Recaps

Fang Yu strengthened the Jia Ma Empire and prepared it for war against a coalition led by the Chuyun Empire and supported by Soul Hall. His self-destructing puppets routed the coalition’s first attack, but a horde of Magic Beasts blunted their effectiveness as the larger war approached.

• Fang Yu refined Phoenix-tier and Dou King-tier puppets and helped the Alchemist Guild produce hundreds of Dou Spirit Pills, rapidly increasing the Jia Ma Empire’s forces.
• Yun Shan reported that the Scorpion Sect had joined the Chuyun Empire, which had gained Soul Hall’s support and allied with neighboring nations against Jia Ma.
• Fang Yu supplied the Jia Ma Empire with cultivation resources, then sent Yun Shan and other strengthened leaders to face the coalition at the border.
• Fang Yu deployed self-destructing puppets against the invading armies, inflicting devastating losses and forcing the coalition to retreat.
• The coalition sent a powerful horde of Magic Beasts, reducing the puppets’ effectiveness, and Fang Yu warned his allies that the real war had not yet begun.

Fang Yu defeated the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect Grand Elder and a Soul Hall protector, forcing the allied nations to surrender and securing the sect’s territory for Queen Medusa’s people. After arranging for Queen Medusa to govern the region, he prepared to leave for the Black-Corner Region and the academy.

• Fang Yu sent the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect Grand Elder flying with one slap, then destroyed the Soul Hall protector and gathered its remaining soul power.
• Fang Yu gave the hostile nations the choice to surrender or die, and Yun Yun assured them that their sects could keep their status if they surrendered.
• After three days, the allied nations surrendered, and Fang Yu claimed the Ten Thousand Scorpions Sect’s territory as a home for Queen Medusa’s people.
• Fang Yu told Queen Medusa he was leaving and entrusted her with the tribe and the Jia Ma Empire, promising he would return.
• Fang Yu set out for the Black-Corner Region to seek a Heavenly Flame and Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, then planned to visit the academy and teach the little dragon man the Myriad Things Transform into Dragons Art.

Fang Yu and Yun Yun traveled to the Black-Corner Region, gathering herbs and magic cores along the way before joining Xiao Yan at an auction. Fang Yu bought a fragment of the Pure Lotus Demon Flame map and used the attention it drew as bait for the people watching him.

• Fang Yu agreed to take Yun Yun to the Black-Corner Region, provided she followed his orders, and they subdued a Dou King-level flying magical beast for the journey.
• Fang Yu and Yun Yun spent half a year reaching the Black-Corner Region, collecting valuable herbs and magic cores while fending off magical beasts.
• They encountered Xiao Yan after arriving and went with him to an auction, where they shared the highest-grade VIP room.
• Yun Yun bought a young woman at the auction so she would have someone to serve her while she stayed in the region.
• Fang Yu bid one million gold coins for a fragmentary Pure Lotus Demon Flame map, drawing the attention of the Blood Sect's young sect master and other watchers.
• When Yun Yun reported that at least five Dou King experts were watching them, Fang Yu said there were far too few.

Fang Yu and his companions attended an auction, where the Sky Serpent Palace acquired a seventh-tier Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill and the Blood Sect attacked its people. Fang Yu waited for the fight to weaken both sides, then intervened when Elder Qing was near death and struck the Blood Sect's sect master.

• Fang Yu paid for Xiao Yan to buy the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma and discussed taking the Three Thousand Lightning Movement from whoever bought it.
• Fang Yu identified the final auction item as a seventh-tier pill, and the Sky Serpent Palace won the bidding for the Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill.
• Xiao Yan collected their purchases while Fang Yu and Yun Yun secretly followed the pill; the young girl Yun Yun had bought was settled safely at an inn.
• The Blood Sect attacked Elder Qing and the Sky Serpent Palace, and Fang Yu waited until Elder Qing was severely injured.
• Fang Yu stopped Elder Qing from self-destructing, destroyed the Blood Sect attackers surrounding the others, and sent the sect master flying with a slap.

Fang Yu saved Elder Qing from Blood Sect's Fan Lao and learned that she was carrying a rare seventh-tier pill for Qing Lin. He arranged for Elder Qing to remain with him and help manage the medicine workshop he planned to seize, then recruited Xiao Yan to help defeat his senior brother.

• Fang Yu broke Blood Sect's Fan Lao's spine after Fan Lao tried to surrender, then stopped Elder Qing from self-destructing.
• Fang Yu learned Qing Lin was thriving in the Sky Serpent Palace and ordered Elder Qing to stay with him for protection.
• Elder Qing offered Fang Yu the seventh-tier pill intended for Qing Lin, and Fang Yu agreed to deliver it to her when he visited the sect.
• Fang Yu told Elder Qing he planned to take over the Medicine Emperor's workshop and invited her to help manage it.
• Fang Yu asked Xiao Yan to help him deal with his senior brother and offered him the senior brother's Heavenly Flame; Xiao Yan agreed.

Fang Yu brought Xiao Yan and his master to Maple City to confront Han Feng, Xiao Yan’s treacherous senior brother. After Fang Yu killed Han Feng’s guards and stripped him of the Sea Heart Flame, Xiao Yan killed him and Fang Yu took control of the city.

• Fang Yu, Xiao Yan, and Elder Qing arrived in Maple City to confront Han Feng, while Yun Yun and Elder Qing stayed nearby.
• When five Dou Emperor experts and other fighters challenged them, Fang Yu killed the strongest, a seven-star Dou Emperor, with a single strike.
• Han Feng tried to placate Fang Yu, but Fang Yu revealed Xiao Yan’s identity and condemned Han Feng for betraying their master.
• Fang Yu ordered Han Feng’s followers to leave or die, and they fled rather than face him.
• Fang Yu struck Han Feng down, removed his Sea Heart Flame, and gave it to Xiao Yan before telling him to take revenge.
• Xiao Yan killed Han Feng, Fang Yu claimed Maple City, and he called Elder Qing and Yun Yun to manage what came next.

After conquering the city and destroying the Blood Sect, Fang Yu announced that he would refine a tier seven pill in a month and promised to help Yun Yun grow stronger. Xiao Yan received the Sea Heart Flame and advice about returning to the academy, where Fang Yu warned him of a powerful girl in the Inner Academy.

• Fang Yu ordered Elder Qing of the Sky Serpent Palace to announce his upcoming tier seven pill refinement and demand tribute from factions connected to the dead city lord.
• Fang Yu promised Yun Yun tier six pills and help reaching Dou Zong within three years, while joking that she should give him children in return.
• Xiao Yan delivered Fang Yu a ring of valuables from his teacher, including the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and Fang Yu gave Xiao Yan the Sea Heart Flame.
• Fang Yu warned Xiao Yan that refining the Sea Heart Flame would be dangerous and urged him to return to the academy for the Inner Academy selection competition.
• Fang Yu told Xiao Yan that a girl in the Inner Academy could defeat him and was among the most noble people on the Dou Qi Continent.

Fang Yu prepared to refine a seventh-tier pill while the Inner Academy discussed recruiting him to help suppress a dangerous beast. Elder Huo visited Fang Yu, who welcomed him and was asked whether Venerable Yao was his master.

• Fang Yu urged Xiao Yan to enter the Inner Academy, but Xiao Yan chose to stay and watch Fang Yu refine pills and refine his Heavenly Flame.
• Elder Huo learned from the Grand Elder that Fang Yu planned to refine a seventh-tier pill and that the academy wanted Xiao Yan’s help against the beast sealed within the Inner Academy.
• The Grand Elder speculated that Venerable Yao had taught Fang Yu and instructed Elder Huo to probe carefully without provoking him.
• Yun Yun helped gather rare ingredients as medicinal shops and alchemists offered herbs for the chance to observe Fang Yu’s pill refinement.
• Elder Qing welcomed Elder Huo to meet Fang Yu, and Elder Huo praised Fang Yu before asking who his master was.

Fang Yu rejected Elder Huo’s assumption that Venerable Yao had taught him alchemy, while Xiao Yan accepted a position as an Inner Academy elder to pursue the academy’s Heavenly Flame. Fang Yu agreed to watch the coming selection tournament and began refining pills in the city square as Xiao Yan stayed to learn more about the academy.

• Elder Huo suspected Fang Yu was Venerable Yao’s disciple, but Fang Yu denied it, and Xiao Yan and Venerable Yao privately reacted to the misunderstanding.
• Fang Yu redirected Elder Huo’s questions toward Xiao Yan, who chose to become an Inner Academy elder rather than vice principal of the Outer Academy.
• Elder Huo told Xiao Yan that the Inner Academy Selection Tournament would begin in the next few days and that more than ten Xiao Family members were competing; Xiao Yan and Fang Yu said they would attend.
• Fang Yu proposed that academy students join his faction or gain experience with it, and Elder Huo said he would consult the Grand Elder and others before deciding.
• Fang Yu left Xiao Yan to discuss the academy with Elder Huo, then went to the crowded city square and began refining pills before alchemists from across the Black-Corner Region.

Fang Yu overcame the pill lightning around his seventh-tier medicinal pill, refused Demon Flame Valley’s demands, and invited the Black-Corner Region’s experts to commission pills. He agreed to go to the Inner Academy after Xiao Yan refined the Heavenly Flame and revealed a way to resolve the academy’s unstable flame.

• Fang Yu endured the pill lightning and stopped Fang Yan from asking for the pill or requesting one for Earth Demon Old Ghost.
• Fang Yan and his group left in anger, planning to summon Earth Demon Old Ghost to kill Fang Yu and take the pill.
• Fang Yu offered to refine pills for the other experts, collected more than a hundred formulas and numerous requests, and had Yun Yun distribute a list of missing ingredients.
• Fang Yu told the Inner Academy elder that he would go to the academy after Xiao Yan finished refining the Heavenly Flame he had given him.
• Fang Yu said the Inner Academy’s unstable Heavenly Flame could be refined and replaced with a second, younger flame that the academy had not yet discovered.

Fang Yu explained the requirements for refining the Inner Academy's Fallen Heart Flame and agreed to help if its elder gathered the necessary treasures. He supplied Xiao Yan with materials for refining the Sea Heart Flame, then continued refining pills as Xiao Yan prepared to work with Yao Lao.

• Fang Yu warned the Inner Academy elder that refining the Fallen Heart Flame would be dangerous and required Naling, a sixth-tier pill, and Heavenly Cold Qi, and the elder agreed to gather them within a year.
• The Inner Academy elder left, and Fang Yu resumed refining pills for experts who supplied him with ingredients and valuable compensation.
• Xiao Yan came to Fang Yu for materials to refine the Sea Heart Flame, and Fang Yu gave him a prepared ring without requesting payment.
• Fang Yu told Xiao Yan he had offered the Inner Academy elder a chance to refine the Fallen Heart Flame, and Xiao Yan accepted that the flame belonged to the Inner Academy.
• Fang Yu's repeated pill refinements produced frequent energy storms, astonishing the experts and Yao Lao, who then began refining a pill with Xiao Yan to prepare him to refine the Sea Heart Flame.

After completing his promised pills and establishing himself as the Black-Corner Region’s top alchemist, Fang Yu accompanied Xiao Yan to the Inner Academy and entered the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower to experience its flames. He met Han Yue there and gave her a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, leaving the students astonished by his generosity and reputation.

• Fang Yu finished refining the pills he had promised, then asked Yun Yun and Elder Qing to manage Maple City while he and Xiao Yan went to the Inner Academy.
• Fang Yu sent Xiao Yan to meet the Xiao Family members and went alone to the Blazing Sky Qi Refining Tower.
• Fang Yu entered the tower and refined its invisible flames while Elder Liu chased away students who mocked him.
• Han Yue asked Elder Liu about Fang Yu and learned of his reputation as the region’s foremost alchemist and a powerful ally of the Inner Academy.
• Fang Yu recognized Han Yue as a member of the Han Family and gave her a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill despite her initial refusal.

Fang Yu left the tower and explored the Inner Academy trading plaza, where he clashed with Liu Fei over a golden jade slip. After Liu Fei summoned her cousin Liu Qing, the Academy's Grand Elder arrived to stop the confrontation.

• Fang Yu gave Han Yue a peak fourth-tier Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill, then left the tower while Xiao Yan went to cultivate on its lowest level.
• Fang Yu found the trading plaza and tried to buy a golden jade slip, but Liu Fei snatched it and refused to hand it over.
• Fang Yu slapped Liu Fei's would-be defender away, then struck Liu Fei and took back the jade slip; he paid the stall owner with a fourth-tier pill.
• Liu Fei left to fetch her cousin Liu Qing, while Fang Yu continued shopping and waited for them to return.
• Liu Qing arrived and prepared to fight Fang Yu, but the Academy's Grand Elder intervened; Fang Yu only nodded to the elder instead of bowing.

Fang Yu took Liu Fei under his supervision after sparing her at the Grand Elder’s request, then searched the academy for rare materials. Liu Fei received a Dou Spirit Pill and learned she would remain with Fang Yu for roughly half a year to a year, depending on her conduct.

• The Grand Elder asked Fang Yu to spare Liu Fei, and Liu Fei and Liu Qing apologized to him.
• Fang Yu asked Liu Qing to let Liu Fei stay by his side so he could correct her temperament, and Liu Qing agreed.
• The elders revealed that Fang Yu was a young seventh-tier alchemist, leaving Liu Qing shocked and pleased that his cousin had formed a connection with him.
• Fang Yu searched the trading plaza and academy pavilion, obtained a golden jade fragment, and exchanged a Dou Spirit Pill for rare materials.
• Fang Yu gave Liu Fei a Dou Spirit Pill and told her she would follow him for about half a year to a year, with her freedom depending on her performance.

Fang Yu found the infant Fallen Heart Flame and rescued Skyfire Venerable, then arranged to gather the materials needed for his resurrection. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan refined the Sea Heart Flame and began training to stabilize his strength before refining the Fallen Heart Flame.

• Fang Yu searched the magma for two months, found the infant Fallen Heart Flame behind a barrier, and met the soul of Skyfire Venerable beside a skeleton.
• Fang Yu agreed to help Skyfire Venerable revive him, took him away in a ring, and gave the infant Fallen Heart Flame to the Grand Elder in exchange for medicinal ingredients.
• The Grand Elder promised to gather the ingredients within half a month, while Fang Yu told Skyfire Venerable that resurrection would require extensive preparation and time.
• Xiao Yan successfully refined the Sea Heart Flame, but Yao Lao told him to stabilize his realm for up to a year before refining the Fallen Heart Flame.
• Yao Lao ordered Xiao Yan to hunt magical beasts daily to exhaust and rebuild his Dou Qi, and Xiao Yan decided to ask the Grand Elder where to find a Dou Emperor-class beast.

Fang Yu met Zi Yan at the academy, offered her pills, and persuaded her to travel with him in exchange for help finding herbs. After the Grand Elder approved, Fang Yu set out with Zi Yan for the Magical Beast Mountain Range to hunt powerful magical beasts and prepare for Venerable Tian Huo’s resurrection.

• Zi Yan attacked Fang Yu for taking her herbs, but he easily stopped her and distracted her with a bottle of pills.
• Fang Yu refused to reveal Zi Yan’s identity until she reached the Dou Huang realm and offered to help her grow stronger if she stayed with him.
• The Grand Elder appeared and encouraged Zi Yan to leave the academy with Fang Yu, who promised to protect her and share the pills he refined.
• Zi Yan agreed to help Fang Yu find herbs and magical beasts, while Fang Yu asked the Grand Elder about transformation-rank beasts nearby.
• Fang Yu explained that he needed a Dou Zong-level magical beast’s essence soul to prepare for Venerable Tian Huo’s resurrection, then departed with Zi Yan for the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Fang Yu traveled to Black Emperor City to acquire rare medicinal herbs and began negotiating with the proprietor of Thousand Medicine Workshop. After Grand Elder Su Qian encouraged him to use his strength against factions threatening the academy, Fang Yu set out to trade with the Black-Corner Region’s powerful sects.

• Grand Elder Su Qian suggested that Fang Yu seek rare beast essence blood and other materials from powerful Black-Corner Region factions, and Fang Yu agreed to eliminate any that obstructed him.
• Fang Yu arrived in Black Emperor City with Little Dragon Girl, drawing attention as the region’s only seventh-rank alchemist.
• Fang Yu entered Thousand Medicine Workshop to search for herbs and met its proprietor, whom the passage also called Yanran.
• The proprietor led Fang Yu upstairs, where he gave her a list of rare materials and asked her to bring everything the shop had.
• The proprietor returned with more than a dozen boxes of herbs, and Fang Yu opened them to inspect their contents.

Fang Yu met with Sect Master Mo and revealed that he wanted to use the Dou Zong’s body to resurrect a senior. After trapping him in a sealed, poisoned room, Fang Yu gave him a choice between dying by Fang Yu’s hand or killing himself to spare his sect from destruction.

• Fang Yu rewarded the woman with sixth-tier medicinal pills and asked her to bring him the person in charge, promising to make her city lord if their business succeeded.
• The woman agreed to become Fang Yu’s woman, and he explained that he intended to kill Sect Master Mo and use his corpse.
• Sect Master Mo arrived at the pharmacy and asked Fang Yu why he had summoned him.
• Fang Yu said he wanted to borrow Sect Master Mo’s body for a senior’s resurrection, prompting Sect Master Mo to flee.
• Fang Yu revealed that he had sealed the room and poisoned it, then offered Sect Master Mo two choices: die at Fang Yu’s hands or kill himself to spare his sect, with his son crippled.

Mo Ya argued against Sect Master Mo accepting Fang Yu’s terms, but Sect Master Mo insisted that resisting a young seventh-grade alchemist would doom their sect. The chapter ended with Mo Ya fleeing the Black-Corner Region while Sect Master Mo hoped he would survive.

• Mo Ya protested that accepting Fang Yu’s terms would cost him and the sect everything, while Sect Master Mo explained that Fang Yu’s influence could summon powerful allies to destroy them.
• Sect Master Mo ordered Mo Ya to take the sect’s treasures and flee, but Mo Ya proposed uniting the Black-Corner Region’s factions and fighting Fang Yu instead.
• Mo Ya continued urging a desperate attack, and Sect Master Mo slapped and berated him, warning that Fang Yu’s master might be an eighth-grade alchemist.
• Mo Ya finally understood that he had to survive before he could ever seek revenge, and he left to flee the Black-Corner Region.
• Sect Master Mo felt relieved that Mo Ya had escaped, though he privately believed revenge against Fang Yu was nearly impossible.

After the Black Emperor Sect fell, Fang Yu moved to unify the Black-Corner Region as Soul Hall backed Demon Flame Valley against him. Yun Yun agreed to help gather ingredients for a pill that could secure a Dou Zun’s aid, while Skyfire Venerable promised to stand with Fang Yu after he vowed to help him become a Dou Sheng.

• News of the Black Emperor Sect’s destruction spread, and factions in the Black-Corner Region began choosing sides between Fang Yu and Soul Hall-backed Demon Flame Valley.
• Fang Yu took control of factions that defected to him and told Yun Yun he had to seize the chance to unify the region before Soul Hall’s forces grew stronger.
• Yun Yun agreed to stay and asked Fang Yu to bring in a Dou Zun expert; Fang Yu said a seventh-tier pill could persuade one to help.
• Yun Yun took Fang Yu’s list of missing medicinal ingredients and set out to gather them.
• Fang Yu assured Skyfire Venerable that he was prepared to oppose Soul Hall and promised to help him become a Dou Sheng.
• Skyfire Venerable pledged to protect Fang Yu, even if a Soul Hall Venerable came after him.

Fang Yu offered to revive Venerable Yao with a Soul-Returning Pill in exchange for help unifying the Black-Corner Region, and Venerable Yao initially hesitated over the debt and Fang Yu’s possible motives. After Xiao Yan persuaded him to accept, Fang Yu agreed to proceed with the revival and promised not to use tricks.

• Fang Yu offered to refine a Soul-Returning Pill and revive Venerable Yao if he helped unify the Black-Corner Region.
• Venerable Yao declined to answer immediately, explaining to Xiao Yan that he feared owing Fang Yu an enormous debt and suspected Fang Yu needed help against Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan argued that revival would benefit them both, and Venerable Yao agreed despite worrying that Fang Yu might restrain him.
• Xiao Yan told Fang Yu that Venerable Yao had accepted the offer, and Fang Yu agreed to refine the pills and help revive him.
• Xiao Yan asked Fang Yu not to use tricks during the revival, and Fang Yu assured him that he would not.

Fang Yu prepared to refine a tier-seven pill to revive Skyfire Venerable and another old man, while Soul Hall’s experts plotted to seize it. With the academy and Yun Yun gathering the materials and elders ready to defend him, Fang Yu remained confident as the refinement approached.

• Fang Yu assured Skyfire Venerable that refining two tier-seven pills and arranging both revivals would not be difficult for him.
• Fang Yu set the requirements for revival: a tier-seven Soul-Returning Pill, a Dou Zong expert’s body, and a Dou Zong magical beast’s blood essence; the latter two were already prepared.
• Alchemists across the Black-Corner Region sought to observe Fang Yu’s pill refinement, and he limited access to fourth-tier alchemists or exceptionally young third-tier alchemists.
• Yun Yun continued handling Fang Yu’s affairs and cultivating with his pills, though she felt uneasy about following the future he had arranged for her.
• Fang Yu anticipated an attack by Soul Hall experts who intended to seize his pill, and relied on the academy’s elders to hold them off while he revived the two old men.
• Yun Yun and the academy gathered the remaining ingredients, and Fang Yu reassured them that he was ready to handle any attackers.

Fang Yu received an invitation from a Soul Hall elder and rejected the Protector’s threats, insisting that Soul Hall could not destroy the Xiao Family. After learning the meeting place, Fang Yu went to Yun Yun for the final medicinal ingredients and reassured her before deciding to meet the elder.

• A Soul Hall Protector appeared before Fang Yu and said Elder Sun had invited him to meet, while threatening the Xiao Family’s survival.
• Fang Yu refused to go unless Elder Sun came to him, mocked Soul Hall’s leaders, and warned that the Xiao Family had powerful backing.
• The Protector handed Fang Yu a scroll marking a city in the Black-Corner Region and fled after warning him not to miss the meeting.
• Fang Yu decided to find Yun Yun for the remaining medicinal ingredients before meeting the Soul Hall elder.
• Yun Yun urged Fang Yu to flee, but Fang Yu reassured her that he was prepared and advised her to hide somewhere safe.

Fang Yu poisoned a young Soul Clan Dou Venerable, extracted and devoured his Dou Emperor bloodline, and discovered that it granted power through inheritance and luck. He retained only a tiny portion for research, deciding he had no need to depend on bloodlines.

• The black-robed Soul Clan youth confronted Fang Yu and demanded to take him back for examination of his awakened Dou Emperor bloodline.
• Fang Yu taunted the youth until the poison he had prepared immobilized him, then revealed that he was a seventh-grade alchemist.
• Fang Yu extracted nearly all of the youth’s bloodline, reducing his cultivation from Dou Venerable to a barely living cripple.
• Fang Yu swallowed and refined the extracted blood, gaining strength and investigating the bloodline’s properties.
• Fang Yu learned that the bloodline could empower its inheritors but required luck, and he kept only a negligible portion after concluding he could grow stronger without it.

Fang Yu forced a Soul Clan man to submit by offering him the power to devour bloodlines, then returned to Yun Yun and agreed to refine pills for her. The Soul Clan man departed as Fang Yu’s secret slave, while Yun Yun prepared to receive the promised pills.

• Fang Yu threatened the Soul Clan man with death and tempted him with the power to devour bloodlines until the man agreed to become his slave.
• Fang Yu taught the Soul Clan man the bloodline-devouring divine ability and ordered him to secretly strengthen himself by targeting those who opposed him.
• The Soul Clan man vowed not to reveal Fang Yu’s power, regained his vitality, and left to carry out his task.
• Fang Yu returned to Yun Yun, who was shocked and relieved to find him unharmed.
• Yun Yun asked Fang Yu to refine pills from ingredients she had prepared, and he agreed to deliver them by the day after tomorrow.