Chapter Summaries

Nalan Chaoge sold five perfect Grade 3 Pills at Black Seal Auction House, then spent his remaining money on rare herbs and Demonic Cores at Thousand Medicine Pavilion. Meanwhile, the Pavilion learned its herb-gathering team had been attacked, and Yuan Geng waited to escort Princess Yaoye to the auction.

• Nalan Chaoge’s pills impressed the old man, who set a starting bid of five hundred thousand gold coins each and gave him a Tier 2 VIP Jade Card.
• The old man suspected Nalan Chaoge was a skilled alchemist and decided the Gate Master would want to know about him.
• Nalan Chaoge bought several third-grade herbs and two Tier 2 Demonic Cores at Thousand Medicine Pavilion, leaving himself penniless again.
• A messenger told a balding elder that Tomiya’s renegade Dou Zhe had plundered the Herb-Gathering Team and killed Captain Ku, so the elder placed a one-million-gold-coin bounty on Tomiya.
• Yuan Geng waited at Jia Nan Academy’s hotel and invited Princess Yaoye to the Eight Gates’ auction.

Yuan Geng pursued Yaoye and arranged VIP seats for the students at the auction, where a wanted notice revealed that Tomiya was a Seven-Star Great Dou Master sought for robbing the Thousand Medicine Pavilion. Ruo Lin realized Nalan Chaoge had lied about Tomiya’s strength, leaving him facing her furious glare.

• Yuan Geng visited the students, invited them to the auction, and made his interest in Yaoye obvious.
• Yaoye first said she would stay behind, but changed her mind when Nalan Chaoge offered to skip the auction too.
• Mu Zhan watched from the back, hoping Nalan Chaoge would clash with Yuan Geng over Yaoye.
• At the auction, the Thousand Medicine Pavilion announced a one-million-gold reward for Tomiya, a Seven-Star Great Dou Master who had robbed its herb-gathering party.
• Huo Gang told Ruo Lin what the wanted notice said, and she realized Nalan Chaoge had lied about Tomiya’s strength.

Nalan Chaoge and Yuan Geng met at the Eight Gates auction and pretended to be close friends while privately warning each other over Yaoye. The auction began with the Heavenly Silkworm Robe as its first item, catching both Yaoye’s and Nalan Chaoge’s interest.

• Ruo Lin relaxed when Nalan Chaoge and Yuan Geng greeted each other warmly instead of starting a fight.
• Yuan Geng warned Nalan Chaoge not to compete with him for Yaoye, and Nalan Chaoge said they were just ordinary friends.
• Yuan Geng declared his feelings for Yaoye and offered to buy her a treasure, but she refused his offer.
• The white-haired auctioneer opened the Black Seal City Auction and presented the Heavenly Silkworm Robe, a defensive garment with healing properties.
• Nalan Chaoge thought of buying the robe for Guo'er, while Yaoye also showed interest in it.

Nalan Chaoge outbid Yuan Geng for a Heavenly Silkworm Robe at the Black Seal City auction, claiming he wanted to protect Yaoye. Yuan Geng abruptly stopped bidding, leaving Nalan Chaoge to pay the winning price of five million five hundred thousand gold coins.

• Yaoye revealed that the Heavenly Silkworm Robe had a starting bid of one hundred thousand gold coins, and Yuan Geng opened at five hundred thousand.
• Nalan Chaoge bid one million, saying he wanted to buy the robe for Yaoye, while Yuan Geng warned him not to challenge the Eight Gates.
• Nalan Chaoge continued raising his bids as Yaoye and the Jia Nan Academy students worried about the escalating contest.
• Yuan Geng finally withdrew from the bidding and told the auctioneer to give the robe to Nalan Chaoge.
• Yuan Geng watched Nalan Chaoge expectantly, while Yaoye clung to his arm with concern over how he would pay.

Nalan Chaoge turned Yuan Geng’s bid against him and made him buy the Heavenly Silkworm Robe for three and a half million gold coins. Yuan Geng believed he had passed Nalan Chaoge’s test to win Yaoye’s favor, while Yaoye saw through Nalan Chaoge’s shameless trick.

• Nalan Chaoge withdrew from the five-and-a-half-million-gold bid, but Yuan Geng threatened him and had a black arrow strike the floor before him.
• Nalan Chaoge claimed Yuan Geng had made the final bid and recited the bidding history until the crowd was left questioning who had offered five and a half million.
• When Yuan Geng interrupted, Nalan Chaoge restarted the auction at three million gold coins, then withdrew after Yuan Geng bid three and a half million.
• Yuan Geng bought the Heavenly Silkworm Robe for three and a half million gold coins and told Yaoye he had kept his promise.
• Nalan Chaoge claimed he had only been testing Yuan Geng, and Yaoye nearly laughed at his shameless explanation.

At the auction, Yuan Geng gave Yaoye a Heavenly Silkworm Robe and offered to pay for anything she and Nalan Chaoge wanted. Nalan Chaoge immediately accepted his offer with a three-million-gold-coin bid, leaving Yuan Geng trapped by his own boast.

• Yuan Geng presented Yaoye with the Heavenly Silkworm Robe, which she accepted after Nalan Chaoge urged her to take it.
• Yuan Geng invited Yaoye to tour Black Seal City, but she declined and said she wanted to stay for the auction.
• Yuan Geng offered to cover Yaoye's and Nalan Chaoge's bids to show off his wealth and win Yaoye's favor.
• Nalan Chaoge bid three million gold coins on the Green Spirit Pills before the auctioneer announced the opening price.
• Yuan Geng realized he would have to honor his offer or risk looking bad in front of Yaoye, and regretted inviting Nalan Chaoge to spend freely.

Nalan Chaoge and Yuan Geng clashed over their promises and the Green Spirit Pill at the Eight Gates auction. Yaoye eventually bid one million five hundred thousand gold coins for the pill, though Nalan Chaoge had wanted her to bid three million.

• Nalan Chaoge challenged Yuan Geng over his offer to pay for Yaoye’s purchases, and Yuan Geng sarcastically pressed him to spend three million on the Grade 3 Pill.
• When the Green Spirit Pill received no bids, Nalan Chaoge secretly signaled Yaoye to start the bidding so the Eight Gates would not buy his pill for the low starting price.
• Yaoye bid six hundred thousand, then competed with other bidders as interest in the pill grew.
• After Nalan Chaoge secretly traced a number on Yaoye’s palm, she bid one million five hundred thousand, startling Yuan Geng and disappointing Nalan Chaoge, who had meant three million.

Yaoye bought the Green Spirit Pills for 7.5 million gold coins, while Nalan Chaoge profited from the sales. When the rare Dragon Bat Sky Wings Flying Dou Technique went up for auction, Nalan Chaoge decided he wanted it and opened with a bid of 5.5 million.

• Yaoye bid 1.5 million for the first Green Spirit Pill, then bought the second and all five subsequent pills for the same price.
• Yuan Geng tried to persuade Yaoye to leave the auction with him, but she refused and kept bidding.
• Nalan Chaoge celebrated the millions of gold coins he had earned and planned to turn them into medicinal ingredients and points.
• The auctioneer presented the Profound Tier Low Grade Flying Dou Technique, Dragon Bat Sky Wings, and explained that it could let its user fly before reaching Dou Wang.
• Nalan Chaoge bid 5.5 million for Dragon Bat Sky Wings to get ahead of the other bidders.

Nalan Chaoge won the Flying Dou Technique for 5.5 million gold coins and publicly gave it to Yaoye, leaving Yuan Geng furious. He then collected the proceeds from his five pills and refused the auction house Sect Master’s invitation to meet.

• Nalan Chaoge baited Yuan Geng into silence, and the auctioneer sold the Flying Dou Technique to him for 5.5 million gold coins.
• Nalan Chaoge announced that Yaoye had wanted the technique and gave it to her, while Yuan Geng seethed at being made to pay for her other purchases.
• Nalan Chaoge assured Yuan Geng he would pay for the Protective Armor himself, and Yaoye thanked him for the gifts.
• Nalan Chaoge slipped to the collection counter in disguise and received the proceeds from his five pills after a 750,000-gold-coin handling fee was deducted.
• Nalan Chaoge refused the steward’s offer to meet the Sect Master and left, while a powerful middle-aged man appeared and asked whether the old man had identified him.

Nalan Chaoge evaded Eight Gates’ attempt to track him, collected his auction purchases, and confronted Yuan Geng over his possessive treatment of Yaoye. The chapter ended with Nalan Chaoge kissing Yaoye to openly challenge Yuan Geng.

• Eight Gates’ Sect Master ordered men to follow Nalan Chaoge and recruit him or kill him if recruitment failed.
• Nalan Chaoge used a Shadow Clone to mislead the black-clad men while the real him returned to the auction hall.
• The auction ended, and Nalan Chaoge paid for his purchases as Yuan Geng escorted him and Yaoye to the collection counter.
• Yuan Geng urged Yaoye to go out with him, but Nalan Chaoge refused to leave her alone and said he would protect her.
• Nalan Chaoge pulled Yaoye close and kissed her, defying Yuan Geng’s warning not to compete with him for women.

Nalan Chaoge kissed Yaoye in front of Yuan Geng, angering the young master of the Eight Gates, then left with her before a confrontation could begin. As Ruo Lin followed and warned him about the danger, Nalan Chaoge asked Yaoye how she felt about the kiss, leaving her to recognize how much he had changed her priorities.

• Nalan Chaoge embraced and kissed Yaoye in front of Yuan Geng, who became furious.
• Nalan Chaoge took Yaoye by the hand and tried to leave, but Yuan Geng challenged him to exchange blows.
• Ruo Lin arrived, and Yuan Geng suppressed his anger rather than risk confronting an instructor from Jia Nan Academy.
• Ruo Lin scolded Nalan Chaoge for provoking Yuan Geng, but backed down when she recalled his strength and his killing of Tomiya.
• Nalan Chaoge asked whether Yaoye was angry about the kiss, and she warned him not to do it again without warning.
• Nalan Chaoge told Yaoye that offending Yuan Geng was unwise, but Yaoye realized she valued Nalan Chaoge above Yuan Geng's power and influence.

Yaoye questioned Nalan Chaoge about his clash with Yuan Geng, while Yuan Yi ordered the Eight Gates to deal with threats and allowed Yuan Geng to settle matters with Nalan Chaoge privately. To avoid trouble, Jia Nan Academy's students fled Black Seal City that night, and Yaoye gave Nalan Chaoge a Green Spirit Pill as they flew away.

• Yaoye asked Nalan Chaoge whether choosing Yuan Geng would have prevented the night's events, and he said his actions had been meaningful because they made Yuan Geng suffer too.
• Yuan Yi learned that his follower had lost the man in black and ordered the Eight Gates to strike first if they heard from him again, while letting Yuan Geng privately teach Nalan Chaoge a lesson.
• The Jia Nan Academy students celebrated Nalan Chaoge's auction confrontation with Yuan Geng, and Huo Gang ordered them to leave for Jia Nan Academy that night.
• Nalan Chaoge and Yaoye agreed with the instructors' decision, and the students secretly took flight from Black Seal City.
• Yuan Geng arrived at the hotel after the students had departed and vowed to punish Nalan Chaoge if he ever left Jia Nan Academy.
• Yaoye gave Nalan Chaoge one of the Green Spirit Pills she had won at auction.

Nalan Chaoge gave Yaoye the rare Dragon Bat Sky Wings technique, but the scroll revealed that only one person could cultivate it and that it contained the soul of a captured Sky Swallowing Dragon Bat. Yaoye sensed the furious soul within the wings, leaving everyone alarmed.

• Nalan Chaoge accepted the perfect-quality pill, while Yaoye gave a Windwalk Pill to Ruo Lin and the remaining pills to Yao Yue.
• Nalan Chaoge gave Yaoye the Flying Dou Technique scroll he had bought for five million gold coins.
• Yaoye read that the technique, Dragon Bat Sky Wings, had been made from the wings and sealed soul of a Sky Swallowing Dragon Bat and could only be cultivated by one person.
• Nalan Chaoge insisted Yaoye keep the technique despite her trying to return it.
• Yaoye touched the Dragon Wings, sensed a savage soul inside them, and cried out in horror.

Yaoye began cultivating the Flying Dou Technique despite the danger posed by the Sky Swallowing Dragon Bat’s remnant soul. As both she and Nalan Chaoge struggled against its attack, Nalan used a Green Spirit Pill and four tier 2 demonic cores to break through to Da Dou Shi.

• Ruo Lin warned Nalan Chaoge and Yaoye that the fifth-rank dragon bat’s remnant soul could attack anyone cultivating the Flying Dou Technique.
• Yaoye pressed her hands to the scroll and endured the dragon bat soul’s cries and savage emotions, while Nalan Chaoge helped protect her.
• When the soul’s attack intensified, Nalan Chaoge swallowed a Green Spirit Pill, but its energy gathered in his dantian without breaking his barrier.
• Nalan Chaoge ordered the system to advance him, and it absorbed four tier 2 demonic cores from his ring.
• The gathered energy compressed into a diamond-shaped Dou Crystal, marking Nalan Chaoge’s breakthrough to Da Dou Shi.

Nalan Chaoge broke through to Da Dou Shi while driving the Sky Swallowing Dragon Bat’s soul out of Yaoye. Yaoye then successfully began cultivating the Dragon Wing technique, while the group continued toward Jia Nan Academy.

• Nalan Chaoge condensed a Dou Crystal and formed rainbow-colored Dou Qi Armor as his cultivation surged to Da Dou Shi.
• Nalan Chaoge recalled visions of the Nalan Family’s future suffering and vowed to change it and give Nalan Yanran the happiness she wanted.
• Nalan Chaoge expelled the Sky Swallowing Dragon Bat’s soul from Yaoye, and his roar scattered the flying Griffins until Huo Gang’s handlers steadied them.
• After the soul contest ended, Yaoye awakened, and Nalan Chaoge told her she could now cultivate the Dragon Wing technique.
• Yaoye asked why Nalan Chaoge had helped her, then followed the scroll’s instructions and absorbed the Dragon Wing into her palms.

Yaoye endured the pain of forming new meridians and successfully awakened the Sky Swallowing Dragon Bat’s Dragon Wings. As the Griffins continued toward Jia Nan Academy, Ruo Lin wondered how Nalan Chaoge would fare against the academy’s strongest geniuses.

• The Dragon Wings’ power tore two new meridian branches through Yaoye’s body, and she fainted from the pain.
• Ruo Lin treated Yaoye and helped her endure the process until the wings appeared as tattoos on her back.
• Yaoye used Dou Qi to manifest the Dragon Wings, discovered they consumed too much energy for sustained flight, and thanked Ruo Lin and Nalan Chaoge for their help.
• Yaoye noticed her exposed back, blushed, and returned the wings to tattoo form while Ruo Lin observed her growing closeness with Nalan Chaoge.
• Yao Yue asked Nalan Chaoge about his auction exploits, while Ruo Lin wondered how he would fare at Jia Nan Academy.

Nalan Chaoge and the new students reached Jia Nan Academy after passing through Peace Town, while Nalan Yanran faced Nalan Jie's fury in the Jia Ma Empire over breaking her engagement. The chapter ended with Nalan Jie ordering her to apologize to the Xiao Family.

• Nalan Chaoge and the students entered Peace Town and passed the Death Spirit Tree, where the bodies of rulebreakers hung from its branches.
• Ruo Lin led the students onward that night, and they reached Jia Nan Academy at dawn and received their dormitory rooms.
• Nalan Chaoge discovered that his room was beside Yaoye's, and Yao Yue invited him to go to school with them the next day.
• Nalan Jie scolded Nalan Yanran for breaking her engagement without permission, while Ge Ye tried to calm him.
• Nalan Yanran accepted responsibility for her decision, and Nalan Jie ordered her to apologize to the Xiao Family.

Nalan Yanran refused Nalan Jie’s demand that she apologize for breaking off her engagement, explaining that her happiness mattered and that the Xiao Family had neglected her for years. After hearing how the engagement dispute led to a Three-Year Pact between Xiao Ge and Xiao Yan, Nalan Jie decided Yanran should go to Jia Nan Academy and stay with Xiao Ge until the wager was resolved.

• Nalan Jie demanded that Nalan Yanran apologize, and when she refused, he struck her across the face.
• Nalan Yanran explained that she had never known Xiao Yan and had been willing to honor the engagement only if he had shown any interest in her.
• Nalan Jie asked about the Three-Year Pact, and Nalan Yanran recounted the events surrounding her visit to the Xiao Family.
• Nalan Jie insisted that Xiao Yan would defeat Xiao Ge and proposed bringing Xiao Ge back to cancel the wager, but Nalan Yanran and Ge Ye objected.
• Ge Ye and Nagato reported that Xiao Ge had likely killed Mu Tong after Mu Tong pursued him with a Dou Ling, who died at the Sect Master’s hands.
• Nalan Jie remained worried and decided to have Jia Xing Tian arrange Yanran’s admission to Jia Nan Academy, where she would stay with Xiao Ge for three years.

Nalan Jie sent Nalan Yanran to Jia Nan Academy with Nagato, while Nagato accused Su Han of betraying Nalan Chaoge and warned him to stay away from Guo'er. The next morning, Yao Yue told Nalan Chaoge that returning students were extorting new arrivals at the academy gates, where his sister had already started fighting them.

• Nalan Jie ordered Nalan Yanran to leave for Jia Nan Academy the next day and assigned Nagato to accompany her.
• Nagato warned Su Han not to scheme against Guo'er and accused him of acting suspiciously after the Mu Family attacked Nalan Chaoge's group.
• Nalan Jie ordered Su Han to face the wall and reflect, then Nalan Yanran asked Ge Ye to seek Yun Yun's help with a secret art to strengthen her before the Three-Year Pact.
• At dawn, Yao Yue woke Nalan Chaoge and told him returning students were demanding tribute from new arrivals at the academy gates.
• Yao Yue said the returning students beat boys and demanded kisses from girls, and that her sister was already fighting them.

Senior students tried to extort the newcomers arriving at Jia Nan Academy, while Instructor Ruo Lin and Hank watched from a distance. Hu Jia singled out Nalan Chaoge and offered to spare her the toll if she spent a night with her, leaving the newcomers facing the academy’s “welcome” ritual.

• Ruo Lin and Hank discussed the two S-level students on Ruo Lin’s recruitment trip and the senior students waiting to challenge the newcomers.
• Hank revealed that Warren, a three-star Da Dou Shi, and Hu Jia were at the gate, while Ruo Lin recalled Nalan Chaoge’s victories in the Black-Corner Region.
• Hu Jia and the senior students demanded that incoming boys surrender treasures from their Na Rings and told the girls they could avoid the toll by allowing the students to kiss them.
• Xue Beng knocked down a newcomer, took his Na Ring, and kept some of its contents before letting him enter.
• Nalan Chaoge asked what would happen if the newcomers refused to pay, and Hu Jia offered to exempt her in exchange for spending a night with her.