Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yao arrived in Stone Desert City and rescued the Desert Iron Mercenary Group from the Sand Mercenary Group’s attack. After Xiao Ding welcomed him as an honored clan guest, Xiao Yao noticed Qing Lin and met her gaze.

• The Sand Mercenary Group attacked the Desert Iron Mercenary Group while Xiao Li was breaking through, and Xiao Ding defended the women and children.
• A bald mercenary attacked Qing Lin, but Xiao Yao appeared and turned him to dust with a streak of golden light.
• Xiao Yao revealed his Dou Zong pressure, forcing Rob and the Sand Mercenary Group to kneel, then killed the attackers threatening the civilians.
• Xiao Yao introduced himself, and Xiao Ding recognized him as a cousin from their clan and invited him inside.
• Qing Lin watched Xiao Yao with gratitude and admiration, and he smiled at her after seeing her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

Xiao Yao rebuked Xiao Li for disrespecting him after Xiao Li emerged from seclusion and accused him of threatening Xiao Yan’s place in the Xiao Family. After Xiao Yao slapped Xiao Li twice and retired to a guest room, Qing Lin arrived to help him bathe.

• Xiao Ding thanked Xiao Yao for saving the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and explained how the family’s pills had helped him and Xiao Li advance.
• Xiao Li burst into the hall after breaking through to the Da Dou Shi realm and spoke disrespectfully to Xiao Yao over the possibility that he might become clan leader.
• Xiao Yao pressured Xiao Li to the floor, reminded him that his advances and the family’s revival came from Xiao Yao’s help, and condemned his narrow-mindedness.
• Xiao Yao slapped Xiao Li twice, and Xiao Ding pleaded for mercy before leading Xiao Yao to a luxurious guest room.
• Qing Lin entered Xiao Yao’s room with hot water and offered to help him bathe.

Xiao Yao discovered that Qing Lin carried an ancient snake bloodline and reassured her when her scales appeared. He inspired her to develop her abilities, leaving Qing Lin determined to grow stronger and Xiao Yao wondering whether she could control Medusa.

• Qing Lin insisted on serving Xiao Yao, and he noticed the unusual strength of her soul as he washed.
• Grandpa Lu identified Qing Lin's human-snake bloodline and its faint sign of Ancestral Return, explaining the origin of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Qing Lin's emotions brought jade-green scales to her wrist, and she hid in fear that Xiao Yao would despise her.
• Xiao Yao called her scales beautiful and told Qing Lin that her unusual nature could earn respect elsewhere, especially from the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Xiao Yao promised to teach Qing Lin to control her power, and she left resolved to work hard while he wondered if she could control Medusa.

Xiao Yao celebrated the Sand Mercenary Group’s destruction with the Desert Iron mercenaries and declared Qing Lin his maid because of her exceptional talent. As he flew east with Qing Lin, they sensed Yue Mei searching for the Green Lotus Core Flame to help Queen Medusa break through to Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yao told Qing Lin that she needed to become strong herself to earn genuine respect.
• Xiao Ding held a grand banquet, and Xiao Li apologized to Xiao Yao for insulting him.
• Xiao Yao announced that Qing Lin would become his maid, and she promised to work hard for him.
• Xiao Yao took Qing Lin east across the desert, where she sensed a powerful aura from one of her kind.
• Xiao Yao identified the snake woman searching near the Green Lotus Core Flame as Yue Mei, who sought the flame to help Queen Medusa reach Dou Zong.

Xiao Yao brought Qing Lin to the underground magma world, where her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils awakened and let her command the Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake. He found the Green Lotus Core Flame and began to collect it, but the Golden Samadhi True Fire Seed reacted violently.

• Xiao Yao immobilized Yue Mei, found the underground entrance, and cut through the sand and rock to reach the magma world with Qing Lin.
• The Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake attacked Xiao Yao and Qing Lin, but Xiao Yao encouraged Qing Lin to face it.
• Qing Lin awakened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and established a spiritual connection that let her command the Fire Spirit Snake.
• Xiao Yao approached the Green Lotus Core Flame and began collecting it with his immortal energy.
• The Golden Samadhi True Fire Seed trembled in Xiao Yao's sea of consciousness and filled him with irrepressible joy.

Xiao Yao subdued and refined the Green Lotus Core Flame, awakening the spirit of the Samadhi True Fire and earning merit from the system. As he began breaking through to Refining Qi into Spirit, the Calamity of Yin Fire descended upon him.

• The Samadhi True Fire seed suppressed the Green Lotus Core Flame, which surrendered to Xiao Yao, and he collected the Earth Fire Lotus Seeds.
• Xiao Yao refined the Green Lotus Core Flame with the Samadhi True Fire’s help, and its flame spirit awakened and addressed him as a little guy.
• Xiao Yao gained 3,600 merit points for collecting his first Heavenly Flame and helping repair the world’s natural laws.
• Xiao Yao used the accumulated energy and merit to break through the barrier at the peak of Refining Essence into Qi and began advancing to Refining Qi into Spirit.
• A dark storm formed above the Tagor Desert, and the Calamity of Yin Fire ignited beneath Xiao Yao’s Yongquan acupoint.

Xiao Yao endured the Calamity of Yin Fire and realized that its destruction could refine his acquired cultivation into innate spirit. He emerged from a golden lotus having broken through to the Refining Qi into Spirit realm.

• Yin Fire entered Xiao Yao through his Yongquan acupoint, burning his body, spirit, and lifespan.
• Xiao Yao used Ming Xin Jian Xing Jue, Merit Power, Samadhi True Fire, and the Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to withstand and transform the calamity.
• Xiao Yao comprehended the meaning of Planting Golden Lotus in Fire and stopped resisting the twin flames.
• A golden lotus bloomed from the yin-yang fire, and Xiao Yao successfully advanced to the Early Refining Qi into Spirit realm.

After surviving the Yin Fire calamity and refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, Xiao Yao unlocked the Fiery Golden Eyes and demonstrated his new power. He left the underground magma world with Qing Lin and Yue Mei, then decided to visit Queen Medusa’s temple to gather medicinal ingredients.

• Xiao Yao completed his breakthrough, reclaimed the Green Lotus Platform, and gained full control over the Green Lotus Core Flame and Samadhi True Fire.
• The Daoist Immortal System unlocked the Fiery Golden Eyes, and Xiao Yao exchanged Merit Points to learn the Divine Ability.
• Xiao Yao sensed a six-star Dou Emperor approaching Yue Mei and burned away one of the man’s arms with a casual attack.
• Xiao Yao left the magma world with Qing Lin and Yue Mei, then told Yue Mei to inform Queen Medusa that he had taken the Green Lotus Core Flame and possessed a treasure that could help the Snake People evolve.
• Xiao Yao identified Queen Medusa’s temple as the best place to find medicinal ingredients and set out to visit her.

Xiao Yao took Yue Mei and Qing Lin straight to the Snake People Sacred Temple, where he found Queen Medusa bathing in the Ice Spirit Cold Spring. Medusa attacked them on sight, but Xiao Yao effortlessly destroyed her strikes, leaving her to face an opponent whose strength she could not gauge.

• Xiao Yao ignored Yue Mei’s attempt to lead him astray and flew directly to the Snake People Sacred Temple with her and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yao sensed four Peak Dou Emperor auras beneath the central altar and entered the temple, where he found the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and Queen Medusa bathing.
• Queen Medusa sensed Yue Mei’s arrival, saw Xiao Yao and Qing Lin, and attacked them with her Shadowing Snake Hand.
• Xiao Yao casually shattered Medusa’s energy serpents, and she raised her seven-colored snake whip and vowed to kill him.

Xiao Yao overwhelmed Queen Medusa and the Snake People Tribe, then offered to trade for rare medicinal ingredients and promised to guarantee her evolution into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. Queen Medusa and the elders were left stunned and eager to know whether his promise was true.

• Queen Medusa attacked Xiao Yao, but he caught her whip and snake tail, then subdued her with his Dou Zun-level pressure.
• Xiao Yao drove back Mo Bass and the other Snake People experts, while four elders appeared and pleaded for him to spare Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yao negotiated for the Thousand Year Blood Ganoderma, the Mandala Flower, and the Heaven Soul Blood Crystal, and revealed his Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yao explained that Queen Medusa could evolve with a Heavenly Flame and promised to ensure her transformation into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Queen Medusa asked whether Xiao Yao's promise was true.

Xiao Yao claimed he could help Queen Medusa evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and proved his power to the Snake People Tribe. He summoned the ancient Eight Trigrams Furnace and prepared to begin refining the divine pill.

• The four supreme elders cleared the temple and eagerly asked whether Xiao Yao could fulfill his promise to help Queen Medusa evolve.
• Queen Medusa accused Xiao Yao of lying, but Xiao Yao revealed that he was a high-level Seventh Grade alchemist with Mid-Heavenly Realm soul power.
• Xiao Yao summoned Samadhi True Fire, whose presence frightened the Snake People and prompted its proud fire spirit to take human form and challenge Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yao told Queen Medusa that his master's lineage possessed a divine pill that could advance her to the Seven-Colored realm, with Nine-Colored evolution within reach.
• Xiao Yao called for Grandpa Lu and summoned the ancient Eight Trigrams Furnace before the assembled Snake People experts.

Xiao Yao refined the Tong Zhen Qi Ling Pill in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, astonishing the Snake People Tribe with his speed and power. After crushing the Pill Lightning barehanded, he completed three peak Seventh Grade pills and gave one each to Queen Medusa and Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yao used the Samadhi True Fire to rapidly refine the Snake People Tribe's rare medicinal ingredients in the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• After half an hour, the Tong Zhen Qi Ling Pill drew down Pill Lightning, shocking the Snake People Tribe and Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Yao flew up and crushed the destructive lightning bolt with his bare hand.
• Xiao Yao completed three peak Seventh Grade Tong Zhen Qi Ling Pills and gave one to Queen Medusa and one to Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yao told Qing Lin that it was the best moment to awaken her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

Xiao Yao used a pill and his divine technique to awaken Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and raise her cultivation. He offered Queen Medusa the chance to evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and she agreed to his help.

• Xiao Yao gave Qing Lin a Tong Zhen Qi Ling Pill despite the Snake People Tribe elders’ warnings.
• Xiao Yao used his Eight-Nine Arcane Arts to guide the pill’s power into Qing Lin’s pupils, awakening her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Qing Lin’s cultivation rose from Dou Zhe to three-star Da Dou Shi, while Xiao Yao’s gaze deterred the elders from acting against her.
• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Yao for the remaining pills, and he gave them to her.
• Xiao Yao promised that the Samadhi Fire Spirit could help Medusa evolve into a Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and reach the Battle Saint realm.
• Medusa agreed to Xiao Yao’s help and promised that she and the Snake People Tribe would repay the favor.

Xiao Yao guided Queen Medusa through a dangerous evolution using the Samadhi True Fire, helping her awaken the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Giant Python bloodline. After three days, she completed her transformation and returned to human form, leaving the Snake People Tribe and nearby serpent-blooded beasts in awe.

• Queen Medusa swallowed the pills, and Xiao Yao and the Samadhi Fire Spirit began tempering her with divine fire as she transformed into an energy serpent.
• Xiao Yao used his Heaven Realm soul power and Fiery Golden Eyes to guide the seven-hour evolution while Queen Medusa endured the pain.
• Queen Medusa awakened the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline, and the Snake People elders outside the temple celebrated.
• A day later, Queen Medusa's bloodline gained an eighth, silver color representing the power of space.
• At dawn on the third day, Queen Medusa reached the nine-colored form, whose bloodline pressure forced serpent-blooded beasts across the region to bow.
• Queen Medusa returned to human form before Xiao Yao and the worshipping Snake People.

Queen Medusa completed her evolution into the Nine-Colored Divine Body, and Xiao Yao overwhelmed her attack while teasing her about her transformation. She left the temple to greet her people, while Xiao Yao turned to Grandpa Lu for an explanation of his shaken Dao heart.

• Queen Medusa emerged after her evolution, displaying her Nine-Colored Divine Body before the stunned Snake People Tribe.
• Xiao Yao caught Medusa's powerful kick and restrained her, then teased and touched her as she tried to break free.
• Medusa tried to bite Xiao Yao after he claimed he had inspected and tempered her body during her evolution.
• The four Supreme Elders praised Medusa's new bloodline and thanked Xiao Yao, prompting her to leave the temple in a Nine-Colored Gauze Robe.
• Xiao Yao soothed Qing Lin and asked Grandpa Lu why seeing Medusa had shaken his Dao heart and made him feel more lecherous.

After refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, Xiao Yao learned its violent nature had stirred his impulses, then discovered Queen Medusa’s new body had outgrown her soul. He proposed a way to help her adapt, but it would require her to remain beside him as a Nine-Colored Snake.

• Grandpa Lu explained that refining the Green Lotus Core Flame had intensified Xiao Yao’s youthful impulses, and Xiao Yao realized why Xiao Yan had avoided similar effects.
• The Snake People Tribe’s elders thanked Xiao Yao, but one rushed in to report that Queen Medusa had suddenly fallen asleep.
• Xiao Yao examined Queen Medusa and determined that her soul could not keep pace with her Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python body.
• Xiao Yao proposed using the Can Tong Qi to guide a newborn wisp of Medusa’s soul until it could control her body.
• Queen Medusa agreed to the method, then blushed when Xiao Yao explained she would need to live beside him as a Nine-Colored Snake during the process.

Xiao Yao persuaded Queen Medusa to let him help her master her new Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python power, while the Snake People elders urged her to accept his protection. After testing Xiao Yao's strength and losing, Medusa entrusted him with her origin soul, and he merged it with her transformed snake body, naming her Cai Lin.

• Queen Medusa rejected Xiao Yao's demand that she follow him as a pet, but he warned that her new bloodline could overwhelm her soul and kill her.
• The four Snake People Supreme Elders begged Medusa to cooperate and proposed that she marry Xiao Yao so he could become their royal consort.
• Xiao Yao offered to protect Medusa in exchange for her newly born strand of origin soul and promised she could come and go freely once she succeeded.
• Medusa agreed on the condition that Xiao Yao suppress his strength and fight her; after their battle, she accepted her defeat.
• Medusa released her origin soul and transformed into a tiny Nine-Colored Snake, and Xiao Yao merged the soul with her body and named her Cai Lin, or Little Cai.

Xiao Yao left Qing Lin in the Snake People Empire to grow stronger, then returned toward the Jia Ma Empire and met with Yun Yun. As he prepared to return to the Xiao Family, Ya Fei was waiting in his room in Wutan City.

• Xiao Yao offered Qing Lin the choice to travel with him or stay in the Snake People Empire and build her strength through soul contracts, and she chose to stay despite her tears.
• Xiao Yao comforted Qing Lin, promised to return for her, and had Grandpa Lu leave a mark on her before leaving the Snake People Tribe with Little Cai.
• Xiao Yao passed through Salt City and found Yun Yun's Misty Cloud Sect disciples arresting the Mo Family after Yun Yun killed Mo Cheng.
• Xiao Yao told Yun Yun that Protector Wu and his men were dead but that Yun Shan had to remain as bait, then gave her an Imperial Pill and a Sect-Breaking Pill.
• Ya Fei cleaned Xiao Yao's room in the Xiao Family courtyard in Wutan City as Xiao Yao prepared to return there.

Xiao Yao refined Hai Bodong’s Spirit Revival Purple Pill, recovered the Xiao Family’s lost Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, and returned to Wutan City. He learned that Xiao Yan had returned stronger and was seeking the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, so Xiao Yao resolved to claim every Heavenly Flame for himself.

• Xiao Yao gathered ingredients in the Monster Mountain Range and refined a perfect-quality Spirit Revival Purple Pill for Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yao found and learned the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations in a cave near the Jia Ma Empire’s border, then vowed to make Blazing Flame Valley answer for taking credit for it.
• Xiao Yao returned to Wutan City and learned from Hai Bodong that Xiao Yan had reached the Dou Shi realm, earned a Second-Grade Alchemist badge, and left to train.
• Hai Bodong told Xiao Yao that Xiao Yan had a mysterious master and possessed a bone-white flame that seemed to be a Heavenly Flame.
• Hai Bodong revealed that Xiao Yan was seeking the eighteenth-ranked Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and Xiao Yao declared that he intended to take all the Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yao gave Hai Bodong the Spirit Revival Purple Pill and returned to his room, while Hai Bodong hoped Ya Fei would win the Young Master’s favor.

Xiao Yao returned to his room and found Ya Fei preparing it as his personal maid. After serving him tea, she revealed her fear of becoming a pawn of the Mittel Family, and Xiao Yao promised to help her become the Empress of Gold.

• Xiao Yao silently appeared in his room and startled Ya Fei, who had been cleaning his bed.
• Ya Fei recognized Xiao Yao and introduced herself as his personal maid, sent by Hai Bodong.
• Xiao Yao gave Ya Fei a leaf from the Spirit Enlightenment Divine Tree and asked her to brew tea with it.
• Ya Fei teased Xiao Yao about being a domineering young master, but he asked whether she wanted her life controlled by the Mittel Family.
• Ya Fei admitted Xiao Yao had exposed her fears, and he promised to free her from her shackles and help her become the Empress of Gold.