Chapter Summaries

Qing Lin prepared for the Sky Serpent Mansion banquet while missing Xiao Yan, who arrived with Jia Xing Tian and Zi Yan and explored the famed Serpent Saint Mountain Peak. Xiao Yan found a sealed force within the mountain’s strange stone stele and casually proposed reaching through its hole, angering the Snake Clan disciples gathered there.

• Qing Lin played with Shuang'er, her sixth-rank Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, and wondered when Young Master Xiao Yan would return.
• Xiao Yan, Jia Xing Tian, and Zi Yan reached the Sky Serpent Mansion, presented the Flame Alliance invitation, and were welcomed as banquet guests.
• Xiao Yan and his companions went to Serpent Saint Mountain Peak, where visitors and young disciples studied the patterned stone stele.
• Xiao Yan sensed a force blocking his Soul Power inside the stele, while Zi Yan failed to see through it.
• Xiao Yan pointed to the hole in the stele and suggested reaching inside to take whatever was there, prompting a Snake Clan member to call him ignorant.

Xiao Yan used Mao Wu’s Void Swallowing Flame to retrieve a mysterious emerald ring from the stone tablet at Serpent Saint Mountain Peak, shocking the Serpent Race members who had mocked him. After the Black-Eyed Serpent Emperor attacked, Zi Yan crushed his arm with one punch, and Xiao Yan recognized an approaching Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor.

• The Black-Eyed Serpent Emperor insulted Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan defended him before Xiao Yan asked whether whoever retrieved the hidden treasure could keep it.
• Xiao Yan secretly had Mao Wu burn through a seal inside the stone tablet and pulled out a ring with an emerald, triggering a green beam that alerted the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• Qing Lin wondered how someone had obtained the treasure without the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, while She Tianhao ordered someone to investigate.
• Xiao Yan taunted the Black-Eyed Serpent Emperor, who attacked him under the pretense of disciplining him.
• Zi Yan intercepted the Black-Eyed Serpent Emperor and blasted his arm into a mist of blood with one punch.
• Xiao Yan noticed the approaching Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and greeted him.

Xiao Yan’s arrival at the Sky Serpent Mansion caused a stir, but Bai Ya recognized him and escorted him to Qing Lin instead of confronting him. Qing Lin was overjoyed when Xiao Yan appeared and rushed into his arms.

• Xiao Yan’s alchemy caused a powerful phenomenon, and Bai Ya arrived with Sky Serpent Mansion experts after seeing the injured Black-Eyed Serpent Emperor.
• Bai Ya struck a Six-Winged Serpent Emperor for accusing Xiao Yan, then politely asked the others to leave so he could speak with him.
• Xiao Yan asked Bai Ya about Qing Lin, and Bai Ya agreed to take Xiao Yan, Jia Xing Tian, and Zi Yan to her mountain residence.
• Xiao Yan entered Qing Lin’s residence, where Lü Man was combing her hair and the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake recognized him.
• Qing Lin recognized Xiao Yan, ran to him, and hugged him while crying with joy.

Xiao Yan reunited with Qing Lin at Heavenly Serpent Mansion, gave her the token for the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint's inheritance, and agreed she could return home after opening it. She Tianhao learned Xiao Yan was from the Flame Alliance and planned to use the upcoming Sect Assembly to make Qing Lin recognize Heavenly Serpent Mansion's power.

• Qing Lin eagerly agreed to return to the Jia Ma Empire with Xiao Yan, though she first had to fulfill her promise to open the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint's inheritance.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had obtained the inheritance token, placed it in Qing Lin's hand, and gave her a Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill before leaving with Zi Yan and Jia Xing Tian.
• Bai Ya stopped Heavenly Serpent Mansion's members from confronting Xiao Yan and announced that Qing Lin was unwell and would miss the banquet.
• She Tianhao questioned Bai Ya and learned that Xiao Yan belonged to the Flame Alliance and that Qing Lin wanted to return to her hometown after opening the inheritance.
• She Tianhao dismissed Qing Lin's wish to leave as deception and ordered the Sect Assembly to proceed before Heavenly Serpent Mansion opened the inheritance and pursued its goal of unifying the Northwest Region.

Lü Man and Bai Ya planned to use Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance to help Qing Lin take control of Sky Serpent Mansion, while She Tianhao’s faction intended to keep her there. Two days later, the Northwest Region Sect Assembly began, and Xiao Yan’s group arrived as Nalan Yanran prepared to compete.

• Lü Man told Bai Ya that Qing Lin would leave Sky Serpent Mansion and proposed helping her become Mansion Chief sooner if the Flame Alliance could rival She Tianhao’s faction.
• Two days later, the Northwest Region Sect Assembly opened at Sky Serpent Mansion, drawing sects and spectators from across the region and beyond.
• Xiao Yan’s group arrived on the Nethersea Flood Dragon and learned that the Flame Alliance would compete in the western zone, while Nalan Yanran and Yue Er would represent them.
• Yun Yun urged Nalan Yanran not to overexert herself, and Nalan Yanran vowed to win first place before challenging Xiao Yan.
• She Tianhao noticed the Flame Alliance’s group, and Bai Ya confirmed their identity to him and Lion Nether Sect’s Shi Ming.

At the Sect Assembly, the Flame Alliance faced the Golden Goose Sect, while Xiao Yan noticed Old Man Gu Tong wielding the Wind Fury Dragon Flame. Nalan Yanran defeated Luo Yanhong’s speed advantage with a lightning-fast sword strike that severed his arm and wing.

• She Tianhao denied that the Flame Alliance was a force backed by Sky Serpent Mansion, while Ting Hao identified its ties to the Snake-People Empire.
• Old Man Gu Tong and Qiu Ping arrived, and Xiao Yan recognized Gu Tong’s Wind Fury Dragon Flame as a possible future target for the Flame Mantra.
• Nalan Yanran entered the arena to face Luo Yanhong, and Luo Yantian warned his son that losing could weaken the Luoyan Empire’s position.
• Luo Yanhong used the Golden Goose Sect’s Heavenly Goose Nine Movements Wings to attack at extreme speed, but Nalan Yanran drew her sword and severed his arm and wing.

Nalan Yanran defeated and killed Luo Yanhong after he attacked her from behind, then reached the Sect Assembly finals and upset Li Shi despite being a level lower. The Flame Alliance drew attention across the Northwest Region, while Nalan Yanran turned down invitations to join other sects.

• Nalan Yanran severed Luo Yanhong's arm and wings, then killed him when he launched a surprise attack with an Earth Rank Dou Technique.
• Jia Xing Tian stopped Luo Yantian from attacking Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan warned that the Flame Alliance intended to deal with the Three Great Empires and the Golden Goose Sect.
• Xiao Yan offered Nalan Yanran a Huangtian Pill, but she refused to take it before winning the West Region competition.
• Nalan Yanran fought her way to the finals and defeated the one-star Dou Emperor Li Shi while she was still a nine-star Dou Wang.
• News of Nalan Yanran and the Flame Alliance spread through the Northwest Region, and Nalan Yanran rejected powerful experts who invited her to switch sides.

Nalan Yanran won first place in the West Region and Xiao Yan helped her refine a Huangtian Pill to advance, while Yue Er revealed her talent by refining a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill at the alchemist competition. The Medicine Bone Sect Leader and Master Qiu Ping tried to recruit Yue Er, but Xiao Yan arrived and challenged the Qiu Family’s status.

• Xiao Yan praised Nalan Yanran for defeating Li Shi and gave her a Huangtian Pill to help her advance to Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan spent the night using Heavenly Flames to refine the pill’s medicinal effects for Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun misunderstood the situation when she brought breakfast.
• Yue Er and five other young alchemists completed Fifth Grade Pills, and Yue Er used four kinds of flames to refine a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill.
• The Medicine Bone Sect Leader offered Yue Er a place in the sect and a chance to enter the Qiu Family, but Yue Er politely refused.
• Master Qiu Ping said Yue Er could join the Qiu Family if she reached sixth grade before twenty-eight, and Xiao Yan arrived to mock the Qiu Family’s claim.

Xiao Yan confronted Qiu Ping and Gu Tong over their attempt to recruit Yue Er, while the Sect Assembly’s battles brought victories for Nalan Yanran and Qing Lin. Qing Lin defeated Nalan Yanran in the final, and Xiao Yan revealed that she had once been taken from the Mo Clan to Heavenly Serpent Mansion and belonged to the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan rejected Qiu Ping’s attempt to poach Yue Er and rebuked Qiu Ping and Gu Tong, who then judged Yue Er’s pill poorly and awarded first place to Jian Feixue.
• Nalan Yanran defeated Shi Nian after breaking through to Dou Huang, and Qing Lin defeated Ting Wanjun with an Earth Rank Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong that Qing Lin had not relied on Medicinal Pills and wondered whether her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils granted additional abilities.
• Qing Lin defeated Nalan Yanran in the final, and Xiao Yan reminded Nalan Yanran that Qing Lin had been taken from the Mo Clan to Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran that Qing Lin was a member of the Xiao Clan and teased her that she was the one who had promised to become his servant if she lost.

Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance entered the Sect Assembly’s arena contests as rival sects worried about the Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s growing strength. After the Flame Alliance began defending an arena, Xiao Yan faced Old Man Gu Tong at the alchemists’ contest, where their Heavenly Flames clashed and Gu Tong proposed a wager.

• Sect leaders from across the Northwest Region agreed to unite against the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, while Xiao Yan considered leaving for the Middle Continent sooner than planned.
• Xiao Yan sent Xiao Ding to plant the Flame Alliance flag on an arena, where Xiao Ding defeated a Mulan Valley Dou Wang before Misty Cloud Sect elders took over.
• Mulan Valley’s elder defeated two Misty Cloud Sect Dou Wang elders, and Xiao Li stepped forward to challenge him as Xiao Yan went to the alchemists’ contest.
• Old Man Gu Tong challenged Xiao Yan’s confidence, and their Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame clashed without breaking Xiao Yan’s defenses.
• Old Man Gu Tong proposed that he and Xiao Yan bet their Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan accepted Old Man Gu Tong’s wager of their Heavenly Flames and revealed he intended to refine a Seventh Grade Pill, shocking the spectators and drawing powerful factions to watch. As Xiao Yan and Gu Tong began refining, the chapter left their contest unresolved, with Gu Tong’s skill and powerful pill furnace on display.

• Xiao Yan and Old Man Gu Tong clashed with their Heavenly Flames, then agreed to wager them on the outcome of their alchemy contest.
• Old Man Gu Tong revealed he wanted Xiao Yan’s Green Lotus Core Flame to pay the Qiu Family for an eighth-grade pill that could treat his condition.
• Xiao Yan announced he would not refine a Sixth-Grade Pill and brought out ingredients for a Seventh Grade Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill.
• Qiu Ping and the spectators were shocked by Xiao Yan’s apparent Seventh Grade skill, while Old Man Gu Tong prepared to compete using three sets of ingredients and his White Tiger Medicine Cauldron.
• News of Xiao Yan’s age, alchemy rank, and Heavenly Flame spread through the Heavenly Serpent Mansion Mountain Range, drawing Qing Lin and powerful sect leaders to the plaza.
• Xiao Yan and Old Man Gu Tong began refining behind protective light, and spectators watched Gu Tong demonstrate his powerful Flame Control.

Xiao Yan refined the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill using captured Soul Bodies instead of a Magic Core, while Sima Lin and Old Man Gu Tong began the same crucial pill-forming stage. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan combining the purified Soul Light and medicinal ingredients in the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Qiu Ping praised Old Man Gu Tong’s seventh-grade alchemy, while Sima Lin used the Silver Star Dragon Snake Flame to refine a Beast Emperor Body Tempering Pill.
• Sima Lin and Old Man Gu Tong added their Magic Cores and suppressed the beast resentment inside them, while Xiao Yan’s furnace remained calm.
• Xiao Yan released captured Soul Bodies from his Soul Token and used the Asura Soul Severing Technique’s second form, Sunken Abyss, to destroy them and gather Soul Light.
• The abyss chains took half of the Soul Light before retreating, and Xiao Yan fused the remainder with the medicinal ingredients and began melting them with the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Xiao Yan completed the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill, whose strange black fragrance and powerful Pill Lightning stunned the gathered alchemists. After surviving the lightning and capturing the pill, he confronted Old Man Gu Tong and asked who had won their wager.

• Sima Lin and Old Man Gu Tong completed their Seventh-Rank pills, and both pills drew Pill Lightning, with Gu Tong's lightning appearing stronger.
• Xiao Yan's lotus opened and released ominous black pill fragrance, revealing the completed Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill.
• Xiao Yan borrowed Venerable Tian Huo's power and used the Mountain Splitting Seal and Sea Flipping Seal to overcome the Pill Lightning before it vanished.
• Xiao Yan trapped the pill with the Green Lotus Core Flame, returned to the square, and approached Old Man Gu Tong to settle their wager.
• Old Man Gu Tong stood stunned after realizing Xiao Yan's pill had surpassed his, while Sima Lin withdrew from the contest.

Xiao Yan’s pill outclassed Old Man Gu Tong’s, but Qiu Ping forced the contest to be called a draw to protect the Qiu Family’s claim to Gu Tong’s Heavenly Flame. After Xiao Yan left to settle matters later, Yue Er reported that Yun Yun had been surrounded by powerful sect leaders beside the corpse of Medicine Bone Sect’s Jian Feixue.

• Old Man Gu Tong accused Xiao Yan of cheating, but Xiao Yan and the gathered alchemists challenged his claims, and Qiu Ping confirmed that the Pill Domain had produced young Seventh Grade Alchemists.
• Qiu Ping declared the pill contest a draw despite Xiao Yan’s superior Pill Lightning, and Xiao Yan warned that he would visit the Qiu Family to demand an explanation.
• Xiao Yan left the square with the Flame Alliance and secretly marked the others to track them, intending to reclaim the Heavenly Flames after the Sect Assembly.
• The sect leaders grew wary of the Flame Alliance and resolved to secure victory in the next day’s final contest, while Zi Yan boasted that she had defeated ten opponents.
• Yue Er told Xiao Yan that Yun Yun had been surrounded by experts from several sects, and Xiao Yan hurried to the mountain peak with the others.
• Xiao Yan arrived to find Yun Yun surrounded by Dou Huang and Dou Zong experts, with Jian Feixue’s corpse at her feet.

Yun Yun was framed for Jian Feixue’s murder as the Medicine Bone Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley used the death as a pretext to corner the Flame Alliance. Xiao Yan arrived, confronted the conspirators, and prepared to fight as Qing Lin appeared to join him.

• Yun Yun discovered that Jian Feixue was already dead and was trapped by Luo Yantian and the Three Mulan Elders while Elder Zhang accused her of killing him.
• Old Man Gu Tong and the other sect leaders blamed Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance, and Xiao Yan arrived with Zi Yan and his allies.
• The Medicine Bone Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley surrounded Xiao Yan, who dismissed Jian Feixue’s importance and provocatively admitted to the murder.
• Xiao Yan assigned his allies to face the surrounding forces, descended beside Yun Yun, and revealed that he had secretly placed a Soul Mark on Old Man Gu Tong.
• Xiao Yan said he had people of his own, and Qing Lin flew in to stand before him.

Xiao Yan confronted the Medicine Bone Sect and its allies at the Sect Assembly, while Qing Lin and then Medusa intervened to protect him and the Flame Alliance. With Medusa overpowering the opposition, Xiao Yan pursued Old Man Gu Tong as the battle began.

• Qing Lin defied She Tianhao and stood between Xiao Yan and the sect leaders, revealing her loyalty to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan rejected Qing Lin’s plan to help the Flame Alliance escape and declared that the attackers had crossed a line by targeting his people.
• Queen Medusa arrived and revealed her Seven Star Dou Ancestor strength, turning the balance of power against the attackers.
• Medusa trapped two Medicine Bone Sect Dou Ancestors while Zi Yan, Yun Yun, and the Nethersea Flood Dragon attacked the fleeing sect members.
• Xiao Yan chased Old Man Gu Tong, dismissed his threat of retaliation from the Qiu Family, and used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to intercept him.

Xiao Yan defeated Old Man Gu Tong and captured his Soul Body, while the Flame Alliance crushed the Medicine Bone Sect and its allies at the Sect Assembly. The onlookers realized that the balance of power in the Northwest Region was about to change.

• Xiao Yan wounded Old Man Gu Tong with the Mountain Splitting Seal and overcame his Wind Fury Dragon Flame with the Lapis Lazuli Lotus Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan burned Old Man Gu Tong from within, exposed his escaping Soul Body, and captured him with the Soul Token while posing as Venerable Yan of the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan offered Old Man Gu Tong's body as a vessel for Venerable Tian Huo's resurrection and returned to find the other battles over, though Luo Yantian had escaped.
• Xiao Yan learned that Medusa and Zi Yan had helped wipe out the Medicine Bone Sect, Golden Goose Sect, and Mulan Valley forces, while Luo Yantian remained at large.
• The gathered spectators watched the Flame Alliance's victory in stunned silence and wondered how the Sect Assembly would reshape the Northwest Region.

Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin away from Heavenly Serpent Mansion under Medusa’s protection, while Medusa killed the traitor Lu She and tensions over the Flame Alliance’s ambitions intensified. The Sect Assembly resumed with a single arena, and the Flame Alliance arrived to defend first place against the Northwest Region’s sects.

• Xiao Yan gathered the fallen experts’ Storage Rings as Qing Lin announced she was leaving Heavenly Serpent Mansion, and Medusa declared Qing Lin under her protection.
• Medusa killed Lu She with her heart flame, prompting She Tianhao to withdraw with his disciples.
• Xiao Yan discussed the Flame Alliance’s plans with Medusa, who explained the Ancient Void Dragon’s place among the Monster Beast clans and revealed that it was a Divine Beast descended from a Tenth-Rank Ancient Dragon.
• Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Zi Yan divided the captured medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yan reunited Qing Lin with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• The Sect Assembly resumed with one arena, and the Nethersea Flood Dragon carried the Flame Alliance to the venue, where the alliance claimed first place and invited challenges.

Xiao Yan made a grand entrance at the Sect Assembly, where the Flame Alliance faced the three leading Northwest Region sects. Queen Medusa challenged She Tianhao, Ting Hao, and Shi Nian at once and began overpowering them with the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Xiao Yan watched warily for She Tianhao’s hidden trump card.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the Sect Assembly in a display of Heavenly Flame, drawing the crowd’s attention and prompting Shi Nian and Ting Hao to challenge his arrogance.
• Xiao Yan explained the Flame Alliance’s strength as the leaders of Sky Serpent Mansion, Thunder Sect, and Lion Nether Sect gathered against it.
• She Tianhao chose to fight first, and Queen Medusa rose into the sky with the Green Lotus Core Flame and challenged all three leaders at once.
• She Tianhao offered to divide Sky Serpent Mansion with Medusa and join her in reclaiming the Snake Clan, but Medusa refused to negotiate.
• She Tianhao, Ting Hao, and Shi Nian attacked Medusa together with Earth Rank Dou Techniques, but she blocked their attacks and forced them back.
• As Medusa began suppressing the three Seven Star Dou Ancestors, Xiao Yan warned that She Tianhao might still have a hidden trump card and prepared to support her.

Queen Medusa overwhelmed She Tianhao, Shi Nian, and Ting Hao, then revealed she could wield both the Green Lotus Core Flame and Fallen Heart Flame with Xiao Yan’s help. The three leaders activated Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s Demon Saint Heaven Gate formation to trap and suppress her.

• Queen Medusa knocked Shi Nian, Ting Hao, and She Tianhao back with her attacks, while onlookers recognized the power of the legendary Devouring Heaven Python Clan.
• Shi Nian drew the Lion Nether Demon Blade, Ting Hao summoned the Thunder God Spear, and She Tianhao attacked with a giant serpent formed from his shed skin.
• Queen Medusa used the Green Lotus Core Flame to withstand their combined assault until Xiao Yan told her to stop holding back.
• Queen Medusa revealed the Fallen Heart Flame and used it alongside the Green Lotus Core Flame to drive all three leaders away.
• She Tianhao urged Shi Nian and Ting Hao to abandon restraint, and the three activated the Demon Saint Heaven Gate formation to trap Queen Medusa.