Recaps

Medusa decided not to flee, hoping Lu Xia could help her break through to Dou Zong despite her resentment at being his maid. Lu Xia stormed the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s base to retrieve a maid, knocking out the guards and mercenaries before confronting Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.

• Medusa abandoned her plan to run and resolved to wait for a chance to break through to Dou Zong and settle the score with Lu Xia.
• Lu Xia reached the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s base and knocked out its two guards with poison gas.
• Lu Xia incapacitated the mercenaries in the courtyard with poisonous mist and continued toward the inner hall.
• Xiao Ding and Xiao Li left the hall to investigate the commotion and found Lu Xia among their unconscious men.
• Lu Xia told Xiao Ding he had come to take a maid, and Xiao Li challenged his reason for attacking the group.

Lu Xia identified Qinglin, a mistreated maid with the rare Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, among the Desert Iron Mercenary Group’s servants. He invited her to leave with him and promised to protect and train her, and Qinglin began to trust him.

• Xiao Ding stopped Xiao Li from attacking Lu Xia and offered to gather the maids so Lu Xia could find the person he sought.
• Xiao Li summoned the maids from the rear courtyard, where Qinglin had been forced to wash clothes by a supervising woman.
• Lu Xia recognized Qinglin’s special bloodline and approached her at the end of the maids’ line.
• Lu Xia named Qinglin, examined her jade-green eyes, and identified her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Lu Xia told Qinglin she was not ill-omened and invited her to come with him, promising to protect and train her.
• Qinglin tearfully wondered whether she could trust Lu Xia, then felt she wanted to believe him.

Lu Xia took Qinglin away from the Desert Iron Mercenary Group after she agreed to leave with him. He brought her to meet Medusa at the inn, where Medusa saw the girl but remained unsure why Lu Xia had sought her out.

• Qinglin agreed to leave with Lu Xia, and Xiao Ding allowed him to take her from the mercenary group.
• Qinglin thanked Xiao Ding, then took Lu Xia's hand and left the hall with him as the maids watched enviously.
• After Lu Xia departed, Xiao Ding reassured Xiao Li that the visitor probably meant them no harm and ordered him to wake the brothers.
• Lu Xia told Qinglin to call him Brother Xia and explained that Medusa was waiting for them at the inn.
• Medusa opened the inn room door, saw Lu Xia holding Qinglin's hand, and wondered whether the girl was the person he had come to find.

Lu Xia introduced Qinglin to Medusa, who discovered the girl carried Snake-People blood and reacted with reluctant warmth. The next morning, Lu Xia prepared to activate Qinglin’s dormant bloodline, leaving Medusa to guard the room as he brought Qinglin inside.

• Lu Xia introduced Qinglin to Medusa and called Medusa his maid, angering her.
• Qinglin admired Medusa’s beauty, then became upset when she saw Medusa’s snake tail and remembered her own heritage.
• Lu Xia comforted Qinglin and told Medusa that Qinglin had Snake-People blood and was the girl he had come to find.
• Medusa sensed Qinglin’s unusual bloodline but concealed her identity as the Snake-People queen.
• The next morning, Lu Xia told Medusa to guard the room while he activated Qinglin’s bloodline, then brought Qinglin with him.

Lu Xia used the Green Lotus Core Flame to awaken Qinglin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, enduring the painful process with her until the bloodline emerged. Qinglin collapsed afterward, while Medusa learned what power had awakened and reacted with shock.

• Lu Xia warned Qinglin that awakening her dormant power would be painful, and she agreed to endure it.
• Lu Xia guided the Green Lotus Core Flame through Qinglin’s body, increasing its intensity when her bloodline showed little response.
• Qinglin endured the pain as her Snake-People bloodline awakened, revealing jade-green flower patterns in her eyes and a force that suppressed serpentine bloodlines.
• Medusa sensed the bloodline suppression outside the room but stayed by the door rather than interrupting Lu Xia.
• Lu Xia stabilized Qinglin’s bloodline, put her to bed after she fainted, and told Medusa that Qinglin had awakened the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Medusa recognized the legendary bloodline and reacted in shock.

Qinglin awakened the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and rapidly grew stronger, so Lu Xia prepared to leave Stone Desert City with her and Medusa. Outside the city, he revealed a seemingly dead Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake as Qinglin’s gift and began reviving it.

• Qinglin woke up at Nine-Star Dou Zhe and discovered her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils had begun to awaken.
• Lu Xia explained Qinglin’s new abilities and told her to summon Medusa so they could leave Stone Desert City.
• Medusa noticed Qinglin’s awakened bloodline and advised her to cultivate well.
• Lu Xia led Qinglin and Medusa beyond Stone Desert City and revealed the unconscious Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake as Qinglin’s meeting gift.
• Lu Xia sent Dou Qi into the snake, promising to turn the dead snake into a living one.

Lu Xia revived a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake with a poison that induced suspended death and helped Qinglin tame it with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils. As Lu Xia, Qinglin, and Medusa continued through the desert, the Snake-People Tribe's Third Elder and four clansmen found them, and the Third Elder mistook Medusa's situation for human sorcery.

• Lu Xia explained that he had placed the weakened Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake in suspended death and told Qinglin to tame it.
• Qinglin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control the snake, named it Little Flame, and stored it in her eyes' exclusive space.
• Lu Xia led Qinglin and Medusa onward through the desert while his Dou Zong perception monitored their surroundings.
• After two or three hours, Lu Xia noticed approaching Snake-People Tribe members and said they had come for Medusa.
• The Third Elder arrived with four Dou Wang clansmen, accused Lu Xia of abducting Medusa, and prepared to attack him.
• Medusa ordered the Third Elder to stop, but he insisted Lu Xia had used vile sorcery to control her and vowed to rescue her.

Lu Xia subdued the Snake-People Tribe's Third Elder and helped Medusa secure his departure before traveling with Medusa and Qinglin out of the Tagor Desert. At their rest stop, Lu Xia decided that Sky Serpent Mansion could give Qinglin the cultivation technique and inheritance best suited to her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.

• Lu Xia pressed the hostile Third Elder to the ground with his Dou Zong aura, then relented after Medusa pleaded for mercy.
• Medusa ordered the Third Elder to tell the First Elder that she was safe and would leave with Lu Xia, who would help her break through to Dou Zong.
• Qinglin learned that Medusa was the Snake-People Queen, and Medusa thanked Lu Xia for sparing the Third Elder.
• Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin traveled to the edge of the Tagor Desert and stopped to rest.
• Lu Xia considered Qinglin's lack of a suitable cultivation technique and resolved to take her to Sky Serpent Mansion for its Sky Serpent Art and Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils inheritance.

Lu Xia decided to travel to the Black-Corner Region to obtain Han Feng’s Sea Heart Flame, help Medusa evolve her bloodline, and strengthen their position before taking Qinglin to Sky Serpent Mansion. After sharing a meal by the campfire, the three had grown closer as they prepared for the journey.

• Lu Xia chose the Black-Corner Region as their next destination because Han Feng possessed the Sea Heart Flame, which could help Medusa evolve and further temper Lu Xia’s Poison Dao Spirit Body.
• Lu Xia briefly worried about Xiao Yi Xian and whether she had gone to Wu Tian Manor to find Dugu Mei.
• Lu Xia told Qinglin and Medusa they were heading to the Black-Corner Region, then promised Medusa he would help her break through to Dou Zong.
• Medusa was surprised that Lu Xia had remembered his promise, though she quickly hid her softened feelings behind her usual haughty manner.
• Lu Xia lit a campfire, and Qinglin roasted meat that Medusa eventually ate with them, bringing the three closer.

Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin traveled east to Ghost Suppression Pass, where Qinglin broke through to One-Star Dou Master. After they left the inn and rejoined the crowded streets, they encountered a group led by a woman in a blue-green gown, and someone in the group addressed Xun'er.

• Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin traveled east through Black Rock City and reached Ghost Suppression Pass.
• Qinglin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils stirred her dou qi, so Lu Xia decided they would stay for her breakthrough.
• Qinglin successfully broke through to One-Star Dou Master while Lu Xia and Medusa watched over her.
• Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin left the inn and walked through Ghost Suppression Pass.
• They encountered a group led by a woman in a blue-green gown, and someone in the group called out to Xun'er about the lively streets.

Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin crossed into the Black-Corner Region and reached Black Mark City while searching for Han Feng’s Feng City. After buying a map, Lu Xia found Feng City’s direction and prepared to continue their journey.

• Lu Xia recognized Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment party, including Xiao Xun'er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mei, as the group passed through Ghost Suppression Pass.
• Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin left the Jia Ma Empire and traveled east through several small nations, with Lu Xia helping Qinglin strengthen her Dou Master realm and learn Dou Techniques.
• After half a month, the three reached the Black Region Great Plain and set out to find Han Feng’s Feng City, whose exact location Lu Xia did not know.
• The group crossed the dangerous plain and arrived at Black Mark City, where Lu Xia recalled the famous Black Mark Auction House.
• Lu Xia bought a detailed map of the Black-Corner Region and located Feng City’s direction from Black Mark City.

Lu Xia took Qinglin and Medusa to the Black Mark Auction House, where he bought two Netherworld Flowers and used one to cultivate through the night. The next day, Qinglin worried when Lu Xia did not leave his room, but Medusa sensed that he was safe and deeply cultivating.

• Lu Xia suggested that they rest in Black Mark City and visit its auction house, and Qinglin and Medusa agreed.
• Lu Xia, Qinglin, and Medusa attended the auction, where Lu Xia bought two Netherworld Flowers for thirty thousand gold coins.
• After returning to the inn, Lu Xia absorbed one Netherworld Flower while cultivating the Nine Revolutions Poison Art.
• When Lu Xia did not emerge from his room by noon, Qinglin sought Medusa's help.
• Medusa sensed that Lu Xia was in deep cultivation and reassured Qinglin that he was safe.

Lu Xia broke through to Three-Star Dou Zong, then traveled with Medusa and Qinglin to Feng City, where they learned Han Feng was preparing to refine a seventh-grade pill. After night fell, Lu Xia slipped out alone and infiltrated Han Feng’s heavily guarded Emerald Jade Bamboo Forest.

• Lu Xia refined the Netherworld Flower’s medicinal power and broke through to Three-Star Dou Zong while Medusa kept watch nearby.
• Lu Xia thanked Medusa for watching over him, then told her and Qinglin that they would continue their journey to Feng City.
• Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin reached Feng City and heard that Han Feng was soon going to refine a seventh-grade pill.
• Lu Xia booked rooms at an inn, settled Qinglin and Medusa in, and waited until midnight.
• Lu Xia silently bypassed the formations and guards around Emerald Jade Bamboo Forest and entered Han Feng’s residence.

Lu Xia captured Han Feng in Feng City and brought him to a secluded valley, where he killed him and seized the Sea Heart Flame. With Medusa’s cultivation restored to Dou Emperor Peak, Lu Xia prepared to help her evolve her bloodline after returning to inform Qinglin.

• Lu Xia broke into Han Feng’s pill-refining chamber and subdued him with one strike.
• Lu Xia knocked Han Feng unconscious, carried him back to the inn, and showed him to Medusa.
• Lu Xia restored Medusa’s cultivation to Dou Emperor Peak, and they left Feng City with Han Feng.
• In a secluded valley, Lu Xia killed Han Feng and trapped the Sea Heart Flame as it tried to escape.
• Lu Xia put away the Sea Heart Flame and told Medusa to prepare herself while he returned to inform Qinglin.

Lu Xia guided Medusa through a dangerous Sea Heart Flame tempering to awaken her bloodline and help her break into the Dou Zong realm. Medusa evolved into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python while retaining her memories, and Lu Xia congratulated her.

• Lu Xia returned to the inn and told Qinglin that he and Medusa would be away for a few days, and Qinglin agreed to wait for them.
• Lu Xia led Medusa to a secluded underground cavern and explained that he would control the Sea Heart Flame during her evolution.
• Lu Xia used the Sea Heart Flame to temper Medusa, awakening and transforming her Purple Nether Flame Snake bloodline.
• Medusa's bloodline evolved into that of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and she broke through to the One-Star Dou Zong realm.
• Medusa's body collapsed into a palm-sized seven-colored snake, but her soul and memories remained intact, and Lu Xia congratulated her.

Medusa evolved into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and broke through to Dou Zong while Lu Xia prepared to refine the Sea Heart Flame. When Medusa tried to ambush him and escape, Lu Xia easily defeated and bound her.

• Medusa completed her evolution into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and advanced to Dou Zong.
• Lu Xia began preparing to refine the Sea Heart Flame as Medusa watched over the lava cave.
• Medusa considered escaping and decided to attack Lu Xia while he appeared to be refining the flame.
• Lu Xia revealed that he had been watching her, blocked her strike, and subdued her with a Dou Qi chain.
• Lu Xia told Medusa that even at her peak, she would still not be his match.

Lu Xia used the Heaven-and-Earth Beast-Taming Scripture to bind Medusa to his commands, then refined the Sea Heart Flame and tempered his Woeful Poison Body. He left the cave at mid Six-Star Dou Zong, with Medusa subdued and her One-Star Dou Zong realm stabilized.

• Lu Xia cast the Heaven-and-Earth Beast-Taming Scripture on Medusa, overpowering her resistance and placing a contract mark in her soul.
• Lu Xia commanded Medusa to coil around his wrist, confirming that she had become unable to disobey him.
• Lu Xia refined the Sea Heart Flame and advanced from Three-Star Dou Zong to mid Six-Star Dou Zong.
• Lu Xia used the Green Lotus Core Flame and Sea Heart Flame to temper his body, completing the Woeful Poison Body’s second transformation and consolidating his cultivation.
• Lu Xia turned Medusa back into a small seven-colored snake and found that her One-Star Dou Zong realm had stabilized.

Lu Xia returned to Feng City after killing Han Feng and obtaining the Sea Heart Flame, while Qinglin worried that he had abandoned her and resolved to grow stronger. The chapter ended with Lu Xia knocking on Qinglin’s door the next morning as she opened it cautiously.

• Lu Xia left the lava cave with the Sea Heart Flame and returned to Feng City after confirming the city remained calm.
• Qinglin grew anxious during Lu Xia’s absence and feared that he had left her because she was weak.
• The Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake comforted Qinglin, who then decided to cultivate harder so she could help Lu Xia.
• Lu Xia sensed Qinglin cultivating, left her undisturbed, and planned to assess Jia Nan Academy before pursuing the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Lu Xia stabilized his Six-Star Dou Zong cultivation overnight and knocked on Qinglin’s door the next morning.

Lu Xia returned to Qinglin, then took her north toward Jia Nan Academy, stopping in Peace Town while he went ahead to investigate Canaan City. He entered the city disguised as a Dou Ling, leaving Qinglin to wait for him at an inn.

• Qinglin joyfully welcomed Lu Xia back and told him she had advanced to Two-Star Dou Master.
• Lu Xia showed Qinglin that Medusa had become a weakened, seven-colored little snake after completing her bloodline evolution.
• Lu Xia told Qinglin they would leave for Jia Nan Academy, and the two traveled north together while he guided her cultivation.
• Lu Xia and Qinglin reached Peace Town, where he left her at an inn before heading to Canaan City alone.
• Lu Xia concealed his aura, suppressed his cultivation to the Dou Ling level, and entered Canaan City through the guarded city gate.

Lu Xia investigated Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy but found no way into the Inner Academy, so he planned to wait for the Strong Ranking Tournament to enter. He decided to take Qinglin to the Sky Serpent Mansion for training and recruit its Dou Zong ancestor to help him obtain the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Lu Xia infiltrated Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy at night, found its treasures ordinary, and discovered no clue to the Inner Academy's location.
• Lu Xia recalled that the Inner Academy passage would open for visitors during the Strong Ranking Tournament in two months and decided to wait for that opportunity.
• Lu Xia resolved to take Qinglin to the Sky Serpent Mansion, hoping its Dou Zong ancestor would help him take the Fallen Heart Flame while Qinglin received training suited to her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Lu Xia returned to Peace Town and told Qinglin they would leave in the morning for a place where she could grow stronger.
• Lu Xia and Qinglin left Peace Town before dawn and headed north through the Black-Corner Region toward the Sky Serpent Mansion.

Lu Xia and Qinglin traveled through the snake-revering Sky Serpent Empire to the outskirts of the Entwining Snake Mountains, where the Sky Serpent Mansion was located. They waited in a cave, and Medusa awakened as a massive Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

• Lu Xia and Qinglin entered the Sky Serpent Empire through Red Serpent Pass and traveled north through its snake-themed cities and settlements.
• Qinglin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to subdue low-tier snake-type magical beasts, and Lu Xia became more certain that the Sky Serpent Mansion suited her talents.
• After half a month, Lu Xia and Qinglin reached Sky Serpent City, but Lu Xia chose to bypass it and head for the Entwining Snake Mountains while Medusa's aura stabilized.
• Lu Xia found a cave on the mountains' outskirts, where he and Qinglin waited for Medusa to awaken.
• Medusa released the pressure of a One-Star Dou Zong, transformed from a small snake into a huge Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and awakened.

Medusa completed her transformation into human form, and Lu Xia set off with her and Qinglin for Sky Serpent Mansion. At Ten Thousand Snakes Gorge, Medusa’s bloodline pressure cleared a path through the gathered venomous snakes.

• The Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python transformed into human form, and Lu Xia told Medusa to restrain her Dou Zong aura.
• Lu Xia, Medusa, and Qinglin traveled through the Entwining Snake Mountains toward Sky Serpent Mansion.
• Lu Xia explained that Ten Thousand Snakes Gorge was Sky Serpent Mansion’s snake-beast breeding ground and natural barrier.
• Medusa released the pressure of her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline, making the snakes retreat and open a passage.

Lu Xia brought Medusa and Qinglin to Sky Serpent Mansion, openly demanding a meeting with its ancestor. After the elders escorted them to the hall, the Nine-Star Dou Zong Sky Serpent Ancestor, She Tianchen, arrived.

• Lu Xia led Medusa and Qinglin through Ten Thousand Snakes Gorge toward Sky Serpent Mountain, and Medusa's bloodline pressure alerted Sky Serpent Mansion's elders.
• The Third and Fourth Elders confronted the trio, but Lu Xia revealed his Six-Star Dou Zong aura and asked them to summon their ancestor.
• The Third and Fourth Elders escorted Lu Xia's group to Sky Serpent Mansion, where First Elder She Xuan welcomed them and the Second Elder went to inform the ancestor.
• Lu Xia waited in Sky Serpent Hall with Medusa and Qinglin while She Xuan tried to learn why he had come.
• Sky Serpent Ancestor She Tianchen arrived at the hall with the aura of a Nine-Star Dou Zong, and the elders bowed to welcome him.

Sky Serpent Ancestor recognized Qinglin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and eagerly sought to take her into Sky Serpent Mansion. Lu Xia agreed to her joining after She Tianchen promised to personally train her and make her the mansion’s Saintess, with access to all its resources.

• Sky Serpent Ancestor sensed Lu Xia and Medusa’s strength, then recognized Qinglin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Sky Serpent Ancestor asked Qinglin to become his disciple, and Lu Xia explained that he had brought her to Sky Serpent Mansion for its inheritance.
• Lu Xia blocked She Tianchen from approaching Qinglin and requested a promise to protect her before she joined.
• She Tianchen promised to personally take Qinglin as his disciple, name her Saintess, and give her access to the mansion’s resources.
• Lu Xia accepted She Tianchen’s conditions, and the elders celebrated finding the inheritor they had sought for generations.

Lu Xia secured Qinglin’s place as Sky Serpent Mansion’s saintess and gained Sky Serpent Ancestor’s promise to help him deal with one or two Dou Zongs. Qinglin reluctantly said goodbye to Lu Xia and began her new life under She Tianchen’s care.

• Lu Xia asked Sky Serpent Ancestor to help him hold off one or two Dou Zongs, and the Ancestor agreed.
• Lu Xia told Qinglin she would stay at Sky Serpent Mansion, and she tearfully asked whether they would meet again.
• Lu Xia comforted Qinglin and promised to visit her as she vowed to grow strong enough to protect him.
• Qinglin kowtowed to She Tianchen and became his final disciple.
• She Tianchen proclaimed Qinglin the saintess of Sky Serpent Mansion, and the elders bowed to her.