Chapter Summaries

Chen Cheng rewarded Nameless with an Advancement Emperor Pill and guided Chen Kuang through repeated attempts until he became a Fifth Grade Alchemist. After ending the public pill refining, Chen Cheng gave Chen Yang an Advancement Emperor Pill, leaving both men grateful for his support.

• Chen Cheng gave Nameless an Advancement Emperor Pill, while Chen Yang watched anxiously and Chen Ming teased him about trading for one later.
• Chen Kuang asked Chen Cheng for guidance refining a Berserk Pill, failed repeatedly, and succeeded on his tenth attempt, advancing to a Fifth Grade Alchemist.
• Chen Cheng encouraged Chen Kuang to study as he refined more Rank 6 Pills, then ended the public pill refining as night fell.
• Chen Cheng stopped Chen Yang before he left and gave him an Advancement Emperor Pill suited to his Nine Star Dou Wang cultivation.

Chen Cheng distributed pills and cultivation plans to his subordinates, while assigning Xing Hun to infiltrate Jia Nan Academy and investigate the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower. After sending everyone to cultivate, Chen Cheng postponed refining the Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill until he had rested and went to Ruoxue’s room for the night.

• Chen Cheng gave Huang Yaoshi a Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill and promised him further training and a pill to help him advance to Dou Ling.
• Chen Cheng gave Red Serpent an Azure Flame Spirit Rising Pill and let Yan Lingji train her, then gave Yan Lingji pills to raise her cultivation toward Dou Emperor.
• Chen Cheng gave Xing Hun a Gathering Stream Spirit Pill and ordered him to infiltrate Jia Nan Academy, locate the Heavenly Flame Refining Gas Tower, and seek Zi Yan and the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.
• Chen Cheng gave Tian Yan a Gathering Stream Spirit Pill, while Jiang Yu Yan and Zhu WuShi were directed to raise their cultivation in the city’s death prison.
• Chen Cheng gave Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang Dou Ling Pills, then sent his subordinates into seclusion to absorb their pills.
• Chen Cheng decided to rest before refining the Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill and went to Ruoxue’s room after seeing that she was still awake.

Chen Cheng refined a seventh-tier Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill, drawing a thunder tribulation over Anyang City. Ao Bing dispersed the tribulation, and Chen Cheng secured five pills, bringing him closer to obtaining his second Heavenly Flame.

• Chen Cheng spent the night with Feng Ruoxue and told Hong Luan to let her sleep in the next morning.
• Chen Cheng’s companions emerged from seclusion with improved cultivation, while Yan Lingji sparred with Red Serpent and Huang Yaoshi went to a life-and-death arena with Nameless.
• Chen Cheng refined a high-grade seventh-tier Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill, summoning dark clouds and a dangerous thunder tribulation over Anyang City.
• Chen Zihang recognized that Chen Cheng’s pill had caused the tribulation and reassured Fang Siyao that the Chen Family was in good hands.
• Ao Bing transformed into a divine dragon, blocked the black lightning, and scattered the dark clouds.
• Chen Cheng caught the five Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pills and celebrated that his second Heavenly Flame was within reach.

Chen Cheng refined a Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill, gained the Amethyst Holy Fire, and strengthened himself with Ao Bing’s Dragon Might. After discovering the reach of his new powers, he went to visit Yan Lingji and Feng Ruoxue.

• Chen Cheng finished refining the pill, and the resulting Heavenly Flame caused fires across Anyang City to bow toward him or slip out of control.
• Master Yi recognized the phenomenon as the appearance of a Heavenly Flame and sent Lao Tang to invite Chen Cheng to Qingzhu Workshop for help with a project he had researched for thirty years.
• Chen Cheng left cultivation and explained that two Heavenly Flames were strengthening his body and speeding up his cultivation.
• Chen Cheng copied Ao Bing’s Dragon Might, which made him immune to aura suppression and enhanced his own suppression of others.
• Chen Cheng tested the fusion of his green and purple flames, named the new Amethyst Holy Fire, and assessed his combat strength and the four Saint Spirit Pills he had left.
• Chen Cheng headed toward Yan Lingji’s and Feng Ruoxue’s rooms, saying he felt hot and wanted to try something exciting.

After the wedding celebrations, Chen Cheng distributed pills and arranged resources to strengthen his allies and the Chen Family. He gave Chen Kuang new medicinal formulas and a sixth-tier Medicine Cauldron, leaving the Pill Hall equipped to accelerate the younger generation’s cultivation.

• Chen Cheng sent the Beast Fire Saint Spirit Pill to Yuwen Tuo through Howling Celestial Hound and gave the Amethyst Winged Lion King a pill for its child.
• Chen Cheng sent an Advancement Emperor Pill to Chen Ye for Duan Jianghe, then visited the Pill Hall to assess its development.
• Master Han reported that the Pill Hall had eighteen alchemists and eleven apprentices, while Chen Kuang continued practicing after becoming a Fifth Grade Alchemist.
• Chen Cheng gave Chen Kuang the formulas for Body Tempering Liquid and Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, along with several improved cultivation-pill formulas.
• Chen Cheng gave Chen Kuang a sixth-tier Medicine Cauldron that he had taken from Gu He.

Chen Cheng visited Qingzhu Workshop to inspect the Essence Devouring Demon Cauldron, a Tier-7 cauldron that could conceal pill-forming phenomena, and its owner, Tang Ming, offered it to him in exchange for help using his Heavenly Flame. Chen Cheng accepted and set off with Tang Ming for the Tang Family.

• Red Serpent told Chen Cheng that Qingzhu Workshop had acquired a Tier-7 Medicine Cauldron that could conceal the phenomenon when a Rank 6 Pill formed.
• Yu Wen showed Chen Cheng the Essence Devouring Demon Cauldron, and Chen Cheng judged it exceptionally powerful and capable of greatly improving his pill-refining success rate.
• Tang Ming introduced himself as the owner of Qingzhu Workshop and offered Chen Cheng the cauldron as a gift, revealing that he wanted Chen Cheng to use his Heavenly Flame to refine something.
• Chen Cheng agreed to help Tang Ming and decided to go to the Tang Family immediately, despite Red Serpent's concern that the offer might be a trap.
• Chen Cheng stored the Essence Devouring Demon Cauldron and left the shop with Tang Ming.

Chen Cheng visited the Tang Family’s artifact-refining workshop and discovered that Master Yi was the mysterious Golden Flame Dou Huang, Yi Tianji. The chapter ended with Chen Cheng learning that Yi Tianji’s metal-eating cat was a Sixth Order Devouring Origin Beast.

• Tang Ming brought Chen Cheng and Red Serpent to the Tang Mansion, where he led them to Master Yi’s sealed artifact-refining workshop.
• Chen Cheng protected Red Serpent from the workshop’s intense heat with his icy aura as Tang Ming apologized for forgetting to warn them.
• Chen Cheng used the system to identify Master Yi as Yi Tianji, a Five Star Dou Huang wielding Rank 7 Beast Fire called the Devouring Origin Beast Flame.
• Chen Cheng recognized Yi Tianji as the mysterious Golden Flame Dou Huang, and Yi Tianji remarked that Chen Cheng had secrets of his own.
• Red Serpent spotted a cute cat chewing and swallowing metal, and Chen Cheng identified it through the system as a Sixth Order Devouring Origin Beast.

Chen Cheng met Yi Tianji’s Sixth Order Devouring Origin Beast, Xiao Ni, and agreed to use his Heavenly Flame to smelt a mysterious meteorite that Yi Tianji had been unable to refine. The chapter ended with Chen Cheng beginning the work as Yi Tianji and Xiao Ni watched his fused purple-and-green flame in surprise.

• Chen Cheng stopped Red Serpent from approaching Xiao Ni and identified the cat as a Sixth Order Devouring Origin Beast.
• Yi Tianji explained Xiao Ni’s rare bloodline and revealed that she eagerly ate a valuable item fresh from his furnace.
• Yi Tianji asked Chen Cheng to help smelt a golden meteorite he had found thirty years earlier, which even his Rank 7 Beast Fire could not refine.
• Chen Cheng lifted the thirty-thousand-jin metal lump with ease and agreed to help melt it.
• Chen Cheng placed the meteorite in the furnace and used his fused purple-and-green Heavenly Flame to begin smelting it, surprising Yi Tianji and drawing Xiao Ni’s curious gaze.

Yi Tianji refined a powerful golden treasured sword with Chen Cheng’s Heavenly Flames and the Devouring Origin Beast’s help. After the sword’s weight shook the hall, Chen Cheng steadied everyone, and Yi Tianji celebrated his completed divine weapon.

• Chen Cheng used his Heavenly Flames to melt the metal, then the Devouring Origin Beast supplied flames while Yi Tianji shaped the molten material into a sword.
• Yi Tianji spent an hour inlaying one Rank 7 and two Rank 6 fire-attribute Magic Cores into the sword.
• Yi Tianji engraved a formation that let all three Magic Cores power the weapon, exhausting himself in the process.
• The completed sword fell into the furnace and shook the hall; Red Serpent clung to Chen Cheng, who stopped the tremor with a palm strike.
• Yi Tianji recovered with a pill and proudly declared that he had refined a divine weapon, while Red Serpent reluctantly left Chen Cheng’s embrace.

Chen Cheng tested the Essence Devouring Demon Cauldron and produced a large stock of pills before asking Yi Tianji to forge armor and weapons from a Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion. He then gave Murong Ling pills to help him reach Dou Wang and proposed an auction to gather medicinal ingredients.

• Yi Tianji thanked Chen Cheng for helping forge his sword and invited him to a banquet the next day at Jade Boat House.
• Chen Cheng set a Soul Imprint on the Essence Devouring Demon Cauldron and rapidly refined numerous pills, but noted that scarce high-rank ingredients limited his plans.
• At the banquet, Chen Cheng asked Yi Tianji to make adaptive black armor, weapons, and a concealed poisoned weapon from the Four-Winged Demonic Scorpion's remains; Yi Tianji promised to finish within half a month.
• Chen Cheng gave Murong Ling Gathering Stream Spirit Pills and Qi Merging Pills to help him break through to Dou Wang.
• Chen Cheng asked Murong Ling to promote an auction where Chen Cheng would supply pills in exchange for a large amount of medicinal ingredients.

News of the Precious Jade Workshop auction spread across the empire, drawing powerful factions eager to obtain pills that could raise cultivation or help a Nine Star Dou Wang advance to Dou Emperor. As visitors arrived in Anyang City and exchanged medicinal herbs for Auction Coins, Bai Suzhen confirmed that the collected herbs matched Chen Cheng’s list.

• The Alchemist Guild’s Tan Ju learned about the auction’s Advancement Emperor Pill and sent a vice president to try to obtain it.
• Yao Ye asked Gu He to lead the royal family’s auction delegation and bring back the Advancement Emperor Pill.
• Yun Yun decided to travel to Anyang City with Green Elder despite Yun Leng’s concerns about the Chen Family.
• Precious Jade Workshop began exchanging medicinal herbs for Auction Coins, and visitors bargained to buy or sell the currency.
• Xiao Zhan brought the Xiao Family’s juniors to Anyang City, exchanged herbs for Auction Coins, and declined an offer to sell them.
• Bai Suzhen checked the medicinal herbs collected by a Precious Jade Workshop worker and praised him for serving Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng’s plan drew powerful cultivators to Precious Jade Workshop to exchange medicinal ingredients for Auction Coins. Yun Yun and Xiao Qing arrived in disguise, and after exchanging ingredients, they accepted the workshop’s offer of lodging.

• Yun Yun and Xiao Qing entered the VIP passage after Xiao Qing released her Dou Emperor aura, drawing attention from the hall.
• Xiao Qing noticed Bai Suzhen watching them, and Bai Suzhen recognized them as Yun Yun and Xiao Qing before secretly sending a servant to deliver a message.
• Yun Yun exchanged selected medicinal ingredients for over 1,500 Auction Coins after Murong Yin appraised and sorted them.
• Murong Su offered Yun Yun and Xiao Qing a VIP guest room because lodging in the city was full, and Yun Yun accepted.

Chen Cheng reunited with Yun Yun at Precious Jade Workshop and gave her pills that could strengthen the Misty Cloud Sect. He invited her to stay at his home and improve her cultivation before the auction.

• Chen Cheng visited Precious Jade Workshop, where Bai Suzhen reported that she and Ao Bing had safely guarded the medicinal herbs.
• Chen Cheng reunited with Yun Yun, kissed her, and learned she had come to the auction seeking an Advancement Emperor Pill for the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Chen Cheng gave Yun Yun two Dou Ling Pills and an Advancement Emperor Pill, explaining that he supplied Precious Jade Workshop’s pills and had organized the medicinal-herb exchange.
• Chen Cheng invited Yun Yun to stay at his home until the auction and offered to help her raise her cultivation.

Xiao Yi Xian sold her poisons at Precious Jade Workshop, where Yan Xingkong tried to court her and then ordered his attendants to seize her. Intimidated by her Dou Ling cultivation and concern about the Chen Family, they let her leave, while Yan Xingkong resolved to learn who she was and seek help from his Martial Uncle.

• Xiao Yi Xian collected the ingredients she had earned by selling poisons at Precious Jade Workshop.
• Yan Xingkong introduced himself as the Golden Goose Sect's young sect master and tried to make Xiao Yi Xian's acquaintance by invoking his teacher, Yan Luotian.
• Xiao Yi Xian rejected Yan Xingkong and walked away, so he ordered Uncle You and Uncle Yang to capture her.
• Uncle You and Uncle Yang warned Yan Xingkong that Xiao Yi Xian was a Dou Ling and that provoking her on Chen Family territory could cause trouble.
• Yan Xingkong's attendants hesitated, and Xiao Yi Xian left without attacking them.
• Yan Xingkong ordered Uncle You to investigate Xiao Yi Xian and said he would ask his arriving Martial Uncle to help him get her.

Xiao Yi Xian was followed by Servant You, who was captured by Zhu WuShi outside the Chen Estate. After learning that Yan Xingkong had sent him, Chen Cheng released Servant You after secretly marking him, then ordered Howling Celestial Hound to track him.

• Xiao Yi Xian returned to the Chen Estate, unaware that Servant You had followed her to investigate her identity for Yan Xingkong.
• Zhu WuShi caught Servant You trying to flee, sealed his Dou Qi, and had the Chen Family guards arrest him.
• Yan Xingkong welcomed his Martial Uncle and learned the Golden Goose Sect would fund bids for pills to help him advance to Dou Ling.
• Chen Cheng learned from Servant You that Yan Xingkong had targeted Xiao Yi Xian and ordered Howling Celestial Hound to beat him.
• Chen Cheng gave Servant You a healing pill and let him leave, then ordered Howling Celestial Hound to track him.

Chen Cheng confronted Yan Xingkong over his plan to capture Xiao Yi Xian and questioned him about the Golden Goose Sect’s secret flight technique. He poisoned Yan Xingkong and his attendants and sent one of them to summon Yan Xingkong’s Dou Emperor martial uncle, setting up a confrontation.

• Yan Xingkong learned that the white-clad girl was a Chen Family young lady, but he insisted on confronting the Chen Family after Servant You warned him against it.
• Chen Cheng and Howling Celestial Hound entered Yan Xingkong’s room, and Chen Cheng identified himself as a member of the Chen Family.
• Chen Cheng questioned Yan Xingkong about Xiao Yi Xian and the Heavenly Goose Nine Transformations Wings, learning that Yan Xingkong did not know the sect’s secret method.
• Chen Cheng decided to take Yan Xingkong prisoner in hopes of exchanging him for the technique and forced Yan Xingkong and his two attendants to swallow poison pills.
• Chen Cheng told Servant Yang to summon Yan Xingkong’s Dou Emperor martial uncle and warned him to choose his words carefully.

Chen Cheng coerced Golden Goose Sect elders into helping him secretly take control of the sect, demonstrating his power by advancing Song Shen to Dou Huang and poisoning Zheng Qiu and Zhang Chu. Zheng Qiu agreed to cooperate, and the group began planning their next moves after Chen Cheng took Yan Xingkong away.

• Chen Cheng sealed the room and confronted Zheng Qiu, Zhang Chu, and Song Shen, demanding their help to control the Golden Goose Sect and obtain the Heavenly Goose Nine Transformations Wings.
• Chen Cheng gave Song Shen an Advancement Emperor Pill, and Song Shen broke through to Dou Huang and agreed to serve him.
• Zheng Qiu and Zhang Chu accepted Chen Cheng's demands and swallowed poison pills that let him control their lives.
• Chen Cheng left with Howling Celestial Hound and took Yan Xingkong prisoner, while Zheng Qiu learned that Chen Cheng was the Chen Family's young master.
• Zheng Qiu killed the two women who had witnessed the confrontation, then agreed with Zhang Chu and Song Shen to plan their covert takeover of the Golden Goose Sect.

Chen Cheng summoned a Three-Star Dou Venerable while Yan Lingji and Yun Yun headed to the Precious Jade Workshop auction. At the venue, the Xiao Family struggled to secure seats, and Xun Er refused to attend unless Xiao Yan could go too.

• Chen Cheng summoned a sword-wielding expert at the Three-Star Dou Venerable level, while Yan Lingji revealed that she had reached Seven Star Dou Huang.
• Yan Lingji and Yun Yun set out for the auction, and Feng Ruoxue worried that Yun Yun would take her place in Chen Cheng’s heart.
• The Xiao Family’s Second Elder reported that the clan had spent heavily to obtain Auction Coins and seats for the auction.
• The Second Elder told Xiao Yan and Xiao Ning that they could not enter, but Xun Er refused to go without Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yan his Purple-Gold Card and told him and Xun Er to enjoy themselves in the city.

Xiao Yan and Xun Er entered the crowded Anyang City auction house, where he hoped to find a way to reach Seventh Stage Dou Qi before his clan’s coming-of-age prediction ritual. The auction began as Yun Yun and Yan Lingji took VIP room one and noticed a mysterious woman in purple among the arrivals.

• Xun Er gave Xiao Yan two auction number plaques and said she had brought two million Auction Coins in hopes of finding a pill that could raise his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er found their Black Grade seats, while Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family elders settled into Yellow Grade seats and endured other patrons mocking Xiao Zhan as a country bumpkin.
• Xiao Mei admired the powerful young cultivators around her and fantasized about being taken to Anyang City by someone who fancied her.
• Yun Yun and Yan Lingji passed a purple-dressed woman whose aura seemed familiar to Yun Yun and strange to Yan Lingji, then went to VIP room one at Yan Lingji’s suggestion.
• A Dou Wang in a pale-blue scholarly robe descended onto the stage, signaling that the auction was about to begin.

Murong Ling opened the Precious Jade Workshop auction, drawing admiration as a Dou Wang expert. Xiao Yan spoke confidently about reaching that level, endured the crowd’s mockery, and left Xun Er quietly seething at those who insulted or propositioned her.

• Murong Ling arrived onstage, introduced himself as the Murong Family Head, and began hosting the auction.
• Xiao Yan admired Murong Ling and vowed that he would become a Dou Wang, while Xun Er encouraged him.
• Several auction guests mocked Xiao Yan’s ambitions and cultivation, but he held Xun Er back from confronting them.
• Xiao Yan dismissed his mockers as dogs, and their insults gradually subsided when he refused to react.
• A young Sky Sword Sect disciple propositioned Xun Er and disparaged Xiao Yan, prompting her to reject him and silently plan revenge.