Chapter Summaries

Lin Zhen rejected Gu Yunting’s offer and studied alchemy while waiting out the blockade of his shop, planning to strengthen himself rather than confront Gu directly. After three years, he had advanced to Star System Level Eight and become a Fifth Grade Alchemist.

• Lin Zhen returned to Icefire Divine Pill and rejected Gu Yunting’s offer to become his exclusive alchemist, despite Gu’s men blocking customers from entering the shop.
• Lin Feng found Gu Yunting’s information, and Lin Zhen learned that Gu was a Level Nine World King with 2.3 million Star Power, far beyond Lin Zhen’s current strength.
• Lin Zhen considered using Xu Xingyao’s possession method to create a powerful clone and decided that developing his Mental Power could help him seize a World King’s body.
• Thomas taught Lin Zhen how to prepare Mental Power Potion, while Lin Zhen studied alchemy and Lin Feng continued guarding the shop.
• Gu Yunting learned that Lin Zhen had refused him, vowed to shut down Lin Zhen’s business, and failed again to reproduce the Icefire Divine Pill.
• Over three years, Lin Zhen advanced from Star System Level Five to Level Eight, raised his Star Power to 900,000, and became a Fifth Grade Alchemist.

Lin Zhen became a Fifth Grade Alchemist and prepared to nurture a Divine Infant with a weapon made from the essence of every Energy Element. After enduring the painful breakthrough and ten months of cultivation, his Divine Infant emerged holding a seven-colored Long Spear.

• Lin Zhen refined Gathering Essence Powder, earned promotion to Alchemist Guild Elder, and accepted Lin Feng as his paid Realm King bodyguard.
• Water Mirror told Lin Zhen a legend that gathering the essence of the Energy Elements could create a Divine Infant's Weapon, and Lin Zhen used the Purple Qi and gathered elements in his Dark Star Space to prepare one.
• Thomas examined Lin Zhen's Mental Power Potion, declared that Lin Zhen had surpassed him in potion-making, and showed him his own Bronze-level Divine Infant.
• Lin Zhen endured eleven days of agony to fuse a Long Spear made from Energy Elements into his Mental Sea of Consciousness, then drank ten Mental Power Potions to begin nurturing his Divine Infant.
• After ten months, Lin Zhen's mental power had nourished the embryo, and a fair, chubby Divine Infant emerged holding a seven-colored Long Spear.

Lin Zhen emerged from seclusion with a newly born divine infant and searched for a powerful World King to use in refining his clone. Lin Feng told him about HuaHua TaiSui, a fugitive World King wanted by Eternal Life Realm powerhouses who was hiding in Xianle County.

• Lin Zhen’s divine infant awakened, restoring his Mental Power and strengthening it beyond his previous Emerald Radiance Grade level.
• Lin Zhen left the Alchemist Guild with Lin Feng, who complained that their shops were losing money because Gu Yunting was competing against them.
• At PinWei Guan, Lin Zhen heard diners debate powerful World Kings and decided to search for a suitable candidate to refine his clone.
• Lin Zhen searched bounty notices in the Dimensional Universe but found that the wanted World Kings near Xianle County did not meet his requirements.
• Lin Feng told Lin Zhen about HuaHua TaiSui, a World King who had secretly recorded the Great Liang Crown Princess bathing and escaped a hunt by multiple Eternal Life Realm Martial Artists.
• Lin Feng revealed that HuaHua TaiSui was currently in Xianle County.

Lin Zhen secretly weakened HuaHua TaiSui with Frost Ice Lotus before attacking him and forcing a body seizure. He took over HuaHua TaiSui’s body as a clone and absorbed his memories, leaving the story with Lin Zhen facing the aftermath of the overwhelming influx.

• Lin Feng told Lin Zhen that HuaHua TaiSui was hiding in Xianle County and gave him the estate’s location.
• Lin Zhen abducted HuaHua TaiSui’s cook, used Soul Lock to make him loyal, and infiltrated the estate.
• Lin Zhen secretly added Frost Ice Lotus to HuaHua TaiSui’s meals, allowing the cold to accumulate and suppress his Star Power.
• Lin Zhen’s disguised meal froze HuaHua TaiSui’s and his Domain King guard’s dantians, and Lin Zhen killed the guard.
• HuaHua TaiSui sent his Divine Infant to attack Lin Zhen, but Lin Zhen wounded it and used a body-seizure pill before crushing HuaHua TaiSui’s Mental Sea of Consciousness.
• Lin Zhen seized HuaHua TaiSui’s body as a clone and drew the wounded Divine Infant back into its Mental Sea of Consciousness, then confronted the flood of HuaHua TaiSui’s memories.

Lin Zhen absorbed HuaHua TaiSui’s memories and gained a powerful clone, then began preparing to remove the Ice Soul Divine Needles and strengthen it. After returning to Xianle County, he obtained Black Tortoise blood and posted requests for the other Divine Beasts’ blood, but a mocking voice confronted him outside the guild.

• Lin Zhen learned HuaHua TaiSui’s techniques and discovered that the Crown Princess’s three Ice Soul Divine Needles had suppressed the clone’s Star Power.
• Lin Zhen changed the clone’s appearance to match his own, concealed its realm as Star System Level Nine, and kept HuaHua TaiSui’s Six-Winged Poison Dragon as a fighting force.
• Lin Zhen returned to Xianle County and resumed refining Gathering Essence Powder while his clone went to the guild.
• Lin Zhen asked Susanna for the blood of the Four Divine Beasts, took the guild’s Black Tortoise blood, and asked her to seek the other three kinds.
• A stranger mocked Lin Zhen as the notorious Icefire Alchemist outside the guild.

Lin Zhen killed four Domain Kings who attacked him outside the Alchemist Guild and crippled the last one, sending a warning to Gu Yunting. He reopened the Icefire Divine Pill shop to booming business and prepared for Gu Yunting to retaliate.

• Nearby Domain Kings demanded compensation from Lin Zhen and attacked him outside the Alchemist Guild.
• Lin Zhen killed four attackers with Finger Flick Sword Qi, then used Mental Impact to subdue the last and pierced his Dantian Qi Sea, leaving him powerless to deliver a message to Gu Yunting.
• Thomas checked on Lin Zhen, ordered the bodies removed, and invited him for a drink, but Lin Zhen returned to his shop to prepare to reopen.
• Lin Zhen tricked Lin Feng into helping clean the shop, then decorated it, stocked the shelves, and reopened the Icefire Divine Pill shop.
• Customers rushed in, and the shop sold a year's worth of accumulated stock for 3.5 billion in one day.
• Lin Zhen told Lin Feng that Gu Yunting would come after him and said he had been waiting for him.

Gu Yunting sought Elder Qin’s help in removing Lin Zhen by sending him back to the Qilin Clan, but Elder Qin refused and suggested using Lin Zhen’s enemy Ke Jianglong instead. Lin Zhen acquired Azure Dragon blood and learned that White Tiger blood would be auctioned soon, then prepared to settle matters with Gu Yunting before leaving Xianle County.

• Gu Yunting asked Elder Qin to arrange Lin Zhen’s return to the Qilin Clan, but Elder Qin refused after learning Lin Zhen was a Fifth Grade Alchemist.
• Elder Qin recommended Ke Jianglong, who hated Lin Zhen, as someone who could kill him, and Gu Yunting added the contact information Elder Qin provided.
• Lin Zhen collected Azure Dragon blood from Susanna and learned that White Tiger blood would be sold at an auction three nights later.
• Lin Zhen’s sales brought his cash to ten billion, and he planned to sell his remaining stock, deal with Gu Yunting, and travel toward the Phoenix Clan.
• Lin Zhen searched the Dimensional Universe for items at the upcoming auction as he planned to strengthen his main body and clone.

Lin Zhen prepared for All Heavens Auction House by selling Grand Abyss Swordplay and refining pills, then advanced to Star System Level Nine. At the auction, he bid on White Tiger blood, which he needed to unseal the first Divine Needle.

• Lin Zhen found an Ancient Pill Formula and the Starfall Five Forms among the upcoming auction items, but worried his 11 billion would not cover his goals.
• Lin Zhen consigned Grand Abyss Swordplay, a secret manual from an Eternal Life Realm expert, after the auction house estimated it could sell for 5 billion.
• Lin Zhen sold his remaining pills over three days, raised his wealth to 15 billion, and advanced to Star System Level Nine with 970,000 star power.
• Lin Zhen and Lin Feng attended the auction, where Lin Zhen noticed Gu Yunting arrive with a mocking glance.
• Lin Zhen watched the bidding for White Tiger blood and raised the price to 200 million.

Lin Zhen secured the White Tiger blood, then competed with Gu Yunting for an Ancient Pill Formula. Gu Yunting won after bidding 18 billion, while Lin Zhen appeared to give up, though he privately considered the outcome part of his plan.

• Lin Zhen won the White Tiger blood with a 200 million bid, while Gu Yunting chose not to compete.
• Gu Yunting explained that he intended to stop Lin Zhen from obtaining the Ancient Pill Formula, which he believed would strengthen Lin Zhen’s position in the alchemy market.
• Lin Zhen waited for the Ancient Pill Formula to appear and drove its price to 12 billion, defeating Elder Wang and the other bidders.
• Gu Yunting entered the bidding at 13 billion, and Lin Zhen countered with 15 billion.
• Gu Yunting raised the price to 18 billion, and Lin Zhen sat down, leaving Gu Yunting to win the formula.
• Lin Zhen let out a long breath and thought that everything was going according to plan.

Gu Yunting outbid Lin Zhen for the Ancient Pill Formula and Grand Abyss Swordplay, believing he had thwarted Lin Zhen's plans. As the auction for Lin Zhen's true target, the Starfall Five Forms, reached 18 billion, Lin Zhen raised the bid to 18.1 billion, leaving Gu Yunting stunned.

• Gu Yunting explained that he expected Lin Zhen to pursue swordplay and used his wealth to outbid him for the Ancient Pill Formula and Grand Abyss Swordplay.
• Lin Zhen received 17.1 billion from the sale of the pill formula and resolved to obtain the Starfall Five Forms, confident he could recover the other ancient texts by killing Gu Yunting.
• Bidding for the Starfall Five Forms climbed to 12 billion, and Gu Yunting urged his World King companion to keep bidding against Lin Zhen.
• After Lin Zhen raised the price to 15 billion, Gu Yunting transferred 5 billion to his companion so they could bid 18 billion.
• Lin Feng told Lin Zhen that Gu Yunting had run out of money, and Lin Zhen bid 18.1 billion.

Lin Zhen secured the Starfall Five Forms manual at the auction, then entered the Dimensional Arena to practice its first form by fighting for prize money. After defeating a series of challengers, he doubled his pool to 500 million and faced a queue of nearly fifty thousand opponents.

• Lin Zhen outbid Gu Yunting for the Starfall Five Forms manual and received Gold Card Member status at All Heavens Auction House.
• Lin Zhen reviewed the manual and planned to master its first three forms before settling his score with Gu Yunting.
• Lin Zhen set up a prize arena in the Dimensional Arena and defeated his first challengers with Meteor Fall as he practiced the technique.
• Lin Zhen defeated a strong challenger who wagered the entire 250 million prize pool, raising it to 500 million.
• Nearly fifty thousand Martial Artists queued to challenge Lin Zhen, giving him many more fights in which to hone the Starfall Five Forms.

Lin Zhen expanded his arena to challengers across the Origin Realm and faced opponents powerful enough to defeat him, including two likely members of Southern Liang’s Royal Clan. He kept fighting to improve his Starfall Five Forms, and the chapter ended as the sword-wielding Martial Artist returned to challenge him again.

• Lin Zhen opened his arena to cross-zone challengers, drawing a queue of more than a hundred thousand Star System Stage Martial Artists.
• A sword-wielding challenger pierced Lin Zhen’s heart, but Lin Zhen killed him with Divine Infant Out of Body, and the match ended in a draw.
• A dual-blade wielder using Reverse Blade defeated Lin Zhen and took 3.2 Billion after Lin Zhen chose not to use a weapon or his Divine Infant.
• Lin Zhen learned that both powerful challengers had classified identities and suspected they were young members of Southern Liang’s Royal Clan.
• For the next year, Lin Zhen kept setting up arenas, lost billions to the two opponents at times, and mastered Comet Fall while beginning to grasp Satellite Fall.
• With the prize pool back at 4 Billion, the sword-wielding Martial Artist returned and offered to stake 2 Billion against Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen defeated several challengers in the Star System Arena, obtained Vermilion Bird blood, and refined a Four Spirits Pill to unseal his clone’s first Bloodthirsty God Needle. As he prepared to meet Elder Wang, he realized Gu Yunting was likely setting an ambush, while Ke Jianglong waited to attack him.

• Lin Zhen defeated the swordsman, arranged two more arena challenges, and raised the prize pool to thirty-two billion while expecting a Royal Clan fighter to arrive.
• Susanna delivered the Vermilion Bird blood, which Lin Zhen bought for three hundred million before returning to refine the Four Spirits Pill.
• Gu Yunting arranged for Ke Jianglong to ambush Lin Zhen, and Ke Jianglong agreed to wait for his signal.
• Lin Zhen successfully refined the Four Spirits Pill, and his clone swallowed it to sate the first Bloodthirsty God Needle.
• Elder Wang invited Lin Zhen to discuss an incomplete ancient pill formula at his shop, and Lin Zhen suspected the meeting was a trap arranged by Gu Yunting.

Lin Zhen unsealed the first Bloodthirsty God Needle, then arranged to lure Gu Yunting’s pursuers away before returning to Xianle County. The chapter ended as Lin Zhen attacked Gu Yunting with Satellite Fall.

• Lin Zhen used the Four Spirits Pill to unseal the Bloodthirsty God Needle, raising his clone’s Star Power from two million to three million.
• Lin Zhen decided to leave Xianle County and whispered a plan to Lin Feng before departing on the Roc.
• Gu Yunting sent Ke Jianglong and two Realm Kings to pursue Lin Zhen, believing he had fled the city.
• Lin Feng used World Teleportation to bring Lin Zhen back from far away, then returned to the Alchemist Guild as instructed.
• Gu Yunting learned that Lin Zhen had vanished, and a flaming planet crashed through the window as Lin Zhen attacked him.

Lin Zhen nearly killed Gu Yunting, but Lu Yang intervened with his Flying Sword and forced Lin Zhen to use a risky escape. After capturing Gu Yunting inside Lin Feng's Inner World, Lin Zhen drew Lu Yang to the Alchemist Guild and teleported away again, leaving Lu Yang behind.

• Lin Zhen battered Gu Yunting, but Gu Yunting used an ancient pill and Grand Abyss Swordplay to turn the fight around.
• Lu Yang arrived and blocked Lin Zhen with his Flying Sword, forcing Lin Zhen to evade while Gu Yunting taunted him.
• Lin Zhen used Gravity to pull Gu Yunting close and sent his divine infant to delay Lu Yang, then took Gu Yunting into Lin Feng's Inner World.
• Lin Zhen and Lin Feng appeared above the Alchemist Guild, where Lin Zhen challenged Lu Yang and knocked Gu Yunting unconscious.
• When Lu Yang attacked, Lin Zhen used World Teleportation from his original body to take himself and Lin Feng away again.

Lin Zhen escaped Xianle County through a carefully planned chain of teleportations, leaving Lu Yang unable to catch him and issuing a limited Wanted Order. Safe at an inn, Lin Zhen extracted Gu Yunting’s memories and learned valuable alchemy, pill, and sword techniques; he planned to refine World Nourishing Pills and strengthen his Dark Star Space.

• Lin Zhen used his Inner World to conceal Lin Feng, then escaped Xianle County through multiple teleportation routes to Liren Inn on the outskirts of the Southern Liang Empire.
• Lu Yang chased Lin Zhen through Tiannan and Yinshan but lost his trail, then issued a Wanted Order that required Liang Chen’s approval to take effect across the empire.
• Lin Zhen released the unconscious Gu Yunting, killed him, and used Soul Search and Memory Stripping to seize his knowledge before Gu Yunting’s soul vanished.
• Lin Zhen spent nearly a month absorbing Gu Yunting’s memories and learned about the World Nourishing Pill, improved Divine Power Pill methods, Dark Alchemy, and Grand Abyss Swordplay.
• Lin Zhen planned to refine World Nourishing Pills to expand his Dark Star Space and light up Wu Gui Star.

Lin Zhen refined a World Nourishing Pill, gathered Gu Yunting’s herbs and a Taotie bone, and took Lin Feng toward Nanliang City to establish himself. After his Dark Star Space finished expanding, he lit the Wu Gui Star and raised his Star Power to 1.1 million, while worrying that Liang Zhihuan and Ning Qingxuan might recognize HuaHua TaiSui’s body as his own.

• Lin Zhen looted Gu Yunting’s herbs and found a Taotie bone among them.
• Lin Zhen refined and swallowed a World Nourishing Pill, then left with Lin Feng for the outskirts of Southern Liang.
• Lin Zhen planned to stay in Southern Liang, advance his alchemy rank, and eventually open a pharmacy with Lin Feng.
• Lin Zhen learned that Liang Zhihuan and Ning Qingxuan hated HuaHua TaiSui, whose body Lin Zhen now inhabited, and that Ning Qingxuan’s Ice Soul Divine Needles remained in his clone.
• After three days, Lin Zhen’s Dark Star Space finished expanding, and he lit the Wu Gui Star, increasing his Star Power by 120,000 to 1.1 million.

Liang Chen sought 32 billion from Ning Qingxuan to challenge Lin Zhen’s arena, and she agreed after he promised to return the principal. On the arena’s final day, Lin Zhen was about to leave the inn with Lin Feng when a challenger’s notice arrived.

• Liang Chen gathered money for a chance to claim Lin Zhen’s 32-billion prize pool and went to ask Ning Qingxuan for funds.
• Ning Qingxuan questioned Liang Chen about Lin Zhen, then transferred him 32 billion after he insisted he could win.
• Ning Qingxuan’s maid wondered whether Lin Zhen might be a scammer, but Ning Qingxuan believed a strong person would not deceive others.
• Lin Zhen prepared to leave for the city with Lin Feng, regretting that no Royal Clan challenger had appeared before his arena’s final day.
• As Lin Zhen and Lin Feng were about to depart, the Dimensional Universe notified Lin Zhen that someone wished to challenge his arena.

Lin Zhen defeated Liang Chen in the Dimensional Arena and reclaimed the money he had lost, then set up another high-stakes challenge to lure Liang Chen back. He and Lin Feng arrived at Nanliang City, where Lin Feng vowed to make something of himself.

• Lin Zhen accepted Liang Chen’s thirty-two-billion challenge and won after a prolonged fight by outlasting him in the Dimensional Arena.
• Liang Chen told Ning Qingxuan about the loss, and she comforted him but refused to give him more money for thirty years.
• Lin Zhen received six hundred and forty billion, gave Lin Feng one billion, and set up another ten-billion arena for Liang Chen.
• Liang Chen left a message promising to return, while Lin Zhen planned to keep giving him hope of victory until he learned his lesson.
• Lin Zhen and Lin Feng entered Nanliang City on foot, and Lin Feng vowed not to go home until he had made something of himself.

Liang Chen demanded payment for Imperial Wanted Orders to raise money for a rematch with Lin Zhen, while Lin Zhen arrived in Southern Liang and unexpectedly recognized Zhao Xiaoman. Lin Zhen watched as Zhao Xiaoman’s companions pressured her to appease Steward Feng, whose interest in her was plainly improper.

• Liang Chen ordered the regions to pay One Billion for each Wanted Order, and he began collecting transfers toward his goal of challenging Lin Zhen again.
• Lu Yang decided to delay paying Liang Chen until Xianle County had recovered from the disorder left by Gu Yunting’s death.
• Lin Zhen and Lin Feng stopped at a tavern in Southern Liang, where Lin Zhen considered his plans to qualify as a Sixth Grade Alchemist and eventually find Little Phoenix in Great Qin.
• Lin Zhen recognized Zhao Xiaoman, an old acquaintance from Earth, at the next table and sensed that she had become a level-one Domain King.
• Zhao Xiaoman’s companions urged her to flatter Steward Feng for help with their Pill Poison, while Steward Feng leered at her and left angrily when she refused to keep drinking.