Chapter Summaries

Hai Bodong took Qing Lin in after learning she carried the half-awakened Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils bloodline. As he led her through Stone Desert City, he tried to build her confidence and protect her from the contempt she faced.

• Hai Bodong declined Xiao Ding's Storage Ring and accepted Qing Lin as his maid after revealing that he was the Ice Emperor who had helped Xiao Yan recover his ability to cultivate.
• Old Yao identified Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils bloodline and urged Hai Bodong to take her under his wing.
• Hai Bodong learned Qing Lin's name and decided to keep her as a personal maid while helping her develop a sense of self-worth.
• Hai Bodong explained to Qing Lin that gaining strength could replace people's hatred with reverence, and she listened thoughtfully.
• Hai Bodong took Qing Lin shopping, defended her from people who insulted her, and eventually found a shop willing to sell her clothes.

Hai Bodong and Qing Lin traveled toward the Snake People's Sacred Hall after he suspected Queen Medusa had taken the Green Lotus Core Flame. Meanwhile, Gu He's group confronted Yue Mei at the Fang Snake Tribe and decided to capture her when she refused to arrange a meeting with the queen.

• With Old Yao's help, Qing Lin awakened her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils bloodline, controlled two fourth-tier snake-type magical beasts, and reached Nine-Star Dou Zhe.
• Hai Bodong learned that Queen Medusa had likely taken the Green Lotus Core Flame, then took Qing Lin toward the Snake People's Sacred Hall to lie in wait.
• Hai Bodong and Qing Lin entered Blackstone Canyon on foot, concealed their auras, and cautiously evaded Snake People patrols.
• Gu He's group arrived at the Fang Snake Tribe, where its chief called Yue Mei to handle the human intruders.
• Yue Mei refused Gu He's request to meet Queen Medusa and warned his group to leave before the Snake People's chiefs gathered.
• After Lion King Yan Shi and Feng Li urged him to act, Gu He ordered them to capture Yue Mei.

Gu He's group continued toward the Snake People Sacred Hall after Yue Mei escaped, while Hai Bodong and Qing Lin infiltrated the hall with Old Yao's help. Queen Medusa prepared to begin devouring the Green Lotus Core Flame to evolve, leaving her poised to face the dangerous process.

• Yue Mei used the Snake People's secret technique Differentiation to escape Yan Shi and Feng Li, and Gu He urged his group to hurry toward the desert's center.
• Hai Bodong and Qing Lin infiltrated the Snake People Sacred Hall under Old Yao's powerful soul perception.
• Queen Medusa decided she could wait no longer and resolved to complete her evolution with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Hai Bodong and Qing Lin reached the lake at the sacred hall's core as Queen Medusa formed incantation seals and freed the Green Lotus Core Flame from its Crystal Lotus Throne.

Queen Medusa swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame and endured a fiery transformation that left her body charred, while the Snake People and Gu He’s group watched. As she began to emerge in a seven-colored form, Hai Bodong subdued the remaining flame source, then blocked her sudden attack and saw that she had become a tiny seven-colored snake.

• Queen Medusa transformed into a giant purple snake and swallowed the Green Lotus Core Flame as Hai Bodong and the others watched from behind Old Yao’s protection.
• The Green Lotus Core Flame scorched Queen Medusa until her giant snake body became a motionless, charred shell, and Snake People arrived to mourn her apparent death.
• Heaven and earth energy gathered into thunderclouds, and a snake-shaped lightning bolt struck Queen Medusa’s remains as the Green Lotus Core Flame’s aura weakened.
• Queen Medusa’s charred skin began to peel away, and Hai Bodong sensed seven-colored radiance within her body before subduing the remaining source power of the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Old Yao warned Hai Bodong, who shielded himself and Qing Lin from a sudden seven-colored streak of light and saw that it was a tiny seven-colored snake.

Hai Bodong secretly escaped the Snake People with Queen Medusa transformed into a juvenile Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, then refined the Green Lotus Core Flame's source. The Heavenly Flame source advanced his Divine Blood Realm to Heavenly Soul Roam and raised his soul strength to Mortal Realm Peak.

• Hai Bodong and Old Yao determined that the little snake was Queen Medusa transformed into a Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, and Hai Bodong secretly took her away with Qing Lin.
• The Snake People discovered Queen Medusa's aura and the purple barrier had vanished, while Gu He led his companions away and Hua She'er sent Snake People elders and chiefs after them.
• Hai Bodong returned to the Ancient Map Shop in Mo City with Old Yao and Qing Lin, then refined the Green Lotus Core Flame's source in the underground Ice Cellar.
• Hai Bodong's Divine Blood Realm advanced from Divine Blood Awakening to Heavenly Soul Roam, and his soul strength reached Mortal Realm Peak.
• Hai Bodong tested the Divine Blood Realms and learned their abilities through Nine Spirit Surge.

Hai Bodong advanced his Divine Blood Realm, helped Old Yao fuse the Bone Spirit Cold Flame with the Green Lotus Core Flame, and named the result the Bone Spirit Lotus Heart Flame. After killing Mo Cheng's group and returning to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital with Qing Lin, he learned the Mittel Family had found no new ingredients or treasures to restore Old Yao's soul power.

• Hai Bodong tested his new Heavenly Soul Roam realm, then gave Old Yao a remnant of the Green Lotus Core Flame and told him his plans; Old Yao accepted him as his personal disciple.
• Old Yao used the Flame Mantra to fuse the Bone Spirit Cold Flame with the Green Lotus Core Flame, then guided Hai Bodong in learning to fuse Heavenly Flames through his Tuhulu God bloodline.
• Mo Cheng led masked men to surround the Ancient Map Shop and seize Qing Lin, but Hai Bodong burned them to ash with his newly fused flame and used the remains as fertilizer.
• Hai Bodong and Old Yao named the grayish-green flame the Bone Spirit Lotus Heart Flame.
• The next morning, Hai Bodong flew Qing Lin to the Mittel Family residence in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital and arranged for Xiao Yi Xian and Ya Fei to look after her.
• Miter Tengshan told Hai Bodong that the Mittel Family had found no additional Soul Nurturing Pill ingredients, soul-restoring treasures, or ingredients for the Spirit Infusing Pill.

Hai Bodong completed another medicinal bath to strengthen his body and cultivate the Ice Muscle Jade Bone Art. When Lu Man of Heavenly Snake Manor demanded Qing Lin, Hai Bodong refused to give her up and promised to protect her.

• Hai Bodong refined the medicinal bath’s power, swallowed a fifth-tier Ice Muscle Jade Bone Pill, and tested the results of his cultivation.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Hai Bodong that a Dou Huang from Heavenly Snake Manor had come to take Qing Lin away.
• Hai Bodong confronted Lu Man and refused to release Qing Lin, insisting that the Manor Lord come personally if Heavenly Snake Manor wanted her.
• Lu Man left after Hai Bodong had Miter Tengshan escort her out.
• Hai Bodong asked Qing Lin whether she wanted to leave, and she said she wanted to stay with him.
• Hai Bodong told Qing Lin to cultivate in peace and vowed to protect her from Heavenly Snake Manor.

Hai Bodong brought Old Yao to another plane, where Yao Chen learned about the modern world. In Tianjin, Zhou Xiao'an met Liu Fugui and Liu Shuangshuang, whose taunts reopened the story of Fugui's failed attempt to revive their ancestor.

• Hai Bodong sent Qing Lin back to her room, gathered resources, and took Old Yao through the Time Wheel Hourglass to another plane.
• Hai Bodong shared general knowledge of the modern world with Old Yao, who quickly learned to use its common devices.
• Hai Bodong decided to visit Fifth Master Liu's residence to learn more about the Divine Blood People.
• At a Pizza Hut in Tianjin, Liu Fugui introduced his younger sister Liu Shuangshuang to Zhou Xiao'an and explained that she was a Corpse Chief.
• Liu Shuangshuang mocked Liu Fugui's weakness, and the chapter revealed that his attempt to revive their ancestor, King Shang Di Xin, had failed.

Fatty Liu invited Zhou Xiao'an to join the Corpse Tribe, and Zhou Xiao'an agreed on the condition that the Liu siblings cure his mother and obey him. Liu Shuangshuang attacked him, apparently killing him, so Fatty Liu swallowed Zhou Xiao'an and fled with his sister before the police arrived.

• Fatty Liu told Zhou Xiao'an that the Liu Family wanted him to join the Corpse Tribe after hearing about his survival in the Wuyi Mountains Divine Relic.
• Zhou Xiao'an accepted the invitation on the conditions that the Liu Family cure his mother and Liu Shuangshuang and Fatty Liu obey his orders.
• Liu Shuangshuang impaled Zhou Xiao'an with her Finger Spike, and he collapsed after calling for an ambulance.
• Fatty Liu and Liu Shuangshuang realized Zhou Xiao'an might truly be dead and decided to take him home before the police arrived.
• Fatty Liu swallowed Zhou Xiao'an whole with his enlarged mouth, and the Liu siblings left the restaurant together.

While unconscious in the Liu Family villa, Zhou Xiao'an overheard the Liu family discuss his Serpent God Treasure Ring and force a Crimson Mountain Corpse Gu into him. Hai Bodong then visited Fifth Master Liu, who urged him to stay close to Zhou Xiao'an if he wanted to learn the world's secrets.

• Zhou Xiao'an overheard the Liu elders conclude that the Corpse Ancestor was no longer inside him and speculate about his Serpent God Treasure Ring.
• Liu Fugui suggested taking the ring, but his grandfather insisted only Di Xin could wear it and Liu Fugui's father said they needed Zhou Xiao'an to search for Star City.
• Liu Fugui's father ordered Liu Shuangshuang to feed Zhou Xiao'an a Crimson Mountain Corpse Gu, and she forced it into his stomach.
• Hai Bodong visited Fifth Master Liu and demonstrated his Divine Blood ability.
• Fifth Master Liu pointed Hai Bodong toward Zhou Xiao'an and told him to follow the boy if he wanted to learn more about the world's secrets.

Zhou Xiao'an discovered that Liu Shuangshuang's Crimson Mountain Corpse Gu forced him to obey her commands, and he was made to scrub Fifth Master Liu's back. Fifth Master Liu explained his search for Heavenly Palace Star City and began arguing that humanity's brief lifespan, rather than scarce resources, drove people to kill one another.

• Zhou Xiao'an woke in the Liu Family courtyard and realized his body was painting Liu Shuangshuang's toenails under the Corpse Gu's control.
• Liu Shuangshuang allowed Zhou Xiao'an to move freely for a while, but ordered him to scrub a back, and he learned that Fifth Master Liu was her grandfather.
• Zhou Xiao'an scrubbed Fifth Master Liu's back and asked why he was searching for Heavenly Palace Star City.
• Fifth Master Liu described Star City as the home of the immortal Serpent God Clan, who had created humanity.
• Fifth Master Liu said his years as a doctor and his transformation into one of the Corpse Tribe had changed how he understood life, and he began to explain that human beings killed because their lives were short.

Zhou Xiao'an discussed humanity, the Corpse Tribe, and Star City with Fifth Master Liu, then argued that humanity and the Corpse Tribe shared a side against an unknown enemy. The chapter ended with Fifth Master Liu silently considering Zhou Xiao'an’s claim about this other side.

• Fifth Master Liu explained why humans pursued fleeting rewards and contrasted them with the Snake Tribe’s eternal existence and hopes of entering Star City.
• Fifth Master Liu asked Zhou Xiao'an whether he resented the Liu Family for forcing him to eat the Crimson Mountain Corpse Gu, and Zhou Xiao'an said he had wanted to join the Corpse Tribe anyway.
• Zhou Xiao'an told Fifth Master Liu that he still stood with humanity but wanted to join the Corpse Tribe, leaving Fifth Master Liu confused about his intentions.
• Zhou Xiao'an argued that humans and pigs had survived together while many other species went extinct, then said the Corpse Tribe and humanity were on the same side against another force.
• Zhou Xiao'an drew a line separating the Corpse Tribe and humanity from a question mark, and Fifth Master Liu silently considered his claim.

Zhou Xiao'an learned that the Corpse Tribe suffered from an addiction to human hearts, while Hai Bodong gained two Divine Blood Ciphers from Di Shi's memories. The chapter left Hai Bodong on a deserted mountain, beginning to study the ciphers under Old Yao's protection.

• Zhou Xiao'an asked Fatty Liu whether the meat served at dinner was human, and Fatty Liu explained that the Corpse Tribe ate human hearts rather than human flesh.
• Fatty Liu told Zhou Xiao'an that Corpse Tribe members developed Heart Addiction, which caused them pain until they ate a human heart.
• Hai Bodong and Old Yao secretly observed Zhou Xiao'an and the Liu Family before Old Yao devoured Di Shi, a golden Soul Body.
• Old Yao gained information about the planet and the universe, grew to the strength of an ordinary seven-star Dou Zong, and learned that Di Shi had backed Fifth Master Liu.
• Hai Bodong learned two Divine Blood Ciphers from Di Shi's memories, left the Liu Family estate, and began comprehending them on a deserted mountain.

After reaching the seventh Divine Blood realm, Hai Bodong learned the Taiyi Soul Art, returned to the Dou Qi Continent, and advanced to one-star Dou Zong. As he prepared to return to the Mittel Family residence, he sensed the arrival of Heavenly Snake Manor’s lord at the Jia Ma Imperial Capital.

• Hai Bodong broke through to the sixth and seventh Divine Blood realms, gaining a powerful combat state with greatly improved control.
• Old Yao passed Hai Bodong the Taiyi Soul Art, which helped him consolidate his soul and approach the Spiritual Realm Soul threshold.
• Hai Bodong used the Time Wheel Hourglass to return to the Dou Qi Continent and asked Old Yao to keep his ability secret.
• With Old Yao’s protection and cultivation resources, Hai Bodong reached nine-star Dou Huang, then consumed a Sect Breaking Pill and advanced to one-star Dou Zong.
• As Hai Bodong prepared to return to his residence, he sensed the peak Dou Zong aura of Heavenly Snake Manor’s lord arriving at the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, drawing local experts into the sky.

Hai Bodong confronted the Heavenly Snake Manor Master and forced her to submit after overpowering her, stunning the Jia Ma Empire’s experts. He then went to the Mittel Family and returned with Qing Lin.

• The Heavenly Snake Manor Master arrived in the Jia Ma Empire with a group of Dou Wang elders and questioned Hai Bodong about his sudden breakthroughs and powers.
• Hai Bodong appeared before the Manor Master, seized her by the throat, and demanded that she submit or die.
• Hai Bodong beat the Manor Master into the ground until she begged for mercy and agreed to submit on behalf of Heavenly Snake Manor.
• Hai Bodong instructed the Manor Master to wait, then flew to the Mittel Family and returned with Qing Lin.
• The people present turned their attention toward Qing Lin after Hai Bodong brought her back.

Hai Bodong subdued Heavenly Snake Manor and made Qing Lin its Saintess and the Mittel Family’s representative, then used the manor’s resources to cultivate. After helping Queen Medusa stabilize and advance her cultivation, he watched her return to the Snake People and continued his own training.

• Qing Lin confronted the Heavenly Snake Manor Lord, but Hai Bodong reassured her that the manor had been subdued and would become her subordinate.
• The Heavenly Snake Manor Lord recognized Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and presented her with a Storage Ring; Hai Bodong named Qing Lin the Mittel Family’s representative and announced that Heavenly Snake Manor would become an affiliated faction.
• Hai Bodong and Qing Lin traveled to Heavenly Snake Manor’s headquarters, where its leaders accepted his rule and crowned Qing Lin Saintess with supreme authority in the Heavenly Snake Empire.
• Hai Bodong had Old Yao refine a Spirit Merging Pill for Queen Medusa, helping her stabilize her cultivation before she took a Sovereign Extreme Pill and advanced to three-star Dou Zong.
• Queen Medusa thanked Hai Bodong and Old Yao, then returned to the Snake People’s Sacred Hall; Hai Bodong also reached three-star Dou Zong and continued cultivating with Heavenly Snake Manor’s resources.

Hai Bodong led a Heavenly Snake Manor force to Maple City to deal with Han Feng at Old Yao’s urging and claim the Sea Heart Flame. He killed Han Feng, captured Protector Xuan, and left with Han Feng’s treasures.

• After consolidating Qing Lin’s rule and subduing opposing forces, Hai Bodong reached four-star Dou Zong and led a Heavenly Snake Manor contingent toward the Black Corner Region.
• Hai Bodong’s group arrived in Maple City and summoned Han Feng from his residence.
• Hai Bodong used his Dou Qi pressure to pin Han Feng down and demanded the Sea Heart Flame.
• Han Feng called for Protector Xuan, who emerged as a Soul Body and challenged Hai Bodong.
• Hai Bodong’s Divine Blood particles overwhelmed Protector Xuan, and he stored the Soul Body in his Ice Spirit Storage Ring.
• Hai Bodong killed the fleeing Han Feng, erased his imprint on the Nethersea Storage Ring, and took its treasures, including the Myriad Beasts Cauldron and Sea Heart Flame.

Hai Bodong obtained another Demonic Flame Remnant Map in Black Seal City and made Yuan Yi and the Eight Gates subordinate to the Mittel Family. After Old Yao fused a third Heavenly Flame and Hai Bodong learned Flame Mantra’s fusion method, they discussed the remaining requirements for reviving Old Yao, who chose the Lion Nether Sect’s master as a suitable body.

• Old Yao found in Han Feng’s memories that a Demonic Flame Remnant Map had been auctioned in Black Seal City, so Hai Bodong led Heavenly Snake Manor there.
• Hai Bodong subdued the guards at the Black Seal City auction house and ordered Yuan Yi to find a remnant map like his own.
• Yuan Yi found another Demonic Flame Remnant Map, and Hai Bodong spared him and made the Eight Gates a subordinate force of the Mittel Family.
• Hai Bodong promised Yuan Yi control of Maple City, gave him a peak sixth-grade Emperor Pill, and helped him break through to the four-star Dou Huang realm.
• Hai Bodong absorbed the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill, copied the Sea Heart Flame, and gave its origin flame to Old Yao, who fused it with the other Heavenly Flames.
• Hai Bodong and Old Yao discussed the remaining requirements for Old Yao’s revival, and Old Yao said the Lion Nether Sect’s master would make a suitable body.

Hai Bodong defeated Shi Tian and helped Old Yao use the Lion Nether Sect leader’s body to revive, raising Old Yao’s cultivation to the Peak of Nine Revolutions Dou Zun. Afterward, Hai Bodong trained at the sect for three months and reached five-star Dou Zong, while he and Old Yao decided they needed another Heavenly Flame to strengthen the Flame Mantra.

• Hai Bodong traveled to the Lion Nether Sect and killed its leader, Shi Tian, then subdued the sect’s elders and won over its members.
• Old Yao refined a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill, and Hai Bodong upgraded it with the Spirit Ascension Method before preparing Shi Tian’s body with Eighth-Order Magical Beast blood essence.
• Old Yao swallowed the pill and entered Shi Tian’s body, eventually awakening in a new body and reaching the Peak of Nine Revolutions Dou Zun.
• Hai Bodong celebrated Old Yao’s revival, and they concluded that the Flame Mantra needed another Heavenly Flame to help Old Yao advance toward Half-Saint.
• Hai Bodong spent three months cultivating with the Lion Nether Sect’s resources and reached five-star Dou Zong.

Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er’s quiet days at Jia Nan Academy ended when Yang Hao and the Black Annihilation Army arrived to take her back to the clan. Xiao Yan was discovered hiding nearby and brought before Gu Xun'er, badly injured.

• Xiao Yan spent three months recovering and solidifying his cultivation, reaching five-star Dou Ling and improving his alchemy under Elder Huo.
• Gu Xun'er began taking Xiao Yan to the Inner Academy’s back mountains, where they enjoyed quiet time together.
• When powerful strangers approached, Gu Xun'er urged Xiao Yan to hide in the forest and told him not to come out.
• Yang Hao arrived with more than a dozen Eight-Winged Unicorn Beasts and told Gu Xun'er that the Clan Ancestor had ordered her return.
• Yang Hao sensed Xiao Yan hiding, and his men dragged the badly beaten Xiao Yan before Gu Xun'er.