Chapter Summaries

Medusa broke Sky Serpent Mansion’s Heavenly Gate formation by detonating two Heavenly Flames, then defeated Shi Nian and Ting Hao and forced She Tianhao to surrender. The Flame Alliance won the Sect Assembly, leaving the Northwest Region’s sects preparing to submit or make peace with it.

• She Tianhao, Shi Nian, and Ting Hao activated the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s Heavenly Gate formation and pressed it down on Medusa, wounding her despite her Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python bloodline skill.
• Xiao Yan prepared to rescue Medusa, but she collided the Fallen Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame at full power, shattering the Heavenly Gate and badly injuring the three opponents.
• Medusa survived the blast and swiftly defeated Shi Nian and Ting Hao, while She Tianhao surrendered after recognizing that neither of them could continue fighting.
• Xiao Yan used his Life Flame to heal Medusa as the Flame Alliance’s allies guarded against a counterattack.
• The Sect Assembly ended with the Flame Alliance victorious, and sect leaders across the Northwest Region considered offering gifts or becoming its affiliates.

Xiao Yan treated Medusa’s severe injuries while the Flame Alliance turned its victory at the Sect Assembly into gifts, resources, and new ties with Northwest Region sects. After seven days of collecting medicinal ingredients and refining a pill for Zi Yan, Xiao Yan learned that Sky Serpent Mansion had secretly sent Dou Zong to investigate Medusa’s condition.

• Xiao Yan blindfolded himself and used the Yin-Yang Life-Death Flame and Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to treat Medusa, who rejected his proposed name Cai Lin.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li welcomed visiting sect leaders, and Hu Tianchou presented gifts from Tiger Sword Sect to the Flame Alliance.
• The Flame Alliance hosted sect representatives for seven days, gathering Rank 7 and Rank 8 medicinal ingredients, pill formulas, and promises of annual membership fees from later affiliates.
• Xiao Yan refined a Beast Emperor Body Tempering Pill for Zi Yan, who swallowed it and returned to her room to refine its medicinal strength.
• Medusa told Xiao Yan that most sects had left the Heavenly Serpent Empire and that Sky Serpent Mansion had sent three Dou Zong to investigate her injuries.

Xiao Yan used Qing Lin’s connection to the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance to pressure the divided Sky Serpent Mansion into negotiating with the Flame Alliance. She Tianhao agreed to let Xiao Yan and Medusa enter the inheritance ruins with Qing Lin, though the risks of the expedition remained unresolved.

• Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s elders argued over resisting Medusa or aligning with Qing Lin, while Lü Man and Bai Ya proposed following Qing Lin into the Flame Alliance’s protection.
• Xiao Yan deduced that the Mansion was divided and revealed he wanted the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance for Qing Lin and Medusa; he refused the visitors and announced that the Flame Alliance would leave in a month.
• While refining pills and cultivating, Xiao Yan advanced to Four Star Dou Emperor, and the Sky Serpent Mansion grew alarmed that Qing Lin would leave with him.
• Serpent Emperor urged She Tianhao to endure the negotiations, explaining that reaching Dou Zun and migrating to the Beast Domain mattered more than keeping the inheritance within the Mansion.
• She Tianhao visited Xiao Yan, who agreed to open the ruins only if he and Medusa accompanied Qing Lin; She Tianhao accepted, and Xiao Yan assured Yun Yun they could flee if danger arose.

Xiao Yan accompanied Qing Lin and Queen Medusa to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to enter the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance. After helping Qing Lin open the entrance, they reached the inheritance hall, where She Tianhao and the other Heavenly Serpent Mansion experts had already gathered.

• Xiao Yan learned from Qing Lin that the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s inheritance lay inside its enormous corpse, and She Tianhao brought the mansion’s experts to the serpent’s Space Lock.
• She Tianhao used the mansion’s token and Qing Lin placed her trial proof into the lock, causing the serpent’s head to emerge and awaken.
• Qing Lin faltered while opening the inheritance, so Xiao Yan strengthened her with his Soul Power and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame; the Space Lock shattered, and She Tianhao led the mansion’s experts inside.
• Xiao Yan helped the exhausted Qing Lin recover before carrying her into the serpent’s pupil space with Queen Medusa, where Qing Lin sensed the direction of the inheritance.
• Xiao Yan and his companions passed through a dangerous forest, then reached the ancient inheritance hall and found She Tianhao and the other mansion experts already there.

Xiao Yan and the others entered the inheritance hall, where dead serpent experts controlled by the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils guarded the treasures. Xiao Yan discovered that he could extract the puppets’ souls with Sunken Abyss, and began secretly collecting them while working with Medusa to keep the Sky Serpent Mansion from noticing.

• Xiao Yan and Qing Lin saw that the hall’s treasure clusters were guarded by Serpent-Race Puppets, some of whom had once been Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan charged for a treasure, but a Three Stars Dou Zun puppet attacked him and proved resistant to his Heavenly Flames and Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Xiao Yan asked Qing Lin to briefly control the puppet, then used Sunken Abyss to pull its soul and the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils seal from its body.
• Xiao Yan struck a Sky Serpent Mansion serpent king and had the little black cat secretly retrieve a treasure while She Tianhao ordered his people to press on.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa worked together to extract another puppet’s soul, and Xiao Yan announced that the remaining thirteen puppets could earn him enough Soul Points for a Heaven Rank Dou Technique.

Xiao Yan and Medusa collected inheritance treasures while Qing Lin underwent the final stage of the trial, but she failed and awakened under the control of a mysterious power. As the Serpent-Race Puppets turned against them and the inheritance space began collapsing, Xiao Yan and Medusa stayed behind to protect Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yan and Medusa defeated the Serpent-Race Puppets and claimed six light clusters while Sky Serpent Mansion obtained four.
• Xiao Yan realized the Demon Saint Essence Blood was missing from the treasures, then discovered Qing Lin motionless with jade-green eyes.
• Qing Lin roared and unleashed the Serpent-Race Puppets, killing several Sky Serpent Mansion experts and forcing the survivors to flee.
• Xiao Yan concluded Qing Lin had failed the inheritance trial, and he urged Cai Lin to leave while he stayed to help her.
• Medusa stopped Xiao Yan from charging ahead alone, then joined him as the space collapsed and they attacked the puppets together.

Xiao Yan and Cai Lin fought Qing Lin and the Serpent-Race Puppets after Qing Lin lost control of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. When Xiao Yan’s attempt to awaken Qing Lin failed and an enormous serpent formed from the accumulated darkness threatened them, he released the Asura within his soul as a last resort.

• Cai Lin knocked back the Serpent-Race Puppets while Xiao Yan realized Qing Lin’s pupils had absorbed their abilities and negative emotions, causing her to lose control.
• Cai Lin combined her bloodline power with the Lapis Lazuli Lotus Heart Flame and unleashed the Colorful Light Sky Swallowing Art, melting several puppets.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Chiling Flame to restrain Qing Lin and entered her soul with the Asura Soul Severing Technique, but he could not awaken her.
• Darkness gathered into a giant serpent resembling the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint as Xiao Yan and Cai Lin ran low on strength.
• Xiao Yan took the Greater Soul Black-Purple Pill and released the Asura within the abyss, frightening the giant serpent and the remaining puppets.

Xiao Yan used the Asura Soul Severing Technique to destroy the black serpent but lost control and attacked Cai Lin. After Cai Lin brought him back to his senses at great cost, Xiao Yan carried her and Qing Lin up the Heavenly Stairway, determined to obtain the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint's Demon Saint Essence Blood and save her.

• Xiao Yan transformed into an Asura, wounded the black giant serpent, and bound it with Soul Chains as his Soul Power surged to the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan swallowed Old Man Gu Tong and the captured Soul Lights, then overwhelmed and devoured the black serpent while his hunger and loss of control grew.
• Cai Lin transformed into her Seven-Colored Swallowing Heavens Python form and fought Xiao Yan, calling to him through their soul connection until her blood helped him regain some clarity.
• Xiao Yan wounded Cai Lin during their struggle, then came back to himself and used the Life Flame to try to heal her, despite his exhausted Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan carried the injured Cai Lin up the Heavenly Stairway, with Qing Lin on her body, while Venerable Tian Huo sustained the Life Flame and accompanied him.

Xiao Yan carried the injured Cai Lin up the Heavenly Stairway and used the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint's Essence Blood to save her, then survived through the hidden power of the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill. After Qing Lin began inheriting the Serpent Saint's legacy, Xiao Yan reached the Spirit Realm, recovered, and refined the Wind Fury Dragon Flame.

• Xiao Yan endured the climb while carrying Cai Lin's giant serpent body, then reached the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint and fed her Essence Blood to Cai Lin.
• As Xiao Yan collapsed near death, the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill awakened and restored his body and Soul Power.
• Qing Lin woke, began the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint inheritance, and Xiao Yan continued cultivating while Cai Lin recovered.
• After six months, Xiao Yan broke through to Mortal Realm Great Perfection and then the Spirit Realm, while Qing Lin and Cai Lin continued their inheritances and recovery.
• Xiao Yan refined the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, bringing the number of Heavenly Flames inside him to nine.

After refining the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, Xiao Yan improved his cultivation and alchemy while preparing a body for Venerable Tian Huo. He also refined a Transformation Pill for the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, leaving him at Eight-Star Dou Huang with his companions still advancing through their inheritance and bloodline gains.

• Xiao Yan rose to Seven-Star Dou Huang after refining the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then practiced refining Seventh-Rank medicinal pills and advanced to intermediate-level alchemy.
• Xiao Yan used Old Man Gu Tong's corpse, Rank 7 Magical Beast essence blood, Venerable Tian Huo's skeleton, and two Heavenly Flames to create a body shell for Venerable Tian Huo.
• Xiao Yan saw that Qing Lin was nearing the end of her inheritance and Cai Lin had reached Nine-Star Dou Ancestor after obtaining Ban Sheng essence blood.
• Xiao Yan refined a Transformation Pill for the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, first with Black Demon's help and then with his own alchemy.
• Xiao Yan used the Destruction Fire Lotus to destroy the pill lightning and its thunderclouds, and he reached Eight-Star Dou Huang.

Xiao Yan waited for Cai Lin and Qing Lin to finish their breakthroughs, then left the Heavenly Stairway with them. They emerged to find Jia Ma Empire’s Holy City surrounded by poisonous gas and an army, where a Soul Hall Honored Elder identified the poison as the Woeful Poison of an Innate Woeful Poison Body.

• Xiao Yan assessed the destructive power of his Five-Colored Fire Lotus and used Mao Wu to open a passage to the platform above the Heavenly Stairway.
• Qing Lin emerged from seclusion as a Two-Star Dou Ancestor after awakening a third Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupil, while Cai Lin failed to advance beyond Nine Star Peak Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Yan comforted Cai Lin and agreed to seek a breakthrough pill for her later, then Qing Lin opened the exit beneath the ruined great hall.
• Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin passed through the Heavenly Stairway’s exit and appeared in Jia Ma Empire’s Holy City.
• She Tianhao and the Serpent Emperor faced a poisonous barrier surrounding the city, and a Soul Hall Honored Elder arrived and identified it as the Woeful Poison of an Innate Woeful Poison Body.

Xiao Yi Xian held off the Northwest Alliance and a mysterious black-robed man while Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin escaped the inheritance and learned the Flame Alliance had been attacked. After raiding the Sky Serpent Mansion for the final ingredient needed for Venerable Tian Huo’s revival, Xiao Yan and Cai Lin set out through a Void Passage to return to the Flame Alliance.

• A black-robed Soul Hall expert met with Serpent Emperor and supplied poisons to use against Xiao Yi Xian, while the Northwest Alliance prepared to attack the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yi Xian returned to Jia Ma Holy City and told the Flame Alliance leaders that a powerful expert had appeared behind the Sky Serpent Mansion.
• Xiao Yan, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin emerged from the inheritance, slipped through a Space Lock with Mao Wu’s help, and Qing Lin stored the Azure-Eyed Serpent Saint’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils in her ring.
• At Lü Man’s Cave Mansion, Qing Lin learned the Snake-People Empire had been attacked but its people had been rescued; Xiao Yan discovered that a black-robed man had helped Serpent Emperor break through to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan took the Sky Serpent Mansion’s medicinal ingredients, found the last ingredient for the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, and left Qing Lin with Lü Man to identify allies and enemies in the mansion.
• Xiao Yan summoned Venerable Tian Huo and took Cai Lin through a Void Passage toward the Flame Alliance.

Xiao Yan raced back to the Jia Ma Empire as the Northwest Alliance attacked the Flame Alliance’s last defenses. When She Tianhao and the Serpent Emperor tried to trigger Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, Xiao Yan arrived in time to swallow their poison storm with the Netherworld Poison Flame and devastate the invading army.

• The Northwest Alliance advanced on Jia Ma Holy City, and Xiao Ding assigned Yun Yun, Yue Mei, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others to defend their positions.
• Luo Yantian led twelve Dou Zong against the defenders, while Yun Yun fought him and the armies clashed around the Poison Wall.
• She Tianhao and the Serpent Emperor confronted Xiao Yi Xian, who fought the Serpent Emperor to a standstill with her Calamity Poison Blood and Woeful Poison Body.
• She Tianhao unleashed a tornado of poisonous powder to trigger Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body, and the Serpent Emperor locked her in place as they prepared to escape.
• Xiao Yan broke through the void and used the Netherworld Poison Flame to consume the poisonous powder, then sent the flame into the Northwest Alliance army.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Flame Alliance’s battlefield as Medusa confronted the Serpent Emperor, while he targeted Luo Yantian with his newly acquired Wind Fury Dragon Flame. The battle left Xiao Yan poised to pursue Luo Yantian and claim his complete Two Star Dou Ancestor Soul Body.

• Xiao Yan arrived in time to join the Flame Alliance’s defense, sent Xiao Yi Xian away to recover, and let Cai Lin take his two Heavenly Flames.
• Cai Lin used Green Lotus Core Flame and Fallen Heart Flame to clash with the Serpent Emperor, burning his Heavenly Serpent phantom before matching his next attack with Seven-Colored Divine Light.
• Xiao Yan dodged She Tianhao’s strike with a Lightning Clone and appeared on another battlefield, where he used Wind Fury Dragon Flame to attack Luo Yantian.
• Xiao Yan’s Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler severely wounded Luo Yantian, while Yun Yun engaged another Dou Ancestor and Xiao Yi Xian’s Poison Dragons held She Tianhao back.
• Xiao Yan said he would kill only Luo Yantian, gripped his Soul Token, and flew at him with Wind Fury Dragon Flame Wings.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed Luo Yantian and ambushed Xie Bi Yan, then helped the Flame Alliance withdraw behind Xiao Yi Xian’s poison barrier. He unleashed a four-colored Fire Lotus against the encircling forces, leaving numerous Dou Emperor Soul Bodies captured by his Soul Chains.

• Xiao Yan smashed Luo Yantian’s Golden Goose Feathers with the Mountain Splitting Seal, then evaded Xie Bi Yan’s Ten Thousand Poison Scorpion Tail attacks.
• Xiao Yan used Void Banishment to drag Luo Yantian into the void and later returned with a Two Stars Dou Zun Soul Body in his Soul Token.
• Xiao Yi Xian completed a poison dome around Jia Ma Holy City, and Xiao Yan ordered the Flame Alliance fighters and Cai Lin to retreat inside.
• After the Serpent Emperor sealed the space around him, Xiao Yan revealed and detonated a four-colored Destruction Fire Lotus just short of the poison barrier.
• Xiao Yan’s Soul Chains pierced and sealed the souls of numerous Dou Emperor fighters as the Fire Lotus’s flames engulfed the battlefield.

Xiao Yan repelled the Northwest Allied Army and identified Mu Gu as the Eighth Grade Alchemist behind the invasion. He used two days to refine the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill, then returned with Venerable Tian Huo revived and ready to help the Flame Alliance fight back.

• Xiao Yan unleashed a four-Heavenly-Flame Fire Lotus that devastated the Northwest Allied Army, then returned to the Jia Ma Imperial Palace and distributed restorative pills.
• Xiao Yan told the others he suspected Mu Gu, an Eighth Grade Alchemist of the Hall of Souls, was behind the attacks, and said he would soon reach the eighth grade himself.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Yan the corpse of a One Star Dou Ancestor, and Xiao Yan left to refine the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill for Venerable Tian Huo.
• Mu Gu confronted Serpent Emperor and She Tianhao, threatened to take their Soul Bodies if they failed again, and began refining pills to strengthen their forces.
• Xiao Yan finished refining the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill after two days and returned with Venerable Tian Huo restored to his youthful body.

Xiao Yan’s Flame Alliance launched a full-scale assault on Sky Serpent Mansion after Venerable Tian Huo was revived as a One-Star Dou Venerable. Xiao Yan confronted Venerable Mu Gu alone, revealing his Soul Token and threatening to summon Hun Xuzi with Hun Yu as the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yan revived Venerable Tian Huo, whose strength returned to the One-Star Dou Venerable level, and turned down his offer to handle Venerable Mu Gu.
• The Serpent Emperor used Sect Breakthrough Pills and promised a Rank 7 High-Level Zong Restoration Pill to spur the Northwest Alliance into attacking Xiao Yan.
• The Flame Alliance arrived in full force, and Venerable Tian Huo intercepted the Serpent Emperor before defeating him with a single strike.
• Xiao Yan called out Venerable Mu Gu and allowed Mu Gu’s Black Mist to conceal them from the battlefield.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Soul Token to Mu Gu and taunted him about his jealousy of Venerable Yao.
• Xiao Yan showed Mu Gu Hun Yu and claimed that Hun Xuzi had given him the Soul Token.

Xiao Yan bluffed Mu Gu into withdrawing by implying that Hun Xuzi would learn of his actions, then returned to the battle against the Northwest Alliance. With Venerable Tian Huo and Cai Lin helping him, Xiao Yan defeated the Serpent Emperor and captured his Soul Body, while Qing Lin’s intervention helped stop his escape.

• Xiao Yan used Hun Xuzi’s Soul Token to intimidate Mu Gu, who backed down and left after threatening to win the Pill Gathering.
• Venerable Tian Huo defeated She Tianhao’s bloodline Beast Skill and trapped the Serpent Emperor with Space Lock.
• Xiao Yan appeared unharmed, struck She Tianhao, and revealed that Mu Gu had left; the Northwest Alliance’s forces began to falter.
• As the Serpent Emperor tried to escape through a Space Channel, Qing Lin’s green light distracted him, allowing Xiao Yan to strike and Venerable Tian Huo to restrain him.
• Cai Lin pierced the Serpent Emperor’s heart, and Xiao Yan used Soul Chains to pull out his Soul Body.
• Qing Lin used her Third Eye to stun the Serpent Emperor’s Soul Body, and Xiao Yan collected it in the Soul Token.

Xiao Yan and the Flame Alliance defeated the Northwest Alliance, captured Sky Serpent Mansion, and began planning the region’s reconstruction and gradual unification. After learning his family was safe, Xiao Yan fed the captured souls to the Soul Offering Altar and asked Venerable Tian Huo about the Fu Ling Qing Pill before offering him a place in Soul Hall.

• Qing Lin arrived with Sky Serpent Mansion under her control, restrained She Tianhao with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and took him as her enforcer after Xiao Yan spared his life.
• Venerable Tian Huo sealed the battlefield while the Flame Alliance and Snake-People Race crushed the remaining forces; Xiao Ding persuaded Cai Lin to spare surrendered prisoners for reconstruction labor.
• Xiao Yan warned the Northwest sect leaders that he would summon them to discuss unification, then declared victory as the Flame Alliance celebrated the end of the war.
• After three days of rest, Xiao Yan and the leaders planned the Snake-People Empire’s new territory, the fate of the Three Great Empires, and measures to bring other Northwest sects into the Flame Alliance.
• Xiao Yan learned from Xiao Li that his family was safe, then fed the captured souls to the Soul Offering Altar and asked Venerable Tian Huo whether he would join Soul Hall.

Xiao Yan recruited Venerable Tian Huo into the Hall of Souls by promising him a Fu Ling Qing Pill, then sought ingredients and formulas to advance his alchemy. After fulfilling his promise to the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King, he found Xiao Yi Xian tending herbs and confronted his guilt over her Woeful Poison Body erupting while she protected the Flame Alliance.

• Xiao Yan offered Venerable Tian Huo a Fu Ling Qing Pill if he joined the Hall of Souls, and Venerable Tian Huo agreed.
• Xiao Yan gave Venerable Tian Huo a Heaven Rank Protector's Soul Pouch and told Xiao Li they had to find Bodhi Transformation Saliva within a year.
• Xiao Yan visited Fa Ma to trade Rank 7 pills for a Grandmaster Pill formula and ingredients, as well as low-level eighth-grade ingredients.
• Xiao Yan gave the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King two Transformation Pills, one for the Little Lion King and one as thanks for his service.
• Xiao Yan sat beside Xiao Yi Xian as she planted herbs, and she told him that protecting the Jia Ma Empire had been her own choice.