Chapter Summaries

Gu Fang revealed that he was a Da Dou Shi and overwhelmed Jia Lie'ao and Liu Xi with his black-golden Origin Flame. As Gu Fang moved to finish Jia Lie'ao, Jia Lie Bi intervened, leaving the fight poised to escalate.

• Gu Fang blocked Jia Lie'ao's punch with his head, burned away the Battle Qi, and sent Jia Lie'ao flying without moving from his spot.
• Liu Xi retreated, but Gu Fang's Battle Qi Gauze Robe revealed his Da Dou Shi strength, and he caught Liu Xi and shattered his arms with an Origin Flame attack.
• Liu Xi begged for mercy and invoked his fourth-tier alchemist master, but Gu Fang dismissed the threat and kicked him through a wall, leaving his fate unknown.
• Gu Fang launched a black-golden-flamed iron rod at Jia Lie'ao, but Jia Lie Bi arrived and knocked it aside despite the flames burning away much of his Battle Qi.
• The spectators recognized Jia Lie Bi as the Jia Lie Family Patriarch.

Gu Fang confronted Jia Lie Bi after injuring members of the Jia Lie Family, while Xiao Yan arrived and checked on Xun'er. Gu Fang avoided Jia Lie Bi’s powerful attack, but Jia Lie Bi remained confident and began plotting to kill him, believing Liu Xi’s connections could shield the Jia Lie Family from retaliation.

• Jia Lie Bi appeared and challenged Gu Fang, while Xiao Yan arrived, greeted Xun'er, and asked what had happened.
• Jia Lie Bi attacked Gu Fang with a powerful cyan wind blade, and Gu Fang met it with an Origin Flame vortex before escaping with the Dragon Snake Evasion Technique.
• Jia Lie Bi’s attack carved a crater in the ground, and the onlookers began to doubt that Gu Fang could defeat him.
• Jia Lie Bi confirmed that Liu Xi was alive and considered using Liu Xi’s master and the Pill Tower connections to protect his family.
• Jia Lie Bi decided that killing Gu Fang could help the Jia Lie Family rise to power, and his killing intent toward Gu Fang intensified.

Gu Fang faced Jia Lie Bi’s attack in the Xiao Family marketplace, but Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan intervened to protect him. As Jia Lie Bi warned that a fourth-tier alchemist might target the Xiao Family, Ya Fei arrived and addressed Gu Fang.

• Gu Fang recovered the Dou Qi he had spent on an Earth Rank technique and watched Xiao Yan confront Jia Lie Bi.
• Jia Lie Bi attacked Xiao Yan and Gu Fang with a Mysterious Rank technique, but Xiao Zhan arrived and blocked the strike.
• Jia Lie Bi threatened the Xiao Family with the arrival of Liu Xi’s fourth-tier alchemist master, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan refused to hand over Gu Fang.
• Gu Fang privately judged that he could defeat Jia Lie Bi himself, then Ya Fei called out to him from beyond the crowd.

Ya Fei arrived and defended Gu Fang against Jia Lie Bi, while the Mittel Family punished the Jia Lie Family for offending its honored guest. Gu Fang then challenged Jia Lie Bi to fight him immediately, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Ya Fei greeted Gu Fang respectfully and rebuked Jia Lie Bi for trying to take him away.
• Jia Lie Bi attacked Gu Fang, but Elder Zhu blocked his wind blades and knocked him back with a single palm strike.
• Ya Fei declared that the Mittel Family would cut off trade with the Jia Lie Family and bar its allies from the family’s auction houses.
• Ya Fei invited Xiao Zhan to meet with her the next day, and the Xiao Family welcomed the prospect of an alliance.
• Jia Lie Bi resolved to wait for Liu Xi’s master and seek revenge on Gu Fang, but Gu Fang challenged him to defeat him that day.

Gu Fang defeated Jia Lie Bi despite the gap between their ranks, using powerful Earth Rank techniques and his ability to absorb scattered battle qi. He left Jia Lie Bi crippled and unable to use battle qi, while the onlookers stared at Gu Fang in fear.

• Xiao Yan secretly asked Old Yao how a Dou Shi could defeat a Da Dou Shi, and Old Yao said Gu Fang had hidden tricks from his clan.
• Jia Lie Bi attacked Gu Fang with the mid-level Mysterious Rank Azure Wind Cone Stab, but Gu Fang countered with the mid-level Earth Rank Blazing Sky Flame Palm.
• Gu Fang’s Origin Flame absorbed the scattered battle qi and overwhelmed Jia Lie Bi, blasting him into a wall and damaging his Battle Qi Armor.
• Jia Lie Bi used his wind-attributed speed to attack Gu Fang from behind, but struck only an afterimage created by the Earth Rank High-Level Blazing Flame Inch Move.
• Gu Fang appeared behind Jia Lie Bi, stomped him into the ground, and shattered his qi vortex, leaving him unable to use battle qi.

Gu Fang killed Jia Lie Bi after crippling him, then crushed Liu Xi’s soul and discovered Jia Lie'ao had escaped. After declining Ya Fei’s invitation to the Mittel Auction House, Gu Fang walked toward Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yan.

• Jia Lie'ao fled when he saw Gu Fang defeat his father, Jia Lie Bi.
• Gu Fang threw an iron rod at the crippled Jia Lie Bi and killed him, shocking the onlookers and Xiao Zhan.
• Gu Fang crushed Liu Xi’s soul with his soul power, then searched for Jia Lie'ao and realized he had escaped.
• Ya Fei invited Gu Fang to a welcoming feast at the Mite'er Auction House, but he declined and said he would visit another day.
• Gu Fang accepted the Mittel Family’s offer of help and walked toward Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yan.

Gu Fang tested Xiao Yan during a handshake, burning his palm and provoking Yao Chen to use the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Gu Fang secretly obtained a wisp of the flame and expected to negotiate for more, while Xiao Xun'er warned him not to bully Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan told Xun'er he was amazed by Gu Fang's talent, and Xun'er said she considered Xiao Yan even more talented.
• Gu Fang thanked Xiao Yan for standing up to Jia Lie Bi, then called him Cousin Xiao Yan and mentioned that Xun'er often talked about him.
• Gu Fang infused their handshake with Origin Flame, scorching Xiao Yan's palm, while Xiao Yan stubbornly refused to let go.
• Xun'er questioned Gu Fang and checked on Xiao Yan, who hid his injured hand and insisted he was fine.
• Gu Fang revealed through his thoughts that the handshake had drawn out Yao Chen's Bone Spirit Cold Flame, letting him obtain a wisp for his Origin Flame.
• Xun'er threatened to teach Gu Fang a lesson for what he had done.

Gu Fang ordered the execution of two Jia Lie Family men and asked Xiao Zhan to hunt down Jia Lie'ao, then settled into the Xiao Family and cultivated. He planned to break through to Da Dou Shi after speaking with Old Yao and obtaining the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but a servant arrived to summon him to a welcoming banquet.

• Gu Fang told Xiao Zhan to investigate Jia Lieli and Jia Liexiao, then kill them if they had committed evil deeds, and ordered their deaths when they offered the location of the Jia Lie Family treasure vault.
• Gu Fang asked Xiao Zhan to find and kill Jia Lie'ao and handle the remaining affairs, while Xiao Xun'er introduced Gu Fang as her younger brother and asked Xiao Zhan to look after him.
• Diao Yu reported that the matter was settled, and Gu Fang invited the two mercenary teams to the Xiao Family the next day to discuss helping them break through.
• Gu Fang cultivated in his room and decided to seek the Bone Spirit Cold Flame from Old Yao before attempting to reach Da Dou Shi.
• A woman knocked at Gu Fang's door and said that the clan leader and others had prepared a welcoming banquet for him.

Gu Fang attended the Xiao Clan's welcoming banquet, where his strength and victory over the Jia Lie Family drew wary admiration. After Jia Lie'ao was murdered by masked attackers, Xiao Yan questioned Old Yao about Gu Fang's Heavenly Flame and powerful family, while Old Yao wondered why Gu Fang had sought him out.

• Xiao Yu escorted Gu Fang to the welcoming banquet, where Xiao Zhan seated him beside Xun'er and the guests whispered about his strength.
• Gu Fang dismissed Jia Lie Bi as weak, leaving the other banquet guests awkwardly silent.
• Jia Lie'ao vowed revenge against Gu Fang, but masked attackers killed him with a dagger bearing the Mittel Family crest.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Yao about Xun'er's family's power and whether Gu Fang's flame was a Heavenly Flame, and Old Yao warned him not to try to devour it.
• Old Yao reflected that Xiao Yan might one day reach the level needed to draw powerful families' attention, then sensed Gu Fang's room and left to investigate him.

Gu Fang summoned Yao Chen and negotiated for a wisp of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, offering a body in exchange. Yao Chen gave him the flame and discovered Gu Fang possessed the Nihility Devouring Flame and Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, but chose to remain loyal to Xiao Yan.

• Gu Fang revealed that he knew Yao Chen's identity and asked for a wisp of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Yao Chen warned that surrendering part of the flame could endanger his weakened soul, while Gu Fang assured him he would not take it by force.
• Gu Fang hinted that he knew about Yao Chen's secret cultivation method and offered a Dou Zun body, but Yao Chen asked him to conceal his identity and avoid interfering with Xiao Yan's growth.
• Yao Chen separated off a wisp of the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and handed it to Gu Fang, weakening his soul projection.
• The flame froze and burned Gu Fang's arm until the Nihility Devouring Flame consumed it and the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame melted the ice.
• Yao Chen recognized Gu Fang's two Heavenly Flames and considered sharing the Burning Art, but ultimately chose Xiao Yan, his disciple of three years.

Gu Fang fused the Bone Spirit Cold Flame with his other Heavenly Flames and used the resulting bronze Elemental Fire to break through to Nine-Star Dou Shi. His breakthrough drew the attention of Wutan City’s powerful families, who gathered outside the Xiao Family to guard him.

• Gu Fang absorbed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame into his qi vortex and fused it with Nihility Devouring Flame and Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame.
• Gu Fang began breaking through as frost and illusory flames spread through his room and a Dou Qi vortex drew energy from across Wutan City.
• Gu Fang purified and compressed the incoming Dou Qi, relying on his bloodline to strengthen his strained meridians.
• Xiao Zhan stopped Ao Ba Padun from approaching Gu Fang’s room, and Ao Ba Padun offered his family’s help guarding the breakthrough.
• Ya Fei and Mittel Family experts arrived to protect Gu Fang as the city’s major powers gathered.
• Gu Fang completed his breakthrough to Nine-Star Dou Shi and swallowed the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.

Gu Fang broke through to Da Dou Shi and forged a powerful armor from his battle qi and Heavenly Flames. After destroying his house while testing it, he accepted gifts from Ya Fei and Ao Ba Padun and arranged to visit the Xiao Clan treasury.

• Xiao Yan learned from Yao Chen that Gu Fang's family had unusually rapid early cultivation, then left to train his battle techniques.
• Gu Fang completed his breakthrough to Da Dou Shi, formed battle qi armor, and created the Heaven Swallowing Hegemon Armor with his flames.
• Gu Fang tested the armor's power and reduced his ice-crystallized house to powder, shocking Xiao Zhan, Jia Lie Pa Dun, Ya Fei, and the Mittel Family experts.
• Ya Fei gave Gu Fang medicinal ingredients and Beast Fire, which he absorbed into his Origin Flame.
• Ao Ba Padun gave Gu Fang two Three-star Dou Master Poison Puppets, and Gu Fang marked them as his own.
• Xiao Zhan invited Gu Fang to visit the Xiao Clan treasury the next day, where Gu Fang could collect nine clumps of Beast Fire.

Gu Fang helped the mercenaries advance toward the Dou Master realm, then went with Xiao Zhan to the Xiao Family treasury to collect Beast Fire and inspect its mysterious fragments. He left the treasury’s deeper relics poised for examination.

• Gu Fang guided the mercenaries as they cultivated, while Xiao Zhan invited their captains to join the Xiao Family.
• Gu Fang told the captains their brothers would soon break through, and Xiao Zhan brought him news of the Beast Fire and Jia Lie Family treasury.
• Gu Fang declined to search the Jia Lie Family treasury and told Xiao Zhan to keep its other valuables as compensation for the damage he caused.
• Xiao Zhan opened a hidden, bloodline-locked treasury, and Gu Fang sensed that its seal carried the lingering aura of a Dou Venerate.
• Gu Fang collected thirteen clusters of Beast Fire, then asked Xiao Zhan to show him the fragments stored deeper inside the treasury.

Gu Fang opened Xiao Zhan’s stored Soul Iron Vouchers and uncovered records of Xiao Xuan’s bloodline sacrifice and his encounter with the Gate of Life and Death. The records revealed a Death Soul Flower that could help Gu Fang reach the Emperor Realm, while the gate’s connection to the Misty Cloud Sect remained unexplained.

• Gu Fang tried to open an Empty Marrow Fragment with Xiao Zhan’s blood and a hand seal, but its contents were destroyed when the fragment’s restriction triggered.
• Gu Fang refined the Soul Iron Vouchers and gave Xiao Zhan eleven cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, greatly delighting him.
• Gu Fang viewed a record of Xiao Xuan gathering the Xiao Clan’s Bloodline Power in an attempt to break through to the Dou Di realm.
• Gu Fang watched a record of Xiao Xuan stopping a falling fireball with three Heavenly Flames and entering the Gate of Life and Death.
• Xiao Xuan emerged from the gate holding purple flower buds, and Gu Fang recognized them as the Death Soul Flower he sought to advance his soul to the Emperor Realm.

Gu Fang discovered that Xiao Xuan had left him a key to the sealed Death Soul Flower and planned to seek access to it after his upcoming travels. He visited the Mittel Auction House with Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei, where Ya Fei greeted him at the entrance.

• Gu Fang realized the point of light was likely Xiao Xuan's key to the sealed Death Soul Flower and decided to pursue it after visiting the Monster Mountain Range, Tagor Desert, and Jia Nan Academy.
• Gu Fang recovered his spiritual strength while walking outside the Xiao Family treasure vault, then told Xiao Zhan he planned to visit the Mittel Auction House before leaving for the Monster Mountain Range.
• Xiao Zhan hurried off to plan the Xiao Family's future using the cultivation methods and combat techniques Gu Fang had provided.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei joined Gu Fang on his way to the Mittel Auction House, and Xiao Yu grew irritated as Xiao Mei openly admired him.
• Ya Fei greeted Gu Fang at the entrance to the Mittel Auction House and asked why he had not told her he was coming.

Gu Fang collected medicinal materials from the Mittel Auction House and prepared to leave, while Ya Fei and Xiao Yu reacted uneasily to his closeness with others. Elsewhere, Jing Zhan discovered that his disciple Liu Xi had been killed and vowed revenge before three figures arrived at his alchemy room.

• Ya Fei greeted Gu Fang, linked arms with him, and led him to a VIP room, drawing Xiao Yu's attention.
• Gu Fang gave Ya Fei a list of materials and told her to charge Xiao Yu, but Ya Fei said the Great Elder had ordered the auction house to fulfill his requests without payment.
• Ya Fei gathered the materials in a Storage Ring, and Gu Fang left the auction house with Xiao Yu and Xiao Mei.
• Back at the Xiao Family, Gu Fang parted from Xiao Mei, had Xiao Yu return a crystal card to Xiao Zhan, and headed to Xiao Xun'er's room to tell her where he planned to go.
• Jing Zhan's pill refinement failed, and he found a cracked jade tablet that revealed his disciple Liu Xi had been killed, so he vowed to tear the killer apart.
• Three figures opened the door to Jing Zhan's alchemy room, and their leader asked why he was in such a foul temper.

After leaving the Xiao Family, Gu Fang traveled to the Monster Mountain Range to transform his Poison Puppets and practice the Poison Pill Condensation Method. He settled in a basin and prepared to begin, while planning to find Xiao Yi Xian afterward and help her control her Calamity Poison Body.

• Xiao Yan noticed that Gu Fang’s former house was empty and reflected on Gu Fang’s departure and the stories spreading through Wutan City.
• Gu Fang reached the Monster Mountain Range and chose to transform his Poison Puppets before visiting Xiao Yi Xian.
• Gu Fang explained that the Poison Pill Condensation Method could control the Calamity Poison Body, whose users were compelled to consume poison and risked dying from its buildup.
• Using his soul power, Gu Fang found a basin with dense Dou Qi and few powerful magical beasts, then set up a place to stay.
• Gu Fang summoned his two highly toxic Poison Puppets and laid out materials for the transformation, including a Bodhi Body Transformation Pill.

Gu Fang attempted to condense a Poison Pill from a Poison Puppet, but the puppet burst apart and released its toxins. He successfully completed the process with a second Poison Puppet, which regained its vitality and showed unexpected emotion as it longed to devour the escaped poison.

• Gu Fang used his Origin Flame to force the first Poison Puppet’s toxins into a Magic Crystal, but the puppet broke apart before the process was complete.
• The explosion let the toxins escape, so Gu Fang used scattered Magic Crystals to contain the poison and stop it from spreading.
• Gu Fang gathered poison from the second Poison Puppet with less heat, then transferred it into a fourth-tier poison-attributed Magic Crystal.
• Gu Fang applied the Bodhi Body Transformation Pill to restore the second Poison Puppet’s vitality.
• Gu Fang sensed affection from the restored puppet, which pleaded to devour the poison cloud left by the first puppet.

Gu Fang’s Poison Puppet absorbed poisonous mist and a refined Magic Crystal, growing to fourth-tier strength and revealing that it could upgrade its core. Ling Wu suspected its seemingly limitless evolution came from the Nihility Devouring Flame, leaving Gu Fang to consider the potential of his creation.

• Gu Fang ordered the Poison Puppet to absorb the poisonous mist, and Ling Wu emerged from hiding to marvel at its successful transformation and Poison Pill.
• Gu Fang refined a fourth-tier Magic Crystal with his Origin Flame and tossed it to the Poison Puppet, which absorbed and fused it into its core.
• Gu Fang worried the Magic Crystal’s violent energy would overwhelm the Poison Puppet, but sensed its strength increasing as it absorbed the energy.
• Ling Wu warned Gu Fang that the evolving Poison Puppet had become frightening, and Gu Fang realized it could improve its core by absorbing Magic Crystals.
• The Poison Puppet’s strength rose through the tiers to fourth tier as it absorbed poison and Dou Qi, and Ling Wu attributed its ability to evolve to the Nihility Devouring Flame.

Gu Fang discovered that his Poison Puppet had gained Nihility Devouring Flame traits, then sensed a group entering his toxin-gathering formation. Xiao Yi Xian tried to secretly use her poison-absorbing blood to save a mercenary, but Gu Fang intervened and grabbed her wrist.

• Gu Fang sensed a trace of Nihility Devouring Flame in the Poison Puppet's Poison Core and learned that its Soul Mark had allowed it to preserve the flame's properties.
• Gu Fang detected newcomers in his formation and concealed himself to investigate.
• Xiao Yi Xian led the mercenaries gathering herbs while Mu Li and his Wolf Head Mercenary Group men kept their distance.
• Xiao Yi Xian realized the herbs felt poisonous, and her blood caused one herb to wither when it touched her wound.
• Xiao Yi Xian examined a mercenary whose claw wound had turned purple and prepared to use her poison-absorbing blood to draw out the toxin.
• Gu Fang darted in, seized Xiao Yi Xian's wrist, and warned her against touching the poisoned wound with her injured finger.