Recaps

At a gathering before the Alchemist Convention, Xiao Yan met Ya Fei and Mittel Tengshan, using his growing reputation to strengthen ties with the Mittel Family. The chapter ended with Nalan Su comparing Xiao Yan favorably to Liu Ling while Nalan Yanran listened.

• Xiao Yan flirted with Ya Fei, asked after Hai Bodong, and said he would seek medicinal ingredients from other countries after the convention.
• Ya Fei persuaded Xiao Yan to meet Mittel Tengshan, and she led him through the hall as onlookers watched jealously.
• Xiao Yan greeted Mittel Tengshan and credited the Mittel Family’s gifted medicinal ingredients for helping him place first in the internal test.
• Mittel Tengshan offered to have Ya Fei help Xiao Yan obtain ingredients, while Ya Fei blushed at his suggestive remarks.
• Nalan Su told Nalan Yanran that Liu Ling was far inferior to Xiao Yan, and Nalan Yanran considered the difference between their achievements.

At the Nalan Family gathering, Mu Zhan attacked Xiao Yan out of jealousy over Ya Fei, but Xiao Yan effortlessly subdued him. When Mu Xiao tried to protect Mu Zhan by invoking the Mu Family, Xiao Yan refused to give them face and crushed Mu Zhan’s fist.

• Nalan Su warned Nalan Yanran that Liu Ling might make trouble for Xiao Yan, while Nalan Yanran remained frustrated by her father’s suggestion that she reconsider the engagement.
• Liu Ling listened as other guests disparaged Xiao Yan and predicted he would fail the Alchemist Convention, while Little Princess hinted that something interesting would happen that night.
• Mu Zhan charged into the Nalan Mansion and attacked Xiao Yan, who stopped his punch with chopsticks and learned from Ya Fei that Mu Zhan was jealous and possessive of her.
• Xiao Yan caught Mu Zhan’s next punch, broke his wrist, and pinned him down with Soul Power as Mu Xiao arrived and asked him to stop.
• Xiao Yan rejected Mu Xiao’s appeal to the Mu Family’s status and crushed Mu Zhan’s fist despite the threat of family retaliation.

Xiao Yan left the banquet after crippling Mu Zhan’s hand, then ignored a clash between Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian to prepare for the Alchemist Convention. The next day, he arrived at the Royal Plaza and met Guild Leader Fa Ma in the VIP section.

• Xiao Yan burned away Mu Zhan’s blood with black flame and left after warning him, while Nalan Jie and Mittel Tengshan publicly defended Xiao Yan against the Mu Family.
• Ya Fei escorted Xiao Yan from the banquet, and Xiao Yan sensed two Dou Emperor auras before identifying the fighters as Hai Bodong and Jia Xing Tian.
• Xiao Yan returned to his room instead of watching the fight and prepared for the Alchemist Convention with the Sixth Grade Pill Formula in mind.
• Xiao Yan rode to the Royal Plaza with Hai Bodong and took his seat in the VIP section as the convention began.
• Hai Bodong introduced Xiao Yan to Guild Leader Fa Ma, who praised Xiao Yan’s skill at producing exceptionally pure medicinal essence.

Xiao Yan joined the VIP guests as the Alchemist Convention began and watched Liu Ling and Yue Er descend dramatically into the arena. When the crowd turned to him, he manifested enormous blood-red Fire Wings, shocking everyone with the apparent strength they implied.

• Jia Xing Tian introduced Xiao Yan to Princess Yao Ye, Yue Er’s elder sister and the commander of the troops protecting the convention.
• Ya Fei and Nalan Yanran arrived, and Ya Fei teased Xiao Yan about his promise to win first place.
• Fa Ma announced the start of the 7th Alchemist Convention before a cheering crowd.
• Liu Ling leaped into the arena using Dou Qi pillars, and Yue Er followed with the Flying Floss movement technique.
• Xiao Yan conjured a pair of enormous blood-red Fire Wings, prompting the crowd to exclaim that he was a Dou Wang.

Xiao Yan stunned the alchemists at the convention by arriving with enormous Fire Wings and then refining the Bone Growing Pill with an unconventional technique. He finished the first round with three pills from one cauldron, leaving the spectators astonished.

• Xiao Yan flew into the arena on his enormous Fire Wings and drew cheers from the crowd.
• Mu Chen recognized Xiao Yan as the one who had injured Mu Zhan and warned Mu Zhan not to provoke him or pursue Ya Fei.
• Fa Ma announced the first-round test, requiring the alchemists to refine a pill from an incomplete formula with only two sets of ingredients.
• Xiao Yan chose a five-vent pill furnace and used a black flame instead of his Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan put all the ingredients into the furnace at once, using precise Flame Control and Soul Power to refine them together.
• Xiao Yan collected three Bone Growing Pills from one cauldron, astonishing the spectators.

Xiao Yan finished the first round of the Alchemist Convention with a pill matching the mysterious black-robed contestant, then confronted a sabotaged second-round formula. He identified the faulty ingredient and refined two Wind Walk Pills, leaving the Alchemist Association officials stunned.

• Xiao Yan refined a high-quality Bone Growing Pill faster than the other contestants, drawing accusations that he had known the test in advance.
• A mysterious black-robed alchemist finished nearly as quickly as Xiao Yan, prompting Fa Ma to investigate him and discover he was listed as a Second Grade alchemist from the hostile Chuyun Empire.
• About three hundred contestants advanced to the second round, where they were given ingredients and a formula for the Third Grade Wind Walk Pill.
• Alchemists' furnaces began exploding during the second round, including those of Liu Ling, the Little Princess, and the black-robed man.
• Xiao Yan used Mao Wu to swallow the unstable medicinal essence, removed the Profound Earth Fungus, and refined two Wind Walk Pills.
• Xiao Yan announced that the Profound Earth Fungus should not be used, shocking Fa Ma and the other Alchemist Association officials.

Xiao Yan easily passed the Alchemist Convention’s second round after identifying a flaw in the pill formula, leaving only about thirty contestants for the final round. On the way back to Nalan Mansion, Nalan Yanran asked him to join the Misty Cloud Sect and then requested that their duel be postponed.

• Xiao Yan pointed out that the Profound Earth Fungus caused the pill formula’s failure, allowing other alchemists to correct their refining and pass the test.
• Xiao Yan, the black-robed man, the Little Princess, and Liu Ling completed their pills; Liu Ling realized he had been utterly outclassed by Xiao Yan.
• Fa Ma ended the day’s assessment and announced that the final round would take place the next day, leaving a little over thirty contestants.
• Yao Ye invited Xiao Yan to the imperial family’s banquet, but Xiao Yan declined and accepted Nalan Yanran’s offer to escort him back.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Yan to join the Misty Cloud Sect, and he refused; she then asked to postpone their duel because she would soon enter a sect training ground.

Xiao Yan learned that Nalan Yanran planned to enter the Misty Cloud Sect’s Gate of Life and Death to prepare for their duel, and he chose the sect as the duel location. Hai Bodong revealed that Yan Li, a peak Fourth Grade alchemist from the Chuyun Empire, threatened the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Association’s standing, so Fa Ma summoned Xiao Yan to offer him help before the Alchemist Convention.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran discussed their upcoming duel, and she said she would defeat him after passing the Gate of Life and Death.
• Nalan Yanran explained that the Gate of Life and Death held the Misty Cloud Sect’s ancestral tombs and a trial left by its founder, Yun Potian.
• Xiao Yan chose the Misty Cloud Sect as the duel location, hoping to see the Jia Ma Empire’s leading sect for himself.
• Hai Bodong told Xiao Yan that the black-robed man was Yan Li, a peak Fourth Grade alchemist from the Chuyun Empire, and that political risks prevented them from killing him immediately.
• Xiao Yan deduced that neighboring empires hoped to use the Alchemist Convention to undermine the Jia Ma Empire, while Hai Bodong explained that Fa Ma wanted to prepare Xiao Yan to challenge Yan Li.
• Xiao Yan went to the Alchemist Association late at night, where Fa Ma welcomed him and began discussing the situation.

Fa Ma offered Xiao Yan a pill formula and ingredients if he risked refining a powerful pill to help stop Yan Li from winning the championship. Xiao Yan chose the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill formula and left, claiming he already knew its refining method better than Fa Ma did.

• Fa Ma explained that the championship’s final round would let alchemists refine any pill using ingredients they provided themselves, and Xiao Yan revealed he was a peak Fourth Grade alchemist.
• Fa Ma offered Xiao Yan a pill formula from the Alchemist Association’s collection, along with the ingredients needed to refine it.
• Xiao Yan chose the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill formula after Fa Ma recounted how a mysterious elder had taught him alchemy.
• Fa Ma warned Xiao Yan that the pill could boost a Da Dou Shi’s strength but required three kinds of Flame and carried a risk of backlash.
• Xiao Yan assured Fa Ma that he had three kinds of Flame and left with the formula, saying he knew the pill’s refining method better than Fa Ma did.

Xiao Yan entered the Alchemist Convention's final round against Yan Li, who threatened to claim the championship. As the contest began, Xiao Yan revealed his Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame, leaving Yan Li shaken and strengthening the crowd's hopes that Xiao Yan would win.

• Fa Ma gave Xiao Yan ingredients for three attempts at refining the Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill, while the officials discussed delaying the contest or exposing Yan Li.
• Xiao Yan refused to alter the plan and warned that Yan Li would not survive the day; Hai Bodong promised to keep Yan Li from leaving Jia Ma Holy City and retrieve his Storage Ring.
• Yan Li taunted Xiao Yan before the final round, and Xiao Yan told him not to seek him out in the afterlife.
• Liu Ling and Yue Er brought out their prized Pill Furnaces and sixth-tier Beast Flames as the contestants began refining their pills.
• Yan Li displayed a black Flame to challenge Xiao Yan, who summoned five Pill Furnaces and revealed the blood-red Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Flame.
• The Heavenly Flame's beast roar caused the other Flames to shrink, and Yan Li realized he might die in Jia Ma Empire.

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.