Chapter Summaries

Xiao Jin confronted Queen Medusa over the Green Lotus Core Flame, and the two clashed in the Magma World. After trading attacks, Xiao Jin used Calamity Fire Flash to appear behind her and launched his Heart Melting Palm.

• Queen Medusa refused to let Xiao Jin take the Green Lotus Core Flame, and he challenged her to fight.
• Medusa attacked with an energy beam, but Xiao Jin split it with his Sun Wheel before she crushed the technique with her hand.
• Xiao Jin charged Medusa with Explosive Flame Whip Kick, and their direct clash forced him back five steps while Medusa retreated two.
• Medusa rushed Xiao Jin and punched at his chest, but he transformed into flames and used Calamity Fire Flash to appear behind her.
• Xiao Jin taunted Medusa and struck toward her with Heart Melting Palm.

Xiao Jin battled Medusa in the Magma World, then offered her a Ninth-Grade Golden Pill in exchange for becoming his battle companion after reaching the Dou Sheng realm. He explained a safer way for her to evolve, leaving Medusa to decide whether to accept the trade.

• Medusa injured her back while Xiao Jin dodged her attacks in the Green Lotus Space, forcing her to stop fighting and hear his proposal.
• Xiao Jin refused to give Medusa the Green Lotus Core Flame and revealed that he knew she wanted to use it to evolve her soul.
• Xiao Jin showed Medusa the Ancient Blood Origin-Returning Pill and explained that it could activate her Heaven-Swallowing Python bloodline and help her evolve.
• Xiao Jin asked Medusa to become his battle companion after she reached the Dou Sheng realm, promising to help her and the Snake-Person Race.
• Xiao Jin described an evolution method using the pill and the Heavenly Flame, then left Medusa to choose whether to accept it.

Medusa agreed to let Xiao Jin help her evolve after he gave her a Soul Breaking Pill and a Token for entering the Snake-Person Holy City. Xiao Jin sealed the Green Lotus Core Flame, then learned the Pill Tower Ancestor had recovered to Heaven Realm Great Perfection, while the Heavenly Flame trembled in his Storage Ring before a group of other flames.

• Medusa accepted Xiao Jin's offer to help complete her evolution and received a Soul Breaking Pill and a Token for the Holy City.
• Xiao Jin sealed the Green Lotus Core Flame with Sealing Stones, Three Thousand Burning Flame suppressing its resistance.
• Xiao Jin stored the sealed flame and collected the Associated Lotus Platform and its Earth Fire Lotus Seeds.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor revealed that refining the Soul Origin had restored his soul to Heaven Realm Great Perfection.
• Several enormous figures and smaller flames surrounded the Green Lotus Core Flame in the Storage Ring, and the largest slapped it while asking if it was the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Inside Xiao Jin’s Storage Ring, the Green Lotus Core Flame gave up part of its source energy to help Little Bodhi grow, while the Nihility Devouring Flame and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame discussed their roles. Xiao Jin returned to Stone Desert City with the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, which Qing Lin immobilized with her gaze.

• The Nihility Devouring Flame and Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame pressured the Green Lotus Core Flame into giving one-tenth of its source energy to Little Bodhi, whose growth confirmed their method worked.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor told Xiao Jin that he could restore his Emperor Realm Soul by taking Soul Origin from the Soul Hall or refining souls in the Heavenly Tomb, but advised him to focus on growing stronger first.
• Xiao Jin left the Green Lotus Space, found the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, and left the Earth Fire World with it coiled around his shoulder.
• Xiao Jin returned to Stone Desert City and told Xiao Yi Xian that he had completed two-thirds of his business.
• Xiao Jin showed Qing Lin the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake he had prepared for her, and her gaze left the snake unable to move.

Qing Lin grew stronger by absorbing the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake’s energy, while Medusa used Xiao Jin’s pill to strengthen her soul and understand how it could make her evolution safer. Medusa prepared to enter seclusion, still wondering what role Xiao Jin would play in her future.

• Qing Lin insisted on cooking for Xiao Jin before cultivating, and Xiao Yi Xian teased him about how deeply Qing Lin and others cared for him.
• Medusa told the Snake-Person elders that she had found the Heavenly Flame but had not brought it back, then announced she would enter seclusion to prepare her soul.
• Medusa swallowed the Tier 5 Medicinal Pill Xiao Jin had given her and felt her soul grow stronger.
• Medusa realized a stronger soul could help her resist the Purple Nether Flame Snake during evolution and avoid losing control of her body.
• Medusa recalled Xiao Jin’s words and decided to keep her promise to him.

After Qing Lin flourished under Xiao Jin’s care and Xiao Ding and Xiao Li strengthened their cultivation, Xiao Jin left for the Snake-Person Race’s Holy City to help Medusa complete her evolution. His family worried about the dangerous mission, while Xiao Li speculated that Xiao Jin might be interested in Medusa.

• Qing Lin grew stronger and more confident, and Xiao Jin made sure the Desert Iron Mercenary Group treated her with respect.
• Qing Lin decided to accompany Xiao Jin to Wutan City before Jia Nan Academy’s enrollment.
• Xiao Ding broke through to One-Star Dou Ling and gained the Myriad Forest Armor Art, while Xiao Li remained a Nine-Star Da Dou Shi as he consolidated his foundation.
• Xiao Jin warned Xiao Li not to act rashly based on unverified rumors, and Xiao Ding urged him to heed the warning.
• Xiao Jin left Stone Desert City for the Snake-Person Race’s Holy City to help Medusa complete her evolution.
• Xiao Li worried about Medusa’s power and suggested Xiao Jin might have taken a liking to her, prompting Xiao Ding to scold him.

Xiao Jin reached the Snake-Person Holy City and reunited with Medusa, who welcomed him calmly instead of threatening him as before. They agreed to begin her dangerous evolution that day, after preparing a secluded place where they would not be disturbed.

• A Snake-Person commander surrounded Xiao Jin near the Holy City, but Medusa arrived after he activated the Token and took him with her.
• Xiao Jin asked Medusa about her soul adjustment, then grew suspicious of her gentle manner and accused her of planning an ambush.
• Medusa denied wanting his Storage Ring and said only she knew about the Ninth-Grade Medicinal Pill.
• Xiao Jin agreed to help Medusa evolve that day, provided they found a quiet, secluded place.
• Medusa proposed using a cave about a hundred kilometers from the Holy City, and Xiao Jin told her to prepare before they began.

Xiao Jin prepared a cavern for Medusa’s evolution and explained how the Ancient Blood Origin-Returning Pill would protect her soul during the process. After Medusa’s soul reached the Spirit Realm, Xiao Jin enveloped her body in the Purple-Brown Flame, beginning her agonizing evolution.

• Xiao Jin inspected the cavern and told Medusa that she needed to reach the Spirit Realm before he used the Heavenly Flames to burn her body.
• Medusa undressed so her clothes would not be destroyed, and Xiao Jin struggled to control his reaction to her appearance.
• Medusa swallowed the Ancient Blood Origin-Returning Pill while Xiao Jin monitored her soul with his soul power.
• The pill’s medicinal power broke through the barrier between Medusa’s Mortal Realm soul and the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Jin warned Medusa before covering her body with the Purple-Brown Flame, and she screamed from the pain.

Xiao Jin and Medusa’s souls were drawn together by the Ancient Blood Origin-Returning Pill while Xiao Jin’s Emperor Realm Soul grew stronger. Inside the Storage Ring, the Heavenly Flames plotted to exploit their soul fusion to give Little Sapling the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Bloodline.

• Xiao Jin discovered that the Ninth-Grade Golden Pill’s soul force was strengthening his Emperor Realm Soul and began cultivating.
• Medusa’s evolving soul and the Ancient Blood Origin-Returning Pill were pulled toward Xiao Jin, despite her efforts to resist.
• After about an hour, Xiao Jin and Medusa’s souls touched and the pill forced them into an uncontrolled fusion.
• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and the Nihility Devouring Flame gave Little Sapling some bloodline force, turning its trunk brilliantly seven-colored.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame arranged for Little Fallen to distract Xiao Jin so the flames could help Little Sapling obtain the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python Bloodline.

During Medusa’s evolution, the Ancient Blood Origin-Returning Pill trapped her and Xiao Jin in a desire-filled illusory realm, but Xiao Jin’s soul body separated them before anything irreversible happened. Medusa realized the encounter was an accident and resumed her evolution, while the Little Sapling secretly absorbed more of the Heaven-Swallowing Python’s origin and part of the Purple Nether Flame Snake’s soul.

• The Ancient Blood Origin-Returning Pill forced Xiao Jin and Medusa into an illusory realm where they embraced despite resisting its influence.
• Xiao Jin’s soul body pulled him away from Medusa, breaking the pill’s control and ending the encounter before it went further.
• Xiao Jin feared Medusa would blame him for the accident, but Medusa recognized that he had deliberately stopped himself.
• Medusa became distracted by Xiao Jin’s restraint, and he urged her to focus on completing her evolution.
• The Little Sapling absorbed some of the Heaven-Swallowing Python’s origin and continued absorbing the Purple Nether Flame Snake’s soul.

While Medusa’s evolution stabilized, Xiao Jin learned to refine Demon Puppets from the Pill Tower Ancestor and made six powerful guardians for his family and himself. He returned to watch over Medusa as her evolution neared completion.

• Xiao Jin confirmed Medusa’s evolution was progressing smoothly, then left the cavern to guard her and handle other matters.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor emerged from Xiao Jin’s Storage Ring, and Xiao Jin asked him to teach him how to refine Puppets to protect the Xiao Clan and the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Following the Pill Tower Ancestor’s advice, Xiao Jin used his Emperor Realm Soul to refine six sets of remains at once.
• After seven days, Xiao Jin completed six Demon Puppets with the strength of Six-Star Dou Ancestors.
• Xiao Jin divided the Puppets among his brothers’ Desert Iron Mercenary Group, the Xiao Clan, and himself, then went back to check on Medusa as her evolution neared completion.

After Medusa completed her evolution, Xiao Jin confirmed her new strength and prepared to leave the Snake-Person Race. Before they parted, he promised to meet her in the Central Plains and advised her to move her people to Mulan Valley.

• Medusa confronted Xiao Jin but withdrew her hand and told him her evolution had succeeded, raising her cultivation to Five-Star Dou Zong.
• Xiao Jin told Medusa that their transaction was complete and announced that he was leaving the Tagor Desert.
• As they parted in the Holy City of the Snake-Person Race, Xiao Jin promised to seek Medusa out when she reached Peak Dou Zun and travel with her to the Central Plains.
• Medusa asked Xiao Jin to contact her personally, and he agreed to come find her himself.
• Xiao Jin recommended that Medusa take the Snake-Person Race to Mulan Valley, where she could defeat the Three Elders of Mulan and provide her people with a better home.

Xiao Jin prepared to return to Wutan City after helping Qing Lin advance rapidly and making plans to protect the Xiao Clan. Meanwhile, Haibodong confronted Jia Xingtian in the Imperial Capital, having reached Peak Dou Emperor and warning him to stop targeting the Mittel Family.

• Qing Lin advanced to the fourth segment of Dou Qi and welcomed Xiao Jin back with a meal.
• Xiao Jin told Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to prepare for future attacks, gave each a Six-Star Dou Ancestor Puppet, and warned Xiao Li not to take the Life-Devouring Pill.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li promised to make Stone Desert City a safe refuge for the Xiao Clan and to heed Xiao Jin's warnings.
• Xiao Jin set out for Wutan City with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Haibodong met Jia Xingtian after their battle ended in a draw and warned him to stop making trouble for the Mittel Family.

Miteer Tengshan learned that Hai Bodong had returned and ordered the Mittel Family to give Ya Fei authority equal to his own. After Xiao Jin returned to Wutan City with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, he went to see Xun'er, who welcomed him with an embrace.

• Miteer Tengshan learned that Hai Bodong was the Mittel Family’s supreme elder and that he had returned as a Dou Emperor.
• An elder reported Ya Fei’s business success and her favorable impression of Xiao Jin, and Tengshan ordered the clan to grant her the highest authority.
• Hai Bodong departed with the Mittel Family, while Jia Xingtian remained behind looking ashen.
• Xiao Jin returned to Wutan City with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, who had advanced to the Five-Stage Dou Qi level during the journey.
• Xiao Jin arranged rooms for Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then hurried to Xun’er’s courtyard.
• Xun’er rushed into Xiao Jin’s arms and told him she had missed him.

After returning from his two-month journey, Xiao Jin learned that Xun'er loved him, and he agreed to ask Xiao Zhan to let her move into his courtyard. He then began telling Xun'er about the Soul Clan and its plans, leaving her about to hear a revelation that could overturn what she knew.

• Xun'er asked where Xiao Jin had settled Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then pleaded to move into his courtyard too.
• Xun'er confessed that she had loved Xiao Jin for a long time, and Xiao Jin happily took her hand.
• Xiao Jin agreed to ask Xiao Zhan to let Xun'er move into his courtyard.
• Xun'er asked whether Xiao Jin had gone to find Queen Medusa, and he said he had gone to negotiate a deal.
• Xiao Jin decided to tell Xun'er about the Soul Clan, then began warning her that what he was about to say would overturn everything she knew.

Xiao Jin warned Xun'er that the Soul Clan had far more Dou Saints than the Ancient Clan and revealed its plans to gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xun'er left to alert Gu Yuan and have him investigate the Ancient Clan's traitor, Gu Yang.

• Xiao Jin explained that the Soul Clan had about twenty Dou Saints, including Soul Heaven Emperor, Nihility Devouring Flame, and the Four Elders of the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Jin revealed that the Ancient Clan's Second Elder, Gu Yang, had died a hundred years earlier and been replaced by someone whose soul Nihility Devouring Flame had fused with a Soul Clan member.
• Xiao Jin told Xun'er that the Soul Clan planned to gather the Tou She Ancient God Jade and that Soul Heaven Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame were still recovering from injuries inflicted by Xiao Xuan.
• Xun'er thanked Xiao Jin for warning her, then decided to tell Gu Yuan about the threat.
• Xiao Jin advised Xun'er to have Gu Yuan verify Gu Yang's identity first, and Xun'er hurriedly wrote to her father.

Xun'er sent an urgent warning about the Soul Clan's conspiracy to her father, while Xiao Jin reassured her and introduced her as his partner to Xiao Zhan. Xiao Jin then revealed preparations to protect the Xiao Clan from enemies expected within four years and supplied powerful puppets, cultivation methods, battle skills, and medicinal pills.

• Xun'er sealed a letter for Gu Yuan and sent Ling Ying to the Ancient Realm to warn him about the Soul Clan's plot and request a reply or a personal visit.
• Xiao Jin comforted Xun'er, then took her to meet Xiao Zhan and told him that they were together.
• Xiao Zhan accepted their relationship after Xun'er confirmed that her father had agreed.
• Xiao Jin told Xiao Zhan about the Xiao Clan's future enemies and his preparations for their arrival within four years.
• Xiao Jin gave Xiao Zhan two Six-Star Dou Ancestor Earth Demon Puppets, a Storage Ring containing thousands of cultivation methods and battle skills, and medicinal pills ranging from first-grade to fifth-grade.

Xiao Jin moved Xun'er into his courtyard, then Xiao Yan sought his advice about Yao Chen's evolvable Burning Mantra. Xiao Jin reassured Xiao Yan and gave him the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Yao Chen revealed that he possessed a Heavenly Flame of his own.

• Xiao Jin handed the Xiao Clan's development resources to Xiao Zhan and brought Xun'er to live in his courtyard.
• Xun'er asked whether Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin would mind her moving in, and Xiao Jin reassured her before Xiao Yan urgently called him away.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Jin that he suspected Yao Chen was deceiving him about the Burning Mantra, and Xiao Jin vouched for the cultivation method.
• Xiao Jin summoned Yao Chen to explain the Burning Mantra and reminded Xiao Yan that cultivation required hard work.
• Xiao Jin gave Xiao Yan the Green Lotus Core Flame to help the Burning Mantra evolve, and Yao Chen showed them his own pale-white flame.

Xiao Jin gave Xiao Yan a sealed Bone Chilling Flame and three Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragmented Maps, urging him to grow strong enough to protect the Xiao Clan. Xiao Yan left eager to cultivate, while Xiao Jin returned to find Xun'er telling Qing Lin embarrassing stories about his childhood.

• Xiao Jin revealed that Yao Chen's Bone Chilling Flame ranked eleventh, then gave Xiao Yan a sealed flame that he could refine after cultivating a technique.
• Xiao Jin gave Xiao Yan three Fragmented Maps leading to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Yao Chen explained the flame's immense power.
• Xiao Yan accepted the maps, and Xiao Jin told him that Ya Fei would give him favorable treatment at the Miteer Auction House because of their partnership.
• Xiao Yan left to cultivate and become a Dou Zhe, while Xiao Jin returned to his courtyard.
• Xiao Jin heard Xun'er telling Qing Lin stories about his mischievous childhood and blushed at the gate.

Xiao Jin reunited with Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, and the four grew closer while sharing stories and meals. Over the following months, Xiao Jin advanced his alchemy and strengthened his Earth Demon Puppets as he guided the girls’ cultivation.

• Xiao Jin joined Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin, then explained how Xiao Yan had dragged him into the incident at the hot spring.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin laughed at Xiao Jin’s story, and the four prepared and shared a feast in the courtyard.
• Xiao Jin settled into a peaceful routine of cultivation and pill refining, eventually producing a Seventh-Grade Instant Qi Pill.
• Xiao Jin used thunder tribulations to strengthen his Earth Demon Puppets, raising the two at the Xiao Clan to Seven-Star Dou Zong and his own two to Eight-Star Dou Ancestor.
• Xiao Jin refined increasingly advanced Seventh-Grade pills and helped Xun'er, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin improve their combat skills and cultivation.