Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian broke through the Charm Snake Tribe’s defenses and slipped into the desert, where they learned the Snake People had begun a widespread search. The chapter left them hidden near the desert’s center as Xiao Yan worried about the tightening patrols.

• A Snake People aerial sentry spotted Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, and guards hurled venom-coated spears at them from the city wall.
• Xiao Yan charged through the spears with a pale flame while Xiao Yi Xian’s Sword Qi cut through Snake People soldiers, and the pair escaped into the night.
• The snake woman ordered the city repaired and nearby tribes and chiefs alerted so they could hunt down the intruders.
• A Snake People patrol captain told his squad that human experts had breached the Charm Snake Tribe and that the tribes were under martial law while their chiefs headed for the central temple.
• After the patrol left, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian emerged from a sand dune, and Xiao Yan remarked that the desert was filling with patrols.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medicine Elder traveled toward Medusa Temple to find the Green Lotus Core Flame, avoiding Snake People patrols along the way. They hid near the guarded city and waited for Gu He and his group to stir up a disturbance, but a powerful aura approached before they could act.

• Xiao Yan studied the map with Xiao Yi Xian and agreed with Medicine Elder that they needed to reach Medusa Temple before Gu He and the others attacked Queen Medusa.
• Medicine Elder helped Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian evade Snake People patrols as they crossed the desert on foot.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian reached the rocks near Medusa's city and saw its guarded walls, patrols, and Queen Medusa's personal guards.
• Medicine Elder sensed the Green Lotus Core Flame inside the city, and Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian concealed themselves beneath golden-yellow blankets.
• Medicine Elder warned Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian that a powerful aura was approaching.

Yan Ci arrived in the Snake People Race’s city and learned from Yue Mei that Mo Bass had died and a powerful group of humans was seeking the Queen. When the group reached the city, Yan Ci confronted them and their leader introduced himself as Gu He.

• Yan Ci arrived at the city and announced that he had come to pay respects to the Queen.
• Yue Mei told Yan Ci that Mo Bass’s soul flame had gone out and that a powerful group of humans had come looking for the Queen.
• Yan Ci learned that the Queen was not receiving visitors and prepared to seek her out.
• Yue Mei sensed the human group approaching, and she and Yan Ci flew to the city walls.
• Yan Ci warned the humans to leave, and Gu He identified himself as the group’s leader.

Gu He arrived at the snake-people city with powerful allies and asked Queen Medusa to meet him, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian watched from hiding. After Gu He called out, Queen Medusa appeared before both sides, leaving Xiao Yan and the gathered snake people staring at her.

• Xiao Yan recognized Gu He and watched him arrive with Yun Yun and the others, while Xiao Yi Xian also recognized Yun Yun.
• Gu He politely asked Yue Mei and Ci Yan to let him speak with Queen Medusa, but Ci Yan refused and warned that other snake-people tribes were on their way.
• Yan Shi and Ci Yan exchanged insults until Gu He stopped Yan Shi and called out to Queen Medusa across the city.
• When no one answered, the space above the city twisted and Queen Medusa appeared in the sky.
• The snake people knelt and cried out to their queen as Xiao Yi Xian admired her beauty and Xiao Yan wondered at her fearsome reputation.

Gu He asked Queen Medusa to trade her Green Lotus Core Flame, offering rare pills in exchange. Queen Medusa heard his proposal, while Ci Yan and Yue Mei realized she likely wanted the Heavenly Flame to attempt a dangerous breakthrough to Dou Zong.

• Queen Medusa confronted Gu He and questioned why he had brought a group into Snake People territory.
• Gu He admitted he had come for the Heavenly Flame Queen Medusa possessed, while Xiao Yan and his companions listened from the rubble below.
• Ci Yan and Yue Mei realized Queen Medusa likely intended to use the Heavenly Flame to advance to Dou Zong, despite the danger to her and the Snake People Race.
• Gu He explained how he had tracked the Heavenly Flame and offered two Sixth-grade Dou Ling Pills and one Seventh-grade Transformation Pill in exchange.
• Yan Shi, the others, and Black Robe reacted with surprise to Gu He's offer.

Gu He offered Queen Medusa a Dou Ling Pill and a Form Transformation Pill in exchange for the Heavenly Flames, but she refused because she needed them for her own purposes. Gu He accepted that he could not force a trade, while Xiao Yan and the others watched from hiding as Queen Medusa prepared to take a risk.

• Gu He offered a Sixth-grade Dou Ling Pill and a Seventh-grade Form Transformation Pill for the Heavenly Flames, astonishing the onlookers.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medicine Elder discussed the value of Gu He's offer and the difficulty of refining the pills.
• Queen Medusa refused to trade the Heavenly Flames, leaving Gu He and the other experts bewildered.
• Yue Mei and Ci Yan understood that Queen Medusa intended to use the Heavenly Flames for a dangerous evolution.
• Gu He acknowledged that Queen Medusa needed the Heavenly Flames and that his group could not force her to trade.

Yun Yun exposed Queen Medusa’s apparent form as an energy clone and destroyed it, revealing that the real Queen Medusa was undergoing a vulnerable evolution elsewhere. As the snake people attacked, Yun Yun cleared a path and urged Gu He’s group to seize the chance to reach the Heavenly Flame, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to move in as well.

• Medicine Elder suspected that Queen Medusa was an illusion, and Xiao Yi Xian recognized the figure as an energy clone.
• Yun Yun revealed that Queen Medusa’s true body was preparing to evolve with a Heavenly Flame, then appeared behind the clone and struck it apart.
• Yue Mei and Yan Ci reacted angrily, and Yan Ci ordered the snake people to attack the humans.
• Yun Yun summoned a green tornado that swept away the poisoned-spears aimed at her and Gu He’s group.
• Yun Yun urged Gu He and the others to charge toward Queen Medusa’s vulnerable true body, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to rush in after the Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian followed the Heavenly Flame’s aura to a guarded temple and found a poisoned lake blocking their way to a small island. As they swam through the toxic water, Xiao Yi Xian began absorbing the poison, but a giant emerald-scaled snake rose from the lakebed and attacked her.

• Medicine Elder sensed that Queen Medusa had split the Heavenly Flame’s aura into four parts and identified the eastern district as the correct direction.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian evaded Snake People and patrols, entered the temple, and reached a lake surrounding a small island.
• Xiao Yan discovered that a restriction forced anything flying over the lake into its poisonous water, so Medicine Elder wrapped him in the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian jumped into the lake after Xiao Yan and asked Medicine Elder to remove the flames so she could absorb the poison.
• A giant emerald-scaled snake surged from the lakebed and lunged at Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan reached the island where the Green Lotus Core Flame was kept, after Xiao Yi Xian displayed her strength and gathered the poison-filled river. They discovered Queen Medusa’s Ice Spirit Cold Spring and the Heavenly Flame resting on a crystal lotus seat.

• Xiao Yi Xian killed a giant snake with You Su, then absorbed poison and rose from Three-Star Da Dou Shi to Five-Star Da Dou Shi.
• Medicine Elder gave Xiao Yi Xian a small bottle, and she stored the entire river inside it.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan approached the Small Island while Medicine Elder concealed their auras and warned them that Queen Medusa was there.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan hid in the island’s central clearing and spotted a pool of Ice Spirit Cold Spring.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Xiao Yan saw the Green Lotus Core Flame floating above a crystal lotus seat, held within its bounds by a faint barrier.

Queen Medusa began a dangerous evolution using the Heavenly Flame, while Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Medicine Elder watched from hiding. As energy gathered around her, her transformation remained uncertain, and Xiao Yan stayed ready for trouble.

• Queen Medusa removed the barrier around the green flame, exposing it to the air as it blazed and evaporated the Ice Spirit Cold Spring.
• Queen Medusa undressed and prepared to use the Heavenly Flame, while Xiao Yan watched from the grass and Medicine Elder warned him about her bewitching allure.
• Queen Medusa declared that she would kill every human in the desert if her evolution succeeded, then began forming seals.
• A powerful energy vortex formed above Small Island as Queen Medusa became surrounded by dense light.
• Medicine Elder admitted that Queen Medusa's evolution was unpredictable, while Xiao Yi Xian calmly ate a fruit and anticipated her transformation into a Seven-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python.

Queen Medusa began evolving by taking her true serpent form and plunging into the Green Lotus Core Flame, enduring a devastating burn as Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian watched. Her evolution remained underway as Snake People gathered outside the temple, unable to reach her through the purple barrier.

• Queen Medusa manifested as a massive purple serpent and formed an energy barrier around the temple.
• Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder discussed the danger of her attempt to evolve with the Heavenly Flame, while Xiao Yi Xian watched.
• Queen Medusa plunged into the Green Lotus Core Flame and screamed as it burned her body and soul.
• The flames charred and stripped away her scales, while her body shrank as blood was burned away.
• Snake People gathered at a distance, blocked by the purple light as they anxiously watched Queen Medusa writhe in the flames.

Queen Medusa endured the Green Lotus Core Flame and a lightning tribulation before emerging from her charred snake body with a powerful new aura. Her successful evolution sent the Snake People into celebration and forced Gu He and Yun Yun to retreat, while Medusa recognized Xiao Yi Xian as the one who had helped her.

• Queen Medusa's cries faded as the Green Lotus Core Flame burned her body, and Xiao Yan wondered whether her evolution had failed.
• Medicine Elder sensed turbulent energy in the sky, and Xiao Yi Xian sent a bottle of pool water into the flames before a bolt of lightning struck the barrier.
• The storm clouds dispersed, and the charred snake body began shedding its blackened skin as a new aura appeared within it.
• Queen Medusa emerged from the corpse in a burst of powerful aura, prompting the Snake People to cheer.
• Gu He warned Yun Yun that Queen Medusa had evolved successfully, and Yun Yun led her people away.
• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Yi Xian whether she had helped her.

Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had saved Queen Medusa during the Heavenly Tribulation and asked the newly ascended Dou Zong to help her in the future. She gambled that she could persuade Medusa by offering a path to becoming a Nine-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python, but the chapter ended as Medusa threatened her and Xiao Yi Xian displayed her Peak Dou Emperor power.

• Queen Medusa emerged from the temple after surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, evolving into a Seven-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python and reaching Dou Zong.
• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Yi Xian why she had helped her, and Xiao Yi Xian requested her assistance in the future.
• Queen Medusa dismissed Xiao Yi Xian's request and pressed her with her aura, testing whether she feared being killed.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to help Queen Medusa become a Nine-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python and stood her ground when Medusa threatened to kill her.
• Xiao Yi Xian drew on the power of the Sword Box and rose to Peak Dou Emperor, while Queen Medusa smiled disdainfully at her strength.

Xiao Yi Xian intimidated Queen Medusa into agreeing to help her become a Nine-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python and let Xiao Yan take the Heavenly Flame. Xiao Yan successfully devoured the Green Lotus Core Flame, then Xiao Yi Xian asked him to give her a Child Flame.

• Xiao Yi Xian confronted Queen Medusa with borrowed Dou Zong pressure, and Medusa agreed to help her become a Nine-Colored Swallowing Heaven Python.
• Xiao Yi Xian secured permission to take the Heavenly Flame and told Xiao Yan to consume it.
• Xiao Yan prepared the Blood Lotus Pill, Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and Spirit Absorption, then began refining the Green Lotus Core Flame under Medicine Elder's guidance.
• Xiao Yan survived the trials and successfully devoured the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan celebrated his success with Medicine Elder and Xiao Yi Xian, who asked him to split off a Child Flame for her.

Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Yan for the Green Lotus Core Flame’s Child Flame so she could pursue alchemy, and he agreed to give it to her. After she requested Ice Spirit Cold Spring from Queen Medusa, Medusa returned with it, leaving Xiao Yi Xian ready to begin absorbing the flame.

• Xiao Yi Xian insisted she could safely absorb the Child Flame, and Xiao Yan agreed to give it to her.
• Medicine Elder gave Xiao Yi Xian a Blood Lotus Pill and Spirit Absorption to help her absorb the flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Queen Medusa for Ice Spirit Cold Spring, causing Medusa to leave the throne room in a hurry.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder that divination shortened a person's lifespan, while privately admitting that her Xuan Yuan Sect story was fabricated.
• Queen Medusa returned with a large chunk of Ice Spirit Cold Spring and handed it to Xiao Yi Xian.

Xiao Yi Xian began devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame to overcome her poison’s vulnerability to Heavenly Flames. Protected by the Blood Lotus Pill and Lotus Seat, she endured the Child Flame’s heat as she pushed her arm into it.

• Xiao Yi Xian prepared the Blood Lotus Pill, Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and gray stone before beginning to devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill, which formed a protective crimson keratin layer over her body.
• Xiao Yi Xian used the Lotus Seat to shield herself from much of the flame’s heat as Medicine Elder helped isolate it.
• Xiao Yi Xian inserted her arm into the Green Lotus Core Flame, where the protective layer melted and continually regenerated.

Xiao Yi Xian swallowed the Heavenly Flame and endured its destructive journey through her body as she hovered between life and death. The original Xiao Yi Xian appeared in her consciousness and merged with her, leaving her determined to fulfill her promise and kindle hope.

• Xiao Yi Xian swallowed the green Heavenly Flame, which burned through her meridians and drove back her Poisonous Gas.
• Sword Qi and the Ice-Cold Spring clashed with the flame inside Xiao Yi Xian, while Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder watched anxiously.
• Queen Medusa considered attacking the group but held back, wary of the illusory soul and restrained by an unknown will within her.
• Xiao Yi Xian lost consciousness as the Heavenly Flame overwhelmed her, and the original Xiao Yi Xian appeared in her mind and became a light in the darkness.
• The original Xiao Yi Xian merged into Xiao Yi Xian, who recovered her resolve and vowed to fulfill the promise they had made.

Xiao Yi Xian endured the Green Lotus Core Flame’s violent passage through her meridians while the original Xiao Yi Xian’s soul revealed how she had sacrificed herself to help the newcomer survive. The flame completed its route through the Nameless Sword Canon, but Xiao Yi Xian’s body was badly injured and the devouring remained unfinished.

• Medicine Elder watched Xiao Yi Xian’s skin rupture from the heat and waited anxiously, while Queen Medusa observed her condition.
• Xiao Yi Xian merged with the original Xiao Yi Xian’s remaining soul and learned that the original had given her soul essence and later helped control her during the Heavenly Flame ordeal.
• Xiao Yi Xian vowed to turn the imperfect story into what she hoped it would be as she endured the pain of the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian directed purple Dou Qi to push the Green Lotus Core Flame through the Nameless Sword Canon route, though the flame burned away the Dou Qi and ravaged her meridians.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame completed the Sword Canon route as Xiao Yi Xian’s Dou Qi reserves visibly dwindled and her internal injuries remained severe.

Xiao Yi Xian endured the final stages of refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, and it settled into her body as it began repairing the damage. She emerged from the process with stronger meridians and renewed vitality, while Xiao Yan prepared to face the Three-Year Agreement.

• Xiao Yi Xian used her remaining liquid purple Dou Qi to guide the Green Lotus Core Flame through the final part of the Nameless Sword Canon Cultivation Method.
• The flame’s destructive heat subsided, and Medicine Elder sent the Spirit Absorption into Xiao Yi Xian as an azure barrier enveloped her.
• Xiao Yan rejoiced at Xiao Yi Xian’s success and resolved to challenge the Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame flowed through Xiao Yi Xian’s body, restoring and strengthening her meridians, bones, muscles, and skin.

Xiao Yi Xian awakened after refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, emerging transformed with stronger Dou Qi and a soul nearing the Mortal Realm. She returned to Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder, who welcomed her, while Queen Medusa remained troubled by strange sensations in her body.

• Xiao Yi Xian discovered that her soul had fused with the original Xiao Yi Xian, leaving a fragment of the original’s happiest memories that she resolved to protect.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized the Green Lotus Core Flame had been freed from its primary-and-secondary bond, while her cultivation and Dou Qi had been greatly strengthened.
• The azure barrier vanished, and Xiao Yi Xian emerged in new clothes with the green lotus and a wisp of pale azure flame.
• Xiao Yan stared in shock at Xiao Yi Xian’s transformed appearance, while Medicine Elder and Xiao Yan welcomed her back.