Chapter Summaries

Chen Cheng and Xing Hun arrived at the Xiao Family reception hall, where Mo Li insulted them and Xing Hun struck him with an unseen force. Xun Er accidentally killed Mo Li with a golden flame, leaving Xiao Zhan to face the Misty Cloud Sect and conceal her identity.

• Xiao Zhan welcomed Chen Cheng and Xing Hun as honored guests while the Misty Cloud Sect party watched.
• Mo Li mocked Chen Cheng and Xing Hun, so Xing Hun secretly sent him flying with an invisible force.
• Xun Er burned Mo Li to ashes with a golden ray, surprising everyone in the hall.
• Chen Cheng told Xing Hun to watch as Xiao Zhan worried over how to explain Mo Li's death without revealing Xun Er's identity.

After Xun Er killed Mo Li, Xiao Zhan tried to manage the fallout while welcoming Chen Cheng, who posed as Murong Cheng, heir to the powerful Murong Family. Ge Ye demanded an explanation for Mo Li’s death, leaving the Xiao Family trapped between Yun Lan Sect’s anger and the need to protect Xun Er’s identity.

• Chen Cheng introduced himself as Murong Cheng of the Izumo Empire and presented Xing Hun as his guard, prompting Xiao Zhan and the Xiao elders to welcome him respectfully.
• Xiao Mei learned that the handsome visitor might be from a powerful family and wondered about marrying him.
• Ge Ye accused the Xiao Family of causing Mo Li’s death and demanded an explanation from Xiao Zhan.
• The Second Elder tried to calm Ge Ye, but neither he nor Xiao Zhan could explain Xun Er’s role without exposing her identity.
• Nalan Yanran privately felt little sorrow over Mo Li’s death, while Chen Cheng asked who the Misty Cloud Sect visitors were and mocked the situation as Xiao Zhan struggled to introduce them.

Chen Cheng provoked Ge Ye while claiming to defend the Misty Cloud Sect’s reputation, then ordered Xing Hun to humiliate him. Ge Ye attacked Xing Hun, and their fight began as Nalan Yanran and Xiao Zhan tried to stop them.

• Chen Cheng claimed that Xing Hun had killed Mo Li to protect the Misty Cloud Sect’s reputation, then called Mo Li trash and praised Nalan Yanran’s cultivation.
• Ge Ye introduced Nalan Yanran as the Misty Cloud Sect’s Young Sect Master, and Chen Cheng sarcastically apologized for mistaking Ge Ye for the person in charge.
• Nalan Yanran let Chen Cheng’s slight pass, but Chen Cheng ordered Xing Hun to teach Ge Ye a lesson, and Xing Hun shattered Ge Ye’s chair with a strike of purple energy.
• Ge Ye sprang up and attacked Xing Hun despite Xiao Zhan and Nalan Yanran urging them to stop.
• Xing Hun formed a purple qi blade, while Ge Ye covered himself in green Dou Qi Armor, and Chen Cheng noticed Ge Ye’s wood-element dou qi.

Xing Hun sent Ge Ye flying, revealing his Dou Ling strength, while Chen Cheng watched as Nalan Yanran prepared to discuss her important matter with the Xiao Family. Xiao Zhan summoned Xiao Yan, and Chen Cheng became curious about the young man as he entered the hall.

• Xing Hun shattered Ge Ye’s Dou Qi Armor and blasted him out through a window, shocking the Xiao Family with his Dou Ling cultivation.
• Nalan Yanran hesitated to proceed after Ge Ye was injured, but Chen Cheng urged her to return to the matter she had come to discuss.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Nalan Yanran and invited her to speak in front of Chen Cheng, who concealed his amusement and continued watching.
• Nalan Yanran said the matter concerned Xiao Yan, so Xiao Zhan sent a servant to fetch him.
• Ge Ye limped back into the hall, declined a seat, and stood behind Nalan Yanran before Xiao Yan arrived in black clothing.

Xiao Yan met Chen Cheng, Xing Hun, Ge Ye, and Nalan Yanran in the Xiao Family hall, where Nalan Yanran broke off their engagement and Xiao Yan set a three-year agreement. Chen Cheng identified Xiao Yan’s ring as Yao Chen’s and planned to steal it before Yao Chen awakened.

• Xiao Yan entered the hall and learned that Xing Hun was a Dou Ling, while Xiao Ning and other Xiao Family youths mocked him for his fallen cultivation.
• Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Yan to the guests, including Ge Ye of the Yun Lan Sect and Nalan Yanran, Xiao Yan’s fiancée.
• Nalan Yanran proposed breaking off the engagement with the Yun Lan Sect’s backing, and Xiao Yan refused, wrote a letter of divorce, and made a three-year agreement.
• Chen Cheng watched the confrontation, recognized Xiao Yan’s ring as Yao Chen’s, and used the Summoning System to inspect Yao Chen’s details.
• Chen Cheng decided to sneak into a private residence that night and try to take the ring before Yao Chen awakened.

Chen Cheng ambushed Ge Ye and used the Energy-Absorbing Great Art to drain his Dou Qi, then ordered Xing Hun to dispose of him. Nalan Yanran sought Gai Nie’s protection and prepared to return to the Misty Cloud Sect with him.

• Chen Cheng refused the Great Elder’s offer to show him around Wutan City and left with Xing Hun.
• Ge Ye sensed someone following him, sent Nalan Yanran toward safety, and fled in the opposite direction.
• Chen Cheng cornered Ge Ye in an alley and drained his Dou Qi with the Energy-Absorbing Great Art.
• Chen Cheng left Xing Hun to kill Ge Ye and erase the evidence before returning to the inn.
• Nalan Yanran told Gai Nie that Ge Ye had drawn their pursuer away, and Gai Nie offered to escort her to the Misty Cloud Sect.

Chen Cheng traded with Xiao Yan for the black ring by promising a Rank 6 pill that could fix Xiao Yan’s declining cultivation. Just as Chen Cheng reached for the ring, a voice exposed the pill as a Rank 3 Qi Recovery Pill.

• After absorbing Ge Ye’s dou qi, Chen Cheng advanced to Five-Star Great Dou Shi and discovered that he had gained a trace of wood-element energy.
• Chen Cheng refined a medicinal herb into high-quality essence, then summoned Xing Hun and arranged a visit to the Xiao Family.
• Chen Cheng met Xiao Yan on the mountain behind the Xiao Family and offered to solve his declining cultivation in exchange for the ring from his mother.
• Chen Cheng showed Xiao Yan a jade bottle and claimed its pill was a Rank 6 Marrow Cleansing and Bone Tempering Pill, citing the wealth of the Murong Family.
• Xiao Yan agreed to the trade and handed over the ring, but an unseen speaker called the pill a Rank 3 Qi Recovery Pill.

Yao Lao emerged from Xiao Yan’s ring and revealed that he had drained Xiao Yan’s Dou Qi for three years. He became suspicious of Chen Cheng’s strange powers and identity, and the chapter ended with Yao Lao backing down after their soul-force clash.

• Yao Lao appeared from Xiao Yan’s ring, and Xiao Yan realized that Yao Lao had caused his cultivation to regress for three years.
• Yao Lao examined Chen Cheng and was perplexed by the ice, fire, and poison energies in his body.
• Yao Lao exposed Xing Hun’s soul flaw, and Chen Cheng told Xing Hun to put away his Qi blades.
• Yao Lao demanded to know who Chen Cheng was and attacked him with soul force; Chen Cheng countered, and their clash injured both of them.
• Yao Lao reconsidered Chen Cheng’s identity and apologized, claiming he had mistaken Chen Cheng for an enemy.

Chen Cheng asked Yao Lao to teach him alchemy, but Yao Lao refused and accepted Xiao Yan as his disciple instead. Yao Lao gave Chen Cheng a list of ingredients for a pill to help Xing Hun, then exposed Chen Cheng’s earlier attempt to trick Xiao Yan with a fake pill.

• Chen Cheng asked Yao Lao to teach him alchemy, but Yao Lao said Chen Cheng lacked wood-attributed Dou Qi and turned him down.
• Yao Lao offered to teach Xiao Yan alchemy, and Xiao Yan agreed to acknowledge him as his master.
• Chen Cheng accepted Yao Lao’s refusal and asked him to help Xing Hun, so Yao Lao wrote a list of ingredients for a soul-repairing pill.
• Chen Cheng questioned why the list included low-grade ingredients, and Yao Lao explained that they were extra materials he wanted.
• Yao Lao accused Chen Cheng of passing off a Grade 3 pill as a Rank 6 pill to deceive Xiao Yan, who demanded an explanation.

Chen Cheng left Xiao Yan after warning him to keep Yao Lao secret, while Chen Yuan entered the Jia Ma Empire to search for his missing son. The chapter ended with Chen Yuan confronting the injured Amethyst Winged Lion King in the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

• Chen Cheng flew away with Xing Hun, and Yao Lao returned to Xiao Yan's ring before Xun Er arrived and asked whether someone had been there.
• Chen Yuan confronted Yun Yun while searching for Chen Cheng, and Jia Xingtian arrived to challenge him.
• Chen Yuan threatened that the Chen Family's eight million troops would attack if his son was harmed, so Jia Xingtian allowed him ten days to search under supervision.
• Chen Yuan went to the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where three Dou Emperors' arrival alarmed the injured Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Chen Yuan stopped the Amethyst Winged Lion King and demanded to know where Chen Cheng was, recognizing poison in the beast's body as toxin from the Source of Deadly Poison.

Chen Yuan found the Amethyst Winged Lion King and learned that Chen Cheng’s group had vanished, then discovered traces of Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body. Meanwhile, Zhu WuShi told Yan Lingji and the others that Chen Cheng was in Wutan City, but Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang were still missing.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King told Chen Yuan that Chen Cheng’s group had injured it and disappeared, and Chen Yuan agreed to remove its poison in exchange for being led to the battle site.
• Chen Yuan extracted the poison, then examined the ruined valley and sensed traces of Chen Cheng, Murong Zhi, Red Serpent, the poison masters, and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Chen Yuan recognized Xiao Yi Xian’s aura as that of the Calamity Poison Body and realized Chen Cheng had found it.
• Zhu WuShi told Yan Lingji and the others that Chen Cheng was in Wutan City and asked them to go there.
• The group learned Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang had not arrived; Murong Zhi stayed behind to await them and his teacher while Yan Lingji prepared to leave with the Little Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Chen Cheng visited the Mittel Auction House to buy rare soul-repairing ingredients and supplies for experimenting with alchemy. Ya Fei learned he claimed to be Murong Cheng of the Izumo Empire, and the chapter ended with her presenting the bill for the purchase and deposit.

• Chen Cheng asked the Mittel Auction House to gather rare medicinal ingredients and ordered one hundred portions each of three common ingredients, along with a quality Medicine Cauldron.
• The junior manager mistook Chen Cheng for an alchemist and arranged for a maidservant to attend him while the order was prepared.
• Ya Fei met Chen Cheng, and he introduced himself as Murong Cheng from the Murong Family of the Izumo Empire.
• Ya Fei's servants delivered the ingredients and Medicine Cauldron, which Chen Cheng inspected and stored.
• Ya Fei calculated the bill, asking Chen Cheng to pay 555,000 Gold Coins for the delivered goods and the deposit on the rare ingredients.

After buying medicinal ingredients from Ya Fei, Chen Cheng returned to the inn and experimented with preparing a cultivation liquid, but his mixtures kept turning into jelly. He then tried melting magic cores, which repeatedly exploded, and remained determined to continue despite someone outside demanding entry.

• Chen Cheng completed a 550,000 transaction with Ya Fei and left the Mittel Auction House with the medicinal ingredients.
• Ya Fei told Manager Liu to bring Chen Cheng to her if he returned, while explaining that she did not expect him to become a regular customer.
• Chen Cheng returned to the inn, had Xing Hun guard his room, and tried combining refined Purple Leaf Orchid Grass and Bone Cleansing Flower, but every mixture became a viscous jelly.
• Chen Cheng put a first-tier magic core in the Medicine Cauldron to investigate whether it was needed, but it exploded after partially melting.
• A second magic core exploded shortly after Chen Cheng began heating it, while Xing Hun argued with a stranger outside the room who wanted to check on the disturbances.
• Chen Cheng ignored the commotion, put a third magic core into the cauldron, and continued his experiment.

Chen Cheng grew frustrated with his failed experiments and bought the inn for one million Gold Coins so he could have peace and quiet. The former innkeeper began relocating the guests, but his last tenant, Young Master Yan, reacted angrily to being told to leave.

• Chen Cheng gave the inn owner one million Gold Coins and ordered him to remove the other guests.
• Xing Hun told the two waiters they could keep their jobs and instructed them to prepare a meal for Chen Cheng.
• The former innkeeper compensated and relocated the inn’s eighty-six guests, saving Young Master Yan for last.
• Manager Feng told Young Master Yan that the inn had been sold and offered him twentyfold compensation.
• Young Master Yan threatened Manager Feng for trying to drive him out.

Young Master Yan backed down after Boss Feng warned him that Chen Cheng had a Da Dou Shi subordinate, and accepted compensation to leave the inn. As Boss Feng prepared to relocate the guests and workers, Zhu WuShi arrived looking for his Young Master and learned the inn had been sold.

• Young Master Yan threatened to confront the new inn owner, but Boss Feng warned him that Chen Cheng had a Da Dou Shi subordinate.
• Young Master Yan accepted thirty Gold Coins in compensation and agreed to leave without causing trouble.
• The inn's workers worried about whether their jobs would continue under the new owner as Boss Feng arranged new lodging for the guests.
• Zhu WuShi arrived at the inn and asked for his Young Master, then learned Boss Feng had sold the property.
• Boss Feng recognized Zhu WuShi's name from the register and realized he had come for the guest whose room he had avoided entering.

Chen Cheng abandoned his failed pill experiments and made the inn he had bought into his private residence, keeping its staff to serve him. He arranged for the chefs to compete for work, ordered Xing Hun to train the guards, and sent everyone to clean his room.

• Zhu WuShi learned from Xing Hun that Chen Cheng had bought the inn after repeated alchemy failures, then reunited with Chen Cheng after he finished experimenting.
• Chen Cheng told the inn staff they could stay on at their old wages, and asked the three head chefs to prepare dishes for a chance to become his personal chef at double pay.
• Chen Cheng criticized the guards’ weak cultivation and told Xing Hun to teach them some techniques.
• Chen Cheng dismissed the staff and ordered them to clear the alchemy clutter from his room.

Chen Cheng gathered Xiao Yi Xian, Red Serpent, and Huang Yaoshi to investigate how to combine medicinal ingredients into a medicinal liquid, and they identified the best ratio after a day of tests. That night, he reunited with Yan Lingji in her room.

• Chen Cheng refined Purple Leaf Orchid Grass and Bone Cleansing Flowers, then asked Xiao Yi Xian, Red Serpent, and Huang Yaoshi to help investigate why their essences would not fuse.
• Xiao Yi Xian tested different preparations while Red Serpent examined the mixtures, and Chen Cheng explained that a magic core might be needed.
• The group concluded that three Purple Leaf Orchid Grasses and two Bone Cleansing Flowers made the optimal ratio, and Xiao Yi Xian recorded the day's findings.
• Chen Cheng took Xiao Yi Xian, Red Serpent, and Huang Yaoshi out for dinner, then returned to the inn and cultivated before visiting Yan Lingji.
• Chen Cheng sent the Little Amethyst Winged Lion King outside, embraced Yan Lingji, and told her he had missed her; she said she had missed him too.

Chen Cheng and Xiao Yi Xian spent more than ten days experimenting with ways to combine medicinal ingredients and magic cores, eventually producing a deep-purple cultivation liquid. They paid three men to test it and sent them home with instructions, leaving the results for the next day.

• Xiao Yi Xian proposed herbs that might help fuse the ingredients, and Chen Cheng began testing them while Red Serpent offered suggestions.
• After Chen Cheng's attempts to melt magic cores repeatedly exploded, Xiao Yi Xian and Red Serpent worked on preparations while Chen Cheng refined the herbs.
• Xiao Yi Xian added six new medicinal ingredients and finally produced a deep-purple liquid after more than ten days of failed experiments.
• Chen Cheng summoned three men and offered each ten thousand Gold Coins to test the unproven cultivation liquid.
• Xiao Yi Xian divided the liquid among the men and told them to dissolve it in warm water, soak while cultivating, and return the next day for examination.
• Chen Cheng and the others decided to eat and rest before checking the test results the following day.

Chen Cheng summoned Nameless, a powerful Nine Star Dou Wang, and planned to return to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to settle a score with the Amethyst Winged Lion King. When Gale Family guards came to collect management fees, Xing Hun drove them off and offered to train the inn guards.

• Chen Cheng summoned Nameless, learned that he had reached the Heavenly Sword state, and let him choose a room at the inn.
• Chen Cheng decided to return to the Magical Beast Mountain Range for the Accompanying Purple Spirit Crystal after he finished his business in Wutan City.
• Gale Family guards arrived to collect management fees, and Xing Hun agreed to deal with them instead of disturbing Chen Cheng.
• Guard Sun mocked Xing Hun as a child and reached to pat his head, so Xing Hun crushed his arm and struck him out into the street.
• Xing Hun faced the remaining Gale Family guards, who retreated after he warned them off.
• Xing Hun dismissed the inn guards and promised to teach them a few moves in the rear courtyard.

Chen Cheng and Xiao Yi Xian continued developing a stronger medicinal liquid while three guards decided to stay close to Chen Cheng for a chance to benefit from it. Meanwhile, Galeo was provoked by his guards into confronting the people who had refused to pay the Gale Family’s management fees, and he set off with his Flame Hound.

• Chen Cheng found that the tested medicinal liquid helped people at the Dou Qi stage but was weaker than Beast Bone Soup, so he and Xiao Yi Xian planned to improve it.
• Chen Cheng sent three guards to collect ten thousand Gold Coins each from Zhu WuShi, and they decided to keep following him and test his medicinal liquid.
• Chen Cheng and the others began experimenting with refining the liquid using a magic core while Red Serpent, Xiao Yi Xian, and Huang Yaoshi recorded failures and suggested improvements.
• Galeo walked through the Gale Family market with his Flame Hound and ordered his servants to feed it the best meat before taking it to the beast-fighting arena.
• Guard Sun and two other guards told Galeo that people had refused to pay management fees and had insulted him, prompting Galeo to head out with his Flame Hound to confront them.