Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ce brought Yun Yun and Xiao Yan to the Misty Cloud Sect after sensing that a Soul Hall protector was hiding there and had tampered with Yun Shan’s soul. When Xiao Ce exposed the hidden protector, it revealed itself and threatened the two Xiao men.

• Xiao Ce told Yun Yun and Xiao Yan that a Soul Hall protector was inside the Misty Cloud Sect and explained how Soul Hall could control people by altering their souls.
• Yun Yun decided to warn Yun Shan, but Xiao Ce cautioned that they might alert the hidden protector and offered to accompany her to check on her teacher.
• Yun Yun secretly brought Xiao Ce and Xiao Yan to Yun Shan’s secluded dwelling, where Yun Shan questioned the two visitors.
• Xiao Ce told Yun Shan that someone had tampered with his soul and pointed out that the culprit was hiding nearby.
• Protector Wu revealed himself from behind Yun Shan and threatened Xiao Ce and Xiao Yan.

Xiao Ce captured Protector Wu and discovered the Soul Hall protector had planted a mind-twisting brand in Yun Shan’s soul. He removed the brand, leaving Yun Shan enduring severe pain as the chapter ended.

• Yun Shan ordered Yun Yun to leave, but Protector Wu insisted she stay while Xiao Ce revealed he could deal with him.
• Xiao Ce appeared behind Protector Wu, crushed his head, captured his escaping soul, and tortured it with the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Protector Wu threatened that Yun Shan would die if he was killed, but Xiao Ce detected a brand in Yun Shan’s soul and sealed Protector Wu inside a jade bottle.
• Xiao Ce used his soul power to cut the brand out of Yun Shan’s soul, causing Yun Shan to sweat and flush with pain.

Xiao Ce healed Yun Shan, and Yun Yun brought him and Xiao Yan to the Misty Cloud Sect treasury, where they chose rewards. After Xiao Yan left, Xiao Ce and Yun Yun were interrupted by Nalan Yanran, who grew suspicious that Yun Yun was hiding someone in her pavilion.

• Xiao Ce healed Yun Shan’s soul, and Yun Shan invited him to stay and offered both guests anything they wanted from the Misty Cloud Sect treasury.
• Yun Yun led Xiao Ce and Xiao Yan to the treasury, where Xiao Yan chose a movement Dou Technique and medicinal herbs while Xiao Ce took a seventh-tier metal-attribute Magic Core.
• Xiao Yan left for the Nalan Family to help Nalan Jie remove his Brand Poison, while Xiao Ce followed Yun Yun to her pavilion.
• Xiao Ce and Yun Yun became intimate, but Nalan Yanran arrived to ask Yun Yun for cultivation guidance.
• Yun Yun tried to keep Nalan Yanran from looking into the pavilion, making Nalan Yanran suspect that her teacher was hiding a man inside.

Nalan Yanran suspected that Yun Yun was hiding a man after spotting a red mark and learning that two young men had visited the treasury with her. Xiao Ce left the Misty Cloud Sect for the Alchemist Guild to find the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes, and recognized it in a broken jade fragment at a stall.

• Nalan Yanran noticed a red mark beneath Yun Yun's collarbone and began investigating whether outsiders had entered the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Yun met Xiao Ce at the pool and worried that Nalan Yanran might discover their relationship, while Xiao Ce promised she would live for thousands of years.
• Nalan Yanran questioned the treasury elder, learned that Yun Yun had visited with two young men, and concluded that one was her mysterious master's husband.
• Xiao Ce carried Yun Yun back to her bedchamber, then went to the Alchemist Guild's Taobao trading area to seek the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes.
• Xiao Ce recognized the black broken jade fragment at a thin man's stall and offered to buy everything there, but frowned when the seller asked for three tier-three pills.

Xiao Ce acquired the jade piece containing the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes and reunited with Ya Fei, who agreed to help manage his Black-Corner Domain affairs. After Ya Fei publicized his identity as a tier-seven alchemist, the Jia Ma Empire's major forces began sending women to seek his favor.

• Xiao Ce traded a Crimson Blood Ganoderma for everything on the gaunt man's stall, including the jade piece containing the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Changes.
• Xiao Ce returned to the Mittel Family, where Ya Fei teased him about Yun Yun and later celebrated a breakthrough after spending time with him.
• Xiao Ce invited Ya Fei to manage commercial affairs for his force in the Black-Corner Domain, and she accepted.
• Ya Fei told Xiao Ce that people had been asking about him, and he allowed her to release information about him.
• Ya Fei revealed that Xiao Ce was a tier-seven alchemist, prompting Jia Xingtian and other major forces to send women to the Mittel Family.

Xiao Yan visited the Nalan Clan, removed Nalan Jie's Brand Poison, and received the Seven Illusion Green Spirit Saliva. After learning Xiao Yan had surpassed her and helped her grandfather, Nalan Yanran set out to thank him at the Mittel Family.

• Nalan Su welcomed Xiao Yan, who used Yao Lao's possession and Heavenly Flames to remove Nalan Jie's Brand Poison in minutes.
• Xiao Yan obtained the Seven Illusion Green Spirit Saliva, and Yao Lao said refining it into a pill could help Xiao Yan's soul reach the Spirit Realm.
• Nalan Su and Nalan Jie learned that a young seventh-tier alchemist and Dou Zong behind the Mittel Family favored women, and decided to send eligible women from the clan to seek his favor.
• Nalan Yanran returned after learning her grandfather's Brand Poison had been removed, and Nalan Su told her Xiao Yan had done it and had grown stronger than her.
• Nalan Yanran said she did not regret breaking off the engagement, but went to the Mittel Family to thank Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan returned to the Mittel Family and learned that Xiao Ce’s identity had drawn crowds hoping to curry favor, while Xiao Ce arranged an exchange meeting to trade treasures for alchemy. Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Ce as the mysterious husband of her master, leaving her convinced she had uncovered the truth.

• Xiao Yan envied the women gathered at the Mittel manor but told Yao Lao that his goals were cultivation, restoring Yao Lao’s body, seeking justice from the Yao Clan, and rebuilding the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Ce dismissed Xiao Yi Xian’s teasing and asked Ya Fei to announce a four-party exchange meeting where he would refine fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-tier pills for suitable rewards.
• Fa Ma learned that the Mittel Family’s mysterious young Dou Zong was a seventh-tier alchemist and hoped to receive his guidance.
• Nalan Yanran thanked Xiao Yan for saving her grandfather and learned that he had returned to the Imperial Capital with his cousin, Xiao Ce.
• Nalan Yanran connected Xiao Ce to the mysterious husband of her master and concluded that she had discovered his identity.

Nalan Yanran teased Yun Yun into revealing her feelings for Xiao Ce, then asked how they had met. Yun Yun recounted their encounter in the Tagor Desert, presenting Xiao Ce as her rescuer and blaming Yue Mei’s schemes for their intimacy.

• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that Xiao Yan had removed Elder Nalan’s Brand Poison with his Heavenly Flame, surprising Yun Yun.
• Nalan Yanran hinted that she had seen Xiao Ce at the Mittel Family and tricked Yun Yun into admitting he had been in her pavilion.
• Nalan Yanran pretended she wanted to pursue Xiao Ce, and Yun Yun anxiously objected and called him a poor match.
• Nalan Yanran revealed that her supposed love at first sight was a joke and teased Yun Yun for exposing her feelings.
• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran how she met Xiao Ce in the Tagor Desert, describing him as her rescuer and Yue Mei as the cause of their intimacy.

Nalan Yanran learned that Xiao Ce’s strength far exceeded what she had imagined, while the Jia Ma Empire’s major factions gathered at the Mittel Family for the exchange meeting. The arrival of the Misty Cloud Sect and Xiao Yi Xian’s group revealed powerful figures and left Nalan Jie suspecting Xiao Yan was connected to the mysterious Dou Zong.

• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that Xiao Ce had concealed his strength and dismissed Dou Emperor as too weak, leading Nalan Yanran to conclude that he might be a Dou Zong.
• Three days later, representatives of the major powers gathered at the Mittel Family’s square for the exchange meeting, and Mu Chen and Nalan Jie discussed Nalan Yanran and the Mu Family’s hopes for a match with Xiao Ce.
• Jia Xingtian recognized Yun Shan’s breakthrough to Dou Zong when Yun Shan arrived with Yun Leng, Gu He, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, Ya Fei, Teng Shan, and Xiao Yan arrived, surprising the crowd and drawing Gu He’s attention to Queen Medusa’s survival.
• Nalan Jie and Nalan Su suspected Xiao Yan was connected to the mysterious Dou Zong, while Nalan Su regretted that Xiao Yan could have become the Nalan Family’s son-in-law.

Xiao Ce arrived at the Four Directions Exchange Meeting and offered rare pills in exchange for treasures, drawing strong interest from the Imperial Capital’s factions. Gu He recognized Xiao Ce as the man who had taken Yun Yun from him and painfully realized that Yun Yun had fallen for him.

• Mu Chen asked Nalan Jie about Xiao Yan, and Nalan Jie hinted that Xiao Yan had nearly become his grandson-in-law.
• Nalan Yanran asked Yun Yun when her supposed admirer Xiao Ce would arrive, while Yun Yun remembered that Yanran had fabricated the relationship.
• Xiao Ce arrived by walking through the air, and Gu He recognized him as the man who had once knocked him unconscious in the Snake-People Tribe.
• Gu He realized Xiao Ce was Yun Yun’s object of affection and blamed himself for bringing her to the Tagor Desert.
• Xiao Ce announced that he had pills including the Green Nether Longevity Pill and the Sect Breaking Pill, exciting Jia Xingtian and the other attendees.
• A Dou Wang offered ingredients, Magic Cores, and treasures, and Xiao Ce offered to trade them for one sixth-tier pill if the man supplied three sets of ingredients; the man agreed.

Xiao Ce exchanged pills for treasures from the gathered factions, then accepted Jia Xingtian’s offer to let Yao Yue stay with him for a few days. Yun Shan’s familiar greeting to Xiao Ce left Jia Xingtian wondering when Yun Shan had gained a connection to him.

• Xiao Ce traded Dou Ling Pills and other pills for treasures offered by representatives, including the Mu Family and the Nalan Family.
• Jia Xingtian offered Xiao Ce valuable treasures and requested a Hunyuan Bone Shaping Pill, a Green Nether Longevity Pill, and a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Jia Xingtian asked Xiao Ce to let Yao Yue stay with him for guidance, and Xiao Ce agreed.
• Yao Yue blushed at Xiao Ce’s attention, while Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, Queen Medusa, Nalan Yanran, and Yun Yun reacted to her staying.
• Yun Shan greeted Xiao Ce as an old acquaintance, and Jia Xingtian suspected Yun Yun was the reason for their closeness.

At the Four Directions Exchange Meeting, Yun Shan gave Xiao Ce a trove of treasures and left Yun Yun with him, while Nalan Yanran revealed Xiao Ce’s true strength to her family. After the guests departed, Ya Fei decided to enlist Yao Yue to help her pursue Xiao Ce.

• Yun Shan presented Xiao Ce with many treasures, which Xiao Ce accepted, then invited him to visit the Misty Cloud Sect while leaving Yun Yun at the Mittel Family.
• Jia Xingtian asked Xiao Ce to guide Yao Yue, and Xiao Ce agreed.
• Nalan Yanran told Nalan Jie and Nalan Su that Xiao Ce was the Xiao Clan’s true strongest expert and had been a Dou Wang when she broke off her engagement with Xiao Yan.
• The guests left, and Nalan Yanran and Yao Yue watched Xiao Ce joke with the women around him while Yun Yun helped ease their awkwardness.
• Ya Fei decided to recruit Yao Yue as an ally to share the effort of winning Xiao Ce’s attention.

Ya Fei offered to help Yao Yue pursue Xiao Ce, while Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran discussed Yun Yun’s relationship with him. Xiao Ce then visited Ya Fei’s bedchamber and discovered the surprise she had prepared: another woman waiting beside her.

• Ya Fei asked Yao Yue whether she wanted an opportunity with Xiao Ce, and Yao Yue eagerly agreed.
• Yun Yun offered to let Nalan Yanran return to the Misty Cloud Sect, but Nalan Yanran urged her to take more initiative with Xiao Ce.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Xiao Ce about his domineering dual cultivation technique before sending him away from her room.
• Xiao Ce went to Ya Fei’s bedchamber after hearing she had prepared a grand gift for him.
• Xiao Ce found another woman beside Ya Fei and accepted her surprise.

Xiao Ce promised Queen Medusa help for the Snake-People Tribe and refined a pill for Jia Xingtian. He also said Yao Yue would compete in the Imperial Capital’s Alchemist Grand Meeting in two days.

• Yao Yue woke to find Xiao Ce had left her a fourth-tier healing pill, and she was pleased that she had completed her great-grandfather’s task.
• Queen Medusa asked when Xiao Ce would return with her to the Snake-People Tribe, and he promised to help secure land and refine pills for its elders.
• Jia Xingtian brought ingredients to Xiao Ce, who refined a Hunyuan Bone Shaping Pill for the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s Deep Sea Flood Dragon.
• Xiao Ce told Jia Xingtian that Yao Yue had refined a fourth-tier pill and would participate in the Alchemist Grand Meeting in two days.

Yao Yue told Jia Xingtian she wanted her sister Ya Fei to help her win Xiao Ce’s favor, while learning that Xiao Yan would be her strongest rival at the Alchemist Grand Meeting. Xiao Yan arrived at the Royal Plaza, and the eight-yearly competition began.

• Jia Xingtian agreed to help the Snake-People Tribe find a place to live, then spoke with Yao Yue about her relationship with Xiao Ce.
• Yao Yue asked Jia Xingtian to bring her sister into the relationship, and he agreed to approach Ya Fei while Yao Yue handled Xiao Ce.
• Yao Yue told Jia Xingtian that Xiao Yan was a fifth-tier alchemist who could soon reach the sixth tier, leaving her doubtful about winning the meeting.
• Xiao Ce promised Fa Ma he would provide the alchemy guidance he had previously promised after the meeting ended.
• Prominent figures gathered in the Royal Plaza’s VIP seats as Yao Yue went down to join the contestants.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the plaza, and the Alchemist Grand Meeting officially began.

During the Alchemist Grand Meeting’s first round, Xiao Ce exposed and killed Yan Li, a disguised middle-aged alchemist from the Chuyun Empire who had entered the competition. The contest resumed after Xiao Ce revealed Yan Li’s identity and ended the uproar.

• The competitors refined Bone-Growing Pills, and the testing machine eliminated many whose pills failed to meet the quality standard.
• Yan Li’s pill produced a dazzling green light, and Fa Ma noticed its exceptional quality before Xiao Ce revealed that Yan Li had disguised himself with an Appearance-Restoring Pill.
• Xiao Ce seized Yan Li, whose accusations stirred chaos among the spectators, while Yao Yue and Liu Ling trusted Xiao Ce’s judgment.
• Xiao Ce removed the pill’s medicinal effect, revealing Yan Li as the middle-aged vice chairman of the Chuyun Empire’s Alchemist Association.
• Xiao Ce crushed Yan Li and burned his corpse with azure flame, then told everyone to continue the Grand Meeting.