Chapter Summaries

Six-year-old Su Yun cultivated to Dou Qi Stage Three while living in poverty in Wutan City, and he planned to keep a low profile as he grew stronger. After buying food, he spotted two children from the Xiao Family in the marketplace, including Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, and chose not to approach them.

• Su Yun finished cultivating and reflected that reaching Dou Qi Stage Three at six showed he had decent talent.
• Su Yun recalled that his father had died hunting magical beasts and his mother had died from grief, leaving him to live on his family’s savings.
• Su Yun decided to stay in Wutan City, cultivate quietly, and avoid trouble until he was stronger.
• Su Yun went through the marketplace to buy grain and returned cautiously along the same route.
• Su Yun overheard two children discussing the Xiao Family’s marketplace, recognized them as Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, and kept his distance.

Su Yun activated a system after encountering Xiao Yan, then used it to scan and recycle Yao Chen from the ring, storing his memories. He tested the system’s functions by secretly collecting ingredients and Magic Cores, leaving him ready to try fusion.

• Su Yun’s system activated when he came within one meter of Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er, and he scanned Xiao Yan to confirm his identity.
• Su Yun scanned the ring and found the sleeping Yao Chen, then recycled him and stored his memories in the System Warehouse.
• Su Yun returned home and learned that the system had three functions: scan, recycle, and fuse.
• Su Yun tested scanning and recycling at the marketplace, secretly taking herbs and Magic Cores from several stalls.
• Su Yun counted his haul at home: three Purple Leaf Orchid Grasses, two Bone Cleansing Flowers, and two Magic Cores.

Su Yun used Medicine Elder's memories and the System's Fusion Function to create Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid, which helped him break through to Dou Qi Stage Four overnight. He reconsidered when to join Jia Nan Academy and estimated that Xiao Yan's story had not yet begun.

• Su Yun fused the ingredients for Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid by paying a Second-Level Magic Core, then cultivated overnight in the liquid.
• Su Yun broke through from Dou Qi Stage Three to Dou Qi Stage Four and praised the spiritual liquid's effect.
• Su Yun considered delaying his plans to join Jia Nan Academy because Medicine Elder's memories gave him access to better cultivation methods, though he still wanted the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Su Yun recalled meeting Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er and used their apparent ages to estimate that Xiao Yan was about six.
• Su Yun reasoned that Xiao Yan's cultivation would begin regressing after he became a Dou Zhe, placing the start of the main story after Xiao Yan turned fourteen.

Su Yun spent a year and a half training with Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid and reached Dou Qi Stage Seven. After seeing Jialie Ao abuse his power in the market, Su Yun returned home to keep cultivating and considered how he would eventually become a Dou Zhe.

• Su Yun recalled that Xiao Yan would be fifteen when the plot began and noted that nine years remained.
• After a year and a half of training, Su Yun reached Dou Qi Stage Seven at not yet eight years old.
• Su Yun collected the remaining ingredients for Foundation Establishment Spiritual Liquid in a Wutan City market using his system’s scan-and-recover function.
• Su Yun saw Jialie Ao take a bracelet containing a First Tier Magic Core and leave only one Gold Coin for the stall owner.
• Su Yun collected a First Tier wood-attributed Magic Core and returned home, where he considered the difficulty of obtaining Qi Gathering Powder before resuming cultivation.

Su Yun adjusted his condition and successfully broke through from Ninth Stage Dou Qi to Dou Zhe, then inspected his new Dou Qi Cyclone. He began searching Medicine Elder’s memories for a cultivation technique, but realized he still did not know his attribute.

• Su Yun left home to relax after reaching Ninth Stage Dou Qi and decided he needed to prepare before attempting his breakthrough.
• After returning home and spending two hours regulating his breathing, Su Yun gathered and compressed Dou Qi in his lower abdomen until the resistance gave way.
• Su Yun fell asleep after the breakthrough and woke the next morning to find a milky white Dou Qi Cyclone inside him.
• Su Yun recognized that he could now cultivate a Dou Qi Cultivation Technique and considered relying on Medicine Elder’s collection for techniques.
• Su Yun realized he did not know his attribute.

Su Yun discovered that he had fire, ice, and wood attributes, making him suited to become an alchemist, and fused the Flame Mantra with an ice cultivation method. He obtained a dual ice-fire cultivation method and left considering whether the Bone Chilling Flame could resolve the conflict between its attributes.

• Su Yun used the system to reveal his attributes: fire, ice, and wood, and realized he could become an alchemist.
• Su Yun tested fusing the Flame Mantra with ice cultivation methods of different grades and found the required Magic Core grade rose with the methods’ grades.
• Su Yun fused the Flame Mantra with a Yellow Tier High Grade ice cultivation method using a Second Tier Magic Core.
• Su Yun found the resulting method allowed him to use fire and ice Dou Qi separately but could not fuse the two attributes.
• Su Yun considered devouring the Bone Chilling Flame to address the ice-fire conflict and named his new cultivation method the Fennel Cold Art.

Su Yun left Wutan City to train in Green Mountain Town, first using his system to take the Bone Chilling Flame from Yao Chen's ring. He arrived in town focused on gaining strength and surviving, with several valuable targets in mind.

• Su Yun finished converting his Dou Qi and decided to leave Wutan City to train outside seclusion.
• After waiting seven days outside the Xiao Family, Su Yun identified Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, then recycled the Bone Chilling Flame into his System Warehouse.
• Su Yun traveled to Green Mountain Town, planning to seek the treasures in the cave Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian had entered in the original story.
• Su Yun arrived in Green Mountain Town and noticed Myriad Medicine House, but decided not to enter because Xiao Yi Xian and the Blood Lotus Essence were still years away.
• Su Yun spent two hours surveying the town, then reminded himself to focus on improving his strength and surviving.

Su Yun trained in the Magical Beast Mountain Range for more than seven months, learned alchemy, and reached five-star Dou Zhe before hunting for a cave’s treasures. He opened the cave and collected its herbs, but a noise from the boxes alerted someone inside.

• Su Yun absorbed Yao Chen’s memories, entered the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and spent more than seven months training and learning alchemy.
• Su Yun refined and used Flame Blood to aid his cultivation, but remained cautious of second-tier Magical Beasts while reaching five-star Dou Zhe.
• Su Yun located the cave, used Medicine Pouches to drive away the Rock Snakes guarding its entrance, and climbed down to open the stone door.
• Su Yun collected the cave’s Gold Coins and medicinal herbs, including Ice Spirit Flame Grass, then approached three boxes.
• A thud sounded as Su Yun neared the boxes, and someone inside said, “Someone’s here...”

Su Yun ambushed and killed Fan Fan, an Eight-Star Dou Zhe who entered the cave, then claimed the cave’s remaining treasures and his Magic Core sword. Back in Green Mountain Town, Su Yun began examining Purple Cloud Wings, the flight technique he had taken from the cave.

• Su Yun hid in the System Space and scanned Fan Fan as he entered the cave and approached the stone boxes.
• Su Yun surprised Fan Fan from behind and killed him with Eight Extremities Collapse.
• Su Yun opened the stone boxes and took the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture, Purple Cloud Wings, and Mad Lion's Roar, then claimed Fan Fan's sword.
• Su Yun left the cave, returned to Green Mountain Town, and entered the System Space at an inn to inspect Purple Cloud Wings.
• Su Yun recalled that Purple Cloud Wings came from a Black Flame Purple Cloud Eagle and could let a cultivator below Dou Wang fly at speeds comparable to a Dou Wang.

Su Yun awakened the Purple Cloud Wings, broke through to Six-star Dou Zhe, and used the System to master the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture. He assessed the limits of his System’s fusion ability and the strength of Eight Extremities Collapse.

• Su Yun endured the Purple Cloud Wings’ Eagle Soul until it dissipated, then awakened the wings and returned to the inn to cultivate.
• Su Yun broke through from Five-star to Six-star Dou Zhe.
• Su Yun fused the Seven-Colored Poison Scripture with a First Tier Magic Core and mastered its contents.
• Su Yun worked out which Magic Core ranks the System required to fuse different tiers of Dou Techniques and cultivation methods.
• Su Yun considered how Eight Extremities Collapse had let Xiao Yan defeat Jialie Ao despite disadvantages in cultivation method.

Su Yun used the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Fragment Map to obtain the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s incomplete memories, then sought Fourth Tier Magic Cores to improve his techniques and cultivation method. A year after leaving Wutan City, he had reached Nine Star Dou Zhe and continued hunting Magical Beasts while refining Flame Blood.

• Su Yun scanned the Purifying Lotus Demon Flame Fragment Map and obtained the Pure Lotus Demonic Saint’s incomplete memories.
• Su Yun realized the Ice Spirit Flame Grass could help resolve Fennel Cold Art’s ice-and-fire flaw, but the system required a Fourth Tier Magic Core to fuse them.
• Su Yun returned to the Magical Beast Mountain Range to search for Magic Cores, frustrated that both improving Eight Extremities Collapse and fixing Fennel Cold Art required a Fourth Tier core.
• After a year away from Wutan City, Su Yun reached Nine Star Dou Zhe and trained Eight Extremities Collapse to four layers of Hidden Force.
• Su Yun killed a Second Tier Fierce Tiger despite being wounded by its claw, treated his injury, and began refining Flame Blood.

Su Yun saved the orphaned Mu Lingxian from three Bone-Eating Wolves and recognized her as Xiao Yi Xian, whose Poisonous Body of Misfortune had destroyed her village. He took her to Wutan City, named her Xiao Yi Xian, and began teaching her to cultivate while planning to grow strong enough to manage her poison body.

• Su Yun left the Magical Beast Mountain Range to return to Green Mountain Town and encountered three Bone-Eating Wolves threatening a little girl.
• Su Yun killed the wolves with Ice Shattering Jade, then scanned the girl and discovered she had the Poisonous Body of Misfortune.
• Su Yun realized the girl was Xiao Yi Xian and learned she had no family, so he agreed to take her in.
• Two days later, Su Yun brought Xiao Yi Xian to his house in Wutan City as he prepared to break through to Dou Shi.
• Su Yun taught Xiao Yi Xian the Dou Qi cultivation method and resolved to strengthen himself and gather what he needed before her poison body erupted.

After breaking through to Dou Shi, Su Yun acquired alchemy experience from Yao Chen and prepared to seek recognition at Wutan City's Alchemist Guild. The chapter ended with the Guild's guards asking whether he was an alchemist.

• Su Yun broke through to Dou Shi after a month of cultivation, and Xiao Yi Xian celebrated his success.
• At night, Su Yun transferred Yao Chen's Second Grade and Third Grade Alchemist experience, then slept after enduring the influx of knowledge.
• Two weeks later, Su Yun finished absorbing the experience and refined a Fourth Grade Pill using herbs he had gathered.
• Su Yun disguised himself as a middle-aged man and traveled to Wutan City's Alchemist Guild, leaving Xiao Yi Xian at home.
• The Guild's guards stopped Su Yun at the entrance and asked whether he was an alchemist.

Su Yun entered the Alchemist Guild in Wutan City and passed its First Grade assessment with ease. After revealing his ability to condense Solid Flame, he asked Guild Leader Luo Qianchen for a direct Fourth Grade assessment, and Luo agreed to make an exception.

• Su Yun used Solid Flame to convince the guards to let him into the Alchemist Guild, then registered for an assessment under the name Han Li, with Wu Huasheng as his teacher.
• Luo Qianchen escorted Su Yun to the assessment room, where Su Yun scanned him and learned he was a Third Grade Alchemist.
• Su Yun refined the assigned First Grade pill using only one set of ingredients, impressing Luo Qianchen with his skill.
• Su Yun asked to skip the lower assessments and take the Fourth Grade test directly, then demonstrated Solid Flame to prove his ability.
• Luo Qianchen agreed to make an exception and let Su Yun attempt the Fourth Grade assessment.

Su Yun passed the Alchemist Guild’s Fourth Grade assessment and received his robe, then returned home to Xiao Yi Xian. The chapter left him safely reunited with her and carrying a Ring of Holding and several lower-grade alchemist robes.

• Su Yun refined an Energy Condensing Pill in one attempt, and Luo Qianchen confirmed it was a Fourth Grade Pill.
• Su Yun explained that he had only recently reached Dou Shi and had spent time in seclusion refining pills, satisfying Luo Qianchen’s curiosity about his late assessment.
• Luo Qianchen gave Su Yun a Ring of Holding and arranged for First, Second, and Third Grade Alchemist robes at Su Yun’s request.
• Su Yun returned home and retrieved the Medicine Pouch containing poison from Xiao Yi Xian.

Su Yun refined hundreds of pills and went to the Mitel Auction House in disguise to sell his Second and Third Grade pills. The auction house agreed to buy them all above market price, and Su Yun accepted the offer for a quick sale.

• Su Yun spent a week refining medicinal herbs into First, Second, and a few Third Grade pills.
• Su Yun disguised himself as Han Li, wore his Fourth Grade Alchemist Robe, and went to the Mitel Auction House.
• A middle-aged manager welcomed Su Yun into a VIP room and counted the several dozen Jade Bottles he brought.
• The manager offered to auction the pills later or have the Mitel Auction House buy them directly above market price.
• Su Yun chose to sell the pills directly to the Mitel Auction House.

After earning a fortune at the auction house, Su Yun bought a secluded house and gave Xiao Yi Xian a Ring of Holding. He upgraded his cultivation method and Dou Technique, then began fusing another technique as the chapter ended.

• Su Yun collected two million nine hundred thousand Gold Coins, bought Magic Cores and medicinal herbs, and refused the Mittel Family manager's invitation to join the family.
• Su Yun bought a secluded house in Wutan City and moved there with Xiao Yi Xian, giving her a Ring of Holding and warning her to keep it secret.
• Su Yun tested the System's Magic Core costs for fusing cultivation methods and Dou Techniques, then upgraded the "Fennel Cold Art" to Mysterious Rank High Grade.
• Su Yun fused "Eight Extremities Collapse" with a Fourth Tier Magic Core, increasing it from four layers of Hidden Force to eight.
• Su Yun began fusing "Ice Shattering Jade" using a Third Tier Magic Core.

Su Yun mastered several Dou Techniques, upgraded his Fennel Cold Art with Ice Spirit Flame Grass, and prepared to approach the Xiao Family as part of his plan to find the Green Lotus Core Flame. He left for Wutan City disguised as a middle-aged man, intending to build connections and gain support for his journey to the Tagor Desert.

• Su Yun fused Magic Cores to master Ice Shattering Jade and Blazing Shield, then spent four hours cultivating before Xiao Yi Xian asked to sleep beside him because she was afraid of the dark.
• Su Yun stayed home for two days practicing his newly comprehended Dou Techniques and planning to use some of them for future aliases.
• Su Yun fused Ice Spirit Flame Grass with Fennel Cold Art, gained fire-and-ice Dou Qi, and tested its power by shattering a boulder with Eight Extremities Collapse.
• Su Yun decided that gaining the Xiao Family's support would help him find the Green Lotus Core Flame and build influence for his journey to the Tagor Desert.
• Su Yun changed into his middle-aged disguise and set out for the Xiao Family in Wutan City.

Su Yun visited the Xiao Family as Fourth Grade Alchemist Han Li and arranged a pill-selling partnership with Xiao Zhan. After he left, the clan's children, including Xiao Yan, Xiao Mei, Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Ning, were scolded for watching the visit.

• Su Yun arrived at the Xiao Family and told the guards he had come to discuss cooperation with Xiao Zhan.
• Su Yun offered to supply First Grade Pills each month in exchange for the Xiao Family providing ingredients and selling them; Xiao Zhan agreed to an eighty-twenty profit split.
• Su Yun explained that Old Master Xiao Lin had once saved his life, giving the Xiao Family a reason for his choice of partner.
• Xiao Yan and the other children heard about Su Yun's visit, and Xiao Yan, Xiao Mei, Xiao Xun'er, and Xiao Ning dreamed of becoming alchemists.
• Su Yun took his leave after finalizing the partnership, and Xiao Zhan scolded the children who had gathered to watch.

Su Yun took Xiao Yi Xian out to explore Wutan City, then discovered a thief following them and killed him when he tried to steal their Gold Coins. He brought a shaken Xiao Yi Xian home and comforted her until she fell asleep.

• Su Yun returned home and agreed to take Xiao Yi Xian out for a day in Wutan City.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian visited the markets, bought things, and headed home after dark.
• Su Yun noticed Little Blackie following them and led Xiao Yi Xian into a deserted corner.
• Little Blackie demanded their Gold Coins, and Su Yun pretended to surrender them until Little Blackie bent down to pick them up.
• Su Yun struck Little Blackie with Eight Extremities Collapse and triggered the Hidden Force, killing him.
• Su Yun carried Xiao Yi Xian home, comforted her, and watched her fall asleep in his bed.