Recaps

Chen Xuan went to sleep after choosing Don't Bully the Poor Youth on a mysterious interface and dreamed he became Queen Medusa. He woke in a palace in Medusa’s body, learned he had a Symbiosis System, and was offered a beginner’s gift pack.

• Chen Xuan selected Don't Bully the Poor Youth when a mysterious interface asked which world he wanted to enter.
• Chen Xuan dreamed he had transmigrated into the story and become Queen Medusa.
• Chen Xuan woke in a lavish palace and discovered he had a woman's voice, a snake tail, and Medusa’s body.
• Chen Xuan recognized Queen Medusa in a bronze mirror and realized he had truly transmigrated.
• The Symbiosis System told Chen Xuan he had Queen Medusa’s peak Eight-Star Dou Emperor strength and could gain Dou Qi and a check-in reward by remaining in symbiosis with her.
• The system offered Chen Xuan a beginner’s gift pack, and he silently chose to open it.

Chen Xuan fused with the Meteor Tear and broke through from an Eight-Star Dou Emperor to a Nine-Star Dou Emperor. As Snake-People gathered to congratulate Queen Medusa, he prepared to hide that he was a man from another world inhabiting her body.

• Chen Xuan received the Meteor Tear, the Fang Tian Painted Halberd, and the Heavenly Dao Halberd Technique from his starter gift pack.
• He resolved to grow stronger and prevent himself, as Queen Medusa, from becoming Xiao Yan's wife.
• Chen Xuan retrieved the rewards, and the Meteor Tear fused with his heart, strengthening his bloodline and triggering a breakthrough.
• Chen Xuan reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor, and the power of his breakthrough spread across the Snake-People Holy City.
• Several Dou Wang experts arrived to pay their respects, and Chen Xuan adopted Queen Medusa's cold manner before inviting them inside.

Chen Xuan, impersonating Queen Medusa, learned that an azure flame had appeared deep in the Tagor Desert and suspected it was the Green Lotus Core Flame. After he ate and fell asleep, Medusa regained control and erupted in fury at the ruined feast.

• Yue Mei, Mo Bass, and Yin Shi reported the azure flame in the Tagor Desert and told Chen Xuan that the Great Elder had requested a visit.
• Chen Xuan concealed his excitement, said he would meet the Great Elder after consolidating his strength, and sent the three away.
• Yue Mei, Mo Bass, and Yin Shi speculated that Chen Xuan’s calmness came from reaching Nine-Star Dou Emperor and discussed the threat from the Jia Ma Empire.
• Chen Xuan ordered food, dismissed the Snake-People Tribe girls, and ate the feast while reflecting on his new strength and his disguise.
• After Chen Xuan fell asleep, Medusa regained control, saw the food scraps, and roared as killing intent swept through the Snake-People Holy City.

Queen Medusa discovered that an unknown person had controlled her body, but also found that the Meteor Tear had transformed her and raised her to Nine-Star Dou Emperor. After questioning the Snake-People Tribe's leaders without revealing what had happened, she remained concerned that the intruder might return.

• Queen Medusa emerged from her consciousness and became furious when she realized an unknown intruder had used her body.
• Medusa unleashed her aura across Snake-People Holy City and discovered that she had reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor and grown far stronger.
• Medusa summoned the eight great leaders of the Snake-People Tribe to the palace.
• Medusa asked whether they had noticed a powerful outsider entering Snake People City, and the leaders said they had not.
• Medusa concealed the body possession from her leaders and worried that the mysterious intruder might return and endanger her tribe.

Queen Medusa sent the Snake-People leaders away and decided to enter seclusion because she feared the mysterious person who could control her body. In her consciousness space, Chen Xuan learned that they shared control of the body and watched memories of Medusa’s past, including her sister Die’s death.

• Queen Medusa dismissed Yue Mei, Mo Bass, Yin Shi, and the other leaders, then ordered them to defend Snake People City while she entered seclusion.
• Mo Bass mentioned the Great Elder’s request, and Medusa unleashed her bloodline pressure before insisting that she was the queen.
• Outside the palace, Mo Bass and the other leaders wondered why Medusa’s mood had changed and why she planned to enter seclusion after reaching Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Chen Xuan appeared in Medusa’s consciousness space, where the system explained that he controlled their shared body during the day and Medusa controlled it at night.
• Chen Xuan watched Medusa’s memories of her youth, her dream of becoming queen, and her sister Die’s deliberate death so Medusa could claim the throne.

Chen Xuan reflected on Queen Medusa’s hardships and realized that plot knowledge and a system meant little without strength. He decided the Snake-People Tribe needed to leave the Tagor Desert and considered moving them to the Black-Corner Region, where he hoped to build power and eventually unify the region.

• Chen Xuan recognized that Queen Medusa had endured immense pressure to protect the Snake-People Tribe, and concluded that strength was needed to defy the world’s rules.
• Chen Xuan assessed his own resources, including Queen Medusa’s bloodline and his Heaven-tier Dou Technique, and identified the Snake-People Tribe’s weakness as its greatest concern.
• Chen Xuan reasoned that the tribe could not safely expand into the Jia Ma Empire and could not prosper in the resource-poor Tagor Desert.
• Chen Xuan proposed relocating the entire Snake-People Tribe to the resource-rich, chaotic Black-Corner Region.
• Chen Xuan set himself the goal of unifying the Black-Corner Region and using it as a stepping stone toward the Northwest Continent and Central Plains.

Chen Xuan returned to Queen Medusa’s body inside a deadly formation in the Snake-People Tribe’s ancestral grounds and discovered that she had set it to kill him. When the Great Elder arrived and dismissed the formation, Chen Xuan’s clash with her drew the tribe’s leaders to watch.

• Chen Xuan awoke in the ancestral grounds, triggered a formation that attacked him with powerful lightning, and found Queen Medusa’s note threatening to kill him.
• The Great Elder entered the chamber and scolded Chen Xuan for neglecting the Snake-People Tribe’s responsibilities.
• The Great Elder shut down the formation, then released her Dou Huang aura across the Holy City.
• Chen Xuan challenged the Great Elder with his Peak Dou Emperor power, and their auras shook the city.
• Mo Bass and Yue Mei discussed whether to investigate as the Eight Leaders arrived but held back to watch.

Chen Xuan, in Medusa’s body, challenged Great Elder Snake Ji to establish the queen’s authority over the Snake-People Tribe. After a fierce battle that shattered space, Snake Ji lost and surrendered, leaving Chen Xuan victorious.

• Yin Shi and the other leaders watched as Chen Xuan confronted Great Elder Snake Ji, who warned that their fight could endanger the tribe.
• Snake Ji used the Ten Thousand Snakes Secret Art to rise from peak Six-Star Dou Emperor to Nine-Star Dou Emperor, while Chen Xuan wielded the Fang Tian Painted Halberd and reached Peak Dou Emperor.
• Chen Xuan and Snake Ji exchanged hundreds of blows above the Snake-People Holy City, then moved their battle to the Tagor Desert as the leaders pursued them.
• Snake Ji unleashed the Earth-Rank Dou Technique Serpent Shadow Tribulation, and Chen Xuan countered with Azure Dragon Break, shattering the void and overwhelming her attack.
• Snake Ji fell back to Six-Star Dou Emperor and faced the spreading spatial storm, but Chen Xuan used his spear to dispel it before she surrendered.

Chen Xuan defeated Great Elder Snake Ji in the Tagor Desert but spared her, arguing that the Snake-People Tribe’s outdated rules were to blame for Die’s death. Snake Ji accepted Chen Xuan as her queen, and the leaders returned toward the Snake-People Holy City as Chen Xuan flew ahead.

• Chen Xuan offered Great Elder Snake Ji a hand and explained that he intended to break the Snake-People Tribe’s old rules and transform the tribe.
• Snake Ji recalled her former ambition to lead the tribe to glory, then knelt and pledged her respect to Chen Xuan.
• Chen Xuan called the eight Snake-People Tribe leaders out of hiding and told them to return to protect the tribe.
• The leaders were stunned that Chen Xuan had reconciled with Snake Ji and that Snake Ji had submitted to her.
• Snake Ji urged the leaders to head back to the Snake-People Holy City, and they followed her.

Chen Xuan explored the Snake-People Holy City and saw how deeply Queen Medusa was loved by her people. Convinced the tribe needed to leave the resource-poor Tagor Desert to grow stronger, he prepared papers to persuade Queen Medusa and set the bone hairpin he had bought atop them.

• Chen Xuan wandered through the Snake-People Holy City, observing its citizens and their lives.
• A vendor recognized Chen Xuan as Queen Medusa, and the crowd gathered to cheer and bow to him.
• Chen Xuan returned to the palace and concluded that the Snake-People Tribe lacked resources and needed to relocate from the Tagor Desert.
• Chen Xuan decided to persuade Queen Medusa by offering the tribe an opportunity to flourish and spent the day writing papers.
• Chen Xuan placed the seventh-rank magical beast bone hairpin he had bought on top of the papers.

Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian investigated the aftermath of a battle in the Tagor Desert and realized the Snake-People Tribe had gained power enough to threaten the Jia Ma Imperial Family. In the Snake-People Holy City, Queen Medusa learned that the mysterious force controlling her had defeated Snake Ji, leaving her worried about its strength and surprised by the rumors spreading through the tribe.

• Yun Shan and Jia Xingtian sensed a battle in the Tagor Desert whose power suggested that experts of Nine-Star Dou Emperor strength had fought there.
• Yun Shan identified Medusa as one of the fighters, and Jia Xingtian feared that her increased strength would make the Snake-People Tribe a threat to the Jia Ma Imperial Family.
• Yun Shan left the desert, and Jia Xingtian headed toward the Snake-People Tribe to assess the danger.
• Queen Medusa realized the mysterious presence had taken control of her again, even inside the Ancestral Land Formation, and wondered whether it was a Dou Zong expert.
• She Yue and She Meng told Queen Medusa that the tribe believed she had defeated Snake Ji and won the Snake-People Tribe's loyalty.

Queen Medusa read Chen Xuan’s notes explaining their symbiotic bond and proposing that the Snake-People Tribe relocate to the Black-Corner Region. Though wary of Chen Xuan, she was intrigued by his plan and stunned by the Heaven Tier Dou Technique he left her.

• She Yue and She Meng told Queen Medusa that Chen Xuan had defeated Elder Snake Ji and that Medusa might soon break through to Dou Zong.
• After the two girls left, Medusa wondered why Chen Xuan had not harmed her or the Snake-People Tribe, then found his notes on the table.
• Chen Xuan’s notes explained that he had entered Medusa’s body, that they shared a life-linked symbiotic bond, and that his presence was strengthening her.
• Medusa read Chen Xuan’s proposal to move the Snake-People Tribe from the barren Tagor Desert to the resource-rich Black-Corner Region, and considered it a promising but difficult solution.
• Medusa discovered that Chen Xuan had left her the Mid Heaven Tier Heavenly Dao Halberd Technique and a black hairpin, and kept them as his rent.

Queen Medusa realized Chen Xuan could see what happened while he controlled their shared body, then heard Great Elder Snake Ji propose reforms to the Snake-People Tribe. Snake Ji identified the three other elders as the main obstacle, and Medusa asked her to explain the tribe’s external crisis.

• Medusa worried that Chen Xuan had no secrets from her shared body and resolved to set rules for his use of it.
• Medusa dressed up with Chen Xuan’s Black Hairpin and admired her reflection before She Yue announced Snake Ji and the Eight Leaders had arrived.
• Snake Ji told Medusa that the Snake-People Tribe needed internal reforms and a better living environment than the Tagor Desert.
• Snake Ji said the three other Dou Emperor elders would resist reform, and Medusa threatened force before agreeing persuasion would be preferable.
• Medusa asked Snake Ji to continue and explain the Snake-People Tribe’s external crisis.

Queen Medusa rejected the Snake-People Tribe's plan to attack the Jia Ma Empire and proposed relocating to the resource-rich Black-Corner Region instead. The leaders welcomed the idea, though Medusa said they still needed to consider it carefully.

• Medusa told Great Elder Snake Ji to return tomorrow for a way to deal with the three elders, leaving the problem for Chen Xuan to solve.
• Snake Ji urged the tribe to attack the Jia Ma Empire and seize its resources, but Medusa warned that humans across the empire would unite against the Snake-People Tribe.
• Medusa rejected the invasion plan and proposed moving the entire tribe out of the Tagor Desert.
• Medusa named the Black-Corner Region as the proposed destination, and Snake Ji and the other leaders approved the idea.
• Medusa cautioned that relocation still needed careful consideration while claiming Chen Xuan's idea as her own.

Chen Xuan read Queen Medusa’s rules for sharing her body, then found food and two powerful Snake-People Tribe techniques she had left for him. After considering the tribe’s resistance to reform, he summoned its Four Great Elders and eight chiefs to the Sacred Hall.

• Chen Xuan woke in Queen Medusa’s body and found a letter laying out eighteen rules for their shared life and his duties to the Snake-People Tribe.
• Chen Xuan discovered that Medusa had left him a feast and the Ten Thousand Snakes Secret Art and Serpent Shadow Tribulation.
• Chen Xuan read the techniques’ powers, stored them, and ate the food Medusa had prepared.
• Chen Xuan recalled that Elder Snake Ji was expected to discuss tribal reforms and considered the elders’ resistance to change.
• Chen Xuan ordered the Four Great Elders and eight chiefs to assemble in the Sacred Hall.

Chen Xuan summoned the Snake-People Tribe’s elders and chiefs to demand sweeping reforms, declaring that the tribe’s harsh environment and outdated system had to change. The chiefs and Snake Ji pledged their support, while Ji Xuan, Black Mountain, and Gu Luo were cowed into silence by his overwhelming presence.

• Chen Xuan surveyed the Snake-People Holy City and resolved to strengthen the tribe and change its circumstances.
• Yue Mei escorted Chen Xuan to the Sacred Hall, where the Four Great Elders and eight chiefs had gathered.
• Chen Xuan told the gathering that the tribe’s harsh environment, scarce resources, and old system were the roots of its suffering, and ordered change to begin immediately.
• The eight chiefs and Snake Ji swore to fight for Chen Xuan and the tribe.
• Chen Xuan confronted Ji Xuan, Black Mountain, and Gu Luo, whose resistance faltered under his pressure, and they shakily denied daring to oppose him.

Chen Xuan asked the Snake-People Tribe’s leaders to unite behind its future, then heard why Ji Xuan, Black Mountain, and Gu Luo opposed his internal reforms. He insisted the reforms would proceed and declared that the tribe’s ambitions reached the entire Dou Qi Continent.

• Chen Xuan asked the tribe’s leaders whether they would give everything, even their lives, for the Snake-People Tribe, and they unanimously agreed.
• Chen Xuan invited Ji Xuan, Black Mountain, and Gu Luo to explain their objections to internal reforms.
• Black Mountain revealed that reforms four hundred years earlier had divided the tribe into rival factions and triggered a civil war that killed seven Dou Emperors and left only three Dou Wangs.
• Ji Xuan explained that the elders had destroyed the records and forbidden discussion of the disaster, while Gu Luo said they opposed reforms to prevent its repetition.
• Chen Xuan declared that the reforms must proceed, arguing that a stronger supreme decision-maker could prevent civil war, and set the Dou Qi Continent as the tribe’s goal.

Chen Xuan announced that the Snake-People Tribe would relocate to the Black-Corner Region within ten years and urged its leaders to prepare by growing stronger. The chapter ended with him promising to reach Dou Zong within that time, renewing the tribe’s confidence in its future.

• Chen Xuan declared that the Snake-People Tribe would reform, relocate to the Black-Corner Region, and make its existence known to the world.
• The elders and chiefs swore loyalty to Chen Xuan, and Ji Xuan asked what he should do while Yan Ci pointed out that they would relocate.
• Mo Bass claimed the tribe was powerful enough to dominate the Jia Ma Empire, but Chen Xuan revealed the formidable hidden strength of the Jia Ma Imperial Family, the Misty Cloud Sect, and the Black-Corner Region.
• Chen Xuan set a ten-year deadline for the relocation and told the tribe’s leaders to improve their strength, warning that the Black-Corner Region was dangerous.
• Chen Xuan promised to reach Dou Zong within ten years, filling the assembled Snake-People with hope.

Jia Xingtian secretly entered the Snake-People Holy City to investigate the tribe and discovered that it had five Dou Emperors, including Queen Medusa. After Chen Xuan detected him, Jia Xingtian fled, and Chen Xuan pursued him while the Snake-People leaders reflected on their need to grow stronger.

• Jia Xingtian slipped into the Snake-People Holy City after its Eight Leaders left their defensive posts and cautiously sensed the Sacred Hall.
• Jia Xingtian discovered four Dou Huang experts in the Sacred Hall, realizing that Queen Medusa brought the Snake-People Tribe's total to five Dou Emperors.
• Chen Xuan noticed Jia Xingtian's soul power and announced that the tribe had a guest, prompting Jia Xingtian to flee toward the desert.
• Snake Ji and the other Snake-People experts pursued Jia Xingtian, but his Peak Dou Emperor speed quickly left them behind.
• Chen Xuan ordered Snake Ji to return and guard the tribe, then chased Jia Xingtian himself.
• Yan Ci and Yue Mei lamented their weakness, while Ji She urged the leaders to grow stronger and reminded them that they had Her Majesty.

Chen Xuan battled Jia Xingtian in the Tagor Desert, revealing a weapon that strengthened him and unleashing a Heaven-Rank technique he could not control. The technique exploded, defeating Jia Xingtian’s phoenix attack and leaving Chen Xuan fleeing the spreading blast.

• Jia Xingtian tried to escape Queen Medusa, but her black energy strike caught him and forced him to reappear disheveled.
• Chen Xuan challenged Jia Xingtian and clashed with him, using the Fang Tian Painted Halberd to summon a black dragon against Jia Xingtian’s phantom phoenix.
• Jia Xingtian realized Chen Xuan’s strength was rising because the halberd fed Dou Qi back into him.
• Chen Xuan unleashed the Heaven-Rank Heavenly Dao Halberd Technique—Heaven devourer, darkening the sky with black clouds.
• Jia Xingtian summoned a massive phoenix with Phoenix dances through the nine heavens, while Chen Xuan lost control of the technique and spat blood.
• Chen Xuan dropped the halberd as the black energy exploded, erased Jia Xingtian’s phoenix, and hurled Jia Xingtian into the desert; Chen Xuan fled as the blast expanded.

After unleashing an uncontrolled Heaven-Rank Dou Technique that devastated the desert, Chen Xuan negotiated Jia Xingtian’s safe return in exchange for the Snake-People Tribe’s passage out of the Jia Ma Empire and eight Dou Ling Pills. The tribe planned to relocate to the Black-Corner Region within ten years.

• Chen Xuan found Jia Xingtian badly wounded but alive after the energy blast and warned him that he could still kill him.
• Jia Xingtian asked what Chen Xuan wanted, and Chen Xuan proposed cooperation instead of claiming the throne.
• Chen Xuan told Jia Xingtian that the Snake-People Tribe planned to leave the Jia Ma Empire for the Black-Corner Region and requested unobstructed passage through its cities.
• Jia Xingtian agreed to grant passage, and Chen Xuan said the tribe would relocate within ten years.
• Chen Xuan demanded eight Dou Ling Pills as compensation for Jia Xingtian trespassing in Snake-People territory, and Jia Xingtian reluctantly agreed to provide them.

Chen Xuan explained why he had spared Jia Xingtian, while Queen Medusa revealed that she had been watching and feeling everything he experienced. They reached an uneasy understanding about his choices and his dangerous Dou Technique, leaving Chen Xuan to wonder how much his influence had changed Medusa.

• Queen Medusa questioned Chen Xuan about sparing Jia Xingtian, and he argued that cooperating with the Jia Ma Imperial Family benefited the Snake-People Tribe's migration.
• Queen Medusa acknowledged Chen Xuan's effectiveness and called him a devious human, privately resenting how much he had accomplished.
• Chen Xuan asked the system how Queen Medusa could perceive the outside world, and it explained that their senses were shared through the Symbiosis System.
• Queen Medusa warned Chen Xuan not to use the dangerous Heavenly Dao Halberd Technique again unless he faced a desperate situation.
• Chen Xuan reassured Queen Medusa that the battle's outcome had been an accident, and she fell silent after accepting his explanation.

Chen Xuan told Queen Medusa that Yue Mei had found signs of the Green Lotus Core Flame in the Tagor Desert and warned her that evolving with it could awaken her companion soul. Queen Medusa remained determined to devour the flame and reach Dou Zong so the Snake-People Tribe could relocate safely to the Black-Corner Region.

• Chen Xuan told Queen Medusa that Yue Mei had reported green firelight and intense heat deep in the Tagor Desert, which he suspected came from the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Chen Xuan explained that the heavenly flame could help Queen Medusa evolve her bloodline into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, while warning that devouring it could be deadly.
• Queen Medusa accepted the risk, hoping to reach Dou Zong and strengthen the Snake-People Tribe’s prospects in the Black-Corner Region.
• Chen Xuan warned that Queen Medusa’s evolution could awaken the Purple Nether Flame Snake companion soul, but Queen Medusa believed it could not overpower her and Chen Xuan.
• Queen Medusa said the companion soul could be separated, and Chen Xuan suggested it might become a powerful helper for the Snake-People Tribe.
• Queen Medusa set aside the companion soul question and focused on finding and devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame to raise her strength.

After three years of cultivation, Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa had reached the late Nine-Star Dou Emperor stage, while Chen Xuan also became a Fourth-Grade Alchemy Master. He struggled to refine a peak fourth-grade Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, and Queen Medusa urged him to rest before he exhausted himself.

• Chen Xuan and Queen Medusa spent three years in seclusion and advanced to the late Nine-Star Dou Emperor stage, preparing for Medusa to eventually devour the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Chen Xuan mastered the Heavenly Dao Halberd Technique and used the Fire-Refining Yao Dan Method and Snake King Cauldron to become a Fourth-Grade Alchemy Master.
• Chen Xuan attempted to refine a Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill, but nine batches failed and only one set of ingredients remained.
• Queen Medusa warned Chen Xuan that he had nearly exhausted his soul power and told him to take a break.
• Chen Xuan apologized for worrying Queen Medusa but remained determined to improve as an alchemist.

Chen Xuan struggled to refine a Peak Fourth-Grade Pill, and Queen Medusa encouraged him before asking why he was determined to become an alchemist. After he explained how an alchemist could secure the Snake-People Tribe’s future in the Black-Corner Region, Medusa thanked him, but his teasing reply about a communal bath left her angered.

• Chen Xuan worried that becoming a top-tier master alchemist would be far harder after he hit an obstacle with a Peak Fourth-Grade Pill.
• Queen Medusa reassured Chen Xuan, then blurted that he was human after all; he pretended to be hurt before admitting he had only meant to lighten the mood.
• Queen Medusa asked why Chen Xuan pursued alchemy when his cultivation talent could carry him to Dou Zun strength.
• Chen Xuan explained that alchemists could gain powerful allies and help the Snake-People Tribe obtain pills and establish itself in the Black-Corner Region.
• Queen Medusa thanked Chen Xuan, but he asked her to arrange a communal bath and wondered whether the young ladies were pretty, making her expression darken.