Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan traveled through the void after crushing the Teleportation Jade Token, while Hun Xuzi briefly appeared and explained that the journey across the Central Plains would take more than a month. After a month of waiting, Yao Yan discovered a Space Storm forming directly in their path, and the token fragment flew straight into it.

• Yao Yan entered the void with Ling Er as the Teleportation Jade Token fragment carried him through space.
• Hun Xuzi appeared, congratulated Yao Yan on taking revenge, and told him to cultivate diligently.
• Hun Xuzi explained that the journey would take more than a month and withdrew his Soul Power, leaving Yao Yan to travel alone.
• Yao Yan spent the journey refining the Spirit Crystal in his soul, strengthening his Blood Qi and Dou Qi with Spiritual Qi.
• After a month, Yao Yan saw a Space Storm forming ahead, and the Teleportation Jade Token fragment charged into its center.

Yao Yan and Ling Er were caught in a Space Storm after his Teleportation Jade Token began to fail, leaving him to endure the storm without reaching Hun Xuzi. The token eventually opened a Space Gate that carried Yao Yan away, and Hun Xuzi later searched for him near the Black-Corner Region.

• Yao Yan tried to contact Hun Xuzi as the Space Storm battered the Teleportation Jade Token, but the Communication Jade Token could not reach him.
• Yao Yan shielded Ling Er and used his Indestructible Diamond Body to withstand the storm as the token’s Space Energy weakened.
• The Teleportation Jade Token shattered, and the Space Storm tore into Yao Yan until a Space Gate swallowed him and sent him away.
• Several days later, Hun Xuzi appeared in the storm and used his Soul Power to follow Yao Yan’s trace toward the Black-Corner Region.
• Hun Xuzi concluded that Yao Yan had likely survived and planned to have Soul Hall members search for him.

After a Space Storm separated him from Hun Xuzi, Yao Yan and Ling Er landed in the barren Tagor Desert, where Yao Yan recovered and considered how to keep the Soul Clan from discovering the Xiao Family’s Tou She Ancient God Jade. He resolved that no one could open the Tou She Ancient God Mansion before he reached peak Nine Star Dou Sheng.

• A silver ring appeared in the desert and flung Yao Yan, badly injured, onto the sand before disappearing.
• Ling Er crawled out from Yao Yan’s clothes and drove away the poisonous insects drawn to his blood.
• A Purple Flame Poison Scorpion attacked, but Yao Yan awakened and frightened it off with the Illusory Gold Flame’s bloodline pressure.
• Yao Yan treated himself with medicinal pills, gave Ling Er Flora Essence, and realized that he had lost Hun Xuzi’s Communication Jade Token.
• Yao Yan considered the danger of the Soul Clan discovering the Xiao Family’s Tou She Ancient God Jade and decided it must remain out of their hands until he reached peak Nine Star Dou Sheng.

Lost in the Tagor Desert, Yao Yan encountered mercenaries trafficking Snake-People Slaves and tried to buy water, food, and a map. When their leader attacked him, Yao Yan killed him and another mercenary, leaving the rest terrified.

• Yao Yan and Ling Er wandered the desert low on water until he spotted a group escorting Snake-People Slaves.
• Yao Yan recognized the Tagor Desert and sensed that a beautiful snake-person had powerful energy sealed by Space Energy.
• Yao Yan offered to buy the snake-person along with water, food, and a map, but the Burly Big Boss decided to rob him instead.
• The Burly Big Boss attacked Yao Yan, who caught his saber and killed him with a single punch.
• A mercenary charged at Yao Yan to avenge his brother, and Yao Yan killed him with one slap, frightening the remaining traffickers.

After defeating a band of mercenaries, Yao Yan freed their Snake-People captives and studied a map that confirmed the Jia Ma Empire was nearby. As he set out for Wutan City to pursue his plans, a beautiful snake-person with no memory asked to follow him, and he agreed.

• Yao Yan took the mercenaries' supplies and map from their dead boss's Storage Ring, then let the surviving mercenaries leave.
• Yao Yan freed the Snake-People from their Shackles, told them to give the Medusa Queen his regards, and focused on finding Wutan City on the map.
• Yao Yan considered how to obtain the Xiao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade, Yao Lao's Bone Spirit Cold Fire, and the Flame Mantra, while worrying about whether Gu Xun'er had reached the Xiao Clan.
• A snake-person who had forgotten her name asked Yao Yan to let her follow him, offering to serve as his maid.
• Yao Yan agreed to let the snake-person travel with him, and she followed alongside Ling Er.

Yao Yan examined the amnesiac Snake-Woman and discovered she carried the soul of a Violet Nether Serpent as a Companion Soul. He realized she was Medusa Queen's sister, though her exact identity and the cause of her memory loss remained unclear.

• Yao Yan shared a blanket with the Snake-Woman and asked whether she remembered her name.
• Yao Yan examined the Snake-Woman and found a sleeping Violet Nether Serpent Soul Body bound inside her by Space Power.
• Yao Yan recognized the Snake-Woman as Medusa Queen's sister and inferred that the story took place years before Hai Bodong's sealing.
• Yao Yan joked that her beauty would bring trouble, so she smeared charcoal over her face to make herself less conspicuous.
• Yao Yan laughed at her attempt and patted her head.

Yao Yan sat awake in the Tagor Desert with Medusa Queen's Sister asleep against him when Ice Emperor Hai Bodong arrived to take her back for an employer. Yao Yan revealed her connection to Medusa Queen and summoned the Queen's attention, leaving Hai Bodong facing her arrival and deadly threat.

• Yao Yan reflected on his plans while Medusa Queen's Sister slept beside him at their desert camp.
• Hai Bodong arrived with a Water Cart and warned Yao Yan that lighting a campfire in the desert exposed them to danger.
• Hai Bodong said he had been hired to take Medusa Queen's Sister back, and Yao Yan told him she was related to Medusa Queen.
• Yao Yan called out to Medusa Queen, and Hai Bodong readied an Ice Spear as she approached while Yao Yan shielded the sleeping girl with his Soul Power.
• Medusa Queen removed her mask and demanded to know how Yao Yan and Hai Bodong wanted to die.

Medusa Queen confronted Yao Yan and Hai Bodong over her sleeping sister, but Yao Yan explained the sister’s condition and invited them to talk. After hearing his account and recognizing his formidable resources, Medusa Queen lowered her hostility while warning Hai Bodong to keep their secret.

• Hai Bodong offered to leave rather than fight Medusa Queen over the sleeping Snake-Woman.
• Medusa Queen questioned Yao Yan, then grew threatening when she saw her sister’s blackened face.
• Yao Yan explained that the sister had used a Space Secret Technique, suffered a backlash, and needed rest, then displayed Illusory Gold Flame.
• Yao Yan persuaded Medusa Queen and Hai Bodong to put away their dou qi and sit down to talk.
• Yao Yan said he came from the Southernmost Land of the Central Plains and had found the amnesiac Medusa Queen after a Space Storm.
• Hai Bodong realized the Snake-Woman was another Medusa Queen, and Medusa Queen warned him to forget what he had heard.

Yao Yan refused to hand Medusa Queen's younger sister back until the Snake-People Tribe could protect her, and offered to cure her and have Hai Bodong guard her. His revelation that he was a Fifth-Rank Alchemist who was not yet seventeen left Medusa Queen and Hai Bodong stunned.

• Medusa Queen asked Yao Yan to return her younger sister, and he said he would not interfere if she chose to go back but warned that the Snake-People Tribe seemed like a cage to her.
• Yao Yan argued that the tribe might want to kill the younger sister, and Medusa Queen swore that no one would touch her.
• Yao Yan reminded Medusa Queen that her younger sister had fled using the Space Secret Technique and was left injured, amnesiac, and with her Dou Qi cultivation sealed.
• Hai Bodong advised Medusa Queen to stay away from her younger sister until she could break the Rules, and Yao Yan agreed to keep the younger sister with him for now.
• Yao Yan offered to cure the younger sister and proposed that Medusa Queen hire Hai Bodong to protect her until she regained Dou Huang strength.
• Hai Bodong learned that Yao Yan was a Fifth-Rank Alchemist who was not yet seventeen, leaving him and Medusa Queen speechless.

Yao Yan proved his alchemy skill to Medusa Queen and Hai Bo Dong, convincing Medusa Queen to entrust her younger sister to him and grant him a Snake-People Tribe token. After Medusa Queen departed, Yao Yan pressed Hai Bo Dong to stay and help him navigate the unfamiliar Jia Ma Empire.

• Yao Yan refined three Tier 3 Qi Recovery Pills with effortless skill, dispelling Medusa Queen's and Hai Bo Dong's doubts about his abilities.
• Medusa Queen decided to let her younger sister leave with Yao Yan, gave him a token, and warned him she would pursue and kill him if he harmed her sister.
• Medusa Queen flew away, leaving her sleeping younger sister with Yao Yan.
• Hai Bo Dong prepared to leave, but Yao Yan asked about the Jia Ma Empire, the route to the Black-Corner Region, and its powerful experts, then convinced Hai Bo Dong to remain by pointing out that he was stranded in the Tagor Desert.

Medusa Queen returned to her Snake-People and rejected the elders’ orders after secretly sending her sister away. The next day, Yao Yan and Hai Bo Dong traveled with the amnesiac sister, who chose the name Die and was given the full name Cai Die.

• Flame Thorn grew impatient while waiting for Medusa Queen, but Yin Shi told him to follow orders.
• Medusa Queen returned and announced that the matter of the traitor was resolved; she declared her authority to Yin Shi and led the Snake-People home.
• Yao Yan washed and changed clothes, then joked with Hai Bo Dong and Medusa Queen’s Sister about his looks.
• Yao Yan encouraged Medusa Queen’s Sister to choose a name, and she chose Die after recalling the name of a plant that transformed into butterflies.
• Yao Yan added Cai to her name, while Hai Bo Dong watched the butterflies and reflected on his own lost freedom.

Yao Yan traveled across the Tagor Desert with Hai Bo Dong, Cai Die, and Ling Er, learning about the dangers posed by the Snake-People Tribe and reflecting on his overconfidence. They reached the outskirts of Rock City, where Yao Yan could arrange transport onward through the Jia Ma Empire.

• Yao Yan discussed the desert’s heat and Hai Bo Dong explained why they traveled discreetly by Water Cart through Snake-People territory.
• Hai Bo Dong warned that humans entering the Tagor Desert were prey to the Snake-People Tribe, while mercenaries hunted them for profit.
• Hai Bo Dong told Yao Yan to conceal Cai Die’s identity, and Yao Yan promised to protect her as Cai Die wondered why they were discussing her.
• Hai Bo Dong said Cai Die needed to become strong and revealed that her personality reminded him of a junior sister he had failed to protect.
• Hai Bo Dong felt his long-standing bottleneck loosen and pointed out Rock City ahead, where Yao Yan could find a Flying Transportation Company.

Yao Yan and Hai Bo Dong reached Rock City, where Yao Yan arranged to stay at a Mittel Family auction house and treat Cai Die. He silenced the crowd that stared at Cai Die by displaying his strength, leaving Hai Bo Dong impressed and suspicious of how powerful he was.

• Hai Bo Dong explained the conflict between the Jia Ma Empire and the Snake-People Tribe, and said he would no longer accept jobs against the tribe.
• Yao Yan and Hai Bo Dong entered Rock City using Hai Bo Dong's royal token, and Yao Yan asked Hai Bo Dong to guard him and find medicinal ingredients in exchange for a Peak Fifth-Rank Qi Accumulation Pill.
• Hai Bo Dong brought Yao Yan to a Mittel Family auction house and introduced him to its middle-aged head butler as a Fifth-Rank Alchemist who was not yet seventeen.
• Yao Yan helped Cai Die out of the water bucket, and the crowd's stares made her cling to him.
• Yao Yan shook the street with a powerful stomp to quiet the onlookers, then asked the auction house to prepare a guest room and an alchemy room.
• Hai Bo Dong studied the footprint Yao Yan left behind and wondered at his strength and control.

Yao Yan settled into a private room at the Mittel Family Auction House and arranged for Hai Bo Dong to obtain the ingredients needed for his pill refining. After an awkward misunderstanding with Cai Die over her sensitive tail, Hai Bo Dong left to gather the ingredients that might help him break through his long-standing cultivation bottleneck.

• The Middle-aged Head Butler prepared a secluded room and Pill Refining Room for Yao Yan, who asked him to bring something light to eat.
• Yao Yan set Cai Die down after stroking her sensitive tail, then convinced her that his repeated touches had only been an attempt to keep hold of her slippery tail.
• Ling Er woke up hungry, and Yao Yan scolded her before Hai Bo Dong arrived at the room.
• Hai Bo Dong told Yao Yan he could take any medicinal ingredients the Auction House had and offered to bring in anything missing from the Imperial Capital.
• Yao Yan imprinted a list of the ingredients he needed onto a scroll, and Hai Bo Dong hurried off to prepare them in hopes of breaking through from 5-Star Dou Huang.

Yao Yan settled into the auction house’s inner courtyard with Cai Die and Ling Er, then revealed Cai Die’s identity and explained that her sealed Companion Soul caused her memory loss. After testing the seal, he planned to remove it in a few days, while Hai Bo Dong arranged the ingredients Yao Yan needed.

• Yao Yan politely declined the two maids offered by the Middle-aged Head Butler and shared the meal with Cai Die and Ling Er.
• Yao Yan considered his plans to travel to Wutan City and Green Mountain Town, obtain a fragmented map, and pursue the Flame Mantra before considering the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Cai Die asked about her identity, and Yao Yan told her she was the Medusa Queen’s twin sister who had escaped the Snake-People Tribe’s palace and lost her memories.
• Cai Die’s memories began surfacing with a sudden headache, but Yao Yan stopped her and explained that breaking the seal without care would hurt her.
• Hai Bo Dong heard that Yao Yan had declined the maids and ordered the Middle-aged Head Butler to gather the medicinal ingredients listed on Yao Yan’s Soul Scroll.

Yao Yan prepared to break through to Da Dou Shi and refined a Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill to test his mastery of the Three Flowers Gather Fire Skill. He began combining the ingredients with the skill’s three special flames, leaving the pill’s refinement underway.

• Yao Yan endured the Space Energy in his body and sensed that the pain of tearing and healing was strengthening his Indestructible Diamond Body.
• Yao Yan resolved to pursue his own path toward the peak and considered breaking through to Da Dou Shi.
• Yao Yan brought out the ingredients Hai Bo Dong had prepared and chose to refine the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill from Yao Nong’s formula.
• Yao Yan used the Illusory Gold Flame to extract the ingredients into Medicinal Liquid Essence.
• Yao Yan ignited the Three Flowers Gather Fire Skill’s red, yellow, and white special flames and began merging the medicinal essences among them.

Yao Yan refined a Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill with his Essence Qi Spirit Three Fire and used it to break through from Seven Star Dou Shi to One Star Da Dou Shi. After stabilizing his new realm, he resumed pill refinement.

• Yao Yan realized his mastery of the Three Flowers Gather Fire Skill let him refine the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill without switching flames.
• Yao Yan swallowed the pill and endured its powerful medicinal energy as it expanded his meridians and strengthened his essence, qi, and spirit.
• Yao Yan dismissed the dangerous idea of using his three flames to temper his body and focused on refining the pill's medicinal power.
• Yao Yan condensed his Dou Qi into a golden crystal and broke through to One Star Da Dou Shi.
• Yao Yan stabilized his new realm, relit Yao Ding, and began refining more pills.

After Yao Yan finished refining pills, Cai Die took the Water Clarity Pill and recovered her sealed strength, revealing a Seven Star Dou Huang aura that alarmed Rock City. Yao Yan settled matters with the City Lord and gave Hai Bo Dong the promised pill, and the two agreed to become friends.

• Cai Die waited anxiously for Yao Yan to emerge from seclusion while Ling Er lazed beside her.
• Yao Yan gave Cai Die a Water Clarity Pill, which awakened her sealed power and triggered a Seven Star Dou Huang aura.
• Cai Die pretended to imitate her sister after recovering her memories, then obeyed Yao Yan and continued refining the pill’s medicinal power and the Space Energy in her body.
• The auction house’s head butler told City Lord Shi that Cai Die’s aura belonged to a friend of the Ice Emperor, and Hai Bo Dong’s curt reply sent the City Lord away.
• Yao Yan gave Hai Bo Dong the promised Peak Fifth-Rank Qi Accumulation Pill, and Hai Bo Dong accepted Yao Yan’s offer of friendship.

Yao Yan learned from Hai Bo Dong that the Alchemist Convention would take place in half a year, confirming Xiao Yan was still an infant and helping him plan his search for the Xiao Clan. After Cai Die recovered her memories, Yao Yan prepared to leave with her and Ling Er, bound for the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Hai Bo Dong told Yao Yan about the Alchemist Convention in the Imperial Capital and invited him to attend.
• Yao Yan deduced that Xiao Yan was less than a year old and planned to seek the Xiao Clan in Wutan City, the Imperial Capital, or through the Nalan Family.
• Cai Die emerged with her memories restored, and Yao Yan said goodbye to Hai Bo Dong before leaving the Auction House with Cai Die and Ling Er.
• Yao Yan teased Cai Die about having children, then told her he planned to visit the Magical Beast Mountain Range and that her sister had entrusted her to him.

Yao Yan and Cai Die boarded an exclusive flying beast bound for Black Rock City, leaving the Tagor Desert behind. Their teasing on the journey ended when Cai Die threw Yao Yan to the floor and stormed into the inner room.

• Yao Yan used Hai Bo Dong’s token to secure an exclusive flying mount and chose the route to Black Rock City near the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Yao Yan and Cai Die boarded the beast and watched the Tagor Desert recede as they flew north.
• Cai Die promised to stay by Yao Yan until he found his way home, while Yao Yan privately reflected that he could never return to his old home.
• Yao Yan teased Cai Die about their earlier misunderstanding and pulled her into his arms.
• Cai Die performed a shoulder throw that slammed Yao Yan onto the floor, then angrily went into the inner room.