Chapter Summaries

Lu Yunxiao and Nalan Yanran visited the Mitel Auction House, where they met Ya Fei, an influential member of the Mittel Family. Ya Fei recognized Lu Yunxiao from their earlier meeting in Wu Tan City, leaving Nalan Yanran surprised that they already knew each other.

• Lu Yunxiao and Nalan Yanran teased each other while examining the auction house’s displays.
• Nalan Yanran spotted an important figure emerging from the auction house’s upper-management area.
• Ya Fei approached Nalan Yanran and offered to help with her business at the auction house.
• Nalan Yanran introduced Lu Yunxiao as the one who had business, and Ya Fei realized he was the gifted youth she had met in Wu Tan City.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ya Fei exchanged congratulations and recalled the business he had brought her, while Nalan Yanran wondered how they knew each other.

Lu Yunxiao visited the Mittel Family with Nalan Yanran and asked Ya Fei to arrange a meeting with Hai Bodong. Ya Fei agreed after he promised the meeting would help her advance within the family.

• Lu Yunxiao and Ya Fei exchanged compliments, and she teased him about acting differently when Gu Xun'er was absent.
• Nalan Yanran joked that Lu Yunxiao was afraid of his wife, prompting him to protest and call her a fickle radish.
• Lu Yunxiao told Ya Fei he wanted to meet Hai Bodong, startling both her and Nalan Yanran.
• Ya Fei hesitated to approach Hai Bodong, but Lu Yunxiao assured her the old man would welcome him and offered to help her become a full supervisory elder.
• Ya Fei trusted Lu Yunxiao and left to report his arrival to Hai Bodong.

Ya Fei left to report an important matter, while Lu Yunxiao and Nalan Yanran argued about his attraction to her and Nalan Yanran’s cultivation. An old man in blue launched a surprise attack on Lu Yunxiao, and their clash ended with both pushed back.

• Ya Fei left to report the matter herself after Lu Yunxiao told her he and Nalan Yanran would wait.
• Nalan Yanran accused Lu Yunxiao of being mesmerized by Ya Fei, and he denied peeping at her.
• Lu Yunxiao mocked Nalan Yanran for remaining a one-star Da Dou Shi, and she vowed to defeat him one day.
• Lu Yunxiao sensed an old man hiding in the Auction House and called him out.
• The old man attacked Lu Yunxiao with a freezing palm strike, and Lu Yunxiao countered with crimson flames before both were forced back.

Lu Yunxiao and Hai Bodong sparred at the Mittel Family, impressing Grand Elder Mittel Tengshan with Lu Yunxiao’s progress and strength. After their friendly exchange, Mittel Tengshan welcomed Lu Yunxiao and introduced himself.

• Hai Bodong and Lu Yunxiao exchanged blows, matching each other with carefully restrained Dou Qi and flame energy.
• Mittel Tengshan and Ya Fei watched the spar, and Mittel Tengshan explained that the fighters were containing their power to protect the hall.
• Hai Bodong and Lu Yunxiao ended the spar, praised each other’s strength, and traded teasing remarks.
• Mittel Tengshan approached Lu Yunxiao and introduced himself as the Mittel Family’s Grand Elder, and Lu Yunxiao greeted him respectfully.

Lu Yunxiao reunited with Hai Bodong and the Mittel Family, while Nalan Yanran declined to join them and left after arranging for him to treat the old master the next morning. Inside, the elders teased Lu Yunxiao about Ya Fei, who sat beside him as they began talking.

• Hai Bodong and Mittel Tengshan invited Lu Yunxiao and Nalan Yanran inside, but Nalan Yanran declined and left after Lu Yunxiao promised to return at nine the next morning to purge the old master's poison.
• Hai Bodong asked whether Lu Yunxiao had won Nalan Yanran over, and Lu Yunxiao said he had no romantic feelings for her and preferred a pretty wife.
• Mittel Tengshan asked Lu Yunxiao whether he thought Ya Fei was pretty, and Lu Yunxiao praised her natural beauty.
• Hai Bodong ushered everyone into a quiet room, where Ya Fei served tea and took the seat beside Lu Yunxiao.

Lu Yunxiao told Hai Bodong, Ya Fei, and Mittel Tengshan about his travels and explained that he joined the Misty Cloud Sect to pursue Yun Yun. He revealed that he had already won Yun Yun over, leaving Hai Bodong delighted and the others shocked.

• Hai Bodong scolded Lu Yunxiao for traveling through the Outcloud Empire and the Snake-people Race, then pressed him to explain how he had escaped the Snake-people Race.
• Lu Yunxiao refused to reveal the details of his escape, and he and Hai Bodong traded jokes that showed their close relationship.
• Hai Bodong questioned why Lu Yunxiao had joined the Misty Cloud Sect when Yun Yun had little to teach him.
• Lu Yunxiao said he had joined the Misty Cloud Sect to pursue Yun Yun and revealed that she had already accepted him.
• Hai Bodong celebrated Lu Yunxiao's success, while Ya Fei and Mittel Tengshan reacted with surprise.

Lu Yunxiao reunited with Hai Bodong and visited the Mittel Family, where Mittel Tengshan discussed securing Lu Yunxiao's loyalty and support. The chapter ended with Hai Bodong doubting Ya Fei's chances of winning Lu Yunxiao's interest while Mittel Tengshan remained hopeful.

• Lu Yunxiao asked Hai Bodong to keep Yun'er's situation secret, then asked after Qing Lin and learned she was cultivating at the family residence.
• Lu Yunxiao and Hai Bodong staged a heated argument, prompting Mittel Tengshan and Ya Fei to separate them; Ya Fei led Lu Yunxiao away to tour the Auction House.
• Hai Bodong asked Mittel Tengshan what he thought of Lu Yunxiao, and Mittel Tengshan praised his talent and urged the Mittel Family to secure his support.
• Mittel Tengshan proposed that Ya Fei might win Lu Yunxiao over, but Hai Bodong questioned whether her low talent and scheming nature would appeal to him.

Mittel Tengshan and Hai Bodong discussed Ya Fei marrying Lu Yunxiao to secure the Mittel Family’s future, while agreeing not to pressure him and to let their relationship develop naturally. Ya Fei took Lu Yunxiao through the Auction House, where he gently stopped her from holding his hand, and they agreed to use each other’s names.

• Mittel Tengshan said Ya Fei would likely choose Lu Yunxiao over a political marriage to Mu Zhan and could gain influence in the Mittel Family by marrying him.
• Hai Bodong warned Mittel Tengshan not to force a match, and Mittel Tengshan agreed to let Ya Fei approach Lu Yunxiao herself.
• Hai Bodong and Mittel Tengshan left the quiet room to look for Ya Fei and Lu Yunxiao.
• Ya Fei led Lu Yunxiao through the Central Sales Platform and offered to show him the more precious auction goods, but he chose to look around there first.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Ya Fei to release his wrist, and she realized he had politely rejected her touch.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Ya Fei to call him Yunxiao, and she asked him to call her Ya Fei.

Lu Yunxiao toured the Mitel Auction House with Ya Fei and explained why his combat strength exceeded what his cultivation rank suggested. He promised to help remove the “Acting” from her title and left Ya Fei alarmed by the prospect of losing her beauty if she did not cultivate.

• Ya Fei showed Lu Yunxiao the Central Sales Platform, then suggested they visit the Free Trade Zone, where buyers bartered instead of paying gold coins.
• Ya Fei asked Lu Yunxiao about his strength, and he said he was a four-star Dou Ling who could fight beyond his cultivation level.
• Ya Fei claimed that she was strong despite being a Dou Zhe, but Lu Yunxiao teased her and challenged her to try to injure him.
• Ya Fei hinted that Lu Yunxiao should fulfill his promise to remove “Acting” from her title, and he assured her he would speak to the Grand Elder.
• Lu Yunxiao urged Ya Fei to cultivate so she could preserve her youth, prompting her to hurry after him in alarm.

Ya Fei tried to draw closer to Lu Yunxiao, probing his feelings and asking whether he knew how to preserve her youth. Lu Yunxiao rejected her flirtatious advances but left her more intrigued, and she ended the chapter offering him a hug as a reward.

• Ya Fei hurried after Lu Yunxiao and repeatedly touched his arm, while he warned that women who got too close to him tended to fall for him.
• Ya Fei asked whether Lu Yunxiao had many girlfriends and whether Xiao Xun'er would be jealous; he insisted he was careful about relationships and praised Xun'er as someone who deserved his affection.
• Ya Fei tested Lu Yunxiao about his other girlfriends, but he refused to tell her and cautioned her against being too curious.
• Ya Fei asked whether Lu Yunxiao knew a way to preserve her youth, claiming she had noticed wrinkles, and he pointed out that she was still in the prime of her beauty.
• Ya Fei offered Lu Yunxiao a loving hug as a reward, and he dismissed the offer as absurd.

Lu Yunxiao rejected Ya Fei’s offer of a hug but told her he could eventually make a Youth-Retaining Pill to preserve her appearance. They arrived at the Free Trade Zone, where Lu Yunxiao prepared to browse the stalls.

• Ya Fei asked Lu Yunxiao why he had refused her embrace, and he explained that he avoided intimate gestures with other women.
• Ya Fei pressed Lu Yunxiao for a way to preserve her youth, and he described the Face-Setting Pill and Youth-Retaining Pill and their high grades.
• Lu Yunxiao revealed that he was an alchemist with the Youth-Retaining Pill recipe and said he might give Ya Fei one in the future.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ya Fei reached the Free Trade Zone and looked over its stalls.

Lu Yunxiao and Ya Fei browsed the market while she flirted with him and tried to persuade him to pursue her, but he refused. At a stall, Lu Yunxiao spotted a Blazing Flame Flower, and Ya Fei challenged the seller’s inflated price before the old man asked if she was Lu Yunxiao’s lover.

• Ya Fei clung to Lu Yunxiao’s arm and offered to treat him, while he questioned her motives and told her to stop moving around.
• Ya Fei teased Lu Yunxiao about being a virgin and suggested they made a good match, but he refused to pursue her.
• Ya Fei decided she would have to take the initiative and held Lu Yunxiao’s arm more tightly as they continued through the market.
• Lu Yunxiao stopped at a stall to ask about a Blazing Flame Flower, and the old seller demanded two Tier 4 Medicinal Pills for it.
• Ya Fei called the price excessive, and the old man recognized her and asked whether Lu Yunxiao was her lover.

Lu Yunxiao traded two Supreme Grade Qi Recovery Pills for a Golden Stamen Blazing Flame Flower from an elderly alchemist at the Mitel Auction House. After the alchemist recognized Lu Yunxiao’s talent and advised Ya Fei to cherish him, Lu Yunxiao insisted that he had not lost out in the deal.

• Ya Fei called Lu Yunxiao her lover while bargaining with an old herb seller, and she stayed close to him despite his questioning gaze.
• The old man explained that the herb was a rare Golden Stamen Blazing Flame Flower and defended its price.
• Lu Yunxiao offered two Qi Recovery Pills, and the old man identified them as Supreme Grade before handing over the flower.
• Lu Yunxiao learned that the old man was a Tier 2 Alchemist, and the old man recognized Lu Yunxiao as an alchemist with strong Soul Power.
• The old man advised Ya Fei to cherish Lu Yunxiao, and Ya Fei led him onward.
• Ya Fei said Lu Yunxiao had overpaid for the herb, but Lu Yunxiao replied that he would never be the one to lose out.

Lu Yunxiao explained that the Golden Stamen Blazing Flame Flower he had obtained was actually the high-grade Blazing Heart-Burning Flower. He and Ya Fei continued through the Free Trade Zone, where he bought a Peach Blossom Flame Seed and teased Ya Fei about calling him her little lover.

• Lu Yunxiao told Ya Fei that the heart-shaped stamens made the Golden Stamen Blazing Flame Flower a Blazing Heart-Burning Flower, valuable for refining Tier 6 and Tier 7 Medicinal Pills.
• Lu Yunxiao found a black short sword containing a High Profound-tier sword art, bought it, and dismissed its value as too low for him.
• Lu Yunxiao bargained for the fourth-tier Peach Blossom Flame Seed and paid the stall owner with two Supreme Grade Tier 4 Dou Shi Pills.
• Ya Fei said it pained her to see Lu Yunxiao spend Supreme Grade Pills so casually, and called him her little lover.
• Lu Yunxiao denied acknowledging that relationship, and Ya Fei replied that he had never denied it either.

Lu Yunxiao rejected Ya Fei’s advances, but she clung to his arm and resolved to keep pursuing him. As they returned to the Mittel Family offices, Lei Le blocked their way, provoking Hai Bodong’s anger.

• Lu Yunxiao warned Ya Fei that she would be hurt if she grew attached to him, but she insisted she was serious and embraced his arm again.
• Lu Yunxiao and Ya Fei walked back to the Mittel Family offices together while onlookers watched them.
• Mittel Tengshan praised Ya Fei’s progress, while Hai Bodong warned that Lu Yunxiao would be difficult to win over.
• Hai Bodong noticed Lei Le blocking Lu Yunxiao and Ya Fei on the steps, and Mittel Tengshan identified him as Lei Ou’s idle grandson.
• Hai Bodong angrily declared that Lei Le should be removed and that he no longer wanted to see Lei Ou.

Lu Yunxiao confronted Lei Le after he insulted Ya Fei in the Mittel Family offices, while Ya Fei revealed how much harassment she had endured. Lu Yunxiao reassured her, and the chapter ended with him asking Lei Le how he wanted to die.

• Mittel Tengshan vowed to deal with Lei Ou and his grandson for causing trouble and offending Lu Yunxiao.
• Lei Le blocked Ya Fei and Lu Yunxiao in the Mittel Family offices, insulted Lu Yunxiao, and made vulgar remarks about Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei defended Lu Yunxiao, and he took her hand and promised that she would not have to endure such treatment again.
• Ya Fei seized the moment to draw closer to Lu Yunxiao, who gently joked about her taking advantage of his tenderness.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Ya Fei to release one hand, then fixed his cold gaze on Lei Le and asked how he wanted to die.

Lu Yunxiao crushed Lei Le in a fight at the Mittel Auction House and learned that Lei Le’s grandfather, Lei Ou, had enabled his harassment of Ya Fei. Lu Yunxiao decided to face Lei Ou too, and the elder arrived with a group of people as Mittel Tengshan and Hai Bodong prepared to respond.

• Lei Le attacked Lu Yunxiao, who shattered Lei Le’s hand and knocked him unconscious with a punch.
• Ya Fei warned Lu Yunxiao that Lei Le’s grandfather, Lei Ou, was a Mittel Family Elder who might seek revenge, and said Lei Ou had backed Lei Le’s past harassment of her.
• Lu Yunxiao said he would wait for Lei Ou and defeat him too, dismissing Ya Fei’s warning that Lei Ou was a Dou Ling.
• Ya Fei held Lu Yunxiao’s hands and leaned against his shoulder while Mittel Tengshan and Hai Bodong observed their growing closeness.
• Hai Bodong noticed Lei Ou approaching with a group, and Mittel Tengshan said they should prepare.

Lu Yunxiao defeated Lei Ou and his guards after Lei Ou attacked him over Lei Le’s injuries. Mittel Tengshan stripped Lei Ou of his Elder status and exiled him and Lei Le, while Lu Yunxiao approved of the judgment.

• Lei Ou arrived with his men and threatened Lu Yunxiao, but Ya Fei defended Lu Yunxiao and warned Lei Ou not to abuse his position.
• Lei Ou ordered his guards to attack, and Lu Yunxiao quickly incapacitated them all.
• Lu Yunxiao blocked Lei Ou’s attack and struck him with Green Lotus Core Flame, badly injuring him and embedding him in a wall.
• Lu Yunxiao called out Hai Bodong and Mittel Tengshan, revealing that he had known they were watching.
• Mittel Tengshan stripped Lei Ou of his Elder status and banished him and Lei Le to the provinces, and Lu Yunxiao praised his judgment.

Lu Yunxiao settled the dispute with Lei Le and Lei Ou and entered the Mittel Family’s residence with Hai Bodong and Ya Fei. There he reunited with Qing Lin, whose Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils had grown stronger.

• Mittel Tengshan welcomed Lu Yunxiao and let the guards carry the badly injured Lei Ou away.
• Hai Bodong led Lu Yunxiao and Ya Fei through the Mittel Family grounds to find him a room.
• Ya Fei told Lu Yunxiao that she liked him and promised not to harm or scheme against him.
• Hai Bodong brought Lu Yunxiao to Qing Lin’s room, and she rushed into Lu Yunxiao’s embrace when she saw him.
• Lu Yunxiao sensed the power of Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and told her it had grown stronger.

Lu Yunxiao reunited with Qing Lin, praised her growth, and promised to find her more snake-type Magical Beasts. He gave Hai Bodong a powerful pill and agreed to help him challenge Jia Xingtian, leaving them ready to team up against the royal expert.

• Lu Yunxiao praised Qing Lin’s cultivation and learned that her Two-headed Fire Spirit Snake had weakened as she absorbed its strength.
• Lu Yunxiao promised to find Qing Lin two fifth-tier snake-type Magical Beasts and introduced her to Ya Fei as his younger sister.
• Lu Yunxiao gave Hai Bodong a sixth-tier Perfect Emperor Extreme Pill that could raise a Dou Emperor’s strength by two stars.
• Hai Bodong told Lu Yunxiao that Jia Xingtian had challenged him to a fight after his return to the Imperial Capital.
• Lu Yunxiao vowed to help Hai Bodong challenge Jia Xingtian and said they would beat him together.