Recaps

Lu Heng reassured Xiao Yi Xian that he protected her because she was beautiful, then refused to let her withdraw her hand despite her fears about her body. He spent the day accompanying her around Wutan City, leaving her more relaxed and the two of them still hand in hand.

• Lu Heng told Xiao Yi Xian that her beauty was reason enough to protect her, and she blushed at his blunt answer.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered Lu Heng her hand, then tried to pull it away as she remembered the danger she believed her body posed to anyone close to her.
• Lu Heng took her hand, told her he would not let go, and warmed her cold fingers with his Separating Fire Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yi Xian stopped resisting and let Lu Heng lead her through Wutan City while he offered to protect her during her stay.
• Lu Heng and Xiao Yi Xian browsed the market, bought treats and trinkets, and admired the city from a restaurant without separating their hands.

After the outside powers left Wutan City, conflicts resumed between its great families, while news of Xiao Yan's breakthrough spread. Ya Fei learned that Lu Heng had crippled a Jia Lie Family elder and injured Jia Lie Ao, and the chapter left her reacting to the news.

• After the auction ended, the outside powerhouses departed Wutan City, and the Miteer Auction House announced that no more miraculous pills were available soon.
• Jia Lie Bi found Jia Lie Ao and Jia Lie Xiong badly injured and ordered an investigation into the young man who had attacked them.
• News spread that eleven-year-old Xiao Yan had condensed his Dou Qi Whirlpool and become a One-Star Dou Zhe.
• Ya Fei dismissed Xiao Yan's talent as ordinary compared with Lu Heng's abilities.
• A maid told Ya Fei that Lu Heng had crippled Jia Lie Xiong and severely injured Jia Lie Ao outside the Drunken Immortal Pavilion.

Ya Fei learned that Lu Heng had protected a young woman and struggled to contain her jealousy, while the Mittel Family leadership discussed his value and Ya Fei’s possible marriage alliance. In Wutan City, Xiao Yi Xian parted from Lu Heng after they spent the evening shopping together.

• Ya Fei heard that Lu Heng had crippled a Jia Lie Family elder to defend a young woman, then ordered the family to watch Jia Lie Bi.
• Mite'er Tengshan and the Mittel Family elders discussed the Yuan-Coagulating Pill and whether Ya Fei could secure the alchemist’s loyalty or should be married into the Mu Family.
• Xiao Yi Xian said goodbye to Lu Heng outside the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion and reluctantly let go of his hand.

Lu Heng returned to the Miteer Auction House after crippling Jia Lie Xiong, while reports of his strength alarmed Wutan City's clans. Ya Fei confronted him over his outing with Xiao Yi Xian, and Lu Heng asked if she was jealous.

• Lu Heng told Xiao Yi Xian to seek help at the Miteer Auction House if the Jia Lie Family came after her, then she thanked him and returned to the inn.
• Two Jia Lie Family scouts followed Lu Heng to the Miteer Auction House, saw its guards welcome him, and hurried to report his apparent connections.
• Xiao Zhan ordered the Xiao Family to investigate Lu Heng and avoid offending him, while Ao Ba Pa told the Aoba Clan to behave cautiously around unfamiliar youths.
• Ya Fei confronted Lu Heng in the auction house's rear courtyard about protecting Xiao Yi Xian, holding her hand, and buying her a sugar figurine.
• Lu Heng caught Ya Fei's finger and asked whether she was jealous.

Lu Heng reassured Ya Fei that he had deliberately let the Jia Lie Family’s scouts follow him, while she warned him not to provoke Jia Lie Bi too far. Ya Fei secured the resources Lu Heng needed for his cultivation, and the chapter ended with Jia Lie Bi furious after hearing the scouts’ report.

• Lu Heng teased Ya Fei about being jealous, and she warned him that the Jia Lie Family’s scouts had followed him to the auction house.
• Lu Heng revealed that he had noticed the scouts and had deliberately tested Jia Lie Bi’s limits; Ya Fei explained why the Jia Lie Family was afraid to challenge the Miteer Auction House.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng that five Rank Three Magic Cores each of wood, fire, and earth attributes, along with thirty Rank Three Medicinal Herbs, would arrive the day after tomorrow.
• Lu Heng embraced Ya Fei and thanked her for helping him obtain the resources, and she told him to cultivate well and support her in the future.
• Jia Lie Bi smashed a rosewood table and demanded that the two kneeling scouts repeat their report.

After learning that Lu Heng had entered the Miteer Auction House, Jia Lie Bi feared the Jia Lie Family could not afford to provoke him and went to apologize to Ya Fei with valuable gifts. Lu Heng declined to see him that night and told Ya Fei to send him back until the next morning.

• A scout told Jia Lie Bi that Lu Heng had entered the Miteer Auction House and had been treated with deference by its guards.
• Jia Lie Bi ordered his men to withdraw from watching Lu Heng and prepared valuable Magic Cores and Yao Cai as an apology.
• Jia Lie Bi went alone to the auction house at night and asked a guard to arrange a meeting with Ya Fei.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng that Jia Lie Bi had arrived with gifts, and Lu Heng said he would not meet him until the next morning.
• Ya Fei agreed to tell Jia Lie Bi that she had retired for the night and would receive him early the next day.

Lu Heng and Ya Fei kept Jia Lie Bi waiting overnight, while Xiao Yan’s announcement as an eleven-year-old Dou Zhe intensified the pressure on Wutan City’s rival families. Lu Heng then prepared to meet Jia Lie Bi, who had returned to the auction house in desperation.

• Ya Fei turned Jia Lie Bi away politely, and he left with his gift box after asking to apologize the next day.
• Observers reported Jia Lie Bi’s rejection and gift to the Xiao Family and the Aoba Clan.
• The Xiao Family announced that Xiao Yan had become a Dou Zhe at age eleven, alarming Jia Lie Bi and Ao Ba Pa.
• Lu Heng noted that Xiao Yan’s fame might be short-lived, while Ya Fei predicted Jia Lie Bi would return more fearful and humble.
• Lu Heng agreed to meet Jia Lie Bi, who waited in the auction house’s VIP room looking much older.

Lu Heng met with Jia Lie Bi, who apologized for his son’s actions and offered valuable compensation. Lu Heng accepted the gifts, warned Jia Lie Bi to keep his family in line, and let him leave, while Ya Fei teased Lu Heng afterward.

• Ya Fei brought Lu Heng to meet Jia Lie Bi, who recognized him as the man who had crippled his son and the family elder.
• Jia Lie Bi offered medicinal ingredients and Magic Cores as compensation and begged Lu Heng to accept his apology.
• Lu Heng questioned Jia Lie Bi about the gift and warned him that his son had brought the consequences on himself.
• Jia Lie Bi promised to confine his son and discipline the family, and Lu Heng accepted the brocade box into his Storage Ring.
• Lu Heng warned Jia Lie Bi against stirring up trouble and gossiping, then dismissed him.
• Ya Fei laughed and called Lu Heng a little rascal.

After Ya Fei told Lu Heng that his requested goods would arrive the next night, he prepared to cultivate and awaken the Thick Earth Physique. Meanwhile, Jia Lie Bi met with Ao Ba Pa, who proposed that their clans join forces to undermine the Xiao Family’s resources and target Xiao Yan indirectly.

• Ya Fei told Lu Heng his goods would arrive before the following night, and Lu Heng planned to awaken the Thick Earth Physique once they arrived.
• Jia Lie Bi returned home shaken after his encounter with Lu Heng and worried about Xiao Yan’s rapid rise.
• Ao Ba Pa arrived at the Jia Lie Family, and Jia Lie Bi took him to a secret chamber.
• Ao Ba Pa proposed that their clans suppress the Xiao Family’s income and cut off its access to pills and resources.
• Jia Lie Bi hesitated to make a direct move against Xiao Yan because of Xiao Zhan and the Miteer Auction House, so Ao Ba Pa suggested restricting the Xiao Family’s finances instead.

Jia Lie Bi chose to challenge the Xiao Family, while Xiao Yi Xian visited Lu Heng to say goodbye before returning to Green Mountain Town. Lu Heng let her leave but promised she could always come to the Miteer Auction House for protection.

• Jia Lie Bi decided to compete against the Xiao Family in Wutan City's marketplaces.
• Xiao Yi Xian visited Lu Heng, and Ya Fei watched briefly before accepting that Lu Heng liked her.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Lu Heng she planned to return to Green Mountain Town because her work at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion remained unfinished.
• Lu Heng offered Xiao Yi Xian a place at the Miteer Auction House, but she declined because she feared her Woe Poison Physique would harm him.
• Lu Heng promised to protect Xiao Yi Xian if she ever faced trouble, and she left for the merchant caravan departing the next morning.

After Xiao Yi Xian left, Lu Heng focused on cultivation while Ya Fei gathered resources and supported his next seclusion. He began absorbing earth-element Magic Cores and herbs to awaken and advance his constitution, but the energy weighed heavily on his body.

• Lu Heng decided to keep cultivating after Xiao Yi Xian left and spent the next stretch of time in seclusion.
• Ya Fei brought Lu Heng thirty boxes of Rank Three Medicinal Herbs and fifteen Rank Three Magic Cores, and he estimated his next seclusion would last about ten days.
• Lu Heng and Ya Fei shared dinner, then he embraced her before entering his room to cultivate.
• Lu Heng used the Five Spirits Chaos Art to crush five Rank Three earth-element Magic Cores and refine ten stalks of Rank Three Earth Heart Grass.
• Lu Heng swallowed the resulting energy, which flooded his limbs and bones with crushing heaviness.

Lu Heng used Rank Three materials to awaken his Thick Earth Physique and advance his Azure Wood Body and Li Fire Body, reaching Two-Star Dou Master. After testing his enhanced Earth Origin Shield, he emerged from the room where he had cultivated for seven days.

• Lu Heng absorbed a Rank Three earth-type Magic Core and awakened his Rank Three Thick Earth Physique.
• Lu Heng devoured wood- and fire-attribute materials, advancing his Azure Wood Body and Li Fire Body to Rank Three.
• The three-attribute cycle expanded Lu Heng's sea of Qi and raised his cultivation to Two-Star Dou Master.
• Lu Heng examined his new Cloud Earth Shield skill and formed an Earth Origin Shield reinforced by wood and fire Dou Qi.
• After changing into a new black robe, Lu Heng opened the door and wondered what had happened outside during his seven days of cultivation.

After a year of cultivation and alchemy, Lu Heng prepared to leave Wutan City for Jia Nan Academy, while Ya Fei turned his medicinal pills into a major commercial success. On Lu Heng’s twelfth birthday, he and Ya Fei celebrated privately as he had reached the Seven-Star Dou Master level.

• Lu Heng emerged from seven days of seclusion as a Two-Star Dou Master and told Ya Fei that he planned to attend Jia Nan Academy the following year.
• Lu Heng cultivated and produced medicinal pills while Ya Fei expanded the Miteer Auction House’s trade routes and made its Wutan City branch a regional commercial center.
• Over the year, Xiao Yan’s cultivation declined as the old man inside his black ring siphoned his Dou Qi to restore his soul power.
• Lu Heng celebrated his twelfth birthday with Ya Fei and revealed an imposing aura befitting a Seven-Star Dou Master.

Lu Heng confessed his love to Ya Fei after she gave him Jia Nan Academy’s recruitment notice and urged him to leave for his future. Ya Fei accepted his promise that he would stay devoted to her, leaving them committed to each other before his departure.

• Ya Fei gave Lu Heng the Jia Nan Academy recruitment notice and told him the team would reach Wutan City the following month.
• Lu Heng confronted Ya Fei and confessed that he loved her and wanted a future with her.
• Ya Fei doubted they could stay together because she was older and less talented, but Lu Heng promised to help her and kissed her.
• Lu Heng reassured Ya Fei that she would always be first in his eyes, and she accepted his love and promised he would always have a home with her.

As Xiao Yan struggled with his inexplicable loss of Dou Qi and the Xiao Family came under pressure from rival clans, Lu Heng prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy. Ya Fei saw him off with a promise to defend him if he was mistreated, leaving their farewell tender but uncertain.

• Ya Fei stopped Lu Heng from getting more intimate, then sent him to wash up before bed.
• Xiao Yan failed to retain the Dou Qi he had gathered, while Xiao Xun'er watched helplessly from the woods.
• The Jia Lie Family and Aoba Clan attacked the Xiao Family's business, and the Xiao Family pinned its hopes on Jia Nan Academy's recruitment.
• Ya Fei told Lu Heng to write home if anyone bullied him at Jia Nan Academy and promised to seek justice for him.

Lu Heng and Ya Fei shared an intimate farewell before he accompanied her to the Jia Nan Academy entrance examination in Wutan City. His arrival beside Ya Fei drew the crowd’s attention as the testing continued.

• Ya Fei gave Lu Heng supplies and two million gold coins, then invited him to share her room for the night.
• Ruo Lin began testing applicants at the crowded plaza, and Xiao Yu qualified with eighth-stage Dou Qi and F-rank talent.
• The Jia Lie Family and the Aoba Clan struggled to produce qualified applicants, frustrating Ao Ba Pa.
• Ya Fei arrived at the examination in a carriage and personally helped Lu Heng down, surprising the onlookers.

Lu Heng enrolled at the academy and stunned the crowd when his Dou Qi cracked the testing crystal. After passing the assessment, he entered the tent and met Xiao Yu, who thought she had seen him before.

• Jia Lie Bi recognized Lu Heng and feared the youth who had crippled his family’s elder and injured his son.
• Ya Fei escorted Lu Heng to the enrollment assessment, where Mentor Ruo Lin asked his name and age.
• Lu Heng said he was twelve, then injected Dou Qi into the crystal ball and cracked it with the force of his cultivation.
• Mentor Ruo Lin passed Lu Heng and sent him to the tent for separate procedures without revealing his cultivation level.
• Lu Heng entered the tent, met Xiao Yu, and introduced himself.

Lu Heng and Xiao Yu met Xueni while waiting for their Jia Nan Academy ratings, and Ruo Lin revealed Lu Heng had earned the rare S-Rank. Xiao Yu and Xueni were stunned to learn that the twelve-year-old Lu Heng was a Five-Star Dou Zhe.

• Xiao Yu introduced herself to Lu Heng and playfully teased him after catching him staring at her legs.
• Xueni entered the tent, introduced herself as a new student from Black Rock City, and enthusiastically praised Lu Heng's looks.
• Ruo Lin arrived and rated Xiao Yu F-Rank for reaching Eight-Section Dou Qi.
• Ruo Lin announced Lu Heng's S-Rank rating, leaving the tent speechless.
• Xueni explained that S-Rank required being a Five-Star Dou Zhe under twenty, and Xiao Yu realized Lu Heng's strength surpassed her expectations.

Instructor Ruo Lin confirmed Lu Heng was twelve years old, then learned he had reached seven-star Dou Master. Stunned by his talent, she upgraded his assessment to Super S-Rank and looked forward to presenting him to Jia Nan Academy.

• Ruo Lin checked Lu Heng's pulse and confirmed his bone age was twelve, shocking Xiao Yu and Xueni.
• Ruo Lin told Lu Heng and the girls that the recruitment team would leave Wutan City for Jia Nan Academy in seven days.
• After Xiao Yu and Xueni left, Ruo Lin asked Lu Heng to reveal his true realm, and he said he was a seven-star Dou Master.
• Ruo Lin was overwhelmed by Lu Heng's strength and imagined the recognition and rewards he could bring her at the academy.
• Ruo Lin marked Lu Heng's assessment as Super S-Rank, declaring that ordinary S-Rank was not enough for him.

Lu Heng accepted Ruo Lin’s advice to hide his true cultivation until he reached the academy, then prepared to spend seven days settling his affairs before departure. At the Xiao Family estate, the Great Elder learned of Lu Heng’s strength and decided the struggling family should seek his support.

• Ruo Lin warned Lu Heng to claim he was a Five-Star Dou Zhe while traveling through the Black-Corner Region and told him to gather with the group at dawn in seven days.
• Ruo Lin reflected that Lu Heng’s Seven-Star Dou Master cultivation could make this year’s new student assessment and the older students’ authority more challenging.
• Xiao Yu told the Great Elder that Lu Heng was a twelve-year-old Five-Star Dou Zhe who had received an S-Rank assessment.
• The Great Elder connected Lu Heng to the youth who had crippled Jia Lie Ao and Jia Lie Xiong, and concluded that his real strength was far greater than reported.
• The Great Elder urged Xiao Yu to view Lu Heng as a natural ally because the Xiao Family was being squeezed by the Jia Lie Family and the Aoba Clan.

Lu Heng impressed people with his strength, while Xiao Yu gave up on pursuing him after seeing his closeness with Ya Fei. As Lu Heng prepared to leave for the Black-Corner Region, Ya Fei struggled to hide how much she would miss him.

• Xiao Yu rejected her grandfather's suggestion that she use her charms to win Lu Heng over.
• Lu Heng rode back to the auction house with Ya Fei, who praised his display of strength and reassured him that she would not mind his interests at the academy.
• The Jia Lie and Ao Ba families stopped targeting the Xiao Family after learning Xiao Yu would attend Canaan Academy alongside Lu Heng.
• Xiao Yu visited the auction house, saw Lu Heng being affectionately fed grapes by Ya Fei, and left after deciding she could not compete with her.
• Before Lu Heng's departure, Ya Fei adjusted his collar and warned him to flee rather than recklessly face danger in the Black-Corner Region.

Lu Heng said farewell to Ya Fei, giving her three Storage Rings filled with auction goods, cultivation pills, and Beauty-Nurturing Paste before setting off for Jia Nan Academy. Aboard the Thick-Winged Bird, he joined Xiao Yu and Xueni among the new students, where an arrogant youth and his entourage entered their section of the cabin.

• Lu Heng embraced Ya Fei and gave her three Storage Rings containing valuable pills and Beauty-Nurturing Paste.
• Lu Heng kissed Ya Fei and asked her not to see him off, promising to return to her.
• Lu Heng arrived at Wutan City's central square and boarded the Thick-Winged Bird with Xiao Yu.
• Lu Heng sat with Xiao Yu and Xueni aboard the flying beast and explained that his cultivation came from Spirit-Nurturing Powder and talent.
• Several youths shoved through the cabin and surrounded a youth in a bright yellow brocade robe as they approached Lu Heng's section.

On the way to the academy, Luo Bu tried to impress Xiao Yu and Xueni, but his arrogant advances backfired. After Xueni revealed that Lu Heng was S-Rank and Luo Bu challenged him for his seat, Lu Heng unleashed the aura of a Nine-Star Dou Zhe.

• Luo Bu introduced himself to the carriage as an E-Rank student at the Ninth Duan Dou Qi and tried to impress Xiao Yu and Xueni.
• Xueni mocked Luo Bu's pride in his strength, while Xiao Yu moved away from him and Lu Heng recognized him as a character from the original story.
• Luo Bu's lackeys insulted the other new students, and Luo Bu challenged Xueni to reveal her own rank and Dou Qi level.
• Xueni clung to Lu Heng and declared that he was S-Rank, prompting Luo Bu to laugh and claim he would eat his fan if a remote city produced such a talent.
• Luo Bu demanded Lu Heng's seat, and Lu Heng told him to scram before releasing an aura that made Luo Bu realize he was facing a Dou Zhe.

Lu Heng intimidated Luo Bu into leaving the students alone, then spent two months cultivating during the journey to Jia Nan Academy. The new students arrived at Peace Town, where Huo De recognized Lu Heng as a twelve-year-old S-Rank prodigy and let them proceed to Jia Nan City.

• Lu Heng used his Dou Zhe aura to frighten Luo Bu and his lackeys into retreating, and Instructor Ruo Lin warned Lu Heng that Luo Bu's family had influence in Gobi City.
• During the two-month flight, Lu Heng consolidated his Seven-Star Dou Master realm while Xueni and Xiao Yu cultivated diligently beside him.
• The Thick-Winged Bird landed outside Peace Town, where the new students saw the corpse-covered Necro Tree and Ruo Lin explained its warning to fugitives who challenged Jia Nan Academy.
• Huo De met the group with the Enforcement Team and, after seeing Lu Heng's S-Rank entry on the roster, ordered the students to proceed to Jia Nan City.

After arriving at Jia Nan Academy, Lu Heng was taken by Ruo Lin to meet Vice Dean Hu Gan because of his extraordinary strength and age. Hu Gan reacted with shock to the report that Lu Heng had shattered the testing crystal and was already a seven-star Dou Master.

• Lu Heng and the other freshmen arrived at Jia Nan Academy after two months in the air.
• Ruo Lin separated Lu Heng from the freshmen and took him into the academy, while the other students speculated about his talent and Luo Bu brooded.
• Ruo Lin explained that Lu Heng's age and seven-star Dou Master strength required her to report him to Vice Dean Hu Gan.
• Hu Gan initially mistook Lu Heng's visit for an attempt to secure special treatment through connections.
• Ruo Lin told Hu Gan that Lu Heng had shattered a crystal capable of withstanding a Nine-Star Dou Zhe's energy and was a seven-star Dou Master.
• Hu Gan sprang from his chair and rushed over to inspect Lu Heng.