Chapter Summaries

Su Yun, Heavenly Flame Venerate, and Qing Lin traveled to the Heavenly Serpent Empire to deal with Snake Lin Yue. They reached Heavenly Serpent Holy City in disguise and learned that the Heavenly Serpent Mansion monitored anyone whose cultivation exceeded Three-Star Dou Zong.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate offered to lure Snake Lin Yue into an uninhabited place, and Su Yun agreed to set out for the Heavenly Serpent Empire in three days.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate opened a Space Channel to Jia Nan Academy, where Su Yun returned to cultivating with the Demonic Poison Spot.
• Su Yun, Heavenly Flame Venerate, and Qing Lin left the academy on a Sixth-Tier snake Magical Beast, drawing envious looks from graduating students including Xu Jie.
• After eight days, the group reached the Heavenly Serpent Empire, concealed the snake, and disguised themselves in Heavenly Serpent Holy City.
• Su Yun discovered the Heavenly Serpent Mansion required experts above Three-Star Dou Zong to register and kept them under surveillance, though the group had avoided detection so far.

Su Yun and Qing Lin investigated the Heavenly Serpent Mansion in Heavenly Serpent Holy City while Heavenly Flame Venerate searched for a suitable ambush site. Su Yun found no useful information about Snake Lin Yue and decided he would need to infiltrate the mansion, while Qing Lin secretly prepared another sweet for him.

• Su Yun sent Heavenly Flame Venerate to scout the empire for an ambush site and stayed in the city with Qing Lin to investigate the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate estimated that scouting the vast empire would take him three days, then departed while Su Yun and Qing Lin began surveying the city.
• Su Yun sensed at least seven Dou Zong auras in the mansion but could not detect Snake Lin Yue or any Dou Zun presence.
• Qing Lin secretly concealed the candied hawthorn with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Su Yun ate it without noticing her trick.
• Su Yun and Qing Lin found no useful information about Snake Lin Yue beyond a report of his defeating an invading Dou Zun ten years earlier, so Su Yun decided to infiltrate the mansion.
• Qing Lin secretly tucked a marshmallow into her clothes, restored its fluffiness with Dou Qi, and offered it to Su Yun, who accepted it.

Su Yun infiltrated Heavenly Serpent Mansion to investigate Snake Lin Yue but found no trace of her. After searching several members’ memories, he learned about her past and returned to Qing Lin to confirm that her unusual growth could not be explained by the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Su Yun used Deceive Heaven Conceal World to enter Heavenly Serpent Mansion and began searching for Snake Lin Yue.
• Su Yun knocked out Snake Fatty and recovered his memories, learning that Snake Lin Yue had been raised by the previous mansion master and stayed at the mansion after her death.
• Su Yun learned that Snake Lin Yue’s ordinary snake body had somehow reached the Dou Zun realm, then knocked out three more people without finding useful information.
• Su Yun left the mansion and asked Qing Lin whether her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils could help snakes increase their cultivation.
• Qing Lin said her pupils could only drain cultivation from controlled snakes, confirming to Su Yun that Snake Lin Yue had another extraordinary opportunity or secret technique.

Su Yun searched for Snake Lin Yue and prepared a hidden place to confront her, then spent a month cultivating and advanced to Five-Star Dou Zong. The chapter left him considering another body-strengthening breakthrough to increase his combat power.

• Su Yun learned that even a Dou Zong elder of the Heavenly Serpent Mansion did not know Snake Lin Yue's whereabouts, so he considered investigating the mansion master or She Lengyue.
• A Dou Emperor elder questioned Snake Fatty about fainting incidents at the mansion and revealed that several people, including a Dou Zong elder, had mysteriously passed out.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate found a possible battle site in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Su Yun planned to use the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to control its intelligent snake-type beasts.
• Su Yun spent seven days controlling the intelligent magical beasts in the mountain range, then returned to cultivating at the inn.
• After a month in the Heavenly Serpent Empire, Su Yun advanced to Five-Star Dou Zong and considered strengthening his body further.

Su Yun strengthened his body to the level of an Eighth Tier Magical Beast, then infiltrated Heavenly Serpent Mansion and knocked She Lengyue unconscious to search his memories. Snake Lin Yue appeared and destroyed the palace, leaving Su Yun hidden in the System Space as she searched the ruins for him.

• Su Yun fused the Heaven Tier Low Grade Body Forging Dou Technique Blazing Sun Glazed Body, enduring two days of pain as his body reached the strength of an Eighth Tier Magical Beast.
• After leaving the System Space and bathing, Su Yun unknowingly let Qing Lin glimpse his strengthened body through her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Su Yun infiltrated Heavenly Serpent Mansion and chose She Lengyue as his target, entering his palace with the Space Jump method.
• Su Yun used poisonous fragrance to knock She Lengyue unconscious, then scanned and retrieved his memories with the System.
• Snake Lin Yue attacked the palace with a powerful green hand and rescued She Lengyue, but Su Yun escaped into the System Space before she could find him.

Su Yun scanned Snake Lin Yue and discovered her Half-step Heaven Realm Soul, while learning that she had concealed herself above Heavenly Serpent Mansion using a powerful protective formation and Space Power. Snake Lin Yue ordered a search of Heavenly Serpent Holy City, but Su Yun remained hidden and planned to lure her toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Su Yun scanned Snake Lin Yue and found that she was a Three-Star Dou Venerate with a Half-step Heaven Realm Soul.
• Snake Lin Yue told the Heavenly Serpent Mansion experts that she had concealed herself above the mansion within its protective formation, but still could not locate the mysterious attacker.
• Su Yun realized the formation, Snake Lin Yue's Soul Power, and Space Power had kept him from detecting her, and he decided to proceed with his plan to draw her into the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Snake Lin Yue guessed that the attacker was a nearby Dou Zong alchemist using soul techniques and ordered the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to search Heavenly Serpent Holy City.
• Su Yun stayed hidden with Deceive Heaven Conceal World and expected the search to find nothing.

Su Yun warned Heavenly Flame Venerate to stay away from Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s territory after nearly being detected by its protective formation. When the mansion searched the inn, Su Yun marked a greedy Dou Emperor elder with a Soul Imprint and gave Heavenly Flame Venerate a way to track him for a future attack.

• Su Yun left Heavenly Serpent Mansion and warned Heavenly Flame Venerate and Qing Lin that Snake Lin Yue was a newly advanced Three-Star Dou Venerate and that its protective formation made the grounds dangerous.
• Snake Fatty and a Dou Emperor elder led a search of Heavenly Serpent Holy City, with the elder greedily collecting benefits while Snake Fatty decided to distance himself from him.
• The search team inspected the inn, where Heavenly Flame Venerate handed over pills to satisfy the elder and Snake Fatty asked whether the three guests were alchemists.
• After the search party left, Su Yun gave Heavenly Flame Venerate a soul sphere that could locate the elder, so he could kill him when he lured Snake Lin Yue away.

Su Yun discovered that Snake Lin Yue’s inheritance included a technique that could strengthen Xiao Lan’s bloodline, while Heavenly Flame Venerate lured Snake Lin Yue into a confrontation. Snake Lin Yue overwhelmed him with her Three-Star Dou Venerate strength, leaving Heavenly Flame Venerate in danger.

• Su Yun examined Snake Lin Yue’s panel and learned that her High Earth Tier technique, “Spirit Clarity Source Return,” could improve magical beasts’ bloodlines and help Xiao Lan.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate used the soul sphere to locate the Heavenly Serpent Mansion and killed its Dou Emperor elder with a flaming palm.
• Snake Lin Yue confronted Heavenly Flame Venerate, mistaking him for the intruder who had repeatedly sneaked into her mansion.
• Snake Lin Yue revealed her Three-Star Dou Venerate aura and struck at Heavenly Flame Venerate with an emerald-green giant hand.
• Snake Lin Yue’s attack destroyed Heavenly Flame Venerate’s flaming palm and continued toward him, shocking him with the gap between their strength.

Snake Lin Yue overwhelmed Heavenly Flame Venerate in their fight and pursued him into the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while he used a fire-escape technique to lure her toward an ambush arranged with Su Yun. Qing Lin detected their approach with her strengthened Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Su Yun prepared as the two venerates drew near.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate blocked Snake Lin Yue's attack with Shining Sun Sky, but she formed the Mysterious Clarity Azure Water Palm and pursued him when he fled.
• Snake Lin Yue caught up with Heavenly Flame Venerate and attacked him with azure-water serpents, while he defended himself with a flaming barrier.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate used an overdrawing fire-escape technique to maintain his speed and lure Snake Lin Yue toward the agreed ambush point, hoping Su Yun would refine him a Grade 8 Poria Azure Pill.
• Qing Lin told Su Yun that her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils had detected the two venerates approaching, and Su Yun sensed their auras a quarter of an hour later.

Su Yun prepared a perfected Five Wheel Separation Fire Method and used Heavenly Flame Venerate to lure Snake Lin Yue into its range. The chapter ended as Su Yun unleashed the attack on her.

• Su Yun warned Qing Lin to stay clear of the battle’s aftershocks as he prepared to ambush Snake Lin Yue with five Heavenly Flames.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate drew Snake Lin Yue toward the mountain range where Su Yun was waiting.
• Su Yun used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and formed five fire spirits from his Heavenly Flames.
• Su Yun completed the Five Wheel Separation Fire Array around Snake Lin Yue, while Heavenly Flame Venerate fled.
• Su Yun unleashed Separation Fire Burning Heaven, sending the five fire spirits charging at Snake Lin Yue.

Su Yun overwhelmed Snake Lin Yue with the Five Wheel Separation Fire Method and continued attacking after she tried to negotiate. Badly injured and struggling to contain the Heavenly Flames inside her, Snake Lin Yue resolved that she had to escape to protect the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.

• Su Yun’s five Heavenly Flames shattered Snake Lin Yue’s water defense and severely weakened her, while Qing Lin watched from a distance.
• Su Yun absorbed the surrounding energy with the Fennel Cold Art and blocked Snake Lin Yue’s counterattack with a five-colored flame sword wall.
• Snake Lin Yue offered the Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s resources and an apology in exchange for mercy, but Su Yun said he wanted her and attacked with Flowing Flame Dragon Slash.
• The Five-Colored Fire Dragon overwhelmed Snake Lin Yue’s water Dou Qi, adding more flames to the ones already rampaging through her body.
• Su Yun used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to strike Snake Lin Yue and send her crashing through several mountains.
• Snake Lin Yue remembered her responsibilities to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion and resolved that she could not die yet.

Su Yun and Heavenly Flame Venerate stopped Snake Lin Yue from escaping and captured her with Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. As Qing Lin began breaking through to Dou Zong, Su Yun prepared to leave the Northwest Continent for the Central Plains.

• Snake Lin Yue opened a Space Channel to escape, but Heavenly Flame Venerate destroyed it and taunted her into surrendering.
• Su Yun struck Snake Lin Yue with a sword attack, then trapped her in a fiery dome and called Qing Lin over.
• Qing Lin revealed her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and used them to control Snake Lin Yue, allowing Su Yun to capture her.
• Snake Lin Yue’s cultivation flowed into Qing Lin, pushing her to the threshold of a breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Su Yun and Heavenly Flame Venerate agreed to protect Qing Lin as she broke through, then confirmed they would head to the Central Plains.

After two months of cultivation in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Su Yun advanced through a minor realm while Qing Lin neared Dou Zong, guarded by Heavenly Flame Venerate. The Heavenly Serpent Mansion's search party found them, and Heavenly Flame Venerate attacked when they approached.

• Su Yun cultivated to refine the Demonic Poison Spot as Qing Lin continued her breakthrough, while Heavenly Flame Venerate protected them.
• Worried that Snake Lin Yue had not returned, the Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master led its Dou Zong elders into the Magical Beast Mountain Range to search for her.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate sensed the group approaching and shielded Su Yun and Qing Lin with a barrier of Space Power.
• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master recognized Heavenly Flame Venerate and saw Snake Lin Yue standing blankly behind him.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate attacked the group, whose Heavenly Serpent Great Array blocked his first palm but broke apart under his second.

Su Yun and Qing Lin completed their breakthroughs, and Su Yun uncovered the source of Qing Lin’s increased Soul Power. After Heavenly Flame Venerate killed the Heavenly Serpent Mansion fighters, the group headed through a Space Channel to Heavenly Serpent Holy City to destroy the Heavenly Serpent Empire, where the city’s residents mistook their arrival for the ancestor’s return.

• Su Yun and Qing Lin broke through, with Qing Lin reaching Dou Zong cultivation and the middle stage of the Spirit Realm.
• Su Yun scanned and recycled Snake Lin Yue’s memories, then stored them in the System Space for later examination.
• Su Yun ordered Heavenly Flame Venerate to kill the trapped Heavenly Serpent Mansion fighters and said they would wipe out the Heavenly Serpent Empire.
• Su Yun summoned eight Seventh-Tier snake-type Magical Beasts and had Qing Lin control them and take them, along with Snake Lin Yue, into the space within her eyes.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate opened a Space Channel to Heavenly Serpent Holy City using a coordinate he had left there.
• The people of Heavenly Serpent Holy City saw the Space Channel and believed the ancestor had returned.

Su Yun and Heavenly Flame Venerate destroyed the Heavenly Serpent Mansion and found She Lengyue protected by a damaged ancient weapon. After finishing him off, they prepared to return to Jia Nan Academy through a Space Channel.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate unleashed his Dou Zun power and burned the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to ruins.
• Su Yun and Qing Lin searched the ruins and found the unconscious She Lengyue protected by a jade pendant.
• Su Yun identified the pendant as a damaged seventh-tier Magic Core Weapon, then cut through its protection and killed She Lengyue.
• Su Yun planned to return with Heavenly Flame Venerate and Qing Lin to Jia Nan Academy before heading to the Central Plains.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate opened a Space Channel to Jia Nan Academy while Su Yun teased Qing Lin.

Su Yun returned to Jia Nan Academy, reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, and spent time with her while Qing Lin secretly watched. Xiao Yan learned that Su Yun had returned and planned to ask him about other Heavenly Flames, while Su Yun began unfolding Snake Lin Yue's memories.

• Su Yun brought Qing Lin and Senior Skyfire through the Space Channel to Jia Nan Academy, then sent them away and went to meet Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian reproached Su Yun for being gone so long, and they spent the day and night together in the small pavilion.
• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to watch Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian before Cai Lin entered and questioned her.
• Medicine Elder sensed the Space Channel's spatial fluctuation and told Xiao Yan they would visit Su Yun soon to ask about other Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried that their growing cultivation made having a child less likely, and Su Yun comforted her before beginning another day of strenuous intimacy.
• After eating Xiao Yi Xian's medicinal meal, Su Yun sat down and asked the system to unfold Snake Lin Yue's memories.

Su Yun examined Snake Lin Yue’s memories and learned that Qing Lin could absorb the Half-step Heaven Realm Soul Power passed down to her. When Xiao Yan visited, Su Yun spotted a damaged Sound Valley token in his ring and discussed the dangers ahead with him, ending as Medicine Elder appeared and Xiao Yan learned of his teacher’s feud with the Yao Clan.

• Su Yun examined Snake Lin Yue’s memories and learned how her former master used Spirit Clarity Source Return to raise her to an Eighth-Tier Magical Beast and empower her soul.
• Su Yun realized Qing Lin could absorb Snake Lin Yue’s unfused Soul Power, then considered the Beast Spirit Venerable’s legacy and Qing Lin’s inheritance from the Snake Saint.
• Xiao Yan visited Su Yun, who used the system to find a damaged Illusionary Sound Flute in Xiao Yan’s Ring of Holding and learned it could serve as a Sound Valley token.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yan that rescuing Xiao Zhan would make him an enemy of Soul Hall and that his ties to Xun’er and Medicine Elder would bring further conflicts.
• Xiao Yan reacted with surprise when Su Yun mentioned the Yao Clan, and Medicine Elder emerged from the Bone Flame Ring.

Su Yun told Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder about several Heavenly Flames, including Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame and the Bone Chilling Flame. He revealed that Han Feng was dead and linked his death to a former sect disciple now being hunted, leaving Medicine Elder to recognize the Bone Chilling Flame as his own former flame.

• Su Yun learned from Xiao Yan that Xiao Xun'er had returned to the Ancient Clan after Ling Quan and the Black Annihilation Army pressured Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Su Yun for news about Heavenly Flames, and Su Yun questioned why he sought more when he already possessed the Yin-Yang Twin Flames.
• Su Yun named the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Flame and the Three Thousand Burning Flame, then revealed that Han Feng had possessed the Sea Heart Flame.
• Medicine Elder erupted in anger at Han Feng’s name, and Su Yun told him that Han Feng was dead.
• Su Yun said a former sect disciple had acquired the Bone Chilling Flame, betrayed the sect, and was now being hunted, prompting Medicine Elder to recognize his former Heavenly Flame.

Su Yun told Medicine Elder and Xiao Yan that Xiao Yan’s Flame Mantra was an inherited method of Su Yun’s sect and that Han Feng had died while pursuing Heavenly Flames. He offered to seek help for them if they retrieved a lost sect treasure, and Xiao Yan revealed that he already had it.

• Su Yun explained that Han Feng had possessed the Bone Chilling Flame, had died at the hands of a former sect disciple, and had likely lost the Sea Heart Flame to him.
• Su Yun told Medicine Elder and Xiao Yan that the Flame Mantra was one of his sect’s inherited methods, then described the ruin where Medicine Elder had found it.
• Su Yun said he could not decide whether Xiao Yan could keep cultivating the Flame Mantra, but offered to ask his master to mediate if they recovered a lost Broken Jade Flute.
• Xiao Yan took out the Broken Jade Flute and said he had found it in a Fifth-Tier Magical Beast’s cave in the nearby Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Medicine Elder studied the flute’s image thoughtfully as Su Yun asked Xiao Yan where he had found it.

Su Yun took Xiao Yan’s Broken Jade Flute and named Gui Li as the owner of the Bone Chilling Flame, while Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder planned their next move. Su Qian agreed to let Zi Yan travel with Su Yun to the Central Plains and warned him that Soul Hall would be a threat there.

• Su Yun claimed Xiao Yan’s Broken Jade Flute as his sect’s lost secret treasure and agreed to mediate over Xiao Yan’s Qi Method.
• Medicine Elder inferred that Su Yun had sensed the flute, then asked for the Bone Chilling Flame owner’s name, and Su Yun identified him as Gui Li.
• Xiao Yan concluded that the flute had saved him from conflict with Su Yun’s sect, and Medicine Elder advised him to leave Jia Nan Academy and travel.
• Su Yun asked Su Qian whether Zi Yan could go with him to the Central Plains, and Su Qian agreed, hoping she might find her birth parents.
• Su Qian told Su Yun that Jia Nan Academy had taken responsibility for the deaths of two Soul Hall protectors and warned him to be careful in the Central Plains.
• Soul Hall gathered many Honorable Elders in the Central Plains for a discussion.