Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan turned down Fa Ma’s pill formulas and pressed him to offer something more valuable, eventually accepting Heaven Demon Phoenix blood that caught Zi Yan’s interest. After Fa Ma presented it, Xiao Fan agreed to answer his questions and revealed that he was the Black-Stone City Branch’s vice president.

• Fa Ma offered Xiao Fan his treasured pill formulas, including the Tier 6 Imperial Extreme Pill formula, but Xiao Fan said he was not interested in formulas.
• Jia Xingtian gave Zi Yan a Heaven Mending Ganoderma, and Fa Ma offered her a Tier 5 medicinal herb that she dismissed as trash.
• Xiao Fan gave Zi Yan Amethyst Birth Source and a Green Lotus Seed, demonstrating to Fa Ma that his gifts were not valuable enough to win Xiao Fan’s favor.
• Fa Ma offered Xiao Fan a small bottle of Heaven Demon Phoenix blood, and Xiao Fan warned him that possessing it could have cost him his life.
• Zi Yan took the blood, which Xiao Fan explained was food for an Ancient Void Dragon, and her mood improved.
• Xiao Fan agreed to answer Fa Ma’s questions and handed him his Black-Stone City Branch vice president token, surprising Fa Ma.

Xiao Fan traded Fa Ma a soul cultivation formula for access to the Alchemist Guild’s resources, then met Jia Xingtian’s granddaughters, Yao Ye and Yao Yue. Jia Xingtian asked him to take Yao Yue as a disciple or maidservant, hoping to secure her future as the Jia Ma Empire weakened.

• Xiao Fan identified Fa Ma’s weak soul force as the reason he had remained a Tier 5 Alchemist and promised to guide him.
• Fa Ma offered the Alchemist Guild’s resources, and Xiao Fan gave him a soul cultivation formula before Fa Ma hurried away to study it.
• Jia Xingtian introduced Yao Ye and Yao Yue to Xiao Fan, and Xiao Fan noticed Yao Yue had talent for alchemy.
• Jia Xingtian asked Xiao Fan to accept Yao Yue as a disciple or maidservant, explaining that the imperial family lacked worthy successors and he wanted a way to protect his granddaughters.

Jia Xingtian entrusted Yao Yue to Xiao Fan as a nominal disciple, hoping to secure the Jia Ma royal family’s future. Yao Yue was left in Xiao Fan’s care, while Zi Yan accepted Jia Xingtian’s medicinal herbs after arguing over her place beside Xiao Fan.

• Jia Xingtian asked Xiao Fan to take Yao Yue as a disciple, and Xiao Fan agreed to make her a nominal disciple whose future status would depend on her perseverance.
• Jia Xingtian urged Yao Yue to greet Xiao Fan as her master, and Yao Yue protested and cried while Yao Ye covered her mouth.
• Xiao Fan frightened Yao Yue with a sinister joke, causing her to faint, and Jia Xingtian entrusted her to him.
• Zi Yan declared that she was Xiao Fan’s only child bride, but Jia Xingtian offered her more medicinal herbs until she accepted them and stored them away.
• Yao Yue ended up alone with Xiao Fan, hiding beneath a blanket and warning him to stay away as he teased her.

Xiao Fan trained Yao Yue in alchemy while Zi Yan entered a dangerous advancement inside a cocoon. He stayed by Zi Yan as the Nalan Family invited him to a celebration that Yun Yun would attend.

• Xiao Fan gave Yao Yue Qi Gathering Spirit Liquid and ordered her to memorize his Alchemist's Compendium within a week.
• Yao Yue struggled with the book until the medicinal bath helped her use Soul Force to study and simulate herbal combinations.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Fan that something had happened to Zi Yan, and Xiao Fan found her sealed inside a purple cocoon after consuming treasures and Heaven Demon Phoenix blood.
• Xiao Fan explained to Qing Lin that Zi Yan was advancing and would emerge later, then stayed by the cocoon while guiding Yao Yue in alchemy.
• Hai Bodong told Xiao Fan that the Nalan Family had invited him to celebrate Nalan Jie's safe return and that Yun Yun would attend.

Xiao Fan accepted an invitation to the Nalan Family banquet and promised to refine an Imperial Extreme Pill for Hai Bodong. He began demonstrating alchemy and flame control to Yao Yue, but her endless questions disrupted the refinement.

• Xiao Fan accepted Hai Bodong's invitation to the Nalan Family banquet and said he would attend if his little one woke up.
• Xiao Fan promised to refine an Imperial Extreme Pill for Hai Bodong after Hai Bodong handed over his two sets of ingredients.
• Xiao Fan demonstrated flame control to Yao Yue and promised to teach her the art when she reached seven-star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Fan began refining the Tier 6 pill while Qing Lin and Yao Yue watched, using Zi Yan's Dragon Saliva as an ingredient.
• Yao Yue's questions distracted Xiao Fan, and his medicine cauldron exploded.

Xiao Fan refined two Imperial Extreme Pills while teaching Yao Yue, and their formation sent energy ripples across the capital. As Hai Bodong, Fa Ma, and Jia Xingtian reacted to the breakthrough, Xiao Fan secured the pills from Little Cai and stored them away.

• Xiao Fan resumed refining after a failed demonstration, while Yao Yue watched and Little Qing Lin fell asleep beside him.
• Xiao Fan taught Yao Yue about pill condensation as he refined two Imperial Extreme Pills, and Yao Yue resolved to work hard as his disciple.
• Nalan Jie and Nalan Su visited Hai Bodong to ask whether Xiao Fan would meet them, then left after Hai Bodong said he could not say.
• Xiao Fan formed the two Tier 6 pills, sending energy ripples through the capital that drew Hai Bodong, Fa Ma, and Jia Xingtian's attention.
• Little Cai lunged for an Imperial Extreme Pill, but Xiao Fan stopped her with a barrier and put both pills into jade bottles.

Xiao Fan finished refining a pill and reunited with the people waiting outside before returning to Zi Yan’s cocoon. Zi Yan emerged from her evolution as a grown Dragon Emperor and pinned Xiao Fan down, teasing him about being his child bride.

• Qing Lin and Yao Yue fought over sitting beside Xiao Fan until he opened the door and revealed the Imperial Capital powerhouses waiting outside.
• Xiao Fan gave Hai Bodong the Imperial Extreme Pill, and Hai Bodong left with Jia Xingtian and the others.
• Xiao Fan returned to Zi Yan’s cocoon and told her he would feed her pill to Little Cai if she did not wake up.
• Xiao Fan covered Qing Lin’s eyes as Zi Yan emerged naked, then told Qing Lin he would answer her question about marriage when she grew up.
• Zi Yan, now grown after completing her evolution, pounced on Xiao Fan and teased him about carrying out their child-bride arrangement.

Zi Yan’s attempt to ravage Xiao Fan was interrupted when she changed back into her little form, and Xiao Fan stopped her from drinking dangerous medicine. After Little Qing Lin confessed that she wanted to be more than his little sister, Xiao Fan kissed her forehead and told her to find him when she grew up.

• Zi Yan pinned Xiao Fan down, but she reverted to her little form just as she was about to succeed.
• Zi Yan tried to drink a seven-colored medicine, and Xiao Fan took it away before finding a mountain of Forbidden Medicine in her Storage Ring.
• Xiao Fan dressed Zi Yan, gave her an Imperial Extreme Pill, and she fell asleep against his back.
• Little Qing Lin told Xiao Fan she did not want to be only his little sister anymore and asked if she could be greedy.
• Xiao Fan kissed Little Qing Lin’s forehead and told her to claim the kiss when she grew up.

Xiao Fan reunited with Ya Fei, Zi Yan, Yao Yue, and the Jia Ma Empire's elders, while Zi Yan's newly awakened Dou Emperor aura shocked those present. Fa Ma begged Xiao Fan to accept him as a disciple, but Xiao Fan refused, and the gathering ended with Zi Yan secretly pocketing the Nalan Family's gift.

• Ya Fei complained that Xiao Fan had repeatedly pushed her into dealing with powerful visitors from the Imperial Capital without warning her.
• Zi Yan woke from her nap and released an intimidating aura that startled the Dou Emperor experts, while Jia Xingtian and Nalan Jie recognized how much stronger she had become.
• Yao Yue told Jia Xingtian that Xiao Fan treated her better than he did, then returned to Xiao Fan and cheerfully clung to him.
• Fa Ma fell before Xiao Fan and offered the Alchemist Guild in exchange for becoming his disciple, but Xiao Fan refused to take another disciple.
• Nalan Jie thanked Xiao Fan for saving him and presented a gift, which Zi Yan swiftly snatched and hid in her treasure chest.

Xiao Fan accepted Nalan Jie's invitation to a banquet and planned a trip to the Black-Corner Region to find medicinal ingredients. At the Nalan estate, Nalan Jie revealed that Nalan Yanran's fiancé was Xiao Fan, leaving her shocked and prompting Nalan Jie to beat Nalan Su.

• Xiao Fan accepted Nalan Jie's invitation after Zi Yan hid the Storage Ring Nalan Jie had given him, then retrieved it and let Zi Yan keep it in her treasury.
• Xiao Fan planned to travel to the Black-Corner Region for medicinal ingredients and the Soul Fusion Pill, then left with Zi Yan after setting up protections for the girls.
• Yao Yue asked Qing Lin whether she liked Xiao Fan, and Qing Lin said only Brother could look at her body.
• Nalan Jie told Nalan Yanran that her fiancé was Xiao Fan, who had used the alias Xiao Bufan, and urged her to get along with him.
• Nalan Jie grew angry at Nalan Yanran's disbelief, lashed Nalan Su with his belt, and ordered him to take his daughter and leave.

Yun Yun learned that Nalan Yanran was engaged to Xiao Fan and offered to help her break the engagement, but Yanran chose to try to get along with him instead. At Nalan Jie's banquet, Yanran apologized to Xiao Fan, and he immediately reminded Yun Yun to pay him the reward she had promised.

• Nalan Yanran told Yun Yun that Xiao Fan was her fiancé, and Yun Yun reacted with surprise before learning the details of the engagement.
• Yun Yun offered to help Nalan Yanran annul the engagement, but Yanran refused and said she would try to get along with Xiao Fan.
• Nalan Jie waited anxiously for Xiao Fan and Zi Yan to arrive at the banquet.
• Nalan Yanran apologized to Xiao Fan for their previous meeting, but he did not respond before Yun Yun greeted him.
• Xiao Fan asked Yun Yun for the three items from her Storage Ring that she had promised him as a reward.

Xiao Fan and Yun Yun bickered over her Storage Ring before she gave him a mysterious inherited Medicine Cauldron as compensation. Xiao Fan revealed its true form with his Heavenly Flames, then had Zi Yan swallow it for safekeeping, leaving Nalan Yanran wondering whether Zi Yan was human.

• Yun Yun threw her Storage Ring at Xiao Fan, but Zi Yan caught it and handed it to him.
• Xiao Fan found the ring stripped of its valuable ingredients and pills, then stole three of Yun Yun's undergarments and teased her about selling them.
• Yun Yun angrily gave Xiao Fan a Medicine Cauldron inherited by the Misty Cloud Sect and said it had once belonged to a Tier 8 Alchemist.
• Xiao Fan's Heavenly Flames burned away the cauldron's black shell, revealing violet-gold patterns and a majestic golden dragon.
• Xiao Fan gave Zi Yan ten bottles of Sugar Pills, and she swallowed them along with the person-sized Medicine Cauldron, storing it in her little treasury.
• Nalan Yanran nervously asked Yun Yun whether Zi Yan was human.

At Nalan Jie's banquet, Yun Yun formally took Nalan Yanran as her disciple while Xiao Fan noticed Protector Wu spying on him. The ceremony ended simply, and Xiao Fan decided he needed to give Yue'er a better gift.

• Protector Wu investigated Xiao Fan, sensed his Spirit Realm soul, and decided to observe him before attempting to recruit him.
• Xiao Fan detected Protector Wu's probing, while Zi Yan noticed his concern and secretly took revenge by eating several bottles of Sugar Pills.
• Nalan Jie welcomed Xiao Fan, Zi Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran to the banquet, where Yun Yun's arrival impressed the guests but Xiao Fan ignored her.
• Nalan Jie announced that Yun Yun would take Nalan Yanran as her disciple, and Nalan Yanran offered tea to complete the apprenticeship ceremony.
• Yun Yun gave Nalan Yanran a Xuan-tier sword, prompting Xiao Fan to resolve to make up for giving Yue'er only a cookbook.

At the Nalan Family banquet, Nalan Jie asked Xiao Fan what he thought of Nalan Yanran, while Yanran grew increasingly drawn to her fiancé and suspicious of his closeness with Zi Yan. Xiao Fan warned Yun Yun that her teacher Yun Shan was dealing with the Soul Hall, then left, unaware that Nalan Yanran had overheard their private conversation.

• Nalan Jie asked Xiao Fan about Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Fan praised her talent and future at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Nalan Yanran blushed at Xiao Fan's praise and wondered who Zi Yan was to him.
• Xiao Fan privately told Yun Yun that Yun Shan was likely making a deal with the Soul Hall, but Yun Yun said the Misty Cloud Sect could not oppose it.
• Xiao Fan left the Nalan Family with Zi Yan and told her not to spend too much time around Yun Yun.
• Yun Yun mused that she thought Xiao Fan liked cold, aloof women, then discovered Nalan Yanran had overheard their conversation.

Nalan Yanran admitted she had secretly followed Yun Yun, while the Nalan family discussed Xiao Fan and drew Protector Wu’s attention. Back home, Xiao Fan comforted Qing Lin and considered how to protect her from the Soul Hall before waking Queen Medusa to ask whether she could defeat a Dou Zong.

• Nalan Yanran confessed to Yun Yun that she had eavesdropped and vowed to catch up to Xiao Fan, while Yun Yun warned that he was advancing too quickly.
• Nalan Jie and Nalan Su discussed Xiao Fan’s engagement and the Xiao Family, and Protector Wu overheard them and decided to investigate for his own gain.
• Qing Lin kissed Xiao Fan after Yao Yue encouraged her, and Xiao Fan returned the kiss and worried about exposing her to the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Fan found Qing Lin asleep in his embrace and reflected on the danger of taking her out while the Soul Hall watched him.
• Xiao Fan woke Queen Medusa and asked whether she could defeat a Dou Zong, prompting her to tease him about provoking a woman.

Xiao Fan arranged allies and gifts to prepare for a Soul Hall Dou Zong threat, securing Queen Medusa’s help with the promise of a Human-Shaping Pill. After a restless night, Qing Lin tried to comfort him, and the chapter ended with her kissing him while he slept.

• Xiao Fan told Queen Medusa that a Soul Hall Protector, at least a Dou Zong, had targeted him, and she asked for a Human-Shaping Pill in exchange for helping him.
• Queen Medusa teased Xiao Fan about his closeness with Die and Qing Lin, then agreed to help after he fed Little Cai a Green Lotus Seed.
• Xiao Fan planned to recruit the Jia Ma Imperial Family by offering a Primordial Bone-Shaping Pill for its injured Guardian Divine Beast and to give Yue'er a Heavenly Flame Sub-Flame.
• Zi Yan’s kicking kept Xiao Fan from sleeping well, and Qing Lin offered him her lap as a pillow the next morning.
• As Xiao Fan drifted off on Qing Lin’s lap, Qing Lin kissed him and blushed when she realized what she had done.

Xiao Fan accompanied Yao Yue to the imperial palace, where he met the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast and offered to heal its injuries. The beast was startled by Xiao Fan’s strength and the pressure it sensed from him.

• Xiao Fan asked Qing Lin to watch Zi Yan while he took Yao Yue to visit her granduncle.
• Yao Yue rode with Xiao Fan to the imperial palace, where Uncle Luo’s rough driving caused awkward accidents between them.
• Jia Xingtian dismissed the guards and led Xiao Fan to a secluded lakeside spot, explaining that the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast lived there.
• The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast emerged from the lake and asked Jia Xingtian why he had summoned it despite its unhealed injuries.
• Xiao Fan identified the beast’s hidden wounds and offered to heal it, startling it with his strength and aura.

Xiao Fan secured Jia Xingtian’s help against a Dou Zong and took on refining a Primordial Bone-Shaping Pill for the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast. He left the story with Jia Xingtian carrying a letter to Fa Ma and the beast flame Ganlan Water Flame in hand.

• Xiao Fan offered Jia Xingtian a Primordial Bone-Shaping Pill in exchange for his help against an enemy at least as strong as a Dou Zong, and Jia Xingtian agreed.
• Xiao Fan explained that another powerful ally would be involved and accepted Jia Xingtian’s single set of pill ingredients.
• Xiao Fan asked Jia Xingtian to deliver a letter to Fa Ma, revealing that he planned to refine the pill publicly to lure out their enemy.
• Xiao Fan asked the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast for its Ganlan Water Flame, promising to give his disciple Yao Yue something better.
• The Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast gave Xiao Fan the Ganlan Water Flame, and Xiao Fan promised to deliver its pill soon.

Xiao Fan refined the Ganlan Water Flame, broke through to two-star Dou Ling, and discovered that the Heavenly Dragon Cauldron could infuse pills with dragon aura. After refining a Blood Lotus Pill, he called Yao Yue over and revealed a blue-gold flame as her gift.

• Xiao Fan absorbed the Ganlan Water Flame, reached two-star Dou Ling, and found that the Heavenly Flames had consumed it without leaving a fire seed.
• Xiao Fan used the Heavenly Dragon Cauldron to refine a Blood Lotus Pill, and five golden dragon phantoms infused it with dragon aura.
• Xiao Fan recognized the energy in the pill as dragon aura and suspected the Heavenly Dragon Cauldron could add it to every pill it refined.
• Xiao Fan gave Yao Yue the Blood Lotus Pill and then showed her a blue-gold sub-flame.
• Yao Yue realized Xiao Fan was planning to give her the Heavenly Flame's sub-flame.

Xiao Fan began helping Yao Yue refine a seed of his Heavenly Flames, but the flame ran rampant inside her and she nearly lost consciousness. Xiao Fan entered her body with his soul to subdue it, while Yao Yue saw him in the strange space and mistook herself for dead.

• Xiao Fan explained the dangers of refining Heavenly Flames and prepared Yao Yue with pills before releasing the seed flame.
• Yao Yue used the Spirit Absorber to make space for the flame, but it rampaged through her body and overwhelmed her.
• Xiao Fan sent cool energy into Yao Yue to steady her, and she resolved to suppress the flame for his sake.
• Jia Xingtian and the Nether Sea Flood Dragon Beast discussed Xiao Fan's apparent lack of a mysterious backing and his kindness toward Yao Yue.
• Yao Yue fainted, so Xiao Fan used his Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and soul force to control her body and force the flame into the prepared space.
• Yao Yue saw Xiao Fan's soul, thought she was dead, and admired him while he focused on suppressing the Heavenly Flame.