Recaps

Chen Changan took his companions to the Alchemist Alliance Branch auction house to sell his Supreme-Grade Pills and raise funds for future purchases. The appraiser recognized the value of all six kinds and arranged to auction the twelve pills that Chen Changan had brought.

• Da Huang asked about finding a brothel, and Zhan Tian explained that the branch's former brothel had closed because customers were too embarrassed to visit openly.
• Chen Changan examined nearby shops, found their alchemy ingredients ordinary, and suggested selling pills at the auction house to earn money.
• Chen Changan and his companions went to the auction house, where an attendant guided them to an appraiser.
• Chen Changan showed the appraiser six kinds of Supreme-Grade Pills, including a valuable Golden Marrow Pill.
• Chen Changan revealed that he had two pills of each kind, and the appraiser arranged for all twelve to be auctioned that day.

Chen Changan put twelve supreme-grade pills up for auction at the Alchemist Alliance Branch, and the first two kinds sold for far more than their starting prices. The auction continued with the Heavenly Spirit Pills, while Chen Changan waited to see how fiercely buyers would bid on his Golden Marrow Pills.

• Chen Changan agreed to let the auction house sell twelve pills he had refined, accepting a twenty-percent commission.
• Chen Changan explained to Da Huang that the pills' starting prices were low because pills were common at the branch, but their supreme-grade quality would drive up the bids.
• A man told Chen Changan that a middle-grade Golden Marrow Pill had once sold for over ten thousand low-grade extreme origin stones.
• Bidders raised the price of the two Supreme Profound Origin Pills from eight hundred to five thousand low-grade extreme origin stones each.
• The two supreme-grade Heavenly Spirit Pills sparked fiercer bidding, and their price climbed from eight hundred to ten thousand low-grade extreme origin stones each.
• Da Huang tried to claim a share of the proceeds, and the man chatting with Chen Changan realized that Chen Changan had supplied the pills.

Chen Changan privately sold three supreme-grade Heavenly Spirit Pills before the auction’s supreme-grade Golden Marrow Pills drew enormous bids. After the final pill sold for 750,000 low-grade extreme origin stones, Chen Changan planned to leave the auction with his companions.

• A neighboring attendee asked Chen Changan to sell him supreme-grade Heavenly Spirit Pills, and Chen Changan sold him three for 10,000 low-grade extreme origin stones each.
• The auctioneer offered two supreme-grade Golden Marrow Pills, prompting intense bidding and speculation about who had refined them.
• The auction house paused the bidding so attendees could gather more extreme origin stones, while Chen Changan’s buyer warned him to keep his wealth and identity secret.
• The buyer declined to bid on the Golden Marrow Pills and explained that they were most useful for talented juniors.
• After a two-hour delay, the final Golden Marrow Pill sold for 750,000 low-grade extreme origin stones.

Chen Changan collected his auction earnings and agreed to consign two more Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills. Back at Zhan Kuang’s residence, he learned how the Alchemist Alliance’s assessments and contribution system worked, then considered refining a Grade Three pill for his own assessment.

• Huai'an paid Chen Changan 1,327,000 low-grade extreme origin stones and offered to waive the commission if Chen Changan consigned two more Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills.
• Chen Changan handed Huai'an two pills, returned to Zhan Kuang’s residence, and kept a low profile while Zhan Kuang practiced alchemy.
• With Chen Changan’s guidance, Zhan Kuang refined another Supreme-Grade Pill and grew confident about advancing to Middle-Grade White-Robed Alchemist.
• Zhan Kuang explained the Alchemist Alliance’s assessment ranks and said advancing to Green-Robed Alchemist also required contribution value.
• Chen Changan asked about contribution value and considered refining a Grade Three Golden Marrow Pill for his assessment, but Zhan Kuang warned that it would draw too much attention.

Chen Changan discussed the value of supreme-quality Golden Marrow Pills with Zhan Kuang, who said the pills had sold too cheaply and predicted the remaining two would fetch a much higher price. Chen Changan also learned about Ultimate Heaven’s cultivation levels and the Alchemist Alliance Branch’s limited grade four pill recipes before preparing for the next day’s assessment.

• Chen Changan told Zhan Kuang that openly selling supreme-quality Golden Marrow Pills could increase his value, and Zhan Kuang admired his reasoning.
• Zhan Kuang judged the two pills’ sale prices of five hundred thousand and seven hundred and fifty thousand low-grade extreme origin stones too low, and predicted the remaining two would sell for more.
• Zhan Tian bragged that Chen Changan could make Golden Marrow Pills at will, and Zhan Kuang warned that great abilities required matching strength.
• Chen Changan asked about the cultivation realms and learned that the strongest person in the Zhan Family had reached the ultimate immortal king realm, with the ultimate divine entry realm above it.
• Chen Changan asked about grade four pill recipes, and Zhan Kuang explained that the branch’s Alliance Leader was its only grade four alchemist but lacked the success rate and contribution value needed to advance.

Chen Changan attended the Alchemist Alliance Branch assessment and began refining a Grade Three Golden Marrow Pill, astonishing the onlookers with his speed and fluid technique. The assessment was still underway as the Branch Alliance Leader and Zhan Kuang watched in disbelief.

• Zhan Kuang brought Chen Changan and his companions to the branch assessment venue, where a few dozen alchemists had gathered.
• The Branch Alliance Leader greeted Chen Changan and learned he planned to refine a Golden Marrow Pill.
• The alchemists speculated about Chen Changan’s background and why the Branch Alliance Leader valued him, prompting the leader to silently note one rude speaker.
• The Branch Alliance Leader explained that unassessed alchemists went first, so Chen Changan began the assessment.
• Chen Changan refined the Golden Marrow Pill at startling speed, impressing the onlookers with his smooth, effortless technique.

Chen Changan refined a supreme-quality third-grade Golden Marrow Pill and was promoted to Upper-Grade White Robe, astonishing the Alchemist Alliance branch. The Branch Alliance Leader offered to help him advance directly to Green Robe once he earned enough contribution value, and Chen Changan set out to do so as quickly as possible.

• Chen Changan completed his assessment by refining a supreme-quality third-grade Golden Marrow Pill on his first attempt.
• The judge announced that Chen Changan had successfully promoted to Upper-Grade White Robe, while onlookers realized he might already be capable of refining fourth-grade pills.
• The Branch Alliance Leader praised Chen Changan's skills and said their advancement paths did not need to conflict.
• The Branch Alliance Leader arranged better accommodations and explained Chen Changan's new access to pill formulas and monthly ingredients, while restricting fourth-grade pills to Green Robe alchemists.
• The Branch Alliance Leader offered to authorize Chen Changan's direct promotion to Green Robe once he had enough contribution value, and Chen Changan resolved to earn it quickly.

Zhan Kuang passed his assessment and was promoted after Chen Changan’s guidance helped him refine a supreme-grade Grade Two Pill. As Chen Changan took Mu Yunyao and the others into seclusion, the branch buzzed with rumors about him, and auction steward Huai'an asked Zhan Kuang to watch over Chen Changan’s two consigned Golden Marrow Pills.

• Chen Changan stayed to watch Zhan Kuang’s assessment, and Zhan Kuang refined a supreme-grade Grade Two Pill to advance to Upper-Grade White Robe.
• Zhan Kuang credited Chen Changan’s pointers for his improvement, and the Alliance Leader arranged neighboring residences for them.
• News of Chen Changan’s pill-refining skills spread through the branch, prompting some members to investigate him and protect their plans.
• Chen Changan distributed the extreme origin stones from the previous auction and entered seclusion with Mu Yunyao and the others to pursue the Ultimate True Immortal Realm.
• Unable to find Chen Changan before the auction, Huai'an asked Zhan Kuang to keep an eye on Chen Changan’s two consigned supreme-grade Golden Marrow Pills.

Zhan Kuang welcomed his elder brother Zhan Long and the Zhan Family visitors, then explained that Zhan Tian had already obtained Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills through an extraordinary opportunity. He revealed that Zhan Tian was at the Alchemist Alliance Branch with a master alchemist whose guidance had helped Zhan Kuang advance and who had made the pills.

• Zhan Long arrived with elders and disciples to visit Zhan Kuang and bid on Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills for Zhan Tian.
• Zhan Kuang brought the visitors to the reception hall and asked Zhan Long about Zhan Tian.
• Zhan Long worried that Zhan Tian had gotten into trouble, but Zhan Kuang explained that he had received a great opportunity and had already taken the pills.
• Zhan Long remarked on Zhan Kuang's improved alchemy skills, and Zhan Kuang credited his advancement to a man's guidance.
• Zhan Kuang revealed that Zhan Tian was at the Alchemist Alliance Branch with the man, who had made the auction's two pills and had likely given Zhan Tian several more.

Zhan Kuang told the Zhan Family about Chen Changan’s talent and Zhan Tian’s rapid cultivation, then watched as two Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills sold for a total of 3.5 million low-grade extreme origin stones. After emerging from seclusion, Chen Changan met Zhan Tian’s father and received the full auction proceeds, with no commission taken.

• Zhan Kuang told Zhan Long and the others that Chen Changan could refine Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills and that Zhan Tian had reached the third layer of the ultimate true immortal realm.
• The Zhan Family attended the auction, where the two Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills sold for 1.5 million and 2 million low-grade extreme origin stones.
• Chen Changan emerged from seclusion after breaking through to the first layer of the ultimate true immortal realm and found Zhan Kuang waiting with Zhan Long.
• Zhan Kuang explained the auction results and gave Chen Changan the full 3.5 million low-grade extreme origin stones because the Auction House waived its commission.

Chen Changan sought contribution value to advance and learned he could exchange Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills for it. He exchanged three pills after discovering the rules limited each pill type to three exchanges, leaving him with thirty thousand contribution value.

• Chen Changan gave Zhan Long dozens of Supreme-Grade Pills, including Golden Marrow Pills, as a meeting gift.
• Chen Changan told Zhan Kuang he wanted contribution value to access Grade Four Pill Recipes, and Zhan Kuang offered to guide him to an exchange counter.
• The exchange clerk recognized Chen Changan and explained that each Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pill was worth ten thousand contribution value.
• Chen Changan asked to exchange ten pills, but the clerk explained that each pill type could be exchanged only three times.
• Chen Changan agreed to exchange three Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills for thirty thousand contribution value.

Chen Changan used his contribution value to earn promotion to Mid-Grade Green Robe and then visited the Pill Pavilion to inspect its Grade Four Pill Recipes. He left the chapter reading the branch alliance’s three rare recipes and learning what each pill could do.

• Chen Changan went with Zhan Kuang to the Promotion Hall and revealed that he had thirty thousand contribution value from exchanging three Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills.
• The Promotion Hall staff promoted Chen Changan to Mid-Grade Green Robe and explained that he could seek a higher rank elsewhere after reaching Upper-Grade Green Robe.
• Chen Changan declined to change residences because his companions were still cultivating and asked to see the Grade Four Pill Recipes.
• Zhan Kuang led Chen Changan to the Pill Pavilion, where Chen Changan went up to the fourth floor despite Zhan Kuang being permitted only to the third.
• Chen Changan examined the True Immortal Pill, Immortal Spirit Pill, and Overlord Body Pill recipes and learned their cultivation and combat effects.

After becoming a Mid-Grade Green Robe Alchemist, Chen Changan asked the Branch Alliance Leader how to obtain ingredients for Grade Four Pills. He chose to seek them in the dangerous Heavenly Snow Secret Realm, despite the Alliance Leader's warning.

• Chen Changan left the Pill Pavilion after memorizing three Grade Four Pill Recipes, though he lacked their ingredients.
• Chen Changan told Zhan Kuang that improving his cultivation mattered more than following the usual routine of refining pills and gathering ingredients.
• Chen Changan asked the Branch Alliance Leader about obtaining ingredients, and claimed he had a seventy percent chance of refining Grade Four Pills.
• The Branch Alliance Leader explained the risks and costs of gathering ingredients alone or joining a group expedition, and offered to watch for ingredients to buy.
• Chen Changan decided to search on his own and learned that the nearest source was the dangerous, icebound Heavenly Snow Secret Realm.
• The Branch Alliance Leader asked Chen Changan to reconsider entering the secret realm.

Chen Changan set out with his companions for the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm to gather materials for refining Grade Four Pills. The Branch Alliance Leader tried to persuade its Elders to take Chen Changan’s skill seriously, but they remained unconvinced.

• After Mu Yunyao and the others finished cultivating, Chen Changan announced they would travel to the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm for Grade Four Pill materials.
• Chen Changan’s group left for the secret realm after Zhan Tian returned.
• The Branch Alliance Leader summoned several Elders to discuss Chen Changan’s trip and his claimed seventy-percent success rate with Grade Four Pill Recipes.
• The Elders doubted Chen Changan’s ability, but the Branch Alliance Leader pointed to his Supreme-Grade Golden Marrow Pills as evidence of his skill.
• The Elders fell silent, then asked the Branch Alliance Leader why he had called them together.

The Branch Alliance Leader argued that Chen Changan’s talent justified special protection, despite the rules and the Grand Elder’s objections. The branch alliance agreed to send a Tiger Guard Hall team after Chen Changan, with Hao Yun leading five capable men to the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm.

• The Branch Alliance Leader called a meeting to discuss secretly protecting Chen Changan on his dangerous trip to the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm.
• The Grand Elder objected on the grounds that Chen Changan had chosen to go alone, and the Branch Alliance Leader confronted him over his schemes against Chen Changan.
• The elders agreed that Chen Changan’s success could benefit the branch alliance and that protecting him was worth making an exception.
• The Branch Alliance Leader ordered Hao Yun and five capable men from the Tiger Guard Hall to protect Chen Changan.
• The Branch Alliance Leader hurried to issue the order after learning Chen Changan and his companions had already left the branch alliance.

Chen Changan and his companions traveled to the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm, followed by people sent by the Alliance Leader to protect him. After declining an offer to join the Hua Household, Chen Changan left its members to reflect on the influence his status as a green-robed alchemist carried.

• Chen Changan recognized that the Alliance Leader had sent Hao Yun and four others to protect him, and Hao Yun explained to his companions why Chen Changan mattered to the branch.
• After flying for several months, Chen Changan and his companions arrived at the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm and met a group from the Hua Household.
• The Hua Household invited Chen Changan to travel with them, but he declined and continued on with his companions.
• A Hua Household member complained about Chen Changan's attitude, and a lineage elder warned him that Chen Changan's green-robed alchemist status made him someone they could not afford to offend.

Chen Changan and his companions explored the strange, freezing Heavenly Snow Secret Realm and wondered whether Ultimate Heaven’s natural order had been disrupted. After days of finding resources without danger, Da Huang joked about how safe it was, and more than a hundred adorable snowmen appeared and identified themselves as the Heavenly Snow Race.

• Da Huang and Zhan Tian felt the secret realm’s unnatural cold as Chen Changan questioned why non-ice ingredients grew there.
• Wang Ba suggested that cause and effect and the five elements were in disorder, and Guan Ao wondered whether someone had plunged Ultimate Heaven into chaos; Chen Changan and Mu Yunyao suspected Chen Changan’s father was responsible.
• Chen Changan’s group set off to gather pill ingredients and other resources, finding no danger for several days.
• Da Huang asked whether dangers lay deeper in the realm, and a disturbance erupted around the group.
• More than a hundred half-meter-tall snowmen emerged from the snow and warned the group to leave, declaring themselves the Heavenly Snow Race.

Chen Changan negotiated with the Heavenly Snow Race for access to the resources he needed, then revealed overwhelming strength to make his terms clear. The race agreed not to interfere as he and his companions continued, while Chen Changan warned them against causing trouble.

• The Heavenly Snow Race accused humans of harming their people and stealing their treasures, and Chen Changan acknowledged their grievances.
• Chen Changan offered to leave once he obtained the resources he needed, but members of the race challenged why they should help him.
• Chen Changan demonstrated his power with a sword slash, stunning the Heavenly Snow Race and Hao Yun and his companions.
• Chen Changan laid out a choice between fighting and letting his group collect resources without interference.
• The Heavenly Snow Race decided not to help Chen Changan but also not to obstruct him, and he accepted their decision while warning them to keep their people from causing trouble.

Chen Changan and his companions gathered alchemy ingredients in the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm, where strange creatures and impossible mixtures hinted that the realm had fallen into chaos. After collecting over a hundred ingredient sets, they decided to leave, while Chen Changan forbade Da Huang from visiting brothels.

• Hao Yun and the Heavenly Snow Race decided to follow Chen Changan's group from a distance rather than abandon their assignment or interfere.
• Da Huang uncovered a Frost Giant Ape while gathering a Grade Four Pill ingredient and killed it with a single slap.
• Chen Changan found a fire-attribute scorching heart inside the ice-attribute ape and wondered whether the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm or all of Ultimate Heaven had become chaotic.
• Chen Changan's group fought off various creatures and collected over a hundred sets of alchemy ingredients.
• Chen Changan agreed to return with the group and refused Da Huang's request to visit brothels.

Hao Yun reported that Chen Changan had completed his mission in the Heavenly Snow Secret Realm with ease, prompting the branch alliance to reconsider his strength and prospects. When Chen Changan returned, the Branch Alliance Leader and elders went to his residence to watch him refine Grade Four Pills.

• Hao Yun told the Branch Alliance Leader and the elders that Chen Changan had obtained the materials without their help and was far stronger than they had expected.
• The Branch Alliance Leader reasoned that Chen Changan had likely noticed Hao Yun and the others following him, while Hao Yun complained about Da Huang's obnoxious behavior.
• The Branch Alliance Leader proposed having Chen Changan represent the branch alliance in a ranking assessment, but the elders doubted that he could raise its rank.
• The Branch Alliance Leader and elders went to Chen Changan's residence and asked to observe him refining Grade Four Pills.

Chen Changan took Mu Yunyao, Da Huang, and the others to the Alchemist Alliance Branch’s Technique Pavilion to choose cultivation techniques, arguing that cultivation should support pill refining rather than be neglected for it. On the fourth floor, he found another fragment of the Nameless Sword Art, which fused with his earlier fragment and left him with a stronger, though still incomplete, technique.

• Chen Changan asked the Branch Alliance Leader for cultivation techniques, and the group headed to the Technique Pavilion to choose some.
• Chen Changan advised the Branch Alliance Leader and the others to prioritize cultivation alongside pill refining, and they recognized that focusing on both could help them overcome bottlenecks.
• The Branch Alliance Leader explained that Chen Changan and his companions could choose top-tier immortal-grade techniques that could support them up to the Ultimate Immortal King Realm.
• Chen Changan stopped on the fourth floor, found another fragment of the Nameless Sword Art, and fused it with the fragment he had obtained earlier.
• Mu Yunyao, Da Huang, and the others returned to find Chen Changan, who said the fused Nameless Sword Art could support his continued cultivation and heard that they had chosen techniques suited to them.

Chen Changan demonstrated his pill-refining skill to the Branch Alliance Leader and the others by refining Grade Four True Immortal Pills for the first time. Dissatisfied with the batch’s quality, he quickly identified a flaw and began refining another batch.

• Chen Changan explained that he rehearsed pill-refining steps in his mind before attempting them, surprising the Branch Alliance Leader and the others.
• At his residence, Chen Changan used Gou Sheng and the Alchemy Furnace to refine a batch of True Immortal Pills while the group watched.
• Chen Changan produced five pills: one supreme-grade, two high-grade, and two mid-grade, but said the quality fell short of his expectations.
• After reviewing the process in his mind, Chen Changan found a mistake, sent Gou Sheng revised steps, and immediately started another batch.

Chen Changan refined batches of supreme-grade Grade Four Pills, astonishing the Branch Alliance Alchemists and helping the Alliance build a valuable stock for its Auction House. After he asked about advancing to Upper-Grade Green Robe, the Branch Alliance Leader asked whether he could raise the Branch Alliance's rank.

• Chen Changan refined True Immortal Pills until he could produce only supreme-grade pills, while the Branch Alliance Alchemists watched and reflected on his careful approach.
• Chen Changan handed the Branch Alliance one pill from each of his five batches, then refused to teach its Alchemists and continued refining.
• Chen Changan began refining Immortal Spirit Pills, and his first batch yielded three supreme-grade and three high-grade pills.
• Chen Changan spent two days refining pills until he used all the ingredients, leaving the Branch Alliance with a large stock of Grade Four Pills.
• The Branch Alliance Leader discussed the Auction House's plans to sell Grade Four Pills, and Chen Changan asked about advancing to Upper-Grade Green Robe.
• The Branch Alliance Leader asked Chen Changan whether he had the confidence to raise the Branch Alliance's rank.

Chen Changan learned that advancing the Fifth-Rank Branch Alliance required challenging a Fourth-Rank Branch Alliance, and he considered helping after first improving his cultivation. He entered seclusion, intending to use the alliance’s future support to strengthen his wider network in Ultimate Heaven.

• The Branch Alliance Leader explained the alliance’s rank system and said that raising the branch’s rank would bring resources and allow alchemists to advance to Blue Robe through contributions.
• Chen Changan asked whether completing a special mission would force him to leave the branch, then learned that advancement required challenging another branch on its own turf.
• Chen Changan criticized the challenge system, agreed to consider it after improving his cultivation, and asked the alliance to send his pills to the auction house and give the proceeds to Zhan Kuang.
• After the others left, Da Huang questioned why Chen Changan would cultivate and help the branch; Chen Changan explained that its support could benefit the Heavenly Profound Sect, the Guan Family, and the Heavenly Origin Martial Grounds.
• Chen Changan told Da Huang that Ultimate Heaven posed real dangers, so he had to act cautiously.

Chen Changan’s supreme-grade Grade Four Pills made his name famous throughout the Branch Alliance, drawing powerful factions to the auction and prompting them to investigate his background. As the auction approached, the Alliance Leader worried that the attention might burden Chen Changan.

• The Branch Alliance announced Chen Changan’s supreme-grade Grade Four Pills and delayed the auction for a year and a half to build anticipation.
• Visitors flocked to the Branch Alliance, including people from the powerful Song Family, hoping to buy the pills and meet Chen Changan.
• Factions investigated Chen Changan and learned that he came from the Heavenly Profound Sect, which had risen alongside his success, but that he had no powerful backing.
• The Alliance Leader worried that the hype surrounding Chen Changan might weigh heavily on him.