Chapter Summaries

Su Baichen searched the System Shop for a cultivation art suited to Cailin and chose the Nine Heavens Spirit-Nurturing Art to help the young Heaven-Swallowing Python grow without losing its gentle nature. He bought it at half price and ended the chapter asking the System whether he could get more discounts.

• Su Baichen woke the sleeping Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and gently played with it.
• Su Baichen searched the System Shop for cultivation arts suitable for Cailin.
• Su Baichen rejected the Nine Turns Heaven-Swallowing Art for its reliance on devouring and the Dragon-Snake Tyrant Body Art for its slow progress.
• Su Baichen chose the Nine Heavens Spirit-Nurturing Art, which let a host and companion spirit cultivate together and fuse in battle.
• Su Baichen bought the art for 60 million gold coins and received 30 million back as a first-purchase discount.
• Su Baichen praised the System and asked whether it could give him more discounts in the future.

Su Baichen used a limited System Shop discount to loot treasuries across the region and buy a pile of treasures. The next day, while he slept, the Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python discovered a mirror that played Caidie’s voice and crept closer to investigate.

• Su Baichen learned that a forty-percent System Shop discount would last only thirty minutes and rushed to gather wealth.
• He raided the Snake-People Tribe treasury, the Jia Ma Empire’s imperial treasury, and the treasuries of several other forces using his spatial abilities.
• With the discount nearly over, Su Baichen spent his gathered wealth on rare treasures until the shopping event ended.
• The next day, the Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python woke and sorted through the treasures while Su Baichen slept.
• The Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python touched a protrusion on a silver mirror, which began playing Caidie’s voice, and it cautiously approached to investigate.

Su Baichen woke to find Xiao Cai had tidied the clutter beneath his bed and rewarded the clever little snake with a bottle of Fire Lotus Seeds. As Xiao Cai feasted, Su Baichen reflected on its extraordinary intelligence and the perilous lightning at its birth, grateful to have it by his side.

• Su Baichen woke and found Xiao Cai had neatly sorted the books, pills, and medicinal herbs beneath his bed.
• Su Baichen praised Xiao Cai and asked what reward it wanted, and Xiao Cai brought him a jade bottle of Fire Lotus Seeds.
• Su Baichen gave Xiao Cai the entire bottle after realizing it had resisted eating the seeds while tidying.
• Xiao Cai shared a seed with Su Baichen, who declined and reflected on its intelligence and the Tribulation Lightning it had survived at birth.
• Su Baichen gently stroked Xiao Cai as it continued eating, and Xiao Cai showed its affection and gratitude.

Su Baichen examined the newly unlocked Zhansha skill in his system space and recognized its power to execute weakened enemies while bypassing all defenses and destroying both body and soul. He left with renewed confidence about facing Soul Hall and other dangerous foes.

• Su Baichen entered the system space and focused on the golden skill imprint named Zhansha.
• Su Baichen read that Zhansha could execute an opponent below one-tenth health, ignoring defenses and inflicting fatal damage on both body and soul without consuming energy.
• Su Baichen recalled enemies who had escaped death through hidden defenses, soul transfer, resurrection methods, and other last-resort techniques.
• Su Baichen imagined how Zhansha would have prevented Yao Chen from surviving as a remnant soul after his betrayal and pursuit.
• Su Baichen resolved to use Zhansha against Soul Hall enemies after weakening them, confident he could defeat their trump cards and prevent their escape.

Su Baichen acquired the costly divine skill Zhansha and reviewed the resources he had collected. After the Snake-People Tribe matter ended, he decided to seek out Xiao Yi Xian once Cao Ying reached the Dou Zhe realm.

• Su Baichen spent sixty percent of his gold coins to obtain Zhansha and absorbed the skill into his soul.
• Su Baichen checked on the sleeping Xiao Cai, then inspected his gathered combat techniques, herbs, artifacts, and pills in the System Space.
• Su Baichen considered searching for Qing Lin but rejected the idea because she had probably not been born yet.
• Su Baichen decided to recruit Xiao Yi Xian, whose Woeful Poison Body could grow stronger by consuming poison.
• Su Baichen planned to wait until Cao Ying reached the Dou Zhe realm before traveling to Qingshan Town to find Xiao Yi Xian.

Su Baichen admitted that he had taken the Snake-People Tribe’s treasury gold coins and compensated the tribe with precious pills. He remained with the tribe to guide Cao Ying and plan his next journey to find Xiao Yi Xian and investigate Heavenly Flames.

• Su Baichen’s cultivation was interrupted when the Snake-People Tribe discovered that all the gold coins in its treasury were missing.
• Remembering that he had taken the coins, Su Baichen decided to repay the tribe with pills he had refined.
• Su Baichen confessed to the elders that he had borrowed the gold coins and gave them pills, including fifth-tier Huangji Pills, as compensation.
• The elders accepted the pills and agreed to keep their existence secret to avoid attracting trouble.
• Su Baichen decided to stay until Cao Ying reached the Dou Zhe realm, then travel to Qingshan Town to find Xiao Yi Xian while investigating Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Cai transformed back into Cailin while Su Baichen was holding her, and he was shocked to find that she had recovered. Cailin teased him with her seductive appearance, but he restrained himself and stepped away to find her clothes, leaving her determined to make him hers.

• Xiao Cai transformed from a snake into the recovered Cailin in Su Baichen's arms.
• Su Baichen recognized Cailin and stammered that she was beautiful when she asked what he thought of her appearance.
• Cailin teased Su Baichen by touching him and leaning close, while he struggled to control his desire.
• Su Baichen pushed Cailin away and said he would find her clothes because she had only just awakened.
• Cailin understood that Su Baichen had held back out of concern for her and resolved to make him hers.

Cailin persuaded Su Baichen to give in to their desire, but after she fell asleep, the exhausted body returned to Xiao Cai. Su Baichen found the little snake sore and weak the next morning and urged it to rest.

• Cailin embraced Su Baichen and reminded him that he had said he loved her, then insisted she wanted him despite his concern for her health.
• Su Baichen gave in, carried Cailin to bed, and spent the night with her while the startled maids fled the door.
• The next morning, Su Baichen awoke to find Xiao Cai, the Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python, in Cailin's place.
• Su Baichen realized Xiao Cai had inherited the body's aches and exhaustion after Cailin's consciousness went to sleep.
• Xiao Cai looked at Su Baichen with tearful grievance, and he comforted it and told it to rest.

Cao Ying barged into Su Baichen’s room and noticed a strange scent left behind after his night with Queen Medusa, but Su Baichen and Caidie covered it up as sweat from training. Cao Ying then proudly announced that she had reached the peak of Nine-Duan Dou Qi, leaving Su Baichen to react to her news.

• Cao Ying entered Su Baichen’s room and questioned him about a strange, familiar scent.
• Su Baichen denied that anything was wrong, while Caidie helped cover for him and Queen Medusa by blaming the smell on his training.
• Su Baichen redirected Cao Ying’s attention by asking why she had come to see him.
• Cao Ying proudly told Su Baichen that she had reached the peak of Nine-Duan Dou Qi and waited for his praise.

Cao Ying proudly told Su Baichen she had reached peak ninth-stage Dou Qi before age six, but he compared her progress with his own remarkable cultivation history. He teased her about her astonishment and gave her a fourth-grade Juqi Powder he had prepared for her.

• Cao Ying announced that she had reached peak ninth-stage Dou Qi before turning six and expected Su Baichen to praise her.
• Su Baichen dismissed the achievement, prompting Cao Ying and Caidie to question his lack of excitement.
• Su Baichen recounted how he began cultivating at eight and advanced from Dou Zhe to Dou Zun before turning twenty-one.
• Cao Ying was stunned by Su Baichen's cultivation speed, called him inhuman, and received a gentle tap on the forehead.
• Su Baichen produced a fourth-grade medicinal pill, Juqi Powder, that he had prepared for Cao Ying.

Su Baichen gave Cao Ying the evolving Shenyou Fire-Refining Art and urged her to pursue strength. Meanwhile, a traveling physician entered a village devastated by poisonous gas and rushed toward the sound of a possible survivor.

• Su Baichen teased Cao Ying before giving her the Shenyou Fire-Refining Art, a technique that could evolve by absorbing Heavenly Flames.
• Cao Ying was shocked by the technique's potential, promised to study it seriously, and resolved to become strong enough to suppress her master.
• A female physician discovered a village near the Magical Beast Mountain Range filled with purple poisonous mist and dead villagers.
• After taking an antidote, the physician entered the village and suspected poison masters from the Chu Yun Empire had caused the devastation.
• The physician heard faint sobbing and hurried toward the sound, hoping to find a survivor.

Su Baichen left the Snake-People Tribe with Cailin, giving the tribe precious pills and two Dou Zong-level puppets for protection. The story then shifted to Wutan City, where the Xiao Clan celebrated securing a place among the city's three great clans while Xiao Zhan privately carried the weight of their struggle.

• Su Baichen promised the Snake-People Tribe's Great Elder that he would protect Cailin as she left with him.
• Su Baichen gave the Great Elder medicinal pills and two limited-use Dou Zong-level puppets to protect the tribe.
• Su Baichen, Cao Ying, Caidie, Yun Yun, and Cailin departed before the Great Elder could thank them in person.
• In Wutan City, Xiao Clan members celebrated their hard-won position alongside the Jialie Clan and the Aoba Clan.
• Xiao Zhan reflected on how he had led the weakened Xiao Clan through the other clans' ruthless suppression, despite the strain and exhaustion it had caused him.

Xiao Zhan grieved over the Xiao Clan’s decline in its ancestral chamber and vowed to protect and restore it. Several days later, Su Baichen’s group heard of a village massacre, prompting Cao Ying to demand justice and Yun Yun and Caidie to explain the harsh rule of strength.

• Xiao Zhan entered the Xiao Clan’s hidden ancestral chamber and prayed for the clan to escape its plight.
• Xiao Zhan recalled how Xiao Lin’s death and an attack during the clan’s migration had decimated the Xiao Clan’s experts.
• Xiao Zhan vowed before the ancestors to protect the clan and restore its prestige.
• In an inn in Qingshan Town, Su Baichen’s group overheard that Heavenly Poison Masters from the Chu Yun Empire had killed a village with poison gas, leaving one girl alive.
• Cao Ying urged Su Baichen to wipe out the poison masters, while Yun Yun and Caidie told her that justice depended on strength.

After hearing about a girl who survived a poisonous mist, Su Baichen suspected she was Xiao Yi Xian and learned she had been adopted by a physician near Qingshan Town. He planned to visit her the next day, while Cao Ying asked to help Yun Yun investigate.

• Su Baichen reasoned that the surviving girl's constitution might be the Woeful Poison Body and suspected she was Xiao Yi Xian.
• Su Baichen asked Yun Yun to question the neighboring table, and she learned the girl had been adopted by a physician surnamed Liu who lived north of Qingshan Town.
• Su Baichen told Yun Yun to confirm the physician's exact residence and planned to visit the next day.
• Cao Ying asked to accompany Yun Yun, but Su Baichen teased her and told her to stay at the inn and cultivate.

Cao Ying, Caidie, and Yun Yun went out together after Su Baichen teased Cao Ying and allowed them to leave. As Caidie questioned Yun Yun about her bond with Su Baichen, she reflected on the quiet rivalry that had grown between them, while Yun Yun hinted that Su Baichen had saved her life.

• Cao Ying argued with Su Baichen after he teased her, but he stopped her charge with one hand and told her to leave early and return early.
• Su Baichen asked Caidie to accompany Cao Ying and keep her out of trouble, then watched the three women depart with the Eight-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python.
• Cao Ying eagerly explored the street stalls while Caidie asked Yun Yun how she had met Su Baichen and why she called him her master.
• Caidie remembered that Yun Yun's arrival a month earlier had sparked a rivalry as they competed to help Su Baichen, leaving the Second Elder with fewer duties.
• Yun Yun told Caidie that Su Baichen was her lifesaver and had given her a new life, then watched Cao Ying with envy that became resolve.
• Cao Ying spotted a sugar-figurine seller and pulled Caidie and Yun Yun along to buy figurines shaped like a snake, a bird, and Su Baichen.

Caidie waited for Yun Yun to return so she could learn about her relationship with Su Baichen. After Yun Yun recounted how Su Baichen rescued her and reassured Caidie of her place in his heart, Yun Yun was left envying the trust and affection Caidie received.

• Yun Yun returned from investigating outside the city and found Caidie asleep at her desk, waiting for her.
• Caidie directly asked Yun Yun about her relationship with Su Baichen.
• Yun Yun described her fall from being the Misty Cloud Sect's Young Sect Master, her imprisonment by the Snake-People Tribe, and Su Baichen's rescue and kindness.
• Yun Yun assured Caidie that Su Baichen treated her like family and trusted her to care for Cao Ying.
• Caidie blushed as she wondered whether Su Baichen might have deeper feelings for her, then hurried out of Yun Yun's room.
• Yun Yun closed the door and privately envied Caidie's innocence and the wholehearted affection she received from Su Baichen.

Physician Liu tried to comfort Xiao Yi Xian, who remained haunted by the deaths of her family and burdened by guilt. Su Baichen arrived with three companions and revealed that they had come specifically for Xiao Yi Xian.

• Physician Liu asked Xiao Yi Xian whether she was thinking about her family and urged her not to blame herself for what happened.
• Xiao Yi Xian trembled at the mention of her parents, and Physician Liu noticed her fear was mixed with deep guilt.
• Su Baichen arrived at Physician Liu's courtyard with two women and a little girl.
• Su Baichen told Physician Liu that he and his companions had come to discuss a matter concerning her and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Physician Liu realized Xiao Yi Xian was their target, and Su Baichen confirmed it.

Su Baichen revealed that the village girl Xiao Yi Xian possessed the rare Woeful Poison Body and explained that he wanted to take her as his disciple so he could teach her to control it. Yun Yun described the constitution’s dangers, leaving Physician Liu alarmed by the threat to the girl and those around her.

• Su Baichen silently examined the girl with his Soul Power and recognized her dormant Woeful Poison Body.
• Physician Liu shielded the girl and asked Su Baichen not to take her away.
• Su Baichen told Physician Liu that the girl’s constitution could harm her and others unless properly guided, and said he wanted to teach her as his disciple.
• Su Baichen asked Yun Yun to explain what she knew about the Woeful Poison Body.
• Yun Yun explained that the constitution could poison those nearby, grow stronger by consuming poison, and eventually kill its possessor through toxic backlash.

Xiao Yi Xian confessed that she had accidentally released the poison gas that killed her family and the village. Su Baichen offered to teach her to control her Woeful Poison Body, and she accepted him as her master.

• Xiao Yi Xian admitted that she had eaten purple medicinal powder and unknowingly released poison gas that killed everyone in her village.
• Physician Liu continued to protect Xiao Yi Xian despite learning that the girl’s condition could endanger her.
• Su Baichen reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he could suppress her toxins and teach her to control her power.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked whether she could stop hurting innocent people, then agreed to become Su Baichen’s disciple.

Cao Ying tried to welcome Xiao Yi Xian with the teasing “special treatment” she had received as the youngest, but frightened Xiao Yi Xian into believing she was about to be bullied. The chapter ended with Cao Ying explaining herself and Xiao Yi Xian cautiously calming down.

• Cao Ying told Xiao Yi Xian to visit her that night, then examined her and privately rejoiced that she could finally be the senior sister in charge.
• Cao Ying’s eerie laughter and commanding shout frightened Xiao Yi Xian, who fled toward the house crying for help.
• Physician Liu started to intervene, but Caidie persuaded her that Cao Ying was only playing with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Cao Ying caught Xiao Yi Xian in the courtyard, and Xiao Yi Xian crouched down and begged her not to hit her.
• Cao Ying reassured Xiao Yi Xian that she only wanted to play and explained that her “special treatment” was meant for the youngest sister.