Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu tested Dou Techniques infused with Origin Flames and Divine Thunder, advanced to Three-Star Dou Wang, and rescued a badly wounded woman who remained unconscious after he stabilized her. He continued treating and caring for her in a cave in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yu used the Explosive Thunder Origin Spear in his Thunderflame Illusory World and found that channeling his Origin Flames and Divine Thunder through Dou Techniques greatly increased their power.
• Xiao Yu reflected on his month of training, reached Three-Star Dou Wang, and decided to stay in the Magical Beast Mountain Range to improve his combat strength.
• Xiao Yu spotted an unconscious woman falling from the sky, caught her, and recognized her as someone he knew.
• Xiao Yu examined the woman's severe injuries, gave her a Fifth-Rank Healing Pill, and used his Dou Qi to stabilize and treat her.
• After a day and a second Fifth-Rank Healing Pill, Xiao Yu pulled the woman back from the brink of death, but she remained unconscious, so he continued nourishing her and hunted for food.

Xiao Yu cared for the badly wounded Yun Yun until she woke, then learned that a strange energy in her chest wound could not be removed by ordinary healing. He agreed to examine it despite the awkwardness, leaving Yun Yun covered with his robe as he turned away.

• Xiao Yu continued tending Yun Yun’s injuries and wondered who had wounded the three-star Dou Emperor.
• Yun Yun woke, thanked Xiao Yu for saving her, and confirmed that her chest wound still hurt.
• Xiao Yu offered Yun Yun healing pills and began to leave, but she asked him to examine the strange energy in her wound because she could not use her Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yu agreed to help after asking Yun Yun to keep the matter secret, then gave her his robe and turned around so she could remove her inner armor in private.

Xiao Yu treated Yun Yun’s chest wound and discovered that Queen Medusa had inflicted it with a force that blocked healing. As he used his Extreme-Breaking Ice Flame to remove the force, Yun Yun recognized him as the boy who had helped her in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Unable to remove her clothes because of her injuries, Yun Yun let Xiao Yu uncover her wound and remove her inner armor.
• Xiao Yu found that a strange red energy in Yun Yun’s wound was preventing her body and medicine from healing it, and Yun Yun said Queen Medusa had wounded her.
• Xiao Yu used his Dou Qi to examine the wound, while Yun Yun endured the pain and tried not to moan.
• When Xiao Yu’s ice-blue flames appeared, Yun Yun recognized him as the boy who had lured the Lion King away in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yu used the Extreme-Breaking Ice Flame to refine the obstructing energy, completing the treatment after an hour.

Xiao Yu treated Yun Yun's wound, fed her, and learned that Queen Medusa's seal had blocked her Dou Qi. Yun Yun agreed to let Xiao Yu use his Origin Flame to try to remove the seal, and they planned to begin the next day.

• Xiao Yu bandaged Yun Yun's wound and prepared another rabbit after the first one burned.
• Yun Yun tried to circulate her Dou Qi, then asked Xiao Yu how long she had been unconscious and how he had fed her.
• Xiao Yu admitted that he had pried Yun Yun's mouth open to feed her, and he fled when she questioned him with a dangerous smile.
• Xiao Yu returned at night, and Yun Yun explained that Queen Medusa's Sealing Technique had sealed her Dou Qi and caused the lingering energy in her wound.
• Yun Yun gave her name as Yun Zhi and asked Xiao Yu to use his Origin Flame to help remove the seal in exchange for a reward.
• Xiao Yu and Yun Yun agreed to begin the next day, then settled down to rest.

Xiao Yu and Yun Yun grew close during the days he spent refining her seal, while his strength rose from absorbing its energy. As Yun Yun approached a full recovery, Xiao Yu realized that events had diverged from the established story and worried about what the changes might mean.

• Xiao Yu refined Yun Yun's seal each day, absorbing its energy and steadily nearing Four-Star Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yu and Yun Yun settled into a quiet routine and grew from wary acquaintances into close, teasing friends.
• Yun Yun's strength recovered to One-Star Dou Emperor, and Xiao Yu said one more session would remove the rest of her seal.
• Yun Yun attacked Xiao Yu in playful anger after he teased her, then the two sat together and talked.
• Xiao Yu learned Yun Yun's armor was the Heart of the Sea Armor and concluded she had never met Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yu wondered whether his interference had changed the Dou Qi Continent's storyline, then declined Yun Yun's offer of similar armor.

Xiao Yu removed Yun Yun’s seal, helping her recover her three-star Dou Emperor strength, then advanced to four-star Dou Wang. His breakthrough drew Queen Medusa, who recognized the aura of the Dou Wang she had been searching for and confronted him in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yu refined away the last of Yun Yun’s seal, restoring her three-star Dou Emperor strength, then left her to recover.
• Xiao Yu used the energy refined from the seal to break through to four-star Dou Wang outside the cave.
• Queen Medusa searched for the Dou Wang whose unusual flames and lightning could help her evolve after her heavenly flame was stolen.
• Queen Medusa blamed Gu He and his companions for the theft, attacked them, and Yun Yun was injured and sealed while helping them escape.
• Queen Medusa sensed Xiao Yu’s breakthrough aura and recognized it as belonging to the Dou Wang she had been seeking.
• Xiao Yu realized Queen Medusa had found him and considered fleeing, unaware that he could no longer escape her notice.

Xiao Yu tried to lure Queen Medusa away from the recovering Yun Yun, but Medusa saw through him and confronted him. After explaining that she had come for help recovering the vanished Heavenly Flame, she asked to borrow Xiao Yu’s flame and lightning in exchange for a reward from the Snake-People Tribe.

• Xiao Yu used his Thunderclap Twin Wings to draw Medusa away from Yun Yun, but she stopped to search the area with her spiritual power.
• Medusa sensed Yun Yun nearby and flew toward her, so Xiao Yu blocked Medusa’s path and admitted that she had recognized him as the human Dou Wang.
• Medusa told Xiao Yu that she had injured Yun Yun after the Heavenly Flame vanished during Gu He’s visit to the desert.
• Xiao Yu suspected Little Yanzi had taken the Heavenly Flame and realized Medusa might want to use his Origin Flame to evolve.
• Medusa asked to borrow Xiao Yu’s miraculous flame and lightning, offering anything from the Snake-People Tribe’s collection and her future help.

Xiao Yu agreed to help Medusa evolve in exchange for her assistance against people he would face months later, then traveled with her toward the Tagor Desert. Yun Yun woke to find him gone, searched for him, and confronted the Amethyst Winged Lion King, while Xiao Yu and Medusa continued discussing their deal.

• Medusa offered to overlook Xiao Yu's earlier actions if he helped her, and Xiao Yu agreed in exchange for her help against several people months later.
• Medusa and Xiao Yu left for the desert, and Xiao Yu decided not to say goodbye to Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun woke after breaking her seal, found Xiao Yu missing, and waited for him until noon.
• Yun Yun suspected Xiao Yu had gone to capture the Amethyst Winged Lion King and searched the surrounding area for him.
• Yun Yun flew to the Amethyst Winged Lion King's cave and demanded that it hand over Xiao Yu.
• Medusa and Xiao Yu approached Desert City, where they discussed whether she would keep her word and what she planned to do with his flames and lightning.

Xiao Yu arrived at the Snake-People Holy City, where Medusa explained how Snake-People evolved and why she needed his help to awaken her companion Snake Spirit. After he revealed all ten of his origin flames and divine thunder, Medusa was stunned and saw him as a powerful potential ally.

• Xiao Yu and Medusa flew into the Holy City and entered the Divine Hall, where Medusa invited him to sit.
• Medusa explained that Snake-People fused with serpent souls, and that their companion beasts' tier usually limited their advancement.
• Medusa revealed that her Peak Sixth Tier Purple Nether Flame Snake had kept her from advancing beyond Peak Dou Emperor, and that a heavenly flame might awaken its bloodline.
• Medusa told Xiao Yu that his flames and lightning had stirred her bloodline and asked him to release them so she could sense them.
• Xiao Yu summoned all five origin flames and five divine thunder, astonishing Medusa and strengthening her desire to befriend him.

Medusa identified the Myriad Transformation Flame, Returning-to-Truth Lightning, and Purple Extreme Astral Thunder as the wonders that could trigger her evolution. Xiao Yu discovered his divine wonders had rudimentary intelligence, gave Medusa a child flame and two seed thunders, and was sent to rest while she went to the Snake-People Tribe's treasury to repay his help.

• Medusa's bloodline and soul reacted strongly to three of Xiao Yu's divine wonders, and she confirmed that they were the ones she needed to evolve.
• Xiao Yu learned that his origin flames and divine thunders possessed rudimentary intelligence and could produce child flames and seed thunders without lasting harm to their sources.
• Xiao Yu separated a child flame and two seed thunders, then gave them to Medusa and replenished the depleted sources with most of his Dou Qi.
• Medusa saw Xiao Yu's pale, exhausted appearance and ordered a maid to take him somewhere to rest.
• Medusa went to the Snake-People Tribe's treasury to find compensation for Xiao Yu and protect their relationship.

Xiao Yu recovered in the Snake-People Tribe and cultivated with rare fire- and lightning-aligned ingredients while Medusa prepared to evolve. When her divine treasures failed to trigger her transformation, Xiao Yu realized she needed the fused Illusory World Thunderflame and offered it to her.

• Xiao Yu replenished his Dou Qi, and Medusa brought him Heavenly Thunder Spirit Grass and an Earthfire Origin Flower.
• Xiao Yu cultivated with the ingredients for two days and reached the peak of Four-Star Dou Wang.
• A Snake-People maid led Xiao Yu to a hidden valley where Medusa explained that the Myriad Transformation Flame and Returning-to-Truth Lightning had not changed her bloodline.
• Medusa said she had sensed the treasures' potential after fighting Xiao Yu in the desert, and Xiao Yu realized their fusion had stirred her bloodline.
• Xiao Yu fused the Myriad Transformation Flame Child Flame with the Returning-to-Truth Lightning Seed Thunder and offered Medusa the Illusory World Thunderflame.

Medusa began her dangerous ancestral evolution with Xiao Yu watching, and the destructive trial transformed her into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python. The newly evolved snake sought Xiao Yu’s Purple Extreme Astral Thunder, then turned into a crimson-mist-shrouded woman who confronted him about touching her.

• Medusa confirmed that the Illusory World Thunderflame could meet her bloodline’s needs and asked Xiao Yu to watch over her evolution.
• Medusa cut her wrist and began the ritual, transforming into the Purple Nether Flame Snake as Xiao Yu’s Five Qi Thunder sharpened his vision.
• The Purple Extreme Seed Thunder battered the snake until her body crumbled, and a massive lightning bolt struck the place where she vanished.
• A seven-colored serpent phantom appeared, followed by a small white snake, revealing that Medusa had evolved into the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.
• The little snake asked for Xiao Yu’s Purple Extreme Astral Thunder, swallowed it, and then appeared inside a crimson mist as a woman who asked whether he had enjoyed touching her.

Medusa explained that the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s evolution had only prepared her body for a second, far more dangerous evolution of her Snake-People bloodline, which she attempted despite having less than a ten percent chance of survival. Xiao Yu urged her not to risk it, but she began the evolution with the Illusory World Thunderflame, unleashing a devastating blast that hurled him away.

• Medusa returned to her original form after the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python evolved, and she warned Xiao Yu not to interfere with her again.
• Medusa explained that the purple divine thunder had evolved her Snake Spirit, while the Illusory World Thunderflame could trigger an ancestral evolution of her Snake-People bloodline.
• Medusa said her bloodline evolution had less than a ten percent chance of success, but she chose to attempt it to gain the power to protect her tribe.
• After hearing Medusa explain her duty and dream, Xiao Yu accepted her resolve and let her proceed.
• Medusa grasped the Illusory World Thunderflame, which engulfed her in agony and triggered a massive shock wave that destroyed the valley and hurled Xiao Yu hundreds of meters away.

Medusa endured the Illusory World Thunderflame’s assault while Xiao Yu tried to keep her alive without violating her choice to continue. The Eight Leaders arrived at the Secret Grounds, where Xiao Yu knocked Yan Ci away and drew a boundary to keep the others from interfering.

• The Eight Leaders traced the serpent’s roar to the Secret Grounds and realized Medusa was using the recovered heavenly flame to evolve.
• Medusa’s body was reduced to a head by the thunderflame, but she refused Xiao Yu’s offer to intervene.
• Yan Ci arrived, saw Medusa’s condition, and charged toward her despite Xiao Yu’s warning.
• Xiao Yu stopped Yan Ci and sent him crashing through rocky outcrops with two kicks.
• The other seven leaders arrived, and Mo Bass prepared to attack Xiao Yu until Yin Shi urgently stopped him.

Xiao Yu guarded Medusa as the Eight Leaders mistook her apparent death for the end of her evolution and attacked him with their combined formation. He countered their venomous python and struck its head with a thunder-charged fist.

• Yan Ci warned Yin Shi that the queen was in danger, and the Eight Leaders saw ashes where Medusa had been.
• Xiao Yu sensed that Medusa was still evolving and decided to protect the power lingering at the center.
• Yin Shi ordered the Eight Leaders to form the Venomous Snake Execution Seal, which summoned a giant green python.
• Xiao Yu unleashed his Origin Flames and Divine Thunders, then used his greatsword to cleave through the python's head.
• The python reappeared behind Xiao Yu and lashed at him, but he used Thunder Soaring Flash to reach its head and punch it with Purple Extreme Astral Thunder.

Xiao Yu defeated the eight Snake-People leaders and guarded the clearing while the queen underwent evolution. Hidden elders watched and decided to wait, while Yin Shi stopped challenging Xiao Yu after hearing the elders’ instructions.

• Xiao Yu destroyed the giant python with his Explosive Thunder Origin Spear, breaking the formation and defeating the eight Snake-People leaders.
• Four elderly Snake-People women watched from the shadows and agreed that the queen was still evolving and that they must not make an enemy of Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu withdrew his Origin Flame and Divine Thunder but kept his Thunderflame Illusory World active as he stood guard over the clearing.
• Yin Shi asked Xiao Yu what he had done to the queen, and Xiao Yu warned him not to interfere with her evolution.
• An Elder told Yin Shi to stop fighting and wait, so Yin Shi sat down to tend his injuries.

Medusa successfully evolved from the Dou Emperor realm to the Dou Zong realm, giving the Snake-People Tribe new hope. After Xiao Yu left, Medusa considered the mysteries surrounding his powers and summoned the Four Elder Women.

• The aura of creation surged through the valley, and Medusa emerged from the light with a human form and the strength of a Dou Zong.
• Medusa ordered the Eight Chieftains to spend a month facing the wall for entering the forbidden grounds, partly to defend Xiao Yu’s honor.
• Medusa told Xiao Yu that her evolution had succeeded, and he asked her to accompany him to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital after she finished her duties.
• Xiao Yu left the valley, while Medusa wondered whether his Illusory World Thunderflame and Primordial Creation Bloodline were connected to the Snake-People Tribe’s origins.
• Medusa called the Four Elder Women out of hiding, and they appeared before her with unusual reverence.

Xiao Yu spent a month training in the desert, mastering an Earth-tier Dou Technique and preparing a devastating trump card. He asked Queen Medusa to help him face the Misty Cloud Sect, warning her that two Dou Zong experts might put her life at risk.

• Xiao Yu used Burning Flame Annihilation to freeze a thousand meters of desert while filling its fissures with scorching flames.
• Xiao Yu recalled reaching six-star Dou Wang and developing a destructive technique he planned to reserve as a trump card.
• Queen Medusa emerged through space and praised Xiao Yu's combat strength.
• Xiao Yu explained that he expected to confront the Misty Cloud Sect because Yun Shan had reached Dou Zong and another Dou Zong was on Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Xiao Yu asked Queen Medusa to consider the danger before joining him, warning that her life could be at risk.

After returning to the Imperial Capital, Xiao Yu declined Nalan Su’s invitation but sent his disciple to represent him at the Nalan Family’s celebration. He went to the banquet himself to see how Xiao Yan was faring and arrived at the brightly lit hall as the gathering began.

• Xiao Yu left the Tagor Desert after agreeing on a time with Medusa and flew back to the Imperial Capital.
• Xiao Yu resumed his middle-aged alchemist disguise and settled into his former inn room, where he cultivated and read while news of his return spread.
• Nalan Su visited Xiao Yu and invited him to a gathering celebrating the Nalan patriarch’s recovery from poison, which a young alchemist with a heavenly flame had treated.
• Xiao Yu declined the invitation but offered to send his disciple in his place, intending to see how Xiao Yan was doing.
• That evening, Xiao Yu changed into his alchemist robes and went to the Nalan Mansion, where a maid ushered him toward the banquet hall.

Xiao Yu attended a gathering at the Mittel Family and reunited with the masked alchemist Yan Xiao, while Ya Fei brought him to meet Mittel Tengshan. The chapter ended with Tengshan asking how Xiao Yu and Yan Xiao knew each other.

• Xiao Yu entered the gathering and spotted the masked Second-Grade Alchemist Yan Xiao seated beside Mittel Tengshan.
• Ya Fei noticed Xiao Yu, greeted him warmly, and persuaded him to meet Mittel Tengshan.
• Ya Fei introduced Xiao Yu to Mittel Tengshan, who praised him as Elder Zhou's disciple.
• Yan Xiao recognized Xiao Yu with delighted surprise, and the two exchanged greetings after Xiao Yu sat beside him.
• Mittel Tengshan asked Xiao Yu whether he knew Yan Xiao.