Chapter Summaries

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.

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.