Chapter Summaries

Chu Yang received Check-in Points while Xiao Yan prepared to take the Green Lotus Core Flame. Xiao Yan escaped the city with the flame as Chu Yang stayed behind to cover his retreat, earning more points and reducing his debt.

• Chu Yang received 800 Check-in Points, leaving him with a debt of 4,200, and refused Xiao Yan's money and treasures.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan that the Seven-Colored Sky Swallowing Python was Queen Medusa, but Xiao Yan accepted the risk of keeping her.
• Old Yao explained that Xiao Yan could use the Green Lotus Seat to contain the Green Lotus Core Flame, and Xiao Yan successfully collected it.
• Old Yao warned Xiao Yan not to put the Heavenly Flame in his Storage Ring and told him to leave the city to devour it somewhere quiet.
• As the purple barrier shattered, Xiao Yan flew toward the city outskirts with the Green Lotus Seat while Chu Yang stayed behind to cover his retreat.
• Chu Yang gained another 200 Check-in Points, reducing his debt to 4,000, as Gu He and his group prepared outside.

Chu Yang transmigrated to the Dou Qi Continent, where his Medicine Emperor Check-in System gave him the Great Skill Absorption Technique. After recognizing the suffering Xiao Yi Xian, he decided to use the system to cure her Calamity Poison Body.

• Chu Yang arrived on a hillside, discovered that he had bound the Medicine Emperor Check-in System, and found that he was still physically an ordinary person.
• A black-clad man attacked Chu Yang, but a woman in white struck him away and drove him off.
• Chu Yang claimed the system's beginner's gift pack and obtained the Great Skill Absorption Technique, while the system revealed that he was on the Dou Qi Continent.
• Chu Yang recognized the woman as Xiao Yi Xian and realized that she was consuming poison to suppress the pain of her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian warned Chu Yang to stay away, but he resolved to use the Medicine Emperor System to cure her.

Chu Yang learned that the Medicine Emperor System required him to complete tasks to earn knowledge and rewards, then accepted a mission to ease Xiao Yi Xian’s suffering. He recalled how the Calamity Poison Body grew stronger by consuming poison but eventually risked being overwhelmed by accumulated poison.

• Chu Yang discovered that he had to complete system tasks and spend check-in points to obtain the Medicine Emperor’s knowledge and techniques.
• The system assigned Chu Yang a task to help Xiao Yi Xian resolve her current suffering, offering a Lucky Draw and one hundred check-in points as rewards.
• Chu Yang decided he could use techniques already provided by the system to ease Xiao Yi Xian’s pain and make her fall asleep, though he could not yet cure her condition.
• Chu Yang recalled that the Calamity Poison Body converted consumed poison into poison dou qi, allowing its bearer to grow rapidly stronger.
• Chu Yang remembered that accumulated poison could eventually overwhelm the body and cause its bearer to suffer agonizingly until death.

Chu Yang helped Xiao Yi Xian endure the awakening of her Calamity Poison Body, then received his first system rewards and learned basic alchemy. The system assigned him a new mission to stop Xiao Yan from showing off when Nalan Yanran came to break off their engagement.

• Chu Yang pressed a hand against Xiao Yi Xian to ease her Calamity Poison Body pain, and she fell asleep while he guarded her.
• The System's Loli Spokesperson announced that Chu Yang had completed his mission and awarded him one Lucky Draw and one hundred check-in points.
• Chu Yang used his Lucky Draw and gained the Medicine Emperor's Basic Alchemy Technique, which taught him how to refine low-grade medicinal pills.
• The system gave Chu Yang a second mission: prevent Xiao Yan from showing off when Nalan Yanran visited the Xiao Clan to break off their engagement.

After Xiao Yi Xian recovered, Chu Yang learned that he was near Green Mountain Town and parted from her, eager to reach Wutan City and complete his mission. Left without money for transportation, he wandered through town and spotted Ya Fei arriving.

• Xiao Yi Xian woke, thanked Chu Yang for helping her, and teased him about what he had done while treating her.
• Chu Yang told Xiao Yi Xian that he had entered the Monster Mountain Range with a group and become lost after Magical Beasts scattered them.
• Xiao Yi Xian guided Chu Yang toward Wutan City and escorted him to the flying Magical Beast station in Green Mountain Town.
• After Xiao Yi Xian left, Chu Yang realized he had no money for a ticket and decided to look for opportunities around town.
• Chu Yang heard that Miss Ya Fei had arrived and spotted a flash of red among the crowd.

Chu Yang searched the system mall for a valuable item to sell to Ya Fei and chose the Qi Gathering Pill, an upgraded version of the Qi Gathering Powder. He considered its potential value and set out to determine whether it truly had stronger effects.

• Chu Yang saw Ya Fei and her attendants from the Miel Auction House in Green Mountain Town and realized he could sell her a treasure for Gold Coins.
• Chu Yang entered his system mall and decided to spend his one thousand check-in points on an item that would appeal to Ya Fei.
• Chu Yang selected the Qi Gathering Pill after learning that it helped someone at the ninth stage of Dou Qi condense a Dou Qi vortex.
• Chu Yang recalled the rarity and high status of alchemists on the Dou Qi Continent and recognized that the Medicine Emperor System could overcome the usual requirements for becoming one.
• Chu Yang noted that the Qi Gathering Pill had pill patterns unlike the Qi Gathering Powder and prepared to verify whether its effects were superior.

Chu Yang approached Ya Fei to sell the Qi Gathering Pill, and its fragrance and properties convinced the auctioneer and onlookers that it might be genuine. Ya Fei bought it for one hundred thousand Gold Coins, but someone reminded her that the pill had not yet been inspected.

• Chu Yang caught up with Ya Fei and revealed the Qi Gathering Pill he wanted to sell.
• Ya Fei and the crowd examined the pill as Chu Yang explained it could help someone at the sixth stage of Dou Qi or above become a Dou Zhe.
• An elder confirmed that the Qi Gathering Pill was said to have those powers, though alchemists in the Jia Ma Empire could no longer refine it.
• Ya Fei offered Chu Yang one hundred thousand Gold Coins, and they completed the exchange.
• Ya Fei placed the pill in the Mier Auction House's pill case, but someone reminded her that it had not been inspected.

After selling his Qi Gathering Pills to Ya Fei, Chu Yang accepted her invitation to travel with the Mier Auction House to Wutan City. There, Ya Fei took the pills to Gu Ni for inspection while Chu Yang waited at the auction house.

• Ya Fei gave Chu Yang a Mier Auction House gold card containing one hundred thousand Gold Coins and invited him to travel with her to Wutan City.
• Chu Yang agreed, hoping to visit the Xiao clan and complete his system mission after arriving.
• Ya Fei arranged Chu Yang’s lodging, meals, and travel, and the Mier Auction House protected him from people seeking to buy his pills.
• In Wutan City, Ya Fei brought the two Qi Gathering Pills to Gu Ni for inspection, and his widened eyes convinced her they were genuine.

Ya Fei and Gu Ni confirmed that Chu Yang’s Qi Gathering Pill was of exceptional quality, but Chu Yang left the Mier Auction House with Xiao Zhan before Ya Fei could secure his help. At the Xiao residence, Chu Yang considered how to earn the family’s favor and prepared to discuss the pill with Xiao Zhan.

• Gu Ni appraised Chu Yang’s Qi Gathering Pill and judged its quality beyond what even renowned alchemists could achieve.
• Gu Ni warned Ya Fei not to seek Chu Yang’s formula, and Ya Fei decided to pursue a more indirect way to win him over.
• Xiao Fei told Ya Fei that Chu Yang had left with Xiao Zhan after the two met at the Mier Auction House.
• Chu Yang went to the Xiao residence, eager to complete his system mission before Nalan Yanran arrived to break off her engagement.
• Xiao Zhan asked Chu Yang about the Qi Gathering Pill, and Chu Yang decided that revealing it could improve his standing with the Xiao Family.

Chu Yang convinced Xiao Zhan and the Xiao family Great Elder that he could provide the Xiao family with Strength Advancement Pills, winning their eager support. He stayed at the Xiao residence while they prepared the ingredients for him to begin refining the pills.

• Xiao Zhan confirmed Chu Yang was connected to a Qi Gathering Pill, and the Great Elder arrived to find Xiao Zhan treating the young man with unusual respect.
• Xiao Zhan told the Great Elder that Chu Yang was an alchemist of a higher rank than Master Gu Ni, prompting the Great Elder to greet him respectfully.
• Chu Yang offered to refine Strength Advancement Pills for the Xiao family and explained that each pill could advance its user by one stage of Dou Qi.
• Chu Yang wrote down the needed ingredients, and Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder found that the Xiao family could obtain them.
• Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder arranged a private courtyard room and two maidservants for Chu Yang at the Xiao residence.

Chu Yang settled into the Xiao family residence and attended the younger generation’s Fighting Energy test, hoping to meet Xiao Yan. After watching Xiao Yan suffer humiliation, Chu Yang considered making him his little brother, but remembered that Xun'er and the soon-to-appear Old Yao protected him.

• Chu Yang accepted Keke and Yanyan’s help with household chores while deciding to refine the Strength Advancement Pills at his own pace.
• Chu Yang went to the Xiao family’s Fighting Energy test and quietly joined the crowd.
• Xiao Yan tested at three stages of Fighting Energy, drawing ridicule from the assembled family members.
• Chu Yang felt sorry for Xiao Yan and began considering making him his little brother instead of tormenting him.
• Xun'er comforted Xiao Yan after the tests, and Chu Yang recalled that she and Old Yao made Xiao Yan difficult to target.

Chu Yang was recognized as a first-grade alchemist in the Xiao family and attended the gathering where Nalan Yanran came to break off her engagement to Xiao Yan. As Xiao Yan prepared to answer Nalan Yanran’s proposal, Chu Yang looked forward to completing his system mission.

• Xiao Mei and the other girls confronted Chu Yang, but the Great Elder stopped them and revealed that Chu Yang was an honored first-grade alchemist.
• Chu Yang left the testing grounds to refine pills and decided to wait until he completed his system mission before giving pills to Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder.
• Chu Yang took an upper-row seat at the reception hall as Ge Ye, Nalan Yanran, and another young Misty Cloud Sect visitor arrived.
• Xun'er invited the seatless Xiao Yan to sit with her, stirring the gathering and Chu Yang’s resentment toward him.
• Nalan Yanran explained why she wanted to break off her engagement and offered Xiao Yan Gu He's Qi Gathering Powder as compensation.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward and began denouncing Nalan Yanran.

At the Xiao clan’s broken engagement, Chu Yang interrupted Nalan Yanran and displayed a patterned Qi Gathering Pill, claiming it could instantly advance someone at the third stage of Dou Qi into a Dou Zhe. He sought to prove the pill’s power using Xiao Yan and complete his System mission, but the crowd had yet to respond.

• Chu Yang threw aside Nalan Yanran’s brush, then weighed the danger posed by Xun’er and the Dou Huang secretly protecting her.
• Chu Yang produced a Qi Gathering Pill that looked more impressive than Gu He’s Qi Gathering Powder, drawing the hall’s attention.
• Chu Yang claimed his pill could produce an immediate breakthrough, though the audience remained skeptical.
• Chu Yang explained that he had bought the pill from the System Shop on credit and planned to use it to prevent Xiao Yan from showing off and complete his mission.
• Chu Yang asked whether anyone present was at the third stage of Dou Qi, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan stayed silent about Xiao Yan’s condition.

Chu Yang gave Xiao Yan a Qi Gathering Pill to prove its power, and Xiao Yan broke through to Dou Zhe in front of the Xiao clan and the Misty Cloud Sect. The system awarded Chu Yang a Lucky Draw chance and a card point, and he hurried away, claiming he had pills in his furnace.

• Chu Yang offered Xiao Zhan a free Qi Gathering Pill test, promising to serve the Xiao clan for a year if Xiao Yan failed to break through.
• Xiao Zhan told Xiao Yan to take the pill, and Chu Yang seized the chance to feed it to him.
• Xiao Yan's Dou Qi surged until he formed a Dou Qi vortex and broke through to Dou Zhe, shocking everyone present.
• Xiao Zhan embraced Xiao Yan, and Chu Yang reassured them that Xiao Yan would not fall back to his former level.
• The system announced that Chu Yang had completed the mission and awarded him one Lucky Draw chance and one card point.
• Chu Yang excused himself, claiming that he needed to tend to a batch of pills in his furnace.

After leaving the banquet, Chu Yang used his new Lucky Draw points and received the Great Dou Absorption Technique. He learned that it could absorb other people's Dou Qi, giving him a shortcut around the slow, dangerous early stages of cultivation.

• Chu Yang left the banquet hall under the pretense of going to the alchemy room and let the system deduct the Lucky Draw point he owed.
• Chu Yang used his remaining Lucky Draw points to spin the system's roulette and won the Great Dou Absorption Technique.
• Information about the technique flooded Chu Yang's mind, revealing that it was both a Dou Technique and a cultivation method.
• Chu Yang learned that the technique's attractive force could absorb other people's Dou Qi and use it as his own.
• Chu Yang recalled the dangers of forcing early cultivation and felt relieved that the technique offered him a shortcut.

Chu Yang struggled to understand Great Dou Absorption, an evolving cultivation method and combat skill he had won from the system, and learned that advancing it could require card points. The system spokesperson introduced herself as Huan Huan and agreed to guide him as he tried to find a way to begin cultivating it.

• Chu Yang realized Great Dou Absorption was only Yellow Rank, low grade and offered no clear instructions for cultivation.
• Chu Yang decided to cultivate the technique so he could protect himself rather than rely solely on his status as an alchemist.
• Huan Huan told Chu Yang that Great Dou Absorption required comprehension and asked him not to call her little loli.
• Huan Huan introduced herself as Huan Huan and warned Chu Yang that he was not qualified to know about her background.
• Chu Yang asked Huan Huan how to get started, and she began giving him pointers.

Chu Yang spent a Check-in Point to obtain the basics of the Great Dou Absorption and began studying how to absorb and refine others’ Dou Qi. He decided to cultivate gradually and use Foundation Building Pills to improve his progress, hoping to keep pace with Xiao Yan.

• Huan Huan told Chu Yang to spend a Check-in Point, and the system provided him with the basics of the Great Dou Absorption.
• Chu Yang compared the technique to Absorption Palm and learned that mastering it would eventually let him absorb and refine Dou Qi from humans, magical beasts, pills, and the world around him.
• Chu Yang realized that storing and converting different kinds of Dou Qi would require further study and more Check-in Points, so he decided to focus on the basics first.
• Huan Huan told Chu Yang that he could refine a Foundation Building Pill with his current alchemy knowledge instead of buying more insights from the system.
• Chu Yang recalled Foundation Building Medicinal Liquid and decided to use Foundation Building Pills to improve his cultivation efficiency and race Xiao Yan.

Chu Yang worried that he would eventually become Xiao Yan’s enemy and searched the system marketplace for a way to protect himself. He bought and bound a Yellow-tier Low-grade Demonic Puppet, gaining a loyal bodyguard.

• Chu Yang feared Xiao Yan’s powerful allies and found that the marketplace’s life-saving treasures were too expensive for him.
• Chu Yang spotted a Yellow-tier Low-grade Demonic Puppet priced at one thousand card points and decided to buy it.
• Chu Yang returned to his private courtyard, sent Keke and Yanyan away, and summoned the Demonic Puppet in his inner room.
• Chu Yang placed a drop of blood on the puppet’s head, and it knelt to recognize him as its master.

Chu Yang refined four Strength Advancement Pills for the Xiao family while considering how to strengthen and conceal his demon puppet. Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder admired the pills, and the chapter ended with the Xiao family needing to decide who would receive them.

• Huan Huan told Chu Yang that feeding the demon puppet pills would increase its strength, and Chu Yang worried about the cost.
• Chu Yang hid the demon puppet in a Storage Ring and began refining Strength Advancement Pills for the Xiao family.
• Chu Yang used the Xiao family's pill furnace to refine four Strength Advancement Pills.
• Keke told Chu Yang that Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder were waiting to see him, and Chu Yang brought the pills to meet them.
• Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder eagerly examined the four pills, leaving the Xiao family to decide how to distribute them.

Chu Yang’s Strength Advancement Pills instantly raised Xiao Yan, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Ning’s Dou Qi strength, winning the Xiao clan’s confidence as it faced a rival clan with an alchemist. Afterward, the system gave Chu Yang a mission to defeat Liu Xi in alchemy, drawing him further into the Xiao clan’s conflict with the Jia Lie clan and Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Zhan and the Great Elder summoned Xiao Yan, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Mei to test Chu Yang’s Strength Advancement Pills.
• Xiao Mei, Xiao Ning, and Xiao Yan each took a pill, and Chu Yang led them to the testing ground to verify the results.
• Xiao Mei’s Dou Qi strength rose to the eighth stage, while Xiao Ning advanced from the eighth stage to the ninth.
• The Xiao clan celebrated having an alchemist as it prepared to face the Jia Lie clan, which had hired Liu Xi.
• The system assigned Chu Yang a random mission to defeat Liu Xi in alchemy for one Lucky Draw point.