Chapter Summaries

Yao Yan and Medusa Queen confronted the Four Great Elders over Cai Die, and the elders eventually agreed not to interfere with her freedom. After leaving the underground palace, Yao Yan told Medusa Queen he had found the Green Lotus Core Flame and planned to seek it with her and Hai Bo Dong.

• Medusa Queen defended Yao Yan against the Four Great Elders, and Yao Yan warned them not to interfere with his relationship with Cai Die.
• Medusa Queen and Yao Yan stood together until Four Elder eased the confrontation, and the elders agreed to let Cai Die remain free while reserving the right to act if the tribe was endangered.
• Medusa Queen led Yao Yan out of the underground palace, and the First Elder said the elders would wait and see whether the twins' connection harmed the Snake-People Tribe.
• Yao Yan told Medusa Queen he had found the Green Lotus Core Flame's location and needed Ice Spirit Cold Spring to weaken it before refining it.
• Yao Yan proposed taking Medusa Queen and Hai Bo Dong to the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Medusa Queen agreed on the condition that he honor their prior agreement.
• Yao Yan visited Cai Die, and Medusa Queen allowed her to talk with him but warned that she should not leave the palace.

Yao Yan reunited with Cai Die, secured the Four Great Elders’ agreement not to pursue her, and learned that Cai Die and Cai Lin could sense each other’s emotions and physical state. After Cai Die stayed behind to govern the Snake-People Tribe, Yao Yan, Cai Lin, and Hai Bo Dong searched beneath Stone Desert City for the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Yao Yan visited Cai Die in the palace, reassured her that the Four Great Elders would not harm her, and learned she and Cai Lin could sense each other’s emotions and condition.
• Cai Lin interrupted Yao Yan and Cai Die, warned him to keep his hands off her sister, and took Cai Die into seclusion with the pills he provided.
• After emerging from seclusion, Cai Die stayed behind to impersonate Cai Lin and control the Snake-People Tribe while Yao Yan, Cai Lin, and Hai Bo Dong departed.
• Yao Yan and his companions reached the desert near Stone Desert City, where he broke through the sand into a deep cavern.
• Yao Yan sensed a gentle Fire Attribute Energy in one of the cavern’s many passages and led Cai Lin and Hai Bo Dong toward it.

Yao Yan, Cai Lin, and Hai Bo Dong found the Green Lotus Core Flame deep beneath the magma, guided by a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake. Yao Yan began sealing the flame inside the Black Demon Cauldron so it would weaken before he cultivated and attempted to refine it.

• Yao Yan led Cai Lin and Hai Bo Dong through the underground passage into a magma cavern where the Green Lotus Core Flame was believed to be.
• Cai Lin subdued a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake with her bloodline pressure and learned that the flame was deeper below.
• The Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake guided Yao Yan and Cai Lin to the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Hai Bo Dong struggled to keep up through the scorching magma.
• Yao Yan found the Green Lotus and its eleven Earth Fire Lotus Seeds, then told Cai Lin he planned to cultivate there and break through to Dou Ling before refining the flame.
• Yao Yan used Ice Spirit Cold Spring to pull the Green Lotus Core Flame from its Lotus Platform and send it into the Black Demon Cauldron, where it erupted and began consuming the ice.

Yao Yan stabilized the Green Lotus Core Flame in Yao Lao's Black Demon Cauldron and cultivated amid the green lotus's scorching flames. After swallowing an Earth Fire Lotus Seed, he broke through to One Star Dou Ling and prepared to leave the magma cavern.

• Yao Yan used Ice Spirit Cold Spring and the Black Demon Cauldron to subdue the Green Lotus Core Flame while Cai Lin watched.
• Yao Yan sat on the green lotus platform and endured its pale green core flames, using them to strengthen his body and cultivate.
• After less than a month, Yao Yan reached Nine Star Da Dou Shi, while Cai Lin told him Hai Bo Dong had returned to wait above.
• Yao Yan swallowed an Earth Fire Lotus Seed and refined its energy to break through to One Star Dou Ling.
• Yao Yan floated down from the lotus platform, and Cai Lin told him to put on clothes before showing off.

Yao Yan and Cai Lin recovered the Green Lotus Core Flame and returned with it to the Snake-People royal palace. After Cai Lin directed him to a safer place to work, Yao Yan began tempering his body with the Exotic Fire as preparation for refining it.

• Yao Yan took the green lotus and its seeds but left the stem so the Green Lotus Core Flame could grow again.
• Yao Yan emerged from the magma with Cai Lin, and Hai Bo Dong learned that he had broken through to Dou Ling.
• The group returned to the Snake-People royal palace, where Cai Lin redirected Yao Yan to a lake island to contain the danger of refining the Exotic Fire.
• Yao Yan opened the Black Demon Cauldron and grabbed the Green Lotus Core Flame with his bare arm, relying on the Indestructible Diamond Body to endure its heat.

After months of cultivation, Yao Yan reached Seven Star Dou Spirit and sparred evenly with Cai Lin. He persuaded Cai Lin and Hai Bodong to help establish the Heavenly Court, then prepared to advance and refine the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Yao Yan spent nearly three months cultivating, strengthening his body with the Green Lotus Core Flame and raising his Dou Qi to Seven Star Dou Spirit.
• Yao Yan sparred with Cai Lin and held his own against her attacks using his powerful physical body.
• Cai Lin told Yao Yan that she had rejected the Jia Ma Empire's offer of territory and a non-aggression pact, and Yao Yan proposed forming a faction with her and Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong and Cai Lin agreed to support Yao Yan's faction, which he named Heavenly Court.
• Hai Bodong departed for the Jia Ma Empire to approach its factions, while Yao Yan planned to reach Eight Star Dou Ling and refine the Green Lotus Core Flame.

As the Alchemist Convention’s final round began, Hai Bo Dong revealed Yao Yan’s extraordinary age, cultivation, and alchemy skills to Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, and Fa Ma. The three leaders considered whether to join Yao Yan’s faction, and Hai Bo Dong hinted that Yao Yan could offer them a Break-Sect Pill.

• Fa Ma announced the convention’s final round while the alchemists, including Gu He, began refining pills.
• Yun Shan said he would enter seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Zong and would leave Yun Yun in charge of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Hai Bo Dong arrived at the High Platform after breaking through and told the elders that Yao Yan intended to build a faction with the Snake-People Tribe and Jia Ma Empire as its foundation.
• Hai Bo Dong described Yao Yan as a nearly seventeen-year-old Rank 6 Alchemist who had reached Seven Star Dou Spirit and could withstand the Medusa Queen’s attacks with his body.
• Fa Ma offered to give Yao Yan the Alchemist Guild Leader position if Yao Yan proved his alchemy skill, while Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan withheld their decisions.
• Hai Bo Dong said Yao Yan could offer a Break-Sect Pill, capturing the elders’ attention and leaving them focused on Yao Yan.

Gu He won the Fifth Alchemist Convention and accepted the Misty Cloud Sect’s invitation, while Yun Shan and the other leaders turned their attention to Yao Yan. Three days later, Yao Yan began refining the Green Lotus Core Flame by swallowing its Origin Fire Seed, leaving his body to endure its destructive power.

• Gu He won the Fifth Alchemist Convention with a high-tier Rank 4 pill, and Yun Shan sent Yun Yun to recruit him into the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Shan told Hai Bo Dong that he would welcome Yao Yan at the Misty Cloud Sect, while Jia Xingtian and Hai Bo Dong departed to attend to their own affairs.
• Gu He asked to speak with Yun Yun in person and agreed to travel to the Misty Cloud Sect after learning she had returned to Yun Lan Mountain.
• Three days later, Yao Yan reached Eight Star Dou Ling and decided he was ready to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Cai Lin sealed off the island while Yao Yan extracted the flame’s Origin Fire Seed and swallowed it, then used Ice Spirit Cold Spring and Soul Power to control the raging fire within his body.

Yao Yan endured the Green Lotus Core Flame’s painful devouring and transformed his cultivation, body, and Soul Power, reaching Three Star Dou Wang and advancing the Flame Mantra to Profound High-Rank. After recovering, he planned to refine Cai Lin’s Break-Sect Pill and later pursue more Heavenly Flames.

• Yao Yan cut off the Ice Spirit Cold Spring’s protection and tempered his body with the Green Lotus Core Flame before successfully refining it.
• Yao Yan began devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame with the Flame Mantra, enduring intense pain as Cai Lin, Cai Die, and Ling Er watched.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame’s power transformed Yao Yan’s Dou Qi, body, and Soul Power, advancing him to Three Star Dou Wang and the Spiritual Realm.
• Yao Yan revealed his breakthrough to Cai Lin, Cai Die, and Hua She Er, then said he would rest before refining Cai Lin’s Break-Sect Pill.
• Yao Yan planned to travel to the Black-Corner Region for Han Feng and Yao Lao and to pursue the Sea Heart Flame, Bone Spirit Cold Fire, Fallen Heart Flame, and Void Swallowing Flame Sub-fire.

Yao Yan experimented with combining the Green Lotus Core Flame and Illusory Gold Flame to create the Destruction Fire Lotus, then visited Cai Die and Ling Er. The chapter ended with Cai Lin considering how to break through to Dou Zong without risking a dangerous evolution powered by Yao Yan’s Exotic Fire.

• Yao Yan separated the Green Lotus Core Flame and Illusory Gold Flame, then repeatedly tried to balance them into a Destruction Fire Lotus, managing only an unstable prototype.
• Yao Yan left the hot spring and went with Hua She Er to see Cai Die, where Ling Er eagerly sniffed him for the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yao Yan teased Cai Die about loving both her and Cai Lin, and Cai Die admitted that she loved him a little.
• Yao Yan asked Cai Die to take him to see the Snake-People Tribe’s city, and she went to change out of her queenly clothes.
• Cai Lin reviewed the Snake-People Tribe’s shortages and considered using a Break-Sect Pill to reach Dou Zong rather than risk evolving her bloodline with an Exotic Fire.

Yao Yan accompanied Cai Die through the Snake-People Tribe’s royal city, then kissed her while they flew over her favorite lake. As Cai Lin felt their shared sensations through her connection with Cai Die, Yao Yan persuaded Cai Die to help him with the effects he claimed came from refining a Heavenly Flame.

• Yao Yan toured the royal city with Cai Die and learned that Cai Lin had poisoned the human merchants, forcing them to trade under her orders to stay alive.
• Cai Die brought Yao Yan to a crescent-shaped lake, where she danced for him as they flew over the water.
• Yao Yan pulled Cai Die into his arms and kissed her, causing Cai Lin to feel the sensations through her connection with her sister.
• Cai Die warned Yao Yan that Cai Lin would sense them, but Yao Yan urged her to help him by claiming the Green Lotus Core Flame was making the fire in his body unbearable.
• Cai Die initially refused, then yielded to Yao Yan’s persuasion.

Cai Lin arranged for Yue Mei and Hua She Er to become Yao Yan’s Personal Maids while asking him to prove his alchemy could support a new force. Yao Yan perfected a Destruction Fire Lotus and then stunned the Snake-People Tribe by refining a Huang Ji Pill with ease.

• Cai Lin noticed Cai Die’s swollen lips, questioned her about Yao Yan, and later decided to find him Personal Maids to keep him from bullying her sister.
• Cai Lin asked Yin Shi about the tribes’ support for establishing a force and invited Yue Mei to watch Yao Yan refine pills, then offered her and Hua She Er positions as his Personal Maids.
• Yao Yan successfully condensed an azure-gold Destruction Fire Lotus and considered learning formations before cultivating through the night.
• Yao Yan refined a Rank 6 Huang Ji Pill in front of the gathered Snake-People, and its medicinal fragrance helped many people break through their bottlenecks.
• Yao Yan gave the Huang Ji Pill to Cai Die and began refining Dou Ling Pills while the onlookers marveled at how casually he had made a pill prized by powerful experts.

Yao Yan refined Rank 6 pills without failure, then produced a Break-Sect Pill for Cai Lin and a Seventh-Rank Qi Burst Pill despite triggering lightning punishment. After seeing his rapid rise as an alchemist, he asked Cai Lin when she planned to use the Break-Sect Pill and advance to Dou Zong.

• Yao Yan spent the day refining Rank 6 pills as Yue Mei and Hua She Er discussed their new roles as his Personal Maids.
• Yao Yan refined a Break-Sect Pill and gave it to Cai Lin, while Third Elder unsuccessfully tried to claim more pills for the elders.
• Cai Lin rebuffed Third Elder and told Yao Yan not to concern himself with the elders.
• Yao Yan refined a Qi Burst Pill, triggering lightning punishment, and Cai Lin destroyed the lightning with a sword strike.
• Yao Yan explained the Qi Burst Pill's effects and asked Cai Lin when she would use the Break-Sect Pill to advance to Dou Zong.

Cai Lin and Cai Die prepared to enter seclusion to improve their cultivation, while Yao Yan agreed to help Cai Lin attempt a dangerous bloodline evolution if her pill-assisted breakthrough failed. After the sisters left, Yue Mei and Hua She Er arrived to attend to Yao Yan, and he took them to the hot spring.

• Cai Lin told Yao Yan she would use a Break-Sect Pill to attempt the breakthrough from Nine Star Dou Huang to Dou Zong.
• Yao Yan advised Cai Lin and Cai Die to break their bloodline shackles through Ancestral Return Evolution, and Cai Lin asked him to use the Green Lotus Core Flame to help if her pill failed.
• Cai Lin took Cai Die into seclusion, and Yao Yan said he would wait while he rested and practiced his Dou Skills.
• Yue Mei and Hua She Er told Yao Yan that Cai Lin had assigned them to attend to him, and Yao Yan led them to the hot spring.

After seven days with Yue Mei and Hua She Er, Yao Yan left the Snake-People Tribe for the Jia Ma Empire, where he planned to recruit Yun Shan and establish his faction. Yun Shan sensed Yao Yan and Hai Bodong arriving at Misty Cloud Sect and flew out to meet them.

• Yao Yan gave Yue Mei Dou Ling Pills, asked Hua She Er to watch over the Snake-People Tribe, and left her pills and a jade pendant before flying to the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yao Yan arrived at the Mittel Family, where Hai Bodong and Teng Shan learned he had become a Three-Star Dou Wang and received the promised pills, including a Break-Sect Pill.
• Yao Yan gave Teng Shan a Mixed Origin Bone Forming Pill for Jia Xingtian and agreed to visit Misty Cloud Sect with Hai Bodong to meet Yun Shan.
• Yun Shan told Yun Yun that she could make decisions as Misty Cloud Sect's Sect Master, then sensed Hai Bodong and Yao Yan approaching and flew toward the mountain gate.

Yao Yan offered Yun Shan a Break-Sect Pill in exchange for the Misty Cloud Sect joining the force he was establishing. After Yun Shan accepted the arrangement, Gu He interrupted to object to what he assumed was a plan to betroth Yun Yun to Yao Yan.

• Yao Yan and Hai Bodong met Yun Shan and Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect’s gate, where Hai Bodong introduced Yao Yan as a seventeen-year-old Three-Star Dou Wang and Seventh-Rank Alchemist.
• Yun Shan received Yao Yan and Hai Bodong in the main hall and discussed the Misty Cloud Sect’s agreement to join Yao Yan’s force in exchange for a Break-Sect Pill.
• Yao Yan handed Yun Shan a recently refined pill, and Yun Shan asked Yun Yun to bring Gu He in to examine it.
• Gu He confirmed that the pill could assist a breakthrough, and Yun Shan accepted Yao Yan’s terms.
• Gu He objected that Yun Shan might be arranging Yun Yun’s betrothal without asking her opinion, leaving the hall stunned.

Gu He’s interruption failed to stop Yun Shan from placing the Misty Cloud Sect under Yao Yan’s command, and Yun Shan entered seclusion with the Break-Sect Pill. While touring the sect, Yao Yan told Yun Yun to watch for Heavenly Flames and hinted at worlds beyond the Jia Ma Empire before asking to inspect the treasury for ingredients.

• Gu He urged Yun Yun to reconsider, then apologized and left after realizing he had misunderstood the conversation.
• Yun Shan agreed to make Yao Yan his equal and let him command the Misty Cloud Sect within the Jia Ma Empire’s sphere of influence.
• Yun Shan went into seclusion with the Break-Sect Pill, while Hai Bo Dong returned to the Mittel Family to cultivate with the Huang Ji Pill.
• Yao Yan told Yun Yun to keep the sect as it was and search for news of Heavenly Flames, then spoke of powerful people and places beyond the Jia Ma Empire.
• Yao Yan asked Yun Yun to take him to the Misty Cloud Sect’s treasury so he could find ingredients for Seventh-grade Pills.

Jia Xingtian realized Yao Yan had not invited him into his faction and flew to seek him among the Snake-People Tribe. In the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Yao Yan revived Yao Lao with soul-nourishing liquid and proposed a deal after revealing he had mastered the Nameless Technique and devoured the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Jia Xingtian learned Yao Yan had left the Misty Cloud Sect and flew toward the Snake-People Tribe to find him.
• Yao Yan heated soul-nourishing liquid while the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King stood guard and asked for a reward.
• Yao Yan used the liquid to restore Yao Lao enough to awaken, then called him out of the Bone Flame Ring.
• Yao Yan identified Yao Lao and proposed a deal, prompting Yao Lao to summon the Bone Spirit Cold Fire.
• Yao Yan revealed the Nameless Technique and showed Yao Lao the Green Lotus Core Flame he had devoured, leaving Yao Lao stunned.

Yao Yan explained his Yao Clan past to Yao Lao and negotiated over the Bone Spirit Cold Fire, agreeing to help revive him once he reached Dou Zun. After revealing he was a seventeen-year-old Seventh-Rank Alchemist, Yao Yan began restoring Yao Lao’s soul.

• Yao Lao recalled how Han Feng had betrayed him over the Flame Mantra and warned Yao Yan about the dangers of cultivating it.
• Yao Yan claimed Yao Clan ancestry, recounted his escape from the Medicine World, and demonstrated his mastery of the Three Flowers Gather Fire Skill.
• Yao Yan rejected Yao Lao’s claim that he could not handle the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and exposed his attempt to bargain through misleading advice.
• Yao Lao agreed to give Yao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Fire, and Yao Yan promised to help revive him after reaching Dou Zun.
• Yao Yan revealed his age and alchemy rank, then began refining herbs to restore Yao Lao’s soul.

Yao Yan refined a Soul Nourishing Saliva pill while negotiating with Yao Lao for pill formulas. After Yao Lao shared formulas through the seventh rank, Yao Yan learned the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill formula and continued refining.

• Yao Lao recognized that Yao Yan was refining a fifth-grade Soul Nourishing Saliva pill and noticed the Amethyst Crystal Winged Lion King nearby.
• Yao Yan told Yao Lao that Han Feng had claimed Yao Lao died from an alchemy backlash and revealed that Han Feng now called himself the Medicine Emperor in the Black-Corner Region.
• Yao Yan offered to deal with Han Feng in exchange for pill formulas, and Yao Lao agreed to provide formulas from the first through sixth ranks.
• Yao Lao transferred his first- through sixth-rank formulas to Yao Yan, who found he already possessed most of them.
• Yao Lao gave Yao Yan his self-created seventh-grade Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill formula, explaining how it had helped Wind Venerable break through to the Dou Zun Realm.