Chapter Summaries

Lu Heng spent the night refining a Yuan-Gathering Pill and Yuan-Nurturing Powder, which he gave to Ya Fei to help her cultivation. Ya Fei suspected his gift meant he was about to leave and asked him directly.

• Lu Heng refined a Yuan-Gathering Pill after struggling to control the volatile medicinal ingredients.
• Lu Heng recovered with Qi Recovery Pills and made three bottles of Yuan-Nurturing Powder.
• At breakfast, Ya Fei served Lu Heng medicinal porridge after noticing he had worked all night.
• Lu Heng gave Ya Fei the Yuan-Nurturing Powder and explained that it could improve cultivation for someone at the Dou Qi stage.
• Ya Fei asked Lu Heng whether he was leaving.

Lu Heng reassured Ya Fei that he was leaving only to train against First-Rank Magical Beasts, and promised to return. They spent a tender day together on Green Screen Mountain before walking back toward Wutan City hand in hand.

• Lu Heng told Ya Fei he planned to train near the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and she clung to him after learning he would be gone for two months to half a year.
• Ya Fei took a day off from the Miteer Auction House, leaving Gu Ni to complain about the work she had left behind.
• Lu Heng and Ya Fei spent the day on Green Screen Mountain sharing grapes, chasing rabbits and butterflies, and watching the clouds.
• As they descended the mountain at sunset, Ya Fei asked about the world beyond Wutan City, and Lu Heng promised he would always return because she was home.

Lu Heng left Wutan City after Ya Fei prepared supplies for his training journey and kissed her goodbye. After three days on the road, he arrived in Green Mountain Town and headed toward the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, noticing that people were watching him.

• Ya Fei packed clothes, food, medicine, and a detailed map into a Storage Ring for Lu Heng.
• At the Miteer Auction House the next morning, Lu Heng kissed Ya Fei before leaving by carriage, then sent the driver back and traveled on his own.
• After three days, Lu Heng reached Green Mountain Town and wondered whether Xiao Yi Xian was at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion.
• Lu Heng noticed people watching him as he entered town, but continued toward the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion.

Lu Heng entered Green Mountain Town and defeated Lai San after the mercenary tried to extort him. He reached the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, where he saw Xiao Yi Xian treating wounded mercenaries.

• Lai San blocked Lu Heng and demanded fifty gold coins as a toll.
• Lu Heng struck Lai San with the Azure Wood Seal and sent him flying.
• Lai San fled after Lu Heng warned him to stay away, while the watching mercenaries cleared a path.
• Lu Heng arrived at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion and saw Xiao Yi Xian tending to injured mercenaries.

Lu Heng confirmed Xiao Yi Xian was working at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, then prepared to enter the Magical Beast Mountain Range. Lai San recruited Scorpion and Scarface to ambush him, and Lu Heng sensed the three men following him into the forest.

• Lu Heng watched Xiao Yi Xian treat wounded men at the Ten Thousand Medicine Pavilion, then left without approaching her.
• Lai San met with Scorpion and Scarface, claiming Lu Heng had a valuable Dou Technique and persuading them to help him take revenge.
• Scarface agreed to attack Lu Heng in exchange for seventy percent of the spoils.
• Lu Heng left town at dawn and entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range, where he sensed Lai San and the two other men tailing him.

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.