Chapter Summaries

Zhou Ming formed a potion-selling partnership with Manager Huo Er, escaped Wei Ni’s attack, and offered Lina a future in the noble clothing business. After meditating, he advanced from Apprentice Magician to Novice Magician, unlocking the ability to learn fire magic alongside wind magic.

• Manager Huo Er praised Zhou Ming’s improved Mind-Calming Potion formula, accepted the five hundred potions, and agreed that Gannis Potion Shop would sell Zhou Ming’s excess potions for a forty-sixty split.
• Wei Ni attacked Zhou Ming in an alley, but he dodged her magic and escaped with a torn mage robe.
• Lina repaired Zhou Ming’s robe, and Zhou Ming offered to train her to manage his planned noble clothing business and share its profits.
• Zhou Ming meditated for six hours and advanced from Apprentice Magician to Novice Magician, gaining access to both wind and fire magic.

Zhou Ming helped Lina develop her clothing-design skills and built her a sewing machine, then secured the Torres Family’s support for a new clothing brand. The chapter ended with their partnership finalized and Dreamlan preparing to open in the royal capital.

• Zhou Ming taught Lina clothing design and used fire magic to help a blacksmith produce a sewing machine, which let her make a sky-blue dress in ten days.
• Zhou Ming asked Lilith to partner with him, but she refused because her family opposed her association with the Lei Lin Family.
• Zhou Ming recalled the Lei Lin Family’s history of backing royal reforms and concluded that he would not sacrifice his family for the Loyal King Party.
• Betty initially dismissed Zhou Ming’s plan to enter the clothing industry, but she changed her mind after seeing his designs.
• Zhou Ming, Betty, and Lina finalized their shares in the Dreamlan clothing brand, which was set to open on a busy street in the royal capital.

Zhou Ming used his new Intermediate Pharmacist status and access to cheap Mind-Calming Potions to recruit Baum, Connie, and Wolf as allies. Martin then gathered a large group of students and cornered Zhou Ming in the Small Woods, where he prepared to beat him.

• Zhou Ming treated Baum, Connie, and Wolf to meals, but they warned him that Martin had threatened anyone who helped him.
• Zhou Ming revealed that he was an Intermediate Pharmacist who could brew Mind-Calming Potions, and offered to sell them to his friends at cost.
• Baum, Connie, and Wolf agreed to help Zhou Ming in exchange for the potions, and he asked them to find clients and select ten Core Clients.
• Martin mobilized more than fifty students and had Zhou Ming seized after school on Friday.
• Martin confronted Zhou Ming in the Small Woods and declared that he would make him pay for the beatings he owed.

Zhou Ming led his allies to defeat Martin and his group in a battle in the Small Woods, then treated the injured and rewarded students for their performance. He left Martin alive, expecting their conflict to continue, while promising more students a chance to become Core Clients as potion production increased.

• Vik, Wolf, and more than half of Martin's invited students joined Zhou Ming, prompting him to offer Martin a chance to end their feud peacefully.
• Martin attacked Zhou Ming with a Hurricane spell, and Vik and Wolf shielded Zhou Ming with Wind Walls before both sides began fighting.
• Zhou Ming used Shield-Breaking Wind Pillars to incapacitate three of Martin's strongest magicians, then organized volleys that overwhelmed Martin's remaining fighters and knocked Martin down.
• Zhou Ming challenged Martin to face him openly in the future, then left without killing him because Martin was the Hewlett Family's heir.
• Zhou Ming used Healing Potions to treat ten injured allies and awarded seven Core Client spots, promising to expand the number as his Mind-Calming Potion production improved.

After the Small Woods battle, the school investigated the brawl and punished Zhou Ming less harshly than Martin, who challenged him to a life-and-death duel. Principal Roberts then tried to recruit Zhou Ming by offering wealth, restored nobility for his family, and a future as principal, but Zhou Ming left without answering.

• Zhou Ming emerged from the Small Woods battle with a group of supporters, while the school investigated the injuries and destruction caused by the brawl.
• Academic affairs director Klaun and Olos called for Zhou Ming's expulsion, but Catherine defended him and argued that Martin had provoked the fight.
• The school placed Zhou Ming on one year's probation, ordered him to pay twenty thousand gold coins and apologize to Martin, while Martin was merely told not to bully him again.
• Zhou Ming apologized to Martin, who rejected it and challenged him to a life-and-death arena duel one month later; Zhou Ming accepted.
• Principal Roberts praised Zhou Ming's talent as an Intermediate Pharmacist and offered to restore the Lei Lin Family's title and fief in exchange for Zhou Ming staying at the school.
• Zhou Ming left the principal's office without accepting Roberts's offer.

Zhou Ming rejected Roberts Principal’s efforts to bind him to Bruno Magic School and thanked Catherine for defending him, but Wei Ni retaliated after Huo Er left the kingdom by cutting him off from potion ingredients and undercutting his Mind-Calming Potions. Her accusation that Zhou Ming had deceived his customers shattered his reputation among his classmates, leaving him stunned.

• Zhou Ming refused to trade his freedom for Roberts Principal’s promises and gave the magic cake he had meant for Roberts to Catherine in thanks for defending him.
• Catherine accepted the cake and invited Zhou Ming to bring her questions about magic, while encouraging him to focus on his studies.
• Huo Er left for a six-month visit to the Nabiu Kingdom, leaving Wei Ni in charge of Gannis Potion Shop; she refused to sell Zhou Ming ingredients and raised the price of Healing Potion ingredients.
• Wei Ni began selling Mind-Calming Potions for 80 gold coins and claimed Zhou Ming’s potions cost only 35 gold coins to make, accusing him of profiteering.
• Zhou Ming’s classmates condemned him, demanded refunds, and abandoned his group, while he realized Wei Ni’s attack had caught him completely off guard.

Zhou Ming persuaded his Core Clients to help him exploit Wei Ni’s low-priced Mind-Calming Potions, leaving her stock depleted and her reputation shaken. He then reached an agreement with Old Fox for Bruno Magic School to establish an herb merchant guild, securing a new herb supply and favorable terms for his potion work.

• Zhou Ming convinced his ten Core Clients that his 100-gold-coin Mind-Calming Potions were fairly priced and explained his conflict with Wei Ni.
• Zhou Ming proposed buying up Wei Ni’s 80-gold-coin potions, and Baum and the others recruited buyers and resold them at higher prices.
• Students rushed to buy Wei Ni’s potions, and rumors prevented her from imposing purchase limits or raising prices.
• Wei Ni ran out of her stock, faced questions about her potions and her treatment of Lei Lin, then flew off to vent her anger at the target range.
• Zhou Ming and Old Fox agreed to establish a school-backed herb merchant guild, with the school supplying him herbs at cost and giving him 60 percent of the profits from his potions.

With Mind-Calming Potions scarce, Baum and nine others sold their stock at huge profits, while Zhou Ming rebuilt the Brotherhood around a stronger group of thirty members and resumed limited potion sales. Wei Ni’s Sisters Gang and Martin’s followers remained rivals as the agreed duel drew near.

• As Mind-Calming Potions disappeared from the school market, students suspected Lei Lin had bought up the supply, but Zhou Ming denied having any to sell.
• Baum and nine other students set up stalls and sold twenty bottles for 800 gold coins each, earning the nickname Campus Ten Traitors.
• Zhou Ming recruited twenty new Core Clients, set Brotherhood membership and cooperation requirements, and reserved his remaining potions for members at 100 gold coins per bottle.
• Wei Ni tried to lure Brotherhood members into the Sisters Gang with cheaper potions, but most stayed; Zhou Ming expelled two members who became her spies.
• Wei Ni’s thirty-member Sisters Gang and Martin’s smaller group continued clashing with Zhou Ming’s Brotherhood as Martin’s return and the agreed duel approached.

Zhou Ming faced Martin in a duel after Martin advanced to Intermediate Magician, but overwhelmed him with expensive equipment, Magic Scrolls, and potions before defeating him with his own magic. Zhou Ming left the arena victorious while the crowd erupted in outrage and disbelief.

• The crowd backed Martin, and Wei Ni promised to go out with him if he defeated Lei Lin.
• Martin revealed that he had become an Intermediate Magician after a month of secluded training, while Zhou Ming's supporters urged him to surrender.
• Zhou Ming displayed his five-million-gold Seven Magic Staff, more than a hundred Magic Scrolls, and dozens of potions, shocking Martin.
• Martin attacked with powerful spells, but Zhou Ming countered with Magic Scrolls until Martin exhausted his magic power.
• Zhou Ming used level-one wind magic to batter Martin until Olos canceled the arena barrier and stopped the duel.
• Zhou Ming left the arena, and Wei Ni and the crowd denounced him while others praised his victory.

Zhou Ming explained how he used credit, business advice, and arena advertising to acquire expensive magic equipment and boost the shops that funded it. After accepting Wei Ni’s life-and-death duel challenge for three months later, he resumed brewing Mind-Calming Potion and raised his daily output to one thousand bottles, leaving the method unexplained.

• Zhou Ming revealed that he had bought nearly ten million gold coins’ worth of equipment on credit after convincing Magic Association shopkeepers that he could repay them.
• Caloz’s rental, installment, and exchange services increased Page Magic Bookstore’s profits, and other shops adopted Zhou Ming’s promotional ideas.
• Zhou Ming persuaded Ba Xinbu and Shi Ganfu to provide equipment on credit for advertising, and their sales surged after Zhou Ming used the items to defeat Martin.
• Wei Ni challenged Zhou Ming to a life-and-death duel set for three months later, convinced that her strength and Gannis Potion Shop’s wealth would let her defeat him.
• The Bruno Herb Merchant Guild secured the ingredients for Mind-Calming Potion, and Zhou Ming restarted production in the school’s new Potion Laboratory, reaching a daily maximum of one thousand bottles.

Zhou Ming’s assembly-line method raised Mind-Calming Potion output and inspired a plan to build a large potion-export industry. After Roberts told King James about Zhou Ming’s ambition and talent, the King resolved to support the Lei Lin Family and bring Zhou Ming’s abilities to the royal family’s service.

• Zhou Ming divided potion brewing among twenty-one people, raising the laboratory’s daily output to one thousand Mind-Calming Potions.
• Zhou Ming told Roberts that large-scale production and exports could make the Yadoud Kingdom wealthy and help it capture the continental potion market.
• Roberts recognized Zhou Ming’s far-reaching ambition and reported his potential to King James.
• King James considered pardoning the Lei Lin Family but Roberts warned that the nobles would oppose it.
• Roberts urged the King to protect the exiled Lei Lin Family, support Zhou Ming’s potion-export plan, and use the resulting wealth to strengthen royal authority.
• King James accepted the idea, and Zhou Ming became the focus of the King’s attention.

Zhou Ming’s growing wealth and potion plans drew families into hostile, cooperative, and wait-and-see factions, while he aimed to build influence without becoming a ruler himself. He later went to the Slave Market with Henry to buy two beastkin maids.

• Families divided into factions over whether to oppose Zhou Ming, cooperate with him, or wait and see, while the royal family and many others invested in his plans.
• The Torres Family sought to recruit Zhou Ming and promised help rescuing the Lei Lin Family, while Betty and Lilith grew more attentive toward him.
• Zhou Ming decided to guide others and build wealth and allies so he could pursue becoming a Law God without spending his life ruling.
• After Lina became too busy to manage the apartment, Zhou Ming went with Henry to the Slave Market to buy two beastkin maids.

Zhou Ming visited the slave market to buy two beastman maids and heard the tragic story of the disgraced commander Gejiefu. After purchasing a pair of Rabbit Maids and Gejiefu, he learned that Wo De’s guild would auction a beautiful elf in three days.

• Wo De showed Zhou Ming the enslaved prisoners of war and told him how nobles betrayed the one-armed commander Gejiefu, whose wife and daughters had been taken.
• Zhou Ming bought Gejiefu for one hundred gold coins and arranged for him to be sent to his home.
• Zhou Ming chose the Rabbit Maids Feifei and Meimei over the Cat Maids because they were obedient and suited his household needs.
• Zhou Ming paid fifty thousand gold coins for Feifei and Meimei, and Wo De included Gejiefu as a bonus.
• Wo De told Zhou Ming that the Ward Slave Merchant Guild would auction a beautiful elf in three days, and Zhou Ming became interested.

Zhou Ming learned about an upcoming elf auction and settled two young Rabbit Maids into his household, promising to help them find their family. He also encouraged the wounded Gejiefu to recover, then went to the auction prepared to humiliate someone.

• Wo De told Zhou Ming about an elf auction scheduled for three days later, where nobles and dignitaries would bid.
• Feifei and Meimei began working in Zhou Ming’s home, and he invited them to share a lavish dinner with him and Henry.
• Feifei explained that her tribe had sold her and Meimei because it lacked food; Zhou Ming promised to help them find their family someday.
• Zhou Ming urged the despairing Gejiefu to choose whether to recover, and Gejiefu later regained some hope and expressed gratitude.
• Zhou Ming gathered several Brothers and went to the Ward Slave Merchant Guild for the elf auction, intending to show off and humiliate someone.

Zhou Ming attended the auction to buy an elf for information, but the cursed elf’s low bids turned into a contest between Crown Prince Luther and Duke Morat Hanson. Luther was maneuvered into an enormous bid before Zhou Ming intervened, leaving the auction’s final outcome unresolved as Luther was dragged away.

• Zhou Ming joined the auction with one million gold coins, hoping to learn about elves by buying the final item.
• Wo De revealed that the female elf Anqili Tika bore the Black Spot Curse, prompting many attendees to leave and depressing the bids.
• Crown Prince Luther and Duke Morat Hanson competed for Anqili Tika until Luther bid two hundred thousand gold coins and Hanson withdrew.
• Tebale Xinqi raised the price as part of a scheme with Wo De, and Luther drove the bid up to two hundred and eighty thousand gold coins despite lacking the money.
• Zhou Ming bid two hundred and ninety thousand gold coins and warned Luther not to raise again, while Luther’s guard dragged the furious Crown Prince out of the auction hall.

Zhou Ming bought the elf Anqili Tika and gradually earned her cooperation by learning Elf Language and treating her well. Anqili Tika accepted his help while remaining unsure whether to trust him, and she decided to wait until her strength recovered before leaving.

• Zhou Ming told his classmates he had bought Anqili Tika to learn Elf Language, then arranged for her to stay in his apartment.
• Anqili Tika feared Zhou Ming intended to violate her, but he tried to greet and reassure her in the few Elf Language phrases he knew.
• After a week of studying, Zhou Ming used phrases from a book lent by Catherine Teacher to persuade Anqili Tika to cooperate and accept the removal of her chains and sleeping pills.
• Zhou Ming studied Elf Language with Anqili Tika daily, and she gradually came to believe he treated her better than most humans.
• Zhou Ming bought Anqili Tika a greatbow and arrows, and he told her she could leave through the front door but warned her about the dangers of returning to the Elf Forest.
• Anqili Tika remained uncertain about trusting Zhou Ming and decided to wait until her strength had fully recovered before considering leaving.

Zhou Ming and Anqili Tika repelled an assassination attempt ordered by Crown Prince Luther, prompting Zhou Ming to seek safer quarters. After King James and Old Fox Roberts struggled to remove Luther as heir, Zhou Ming moved his group into a castle he named Potion Castle.

• Anqili Tika killed fifteen of the twenty assassins with her bow, while Gejiefu killed three and she crippled two for questioning.
• The surviving assassins confessed that Crown Prince Luther had paid the Purgatory Gang to kill Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming burned them to ashes.
• Zhou Ming decided to move to a more defensible home and warned Old Fox Roberts that Luther might threaten him and the kingdom if he became king.
• Old Fox Roberts urged King James to strip Luther of his heir status, but James said ministers, nobles, and the queen opposed the change and confined Luther for three months.
• Zhou Ming bought a castle five kilometers from the capital and moved his group into Potion Castle on March 1st.

After expanding Potion Castle’s household and forming a guard squad, Zhou Ming took a month off to improve his magic with Anqili Tika’s help. He made rapid progress but fell just short of becoming an Intermediate Magician, and the chapter ended with Anqili Tika announcing she would leave the next day.

• Zhou Ming bought Rabbit Maids Qianqian and Lulu and freed Gejiefu’s four captured subordinates, who later became the castle guard squad.
• Zhou Ming took leave from school and trained at Potion Castle, using Anqili Tika’s instruction to improve his magic and combat skills.
• Zhou Ming brewed and drank Magic Spring Potions and a Super Magic Potion, raising his magic power and perception into the Intermediate Magician range while his soul frequency remained below the threshold.
• Zhou Ming fought Anqili Tika to a draw in hand-to-hand combat after using an Acceleration Spell, then reassured her when her veil fell and exposed her curse-marked face.
• Anqili Tika told Zhou Ming she had packed her belongings and would leave the next day, surprising him.

Zhou Ming persuaded Anqili Tika not to leave alone and learned that the Elf Race's Little Princess had been captured by a noble in the Dolan Empire. Tika reluctantly agreed to wait three months while Zhou Ming sent Fitz to investigate, with plans to travel to the empire and help rescue the princess.

• Zhou Ming urged Anqili Tika to trust him and explain why she wanted to leave, warning her that traveling alone through the Human World would be dangerous.
• Anqili Tika revealed that the Elf Race's Little Princess had been captured by a noble in the Dolan Empire more than a year earlier, after Tika failed in her duty as a guard.
• After learning the Dolan Empire's strength, Zhou Ming rejected Tika's plan to rescue the Little Princess alone and proposed asking the slave merchant Wo De for information.
• Zhou Ming decided that Fitz would travel with Wo De toward the Dolan Empire and investigate who had bought the Little Princess.
• Zhou Ming promised to travel to the Dolan Empire later and help rescue the Little Princess, and Anqili Tika reluctantly agreed to wait three months for news.

On the day before the duel, Wei Ni grew stronger through intensive cultivation and became more determined to kill Lei Lin. Despite appeals from Principal Roberts, classmates, and Martin to spare Lei Lin, she rejected them, while Zhou Ming learned that Wei Ni had the advantage in strength, Magic Scrolls, and staff.

• After meditating, Wei Ni believed her strength and equipment made her far superior to Lei Lin and vowed to kill him.
• Principal Roberts asked Wei Ni to spare Lei Lin because the school depended on his potion-making, but she refused and cited the threat to Gannis Potion Shop.
• Classmates pleaded with Wei Ni to spare Lei Lin because they relied on his affordable Mind-Calming Potions, and she angrily ignored them.
• Martin asked Wei Ni to cripple Lei Lin but spare his useful hands and head; she blasted Martin away with magic.
• Wei Ni destroyed a section of the Small Woods with Hurricane Descent and publicly swore to kill Lei Lin.
• Zhou Ming learned that Wei Ni surpassed him in basic strength, Magic Scrolls, and staff, and that her killing intent was at its peak.