Recaps

Lu Yuan subdued the Green Wood Wind Wolf and explained his sudden Seven-Star Dou Wang cultivation to Yun Yun as the result of an inheritance. As they flew toward the hidden valley, he sensed that something had happened there.

• Lu Yuan used his Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils to imprint the weakened Green Wood Wind Wolf, then absorbed its poison and took the beast into the space within his pupils.
• Lu Yuan told Yun Yun that a special inheritance let him gain cultivation through contact and dual cultivation with talented women, and she accepted his explanation.
• Lu Yuan carried Yun Yun away as the Amethyst Winged Lion King approached, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao arrived at the cavern and deduced that the Green Wood Wind Wolf had been killed.
• The Amethyst Winged Lion King vowed to find and kill Yun Yun, unaware that Lu Yuan had already flown her away.
• Lu Yuan and Yun Yun headed for the hidden valley to meet Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, but Lu Yuan suddenly sensed that something had happened.

Lu Yuan learned that the Heavenly Snake Mansion had taken Qing Lin and set out with Yun Yun to pursue them. After a day of flying and helping Yun Yun weaken her seal, he spotted the group near a desert-bordering mountain range.

• Lu Yuan returned to the valley and learned from Xiao Yi Xian that an Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor had taken Qing Lin to the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Yun Yun warned Lu Yuan about the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s strength, but he resolved to chase Qing Lin and bring her back.
• Lu Yuan sent Xiao Yi Xian and the injured Zhang Qingqing toward Salt City with Xiao Lan, then flew east with Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun explained how Lu Yuan could weaken the Amethyst Seal, and he spent the next day attacking it as they traveled.
• Lu Yuan landed on a mountaintop near a desert-bordering mountain range and announced that he had found Qing Lin’s group.

Lu Yuan and Yun Yun watched Lu Man try to persuade Qing Lin to join the Heavenly Snake Mansion, but Qing Lin insisted she would rather stay with Lu Yuan. Since they could not defeat Lu Man and Bai Ya directly, Lu Yuan planned to seek Queen Medusa’s cooperation and ambush them in the Tagor Desert.

• Lu Yuan and Yun Yun concealed themselves and watched Lu Man and Bai Ya discuss taking Qing Lin to the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Qing Lin rejected Lu Man’s promises of status and strength, saying she valued staying with Lu Yuan more than becoming a Dou Zong.
• Lu Yuan asked Yun Yun whether they could defeat Lu Man and Bai Ya, and Yun Yun judged that their combined chances were poor.
• Lu Yuan decided to let Lu Man and Bai Ya carry Qing Lin toward the Heavenly Snake Mansion and seek Queen Medusa’s help for an ambush in the Tagor Desert.
• Lu Yuan told Yun Yun he had a bargaining chip that would make Queen Medusa cooperate, and Yun Yun reacted to his calling her “Yun’er.”

Lu Yuan brought Yun Yun to Desert City to recruit a powerful ally for dealing with the Heavenly Snake Mansion and seeking Queen Medusa’s cooperation. He found the hidden Ice Emperor, Hai Bodong, and began discussing a deal with him.

• Lu Yuan teased Yun Yun about becoming his Dao companion, then flew with her toward Desert City after deciding they could recruit another helper.
• Lu Yuan asked a steward at the Lu Trading Company for directions to the city’s map shops and went with Yun Yun to the Ancient Map shop.
• Lu Yuan revealed that he recognized the shopkeeper as Ice Emperor Hai Bodong and persuaded him to receive them as honored guests.
• Hai Bodong asked how Lu Yuan had discovered his identity, and Lu Yuan said he wanted to make a deal and introduced Yun Yun as his Dao companion.
• Hai Bodong recognized Yun Yun from her earlier fight with Yun Shan and asked whether the former Misty Cloud Sect Master was still alive.

Lu Yuan explained that Hai Bodong had prolonged Queen Medusa’s seal by repeatedly attacking it, then used his special eyes to remove it and restore Hai Bodong’s strength in a day. The chapter ended with Yun Yun asking why Hai Bodong emerged from the chamber first and where Lu Yuan was.

• Lu Yuan revealed that Queen Medusa had sealed Hai Bodong after he tried to seize a map fragment in the Tagor Desert, and proposed restoring his strength in exchange for help rescuing his maid from the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
• Lu Yuan examined Hai Bodong and explained that repeated attempts to break the Snake Seal had reinforced it in his bloodline; if left alone, it would have faded in about half a year.
• Hai Bodong asked Lu Yuan to remove the seal and promised to help him, then entered a secret chamber with him.
• Lu Yuan used his Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils to remove the seal, and a day later Hai Bodong emerged with his strength restored.
• Yun Yun, who had already worn away her own seal, asked Hai Bodong where Lu Yuan was.

Lu Yuan refined Hai Bodong’s Snake Seal and reached Nine-Star Dou Wang before setting out with Yun Yun and Hai Bodong to rescue Qing Lin. He revealed that their helper was Queen Medusa, and the chapter ended when she overheard Hai Bodong insulting her.

• Lu Yuan refined the Snake Seal, absorbed its energy, and advanced to Nine-Star Dou Wang while his soul realm neared a breakthrough.
• Lu Yuan told Yun Yun and Hai Bodong that he had gained two stars of cultivation and explained that Hai Bodong could restore his lost cultivation with a Purple Spirit Recovery Pill.
• Lu Yuan said he planned to rescue Qing Lin and seek Queen Medusa’s help, then flew with Yun Yun and Hai Bodong toward the Snake-People Tribe’s temple.
• Hai Bodong refused to accompany Lu Yuan to meet Queen Medusa and called her ruthless and terrifying.
• Queen Medusa’s voice rang out, revealing that she had overheard Hai Bodong’s insults.

Lu Yuan confronted Queen Medusa and offered to improve her chances of evolving with the Green Lotus Core Flame. He brought her consciousness and companion snake soul into the world inside his eyes to demonstrate what his offer involved.

• Queen Medusa appeared before Lu Yuan, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong, and threatened Hai Bodong for insulting her.
• Lu Yuan stepped between Medusa and Hai Bodong, then proposed a deal based on helping Medusa survive her planned evolution and breakthrough.
• Lu Yuan explained Medusa's plan to use the Green Lotus Core Flame and revealed that he had deliberately drawn her to them with the Snake Seal's energy.
• Medusa accepted Lu Yuan's invitation to explain his offer, and he revealed his Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils.
• Lu Yuan brought Medusa's consciousness and companion snake soul into the world within his eyes, assuring her that he could not forcibly contract with her.

Lu Yuan persuaded Queen Medusa to help him rescue Qing Lin, explaining that his space could let her recover after her Heavenly Flame bloodline transformation before facing the lightning tribulation. As Lu Man and Bai Ya carried Qing Lin toward the Heavenly Snake Mansion, Lu Yuan’s voice reached her and announced that he had come to save her.

• Lu Yuan explained how Queen Medusa could use his space to recover after evolving into a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, improving her chances of surviving the lightning tribulation and breaking through to Dou Zong.
• Queen Medusa agreed to cooperate after Lu Yuan told her that people from the Heavenly Snake Mansion had abducted his maid.
• Lu Yuan sensed Qing Lin’s location and set off with Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong to rescue her.
• Lu Man and Bai Ya escorted Qing Lin across the Tagor Desert toward the Heavenly Snake Mansion while Qing Lin silently vowed to destroy it one day.
• As Qing Lin traveled with her captors, three flowers appeared in her eyes and Lu Yuan told her to close them because he had come to save her.

Lu Yuan, Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong rescued Qing Lin by ambushing and overpowering Lu Man and Bai Ya. Lu Yuan ordered the captives killed, then sealed the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor and told Qing Lin to use it as a resource to grow stronger.

• Yun Yun attacked Lu Man while Queen Medusa and Hai Bodong joined forces to break Bai Ya’s defense and suppress his power.
• Lu Yuan arrived and took Qing Lin into his arms, while Lu Man surrendered and realized the others answered to him.
• Lu Yuan rejected Lu Man’s offer to make amends and ordered Queen Medusa, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong to kill her and Bai Ya.
• Lu Yuan sealed the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s soul and told Qing Lin to seal it in her pupil space to strengthen herself.

Qing Lin contracted the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor, Bai Ya, while Lu Yuan and Queen Medusa prepared to head to the Snake-People Holy City for her evolution. The Heavenly Snake Mansion learned that Lu Man had died and Bai Ya was near death, and sent Lu Ran to the Jia Ma Empire; meanwhile, Medusa teased Lu Yuan as they continued toward the temple.

• Qing Lin used her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to contract Bai Ya and absorb his serpent body, then collapsed from the strain and was caught by Lu Yuan.
• Queen Medusa, Hai Bodong, and Yun Yun divided the valuables from Lu Man's Storage Ring, and Medusa agreed to begin her evolution at the Snake-People temple.
• Lu Yuan, Medusa, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong flew toward the Snake-People Holy City, with Lu Yuan asking Medusa to tell her people that he would leave after her evolution.
• A disciple reported Lu Man's death and Bai Ya's faint soul flame to the Heavenly Snake Mansion elders, who sent Lu Ran to investigate and retrieve the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• As the group reached the heart of the Snake-People Holy City, Hai Bodong worried that Medusa might harm them, and she told Lu Yuan he was praising her to death.

Lu Yuan helped Queen Medusa begin her evolution with the Green Lotus Core Flame, first binding the Purple Nether Flame Snake soul to himself so she could escape the coming lightning tribulation through his pupil. Medusa plunged into the Heavenly Flame and endured its scorching as her snake form weakened, while Yun Yun watched over the newly awakened Qing Lin.

• Lu Yuan and Queen Medusa arrived at the temple, where Medusa sent Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, and the unconscious Qing Lin to rest in a side hall.
• Medusa took Lu Yuan to the valley behind the temple and explained that she had prepared for her breakthrough to Dou Zong and kept her tribe on alert.
• Lu Yuan formed a contract with Medusa's Purple Nether Flame Snake soul and told her to enter his pupil when the heavenly lightning tribulation appeared.
• Medusa removed her robe, released the Green Lotus Core Flame from its barrier, transformed into a giant purple snake, and plunged into the flame to begin evolving.
• Hai Bodong and Yun Yun watched from the hall as Qing Lin awoke, and Yun Yun told her that Lu Yuan was helping someone break through.
• The Heavenly Flame burned Medusa's snake form, stripping away its scales and draining its blood as Lu Yuan watched her body shrink.

Lu Yuan helped Queen Medusa complete her evolution by drawing her into his pupil space, where she could recover and prepare for the lightning tribulation. She named him a guest elder of the Snake-People Tribe, and Lu Yuan unlocked the chance to copy or plunder her abilities.

• Queen Medusa endured the Heavenly Flames as the Snake-People Tribe prayed for her evolution to succeed.
• After her screams stopped and a lightning tribulation began to gather, Lu Yuan contacted Queen Medusa and drew her Purple Nether Flame Snake body into his pupil space.
• Queen Medusa announced that her evolution had succeeded, ordered the tribe to consult the four elders while she recovered, and named Lu Yuan a guest elder whom no one could stop from taking people away.
• Yun Yun and Hai Bodong learned that Queen Medusa had succeeded, while Lu Yuan checked his fortune-compendium entry for her and activated a copy.

Lu Yuan gained Queen Medusa’s sealing technique, part of her Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline, and a serpent soul, then decided to trade the green lotus core flame rather than refine it. He went to find Yun Yun, who pressed him to explain his inheritance, while the little serpent listened in curiosity.

• Lu Yuan gained twenty percent of Queen Medusa’s Snake Seal and adapted it into an ocular technique that could temporarily restrict someone’s strength.
• Lu Yuan absorbed forty percent of the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python bloodline, sharpening his senses of heaven and earth and letting him glimpse spatial power.
• Lu Yuan summoned a sixth-tier Seven-Colored Little Snake, Queen Medusa’s companion serpent soul, which could boost him or fight independently.
• Lu Yuan decided to trade the green lotus core flame to Yao Lao for pills and pursue other Heavenly Flames and Fortune Catalog targets instead of refining it himself.
• Lu Yuan went to Yun Yun, and she asked what his inheritance was and how contact with women and unusual dual cultivation made him stronger.
• The Seven-Colored Little Snake listened from the space in Lu Yuan’s eyes, eager to learn his secret.

Lu Yuan negotiated with Queen Medusa over the Green Lotus Core Flame, promising to arrange a pill from a seventh-tier alchemist in exchange. Their deal ended with Lu Yuan asking the Snake-People Tribe for high-grade Spirit Storage.

• Lu Yuan pressed Yun Yun to fulfill her duties as his Dao companion, but she fled before they settled their relationship.
• Lu Yuan spoke with Queen Medusa as she healed inside his pupil world and explained his Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python snake soul through a tale about an inheritance.
• Lu Yuan demanded rent for letting Queen Medusa heal in his pupil world and asked to take her Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Queen Medusa agreed to give Lu Yuan the Heavenly Flame in exchange for having a seventh-tier alchemist refine a pill for her, provided she supplied three sets of ingredients.
• Lu Yuan asked Queen Medusa whether the Snake-People Tribe could give him high-grade Spirit Storage.

Lu Yuan discovered that the high-grade Spirit Storage had expanded the storage capabilities of his Purifying Lotus Triple Flower Pupils, then returned to Salt City with Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong. At the Lu Clan council hall, he found Lu Tong Zhou demanding the clan head position and insisting that Lu Tong Xuan hand Xiao Yi Xian over to the Mo Clan.

• Lu Yuan absorbed the high-grade Spirit Storage, making part of his eye space substantial enough to store ordinary items.
• Lu Yuan stored the Ice Spirit Cold Spring, its ice lotus seat, and the Green Lotus Core Flame in his eye space, waking Queen Medusa, who questioned his new ability.
• Lu Yuan teased Queen Medusa about eavesdropping, then left with Qing Lin, Yun Yun, and Hai Bodong for Salt City.
• Lu Yuan sensed trouble at the Lu residence and led Yun Yun and Hai Bodong to the council hall, where Lu Tong Zhou pressed Lu Tong Xuan to surrender the clan head position.
• Lu Tong Zhou claimed the city lord's estate, the Mittel Family, and the Mo Clan supported him, then demanded that Lu Tong Xuan hand Xiao Yi Xian over to the Mo Clan's grand elder.

Lu Yuan arrived at the Lu Clan council hall and stopped Lu Tong Zhou and the Mo Clan from forcing Lu Tong Xuan to cooperate. He revealed his restored strength and challenged the Mo Clan’s claim that opposing it meant defying the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Lu Tong Zhou admitted that resentment over Zhang Xi'er and the young clan head position had driven him to betray Lu Tong Xuan and aid the Mo Clan.
• Lu Tong Xuan explained that Lu Tong Zhou had misunderstood the events surrounding Zhang Xi'er and their father’s decision.
• Lu Yuan appeared in the council hall and forced Lu Tong Zhou and two Dou Ling representatives to their knees with his power.
• Lu Yuan revealed that he had become a Peak Nine-Star Dou Wang, then knocked Lu Tong Zhou unconscious with soul pressure.
• The city lord’s representative offered to testify against the city lord’s residence, while the Mo Clan elder invoked the Misty Cloud Sect’s authority.
• Lu Yuan dismissed the threat of the Misty Cloud Sect, leaving Yun Yun to privately react to his words.

Lu Yuan stopped the Mo Clan from using the Misty Cloud Sect’s name against him after Yun Yun revealed that she was his Dao companion. He settled the Lu Clan’s disputes and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.

• Yun Yun appeared in the Lu Clan’s council hall, condemned Mo Liu for invoking the Misty Cloud Sect, and asked Lu Yuan to spare him in exchange for the Mo Clan surrendering seventy percent of its holdings.
• Yun Yun told Lu Yuan she was asking as his Dao companion, and Lu Yuan accepted; Mo Liu fainted when he heard their relationship revealed.
• Lu Tong Xuan welcomed Yun Yun and gave her a bracelet left by Lu Yuan’s mother, then gave Lu Yuan three more jade bracelets.
• Lu Yuan left his father to restore order in the Lu Clan and went to deal with the city lord’s residence and the Mo Clan; the Mo Clan surrendered most of its holdings, and the city lord handed over his steward.
• Lu Yuan returned to his courtyard, where Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin greeted him, and he invited Xiao Yi Xian to come closer.

Lu Yuan gave Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian jade bangles from his mother, then openly acknowledged them and Yun Yun as his Dao companions and promised to support them. He warned Yun Yun that the Misty Cloud Sect’s survival was threatened and revealed that Xiao Yan had an eighth-tier alchemist as his teacher.

• Lu Yuan gave Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian jade bangles that could enhance soul power and serve as high-grade storage items.
• Lu Yuan told Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun that he could not devote himself to one woman, but promised to protect and support all three as his Dao companions.
• Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, and Yun Yun each accepted Lu Yuan’s promise and affirmed their commitment to him.
• Lu Yuan told Qing Lin to absorb the Eight-Winged Black Serpent Emperor’s power and told Xiao Yi Xian that he had learned of a Poison Pill Method for her future breakthrough.
• Lu Yuan said he might help Yun Yun obtain the Misty Cloud Sect’s inheritance and warned her that information he had received concerned the sect’s survival.
• When Yun Yun asked about Xiao Yan, Lu Yuan revealed that Xiao Yan’s teacher was an eighth-tier alchemist, shocking her.

Lu Yuan told Yun Yun that Xiao Yan had an eighth-tier alchemist as his teacher and explained why the engagement breakup had strained ties between the Misty Cloud Sect, the Nalan Family, and the Xiao Clan. He revealed that Yun Yun’s teacher was secretly investigating Xiao Clan members and talented independent cultivators, then suggested her teacher was seeking a breakthrough to Dou Zong as his lifespan neared its end.

• Lu Yuan told Yun Yun that Xiao Yan had become the disciple of an eighth-tier alchemist, and Yun Yun regretted the Misty Cloud Sect’s lost opportunity to gain that connection.
• Yun Yun described the damage Nalan Yanran’s public engagement breakup had caused to the Nalan Family’s reputation and the Misty Cloud Sect’s relations with the Imperial Family.
• Lu Yuan argued that breaking the engagement had been reasonable but that Nalan Yanran’s humiliating approach had provoked Xiao Yan, while Yun Yun promised the Misty Cloud Sect would honor the Three-Year Agreement.
• Lu Yuan revealed that Yun Yun’s teacher had been hired to investigate Xiao Clan families and talented independent cultivators in the Jia Ma Empire and capture those in charge.
• Lu Yuan asked Yun Yun what her teacher might do if his lifespan were nearly exhausted and a chance to break through to Dou Zong appeared before him.