Chapter Summaries

Queen Medusa became a Dou Zong and gathered the Snake People Clan to discuss Lan Hong’s offer of a homeland in exchange for their loyalty. Meanwhile, Lan Hong extracted the Green Lotus Core Flame’s Origin Qi and discovered he could create artificial Heavenly Flames, leaving the Snake People’s decision unresolved.

• Queen Medusa completed her evolution, became a Dou Zong, and ordered Yue Mei to summon the Snake People Clan’s commanders and elders.
• Gu He and Yun Yun retreated, while Xiao Yan left the Tagor Desert without meeting Queen Medusa.
• Lan Hong extracted the Green Lotus Core Flame’s Origin Qi, fused and strengthened it, then created a begonia-shaped Heavenly Flame and considered using artificial flames to mass-produce alchemists and pills.
• Queen Medusa told the Snake People Clan’s leaders that reclaiming their homeland by force could lead to their extinction.
• Queen Medusa revealed Lan Hong’s offer to provide them a place to live in return for their loyalty and invited the leaders to discuss whether to accept.

Lan Hong offered the Snake People Clan a choice, and Queen Medusa and the clan agreed to submit to him in exchange for security. While Xiao Yan obtained the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, Lan Hong moved the Snake People Clan into his Small World, where they pledged eternal loyalty to him.

• Lan Hong returned to the Snake People Temple, offered the clan three days to decide, and gave Little Doctor Immortal a replica of the Netherworld Poison Fire while promising Qing Lin a gift as well.
• Lan Hong sensed that Xiao Yan had encountered the Wind Fury Dragon Flame; Xiao Yan refined it with Yao Chen’s help, evolved the Burning Art, and earned Yao Chen’s full recognition as his disciple.
• After three days, Queen Medusa told the commanders and elders that submitting to Lan Hong was the clan’s only way out, and they agreed to follow her decision.
• Lan Hong opened a spatial passage and brought Queen Medusa, the elders, and the commanders to his Small World, where the Snake People Clan pledged eternal loyalty to him.

Lan Hong and Cai Lin traveled to Salt City, where he discovered the Mo Family was still thriving despite Yun Yun’s promise. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan defeated Mo Ran and decided to confront the Mo Family, setting up a meeting with Lan Hong at Mo Cheng’s birthday gathering.

• Lan Hong brought Cai Lin to Salt City and found that Yun Yun had not dealt with the Mo Family.
• Xiao Yan returned to Shi Mo City and burned Mo Ran to ashes, forcing the Sand Mercenary Group to flee.
• Xiao Yan learned that the Mo Family had targeted the Desert Iron Mercenary Group over Qing Lin and decided to go to Salt City with Hai Bodong.
• Lan Hong took Cai Lin shopping in Salt City, then accepted Mo Cheng’s birthday invitation and promised to attend that evening.

Lan Hong and Cai Lin destroyed the Mo Clan after discovering its experiments on Snake People, while Cai Lin revealed herself as Queen Medusa and punished Mo Cheng. After meeting Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong, Lan Hong explained his imitation of Heavenly Flames and advised Xiao Yan to develop his own heartfire.

• Lan Hong and Cai Lin watched Mo Cheng's birthday banquet after learning that the Mo Clan had experimented on Snake People.
• Cai Lin appeared over the estate, accused Mo Cheng of killing her people, and severed his legs before he transformed into a beastman.
• Lan Hong's restriction trapped the guilty as the Cloud Mist Sect deacon threatened Cai Lin and had his limbs severed.
• Lan Hong used a fused-flame begonia to erase the Mo Clan, while Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong watched from nearby.
• Lan Hong met Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong, then showed Yao Chen a flame that imitated the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Lan Hong advised Xiao Yan to think beyond conventional Heavenly Flames and try developing his own heartfire.

Xiao Yan tested a dangerous Buddha Rage Fire Lotus and set out to improve his strength, while Lan Hong brought Cai Lin and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to Jia Ma Sacred City. Lan Hong began preparing a Form Transformation Pill for the lion king, and Nalan Yanran learned the beast outside the Miter Auction House knew her Teacher Yun Yun.

• Xiao Yan fused Wind Fury Dragon Flame with beast fire to create a powerful but unstable Buddha Rage Fire Lotus, and Yao Chen urged him to raise his strength by refining pills.
• After learning of the Mo Clan’s human experiments and its ties to the Cloud Mist Sect, Xiao Yan vowed to confront the sect during the Three-Year Agreement and gave Xiao Ding and Xiao Li Profound-tier Dou Techniques.
• Lan Hong arrived in Jia Ma Sacred City with Cai Lin and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, reassuring Jia Xing Tian that the Snake People Clan would not attack the Jia Ma Empire.
• Lan Hong met Ya Fei at the Miter Auction House, where she provided the ingredients needed for a Form Transformation Pill for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King questioned Nalan Yanran about Yun Yun and revealed that Yun Yun had taken its Purple Spirit Crystal for her; Nalan Yanran hurried inside.
• Lan Hong asked Ya Fei to arrange a quiet place to refine the pill while Cai Lin went to look around.

Lan Hong refined a Grade Seven Form Transformation Pill, which the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King consumed to transform into a human woman. Nalan Yanran sought help for Nalan Jie's Brand Poison, while Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and Gu He gathered at the Miter Auction House and learned that Lan Hong had completed the pill.

• Ya Fei welcomed Nalan Yanran, who asked her to find an alchemist with a Heavenly Flame to cure Nalan Jie's Brand Poison.
• Cai Lin examined Nalan Yanran's reward list and said the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva might attract a powerful alchemist.
• Nalan Yanran learned that Nalan Jie and her father were heading to the Miter Auction House to seek Lan Hong's help.
• Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, and Gu He sensed the pill-refining phenomenon and gathered near the Miter Auction House, where the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King guarded the sky.
• Lan Hong announced that he had refined a Grade Seven Form Transformation Pill and gave it to the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King swallowed the pill and transformed into a beautiful woman dressed in purple.

Lan Hong agreed to attend the Alchemist Competition and arranged help for Nalan Jie's poison, while Xiao Yan arrived in Jia Ma Sacred City seeking the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva. At the Nalan residence, Xiao Yan confronted Nalan Yanran, who fled and collided with Cai Lin.

• Lan Hong named the transformed Purple Crystal Winged Lion King Amethyst, agreed to attend the Alchemist Competition, and told Nalan Jie that help for his poison was on the way.
• Ya Fei welcomed Hai Bodong and Xiao Yan to the Miter Auction House and showed Xiao Yan the Nalan Family's reward list, which offered Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva for curing Nalan Jie's Brand Poison.
• Xiao Yan accepted a mask from Ya Fei but chose to visit the Nalan residence openly, while Cai Lin noticed him and followed with Yao Yue and Yao Ye.
• Nalan Yanran blocked Xiao Yan before he could meet Nalan Jie, and Nalan Su ordered her to apologize for how she had treated Xiao Yan's family.
• Nalan Yanran refused, ran off, and crashed into Cai Lin, prompting Nalan Su to bow and apologize to Queen.

Xiao Yan treated Nalan Jie’s Brand Poison with his Heavenly Flame in exchange for the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva, while Nalan Yanran renewed her determination to defeat him at the Three-Year Agreement. At the Cloud Mist Sect, Yun Yun confronted Yun Leng for defying her orders, but the other elders sided with him and left her feeling powerless.

• Nalan Yanran apologized to Cai Lin after Nalan Su reprimanded her, then ran off in tears.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Jie that he could treat the Brand Poison in exchange for the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva, and began purging it with his Heavenly Flame.
• After Xiao Yan improved Nalan Jie’s condition, Nalan Su hosted a banquet where Yao Yue told Xiao Yan about the Alchemist Tournament.
• Nalan Su made Nalan Yanran apologize to Xiao Yan, but she insisted she would defeat him at the Three-Year Agreement, and Xiao Yan accepted the challenge.
• Yun Yun confronted Yun Leng for ignoring her orders concerning the Mo Clan, but the other Cloud Mist Sect elders intervened on his behalf, leaving her feeling like a powerless puppet.

Yun Yun reconsidered her position after Yun Leng and the elders left, while Lan Hong watched Xiao Yan and Liu Ling compete in the Alchemist Association’s internal test. The test ended with Xiao Yan scoring nine points and Lan Hong’s Automatic Alchemy Furnace scoring 9.5, leaving the assembled alchemists astonished.

• Yun Yun let Yun Leng and the elders leave, then wondered whether the Cloud Mist Sect needed reform and thought of Lan Hong.
• Lan Hong attended the internal test in Jia Ma Sacred City, where Xiao Yan greeted him and met Amethyst, who had become a Dou Zong.
• Lan Hong used his Automatic Alchemy Furnace to purify Black Iron Scale Leaf while discussing alchemy and innovation with Gu He and Fa Ma.
• Liu Ling scored seven points, Yao Yue scored 6.5, and Xiao Yan scored nine, silencing Nalan Yanran’s mockery.
• Lan Hong’s Automatic Alchemy Furnace scored 9.5, astonishing Gu He, Yao Chen, and the other observers.

As the Alchemist Grand Meeting began, Lan Hong’s Automatic Alchemy Furnace produced the first pill despite a sabotaged formula, while Xiao Yan uncovered the trap and finished ahead of the disguised Chuyun Empire contestant. The preliminaries ended with Xiao Yan gaining recognition, and Yao Chen challenged him to beat Lan Hong’s furnace in the finals.

• Xiao Yan continued treating Nalan Jie’s Brand Poison, siphoned off some of his Dou Qi, and nearly died from a backlash before Yao Chen intervened and reprimanded him.
• Lan Hong revealed that the Chuyun Empire’s little girl contestant was a disguised man, but Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian hesitated to act without evidence.
• The competition began, and Xiao Yan reached his platform after Lan Hong tossed him there while Ya Fei confronted Nalan Yanran about breaking off her engagement.
• The contestants struggled to fuse pills because the formula contained an incompatible extra ingredient, while the disguised contestant mocked them and intimidated Yao Yue.
• Lan Hong’s Automatic Alchemy Furnace produced a pill first, and Xiao Yan then identified the formula’s flaw and completed his pill ahead of the disguised contestant.
• Xiao Yan pointed out the trap so the other contestants could finish, and after the preliminaries Yao Chen told him to beat Lan Hong’s furnace in the finals.

Xiao Yan and the others survived Yan Li’s puppet attack at Princess Yao Yue’s banquet, but the Jia Ma Empire still let Yan Li compete in the Alchemist Competition final. As Yan Li poisoned the arena and ruined Xiao Yan’s first batch of ingredients, Lan Hong condemned Fa Ma’s stubborn refusal to act.

• Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin arrived at Princess Yao Yue’s banquet, cleared the poison, and destroyed the attacking puppets.
• Yao Ye, Hai Bodong, and Jia Xing Tian arrived after the danger had passed, and Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin later left the banquet.
• Xiao Yan accepted the task of defeating Yan Li in the final, while Lan Hong questioned why Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and Hai Bodong had allowed Yan Li to compete.
• The next day, Fa Ma asked Lan Hong what his Automatic Alchemy Furnace was refining, and Lan Hong said it was a Dou Ling Pill.
• Yan Li released poison during the final and ruined Xiao Yan’s first batch of ingredients, while Lan Hong berated Fa Ma for continuing to indulge him.

Lan Hong’s Automatic Alchemy Furnace produced a fifth-tier Dou Ling Pill as Xiao Yan won the alchemist competition by completing a Three-Patterned Azure Spirit Pill, while Yan Li was subdued after attacking him. The Three-Year Agreement was set to take place at the Cloud Mist Sect, where Yun Yun confronted Yun Leng for arranging the public gathering without her permission.

• Xiao Yan gained a surge in Soul Power through a sudden enlightenment, then used Bone Spirit Cold Flame to continue refining his pill as Yan Li’s Soul Power disrupted the other contestants.
• Lan Hong’s Automatic Alchemy Furnace absorbed the arena’s poisonous gas and produced a Dou Ling Pill and a poison pill, while Xiao Yan’s furnace exploded during his refinement.
• Liu Ling, Princess Yao Yue, and other alchemists helped Xiao Yan resist Yan Li’s Mental Shock, allowing him to complete the Three-Patterned Azure Spirit Pill and defeat Yan Li’s Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pill.
• Yan Li attacked Xiao Yan after losing, but an ice shield blocked him and Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian arrived to stop him.
• Lan Hong gave the Dou Ling Pill to Little Doctor Immortal and asked her to work toward bringing the Chuyun Empire’s poison masters under her command after she reached Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran prepared for the Three-Year Agreement at the Cloud Mist Sect, and Yun Yun attacked Yun Leng after learning he had invited the Jia Ma Empire’s factions without her order.

Yun Yun learned that Yun Shan had allied with the Soul Hall and tried to protect the Cloud Mist Sect as Xiao Yan arrived for the Three-Year Agreement. Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began their duel, which ended with Xiao Yan preparing a Buddha Rage Fire Lotus.

• Yun Shan stopped Yun Yun from killing Yun Leng and insisted that the Cloud Mist Sect confront Xiao Yan over the Three-Year Agreement.
• Yun Yun questioned Yun Shan about the Soul Hall, but he dismissed her warning and she urged Nalan Yanran to stand by her when trouble came.
• Lan Hong and Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall might be behind the Cloud Mist Sect and could threaten them, but Xiao Yan chose to continue to the duel.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Cloud Mist Sect, where Lan Hong sensed Yun Shan and Soul Hall members hiding nearby, while Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran waited at the arena.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran fought, and Xiao Yan took to the air before Nalan Yanran called for a decisive attack with Wind's Extreme: Setting Sun Radiance.
• Xiao Yan fused Beast Flame and Wind Fury Dragon Flame in his hands, and Lan Hong recognized that he had created the Buddha Rage Fire Lotus.

After defeating Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan tried to leave but Yun Shan ordered the Cloud Mist Sect to capture him and demanded Yao Chen’s soul. Cai Lin intervened, and she and Yun Shan confronted each other over their ties to the Soul Hall and the safety of their clans.

• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran with the Buddha Rage Fire Lotus, and Yun Yun protected the Cloud Mist Sect disciples from the blast.
• Xiao Yan declared his engagement to Nalan Yanran ended and tried to leave, but Yun Shan ordered the Cloud Mist Sect elders to surround him.
• Hai Bodong stepped in to protect Xiao Yan, but Yun Shan defeated him and seized Xiao Yan, demanding the soul within him.
• Xiao Yan refused to hand over Yao Chen, and Yun Shan prepared to kill him before Cai Lin forced him to release Xiao Yan.
• Cai Lin threatened to destroy the Cloud Mist Sect and exposed Yun Shan’s alliance with the Soul Hall, leaving Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma alarmed.

Cai Lin fought Yun Shan as the Cloud Mist Sect’s disciples formed their protective formation, while Yun Yun tried to evacuate them and was struck down by her Teacher. Cai Lin and Amethyst overpowered Yun Shan’s formation-enhanced attack, while Xiao Yan worried that Soul Hall experts might intervene.

• Cai Lin attacked Yun Shan, and Yun Yun ordered the Cloud Mist Sect’s disciples to evacuate instead of forming the sect’s protective formation.
• Yun Shan struck Yun Yun into a mountain wall, and Nalan Yanran helped her while Yun Leng ordered the disciples to form the Cloud Mist Covering Sun Formation.
• Cai Lin battled Yun Shan, endured his Wind Fiend Annihilation technique, and wounded him with her whip.
• Yun Shan used clones to stall Cai Lin, but her Heavenly Cloud Water Flame shattered his next attack, and Amethyst joined her.
• Cai Lin and Amethyst faced Yun Shan’s formation-empowered attack with their techniques as Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, Nalan Jie, and Xiao Yan watched.
• Xiao Yan warned Lan Hong that Soul Hall experts might be watching, and Lan Hong reassured him that the Soul Hall would not send a Saint-tier expert just for him.

Cai Lin and Amethyst weakened Yun Shan and the Cloud Mist Sect, but the Soul Hall arrived with five powerful fighters to seize Yao Chen. Lan Hong revealed his Dou Saint strength and killed them, then Cai Lin killed Yun Shan and Yun Yun executed Yun Leng as the Cloud Mist Sect faced a forced reckoning.

• Cai Lin and Amethyst clashed with Yun Shan's formation, leaving both sides badly weakened before Amethyst shattered Yun Shan's final attack.
• Vulture Protector, Iron Protector, the Black-White Heavenly Venerates, and Qiu Di arrived, and Qiu Di attacked Yao Chen.
• Lan Hong appeared, immobilized the Soul Hall fighters with his control of space, and destroyed their bodies and souls.
• Cai Lin killed Yun Shan, and Lan Hong warned Yun Yun against seeking revenge or allowing the Cloud Mist Sect to continue its misconduct.
• Yun Yun killed Yun Leng and ordered the Cloud Mist Sect disciples to avoid evil deeds, while Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and the others departed.

Lan Hong sent Xiao Yan to check on his family after warning him that the Soul Hall might target the Xiao Clan, then set out to conquer the Black Corner Region. Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Zhan had been abducted, while Lan Hong’s followers seized the Black Domain Great Plains checkpoint.

• Lan Hong warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall might be after an item connected to the secret of the Dou Emperor and urged him to return to Wutan City.
• Xiao Yan found that Xiao Zhan had gone missing and resolved to grow stronger at Jia Nan Academy before attempting to rescue him.
• Ling Ying reported the Cloud Mist Sect battle to Gu Xun'er, who ordered him to keep protecting Xiao Yan on his way to Jia Nan Academy.
• Lan Hong entered the Black Corner Region and ordered Qing Lin and the Little Doctor Immortal to seize the Black Domain Great Plains checkpoint.
• After Qing Lin and the Little Doctor Immortal eliminated the checkpoint’s hostile forces, Lan Hong directed Cai Lin to have the Snake People Clan take control and begin establishing a new order.

Lan Hong’s forces imposed new rules on Black Seal City, prompting Han Feng to organize an alliance of Black Corner Region factions. Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong arrived at the guarded checkpoint and learned that the changes were connected to Lan Hong.

• Cai Lin assigned Mo Bass and his tribesmen to guard the checkpoint, where they enforced posted rules and Lan Hong destroyed a Soul Hall member capturing spiritual bodies.
• Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin defeated Yuan Yi, took control of the Eight Gate Sect, and used its forces to impose new rules on Black Seal City.
• Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin suppressed resistance in Black Seal City as factions across the region investigated Lan Hong’s plan to unify the Black Corner Region.
• Han Feng invited the major factions to Maple City to form an alliance, hoping to prepare for a bid to seize Jia Nan Academy’s Fallen Heart Flame.
• Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong encountered Mo Bass at the checkpoint and learned that the new order was likely connected to Lan Hong.

Lan Hong crushed the Black Alliance’s attempt to oppose him and brought the Black Corner Region’s factions under his control. Su Qian and Ruo Lin arrived in Black Seal City to discuss the changes, where they encountered Xiao Yan before Lan Hong prepared to meet Su Qian.

• Lan Hong arrived in Maple City with Cai Lin and Amethyst while Han Feng gathered the Black Corner Region’s faction leaders to form the Black Alliance.
• Lan Hong killed Fan Lao, and Su Mei, Old Man Yin Gu, and Tie Wu submitted to him.
• Han Feng fled after Lan Hong mentioned Yao Chen, but Amethyst struck him with the Purple Crystal Seal; Lan Hong left him for Xiao Yan to deal with and took treasure from his residence.
• Lan Hong began imposing a new order on the Black Corner Region as Jia Nan Academy’s Su Qian and Ruo Lin traveled to Black Seal City to assess the changes.
• Ruo Lin and Su Qian met Xiao Yan, encouraged him to head to the academy, and told him that Xun'er was waiting.
• Lan Hong waited for Su Qian at the Eight Gate Sect’s headquarters.

Lan Hong visited Jia Nan Academy, brought his companions to the Dou Qi Continent, and attended the Inner Academy selection competition. The melee left Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, Bai Shan, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia as the final five, with Bai Shan plotting to eliminate Xiao Yan.

• Lan Hong met Su Qian and Ruo Lin at the Eight Gate Sect headquarters, demonstrated his Dou Saint strength, and was invited to visit Jia Nan Academy.
• Lan Hong brought Gu Yue, Nana, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Qian Renxue, and others from the Dragon Sword Divine Domain, then introduced them to Little Doctor Immortal, Cai Lin, and Qing Lin.
• Lan Hong took Little Doctor Immortal and Qing Lin to Jia Nan Academy during the Inner Academy selection competition, where Su Qian changed the event into a fifty-person free-for-all.
• Xiao Yan and Gu Xun'er noticed Lan Hong in the place of honor, and Gu Xun'er warned Xiao Yan to keep his distance from him.
• The competition narrowed to Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, Bai Shan, Wu Hao, and Hu Jia, and Bai Shan planned to join forces with Wu Hao and Hu Jia against Xiao Yan.