Chapter Summaries

After the Xiao Clan’s Blood Coagulation Powder reshaped Wutan City’s marketplace, the Aoba and Jialie families worried over the clan’s growing power while Miteer Aoxue investigated its mysterious first-tier Alchemist. Gu Ni confirmed that the Alchemist seemed close to second-tier and had an impressive master’s lineage.

• Small and mid-sized forces in Wutan City strengthened their resolve to follow the Xiao Clan after the success of its healing pills.
• Aoba Pa failed to learn the identity of the Xiao Clan’s Alchemist and ordered his spies to keep monitoring the clan.
• Jia Liebi discussed the Blood Coagulation Powder with his elders and stewards, then privately considered betraying Aoba Pa and seeking the Xiao Clan’s protection.
• Miteer Aoxue questioned Gu Ni about the Xiao Clan’s first-tier Alchemist after ordering her guard to watch the three great clans.
• Gu Ni told Miteer Aoxue that he had met the Alchemist, who seemed close to becoming second-tier and had a powerful master’s lineage.

Mite'er Ao Xue rejected Gu Ni’s attempt to steer her toward a marriage with the Xiao Clan’s young alchemist, though his praise left her curious. Meanwhile, the Blood Coagulation Powder drew a growing crowd to Wutan City, and the Xiao Clan faced pressure as its remaining stock dwindled.

• Gu Ni suggested that Mite'er Ao Xue consider marrying the Xiao Clan’s first-grade Alchemist, but she said she had no plans to discuss love.
• Gu Ni hinted that marrying the young alchemist would give Ao Xue a powerful future, and she grew curious while remaining determined to control her own fate.
• Mite'er Ao Xue thanked Gu Ni, left to cultivate, and told him to manage the auction house as he saw fit.
• Mercenaries and small factions flocked to Wutan City after word spread about the Xiao Clan’s Blood Coagulation Powder.
• The Third Elder used his four-star Da Dou Shi aura to calm the crowd, but the Xiao Clan had fewer than fifty bottles left and feared mishandling the situation could bring trouble.

Third Elder dealt with a hostile group disrupting the Xiao Clan marketplace, then promised Blood Coagulation Powder to attract buyers. He returned to the clan council, where Xiao Zhan agreed to consult Xiao Ling about the incident and the remaining stock.

• Third Elder calmed the mercenaries by promising a second batch of Blood Coagulation Powder within three days, but a one-eyed man demanded compensation on behalf of a hostile group.
• Third Elder attacked the group with Wind Residual Palm, killing them, then claimed they had been spies and offered the remaining fifty bottles to the market’s biggest spenders.
• Mercenaries rushed to buy supplies from the Xiao Clan marketplace to qualify for the powder, and the clan’s stewards handed bottles to selected buyers.
• Third Elder returned to the Xiao Clan and told Xiao Zhan what had happened, asking whether Xiao Ling should be brought in to discuss it.
• Xiao Zhan agreed and said they should ask Xiao Ling how much Blood Coagulation Powder he had left so the clan could plan its next steps.

Xiao Ling finished a three-day pill-refining session and discovered Xiao Yan waiting in his courtyard to summon him to an urgent meeting. He left his room after noticing Xiao Yan, while Xun'er continued studying and remained wary of her cousin.

• Xiao Zhan accepted that Xiao Ling would decide the final outcome of the Third Elder's matter and offered to share the responsibility.
• Xun'er studied ancient pill knowledge in Xiao Ling's courtyard while Xiao Yan arrived to summon Xiao Ling to a meeting.
• Xun'er scolded Xiao Yan for shouting near Xiao Ling's room, and Xiao Yan apologized and waited quietly.
• Xiao Ling completed his pill-refining session, producing large quantities of pills and five dark-gold pill-pattern pills from his cauldron.
• Xiao Ling sensed Xiao Yan in the courtyard, suspected he was pursuing Xun'er, and walked out of his room.

Xiao Ling joined Xiao Zhan and the clan elders to discuss the Xiao Clan Marketplace’s booming Blood Coagulation Powder sales and the Third Elder’s proposed customer rewards. He approved the plan and supplied ten thousand bottles for sale, leaving the clan stunned by the fortune his pill production could bring.

• Xun'er explained that Xiao Yan had come to invite Xiao Ling to the Council Hall, and Xiao Ling set off with them.
• Xiao Zhan reported that Blood Coagulation Powder sales had exceeded expectations, drawing mercenaries from nearby towns and earning more in three days than the clan usually made in a week.
• Xiao Zhan explained that the Third Elder had promised fifty bottles each month to the Marketplace’s top spenders, and Xiao Ling approved the reward while warning them to keep better records.
• Xiao Ling gave Xiao Zhan a Storage Ring containing ten thousand bottles and ordered the clan to cap sales at five hundred bottles a day.
• Xiao Zhan and the elders were shocked by the shipment’s value, while Xiao Ling revealed that he still had another ten thousand bottles in reserve.

Xiao Ling explained how the Xiao Clan could protect its Blood Coagulation Powder business by strengthening Xiao Zhan and partnering with the Miteer Auction House. After the clan agreed to his plan, Xiao Ling gave Xiao Zhan a pill and prepared to negotiate with the auction house.

• Xiao Zhan worried that the Xiao Clan would eventually be unable to sell the large quantity of Blood Coagulation Powder Xiao Ling could produce, and Xiao Ling explained why mercenaries would keep buying it.
• Xiao Ling warned Xiao Zhan and the Elders that the Xiao Clan lacked the strength to defend its growing market and recommended that Xiao Zhan cultivate to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Ling proposed sharing the Blood Coagulation Powder formula with the Miteer Auction House in exchange for a portion of the profits, arguing that his alchemist master would deter the Mittel Family from betraying the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Zhan and the three Elders accepted Xiao Ling's plan and agreed to support him in negotiating with the Miteer Auction House.
• Xiao Ling left with Xun'er, gave Xiao Zhan a bottle containing a Pill Soul Breakthrough Pill disguised as a fifth-grade pill, and said he would visit the Miteer Auction House the next morning.

Xiao Ling surveyed the orderly, crowded Xiao Clan marketplace on his way to Miteer Auction House and accepted a rare vine from the mercenary Wang Ergou. The system identified it as a sealed Ninth-Grade Spirit Herb, the Azure Wood Immortal Vine, though Xiao Ling told Wang Ergou it was likely a third- or fourth-grade ingredient and rewarded him with Blood Coagulation Powder.

• Xiao Ling observed that Xiao Zhan and the three elders had kept the Xiao Clan marketplace orderly despite the crowds of visiting mercenaries.
• Wang Ergou stopped Xiao Ling and offered him an unknown medicinal ingredient he had found in a cave in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.
• Xiao Ling used the system to identify the vine as a sealed Ninth-Grade Spirit Herb called the Azure Wood Immortal Vine.
• Xiao Ling offered Wang Ergou one hundred bottles of Blood Coagulation Powder in exchange for the vine.
• Wang Ergou asked to leave the Blood Coagulation Powder with the Xiao Clan and collect one bottle each day, and Xiao Ling agreed before continuing to Miteer Auction House.

After obtaining a rare Ninth-Grade Spirit Herb from Wang Ergou, Xiao Ling returned to the Miteer Auction House to discuss a business deal with Gu Ni. He met the auction house’s person in charge, Miteer Aoxue, who joined the meeting to discuss the transaction.

• Wang Ergou thanked Xiao Ling for the benefits he received, while the watching mercenaries envied his good fortune.
• Xiao Ling returned to the Miteer Auction House, where Qing'er greeted him and escorted him to a VIP room to wait for Gu Ni.
• Qing'er asked Xiao Ling for an autograph, and he awkwardly signed her panda with two nearly unrecognizable characters.
• Gu Ni arrived with Miteer Aoxue and introduced her as the Miteer Family’s eldest young lady and the auction house’s person in charge.
• Gu Ni explained that Aoxue had come out of seclusion to meet Xiao Ling and discuss his proposed transaction.

Xiao Ling negotiated with Miteer Aoxue to have the Miteer Auction House produce and sell the Xiao Clan's Blood Coagulation Powder. Their bargaining ended with Aoxue kissing Xiao Ling and offering her first kiss—and potentially more—in exchange for a larger share of the profits.

• Miteer Aoxue and Xiao Ling met at the auction house, while Gu Ni quietly hoped the two would become a couple.
• Xiao Ling proposed that the Xiao Clan provide the Blood Coagulation Powder formula and the Miteer Auction House handle production for a fifty-fifty profit split.
• Miteer Aoxue countered by demanding seventy percent, citing the costs of distributing the powder across various cities.
• Xiao Ling refused to offer more than fifty percent and said the Xiao Clan would limit supply to fifty bottles a day.
• Miteer Aoxue sat on Xiao Ling's lap, kissed him, and offered her first kiss in exchange for seventy percent of the profits.
• Miteer Aoxue offered to give Xiao Ling her body as well if he agreed to give her fifty percent of all their future cooperation permanently.

Mittel Aoxue revealed that she had engineered their meeting to secure Xiao Ling’s help and protect her family’s future, offering the Mittel Family’s support in exchange for a share of his profits. Xiao Ling negotiated a smaller share and gave her a rare talent-improving treasure, leaving Aoxue determined to arrange cooperation between their families.

• Mittel Aoxue told Xiao Ling she trusted his character and wanted to use the Mittel Family’s resources to support the Xiao Clan in exchange for seventy percent of the profits.
• Mittel Aoxue explained that she sought freedom from becoming a marriage pawn and had recognized Xiao Ling as someone like herself, so she had arranged their encounter.
• Xiao Ling praised Mittel Aoxue’s devotion to her family, embraced her, and told her not to use her bold approach on another man.
• Xiao Ling offered Mittel Aoxue sixty percent of the profits and promised to bring future business to the Mittel Family.
• When Mittel Aoxue’s eyes filled with tears, Xiao Ling gave her a rare talent-improving treasure and warned her to keep it secret.
• Mittel Aoxue promised to persuade her family to cooperate with the Xiao Clan and repay Xiao Ling’s favor someday.

Xiao Ling negotiated a Blood Coagulation Powder partnership with Mittel Ao Xue and Gu Ni, then signed a soul contract after the system confirmed it was safe. The contract burned away, and the force that touched Xiao Ling’s soul vanished without affecting him.

• Mittel Ao Xue teased Xiao Ling about giving herself to him, while he offered her and Gu Ni bottles of Blood Coagulation Powder as gifts from the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Ling admitted he desired Mittel Ao Xue but refused to pursue her without an emotional foundation, and she sincerely repeated her offer.
• Gu Ni asked whether Xiao Ling’s master had refined the powder, and Xiao Ling revealed that he had made it himself while claiming he had only nearly reached Second-grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Ling and Mittel Ao Xue agreed to cooperate on the Blood Coagulation Powder trade, with the condition that her clan avoid the market within a hundred miles of Wutan City for three months.
• Mittel Ao Xue and Xiao Ling signed a soul contract, which turned to ashes as its force touched Xiao Ling’s soul and disappeared.

Xiao Ling gave Mittel O'Snow a limited-use Blood Coagulation Powder formula and a hundred bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, then asked her to auction another nine hundred bottles across the Jia Ma Empire. Mittel O'Snow accepted the arrangement without a commission and teased him about repaying his generosity by giving herself to him.

• Xiao Ling handed Mittel O'Snow the imprinted Blood Coagulation Powder formula, which she passed to Gu Ni.
• Mittel O'Snow invited Xiao Ling to dinner before her return to the capital, but he declined and offered to see her off the next morning.
• Xiao Ling gave Mittel O'Snow a hundred bottles of second-grade Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, which she accepted while joking that she might repay him by giving herself to him.
• Xiao Ling asked Mittel O'Snow to auction nine hundred more bottles in cities across the Jia Ma Empire for a ten percent commission.
• Mittel O'Snow refused the commission, saying it would insult Xue'er and interfere with her joking promise to give herself to Xiao Ling.

Xiao Ling gave Mittel Aoxue a limited-use Blood Coagulation Powder formula and a hundred bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, declining her invitation to dinner. He asked her to auction off another nine hundred bottles across the Jia Ma Empire, and she agreed to help without taking a commission.

• Xiao Ling handed Mittel Aoxue the Blood Coagulation Powder formula and explained that it could only be used twice.
• Mittel Aoxue invited Xiao Ling to dinner before she returned to the capital, but he declined and offered her a hundred bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid instead.
• Mittel Aoxue accepted the bottles as a loan and teased Xiao Ling about offering herself if she could not repay him.
• Xiao Ling asked Mittel Aoxue to auction off nine hundred more bottles across the Jia Ma Empire for a ten-percent cut.
• Mittel Aoxue refused the commission, saying she wanted to keep her chance to offer herself to Xiao Ling later.

Xiao Ling arranged for Mittel Aoxue to auction his second-grade Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid after Gu Ni confirmed its potency. He then offered her the formula, and Aoxue proposed a major reward in exchange, leaving Xiao Ling stunned.

• Xiao Ling gave Mittel Aoxue his Soul Jade Talisman and agreed that the Mittel Auction House would sell the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and send him the proceeds.
• Gu Ni tested the liquid and confirmed it exceeded the standard, with a slight effect on a One-Star Dou Zhe.
• Mittel Aoxue suggested diluting the liquid to the strength of an eight-segment Dou Power, and Xiao Ling agreed.
• Xiao Ling asked whether Mittel Aoxue wanted the formula for the second-grade Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.
• Mittel Aoxue offered the Mittel Auction House half the profits, one request from her family, and one personal request in exchange for the formula, leaving Xiao Ling stunned.

Xiao Ling accepted a million gold coins and a Diamond VIP Card from Mittel Ao Xue, then agreed to attend her farewell banquet. After learning that her incomplete Ice Saint Physique was draining her life force, he realized she might die before turning twenty.

• Mittel Ao Xue offered Xiao Ling her first time, but he stopped her and asked how long the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid auction would take.
• Mittel Ao Xue offered Xiao Ling an advance, and he accepted a million gold coins along with her Diamond VIP Card.
• Xiao Ling warned Mittel Ao Xue not to get close to other men, and she invited him to a farewell banquet before returning to the Imperial Capital.
• Mittel Ao Xue told Xiao Ling she would arrange for Ya Fei to assist him after she left.
• Xiao Ling used the system to discover that Mittel Ao Xue's incomplete Ice Saint Physique was draining her life force and could kill her before she turned twenty.

Xiao Ling said goodbye to Mittel Aoxue, who planned to cultivate and leave the Jia Ma Empire, then returned to the Xiao Clan with a doll for Xun'er. He found Xun'er reading an ancient book in the courtyard.

• Xiao Ling and Mittel Aoxue shared a farewell kiss, and she told him she would go into seclusion to break through to Da Dou Shi before leaving the Jia Ma Empire.
• Mittel Aoxue asked Elder Gu to arrange a private banquet for her and Xiao Ling, then returned to cultivate while Gu Ni worried about her rivals.
• Xiao Ling left the Miteer Auction House, bought a purple doll resembling Xiao Zi for five hundred gold coins, and headed back to the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Ling found Xun'er reading an ancient book in the courtyard and noticed he could recognize only two characters on its page.

Xiao Ling gave Xun'er a Purple Sable doll and continued training with her, while the Xiao Clan prospered under its alliance with the Mittel Family. At the clan’s morning lesson, Xiao Wu organized combat training and tournament matches for the younger members.

• Xiao Ling gave Xun'er a Purple Sable doll, and she affectionately promised to give herself to him when she grew up; he told her to focus on cultivation and took her to train.
• Twenty days passed as Xiao Ling's Blood Coagulation Powder boosted the Xiao Clan's success, while news of the Xiao Clan and Mittel Family alliance spread through the Jia Ma Empire.
• Xiao Wu praised the younger clan members’ cultivation progress and said he would report Xiao Yan’s three-stage advancement to Xiao Ling for rewards.
• Xiao Wu led the juniors through Dou Technique practice, corrected their forms, and announced two-on-two arena matches with the top ten earning special nurturing.
• Xiao Wu told the juniors to draw lots and form pairs for elimination matches.

Xiao Ling exchanged Xiao Mei’s contribution points for the Shadowless Finger technique and reviewed Xiao Wu’s list of recruits for the Clan Law Enforcement Team. He then took Xun’er to the back mountain to test her skills, where she gave up against his attacks and ran into his arms.

• Xiao Mei traded fifteen hundred contribution points with Xiao Ling for the Shadowless Finger scroll, and he warned her not to share it.
• Xiao Wu presented the Law Enforcement Team roster, which included four-year-old Xiao Yan, and reported that the clan’s youngest members had reached the fourth stage of Dou Power.
• Xiao Wu told Xiao Ling he had promised the ten tournament winners that Xiao Ling would guide their cultivation and give them rewards, and Xiao Ling accepted the arrangement.
• Xiao Ling took Xun’er to the back mountain and tested her Swallow Return Strike by attacking her with marbles from multiple angles.
• Xun’er abandoned her defense and complained that Xiao Ling was cheating, so he stopped the marbles and warned her to train properly next time.

Xiao Ling trained Xun'er while the Mittel Family auctioned Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and Mittel Aoxue arranged to support him. Three days later, Xiao Ling received a large payment and a note from Aoxue, leaving him awkwardly facing Xun'er.

• Xiao Ling teased Xun'er during her training, then used his soul power to control and return the marbles she sent flying at him.
• Mittel Aoxue told her father that Xiao Ling had a Sixth-Grade Alchemist behind him, prompting the old man to waive the auction fees and send him the proceeds plus a five-million-gold dowry.
• Mittel Aoxue ordered her father to keep information about Xiao Ling secret so he would not be troubled.
• Xiao Ling spent the next three days advising his clan and training Xun'er in the optimized God Seal Art.
• Xiao Wu delivered a letter from the Mittel Family, and Xiao Ling found a black gold coin card holding over ten million and a note that made him turn awkwardly toward Xun'er.

Aoba Pa and Jia Liebi joined forces against the Xiao Clan after receiving pills and instructions from a mysterious senior, unaware that Xiao Ling had already anticipated their plans and seized control of their hidden clan heirs. They led their experts toward the Xiao Clan at dawn, setting the confrontation in motion.

• Xiao Ling reassured Xun'er after she saw a troubling message, and Xiao Wu withdrew at his signal.
• After failed reforms left their Marketplaces struggling, Aoba Pa and Jia Liebi discussed the Xiao Clan's growing success and its planned Hunting Tournament.
• Aoba Pa gave Jia Liebi a Storage Ring of pills and a Sound Recording Stone, claiming the senior had ordered their families to join forces.
• The two men agreed to strengthen their juniors, target the Xiao Clan during the Hunting Tournament, and attack near its end, while Aoba Pa claimed the senior would deal with the Mittel Family.
• Aoba Pa and Jia Liebi concealed their suspicions from one another, then gathered their clan experts and headed for the Xiao Clan at dawn.