Chapter Summaries

Long Xiao and his companions were sent from the Heaven Realm to the lower realm for a year of tempering, though their mothers loaded them with gifts and Xing Yue was sent to protect them. As their warship approached the Dou Continent, a spatial storm threatened them.

• Long Xiao, Chu Yuxuan, Xia Yun Yun, and Bai Ling'er joked about being punished for sneaking into the God-Suppressing Tower.
• The four Divine Lords ordered their children to descend to the lower realm for a year of tempering.
• The four mothers gave their children rings packed with treasures, and Long Jian sent them through a spatial passage despite their protests.
• Bai Feng dispatched Xing Yue to protect the four, and Long Jian sent them toward the distant Dou Continent.
• Aboard the star-domain warship, Long Xiao reflected on his past life on Blue Star and spoke affectionately with Bai Ling'er.
• Chu Yuxuan warned Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er that a spatial storm was waiting at the passage's exit.

Long Xiao arrived in the Snake-People Tribe, where Queen Medusa and Yue Mei discovered that a powerful force protected him. After Long Xiao revealed his overwhelming strength and offered them rare pills, Medusa allowed him to stay while wondering whether his arrival would bring blessing or disaster.

• Queen Medusa told Yue Mei that Long Xiao had fallen from the sky into Queen's Lake, and warned her that a mysterious power protected him.
• Medusa's attempt to lift Long Xiao was repelled, injuring her, and the newly awakened Long Xiao summoned a Golden Dragon Claw before pulling back to spare the two women.
• Long Xiao learned that he was in the Snake-People Tribe and found no trace of Bai Ling'er or his other companions.
• Long Xiao offered Medusa and Yue Mei rare pills, introduced himself, and asked to stay for a few days.
• Medusa agreed and ordered Yue Mei to arrange Long Xiao's accommodation, then wondered whether his arrival would be a blessing or a curse.

Medusa began her dangerous transformation with the heavenly flame while Long Xiao explored the Snake-People Tribe’s Book Pavilion and learned about the Dou Qi Continent. When he sensed violent energy surging near Medusa’s lake, he vanished to investigate.

• Medusa summoned the green lotus core flame and began her transformation, hoping it would help her break through to Dou Zong.
• Yue Mei took Long Xiao to the Snake-People Tribe’s Book Pavilion, where he used the Extinction Immortal Eye to absorb its knowledge.
• Long Xiao learned about the continent’s cultivation ranks, Medusa’s lineage, and his location in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Long Xiao left the Book Pavilion with Yue Mei, then sensed a violent fluctuation near Medusa’s lake and disappeared to check on her.

Long Xiao saved Medusa from the azure flames consuming her and used his Golden Dragon Heaven-Burning Flame to help her complete her evolution. Medusa emerged as a Nine-Colored Sacred Spirit Python, then approached Long Xiao with blood-red eyes and embraced him from behind.

• Long Xiao saw Medusa's failed attempt to awaken her ancestral bloodline and used his Golden Dragon Heaven-Burning Flame to consume the azure flames.
• Long Xiao gave Medusa his blood to heal her injuries and offered to help her evolve with his divine flame.
• Medusa accepted Long Xiao's help, and he controlled the Golden Dragon Heaven-Burning Flame as she transformed into a nine-colored cocoon.
• The cocoon burst open, revealing Medusa as a Nine-Colored Sacred Spirit Python, and she gained human legs when she took human form.
• Medusa approached Long Xiao with blood-red eyes and wrapped her arms around his waist from behind.

After spending a day with Medusa, Long Xiao pressed her to take responsibility, and she agreed to pursue a relationship with him after getting the elders’ approval. He secured their approval by overwhelming them with his power and tempting them with treasures, then left the Bamboo Garden while the first elder lamented his rejection.

• Long Xiao asked Medusa to take responsibility for what happened between them, and she agreed to consider a relationship with him if the elders approved.
• Long Xiao went to the Bamboo Garden and told the four elders that he and Medusa were in love.
• The elders mocked Long Xiao until he released his aura and made them feel the gap in their strength.
• Long Xiao showed the elders ten chests of valuable treasures, and they eagerly changed their minds and approved his relationship with Medusa.
• The first elder flirted with Long Xiao and offered herself as a concubine, but he refused and left the Bamboo Garden.

The four elders approved Medusa and Long Xiao’s relationship after Long Xiao gave them ten treasure chests. Medusa agreed to become his cultivation partner, while the Starmoon Protector decided to leave and investigate the other young masters.

• The four elders met to discuss how to help Medusa fall in love with a wealthy young master, while Medusa searched the Book Pavilion for information about her constitution.
• Long Xiao returned and asked Medusa whether the elders had agreed, but the four elders entered and announced they would support her relationship with him.
• Medusa objected to the elders’ decision, then realized Long Xiao had won them over with ten treasure chests.
• After the elders left, Medusa agreed to become Long Xiao’s cultivation partner, and he kissed her cheek.
• The Starmoon Protector lamented that Long Xiao had been unfaithful to Bai Ling’er’s young lady, then left to check on the other three young masters.

Long Xiao faced hostility from Snake-People commanders who objected to his relationship with Medusa, and challenged them to fight him together that night to win their approval. He went with Medusa to her chambers and claimed he could help her break through to five-star Dou Zong, then sealed her meridians and left her unable to move.

• Mo Bass and Yan Ci confronted Long Xiao, accusing him of deceiving Medusa, but she forced the Snake-People to kneel and declared that disrespecting him would violate tribal law.
• Long Xiao challenged anyone who wished to test him to attack him together in an arena that night, and Mo Bass accepted.
• Medusa took Long Xiao to her chambers after he insisted on staying with her rather than Yue Mei.
• Long Xiao promised to help Medusa reach five-star Dou Zong, then sealed her meridians and laid her on the bed.

After Long Xiao helped Medusa break through to five-star Dou Zong, she learned that his life essence had strengthened her Divine Beast body. They went together to the Snake-People Tribe’s Battle Plaza, where Long Xiao faced seven tribal commanders while Medusa watched without intervening.

• Long Xiao told Medusa that she had broken through to five-star Dou Zong, and she discovered that the energy in his life essence had restored and strengthened her.
• Medusa considered battling Long Xiao again to grow stronger, but he advised her to use the excess energy to strengthen her body.
• Long Xiao and Medusa arrived hand in hand at the Snake-People Tribe’s feast, where Medusa announced that she would not interfere in the battle.
• The seven tribal commanders surrounded Long Xiao, and he challenged them to attack him together.
• Mo Bass mocked Long Xiao and swung his huge axe at him.

Long Xiao defeated the seven Snake-People commanders with ease, proving his strength before Medusa and the gathered tribe. As Medusa began to declare him the victor, a powerful Snake-People warrior stepped forward to challenge him.

• Long Xiao shattered Mo Bass's axe with one finger, then accepted the seven commanders' challenge.
• Long Xiao dodged the commanders' attacks, struck one down, and used Body of Nothingness to make their attacks collide.
• Long Xiao unleashed a wave of force that hurled all seven commanders from the combat square, and the elderly commander conceded.
• Long Xiao asked whether anyone else objected, and Medusa began declaring him the victor.
• A burly Snake-People man in black armor interrupted Medusa and challenged Long Xiao.

Hei Du emerged from seclusion and challenged Long Xiao, hoping to prove him unworthy of Medusa. Long Xiao let Hei Du attack three times, then defeated him decisively on the platform.

• Hei Du arrived as the Snake-People Tribe’s chief commander, and Mo Bass urged him to challenge Long Xiao for Medusa’s sake.
• Medusa allowed Hei Du and Long Xiao to settle their dispute on the platform after Hei Du claimed Long Xiao had insulted her.
• Long Xiao offered Hei Du three free attacks, caught and crushed his saber, then tore apart his black-python punch and endured his full-powered strike without injury.
• Long Xiao declared Hei Du’s three attacks over and stomped him into a crater, leaving him badly injured and defeated.

After Long Xiao defeated Hei Du, Medusa declared him her husband and reaffirmed her rule over the Snake-People Tribe. As Medusa and Long Xiao grew closer, the High Priest inspected the battle square and concluded that the queen’s evolution might allow his lord to descend ahead of time.

• Medusa announced that Long Xiao was her husband and warned the Snake-People that disloyalty would be punished with death.
• Hei Du and the Seven Great Commanders conceded, then withdrew at Medusa’s command.
• Medusa and Long Xiao retired to her bedchamber and teased each other after cultivating together.
• The High Priest examined the battle’s traces and worried that Long Xiao might disrupt his plan.
• The High Priest declared that Medusa had surpassed the queens before her and said his lord could descend ahead of time, then walked toward the Altar.

The high priest awakened his mistress, who planned to descend and reclaim the Snake-People Tribe after learning that Medusa had transformed her bloodline with Long Xiao’s help. Medusa sensed an unknown threat, while Xiao Huohuo and Yao Lao discovered that Queen Medusa had taken the heavenly flame and decided to visit the Snake-People Tribe.

• The high priest awakened the mistress dwelling in the altar and told her that Medusa had rewritten her fate with Long Xiao’s help.
• The mistress dismissed the danger Long Xiao might pose and ordered the high priest to prepare for her open return to the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa woke with a sudden sense of fear, and Long Xiao comforted her until she fell asleep again.
• Xiao Huohuo found the lotus pedestal empty, and Yao Lao discovered a purple snake scale that showed Queen Medusa had taken the heavenly flame.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Huohuo to gather the remaining treasures so they could visit the Snake-People Tribe.

Long Xiao demonstrated his pill-refining skills to Medusa after learning that Gu He had entered the Tagor Desert. He left Medusa astonished by refining ten top-quality Sixth-Grade Pills in ten seconds, and she decided she had found a treasure.

• Yue Mei reported that Gu He and three powerful experts had entered the Tagor Desert after she chased a young man carrying a large ruler.
• Medusa dismissed the threat, saying her current strength could easily overturn the Jia Ma Empire, while Long Xiao asked who Gu He was.
• Medusa learned that Long Xiao considered himself far superior to the Pill King and challenged him to prove that he was an alchemist.
• Long Xiao brought out the Golden Light Wandering Dragon Cauldron and used the Golden Dragon Heaven-Burning Flame to refine ten Youth-Preserving Pills in ten seconds.
• Long Xiao gave the pills to Medusa, who was amazed by his skill and said she had found herself a treasure.

Gu He and his companions arrived at the Snake-People Tribe seeking the heavenly flame, but Queen Medusa confronted them after successfully evolving into a Dou Zong. Long Xiao watched as Medusa drove the visitors back and noticed a young man hiding nearby with a huge black ruler.

• Long Xiao teased Medusa before a guard reported that Gu He had arrived, and Medusa flew out with him to meet the visitors.
• Yue Mei confronted Gu He, Feng Li, Mad Lion, and the Black-Robed Woman, then fought Mad Lion until the Black-Robed Woman stopped his attack with a sword strike.
• Medusa arrived and revealed that she had successfully evolved into a Dou Zong, frightening the Black-Robed Woman and making Gu He realize they could not obtain the heavenly flame.
• Medusa told Gu He that the heavenly flame was no longer hers and threatened the group, then sent Mad Lion flying with her overwhelming pressure.
• The Black-Robed Woman challenged Medusa, who identified her as Sect Master Yun and dismissed her protests while Long Xiao watched.
• Long Xiao spotted a young man carrying a huge black ruler hiding beside a boulder and suspected he intended to take advantage of the confrontation.

Xiao Huohuo learned that Long Xiao had already devoured the Heavenly Flame and knew about Yao Lao and the Flame Mantra. After the Snake-People defeated Yun Yun and the others, Long Xiao gave Xiao Huohuo a jade token and let him leave, while Medusa asked whether Long Xiao supported her plans for the Snake-People.

• Xiao Huohuo and Yao Lao watched Queen Medusa defeat Gu He and discussed whether the Heavenly Flame still remained.
• Long Xiao approached Xiao Huohuo, identified his cultivation method and Yao Lao, and revealed that his golden flame had devoured the Heavenly Flame.
• Medusa defeated Yun Yun and the other three, who fled, while she chose to spare them and intimidate the Jia Ma Empire.
• Long Xiao gave Xiao Huohuo a jade token and told him to leave, and Xiao Huohuo departed the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa asked Long Xiao whether he liked slaughter, and he said he would support her actions.

After losing the Green Lotus Core Flame, Xiao Huohuo took Yao Lao's advice and set off to settle his debt with the Ice Emperor. Meanwhile, Long Xiao discovered he could separate the devoured flame, and the High Priest prepared a Snake God ritual that would begin at the night's banquet.

• Xiao Huohuo accepted Yao Lao's encouragement and flew off to deal with the Ice Emperor.
• Long Xiao examined the Green Lotus Core Flame and considered copying Xiao Huohuo's cultivation method to balance the power of multiple flames.
• Medusa told Long Xiao that they had to share Snake God Wine at the High Priest's banquet, while an ominous power briefly appeared in the tribe.
• The High Priest met the Snake God, who ordered him to have the tribe drink Snake God Wine that night so they could set things in motion.

At the Snake-People Tribe’s banquet, Long Xiao won over Medusa’s commanders by sharing Immortal Wine that helped them advance in cultivation. When the High Priest arrived with the Snake God Wine for Medusa and Long Xiao, Long Xiao recognized it as Bewildering Soul Poison.

• Medusa waited for Long Xiao to arrive, then welcomed him to the banquet and began the festivities.
• Yue Mei toasted Long Xiao and Medusa, then shared Long Xiao’s Immortal Wine with the commanders.
• Commander Mo Bass broke through after drinking the Immortal Wine, and the commanders declared their support for Long Xiao.
• Medusa offered Long Xiao a toast, and he privately told her that intimacy with him was a natural way to cultivate.
• The High Priest arrived with two cups of Snake God Wine and urged Medusa and Long Xiao to drink them.
• Long Xiao examined the green wine and recognized that it contained Bewildering Soul Poison.

Long Xiao exposed the High Priest’s attempt to poison Medusa, but the High Priest revealed a hidden plan to summon the Snake God. The Snake God descended and claimed she would lead the Snake-People Tribe, while Medusa remained standing against her royal bloodline’s pressure.

• Long Xiao stopped Medusa from drinking poisoned Snake God Wine, and the High Priest admitted he had poisoned it.
• The High Priest demanded that Medusa die for the Snake-People Tribe’s future, so Medusa ordered the guards and Eight Great Commanders to seize him.
• The High Priest unleashed a powerful force that destroyed the hall and revealed an ancient altar rising from beneath the ground.
• The High Priest announced that the Snake God would descend, then bowed to her as a formation appeared in the sky.
• The Snake God emerged and declared that she would lead the Snake-People Tribe, while Medusa resisted the bloodline pressure that forced the others to kneel.

The Snake God revealed that she was the first Queen Medusa and had arranged for the Medusa Lineage to produce a body she could use to return. As she demanded Medusa sacrifice herself, Long Xiao exposed her as the killer of past queens and stood between them.

• The Snake God explained that she had once been the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and that the Snake-People Tribe's ancestors had fled to the Northwest Continent after the Ancient Heavenly Snake seized their homeland.
• The Snake God said she had created the Medusa Lineage and its laws to produce a successor whose body could let her live again, and she demanded that Medusa step onto the altar.
• Medusa struggled with the choice between her own life and the Snake-People Tribe's future as her followers watched in anguish.
• Long Xiao refused the Snake God's demand and shielded Medusa from her.
• Long Xiao accused the Snake God of killing every Queen Medusa through the generations, and the Snake God admitted he had uncovered her plan.

Long Xiao exposed the Snake God's history of possessing and manipulating Queen Medusas, prompting Medusa and the Snake-People Tribe to reject her control. As the Snake God attacked, Medusa protected her people and Long Xiao's golden flames rose to meet her power.

• Long Xiao accused the Snake God of sacrificing generations of Queen Medusas and possessing the strongest among them.
• Medusa grieved for her mother and sister as Yue Mei, Mo Bass, Tong You, and the other tribespeople pledged their loyalty to her.
• Long Xiao gave Medusa a jade bottle, and she declared that the Snake-People Tribe would decide its own future under her rule.
• The Snake God dismissed Medusa and her people as traitors, then unleashed seven-colored radiance and a sandstorm.
• Medusa moved her people to safety and raised a barrier while Long Xiao's golden fire swallowed the Snake God's radiance.