Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan traveled by Spatial Spaceship to Danta with Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor, keeping Feng Qing Er’s invitation unanswered. He arrived at the alchemists’ great stronghold and warned Qing Lin about the greed and risks surrounding it.

• Lu Yuan introduced his Li Feiyu persona to Feng Qing Er, who accepted his refusal to answer her invitation immediately.
• Lu Yuan spent two quiet days aboard the Spatial Spaceship with Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor while other passengers sought connections with the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• On the third morning, the Spatial Spaceship left the void and reached the area near Danta.
• Lu Yuan surveyed Danta’s immense tower and explained its influence, wealth, and standing among the Central Plains factions.
• Lu Yuan stepped onto Danta’s white jade platform, rubbed Qing Lin’s head, and cautioned her about greed and despair.

Lu Yuan took Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor to Danta’s marketplace to search for a rare magic core. The Mountain Sea Medicine Shop had no core from a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, so Lu Yuan left and headed toward Danta.

• Survivors from the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s Spatial Spaceship explored Danta, where alchemists gathered to take examinations.
• Lu Yuan brought Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor to the Mountain Sea Medicine Shop to seek rare goods.
• Lu Yuan followed the shop’s unusual directions to an Independent Space and asked an old man for a seventh-rank Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core.
• The old man said the Mountain Sea Medicine Shop had no such magic core, and Lu Yuan left with Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor toward Danta.

Lu Yuan entered Danta’s examination system and earned his Tier 1 Alchemist badge, then registered for the Tier 2 examination under the alias “Li Feiyu.” After missing the current session, he watched the exam with Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor and encountered Feng Qing Er.

• Lu Yuan considered Danta’s rigorous examination standards and the successive tests he would need to pass to become a Fifth-Rank Alchemist.
• Lu Yuan completed the Tier 1 Alchemist examination and received his badge.
• Lu Yuan missed the ongoing Tier 2 examination session, registered the alias “Li Feiyu,” and waited outside the examination venue with Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor.
• Feng Qing Er spotted Lu Yuan in the spectator seats and asked whether he had come to take the Tier 2 examination.
• Lu Yuan explained that he had missed the session and would wait for the next one, and Feng Qing Er wished him immediate success.

Lu Yuan passed the Second-Rank Alchemist examination while deliberately drawing the Chief Examiner’s attention to traces of Yao Chen’s pill-refining techniques. Reports about him reached a woman who suspected Yao Chen might still be alive, and she decided to investigate.

• Feng Qing Er learned from a Wind and Thunder Pavilion disciple that the previous examination had tested basic knowledge and asked about the Yangluo Pill.
• The Chief Examiner announced that candidates had half an hour to refine ten standard Stealth Pills, and Lu Yuan used an ordinary cauldron and flame to keep a low profile.
• The Chief Examiner recognized traces of Yao Chen’s pill-refining techniques in Lu Yuan’s work, checked the roster, and grew suspicious when he found no candidate named Yao.
• Lu Yuan passed the examination, nodded to Feng Qing Er, and went with Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor toward the Third-Rank examination hall.
• Reports about Lu Yuan’s techniques reached a woman, who recalled Yao Chen and decided to look into whether he might still be alive.

Xuan Yi recognized that Lu Yuan’s alchemy techniques closely imitated Yao Chen’s and arranged an unusually difficult examination to test him. She confronted Lu Yuan about his connection to Yao Chen, leaving him to face her suspicions while Feng Qing Er continued planning to recruit him.

• Xuan Yi identified Yao Chen’s influence in Lu Yuan’s alchemy and ordered the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill as his next examination question, despite objections that it was too difficult.
• Xuan Yi took over the empty Seventh-Rank examination hall and set up a special test for Lu Yuan while the other candidates were spared her challenge.
• Xuan Yi told Lu Yuan she suspected he was connected to Yao Chen and accused him of imitating his techniques and attracting women like him.
• Feng Qing Er remained unaware of Xuan Yi’s identity and resolved to recruit Lu Yuan into the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, even if he failed the examination.
• Lu Yuan worried about dealing with Xuan Yi’s intense fixation on Yao Chen and remembered Yao Chen’s warning to conceal his connection to him.

Xiao Yan and Yao Chen traveled to the Tagor Desert, where Haibodong revealed that Queen Medusa possessed the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame Xiao Yan needed. After Medusa refused to surrender it, Xiao Yan proposed a compromise: she would give him the flame, and he would help purify her bloodline.

• Xiao Yan reached Nine Star Dou Zhe and became a second-tier alchemist after training with Yao Chen and receiving support from Lu Yuan and the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan met Haibodong and his brothers at the Mo Tie Mercenary Group headquarters, then learned that Queen Medusa held the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Chen, and Haibodong entered Queen Medusa's palace, where Yue Mei was also present.
• Haibodong told Queen Medusa that Xiao Yan needed the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame, and she refused, explaining that she needed it to purify her bloodline.
• Queen Medusa offered to give Xiao Yan the flame after purifying her bloodline, but Xiao Yan proposed that she give it to him now and guide him in purifying her bloodline.

Lu Yuan refined a Fifth-Rank Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill at Danta while Xuan Yi watched and concluded that Yao Chen was still alive. After inviting Lu Yuan to speak with her, she offered to take him as her Close Disciple, leaving him poised to use his claimed connection to Yao Chen to gain Danta’s support.

• Lu Yuan refined a Fifth-Rank Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill, and Xuan Yi inspected it before asking to speak with him.
• Xuan Yi told the other alchemists that Yao Chen was not dead, basing her certainty on the traces of his pill-refining style in Lu Yuan’s technique.
• Lu Yuan expected Xuan Yi to recognize his bluff that he had obtained Yao Chen’s inheritance and hoped she would help him gain Danta’s support.
• Xuan Yi reasoned that Yao Chen and Lu Yuan needed Danta’s help against their enemies, including Han Feng and possibly Soul Hall.
• Xuan Yi asked Lu Yuan whether he was willing to become her Close Disciple.

Lu Yuan accepted Xuan Yi’s offer to become her Close Disciple and joined her at her estate with Qing Lin and Little Fairy Doctor. Xuan Yi asked about Yao Chen’s death, and Lu Yuan confirmed that Han Feng and Mu Gu had betrayed him, explaining how Yao Chen’s injuries led to his death and his soul’s escape into a ring.

• Feng Qing Er left quietly, apparently intending to inform Thunder Venerable that Xuan Yi had recruited Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan agreed to Xuan Yi’s proposal and followed her to her garden estate with Qing Lin and Little Fairy Doctor.
• Xuan Yi served tea and asked Lu Yuan whether Han Feng and Mu Gu had joined forces to kill Yao Chen.
• Lu Yuan confirmed the betrayal and explained that Yao Chen was weakened by enduring Pill Lightning, ambushed by Mu Gu, and fatally wounded by Han Feng while protecting him.
• Xuan Yi considered Yao Chen’s overwhelming strength and understood why Feng Xian had suspected Han Feng but lacked evidence to act against him.

Lu Yuan revealed to Xuan Yi that he had killed Han Feng and planned to join the Wind and Thunder Pavilion to oppose the Soul Clan. Xuan Yi accepted his plan, identified Little Fairy Doctor’s Woeful Poison Body, and offered to help find the rare magic core needed to treat it before their visitor arrived.

• Lu Yuan told Xuan Yi that he had killed Han Feng and explained his connection to Yao Chen and Xiao Yan.
• Xuan Yi confirmed Lu Yuan’s hidden strength and asked whether accepting him as her disciple would help him; he explained that he needed her support to join the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• Lu Yuan said the Soul Clan was his ultimate enemy and that joining Danta would interfere with his plan.
• Xuan Yi recognized Little Fairy Doctor’s Woeful Poison Body, and Lu Yuan explained that he needed a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core and Bodhi Transformation Saliva for the Poison Pill method.
• Xuan Yi offered to search auctions for the magic core and told Lu Yuan that the person he wanted to meet had arrived; she proposed raising his value by playing the villain while he played the good guy.

Lu Yuan accepted Xuan Yi’s support as Thunder Venerable arrived to recruit him for the Wind and Thunder Pavilion. Thunder Venerable offered him a future leadership position, leaving Lu Yuan to decide whether to join.

• Lu Yuan considered Xuan Yi’s offer of help and silently agreed to let her act as his backer.
• Xuan Yi confronted Thunder Venerable for arriving at her residence with Feng Qing Er and questioned their intentions.
• Thunder Venerable entered the hall and congratulated Xuan Yi on taking Lu Yuan as her disciple, but Xuan Yi accused him of trying to steal her disciple.
• Thunder Venerable explained his interest in recruiting Lu Yuan and confirmed Feng Qing Er had no objection to his approach.
• Thunder Venerable invited Lu Yuan to join the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, promising him status equal to Feng Qing Er’s and offering him the pavilion’s leadership in the future.

Venerable Xuan Yi warned Thunder Venerable that Lu Yuan had little reason to join the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, while Thunder Venerable weighed his offer and clarified he was not trying to take Lu Yuan as a disciple. The chapter ended with Thunder Venerable offering Lu Yuan the Three Thousand Thunders Movement, the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body, and Young Pavilion Master-level resources and treatment, then asking whether Xuan Yi approved and Lu Yuan would accept.

• Venerable Xuan Yi urged Lu Yuan not to trust Thunder Venerable's recruitment pitch, citing Danta and Starfall Pavilion's advantages and the uncertainty of future succession.
• Venerable Xuan Yi explained why Eighth-Rank Alchemists were indispensable to Entering Dou Zuns, emphasizing her own power and connections over Thunder Venerable's.
• Lu Yuan considered joining the Wind and Thunder Pavilion to carry out his plans involving the Hong Clan and Han Clan, while recognizing that Danta and Starfall Pavilion's foundations belonged to Yao Chen.
• Thunder Venerable signaled that he would not compete with Venerable Xuan Yi for Lu Yuan as a disciple and explained that the Pavilion Master was chosen by the Pavilion's members.
• Thunder Venerable offered Lu Yuan the Three Thousand Thunders Movement, the Three Thousand Lightning Illusory Body, and resources and treatment equivalent to the Young Pavilion Master, then asked Xuan Yi and Lu Yuan for their responses.

Thunder Venerable proposed bringing Lu Yuan into the Wind and Thunder Pavilion and pairing him with Feng Qing Er, and Xuan Yi let Lu Yuan decide for himself. Lu Yuan agreed to go, while Xuan Yi secured his freedom to visit her and Danta and said he still needed to develop his own alchemy style.

• The chapter explained that cultivation factions were organized around clans, master-disciple sects, or academy-style student relationships, and that the Four Directions Pavilion combined sect and academy models.
• Thunder Venerable considered Lu Yuan’s cultivation and alchemy talent a strong match for Feng Qing Er and hoped to recruit him into the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• Xuan Yi weighed the proposal but asked Lu Yuan whether he was willing to go rather than deciding his future for him.
• Lu Yuan agreed to join the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, and Xuan Yi warned Thunder Venerable that Lu Yuan must remain free to return to her and Danta.
• Xuan Yi asked Thunder Venerable to stay and observe the ceremony, explaining that Lu Yuan still needed to study Danta’s alchemists and develop an alchemy style of his own.

Xuan Yi finished teaching Lu Yuan and let him leave with Thunder Venerable, who hoped to bring the young Dou King and Fifth-Rank Alchemist into the Wind and Thunder Pavilion. The chapter explained how Danta, the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, and the Starfall Pavilion competed over the pill trade, and left Lu Yuan boarding the pavilion’s Spatial Spaceship.

• Thunder Venerable accepted Xuan Yi’s explanation that the Wind and Thunder Pavilion had to finish its examinations and purchases before departing Danta.
• The chapter described how factions bought pills from Danta and resold them, while the scarcity of high-rank alchemists made their services costly.
• Lu Yuan’s knowledge of alchemy highlighted how Yao Chen’s high-volume, low-price pill sales had once given the Starfall Pavilion a major advantage over its rivals.
• Thunder Venerable recalled Yao Chen’s threat to the other pavilions and hoped to recruit Lu Yuan, who had inherited Yao Chen’s legacy.
• Xuan Yi completed Lu Yuan’s lessons, let him observe several Seventh-Rank and Eight-Rank Alchemists, and allowed him to board the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s Spatial Spaceship.

Lu Yuan returned to the Wind and Thunder Pavilion with Thunder Venerable and arranged to confront Hong Chen, a Hong Clan disciple who had threatened the Han sisters. After Hong Chen boasted about using his status to seize them, Lu Yuan subtly altered fate, causing Hong Chen to collapse a fruit stall, then demanded that he apologize.

• Thunder Venerable transported the Wind and Thunder Pavilion disciples home and had Feng Qing Er oversee their arrangements.
• Lu Yuan left the disembarking crowd to explore the pavilion, while Feng Qing Er took Little Fairy Doctor and Qing Lin with her.
• Lu Yuan found Hong Chen in a marketplace, where Hong Chen and his lackeys discussed forcing Han Xue and Han Yue to return with him.
• Hong Chen boasted that his Wind and Thunder Pavilion status could destroy the Han Clan, and Lu Yuan secretly altered the course of fate.
• Hong Chen accidentally collapsed a fruit stall, and Lu Yuan stepped clear before telling him to apologize.

Lu Yuan demanded an apology from Hong Chen after Hong Chen recklessly damaged a stall, then beat him when he refused and attacked. After Hong Chen summoned the Enforcement Team, Feng Qing Er arrived, learned what had happened, and attacked him for disgracing the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.

• Lu Yuan asked Hong Chen to apologize for his reckless actions, but Hong Chen refused and insulted him in front of the onlookers.
• Hong Chen taunted Lu Yuan and demanded that he bark like a dog, so Lu Yuan slammed him into a stall and struck him down when he tried to fight back.
• Hong Chen threatened Lu Yuan and crushed a Signal Flare to summon the Wind and Thunder Pavilion's Enforcement Team.
• Feng Qing Er arrived with Qing Lin and Little Fairy Doctor, learned what had happened, and smashed Hong Chen's ribs with Dou Qi.
• Feng Qing Er stood beside Lu Yuan and asked Hong Chen whether he thought she, too, was destined to die a miserable death.

Lu Yuan had Hong Chen executed under the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s Marketplace rules, then burned his corpse and announced that he would visit the Hong Clan to test whether they would accept the death calmly. Feng Qing Er understood his intent as the two prepared to leave the matter’s aftermath behind.

• Lu Yuan ignored the outer disciples’ pleas and waited with Feng Qing Er for the Wind and Thunder Pavilion’s Enforcement Team to arrive, while she declared that Hong Chen had violated Marketplace rules.
• The Enforcement Team investigated, heard witnesses, and executed Hong Chen according to the pavilion’s rules as the onlookers applauded.
• Feng Qing Er announced the verdict, apologized to the merchants and passersby, and compensated them for their losses.
• After the Enforcement Team left, Feng Qing Er discussed Hong Chen’s poor judgment with Lu Yuan and wondered whether he might retaliate against the pavilion.
• Lu Yuan burned Hong Chen’s corpse, kept the severed head, and told Feng Qing Er he intended to visit the Hong Clan to see whether they would accept the death or force him to test his strength.

Lu Yuan traveled toward Tianbei City with a Wind and Thunder Pavilion Dou Zong secretly guarding him, intending to confront the Hong Family and bring the Han Family under his control. Outside the city, he found Hong Family members ambushing a Han Family caravan and intervened, leaving the Han Family with the advantage.

• Feng Qing Er persuaded Lu Yuan to accept a Wind and Thunder Pavilion Dou Zong as his Guardian of the Dao, and he left Qing Lin and the Little Fairy Doctor in her care.
• Thunder Venerable assigned an Eight Star Dou Zong to secretly accompany Lu Yuan toward the Hong Family.
• Lu Yuan traveled for more than six days and reached Tianbei City, where both the Hong Family and Han Family were based.
• Lu Yuan encountered masked Hong Family members ambushing a Han Family caravan outside the city and attacked them with metal swords.
• Lu Yuan severely wounded the Hong Family members below the Dou Ling realm, allowing the Han Family caravan to press its advantage.

Lu Yuan defeated the Hong family's Dou King elders and turned the battle in the Han family's favor. After recognizing that he feared neither the Hong family nor the Wind and Thunder Pavilion, Han Xue asked him to save her family.

• Lu Yuan killed the Hong family leader with a single blow, rallying the Han family and throwing the Hong forces into disarray.
• The Hong family elders tried to retreat and then offered to part ways, but Lu Yuan killed another elder after rejecting their threats and excuses.
• Han Xue called on the Han family's Seventh Elder and Thirteenth Elder to help Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan killed the remaining three Hong family Dou King elders with a glance.
• The Han elders returned to Han Xue's side, while she considered Lu Yuan's apparent lack of fear of the Hong family and the Wind and Thunder Pavilion.
• Han Xue stepped before Lu Yuan, bowed, and asked him to save the Han family.

Han Xue asked Li Feiyu to help the Han family resist the Hong family, but he rejected her attempt to appeal to his courage and sympathy and demanded tangible benefits. He left Han Xue stunned by refusing even her offer of herself and criticizing the Han family for seeking help while refusing to risk everything.

• Han Xue explained that the stronger Hong family was suppressing the Han family and had the Wind and Thunder Pavilion's backing.
• Li Feiyu argued that the conflict was a struggle over limited resources and told Han Xue not to morally pressure him into helping.
• A Wind and Thunder Pavilion Dou Zong admired Li Feiyu's clear judgment and considered him a possible future Pavilion Master.
• Han Xue asked Li Feiyu what he wanted, and he asked what the Han family could offer.
• Han Xue offered herself, but Li Feiyu refused and said the Han family deserved its fate if it would not gamble everything to survive.

Lu Yuan went to the Hong Family residence after killing Hong Chen and challenged the Hong Family Old Ancestor, while Han Xue hoped he could force the family to stop oppressing the Han Family. The Hong Family Old Ancestor accepted Lu Yuan’s challenge, setting the stage for their fight.

• Han Xue agreed to pay Lu Yuan a price if he protected the Han Family, and Lu Yuan flew toward Tianbei City without negotiating further.
• Lu Yuan reached the Hong Family residence and threw Hong Chen’s head through its gates.
• Lu Yuan killed several Hong Family members who rushed to capture him, then used his Blade Intent to drive the others back.
• The Hong Family Old Ancestor appeared, saw Hong Chen’s head, and asked Lu Yuan why he had come.
• Lu Yuan explained that Hong Chen had threatened him and challenged the Hong Family Old Ancestor despite knowing he was a Dou Zong.
• The Hong Family Old Ancestor accepted Lu Yuan’s challenge and said he would give him a few pointers.