Chapter Summaries

Li Bufan entered the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range to test his martial techniques, practice the Spring and Autumn Needle Technique on Demon Beasts, and gather spiritual herbs. He battled a powerful crimson tiger and faced its blazing claw strike as the fight continued.

• Li Bufan reached the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range and decided to cultivate there, test his techniques, and gather spiritual herbs.
• Li Bufan found a late Essence Devouring Realm crimson tiger and challenged it to a sparring match.
• Li Bufan blocked the tiger's pounce, then used the True Meanings of Water and Fire to throw it, but the tiger landed unharmed.
• Li Bufan struck with Surging Waves Palm, but the tiger's flames and tough body absorbed most of the force before it spat fire at him.
• Li Bufan unleashed the Thunderclap Saber Technique, but the tiger dodged his strike and leaped above him with a blazing claw as Li Bufan summoned Dragon Tiger Fist.

Li Bufan defeated an Essence Devouring Realm demon tiger with the Dragon Tiger Fist, then healed and released it. He continued into the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, gathered spirit herbs, and discovered an unnaturally silent pool whose depths his Spiritual Sense could not reach.

• Li Bufan overpowered the demon tiger with the Nine Forms of Dragon and Tiger, refining his understanding of the Dragon Tiger Fist.
• Li Bufan treated the demon tiger’s wounds with the Spring and Autumn Needle Technique and two Rejuvenation Pills, then let it leave.
• Li Bufan traveled deeper into the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range and collected rare spirit herbs for refining third-grade pills.
• Li Bufan reached a waterfall and emerald pool where no animals or fish could be found.
• Li Bufan probed the pool with his Spiritual Sense, which extended a thousand zhang without reaching the bottom.

Li Bufan discovered a powerful flood python in a deep pool and asked it to help him cultivate by fighting him. The two prepared to clash, then vanished into combat as a leaf touched the ground.

• Li Bufan sensed a sleeping presence in the pool, and a Bone Structure Realm flood python burst from the water and accused him of trespassing.
• The flood python attacked Li Bufan, who dodged its first strike but was hit by its tail and hurled through three trees.
• Li Bufan explained that he had come to cultivate and asked the flood python to fight him.
• The flood python accepted Li Bufan's challenge, and their auras collided as they faced off.
• After a leaf fell between them, Li Bufan and the flood python vanished in an instant.

Li Bufan fought the serpent-dragon with movement techniques, fists, and a golden-violet saber, managing to wound the Bone Structure Realm demon despite taking a lightning strike. The serpent-dragon charged again, and Li Bufan launched a saber attack aimed at its vital spot.

• Li Bufan used Windfire Wandering Step and Dragon Tiger Fist to meet the serpent-dragon’s charge, and their first clash ended evenly.
• The serpent-dragon unleashed its wind-and-thunder bloodline power, while Li Bufan activated his golden-violet Nine Yang Body Protection and shaped it into a saber.
• Li Bufan cut through the serpent-dragon’s lightning attack and wounded it with a saber strike, but the demon hit him with lightning and knocked him into a crater.
• Li Bufan evaded the serpent-dragon’s next charge with Windfire Wandering Step and countered with Kill Break Wolf, aiming for its vital spot.

Li Bufan fought Yun Ting, a dragon serpent, and earned its recognition after enduring their fierce battle and demonstrating his Five Elements True Meaning. They exchanged names and pills, then recovered from their injuries together.

• Li Bufan shattered his Purple-Gold Light Blade against Yun Ting’s wind blade, then injured the dragon serpent’s skull with a punch and healed his broken hand.
• Li Bufan unleashed Pacify the Nine Provinces, combining the Five Elements True Meaning into a Five-Colored Ring that collided with Yun Ting’s storm-and-lightning attack.
• The blast threw Li Bufan into a pool and wounded Yun Ting, but both survived, and Yun Ting acknowledged Li Bufan’s strength.
• Li Bufan introduced himself to Yun Ting and offered it Origin Restoration and Wound Healing Pills, then took the same medicines himself.
• Li Bufan and Yun Ting recovered by refining the pills and drawing in Vital Energy, and Li Bufan regained his strength after an incense stick’s time.

Li Bufan became friends with Yun Ting, who brought him to his hidden cave abode and offered him its spiritual herbs and essence stones. Li Bufan began refining the herbs into pills to share with Yun Ting, while Yun Ting slept through the seven days of alchemy.

• Li Bufan thanked Yun Ting for their fight, and Yun Ting told him he had lived in the mountains for over three hundred years and invited him to call him Brother Yun Ting.
• Yun Ting led Li Bufan through an underwater tunnel to his underground cave abode, where Li Bufan found valuable spiritual herbs and essence stones.
• Yun Ting offered Li Bufan the treasures, and Li Bufan proposed refining the herbs into pills and splitting them evenly.
• Li Bufan set up his Blazing Sun Alchemy Furnace and sorted the herbs while Yun Ting went to sleep.
• Li Bufan refined pills continuously for seven days as Yun Ting slept in the depths of the cave.

Li Bufan finished refining the spirit herbs for Yun Ting, who swallowed hundreds of potent pills and fell unconscious while digesting them. After waking, Li Bufan studied Yun Ting’s energy pathways and prepared to use the Spring and Autumn Needle Technique to help it absorb the pills faster.

• Li Bufan completed his pill refinement, improving his skill to Third-Rank Alchemist Minor Mastery, and gave Yun Ting the pills he had made.
• Yun Ting swallowed hundreds of pills at once, was overwhelmed by their medicinal potency, and fell asleep as its body began refining the energy.
• Li Bufan checked Yun Ting’s vital signs, confirmed it was safe, and went to sleep from exhaustion.
• After waking, Li Bufan sensed that Yun Ting’s demon qi was growing stronger and considered using acupuncture to speed its recovery.
• Li Bufan examined Yun Ting’s body and identified the heart below its head and the fleshy lump atop its head as the main places absorbing the medicinal energy.

Li Bufan used the Spring and Autumn Needle Technique and three drops of Essence Fluid to help Yun Ting evolve and break through to the mid-stage Bone Structure Realm. Grateful, Yun Ting invited Li Bufan to help claim a rare fruit from a tree in the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, and they agreed to set out once Li Bufan had recovered.

• Li Bufan used needles to accelerate Yun Ting's medicine refinement and strengthen the bloodline lump on its head.
• Li Bufan injected three drops of Essence Fluid into Yun Ting, and its aura surged as it broke through its bottleneck.
• After two days of watching over Yun Ting, Li Bufan congratulated it on reaching the mid-stage Bone Structure Realm.
• Yun Ting told Li Bufan about the golden fruit tree that had helped it break through and revealed that the tree was due to bear fruit again.
• Li Bufan agreed to help Yun Ting claim the fruit after he rested, and Yun Ting went out to test the waters.

After three days of cultivating on his battle insights, Li Bufan emerged and saw Yun Ting had gained wind, lightning, and fire abilities. Yun Ting carried him to a Golden Dawn Fruit Tree, where the Great Sun Golden Yang Flame showed interest in the nearly ripe fruit, just as a golden bird appeared to guard it.

• Li Bufan spent three days refining his combat insights, strengthening his saber intent, Five Elements True Meaning, and Dragon Tiger Fist without breaking through.
• Yun Ting demonstrated its newly gained wind, lightning, and flame powers, and invited Li Bufan to ride on its back.
• Yun Ting flew Li Bufan to a mountain peak where a nearly ripe Golden Dawn Fruit grew atop a huge tree.
• Li Bufan sensed the Great Sun Golden Yang Flame longing for the Golden Dawn Fruit and resolved to claim it.
• A golden bird descended from the clouds and circled above Li Bufan and Yun Ting.

Yun Ting fought a golden eagle that mocked it for serving a human, while Li Bufan joined the battle from Yun Ting’s back. Together they wounded the eagle and struck it with Yun Ting’s combined wind, lightning, and fire attack, but the eagle revealed golden flames of its own.

• The golden eagle mocked Yun Ting, and Yun Ting attacked it with wind and lightning.
• The golden eagle dodged Yun Ting’s attacks and threatened Li Bufan, who slashed at its talons with Chaos of Rivers and Mountains.
• The golden eagle launched a barrage of sharp feathers, and Yun Ting shielded itself and Li Bufan.
• Li Bufan pierced one of the golden eagle’s wings with a saber, then fired eighteen true qi arrows to hinder it.
• Yun Ting struck the wounded golden eagle with a pillar of wind, lightning, and fire, but golden flames rose from the eagle’s body.

Li Bufan and Yun Ting fought the golden condor through its fiery and spiritual attacks, then joined forces to kill it. The golden condor fell, pierced through the heart by Li Bufan’s Seven Killings Blade.

• Li Bufan and Yun Ting endured the golden condor’s fiery tornado, though both were burned despite their combined defenses.
• The golden condor’s piercing cry attacked their Spirit Seas, and Li Bufan used Spirit Stab to resist it.
• The golden condor targeted Li Bufan, but he deflected its talons with Pacify the Nine Provinces, allowing Yun Ting to strike it with his tail.
• Li Bufan shot a powerful arrow at the golden condor, forcing it to expend its golden light to block the attack.
• Yun Ting flung Li Bufan toward the golden condor, and Li Bufan cut through its flaming shields with the Seven Killings Blade and pierced its heart.
• The golden condor cried out, lost strength, and fell from the sky dead.

After defeating the golden condor, Li Bufan and Yun Ting recovered beneath the Golden Dawn Fruit Tree and spent four days cultivating and sparring. Li Bufan’s martial skills advanced as the fruit neared ripeness, leaving him ready to refine it and attempt a breakthrough.

• Yun Ting caught the exhausted Li Bufan and the golden condor’s corpse, then carried them safely to the Golden Dawn Fruit Tree.
• Li Bufan recovered enough to take medicinal pills and heal, while Golden Dawn power lingered in his meridians and Yun Ting regrew his burned scales.
• Yun Ting praised Li Bufan’s finishing strike, promised to guard him while he refined the fruit, and explained that the fruit would ripen in a few days.
• Over four days of daily sparring, Yun Ting strengthened his wind, lightning, and fire abilities, while Li Bufan improved his martial skills.
• Li Bufan advanced his Five Elements Heaven Skill, Windfire Wandering Step, Greedy Wolf Saber Technique, and Dragon Tiger Fist as the Golden Dawn Fruit turned gold-red and neared ripeness.

Li Bufan harvested the ripe Golden Dawn Fruit and used its power to break through to Qi Sea Sixth Stage while beginning to cultivate the Dragon-Tiger Golden Body Art. The fruit tree’s energy strengthened the Great Sun Golden Yang Flame, and Li Bufan’s body reached the art’s entry level.

• Li Bufan plucked the ripe Golden Dawn Fruit as the Great Sun Golden Yang Flame emerged from his Small Cauldron and burned the entire fruit tree to absorb its stored solar energy.
• Li Bufan ate the Golden Dawn Fruit and refined its medicinal power with the Five Elements Heaven Skill, breaking through to Qi Sea Sixth Stage.
• Li Bufan directed the remaining medicinal power into tempering his body rather than pursuing another cultivation breakthrough.
• Li Bufan circulated the Dragon-Tiger Golden Body Art through his five viscera and six bowels, harmonizing the powers of dragon and tiger.
• Li Bufan entered the Dragon-Tiger Golden Body Art, and his Heaven Rewards Diligence destiny displayed Entry (12/5000).

Li Bufan broke through to the sixth level of the Sea of Qi and cultivated with Yun Ting for half a month, strengthening his abilities and deepening their friendship. After helping Yun Ting refine its bloodline, Li Bufan accepted a gift of essence stones and left the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range to return to his sect.

• Li Bufan reached the sixth level of the Sea of Qi and the beginner stage of the Dragon-Tiger Golden Body Art, then agreed to spar with Yun Ting while he stabilized his cultivation.
• Li Bufan and Yun Ting fought daily, shared roasted meat, and grew close as friends.
• Yun Ting gathered spiritual herbs for Li Bufan, who refined them into pills and gave half to Yun Ting.
• Li Bufan used the Spring and Autumn Needle Technique to help Yun Ting purify its flood dragon bloodline and improve his own skill with the technique.
• Li Bufan told Yun Ting he was returning to his sect, and Yun Ting gave him essence stones before they shared a farewell meal.
• Li Bufan left the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range as Yun Ting watched him disappear.

Li Bufan sold his pills in Flame Desert City and Flame Capital, bought spirit herbs, and prepared to leave. At the Flame Capital teleportation plaza, Zhao Jingyao recognized him, and Master Zhao called out to him before he could depart.

• Li Bufan sold one-third of his pills to Steward Zhou in Flame Desert City and received twenty Origin Stones, with the Ten Thousand Spirits District covering his teleportation fee.
• Li Bufan traveled to Flame Capital, sold the remaining pills for forty Origin Stones, and bought the spirit herbs on his list.
• Li Bufan joined the queue at the teleportation plaza to leave Flame Capital.
• Zhao Jingyao recognized Li Bufan and hurried off to tell her father he had arrived.
• Master Zhao called out to Li Bufan and urged him not to leave in a hurry.

Li Bufan agreed to help Zhao Mengdong's Ten Thousand Spirits District compete against Treasure Pavilion and Mystic Commerce Guild by refining pills in exchange for Fire Seeds. After Zhao Mengdong delivered the district's stock of Fire Seeds, he led Li Bufan to an alchemy room.

• Zhao Mengdong sought out Li Bufan after learning he had sold a large batch of high-quality Cloud Pattern pills.
• Zhao Mengdong explained that Treasure Pavilion and Mystic Commerce Guild were jointly suppressing Ten Thousand Spirits District's pill market.
• Li Bufan agreed to help if Zhao Mengdong obtained Fire Seeds for him and supplied the spirit herbs.
• Zhao Mengdong arranged lodging for Li Bufan and delivered a Storage Bag containing hundreds of low-grade Fire Seeds.
• Li Bufan accepted the Fire Seeds and asked Zhao Mengdong to take him to the alchemy room.

Li Bufan began refining pills for Zhao Mengdong’s Ten Thousand Spirits District, producing more than ten thousand pills over half a month and building a reputation as a master alchemist. He planned to ask Zhao Mengdong to let him focus on third-tier pills so he could advance his alchemy further.

• Li Bufan asked Zhao Mengdong for larger alchemy furnaces and agreed to refine Great Qi and Blood Pills, Qi Condensation Pills, and Azure Origin Pills for Ten Thousand Spirits District.
• Li Bufan gave Zhao Mengdong an Azure Origin Pill, and Zhao ordered his staff to supply Li Bufan with the spirit herbs he needed.
• After leaving Li Bufan, Zhao Mengdong secretly sent the pill for appraisal and told his steward to claim herb supplies were limited until the results came back.
• Li Bufan refined pills day and night for half a month, producing more than ten thousand pills and deciding to shift his work toward third-tier pills.
• Li Bufan’s reputation spread throughout Ten Thousand Spirits District, where people praised the quality of his Cloud Pattern pills and compared his skill to renowned alchemists in Flame Capital.

Li Bufan arranged to train twelve Ten Thousand Spirits District alchemists so they could maintain its supply of low-rank pills while he focused on Third-Rank Pills. After half a month of instruction, they had learned to make saleable Azure Origin Pills, and Li Bufan turned to refining higher-rank pills.

• Li Bufan proposed teaching trusted alchemists to refine First-Rank and Second-Rank Pills, including Azure Origin Pills, so he could focus on Third-Rank Pills.
• Zhao Mengdong gathered twelve alchemists from the Ten Thousand Spirits District and gave Li Bufan a Storage Bag containing several hundred Fire Seeds.
• Li Bufan began teaching the alchemists his methods, covering alchemy fundamentals and demonstrating how to control heat and refine Great Qi and Blood Pills.
• Li Bufan taught the group for half a month, and his students improved while he organized his own alchemy knowledge into a more complete system.
• The alchemists learned to make saleable Azure Origin Pills, so Li Bufan handed them the low-rank pill production and concentrated on Third-Rank Pills.

Li Bufan refined Purple Origin Pills until he achieved Third-Rank Alchemist Great Mastery and produced a true top-grade pill with three Cloud Patterns. After consuming it, he broke through to the seventh layer of the Qi Sea Realm and continued consolidating his cultivation.

• Li Bufan prepared the furnace and refined his first Purple Origin Pill, but it had only one Cloud Pattern.
• Li Bufan adjusted his technique and refined more batches, reaching Third-Rank Alchemist Great Mastery during the third batch.
• Li Bufan used his improved understanding to refine a Purple Origin Pill with three Cloud Patterns.
• Li Bufan swallowed the pill, absorbed its medicinal potency, and broke through to the seventh layer of the Qi Sea Realm.
• Li Bufan withdrew his aura and continued circulating the Five Elements Heaven Skill to stabilize his cultivation.

Li Bufan refined hundreds of Fire Seeds, raising Crimson Fire Flowing Paste to the fifth rank, and Nine Yang Body Protection absorbed it and reached Minor Mastery. He tested his enhanced abilities and suspected that refining a fifth-rank Spiritual Fire was required to advance the technique.

• Li Bufan stabilized his cultivation at the seventh level of the Qi Sea Realm and began refining the Fire Seeds Zhao Mengdong had gathered for him.
• Over three days, Li Bufan fed the first- and second-rank Fire Seeds to Crimson Fire Flowing Paste, transforming its flames from gold-red to obsidian black.
• Li Bufan fed the remaining third-rank Fire Seeds to Crimson Fire Flowing Paste, which broke through to the fifth rank.
• Nine Yang Body Protection refined Crimson Fire Flowing Paste in an hour and advanced to Minor Mastery.
• Li Bufan tested his stronger golden-purple and black Body Protection Golden Light, forming a saber and transforming the light into shapes including a giant hand, tiger, and dragon.
• Li Bufan conjectured that refining a fifth-rank Spiritual Fire was necessary for Nine Yang Body Protection to advance.