Chapter Summaries

Medusa endured the Tribulation Lightning and awakened the Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline, emerging as a three-star Dou Zong. Afterward, Xiao Yan asked the First Elder to take him to the magical beast gathering place, where he hoped to find snake-type beasts for Qing Lin.

• Medusa ran out of Dou Qi and tried to refine the Tribulation Lightning, but its strikes left her near death.
• The First Elder gave up the Sect Breaking Pill and begged Xiao Yan to save Medusa, while Medusa chose to face the lightning again.
• Medusa poured her remaining life force into resisting the lightning, awakened an ancient bloodline, and began her rebirth as the Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Medusa swallowed the thunderclouds and reached three-star Dou Zong as strange, restorative rain fell across the area.
• Xiao Yan checked on Medusa, released the First Elder from Space Imprisonment, and asked him to take him to the magical beast gathering place for Qing Lin.

Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin to Ten Thousand Snake Valley to find a snake companion soul and strengthen her Three Flower Pupils. Qing Lin effortlessly subdued a Snake Spirit, and she later revealed that her eyes had recorded their winding route through the valley, suggesting the First Elder was hiding something.

• The First Elder explained that Ten Thousand Snake Valley held dangerous Magical Beasts across many underground layers and advised Qing Lin to seek a low-tier companion soul.
• Xiao Yan and the First Elder discussed whether Qing Lin’s mixed bloodline could withstand the Snake-People Tribe’s secret art, and Yao Lao judged that her Three Flower Pupils might benefit from it.
• Qing Lin rejected several weak Magical Beasts before agreeing to test compatibility with a Tier 3 snake.
• The First Elder summoned a Snake Spirit, but Qing Lin’s Three Flower Pupils had already subdued it, allowing her to brand it without resistance.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan she had used her eyes to make the Snake Spirit recognize her as its master and showed him a blue projection revealing that the First Elder had led them along a deliberately winding route.

Xiao Yan discovered that Ten Thousand Snake Valley was controlled by a massive spatial mechanism and used Yao Lao’s power to break into a hidden chamber. There, they found a dismantled skeleton and a sealed Tier 7 Magical Beast whose pressure filled the chamber.

• Qing Lin and the First Elder explained that Ten Thousand Snake Valley’s paths shifted around hidden mechanism nodes, and Yao Lao identified the valley as one enormous mechanism.
• Xiao Yan examined a shifting polyhedron, and Yao Lao used spatial power to stop it and reveal that its core manipulated overlapping spaces.
• Xiao Yan entered a node and, with Yao Lao’s help, tore through layers of space to find a hidden chamber filled with treasures and two corpses.
• Yao Lao removed a strange magical core from a withered skeleton, while Xiao Yan realized the skeleton had been dismantled and reassembled.
• Xiao Yan broke through an energy curtain, releasing the pressure of another Tier 7 Magical Beast sealed behind it.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao awakened a seventh-rank Medusa Companion Snake Spirit and prepared it for Qing Lin to use. As Qing Lin performed the secret art, the spirit stirred her Snake-People bloodline, leaving the First Elder horrified that she was consuming one of the tribe’s ancestors.

• Yao Lao detected a surviving soul in the seventh-rank Medusa skeleton and identified it as a Companion Snake Spirit.
• Yao Lao used some of his soul origin to revive the spirit’s intelligence, and he and Xiao Yan refined the skeleton and collected its essence blood and treasure.
• Qing Lin revealed that she had subdued a sixth-rank beast with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, while the First Elder recovered from its attack.
• Xiao Yan gave Qing Lin the seventh-rank Snake Spirit and instructed her to perform the secret art.
• Qing Lin’s bloodline reacted as she tempered the Snake Spirit, and the First Elder realized it appeared to be an ancestor of the Snake-People Tribe.

Qing Lin completed her fusion with the Snake Spirit after her bloodline transformation gave her greater power and serpent-like features. Medusa entered the Heaven Swallowing Python inheritance to face a dangerous trial, while Xiao Yan arrived outside her closed door.

• Qing Lin worried about her new scales and fangs, and Xiao Yan and the First Elder reassured her about her appearance.
• Xiao Yan found that Qing Lin's bloodline transformation had greatly increased her strength and advised her to finish subduing the Spirit Body.
• Qing Lin refined the Snake Spirit, whose soul gained abilities like her Three Flower Pupils, and Xiao Yan gave her Essence Blood and bone essence to aid her cultivation.
• Medusa refined the Tribulation Lightning and entered the Heaven Swallowing Python inheritance, where she resolved to claim its techniques and strengthen herself to protect the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa touched the inheritance serpent's scales, causing it to take human form and lock onto her with a dangerous aura.
• Xiao Yan found that Medusa's door would not open and sensed soul fluctuations inside.

While Medusa underwent her bloodline inheritance, Xiao Yan discussed his stalled cultivation with Yao Lao and tested a dangerous soul technique Yao Lao had devised. The technique successfully let Xiao Yan absorb Spiritual Qi to repair and strengthen his soul, and they ended by considering how to develop it into a new system of soul cultivation.

• Yao Lao explained that Medusa was receiving her bloodline inheritance and protected the room so she would not be disturbed.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that his Dou Qi was stuck just short of nine stars, and Yao Lao concluded that Xiao Yan needed more tempering.
• Yao Lao presented his unfinished Star Dust Incantation, and Xiao Yan tried it despite its dangerous method of splitting his Soul Body.
• Xiao Yan used the technique to draw in Spiritual Qi, which stitched his wounded soul together and demonstrated a way to strengthen souls below the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan suggested Yao Lao could rebuild the soul cultivation system and create a new era, and Yao Lao asked whether they should develop it together.

Xiao Yan endured Yao Lao’s punishing battle training, testing Eight Extremities Collapse, his Purple Cloud Wings, and a long-range Fire Lotus before Yao Lao stopped him. The training ended when Yao Lao learned that a Dou Zong Hall of Souls Protector had secretly contacted Yun Shan at the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Yao Lao repeatedly overpowered Xiao Yan, exposing the gap between his stated Dou Wang strength and his use of the power of heaven and earth.
• Xiao Yan used his wings, fire lotuses, and a long-range Crimson Sun Fire Spirit attack, but Yao Lao evaded the blast and caught him from behind.
• Xiao Yan challenged Yao Lao for exceeding the agreed limits, and Yao Lao explained that the training prepared him to face hidden enemies and protectors.
• Yao Lao sensed a message from Yun Shan reporting a black-robed, black-fog-shrouded stranger who had infiltrated the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yao Lao and Xiao Yan identified the stranger as a Dou Zong Hall of Souls Protector and worried that the organization had infiltrated the surrounding countries.

Wu Protector arrived in the Jia Ma Empire seeking to recruit Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian for the Hall of Souls, but Yun Shan stalled him and an unseen force detected his approach to the Imperial Palace. The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast warned Jia Xingtian that the intruder was a powerful four-star Dou Zong.

• Wu Protector assessed the Jia Ma Empire’s weak forces and changed his plans after discovering a fifth-rank cub among signs of a battle between powerful magical beasts.
• Wu Protector approached the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life and Death Gate and offered Yun Shan pills and a chance to reach the Dou Venerate realm in exchange for working for him.
• Yun Shan politely delayed his decision for seven days, and Wu Protector left to seek out Jia Xingtian instead.
• As Wu Protector neared the Imperial Palace, a dangerous aura briefly locked onto him, and a barrier blocked his senses from penetrating the grounds.
• The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast told Jia Xingtian that an intruder had entered the Imperial Palace and was likely a four-star Dou Zong.

Jia Xingtian stalled Wu Protector by pretending to accept his offer, then sent the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast to assess the strength of the Misty Cloud Sect and Tagor. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao decided not to pursue Wu Protector yet and discussed what they knew about Hall of Souls Protectors.

• Jia Xingtian and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast prepared for the arrival of a Four Star Dou Zong, with Jia Xingtian hiding his strength.
• Wu Protector entered the garden and offered Jia Xingtian a Sect Breaking Pill in exchange for his service.
• Jia Xingtian feigned gratitude and promised rare treasures, buying three months while Wu Protector left believing the deal had succeeded.
• Jia Xingtian gave the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast the pill's aura as a reference and ordered him to investigate the Misty Cloud Sect and Tagor, treating suspicious breakthroughs as enemies.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao chose not to hurry to the Misty Cloud Sect, then discussed Hall of Souls Protectors and the intelligence gathered about them.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed ways to gather intelligence on the Hall of Souls before Yao Lao tested his new soul cultivation method on Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan quickly advanced through its early stages and discovered that the Nameless Incantation helped reveal Spiritual Qi.

• Yao Lao explained that Hall of Souls Protectors were expendable agents who competed and even killed one another, and Xiao Yan suggested infiltrating their ranks to learn the organization’s plans.
• Yao Lao said infiltration required a volunteer to accept a soul imprint, so Xiao Yan set the idea aside and was warned to kill Protectors outside Central State but flee from them within it.
• Yao Lao said he might find another way to obtain intelligence near the Misty Cloud Sect, then handed Xiao Yan a scroll detailing his new soul cultivation method.
• Xiao Yan followed the method and quickly cultivated its early stages, gaining clearer control over his Soul Power and shaping Dou Qi into armor.
• Xiao Yan questioned the instruction to draw out Spiritual Qi, then recited the Nameless Incantation and saw the light specks within his body.

Xiao Yan completed a major transformation in his Soul Power, learned to control Heaven and Earth Energy, and chose to postpone breaking through to Dou Wang so he could train with his new abilities. Meanwhile, the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast recruited Yun Shan to help eliminate a Four Star Dou Zong, and Yun Shan eagerly pledged his support after hearing the target had offended a powerful benefactor.

• Xiao Yan used Yao Lao's cultivation method to advance his Soul Power to the Fifth Layer and learned to control Heaven and Earth Energy with precision.
• Xiao Yan decided to adapt his Soul Power for battle and wait until his qi and blood cultivation advanced further before taking the pill to break through to Dou Wang.
• Yao Lao began training Xiao Yan by attacking him with a Fire Ruler and Dou Techniques, sending him flying despite Xiao Yan's protests.
• The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast showed Yun Shan Jia Xingtian's seal and asked him to help deal with a Four Star Dou Zong.
• The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast claimed the target had offended a powerful alchemist benefactor, prompting Yun Shan to swear he would help without accepting a reward.

Qing Lin feared that Xiao Yan would abandon her after meeting Queen Medusa, while the Amethyst Winged Lion King urged her to focus on cultivation. Nearby, the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast searched for Medusa and witnessed Xiao Yan test a powerful fire lotus; Yao Lao then found a possible way to improve it by reconsidering how its flames were arranged.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King told Qing Lin that Xiao Yan had once left a young woman who ate poison to live on her own, deepening Qing Lin’s fear that he might abandon her.
• The Lion King advised Qing Lin to stop focusing on mending clothes and cultivate harder, and she agreed to train after finishing the robe.
• Qing Lin sensed the concealed Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast overhead, but he hid from her and decided to avoid provoking her while searching for Medusa.
• The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast saw Xiao Yan’s fire lotus explode and judged its power to be stronger than an ordinary Dou Zong’s attack.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed the fire lotus’s scattered energy, and Yao Lao proposed reconsidering how its different flames were arranged.

Xiao Yan learned that improving the Fire Lotus required studying how more than a hundred flames interacted, and Yao Lao supplied pills to keep him working. Medusa struggled to cultivate the inherited Heaven Rank technique because her bloodline rejected it, then emerged to confront a powerful stranger hovering over the Snake-People Holy City.

• Xiao Yan realized the Fire Lotus’s power could be increased by matching flame compatibility and intensifying conflicts, while Yao Lao gave him pills to sustain the research.
• Medusa studied the inherited Heaven Rank technique but found that its instructions on Spiritual Qi and its cultivation requirements did not fit her understanding.
• A three-star Dou Zong’s pressure shook the Snake-People Holy City, and the First Elder found Xiao Yan’s fiery barrier preventing him from reaching Medusa in her chamber.
• Medusa concluded her bloodline rejected the Heaven Rank technique and decided to try an Earth Rank method instead.
• Medusa sensed a powerful bloodline in the sky, dismissed the barrier, and flew up to confront the stranger while the First Elder worried about the tribe’s safety.

Jia Xingtian lured Wu Protector into an ambush, where Xiao Yan, Medusa, Yun Shan, and their allies exposed and neutralized the Hall of Souls secret technique. Medusa battered Wu Protector until he surrendered and offered information, leaving his fate in their hands.

• Wu Protector arrived at the Imperial Palace expecting Jia Xingtian to hand over a grand gift, but Jia revealed a Fire Lotus and an ambush led by Xiao Yan.
• Wu Protector tried to activate the secret technique on Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan, but Xiao Yan revealed that Yun Shan’s pill had been purified and the technique could not seize their souls.
• Wu Protector rushed Jia Xingtian, but barriers blocked him, and two more Dou Zong-level beasts appeared overhead.
• Wu Protector swallowed the souls in his Soul Storage Bag and challenged the group, but Medusa trapped and repeatedly beat him while Xiao Yan restrained him.
• Wu Protector finally surrendered to Medusa and offered to share information and help find whatever they wanted.

Xiao Yan forced Wu Protector to reveal what he knew about the Hall of Souls and learned that Human-rank Protectors were being recalled to supply soul origin. He decided to use Wu Protector’s soul to help Yao Lao recover, while Yao Lao agreed to teach him a forbidden soul-refining method.

• Xiao Yan threatened Wu Protector with a Heavenly Flame and demanded intelligence about the Hall of Souls’ Northwest Continent Branch Hall and its agents.
• Wu Protector described the Hall of Souls’ recalled Human-rank Protectors and guessed that the organization needed their soul origins.
• Xiao Yan realized that the Hall of Souls might be gathering souls to support Nihility Devouring Flame’s breakthrough and feared an attack on the Ling, Shi, and Yao Clans.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that releasing Wu Protector could expose them to the Hall of Souls, and Xiao Yan clarified that he wanted to refine Wu Protector’s soul.
• Xiao Yan bound Wu Protector and proposed using his soul origin to restore Yao Lao, who reluctantly agreed to teach him the forbidden Soul Pill method.

Xiao Yan prepared to travel to Chu Yun to investigate a poison master’s map, while Yao Lao absorbed the soul pill and the others discussed Qing Lin’s attachment to Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan left the Imperial Capital with the Lion King, who was about to return to his territory and reconsider accepting medicinal pills for his cub.

• Yao Lao refined Wu Protector’s soul into a pill, absorbed it, and warned Xiao Yan to beware of poison masters in Chu Yun.
• Xiao Yan asked Medusa about her poison and decided to send Qing Lin back to the desert, telling Medusa to keep her there by calling her a burden.
• Medusa challenged Xiao Yan’s assumptions about Qing Lin’s feelings, and Qing Lin resolved to become stronger after Medusa told her strength would let her take what she wanted.
• Xiao Yan departed the Imperial Capital on the Lion King and told him to settle his cub before their long absence.
• The Lion King declined Xiao Yan’s offer of medicinal pills for his cub, then changed his mind as they reached his territory and asked Xiao Yan to wait.

Xiao Yan took Xiao Yi Xian from Wutan City toward the Chuyun Empire, helping her prepare to break through while experimenting with his flying technique. Meanwhile, Medusa pressured Jia Xingtian into granting the Snake-People Tribe a new settlement near the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yan found Xiao Yi Xian making medicinal powders and urged her to cultivate, then persuaded her to leave with him by offering unfamiliar snake venom.
• Xiao Yi Xian spoke with Xun Er before joining Xiao Yan, and they flew away together as Xun Er watched them depart.
• Xiao Yan altered the flow of Dou Qi through his Purple Cloud Wings, greatly increasing his speed and discovering that the technique could let him hover without moving the wings.
• Medusa confronted Jia Xingtian over the Snake-People Tribe's promised settlement and overwhelmed him with her pressure and bloodline power.
• Jia Xingtian agreed to place the settlement south of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and restrict mercenaries from entering, despite concerns about provoking powerful magical beasts.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and the Lion King entered the poison-filled Chuyun Empire after preparing antidotes and equipment for the journey. Their conspicuous flight drew the attention of border forces, and a Dou Wang confronted them.

• Xiao Yan introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Medusa as a reliable teammate, then distributed Heavenly Flame Antidote Pills and gave the Lion King a crystal infused with Poison Vine Fire.
• Xiao Yan handed Xiao Yi Xian a Dou Zong's femur to use as a weapon, and she reluctantly accepted it after testing its strength and poison energy.
• Xiao Yan's group crossed into the Chuyun Empire's poisonous mist on the Lion King, and Xiao Yi Xian was tempted by the toxins before Xiao Yan warned her not to absorb them.
• Medusa noticed that the Lion King's passage had made a visible trail through the mist and realized that the border forces would detect them.
• A Dou Wang flew up to challenge the group for crossing the border without inspection, then recognized Medusa as strangely familiar.

Xiao Yan, Medusa, and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Chuyun Empire after persuading a Dou Wang border guard that they were poison masters seeking to study Chuyun’s cultivation methods. The guard escorted them to the decayed Holy Capital and explained the empire’s fractured power, leaving Xiao Yan with a clearer picture of Chuyun’s strength and its envy of Jia Ma.

• Medusa recognized that the Chuyun border guard might have seen her before, and the guard cautiously questioned Xiao Yan’s party about their identities.
• Xiao Yan claimed that he and his companions were poison masters researching Chuyun’s techniques, while Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa demonstrated their poison abilities.
• The guard rejoiced at discovering fellow poison masters and offered to take them to the Holy Capital, while Medusa described Chuyun’s divided factions and the toll poison cultivation took on its practitioners.
• Xiao Yan teased Xiao Yi Xian about the risks of her Woeful Poison Body, and Medusa reflected that she preferred his childish side to a ruthless leader who would treat her as expendable.
• The guard showed Xiao Yan’s party the empty Holy Capital and explained that Heavenly Poison City had become the real center of power under the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect.
• The guard described Chuyun’s many powerful factions and praised Jia Ma’s more unified rule, explaining that Chuyun had long coveted Jia Ma’s land but remained too divided to conquer it.

Xiao Yan’s group met Nether Old Ghost, a Dou Zong who studied poison puppets, and agreed to help him strengthen his creation in exchange for his secret art and treasures. Xiao Yi Xian unleashed her Woeful Poison Body’s Essence Blood into the Poison Pool, triggering the puppet’s transformation and leaving Nether Old Ghost suffering from the poison’s backlash.

• Medusa recognized the city’s motionless residents as poison puppets and suspected that Nether Old Ghost, a former poison-puppet specialist, had advanced to Dou Zong.
• Nether Old Ghost welcomed Xiao Yan’s group at the palace, demonstrated his poison puppets, and offered his secret art and treasures in exchange for help finding stronger poisons.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help Nether Old Ghost and brought Xiao Yi Xian to the Poison Pool to supply her rare poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian activated her Woeful Poison Body and dripped her Essence Blood into the pool, causing the poison to overwhelm the existing toxins and drive the puppet’s transformation.
• The puppet began developing a living form while the poison also restored Nether Old Ghost’s body, but he collapsed as the backlash sent his Dou Qi into turmoil.