Chapter Summaries

Chen Cang and Zi Yan watched Queen Medusa endure the Green Lotus Core Flame’s evolution, fearing she had died when her aura vanished. She emerged as a tiny Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, and Chen Cang realized her evolution had succeeded.

• Chen Cang and Zi Yan witnessed Queen Medusa transform into a giant purple serpent as the Green Lotus Core Flame burned her scales and flesh.
• Queen Medusa’s aura disappeared, but a bolt of silver lightning struck her charred body, and the green flames began to contract.
• Chen Cang and Zi Yan approached the island and heard cracking sounds from inside the serpent’s body.
• A tiny seven-colored snake emerged, darted around uncontrollably, and collapsed from exhaustion before them.
• Chen Cang explained that Queen Medusa had evolved into the legendary Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python.

Chen Cang negotiated with Queen Medusa over her recovery, then fed the little Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and took the green lotus core flame’s origin flame seed into his body. He left the island with Zi Yan and his beasts, heading to the Chu Yun Empire before returning to Sky Star.

• Queen Medusa explained that she needed to fuse with the little Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python’s soul, agreed to protect Chen Cang for another half year in exchange for a wisp of fallen heart flame, and handed control back to the little python.
• Zi Yan offered the little Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python a spirit fruit, but the python sought the earth fire lotus seeds in Chen Cang’s Storage Ring, so he gave her one to eat.
• Chen Cang collected the Earth Fire Lotus Platform, extracted the green lotus core flame’s origin flame seed, and suppressed it in his left palm with the fallen heart flame.
• Chen Cang told Zi Yan to call back the Void Pegasus Beast and Snow Demon Heavenly Ape, then set out for the Chu Yun Empire to harvest the crop he had been eyeing before returning to Sky Star.

Chen Cang attacked the Five Poisons Gate and captured its master's soul with a Soul Token. After returning to Tianying City, he handed the soul to Protector Hu, who promoted him to a High Yellow Tier Soul Envoy.

• Chen Cang sent the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape to kill the Five Poisons Gate master while his Illusion Realm left the sect leader helpless.
• The Snow Demon Heavenly Ape killed the Five Poisons Gate master, and Chen Cang used the Soul Token to capture his soul.
• Chen Cang and his companions left Saddle Mountain as the Five Poisons Gate disciples began fighting over the sect's remaining property.
• Seven days later, Chen Cang returned to Tianying City and summoned Protector Hu with the Bee Flute.
• Chen Cang handed Protector Hu the captured soul, and Protector Hu promoted him to a High Yellow Tier Soul Envoy.

Chen Cang exchanged his Soul Token after Protector Hu explained the Soul Hall’s rules, then left Sky Star and began studying the Emperor Seal Art during the journey back. He opened the first of the three meridians needed for the Mountain Splitting Seal, leaving him poised to continue cultivating it.

• Protector Hu explained the Soul Hall’s rules, replaced Chen Cang’s Soul Token, and told him he could use a Bee Flute to contact him.
• Chen Cang found no suitable Soul Technique in Protector Hu’s memories and, with no Soul Points, could not redeem one from his Soul Token.
• Chen Cang bid farewell to City Lord Ding Dian and Master Mo, then set out with his group from Sky Star.
• Chen Cang fed Dou Qi into Xun’er’s black scroll until it shattered and revealed the Emperor Seal Art, including the Mountain Splitting Seal and Sea Overturning Seal.
• Chen Cang asked Zi Yan to guard him while he opened his meridians and suppressed the Green Lotus Core Flame, then began clearing the three blocked meridians in his right arm.
• After nearly four days, Chen Cang completely opened the first meridian and estimated he could begin cultivating the Mountain Splitting Seal within half a month.

Chen Cang returned to the Inner Academy, then went beneath the Heavenly Flame Qi Refining Tower with Medusa to gather Flame Lizardman fire cores and practice the Mountain Splitting Seal. After Medusa demonstrated her Dou Zong strength, they prepared to keep hunting but flee if a Dou Zong-level Flame Lizardman appeared.

• Chen Cang returned to the Inner Academy and told Great Elder Su Qian he wanted to practice his Dou Technique underground.
• Chen Cang summoned Medusa and explained that Flame Lizardman fire cores could feed the Little Sky Swallowing Python.
• Chen Cang and Medusa descended into the Magma World, where Medusa seized a Dou Wang-level Flame Lizardman and Chen Cang extracted its fire core.
• Chen Cang killed another Flame Lizardman with his first strike of the Mountain Splitting Seal.
• Medusa swiftly killed the approaching Flame Lizardmen and collected their fire cores, while Chen Cang warned her to retreat if a Dou Zong-level enemy appeared.

Chen Cang and Queen Medusa left the Magma World after gathering Fire Cores and traveled with Zi Yan and two magical beasts to the Black-Corner Region. Near Black Emperor City, they killed the Beast Taming Sect Master, and Chen Cang revealed that he planned to search for medicinal ingredients before heading to the Central Plains.

• Chen Cang mastered the Mountain Splitting Seal while Queen Medusa harvested Fire Cores, but they fled when a Dou Zong-level Flame Lizardman approached.
• Queen Medusa gave Chen Cang a hundred Fire Cores for the Little Sky Swallowing Python, and Chen Cang returned to Tianying and confirmed its progress with Han Xu, Wang Si, and the other members.
• Chen Cang met with Great Elder Su Qian, then traveled toward the Black-Corner Region with Zi Yan and two magical beasts.
• Near Black Emperor City, the Beast Taming Sect Master tried to claim the Void Pegasus Beast, so Chen Cang sent him the Jade Bottle and Queen Medusa killed him.
• Chen Cang captured the Beast Taming Sect Master's soul for Soul Points, while Queen Medusa took his Storage Ring.
• Chen Cang told Queen Medusa he planned to search Black Emperor City for medicinal ingredients before traveling to Tianya City and the Central Plains.

Chen Cang arrived in Black Emperor City with his companions and met Qin Yuan, who had established the Sky Star Shop as a base for their organization. While searching the city for rare treasures and preparing to change cultivation methods, Chen Cang broke through to six-star Dou Wang.

• Chen Cang and his companions entered Black Emperor City, and he cautioned Zi Yan against provoking the Black Emperor Sect.
• Chen Cang reunited with Qin Yuan at the Sky Star Shop and discussed the organization’s plans and his search for treasures.
• Chen Cang attended pill exchanges and auctions for a month and a half but found no Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva or dried Heavenly Demon Phoenix corpse.
• Chen Cang traded for medicinal herbs and opened all the special meridians needed to switch cultivation methods.
• Chen Cang used nearly a hundred fire cores and the fallen heart flame to break through to six-star Dou Wang.

Chen Cang exchanged the Beast Taming Sect Master's soul for a Black Tier Soul Token and used its points to obtain a Soul-Restoring Demon Fruit. He left Black Emperor City and reached Tianya City, where he planned to use the space wormhole to travel to the Central Plains.

• Chen Cang traded the Beast Taming Sect Master's soul for a Low Black Tier Soul Token and received one hundred soul points.
• Chen Cang exchanged all one hundred points for a Soul-Restoring Demon Fruit, a rare ingredient for the Yin-Yang Life Soul Pill.
• Chen Cang left Black Emperor City with the Void Pegasus Beast and Snow Demon Heavenly Ape after concluding the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva had not yet arrived in the Black-Corner Region.
• After seven days of travel, Chen Cang reached Tianya City in the Tianqing Mountain Range.
• Chen Cang told the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape to ignore the onlookers and head for the city's space wormhole.

Chen Cang and his companions entered Tianya City and traveled through its space wormhole toward the Central Plains. He told Zi Yan they would search for her clan on the way, but her casual response left him questioning whether reuniting her with them was truly right.

• Chen Cang apologized to the gray-robed Dou Emperor for flying over Tianya City and declined the Luo Family auction and space ship offer.
• Chen Cang brought Zi Yan, the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape, and the Void Pegasus Beast through the city to the space wormhole.
• The group entered the wormhole, where the Void Pegasus Beast grew excited and moved freely through the spatial passage.
• Chen Cang told Zi Yan they would pass through the Beast Region to search for her clan, and she said she did not care whether she had one.
• Chen Cang felt troubled by Zi Yan's words and wondered whether returning her to her clan was the right choice.

Chen Cang used a Blood Seal to disguise Zi Yan’s powerful bloodline before they entered the Central Plains, hoping to keep the divided Ancient Void Dragon Clan from finding her first. After Zi Yan accidentally broke the seal and Chen Cang reapplied it, the group arrived at the Central Plains.

• During their journey, Queen Medusa warned Zi Yan not to wander or provoke powerful enemies in the unfamiliar Central Plains.
• Chen Cang drew a Blood Seal on Zi Yan using the Blackflame Kui Ox’s blood essence, disguising her aura as that of a rampaging calf.
• Queen Medusa sensed the change and asked about Zi Yan’s identity, and Chen Cang explained that he wanted to conceal her bloodline until he could approach Dragon Island himself.
• Zi Yan disrupted the Blood Seal with her power, restoring her original aura, so Chen Cang traced the seal again.
• The Void Pegasus Beast carried Chen Cang, Queen Medusa, and Zi Yan through a dark spatial opening into the Central Plains.

Chen Cang, Queen Medusa, and Zi Yan entered the Central Plains and traveled south through a forest, where Zi Yan found several treasures. The chapter ended as they watched a Darknight Azure Wolf begin its tribulation to advance to the seventh tier.

• Chen Cang led the group out of the space wormhole in Xian City, and Queen Medusa took in the Central Plains’ powerful experts before they headed south toward Luoting City.
• Zi Yan sensed treasure beneath the forest, and Chen Cang had the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape dig up ten-thousand-year soul-cleansing marrow and Soul-Nourishing Jade.
• Chen Cang traded to keep the marrow in exchange for covering Zi Yan’s food until her next advancement, then collected seventy-one drops.
• Zi Yan found an azure spirit vine guarded by a peak fifth-tier magical beast, and the group took it before continuing through the forest.
• The group sensed a gathering of dark clouds and lightning, and Chen Cang identified a Darknight Azure Wolf as it began its tribulation to advance to the seventh tier.

Chen Cang and his companions left the forest after the Wolf King survived his tribulation and reached Luoting City, headquarters of the Wind and Thunder Northern Pavilion. There, Fei Tian unknowingly let Chen Cang learn the Pavilion’s lightning techniques, though Chen Cang still lacked the power needed to cultivate them.

• The Wolf King endured the lightning tribulation and reached the seventh tier, while Chen Cang’s group chose not to disturb him or raid his lair.
• Chen Cang and his companions traveled south through the forest and arrived at Luoting City, where Queen Medusa asked about the Wind and Thunder Northern Pavilion.
• Fei Tian introduced himself as master of the Northern Pavilion and directed Chen Cang’s group to the city’s Space Wormhole after deciding not to seize their Void Pegasus Beast.
• Chen Cang learned the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body from Fei Tian’s knowledge, but realized the movement technique required a wisp of wind and thunder power to cultivate.

After five months of travel, Chen Cang and his companions reached the Land of Exile, where he led them toward a long-sought opportunity. They arrived at the Nightmare Demon Tribe’s grounds and confirmed that its enormous purple cauldron might be ranked among the Heavenly Cauldrons.

• Chen Cang advanced to the peak of Seven-Star Dou Wang, Queen Medusa neared the completion of her soul fusion, and the Heavenly Fire Venerable recovered his soul to its peak.
• Chen Cang told Queen Medusa and Zi Yan that he had come to the Land of Exile to seek a legacy that might involve a Dou Sheng expert.
• Chen Cang guided the group southwest, and the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape destroyed a Ghost Ju Tribe settlement and its insect swarms.
• After two more days of travel and attacks from dark races, Chen Cang led the group to the Nightmare Demon Tribe’s grounds.
• Chen Cang identified the enormous purple cauldron as an exceptional pill cauldron that might rank on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

Chen Cang and his companions defeated the Nightmare Demon Tribe and discovered that the enormous cauldron held an inheritance connected to the Pure Lotus Demon Saint. Hoping to gain a powerful soul technique, Chen Cang began probing the cauldron’s inheritance.

• Chen Cang killed the Nightmare Demon Tribe’s Dou Wang and Clan Leader with invisible flames and soul power, then ordered the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape to clear the remaining tribespeople.
• Chen Cang explained to Zi Yan and Queen Medusa that the Pure Lotus Demon Saint had driven the tribe from the Central Plains and that its Nightmare Demon Sky Mist imitated his Nightmare Sky Mist technique.
• Chen Cang said the tribe’s mist technique came from the cauldron’s inheritance, which its members lacked the soul power to properly access.
• Chen Cang approached the enormous cauldron, asked Queen Medusa to guard him, and sent his soul perception into it to seek the inheritance.

Chen Cang entered the Purple Abyss Cauldron and met Su Youzi, whose remnant soul offered him her inheritance. After telling him how Bodhi Seed betrayed her and how she died fleeing the Soul Hall, she asked him to visit Sound Valley if he got the chance; Chen Cang received her extensive legacy.

• Chen Cang explored the cauldron's dark inner space and encountered Su Youzi, a remnant soul who praised his abilities.
• Su Youzi introduced herself and revealed that the cauldron was the Purple Abyss Cauldron, ranked third on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Su Youzi recounted how she refined Bodhi Heart for Bodhi Seed, who later betrayed her over the cauldron and died in their battle.
• Su Youzi explained that the Soul Hall pursued her after the battle, and she eventually perished in the Land of Exile.
• Su Youzi offered Chen Cang her inheritance and asked him to visit Sound Valley; her remnant soul entered the space between his brows.
• Chen Cang inspected the inheritance and discovered extensive alchemy knowledge, cultivation methods, combat skills, and multiple soul techniques.

After mastering two powerful soul techniques, Chen Cang claimed the Purple Abyss Cauldron and discovered a fortune of pills, treasures, and Dou Sheng Skeletons in two storage rings. He gave Zi Yan and Queen Medusa cultivation methods before preparing to change his cultivation method and refine the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• After eleven days of cultivation, Chen Cang demonstrated the Nine Nether Annihilation Soul Seal by blasting a huge palm-shaped opening through a mountain wall.
• Chen Cang gave Zi Yan the cultivation method for the soul technique, but she complained that it was too difficult.
• Chen Cang claimed the Purple Abyss Cauldron and found two storage rings filled with valuable pills, techniques, medicinal ingredients, and Dou Sheng Skeletons.
• Chen Cang gave Zi Yan the Dragon Whirl Force and Queen Medusa the Mystic Light Mantra.
• Chen Cang said he would switch cultivation methods and refine the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Queen Medusa teased him about giving her the scroll as hush money.

Chen Cang tested his new cultivation method on members of the Nightmare Demon Tribe, then began merging the Fallen Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame into his cultivation and soul. After a painful, prolonged process, he summoned both flames without them interfering, but noticed a change in his strength.

• The Snow Demon Heavenly Ape brought two unconscious humanoids to the Nightmare Demon Tribe, where Chen Cang secretly influenced them to cultivate his experimental method.
• The Heavenly Fire Venerable reported that the method worked, and Chen Cang began using it after spending forty-five days preparing his meridians.
• Chen Cang switched to the new method and found that his energy absorption and Dou Qi conversion had increased by about thirty percent.
• Chen Cang merged the Fallen Heart Flame with his Dou Qi, then refined the Green Lotus Core Flame and fused it with his soul power despite severe pain.
• Chen Cang summoned both flames without provoking the Fallen Heart Flame and realized his strength had changed.

After eight months of seclusion, Chen Cang reached the peak of Nine-Star Dou Wang and prepared to leave the Land of Exile with Zi Yan and Queen Medusa. He planned to visit the Black-Corner Region before returning to the Jia Ma Empire, where he hoped to reunite with Xiao Yi Xian.

• Chen Cang learned from the Heavenly Fire Venerable that refining the fallen heart flame and green lotus core flame had raised him to Nine-Star Dou Wang.
• Chen Cang discussed seeking the three thousand burning flame eventually and considered using a lesser Heavenly Flame as a temporary substitute.
• Chen Cang left seclusion and learned that Zi Yan and Queen Medusa had gone out gathering medicinal ingredients while the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape kept watch over the Dark Races.
• Chen Cang thought about Xiao Yan, Xun'er, and Xiao Yi Xian, deciding it was time to bring Xiao Yi Xian out of Wutan City.
• Zi Yan and Queen Medusa returned with medicinal ingredients, and Chen Cang agreed to refine pills for Zi Yan on the way.
• Chen Cang announced that they would leave immediately for the Black-Corner Region and then visit the Jia Ma Empire.

Chen Cang and his companions entered Fallen God Ravine to hunt the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast and obtain its magic core for Xiao Yi Xian. After the beast emerged and threatened Queen Medusa, Chen Cang crushed it with repeated soul attacks and ordered White Ape to collect the corpse.

• Chen Cang gave his companions Poison-Avoidance Pills before leading them into Fallen God Ravine to seek the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast.
• Chen Cang used his tracking ability to locate the beast’s White Stone Fortress, while Queen Medusa warned Zi Yan to stay close.
• The Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast flew from its fortress, lustfully focused on Queen Medusa, and unleashed its oppressive aura.
• Chen Cang struck the beast with a Soul Great Hand Seal, sending it crashing into the fortress and reducing the structure to rubble.
• Chen Cang continued attacking until the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast showed no signs of life, then told White Ape to collect its corpse.

Chen Cang refined the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s magic core and blood essence, then confronted Queen Medusa about his feelings. Medusa accepted his intentions, and Chen Cang embraced her as they began a future together.

• Chen Cang burned away the beast’s poisoned corpse, extracted its magic core, and refined its blood essence while the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape and Void Pegasus Beast watched.
• Chen Cang gave the two beasts Blackflame Kui Ox blood essence and reserved the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s blood essence as a possible aid in resurrecting the Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• Queen Medusa reflected on Chen Cang’s confession and on his strength as a potential partner while Zi Yan asked what was on her mind.
• After collecting the last of the blood essence, Chen Cang returned to Queen Medusa, who asked directly if he wanted to be her man.
• Chen Cang admitted he had planned this for a long time, and Queen Medusa responded with a faint smile as he embraced her and promised they would build their understanding over time.