Recaps

Lu Yang took Liu Yaoyao shopping for enchanted clothing, where she bought high-grade and supreme-grade treasures for herself and his other women, stunning the shop’s customers. After shopping all day, the challenge mission ended, and Lu Yang checked the panel in anticipation of his reward.

• Lu Yang held Liu Yaoyao’s hand and reassured her that she could stay close to him despite her concern for his reputation.
• Liu Yaoyao bought nearly all the high-grade and supreme-grade enchanted robes in a shop, shocking the maid and the other customers.
• Liu Yaoyao explained that she was also buying gifts for Lu Yang’s other women, and Lu Yang approved of her thoughtfulness.
• Lu Yang followed Liu Yaoyao through shops as she bought clothing, accessories, and jewelry until evening.
• The challenge mission ended, and Lu Yang anticipated the completion rate and reward after estimating Liu Yaoyao had spent over a million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Lu Yang checked the results of the shopping challenge and received lavish rewards after Lin Ying and Liu Yaoyao spent similar amounts. He gained a fortune in Spirit Stones and several special cards, then considered which two beauties should receive the new Beauty Bond.

• Lu Yang saw that Lin Ying and Liu Yaoyao had each spent over one million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, earning a top-tier challenge settlement.
• Lin Ying and Liu Yaoyao each received attribute increases, improved comprehension of their respective Dao Principles, and a Random Primary Cultivation Great Dao Fortune Card; Lu Yang gained attribute increases, 50,000 Universal Experience, and another Fortune Card.
• Lu Yang spent his Universal Experience on his Spirit Root and received a twelvefold return of 25.056 million Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Lu Yang received three Tycoon's Shop Refresh Cards and examined the Beauty Bond Card, which linked two beauties' cultivation and coordination.
• Lu Yang pondered which two beauties he should choose for the Beauty Bond.

Lu Yang used the Beauty Bond Card to link Lin Ying and Jiang Shiqing, whose new connection let them sense each other’s thoughts and led to Lin Ying ruining a batch of pills. He then used his Random Fortune Cards and gained an immortal-grade Fortune Trait, while Liu Yaoyao and Lin Ying each gained a spirit-grade Fortune Trait.

• Lu Yang chose Lin Ying and Jiang Shiqing to form a bond, then used the Beauty Bond Card on them.
• Lin Ying sensed a connection to Jiang Shiqing while refining pills and realized they could sense each other’s feelings and thoughts.
• Jiang Shiqing imagined serving Lu Yang together with Lin Ying, and Lin Ying warned her through their mental connection.
• Jiang Shiqing tried something through their bond, distracting Lin Ying until her pill furnace went bang and ruined the batch.
• Lu Yang used all three Random Fortune Cards, gaining an immortal-grade Fortune Trait while Liu Yaoyao and Lin Ying each gained a spirit-grade Fortune Trait.

Lu Yang used spirit-grade Fortune Traits for Lin Ying and Liu Yaoyao and an immortal-grade Metal Dao trait for himself, which let him reach a Principle Domain while still at Foundation Establishment. He then refreshed the Tycoon's Shop as Lin Ying began preparing for the Dao of Alchemy Convention.

• Lu Yang examined Lin Ying's spirit-grade Fortune Trait, which strengthened her State of Mind and alchemy, and Liu Yaoyao's trait, which greatly enhanced her Spirit Dao abilities.
• Lu Yang used his Great White Metal Emperor Fortune Trait and comprehended the Metal Dao Principle to the domain level.
• Lu Yang's Principle Domain let him blend his Spiritual Qi with Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, granting him some Void Refinement Realm traits while he remained at Foundation Establishment.
• Lin Ying, upset with Jiang Shiqing, felt her comprehension of Pill Formulas improve and decided to prepare for the Dao of Alchemy Convention.
• Lu Yang used a shop refresh card, and three new items appeared in the Tycoon's Shop.

Lu Yang spent his accumulated wealth on rare treasures, used the rebates to multiply his Spirit Stones, and raised Tycoon's Confidence to level 23. After helping Liu Yaoyao improve her Spirit Dao talent, he left to accompany Lin Ying to the Dao of Alchemy Convention.

• Lu Yang bought a Spiritual Qi Concentration Regulator, Spiritual Connection Rings, and Longevity-Enhancing Pills, then purchased Dao Comprehension Tea Leaves and other items from the refreshed shop.
• Lu Yang used an Advanced Rebate Card on the tea purchase and received a twentyfold rebate, bringing his High-Grade Spirit Stones to 3.2 trillion before further purchases.
• Lu Yang spent Spirit Stones to raise Tycoon's Confidence to level 23, which granted him 800 High-Grade Spirit Stones every shichen.
• Lu Yang bought the final shop items and called Liu Yaoyao to his room after absorbing the gains from his challenge mission.
• Liu Yaoyao thanked Lu Yang for improving her Spirit Dao talent, and he left her unconscious the following morning to accompany Lin Ying to the Dao of Alchemy Convention.

Lu Yang accompanied Lin Ying to the Dao of Alchemy Convention, where she entered Palace Four for the elimination rounds. After recognizing Duan Chong from their earlier encounter, Lin Ying focused on the competition, but a confident alchemist approached her to introduce himself.

• Lu Yang and Lin Ying traveled to the convention square, where alchemists were assigned stations in floating palaces.
• Duan Chong bypassed the queue and received a station in Palace Four, and Lin Ying recognized him from their encounter in Crimson Cloud City.
• Lin Ying received her station token and entered Palace Four to wait for the examining elder to announce the task.
• Jian Shuchen introduced himself to Lin Ying and invited her to discuss the Dao of Alchemy, confident that his status and charm would win her over.

Lin Ying rejected Jian Shuchen’s advances at the Dao of Alchemy Convention, and he threatened to have her eliminated in the preliminary selection. Afterward, she spoke with Duan Chong, who suspected that Lu Yang had a powerful background.

• Jian Shuchen approached Lin Ying, but she rejected him and told him to stay away.
• Jian Shuchen threatened Lin Ying’s competition qualification, then tried to grab her shoulder; Lin Ying evaded him with a technique that turned her into leaves.
• Jian Shuchen left and decided to have Lin Ying eliminated in the preliminary selection before dealing with her after the convention.
• Lin Ying found her assigned seat near Duan Chong, who said he could treat Uncle Wang’s injured soul and introduced himself.
• Duan Chong asked who had provoked Lin Ying, and her response strengthened his suspicion that Lu Yang had an important background.

Lin Ying entered the Dao of Alchemy Convention’s elimination round and quickly drew attention by processing the Origin-Nurturing Pill’s ingredients with remarkable speed. As she began refining with a Supreme-Grade Law Treasure Pill Furnace, the other alchemists were left astonished and thrown off their work.

• Duan Chong offered to help Lin Ying if she encountered trouble, then set aside his curiosity about the alchemy book she was reading.
• Jian Shuchen hid his resentment after Lin Ying rejected him and sought admiration from other female cultivators.
• A Crimson Cloud Sect elder announced the end of entry and began the convention’s elimination rounds with the Origin-Nurturing Pill.
• Lin Ying processed all the pill ingredients in under fifteen minutes using techniques from the Cinnabar Yang Pill Scripture.
• Lin Ying brought out her Supreme-Grade Law Treasure Pill Furnace, startling nearby alchemists, who then realized she had already finished preparing the ingredients and lost their rhythm.

Lin Ying astonished the Alchemists at the Dao of Alchemy Convention by preparing herbs faster than Duan Chong and using an extraordinary Fire Control Technique to refine them all at once. Duan Chong recognized that her inheritance could rival the greatest in the Spirit Realm, while Jian Shuchen tried to convince himself she had merely found it in ruins.

• Duan Chong learned that Lin Ying had finished preparing her herbs before he had and turned to watch her begin refining.
• Lin Ying put all her prepared herbs into her furnace and controlled its flames with intricate Hand Seals and eerie green Runes.
• Duan Chong judged Lin Ying's Fire Control Technique to be on par with or beyond his household's best inheritance, and the watching Alchemists whispered in amazement.
• Jian Shuchen recognized that Lin Ying's inheritance could surpass what even a Nascent Soul True Lord possessed and feared the consequences of having offended her.
• Jian Shuchen clung to the idea that Lin Ying had found her inheritance in ruins, imagining he might obtain it himself.