To seize the Different Flame from Queen Medusa, Xiao Yan, accompanied by Yao Lao, ventures into the Tagor Desert where the Snake-People reside. However, due to thirst, he mistakenly intrudes into an oasis, attracting the pursuit of the Snake-People expert Yue Mei. Without Yao Lao’s extraordinary assistance, Xiao Yan is on the verge of being killed by Yue Mei. At the brink of life and death, he is fortunately saved by a masked Dou Huang. Unexpectedly, the masked Dou Huang and his companions are also after the Different Flame. Queen Medusa rejects Gu He’s conditions for exchanging the Different Flame, and the masked Dou Huang exposes that the queen is currently an energy entity, while the true queen is somewhere else preparing to devour the Different Flame and evolve into a Dou Zong. The Snake-People attack Gu He and the others for offending the queen, and amidst the chaos, Xiao Yan senses the trail of the Different Flame, infiltrating the queen’s Heart of the Earth Island…