Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo refined healing and cultivation pills while confined in Queen Medusa’s palace, then secretly kept most of his work despite her demand for ninety percent. Queen Medusa was surprised by his alchemy, while the author’s note placed the timeline when Xiao Yan was ten.

• Die left after realizing Chen Mo liked her, and the system awarded him favorability.
• Chen Mo discovered his Top-Tier Fire Control talent and copied recipes for several pills from the Medicine Saint Pill Codex.
• Snake-person guards stopped Chen Mo from leaving his room, but Queen Medusa supplied ingredients and a cauldron on the condition that she receive ninety percent of the pills.
• Chen Mo refined the medicinal ingredients into pills, and Die visited but left without disturbing him.
• Chen Mo handed over only two pills of each kind, claiming losses during refinement, and Queen Medusa expressed surprise at his alchemy.

Queen Medusa learned that Chen Mo had refined a nearly flawless pill, while Mo Bas discovered Chen Mo was staying in the Queen’s bedchamber and ordered him watched. Die visited Chen Mo, admitted she liked him, and was pulled into his arms, where their growing intimacy triggered a system reward.

• Queen Medusa asked Elder Ba Lu to assess Chen Mo’s pill, and he judged its quality nearly flawless and its maker at least a Four-Star Alchemist.
• Mo Bas learned Chen Mo was staying in the Side Hall of Queen Medusa’s bedchamber and ordered a Snake-People soldier to keep watch.
• Chen Mo prepared a bath with Restoration Spirit Liquid, then welcomed Die into his room.
• Die told Chen Mo she had chosen the name Die, and she admitted she liked him after he teased her into answering.
• Chen Mo pulled Die into his arms, triggering an intimacy reward as she blushed and struggled.

Chen Mo’s attempt to get closer to Die was interrupted by Queen Medusa, who kept them apart until Die prepared to leave for her inheritance at the God Temple. As Die’s departure approached, Chen Mo asked for private time with her and bargained with Queen Medusa, ending by insisting on three minutes.

• Queen Medusa interrupted Chen Mo and Die before they could kiss, and Chen Mo covered up their behavior by claiming Die had come to check his injuries.
• Queen Medusa escorted Die away and watched over her during the next two days, while Chen Mo’s wounds mostly healed.
• Die told Chen Mo she would enter the God Temple for an inheritance that could take three months to a year, and assured him she was a four-star Dou Emperor.
• Chen Mo asked Queen Medusa to let him spend time alone with Die before she left, but she refused and threatened him.
• Chen Mo bargained for five minutes, then cut off Queen Medusa’s threat by insisting on three minutes.

Chen Mo kissed Die, formed a Dao bond with her, and learned that the system had bound Queen Medusa as his next goddess. He gained powerful techniques and tried the Great Sun Undying Body, but it drained all his Dou Qi, leaving him to face Queen Medusa’s training the next day with limited strength.

• Queen Medusa allowed Die three minutes alone with Chen Mo, and Die shut the door on her before Chen Mo kissed her.
• The system raised Die’s favorability to its maximum, bound Queen Medusa as Chen Mo’s next goddess, and allowed Chen Mo to become Die’s Dao companion.
• Chen Mo gave Die a Youth Preservation Pill, and Die gave him half of a Heart-Connecting Pendant before leaving when Queen Medusa called time.
• Chen Mo studied his status and mastered the Body Like a Swimming Dragon, while postponing cultivation of the Senluo Death Seal.
• Chen Mo activated the Great Sun Undying Body, but the technique consumed all his Dou Qi before its golden phantom could form.

Chen Mo cultivated the Senluo Death Seal before Queen Medusa summoned him to her bedchamber and challenged him to fight. She agreed to suppress her cultivation to a One-Star Da Dou Shi, but her opening attack shattered his death seal and struck his chest.

• Chen Mo used Epiphany Incense four times to cultivate five death seals, then formed a sixth the next morning.
• A Snake-People guard summoned Chen Mo to Queen Medusa’s bedchamber.
• Queen Medusa struck Chen Mo while using her full strength, then admitted she had forgotten to suppress her cultivation.
• Queen Medusa refused to lower her strength to Chen Mo’s level but agreed to fight as a One-Star Da Dou Shi.
• Chen Mo dodged Queen Medusa’s tail and countered with the Senluo Death Seal, but she shattered it and hit him in the chest.

Chen Mo endured Queen Medusa’s attacks, then counterattacked and pinned her down before slapping her buttocks. Queen Medusa beat him in anger, but his teasing praise increased her favorability and earned him the first part of the Chaos Meditation Art.

• Queen Medusa suppressed her strength to one-star Da Dou Shi and attacked Chen Mo while he stacked six Senluo Death Seals.
• Chen Mo let Queen Medusa hit his face and block his arms, gaining Favorability Coins as her favorability rose.
• Chen Mo counterattacked with the stacked death seals, knocked Queen Medusa down, and pinned her beneath him.
• Chen Mo slapped Queen Medusa’s buttocks, and she blasted him away before pummeling him after noticing his dark golden pendant.
• Chen Mo praised Queen Medusa’s buttocks, raising her favorability and earning the first part of the Chaos Meditation Art.

Chen Mo endured Queen Medusa’s beating, then used the night to recover and cultivate while she discovered his pendant matched the other half of her Heart-Connecting Pendant. The next morning, Chen Mo returned to her bedchamber to seek more favorability, but his flattery did not work.

• Queen Medusa stopped beating Chen Mo, took his pendant, and had him carried to his room for treatment.
• Chen Mo recovered in a medicinal barrel, used pills and Incense Stick's Worth of Enlightenment Time to cultivate, and gained no breakthrough overnight.
• Queen Medusa recognized Chen Mo’s pendant as the other half of her Heart-Connecting Pendant and sealed the palace after sensing his domineering cultivation.
• Mo Bas decided not to act against Chen Mo because he did not want to displease Queen Medusa.
• Chen Mo went to Queen Medusa’s bedchamber the next morning and flattered her, but the system did not award him favorability.

Chen Mo repeatedly provoked Queen Medusa to gain Favorability, but after two weeks she became resistant to his taunts and stopped yielding much. When Queen Medusa left to handle clan affairs, Chen Mo was allowed to move around the royal palace and began gathering ingredients for pills.

• Chen Mo taunted Queen Medusa during their fight, earned Favorability, and obtained the Medicine Cauldron - Tiger Soul before being beaten unconscious.
• Over the next two weeks, Chen Mo raised Queen Medusa's Favorability to 42, accumulated 70 Favorability Coins, reached six-star Dou Master, and advanced his soul realm to the middle Mortal Realm.
• Chen Mo found that Queen Medusa no longer reacted to his taunts with new Favorability and refused to let him touch her.
• Queen Medusa ordered Chen Mo to remain inside the royal palace while she handled clan affairs, and allowed him to request medicinal ingredients from Yue Nu.
• Chen Mo gave Yue Nu ingredient lists for three pills, and she brought the ingredients while telling him that Elder Ba Lu alone had the Ice Heart Grass he needed for the Ice Heart Pill.

Chen Mo went to the royal palace’s Alchemy Room to ask Elder Ba Lu for Ice Heart Grass, but Ba Lu challenged his claim that he had refined a remarkably pure Recovery Pill. Chen Mo began refining another pill to prove himself, and the chapter ended with the Snake-People stunned by his blood-colored flames.

• Yue Nu escorted Chen Mo through the royal palace to meet Elder Ba Lu in the Alchemy Room.
• Ba Lu recognized Chen Mo’s Recovery Pill as nearly perfect and accused him of lying about being only a Two-Star Alchemist.
• Chen Mo offered to refine a Recovery Pill in front of Ba Lu in exchange for Ice Heart Grass and future access to Ba Lu’s ingredients.
• Chen Mo sent a tiny blood-colored, lightning-flecked flame into Ba Lu’s cauldron and began refining the pill.
• Yue Nu suspected Chen Mo’s blood-colored flames were Heavenly Flames, while Ba Lu doubted that Chen Mo could control Heavenly Flames at his cultivation level.

Chen Mo refined a perfect-grade Recovery Pill before Ba Lu and received the Ice Heart Grass. Queen Medusa considered Ba Lu’s suggestion to recruit Chen Mo into the Snake-People Clan, but remained wary because humans and Snake-People were enemies.

• Ba Lu identified Chen Mo’s flame as a Beast Flame and estimated that Chen Mo was a four-star Dou Master as he began refining a Recovery Pill.
• Chen Mo used precise flame control to refine a Recovery Pill with pill patterns, and Ba Lu confirmed it was perfect-grade.
• Ba Lu gave Chen Mo the Ice Heart Grass and offered to exchange alchemy techniques with him.
• Chen Mo returned to his room and began refining the Ice Heart Pill with Tiger Soul.
• Ba Lu urged Queen Medusa to win Chen Mo over, and she weighed his talent against the hostility between humans and the Snake-People Clan.

Chen Mo continued cultivating until Queen Medusa summoned him and questioned why he wanted to stay with the Snake-People. Their confrontation ended with her beating him unconscious and moving him to her side hall, while he obtained the Undying Mysterious Skill—Golden Body Chapter.

• Chen Mo spent three days strengthening himself with the Supreme Primordial Chaos Art and raising his soul through Chaos Meditation Art.
• Queen Medusa questioned Chen Mo about his purpose and his wish to remain with the Snake-People, and he explained that the palace felt like home to him.
• Chen Mo provoked Queen Medusa, who struck him several times; his favorability rose and he received a Third Grade Dou Master Pill and the Undying Mysterious Skill—Golden Body Chapter.
• Queen Medusa knocked Chen Mo unconscious and ordered Yue Nu and two guards to carry him to her side hall.

Mo Bas learned that Queen Medusa had placed Chen Mo in her Side Hall and considered how to kill him without drawing her attention. After recovering, Chen Mo visited Queen Medusa at night and told her he had come to admit his mistake.

• Mo Bas heard that Queen Medusa had arranged for Chen Mo to stay in her Side Hall and told his soldier they would need to lure her away to kill him.
• Chen Mo woke in a lavish room, checked his status and rewards, and learned the Undying Xuan Gong’s Golden Body Chapter required powerful magical beast essence blood.
• Chen Mo decided to seek Queen Medusa’s essence blood and discovered that his room was near her bedchamber.
• Commander Yue Nu said Queen Medusa had gone to sleep, but Queen Medusa allowed Chen Mo to enter her bedchamber.
• Chen Mo told Queen Medusa that he had come to admit his mistake, and she wondered why he had suddenly changed his ways.

Chen Mo apologized to Queen Medusa and won Favorability by massaging her shoulders, then cautiously asked about the cost of giving up a drop of blood essence. Queen Medusa explained that it mattered and suspected Chen Mo was the one who wanted it.

• Chen Mo apologized to Queen Medusa, earning Favorability and an Epiphany Incense duration.
• Chen Mo offered to massage Queen Medusa’s shoulders, then pressed her back into her seat and kneaded them.
• Queen Medusa relaxed under the massage as Chen Mo gained Favorability, the Concealment Technique, and a Critical Hit reward.
• Queen Medusa said she wanted humans enslaved to the Snake-People Clan and a Heavenly Flame.
• Chen Mo asked whether losing a drop of blood essence would be serious, and Queen Medusa asked if he was the person seeking it.

Chen Mo massaged Queen Medusa in hopes of earning her essence blood, and she eventually gave him a drop of her heart's blood. After learning the gift had weakened her, he brought her Ten Tonic Soup and gained favorability and five Favorability Coins.

• Chen Mo continued massaging Queen Medusa, earning one favorability point and the Earth-Rank Elementary Dou Skill Sword Separates the World after provoking her by touching her snake tail.
• Queen Medusa gave Chen Mo a jade bottle containing a drop of her pure heart's blood and ordered him to leave.
• After Chen Mo left, Queen Medusa coughed and turned pale from the strain of giving him the blood.
• Chen Mo returned with Ten Tonic Soup, set it down, and left without waiting for Queen Medusa to respond.
• Queen Medusa drank the soup, and Chen Mo received two favorability points and five Favorability Coins.

Chen Mo completed the Iron Body stage of the Undying Mysterious Skill and gained new techniques before attempting to help Queen Medusa recover. His increasingly bold treatment raised her favorability, but ended with her knocking him unconscious for touching her waist.

• Chen Mo endured a night of body tempering with Queen Medusa's blood essence and emerged with an Iron Body strong enough to resist Sword Qi and a lower-grade spirit artifact.
• Chen Mo found Queen Medusa's favorability at 55, extracted the Concealment Technique and Sword Separates the World, and began refining Tiger Soul.
• Chen Mo brought Queen Medusa a Snake Essence Pill and Origin Returning Fluid, then climbed onto her bed, fed her the pill, and massaged her shoulder.
• Chen Mo continued treating Queen Medusa for two days, raising her favorability to 63 as her complexion recovered.
• Chen Mo squeezed Queen Medusa's waist, and she struck him unconscious with her snake tail.

Chen Mo was ambushed in Queen Medusa’s bedchamber while breaking through, and he fought off several Snake-People assassins. After reaching the seventh star of Dou Master, he escaped the room on Tian Yuan, leaving the attackers behind him.

• Chen Mo began breaking through with a Dou Master Pill while Queen Medusa and Yue Nu were separately lured away from the palace.
• Several Snake-People entered the palace and attacked Chen Mo as he cultivated in the Side Hall.
• Chen Mo reached the seventh star of Dou Master and used Tian Yuan to battle the assassins, including a nine-star Da Dou Shi.
• Chen Mo recognized that Yue Nu had been lured away and suspected Mo Bas was involved in the assassination.
• Chen Mo used his golden wings and Tian Yuan to evade the four-star Dou Ling and burst through the door to escape.

Chen Mo escaped the royal palace but was pursued by Mo Bas, who tried to kill him over his resentment and jealousy. Chen Mo severed Mo Bas’s right arm with a powerful sword technique, and Queen Medusa arrived to stop the fight.

• Mo Bas ignored Yue Nu’s warning and flew after Chen Mo, who had escaped the palace.
• Chen Mo used Kunpeng Wings and Tian Yuan to evade Mo Bas’s attacks while Yue Nu informed Queen Medusa of the assassination attempt.
• Queen Medusa ended her discussion with the Three Great Elders and rushed to Chen Mo’s aid.
• Chen Mo survived Mo Bas’s saber strike with only a minor wound, then unleashed One Sword Separates the Worlds and injured him with a sword lotus.
• Chen Mo struck Mo Bas with a second sword lotus, severing his right arm, but Mo Bas charged again despite his wounds.
• Queen Medusa struck Mo Bas with red light and condemned his insolence.

Queen Medusa spared Mo Bas after he defied her, ordered him to leave the royal city, and brought Chen Mo to her bedchamber. There, she checked his injury and personally applied medicine to it.

• Queen Medusa aimed a crimson arrow at Mo Bas, but the Three Great Elders urged her to spare him under the clan rule against killing fellow Snake-People.
• Queen Medusa fired past Mo Bas, ordered him to return to his tribe, and took Chen Mo to the royal palace.
• The Grand Elder gave Mo Bas medicine and told him there would be no further chance to assassinate Chen Mo.
• Queen Medusa told Chen Mo to stay in her bedchamber, then asked whether he was satisfied with how she handled Mo Bas.
• Queen Medusa called Chen Mo over, took his medicine, and applied it to his chest wound herself.

Queen Medusa made Chen Mo her personal guard and ordered him to move into her bedchamber, while Die continued absorbing her inheritance at the Snake-People Clan's God Temple. Over the next half month, Chen Mo advanced his cultivation and upgraded Kunpeng Wings as Queen Medusa's favorability slowly rose.

• Queen Medusa treated Chen Mo's wound, then beat him unconscious after he grabbed her waist; she later put him in a medicinal bath while he slept.
• The next morning, Chen Mo found that his wounds had partly healed and checked his status panel, which showed Queen Medusa's favorability at 67.
• Queen Medusa appointed Chen Mo her personal guard, kept his massage duties, and ordered him to move his bed into her bedchamber.
• At the God Temple, Die learned the evolution method and other inheritance knowledge and continued absorbing it so she could see Chen Mo in about two months.
• More than half a month passed, Chen Mo reached Eight-Star Dou Master and upgraded Kunpeng Wings to Profound Middle-Rank, while Queen Medusa's favorability rose to 72.

Chen Mo asked Ba Lu for ingredients to make 3rd Grade Pills, then clashed with Queen Medusa over leaving the Snake-People Clan to seek materials for his Copper Body. Queen Medusa agreed to accompany him and revealed a nearby Magical Beast Forest; Chen Mo’s massage also earned him the location of the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Chen Mo asked Ba Lu for ingredients for three 3rd Grade Pills, but Ba Lu said the Snake-People Clan lacked them and admitted that previous ingredients had been taken from human caravans.
• Ba Lu told Queen Medusa that Chen Mo could refine 3rd Grade Pills, and she said she planned to make him one of their own and improve relations with humans before resorting to war again.
• Chen Mo decided to leave the Snake-People Clan for Mo City to seek materials for his Copper Body, but Queen Medusa refused to let him go alone.
• After Chen Mo challenged Queen Medusa and was beaten, she agreed to accompany him and told him about a Magical Beast Forest near Mo City that contained what he needed.
• Chen Mo massaged Queen Medusa’s shoulders, gaining favorability and the location of the Green Lotus Core Flame.