Chapter Summaries

Su Bai brought peak-quality Yellow Dragon Pills to Yinyue’s courtyard and found that the child had grown close to him. Yinyue called him Adoptive Father, further raising Su Bai’s standing in the Moon Wolf Tribe.

• Su Bai brought the Yellow Dragon Pills he had just refined to Yinyue’s courtyard.
• Yinyue ran over and asked if Su Bai had brought him more delicious pills.
• Su Bai lifted Yinyue onto his shoulder.
• Yinyue called Su Bai Adoptive Father, strengthening Su Bai’s status within the Moon Wolf Tribe.

Su Bai arranged for assassins to kill Howling Moon and prepared a plan with Eight-Foot Madam to lure him out. After cultivating and refining Golden Marrow Pills, Su Bai arrived at Blood Feast Palace for the ambush, where Eight-Foot Madam waited for the assassin.

• Su Bai accepted Spirit Stones from Eight-Foot Madam and later told her that the assassins had agreed to kill Howling Moon for forty thousand Spirit Stones.
• Eight-Foot Madam agreed to lure Howling Moon out of the Moon Wolf Tribe's grounds, and Su Bai told her to wait for his message.
• Su Bai spent ten days creating the Thousand Lightning Sword Prison and later succeeded in refining a batch of Golden Marrow Pills.
• Su Bai sent word that the time had come, and Hong Gu relayed the meeting place and time: the Number One Heavenly Hall of Blood Feast Palace.
• Su Bai entered Blood Feast Palace in disguise and concealed himself in the hall before Eight-Foot Madam arrived to wait for the assassin.

Su Bai ambushed Crown Prince Xiao Yue at the Blood Feast Palace and trapped him with Thousand Lightning Sword Prison, but an old-wolf phantom helped Xiao Yue survive the attack. As Xiao Yue recovered, Su Bai’s Soaring Dragon Sword struck him from below.

• Crown Prince Xiao Yue arrived to meet Yu Zhao, unaware that Su Bai was concealed nearby.
• Su Bai unleashed Thousand Lightning Sword Prison, trapping Xiao Yue in a torrent of lightning sword Qi.
• Xiao Yue transformed into his Moon Wolf True Form, but Su Bai detonated the sword Qi and bound him with nine lightning sword nets.
• Xiao Yue shrank back to human form, but the nets shrank with him and trapped him again.
• Su Bai detonated the nine nets, but an old-wolf phantom appeared and Xiao Yue survived.
• As Xiao Yue stood shakily in the ruins, Su Bai’s Soaring Dragon Sword pierced him from below and emerged from his Heavenly Spirit Root.

Su Bai escaped Demon Star City after killing Crown Prince Xiao Yue, while Wolf Emperor Cang Yue returned and recognized Yinyue’s bloodline potential. Su Bai recovered on the road and received his mission payment, leaving the city behind until Cang Yue’s death.

• Su Bai concealed his aura, escaped Demon Star City, and fled toward Heavenly Star City after hearing that the old Wolf Emperor had emerged.
• Cang Yue arrived at Blood Feast Palace, forgave Eight-Foot Madam, and learned that Yinyue had awakened a powerful bloodline.
• Cang Yue found Yinyue, confirmed his potential, and resolved to raise him to the Condensing Origin Stage within ten years.
• Eight-Foot Madam told Cang Yue that alchemist Lu Jiu had left and gave Yinyue the Golden Marrow Pills he had provided.
• Su Bai recovered for three days, received forty thousand Spirit Stones from Azure Fish Hall, and decided to stay away until Cang Yue died.

Su Bai returned to Heavenly Star City and planned to earn Spirit Stones by refining Golden Marrow Pills while steadily improving his alchemy skills. He hired Zhang Ying to sell the pills, but her roommates confronted him, accusing him of toying with Zhang Ying.

• Su Bai returned to his cultivation courtyard after seven days of travel and found that Zhang Ying had kept it safe during his absence.
• Su Bai decided to refine Golden Marrow Pills for income, save the proceeds to build his alchemy foundation, and avoid dangerous missions unless their risks were manageable.
• Zhang Ying visited Su Bai, and he asked her to collect and sell his Golden Marrow Pills once a day at a discounted price.
• Zhang Ying's two roommates arrived and angrily accused Su Bai of being an alchemy swindler who had returned to toy with Zhang Ying.

Su Bai revealed his Foundation Establishment cultivation to Lin Wan and Shen Shuangshuang, then took Zhang Ying with him and explained why she had fallen out with them. He decided to rent a shop on Alchemy Street and made Zhang Ying its future supervisor, leaving her to learn how to identify Golden Marrow Pill ingredients while he searched for a suitable location.

• Su Bai released his Foundation Establishment aura, making Lin Wan and Shen Shuangshuang collapse, then led Zhang Ying away.
• Zhang Ying told Su Bai that Lin Wan and Shen Shuangshuang had threatened to exclude her over ten Spirit Stones and mocked her after she repaid them.
• Su Bai decided to rent a shop on Alchemy Street to sell Golden Marrow Pills and told Zhang Ying she would supervise it.
• Su Bai brought Zhang Ying to a spirit medicine shop, where the shopkeeper taught her how to distinguish Golden Marrow Pill ingredients.
• Su Bai left Zhang Ying at the shop and went to look for an alchemy shop to rent.

Su Bai rented Shop Number Eighty-Seven on Alchemy Street and opened it as Number Nine Pill Shop under the alias Lu Jiu. After meeting neighboring alchemists and learning who might compete with him, he left to buy an alchemy furnace and supplies.

• Su Bai chose a remote Alchemy Street shop and planned how to use its rooms as a storefront, tea room, alchemy room, cultivation room, and employee quarters.
• Su Bai leased Shop Number Eighty-Seven for two years, paid eleven thousand Spirit Stones for the first year, and received the shop's magic array controller and signboard.
• Su Bai inscribed the name Number Nine Pill Shop on the plaque with sword qi and hung it above the storefront.
• Han Yanzi, Green Vine Medicine Crone, and Lei Zhuhai visited to congratulate Su Bai and ask about his specialty; Lei Zhuhai noted that many shops already sold Golden Marrow Pills.
• Han Yanzi gave Su Bai a bottle of Ice Soul Fire Melting Pills, and the neighboring alchemists departed.
• Su Bai closed the shop temporarily and left to buy a top-grade alchemy furnace, spirit medicines, and Blue Origin Pills for cultivation.

Su Bai opened Number Nine Pill Shop, bought a Top-grade Magic Artifact-level Alchemy Furnace, and began producing Golden Marrow Pills for an opening promotion. He left Zhang Ying to sell the pills and build the shop’s reputation while he continued refining.

• Su Bai sold his old Alchemy Furnace, bought a Top-grade one, and spent nearly all his Spirit Stones on Blue Origin Pills and Golden Marrow Pill ingredients.
• Su Bai tested Zhang Ying’s knowledge of spirit medicine, hired her to manage Number Nine Pill Shop, and arranged for future ingredients to be delivered there.
• Su Bai refined a hundred Golden Marrow Pills with better-than-market quality and instructed Zhang Ying to sell them for forty-five Spirit Stones per bottle, one bottle per person per day.
• Su Bai planned to refine three batches daily, selling some pills to promote the shop, limiting the shop’s supply, and storing the rest for later.
• Zhang Ying promoted the pills on Alchemy Street, and a Cultivator impressed by their quality bought a bottle and asked how long the promotion would last.

Over its first month, Number Nine Pill Shop prospered as Su Bai’s high-quality Golden Marrow Pills won loyal customers, and he settled the shop’s accounts with Zhang Ying. The shop moved into a steadier routine with higher prices, reduced production, and new staff, while Alchemist Lu Jiu’s name began spreading on Alchemy Street.

• Zhang Ying promoted Su Bai’s Golden Marrow Pills on Alchemy Street, and Number Nine Pill Shop sold out its first batch as other shops began copying Su Bai’s marketing methods.
• Over the month, Su Bai refined nine thousand Golden Marrow Pills, improving their quality until they ranked among the top three on Alchemy Street at a lower price than their leading rivals.
• After the shop sold out its daily stock, Su Bai reviewed the month’s accounts with Zhang Ying, calculated a net profit of 15,000 Spirit Stones, and set her monthly wages at 150 Spirit Stones.
• Su Bai told Zhang Ying to recruit three employees and planned to reduce his daily output from three batches to two so he could rest, cultivate, and pursue other work.
• Number Nine Pill Shop ended its opening promotion, raised the price of Golden Marrow Pills to fifty Spirit Stones per bottle, and still sold its reduced daily stock within an hour.
• Zhang Ying hired three new employees, Number Nine Pill Shop settled into a routine, and Alchemist Lu Jiu’s name began circulating on Alchemy Street.

Su Bai attended a banquet at Star Tower after five pill shops led by Golden Pavilion invited him to discuss his Golden Marrow Pills. Wei Chun asked him to raise his prices and refrain from training apprentices, leaving Su Bai facing demands that would restrict his business.

• Zhang Ying delivered an invitation from Golden Pavilion, and Su Bai decided to attend the banquet at Star Tower.
• Su Bai arrived late and challenged Tao Jian after the young alchemist insulted him.
• Wei Chun asked how long Su Bai had practiced refining Golden Marrow Pills, and Su Bai indicated six years.
• Wei Chun proposed that Su Bai price his pills at sixty Spirit Stones per bottle and promise not to train Golden Marrow Pill apprentices for ten years.

Su Bai rejected Wei Chun’s demand to raise Golden Marrow Pill prices and his threat to use Azure Fish Hall assassins. After leaving Star Tower, Su Bai put on his Azure Fish Hall disguise and decided to act against Tao Jian to establish himself on Alchemy Street.

• Su Bai refused to raise Number Nine Pill Shop’s Golden Marrow Pill price or let Wei Chun dictate whether he took on apprentices.
• Wei Chun threatened Su Bai with hired assassins and claimed he had a connection to Azure Fish Hall.
• Su Bai countered that he could hire assassins too, then left Star Tower while Tao Jian shouted threats after him.
• Su Bai put on his Azure Fish Hall mask and decided Tao Jian would be his first target.
• Wei Chun proposed that the other alchemists pool funds for the Azure Fish Hall referral fee and an assassin’s payment.

Wei Chun and four alchemists hired Azure Fish Hall to kill Lu Jiu, while Su Bai secretly planned to kill Tao Jian and frame the assassin organization. Su Bai killed Tao Jian outside Star Tower and escaped as the city guards approached.

• Wei Chun collected Spirit Stones from four alchemists and agreed to hire Azure Fish Hall to kill Lu Jiu, while promising Tao Jian half the Golden Marrow Pill distribution deal.
• Wei Chun revealed that Azure Fish Hall’s introduction fee was only thirty thousand Spirit Stones and pocketed the difference.
• Su Bai waited outside Star Tower, deciding to kill Tao Jian while sparing Wei Chun for now.
• Su Bai confronted Tao Jian outside Star Tower and killed him with sword Qi after Tao Jian mistook him for an Azure Fish Hall assassin.
• Su Bai took Tao Jian’s Storage Bag, used Shadow Dust to conceal himself, and fled as the city guards neared.

After killing Tao Jian as an Azure Fish Hall assassin, Su Bai returned to his shop and took stock of the valuable items in Tao Jian’s Storage Bag. The next morning, Heavenly Punishment Platform Investigator Lu Ming arrived to question Alchemist Lu Jiu, leaving Su Bai to meet him in the tea room.

• Wei Chun learned that Tao Jian had been killed by an Azure Fish Hall assassin and went with the city guards to assist in the investigation.
• Su Bai removed his Azure Fish Mask, returned to Number Nine Pill Shop, and searched Tao Jian’s Storage Bag, finding valuable pills, equipment, talismans, and High-grade Spirit Stones.
• Su Bai set aside Tao Jian’s possessions for future sale and resumed cultivating at the shop.
• Investigator Lu Ming arrived at Number Nine Pill Shop, and Zhang Ying brought him tea while Su Bai finished refining Golden Marrow Pills.
• Su Bai met Lu Ming in the tea room, where Lu Ming joked about the expensive Silver Guanyin tea.

Su Bai persuaded Lu Ming to treat him as the person who hired the Azure Fish Hall assassin, easing the Heavenly Punishment Platform’s inquiry while gaining a promised source of Alchemy Street information. As Su Bai worked to rise within Alchemy Street, Wei Chun hired an assassin to kill Lu Jiu.

• Lu Ming explained that Su Bai’s admission would make Tao Jian’s murder an internal Alchemy Street matter, though it could make Su Bai a target.
• Su Bai agreed to take responsibility for hiring the assassin, and Lu Ming accepted the confession and promised to share information about Alchemy Street.
• Su Bai sent Zhang Ying to investigate Boundless Pill Prison and rumors about Tao Jian’s death, then planned to build his standing by making the Golden Marrow Pill prominent.
• Su Bai returned to refining Golden Marrow Pills while Wei Chun, fearing he would be attacked first, contacted an Azure Fish Hall intermediary.
• Wei Chun gave the intermediary three High-grade Spirit Stones and ordered the assassination of Lu Jiu of Number Nine Pill Shop.

Wei Chun hired an intermediary to investigate the person he was seeking. The intermediary identified the target as Lu Jiu, an overseas rogue cultivator and alchemist at the Alchemy Institute of Number Nine Pill Shop.

• Wei Chun paid the intermediary three High-grade Spirit Stones to confirm the information.
• The intermediary left the Golden Pavilion while Wei Chun waited and did not dare follow.
• Several hours later, the intermediary returned and reported what he had learned.
• The intermediary named Lu Jiu as an alchemist at the Alchemy Institute of Number Nine Pill Shop on Alchemy Street and an overseas rogue cultivator.

Su Bai discovered that an assassin had been hired to kill him, but the assassin turned out to be Qin Lin, his former fellow competitor from the Wood Court. The two recognized each other and began discussing Qin Lin’s disguise technique.

• After Star Luo Pill Pavilion’s steward Fang Yuan left, Su Bai prepared to focus on alchemy.
• An Azure Fish Token summoned Elder Mu, who left a family gathering and hurried toward Heavenly Star City to fulfill an assassination task against Alchemist Lu Jiu.
• Elder Mu used his Wood Attribute Divine Ability to disguise himself as a white-haired Peak Foundation Establishment daoist and entered Number Nine Pill Shop.
• Su Bai recognized Elder Mu as an Azure Fish Hall assassin but welcomed him upstairs, believing the organization’s rules prevented assassins from attacking one another.
• Elder Mu revealed himself as Qin Lin, the Wood Court genius who had placed second in the Inner Sect Grand Competition, and Su Bai asked him to teach his disguise technique.

Su Bai received Qin Lin’s Endless Vitality Divine Ability and learned that Wei Chun had ordered his assassination. After Qin Lin’s failed mission, Wei Chun decided to call off the feud, while Su Bai and Qin Lin exchanged Communication Tokens and agreed to stay in contact.

• Qin Lin gave Su Bai the Jade Slip for the Wood Attribute Divine Ability Endless Vitality, which could conceal and disguise its cultivator’s aura and realm.
• Su Bai explained his conflict with Wei Chun to Qin Lin, who warned that further failed assassination attempts could drive Wei Chun to hire another assassin organization.
• Qin Lin told Su Bai that his assassination mission had failed, explained that he had joined a cultivation clan as the Wood Daoist, and exchanged Communication Tokens with him.
• Su Bai resumed refining Golden Marrow Pills after Qin Lin departed.
• An Azure Fish Hall intermediary told Wei Chun that the Great Fish assassin had failed and that hiring a Shark-level assassin would cost an additional hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• After hearing that Fang Yuan had arranged to end the hostility with Lu Jiu, Wei Chun abandoned the assassination order.

After Number Nine Pill Shop’s Golden Marrow Pills improved in quality, Su Bai raised their price to match Golden Pavilion’s. A customer tested the new pills and confirmed they were worth the higher price.

• Wei Chun learned that two shops had copied Number Nine Pill Shop’s low prices and arranged for them to restore their prices and close for ten days.
• Over the next two months, Su Bai refined pills and cultivated while Number Nine Pill Shop’s monthly earnings stabilized above eleven thousand Spirit Stones.
• Su Bai refined a batch of Golden Marrow Pills with improved potency and less Pill Toxin, then decided to sell them for sixty Spirit Stones per bottle.
• Zhang Ying announced the price increase, and customers protested until one bought and tested a pill.
• The customer confirmed the pills were better than Golden Pavilion’s, and he praised the new price as worth it.

Number Nine Pill Shop’s Golden Marrow Pills continued to sell out each day after the shop raised their price. The chapter ended with eager customers lining up to wait for the next batch.

• Some customers bought Golden Marrow Pills after seeing their dark gold color and smelling their rich medicinal fragrance.
• Most of Number Nine Pill Shop’s old customers returned to buy more pills.
• Onlookers who missed the first batch heard buyers’ praise and regretted not purchasing.
• Customers began lining up in advance for the next batch, and the daily scenes continued for nearly a month.

Su Bai joined the Star Luo Pill Pavilion and agreed to attend its upcoming alchemy gathering. He then received a promotion mission to kill Dragon Daoist and went to the Black Market to prepare, where he bought a high-grade Black Sky Talisman.

• Fang Yuan explained the Star Luo Pill Pavilion's benefits, and Su Bai agreed to join.
• Fang Yuan gave Su Bai a miniature alchemy furnace token and invited him to the Foundation Establishment members' alchemy gathering, which Su Bai accepted.
• Su Bai received a one-month promotion mission to kill Dragon Daoist, an execution officer of the Heavenly Punishment Platform, for one hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
• Su Bai decided to investigate the target and visited Heavenly Star City's Black Market, where he sold Tao Jian's items and searched for assassin supplies.
• Su Bai confirmed the quality of a high-grade Black Sky Talisman and bought it for forty-five thousand Spirit Stones.