Chapter Summaries

Hu Tian lured Han Feng out of Maple City and ambushed him to seize his Heavenly Flame. After Han Feng lost his composure at Hu Tian’s taunt about the teacher he had murdered, a colossal seven-colored tail struck him into the ground.

• Han Feng sensed a powerful visitor near Maple City and went to meet Hu Tian in a valley.
• Hu Tian revealed that he wanted to borrow Han Feng’s Heavenly Flame, then struck him by surprise with a lightning-charged attack.
• Han Feng blocked the ambush with the Sea Heart Flame but was injured and demanded to know how Hu Tian knew about his Heavenly Flame.
• Hu Tian taunted Han Feng about the teacher he had murdered, throwing him into a furious rage as their battle resumed.
• A colossal seven-colored tail descended and slammed Han Feng into the ground.

Ye Chen defeated Han Feng with Queen Medusa’s help and sealed Han Feng and the Sea Heart Flame inside his Star Crest Ring. He then searched Han Feng’s storage ring and discovered a wealth of pill formulas, including an incomplete fragment of the Flame Mantra.

• Queen Medusa battered Han Feng into a ruined body, leaving his soul alive under the protection of the Sea Heart Flame.
• Ye Chen sealed Han Feng and the Sea Heart Flame inside Han Feng’s body, then stored him in the Star Crest Ring.
• Ye Chen erased Han Feng’s soul imprint from the Dark Sea Storage Ring and searched its contents.
• Ye Chen found Han Feng’s vast collection of rare materials, cultivation methods, skills, and pill formulas.
• Ye Chen discovered an incomplete fragment of the Flame Mantra that described the secret of Heavenly Flame fusion.

Ye Chen and his companions traveled toward Tianya City in the Tianqing Mountain Range, and he explained Central State’s major factions to Queen Medusa and the others. The group reached the mountain range and saw the roads and distant city ahead.

• Ye Chen left the mountains near Jia Nan Academy and set out for Central State, choosing the Space Wormhole in Tianya City.
• During the journey, Ye Chen told Queen Medusa and the others about the Pill Tower, the Ye Family’s standing, and Central State’s major factions.
• Queen Medusa asked about the factions, and Ye Chen explained the Two Sects, Three Valleys, Four Directions Pavilion, and Soul Hall.
• Ye Chen warned Queen Medusa to be cautious around powerful factions because her identity could attract unwanted attention.
• The Three Yao Brothers announced that the group had reached the Tianqing Mountain Range, where Ye Chen and the others spotted roads and a distant city.

Ye Chen brought his group to Tianya City to travel through its Space Wormhole to Central State. After paying the fare, they entered the tunnel and found themselves in a vast, silent passage.

• Ye Chen landed outside Tianya City, dismissed the Giant Winged Eagle, and explained that flying beasts were barred from entering the city.
• A yellow-robed elder escorted Ye Chen and his group to the Space Wormhole after Ye Chen said they were headed to Central State.
• The elder recommended a Level Four Space Ship, but Ye Chen declined to buy it.
• Ye Chen paid thirty thousand Gold Coins per person for the group of nine to use the Space Wormhole.
• Ye Chen reassured the frightened Alita and the two little ones, then led the group into the wormhole.
• The group appeared inside a seemingly endless Space Tunnel lined with faint silver spatial barriers.

Ye Chen and his group traveled through a Space Tunnel in his Space Ship and arrived in the Central State Northern Region. He planned to rest before continuing toward the Pill Region, but first needed Hu Tian to find them a flying Magical Beast.

• Ye Chen summoned his Space Ship and brought the group aboard, while Queen Medusa learned it had been traded for a Seventh Grade Advanced Pill.
• During the journey, Ye Chen checked his Star Vein Diagram and found he had reached One Star Dou Huang with 325 star vein points.
• Nearly ten months later, Ye Chen's group emerged from the Space Tunnel in the Central State Northern Region.
• Ye Chen explained that the Pill Region was far away and proposed finding a nearby city to rest before continuing by Space Wormholes.
• Ye Chen realized many of his companions could not fly, so he sent Hu Tian to capture a flying Magical Beast and scolded the Three Yao Brothers for their lack of progress.

Ye Chen brought his companions to YuShui City and planned to strengthen the Three Yao Brothers and Alita with pills and cultivation resources. He and Queen Medusa visited a medicine shop to buy rare materials, but the shopkeeper returned with a gloomy expression.

• Ye Chen ordered the Three Yao Brothers to break through to Dou Wang within half a month and promised to support their cultivation with pills and Magical Beast essence blood.
• Alita asked Ye Chen for pills to improve her strength, and he agreed to refine some after they found a medicine shop.
• Ye Chen left the tired companions at an inn under Hu Tian's watch and went with Queen Medusa to browse the city's medicine shops.
• At a well-stocked shop, Ye Chen gave the shopkeeper a list of Medicinal Materials, including sixth-rank lion, tiger, and bear Magical Beast essence blood.
• The shopkeeper took Ye Chen and Queen Medusa to a VIP room, then returned half an hour later looking gloomy.

Ye Chen and Queen Medusa tracked down a strange snake-type Magical Beast that had stolen from the Water Control Sect, after learning it possessed unusual Space Power. They found the snake in the Savage Mountain Range, where Queen Medusa’s bloodline pressure subdued it and its appearance led Ye Chen to recognize its identity.

• The medicine shop’s old man apologized that the Blood Python Branch was sold out, then presented Ye Chen with the other materials he had ordered.
• Ye Chen paid nearly ten million Gold Coins for the materials and left the shop with Queen Medusa.
• Ye Chen and Queen Medusa saw a small snake fleeing the Water Control Sect’s pursuit and sensed that it wielded Space Power.
• Ye Chen and Queen Medusa returned to the inn, then waited until nightfall before secretly flying into the Savage Mountain Range to find the snake.
• Queen Medusa’s bloodline pressure stopped the black snake from escaping, and the snake fainted when it saw her.
• Ye Chen saw the snake’s silvery belly and recognized its true identity.

Ye Chen identified a frightened little snake as a rare spatial Soaring Snake and planned to raise it into a mount for a ship. He used his age and accomplishments to deepen Queen Medusa’s impression of him, then fed the snake Void-Rending Flying Tiger blood essence.

• Ye Chen recognized the Soaring Snake’s spatial abilities and imagined raising it to pull a ship like Boa Hancock’s Perfume Yuda.
• The Soaring Snake tried to flee from Ye Chen but cowered around his wrist when he threatened it with Queen Medusa.
• Ye Chen explained his plan for a Soaring Snake Ship and his desire to show it off to Dan Xuan in Pill City, while Queen Medusa called him childish.
• Ye Chen told Queen Medusa he was not yet sixteen, and she was astonished that he was already a Dou Emperor and a Sixth Grade Alchemist.
• Ye Chen reflected that he had revealed his age to strengthen Queen Medusa’s impression of him and show her that he could offer a future for her and the Snake-People Race.
• Ye Chen offered the Soaring Snake Void-Rending Flying Tiger blood essence, which it eagerly swallowed.

Ye Chen recovered the Blood Python Branch from the Soaring Snake and resumed plans to refine pills in YuShui City while raising his Star Essence. The next morning, he began preparing an ordinary Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill for Alita, taking care to avoid using his powerful Starfire.

• The Soaring Snake spat out the Blood Python Branch, allowing Ye Chen to resume his plan to refine Dou Spirit Pills for the Three Yao Brothers.
• Ye Chen and Queen Medusa returned to the inn, where Ye Chen absorbed star power at night to work toward 350 Star Essence and his Eighth Star Soul.
• The next morning, Ye Chen studied the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and decided Alita needed an ordinary-grade pill suited to her One Star Dou Master strength.
• Ye Chen chose Beast Fire instead of his increasingly powerful Starfire and began refining an ordinary Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill in the Star Chen Cauldron.

Ye Chen left YuShui City with Hu Tian to refine the Sixth Grade Dou Spirit Pill in a remote mountain, where he carefully extracted and purified the medicinal power from the Blood Python Branch. He preserved the first batch of medicinal liquid and continued preparing the remaining ingredients.

• Ye Chen finished refining Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pills, gave Alita her pills, and asked Queen Medusa to watch over her.
• Ye Chen told Queen Medusa he would leave for several days to refine the Dou Spirit Pill, with Hu Tian accompanying him.
• Ye Chen and Hu Tian traveled to a barren mountain a hundred li from YuShui City, where Ye Chen began heating the Star Chen Cauldron.
• Ye Chen refined the Blood Python Branch, suppressing its energetic blood threads with Starfire and removing its impurities.
• Ye Chen sealed the purified medicinal liquid in a Jade Bottle and began refining the other medicinal materials.

Ye Chen advanced his Star Vein and awakened an all-around Eighth Star Soul, greatly increasing his attributes and soul control. Meanwhile, in Pill City, Song Qing and Dan Xuan discussed Ye Chen’s progress, and Song Qing resolved to join Danta and improve his alchemy.

• The Three Yao Brothers used the Three Beasts Savage Art and one Dou Spirit Pill to stabilize at One Star Dou Wang, and Queen Medusa judged their combined strength capable of confronting a Five Star Dou Wang.
• Ye Chen’s Star Vein surpassed 350 points, allowing him to awaken his Eighth Star Soul and raise his Spirit and Soul Control.
• Ye Chen realized his Soul Value had reached a thousand and wondered how Cao Ying and Dan Chen had developed.
• In Pill City, Song Qing told Dan Xuan he had reached Sixth Grade Intermediate Alchemist after nearly two years of cultivation.
• Dan Xuan explained that he had lost track of Ye Chen after Ye Chen left the Ye Family and traveled somewhere in Central State.
• Song Qing decided to join Danta and work harder at alchemy so he would not fall too far behind Ye Chen.

After nearly two months of travel, Ye Chen and his companions reached the Pill Domain and learned that the Ye Family had clashed with the Black Fire Sect. Ye Chen returned to Ye City to investigate and unexpectedly met Su Qian, who was astonished by his young age and cultivation.

• Ye Chen's group arrived at Tian Huang City and heard that the Ye Family had killed a Black Fire Sect elder in a recent clash.
• Ye Chen led the group to Ye City, where the city's safety reassured him and Hu Tian.
• Ye Chen sent Hu Tian to escort Queen Medusa and the others to his courtyard, then went to the Family Head's study.
• Ye Chen found Ye Zhong, his father, and Su Qian in the study, and Ye Zhong introduced Su Qian as his old friend.
• Su Qian examined Ye Chen's cultivation and asked whether he was really not yet sixteen; Ye Zhong said Ye Chen was still a few days short of his fifteenth birthday.

Ye Chen learned how Ye Zhong had befriended Su Qian while searching for a way to resolve the Yang Fire Ancient Altar. Ye Zhong explained that the Black Fire Sect had hunted them after a ruin collapsed, and that Lin Qingyue had helped them kill Zhao Tuo.

• Ye Zhong confirmed that Su Qian was Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy Great Elder, and Su Qian invited Ye Chen to visit the academy before leaving.
• Ye Zhong told Ye Chen that he had met Su Qian while exploring ruins for a solution to the Yang Fire Ancient Altar, and that Su Qian’s many methods had helped them survive.
• Ye Zhong explained that triggering the ruins’ restrictions had drawn the Black Fire Sect’s attention, and the sect pursued him and Su Qian.
• Ye Zhong said he had killed the pursuing elder Zhao Tuo and challenged the Black Fire Sect to seek revenge, but its sect master declined to escalate the conflict.
• Ye Zhong told Ye Chen that Lin Qingyue had helped them defeat Zhao Tuo, and Ye Chen recalled their agreement that she would aid the Ye Family in a crisis.

Ye Chen told Ye Zhong and Ye Lan that he had obtained the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Sea Heart Flame, then decided how the Ye Family should use them. He left the Green Lotus Core Flame for a younger family member and assigned the Sea Heart Flame to Ye Zhong, while refusing to refine either himself.

• Ye Chen revealed that he had found the Green Lotus Core Flame in the Jia Ma Empire, surprising Ye Lan and Ye Zhong.
• Ye Chen disclosed that he had also obtained the Sea Heart Flame, and Ye Zhong recognized the flames as a major opportunity for the Ye Family.
• Ye Chen proposed that Ye Zhong refine the Sea Heart Flame, but Ye Zhong initially argued that Ye Chen should keep it.
• Ye Chen refused to refine either flame, saying he would only consider Heavenly Flames ranked in the top ten.
• Ye Chen decided that Ye Zhong would refine the Sea Heart Flame and that a younger member of the Ye Family would merge with the Green Lotus Core Flame.

Ye Chen told Ye Zhong and Ye Lan that Xiao Yi Xian, a Poisonous Body of Calamity, was staying with the Ye Family and promised he could control her condition. He also explained Qing Lin’s rare eyes and Queen Medusa’s place as a prospective Ye Family retainer, leaving Ye Zhong warning Ye Chen to focus on cultivation instead of romantic entanglements.

• Ye Chen gave the remaining Green Lotus Core Flame to Ye Xinlan and kept the Sea Heart Flame for himself.
• Ye Chen revealed that he had brought Xiao Yi Xian, a Poisonous Body of Calamity, to the Ye Family and said he could help her control her power.
• Ye Chen proposed arranging for Xiao Yi Xian to cultivate in a valley, easing Ye Zhong’s concerns about her staying with the clan.
• Ye Chen told Ye Zhong and Ye Lan about Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and Queen Medusa, and Ye Zhong agreed the Ye Family should support Qing Lin.
• Ye Zhong offered to assess Queen Medusa as a retainer, but Ye Chen said he would handle her himself.
• Ye Zhong warned Ye Chen to focus on cultivation and alchemy rather than getting distracted by Queen Medusa.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Song Chun'er, Ye Chen's mother, visits his courtyard and mistakes Medusa Queen and Xiao Yi Xian for potential daughters-in-law.
• Medusa Queen, feeling uncomfortable with Song Chun'er's enthusiasm, leaves the courtyard using Space Power.
• Ye Chen returns to find his mother interacting intimately with Xiao Yi Xian and expressing her preference for her over Medusa Queen.

Character Developments

• Song Chun'er: Shows her enthusiasm and eagerness to have Ye Chen settle down, revealing her maternal side.
• Medusa Queen: Displays a rare moment of discomfort and helplessness, fleeing from Song Chun'er's excessive attention.
• Xiao Yi Xian: Appears confused and overwhelmed by Song Chun'er's sudden affection.

Significant Themes

• Family and relationships: The chapter explores the dynamics between family members, with Song Chun'er's behavior highlighting her desire for her son to start a family.
• Misunderstandings: Song Chun'er's misinterpretation of Medusa Queen and Xiao Yi Xian's roles leads to an awkward situation.

Character Interactions

• Song Chun'er and Medusa Queen: Their interaction is tense, with Medusa Queen feeling uncomfortable under Song Chun'er's scrutiny.
• Song Chun'er and Xiao Yi Xian: Song Chun'er shows affection and preference toward Xiao Yi Xian, making her feel confused and uncertain.
• Ye Chen and Medusa Queen: Ye Chen is amused by Medusa Queen's discomfort and appreciates his mother's unintentional mischief.

Ye Chen returned to the Ye Family, spent time with his mother and younger clan disciples, and learned that the elders planned to send him to the Pill Tower Core Disciple Assessment. The clan decided to use his public assessment to display its strength, and Ye Chen accepted the plan as he prepared to join the Pill Tower.

• Song Chun'er welcomed Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin warmly, while Ye Chen chatted with his mother before leaving.
• Ye Chen visited the martial training ground, where he learned Xin Yue was in seclusion to break through to Dou Zhe and gave cultivation advice to the clan disciples.
• The Ye Family elders debated whether Ye Chen should participate in the Pill Tower Core Disciple Assessment three months later, with Ye Lan opposing and the Third Elder urging him to demonstrate the clan's strength.
• Ye Zhong approved Ye Chen's participation, intending to show the other great families that the Ye Family still had a powerful future.
• Ye Chen accepted the decision, confident that he could join the Pill Tower regardless of whether he made a public display of his abilities.

Ye Chen gathered the ingredients and preparations needed to help Ye Zhong refine the Sea Heart Flame. Ye Zhong began absorbing the flame, and Ye Chen watched as the dangerous process appeared to be progressing safely.

• Ye Chen told Ye Zhong that he needed an Azure Wood Immortal Vine and prepared pills and other supplies for the Heavenly Flame refinement.
• Ye Zhong traveled to Sacred Pill City and returned with the Azure Wood Immortal Vine and two pieces of Spirit Absorption.
• Ye Chen refined an Earth Spirit Pill, whose blue pillar of light rose above Ye City.
• Ye Chen released Han Feng's body and destroyed it, causing the Sea Heart Flame to expand into a deep-blue flame.
• Ye Zhong swallowed the prepared pills and began drawing the Sea Heart Flame into his body; Ye Chen judged that the process had a good chance of success.

Ye Chen probed the Yang Fire Ancient Altar’s Earth Eye for the Earth Core Pearl but was overwhelmed by its Fire Poison and suffered severe soul pain. Back at the courtyard, he gave Queen Medusa a powerful cyan pill he named the Fire Lotus Pill, leaving her surprised by its apparent lack of an established name.

• Ye Chen went to the Yang Fire Ancient Altar and examined the Earth Eye, where the Earth Core Pearl blocked the earth fire.
• Ye Chen sent his soul power into the Earth Eye, endured dense Fire Poison, and glimpsed the red Earth Core Pearl before its energy blasted his soul back out.
• Ye Chen suffered intense pain for about a quarter of an hour and vowed not to probe the Earth Eye again until his Soul Value exceeded fifteen hundred.
• Queen Medusa noticed Ye Chen’s scattered Soul Power when he returned to the courtyard, but he told her he had brought it on himself.
• Ye Chen gave Queen Medusa a cyan pill with powerful Fire Attribute Energy and called it the Fire Lotus Pill, prompting her to wonder whether he had created it himself.

Ye Chen began a large-scale pill-refining effort to restore the Ye Family’s strength and improve his alchemy skills before the Pill Tower assessment. He refined an Imperial Pill with ease, showing that he was nearing Seventh Grade alchemist status.

• Queen Medusa accepted Ye Chen’s Fire Lotus Pill, which could help a Dou Zong rise two to three stars if enough were available, though its violent medicinal power limited who could take it.
• Ye Chen planned to use the Myriad Beasts Cauldron and Han Feng’s Heavenly Flame to help Ye Zhong become a Seventh Grade alchemist and supply the Ye Family with pills.
• Ye Chen had the Third Elder gather materials for Sect Breaking Pills, Imperial Pills, and Dou Spirit Pills, obtaining fifteen sets in total.
• After recovering his Soul Power, Ye Chen entered a magma-rock secret chamber and began refining the gathered medicinal materials.
• Ye Chen refined an Imperial Pill successfully and resumed refining after recovering, demonstrating that he was close to advancing to Seventh Grade.