Chapter Summaries

Xiao Se confirmed his perfect alchemy test score and drew Nalan Yanran’s attention after the exam. As she questioned him about his connection to her teacher, he admitted he was the Xiao Huo Huo Yun Yun had met and asked her to keep his unusual ability secret.

• Liu Ling questioned Xiao Se’s twelve-point score and claimed the testing instrument might be faulty.
• Xiao Se asked Chemir to test Liu Ling’s medicinal liquid, which scored eight points, and Chemir confirmed Xiao Se’s ingredients deserved a perfect score.
• Chemir reprimanded Liu Ling, congratulated the successful alchemists, and warned them that competitors from neighboring nations, including the Chu Yun Empire, would enter the main competition.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Se to speak with her privately, and Liu Ling watched them leave together with resentment.
• Nalan Yanran asked whether Xiao Se was the Xiao Huo Huo Yun Yun had met, and Xiao Se confirmed it and asked her to keep his unusual ability confidential.
• Nalan Yanran asked why Xiao Se had refused Yun Yun’s offer to join the Yun Lan Sect, and Xiao Se guessed that she meant he could have become her junior brother.

Xiao Se declined Nalan Yanran's invitation to join the Yun Lan Sect and searched the Alchemist Guild's Trading Hall, where he bought a mysterious wooden box. Nalan Yanran resolved to ask Nalan Jie to end her engagement, while Xiao Se exchanged for Zhu Zhuqing after the System refreshed.

• Xiao Se told Nalan Yanran that he valued freedom over joining a sect, and she grew more determined to break off her engagement.
• Xiao Se left Nalan Yanran and searched the Trading Hall for valuable items, eventually noticing a stall with an empty wooden box.
• Xiao Se traded a Fourth-Rank Beast Strength Pill for the box, whose material had resisted a Fourth-Rank Alchemist's Solid Flame.
• Nalan Yanran decided to ask Nalan Jie to break off her engagement after the Alchemist Grand Meeting, or seek help from Yun Yun if he refused.
• The System refreshed Xiao Se's exchange and roulette opportunities, and he exchanged for Zhu Zhuqing from the world of 'Soul Land'.

Tang San and Xiao Wu clashed with Dai Mubai over the Rose Hotel’s last room, and Tang San fought him after Dai Mubai threatened Xiao Wu. Outside, a mysterious young woman watched Dai Mubai before space warped and she vanished, leaving a sex doll behind.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu tried to claim the Rose Hotel’s last room, but Dai Mubai demanded it and leered at Xiao Wu.
• Xiao Wu insulted Dai Mubai, who challenged them to a soul-master duel and threatened to take her if he won.
• Dai Mubai revealed his mutated Ape-Tiger martial soul and rank thirty-three cultivation, while the narration recounted how its mutation had damaged his body and Oscar’s life.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass and challenged Dai Mubai, and the two began exchanging attacks.
• A cold-faced young woman watched the fight, judged Dai Mubai with disgust, and vanished when the space around her twisted, leaving a sex doll in her place.

After obtaining Zhu Zhuqing in the System Warehouse, Xiao Se postponed releasing her until after the Alchemist Grand Meeting and declined Yao Yue’s invitation. Back in his room, he uncovered a cultivation technique called Fire God's Wrath and realized it required the Essence Blood of a pure-blooded ancient magical beast.

• Xiao Se kept the sealed Zhu Zhuqing in the System Warehouse and decided to release her after the Alchemist Grand Meeting.
• Yao Yue invited Xiao Se to a gathering, but he refused and left; afterward, Yao Yue and Liu Ling formed a temporary alliance to win him over to the Gama Royal Family and keep him away from Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Se returned to his room, summoned Long Kui, and used his Azure Lotus Core Flame to burn open the wooden box containing a black jade fragment.
• The jade fragment melted and revealed five diagrams, including the Fire God's Wrath technique, which required Heavenly Flames and the Essence Blood of a pure-blooded ancient magical beast.
• Xiao Se considered using the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python for its Essence Blood, but it resisted, so he decided to wait until the queen awakened and negotiate with her.

Ya Fei asked Xiao Se to accompany her to a royal banquet as protection from Mu Zhan, who had pressured her to marry him. At the Gama Imperial Palace, she introduced Xiao Se to Mittel Tengshan and Nalan Jie.

• Xiao Se finished cultivating and agreed to attend the royal banquet after Ya Fei explained that she needed protection from Mu Zhan.
• Ya Fei kissed Xiao Se on the cheek to secure his agreement, and he went with her to the Gama Imperial Palace.
• Ya Fei brought Xiao Se to Mittel Tengshan and introduced him to Nalan Jie, Nalan Yanran's grandfather.

At the Nalan family gathering, Xiao Se attended with Ya Fei and kept Nalan Jie and Mittel Tengshan from learning much about him. Nalan Yanran approached him to follow her grandfather’s instructions, while Liu Ling and the little princess reacted with jealousy to Xiao Se’s closeness with Ya Fei.

• Nalan Jie and Mittel Tengshan questioned Xiao Se at dinner, then left him and Ya Fei to talk.
• Nalan Yanran left Liu Ling and the little princess to approach Xiao Se after a servant spoke to her.
• Liu Ling noticed Xiao Se with Ya Fei and enlisted an attendant from the Mu Family to carry out a plan against him.
• Xiao Se told Ya Fei he was open with friends he genuinely acknowledged, then greeted Nalan Yanran as she joined their table.
• Nalan Yanran asked how well Xiao Se and Ya Fei knew each other, and Ya Fei said they had known each other for several years.
• Nalan Yanran began trying to win Xiao Se over as Nalan Jie had instructed her.

Xiao Se impressed Nalan Yanran with his cultivation insights, then instantly defeated Mu Zhan when the Mu Family fighter tried to ambush him. The gathering was left stunned, while Liu Ling watched Nalan Yanran’s growing admiration for Xiao Se with anger.

• Ya Fei steered the conversation toward cultivation, and Xiao Se’s insights won Nalan Yanran’s admiration.
• Liu Ling crushed his wine cup as he watched Nalan Yanran and Xiao Se talk, while the Little Princess teased him.
• Mu Zhan rode into the palace plaza and searched for Xiao Se as Hai Bo Dong and a gray-haired old man watched from a pavilion.
• Xiao Se sensed trouble and struck Mu Zhan’s sneak attack with one punch, sending him crashing into a pavilion.
• Xiao Se checked that Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran were safe, then learned the attacker was Mu Zhan.
• Liu Ling tried to dismiss Xiao Se’s strength as irrelevant to alchemy, while the Little Princess expressed disbelief at Mu Zhan’s defeat.

Xiao Se defeated Mu Zhan after he attacked again, earning the protection of the Nalan and Mittel Families. Later, Ya Fei kissed Xiao Se on the lips for the first time, then fled when a glass shattered.

• Mu Zhan attacked Xiao Se with Azure Wood Thrust, but Xiao Se stunned him with a thrown cup and beat him unconscious.
• Nalan Jie and Mittel Tengshan warned the Mu Family to stop Mu Zhan from causing trouble for Xiao Se.
• The gathering resumed, and the guests regarded Xiao Se with awe instead of disdain and jealousy.
• Ya Fei apologized to Xiao Se, and he teased her by asking for another kiss.
• Ya Fei kissed Xiao Se on the lips, then pushed him away and fled after a glass shattered.

Xiao Se attended the Alchemist Grand Meeting in Gama Holy City, hoping to obtain a sixth-rank formula and pursue information about the Little Fairy Doctor. At the Royal Plaza, he met Fa Ma and Hai Bo Dong before the competition began, and an old man arrived with the Little Princess and a cold, armored woman.

• Xiao Se prepared for the grand meeting, and he and Hai Bo Dong went with Otto and Fokland to the Royal Plaza.
• Otto and Fokland introduced Xiao Se to Fa Ma, who praised Xiao Se's alchemy skills and greeted Hai Bo Dong as Ice Old.
• Hai Bo Dong sat beside Fa Ma while Xiao Se waited near a pillar and Otto and Fokland returned to their guild seats.
• An old man arrived with the Little Princess, who wore a first-rank Alchemist badge, and a tall woman in armor carrying a spear.

Xiao Se attended the Alchemist Grand Meeting and met Jia Xing Tian, Yao Ye, and Yao Yue before Yun Yun arrived and greeted him as an old acquaintance. The gathering left Xiao Se seated among the young contestants, with Yao Yue and Nalan Yanran both paying him attention while Liu Ling and the little princess looked on unhappily.

• Jia Xing Tian arrived with Yao Ye and introduced her to Xiao Se, while Hai Bo Dong warned Xiao Se about Jia Xing Tian’s interest in him.
• Yao Yue greeted Xiao Se and shook his hand, drawing attention from the people around the VIP platform.
• Yun Yun arrived with Gu He, Nalan Yanran, and Liu Ling, then recognized Xiao Se and invited him to visit the Yun Lan Sect.
• Yao Yue, Yao Ye, Nalan Yanran, Xiao Se, and Liu Ling took the five seats at the front, with Xiao Se placed in the center.
• Yao Yue sought chances to talk with Xiao Se and Nalan Yanran watched him closely, while the little princess and Liu Ling looked displeased.

Xiao Se attended the Alchemist Grand Meeting, drawing attention and jealousy from the contestants as several prominent beauties gathered around him. When the competition began, Liu Ling showed off his landing, and Xiao Se followed with a display of speed and Dou Qi that stunned the crowd.

• Xiao Se noticed Mu Chen, Mu Zhan, and Ya Fei arriving with the other clan elders, and Ya Fei took a seat behind him.
• Ya Fei, Nalan Yanran, and Yao Ye drew attention to Xiao Se, while Liu Ling grew resentful and vowed to defeat him.
• Chemir rang the gong, and Fa Ma officially opened the Alchemist Grand Meeting and directed the contestants to their stations.
• Liu Ling leaped from the VIP platform onto his iron fan and landed safely, then provoked Xiao Se.
• At the crowd's urging, Xiao Se vanished from the VIP platform and reappeared beside the competition stone platform, leaving the contestants stunned.

Xiao Se impressed the crowd with his speed and began the first round of the alchemist competition, refining a Bone Growing Pill with ease. As the contest continued, Liu Ling remained determined to defeat him, while Xiao Se completed his pill with half the allotted time remaining.

• The spectators cheered for Xiao Se, and Jia Xing Tian, Yun Yun, and Hai Bo Dong discussed the speed and high rank of his movement technique.
• Ya Fei, Nalan Yanran, Yao Ye, Yao Yue, Nalan Jie, and Mittel Tengshan watched Xiao Se with admiration or regret as Mu Chen warned Mu Zhan not to provoke him again.
• Xiao Se examined the Bone Growing Pill prescription while Liu Ling vowed to defeat him and win Nalan Yanran's attention.
• Fa Ma announced that contestants had to refine a finished pill from two portions of ingredients before the hourglass ran out, and more than a thousand contestants lit their cauldrons.
• Xiao Se used ordinary Dou Qi flames rather than his Heavenly Flame or Purple Fire Pill and finished refining the Bone Growing Pill with half the sand remaining.

Xiao Se won the first round’s pill-quality test, but a concealed young alchemist named Horton produced a pill just as impressive and drew the elders’ attention. Yun Yun stripped away Horton’s hat, and she suspected that he had used an Appearance Recovery Pill to disguise his age and appearance.

• Liu Ling finished his pill and taunted Xiao Se, who reminded him that Nalan Yanran was watching and warned him he might lose again.
• Fa Ma’s pill testing placed Xiao Se first in quality, angering Liu Ling as the others began to regard Xiao Se differently.
• The Pill Testing Instrument detected a pill from a gray-robed Chu Yun Empire contestant that rivaled Xiao Se’s, and Fa Ma learned the contestant was seventeen-year-old Horton, officially listed as a Second-Rank Alchemist.
• Fa Ma and Gu He suspected Horton’s Soul Power belonged to a Fourth- or Fifth-Rank Alchemist, while Hai Bo Dong suggested testing whether he was disguised.
• Yun Yun used her Wind Attribute Dou Qi to sweep Horton’s hat away, revealing his youthful face, and suspected he had taken an Appearance Recovery Pill.

Yun Yun and the others suspected the gray-robed contestant was Holden, a Fifth-Rank Alchemist from the Chu Yun Empire, and wondered why the champion’s reward had drawn him to the competition. As the second round exposed a flaw in the pill formula, Xiao Se identified the mistake, revealed the missing ingredient, and publicly humiliated the gray-robed alchemist.

• Yun Yun recognized Horton as possibly Holden, and Fa Ma warned that the Chu Yun Empire contestant could be a Fifth-Rank Alchemist.
• Hai Bo Dong suggested the champion’s reward had attracted the Chu Yun Empire, but Fa Ma refused to reveal its details and ordered Chemir to investigate a possible leak.
• Fa Ma announced the second-round test, and Xiao Se recognized the flawed Wind Walk Pill formula and began refining while concealing his knowledge.
• Several contestants’ cauldrons exploded, Liu Ling failed to refine the pill, and the gray-robed youth mocked the Gama Empire alchemists.
• Xiao Se’s jade-green pillar rose as he discarded the unnecessary Thick Earth Mushroom, struck the gray-robed youth with it, and revealed the formula’s flaw to the other contestants.

After the second round of the alchemy competition, Xiao Se declined Nalan Yanran’s invitation to a palace banquet and warned Ya Fei that the Chu Yun Empire might make a move that night. He urged her to stay with the Mittel Family, leaving her surprised that the enemy would dare act despite the city’s Dou Huang defenders.

• Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, Ya Fei, and Nalan Yanran praised Xiao Se after he completed his pill ahead of the other contestants, while the gray-robed youth threatened him over the public humiliation.
• Xiao Se waited as Liu Ling and the other contestants finished, and Fa Ma announced the end of the day’s competition and the championship round the following day.
• Nalan Yanran invited Xiao Se to Princess Yao Ye’s palace banquet, mentioning that Yun Yun would attend, but Xiao Se declined because he was tired and needed to prepare.
• In a Mittel Auction carriage, Ya Fei teased Xiao Se about refusing to meet Yun Yun, and he warned her that the Chu Yun Empire might stir up trouble that night.
• Xiao Se advised Ya Fei to remain with the Mittel Family for safety, and she questioned how the Chu Yun Empire could act with four Dou Huang powerhouses in Gama Holy City.

Xiao Se learned that Yun Yun had helped wipe out the Chu Yun poison masters who attacked the banquet, and Guild Master Fa Ma summoned him to the Alchemist Guild. The chapter ended with Xiao Se arriving at Fa Ma’s room, expecting to receive a pill formula to help him defeat Horton.

• Xiao Se warned Ya Fei that the royal family planned to use the alchemists as bait, and she agreed to stay at the Mittel Auction House.
• Xiao Se drew a seven-day Soul Land Travel Ticket and talked with Long Kui about his feelings for her and other women.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Se that Yun Yun had attended the banquet and the Chu Yun poison masters had been wiped out, then relayed Fa Ma’s request to meet him.
• Xiao Se kissed Ya Fei before flying to the Alchemist Guild, where he was welcomed and escorted to Fa Ma’s room.

Xiao Se gained Fa Ma’s trust by claiming to be the successor of the deceased Pill Emperor Podocarpus and received the Three-Patterned Spirit Clearing Pill formula and ingredients. Fa Ma promised to give him the Soul Fusion Pill formula if he won the Alchemist Grand Meeting, leaving Xiao Se set on winning the next day’s competition.

• Fa Ma saw through Xiao Se’s disguise, and Xiao Se revealed his face and admitted he had concealed his identity.
• Xiao Se claimed he had inherited Podocarpus’s alchemical knowledge from a remnant soul and showed Fa Ma a letter bearing Podocarpus’s handwriting.
• Fa Ma believed Xiao Se’s account, agreed to keep his identity secret, and gave him the Three-Patterned Spirit Clearing Pill formula with three sets of ingredients.
• Xiao Se asked Fa Ma for the Soul Fusion Pill formula to treat a friend’s soul injury.
• Fa Ma offered to give Xiao Se the Soul Fusion Pill formula along with the champion’s reward if Xiao Se won the competition.

Xiao Se prepared to compete in the Alchemist Grand Meeting finals after Queen Medusa gave him a drop of Essence Blood for his secret technique. The final assessment began with contestants refining pills of their choice, and Xiao Se's unusual ingredients drew Fa Ma's attention as Liu Ling challenged him.

• Medusa asked whether Xiao Se could defeat Horton, and Xiao Se said he could win unless Horton refined a Rank 6 Pill.
• Xiao Se asked Medusa for Essence Blood to use with his newly acquired secret technique, and she gave him a drop as repayment for his help in the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Se arrived at the Royal Plaza with Hai Bo Dong and took his place among the finalists, where the crowd regarded him with awe.
• Fa Ma announced that contestants had to refine the highest-ranked pill with the best effects using their own resources.
• Fa Ma realized Xiao Se's ingredients were not for the Three-Patterned Spirit Clearing Pill, while Hai Bo Dong joked that Xiao Se had tricked him into supplying a different formula and ingredients.
• Liu Ling summoned a pale brown flame and vowed to make Xiao Se suffer a crushing defeat before Yan Ran.

Xiao Se revealed his Otherworldly Flame during the Alchemist Grand Meeting, overwhelming the flames of the other contestants and shocking the empire’s leading figures. As the contestants began refining pills for the final round, Xiao Se carefully worked on the Soul Fusion Pill, whose formula he needed to fulfill Queen Medusa’s gift of Essence Blood.

• Holden summoned a black-red flame and claimed he would win the championship, prompting Xiao Se to reveal his Azure Flame.
• Xiao Se’s Otherworldly Flame formed an azure lotus, causing the flames of Liu Ling, Holden, and the other contestants to bow before it.
• Hai Bo Dong, Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, Yun Yun, and Gu He recognized Xiao Se as the masked youth who had possessed an Otherworldly Flame, while Ya Fei, Yao Yue, and Nalan Yanran watched in shock.
• Xiao Se returned his Otherworldly Flame to his Medicine Cauldron, and Holden dismissed its advantage while Liu Ling looked dejected.
• The contestants began refining their pills, and Xiao Se carefully prepared the medicinal liquid for the Soul Fusion Pill using the limited ingredients Hai Bo Dong had gathered.
• Nalan Jie praised Xiao Se’s talent as the plaza fell silent and the contestants focused on the final round.

Nalan Jie agreed to let Nalan Yanran privately break off her engagement with the Xiao Clan, hoping to win over Xiao Se for the Nalan Family. Meanwhile, Xiao Se pushed through the strain of refining a Fifth-Rank Pill, which was nearing completion as the Alchemist Grand Meeting continued.

• Nalan Yanran told Nalan Jie she did not want to marry the Xiao Clan boy, and Nalan Jie asked whether she liked Xiao Se.
• Nalan Jie gave Nalan Yanran permission to break off the engagement, instructing her to speak privately with Xiao Zhan and deciding to pursue Xiao Se’s favor.
• Xiao Se grew fatigued while refining a Fifth-Rank Pill and swallowed two Qi Recovery Pills before adding the final medicinal ingredient.
• Fa Ma noticed the pill fragrance from Xiao Se’s cauldron, while Liu Ling and the other Third-Rank Alchemists realized their chances of winning had been crushed.
• Holden was startled by the fragrance but believed Xiao Se’s cauldron was close to failing, as Xiao Se cautiously watched his purple pill take shape.