Recaps

Shen Wen married Cao Ying in name, gained powerful abilities, and led her and Dan Chen toward the Green Lotus Core Flame. In the Tagor Desert, he recruited Qing Lin and began refining a dragon pill as Queen Medusa appeared near the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.

• Shen Wen met Old Monster Lin’s marriage conditions early and proposed marrying Cao Ying, who agreed to a marriage in name with a Soul Contract and help finding the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• At their wedding, Shen Wen received powerful rewards and gave Cao Ying the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Qi and Sky Burning Cauldron, then endured a dangerous transformation from the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• Shen Wen and Cao Ying reconciled after several days apart, and he absorbed Ancient Void Dragon essence blood before setting out with Cao Ying and Dan Chen.
• In Tianya City, Shen Wen killed Deacon Hua and defeated Luo Cheng, then demanded compensation from the Luo Family and left with demonic cores and medicinal ingredients.
• Shen Wen traded with Hai Bodong for the Green Lotus Core Flame’s possible locations and the first fragment of a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, then traveled to Stone Desert City.
• Shen Wen recruited Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to search for a Heavenly Flame and took Qing Lin with them after recognizing her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• As Shen Wen refined a Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill, Qing Lin sensed a powerful presence near the others, and Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Qing Lin went to investigate.
• Luo Bu’s Sand Mercenary Group challenged Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, but the brothers began to overpower him before Medusa arrived and halted the battle.

Shen Wen claimed the Green Lotus Core Flame, helped Medusa evolve into a Dou Zong, and bound her and the Snake People Clan to his service. As the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate prepared to move against Medusa, Shen Wen continued training her and learned that Cao Ying had arranged for Medusa to become his concubine.

• Cao Ying and Dan Chen confronted Medusa, but Shen Wen endured Seventh-Rank Pill Lightning, defeated Medusa and Kui Xing, and forced Medusa to yield the Heavenly Flames and accompany him.
• Shen Wen led the group into the magma, where Qing Lin awakened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and Cao Ying refined the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Medusa brought Shen Wen’s group to the Holy City, where she agreed to a Soul Contract requiring the Snake People Clan to submit if Cao Ying purified her bloodline.
• Shen Wen strengthened Cao Ying’s flames as she purified Medusa, defeating the Four Great Elders before Medusa emerged as a Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and reached Dou Zong.
• Shen Wen swallowed Medusa’s lightning tribulation, and Medusa later used a Spirit Fusion Pill to merge her soul with the new body and pledged herself to him.
• Cao Ying arranged for Medusa to become Shen Wen’s concubine, then spent the night with Shen Wen and completed their Marriage Alliance ceremony.
• Cao Ying refined a Po E Pill for Hai Bodong, who regained his strength and gave Shen Wen the matching map fragment before pledging to serve him.
• The Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate prepared an assault on Medusa, while Shen Wen trained her and she told him Cao Ying would hold a ceremony to make her his concubine.

Shen Wen defeated the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate and secured allies and resources as he prepared to move the Snake People Clan. In the Monster Beast Mountain Range, he subdued the Beast Kings, intervened in Cao Ying’s fight with Yao Chen, and began arranging the migration while stopping Ling Ying from leaving.

• Shen Wen married Medusa, renamed her Cai Lin, and gave her the Soaring Serpent Inheritance and Innate Dao Body Origin as wedding gifts.
• Cai Lin and the Snake People Clan fought Xie Biyan’s coalition until Shen Wen arrived, defeated Xie Biyan and Iron Protector, and ordered the surviving enemy forces killed.
• Shen Wen led his companions to the Chu Yun Empire, seized its treasury, and searched the Ten Thousand Scorpions Gate’s records for traces of the Soul Hall.
• Shen Wen negotiated Sky Snake Mansion’s protection for the Snake People Clan’s move to the Jia Ma Empire, then took his companions to seek Xiao Yi Xian and the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Shen Wen offered to help Xiao Yi Xian control her Calamity Poison Body if she became his concubine, then negotiated with the Amethyst Winged Lion King over a home for the Snake People Clan.
• The Five Great Beast Kings attacked Shen Wen and Cai Lin after rejecting his settlement plan, but Shen Wen defeated most of them with his True Dragon phantom and stopped the Sky Cloud Eagle from fleeing.
• Shen Wen used the Flame Ancestral Talisman to halt Cao Ying’s battle with Yao Chen, then revealed his ties to Old Monster Lin and his own achievements as a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.
• Shen Wen brought Yao Chen and Xiao Yan aboard his Flying Boat, explained his plan to relocate the Snake People Clan, and stopped Ling Ying from leaving with Cai Lin’s Space Power.

Shen Wen secured the Snake People Clan’s relocation, married Xiao Yi Xian, and defeated Yun Shan and three Soul Hall Protectors in Jia Ma. He then developed poison-pill methods in the Chu Yun Empire and set out to find the Nether Poisonous Flame, while Cai Lin suspected she was pregnant.

• Shen Wen negotiated the Snake People Clan’s move to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, then agreed with Xiao Xun'er to kill Han Feng and obtain the Sea Heart Flame in exchange for Dou Techniques.
• Shen Wen reached Dou Zong, secured Jia Xingtian’s cooperation with the relocation, and held a public pill refinement and wedding ceremony for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Shen Wen gave Xiao Yi Xian the Origin Spirit Body and Great Poison Technique to help her control her Calamity Poison Body and prepare to refine the Nether Poisonous Flame.
• At the public pill refinement, Shen Wen fought Yun Shan and three Soul Hall Protectors, killed the Protectors, and helped Cai Lin capture Yun Shan.
• Shen Wen promised Yun Yun to spare Misty Cloud Sect members uninvolved with the Soul Hall, while demanding the sect’s cultivation methods and combat techniques.
• Shen Wen cured Nalan Jie, obtained the Seven Illusions Azure Spirit Saliva, and helped arrange the Snake People Clan’s migration before traveling to the Chu Yun Empire.
• Shen Wen studied the Alchemist Guild’s poison research, taught its members poison-pill alchemy, and refined pills in exchange for medicinal herbs.
• Shen Wen and his companions set out for the Ancient Poisonous Marsh to search for the Nether Poisonous Flame, and Cai Lin told him she thought she was pregnant.