Chapter Summaries

Lu Bu and Hai Bodong destroyed the Mo Family after Mo Cheng tried to bargain for his life and attacked Qing Lin. As they headed toward the Imperial Capital, Lu Bu noticed a convenient ride nearby.

• Ya Fei stayed outside Salt City after sensing trouble at the Mo Family and decided to wait and see what happened.
• Mo Cheng offered Mo Ran and compensation to Lu Bu, but Hai Bodong rejected the bargain and injured the Mo Family elders.
• Lu Bu overpowered Mo Cheng, who tried to attack Qing Lin, then burned him alive with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Qing Lin killed Mo Ran with a short sword, and Hai Bodong froze the Mo Family elders and guards before Lu Bu left the castle.
• Lu Bu and Hai Bodong set off toward the Imperial Capital, and Lu Bu spotted a potential ride to the northwest.

Ya Fei left Salt City for the Imperial Capital aboard her newly granted private train, where Hai Bodong and Lu Bu joined her after revealing the Mittel Family Patriarch Token. Meanwhile, Emperor Wu found clues at Mo Family Castle and decided to use the Misty Cloud Sect to track Lu Bu, while Lu Bu hinted that he had another transaction planned with Hai Bodong.

• Ya Fei departed Salt City by private train, hoping her success would earn her promotion to elder.
• Hai Bodong, Lu Bu, and Qing Lin appeared aboard Ya Fei's train, and Hai Bodong proved his identity with the Mittel Family Patriarch Token.
• Emperor Wu investigated the barrier around Mo Family Castle, found traces of ice Dou Qi and formation flags, and suspected Lu Bu might be connected to the trail.
• Emperor Wu headed toward the Imperial Capital and planned to use the Misty Cloud Sect to locate Lu Bu while he returned to seclusion.
• Lu Bu told Hai Bodong that he wanted to discuss another transaction, leaving Hai Bodong uneasy about their plans in the Imperial Capital.

Lu Bu secured Hai Bodong’s help for a visit to the Misty Cloud Sect by promising pills, while the Heavenly Snake Mansion learned its mission had failed and sent two people toward the Jia Ma Empire. Aboard a train, Lu Bu gave Qing Lin materials for her cultivation.

• Lu Bu offered Hai Bodong a Revival Purple Pill and a Huang Ji Pill in exchange for joining him against Yun Shan and holding him off.
• Hai Bodong agreed and planned to bring Jia Xing Tian along, then accepted Lu Bu’s list of medicinal ingredients.
• Bai Ya and Lü Man returned to the Heavenly Snake Mansion and tried to blame the failed mission on each other before their white-bearded boss confronted them.
• Lü Man recounted the mission’s failure, and two streaks of light flew toward the Jia Ma Empire.
• Ya Fei brought Lu Bu white magic cores and ice-attributed medicinal ingredients, and Lu Bu told Qing Lin they were for her cultivation.

Lu Bu refined an ice-element version of Burning Blood, then began cultivating the Earth-tier Medusa's Gaze technique in hopes of using it to develop the Ancestral Talisman Eye. In Black Stone City, Xiao Yan prepared to travel to the Imperial Capital for the Alchemist Convention and bought a strange black jade piece whose secrets he could not discover.

• Lu Bu asked Qing Lin to apply the ice-element Burning Blood, but Ya Fei arrived and Lu Bu left her to help Qing Lin while he took the Ice Silkworm Mask.
• Lu Bu studied Medusa's Gaze and decided to cultivate the soul-based technique as a possible path toward deducing the Ancestral Talisman Eye.
• Otto told Xiao Yan that the Alchemist Guild would leave for the Imperial Capital the next day, and Xiao Yan remembered the approaching Three Year Agreement and his promise to contact Lu Bu.
• Xue Li accompanied Xiao Yan to the trading district, where he exchanged a bottle of fourth-grade Burning Blood for a Black Jade Piece.
• Xiao Yan returned home and could not find anything unusual about the Black Jade Piece, leaving him frustrated that he might have misjudged it.

Lu Bu returned to Jia Ma Holy City with Hai Bodong, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei, then struck down Leo after he tried to seize their carriages. At the Alchemist Guild, Lu Bu searched the trading area and spotted a broken black jade fragment.

• Lu Bu and Hai Bodong entered the city with Ya Fei after arriving at the Mittel Family's carriage station.
• Leo tried to take the carriages and insulted Lu Bu, so Lu Bu struck him unconscious and left for the Alchemist Guild with Qing Lin.
• Hai Bodong ordered Ya Fei to bring Leo to Tengshan.
• Lu Bu and Qing Lin entered the Alchemist Guild's trading area, where Lu Bu found a broken black jade fragment among an apprentice's wares.

Lu Bu traded for an incomplete secret technique and unexpectedly reunited with Xiao Yan, whose Heavenly Flame reacted to Lu Bu’s. Meanwhile, Yun Yun secretly kept Lu Bu’s robe, and Yun Leng began searching for a young ice-attribute expert under orders from another powerful figure.

• Lu Bu exchanged two Revival Pills for a damaged Black Jade Piece containing an incomplete version of Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations.
• Lu Bu and Qing Lin encountered Xiao Yan and Xue Mei outside the Alchemist Guild, and Lu Bu’s Green Fire Palm clashed with Xiao Yan’s Crimson Flame.
• Lu Bu and Xiao Yan recognized each other and agreed to find somewhere to talk about their plans.
• Yun Yun hid Lu Bu’s robe when Nalan Yanran entered, then let her leave to visit her ill grandfather.
• Yun Leng ordered a search for a young ice-attribute expert based on sparse clues, keeping the task secret from Yun Yun.

Lu Bu traded Xiao Yan a way to restore Yao Lao in exchange for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, then went to meet Hai Bodong at the Mittel Family. Hai Bodong and Mittel Tengshan prepared to welcome Lu Bu and arrange a quiet place for him to refine pills.

• Lu Bu refused to help Xiao Yan with the Misty Cloud Sect until Xiao Yan explained that Yao Lao had fallen asleep after helping him absorb the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame.
• Lu Bu agreed to awaken and strengthen Yao Lao in exchange for the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, then gave Xiao Yan a list of medicinal ingredients to gather.
• Lu Bu told Xiao Yan that he had recruited Hai Bodong, and Otto and Fulkland arrived to check on Xiao Yan after hearing he had fought someone.
• Lu Bu showed Xue Mei the Black Jade Piece she had seen Xiao Yan find, then advised her about what Xiao Yan liked before leaving with Qing Lin.
• At the Mittel Family, Hai Bodong approved Mittel Tengshan's leadership, punished Reina and Leo, and praised Ya Fei for bringing him home.
• After learning Lu Bu had arrived, Mittel Tengshan and Hai Bodong went out to greet him and lead him to a quiet place for pill refinement.

Lu Bu settled into the Mittel Family estate and prepared to refine pills, but Xiao Yan interrupted him to ask about the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva. Lu Bu told Xiao Yan where to find it and sent him to treat Nalan Jie, leaving Xiao Yan reluctantly headed for the Nalan Family.

• Ya Fei showed Lu Bu, Qing Lin, Hai Bodong, and Mittel Tengshan the manor the Mittel Family had prepared for him.
• Lu Bu set up a defensive formation in the training hall and began preparing to refine pills with the Blazing Fire Cauldron and Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan contacted Lu Bu and arrived at the Mittel Family, explaining that he could not find the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva.
• Lu Bu said the ingredient was at the Nalan Family and suggested Xiao Yan earn it by curing Nalan Jie of Blight Poison.
• Lu Bu told Xiao Yan that a Heavenly Flame could burn away the poison, then warned that if he treated Nalan Jie himself, Nalan Yanran might become involved with him.
• Xiao Yan left for the Nalan Family, resentful but unwilling to let Lu Bu intervene before the Three Year Agreement ended.

Lu Bu asked Mittel Tengshan to look after Yan Xiao, then began refining a Huang Ji Pill. At the Nalan residence, Xiao Yan treated Nalan Jie’s Blight Poison with the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and left after arranging to return the next day.

• Lu Bu told Mittel Tengshan that Yan Xiao had studied alchemy under his teacher and asked him to look after Yan Xiao.
• Lu Bu began refining a Huang Ji Pill while Mittel Tengshan and Hai Bodong watched.
• Xiao Yan used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to temper Nalan Jie's bones and refine his Blight Poison, telling Nalan Su that the treatment would take at least a week.
• Nalan Yanran thanked Xiao Yan, but he kept his distance and insisted that helping Nalan Jie was only a transaction.
• Xiao Yan refused Nalan Jie's offer to stay at the residence, said he would return the next day, and left as Nalan Jie asked Nalan Yanran to see him off.

Lu Bu finished refining Hai Bodong’s Revival Purple Pill and discussed Hai Bodong’s plan to recruit another Dou Emperor into their scheme. He accepted an invitation to the Nalan Family’s banquet, where he hoped to meet Xiao Yan and investigate the Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations.

• Lu Bu completed the Revival Purple Pill and gave it to Hai Bodong, then rested at the Mittel estate.
• Ya Fei cared for Lu Bu while he slept and accompanied him to the council hall, where they recalled meeting three years earlier.
• Hai Bodong told Lu Bu that he planned to use the pill to surprise an old rival and draw a high-tier alchemist into the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Mittel Tengshan invited Lu Bu to Nalan Jie’s celebratory banquet, and Lu Bu agreed to attend and have Ya Fei accompany him.
• Lu Bu imagined Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran growing close while Xiao Xun'er watched, then resolved to encourage the pair if they did not become interested in each other on their own.

Lu Bu attended a gathering at the Nalan Family residence with Ya Fei, helped Xiao Yan remove the Blight Poison, and learned that the Alchemist Convention would begin in two days. He crushed a jade slip to contact Yun Yun, whose help he needed to fight Emperor Wu.

• Lu Bu arrived at the Nalan Family residence with Ya Fei, who asked him to introduce her to Yan Xiao.
• Lu Bu reunited with Xiao Yan, revealed that he knew Yan Xiao well, and learned that Xiao Yan had been infected by Blight Poison while treating Nalan Jie.
• Lu Bu examined the poison and used the Green Lotus Core Flame to remove it from Xiao Yan's flame.
• Liu Ling arrived and asked about the flames; Lu Bu claimed that Xiao Yan had beaten him in a contest before leaving with Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei told Lu Bu that the Alchemist Convention began the day after tomorrow and that Yan Xiao had taken first place in the internal trials.
• Lu Bu crushed a jade slip to contact Yun Yun, deciding he needed her help to fight Emperor Wu.

Yun Yun flew to the Nalan residence after learning Lu Bu had reached the Imperial Capital, where Mu Zhan attacked Lu Bu over Ya Fei. Lu Bu easily stopped him and provoked him with a lewd remark, leaving Yun Yun silently furious.

• Yun Yun learned that Lu Bu had arrived in the Imperial Capital and flew to the Nalan Family residence, while Yun Leng wondered about her late-night departure.
• Mu Zhan arrived at the Nalan residence and grew enraged after seeing Ya Fei with Lu Bu; Lu Bu sensed his hostility and decided to tease him.
• Yun Yun found Lu Bu in the crowd, greeted Nalan Yanran, and watched as Mu Zhan charged at Lu Bu from behind.
• Lu Bu blocked Mu Zhan’s attack with one hand and sent him staggering back, while Xiao Yan and the others watched.
• Mu Zhan claimed Ya Fei as his future wife, and Lu Bu taunted him with a vulgar comment that made Yun Yun’s wine cup crack in her hand.

At the Nalan Family gathering, Mu Zhan challenged Lu Bu, confident that his combat skill would secure an easy victory. Lu Bu effortlessly caught Mu Zhan’s strike and broke his wrist and leg, leaving the onlookers stunned and Nalan Yanran questioning her earlier judgment of him.

• Nalan Jie, Mu Chen, and Mittel Tengshan watched the younger generation, while Mu Chen praised Mu Zhan’s fighting record and predicted his victory.
• Mu Zhan attacked Lu Bu with a powerful strike aimed at his throat, as Liu Ling and the royal family's Little Princess mocked Lu Bu and Nalan Yanran considered intervening.
• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran not to interfere, and Lu Bu caught Mu Zhan’s fist with one hand.
• Lu Bu snapped Mu Zhan’s wrist and leg, then joked that Mu Zhan had broken his own leg.
• Mittel Tengshan and the other elders teased Mu Chen, who blamed Mu Zhan for embarrassing himself, while Nalan Yanran lost her disdain for Lu Bu and Xiao Yan watched Yun Yun with interest.

Lu Bu warned Yun Yun that a Soul Hall Protector might be controlling the Misty Cloud Sect and proposed a plan to eliminate Emperor Wu. After Xiao Yan treated Nalan Jie, Nalan Yanran told him about the stakes of their duel in seven days, and Lu Bu contacted Xiao Yan with news that he had struck it rich.

• Lu Bu reunited with Yun Yun at the Nalan Family gathering, then explained that a Soul Hall Protector might have controlled members of the Misty Cloud Sect and harmed Yun Shan.
• Lu Bu proposed that he and Yun Yun cooperate to identify the controlled elders and kill Emperor Wu, and Yun Yun agreed to watch the council without alerting the enemy.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian stopped their Dou Huang sparring when onlookers arrived, while Lu Bu and Yun Yun left the Imperial Capital together.
• Xiao Yan finished treating Nalan Jie, and Nalan Yanran told him their Three Year Agreement was seven days away and that she would sever an arm and enter the Life-and-Death Gate if she lost.
• Xiao Yan returned to his inn worried about Nalan Yanran's strength, then received a message from Lu Bu congratulating him on striking it rich.

Lu Bu traded Xiao Yan the second transformation of the Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations for the Spirit Melting Pill formula and a future pill-refining favor. The chapter ended with Yun Leng reporting to a hidden figure that Hai Bodong and the young alchemist Yan Xiao were likely the people they sought.

• Lu Bu offered Xiao Yan a secret technique powered by Heavenly Flames in exchange for a look at his Black Jade Piece.
• Lu Bu burned the Black Jade Piece and recovered the second transformation of the Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations.
• Xiao Yan agreed to give Lu Bu the Spirit Melting Pill formula and refine a pill for him in exchange for the second transformation.
• Lu Bu passed the technique to Xiao Yan and left to cultivate it himself.
• Yun Leng told a hidden figure that the ice-element expert was likely Hai Bodong and that the young alchemist Yan Xiao was close to him.

Yun Leng reported Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong to Emperor Wu, who agreed with Yun Shan to wait until after the Alchemist Convention before moving against Xiao Yan. The next day, Lu Bu brought Hai Bodong to meet Jia Xing Tian and offered to refine a pill in exchange for help beating someone up.

• Yun Leng told Emperor Wu about Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong, and Emperor Wu decided to wait until the Alchemist Convention ended before acting.
• Yun Shan convinced Emperor Wu to delay for seven days and join him in pursuing Xiao Yan, while Yun Yun grew suspicious of Yun Leng’s order and planned to investigate the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Hai Bodong fought Jia Xing Tian in the mountains, startling him by revealing that pills had restored his strength to six-star Dou Huang.
• Hai Bodong introduced Lu Bu to Jia Xing Tian, who became interested in cooperating after Lu Bu offered to refine a pill in exchange for help beating someone up.

Lu Bu refined a Primal Bone-Shaping Pill for Jia Xing Tian in exchange for Jia Xing Tian and the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon accompanying him to Misty Cloud Mountain. After completing the pill, Lu Bu began refining a second one, surprising the onlookers.

• Qing Lin fed the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python Companion Purple Crystal Source, and the snake curled up in Lu Bu's arms.
• Jia Xing Tian arrived with Princess Yao Ye, while Xiao Yan came to observe Lu Bu's pill refinement.
• Lu Bu sealed the training hall with formation flags, sent Jia Xing Tian, Yao Ye, and Xiao Yan outside, and began refining the Primal Bone-Shaping Pill.
• Lu Bu quickly refined the ingredients and completed the pill, impressing the onlookers and reassuring Jia Xing Tian that the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon could be saved.
• Lu Bu started refining a second Primal Bone-Shaping Pill, leaving Jia Xing Tian, Yao Ye, and Xiao Yan staring in surprise.

Lu Bu gave Jia Xing Tian a Primal Bone-Shaping Pill and agreed to meet him on Misty Cloud Mountain, while Xiao Yan prepared to compete in the Alchemist Convention finals. As the final began, Xiao Yan revealed his Bone Spirit Cold Fire, and Jia Xing Tian credited Lu Bu with solving a problem.

• Lu Bu gave Jia Xing Tian one of the two Primal Bone-Shaping Pills, and Jia promised to meet him on Misty Cloud Mountain in a few days.
• Jia Xing Tian returned to the imperial family with the pill to treat the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon, while Xiao Yan headed to the finals determined to win the championship.
• Xiao Yan entered the packed convention venue, exchanged a challenge with a gray-robed youth, and took his place at the stone platform.
• Hai Bodong, Nalan Jie, and Mittel Fujiyama discussed Lu Bu's alchemy, and Jia Xing Tian arrived in high spirits, saying Lu Bu had resolved a problem for him.
• Xiao Yan began the finals by revealing his Bone Spirit Cold Fire, drawing the attention of Nalan Yanran and the spectators.

Lu Bu helped Xiao Yan awaken Yao Lao after Xiao Yan won the alchemist tournament and delivered the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva. Yao Lao returned in a foul mood and confronted Lu Bu over the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment.

• Lu Bu explained that Xiao Yan was refining a Three-patterned Green Spirit Pill, then used the Azure Nether Fire and provoked Yun Leng, who recognized it as the flame tied to his son Yun Yue's death.
• Fama announced Yan Xiao as the tournament champion, and Nalan Yanran applauded while Xiao Yan glanced toward her and Lu Bu's seat.
• Xiao Yan arrived at Lu Bu's mountain estate with the Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva and handed over the Soul Fusion Pill formula, which Lu Bu stored in his Ring.
• Lu Bu prepared medicinal ingredients in the Blazing Fire Cauldron and used them to restore Yao Lao's soul while Xiao Yan guarded the formation core and Hai Bodong watched the perimeter.
• Yao Lao's soul force erupted toward Lu Bu and the formation, but Lu Bu warned that Xiao Yan could be crippled if the formation broke, and Yao Lao halted his attack.
• Yao Lao emerged from the cauldron and accused Lu Bu of bullying Xiao Yan by taking the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment.

Lu Bu prepared to join Xiao Yan’s Three Year Agreement at Misty Cloud Sect, while he gathered allies to restrain Yun Shan and settled his confrontation with Yao Lao. As Xiao Yan reached Nine-star Dou Shi and set out for Misty Cloud Mountain, Lu Bu flew there with Hai Bodong, leaving Qing Lin behind.

• Yao Lao confronted Lu Bu over the Demon Saint Remnant Map, but backed down after seeing the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and learning Lu Bu had recruited Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian.
• Lu Bu told Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian that Xiao Yan was the central figure in the Three Year Agreement and asked them to hold off Yun Shan without killing him.
• Yun Yun pressured Yun Leng into abandoning his objections to the Three Year Agreement arrangements, then looked forward to Lu Bu appearing before the Soul Hall Protector.
• Xiao Yan swallowed the Three-patterned Green Spirit Pill and advanced from Six-star Dou Shi to Nine-star Dou Shi before setting out for Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Lu Bu prepared to settle matters with Emperor Wu, left Qing Lin with Ya Fei, and flew toward Misty Cloud Mountain with Hai Bodong.