Recaps

Fang Yu trained Qing Lin while waiting for Elder Green Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor to arrive, then entrusted Qing Lin to the Sky Serpent Palace. He watched them leave and asked Queen Medusa whether he should have kept Qing Lin with him.

• Fang Yu sent Hai Bodong back to his clan and told him to look after Mittel Ya Fei.
• Fang Yu trained Qing Lin, helped her subdue nearby snake-type magical beasts, and watched her cultivation advance rapidly.
• Elder Green Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor arrived, and Fang Yu slapped them before ordering them to care for Qing Lin and warning them against mistreating her.
• Fang Yu put Qing Lin to sleep and handed her to Green Man, who promised the Sky Serpent Palace would take good care of her.
• Green Man and the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor departed with Qing Lin, and Fang Yu asked Queen Medusa whether he should have let Qing Lin leave.

Fang Yu visited the Mittel Auction House in the Imperial Capital to see Mittel Ya Fei, whose cultivation and position had greatly improved. After he killed a young man who insulted her, the man’s backer came looking for them, while Fang Yu and Ya Fei remained in the VIP room.

• Fang Yu traveled to the Imperial Capital, where the Alchemist Convention was drawing crowds, and entered the Mittel Auction House using Ya Fei’s VIP card.
• After wandering through the auction house, Fang Yu reunited with Mittel Ya Fei, now a Dou Ling and an elder of the Mittel Family, and she led him to a VIP room.
• A young man confronted Ya Fei and told her to remember her status, but she ordered him to leave.
• When the young man moved to attack, Fang Yu killed him with a single slap, and Ya Fei continued leading Fang Yu to the VIP room.
• The young man’s backer hurried to confront them, while Fang Yu reassured Ya Fei that he could handle the old man.
• A hurried figure arrived at the VIP hall.

Fang Yu killed the resentful elder who threatened Mittel Ya Fei, then planned to bring the imperial family and major factions under his control to support a campaign against the Chuyun Empire. He reached the Nalan Clan to treat Nalan Jie, but ended the chapter insulting Nalan Su and demanding to see his father.

• Fang Yu killed the former Supervisory Elder when he entered to reprimand Mittel Ya Fei.
• Ice Emperor Hai Bodong explained that he had been occupied by the imperial family's old expert, and Fang Yu offered to help the man break through to Dou Zong so he could control the imperial family.
• Mittel Ya Fei proposed winning over the Nalan Clan by saving Nalan Jie and gaining influence over the Alchemist Association through its competition.
• Fang Yu agreed to visit the Nalan Clan and compete in the alchemy contest, while Ice Emperor Hai Bodong offered to obtain him a second-grade alchemist badge.
• Mittel Ya Fei gave Fang Yu a letter of introduction, and he entered the Nalan Clan residence to find Nalan Su, Nalan Yanran, and several alchemists gathered there.
• When Nalan Su asked why he had come, Fang Yu insulted him and demanded that he take him to see Nalan Jie.

Fang Yu quickly cured Nalan Yanran's grandfather and demanded the Nalan Clan's Seven-Color Green Lotus Saliva in return. The Nalan Clan resolved to befriend Fang Yu and investigate his origins while he waited in the main hall.

• Nalan Yanran's father overruled her objections and brought Fang Yu to her grandfather, trusting Mittel Ya Fei's recommendation.
• Fang Yu sent the attendants away and cured Nalan Yanran's grandfather while Nalan Yanran and her father waited outside.
• Fang Yu asked the Nalan Clan to repay him with a favor and bring him their Seven-Color Green Lotus Saliva.
• Nalan Yanran's grandfather thanked Fang Yu, promised the clan's assistance, and warned his son not to offend him.
• Nalan Yanran's father said he had asked Mittel Ya Fei about Fang Yu's origins, and the old master suspected Fang Yu had come to attend the Alchemist Association convention.

Fang Yu confronted Nalan Yanran and her father over the Nalan Clan’s treatment of the Xiao Family, provoking them with accusations of ingratitude and murder. He ended by accusing the clan of secretly wiping out the Lei Family, while the Nalan father struggled to contain his anger.

• Nalan Yanran asked Fang Yu how he knew about her affairs, and he revealed that he was Xiao Yan’s senior fellow disciple.
• Fang Yu condemned the Nalan Clan for abandoning the Xiao Family after Xiao Yan’s grandfather died saving Nalan Yanran’s grandfather, then backing her engagement-breaking visit.
• Fang Yu taunted Nalan Yanran with suggestions that her clan could destroy the Xiao Family and kill Xiao Yan to avoid the three-year agreement.
• Nalan Yanran’s battle qi surged as Fang Yu continued to provoke her, but she knew attacking him would ruin the clan’s reputation.
• Nalan Yanran’s father confronted Fang Yu, who accused the Nalan Clan of exterminating the Lei Family after a dispute over the family head’s concubine.

Fang Yu left the Nalan residence after berating Nalan Yanran and her clan, while the Nalan family grew suspicious that he had hidden motives for saving Nalan Jie. He then obtained a third-tier alchemist badge and ordered Hai Bodong to isolate the Nalan Clan from its business partners.

• Fang Yu departed the Nalan residence unharmed, leaving Nalan Yanran and her father furious and unable to retaliate because he had saved Nalan Jie.
• Nalan Yanran suspected Fang Yu had tampered with her grandfather and arranged for Gu He to examine him; after her father revealed what had happened, Nalan Jie also became worried.
• Fang Yu searched the stalls outside the Alchemist Association and found the item he had been seeking, trading pills to obtain it.
• Hai Bodong gave Fang Yu an alchemist's robe and a third-tier badge, explaining that Fa Ma required a demonstration before granting a higher rank.
• Fang Yu told Hai Bodong to cut off all business dealings between the Nalan Clan and its affiliated forces.

Nalan Yanran learned that the Mittel Family had severed ties with the Nalan Clan and that the Xiao Family had gained five Dou King-level magical beasts and powerful allies. The Eldest Princess asked Fang Yu why he was pressuring the Nalan Clan, and he insisted the clan still had its uses.

• Nalan Yanran's father told her the Mittel Family had ended its business and personal ties with the Nalan Clan, and that the royal family was investigating the dispute.
• Nalan Yanran's father revealed that five Dou King-level magical beasts supported the Xiao Family and that the Mittel Family was helping it regain influence; Nalan Yanran vowed not to lose the three-year agreement.
• The Mittel Family celebrated its alliance with the Xiao Family at a banquet attended by the Eldest Princess, while Fang Yu declined to attend.
• The Eldest Princess asked Fang Yu why he had helped the Nalan Clan's old master, and Fang Yu claimed the Xiao Family still had ties to the clan and wanted it to experience what the Xiao Family had endured.
• The Eldest Princess offered royal support against the Nalan Clan, but Fang Yu refused and said the clan was still useful.

Nalan Yanran visited Fang Yu to seek mercy for the Nalan Clan, but realized he was Xiao Yu and left without apologizing. Back home, she and her father considered asking Pill King Gu He for help, while Fang Yu prepared to put more pressure on the clan.

• Nalan Yanran arrived at the Mittel Family's main hall, where Fang Yu confronted her over the Nalan Clan's past treatment of the Xiao Family.
• Fang Yu rejected Nalan Yanran's implied threat and told her to decide whether she had come to apologize or accuse him.
• Nalan Yanran recognized Fang Yu as Xiao Yu, but left indignantly without apologizing or confronting him further.
• Fang Yu told Mittel Ya Fei that he might increase the pressure on the Nalan Clan and joked about his past encounter with Sect Master Yun.
• Nalan Yanran told her father that Fang Yu was from the Xiao Family, and they discussed seeking help from Pill King Gu He through her master or Gu He's disciple.

Liu Ling left to ask Pill King Gu He to help the Nalan Clan, while the Nalan Clan's old master went to the Mittel Family to learn what Fang Yu wanted. After hearing how Fang Yu had won the support of the empire and could sway the Alchemist Association, the old master realized the Nalan Clan faced a severe crisis and prepared to hear Fang Yu's conditions.

• Nalan Yanran asked Liu Ling to persuade Pill King Gu He to intervene, and Liu Ling agreed to try despite doubting he could succeed.
• Nalan Yanran and her father discussed the Nalan Clan's worsening isolation until her grandfather arrived, angry that they had hidden the crisis from him.
• After hearing the full account, the Nalan Clan's old master ignored their objections and went to the Mittel Family to confront Fang Yu.
• Teng Shan told the old master that Fang Yu had healed the imperial guardian beast, secured the imperial princess's marriage, and promised the Alchemist Association major advances in exchange for its support.
• The old master learned that Fang Yu's promises had persuaded Teng Shan to hand family authority to Mittel Ya Fei, and he regretted the Nalan Clan's past decision to break the engagement with the Xiao Family.
• Teng Shan urged the old master to accept Fang Yu's conditions, while the old master waited to learn Fang Yu's true purpose.

Fang Yu demanded the Nalan Clan submit to him and offered Nalan Yanran a path to become his woman if she met his conditions. The Nalan Clan accepted submission, while Nalan Yanran’s future with Fang Yu depended on winning the Three-Year Agreement.

• Fang Yu rejected the Nalan Clan elder’s apology and marriage offer, then gave the family a choice between submitting to him or being destroyed.
• The Nalan Clan elder returned home and convinced his son and Nalan Yanran to choose submission, while Nalan Yanran said she would only accept Fang Yu if he married her as his wife.
• The next day, Fang Yu rejected Nalan Yanran’s demand for marriage but said she could become his woman after reaching Dou Wang and winning the Three-Year Agreement.
• Fang Yu gave the Nalan Clan elder a pill that he said would permanently raise Nalan Yanran to Dou Ling without side effects.

Fang Yu gave Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran a choice between a safe pill that raised them to Dou Spirit and a dangerous pill that raised them to Dou King but left them only three years to live. Xiao Yan chose the Dou King pill and agreed to enter the Alchemist Guild competition, while Nalan Yanran prepared to make the same choice so she would not face him at a disadvantage.

• Fang Yu explained to Elder Nalan that the Dou King pill carried a three-year lifespan limit, offered help extending their lives, and handed him both pill options for Nalan Yanran.
• Fang Yu gave Xiao Yan the same choice, and Yao Lao advised that he consider taking the Dou King pill to avoid falling behind Nalan Yanran.
• Xiao Yan chose the Dou King pill, but Fang Yu persuaded him to remain in the Alchemist Guild competition and compete under his true identity.
• Elder Nalan told Nalan Yanran what Fang Yu had offered, and she asked which pill Xiao Yan would choose.
• Elder Nalan predicted Xiao Yan would choose the Dou King pill, leaving Nalan Yanran to take it as well, and Nalan Yanran vowed she would not lose.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran broke through to the Dou King realm and learned to control their new strength. Fang Yu attended the Alchemist Association competition, where he watched several contestants and anticipated trouble from a visiting vice president.

• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran took Fang Yu's pills and became Dou Kings, though they believed they had only two or three years left to live.
• Nalan Yanran received instruction from the Nalan Clan's old master, while Xiao Yan mastered his new strength under Yao Lao and suppressed his realm to avoid attracting attention.
• Fang Yu and Mittel Yafei traveled to the Alchemist Association competition, where the guild's leaders greeted Fang Yu and he warned them that someone would cause trouble.
• Fang Yu chose a secluded platform instead of the luxurious one prepared for him and watched Xiao Yan, the Little Princess, Nalan Yanran's admirer, and a visiting vice president.
• The competition plaza filled with eligible alchemists as the army and guild expelled late arrivals and spectators without platforms.

Fang Yu dominated the Alchemist Association competition by refining two exceptional pills in quick succession, leaving the other contestants far behind. As the crowd accepted him as the likely champion, Xiao Yan struggled to match his skill and Yao Lao admitted he could not decipher Fang Yu’s techniques.

• The Alchemist Association president explained that contestants had two attempts to refine a pill from an incomplete prescription, and Fang Yu immediately began refining.
• Fang Yu completed his first pill in just over ten minutes, while Xiao Yan and the other contestants were still studying the formula or failing their first attempts.
• Fang Yu refined a second pill of even higher quality, astonishing the association president and drawing cheers from the crowd.
• A chubby fourth-tier alchemist recognized Fang Yu’s extraordinary techniques and discussed seeking his guidance if Fang Yu became an association elder.
• Xiao Yan lamented that he still could not catch up to Fang Yu, and Yao Lao admitted he could not understand Fang Yu’s refining techniques.

Fang Yu dominated the Alchemist Convention’s first round and began the second, revealing skills that stunned the contestants and guild president. He also coerced a disguised vice president into providing information about his country, which Fang Yu planned to conquer for his wife’s clan.

• The disguised vice president cursed Fang Yu over his ruined plan, but Fang Yu read his thoughts and demanded detailed information about his country in exchange for helping him rise to become its guild president.
• Fang Yu planned to conquer the vice president’s country and settle his wife’s clan in territories controlled by its sects.
• The first round ended, and Fang Yu’s pill dazzled the testing device with quality that surpassed every other contestant’s, prompting onlookers to praise his talent.
• The second assessment began with a third-tier pill formula, and Fang Yu immediately identified and discarded an unnecessary medicinal ingredient.
• Fang Yu refined all the ingredients at once without a cauldron, then began fusing their essences as the audience and the Alchemist Association president watched in amazement.

Fang Yu won the competition’s second round and learned that Yun Yun and Gu He had arrived in the capital to address the threat he posed. After discussing an alliance with Nalan Yanran, Yun Yun met Fang Yu alone, where he teased her and warned that refusing to speak with him could leave the conflict unresolved until the Three-Year Agreement.

• Fang Yu rested through the second round, won first place, and sensed Yun Yun and Gu He arriving at the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Yun Yun and Gu He visited the Nalan Clan, where they discovered Nalan Yanran had become a Dou King and heard her account of Fang Yu’s pill and the events surrounding him.
• Nalan Yanran urged Yun Yun to consider an alliance with Fang Yu, and Yun Yun agreed to consult her grandmaster after the Three-Year Agreement.
• Fang Yu went to the Nalan residence and entered Yun Yun’s room after she recognized his aura and invited him in.
• Fang Yu asked Yun Yun whether she had come to the capital to find him and warned that if he left, reconciliation might have to wait until the Three-Year Agreement.

Fang Yu tried to recruit Yun Yun and the Misty Cloud Sect to help him conquer the Chuyun Empire and settle Queen Medusa’s people there, while repeatedly provoking Yun Yun with talk of having children. Yun Yun agreed only to consult her master, and Fang Yu warned her that her master was tied to the Soul Hall and would urge her to destroy the Xiao Family.

• Fang Yu told Yun Yun he had come to watch the Three-Year Agreement, not to seek her out, and mocked the prospect of having children with her.
• When Yun Yun drew her sword in anger, Fang Yu took it from her and offered to help her reach higher cultivation realms if she followed him.
• Fang Yu proposed that Yun Yun help him unite the empire and attack the Chuyun Empire so Queen Medusa’s people could settle there.
• Yun Yun considered the benefits for the Misty Cloud Sect but said she needed to discuss the matter with her master.
• Fang Yu warned Yun Yun that her master had relied on the Soul Hall to become a pseudo-Dou Ancestor and would urge her to destroy the Xiao Family and use a honey trap against him.

Fang Yu entered the Alchemist Guild competition’s final round and began refining a pill that the Guild president suspected was seventh-tier. As time ran out, powerful energy surged from Fang Yu’s cauldron and dark clouds gathered overhead, signaling an impending lightning tribulation.

• Yun Yun left after Fang Yu warned her about her teacher, and Fang Yu spent the night resting before the final round.
• Fang Yu arrived at the competition grounds, where spectators cheered for him, and prepared rare ingredients gathered from across the empire.
• The Alchemist Guild president and the imperial family’s ancestor realized Fang Yu might be attempting a seventh-tier pill and discussed the consequences of his success or failure.
• Fang Yu refined more than a hundred herbs in an hour, then placed them all into the cauldron at once, alarming the gathered alchemists.
• As the other contestants finished and time nearly ran out, powerful energy rose from Fang Yu’s cauldron, the contestants took cover, and dark clouds and thunder appeared overhead.

Fang Yu won the Alchemist Association competition after effortlessly destroying the pill lightning and claimed the association’s obedience along with his prize. He then revealed to Gu He that he had made a fetal-protection pill for Yun Yun, threatened him, and drove him to leave the empire.

• Fang Yu destroyed every bolt of pill lightning with his control over space, and the president of the Alchemist Association declared him the competition champion.
• Fang Yu collected the champion’s prescription and secured the Alchemist Association’s agreement to obey his commands, while promising to strengthen the empire.
• Fang Yu met Gu He, rejected his concerns about the Xiao Family’s duel, and told him to stop interfering with Yun Yun.
• Fang Yu revealed that he had refined the Spirit-Nurturing Divine Fetus Pill specifically for Yun Yun and taunted Gu He about his relationship with her.
• When Gu He refused to leave Yun Yun, Fang Yu struck him down and threatened his loved ones, prompting Gu He to leave the empire.

Fang Yu explained his pregnancy-preserving pill to Yun Yun, who left embarrassed and angry before retreating into seclusion. At the Misty Cloud Sect, Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran began their long-awaited Three-Year Agreement battle as Fang Yu watched with satisfaction.

• Yun Yun questioned Fang Yu about Gu He’s departure, and he revealed that he had refined a pregnancy-preserving pill for their future children.
• Fang Yu ignored the arriving guests while the Xiao Family reclaimed its property in the imperial capital and the Nalan Clan paid heavy compensation.
• Experts from across the empire gathered at the Misty Cloud Sect to watch Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, now both Dou Kings, face each other.
• Yun Yun entered seclusion, leaving the First Elder to oversee the gathering as Nalan Yanran waited in the square.
• Xiao Yan arrived and announced that he had come to honor the agreement, and Nalan Yanran accepted his challenge.
• Nalan Yanran summoned green Dou Qi shaped like a phoenix while Xiao Yan answered with fiery red Dou Qi, and Fang Yu watched the confrontation with delight.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran in their duel, ending their engagement and leaving her shaken. Fang Yu then proposed to Yun Yun before the Misty Cloud Sect, offering a seventh-tier pill and ten Earth-class Dou Techniques as a bride price, but Yun Shan postponed his answer.

• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion and watched Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran fight, while Fang Yu ignored him.
• After nearly half an hour, Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran unleashed their strongest attacks, and Fang Yu contained the resulting shockwave as Xiao Yan won.
• Fang Yu talked Nalan Yanran out of suicide, and Xiao Yan burned their marriage contract before remaining at the sect to see what Fang Yu would do.
• Fang Yu asked Yun Shan for Yun Yun's hand in marriage, stunning Yun Yun and the gathered leaders.
• Fang Yu offered the Misty Cloud Sect a seventh-tier pill and ten Earth-class Dou Techniques, but Yun Shan declined to decide immediately.

After Fang Yu proposed marriage to the Misty Cloud Sect, Yun Yun discovered that Yun Shan was tied to the Soul Hall and feared the sect would be caught between powerful enemies. Fang Yu promised to free Yun Shan from the Soul Hall’s control, and Yun Yun agreed to bear him several children if he succeeded.

• Yun Shan warned Yun Yun that Fang Yu’s proposal might conceal another purpose, and Yun Yun decided to ask Fang Yu about it herself.
• A Soul Hall Protector ordered Yun Shan to investigate Fang Yu’s backing, while Yun Shan proposed delaying action and avoiding a conflict.
• Fang Yu revealed that he and Yun Yun had overheard Yun Shan’s conversation with the Protector, leaving Yun Yun shaken by her master’s connection to the Soul Hall.
• Nalan Yanran comforted Yun Yun and learned that the sect needed to avoid being drawn into the conflict between Yun Shan and Fang Yu.
• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that Fang Yu could free Yun Shan from the Soul Hall’s control and that she had agreed to bear him several children if he did.

Yun Yun explained why she accepted Fang Yu’s conditions, while Fang Yu discussed alchemy with Yao Lao and revealed his plan to attack the Chuyun Empire. He also outlined what Xiao Yan would need to revive Yao Lao and pointed to Canaan Academy’s Heavenly Flame as one possible source.

• Yun Yun told Nalan Yanran that Fang Yu had promised to help her reach Dou Zong, protect the Misty Cloud Sect, and end the feud with the Nalan Clan, and she reassured her that she would still inherit the sect leadership.
• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran speculated that Fang Yu’s marriage alliances were meant to unite the Jia Ma Empire and prepare for an attack on the Chuyun Empire.
• Fang Yu shared his alchemy knowledge and a soul-training technique with Yao Lao while Xiao Yan listened and memorized their discussion.
• Fang Yu revealed his plan to attack the Chuyun Empire, then urged Xiao Yan to reach Dou Huang so he could gather what was needed to revive Yao Lao.
• Yao Lao listed the revival requirements, and Fang Yu identified possible sources for a Dou Zong body and seventh-rank magical beast essence blood, as well as a Heavenly Flame at Canaan Academy.

Fang Yu agreed to help Yun Yun free her teacher, Yun Shan, from the Soul Hall's control and confronted the Soul Hall Protector lurking in the Misty Cloud Sect. The Protector attacked Fang Yu, and their fight began.

• Fang Yu told Xiao Yan that Han Feng, Yao Lao's former disciple, possessed the Sea Heart Flame, and Yao Lao explained how Han Feng had betrayed him.
• Yun Yun asked Fang Yu to rescue Yun Shan from the Soul Hall's control, and Fang Yu warned her about the Soul Hall's power before she agreed to cooperate.
• Fang Yu and Yun Yun agreed to act separately, with Yun Yun holding Yun Shan back while Fang Yu dealt with the Protector.
• Fang Yu found the hidden Soul Hall Protector in the Misty Cloud Sect and taunted him into revealing himself.
• The Soul Hall Protector recognized Fang Yu as a Xiao Family member and attacked him with black chains.

Fang Yu killed a Soul Hall Protector and saved Yun Shan after Yun Yun agreed to bear him more children. He then gave the Protector’s collected soul force to Yao Lao and urged Xiao Yan to focus on cultivation as he planned to unite nearby empires.

• Fang Yu killed the Soul Hall Protector, took his possessions, and prepared to give the collected souls to Yao Lao.
• Yun Yun asked Fang Yu to save her unconscious teacher, Yun Shan, and agreed to bear him several more children in exchange.
• Fang Yu revived Yun Shan, warned him against cooperating with the Soul Hall again, and left Yun Yun and her teacher to talk.
• Fang Yu gave the Protector’s soul force to Yao Lao and told Xiao Yan to cultivate while he worked to unite nearby empires.
• Xiao Yan warned Fang Yu about Queen Medusa, and Fang Yu told him to keep quiet about spicy strips and focus on getting stronger.

Fang Yu arranged for Yun Shan to investigate the Chu Yun Empire and ordered Yun Yun, the sect, and the empire’s leading factions to prepare for war. He revealed that he planned to conquer other nations as well and intended to bolster his forces by refining puppets.

• Fang Yu sent the recovered Yun Shan to the Chu Yun Empire to gather intelligence, while Yun Yun agreed to prepare the Misty Cloud Sect for war.
• Fang Yu reassured Yun Yun that he would not force her to have a child soon, and she agreed to ready her disciples for the campaign.
• Fang Yu met the leaders of the major families, royal family, and Alchemist Association, promised rewards for their cooperation, and ordered them to prepare for the invasion.
• When the royal family's eldest princess questioned the risk to Yun Shan, Fang Yu dismissed her concern and told the leaders that their preparations would support a wider conquest of other nations.
• Fang Yu announced that he would refine Dou Emperor-level and possibly Dou Zong-level puppets from the materials they had gathered, and said he would teach them the refining method.