Recaps

Lin Chen forced Queen Medusa to surrender the Green Lotus Core Flame in exchange for her life and the safety of her tribe. After Hua She'er brought the flame, Lin Chen tossed Medusa toward her and seized the lotus pedestal, leaving Medusa falling from the city wall.

• Bai Ya struck Hua She'er and sent her crashing into the city wall when she attacked Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen froze Hua She'er's signal flare and pressured Queen Medusa to hand over her heavenly flame.
• Queen Medusa ordered the Snake-People guards to prepare to fight, but Lin Chen struck and threatened her until she relented.
• Queen Medusa told Hua She'er to fetch the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Hua She'er soon returned with it.
• Lin Chen tossed Queen Medusa toward Hua She'er and used an icy-blue flame whip to pull the Green Lotus Core Flame from Hua She'er's hands.

Lin Chen secured the Green Lotus Core Flame and offered Queen Medusa a deal to help her evolve her bloodline and reach the Dou Zong realm. As Medusa considered accepting, Gu He arrived and interrupted the negotiation by offering her a pill and eyeing Lin Chen’s heavenly flame.

• Lin Chen kept the Green Lotus Core Flame and proposed another deal to Queen Medusa, while Hua She'er and the Snake-People guards demanded that the humans leave.
• Lin Chen had Qing Lin summon Little Red, whose transformation into a Two-Headed Flood Dragon shocked Medusa by revealing its evolved bloodline.
• Lin Chen offered to help Medusa evolve her bloodline, and Bai Ya and Lu Man confirmed his ability as Medusa weighed the offer against her pride and authority.
• Gu He arrived with three companions, offered Medusa a pill to help her break through, and asked Lin Chen about the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Lin Chen accused Gu He of trying to steal his business and glared at him angrily.

Lin Chen ordered Hai Bodong, Bai Ya, and Lu Man to capture Gu He and his companions after they demanded his Heavenly Flame. The group defeated them, captured Gu He and Yun Zhi alive, and Lin Chen ordered their execution until Xiao Yan begged him to spare them.

• Lin Chen rejected Gu He's offer and ordered Hai Bodong, Bai Ya, and Lu Man to take down the Misty Cloud Sect group.
• Hai Bodong and the others fought Gu He, Yan Shi, Feng Li, and the black-robed Yun Zhi, while Xiao Yan recognized Yun Zhi and tried to warn Lin Chen.
• Bai Ya knocked Yan Shi unconscious, Lu Man poisoned and captured Yun Zhi, and Hai Bodong shattered Gu He's defenses and sealed his Dou Qi.
• Hai Bodong brought Gu He to Lin Chen, who ordered the captives killed so they would not disrupt his deal with Her Majesty the Queen.
• Xiao Yan rushed to Lin Chen and pleaded with him to spare the group because one of them was his old acquaintance.

Lin Chen secured Xiao Yan’s favor and used it to claim Yun Yun, then bargained with Queen Medusa for her allegiance in exchange for helping her advance and evolve her bloodline. A month later, Medusa completed her breakthrough and became a Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan asked Lin Chen to spare Yun Yun, and Lin Chen agreed in exchange for Xiao Yan’s favor, while Gu He offered pills and another favor to save her.
• Yun Yun woke, accepted Xiao Yan’s antidote, and rejected Gu He’s proposal before Hai Bodong knocked Gu He unconscious and carried him away with his companions.
• Lin Chen left Yun Yun with Xiao Yan and asked Queen Medusa to cooperate with him to evolve her bloodline and reach Dou Zong.
• Queen Medusa agreed to serve Lin Chen for three years in exchange for a Sect Breaking Pill and his help evolving her bloodline, then took him to the Snake-People Tribe’s treasury.
• A month later, Queen Medusa transformed into human form and broke through to become a Dou Zong expert.

After a month of cultivation, Lin Chen reached the mysterious skin realm of the Mysterious Jade Vajra Body and broke through to Eight-Star Dou Wang. As Bai Ya, Lu Man, and Xiao Yan prepared to leave, Lin Chen asked Xiao Yan whether he had visited Qingshan Town.

• Lin Chen emerged from seclusion after absorbing the Marrow-Burning Liquid and reached Eight-Star Dou Wang, entering the mysterious skin realm.
• Lin Chen reflected on the growing resource demands of his cultivation and hoped the Heavenly Snake Mansion could provide the ingredients needed for the vajra body realm.
• Lin Chen met Qing Lin and learned that she had advanced to Dou Shi, then woke Zi Yan and told her it was time to leave.
• Hai Bodong told Lin Chen that Gu He and the others had departed in a dejected, drunken state.
• Bai Ya and Lu Man left for the Heavenly Snake Mansion, promising to report Lin Chen's proposed deal to their Mansion Lord.
• Xiao Yan revealed that refining the Green Lotus Core Flame had raised his cultivation from two-star to seven-star Dou Shi, and Lin Chen asked whether he had visited Qingshan Town.

Lin Chen learned that Xiao Yan had never heard of Xiao Yi Xian and decided to search for her in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. After Xiao Yan left for the Alchemist Grand Meeting, Lin Chen departed with Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin, while Medusa stayed behind to settle her tribe’s affairs before joining him.

• Lin Chen asked Xiao Yan about Xiao Yi Xian, but Xiao Yan said he had never heard of her and described his plans to attend the Alchemist Grand Meeting before facing the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Lin Chen parted ways with Xiao Yan, then sent Hai Bodong to ask Medusa whether she would leave with them or join later.
• Medusa asked for three months to settle her tribe’s affairs, and Lin Chen agreed on the condition that she honor their agreement by the deadline.
• Medusa gave Lin Chen her life-bound Snake Scale, which could withstand a strike from an ordinary Dou Zong, and Lin Chen set out for the Magical Beast Mountain Range with Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin.
• Hua She'er questioned whether Medusa would serve Lin Chen, and Medusa told her to oversee the tribe until Medusa returned after evolving her bloodline.

Lin Chen returned to Qingshan Town and learned that Xian'er had disappeared after destroying the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. He then led Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to investigate a hidden cave in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Lin Chen brought Qing Lin and Hai Bodong to Qingshan Town, where he sent Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin to explore while he visited the Myriad Medicine Pavilion.
• Lin Chen asked Yao Wan'an whether Xian'er had returned, and Yao Wan'an told him she had vanished after using her Woeful Poison Body to kill the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• Lin Chen blamed himself for Xian'er's disappearance, asked Yao Wan'an to notify Jia Nan Academy if he heard from her, and gave him a bottle of Qi Recovery Pills.
• Lin Chen and his companions found a cave hidden behind vines beneath a cliff and entered to investigate a powerful expert's hidden treasure site.

Lin Chen discovered Xiao Yi Xian’s letter in the hidden tomb and learned she had gone to the Chu Yun Empire while seeking a cure for her woeful poison body. He decided to travel there alone, while the Soul Hall Protector’s plot against the Jia Ma Empire continued to unfold.

• Zi Yan broke through the tomb’s stone door, and Lin Chen found Xiao Yi Xian’s handwriting on the gravestone and a hidden box beneath the flower bed.
• Lin Chen opened the box and read Xiao Yi Xian’s letter, which said she had traveled to the Chu Yun Empire and worked for a Soul Hall Protector who promised a cure for her poison body.
• Lin Chen decided to go to the Chu Yun Empire alone and told Hai Bodong to take Qing Lin and Zi Yan to the Imperial Capital and meet Xiao Yan.
• In the Chu Yun Empire, a subordinate told the Soul Hall Protector that Lord Heavenly Poison had gone to cripple Jia Xingtian and that assassins had been sent after Gu He.
• The subordinate mentioned Lord Heavenly Poison’s objections to the mission, and the Soul Hall Protector ordered him to leave the matter alone.

Lin Chen parted ways with Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin before entering the Chu Yun Empire in disguise. At the border city of Abundance, a Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect leader mistook him for a fifth-rank alchemist and ordered a subordinate to capture him.

• Lin Chen gave Hai Bodong the Purple Spirit Recovery Pill recipe and promised him an Emperor's Extreme Pill if he recovered and served well.
• Lin Chen flew away from Qingshan Town while Zi Yan and Qing Lin stayed with the Twin-Headed Fire Spirit Flood Dragon.
• Disguised as a third-grade alchemist, Lin Chen entered Abundance and learned that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect had backed the third prince's rise to the throne.
• Lord Gui Li recognized Lin Chen as a fifth-rank alchemist and decided to capture him rather than pursue Gu He.
• Lord Gui Li ordered a Black-Robed Man to capture Lin Chen, leaving the subordinate stunned.

Lin Chen tortured a Hall of Souls envoy for information, learned of a plot against the Jia Ma Empire’s Alchemists, and disguised himself as envoy 7962 to infiltrate the organization while searching for Xiao Yi Xian. In the Imperial Capital, Lord Heavenly Poison prepared to target the Alchemist Grand Meeting and dismissed the contestants as unimpressive.

• Lin Chen defeated a Black-Robed Man, discovered he was Hall of Souls envoy 7962, and tortured him for answers.
• The envoy revealed plans to attack during the Alchemist Grand Meeting and capture Jia Xingtian and the empire’s Alchemists, while Gui Li prepared to move against Gu He.
• Lin Chen weighed whether to go to the Imperial Capital to protect Zi Yan and Qing Lin, then decided to infiltrate the Hall of Souls as 7962 and search for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lin Chen put on the envoy’s robes and mask, burned the corpse, and used the Hall of Souls’ voice-changing technique.
• In the Imperial Capital, Lord Heavenly Poison received a roster of Alchemist contestants, rebuked a gray-robed man, and burned the list after judging the contestants inferior to someone.

Gu He was ambushed and captured by a ghost-masked Hall of Souls fighter, but Lin Chen intervened before the man could take him away. Lin Chen attacked the wounded enemy while the other black-robed pursuers held back.

• Gu He fled through the Misty Cloud Mountain Range after black-robed fighters ambushed him and blocked his return to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Gu He fought the pursuers with purple flames, but the ghost-masked man captured him with chains and struck his dantian.
• Lin Chen appeared disguised as a black-robed subordinate and stabbed the ghost-masked man with an ice-blue saber.
• The other pursuers recognized that 7962 had betrayed them for Lord Heavenly Poison and refused to help the wounded ghost-masked man.
• Lin Chen revealed his jade protection and dark-blue flame, then unleashed a dragon roar and a barrage of ice-blue fists at the ghost-masked man.

Lin Chen killed Gui Li and the other black-robed men, then brought Gu He to the Imperial Capital and refined a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill that caused a major stir. The pill’s display drew the attention of the Imperial Family, Lord Heavenly Poison, and Xiao Yan, while Yao Lao recognized Lin Chen’s Heavenly Flames.

• Lin Chen killed Gui Li and four fleeing black-robed men, then forced Gu He to accompany him to the Imperial Capital in exchange for a thirty-year commitment.
• At the Mittel Auction House, Lin Chen reunited with Hai Bodong, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin, and fed Zi Yan a pill that raised her to Seven-Star Dou Wang.
• Lin Chen began refining the Purple Spirit Recovery Pill while Gu He watched and learned from his technique.
• Several days later, Lin Chen produced a middle-grade sixth-grade pill, sending a purple pillar of light and a strong medicinal fragrance across the Imperial Capital.
• An Imperial Family elder ordered an investigation into the pill’s source, while Lord Heavenly Poison questioned the reports about the alchemist and demanded better intelligence.
• Xiao Yan saw the pillar of light, and Yao Lao recognized Lin Chen’s Heavenly Flames and realized Lin Chen had arrived in the Imperial Capital.