Chapter Summaries

Lu Bu rejected Yun Yun’s offer to introduce him to an alchemist and privately planned to use their connection to get revenge on Emperor Wu. While Yun Yun tried to recruit Lu Bu and Xiao Yan into the Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Yan’s jealousy and anger made the evening increasingly awkward.

• Yun Yun offered to introduce Lu Bu to an alchemist, but Lu Bu refused and began cultivating with a portable formation.
• Lu Bu introduced Yun Yun and Xiao Yan, who gave the false names Yun Zhi and Yao Yan.
• Yun Yun invited Xiao Yan to join the Misty Cloud Sect, but Xiao Yan rejected her and returned to his cave after Lu Bu joked about its female disciples.
• Yun Yun repeatedly asked Lu Bu whether he would join the sect, but Lu Bu dodged the question with jokes about meeting pretty disciples.
• Xiao Yan finished cultivating in the next cave and irritably decided that Yun Yun was no good.

Xiao Yan secretly weakened the cave’s defenses, while Lu Bu refined Burning Blood and encountered the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King searching for Yun Yun. After Yun Yun revealed herself to protect Lu Bu, he knocked the Lion King away with a powerful soul-strengthened punch, then pretended to collapse into Yun Yun’s arms.

• Xiao Yan persuaded Yun Yun to wash Lu Bu’s clothes, then secretly removed some of the medicinal powder and magical beast droppings protecting the cave.
• Lu Bu returned with fire-attributed herbs and magic cores and refined Burning Blood, while Xiao Yan went into the Magical Beast Mountain Range to seek materials for his own cultivation.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King confronted Lu Bu, demanding to know whether Yun Yun was there, and Lu Bu denied knowing her.
• Yun Yun heard the confrontation, feared Lu Bu would be killed, and came out to reveal herself to the Lion King.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King attacked Lu Bu, but he struck her with a soul-powered punch that sent her crashing through the forest.
• Lu Bu spat out blood and collapsed into Yun Yun’s arms, pretending he needed her to save him.

Lu Bu and Yun Yun prepared to steal the Purple Spirit Crystal from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave, while Xiao Yan continued cultivating and watched their power grow. Lu Bu found the Companion Purple Crystal Source but decided to look for Purple Spirit Crystal first, heading deeper into the cave to confront the lion.

• Lu Bu explained to Yun Yun that his soul-related power had severe aftereffects, and she helped him recover by applying Burning Blood as he refined it.
• Yun Yun told Lu Bu she would be able to break her seal the next day and planned to seek Purple Spirit Crystal; Lu Bu agreed to help her search the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave.
• The next day, Xiao Yan sensed Yun Yun's recovered aura and accepted Burning Blood from Yao Lao to continue cultivating.
• Yun Yun flew Lu Bu to the lion's cave, killed the two beasts guarding its entrance, and drew the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's attack while Lu Bu slipped inside.
• Lu Bu found the Companion Purple Crystal Source, decided he needed Purple Spirit Crystal to break it open, and rushed deeper into the cave to confront the lion.

Lu Bu stole the Companion Purple Crystal Source from the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave and escaped with Yun Yun, who helped him recover after he consumed some of it. Before they parted, Yun Yun agreed to recommend him for special admission to Jia Nan Academy and gave him a jade communication slip.

• Lu Bu defeated the little lion, found the Purple Spirit Crystal, and collected the Companion Purple Crystal Source in seven jade bottles.
• Lu Bu drank some of the source to draw the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King back to the cave, then fled into Yun Yun's arms as she rushed to meet him.
• Yun Yun carried Lu Bu away and used her Dou Qi to refine the energy overwhelming his body; when he woke and saw her preparing to give him her inner armor, she chased him in anger before he embraced her.
• Lu Bu asked Yun Yun for a way to enter Jia Nan Academy, and she offered him a recommendation as her specially admitted disciple.
• Yun Yun gave Lu Bu a jade communication slip and departed, while Lu Bu set off toward the waterfall cave.

Lu Bu negotiated with Xiao Yan and Yao Lao for a Soul Cultivation Method in exchange for helping Xiao Yan face the Misty Cloud Sect after the Three Year Agreement. After securing the scroll, Lu Bu began using the Companion Purple Crystal Source to temper his body, while the threat surrounding Xiao Yan’s journey remained unresolved.

• Lu Bu returned to Xiao Yan and bargained for a Soul Cultivation Method, explaining that the Misty Cloud Sect had Yun Shan, a Soul Hall Protector, and other powerful defenders.
• Yao Lao gave Lu Bu a yellowed sheepskin scroll containing a Soul Cultivation Method, and Lu Bu promised that he and Xiao Yan could leave the Misty Cloud Sect safely.
• Lu Bu set up a formation in the valley to control the Companion Purple Crystal Source’s energy and began tempering his body with its Purple Fire.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao watched as the Purple Fire enveloped Lu Bu, cleansing his meridians and marrow while black residue spread across his skin.

After gaining a four-star Dou Shi cultivation level and Purple Fire, Lu Bu received Xiao Yi Xian's soul message and flew toward Qingshan Town. There, Mu Li used rumors about an empty treasure cave to prepare a plan to seize Xiao Yi Xian's supposed treasure.

• Lu Bu emerged from his cocoon, tested his powerful body on the puppet, and discovered that he had advanced to four-star Dou Shi and gained Purple Fire.
• Lu Bu recognized Xiao Yi Xian's soul message and flew toward Qingshan Town with the puppet.
• Mu Li searched the cave, found the remains of Gan Mu and his men, and vowed to make Xiao Yi Xian pay.
• Xiao Yi Xian heard rumors about the cave but dismissed them, while groups of mercenaries later searched it and found it empty.
• Mu Li spread the claim that Xiao Yi Xian had taken the treasure and prepared a plan with Hemon to seize it and restore the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

Rumors that Xiao Yi Xian had taken the missing treasure stirred greed among Qingshan Town’s mercenaries, but Bearded Man shamed them for turning against someone who had helped them. Mu Li then decided to make the treasure seem more tangible, while Xiao Yi Xian reached Dou Practitioner and worried about her uncontrollable poison body.

• After Gan Mu’s remains were found clutching clothing like Xiao Yi Xian’s, rumors spread that she had taken the treasure, and mercenaries began offering to protect her for a share.
• Pavilion Master Yao offered Xiao Yi Xian protection only in exchange for part of the treasure, so she stormed out of Myriad Medicine Studio.
• In a tavern, mercenaries speculated that Xiao Yi Xian had hidden the treasure in a Ring and began considering attacking her.
• Bearded Man rebuked the mercenaries for targeting someone who had treated and saved them, leaving them ashamed and scattering them.
• A mercenary reported his failure to Mu Li, who resolved to make the treasure more specific to stir people into action.
• Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Dou Practitioner but worried that she could neither control her craving for poison nor slow the growth of her Dou Qi.

Mu Li and Hemon tried to turn Qingshan Town against Xiao Yi Xian by exposing her connection to the treasure. After Scarface attacked her and revealed her poisonous power, Mu Li and Hemon saw a chance to brand her a demon and claim the treasure.

• Mu Li pressured Bearded Man into claiming he had acted alone, while Hemon questioned him about whether the leader and Young Leader had sent him.
• Mu Li and Hemon discussed how Xiao Yi Xian's popularity protected her and decided to spread word that she possessed the treasure.
• Scarface attacked Xiao Yi Xian on the street, but her poison spread through his arm and forced him to sever it before fleeing.
• The crowd began suspecting Xiao Yi Xian was powerful and that the treasure was real, so she hurried to Myriad Medicine House.
• Mu Li went after Xiao Yi Xian to obtain her poison, while Hemon pursued Scarface to kill him.

After Myriad Medicine Hall expelled Xiao Yi Xian and Qingshan Town turned against her, she prepared to leave after treating her final patient. Mu Li and Hemon framed her for the Bearded Man’s death, leaving her horrified as Mu Li watched.

• Pavilion Master Yao expelled Xiao Yi Xian from Myriad Medicine Hall and offered her five thousand gold coins, while Mu Li and Hemon celebrated that their preparations were complete.
• Rumors that Xiao Yi Xian was a Poison Master spread through Qingshan Town, and she overheard mercenaries condemning her before the Bearded Man defended her.
• Mu Li revealed that the Bearded Man had spoken under coercion, with his wife and children held captive, and told him Xiao Yi Xian would die the next day.
• Xiao Yi Xian treated the Bearded Man, packed her belongings, and crushed the jade slip Lu Bu had given her as she prepared to leave town.
• Mu Li showed Hemon a Wax Ball with a purplish-gray gleam, and the Bearded Man collapsed and died as Xiao Yi Xian walked away.
• Xiao Yi Xian saw the Bearded Man’s purplish-gray body and feared that she had killed him, while Mu Li watched her reaction with satisfaction.

After Bearded Man died from poison, Xiao Yi Xian was blamed by the townspeople and lost the will to fight as Mu Li led the Wolf Head Mercenary Group against her. Lu Bu intervened just as Mu Li’s spear was about to strike, leaving the cause of Xiao Yi Xian’s collapse unclear.

• Bearded Man died from poison, and his wife silently carried his body away after giving Xiao Yi Xian a wounded look.
• Mu Li, Hemon, and the mercenaries accused Xiao Yi Xian of murder and demanded that she surrender to the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• Mu Li and the Wolf Head Mercenary Group surrounded Xiao Yi Xian, while Mu She recognized that the accusations had crushed her fighting spirit.
• Mu Li lunged at the motionless Xiao Yi Xian with his spear, but Lu Bu descended and carved a trench through the street to stop him.

Lu Bu arrived to find Xiao Yi Xian emotionally shattered after a month of suffering, then uncovered Mu Li’s scheme against her. Xiao Yi Xian took revenge on the Wolf Head Mercenary Group while Lu Bu’s rune puppet killed Mu Li, leaving her to decide the others’ fate.

• Lu Bu descended to protect Xiao Yi Xian and comforted her after seeing her distressed condition.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained what had happened over the past month, and Lu Bu recognized that her misfortune had been deliberately orchestrated.
• Hemon confessed that Mu Li had arranged the scheme, and Xiao Yi Xian learned the truth and demanded the Wolf Head Mercenary Group be left to her.
• Xiao Yi Xian attacked Hemon, blinded him with silver needles, and crippled his dantian while Lu Bu released the other mercenaries.
• Lu Bu sent his rune puppet to kill Mu Li, who died after the puppet pierced his heart and snapped his neck.

Lu Bu and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to a hidden basin in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he tried to convince her to stay with him despite her fear that her Calamity Poison Body would harm him. He promised to find a way to resolve it, then set out to gather herbs and refine Purple Fire while considering trading Azure Nether Fire to Xiao Yan.

• Lu Bu returned after killing the Wolf Head Mercenary Group members, and Xiao Yi Xian invited him to cultivate with her in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yi Xian summoned Little Blue, and the blue eagle carried them to a secluded basin rich in natural spiritual energy.
• Lu Bu asked Xiao Yi Xian to travel with him, but she refused because she feared her Calamity Poison Body would hurt him.
• Lu Bu promised to find a way to resolve Xiao Yi Xian's condition and told her not to give up on herself.
• Lu Bu went to gather medicinal herbs and prepare to refine Purple Fire, then considered trading Azure Nether Fire to Xiao Yan.

Lu Bu traded the Azure Nether Fire to Yao Lao for the Pill Refining Method for Poison after revealing why the Soul Hall collected souls. He left to find allies for the assault on the Misty Cloud Sect, giving Xiao Yan a communication talisman and promising to meet again in a year.

• Lu Bu finished tempering his body with Purple Crystal Source and discussed trading his Purple Fire with Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.
• Lu Bu offered the Azure Nether Fire in exchange for a cure for his friend’s Calamity Poison Body, and Yao Lao demanded either Purple Crystal Source or valuable information.
• Xiao Yan chose to hear why the Soul Hall pursued Yao Lao, and Lu Bu explained that it extracted Soul Origin from captured souls.
• Yao Lao traded Lu Bu the Pill Refining Method for Poison for the information about the Soul Hall.
• Lu Bu said he would leave the Magical Beast Mountain Range to find allies for confronting the Misty Cloud Sect, then gave Xiao Yan a Parent-Child Thousand Mile Communication Talisman and a puppet before departing.

Lu Bu refined the Purple Fire, said goodbye to Xiao Yi Xian, and went to Black Stone City to obtain an alchemist certification and draw out Gute, who owned an Ice Spirit Cold Spring. The chapter ended with Lu Bu following Gute after Otto revealed where he was staying.

• Lu Bu refined the Purple Fire while Xiao Yi Xian waited outside, then learned she had advanced to six-star Dou Shi after awakening her Calamity Poison Body.
• Lu Bu and Xiao Yi Xian said goodbye with an embrace and a kiss on the cheek before she departed on her blue eagle.
• Lu Bu flew to Black Stone City, bought supplies, took a First Grade Alchemist assessment, and left word that he would trade Blood Lotus Essence for a Fourth Grade Pill Recipe.
• Gute barged into Otto's office looking for the Blood Lotus Essence, then repaired the door and politely asked Otto for information.
• Otto gave Gute a note with Lu Bu's lodging, and Lu Bu followed Gute out of the Alchemist Guild.

Lu Bu robbed Gute of the Ice Spirit Cold Spring, a Spirit Absorption Stone, and other treasures, then framed Xiao Yan by setting Gute’s house on fire. Three days later, Lu Bu arrived in Desert City and went to buy a map from Ancient Map.

• Gute learned that Lu Bu had already left Black Stone City and returned home, unaware that Lu Bu was following him.
• Lu Bu broke into Gute’s house, stole the Ice Spirit Cold Spring and a Spirit Absorption Stone, and took his other hidden treasures.
• Lu Bu tied up Gute, wrote “The arsonist is Xiao Yan!” on a pillar, and set the house ablaze.
• Otto and Foklan saw Gute’s house burning and laughed as Gute mourned his lost treasures.
• Lu Bu traveled by flying transport to Desert City, bought supplies, and headed to Ancient Map for a map of the Tagor Desert.

Lu Bu confronted Hai Bodong in the Ancient Map shop after taking the Demon Saint Map, and the two fought over it. Hai Bodong admitted defeat, while Lu Bu revealed he knew the map was incomplete and demanded the other half; Hai Bodong’s reaction suggested Lu Bu had found a way to exploit him.

• Lu Bu visited Hai Bodong’s Ancient Map shop and took a tattered map that Hai Bodong recognized as a treasure.
• Hai Bodong shut the shop and attacked Lu Bu, but Lu Bu dodged his strikes and punched him twice, overpowering him.
• Hai Bodong conceded defeat and offered to let Lu Bu keep the map.
• Lu Bu revealed the Demon Saint Map and said it was only half of the whole, then threatened Hai Bodong with Spirit Fire.
• Hai Bodong’s readiness to fight changed to joy when Lu Bu displayed the Spirit Fire, and Lu Bu realized he had taken the bait.

Lu Bu struck a bargain with Hai Bodong to trade a pill that could break his seal for the map, then persuaded him to join a desert expedition for a Heavenly Flame and the missing ingredient. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan broke through to the Dou Master realm and, while revisiting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave, sensed that Bone Spirit Cold Fire had detected something unusual.

• Lu Bu revealed his Spirit Fire and threatened Hai Bodong until Hai Bodong offered the rest of the map in exchange for a pill to break his seal.
• Lu Bu agreed to refine Hai Bodong's sixth-grade pill but demanded extra payment because Hai Bodong lacked the Sand Mandara ingredient.
• Hai Bodong gave Lu Bu a map containing information about a Heavenly Flame, and Lu Bu arranged for them to seek the ingredient and Flame together in the desert.
• Xiao Yan refined the Azure Nether Fire and broke through to the Dou Master realm, then agreed with Yao Lao to travel to the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Yan persuaded Yao Lao to revisit the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave, where Yao Lao sensed something unusual through Bone Spirit Cold Fire.

Lu Bu traveled to Stone Desert City, met Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and told them about Xiao Yan. Meanwhile, Hai Bodong intimidated the Sand Mercenary Group's commander Rob and hired him for an undisclosed task.

• Lu Bu cultivated after Hai Bodong applied Burning Blood, then chose the eastern route to Stone Desert City because he hoped to find a pretty maid there.
• Xiao Ding reprimanded Xiao Li for attacking the Sand Mercenary Group too early, then agreed to meet a visiting First Grade Alchemist.
• Lu Bu introduced himself to Xiao Ding and Xiao Li and described Xiao Yan's recent circumstances, withholding details about Yao Lao and the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Hai Bodong stormed into the Sand Mercenary Group, froze several mercenaries, and confronted its commander, Rob.
• Hai Bodong gave Rob third-grade pills as an advance payment and ordered him to carry out a task.

Lu Bu brought valuable pills to the Mo Tie Mercenary Group, then took Qing Lin into his care and settled her in a house in Stone Desert City. As Hai Bodong’s search for the Heavenly Flames stalled, he reported the trouble to Lu Bu.

• Lu Bu delivered pills to Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, and the Mo Tie Mercenary Group celebrated with a feast.
• The next morning, Lu Bu met Qing Lin, learned she had been assigned to serve him, and asked her to stay by his side.
• Lu Bu took Qing Lin to buy a house in Stone Desert City, while Xiao Ding and Xiao Li wondered about his motives.
• Rob’s men dug for the Heavenly Flames under Hai Bodong’s orders, but their search found nothing, and Hai Bodong marked out a larger area to excavate.
• Lu Bu joked with Qing Lin as she helped apply Burning Blood, then Hai Bodong climbed in through the window and told Lu Bu the search was not going well.

Lu Bu followed Qing Lin’s bloodline sense to a buried cave in the southeast of East City, where Hai Bodong detected Queen Medusa’s lingering aura. After the mercenaries uncovered the entrance, Lu Bu ordered Hai Bodong to lead the way inside.

• Qing Lin told Lu Bu she had sensed a powerful aura in the southeast of East City, and Lu Bu agreed to investigate with her.
• Lu Bu revealed his Purple Cloud Wings while flying Qing Lin to meet Hai Bodong and the Sand Mercenary Group.
• Qing Lin sensed the aura beneath a sand dune, and Lu Bu’s men dug there until they uncovered a cave entrance.
• Hai Bodong recognized Queen Medusa’s aura in the cave and panicked, but Lu Bu pointed out she was not actually there.
• Lu Bu ordered Rob to guard the entrance and made the reluctant Hai Bodong lead him into the cave.