Chapter Summaries

After killing Jiang the Demon, Jiang Chen collected payment from Canghai Sect and claimed the Ghost Mask mission reward, becoming famous as Demon Dragon. He then attended Yang'an City's auction in disguise, where Yinluo Sect had brought a formidable force of Martial King experts.

• Jiang Chen killed Jiang the Demon, took his spoils, and accepted one million spirit stones from Wang Chuqing in exchange for letting Canghai Sect leave.
• Jiang Chen threatened Canghai Sect to keep the encounter secret, then departed as Wang Chuqing led the injured group back to Yang'an City.
• Jiang Chen presented Mo Qingfan and Jiang the Demon's heads and evidence against Ghost Mask at the Mission Hall, then received a four-million-spirit-stone reward after investigators confirmed his claims.
• Word spread that Demon Dragon had completed the Ghost Mask mission, adding to his fame for completing the Yin Corpse Sect mission.
• Jiang Chen attended Yang'an City's auction in disguise and saw that Yinluo Sect had brought six Martial King Realm experts.

Jiang Chen arrived at the auction and secured an Earth-tier private room after the staff discovered he possessed more than twenty-four million spirit stones. The chapter ended with two maids arriving to serve him as the auction began.

• Jiang Chen noticed the Yinluo Sect, Tianyun Sect, and Canghai Sect members entering through private passages.
• Jiang Chen paid the entrance fee and asked the waiter about qualifying for a private room.
• The waiter and Steward Huang inspected Jiang Chen’s storage bag and found more than twenty-four million spirit stones.
• Steward Huang arranged an Earth-tier private room for Jiang Chen because the Heaven-tier rooms were reserved.
• Jiang Chen tipped Steward Huang two mid-grade spirit stones and settled into his room.
• Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia arrived with refreshments and introduced themselves as Jiang Chen’s maids.

Jiang Chen attended an auction, let the two maids serving him enjoy the refreshments, and watched Zhou Mei'er conduct the bidding. When a three-thousand-year-old Blood Ginseng appeared as the seventh item, Jiang Chen decided he wanted to bid on it.

• Jiang Chen allowed Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia to eat the Spirit Fruits and drink the Spirit Tea he had been given.
• Zhou Mei'er began the auction, and Jiang Chen recognized that her seductive voice used a charm technique that did not affect him.
• The Ying Family bought the Rippling Water Sword for two million four hundred fifty thousand Spirit Stones, and another bidder bought the sixth-tier forging material for one million Spirit Stones.
• Zhou Mei'er presented a three-thousand-year-old Blood Ginseng, drawing the interest of alchemists and major forces.
• Jiang Chen recognized the Blood Ginseng's value as an alchemist and decided to join the bidding.

Jiang Chen bid against Yinluo Sect for a three-thousand-year-old blood ginseng that he needed, driving the price higher. Yinluo Sect raised its bid to one million eight hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones, and the auction continued.

• Zhou Mei'er opened bidding for the blood ginseng at six hundred thousand spirit stones, and several factions pushed the price above one million.
• Canghai Sect and Tianyun Sect withdrew after Yinluo Sect bid one million six hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones.
• Wang Chuqing and the Canghai Sect Elders discussed her recovery and the previous day's encounter with Ghost Mask and Old Demon Jiang.
• Jiang Chen bid one million eight hundred thousand spirit stones, surprising the auction's attendees by challenging Yinluo Sect.
• Elder Xiao raised Yinluo Sect's bid to one million eight hundred and fifty thousand spirit stones and angrily threatened the bidder.

Jiang Chen outbid and insulted the Yinluo Sect to win the Blood Ginseng at auction. The Yinluo elders let him have it, planning to settle the score after the auction.

• Jiang Chen bid two million spirit stones for the Blood Ginseng, and Canghai Sect disciples suspected he was the Jiang Chen they had met yesterday.
• Elder Xiao asked the bidder in Earth-grade Private Room No. 6 to show consideration to the Yinluo Sect, but Jiang Chen refused and told him to keep bidding.
• Jiang Chen scolded Zhou Mei for delaying the countdown, and she began the first call at two million spirit stones.
• Elder Xiao raised the bid to two million two hundred thousand spirit stones and threatened to remember Jiang Chen, who responded by bidding two million three hundred thousand.
• A Yinluo Sect elder advised Elder Xiao to let Jiang Chen buy the herb and take revenge after the auction, so the sect stopped bidding and Jiang Chen won the Blood Ginseng.

Jiang Chen secured the Top-grade Blood Ginseng and watched the King's Extremity Pill formula sell to a powerful merchant association. The auction moved on to a Sixth-tier Attack Spirit Talisman, which the Yinluo Sect tried to claim by bidding two million spirit stones and invoking its name.

• Jiang Chen won the three-thousand-year-old Top-grade Blood Ginseng for 2.3 million spirit stones, angering the Yinluo Sect.
• Steward Huang delivered the Blood Ginseng to Jiang Chen, who paid for it while Xiao Xia and Xiao Qiu grew more attentive to him.
• A powerful merchant association bought the King's Extremity Pill formula for 6.32 million spirit stones.
• Zhou Mei'er introduced a Sixth-tier Attack Spirit Talisman, and Jiang Chen recognized it as a potential trump card.
• The Yinluo Sect bid two million spirit stones for the talisman and urged the other bidders to give it face.

Jiang Chen outbid several major forces to buy a Sixth-tier Attack Spirit Talisman, while Yinluo Sect fumed and discussed how to counter it. After the auction paused for free trading, Jiang Chen joined the other guests in the trading hall.

• Canghai Sect, Tianyun Sect, and other forces rejected Yinluo Sect’s attempt to claim the talisman without bidding, and Jiang Chen mocked the sect.
• Jiang Chen outbid Tianyun Sect and the Ying Family with a bid of three million five hundred thousand spirit stones, winning the Sixth-tier Attack Spirit Talisman.
• Yinluo Sect’s elders discussed using their combined defensive martial skill to withstand Jiang Chen’s talisman and deal with him after he used it.
• Jiang Chen paid for and inspected the talisman, then put it away.
• Zhou Mei'er announced a free trading intermission, and Jiang Chen went to the large trading hall to see what the guests had to offer.

Jiang Chen traded top-grade Foundation Nurturing Pills for valuable spirit medicines at the auction house’s free-trading hall. After accumulating many herbs, he confronted Elder Xiao and the Yinluo Sect when they accused him of taking their auction items.

• Steward Huang explained that the trading hall offered free appraisals and separate areas for VIPs and ordinary traders.
• Jiang Chen exchanged fifteen top-grade Foundation Nurturing Pills for a five-hundred-year-old Purple Heart Grass, attracting other traders.
• Jiang Chen offered one hundred and fifty top-grade pills for a thousand-year-old Purple Cloud Ginseng, then traded with others for more spirit medicines.
• Jiang Chen distributed roughly one thousand pills and collected dozens of batches of spirit medicines, while people recognized him as the bidder from Earth-grade Box No. 6.
• Elder Xiao confronted Jiang Chen on behalf of the Yinluo Sect, and Jiang Chen argued that he had won the auction items fairly and insulted the sect for complaining.

Jiang Chen defied the Yinluo Sect, sold his high-grade pills for a fortune, and rented an alchemy room at the trading house. The trading house sent Zhou Mei’er to escort him there, hoping to encourage him to spend more.

• Jiang Chen taunted Elder Xiao until the trading-house supervisor warned the Yinluo Sect that fighting was forbidden, and Elder Xiao left with his people.
• Jiang Chen offered thirty top-grade Breaking Sect Pills for five hundred thousand spirit stones each, and buyers soon purchased all of them.
• Jiang Chen traded more high-quality pills and spiritual materials, earning over ten million spirit stones and attracting envious, scheming onlookers.
• Jiang Chen asked the trading-house manager to rent an alchemy room and agreed to pay two thousand spirit stones per hour.
• Zhou Mei’er arrived to escort Jiang Chen to the alchemy room, sent by the trading house to encourage him to spend more.

Jiang Chen took Zhou Mei'er to an alchemy room after revealing that he was a Fifth-tier Alchemist, and she asked to watch him refine pills. The chapter ended as Jiang Chen began preparing his cauldron and powerful Pill Fire.

• Jiang Chen rejected Zhou Mei'er's attempt to charm him and reminded her that she had mishandled the auction countdown.
• Zhou Mei'er led Jiang Chen to an alchemy room and learned that he was a Fifth-tier Alchemist who had refined the Fourth-tier High-grade Breaking Sect Pill.
• Zhou Mei'er asked to observe Jiang Chen refining pills, and he agreed as long as she stayed quiet and paid the room's rental fee.
• Jiang Chen brought out the Azure Flood Dragon Cauldron and summoned his deep-red Pill Fire, startling Zhou Mei'er with its strength.

Jiang Chen demonstrated his exceptional alchemy by refining three batches of high-grade True Essence Pills with Blood Ginseng, impressing Zhou Mei'er. He consumed the pills to break through to the Eighth Level of the Martial Grandmaster Realm, then prepared to return to the auction.

• Jiang Chen used his Pill Fire to refine sixteen Fourth-tier High-grade True Essence Pills with Blood Ginseng while Zhou Mei'er watched in amazement.
• Jiang Chen refined two more batches, producing seventeen and then eighteen pills, and Zhou Mei'er thanked him for letting her observe.
• After Zhou Mei'er left, Jiang Chen consumed the pills to strengthen himself for the coming Great Zhou Martial Competition and his enemies.
• Jiang Chen refined his twenty-third pill and broke through to the Eighth Level of the Martial Grandmaster Realm.
• Jiang Chen put away the Azure Flood Dragon Cauldron and left the pill-refining room to attend the second half of the auction.

Jiang Chen returned to the auction and joined the bidding for the Fifth-tier upper-grade martial skill Flame Rain, which suited his abilities. He outbid the Yinluo Sect, leaving Elder Xiao furious as the auction continued.

• Jiang Chen returned to his Earth-tier Private Room, where Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia welcomed him before the second half of the auction began.
• Zhou Mei'er introduced Flame Rain, a Fifth-tier martial skill of upper grade, and families and sects drove its price up to four million spirit stones.
• Elder Xiao bid four million spirit stones for the Yinluo Sect after the Tianyun Sect and Canghai Sect withdrew.
• Jiang Chen bid four million fifty thousand spirit stones, surprising the crowd and angering Elder Xiao.
• Jiang Chen argued that anyone could bid at an auction and mocked Elder Xiao for making a fuss.

Jiang Chen won the Flame Rain martial skill at auction and quickly mastered its initial level. Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia asked him to buy them, leaving him bewildered by their request.

• Elder Xiao threatened Jiang Chen, but an auction house expert warned him to stop, so he restrained himself and resumed bidding.
• Jiang Chen outbid the Yinluo Sect for the martial skill at five million spirit stones, and Elder Chen and Elder Xiao discussed their plan to kill him after the auction.
• Elder Chen revealed that the Yinluo Sect had come seeking a map to a secret realm and mentioned that a demonic blade from a previous realm had reportedly reached another Jiang Chen.
• Steward Huang delivered the Flame Rain martial skill, and Jiang Chen memorized and mastered it to the initial level.
• Xiao Qiu asked Jiang Chen to buy her and Xiao Xia, explaining that they wanted to escape mistreatment at the auction house.

Jiang Chen agreed to buy Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia for their business skills and planned to put them to work helping the Jiang Family. The auction then began presenting its finale items, starting with a sixth-tier low-grade soft armor.

• Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia explained that the auction firm trained its maids in various talents and commercial skills before selling them to guests.
• Jiang Chen agreed to buy Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia for forty thousand spirit stones and said they could help manage his family's shops after the auction.
• Jiang Chen watched the auction and took no interest in the items that followed the ones he had missed.
• Zhou Mei'er announced the finale items and presented a sixth-tier low-grade soft armor that could reduce damage from edged weapons.

Jiang Chen bid against Yinluo Sect for the Red Scale Soft Armor, driving its price to thirteen million Spirit Stones. Yinluo Sect stopped competing, leaving Jiang Chen poised to win the armor.

• Zhou Mei'er introduced the Sixth-tier Red Scale Soft Armor and opened bidding at three million Spirit Stones.
• Canghai Sect, Tianyun Sect, the Li Family, and Yinluo Sect raised the price as other forces withdrew.
• Yinluo Sect led at eleven million Spirit Stones after the Li Family gave up.
• Jiang Chen bid twelve million Spirit Stones, prompting Elder Xiao to accuse him of targeting Yinluo Sect.
• Jiang Chen raised his bid to thirteen million Spirit Stones, and Yinluo Sect refused to continue.

Jiang Chen bought the Red Scale Soft Armor and watched the Yinluo Sect win the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm map at auction. Afterward, he told Xiao Qiu he would buy her and Xiao Xia’s freedom, and Steward Huang arrived to discuss it.

• Jiang Chen paid thirteen million spirit stones for the Red Scale Soft Armor and put it on.
• Zhou Mei'er explained the Wind and Cloud Secret Realm map, its entry rules, and the value of its hundred places.
• The Canghai Sect, Li Family, and Tianyun Sect bid for the map, but the Yinluo Sect won it for sixteen million spirit stones.
• Jiang Chen declined to bid on the map because he preferred to save his spirit stones and buy an entry place later.
• Jiang Chen told Xiao Qiu he would buy her and Xiao Xia’s freedom, and Xiao Qiu brought Steward Huang to him.

Jiang Chen bought Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia's freedom, destroyed their servitude contracts, and sent them to help the Jiang Family establish a commercial business. After revealing his identity and age, he sent them away and prepared to face the attention his wealth had drawn at the auction.

• Jiang Chen paid Steward Huang four hundred thousand spirit stones to buy Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia's freedom.
• Jiang Chen burned the women's contracts of servitude and told them he trusted them without needing to bind them.
• Jiang Chen gave Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia one hundred thousand spirit stones, a letter, and the Jiang Family's address, instructing them to help build its commercial business.
• Jiang Chen revealed his face and told the women his name and that he was eighteen years old.
• Jiang Chen sent Xiao Qiu and Xiao Xia to the Jiang Family while he stayed behind, aware that people at the auction might target him for his wealth.

Jiang Chen watched the Emperor Breaking Pill sell to the Tai Family, then met privately with Zhou Mei'er after the auction. Zhou Mei'er offered to arrange an escort for him because Yinluo Sect and other people might target him, and Jiang Chen questioned her motives.

• The Tai Family bid twenty-two million spirit stones and won the Emperor Breaking Pill, while Jiang Chen decided not to compete for it.
• Zhou Mei'er declared the auction a success, and the attendees began to leave as Yinluo Sect watched for Jiang Chen.
• Steward Huang brought Jiang Chen to a reception hall where Zhou Mei'er was waiting to speak with him.
• Jiang Chen told Zhou Mei'er that her Charm Arts would not affect him, and she offered to have trading house experts escort him because he had angered Yinluo Sect and attracted attention.
• Jiang Chen questioned whether the trading house really offered escort services and joked that Zhou Mei'er might be trying to win his favor.

Jiang Chen refused Zhou Mei'er's offer of an escort because he wanted the Yinluo Sect to attack him so he could rob them. He left the city alone, drew four scouts into a desolate area, and confronted them as the Yinluo Sect's reinforcements approached.

• Jiang Chen told Zhou Mei'er that he planned to lure attackers into robbing them instead, and she arranged for him to leave without an escort.
• Scouts watched Jiang Chen leave the trading company, while Tianyun Sect and Canghai Sect experts observed from a distance.
• Elder Xiao ordered scouts to follow Jiang Chen and mark his route for the Yinluo Sect's main force.
• Jiang Chen noticed four scouts following him and sat down thirty miles outside the city to wait for them.
• Jiang Chen confronted the four scouts, who revealed their hostility and warned that he would not survive the day.

Jiang Chen killed four scouts sent by the Sea Wave Gang, the Black Iron Gate, the Li Family, and the Yinluo Sect, then faced the forces that had come to seize his treasures. The chapter ended with him overpowering Li Heng, the Li Family’s Fifth Elder, in their first clash.

• Jiang Chen killed the four scouts who had tracked him and waited calmly for their forces to arrive.
• The four forces gathered to kill Jiang Chen and claim his possessions, while people from the Canghai Sect and the Tianyun Sect watched from behind.
• Wang Chuqing, Wen Shuang, and Feng Xue recognized the masked Jiang Chen as Young Master Jiang, and the observers noted that he had advanced to Martial Grandmaster Realm, Eighth Level.
• Li Heng attacked Jiang Chen with Tidal Palm, but Jiang Chen countered with Tiger Emperor Fist and sent Li Heng flying, leaving the assembled forces stunned.