Chapter Summaries

Xiao Le protected Qinglin from abuse at the Desert Metal Mercenary Group, recognized her rare bloodline and pupils, and helped Xiao Li learn lightning-element alchemy. After entrusting Qinglin to Xiao Li, Xiao Le traveled into the Tagore Desert to find the Snake-People Tribe and pursue his goals there.

• Xiao Le stopped a mercenary from bullying Qinglin and declared that the Desert Metal Mercenary Group would treat her as one of their own.
• Xiao Le recognized Qinglin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and Heavenly Snake Bloodline, then encouraged her to live for herself.
• Xiao Le demonstrated lightning-element alchemy for Xiao Li, who grasped the technique after watching him refine a Foundation-Building Elixir.
• Xiao Le warned Xiao Li to protect Qinglin and keep her eyes' ability secret, then left her in his care.
• Xiao Le spent ten days crossing the desert in search of the Snake-People Tribe before hearing a snake-person cry out to kill the men and spare the women.

Xiao Le rescued Manda’s mercenary group from the Snake-People and used Medusa’s aura to gain passage to their tribe. After Yue Mei escorted him to Medusa Palace, the mark on Xiao Le’s neck reacted to something inside, and he was summoned into the palace.

• Xiao Le swiftly defeated the Snake-People squad threatening Manda’s mercenaries, then asked the Snake-People to help him reach Queen Medusa.
• Xiao Le revealed Medusa’s aura, and the Snake-People agreed to take him to their tribe.
• Yue Mei tested the Medusa Mark on Xiao Le’s neck and agreed to bring him to Queen Medusa.
• Yue Mei led Xiao Le to Medusa Palace, where the mark on his neck reacted to a powerful aura and sent a seven-colored beam inside.
• A voice ordered that Xiao Le be brought into the palace, while Yue Mei shielded him from the surging Dou Qi.

Xiao Le met Queen Medusa and helped her bury her sister in the Snake Mausoleum, where he secretly gathered tags from the tombs. Medusa then asked him to refine medicinal herbs for the Snake-People, and the next morning Yue Mei brought him supplies and pill formulas.

• Xiao Le introduced himself to Queen Medusa and explained that he had brought her sister’s body back in exchange for information about Heavenly Flames.
• Queen Medusa took her sister’s corpse to the Snake Mausoleum, bringing Xiao Le and Yue Mei with her.
• At the mausoleum, several elderly Snake-People and tribal leaders arrived to mourn as Medusa laid her sister to rest, while Xiao Le collected tags from the tombs.
• After the funeral, Queen Medusa asked Xiao Le to refine medicinal herbs and told Yue Mei to take him to rest in a side hall of her bedchamber.
• The next morning, Yue Mei gave Xiao Le two storage rings filled with medicinal herbs, magical cores, and pill formulas.

After learning that Queen Medusa wanted a Heavenly Flame to help the Snake-People Tribe, Xiao Le told her about the Green Lotus Core Flame beneath the Tagore Desert and agreed to help her find it. Medusa located its likely source and took Xiao Le down a passage toward the magma.

• Xiao Le spent half a month refining pills in the side hall, improving his alchemy and earning greater trust from the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa summoned Xiao Le and asked him to accompany her to the Chu Yun Empire to seek the Netherworld Venom Flame, but he warned her of its danger and revealed the Green Lotus Core Flame was near Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Le admitted he wanted the Green Lotus Core Flame for himself and needed Medusa's help to obtain it, and she agreed to investigate.
• After two months of searching, Medusa confirmed the Heavenly Flame's location and later came to take Xiao Le with her.
• Medusa brought Xiao Le to a dune in the Tagore Desert, opened a stone door she had carved, and carried him into the passage leading toward the magma.

Xiao Le and Medusa descended into the magma to retrieve the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Medusa suffered severe injuries while helping him cut free its lotus platform. After they escaped, Medusa collapsed and woke just as Xiao Le kissed her, leaving him awkwardly asking whether she believed it was a misunderstanding.

• Medusa wrapped her tail around Xiao Le and carried him through the magma toward the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Medusa entered the cyan radiance and fought the flame while Xiao Le cut through the lotus stem with jade shards.
• Xiao Le severed the stem, and Medusa pulled him and the lotus platform out before swimming back through the passage.
• Medusa collapsed into Xiao Le's arms, and he gave her healing pills before kissing her.
• Medusa opened her eyes, and Xiao Le asked whether she believed his kiss had been a misunderstanding.

Xiao Le waited in the Snake-People Tribe while Medusa prepared to evolve using the Green Lotus Core Flame. After Medusa survived the flames and emerged as a seven-colored snake, Xiao Le secretly fed her a Green Lotus Seed and waited for a chance to leave with her and the flame.

• Yue Mei broke through the stone door, took Medusa from Xiao Le, and carried them back to the Snake-People Tribe, where Xiao Le downloaded the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• After Medusa awakened, she told Xiao Le to take the Heavenly Flame and inform Yue Mei of her death if she failed to emerge from seclusion within five days.
• Xiao Le secretly watched Medusa endure the Green Lotus Core Flame, then collected eleven Green Lotus Seeds while she burned for a day and night.
• Medusa emerged from the charcoal as a tiny seven-colored snake and swallowed the lightning bolts sent by the thunderclouds.
• Xiao Le fed the sleeping snake a Green Lotus Seed, carried the Green Lotus Platform back to his side hall, and waited until a figure burst in a month later.

Xiao Le learned that Xiao Yan had reached the Green Lotus Core Flame passage, while Medusa’s return to the Snake-People Tribe drew Gu He and Yun Yun into a confrontation. Xiao Le gave Xiao Yan the Heavenly Flame and escaped with Yun Yun, who asked why he was in the tribe.

• Xiao Le told Yue Mei that Medusa had survived her evolution and was still merging with her new body, while the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python stayed with him for his lotus seeds.
• Xiao Yan, Qinglin, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li reached the end of the underground passage and found Xiao Le’s message saying Medusa had taken the Green Lotus Core Flame back to the Snake-People Tribe.
• Gu He arrived with Yun Yun and other human powerhouses, demanding that the Snake-People hand over Medusa’s Heavenly Flame, and Yue Mei and the commanders confronted them.
• Xiao Yan secretly reached Xiao Le, who handed him the Green Lotus Core Flame and sent him toward Stone Desert City.
• Xiao Le tricked Gu He into pursuing Xiao Yan, then Yun Yun escaped the Snake-People commanders and carried Xiao Le across the desert.
• Yun Yun stopped over a deserted stretch of desert, and Xiao Le asked why she had come to the Snake-People Tribe.

Xiao Le met Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder in Stone Desert City, exchanged treasures with them, and learned how to prepare for refining a Heavenly Flame. He refined the Green Lotus Core Flame into Green Lotus Core Thunder without a spirit receptacle and emerged nearly two months later at peak nine-star Dou Master with a quasi-Earth-tier technique.

• Xiao Le met Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder at an inn, recounted his adventures, and shared a map fragment connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Le and Xiao Yan exchanged Green Lotus Core Flame lotus seeds and other treasures, and Xiao Le received Blue Infant Ginseng and Soaring Bamboo, two ingredients for the Divine Silkworm Technique's second transformation.
• Medicine Elder gave Xiao Yan a Blood Lotus Pill and Ice Spirit Cold Spring to prepare him to refine the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Xiao Le copied their traits and prepared to refine the flame himself.
• Xiao Le entered a wilderness cave, transformed the Green Lotus Core Flame into Green Lotus Core Thunder, and refined it despite lacking a spirit receptacle.
• After nearly two months of painful cultivation, Xiao Le woke with peak nine-star Dou Master cultivation and a quasi-Earth-tier Thunder Art.

Xiao Le returned to Stone Desert City and joined Xiao Yan in discovering that the Mo Family had taken Qinglin. After dealing with the Sand Mercenary Group, Xiao Yan, Xiao Le, and Hai Bodong set out for Salt City to rescue her.

• Xiao Le found the Desert Metal Mercenary Group recovering after the Sand Mercenary Group's attack and learned that Qinglin had been kidnapped.
• Xiao Le reached the Sand Mercenary Group's headquarters and watched Xiao Yan use Medicine Elder's power to defeat its leader, Luo Bu.
• Luo Bu revealed that Mo Cheng of the Mo Family had taken Qinglin, and Xiao Ding explained that the family might want her for its magical-beast organ transplant research.
• Xiao Le killed the defiant Mo Family members, while Xiao Yan forced Luo Bu to merge the Sand Mercenary Group into Desert Metal and gave him a poison with its antidote held by Xiao Ding.
• Xiao Yan, Xiao Le, and Hai Bodong departed for Salt City to rescue Qinglin after Xiao Le urged Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to focus on getting stronger.

Xiao Yan, Xiao Le, and Hai Bodong reached Salt City and clashed with the Mo Family while searching for Qinglin. After spotting Nalan Yanran at the inn, Xiao Yan and Xiao Le infiltrated the Mo Family gathering, where Xiao Yan confronted Mo Cheng and demanded Qinglin’s release.

• Medicine Elder manifested silver wings for Xiao Yan, and the three traveled nonstop to Salt City before resting at an inn.
• The Mo Family’s second young miss attacked Xiao Yan, but he burned her whip with green flame; a middle-aged man rescued her and offered the travelers luxurious rooms as an apology.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Le about his lightning, and Xiao Le explained that his cultivation technique used a trace of Heavenly Flame origin to nurture a lightning seed.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Le recognized Nalan Yanran at the inn, but Xiao Le calmed Xiao Yan before they left and secretly headed for the Mo Family estate.
• Xiao Yan and his companions found Mo Cheng preparing to form the Mo Alliance, then Xiao Yan demanded that he hand over Qinglin.
• Mo Cheng ordered his men to kill Xiao Yan, but pale white flames froze and shattered several attackers, prompting someone to identify the power as a Heavenly Flame.

Xiao Yan defeated Mo Cheng, while Xiao Le and Hai Bodong protected Qinglin from a woman seeking to take her to the Heavenly Serpent Mansion. When the woman withdrew and left them facing the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, Xiao Yan prepared a powerful move.

• Xiao Yan defeated Mo Cheng, then froze him with Bone White Flame after Mo Cheng revealed his grafted Mountain-Breaking Arm.
• Xiao Le heard the Beast Venerable warn him of a hidden presence and waited with Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong for Qinglin.
• A green-clad woman attacked for Qinglin, but Xiao Le caught her and revealed his identity to her.
• The woman, Lu Man, summoned the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and explained that Qinglin had Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and belonged with the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• Xiao Le demanded that Qinglin form a contract with the magical beast, and Lu Man withdrew from the fight.
• The Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor fought Xiao Le, Xiao Yan, and Hai Bodong, and Xiao Yan asked the others to hold it off while he prepared a move.

Xiao Le and Xiao Yan fought the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor with powerful lightning and Heavenly Flame attacks, leaving the serpent defeated and badly injured. Green Man took Qinglin after she formed a contract with the serpent, while Xiao Le stayed behind and collapsed into the arms of someone familiar as two approaching figures neared.

• Xiao Le handed Qinglin to Hai Bodong and attacked the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor with fused lightning, breaking his arm in the clash.
• Xiao Le hurled a compressed orb of three-colored lightning at the serpent, and Xiao Yan followed with a lotus attack made from Bone Chilling Spirit Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan collapsed after the lotus blast, and Xiao Le caught him before the wounded Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor surrendered.
• Green Man urged Qinglin to form a contract with the serpent, then left with her after the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils appeared.
• Xiao Le sent Hai Bodong away with Xiao Yan and said he would wait for his brother in the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Le's lightning wings withdrew, and he fell from the sky until he landed in a familiar softness.

After recovering from his battle with the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, Xiao Le concealed the truth from Yun Yun and Jia Xingtian. At the imperial palace, he gave Yao Ye an incomplete cultivation technique from Beast Venerable, and the chapter ended as someone arrived with an Alchemist Guild invitation for him.

• Xiao Le woke in an inn room with Yun Yun beside him, and he told her a half-truth about being caught in the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor's battle.
• Yun Yun left after arranging for maids to care for Xiao Le, and Jia Xingtian appeared and questioned him about her visit.
• Xiao Le convinced Jia Xingtian that Yun Zhi was only a friend, then agreed to recover at the imperial palace and was placed in Yao Ye's side palace.
• Beast Venerable praised Yao Ye's talent, and Xiao Le gave her an incomplete cultivation technique as a test for a possible apprenticeship.
• Yao Ye studied the technique, which could refine a Magic Beast's beast soul into the body, until someone outside announced that the Alchemist Guild had sent Xiao Le an invitation.

After recovering from his injuries, Xiao Le reunited with Xiao Yan and obtained the Spirit Fusion Pill formula before returning to the valley with Yun Yun. There he reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and agreed to travel with her and Granny Yin to the Chu Yun Empire, where he still had a matter to settle.

• Xiao Le received Fama's invitation to the Alchemist Grand Meeting and declared that he would obtain the Spirit Fusion Pill formula, though he could not compete in his injured state.
• Xiao Le recovered in the palace while Yao Ye stayed by him and Yao Yue sought his alchemy guidance; the meeting ended with Yan Xiao as champion.
• After bidding Yao Ye farewell, Xiao Le met Xiao Yan at an inn, and Xiao Yan gave him the Spirit Fusion Pill formula and the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill formula.
• On a full moon night, Xiao Le traveled with Yun Yun to the valley, where they encountered Granny Yin and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained her growing poison power and her decision to join Granny Yin in the Chu Yun Empire, and Xiao Le agreed to go with them before seeking Yun Yun again.

Xiao Le, Xiao Yi Xian, and Granny Yin visited the Alchemist Guild to ask Fama to protect Xiao Yan and help refine a pill for refining Heavenly Flames. After two failed attempts, Fama successfully refined the pill on his final try.

• Xiao Le, Xiao Yi Xian, and Granny Yin arrived in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital and went to the Alchemist Guild to see Fama.
• Xiao Le asked Fama to protect Xiao Yan and refine a pill that could assist with refining Heavenly Flames, and Fama agreed to prepare a Tidal Heart-Protecting Pill.
• Fama invited Xiao Le to observe his pill refinement and began making the pill with three sets of materials.
• Fama failed twice during the fusion stage, then studied his mistakes while Xiao Le observed his techniques.
• Fama stabilized the medicinal ingredients on his final attempt, and the pill took shape in the cauldron.

Xiao Le escorted Xiao Yi Xian to the declining Poison Sect in Heavenly Poison City, where the sect’s upcoming Poison Tournament offered a chance to regain influence. He agreed to compete in one round and prepared a poison sample using Xiao Yi Xian’s blood, leaving to develop a way to help the sect win.

• Xiao Le thanked Fama after receiving a medicinal pill and asked him to protect his Third Brother before leaving.
• Xiao Le, Xiao Yi Xian, and Senior Yin arrived at Heavenly Poison City and found the Poison Sect’s residence dilapidated and its remaining members elderly.
• Senior Yin introduced Xiao Yi Xian as the Poison Sect’s successor, then explained that the Poison Tournament determined seats on the Poison Alliance’s elder council.
• Xiao Le offered to win one tournament round using a poison-attributed lightning seed made with Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous blood and his alchemy skills.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Xiao Le a bottle of her blood infused with poison-attributed Dou Qi, and Xiao Le sealed it with Green Lotus Core Thunder.

Xiao Le learned the old woman’s poison-refining methods and used his alchemy skills and Calamity Poison Lightning to refine poisons. After successfully extracting and fusing toxic agents, he formed a polished black poison pill that carried a trace of Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body aura.

• The old woman explained poison masters’ refining methods and warned Xiao Le that poison contests required injecting poison through Dou Qi.
• The old woman opened the library to Xiao Le, provided poison materials, and gave him fifth-tier poison master experience.
• Xiao Le failed his first attempt, then studied how to extract venom and refined the poisonous insects and other materials into pure poison.
• Xiao Le used Calamity Poison Lightning to fuse the toxic agents, adjusting its toxic output when the mixture became unstable.
• Xiao Le tempered the fused poison into a smooth black pill and sensed a trace of Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body aura within it.

Xiao Le and Xiao Yi Xian helped the Poison Sect advance through the Poison Alliance competition, reaching the top six. Their next opponent was the powerful Thousand Absolutes Sect, which had long threatened to destroy the Poison Sect.

• Xiao Le finished refining poisons after ten days, and the old woman brought him and Xiao Yi Xian to the Poison Alliance competition.
• The Poison Sect's participant explained that the Thousand Absolutes Sect and its leader, Qiu Feng, had long threatened the Poison Sect, while Qiu Lin provoked them at the venue.
• Yi Qiushui opened the competition with a poison-mist screening, and Xiao Le and Xiao Yi Xian endured it while their teammate collapsed.
• Xiao Le, Xiao Yi Xian, and their teammate won their matches and advanced into the top six, bringing the old woman to tears.
• The final draw paired the Poison Sect against the Thousand Absolutes Sect.

Xiao Le and Xiao Yi Xian faced the Thousand Absolutes Sect in the poison contest, where Xiao Yi Xian defeated her opponent and Xiao Le fought Qiu Lin. With both fighters poisoned and the match at a deadlock, Xiao Le used the Heavenly Demon Evil Lightning to unleash a dangerous stored poison on Qiu Lin.

• The Poison Sect drew the Thousand Absolutes Sect as its opponents, and the young man on its team quickly forfeited the first match.
• Xiao Yi Xian poisoned her opponent and defeated him in fewer than seven exchanges, drawing Qiu Feng's attention.
• Qiu Lin poisoned Xiao Le with Bone-Eroding Profound Life Powder, but Xiao Le struck back with his own poisons and Calamity Poison Lightning.
• Qiu Lin used a Profound Mulberry Leaf to recover, then blinded Xiao Le with an eye-targeting poison and landed several more attacks.
• With his poisons running low and his condition worsening, Xiao Le activated the Heavenly Demon Evil Lightning and struck Qiu Lin with Purple Resentment, All-Pervading Malevolence.

After Xiao Le killed Qiu Lin in the Poison Tournament, the Poison Sect secured an elder’s seat, and Xiao Le prepared for the final battles by selecting powerful poisons to refine. When the necessary Insect-Chanting Rock Essence proved to belong to the formidable Gu Sect, Granny Yin resolved to seek it from them.

• The referee confirmed that Qiu Lin had died from poison, and Yi Qiushui upheld the arena rules as the Poison Sect advanced to the final three.
• Xiao Le returned to the Poison Sect with Xiao Yi Xian, reassured that the Thousand Absolutes Sect would not openly attack them.
• Xiao Le reviewed the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and chose poisons to prepare for the tournament’s remaining battles.
• Xiao Le and Xiao Yi Xian gave Granny Yin a list of materials, and the elders identified Insect-Chanting Rock Essence as a rare ingredient held by the Gu Sect.
• Granny Yin explained the Gu Sect’s strength and gu-insect techniques, then resolved to ask them for the Insect-Chanting Rock Essence.