Chapter Summaries

Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er returned to Jia Nan Academy, where Su Qian and the students thanked them for saving it. Long Xiao reunited with Xiao Huohuo and Curly, met Zi Yan, and settled into the dorm with the group, who looked forward to Bai Ling'er's cooking.

• Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er entered the Inner Academy, where Su Qian and the teachers and students bowed to them and thanked them for saving Jia Nan Academy.
• Xiao Huohuo and Curly claimed Long Xiao as their big brother and escorted him toward their dorm while Bai Ling'er went with Zi Yan.
• On the way, Long Xiao warned Xiao Huohuo and Curly not to mention Shasha to Bai Ling'er and said he would stay at the academy for a few days.
• Bai Ling'er caught up with the group, and Long Xiao recognized Zi Yan's Dragon Race blood and gave her a bottle of pills, which she eagerly ate.
• At the dorm, Bai Ling'er offered to cook, and Zi Yan urged Long Xiao to finish the meal while Xiao Huohuo and Curly exchanged knowing smiles.

Long Xiao and the others shared Bai Ling'er’s meal and Immortal Wine, which helped Xiao Huohuo break through but left everyone struggling to eat her unpleasant Flood Dragon kidney slices. After Bai Ling'er revealed a powerful sealed dragon and an incomplete Tenth-Level Formation beneath Jia Nan Academy, Long Xiao became interested in investigating the cave abode.

• Bai Ling'er served the group a meal, and Long Xiao brought out Immortal Wine that helped Xiao Huohuo reach Peak Dou Ling.
• Bai Ling'er fed Long Xiao Flood Dragon kidney slices, and Long Xiao tricked Xiao Huohuo, Curly, and Zi Yan into eating them too.
• Long Xiao sent Xiao Huohuo and Curly to their rooms and helped Zi Yan digest the wine’s energy before leaving with Bai Ling'er.
• Bai Ling'er told Long Xiao that she and Xing Yue had found a cave abode in the Magma World beneath Jia Nan Academy’s black tower, where a Giant Dragon was sealed inside an incomplete Tenth-Level Formation.
• Long Xiao learned the sealed dragon had reached Peak Nine-Star Dou Saint and might be connected to Zi Yan, then sensed heavenly flames near the black tower as Little Gold stirred within him.

Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er descended beneath Jia Nan Academy’s Heaven-Burning Qi Refining Tower and reached the cave mansion of Tou She Ancient God, where they met Zhu Kun, the imprisoned Dragon Emperor. Zhu Kun explained the cave’s origin and revealed that his lost daughter had been left somewhere on the land above, while Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er suspected she was Zi Yan.

• Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er descended through the magma, drove off the fallen heart flame, and passed the Spirit Array with the World-Breaking Shuttle.
• Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er met Zhu Kun, who identified himself as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor and named the site Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion.
• Zhu Kun explained that Tou She Ancient God had trapped him there and that the cave held an unfinished Emperor Grade Pill containing Origin Qi that could help a Peak Dou Sheng become a Dou Di.
• Long Xiao found that the cave entrance required the lost Tou She Ancient God Jade and could not be opened by force.
• Zhu Kun revealed that he had lost his newborn daughter somewhere on the land above, and Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er suspected she was Zi Yan.

Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er told Zhu Kun that his daughter Zi Yan was alive and explained the danger facing the Dou Continent. They left the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion as Mang Qianchi and three Lei Clan prodigies approached Jia Nan Academy to answer Su Qian's plea for help.

• Long Xiao told Zhu Kun that Zi Yan was alive, and Bai Ling'er described her achievements at Jia Nan Academy.
• Zhu Kun trusted Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er, asked them to protect Zi Yan, and chose not to meet her so he would not disrupt her life.
• Long Xiao explained that a powerful race beyond the world threatened the continent, and he and Bai Ling'er departed the Ancient Emperor's Cave Mansion.
• Mang Qianchi traveled toward Jia Nan Academy with Lei Dong, Lei Heavenbreaker, and Lei Ritian after Su Qian requested help.
• Lei Dong warned Lei Heavenbreaker and Lei Ritian not to underestimate the world, while Mang Qianchi ordered them not to bully his students.

Mang Qianchi returned to Jia Nan Academy with Lei Dong, Lei Ritian, and Lei Heavenbreaker, and learned that two young people had already defeated a Dou Sheng. Lei Heavenbreaker challenged them, but Xiao Huohuo stepped forward to fight him and led everyone to the Arena.

• Mang Qianchi reunited with Su Qian and learned that two young people had resolved the academy’s crisis by defeating a Dou Sheng.
• Mang Qianchi introduced Lei Dong, Lei Ritian, and Lei Heavenbreaker to Su Qian, who escorted them into the Inner Academy.
• Lei Ritian belittled the students, while Lei Heavenbreaker demanded a match against the two people who had defeated the Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Huohuo challenged Lei Heavenbreaker to fight with their cultivation suppressed, and Lei Heavenbreaker accepted.
• Xiao Huohuo headed to the Arena as Mang Qianchi and the others followed to watch.

Xiao Huohuo battled Lei Heavenbreaker in the Jia Nan Academy arena, overcoming his lightning techniques with the Eternal Heaven and Earth Keyboard and mental attacks. Lei Heavenbreaker then unleashed his Eight-Star Dou Zun strength and lunged to kill Xiao Huohuo, who was left unable to move as Lei Dong rushed to intervene.

• Lei Heavenbreaker suppressed his strength to Peak Dou Ling and attacked Xiao Huohuo with a powerful lightning sphere, but Xiao Huohuo's golden brick shielded him.
• Xiao Huohuo fought Lei Heavenbreaker with the Eternal Heaven and Earth Keyboard, while Mang Qianchi protected the arena with a defensive formation.
• Xiao Huohuo's Keyboard Immortal techniques countered Lei Heavenbreaker's lightning attacks, and his Great Insulting Technique left Lei Heavenbreaker vulnerable to a crushing keyboard blow.
• Lei Heavenbreaker rose again, trapped Xiao Huohuo in a Thunderbolt Cage, and attacked with a lightning spear, but Xiao Huohuo shattered the cage and destroyed the spear with golden strikes and mental attacks.
• Lei Heavenbreaker released his Eight-Star Dou Zun strength, collapsed the protective barrier, and lunged for Xiao Huohuo as Mang Qianchi called for Lei Dong to stop him.

Long Xiao stopped Lei Heavenbreaker from killing Xiao Huohuo, then received Lei Dong’s token and an invitation to a banquet from Mang Qianchi. After Long Xiao accepted Bai Ling’er’s pills and considered how she and Shasha would react to meeting, he remained troubled about his return to the Jia Ma Empire.

• Long Xiao blocked Lei Heavenbreaker’s attack on Xiao Huohuo and injured him before Lei Dong could intervene.
• Lei Dong introduced himself, gave Long Xiao a Lei Clan token, and apologized for Lei Heavenbreaker’s actions; Mang Qianchi thanked Long Xiao and invited him to a banquet.
• Bai Ling’er introduced herself to Mang Qianchi, and Su Qian invited everyone to a banquet that Long Xiao agreed to attend.
• After Long Xiao left, Xiao Huohuo auctioned a crystal he claimed came from Long Xiao’s clothes, and Han Yue bid five million gold coins.
• Bai Ling’er gave Long Xiao her 110,000 Soul-Refining Pills and offered him her wealth after they married.
• Long Xiao worried about taking Bai Ling’er back to the Jia Ma Empire and how she and Shasha, the Snake-People Queen, would react to each other.

Long Xiao gave Xuan Ying Soul-Refining Pills and ordered him to bring the Soul Hall under Long Xiao's control within three months. Later, Long Xiao, Bai Ling'er, Xiao Huohuo, and Curly headed to a banquet, where Xiao Huohuo and Curly shared their plans to travel to the Central Plains and Long Xiao said he would first return to the Jia Ma Empire.

• Long Xiao met Xuan Ying in a forest and gave him pills to help bring the Soul Hall's Branch Halls under Long Xiao's control within three months.
• Xuan Ying accepted the pills and left to prepare the Soul Hall's forces for the task.
• Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er set out for the banquet and met Xiao Huohuo and Curly on the way.
• Long Xiao asked Xiao Huohuo and Curly about their plans, and both said they intended to travel to the Central Plains.
• Long Xiao said he would return to the Jia Ma Empire before going to the Central Plains, and Bai Ling'er promised to go with him.

Long Xiao and the others learned that mysterious Peak Dou Zun had emerged through a passage on Thunder King Mountain and fought the Lei Clan’s Dou Sheng. Long Xiao warned Lei Dong that the threat could bring a cataclysm to the continent, leaving the group to search for the remaining passages.

• Lei Dong asked Long Xiao about mysterious experts who had invaded the Black-Corner Region, suspecting a connection to recent events in the Lei Clan.
• Lei Dong revealed that a month earlier, Peak Dou Zun had emerged from a Teleportation Array on Thunder King Mountain and fought the clan’s Dou Sheng.
• Lei Dong confirmed Su Qian’s suspicion that the intruders were the same kind of experts who had invaded the Black-Corner Region, and said the Lei Clan leader had destroyed their passage.
• Long Xiao reassured Bai Ling’er that they would search for the remaining passages, then wrote a warning for Lei Dong.
• Lei Dong read Long Xiao’s warning, “Cataclysm for the continent,” and vowed to take the matter seriously.

Long Xiao defeated Lei Dong in a three-move spar after they suppressed their cultivation to Dou Ling. Afterward, Long Xiao turned to Xiao Huohuo and Curly and warned them to settle the situation involving Shasha and Ling'er, or they might become his outlet when tempers flared.

• Lei Dong challenged Long Xiao to a spar, and they agreed to fight at one-star Dou Ling for three moves.
• Long Xiao deflected Lei Dong's Instant Thunderflash and shattered his Extreme Lightning Thousand Birds with a golden dragon.
• Lei Dong used Thunder God Heavenly Bright Flash, but Long Xiao's True Eight Extremes Collapse sent him crashing into the hall wall and left him defeated.
• Long Xiao told Lei Dong not to be ashamed, then returned to Xiao Huohuo and Curly after mentioning a friend with far stronger lightning arts.
• Long Xiao asked Xiao Huohuo and Curly to resolve the matter with Shasha and Ling'er, warning that he might beat them if anyone became upset.

Long Xiao took Bai Ling'er aside to confess his feelings for Shasha, and Bai Ling'er revealed she had learned about Shasha from his sleep-talking. Though heartbroken, Bai Ling'er forgave him and asked to meet Shasha, while Long Xiao promised not to make her sad again.

• Xiao Huohuo and Curly offered Long Xiao advice on how to deal with Bai Ling'er, but he decided to face her himself.
• Long Xiao led Bai Ling'er to a cliff and began telling her he had wronged her, but she guessed he meant Shasha.
• Bai Ling'er said Long Xiao had called Shasha's name in his sleep and accused him of falling for someone he met on the Dou* Continent.
• Bai Ling'er slapped Long Xiao, then cried and asked why his brief time with Shasha outweighed her more than decade of love.
• Bai Ling'er warned that her parents might erase Shasha and their memories, but said she would not blame Long Xiao and wanted to meet Shasha and persuade her parents.
• Long Xiao promised never to make Bai Ling'er sad again, and she kissed him before he could swear upon his Dao heart.

Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er prepared to leave Jia Nan Academy, while Zi Yan joined their plans to travel to the Central Plains and received a gift of their essence blood. After their farewell, Liu Xue divined that it was time to leave Medusa and return to the Endless Starry Sky.

• Zi Yan interrupted Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er embracing, then insisted on joining them on their journey to the Central Plains.
• Long Xiao told Zi Yan to travel with Xiao Huohuo and the others first, and he and Bai Ling'er gave her a vial containing their essence blood for her sixth-rank breakthrough.
• Two days later, Long Xiao and Bai Ling'er bade farewell to Xiao Huohuo, Su Qian, Curly, and the others before departing through Bai Ling'er's Spatial Teleportation Array.
• Liu Xue told Long Jian that Medusa's unborn child had extraordinary potential, and he urged her to return.
• Liu Xue divined that it was time to leave, left Medusa a note, and flew toward the Endless Starry Sky.

Medusa was left grieving after Liu Xue departed, but a powerful purple-clothed woman soon arrived at the Snake-People Tribe and demanded that Medusa come with her to meet her lord. Medusa refused and fought back with the divine artifact Liu Xue had given her, leaving the woman injured and wondering who Liu Xue was.

• Medusa found Liu Xue's note saying she had left and mourned being alone again.
• A purple-clothed woman appeared above the Snake-People Tribe, injured Yue Mei and severed one of Mo Bass's arms, then demanded to see the queen.
• The woman revealed that she was a Seven-Colored Sacred Spirit Python and urged Medusa to accompany her so she could mate with the woman's Nine-Colored Sacred Spirit Python lord.
• Medusa rejected the woman's proposal, and the woman used her spiritual power to force the Snake-People to the ground and attack her.
• Medusa fought the woman with the Crimson Silk Sword, which cut the woman's palm and revealed itself to be a divine artifact.
• The woman suspected Liu Xue had given Medusa the sword and wondered about Liu Xue's identity.

A powerful woman attacked the Snake-People Tribe and tried to abduct Medusa, but Long Xiao returned and rescued her. He confronted the woman, who threatened to destroy the world if she unleashed her true form.

• The woman attacked Medusa with Purple Chains, but a jade pendant protected Medusa long enough for her to flee toward the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• The woman sealed the area, bound the Snake-People Tribe members, and captured Medusa, forcing her into her Nine-Colored Giant Python form.
• Long Xiao arrived and cut the Purple Chains with the Dao-Slaying Sword, freeing Medusa and making the woman confront him.
• Medusa transformed back into human form, reunited with Long Xiao, and explained why the woman wanted to take her away.
• Long Xiao threatened the woman and protected Medusa, while the woman warned that unsealing her true form would destroy the world.

Medusa agreed to go with the woman from the Jiuling Sacred Palace to protect the Snake-People Tribe, leaving Long Xiao determined to rescue her. As Long Xiao headed back to his clan, Long Jian and Liu Xue learned of the abduction and prepared to answer the Jiuling Sacred Palace’s attack.

• Medusa kissed Long Xiao, told him she believed in him, and agreed to leave with the woman if she spared everyone else.
• The woman immobilized those present and took Medusa toward the starry sky, challenging Long Xiao to rescue her at the Jiuling Sacred Palace.
• Bai Ling'er comforted Long Xiao, who treated Yue Mei's injuries, promised to save Medusa, and used a life-saving talisman to return to his clan.
• A golden hand struck at the woman in the Great Thousand Star Domain, but she transformed into a Seven-Colored Giant Python and escaped with Medusa.
• At the Dragon God Heavenly Palace, Long Jian said Long Xiao had returned, while Liu Xue vowed that the Jiuling Sacred Palace would face the Dragon God Heavenly Palace's wrath.

Long Xiao returned to his parents and obtained the Divine Lord Token to rescue Medusa from the Jiuling Sacred Palace. He arrived at the Divine General Hall and summoned the divine generals under his father’s command.

• Long Xiao knelt before Long Jian and Liu Xue, then asked for the Divine Lord Token so he could rescue Medusa.
• Long Jian gave Long Xiao the token and revealed that the Jiuling Sacred Palace was in the Mystic Spirit Divine Realm, while promising to intervene if Puni interfered.
• Liu Xue told Long Xiao that she and Long Jian had already accepted Medusa as part of the Heaven Clan.
• Long Xiao used the token to enter the Divine General Hall, where Bai Xing greeted him and then left when Long Xiao said he was seeking his father’s generals.
• Long Xiao found Long Honglian training her subordinates and showed her the token, prompting her and the other soldiers to bow.
• The Furious Dragon Divine General and the Ice Divine General arrived and knelt before Long Xiao.

Long Xiao set out with the Twelve Holy Armies to find Shasha, while Medusa was taken to the Jiuling Sacred Palace. The Jiuling Sacred Lord discovered that Medusa was pregnant and demanded she bear him two children, leaving her to protect her unborn child while she waited for Long Xiao.

• Long Xiao asked the Furious Dragon Divine General and Red Flame Divine General to help him wipe out a faction and set out to find Shasha.
• The Jiuling Sacred Lord and a woman watched the Twelve Holy Armies mobilize, and the woman said she would not let their daughter Ling'er suffer grievances.
• Purple Scale brought Medusa to the Jiuling Sacred Palace, where the Jiuling Sacred Lord recognized their shared Nine-Colored Sacred Spirit Python bloodline and offered to help her grow stronger.
• Medusa refused the Jiuling Sacred Lord's offer and tried to leave, but he restrained her with silver threads and demanded that she bear him two children.
• The Jiuling Sacred Lord sensed Medusa's pregnancy and secretly considered using the fetus as medicine; Medusa agreed to think about his demand while resolving to protect her child.
• The Jiuling Sacred Lord gave Medusa until the next night to answer and sent Xiao Wu to escort her to rest.

Medusa was confined in the Jiuling Sacred Palace and worried about protecting her unborn child after Jiuling Sacred Lord’s deadline passed. Xiao Wu revealed that she wanted Medusa to help steal his bloodline art, leaving Medusa under a spell that imprisoned her soul.

• Medusa considered using the Void Boundary-Breaking Talisman to escape and protect her unborn child.
• Xiao Wu slapped Medusa and threatened her, then sent a pink light into her mind to control her soul.
• Xiao Wu said her husband was Sea God Tang Shan and explained that she had joined Jiuling Sacred Lord to break through her bloodline bottleneck.
• Xiao Wu revealed that Jiuling Sacred Lord’s Heaven-Seizing Creation Bloodline Heavenly Art could improve his bloodline and strengthen his partners, and urged Medusa to help her obtain it.

Medusa accepted Xiao Wu’s plan to poison the Jiuling Sacred Lord and escape, while Long Jian confronted Holy Lord Puni in the Holy Light Star Domain and forced the Sacred Spirit Clan to stay out of the Heaven Clan’s advance. Long Xiao looked toward the Jiuling Sacred Palace, determined to bring Shasha home.

• Medusa sensed that help had arrived through her Storage Ring, agreed to Xiao Wu’s proposal, and took the poison and communication jade bead.
• Xiao Wu explained that the poison could weaken the Jiuling Sacred Lord and told Medusa to use it during their cultivation the following night.
• Holy Lord Puni and another Sacred Spirit Clan projection discussed the approaching Heaven Clan warships and considered intervening.
• Long Jian appeared, destroyed one projection, and threatened to unleash his divine ability before Puni agreed the Sacred Spirit Clan would not interfere.
• Aboard a Heaven Clan warship, Long Xiao gazed into the starry expanse and said he had come to bring Shasha home.

Long Xiao and the three Divine Generals entered the Mystic Spirit Divine Realm to attack the Jiuling Sacred Palace, with Long Xiao claiming he could handle the Jiuling Sacred Lord. They confronted the Sacred Lord and Purple Scale, who had taken Medusa, as Medusa waited inside the palace and hoped Long Xiao had come for her.

• The Red Flame Divine General teased Long Xiao about his feelings for Medusa and hinted that his father’s lover from the Undead Clan had been imprisoned in the God-Suppressing Tower.
• Long Xiao told the Divine Generals to defeat the Jiuling Sacred Palace’s forces while he dealt with the Jiuling Sacred Lord himself.
• The Jiuling Sacred Lord used the Blood God Heavenly Art to strengthen his bloodline and planned to cultivate with Medusa, intending to use her unborn child as nourishment.
• Xiao Wu instructed Medusa on how to serve the Sacred Lord, then left to investigate the commotion as Medusa wondered whether Long Xiao had come.
• Long Xiao arrived at the Jiuling Sacred Palace with the three Divine Generals and confronted the Jiuling Sacred Lord and Purple Scale.
• Purple Scale identified Long Xiao as Medusa’s man and explained that he had tried to stop her from taking Medusa.