Recaps

Luo Chen improved his pill business and cultivation while surviving a deadly encounter in the Outer City and the escalating gang conflict. After his house burned down, he moved into the Inner City, where he settled in a cheaper courtyard room and began adapting to its better cultivation conditions.

• Luo Chen spent his achievement points to learn All Wonders Pill refining, endured repeated failures, and eventually sold the pills by claiming they came from Yun Zhonghe’s lost recipe.
• Luo Chen expanded his production and sales, borrowed Spirit Stones from Chen Xiuping, and repaid them before borrowing again to finance more ingredients.
• After Wang Yuan’s fight with Great River Gang cultivators, a wounded pursuer attacked Luo Chen, who killed him with a barrage of Fireball Spells and received a Mountain Shattering Gang token from Wang Yuan.
• Luo Chen perfected the Evergreen Art, improved his cultivation, and chose a mobile long-range fighting style while gang clashes spread into the Outer City Area.
• Gao Ting'e’s pursuit of Zhou San brought a fight to Luo Chen’s home, where Luo Chen killed Gao Ting'e, but the battle left his house burning.
• Luo Chen rented a room in the Inner City and learned from Cai Yi that the city’s formation suppressed a Ghost King beneath it.
• Luo Chen chose to remain in the Inner City for its First-Order Spirit Vein, tested his Jade Knives, and decided to learn the Attraction Art to control them better.

Luo Chen advanced his pill-making, cultivation, and relationships in Great River Market while attracting attention and preparing to support Wang Yuan in the gangs’ death matches. The Dao Discussion Stage opened amid a trade fair and growing signs that the Mountain Shattering Gang faced a powerful, possibly rigged opponent.

• Luo Chen sold his Flying Swallow Sword, bought supplies and spells, and began studying and practicing techniques while refining All Wonders Pills.
• Luo Chen learned that Gao Tingyuan was searching for him, then improved his pill-making and sold All Wonders Pills at the market, where Duan Sanfu questioned him about Gao Ting'e.
• Wang Yuan warned Luo Chen about Gao Tingyuan and offered him refuge, while Luo Chen acquired a Purple Cloud Copper Furnace and built a pill room with help from his neighbors.
• Luo Chen struggled through repeated failures and a near-fatal Heart Tribulation, then refined ten All Wonders Pills and advanced his cultivation and spells.
• Luo Chen learned that Wang Yuan would lead the Mountain Shattering Gang in a fight to the death against the Great River Gang, and bought a ticket to watch.
• Luo Chen met Qin Liangchen and Murong Qinglian, learned Puppet Art, received a Pangolin Puppet Beast, and heard Qin would fight for the Mountain Shattering Gang.
• A Golden Core cultivator and Jade Cauldron Sword Sect disciples arrived as the Dao Discussion Stage and five-market trade fair approached.
• Steward Miao outlined the opening ceremony and eighteen death matches, while Pang Renxiong warned officials to control independent cultivators and robber cultivators.

Luo Chen advanced his cultivation and spells while the Mountain Shattering Gang fought the Great River Gang’s death matches, and he joined the gang as its proposed Pill Hall Master. With Old Yuan’s support and his house repaired, Luo Chen began planning the Pill Hall’s staff as the gang prepared to assemble.

• Luo Chen sold his pills at the crowded fair, repaid Chen Xiuping, and learned that Chen Xiuping and Chen Shuyi would soon leave for the Divine Talisman Domain.
• Luo Chen’s Evergreen Art reached Grandmaster Level after Murong Qinglian gave him Blood Fiend Tiger bone soup, improving his cultivation and spiritual power recovery.
• At the Dao Discussion Stage, the Mountain Shattering Gang and Great River Gang fought their death matches, and Qin Liangchen won against Bai Qi despite losing an arm.
• Wang Yuan defeated the Blood Path Cultivator Xiao Wuyan, and Luo Chen later chose to serve in the Mountain Shattering Gang’s Medicine Hall.
• Luo Chen’s Fireball Spell reached Grandmaster level, and an attempt to fuse many fireballs exploded and damaged half his house.
• At a banquet with Golden Core Immortal Pang Renxiong, Mi Shuhua named Luo Chen Pill Hall Master after learning he could refine a Tier 1 Mid-Grade Pill.
• Luo Chen accepted the Pill Hall position for its protection, status, resources, and access to Alchemy Dao books, while Gu Cai Yi considered leaving the Heavenly Fragrance Pavilion.
• Old Yuan gave Luo Chen an Azure Gourd to signal his support, and Luo Chen discussed recruiting Gu Cai Yi as the gang prepared to establish the Pill Hall in Slanting Moon Valley.

Luo Chen established the Mountain Shattering Gang’s Pill Hall, refined Jade Marrow Pills, and steadily strengthened his cultivation while concealing a Spirit Vein Cave beneath Slanting Moon Valley. After a furnace explosion killed Zuo Xiangyu and injured Qu Hancheng, Luo Chen returned to the cave to attempt a breakthrough to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.

• Mi Shuhua established Luo Chen as Pill Hall master, and Luo Chen negotiated a twenty-percent share of its profits and received a robe and Cloud Stepping Boots.
• Luo Chen discovered that Achievement Points could complete incomplete same-tier pill recipes, studied the Spirit Communication Pill formula, and helped prepare the Pill Hall for its opening.
• Luo Chen opened the Pill Hall by refining and distributing Grain Avoidance Pills, then organized workers to produce All Wonders Pills and Jade Marrow Pills.
• Luo Chen broke through to Qi Refining Layer Six, refined Jade Marrow Pills, and used the pill room’s underground tunnels to uncover a small natural First-Order Spirit Vein Branch.
• Luo Chen secretly cultivated in the sealed Spirit Vein Cave, improved his Spirit Eye Art, and continued training his spells and refining pills while keeping his cultivation advantage hidden.
• Mi Shuhua warned the gang about the Profound Unity Society, gave Luo Chen cultivation resources and insights, and announced Great River Market’s coming winter auction.
• Luo Chen led a large Jade Marrow Pill refining effort that produced twenty pills, while Mi Shuhua proposed a marriage alliance between Sikong Shoujia’s son and the Mi Family.
• A furnace exploded in Pill Room Number Three, killing Zuo Xiangyu and injuring Qu Hancheng, who had made a Mid-Grade Jade Marrow Pill, and Luo Chen returned to the Spirit Vein Cave to attempt the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.