Recaps

Nalan Ye consolidated his influence after the Yun Lan Sect submitted to the Supervisory Left Division and Gu He agreed to join as a retainer. The chapter ended with Gu He handing over his tokens and asking that they be returned to the Gama Royal Family, the Alchemist Guild, and the Yun Lan Sect.

• Nalan Ye welcomed Yun Heng as a retainer and announced that Zoe's accusation against Gu He would be heard publicly.
• Nalan Ye summoned Dai Tuo and several alchemists, then introduced Zoe and Gu He, who appeared to have reconciled.
• Gu He credited Nalan Ye with clearing his name, while Nalan Ye publicly admonished Zoe for making an unsubstantiated accusation.
• Gu He announced that he was leaving the Alchemist Guild, the Yun Lan Sect, and the Gama Royal Family to serve only the Supervisory Left Division.
• Gu He gave Dai Tuo, Yun Heng, and Nalan Ye his three tokens and asked them to return them to their respective leaders.

Yun Heng consolidated the Supervisory Left Division’s influence in U Yue City while keeping Princess Yao Ye at the west gate as punishment for the Gama Royal Family. Wu Protector returned with the requested medicinal ingredients and asked Yun Heng how his plans were progressing.

• The Supervisory Left Division cleared Pill King Gu He, who joined it, while Zoe apologized, paid compensation, and accepted ten years of service.
• Faction leaders heard that the Yun Lan Sect and Gama Alchemist Guild had submitted to the Supervisory Left Division, prompting new recruits to travel to U Yue City.
• Jia Xingtian confronted Yun Shan, then sent Princess Yao Ye to U Yue City, where Yun Heng assigned her to guard the west gate under Mo Wang.
• Zoe joked about Princess Yao Ye, but Yun Heng rebuked him and reflected that he could not move against the Gama Royal Family while Jia Xingtian and its Dou Emperor magical beast protected it.
• Wu Protector returned, gave Yun Heng a Ring of Holding containing the requested medicinal ingredients, and asked how things were progressing.

The narrator tried to arrange a discreet theft of the Xiao Family’s jade with Wu Protector, but nearly exposed Wu Protector’s Hall of Souls identity when Ling Ying and Zoe rushed into the study. After Wu Protector agreed to keep his affiliation and their deal secret, the narrator asked Gu He to check the purchased ingredients and formula for tampering.

• The narrator told Wu Protector that the Xiao Family’s jade could be stolen without harming the family, then showed him a fake jade that angered him.
• Wu Protector’s aura alerted Ling Ying and Zoe, who burst into the study; the narrator introduced Wu Protector as Old Crow, a recluse who had sold him medicinal ingredients.
• The narrator sent Ling Ying and Zoe away and asked Wu Protector to conceal his Hall of Souls identity, techniques, and transaction; Wu Protector agreed.
• The narrator went to the Cultivation Quiet Room, summoned Gu He, and asked him to inspect the ingredients and formula for tampering.

The Left Envoy had Gu He inspect rare medicinal ingredients and refine them into a sixth-rank spiritual liquid for cleansing his body. After using four drops, he broke through to Six Star Dou Shi, while the water in his bathing tub turned murky with unknown residue.

• Gu He inspected the ingredients and confirmed they were sound, then identified two preparations for cleansing the body internally and externally.
• The Left Envoy asked Gu He to refine the external-use spiritual liquid, and Gu He completed it after three days under guard.
• The Left Envoy added one drop of spiritual liquid to a tub of water and began cultivating in it, adding more drops over time.
• The Left Envoy felt his Dou Qi surge and broke through to Six Star Dou Shi after adding the spiritual liquid for the fourth time.
• The Left Envoy noticed that the water had turned murky, unsure whether it held medicinal residue or expelled impurities.

The narrator used sixth-rank spirit liquid to break through to Da Dou Shi after cultivating for nearly forty days. After resting and seeing U Yue City's recovery, he learned that Gu He was still refining pills for him.

• The narrator calmed his mind and used his soul power to control his lightning Dou Qi as a Dou Crystal formed in his dantian.
• The narrator completed his breakthrough to Da Dou Shi, then asked Ling Ying how long he had cultivated.
• Ling Ying told the narrator that nearly forty days had passed and explained why alchemists needed time to recover and study between pill-refining attempts.
• The narrator asked where Gu He was and learned that he was refining pills in a nearby hall.
• The narrator slept, ate a lavish meal, and went to the attic to survey U Yue City's recovery after the war.

The Left Envoy absorbed a Sixth-Rank Pill with Gu He’s help to cleanse his meridians and improve his aptitude. After enduring hours of pain and vomiting blood, he exhausted the pill’s medicinal power and believed he had become a little genius.

• Gu He finished refining a Sixth-Rank Pill, and the Left Envoy thanked him after learning he had advanced to One-Star Great Dou Master.
• Three days later, the Left Envoy swallowed a Fourth-Rank healing pill and the Sixth-Rank Pill while Gu He controlled its fierce medicinal power.
• The Left Envoy circulated the Vast Thunder Skill as Gu He released the pill’s medicinal power in small wisps to cleanse his body.
• The Left Envoy vomited dark blood, but Gu He determined it was expelled impurities, and Ling Ying returned to his corner.
• The Left Envoy endured hours of painful cleansing until the Sixth-Rank Pill’s medicinal power ran out, then declared himself a little genius.

The Supervisory Left Division’s Western Tour reached Gama City after Jia Xingtian agreed to welcome the Left Commissioner a hundred li outside the city. At a meeting that night, the Left Commissioner announced plans to choose a new target, leaving the assembled powers wondering whether another war was coming.

• The Left Commissioner asked Little Fairy Doctor about the Toxic Sect’s construction and promised to take her to Canaan Academy to meet someone who could cure her Calamity Poison Body.
• The Left Commissioner told Yao Ye that he would destroy the Gama Family if Jia Xingtian refused to welcome him a hundred li outside the city.
• Jia Xingtian brought members of the Gama Royal Family to welcome the Left Commissioner, who accepted the greeting and continued on to Gama City.
• The Left Commissioner convened a meeting in the Council Hall and announced that the Supervisory Left Division needed to find its next target.
• Anthony asked whether the Left Commissioner intended to wage war on other empires.

Nalan Ye urged the Gama Alliance’s leaders to pursue the Central Plains, then proposed subjugating the Black-Corner Region as a first step. Yun Yun refused to sacrifice Yun Lan Sect disciples for advancement, and Nalan Ye left the meeting planning a visit to Canaan Academy to begin his strategy.

• Nalan Ye challenged the gathered leaders to seek advancement to Dou Zong by pursuing opportunities in the Central Plains.
• Yun Yun said she would not risk more Yun Lan Sect lives for her own breakthrough, and Nalan Ye decided he could bypass her through Yun Shan.
• Nalan Ye declared that the alliance would first subjugate the Black-Corner Region by supporting proxy factions, then use it as a base to attack the Central State Northern Region.
• Nalan Ye ordered Jia Xingtian to send Canaan Academy a proposal for a friendly exchange between younger generations, which Nalan Ye would lead in person.
• After the meeting, Little Fairy Doctor teased Nalan Ye about his commanding manner, and he invited her to get a drink.

On the journey back to Wutan City, the narrator confessed his feelings to the Little Fairy Doctor and said he intended to break off his engagement to Xiao Meier. She quietly accepted his feelings, and the party arrived at the city gate with the narrator choosing to stay at the City Lord's Mansion instead of greeting the gathered families.

• The narrator told the Little Fairy Doctor that he planned to ask the Xiao Family to break off his engagement to Xiao Meier.
• The narrator confessed that he liked the Little Fairy Doctor and asked whether she felt the same.
• The Little Fairy Doctor hesitated over whether it was right to break a promise, and the narrator said he would let down the whole world for her.
• The Little Fairy Doctor softly agreed, and the two held hands as the party reached Wutan City's eastern gate.
• The narrator saw the Xiao Family and other local leaders waiting to greet him, then ordered an attendant to take the party to the City Lord's Mansion.

Nalan Ye confronted Little Fairy Doctor about her feelings, but their argument was interrupted when her Calamity Poison Body began to erupt. He followed her into the Monster Mountain Range and watched from a distance as deadly black poison mist spread through a valley and she collapsed.

• Nalan Ye accused Little Fairy Doctor of lying about her feelings, then suggested she meet Xiao Meier, his fiancée.
• Little Fairy Doctor sensed her Calamity Poison Body was about to erupt, shattered the carriage with her wings, and flew toward the Monster Mountain Range.
• Nalan Ye urged Ling Ying to pursue her, and Ling Ying carried him after Little Fairy Doctor despite warning him about the poison.
• Little Fairy Doctor stopped in the mountain range and ordered Nalan Ye to leave, but he refused to abandon her.
• Black poison mist spread around Little Fairy Doctor as she landed in a valley and collapsed unconscious on a rock.
• Ling Ying showed Nalan Ye that birds died upon entering the mist, so they watched the valley from a nearby mountaintop.

I and Ling Ying waited as the Little Fairy Doctor’s Calamity Poison Body absorbed the black mist and the high-ranking Magical Beasts gathered around the valley. She awoke at daybreak with a powerful aura, having reached Four Star Dou Huang.

• Ling Ying explained that the Little Fairy Doctor would awaken within six days and draw the strengthened black mist back into her body, rapidly increasing her cultivation.
• I and Ling Ying kept watch as high-ranking Magical Beasts gathered on the nearby peaks, drawn by the strange black mist.
• On the evening of the sixth day, the black mist began swirling toward the Little Fairy Doctor as a storm broke over the mountains.
• A Rank 6 White-browed Tiger approached the valley and demanded to know what lay within the mist, while Ling Ying refused to drive it away.
• The black mist shrank through the night, revealing the Little Fairy Doctor lying on a rock; she awoke at daybreak with an aura that startled the surrounding Magical Beasts.
• I recognized that the Little Fairy Doctor had awakened as a Four Star Dou Huang.

Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor escaped the valley after her Calamity Poison Body erupted, and he promised to cure it within a year if she came with him to Canaan Academy. After returning to Wutan City, Nalan Ye was interrupted during his bath by Wu Protector, who asked whether Little Fairy Doctor had the legendary Calamity Poison Body.

• Nalan Ye found Little Fairy Doctor awake in the rain, gave her a healing pill, and helped her leave the valley with Ling Ying.
• Nalan Ye and Little Fairy Doctor discussed the danger of her Calamity Poison Body erupting again as they flew toward Wutan City.
• Nalan Ye promised Little Fairy Doctor that he would cure her Calamity Poison Body within a year and invited her to Canaan Academy.
• The three reached Wutan City safely, and Nalan Ye went to bathe at the City Lord's Manor.
• Wu Protector suddenly appeared in Nalan Ye's room and asked whether Little Fairy Doctor had the legendary Calamity Poison Body.

Ye Er arranged a banquet at the Xiao Residence to help Wu Protector obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade, using wine to make the Xiao Family members pass out. After Wu Protector found the jade, Ye Er asked him to transfer Xiao Zhan's Soul Power into a counterfeit so it could take the jade's place.

• Ye Er promised Wu Protector that he would help obtain the Tou She Ancient God Jade that night, then reassured Hai Bodong, Yun Heng, and the Western Tour party before heading to the Xiao Residence.
• Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Family elders welcomed Ye Er, who gave gifts to the gathered family members and supplied his own wine at the banquet.
• The wine made the Xiao Family members, including Xiao Zhan and the three elders, fall unconscious, and Wu Protector concealed the banquet area with black mist.
• Ye Er removed the Ring of Holding from the Xiao Family's Great Elder and found the Tou She Ancient God Jade inside.
• Wu Protector confirmed the jade was genuine, and Ye Er asked him to put a wisp of Xiao Zhan's Soul Power into a counterfeit jade to replace it.

The narrator led a Gama Alliance delegation into the Black-Corner Region for a friendly exchange with Canaan Academy and learned about the region’s farms and slave labor. The party reached Black-Ink City, where the narrator booked an entire inn after meeting Hei Qi Er.

• The narrator flew past Town Suppressing Ghosts and asked Ya Fei how people in the Black-Corner Region obtained food and cloth.
• Ya Fei explained that powerful factions maintained farms, fisheries, mines, and slave labor, and the delegation continued south to Black-Ink City.
• Hei Qi Er mistook Yun Heng for the party’s leader and invited the group to attend the Black Seal City Auction.
• The narrator told Hei Qi Er that the delegation had come from the Jialian Empire to visit Canaan Academy for a friendly exchange.
• The narrator paid Hei Qi Er, entered an inn with the delegation, and ordered the innkeeper to clear out every guest.

Nalan Ye cleared an inn in Black-Ink City for his group, then discovered the occupants resisting him were Canaan Academy Inner Academy students led by Han Yue. After explaining his planned exchange with the academy, he let them stay and asked Han Yue whether she had come on a mission.

• Nalan Ye ordered Yun Heng and his guards to drive the inn’s guests out so his young companions could stay safely.
• Four young fighters emerged after a clash, and Nalan Ye stopped his guards from attacking them and invoked the rule that the strong prevailed.
• One of the young men challenged Nalan Ye to a duel, but Nalan Ye recognized that they might be Canaan Academy students.
• Han Yue identified herself as an Inner Academy student, and Nalan Ye introduced himself and explained his planned exchange with the academy.
• After a student clarified that the exchange concerned the Outer Courtyard, Nalan Ye allowed Han Yue and her companions to stay and asked whether she was in Black-Ink City on a mission.

Nalan Ye hosted Han Yue and her companions at the inn in Black-Ink City, where he questioned her about the Central State Northern Region. After punishing a young talent who tried to leave the inn, he sent Ya Fei to escort the others around while he kept Han Yue for tea.

• Nalan Ye invited Han Yue and her companions to attend the upcoming auction with him and assigned Ya Fei to arrange rooms for the Gama Alliance's young talents.
• Nalan Ye joined the Little Fairy Doctor for breakfast and asked Han Yue about Canaan Academy and her origins in the Tian Bei City Han Family.
• Nalan Ye invited Han Yue upstairs for tea and listened as she described the Central Plains and its factions.
• A girl from the Hui Dan City Ye Family demanded to leave the inn, so Nalan Ye ordered guards to give her ten strokes of the military cudgel after she attacked them with a whip.
• Nalan Ye sent Ya Fei and the guards to escort the young talents around Black-Ink City, then continued drinking tea with Han Yue.

The narrator led his party to the Black-Ink Auction, where their size and his disregard for the queue drew attention. When Eight Gates Sect officials tried to redirect them to VIP rooms, Ling Ying’s Dou Emperor aura forced the sect master to grant them the front rows and give the narrator a top-tier VIP card.

• The narrator allowed the young talents to bid at the auction but warned them against competing maliciously, then set out with his party of more than fifty people.
• The narrator paid the entrance fee and led the party to seats at the front of the auction house.
• Yun Heng used his Dou Wang aura to clear seats, prompting an Eight Gates Sect elder to offer several VIP rooms.
• The narrator refused to split up the party and demanded three front rows, so the elder threatened him until Ling Ying revealed his Dou Emperor aura.
• The Eight Gates Sect sect master arrived, cleared the seats, and presented the narrator with the auction house’s highest-tier VIP card.

The Black Seal City Auction opened, and the narrator bought a young girl to free her before the rare Flying Dou Technique Thunder Bat Wings appeared. Seeing that it resembled his Purple Cloud Wings, he considered buying it for Xiao Yan to help him escape danger.

• The narrator and his companions took their seats, and the Eight Gates Sect’s white-haired auctioneer opened the Black Seal City Auction.
• Cold Edge, a magic core sword, sold for sixty-seven thousand gold coins after the narrator declined to bid.
• The narrator bid seventy-six thousand gold coins for an enslaved girl, and the auctioneer sold her to him without further competition.
• The auction’s first major lot was the Flying Dou Technique Thunder Bat Wings, which the narrator considered buying for Xiao Yan.

The narrator watched Han Yue bid on the Thunder Bat Wings, a rare Flying Dou Technique, and offered to lend her money when another bidder outbid her. Han Yue won the scroll for 850,000 gold coins, with the narrator lending her only 70,000.

• Han Yue bid 200,000 gold coins for the Thunder Bat Wings as the auction price rose to 750,000.
• Three Canaan Academy students pooled 260,000 gold coins to help Han Yue continue bidding.
• A bidder in a private box offered 800,000 gold coins, leaving Han Yue short of funds.
• The narrator offered Han Yue a loan and teased that he knew where her family lived.
• Han Yue bid 850,000 gold coins, and the auctioneer sold her the Thunder Bat Wings after no one bid higher.

The envoy won the earlier auction items, then bid on the seventh-rank Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill as several factions stayed silent. He realized they might be conspiring to murder and plunder his group, just as the auctioneer prepared to close the sale.

• The envoy won the Thunder Bat Wings, the Purifying Lotus Demon Fire Remnant Map, the Earth Core Fire Ginseng, and Three Thousand Lightning Movements.
• The Eight Gates Sect sealed the auction hall’s exits before presenting the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.
• The envoy opened bidding at one million gold coins, while a hidden bidder mocked him and competed against him.
• The envoy raised his bid to two million and ten thousand gold coins, and the hidden bidder stopped bidding.
• The envoy noticed that the VIP rooms showed signs of murder and plunder and suspected the factions had joined forces against his group.
• The white-haired auctioneer began counting down the envoy’s bid.

After winning the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill at auction, I swallowed it before the watching factions could steal it, then led the group out of Black-Ink City. They escaped without attack and set off by flying magical beasts toward Canaan Academy.

• I took the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill from the auction platform and swallowed it in front of the watching factions.
• A pale-faced young man and another bidder challenged me, but I mocked their objections and explained that the pill’s power would remain dormant until I was severely injured.
• The leader of the Eight Gates Sect nodded to the white-haired elder, who closed the auction, and our party collected its purchases and paid.
• The Little Fairy Doctor asked whether we were being targeted, and I told her the factions had wanted the pill; I ordered everyone to head straight for the flying magical beasts and leave Black-Ink City.
• Our party departed without being attacked, and I declared that our destination was Canaan Academy.

Nalan Ye arrived at Canaan City with the Gama and Chuyun United Empire’s delegation and met Hu Qian, who praised Xiao Yan as a model student. Nalan Ye reunited with Mei Er, who had believed he was dead, and found Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Ning waiting nearby.

• Nalan Ye and the delegation reached Canaan City, where Hu Qian and other Canaan Academy experts welcomed them.
• After Hu Qian questioned Nalan Ye’s low cultivation, Nalan Ye had Ling Ying and Yun Heng speak as his mouthpieces before Hu Qian addressed him directly.
• Hu Qian asked about Xiao Yan, praised his conduct at the academy, and learned that Nalan Ye had also come to visit his fiancée.
• Nalan Ye spotted Mei Er in a secluded courtyard, rushed to embrace her, and heard her accuse him of lying about his death before she cried and laughed.
• Nalan Ye greeted Xiao Yan, Xun Er, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Ning, who were gathered nearby.

Nalan Ye and Xiao Yan caught up at a banquet at Canaan Academy, traded accusations about their complicated relationships, and agreed to help each other with Nalan Yanran and Mei Er. Nalan Ye revealed that he had come to find Han Feng to help Little Fairy Doctor control her Calamity Poison Body, and Xiao Yan offered to help.

• Nalan Ye teased Xiao Yan about his feelings for Xun Er and Ya Fei, while reminding him that he was betrothed to Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan asked about Nalan Ye's relationship with Little Fairy Doctor, and Nalan Ye admitted it before asking Xiao Yan to help explain things to Mei Er.
• Nalan Ye and Xiao Yan agreed to help each other smooth over their romantic entanglements and sealed the bargain with wine.
• Xiao Yan questioned why Nalan Ye had come to Canaan Academy, and Nalan Ye said he sought Han Feng's Flame Mantra to help Little Fairy Doctor control her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan told Nalan Ye that he might be able to help with the Flame Mantra.

Ling Ying told Xun Er that Nalan Ye might be connected to the Hall of Souls and could have targeted the Xiao Family for the Tou She Ancient God Jade. Xun Er ordered Ling Ying to keep watching Nalan Ye as a test for Xiao Yan, but Gu Xu’s decision to return to the Central Plains left her facing the prospect of leaving Xiao Yan’s side.

• Ling Ying reported that Nalan Ye’s mysterious associate Old Crow was a soul whose origins and dealings suggested ties to the Central Plains and possibly the Hall of Souls.
• Ling Ying suspected Nalan Ye had gone to the Xiao Family to seek the Tou She Ancient God Jade, but said there was no evidence the Hall of Souls had obtained it.
• When Ling Ying offered to kill Nalan Ye, Xun Er stopped him and considered how the Hall of Souls had harmed Yao Chen and how Xiao Yan trusted people too easily.
• Xun Er ordered Ling Ying to stay beside Nalan Ye and keep acting normally, treating the situation as a trial for Xiao Yan.
• Gu Xu decided to return to the Central Plains, and Xun Er realized she would likely have to leave but planned to wait until Xiao Yan entered the Inner Academy.

The Left Envoy attended Canaan Academy’s Inner Academy Selection Tournament and announced that he would reward the five lowest-ranked contestants, hoping to act as an opportunity for them. He told Hu Qian that he had important business to discuss with people from the Inner Academy.

• Hu Qian opened the selection tournament and announced that contestants from the Gama Alliance would compete for the Outer Courtyard’s fifty Inner Academy places, though alliance contestants would forfeit any places they won.
• The crowd jeered at the Left Envoy until Ling Ying released his aura and silenced them.
• The Left Envoy spoke about how talent and resources limited most cultivators’ futures, then offered rewards to the tournament’s bottom five contestants.
• Hu Qian questioned the Left Envoy’s unusual offer and suspected he had another reason for visiting Canaan Academy.
• The Left Envoy confirmed that he had important business at Canaan Academy and wanted to discuss it with people from the Inner Academy.