Recaps

Lu Heng ambushed Lai San with the Blazing Sun Finger, killing him before facing Scorpion and Scarface. After striking the two with Azure Wood Seals, he confronted them at close range as they charged to kill him.

• Lu Heng used the terrain to split the three Dou Zhes pursuing him and hid in a tree.
• Lu Heng killed Lai San with the Blazing Sun Finger, his first time killing someone, then steadied himself and replenished his Dou Qi with a Qi Recovery Pill.
• Scorpion and Scarface found Lai San’s body and realized an unseen attacker had killed him in one strike.
• Lu Heng attacked Scorpion and Scarface with Azure Wood Seals, injuring Scarface’s arm and damaging Scorpion’s broadsword.
• Scorpion and Scarface decided to rush Lu Heng at close range, and Lu Heng prepared to fight them head-on.

Lu Heng endured Scorpion and Scarface’s attacks, adapted to their fighting styles, and killed Scarface with Blazing Sun Finger. Scorpion took a Beast Power Pill, but Lu Heng matched him with his own pill and struck him with Azure Wood Force, leaving Scorpion’s arm withered and broken.

• Lu Heng used his Azure Wood Body’s resilience to withstand Scorpion and Scarface’s attacks and gradually read their movements.
• Lu Heng took Scorpion’s blow on his shoulder, then killed Scarface with Blazing Sun Finger.
• Scorpion swallowed a Beast Power Pill and charged Lu Heng, boasting that he had become nearly as strong as a high-level Dou Master.
• Lu Heng took a Beast Power Pill and a Qi Recovery Pill, then revealed that he had refined the pills himself.
• Lu Heng met Scorpion’s punch with one of his own, channeling Azure Wood Force through his fist and withering Scorpion’s arm.

Lu Heng recovered from killing Scorpion and two other men, then trained against Magical Beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. He challenged a Silver-Fronted Shadow Leopard to sharpen his combat instincts, and the chapter ended with his punch sending it crashing through a small tree.

• Lu Heng looted Scorpion's corpse, reflected on his first kills, and left the area after cleaning up the traces.
• After three days of recovery and training, Lu Heng sensed he was close to breaking through to Seven-Star Dou Zhe.
• Lu Heng decided to seek a Rank Two Magical Beast for a greater challenge and encountered a Silver-Fronted Shadow Leopard.
• Lu Heng charged the leopard without using Dou Techniques, took a claw wound to his shoulder, and landed a powerful punch that sent the beast flying.

Lu Heng fought a second-tier Shadow Leopard and sensed his cultivation bottleneck loosen, while Ya Fei missed him and expanded her plans for the Beast Power Pills. In Green Mountain Town, the mercenary group Mad Blade surrounded the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion as Xiao Yi Xian emerged.

• Lu Heng endured the Shadow Leopard’s attacks, killed it after a savage struggle, and sensed that his Dou Qi bottleneck had loosened.
• Ya Fei credited Lu Heng’s Yuan-Nurturing Powder with helping her advance to the seventh stage of Dou Qi and ordered Gu Ni to expand the Beast Power Pills’ reach.
• Mad Blade surrounded the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion in Green Mountain Town, and Xiao Yi Xian came outside to face the mercenaries.

Xiao Yi Xian and Mr. Yao hired Mad Blade’s mercenaries to escort her into the Magical Beast Mountain Range to gather herbs. Deep in the mountains, Lu Heng continued tempering his Azure Wood Body by fighting beasts bare-handed, and he set off to find a stronger opponent.

• Xiao Yi Xian joined Mr. Yao and Mad Blade’s mercenaries for a herb-gathering trip into the mountains.
• Mad Blade accepted Mr. Yao’s deposit and led the mercenaries east toward the mountain pass.
• Lu Heng defeated an Iron-Armored Porcupine, recovered from its tusk wound, and collected its Magic Core.
• Lu Heng reflected on his rapid recovery and missed Ya Fei while roasting the porcupine.
• The next morning, Lu Heng went looking for a second-tier mid-stage beast and defeated a Fire-Explosive Ape.

Lu Heng encountered the Mad Blade Mercenary Group and Xiao Yi Xian fleeing a Bloodthirsty Demon Ape after taking Purple Heart Grass from its nest. He blocked the beast’s attack and wounded it, then declared he would handle the fight.

• Lu Heng heard the Mad Blade Mercenary Group fleeing with Xiao Yi Xian and learned that a late second-tier Bloodthirsty Demon Ape was chasing them.
• Mad Blade warned Lu Heng to run, then stayed behind to protect his employer while ordering his brothers to lead Xiao Yi Xian away.
• The Bloodthirsty Demon Ape attacked Mad Blade, but Lu Heng stepped in and blocked its palm with his arm.
• Lu Heng dodged the beast’s next strike and pierced its armpit with Blazing Sun Finger, making it stagger in pain.
• Lu Heng returned beside Mad Blade and said he would take on the late second-tier beast as Xiao Yi Xian watched from a safe distance.

Lu Heng killed a late second-tier Bloodthirsty Demon Ape with his newly developed combination skill, then accepted Xiao Yi Xian’s invitation to the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion. Mr. Yao welcomed him warmly after learning of his strength.

• Lu Heng fought the Bloodthirsty Demon Ape, enduring its Bloodthirsty Roar before striking it with Azure Wood Ignites Fire: Explosive Flame Seal.
• Lu Heng killed the Magic Ape and arranged to take its Magic Core while Mad Blade and the mercenaries claimed the corpse materials.
• Lu Heng accepted the Purple Heart Grass as payment for saving the group and agreed to return to town with Xiao Yi Xian.
• At the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, Mr. Yao learned Lu Heng had killed the late second-tier beast and decided he should be befriended.

After five months of relentless training in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Lu Heng reached Nine-Star Dou Zhe and decided to return to Wutan City. Before leaving, he headed for a cliff to claim the cave treasure that had been Xiao Yan’s first fortune.

• Mr. Yao toasted Lu Heng for rescuing Xiao Yi Xian and his men, while Lu Heng warned him not to probe into his background.
• Xiao Yi Xian thanked Lu Heng, who cautioned her that kindness could be dangerous before leaving the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion.
• Lu Heng spent five months meditating beneath a waterfall, fighting second-tier magical beasts, and refining pills until he reached Nine-Star Dou Zhe.
• Lu Heng chose not to use his Yuan-Gathering Pill to break through to Dou Master before returning, admitting he missed Sister Ya Fei.
• Lu Heng set off toward a cliff he had surveyed, intending to take the treasure containing a fragmented map of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and a flying Dou Technique.

Lu Heng looted a hidden cave, obtaining the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, Eagle Wings, and the Fragmented Map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, then began practicing the flying Dou Technique. In Wutan City, Ya Fei worried over Lu Heng’s long absence and threatened him for staying away.

• Lu Heng descended to the hidden cave, killed the Rock Snake, and found a stone chamber containing a skeleton and three stone boxes.
• Lu Heng took the gold, medicinal ingredients, Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, and Eagle Wings from the boxes.
• Lu Heng found the Fragmented Map to the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame hidden in the skeleton’s arm bone.
• Lu Heng began practicing Eagle Wings in the chamber and endured the painful transformation.
• Ya Fei asked Gu Ni about the date, worried that Lu Heng had been gone for five months, and threatened to break his legs when he returned.

Lu Heng refined the Purple Cloud Wings, flew back to Wutan City, and surprised Ya Fei at the Miteer Auction House after five months away. He left her stunned as he leaned over her chair and confirmed that he had returned.

• Lu Heng erased the Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle's soul and successfully formed the Purple Cloud Wings, learning to fly with them despite their heavy Dou Qi consumption.
• Lu Heng estimated he could fly for about two hours and used the wings to travel from Green Mountain Town toward Wutan City, replenishing his Dou Qi with medicinal pills.
• Lu Heng landed outside Wutan City, cleaned himself up, and entered the city without drawing attention to his flight.
• Lu Heng slipped into the Miteer Auction House and went to Ya Fei's office, where she mistook him for someone delivering food.
• Ya Fei recognized Lu Heng when he spoke, and he leaned over her chair and told her that he had returned.

Lu Heng returned to the Miteer Auction House after five months in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, reuniting with Ya Fei and sharing a meal with her. Ya Fei revealed she had become a One-Star Dou Zhe, and Lu Heng left her astonished by showing that he had reached Nine-Star Dou Zhe.

• Lu Heng returned and Ya Fei embraced him, overwhelmed with worry and relief.
• Ya Fei closed the Miteer Auction House for half a day and brought Lu Heng to her courtyard for a feast.
• Gu Ni saw Ya Fei caring for Lu Heng, then left them alone to catch up.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng that the Yuan-Nurturing Powder he had left helped her break through to One-Star Dou Zhe.
• Lu Heng released his Dou Qi and revealed that he had advanced from six-star to Nine-Star Dou Zhe in five months.

Lu Heng used the Yuan-Gathering Pill to break through to Dou Master while Ya Fei and Gu Ni guarded him. After his successful breakthrough, the Book of Destiny awakened new rewards, including a Thick Earth Physique method, an advanced cultivation art, and an Earth Origin Shield.

• Lu Heng asked Ya Fei to guard him while he attempted to break through to Dou Master.
• Ya Fei and Gu Ni secured the courtyard as Lu Heng swallowed the Yuan-Gathering Pill and began condensing his Dou Qi.
• Lu Heng endured the pill's violent energy and transformed his Dou Qi into liquid, reaching Dou Master.
• Ya Fei and Gu Ni sensed Lu Heng's stable new aura, and Ya Fei celebrated his breakthrough as an eleven-year-old Dou Master.
• The Book of Destiny awakened and granted Lu Heng a Thick Earth Physique awakening method, the Five Spirits Chaos Art's Dou Master Chapter, and the Earth Origin Shield Dou Skill.

After breaking through to One-Star Dou Master, Lu Heng discovered that awakening and upgrading his three physiques required an enormous supply of Rank Three materials. He told Ya Fei what he needed, leaving her to reckon with the staggering cost.

• Lu Heng inspected his status and learned that awakening his Thick Earth Physique and upgrading his Azure Wood Body and Li Fire Body required Rank Three Magic Cores and medicinal herbs.
• Lu Heng adapted to his liquefied Dou Qi overnight and found that his physical strength had increased substantially.
• Ya Fei, who had stayed up waiting for him, confirmed his breakthrough and shared a warm moment with him.
• Ya Fei asked what materials Lu Heng needed, and he listed five Rank Three Magic Cores and ten medicinal herbs for each of the earth, wood, and fire attributes.
• Ya Fei calculated the market cost and fell silent as her expression changed.

Lu Heng stopped Ya Fei from risking a million gold coins to gather rare alchemy materials and reminded her that his alchemy could help. He introduced a second-grade Yuan-Gathering Pill, leaving its effect on ninth-star Dou Zhe unrevealed.

• Ya Fei estimated that Lu Heng's requested Magic Cores and Yao Cai would cost nearly one million gold coins.
• Ya Fei insisted she could use her Mittel Family connections to gather the materials within three days.
• Lu Heng stopped Ya Fei from rushing to send an urgent request and comforted her about her limited talent and usefulness.
• Lu Heng reminded Ya Fei that he was an alchemist and displayed three jade bottles of medicinal products.
• Lu Heng identified the second bottle as a second-grade Yuan-Gathering Pill that raised the cultivation of anyone below the ninth star of the Dou Zhe realm by one star.

Lu Heng revealed pills that could rapidly raise cultivation and help practitioners break through major realms, giving Ya Fei a way to turn the Miteer Auction House’s financial troubles into a profitable scheme. Ya Fei set off to draft a new plan targeting the three great families, while Lu Heng focused on making money.

• Lu Heng explained that the Yuan-Gathering Pill could raise Dou Zhes’ cultivation and give Nine-Star Dou Zhes a fifty percent chance of becoming Dou Masters.
• Lu Heng introduced the Yuan-Coagulating Pill, which could raise Dou Masters’ cultivation and give Nine-Star Dou Masters a fifty percent chance of advancing to Da Dou Shi.
• Ya Fei asked whether Lu Heng could mass-produce the pills, and he proposed selling only a few each month under the name of a mysterious alchemist.
• Lu Heng suggested using the Spirit-Nurturing Powder to exploit the Jia Lie Family and Aoba Clan’s fear of Xiao Yan’s rising talent.
• Ya Fei realized the medicines could make the three great families spend their fortunes, then hurried off to draft a revised proposal.
• Lu Heng watched Ya Fei leave and decided that the money problem was solved, though he briefly considered the Xiao Family and Xiao Yan.

Lu Heng completed nine batches each of Spirit-Nurturing Powder and Yuan-Gathering Pills for Ya Fei, while preparing to retreat and refine the final Yuan-Coagulating Pill. News of the pills' claimed breakthrough rates sent Wutan City into an uproar, and the Xiao Family, Jia Lie Family, and Aoba Clan began scrambling to raise money for the auction.

• Lu Heng gave Ya Fei nine portions each of Spirit-Nurturing Powder and Yuan-Gathering Pills after two days of refining.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng that Wutan City was abuzz over the auction and that Frank and Otto wanted to inspect the Yuan-Coagulating Pill.
• Ya Fei promised to handle matters outside while Lu Heng entered seclusion for about three days to refine the final Yuan-Coagulating Pill.
• Flyers and rumors about the pills' fifty-percent breakthrough chances spread through Wutan City.
• Xiao Zhan ordered the Xiao Family to secure both pills, and the Great Elder agreed to liquidate reserves and raise funds.
• Jia Lie Bi heard the reported breakthrough chances and wondered whether a high-level alchemist had passed through Wutan City.

News of the Yuan-Gathering and Yuan-Coagulating Pills drew the Jia Lie Family, the Black Rock City Alchemist Guild, and Xiao Xun'er toward the Miteer Auction House. Lu Heng remained locked in his secret chamber refining pills, while Xiao Xun'er arranged to secure them for Xiao Yan and investigate their maker.

• Jia Lie Bi ordered his family to gather funds and compete with the Xiao Family for the pills at auction.
• Frank and Otto received an invitation from Wutan City and decided to visit the auction and meet the alchemist who made the Yuan-Coagulating Pill.
• Gu Ni praised the consigned Yuan-Gathering Pills as peerless, but Ya Fei refused to reveal Lu Heng's identity and stopped Gu Ni from interrupting his pill refinement.
• Xiao Xun'er learned that the mysterious pills might help Xiao Yan and instructed Ling Ying to secure one of each while investigating their source.
• Lu Heng commanded the violently churning medicinal liquid in his Crimson Medicine Cauldron to condense.

Lu Heng finished refining three Yuan-Coagulating Pills and joined Ya Fei for the auction as visitors and powerful figures gathered in Wutan City. The chapter ended as Ya Fei took the stage as the auction’s chief auctioneer.

• Lu Heng refined three Yuan-Coagulating Pills over three days and emerged from the sealed chamber.
• Ya Fei welcomed Lu Heng, took the pills, and told him that Black Rock City’s lord, the Xue Clan head, Frank, Otto, and many Dou Masters had come to Wutan City.
• Lu Heng agreed to attend the auction and support Ya Fei.
• Two days later, a huge crowd filled the Miteer Auction House, and Lu Heng watched from an inconspicuous seat.
• Ya Fei stepped onto the stage and introduced herself as the day’s chief auctioneer.

At the auction, Xiao Xun'er and Ling Ying discovered that Lu Heng was an exceptionally powerful young Dou Master, while Xiao Yi Xian recognized him as the man who had saved her. Ya Fei’s auction drew fierce bidding from Wutan City’s great families, and the Yuan-Gathering Pill’s sale began with its price soaring past one hundred thousand gold coins.

• Ling Ying sensed Lu Heng in the auction hall and told Xiao Xun'er that the youth was an unusually powerful Dou Master despite being only about eleven or twelve.
• Xiao Yi Xian spotted Lu Heng in the crowd and brightened when she realized he was the person who had saved her.
• Ya Fei offered Spirit-Nurturing Powder, and Xiao Zhan, Jia Lie Bi, and Ao Ba Pa drove the first batch’s price up to thirty-eight thousand gold coins before Xiao Zhan won it.
• The three families continued competing over later batches of Spirit-Nurturing Powder, bringing the sales total above two hundred thousand gold coins.
• Ya Fei introduced the Yuan-Gathering Pill, and bidders drove its price above one hundred thousand gold coins as Ao Ba Pa dismissed the smaller factions.

The Miteer Auction House sold the Yuan-Gathering Pills for huge sums before Ya Fei unveiled the Yuan-Coagulating Pill, which could raise a cultivator’s strength or help a Nine-Star Dou Master advance to Da Dou Shi. The auction house erupted, and Lin Fei urged her father, Lin Ang, to buy it.

• Frank and Otto discussed whether the Yuan-Gathering Pill’s claimed effects were genuine, and Otto suspected the mysterious master behind the Beast Power Pill had made it.
• Jia Lie Bi outbid Xiao Zhan with 140,000 gold coins to secure the first Yuan-Gathering Pill for the Jia Lie Family.
• The remaining Yuan-Gathering Pills sold for around 130,000 gold coins each, bringing Lu Heng more than one million gold coins.
• Ya Fei revealed the peak third-tier Yuan-Coagulating Pill and announced that it could raise strength by one star or give a Nine-Star Dou Master a fifty-percent chance to reach Da Dou Shi.
• Lin Fei excitedly urged her father, Lin Ang, to buy the Yuan-Coagulating Pill.

Lu Heng’s Yuan-Coagulating Pills sparked a fierce auction that drew wealthy buyers from Black Rock City and left Wutan City’s families outbid. After the auction, Ya Fei told Lu Heng he had earned a net profit of 2.8 million gold coins, and a maid arrived before she could rest.

• Lin Fei persuaded Lin Ang to bid for a Yuan-Coagulating Pill, while Xue Mei and the Xue Clan head also decided they had to obtain one.
• Xiao Zhan, Jia Lie Bi, and Ao Ba Pa drove the bidding above 300,000 gold coins before Lin Ang, the Xue Clan head, and Otto entered the contest.
• Lin Ang bought the first pill for 450,000 gold coins, the Xue Clan took the second for 440,000, and Frank and Otto secured the final pill for 490,000.
• Lu Heng exchanged a brief smile with Xiao Yi Xian as the bidding continued, while Wutan City’s three great families were forced to watch the Black Rock City buyers take the pills.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng that his net profit after commissions and costs was 2.8 million gold coins, and Lu Heng joked that he might target bigger cities for money.
• A maid knocked on the office door before Ya Fei could rest.

Ya Fei handled a gathering of powerful visitors who wanted to learn who had made the auction house’s new pills, while Lu Heng slipped away to avoid being exposed. He ran into Xiao Yi Xian and took her around Wutan City, but their walk was interrupted by Jia Lie Ao and his drunken companions.

• Ya Fei sorted Black Rock City’s leaders and Wutan City’s clan heads into separate VIP rooms, then agreed to shield Lu Heng’s identity as the pill maker.
• Lu Heng left the auction house and spotted Xiao Yi Xian exploring the street alone.
• Lu Heng bought Xiao Yi Xian a sugar figurine modeled after her and invited her to walk around Wutan City with him.
• Lu Heng and Xiao Yi Xian chatted as they strolled until Jia Lie Ao and several drunken young men blocked their path near Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

Lu Heng defended Xiao Yi Xian from Jia Lie Ao's advances, then defeated the young master's guards and confronted Jia Lie Xiong, a three-star Dou Master. Lu Heng revealed that he had also reached the Dou Master realm and prepared to face Jia Lie Xiong.

• Jia Lie Ao tried to touch Xiao Yi Xian and threatened Lu Heng, so Lu Heng broke his finger and kicked him into a wall.
• Jia Lie Ao ordered his guards to kill Lu Heng, but Lu Heng defeated more than twenty Jia Lie Family guards in under a minute.
• Jia Lie Xiong emerged from the tavern and demanded that Lu Heng kneel, apologize, and break his arms.
• Xiao Yi Xian urged Lu Heng to run, but Lu Heng revealed his aura as a one-star Dou Master, surprising Jia Lie Xiong.

Lu Heng defeated Jia Lie Xiong with one punch and led Xiao Yi Xian away from the crowd. Meanwhile, Ya Fei faced powerful visitors at the Miteer Auction House, who pressed her for information about the Yuan-Coagulating Pill’s alchemist and asked whether more pills were available.

• Lu Heng shattered Jia Lie Xiong’s Dou Qi Veil with one punch, sending the Three-Star Dou Master crashing into the Drunken Immortal Pavilion signboard.
• Lu Heng pinned Jia Lie Xiong to the ground and left him crippled but alive.
• Lu Heng took Xiao Yi Xian by the wrist and hurried with her through back alleys as the crowd gathered.
• At the Miteer Auction House, Frank and Otto asked Ya Fei to introduce them to the master who refined the Yuan-Coagulating Pill.
• Lin Ang asked Ya Fei whether the alchemist had more Yuan-Coagulating Pills to sell, saying price was no obstacle.

Ya Fei concealed the alchemy master’s identity from the powerful visitors, while Wutan City’s three family heads resolved to find and win over the master. By the river, Xiao Yi Xian thanked Lu Heng for saving her and asked why he had helped her.

• Ya Fei told Frank, Otto, Lin Ang, and Xue Lingyun that the eccentric alchemy master contacted her anonymously and had no pills left to sell.
• Frank and Otto left disappointed, while Lin Ang and Xue Lingyun had no way to arrange a private deal with the master.
• Xiao Zhan, Jia Lie Bi, and Ao Ba Pa discussed the auction’s threat to their families and each resolved to find the alchemist before their rivals did.
• By the river, Lu Heng offered to protect Xiao Yi Xian, who joked that he would bring trouble with him.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Lu Heng why he had helped her.