Chapter Summaries

Medusa discussed the Central Plains’ hidden experts with Xiao Jin, while Xun'er confronted Gu Yuan over his weak response to Ling Quan’s misconduct. Xun'er declared that once she grew strong enough, she would force the Ancient Clan’s Council of Elders to change or disappear.

• Xiao Jin explained the Central Plains’ major powers and warned Medusa not to underestimate its hidden experts, and Medusa assured him she would not recklessly endanger herself.
• Xun'er recalled how she fused with the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame and advanced from Five-Star Dou King to Three-Star Dou Zun.
• Xun'er remained angry that Gu Yuan had allowed Ling Quan to receive only five years of confinement while keeping his position as Vice Captain of the Black Annihilation Army.
• Gu Yuan apologized for letting Xiao Jin suffer a grievance, but Xun'er insisted Xiao Jin had claimed justice through his own strength.
• Xun'er told Gu Yuan that the justice owed to her remained with the Council of Elders and vowed to make it change or disappear once she became powerful.

Xiao Jin interrogated an Earth Underworld Sect Dou Zong and learned that the sect had targeted Medusa’s Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline while using the Heavenly Snake Mansion to conceal its plans. After Medusa learned the location of ancient ruins that might help her bloodline evolve, she and Xiao Jin decided to move the Snake-Person Race into the Small World.

• Xun'er’s father apologized for his failure to support her and promised to back her future reforms, while Xun'er longed for Xiao Jin’s presence.
• Xiao Jin broke the Earth Underworld Sect Dou Zong’s spirit with an illusion and questioned him about the attack on the Snake-Person Race.
• The Dou Zong revealed that Ice River Valley had told the Earth Underworld Sect about Medusa’s bloodline and that the sect had coerced the Heavenly Snake Mansion into attacking Mulan Valley.
• The Dou Zong disclosed the location of ruins in the Northern Region of the Central Plains that recorded the Heaven-Swallowing Python’s deeds.
• Medusa killed the Dou Zong after questioning him, and she and Xiao Jin agreed to move the Snake-Person Race into the Small World to guard the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Jin warned Queen Medusa to keep the Snake-Person Race from harming the Xiao Clan, then learned that she would manage their relocation to the Small World. Back in Wutan City, he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and asked after Qing Lin while thinking about Xun'er and the gap in their cultivation.

• Xiao Jin warned Queen Medusa that he would not spare the Snake-Person Race if its members harmed the Xiao Clan, and she promised to keep them in line.
• Queen Medusa told the Snake-Person Race's elders and tribal chiefs that they must not act recklessly around the Xiao Clan, and they agreed to restrain their people.
• Xiao Jin returned to Wutan City, where Xiao Yi Xian asked why Queen Medusa had not come with him; he explained that the Snake-Person Race would move into the Small World later.
• Xiao Jin learned that Qing Lin was cooking and suggested they all go out to eat, then remembered Xun'er and worried about her cultivation progress.

Xiao Jin brought Qing Lin to Heavenly Snake Mansion, where Elder Lv Man revealed that the Old Mansion Master also possessed Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and was suppressing a rampaging peak Eighth-Rank Magical Beast. The Old Mansion Master could live for at most ten years, leaving Xiao Jin to reckon with the time needed to train Qing Lin.

• Xiao Jin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin arrived at Heavenly Snake Mansion, and its disciples recognized them as honored guests expected by Elder Lv Man.
• Lv Man welcomed Xiao Jin and asked which of the visitors possessed Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils; Xiao Jin confirmed that Qing Lin did.
• After Xiao Jin sensed a violent aura inside the mansion and suspected a trap, Lv Man explained that the Old Mansion Master was suppressing a peak Eighth-Rank Magical Beast.
• Lv Man revealed that the Old Mansion Master also possessed Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and had suffered severe mental damage while trying to control the beast.
• Lv Man said the Old Mansion Master had at most ten years to live, and Xiao Jin realized that training Qing Lin to contend with the beast would take years.

Xiao Jin met the dying Old Mansion Master of the Heavenly Snake Mansion and learned that a peak eighth-tier Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python had poisoned her with Emperor Python Heart-Eroding Poison. He proposed moving the confrontation to an uninhabited place, and the Old Mansion Master agreed to trust him with the danger.

• Xiao Jin asked Lv Man to take him and his companions to see the Old Mansion Master.
• Qing Lin sensed a snake-type Magical Beast, and Xiao Jin discovered the Old Mansion Master's condition was worse than Lv Man had described.
• The Old Mansion Master recognized Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, but Xiao Jin told her Qing Lin would not join the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Xiao Jin identified the poison afflicting the Old Mansion Master as Emperor Python Heart-Eroding Poison and offered Xiao Yi Xian's Woe Poison Body as support.
• Xiao Jin proposed that the Old Mansion Master release the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python in an uninhabited place, and she agreed to his plan.

Xiao Jin and his allies helped the Old Mansion Master release the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python and combat the Emperor Python Heart-Eroding Poison. Qing Lin's enhanced Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils weakened the beast while Xiao Yi Xian absorbed its poison, and the fight continued with the group holding it back.

• Xiao Jin asked the Heavenly Snake Mansion experts to guard the area while She Gu and She Lu stayed with him and the Old Mansion Master.
• Xiao Jin gave the Old Mansion Master an Eighth-Grade Myriad Poison Essence-Transforming Pill and assigned Qing Lin to control the python and Xiao Yi Xian to handle its poison.
• The Old Mansion Master released the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python, took the pill, and recovered enough for her aura to reach Nine-Star Dou Zun.
• Qing Lin used her enhanced Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to disrupt the python, surprising the Old Mansion Master with the strength of her control.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the python's Emperor Python Heart-Eroding Poison while two Heaven Demon Puppets attacked, leaving the group able to hold off the beast.

Xiao Jin, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian wore down the weakened Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python through coordinated attacks and poison control. After a day and a night, Qing Lin reached the moment to use her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to finish it.

• Qing Lin disrupted the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python's soul while Xiao Yi Xian neutralized its poison and Xiao Jin's Heaven Demon Puppets attacked it.
• The Old Mansion Master warned She Gu not to offend Xiao Jin and decided to give Qing Lin her notes on the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• The Old Mansion Master rebuked She Gu for suggesting his son marry Qing Lin, pointing out her affection for Xiao Jin.
• Xiao Jin kept the battle going while the puppets wore down the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python and Qing Lin interrupted its attempts to fight back.
• After a day and a night, Xiao Jin called out to Qing Lin as the python weakened, and the soul of the Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake rose with terrifying pressure.

Xiao Jin helped Qing Lin control the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python, but the effort caused her right eye to bleed. The Old Mansion Master identified the pain as an opportunity and explained that Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could awaken a special space that would strengthen their power.

• The Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake suppressed the weakened Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python, allowing the Heaven Demon Puppets to wound it.
• The Old Mansion Master let Xiao Jin decide how to deal with the Python, and Qing Lin sealed it after Xiao Jin asked her to try.
• Qing Lin’s right eye began to hurt and bleed, so Xiao Jin supported her while the Old Mansion Master examined her.
• The Old Mansion Master explained that the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils contained a space where controlled creatures lived and supplied Qing Lin with energy.
• The Old Mansion Master said the true pupils could open a special space that preserved the creatures’ cultivation and more than doubled their energy feedback.

Qing Lin endured the painful awakening of a special space in her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, while Xiao Jin stayed by her side. Meanwhile, the Pill Tower Ancestor returned to the Pill Tower, discovered its lack of skilled alchemists, and summoned its elders in anger.

• The Old Mansion Master explained that Qing Lin’s bloodline had awakened a rare space, and that the process could take three days and three nights.
• Qing Lin insisted on enduring the pain to become stronger and help Xiao Jin, who held her hand to comfort her.
• The Old Mansion Master chose to remain with Xiao Jin and Qing Lin, and four Heavenly Snake Mansion Dou Venerates set up a temporary camp amid the wreckage.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor discovered that no one at the Pill Tower could refine a Ninth-Grade Medicinal Pill and questioned Dan Xuansheng about his skills.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor ordered Dan Xuansheng to summon the seven elders of the Little Pill Tower, furious at the state of the Pill Tower’s alchemy.

Qing Lin endured a painful transformation while Xiao Jin comforted her, and Xiao Yi Xian gave him a manuscript from the Heavenly Snake Mansion to aid Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. Elsewhere, the Pill Tower Ancestor berated the Little Pill Tower elders and Dan Xuansheng over their shortcomings before ordering them to keep his return secret.

• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Jin the Old Mansion Master’s detailed manuscript on the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and he saw it as a priceless aid for Qing Lin.
• Xiao Jin continued holding Qing Lin as she suffered through more than a day of pain, while Xiao Yi Xian stayed nearby.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor scolded the seven Little Pill Tower elders, despite having demonstrated his skill by refining an eighth-grade pill and teaching them soul cultivation.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor dismissed the elders and told them not to reveal that he had returned.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor then rebuked Dan Xuansheng for allowing the Pill Tower to decline.

The Pill Tower Ancestor ordered reforms and an investigation into the Soul Hall, while Qing Lin endured the opening of her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. Xiao Yi Xian rebuked Xiao Jin for regretting that he had brought them into danger, and he apologized as Qing Lin’s condition stabilized.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor ordered Dan Xuansheng to reform the Pill Tower, disband the Little Pill Tower's Council of Elders until a Ninth-Grade Medicinal Pill could be refined, and gather information on the Soul Hall.
• Dan Xuansheng arranged for the orders to be carried out, and news of the Council's disbandment remained within a small circle.
• After another day and night, Qing Lin’s breathing and soul fluctuations stabilized, and Xiao Jin expected her pupils’ space to fully open when she woke.
• Xiao Jin wondered aloud whether he should have left Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin behind, and Xiao Yi Xian reminded him that both would have faced worse fates without him.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Jin that he and their companions were worth the pain and danger, and Xiao Jin apologized for speaking melodramatically.

Xiao Jin and Qing Lin left the Heavenly Snake Mansion after Qing Lin awakened another space in her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and the mansion gained the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python as its guardian. Back in Wutan City, Xiao Jin noticed the Xiao Clan members treating him strangely, while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin teased him about his relationships.

• Qing Lin left the Nine Serenities Deep Ground Python at the Heavenly Snake Mansion after warning it to behave and stop fighting the Seven-Winged Purple Gold Snake.
• The Old Mansion Master thanked Xiao Jin, and he cautioned her about Old Demon Tian Ming before realizing the mansion could use Qing Lin's pupils to influence him.
• Qing Lin's newly awakened space activated more of the Nether Pupil Fusion Pill's medicinal strength and raised her cultivation to Four-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Jin returned to Wutan City and found Xiao Clan members looking at him with unusual respect and curiosity.
• Xiao Yi Xian called Xiao Jin a scumbag, and Qing Lin privately hoped his relationships would give Xiao Yi Xian and herself a chance to be with him.

Xiao Jin returned to Wutan City and found Medusa and Yun Yun waiting among the women who would accompany him to the Central Plains. After preparing to leave, he departed with them for Jia Nan Academy, while Gu You learned that the Xiao Tribe had survivors and vowed to kill them.

• Xiao Jin returned to the Xiao Clan's main hall and learned that Medusa had moved the Snake-Person Race to Wutan City and Yun Yun had been driven down the mountain by her teacher.
• Xiao Zhan questioned Xiao Jin about his relationships, and Xiao Jin assured him that Xun'er knew everything.
• Medusa openly called herself Xiao Jin's lover, while Yun Yun challenged her and Xiao Yi Xian quietly noted that she had Xun'er's authorization.
• Xiao Zhan hosted the visitors, and Xiao Jin gave him advice and a Space Jade Slip before planning to leave for the Central Plains.
• Xiao Jin departed Wutan City with the others, intending to collect Zi Yan at Jia Nan Academy before using a Space Wormhole.
• Gu You learned that members of the Xiao Tribe had survived and declared that they deserved to die.

After returning to Jia Nan Academy, Xiao Jin learned that Zi Yan was cultivating in the Dou Emperor Space and discovered she had advanced rapidly by refining Zhu Kun’s essence blood. Zhu Kun offered Xiao Jin three drops of his own essence blood and told him of a sealed Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, setting up a future journey there.

• Xiao Jin returned to Jia Nan Academy with three powerful women, settled them in, then used Tou She Ancient God’s Spatial Mark to return to the Dou Emperor Space.
• Xiao Jin sensed Zi Yan’s dragon might and realized she had reached Peak Dou Emperor after refining a drop of Zhu Kun’s essence blood.
• Zhu Kun learned that Xiao Jin planned to travel to the Central Plains and suggested he visit the Pill Tower’s Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Zhu Kun revealed that he had sealed a Void Dragon Blood Ganoderma there for Zi Yan, and Xiao Jin considered how its bloodline-purifying effects could benefit her.
• Zhu Kun gave Xiao Jin three drops of his essence blood as a token of gratitude.

Xiao Jin received three drops of Ancient Dragon Essence Blood from Zhu Kun and prepared to leave with Zi Yan for the Central Plains. Before departing, he visited Xiao Yan, who planned to refine the Fallen Heart Flame and catch up in strength.

• Xiao Jin thanked Zhu Kun for the Ancient Dragon Essence Blood and explained that he planned to save it for refining a Ninth-Grade Treasure Pill.
• Zi Yan finished cultivating, leapt onto Xiao Jin, and then left with him after Zhu Kun warned her to stay safe in the Central Plains.
• Xiao Jin and Zi Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Zi Yan and Qing Lin compared their cultivation and Qing Lin revealed she could fight a Two-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Jin told Xiao Yan that he could not bring him to the Central Plains while he was too weak, and Xiao Yan said he would refine the Fallen Heart Flame first.

Xiao Jin and his companions traveled to Tianya City to use its Space Wormhole, stopping to rest along the way. When they arrived, they learned the wormhole was closed for repairs, and Xiao Jin asked Xiao Yi Xian and the others to help fix it.

• Su Qian told Xiao Jin that Tianya City lay ten thousand li away and asked whether the Inner Academy should provide Griffins; Xiao Jin declined, saying the group could fly there.
• Xiao Jin explained how Space Wormholes worked as the group discussed the Central Plains and its powerful cultivators.
• Xiao Jin led the group across the Tianqing Mountain Range, and they reached Tianya City after five days of travel.
• At the city gate, Xiao Jin asked an elderly leader where the Space Wormhole was and learned it was temporarily closed for repairs.
• Xiao Jin asked Xiao Yi Xian and the others to help repair the Space Wormhole.

Xiao Jin and his companions discovered the Earth Underworld Sect near Tianya City and planned to kill its leaders before they could threaten the Snake-Person Race or Wutan City. Xiao Jin proposed disguising the attack as the work of the Soul Hall, leaving the group with a plan to draw up.

• Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian refused to help the Luo Clan repair the Space Wormhole, while Yun Yun agreed, and the group accepted a token before heading to a hotel.
• Xiao Jin, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun met in Xiao Jin's room and revealed that they had sensed the Earth Underworld Sect near Tianya City.
• Xiao Jin identified the sect master as a Three-Star Dou Zun and sensed two One-Star Dou Zun experts accompanying him.
• Medusa proposed killing the Earth Underworld Sect's people, and Xiao Jin explained that their deaths could put Wutan City at risk if their trail led there.
• Xiao Jin proposed leaving traces of soul attacks to make the Soul Hall appear responsible for the killings.

Xiao Jin secretly investigated the Luo Clan and learned that the Earth Underworld Sect had forced them to seal Tianya City's Space Wormhole. After confirming the clan still wanted to resist, he revealed himself and asked Luo Cheng to speak privately.

• Xiao Jin sent Qing Lin and Zi Yan to watch the Earth Underworld Sect while he infiltrated the Luo Clan to investigate their role in the wormhole closure.
• Xiao Jin overheard Luo Cheng explain that the Luo Clan had sealed the Space Wormhole because the Earth Underworld Sect's weakest members were Four-Star Dou Ancestors.
• Xiao Jin sensed that the Luo Clan had been coerced and realized they had hoped to enlist his group to drive the Earth Underworld Sect away.
• Xiao Jin emerged in the Luo Clan's courtyard, displayed his Dou Ancestor aura, and asked Luo Cheng to talk alone.

Xiao Jin persuaded Luo Cheng to help lure the Earth Underworld Sect into a confrontation, falsely claiming he belonged to Soul Hall and could take responsibility. Back at the hotel, Medusa, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to fight the sect’s Dou Venerates, while Xiao Jin kept Zi Yan out of the battle.

• Xiao Jin told Luo Cheng that the Earth Underworld Sect had blocked Tianya City's Space Wormhole and claimed he would kill its people under Soul Hall's protection.
• Luo Cheng agreed to cooperate after weighing the danger to his clan against the losses from keeping the wormhole closed.
• Xiao Jin told Luo Cheng to have someone warn the Earth Underworld Sect that a Dou Venerate would force their way through the wormhole the next day.
• After returning to the hotel, Xiao Jin explained his plan, and Medusa claimed the Earth Underworld Sect's leader as her opponent.
• Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian volunteered to fight the sect's other two Dou Venerates, while Xiao Jin told Zi Yan to stay out of the battle.

Xiao Jin and his companions clashed with the Luo Clan, then faced the Earth Underworld Sect after its sect master Yi Nanfeng believed the Great Elder’s account. The confrontation ended with Xiao Jin’s group revealing multiple Dou Zun experts, leaving the terrified Luo Clan and Tianya City to witness the standoff.

• Medusa sent Luo Cheng flying, and Xiao Yi Xian beat the Luo Clan’s Great Elder when the clan members treated Xiao Jin’s group with hostility.
• The Earth Underworld Sect believed the injured Great Elder’s story and marched fourteen people, including Yi Nanfeng, to the Luo Clan.
• Yi Nanfeng mistook Xiao Jin’s sarcastic answer about his surname for a real name, then became enraged when Zi Yan mocked him.
• A Dou Zun from the Earth Underworld Sect challenged Xiao Jin, and Xiao Yi Xian stepped forward to match his aura as Yi Nanfeng’s forces surrounded them.
• Yi Nanfeng and another Dou Zun released their auras, but Xiao Jin stood firm as Medusa and Yun Yun revealed their own Dou Zun auras.
• Luo Cheng realized the group’s strength and regretted provoking them, while people across Tianya City felt the pressure and looked toward the Luo Clan.