Chapter Summaries

Chen Changsheng explained the value of the auction items while Guan Ping fretted over their prices and stole fruit. Chen Feng bid on three Bodhi Seeds, but a rival Private Room raised the price to seven million Source Pills.

• Four bottles of Three-Patterned Revitalizing Pills sold for eighty-six thousand Source Pills after Chen Changsheng explained their costs and market value.
• Guan Ping admitted she had taken Spiritual Fruits from Chen Changsheng’s platter, and he told Shui Yue to bring five more platters.
• The auction offered three Bodhi Seeds from a ten-thousand-year-old Bodhi Tree, and Chen Feng began bidding on them.
• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that the seeds would likely cost at least four million six hundred thousand Source Pills and reminded him that Lu Mingyu had set a ten-million limit.
• Chen Feng bid five million Source Pills, but someone in the opposite Private Room raised the bid to seven million.

Chen Feng won three Bodhi Seeds for fourteen million, then learned he had overpaid because he failed to judge the other bidder’s limit. Guan Ping nearly exhausted her savings bidding for Chaos Qi, but Bai Ze stepped in and secured it for thirty-five million.

• Chen Feng bid fourteen million for three Bodhi Seeds and won after the rival in the opposite Private Room withdrew.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Chen Feng could have won the Bodhi Seeds for less and called the overspending a ten-million tuition fee.
• Guan Ping began bidding for a wisp of Chaos Qi, but bidders in the upper Private Rooms slowly pushed the price beyond her savings.
• Bai Ze bid thirty million and then thirty-five million, making the other bidders stop.
• Guan Ping cried over losing her savings, then smiled and praised Bai Ze after he secured the Chaos Qi.

Chen Changsheng used a Sky Lantern to bid aggressively on an Earth Origin Pearl, hoping to obtain a lifespan-extending ingredient for Qian Ya. Just as he seemed to have secured it for fifty billion, a neighboring bidder raised the price to eighty billion.

• Bai Ze charged Guan Ping’s thirty-five-million debt to the Lu Family, and Chen Changsheng explained that the Chaos Qi had been worth at most eighteen million.
• The auction offered an Earth Origin Pearl, and Chen Changsheng bid one billion to pursue it for Qian Ya.
• Chen Changsheng lit the Sky Lantern and explained that decisive bidding could prevent an item’s price from climbing further.
• The auction house verified Chen Changsheng’s assets after the bidding passed the top-floor rooms’ stated limit.
• Chen Changsheng’s Sky Lantern remained lit after someone bid fifty billion, and the other top-floor bidders withdrew.
• A voice from the neighboring Private Room bid eighty billion, and Chen Changsheng called the bidder a shameless bastard.

Chen Changsheng clashed with the Pill Tower’s Tower Master over the Earth Origin Pearl and bid three hundred billion Source Pills to secure it. After the auction moved on, he revealed that most of the funds belonged to Xiao Hei and Qian Girl, and Guan Ping begged him for pocket money.

• Shui Yue bid ninety billion Source Pills, and the neighboring Private Room countered with one hundred billion.
• Lu Mingyu verified the neighboring bidder’s funds and learned that the Tower Master had prepared three hundred billion Source Pills.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Tower Master had put up the Earth Origin Pearl and that backing down would damage the Beast Race’s confidence in them.
• Chen Changsheng bid three hundred billion Source Pills, and no one challenged his offer, so he claimed the Earth Origin Pearl.
• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping that the money belonged to Xiao Hei and Qian Girl, whose pocket money totaled two hundred and eighty billion Source Pills.
• Guan Ping asked Chen Changsheng for pocket money, but he said she would receive some when she became as valuable as Xiao Hei and Qian Girl.

Chen Changsheng spared Liu Qingqing and let her recover, planning to use her to draw out the Black Shadow organization. After the auction, Qian Ya revealed that the huge bid was part of a plan to lure the Bronze Fragment’s hidden buyer, then set off with Lu Mingyu to demand compensation from Chen Changsheng.

• Chen Changsheng left the auction house after telling Guan Ping to bring back the fruit platter.
• Chen Changsheng told Liu Qingqing he would spare her so he could follow the Black Shadow organization to her, removed the threads restricting her injuries, and warned her not to cause trouble in his courtyard.
• The Lu Family Auction House finished selling its remaining treasures, and Lu Mingyu offered to negotiate the Earth Origin Pearl’s price to save his teacher money.
• Qian Ya explained that the three-hundred-billion bid drew attention away from the Bronze Fragment and that Chen Changsheng had ample funds for his plans.
• Qian Ya took the payment box and told Lu Mingyu she would make Chen Changsheng compensate her, prompting him to laugh and agree.

Lu Mingyu accepted a trial to manage the auction house’s five billion in commissions, while Chen Changsheng gathered allies to coordinate a venture between the Beast Race and Human Race. The group agreed on their roles and profit shares, with Lu Mingyu guaranteeing Chen Feng and Guan Ping’s performance.

• Qian Ya told Lu Mingyu that managing the auction house’s profits would be his trial and that she could offer little help because of the looming conflict between the Beast Taming Lineage and the Beast Race.
• Chen Changsheng invited Bai Feng, Chen Feng, Guan Ping, and Lu Mingyu to take seats by claiming responsibility for the venture’s key tasks.
• Bai Feng committed to gathering Beast Race factions, and Chen Feng agreed to handle external resistance while refusing to kill people.
• Guan Ping claimed responsibility for making counterfeit pills and defended her place by promising pills tailored to the Beast Race.
• Lu Mingyu took the final seat, assigned the venture’s roles and profit shares, and guaranteed compensation if Chen Feng or Guan Ping failed.
• Bai Feng accepted the arrangement and asked Chen Changsheng what they should do next.

Chen Changsheng set the Beast Race’s plan in motion by directing Bai Feng and his allies to build businesses in the Pill Domain and challenge the Beast Taming Lineage’s pill shops. As the Beast Race Heaven’s Chosen began their apprenticeships, Bai Ze and Yuan Yang Supreme clashed over the apprenticeship rites.

• Chen Changsheng explained that the Beast Race should establish specialty stores in the Pill Domain and use the resulting conflicts to weaken the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Lu Mingyu clarified the strategy, and Chen Changsheng warned Bai Feng that success or failure would determine the group’s futures.
• Chen Changsheng sent Lu Mingyu to carry out the plan and asked Qian Ya to help the Beast Race, while vowing to confront the Pill Tower over the three hundred billion he had lost.
• Bai Feng explained to his companions why they needed Lu Mingyu and ordered them to cooperate, threatening anyone who sabotaged the plan.
• Chen Changsheng visited Guang Han Palace as eight hundred Heaven’s Chosen began their apprenticeship ceremonies.
• At the Pill Tower, Bai Ze refused to perform apprenticeship rites for Yuan Yang Supreme, and the two challenged each other to fight.

Lu Mingyu gathered resources and laid out a plan to disrupt the Beast Taming Lineage’s Pill City business by sealing the city gates and stirring up accusations against its pill shops. As the conflict began to build, Chen Changsheng and Cui Ling Shuang set out to watch the unfolding trouble.

• Bai Ze and Yuan Yang Supreme entered the void to fight after Yuan Yang Supreme was insulted.
• Immortal Guang Han gave Chen Changsheng a token to access the Library Pavilion and Scripture Pavilion, then entered seclusion; Chen Changsheng invited Cui Ling Shuang to explore the coming commotion.
• The Pill Tower’s young Tower Master told Guan Ping and Chen Feng that they would be supported while making trouble, and gave them tokens for the Scripture Pavilion.
• Bai Feng’s master sent him to do what he needed to do and promised to try to protect his life if matters became critical.
• Lu Mingyu and the others pooled nine shops and nine hundred million Source Pills as initial capital for their plan against the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Lu Mingyu proposed blocking Pill City’s four gates and targeting the Beast Taming Lineage’s pill shops with accusations that their ingredients came from hunted members of the Beast Race.

Lu Mingyu planned a coordinated operation to undermine the Beast Taming Lineage by disrupting its shops and undercutting its Serpent Spirit Pills. After assigning the teams, he gave Chen Feng the task of dealing alone with the Human Race members drawn into the conflict, and the operation began.

• Lu Mingyu explained that declaring war and causing trouble in the Beast Taming Lineage’s shops would make its partners hesitate and weaken its influence.
• Lu Mingyu revealed the Serpent Spirit Pill scheme, and Guan Ping said she could imitate the pill at seventy percent efficacy within three days.
• Lu Mingyu planned for fourteen people to smash the Beast Taming Lineage’s shops while Bai Feng and his twenty-five people blocked reinforcements outside the city.
• Lu Mingyu assigned Chen Feng to handle all Human Race members involved in the conflict except the Beast Taming Lineage, and Chen Feng left to take up the task.
• Lu Mingyu told everyone to begin the operation and urged them to target cheaper goods while wrecking the shops.

Chen Changsheng explained to Cui Ling Shuang that the Pill Domain conflict was meant to weaken the Beast Taming Lineage before the Beast Race attacked, while he kept the Pill Tower occupied. Meanwhile, Xiong Da entered Bao An Hall and accused it of violating the Beast Race’s ban on using Bear Bile in Iron Bear Pills.

• Chen Changsheng told Cui Ling Shuang that the Beast Race would strike the Beast Taming Lineage once its internal opposition disappeared, and that opposing the Pill Tower was part of his plan.
• Cui Ling Shuang warned Chen Changsheng that challenging the Pill Tower was dangerous and could implicate Immortal Guang Han, but he assured her that she would remain safe.
• Chen Changsheng said Lu Mingyu could turn the struggle against the Beast Taming Lineage around with one sentence, and Cui Ling Shuang agreed to be convinced if he proved it.
• Xiong Da entered Bao An Hall to buy Iron Bear Pills, then accused the shop of using Bear Bile in violation of the Beast Race’s prohibition.
• The shop assistant denied the accusation and said Bao An Hall used Bear Gallstone instead, claiming the substitute preserved most of the pills’ efficacy.

Xiong Da and thirteen other Beast Race Heaven's Chosen attacked shops in Pill City while their allies kept the Beast Taming Lineage from intervening. In the Beast Realm, Ying Shan eliminated three opponents who resisted reform and learned that Qian Ya expected him to prepare for war against the Beast Taming Lineage.

• Xiong Da accused a shop of selling counterfeit medicine and led thirteen others in wrecking shops across Pill City.
• The Beast Taming Lineage's Heaven's Chosen tried to enter Pill City, but Bai Feng and other Beast Race Heaven's Chosen stopped them outside the gates, where the two sides fought.
• The City Guard Commander watched the battle and held back from arresting the fighters because the clash was outside the city and stronger figures had yet to intervene.
• Chen Feng blocked Zheng Ling and his companions from entering Pill City, and Zheng Ling attacked him to protect his family's business interests.
• Ying Shan and his forces killed three Beast Race elders who had secretly colluded with the Beast Taming Lineage.
• Qian Ya told Ying Shan to prepare for war and said she would help him defeat the Beast Taming Lineage so she could collect her six hundred billion payment.

Chen Changsheng explained to Cui Ling Shuang that he had arranged for her family to force her into a marriage alliance so he could enter the Cui Family, while the battle below continued. He left Cui Ling Shuang considering the harsh choices before her, then dismissed her role in his plan as little more than a mascot.

• Spectators speculated that the Pill Tower and Chen Changsheng were behind the conflict with the Beast Taming Lineage and the suspicious auction of the Earth Origin Pearl.
• Cui Ling Shuang urged Chen Changsheng to help Chen Feng, but he refused, saying Chen Feng had chosen to fight and was the Tower Master's student.
• Chen Changsheng admitted he had arranged the Cui Family's marriage-alliance pressure so he could enter the family in the Qinghe Realm.
• Cui Ling Shuang challenged Chen Changsheng's manipulation of people, and he explained that escaping worldly constraints required sacrifices that might bring no reward.
• Cui Ling Shuang described the grim consequences of rejecting every path available to her, and Chen Changsheng told her she was only a mascot in his plan.

Chen Changsheng humiliated Cui Ling Shuang by explaining why she could not compete with the powerful prodigies below, then warned her that their public closeness could damage her reputation. As Cui Ling Shuang fled and spectators questioned him, a powerful pressure descended on Pill City, and Chen Changsheng walked through it while provoking whoever had unleashed it.

• Chen Changsheng compared Cui Ling Shuang unfavorably with Zheng Ling, Bai Feng, the Beast Taming Sect disciple, Chen Feng, and Guan Ping, arguing that talent and connections shaped the Cultivation World.
• Cui Ling Shuang asked why Chen Changsheng had told her all this, and he said he wanted her to avoid embarrassing him through foolish behavior.
• Chen Changsheng pointed out that their public intimacy could hurt Cui Ling Shuang amid her impending marriage alliance, prompting her to fly away in anger and embarrassment.
• Spectators questioned Chen Changsheng about his connection to Cui Ling Shuang and his choice of Dao companion, and he praised the appeal of a partner with only moderate cleverness and ability.
• A powerful pressure descended on Pill City and pinned Chen Feng and the others to the ground, but Chen Changsheng walked through it and provocatively glanced toward the sky.

Chen Changsheng persuaded Cui Ling Shuang to take him to Guang Han Palace’s Library Pavilion by offering to help her become a Ninth Grade Alchemist. In Pill City, Lu Mingyu watched the captured troublemakers face punishment and worried that Guan Ping could not make a cheaper Serpent Spirit Pill without Serpent Spirit Herb.

• Chen Changsheng teased Cui Ling Shuang until she broke down, then offered to help her overcome her bottleneck and reach Ninth Grade Alchemist.
• Cui Ling Shuang accepted Chen Changsheng’s offer and led him toward Guang Han Palace’s Library Pavilion.
• The City Guard Commander ordered the captured prodigies, including Bai Feng and the others, to be punished with the Seven Stars Whip under impartial enforcement.
• Guan Ping reassured Lu Mingyu that she could make an imitation Serpent Spirit Pill with at least seventy percent of the original’s effects.
• Lu Mingyu asked Guan Ping to create a cheaper pill with identical effects that did not use Serpent Spirit Herb, but she explained that the herb’s unique properties made that unlikely.

Lu Mingyu left Guan Ping to prepare an imitation Serpent Spirit Pill, then faced three Lu Family elders who challenged his dealings with the Beast Race. He unexpectedly offered them profitable roles in his plans and handed over much of the auction house’s earnings, leaving his Second Uncle praising him.

• Lu Mingyu told Guan Ping to make the imitation Serpent Spirit Pill and left to handle other matters.
• Lu Mingyu met with his Second, Fourth, and Fifth Uncles, who criticized him for dealing with the Beast Race without informing the family.
• Lu Mingyu defended his authority, then told Fourth Uncle that an expert had guided him and that he planned to invest in the Beast Race.
• Lu Mingyu offered his uncles roles in the new trade channels, promised to cover expenses, and drew up a contract for them.
• Lu Mingyu said forty percent of the auction profits would go to the family treasury and the remaining sixty percent would be controlled by Second Uncle, who praised him and apologized.

Lu Mingyu’s actions escalated tensions between the Beast Race, the Beast Taming Lineage, and the Lu Family as prodigies chose sides. Meanwhile, Guan Ping used her unusual pillcraft to produce effective healing pills from limited ingredients, leaving Bai Feng baffled.

• Lu Mingyu assured his second uncle that his actions were deliberate, and his second uncle agreed to handle the Beast Taming Lineage.
• The Beast Race and the Lu Family issued statements defending their positions, prompting Pill Domain prodigies to choose sides.
• Guan Ping told Chen Feng and the others to recover using only the Imitation Pills she refined.
• At Pill City Square, Guan Ping made pills without knowing the formulas and using herbs Bai Feng believed were insufficient.
• Bai Feng examined and tasted the pills, confirming they were genuine Seven Treasures and Five Viscera Pills despite how they had been made.

Guan Ping demonstrated her secret pill-making methods in Pill City, while Lu Mingyu explained that their plan aimed to challenge the Pill Domain by disrupting its herb supply and pill trade. He acknowledged that Imitation Pills alone could not threaten major factions and left himself to solve the remaining problem, while Chen Feng departed rather than get involved.

• Guan Ping made seventh-grade pills from unsuitable herbs, restored Chen Feng's strength, and secretly transformed two poison pills into seven-pattern pills.
• Guan Ping offered to refine pills for Bai Feng, who realized she was using the work to embezzle a share of the pooled resources.
• Lu Mingyu told Chen Feng that Guan Ping's pill-making demonstration was meant to build trust in their Imitation Pills among cultivators in Pill City.
• Lu Mingyu explained that their strategy targeted both the Beast Taming Lineage and the Pill Domain by stirring conflict and controlling medicinal herbs from the Beast Race.
• Lu Mingyu admitted Imitation Pills could not satisfy major factions, while Chen Feng refused to solve the problem and left the alley.
• Lu Mingyu chose to work out the solution himself instead of asking Teacher for the answer.

Chen Changsheng explained that Cui Ling Shuang’s alchemy bottleneck came from an unstable foundation and told her to refine every pill formula in Guang Han Palace’s Library Pavilion. He challenged her to a pill-refining contest to demonstrate what he meant by a genius, and they began refining a Seventh-Grade Pill.

• Cui Ling Shuang demanded that Chen Changsheng explain how she could break through to Ninth-Grade Alchemist.
• Chen Changsheng said that Ninth-Grade Alchemists needed the foundation of a Quasi-Golden Core Alchemist and advised Cui Ling Shuang to refine every formula in the Library Pavilion once.
• Cui Ling Shuang questioned what made someone a genius, so Chen Changsheng proposed that they compete using a Third-Grade and a Seventh-Grade pill formula.
• Chen Changsheng and Cui Ling Shuang exchanged pill furnaces and flames, then refined matching Third-Grade Three-Pattern pills, with Chen Changsheng’s pill slightly better.
• Chen Changsheng and Cui Ling Shuang started refining the Seventh-Grade Pill, and Cui Ling Shuang grew tense and sweaty.

Chen Changsheng taught Cui Ling Shuang why experience and intuition mattered in pill refinement, then convinced her she could become a Golden Core Alchemist through hard work. He explained that the enormous cost of refining fifty thousand furnaces made that path impractical, leaving Cui Ling Shuang to reconsider how talent and resources shaped cultivation.

• Cui Ling Shuang failed to refine pills three times while Chen Changsheng successfully made a Seventh-Grade Pill.
• Chen Changsheng explained that he overcame conflicts in pill refinement through experience and intuition, while Cui Ling Shuang had failed to learn from earlier attempts.
• Cui Ling Shuang asked whether she could still become a Ninth Grade Alchemist, and Chen Changsheng encouraged her to pursue that goal or become a Golden Core Alchemist through diligent practice.
• Chen Changsheng told Cui Ling Shuang that refining Fifty Thousand Furnaces of Pills could build a solid foundation, and she vowed to prove she was not mediocre.
• Chen Changsheng calculated that the process could cost about twenty-five billion Source Pills and explained that wealthy factions would rather invest in talented cultivators than spend those resources forcing someone to advance.

Cui Ling Shuang began annotating thousands of pill formulas while Chen Changsheng left to explore the Pill Domain's Scripture Pavilion. As fighting spread between the Beast Race and the Beast Taming Lineage, Lu Mingyu explained to Bai Feng that their conflict was a rare chance to build independent forces and hinted that he had a hidden way to make money.

• Chen Changsheng gave Cui Ling Shuang three Jade Slips containing 37,800 pill formulas and told her to annotate them before refining pills.
• Cui Ling Shuang declined to visit the Pill Domain's Scripture Pavilion and began annotating the formulas as Chen Changsheng left the Library Pavilion.
• City Guards watched the nine shops in Pill City after a recent brawl, while their poor business continued despite Guan Ping's reputation for public pill refining.
• Xiong Da led Beast Race fighters against the Beast Taming Lineage, and Bai Feng's reformists attacked Beast Race members who associated with their rivals.
• Lu Ming told Bai Feng that the Beast Race needed a large supply of pills, and Bai Feng said he would discuss supplies with Lu Mingyu.
• Lu Mingyu told Bai Feng that he was withholding family supplies so they could build their own forces, then revealed that the nine shops were only meant to undermine their rivals and pointed to Pill City's largest medicinal herbs shop.