Chapter Summaries

Wu Yan assessed the people around him, expanded Mittel’s network of Spatial Wormholes, and left its alliances to Teng Shan. Medusa Queen found the Green Lotus Core Flame and returned injured, where Wu Yan discovered she had obtained the Heavenly Flame.

• Wu Yan decided to stand by Wu Yue after her quarrel with Gu Xun'er and judged the Nalan Clan elder by his actions.
• Wu Yan watched Wu Yue and Gu Xun'er leave to play, then spent time with Ya Fei.
• Wu Yan and Teng Shan planned Spatial Wormholes linking key cities in the Mittel Empire.
• Medusa Queen found the Green Lotus Core Flame in the magma and claimed it as hers.
• Wu Yan completed the Spatial Wormholes and let Teng Shan arrange an alliance between Mittel and the Heavenly Serpent Mansion.
• Wu Yan found Medusa Queen soaking in his healing pool with burns from the Heavenly Flame and asked if she had found it.

Wu Yan helped Medusa Queen undergo a dangerous bloodline evolution by exposing her to the Green Lotus Core Flame and protecting her from the resulting heavenly tribulation. The chapter ended with Wu Yan’s icy vines capturing both the lightning and the dark clouds above the Sacred Mountain.

• Medusa Queen asked Wu Yan to help her use the Green Lotus Core Flame to break through her bloodline shackles and reach Dou Zong.
• Wu Yan sent Medusa Queen back to the Sacred Mountain through a Void Passage and agreed to help her three days later.
• Wu Yan froze the Green Lotus Core Flame, moved it and Medusa Queen to the mountain summit, then released the flame for her evolution.
• Medusa Queen transformed into a giant purple snake and plunged into the Green Lotus Core Flame, which burned her nearly to death before Wu Yan restored her life force.
• A heavenly tribulation gathered above the Sacred Mountain, and Wu Yan’s icy vines seized the lightning bolt and the black clouds.

Wu Yan helped the Medusa Queen survive her transformation into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and discovered that spiritual energy had begun merging with his Dou Qi. After checking on Peace City, he asked Gu He to refine a Spirit Fusion Pill to help the Medusa Queen fuse with the soul inside her.

• Wu Yan froze the heavenly lightning and watched the Medusa Queen emerge from her shed skin as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• The Medusa Queen thanked Wu Yan, and he told her to stabilize her realm before arranging a pill to help her fuse with the soul inside her.
• After Wu Yan left, the Medusa Queen saw the frozen lightning and clouds, then knelt in devotion to him.
• Wu Yan discovered a trace of spiritual energy fused with his Dou Qi and realized the Spirit Liquid from the Little Blue Bottle might have caused it.
• Wu Yan checked Peace City's progress and traveled to the capital, where he asked Gu He to refine a sixth-grade Spirit Fusion Pill; Gu He agreed to try.

Wu Yan assigned the Sea Heart Flame to Cao Ping and promised the Green Lotus Core Flame to Gu He as a reward for advancing to Dou Emperor. After cultivating with an eighth-rank pill refined by the Little Blue Bottle, Wu Yan emerged as a Two-Star Dou Zun, with his soul strength nearing the Middle Spirit Realm.

• Wu Yan promised Gu He the Green Lotus Core Flame after Gu He refined a Spirit Fusion Pill for Medusa Queen and advanced to Dou Emperor.
• Wu Yan returned to the Jia Ma Empire and decided to give the Sea Heart Flame to Cao Ping to strengthen his ties with the Cao Clan.
• Wu Yan used the Little Blue Bottle to refine an eighth-rank pill into Energy Liquid and cultivated for more than ten days.
• Wu Yan broke through to Two-Star Dou Zun and found that the Little Blue Bottle had produced more Spirit Liquid.
• Wu Yan refined a bottle of Spirit Liquid in two and a half hours, bringing his soul strength close to the Middle Spirit Realm, then left the quiet room to adapt to his strength.

Wu Yan settled into the strength of his breakthrough as the Mittel Clan continued to prosper under his protection. In Wutan City, the Xiao Clan rose to dominance, while Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er each turned their attention to cultivation and distant goals.

• Wu Yan told Ya Fei that Yun Shan could cultivate the two Earth Tier techniques and Dou Skills, then enjoyed a peaceful period focused on cultivation.
• The Mittel Clan grew stronger with support from the Heavenly Serpent Mansion, and Wu Yan turned twenty-six without facing challenges from other factions.
• A mysterious alchemist helped the Xiao Clan defeat the Jia Lie Clan and make the Ao Ba Clan yield, leaving the Xiao Clan in control of Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan spoke with Yao Chen about registering for Jia Nan Academy and later searching the Tager Desert for Heavenly Flames, then exchanged brief greetings with Gu Xun'er.
• Gu Xun'er reflected that she had caught up to Wu Yan's cultivation at age fifteen and wondered whether she could reach Dou Wang at sixteen.

Gu Xun'er compared her talent with Wu Yan’s and resolved to work harder, while Wu Yan found a timid girl in a desert city and brought her to the Mittel Clan as his sworn little sister. The girl learned that Wu Yan ruled the empires and was told she could call him her brother.

• Gu Xun'er reflected on Wu Yan’s extraordinary cultivation and decided to treat him as a goal that would spur her to cultivate.
• Ling Ying recalled how Wu Yan had risen from a One-Star Dou Emperor to a Dou Zun while he remained an 8-Star Dou Emperor.
• Wu Yan reassured a timid little girl in a desert city and asked her to help him.
• The little girl accepted Wu Yan’s hand, and he took her away from the city.
• Wu Yan introduced himself as the ruler of the empires and declared that the Mittel Clan was her home and she was his sworn little sister.

Wu Yan settled Qing Lin into his estate before traveling to Cao City to meet the Cao Clan. He gave Cao Ping the Sea Heart Flame and helped him begin refining it, while Wu Yan’s most important business with the clan elders remained ahead.

• Ya Fei welcomed Qing Lin to the estate, where the girl settled into a comfortable new life with Wu Yan and Ya Fei.
• Wu Yan left for the Central Plains after reassuring Qing Lin and Ya Fei, and arrived in Cao City a month later.
• Cao Ping greeted Wu Yan and learned that he had brought the Sea Heart Flame for him.
• Wu Yan unsealed the Sea Heart Flame and instructed Cao Ping to drink chilled water before swallowing and refining it.
• Cao Ping swallowed the Sea Heart Flame, and the ice water protected his body as he began refining the flame into his Naling Space.

Wu Yan returned to the Cao Clan and revealed that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Zun in just one year, then sealed a thirty-year agreement for the clan’s eighth-rank alchemy grandmasters to refine pills for him. Cao Yuan gave Wu Yan a Heaven Tier cultivation technique and several Dou Skills, while Cao Ping asked his grandfather to identify the red cauldron.

• Cao Ping showed Wu Yan the red medicine cauldron, and Wu Yan asked him to bring it to Cao Yuan for identification.
• Wu Yan told Cao Yuan he had reached Nine-Star Dou Zun and released a trace of his aura, shocking Cao Yuan and Cao Ping.
• Cao Yuan agreed that the Cao Clan’s eighth-rank alchemy grandmasters would refine pills for Wu Yan for thirty years, and they sealed the agreement with three palm strikes.
• Wu Yan asked for a Heaven Tier cultivation technique, and Cao Yuan gave him a mid-grade Heaven Tier technique, two Heaven Tier Dou Skills, and two high-grade Earth Tier Dou Skills.
• Cao Ping showed Cao Yuan the red medicine cauldron, and Cao Yuan recognized it as the Myriad Beast Cauldron and asked where Cao Ping had obtained it.

Cao Ping and Cao Yuan showed off their Heavenly Flames while Cao Yuan assured Wu Yan that the Cao Clan had prepared the pills he requested. After leaving Cao City with many pills, Wu Yan hunted Tier 8 Magical Beasts in the Beast Region, then withdrew before the Warcraft Clan's experts could find him.

• Cao Ping revealed his Sea Heart Flame, and Cao Yuan showed off his Myriad Beast Flame.
• Cao Yuan told Wu Yan that the Cao Clan had prepared pills to extend lifespans and improve aptitude.
• Cao Ping guided Wu Yan around Cao City, and Wu Yan left five days later with more than a hundred jade bottles in his Storage Ring.
• Wu Yan ambushed and killed a Tier 8 Sky-Tailed Scorpion, then continued hunting Tier 8 Magical Beasts for their Magic Cores.
• Wu Yan sensed High-Level Dou Zuns approaching, concealed his aura, and left before they could find him.
• Wu Yan considered the Ancient Void Dragon Clan's powerful old dragon and planned to make use of his Tier 8 loot and Qing Lin's ability to manage snake-type Magical Beasts.

Wu Yan returned home, rewarded Ya Fei and his elders with life-extending and cultivation-enhancing pills, and gave Ya Fei Tier 8 Magical Beast materials to manage. After learning Medusa Queen had received the Spirit Fusion Pill and was advancing, Ya Fei planned to update the Mittel Clan’s stance toward the Serpent-Human Tribe.

• Wu Yan returned and reunited with Qing Lin before relaxing with Ya Fei and her.
• Wu Yan gave Ya Fei a pill that extended her lifespan, gave two elders and Luo Su lifespan-extending pills, and kept the remaining pills.
• Ya Fei broke through to Nine-Star Dou Zhe and learned Wu Yan had secretly given her an Eighth-Rank Six-Colored Pill Lightning First Origin Pill.
• Wu Yan handed Ya Fei a Storage Ring containing materials from Tier 8 Magical Beasts and told her to arrange their handling.
• Ya Fei learned that Medusa Queen had received the Spirit Fusion Pill and was expected to become a Dou Zong, so she planned to discuss the Serpent-Human Tribe’s status with Teng Shan.

Wu Yan mastered the Icebound True Formula while Xiao Yan learned that Wu Yan had become a Dou Zun and considered the challenge of catching up to him. At Jia Nan Academy's recruitment, Xiao Yan revealed his strength as a sixteen-year-old two-star Dou Shi, before Gu Xun'er registered as a five-star Dou Ling.

• Wu Yan stored four Dou Techniques and began cultivating the Heaven Tier Icebound True Formula, becoming proficient in it within days.
• Yao Chen explained to Xiao Yan that Dou Zun cultivation was difficult and that the Flame Mantra gave him a chance to catch up to Wu Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Jia Nan Academy and the Tager Desert had Heavenly Flames, and Yao Chen confirmed the academy had one but could not confirm the desert's.
• Xiao Yan defeated jealous senior students who challenged him at the recruitment tent.
• Ruo Lin recorded Xiao Yan as a sixteen-year-old two-star Dou Shi, drawing gasps from the students.
• Gu Xun'er registered as a fifteen-year-old five-star Dou Ling.

Ruo Lin discovered that Gu Xun'er was a fifteen-year-old Five-Star Dou Spirit and regarded her as a potential legend, while Xiao Yan requested a year of leave. As Ruo Lin recounted the formidable deeds of the famed Dou Zun to the Xiao Clan youths, they realized how far beyond them he stood.

• Ruo Lin was stunned to learn Gu Xun'er was a fifteen-year-old Five-Star Dou Spirit and praised her as a possible successor to the academy's legendary graduate.
• Xiao Yan asked Ruo Lin for about a year of leave, and she reluctantly agreed after warning him that traveling alone was dangerous.
• Xiao Yu brought Ruo Lin toward the Xiao Clan, where Xiao Mei asked whether the famed Dou Zun would personally target the weak.
• Ruo Lin described how the Dou Zun defeated the Inner Academy's strongest student and killed a Seven-Star Dou Zong from Demon Flame Valley.
• The Xiao Clan youths were relieved to hear that the Dou Zun generally fought only the strong, while Ruo Lin concluded that none of them could challenge him.

After completing his first refinement, Wu Yan tested eighth-tier energy liquid and discovered that it enhanced vitality, which could indirectly extend his life. He reunited with Wu Yue and Qing Lin, then urged his sister to focus on cultivation and assured her that his strength would protect her.

• Wu Yan completed his first refinement, drank a Spirit Liquid, and tested energy liquid made from an eighth-tier ice-attribute Magic Core.
• Wu Yan learned that eighth-tier energy liquid enhanced vitality, helping recovery and potentially extending lifespan, and consumed the remaining eighth-tier Magic Cores.
• Wu Yan left his quiet room and reunited with Wu Yue, who had returned two days earlier, and Qing Lin.
• Wu Yue welcomed Qing Lin as her little sister, and Wu Yan checked Wu Yue's cultivation, finding her at seven-star Dou Shi.
• Wu Yan told Wu Yue to prioritize cultivation and explained that strength determined how people defined reason, promising to protect her on the Northwestern Continent.

Wu Yan explained the Dou Qi Continent’s faction rankings and revealed that his Half-Saint strength put him far above the Northwestern Continent’s powers. After Wu Yue and Qing Lin left to deliver his message, Wu Yan reunited with Yun Yun and Ya Fei, and Yun Yun bristled at his blunt reminder that she could not match him.

• Wu Yan took Wu Yue and Qing Lin to a pavilion and explained how factions were ranked by their strongest experts and numbers.
• Wu Yue guessed that Wu Yan outmatched the Northwestern Continent’s super factions, and Qing Lin agreed that he was the strongest.
• Wu Yan described Half-Saint, Battle Saint, and hegemon factions, while privately admitting he relied on caution and planned to grow stronger before taking major risks.
• Wu Yan replenished the life energy in his sisters’ bracelets and sent them to tell their teacher he was out.
• Yun Yun arrived with Ya Fei and remarked that Wu Yan looked younger; he attributed it to his cultivation and noted that she had reached 9-Star Dou Emperor.
• Yun Yun questioned how much their power gap had grown, and Wu Yan said she had never been able to take one of his moves, angering her.

Wu Yan visited the Serpent-Human Tribe’s Sacred Mountain with Ya Fei and Yun Yun, where they met the Medusa Queen and learned how her transformation was progressing. The three women grew closer while Wu Yan waited apart, and the group reunited before leaving.

• Yun Yun told Wu Yan that her teacher wanted to meet him, and he agreed to go with her in a couple of days.
• Ya Fei asked Wu Yan to take her and Yun Yun to the Serpent-Human Tribe’s Sacred Mountain, and he opened a Void Passage for them.
• Yun Yun marveled at the Extreme Cold Glacier and the frozen lightning from Medusa’s tribulation as Wu Yan explained that he had helped Medusa advance.
• The Medusa Queen told Wu Yan that the medicinal pill had helped her will take the lead in their fusion and that she would complete it in a few months.
• Ya Fei and Yun Yun spoke with the Medusa Queen while Wu Yan waited alone, then Ya Fei and the queen reluctantly said goodbye when he returned.

Wu Yan reflected on the hardship and suffering of ordinary people, recalled his lonely death in his previous life, and tested his Heaven Realm soul. Meanwhile, Ya Fei and Yun Yun questioned Medusa Queen about love, and Medusa Queen turned the question back on them.

• Wu Yan observed ordinary people struggling to survive and cultivate, then remembered his helpless final days in his previous life.
• Wu Yan shattered the vision, consumed the Spirit Liquid from the Little Blue Bottle, and spread his soul power across thousands of miles to test his Heaven Realm soul.
• Ya Fei admired Medusa Queen's transformed legs, and Medusa Queen explained that bloodline evolution had been dangerous without Wu Yan's help.
• Yun Yun and Ya Fei teased Medusa Queen about repeatedly calling Wu Yan her lord and asked whether she liked him.
• Medusa Queen said she had never considered romance because she had spent her life fighting to protect her people, then asked Yun Yun and Ya Fei what falling for a man felt like.

Ya Fei explained the signs of liking someone to Medusa Queen and Yun Yun, who both avoided revealing whom they had in mind. The next day, Yun Shan told Wu Yan that a Soul Hall Protector had helped him break through to Dou Zong and recruited him, and Wu Yan ordered Yun Shan to warn the Protector that the region was his territory.

• Ya Fei described falling in love and urged Medusa Queen and Yun Yun to think of a man who made them feel that way, but both stayed silent.
• Medusa Queen fled after Ya Fei suggested asking Brother Xiao Yan to send her home, while Yun Yun stayed because of her agreement with him.
• Wu Yan sent Yun Yun and her two disciples back to the Misty Cloud Sect, then met with Yun Shan.
• Yun Shan revealed that a Soul Hall Protector had helped him reach Dou Zong and given him Dou Skills in exchange for his service.
• Wu Yan told Yun Shan to warn the Protector that he must notify Wu Yan's people before entering the region again.

Wu Yan continued cultivating, confident that Soul Hall would take years to learn of its Protectors’ deaths and investigate him. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan gathered materials and traveled into the Tager Desert to pursue the Heavenly Flame, while Yao Chen prepared for the possibility that Medusa Queen had already given it to Wu Yan.

• Wu Yan reasoned that Soul Hall's slow chain of command and his rapid cultivation would give him years before its leaders could confront him, then returned to cultivating in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan obtained his alchemist certification and gathered Ice Spirit Cold Spring and a third-tier Magic Core from the Alchemist Association.
• Xiao Yan and his brothers found an underground passage to the magma, where Xiao Yan saw the empty Green Lotus Platform and scattered scales.
• Xiao Yan's brothers warned him that the Serpent-Human Tribe and Medusa Queen were protected by Wu Yan, but Xiao Yan insisted on searching for the Heavenly Flame.
• Two days later, Xiao Yan set out for the depths of the Tager Desert while Yao Chen prepared for the possibility that Medusa Queen had offered the Heavenly Flame to Wu Yan.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen reached the Serpent-Human Holy City's Sacred Mountain, where they discovered evidence of Wu Yan's power and decided to avoid confronting him. Meanwhile, Wu Yan prepared to attend the Alchemist Tournament and considered his cultivation, alliances, and connection with Gu Xun'er.

• Xiao Yan cultivated in the desert for months before Yao Chen concealed him and brought him to the Sacred Mountain.
• Yao Chen spotted Medusa Queen flying away and sensed a frozen Lightning Tribulation atop the mountain, then resolved to keep clear of Wu Yan.
• Yao Chen planned for Xiao Yan to enter the upcoming Alchemist Tournament under another name so they could use the Alchemist Association to arrange a trade.
• Wu Yan agreed to attend the largest Alchemist Tournament yet, and Ya Fei told him Gu He had announced his breakthrough to the Dou Emperor realm.
• Wu Yan remembered his promise to reward Gu He with the Green Lotus Core Flame and reflected on his cultivation, the Mittel Clan's alliances, and reconnecting with Gu Xun'er.

Wu Yan decided to give Gu Xun'er a valuable map of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame and wondered why he could not explain its significance directly. At Jia Nan Academy, Gu Xun'er defeated Zi Yan, while Wu Yan helped Gu He refine the Green Lotus Core Flame before meeting Yun Yun again.

• Wu Yan chose to give Gu Xun'er the three-quarters-complete Pure Lotus Demon Flame Remnant Map as a coming-of-age gift and realized he could tell her what it was.
• Gu Xun'er defeated Zi Yan in the Inner Academy arena, prompting the elders to adjust the Power Ranking and the Grand Elder to remain unsurprised.
• Wu Yan gave Gu He ice water and the origin seed of the Green Lotus Core Flame, allowing Gu He to refine the Heavenly Flame and thank him.
• Yun Yun arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect, congratulated Gu He on breaking through to Dou Emperor, and invited Wu Yan to have tea.