Chapter Summaries

After reaching Two-Star Dou Zong, Xiao Chen traveled to the Tagor Desert on a mission to help Queen Medusa break through. He defeated Yue Mei’s patrol and offered to help Queen Medusa, who remained suspicious of his motives.

• Xiao Chen broke through to Two-Star Dou Zong and accepted a mission to help Queen Medusa reach Dou Zong in exchange for three feedback opportunities.
• Xiao Chen encountered Yue Mei and her patrol, defeated the Snake-People who attacked him, and continued into the desert without pursuing Yue Mei.
• Yue Mei reported the attack to the elders, who urged Queen Medusa to retaliate, but Queen Medusa dismissed them and Yue Mei.
• Xiao Chen entered the Snake-People settlement and told Queen Medusa he could help her break through to Dou Zong, leaving her doubtful of his intentions.

Queen Medusa took Xiao Chen’s Pozong Pill and broke through from Peak Dou Emperor to One-Star Dou Zong, transforming her snake tail into human legs. After she promised Xiao Chen a favor, his system rewards raised him to Three-Star Dou Zong and granted him a powerful technique and a Tier 7 pill formula.

• Queen Medusa doubted Xiao Chen’s motives but decided to risk taking the Pozong Pill to escape her long-standing bottleneck.
• Queen Medusa endured the pill’s violent medicinal force and successfully broke through to One-Star Dou Zong.
• Queen Medusa’s snake tail transformed into human legs, and she told Xiao Chen that she owed him a favor.
• Xiao Chen used three system feedback opportunities and advanced to Three-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Chen received the Earth Tier High-Level Dou Technique Nirvana Finger and the formula for the Tier 7 Heart-Breaking Pill.

Queen Medusa broke through to Dou Zong with Xiao Chen’s help, and the Snake-People elders realized they had nearly attacked her benefactor. After apologizing and offering Xiao Chen the Snake-People Tribe’s help, Queen Medusa heard him offer her an Earth Tier high-grade Dou Technique.

• The elders sensed a Dou Zong aura inside the grand hall, rushed in, and prepared to attack Xiao Chen until Queen Medusa ordered them to withdraw.
• Great Elder and the other elders saw that Queen Medusa’s snake tail had become human legs and realized she had broken through to Dou Zong with Xiao Chen’s help.
• Outside the hall, Great Elder told the elders not to spread news of Queen Medusa’s breakthrough until she had stabilized her realm.
• Queen Medusa apologized to Xiao Chen for the elders’ hostility and promised him a favor from the Snake-People Tribe.
• Xiao Chen accepted a system mission to help Queen Medusa cultivate an Earth Tier high-grade Dou Technique within three days, then offered her one.

Xiao Chen helped Queen Medusa learn the Earth Tier High-Rank Void Splitting Seal and broke through to Four-Star Dou Zong. He accepted missions to help Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian, then gave Xiao Yan a fire-element Dou Technique at the Xiao Clan's back mountain.

• Xiao Chen gave Queen Medusa the Void Splitting Seal, and she mastered it and struck a massive pit in the desert with one palm.
• Queen Medusa made Xiao Chen an honored guest of the Snake-People Tribe and promised to repay his favor.
• The system rewarded Xiao Chen with a breakthrough from Three-Star Dou Zong to Four-Star Dou Zong, then issued missions involving Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Chen accepted both missions, returned to the Xiao Clan, and stabilized his new realm overnight.
• Xiao Chen found Xiao Yan cultivating with Yao Lao at the back mountain and gave him the Xuan Tier High-Rank fire-element Dou Technique Flame Dragon Palm.

Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yan the High Xuan-Rank Flame Dragon Palm, and Xiao Yan began cultivating it while Xiao Chen watched for a system reward. After Xiao Yu returned and confirmed Xiao Chen had become a Dou Emperor, Xiao Chen prepared to refine a Qi Gathering Powder to help Xiao Yi Xian break through to Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yan the Flame Dragon Palm, and Xiao Yan practiced it until his flaming strikes scorched pits into the ground.
• The system informed Xiao Chen that he would receive a feedback reward once Xiao Yan fully mastered the Flame Dragon Palm.
• Xiao Yu returned from Jia Nan Academy, confirmed that Xiao Chen was a Dou Emperor, and went to see him.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Chen she could not break through from Ninth-Stage Dou Qi, so he prepared ingredients to refine Qi Gathering Powder for her.
• Xiao Chen summoned the Fallen Heart Flame and tossed the Qi Gathering Grass into it to begin refining the pill.

Xiao Chen refined a fourth-grade Qi Gathering Powder that helped Xiao Yi Xian break through to Dou Zhe, then gave her the Earth Tier mid-grade Mysterious Poison Art he received as a reward. Xiao Yu watched in shock as Xiao Chen left the Side Courtyard, unable to remember what she had come to ask him.

• Xiao Yu arrived at the Side Courtyard and watched Xiao Chen refine a pill after Xiao Yi Xian warned her not to disturb him.
• Xiao Chen completed the Qi Gathering Powder and gave it to Xiao Yi Xian, who used it to break through to Dou Zhe.
• The system rewarded Xiao Chen with the poison-attribute Mysterious Poison Art after Xiao Yi Xian's breakthrough.
• Xiao Chen gave the Mysterious Poison Art to Xiao Yi Xian and urged Qing Lin to diligently cultivate her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Xiao Chen left the Side Courtyard, while Xiao Yu stood at the gate in shock and forgot what she had planned to ask him.

Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yu a Spirit Ascension Pill that helped her break through to Four-Star Dou Zhe, prompting the Great Elder to regret how he had treated Xiao Chen. He then presented Xiao Zhan with a cultivation technique scroll, which Xiao Zhan recognized as an Earth Tier technique.

• Xiao Chen practiced Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and Xiao Yu saw the afterimages filling his room.
• The system gave Xiao Chen a mission to help Xiao Yu advance one Dou Zhe level, and he accepted before giving her a Spirit Ascension Pill.
• Xiao Yu took the pill and broke through from Three-Star Dou Zhe to Four-Star Dou Zhe.
• The Great Elder learned that Xiao Chen had helped Xiao Yu and admitted he had been a muddleheaded old fool.
• Xiao Chen gave Xiao Zhan a cultivation technique scroll, and Xiao Zhan asked in disbelief whether it was an Earth Tier technique.

Xiao Chen gave Xiao Zhan an Earth Tier technique and later helped Qing Lin cultivate with Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid. Qing Lin advanced to the sixth stage of Dou Qi.

• Xiao Chen gave Xiao Zhan the Earth Tier, low-grade Wind Thunder Art, which suited Xiao Zhan’s wind-attributed cultivation.
• Xiao Zhan showed the technique to Xiao Yan, who was shocked to learn Xiao Chen had given it to their father.
• Xiao Chen visited Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian and noted that Qing Lin had advanced to the fifth stage of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Chen brought Qing Lin to a quiet place in the back mountain and gave her Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.
• Xiao Chen guided the spirit liquid’s medicinal power through Qing Lin’s meridians, helping her advance to the sixth stage of Dou Qi.

Qing Lin advanced to Sixth-stage Dou Qi, and Xiao Chen rewarded her with the High Xuan-Rank Coiling Snake Hand and guided her practice. The next morning, he trained Xiao Yan in Flame Dragon Palm, and the system offered Xiao Chen a random reward after Xiao Yan mastered the technique.

• Qing Lin thanked Xiao Chen for helping her advance to Sixth-stage Dou Qi, then hurriedly fastened her open collar.
• The system rewarded Xiao Chen with the High Xuan-Rank Coiling Snake Hand, which he gave to Qing Lin and helped her practice until she grasped its basics.
• The next morning, Xiao Chen found Xiao Yan training with Yao Lao in the back mountain and asked him to demonstrate Flame Dragon Palm.
• Xiao Yan attacked Xiao Chen with flaming palm prints, and Xiao Chen dispersed them while correcting Xiao Yan's technique.
• Xiao Yan improved his Flame Dragon Palm under Xiao Chen's guidance, and the system announced that he had mastered it and offered Xiao Chen a random reward.

Xiao Chen traveled to the Imperial Capital to obtain the rare ingredients needed for the Purple Qi Barrier Breaking Pill. He won the Fire Spirit Ganoderma at auction, but Lv Man confronted him afterward and demanded that he hand it over.

• Xiao Chen received and memorized the fifth-grade Purple Qi Barrier Breaking Pill formula, then decided to seek its ingredients at the Mittal Auction House.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Chen that the Imperial Capital auction would feature a Fire Spirit Ganoderma, so he flew there and met Miteer Tengshan and Fa Ma.
• Miteer Tengshan confirmed that the auction had the Fire Spirit Ganoderma and some of the other ingredients Xiao Chen needed.
• At the auction, Xiao Chen outbid Lv Man for the Fire Spirit Ganoderma despite her warning that the Heavenly Snake Mansion wanted it.
• After Xiao Chen collected the Fire Spirit Ganoderma, Lv Man and two Heavenly Snake Mansion disciples stopped him and demanded he hand it over.

Xiao Chen defeated Lv Man and the Heavenly Snake Mansion experts at the auction house with help from the Amethyst Winged Lion King, then refined a Purple Qi Barrier Breaking Pill in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. He encountered Xiao Yu, who had wandered into the clearing and recognized him.

• Lv Man attacked Xiao Chen over the Fire Spirit Ganoderma, but Xiao Chen struck her down before three Heavenly Snake Mansion experts arrived.
• Xiao Chen fought off the four attackers, and the Amethyst Winged Lion King arrived and drove the surviving old man and his companions to flee.
• Xiao Chen stopped the Amethyst Winged Lion King from pursuing the retreating group and traveled with it to a clearing at the foot of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Chen refined the gathered ingredients into a Purple Qi Barrier Breaking Pill for Xiao Yan.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King caught Xiao Yu as she emerged from the forest, and Xiao Yu recognized Xiao Chen.

Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yan a fifth-grade Purple Qi Barrier Breaking Pill, helping him break through to Dou Zhe and raising Xiao Chen's own strength to peak Six-Star Dou Zong. A new mission then sent Xiao Chen to the Misty Cloud Sect to treat the poisoned Yun Yun.

• Xiao Chen dismissed the Amethyst Winged Lion King and returned with Xiao Yu to the Xiao Clan, leaving her stunned by the beast's obedience.
• Xiao Chen gave Xiao Yan a Purple Qi Barrier Breaking Pill and told him to take it.
• Xiao Yan followed Yao Lao's guidance and used the pill's medicinal power to break through from Six-Stage Dou Qi to One-Star Dou Zhe.
• The system's feedback raised Xiao Chen from Four-Star Dou Zong to peak Six-Star Dou Zong.
• The system assigned Xiao Chen a mission to treat Yun Yun, who had been injured by a Tier 6 snake-type Magical Beast and poisoned, and Xiao Chen accepted.

Yun Yun was poisoned by a Black Water Profound Snake, and Gu He could not cure her with a fifth-grade pill. Xiao Chen arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect claiming he could save her and named five herbs needed for a sixth-grade antidote, leaving the sect elders to find them.

• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect badly wounded and poisoned by a Black Water Profound Snake.
• Gu He examined Yun Yun and used a Hundred Antidote Pill, but it only neutralized part of the poison.
• A disciple announced that Xiao Chen had forced his way into the sect and claimed he could cure Yun Yun.
• Nalan Yanran brought Xiao Chen to Yun Yun, and he examined her while she lay in a coma.
• Xiao Chen wrote down the five herbs for a Xuanqing Detoxification Pill, and Yun Leng identified where some might be found.

Xiao Chen used the Fallen Heart Flame to refine pills that stabilized Yun Yun’s poisoning and then cured it with a Tier 7 Xuanqing Detoxification Pill. Yun Yun awoke after expelling poisoned blood, while the Misty Cloud Sect witnessed the pill’s heavenly phenomenon.

• Xiao Chen refined a Tier 6 Peak Pulse Protecting Ice Heart Pill, which Nalan Yanran gave to the comatose Yun Yun to slow the poison.
• Yun Leng returned with the five ingredients needed for the Xuanqing Detoxification Pill after several days of searching.
• Xiao Chen refined the Tier 7 pill, and its birth caused a heavenly phenomenon above the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Nalan Yanran gave Yun Yun the pill, and Yun Yun expelled clotted poisoned blood before waking and speaking to her.

After curing Yun Yun of the Black Water Profound Snake’s poison, Xiao Chen broke through to Dou Zong Peak and prepared to leave the Misty Cloud Sect. Nalan Yanran thanked him and compared him favorably with Xiao Yan, while Xiao Chen ignored her.

• Yun Yun awoke after Xiao Chen cured her poison, and she thanked him for saving her.
• The system rewarded Xiao Chen for completing the mission, raising his cultivation to Dou Zong Peak.
• Yun Yun offered to host Xiao Chen, while Gu He, Liu Ling, Yun Leng, and the elders praised him and expressed their gratitude.
• At the plaza, Nalan Yanran thanked Xiao Chen for saving her teacher and began to compare him with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Chen ignored Nalan Yanran and walked away, leaving her to conclude that he was worthy of her.

After learning that Xiao Chen was a Tier 7 Alchemist, Jia Xingtian hurried to recruit him for the Imperial Family and ask him to treat his damaged meridians. Xiao Chen agreed and began examining Jia Xingtian’s injuries in the Imperial Palace.

• Jia Xingtian told Yao Ye and Yao Yue that Xiao Chen had refined a Tier 7 Medicinal Pill, then flew to the Misty Cloud Sect to invite him to the palace.
• Nalan Yanran tried to persuade Xiao Chen to stay at the Misty Cloud Sect, but he left without accepting her offer.
• Jia Xingtian met Xiao Chen on the mountain path and asked him to treat the meridian damage from his failed attempt to break through to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Chen agreed and accompanied Jia Xingtian to the Imperial Palace, where Yao Ye and Yao Yue greeted him.
• Xiao Chen examined Jia Xingtian’s pulse with his soul power and found that several meridians had been damaged.

Xiao Chen agreed to treat Jia Xingtian’s meridian injuries and asked the imperial family to gather several rare medicinal ingredients. While staying at the palace, he sparred with Yao Ye and effortlessly defeated her, catching her sister Yao Yue’s attention.

• Xiao Chen accepted a system mission to treat Jia Xingtian’s meridian injuries.
• Xiao Chen listed the medicinal ingredients he needed, and Jia Xingtian invited him to stay at the imperial palace while they were gathered.
• Xiao Chen cultivated in his guest room, stabilizing his Dou Zong Peak cultivation.
• Yao Ye visited Xiao Chen at night and asked to spar with him.
• Xiao Chen dispersed Yao Ye’s attacks and caught her after sending her flying with a palm strike.
• Yao Yue entered the courtyard, saw Xiao Chen holding Yao Ye, and praised his strength.

Jia Xingtian urged Yao Ye and Yao Yue to win Xiao Chen’s favor for the Imperial Family, while Xiao Chen accepted a mission to help Yao Ye reach three-star Dou Ling. After refining a Spirit Breaking Pill, he gave it to Yao Yue for her sister.

• Yao Ye and Yao Yue told Jia Xingtian about Xiao Chen’s strength and alchemy, and he ordered them to make friends with him before the Misty Cloud Sect could.
• Xiao Chen accepted the system mission to help Yao Ye advance from one-star to three-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Chen obtained medicinal ingredients from Miteer Tengshan at the Mittal Auction House without paying for them.
• Xiao Chen refined a fifth-grade Spirit Breaking Pill in his courtyard while Yao Yue watched after bringing breakfast.
• Xiao Chen gave the pill to Yao Yue for Yao Ye, explaining that it could increase her strength by two stars.

Xiao Chen's Spirit Breaking Pill helped Yao Ye advance from a one-star Dou Ling to a three-star Dou Ling, and she visited him to thank him. Jia Xingtian learned of the breakthrough and resolved that the Royal Family must win Xiao Chen's favor, while Yao Yue planned to ask Xiao Chen for help herself.

• Yao Yue brought Xiao Chen's Spirit Breaking Pill to Yao Ye, who took it and broke through from a one-star Dou Ling to a three-star Dou Ling.
• Xiao Chen received the peak sixth-grade Restoration Purple Heart Pill formula as a system reward for refining the Spirit Breaking Pill.
• Yao Ye visited Xiao Chen, thanked him for the pill, and offered him a brocade box, but Xiao Chen refused it.
• Yao Yue told Jia Xingtian that Xiao Chen's pill had helped Yao Ye break through, and Jia Xingtian resolved that the Royal Family must build a good relationship with Xiao Chen.
• Yao Yue decided to visit Xiao Chen the next day and ask him to help improve her strength.

Xiao Chen accepted the system mission to help Yao Yue reach Six-Star Dou Shi and gathered ingredients to refine a pill for her. He finished refining a Purple Spirit Qi Condensing Pill, but Yao Yue’s breakthrough had not yet been shown.

• Yao Yue asked Xiao Chen to help her improve her strength because her sister had pulled further ahead.
• The system assigned Xiao Chen a mission to help Yao Yue break through to Six-Star Dou Shi, and he accepted it.
• Xiao Chen and Yao Yue went to the Mittal Auction House, where they bought the Purple Spirit Fruit, the Qi Condensing Flower, and supplementary medicinal materials.
• Xiao Chen took Yao Yue to a quiet forest east of the Imperial Capital and refined the ingredients with his Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Chen completed a Tier 5 Purple Spirit Qi Condensing Pill.