Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan and Xiao Huohuo learned that Queen Medusa had hidden the Green Lotus Core Flame, then escaped their sealed dungeon cell with Yao Lao's help. They slipped into the corridor and followed his directions toward an exit while Snake-People guards remained unaware.

• Yao Lao failed to locate the Green Lotus Core Flame and suspected it was hidden in the temple or a sealed space.
• Yue Mei reported Xiao Yan and Xiao Huohuo to Queen Medusa, who ordered the Holy City placed on high alert and had the dungeon watched.
• Queen Medusa probed the dungeon with her soul power, and Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan and Xiao Huohuo that she was searching for them.
• Yao Lao used the Bone Spirit Cold Flame to mask their presences, while Xiao Yan changed into his Martial Soul flame and settled on Xiao Huohuo's shoulder.
• Xiao Huohuo melted the cell lock and entered the corridor, where Yao Lao directed them toward a route that avoided the patrol.

Xiao Huohuo followed Xiao Yan’s resonance with the Green Lotus Core Flame through the guarded Holy City and found it sealed on an island in a lake. Yao Lao opened a person-sized gap in the barrier without breaking it, leaving Xiao Huohuo poised to enter.

• Xiao Yan sensed the Green Lotus Core Flame and guided Xiao Huohuo away from the dungeon exit toward its location.
• Xiao Huohuo disguised himself as a Snake-Person and evaded the heightened patrols while Yao Lao scouted ahead.
• Xiao Huohuo reached a hidden oasis and found the Green Lotus Core Flame imprisoned beneath a jade-like tree on an island inside a sealed lake barrier.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Huohuo not to let his excitement cloud his judgment and examined the barrier for a safe way through.
• Yao Lao opened a person-sized gap in the barrier without breaking it or alerting Queen Medusa.

Xiao Huohuo entered the barrier around the island to reach the Green Lotus Core Flame, but a hidden Nether Water Underworld Serpent attacked before he could take it. Yao Lao’s intervention triggered the barrier’s alarm, and Queen Medusa appeared, sensing the ancient soul power within Xiao Huohuo.

• Yao Lao opened a temporary passage through the barrier, and Xiao Huohuo slipped inside to find the Green Lotus Core Flame sealed on a stone platform.
• A Nether Water Underworld Serpent burst from the lake and attacked Xiao Huohuo, forcing Xiao Yan to fight it with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• As the fifth-tier serpent gained the upper hand, Yao Lao used his soul power and Bone Spirit Cold Flame to stop its strongest attack.
• Yao Lao’s power disturbed the barrier and activated Queen Medusa’s Soul Imprint, alerting her to the intruders.
• Queen Medusa appeared above the island, surveyed the scene, and fixed her gaze on Xiao Huohuo after sensing Yao Lao’s powerful soul pressure within him.

Queen Medusa confronted Yao Lao, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Huohuo after they entered the forbidden grounds seeking the Green Lotus Core Flame. Yao Lao offered valuable pills in exchange for the flame, but Medusa refused because she needed it for her evolution, leaving the group surrounded and facing a dangerous escape.

• Queen Medusa accused the intruders of trespassing and injuring her guardian beast, then threatened to kill them.
• Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Huohuo and shielded the group from Medusa’s pressure while proposing a deal for the Heavenly Flame.
• Yao Lao offered Medusa a Seventh-Grade Transformation Pill, a Sixth-Grade Sect Breaking Pill, and two Sixth-Grade Dou Ling Pills, astonishing Medusa and the surrounding Snake-People.
• Medusa refused the offer because she needed the Heavenly Flame to transform her bloodline and evolve.
• Yao Lao realized he might have to seize the Green Lotus Core Flame by force, a move that would leave Xiao Yan and Xiao Huohuo trapped among the Snake-People.

Yao Lao and Xiao Huohuo left Queen Medusa without the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Yao Lao revealed he had marked it so he could track any attempt to devour it. Xiao Yan returned to the Douluo World, where Zhu Zhuqing discovered his room was empty before hearing his familiar voice behind her.

• Xiao Huohuo urged Yao Lao to leave after Queen Medusa refused their offer for the Heavenly Flame, and Medusa returned the Heavy Xuan Ruler before letting them depart.
• Yao Lao explained that Medusa was at the peak of the Dou Huang Realm and that fighting her could leave him asleep and the others stranded in the desert.
• Yao Lao revealed he had placed something on the Green Lotus Core Flame and planned to wait and see whether Medusa tried to devour it.
• Xiao Yan announced he would return to the Douluo World, transformed into his pale Heavenly Flames Martial Soul, and vanished.
• In Star Chasing City, Zhu Zhuqing heard that the Star Luo Imperial Family had invited her and Xu Mu to a ceremony in one month, while Xu Mu continued plotting behind the scenes.
• Zhu Zhuqing found Xiao Yan's room empty, then heard his familiar voice behind her.

Xiao Yan accepted the invitation to Dai Weisi’s investiture ceremony in Star Luo City and used the energy hidden within the Green Lotus Core Flame lotus seed to raise his Soul Power to level fifty-three. After months of learning cultivation and alchemy from Yao Lao, he prepared to find out whether alchemy could be practiced in the Douluo world.

• Zhu Zhuqing told Xiao Yan that the Star Luo Empire had invited them to Dai Weisi’s investiture ceremony and suspected Xu Mu had leaked their whereabouts.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing decided to accept the invitation and travel to Star Luo City in a month.
• Xiao Yan drew out the Green Lotus Core Flame lotus seed’s hidden energy and broke through from Soul Power level fifty to level fifty-three.
• Xu Mu investigated the disturbance outside Xiao Yan’s room, while Zhu Zhuqing kept watch after he left.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the alchemy he had learned from Yao Lao and wondered whether he could reproduce it in the Douluo world.

Xiao Yan adapted the Blood Coagulation Powder formula to Douluo World ingredients and began testing how to refine them with his cyan flame. After several days of painstaking experiments, he had learned how to extract the ingredients’ essence and was ready to continue refining the medicine.

• Xiao Yan chose Blood Coagulation Powder and spent two days replacing its ingredients with suitable materials from Douluo World.
• Xu Mu saw the collection list and mistakenly assumed Xiao Yan was testing whether he would obstruct him, so he ordered the Spirit Hall Soul Masters to cooperate fully.
• The Spirit Hall Soul Masters quickly delivered more than a hundred jin of materials, and Xiao Yan stopped them from gathering more while Zhu Zhuqing cleaned the courtyard.
• Xiao Yan used a large vat in place of a medicine cauldron and repeatedly burned Vein Flowers until he extracted their essence.
• Xiao Yan spent nearly three days adjusting the heat for every ingredient needed to make Blood Coagulation Powder.

Xiao Yan completed his first successful batch of Blood Coagulation Powder, proving that Dou Qi medicinal pills could be made on the Douluo Continent. He and Zhu Zhuqing reached Star Luo City for Dai Weisi’s investiture ceremony, where Xiao Yan confronted a Spirit Hall deacon who had challenged them at the gate.

• After reviewing dozens of failed attempts, Xiao Yan balanced the ingredients’ proportions, refined three Blood Coagulation Powder pills, and stored two in the Black Dragon.
• Xiao Yan decided to produce more pills before the investiture ceremony, expecting their unprecedented effects and profits to attract the great clans.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing left Star Chasing City and traveled to Star Luo City in one day.
• At Star Luo City’s gate, Xiong Qianchang challenged Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing while inspecting arrivals and showed interest in Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Yan subdued Xiong Qianchang with Soul King pressure, then revealed Qian Renxue’s jade token and tapped it against the kneeling deacon’s cheek.

Xiao Yan punished Xiong Qianchang for offending him and Zhu Zhuqing, then used the healing pill he gave the deacon to advertise its effects. He left with Zhu Zhuqing after forgiving Xiong Qianchang, while onlookers began spreading word of the pill.

• Xiao Yan showed Xiong Qianchang his Spirit Hall Elder Token, and the deacon knelt to beg for mercy.
• Xiao Yan revealed his five Soul Rings and broke Xiong Qianchang's left arm as punishment for defying a superior.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiong Qianchang Blood Coagulation Powder, which quickly stopped the bleeding from his injury.
• Xiao Yan told Xiong Qianchang he forgave him and left with Zhu Zhuqing, while several onlookers hurried away to spread the news.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing entered Star Luo City, where news of Xiao Yan’s Blood Coagulation Powder and status as Spirit Hall’s youngest elder quickly attracted attention. After explaining his plan to use the medicine to win allies, Xiao Yan agreed to meet the proprietor of Hundred Herbs Pavilion.

• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing checked into the Peaceful Restaurant instead of staying at the Martial Soul Temple.
• Word spread through Star Luo City that Xiao Yan was a Soul King with two Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings and a healing medicine called Blood Coagulation Powder.
• Xiao Yan told Zhu Zhuqing he planned to use the medicine to demonstrate his value and build support against Spirit Hall.
• Zhu Zhuqing warned Xiao Yan that the medicine threatened the interests of herb merchants and other powerful groups in the city.
• The Peaceful Restaurant’s steward told Xiao Yan that the proprietor of Hundred Herbs Pavilion wanted to meet him, and Xiao Yan accepted the invitation.

Xiao Yan negotiated a partnership with Qian Baichuan of the Hundred Herbs Pavilion to sell Blood Coagulation Powder and Qi Gathering Pills in exchange for medicinal herbs and a share of the profits. Qian Baichuan agreed to provide the first batch of herbs within three days, securing the pavilion priority on Xiao Yan’s future pills.

• Qian Baichuan approached Xiao Yan to ask about buying Blood Coagulation Powder and learning its production method.
• Xiao Yan refused to reveal his secret technique but offered to partner with the Hundred Herbs Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan showed Qian Baichuan Qi Gathering Pills, which increased the speed of Soul Power recovery.
• Xiao Yan proposed a seventy-thirty profit split for Blood Coagulation Powder and an even split for Qi Gathering Pills, with the pavilion receiving exclusive sales rights for now.
• Qian Baichuan accepted the terms and promised to deliver Xiao Yan’s requested herbs within three days.

Dai Tianfeng weighed the military value of Xiao Yan’s Blood Coagulation Powder and instructed Dai Weisi to approach him at the investiture ceremony rather than seize the formula. Meanwhile, the Hundred Herbs Pavilion began selling the pills, whose proven effects sent demand and prices soaring across Star Luo City.

• The city guard captain reported the Blood Coagulation Powder’s rapid healing effect, and Dai Weisi urged Dai Tianfeng to treat it as a treasure of the state.
• Dai Tianfeng learned that Qian Baichuan had visited Xiao Yan and begun gathering ingredients, then told Dai Weisi to speak with Xiao Yan at the investiture ceremony and Zhu Zhuqing’s father to make inquiries through her.
• After agreeing to work with the Hundred Herbs Pavilion, Xiao Yan received two rooms’ worth of ingredients and gave Qian Baichuan his first batch of pills.
• The Hundred Herbs Pavilion announced Blood Coagulation Powder at fifty Gold Soul Coins per bottle and Qi Gathering Pills for sale three days later, drawing a large crowd of buyers.
• A scarred Blood Wolf Mercenary Corps leader demanded five bottles, but the Pavilion’s elders enforced a one-bottle limit and he left with only one.
• Wang Meng and other Soul Masters confirmed the pills’ fast healing and lack of interference with Soul Power, causing demand to spread and black-market prices to double while Qian Baichuan celebrated his profits.

Zhu Zhuqing met with her father, Zhu Xiaotian, and second brother, Zhu Zhuming, who urged her to return to the Zhu Family and obtain Xiao Yan’s pill formulas. She refused to betray Xiao Yan or give up her independence, and Xiao Yan arrived as Zhu Xiaotian was about to declare that she was no longer part of the family.

• Zhu Zhuqing learned that the Zhu Family was watching the Peaceful Restaurant and accepted an invitation to meet Zhu Xiaotian at the Clear Heart Teahouse.
• Zhu Xiaotian urged Zhu Zhuqing to return to the family, while Zhu Zhuming mocked her and questioned her loyalty.
• Zhu Zhuqing confronted her family over its past neglect and refused to obtain Xiao Yan’s pill formulas for them.
• Zhu Zhuqing rejected Zhu Xiaotian’s warning that she would have no support without the family and stood by her own choice to stay with Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the teahouse and greeted Zhu Xiaotian before he could finish declaring Zhu Zhuqing’s expulsion from the family.

Xiao Yan negotiated Blood Coagulation Powder sales rights with the Zhu Family in exchange for ending its conflict with Zhu Zhuqing and respecting her choices. He and Zhu Zhuqing left on better terms with her family, but the next morning Soul Masters from the Martial Soul Temple arrived at the Peaceful Restaurant.

• Xiao Yan joined Zhu Zhuqing's meeting with Zhu Xiaotian and offered the Zhu Family sales rights to Blood Coagulation Powder in the three southern provinces.
• Xiao Yan required the Zhu Family to end its grievances with Zhu Zhuqing and never force her to do anything; Zhu Xiaotian agreed and promised her resources equal to top disciples of her generation.
• Zhu Zhuming objected to the terms, but Zhu Xiaotian silenced him and accepted the partnership.
• Xiao Yan left with Zhu Zhuqing, who asked why he had offered the Zhu Family benefits; he explained that the deal would expand sales and improve her family ties.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing headed to the Peaceful Restaurant, where Martial Soul Temple Soul Masters appeared the next morning.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing met with Aolade, the bishop of the Star Luo Holy Hall, who negotiated a monthly supply of pills from Xiao Yan. After leaving, Xiao Yan learned that Bai Wei served Qian Renxue, and three days later Star Luo City held the crown prince investiture ceremony.

• Bai Wei invited Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to the Holy Hall on Aolade’s orders.
• Aolade asked Xiao Yan for his pill formulas, but Xiao Yan claimed only he could refine the pills.
• Xiao Yan agreed to provide the Holy Hall with 100 bottles of Blood Coagulation Powder and 100 bottles of Qi Gathering Pills each month at eighty percent of the market price.
• Bai Wei told Xiao Yan that Qian Renxue’s letter was on its way and offered to help him in Star Luo City.
• Xiao Yan refused to meet an envoy from the Star Luo Imperial Family, and three days later Star Luo City held the crown prince investiture ceremony.

On the day of Dai Weisi’s investiture ceremony, Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing reviewed the Star Luo Empire’s military and major Soul Master factions before setting out to attend. They arrived at the central square as the city celebrated and the imperial altar stood ready.

• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing watched the ceremonial preparations from the Peaceful Restaurant while Zhu Zhuqing described the Golden Wing Guard, the Dai Family’s military power, and the empire’s marshals.
• Zhu Zhuqing explained the strength and ties of the Zhu Family, the Shi and Chen families, and the Greenwood Lin Family behind the Hundred Herbs Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing dressed for the ceremony, carrying the invitation and Qian Renxue’s jade token that identified them as representatives of a Spirit Hall elder.
• The restaurant proprietor arranged a carriage, and Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing rode through the celebratory crowds to the central square.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing reached the square, where a tall white jade altar and nine dragon-entwined pillars with Soul Power flames had been prepared.

Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing attended Dai Weisi’s crown prince investiture ceremony, where Xiao Yan observed the empire’s powerful families and Soul Douluo retainers. A peak Soul Sage tried to assassinate Dai Weisi, then accused Xiao Yan of arranging the attack, leaving Xiao Yan to deny knowing him before the gathered crowd.

• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing took their seats as Spirit Hall elders, and Zhu Zhuqing identified powerful family leaders and imperial retainers for him.
• Dai Tianfeng formally appointed Dai Weisi crown prince, and the crowd acclaimed the heir as he received the imperial seal.
• A gray-robed peak Soul Sage revealed his Earth Dragon Martial Soul and charged at Dai Weisi, but two Soul Douluo retainers stopped his assassination attempt.
• The defeated assassin shouted that Xiao Yan had agreed to help him in exchange for saving his family, drawing every gaze toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan comforted Zhu Zhuqing, stood, and denied knowing the assassin or making any agreement with him.

After an assassin tried to frame Xiao Yan during Dai Weisi’s investiture ceremony, Xiao Yan suspected the Star Luo Imperial Family was using the incident to draw closer to him. Dai Weisi invited Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing to a banquet at the Eastern Palace, where their prominent seating surprised the gathered guests.

• The Star Luo Emperor ordered the wounded assassin taken away and forbade anyone from discussing the attack, while Dai Weisi publicly defended Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan told Qian Baichuan that someone was trying to frame him, and Qian Baichuan promised that the Hundred Herbs Pavilion would stand by him.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing discussed the attack and concluded that the Imperial Family might be trying to gain his favor.
• Dai Weisi sent his guard captain to invite Xiao Yan to an Eastern Palace banquet, and Xiao Yan agreed to attend with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing arrived at the banquet and were seated prominently, surprising the gathered officials and nobles.

At Dai Weisi’s wedding banquet, Xiao Yan learned that the assassin who had tried to frame him was a loyal supporter of Dai Mubai’s faction. Dai Weisi sought to keep Xiao Yan from turning against the Star Luo Imperial Family, then raised another matter with him as the story left Xiao Yan guessing at his request.

• Dai Weisi entered the banquet with Zhu Zhuyun, while Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing remained seated and exchanged cold looks with them.
• Dai Weisi publicly toasted Xiao Yan and urged the guests not to believe the assassin’s attempt to drive a wedge between them.
• After the other guests left, Dai Weisi told Xiao Yan that the assassin had been an elder supported by Dai Mubai’s faction and had reached the Soul Saint realm through that support.
• Dai Weisi promised to give Xiao Yan an explanation regarding Dai Mubai and asked him not to turn against the Imperial Family; Xiao Yan said the grudge was personal and unrelated to the empire or Spirit Hall.
• Dai Weisi thanked Xiao Yan, then hesitantly asked to discuss another matter with him.

Xiao Yan refused Dai Weisi’s offer to cooperate on the Blood Coagulation Powder and Qi Gathering Pill but left open the possibility of future collaboration. Meanwhile, a mysterious man offered the crippled Dai Mubai a forbidden way to regain his strength, and Dai Mubai agreed.

• Xiao Yan told Dai Weisi that his contract with the Hundred Herbs Pavilion and the Zhu Family prevented him from cooperating on his two existing pills, but said he could develop other pills.
• Xiao Yan and Zhu Zhuqing discussed whether Dai Mubai had truly been behind the assassination attempt, suspecting another faction might have pressured the Soul Saint assassin.
• A mysterious man confronted Dai Mubai in a hidden chamber and taunted him about losing everything to Xiao Yan.
• The mysterious man offered to restore Dai Mubai with the limbs of a ten-thousand-year Shadow Devil Lizard, despite the taboo against fusing with Soul Beast body parts.
• Dai Mubai agreed to undergo the forbidden procedure so he could regain power and take revenge on Xiao Yan.