Chapter Summaries

Jiang Cheng returned to Heavenly Snake Manor with Qingyun Fairy and reunited with Qing Xue. Qing Xue and Qingyun Fairy quickly bonded, leaving Jiang Cheng to wait while they hosted one another.

• Bai Ya recognized Jiang Cheng and knelt in fear, and the Heavenly Snake Manor elders and disciples followed suit.
• Qing Xue left a message telling Jiang Cheng to meet her at their old place, and he departed with Qingyun Fairy for Green Wave Lake.
• Jiang Cheng recalled how he had first met Qing Xue, and Qing Xue greeted him at the lake before asking who Qingyun Fairy was.
• Qingyun Fairy introduced herself, and she and Qing Xue began chatting together on the boat.
• Qing Xue insisted that Qingyun Fairy stay as her guest, while Jiang Cheng waited alone beneath the moon and drank.

Jiang Cheng brought Qingyun Fairy and Qing Xue to Peach Forest Mountain, his winery in the Monster Mountain Range. Qingyun Fairy admired the place and discovered how delicious and powerful its peaches were, asking Jiang Cheng for more.

• After drinking through the night, Jiang Cheng asked Qingyun Fairy and Qing Xue when they would depart, and they chose to leave and check on Xiao Yi Xian.
• Jiang Cheng took the two women aboard his War Boat and flew with them toward Peach Forest Mountain.
• Qing Xue flew down upon reaching the mountain, while Jiang Cheng explained his Peach Blossom Wine and led Qingyun Fairy through the peach forest.
• Qingyun Fairy admired the scenery and said she understood why Jiang Cheng had stayed away for years.
• Jiang Cheng gave Qingyun Fairy a peach, and after eating it, she blushed and asked for more.

Jiang Cheng returned and reunited with Hai Bodong, Xiao Yi Xian, and the others, who had advanced greatly during his absence. After distributing his treasures, he began absorbing the Nine Nether Wind Flame and prepared to investigate a Bone Fragment.

• Jiang Cheng met Hai Bodong, who had advanced to the Dou Ancestor realm and thanked him for his help.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the others welcomed Jiang Cheng back and told him how much their cultivation had improved.
• Jiang Cheng introduced Qingyun Fairy, Liu Qingrou, as a late-stage Five-Star Dou Saint and offered his companions her guidance.
• Jiang Cheng distributed the treasures he had obtained among Cai Lin and the others.
• Jiang Cheng seized the Nine Nether Wind Flame and forcibly extracted its flame seed, overcoming its attempts to resist and escape.

Jiang Cheng absorbed the Nine Nether Wind Flame, advancing the Flame Mantra, then used an ancient book to translate the Bone Fragment’s inscriptions and was drawn into a separate world. There, the lingering voice of the Dou Emperor Lin Yuan revealed that the world was a treasure he had refined before his death.

• Jiang Cheng subdued the Nine Nether Wind Flame and absorbed it into the Flame Mantra with help from his other Heavenly Flames.
• Jiang Cheng checked his system panel and saw that the Flame Mantra had advanced to Heaven Tier Intermediate Level.
• Qingyun Fairy watched the heavenly phenomenon fade and breathed a sigh of relief that Jiang Cheng had survived the absorption.
• Jiang Cheng returned to Peach Forest Mountain, noticed Yun Yun had taken back her pendant, and went to study the Bone Fragment using the Ancient Emperor Book.
• Jiang Cheng translated the inscriptions and was drawn into a separate world, where Lin Yuan identified himself as a deceased Dou Emperor and explained that the world was his refined treasure.

Jiang Cheng passed Lin Yuan Dou God's deadly Go test and met the Dou Emperor's remnant soul. Lin Yuan began explaining his fate in the Great Thousand World, where a strange Small World he had discovered became known to others.

• Lin Yuan Dou God's voice gave Jiang Cheng ten days to solve a dangerous chess position, and Jiang Cheng spent eight days studying it without finding a solution.
• Remembering Cai Lin's advice, Jiang Cheng gambled on a move by placing a white piece among the black pieces, which broke the chessboard's mystery.
• Jiang Cheng returned to the original place, where a mountain rose and Lin Yuan Dou God's remnant soul appeared to congratulate him.
• Jiang Cheng asked what had happened to Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan explained that many Dou Emperors from the Dou Qi Continent died after ascending to the Great Thousand World.
• Lin Yuan told Jiang Cheng that he had discovered a strange Small World where one outside day equaled one hour inside, but the secret had leaked.

Jiang Cheng received Lin Yuan Dou God's Small World and learned it contained his treasures, including the rare Origin Emperor Qi needed to reach the Dou Emperor realm. After Lin Yuan Dou God vanished, Jiang Cheng returned to his companions and revealed the Bone Fragment's significance, leaving Qingyun Fairy shaken by the possibility of a Dou Emperor breakthrough.

• Lin Yuan Dou God told Jiang Cheng that his treasures could only be safely used after reaching the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm and asked him to avenge him by eliminating the Demon Emperor and Devil Emperor.
• Lin Yuan Dou God gave Jiang Cheng the Small World and revealed that it held weapons, techniques, pills, armor, and Origin Emperor Qi before his soul faded away.
• Jiang Cheng bound the Small World with his blood essence, returned to his body, and released an immense surge of energy that drew Cai Lin, Qingyun Fairy, and the others to him.
• Jiang Cheng explained that the Bone Fragment contained a Dou Emperor's treasures and Dou Emperor Origin, which Qingyun Fairy recognized as the key to breaking through to the Dou Emperor realm.
• Qingyun Fairy recalled Xiao Xuan's failed attempt to become a Dou Emperor, which had led to his death and the decline of the Xiao Clan.

Jiang Cheng explained that the Bone Fragment contained Origin Emperor Qi but said he did not know how to obtain it, then planned to stay at Peach Forest Mountain before attending an auction for the final Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment. When Xiao Yi Xian asked to travel and train, he agreed and began refining poison pills for her in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, watched from afar by his companions.

• Jiang Cheng said he would search for the Origin Emperor Qi himself and planned to attend the Central Continent auction for the last Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment.
• Jiang Cheng spent several days at Peach Forest Mountain, where Xiao Yi Xian asked why his cultivation advanced so quickly despite his daily reading.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked permission to travel across the continent, and Jiang Cheng agreed that she could train with the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Jiang Cheng gathered poisonous herbs from his Storage Ring and went to Qiong Mountain to refine pills for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xuan Yi, Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, Qingyun Fairy, Qing Xue, and the others watched from distant mountain peaks as Jiang Cheng began refining the pills.

Jiang Cheng refined an Eighth-Grade Pill in the Monster Mountain Range, drawing terrifying energy waves, pill lightning, and crowds of experts. The pill had not yet fully taken shape, but Jia Xing Tian and Hai Bodong arrived to witness the phenomenon.

• Jiang Cheng warned the onlookers to keep their distance and urged Xuan Yi and Xiao Yi Xian to study his pill refining.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Yi Xian that Jiang Cheng had helped her advance toward Ninth-Grade Alchemist status by giving her a Child Flame of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• The Golden Dragon Phoenix Cauldron released powerful energy that shattered rocks and trees, and Qingyun Fairy protected the gathered group with a barrier.
• Xuan Yi recognized the energy as that of an Eighth-Grade Pill, while its growing force battered the Monster Mountain Range and drove Magical Beasts away.
• Experts gathered to observe the pill taking shape, but none dared approach because of the powerful auras nearby.
• Jia Xing Tian identified Jiang Cheng as the alchemist responsible, and Hai Bodong revealed that he had advanced to the Dou Zong realm.

Jiang Cheng refined an Eighth-Grade Six-Colored Pill Lightning Poison Pill, drawing a crowd of alchemists and experts to watch. He captured the pill after it formed, though its poison scorched his right palm, and the gathered experts greeted him afterward.

• Jiang Cheng warned the gathered alchemists to stay more than three miles away, after Pill Lightning energy killed several who had approached too closely.
• Six-colored Pill Lightning gathered as energy from Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body flowed into Jiang Cheng’s pill cauldron, turning the pill into a Poison Pill.
• Jiang Cheng used his fused Heavenly Flames to subdue the pill as it resisted inside the cauldron, while Xiao Yi Xian worried and Qingyun Fairy reassured her.
• The six bolts of Pill Lightning descended, and President Fa Ma announced that the pill was complete as the Heaven and Earth Phenomenon dissipated.
• Jiang Cheng caught the escaping pill with a wind blade and stored it in a porcelain container, but the poison scorched his right palm.
• Jia Xing Tian and the other experts greeted Jiang Cheng and praised his alchemy, and he asked whether anyone had been injured.

After Jiang Cheng refined an Eighth-Grade Pill, he demanded that the crowd keep his abilities secret. Yun Shan tried to get Yun Yun to request a Seventh-Grade Pill from Jiang Cheng, but Jiang Cheng warned Yun Shan against plotting against them and cautioned him about the darkness in his heart before leaving with Yun Yun.

• Jiang Cheng asked everyone to keep news of his Eighth-Grade Pill confidential, and Jia Xing Tian promised to protect the secret.
• Yun Shan summoned Yun Yun and praised her cultivation, then asked her to obtain a Seventh-Grade Pill from Jiang Cheng.
• Yun Yun said she could pass along Yun Shan's request but could not ask her husband directly.
• Jiang Cheng sent Yun Shan a medicine bottle and warned him not to make a move against them.
• Jiang Cheng told Yun Shan to cast off the demon in his heart, then vanished with Yun Yun before she could ask what he meant.

Jiang Cheng reflected on Yun Shan’s strange changes, then reunited with Qingyun Fairy at Peach Forest Mountain. The chapter ended with Mei Chi Bao reaching him after a perilous journey and demanding that he honor his promise to accept her as his disciple.

• Yun Shan wondered whether profit had blinded him and whether he had been wrong.
• Jiang Cheng told Yun Yun that the Misty Cloud Sect would be safe and suggested that Yun Shan had changed after becoming a Dou Zong.
• Qingyun Fairy interrupted Jiang Cheng and Yun Yun, then said she planned to stay at Peach Forest Mountain and punched Jiang Cheng flying when he teased her.
• Jiang Cheng sensed someone outside the valley and found a little beggar who had crossed from the Southeast Continent to the Northwest Continent to seek him.
• The beggar introduced herself as Mei Chi Bao and reminded Jiang Cheng of his promise to accept her as a disciple.
• Jiang Cheng warned Mei Chi Bao that her poor talent limited her prospects, but she insisted she had endured hunger and hardship to become his disciple.

Jiang Cheng accepted Mei Chi Bao as his disciple after she finally reached him in the Northwest Continent. As Mei Chi Bao revealed the hardships behind her journey, Cai Lin learned why the girl had spent years disguising herself and refusing help.

• Jiang Cheng welcomed Mei Chi Bao as his disciple and brought her to Peach Forest Mountain.
• Cai Lin took Mei Chi Bao to bathe while Qingyun Fairy questioned how a Dou Zhe could have crossed such a vast distance; Jiang Cheng said he would honor his promise to her.
• After Mei Chi Bao changed, she explained that she had covered herself in a foul smell for years to deter people and Magical Beasts.
• Mei Chi Bao recounted that famine killed both her parents and left her to steal or fight for food.
• Mei Chi Bao told Cai Lin that Jiang Cheng had once stopped her from nearly killing a wealthy family's child and offered her a hundred gold coins, which she threw back at him.

Jiang Cheng took Mei Chi Bao as his disciple and began teaching her to read and seek the meaning of being a person. After a month, he started teaching her swordsmanship, but her response to his lesson on questioning right and wrong revealed that her past had left her deeply conflicted.

• Cai Lin brought a cleaned-up Mei Chi Bao to Jiang Cheng, who recognized why Magical Beasts found her scent repulsive and accepted her as his disciple.
• Jiang Cheng patiently taught Mei Chi Bao to read, while Xiao Yi Xian left for another continent with an Earth Tier Intermediate Level weapon and a warning to conceal it.
• After a month of study, Mei Chi Bao asked to cultivate, and Jiang Cheng gave her a Mysterious Tier High Grade weapon and demonstrated swordsmanship by splitting the clouds with his fan.
• Jiang Cheng taught Mei Chi Bao that they should discuss disagreements rather than blindly accept each other's judgments, and she began to cry.
• Mei Chi Bao's demeanor turned cold as she declared that even if she killed everyone in the world, she would never let Jiang Cheng know she was wrong.

After Mei Chi Bao began to settle into life on Peach Forest Mountain, Jiang Cheng emerged from seclusion as a Six-Star Dou Saint and reunited with Qingyun Fairy. Their playful sparring ended with Qingyun Fairy taking Xuan Yi’s advice and kissing him beneath a maple tree.

• Jiang Cheng left Mei Chi Bao to resolve her own painful past, and she gradually accepted life on Peach Forest Mountain.
• Jiang Cheng broke through to Six-Star Dou Saint, and Qingyun Fairy told him that Mei Chi Bao had trained diligently and reached Five-Star Dou Zhe.
• Qingyun Fairy complained that Jiang Cheng had kept her guarding the mountain instead of traveling with him, then challenged him to a playful fight.
• Jiang Cheng controlled the Green Lotus Jade Sword and stopped Qingyun Fairy’s attack, revealing that the weapon had originally been his gift to her.
• Qingyun Fairy pressed Jiang Cheng against a tree and kissed him, then rested on his lap beneath a maple tree as he guessed that Xuan Yi had advised her.

Jiang Cheng and Qingyun Fairy confessed their feelings and spent the night together before she left him a red petal. He then gathered his companions to prepare for a journey to the Central Continent, with their departure set for seven days later.

• Jiang Cheng confessed that Qingyun Fairy was his, and the two embraced beneath the moon while Cai Lin and Qing Xue watched from a distance.
• Jiang Cheng promised Qingyun Fairy he would die before her, and they spent the night together.
• Jiang Cheng woke alone, found a red petal, and returned to the Guest Courtyard.
• Jiang Cheng invited his companions to travel with him to the Central Continent, and Zi Yan eagerly agreed.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King chose to stay behind to brew wine and protect the Snake People Tribe while waiting for his son and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Jiang Cheng set their departure for seven days later and told Yun'er and Cai Lin to visit their families before the journey.

Jiang Cheng met the Snake People Tribe's Four Elders, who revealed that Cai Lin was pregnant and asked him to help nourish the child’s Medusa bloodline. He promised to provide a Heavenly Soul Blood Melting Pill, leaving Cai Lin and the elders delighted.

• Queen Medusa took Jiang Cheng to meet the Snake People Tribe's Four Elders, who welcomed him and approved of his relationship with Cai Lin.
• First Elder Sno joked that Jiang Cheng should face the Ten Thousand Snake Body Devouring Punishment, then revealed the elders had detected signs that Cai Lin was pregnant.
• Sno explained that the child would need precious treasures and a special pill to awaken its Medusa bloodline.
• Jiang Cheng said he was a Ninth-Grade Alchemist and would give Cai Lin the highest-grade Heavenly Soul Blood Melting Pill.
• Cai Lin embraced and kissed Jiang Cheng, while Sno and the other elders turned away to give them privacy.

Jiang Cheng and Cai Lin received the Snake People elders’ gratitude for leading their tribe out of the Tagor Desert, then shared an intimate walk as Cai Lin recalled how they first met. The chapter ended with Jiang Cheng promising to give Cai Lin a grand wedding and protect her for life.

• First Elder Sno and the other elders knelt to thank Jiang Cheng for leading the Snake People Tribe out of the Tagor Desert, and Queen Medusa joined them in praying for his strength.
• After leaving the Bamboo Forest late at night, Cai Lin asked Jiang Cheng to carry her home and reminisced about their first meeting at the Snake People Sacred Pool.
• Cai Lin recalled that she had once wanted to kill Jiang Cheng for trespassing, but said she had fallen in love with him and belonged only to him.
• Jiang Cheng promised Cai Lin a grand wedding and vowed to stand by her and protect his family.

Jiang Cheng traveled into the Tagor Desert to find the Snake People Tribe and befriend Queen Medusa, but first he encountered Ice Emperor Hai Bodong while searching for a map. After revealing that he knew Hai Bodong’s identity, Jiang Cheng faced the weakened Dou Emperor’s attack.

• Jiang Cheng complained to the system about the desert heat and learned he had to befriend Queen Medusa and obtain the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Jiang Cheng found a map shop and asked the old shopkeeper for a map of the desert’s depths and water.
• Jiang Cheng searched for the Fragmented Map of Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, but the shopkeeper denied having it and charged him ten thousand gold coins for the map and water.
• Jiang Cheng identified the shopkeeper as the former Dou Emperor Hai Bodong and neutralized the ice-blue Dou Qi he sent at him.
• Jiang Cheng introduced himself as Jiang Cheng of the academy, and Hai Bodong attacked after Jiang Cheng called him a mantis arm blocking a chariot.

Jiang Cheng defeated Hai Bodong outside his desert shop, then used a Fourth-grade Pill to earn the Ice Emperor’s trust. Hai Bodong revealed that Queen Medusa had sealed his cultivation and asked Jiang Cheng, whom he believed to be an Alchemist, to help break the seal.

• Hai Bodong attacked Jiang Cheng over the price of water, but Jiang Cheng shattered his Ice Condensation Mirror and sent him flying.
• Hai Bodong recognized Jiang Cheng’s Dou Qi Wings and was shocked by his strength; Jiang Cheng offered him a Fourth-grade Pill for the water.
• Hai Bodong put away his weapon and invited Jiang Cheng to discuss a business deal, then returned the pill and praised Jiang Cheng’s cultivation.
• Hai Bodong explained that Queen Medusa had sealed his cultivation at the Dou Ling realm more than a decade earlier.
• Jiang Cheng admitted that he was a second-grade Alchemist, and Hai Bodong offered him a favor from a Dou Emperor if he could break the seal.

Jiang Cheng persuaded Hai Bodong to help him enter the Snake People Tribe and search for Shaluoteman Grass, then ventured toward Queen Medusa’s palace. The chapter ended with Medusa discovering Jiang Cheng as he watched her at the Sacred Pool.

• Jiang Cheng agreed to refine a Po E Pill for Hai Bodong if Hai Bodong took him to the Snake People Tribe to find Shaluoteman Grass.
• Hai Bodong hesitated over the danger of facing Queen Medusa, but accepted after Jiang Cheng offered a pill that could conceal Soul Power detection.
• Jiang Cheng and Hai Bodong traveled into Snake People territory, then split up so Hai Bodong could search for the herb while Jiang Cheng approached the palace.
• Jiang Cheng reached an oasis near the palace and saw Queen Medusa dancing in the Sacred Pool.
• Queen Medusa heard Jiang Cheng swallow, spotted him hiding behind a stone, and turned her cold gaze on him.