Chapter Summaries

Flowing Cloud entered Black Seal City, met with Nameless and Chi Feng, and ordered them to hold another auction in seven days. He then explored the city and entered Thousand Medicine Workshop, where he stopped at the last counter.

• Flowing Cloud entered Black Seal City and witnessed a scrawny Dou Zhe fatally ambush a stronger bald man.
• Flowing Cloud met Nameless and Chi Feng, who reported that their growing presence in the Black Corner Region had made them well known.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Nameless and Chi Feng to arrange an auction seven days later and spread the news widely.
• Flowing Cloud visited Thousand Medicine Workshop, found its herb prices exorbitant, and stopped before the final counter.

Flowing Cloud arrived in Black Seal City to prepare for an auction and visited the Flowing Cloud Pavilion, where he encountered Fan Ling of the Blood Sect. After Fan Ling took offense at Flowing Cloud rejecting his friendship, Flowing Cloud noticed the Blood Sect was following him and decided it had no reason to remain.

• Flowing Cloud planned to auction in the Black Corner Region, arrange dedicated display cases for ordinary items, and deliver each purchase immediately after its sale.
• Flowing Cloud reached the Flowing Cloud Pavilion manor, evaded its guards’ attempts to seize him, and left without blaming them for doing their duty.
• Fan Ling introduced himself as the young sect master of the Blood Sect and offered to befriend Flowing Cloud.
• Flowing Cloud told Fan Ling he was not worthy of being his friend and continued on toward an inn.
• Flowing Cloud realized the Blood Sect was still following him and murmured that it had no reason to remain.

Flowing Cloud ordered Lin Hai to deal with the Blood Sect Master while he began refining a Sect Breaking Pill in his room. His first attempt progressed smoothly, and he formed a pill embryo that was beginning to harden.

• Fan Ling followed Flowing Cloud to the inn, coveted his treasures, and gave the innkeeper several instructions after learning which room he occupied.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Nameless and Chi Feng to deal with the Blood Sect Master and have him imprisoned in the water prison at the Flowing Cloud Pavilion.
• Flowing Cloud used the Taiyin Divine Flame to refine the Cold Marrow Branch and the other ingredients for a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Flowing Cloud merged the medicinal liquids in the Medicine Cauldron and slowly condensed them into a pill embryo.

Flowing Cloud refined a high-tier Sect Breaking Pill in Black Seal City, then traveled with Xiao Yi Xian and Lin Hai to the Chuyun Empire. He arrived at the Wu Family and gave Wu Jingtao a new item to present at the next day’s auction.

• Flowing Cloud’s pill refinement sent a pillar of light into the sky, drawing a crowd of curious and greedy onlookers to the inn.
• Nameless and Chi Feng warned everyone to stay at least a hundred meters away from Flowing Cloud’s room while he completed the Sect Breaking Pill.
• Flowing Cloud reclaimed the pill as it tried to escape, then used the Void Burrowing Beast to travel with Lin Hai to the Wu Family courtyard in the Chuyun Empire.
• Xiao Yi Xian praised Little Purple for making the journey so quickly, and Flowing Cloud led her into the room.
• Wu Jingtao arrived to report that preparations for the next day’s auction were complete, though he feared the Myriad Poison Pearl would attract too many people.
• Flowing Cloud reassured Wu Jingtao and handed him an exquisite green bottle to present at the auction.

Flowing Cloud arranged for the Wu Family Auction House to sell a Sect Breaking Pill and stage a high-profile auction, drawing powerful factions and poison masters. The auction began with Wan Gui, the captured former head of the Wan Family, offered for sale as Wan Feng watched from the crowd.

• Flowing Cloud gave Wu Jingtao a Sect Breaking Pill for auction, warning him that it could help a peak Dou Huang break through to Dou Zong.
• Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian entered the Wu Family Auction House through a secret entrance before Wu Jingtao opened the auction to the crowd.
• Xie Shan of the Myriad Scorpion Sect and the one-armed Hua An of the Demonic Poison Sect arrived, and Hua An threatened a one-star Dou Huang who urged Wu Jingtao to hurry.
• Wu Jingtao announced that winning bidders had to pay immediately and that the Wu Family would guarantee their safety.
• Wu Jingtao presented the caged Wan Gui as the first auction item, while disguised Wan Feng watched with grief and hatred.

Wan Feng won the auction for his father, Wan Gui, while Flowing Cloud received a One-star Dou Zun as the system’s ten-thousandfold return. Wan Feng carried Wan Gui away, and Wu Jingtao began the auction of a Sixth-tier Magical Beast.

• Wu Jingtao opened bidding for Wan Gui, and Wan Feng secretly raised his bids to avoid revealing himself.
• A black-robed Dou Wang and other Dou Wang experts joined the bidding before Wan Feng offered thirty million Gold Coins and won.
• Flowing Cloud received a One-star Dou Zun in the System Space as a reward for auctioning a six-star Dou Wang.
• Wan Feng paid for Wan Gui, swallowed the pill Wu Jingtao provided, and carried his father’s cage out of the auction house.
• Wu Jingtao introduced the second item, a Sixth-tier Magical Beast called the Lightning Flying Eagle Falcon.

Wu Jingtao presented the Lightning Flying Eagle Falcon for auction, and the bidding quickly climbed as Hua An and Xie Shan competed with a mysterious black-robed man. In a private room, Flowing Cloud explained to Xiao Yi Xian why he wanted Gold Coins, leaving her curious about his planned palace.

• Wu Jingtao revealed the Lightning Flying Eagle Falcon, which promised to serve whoever bought it, and announced a starting bid of ten million Gold Coins.
• A Dou Huang elder threatened the black-robed man after he bid fifty million Gold Coins, but Wu Jingtao defended the auction rules and the elder left.
• Hua An bid eighty million Gold Coins, and Xie Shan raised the price to one hundred million Gold Coins.
• Xiao Yi Xian questioned Flowing Cloud about his need for Gold Coins, and he said he planned to build a grand hall out of them.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Flowing Cloud how the construction of his palace was going.

Flowing Cloud watched a mysterious young man pay two hundred million Gold Coins for the Lightning Flying Eagle Falcon, then received an Eighth-order Intermediate Magical Beast, the Dark Demonic Vulture, through his system. The young man left with the Falcon while Flowing Cloud gained a powerful new ally and greater confidence about entering the Central Plains.

• Xiao Yi Xian took Flowing Cloud's casual remark about refining Gold Coins literally and tried to calculate how long refining a vast fortune would take.
• The mysterious black-robed bidder raised the Falcon's price to two hundred million Gold Coins, and Hua An and Xie Shan stopped bidding after learning the auction's rules for an unpaid purchase.
• The mysterious young man paid for the Lightning Flying Eagle Falcon, and the beast pledged to follow him after he treated it respectfully.
• Flowing Cloud's system rewarded him with the Eighth-order Intermediate Magical Beast, the Dark Demonic Vulture, which could wield Space Power and suppress minds.
• The mysterious young man departed on the Lightning Flying Eagle Falcon while Xie Shan remarked that he regretted missing the purchase.

The auctioned Myriad Poison Pearl sparked a bidding contest between Hua An and Xie Shan, ending with Xie Shan paying sixty million Gold Coins. After Xie Shan’s pressure was mysteriously suppressed and he spat blood, he respectfully completed the purchase, and Flowing Cloud received the Poison Nurturing Pearl through Ten Thousand Times Return.

• Wu Jingtao began the auction of the Myriad Poison Pearl, and Hua An recognized it as the same pill Flowing Cloud had given him.
• Hua An raised the bid to provoke Xie Shan, then withdrew after Xie Shan offered sixty million Gold Coins.
• Xie Shan released his aura as he approached the stage, but a faint cough made his pressure vanish and caused him to spit black blood.
• Xie Shan bowed toward an unseen senior, then paid for the pearl with a pile of valuable pills, herbs, and poisonous plants.
• Flowing Cloud received the Poison Nurturing Pearl in the System Space after Xie Shan accepted the Myriad Poison Pearl.

Flowing Cloud received a Poison Nurturing Pearl and planned to use it to resolve Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body. The Sect Breaking Pill auction ended with Xie Shan and Hua An competing over the pill, while Xie Shan feared he would lose it for lack of funds.

• Flowing Cloud examined the Poison Nurturing Pearl and decided he could fulfill his promise to Xiao Yi Xian after the auction.
• Wu Jingtao introduced the Sect Breaking Pill as the auction’s final item, and Xie Shan stayed to bid for it.
• After the hall remained silent, Xie Shan opened bidding at one hundred million gold coins.
• Hua An raised the bid to two hundred million, and Xie Shan answered with five hundred million.
• Hua An bid six hundred million, while Wu Jingtao ignored Xie Shan’s request to postpone the auction.
• Xie Shan grew furious and worried that Hua An would win the Sect Breaking Pill because he had not brought enough resources.

Hua An won the Sect Breaking Pill at auction, while Flowing Cloud received ten thousand pills through the system and gave Wu Jingtao the auction proceeds for future business. In the barren mountains, Flowing Cloud summoned Jiang Tao and Mo Jiu, then sent Lin Hai to build a major faction and reach Dou Zun before reporting back.

• Hua An outbid Xie Shan with a bid of 1.1 billion Gold Coins and won the Sect Breaking Pill, ending the auction in Black Mist City.
• Flowing Cloud received ten thousand Sect Breaking Pills from the system after the sale.
• Flowing Cloud gave Wu Jingtao the remaining items in a Storage Ring to fund the next auction.
• Flowing Cloud summoned Jiang Tao, a human Dou Zun, and Mo Jiu, the eighth-order Dark Demonic Vulture, in the barren mountains outside the city.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Lin Hai to establish a massive faction and reach Dou Zun before entering the Central Plains, then gave him a Storage Ring; Lin Hai accepted and departed.

Flowing Cloud assigned Jiang Tao and Mo Jiu new roles, gave each a Heaven-tier Dou Technique, and had them record their existing techniques for him. Xiao Yi Xian was left wondering about Flowing Cloud’s power and his followers, but kept her questions to herself.

• Flowing Cloud learned that Jiang Tao was an independent cultivator and Mo Jiu was the last surviving member of the Heavenly Demonic Vulture Clan, then planned to send Jiang Tao to Jia Ma Holy City and make Mo Jiu his bodyguard.
• Flowing Cloud examined their abilities and discovered that Mo Jiu had never cultivated Dou Techniques because he relied on his mind-bewitching talent and found the techniques he had obtained too weak.
• Flowing Cloud gave Jiang Tao the Mysterious Gate Four Symbols Seal and Mo Jiu the Blood Soul Seal, both Heaven-tier Intermediate Dou Techniques.
• Flowing Cloud asked Jiang Tao and Mo Jiu to record their Earth Tier cultivation techniques and Dou Techniques on scrolls, and they quickly handed him the completed scrolls.
• After Flowing Cloud told Jiang Tao and Mo Jiu to conceal themselves, he pinched Xiao Yi Xian’s cheek while she hid her questions about his power and the two men.

Flowing Cloud began using the Poison Nurturing Pearl, the Bodhi Meditation Seat, and the Extreme Cold Spirit Ganoderma to remove Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body. The pearl merged into her body and started absorbing the gathered poison.

• Flowing Cloud told Xiao Yi Xian he had found a way to cure her Calamity Poison Body and showed her the Poison Nurturing Pearl.
• Flowing Cloud took Xiao Yi Xian to a sealed mountain cave and had her sit on the Bodhi Meditation Seat.
• Flowing Cloud used Azure Flame to drive Xiao Yi Xian’s poisonous gas into one place and gave her the Extreme Cold Spirit Ganoderma to endure the process.
• Flowing Cloud gathered the poisonous gas into a vortex and pressed the Poison Nurturing Pearl against Xiao Yi Xian’s abdomen.
• The Poison Nurturing Pearl merged into Xiao Yi Xian’s body and began drawing in the gray poisonous gas.

Xiao Yi Xian brought her Calamity Poison Body under control and rose to Nine-star Dou Wang before Flowing Cloud returned with her to Jia Ma Holy City. After checking the Cloud Alliance’s progress and assigning Jiang Tao to guard the Mittel Family and its allies, Flowing Cloud decided to seek a hidden base in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Xiao Yi Xian transferred her toxins into the Poison Nurturing Pearl, and Flowing Cloud fed her refined poisons until she reached Nine-star Dou Wang.
• Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian spent the night together, then returned to Jia Ma Holy City with Jiang Tao and Mo Jiu through the Void Gate.
• Ya Fei reported that the Cloud Alliance had expanded across nearly one-third of the Jia Ma Empire and had monopolized most major businesses, with the imperial family and Misty Cloud Sect cooperating.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Jiang Tao to protect Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, Qing Lin, and the Mittel Family, and to capture any strange Soul Bodies that appeared.
• Flowing Cloud chose the Magical Beast Mountain Range as a possible base and asked Xiao Yi Xian to return there with him.

Flowing Cloud, Xiao Yi Xian, and Mo Jiu traveled through a spatial rift to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where Flowing Cloud agreed to head for Qingshan Town. Elsewhere in the range, Xiao Yan faced a powerful Scarred Man and began a battle while nearly out of Dou Qi.

• Mo Jiu opened a spatial rift and carried Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian through it safely.
• The group arrived in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Flowing Cloud agreed to guide Xiao Yi Xian toward Qingshan Town.
• Xiao Yan, exhausted after fighting the Scarred Man’s men, asked Old Yao for help, but Old Yao urged him to fight on his own.
• Xiao Yan took a medicinal pill and exchanged blows with the Scarred Man, who overpowered him and threatened to kill him.

Xiao Yan used the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler to drive back the Scarred Man, but the attack left him nearly exhausted. Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian arrived after Mo Jiu sensed Old Yao, and Flowing Cloud recognized Xiao Yan as they reunited.

• Xiao Yan gathered the energy of heaven and earth into the Mysterious Black Ruler and unleashed the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler against the Scarred Man.
• The Scarred Man countered with Green Wind Slash, but Xiao Yan's attack sent him crashing into a tree.
• The Scarred Man saw Xiao Yan was exhausted and approached him, but a disturbance in the forest caused wild beasts to flee.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that two Dou Wangs were approaching, and Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian appeared in the sky.
• Flowing Cloud recognized Xiao Yan, descended to greet him, and exchanged greetings with the weakened youth.

Xiao Yan refused Flowing Cloud’s offer to kill the Scarred Man, choosing to take his revenge himself, and accepted a healing pill. After Flowing Cloud left, Xiao Yan recovered while Old Yao revealed that his next training would be in the Tagor Desert, where a Heavenly Flame might be hidden.

• Flowing Cloud offered to deal with the Scarred Man, but Xiao Yan refused and vowed to kill him personally one day.
• The Scarred Man fled after Xiao Yan ordered him to leave and await his revenge.
• Flowing Cloud gave Xiao Yan a Fifth-grade Recovery Pill, which Xiao Yan saved rather than taking immediately.
• Flowing Cloud returned to Xiao Yi Xian and continued toward Qingshan Town, while Xiao Yan stayed behind to recover and wondered about Flowing Cloud’s rapid cultivation.
• Old Yao told Xiao Yan to prepare for training in the Tagor Desert, where a Heavenly Flame might be hidden.

Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian returned to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he began building a hidden base and capturing Magical Beasts to serve as guards. Mo Jiu forged a massive golden palace in the range’s depths, though he told Flowing Cloud that one part of the project remained unfinished.

• Xiao Yi Xian visited the entrance to Qingshan Town but chose not to enter, then revisited the cave where she had once stayed with Flowing Cloud and mourned Little Blue.
• Flowing Cloud summoned Mo Jiu, gave him resources and a blueprint, and ordered him to forge a palace in the center of the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian searched the range, and Flowing Cloud captured several Fourth-order and Fifth-tier Magical Beasts.
• Mo Jiu forged the palace’s main body, which cooled from crimson to gold, and lowered it to the ground.
• Mo Jiu told Flowing Cloud that one part of the palace remained unfinished, and Flowing Cloud rewarded him with a Dou Zun Pill.

Flowing Cloud completed the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon carving atop his palace with the Xuanyuan Sword, awakening it and sending a pillar of light into the sky. As people across the Magical Beast Mountain Range noticed the phenomenon, Xiao Yan and Old Yao headed toward its source, while Mo Jiu warned that others would soon arrive.

• Flowing Cloud examined the unfinished Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and drew the Xuanyuan Sword, whose ancient aura filled the night sky with flashes of light.
• Flowing Cloud used the Xuanyuan Sword and Azure Flame to finish carving the dragon, including its eyes, and a golden pillar of light shot skyward.
• Humans and magical beasts throughout the Magical Beast Mountain Range noticed the pillar, and Xiao Yan agreed to follow it with Old Yao.
• The carved Five-Clawed Golden Dragon shifted as if coming alive, frightening Xiao Yi Xian, whom Flowing Cloud pulled into his arms.
• Mo Jiu warned Flowing Cloud that the strange phenomenon would likely draw many people to the palace.

Flowing Cloud established the Myriad Beast Palace as a new power and began cultivating, while Xiao Yan neared the palace before a Fourth-order Magical Beast attacked him. Xiao Yan and Old Yao survived the encounter, and Xiao Yan defeated the black bird with a White Flame-enhanced strike.

• Flowing Cloud named the exposed palace the Myriad Beast Palace and appointed Mo Jiu hall master of its first branch.
• Flowing Cloud and Xiao Yi Xian explored the palace, and Flowing Cloud set up the Bodhi Meditation Seat to cultivate.
• Xiao Yi Xian borrowed Little Purple and left Flowing Cloud to cultivate with medicinal pills and herbs.
• Xiao Yan and Old Yao approached the palace after traveling through the Magical Beast Mountain Range for three days and nights.
• A Fourth-order Magical Beast attacked Xiao Yan, but his Mysterious Black Ruler, empowered by a White Flame, shattered its claws and struck it down.