Chapter Summaries

Zhong Lin mastered the Crimson Flame Skill, greatly strengthening his true qi and demonstrating its power with a Crimson Flame Dragon. After warning Jiang Yuan to stop scheming against him, he prepared to leave the palace with crimson wings.

• Jiang Yuan persuaded Jiang Feng to let her borrow Zhong Lin’s influence to help Great Chen, and promised to speak to Zhong Lin herself.
• Zhong Lin used the System to master the Crimson Flame Skill, increasing the strength of his Innate True Qi at least tenfold.
• Zhong Lin concluded that the Crimson Flame Skill could not yet be merged into the Five Elements Mixed Origin Skill, but could help him strengthen it over time.
• Zhong Lin summoned a Crimson Flame Dragon that ignited his room, then moved to Jiang Yuan’s Golden Haze Palace.
• Zhong Lin warned Jiang Yuan that he knew she had schemed against him and told her to focus on her own strength.
• Zhong Lin formed crimson wings on his back.

Zhong Lin awakened his Crimson Flame Wings, flew to a hidden Teleportation Array, and traveled with Chen Jia to the Fallen Star Islands. He arrived in a region with far denser Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, while Chen Jia told him the Sword Domain was an even greater cultivation sanctuary.

• Zhong Lin discovered that his Crimson Flame Wings let him fly and absorb Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, then practiced flying for an hour.
• Chen Jia urged Zhong Lin to remember the feeling of freedom and directed him southeast.
• Zhong Lin flew for three days to a hidden valley, where Chen Jia revealed a cave containing a Teleportation Array powered by spirit stones.
• Zhong Lin activated the array and teleported to another cave in the Fallen Star Islands.
• Zhong Lin emerged into exceptionally dense Heaven and Earth Origin Qi, and Chen Jia said the Sword Domain was an even greater holy land for cultivation.

Zhong Lin arrived at the Fallen Star Islands and learned about the vast archipelago and its powerful forces from Chen Jia. In Purple Cloud City, he sought spirit stones by offering the Purple Cloud Auction House a defensive Earth Grade martial skill, and the auction house’s appraiser was intimidated by Chen Jia’s soul power.

• Chen Jia guided Zhong Lin to Purple Cloud City on Eighty-First Island and explained the Fallen Star Islands’ geography and major forces.
• Zhong Lin entered the city, learned that he needed spirit stones to establish himself, and followed Chen Jia’s advice to seek an auction house.
• Zhong Lin offered to sell the auction house his low-grade Earth Grade defensive martial skill, Golden Light Cover, rather than wait for its next auction.
• Chen Jia released a brief surge of soul power that frightened the appraiser and alerted a Spirit Sea Realm expert inside the auction house.

Zhong Lin used Chen Jia’s soul power to pose as a Soul Nurturing Realm powerhouse and secured twenty thousand spirit stones for the Golden Light Cover before escaping the auction house. He rented a courtyard in Wind Willow Lane and met his neighbors, Gao Xin and Xu Bin.

• Zhong Lin intimidated the Purple Cloud Auction House appraiser into paying twenty thousand spirit stones for the Golden Light Cover.
• After Zhong Lin left, the auction house guardian realized they had been fooled and suspected he had used a spirit artifact to fake his power.
• Zhong Lin complained to Chen Jia about the danger, then examined the Storage Bag containing the spirit stones.
• Zhong Lin stayed at an inn overnight and rented a private courtyard in Wind Willow Lane the next morning.
• Zhong Lin greeted his new neighbors, Gao Xin and Xu Bin, and learned that Gao Xin was an Innate Martial Artist.

After two months in Purple Cloud City, Zhong Lin studied its pill-making trade and refined pills to establish himself as an alchemist. He stunned Manager Wu by bringing Water Cloud Tower a collection of superior-grade pills, and Manager Wu apologized for underestimating him.

• Zhong Lin explored Purple Cloud City and learned that the Fallen Star Islands were a high-martial world with a broad pill trade but no cultivation arts such as formations or talisman-making.
• Zhong Lin studied the local Pill Path, bought a Purple Jade Furnace, and began refining pills to obtain Rank 5 pill formulas and build connections.
• Zhong Lin refined a Face-Preserving Pill, used the System to master its recipe, and produced nine superior-grade pills.
• Zhong Lin brought bottles of Rank 1 through Rank 4 pills to Water Cloud Tower and asked Manager Wu whether the shop would buy them.
• Manager Wu examined Zhong Lin's pills, recognized their quality, and bowed to apologize for dismissing him.

Zhong Lin joined Water Cloud Tower as a second-rank Guest Elder after selling his pills, then returned to Wind Willow Lane and revealed his status as a Rank 4 Pill Refiner to his neighbors. Gao Xin planned a dinner to befriend him, while Tang Xueyuan eyed him with interest.

• Manager Wu invited Zhong Lin to become a Guest Elder, and Zhong Lin accepted after learning the terms and benefits.
• Water Cloud Tower recorded Zhong Lin's True Name, signed a contract with him, and gave him a token and robes.
• Gao Xin, Xu Bin, and Tang Xueyuan recognized the Purple Cloud Sect insignia on Zhong Lin's robes and learned he was a Rank 4 Pill Refiner.
• Gao Xin and Xu Bin decided to cook a Cowhorn Pomfret and invite Zhong Lin to dinner, while Tang Xueyuan agreed to join them.
• Xu Bin pinched Gao Xin's waist after catching him staring at Tang Xueyuan.

Zhong Lin arranged to trade pills for Gao Xin’s Treasure Fish, which helped him complete the Dragon Elephant Golden Body. After spending the night with Tang Xueyuan, he realized his System had removed the technique’s fatal flaw and suspected his master Chen Jia’s motives.

• Zhong Lin discovered that Treasure Fish strengthened his body and helped him cultivate the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Zhong Lin offered Gao Xin pills at an internal price in exchange for all the Treasure Fish he caught.
• Gao Xin and Xu Bin warned that Tang Xueyuan had entangled other martial artists, while Zhong Lin took her home.
• Zhong Lin used the System to max out the incomplete Dragon Elephant Golden Body and erase its fatal weak point.
• Zhong Lin glanced at the Soul Nourishing Ring and smiled coldly as he considered Chen Jia’s motives.

Zhong Lin traded Gao Xin two Innate Pills for a Cowhorn Pomfret, then assigned Tang Xueyuan to procure more Treasure Fish for his cultivation. After eating the fish, he advanced his Dragon Elephant Golden Body and estimated that ten more Treasure Fish would complete its first level and prepare him to break through to the Spirit Origin Realm.

• Gao Xin traded a Cowhorn Pomfret to Zhong Lin for two Innate Pills and agreed to bring more Treasure Fish.
• Tang Xueyuan emerged from her room, and Zhong Lin told her to stay in the courtyard and handle miscellaneous tasks.
• Zhong Lin tasked Tang Xueyuan with watching the fish market and buying Treasure Fish without worrying about the cost.
• Zhong Lin cooked and ate the Cowhorn Pomfret, then used its energy to cultivate the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Zhong Lin concluded that ten more Treasure Fish should complete the first level and strengthen his body enough for a breakthrough to the Spirit Origin Realm.

Zhong Lin searched Purple Cloud City’s stalls and exchange gatherings as he prepared for the grand auction. He bought a Heaven Essence Fruit and obtained Soul Nourishing Liquid for Chen Jia, whose soul grew more solid after consuming it.

• Zhong Lin visited the Rogue Cultivators’ stalls with Tang Xueyuan and bought a Heaven Essence Fruit for one hundred spirit stones.
• Zhong Lin bought several more spirit herbs before leaving the stall area.
• Gao Xin told Zhong Lin that a private exchange gathering might offer Soul Nourishing Liquid and led him to the seller.
• Zhong Lin paid the seller’s asking price and obtained a bottle of Soul Nourishing Liquid.
• Zhong Lin summoned Chen Jia from the Soul Nourishing Ring, and Chen Jia absorbed the liquid, making his body more solid.

Zhong Lin completed the first level of the Dragon Elephant Golden Body and broke through to the Spirit Origin Realm, then attended a grand auction in Purple Cloud City. The auction began with Celestial Yin Essence Pearls, which sold for a high price.

• Zhong Lin finished consuming the Treasure Fish and completed the first level of the Dragon Elephant Golden Body.
• Zhong Lin cultivated with the Crimson Flame Skill, condensed liquid spirit origin, and broke through to the Spirit Origin Realm.
• Tang Xueyuan congratulated Zhong Lin, and he celebrated his breakthrough with her.
• Zhong Lin stabilized his cultivation over the next half month, then used the Bone Shrinking Skill to attend Purple Cloud City's grand auction.
• Xu Youde opened the auction and presented sets of Celestial Yin Essence Pearls, which sold for one hundred spirit stones per set.

Zhong Lin attended a grand auction, bought a Frost Marrow Pill formula to advance his pill-refining career, and watched the bidding climb for rare treasures. The chapter left him considering the value of the Dragon Transformation Ginseng as Chen Jia reminded him how precious his master’s Crimson Flame Skill was.

• Ouyang Zhen auctioned medicinal pills, Spirit Tools, exotic beasts, and cultivation inheritances as Zhong Lin observed the offerings.
• Cui Qing bid three thousand five hundred spirit stones for the Purple Nurturing Bracelet, and the other bidders withdrew.
• Zhong Lin bought the Frost Marrow Pill formula for three hundred and fifty spirit stones, hoping to become a Rank 5 Pill Refiner.
• Bidders drove the price of a three-hundred-year-old Dragon Transformation Ginseng to twelve hundred spirit stones.
• Chen Jia told Zhong Lin that his master’s Crimson Flame Skill was precious, or he would have been bidding for the ginseng.

Zhong Lin bought Demon Soul Grass at the auction to help repair Chen Jia’s soul and obtained a Soul Strengthening Pill formula from him. After leaving the city to avoid being followed, Zhong Lin killed a band of robbers and returned to Purple Cloud City in disguise.

• Chen Jia explained how an Expanding Sea Pill could help martial artists expand their dantians, while bidders fought over Dragon Transformation Ginseng.
• Zhong Lin won the auction for the thousand-year Demon Soul Grass after bidding two thousand three hundred spirit stones.
• Chen Jia identified the grass as thirteen hundred years old and gave Zhong Lin the Soul Strengthening Pill formula.
• Following Chen Jia’s warning, Zhong Lin left Purple Cloud City by a secret passage and took a detour out of town.
• Zhong Lin killed a group of robbers waiting outside the city and collected their belongings.
• Zhong Lin changed his clothes and appearance, then returned to Wind Willow Lane.

After a month in seclusion, Zhong Lin reached Rank 5 as a Pill Refiner and went to Water Cloud Tower at Manager Wu’s request. There, Tower Master Xu Youde questioned Zhong Lin’s cultivation and sudden advancement, and Zhong Lin began explaining his breakthroughs.

• Zhong Lin emerged from seclusion as a Rank 5 Pill Refiner after mastering two pill formulas.
• Tang Xueyuan told Zhong Lin that Manager Wu had helped her gather the spirit herbs and requested that Zhong Lin visit Water Cloud Tower.
• Zhong Lin gave Tang Xueyuan a Rank 5 Frost Marrow Pill and confirmed that he had become a Rank 5 Pill Refiner.
• Manager Wu told Zhong Lin that Tower Master Xu Youde wished to meet him, and Zhong Lin agreed to go upstairs.
• Xu Youde confronted Zhong Lin about his Spirit Origin Realm cultivation and Rank 5 status, and Zhong Lin said he had achieved both breakthroughs after joining Water Cloud Tower.

After Zhong Lin proved that he had refined the Frost Marrow Pill, Xu Youde confirmed his advancement to Rank 5 Pill Refiner and tried to strengthen Water Cloud Tower’s ties with him. Xu Youde offered compensation, new pill formulas, and an explanation of how powerful cultivators across the Fallen Star Islands would compete to recruit him.

• Xu Youde recognized that Zhong Lin’s Frost Marrow Pill could be genuine and warmly apologized for doubting him.
• Xu Youde served Zhong Lin rare spirit tea, and Zhong Lin showed him a Frost Marrow Pill to prove his achievement.
• Xu Youde congratulated Zhong Lin on becoming a Rank 5 Pill Refiner and had Manager Wu bring spirit stones to reimburse him and offer an apology gift.
• Xu Youde gave Zhong Lin the True Origin Pill and Golden Rainbow Pill formulas and promised to gather the herbs he needed for practice.
• Xu Youde explained that Rank 5 Pill Refiners were highly prized and that powers throughout the Fallen Star Islands, including the Seven Stars Sect, would seek to recruit Zhong Lin.

Zhong Lin agreed to cooperate with the Purple Cloud Sect as a Rank 5 Pill Refiner, on the condition that he could leave if the sect could no longer advance his Pill Path. As Xu Youde took him to meet the sect leader, Mu Qing confronted them and turned her attention to Zhong Lin.

• Xu Youde offered Zhong Lin the position of Inner Sect Elder, spirit herbs, and help obtaining an Expanding Sea Pill if he joined the Purple Cloud Sect.
• Zhong Lin agreed to cooperate, reserving the right to leave if the sect could no longer help him advance his Pill Path.
• Xu Youde led Zhong Lin toward Flowing Cloud Peak to meet the Purple Cloud Sect Leader.
• Mu Qing appeared in the air and teased Xu Youde, who used the Azure Water Mirror to block her attack.
• Mu Qing called Zhong Lin pretty, and Xu Youde stepped in front of him and warned her not to cause trouble.

Zhong Lin learned how spiritual artifacts were nurtured and joined the Purple Cloud Sect as an Inner Sect Elder. Ouyang Daoyong granted him the Fire Cloud Pavilion as his residence and access to the sect’s secret arts.

• Xu Youde warned Zhong Lin that Mu Qing was volatile and showed him the Azure Water Mirror, a defensive spiritual artifact.
• Xu Youde explained that spiritual artifacts were Natal Weapons nurtured by Soul Nurturing Realm experts and that each person could have only one.
• Zhong Lin realized he could use spiritual artifacts taken from other people instead of risking his own.
• Xu Youde and Zhong Lin arrived at Purple Cloud Palace, where Zhong Lin discovered that the youthful-looking man was Sect Leader Ouyang Daoyong and the white-haired old man was his eldest senior brother.
• Ouyang Daoyong accepted Zhong Lin into the Purple Cloud Sect as an Inner Sect Elder and granted him the Fire Cloud Pavilion and access to the sect’s secret arts.

Zhong Lin joined Purple Cloud Sect as a Rank 5 Pill Refiner and was shown his new residence at Fire Cloud Palace. Senior disciples arrived to greet him with gifts, and more were arriving as the chapter ended.

• Ouyang Daoyong and Zuo Mu discussed accepting Zhong Lin’s help despite their suspicions and hoped the Seven Stars Secret Realm would yield materials for a spiritual embryo.
• Xu Youde escorted Zhong Lin to Fire Cloud Palace, where servants had been assigned to serve him and the residence included a connection to Earth Fire for pill refinement.
• Li Shang and Qiu Ju greeted Zhong Lin and presented gifts, while Mu Qing welcomed him and then departed.
• Su Mengmeng, Lei Jun, and Tong Ming arrived at Fire Cloud Palace as Xu Youde identified them to Zhong Lin.

After becoming a Rank 5 Pill Refiner and Inner Sect Elder, Zhong Lin considered returning to the Profound Tortoise Continent, but Chen Jia warned him that its people could be identified as Sinful Blood Descendants. Zhong Lin brought Tang Xueyuan to Flowing Cloud Mountain to manage Fire Cloud Palace and left Gao Xin behind to face the consequences of his greed.

• Ouyang Daoyong's six disciples and the Eldest Senior Brother sent Zhong Lin lavish gifts, including a spirit artifact, and Chen Jia warned that Profound Tortoise Continent natives might be recognized as Sinful Blood Descendants.
• Chen Jia advised Zhong Lin to seek a martial skill that concealed his aura and soul aura, and Zhong Lin stored the gifts before heading to Purple Cloud City.
• Tang Xueyuan tearfully welcomed Zhong Lin, and he told her to pack and come manage Fire Cloud Palace at Flowing Cloud Mountain.
• Gao Xin and Xu Bin waited outside Tang Xueyuan's home, and Zhong Lin told Gao Xin to stop purchasing Treasure Fish and left without reclaiming the spirit stones Gao Xin had embezzled.
• Tang Xueyuan said Gao Xin's former victims would take revenge now that Zhong Lin no longer backed him, and she felt relieved she had served Zhong Lin faithfully.

Over half a year, Zhong Lin became a renowned Rank 5 Pill Refiner in Purple Cloud City while advancing his cultivation and martial arts. He successfully refined Xu Youde’s Expanding Sea Pills, leaving Xu Youde with the pill he needed for his future breakthrough to the Spirit Sea Realm.

• Zhong Lin spent half a year refining pills and cultivating, earning a reputation and abundant resources across Purple Cloud City.
• Zhong Lin filled more than half his Innate Acupoints, reached the fourth layer of the Dragon Elephant Golden Body, and deduced the Five Elements Mixed Origin Skill to version 2.0.
• Zhong Lin successfully refined all three batches of Expanding Sea Pills that Xu Youde had commissioned, keeping two pills as his share.
• Xu Youde anxiously waited outside the Alchemy Room with Lei Jun and Tong Ming, who worried that another attempt to gather the rare ingredients would be dangerous.
• Zhong Lin emerged and showed Xu Youde the finished pill, and Xu Youde accepted it gratefully.

Zhong Lin successfully refined an Expanding Sea Pill, earning requests from Tong Ming and Lei Jun before receiving a Mirage Tower Pearl and a Poison Pearl. After testing the treasures and preparing to use the poison to advance his Dragon Elephant Golden Body, he gave Tang Xueyuan instructions and left Fire Cloud Palace.

• Zhong Lin refined an Expanding Sea Pill, and Tong Ming and Lei Jun offered materials and payment for pills of their own.
• Zhong Lin accepted Tong Ming's Mirage Tower Pearl and discovered it could change his appearance and conceal his aura.
• Zhong Lin examined Lei Jun's Poison Pearl and decided it could help him cultivate his Dragon Elephant Golden Body toward the fifth level.
• Zhong Lin recalled that Tang Xueyuan had advanced to the Innate Realm and become a capable steward at Fire Cloud Palace.
• Zhong Lin summoned Tang Xueyuan to give her instructions, then left Fire Cloud Palace.