Chapter Summaries

Feng Qing'er decided to befriend Xiao Ting so she could obtain the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, while his cultivation and alchemy skills continued to improve. When the Jia Lie Clan’s First-Rank Alchemist threatened the Xiao Clan’s business, Xiao Ting revealed that Xiao Yan had also become a First-Rank Alchemist.

• Feng Qing'er resolved to get close to Xiao Ting and win his approval, believing he might give her the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Xiao Ting continued studying alchemy with Yao Lao, advanced toward refining Second-Grade Medicinal Pills, and reached Two-Star Dou Ling over the next ten days.
• The Jia Lie Clan’s First-Rank Alchemist helped drive down prices and cut the Xiao Clan’s marketplace profits, prompting Xiao Zhan and the elders to consider fighting back.
• Xiao Ting told the Xiao Clan that they had their own First-Rank Alchemist and asked Xiao Yan to demonstrate.
• Xiao Yan produced hundreds of bottles of medicine and pills, stunning the clan as Xiao Zhan realized his son had become a First-Rank Alchemist.

Xiao Ting revealed that he was a sixteen-year-old Second-Rank Alchemist and secured the Mittel Family’s support for the Xiao Clan, giving the clan plans for future growth. At Xun’er’s courtyard, Huo Zhi and Yao Ling arrived, and the group learned that Fairy Huo Ling was a Seven-Star Dou Sheng who had gone to the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Xiao Yan revealed that Xiao Ting was also a First-Rank Alchemist, and Xiao Ting displayed piles of First-Grade Medicinal Pills in the Xiao Clan’s Council Hall.
• Xiao Ting announced that he could refine Second-Grade Medicinal Pills and arranged for the clan to sell their pills while paying him and Xiao Yan the cost plus part of the profits.
• Xiao Ting said the Mittel Family would support the Xiao Clan because he had helped Hai Bodong, and he urged the clan to train stronger experts and reclaim its lost industries.
• Xiao Ting left for Xun’er’s courtyard, where Huo Zhi and Yao Ling had joined Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, Medusa, Yun Yun, and Xun’er.
• Huo Zhi revealed that her aunt, Fairy Huo Ling, had gone to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xun’er explained that the Seven-Star Dou Sheng posed no threat to it.

Xun'er explained why Huo Zhi and Yao Ling could not approach Xiao Ting yet, and brought them into a group chat through their Notebook Copies. She warned that their presence would make Xiao Ting suspect they could see the Notes, while Xiao Ting recognized Xun'er as the person best suited to manage the women around him.

• Xun'er told the women that Huo Zhi's aunt was a late-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng, though the avatar accompanying Huo Zhi could display only the strength of a Three-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xun'er had Huo Zhi and Yao Ling manifest their Notebook Copies, befriended them, and added them to a group chat with the others.
• Huo Zhi explained that the Notebook Copy could reveal when a powerful expert was eavesdropping, and Yao Ling proposed devising a reason to meet Xiao Ting.
• Xun'er warned that Xiao Ting had grown suspicious after meeting Medusa and Yun Yun, and that Huo Zhi and Yao Ling appearing would expose that they could see the Notes.
• Xiao Ting concluded that Xun'er was the best person to keep new women from approaching him recklessly, while Xun'er insisted the group stay cautious to avoid harming one another.

Gu Xun'er planned how Huo Zhi and Yao Ling could approach Xiao Ting without arousing suspicion, weighing their needs for Plane Blessings and the Yao Clan’s reputation. Huo Zhi gained a path through Jia Nan Academy, while Yao Ling was told to reform her clan and investigate Yao Chen’s past before meeting Xiao Ting at the Dan Tower competition.

• Gu Xun'er explained that Notebook Copy holders had to join Xiao Ting’s circle and warned Yao Ling not to act recklessly.
• Huo Zhi said she urgently needed Plane Blessings to strengthen her bloodline and qualify for her clan’s Fire Emperor inheritance.
• Gu Xun'er proposed that Huo Zhi attend Jia Nan Academy, befriend Xun'er there, and avoid deliberately approaching Xiao Ting.
• Gu Xun'er told Yao Ling to work on the Yao Clan’s conduct and investigate what had happened to Yao Chen before seeking Xiao Ting’s help.
• Yao Ling objected to appearing at the Dan Tower competition, and Gu Xun'er explained that Xiao Ting’s prejudice against the Yao Clan made a direct approach risky.

Xun'er proposed ways for Yao Ling to meet Xiao Ting sooner, including sending Yao Tian to the Flame Clan to propose to Huo Zhi. After Yun Yun and Queen Medusa staged a fight to explain how they obtained Transformation Grass, Huo Zhi revealed that Yun Yun could speak with Yun Potian's remnant soul.

• Xun'er suggested that Yao Tian propose to Huo Zhi so Yao Ling could accompany them to the Black-Corner Region, while Huo Zhi joked that he should propose to the Gu Clan instead.
• Medusa and Yun Yun pretended to fight after obtaining Transformation Grass, and Xiao Ting arrived as their staged battle began.
• Xun'er told Xiao Ting that Medusa had taken the herb from a magical beast, and he wrote about Yun Yun's bravery in the Notes.
• Huo Zhi told Yun Yun that her aunt had found Yun Potian's remnant soul inside the Life and Death Gate and offered to teach her the hand seals needed to meet him.
• Yun Yun eagerly asked Huo Zhi for the method, and Medusa said she would call the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python big sister if she could meet her.

Queen Medusa brought the sealed Yun Yun back to the Xiao Clan as her maid, where Yun Yun faced Xiao Ting’s mockery and learned he had reached Dou Ling. After Xiao Ting arranged an alliance with Hai Bodong’s Mittel Family, he recorded his desire to bully Yun Yun, while she and Queen Medusa discussed the rewards that made the ordeal worthwhile.

• Queen Medusa returned to the Xiao Clan with Yun Yun and Hai Bodong, claiming Yun Yun had been sealed and made her maid.
• Hai Bodong rebuked Yun Yun and explained that he supported Xiao Ting and the Xiao Clan, not the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Ting mocked Yun Yun and revealed that he was a Dou Ling, but Yun Yun declined to fight him and left with Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Ting took Hai Bodong to meet Xiao Zhan and arrange the Mittel Family’s support for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Ting wrote in his journal about Yun Yun’s misfortune and his wish to bully her, while Yun Yun and Queen Medusa discussed the Transformation Grass and Plane Blessing.

Queen Medusa and Yun Yun discussed a plan to explain Medusa’s accelerated breakthrough and keep her protecting Xiao Ting. In Jia Ma Holy City, Yao Ling met Fairy Huo Ling, praised the Flame Clan’s openness, and abruptly asked whether her brother could marry Huo Zhi.

• Yun Yun worried that Medusa’s early breakthrough would make Xiao Ting suspicious and leave Medusa without a reason to stay by his side.
• Medusa explained that Xun’er had devised a cover story involving a fragmented magic core and remnant soul, with Medusa promising to protect Xiao Ting for three years in exchange for help.
• Medusa teased Yun Yun for acting as her maid and said that Yun Yun’s Snake Seal made their story convincing.
• Fairy Huo Ling questioned Yao Ling about her visit to the Northwest Continent, and Yao Ling said she had come to gain experience and learn about Xiao Xuan.
• Huo Ling criticized the Yao Clan’s arrogance, and Yao Ling agreed before asking whether her brother Yao Tian was qualified to seek Huo Zhi’s hand in marriage.

Huo Zhi and Yao Ling discussed whether Fairy Huo Ling would marry a Dou Di, while the Jia Lie Family’s attempt to use Liu Xi against the Xiao Clan collapsed after Xiao Ting’s alchemy overwhelmed him. Xiao Ting followed Liu Xi out of the city and shot him with an arrow, leaving him motionless.

• Huo Zhi asked whether Fairy Huo Ling would marry a man who became a Dou Di before his thirties or forties, and Fairy Huo Ling joked that the Dou Di might have to ask her first.
• Jia Lie Bi asked Liu Xi to keep refining medicine so the Jia Lie Family could suppress the Xiao Clan, and promised him a snake woman.
• Liu Xi inspected the Xiao Clan’s medicinal pills and concluded that one alchemist was far more skilled than he was, so he abandoned the Jia Lie Family and left.
• Jia Lie Bi rejected his elders’ suggestion to keep Liu Xi by force and considered negotiating peace with the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Ting sensed the Jia Lie Family’s discussion, followed Liu Xi out of the city, and shot him with an arrow in a forest.

Xiao Ting’s schemes helped bring down the Jia Lie Family, while Yun Yun and Medusa debated whether he had orchestrated the events. The chapter ended with Medusa asking Xiao Ting to use the Heavenly Flames to help her attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong.

• Xiao Ting left Liu Xi alive with injured heart meridians, intending to manipulate Liu Xi’s teacher and eliminate the Jia Lie Family, while Yun Yun and Medusa watched.
• Liu Xi woke, blamed Jia Lie Bi, and set out to seek revenge before Yun Yun persuaded Medusa not to kill him and disrupt Xiao Ting’s plan.
• The Xiao Clan’s pressure and the Mittal Auction House’s cooperation weakened the Jia Lie Family, and Liu Xi’s teacher Teng Ma came to Wutan City after Liu Xi died.
• Teng Ma and Jia Lie Bi clashed, and Jia Lie Bi died from his injuries after the Jia Lie Family was severely weakened.
• Medusa accused someone of secretly manipulating events, while Yun Yun praised the idea that a brilliant strategist could be behind them; Xiao Ting defended Yun Yun from Medusa’s insults.
• Medusa asked Xiao Ting to use the Heavenly Flames to help her attempt a breakthrough to Dou Zong, and Xiao Ting questioned whether she was ready.

Xiao Ting arranged for Yun Yun to train the Xiao Clan’s wind-attribute cultivators in exchange for her help and promised to ask Queen Medusa to release her. After reading the updated Notes, the women heard Yun Yun explain that she planned to use the resulting favor to enlist their help against the Soul Hall, leaving them wondering whether she would offer herself in marriage.

• Queen Medusa said she was ready to attempt evolution with Xiao Ting’s help, and they agreed to begin the breakthrough the next day.
• Xiao Ting asked to use Yun Yun as an instructor and requested a High Xuan Tier wind-attribute cultivation method and Dou Technique for the Xiao Clan.
• Yun Yun agreed to train the Xiao Clan’s wind-attribute cultivators after Xiao Ting promised to ask Queen Medusa to let her go.
• The women received the updated Notes, which revealed Xiao Ting’s promises about Yun Yun’s training and release.
• Yun Yun said she intended to use her bond of gratitude with the Xiao Clan to seek help against the Soul Hall, prompting the women to tease her about marrying Xiao Ting.

Xiao Ting took Queen Medusa to the Xiao Clan’s back mountain, where she danced before beginning the evolution that could make her a Dou Zong. His Notes revealed plans for her future inheritance and a way to strengthen the Snake-People Tribe, drawing the attention of women across the continent.

• Yun Yun confronted Medusa after Xiao Ting’s Notes revealed that he planned to keep Yun Yun as her maid, and Medusa threatened to spare or punish her depending on her behavior.
• The next day, Xiao Ting took a break from alchemy practice and went with Medusa to the Xiao Clan’s back mountain, where he had prepared a barrier and an Ice Spirit Cold Spring.
• Medusa danced for Xiao Ting, while his Notes revealed that Xun’er had given her a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python core and remnant soul to improve her bloodline before her evolution.
• Xiao Ting’s Notes described a future Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python inheritance and his plan to find a Nine-Colored Origin Stone, prompting women across the continent to covet the opportunity.

Queen Medusa completed her Sacrificial Dance and began transforming her bloodline with Xiao Ting’s Purple Heaven Sky Flame. After their teasing turned intimate, she declared that they belonged to each other, but Xiao Ting’s Notes nearly made her suffer qi deviation.

• Huo Zhi, Yao Ling, Xun'er, and the others discussed how building a relationship with Xiao Ting could bring powerful inheritances and benefits.
• Queen Medusa focused on her dance and completed the Sacrificial Dance after about a quarter of an hour.
• Queen Medusa invited Xiao Ting to place the Purple Heaven Sky Flame inside her body and ignite her bloodline, and they pressed their palms together in the Cold Ice Spirit Spring.
• Queen Medusa teased Xiao Ting, but he grabbed and burned her snake tail until she admitted she was wrong.
• Queen Medusa bit Xiao Ting’s shoulder and vowed that they belonged only to each other, then obediently resumed the transformation.
• Xiao Ting’s Notes described their encounter and his thoughts about Medusa, nearly causing her to suffer qi deviation.

Xun'er explained why she accepted Xiao Ting’s other relationships and urged Yun Yun not to hesitate about her feelings. Meanwhile, Xiao Ting helped Queen Medusa evolve through the Purple Nether Flame Snake’s lightning tribulation, but her transformation ended with a startling encounter.

• Xun'er told Yun Yun that she accepted Xiao Ting’s other partners because resisting would risk their relationship, and she encouraged Yun Yun to seize what she wanted.
• Xun'er and Xiao Yi Xian teased each other while Qing Lin agreed with Xun'er, leaving Yun Yun to think seriously about her feelings.
• Xiao Ting used the Purple Heaven Sky Flame to awaken Queen Medusa’s hidden Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline and strengthen her evolution while absorbing refined Dou Qi.
• Queen Medusa transformed into a Purple Nether Flame Snake and challenged the lightning tribulation, while Xiao Ting’s cultivation rose to Four-Star Dou Ling.
• After the tribulation, a seven-colored light vanished through a spatial crack, then reappeared beside Xiao Ting and pushed him down as a woman asked whether she smelled good.

Xiao Ting named Medusa Caili, and she became a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python before entering hibernation to receive her inheritance. After returning to Xun'er, Xiao Ting discussed Fen Jue and warned that its ability to evolve through Heavenly Flames made it dangerous for Xiao Yan to reveal.

• Xiao Ting named Medusa Caili, and she pretended to dislike the name while secretly appreciating its meaning.
• Caili and Xiao Ting became intimate, and afterward she told him she would hibernate to adapt to her inheritance and Dou Zong strength.
• Caili's companion soul evolved into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, which Xiao Ting named Xiao Caier and fed Companion Amethyst Source.
• Xiao Ting stabilized his cultivation at peak four-star Dou Ling and returned to the Xiao Clan, where Xun'er asked whether Medusa had succeeded.
• Xiao Ting and Xun'er discussed Fen Jue, and Xun'er warned that Xiao Yan could be killed if he exposed the method's ability to evolve by devouring Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Ting asked Xun'er whether cultivators should seek to follow a path of their own rather than rely solely on another person's cultivation method.

Xiao Ting urged Xun'er to consider cultivating Fen Jue after Xiao Yan tested whether it evolved by absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame, and he recorded his belief that the technique was connected to the Primitive Dharma Body and the Master Realm. Several days later, Huo Zhi arrived near Burning Flame Valley and Yao Ling reached Cao City.

• Xiao Ting explained why he wanted Xun'er to cultivate Fen Jue if Xiao Yan's Green Lotus Core Flame made the technique evolve, and Xun'er agreed to consider it.
• Xiao Ting recorded updates about Caili, Xiao Cai, and Yun Yun in the Notes, then wrote that Fen Jue could be a path to the Primitive Dharma Body and Master Realm.
• The women reading the Notes were stunned by Xiao Ting's speculation about Fen Jue and the realm beyond Dou Di.
• Several days later, Huo Zhi appeared within Burning Flame Valley's sphere of influence, while Yao Ling arrived in Cao City within Dan Tower's sphere of influence.

Huo Zhi and Yao Ling recruited Tang Huo'er and Cao Ying into a group of Notebook Copy holders, where the women discussed Xiao Ting and their shared knowledge. Xun'er regretted gathering them all after Cao Ying quickly became the group's troublemaker.

• Tang Huo'er met Huo Zhi and manifested her Notebook Copy to join the group.
• Yao Ling found Cao Ying at the Cao Clan and persuaded her to manifest her Notebook Copy, then added her to the group.
• Cao Ying introduced herself to the other members and joked about meeting Xiao Ting and helping him teach the Yao Clan a lesson.
• Xun'er told Cao Ying to stay in the Dan Tower until Xiao Ting came to see her, while Yao Ling threatened to beat her up.
• Yun Yun remarked that Cao Ying had made the group livelier, and Xun'er wondered whether gathering all the Notebook Copy holders had been a mistake.

Xiao Ting became a Tier 3 Alchemist, while Xiao Yan refined the Green Lotus Core Flame and prepared to advance to Dou Shi. At Xun'er's residence, Zi Yan appeared and nearly plucked a rare Fire Spirit Flower before meeting Xun'er.

• Xiao Ting passed three Alchemist Guild assessments in one day, earning a Tier 3 Alchemist badge and uniform.
• Xiao Yan emerged after refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, raising the Fen Jue to the Middle Xuan Tier and reaching the Seven-Star Dou Zhe level.
• Xiao Ting gave Xiao Yan a Dou Shi Pill he had found in a Storage Ring, and Xiao Yan promised to support him when Xun'er's clan came to propose marriage.
• Xiao Ting told Xun'er to cultivate the Fen Jue without worry.
• Zi Yan appeared at Xun'er's residence and reached for the Fire Spirit Flower, but Xun'er warned her not to pick it.
• Xun'er introduced herself to Zi Yan, invited her into the pavilion, and offered her pastries, which Zi Yan suspected were meant to fool a child.

Xun'er persuaded Zi Yan not to meet Xiao Ting before returning to Jia Nan Academy, then helped her join the Notebook Copy group. Zi Yan left for the Miteer Auction House to seek spiritual herbs, where Hai Bodong caught her stealing and she claimed Queen Medusa was her sister.

• Zi Yan enjoyed Xun'er's pastries and asked about her origins, but Xun'er warned that meeting Xiao Ting too soon could expose the Notebook Copy holders.
• Xun'er and Zi Yan joined the group chat, where Xun'er explained that Zi Yan would need to provide essence blood for her identity to be investigated.
• After Qing Lin warned that Xiao Ting was nearby, Zi Yan left Xun'er and decided to wait until Jia Nan Academy returned to its Inner Academy.
• Zi Yan used her treasure-sensing talent to enter the Miteer Auction House's vault and prepared to eat its spiritual herbs.
• Hai Bodong attacked Zi Yan with ice spikes, and Zi Yan identified him before claiming Queen Medusa was her sister.

Zi Yan used Caili’s name to bluff Hai Bodong but left his medicinal ingredients untouched and made him promise not to tell Xiao Ting she had visited. Xun’er cultivated Fen Jue successfully, devouring the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and the Crimson Flame Blood Phoenix’s Beast Flame, and Xiao Ting began planning how to help her obtain more flames.

• Zi Yan claimed to be Queen Medusa’s younger sister and learned from Xun’er that Hai Bodong’s ingredients were meant for Xiao Ting, so she decided not to take them.
• Caili offered to frighten Hai Bodong if needed, and Zi Yan made him promise to keep her visit secret before leaving.
• Hai Bodong stored the medicinal ingredients and went to the Xiao Clan to meet Xiao Ting.
• Xun’er told Xiao Yi Xian she planned to cultivate Fen Jue, and Xiao Yi Xian warned her to stop if anything felt wrong.
• The next morning, Xun’er emerged successfully having raised Fen Jue to the Low Earth Tier, and Xiao Ting planned to nurture an Earth Core Flame and seek the Fallen Heart Flame at Jia Nan Academy.

Xun'er learned that the Fen Jue could evolve by fusing Heavenly Flame origins and planned to seek the young Fallen Heart Flame. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and his talented cousins stunned Jia Nan Academy's recruitment team, and Xiao Yan revealed that his absent fourth brother was already a Dou Ling.

• Xun'er realized she could use young Heavenly Flames to evolve the Fen Jue and decided that Fallen Heart Flame would be her next target.
• Xiao Ting defeated an Earth Underworld Purple Scorpion, obtained its Millennium Stalactite Spirit Liquid, and reached Six-Star Dou Ling after cultivating for several days.
• At Jia Nan Academy's recruitment assessment, Xiao Yan impressed Instructor Ruo Lin with his Nine-Star Dou Zhe cultivation at sixteen.
• Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin also displayed exceptional cultivation, astonishing Ruo Lin and the other students.
• Xiao Yan said his absent fourth brother was more outstanding than him and revealed that his cousin was already a Dou Ling.