Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng, a transmigrator living as a porter in Wutan City, took a day off to attempt a breakthrough and successfully became a one-star Dou Zhe. He left the mountain without a Cultivation Method and had yet to decide how to obtain one before Xiao Yan claimed the Jia Ma Empire’s treasures.

• Lin Feng asked the yellow-robed trading-house manager for a day off and received permission after pleading.
• Lin Feng went to a hidden cave outside Wutan City to attempt to break through from the ninth stage of Dou Power.
• Lin Feng compressed his Dou Qi Energy and successfully condensed a Dou Qi Vortex on his first try, becoming a fifteen-year-old Dou Zhe.
• Lin Feng inspected his new vortex and realized that he still needed a Cultivation Method to convert his attribute-less Dou Qi.
• Lin Feng considered Jia Nan Academy and the Misty Cloud Sect but rejected both options, then headed back to Wutan City.

Lin Feng went to the Xiao Family Marketplace hoping to obtain the Black Iron Piece containing a Mysterious Tier Low-grade Dou Skill, but Xiao Yan threatened him and took it for one hundred Gold Coins. Back in his cave, Lin Feng discovered his Fire-Wood Attribute and realized he had the talent to become an Alchemist.

• Lin Feng heard that the Misty Cloud Sect had broken off Xiao Yan’s engagement and recalled the Black Iron Piece at the Xiao Family Marketplace.
• Lin Feng bought a crystal ball and took the Black Iron Piece from a stall by pretending it would prop up his table.
• Xiao Yan stopped Lin Feng and, after threatening him, forced him to hand over the Black Iron Piece for one hundred Gold Coins.
• Lin Feng returned to his cave, tested his Dou Qi, and discovered both Fire and Wood attributes.

Lin Feng assassinated Liu Xi with a homemade black-powder explosive and escaped with the alchemist’s possessions. At a cave, he discovered a rich haul of cultivation materials and began practicing Liu Xi’s cultivation method.

• The shopkeeper told Lin Feng that he had secured a profitable arrangement with First-grade Alchemist Liu Xi after giving him a snake woman.
• Lin Feng resigned from the trading house after delivering herbs to Liu Xi’s mansion, then hid beside the road Liu Xi would travel to visit his teacher.
• Lin Feng threw an explosive bag at Liu Xi and his four guards, killing Liu Xi and several men in the blast.
• Lin Feng looted Liu Xi’s Storage Ring, scrolls, and Gold Coin Card, then fled on a horse he had prepared.
• Lin Feng inspected the Storage Ring in a cave, found a Mysterious Tier Mid-grade Crimson Fire Art and other alchemy supplies, and began cultivating.

Lin Feng arrived in Black Rock City, advanced to Two-star Dou Zhe, and earned Alchemist Apprentice certification at the Alchemist Guild. He rented an alchemy room and prepared to begin practicing with his medicinal cauldron.

• Lin Feng traveled to Black Rock City and settled into an inn, where he studied alchemist books from Liu Xi's Storage Ring.
• After a month of cultivation and study, Lin Feng broke through to Two-star Dou Zhe and headed to the Alchemist Guild.
• Lin Feng passed the Guild’s Dou Qi and Soul Perception tests, and Master Otto issued him an Alchemist Apprentice Badge.
• Lin Feng rented an alchemy room, brought out his two-vent medicinal cauldron, and examined it before beginning his practice.

Lin Feng learned to refine medicinal ingredients and successfully made Spring Return Liquid, then tried and failed to produce a proper Blood Stopping Pill. He left the chapter unsure how to improve, but rejected the idea of taking an alchemy master because it would disrupt his plans.

• Lin Feng used his medicine cauldron and Wood Power to refine Azure Green Flower, Spring Return Grass, and Hundred Treasures Vine, then fused them into a bottle of Spring Return Liquid after several failed attempts.
• After discovering that seven days had passed, Lin Feng extended his inn stay and traded a Qi Recovery Pill for thirty sets of Blood Stopping Pill ingredients at the Alchemist Guild market.
• Lin Feng spent half a day using all thirty sets of ingredients but produced only a questionable dark-red pill with excessive Pill Toxin.
• Lin Feng considered taking an alchemist as his master but rejected the idea because it could interfere with his plans and his future trip to Jia Nan Academy.

Lin Feng left Black Rock City for Qingshan Town to search for a cave containing a Flying Dou Skill, and he found a rare Blood Lotus Essence at Myriad Medicine Zhai. There, he met Xiao Yi Xian and began considering how her Calamity Poison Body might benefit him.

• Lin Feng gave his former employer two bottles of Purple Orchid Spirit Liquid as payment and said he was leaving Black Rock City.
• After several days of travel, Lin Feng arrived in Qingshan Town to search the Monster Mountain Range for the cave containing the Flying Dou Skill.
• At Myriad Medicine Zhai, Lin Feng recognized a piece of Yellow Lotus Essence as rare Blood Lotus Essence and bought it for one hundred gold coins.
• Lin Feng saw Xiao Yi Xian treating wounded mercenaries and learned she was a physician employed by Myriad Medicine Zhai.
• Lin Feng recognized Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body and considered becoming her Dao companion so he could gain the support of a future Dou Zong expert.

Lin Feng joined the Myriad Medicine House herb-gathering party to enter the Monster Mountain Range with Xiao Yi Xian and search for a cave containing a Flying Dou Skill. The party set out under the protection of mercenaries, including Mu Li's Wolf Head group, as Lin Feng studied the terrain.

• Lin Feng stored the Blood Lotus Essence, rested at an inn, and headed for the Monster Mountain Range the next morning.
• Lin Feng learned that Xiao Yi Xian was leading a Myriad Medicine House herb-gathering party and earned a place by demonstrating that he was a Two-star Dou Zhe.
• Lin Feng joined the party, which traveled into the forest with guards and mercenaries watching for danger.
• Mu Li approached Xiao Yi Xian, was politely rejected, and then ordered the Wolf Head Mercenary Group to stay alert.
• After Xiao Yi Xian ordered the party onward, Lin Feng continued observing the terrain while searching for the direction of the cave.

Lin Feng found the hidden cave containing valuable items, including a Fragmented Map, and confronted Xiao Yi Xian as she climbed out after gathering herbs there. The chapter ended with him threatening her to hand over what she had taken.

• Lin Feng became captain of the scouting party after an ambush killed or injured its other members, then guided the main herb-gathering party to a clearing to rest.
• Lin Feng slipped into a nearby grove and spotted a cave hidden behind branches on a cliff, recognizing it as the cave containing a Flying Dou Skill.
• Lin Feng found a rope tied to a tree above the cave and realized someone was still below when the rope tugged.
• Xiao Yi Xian climbed up from the cliff, and Lin Feng demanded that she surrender the cave's contents, including the Fragmented Map.
• Xiao Yi Xian denied finding a cave and offered her bamboo basket, but Lin Feng threatened to scar her face unless she handed over the items.

Lin Feng confronted Xiao Yi Xian about a hidden cave, then agreed to explore it with her that night after learning no one had entered. When they returned to the mercenary group, Mu Li noticed Lin Feng and blocked his way.

• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had found a hidden cave behind a strange tree but denied entering it, and Lin Feng pulled her up from the cliff.
• Xiao Yi Xian tried to attack Lin Feng with Sleeping Grass and then kicked at him, but Lin Feng subdued her and threatened to leave her near a He Yuan nest.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Feng the cave appeared to belong to a powerful predecessor and showed no signs of having been entered.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian agreed to return to the cave that night after the herb-gathering team settled in for the evening.
• Mu Li saw Lin Feng returning with Xiao Yi Xian, asked who he was, and blocked Lin Feng as he passed.

Mu Li failed to recruit Lin Feng and secretly ordered Ma Si to kill him, while the herb-gathering party reached a medicinal-herb-filled basin and made camp. After nightfall, a graceful figure slipped into the forest, and Lin Feng followed her as the treasure hunt began.

• Mu Li offered Lin Feng a place in the Wolf Head Mercenary Group, but Lin Feng refused, so Mu Li ordered Ma Si to arrange his death that night.
• The herb-gathering party reached a vast basin filled with medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yi Xian directed the group to set up camp.
• Lin Feng explored the basin’s outskirts, found only low-grade herbs, and returned to camp.
• After night fell, a graceful figure sneaked out of the camp into the forest, and Lin Feng followed her.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian descended the cliff at night to reach a hidden cave, staying wary of magical beasts. Just as they neared the entrance, a Rock Snake ambushed them, and Lin Feng identified it.

• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to descend together, with Lin Feng refusing to trust Xiao Yi Xian enough to let her lead.
• Lin Feng tied a rope to a tree and carried Xiao Yi Xian down the cliff while she held poison ready.
• Xiao Yi Xian searched for the cave entrance as they descended, and Lin Feng used her torch to spot it below.
• A Rock Snake lunged from the darkness, and Lin Feng kicked away from the cliff to evade it before identifying the beast.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian reached a hidden cave after incapacitating a Rock Snake and opened the stone door to a chamber filled with treasure. The chapter left them approaching a flowerbed of valuable herbs alongside gold and three locked stone boxes.

• Lin Feng told Xiao Yi Xian to scatter medicinal powder at the Rock Snake, and she knocked it from the air into the valley.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian cleared the cave entrance and entered the dark passage together.
• Lin Feng found a mechanism beneath a glowing stone door and opened it.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian entered a chamber containing a skeleton, three locked stone boxes, and hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian hurried toward a flowerbed of precious herbs in the chamber's final corner.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian discovered rare medicinal herbs in the stone chamber and agreed to divide them in exchange for Lin Feng’s pills and a chance for Xiao Yi Xian to watch him refine pills. After gathering the herbs, Lin Feng found a scroll hidden inside the skeleton’s arm bone.

• Lin Feng chose the Ice Spirit Flame Grass and offered Xiao Yi Xian pills and medicinal liquid in exchange for first choice of the herbs.
• Xiao Yi Xian inspected Lin Feng’s pills, learned he was an alchemist, and asked to watch him refine pills; Lin Feng agreed.
• Lin Feng carefully stored the Ice Spirit Flame Grass, then handed Xiao Yi Xian a shovel to gather the remaining herbs.
• Lin Feng took the key from the skeleton and broke open its arm bone, revealing a small scroll hidden inside.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian divided the cave’s treasures, including medicinal herbs and three scrolls, while Lin Feng secretly kept a Fragmented Map he found on a skeleton. They left the cave with their discoveries and a better understanding of each other’s intentions.

• Lin Feng found a Fragmented Map in the skeleton’s arm and secretly stored it, then invited Xiao Yi Xian to open the stone boxes with him.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave Lin Feng the medicinal herbs, and he gave her a low-grade Storage Ring before they opened the first box.
• Lin Feng found the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture and gave it to Xiao Yi Xian, then revealed he had noticed her hiding green powder.
• Lin Feng opened the second box and claimed the Flying Dou Skill, Eagle's Wings, while Xiao Yi Xian accepted that it was his to keep.
• Lin Feng found the Roaring Lion Chant in the last box, kept the scroll, and offered Xiao Yi Xian more of the cave’s Gold Coins.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian were ambushed in the cave by Mu Li and his mercenaries, who wanted the treasures and Xiao Yi Xian. They escaped the blocked entrance using medicine powder, and Lin Feng confronted Mu Li with his Crimson Fire Palm.

• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian divided the Gold Coins, buried the bones, and prepared to leave the cave.
• Mu Li arrived with more than a dozen mercenaries after tracing the rope to the cave and demanded the treasures and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian scattered medicine powder through the chamber, and Lin Feng struck the mercenaries guarding the entrance as they fled.
• Mu Li blocked the passage and attacked Lin Feng with his Wood Hardening skill.
• Lin Feng met Mu Li's attack with his Crimson Fire Palm.

Lin Feng defeated Mu Li and escaped the cave with Xiao Yi Xian on her Blue Eagle while the Wolf Head Mercenary Group pursued them. Once they were airborne, Xiao Yi Xian said she would return to the herb-gathering team, believing Mu Li would not dare harm her there.

• Lin Feng broke Mu Li's fists in their clash, then grabbed Xiao Yi Xian and fled toward the cave exit.
• Mu Li ordered his mercenaries to pursue Lin Feng and told them to signal the men waiting above the cliff.
• Xiao Yi Xian summoned her first-tier Blue Eagle with a bamboo flute and told Lin Feng it could carry them away.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian reached the cave entrance, where mercenaries waited above the cliff, and mounted the arriving Blue Eagle.
• The Blue Eagle swept arrows away with a gust and carried them beyond reach as Lin Feng glared at Mu Li below.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Feng she would return to the herb-gathering team, where Mu Li would not dare attack her.

Lin Feng parted ways with Xiao Yi Xian and stayed in the Monster Mountain Range to train and prepare to take revenge on the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. He tested his combat skills by killing a Black Iron Python with Roaring Lion Chant.

• Lin Feng told Xiao Yi Xian he would remain in the Monster Mountain Range and eventually destroy the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.
• Xiao Yi Xian left Lin Feng near the herb-gathering party and gave him medicinal powder for self-defense.
• After dawn, Lin Feng watched the party depart and vowed to make Mu Li repay their grudge.
• Lin Feng approached a Black Iron Python as it preyed on a Greenwood Rat and attacked it with Roaring Lion Chant.
• Lin Feng's energy lion struck the Black Iron Python's head, killing it.

Lin Feng found a secure cave beneath a waterfall and began studying the high-level Profound Tier Flying Dou Skill, Eagle's Wings, also known as Purple Cloud Wings. When he touched the scroll, the Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul attacked his mind.

• Lin Feng killed a Nine-Star Dou Practitioner-level Black Iron Python with the Roaring Lion Chant and stored its Magic Core.
• Lin Feng found a waterfall with caves, chose one as his cultivation base, and blocked its entrance with boulders.
• Lin Feng opened the Flying Dou Skill scroll and learned it had been made from the wings of a fifth-rank Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle.
• Lin Feng touched the wings on the scroll, and the eagle's remnant soul cried out and pierced into his mind.

Lin Feng survived the Purple Cloud Eagle's soul attack and successfully cultivated the Purple Cloud Wings, then tested their flight and found they consumed a great deal of Dou Qi. After studying a Fragmented Map depicting the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, he planned to master his new techniques before exploring farther into the Monster Mountain Range.

• Lin Feng endured the Purple Cloud Eagle's remnant soul and absorbed the eagle wings, which formed tattoos on his back and manifested as the Purple Cloud Wings.
• Lin Feng flew outside the cave to test his wings, then landed by the waterfall and concluded that their high Dou Qi consumption made them useful only in emergencies.
• Lin Feng restored his Dou Qi, sorted his Medicinal Herbs into Jade Boxes, and examined the Fragmented Map's image of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.
• Lin Feng decided to gather more Fragmented Maps and venture deeper into the Monster Mountain Range after mastering the Roaring Lion Chant and Purple Cloud Wings.
• Lin Feng took out his spear and began practicing the Roaring Lion Chant.

Lin Feng killed a wounded Second-tier Blizzard Ape after luring it into bleeding heavily, but the fight left him badly injured and freezing. After taking the ape’s Magic Core, he heard searchers nearby looking for him and fled with little Dou Qi remaining.

• Lin Feng stole the Spirit Returning Red Fruits from a tree guarded by a Blizzard Ape, then fled when the injured Second-tier beast returned.
• Lin Feng turned to attack the ape’s abdominal wound with Crimson Fire Palm, but it struck him and sent him flying.
• Lin Feng lured the ape into chasing him while its wound bled, then defeated it with Roaring Lion Chant and finished it with another Crimson Fire Palm.
• Lin Feng extracted his first Second-tier Magic Core from the ape, while cold Qi and his injuries threatened his life.
• Lin Feng heard searchers nearby discussing a one-hundred-thousand-Gold-Coin reward for finding him, so he stored the Magic Core and corpse and fled.