Chapter Summaries

Queen Medusa reunited with Xiao Yan and brought him to meet the Snake-Person Tribe’s elders, while their public teasing convinced the tribe that he might become her Prince Consort. The elders tested Xiao Yan with a combined aura, and he answered by summoning his blue flames.

• Queen Medusa emerged from seclusion and reunited with Xiao Yan before the Snake-People, who watched their flirtatious exchange in shock.
• Queen Medusa took Xiao Yan to meet the clan elders, and Hua She'er and Yue Mei stayed behind to soothe the tribe and contact the other leaders.
• Hua She'er told the Snake-People that Xiao Yan might become Queen Medusa’s Prince Consort, leaving many male Snake-People heartbroken.
• Queen Medusa and Xiao Yan bickered as they traveled to the elders’ courtyard, where she released his wrist before entering with him.
• Four elders formed a massive black python from their combined aura and pressured Xiao Yan, who summoned blue flames that weakened it.

Xiao Yan impressed the four Snake-Person Tribe elders with his fused Heavenly Flames and promised to help the tribe settle near Wutan City. After hearing Queen Medusa describe their relationship, the elders approved him as a Prince Consort candidate and prepared a Tribal Altar cleansing for her.

• Xiao Yan burned away the elders’ chilling aura with his fused Heavenly Flames, and the Great Elder introduced the four elders before questioning him about becoming Medusa’s Prince Consort candidate.
• Queen Medusa praised Xiao Yan’s cultivation and alchemy, and Xiao Yan promised to build the Snake-Person Tribe a city near Wutan City and protect them while expecting peaceful coexistence.
• The Great Elder sent Xiao Yan outside so the elders could privately question Medusa, who recounted how she and Xiao Yan had grown close while concealing some details of their past.
• The Third Elder and the other elders approved of Xiao Yan despite his many confidantes, and the Great Elder agreed to consider him as Prince Consort if he could help the tribe leave the desert.
• The Second Elder told Medusa she must undergo the Tribal Altar cleansing before marital relations, and Medusa embarrassedly insisted that she alone would take responsibility rather than let Hua She'er or Yue Mei do so.

Queen Medusa announced the Snake-Person Tribe’s planned migration and named Xiao Yan her Prince Consort Candidate, while struggling to hide her growing feelings for him. When the tribal leaders questioned whether Xiao Yan was strong enough to lead negotiations, he challenged them and captured Mo Basi with one hand.

• Queen Medusa told Xiao Yan that the elders had approved the migration proposal, then took him to meet the tribal leaders.
• Queen Medusa arrived at the Sacred Hall plaza holding Xiao Yan’s wrist, silenced the leaders with her Dou Zong pressure, and announced that she had found a way to lead the Snake-Person Tribe out of the Tager Desert.
• Queen Medusa named Xiao Yan as her Prince Consort Candidate and credited him with helping secure the tribe’s future.
• Mo Basi challenged Xiao Yan’s ability to negotiate with the Jia Ma Empire and attacked him, but Xiao Yan caught him by the throat with one hand and tossed him back.

Xiao Yan demonstrated overwhelming strength against the Snake-Person leaders, who had agreed to recognize him as Prince Consort if their combined attack failed. After he swiftly defeated three leaders, the remaining five launched a powerful fusion technique, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Yin Shi proposed that the eight leaders fight Xiao Yan and promised to recognize him as Prince Consort if they could not defeat him; Yue Mei also accepted him but joined the fight at Xiao Yan's request.
• The eight leaders formed their snake-shaped battle formation and attacked Xiao Yan with Eight Snake Strangling.
• Xiao Yan evaded the attack with his movement technique, then used a blue-flamed punch to disable Yan Ci.
• Xiao Yan struck Yue Mei and Mo Basi in rapid succession, leaving three leaders unable to fight.
• Yin Shi and the remaining four leaders formed a defensive barrier and unleashed the Five Snake Poisonous Killing Seal, which became a gigantic green energy snake.

Xiao Yan defeated the Snake-Person Tribe leaders’ combined attack and demonstrated a new Fire Spirit technique, convincing them to accept him as their Prince Consort. Queen Medusa officially recognized him, then fled after Xiao Yan teased her about being in love with him.

• Xiao Yan used Separation Fire Slash to destroy the leaders’ energy serpent attack.
• Xiao Yan summoned a dark-red flaming python that trapped Yin Shi and the other four leaders, then released them at Queen Medusa’s request.
• Yin Shi and the other leaders acknowledged Xiao Yan’s strength and accepted him as the Snake-Person Tribe’s Prince Consort.
• Queen Medusa formally declared Xiao Yan the tribe’s one and only Prince Consort and assigned Yin Shi to oversee migration arrangements.
• Xiao Yan took Queen Medusa’s hand and teased her about falling for him, prompting her to deny it and disappear.

Xiao Yan left the Snake-Person leaders to plan the tribe’s migration and followed Queen Medusa into the sacred altar, where their intimate encounter turned into her self-declared punishment of him. The chapter ended with Queen Medusa binding Xiao Yan to a pillar and declaring that he was hers.

• Queen Medusa vanished after an embarrassed exchange with Xiao Yan, and Yin Shi asked Xiao Yan to oversee the migration preparations.
• Xiao Yan told Yin Shi and the other leaders to draft a plan suited to the tribe, then went to check on Queen Medusa.
• At the Ancient Altar, Queen Medusa tried to dismiss Xiao Yan, but he approached and kissed her.
• Queen Medusa blasted Xiao Yan away without injuring him, then confronted him with a serpent-shaped sword and accused him of offending the Queen.
• Queen Medusa bound Xiao Yan to a pillar, kissed him, transformed her legs into a serpent body, and declared that he could not escape because he was hers.

Queen Medusa and Xiao Yan were caught kissing by the Four Elders, who came to summon her for a tribal baptism. After the elders revealed the baptism was required before their marriage could be consummated, Xiao Yan tricked Medusa into agreeing to marry him at the Tribal Temple, but she immediately delayed the decision.

• Queen Medusa passionately kissed and restrained Xiao Yan at the altar until the Four Elders opened the door and caught them.
• Embarrassed, Medusa transformed back into human form while Xiao Yan tried to take the blame; the Great Elder teased them and warned them not to be intimate at the sacred altar.
• The Great Elder explained that every queen had to undergo a special baptism before consummating her marriage and bearing a new queen.
• After Medusa kicked Xiao Yan, he challenged her to choose between marrying at the altar immediately or at the Tribal Temple the next day, and she chose the temple.
• The Four Elders stopped Medusa from attacking Xiao Yan and advised them to prepare properly, so Medusa insisted she had never said when the wedding would happen.

Queen Medusa agreed to undergo the Snake-Person Tribe’s Altar Baptism, and Xiao Yan helped balance its icy energy with his Heavenly Flames. After the rite stabilized her origin and bloodline, the two left hand in hand, their bond warmer than before.

• The Great Elder persuaded Queen Medusa to undergo the baptism despite her reluctance to consummate the marriage before the wedding.
• Queen Medusa accepted the Jade Heart Pill from Xiao Yan and entered the altar’s central ritual circle.
• The Four Elders began the baptism, awakening the altar’s blue energy and the seven-colored patterns of Medusa’s bloodline.
• At the Great Elder’s direction, Xiao Yan surrounded the altar with his Heavenly Flames, helping balance the ritual’s icy energy and ease Medusa’s pain.
• The baptism stabilized Medusa’s origin and bloodline, and she thanked Xiao Yan by gently wiping the sweat from his forehead.
• Queen Medusa took Xiao Yan’s hand, and they left together as the Four Elders watched in silence.

After the baptism ritual, Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa shared a heartfelt exchange beneath the desert moonlight, and she agreed to marry him. Xiao Yan then found a way to imitate her aura with the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire so he could control the Prince Token without consummating their marriage first.

• Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa walked hand in hand through the desert after leaving the Forbidden Ground.
• Queen Medusa told Xiao Yan she wanted to travel the Dou Qi Continent with him after the Snake-Person Tribe's migration, and Xiao Yan asked her to marry him.
• Queen Medusa accepted Xiao Yan's proposal, and they kissed beneath the moonlight.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire could imitate Queen Medusa's aura and help him control the Prince Token without their marrying first.
• Queen Medusa gave Xiao Yan a drop of her blood essence, and he fused it with his own in the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire to create a lifelike Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python form.

Xiao Yan left the Snake-Person Tribe for the Imperial Capital to negotiate its migration, carrying Queen Medusa’s Prince Token and a scale she gave him for protection. As the tribe prepared to move, Ya Fei learned of his impending arrival and readied herself to welcome him.

• Queen Medusa gave Xiao Yan a Seven-Colored Scale and authorized him to represent the Snake-Person Tribe in the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Yan promised to help secure the tribe’s migration and departed after the tribe’s leaders sent him off.
• Queen Medusa ordered the Eight Great Tribes to withdraw their defenses, reorganize, and inventory supplies for the migration.
• Hua She'er and Yue Mei recalled that Xiao Yan had given them Dou Ling Pills, strengthening their trust in him.
• Ya Fei received a report about activity in the Snake-Person Holy City and ordered the Mittel Family to watch the Imperial Capital’s entrances for Xiao Yan.
• Ya Fei left work to prepare herself for Xiao Yan’s arrival.

Xiao Yan returned to the Imperial Capital as the Snake-Person Tribe’s Prince Consort and met with Ya Fei to prepare for negotiations with the Jia Ma Imperial Family. The Mittel Family welcomed him and offered him a future leadership role as the two families prepared to work together.

• Xiao Yan entered the Imperial Capital, where the Mittel Family’s watchers quickly identified him.
• Ya Fei arrived to welcome Xiao Yan, and he explained that Queen Medusa and the Snake-Person Tribe had agreed to migrate and appointed him their representative for negotiations.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan that the Mittel Family had prepared plans for trade, settlement areas, and resource compensation, but warned that the imperial family’s senior expert and a Misty Cloud Sect elder might oppose them.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei shared an affectionate moment in the carriage before arriving at the Mittel Family headquarters.
• Mite'er Tengshan welcomed Xiao Yan and offered him the position of future vice patriarch of the Mittel Family.
• Xiao Yan thanked the elders and pledged to help Miter Auction House spread across the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Yan reviewed the Mittel Family’s efforts to unite Jia Ma Empire’s forces and learned that Jia Xingtian was obstructing negotiations. He went with Hai Bodong to confront the Jia Ma Imperial Family, while Ya Fei took command of the Mittel Family and mobilized its forces to surround the Imperial Palace.

• Xiao Yan heard that the Misty Cloud Sect, Nalan Clan, and Mittel Family supported his plans, while the Mu Family, Alchemist Guild, and Jia Ma Imperial Family remained hesitant.
• Hai Bodong returned from meeting Jia Xingtian and reported that the Imperial Family’s elder refused to cooperate and feared the Snake-Person Tribe.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Snake-Person Tribe’s Prince Token and announced he would visit Jia Xingtian to negotiate, warning that he could destroy the Imperial Family if it attacked the Snake-Person Tribe.
• Hai Bodong offered to guide Xiao Yan to the Imperial Palace and suggested using the injured Deep Sea Flood Dragon’s treatment to win Jia Xingtian’s support.
• Ya Fei revealed that she had advanced to the Dou Wang realm, and Mite'er Tengshan appointed her Clan Leader before leaving to follow Xiao Yan.
• Ya Fei ordered the Mittel Family’s guards and Shadow Guards to surround the Imperial Palace, while several elders stayed behind to guard the family.

Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong arrived above the Jia Ma Imperial Family, where Xiao Yan announced that he had come as the Snake-Person Tribe’s Prince Consort to negotiate and lead a deal. His ultimatum startled the capital’s powerful families, and Nalan Jie and Mu Chen set out to see what would happen.

• Hai Bodong followed Xiao Yan toward the Jia Ma Imperial Capital and marveled at his mastery of the Misty Cloud Sect’s wind-based movement technique.
• Jia Xingtian flew out to confront Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong, then recognized Xiao Yan as the supposedly much younger Dou Emperor and weighed the danger he posed.
• Xiao Yan told Jia Xingtian he represented Queen Medusa in negotiations, would lead a deal to settle the Snake-Person Tribe near Wutan City, and would punish anyone who harmed them.
• Nalan Jie and Nalan Su realized the Prince Consort was Xiao Yan and were stunned by his rise to Dou Emperor and his connection to Queen Medusa.
• Nalan Jie decided to go support Xiao Yan, while Mu Chen also headed out to meet him and witness the gathering of the Nalan and Mittel families.

Xiao Yan confronted Jia Xingtian to secure the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s support for unifying the empire’s strength, then decisively defeated him in three attacks. Jia Xingtian accepted Xiao Yan’s leadership, and Xiao Yan offered him a healing pill as the imperial family joined his plans.

• Mite’er Tengshan confirmed the Mittel Family’s support for Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan warned Jia Xingtian that resistance could destroy the imperial family.
• Jia Xingtian attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan struck him with Eight Extremities Collapse and followed with Fire Origin: Annihilation.
• Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame overwhelmed Jia Xingtian’s Earth Emperor Mountain-Suppressing Seal, leaving Jia Xingtian severely injured in the palace ruins.
• Ya Fei arrived with Mittel Family forces surrounding the imperial palace, while Nalan Jie, Mu Chen, and Fa Ma witnessed Jia Xingtian’s defeat.
• Jia Xingtian agreed that the imperial family would follow Xiao Yan’s lead, and Xiao Yan gave him a Fifth-Grade healing pill.

After defeating Jia Xingtian, Xiao Yan secured the support of the Nalan Clan, Mu Family, and Alchemist Guild for his proposed alliance. He appointed Ya Fei to represent him in its affairs, and the group began discussing their plans at the Royal Garden while the Misty Cloud Sect remained the last major faction to approach.

• Jia Xingtian swallowed Xiao Yan's pill, recovered from his injuries, and apologized for opposing him.
• Xiao Yan invited Nalan Jie, Mu Chen, and Fa Ma over; Nalan Jie and Mu Chen pledged their clans' support for Xiao Yan's alliance.
• Xiao Yan revealed that his Alchemy had reached the peak of Sixth-Grade, and Fa Ma agreed to have the Alchemist Guild join the alliance.
• Jia Xingtian invited the group to the Royal Garden, while Mite'er Tengshan withdrew the Mittel Family's people from around the imperial household.
• At the pavilion, Xiao Yan named Ya Fei his representative in alliance affairs and invited the assembled leaders to discuss their needs.

Xiao Yan offered to heal the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s Deep Sea Flood Dragon and traveled with Jia Xingtian to examine it. After his Dragon Seal forced the beast into submission, Xiao Yan confirmed its injuries were treatable, while Jia Xingtian and the Deep Sea Flood Dragon wondered whether he was a magical beast himself.

• Xiao Yan offered to refine a Hunyuan Bone-Shaping Pill to heal the Deep Sea Flood Dragon, and Jia Xingtian arranged to take him to it.
• Xiao Yan briefly hovered without Dou Qi Transformation Wings, startling Jia Xingtian, then followed him to the lake in the Royal Manor’s Back Mountain.
• The Deep Sea Flood Dragon doubted Xiao Yan’s alchemical ability and pressured him, but the Dragon Seal from Zi Yan overwhelmed it and made it submit.
• Xiao Yan examined the Deep Sea Flood Dragon’s injuries and decided that a Hunyuan Bone-Shaping Pill could cure them.
• Xiao Yan reviewed the pill’s prescription and rested while Jia Xingtian and the Deep Sea Flood Dragon discussed whether Xiao Yan might be a supreme magical beast.

Xiao Yan refined a Hunyuan Bone-Shaping Pill and healed the Deep Sea Flood Dragon, securing the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s gratitude and loyalty. As he left for the Mittel Family banquet, Jia Xingtian and Yaoye discussed how unlikely it was that they could win him over, while Yaoyue remained infatuated with him.

• Yaoye and Yaoyue delivered medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Yan allowed Yaoyue to watch him refine a pill.
• Xiao Yan used the Myriad Beast Cauldron and his blue flame to refine a Hunyuan Bone-Shaping Pill.
• Xiao Yan used the pill to heal the Deep Sea Flood Dragon, which pledged its loyalty to him.
• Jia Xingtian thanked Xiao Yan and promised the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s support, while Xiao Yan accepted the remaining ingredients and invited them to the Mittel Family banquet.
• Xiao Yan flew away, and Jia Xingtian and Yaoye acknowledged that winning him over would be difficult as Yaoyue continued to think about him.

After returning from the Snake-Person Tribe, Xiao Yan attended a banquet with the Imperial Capital’s major factions and spent the night with Ya Fei. The next morning, he visited the Alchemist Guild to obtain the Soul Fusion Pill formula and take a Sixth-Grade Alchemist examination, which began with Fa Ma watching him refine an Imperial Extreme Pill.

• Xiao Yan returned to Xiao Mansion, explained the alliance’s progress to Xiao Zhan and the clan elders, and attended a banquet hosted by the Mittel Family with Ya Fei.
• At the banquet, Xiao Yan met Jia Xingtian’s granddaughters Yaoye and Yaoyue but showed little interest in them, while the gathered factions discussed their shared concerns.
• After the banquet, Xiao Yan went home with Ya Fei, reassured her that he preferred her to the princesses, and fell asleep beside her.
• The next morning, Xiao Yan went to the Alchemist Guild to collect the Soul Fusion Pill formula and take a Sixth-Grade Alchemist examination overseen by Fa Ma.
• Fa Ma led Xiao Yan to a private examination chamber, where Xiao Yan summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron and began refining an Imperial Extreme Pill with a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan refined an excellent Imperial Extreme Pill before Fa Ma, who was awed by his alchemy and renewed his determination to advance. After receiving his Sixth-Grade Alchemist badge and the Soul Fusion Pill formula, Xiao Yan left the guild, where its leaders grew more enthusiastic about following him as their alliance leader.

• Xiao Yan refined an Imperial Extreme Pill in a single attempt while Fa Ma watched in amazement.
• Fa Ma praised Xiao Yan's alchemy, and Xiao Yan received his Sixth-Grade Alchemist badge and robe.
• Fa Ma gave Xiao Yan the Soul Fusion Pill formula, and Xiao Yan said he would exchange high-grade pills for the guild's ingredients.
• Fa Ma asked to learn from Xiao Yan again, and Xiao Yan agreed if he had time while urging Fa Ma to keep working diligently.
• Fa Ma escorted Xiao Yan out, then told the guild's gathered leaders that Xiao Yan was their alliance leader.
• The guild leaders became eager to follow Xiao Yan after learning he was a fourteen-year-old Sixth-Grade Alchemist.

Xiao Yan summoned Old Yao and Venerable Skyfire and discovered that Old Yao’s soul had recovered to a level comparable to a Dou Zun’s. After discussing plans to revive Venerable Skyfire and using the Soul Fusion Pill formula, they agreed to study a way to separate Queen Medusa’s soul from the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

• Xiao Yan summoned Old Yao and Venerable Skyfire in his underground quiet chamber and realized Old Yao’s soul strength had reached the Dou Zun level.
• Old Yao revealed that he hoped to use a suitable body to advance toward the Half-Saint realm, while Venerable Skyfire considered staying with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan promised to help Venerable Skyfire revive with a body refined from five Heavenly Flames and materials including a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and Tier 7 Magical Beast essence blood.
• Xiao Yan showed them the Soul Fusion Pill formula, and Old Yao confirmed it could restore soul strength and repair soul injuries.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao to adapt the formula to separate Queen Medusa’s soul from the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and Venerable Skyfire offered to help study it.