Chapter Summaries

The Azure Emperor tried to force Queen Medusa into accepting him, but Xiao Yan arrived and challenged him. Xiao Yan chose to capture the Green Lotus Core Flame, and their battle escalated as he unleashed the five fingers of the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger.

• The Azure Emperor immobilized Queen Medusa with Space Lock after she rejected his proposal and threatened to use force against her.
• Queen Medusa called for Elder Chen, and Xiao Yan entered the temple to confront the Azure Emperor.
• Xiao Yan’s God-Level Choice offered him three options, and he chose to capture the Green Lotus Core Flame and erase its consciousness.
• Xiao Yan attacked with the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger, while the Azure Emperor countered with the Green Lotus Great Hand Seal, destroying the Medusa Temple and scattering green flames through Snake People City.
• Xiao Yan summoned the Flame Ancestral Symbol for protection and unleashed all five fingers of the technique against the Azure Emperor.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Azure Emperor, used a soul technique to draw out his soul, and trapped his fleeing flames in the Five-Direction Spirit Flame Formation. With the Azure Emperor weakened and cornered, he begged Xiao Yan to spare him and offered to become his master’s asset.

• Xiao Yan and the Azure Emperor’s clash devastated Snake People City, while powerful figures across the Jia Ma Empire sensed the battle and the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion master fled after a grim divination.
• The Azure Emperor recognized Xiao Yan’s Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger and suspected a connection between the Dou Qi Continent and the Heavenly Profound Continent.
• Xiao Yan pierced the Azure Emperor with Soul-Seizing Lock and dragged out half of his soul.
• The Azure Emperor used Azure Lotus Escape to scatter himself into flames, but Xiao Yan deployed five puppets to trap him in the Five-Direction Spirit Flame Formation.
• Xiao Yan contracted the formation and forced the Azure Emperor back into solid form, where the weakened Heavenly Flame begged for his life and offered to serve him.

Xiao Yan defeated the Azure Emperor, captured the green lotus core flame, and invited Queen Medusa to join the Dao Sect in exchange for protection and help advancing her power. As Queen Medusa considered the offer, Jia Xingtian worried that the Snake-People Tribe might have gained a Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan used the Soul-Seizing Lock to pull out the Azure Emperor's soul, plunder his memories and soul power, and let a Dou Zong-level puppet absorb the green lotus core flame.
• Xiao Li checked on Xiao Yan, who explained that the Azure Emperor had been a genius-type Otherworlder capable of creating his own cultivation methods and combat skills.
• Queen Medusa thanked Xiao Yan for saving her, while privately resenting the destruction of Snake People City and the deaths among her people.
• Xiao Yan offered to protect the Snake-People Tribe with two Dou Zong-level puppets and help Queen Medusa reach Dou Zong and evolve her bloodline if the tribe joined the Dao Sect in absolute loyalty.
• Queen Medusa asked to discuss Xiao Yan's offer with her people, and Xiao Yan agreed to wait for her decision.
• Jia Xingtian watched the desert from outside Stone Desert City and worried that Queen Medusa might have broken through to Dou Zong, making the Snake-People Tribe a threat to the Jia Ma Empire.

Queen Medusa decided the Snake-People Tribe could submit to the Dao Sect if it retained autonomy, and Xiao Yan agreed in exchange for her spreading the news. He then offered to help her advance to Dou Zong using a heavenly flame, setting up a dangerous attempt that could also transform her bloodline.

• Queen Medusa consulted the Snake-People Tribe’s leaders about joining the Dao Sect, but after several days without agreement, she decided to speak with Xiao Yan alone.
• Xiao Yan revealed to Xiao Li that he planned to turn a puppet into his likeness and use it to attract the attention of other Otherworlders while he stayed hidden.
• Queen Medusa asked Xiao Yan to let the Snake-People Tribe keep control of its internal affairs, and Xiao Yan agreed on the condition that she publicize their alliance.
• Queen Medusa explained that she could advance to Dou Zong with a Sect Breaking Pill or risk using a heavenly flame to break through and possibly evolve her bloodline.
• Xiao Yan offered to control his heavenly flame during the breakthrough, and Queen Medusa led him away to begin.

Xiao Yan used the myriad beast spirit flame to help Queen Medusa evolve, awakening the bloodlines and souls of the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and the Ancient Heavenly Snake King. After the Medicine Emperor banished the resulting lightning tribulation, Medusa emerged as a nine-colored snake and escaped through space, leaving Xiao Yan trying to catch her.

• At the Medicine Emperor’s suggestion, Xiao Yan used the myriad beast spirit flame instead of the green lotus core flame to aid Queen Medusa’s evolution.
• Queen Medusa entered the flame in her serpent form and endured its scorching heat as her body burned and her blood fed the flame.
• The souls and blood essences of the Nine-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and the Ancient Heavenly Snake King merged into Queen Medusa, provoking a powerful lightning tribulation.
• The Medicine Emperor possessed Xiao Yan and banished the thunderclouds into a spatial black hole before the lightning could strike.
• Queen Medusa emerged as a small nine-colored snake, then used spatial power to vanish when Xiao Yan tried to catch her.

Xiao Yan subdued the evolved Heaven Swallowing Python and left Queen Medusa in his care, while warning the Snake-People Tribe that he would take her away. Meanwhile, Hai Bodong fled two pursuers with Qing Lin and reached Xiao Yan at the Mercenary Plaza, pleading for help.

• Xiao Yan lured out the Heaven Swallowing Python with companion amethyst source, then learned from the Medicine Emperor that Queen Medusa might inherit the Ancient Heavenly Snake King's spatial power and all-attribute Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan told the Snake-People Tribe that Queen Medusa would leave with him, left them two Puppets for protection, and departed with her and Xiao Li.
• Hai Bodong stayed at the city lord's residence, changed cultivation methods, and mastered Profound Ice Hundred Dragon Soar.
• Lu Man and White Fang arrived near Desert City seeking Qing Lin, and White Fang sensed her fleeing with Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong contacted Xiao Yan through the Mercenary Corps chat and reached the Mercenary Plaza with Qing Lin, where he begged Xiao Yan to save him from the two pursuing Dou Huang experts.

Xiao Yan gave Hai Bodong a life simulation to help him overcome his fear of Otherworlders, and Hai Bodong learned that Lu Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor were natives pursuing Qing Lin. Hai Bodong confronted them and unleashed Profound Ice Hundred Dragon Soar, while Jia Xingtian flew toward the battle after sensing the powerful ice-attribute Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan transferred his latest life simulation to Hai Bodong, who simulated fighting Lu Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor and died after a remnant soul detonated its magic core; Xiao Yan received the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils reward.
• Hai Bodong admitted the two pursuers were not Otherworlders and left the Mercenary Plaza to capture them, while Xiao Yan considered combining his two pairs of Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils with Qing Lin's.
• Lu Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor confronted Hai Bodong outside the Mercenary Plaza and demanded that he hand over Qing Lin.
• Hai Bodong attacked the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor with an ice spear, then unleashed Profound Ice Hundred Dragon Soar against him and Lu Man.
• Jia Xingtian sensed Hai Bodong's powerful ice-attribute Dou Qi in Stone Desert City and flew toward the battle.

Hai Bodong captured Lu Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor and brought them to Xiao Yan in Stone Desert City. Xiao Yan questioned them about Venerable Yao, and the chapter ended as he realized they had likely met Yao Lao only once.

• Hai Bodong defeated Lu Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor, sealed them in ice, and refused Jia Xingtian’s request to take them.
• Jia Xingtian left after learning the captives came from the Heavenly Snake Mansion, and Hai Bodong carried them toward Stone Desert City with Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group with Xiao Li, where Xiao Ding urged him to keep his strength and trump cards hidden.
• Hai Bodong delivered the captives to Xiao Yan, who freed them with the Orange Flame and asked whether they had dealt with Venerable Yao.
• The Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor recalled that Yao Lao had once given him and Lu Man guidance, and Xiao Yan realized their connection was probably limited to that meeting.

Xiao Yan spared Lu Man and White Fang, then had Yao Chen merge two pairs of Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils into Qing Lin. Qing Lin awakened with Jade-Green Snake Nine-Flower Pupils and Nine-Star Dou Emperor strength, while Lu Man and White Fang sensed her power and became eager to take her to the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

• Xiao Yan followed Yao Chen's advice and spared Lu Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor, giving them healing pills and ordering Hai Bodong to keep them there.
• Xiao Yan brought Qing Lin to a secret chamber, where Yao Chen began transferring the bloodline power of two pairs of Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils into her.
• After several months, Qing Lin's pupils transformed into Jade-Green Snake Nine-Flower Pupils, and her strength surged to Nine-Star Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yan reassured Qing Lin, encouraged her to stand up to anyone who mocked her, and agreed with Yao Chen that she should still train at the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Lu Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor sensed Qing Lin's transformed power and grew excited at the prospect of bringing her to the Heavenly Snake Mansion.

Xiao Yan agreed to let Qing Lin travel to the Heavenly Snake Mansion, then used life simulations to investigate killing Mo Cheng, repeatedly dying after the kill. Meanwhile, Liu Xi returned to life and mistook the unconscious Ling Ying for a Soul Clan attacker, then urged him to take him to Xiao Yan before Xiao Yan was in danger.

• Xiao Yan entrusted Qing Lin to Lu Man and reminded Qing Lin to contact him if she faced trouble.
• Xiao Yan simulated an attack on Mo Cheng and repeatedly died shortly after killing him, leaving him searching for the cause.
• Ye Fan left Ling Ying unconscious outside Black Rock City after his Shadow Clone confirmed Liu Xi had been dead for nearly a year.
• Liu Xi revived through the Death-and-Resurrection Pill, found his system unresponsive, and decided to seek Xiao Yan's protection.
• Liu Xi grabbed the waking Ling Ying, who suspected him of being a Soul Clan attacker, before Liu Xi identified himself and asked Ling Ying to take him to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan struggled to find the cause of the sudden deaths that followed his simulations, so he sought advice in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. After Wang Daxian kicked him out under his Ling Ying alias, Xiao Yan rejoined under his real name as Flame Emperor Xiao Yan.

• Liu Xi spared Ling Ying, knocked him unconscious, and headed for the Tagor Desert to seek news of Xiao Yan through Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• After more than a dozen simulations ended in sudden deaths, Xiao Yan refused to use his last chance and asked the chat group for help.
• The group speculated that an outsider had cursed Xiao Yan, but Han Tianzun admitted he could not identify the culprit, while Sun Wukong suggested tracing the curse's power.
• Unable to offer real help, Wang Daxian pretended to divine an ill omen and kicked Xiao Yan out of the group chat.
• Xiao Yan accepted a new invitation and rejoined the group as Flame Emperor Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan exposed Wang Daxian as a fraud, prompting the chat group to strip Wang Daxian of his position and elect Xiao Yan as the new group owner. As Xiao Yan enabled the group’s hidden features and turned to handle his own problems, Liu Xi reached the Tagor Desert with the unconscious Ling Ying, unaware that someone had transmigrated into him.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he knew the chat members’ futures from stories in his former world and challenged Wang Daxian to prove his divination powers.
• Naruto Uzumaki reported that Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Kinshiki Otsutsuki had not appeared after the Chunin Exams, and the group began doubting Wang Daxian.
• Wang Daxian threatened to expel the members, so the chat group held a vote, removed him as group owner, reclaimed his gains, and expelled him.
• The members elected Xiao Yan as the new group owner, and he enabled the check-in, shop, and world-teleportation functions.
• Liu Xi arrived in the Tagor Desert with the unconscious Ling Ying, not realizing someone had transmigrated into Ling Ying.

After receiving a Dou Zun power infusion, Ling Ying killed Liu Xi and decided to seek an alliance with Xiao Yan. When Ling Ying arrived in Stone Desert City, Xiao Yan proposed pooling their cheats and resources to make him stronger, but Ling Ying doubted the plan.

• Ling Ying opened his system’s treasure chest, gained Dou Zun-level power and a death-substitute puppet, then stomped Liu Xi to death.
• Ling Ying concluded that the world contained many Otherworlders and planned to find Xiao Yan and join his side.
• Xiao Yan’s final simulation showed Ling Ying arriving and offering cooperation, but Xiao Yan used the Medicine Emperor to defeat him and tricked him into contributing his system; Xiao Yan then died and revived through the puppet.
• After the simulation, Xiao Yan told Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Hai Bodong that he had solved half his predicament and decided to delay their trip to Salt City until the next day.
• Ling Ying entered the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and told Xiao Yan that he wanted to cooperate against Otherworlders.
• Xiao Yan admitted he and Hai Bodong were fellow countrymen and demanded Ling Ying contribute his cheat to their plan, while Ling Ying questioned why he should hand it over.

Xiao Yan persuaded Ling Ying to join the mercenary group by promising shared resources, protection, and future advancement. Ling Ying surrendered his system, and the group received a mission to spread its influence across the Jia Ma Empire.

• Xiao Yan explained that the collective would share systems and resources, and warned Ling Ying that otherworlders could threaten him.
• Xiao Yan demonstrated his strength, convincing Ling Ying to join in exchange for a promise to help him reach Dou Di and travel to the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Ding, Xiao Li, and Hai Bodong welcomed Ling Ying and explained the mercenary group’s rules after he accepted Xiao Yan’s invitation.
• Xiao Yan’s system absorbed Ling Ying’s Strongest treasure chest system, while Ling Ying joined as an ordinary member with 60 loyalty.
• The group received a three-year mission to plant its banner throughout the Jia Ma Empire, with advancement and combat-power rewards.

Xiao Yan renamed the Desert Iron Mercenary Group the Dao Sect and traveled to Salt City to deal with Mo Cheng. There, he discovered that Nalan Yanran had been reborn and infiltrated the Mo Family by impersonating Mo Ling Lin.

• Xiao Yan renamed the Desert Iron Mercenary Group the Dao Sect, established its ranks, and assigned aliases to the elders and deputy sect masters.
• Xiao Yan left the Dao Sect's mission to his allies, sent a puppet disguised as himself toward Jia Ma Holy City, and headed to Salt City.
• Xiao Yan learned that Mo Cheng had grown powerful and overheard Nalan Yanran's thoughts, discovering that she was reborn and hoped to prevent Mo Cheng's death at his hands.
• Xiao Yan used a Fourth-Grade Alchemist Badge to gain lodging and an invitation to Mo Cheng's birthday celebration from Mo Ling Lin.
• Xiao Yan knocked Mo Ling Lin unconscious, plundered her memories, assumed her appearance, and headed to the Mo Family to meet his Shadow Clone and kill Mo Cheng.

Xiao Yan used his Mo Ling Lin disguise to lure Mo Cheng into accepting a gift box containing a four-colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, killing Mo Cheng and destroying much of the Mo Family estate. Nalan Yanran recognized the attack as resembling Xiao Yan's past actions and stayed behind after Ge Ye left to investigate and wait for him.

• Xiao Yan opened a platinum treasure chest and obtained the Yin-Yang Twin Flames, then went to the Mo Family's main hall.
• Nalan Yanran questioned Mo Cheng about Qing Lin, but Qing Lin's testimony convinced her that the girl had joined the Mo Family willingly; Mo Cheng suspected Nalan Yanran was an Otherworlder and planned to kill her that night.
• Xiao Yan, disguised as Mo Ling Lin, met Nalan Yanran and claimed he had encountered a Fourth-Grade Alchemist named Master Chen, then entered the hall and offered Mo Cheng a brocade box as a greeting gift.
• Mo Cheng opened the box and was killed alongside his Guardian Spirit when Xiao Yan's four-colored Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus exploded; the Medicine Emperor contained the blast, though more than half of the Mo Family's people died.
• The Strongest Guardian Spirit System attacked Xiao Yan, but the Myriad Worlds Chat Group system intercepted it and the Infinite Plunder System began devouring it, a process expected to take ten days.
• Nalan Yanran recognized the Fire Lotus and feared events were repeating; she sent Ge Ye to inform Yun Yun and stayed near the Mo Family estate to investigate.

Xiao Yan saved Mo Ling Lin from arrest after the Mo Family fell, then made her his Dao Sect disciple and planned to use her claim to take control of the family’s former territory. Nalan Yanran followed them to the Mo estate, where City Lord Boer and Ye Cong prepared to secure their crackdown with Imperial Family support.

• City Lord Boer ordered the City Guards to arrest the Mo Family, while Ye Cong joined him and Nalan Yanran warned that Yun Yun would investigate.
• Xiao Yan returned to the inn, woke Mo Ling Lin, and protected her when City Guards arrived to arrest her as a Mo Family remnant.
• Xiao Yan drove the guards and onlookers away with a surge of dou qi, then accepted Mo Ling Lin as his Dao Sect disciple and promised to help her regain control of Salt City.
• Nalan Yanran questioned Mo Ling Lin about the family’s destruction, but Xiao Yan interrupted and led her away as Nalan Yanran followed.
• At the Mo estate, City Lord Boer said he had asked Elder Jia to judge the Mo Family, and Ye Cong worried about the Misty Cloud Sect’s response.

Xiao Yan survived a Substitute Death Doll activation and was reborn in Jia Ma Holy City, where he encountered Chief Steward Meng, a powerful transmigrator in the palace. After Xiao Yan resolved the Mo Family crisis in Salt City, he remained in the palace and asked Meng to shelter him while he waited for his system to awaken.

• Xiao Yan revealed his Dou Zong strength in Salt City, and Ye Cong died from fright while City Lord Boer begged for mercy.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Salt City's residents to let the Mo Family turn over a new leaf under the Dao Sect's supervision, and he sent a Shadow Clone to bring Hai Bodong to oversee the city.
• Xiao Yan's Substitute Death Doll activated, killing him and rebirthing him in Jia Ma Holy City.
• Xiao Yan discovered that the imperial princesses Yao Ye and Yao Yue had Dou Emperor-level strength and was confronted by Chief Steward Meng.
• Xiao Yan and Meng recognized each other as transmigrators, and Meng revealed that he had become a Peak Dou Zong through his disciple-teaching system.
• Xiao Yan asked Meng to put him up, despite Meng telling him to leave.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Ma Holy City, discovered that an impostor was following his story, and learned that a storyteller was recounting Martial Universe. The chapter ended with a gathering of Otherworlders debating whether to oppose Xiao Yan or befriend him.

• Chief Steward Meng let Xiao Yan leave the imperial palace while deciding to keep his own strength and identity hidden.
• Jia Xingtian, Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and Xiao Yan's Shadow Clone arrived in Salt City to investigate Xiao Yan's disappearance and the Mo Family's search.
• Xiao Yan found the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion deserted, then saw an impostor posing as him at the Mittel Auction House.
• Xiao Yan introduced himself to Ya Fei as Chen Beixuan, delivered five Dou Ling Pills to Mittel Tengshan, and arranged to obtain the Nalan Family's seven illusory azure spirit saliva by treating Nalan Jie's brand poison.
• Xiao Yan declined to meet the storyteller recounting Martial Universe, while the impostor Xiao Yan watched the storyteller and realized other Otherworlders were in the world.
• More than a dozen Otherworlders gathered to discuss Xiao Yan, and they disagreed over forming a Flame-Slaying Alliance or befriending him.

Xiao Yan watched impostor Yan Xiao enter the Nalan Family to treat Nalan Jie’s Brand Poison, only for Nalan Jie to attack him. As Imperial Capital experts gathered, Xiao Yan stopped the poison from escaping and discovered an Otherworlder had possessed Nalan Jie.

• A buzz-cut Otherworlder established the Flame-Slaying Alliance after Thunder God and Night Spirit refused to join, then Thunder God warned Yan Xiao that other Otherworlders were plotting against Xiao Yan.
• After seven days in hiding, Yan Xiao went to the Nalan Family to treat Nalan Jie, while Nalan Yanran recognized him as Xiao Yan and demanded the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva as payment.
• The real Xiao Yan arrived disguised as Chen Beixuan, recognized Yan Xiao’s Green Lotus Core Flame, and let him proceed with the treatment without exposing his identity.
• When Yan Xiao prepared to purge the Brand Poison, Nalan Jie awakened and attacked him behind a Poison Gas Barrier, forcing Yan Xiao to fight back.
• Yan Xiao broke through the barrier with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, drawing Imperial Capital experts to the Nalan Family as the being controlling Nalan Jie tried to flee.
• Xiao Yan used Space Lock to trap the Brand Poison, realizing an Otherworlder had possessed Nalan Jie, while Nalan Yanran emerged and accused Yan Xiao of harming her grandfather.