Chapter Summaries

Flowing Cloud revealed his power at the auction and added the Heaven-tier Indestructible Vajra Body as the finale item. The Blood Scale Armor sold, earning him a Half-Emperor-grade Ten Thousand Dragon Armor, and another auction triggered a return of ten thousand portions of Thousand-year Blood Ginseng.

• Flowing Cloud displayed his overwhelming aura and announced that the Indestructible Vajra Body would be auctioned as the finale item.
• Lin He presented the Blood Scale Armor, and the Ji Family's head bought it with an Eighth-grade pill refined with Two-colored Pill Lightning.
• Flowing Cloud received the Half-Emperor-grade Ten Thousand Dragon Armor through the system's Ten Thousand Times Return.
• After another auction ended, Flowing Cloud received ten thousand portions of Thousand-year Blood Ginseng through a quantity-based return.

Flowing Cloud's ancient formation scroll nearly failed to sell until Cao Ying bid the reserve price. She then asked to buy the upcoming finale item on credit, and Flowing Cloud agreed on the condition that the Cao Family provide an IOU and pay a Seventh-grade Pill in interest for each overdue day.

• Flowing Cloud's auction featured precious Spirit Herbs, including the Ten Thousand Year Profound Yin Fruit and Lightning Tempering Fruit.
• Lin He presented Flowing Cloud's ancient formation scroll, but no one bid at its reserve price of an Eighth-grade medicinal pill refined with Three-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Cao Ying bid for the scroll on behalf of the Cao Family, and Lin He declared her the winner.
• Cao Ying asked Lin He to let the Cao Family buy the upcoming finale item on credit and repay after returning home.
• Flowing Cloud approved the credit arrangement, requiring an IOU with a repayment date and one Seventh-grade Pill per day of overdue interest; the Black Robed Elder called the terms arrogant.

Flowing Cloud obtained a scroll containing three powerful arrays while the Lin Family auction concluded with Cao Ying buying the Heaven-tier Dou Technique Indestructible Vajra Body on credit. After the auction, Flowing Cloud gave Lin He Seventh-grade Pills for the family and ordered another auction in half a month.

• Cao Ying accepted Flowing Cloud’s terms and let the Black Robed Elder trade for the array scroll, while she ignored his insulting remarks.
• Flowing Cloud received a scroll containing the Ice Blue Water Light Array, Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array, and Mystic Tortoise Soul-Confusing Array, and his true body began preparing to arrange them.
• Lin He auctioned Indestructible Vajra Body, which Cao Ying won with a bid of one Eighth-grade medicinal pill that had undergone Seven-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Flowing Cloud received no auction reward because Cao Ying had bought on credit, and she exchanged an IOU for the Dou Technique scroll.
• Lin He brought the auction proceeds to Flowing Cloud, who gave him twenty bottles of Seventh-grade Pills and ordered another auction in half a month.

Xiao Yan decided to move the Xiao Clan from Wutan City to the Imperial Capital to protect his father and seek stronger allies. Meanwhile, Flowing Cloud completed two massive arrays around Jia Ma Holy City, leaving the Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array hidden within the surrounding heaven and earth.

• Lin He accepted medicinal pills from Flowing Cloud and left to arrange another auction in half a month.
• Old Yao persuaded Xiao Yan that moving the Xiao Clan to the Imperial Capital would help keep his father safe, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• With the Gu Clan's Dou Sheng experts gone, Flowing Cloud set up four Ice Blue Water Light Arrays around the Imperial Capital that could temporarily trap a Six-star Dou Sheng.
• Flowing Cloud spent several days placing subsidiary foundations and five main foundations for the Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array across a vast region around Jia Ma Holy City.
• Flowing Cloud completed the Blood Fiend Luo Tian Array, which merged into heaven and earth and could draw on its energy to attack.

Flowing Cloud tested the Killing Array’s power, then went to the Black Seal City auction and found Central Plains experts threatening his allies. Earth Demon Old Ghost negotiated with the Black Wind Venerable over the auction’s spoils, leaving Fire Fox in danger as Flowing Cloud watched from a private room.

• Flowing Cloud used the Killing Array to monitor the Xiao Clan relocating toward Jia Ma Holy City and detected several hidden experts in the region.
• Flowing Cloud summoned a giant sword with the Killing Array and split a mountain in half to test its power.
• Flowing Cloud traveled through a Void Gate to the Flowing Cloud Pavilion auction in Black Seal City, where Central Plains experts had gathered.
• A Central Plains Dou Zun harassed Fire Fox while Nameless and Chi Feng urged her to wait for Flowing Cloud and Mo Jiu.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost proposed that the Black Wind Venerable take most of the auction’s treasures and claim Fire Fox for himself.

Flowing Cloud arrived at the auction house and punished the Central Plains intruders who had threatened Nameless, Chi Feng, and Fire Fox. He killed Old Monster Huang, handed Black Wind Venerable over to Fire Fox, and left Earth Demon Old Ghost pleading for death.

• Black Wind Venerable and Old Monster Huang attacked Nameless, Chi Feng, and Fire Fox, but Flowing Cloud dispelled their assault from his private room.
• Old Monster Huang tried to leave, but Flowing Cloud struck him with a Soul Wave and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Flowing Cloud emerged from the private room and killed Old Monster Huang, destroying his soul as well.
• Flowing Cloud sealed Black Wind Venerable's power and gave him to Fire Fox, who stabbed him repeatedly.
• Earth Demon Old Ghost knelt before Flowing Cloud and begged for a swift death.

Flowing Cloud captured a Hall of Souls Venerable Elder and devoured Earth Demon Old Ghost’s soul, learning the location of Demon Flame Valley’s treasury. He left Nameless and Chi Feng to guard the prisoner and arrived at Demon Flame Valley to claim its treasures.

• Flowing Cloud dismissed the auction guests and exposed a disguised Hall of Souls Venerable Elder hiding among them.
• Flowing Cloud subdued the Three-star Dou Zun, sealed his cultivation, and revealed that he was the Heaven and Earth Alliance Leader.
• Flowing Cloud devoured Earth Demon Old Ghost’s soul, gaining his memories and discovering the location of Demon Flame Valley’s treasury.
• Flowing Cloud ordered Nameless and Chi Feng to guard the Hall of Souls Venerable Elder, then flew to Demon Flame Valley.
• Flowing Cloud arrived at the valley where Demon Flame Valley’s headquarters stood among its Ink Steel Stone deposits.

Flowing Cloud broke into Demon Flame Valley’s treasury and took its rare treasures, including the True Blazing Flame Art and the Heavenly Demon Puppet Secret Technique. He escaped through a Space Wormhole just as the valley’s experts reached the treasury.

• Flowing Cloud smashed open the treasury door and ignored the fifth-tier Magical Beast guarding it.
• He swept the treasury’s ordinary treasures into the System Space and broke the seals on four wooden boxes.
• He found two Earth Tier Mid-grade lightning scrolls and the improved Blazing Flame Art, then stored them away.
• He discovered a Seventh-tier Demonic Core and the Heavenly Demon Puppet Secret Technique, and considered auctioning the technique for a better return.
• As Demon Flame Valley’s experts rushed toward the treasury, Flowing Cloud opened a Space Wormhole and escaped.
• Demon Flame Valley’s experts arrived to find the treasury raided and shouted in anger.

Flowing Cloud destroyed Demon Flame Valley after killing Earth Demon Old Ghost, then returned to Black Seal City and completed the third formation around Flowing Cloud Pavilion. At the auction, he sold the Heavenly Demon Puppet Secret Technique and received the Ancient Puppet Seed Technique, which he planned to test on an imprisoned Hall of Souls Venerable Elder.

• Flowing Cloud’s sword strike killed Earth Demon Old Ghost, and a massive fissure opened beneath Demon Flame Valley as he declared the valley would cease to exist.
• Flowing Cloud returned to the Jia Ma Empire and spent three days completing the Mystic Tortoise Soul-Confusing Array around Flowing Cloud Pavilion.
• Nameless auctioned the Heavenly Demon Puppet Secret Technique, and a bidder won it for twenty-one million Gold Coins.
• Flowing Cloud received the Ancient Puppet Seed Technique as a ten-thousand-times return and learned it could secretly control people while they retained their thoughts and cultivation.
• Flowing Cloud planned to test the Puppet Seed Technique on the Hall of Souls Venerable Elder imprisoned in the pavilion dungeon.

Flowing Cloud's auction ended with a Seven-star Dou Huang winning the lightning technique scrolls, and Flowing Cloud then tested the Ancient Puppet Seed Technique on the imprisoned Hall of Souls Venerable Elder. The technique succeeded, leaving Shen Yan under Flowing Cloud's control and able to communicate with him mentally.

• Nameless auctioned the two lightning scrolls together, and the blue-robed Seven-star Dou Huang won them for four hundred million Gold Coins after two rivals failed to agree on bidding together.
• Flowing Cloud left the auction and went to the dungeon to test the Ancient Puppet Seed Technique on the imprisoned Hall of Souls Venerable Elder.
• Flowing Cloud sent his Soul Power into the elder's soul and planted a transparent Puppet Seed without killing him.
• The elder, Shen Yan, bowed to Flowing Cloud and became mentally connected to him, allowing Flowing Cloud to access his memories and issue commands.

Flowing Cloud set a plan in motion to infiltrate the Hall of Souls by using Shen Yan to lure out his Six-star Dou Zun superior, then returned to the Jia Ma Empire with his trusted subordinates. After receiving a powerful body combat skill from the System, he prepared for the second auction, which began in Sacred Pill City with an Eighth-grade medicinal pill.

• Flowing Cloud ordered Shen Yan to contact his superior and lure him to the former Demon Flame Valley, then released him to carry out the plan.
• Flowing Cloud summoned Nameless, Chi Feng, and Fire Fox back to the Jia Ma Empire, made Black Wind Venerable guard Flowing Cloud Pavilion, and used the Void Burrowing Beast to transport the three.
• Flowing Cloud learned that Xiao Yan had left the Imperial Capital for Jia Nan Academy and received Cao Ying's payment for her earlier auction purchase.
• The System rewarded Flowing Cloud with the Supreme Primary body combat skill Divine Elephant Hegemony Body, which he began studying.
• Lin He opened the Lin Family Auction House's second auction in Sacred Pill City and presented an Eighth-grade medicinal pill as the first item.

The Hall of Souls' Great Heavenly Venerable confronted Bing Kuang at Ice River Valley but left after Bing Kuang used the Blackwater Cold Lake to threaten him. At Lin Family Auction House, Cao Ying tried to secure the ancient tree that produced Green Meat, but her bid on credit faced a challenge from an unidentified Eighth-grade Alchemist.

• Gu You summoned the Hall of Souls' Great Heavenly Venerable, who overwhelmed Bing Kuang and the Half-Saint experts until they retreated into the Blackwater Cold Lake.
• Bing Kuang drew on the lake's freezing power to threaten the Great Heavenly Venerable, who then departed with Gu You after speaking to him.
• Lin He revealed the ancient tree that produced Green Meat and set its minimum bid at an Eighth-grade medicinal pill that had endured Seven-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Cao Ying recognized the tree's value and decided her family had to obtain it, but Elder Pu said they had brought only a Six-Colored Pill Lightning pill.
• Cao Ying offered the required pill on credit, but Lin He questioned how her bid could compete with the first bidder's equal offer.
• The Eighth-grade Alchemist mocked Cao Ying and challenged her to bid an Eighth-grade pill that had endured Eight-Colored Pill Lightning.

Cao Ying secured the ancient tree by having the Cao Family owe the Lin Family an eight-colored Eighth-grade medicinal pill, while Flowing Cloud approved the debt with a one-month deadline. Lin He then replaced the auction’s announced finale with an Eighth-order Fire Attribute Demonic Core, and bidding began.

• After the crowd challenged Cao Ying to offer an eight-colored Eighth-grade medicinal pill, she decided the Cao Family would owe one for the ancient tree.
• Flowing Cloud approved the arrangement, required a promissory note due within one month, and told Lin He to replace the final item with an Eighth-order Fire Attribute Demonic Core.
• Lin He returned to the auction stage, and Cao Ying wrote the promissory note before claiming the ancient tree.
• Flowing Cloud gave Chu Donghai and Qu Ming more time to study the Soul Annihilation Spear scroll after Lin He handed it over.
• Lin He announced the Demonic Core as the finale, surprising Cao Ying and the bidders, and an attendee opened the bidding with a Seventh-grade Pill.

Flowing Cloud decided to enter the Pill Gathering to claim its championship rewards, including an ancient soul-force cultivation method and access to the Star Realm. After certifying as a Sixth-grade Alchemist and reaching Six-star Dou Zun, he arrived at the crowded venue as the selections were about to begin.

• Flowing Cloud received a Ninth-order Peak Fire Attribute Demonic Core after the final Eighth-order Fire Attribute Demonic Core was auctioned.
• Flowing Cloud left Hai Bodong, Qu Ming, and the Hong Yi sisters to look after the Lin Family, then traveled to Sacred Pill City's Inner Domain with Duan San and Chu Donghai.
• Flowing Cloud certified as a Sixth-grade Alchemist and spent three days cultivating at an inn.
• Flowing Cloud's cultivation advanced to Six-star Dou Zun before he set out for the Pill Gathering with Duan San and Chu Donghai.
• Duan San and Chu Donghai explained that contestants had to pass two major selection checkpoints before reaching the floating platforms.

Flowing Cloud learned the Pill Gathering’s trials and watched the Pill Tower’s leaders arrive. Duan San recognized him as Yun Liu, the Heaven and Earth Alliance Leader, and Chu Donghai learned of his role in the Alliance’s battle against the Hall of Souls.

• Duan San explained that contestants had to escape the Illusion Realm, gather required herbs in the Pill Realm, and earn a Space Stone to enter the final competition.
• Duan San warned Flowing Cloud that the Pill Tower would not interfere with secret violence in the Pill Realm.
• The Pill Tower’s leaders arrived, and Flowing Cloud recognized Tian Lei Zi, Xuan Yi, and Xuan Kong Zi; he noted that Xuan Yi had become a Half-Saint after receiving his Bodhi Pill.
• Duan San realized Flowing Cloud was Yun Liu, the Heaven and Earth Alliance Leader, and reproached him for hiding his identity.
• Duan San told Chu Donghai about the Hall of Souls’ attack on the Heaven and Earth Alliance and the Pill Tower’s role in summoning an Advanced Half-Saint, leaving Chu Donghai impressed by Flowing Cloud.

Flowing Cloud secured Chu Donghai and Duan San’s interest in joining the Heaven and Earth Alliance before the Pill Tower’s Three Giants opened the Pill Gathering. The first Illusion Realm Trial began, and the giants discussed the older competitors and anticipated Yun Liu’s performance.

• Chu Donghai asked Flowing Cloud to let him join the Heaven and Earth Alliance, and Flowing Cloud agreed to make him and Duan San elders.
• Xuan Kong Zi welcomed the alchemists and explained that the Pill Gathering champion would receive a candidate spot among the Pill Tower’s giants and an ancient Soul Cultivation Method.
• Xuan Kong Zi announced the first trial, the Illusion Realm Trial, and Flowing Cloud entered the twisted space with the other contestants.
• Tian Lei Zi and Xuan Kong Zi worried that experienced older alchemists drawn by Three Thousand Burning Flame could take the available spots.
• Xuan Yi reminded the other giants of Yun Liu, and they anticipated the reaction to the Heaven and Earth Alliance Leader’s participation.

Flowing Cloud used his Soul Power to navigate the misty maze and reached the Pill Realm passage first. The guide made him wait in the clearing until the first round ended, and the next contestant arrived behind him.

• Flowing Cloud entered the distorted space and used his Soul Power to map its overlapping routes.
• Flowing Cloud ignored the illusions that trapped faster contestants and reached the Space Passage to the Pill Realm.
• Flowing Cloud spoke with the turtle-riding guide, who confirmed he was first but told him to wait before entering the next round.
• A young man in white robes arrived and was stopped by the guide from approaching Flowing Cloud before the first round's time was over.

Flowing Cloud entered the decaying Pill Realm for the Pill Gathering and realized the herb-gathering mission offered a chance to collect valuable medicinal plants for himself. Shortly after he arrived, a group of alchemists appeared and faced a sudden attack by a giant python.

• The turtle-riding old man explained the ten-day herb-gathering mission, the map, the Space Stone, and the dangers of the Pill Realm.
• The old man personally gave Flowing Cloud his items, and Flowing Cloud entered the Space Passage ahead of the other contestants.
• Flowing Cloud surveyed the desolate plain, sensed the violent energy in the realm, and concluded that the Pill Tower was using contestants to gather herbs.
• Flowing Cloud decided to collect as many precious herbs as possible, since he already had the listed herbs and needed to submit only the required varieties.
• Nearly a dozen alchemists arrived, and one of them blasted apart a giant python that lunged from the ground.

Flowing Cloud discovered that the thousand-year Earth Yellow Essence concealed an Earth Core Jade Mother beneath it and drove away the cultivator who had claimed it. He uncovered the jade and confirmed that precious Earth Core Marrow had also formed within it.

• A middle-aged man ambushed the alchemist, forcing him to crush a Space Stone and leave the Pill Realm.
• The middle-aged man struck away an Earth Yellow Python and revealed the Earth Yellow Essence buried beneath the sand.
• Flowing Cloud realized the ancient Earth Yellow Essence must have been nourished by another spiritual treasure underground.
• The middle-aged man threatened the other alchemists, then obeyed Flowing Cloud’s order to leave with the Earth Yellow Essence.
• Flowing Cloud used suction to uncover the Earth Core Jade Mother and confirmed his suspicion that it lay beneath the pit.

Flowing Cloud found Earth Core Marrow inside an Earth Core Jade Mother and traveled to the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range to secretly collect the treasures guarded there. He reached the range undetected, but his thefts enraged the magical beasts, which began attacking the arriving contestants.

• Flowing Cloud discovered Earth Core Marrow inside the Earth Core Jade Mother and stored the entire treasure in the System Space.
• Flowing Cloud avoided a newly arrived group of contestants and continued through the Pill Realm, collecting pills and treasures guarded by magical beasts.
• Flowing Cloud reached the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range, where the Ancient Dragon Bear had gathered many medicinal herbs in its cave dwelling.
• Flowing Cloud secretly collected treasures throughout the range without attacking the magical beasts, but each theft provoked furious roars.
• When the other contestants entered the range, the magical beasts attacked them, with one beast demanding that the alchemists return its Water Spirit Fruit.