Recaps

Li Feng, a doctor killed after taking responsibility for a patient’s death, awakened in the body of Ning Xiaochuan, a sickly heir of the Sword Pavilion Marquis’s Mansion. His sister Ning Xiner saved him from burial, and he accepted his new identity as the carriage carried them home.

• Li Feng was stabbed after apologizing to a dead patient’s family and lost consciousness.
• Li Feng awakened inside Ning Xiaochuan’s coffin as funeral attendants prepared to bury him.
• Ning Xiner refused to accept her brother’s death, and she lifted the coffin when she heard him knock from inside.
• Li Feng opened his eyes and told the stunned mourners that he was still alive.
• Ning Xiner helped Li Feng into a carriage and told him about Ning Xiaochuan’s illness and their family’s troubles.
• Li Feng recalled how he had died, learned about his new body, and decided to live as Ning Xiaochuan.

After secretly repairing his blocked heart meridians with a mysterious blood-red sword, Ning Xiaochuan awakened his Seven Aperture God-Demon Heart Palace and began cultivating Martial Dao Profound Qi. He studied the Scripture Pavilion’s books to understand his new abilities and returned to his courtyard with several volumes to read.

• Ning Xiaochuan entered his heart in a strange inner vision and discovered the tiny blood-red sword hidden there.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the sword to repair his blocked heart meridians, enduring intense pain before falling asleep.
• Ning Xiaochuan woke to find Martial Dao Profound Qi circulating in his body and realized his heart meridians had healed.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Ning Xiner to take him to the Scripture Pavilion, where he studied martial cultivation throughout the day.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned he had reached the second level of the Profound Qi Realm and borrowed three books to continue his studies.

Ning Xiaochuan studied a basic book on Heaven and Earth Profound Qi and quickly advanced to Profound Qi Third Level, unaware that the Old Marquis’s hidden Earth Martial Essence Qi fueled his progress. Though Ning Xiner dismissed the book as a slow, ordinary guide and urged him to sleep, Ning Xiaochuan chose to keep cultivating by its methods.

• Ning Han told Ning Qianwu that Ning Xiaochuan had spent the day reading instead of confronting them, and Ning Qianwu ordered him to silence everyone who knew about the brothel incident.
• Ning Xiaochuan meditated with Heaven and Earth Profound Qi, absorbed profound qi into his Martial Heart Palace, and broke through to Profound Qi Third Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan learned that his rapid cultivation came from Earth Martial Essence Qi the Old Marquis had used to nourish his heart meridians.
• Ning Xiner explained that Heaven and Earth Profound Qi was a basic guide and described the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion's Heart Furnace Divine Canon, but Ning Xiaochuan chose to follow the basic method.
• After Ning Xiner forced him to bed, Ning Xiaochuan secretly continued cultivating and sensed a small blood-red sword in his heart releasing sword qi into his blood.

Ning Xiaochuan learned that his unusual heart was a Seven Aperture God Demon Heart Palace and discovered the rare profession of Heart Nourishers. Determined to pursue it despite the expense, he asked Ning Xiner to lend him thirty thousand Small Coin.

• Ning Xiaochuan ignored Ning Han's insults at the Martial Arena, while Ning Xiner defended him and Ning Han planned to silence the music courtesan who knew what happened at the Jade Viewing Pavilion.
• At the Scripture Pavilion, Ning Xiaochuan found a book identifying his heart as a Seven Aperture God Demon Heart Palace and wondered whether the blood-colored sword within it was a Demon Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan studied the role of Heart Nourishers, learned that they treated martial cultivators and could become wealthy, and decided to try cultivating as one despite the costly requirements.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Martial Arena and asked Ning Xiner to lend him thirty thousand Small Coin.

Ning Xiaochuan borrowed money from Ning Xiner to buy medicinal ingredients, then pursued Ning Han after witnessing him abduct a woman. When Ning Xiaochuan rescued Yu Yan and fought Ning Hai, the little sword in his heart awakened and began drawing blood from his opponent.

• Ning Xiner lent Ning Xiaochuan three hundred Silver Coin, believing he might spend it at a brothel, and he left to buy medicinal ingredients.
• Ning Xiaochuan saw Ning Han and two servants abduct a woman, followed their carriage, and found them preparing to drown her in a river.
• Ning Xiaochuan stopped the servants, rescued Yu Yan from the Boar Skin Bag, and confronted Ning Han.
• Ning Han ordered Ning Hai to kill Ning Xiaochuan, and Ning Hai attacked him with a powerful punch.
• Ning Xiaochuan blocked Ning Hai's punch, awakening the little sword in his heart as it sent a blood-red current through him and began absorbing Ning Hai's blood.

Ning Xiaochuan discovers that a mysterious power in his heart drains blood from his attackers and strengthens his cultivation. After a veiled woman saves him from Ning Han with the Qilin Snow Sword, Ning Xiaochuan leaves the riverbank resolved to become stronger.

• Ning Xiaochuan drains Ning Hai’s blood and advances to Profound Qi Fourth Level, shocking Ning Han and the servants.
• Ning Xiaochuan drains a second servant’s blood during their fight, while Ning Han flees to report his cultivation to his father.
• A veiled woman kills Ning Han with her Qilin Snow Sword and mistakes Ning Xiaochuan for a disciple of the Blood Devouring Demon Sect.
• The veiled woman and Yu Yan leave across the river, and the woman warns Yu Yan to avoid Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan returns the Azure Deer Carriage, resolves to cultivate martial arts, and enters a shop selling spiritual-root herbs.

Ning Xiaochuan bought medicinal ingredients and a broken Low-Grade Profound Stone, then successfully condensed a Heart Nourishing Cauldron in the Heart Aperture of his Seven Aperture God Demon Heart. He prepared to test whether the cauldron could temper Mysterious Medicine, the final step to becoming a Heart Nourisher.

• Ning Xiaochuan rejected the costly Bull Cauldron Ganoderma and bought three First Grade Profound Medicines, a broken Low-Grade Profound Stone, and Nourishing Heart Grass.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the three medicinal ingredients to form a cauldron in his Heart Aperture without affecting his Martial Heart Palace.
• Ning Xiaochuan condensed a blood-colored Heart Nourishing Cauldron after channeling his vital blood into it.
• Ning Xiaochuan restored his Martial Dao Profound Qi, then took out the broken Profound Stone and Nourishing Heart Grass to test whether his cauldron could temper Mysterious Medicine.

Ning Xiaochuan refined three drops of Heart Nourishing Elixir and brought them to the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall to sell. There, Princess Yu Qianqian offered him a lucrative position, and the chapter ended with the elixir testing as supreme-purity First Grade with a Primal Chaos Attribute.

• Ning Xiaochuan used Nourishing Heart Grass and Profound Stones to refine three drops of Heart Nourishing Elixir, increasing his Profound Qi in the process.
• Ning Xiaochuan went to the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall to sell his elixir, where the maids treated him with great respect as a Heart Nourisher.
• Yu Qianqian personally received Ning Xiaochuan, learned that he had refined the elixir for the first time, and offered him a place in the Hall with a monthly stipend of five hundred thousand Small Coin.
• Ning Xiaochuan accepted Yu Qianqian's offer, and the test results identified his elixir as supreme-purity First Grade with a Primal Chaos Attribute.

Ning Xiaochuan passed the Elementary Heart Nourisher test, joined the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall, and returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion to learn that Ning Han had been killed. At the Deliberation Hall, he faced scorn from the clan's young descendants as tensions rose around the three corpses.

• Yu Qianqian bought Ning Xiaochuan's three Primal Chaos Heart Nourishing Elixirs, and Ning Xiaochuan passed the test to become an Elementary Heart Nourisher and signed the Heart Nourisher Pact.
• Yu Qianqian offered Ning Xiaochuan a ride, but he declined and returned to the Marquis Mansion after spending his earnings on medicinal herbs.
• Ning Xiner told Ning Xiaochuan that Ning Han and two family servants had been killed, and Ning Hengqing ordered him to attend the gathering at the Deliberation Hall.
• Ning Hengqing mocked Ning Xiaochuan, but Ning Xiaochuan defended his belief that respect was mutual and went to the Deliberation Hall with Ning Xiner.
• Ning Xiaochuan and Ning Xiner arrived to find three corpses outside the hall, while the gathered descendants mocked Ning Xiaochuan and insulted his mother.
• Ning Xiner struck the youth who insulted her mother and sent him flying, while Ning Xiaochuan let her act.

Ning Xiaochuan defended Ning Xiner from the Marquis Mansion descendants and provoked Ning Hengqing into injuring himself with reversed Profound Qi. After Ning Qianwu blamed the Blood Devouring Demon Sect for the deaths, Ning Xiaochuan kept his own involvement secret and hurried off to refine medicinal herbs.

• Ning Xiner struck a descendant who insulted Ning Xiaochuan, then endured the crowd's accusations as Ning Hengqing condemned her.
• Ning Xiaochuan stood beside Ning Xiner and denounced the gathered descendants for bullying orphans instead of pursuing the killers.
• Ning Hengqing tried to attack Ning Xiaochuan, but Ning Xiaochuan's taunts made his Profound Qi reverse, causing him to cough blood and collapse.
• Ning Qianwu announced that the Blood Devouring Demon Sect had killed Ning Han and two servants, and ordered the descendants to remain inside the mansion for half a month.
• Ning Xiaochuan concealed that he had killed the victims himself and decided not to tell Ning Xiner that he could cultivate Profound Qi.
• After returning to their courtyard and answering Ning Xiner's questions, Ning Xiaochuan went to refine his Nourishing Heart Grass and Blood Accumulation Grass.

Ning Xiaochuan refined ten stalks of Nourishing Heart Grass, advanced to the Profound Qi Fifth Level, and produced thirty-seven drops of Heart Nourishing Elixir. After he refined Blood Accumulation Elixir, the Blood-Colored Small Sword absorbed it, triggering another breakthrough that left him at the Profound Qi Sixth Level.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined five stalks of Nourishing Heart Grass, producing eighteen drops of Heart Nourishing Elixir while pushing his body’s potential to its limit.
• Ning Xiaochuan restored his Profound Qi, cultivated Heaven and Earth Profound Qi to the second level, and broke through to the Profound Qi Fifth Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined the remaining five stalks and finished the night with thirty-seven drops of Heart Nourishing Elixir.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined four drops of Blood Accumulation Elixir, but the Blood-Colored Small Sword tried to seize them as his Heart Aperture and Blood Aperture clashed.
• Ning Xiaochuan discovered the Blood Accumulation Elixir had vanished and realized his Martial Dao Profound Qi had increased enough for him to reach the Profound Qi Sixth Level.

After breaking through to the Profound Qi Sixth Level, Ning Xiaochuan went to the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall to sell the elixirs he had refined. Steward Hua doubted his claim that he had refined ten herbs overnight and challenged him to demonstrate his ability, so Ning Xiaochuan began refining five more herbs.

• Ning Xiaochuan traced his breakthrough to the Blood Nourishing Elixir and decided he needed Profound Stones to continue advancing.
• Ning Xiaochuan slipped over the Marquis Mansion wall and carried thirty-seven bottles of Heart Nourishing Elixir to the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall.
• Steward Hua personally received Ning Xiaochuan because Yu Qianqian had instructed him to pay attention to the young Heart Nourisher.
• Ning Xiaochuan said he had refined ten Nourishing Heart Grasses overnight, producing thirty-seven drops of elixir, and Steward Hua questioned whether he was telling the truth.
• Steward Hua offered Ning Xiaochuan the elixir from five Nourishing Heart Grasses if he refined them within a day, and Ning Xiaochuan promised to finish in two hours before beginning the first one.

Ning Xiaochuan proved he could refine five Nourishing Heart Grass plants into an extraordinary twenty drops of elixir, sold his medicines, and bought Profound Stones and herbs to advance his cultivation. As he left Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall, Wang Yunchong recognized him and blocked his path alongside Wang Shi.

• Ning Xiaochuan refined five Nourishing Heart Grass plants and produced twenty drops of Heart Nourishing Elixir, astonishing Steward Hua.
• Ning Xiaochuan sold fifty-seven drops of Heart Nourishing Elixir for five hundred and seventy thousand Small Coin and learned that a Universe Pouch was far beyond his means.
• Ning Xiaochuan bought three Low-Grade Profound Stones, ten Second Grade Blood Accumulation Grass plants, and ten Second Grade Nourishing Heart Grass plants.
• Wang Yunchong and Wang Shi discussed Wang Shi's plans to enter Heavenly Emperor Academy by reaching the Divine Body Realm.
• Wang Yunchong recognized Ning Xiaochuan as the sickly young master from Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, and he and Wang Shi blocked Ning Xiaochuan's way.

At the Golden Roc Heart Nourishing Hall, Ning Xiaochuan confronted Wang Yunchong, who had mocked him over the incident that supposedly angered him to death. After learning that Ning Qianwu had ordered Ning Han’s plot, Ning Xiaochuan realized the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion was unsafe and considered leaving.

• Wang Yunchong mocked Ning Xiaochuan about their fight over Yu Yan and claimed Ning Han had dealt with her.
• Steward Hua defended Ning Xiaochuan and ordered his guards to seize Wang Yunchong for insulting a Heart Nourisher.
• Ning Xiaochuan stopped the guards and questioned Wang Yunchong privately about who had covered up his death.
• Wang Yunchong admitted that Ning Han had slapped Ning Xiaochuan to death and identified Ning Qianwu as the mastermind behind the plot.
• Ning Xiaochuan concluded that staying in the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion was dangerous and considered leaving before his Martial Dao cultivation was exposed.

Ning Xiaochuan spared Wang Yunchong, who learned that Ning Han had been killed by the Blood Devouring Demon Sect and feared retaliation. At the Golden Roc Royal Mansion, Yu Qianqian learned of Ning Xiaochuan’s remarkable talent and ordered his treatment upgraded while keeping his abilities secret.

• Ning Xiaochuan left Wang Yunchong unharmed, deciding that punishing him further would cause trouble.
• Wang Shi told Wang Yunchong that Ning Han had been killed by the Blood Devouring Demon Sect and warned him that only Ning Xiaochuan might spare him.
• Wang Yunchong planned to apologize to Ning Xiaochuan by offering him a Silver-Ranked Music Courtesan from the Jade Viewing Pavilion.
• Steward Hua reported Ning Xiaochuan’s Heart Nourishing talent and background to Yu Qianqian, including the mysterious deaths of his parents ten years earlier.
• Yu Qianqian suspected that the Sword Pavilion Marquis had hidden Ning Xiaochuan’s true abilities and ordered his talent kept secret while raising his treatment to Intermediate Heart Nourisher standards.
• Yu Qianqian grew curious about Ning Xiaochuan and considered visiting him, then turned her attention to other matters.

Ning Xiaochuan used the Demon Sword to absorb Blood Accumulation Elixir and draw Earth Martial Essence Qi from his blood, rapidly advancing to the peak of the Profound Qi Sixth Level. After three days of cultivation, he learned that the Old Marquis had emerged from seclusion and was summoning the mansion’s fourth-generation descendants.

• Ning Xiaochuan returned to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion and pretended to be weak when Ning Xiner found him.
• Ning Xiaochuan repaid Ning Xiner three hundred big coins and explained how he had earned money selling numbered sheets.
• Ning Xiaochuan refined second-grade Blood Accumulation Grass, and the Demon Sword absorbed the elixir while the Blood Aperture and Heart Aperture drew out Earth Martial Essence Qi to strengthen his cultivation.
• Ning Xiaochuan spent three days reading, cultivating, and discussing martial arts with Ning Xiner, reaching the peak of the Profound Qi Sixth Level.
• Ning Xiner told Ning Xiaochuan that their grandfather had emerged from seclusion and summoned the fourth-generation descendants to the Deliberation Hall, and Ning Xiaochuan went with her.

Sword Pavilion Marquis announced a dangerous training mission for the mansion’s young geniuses and granted Ning Xiaochuan Begonia Manor, effectively sending him away from the Marquis Mansion. Ning Xiaochuan accepted the move gladly so he could conceal his ability to cultivate and leave the mansion.

• Ning Qianwu urged the Old Marquis to avenge the deaths of his son and two servants, but the Old Marquis insisted the Blood Devouring Demon Sect was not responsible and ordered a thorough investigation.
• Ning Qianwen reported that seventy-nine young descendants had returned with cultivation at or above the Profound Qi Seventh Level, including Ning Xiner, who had reached the Divine Body Realm at fourteen.
• The Old Marquis ordered the young descendants to train for three months in the Five Desolate Mountain Range and promised elixirs, an Intermediate Pill, and a profound weapon as rewards.
• The Old Marquis granted Begonia Manor to Ning Xiaochuan and said he would no longer need to live in the Marquis Mansion, prompting Ning Xiner to offer to stay and care for him.
• Ning Xiaochuan accepted the move and persuaded Ning Xiner to attend the training, while Ning Qianwu believed the Old Marquis had finally cast Ning Xiaochuan aside.

After agreeing to leave the Marquis Mansion for Begonia Manor, Ning Xiaochuan endured Ning Hengqing and Ning Meier’s taunts and prepared to depart with Ning Xiner’s help. Wang Yunchong arrived with Yu Yan as an apology gift, and Ning Xiaochuan freed her from her contract before learning that doing so left her without legal identity; he then agreed to take her to Begonia Manor.

• Ning Xiaochuan told Ning Xiner that leaving the Marquis Mansion would spare him further mockery, while she secretly packed her elixirs for him.
• Ning Hengqing mocked Ning Xiaochuan’s expulsion, but Ning Meier stopped him from attacking and belittled Ning Xiaochuan’s future.
• Wang Yunchong arrived to apologize and presented Yu Yan, whom he had redeemed from Jade Viewing Pavilion, along with her Indentured Contract.
• Ning Xiaochuan tore up Yu Yan’s contract and declared her free, but Yu Yan warned that without it she would have no identity and could be imprisoned or sold.
• Ning Xiner explained Yu Yan’s predicament, and Ning Xiaochuan agreed to take her with him to Begonia Manor.

Ning Xiaochuan left the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion for Begonia Manor with a Gold Thread Purple Wood Box containing the Old Marquis's Earth Martial Essence Qi. Ning Qianwu sent black-armored warriors to ambush him, and five of them blocked his carriage outside the Outer City.

• Ning Xiaochuan secretly placed his elixirs in Ning Xiner's luggage before leaving for Begonia Manor.
• Ji Bo gave Ning Xiaochuan the Gold Thread Purple Wood Box and explained that its Earth Martial Essence Qi could suppress his illness; Ning Xiaochuan hid that he could cultivate Martial Dao Profound Qi.
• Ning Qianwu learned about the box from Hei Lin and ordered him to steal it and break Ning Xiaochuan's legs without killing him.
• Ning Xiaochuan drove Yu Yan toward Begonia Manor and learned that her mistress was Yu Ningsheng, one of the Imperial City's Three Great Beauties.
• Five black-armored warriors riding Iron Lion Mystic Beasts caught up with Ning Xiaochuan's carriage and blocked the road.

Ning Xiaochuan and Yu Yan were ambushed by Hei Lin and his black-armored warriors, but Ning Xiaochuan killed Hei Si with a palm strike. A veiled woman intervened against Hei Lin while Ning Xiaochuan fled into the forest, where two warriors cornered him and left him fighting for his life.

• Hei Lin ordered Hei Si to attack Yu Yan and seize the Gold Thread Purple Wood Box, but Ning Xiaochuan shielded her and killed Hei Si with a blood-draining palm strike.
• Hei Lin revealed that he had overheard Ning Xiaochuan and Ji Bo using his Heavenly Ear Spiritual Connection, then prepared to kill Ning Xiaochuan for being able to cultivate.
• A veiled woman appeared with a white qilin phantom and attacked Hei Lin, while three other warriors pursued Ning Xiaochuan.
• Ning Xiaochuan dragged one pursuer from his Iron Lion Mystic Beast, killed him with Hei Si's saber, and escaped into the forest with a wound across his back.
• Two Profound Qi Seventh Level warriors caught up to Ning Xiaochuan, and he narrowly evaded their saber strikes while sustaining further wounds.

Ning Xiaochuan absorbed a Dark Warrior’s blood, broke through to the Profound Qi Seventh Level, and defeated another attacker before returning to find Yu Ningsheng had killed Hei Lin. When Yu Ningsheng collapsed from a poisoned wound, Ning Xiaochuan removed the Evil Dragon Scale and explained that its poison had once killed a Sword Pavilion Marquis.

• Ning Xiaochuan drained a Profound Qi Seventh Level Dark Warrior with the Demon Sword and advanced to the Profound Qi Seventh Level.
• Ning Xiaochuan killed another Dark Warrior after a fierce saber fight, suffering seven wounds in the process.
• Ning Xiaochuan returned to find Hei Lin and the Iron Lion Mystic Beast frozen and shattered, while Yu Ningsheng revealed that the attackers were Dark Warriors tied to the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion.
• Yu Ningsheng denied being injured, but poison from an Evil Dragon Scale spread through her body and caused her to collapse.
• Ning Xiaochuan removed the Evil Dragon Scale from Yu Ningsheng's wound and explained its deadly poison and its connection to the previous Sword Pavilion Marquis's death.

Ning Xiaochuan brought the poisoned Yu Ningsheng to Begonia Manor and treated her wounds before transfusing his own blood to save her. Afterward, he suspected the Demon Sword in his Blood Aperture had replenished his blood and began investigating it.

• Ning Xiaochuan said Yu Ningsheng could be saved by changing her blood and hurried with her to Begonia Manor.
• Ning Qianwu learned that his five assassins had been killed and ordered a search for the mysterious expert using the Blood Devouring Demon Art.
• Ning Xiaochuan explained that Begonia Manor would protect them because an attack there would expose the culprit within the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion.
• Ning Xiaochuan stitched Yu Ningsheng's wound and warned that the Evil Dragon Poison in her blood would still kill her.
• Yu Ningsheng agreed to a risky blood change, and Ning Xiaochuan transfused half his blood while her poisonous blood was drained.
• Ning Xiaochuan left Yu Ningsheng in Yu Yan's care and began studying the Demon Sword after suspecting it had replenished his blood.

Ning Xiaochuan consolidated his Profound Qi Seventh Level cultivation and failed to form a Profound Qi Sword. After Yu Ningsheng tried to leave Begonia Manor, he promised to help her enter the Heavenly Emperor Academy within three months, leaving Yu Yan doubtful that he could afford to redeem her.

• Ning Xiaochuan cultivated through the night, reached the Profound Qi Seventh Level, and failed to condense a Profound Qi Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan met Yu Ningsheng in Begonia Manor, and they agreed that they had each repaid the other's life-saving favor.
• Yu Ningsheng said she wanted to enter the Heavenly Emperor Academy, then departed when Ning Xiaochuan fell silent.
• Ning Xiaochuan promised to secure Yu Ningsheng's admission within three months, and she left without taking his promise seriously.
• Yu Yan warned Ning Xiaochuan that redeeming Yu Ningsheng could cost at least three hundred million Small Coin and anger the Sword Pavilion Marquis's Mansion, but he said he was repaying a kindness.

Ning Xiaochuan resolved to reach the Divine Body Realm within three months so he could become an Intermediate Heart Nourisher and earn enough to meet his promise. After cultivating with the Gold Thread Purple Wood Box, he went to Nanshan Village to seek Mysterious Medicine and agreed to buy a blood-red leaf for fifty thousand Small Coin.

• Ning Xiaochuan calculated that refining Heart Nourishing Elixir would not earn three hundred million Small Coin in three months and decided he needed to become an Intermediate Heart Nourisher.
• Ning Xiaochuan used the Gold Thread Purple Wood Box for ten days of secluded cultivation, reached the peak of the Profound Qi Seventh Level, and split a bronze cauldron with his Profound Qi Sword.
• Ning Xiaochuan asked Yu Yan where to buy Mysterious Medicine, and she directed him to the market in Nanshan Village.
• Ning Xiaochuan identified a peddler's supposed Blood Ancestor Root as an ordinary Blood Tree Root and asked Yu Yan not to expose the struggling seller.
• Ning Xiaochuan spotted a blood-red leaf at a young stall owner's stand, and despite Yu Yan's protests, he agreed to pay fifty thousand Small Coin for it.

Ning Xiaochuan recognized a stall owner's leaf as rare Blood Toad Wood and tried to buy it while learning where it came from. After the seller returned to bargain, Ning Xiaochuan offered the original fifty thousand Small Coin if the seller would take him to the place where he found it.

• Ning Xiaochuan offered the young stall owner fifty thousand Small Coin for the Blood Toad Wood leaf and asked where he had found it, but the young man refused to sell.
• Ning Xiaochuan left with Yu Yan for a wine shop, while the young man took the leaf to Profound Leaf Abode for an appraisal and learned it was worth at most eighty Small Coin.
• The young man hurried to find Ning Xiaochuan at the wine shop, and the shopkeeper of Profound Leaf Abode sent a martial artist to follow him.
• The young man offered to sell the leaf for less, but Ning Xiaochuan insisted that he reveal where he had found it and offered fifty thousand Small Coin if he would take him there.