Chapter Summaries

Xiao Heng prepared to refine a large order of medicinal ingredients at the Thousand Medicine Workshop, where a beautiful Dou Huang woman approached him with a request for a Dou Huang Pill. He offered a thirty percent chance of success, leaving the woman to weigh the risk and cost.

• A Thousand Medicine Workshop attendant brought a large medicinal order to a beautiful woman, who decided to personally meet the Alchemist after learning he had requested an alchemy room.
• Xiao Heng inspected the alchemy room and his scorched Five-Oracle Cauldron while waiting for the ingredients to arrive.
• The beautiful woman delivered the ingredients and asked to observe Xiao Heng refining, but he warned her not to approach and demanded that she state her purpose.
• The woman revealed that she wanted Xiao Heng to refine a Dou Huang Pill and asked about his chances of success.
• Xiao Heng offered to try if she supplied three sets of ingredients and quoted a thirty percent success rate, leaving the cost of failure unresolved.

Xiao Heng refined pills for the beautiful woman, producing two Sixth-grade Pills before failing twice to make an Imperial Pill. On his third attempt, he brought the pill close to completion as the fragrance began stirring the energy in the room.

• The beautiful woman gave Xiao Heng her Imperial Pill ingredients and left the sealed pill-refining room, accepting that the ingredients might be lost if he failed.
• Xiao Heng spent two days refining pills, filling more than a dozen Jade Bottles and producing two Sixth-grade Pills from four sets of ingredients.
• Xiao Heng began refining the Imperial Pill, but his first attempt failed and ruined a set of valuable ingredients.
• The beautiful woman waited anxiously outside as Xiao Heng continued refining, worrying that she had trusted the wrong alchemist.
• Xiao Heng failed another attempt, then carefully merged the final batch of medicinal liquids until they formed a pitch-black pill.
• The nearly finished Imperial Pill roasted in the Medicine Cauldron as its fragrance grew stronger and began stirring the room's natural energy.

Xiao Heng successfully refined an Imperial Pill for Li Xuan at the Thousand Medicine Workshop, establishing himself as a Sixth-grade Alchemist. After handing over the pill, he rested at the workshop, where two maids attended to him.

• The Imperial Pill formed as it absorbed the energy of heaven and earth, and Xiao Heng claimed it from the cauldron despite noticing a crack in the damaged vessel.
• Xiao Heng stored the pill and decided he would charge Li Xuan for the ruined cauldron, while also considering taking the Myriad Beasts Cauldron from Yao's discarded disciple.
• Li Xuan received the Imperial Pill, gave Xiao Heng her name, and led him to a room so he could rest after refining pills for three days.
• Xiao Heng gave Li Xuan the false name Xiaoyao and declined her offer to summon someone, though he teased her before she left to inspect the pill.
• Two maids prepared a bath for Xiao Heng and attended him before he went to bed, where their presence left him tossing and turning through the night.

Xiao Heng left the Thousand Medicine Workshop, acquired cultivation methods and Dou Techniques in Black Seal City, and returned to Jia Nan Academy. After meeting Vice Dean Hu Gan, he prepared to go back to the Inner Academy.

• Xiao Heng left the workshop after asking the attendants to tell Li Xuan he looked forward to seeing her, and Li Xuan ordered the girls to draw his likeness and recount their time with him.
• Xiao Heng exchanged pills for cultivation methods and Dou Techniques at the auction house, then traveled from Black Seal City to Peace Town.
• The Enforcement Team recognized Xiao Heng, and an instructor arranged a griffin to carry him back to Jia Nan Academy with Zhang Jia.
• Xiao Heng gave Zhang Jia cultivation advice during the flight and then went to Hu Gan's office.
• Hu Gan noted that Xiao Heng had grown stronger and agreed to take him back to the Inner Academy.

After Hu Gan escorted Xiao Heng into the Inner Academy, Xiao Heng met Zi Yan, the girl in white, and traded her a Sixth-grade Pill for the half-eaten Xumi Purple Pomegranate Fruit. He tried to turn the encounter into a future trading arrangement, leaving Zi Yan interested in his goods and Xiao Heng hoping to profit from her knack for finding medicinal ingredients.

• Hu Gan flew Xiao Heng to the Inner Academy and urged him to look after Hu Jia, while also suggesting that Xiao Heng marry her.
• Xiao Heng went to his courtyard instead of visiting Xiao Yan and the others, and encountered a white-dressed girl eating a Xumi Purple Pomegranate Fruit.
• The girl sniffed Xiao Heng and said she could smell something delicious on him, so he showed her several medicinal items and a Sixth-grade Pill.
• Xiao Heng offered the girl one item in exchange for her fruit, and she chose the Sixth-grade Pill while handing over the bitten fruit.
• Xiao Heng put away the remaining items and told the girl she could trade good medicinal ingredients with him in the future.

After returning to the Inner Academy, Xiao Heng met Zi Yan and arranged to trade valuable finds for pills. He learned that the White Gang had clashed with Pan Men, then headed to the confrontation and told a skeptical red-eyed student that he was Pan Men’s vice leader.

• Xiao Heng gave Zi Yan a pill, agreed to exchange future discoveries for pills, and learned her name.
• Xiao Heng returned to his courtyard, found it clean, and resumed cultivating before heading to Pan Men the next day.
• Xiao Heng found Pan Men’s headquarters empty and learned from a red-eyed student that Pan Men had gone to confront the White Gang.
• The chapter revealed that the Medicine Gang had hired the White Gang to trouble Pan Men after Pan Men began selling pills.
• Xiao Heng followed the red-eyed student toward the conflict and insisted that he was Pan Men’s vice leader.
• The red-eyed student recalled rumors of a white-haired Pan Men boss and hurried after Xiao Heng, wondering whether he would need to intervene.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Heng confronted Bai Cheng and the White Gang over their obstruction of Pan Men's pill sales, while Bai Cheng revealed he had been acting on someone else's orders. Lin Yan joined Pan Men’s side, leaving Bai Cheng unable to challenge them, but an Alchemist-robed group arrived and mocked Lin Yan.

• Xiao Yan accused Bai Cheng of obstructing Pan Men's sales, and Bai Cheng claimed the Inner Academy allowed such conflicts while saying he had been entrusted to teach the freshmen a lesson.
• Xiao Heng arrived and confronted Bai Cheng, who tried to rely on his group's numbers rather than fight him alone.
• Lin Yan appeared, revealed that he owed Xiao Yan a favor, and declared that he would help Pan Men.
• Xiao Yan and Lin Yan mocked Bai Cheng for targeting freshmen, and Bai Cheng could not find a reply.
• An Alchemist-robed group entered the square, and its leader sarcastically mocked Lin Yan.

Xiao Heng confronted Han Xian after learning the Medicine Gang had backed the White Gang’s attack on Pan Men, then forced Han Xian to surrender the gang’s medicinal-pill sales channels. Han Xian left vowing revenge, while Xiao Heng gave him three days to act before the threat would turn against him.

• Spectators identified Han Xian and the Medicine Gang as allies of the White Gang, and Xiao Yan accused Han Xian of arranging the attack on Pan Men.
• Han Xian threatened Lin Yan and warned Pan Men not to overreach, but Xiao Heng stepped forward and challenged his reliance on wealth and hired help.
• Xiao Heng drew his sword and pressed it to Han Xian’s throat, forcing him to agree to hand over the Medicine Gang’s medicinal-pill sales channels.
• Xiao Heng released Han Xian and gave him three days to use every advantage against him, warning him not to cause trouble afterward.
• Han Xian led the Medicine Gang away, and Xiao Heng warned Bai Cheng not to provoke Pan Men again before leaving with Xiao Yan and the Pan Men members.

After Pan Men returned from confronting Han Xian, Xiao Heng dismissed concerns about the retaliation to come and declined Xiao Yan’s offer of a secret technique. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan privately complaining about his bad luck before Old Yao caught him thinking disrespectfully about his teacher.

• Pan Men’s leaders discussed Han Xian’s likely retaliation, and Xiao Heng assured Xiao Yan that he could handle it himself.
• Lin Yan offered to fight Xiao Heng and help against the Strong Ranking experts, but Xiao Heng declined both offers.
• Hu Jia and Wu Hao left to cultivate, and Xiao Yan gave Xiao Heng the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, which Xiao Heng returned.
• Xiao Heng and Xun Er teased each other about wealth and romance while Xiao Yan arranged a room for Xiao Heng beside his own.
• Xiao Yan complained to himself about Xun Er and Xiao Heng’s mysteries, and Old Yao appeared to scold him for his thoughts.

Xiao Heng resisted Queen Medusa’s pressure and refused to give her the Spirit Fusion Pill because he would not harm the Sky Swallowing Python. After he explained his respect for Queen Medusa, she stopped pressing him for the pill and returned to her small-snake form, leaving their relationship subtly changed.

• Old Yao encouraged Xiao Yan to rely on himself and take confidence from having him as a master.
• Xiao Heng discovered that his bloodline let him resist Queen Medusa’s pressure, but she beat him when he threatened to call for help.
• Xiao Heng refused to give Queen Medusa the Spirit Fusion Pill, arguing that doing so would harm the Sky Swallowing Python, whose feelings and identity mattered to him.
• Queen Medusa argued that the Sky Swallowing Python was part of her, but Xiao Heng said he respected her hardships and could not treat her as the same person as the little snake.
• Queen Medusa stopped demanding the pill, threatened Xiao Heng, and transformed back into the Sky Swallowing Python, which Xiao Heng fed from the jade bottle.

Xiao Heng confronted the Medicine Gang and defeated Qian Mo, the eighth-ranked student on the Strong Ranking, after Han Xian hired him to settle their dispute. Qian Mo withdrew, losing his ranking, and Han Xian left with the Medicine Gang.

• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan went to Pan Men's entrance, where Han Xian and Qian Mo faced Pan Men’s gathered members.
• Han Xian introduced Qian Mo as the eighth-ranked student on the Strong Ranking and refused to end the confrontation.
• Qian Mo attacked with golden saw blades, but Xiao Heng dodged them and countered with a flurry of sword strikes.
• Xiao Heng held his sword at Qian Mo’s throat, and Qian Mo conceded and promised not to interfere in the dispute again.
• Qian Mo left after losing his eighth-place ranking, and Han Xian led the Medicine Gang away.

After Xiao Heng drove off the Medicine Gang, he asked Xiao Yan to expand Pan Men's business and gather Fire Energy, medicinal ingredients, and higher-ranked cultivation methods and Dou Techniques. Meanwhile, Bear Two teamed up with a mysterious little girl to hunt for a tiger's treasure, and the two fled after provoking the tiger.

• Lin Yan arrived after the Medicine Gang had left, and Xiao Yan told him Xiao Heng had defeated Fatty Yan in three moves.
• Lin Yan warned the group about the terrifying number one on the Strong Ranking before leaving Pan Men.
• Xiao Heng asked Xiao Yan to collect Fire Energy, medicinal ingredients, and Pill Recipes, and offered to buy cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Heng went to Bear Two's courtyard but found him missing, unaware Bear Two had joined a little girl in the wilderness.
• The little girl and Bear Two charged a tiger's den for its treasure, then ran as the enraged tiger chased them.

Xiao Heng refined pills for Pan Men and headed to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where a violent disturbance revealed the Fallen Heart Flame's interest in his Heavenly Flames. After Lin Yan recognized Xiao Heng as a top-ten Strong Ranking student, the gathered cultivators turned their attention to him.

• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Heng medicinal ingredients, pill recipes, cultivation methods, and Dou Techniques, and Xiao Heng gave him fifth-grade pills to share with Pan Men.
• Xiao Heng refined dozens of fourth-grade pills overnight and handed them to Xiao Yan, who delivered them to Xun Er.
• Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan went to the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower, where Xiao Heng urged Xiao Yan to deal with Bai Cheng or the Medicine Gang and Han Xian.
• Xiao Heng descended to the sixth floor, where a tremendous impact shook the tower and interrupted the cultivators.
• Xiao Heng sensed the Fallen Heart Flame watching his Heavenly Flames from behind a black door and considered devouring it himself.
• Lin Yan recognized Xiao Heng as a top-ten Strong Ranking student, drawing the attention of those gathered on the sixth floor.

Xiao Heng befriended Lin Xiuya and cultivated in the Inner Academy’s fire-rich rooms for more than ten days without being harmed by fire poison. Meanwhile, Pan Men gained influence through its pill sales and Xiao Yan’s victories, and Xiao Heng’s conversation with Han Yue began as he left his room.

• Lin Xiuya approached Xiao Heng, introduced himself, and exchanged a friendly handshake with him.
• The elders calmed the gathered students, sent one elder to inform the Great Elder, and directed everyone back to their cultivation rooms.
• Xiao Heng entered his cultivation room and cultivated for more than ten days, steadily strengthening his Dou Qi under the Heart Flame’s tempering.
• Pan Men sold out its Fourth-grade Pills, Xiao Yan defeated Han Xian in a pill-refining contest and Bai Cheng in a fight, and the faction gained fifteen Medicine Gang sales locations.
• Xiao Heng emerged from his room and told Han Yue that fire poison could not affect him, while noticing that she showed signs of being afflicted by it.

Xiao Heng returned to his courtyard with Han Yue and found Zi Yan and Bear Two waiting there. After Bear Two gave him rare medicinal ingredients in exchange for pills, Xiao Heng refined sweet pills for them, leaving the pair happily eating as he wondered where to find food.

• Xiao Heng left the Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower with Han Yue, and rumors about his victory over Qian Mo spread through the Inner Academy.
• Xiao Heng returned to his courtyard, where Bear Two introduced Zi Yan as his boss and called Xiao Heng his big brother.
• Xiao Heng noticed Zi Yan had picked flowers from his flowerbed, and she offered to compensate him with something she had found.
• Bear Two gave Xiao Heng a Storage Ring of rare ingredients gathered with Zi Yan from a fifth-tier Tiger-shaped Magical Beast's nest, and asked him to make pills.
• Xiao Heng refined more than ten bottles of sweet pills, then gave them to Zi Yan and Bear Two while keeping the valuable ingredients.
• Zi Yan and Bear Two eagerly ate the pills, and Xiao Heng wondered whether the Inner Academy had a restaurant.

Xiao Heng gathered Pan Men’s leaders and friends for a meal, taking charge of cooking after they struggled to find ingredients. The group ended the day sharing a feast in the courtyard.

• Xiao Heng brought Zi Yan and Bear Two to Pan Men and asked Xiao Yan to find someone who could cook.
• Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Hu Jia, and Xiao Heng gathered ingredients, and Xiao Heng began cooking while Hu Jia fetched Wu Hao and Xiao Yan invited Lin Yan.
• Wu Hao helped wash vegetables, while the others handled small tasks and Zi Yan returned with a large assortment of vegetables, chickens, ducks, and fish.
• Xiao Heng directed Xiao Yan and Lin Yan as they prepared the food, while Old Yao watched and wondered about Xiao Heng’s background.
• The group ate together in the courtyard, where Zi Yan secretly tasted the chicken soup and declared it delicious.

Xiao Yan recruited Xiao Heng to help seize Earth Core Body Tempering Milk guarded by a fifth-tier Snow Demon Sky Ape. As Xiao Yan searched the cave, Xiao Heng faced the beast, and Old Yao suspected Xiao Heng could draw on powerful bloodline strength.

• Xiao Heng accepted Xiao Yan's offer of sixty percent of the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk in exchange for helping him overcome its guardian.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Heng traveled to the academy's back mountain, where Xiao Yan pointed out battle traces left by Lin Xiuya, Han Yue, and the others.
• Xiao Heng attacked the Snow Demon Sky Ape's cave and drew the weakened beast's attention while Xiao Yan entered to find the treasure.
• Old Yao shielded Xiao Yan from the pressure of Xiao Heng's and the beast's auras as Xiao Yan searched the cave.
• Old Yao judged that Xiao Heng could defeat a weaker Dou Wang and sensed a power in him similar to the bloodline power Xiao Yan had seen before.

Xiao Heng fought the Snow Demon Sky Ape and unleashed his bloodline power to gain the upper hand. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan and Old Yao discovered the true Earth Core Body Tempering Milk hidden above the ordinary liquid.

• The Snow Demon Sky Ape awakened its berserk bloodline, growing stronger and faster, and nearly wounded Xiao Heng with its ice claws.
• Xiao Heng activated his bloodline, raising his strength to five-star Dou Wang, then struck the airborne ape and drove it into the ground.
• Xiao Yan saw a drop of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk fall into the stone basin, and Old Yao told him a rarer treasure remained.
• Old Yao led Xiao Yan to the cavern ceiling, where Xiao Yan used a jade shard to cut a circular piece from a stalactite.
• The cut exposed emerald-colored liquid, which Old Yao identified as the true Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.

Xiao Heng and Xiao Yan defeated the Snow Demon Sky Ape, secured its Magic Core, and returned to the academy with the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk. Xiao Heng began recovering and planning how to obtain the final ingredient for Three Yuan Soup, while Old Yao encouraged Xiao Yan to keep working toward surpassing him.

• Xiao Heng used his bloodline power and Dou Techniques to defeat the Snow Demon Sky Ape, then killed it with his longsword.
• Xiao Yan retrieved the Snow Demon Sky Ape’s Fifth-tier Magic Core while Xiao Heng took pills to recover; they then hurried back to the academy.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Heng two Jade Bottles of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk, and Xiao Heng planned to search for Essence Worm Ginseng to complete the ingredients for Three Yuan Soup.
• Xiao Heng entered his underground cultivation room to recover, while Xiao Yan returned to his residence and Old Yao reassured him that he could catch up to Xiao Heng.

Xiao Heng sought Elder Hao’s help in finding Spirit Worm Ginseng, the final ingredient for the Three Yuan Soup, and agreed to refine a pill in exchange for choosing one ingredient from the Medicine Material Repository. He found the ginseng and returned to Elder Hao, while leaving a Magic Flame Bodhi behind for a possible later request.

• Xiao Heng visited Elder Hao at the Medicine Material Repository and explained that he needed a rare ingredient for a pill.
• Elder Hao offered Xiao Heng access to choose one medicinal ingredient in exchange for refining a pill that satisfied him.
• Xiao Heng used Elder Hao’s jade token to enter the repository and discovered a Magic Flame Bodhi that could complete his Melting Fire Pill ingredients.
• Xiao Heng continued searching and found Spirit Worm Ginseng, carefully placed it in a jade box, and stored it in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Heng left the Magic Flame Bodhi behind because the token allowed only one ingredient, then returned to Elder Hao, who asked whether he had found what he needed.