Chapter Summaries

Yang Chen traveled to Desert City with Lei Na and Lin Sen to recruit the hidden Ice Emperor Hai Bodong for True Lord Hall. The chapter ended with Hai Bodong recognizing Lei Na and Yang Chen revealing his identity, while Lei Na and Lin Sen laughed at the fallen former expert.

• Yang Chen set out toward Desert City with Lei Na and Lin Sen, intending to meet Hai Bodong before continuing to Rock Desert City to see his nephews.
• Yang Chen explained that Lei Na and Lin Sen would teach Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and that he wanted to bring Hai Bodong into True Lord Hall.
• Yang Chen and his companions arrived in Desert City at night and entered the Ancient Map shop.
• Lei Na unleashed his lightning power when Hai Bodong brusquely told them the shop was closed, and Hai Bodong recognized him in shock.
• Yang Chen introduced himself to Hai Bodong, and Lei Na and Lin Sen laughed when they realized the old mapmaker was the Ice Emperor.

Yang Chen invited Hai Bodong to join True Lord Hall and left him medicine when Hai Bodong hesitated. Hai Bodong accepted the offer, and the group prepared to depart together.

• Yang Chen invited Hai Bodong to join True Lord Hall, but Hai Bodong hesitated over serving someone else in exchange for help breaking his seal.
• Yang Chen left Hai Bodong a jade bottle of medicine and departed without forcing him to decide.
• Hai Bodong took the bottle to his underground chamber, then chose to join Yang Chen after sensing the medicine's power.
• Yang Chen explained to Lei Na and Lin Sen that he wanted Hai Bodong as a member of True Lord Hall, while reflecting on Yun Yun's agreement to restrain the Yunlan Sect and guide Nalan Yanran.
• The next morning, Hai Bodong greeted Yang Chen as Second Master at the flying-beast plaza, and the group boarded to set out.

Yang Chen and his companions approached Rock Desert City and discovered the Medusa Queen beneath it, where she was trying to seize the Green Lotus Core Flame. As they arrived, the Medusa Queen sensed the approaching auras and turned to attack them.

• Yang Chen's group stopped near Rock Desert City when the flying beast sensed the Medusa Queen's aura.
• Hai Bodong suspected that the Medusa Queen was searching for a Heavenly Flame, and Yang Chen recalled her pursuit of the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Yang Chen and the others followed the energy fluctuations into an underground magma chamber.
• The Medusa Queen prepared another attempt to take the Green Lotus Core Flame but sensed several approaching auras and slashed at them.

Yang Chen confronted Medusa Queen over the Green Lotus Core Flame and used a mysterious seal to draw the Heavenly Flame out of its lotus. As he reached to claim it, Medusa Queen struck with her sword and interrupted him.

• Yang Chen blocked Medusa Queen’s sword beam, then approached her with Hai Bodong, Lei Na, and Lin Sen nearby.
• Yang Chen identified the treasure as the nineteenth-ranked Green Lotus Core Flame and invited Medusa Queen to try claiming it first.
• Medusa Queen distrusted Yang Chen’s offer and insisted that he go first.
• Yang Chen formed a mysterious seal that drew the Green Lotus Core Flame from the lotus into a sphere of light.
• As Yang Chen reached for the sphere, Medusa Queen stabbed at him with her rainbow-colored sword.

Yang Chen and Medusa Queen clashed over the strange flame, and he proved able to match her with his fan before challenging her to fight at full strength. The chapter ended with the two exchanging blows above the magma as Hai Bodong, Lei Na, and Lin Sen watched from a distance.

• Yang Chen blocked Medusa Queen's sword strikes with the Universe Fan, then trapped her blade in its ribs and flung it away.
• Yang Chen and Medusa Queen exchanged attacks that sent them both backward, each recognizing the other's formidable strength.
• Yang Chen tossed the strange flame to Hai Bodong, told him and the others not to interfere, and challenged Medusa Queen to win it from him.
• Yang Chen transformed the Universe Fan into the Three-Pointed Double-Edged Spear, and Medusa Queen prepared to fight without holding back.
• Yang Chen and Medusa Queen charged at each other and began trading powerful blows above the magma while Hai Bodong, Lei Na, and Lin Sen retreated.

Yang Chen defeated Medusa Queen in their contest for the Heavenly Flame, then offered her a secret technique that could help her evolve her bloodline. The chapter ended with Medusa Queen asking what conditions he wanted for the deal.

• Yang Chen overwhelmed Medusa Queen with a series of spear strikes and stopped his final thrust just short of her.
• Medusa Queen conceded defeat and agreed that the Heavenly Flame belonged to Yang Chen.
• Yang Chen explained that Medusa Queen wanted the Heavenly Flame to undergo a dangerous bloodline evolution and offered a secret technique to help.
• Yang Chen presented Medusa Queen with a jade tome and asked whether she was interested in making a deal.
• Medusa Queen asked Yang Chen what conditions he wanted.

Yang Chen offered Medusa Queen a secret technique in exchange for her help against the Yunlan Sect, warning her that Yun Shan had secretly reached the Dou Sect realm. Medusa Queen accepted the jade tome and teased Yang Chen by inviting him to win her loyalty and command the snakefolk.

• Medusa Queen questioned whether Yang Chen's secret technique was a trap and asked what he wanted in return.
• Yang Chen clarified that he wanted Medusa Queen's help dealing with the Yunlan Sect, then revealed that Yun Shan was alive and had become a Dou Sect.
• Medusa Queen suspected a powerful faction was behind Yun Shan's breakthrough, but Yang Chen warned that the threat was beyond her to provoke.
• Medusa Queen took the jade tome and asked whether Yang Chen feared she would break their deal.
• Yang Chen said he trusted Medusa Queen to prevent Yun Shan from taking her to Cloud Mist Mountain, and she flirted with him, offering the snakefolk if he could win her over.

Yang Chen offered Medusa Queen the Heavenly Flame and asked her to help prepare his nephews for a dangerous trial. Medusa Queen agreed to cooperate and faced the risks of using the evolution technique, while teasing Yang Chen.

• Yang Chen gave Medusa Queen the Heavenly Flame and asked her to keep it safe and hunt down anyone who came to seize it within two and a half years.
• Yang Chen revealed that the people he wanted her to hunt were his nephews, and explained that he wanted them tempered by hardship.
• Medusa Queen agreed to cooperate, and Yang Chen offered to refine a Heart-Protecting Pill while warning that the evolution technique could kill her.
• Medusa Queen dismissed his concern and teased him about waiting for him to conquer her.

Yang Chen visited Xiao Ding and Xiao Li at their mercenary group headquarters and confirmed he was their uncle. He left soon after, telling them Xiao Yan could cultivate normally again and promising to visit in a few days.

• A burly mercenary told Xiao Ding and Xiao Li that a young man claiming to be their uncle had arrived with their clan emblem, accompanied by a beautiful woman.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li entered the reception hall and recognized Yang Chen’s resemblance to their mother; Yang Chen introduced himself and Medusa Queen.
• Xiao Ding tested Yang Chen by asking about his past, and Yang Chen explained that he had entered the mountains to cultivate when he was ten.
• Xiao Li asked about Xiao Yan, and Yang Chen assured the brothers that Xiao Yan could cultivate normally again.
• Yang Chen declined the brothers’ invitation to stay for a meal and left with Medusa Queen, promising to visit again in a few days.

Yang Chen ordered Lei Na and Lin Sen to train Xiao Ding and Xiao Li ruthlessly, then sent Hai Bodong to retrieve Qing Lin and frame the Mo Family. He brought Medusa Queen to the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's mountain and told the beast to let an incoming visitor pass.

• Yang Chen told Lei Na and Lin Sen to train Xiao Ding and Xiao Li without mercy, despite the mercenary groups' interference.
• Yang Chen ordered Hai Bodong to find Qing Lin, the mixed-blood girl with green scales, and implicate the Mo Family of Salt City.
• Yang Chen explained to Medusa Queen that Qing Lin had lived past the age when mixed-blood children usually died, suggesting she might possess a rare ability.
• Yang Chen and Medusa Queen flew to the Magic Beast Mountain Range, where the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King greeted Yang Chen as its master.
• Yang Chen told the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to go down and not stop the person who would soon arrive.

Medusa Queen questioned Yang Chen about his hostility toward the Yunlan Sect and his secret dealings with Yun Yun, while teasing him and offering the Snake-People Tribe’s support. Yang Chen refused to explain his plans, leaving their cooperation agreed but his motives concealed.

• Medusa Queen pressed Yang Chen about his grudge against the Yunlan Sect, citing his recruitment of experts, intelligence, and connections to Yun Yun.
• Yang Chen said the Yunlan Sect had sent someone from the Mo Family to annul an engagement at his nephew’s home, but Medusa Queen remained unconvinced.
• Medusa Queen teased Yang Chen and admitted that Yun Yun had made her jealous, while Yang Chen warned her that probing into his past was dangerous.
• Medusa Queen revealed she had questioned Lin Sen and Lei Na about Yang Chen’s dealings with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran.
• Yang Chen refused to reveal what he knew, and Medusa Queen pledged that the Snake-People Tribe would follow his lead.

Yang Chen learned that Xiao Ding and Xiao Li were searching for Qing Lin, while Lei Na and Lin Sen made their move in Rock Desert City. Lei Na took Xiao Li as his disciple and agreed with Lin Sen to settle their rivalry through a contest between their disciples in a year and a half.

• Hai Bodong brought Qing Lin back to Yang Chen and reported that Xiao Ding had stopped Xiao Li from intercepting the Mo Family.
• Xiao Ding ordered the Desert Iron Mercenary Group to keep searching for Qing Lin and warned them not to act rashly if they found clues.
• Lei Na and Lin Sen argued over which of them was stronger, then agreed that their disciples would compete in a year and a half, with a sixth-tier Spirit-Fighting Pill’s ingredients at stake.
• Lei Na chose Xiao Li as his disciple, and Xiao Li bowed and promised not to disappoint him.

Yang Chen rescued Qing Lin and made her the holy maiden of True Lord Hall, offering her the Purple Crystal Winged Lion as a companion. Medusa Queen proposed leaving Qing Lin with the serpent people, but Yang Chen instead asked her to summon a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake in exchange for Companion Amethyst Source.

• Qing Lin woke in the underground chamber and recognized Yang Chen, then trusted him when he invited her to follow him.
• Yang Chen gave Qing Lin a jade pendant, named her the holy maiden of True Lord Hall, and offered her the Purple Crystal Winged Lion as a companion.
• Qing Lin cried with relief as Yang Chen comforted her, while Hai Bodong and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King reacted awkwardly nearby.
• Medusa Queen suggested Qing Lin stay with the serpent people, and Qing Lin recognized her despite her concealed aura and became frightened.
• Yang Chen asked Medusa Queen to call up the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake, and she agreed after he offered her Companion Amethyst Source.

Yang Chen’s nephews Xiao Li and Xiao Ding began harsh training in the Thunder God Formula and Wood God Formula under Lei Na and Lin Sen. After they collapsed from exhaustion, Yang Chen ordered the training to continue and provided fifth-grade medicinal ointment to help them recover.

• Lei Na repeatedly struck Xiao Li with lightning to temper his body for the Thunder God Formula, while Xiao Li struggled to endure the punishment.
• Lin Sen followed the same training regimen with Xiao Ding as the brothers spent the day building the foundations for their cultivation methods.
• Xiao Li and Xiao Ding collapsed from exhaustion at sunset and fell asleep in the training grounds.
• Yang Chen and Medusa Queen arrived and praised the brothers’ perseverance, though Yang Chen insisted they carried the Yang Clan’s bloodline.
• Yang Chen gave Lin Sen and Lei Na two jars of fifth-grade medicinal ointment and ordered them to keep the brothers training until they had truly entered the path.

Xiao Yan used his newfound standing in the Xiao Family to obtain money for medicinal ingredients, then endured Medicine Elder’s painful fire-tempering training. As the three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran loomed, Xiao Yan resolved to prove himself without relying on his uncle, while Medicine Elder revealed that his cultivation art was beyond the Heaven tier.

• The Xiao Family’s Second Elder gave Xiao Yan a gold card and promised the family would support his needs.
• Xiao Yan bought medicinal ingredients and had Medicine Elder refine them into cultivation pills.
• Medicine Elder put Xiao Yan through a painful fire formation that tempered his body, and Xiao Yan asked to rest.
• Medicine Elder reminded Xiao Yan that his uncle could force the engagement to continue, but doing so would bring shame and hostility upon them.
• Xiao Yan understood that his uncle had arranged the three-year agreement to give him a chance to prove himself, and he vowed not to let him down.
• Medicine Elder said the Fire God Art was beyond the Heaven tier and could eventually let Xiao Yan command all flames.

Medicine Elder trained Xiao Yan with the Flame God Art and revealed that his next lesson would be cultivating in the Fire Refining Grand Array beneath the midday sun to draw Solar True Fire. Xiao Yan began his nightly cultivation with the Heavenly Fire Spirit Liquid, facing the prospect of harsher training ahead.

• Xiao Yan questioned whether the Flame God Art was as powerful as Medicine Elder claimed, and Medicine Elder urged him to cultivate so he could defeat Nalan Yanran.
• Medicine Elder reflected that the Flame God Art had improved his control over the Bone Spirit Chilling Flame and could help Xiao Yan challenge stronger opponents.
• After enduring the Fire Refining Grand Array, Xiao Yan learned that his new lesson would be activating it every day at noon beneath the blazing sun.
• Medicine Elder explained that Xiao Yan would need to endure the array to draw Solar True Fire and might obtain a trace of it upon reaching the Dou Practitioner realm.
• Medicine Elder sent Xiao Yan to cultivate with the Heavenly Fire Spirit Liquid, and Xiao Yan began that night's training with anxious anticipation.

The Medusa Queen gathered the snake-people leaders and announced that she would enter seclusion to break through to Dou Zong, ordering Yin Shi to assist Yang Chen. She left Yang Chen stunned by implying that he was now her man and privately declaring that she would conquer him herself.

• Yang Chen, Qing Lin, Hai Bodong, and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King attended a gathering in Medusa Temple with the snake-people leaders and the Medusa Queen.
• Yin Shi questioned why the Medusa Queen had summoned them, while Yue Mei was distracted by Yang Chen and drew the Queen's displeasure.
• Yang Chen examined system rewards for suppressing a sect alone and found a divine beast bloodline reward he could not use without a bird-type magical beast.
• The Medusa Queen announced that she would enter seclusion to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Zong and ordered Yin Shi to assist Yang Chen with all his strength.
• Yin Shi and Mo Bas realized the Queen's order implied Yang Chen was her man, while the Queen privately told Yang Chen she would conquer him herself.

Medusa Queen completed her transformation into the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and returned to human form, apparently advancing greatly in power. She reprimanded Hai Bodong for entering her seclusion, then dismissed him while the four elders witnessed her success.

• Medusa Queen absorbed immense energy as the four snake-people elders guarded her transformation.
• The elders sealed Lakeheart Island behind a barrier, and Hai Bodong entered it to protect Yang Chen.
• Seven-colored energy formed an egg around Medusa Queen, which hatched into a giant python that devoured its shell before returning to Medusa Queen's human form.
• Medusa Queen rebuked Hai Bodong for barging into her seclusion grounds and called him her subordinate.
• Hai Bodong apologized, and Medusa Queen ordered him to withdraw, using the reprimand to warn the four elders.

After finishing his secluded cultivation, Yang Chen revealed power that alarmed the Snakefolk Holy City, while Medusa Queen questioned his mysterious ties to the Yunlan Sect. Yang Chen dismissed the Jia Ma Royal Family as a threat and decided to use news of the Heavenly Flame to draw the Yunlan Sect into investigating.

• Medusa Queen sent the Snakefolk elders away after they warned her against trusting Yang Chen.
• Medusa Queen considered Yang Chen's complicated dealings with the Yunlan Sect and wondered whether he had close ties to it.
• Yang Chen's breakthrough shattered the elders' barrier and sent a powerful pillar of light over the Snakefolk Holy City.
• Yang Chen told Medusa Queen that he had reached the beginner stage of Heavenly Law, Earthly Manifestation, while she said her transformation let her fight an ordinary Dou Zong expert.
• Medusa Queen warned that the Jia Ma Royal Family and Yunlan Sect might investigate the disturbance, and Yang Chen said to reveal the Heavenly Flame if the Yunlan Sect came.

Jia Xingtian and the Deep Sea Flood Dragon Beast sensed a powerful aura in the Tagore Desert, while Yun Leng tried to enlist Yun Yun and Gu He to claim what Gu He believed was a Heavenly Flame. Yun Yun refused to help, and Gu He agreed to cooperate with Yun Leng instead.

• Jia Xingtian and the Deep Sea Flood Dragon Beast sensed a powerful, domineering aura coming from the Tagore Desert and speculated that a rare treasure had appeared.
• Jia Xingtian decided not to pursue the treasure and said he would seek help from the Yang Clan to treat the beast's injuries.
• Yun Leng summoned a Yunlan Sect elders' assembly and asked Yun Yun to travel to the Tagore Desert after Gu He suggested a Heavenly Flame had appeared there.
• Gu He urged Yun Yun to help him obtain the Heavenly Flame so he could surpass Yang Chen, but Yun Yun refused and left the hall.
• Yun Leng told Gu He to support him if he wanted Yun Yun's affection, and Gu He agreed to cooperate with him.