Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan learned to refine healing medicine under Yao Chen’s guidance, producing more than a thousand bottles of Blood-Coagulating Powder. Yao Chen brought the medicine to the Xiao Clan and asked Xiao Zhan to allow him to take Xiao Yan as his disciple.

• Xiao Yan practiced refining Blood-Coagulating Grass, Vitality Fruit, and Poppy Flower before combining their medicinal essences with his Bone Chilling Flame.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined the healing medicine, and Yao Chen divided it into bottles; Yao Chen judged that Xiao Yan could qualify as a second-rank alchemist after mastering the prescription.
• Xiao Yan continued practicing for several days, improving his flame control and producing 1,283 bottles of healing medicine.
• Yao Chen visited the Xiao Clan while its leaders worried about losses caused by the Jia Lie Clan, and Xiao Zhan and the elders eagerly welcomed him.
• Yao Chen presented the Blood-Coagulating Powder and asked Xiao Zhan to let him take Xiao Yan as his disciple.

Yao Chen secured the Xiao Clan an equal share of the proceeds from his healing medicine and used five Qi-Gathering Powders to persuade the Mittel Auction House to stop supplying medicinal ingredients to the Jia Lie Clan. Xiao Yan left with more ingredients and a lesson in using wealth to gain leverage, while the conflict over Wutan City's medicine market loomed closer.

• Xiao Zhan agreed to cooperate with Yao Chen, who offered the Xiao Clan half the proceeds from selling his healing medicine because Xiao Yan was his disciple.
• Yao Chen left the Xiao Clan hall as Xiao Zhan and the elders celebrated Xiao Yan's promising future as an alchemist.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that he had not yet reached First-Rank Alchemist because he could not form a true medicinal pill, then took him to the Mittel Auction House to deliver Qi-Gathering Powder and buy ingredients.
• Yao Chen offered Ya Fei five Qi-Gathering Powders in exchange for the Mittel Auction House refusing to sell medicinal ingredients to the Jia Lie Clan, and Ya Fei accepted.
• Ya Fei and Gu Ni discussed strengthening their relationship with the Xiao Clan, while Xiao Yan thanked Yao Chen and returned toward the clan.

After Xiao Yan revealed his breakthrough to his family, the Xiao Clan launched its counterattack by selling Blood-Coagulating Powder at the Jia Lie Clan’s markets. The Jia Lie Clan’s sales collapsed, and its leaders learned that the Mittel Auction House had cut off their medicinal ingredients, leaving them to seek help from Alchemist Liu Xi’s teacher.

• Xiao Zhan questioned Xiao Yan about Yao Chen and advised him to obey his teacher and study alchemy; the elders then realized Xiao Yan had become a Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Zhan and the three elders kept the Xiao Clan’s medicine and the clan hall’s events secret while quietly preparing a counterattack against the Jia Lie Clan.
• Mercenaries demonstrated Blood-Coagulating Powder at the Jia Lie Clan’s market and announced that it cost less than half as much as Rejuvenation Powder, sending customers rushing to the Xiao Clan’s markets.
• Jia Lie Bi and the Jia Lie Clan’s leaders examined the new medicine, and Liu Xi judged that its quality might come from a Fourth-Rank Alchemist.
• Jia Lie Bi learned that the Mittel Auction House had stopped selling medicinal ingredients to the Jia Lie Clan and offered to double Liu Xi’s share of the profits if he contacted his teacher; Liu Xi agreed.

Xiao Yan’s Blood-Coagulating Powder helped the Xiao Clan dominate Wutan City’s healing-medicine market, and Ya Fei revealed that the Mittel Auction House had stopped supplying the Jia Lie Clan. After recognizing Xiao Yan as the black-robed alchemist’s true identity, she agreed to keep it secret and continue cooperating with him.

• Blood-Coagulating Powder rapidly restored the Xiao Clan Market’s popularity, while the Jia Lie Clan’s Rejuvenation Powder sales and profits declined.
• Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders celebrated the Xiao Clan’s growing profits, and Xiao Zhan proposed that the clan procure its own ingredients for Blood-Coagulating Powder.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Zhan that the Mittel Auction House had stopped supplying the Jia Lie Clan because the black-robed alchemist had paid for its support of the Xiao Clan.
• Ya Fei recognized Xiao Yan’s hands as matching those of the black-robed alchemist and confronted him privately in a secluded alley.
• Xiao Yan confirmed that he was the black-robed man and that Yao Chen had refined the medicine, then asked Ya Fei to keep his identity secret.
• Ya Fei agreed to continue refusing medicinal ingredients to the Jia Lie Clan in exchange for five Qi-Gathering Powders, and she expressed interest in meeting Xiao Yan’s teacher.

Xiao Yan’s success with Blood-Coagulating Powder weakened the Jia Lie Clan, while he took Xun’er shopping until an urgent report drew him to confront Jia Lie Ao and Liu Xi. The chapter ends with Xiao Yan arriving as the Jia Lie Clan corners Xiao Yu and Xiao Ning, and his men surrounding them.

• Ya Fei invited Xiao Yan to visit the Mittel Auction House, and he left after teasing her about being glad to see his teacher.
• The Xiao Clan gained much of Wutan City’s healing-medicine market, while Jia Lie Bi struggled to secure herbs and relied on Liu Xi’s promised Fourth-Rank Alchemist teacher.
• Xun’er noticed Ya Fei’s scent on Xiao Yan, made him explain their brief contact, and then went shopping with him.
• A guard told Xiao Yan that Jia Lie Ao and Liu Xi had cornered Xiao Yu and Xiao Ning, so Xiao Yan led his men to intervene.
• Liu Xi flaunted his First-Rank Alchemist badge and threatened Xiao Yu with his Fourth-Rank Alchemist teacher, but Xiao Yan arrived and his men surrounded the Jia Lie Clan group.

Xiao Yan protected Xiao Yu from the Jia Lie Clan and defeated Liu Xi after mocking his weakness. He then accepted Jia Lie Ao’s challenge, and their fight began with Xiao Yan revealing his flames and launching Fire Fist.

• Xiao Yan ordered his men to beat the Jia Lie Clan guards who had harassed Xiao Yu, then confronted Jia Lie Ao and Liu Xi.
• Liu Xi insulted Xiao Yan and tried to attack him, but Xiao Yan stopped short of striking him, mocked his cowardice, then knocked him unconscious with Ba Ji Beng.
• Xiao Yan challenged Jia Lie Ao to fight, despite Xiao Yu’s worried objections, and Jia Lie Ao accepted with the intent to kill or cripple him.
• Jia Lie Ao attacked with his wind-attribute claw technique, while Xiao Yan ignited his blue-white flames and launched Fire Fist.

Xiao Yan defeated Jia Lie Ao with his flames, then drew Jia Lie Bi into an attack and struck him while Xiao Zhan intervened. The chapter ended with the Three Great Elders joining Xiao Zhan against the burning Jia Lie Bi.

• Xiao Yan overwhelmed Jia Lie Ao with his flames and left him badly burned on the street.
• Xiao Yan approached Jia Lie Ao with an iron rod, but Jia Lie Bi appeared and cut the rod apart to stop him.
• Xiao Yan used his flame ability to evade Jia Lie Bi's wind blade, then faced his attack head-on.
• Xiao Zhan arrived and blocked Jia Lie Bi's strike, giving Xiao Yan an opening to hit Jia Lie Bi with Fire Fist.
• Xiao Zhan ordered the Three Great Elders to attack Jia Lie Bi while the flames continued to burn him.

Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders attacked Jia Lie Bi after Xiao Yan wounded him, but Jia Lie Bi used a pill to overpower them and charge at Xiao Yan. Xiao Yan and Xun'er fused their flames to defeat him, and the Xiao Clan captured Jia Lie Bi and another elder as news of the Jia Lie Clan's crushing defeat spread through Wutan City.

• Xiao Zhan and the Three Great Elders attacked Jia Lie Bi, while the Xiao Clan elders fought the Jia Lie Clan elders and guards.
• Jia Lie Bi swallowed a pill that raised his strength and broke through the Xiao Clan's formation to rescue his men.
• Jia Lie Bi charged at Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan and Xun'er fused their golden flames to burn him nearly to death.
• Xiao Zhan praised Xiao Yan, then joined the first elder in capturing the remaining Jia Lie elder while Jia Lie Ao and Liu Xi escaped.
• Xiao Zhan offered the gathered mercenaries free Blood-Coagulating Powder, and word spread across Wutan City that Jia Lie Bi had been captured after the clan's defeat.