Chapter Summaries

Su Baichen spent seven days cultivating in Danta as he attempted to break through from Dou Zong to Dou Zun, while Xuanyi anxiously waited outside. Xuankongzi reassured her that Su Baichen was stable and reflected on how he had discovered her close relationship with the young genius.

• Su Baichen's Douqi surged inside the sealed chamber as he continued his breakthrough on the seventh day.
• Xuanyi worried that Su Baichen's seclusion had lasted longer than her own breakthrough to Dou Zun.
• Xuankongzi arrived with a little girl and told Xuanyi that Su Baichen's unusually demanding cultivation made the delay normal.
• Xuankongzi reassured Xuanyi that Su Baichen remained stable and had prepared the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill to aid his breakthrough.
• Xuankongzi recalled investigating Su Baichen and realizing that Xuanyi's old affection had been for him, not Yao Chen.

Xuankongzi recalled discovering Su Baichen’s exceptional swordsmanship and persuading him to join Danta. After Su Baichen emerged as a one-star Dou Zun and an entry-level Eighth-tier Alchemist, Cao Ying asked him to become her master, leaving fate poised to change.

• Xuankongzi recalled witnessing Su Baichen defeat Jianzun in a sword-intent spar and agreed to keep his swordsmanship secret if he joined Danta.
• Su Baichen accepted Xuankongzi’s offer to join Danta because Xuanyi was there.
• Su Baichen broke through to one-star Dou Zun, and Xuankongzi and Xuanyi celebrated his success.
• Su Baichen told Xuankongzi and Xuanyi that his breakthrough had raised his Soul Power enough for him to attempt simple eighth-tier pills.
• Xuankongzi introduced Cao Ying as a gifted young alchemist who wanted Su Baichen to take her as his apprentice.

Cao Ying maneuvered Su Baichen into accepting her as his disciple, and he presented her with Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid. Su Baichen explained how he had obtained the formula from Yao Chen, while Xuanyi quietly feared the new master-disciple bond might cause future turmoil.

• Xuankongzi prompted Cao Ying to press Su Baichen, and she knelt before him and declared herself his disciple.
• Cao Ying used tears and persistence to stop Su Baichen from refusing, and he finally agreed to take her as his disciple.
• Su Baichen produced several bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid as a gift, startling Xuankongzi and Xuanyi.
• Xuankongzi asked how Su Baichen had obtained the liquid, and Su Baichen recounted losing a pill-refining bet with Yao Chen and receiving the formula.
• Su Baichen said Yao Chen later shared an unnamed cultivation technique from an ancient secret realm, easing his anger over the bet.

Su Baichen gave Cao Ying Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid as an apprenticeship gift and prepared to leave the Danta to travel abroad. Xuankongzi warned him that the Soul Hall might target him, but Su Baichen assured him he could conceal his whereabouts.

• Su Baichen explained that he had made the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid long ago and gave it to Cao Ying to strengthen her cultivation.
• Cao Ying accepted the gift gratefully and admired Su Baichen, while Xuanyi noticed her unusual gaze and dismissed her suspicions.
• Xuankongzi asked whether Su Baichen planned to travel abroad after stabilizing his Dou Zun cultivation, and Su Baichen confirmed he would depart the next afternoon.
• Xuankongzi gave Su Baichen a Storage Ring containing medicinal pills and warned that the Soul Hall targeted powerful alchemists.
• Su Baichen accepted the supplies and reassured Xuankongzi and Xuanyi that his concealment and escape methods would make him difficult to track.

Su Baichen used the Cultivation Technique Optimization Scroll to transform Fen Jue into the Shenyou Fire-Refining Art, a safer technique that could refine Heavenly Flames while tempering the body. He planned to give it to Cao Ying and prepare Heavenly Flames for her cultivation.

• Su Baichen reviewed his system panel and recalled how the system and Heavenly Book had helped him rise to Dou Zun and establish himself in Danta.
• Su Baichen used the Cultivation Technique Optimization Scroll to optimize Fen Jue.
• Su Baichen discovered the optimized technique improved Heavenly Flame refinement, body tempering, and safety, and renamed it the Shenyou Fire-Refining Art.
• Su Baichen decided Cao Ying should learn the Shenyou Fire-Refining Art and planned to obtain Heavenly Flames for her.
• Su Baichen stored the technique in a Storage Ring to give to Cao Ying later.

Before leaving the Danta, Su Baichen drank with Xuanyi, and both secretly hoped the wine would give them courage to confess their feelings. Su Baichen finally told Xuanyi that he had loved her for years.

• Xuanyi brought jars of Zuixian Niang to Su Baichen and invited him to drink before his departure the next day.
• Su Baichen and Xuanyi each planned to use their drunkenness to confess and grow closer, while neither realized the other's intentions.
• They drank several jars without using Dou Qi to resist the alcohol and became heavily intoxicated.
• Xuanyi told Su Baichen she had something to say, and Su Baichen replied that he did too.
• Su Baichen confessed that he liked Xuanyi and had loved her for years.

Xuanyi and Su Baichen finally confessed their feelings and spent the night together before Su Baichen left the Danta with Cao Ying. After arriving at a remote valley, Su Baichen sent blood-marked paper puppets in several directions to mislead anyone tracking them, then concealed himself and Cao Ying inside the space there.

• Xuanyi joyfully reunited with Su Baichen after he confessed his feelings, and the two embraced and kissed.
• The next afternoon, Su Baichen told Xuankongzi that he was leaving the Danta with Cao Ying and departed through a spatial rift without seeing Xuanyi.
• Xuankongzi suspected Su Baichen had acted strangely but decided not to question the matter further.
• Su Baichen arrived with Cao Ying in a remote valley and used their blood to mark paper puppets that flew off in different directions.
• Su Baichen concealed his and Cao Ying's auras and led them into the space within the valley.

Su Baichen and Cao Ying hid in a spatial crevice while black-robed pursuers searched the valley for Su Baichen. After waiting until night to confirm the enemies had left, they escaped, and Su Baichen revealed that his decoy puppets were rigged to explode.

• Black-robed pursuers arrived, failed to identify Su Baichen’s real body among his puppet traces, and split into groups to hunt him.
• Su Baichen kept Cao Ying silent in their hiding place as the black-robed Elder and two subordinates doubled back to search the valley.
• The Elder eventually left with his subordinates, but Su Baichen and Cao Ying stayed hidden until night to ensure the pursuers were gone.
• Su Baichen and Cao Ying emerged, and he told her that his puppets now exploded when they expired or were destroyed.
• Su Baichen tore open a spatial rift and led Cao Ying away from the valley.

The Soul Hall team returned battered after Su Baichen tricked his pursuers with explosive puppets, leaving their elder furious and humiliated. Old Man Muguo, unaware of the failed mission, continued investigating Su Baichen and resolved to find Yao Chen, whom he believed had survived his self-destruction.

• The Soul Hall elder returned with heavy casualties and learned that every team pursuing Su Baichen had been deceived by puppets that self-destructed.
• The elder cursed Su Baichen and regretted accepting Old Man Muguo’s offer of seventh-tier medicinal pills for the mission.
• Old Man Muguo finished refining a pill and expected the team to bring Su Baichen back for interrogation.
• Old Man Muguo revealed that he suspected Yao Chen had escaped his self-destruction and vowed to track him down.
• Old Man Muguo’s suspicions about Su Baichen grew after Han Feng confirmed their friendship and said Su Baichen had warned Yao Chen against him.

Old Man Muguo learned that Soul Hall’s pursuit of Su Baichen had failed with heavy losses, while Danta uncovered and killed the spy who had helped arrange the ambush. Su Baichen remained at large, and tensions between Danta and Soul Hall intensified.

• Old Man Muguo learned that Su Baichen had escaped after puppet decoys exploded, causing severe casualties among the pursuing Soul Hall team.
• Old Man Muguo suspected that Soul Hall’s hidden spy in Danta had been exposed by the failed operation.
• Xuankongzi, Xuanyi, and Tianleizi investigated the leak and identified a lesser elder who had accepted Soul Hall’s bribe.
• Xuanyi killed the traitorous elder with a flaming palm before Xuankongzi could announce a punishment.
• Danta purged its ranks as Soul Hall suffered the loss of its spy and renewed its focus on Su Baichen.

Su Baichen discovered that the Tianxuan Bead could conceal his aura and signs of life, then agreed to take Cao Ying with him into the desert after advising her to stabilize her cultivation. Days later, at the Snake-People Tribe’s palace, a selection to determine the new Queen Medusa was about to begin.

• Su Baichen refined the Tianxuan Bead and learned that it could conceal his Dou Qi, Soul Power, and signs of life.
• Cao Ying told Su Baichen she had reached the seventh stage of Dou Qi, and he praised her before warning her to consolidate her foundation.
• Cao Ying asked to accompany Su Baichen outside, and he agreed to take her with him.
• Several days later, powerful members of the Snake-People Tribe gathered at Queen Medusa’s palace for the selection of a new queen.

During a Snake-People inheritance ritual, the younger sister vanished after giving the crown to her elder sister, who was left to become Queen Medusa. In the Tagor Desert, Su Baichen and Cao Ying witnessed a Snake-Person falling from the sky.

• The elder sister accepted the ritual's death sentence to spare her younger sister and urged her to kill her and claim the crown.
• The younger sister crowned her elder sister, then ignited her bloodline potential and disappeared in a burst of red light.
• The elder sister remained bound on the platform wearing the crown as the Snake-People watched the ritual end in confusion.
• Su Baichen continued searching the desert for the Green Lotus Core Flame while Cao Ying struggled with the heat.
• Su Baichen sensed a spatial fluctuation and saw a blood-red-trailing Snake-Person falling toward him and Cao Ying.

Su Baichen rescued a badly injured Snake-People woman who had fallen from the sky and brought her with Cao Ying to a secluded cave. When the woman awoke, she could not remember who she was, leaving her identity and past unknown.

• Cao Ying spotted a Snake-People woman falling, and Su Baichen caught her before she hit the ground.
• Su Baichen examined the woman's severe injuries and learned that her failed spatial escape technique had damaged her body and foundation.
• Su Baichen took the unconscious woman and Cao Ying to a secluded cave to keep her safe.
• As Su Baichen prepared food and Cao Ying cultivated, the woman dreamed in terror and woke with no memory.
• Cao Ying introduced herself and Su Baichen, and the woman asked whether they knew who she was.

Su Baichen recognized the amnesiac snake woman as Die and saw her as a potential guide to the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Cao Ying pleaded to bring her along. He left Die watching in confusion after punishing Cao Ying for teasing him.

• Die told Cao Ying that she had forgotten everything, and Su Baichen recognized her as Queen Medusa Cailin’s younger sister.
• Su Baichen considered using Die as a guide to the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Cao Ying asked Su Baichen to take Die with them, but he teased Cao Ying instead.
• Cao Ying pretended to cry, then drew curses in the sand, including one wishing Su Baichen a hundred years of life.
• Su Baichen decided to give Cao Ying a memorable childhood experience and spanked her over his knee.
• Die watched the scene and wondered whether it was the legendary bamboo shoot fried meat.

Su Baichen traveled across the Tagor Desert with Cao Ying and his new maidservant Caidie when three Snake-People Tribe Dou Emperors attacked them. After Su Baichen effortlessly shattered one elder’s attack, another tried to seize Caidie and Cao Ying, leaving Su Baichen ready to intervene.

• Cao Ying asked Caidie to protect her, and Caidie promised to help unless Su Baichen was involved.
• Su Baichen sensed three Snake-People Tribe Dou Emperors approaching and recognized one aura as matching Caidie’s.
• A gaunt elder attacked Su Baichen with a high-grade Xuan-class Dou Technique, but Su Baichen shattered the energy python with one palm.
• Another elder rushed toward Caidie and Cao Ying and declared that both would be punished for Caidie’s alleged betrayal.
• Caidie shielded Cao Ying and asked the elder to spare her, but he refused and reached for them as Su Baichen prepared to intervene.

Su Baichen protected Cao Ying and Caidie from three Snake-People Dou Emperors, effortlessly defeating their leader and terrifying the others. He then demanded compensation for the fear and distress they had caused his disciple and maid, leaving the surviving Dou Emperors to negotiate under threat.

• Su Baichen stepped in front of Cao Ying and Caidie as three Snake-People Dou Emperors threatened him.
• Cao Ying reassured Caidie that her master was strong while the Snake-People grew angry at being ignored.
• Su Baichen instantly crossed the distance and slapped the leading five-star Dou Emperor into a crater.
• The two remaining Dou Emperors realized Su Baichen could wield space power and begged him for mercy and offered compensation.
• Su Baichen claimed Cao Ying and Caidie had suffered emotional distress and possible lasting harm, then demanded compensation from the two Snake-People.

Su Baichen forced the Snake-People Elders to offer ransom and kept the Third Elder behind while the Second Elder fled to gather more. He then examined Caidie’s changed appearance, only to discover that she and Cao Ying had misunderstood his stare.

• The Snake-People Elders handed Su Baichen their valuables, but he declared the payment insufficient and ordered one elder to stay while the other fetched ransom.
• The Second Elder manipulated the Third Elder into volunteering to remain, then hurried back to the tribe while the Third Elder realized he had been tricked.
• Su Baichen returned to Caidie and stared at her, making her blush and awkwardly say she was not ready yet.
• Su Baichen knocked Caidie and Cao Ying on the head and explained that he had only been wondering why Caidie’s appearance looked strange.

Su Baichen gave Caidie a seventh-tier Transformation Pill and Cao Ying revealed that he was an Eighth-tier Alchemist. The Third Elder feared the Snake-People Tribe would be targeted for offending Su Baichen, then realized Caidie might be their chance to survive.

• Su Baichen produced a seventh-tier Transformation Pill and explained that it would let Caidie take human form while gaining human cultivation talent.
• Caidie tried to refuse the pill, while the Third Elder envied her and longed to take it himself.
• Cao Ying told Caidie that Su Baichen was an Eighth-tier Alchemist who could make seventh-tier pills easily.
• The Third Elder feared that powerful factions would attack the Snake-People Tribe for offending an Eighth-tier Alchemist.
• The Third Elder saw Caidie and the Transformation Pill as a chance to save the Snake-People Tribe.

Caidie took the Transformation Pill, regained her human form, and rose to nine-star Dou Wang while recovering her memories. The Third Elder apologized for pursuing her and begged her to save the Snake-People Tribe, which faced threats from within and without.

• Caidie swallowed the Transformation Pill and emerged from its cocoon with human legs.
• Su Baichen got a nosebleed at Caidie's new appearance, then hurried away after Cao Ying called attention to it.
• The Third Elder sensed that Caidie had advanced from six-star to nine-star Dou Wang with stable cultivation.
• Caidie told the Third Elder that the pill had reshaped her body, strengthened her cultivation, and healed her soul enough to restore her memories.
• The Third Elder apologized for his past actions and knelt before Caidie, begging her to save the Snake-People Tribe.

Caidie agreed to approach Su Baichen and ask for help after Third Elder warned that the Snake-People Tribe could be attacked for offending him. Meanwhile, Second Elder reported Su Baichen’s strength and demand for compensation to Queen Medusa and the elders, leaving the tribe’s leaders to confront the danger.

• Third Elder warned Caidie that the Jia Ma Imperial Family and other enemies might use the tribe’s offense against Su Baichen as a pretext to destroy the Snake-People Tribe.
• Caidie feared that she had too little influence with Su Baichen, but agreed to try to help her tribe after seeing Third Elder’s despair.
• Caidie headed toward Su Baichen’s cave, and Third Elder followed behind her rather than risk angering him by fleeing.
• At the Snake-People Tribe’s palace, Second Elder told Queen Medusa and Great Elder that Caidie had become the maid of a Dou Zong expert.
• Second Elder recounted how Su Baichen had slapped Fourth Elder into a sand dune after he offended him, then began explaining Su Baichen’s demand for compensation.