Chapter Summaries

After becoming the Snake-People Tribe’s Guardian Worshiper, Chu Zhou spent three months refining pills and strengthening himself, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin. He earned a Firmament Ledger reward that gave him a powerful soul-refining technique, and he planned to test it and offer its products to Queen Medusa.

• News of Chu Zhou’s appointment as Guardian Worshiper spread among the Chosen Ones, raising his prestige and prompting others to consider how they could build their own advantages.
• Chu Zhou used the Snake-People Tribe’s resources to refine pills, cultivate, nurture Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and help Qing Lin prepare for sixth-grade alchemy.
• After three months of refining pills and taking Dou Ling Pills, Chu Zhou reached the eight-star peak of Dou Ling and completed his tenth batch of ten fifth-grade pill types.
• The Firmament Ledger awarded Chu Zhou the Azure Flame Heavenly Heart Art for becoming the first to achieve fifth-grade alchemy.
• Chu Zhou learned that the art could use powerful flames to condense spiritual energy pearls that strengthened and restored souls, and he decided to test it before proposing a trade with Queen Medusa.

Chu Zhou reached peak nine-star Dou Ling, refined a Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearl, and strengthened his soul and body while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin also advanced. As he planned to obtain a Heavenly King Pill formula and select powerful Heavenly Flames for his mystic yellow azure flame, Queen Medusa began considering trading the green lotus core flame for benefits from him.

• Chu Zhou used the Azure Flame Heavenly Heart Art to refine a Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearl, swallowed it, and then consumed a Fifth Grade Dou Ling Pill to break through to peak nine-star Dou Ling.
• Chu Zhou assessed his gains: his physical strength rivaled an early Dou Wang, his soul reached Mortal Realm Perfection, and his Spatial Boundary and soul techniques grew stronger.
• Queen Medusa watched Chu Zhou's breakthrough and noted that Xiao Yi Xian had entered Dou Ling while Qing Lin had reached nine-star Dou Shi and bound four snake-type magical beasts.
• Queen Medusa considered offering the green lotus core flame to Chu Zhou in exchange for resources, while Chu Zhou remained unaware of her thoughts.
• Chu Zhou planned to seek a Heavenly King Pill formula and sixth-grade pill formulas from Yao Lao, and considered asking Queen Medusa to obtain the green lotus core flame.
• Chu Zhou resolved to reserve his mystic yellow azure flame's future Heavenly Flame replications for higher-ranked flames, since it could eventually merge the Origin powers of nine Heavenly Flames.

Chu Zhou negotiated with Queen Medusa to help her evolve in exchange for her and Hai Bodong retrieving the Green Lotus Core Flame. After sending them toward the flame, he flew by sword to Wutan City, where his arrival stunned the locals and caught the attention of Blue Star’s Chosen Ones.

• Chu Zhou offered Queen Medusa his mystic yellow azure flame and a Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearl to ensure her evolution and help her break through to Dou Zong, in exchange for the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Queen Medusa agreed to retrieve the flame with Hai Bodong, and Chu Zhou promised Hai Bodong a Fifth Grade Purple Spirit Recovery Pill for his help.
• Chu Zhou asked Hai Bodong to capture the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake in the Lava World, and Hai Bodong accepted.
• Queen Medusa and Hai Bodong set out for the Green Lotus Core Flame while Chu Zhou followed by flying sword toward Wutan City.
• Chu Zhou arrived over Wutan City with his peak Dou Ling aura exposed, astonishing the locals and exciting the Blue Star Chosen Ones who recognized his sword flight.

Chu Zhou arrived at the Xiao Clan during Xiao Yan’s cultivation assessment and revealed he had a Heavenly Flame to trade. Xiao Yan eagerly left with him to talk, while a watching girl wondered whether the two’s closeness was a coincidence.

• Xiao Yan’s assessment showed that he had risen to the seventh stage of Dou Qi, delighting the Xiao Clan.
• Chu Zhou flew into the training grounds on a sword, stunning the crowd with his Peak Dou Ling aura.
• Xiao Yan recognized Chu Zhou from their earlier trade and was shocked by his rapid advancement and Sword Flight.
• Chu Zhou asked to talk business with Xiao Yan and privately revealed that he possessed a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan immediately agreed to leave with Chu Zhou, and Xiao Zhan let them go.
• A beautiful girl watched Chu Zhou and Xiao Yan depart and wondered whether their connection was a coincidence.

Chu Zhou negotiated with Yao Lao for pill formulas in exchange for the Green Lotus Core Flame and Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearls. After they agreed on a preliminary trade, Chu Zhou asked Yao Lao to refine a Heavenly King Pill and supplied every ingredient on the spot.

• Chu Zhou revealed that he knew Yao Lao was inside Xiao Yan’s ring and proposed trading the Green Lotus Core Flame for pill formulas.
• Yao Lao offered thirty sixth-grade pill recipes and ten Seventh-Rank formulas for the heavenly flame, and Chu Zhou accepted.
• Chu Zhou offered Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearls in exchange for ten sixth-grade pill formulas in advance, and Yao Lao agreed.
• Chu Zhou asked Yao Lao to refine a Heavenly King Pill and let his heavenly flame observe the bone spirit cold flame; Yao Lao agreed.
• Yao Lao explained that the Heavenly King Pill required a Fifth-Tier fire attribute magic core, and Chu Zhou immediately produced all the ingredients and asked him to refine it.

Chu Zhou secured Yao Lao’s promise to refine a Heavenly King Pill, then returned to Blue Star to condense Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearls and went to help Meng Ziwei. He arrived at Tianmu Mountain to find her mercenary group in a tense standoff with Jiang Tianze and a better-equipped force claiming their Ironclad Savage Bull.

• Yao Lao agreed to give Chu Zhou a Heavenly King Pill the next day, and warned Xiao Yan to be cautious while pursuing their trade for the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Chu Zhou returned to Blue Star and condensed twenty Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearls with greater speed and quality than on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Chu Zhou called Meng Ziwei while she hunted an Ironclad Savage Bull, and she explained that she wanted to earn resources herself and prepare for the Flower Sect’s outer disciple tournament.
• Chu Zhou flew to Tianmu Mountain after learning Meng Ziwei’s location and sensed that her team was confronting another group after killing the beast.
• A suited young man backed by Jiang Tianze demanded that Meng Ziwei’s group hand over the Ironclad Savage Bull.

Chu Zhou intervened when Zhao Mingxuan and Jiang Tianze tried to seize the Meng Family’s Ironclad Savage Bull, then used the confrontation to publicly criticize the Hang City Extraordinary Bureau. Meng Ziwei recorded the incident and brought Zhao Mingxuan and the others to the bureau, where the video left its staff grim-faced.

• Zhao Mingxuan threatened the Meng Family and demanded their Ironclad Savage Bull, while Jiang Tianze backed him up.
• Chu Zhou arrived on a flying sword, condemned Zhao Mingxuan’s abuse of authority, and subdued him and his men with Sword Intent.
• Meng Zihan and Meng Ziwei recorded Chu Zhou’s intervention as he left, and Zhao Mingxuan abandoned his claim to the bull and blamed Jiang Tianze.
• Meng Ziwei insisted on escorting Zhao Mingxuan and his unconscious subordinates to the Hang City Extraordinary Bureau to report what happened.
• Zhao Dehai accused the Meng Family of attacking bureau members, but Meng Ziwei showed the recording, leaving the bureau staff alarmed by Chu Zhou’s criticism.

Meng Ziwei exposed Zhao Mingxuan and Jiang Tianze’s misconduct to the Extraordinary Bureau, leading to their punishment and the Jiang Family’s ruin. Chu Zhou then traded Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearls for a Heavenly King Pill and studied the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, where his void perception talent detected unusual powers.

• Meng Ziwei presented video evidence of Zhao Mingxuan and Jiang Tianze’s illegal threats, and Zhou Weiguo expelled Zhao Mingxuan while suspending Zhao Dehai pending investigation.
• The Extraordinary Bureau headquarters ordered a crackdown, the Zhao Family apologized and disowned Zhao Mingxuan, and the Jiang Family collapsed under investigations and lost its businesses and members.
• Chu Zhou gave Meng Ziwei Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearls to improve her soul realm.
• Chu Zhou traded ten Heavenly Heart Spirit Pearls to Yao Lao for a Heavenly King Pill and asked to observe the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Yao Lao revealed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Chu Zhou studied its nature with his mystic yellow azure flame and activated his void perception talent.

Chu Zhou revealed that Han Shanshan’s soul imprint remained within Bone Spirit Cold Flame, giving Yao Lao hope that she could someday be revived. He accepted Yao Lao’s Pill Tower badge and promised to seek a soul-strengthening method, while warning that any further help would cost extra.

• Chu Zhou copied Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s origin with Mystic Yellow Azure Flame and discovered Han Shanshan’s hidden soul imprint.
• Chu Zhou promised to bring Yao Lao green lotus core flame within three days to half a month in exchange for the promised pill formula.
• Chu Zhou told Yao Lao that Han Shanshan’s soul imprint was hidden in Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Yao Lao reacted with shock before realizing she might be revived.
• Chu Zhou offered to help Yao Lao perceive or communicate with the imprint once his soul realm grew stronger.
• Yao Lao gave Chu Zhou a Pill Tower badge to obtain a soul cultivation method from Xuan Kongzi, and Chu Zhou accepted it while saying future help would cost extra.

Chu Zhou returned to the Snake-People Holy City and broke through from Dou Ling to Dou Wang using Yao Lao’s Heavenly King Pill. The Firmament Ledger rewarded him with cultivation and technique upgrades plus three Earth-Grade Spiritual Veins, leaving him eager to claim future firsts.

• Yao Chen promised Chu Zhou a favor, including teaching him alchemy, if Chu Zhou helped him see Han Shanshan’s soul imprint, and Chu Zhou agreed before leaving to seek the green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen about learning Chu Zhou’s Sword Flight technique, but Yao Chen warned that Xiao Yan needed to reach Dou Wang before he could use it.
• Chu Zhou returned to Azure Flame Hall, told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin he would break through, and swallowed Yao Lao’s peak Fifth Grade Heavenly King Pill.
• Chu Zhou shattered the barrier between Dou Ling and Dou Wang, and his aura spread across the Snake-People Holy City, shocking its residents and prompting the elders to prioritize winning him over.
• The Firmament Ledger announced Chu Zhou was the first to reach Dou Wang and awarded him a custom Mid-Earth-Tier Cultivation Technique, three Low Earth Tier Dou Techniques, and Three Earth-Grade Spiritual Veins.
• Chu Zhou chose upgrades for his cultivation method and techniques, learned the significance of Spiritual Veins, and resolved to claim every future first.

After the Firmament Ledger announced Chu Zhou’s breakthrough to Dou Wang and his major rewards, Yan Chushan urged the Huaxia Extraordinary Bureau to recruit him by revealing a dangerous secret realm, but Zhao Tianci opposed the plan. Meanwhile, Chu Zhou began refining his first sixth-grade Dou Wang Pill, leaving its success unknown.

• The Firmament Ledger’s announcement stirred envy and alarm among Chosen Ones from Rome, Nigeria, America, and Huaguo as they learned Chu Zhou had reached Dou Wang.
• Yan Chushan returned to the Huaxia Extraordinary Bureau and proposed revealing its secret realm to secure Chu Zhou’s cooperation.
• Zhao Tianci opposed recruiting Chu Zhou, claiming the Zhao Family had a right to influence the secret realm’s development and refusing to let an outsider share its rewards.
• Chu Zhou prepared to refine a sixth-grade Dou Wang Pill, relying on his recorded experience, strong soul power, Mystic Yellow Azure Flame, and Azure Flame Cauldron.
• Chu Zhou began adding ingredients to the cauldron in precise order, aiming to make his first Dou Wang Pill.

Chu Zhou successfully refined his first sixth-grade pill, used it to advance to Peak Three-Star Dou Wang, and gained a stronger physique. Queen Medusa returned with the green lotus core flame and considered how the Snake-People Tribe could bind Chu Zhou to them, but concluded that no one was suitable to be sent to him.

• Chu Zhou refined a superior-quality Dou Wang Pill, astonishing the Snake-People Tribe with the birth of a sixth-grade pill.
• Queen Medusa and Hai Bodong returned with the green lotus core flame and learned that Chu Zhou had become a sixth-grade alchemist and reached Dou Wang.
• Chu Zhou swallowed the pill, advanced to Peak Three-Star Dou Wang, and reached the mid-stage of a fifth-tier king-level magical beast.
• Chu Zhou learned he needed five pills each of ten sixth-grade varieties to claim the Firmament Ledger reward, then considered traveling to the Black-Corner Region and Central Plains for ingredients.
• Elder Hui urged Queen Medusa to make Chu Zhou a son-in-law of the tribe, but she questioned who could serve him without insulting him and rejected Yue Mei as a candidate.

Chu Zhou effortlessly captured the Green Lotus Core Flame and offered Queen Medusa a supposedly safer way to evolve and break through to Dou Zong: forming a secret soul pact that made him her master. Medusa was torn between her pride and the promise of succeeding without risk as she weighed his proposal.

• Queen Medusa dismissed the tribe's leaders and went with Hai Bodong to speak with Chu Zhou.
• Chu Zhou took the Green Lotus Core Flame and its Green Lotus Seat with a surge of spatial power, then gave Hai Bodong the Purple Spirit Recovery Pill he had promised.
• Hai Bodong left to refine the pill, and Chu Zhou sent Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin away before speaking privately with Medusa.
• Chu Zhou offered to help Medusa evolve and break through using a secret Azure Flame Soul Pact that linked their souls without publicizing their relationship.
• Medusa reacted angrily to the suggestion that she acknowledge Chu Zhou as her master, then struggled with the temptation of his nearly risk-free method.

Queen Medusa accepted Chu Zhou’s Azure Flame Soul Pact, triggering a Firmament Ledger reward that transformed her Bloodline and beast soul and carried her through the Dou Zong bottleneck. She emerged as a Two-Star Dou Zong with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Bloodline, then noticed Chu Zhou staring at her uncovered body.

• Queen Medusa weighed the pact’s risks and benefits, then agreed to sign the Azure Flame Soul Pact with Chu Zhou.
• Chu Zhou formed the soul contract with Mystic Yellow Azure Flame, and the Firmament Ledger rewarded him with the Beast Soul Control Art while infusing Queen Medusa with heaven and earth energy.
• The energy transformed Queen Medusa’s body, Bloodline, and Purple Nether Flame Snake companion soul, breaking her through to Dou Zong as a cocoon of seven-colored and azure light formed around her.
• Chu Zhou assimilated the Beast Soul Control Art and considered seeking a powerful Serpent-Type Magical Beast soul to control.
• Queen Medusa emerged in human form as a Two-Star Dou Zong with the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Bloodline and thanked Chu Zhou before realizing he was staring at her.

After Queen Medusa evolved into a Two-Star Dou Zong, she chose to keep her soul pact with Chu Zhou and accepted the personal name Cai Ling. Chu Zhou asked her for a high-tier Serpent-Type Magical Beast soul, and Cai Ling offered to find an even better choice than the tribe’s stored Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor.

• Queen Medusa dressed after Chu Zhou saw her during her evolution, then thanked him for helping her break through to Dou Zong.
• Chu Zhou offered to dissolve their soul pact, but Queen Medusa refused and explained that she valued its benefits and wanted to help him and the Snake-People Tribe.
• Queen Medusa teased Chu Zhou about being her master, then insisted that he choose a personal name for her; she accepted Cai Ling.
• Chu Zhou asked whether the Snake-People Tribe had a high-tier Serpent-Type Magical Beast soul, and Cai Ling said the Holy Hall held a Sixth-Tier Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor.
• Cai Ling told Chu Zhou that an even better choice was available if he was willing to wait.

Cai Ling led Chu Zhou toward Netherflame Gorge to hunt the Purple Nether Flame Snake, while Chu Zhou dismissed Zhao Tianci’s attempt to control him through a secret realm expedition. At the gorge, they found the snake undergoing a dangerous transformation tribulation, and Chu Zhou saw an opportunity.

• Cai Ling explained that a peak sixth-tier Purple Nether Flame Snake lived in Netherflame Gorge and agreed with Chu Zhou to hunt it after she completed her preparations.
• Chu Zhou returned to Blue Star, gave Meng Ziwei pills to help her advance, and heard how Zhao Tianci was trying to lure him into the Azure Dragon Secret Realm under the Extraordinary Bureau’s arrangements.
• Chu Zhou told Meng Ziwei he would not let Zhao Tianci control him and suggested that she and her second brother could teach him a lesson.
• The next morning, Chu Zhou, Cai Ling, and Hai Bodong flew toward Netherflame Gorge, where Cai Ling’s Dou Zong breakthrough left Hai Bodong astonished.
• At the gorge, they discovered the Purple Nether Flame Snake enduring a lightning tribulation as it attempted to reach the seventh tier; Cai Ling realized it had accelerated its breakthrough out of fear of her, and Chu Zhou saw an opportunity.

Cai Ling ambushed the newly ascended Purple Nether Flame Snake, sealed it, and let Chu Zhou contract its beast soul. After messages reported that the Nethersea Azure Dragon was heading for Wei City, Chu Zhou left for Blue Star to investigate.

• Cai Ling shot the weakened Purple Nether Flame Snake after its lightning tribulation and sealed it with seven-colored chains.
• Chu Zhou contracted the Purple Nether Flame Snake's beast soul and told Cai Ling that a Soul-Splitting Pill could let the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python inhabit the snake's body.
• Chu Zhou saw World Channel messages saying Wei City was in danger from the Nethersea Azure Dragon and left Cai Ling and Hai Bodong to return to Blue Star.
• Cai Ling agreed to look for the Soul-Splitting Pill formula, while Hai Bodong flew to Jia Ma Holy City to ask about it.
• Chu Zhou went online on Blue Star and realized why the authorities were so anxious.

Chu Zhou learned that Zhao Tianci and two foreign leaders had released the Nethersea Azure Dragon from the Bohai Secret Realm, and agreed to fight the Fifth-Tier beast for a substantial fee. The dragon reached Wei City and began terrorizing it, while the city's basic defenses failed to harm him.

• News reports showed the Nethersea Azure Dragon escaping the damaged Secret Realm and heading toward Wei City, prompting public pleas for Chu Zhou to intervene.
• Chu Zhou asked Meng Ziwei to contact Meng Zichen for details and promised to act only if the authorities paid him well.
• Meng Zichen explained that Zhao Tianci and the leaders of Korea and Little Japan had opened the legacy altar, but the Nethersea Azure Dragon devoured them and escaped.
• Chu Zhou set off for Wei City using his Azure Flame Cloud Wings, intending to claim a share of the rewards and the dragon's value.
• The Nethersea Azure Dragon arrived over Wei City, terrifying residents and shattering windows with his roar.
• Wei City's soldiers fired machine guns and artillery at the dragon, but his scales and spiritual defenses shrugged off the attacks.

Chu Zhou arrived as the Nethersea Azure Dragon attacked Wei City and turned the battle around with his speed, Azure Sword Qi, and Purple Nether Flame Snake beast soul. After the serpent’s flames overwhelmed the dragon’s innate breath, Chu Zhou struck from its flank with the Mystic Yellow Heaven-Burning Palm.

• The Nethersea Azure Dragon destroyed Wei City's first line of coastal defenses and advanced toward the downtown area, leaving soldiers and citizens in despair.
• Chu Zhou arrived above the city, dodged the dragon's breath and attacks, and damaged it with his Blue-Yellow Azure Sword Qi.
• Chu Zhou summoned the Purple Nether Flame Snake beast soul, whose power reached the level of a Sixth Tier magical beast and unsettled the Nethersea Azure Dragon.
• The Purple Nether Flame Snake burned away the Nethersea Azure Dragon's innate dragon breath, and Chu Zhou moved to its flank and unleashed the Mystic Yellow Heaven-Burning Palm.

Chu Zhou effortlessly killed the Nethersea Azure Dragon, harvested its soul and Inner Core, and secured its body as Wei City celebrated his victory. Governments worldwide reacted by trying to recruit him, counterbalance Huaguo, or claim a connection to him.

• Chu Zhou and the Purple Nether Flame Snake overwhelmed the Nethersea Azure Dragon, trapping it so Chu Zhou could destroy its soul with Azure Flame Sword Intent.
• Chu Zhou extracted the dragon's soul into a Soul Bead, took its Inner Core, and stored its corpse in his spatial boundary.
• Wei City erupted in cheers, while videos of Chu Zhou's victory spread around the world.
• Qin Zhengguo ordered Spirit Stones delivered to Chu Zhou and offered him an advisory role with the Extraordinary Bureau.
• Foreign governments discussed recruiting Chu Zhou, building stronger Chosen Ones, investigating his associates, or claiming him as their own.