Chapter Summaries

After Wang Teng publicized the Candle Dragon Race body, he faced down Zhu Longshan’s followers and took Wade under his wing. Wang Teng and his companions went to an Immortal instructor’s public lecture, where Wade revealed he could help with their planned business through his network of Great Qian Empire warriors.

• Wang Teng’s announcement that he would sell the Candle Dragon Race body enraged Zhu Longshan and drew many inquiries from interested buyers.
• Yue Qiqiao and the others met Wang Teng at his manor, where Wade arrived fleeing Zhu Longshan’s followers and begged Wang Teng for protection.
• Wang Teng chased off the followers, then agreed to take Wade in after Yue Qiqiao explained that Wade had defended him online.
• On the way to a public lecture, Wang Teng told his companions that he had recovered the Candle Dragon Race body from a Demon Brain Race Darkness Breed and intended to return it to the Candle Dragon Race for a price.
• Wang Teng and the others entered Saint Hall Number Seven Building and paid to attend an Immortal instructor’s lecture.
• Wade offered to join Wang Teng’s business and revealed that he had formed a Mutual Aid Society of Great Qian Empire geniuses and could help open up business channels.

Wang Teng attended an Immortal Level mentor’s lecture on Spirit Power cultivation, gained attributes and an incomplete Seed Spirit Secret Method, then confronted Zhu Longshan over the Candle Dragon Race body. The chapter ended with Zhu Longshan agreeing to challenge Wang Teng on the Newcomer Ranking List after Wang Teng demanded 30,000 points for the match.

• Wade explained how he had founded the Mutual Aid Society, and Wang Teng recognized his talent for rallying weaker students.
• Laias taught a public class on Spirit Power cultivation, and Wang Teng collected Spirit, Comprehension, and Seed Spirit Secret Method attributes afterward.
• Wang Teng learned that the incomplete Seed Spirit Secret Method could cultivate Spirit Power or secretly drain another person’s soul.
• Laias told Zaka that a new student with strong Spirit Power might suit his secret technique.
• Zhu Longshan confronted Wang Teng and demanded the return of the Candle Dragon Race body, but Wang Teng refused and taunted him about his family’s reaction.
• Wang Teng offered to return the body if Zhu Longshan challenged him, and Zhu Longshan accepted and posted the challenge before Wang Teng demanded 30,000 points.

Wang Teng fought Zhu Longshan on the Newcomer Ranking List after collecting thirty thousand points from him, and overwhelmed him with Yellow Springs Weak Water, Azure Jade Glazed Flame, and his physical strength. Zhu Longshan transformed into his Candle Dragon Body, but Wang Teng seized his tail and repeatedly smashed him into the ground, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Zhu Longshan transferred thirty thousand points to Wang Teng, and they headed to the Newcomer Ranking List as students gathered to watch.
• Wang Teng and Zhu Longshan entered a simulated desert battlefield, where Zhu Longshan chose the scene and they began fighting with their fists.
• Wang Teng used Yellow Springs Weak Water to suppress Zhu Longshan's Candle Dragon Flame, then countered his halberd attack with Azure Jade Glazed Flame and the Blazing Flame Lion Killing Spear.
• Zhu Longshan revealed his Candle Dragon Body, but Wang Teng stopped his dragon tail with the Ancient God Body and Dragon Blood Battle Body.
• Wang Teng swung Zhu Longshan by the tail and repeatedly slammed him into the ground until he lay limp, shocking the spectators.

Wang Teng collected Zhu Longshan’s Attribute Bubbles and fused Candle Dragon Body with Dragon Blood Battle Body to create True Dragon Battle Body (Pseudo). He defeated Zhu Longshan in the Newcomer Ranking List match with a saber strike and wondered whether he had used too much force.

• Wang Teng picked up Zhu Longshan’s Attribute Bubbles, gaining Candle Dragon Flame, Fire Element Starry Sky Source Power, and Candle Dragon Body.
• Wang Teng fused Candle Dragon Body with Dragon Blood Battle Body, creating True Dragon Battle Body (Pseudo) while retaining his human form when transformed.
• Zhu Longshan trapped Wang Teng in his fourth-rank Candle Dragon Flame Domain, but Wang Teng found him with True Sight Eye and escaped using Fleeing Light.
• Wang Teng countered Zhu Longshan’s domain with Falling Fire Meteor Domain and overwhelmed it with a meteor strike.
• Zhu Longshan used Candle Dragon Eye and fired a dark-red beam at Wang Teng, but Wang Teng’s Yellow Sky One Saber split the darkness and defeated him.
• The spectators realized Wang Teng had won, while Wang Teng regretted that he had not even used his Thunderclap Brick.

Wang Teng defeated Zhu Longshan, rose to the top of the Newcomer Ranking List, and dismissed the Candle Dragon Race’s threats. As his victory spread through the academy, Zhu Longshuang and Zhu Longgao wagered 300,000 points on who could retrieve the Candle Dragon Race body within a month.

• Wang Teng collected Zhu Longshan’s attribute bubbles, strengthening his Fire Element Starry Sky Source Power, Candle Dragon Eye, spirit, and comprehension.
• Zhu Longshan emerged from the ranking space after losing, and Wang Teng’s name shot to the top of the Newcomer Ranking List.
• Wang Teng taunted Zhu Longshan over the body and welcomed further challengers from the Candle Dragon Race before Zhu Longshan left.
• Gallup postponed his planned challenge after watching Wang Teng’s fight, while Boleite also chose to wait.
• News of Wang Teng’s victory spread among students and factions, drawing interest from Senior Wood and academy groups.
• Zhu Longshuang and Zhu Longgao wagered 300,000 points on who would retrieve the body first, setting a one-month deadline.

Wang Teng gathered his allies to organize the Mutual Aid Society into a business venture selling pills, weapons, and other goods for points. The group agreed to contribute resources, began planning rules, and named their organization the Starry Sky Association.

• Wang Teng and Yue Qiqiao discussed screening members and requiring contributors to help fund the Mutual Aid Society.
• Wang Teng contacted Ji Haochen, Timothy, Yu Yuanrui, Leng Qianxue, Rabbit Little Eight, and others, then introduced Boleite to the group.
• Wang Teng explained his plan to refine pills and forge weapons for sale, and the others eagerly agreed to participate.
• Yue Qiqiao proposed that members contribute points toward materials and that the Society establish rules to prevent people from exploiting its benefits.
• Wang Teng suggested members sell goods based on their own talents, and Rabbit Little Eight offered her carrots, which she said replenished Primal Force.
• After discussing possible names, Wang Teng proposed the Starry Sky Association, and the group accepted it.

Wang Teng visited the academy’s alchemy grounds to rent an Alchemy Room and refine pills for the newly founded Starry Sky Association. Along the way, he collected alchemy attributes that raised him to Great Grandmaster Level Eight and discovered a rare supreme-grade pill formula before beginning his work.

• Wang Teng traveled to Volcano Number Six, where Great Grandmaster Level alchemists could rent Alchemy Rooms, and learned that Saint-level alchemists used the three highest volcanoes.
• Wang Teng rented an Alchemy Room from Lin Qian, who recognized him and later discussed his identity and alchemy skills with her friend.
• Wang Teng collected Attribute Bubbles outside the Alchemy Room and obtained the Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pill formula, a Great Grandmaster Level supreme-grade pill that could improve the talents of offspring.
• Wang Teng gathered enough Alchemy Skill attributes to reach Great Grandmaster Level Eight, then entered the room and began refining pills with his Black Meteor Furnace.

Wang Teng refined batches of rare Great Grandmaster Level pills at Volcano Number Six, drawing attention as his speed and success rate astonished the academy. After news of his twelve successful refinements spread, Yue Qiqiao and other factions confirmed his identity, and rival groups rushed to recruit him while he remained inside the Alchemy Room.

• Wang Teng refined eighteen Thousand Grass Body Nourishing Pills, and Lin Qian confirmed that he was using the Alchemy Room she had rented for him.
• Wang Teng used the Thunderclap Brick to withstand the pill’s tribulation, then began preparing to refine Nine Orifices Soul Gathering Pills.
• Lin Qian delivered Soul Gathering Flowers to Wang Teng, who soon refined another batch while the Thunderclap Brick blocked the tribulation.
• Wang Teng’s repeated pill refinements caused twelve tribulations in three days, and videos of the events spread across the academy’s Internal Network.
• Yue Qiqiao, Wade, Ji Haochen, and Timothy confirmed that the alchemist was Wang Teng and recognized that his reputation was spreading.
• Zhu Longshuang, Zhu Longgao, Zhu Longshan, and members of other factions headed to Volcano Number Six to seek Wang Teng’s support.

Wang Teng emerged from three days of pill refinement to find the academy gathered outside, then met several renowned alchemists who learned he was an eighth-rank Great Grandmaster in his early twenties. Their conversation revealed that Dong Yutang had failed to refine a Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pill for two Immortal Level clients, who were now on their way to see him.

• Wang Teng finished refining pills and left the Alchemy Room, where a crowd had gathered after news of his work spread across the Internal Network.
• Yue Qiqiao and the others greeted Wang Teng, and he learned from Yuan Gungun that his pill refinement had drawn the crowd.
• Wang Teng accepted an invitation from Dong Yutang, Pu Yuanzhong, and Cecil to speak privately, while the Candle Dragon Race members discussed how to repair their damaged relationship with him.
• Wang Teng told the three Great Grandmasters that he was an eighth-rank Great Grandmaster in his early twenties, astonishing them with his attainment and age.
• Pu Yuanzhong asked Dong Yutang about the Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pill, and Dong Yutang explained that he had failed to refine it after promising the two Immortal Level clients a sixty percent chance of success.
• Dong Yutang received word that the two Immortal Level clients were coming, leaving him to face them after destroying their rare Star Cores.

Wang Teng accepted Hu Qi and his wife’s request to refine the Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pill, raised his Alchemy Dao Attainment to Great Grandmaster Level ninth-rank, and successfully produced three pills. He survived the pill’s ten-bolt tribulation, leaving Dong Yutang and the others astonished by his strength and Heaven and Earth Strange Fire.

• Hu Qi and his wife asked Dong Yutang to recommend another Great Grandmaster Level Peak alchemist after Dong admitted he could not refine the Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pill.
• Dong Yutang recommended Wang Teng, who claimed a minimum fifty to sixty percent chance of success and agreed to refine the pill using the second set of materials.
• Wang Teng collected Alchemy Attribute Bubbles for a day, advanced to Great Grandmaster Level ninth-rank, and discovered the two Emperor-Level star cores also yielded Metal Origin attributes.
• Wang Teng refined three Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pills, triggering a ten-bolt Pill Tribulation as Dong Yutang, Hu Qi, and the others waited outside.
• Wang Teng blocked the tribulation lightning with his strange seal and his body, using the True Dragon Battle Body and Heaven and Earth Strange Fire to withstand the final bolts.

Wang Teng refined Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pills using the Immortal Matter from two Venerable Level Star Beast cores, with Hu Qi and another Immortal Level expert assisting. After surviving the pills’ powerful lightning tribulation, Wang Teng saw the pills captured, but a terrifying roar shook all seven academy continents and interrupted the celebration.

• Wang Teng collected tribulation attributes, raising his Thunder Element Starry Sky Source Power to the third Universe Level and his Heaven and Earth Tribulation Lightning to the second stage.
• Wang Teng presented three Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pills with eight pill patterns, then agreed to refine another batch using Venerable Level Star Beast cores and their Immortal Matter.
• Wang Teng picked up Immortal Matter attributes from the cores and used the Azure Jade Glazed Flame and Ten Thousand Beasts True Spirit Flame to melt them and refine four pills with help from Hu Qi and another Immortal Level expert.
• Wang Teng endured the four pills’ ten-bolt lightning tribulation and captured the pills with Hu Qi after they tried to flee.
• A terrifying roar from the Chaotic Star Sea shook all seven academy continents just as Hu Qi examined the completed pills.

Wang Teng’s Transformation Spirit Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pills attracted a powerful flood dragon from the Chaotic Star Sea, prompting the Seven Great Starry Sky Academies’ True God Level powerhouses to negotiate and battle it. The dragon left with two pills after agreeing to a sixty-thousand-year peace, while Wang Teng spotted Attribute Bubbles where it had appeared.

• The Chaotic Star Sea erupted in turmoil, and Wang Teng and Hu Qi suspected the newly refined pills had drawn the disturbance.
• Pill Saint Tao Yuan identified the pills as Great Grandmaster Level top-grade Transformation Spirit pills comparable to Saint-level pills, and explained their value for enhancing descendants’ talents.
• Wang Teng and the others joined the academy’s Immortal Level and True God Level powerhouses at the continent’s edge, where the flood dragon emerged and demanded the pills.
• A True God Level powerhouse fought back the flood dragon, then negotiated a sixty-thousand-year peace in exchange for two pills.
• Wang Teng sent two pills to the flood dragon, which departed into the Chaotic Star Sea, and he noticed more than a dozen Attribute Bubbles at its former position.

Wang Teng collected attributes from the True God Level battle and the Chaotic Star Sea, then returned to his estate and prepared the Starry Sky Association to sell his newly refined pills. Zhu Longshuang of the Candle Dragon Race arrived to negotiate for the Candle Dragon Race body, and Wang Teng demanded five hundred thousand points, leaving her to weigh the cost.

• Wang Teng collected True God Level attribute bubbles, raising his Metal and Wind Starry Sky Source Power, gaining Immortal Matter, and learning Serpent God Roar and the first move of Wind God Swordplay.
• Wang Teng gathered more attribute bubbles from the Chaotic Star Sea, improved his Primal Force attributes, and raised his Blank Attribute total to over four million.
• Hu Qi gave Wang Teng three Yin Yang Serpent Essence Pills and one hundred thousand points before leaving with the female Immortal Level martial artist; Dong Yutang and the others also departed.
• Wang Teng returned to his estate, met Yue Qiqiao, Wade, and Boleite, and gave Yue Qiqiao the pills he had refined so the Starry Sky Association could sell them.
• Wang Teng saw that Cao Jiaojiao had advanced to Universe Level 7th Layer, then received Zhu Longshuang, who offered two hundred thousand points and her branch's friendship for the Candle Dragon Race body.
• Wang Teng demanded five hundred thousand points, and Zhu Longshuang considered whether retrieving the body would make the deal worthwhile.

Wang Teng collected five hundred thousand points from Zhu Longshuang for returning the Candle Dragon Race body, then considered how to spend his growing wealth. Meanwhile, the Seven Judges gathered to discuss the academy’s request to give Wang Teng a position in the Arbitration Association and learned of his extraordinary alchemy achievement.

• Zhu Longshuang agreed to pay Wang Teng five hundred thousand points for the Candle Dragon Race body, but he rejected her offer of the Candle Dragon Race’s friendship.
• Wang Teng returned the damaged body, and Zhu Longshuang inspected it before taking it away and warning him that she hoped they would not become enemies.
• Wang Teng and Yuan Gungun reviewed the Academy Treasure Pavilion, considered the limits of his points and forging ability, and decided to use the points for cultivation at the Sword Rain Plain.
• The Seven Judges gathered and discussed the academy’s plan to arrange an Arbitration Association position for Wang Teng, a new student from the Seventh Starry Sky Academy.
• The Judges learned that Wang Teng’s pill had secured sixty thousand years of peace for the Seven Great Starry Sky Academies continent and that his alchemy attainment had reached the Great Grandmaster Level Peak.

The Academy Arbitration Association decided to admit Wang Teng as an Associate Councilman and let him compete in the councilman assessment in half a year. At Sword Rain Plain, Wang Teng improved his sword domains, encountered a new student with Slaughter Sword Domain, and learned the young man was Lu Tian.

• The Adjudicators agreed to admit Wang Teng as an Associate Councilman and allow him to take the councilman assessment in half a year.
• Wang Teng entered Sword Rain Plain and collected Attribute Bubbles to strengthen his elemental sword domains as he advanced deeper into the rain.
• Wang Teng collected Slaughter Sword Domain insights from a nearby young man and had to use the Nine Treasures Floating Slaughter Pagoda to suppress the fierce Slaughter Intent.
• Wang Teng discovered that the young man was a third-layer Universe Level new student, and their sword intent clashed without either gaining an advantage.
• The young man introduced himself as Lu Tian, and Wang Teng remarked that his name sounded arrogant.

Wang Teng cultivated in the Sword Rain Plain, harvesting Lu Tian’s Slaughter Sword Domain insights while improving his own sword domains. Meanwhile, the Starry Sky Association’s discounted pills drew many new students, and Yue Qiqiao warned that established factions might resist their growing influence.

• Lu Tian challenged Wang Teng to fight at the Newcomer Ranking List, but Wang Teng stayed to cultivate and collected Slaughter Sword Domain insights from Lu Tian and the rain curtain.
• Wang Teng raised his Slaughter Profound Meaning to ten-percent completion and his Slaughter Sword Domain to the second rank, then advanced his Five Elements Sword Domain to the fifth rank deeper in the Sword Rain Plain.
• Wang Teng followed Lu Tian to another area and collected more Attribute Bubbles, while Lu Tian suspected he was being followed and resolved to defeat him later.
• New students competed fiercely for the Newcomer Ranking List, but Wang Teng and Zhu Longshan remained first and second as newcomers began spending points on cultivation.
• The Starry Sky Association sold Wang Teng’s discounted pills, attracting buyers and interest from new students who wanted to join and earn a share of the profits.
• At Wade’s estate, Yue Qiqiao told Wade that established factions could oppose the Starry Sky Association because it threatened their entrenched interests.

The Flying Cloud Alliance tried to recruit Wang Teng into its ranks, but he refused to be intimidated and returned his attention to cultivating at Sword Rain Plain. There, Lu Tian challenged him to a match on the Newcomer Ranking List, where their powerful sword strikes collided.

• The Flying Cloud Alliance discussed Wang Teng and sent Xia Xin to recruit him through Yue Qiqiao, warning that other factions were also targeting the Starry Sky Association.
• Wang Teng told Yue Qiqiao not to worry about the Flying Cloud Alliance and learned that the association's pills were selling quickly.
• Wang Teng returned to Sword Rain Plain, where Lu Tian challenged him to fight on the Newcomer Ranking List.
• Wang Teng and Lu Tian clashed with Slaughter Intent and traded hundreds of sword strikes as spectators, including Zhu Longshan, watched.
• Lu Tian unleashed Slaughter God One Sword, and Wang Teng answered with Hegemon Overlord Twelve Swords, Sword One, as their attacks collided.

Wang Teng defeated Lu Tian in a fierce swordsmanship battle, matching his fourth-rank Slaughter Sword Domain and ultimately overcoming his Source Power-infused strike with the Five Elements Sword Domain. When Lu Tian refused to concede, Wang Teng beat him unconscious with the Thunderclap Brick, leaving the spectators stunned.

• Wang Teng's first sword shattered Lu Tian's attack and sent him flying, while Yu Yunxian recognized Wang Teng's mastery of Hegemon Overlord Twelve Swords.
• Lu Tian unleashed his fourth-rank Slaughter Sword Domain and God-Slaying Second Form, but Wang Teng absorbed Attribute Bubbles to raise his own Slaughter Sword Domain to the fourth rank and countered with Sword Two.
• Lu Tian broke through Wang Teng's sword-light torrent with Man and Sword as One and gathered Source Power for a decisive attack, but Wang Teng answered with his fifth-rank Five Elements Sword Domain and defeated him.
• Wang Teng's five-colored sword light shattered Lu Tian's black sword light and left him battered, prompting the spectators and Yu Yunxian to recognize Wang Teng's superior sword strike.
• When Lu Tian refused to concede, Wang Teng repeatedly struck him with the Thunderclap Brick until he collapsed unconscious in a crater.

Wang Teng defeated Lu Tian, gained Slaughter Origin, and reclaimed first place on the Newcomer Ranking List after Feng Mo briefly took it. He rushed to Yue Qiqiao’s estate after learning the Starry Sky Association had been attacked, where he found her injured and the other members beaten.

• Lu Tian killed himself to leave the battle space after Wang Teng defeated him, and Wang Teng absorbed the attributes he dropped, including Slaughter Origin.
• Feng Mo and Reynolds took first and second place on the Newcomer Ranking List, but Wang Teng and Lu Tian soon emerged and moved into first and second, pushing Feng Mo to third.
• Wang Teng met Reynolds and Feng Mo, recognized Feng Mo’s Water, Ice, and Poison forces, and prepared to challenge him before Yuan Gungun told him Yue Qiqiao had been injured and the Starry Sky Association attacked.
• Wang Teng returned to Yue Qiqiao’s estate, gave Grandmaster Level Healing Pills to the injured association members, and went to see Yue Qiqiao in the Cultivation Room.

Wang Teng healed Yue Qiqiao and the Starry Sky Association members after the Wind Cloud Association attacked them, then confronted the rival faction at his manor. Shen Yanfeng challenged Wang Teng to a fight, demanding that the Starry Sky Association disband if his side won.

• Wang Teng gave Yue Qiqiao a Great Grandmaster-level pill and supplied Wade and the injured Starry Sky Association members with pills to recover.
• Wade explained that Shen Yanfeng had severely injured Yue Qiqiao after she rejected his recruitment, while the Wind Cloud Association had ambushed other members in groups.
• After Yue Qiqiao recovered, she and Wang Teng suspected the Wind Cloud Association had a hidden backer or a trump card, and Wang Teng proposed striking back that night.
• Shen Yanfeng and Shi Tianyun arrived at the manor, and Wang Teng mocked them over their empty promises of benefits to Wind Cloud Association members.
• Shen Yanfeng challenged Wang Teng to a fight and demanded that the Starry Sky Association disband and join his faction if it lost.