Chapter Summaries

Jiang Cheng confronted Queen Medusa about the Green Lotus Core Flame and used his Dou Saint power to force her to acknowledge its possession. Medusa demanded rare pills and breakthrough materials in exchange, and Jiang Cheng agreed, but she remained in place when he asked her to lead him to the flame.

• Queen Medusa denied having a Heavenly Flame and threatened to kill Jiang Cheng and Hai Bodong if they stayed.
• Jiang Cheng suppressed Medusa with his Dou Saint power, then told her he did not care about their past conflict.
• Jiang Cheng identified Medusa’s Heavenly Flame as the Green Lotus Core Flame, and she admitted she had obtained it.
• Medusa demanded three Seventh-grade Transformation Pills, two Dou Ancestor Pills, and materials to help her break through to Dou Zong.
• Jiang Cheng accepted her terms and proposed that she leave the Tagor Desert with him, and Medusa agreed.
• Jiang Cheng asked Medusa to take him to the Heavenly Flame, but she did not move.

Jiang Cheng and Queen Medusa negotiated an exchange for the Heavenly Flames, and he gave her the promised pills before following her beneath the Snake People Palace. As they approached the flames, Medusa explained her resolve to advance for the sake of the Snake People Tribe.

• Jiang Cheng followed Queen Medusa to the Snake People Tribe while Hai Bodong warned him that she was dangerous.
• The Eight Great Leaders gathered, but Medusa ordered them not to attack Jiang Cheng.
• Medusa demanded the promised pills before revealing the Heavenly Flames, and Jiang Cheng produced several Seventh-grade Transformation Pills.
• Medusa revealed the Heavenly Flames’ location and led Jiang Cheng into a flight-restricting underground world beneath the palace, while Hai Bodong stayed above with the Eight Great Leaders.
• Jiang Cheng asked whether Medusa sought the Heavenly Flames to free her tribe from its predicament, and Medusa affirmed her determination to reach the Dou Ancestor realm.

Jiang Cheng crossed the Dead Water Pool and subdued the Green Lotus Core Flame, proving his overwhelming strength to Queen Medusa. He received the Flame Mantra, a cultivation method that could evolve by devouring Heavenly Flames.

• Queen Medusa warned Jiang Cheng that the Snake People Tribe would be doomed if she failed, then challenged him to cross the Dead Water Pool and obtain the Heavenly Flame.
• Jiang Cheng walked across the poisonous water, and his power made Medusa’s fourth-tier magical beast explode before it could reach him.
• Jiang Cheng introduced himself as the Academy Confucian Sage, but Medusa refused to call him Mister.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame fled from Jiang Cheng, but he seized and subdued it with his Dou Saint power, shaking the Snake People Tribe and the Tagor Desert.
• The system rewarded Jiang Cheng with the evolvable Flame Mantra, while Medusa watched in awe of his strength.

Jiang Cheng used his Dou Saint essence blood to transform Queen Medusa into human form and awaken her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline. After she recovered, Jiang Cheng returned to protect Hai Bodong from the Snake People Tribe’s leaders.

• The system rewarded Jiang Cheng with the Flame Mantra after he obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame, and he told Queen Medusa he would find the materials she needed to advance within a year.
• Jiang Cheng fed Queen Medusa a drop of his golden essence blood, causing her to suffer intense pain as the blood transformed her.
• Hai Bodong blocked Yue Mei and the Snake People Tribe’s leaders from reaching Jiang Cheng, then fought them as snow fell across the desert.
• Queen Medusa awakened in human form, and Jiang Cheng explained that his blood had awakened her ancient beast bloodline and made her a Half-Step Dou Ancestor.
• Hai Bodong was knocked down after fighting the Snake People Tribe’s leaders, but Jiang Cheng appeared and stopped Mo Bass’s attack with one hand.

Queen Medusa reached the Half-Step Dou Ancestor realm and entrusted the Snake People Tribe’s affairs to Great Elder Yin Shi as she prepared to leave the Tagor Desert. She and Jiang Cheng went to Stone Desert City to retrieve the Green Lotus Platform, while Hai Bodong and the Snake People searched for medicinal materials.

• Queen Medusa broke through to the Half-Step Dou Ancestor realm, and the Snake People Tribe members knelt to celebrate her achievement.
• Queen Medusa appointed Great Elder Yin Shi to handle the tribe’s affairs and declared that she would lead the Snake People toward freedom beyond the Tagor Desert.
• Jiang Cheng restored Ice Emperor Hai Bodong with a pill, then told him to gather medicinal materials while Jiang Cheng and Queen Medusa left together.
• Hai Bodong negotiated for the Snake People Tribe to help him search for the materials in exchange for his promise not to harm them.
• Queen Medusa opened the buried cave entrance at Stone Desert City, and Jiang Cheng prepared to enter and retrieve the Green Lotus Platform.

Jiang Cheng brought Queen Medusa through the magma beneath the desert and used an Ice Crystal Stone and spatial movement to reach the Green Lotus Core Flame. They arrived at its birthplace, where Medusa considered tasting Jiang Cheng’s blood to advance to Dou Zong, but he warned her against it.

• Jiang Cheng used an Ice Crystal Stone to shield himself and Queen Medusa from the magma’s heat as they descended.
• Queen Medusa recognized the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which obeyed her, while Jiang Cheng decided its bloodline was too weak to make a suitable spirit pet.
• Jiang Cheng carried Queen Medusa and tore through space to bypass the barriers around the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Jiang Cheng and Queen Medusa emerged in the blue magma near the Green Lotus Core Flame’s birthplace.
• Queen Medusa eyed Jiang Cheng’s neck as she considered tasting his blood, and he warned her that she could not withstand it.

Jiang Cheng returned Queen Medusa to the surface after retrieving the Green Lotus Platform and gave her two Earth Fire Lotus Seeds. When the Sand Mercenary Group attacked them, he wiped them out and left Medusa with his self-created Green Lotus Sword Dance.

• Jiang Cheng gave Queen Medusa two Earth Fire Lotus Seeds and kept the remaining lotus seeds for himself.
• Jiang Cheng carried Medusa out of the Sea of Magma and teased her about being too light.
• Jiang Cheng turned three arrows back on their attackers, then used a bamboo flute to burn the Sand Mercenary Group to ashes.
• Jiang Cheng gave Medusa the Earth-tier Intermediate Fighting Skill Green Lotus Sword Dance, which he said he had created himself.
• Jiang Cheng urged Medusa to master the technique and lead the Snake People Tribe toward a better future, then walked away.

Jiang Cheng and Medusa arrived in Stone Desert City, where they rescued Qing Lin from an abusive merchant. After learning that Qing Lin was a human and Snake People descendant with the rare Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, Jiang Cheng reassured her that she should live by her own path.

• Medusa nearly crushed the leering men in the street with her pressure, but Jiang Cheng persuaded her not to massacre them.
• Jiang Cheng paid a merchant ten gold coins after the merchant blamed and mistreated Qing Lin for breaking porcelain.
• Jiang Cheng helped Qing Lin gather her scattered food and learned her name.
• Medusa recognized Qing Lin as a descendant of a Snake People Tribe member and a human, while Qing Lin sensed Medusa's power.
• Jiang Cheng examined the green scales on Qing Lin's hand and encouraged her not to let others define her life.

Jiang Cheng entered Stone Desert City with Queen Medusa and Qing Lin, where the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s captains invited him to their headquarters. He hired them to find medicinal materials and magic cores, and Xiao Ding ordered his men to buy what they could and attack the now-leaderless Sand Mercenary Group.

• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li met Jiang Cheng, Queen Medusa, and Qing Lin while investigating the Sand Mercenary Group’s destruction, then invited them to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group headquarters.
• Xiao Ding recognized the jade pendant Jiang Cheng had taken from Luo Bu and learned that Jiang Cheng wanted medicinal materials and magic cores.
• Jiang Cheng gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li a gold card with over a million in funds and asked them to buy as many listed items as they could find.
• Xiao Ding sent mercenaries to search nearby shops and ordered another group to attack the Sand Mercenary Group’s headquarters, sparing those who surrendered and killing those who resisted.

Jiang Cheng took Qing Lin as his disciple and set out with her after she chose to leave the Desert Iron Mercenary Group. At the Tagor Desert’s edge, Green Savage and Qing Ping of the Heavenly Snake Mansion arrived to confirm Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and asked to take her for training.

• The Desert Iron Mercenary Group gathered most of Jiang Cheng’s requested medicinal materials, and he paid Xiao Ding for the commission and supplies.
• Jiang Cheng asked Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to let Qing Lin accompany him; Qing Lin chose to leave, and Jiang Cheng accepted her as his disciple.
• After Jiang Cheng’s group departed, two figures followed them, while Hai Bodong waited near the Tagor Desert with the remaining medicinal materials.
• Hai Bodong gave Jiang Cheng the materials and asked him to refine a Fu Ling Zi Pill, and Jiang Cheng agreed.
• Jiang Cheng revealed Green Savage and Qing Ping, who introduced themselves as elders of the Heavenly Snake Mansion and explained that they had come to verify Qing Lin’s pupils and seek permission to take her for training.

Jiang Cheng refused to let Lu Man take Qing Lin, declaring her his disciple, then brought Queen Medusa and Hai Bodong to the Northeastern Monster Mountain Range. After Hai Bodong left, Jiang Cheng began calling Queen Medusa Cai Lin, and her reunion with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King ended in a clash of power.

• Jiang Cheng told Lu Man that Qing Lin was his disciple and refused to hand her over to Heavenly Snake Manor, so Lu Man and Elder Qing withdrew.
• Jiang Cheng, Queen Medusa, Hai Bodong, and another companion arrived at the Northeastern Monster Mountain Range, where Hai Bodong departed for the Jia Ma Empire after Jiang Cheng promised to refine his pill.
• Queen Medusa urged Jiang Cheng to refine pills so she could reach Dou Ancestor, but he reminded her that their one-year agreement had not yet arrived and suggested she use the name Cai Lin.
• Xiao Yi Xian rode the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to pick peaches while the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King greeted Jiang Cheng and recognized Queen Medusa as an old enemy.
• Queen Medusa and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King released their Dou Qi, and their powers met in an even clash.

Jiang Cheng settled Queen Medusa at his residence and ordered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to build rooms for the growing household. At the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Shan weighed whether to avenge Gu He or try to win Jiang Cheng over, while Gu He offered to seek a Heavenly Flame to reach the Seventh-Grade Alchemist level.

• Queen Medusa stayed at Jiang Cheng’s residence, tasted his peaches, and relaxed by the lake while Jiang Cheng promised to refine pills to help her reach the Dou Zong realm.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King told Jiang Cheng that Yun Yun had been summoned back to the Misty Cloud Sect and that Xiao Yi Xian had gone peach picking with his son.
• Jiang Cheng ordered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to have Magical Beasts build rooms for Cai Lin and Qing Lin and expand the residence to hold ten people.
• At the Misty Cloud Sect, Gu He asked Yun Shan to avenge him, but Yun Shan hesitated after learning that the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had reached Half-Step Dou Ancestor.
• Yun Yun recounted what had happened with Jiang Cheng, and Yun Shan considered winning over the Sixth-Grade Alchemist rather than avenging Gu He.
• Gu He claimed that obtaining a Heavenly Flame from the Snake People Tribe would let him advance to Seventh-Grade Alchemist, leaving the hall silent.

Yun Yun stopped the Misty Cloud Sect elders from retaliating against Jiang Cheng and returned to the Monster Mountain Range, where she found him with Queen Medusa. Jiang Cheng began absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame and extracted its flame seed, leaving the process underway.

• Yun Yun warned the Misty Cloud Sect elders to abandon their grievance with Jiang Cheng, and Yun Shan backed her decision before leaving the hall.
• Yun Yun returned to the Monster Mountain Range and met Jiang Cheng and Queen Medusa, whose Half-Step Dou Ancestor aura worried her.
• Jiang Cheng and the others finished furnishing the new guest rooms, and he went to a cavern to prepare for absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Jiang Cheng drew out the Green Lotus Core Flame, withstood its violent energy, and forcibly extracted its flame seed.

Jiang Cheng absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame and fused it with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to evolve the Flame Mantra into an Earth Tier High Level Cultivation Method. Nearby, Xiao Yan and Yao Chen recognized the terrifying golden flame and struggled to escape its reach.

• Jiang Cheng swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame, contained it in the Na Ling, and prepared to merge it into the Flame Mantra.
• Jiang Cheng fused the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame into the Flame Mantra despite the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame’s resistance.
• Heaven and earth trembled as the Flame Mantra advanced to Earth Tier High Level, and Jiang Cheng considered how future Heavenly Flames might raise it further.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen watched the distant upheaval, and Yao Chen identified the Green Lotus Core Flame before sensing an even more powerful flame.
• Yao Chen pulled Xiao Yan away from a golden thread of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, which carved a huge trench into the ground.

Jiang Cheng absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame and revealed that he already possessed two Heavenly Flames, while Xiao Yan and Yao Chen fled after sensing the power of the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame. Jiang Cheng planned to travel after staying another half year, and the chapter ended with him teasing Queen Medusa about taking a bite from his neck.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen identified the golden threads as energy from the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and fled the Monster Mountain Range.
• Jiang Cheng emerged after absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame and showed Medusa and Yun Yun that he possessed two Heavenly Flames.
• Jiang Cheng used his folding fan to scatter peach blossoms across Green Mountain, then discussed Yun Yun's disciple's Three Year Agreement and his plans to travel.
• Jiang Cheng told Medusa that he could not yet refine her advancement pills because the required materials had not been gathered, and she demanded that he keep his promise.
• Jiang Cheng told Medusa that his purest method of helping her was to let her bite his neck, leaving her stunned.

Jiang Cheng met Qing Xue at Green Wave Lake after she came to claim Qing Lin for Heavenly Snake Manor. He refused to give up his disciple and described himself as a traveler, leaving Qing Xue without an answer about his origins.

• Jiang Cheng checked on Xiao Yi Xian’s study of the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and promised to revise it, then left instructions and cultivation supplies for Qing Lin.
• Jiang Cheng learned Qing Lin was gathering food with the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and set out to meet an old acquaintance.
• Qing Xue asked Jiang Cheng to hand over Qing Lin so Heavenly Snake Manor could cultivate her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Jiang Cheng dissolved Qing Xue’s ice attack and refused to let her interfere with Qing Lin, claiming he could help Qing Lin become a Dou Saint or higher.
• Qing Xue questioned how Jiang Cheng had advanced so quickly, and he said he was merely a traveler wandering the world.

Jiang Cheng visited the Mite'er Auction House to find high-grade herbs for tempering his bones and agreed to wait for the evening auction. He left the search in the hands of Hai Bodong and Mittel Teng Shan, then asked Hai Bodong to lend him money.

• Qing Xue accepted Jiang Cheng's advice to cultivate her heart and left after he invited her to stay, while Jiang Cheng said he had other matters to handle.
• Jiang Cheng arrived at the Mite'er Auction House, where Hai Bodong and Mittel Teng Shan welcomed him.
• Teng Shan escorted Jiang Cheng and Hai Bodong into a private room and offered Jiang Cheng the main seat.
• Jiang Cheng asked for tier-three or higher herbs that could temper bones, but decided to wait for the evening auction rather than disrupt its arrangements.
• Jiang Cheng admitted that he carried no money and asked Hai Bodong to lend him some.

Jiang Cheng offered a top-grade Fifth-grade Dragon Power Pill for auction at the Mite'er Auction House and declined Mittel Teng Shan’s Purple Gold Card and money. As the auction drew near, Mite'er Ya Fei prepared to promote the pill, while Jia Xing Tian arrived hoping to meet Jiang Cheng and was told he was resting.

• Mittel Teng Shan gave Jiang Cheng a Purple Gold Card, but Jiang Cheng declined its money and offered help to the Mittel Family if it ever faced trouble.
• Jiang Cheng presented a top-grade Fifth-grade Dragon Power Pill, and Teng Shan agreed to auction it with a one-million-gold-coin starting bid.
• Teng Shan introduced his granddaughter, Mite'er Ya Fei, and asked her to announce the pill auction across the Jia Ma Empire.
• Mite'er Ya Fei left to spread the news, while Jiang Cheng noticed some people nearby.
• Nearly all the Jia Ma Empire’s Dou Wang and Dou Emperor Experts came to the auction, and Jia Xing Tian was turned away when he asked to see Jiang Cheng.
• Jia Xing Tian agreed to wait in the Mittel Family’s meeting hall until Jiang Cheng was available.

The auction began with experts gathering to pay their respects to Jiang Cheng, known as Mister Confucian Sage. Ya Fei presented his top-grade Dragon Power Pill, and the bidding escalated as Gu He and Nalan Jie competed for it.

• Gu He, Feng Li, and Yan Shi discussed Gu He's missing arm and came to the auction to inspect the Supreme Dragon Power Pill.
• Jiang Cheng emerged from cultivation and was greeted by Jia Ma Empire experts before Teng Shan led him to a private room.
• Ya Fei opened the auction and introduced Jiang Cheng's top-grade Fifth-grade Dragon Power Pill, whose quality astonished Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian.
• Jia Xing Tian bid two million gold coins, then Gu He raised the price to two million one hundred thousand.
• Nalan Jie bid two million three hundred thousand gold coins, but Gu He offered two Dragon Power Pills in exchange, and Nalan Jie continued bidding.

Jia Xing Tian won the Dragon Power Pill for three million gold coins, and bidding began for the Three-Leaf Green Spirit Grass. Hai Bodong challenged Pill King Gu He for the herb, and Jia Xing Tian unexpectedly urged Gu He to yield it.

• Jia Xing Tian outbid everyone for the Dragon Power Pill, winning it for three million gold coins.
• Ya Fei presented the Three-Leaf Green Spirit Grass, and Gu He bid five hundred thousand gold coins before the other bidders could respond.
• Hai Bodong bid six hundred thousand gold coins, startling Gu He, who recognized the Ice Emperor and asked him to give up the herb.
• Gu He offered Hai Bodong future pill-refining services in exchange for the herb, but Hai Bodong refused.
• Jia Xing Tian told Gu He to yield the Three-Leaf Green Spirit Grass to Hai Bodong, saying it was for Gu He's own good.