Chapter Summaries

Wang Teng agreed to take the Grandmaster assessments in alchemy, blacksmithing, and runes, and Fan Tai Ning and Hobson helped arrange them. The Sub-Profession Alliance Grandmasters were skeptical of his age and claims, but Alfred approved his Rune Grandmaster assessment, which was about to begin.

• Fan Tai Ning and Hobson offered to arrange Wang Teng's Grandmaster assessments and split any rewards with him.
• Fan Tai Ning and the others brought Wang Teng before several Sub-Profession Alliance Grandmasters, who were astonished that he looked under twenty.
• Alfred questioned Fan Tai Ning about Wang Teng's alchemy and blacksmithing skills, then agreed to test his claims rather than dismiss them.
• Alfred approved Wang Teng's Rune Grandmaster assessment and led him to a lavish assessment room with two other Rune Grandmasters as proctors.

Wang Teng took the Great Grandmaster Level examination and inscribed three challenging arrays with astonishing speed and precision. The three examiners accepted his skill and confirmed that he had passed.

• Grandmaster Alfred set the first test array, the rank-two Crimson Origin Chaotic Sky Array, and Wang Teng completed it in half an hour using Mental Power.
• A green-skinned grandmaster chose the more complex rank-three Extreme Dao Meteor Array, which Wang Teng also finished in half an hour.
• A human Rune Grandmaster presented the rank-three Azure Wave Sea Dragon Array, and Wang Teng completed it after studying its diagram.
• The three grandmasters were stunned by Wang Teng’s flawless work on all three arrays and recognized his Great Grandmaster Level ability.
• Wang Teng asked whether he had passed, and Grandmaster Alfred enthusiastically confirmed that he had.

After passing the Rune Grandmaster assessment, Wang Teng went to take the Alchemy Grandmaster assessment and secretly collected alchemy attributes along the way. He raised his alchemy attainment to Great Grandmaster Level and obtained the Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pill formula, leaving him ready to attempt the assessment.

• Wang Teng passed the Rune Grandmaster assessment, and Alfred confirmed his Great Grandmaster status to Fan Tai Ning and the other Grandmasters.
• Hua Yuan invited Wang Teng to take the Alchemy Grandmaster assessment, and Wang Teng agreed to begin without resting.
• Wang Teng used a restroom excuse to visit the alchemists' area and collect Attribute Bubbles from alchemists refining pills.
• Wang Teng's alchemy attainment rose to Great Grandmaster Level, and he obtained the Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pill formula.

Wang Teng prepared for the Alchemy Grandmaster assessment by choosing to refine the rare Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pill. The grandmasters were astonished by his choice and even more impressed when he revealed his top-grade Great Grandmaster Level Black Meteor Furnace.

• Wang Teng obtained the Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pill formula and learned that the rare pill could heal and strengthen soul bodies.
• Wang Teng returned to the assessment room and chose to refine the Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pill, surprising the four grandmasters.
• Wang Teng insisted that the difficult pill was a relatively easy choice, leaving Hai Rou'er speechless.
• Wang Teng declined an offer to borrow a pill furnace and brought out his Black Meteor Furnace for the grandmasters to inspect.
• Hua Yuan and the other grandmasters praised the furnace as a top-grade Great Grandmaster Level treasure, and Hua Yuan admitted his own furnace could not compare.

Wang Teng began his Alchemy Grandmaster assessment by refining the Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pill with rare materials and his Azure Jade Glazed Flame. Outside, Grandmaster Keton and the Ji Family sought those materials, but Great Grandmasters barred them from interrupting the assessment; the Ji Family agreed to wait and ask to buy the pill if Wang Teng succeeded.

• Grandmaster Hua Yuan gave Wang Teng two sets of materials for the Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pill, and Wang Teng began refining them with his Azure Jade Glazed Flame.
• Grandmaster Keton failed to refine the pill after using five sets of materials, leaving the Ji Family worried about Grandfather's injuries.
• Grandmaster Keton learned that Grandmaster Hua Yuan had requisitioned the alliance's remaining materials and hurried to the assessment room with the Ji Family members.
• Grandmaster Alfred and the other Great Grandmasters stopped Grandmaster Keton from entering because the examinee was likely a Three Dao Grandmaster.
• The middle-aged man surnamed Ji accepted Alfred's suggestion to wait and try to buy the pill from Wang Teng if he succeeded.

While Grandmaster Keton and the others waited outside, Wang Teng rapidly refined the ingredients for the Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pill and began combining them. The chapter left him carefully fusing the ingredients as the four observing grandmasters watched tensely.

• Grandmaster Alfred told Grandmaster Keton that the examinee had passed the Rune Grandmaster examination, was not yet twenty, and came from a remote planet.
• Grandmaster Keton realized Alfred had prevented him from obstructing a rare young prodigy and thanked him, while the Ji Family promised him a gift for his help.
• Wang Teng refined all 628 ingredients for the Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pill in a little over an hour, astonishing Hua Yuan, Hai Rou'er, and the other grandmasters.
• Wang Teng used his Mental Power to fuse the ingredients in the order required by the pill formula, while the four grandmasters watched anxiously.

Wang Teng spent the night refining three Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills and nurturing them to exceptional quality. When they attracted a lightning tribulation, he rose into the sky to face it while concealing his appearance, and three bolts descended toward the pills.

• Wang Teng used one set of materials to refine three Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills and carefully nurtured them inside the Black Meteor Furnace.
• Grandmaster Hua Yuan told the waiting alchemists and Ji Yuanqing that Wang Teng's pill was likely high quality, and Ji Yuanqing hoped to obtain it for an injured family member.
• At dawn, Wang Teng's pills released a pillar of light that drew dark clouds and a lightning tribulation over the Sub-Profession Alliance.
• Wang Teng opened the furnace and sent all three pills into the sky, astonishing Grandmaster Keton, the other grandmasters, and the gathered onlookers.
• Wang Teng changed his appearance to avoid revealing his identity, then watched as three lightning bolts struck toward the pills.

Wang Teng refined three Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills and personally shattered all three waves of their lightning tribulation. After the pills were complete, he slipped away from the gathered spectators, then reunited with Grandmaster Hua Yuan and the others, who questioned his reckless display.

• Wang Teng charged into the sky and destroyed the first lightning wave with repeated punches while absorbing its Thunder Power with his Thunder Body.
• Wang Teng battered apart a stronger second wave, astonishing the alchemists and Grandmasters watching below.
• Wang Teng unleashed his Ancient God Body and shattered the merged third wave with one punch, clearing the dark clouds.
• Wang Teng collected the three finished Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills and left before the spectators could learn more about him.
• Grandmaster Hua Yuan and the others confronted Wang Teng in the assessment room, and Wang Teng claimed that withstanding a lightning tribulation was basic procedure.

Wang Teng’s Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills proved to have 100% mastery, drawing an offer from Ji Yuanqing and a bidding war among the grandmasters. After promising to refine another batch, Wang Teng prepared to take his final Forging Grandmaster examination.

• Ji Yuanqing told Wang Teng he needed Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills to treat his injured father and offered the Ji Family’s highest price and a favor in return.
• Wang Teng showed the grandmasters three pills with ten markings each, revealing that all had 100% mastery and stunning Grandmaster Keton and the others.
• Wang Teng gave Ji Yuanqing one pill on credit, and Ji Yuanqing left to arrange payment.
• The grandmasters competed to buy Wang Teng’s remaining pills, but he proposed refining another batch after his forging examination so they could share them.
• Grandmaster Mode invited Wang Teng to begin the Forging Grandmaster examination.

Wang Teng gained a strand of Heaven and Earth Tribulation Lightning from his tribulation and reached the Forging Room to take the Great Grandmaster Level forging assessment. After reviewing the Alliance’s available blueprints, he became interested in the Overturning Thunder Seal.

• Wang Teng discovered that the tribulation had increased his Thunder Element Starry Sky Source Power and given him Heaven and Earth Tribulation Lightning.
• Wang Teng separated the tribulation lightning from Darkness Fire, soothed it, and promised to find it more lightning to consume.
• Grandmaster Mode brought Wang Teng and the Forging Grandmasters to the Forging Room and explained that the assessment required forging one Great Grandmaster Level item.
• Wang Teng reviewed the Alliance’s item blueprints and stopped at the purple-golden Overturning Thunder Seal, a lightning-powered mental weapon noted for crushing foreheads.

Wang Teng forged the Overturning Thunder Seal using his Mystic Heavy Obsidian Gold and Cloud Thunder Crystal, shaping it like a brick and inscribing it with tribulation lightning. The finished weapon burst through the Alliance building’s dome, drawing dark clouds and thunder as its lightning tribulation began.

• Wang Teng revealed that he had enough Mystic Heavy Obsidian Gold to forge the Overturning Thunder Seal, and Grandmaster Mode arranged the remaining materials.
• Wang Teng used the Azure Jade Glazed Flame to melt the materials and fuse the Cloud Thunder Crystal with the Mystic Heavy Obsidian Gold.
• Wang Teng forged the fused metal with six hammers controlled by Mental Power, shaping the Origin Embryo into a brick.
• Wang Teng inscribed runes into the Origin Embryo and added a thread of tribulation lightning, which fused into it without trouble.
• The completed Overturning Thunder Seal emitted purple-golden light, smashed through the Alliance building’s dome, and drew dark clouds and thunder.

Wang Teng’s newly forged Overturning Thunder Seal triggered a lightning tribulation, and he let it face the strikes without help. As the third, much thicker bolt descended, Wang Teng watched calmly while the seal absorbed the Thunder Tribulation Power.

• The Overturning Thunder Seal blasted a huge hole through the Sub-Profession Alliance’s dome, and Wang Teng denied responsibility.
• Wang Teng and the Grandmasters flew outside to watch the Overturning Thunder Seal undergo its lightning tribulation as a crowd gathered below.
• The crowd mistook the seal’s square, flat shape for a deceptive appearance and speculated about who had forged it.
• The first two bolts struck the Overturning Thunder Seal while Grandmaster Mode and the others feared it would be destroyed.
• Wang Teng saw that the seal was absorbing the Thunder Tribulation Power and remained still as a third, much thicker bolt descended.

Wang Teng’s Overturning Thunder Seal survived a fourth thunder tribulation after he weakened the strike, absorbing its power and advancing to Great Grandmaster Level Four. The crowd learned that Wang Teng had forged the seal, and news of his arrival as a Three Dao Grandmaster spread throughout Imperial City.

• The thunderclouds formed a fourth tribulation, and Wang Teng revealed that he had added a strand of tribulation lightning to the Overturning Thunder Seal.
• Wang Teng used the Ancient God Body and several powerful punches to weaken the fourth thunderbolt before it struck the seal.
• The Overturning Thunder Seal absorbed the remaining Thunder Tribulation Power, while Wang Teng collected Attribute Bubbles containing Thunder Element Starry Sky Source Power and Heaven and Earth Tribulation Lightning.
• Wang Teng summoned the transformed seal, and Grandmaster Mode was zapped when he touched its lightning patterns.
• The grandmasters recognized that Wang Teng had raised the seal to Great Grandmaster Level Four and returned with him to the Sub-Profession Alliance.
• Onlookers spread the news that Wang Teng was both a Pill Dao Grandmaster and a Forging Grandmaster, causing Imperial City to erupt in commotion.

Wang Teng joined the Sub-Profession Alliance and gained the protection and support of several Grandmasters while keeping his identity confidential. After they learned he possessed two Heaven and Earth Strange Fires, he left with Fan Tai Ning and Alfred, promising to refine more Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills once the materials were ready.

• Wang Teng completed his Three Dao Grandmaster registration and joined the Sub-Profession Alliance, which offered him protection against the Cao Family and other troubles.
• Alfred and the other Grandmasters offered Wang Teng their help after hearing about his conflict with the Cao Family and the Parax Family.
• Several Grandmasters invited Wang Teng to stay with them so they could exchange insights, but Wang Teng chose to remain at Fan Tai Ning's residence.
• Wang Teng confirmed that his Azure Jade Glazed Flame was a Heaven and Earth Strange Fire and revealed that he also possessed the Light Fire.
• Wang Teng promised to refine more Nine Orifices Spirit Focusing Pills after the Grandmasters gathered the materials, then departed with Fan Tai Ning and Alfred.

After passing the Great Grandmaster Level assessment, Wang Teng sought a Domain Lord Level bodyguard in exchange for forging a weapon or refining pills. He entered the Virtual Universe under his real identity and contacted a Domain Lord who wanted a difficult fifth-grade weapon, leaving Wang Teng facing an eager video call invitation.

• At a banquet, Fan Tai Ning told Hou Zhiwei and Trist that Wang Teng had passed the Great Grandmaster Level assessment, and they became awed by him.
• Wang Teng asked Grandmaster Alfred how to find a Domain Lord Level bodyguard and learned to search the Sub-Profession Alliance's virtual network.
• Wang Teng showed Yuan Gungun his Rune Grandmaster, Pill Dao Grandmaster, and Forging Grandmaster tokens, then entered the Virtual Universe using his real identity.
• At the Sub-Profession Alliance, Wang Teng found a Domain Lord's task offering five billion Great Qian Coins and an additional request for a difficult Great Grandmaster Level fifth-grade weapon.
• Wang Teng messaged the task's owner, who recognized him as the Three Dao Grandmaster behind the day's lightning tribulation and invited him to a video call.

Wang Teng agreed to forge a Mechanical Race Domain Lord’s Great Grandmaster fifth-rank Thousand Machines Box in exchange for a condition, while Yuan Gungun warned him about the box’s possible secrets. The next day, Wang Teng met the Domain Lord at the Sub-Profession Alliance to discuss a Soul Contract, with both of them concealing their identities.

• Wang Teng accepted a video call and learned that the client was a Mechanical Race Domain Lord seeking help forging a Thousand Machines Box.
• Wang Teng agreed to forge the box and negotiated for the Domain Lord to grant him one condition, subject to equivalent exchange in a Soul Contract.
• Yuan Gungun warned Wang Teng that the Mechanical Race rarely shared its creations and that the box might carry secrets.
• Wang Teng and Yuan Gungun examined the Overturning Thunder Seal and found that it had absorbed tribulation lightning and might grow stronger.
• Wang Teng visited the Sub-Profession Alliance with Fan Tai Ning, concealed his appearance, and met the Mechanical Race Domain Lord to discuss their contract.

Wang Teng signed a Soul Contract with An Lan, agreeing to forge the Thousand Machines Box in exchange for An Lan serving as his bodyguard. The two went to Treasure Street to find materials, where Wang Teng improved his Ore Seeker skill before Cao Guan confronted him at a stall.

• Wang Teng and An Lan signed the Soul Contract, agreeing that Wang Teng would forge the Thousand Machines Box and keep its design secret.
• Wang Teng persuaded An Lan to be his bodyguard by revealing his identity and explaining his conflict with the Cao Family.
• An Lan told Wang Teng that he needed materials from Treasure Street, and Wang Teng agreed to help appraise ores for a fee.
• Wang Teng collected Ore Seeking Art Attribute Bubbles on Treasure Street and raised his Ore Seeker level to intermediate.
• Wang Teng picked out a promising piece of Red Star Mother Copper ore, but Cao Guan arrived and taunted him.

Wang Teng and An Lan mocked Cao Guan at a bargain-hunting venue until Cao Jiaojiao arrived and stopped him from fighting. Cao Jiaojiao introduced herself, flirted with Wang Teng, and invited him to dinner at the Cao residence the next evening, which he accepted.

• Wang Teng turned Cao Guan's remark about bargain hunting against him, drawing hostile looks from the crowd and leaving him flustered.
• An Lan and Wang Teng mocked Cao Guan as stupid, angering him until he tried to attack Wang Teng.
• Cao Jiaojiao appeared, stopped Cao Guan, and challenged his behavior before asking Wang Teng to identify himself.
• Wang Teng and Cao Jiaojiao exchanged flirtatious remarks, while Cao Guan grew furious and Cao Jiaojiao told him to stay out of her affairs.
• Cao Jiaojiao introduced herself as a member of the Cao Family and invited Wang Teng to dinner with her father the next evening; Wang Teng accepted.

Wang Teng maneuvered Cao Guan into buying a worthless ore, then had An Lan open a larger, inconspicuous stone that yielded a massive amount of Red Star Mother Copper. Cao Guan and Cao Jiaojiao were left stunned as the crowd estimated the find was worth over a hundred million Great Qian Coins.

• Wang Teng agreed to visit the Cao Family, then let Cao Guan buy a gambling stone for thirty million Great Qian Coins.
• Cao Guan had the stone cut open and found only scraps of Red Star Mother Copper, losing nearly all his money.
• An Lan brought out the larger ore he had bought earlier, and the old master cut it open at Wang Teng's direction.
• The stone revealed a cut face that was four-fifths reddish-green with Red Star Mother Copper, astonishing Cao Guan, Cao Jiaojiao, and the gathered crowd.

Wang Teng's advice led An Lan to uncover Red Star Mother Copper worth over a hundred million from a cheap stepping stone, drawing the attention of Adris of the Parax Family. Adris challenged Wang Teng to a high-stakes ore-gambling contest at a nearby workshop, and Wang Teng faced his taunts without backing down.

• An Lan bought a stepping stone for fifty thousand Great Qian Coins on Wang Teng's advice and uncovered Red Star Mother Copper worth over a hundred million.
• The Fox Clan owner regretted selling the stone, while Wang Teng's boastful response drew criticism from veteran ore gamblers and Cao Guan.
• Adris arrived with Cao Guan, mocked Wang Teng, and challenged him after Wang Teng intimidated one of his attendants with Slaughter Intent.
• Adris proposed a high-stakes contest at the Gambling Mine Workshop, where each loser would pay the value of the winner's stone.
• Cao Guan taunted Wang Teng to accept Adris's challenge, and Wang Teng joked that he would leave Cao Guan his underwear if they played instead.