Chapter Summaries

Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in Black Rock City and explored its streets. After Xiao Yi Xian spotted a bracelet at a stall, Lin Ran discovered its crystal was valuable Purple Spirit Crystal and replaced it with a fifth-tier Ice Crocodile Magic Core for her.

• Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian reached Black Rock City, where Xiao Yi Xian described the city's facilities and defenses as they walked around.
• Xiao Yi Xian tried to buy a Purple Crystal bracelet from a vendor, and Lin Ran paid for it and took it with them.
• Lin Ran broke the bracelet's purple setting and revealed that it contained scraps of Purple Spirit Crystal.
• Lin Ran ate the Purple Spirit Crystal scraps and set a fifth-tier Ice Crocodile Magic Core into the bracelet for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted the bracelet and thanked Lin Ran.

After recovering from exhaustion, Lin Ran attended Black Rock City's monthly auction with Xiao Yi Xian, who grew increasingly close to him. At the appraisal room, Lin Fei interrupted them, and a woman in a silver dress appeared to confront her.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke Lin Ran and explained that the monthly auction might feature high-level Magic Cores.
• Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian shared an intimate moment before heading to the auction house.
• Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian made their way through the crowded entrance, discouraging anyone who tried to approach them or steal from them.
• Lin Ran entered the Treasure Appraisal Room to ask about auctioning an item, but Lin Fei cut in with a sandalwood box.
• A tall woman in a tight silver dress appeared and accused Lin Fei of cutting in line.

Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian visited Black Rock City’s Treasure Appraisal Room, where Lin Fei and Xue Mei were arranging an auction for two fourth-grade pills. Xiao Yi Xian presented three pills, and the appraiser recognized one as a fifth-grade Recovery Pill and went to summon Master Otto and Master Frank to inspect them.

• Lin Fei cut ahead of Lin Ran at the appraisal room, then apologized and returned behind him after Xue Mei called her out.
• Lin Fei and Xue Mei arranged to auction two fourth-grade pills and asked that the proceeds be exchanged for specific medicinal ingredients.
• Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian presented three jade bottles after the appraiser noticed Xiao Yi Xian’s Ice Crocodile magic core.
• The appraiser identified the emerald pill as a fifth-grade Recovery Pill and hurried to invite Master Otto and Master Frank to appraise the pills.

Lin Ran presented three fifth-grade pills for appraisal at Black Rock Auction House, stunning Lin Fei and Xue Mei after their earlier dismissal of him. The first pill was confirmed as a high-quality Restoration Pill, and Otto and Frank recognized the other two as Spirit Dou Pills.

• Lin Fei and Xue Mei entered with Otto and Frank and were surprised to learn Lin Ran owned the fifth-grade pills.
• Lin Fei and Xue Mei admitted they had only met Lin Ran while bringing pills for appraisal, and Xiao Yi Xian urged the appraisers to begin.
• Otto and Frank confirmed the first pill was a high-quality, patterned Restoration Pill, which the auction house estimated could sell for 1.5 to 1.8 million gold coins.
• Lin Ran allowed Otto and Frank to inspect the other two pills, whose powerful fragrance filled the room.
• Otto and Frank recognized the two pills as Spirit Dou Pills, the pinnacle of the fifth grade.

Lin Ran offered three high-grade pills, including two Spirit Dou Pills, to the Black Rock Auction House and sought rare treasures in exchange for the Spirit Dou Pills. After leaving, he investigated Xiao Yan’s whereabouts and considered whether he might encounter him and Yun Yun in the Tagor Desert.

• Otto and Frank confirmed the exceptional quality of the Spirit Dou Pills, and Otto arranged for the City Lord’s experts to help guard the auction.
• The auction house estimated that each Spirit Dou Pill could sell for around four million gold coins and gave Lin Ran a Black Crystal Auction Card.
• Lin Ran asked to trade the two Spirit Dou Pills for rare materials instead of gold coins, and the person in charge promised to seek suitable treasures for the afternoon auction.
• Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian toured Black Rock City, where Lin Ran learned that Xiao Yan had not visited the Alchemist Guild.
• Lin Ran speculated that Xiao Yan might head to Jia Nan Academy or the Tagor Desert, and thought about the Green Lotus Core Flame and Yun Yun.

Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at Black Rock City's premium auction, where Lin Ran's pills had drawn a large crowd and the City Lord warned his people not to offend him. Lin Fei and Xue Mei came to visit Lin Ran, leaving the chapter as Xiao Yi Xian announced their arrival.

• Lin Ran took Xiao Yi Xian to the auction house, where his pills had helped draw a huge crowd to the premium auction.
• The auction house's attendant escorted Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian through a private entrance and gave them a VIP room overlooking the hall.
• The City Lord told Otto that Lin Ran's strength was unclear and ordered Lin Fei to apologize, preferably with Xue Mei accompanying her.
• Lin Ran and Xiao Yi Xian noticed that Lin Fei, Otto, Xue Mei, and Frank had seats across from their private room.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Ran that the two women they had met that morning had come to visit him.

Lin Fei and Xue Mei approached Lin Ran with Magic Cores, hoping to gain alchemy guidance, and learned that he had personally refined the pills. Lin Ran offered to let their teachers observe his alchemy if they brought him one of the valuable items he had named, then the auction began.

• Xue Mei and Lin Fei offered Lin Ran fifth-tier Magic Cores and asked for guidance from the alchemist they believed was behind him.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that Lin Ran had refined the pills himself, surprising both women.
• Lin Ran refused to teach them but offered to let their teachers observe his alchemy if they brought one of the items he had mentioned earlier.
• Lin Ran added that a lethally poisonous item would also satisfy his conditions.
• The auction bell rang and a protective barrier formed around the platform, after which Lin Ran told the women to return when the auction ended.

At the Black Rock Premium Auction, an Azure Spirit Pill drew fierce bidding, while Xue Mei and Lin Fei revealed that a young man had offered to let Black Rock City’s Alchemists watch him refine pills. The chapter ended with Frank ordering Xue Mei to give the young man an Azure Blue Crystal in exchange for the chance.

• The auctioneer opened the Black Rock Premium Auction by presenting an Azure Spirit Pill and describing its power to help a peak Dou Shi break through.
• Bidders drove the Azure Spirit Pill’s price up before it sold for three hundred and ninety thousand.
• In the Black Rock City Lord’s private room, Otto and the City Lord questioned Xue Mei and Lin Fei about the young man who had refined a Spirit Dou Pill.
• Xue Mei said the young man would let them observe his pill refinement if they provided the items he had requested, but he planned to leave the next day.
• Frank ordered Xue Mei to take his token to the storeroom and bring out an Azure Blue Crystal.

At the auction, Frank and Otto left to obtain an Azure Blue Crystal after Lin Ran’s words, while the Black Rock City Lord won a fifth-rank Restoration Pill. Lin Ran recognized the next herb as a Dragon Blood Velvet Chrysanthemum, an ingredient for the seventh-rank Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill, and decided to claim it.

• Frank rejected Otto and Lin Fei’s objections, left the auction house to retrieve the Azure Blue Crystal, and Otto followed him.
• The auctioneer presented a fifth-rank Restoration Pill, and the Black Rock City Lord won it with a bid of one and a half million.
• Lin Ran spotted a crimson Dragon Blood Velvet Chrysanthemum on the next auction tray and recognized it as an ingredient for the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill.
• Lin Ran decided to obtain the herb so he could pursue the pill’s enhancement to his physical strength.

Lin Ran bid on the Dragon Blood Velvet Chrysanthemum and several other items at the Black Rock Auction, where a mysterious woman revealed the essence blood of a Sixth-tier Monster Beast as the second-to-last lot. The chapter ended with the woman demanding that the buyer refine a sixth-grade pill, prompting Lin Ran to suspect she had come for him.

• Lin Ran bid five hundred thousand for the Dragon Blood Velvet Chrysanthemum, silencing the spoiled young masters who had been competing for it.
• Lin Ran made several more modest bids on rare herbs and the venom of the Fifth-tier Monster Beast, the Heavenly Poison Wolf Spider, as the auction continued.
• The auctioneer unveiled the essence blood of the Sixth-tier Monster Beast, the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor, surprising the crowd and Lin Ran.
• The Black Rock City Lord confronted an auction house staff member for concealing the blood from the auction list, then sensed that the graceful woman nearby was a Dou Wang.
• The auctioneer announced that the seller wanted no money and required the buyer to refine a sixth-grade pill, and Lin Ran wondered whether she had come for him.

At the Black Rock Auction House, a mysterious woman offered the blood essence of a sixth-tier Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor in exchange for a sixth-rank pill, stunning the bidders. Lin Ran challenged the offer from private room number one, and the woman approached him to negotiate as Xiao Yi Xian grew jealous.

• The auctioneer announced that the blood essence of the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor was available in exchange for a sixth-rank pill, but the bidders fell silent because no one could refine one.
• Otto and Frank returned to the auction hall and learned that a powerful woman had forced the blood essence into the auction house's hands.
• The Black Rock City Lord decided to avoid provoking the woman, whose strength surpassed his and who seemed to be targeting someone else.
• Lin Ran's voice came from private room number one, claiming the blood essence alone was not enough to refine a sixth-rank pill.
• The woman stepped into the light and asked Lin Ran what additional stakes he wanted, while Xiao Yi Xian accused her of trying to seduce her young master.

Lin Ran accepted the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor’s blood essence as a gift and agreed to let Master Gute observe his alchemy. The auction then revealed two Spirit Dou Pills as its final items, drawing the attention of the assembled experts.

• Xiao Yi Xian warned Lin Ran that the enchanting woman might be dangerous, while Lin Ran negotiated for the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor’s blood essence.
• The woman offered the blood essence as a calling gift, and Lin Ran agreed to meet her after the auction.
• Master Gute offered a Fifth-tier Monster Beast Magic Core and a choice of three medicinal treasures for the chance to observe Lin Ran refining pills.
• Lin Ran accepted Gute’s offer, and the auctioneer sold the blood essence to him.
• The auctioneer unveiled two Spirit Dou Pills, which could each raise a Dou Wang’s strength by one star.

The Heavenly Snake Mansion woman won Lin Ran’s two Spirit Dou Pills after outbidding Gute with a Sixth-tier Magic Core and Seventh-tier Monster Beast essence blood. After the auction ended, she and several powerful figures went to visit Lin Ran in private room number one.

• The Heavenly Snake Mansion woman offered five million gold coins and a Sixth-tier Gold-Devouring Rat King Magic Core for the Spirit Dou Pills.
• Gute countered with a sixth-rank pill formula, rare ingredients, and Peach Blossom Fire, but the woman raised her bid with Seventh-tier Netherworld Python essence blood.
• Gute conceded, and the auctioneer awarded the Spirit Dou Pills to the Heavenly Snake Mansion woman, ending the auction.
• The woman revealed Dou Qi Wings and flew to private room number one, while Gute also went to see Lin Ran.
• Otto, Frank, the Black Rock City Lord, Lin Fei, and Xue Mei decided to visit Lin Ran.

After the auction, Lin Ran received his earnings and the items he had bought, then met with Elder Lu, who wanted a sixth-rank medicinal pill refined. He revealed a Pill Tower-certified Sixth-Rank Alchemist badge, leaving everyone in the room stunned as he asked what pill she needed.

• Elder Lu and the other guests gathered in Lin Ran's room after the auction.
• President Wang delivered Lin Ran's earnings and purchases, and Lin Ran gave Xiao Yi Xian the remaining ingredients and the purple-gold card.
• Elder Lu asked Lin Ran to refine a sixth-rank medicinal pill and was shocked when he said he would refine it himself.
• Lin Ran displayed his six-patterned alchemist badge, and Otto and Frank recognized him as a Sixth-Rank Alchemist.
• Elder Lu recognized the badge as one issued by the Pill Tower, and Lin Ran confirmed it before asking which pill she wanted.

Lin Ran examined the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s formula for a Sixth-Rank Demon Transformation Pill and agreed to refine it. After taking the formula, he asked Green Yi for the medicinal ingredients, leaving her to hand over another Storage Ring.

• The Black Rock City Lord realized Lin Ran was a Pill Tower-certified Sixth-Rank Alchemist, and Lin Ran told him not to read too much into his presence.
• Green Yi presented an ancient formula, and Xiao Yi Xian identified it as a Demon Transformation Pill.
• Gute explained that the pill could let magical beasts partially assume human form, and Green Yi acknowledged the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s ambitions.
• Lin Ran agreed to refine the pill and claimed the formula according to alchemy custom.
• Green Yi handed another Storage Ring to Xiao Yi Xian for the ingredients.

Lin Ran agreed to refine a Demon Transformation Pill for Green Yi and went with Gute to his secluded residence to begin. While Lin Ran and the others explored Gute’s collection, Xiao Yi Xian received several rare items, including an Ice Spirit Cold Spring, and Frank offered Lin Ran a deep-blue crystal.

• Lin Ran examined Green Yi’s Storage Ring, accepted the ingredients for the Demon Transformation Pill, and agreed to refine it that day.
• Gute, Otto, and Frank argued over where Lin Ran should refine the pill, and Lin Ran chose to go to Gute’s residence.
• The Black Rock City Lord stayed behind to report Lin Ran’s arrival to the Imperial Capital, while Gute gave him a badge bearing his personal mark.
• At Gute’s home, Lin Ran let Xiao Yi Xian choose three items from Gute’s rare collection, and she selected two poisonous treasures.
• Gute gave Xiao Yi Xian an Ice Spirit Cold Spring from a hidden compartment, and Frank offered Lin Ran a deep-blue crystal.

Lin Ran refined a Sixth-Rank Demon Transformation Pill in a secret chamber while alchemists from Black Rock City watched in awe. He successfully formed the pill and contained its energy, leaving the group to witness the completed refinement.

• Lin Ran accepted the gathered ingredients and followed Gute to a secret chamber to refine the pill.
• Lin Ran brought out his Sunfire Cauldron and explained that his teacher had taken it from an Eighth-Rank Alchemist.
• Lin Ran used Crimson-Gold Flame to refine multiple herbs at once while the onlookers watched his technique.
• Lin Ran infused the forming pill with Dou Qi and completed the final stage of refinement.
• The Demon Transformation Pill released a violent energy ripple, which Lin Ran blocked with an energy barrier.
• Lin Ran formed a perfectly round, jet-black Sixth-Rank Demon Transformation Pill.

Lin Ran refined a sixth-rank Demon Transformation Pill, convincing Green Yi of his skill and earning her request to travel with him to the Tagor Desert. As Lin Ran prepared to leave Black Rock City, Frank offered Xue Mei as another companion.

• Lin Ran successfully refined a sixth-rank Demon Transformation Pill and gave it to Green Yi.
• Green Yi asked to test the pill on a Monster Beast elder from Heavenly Snake Mansion and requested to accompany Lin Ran to the Tagor Desert.
• Lin Ran agreed to let Green Yi join him, despite Xiao Yi Xian's objections.
• Otto and Frank realized Lin Ran's pill refining had given them insights that might help them advance to fifth-rank alchemists.
• Frank proposed that Xue Mei accompany Lin Ran, and Xue Mei offered to serve and keep him company.

Lin Ran rejected Xue Mei as a maid but gave her a chance to prove herself by becoming a fourth-tier alchemist within three years and seeking out Yun Yun. He then traveled toward Desert City with Xiao Yi Xian and Green Yi, where he anticipated a possible ambush and became interested in Qing Lin.

• Lin Ran refused Frank's offer to take Xue Mei as his servant, then marked her with crimson-gold Dou Qi and set her a three-year alchemy challenge.
• Frank promised to help Xue Mei reach the fourth-tier alchemist level, and she vowed to meet Lin Ran's requirement.
• Lin Ran left Black Rock City with Xiao Yi Xian and Green Yi aboard a flying beast after Frank and the others saw them off.
• Green Yi chose Desert City as their destination, and Lin Ran dismissed her when she tried to speak with him.
• Lin Ran told Xiao Yi Xian he had nothing to fear from a possible attack in Desert City, where Green Man and the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor were present, and he thought of Qing Lin.

Lin Ran absorbed the Azure Blue Crystal, strengthening his Dou Qi and flames, then considered how to address his declining blood vitality. Meanwhile, Green Yi gave the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor the Demon Transformation Pill and warned him that its Sixth-Rank Alchemist was aboard their flying beast.

• Lin Ran absorbed the Azure Blue Crystal and gained a trace of the Azure Water Flame, which his Dou Qi swallowed and transformed into a slight increase in strength.
• Lin Ran considered the Dragon Blood Velvet Chrysanthemum and the ingredients needed for the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill, but decided not to consume the herb.
• Lin Ran sensed two powerful auras approaching Green Yi atop the flying monster beast.
• Green Yi tossed the Demon Transformation Pill to the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor and warned him not to consume it aboard the beast.
• Green Man and the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor worried that the Sixth-Rank Alchemist who refined the pill might bring trouble upon them.
• Green Yi said the alchemist was different because he was very young.