Chapter Summaries

Yun Ze overwhelmingly defeated Long Chen in the arena, using his Phoenix flames and arrows to burn and incapacitate him while sparing his life. Sun Moon Royal Academy headmaster Xu Lin and the other elders watched in astonishment and decided Yun Ze should be nurtured as a prodigy who might surpass Yun Ming.

• Yun Ze struck Long Chen with flaming arrows and fireballs, burning him and forcing him to suppress the Phoenix Flames with Soul Power.
• Yun Ze overpowered Long Chen in close combat and engulfed him in flames, leaving him badly burned.
• Yun Ze used Phoenix Sky Flame Arrow to pierce Long Chen's right chest and knock him unconscious, deliberately sparing his life.
• The arena crowd reacted with disbelief as Gu Yue Na smiled and hurried to meet Yun Ze.
• Xu Lin and the other elders praised Yun Ze's talent and resolved that he should be nurtured with every effort.

After defeating Long Chen, Yun Ze confirmed that the academy’s leaders would support him and Gu Yue Na rather than seek justice for Long Chen. His victory made him a celebrated figure at the academy, and he left the Library with Gu Yue Na to eat before their meeting.

• Dean Xu Lin ordered Long Chen taken for treatment and warned that he must not seek revenge against Yun Ze.
• Yun Ze told Gu Yue Na that he had tested the academy’s attitude by targeting Long Chen, and that Di Tian could now act without restraint.
• Footage of Yun Ze defeating Long Chen spread throughout the academy, making him a rising star and drawing crowds to the Library.
• Yun Ze spent several hours reading, then left the Library as students watched him with awe and curiosity.
• Yun Ze met Gu Yue Na downstairs, recognized that the battle had become public from the students’ reactions, and walked with her to get food before their meeting.

At the Academy Council meeting, Gu Ming praised Yun Ze’s battle and offered to take him as a student, but Yun Ze declined because he already had a teacher. The council decided to devote great effort to nurturing him, and afterward Gu Yue Na told Yun Ze that her teacher, Leng Yaozhu, had come to Mingdu partly because of him.

• Gu Ming and the councilors watched footage of Yun Ze fighting Long Chen, and Gu Ming praised Yun Ze before asking him to become his formal student.
• Yun Ze refused because he already had a teacher, and Gu Yue Na explained that Yun Ze had promised not to take another master.
• Gu Ming offered to help Yun Ze with Soul Tools and advised him to develop both his cultivation and Soul Tool abilities.
• After Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na left, Xu Lin described Yun Ze’s background to the council, and Gu Ming and Xu Lin supported investing heavily in his development.
• Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na returned to the hotel, where Gu Yue Na revealed that her teacher, Leng Yaozhu, was staying in Mingdu and that her visit was related to Yun Ze.

Yun Ze met Leng Yaozhu and declined her invitation to join the Spirit Transfer Pagoda, while she gave him tokens for Spirit Ascension and the Tower Challenge. Meanwhile, Bi Ji found a building for Dragon Phoenix Hall, and its renovation was completed in twenty-four days.

• Yun Ze agreed to meet Leng Yaozhu with Gu Yue Na, and they arranged an appointment for the next day.
• Leng Yaozhu offered to take Yun Ze as her disciple, but Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na told her he already had a teacher.
• Leng Yaozhu gave Yun Ze tokens granting access to Spirit Ascension and the Tower Challenge, then invited him to join the Spirit Transfer Pagoda again.
• Yun Ze refused, and Gu Yue Na explained that he was the Young Master of a family forming the Dragon Phoenix Hall faction.
• Bi Ji found a ten-story building near Sun Moon Royal Academy, and the group spent 400 million Federal Currency renovating it for Dragon Phoenix Hall.
• The renovations finished in twenty-four days, with floors assigned to a forging shop, apothecary, pill refining room, resting rooms, and Yun Ze's workshop.

Yun Ze revealed his plan to use Longevity Pills to finance Dragon Phoenix Hall and Medicine King Pavilion, arranging a heavily promoted auction before he began refining them. He gave Bi Ji a one-year pill recipe and prepared the group for the auction and the businesses’ opening ten days later.

• Yun Ze learned that Dragon Phoenix Hall had about 60 million Federal Currency remaining and instructed Bi Ji to transfer 100 million to the Sun Moon Auction House for promotion.
• Yun Ze explained that he would refine five Hundred Year Longevity Pills and auction them in ten days, when Medicine King Pavilion and the forge officially opened.
• Yun Ze revealed that Gu Ming had guaranteed the auction in exchange for a Longevity Pill and would bear the consequences if the pills proved ineffective.
• Yun Ze asked Bi Ji and Bear Lord to prepare the pills and forged metals for display and gave Bi Ji the recipe for a One Year Longevity Pill.
• Gu Yue Na explained that wealthy humans would pay enormous sums for extra years of life, and Yun Ze said the pills could earn a billion a day or more.

Yun Ze forged Blazing Flame Fire Metal into Spiritual Metal and engraved it with Soul Guidance Arrays, then slept late after exhausting himself. The finished metal remained in the Soul Tool crafting area, ready for its next use.

• Bi Ji promised to learn the Longevity Pill formula, and Yun Ze told her to memorize it and prepare herbs before refining alongside him the next day.
• Yun Ze heated Blazing Flame Fire Metal with his Phoenix Flames and used his Thousand Refinement Hammer to forge it.
• Yun Ze added diluted blood-infused water to the metal, transforming it into Spiritual Metal through Spirit Forging.
• After recovering his Soul Power, Yun Ze engraved six core arrays and thirty-two ordinary arrays into the metal, finishing after three in the morning.
• Yun Ze slept until after ten the next morning after the forging and engraving drained his spiritual power.

Yun Ze completed the Thunder Control Array and spent four days refining Hundred Year Longevity Pills while teaching Bi Ji pill refining. When a heavenly tribulation arrived, he activated the array to gather Soul Power and prepared fifteen pieces of fiery red Spiritual Metal.

• Yun Ze finished drawing the Thunder Control Array, and Gu Yue Na, Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Bear Lord learned that it would control lightning.
• Yun Ze spent four days refining Hundred Year Longevity Pills, replenishing his Soul Power with Di Tian’s help and teaching Bi Ji to refine pills.
• A heavenly tribulation appeared over the mountain, and Gu Yue Na suspected that Yun Ze had drawn it there.
• Yun Ze activated the Thunder Control Array, which drew in nearby Soul Power and formed a dense hemispherical barrier.
• Yun Ze took out fifteen pieces of fiery red Spiritual Metal and asked Di Tian to spread them through the barrier with Soul Power.

Yun Ze's array absorbed the heavenly tribulation while the Spiritual Metal was tempered, allowing him to complete the longevity pills. He revealed that the array could eventually withstand god-level tribulations, giving Di Tian and the others hope of surviving theirs.

• Yun Ze's Soul Power array absorbed successive lightning bolts and channeled them into the fifteen pieces of Spiritual Metal, which greedily absorbed the electricity.
• Di Tian and Bi Ji realized the array might help them face heavenly tribulations, while Gu Yue Na watched Yun Ze with a smile.
• After half an hour, the tribulation ended, and Yun Ze opened the Pill Furnace and had Bi Ji store six completed pills in Jade White Jade Bottles.
• Di Tian examined the lightning-tempered Spiritual Metal as Yun Ze explained that the pills' lifespan-extending power had attracted heaven's punishment.
• Yun Ze told Di Tian, Bi Ji, and Bear Lord that once he reached Soul King cultivation, his array could withstand a god-level heavenly tribulation, greatly reassuring them.

Yun Ze gave Gu Ming the Hundred Year Longevity Pill, and Gu Ming regained much of his youth and vitality after refining it. Gu Ming was left overjoyed at the years of life restored to him.

• Yun Ze promised Di Tian and the others written instructions for setting up the formation, then returned to Mingdu.
• Yun Ze invited Gu Ming to Dragon Phoenix Hall to receive the longevity pill, and Gu Ming hurried there with Xu Chuan.
• Gu Ming and Xu Chuan sensed Di Tian's overwhelming strength, and Di Tian introduced himself as Yun Tian of the Yun Family and deputy hall master of Dragon Phoenix Hall.
• Yun Ze handed Gu Ming the pill, which Gu Ming swallowed and refined while Xu Chuan stood guard.
• The pill restored Gu Ming's vitality, darkened much of his hair, and made him look like a man in his fifties.
• Gu Ming examined his transformed appearance and laughed with joy as Xu Chuan congratulated him.

Yun Ze arranged to publicize Gu Ming’s recovery after taking a Longevity Pill and directed him and Xu Chuan to the upcoming auction for the remaining pills. He then claimed his grandfather had refined them and revealed that his family had a Limit Level Healing Soul Master, leaving Gu Ming and Xu Chuan more wary of the family’s power.

• Gu Ming thanked Yun Ze for the Longevity Pill and agreed to help publicize its effects using Yun Ze’s recorded video.
• Yun Ze explained that only five pills remained, that their effects diminished with repeated use, and that they would be auctioned in five days.
• Gu Ming and Xu Chuan said they wanted to bid, and Yun Ze offered them a twenty percent discount if they won pills at the auction.
• When Gu Ming asked to meet the pill’s creator, Yun Ze claimed his grandfather had refined the pills and was recovering from a heavenly tribulation.
• Yun Ze said his family had a Limit Level Healing Soul Master, and Di Tian confirmed it, surprising Gu Ming and Xu Chuan.

Yun Ze discussed the karmic danger of Gu Ming calling him “Brother Yun” and hinted at his immeasurably long life. As news of the Hundred Year Longevity Pill spread, Qian Gu Dong Feng decided the Spirit Transfer Pagoda would bid aggressively for the five pills.

• Gu Yue Na laughed at Yun Ze’s invented grandfather identity, and Yun Ze explained that Gu Ming’s “Brother Yun” greeting could bring deadly tribulations through karma.
• Gu Yue Na asked Yun Ze how long he had lived, and he said he had existed through countless epochs before heading to the academy with her.
• News of the Hundred Year Longevity Pill spread across the continent, and Gu Ming’s videos confirming its effects went viral.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng confirmed the pill’s effects with Gu Ming and told Qiangu Zhangting that the Spirit Transfer Pagoda should secure at least two pills.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng ordered Qiangu Zhangting to calculate their available funds and went to consult his great-grandfather.

Yun Ming arranged for Shrek Academy to gather funds and travel to Mingdu to compete for pills that could extend life by a hundred years. At the Southern Legion, Yue Zhengen ordered his son Le Zhengming to raise fifteen billion Federal Currency and bring Le Xu and Le Zhengye to Mingdu.

• Yun Ming confirmed with Gu Ming that the pills could extend a person's lifespan by a hundred years, and the Sea God Pavilion members agreed Shrek should try to obtain at least two.
• Yun Ming ordered Cai Yue'er to prepare twenty billion Federal Currency and planned to travel to Mingdu with Long Yeyue, Zhuo Shi, and Feng Wuyu, while Ya Li stayed behind.
• Yun Ming warned that powerful factions might try to seize the pills and said Shrek might intervene if anyone disrupted the auction.
• Yue Zhengen summoned Le Zhengming and ordered him to raise fifteen billion Federal Currency for the family.
• Yue Zhengen instructed Le Zhengming to take Le Xu and Le Zhengye to Mingdu within four days.

Yue Zhengen prepared to bid for the Longevity Pill to save his father and advance the Yue Family’s prospects. As the auction drew powerful bidders and intense public attention to Mingdu, Yun Ze and Dragon Phoenix Hall prepared for the auction day.

• Yue Zhengen told Le Zhengming that he would pursue the Longevity Pill to extend his dying father's life and give the Yue Family more time to investigate its bloodline.
• Le Zhengming agreed to arrange the money and people Yue Zhengen needed for the bid.
• Powerful families and military officials arrived in Mingdu, leaving the Administrator and Sun Moon Auction House concerned about security and disorder.
• Yun Ze continued studying Black Mecha production and Soul Tools while keeping Dragon Phoenix Hall's identity secret until auction day.
• Yun Ze had Gu Yue Na gather Di Tian and the others to discuss their auction arrangements.
• On auction day, police and auction staff prepared the venue, and wealthy bidders began arriving through the main and special entrances.

At the Sun Moon Auction House, auctioneer Wan Wan introduced Dragon Phoenix Hall’s Deputy Hall Master Yun Tian as the source of the Hundred Year Longevity Pills. Di Tian appeared in his place, and his six red and three orange soul rings stunned the auction audience and livestream viewers.

• The VIP hall filled with guests as the livestream drew more than one billion viewers ahead of the auction.
• Wan Wan welcomed the audience and announced that Dragon Phoenix Hall was the source of the five Hundred Year Longevity Pills.
• Wan Wan introduced Deputy Hall Master Yun Tian, and Di Tian entered the hall in his place.
• Di Tian revealed six red and three orange soul rings, shocking the audience and viewers.
• Yun Ming, Feng Wuyu, Zhuo Shi, and Long Yeyue examined the rings, and Long Yeyue identified them as genuine soul rings rather than Soul Spirit-provided ones.
• Yun Ming wondered whether Di Tian had wiped out the soul beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest.

Di Tian announced the terms for auctioning the Hundred Year Longevity Pills while powerful guests assessed his strength and the Dragon Phoenix Hall’s threat. Several factions ordered investigations into the hall and the Yun Family, and Di Tian promised protection only to buyers who consumed their pills at the venue.

• Long Yeyue judged that Di Tian possessed a dragon-type martial soul with an ultimate darkness attribute, and Yun Ming said he could only fight Di Tian at great risk with his Battle Armor released.
• Di Tian introduced himself as Yun Tian, Deputy Hall Master of the Dragon Phoenix Hall, and revealed that the Yun Family Patriarch had refined six Hundred Year Longevity Pills, one of which had been given to Gu Ming.
• Di Tian explained that whether more pills could be made depended on the Patriarch's recovery from a heavenly tribulation, emphasizing how scarce the remaining five pills might be.
• Di Tian warned that anyone who disrupted the auction or seized pills would face the Dragon Phoenix Hall's full retaliation, prompting Qian Gu Dong Feng and other guests to order investigations.
• Di Tian promised protection to buyers who consumed their pills at the auction house and disclaimed responsibility for those who took them away.

Di Tian promoted Dragon Phoenix Hall’s pills and explained their effects, sending buyers rushing to Medicine King Pavilion. He then opened the auction of the first Hundred Year Longevity Pill, and VIP Seat Number Fifty-Five placed the opening bid.

• Di Tian announced Dragon Phoenix Hall’s Foundation Establishment Pills, Breakthrough Pills, and One Year Longevity Pills, including a limited supply of top-grade pills.
• Di Tian explained how many pills could be taken and how the longevity pills extended lifespans, exciting bidders and viewers.
• People in Mingdu, including Sun Moon Royal Academy students, hurried to Dragon Phoenix Hall to buy pills.
• Di Tian opened a jade bottle of Hundred Year Longevity Pills, and the pill fragrance caused people in the hall to react eagerly.
• Wan Wan announced the starting bid of one billion Federal Currency for the first Hundred Year Longevity Pill, and VIP Seat Number Fifty-Five bid 1.1 billion.

Bidders drove the Longevity Pill’s price to fourteen billion, breaking the auction record as major factions competed for it. In VIP Room 1, Gu Yue Na asked Yun Ze whether the pill would exceed twenty billion, and he said it likely would while warning that its hidden value made possessing it dangerous.

• Wan Wan announced bids from several VIP rooms and bidders, raising the Longevity Pill’s price to nine billion.
• Gu Ming agreed with Xu Lin that securing the first pill was important, and Xu Chuan bid ten billion for VIP Room 5.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng continued bidding for VIP Room 4, while Zang Xin bid for VIP Room 3 and the price climbed to thirteen billion.
• VIP Room 7 bid fourteen billion, surpassing the auction’s previous price record.
• Gu Yue Na asked Yun Ze whether the pill would sell for more than twenty billion, and Yun Ze said it likely would and explained that its hidden value exceeded its monetary value.

Yue Zhengen won the first Hundred Year Longevity Pill for twenty-two billion, while Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na discussed using the pills to attract political and military support for Dragon Phoenix Hall. After the auction, Yue Zhengen asked to pay seven billion of the price later, leaving the transaction unresolved.

• Yun Ze told Gu Yue Na that the Hundred Year Longevity Pill could help Dragon Phoenix Hall secure support ahead of the Federation Election.
• Yue Zhengen ordered Le Zhengming to bid twenty billion despite having only fifteen billion ready, and VIP Room 7 outbid its rival to reach twenty-two billion.
• Wan Wan announced that VIP Room 7 had won the first pill, and Di Tian took it backstage to complete the transaction.
• Yue Zhengen inspected the pill but declined to take it immediately, saying he trusted Di Tian and the Southern Legion could seek justice if it was fake.
• Le Zhengming offered to transfer fifteen billion first and promised to pay the remaining seven billion within three days.

The auction for the Hundred Year Longevity Pills continued as major factions competed and Qian Gu Dong Feng tried to obstruct Tang Sect and Shrek Academy. After securing the fourth pill, Yun Ming borrowed funds, while Gu Ming asked Yun Ze whether he could trade valuables for the final pill.

• Di Tian received approval from Yun Ze to let Yue Zhengen pay fifteen billion Federal Currency upfront and the remainder within three days, after which Yue Zhengen’s group left with the pill.
• Qian Gu Dong Feng won the second pill for twenty-three billion five hundred million Federal Currency, then raised bids on the third pill to frustrate Tang Sect and Shrek Academy before stopping at twenty-four billion.
• Yun Ming borrowed five billion Federal Currency from Zang Xin and won the fourth pill for twenty-three billion three hundred million.
• Gu Ming called Yun Ze and asked whether he could exchange items of equivalent value for the final pill, and Yun Ze agreed to discuss what he would offer.

Yun Ze traded the fifth pill’s proceeds for one year of access to the academy’s fifth-floor Library, then revised Gu Yue Na’s battle armor design and prepared to forge her Two-Word Battle Armor. Yun Ming noticed Yun Ze’s extraordinary Soul Power and ordered an investigation, while Yun Ze began making a specialized hammer for Gu Yue Na.

• Yun Ze agreed to charge Gu Ming only ten billion for the pill in exchange for one year of access to the fifth-floor Library.
• Yun Ze, Gu Yue Na, and Bear Lord left the auction house through a private passage and passed Yun Ming’s group; Yun Ming realized Yun Ze was only a little over six years old and already had level twenty-two Soul Power.
• Yun Ming told Long Yeyue, Feng Wuyu, and Zhuo Shi to investigate the three people from VIP Room 1 after the auction.
• Yun Ze and Gu Yue Na entered Dragon Phoenix Hall through the back door, where they saw orderly lines of customers guarded by Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears.
• Yun Ze revised Gu Yue Na’s battle armor drawings, removing the battle skirt and adding an energy shield device, a crystal-patterned belt, and a retractable helmet.
• Yun Ze explained how he would forge Two-Word Battle Armor that Gu Yue Na could wear at Soul Ancestor cultivation, then took Elemental Spirit Metal to make a hammer suited to her.