Chapter Summaries

Fa Ma told Xiao Yan about the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's clashes with the Medusa Queen over a rare treasure, revealing that the beast had paid with a bottle of Companion Amethyst Source. Xiao Yan decided to enter the mountains despite the danger, and Fa Ma recommended that he temporarily join the herb-gathering team of his Ten Thousand Medicine House.

• Fa Ma described how the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had fought the Medusa Queen and escaped their battles over a rare treasure.
• Xiao Yan suspected the treasure was a Heavenly Flame and resolved to seek it, even if that meant facing Gu He.
• Fa Ma revealed that the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King had paid a bottle of Companion Amethyst Source to escape its second clash.
• Medicine Elder reacted in alarm to the name Companion Amethyst Source and urged Xiao Yan to keep probing for information.
• Xiao Yan accepted the danger of entering the mountains, and Fa Ma suggested he join the herb-gathering team of the Ten Thousand Medicine House.

Xiao Yan, using the name Yang Yan, joined Xiao Yi Xian’s herb-gathering team heading into the Magic Beast Mountain Range. There, Yun Yun revealed that her teacher Yun Shan had murdered Yang Chen’s parents and uncovered secrets about the Misty Cloud Sect’s broken inheritance, while Yang Chen remained focused on his broader grudge.

• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Xiao Yi Xian as Yang Yan and agreed to follow her herb-gathering team into the Magic Beast Mountain Range.
• Yun Yun asked Yang Chen to spare Yun Shan if the Misty Cloud Sect became his enemy.
• Yun Yun confessed that Yun Shan had secretly pursued and killed Yang Chen’s parents twenty years earlier.
• Yang Chen remained composed and asked what else Yun Yun had discovered about Yun Shan and the Xiao Family.
• Yun Yun said Yun Shan had contacted mysterious people before entering seclusion and that Grandmaster Yun Yang had not fully passed the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritance to him.

Yun Yun confronted Yang Chen over the Misty Cloud Sect's lost inheritance, but he revealed clues that cast doubt on Yun Shan's account of the past. Yang Chen identified himself as Yun Lin, a descendant of Grandmaster Yun Yang, and Yun Yun vowed to uncover the truth and leave Yun Shan's fate to him if her teacher was responsible.

• Yun Yun asked Yang Chen to reconcile with the Misty Cloud Sect, and he admitted that its core inheritance was in his hands.
• Yang Chen questioned Yun Yun about why Yun Shan had killed his parents and failed to recover the inheritance, making her doubt her teacher's motives.
• Yang Chen challenged the official account of Grandmaster Yun Yang's death and gave Yun Yun the missing Misty Cloud Sect sect master token.
• Yang Chen told Yun Yun to ask about Yun Lin, explaining that the name came from Yang Tianlin and revealing his connection to Grandmaster Yun Yang.
• Yun Yun realized Yang Chen was her junior brother and promised to uncover the truth, leaving Yun Shan's judgment to him if Yun Shan was at fault.

After a month of training in the Magic Beast Mountain Range, Xiao Yan learned that Medusa Queen and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King were fighting over the Companion Amethyst Source. Medicine Elder urged him to take advantage of their battle, and Xiao Yan agreed to seize the opportunity.

• Xiao Yan escaped a pack of wolf-type magical beasts and complained that Medicine Elder had misled him about their numbers.
• Xiao Yan recalled his month of training and the Purple Cloud Wings and Ice Spirit Flame Grass he had obtained while following Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan sensed a battle between powerful experts, and Medicine Elder identified the combatants as the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King and Medusa Queen.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that Medusa Queen might be seeking the Companion Amethyst Source to break through to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan agreed to take advantage of the battle and try to seize the Companion Amethyst Source.

Medicine Elder controlled Xiao Yan as he flew to Medusa Queen's battle with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, where Xiao Yan learned that Medusa Queen possessed a Heavenly Flame and that Earthfire Lotus Seeds remained at its former site. As the two rulers fought and moved away from the lion king's cave, Xiao Yan seized the chance to sneak inside.

• Medicine Elder took control of Xiao Yan's body and flew him to the battlefield, where Xiao Yan hid in a tree and watched Medusa Queen fight the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Medusa Queen asked the lion king for a bottle of Companion Amethyst Source in exchange for Earthfire Lotus Seeds, but he demanded the seeds themselves.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that Earthfire Lotus Seeds were rare treasures associated with the Green Lotus Core Flame, a Heavenly Flame.
• Medusa Queen said she had taken the Heavenly Flame and two seeds from a place near a human city, and that more seeds remained there.
• Medusa Queen and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King resumed their fight and moved away from his cave, so Xiao Yan rushed toward it.

Xiao Yan entered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave to find the Companion Amethyst Source, but a sleeping fourth-tier young Purple Crystal Winged Lion blocked his way. Medicine Elder explained that Xiao Yan needed a Purple Spirit Crystal to open the source, and Xiao Yan used the Flame God Art to locate its fire energy.

• Xiao Yan entered the cave and found a purplish-gold young Purple Crystal Winged Lion sleeping between two passages.
• Xiao Yan slipped past the beast through the right-hand passage, unaware that it woke and headed for the cave entrance.
• Xiao Yan found an empty chamber of amethyst crystals, and Medicine Elder explained that the Companion Amethyst Source had left with the young beast.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan to find a Purple Spirit Crystal to open the source's crystal shell.
• Xiao Yan activated the Flame God Art and detected a purplish-red object in the cave.

Xiao Yan took half of the Companion Amethyst Source from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave and escaped its young guardian with Medicine Elder's help. He then ran into Medusa Queen and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, who both demanded his attention and left him trapped between them.

• Xiao Yan returned to the cave, collected half of the Companion Amethyst Source, and licked the remaining liquid from the orb.
• Medicine Elder took control of Xiao Yan's body and helped him flee as the little Purple Crystal Winged Lion charged after him.
• Medicine Elder used Flame Burst to propel Xiao Yan away and taunted the little Purple Crystal Winged Lion into returning to the cave rather than pursuing him.
• Xiao Yan flew out of the cave and found Medusa Queen and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King facing each other in midair.
• Medusa Queen accused Xiao Yan of using her as a distraction, while the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King demanded that he hand over the Companion Amethyst Source.

Xiao Yan tried to bargain with the Medusa Queen for protection by offering her the Companion Amethyst Source, while using the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's threat to pressure her. The Medusa Queen demanded his price, and Xiao Yan offered her sixty percent just as an unknown old man arrived.

• Xiao Yan calmed himself and proposed a deal to the Medusa Queen, hoping to pit her against the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• The Medusa Queen exposed Xiao Yan's attempt to use the Companion Amethyst Source as leverage, while the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King threatened to kill him.
• Xiao Yan suspected that the Purple Flame within him came from one of the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cubs and decided he needed the Medusa Queen's protection.
• Xiao Yan showed the Medusa Queen the jade basin of Companion Amethyst Source and offered her sixty percent in exchange for taking him away.
• An old man arrived and asked to join the negotiation.

Fa Ma arrived during the confrontation over the Companion Amethyst Source and persuaded the Medusa Queen and Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to let him take Xiao Yan away. The Lion King backed down after learning Xiao Yan was Yang Chen’s nephew, while the Medusa Queen left with a threat.

• Fa Ma appeared above the Magic Beast Mountain Range, and the Medusa Queen questioned why he had come.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King accused Xiao Yan of taking its Companion Amethyst Source, and Xiao Yan introduced himself to Fa Ma.
• Fa Ma asked the Medusa Queen to spare Xiao Yan, saying the young man had a connection to him.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King demanded the Companion Amethyst Source, but Fa Ma revealed Xiao Yan was Yang Chen’s nephew.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King let Xiao Yan go, and the Medusa Queen departed after warning him not to fall into her hands.

Fa Ma explained to Xiao Yan the history behind the Medusa Queen’s retreat and revealed that Xiao Yan’s uncle had once clashed with her over a treasure in the Tagore Desert. He also warned Xiao Yan about Gu He’s influence and the Misty Cloud Sect’s power, leaving Xiao Yan more wary of the conflicts surrounding Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Yan apologized to Fa Ma for concealing his identity, and Fa Ma accepted his explanation.
• Xiao Yan asked why the Medusa Queen had retreated at the mention of his uncle, and Fa Ma linked her past conflict with the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to Yang Chen.
• Fa Ma said Yang Chen and the Medusa Queen had fought over a treasure before Gu He arrived, and suggested Gu He later bought a Heavenly Flame and sent pills into the desert.
• Xiao Yan denounced Gu He for taking the treasure, and Fa Ma warned him that Gu He and Yun Leng wielded great influence in the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan thanked Fa Ma and resolved to speak more cautiously as he considered the sect’s complicated factions and Nalan Yanran’s position.

Xiao Yan considered the risks of seeking the Heavenly Flame in the Tagore Desert and decided he needed to grow stronger before entering the Snake-People Royal City. He gave Fa Ma some Companion Amethyst Source in gratitude, then learned Fa Ma would soon leave the Magic Beast Mountain Range and urged him to enter the Alchemist Grand Meeting.

• Xiao Yan weighed the dangers of facing the Snake-People and Gu He, but trusted his uncle and Medicine Elder to help him.
• Xiao Yan brought out the Companion Amethyst Source and asked Fa Ma how to use it.
• Fa Ma explained that the source could be consumed or absorbed through the skin, though it was best suited to magical beasts.
• Xiao Yan offered Fa Ma half the Companion Amethyst Source to thank him for helping him escape.
• Fa Ma accepted only a small amount and told Xiao Yan he could ask him about alchemy before he left the Magic Beast Mountain Range.
• Fa Ma reminded Xiao Yan to participate in the Alchemist Grand Meeting in a little over a year.

Yang Chen explained the story behind his mother’s guqin while Medusa Queen struggled to explain why she had come to see him. Zi Yan appeared and, after revealing her Ancient Void Dragon bloodline, bluntly asked Medusa Queen if she wanted to marry Yang Chen and become her mother.

• Medusa Queen mistook the character on Yang Chen’s guqin for a mark connected to Yun Yun, and Yang Chen explained that his mother had renamed the instrument Cloud Soul after meeting his father.
• Medusa Queen said Qing Lin missed Yang Chen, and he promised to visit the Snake-People Royal City in a month.
• Zi Yan appeared through a display of spatial power and said she had seen Fa Ma nearly beat up Xiao Yan.
• Yang Chen told Medusa Queen that Zi Yan possessed the bloodline of the Ancient Void Dragon clan.
• Zi Yan cited what she had read about Medusa Queens and asked Medusa Queen if she liked Yang Chen and wanted to become Zi Yan’s mother.

Medusa Queen confessed that she had taken a liking to Yang Chen, leaving him unable to answer before Yun Yun arrived. The two women traded barbs over their factions’ troubles, and Medusa Queen offered to help Yun Yun take control of the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Zi Yan bluntly suggested that Medusa Queen liked Yang Chen, and Medusa Queen waited to hear his response.
• Yang Chen tried to dismiss Zi Yan’s words, but Medusa Queen confessed that she had taken a liking to him.
• Yang Chen struggled to respond because he feared the consequences of a relationship and felt unprepared.
• Yun Yun arrived at Medusa Queen’s residence, interrupting the tense conversation.
• Yun Yun warned Medusa Queen that the Jia Ma Empire was preparing to attack the Snake-People Tribe, and Medusa Queen retorted that Yun Yun had lost control of the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Medusa Queen offered to send people to help Yun Yun take control of the Misty Cloud Sect because of her connection to Yang Chen.

Yun Yun confronted Medusa Queen over her closeness to Yang Chen, then explained the evidence that Yun Shan had concealed their grandmaster’s history and obstructed her investigation. She resolved that if Yun Shan was guilty, he should spend the rest of his life guarding the Life-and-Death Gate.

• Yun Yun traded barbed remarks with Medusa Queen, who questioned her relationship with Yang Chen, while Zi Yan sided with Medusa Queen and called Yang Chen her daddy.
• Yang Chen addressed Yun Yun as his senior sister and asked what she had discovered about the Misty Cloud Sect’s past.
• Yun Yun said the absence of records about Patriarch Yun Yang, Yun Shan’s obstruction, and the mysterious name Yun Lin all pointed to a hidden secret.
• Yun Yun said she wanted to identify the powerful expert secretly associating with Yun Shan.
• Yang Chen asked whether Yun Yun would act against her teacher, and Yun Yun said she would have him guard the Life-and-Death Gate for the rest of his life.

Yang Chen explained the Central Plains’ major factions and revealed how the Soul Hall was connected to the deaths of Venerable Yao and Yun Yun’s ancestor. He left Yun Yun confronting the possibility that the Misty Cloud Sect had killed her ancestor to protect Yun Shan’s succession.

• Yang Chen described the Pill Tower, the Soul Hall, and the Soul Hall’s hunt for alchemists and powerful souls, alarming Yun Yun and Medusa Queen.
• Yang Chen recounted how Yao Chen became renowned through the Pill Tower’s alchemy competition and said Han Feng claimed Yao Chen died in a cauldron explosion.
• Yang Chen confirmed that Han Feng was the man Zi Yan had encountered, and Zi Yan vowed to kill him while Yang Chen encouraged her.
• Yun Yun questioned Yao Chen’s suspicious death and connected it to Patriarch Yun Yang’s supposed cultivation deviation.
• Yang Chen said Yun Yang had been the Misty Cloud Sect’s expected successor, while Yun Shan had already passed the Life-and-Death Gate, implying that Yun Yang was killed to secure Yun Shan’s position.