Chapter Summaries

Ya Fei celebrated taking charge of the Mittel Family headquarters auction house, but pressure from Xiao Lan and her relatives over her unmarried status left her desperate to escape. After running into Xiao Han, she asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend.

• Xiao Lan brought Xiao Xin and his fiancée, Xiao Ai, to congratulate Ya Fei and invite her to their engagement banquet.
• Xiao Lan and Xiao Xin teased Ya Fei about being unmarried, upsetting her.
• Third Aunt and Sixth Granny insisted Ya Fei have dinner with Xiao Han and consider marrying him, so Ya Fei tricked them and fled.
• Ya Fei encountered couples and families showing affection as she walked through the streets.
• Ya Fei bumped into Xiao Han, saw the Little Fairy Doctor beside him, and asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend.

Ya Fei asked Xiao Han to pretend to be her boyfriend so her family would stop pressuring her to marry, and he agreed. At the Royal Plaza, Xiao Han prepared to take part in the Alchemist Conference and flirted with Yao Ye before going to join Hai Bodong and her grandfather.

• Ya Fei explained that she needed a fake boyfriend to silence her family and chose Xiao Han because she trusted him not to cross a line.
• Xiao Han agreed, and Ya Fei linked arms with him so their relationship would look convincing to onlookers.
• Xiao Han led Ya Fei and Little Fairy Doctor to the Royal Plaza, where he explained that Yao Ye had asked him to enter the Alchemist Conference.
• Ya Fei pinched Xiao Han after he claimed Yao Ye had waited on him all night, and he joked that a bee had stung him.
• Yao Ye greeted Xiao Han at the plaza, and he whispered that she should wear her silver outfit that night before heading to the VIP seats where Hai Bodong was waiting.

Xiao Han attended the Alchemist Convention and discovered that the damaged jade fragment Yue Er had bought contained a secret technique. He identified it as a storage device made by Burning Flame Valley, but the group had not yet uncovered what it held.

• Xiao Han greeted Fa Ma, who asked about his alchemy skills and the convention’s other talented participants, including Yue Er and Liu Ling.
• Xiao Han recalled missing the internal test while treating Nalan Jie and realized he had also missed the chance to find a valuable jade fragment at the guild’s trading hall.
• Xiao Han noticed Yue Er holding a damaged jade fragment and asked her where she had obtained it.
• Yue Er refused Xiao Han’s request to take the fragment, so he offered to reveal its contents and practice the secret technique with her.
• Xiao Han explained that the fragment was a Burning Flame Valley storage device that could hold information.

Xiao Han revealed that Yue Er’s jade fragment was linked to Burning Flame Valley and offered to help retrieve what was inside in exchange for a share. At the opening of the Alchemist Competition, Xiao Han stunned the crowd by walking through the air, while Liu Ling vowed to defeat him.

• Xiao Han explained that flames could unlock the Burning Flame Valley jade fragment, and Yue Er agreed to share its contents if he helped her after the competition.
• Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran showed their closeness to Xiao Han, provoking envy among the spectators and prompting Liu Ling to challenge him in alchemy.
• Fa Ma officially opened the seventh Gamma Empire Alchemist Competition and called the contestants to take their places.
• Liu Ling and Yue Er leaped from the high platform to the plaza, with each using Dou Qi to land safely.
• Xiao Han walked through the air to the central platform, shocking the crowd and leaving Liu Ling humiliated.
• Liu Ling vowed to defeat Xiao Han in front of Nalan Yanran.

At the Alchemist Competition, Fa Ma exempted Xiao Han from the first two rounds because he had saved the Gamma Empire, sending him straight to the third. While the first-round Bone Growth Pill test began, Xiao Han opened Silver-grade treasure chests and obtained Yao Lao's Alchemy Codex and the renowned cauldron Saint Radiance.

• Fa Ma explained the first-round rules, then announced that Xiao Han would skip the first and second rounds and advance directly to the third because of his service to the Gamma Empire.
• The Alchemists began the first-round test, which required them to refine a Bone Growth Pill under strict standards.
• Xiao Han used the system to learn the Bone Growth Pill formula and secretly opened a Silver-grade treasure chest.
• Xiao Han obtained Yao Lao's Alchemy Codex, absorbed its alchemy knowledge, and gained 999 pill formulas.
• Xiao Han opened another Silver-grade treasure chest and obtained Saint Radiance, a cauldron ranked seventh on the Cauldron Ranking.

Xiao Han opened the remaining silver treasure chests, gained expertise in medicinal herbs and six Transformation Pills, then watched the Alchemist Guild competition begin. He learned that the Black Robed Person was Yan Xiao—Xiao Yan—and realized he had come after all.

• Xiao Han opened nine silver treasure chests, absorbed the Herbal Encyclopedia, and collected six Transformation Pills among the rewards.
• Xiao Han and Liu Ling noticed a Black Robed Person attempting to fuse six medicinal ingredients at once, and Xiao Han sent a soldier to learn their identity.
• Fa Ma ended the first round, and the contestants tested their pills, eliminating most of those who remained.
• Fa Ma began the second round and explained that contestants had two attempts to refine the guild's pill formula.
• The soldier returned with the Black Robed Person's information, and Xiao Han discovered the contestant was Yan Xiao, or Xiao Yan.

Xiao Han helped Princess Yue Er see through the trap in the second-round prescription, while Yan Xiao impressed the judges by refining a pill quickly and resisting Hai Bodong's attack. Xiao Han recognized Yan Xiao as Xiao Yan and sensed that he had become a Dou Zong, leaving him curious about the Gu Clan's role as the third round began.

• Xiao Han teased Princess Yue Er into calling him dear brother-in-law, then advised her not to trust every word in a book.
• Princess Yue Er avoided adding the Thick Earth Ganoderma and continued refining after discovering the prescription's hidden trap.
• Yan Xiao finished a glossy pill before Yue Er, prompting Fa Ma to investigate his background and question his claimed rank.
• Fa Ma and Chelsea suspected Yan Xiao might be hiding his true rank, and Hai Bodong attacked his hood with an ice snake.
• Yan Xiao's power dispersed Hai Bodong's ice snake, and Xiao Han sensed that Yan Xiao was actually Xiao Yan and had reached Dou Zong.
• Fa Ma announced the third round, and Xiao Han jumped down from the stone platform, eager to show his abilities.

The third round of the Alchemist Competition began as the contestants prepared to refine pills, while Xiao Han ignored Liu Ling and went back to sleep. The officials discovered that the Black Robed Person possessed the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking’s Black Demon and a Heavenly Flame, leaving them fearing the Gamma Empire would lose.

• Fa Ma announced that the third round would test contestants’ pill-refining ability and that the pill’s rank and practical value would determine the winner.
• Hai Bodong urged Fa Ma to trust Xiao Han and the other two Gamma Empire contestants, while hostile competitors focused on Xiao Han.
• Liu Ling challenged Xiao Han, who mocked him and then lay down to sleep; Liu Ling summoned the Volcanic Flame Furnace.
• Jia Xingtian and Fa Ma recognized Yue Er’s Azure Flame Cauldron, while Hai Bodong drew their attention to the Black Robed Person’s cauldron.
• Fa Ma identified the Black Robed Person’s cauldron as Black Demon, ranked eighth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Yue Er, Liu Ling, and Yan Xiao summoned their flames, but the officials grew alarmed when Yan Xiao and the Black Robed Person both revealed Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined a Sixth Grade Pill and challenged Xiao Han, who had spent most of the competition asleep. Xiao Han brought out the renowned cauldron Saint Radiance and prepared to respond, leaving the contest between them unresolved.

• Yue Er and Liu Ling produced Fourth Grade Pills, but an Alchemist from the Chuyun Empire revealed a Peak Fourth Grade or Fifth Grade Pill.
• A Black Robed Person revealed himself as Xiao Yan and produced a Sixth Grade Pill, startling the spectators and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would win the championship and challenged Xiao Han, who had remained asleep through most of the competition.
• Xiao Han rose, teased Yue Er, and brought out Saint Radiance, the seventh-ranked cauldron on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Xiao Yan dismissed Xiao Han's chances, arguing that too little time remained for him to refine a Sixth Grade Pill.

Xiao Han stunned the Royal Plaza by revealing four Heavenly Flames and attempting to refine a high-tier medicinal pill under a severe time limit. As the competition neared its end, he fused seventy-seven ingredients at once and began the next stage of refinement while Xiao Yan predicted his failure.

• Xiao Han revealed four Heavenly Flames, shocking the spectators and the officials watching from the platform.
• Xiao Yan recognized the Bone Spirit Cold Fire as his teacher's former treasure and taunted Xiao Han about the little time remaining.
• Xiao Han brought out seventy-seven medicinal ingredients, prompting speculation that he intended to refine a seventh-tier pill.
• Xiao Han used the four Heavenly Flames to purify all seventy-seven ingredients simultaneously, surpassing the Alchemists' known records.
• Xiao Han fused the ingredients' energy essences inside Saint Radiance as Xiao Yan argued that there was not enough time to finish a seventh-tier pill.
• Xiao Han sat down to continue refining, while Yue Er silently prayed for his victory.

Xiao Han refined a Seventh Grade Heaven Soul Blood Fusion Pill and won the Gamma Empire Alchemist Competition after the pill survived its lightning tribulation. He left with the pill, the championship rewards, and a final taunt for Xiao Yan.

• Fa Ma realized the dark cloud above Xiao Han signaled a pill tribulation and explained that the Seventh Grade Pill had to survive the lightning to be complete.
• Xiao Han endured the pill lightning, chased down the escaping Heaven Soul Blood Fusion Pill, and finished just as the competition timer ran out.
• The audience cheered as Fa Ma declared Xiao Han the champion, while Xiao Yan and Yao Lao were stunned that he had refined a Seventh Grade Pill so quickly.
• Xiao Han received one million Experience Points, 10000 Energy Points, and a Lottery Ticket for winning his first Alchemist Competition.
• Xiao Han said the Heaven Soul Blood Fusion Pill would nourish the child and mocked Xiao Yan for traveling to the competition only to lose to him.

Xiao Han opened a Silver Chest and obtained three Bone Regeneration Blood Fusion Pills, which he used to begin reviving the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North in Dou Zun skeletons. Their souls entered the skeletons, but the success of their resurrection was still uncertain.

• Xiao Han opened a Silver Chest and received three eighth-rank Bone Regeneration Blood Fusion Pills.
• Xiao Han decided to use the pills to revive the Titan Snow Demon King, Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and Ice Empress with three skeletons from Dou Zun experts.
• Xiao Han prepared the skeletons with blood essence and Heavenly Flame, then told the three Heavenly Kings to swallow their pills and merge with them.
• The Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North entered the skeletons, which shook violently and rose off the ground.

Xiao Han revived the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North and helped Yue Er uncover and learn the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame. He gave her Yao Lao's Alchemy Codex before she left, then went inside with Yao Ye.

• Yao Ye brought Yue Er to Xiao Han, who was using the Four-Colored Glazed Flame to restore flesh to three skeletons so the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North could be reborn.
• Yue Er explained that the broken jade piece she brought contained a storage device, and Xiao Han used his Heavenly Flame to reveal the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Han explained that the secret technique could greatly boost combat strength and let its user defeat stronger enemies.
• Xiao Han and Yue Er absorbed the technique's information from the jade piece and sat down to digest it.
• Xiao Han gave Yue Er Yao Lao's Alchemy Codex, and she left after refusing to call him brother-in-law.
• Xiao Han and Yao Ye exchanged flirtatious remarks and went inside together.

Xiao Han introduced Yao Ye to the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Extreme North, whom he had revived, and asked them to help his mother with her revenge. After they departed to join Lan Lan, Xiao Han took Yao Ye to the Yunlan Sect.

• Yao Ye met the Ice Empress, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and the Titan Snow Demon King in Xiao Han's courtyard.
• Xiao Han explained the three beings' identities and told Yao Ye that the Snow Empress had once cultivated to the Dou Sheng realm.
• The Snow Empress accepted Xiao Han's request to help his mother, and the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion and Titan Snow Demon King agreed to go with her.
• Xiao Han wrote a letter and sent the Three Great Heavenly Kings to join Lan Lan in her dangerous revenge plan.
• Xiao Han took Yao Ye toward the Yunlan Sect.

Xiao Yan arrived at Yunlan Sect to settle his three-year agreement with Nalan Yanran, but Xiao Han intervened and claimed that Nalan Yanran was his fiancée. The confrontation was left unresolved as Xiao Han challenged Xiao Yan to get past him first.

• Xiao Yan climbed Yunlan Mountain and confronted Nalan Yanran about their three-year agreement.
• Nalan Yanran accepted the challenge, and Yun Leng agreed to let them fight without restrictions.
• Xiao Han arrived with Yao Ye and stopped the match before it began.
• Xiao Han took a Marriage Certificate from Nalan Yanran and declared that she was his fiancée, telling Xiao Yan to challenge him first.

Xiao Han confronted Xiao Yan at the Yunlan Sect to protect Nalan Yanran and urged him to end their dispute. Their clash devastated part of Yunlan Mountain, and Xiao Han defeated Xiao Yan with a heaven-rank technique before offering to let him leave.

• Xiao Han stepped between Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, declaring that Xiao Yan would have to defeat him first.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Han revealed that they were both Dou Zong powerhouses and began fighting with the same Eight Extremes Collapse technique.
• Xiao Yan attacked with the Earth Rank Overlord Fist, and Xiao Han countered with the heaven-rank Thunder Flame Eight Extremes Collapse.
• Their collision blasted the square apart and destroyed half of Yunlan Mountain, prompting Yun Leng to order weaker disciples to retreat.
• Xiao Han declared Xiao Yan defeated and offered to spare him, while Yao Lao urged Xiao Yan to accept the loss after witnessing Xiao Han's strength.

Xiao Yan used the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame and fused four Heavenly Flames to attack Xiao Han, but Xiao Han countered with the Five Round Separating Fire Method and won their clash. After the blast destroyed Yunlan Mountain, the Yunlan Sect’s Old Sect Leader appeared, and Xiao Yan ordered Xiao Xun’er to kill Xiao Han and destroy the sect.

• Xiao Yan revealed that the Gu Clan had helped him obtain the Three Mysterious Transformations of Heavenly Flame, boosting his combat strength.
• Xiao Han and Xiao Yan each displayed four Heavenly Flames, and Xiao Yan fused his into the Destruction Fire Lotus while Xiao Han formed four flame beasts.
• Xiao Han used the Five Round Separating Fire Method to meet Xiao Yan’s attack, and their clash razed Yunlan Mountain and flattened a distant peak.
• The Yunlan Sect’s Old Sect Leader arrived and told the elders that the sect could find another mountain as long as its people remained.
• Xiao Han declared that Xiao Yan had lost, and Xiao Xun’er arrived beside Xiao Yan as he ordered her to kill Xiao Han and destroy the Yunlan Sect.

Xiao Han’s insult drove Xiao Yan to order an attack, while Gu Xun Er commanded her Dou Zun and Ling Ying to destroy the Gamma Empire. Before the battle began, Lan Lan and her group arrived to support Xiao Han, and Old Yang recognized her as Hun Susu’s maid.

• Xiao Yan ordered his people to seize Xiao Han and said he wanted to destroy him himself.
• Gu Xun Er ordered Ling Ying and Old Yang to destroy the Gamma Empire because Xiao Yan disliked it.
• Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, Hai Bodong, Fa Ma, Gu He, and the others united to resist Gu Xun Er’s forces.
• A group led by Lan Lan arrived, and Lan Lan knelt before Xiao Han and apologized for arriving late.
• Lan Lan explained that she had come to protect Xiao Han, and Old Yang recognized her as Hun Susu’s personal maid.
• Lan Lan challenged Old Yang to leave, but he claimed that he no longer feared her now that Hun Susu had lost her power.

Gu Xun Er ordered Yang Dianfeng to attack Xiao Han, but Xiao Han revealed overwhelming power and struck the One-Revolution Dou Zun until he vomited blood. Yang Dianfeng then apologized to Xiao Han, leaving him surprised by the unexpected response.

• Gu Xun Er ordered Yang Dianfeng to fight the group, and Yang Dianfeng singled out the Heavenly Flame Honored One.
• Xiao Han stopped the Heavenly Flame Honored One and stepped forward to face Yang Dianfeng.
• Yang Dianfeng attacked Xiao Han, but Xiao Han punched him back and made him spit blood.
• Xiao Han's aura distorted space as his hair and eyes began turning purple, shocking everyone watching.
• Yang Dianfeng respectfully apologized to Xiao Han, who was surprised by the sudden change in his behavior.

Yang Dianfeng backed down from Xiao Han, but Bone Nether Saint and Hun Han arrived and attacked Xiao Han. Lan Lan risked her life to protect him, leaving Xiao Han questioning whether her feelings went beyond concern for his mother.

• Yang Dianfeng apologized to Xiao Han and refused to continue fighting after realizing he could not protect Gu Xun Er from the nearby experts.
• Bone Nether Saint and Hun Han arrived, mocked the Gu Clan, and Bone Nether Saint confronted Xiao Han about his victories and parentage.
• Bone Nether Saint attacked Xiao Han with a spiked iron chain, and Lan Lan rushed in front of Xiao Han to shield him.
• Xiao Han caught the chain just short of Lan Lan and held her around the waist as Bone Nether Saint tried to drive the weapon closer.
• Xiao Han scolded Lan Lan for risking her life, and she said she feared his death would break Hun Susu's heart; he then asked whether that was her only reason.