Chapter Summaries

Lin Ze continued winning Wind and Cloud Platform matches and met the new students after Instructor Ruo Lin returned. When Xiao Yu introduced her Xiao Clan relatives, Lin Ze realized Xiao Xun'er was missing and wondered where she was.

• Lin Ze defeated a One-Star Great Dou Master and kept building Academy points through routine matches.
• Lin Ze explained that his alchemists were attempting to refine a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill that could help him advance to Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Ze that Instructor Ruo Lin had returned and asked him to meet the new students.
• Lin Ze and Xiao Yi Xian joined Xiao Yu and her classmates, who asked Lin Ze to help them book a private room at the Wanbao Food Pavilion.
• Xiao Yu introduced Xiao Mei and Xiao Ning, and Lin Ze noticed that Xiao Xun'er was absent.

Lin Ze realized Xiao Xun'er was absent from the Xiao Clan, then spent time with Instructor Ruo Lin and the students at the Wanbao Food Pavilion. Back in his room, he used one million units of Flesh Essence to unlock the Bronze Mirror’s Resurrection feature for Death Soldiers.

• Lin Ze learned from Xiao Yu that no one named Xiao Xun'er was known in the Xiao Clan and suspected Gu Yuan had kept her in the Gu Realm after witnessing the blood-red light.
• Instructor Ruo Lin discovered Lin Ze had reached Nine-Star Dou Master and agreed that he should skip this year's Inner Academy Selection Tournament to consolidate his strength.
• Lin Ze invited Instructor Ruo Lin and the students to the Wanbao Food Pavilion, where they shared a meal of nourishing dishes.
• Lin Ze returned to the Small Courtyard, brought nourishing dishes to Little Qing Lin, and prepared to cultivate.
• Lin Ze spent one million units of Flesh Essence and unlocked Resurrection, allowing Death Soldiers to return from the mirror after their bodies perished.

Lin Ze studied the newly unlocked Resurrection Function and learned its limits and how it could restore fallen Death Soldiers. After taking the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, he compressed his Dou Qi into a Dou Crystal and broke through to Da Dou Shi.

• Lin Ze tested the Resurrection Function and learned that it could revive dead Death Soldiers without their former cultivation, with the daily limit tied to his level.
• Lin Ze received a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and instructions for taking it from the Death Soldiers.
• Lin Ze used all his daily resurrection slots, deployed the revived Death Soldiers to an outpost in the Black-Corner Region, and told Qing Lin he was going to cultivate.
• Lin Ze activated Myriad Hearts as One through the Death Soldiers and swallowed the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.
• Lin Ze compressed the energy in his Dou Qi Cyclone until it formed a Dou Crystal, breaking through to Da Dou Shi.

Lin Ze refined a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and advanced to Three-Star Da Dou Shi, gaining the ability to manifest sixteen Death Soldiers each day. A new Purple Epic Death Soldier inspired him to adjust his plan against Han Feng, which he would begin once Xiao Yi Xian prepared the poison.

• Lin Ze refined the pill’s energy steadily, breaking through to Da Dou Shi and advancing to Three-Star Da Dou Shi.
• Lin Ze considered making more Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pills for resources while preserving their scarcity and continuing long-distance trade.
• Lin Ze noted that Xiao Yi Xian had mastered two poison manuals and was developing a poison to use against Han Feng, though progress had been slow.
• Lin Ze discovered that his new rank let him manifest and resurrect sixteen Death Soldiers each day.
• Lin Ze manifested a Purple Epic Death Soldier with Assassination Art and Lowered Vigilance, and considered using its talent in his plan against Han Feng.
• Lin Ze decided to wait for Xiao Yi Xian to reach Da Dou Shi and finish the poison before beginning the plan.

Lin Ze stabilized his breakthrough to Da Dou Shi, checked on Qing Lin, and visited the Underground Ruins with Qian Yi. There, he found the Purple Gold Dragon Scale Armor and ordered the ruins turned into a secret Death Soldier base.

• Lin Ze told Qing Lin he had reached Da Dou Shi with a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and encouraged her to grow strong enough to help him.
• Lin Ze took control of Zhao Long and checked the Underground Ruins, where Qian Yi was working through the final mechanism.
• Lin Ze and Qian Yi opened the Mechanism Door and found a well-preserved chamber containing the Purple Gold Dragon Scale Armor.
• Lin Ze tested the armor and found it could withstand attacks from a Dou Wang when reinforced with Dou Qi.
• Lin Ze stored the armor in the Mirror World and ordered Qian Yi to bring in Death Soldiers skilled in casting, erase traces, and seal the ruins.

Lin Ze told Xiao Yi Xian that he had reached three-star Da Dou Shi with a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill and promised to prepare one for her when she reached seven-star Dou Master. Xiao Yi Xian arranged a meal with Instructor Ruo Lin and the others to celebrate, and the group headed to the Wanbao Food Pavilion.

• Lin Ze explained how the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill had raised him to three-star Da Dou Shi and promised Xiao Yi Xian a pill of her own when she reached seven-star Dou Master.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested telling Instructor Ruo Lin and arranged an afternoon celebration with Xiao Yu and the others.
• Lin Ze reviewed reports from his Death Soldiers, then took a Minor Wind Spirit Pill to cultivate while waiting for class to end.
• Lin Ze arrived at the academy gate with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, where Instructor Ruo Lin, Xiao Yu, Xue Ni, and the others were waiting.
• Instructor Ruo Lin reacted enviously to Lin Ze's breakthrough, then joked that she would eat her fill as the group set off for the Wanbao Food Pavilion.

Hu Gan and Hu Jia encountered Lin Ze at Wanbao Food Pavilion, where Hu Gan recognized that Lin Ze had reached at least Three Star Da Dou Shi. As Lin Ze enjoyed a meal with his companions, he considered how Wanbao Food Pavilion and Baoshi Restaurant could support his next move against Han Feng.

• Hu Gan and Hu Jia saw Lin Ze enter the VIP Passage, and Hu Gan praised his talent.
• Hu Gan told Hu Jia that Lin Ze had likely reached Three Star Da Dou Shi in just over a year, possibly with the help of a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.
• Hu Jia admitted she might not be able to catch up with Lin Ze, and Hu Gan led her into a private room at the pavilion.
• Hu Gan and Hu Jia praised the nourishing dishes while Lin Ze and his companions toasted and enjoyed their meal.
• Lin Ze reflected that Blood Crystal and Flesh Essence enhanced the dishes, and that Baoshi Restaurant in Feng City was part of his plan against Han Feng.

Lin Ze guarded Xiao Yi Xian as she cultivated in the Primeval Forest and broke through to the Da Dou Shi realm, fighting off poison-attracted Magical Beasts. Afterward, he carried her back toward Canaan City, reassuring her that he was not afraid of her Woeful Poison Body.

• Lin Ze brought Xiao Yi Xian to the Primeval Forest to take the Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill without damaging the academy.
• As Xiao Yi Xian's Woeful Poison Power seeped out during her breakthrough, Poison Attribute Magical Beasts converged on the valley, and Lin Ze killed them with his saber.
• Xiao Yi Xian broke through to the Da Dou Shi realm, and the Grey-Purple Mist around her faded.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried that her Woeful Poison Body might hurt Lin Ze, but he picked her up and flew with her toward Canaan City using Purple Cloud Wings.

Lin Ze finalized his plan to control Han Feng using Xiao Yi Xian’s fast-acting knockout poison and a Soul-Seizing Puppet Pill. In Feng City, Han Feng arrived at Baoshi Restaurant to enjoy its nourishing dishes, unaware that Lin Ze’s preparations had made the restaurant part of a trap.

• Lin Ze reached six-star Da Dou Shi and reviewed the plan he had developed over two months with the Death Soldiers.
• Lin Ze and Xiao Yi Xian settled on poison that could quickly knock out even a Dou Huang expert, allowing the Soul-Seizing Puppet Pill to be used on an unconscious target.
• Lin Ze built up the Death Soldier presence in Feng City, sending more than fifty skilled Death Soldiers and several hundred Ordinary Death Soldiers there.
• Han Feng arrived at Baoshi Restaurant, where a Death Soldier using the Flattery Art welcomed him and escorted him to his private Small Courtyard.
• Han Feng ate the restaurant’s nourishing dishes and recalled that he had spared Baoshi Restaurant after learning the food came from Canaan City through Wanbao Food Pavilion.

Lin Ze used poisoned nourishing dishes and Soul-Calming Incense to knock Han Feng unconscious, then fed him a Soul-Seizing Puppet Pill. The pill’s power merged with Han Feng’s body, and Lin Ze believed the plan had succeeded.

• Lin Ze had a Death Soldier offer Han Feng Soul-Calming Incense, and Han Feng agreed to light it.
• The incense triggered poison hidden in Han Feng’s body, and he collapsed before he could take an Antidote Pill.
• Lin Ze revealed that he had prepared the courtyard with a barrier to contain Han Feng’s Heavenly Flame and the explosion.
• Lin Ze infused the Soul-Seizing Puppet Pill with his own Soul Power and placed it in Han Feng’s mouth.
• Lin Ze sensed that the pill’s power had merged with Han Feng’s body and taken effect in his head.

Lin Ze successfully used the Soul-Seizing Puppet Pill to control Han Feng and took his Storage Ring before ordering him to learn and make the Life-Devouring Pill. After arranging for Han Feng’s work and reflecting on how to preserve the control, Lin Ze finally went to sleep.

• Lin Ze extinguished the lingering Heavenly Flames and had Han Feng awaken under the Dou Wang Death Soldier’s watch.
• Lin Ze ordered Han Feng to remove the Soul Mark from his Storage Ring, then took the ring and had valuable items removed while keeping the alchemy-related belongings.
• Lin Ze gave Han Feng the Life-Devouring Pill recipe and ordered him to learn it and make the pills, with Death Soldiers supplying any missing materials.
• Lin Ze arranged for a Death Soldier to accompany Han Feng and deliver the finished pills to the Mirror World.
• Back at Jia Nan Academy, Lin Ze reviewed the risks of controlling Han Feng, concluded that repeated pill-making should not provoke strong resistance, and fell asleep.

After bringing Han Feng under control, Lin Ze benefited from a cultivation speed bonus above 100% and seized a rare opportunity to advance from Six-Star Da Dou Shi. He agreed to enter Jia Nan Academy’s Class Competition while hoping its prize might help him obtain more Flesh Essence.

• Lin Ze revived the death soldier killed by Han Feng and noted that his more than four thousand death soldiers had raised his Cultivation Speed Bonus above 100%.
• Lin Ze sensed a breakthrough opportunity, cultivated with pills, and advanced from Six-Star Da Dou Shi.
• Qing Lin asked why Lin Ze seemed to break through so often, and Lin Ze pointed out that she had advanced five minor levels to Three Star Dou Practitioner in three months.
• Qing Lin told Lin Ze that Xiao Yu had taken Xiao Yi Xian and her clansmen to the Primeval Forest, and that Instructor Ruo Lin wanted to know if he would enter the Class Competition.
• Lin Ze agreed to join the Advanced Tournament and hoped its prize might help him obtain a high-tier Magical Beast and gather Flesh Essence toward unlocking the Bronze Mirror’s next function.

Lin Ze entered the Class Competition’s Advanced Tournament and overwhelmed the other contestants with his Seven-Star Dou Grandmaster strength. He won the melee for Yellow Class 2 after the remaining students surrendered.

• Lin Ze told Instructor Ruo Lin that he had advanced to Seven-Star Dou Grandmaster, and she praised his rapid growth.
• After the Basic Tournament ended, Lin Ze joined the Advanced Tournament melee and was cheered by students, especially those from Yellow Class 2.
• When the referee began the match, Lin Ze used his speed and Mad Lion Chant to defeat several contestants and reveal his strength as a Seven-Star Dou Grandmaster.
• Lin Ze offered the remaining contestants a choice between surrendering and trying to fight together, then knocked them off the Arena when they refused to give up.
• The last opponent surrendered, and Lin Ze’s Yellow Class 2 seniors also conceded, ending the Advanced Tournament.

Lin Ze won the Advanced Tournament and received a large supply of Magical Beast flesh, which he converted into Flesh Essence. Meanwhile, he kept the Black-Corner Region's four rival powers embroiled in conflict and forced Han Feng to focus on refining pills, leaving the story with Han Feng having made six Life-Devouring Pills in a month.

• Lin Ze won the Advanced Tournament, and the crowd hailed him as the Outer Academy's number one.
• Lin Ze asked Instructor Ruo Lin to exchange his reward for High-Tier Magical Beast flesh, and she secured two Tier 5 and five Tier 4 Magical Beasts for him.
• Lin Ze converted the beasts into nearly eighty thousand units of Flesh Essence.
• Lin Ze used his Death Soldiers to keep the Black Iron Sect, the Desire Maiden Sect, Corpse Demon Villa, and White Bone Mountain fighting each other.
• The Black Iron Sect repeatedly sought Han Feng's help to mediate, but he turned them away while following Lin Ze's orders to refine pills.
• Han Feng refined six Life-Devouring Pills in one month, surpassing the alchemy speed described in the Original Work.

Lin Ze sent six Dou King Death Soldiers to conquer the Yunmeng Kingdom and secure a resource hub for medicinal materials. After the three mercenary leaders were killed, five kings remained to rule Yunmeng and develop the region.

• Lin Ze gave five Life-Devouring Pills to Death Soldiers near the Jia Ma Empire and sent six Dou Kings to bring down Yunmeng.
• Lin Ze led the group to Golden Blade City, where Zhao Hu revealed their power to Jin Man, the Golden Blade Mercenary Group's Regiment Commander.
• Lin Ze's Death Soldiers defeated Jin Man despite his attempt to flee and killed him after he begged for his life.
• Three days later, Lin Ze's forces had executed all three Regiment Commanders and replaced Yunmeng's rulers.
• Lin Ze left five Dou Kings in Yunmeng to stabilize the region and seek a resource hub while Zhao Hu returned to the Jia Ma Empire.

After consolidating control of the Yunmeng Kingdom, Lin Ze sent the defeated mercenaries to hunt Magical Beasts in the Yunmeng Peaks. He then led four Dou King Death Soldiers into the mountains to target a beast nearing Tier 6.

• Lin Ze used the Death Soldiers to restore order in the Yunmeng Kingdom and put the surviving members of the Three Great Mercenary Groups to work mining or hunting Magical Beasts.
• Lin Ze divided the mercenaries into squads and imposed harsh hunting quotas for their assignments in the Yunmeng Peaks.
• Lin Ze sensed one aura nearing Tier 6, four Tier 5 auras, and countless Tier 4 auras in the mountains, and calculated that hunting them could yield hundreds of thousands or more units of Flesh Essence.
• Lin Ze recalled that the Monster Corpses in Han Feng's forces' treasury had given him nearly two million units of Flesh Essence, bringing his reserves to nearly four million.
• Xiao Yi Xian supplied the hunting squads with poison that required an Antidote Liquid every three days, while Lin Ze prepared to enter the mountains.
• Lin Ze headed into the Yunmeng Peaks with four Dou King Death Soldiers to hunt the Magical Beast nearing Tier 6.

Lin Ze and the Death Soldiers attacked the strongest Magical Beasts in the Yunmeng Peaks, killing the Cloud Wing Tiger and the other Tier 5 beasts. Lin Ze found the Mystic Wind Crystal in the tiger’s cave and planned to use its energy to aid his breakthrough to Dou Ling.

• The Cloud Wing Tiger confronted Lin Ze’s group and tried to summon the other Magical Beasts, but Lin Ze ordered an immediate attack.
• The Death Soldiers combined their Dou Skills into a Fire Dance Whirlwind that trapped and killed the Cloud Wing Tiger.
• Lin Ze struck the Green Scaled Single-Horned Python with Extreme Wind Slash and sent the Death Soldiers to intercept the other Tier 5 Magical Beasts.
• The Death Soldiers slaughtered the remaining Tier 5 Magical Beasts, while Lin Ze entered the Cloud Wing Tiger’s cave to search for its Mystic Wind Crystal.
• Lin Ze cleared away the crystal’s lingering cloud barrier and took the Mystic Wind Crystal, intending to use its energy to improve his chances of reaching Dou Ling.

Lin Ze established the Bronze Hall to organize his Death Soldiers and planned to expand their hunting operations in the Jia Ma Empire. After clearing the high-tier Magical Beasts from the Yunmeng Peaks, he considered turning the area into a medicinal-materials resource base.

• Lin Ze stored the Mystic Wind Crystal for the Death Soldiers to study and organized his forces into the Bronze Hall, divided into five functional halls.
• Lin Ze kept the Bronze Hall secret, set up branch halls in the Jia Ma Empire and Black-Corner Region, and used the Ten Thousand Medicines Trading Firm and Wanbao Food Pavilion as its public-facing forces.
• Lin Ze planned to send twelve Dou Wang Death Soldiers to hunt the Amethyst Winged Lion King after Han Feng refined six more Life-Devouring Pills.
• Lin Ze led the Dou Wang Death Soldiers out of the Yunmeng Peaks after they cleared its high-tier Magical Beasts, leaving the Three Great Mercenary Groups to hunt the remaining beasts.
• Lin Ze considered using the cleared Yunmeng Peaks to cultivate medicinal materials with Death Soldiers from the Azure Dragon Hall.

Lin Ze and ten Dou Wang Death Soldiers attacked the Amethyst Winged Lion King's lair and killed the Tier 6 Magical Beast, gathering its valuable materials. The overwhelming battle alarmed Jia Ma Empire's powerful families and left the Imperial Family uneasy about the Mysterious Alchemist's growing influence.

• Lin Ze led ten Dou Wang Death Soldiers into the eastern Magical Beast Mountain Range, while wondering whether Yun Yun had already visited the Amethyst Winged Lion King.
• Lin Ze and the Death Soldiers launched a surprise attack on the Amethyst Winged Lion King and fought off the Tier 5 Magical Beasts guarding its territory.
• The Death Soldiers overwhelmed the Amethyst Winged Lion King, and Lin Ze struck the final blow, taking its horn and collecting valuable materials from the lairs.
• Powerful figures across Jia Ma Empire sensed the battle, and the top families felt relieved they had not provoked the Ten Thousand Medicines Trading Firm.
• Mite'er Tengshan recalled that the Mittel Family had apologized and negotiated with the firm, while the Jia Ma Imperial Family worried about the Mysterious Alchemist's power.

Lin Ze met with Princess Yaoye, who sought to learn the intentions of the mysterious alchemist behind the Ten Thousand Medicines Trading Firm. After agreeing on favorable terms for the firm, Lin Ze turned his attention to Yun Yun, who had come to ask for the Purple Spirit Crystal needed for Nalan Yanran’s pill.

• Princess Yaoye questioned Lin Ze about the ten Dou Kings and the mysterious alchemist’s plans, but he said the alchemist cared only about his disciples and collecting Monster Corpses.
• Yaoye offered to halve the Ten Thousand Medicines Trading Firm’s taxes and open the army’s Magical Beast resource stores to it in exchange for the alchemist’s neutrality.
• Lin Ze watched Yaoye leave and focused on Yun Yun, who had arrived at the firm in Wutan City.
• Yun Yun sought the Purple Spirit Crystal of the Amethyst Winged Lion King, the final ingredient for her disciple Nalan Yanran’s pill.