Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan traveled with Ya Fei to the Snake-People Royal City after receiving a letter from Queen Medusa. The Snake-People welcomed them as the Queen’s honored guests, and Lu Chuan saw how harshly the tribe’s desert home threatened their survival.

• Queen Medusa sent Lu Chuan a letter asking him to come collect some things, and he decided to travel to the Snake-People Tribe.
• Lu Chuan left Zhu Zhuqing resting in his care and departed with Ya Fei for the Dou Qi Continent.
• Four days later, Lu Chuan and Ya Fei arrived above the Snake-People territory on a chartered Windspeed Bird.
• Snake-People guards recognized Queen Medusa’s token and escorted Lu Chuan and Ya Fei into the royal city.
• Lu Chuan surveyed the barren city and worried that the Snake-People could not survive much longer in the scorching desert.

The young man and Ya Fei met Queen Medusa, who led them to the Snake-People Tribe’s treasury and offered him half its contents in exchange for his help. After he accepted and completed her commission, the system granted him numerous treasures and automatically mastered several Dou Techniques.

• Shaluo told the young man that the Snake-People Tribe traded desert resources and sometimes intercepted caravans, and the young man ordered him not to touch Mittel Auction House caravans.
• The young man and Ya Fei arrived at Queen Medusa’s palace, where she reacted coldly to Ya Fei accompanying him and led them out of the hall.
• Queen Medusa brought the two visitors to the Snake-People Tribe’s treasury and offered the young man the treasures on the left in exchange for accompanying her somewhere.
• Ya Fei identified valuable herbs and Magic Cores, and Queen Medusa said she wanted to trade the treasures on the right for Medicinal Pills for her tribe.
• The young man accepted Queen Medusa’s offer, stored the agreed treasures through the system, and received herbs and Dou Techniques that the system automatically taught him to mastery.

Lu Chuan and Queen Medusa traveled to the Tagor Desert to investigate a Heavenly Flame and found the Green Lotus Core Flame beneath the sand. Queen Medusa charged into the flame despite Lu Chuan’s warning, leaving him to react as she faced its scorching power.

• Lu Chuan agreed to accompany Queen Medusa to the Tagor Desert after she sensed a Heavenly Flame there, while Ya Fei stayed with the Snake-People Tribe.
• Lu Chuan and Queen Medusa raced through the air toward the desert, and Queen Medusa outpaced him despite his explanation about reducing wind resistance.
• Queen Medusa used her Purple Nether Flame Snake to blast open a passage into the magma beneath the desert, and Lu Chuan followed her underground.
• Lu Chuan and Queen Medusa found the Green Lotus Core Flame surrounded by green magma, and Lu Chuan spotted the Green Lotus Seat below it.
• Queen Medusa transformed into a giant python and attacked the Green Lotus Core Flame, prompting Lu Chuan to shout that he could take it out unharmed.

The land secured the Green Lotus Seat after Queen Medusa tore the Green Lotus Core Flame free, then flew to Stone Desert City to find Qing Lin. He brought the malnourished girl back to the Snake-People Tribe, where Ya Fei welcomed her as his maid.

• Queen Medusa endured the Green Lotus Core Flame's attack, tore it away, and used Extremely Cold Water to ease her injuries.
• The land broke the Green Lotus Seat's root, stored the platform in the System Space, and returned to the surface with Queen Medusa.
• Queen Medusa flew back to the Snake-People Tribe while the land headed to Stone Desert City to find Qing Lin.
• The land reassured Qing Lin, offered her a place as his maid, and carried her away from the city.
• The land brought Qing Lin to the Snake-People Tribe, where Ya Fei heard how he had found her and encouraged the timid girl.

The land river left Qing Lin with Ya Fei and went to the Snake-People Tribe's palace to treat Queen Medusa. He removed the lingering Heavenly Flame Dou Qi from her body, then brought Ye Lingling to heal her other injuries, leaving Ye Lingling nearly out of Soul Power.

• The land river asked Qing Lin to stay with Ya Fei, who cheered her up by taking her to eat.
• Yue Mei recognized the land river as Queen Medusa's honored guest and let him pass into the queen's chambers.
• The land river examined Queen Medusa and used the Flame Mantra to draw the blue Heavenly Flame Dou Qi from her body.
• The land river teleported back with Ye Lingling, who used her Nine-Hearted Begonia to heal Queen Medusa's damaged organs and scorched flesh.
• Ye Lingling's healing began repairing Queen Medusa's injuries, but it rapidly drained Ye Lingling's Soul Power.

Ye Lingling exhausted herself healing Queen Medusa, whose injuries nearly recovered before she prepared to attempt her evolution. Back at their lodging, Lu Chuan comforted Qing Lin about the snake scales she had hidden and let her watch over the sleeping Ye Lingling.

• After more than twenty treatments, Ye Lingling collapsed from exhaustion as Queen Medusa's wounds nearly healed.
• Queen Medusa told Lu Chuan she would attempt her evolution in two days and offered him the Green Lotus Core Flame if she died, but Lu Chuan assured her he would help her succeed.
• Qing Lin greeted Lu Chuan when he returned carrying Ye Lingling, then tried to hide the scales on her arm.
• Lu Chuan revealed Qing Lin's scales and reassured her that he did not find them frightening or flawed.
• Lu Chuan carried Ye Lingling to Qing Lin's room, where Qing Lin promised to watch over her and felt happy that Lu Chuan accepted her.

After two days of refining pills, the river helped Queen Medusa begin her evolution and supported her as she endured the Green Lotus Core Flame. Her transformation reached its final stage when tribulation lightning struck her python form.

• The river finished refining pills, and Yue Mei led him and Ye Lingling to the forbidden grounds for Queen Medusa's evolution.
• Queen Medusa kissed the river, accepted his pills, and asked him to care for the Snake-People Tribe if she died.
• Queen Medusa swallowed the pills, transformed into a giant python, and lunged into the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• The river fed Queen Medusa pills and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, while Ye Lingling repeatedly healed her and replenished her strength.
• As the evolution neared its end, dark clouds gathered and the Snake-People Tribe prayed for Queen Medusa to survive.
• Purple lightning struck through the cavern and tore through Queen Medusa's giant python body.

Queen Medusa survived her evolution into the Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python and reached the Dou Zong realm. She declared the land river her queen before taking him to her bedchamber.

• The land and river and Ye Lingling watched as Queen Medusa endured the lightning tribulation, and she emerged as a Seven-Colored Heaven-Swallowing Python after suppressing the other soul.
• Queen Medusa transformed into human form, dressed, and gave the land and river the Green Lotus Core Flame, which he gained the ability to wield.
• Queen Medusa announced that she had reached the Dou Zong realm and declared the land river her queen, drawing astonished silence from the Snake-People Tribe before they obeyed.
• The land river sent Ye Lingling away, and Queen Medusa brought him to her bedchamber and kissed him.

The man returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Ya Fei and Qing Lin, then brought Qing Lin back to Douluo Continent. Xiao Wu welcomed the shy girl and introduced her to Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan.

• Queen Medusa asked the man to stay with her, but he left after their final round and wished her success in rebuilding the Snake-People Tribe.
• The man detoured through the Magical Beast Mountain Range, collected treasures from a cliffside cave, and returned to the Mittel Auction House headquarters with Ya Fei and Qing Lin.
• The man invited Ya Fei to Douluo Continent, but she chose to stay in the Jia Ma Empire and support him through the auction house.
• The man returned to Douluo Continent with Qing Lin, where Xiao Wu nearly choked on a carrot before he slapped her back to dislodge it.
• Xiao Wu excitedly welcomed Qing Lin, apologized for frightening her, and took her to meet Ning Rongrong and Dugu Yan.
• Ning Rongrong asked Qing Lin her age and why she was so thin, and Qing Lin explained that she had wandered without enough food.

Qian Renxue and the Spirit Hall elders visited the Trading House to trade rare Spirit Bones for resources. They discovered that the Imperial Extreme Pill was protected by a barrier, and Mighty Lion Douluo could not reach it.

• Dugu Yan took Qing Lin shopping and treated her to new clothes, food, and entertainment.
• The Trading House opened after Xiao Yi Xian, Ye Lingling, and Zhu Zhuqing stocked and organized its goods under the land’s sealing formation.
• Qian Renxue learned that Bibi Dong had tried to seize the Trading House’s resources and that Grandpa had beaten her, leaving her to recover for several months.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo showed Qian Renxue five Spirit Bones from their Soul Hunting, and they decided to trade them for resources instead of taking them to Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue, disguised as Xue Qinghe, visited the Trading House with Golden Crocodile Douluo and Mighty Lion Douluo and asked Dugu Yan to direct them to Lu Chuan.
• Mighty Lion Douluo tried to inspect the Imperial Extreme Pill but found that the shelf’s barrier prevented him from touching it, and Ning Rongrong warned him not to waste his strength.

Lu Chuan exchanged five 100,000-year spirit bones from Xue Qinghe for an Imperial Extreme Pill that raised Golden Crocodile Douluo to rank 99, then used the bones to strengthen his own mental and physical abilities. At Shrek Academy, Tang San feared for his missing father and Xiao Wu, while Yu Xiaogang concluded that Lu Chuan belonged to a powerful secluded clan and warned Tang San to prepare for the worst.

• Xue Qinghe gave Lu Chuan five 100,000-year spirit bones, and Lu Chuan provided an Imperial Extreme Pill in exchange.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo swallowed the pill and advanced to rank 99, while Xue Qinghe traded for more medicinal pills.
• Lu Chuan gained permanent increases to his mental power and physical strength from the spirit bones, reaching the Spirit Realm Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang reprimanded Tang San for his distraction, but Tang San explained that his father had gone to retrieve Xiao Wu and had sent no news for over two months.
• Yu Xiaogang reasoned that Lu Chuan was likely a young patriarch or high-ranking member of a secluded super clan and warned Tang San that his father might be in serious danger.

Tang San persuaded Yu Xiaogang to help him find Dugu Bo in Heaven Dou City, and Yu Xiaogang brought him and Dai Mubai to seek an audience with Emperor Xue Ye. The emperor refused to reveal Dugu Bo’s whereabouts and angrily ordered Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to leave.

• Tang San insisted on finding Dugu Bo to learn whether his father was alive, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to help while warning him not to act recklessly.
• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Flender to bring Shrek to Heaven Dou City, and the group traveled there before splitting up.
• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San headed to Heaven Dou Palace with Dai Mubai, but Dai Mubai grew suspicious and stayed outside.
• Yu Xiaogang presented the Papal Token to gain an audience with Emperor Xue Ye, while Xue Qinghe wondered how Yu Xiaogang had obtained it.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Emperor Xue Ye where Dugu Bo was, but the emperor refused to help and ordered him and Tang San out after Tang San pressed him for an answer.

Xue Qinghe directed Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to Dugu Bo’s Trading House, where Yu Xiaogang discovered a talent-enhancing elixir but learned it cost a Spirit Bone. The chapter left Yu Xiaogang devastated on the floor, unable to afford the item that might improve his talent.

• Xue Qinghe confronted Yu Xiaogang over the Papal Token, and Yu Xiaogang claimed Tang Hao had entrusted it to him because Tang San was Tang Hao’s son.
• Xue Qinghe told Tang San that Dugu Bo was at a Trading House by Guan Mountain Lake, and Tang San mistakenly believed Xiao Wu might be there too.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered Dai Mubai to go with them, and Tang San persuaded Dai Mubai by saying his enemy was there.
• At the Trading House, Yu Xiaogang learned that Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid could improve talent and tried unsuccessfully to reach its sealed bottle.
• Yu Xiaogang saw that the liquid cost a Spirit Bone and collapsed in despair.

Tang San mistook Xiao Wu’s arrival for a joyful reunion, but she attacked him and left him badly injured. Yu Xiaogang then denounced the Trading House and demanded it share its medicinal pills, while Dugu Bo confronted him.

• Tang San let go of Yu Xiaogang when he heard Xiao Wu’s voice, then eagerly approached her.
• Xiao Wu kicked Tang San in the face and repeatedly beat him, leaving him unconscious and badly injured.
• Yu Xiaogang rebuked Xiao Wu, but Tang San apologized to her and begged her to beat him again.
• Yu Xiaogang dragged Dai Mubai into the dispute and publicly accused the shop of stealing his student’s sister and Dai Mubai’s fiancée.
• Yu Xiaogang condemned the Trading House for demanding rare items in exchange for medicinal pills and urged it to share its treasures.
• Dugu Bo confronted Yu Xiaogang, who invoked his Papal Token and pressed his demand.

Dugu Bo killed Yu Xiaogang and Tang San for provoking the Trading House, then threatened the gathered Soul Masters into submission. Meanwhile, the mainland worked out a way to enter the Divine Realm and claim godhood, and sent Xiao Wu to clean up the floor.

• Dugu Bo poisoned Yu Xiaogang after Yu Xiaogang asked for Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, and Yu Xiaogang blamed Tang San as he died.
• Dugu Bo ordered Tang San and Dai Mubai to hang Yu Xiaogang, then killed them both with poisonous mist.
• Dugu Bo warned the watching Soul Masters against provoking the Trading House, while Dugu Yan complained about the mess and Dugu Bo promised to use a cleaner method next time.
• The mainland realized the Asura God might have taken Tang San's soul and planned to enter the Divine Realm by following another person's ascension and keeping the passage open.
• The mainland explained that Xiao Yi Xian could become the Poison God through her cultivation and Woeful Poison Body, then called Xiao Wu in to mop the floor.

Flender discovered that Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Dai Mubai had been killed after provoking the Trading House, then returned to find Oscar and Ma Hongjun gone. As he searched Heaven Dou City for them, someone named Flender and condemned the students he had raised.

• Xiao Wu cleaned the Trading House while Qing Lin quietly helped her, and Dugu Bo vowed to throw troublemakers out before killing them.
• Flender waited at a remote guesthouse, then went to search for Yu Xiaogang and the others when they failed to return.
• Ma Hongjun persuaded Oscar to sneak out with him to explore Heaven Dou City's brothels.
• Flender heard that Poison Douluo had killed three people who provoked the Trading House and learned that one was from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Flender found Yu Xiaogang hanging from a tree and realized that Tang San and Dai Mubai were dead as well.
• Flender returned to the empty guesthouse, searched the city's brothels for Oscar and Ma Hongjun, and then someone found him and scolded him about his students.

Flender tried to keep Liu Erlong from learning the truth about Yu Xiaogang’s death, then lied that Xiao Gang’s last wish was for her to live. He sent Ma Hongjun and Oscar back to Shrek with a cover story while preparing to steal Yu Xiaogang’s body.

• Liu Erlong confronted Ma Hongjun and Oscar for harassing her student, and Flender calmed her down and took the boys aside.
• Flender learned that Erlong knew Yu Xiaogang had come to Heaven Dou City and, after she pressed him, told her Xiao Gang was dead.
• Erlong demanded to know who killed Xiao Gang, but Flender claimed Xiao Gang’s last wish was for her to live and promised to reveal the killer once she became a Titled Douluo.
• Erlong left for Blue Tyrant Academy, and Flender decided he had to steal Yu Xiaogang’s body before she discovered the truth.
• Flender gave Oscar his money and ordered him and Ma Hongjun to return to Shrek and claim that Mu Bai and Tang San had gone home with them before being taken away.

Queen Medusa used her new Dou Zong strength to force the Jia Ma Empire to surrender Snake-People lands, while Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and told Yun Shan about the mysterious merchant and the Sect-Breaking Pill. There, Protector Wu warned Yun Shan that the Hall of Souls had targeted the merchant and would soon send an Exalted Elder.

• Oscar and Ma Hongjun fled north while Flender returned to the Trading House to wait for a chance to strike.
• Queen Medusa defeated Jia Xingtian with one blow and gave the Jia Ma Empire half a month to relocate from the Snake-People lands and the mountains north of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect and told Yun Shan that she had been trying to obtain a Sect-Breaking Pill from the mysterious merchant.
• Yun Shan asked about Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun left the hall to visit her.
• Protector Wu appeared before Yun Shan and warned that the Hall of Souls would soon send an Exalted Elder to deal with the mysterious merchant.

Nalan Yanran struggled to accept Xiao Yan’s rapid progress and began considering a mysterious riverbank’s offer of power. Flender stole Yu Xiaogang’s poisoned body, lost an arm and much of his strength, while Ya Fei joined the riverbank and Zhu Zhuqing the next morning.

• Protector Wu vanished after warning Yun Shan that he would demand more once Yun Shan completed his task.
• Nalan Yanran trained herself to exhaustion and, after learning Xiao Yan had reached the sixth stage of Dou Qi, wondered whether the riverbank could help her gain power.
• Flender stole Yu Xiaogang’s body from the tree, but Dugu Bo’s poison blackened his right arm and forced him to sever it.
• Flender escaped the city and spent hours forcing most of the poison from his body, but his strength fell to level 73 and the remaining poison left lasting effects.
• Ya Fei slipped into the riverbank’s embrace beside Zhu Zhuqing, and he held them both as he went back to sleep.

Nalan Yanran sought the land’s help to rapidly increase her cultivation, but after hearing about methods she could not afford or access, she was offered a job contract that would let her earn points toward treasures and opportunities. She left to consider the offer with Yun Yun, while Ya Fei learned that the land had designs on both Yun Yun and her disciple.

• Ya Fei told the land that Nalan Yanran had come to the Mittel Auction House seeking a way to raise her cultivation quickly.
• The land met Nalan Yanran, who offered a Fourth-Grade Pure Spirit Pill in exchange for information about cultivation methods.
• After the land listed several powerful methods and opportunities, Nalan Yanran prepared to leave, believing they were beyond her reach.
• The land offered Nalan Yanran work in exchange for points she could use to obtain treasures, information, and opportunities, and told her to discuss it with Yun Yun.
• After Nalan Yanran left to consider the offer, Ya Fei asked whether the land had designs on Yun Yun, and he admitted that he did.