Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei transmigrated into Xiao Jin, a young member of the Xiao Family in Wutan City, and discovered that a system could turn money into cultivation. After learning his savings were almost enough for a breakthrough, he went to dinner with his grandfather, Xiao Ying, who worried about his future in the family.

• Lin Fei woke in an unfamiliar room and merged with the memories of Xiao Jin, the grandson of Xiao Ying.
• Lin Fei learned he had entered the world of Battle Through the Heavens and summoned the Money to Become Strong System, whose spirit was named Linglong.
• Lin Fei found Xiao Jin's 500 gold coins and learned they provided 500 Breakthrough Points, leaving him 100 points short of advancing from the fifth to the sixth stage of Dou Qi.
• Lin Fei headed to the family hall for dinner after servants told him Xiao Ying was waiting.
• Xiao Ying asked whether Lin Fei was unwell and warned him not to rush his cultivation before the coming-of-age ceremony in two months.

Xiao Jin borrowed money from Xiao Ying, used the system to obtain powerful techniques and a weapon, and raised his cultivation to the 7th Stage Dou Qi. He ended the night sleeping on the floor after accidentally smashing his bed.

• Xiao Jin asked Xiao Ying for 1,000 gold coins and learned the family had been quiet since Nalan's engagement breakup with Xiao Huohuo.
• Xiao Ying doubted Xiao Huohuo could recover enough strength to remain in the family, while Xiao Jin declared he had reached the 6th Stage Dou Qi and would prove it at the test.
• Xiao Jin recharged the money through Linglong, unlocked the System Space and System Mall, and received several high-ranked techniques and the Fire Glazed Sword from the beginner's gift pack.
• Xiao Jin recharged another 500 gold coins and used 1,500 Breakthrough Points to advance to the 7th Stage Dou Qi.
• Xiao Jin tested his strength with Tablet Splitting Hand, shattered his bed, and settled down to sleep on the floor.

Xiao Jin surprised the Xiao Family by reaching Dou Qi Stage Seven, then received ten thousand gold coins from his proud grandfather, Xiao Ying. He promised to perform well in the Coming of Age Ceremony, while Xiao Mei wondered how his talent had improved so quickly.

• Xiao Ying summoned Xiao Jin for breakfast and took him to the Training Ground afterward.
• Xiao Mei tested at Dou Qi Stage Seven, and several juniors tried to console her.
• Xiao Jin tested at Dou Qi Stage Seven, stunning the gathered family members and delighting Xiao Ying.
• Xiao Ying asked Xiao Jin about his sudden breakthrough and Dou Technique training, and Xiao Jin promised not to disappoint him at the Coming of Age Ceremony.
• Xiao Jin asked for a reward, negotiated ten thousand gold coins from Xiao Ying, and left as news of his breakthrough spread through the Xiao Family.

Xiao Jin spent his Breakthrough Points to advance to 5-star Dou Practitioner and learned that his strong soul made him suited to alchemy. After borrowing gold from the Xiao Family’s younger members, he bought a First-grade Alchemist Inheritance and prepared to cultivate Blazing Flames Burning Heaven.

• Xiao Jin used his Breakthrough Points to reach 5-star Dou Practitioner, leaving him with 800 points and greatly increased strength.
• Linglong confirmed Xiao Jin could become an alchemist, and Xiao Jin decided to borrow money to buy an alchemy inheritance.
• At the Training Ground, Xiao Jin defeated a youth in a spar and persuaded the Xiao Family’s younger members to lend him 2,500 gold coins.
• Xiao Jin exchanged the gold for Breakthrough Points and purchased the First-grade Alchemist Inheritance, gaining its knowledge and techniques.
• Xiao Jin sat down to cultivate Blazing Flames Burning Heaven and transform the Dou Qi in his body.

Xiao Jin mastered the first conversion of Dou Qi with his Heavenly Grade High-level Cultivation Method and bought an Alchemy Furnace. In the Xiao Family marketplace, he defeated Jia Lie'ao in a fight and collected ingredients for three batches of Qi Gathering Pills before returning home.

• Xiao Jin completed his first Dou Qi conversion, greatly expanding and strengthening the qi vortex in his dantian.
• Xiao Jin spent 800 Breakthrough Points on an Alchemy Furnace and went to the family marketplace to look for medicinal herbs.
• Jia Lie'ao challenged Xiao Jin over Qi Gathering Grass, and Xiao Jin revealed he was a Dou Zhe and defeated him with a single attack.
• Xiao Jin bought the Qi Gathering Grass and gathered supplementary ingredients for three batches of Qi Gathering Pills.
• Xiao Jin found the marketplace too small to supply ingredients for many pills and returned home.

Xiao Jin revealed his breakthrough and fabricated a story about a Dou Sheng master to explain his cultivation and alchemy knowledge. After Xiao Ying fainted at the news that Xiao Jin could become an alchemist, Xiao Jin refined his first Qi Gathering Pill and continued making pills.

• Xiao Ying woke Xiao Jin and learned that he had broken through to Dou Zhe and possessed a cultivation method.
• Xiao Jin claimed a Dou Sheng expert had passed down his cultivation method and promised to teach him after he reached Dou Zong.
• Xiao Jin told Xiao Ying that he had defeated Jia Lie'ao and planned to practice alchemy, prompting Xiao Ying to faint.
• Xiao Jin returned to his room and used the furnace's formation and his Soul Power to refine a Qi Gathering Pill.
• Xiao Jin caught the finished pill, stored it in a bottle, and continued refining.

Xiao Jin brought five Qi Gathering Pills to the Mite'er Auction House and met Gu Ni and Ya Fei while arranging to sell them. He agreed to have the pills auctioned for a potentially higher price and discussed the terms with Ya Fei.

• Xiao Jin went to the Mite'er Auction House to consign his pills.
• A qipao-clad woman brought Xiao Jin to Gu Ni, who tested the pill and identified it as a First-grade Qi Gathering Pill.
• Gu Ni offered to buy Xiao Jin's five pills for twenty thousand gold coins each.
• Ya Fei entered and urged Xiao Jin to auction the pills instead of selling them directly to the auction house.
• Xiao Jin identified himself as a member of the Xiao Family and agreed to let Ya Fei handle the auction.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Jin discussed the auction details and profit-sharing arrangement.

Xiao Jin partnered with Ya Fei to refine and sell Qi Replenishing Powder, while she hoped his teacher would eventually help her. After producing a large batch at the Mite'er Auction House, Xiao Jin received an advance payment and a Storage Ring before heading back to the Xiao Family.

• Xiao Jin proposed refining ungraded medicinal powders with ingredients supplied by the Mite'er Auction House, and Ya Fei offered him a ninety-ten profit split if his teacher later agreed to help her.
• Xiao Jin arranged to use the auction house's Alchemy Room, where Gu Ni watched him refine a batch of medicinal powder before leaving him to work alone.
• Xiao Jin spent the day refining Qi Replenishing Powder and produced three large basins of it by evening.
• Xiao Jin told Gu Ni about the powder's effects and prepared to return to the Xiao Family.
• Ya Fei gave Xiao Jin an advance payment and a Storage Ring, then watched him leave while hoping he could help her return to the Imperial Capital headquarters.

After warning Xiao Jin about the Jia Lie Family, Xiao Ying learned that his grandson had become a First-grade Alchemist and partnered with Ya Fei. Xiao Jin used his system to gain Second-grade alchemy knowledge and reach Nine-Star Dou Practitioner before heading to the Mite'er Auction House to try refining Qi Condensing Pills, where Jia Lie Family members were waiting for him.

• Xiao Ying told Xiao Jin to put his safety first and warned that Jia Lie Bi might send people after him.
• Xiao Jin told Xiao Ying about his First-grade Alchemist rank and his pill-making partnership with Ya Fei, and Xiao Ying returned the Storage Ring for him to keep.
• Xiao Jin recharged his system, acquired the Second-grade Alchemy Inheritance, and advanced to Nine-Star Dou Practitioner.
• Xiao Jin chose to refine Qi Condensing Pills and went to the Mite'er Auction House to buy the ingredients.
• A Jia Lie Family member recognized Xiao Jin at the auction house and alerted Jia Lie Bi's men as Xiao Jin went to the alchemy room.

Xiao Jin successfully refined Qi Condensing Pills and became the empire's youngest Second-grade Alchemist. After Jia Lie'ao tried to ambush him outside the auction house, Ya Fei's guards defeated the attackers, and she arranged protection for Xiao Jin as he returned to the Xiao Family.

• Xiao Jin told Gu Ni he was confident he could refine a second-grade pill, then began making a Qi Condensing Pill in the Alchemy Room.
• Xiao Jin successfully refined a pill and continued refining more while Jia Lie'ao gathered Jia Lie Family thugs outside the auction house to capture him.
• Xiao Jin emerged with Ya Fei and Gu Ni, and Jia Lie'ao confronted him over the earlier marketplace fight.
• Ya Fei stepped in when Jia Lie'ao threatened her, then ordered the auction house guards to break the arms of Jia Lie'ao and his men.
• Ya Fei warned Xiao Jin that Jia Lie Bi might retaliate and asked Gu Ni to send a Da Dou Shi to protect him as he returned to the Xiao Family.

Xiao Jin activated the system’s Concealment Function while continuing his work with the Mite'er Auction House, then attended its auction alongside Xiao Huohuo. As bidding began on the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid, Xiao Jin anticipated that the real show was about to start.

• Xiao Jin asked Linglong how to conceal his cultivation and activated the system’s Concealment Function for 100 Breakthrough Points per day.
• Xiao Jin continued refining medicinal products for the Mite'er Auction House while Xiao Ying prepared for the Coming of Age Ceremony.
• Ya Fei showed Xiao Jin the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid, and Xiao Jin warned her to befriend its mysterious seller rather than provoke him.
• Xiao Jin and Xiao Huohuo attended the auction, where Ya Fei introduced the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid and Gu Ni explained its effects.
• Ya Fei opened bidding on the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid at 8,000 gold coins, and Xiao Jin waited for the show to begin.

The auction featured fierce bidding among Wutan City's family patriarchs for pills and an Advanced Mysterious-tier Cultivation Method. Xiao Zhan won the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid, while Jia Lie Bi left with the Wind Scroll Technique after the Xiao and Obba families drove up its price.

• Jia Lie Bi, Xiao Zhan, and Obba Pa competed for the Foundation Building Spirit Liquid, which Xiao Zhan won for fifty thousand gold coins.
• Xiao Huohuo, disguised as the black-robed seller, realized that Xiao Zhan had bought the Spirit Liquid for him and felt touched and helpless.
• Jia Lie Bi, Xiao Zhan, Obba Pa, and smaller families bid for a bottle of Qi Gathering Pills, which Obba Pa won.
• A small-family patriarch won two Qi Condensing Pills, and Xiao Jin calculated that the sales had brought him substantial earnings.
• Xiao Zhan and Obba Pa pushed Jia Lie Bi to bid five hundred fifty thousand gold coins for the Wind Scroll Technique before withdrawing, leaving Jia Lie Bi with the final item.

After earning 280,000 gold coins from the auction, Xiao Jin used the System to raise his cultivation to Nine-Star Dou Master and then break through to Da Dou Shi. The System activated its item enhancement function, leaving Xiao Jin with newly formed Dou Qi Armor.

• Xiao Jin and Xiao Huohuo met in the VIP room and waited for Ya Fei, while Old Yao warned Xiao Huohuo that Xiao Jin had reached Nine-Star Dou Practitioner.
• Ya Fei gave Xiao Huohuo the auction earnings and agreed to prepare ingredients for Qi Gathering Powder within two days.
• Ya Fei gave Xiao Jin 280,000 gold coins, including his share from selling ungraded pills, and Xiao Jin invited her to dinner.
• After escorting Ya Fei back, Xiao Jin kept 10,000 gold coins and recharged the rest to gain Breakthrough Points.
• Xiao Jin used the System to reach Nine-Star Dou Master, then advanced to Da Dou Shi and formed Dou Qi Armor.

After advancing to Da Dou Shi, Xiao Jin spent 27,000 Breakthrough Points on a system lottery and won powerful treasures, including the Nascent Emperor Flame. He refined the flame and accepted a Sixth-grade Alchemist Inheritance, but the flood of memories knocked him unconscious.

• Xiao Jin inspected the lottery and enhancement functions, then spent 27,000 Breakthrough Points on twenty-seven lottery draws.
• Xiao Jin won an Earth Rank Peak Demon Puppet, two Earth Rank Dou Technique Proficiency Cards, a Sixth-grade Alchemist Inheritance, and the Myriad Auspicious Cauldron.
• Xiao Jin won the Nascent Emperor Flame and learned that its power would unlock as his strength increased.
• Xiao Jin refined the Nascent Emperor Flame, which transformed his Dou Qi into a higher-quality, seven-colored form.
• Xiao Jin accepted the Sixth-grade Alchemist Inheritance, and the influx of memories and Soul Power caused him to faint.

Xiao Jin advanced to Sixth-grade Alchemist and mastered two Earth Grade Dou Techniques, then told Ya Fei that his teacher could refine the Azure Nether Longevity Pill. The chapter ended with Ya Fei growing increasingly fond of Xiao Jin as he prepared to stay away while his supposed teacher met her.

• Xiao Jin awakened as a Sixth-grade Alchemist, activated Earth Demon Kui as his guard, and used proficiency cards to perfect Illusory Dance Nine Heavens and Meteor Fire Rain.
• Xiao Jin tested Illusory Dance Nine Heavens, demonstrating its phantoms, position-switching, and rapid movement while spending a tenth of his Dou Qi.
• Ten days later, Xiao Jin learned that Ya Fei wanted a Sixth-grade Alchemist to refine the fifth-grade Azure Nether Longevity Pill, which could add ten years to a person's life.
• Xiao Jin claimed his teacher was a Sixth-grade Alchemist from outside the Jia Ma Empire and said he would not accompany him the next day because he would be cultivating.
• Ya Fei appreciated Xiao Jin's concern and privately considered that becoming his wife might not be a bad thing, then reminded herself that he was only sixteen.

Xiao Jin disguised himself as a Sixth-grade Alchemist and went to the Mite'er Auction House to refine an Azure Nether Longevity Pill for Ya Fei. He successfully made the first pill and rested before preparing for a second refinement, while Ya Fei anxiously waited outside.

• Xiao Jin disguised himself in black robes, brought the Earth Demon Kui, and arrived at the Mite'er Auction House, where Ya Fei and Gu Ni welcomed him.
• Xiao Jin entered the Alchemy Room with the Earth Demon Kui and brought out the Myriad Auspicious Cauldron to refine the pill.
• Xiao Jin used the Nascent Emperor Flame to purify the resentment in the magical core and processed the medicinal ingredients into liquid.
• Xiao Jin formed the Azure Nether Longevity Pill, and the Myriad Auspicious Cauldron withstood the pill's energy ripples.
• Xiao Jin successfully collected the cyan pill, restored his Dou Qi, and prepared to refine another while Ya Fei paced anxiously outside.

Xiao Jin delivered Ya Fei’s Azure Nether Longevity Pill, collected her generous reward, and used the gold to break through to Five-Star Dou Grandmaster. He then wasted his remaining funds on a disappointing lottery draw and went to sleep regretting it.

• Xiao Jin gave Ya Fei the Azure Nether Longevity Pill and accepted her reward, while she suspected he might be the young Xiao Jin in disguise.
• Xiao Jin left the auction house, removed his robe, and found medicinal ingredients worth about five hundred thousand gold coins and three hundred thousand gold coins in Ya Fei’s Storage Ring.
• Xiao Jin used the three hundred thousand gold coins to raise his strength to Five-Star Dou Grandmaster.
• Xiao Jin drew from the lottery and received mostly Thank You for Your Patronage results, along with a Yellow-tier Dou Technique Proficiency Card.
• Xiao Jin tried the Silver Lottery with his remaining funds, got another Thank You for Your Patronage, and went to bed cursing his gambling habit.

Xiao Jin discovered Jia Lie Bi and a Mite'er Auction House guard following him, then lured Jia Lie Bi into an empty corner and stopped his assassination attempt with Earth Demon Kui. The guard revealed that Ya Fei had sent him to protect Xiao Jin, and Xiao Jin asked for his name.

• Xiao Jin sensed two men following him and used his Soul Power to identify Jia Lie Bi and a Mite'er Auction House guard.
• Jia Lie Bi decided to kill Xiao Jin because of his talent and the conflicts involving their families.
• Xiao Jin led Jia Lie Bi to an empty corner, where Jia Lie Bi attacked him after becoming suspicious of a possible ambush.
• Xiao Jin summoned Earth Demon Kui, who seized Jia Lie Bi by the throat before he could reach Xiao Jin.
• The Mite'er guard came down from the wall, and Xiao Jin asked whether Ya Fei had sent him to protect him and what his name was.

Xiao Jin spared Jia Lie Bi after the patriarch offered the Jia Lie Family’s assets and loyalty, but Jia Lie Bi betrayed him with a surprise attack. Earth Demon Kui stopped the attack, and Xiao Jin beat Jia Lie Bi senseless, leaving him crippled.

• Xiao Jin told Zhang San to report back to Ya Fei that he did not need protection, and Zhang San left.
• Jia Lie Bi begged Xiao Jin to spare him and offered the Jia Lie Family’s assets and allegiance, so Xiao Jin ordered Earth Demon Kui to release him.
• Jia Lie Bi handed Xiao Jin his Storage Ring, grabbed his hand, and struck at his head in a surprise attack.
• Xiao Jin blocked most of the blow with a Dou Qi helmet, and Earth Demon Kui chopped off Jia Lie Bi’s arm and seized him again.
• Xiao Jin recovered and battered Jia Lie Bi, breaking his back and leaving him unconscious and crippled.

Xiao Jin attacked the Jia Lie Family after Jia Lie Bi’s failed ambush and decided that mercy toward his enemies would only endanger him. When the family elders tried to avenge Jia Lie Bi, Xiao Jin ordered Earth Demon Kui to leave no one alive.

• Xiao Jin reflected on sparing Jia Lie Bi and resolved to strip the Jia Lie Family of its wealth, killing anyone who resisted.
• Xiao Jin and Earth Demon Kui entered the Jia Lie Family compound, where Xiao Jin killed a guard and crippled more than ten Dou Masters who tried to stop him.
• The Jia Lie Family elders learned that Jia Lie Bi had been crippled and that an intruder was attacking their compound.
• Xiao Jin told Jia Lie Nu and the other elders that Jia Lie Bi had tried to assassinate him, but they surrounded Xiao Jin and Earth Demon Kui to avenge their patriarch.
• Xiao Jin ordered Earth Demon Kui to leave no one alive as the Jia Lie Family elders attacked, and he closed his eyes while screams filled the hall.