Chapter Summaries

After the Black Storm ended, Li Chenfeng and his companions learned that a member of Soul Hall had appeared to capture a powerful soul, and Medicine Elder warned Li Chenfeng about the dangerous force. The caravan manager Lin Tai then discovered that the dead attackers belonged to the Blood Sect, complicating his plan to recommend Li Chenfeng to the Eight Gates.

• A Soul Hall member captured the soul of the Dou Wang killed by Ice Emperor before retreating from Hai Bodong.
• Blood Dance asked about Soul Hall, and Hai Bodong said its member seemed dangerous and had been wary of his aura.
• Medicine Elder warned Li Chenfeng that Soul Hall's power exceeded that of the Misty Cloud Sect and revealed that his name was Yao Chen.
• Li Chenfeng reassured Medicine Elder of his loyalty, earning Yao Chen's praise and trust.
• After the Black Storm passed, Lin Tai found the three corpses and recognized their clothes as belonging to the Blood Sect, leaving him worried about recommending Li Chenfeng to the Eight Gates.

Li Chenfeng and the caravan reached Black Seal City after crossing the Black Domain Great Plains, while Blood Dance recovered from her injuries and spoke with him about the city’s upcoming auction. Blood Dance hinted that she might need to borrow money from Li Chenfeng for something she planned to buy.

• Lin Tai worried that the Blood Sect’s appearance would reduce the reward he expected from the Eight Gates for escorting Li Chenfeng.
• Blood Dance thanked Li Chenfeng for helping her recover, and he asked her to keep his surname Nalan confidential and call him Master Li.
• The caravan crossed the Black Domain Great Plains and arrived at Black Seal City.
• Blood Dance told Li Chenfeng that the auction convention in three months would require enormous sums of money.
• Li Chenfeng teased Blood Dance about her lack of money, and she said she might borrow some from him for a purchase.

Li Chenfeng arrived in Black Seal City ahead of its annual auction and settled into a luxurious inn while Lin Tai went to report to the Eight Gates. Before setting out to buy medicinal ingredients, Li Chenfeng offered Blood Dance three hundred thousand gold coins for her Blood Python Branch so she could afford something at the auction.

• Lin Tai told Li Chenfeng that Black Seal City's annual auction had once featured a High Earth Tier Cultivation Method, then led the convoy through the city's dedicated entrance.
• Li Chenfeng's group passed a man killed over a dispute in the entry queue, and the crowd ignored the corpse.
• Lin Tai took Li Chenfeng and his companions to a luxurious inn, then left to report to Yuan Yi, the Gate Master of the Eight Gates.
• Li Chenfeng changed out of his conspicuous alchemist's clothes and asked the innkeeper where to find medicinal ingredients, learning about the Thousand Medicine Workshop.
• Blood Dance showed Li Chenfeng a Blood Python Branch and explained that she needed money for something at the auction, so Li Chenfeng offered to buy it for three hundred thousand gold coins.

Li Chenfeng visited Thousand Medicine Workshop in Black Seal City to find medicinal ingredients and sell Fourth-grade pills, but its inflated prices made him realize he needed more money. Medicine Elder then told him that preparing to devour the Fallen Heart Flame required a Sixth-grade Earth Spirit Pill, including a rare Tier 6 Water Attribute Magic Core.

• Li Chenfeng, Blood Dance, and the Ice Emperor entered Thousand Medicine Workshop and found its medicinal ingredients far more expensive than expected.
• Li Chenfeng offered to sell Fourth-grade Medicinal Pills, drawing the attention of customers whose greed Blood Dance frightened away.
• Li Chenfeng located the ingredients for a Fifth-grade Origin Recovery Pill but found they would cost at least two million gold coins.
• Medicine Elder told Li Chenfeng to prepare a Sixth-grade Earth Spirit Pill before attempting to devour Jia Nan Academy's Fallen Heart Flame.
• Medicine Elder listed the Earth Spirit Pill's four ingredients, including a Tier 6 Water Attribute Magic Core, and Li Chenfeng worried about finding them.

Li Chenfeng sold his Medicinal Pills at the Thousand Medicine Workshop and spent heavily on ingredients before returning to the inn to begin refining more pills. As Medicine Elder speculated that the beast materials came from an Ancient Void Dragon, Li Chenfeng realized the guess had badly damaged Zi Yan's reputation.

• Li Chenfeng presented ten Medicinal Pills to the Thousand Medicine Workshop and had a Third-grade Alchemist appraise them.
• Li Chenfeng negotiated higher prices for the pills and agreed to buy at least three million gold coins' worth of ingredients.
• Blood Dance felt poor after seeing Li Chenfeng's spending, and he offered her a salary or an annual chance to have a Fifth-grade Medicinal Pill refined.
• Li Chenfeng returned to the inn, sealed the courtyard, and laid out his purchased ingredients and the beast materials for pill refining.
• Medicine Elder guessed that the beast materials came from an Ancient Void Dragon, and Li Chenfeng thought the theory slandered Zi Yan.

Li Chenfeng met Yuan Yi, the leader of Eight Gates, and used the auction house’s appraisal service to offer an improved Dragon Strength Pill. The appraiser recognized the pill and began testing it, leaving its value and auction prospects unresolved.

• Lin Tai introduced Li Chenfeng to Yuan Yi, and Li Chenfeng claimed Hai Bodong was the Ice Emperor and his teacher’s bodyguard.
• Yuan Yi treated Li Chenfeng warmly, and Li Chenfeng obtained the auction item list from Eight Gates.
• Li Chenfeng offered Blood Dance a chance to buy something at the auction, but she said she had enough gold coins.
• Li Chenfeng entered the Black Seal Auction House’s appraisal room and presented three pills for auction.
• The appraiser recognized a Dragon Strength Pill, and Li Chenfeng said its improved formula made it twenty percent more effective before the appraiser began testing it.

Li Chenfeng auctioned three specially improved Fifth-grade Medicinal Pills and received the Black Seal City Auction House’s highest-tier guest card. At the auction, Fan Ling noticed Li Chenfeng and felt wary of him, while Blood Dance stayed hidden behind Hai Bodong.

• Li Chenfeng put one Dragon Strength Pill, one Dragon Blood Pill, and one Qilin Blood Pill up for auction at starting prices of five million each.
• Old Mo reported the pills to Yuan Yi, who explained that Li Chenfeng was a Fifth-grade Alchemist protected by a powerful Dou Emperor and planned to use their connection to secure pills for Eight Gates.
• Li Chenfeng arrived at the auction with Hai Bodong and Blood Dance and was escorted to the highest-tier guest seats.
• Li Chenfeng recognized the pale young man Fan Ling as likely connected to the Blood Sect and reassured Blood Dance that her aura would remain concealed.
• Fan Ling sensed something strange about Li Chenfeng, and an old man told him that Li Chenfeng might possess an extreme flame and could be worth approaching.

Li Chenfeng intimidated the Blood Sect after Fan Ling questioned his status, and the Black Seal City Auction began. The auctioneer introduced the Demon Night Orchid, leaving Li Chenfeng and the crowd to see what the mysterious flower would attract.

• Fan Ling doubted that Li Chenfeng was a high-grade Alchemist, so Li Chenfeng struck him with Soul Force while Hai Bodong's aura suppressed the Blood Sect.
• The Blood Sect's Great Elder accepted that Fan Ling had only been injured, and both sides withdrew as Yuan Yi watched with relief.
• The white-haired auctioneer opened the Black Seal City Auction and sold the first item, a Wind Flurry Remnant Shadow movement Dou Technique, for six hundred thousand gold coins.
• Li Chenfeng waited through the early auction items until the auctioneer revealed a white flower called the Demon Night Orchid.

Li Chenfeng learned from Medicine Elder that the Demon Night Orchid could be used to refine a deadly, undetectable poison, then suspected Blood Dance had bought it to refine poison with her own body against the Blood Sect. Blood Dance left the auction with the orchid and a determined expression, while Li Chenfeng wondered about her grudge against the sect and began scheming.

• Blood Dance bid on the Demon Night Orchid, and Li Chenfeng questioned why she wanted the supposedly useless flower.
• Medicine Elder told Li Chenfeng that the orchid’s moonlit halo could create an undetectable poison or be used to refine a powerful poison pill.
• Blood Dance spent all her money, four hundred and fifty thousand gold coins, to win the Demon Night Orchid.
• Li Chenfeng noticed Blood Dance’s determination and suspected she intended to use the orchid for Body Poison Refinement against the Blood Sect.
• Li Chenfeng imagined a dramatic family feud behind Blood Dance’s hatred of the Blood Sect and began plotting.

The auction put Li Chenfeng’s Dragon Blood Pill up for sale, provoking fierce bidding from Fan Ling and the Heavenly Yin Sect. Fan Ling made an eight-million-two-hundred-thousand final offer as the contest continued.

• The auctioneer introduced the Dragon Blood Pill as a rare Fifth-grade pill that boosted cultivation, especially for Blood Attribute cultivators, and could help peak Dou Ling break through to Dou Wang.
• Bidders drove the price upward while Li Chenfeng watched with a faint smile, and the Blood Sect’s Great Elder considered asking him to refine more pills for the sect.
• Fan Ling bid eight million, causing most competitors to withdraw, but a middle-aged man from the Heavenly Yin Sect continued bidding against him.
• The Heavenly Yin Sect man raised the price to eight million fifty thousand, and the Great Elder warned Fan Ling that the pill was already too costly.
• Fan Ling announced eight million two hundred thousand as his final offer, determined to obtain the pill despite the expense.

Li Chenfeng profited from the sale of his pills, then spent twelve million gold coins to buy the High Earth Tier Dou Technique, the Glazed Golden Body Art. After meeting Yuan Yi, he arranged to receive interested factions at an inn in three days, explaining his plan to Hai Bodong and Blood Dance as a way to gather momentum.

• Fan Ling bid eight million for Li Chenfeng’s Qilin Blood Pill, and no one dared compete against him.
• The auctioneer unveiled the Glazed Golden Body Art, and bidding climbed to twelve million gold coins.
• Li Chenfeng won the Glazed Golden Body Art and received a Purple Gold Card containing six million gold coins after deductions.
• Yuan Yi told Li Chenfeng that many factions wanted to meet him, and Li Chenfeng invited them to the inn in three days.
• Li Chenfeng told Hai Bodong and Blood Dance that he intended to gather momentum.

Li Chenfeng sought to buy Blood Dance’s Demon Night Orchid and revealed that he knew she intended to use it for Body Poison Refinement. He claimed his teacher came from the Alchemist Tower and offered to refine pills with the orchid, leaving Blood Dance wondering whether her damaged book had omitted that use.

• Li Chenfeng had Hai Bodong guard his inn room while visitors sought an audience with him after the auction.
• Li Chenfeng visited Blood Dance at night, admired the seven-colored Demon Night Orchid, and offered her one million gold coins or a medicinal pill for it.
• Blood Dance refused to sell the flower because it was part of her revenge plan.
• Li Chenfeng deduced that Blood Dance wanted the Demon Night Orchid for Body Poison Refinement.
• Li Chenfeng claimed his teacher was an Alchemist Grandmaster from the Alchemist Tower in Zhongzhou, then said he could refine pills using the orchid.
• Blood Dance questioned whether the Demon Night Orchid could be used to make pills and wondered if her ancient book had been incomplete.

Li Chenfeng persuaded Blood Dance to abandon her plan to poison the Blood Sect with her own blood and offered to help her get revenge on Fan Lao by altering Dragon Blood Pills. Blood Dance agreed to give him the Demon Night Orchid in exchange for becoming his servant, and three days passed as Li Chenfeng waited for his plan to unfold.

• Li Chenfeng explained that Blood Dance's plan to poison the Blood Sect with her blood could cost her life without killing Fan Lao, and offered to help her take revenge.
• Li Chenfeng proposed modifying Dragon Blood Pills into a pill that could increase a Dou Emperor's strength, while Blood Dance doubted he could refine one.
• Blood Dance agreed to give Li Chenfeng the Demon Night Orchid if he helped her, after he asked her to become his servant and promised not to make improper demands.
• Blood Dance resumed teasing Li Chenfeng after their agreement, and the two spent three days flirting while Li Chenfeng waited for his bait to draw someone in.

Li Chenfeng met representatives of four major Black-Corner Region factions, rejected the Blood Sect’s offer to make him Vice Sect Master, and offered medicinal pills in exchange for rare ingredients. The Rakshasa Sect elder proposed trading a Tier 6 Water Attribute Magic Core for a Dou Ling Pill, and Li Chenfeng revealed his azure flame as he considered the deal.

• Li Chenfeng met representatives from the Eight Gates, Blood Sect, Heavenly Yin Sect, and Rakshasa Sect and asked them to state their business.
• The Blood Sect's Great Elder invited Li Chenfeng to join as Vice Sect Master, but Li Chenfeng refused and said he would not leave Zhongzhou for the Black-Corner Region.
• Fan Ling asked whether Li Chenfeng could refine another Dragon Blood Pill, and Li Chenfeng offered pills in exchange for any ingredient on his list.
• The Rakshasa Sect elder offered a Tier 6 Water Attribute Magic Core for a Fifth-grade Dou Ling Pill, but Li Chenfeng said it was not enough.
• Li Chenfeng revealed that he possessed a special flame and summoned a lotus of azure fire, forcing the Blood Sect's Great Elder and Fan Ling to retreat and summon Dou Qi Armor.

Li Chenfeng struck deals with the Rakshasa Sect elder, Fan Ling, and Yuan Yi by offering to refine powerful pills in exchange for valuable materials and techniques. He agreed to visit the Blood Sect to refine a Dragon Blood Pill for Fan Lao, while secretly planning to use Fan Lao’s corpse to create a Dou Emperor clone.

• Li Chenfeng agreed to refine a Dou Ling Pill for the Rakshasa Sect elder in exchange for her Blood Python Branch and Tier 6 Magic Core, and offered to supply the remaining ingredients.
• Fan Ling traded a High Profound Tier Dou Technique and fifth-grade Medicine Cauldron for one Dragon Blood Pill, after Li Chenfeng refused to provide two.
• Li Chenfeng offered to refine a sixth-grade Dragon Blood Pill for the Blood Sect’s Sect Master, and the Blood Sect Great Elder immediately took Fan Ling away to seek approval.
• The Heavenly Yin Sect elder and the Rakshasa Sect elder departed, while Yuan Yi gave Li Chenfeng an Earth Heart Fire Ganoderma and the Vajra Finger technique in exchange for an Emperor’s Pill.
• Hai Bodong questioned Li Chenfeng about visiting the Blood Sect, and Li Chenfeng revealed he planned to poison Fan Lao and use his corpse to attempt to create a powerful clone.

Li Chenfeng recruited the wandering Dou Wang Yi Feng and prepared to prove his ability to refine a Sixth-grade Medicinal Pill. Medicine Elder began refining a Dou Ling Pill with the Black Demon Cauldron while Li Chenfeng watched, leaving Li Chenfeng poised to attempt the next pill.

• Li Chenfeng had Blood Dance screen the wandering cultivators for useful outlaws and personally received Yi Feng, who revealed his family's destruction by Xie Shan and pledged allegiance.
• Li Chenfeng accepted Yi Feng into his service but kept him separate from Blood Dance, then turned his attention to refining pills.
• Medicine Elder instructed Li Chenfeng to study his techniques and offered to let him refine the next Dou Ling Pill after watching the first.
• Medicine Elder summoned the Black Demon Cauldron and ignited it with Forest White Flame.
• Medicine Elder began the refining process by placing the Blood Python Branch into the heated cauldron.

Li Chenfeng attempted to refine a Dou Ling Pill in his ordinary Medicine Cauldron despite its inability to withstand the medicinal energy. The cauldron exploded, but he preserved the nearly finished pill with a flaming lotus and completed the refinement.

• Medicine Elder refined a Dou Ling Pill for the Rakshasa Sect elder while Li Chenfeng observed his precise extraction technique.
• Li Chenfeng realized the medicinal energy could cause an ordinary Medicine Cauldron to explode, but decided to attempt the refinement anyway.
• Li Chenfeng extracted the Blood Python Branch and added the ingredients as energy threads battered his cauldron.
• The cauldron cracked and erupted in flames, so Li Chenfeng formed a flaming lotus to protect the nearly complete pill.
• Li Chenfeng kept the pill intact through the explosion and collected the finished Dou Ling Pill half an hour later.

Li Chenfeng arrived at the Blood Sect’s Twilight City headquarters, collected payment for his pill work, and had Medicine Elder refine a powerful poison pill as part of his plan to control the sect. The chapter ended with the completed pill’s bloody light breaking through the stone chamber.

• Fan Lao welcomed Li Chenfeng, Hai Bodong, and Yi Feng to Twilight City and prepared a spacious alchemy chamber for him.
• Fan Lao gave Li Chenfeng the Green Demon Cauldron and the promised Blood-Devouring Bone-Transforming Hand, and Li Chenfeng handed Fan Ling a fifth-grade Dragon Blood Pill.
• Fan Lao presented the ingredients for a sixth-grade Dragon Blood Pill, including a Life-Soul Ghost-Face Flower, a Tier 6 Magic Core, and a pool of Tier 6 Magical Beast blood.
• Li Chenfeng asked Medicine Elder to make a poison pill capable of killing a Dou Emperor and said he already had a plan to control the Blood Sect.
• Medicine Elder used the Demon Night Orchid’s seven-colored radiance and the Tier 6 beast blood to refine a poison pill whose potency rivaled a seventh-grade pill.

Li Chenfeng secretly entered Fan Lao’s hidden cultivation chamber, breaking through its concealed passage and stone door. He reached a well-stocked storeroom and found a fifth-tier snake Magical Beast guarding it.

• Fan Lao gave Li Chenfeng’s group comfortable lodgings and assigned Hao Han to attend to them while he considered the Dragon Blood Pill.
• Li Chenfeng pretended to enjoy the Blood Sect’s hospitality while using the Myriad Worlds Gate’s World Power to explore the sect and locate Fan Lao’s hidden chamber.
• Li Chenfeng found the concealed entrance in a stone wall and broke through it with his fists, then descended a long staircase with Medicine Elder.
• Li Chenfeng smashed open the chamber’s heavy stone door and repelled a sudden attack from a large snake-shaped Magical Beast.
• Li Chenfeng saw that the room held neatly arranged Scrolls and precious medicinal herbs, and identified the guard as a fifth-tier Magical Beast comparable to an Early-Stage Dou Wang.

Li Chenfeng and Medicine Elder searched the Blood Sect’s storeroom, then found Fan Lao dead in his secluded chamber. When Li Chenfeng tried to split off part of his soul to refine Fan Lao’s corpse into a vessel, the attempt nearly killed him, and Medicine Elder furiously cursed him.

• Li Chenfeng dragged away the guardian snake after it attacked him, while Medicine Elder explained that high-level Magical Beasts were nearly impossible to tame by brute force.
• Medicine Elder found two rare medicinal ingredients and a Low Earth Tier Blood Attribute Dou Technique among the Blood Sect’s collection.
• Li Chenfeng burned a hole through the sealed barrier with his Heavenly Flame and entered Fan Lao’s cultivation chamber, where they found Fan Lao’s corpse.
• Li Chenfeng asked Medicine Elder to use the Bone Chilling Flame to refine Fan Lao’s corpse into a vessel, revealing that he had a different method from the usual soul-and-vessel process.
• Li Chenfeng began separating his own soul without the protection he had relied on before, suffered severe injuries, and nearly died.
• Medicine Elder recovered from his shock and furiously cursed Li Chenfeng for his reckless attempt.