Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan stunned the Xiao Clan by becoming an eleven-year-old One-Star Dou Zhe, while Xiao Se concealed his true Ninth Stage Dou Qi behind a Fifth Stage result. After deciding to use his foreknowledge to claim opportunities for himself, Xiao Se heard that the Barter System was loading.

• Xiao Yan tested as a high-level One-Star Dou Zhe, drawing admiration from the crowd and respectful congratulations from the examiner.
• Xiao Se tested as a middle-level Fifth Stage Dou Qi, though a girl in a purple dress suspected he was hiding his true strength.
• Xiao Se recalled his transmigration, his parents’ deaths, and how he had concealed his talent to avoid becoming a pawn in the elders’ conflict with Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Se considered Xiao Yan’s ring and the dangers of taking it, then resolved to use his foreknowledge to find other opportunities.
• A voice in Xiao Se’s mind announced that the Barter System was loading.

Xiao Se bound the Barter System and exchanged a twig for Tang San’s storage soul tool, Twenty-Four Bridges on a Moonlit Night, along with its contents. After learning the system’s rules, he considered how to use his remaining exchange attempts.

• Xiao Se bound the Barter System and received five exchange attempts.
• Xiao Se exchanged a twig in the cave for Tang San’s Twenty-Four Bridges on a Moonlit Night.
• Tang San discovered his storage tool had been replaced by a twig and faced the restaurant owner’s demand for payment.
• Xiao Se inspected the tool’s contents, including Gold Soul Coins, Tang San’s manuals, and hidden weapons.
• Xiao Se opened his personal panel and learned that failed exchanges could consume items and that attempts refreshed monthly.

Xiao Se exchanged a Jade Bottle for the Palm Heaven Bottle and secured Qi Gathering Powder, then failed to exchange a battered scroll for a cultivation technique. He was still searching for a usable item when Xiao Yu visited his home.

• Xiao Se exchanged his seasoning-filled Jade Bottle for the Palm Heaven Bottle and tested its green liquid on a plant shoot.
• He dyed a salt ball green and exchanged it for Qi Gathering Powder, while Han Pao Pao discovered that his treasure bottle had become a seasoning jar.
• Xiao Se returned to his residence without breaking through and tried to exchange a battered scroll for a cultivation technique, but the exchange failed.
• Xiao Yu visited Xiao Se, and they argued over whether he should call her cousin or Little Uncle.

Xiao Se grew closer to Xiao Yu while keeping his hidden cultivation secret, then traded an erotic picture scroll for the Burning Art. With the technique and Qi Gathering Powder ready, he prepared to attempt his breakthrough to Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Yu told Xiao Se she would take Canaan Academy’s entrance examination and asked him to go with her, but he refused and asked her to keep his true cultivation secret.
• Xiao Se promised to see Xiao Yu off, and she gave him an unused black scroll, prompting him to embrace and kiss her forehead.
• Xiao Se exchanged the scroll through the system and obtained the unnamed cultivation technique from Xiao Yan’s Ring, which turned out to be the Burning Art.
• Xiao Se adjusted his condition for an hour, then took out the Qi Gathering Powder and prepared to break through to Dou Zhe.

Xiao Se used Qi Gathering Powder to break through to Dou Zhe and received a System Patch. The next morning, he found a mysterious box hidden beneath a rapidly grown Podocarpus and exposed it by striking the stone platform.

• Xiao Se absorbed the Qi Gathering Powder and gathered and compressed his Dou Qi until he formed a Dou Qi Cyclone and advanced to Dou Zhe.
• The System awarded Xiao Se a patch, and he collapsed from exhaustion as a sprout beside him rapidly grew into a bonsai over a hidden jade chest.
• The next morning, Xiao Se confirmed that his Burning Art and Palm Heaven Bottle were safe, then began installing the System Patch.
• Xiao Se noticed a crack beneath the bonsai and used Stone Crushing Palm to break open the platform, revealing a box in its hollow interior.

Xiao Se uncovered Pill Emperor Podocarpus’s hidden inheritance, gaining his alchemy memories and a storage ring while avoiding a deadly Beast Flame trap. After storing his treasures and retrieving the Burning Art, Xiao Se began converting his Dou Qi cultivation method.

• Xiao Se found Podocarpus’s letter, learned about the chest’s hidden Beast Flame trap, and pressed the safety switch before taking the treasures.
• Xiao Se discovered the Fire Devouring Flood Dragon’s Beast Flame and a Middle Grade Storage Ring in the secret compartment.
• Xiao Se stored Podocarpus’s letter in the ring, triggering the remnant soul to enter his mind and pass on its alchemy memories.
• Xiao Se used the updated System Warehouse to store the Palm Heaven Bottle, then put the chest, Beast Flame, and three Dou Technique scrolls in the ring.
• Xiao Se opened the Burning Art and began converting his Dou Qi.

Xiao Se stabilized his cultivation, learned three Dou Techniques, and returned to the Xiao Clan to see Xiao Yu off to Canaan Academy. There, he realized Yao Lao had awakened and Xiao Yan’s cultivation was mysteriously declining, leaving Xiao Yan isolated and despairing.

• Xiao Se transformed his Dou Qi with the Burning Art and examined the Crimson Flame Sword, Ethereal Smoke Step, and Aura Concealing Art scrolls.
• Xiao Se stabilized his cultivation, planned to gather herbs and refine medicine, and used Ethereal Smoke Step to return to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Se overheard clan members say Xiao Yu had passed Canaan Academy’s assessment and Xiao Yan would not attend because he was too young.
• Xiao Se inferred that Yao Lao had awakened after hearing that Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi had disappeared.
• Xiao Xun'er worried outside Xiao Yan’s room while Xiao Yan, whose cultivation had fallen to the 8th Stage of Dou Qi, refused food and ordered her not to disturb him.

Xiao Xun'er discovered that Xiao Yan's Dou Qi had fallen to the 8th Stage and wondered why Xiao Se was near his residence. Xiao Se hurried to meet Xiao Yu before she left for Canaan Academy, arriving just in time to reunite with her.

• Xiao Yan angrily drove Xiao Xun'er away, and Ling Ying noticed that his cultivation had fallen to the 8th Stage of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Xun'er learned that Xiao Se had already reached the Dou Zhe realm and spoke with him outside Xiao Yan's courtyard.
• Xiao Se told Xiao Xun'er he had promised to see Xiao Yu off, and she said Xiao Yu had left for the Canaan Academy assembly point.
• Xiao Ning tearfully said goodbye to Xiao Yu, who told him to stop competing with Xiao Yan and to learn from Xiao Se.
• Xiao Se arrived at the assembly point just as Xiao Yu was leaving, and she leaped into his arms.

Xiao Se gathered medicinal herbs in a hidden valley and used the Palm Heaven Bottle to mature them so he could begin learning alchemy. After successfully producing and calming flames in a medicine cauldron, he struggled through his first ingredient extraction and continued practicing.

• Xiao Se practiced his skills and transplanted medicinal herbs from the Xiao Family Back Mountain into a concealed valley.
• Xiao Se used the Palm Heaven Bottle's green liquid to mature the herbs and harvested them for alchemy.
• Xiao Se summoned Podocarpus's medicine cauldron and converted his Dou Qi into flames, then used his wood energy to calm them.
• Xiao Se tried to extract Hemostatic Grass essence and burned ten stalks before finding the right temperature.
• Xiao Se extracted the Hemostatic Grass essence and began working on the remaining ingredients despite his dwindling Dou Qi and inexperience.

After a week of refining herbs, Xiao Se made his first Hemostatic Powder and exchanged it for the Demon Sword. He bonded with the sword, and Long Kui emerged and recognized him as her brother, leaving him to reckon with his new place in her memories.

• Xiao Se spent a week refining the valley's herbs and produced two hundred portions of materials before making his first Hemostatic Powder.
• Xiao Se exchanged the powder through the System and received the Demon Sword, which had been stored in the System Warehouse.
• Xiao Se grasped the Demon Sword, endured its absorption of his Dou Qi, and stained its hilt with his blood before collapsing.
• As Xiao Se cultivated to recover, Long Kui emerged from the Demon Sword and watched over him.
• After waking, Xiao Se heard Long Kui call him her Royal Brother, and the System confirmed that she now remembered him in Long Yang's place.

Xiao Se reunited with Long Kui, promised to revive her, and discovered that her soul could strengthen his cultivation and Soul Power. With her help, he rapidly refined medicine and prepared to advance to refining Second-Rank Pills.

• Xiao Se asked Long Kui to call him Brother and promised to protect her from being sacrificed again.
• Long Kui explained that her body had been destroyed in the Sword Casting Furnace and that her soul survived inside the Demon Sword, and Xiao Se promised to give her a new body.
• Long Kui returned to the Demon Sword, which Xiao Se adjusted to a lighter weight and stored inside his body as a tattoo.
• Long Kui possessed Xiao Se, raising his cultivation to a seven-star Great Fighter for up to half an hour.
• With Long Kui's Soul Power, Xiao Se quickly refined his remaining Hemostatic Powder ingredients and successfully made Injury Pills.
• Xiao Se realized that he could now attempt to refine Second-Rank Pills.

Xiao Se visited the Xiao Clan’s Imitation Market to buy wood-type Magic Cores for refining Nurturing Spirit Liquid, with Long Kui helping him locate one. As he left, he saw Ga Lie Ao confronting Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, and the chapter ended with the crowd watching the standoff.

• Xiao Se searched the Imitation Market for a First-Grade Wood-Type Magic Core, and Long Kui sensed one nearby.
• Xiao Se bargained with a mercenary and bought a Ghost Wood Fox Magic Core for four hundred fifty Gold Coins.
• Xiao Se spent his remaining money on an ordinary First-Grade wood-element Magic Core and headed for the exit.
• Xiao Se spotted Ga Lie Ao blocking Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er with a group of burly men.
• Xiao Yan stepped in front of Xun Er and challenged Ga Lie Ao, who struck a subordinate for warning him not to provoke the Xiao Clan.

Xiao Yan was pressured into accepting Ga Lie Ao’s challenge despite his weakened Fourth Stage Dou Qi, while Xiao Se watched and warned Long Kui to stay hidden. Xiao Yan struck first and knocked Ga Lie Ao back, but the chapter ended with Ga Lie Ao unharmed and confused by the weak impact.

• Ga Lie Ao challenged Xiao Yan to a fight, and Xun Er offered to face him instead.
• Ga Lie Ao and his lackeys insulted Xiao Yan, while Xiao Se suspected that Ling Ying had scanned him with Soul Power and told Long Kui not to reveal herself.
• Xiao Yan accepted Ga Lie Ao’s challenge under the crowd’s pressure, and the spectators cleared space for them to fight.
• Xiao Yan used Stone Crushing Palm to strike Ga Lie Ao in the chest and knock him several meters away.
• Ga Lie Ao’s lackeys helped him up, and Ga Lie Ao realized Xiao Yan’s palm strike had barely hurt him.

Xiao Yan’s apparent loss of Dou Qi was exposed when Ga Lie Ao withstood his palm and kicked him down, leaving Xiao Yan humiliated and Xun Er worried. Xiao Se secretly crippled Ga Lie Ao, then returned to the Waterfall Cave to refine pills with Long Kui’s help, while Ling Ying reported that he still did not know why Xiao Yan had lost his Dou Qi.

• Ga Lie Ao baited Xiao Yan into striking again, endured the attack, and exposed that Xiao Yan could only use Dou Qi Energy before kicking him down.
• Xiao Yan rejected Xun Er’s help and fled in shame, while Xun Er followed him.
• Xiao Se used poisoned steel needles to injure Ga Lie Ao, then slipped away from the Imitation Market.
• Xiao Se returned to the Waterfall Cave, where Long Kui possessed his body to help refine pills from the materials he had bought.
• Xun Er summoned Ling Ying, who told her Xiao Yan’s injuries were superficial but that he had found no cause for Xiao Yan’s lost Dou Qi.

Xiao Se went to the Mittel Auction to sell an inferior bottle of Nurturing Spirit Liquid and raise funds for ingredients to refine an Ice Spirit Pill. After the appraiser summoned Grandmaster Gu Ni to inspect it, Xiao Se waited and wondered whether Ya Fei had arrived.

• Xun Er ordered Ling Ying to deal with Ga Lie Ao, but Ling Ying explained that someone had already attacked him and suspected Xiao Se.
• Xun Er learned that Xiao Se might have been responsible and decided not to trouble him as long as he left Xiao Yan alone.
• Xiao Se explained to Long Kui that he wanted to auction the inferior Nurturing Spirit Liquid to buy ingredients and stop relying on her Soul Power for pill refining.
• Xiao Se arrived at the Mittel Auction, where an appraiser examined the Nurturing Spirit Liquid and asked Grandmaster Gu Ni to appraise it personally.
• Xiao Se waited in the appraisal room and wondered whether Ya Fei had arrived.

Xiao Se had the auction house verify his second-rank spirit liquid and entered an auction where Xiao Zhan, Ga Lie Bi, and Ao Ba Pa competed for it. Xiao Zhan’s remarks about Ga Lie Ao’s castration silenced the hall’s discussion of Xiao Yan’s lost Dou Qi and left the Gale Family publicly humiliated.

• Gu Ni confirmed that Xiao Se’s spirit liquid had reached the second rank, and Xiao Se arranged to auction it and buy medicinal ingredients with the proceeds.
• Xiao Se entered the Number One Auction Room and noticed Xiao Zhan, Ga Lie Bi, and Ao Ba Pa seated in places of honor.
• Ga Lie Bi and Ao Ba Pa drove the spirit liquid’s price up before Xiao Zhan bid fifty thousand.
• Ga Lie Bi mocked Xiao Yan for losing his Dou Qi, and Xiao Zhan replied that Ga Lie Ao had also been crippled.
• Xiao Zhan revealed that Ga Lie Ao had been castrated, prompting the auction hall to mock the Gale Family.

Xiao Se obtained an Ice Spirit Pill and used it to subdue the Fire Devouring Flood Dragon’s Beast Flame despite the danger posed by his weak cultivation art. Long Kui’s Demon Sword Tattoo intervened at the last moment, and Xiao Se ended the chapter exhausted but alive with the flame successfully contained.

• Xiao Zhan provoked Ga Lie Bi into bidding one hundred thousand Gold Coins for Nurturing Spirit Liquid, then won the auction after Ga Lie Bi realized he had been tricked.
• Xiao Se returned to the Stone Chamber beneath the waterfall and successfully refined a Tier 3 Ice Spirit Pill.
• Long Kui warned Xiao Se that devouring the Beast Flame was dangerous, but he insisted on trying and she entered the Demon Sword Tattoo to watch over him.
• Xiao Se swallowed the Beast Flame and used the Ice Spirit Pills, Dou Qi, and Soul Power to guide it into a space in his Dou Qi Cyclone.
• When Xiao Se neared his limit, the Demon Sword Tattoo flashed red, drew the remaining Beast Flame into the space, and healed his scorched meridians.
• Xiao Se collapsed after successfully subduing the Beast Flame, and Long Kui emerged from the tattoo to help him.

Xiao Se reunited with Long Kui, reassured both her blue and red forms, and tested the Beast Flame he had subdued from the Fire Devouring Flood Dragon. After devouring it, he advanced to four-star Dou Zhe and used his refreshed exchange opportunity to trade an item through the system.

• Xiao Se asked to see Long Kui's red form, and Hong Kui transformed, teased him, and admitted she had used her Soul Power to repair his damaged meridians.
• Xiao Se promised to protect both Hong Kui and Lan Kui, then asked Hong Kui to avoid using her power so freely; she changed back into Lan Kui, who hugged him and asked what Hong Kui had done.
• Xiao Se manifested the blue-white Beast Flame and gave Long Kui a Ring before beginning to devour the flame to advance the Burning Art.
• Two hours later, Xiao Se finished devouring the Beast Flame, rose from one-star to four-star Dou Zhe, and formed the Crimson Flame Sword from blue-white flames.
• The system refreshed Xiao Se's exchange attempts, and he called on it to exchange a scroll.

Xiao Se learned the Returning Origin Soul Art, taught it to Long Kui, and discovered it enhanced his cultivation and helped her recover Soul Power. After refining and bringing medicines to the Mittel Auction House, he arranged their sale and asked about the combat skills he had ordered.

• Xiao Se obtained the Returning Origin Soul Art, practiced it, and found that it improved his mental state.
• Xiao Se taught the art to Long Kui, who entered a deep meditative trance while he guarded her and refined medicines.
• Xiao Se discovered he could circulate the Returning Origin Soul Art and Burning Art together, improving how quickly he absorbed dou qi.
• Long Kui woke and told Xiao Se that her Soul Power had recovered overnight, then joined him in leaving the Stone Chamber.
• Xiao Se brought ten bottles of Nurturing Spirit Liquid and hundreds of healing medicines to Gu Ni at the Mittel Auction House, where Gu Ni praised their quality and offered prices for the healing medicines.
• Xiao Se asked about the combat skills he had ordered, and Gu Ni said they had arrived before a woman entered carrying a silver tray.

Xiao Se challenged Hong Kui with increasingly powerful Dou Techniques but was defeated after exhausting his Dou Qi. Hong Kui carried him to the Waterfall Cave and prepared a medicinal bath, leaving Lan Kui and Hong Kui to care for him while he was unconscious.

• Xiao Se's close-range attacks failed against Hong Kui's strange force field, so he attacked her with Crimson Flame Sword.
• Hong Kui knocked away Xiao Se's seven flaming swords with a Blood-colored Scythe, then shattered his Crimson Flame Sword, Extreme Break with a fingertip.
• Hong Kui caught Xiao Se as he was blown toward a tree and confirmed that he was unconscious from overexertion rather than seriously injured.
• Hong Kui carried Xiao Se to the Waterfall Cave and prepared a medicinal bath with Nurturing Spirit Liquid.
• Hong Kui undressed Xiao Se and placed him in the bathtub while Lan Kui urged her on and then fell asleep.