Recaps

Flowing Cloud used the Black Rock auction to gain powerful rewards, allies, and leverage with the Snake People before expanding his plans for auction houses. Back in the Imperial Capital, he protected Ya Fei, prepared a Heaven-tier Auction, and began a painful body-tempering process.

• Flowing Cloud captured Aunt Qing and later arranged for the auction to sell her, while the Grand Princess and City Lord Yu Guang tried to recover her.
• Flowing Cloud gained pills, recipes, and rare ingredients through the auction’s Ten Thousand Times Return, and the Mo Family bought the Snake-People woman.
• After the auction, Snake Shadow killed the Mo Family Grand Elder and Second Elder, and Flowing Cloud stored the rescued woman in the System Space.
• Flowing Cloud recruited Lin Hai, assigned Nameless to help Chi Xiao establish an auction house, and persuaded the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to guard Black Rock City for a year.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Imperial Capital with Lin Hai, then negotiated with Queen Medusa to establish an auction house in Snake People territory in exchange for returning her clanswoman.
• Flowing Cloud dismissed Mittel Huayuan’s objection to the auction house and learned that the royal family would attend his coming-of-age ceremony, where Mittel Yunfei planned to challenge him.
• Flowing Cloud defeated Mu Zhan after he threatened Ya Fei, ordered him barred from the Mittel Auction House, and told Ya Fei to prepare for the Heaven-tier Auction.
• Flowing Cloud made Marrow Cleansing True Liquid and began cultivating in it as its energy scorched his body, while Lin Hai feared he might not endure the process.

Flowing Cloud refined the Taiyin Divine Flame, strengthened his cultivation, and secured his place as the Mittel Family’s Young Master. The Heaven-tier Auction brought the empire’s factions together, and the Wangchuan Art became the next prize they sought.

• Flowing Cloud broke through to Dou Ling, refined the Blood Lotus Pill, and traveled to Mo City to prepare for refining the Taiyin Divine Flame.
• Flowing Cloud absorbed the Taiyin Divine Flame with the Spirit Absorption, reached Five-star Dou Ling, and later cultivated the Nine Yang Burning Heaven Art in a mountain cave.
• Flowing Cloud rescued the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King from Jia Xing Tian and returned to the Imperial Capital, where he learned his coming-of-age ceremony was near.
• Flowing Cloud revealed his Three-star Dou Shi cultivation at the ceremony and defeated the other descendants to become the Mittel Family’s Young Master.
• Ya Fei hosted the Heaven-tier Auction, where bidders competed for rare treasures and Flowing Cloud received powerful rewards through the system.
• Nalan Su won the Myriad Poison Pearl, while Flowing Cloud received ten thousand of them through the system.
• Ya Fei presented the Earth Tier Mid-grade Wangchuan Art, and Yaoye decided the imperial family had to secure it.

Flowing Cloud expanded his influence from the Mittel Family to Black Mist City and secretly brought the Misty Cloud Sect under his control. In Rumic City, he found Xiao Yi Xian in danger as rival poison sects and local fighters closed in on her.

• Jia Xing Tian won the Wangchuan Art at the auction, and Flowing Cloud received the Yellow Springs Ascension Art through the system before giving it to Hai Bodong.
• Flowing Cloud traveled to the Chuyun Empire, defeated Wan Gui, forced the Wu Family to serve him, and arranged an auction featuring Wan Gui.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Imperial Capital with Ya Fei, Qing Lin, and Lin Hai, then confronted Yun Shan and Vulture Protector at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Lin Hai captured Vulture Protector, and Yun Shan agreed to serve the Mittel Family in secret after Flowing Cloud gave him the Wangchuan Art.
• Yun Yun apologized to the Mittel Family, while Flowing Cloud returned to Black Mist City and defeated Huang Dahai at the Demonic Poison Sect.
• Flowing Cloud and Hua An traveled to Rumic City, where Han Jing told them that local families planned to ambush the Poison Girl at a Dark Port auction.
• Flowing Cloud identified the Poison Girl as Xiao Yi Xian, but Liu Rulong claimed her for the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, and Hua An began fighting him as the others moved toward her.

Flowing Cloud rescued Xiao Yi Xian, returned to Black Rock City, and used the Li Family and Mittel auctions to amass pills before his clash with Gu He destroyed the Mittel Auction House. After the conflict, he left for the Black Corner Region and approached Black Seal City.

• Flowing Cloud defeated Liu Rulong and left his fate to Hua An, who took control of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect alongside the Demonic Poison Sect.
• Flowing Cloud brought Xiao Yi Xian to Black Rock City, where he sold his pills at the Li Family auction as Yun Yun investigated the pills taken from Yun Leng.
• Flowing Cloud helped Xiao Yi Xian overcome her grief over Little Blue, and she broke through to Dou Wang before the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King captured Yun Yun.
• Flowing Cloud rescued and treated Yun Yun, restoring her Dou Huang strength with a Po E Dan, then reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Qing Lin.
• At the Mittel Family auction, Gu He confronted Flowing Cloud and accused him of being a Magical Beast, sparking a fight that ended with Flowing Cloud killing Gu He and sealing the hall in flames.
• Flowing Cloud defeated Yun Yun and brought down the Mittel Auction House, then declared the Cloud Alliance and left the ruins with Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Qing Lin.
• Flowing Cloud departed for the Black Corner Region, broke through to Dou Wang on the journey, crossed the border, and reached Black Seal City after flying across the Black Domain Great Plains.