Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan subdued the Bone Spirit Cold Fire long enough to claim the Bone Flame Ring and obtain the Flame Mantra. After replacing his Three Flowers Gather Fire Skill with the new technique, he prepared to test it by devouring his Illusory Gold Flame.

• Yao Yan used Soul Erosion Grass to weaken the Bone Spirit Cold Fire until it destroyed the Yao Ding and the Soul Imprint on the Bone Flame Ring.
• Yao Yan claimed the ring, found Yao Lao gravely weakened inside it, and discovered the Nameless Technique, which revealed itself as the Flame Mantra.
• Yao Yan cultivated the Flame Mantra, endured ruptured meridians as his Dou Qi changed, and condensed it into a Pale Yellow Spirit Crystal.
• Yao Yan considered the benefits of his former technique and turned his attention to using the Flame Mantra to devour his Illusory Gold Flame.

Yao Yan used the Flame Mantra to devour the Illusory Gold Flame and advanced the skill to Yellow Rank High-Grade. His cultivation rose from Two Star Da Dou Shi to Six Star Da Dou Shi, and he began considering the Green Lotus Core Flame as the next step.

• Yao Yan circulated the Flame Mantra to devour the Illusory Gold Flame's source seed, using an Ice Soul Pill to calm the Evil Fire in his mind.
• Yao Yan absorbed the Illusory Gold Flame's source into his Dou Qi, turning it golden and strengthening its body-tempering effect.
• Yao Yan drew in Heaven and Earth Energy and advanced from Two Star Da Dou Shi to Six Star Da Dou Shi.
• Yao Yan concluded that beast flames could raise the Flame Mantra only to Yellow Rank High-Grade and thought of the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Yao Yan prepared to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame and concealed the Tou She Ancient God Jade, then told Cai Die they would visit the Snake-People Tribe so he could ask for her sister’s hand in marriage. The chapter ended with Cai Die staring at him in disbelief.

• Yao Yan decided to raise his strength to Dou Ling before attempting to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yao Yan concealed the Tou She Ancient God Jade beneath layers of Thousand Year Jade Marrow and obsidian.
• Yao Yan emerged from the Pill Refining Room and told Cai Die that his pill refining had failed.
• Yao Yan took Ling Er from Cai Die and said they would soon visit the Snake-People Tribe to see Cai Die’s sister.
• Yao Yan said he had fallen in love with Cai Die’s sister at first sight and wanted to ask for her hand in marriage, leaving Cai Die stunned.

Yao Yan teased Cai Die about marrying her sister, then agreed to meet Jia Xingtian after Teng Shan delivered the emperor's request. He decided to bring a betrothal gift for Cai Die's sister.

• Yao Yan told Cai Die he wanted to marry her sister, and Cai Die reluctantly promised to help keep him from being killed.
• Yao Yan teased Cai Die by suggesting his feelings for her might explain his interest in her sister, and Cai Die fled to her room in embarrassment.
• Teng Shan arrived at Yao Yan's courtyard and asked whether he would meet Jia Xingtian.
• Teng Shan explained how Jia Xingtian had learned Yao Yan was there, and Yao Yan agreed to the meeting so he could bring a betrothal gift for Cai Die's sister.

Jia Xingtian visited Yao Yan to request a Rank 6 Pill, but Yao Yan revealed his own alchemy ability and used the opportunity to seek land for the Snake-People Tribe. The chapter ended with Jia Xingtian being asked whether the Jia Ma Empire would cede territory as a gift for the Medusa Queen.

• Teng Shan brought Jia Xingtian to meet Yao Yan, who asked him directly why he had come.
• Jia Xingtian admitted that he wanted to commission a Rank 6 Pill and presented the recipe for a Mixed Origin Bone Forming Pill.
• Yao Yan revealed that he could refine ordinary Rank 6 Pills himself, leaving Jia Xingtian and Teng Shan astonished.
• Yao Yan recognized the pill recipe and explained that the pill was intended to treat magical beast injuries.
• Yao Yan asked Jia Xingtian to cede suitable land for the Snake-People Tribe as a gift for his planned meeting with the Medusa Queen.

Yao Yan secured Jia Xingtian’s agreement to grant the Snake-People Tribe habitable land and sign a non-aggression pact, promising to refine a pill in return. He then went to Cai Die, who shyly told him she did not want him to be joking about his intentions.

• Yao Yan asked Jia Xingtian to cede borderland to the Snake-People Tribe, while Teng Shan accepted that the Mittel Family would lose its Snake-People trade.
• Jia Xingtian agreed to provide land and sign a mutual non-aggression pact with the Snake-People Tribe.
• Yao Yan promised to return from the tribe’s territory and refine the Mixed Origin Bone Forming Pill for Jia Xingtian.
• Jia Xingtian and Teng Shan left the courtyard and wondered about Yao Yan’s mysterious family and the Central Plains.
• Yao Yan returned inside and teased Cai Die about whether she wanted him to be joking; Cai Die quietly said she did not.

Yao Yan told Cai Die that the Jia Ma Empire had agreed to give the Snake-People Tribe suitable land in exchange for his promise to refine a Rank 6 Pill. Cai Die accepted his teasing invitation and grew close to him, but their private moment began with Ling Er waiting outside the room.

• Yao Yan told Cai Die about his deal with Jia Xingtian, and she eagerly asked why the Jia Ma Empire had agreed to cede land.
• Yao Yan explained that he had promised to refine a Rank 6 Pill for the royal family and joked that Cai Die could repay him by giving herself to him.
• Cai Die accepted, embraced Yao Yan, and let him carry her toward the inner room.
• Cai Die warned Yao Yan that Ling Er was there, so Yao Yan used Soul Power to put the fox spirit and bottles of Flora Essence outside the room.
• Yao Yan and Cai Die went to the bed, and he praised and stroked her snake tail as their intimacy continued.

Medusa Queen rejected an all-out war against the Jia Ma Empire, intending instead to teach it a lesson, but an unusual heat suddenly made her rush away from the palace. In Gama Holy City, Yao Yan and Cai Die were interrupted by a projection of Medusa Queen appearing from a golden token, leaving them caught in an awkward moment.

• Medusa Queen dismissed Yin Shi's concerns about the Four Great Elders and said the Snake-People Tribe would fight only to warn the Jia Ma Empire not to bully them.
• Yue Mei argued that the tribe needed allies, while Mo Bas pledged to follow Medusa Queen's decisions.
• Medusa Queen felt a strange heat, erupted with her Peak of Nine Star Dou Huang aura, and vanished from the palace.
• Yao Yan and Cai Die were together in Gama Holy City when a golden token flew from his Storage Ring and projected Medusa Queen before them.

Yao Yan was caught being intimate with Cai Die by Medusa Queen, who confronted him about his intentions and warned him to stay away from her sister. Their argument turned into a negotiation over the Snake-People Tribe’s future and Yao Yan’s promised pills, while Cai Die and Medusa Queen later discussed their shared spiritual connection and Cai Die’s feelings for him.

• Medusa Queen used the gold token’s projection to catch Yao Yan and Cai Die together, and Cai Die hid under the covers in embarrassment.
• Medusa Queen confronted Yao Yan, who said he loved Cai Die and intended to take her to the Snake-People Tribe despite the Four Great Elders’ threat to kill them.
• Yao Yan offered to help the Snake-People Tribe and revealed he could refine Rank 6 pills after obtaining an exotic fire, prompting Medusa Queen to propose cooperation.
• Medusa Queen warned Yao Yan not to touch Cai Die again, and he agreed to restrain himself while insisting he was serious about her.
• Medusa Queen comforted Cai Die and warned her to be careful with men, while Cai Die admitted she feared her sister might steal Yao Yan but would accept staying together with her.

Yao Yan teased Cai Die before announcing that they would travel to the Snake-People Tribe to meet her sister, the Medusa Queen. The Medusa Queen struggled with her strange connection to Yao Yan but turned her attention back to the tribe’s unresolved conflict with the Jia Ma Empire.

• Cai Die hid beneath the covers after her sister’s projection vanished, and Yao Yan teased her about her shyness and snake tail.
• Cai Die said she would keep her distance from Yao Yan, but she could not bring herself to deny that she liked him.
• Yao Yan told Cai Die to get dressed so they could set off for the Snake-People Tribe’s territory and meet the Medusa Queen.
• The Medusa Queen worried about feeling whatever happened between Yao Yan and Cai Die and considered whether the connection could be severed.
• Hua She Er told the Medusa Queen that the Four Great Elders were waiting, and the Queen decided the tribe still had to fight the Jia Ma Empire rather than depend on charity.

Yao Yan collected medicinal ingredients from the Mittel Family and promised to refine pills for them before traveling with Cai Die to Stone Desert City. Hai Bo Dong revealed that the Fragmented Map was in Snake-People Tribe territory, where Yao Yan also hoped to meet Cai Die’s sister, the Medusa Queen.

• Yao Yan took medicinal ingredients from Teng Shan in exchange for promising three Dou Ling Pills and one Huang Ji Pill within a year.
• Teng Shan told Yao Yan that Hai Bo Dong had found leads on the Fragmented Map near Stone Desert City, and Yao Yan and Cai Die set out there.
• Yao Yan and Cai Die reached Stone Desert City in a day, where Hai Bo Dong sensed them and came to meet them.
• Yao Yan told Hai Bo Dong that he wanted to see Cai Die’s sister, the Medusa Queen, for her help.
• Hai Bo Dong revealed that the Fragmented Map was located in Snake-People Tribe territory.

Yao Yan learned that the Medusa Queen had destroyed several mercenary groups and that the Fragmented Map might be in Mo Bas's territory. He set out for the Snake-People Tribe with Cai Die and gained Hai Bo Dong's help after revealing his progress as an alchemist.

• Hai Bo Dong told Yao Yan that the Medusa Queen had annihilated more than a dozen mercenary groups, worsening relations between the Jia Ma Empire and the Snake-People Tribe.
• Hai Bo Dong said a mercenary had reportedly seen the Fragmented Map in the Black Snake Tribe, and Cai Die explained that Mo Bas admired the Medusa Queen.
• Yao Yan invited Hai Bo Dong to accompany him into Snake-People territory, but Hai Bo Dong initially declined to return to Gama Holy City and cultivate.
• Yao Yan promised Hai Bo Dong a Break-Sect Pill if the map information proved accurate and revealed that he had succeeded in refining a Rank 6 Pill.
• Hai Bo Dong changed his mind and agreed to stay with Yao Yan, while Cai Die joked that she would help him escape if the Medusa Queen tried to kill him.

Yao Yan brought Cai Die and Hai Bo Dong toward the Snake-People Tribe, hoping to negotiate with Cai Die’s sister while keeping the Green Lotus Core Flame out of the Soul Hall’s notice. As the group neared the territory, they discovered Medusa Queen fighting a powerful old man who had come for the Violet Flame Serpent’s essence blood.

• Yao Yan decided to postpone pursuing the Green Lotus Core Flame until he had made preparations and proven the Flame Mantra’s value to Hun Xuzi.
• Hai Bo Dong warned that the Snake-People Tribe might react violently if Cai Die’s identity was exposed, but Yao Yan said he had already contacted her sister.
• Cai Die sensed her sister fighting nearby and hurried toward the battle, followed by Yao Yan and Hai Bo Dong.
• Medusa Queen battled an old man whose strength nearly reached Dou Zong, and he praised her as one of the strongest Dou Emperors he had faced.
• The old man recognized the Violet Flame Serpent behind Medusa Queen and revealed that he had come to obtain its essence blood.

Xie Bi Yan fought the Medusa Queen to obtain her vital blood and break through to Dou Zong, while Yao Yan and his companions arrived nearby. The chapter left Yao Yan preparing a concealed attack with Cai Die as the battle continued.

• Xie Bi Yan revealed that he wanted the Medusa Queen's vital blood to help him break through to Dou Zong, then used Space Power to deflect her attack.
• The Medusa Queen activated her secret technique and fought Xie Bi Yan with power drawn from her origin.
• Yao Yan stopped Cai Die from rushing into the battle, and Hai Bo Dong identified Xie Bi Yan as the leader of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate.
• Yao Yan proposed concealing Cai Die's aura with Soul Power so she could attack Xie Bi Yan from behind, and he began sending a message to the Medusa Queen.

Xie Bi Yan forced Medusa Queen into a desperate defense after raising his strength to the Dou Ancestor level. Yao Yan arranged a sneak attack by Cai Die and Hai Bo Dong, leaving Xie Bi Yan badly injured and his strength rapidly falling.

• Xie Bi Yan used the Blood Soul Secret to raise his strength to the Dou Ancestor level and demanded that Medusa Queen surrender.
• Medusa Queen prepared to stall Xie Bi Yan until the Snake-People Tribe could rescue her, while Yao Yan secretly told her to draw his attention as Cai Die and Hai Bo Dong prepared to attack.
• Xie Bi Yan struck Medusa Queen with a massive energy palm, and she was sent flying after countering with her strongest sword strike.
• Hai Bo Dong and Cai Die launched their ultimate Dou Skills from behind, breaking through Xie Bi Yan's defense and hitting him at close range.
• Yao Yan caught Medusa Queen and observed that Xie Bi Yan's aura had fallen from the Dou Ancestor level to the Dou Emperor level and was continuing to decline.

Yao Yan warned Medusa Queen that using her bloodline power had left her with hidden injuries, while Cai Die and Hai Bodong teamed up against Xie Bi Yan. Xie Bi Yan escaped the siege, and Yao Yan decided to deal with him later and take the benefits he had once given Xiao Yan.

• Yao Yan examined Medusa Queen and warned her that continuing to circulate her Dou Qi could harm her future breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Xie Bi Yan emerged from the blood-red energy and recognized Hai Bodong as the Ice Emperor, then questioned the alliance between the Jia Ma Empire and the Snake-People Tribe.
• Cai Die attacked Xie Bi Yan with her Violet Nether Serpent Companion Soul, while Hai Bodong interrupted his counterattacks and wore him down.
• Medusa Queen noticed that Cai Die had changed and suspected Yao Yan had influenced her sister.
• Xie Bi Yan surged with blood-colored patterns, then fled when Cai Die and Hai Bodong paused.
• Yao Yan let Xie Bi Yan escape and planned to take the benefits he had once given Xiao Yan after subduing the Green Lotus Core Flame.

After Xie Bi Yan escaped, Yao Yan and the others prepared to return to the Snake-People Tribe, where Medusa Queen could recover and they could check on the other fighters. Medusa Queen accepted Yao Yan’s pills but continued to keep her distance from him.

• Hai Bo Dong stopped Cai Die from pursuing Xie Bi Yan, warning that cornering the powerful opponent could be dangerous.
• Yao Yan held the injured Medusa Queen and explained to Cai Die that her sister needed to avoid using Dou Qi while recovering from her secret technique.
• Hai Bo Dong described the strength of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate, and Yao Yan said they could deal with Xie Bi Yan after Medusa Queen healed.
• Medusa Queen insisted that she would settle her account with Xie Bi Yan herself, while Yao Yan revealed that he had his own reasons for targeting him.
• Cai Die asked about the Snake-People Tribe’s other fighters, and Medusa Queen explained that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate had held them back.
• Yao Yan carried Medusa Queen toward the ground, gave her pills to restore her Dou Qi, and said they would discuss her depleted origin after reaching the tribe palace.

Medusa Queen returned to the Snake-People Tribe with Cai Die and Yao Yan, stirring fears of conflict within the tribe. At the royal palace, Yao Yan offered to refine a pill for Medusa Queen and began seeking access to the tribe’s stored resources.

• Medusa Queen met six Snake-People Tribe experts, declared Cai Die and the others her friends, and ordered them to let the group pass.
• Yao Yan asked for a Fragmented Map from the Black Snake Tribe as payment for alchemy, and Medusa Queen ordered Mo Bas to hand it over.
• Medusa Queen learned that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate members had fled and ordered the captured ones fed to the snakes after their value was exhausted.
• Medusa Queen brought Yao Yan and Cai Die into the royal palace while Yue Mei questioned Yin Shi about Cai Die’s relationship with the queen.
• Cai Die worried that her return would cause Medusa Queen trouble, and Yao Yan proposed refining a pill before asking to inspect the tribe’s stores for medicinal ingredients.

Yao Yan explored the Snake-People Tribe’s treasury and secured access to Ice Spirit Cold Spring and a Longevity Fruit, then received another Fragmented Map and prepared to refine pills before attempting to subdue the Green Lotus Core Flame. Medusa Queen agreed to keep Cai Die’s return from drawing objections while Yao Yan entered seclusion with Hai Bo Dong guarding him.

• Medusa Queen allowed Yao Yan to take Ice Spirit Cold Spring without damaging its Spring Eye, and Yao Yan identified the treasury’s Longevity Fruit and offered to refine pills for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Yao Yan told Medusa Queen he had a ninety percent chance of refining the Green Lotus Core Flame, while concealing that the Fragmented Map was connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Hai Bo Dong returned with another Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame Fragmented Map, leaving only the final piece for Yao Yan to find.
• Yao Yan asked Medusa Queen to handle any Elders who objected to Cai Die’s return, then went into seclusion as Hai Bo Dong stood guard and Ling Er followed him.
• Yao Yan summoned the Black Demon Cauldron and began refining pills with his Illusory Gold Flame.

After spending more than a month refining pills, Yao Yan emerged and learned that Cai Die had been placed under guard while Medusa Queen negotiated with the Snake-People Tribe elders. He accompanied Medusa Queen to the Temple to argue for Cai Die’s freedom, where an elder immediately challenged him and Medusa Queen defended him.

• Yao Yan refined an Amethyst Essence Stabilizing Pill, then spent more than a month making additional pills from the Amethyst Crystal Source while Ling Er ate Flora Essence.
• Hai Bo Dong told Yao Yan that Cai Die was under guard after the Snake-People Tribe elders confronted Medusa Queen; Yao Yan gave him an Amethyst Essence Stabilizing Pill before leaving with Medusa Queen.
• Medusa Queen explained that Yao Yan would have to persuade the elders himself if he wanted to take Cai Die away.
• Yao Yan and Medusa Queen arrived at the Snake-People Tribe’s Temple, where the leading elder accused Yao Yan of taking away a traitor.
• Medusa Queen declared that Yao Yan was her guest and warned the elder to mind his attitude.