Chapter Summaries

During the alchemy contest, Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame subdued the other contestants’ flames, while Yan Li, Liu Ling, and the Little Princess raced to produce high-grade pills. Yan Li revealed a Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill and seemed certain to win, but Xiao Yan calmly challenged his boast, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Xiao Yan’s Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame made the other alchemists’ flames submit, and Yan Li insisted his skill could overcome Xiao Yan’s advantage.
• Nalan Jie told Nalan Yanran that Xiao Yan was the only man who might meet her conditions, and she acknowledged that he probably was.
• The Little Princess and Liu Ling each succeeded in refining a Fourth Grade Medicinal Pill, while Xiao Yan continued working carefully at his furnace.
• Yan Li produced a peak Fourth Grade Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, stunning the crowd and leaving the Little Princess and Liu Ling convinced they had lost.
• Xiao Yan broke the silence by asking Yan Li whether he had been calling him a greenhorn.

Xiao Yan stunned the alchemists’ competition by refining two pills at once, then revealed that his creation was a Fifth Grade Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill rather than a Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill. Yan Li’s attempt to dispute the result collapsed when the pill’s fourth pattern became clear.

• Xiao Yan formed three patterns on two pills at once, using three Flames simultaneously to refine what Fa Ma identified as Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills.
• Fa Ma celebrated Xiao Yan’s success, but Yan Li accused him of cheating and argued that the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill was not necessarily better than his Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill.
• Liu Ling and the Little Princess pointed out that Xiao Yan had made two pills in one furnace, while Yan Li protested that the competition rules required only one.
• Xiao Yan gestured to the three-colored pill fragrance coiling into clouds and revealed that his pill’s base color was white, not azure.
• The alchemists detected a fourth, nearly invisible white pattern, and Xiao Yan declared that he had refined a Fifth Grade Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined a Fifth Grade Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill, defeating Yan Li and shocking the Alchemist Association. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan crowned champion of the 7th Alchemist Convention and hailed as the new Pill King.

• Fa Ma recognized Xiao Yan’s Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill as a Fifth Grade Pill, and Hai Bodong, Yao Ye, Ya Fei, and Nalan Yanran realized Xiao Yan had aimed for a higher grade from the start.
• Xiao Yan explained that the pill could raise a Da Dou Shi’s strength by three stars without side effects, and that four Heavenly Flames could let it help an eight-star Da Dou Shi break through to Dou Ling.
• Fa Ma asked whether Xiao Yan had altered the pill formula overnight, and Xiao Yan recalled how he had modified the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill formula using his complete alchemy inheritance and scarce Fifth Grade ingredients.
• Yan Li collapsed as Xiao Yan’s Fifth Grade Pill made his accusations and excuses untenable, while Fa Ma and the other Alchemist Association leaders recognized Xiao Yan’s exceptional potential.
• Fa Ma announced Xiao Yan as the champion of the 7th Alchemist Convention, and Xiao Yan’s name became renowned throughout the Jia Ma Empire.

Xiao Yan won the Alchemist Convention as an eighteen-year-old Rank 5 Alchemist, then demonstrated the power of his Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill by taking it himself. The pill raised him to Seven-Star Da Dou Shi strength but burned away his clothes, leaving him to flee the square in embarrassment.

• Fa Ma announced Xiao Yan’s victory, and the crowd celebrated his unprecedented achievement as an eighteen-year-old Rank 5 Alchemist.
• Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian argued over who would take Yan Li and keep his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill to prove its effects and demonstrate its value to potential buyers.
• The pill’s four Heavenly Flames opened blocked meridians and raised Xiao Yan’s strength from four-star to seven-star Da Dou Shi.
• The pill burned off Xiao Yan’s clothes, and he hurriedly put on a Soul Robe before vanishing from the square as the spectators reacted in shock.

After the Alchemist Convention, Xiao Yan hid from the attention sparked by his pill and nickname, then visited Ya Fei to arrange a sale of his pills in exchange for medicinal ingredients. Ya Fei planned an auction for the next morning, while Xiao Yan left to collect his champion’s reward.

• The Jia Ma Imperial Family exposed Yan Li as the Chuyun Empire’s Alchemist Association vice chairman and executed him after he failed to win the convention.
• Xiao Yan hid in an inn as people spread rumors about his pill and called him Xiao Fierce Man, then went to the Mittel Auction House using Hai Bodong’s elder token.
• Xiao Yan showed Ya Fei a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill, other Fourth Grade Pills, and four Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills, asking to trade them for medicinal ingredients.
• Ya Fei advised holding the auction the next morning so visiting alchemists could bid with their precious ingredients before leaving the city.
• Xiao Yan entrusted the auction to Ya Fei and flew to the Alchemist Association to claim his champion’s reward.

Xiao Yan secretly visited the Alchemist Association to claim his Alchemist Convention champion rewards and asked Fa Ma to help gather ingredients for Hai Bodong’s Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill. After Xiao Yan hinted that the association would soon give him the ingredients, a Mittel Auction House announcement about its Heaven Rank Auction Hall spread through Jia Ma Holy City.

• Xiao Yan met Master Otto and waited for Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, and Hai Bodong in a private room.
• Fa Ma gave Xiao Yan a Sixth Grade Soul Fusion Pill formula, a Rank 5 Alchemist robe, and an honorary elder token.
• Jia Xing Tian gave Xiao Yan Yan Li’s belongings, and Xiao Yan selected several items from them.
• Xiao Yan asked Fa Ma to find three precious ingredients for Hai Bodong’s Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill and predicted Fa Ma would soon give them to him.
• Mittel Auction House announced the opening of its Heaven Rank Auction Hall, drawing attention across Jia Ma Holy City.

Ya Fei organized an unprecedented auction of Xiao Yan’s pills, drawing the attention of Jia Ma Holy City’s imperial family, alchemists, and powerful clans. As the auction promised rare pills and accepted medicinal ingredients as bids, Nalan Yanran decided to seek her master’s help to obtain a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill.

• Ya Fei halted the Mittel Auction House’s operations and mobilized its staff to advertise Xiao Yan’s Heaven Rank auction throughout Jia Ma Holy City.
• Yao Ye and Jia Xing Tian reviewed the auction list, decided to attend, and planned to buy healing pills for the Nethersea Flood Dragon.
• Fa Ma, Chemir, and Otto realized that Xiao Yan would use the ingredient bids to obtain medicinal materials, and they anticipated fierce competition among the gathered alchemists.
• Nalan Yanran saw that Xiao Yan’s Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill might help her close their cultivation gap, so she delayed her return to the Misty Cloud Sect and planned to ask her master to attend the auction.

Xiao Yan opened a high-profile auction at the Mittel Heaven Rank Auction House, drawing powerful families, cultivators, and alchemists eager to trade precious medicinal ingredients for pills. Ya Fei began the bidding with a peak Fourth Grade Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, which Xiao Yan had added to the auction.

• Xiao Yan entered the auction’s consignor room as notable figures and alchemists filled the private rooms.
• Hai Bodong noted the presence of powerful cultivators and veteran alchemists, while Xiao Yan welcomed the chance to acquire rare ingredients for his path to Fifth Grade.
• Xiao Yan told the Mittel Family elder to begin the auction, and Ya Fei took the stage to open it.
• Ya Fei presented the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, which bidders recognized as a peak Fourth Grade pill from the Chuyun Empire Alchemist Association.
• Ya Fei set the starting bid at a rare main ingredient for a Fifth Grade Pill and announced that Xiao Yan would choose the offers backstage.

Xiao Yan evaluated the medicinal-ingredient bids for his Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill and chose Nalan Yanran’s Dou Wang Grass despite knowing she planned to use the pill to grow stronger. The auction then turned to three Blood-Replenishing Bone-Growing Pills refined with Heavenly Flames, which alchemists bought for far above market value.

• Families and alchemists rapidly bid medicinal ingredients for Xiao Yan’s Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Pill, while many tried to mislead him with inadequate offers.
• Xiao Yan rejected the one-tael Ligusticum Rootstalk bid and selected Flower Stamen Stone Red as the best offer.
• Nalan Yanran bid one Dou Wang Grass, and Xiao Yan accepted it, leaving the Nalan Family short of ingredients for competing for the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill.
• Ya Fei announced the first Blood-Replenishing Bone-Growing Pill was refined by Xiao Yan using Heavenly Flames, prompting fierce bidding for all three pills.
• Chemir obtained one of the pills by exchanging Purple Spirit Flower Honey for the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill.

Xiao Yan’s pills drew fierce bidding at the auction, and Ya Fei built anticipation for the final lots: four Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pills and a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill. The bids began with Mu Chen offering a complete set of ingredients for a Dou Wang Pill, securing one pill for the Mu Family.

• Older-generation alchemists and wealthy buyers competed fiercely for Xiao Yan’s rare pills and medicinal ingredients.
• The Mu Family spent lavishly on bids, while the Gama Empire Royal Family and veteran alchemists also won several items.
• Ya Fei quieted the auction hall before five maids presented the final pills in wooden boxes.
• Ya Fei explained the Azure Spirit Pills’ effects and announced that the four would be traded to four selected bidders before the White Spirit Pill was auctioned.
• A bidder offered Dou Wang Grass for an Azure Spirit Pill, but Mu Chen countered with a complete set of ingredients needed to refine a Dou Wang Pill.

Xiao Yan auctioned his Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill and Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill, receiving valuable medicinal ingredients and building goodwill with major powers. As bidding for the final pill continued, Yun Yun arrived and offered a stalk of Transformation Grass.

• The Mu Family offered a complete set of ingredients for a Dou Wang Pill for Xiao Yan’s Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill, and Hai Bodong explained that the bid also showed goodwill toward Xiao Yan.
• Yao Ye offered a Huangji Fruit, and Xiao Yan accepted it along with the Mu Family’s ingredients, the Alchemist Association’s ingredients, and a Rank 6 ingredient from a hidden Dou Wang expert.
• Ya Fei began auctioning the Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill, and Fa Ma and Yao Ye competed with valuable Rank 6 ingredients and a Huangji Fruit.
• Yun Yun arrived at the auction hall, reunited with Nalan Yanran, and bid one stalk of Transformation Grass for the Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill.

Yun Yun offered Nalan Yanran a Four-Pattern White Spirit Pill in exchange for Transformation Grass, stunning the auction hall with the rare ingredient. Xiao Yan decided to give Yun Yun his Transformation Grass without trading, leaving Hai Bodong teasing him about his history with her.

• Ge Ye and the other alchemists reacted with excitement when Yun Yun offered Transformation Grass.
• Fa Ma explained the grass could be used to refine either a Sixth-Rank Peak Demon Transformation Pill or a Rank 7 High-Level Transformation Pill, depending on the alchemist.
• Nalan Yanran tried to refuse the valuable gift, but Yun Yun said she wanted to help her prepare for the Gate of Life and Death.
• Hai Bodong told Xiao Yan that Transformation Grass could be exchanged for a Huangji Pill, but Xiao Yan said he would give it to Yun Yun because he owed her.
• Hai Bodong teased Xiao Yan about Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Yan denied being a pervert.

Xiao Yan concluded the auction, promised Hai Bodong he would refine the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill after improving his Fifth Grade alchemy, and accepted an invitation from Princess Yao Ye. At the imperial palace, Yao Ye revealed that the imperial family needed a Sixth Grade Primal Bone Forming Pill for its guardian Nethersea Flood Dragon.

• Xiao Yan agreed to trade with Hai Bodong and said he would practice refining Fifth Grade Pills before making the Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill.
• Xiao Yan's Heaven Rank auction ended with every pill sold, and he gave Ya Fei the Rejuvenation Pill formula as thanks for her help.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Yan that Nalan Yanran would challenge him in one to two months and passed on Princess Yao Ye's invitation.
• Princess Yao Ye asked Xiao Yan to refine a Sixth Grade Primal Bone Forming Pill, explaining that the imperial family needed it to treat an injured Magical Beast.
• Yao Ye and Jia Xing Tian brought Xiao Yan to the lake, where Jia Xing Tian summoned the imperial family's guardian, the Nethersea Flood Dragon.

Xiao Yan examined the Nethersea Flood Dragon and found that only a Primal Bone Forming Pill could fully restore its strength, though he used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to keep its injuries stable for three years. Yao Ye gave Xiao Yan the pill formula and three sets of ingredients, hoping he would eventually refine the pill.

• Jia Xing Tian introduced Xiao Yan to the Nethersea Flood Dragon, and Xiao Yan revealed he was an eighteen-year-old Rank 5 Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan used his Soul Power to examine the Nethersea Flood Dragon and determined that a Primal Bone Forming Pill was necessary to fully heal its old injuries.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Ye he expected to reach Rank 6 in about two years, but declined her request to stay and serve the imperial family.
• Xiao Yan used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to stabilize the Nethersea Flood Dragon's injuries for three years.
• Yao Ye gave Xiao Yan the Primal Bone Forming Pill formula and three sets of ingredients, asking him to send a pill to the imperial family if he managed to refine one.

Xiao Yan accepted the royal family’s request to refine a pill and rapidly advanced to become a high-tier Rank 5 Alchemist. After successfully refining Hai Bodong’s Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill, he prepared to go to the Misty Cloud Sect to answer Nalan Yanran’s challenge as the representative of the Xiao Clan.

• Princess Yao Ye insisted that Xiao Yan accept the pill formula and ingredients, and Xiao Yan promised to deliver the refined pill.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Mittel Auction House and spent a month and a half refining pills and cultivating until he could reliably make high-tier Fifth Grade Pills.
• Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Yanran had emerged from the Gate of Life and Death and issued him a challenge at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan refined a high-quality Rejuvenating Spirit Purple Pill for Hai Bodong, who eagerly took it to restore his strength.
• Xiao Yan told Ya Fei to arrange a grand journey to the Misty Cloud Sect, saying he would go as Xiao Clan, Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan made a grand journey to the Misty Cloud Sect to face Nalan Yanran, presenting himself as the Xiao Clan’s young clan leader and arriving with powerful escorts. His procession reached Misty Cloud Mountain, where Nalan Yanran waited for him.

• Ya Fei dressed Xiao Yan in an extravagant robe and saw him off in a jeweled sedan chair, while Mittel Tengshan and the Mittel Auction House honored his departure.
• Four Dou Ling Hidden Guards carried Xiao Yan toward the Misty Cloud Sect, while Hai Bodong watched over him from above after recovering his strength and reaching six-star Dou Emperor level.
• Mu Chen, Nalan Jie, Jia Xing Tian, and Fa Ma headed toward the Misty Cloud Sect as news of Xiao Yan’s arrival spread.
• The Gama Empire’s elite legion opened a road for Xiao Yan, and his procession passed through Yunlan City toward Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Nalan Yanran waited in the Misty Cloud Sect’s square with a sword across her legs and declared that Xiao Yan had arrived.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect for his duel with Nalan Yanran, but the Soul Token and his body reacted strangely as he entered the mountain. At the plaza, he recognized Yun Yun as Yun Zhi, leaving the gathered witnesses stunned and the duel’s tensions tangled with their past connection.

• Xiao Yan had four Dou Ling guards announce his arrival at the Misty Cloud Sect, drawing the attention of disciples and duel witnesses.
• The Soul Token pointed deeper into the mountain, and Xiao Yan’s heart, blood, and Heavenly Flames reacted as they had when he first found the Skyfire Three Mysterious Change pendant.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Duel Plaza in his Sedan Chair as Nalan Yanran and the Sect’s elders watched him approach.
• Yun Yun recognized Xiao Yan as Yao Yan, and Xiao Yan greeted her as Yun Zhi, shocking Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and the witnesses.
• Ling Ying suspected Xiao Yan was entangled in romantic trouble and decided to report him to Xun Er.

Xiao Yan arrived at the Misty Cloud Sect and revealed that he and Yun Yun knew each other, then rejected Yun Leng’s offer to compensate him for ending his engagement to Nalan Yanran. Nalan Yanran challenged Xiao Yan to settle their past defeat, and their duel began with her opening attack.

• Xiao Yan’s mention of Yun Zhi made Yun Leng, Nalan Yanran, and others realize he knew Yun Yun, while Hai Bodong confirmed that the two had a connection.
• Yun Leng offered Xiao Yan compensation to cancel Nalan Yanran’s engagement, and Xiao Yan jokingly demanded a Sect Breakthrough Pill before dismissing the engagement as if it had never existed.
• Xiao Yan reminded Nalan Yanran that she had lost to him three years earlier, prompting the Misty Cloud Sect disciples to learn the truth about their past encounter.
• Nalan Yanran challenged Xiao Yan to a duel unrelated to the engagement, and Xiao Yan accepted, drawing his Heavy Xuan Ruler.
• Nalan Yanran attacked with Azure Wood Swordplay, and Xiao Yan noted that she was still using the same move.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran escalated their duel by revealing powerful techniques, weapons, and cultivation. The chapter ended with both preparing to fight at full strength, as Xiao Yan unleashed the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.

• Xiao Yan broke Nalan Yanran's Azure Wood Swordplay and withstood her follow-up wind swords, while his hidden force shattered her sword.
• Nalan Yanran revealed that she had reached eight-star Da Dou Shi and drew the Cloud Sleyer Black Sword, which Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma identified as Yun Potian's legendary weapon.
• Hai Bodong realized that Nalan Yanran had gained Yun Potian's inheritance in the Gate of Life and Death, including a powerful cultivation technique.
• Xiao Yan activated Lion's Roar—Blood Rage, Beast Transformation, and the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame enveloped him in the form of a furious lion.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran fought fiercely at the Misty Cloud Sect’s Duel Plaza after Xiao Yan transformed with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame. Xiao Yan healed his wounds with the Flame, but Nalan Yanran revealed a power from the Gate of Life and Death that rapidly restored her injuries.

• Xiao Yan’s beast transformation shocked the spectators, and Gu He identified his Flame as the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• Xiao Yan attacked Nalan Yanran with his Heavy Xuan Ruler, while she dodged and struck back with precise sword attacks.
• Xiao Yan used his Soul Power and Fire Wings to keep pace with Nalan Yanran, forcing the duel to escalate until the spectators evacuated the plaza.
• Nalan Yanran pierced Xiao Yan’s shoulder, but Xiao Yan struck her down in return and used the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame to heal himself.
• Nalan Yanran recovered from her injuries with white light released by the silver dragon on her sword, leaving Xiao Yan wondering what power she had gained in the Gate of Life and Death.