Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan learned why Queen Medusa was moving the Snake-People Tribe to the Black-Corner Region and reunited with his brothers, discovering that Queen Medusa had helped build their mercenary group. After Yao Lao explained Qing Lin’s extraordinary potential, the migrating tribe learned that Earth Demon Old Ghost had united regional forces to threaten their passage, and Chen Xuan vowed to kill him.

• Yao Lao explained that the lawless Black-Corner Region offered powerful resources and that Queen Medusa’s arrival could reshape its factions.
• Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, whose Desert Iron Mercenary Group had grown formidable with Queen Medusa’s support.
• Yao Lao identified Qing Lin as the Three-Flowered Green Snake Child, whose mystical pupils could control snake-type magical beasts and eventually command beasts as powerful as herself.
• As the Snake-People Tribe migrated toward the Black-Corner Region, Mu Chen warned Chen Xuan that Earth Demon Old Ghost had formed an alliance to intercept and slaughter them.
• After Mu Chen reported Earth Demon Old Ghost’s threat to annihilate the tribe, Chen Xuan declared that he would kill him.

The Snake-People Tribe reached Ghost-Suppressing Pass and advanced into the Black-Corner Region, where Chen Xuan learned that the Soul Hall was secretly behind the planned attack. The tribe’s forces clashed with a large Black-Corner Region army, and Chen Xuan moved to fight Earth Demon Old Ghost as the battle spread across the plains.

• Mu Chen reported that the Black-Corner Region’s forces had withdrawn toward the Black Domain Great Plains, and Chen Xuan ordered the Snake-People Tribe to rest before marching onward.
• Chen Xuan promised Ya Fei that she would establish the tribe’s auction house after they settled in the Black-Corner Region.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost and tens of thousands of Black-Corner Region experts prepared to attack the migrating tribe, while a Soul Hall member revealed that the faction was involved.
• Mo Tianxing warned Chen Xuan that the Soul Hall was working with Demon Flame Valley, and Chen Xuan concluded that it wanted to harvest souls from a large-scale battle.
• The Snake-People Tribe’s fifty thousand soldiers clashed with an equal number of Black-Corner Region fighters, while their leaders fought the enemy experts in the sky.
• Chen Xuan challenged Earth Demon Old Ghost with his black halberd as Ya Fei watched the battle and vowed to become stronger.

Great Elder Snake Ji and the Snake-People Tribe turned the battle against the Black-Corner Region by using the Eight Gates to increase their strength. Chen Xuan reached seven-star Dou Zong and faced Earth Demon Old Ghost and a Soul Hall Protector, whose Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Formation killed every Black-Corner Region fighter and gathered their souls.

• Great Elder Snake Ji opened six of the Eight Gates, reached two-star Dou Zong, and fought the Gold and Silver Elders.
• The Snake-People Tribe's leaders and elders used the Eight Gates to strengthen themselves, and Mo Bass killed a Black-Corner Region Dou Wang as the battle shifted in their favor.
• Chen Xuan opened six gates and rose from four-star to seven-star Dou Zong, then blocked Earth Demon Old Ghost's Thousand Illusions Profound Ice Thorn without injury.
• A Soul Hall Protector emerged from the void and joined Earth Demon Old Ghost in attacking Chen Xuan with their strongest techniques.
• The Soul Hall Protector unleashed the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Formation, which tore the souls from the Black-Corner Region fighters and killed them all.

Chen Xuan used her Heaven-Rank Dou Technique to defeat Earth Demon Old Ghost and the Soul Hall Protector, then burned the Protector away with the Green Lotus Core Flame. Earth Demon Old Ghost escaped as a soul, and Great Elder Snake Ji pursued him while Chen Xuan finished off the Soul Hall Protector.

• Great Elder Snake Ji ordered the Snake-People Tribe army to retreat as Chen Xuan prepared her Heaven Devour technique.
• Chen Xuan’s attack overwhelmed Earth Demon Old Ghost’s ice technique and the Soul Hall Protector’s soul formation, killing Earth Demon Old Ghost’s body and cutting the Protector in half.
• The Soul Hall Protector revealed that the souls he had absorbed strengthened him, then pulled Earth Demon Old Ghost’s surviving soul from his body to consume it.
• Chen Xuan used the Green Lotus Core Flame to free Earth Demon Old Ghost, who fled toward the Black-Corner Region as Great Elder Snake Ji went after him.
• Chen Xuan unleashed hundreds of green lotuses that devoured the Soul Hall Protector’s black mist and left no trace of him.

Chen Xuan’s forces defeated the Black-Corner Region’s attackers, and he collected Earth Demon Old Ghost’s treasures before destroying his captured soul. After a day of recovery, the Snake-People Tribe reached Black Seal City, beginning its move into the Black-Corner Region.

• Chen Xuan searched Earth Demon Old Ghost’s Storage Ring and found valuable techniques, medicinal materials, and three seventh-grade Life-Restoring Pills.
• Medusa proposed looting Demon Flame Valley, and Chen Xuan agreed to seek its treasures, including the Flame Manipulation Art.
• Yue Mei reported that the Snake-People Tribe had lost nearly a thousand people, while Snake Ji returned with Earth Demon Old Ghost’s captured soul.
• Chen Xuan burned Earth Demon Old Ghost’s soul with the Green Lotus Core Flame after rejecting his offer to serve the tribe.
• After recovering for a day, Chen Xuan led the Snake-People Tribe onward, and they arrived at Black Seal City.

Chen Xuan led the Snake-People Tribe to Black Seal City, where Yuan Yi welcomed Queen Medusa and invited her to the annual auction. After settling in, Chen Xuan gave Hai Bodong three of Earth Demon Old Ghost’s ice-attribute Dou Techniques, while Queen Medusa explored the city; the next day, Chen Xuan decided to refine Emperor’s Extreme Pills.

• Chen Xuan brought the Snake-People Tribe to Black Seal City, and Yuan Yi met Queen Medusa and agreed to let the tribe rest outside the city.
• Yuan Yi invited Queen Medusa to the Eight Gates’ annual auction in three days, and Chen Xuan accepted.
• Chen Xuan gave Hai Bodong three of Earth Demon Old Ghost’s ice-attribute Dou Techniques.
• Yuan Yi warned the Eight Gates elders not to provoke the Snake-People Tribe, while Queen Medusa explored Black Seal City that evening.
• Chen Xuan declined to go out the next day and decided to try refining Emperor’s Extreme Pills.

Chen Xuan refined Emperor's Extreme Pills in the Eight Gates, overcoming an initial failure and producing four pills. He then prepared to attend Black Seal City's grand auction.

• Chen Xuan used the Green Lotus Core Flame and Snake King Cauldron to attempt an Emperor's Extreme Pill, but the pill exploded during fusion.
• Chen Xuan applied what he had learned and successfully refined an Emperor's Extreme Pill, whose fragrance drew the attention of the Eight Gates' elders and Yuan Yi.
• Gu He stopped the Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor cub from entering Chen Xuan's room and gave it a medicinal herb instead.
• Chen Xuan continued refining pills until noon the next day, producing four Emperor's Extreme Pills after two failures.
• Chen Xuan realized it was the day of Black Seal City's grand auction and decided to see what it offered.

Chen Xuan attended the Black Seal City Auction with Yuan Yi and discovered a mysterious connection between his Heavenly Flame and Fang Yan, Demon Flame Valley’s Great Elder. After Chen Xuan added a Sixth-Grade Emperor’s Extreme Pill to the auction, it was announced as the auction’s third-ranked highlight.

• Yuan Yi welcomed Chen Xuan and led him and his companions to the auction, where Yue Mei’s Dou Emperor aura frightened off men staring at her and Queen Medusa.
• Chen Xuan’s group’s strength shocked the auction attendees, and Chen Xuan sensed his Heavenly Flame tremble when he encountered the Black-Robed Man, who was Fang Yan in disguise.
• Fang Yan planned to obtain a valuable auction item and flee Demon Flame Valley, fearing Queen Medusa after she killed Earth Demon Old Ghost.
• The auction began with the Nine Frost Art and proceeded through many treasures, while Chen Xuan won Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva.
• Chen Xuan gave Yuan Yi a jade box and requested that its contents be auctioned immediately; the auctioneer revealed it was a Sixth-Grade Emperor’s Extreme Pill.

The Black Seal City auction drew Chen Xuan and the Snake-People Tribe into fierce bidding over a rare Emperor's Extreme Pill and the Thunder Breathing Method. The auction then revealed a Sect Breaking Pill, leaving the gathered factions watching Chen Xuan with apprehension.

• Hei Xuan won the Emperor's Extreme Pill for five million gold coins, then learned that Chen Xuan's group belonged to the Snake-People Tribe.
• The auction presented the Mid Earth Tier Thunder Breathing Method, which Chen Xuan bought for two Emperor's Extreme Pills after outbidding the Black-Corner Region's factions.
• Yuan Yi revealed the final item, a Sect Breaking Pill that could help a Peak Dou Huang break through to Dou Zong.
• The third-floor guests glanced warily at Chen Xuan and his companions after hearing the Sect Breaking Pill's importance.

At the Black Seal City auction, Chen Xuan bid one gold coin for a Sect Breaking Pill, but Fang Yan of the Demon Flame Valley raised the price to twenty million and won it. Chen Xuan left with Queen Medusa’s companions, confident Fang Yan could not escape them.

• Yuan Yi announced that the Sect Breaking Pill belonged to Medicine Emperor Han Feng and that its buyer would have to perform a task for him.
• Hei Xuan and Yin Gu exchanged insults and clashed with their Dou Emperor auras before Yuan Yi stopped them from fighting in the auction hall.
• Chen Xuan discussed establishing an auction house in the Black-Corner Region with Queen Medusa, then bid one gold coin for the Sect Breaking Pill because the Snake-People Tribe’s forces waited outside the city.
• Fang Yan bid twenty million gold coins, and Yuan Yi declared him the winner after no one else raised the offer.
• Yue Mei asked whether they should act, and Chen Xuan left the auction hall with her, Hai Bodong, and Gu He, saying Fang Yan could not escape them.

Chen Xuan announced a major auction to build ties with the Black-Corner Region’s factions while using the Sect Breaking Pill to draw out powerful figures and gather information. After Snake Ji identified Fang Yan as the Demon Flame Valley’s Great Elder, the Snake-People Tribe tracked him through Black Seal City, where Gu He uncovered his disguise and forced him to flee.

• Yuan Yi asked Chen Xuan to sell him an Emperor's Extreme Pill, but Chen Xuan instead announced an auction at the Demon Blade Sect in three months featuring powerful pills, cultivation methods, Dou Techniques, and rare items.
• Chen Xuan explained that auctioning the Sect Breaking Pill would demonstrate the Snake-People Tribe’s strength, win allies, and reveal information about rival factions; he assigned Ya Fei to host the auction.
• Great Elder Snake Ji reported that the man who had bought a Sect Breaking Pill was Fang Yan, the Demon Flame Valley’s Great Elder, and that his weakened soul power suggested he had used an External Incarnation.
• Chen Xuan sent Hai Bodong and several elders after the apparent incarnation while Snake Ji, Yue Mei, and Gu He went into Black Seal City to locate Fang Yan and recover his Sect Breaking Pill.
• Gu He swept the city with his Sixth-Grade Alchemist soul power and exposed Fang Yan, who abandoned his disguise and fled toward another city gate.

Great Elder Snake Ji pursued and killed Fang Yan after revealing her Dou Zong strength, and Chen Xuan recovered the Sect Breaking Pill and Demon Flame Valley's secret arts from Fang Yan's Storage Ring. Before the Snake-People Tribe prepared to leave for the Demon Blade Mountain Range, Chen Xuan warned its elders not to depend on the Eight Gates instead of cultivating their own strength.

• Great Elder Snake Ji and the Snake-People experts pursued Fang Yan, who had tried to escape using an External Incarnation.
• Fang Yan unleashed Demon Flame Valley's mutated flame, but Snake Ji advanced to Dou Zong strength, extinguished it, and killed him with a palm strike.
• Snake Ji took Fang Yan's Storage Ring and brought it to Chen Xuan, who found the Sect Breaking Pill, Flame Manipulation Art, Soul-Splitting Art, and other valuables inside.
• Chen Xuan announced that the tribe would set out the next day for the Demon Blade Mountain Range and ordered Snake Ji to cultivate toward a genuine Dou Zong breakthrough.
• Chen Xuan warned the elders that the Eight Gates was only external power and instructed them not to use it except in life-or-death situations.

Chen Xuan led the Snake-People Tribe toward Demon Flame Valley after receiving powerful rewards from his monthly sign-in. When they arrived, the Rakshasa Gate was attacking the weakened Demon Flame Valley, and Chen Xuan chose to wait while the factions fought; the battle escalated as both sides prepared their strongest techniques.

• Chen Xuan decided to divert the Snake-People Tribe to Demon Flame Valley and received the Emperor Seal Art, the Great Heaven Creation Palm, and a ten-thousand-year Bodhi Seed from his monthly sign-in.
• Great Elder Snake Ji reported that the tribe would reach Demon Flame Valley in about three days, and Chen Xuan ordered the army to move faster.
• Chen Xuan and the Snake-People Tribe arrived to find Su Mei and the Rakshasa Gate attacking Demon Flame Valley, which had lost Earth Demon Old Ghost and Fang Yan.
• Chen Xuan refused Snake Ji's offer to intervene and watched as Su Mei drove Demon Flame Valley's second elder back.
• Demon Flame Valley's second elder joined forces with two allies to perform the Flame Manipulation Art and summon a giant fire phoenix.
• Su Mei answered with the Rakshasa Seal as the battle intensified.

Chen Xuan arrived at Demon Flame Valley after Su Mei and its elders had fought, and he subdued the surviving valley forces while letting the Rakshasa Gate leave. He claimed Earth Demon Old Ghost’s treasury, where Little Snake opened a spatially sealed vault and Chen Xuan discovered the Heavenly Demon Puppet technique.

• Su Mei and Demon Flame Valley’s elders were badly injured in their clash before Chen Xuan arrived with Queen Medusa’s forces.
• Fang Zheng, Ao Cheng, and Long Ju submitted to Chen Xuan, who placed Snake Curse Seals on them and spared Demon Flame Valley.
• Chen Xuan asked Su Mei to deliver a warning to Han Feng about the Black Domain Great Plains, and she led the Rakshasa Gate away.
• Fang Zheng guided Chen Xuan to Earth Demon Old Ghost’s treasury, where Chen Xuan’s aura subdued a Dou Wang-level magical beast.
• Little Snake passed through the spatial restriction and opened the treasury, revealing mountains of treasure, cultivation techniques, and the Heavenly Demon Puppet scroll.
• Chen Xuan collected the treasury’s valuables, leaving ten million gold coins for Demon Flame Valley.

Chen Xuan and the Snake-People Tribe reached Demon Cloud City and took control of the former Demon Blade Sect headquarters as their new Sacred Hall. After Queen Medusa welcomed Black Emperor Sect representatives and agreed to provide pills, Mo Ya left impressed by the tribe’s strength and resources.

• Chen Xuan arrived at Demon Cloud City with the migrating Snake-People Tribe army and met Che Cheng and Mo Ya at the gates.
• The Snake-People Tribe entered the city, and its members settled into the former Demon Blade Sect headquarters, which they renamed the Sacred Hall.
• Queen Medusa hosted a banquet for the tribe’s experts and the Black Emperor Sect representatives, where Mo Ya asked to buy Dou Ling Pills and Emperor's Extreme Pills.
• Queen Medusa agreed to provide the Black Emperor Sect with two Dou Ling Pills and two Emperor's Extreme Pills, and Mo Ya and Che Cheng departed the next morning.
• Mo Ya told Che Cheng that the Snake-People Tribe’s strength and pill reserves could challenge Medicine Emperor Han Feng’s standing in the Black-Corner Region.

Chen Xuan reorganized Demon Cloud City to improve relations between humans and the Snake-People Tribe, while preparing a major auction to establish the city's reputation. When Jia Xingtian tested the Black-Corner Region’s defenses with an army, its factions united to stop him, forcing him to withdraw.

• Chen Xuan divided Demon Cloud City into sections for the Snake-People Tribe’s eight tribes, imposed a ban on killing, opened City Guard service to loyal humans, and introduced affordable pills and city reforms.
• Chen Xuan and Ya Fei prepared an auction featuring rare pills and earth-rank dou techniques, with several hundred invitations sent to powers across the Black-Corner Region.
• Yue Mei reported that Jia Xingtian had brought a hundred thousand troops to Ghost-Suppressing Pass and sought to expand the Jia Ma Empire’s territory into the Black Domain Great Plains.
• Black Seal City, the Black Skeleton Curtain, Black Curtain Manor, the Thousand Medicine Shop, and other factions formed an alliance and sent five Dou Emperors to oppose Jia Xingtian.
• After the Black-Corner Region’s forces held their ground, Jia Xingtian ordered the Jia Ma Empire’s army to withdraw.

Chen Xuan broke through to Five-Star Dou Zong and learned that Demon Cloud City’s new businesses were thriving. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan gained the netherworld poison flame and prepared to seek Queen Medusa’s help before his Three-Year Agreement, while the aggrieved little Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor waited for Chen Xuan to avenge him.

• Chen Xuan advanced to Five-Star Dou Zong after a month of seclusion in Demon Cloud City.
• Xiao Yan used the netherworld poison flame to kill a Demon Tiger, and Yao Lao explained that the flame had helped the Flame Mantra evolve to Mystic Tier.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan to seek Queen Medusa’s help against Yun Shan and revealed that she could eventually reach Dou Sheng; Xiao Yan agreed to travel to the Black-Corner Region.
• Ya Fei reported that Demon Cloud City’s pill shop and auction house had opened successfully and that the city had remained orderly during Chen Xuan’s absence.
• Ya Fei explained that the little Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor had been barred from the storeroom, beaten by magical beasts while searching for medicinal ingredients, and had waited half a month for Chen Xuan to avenge him.

Chen Xuan learned that the Demon Blade Mountain Range held several powerful magical beasts and became curious about its depths. He took the little Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor there for training, found a Spirit White Fox and its vast herb collection, and seized the herbs, leaving the fox in danger.

• Ya Fei told Chen Xuan that three sixth-rank magical beasts and at least ten fifth-tier beasts lived in the Demon Blade Mountain Range, and that the three strongest had driven off the former Demon Blade Sect master.
• Chen Xuan decided to train the little Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor by taking him to the range, while the Amethyst Winged Lion King watched them depart after advancing to Five-Star Dou Emperor.
• The little Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor led Chen Xuan to a cave, where they encountered a Spirit White Fox that had previously beaten him.
• Chen Xuan bound the Spirit White Fox and the little Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor with spatial chains, then entered the cave and discovered a large store of medicinal herbs.
• Chen Xuan swept every herb into his Sea King Ring, and the Spirit White Fox sensed danger as he turned toward it.

Chen Xuan won the Spirit White Fox’s loyalty with a Blood-Raising Pill and followed it into the Demon Blade Mountain Range to gather medicinal herbs. At the range’s heart, he confronted three Sixth-Rank Magical Beasts and discovered they were guarding a secret they refused to reveal.

• Chen Xuan offered the Spirit White Fox a Blood-Raising Pill in exchange for following him, and it accepted, awakening its bloodline and advancing to the advanced fourth rank.
• The little Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor tried to make the Spirit White Fox its underling, but Chen Xuan dismissed the idea and named the fox Spirit Fox.
• Spirit Fox guided Chen Xuan through the Demon Blade Mountain Range, where he collected medicinal herbs from the lairs of fourth- and fifth-rank magical beasts without killing them.
• Chen Xuan and his companions reached the mountain range’s heart, where three Sixth-Rank Magical Beasts—a golden eagle, a black tiger, and a Purple Nether Flame Snake—confronted him.
• The three overlords offered to provide Chen Xuan with whatever he needed, but stiffened when he asked what secret they guarded and urged him to leave.

Chen Xuan killed the three sixth-rank overlords of the Demon Blade Mountain Range after they tried to keep him away from its hidden treasure. He discovered a blood pool that could strengthen magical beasts and their bloodlines, and realized it might help the Snake-People Tribe grow stronger.

• The Black-Eyed Golden Tiger offered Chen Xuan a Moon Immortal Spirit Flower to persuade him to leave, but he insisted on investigating the mountain range.
• The Golden-Winged Vulture, Black-Eyed Golden Tiger, and Purple Nether Flame Snake attacked Chen Xuan, then entered a blood-fueled berserk state that raised their strength to the upper sixth rank.
• Chen Xuan used the Mountain Splitting Seal to kill all three beasts with one strike, then stored their corpses and searched their lairs with Bai Ling.
• Chen Xuan collected rare sixth-tier medicinal materials, including the Moon Immortal Spirit Flower, from the beasts' lairs.
• The Spirit White Fox and young Amethyst Winged Lion Emperor led Chen Xuan to a cavern containing a blood pool.
• Queen Medusa explained that the blood pool could strengthen magical beasts, improve their bloodlines, and help them break through to Dou Zong, prompting Chen Xuan to consider using it for the Snake-People Tribe.