Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan flew into the desert, encountered a caravan transporting Snake-People slaves, and reached Hai Bodong’s shop seeking a detailed map. He revealed his strength and Amethyst Flame, and Hai Bodong offered a way to break his seal in exchange for help obtaining Sand Mandala; the chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking about information from neighboring empires.

• Xiao Yan tested how Purple Cloud Wings enhanced his Dou Qi Wings and discussed the ancient world with Yao Lao while flying toward the desert.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao spotted a caravan carrying Snake-People slaves, but Xiao Yan continued onward rather than intervening directly.
• Xiao Yan entered a desert city, learned of a curfew amid Snake-People attacks, and followed directions to Hai Bodong’s run-down shop for a detailed map.
• Hai Bodong tried to drive Xiao Yan away, but Xiao Yan revealed his Amethyst Flame and Dou Ling strength, prompting Yao Lao to overwhelm Hai Bodong’s ice.
• Yao Lao identified Queen Medusa’s seal on Hai Bodong and learned that breaking it required a pill made with Sand Mandala from deep in the desert.
• Hai Bodong offered a treasured item and his Mite'er Merchant Association connections, and Xiao Yan asked whether he could obtain information from neighboring empires.

Xiao Yan learned about the Mulan Empire and its sealed ruins before crossing the desert toward Shimo City. He reunited with Xiao Li at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, where his brother greeted him by dumping sand into his clothes.

• Hai Bodong showed Xiao Yan a map of the Tagor Desert and described the Mulan Empire, its Three Mulan Elders, and the powerful ruins near Mulan Valley.
• Yao Lao estimated that he could briefly unleash four to five-star Dou Zong strength while possessing Xiao Yan, but warned that his incomplete Soul Body limited his power.
• Xiao Yan decided to search for the Green Lotus Core Flame first and consider visiting Mulan Valley later, then traveled across the desert while recording Magical Beast locations.
• Xiao Yan reached the Desert Iron Mercenary Group's camp and found Xiao Li and Xiao Ding celebrating with the mercenaries.
• Xiao Li failed to recognize Xiao Yan at first, then welcomed him by grabbing his collar and pouring sand into his clothes.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, discovered Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and tried to comfort her before his brothers teased him about her. He then followed Yao Lao into a lava lake to investigate the earth fire and crashed into the magma, where he was rapidly burning through his Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and Xiao Ding questioned him about the Xiao Clan and his relationships with Xun Er, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yan noticed the scales on Qing Lin’s wrist, and Yao Lao recognized her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan wrapped Qing Lin’s wrist, reassured her about her appearance, and encouraged her to live boldly despite the mercenaries’ hostility.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li saw Xiao Yan with Qing Lin, teased him about his intentions, and then joked about his slow progress with Xun Er.
• Yao Lao found a spot where earth fire was abundant, melted a passage through the sand, and sent Xiao Yan down it.
• Xiao Yan shot out of the passage into the lava lake and called for Yao Lao as the heat rapidly consumed his Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao found a mature Azure Lotus Flame deep beneath the Tagor Desert and brought it back to a remote Gobi so Xiao Yan could attempt to refine it. Xiao Yan began the dangerous process with the Blood Lotus Pill, while Yao Lao prepared to save him if it went wrong.

• Yao Lao caught a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake in the lava and killed it after deciding it would suit the Three Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao followed the snake’s trail through increasingly hot magma and discovered a mature Azure Lotus Flame growing on a lotus platform.
• Yao Lao used a jade ruler to cut down and store the flame and lotus platform, and Xiao Yan chose not to explore deeper into the ley lines.
• Yao Lao brought Xiao Yan to an uninhabited Gobi tunnel, where Xiao Yan prepared to refine the Azure Lotus Flame despite the risk of dying.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill, asked Yao Lao to entrust his belongings to Xun Er if he died, and began reaching into the Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan endured the Azure Lotus Flame’s violent eruption and continued refining it while Yao Lao prepared to intervene. Xiao Yan stabilized the flame in his meridians on his own, leaving Yao Lao astonished as the refinement proceeded.

• Xiao Yan seized the flame seed, triggering a massive eruption that melted the mountain and ignited Yao Lao’s soul.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the flame seed and forced its source through his damaged meridians while enduring the burn.
• Xiao Yan used the Bone Chilling Flame, pills, and Ice Spirit Cold Spring to contain the Azure Lotus Flame as his body neared collapse.
• Yao Lao released a terrifying Dou Venerate aura, causing the flames to quiet and the Azure Lotus Flame inside Xiao Yan to retreat.
• Yao Lao rushed to extract the flame seed, but found Xiao Yan had already brought it under control and continued refining it.

Xiao Yan survived refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, reaching seven-star Dou Ling and awakening to the role Spiritual Qi played in Yao Lao’s power. After fusing the Green Lotus Core Flame with the Bone Chilling Flame into a new Heavenly Flame, Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the Snake-People territory and discussed how to deal with Queen Medusa.

• Xiao Yan removed the damaged Crystal Fire Seal, completed the Green Lotus Core Flame refinement, and recovered as a seven-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yan sensed Spiritual Qi in the flame left behind after Yao Lao burned part of his soul to unleash Dou Venerate-level power, and Yao Lao explained that Spiritual Qi had powered the technique.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao observed the Bone Chilling Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame fuse into a new lotus-shaped Heavenly Flame that could rank in the top fifteen.
• Fen Jue advanced to the Di class, and Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to head for the Snake-People territory.
• Xiao Yan argued that Queen Medusa would be constrained by her people living in Jia Ma and suggested using Qing Lin if necessary, prompting Yao Lao to criticize his character.

Medusa considered risking a dangerous evolution to protect the Snake-People Tribe when Xiao Yan appeared in the Sacred City with a Heavenly Flame and offered his help. After demonstrating his overwhelming power, he subdued Medusa, while the tribe’s elders rushed to her aid.

• Medusa decided to summon the Snake-People lords and prepare for her possible failure as she weighed using a Heavenly Flame to evolve into a Dou Zong.
• Hua She'er encountered Xiao Yan outside the great hall, and Medusa confronted him after sensing a powerful intruder she could not detect.
• Xiao Yan offered Medusa a Sect Breaking Pill, Imperial Zenith Pills, and a special Heavenly Flame in exchange for accepting his help.
• Medusa rejected Xiao Yan’s offer as mockery, but she lowered her head after his aura weakened her and the surrounding elders’ strength.
• Medusa attacked Xiao Yan, but he burned away her Snake Spirits and used a purple flame to suppress her aura.
• The First Elder and the other Dou Emperors sensed Medusa’s aura vanish and continued toward the great hall to rescue her.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao subdued Medusa and the Snake-People Tribe’s elders after they attacked him, then Xiao Yan demanded compensation for their actions. The elders proposed giving Medusa to him, but she broke free of the seal and confronted them, leaving Xiao Yan unwilling to intervene unless she chose to go with him.

• Yao Lao suppressed Medusa and the attacking Dou Emperors beneath the throne while Xiao Yan taunted them and demanded compensation.
• The First Elder apologized for the tribe and offered to accept Xiao Yan’s demands, but Xiao Yan challenged her authority to make decisions for Medusa.
• The elders interpreted Xiao Yan’s words as a demand for Medusa and seriously discussed handing her over in exchange for his promised aid.
• The elders decided Xiao Yan should take Medusa directly before she could escape, but Medusa broke her seal and confronted them.
• Xiao Yan refused to restrain Medusa, saying he wanted her to choose to leave with him rather than be forced into it.

Xiao Yan secured Medusa’s agreement to cooperate, then learned that her evolution’s outcome depended on unpredictable bloodline activation. Determined to influence the result, he prepared to extract her Essence Blood and began using Heavenly Flames on her after making her consume medicinal ingredients.

• Medusa accepted the agreement with Xiao Yan but warned him she would make him pay if he deceived her.
• Xiao Yan resisted Medusa’s innate charm with the Bone Chilling Flame, while Yao Lao warned him that powerful allies might eventually become difficult to control.
• Yao Lao explained that Medusa’s evolution depended on chaotic bloodline interactions and that he could not predict or control its outcome.
• Xiao Yan decided to investigate Medusa’s bloodline and asked her for several jin of Essence Blood.
• Medusa refused at first, but Xiao Yan made her swallow medicinal ingredients and began pushing Heavenly Flames into her body.

Xiao Yan extracted Queen Medusa's Essence Blood and arranged for the Snake-People elders to help him find Magical Beasts for Qing Lin. While Yao Lao began analyzing the blood, Xun Er confronted Xiao Yi Xian at the Xiao Clan and warned her to remain Xiao Yan's follower.

• Xiao Yan extracted Queen Medusa's Essence Blood, gave her pills to restore her vitality, and asked the First Elder where the Snake-People Tribe found Magical Beasts.
• The First Elder described hunting grounds in the Tagor Desert, and Xiao Yan said he would return with someone to patrol them.
• Yao Lao examined Medusa's Essence Blood and began eliminating the most common bloodline components to search for the rare one.
• At the Xiao Clan, Xun Er confronted Xiao Yi Xian about her identity and accused her of hiding her intentions in Green Mountain Town.
• Xun Er recognized Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Body and warned her that Xiao Yan only valued her constitution, ordering her to remain a follower and not try to stay when he moved on.

Yao Lao refined a tiny amount of Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python Essence Blood, while the bloodline’s manifestation shook the Serpent-People Tribe and awakened a response in Medusa. Xiao Yan checked on Qing Lin’s Three Flower Pupils, then learned his brothers had coached her to speak boldly to keep his favor and set off to confront them.

• Yao Lao completed a hundred days of refining the Purple Netherworld Flame Serpent’s bloodline into a tiny amount of Essence Blood, and its power manifested the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python above the storm.
• Medusa and the First Elder sensed the ancient bloodline’s might, while snake-type magical beasts across the region cowered before it.
• Xiao Yan examined the Essence Blood and concluded that he still needed to find Blood Origin Grass to aid Medusa’s evolution.
• Qing Lin arrived worried about Xiao Yan, demonstrated her Three Flower Pupils, and insisted that her life and eyes belonged to him.
• Qing Lin revealed that Xiao Li and the eldest regiment commander had advised her on how to stay by Xiao Yan’s side, so Xiao Yan dragged her along as he went to confront his elder brother.

Xiao Yan set out with Qing Lin, then arrived just in time to save the Amethyst Winged Lion King from three Tier 7 Magical Beasts. After the Lion King offered him a haul of stolen treasures, Xiao Yan turned his attention to the three attackers still in the sky.

• Xiao Yan took Qing Lin to leave, while Xiao Li found Xiao Ding drunk in a wine vat and carried him back to the bedroom.
• Three Tier 7 Magical Beasts prepared to break through the Amethyst Winged Lion King's barrier and kill him and his cub.
• Xiao Yan arrived and used Flame Splitting Wave Devouring Ruler to stop the three beasts' attack.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King thanked Xiao Yan and gave him several Storage Ring filled with treasures he had collected.
• Xiao Yan looked up at the three attackers and asked whether they would come down or make him help them.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao defeated three seventh-rank magical beasts, killing the Horned Lizard and pangolin while forcing the Mist Snake to submit. Xiao Yan then set off with the Amethyst Winged Lion King to obtain Blood Origin Grass, and Yao Lao revealed a recipe for a Blood Origin Pill that could help activate a bloodline.

• The charred Horned Lizard, pangolin, and Mist Snake mistook Xiao Yan's weakened appearance for an opportunity to attack, but Yao Lao unleashed the Bone Chilling Flame and trapped the fleeing beasts with spatial power.
• Yao Lao killed the Horned Lizard and pangolin, then spared the Mist Snake after it offered its collected treasures, three drops of Essence Blood, and information about a mysterious swamp.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao to keep the Mist Snake as a temporary fighter for Qing Lin, and Yao Lao ordered the snake to follow him in exchange for a possible chance to advance to Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan asked the Amethyst Winged Lion King to lead him to the remaining Blood Origin Grass, and the Lion King eagerly agreed while competing with the Mist Snake to serve Xiao Yan.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the Blood Origin Pill recipe, explaining that it used Blood Origin Grass to focus medicinal power on a bloodline and that they could refine it with their new Seventh Grade Magic Core.

Xiao Yan and the Amethyst Winged Lion King crossed into a southern wasteland where magical beast clans lived, while a Crimson Fire Fox elder drove off a Wolf King seeking Blood Origin Grass. The Lion King reunited with the foxes as a Dou Zong and demanded the remaining Blood Origin Grass for Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan learned that the wasteland south of the Jia Ma Empire was home to magical beast clans that fought among themselves instead of expanding into human territory.
• The Wolf King demanded Blood Origin Grass from Old Fox, but Old Fox used an illusion to make him believe the fox clan had overwhelmed him and then advised him to temper himself before seeking the treasure.
• Young foxes told Old Fox that the Amethyst Winged Lion King had sent them, prompting Old Fox to recall that the Lion King had once swallowed the clan's immature Blood Origin Grass.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King reunited with Old Fox and revealed that he had advanced to the seventh rank and become a Dou Zong.
• The Lion King told Old Fox that he had come for the remaining Blood Origin Grass to repay Xiao Yan, leaving Old Fox shocked that he intended to take the clan's treasure for his master.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao refined the Blood Origin Pill using a mountain-sized cauldron, reviving the Heaven Swallowing Python’s remnant through the process. When Pill Lightning descended, it targeted Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao realized the attack combined the current tribulation with the one left unfinished during the previous pill refinement.

• The Lion King gave Old Fox Dou Ling Pills, Imperial Zenith Pills, and two Sect Breaking Pills as compensation, and Old Fox agreed to provide the medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan examined more than seventeen hundred ingredients for the Blood Origin Pill as Yao Lao explained the pill’s difficulty and borrowed Xiao Yan’s newly fused Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Lao melted the mountain into a giant cauldron and refined the ingredients until the Heaven Swallowing Python’s remnant took shape and shrank into the Black Demon Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Blood Origin Grass could awaken a Dou Di Bloodline, and Yao Lao said no one had tested it before.
• Pill Lightning struck at Xiao Yan instead of the pill, but his Crystal Fire Seal changed his aura and caused the next lightning attack to collapse.
• Yao Lao deduced that the lightning combined two Pill Tribulations because the previous one had never struck before the Lion King’s Amethyst Seal dispersed it.

Xiao Yan survived the doubled Pill Lightning by having Yao Lao destroy the pill and draw the bombardment away, then recovered the escaped snake and headed to a poisonous swamp in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Yao Lao identified the swamp’s poisonous mist and a sinister living presence below, leaving Xiao Yan to decide whether to enter.

• Xiao Yan’s attempt to evade the Pill Lightning failed, so he fled while Yao Lao refined another pill to lure the lightning away and destroy it.
• After the thunderclouds dissipated, Xiao Yan learned that the Amethyst Winged Lion King had lost track of the disguised snake, and Yao Lao went to find him.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King reported that he had defeated the Crimson Fire Fox Clan’s enemy and brought back a piece of flesh with seals planted inside it.
• Yao Lao found the snake, bound him with Heavenly Flames, and stuffed him into the Black Demon Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan chose to visit a strange swamp in the Magical Beast Mountain Range before going to the Great Desert.
• Yao Lao identified the swamp’s mist as corpse poison that caused hallucinations and sensed a sinister, poisonous living creature in its depths.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao pursued a life-draining creature through a corpse-filled swamp and discovered that its deeper poison gas surrounded the remains of a powerful poison master. They found a mysterious map inside the skeleton’s Storage Ring, leaving its significance unknown.

• Xiao Yan touched the swamp sludge and realized it actively drained the qi and blood of living beings.
• Xiao Yan chased the creature through the swamp, and Yao Lao identified and captured it as a fifth-rank spirit creature he called Worm Devour.
• Yao Lao explained Worm Devour’s life-draining abilities, and Xiao Yan tested it, gaining a temporary black carapace that copied his aura.
• Xiao Yan followed Worm Devour’s trail deeper into the swamp and found a powerful poison master’s green skeleton surrounded by dense poison Dou Qi.
• Yao Lao discovered poison scriptures and a patterned diagram inside the skeleton’s Storage Ring, and Xiao Yan recognized it as a map.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discovered a map that might point to a Heavenly Flame, while Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan and gave Xiao Yi Xian poison gas. He then restored Hai Bodong’s strength with the Po E Dan and received a fragment map linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao examined a map left by a poison master and speculated that it might lead to the Netherworld Poison Fire, but decided not to pursue it yet.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan, where Xun Er eagerly joined him for an outing after he arrived.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Yi Xian poison gas from a powerful Dou Zong skeleton, and Xun Er’s jealousy made Xiao Yi Xian fear for her safety.
• Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong the completed Po E Dan, which removed his seal and restored his strength to two-star Dou Huang.
• Hai Bodong gave Xiao Yan a joined fragment map that Xiao Yan recognized as information about the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Xiao Yan rewarded Hai Bodong with pills and brought Qing Lin to subdue a giant snake, whose apparent helplessness concealed a planned escape. The snake broke free and trapped itself in Xiao Yan’s illusion, leaving Qing Lin to imprint it.

• Hai Bodong accepted the pills Xiao Yan left him and resolved to repay him in the future.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the bound giant snake had fallen into a skin-shedding state, and Yao Lao suggested using Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan gave the burly man pills for protecting his eldest brother and urged him to share more pills with the mercenaries as a reward.
• Xiao Yan took Qing Lin outside the city and encouraged her to imprint the giant snake with her eyes.
• The giant snake shed its old skin, escaped its Heavenly Flames ropes, and tried to seize Qing Lin, but Xiao Yan’s illusion made it mistake her for an empty space.
• Qing Lin tried to imprint the giant snake again as it sensed its soul slipping out of control.

Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils destroyed the Tier 7 serpent that tried to possess her, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao devised a dangerous evolution trial for Medusa using the Blood Origin Pill and Pill Lightning. Medusa accepted after learning of the threat to the Northwest Continent, and the chapter ended with her Purple Netherworld Flame Serpent emerging from the first lightning strike, badly injured but alive.

• The serpent tried to possess Qing Lin, but her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils crushed its soul and absorbed its spiritual energy.
• Yao Lao determined that the absorbed energy would raise Qing Lin to Dou Ling and discussed how Medusa’s evolution might be forced through a Pill Lightning trial.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Medusa to consider the Blood Origin Pill by warning her that a Dou Sheng-led force would target the Northwest Continent and the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa initially refused to risk her tribe, then accepted the evolution after Xiao Yan revealed his identity and explained the threat.
• Yao Lao used the Blood Refining Secret Method to bind the Blood Origin Pill to Medusa’s heart, and Pill Lightning began gathering over her.
• A lightning bolt struck Medusa and split the barren mountain, but her Purple Netherworld Flame Serpent emerged from the storm with severe burns and wounds.