Chapter Summaries

Su Tian beat Hei Meng while Qing Mu suppressed him, then crippled him after Hei Meng crushed a Communication Token to summon help. The chapter ended as Snake-People Commander Mo Bass arrived with an aura stronger than Qing Mu’s.

• Su Tian struck Hei Meng repeatedly while Qing Mu’s aura kept Hei Meng from moving or circulating his Dou Qi.
• Qing Mu gave Su Tian permission to cripple Hei Meng as long as he spared his life.
• Hei Meng crushed a Communication Token, but Su Tian seized and shattered Hei Meng’s Dou Crystal before he could stop him.
• Su Tian kicked Hei Meng’s lumbar spine, leaving him severely injured and no longer a threat.
• Mo Bass appeared in the sky and rushed toward Su Tian and the others.

Mo Bass arrived at Su Tian’s courtyard and overpowered Qing Mu before striking Su Tian down and preparing to kill him. Just as Su Tian faced death, Hua She'er appeared and destroyed Mo Bass’s attack.

• Su Tian sensed Mo Bass approaching, and Qing Mu promised to protect him if the commander attacked.
• Mo Bass arrived and rejected Qing Mu’s plea to spare Su Tian, insisting that Su Tian pay for crippling Hei Meng.
• Qing Mu challenged Mo Bass, but Mo Bass shattered his defense with one palm strike and sent him flying.
• Su Tian tried to escape, but Mo Bass struck him down and launched an ink-black attack to kill him.
• As Su Tian struggled against the attack, a strange marking briefly appeared on his forehead.
• Hua She'er descended and destroyed Mo Bass’s attack, leaving Su Tian stunned to see her.

Hua She'er repeatedly protected Su Tian from Mo Bass, who was determined to kill him. Mo Bass finally stopped when Hua She'er revealed that Queen Medusa had ordered Su Tian kept alive, though he remained furious and murderous.

• Hua She'er intervened when Mo Bass attacked Su Tian and refused to let him kill him.
• Mo Bass charged again, so Su Tian broke through a wall and fled, but Mo Bass caught up and pursued him with a tracking attack.
• Su Tian raced toward Hua She'er, who pushed aside her urge to strike him and instead used a gentle force to move him clear of Mo Bass's attack.
• Mo Bass unleashed the Yin-Devouring Rakshasa Palm, but Hua She'er warned that Queen Medusa had ordered Su Tian kept alive and that disobedience meant execution.
• Mo Bass accepted that Hua She'er was telling the truth, blasted the ground beside Su Tian, and left him alive.

After the Great Elder stopped Mo Bass from attacking Su Tian, she sent the others away and confronted Su Tian about his identity. She then declared that a marriage contract would bind him to Queen Medusa as her spouse.

• Hua She'er broke up the clash between Mo Bass and Su Tian, while Su Tian silently vowed to repay her for the injury she caused him.
• The Great Elder arrived and warned Mo Bass that he would die if Su Tian was killed; Mo Bass apologized and left with Hei Meng and Base after receiving a third-rank body-repair pill.
• The Great Elder sent Hua She'er to escort Qing Mu to the pill chamber and offered him medicinal ingredients to help heal his internal injuries.
• After Qing Mu departed, the Great Elder used her pressure to demand that Su Tian reveal who he was.
• The Great Elder told Su Tian that a marriage contract would make him Queen Medusa's spouse and tossed the contract to him.

Su Tian accepted the Great Elder’s arrangement for him to marry Queen Medusa, while suspecting that the decision was tied to his bloodline. The Great Elder revealed that his emperor clan bloodline was a supreme bloodline capable of suppressing other Dou Di bloodlines.

• Su Tian caught the marriage contract and agreed to the Great Elder’s plan for him to marry Queen Medusa.
• Su Tian questioned whether his bloodline had prompted the Great Elder to arrange the marriage.
• The Great Elder explained how Dou Di bloodlines weakened over generations unless another Dou Di emerged.
• The Great Elder revealed that Su Tian possessed an emperor clan bloodline, a supreme bloodline that did not weaken over time.
• The Great Elder said the emperor clan bloodline could suppress other Dou Di bloodlines, leaving Su Tian stunned.

The Great Elder explained the emperor clan bloodline’s potential and arranged for Su Tian to marry Queen Medusa, believing their union could strengthen the Snake-People Tribe’s bloodline. Su Tian accepted the arrangement, but Queen Medusa angrily rejected the proposed marriage when the Great Elder told her.

• The Great Elder described how the emperor clan bloodline could improve descendants’ aptitude and might suppress other Dou Di bloodlines, while Su Tian privately reflected on its abilities and kept his knowledge of the clan mark secret.
• The Great Elder revealed that the elders had identified Su Tian’s bloodline and chosen marriage because it could not be forcibly extracted without losing its power.
• The Great Elder set the wedding for the next few days and told Su Tian to remain where he was until someone escorted him.
• Su Tian obediently accepted the arrangement, then privately looked forward to marrying Queen Medusa after the Great Elder left.
• The Great Elder told Queen Medusa in the Divine Hall that she was to marry Su Tian, and Queen Medusa angrily refused.

Queen Medusa rejected the Great Elder’s plan to marry her to Su Tian, but accepted that her duty to the Snake-People Tribe left her little choice. Secretly determined to escape the marriage through a dangerous transformation, she flew toward Stone Desert City, where the Green Lotus Core Flame was growing.

• Queen Medusa challenged the Great Elder’s plan to marry her to Su Tian, and the Great Elder insisted that the marriage served the Snake-People Tribe’s future.
• Queen Medusa realized that her position as queen meant she could not freely choose her own marriage, and she resolved to gamble her life on an ancient transformation method.
• Queen Medusa concealed her true intentions and told the Great Elder that she understood and needed to rest.
• After the Great Elder left the Divine Hall, Queen Medusa sensed a disturbance near Stone Desert City and flew there in secret toward the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Queen Medusa tracked a heavenly flame beneath Stone Desert City, hoping to use the green lotus core flame to evolve into a Dou Zong and escape the arranged marriage to Su Tian. She found the flame in an underground cavern and prepared to claim it.

• Queen Medusa sensed a scorching aura beneath Stone Desert City and realized it came from the green lotus core flame.
• She entered the earth in her serpent form and pursued the flame’s aura underground, determined to evolve and gain control over her fate.
• Queen Medusa reached a magma lake, where the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake sensed her power and stayed out of her way.
• She passed through the cavern beyond the lake and discovered the green lotus core flame hovering above a green lotus dais.

Queen Medusa fought the green lotus core flame and prepared a seal to subdue it. In his courtyard, Su Tian began training in Army-Breaking Dragon Fist, determined to master it despite lacking guidance.

• Queen Medusa's Purple Spirit Devouring Serpent Palm failed to stop the green lotus core flame, whose explosion forced her to assume her true form and endure its power.
• Queen Medusa survived the blast, returned to human form, and began forming the Purple Spirit Serpent-Slaying Seal to seal the flame.
• Su Tian recovered in his courtyard and resumed practicing the Earth-tier Low-grade Dou Technique Army-Breaking Dragon Fist while Qing Mu recuperated from his injuries.
• Su Tian struggled to compress his Dou Qi the eight times the technique required and could reliably manage only two compressions.
• Su Tian resolved to surpass Xiao Yan without Yao Lao's guidance and began compressing his fiery-red Dou Qi again.

Su Tian used his soul power to complete the third compression of his Dou Qi and successfully unleashed the Army-Breaking Dragon Fist. Meanwhile, Queen Medusa returned to Temple City after subduing the green lotus core flame, delegated the tribe’s affairs to Hua She'er, and went to her prepared evolution site.

• Su Tian used his soul power to control his unstable Dou Qi and complete its third compression.
• Su Tian unleashed the Army-Breaking Dragon Fist, whose Crimson Flame Dragon burned a century-old tree to ash.
• Su Tian decided to devote the next few days to mastering the Army-Breaking Dragon Fist.
• Queen Medusa returned to Temple City in a weakened, bedraggled state after subduing the green lotus core flame.
• Queen Medusa ordered Hua She'er to handle the Snake-People Tribe's affairs and conceal her seclusion from the Great Elder.
• Queen Medusa entered the forbidden area she had prepared for her evolution.

Su Tian tested his six-compression Army-Breaking Dragon Fist, destroying much of his courtyard and using soul power to repel the shock wave. As Mo Bass attacked him in an attempt to stop his marriage to Queen Medusa, Su Tian prepared to counter with the same technique.

• Su Tian unleashed his six-compression Army-Breaking Dragon Fist, creating a Crimson Flame Dragon that blasted a deep crater into the courtyard.
• Su Tian used a soul-power shield and a surge of soul power to withstand and disperse the attack’s shock wave.
• After seven days without news from the Great Elder, Su Tian was struck by a black arrow, which he burned to ash with his fist.
• Mo Bass entered the courtyard and declared he would kill Su Tian to prevent his marriage to Queen Medusa.
• Mo Bass attacked with the Yin-Devouring Rakshasa Palm, sending venomous snakes at Su Tian, who halted his retreat and began casting Army-Breaking Dragon Fist.

Su Tian survived Mo Bass's attack with the Army-Breaking Dragon Fist, and Qing Mu arrived in time to protect him from the resulting shock wave. After the Great Elder forced Mo Bass to retreat, Qing Mu offered to help Su Tian recover at his residence, where Su Tian accepted a newly triggered check-in task.

• Su Tian used the Army-Breaking Dragon Fist to shatter Mo Bass's dark palm imprint, though the ensuing energy shock wave threatened to overwhelm him.
• Qing Mu arrived and dispersed the shock wave, then confronted Mo Bass for attacking Su Tian.
• The Great Elder warned that Mo Bass would die if Su Tian did, prompting Mo Bass to leave; she also arranged for Su Tian's protection until his wedding to Queen Medusa.
• Qing Mu offered to restore Su Tian's soul power at his residence, and Su Tian accepted after the system triggered a check-in task there.

Su Tian grew wary of Qing Mu’s eager offer to treat his injuries, suspecting the alchemist had ulterior motives. After earning a Soul Slave Contract Book from the system, Su Tian prepared to stay alert as Qing Mu began refining medicine to heal him.

• Qing Mu carried the injured Su Tian to his courtyard and said he would prepare treatment for him.
• Su Tian attacked Qing Mu’s Spirit-Seeking Mouse, but Qing Mu extinguished the flames with his soul power and explained the mouse’s ability to sense medicinal ingredients.
• The system announced that Su Tian had completed a check-in task and rewarded him with a low-grade Soul Slave Contract Book that could bind a soul entity at or below the Dou Wang level.
• Qing Mu brought out his Myriad-Beast Heaven-Earth Cauldron and began refining a Spirit-Gathering Fruit to stabilize Su Tian’s injuries and nourish his soul.

Qing Mu refined a Profound Spirit Soul-Recovery Pill and used its hidden side effect to make Su Tian lose control of his body, then sent his soul into Su Tian to take over his body. Su Tian remained conscious and revealed that he had been waiting for Qing Mu to make this move.

• Qing Mu refined the Profound Spirit Soul-Recovery Pill while Su Tian watched and learned from his alchemy.
• Qing Mu gave Su Tian the pill and urged him to cultivate, and Su Tian swallowed it after checking its ingredients.
• The pill's medicinal power healed Su Tian's body and caused him to lose control of it, while Qing Mu took a blood-red pill and released his soul form.
• Qing Mu revealed that he planned to escape the Netherworld Poison Seal by merging with Su Tian's body and soul.
• Qing Mu entered Su Tian's body, and Su Tian calmly prepared to deal with him.

Qing Mu tried to take over Su Tian’s body, but Su Tian used the Soul Slave Contract Book to bind him and make him an obedient servant. On Su Tian’s wedding day, Gu He arrived at Temple City and confronted Mo Bass.

• Qing Mu began using the Soul Transfer Fusion Art to devour Su Tian’s soul and claim his body.
• Su Tian activated the Soul Slave Contract Book and subdued Qing Mu, making him his loyal servant.
• Su Tian ordered Qing Mu to hide in a soul-housing bracelet and return to his own body, then stayed at Qing Mu’s residence to study alchemy.
• On the day he was to marry Queen Medusa, Su Tian waited for the Great Elder to arrive.
• Gu He arrived outside Temple City, where Mo Bass challenged the human intruder and Gu He introduced himself.

Su Tian recognized that Gu He had come to Temple City for the green lotus core flame and weighed the dangers of taking it before accepting the system’s check-in task at Bamboo Forest Snake Island. Gu He demanded a meeting with Queen Medusa, and she finally appeared as Xiao Yan watched from hiding.

• Su Tian realized Gu He was likely seeking the green lotus core flame and considered stealing it, but worried about the lotus base, pursuit, and taming the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• The system offered Su Tian a check-in task at Bamboo Forest Snake Island, and he accepted despite the danger.
• Gu He asked Mo Bass and Yue Mei to arrange a meeting with Queen Medusa, but Mo Bass refused and warned him to leave.
• Gu He called out to Queen Medusa, while Yan Shi and Mo Bass traded insults before Gu He stopped them.
• Queen Medusa appeared above the city wall, and Xiao Yan watched her from hiding.

Gu He offered Queen Medusa valuable pills in exchange for the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Su Tian and Xiao Yan watched for a chance to obtain it. Queen Medusa refused the trade, leaving the negotiations poised to fail.

• Queen Medusa appeared before Gu He's party, and Su Tian recognized her as a clone while waiting for a chance to slip away toward Bamboo Forest Snake Island.
• Gu He told Queen Medusa that he had come for the heavenly flame, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao watched and prepared to act if an opportunity arose.
• Mo Bass and Yue Mei realized Queen Medusa planned to use the heavenly flame to attempt a dangerous breakthrough and worried about the risks to her and the Snake-People Tribe.
• Gu He offered two Sixth-grade Dou Ling Pills and one Seventh-grade Transformation Pill in exchange for the heavenly flame.
• Queen Medusa acknowledged the offer was tempting but refused to trade.

Su Tian took advantage of the Great Elder leaving to head for Bamboo Forest Snake Island, where Queen Medusa's true body was preparing to evolve. Yun Yun exposed Queen Medusa's energy clone and struck it, prompting the Great Elder to order an attack on Gu He and his companions, while Su Tian reached the bamboo forest and received a system check-in task.

• After Queen Medusa refused Gu He's offer, the Great Elder realized she was preparing to evolve and left Su Tian behind.
• Su Tian escaped and headed for Bamboo Forest Snake Island while Gu He and his companions continued negotiating with Queen Medusa.
• Yun Yun revealed that Queen Medusa was an energy clone and that her true body was preparing to evolve with a heavenly flame.
• Yun Yun attacked Queen Medusa's clone, and the Great Elder ordered the Snake-People to kill Gu He and the other humans.
• Su Tian reached Bamboo Forest Snake Island, where the system announced a check-in reward of a one-day Nine-Star Dou Emperor Trial Card.

Su Tian received three system rewards, including Nine-Star Dou Emperor strength, a battle pet contract, and the Green Lotus Base, while Gu He and Xiao Yan separately entered Temple City in search of the Heavenly Flame. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan confronting Su Tian after finding him with the Green Lotus Base.

• Su Tian received a Nine-Star Dou Emperor Trial Card and planned to ambush Xiao Yan to take the Green Lotus Core Flame and its Green Lotus Base.
• The system awarded Su Tian a Battle Pet Contract, which he intended to use to claim the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• Yun Yun cleared a path for Gu He to enter Temple City, while Yan Shi and Feng Li held off Mo Bass and Yue Mei; Yun Yun then stayed to fight the Great Elder and Hua She'er.
• Xiao Yan slipped into Temple City and followed Yao Lao's guidance toward Bamboo Forest Snake Island, while Gu He was misdirected toward the north of the city.
• The system gave Su Tian the Green Lotus Base, which disappeared from Xiao Yan's Storage Ring and appeared in the bamboo forest.
• Xiao Yan found Su Tian with the Green Lotus Base, accused him of stealing it, and Su Tian recognized him.

Su Tian and Xiao Yan confronted each other over the stolen Green Lotus Base and their competing pursuit of the Green Lotus Core Flame. Their first exchange ended in a draw, and Xiao Yan realized Su Tian already knew the Heavy Xuan Ruler’s secret.

• Su Tian identified Xiao Yan and admitted he intended to take the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Xiao Yan demanded answers about the Green Lotus Base and Su Tian’s knowledge of him.
• Yao Lao sensed that Su Tian was a One-Star Great Dou Master and an Alchemist, but could not see through him completely.
• Xiao Yan and Su Tian prepared to fight, each weighing the other’s strengths as Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that Queen Medusa had begun absorbing the Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan charged with the Heavy Xuan Ruler, and Su Tian met its blow with his fist; both fighters stepped back without gaining an advantage.
• Su Tian said he knew something about the Heavy Xuan Ruler, leaving Xiao Yan shocked and suspicious.