range, where a three-colored pill lightning bolt struck as he completed an eighth-tier Blood God Pill.

• Xiao Yan promised the Pill Hall’s alchemists access to pill formulas, Eighth Grade Alchemist notes, and Soul Cultivation Methods in exchange for contributions to the Yan Alliance.
• Xiao Yan introduced She Jin and announced that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion had joined the Yan Alliance, bringing a Dou Zun expert into its ranks.
• Xiao Yan visited Queen Medusa and Yun Yun, then returned to the Xiao Family residence and spent the night with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan made She Jin Qing Lin’s teacher, left Bai Xue to assist Queen Medusa, and took Bai Han to the Monster Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yan refined a Transformation Pill and several Blood God Pills, then used Ancient Heavenly Serpent blood essence to begin an eighth-tier Blood God Pill.
• After three days, three-colored pill lightning struck above the Monster Mountain Range, and a jade-white skeleton shot into the sky.

Xiao Yan refined Blood God Pills and a Flesh Bone Regeneration Pill while Yao Lao used their pill lightning to grow more compatible with a Dou Sheng corpse. As Xiao Yan completed a powerful pill for Yao Lao’s resurrection, Soul Hall’s Blood River and Mo Yu plotted against him, and Yao Yan faced a final Black Demon Lightning strike with Xiao Yan stepping in.

• Yao Lao controlled the Dou Sheng corpse to endure the pill lightning from Xiao Yan’s first two Blood God Pills, gradually improving his compatibility with the body.
• Xiao Yan refined a five-colored Blood God Pill for Medusa’s bloodline transformation and a Flesh Bone Regeneration Pill for Skyfire Venerable.
• Blood River and Ninth Heavenly Revered Mo Yu suspected Xiao Yan was connected to Yao Chen and planned to use the Lion Underworld Sect and Ghost Shadow Gate to attack the Yan Alliance.
• Xiao Yan spent nine days refining a Saint Heart Soul Recovery Pill, while Yao Lao endured eighty bolts of Nine-Colored Pill Lightning using the Dou Sheng corpse.
• A Black Demon Lightning cloud formed after Yao Lao’s soul had grown dim, and Xiao Yan moved in with four kinds of Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan used Buddha's Fury Reincarnation to neutralize the Black Demon Lightning, then recovered and advanced to the mid-stage of the Tongtian Realm. After helping Bai Han break through to the Eighth Order, Xiao Yan began refining a Dou Sheng Corpse so Yao Lao could be revived within it; Yao Lao's new body began forming, but the fusion was not yet complete.

• Xiao Yan diverted the Black Demon Lightning into the spatial void with Buddha's Fury Reincarnation, suffering backlash, and he and Yao Lao withdrew to recover.
• After seven days, Xiao Yan reached the mid-stage of the Tongtian Realm, while Bai Han used a Grade 8 Blood God Pill to break through to the Eighth Order.
• Yao Lao recovered and showed improved compatibility with the Spirit Clan Dou Sheng Corpse, so Xiao Yan returned with him to the Misty Cloud Sect to begin the revival.
• Xiao Yan gave Bai Han a Blood God Pill for Bai Xue, then started refining the Dou Sheng Corpse with Ancient Heavenly Serpent essence blood and his Emperor Flame Seed.
• After three days, Xiao Yan refined the corpse into a skeleton filled with life essence, and Yao Lao swallowed the Saint Heart Soul Recovery Pill and entered it.
• Yao Lao endured another three days of fiery refinement as flesh and skin formed over the skeleton, while the final fusion continued in the Chaos Furnace.

Xiao Yan refined the Ice Fire Lotus Heart Platform while waiting for Yao Lao to revive, then discovered the Yan Alliance under attack by the Lion Underworld Sect and Ghost Shadow Gate. He entered the battlefield alone to face their two Four Star Dou Zun leaders and warned them that they had chosen death.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the remaining Dou Sheng Essence and advanced to the Tongtian Realm Late Stage, then reforged the Green Lotus Throne into the Ice Fire Lotus Heart Platform.
• Xiao Yan went to Misty Cloud Mountain and found Yun Yun and Yun Shan absent, then sensed a battle near the Gama Imperial Capital and hurried to the Yan Alliance.
• Medusa told Xiao Yan that the Lion Underworld Sect and Ghost Shadow Gate had invaded Yan Alliance territory and were fighting She Jin, Bai Han, and Bai Xue.
• Xiao Yan reassured Medusa, ordered She Jin to take Bai Han and Bai Xue away, and faced Shi Tian and the Ghost Shadow Gate's sect master alone.
• Shi Tian threatened to enslave Xiao Yan and seize the women of the Yan Alliance, prompting Xiao Yan to unleash scorching heat and declare that he would kill them.

Xiao Yan crushed Shi Tian in battle, killed him, and drove off the Black and White Heavenly Venerables after injuring them with a Four-Colored Fire Lotus. He returned to the Yan Alliance, ordered the conquest of the defeated sects’ territories, gave Zi Yan a Transformation Pill, and led Medusa away with him.

• Xiao Yan sent Shi Tian flying with a single punch, then overwhelmed him with a relentless assault despite Shi Tian’s Lion Underworld Demon Armor.
• The Ghost Shadow Gate Master ambushed Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan burned away his sword aura and continued beating Shi Tian until Shi Tian begged for mercy.
• Black Heavenly Venerable appeared to rescue Shi Tian, but Xiao Yan annihilated Shi Tian’s soul and killed him before confronting Black and White Heavenly Venerable with a Four-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Black and White Heavenly Venerable survived Xiao Yan’s explosive attack and fled with the Ghost Shadow Gate Master after Xiao Yan pursued them with a Flame God’s Spear.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Yan Alliance, where the experts hailed him, and ordered Bai Han and Bai Xue to seize the Lion Underworld Sect’s and Ghost Shadow Gate’s territories.
• Xiao Yan gave Zi Yan a Transformation Pill and Blood God Pills, then took Medusa by the hand and led her away.

Xiao Yan comforted Queen Medusa, won her trust, and gave her the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Skill so she could transform her bloodline. After enduring a painful evolution inside a blood-colored egg, she emerged as a Five Star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan walked with Queen Medusa and told her a story about the burdens she had carried as queen, bringing her to tears and drawing her into his embrace.
• Xiao Yan passed the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Skill to Queen Medusa and guarded her as she studied it for seven days.
• Queen Medusa began the bloodline transformation, enduring intense pain as Xiao Yan supported her with the Ice Fire Lotus Heart Platform and a Blood God Pill.
• Queen Medusa became encased in a blood-colored egg, while Xiao Yan stayed in the secret chamber to guard her for two months.
• Zi Yan broke through to the Sixth Order and took human form before a seven-colored pillar of light erupted from the egg in the Snake-People Race King City.
• Queen Medusa emerged with a flawless body and reached Five Star Dou Zong.

After Medusa fused with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, Xiao Yan cared for her and visited Ya Fei, whose cultivation rapidly improved through dual cultivation. He then brought Yun Yun away from the Misty Cloud Sect, where they encountered Nalan Yanran, who questioned whether Xiao Yan had treated her as part of a game.

• Medusa weakened after her evolution and shrank into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, which Xiao Yan took with him.
• Xiao Yan used Amethyst Accompanying Source to make Amethyst Fire Spiritual Liquid for the snake, then left Medusa in Xiao Yi Xian's care while he visited Ya Fei.
• Xiao Yan cultivated with Ya Fei using the Ice Fire Lotus Heart Platform, and her strength rose from Dou Shi to Dou Ling over half a month.
• Yun Shan urged Xiao Yan to visit Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan took her from the Misty Cloud Sect despite her worries about the sect and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Yun encountered Nalan Yanran in a ravine, and she tearfully asked whether she had also been part of his game.

Xiao Yan took Yun Yun to a cave in the Monster Mountain Range, where they shared a quiet few days before he acted on their mutual attraction. Meanwhile, news of Xiao Yan’s power stirred the Pill Tower, the Hall of Souls, and the Ancient Clan, setting plans in motion to seek him out.

• Nalan Yanran confronted Xiao Yan and Yun Yun, then decided she wanted to enter the Life and Death Gate after Yun Shan failed to comfort her.
• Xiao Yan took Yun Yun to a cave in the Monster Mountain Range, where they spent several days cultivating, talking, and sharing meals before he kissed her and carried her to the stone bed.
• Xuan Yi learned of Xiao Yan’s strength and the mysterious alchemist behind him, suspected the alchemist was Yao Chen, and left the Pill Tower for the Northwest Continent.
• Hun Mie Sheng ordered Saint Gu You and the Great Heavenly Venerable to investigate Xiao Yan, capture him and his teacher, and pursue the Xiao Tribe Ancient Jade.
• Gu Yuan agreed to send Gu Qingyang to bring Xiao Yan to the Ancient Clan after the elders proposed investigating his talent and connection to the Ancient Emperor Jade.

Gu Yuan sent Gu Qingyang and Elder Gu Shan to meet Xiao Yan while the Soul Hall prepared to capture him, and Xiao Yan spent the ensuing months strengthening the Yan Alliance and cultivating with Yun Yun and Medusa. As Yao Lao began to revive, the Soul Hall confronted Xiao Yan at the Gama Imperial Capital, where he set out to fight with Cai Lin beside him.

• Gu Yuan ordered Gu Shan to secretly protect Gu Qingyang and told the Black Annihilation King to monitor the Soul Clan as Gu Qingyang departed for the Northwest Continent.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Yun Yun, spent several days with her, and later refined an Eight-Cornered Fire Lotus Bowl to store his Angry Buddha Lotus Flame.
• After nearly two months of cultivation, Xiao Yan fed the seven-colored little snake the last of the Amethyst Fire Spiritual Liquid, and Medusa transformed into human form and accepted the name Cai Lin.
• The Hall of Souls Great Heavenly Venerable ordered the Soul Hall to capture Xiao Yan, while a beautiful middle-aged woman and Gu Qingyang with Elder Gu Shan headed toward the Yan Alliance.
• Yao Lao's body began to revive in the Yun Lan Sect valley, and the next day the Soul Hall called Xiao Yan out in the Gama Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Yan prepared to face the Soul Hall with Cai Lin, promising to kill more Dou Zuns.

Xiao Yan and the Yan Alliance fought off Soul Hall’s invasion at the Gama Imperial Capital while Soul Hall’s hidden forces watched. Xiao Yan broke the Black Soul World with his Flame God World, then faced Blood River’s Blood Demon Palm with his Great Desolate Sky Burning Finger.

• Xiao Yan assessed Soul Hall’s overwhelming army, including a hidden Dou Sheng, and refused Mo Yu’s demand to come to Soul Hall.
• Mo Yu and the Black White Heavenly Venerable attacked Xiao Yan as Soul Hall forces clashed with the Yan Alliance; She Hong joined She Jin against a Soul Hall Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan fought the three Heavenly Venerables until they trapped him inside the Black Soul World, while Gu Qingyang, Elder Gu Shan, Great Heavenly Venerable, and Xuan Yi watched from hiding.
• Xiao Yan released his Flame God World, melted the Black Soul World, and overwhelmed the Black White Heavenly Venerable with nine fire dragons.
• Blood River intervened with his Blood Demon Palm, and Xiao Yan answered with his Great Desolate Sky Burning Finger as the battle across the battlefield paused to watch their clash.