Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan was taken to the Snake-People Tribe, where he used his alchemy and Netherworld Poison Flame to protect himself while building up his strength. After half a year, he reached Seven-Star Dou Ling and prepared to refine Queen Medusa’s Transformation Pill, while planning his next move toward the Black-Corner Region.

• Xiao Yan threatened Queen Medusa with the Misty Cloud Sect’s rising strength, and she spared him after choking and throwing him aside.
• Xiao Yan told Hai Bodong and Qing Lin to return to the Imperial City, then Queen Medusa carried him into Snake-People Tribe territory.
• Queen Medusa offered Xiao Yan medicinal materials and hinted at winning him over through marriage, while he agreed to make her a Transformation Pill.
• Over the next half-year, Xiao Yan refined Pills for the Snake-People Tribe and advanced to Seven-Star Dou Ling, nearing the level of a Sixth-Rank Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan realized that most of the tribe’s top experts had unknowingly taken Pills containing his Netherworld Poison Flame, and he began preparing to refine Medusa’s Transformation Pill.

The Snake-People Tribe's elders decided to secure Xiao Yan's loyalty through a marriage alliance with Queen Medusa, who reluctantly agreed. Xiao Yan entered the elders' meeting without knowing what they had decided.

• Yue Mei fetched Xiao Yan at Queen Medusa's request and told him the elders were waiting at the Main Altar.
• At the meeting, Mo Bass objected to Medusa marrying a human and suggested crippling or imprisoning Xiao Yan.
• The elders rejected Mo Bass's plan because they could not risk making an enemy of a powerful Alchemist.
• The Grand Elder asked Medusa to consider a marriage alliance with Xiao Yan, and Medusa agreed despite her uncertainty.
• Yue Mei brought Xiao Yan into the Secret Chamber, where he noticed the tense atmosphere.

Xiao Yan accepted the Snake-People Tribe’s proposal to marry Queen Medusa at the start of next month. Afterward, he suggested that Heavenly Flames might help awaken her bloodline, giving her new hope of breaking through its limits.

• The Grand Elder asked Xiao Yan about his engagement, and he explained that his former fiancée had ended it.
• The Grand Elder proposed a marriage alliance with Queen Medusa, who said she would marry Xiao Yan herself and promised fidelity; Xiao Yan agreed.
• The Grand Elder set the wedding for the start of next month, while Mo Bass raged and was scolded.
• As Xiao Yan walked with Queen Medusa, she admitted she needed his help to refine a Transformation Pill, and he said that alone would not advance her bloodline.
• Xiao Yan told Queen Medusa that a pill refined with Heavenly Flames might draw out her bloodline’s potential, and promised to handle it.

After Queen Medusa accepted her engagement to Xiao Yan, he asked the Snake-People Tribe for rare ingredients so Old Lord could refine a pill to advance her bloodline. Old Lord demonstrated the Eight Trigrams Furnace and taught Xiao Yan its eight positions, while Xiao Yan's first swing of a Banana Leaf Fan unleashed a storm that alarmed the tribe.

• Queen Medusa told Xiao Yan that the Snake-People Tribe would provide whatever he requested as her royal consort.
• Xiao Yan asked Hua She'er to gather rare medicinal ingredients for Old Lord's pill.
• Old Lord summoned the enormous Eight Trigrams Furnace and used the herbs while explaining the purpose of its eight positions to Xiao Yan.
• Old Lord handed Xiao Yan a Banana Leaf Fan and told him to fan the furnace fire.
• Xiao Yan's first sweep of the fan stirred up tornadoes and sandstorms, shocking the Snake-People elders and Queen Medusa.

Xiao Yan used the Banana Leaf Fan to help Old Lord refine a powerful pill, impressing the Snake-People elders and attracting the Pill Tower Ancestor. After the Ancestor departed, the elders asked Xiao Yan to deal with a spreading fire left by the alchemy.

• Old Lord urged Xiao Yan to fan the Eight Trigrams Furnace, then combined several flames to refine a pill and trapped it in a Jade Bottle.
• The Snake-People elders mistook the display for the work of a terrifying powerhouse and guessed that Xiao Yan was connected to the Pill Tower.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared, recognized Xiao Yan as Xiao Chen's descendant, and gave him a Little Pill Tower token before leaving.
• Xiao Yan decided to gather the Fragmented Maps and enter the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame's space early to rescue Xiao Chen.
• The Snake-People elders asked Xiao Yan to stop a stray flame from Old Lord's alchemy that was spreading through the northern Tagor Desert.

Xiao Yan gave Medusa a ninth-grade pill to awaken her bloodline, and she kissed him before retreating to prepare for seclusion. He sent letters to his family and Hai Bodong, while an urgent message reached the Mittel residence and Hai Bodong lamented his lost hope of obtaining a Barrier-Breaking Pill.

• Xiao Yan revealed that the Old Lord had refined a ninth-grade pill for Medusa, shocking the Snake-People Tribe elders.
• The Grand Elder suggested keeping the sea of flames Xiao Yan had created as a defensive barrier, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Medusa told Xiao Yan she would marry him after emerging from seclusion, then kissed him and asked him to hold her; Xiao Yan restrained himself, and Medusa retreated to the rear courtyard.
• Xiao Yan had Hua She'er bring writing supplies, sent letters to his father, eldest brother, and Hai Bodong, and planned to travel to the Black-Corner Region after his marriage.
• An attendant delivered an urgent message to the Mittel residence in the Jia Ma Empire's capital, while Hai Bodong brooded over losing his chance to obtain a Barrier-Breaking Pill.

Hai Bodong interpreted Xiao Yan’s letter as a plea for rescue and decided to use Pill King Gu He’s interest in Heavenly Flames to create a diversion. Meanwhile, Xiao Zhan prepared to travel to the Snake-People Tribe, Xiao Xun'er learned Xiao Yan was to marry Medusa, and Gu He planned an expedition with Yun Yun.

• Mittel Tengshan brought Hai Bodong Xiao Yan’s letter announcing his impending marriage to Queen Medusa and mentioning Heavenly Flames.
• Hai Bodong decided to tell Pill King Gu He that Medusa had taken the Heavenly Flames so Gu He would lead an attack that could let him rescue Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Ding read Xiao Yan’s wedding invitation, and Xiao Zhan chose to go to the Snake-People Tribe while telling Xiao Ding and Xiao Li to protect the Xiao Clan.
• Ling Ying told Xiao Xun'er that Medusa had abducted Xiao Yan and planned to marry him, provoking Xiao Xun'er’s fury.
• Yun Yun advised Nalan Yanran not to resent the Xiao Clan over the broken engagement, then agreed to accompany Gu He to seek the Heavenly Flames in half a month.

Nalan Yanran rejected Mo Li’s advances while he planned to use the Mo Clan’s upcoming birthday celebration to seize an opportunity with her. At the Snake-People Tribe, Xiao Yan rushed to aid the wounded Yue Mei as Gu He’s group pursued her, and Gu He asked Yun Yun to join the attack.

• Nalan Yanran firmly rejected Mo Li, who watched her leave and resolved that the Mo Clan would act during its ancestor’s birthday celebration.
• Xiao Yan waited for his father and eldest brother while Queen Medusa refined the Ninth-grade Pill in the rear courtyard.
• A report announced that humans had attacked the Charm-People Tribe, wounded Yue Mei, and were heading toward the Main Altar.
• Xiao Yan told Hua She'er to guard Queen Medusa, then flew toward the Charm-People Tribe on pale-gold wings.
• Yan Shi and Wind Walker Feng Li attacked Yue Mei to stop her as Hai Bodong and Teng Shan held back from pursuing her.
• Gu He asked Sect Master Yun to help deal with Yue Mei.

Yun Yun nearly killed Yue Mei, but Xiao Yan rescued her and revealed that he had absorbed the Heavenly Flames and was engaged to Queen Medusa. When Gu He refused to leave, Xiao Yan trapped him and the others inside two enormous Fire Flood Dragons.

• Yun Yun wounded Yue Mei, who fled in the form of countless green snakes before Yun Yun caught up and prepared to strike her down.
• Xiao Yan rescued Yue Mei and surprised Yun Yun, Yan Shi, Feng Li, and Hai Bodong by appearing as a powerful young Dou Wang.
• Gu He said he had come for the Heavenly Flames, but Xiao Yan told him he had absorbed them and ordered the group to leave.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Queen Medusa was his fiancée and warned the group not to disrupt their wedding.
• When Gu He refused to leave, Xiao Yan summoned two colossal Fire Flood Dragons and trapped most of the group, prompting Gu He to agree to go.

Xiao Yan defeated Gu He and his companions after they came to the Snake-People Tribe, then welcomed his father and brothers. Yun Yun concealed her injuries by announcing a period of seclusion, while Xiao Yan learned Xiao Yi Xian had left for the Chu Yun Empire and was reunited with Qing Lin.

• Xiao Yan spared Gu He, Yun Yun, Yan Shi, and Feng Li after overpowering them, then rewarded Hai Bodong and Mittel Tengshan for their help.
• Yue Mei reported the danger had passed, and the Snake-People commanders left after learning Xiao Yan had defeated the intruders.
• Yun Yun returned to the Misty Cloud Sect badly injured, announced she would enter seclusion, and told Nalan Yanran to attend the Mo Clan patriarch's birthday celebration in her place.
• Yun Yun asked Nalan Yanran whether Xiao Yan had truly lost his talent, then wondered whether the powerful young man she had met could be another person with the same name.
• Half a month later, Xiao Li and Xiao Ding arrived with Xiao Zhan and Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had left for the Chu Yun Empire.

Xiao Yan reunited with his family, strengthened the Xiao Clan, and guarded Queen Medusa as she completed her bloodline evolution and became his bride-to-be. When she revealed that her vision involved repairing a shattered sky with a Five-Colored Stone, Xiao Yan wondered what his teacher had put in her pill.

• Xiao Yan learned that Qing Lin had reached peak Nine-Star Dou Zhe and saw that his family had grown stronger during his absence.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Ding pills and resources for the Xiao Clan, then prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire after the wedding.
• Queen Medusa's evolution began, and Xiao Yan cleared the area and guarded her with two Fire Flood Dragons.
• Queen Medusa emerged with human legs and a powerful new aura, kissed Xiao Yan, and announced that he was the Snake-People Tribe's King Consort and their wedding would take place in half a month.
• Xiao Zhan accepted Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa's marriage and gave her his late wife's bracelet.
• Queen Medusa told Xiao Yan she had seen a world-ending catastrophe and mended the sky with a Five-Colored Stone, prompting him to question what his teacher had put in her pill.

At Queen Medusa and Xiao Yan’s wedding, Mo Bass attacked Xiao Li and Qing Lin, but Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to control him. Xiao Yan turned Mo Bass into Qing Lin’s guard and urged her to advance her cultivation so she could control him fully.

• Mo Bass saw Queen Medusa marry Xiao Yan, then confronted Qing Lin, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li on his way back to his tribe.
• Mo Bass struck Xiao Li with a snake of dark-green Dou Qi, sending him crashing into a wall, while Qing Lin’s pupils began to glow.
• Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa arrived, and Xiao Yan stopped the elders from taking Mo Bass to the Myriad Snake Cave, instead assigning him to guard Qing Lin.
• Qing Lin apologized for disrupting the wedding, and Xiao Yan reassured her and praised her ability to control a Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the remnant soul in Mo Bass, gave Qing Lin pills to help her advance to Dou Shi, and left Mo Bass as her puppet guard.

Xiao Yan confirmed that he possessed Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils before spending his wedding night with Medusa. At a gathering of Jia Ma Empire elites, rumors about Xiao Yan’s strength and engagement to Medusa stirred Nalan Yanran, Ya Fei, and Yao Ye, while the empire’s political undercurrents began to shift.

• Medusa questioned Xiao Yan about his Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and he confirmed he had them while keeping the Snake-People Tribe outside the Xiao Clan’s inner circle.
• Xiao Yan and Medusa spent their wedding night together after he stopped cultivating.
• Liu Ling told Yao Ye, Nalan Yanran, and the other guests that Xiao Yan had defeated powerful experts and possessed two Heavenly Flames; Nalan Yanran was relieved that he was not the man she once knew.
• Liu Ling said Xiao Yan was engaged to Medusa and close to the Mittel Family, prompting Yao Ye to question Ya Fei about her connection to him.
• Yao Ye considered Xiao Yan a potential match, while she and Ya Fei recognized each other’s interest in the political possibilities surrounding him.

Xiao Yan visited the Xiao Clan’s residence in the Imperial City with Queen Medusa and reunited with Ya Fei, while Ya Fei told him about Nalan Yanran and the worsening condition of Nalan Jie. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan deciding to attend the upcoming Alchemist Tournament with Cai Lin.

• Xiao Ding showed Xiao Yan and Queen Medusa the residence where the Xiao Clan had settled, and Xiao Yan thanked Mittel Tengshan for supporting his clan.
• Mittel Tengshan invited Xiao Yan to see Ya Fei, while Queen Medusa warned him off with her cold stare before Xiao Yan reassured her that Ya Fei was a friend.
• Xiao Yan embraced Ya Fei when she greeted him, and Ya Fei introduced herself to Queen Medusa before the three went inside.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan that Nalan Jie's condition had worsened after Nalan Yanran broke the engagement, but Xiao Yan said the matter had nothing to do with him.
• Queen Medusa suggested visiting Nalan Yanran, but Xiao Yan changed the subject and asked Ya Fei what else was happening in the Imperial City.
• Ya Fei mentioned the upcoming Alchemist Tournament, and Xiao Yan decided to attend it with Cai Lin.

Xiao Yan attended the Alchemist Tournament with Ya Fei, where Mu Zhan attacked him and Yao Ye intervened. Xiao Yan challenged Mu Zhan to withstand one move or die.

• Xiao Yan dressed as a Three-Rank Alchemist and flew with Ya Fei to the Jia Ma Empire Plaza.
• Xiao Yan and Ya Fei met Yao Ye, Yao Yue, and Liu Ling in the VIP Seating as they waited for the tournament.
• Mu Zhan attacked Xiao Yan, who caught his fist and flung him back.
• Yao Ye pointed her Dark Ink Spear at Mu Zhan and warned him against fighting on the Plaza grounds.
• Xiao Yan wagered that Mu Zhan would die if he could not withstand one move from him.

Xiao Yan revealed his overwhelming strength at the Jia Ma Imperial Capital Alchemist Tournament and forced the Mu Family Clan Leader to pay for Mu Zhan’s attack on Ya Fei. As the competition began, Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan and realized he was the man from the Xiao Clan whose engagement she had broken.

• Xiao Yan subdued Mu Zhan with his Dou Qi, and Liu Ling and the others realized that he was the famed Xiao Yan and might also be a powerful alchemist.
• Mu Chen offered half the Mu Family’s wealth to win mercy, then survived Xiao Yan’s Fire Flood Dragons with one arm lost; Xiao Yan ordered him to pay the wealth to the Mittel Family.
• Fa Ma let the tournament audience into the Plaza, and Xiao Yan took a judge’s seat beside Ya Fei as Jia Xingtian and Yao Ye joined the gathering.
• Nalan Yanran arrived, heard that the young judge was Xiao Yan, and grew uneasy as his voice and appearance seemed familiar.
• Fa Ma began the competition, and Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan as the man she had encountered at the Xiao Clan when she broke off their engagement.

Nalan Yanran struggled with her feelings about Xiao Yan, while he and Fa Ma uncovered a Chu Yun Empire alchemist’s deception at the tournament. Xiao Yan asked for the Appearance-Restoring Pill formula so he could deal with the disguised Yan Li.

• Nalan Yanran remembered breaking off her engagement with Xiao Yan, felt overwhelmed by his success, and imagined what might happen if she became his slave after the Three-Year Agreement.
• Xiao Yan watched the tournament and noticed a black-robed contestant whose aura suggested he was far more skilled than his records claimed.
• Fa Ma had Chelsea check the records and learned the contestant was supposedly a seventeen-year-old Second-Rank Alchemist from the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yan identified the contestant as Yan Li, an older Fourth-Rank Alchemist who had used an Appearance-Restoring Pill to disguise his age.
• Fa Ma explained that the tournament’s under-twenty age limit made Yan Li’s deception a serious problem, but there was no time to refine another Appearance-Restoring Pill.
• Xiao Yan asked Fa Ma for the pill formula, saying Yan Li had cheated openly on his turf.

Xiao Yan challenged Yan Li’s tournament victory by exposing him as a thirty-seven-year-old impostor who violated the age limit. He began refining an Appearance-Restoring Pill on the spot, leaving the arena stunned by his strength and extraordinary technique.

• Yan Li produced a Peak Fourth-Grade Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill and appeared poised to win the tournament for the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yan stopped Fa Ma from announcing the champion and accused Yan Li of being thirty-seven, too old to compete.
• Xiao Yan offered to refine an Appearance-Restoring Pill to prove Yan Li’s identity.
• Xiao Yan revealed power that made the crowd mistake him for a Dou Emperor, then began refining ingredients simultaneously in his Eight Trigrams Furnace.
• Fa Ma explained that Xiao Yan’s technique compressed many rounds of refinement into one, while Ya Fei and Yao Ye watched him in astonishment.

Xiao Yan exposed Yan Li as an impostor by refining an Appearance-Restoring Pill, then poisoned him with Netherworld Poison Flame, which killed him as he tried to leave the Imperial City. Back with Cai Lin, Xiao Yan discussed the poison dormant in the Snake-People Tribe before Nalan Yanran arrived seeking an audience, and Cai Lin insisted they meet her.

• Xiao Yan completed a Fifth-grade Appearance-Restoring Pill, revealing himself as a seventeen-year-old Sixth-Rank Alchemist, and Yan Li swallowed it and reverted to his true appearance.
• Fa Ma condemned Yan Li for impersonating a tournament contestant, but Xiao Yan told Fa Ma, Hai Bodong, and Jia Xingtian that he had poisoned the pill with Netherworld Poison Flame.
• As Yan Li waited to leave the Imperial City, the poison flame erupted through his meridians and killed him.
• Cai Lin confronted Xiao Yan about the poison flame in the pills he had given the Snake-People Tribe, and Xiao Yan explained that he could control it and offered to remove it.
• Cai Lin told Xiao Yan she had reached Four-Star Dou Zong after awakening her bloodline, then ordered Qing Lin to bring Nalan Yanran to the main hall.
• Cai Lin took Xiao Yan to meet Nalan Yanran, warning him that she would not tolerate the Nalan Family ordering him around.

Nalan Yanran begged Xiao Yan to save her grandfather, and Cai Lin forced her to accept the role of Xiao Yan’s servant and concubine. Xiao Yan agreed to examine Nalan Jie, and he arrived with Nalan Yanran at the Nalan Family residence, where the gathered Alchemists recognized him.

• Nalan Yanran admitted that she had come for Xiao Yan’s help because her grandfather’s poison had worsened, and Cai Lin used her Dou Zong pressure to make Nalan Yanran submit.
• Cai Lin made Nalan Yanran address Xiao Yan as her master, and Xiao Yan told her to wash up before agreeing to visit the Nalan Family.
• Cai Lin revealed that someone from Xun’er’s side had approached her, warning Xiao Yan that the women around him would use whatever means they had.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Yanran he would examine Nalan Jie, then accompanied her to the Nalan Family residence.
• The Nalan Family’s Alchemists said only an Alchemist with a Heavenly Flame could cure Nalan Jie, and they excitedly recognized Xiao Yan as a Six-Rank Alchemist Grandmaster.