Recaps

Lin Feng emerged from Secluded Cultivation as a Dou Zong, was sent back by Zhu Kun, and reunited with Cai Lin. He met Gu Xun Er, who privately questioned his connection to Venerable Yao and Xiao Yan.

• Lin Feng broke out of his cocoon, but Zhu Kun told him that the Dou Emperor’s space prevented him from doing anything and gave him a scale before sending him away.
• Lin Feng returned to Cai Lin and reunited with her, then noticed Su Qian approaching with visitors.
• Su Qian introduced Gu Xun Er and her guard Ling Ying, explaining that Gu Xun Er had come to help Lin Feng advance his alchemy.
• Gu Xun Er dismissed Ling Ying and asked Lin Feng what relationship he had with Venerable Yao and Xiao Yan.

Lin Feng agreed to help Gu Xun Er and Xiao Yan, then revealed that he had reached the Dou Zong realm before turning to spend several days with Cai Lin. The chapter left Lin Feng departing for the Outer Academy the next morning.

• Lin Feng told Gu Xun Er that Yao Chen was his master's old friend, and Gu Xun Er explained Xiao Yan's need for help with the Three-Year Agreement and Yao Chen's soul restoration.
• Lin Feng agreed to help Xiao Yan, and Gu Xun Er thanked him on her brother's behalf.
• Su Qian realized Lin Feng had reached the Dou Zong realm, shocking Gu Xun Er and Ling Ying.
• After the group departed, Lin Feng and Cai Lin reunited and spent several days and nights together.
• Cai Lin urged Lin Feng to leave, then kept him with her once more before he headed toward the Outer Academy the next morning.

Lin Feng returned to the Jia Ma Empire and met with Fa Ma at the Alchemist Guild, where he revealed his plans to publicly refine a Pill to Break Dou Zong. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan also arrived in the imperial capital, and Lin Feng hoped the public pill refinement would help him find Xiao Yan and secure a better reward from Yao Chen.

• Lin Feng traveled toward the Jia Ma Empire on Xuan Wu while Ling Ying flew ahead, and Xiao Yan arrived separately at the imperial capital.
• Lin Feng reunited with Fa Ma, who said the secret technique Lin Feng had given him helped him become a sixth-grade alchemist.
• Lin Feng told Fa Ma he had reached the peak of the sixth grade but could not gather enough ingredients to attempt seventh-grade pills.
• Lin Feng said he planned to study at the Pill Tower in the Middle Continent, and Fa Ma asked him to describe it if he returned.
• Lin Feng told Fa Ma he would publicly refine a Pill to Break Dou Zong at the Alchemist Guild, hoping to attract Xiao Yan and gain leverage with Yao Chen.

A mysterious cloaked man learned that Lin Feng would publicly refine the Pill to Break Dou Zong and hurried to the Alchemist Guild. With the Jia Ma Empire’s major factions gathered, Lin Feng announced that the pill refinement was beginning.

• A cloaked man stopped a burly passerby, learned of Lin Feng’s public pill refinement, and rewarded him with a First-grade Healing Pill before rushing to the Alchemist Guild.
• Crowds and experts gathered outside the Alchemist Guild as the Imperial Family and leaders of the Empire’s major factions arrived.
• Fa Ma praised Lin Feng’s rising fame and confidence, while Lin Feng thought of Qing Lin and their hoped-for reunion.
• Fa Ma welcomed Lin Feng to the plaza, and Lin Feng announced the start of his public refinement of the Pill to Break Dou Zong.

Lin Feng appeared before a huge crowd at the Alchemist Guild and began publicly refining a top-tier sixth-grade Pill to Break Dou Zong. As he demonstrated his technique, a mysterious cloaked observer recognized the Green Lotus Core Flame and watched Lin Feng's methods with growing curiosity.

• Lin Feng's appearance sparked a frenzy among the crowd, and he burned away a banner without harming anyone.
• Fa Ma quieted the crowd and announced that Lin Feng would refine a Pill to Break Dou Zong and give three spectators a fifth-grade pill each.
• Lin Feng brought out his Six-Orifice Cauldron and revealed the Green Lotus Core Flame, drawing the attention of a cloaked figure whose ancient ring glimmered.
• Lin Feng deliberately slowed his pill-refining process so the watching alchemists could study and record it.
• Lin Feng tossed more than thirty medicinal ingredients into the cauldron at once, astonishing the alchemists with his wild method.

Lin Feng completed the refinement of the peak sixth-grade Pill to Break Dou Zong, drawing astonished cheers from the crowd and a warning sign of pill lightning. With the pill in hand, he quieted the plaza and prepared to fulfill Fa Ma’s raffle promise.

• Lin Feng used the Green Lotus Core Flame to refine the medicinal ingredients while Fa Ma and Gu He watched, and Fa Ma reflected on Lin Feng’s gift of a subsidiary flame.
• Lin Feng reached Pill Merging, drawing the attention of the crowd, the young alchemists, and Yao Chen.
• A surge of energy and a strange fragrance spread through the arena as Lin Feng’s cauldron released a pillar of energy, prompting Gu He to suspect that pill lightning was about to gather.
• Lin Feng produced the Pill to Break Dou Zong, and the crowd erupted in cheers while Lin Feng noticed that his foundation still seemed slightly lacking.
• Lin Feng quieted the crowd and announced that he would fulfill Fa Ma’s raffle promise, while two noblewomen began fighting and female guards separated them.

Lin Feng arranged a lottery in which three audience members would win Fifth-grade Pills, using the Pill to Break Dou Zong to select them at random. After Zhang Lao San won the first draw, he surprised Lin Feng by asking whether he could choose something other than a Fifth-grade Pill.

• Lin Feng asked the heads of the major factions to have guards use a Dou Technique to darken the sky over the arena.
• Lin Feng gave the guards Third-grade Recovery Pills and explained that he would guide the Pill to Break Dou Zong over the crowd while Fa Ma, Yun Yun, and a witness counted down to select winners.
• Yao Yue stopped Yao Ye from stepping forward and volunteered to help with the lottery.
• Lin Feng concealed the pill's light and aura with the Five Elements Seal Technique, then sent it flying over the audience.
• Fa Ma called for the pill to stop, and it appeared above Zhang Lao San, whom Xiao Yan recognized as a man he had questioned that morning.
• Lin Feng showed Zhang Lao San a list of available Fifth-grade Pills, but Zhang Lao San asked if he could choose something else.

Zhang Lao San exchanged his Fifth-grade Pill for cultivation resources from Lin Feng, who also helped conceal him from those who might attack him. As Lin Feng prepared to choose another lucky audience member, Yao Yue volunteered, leaving Gu He uneasy.

• Lin Feng reassured Zhang Lao San and invited him to state what he wanted in exchange for the Fifth-grade Pill.
• Zhang Lao San asked for pills suited to his current realm so he could cultivate safely instead of holding a valuable Fifth-grade Pill.
• Lin Feng gave Zhang Lao San a Storage Ring containing pills that could take him to the high stage of the Da Dou Shi realm and arranged an aura-concealing barrier for three hours.
• Several figures left the crowd to pursue Zhang Lao San as he departed the plaza, while Yun Yun praised Lin Feng for protecting him.
• Yao Yue volunteered for the next round, and Gu He privately worried about her closeness with Lin Feng.

At Lin Feng’s plaza event, the Pill to Break Dou Zong selected a noblewoman who asked him for a kiss instead of a pill. Lin Feng refused her public request, but she stole a kiss while accepting her reward, and the final selection began.

• The Pill to Break Dou Zong stopped above a noblewoman, who fainted from surprise before recovering and approaching Lin Feng.
• The noblewoman asked Lin Feng to kiss her, prompting an uproar among the crowd.
• Yun Yun teased Lin Feng through a voice transmission, and Lin Feng refused the noblewoman’s request and offered cultivation resources instead.
• The noblewoman secretly kissed Lin Feng while taking her Storage Ring, then hurried back to the crowd as Lin Feng concealed the pill’s light and redirected everyone’s attention.
• Yun Yun began the final countdown, and the selection ended with her calling, "Stop!"

At the pill refinement event, Xiao Yan won a Fifth-grade Pill and tried to trade for a soul-repairing pill to help his master, Yao Chen. Lin Feng recognized him and hinted that they shared a master, leaving Xiao Yan stunned.

• Xiao Yan, disguised beneath a cloak, asked Lin Feng for a soul-repairing pill and offered his collection in exchange.
• Xiao Yan chose two Three-patterned Azure Spirit Pills, and Lin Feng ended the event and returned to the Alchemist Guild.
• Xiao Yan soon visited Lin Feng to pursue the soul-repairing pill, but Lin Feng identified him and inferred that he sought it for an elder.
• Xiao Yan removed his cloak, and Lin Feng called him his junior brother, leaving him wondering whether their master had another gifted disciple.

Lin Feng gave Xiao Yan a Soul Force-restoring medicinal liquid for Yao Chen and a Three-patterned Azure Spirit Pill, prompting Xiao Yan to begin cultivating for his breakthrough. That night, Yao Chen appeared before Lin Feng, who looked forward to negotiating with him, while Yao Chen recognized Lin Feng’s strength and regretted that he could not take him as a disciple.

• Lin Feng gave Xiao Yan a medicinal liquid that could restore Yao Chen’s Soul Force and told him to hurry back and cultivate with the Three-patterned Azure Spirit Pill.
• Xiao Yan rented a cultivation chamber, placed Yao Chen’s ring in the bottle, and swallowed the pill to begin his breakthrough.
• Yao Chen watched Xiao Yan and complained that Lin Feng’s free gift would cost him dearly when he went to meet him that night.
• Yao Chen appeared before Lin Feng in the Alchemist Guild pavilion, and Lin Feng welcomed him while eager to strike a deal.
• Yao Chen saw through Lin Feng’s fabricated backstory, acknowledged his talent and power, and regretted that his current condition made taking him as a disciple unlikely.

Lin Feng renegotiated Yao Chen’s payment for helping Xiao Yan at the Three-Year Agreement, then agreed to train Xiao Yan in alchemy in exchange for more pill recipes. He obtained Yao Tianhuo’s resurrection method and a sealing technique, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yan arriving at the Alchemist Guild after breaking through to an Eight-star Great Dou Master.

• Lin Feng raised his fee for confronting Misty Cloud Sect, and Yao Chen agreed to provide ten Eighth-grade Pill Recipes and a resurrection method.
• Yao Chen offered Lin Feng three additional Eighth-grade Pill Recipes to teach Xiao Yan alchemy for half a month, and Lin Feng accepted.
• Lin Feng released Yao Tianhuo from a Storage Ring and showed him Yao Chen’s resurrection method; Yao Tianhuo offered to protect Lin Feng after being resurrected.
• Lin Feng told Yao Tianhuo that he already had three Heavenly Flames and a possible body for his resurrection, and Yao Tianhuo gave him a sealing technique.
• Xiao Yan broke through to an Eight-star Great Dou Master during Secluded Cultivation and arrived at the Alchemist Guild in disguise, where he met Yao Chen.

With Yao Chen’s guidance and Lin Feng’s help, Xiao Yan advanced to Fourth-grade Alchemist before the Three-Year Agreement. Lin Feng cultivated to Peak One-star Dou Zong, then arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Yan appeared to face Nalan Yanran.

• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to master his increased Dou Qi through pill refinement and sent him to Lin Feng for guidance.
• Lin Feng trained Xiao Yan until he became a Fourth-grade Alchemist, then entered Secluded Cultivation while Xiao Yan competed in the Alchemist Tournament.
• Lin Feng refined Xie Bi Yan’s essence blood energy and advanced from Mid One-star Dou Zong to Peak One-star Dou Zong.
• Lin Feng went to the Misty Cloud Sect and assured Yun Yun that he wanted a fair match and for Xiao Yan to leave safely afterward.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the plaza in black robes, dragging a massive black ruler, and declared that he had come to honor the agreement.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began their long-awaited duel on the Misty Cloud Sect plaza, while Yun Shan faced pressure from Protector Lu to harvest the souls of three alchemists. The chapter revealed that Lin Feng had secretly warned Yun Shan about Protector Lu’s threat, leaving Yun Shan prepared to resist.

• Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Eight-star Great Dou Master realm, and Lin Feng confirmed that his Dou Qi was stable and his advancement appeared normal.
• Xiao Yan demanded a fight to the death, while Nalan Yanran defended her choice to break off their engagement and promised to become his servant if she lost.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran fought evenly despite her One-star Dou Ling realm, with her training and Nalan Jie’s support having strengthened her.
• Protector Lu ordered Yun Shan to harvest the souls of three Sixth-grade Alchemists and capture Xiao Yan, but Yun Shan refused to comply outright because Lin Feng was connected to Jia Nan Academy.
• Yun Shan recalled that Lin Feng had warned him Protector Lu would threaten him, then greeted Lin Feng after he secretly appeared during Yun Shan’s secluded cultivation.

Lin Feng examined Yun Shan and discovered that Protector Lu had hidden a black mist restriction deep within his soul. After safely containing it, Lin Feng and Yun Shan planned to use it to capture Protector Lu.

• Yun Shan confronted Lin Feng for entering the sect, then learned that Lin Feng was a Dou Zong and revealed that the Soul Hall had helped him advance.
• Lin Feng warned Yun Shan that the Soul Hall had likely placed a hidden restriction on him, and Yun Shan consented to an examination.
• Lin Feng searched Yun Shan’s body and soul, found the black mist restriction, and sealed it inside a Five Elements barrier.
• Lin Feng and Yun Shan agreed not to destroy the restriction yet and devised a plan to capture Protector Lu.
• Lin Feng left quietly, and Yun Shan returned the contained restriction to his mind without alerting Protector Lu.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran raised their power to the Dou Ling realm and unleashed their ultimate techniques to settle their grudge. Xiao Yan fused two Heavenly Flames into a Buddha's Rage Flame Lotus and sent it crashing into Nalan Yanran's attack, leaving the battle's outcome unresolved.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran agreed to decide their evenly matched fight with one final move.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flames Three Xuan Transformations, while Nalan Yanran raised her strength to match his at Two-star Dou Ling.
• Nalan Yanran unleashed Extreme Wind - Setting Sun Radiance as Xiao Yan summoned Yao Chen's Bone Spirit Cold Flame alongside his Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Yun Ling ordered the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to form the Cloud-Smoke Covering Sun Formation, while Protector Lu urged Yun Shan to capture Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan formed a Buddha's Rage Flame Lotus by fusing the two Heavenly Flames and launched it against Nalan Yanran's enormous beam of light.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran and ended their engagement, but as he left Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Shan confronted him about his cold white flame. A mysterious black-mist Dou Zong then appeared and demanded that Xiao Yan reveal Yao Chen’s whereabouts, leaving Xiao Yan facing a powerful threat.

• Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, who accepted that she would become his servant or maid.
• Xiao Yan destroyed the divorce letter and declared that he and Nalan Yanran had no further ties before leaving Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Shan appeared and asked Xiao Yan where the cold white flame on his body came from.
• A mysterious black mist spread from the back mountain, and its occupant demanded that Xiao Yan reveal Yao Chen’s whereabouts.

After Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran, Yun Shan and Protector Lu tried to seize him and Lin Feng, but their allies intervened and Lin Feng joined forces with Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo to defeat Protector Lu. With Soul Hall likely to pursue Yao Chen and Xiao Yan, Lin Feng advised Xiao Yan to seek protection at Jia Nan Academy.

• Yun Shan and Protector Lu demanded that Xiao Yan reveal the Heavenly Flame's origin and prepared to capture him and Lin Feng.
• Hai Bodong and the others defended Lin Feng, then fought Yun Shan and drew him away from the square.
• Lin Feng summoned Yao Chen and Yao Tianhuo, set up a Five Elements Barrier, and coordinated a surprise attack on Protector Lu.
• Lin Feng sealed the injured Protector Lu in a jade bottle before he could escape.
• Lin Feng warned Xiao Yan and Yao Chen that Soul Hall would pursue them and advised Xiao Yan to take Yao Chen to Jia Nan Academy.

Lin Feng exchanged pills for hundreds of cultivation techniques in the Jia Ma Imperial Capital, gave Fa Ma a Seventh-Grade Alchemist inheritance, and departed for Jia Nan Academy. Xiao Yan relocated the Xiao Clan from Wutan City and set out for the Black Corner Region, while Yun Shan began explaining the Soul Hall's connection to the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Lin Feng asked Fa Ma to announce a month-long exchange of pills for cultivation techniques and collected several hundred techniques by refining pills at the Alchemist Guild.
• Lin Feng promised Fa Ma he would make his name known across the Dou Qi Continent within ten years, then passed on a Seventh-Grade Alchemist inheritance and left the capital on his Griffon.
• The Xiao Clan finished relocating its members from Wutan City, and Xiao Yan put on his black cloak and headed for the Black Corner Region to train.
• Yun Yun asked Yun Shan about the evil black mist and its connection to the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Shan began recounting how it had started during his secluded attempt to break through to Dou Zong.

Yun Shan revealed that his pursuit of Dou Zong had exposed the Misty Cloud Sect to a powerful organization, so he prepared Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to leave and eventually rebuild the sect. After the sect disbanded, Lin Feng returned to seclusion and began studying cultivation techniques to develop his own.

• Yun Shan told Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran that Protector Lu had promised to help him reach Dou Zong in exchange for his cooperation, and warned them that a Dou Zun stood behind the organization.
• Yun Shan urged Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to leave the mountain, while Nalan Yanran chose to enter the Life-and-Death Gate for secluded cultivation.
• Yun Shan gave Yun Yun medicinal pills and the sect's inheritance, then departed to travel the Middle Continent; Yun Yun planned to gain experience in the Black Corner Region.
• The Misty Cloud Sect announced its disbandment, and Lin Feng learned of it at Jia Nan Academy and concluded that Yun Shan had followed his advice.
• Lin Feng found Xiao Yi Xian and Zi Yan still cultivating, saw that Cai Lin had left a note and resumed cultivation, and began studying collected techniques to create his own cultivation method.

Lin Feng reached Two-star Dou Zong after secluded cultivation and went to Black Seal City to attend its auction, intent on obtaining a Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva. The auction began with Azure Spirit Pills, while Lin Feng waited for the more important items.

• Lin Feng asked Yao Tianhuo to extract Protector Lu's Soul Origin and investigate Soul Hall locations, then secluded himself to cultivate.
• After half a month, Lin Feng broke through to Two-star Dou Zong and judged that refining his Five Elements Sealing Technique could let him contend with ordinary High-level Dou Zongs.
• Lin Feng left for Black Seal City because its auction was about to begin, hoping to secure the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map fragment and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Lin Feng entered the auction house, where an elderly winged man announced the start of the auction.
• Bidders competed for two Azure Spirit Pills, which Old Man Er Gou and a mysterious cloaked figure won for a combined nine hundred thousand gold coins.

Xiao Yan and Fan Ling competed for the Flying Dou Technique Thunderbat Sky Wings at the auction, while Lin Feng watched from another private room. The bidding climbed past one million six hundred thousand gold coins as an unknown woman joined the contest.

• After the auction hall’s excitement grew, the Dou Wang elder introduced the Flying Dou Technique Thunderbat Sky Wings and opened bidding at one hundred thousand gold coins.
• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to buy the technique, and Xiao Yan began bidding from his private room.
• Bidders in the hall raised the price to four hundred and fifty thousand gold coins before Xiao Yan offered eight hundred thousand.
• Fan Ling bid one million gold coins and invoked the Blood Sect, but Xiao Yan raised the offer to one million two hundred thousand gold coins.
• Fan Ling grew furious, and a seductive voice bid one million five hundred thousand gold coins before raising the price to one million six hundred thousand.

Lin Feng bought an ancient map fragment at auction for one hundred thousand gold coins after Yao Chen recognized its significance. The chapter ended with Yao Chen warning Xiao Yan that another piece had once caused a bloody storm in the Middle Continent.

• Fan Ling stopped bidding on the Flying Dou Technique after his old servant advised him to wait and take it later.
• Yao Chen shattered the Soul Force probing Xiao Yan's private room, and Xiao Yan bid one million seven hundred thousand gold coins for the technique.
• Elder Qing withdrew Heavenly Snake Manor's bid, and Xiao Yan won the Flying Dou Technique.
• The auction house offered a worn, incomplete ancient map fragment, and Lin Feng bought it for one hundred thousand gold coins.
• Yao Chen recognized the fragment and warned Xiao Yan that its other piece had once stirred up a bloody storm in the Middle Continent.

After Lin Feng acquired the map fragment linked to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, Xiao Yan regretted missing it but won the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma at auction. The auction’s final item was the Earth-tier movement technique Three Thousand Lightning Movement, and powerful factions prepared to bid for it.

• Yao Chen explained that the ancient map fragment was connected to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Xiao Yan lamented that Lin Feng had bought it.
• The auctioneer offered the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma, and Xiao Yan won it for one million two hundred thousand gold coins.
• Lin Feng bought two Mysterious Tier high-grade cultivation methods during the auction.
• The auctioneer revealed the Earth-tier low-grade movement technique Three Thousand Lightning Movement, drawing the attention of powerful bidders.
• Old Man Er Gou opened the bidding at one hundred thousand gold coins, and the auctioneer later received a bid of one million gold coins.

The auction house sold Three Thousand Lightning Movement to Black Skull Tomb before unveiling the Seventh-grade Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill. Xiao Yan learned that Han Feng had betrayed and killed Yao Chen, while the pill auction began with buyers required to perform two tasks for its owner.

• Fan Ling and other powerful factions bid against one another for Three Thousand Lightning Movement, which Black Skull Tomb won for ten million two hundred thousand gold coins.
• Lin Feng joined Xiao Yan's private room and revealed that the final auction item was connected to Yao Chen.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that Han Feng, his former disciple, had betrayed and killed him after learning the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan vowed to avenge Yao Chen, and Lin Feng teased him by pointing out that Han Feng was a Peak Dou Huang and the Medicine Emperor of the Black Corner Region.
• The auctioneer announced that bidders for the Yin Yang Profound Dragon Pill would have to perform two tasks for its owner, then opened the auction.