Chapter Summaries

After returning from the Black Corner Region, Chen Xuan learned that Medusa was pregnant and heard the Snake People Race’s plan to leave the Tagore Desert and settle in the Jia Ma Empire. He agreed to support the move using his strength as Medusa’s husband.

• Chen Xuan returned to the Snake People Race after absorbing the Sea Heart Flame and reaching the two-star Dou Emperor level.
• The Great Elder told Chen Xuan that Medusa was pregnant, though her pregnancy would last three to five years.
• Chen Xuan celebrated the news, kissed Medusa, and asked whether she could already feel the child moving.
• The Great Elder explained that the Snake People Race planned to leave the Tagore Desert and seek territory in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Medusa and the elders hoped Chen Xuan would help pressure the Jia Ma Empire, and Chen Xuan agreed to support them.

Chen Xuan returned to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, where his three Seventh-tier subordinates had driven human forces away and gathered medicinal herbs to strengthen their forces. After learning that Medusa was ready to march into the Jia Ma Empire, Chen Xuan set out to support her with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.

• Chen Xuan returned to the Monster Beast Mountain Range, now sealed off by the Amethyst Winged Lion King, the Green Flame Python, and the Heavenly Venomous Python.
• The Green Flame Python and the Amethyst Winged Lion King reported that they had repelled human groups, including experts from the Misty Cloud Sect, while Chen Xuan warned them not to leave the mountain range and provoke stronger human factions.
• Chen Xuan ordered his subordinates to gather rare Medicinal Herbs and rewarded Monster Beasts that found them, then refined Beast Source Pills to cultivate stronger underlings.
• Chen Xuan had more than fifty Fifth-tier Monster Beast underlings, but continued seeking to expand his forces.
• After Medusa reported that the Snake People Race was ready to march into the Jia Ma Empire, Chen Xuan joined her campaign with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.

The Snake People Race army, led by Medusa and supported by twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts, attacked Mo City. A Snake People Race Dou Emperor smashed open the city walls, and the warriors charged through as Garros organized a defense.

• Garros spotted the Snake People Race army approaching Mo City and ordered his soldiers to defend the city while awaiting imperial reinforcements.
• Chen Xuan and Medusa advanced with the Snake People Race army, whose twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts shocked Garros and the soldiers on the walls.
• A Snake People Race chief demanded Mo City's surrender, but Garros refused and Medusa ordered her forces to kill.
• A Snake People Race elder unleashed her Dou Emperor power and blasted a massive breach through Mo City's walls.
• The Snake People Race warriors charged through the breach as Garros deployed ballistae and archers, whose attacks were blocked or ineffective.

Queen Medusa led the Snake People Race in taking Mo City to force the Jia Ma Empire to grant them land to live on. After learning of the city’s fall and Medusa’s Dou Zong strength, Jia Xingtian sought help from the Misty Cloud Sect.

• The Snake People Race’s warriors stormed Mo City, and two elders with Dou Emperor strength helped Medusa’s forces overwhelm its defenders.
• Medusa ordered her people to occupy Mo City and guard its inhabitants while she waited for the empire’s leaders to negotiate.
• Jia Xingtian told the gathered officials that Medusa had reached Dou Zong strength, then received news that Garros had died and Mo City had fallen.
• The imperial officials called for retaliation, and Jia Xingtian learned that the Snake People Race had brought two Dou Emperors and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.
• Jia Xingtian ordered the empire’s armies to prepare and went with Fama, Hai Bodong, and others to seek the Misty Cloud Sect’s help.

Yun Yun agreed to help Jia Xingtian confront the Snake People Race after learning that its army had taken Mo City and Queen Medusa had reached the Dou Zong realm. The Jia Ma Empire’s forces arrived outside the city, where Jia Xingtian called Medusa out, and she appeared above the walls.

• Jia Xingtian told Yun Yun that the Snake People Race had taken Mo City with forty thousand warriors, two Dou Emperors, and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.
• Jia Xingtian revealed that Queen Medusa had broken through to Dou Zong and asked the Misty Cloud Sect to help deal with her.
• Yun Yun consulted Yun Shan, who agreed to intervene, while Jia Xingtian mobilized two hundred thousand imperial troops.
• The Jia Ma Empire’s forces and allies arrived outside Mo City, where they found the defenders’ corpses and Garros’s body hanging from the wall.
• Jia Xingtian summoned Medusa, and she appeared above Mo City to face him.

Queen Medusa demanded that the Jia Ma Empire cede its northwestern lands in exchange for Mo City's people, but Jia Xingtian refused and the negotiations collapsed. Yun Shan joined the empire's forces, and both sides prepared for a fight.

• Jia Xingtian confronted Medusa over the Snake People Race's return to its ancestral homeland, while Medusa defended her people and revealed four hidden Dou Huang elders.
• Yun Yun, Fama, Hai Bodong, and other Jia Ma Empire experts assembled against Medusa, who threatened the lives of Mo City's citizens and more than twenty thousand soldiers.
• Medusa demanded the empire's northwestern lands, but Jia Xingtian refused to surrender territory even to save the people held in Mo City.
• Medusa attacked Jia Xingtian with her Dou Zong aura, but Yun Shan appeared and blocked it.
• Chen Xuan told the eager Amethyst Winged Lion King to wait, while Yun Shan declared that the Snake People Race must be destroyed.

Queen Medusa and Yun Shan began their Dou Zong battle as the Jia Ma Empire and Snake People Race armies faced off. Medusa countered Yun Shan’s attacks with her seven-colored sword and a giant python phantom, leaving their latest clash locked in a stalemate.

• Queen Medusa rejected Yun Shan’s threat and faced him as the two sides prepared for battle.
• Yun Shan attacked Medusa with green sword Qi, and their first clash unleashed a destructive shockwave.
• Yun Shan used Wind Extremity: Meteor Annihilation, but Medusa’s seven-colored longsword blocked the strike and sent her back more than ten meters.
• Yun Shan and Medusa exchanged repeated attacks as sword Qi and energy blasts filled the sky.
• Yun Shan launched Wind Extremity: Sunset Radiance while Medusa summoned a gigantic seven-colored python, and the two attacks collided in a stalemate.

Chen Xuan’s forces overwhelmed the Jia Ma Empire army after the Amethyst Winged Lion King joined the battle, turning the invasion into a decisive defeat. As Jia Xingtian sought negotiations, Chen Xuan appeared and the fighting stopped.

• Medusa and Yun Shan fought while Yun Yun and the Jia Ma Empire’s Dou Emperor experts attacked the Snake People Race elders.
• The Snake People Race broke through the Jia Ma Empire’s formation with its warriors and twenty Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.
• Chen Xuan sent the Amethyst Winged Lion King into the battle, revealing a Seventh-tier Monster Beast and shifting the balance against the Jia Ma Empire.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King fought the six Dou Emperor experts, while the Snake People Race’s four elders joined the slaughter on the ground.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King swallowed a Misty Cloud Sect elder, and Jia Xingtian asked Medusa to negotiate as the Jia Ma Empire’s army collapsed.
• Chen Xuan appeared on a high platform and agreed to negotiate, prompting Medusa and the Snake People Race experts to stop fighting.

Chen Xuan forced the Jia Ma Empire to cede its northwestern territory to the Snake People Race and pay two hundred million Gold Coins. After collecting the payment, he planned to head to the imperial capital, first returning to the Monster Beast Mountain Range to recruit a few thugs.

• Chen Xuan appeared in Mo City beside Queen Medusa, and the Jia Ma Empire's experts realized they could not win against him and the Snake People Race.
• Chen Xuan demanded the Jia Ma Empire surrender its northwestern territory to the Snake People Race and pay him two hundred million Gold Coins.
• When Jia Xingtian protested, Chen Xuan signaled the Amethyst Winged Lion King to swallow a Jia Ma Empire expert, forcing Jia Xingtian to accept the terms.
• Medusa led the Snake People Race to take control of the ceded territory while Chen Xuan stayed in Mo City and held Jia Xingtian and the others until the Gold Coins arrived.
• After receiving the payment, Chen Xuan explained that he had spared the Jia Ma Empire's experts to deter other empires, then said he would head to the imperial capital after finding thugs in the Monster Beast Mountain Range.

Chen Xuan traveled to the Jia Ma Empire with six Fifth-tier Monster Beasts and a large stock of Medicinal Herbs to start making money. After meeting Lin Jiahui of the Baolai Merchant Association, he proposed helping Lin take control of the association in exchange for cooperation and a share of its profits.

• Chen Xuan brought Medicinal Herbs toward the imperial capital with the Amethyst Winged Lion King and five other Fifth-tier Monster Beasts.
• Chen Xuan approached Lin Jiahui’s caravan and learned that the Baolai Merchant Association was a second-rate association.
• Chen Xuan learned that Lin Jiahui managed a Baolai Merchant Association branch in Tianfeng City.
• Chen Xuan offered to help Lin Jiahui take control of the Baolai Merchant Association if Lin obeyed him and cooperated.
• Chen Xuan proposed that he provide assistance in exchange for seventy percent of the association’s profits, and Lin Jiahui frowned at the terms.

Chen Xuan offered Lin Jiahui a thirty-seventy profit split in exchange for helping the Baolai Merchant Association dominate the Jia Ma Empire. After revealing his formidable forces, Chen Xuan won Lin Jiahui's agreement and sought a way to ensure his loyalty.

• Chen Xuan proposed giving Lin Jiahui thirty percent of the profits, arguing the Baolai Merchant Association would grow with his help.
• Lin Jiahui demanded proof, and Chen Xuan revealed that he was a Dou Emperor.
• Chen Xuan summoned the Amethyst Winged Lion King, a Dou Zong, and five Fifth-tier Monster Beasts to demonstrate his strength.
• Chen Xuan promised to make the Lin family and Baolai Merchant Association the most powerful in the Jia Ma Empire and expand beyond it.
• Lin Jiahui agreed to cooperate, though he said he needed the family elders' approval to take charge of the association.
• Chen Xuan asked the system for something that could make Lin Jiahui completely loyal to him.

Lin Jiahui brought Chen Xuan and the Baolai Merchant Association's caravan to the imperial capital, where the six Fifth-tier Monster Beasts drew widespread attention. At the association's headquarters, Lin Jiahui demanded its presidency and the Lin family patriarchship, and Chen Xuan subdued Lin Tianrong when he resisted.

• Lin Jiahui presented the Baolai Merchant Association's identification document, and the caravan entered the imperial capital.
• Lin Jiahui led the caravan to the association headquarters and requested a meeting with its president, Lin Tianrong.
• Chen Xuan and Lin Jiahui met Lin Tianrong, who questioned Chen Xuan's identity and showed displeasure at his manner.
• Lin Jiahui declared that he wanted to become president of the Baolai Merchant Association and patriarch of the Lin family.
• Lin Tianrong erupted with the aura of a nine-star Dou Ling and threatened Lin Jiahui, but Chen Xuan shattered his pressure and warned him to behave or die.

Chen Xuan forced Lin Tianrong to hand control of the Baolai Merchant Association and the Lin family to Lin Jiahui, promising to help them rise in the Jia Ma Empire. After Chen Xuan killed the Great Elder to silence opposition, the other Lin family leaders accepted Lin Jiahui’s appointment, and Chen Xuan planned to use the association against the Mittel Family’s merchant association.

• Chen Xuan told Lin Tianrong he would make the Baolai Merchant Association and the Lin family the strongest in the Jia Ma Empire, then demanded that he transfer authority to Lin Jiahui.
• Lin Jiahui threatened Lin Tianrong into summoning the Baolai Merchant Association’s upper management, and Lin Tianrong announced that Lin Jiahui would become both association president and Lin family head.
• The upper management objected to Lin Jiahui’s appointment, citing his lack of qualifications and experience.
• Chen Xuan killed the Great Elder in front of the assembled leaders and warned them that Lin Jiahui’s appointment was not open for discussion.
• The remaining leaders fell silent and accepted Lin Jiahui’s authority, while Chen Xuan prepared to use the Baolai Merchant Association against the Mittel Family’s merchant association.

A woman learned Yang Shuo was the one who had defeated Xiao Yan and planned to have Jia Nan Academy pursue him for the Fallen Heart Flame. In the Jia Ma Empire, Chen Xuan prepared a major Baolai Merchant Association auction, drawing attention from powerful factions and setting out to protect the event and raise funds.

• The woman vowed to prove herself to her family and planned to tell Jia Nan Academy that Yang Shuo had taken its Fallen Heart Flame so its experts would pursue him.
• Lin Jiahui took control of the Baolai Merchant Association by placing his own people in key positions under Chen Xuan’s authority.
• Chen Xuan announced that the association’s auction would feature three Earth-tier Combat Skills, a Grade 8 Saint Origin Pill, and Dragon Blood Ganoderma.
• The Baolai Merchant Association scheduled the auction for one month later and publicized its rare offerings, alarming the imperial family and major families while drawing skepticism.
• Chen Xuan planned to install a grand formation to protect the auction and use its proceeds to buy a Heaven-tier Combat Skill and the Godslayer Spear.

Chen Xuan prepared the Baolai Merchant Association for an auction of rare treasures by installing two powerful formations as major factions gathered in the imperial capital. On the night before the auction, a five-star Dou Emperor attacked the association, and Chen Xuan stepped forward to confront him.

• Chen Xuan bought the Dragon Trapping Array and Five Elements Sword Array to protect the Baolai Merchant Association and waited for the auction.
• Major powers arrived in the imperial capital, and hidden forces surrounded the association on the night before the auction.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King offered to drive off the lurkers, but Chen Xuan told it to wait and said he would handle any attacker.
• A group from the Jia Ma Empire decided to test the association, and a middle-aged five-star Dou Emperor charged toward it.
• Chen Xuan stopped the Amethyst Winged Lion King and faced the attacker, revealing his three-star Dou Emperor cultivation.

Chen Xuan fought a five-star Dou Emperor who attacked the Baolai Merchant Association’s goods, then overwhelmed him with the Profound Ice Art. After the middle-aged man was gravely wounded, an imposing voice threatened Chen Xuan.

• The middle-aged man attacked Chen Xuan with the Blazing Sun Sword Art, but Chen Xuan blocked his first strike.
• The middle-aged man unleashed the Earth-tier Blazing Sun: Sky Breaker, while onlookers expected Chen Xuan to lose.
• Chen Xuan revealed his ice-attributed Dou Qi and used the Profound Ice Art to summon an Ice Dragon.
• The Ice Dragon shattered the middle-aged man’s giant sword and slammed him into the ground, gravely wounding him.
• An aged voice threatened Chen Xuan for injuring the middle-aged man.

A Nine-star Dou Zong from the Haotian Sect arrived to threaten the Baolai Merchant Association, but Chen Xuan activated the Dragon Trapping Array and suppressed him. Chen Xuan prepared to deal with the trapped elder despite his threats of retaliation.

• A white-robed elder appeared and revealed himself as a Nine-star Dou Zong, drawing the attention of the surrounding factions.
• Chen Xuan showed no fear of the elder, while Jia Xingtian worried that the Baolai Merchant Association might become too powerful to control.
• The elder threatened to destroy the Baolai Merchant Association unless Chen Xuan compensated him for injuring his people.
• When the elder attacked, Chen Xuan activated the Dragon Trapping Array, which suppressed the strength of everyone caught within its range by eighty percent.
• The elder identified himself as the Sect Master of the Haotian Sect and threatened retaliation, but Chen Xuan dismissed the threat and prepared to deal with him.

Chen Xuan used the Dragon Trapping Array and Five Elements Sword Array to defeat the factions that had attacked the Baolai Merchant Association, then demanded compensation from the survivors. He kept the White-robed Elder prisoner and offered to spare him if he submitted.

• The White-robed Elder urged the trapped factions to attack Chen Xuan and called on their followers outside to break the Dragon Trapping Array.
• Chen Xuan froze the White-robed Elder and unleashed the Five Elements Sword Array, which destroyed the incoming attacks and killed those who could not escape.
• The surviving prisoners begged for mercy, and Chen Xuan released them after each paid him five million Gold Coins.
• Chen Xuan kept the White-robed Elder and demanded that he submit in exchange for his life.

Chen Xuan used a Puppet Jade Talisman to control Qin Hao, the Haotian Sect’s Nine-star Dou Zong, and gave him a Saint Origin Pill in exchange for his loyalty. Qin Hao allied the Haotian Sect with the Baolai Merchant Association and took charge of guarding its auction, which opened to a packed crowd the next day.

• The White-robed Elder agreed to submit, and Chen Xuan used an intermediate Puppet Jade Talisman to control him.
• Chen Xuan learned Qin Hao had brought two hundred million Gold Coins and that the Haotian Sect held about four hundred million in assets.
• Chen Xuan took Qin Hao’s Gold Coins and gave him an eighth-grade Saint Origin Pill, then ordered him to guard the auction and kill anyone who caused trouble.
• Qin Hao told Qin Chuan and three elders that the Haotian Sect must not offend the Baolai Merchant Association and declared the factions allied.
• The Baolai Merchant Association’s auction opened as scheduled, and a huge crowd filled the hall.

The Baolai Merchant Association held a grand auction featuring rare goods supplied by Chen Xuan. A mysterious force bought the Dragon Blood Ganoderma for two hundred million Gold Coins, and Chen Xuan demonstrated the power of three Earth-tier Combat Skills.

• Lin Jiahui opened the auction, where buyers competed fiercely for rare Medicinal Herbs, weapons, and medicinal pills.
• Lin Jiahui presented the Dragon Blood Ganoderma, and bidders from the imperial family, Misty Cloud Sect, and other forces drove its price upward.
• A mysterious force won the Dragon Blood Ganoderma with a bid of two hundred million Gold Coins.
• Chen Xuan demonstrated three Earth-tier Low-grade Combat Skills and said they could rival Earth-tier mid-grade skills when cultivated to the third level.