Chapter Summaries

Sun Buxiao confronted Queen Medusa outside the Earthfire Cave, where she demanded the Green Lotus Core Flame. After he used a swarm of poisonous mosquitoes to hold her off, he fled with Qing Lin and Little Purple toward Stone Desert City.

• Queen Medusa found Little Purple guarding the cave and confronted Sun Buxiao as he flew out with Qing Lin.
• Sun Buxiao told Medusa the Green Lotus Core Flame had found a better owner, then blocked her lightning attack and revealed his heavily accumulated Woeful Poison Body.
• Medusa continued to threaten Sun Buxiao, insisting the Heavenly Flame belonged to her and was necessary for her breakthrough to Dou Zong.
• Sun Buxiao unleashed his Nightmare Mosquito Swarm, whose poisonous mosquitoes annoyed Medusa while her lightning armor kept them at bay.
• Sensing more Snake-People Tribe fighters approaching, Sun Buxiao released another swarm and escaped with Qing Lin and Little Purple toward Stone Desert City.

After learning Queen Medusa had secured the green lotus core flame, Sun Buxiao proposed stealing it during her evolution and asked Yao Lao to prepare pills for the mission. The group planned to recruit Hai Bodong, while Xiao Yan remained unaware of Yao Lao’s history with Han Feng.

• Sun Buxiao reported that Queen Medusa had arrived at the Earthfire Cave with reinforcements and that the Snake-People were likely moving the green lotus core flame.
• Sun Buxiao proposed entering the Snake-People Tribe's stronghold during Medusa's evolution, with Xiao Yi Xian blocking lower-ranked guards using poisonous mist while he and Yao Lao took the flame.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao agreed that the plan might work, and Sun Buxiao suggested making Qi Recovery Pills to help Xiao Yan endure the escape.
• Sun Buxiao asked Yao Lao to refine a Barrier-Breaking Pill and a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill, offering Soul Solution and a promise to help Xiao Yan defeat Han Feng in return.
• Yao Lao identified the pills, and Sun Buxiao planned to recruit Hai Bodong for the operation.

Yuan Yi learned of a possible Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and planned to pass the information to Sun Buxiao, while Han Feng remained tormented by an unrecognized inner demon. Medusa took the green lotus core flame back to the Snake-People Tribe to attempt her evolution, and Qing Lin sensed that she had claimed it.

• Bai Kun told Yuan Yi that informants had found a scorpion-tailed dragon-type beast in a swamp northwest of the Black-Corner Region, and Yuan Yi ordered an investigation before deciding to tell Sun Buxiao.
• Han Feng brooded over his defeat by Sun Buxiao and suffered nightmares in which his enemies hunted him, while his reflection mocked him.
• Medusa and the four Snake-People elders chose to take the green lotus core flame back to their tribe so she could attempt to break through to Dou Zong.
• Qing Lin sensed Medusa's aura and realized she had taken the green lotus core flame.

Sun Buxiao left Qing Lin and Xiao Yan behind and went to recruit Hai Bodong for the fight involving Queen Medusa. Hai Bodong accepted a Barrier-Breaking Pill and a recovery pill, then learned he was being asked to face the queen who had sealed him.

• Qing Lin told Sun Buxiao that five powerful people had taken the Heavenly Flame and that she could sense Queen Medusa's burning pain.
• Sun Buxiao told Qing Lin to monitor the sensation, reassured Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Flame would wait, and flew to Desert City.
• Xiao Yan admitted to Yao Lao that he was anxious about his Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran and wanted a Heavenly Flame to grow stronger.
• Sun Buxiao kicked in the door of Hai Bodong's map shop and reminded him that the time had come to exchange the map for a pill.
• Sun Buxiao gave Hai Bodong a sixth-tier Barrier-Breaking Pill and a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill in return for his help.
• Sun Buxiao asked Hai Bodong to help face Queen Medusa, explaining that he would handle her while Hai Bodong played support.

Sun Buxiao gathered his companions in Stone Desert City and led them back to the Earthfire Cave to search for remnants of the green lotus core flame. Meanwhile, Medusa began her evolution with the Heavenly Flame, as the party prepared to confront the Snake-People Tribe.

• Sun Buxiao introduced Hai Bodong to the group as the “Tagor Forward” and assigned him to join the mission.
• Sun Buxiao sent Qing Lin to Desert City with Little Purple and ordered Luo Bu, Xiao Ding, and Xiao Li to prepare Stone Desert City for unrest.
• Medusa began absorbing the green lotus core flame at the Divine Temple while two Snake-People elders guarded her and assisted her evolution.
• Sun Buxiao, Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Hai Bodong, and Yao Lao entered the Earthfire Cave to search where the green lotus core flame had been taken.
• Sun Buxiao summoned Little Shuang, and the magma stirred as though something beneath it was responding.

Sun Buxiao, Xiao Yan, and Yao Lao explored the magma chamber beneath the green lotus core flame’s former location, gathered the lotus platform and seeds, then hurried with Hai Bodong and Xiao Yi Xian toward the Snake-People Tribe as Medusa began her breakthrough. The group approached a dangerous confrontation, with Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian combining their Dou Qi to race toward the battle.

• Sun Buxiao gave Xiao Yan an antidote made from his altered blood to protect him from the fire poison above the magma.
• Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yan rode the Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake through the magma and found the green lotus platform, eleven earth fire lotus seeds, blood, and snake scales where the green lotus core flame had been.
• Sun Buxiao told Xiao Yan to keep the platform and seeds, and the group returned to the surface before leaving for the Snake-People Tribe’s homeland.
• Hai Bodong spotted Medusa’s enormous purple serpent phantom and warned that her breakthrough had begun.
• Sun Buxiao linked Dou Qi with Xiao Yi Xian and hurried the group toward the impending battle.

Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian combined their Earth Tier Dou Techniques with netherworld poison flame to break through the Snake-People Tribe’s defenses and reach the Divine Temple. Xiao Yi Xian then spread a poisonous barrier around it while Sun Buxiao and the others prepared to seize the heavenly flame.

• Hua She'er and Shan Lan spotted Sun Buxiao’s approaching group and readied the Snake-People Tribe’s defensive barrier.
• Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian combined Heavenly Poison Cloud-Treading Collapse and Purple Nightmare Piercing Thorn, infusing both attacks with netherworld poison flame.
• Their assault shattered the barrier, broke through Shan Lan and Brendan’s defenses, and opened a path to the Divine Temple.
• Sun Buxiao released a poisonous mist that isolated the Divine Temple, and a Snake-Person who entered it was badly poisoned before Hua She'er saved him with the Universal Serum.
• Xiao Yi Xian took control of the Poison Veil to keep the Snake-People out while Sun Buxiao, Hai Bodong, the Little Amethyst Winged Lion, and Xiao Yan moved to seize the heavenly flame.

Sun Buxiao and Hai Bodong fought Snake-People Tribe elders while Xiao Yan waited for a chance to seize the Green Lotus Core Flame. Medusa began swallowing the heavenly flame, screaming in agony as her transformation started.

• Sun Buxiao and Hai Bodong entered the Divine Temple and fought Shan Lan and Brendan, with Hai Bodong using his ice Dou Qi against Shan Lan.
• Sun Buxiao revealed he had advanced to Three-Star Dou Wang and poisoned Brendan with Ink Poison Kick.
• Xiao Yan concealed himself near Medusa and waited for an opportunity to take the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Little Purple attacked Shan Lan from behind with purple fire, helping Hai Bodong keep the elder occupied.
• Medusa's serpent phantom plunged toward the Green Lotus Core Flame, and she screamed as she began swallowing it.

As Medusa endured the green lotus core flame’s assault, Sun Buxiao incapacitated Brendan and drove off the other attackers. He judged that Medusa had successfully evolved, then protected her weakened body while Xiao Yan went to claim the heavenly flame.

• Sun Buxiao kicked Brendan unconscious and used Hai Bodong and Little Purple to help him corner Shan Lan.
• Medusa’s giant serpent form burned beneath the green lotus core flame as Xiao Yan and Yao Lao watched, and Yao Lao said her evolution had not failed.
• Dark clouds and lightning gathered around the serpent’s remains, and Sun Buxiao judged that Medusa had evolved successfully.
• Sun Buxiao sent Xiao Yan to retrieve the diminished green lotus core flame and warned him to use a lotus seed to subdue it.
• When the two elders moved to stop Xiao Yan, Sun Buxiao blocked them and threatened them with the danger of his Woeful Poison Body.
• Yalong and the other elder reacted with surprise when Sun Buxiao said Medusa had evolved successfully.

Medusa used the Heavenly Flames to gamble on transforming her bloodline, while Xiao Yan secretly carried her away from the Divine Temple. After Sun Buxiao scolded him for putting their group at risk, they continued toward Desert City with Medusa in Xiao Yan’s care.

• Medusa’s original body exploded as she cast her soul into the Heavenly Flames to purify her bloodline and attempt an evolution.
• Xiao Yan and Sun Buxiao fled with Hai Bodong, Xiao Yi Xian, and Little Purple while the Snake-People elders searched the Divine Temple for their queen.
• Sun Buxiao discovered that Xiao Yan had hidden Medusa, now a Seven-Colored Little Snake, in his clothes and carried her away.
• Sun Buxiao warned Xiao Yan that taking Medusa could endanger their companions and delay the Snake-People Tribe’s negotiations with the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Yan offered Sun Buxiao the Lotus Platform and Lotus Seeds, but Sun Buxiao took only the seeds and left Medusa in Xiao Yan’s care.

After Hai Bodong recovered his strength and departed for the Mittel family, Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian assessed the danger posed by her advancing poison line. In Desert City, Xiao Yan began devouring the green lotus core flame under Yao Lao’s protection.

• Hai Bodong said he could still freeze a city and felt ready to advance after avenging his old defeat, then flew toward Jia Ma Holy City.
• Sun Buxiao told Hai Bodong to return to the Mittel family and wait for word about their next trip to the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yi Xian said only three centimeters remained before her poison line reached her heart, and Sun Buxiao decided they had two years to form the Poison Pill before heading to the Central Plains.
• Yao Lao sealed Hai Bodong’s residence in Desert City while Xiao Yan prepared the Blood Lotus Pill, ice spirit cold spring, Naling, and green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill and began drawing the green lotus core flame toward himself, releasing a powerful heat wave.

Sun Buxiao proposed testing whether Xiao Yi Xian could turn the Woeful Poison Body’s poison into medicine, but they lacked the control to try it successfully. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan seized the green lotus core flame and swallowed it, beginning a perilous effort to guide it through his meridians and into his inner space.

• Sun Buxiao suggested that Xiao Yi Xian’s blood might transform the Woeful Poison Body’s poison into medicinal properties, and she agreed to test his theory.
• Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian failed to experiment because they could not yet control the Woeful Poison Body well enough.
• Xiao Yan seized the green lotus core flame’s seed as the enraged flame engulfed him and burned down Hai Bodong’s mansion.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that the flame seed could unleash devastating power and told him to swallow it.
• Sun Buxiao urged Xiao Yan to settle the showdown with the Heavenly Flame, and Xiao Yan swallowed the seed and the ice spirit cold spring.
• Xiao Yan endured the flames burning through his body and began guiding the flame seed through his meridians toward his inner space.

After Xiao Yan survived devouring the Heavenly Flame, Sun Buxiao told Yao Lao that the Ancient Eight Clans had arranged the attack that killed him, though the Yao Clan was not responsible. Sun Buxiao planned to head to the Central Plains after Xiao Yan’s three-year agreement and left with a token to contact Yao Lao’s old friend Gu Ling.

• Yao Lao worried that teaching Xiao Yan the Flame Mantra had forced him to risk his life, but Sun Buxiao argued that suffering was part of becoming strong.
• Sun Buxiao showed Yao Lao the Xiao Clan’s Tuoshe Ancient Emperor Jade Fragment and revealed that the Ancient Eight Clans had targeted him in an attempt to become Dou Di.
• Sun Buxiao reassured Yao Lao that the Yao Clan had not been behind the attack and dismissed the Ancient Eight Clans as doomed without origin qi.
• Sun Buxiao said he would head to the Central Plains after Xiao Yan’s three-year agreement and asked whether Yao Lao could contact Gu Ling.
• Yao Lao said he could not reach Gu Ling, then left Sun Buxiao a soul imprint and bone spirit cold flame aura to carry the message that his old friend was safe.

Sun Buxiao captured a man who tried to assassinate him with a poisoned dagger and discovered the attacker was tied to a scorpion-tailed faction. He proposed that he and Xiao Yi Xian use the opportunity to become a major family in northeastern Jia Ma Empire.

• A black-robed man learned Sun Buxiao's name in Desert City and decided to kill him because he knew the Mo Family's secret.
• Sun Buxiao and Xiao Yi Xian discussed developing Poison-Pressure Body Tempering for people with the Woeful Poison Body.
• A one-star Dou Ling attacked Sun Buxiao with a poisoned dagger, but Sun Buxiao subdued him and flew him to his nearby house.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin questioned the captive while Little Shuang burned him, but he refused to reveal who sent him.
• The captive attacked Sun Buxiao with a scorpion tail, which Sun Buxiao ripped off, and Sun Buxiao inferred who was behind the assassination attempt.
• Sun Buxiao asked Xiao Yi Xian whether they should seize the chance to become a major family in northeastern Jia Ma Empire.

Sun Buxiao traced the assassination attempt to the Mo Family, tortured the captured assassin, and prepared to leave Desert City with Qing Lin. Before departing, he checked on Xiao Yan, who had recovered from absorbing the Heavenly Flame, and warned him that evolving the Flame Mantra would be just as dangerous and could not be helped by Yao Lao.

• Sun Buxiao concluded that the Mo Family had targeted him after Yun Yun revealed that he was the source of the Records of Grafting Jia and Yi.
• When the Mo Family assassin refused to talk, Sun Buxiao poisoned him with a slow-acting toxin and left him behind.
• Sun Buxiao and Qing Lin went to say goodbye to Xiao Yan and found him testing the Heavenly Flame with Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Sun Buxiao checked Xiao Yan's condition and warned him that using the Heavenly Flame to evolve the Flame Mantra would be agonizing and that Yao Lao could not help.
• Xiao Yan realized he would have to endure another dangerous ordeal, while Yao Lao reminded him that he had already explained the risks.

Sun Buxiao prepared to leave after the Mo Family tried to assassinate him, giving Xiao Yan sparks of the netherworld poison flame and asking him to attend Jia Nan Academy as an inside man. Before departing, he told Xiao Yan a strange account of Mu Gu, Yao Chen, and Han Feng that left Xiao Yan asking whether Han Feng was his teacher’s enemy and possessed the sea heart flame.

• Sun Buxiao told Xiao Yan he planned to wipe out the Mo Family after its assassin tried to kill him, and Xiao Yi Xian said the poisoned assassin would likely die within a week.
• Sun Buxiao left Xiao Yan several sparks of the netherworld poison flame, which appeared as a pink butterfly on his hand.
• Sun Buxiao asked Xiao Yan to attend Jia Nan Academy and act as his inside man, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Qing Lin offered to help Sun Buxiao, but he said Xiao Yan needed to handle the academy task and explained that the Magma World would be dangerous for her.
• Sun Buxiao privately recounted a tale about Mu Gu, Yao Chen, and Han Feng, prompting Xiao Yan to ask whether Han Feng was his teacher’s enemy and had the sea heart flame.

Sun Buxiao arrived at the Mo Family estate to punish Mo Cheng for ordering his assassination. As Sun unleashed a deadly attack, Mo Cheng tried to explain, but Sun dismissed him as a corpse already talking.

• Sun Buxiao and his companions traveled toward the Mo Family, while he decided to kill its leaders and cripple the other disciples’ cultivation talent.
• Mo Cheng grew impatient that Mo Li had not returned from his mission to assassinate Sun Buxiao and discussed plans to bind Nalan Yanran to the Mo Family.
• Sun Buxiao flew into the Mo Family estate with Little Purple and confronted Mo Cheng about the attempted assassination.
• Mo Cheng pleaded for a chance to explain, but Sun Buxiao unleashed the Poison Veil Sky Curtain and called him a talking corpse.

After Sun Buxiao killed Mo Cheng and wiped out the Mo Family, the Misty Cloud Sect announced a bounty for him, but he dismissed the threat and planned to confront Yun Yun himself. Hai Bodong stood by Sun Buxiao and, energized by his restored strength, asked what role he might have in Sun Buxiao’s future plans.

• Sun Buxiao killed Mo Cheng with a single attack, and news of the Mo Family’s destruction spread through the Jia Ma Empire.
• Hai Bodong found Sun Buxiao eating lamb skewers with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin and told him the Misty Cloud Sect had placed a bounty on him.
• Xiao Yi Xian read the bounty notice, which offered five million gold coins for Sun Buxiao, dead or alive, and estimated his strength as high as Dou Emperor.
• Sun Buxiao dismissed the bounty as the Misty Cloud Sect saving face and said he would visit the sect to settle the score with Yun Yun.
• Hai Bodong said the Mittel Family could not prevent him from leaving and revealed that recovering his strength had revived his competitive spirit.
• Hai Bodong asked Sun Buxiao what position and benefits he would receive in Sun Buxiao’s future plans.

Xiao Yan learned that the Misty Cloud Sect had placed a bounty on Sun Buxiao and resolved to seek justice for him. Sun Buxiao received a lead on the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast in the Black-Corner Region, but decided to delay the hunt while he prepared for other plans.

• Xiao Yan tore up the Misty Cloud Sect’s bounty notice after Yao Lao explained that few experts would risk challenging Sun Buxiao for the reward.
• Sun Buxiao confronted a man comparing him with the bounty notice, but the man explained that he was an Eight Gates messenger sent by Yuan Yi.
• Sun Buxiao opened the pouch from Yuan Yi and found information locating the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast in a swamp northwest of the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried about the missing Magic Core needed to address their Woeful Poison Bodies, while Hai Bodong offered to help fight the beast.
• Sun Buxiao decided to wait until he had further developed the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame before pursuing the beast and dealing with the Misty Cloud Sect.

Nalan Yanran prepared to break through to Da Dou Shi while Xiao Yan reached Jia Ma Holy City to train for the Alchemist Tournament and the Three-Year Agreement. Meanwhile, Sun Buxiao fed beast flames to the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame Seed and planned to create a new Limb-Grafting Dou Technique.

• Nalan Yanran voiced her concern about the bounty on Sun Buxiao, but Yun Yun told her to leave that matter to the Misty Cloud Sect and focus on reaching Da Dou Shi.
• Nalan Yanran resolved to break through and defeat Xiao Yan in their fight.
• Xiao Yan arrived outside Jia Ma Holy City, where Yao Lao set him the goals of reaching Da Dou Shi and earning a fourth-grade Alchemist Badge before the tournament in two months.
• Sun Buxiao used Little Purple's purple flame to nourish the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame Seed, while Qing Lin comforted the exhausted Amethyst Winged Lion.
• Sun Buxiao reflected on how he had gathered beast flames across the Magical Beast Mountain Range and considered using the Mo Family's research to create a Limb-Grafting Dou Technique.