Recaps

Lin Fan continued cultivating and studying alchemy while the Su Family prepared for Su Qingwei’s pregnancy. He broke through to the late Bright Force Realm and planned to reach the Transforming Force Realm around the time their twins were born.

• Lin Fan studied alchemy and learned to refine most widely available pills of the Three Qi-Force Realms.
• The Su Family celebrated Su Qingwei’s pregnancy and prepared nourishing food and supplies for the babies.
• Lin Fan examined Su Qingwei and confirmed that she was carrying twins, a boy and a girl; he and Su Qingwei chose the names Lin Luo and Lin Li.
• After three months of cultivation, Lin Fan broke through to the late Bright Force Realm.
• Lin Fan tested his new strength with his spear and considered increasing his Cultivation Effect multiplier to reach the Transforming Force Realm before the twins were born.

Worried that his rapid rise to the Transforming Force Realm would draw dangerous attention, Lin Fan developed a makeshift Breath Concealment Technique and asked Su Yuanshan to use his share of faction wealth to acquire more manuals. Su Yuanshan agreed to help collect Breath Concealment and Alchemy books, though he warned that high-grade concealment manuals were difficult to obtain.

• Lin Fan studied and combined the available Breath Concealment Techniques, creating a method that hid his strength from weaker martial artists but could still be detected by stronger experts.
• Lin Fan decided he needed more concealment and Alchemy manuals, then went to speak with Su Yuanshan.
• Lin Fan offered to give the Su Family his share of the remaining faction profits and unsold treasury goods, asking instead for his money to fund book purchases.
• Su Yuanshan warned Lin Fan that top-grade Breath Concealment manuals were mostly controlled by martial arts factions, while Alchemy books were easier to buy.
• Lin Fan said he would gather manuals from many sources and use them to improve his techniques, and Su Yuanshan understood his plan.

Lin Fan collected Breath Concealment Techniques from gangs and martial forces throughout the surrounding region while practicing control over his newly increased Late Bright Force Realm strength. He returned to Su Family Town with hundreds of techniques memorized, still planning to create one that could conceal a Transforming Force Realm cultivator.

• Lin Fan asked Su Yuanshan to send loyal stewards to gather Breath Concealment and alchemy texts for Sunset Glow Courtyard.
• Lin Fan visited Su Qingwei, told her he would be traveling, and set out alone to visit nearby gangs.
• Lin Fan tested and gradually mastered control over his Late Bright Force Realm strength as he traveled.
• Lin Fan visited gangs and martial forces, exchanged gifts and pleasantries, and studied their libraries for Breath Concealment Techniques.
• Lin Fan set a goal of creating a technique that could hide Transforming Force Realm cultivation from Steel Force Realm and Innate Realm experts.
• After more than ten days, Lin Fan returned to Su Family Town with several hundred techniques memorized and books he had transcribed, and Su Qingwei welcomed him.

After returning home, Lin Fan reunited with his pregnant wife, Su Qingwei, and divided his cultivation time between advancing his realm and studying Breath Concealment Techniques. With the Su Family gathering books from the prefectural city, he continued working toward creating a technique that could conceal his strength, and the latest collection might contain a few advanced methods.

• Lin Fan returned and tenderly accompanied Su Qingwei to rest, then prioritized the safety of his wife and unborn children.
• Lin Fan set aside alchemy and split his cultivation time between pursuing the Transforming Force Realm and studying Breath Concealment Techniques, delaying his expected breakthrough to four months.
• At Lin Fan’s request, the Su Family repeatedly sent teams to the prefectural city and collected books and manuscripts, including many Breath Concealment Techniques.
• Lin Fan resolved to combine the principles of the gathered techniques into one suited to hiding his aura, while continuing to visit Su Qingwei as her pregnancy progressed.
• Su Yuanshan delivered the seventh batch of books, and Lin Fan said the many ordinary manuals were sufficient and might include a few advanced techniques.

Lin Fan completed the framework of a powerful new breath concealment technique while nearing the Transforming Force Realm. When Su Qingwei went into labor, she gave birth to twins, and Lin Fan began nourishing the newborns with his Inner Qi to improve their martial potential.

• Lin Fan told Su Yuanshan that he planned to create a top-tier breath concealment technique, and Su Yuanshan continued gathering manuals for him.
• After more than two months of deductions and revisions, Lin Fan completed the framework of the Hidden Dragon Breath Concealment Technique while reaching 28,000 strands of Inner Qi.
• A maid summoned Lin Fan when Su Qingwei developed stomach pains, and he waited anxiously outside her bedroom as the midwives attended her.
• Su Qingwei gave birth to a boy and a girl, and Lin Fan comforted her and welcomed their newborn children.
• Lin Fan sent the maids and midwives outside, then used gentle Inner Qi to nourish the twins and strengthen their future martial potential.

Lin Fan completed the Hidden Dragon Breath Concealment Technique, allowing him to hide his true cultivation and present himself as an early bright force expert. As he neared a breakthrough to the transforming force realm, he decided to leave home and enter seclusion in the mountains so the disturbance would not endanger his family.

• Lin Fan spent time with Su Qingwei and their newborn twins while continuing to refine his cultivation method.
• More than a month later, Lin Fan completed the Hidden Dragon Breath Concealment Technique and tested how precisely it could conceal or reveal his aura.
• Lin Fan advanced the technique over the next ten-odd days and drew close to the transforming force realm, but realized his breakthrough could attract unwanted attention at home.
• Lin Fan told Su Qingwei he would seek a remote mountain location to break through and gave her a jade pendant to summon him if trouble arose.

Lin Fan left Su Qingwei and their children to seek a secluded place in the mountains, where he broke through from the Peak Bright Force Realm to the Transforming Force Realm. After consolidating his new cultivation, he concealed his aura as Early Bright Force Realm and prepared to return home.

• Lin Fan gave Su Qingwei a jade pendant linked to its twin, said goodbye to her and their children, and traveled toward a remote forest.
• Lin Fan found a hidden cave between two peaks and began cultivating with 15,000-fold Cultivation Acceleration.
• Lin Fan pushed his Inner Qi against the barrier to the Transforming Force Realm, and the breakthrough shook and wrecked the cave.
• Lin Fan shattered the barrier, transformed his Manifest Force into Transforming Force, and gained greater control over his Inner Qi and thirty years of lifespan.
• Lin Fan spent more than a day consolidating his cultivation, concealed his aura as Early Bright Force Realm with the [Hidden Dragon Breath Concealment Technique], and left the cave.

After returning from secluded cultivation, Lin Fan reunited with Su Qingwei and their children, then planned how to continue advancing despite his poor aptitude and dwindling funds. He prepared concealment techniques for Su Qingwei and Su Yuanshan before resuming cultivation and practicing alchemy.

• Lin Fan returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard and reassured Su Qingwei that his mountain cultivation had gone smoothly.
• Lin Fan calculated that his savings would soon run out and planned to reach the Mid Transforming Force Realm using 20,000-fold Cultivation Acceleration.
• Lin Fan created a concealment technique for Su Yuanshan and a customized one for Su Qingwei, then gave them their manuals.
• Lin Fan told Su Yuanshan that he planned to leave for the prefectural city soon and left the decision to reveal his Bright Force Realm cultivation to him.
• Lin Fan resumed cultivating on the Stone Platform and spent about an hour each day practicing alchemy.

Lin Fan prepared to leave for Commandery City after stockpiling pills, while the Li Family secretly expanded its power by orchestrating the destruction of other martial factions. Li Dayu then set the Black Water Gang in motion to provoke a staged conflict with the White Water Gang.

• Lin Fan stored batches of high-grade pills and planned to sell them in Commandery City after helping Su Yuanshan reach the Bright Force Realm.
• Lin Fan resolved to prepare for the journey while cultivating and refining pills at home.
• The Li Family, led by Li Dayu, secretly used outside factions to destroy more than a dozen martial groups and seize their wealth.
• Li Dayu chose the White Water Gang as the next target and instructed the Black Water Gang to start a staged dockside quarrel.
• Li Dayu ordered the Black Water Gang to murder the families of the disciples involved, spread the story, and escalate the feud through staged clashes and casualties.

Li Dayu arranged for the Black Water Gang to provoke a bloody feud with the White Water Gang, with the Li Family secretly claiming the White Water Gang's treasury in exchange for helping destroy its leaders. After weeks of escalating clashes, the Black Water Gang launched its assault on the White Water Gang headquarters as Li Dayu and two other Late Bone Tempering Realm experts waited in the shadows.

• Li Dayu ordered the Black Water Gang to sacrifice men to make the feud seem genuine and outlined a secret assault backed by three Li Family experts.
• Li Dayu claimed the White Water Gang's treasury for the Li Family while granting the Black Water Gang its businesses, and the gang leaders accepted.
• The Black Water Gang provoked fights at the docks, then black-clad martial artists slaughtered the families of White Water Gang disciples involved in the brawl.
• The White Water Gang retaliated, and the two gangs fought repeatedly as rumors convinced the martial world their feud was genuine.
• After nearly a month, the Black Water Gang attacked the White Water Gang headquarters, while Li Dayu and two other Li Family experts waited nearby to intervene.

The Li Family helped the Black Water Gang destroy the White Water Gang, then secretly took the spoils and concealed the family’s role. Days later, Li Bao drunkenly revealed the Li Family’s wealth to covert agents, putting the treasury’s secrecy at risk.

• The Black Water Gang attacked the White Water Gang, while three concealed Late Bone Tempering Realm Li Family experts ambushed and killed the White Water Gang’s leaders.
• The Black Water Gang finished off the White Water Gang and presented the massacre as a bloody feud, while the Li Family secretly received the spoils.
• The Li Family’s treasury filled with treasures from the White Water Gang and other factions, and several family members learned how wealthy it had become.
• Li Bao drank at a market-town restaurant and boasted that the Li Family’s treasury held piles of pills, rare martial arts manuals, gold, silver, and jade.
• Two covert agents of the commandery government office overheard Li Bao’s drunken disclosure and silently recorded his words.

After Li Bao’s drunken remarks implicated the Li Family of Black Mountain in the destruction of martial factions, the Prefect’s Office investigated and ordered Lin Fan to lead a suppression campaign. Lin Fan accepted the assignment for its promised share of the family’s seized wealth and left to carry it out.

• Two spies reported Li Bao’s drunken remarks to the Prefect’s Office, which launched an investigation into the Li Family.
• The officials compared case files, gathered covert testimony, and traced missing martial resources to the Li Family of Black Mountain.
• The Prefect’s Office issued an order for Lin Fan to cooperate with Black Mountain Town authorities, execute the principal offenders, and take one-tenth of the seized valuables as his reward.
• Lin Fan received the order at Sunset Glow Courtyard and accepted the assignment.
• Lin Fan told Su Qingwei he was leaving, then departed the Su Family Estate for Black Mountain Town.

Lin Fan led government forces to the Li Family estate, exposed the family’s crimes, killed its three strongest martial artists, and seized its members and vast treasury. After claiming his share of the loot, he headed to the Li Family’s Scripture Repository.

• Lin Fan presented the Commandery City dispatch and led local and Commandery City officials to surround the Li Family estate.
• Lin Fan accused the Li Family of orchestrating the slaughter of thirteen Western Border martial factions, and Li Dayu’s reaction confirmed their guilt.
• Li Dayu attacked Lin Fan and was killed instantly, then Lin Fan killed Li Shan and Li Chuan as they tried to flee.
• Government guards arrested the remaining Li Family members, with principal offenders sentenced to death and others taken into custody for punishment.
• Lin Fan inspected the family’s treasury, estimated its contents at eighty million taels, and ordered his tenth-share reward converted into silver.
• Lin Fan left the treasury and headed to the Li Family’s Scripture Repository.

Lin Fan collected his eight-million-tael reward for the Li Family campaign, replenished his cultivation funds, and spent two months cultivating and refining pills. The chapter ended with Su Yuanshan reporting that he had mastered the Manifest Force Breath Concealment Technique.

• Lin Fan studied the Scripture Repository’s alchemy and breath-concealment manuals, then collected more than eight million taels as his reward.
• Lin Fan carried the treasure chests back to the Su Family’s Sunset Glow Courtyard and told Su Qingwei the campaign had gone smoothly.
• Lin Fan deposited the reward into the system, raising his balance to 26.21 million taels, and planned to move the family to the prefectural city after reaching mid-stage Transforming Force Realm.
• Lin Fan cultivated daily and refined thousands of pills over the next two months, building up reserves worth five or six million taels.
• Su Yuanshan visited Lin Fan and announced that he had mastered the Manifest Force Breath Concealment Technique.

Lin Fan helped Su Yuanshan break through to the Bright Force Realm, then spent half a year cultivating until he reached the limit of the early Transforming Force Stage. He decided to leave the Su Family estate and attempt his next breakthrough in a secluded mountain cave, promising Su Qingwei he would return in two or three days.

• Lin Fan transferred thirty streams of inner qi to Su Yuanshan each day, helping him shatter his Bone Tempering Realm bottleneck and enter the early Bright Force Realm.
• Su Yuanshan concealed his new cultivation and thanked Lin Fan, who told him he would leave for Commandery City in a few months.
• Lin Fan cultivated in seclusion for half a year and brought his inner qi close to 1.5 million streams, reaching the limit of the early Transforming Force Stage.
• Lin Fan chose to attempt his next breakthrough in a secluded ancient cave deep in the mountains to avoid exposing his strength at the Su Family estate.
• Lin Fan told Su Qingwei he would be gone for two or three days, and she agreed to care for their twins while he cultivated.

Lin Fan went to an ancient cave to break through to the Mid Transforming Force Stage, but the power of his breakthrough collapsed the mountain and buried him beneath it. He endured the crushing weight, forced a passage through the rock, and escaped.

• Lin Fan traveled to the ancient cave in the forest and prepared to break through using his accumulated Inner Qi and twenty-thousandfold cultivation acceleration.
• Lin Fan shattered the barrier to the Mid Transforming Force Stage and underwent a complete bodily transformation.
• The force of Lin Fan's breakthrough caused the cave and the mountain above it to collapse, burying him beneath the peak.
• Lin Fan remained unharmed under the mountain's crushing weight and calmly assessed his situation.
• Lin Fan released his Inner Qi to break through the packed rock and soil, then burst out through a small opening.

After reaching the Mid Transforming Force Stage, Lin Fan returned safely to his family and prepared to leave Green Mountain Town for Commandery City. The chapter ended with his family’s convoy setting out on a three-day journey.

• Lin Fan concealed his cultivation after his breakthrough and hurried back to the Su Family’s Sunset Glow Courtyard.
• Lin Fan reassured Su Qingwei that his breakthrough had succeeded and kept the mountain collapse and its disturbance from her.
• Lin Fan explained to Lin Ruoruo that the family was moving to Commandery City rather than Capital City because their enemies remained there.
• Lin Fan, Su Qingwei, and the household packed their books, wealth, pills, and family belongings into more than twenty carriages.
• Lin Fan helped Su Qingwei and their twins into a carriage, then led the convoy out of Green Mountain Town toward Commandery City.

Lin Fan escorted Su Qingwei, Lin Ruoruo, and their family toward the prefectural city, stopping the convoy when he discovered bandits hiding in a forest. After three days of travel, they reached the city gates.

• Lin Fan arranged for the convoy to spend its first night at a crowded roadside post station.
• A bandit leader spotted the convoy, but recognized Lin Fan’s Bright Force Realm aura and held his men back.
• Lin Fan sensed the bandits, stopped the convoy, and went alone into the forest to deal with them.
• The convoy continued its journey, with Lin Fan, Su Qingwei, Lin Ruoruo, and the children sharing warm moments along the way.
• After three days, the convoy arrived at the gates of the prefectural city.

Lin Fan settled his family into a rented courtyard in the commandery city, sent the Su Family guards back to Green Mountain Town, and set out to sell his pills. He headed for Ten Thousand Treasures Hall, the city’s largest pill merchant, to exchange his stock for silver and cultivation resources.

• Lin Fan used his Imperial Court waist token to bring his convoy into the commandery city and rented a quiet three-section courtyard in the southern residential district.
• Su Qingwei, Lin Ruoruo, and the household staff unpacked and arranged the new residence, while Lin Fan noted that his cultivation-acceleration balance had fallen to just over six million taels.
• Lin Fan ordered the Su Family guards to return to Green Mountain Town, leaving only his family and personal maidservants in the courtyard.
• Lin Fan told Su Qingwei he would sell pills to obtain silver and resources, then left the estate after reminding Lin Ruoruo to stay home.
• After learning that Ten Thousand Treasures Hall and Azure Elixir Hall dominated the city’s pill trade, Lin Fan chose to visit Ten Thousand Treasures Hall first.

Lin Fan went to Ten Thousand Treasures Hall to sell his pills, but purchasing Steward Granny Qian tried to exploit his youth by offering far below their value. After she made a similarly low offer for his Harmonizing Force Pill, Lin Fan recognized how greedily she was treating him.

• Lin Fan concealed his Mid Transforming Force Stage strength and entered Ten Thousand Treasures Hall to sell his pills.
• Granny Qian dismissed Lin Fan and mocked his claim that he had many excellent pills to sell.
• Lin Fan placed a Perfect Body Tempering Pill on the counter, and Granny Qian recognized its quality but offered only 120 taels for each one.
• Lin Fan showed Granny Qian a Harmonizing Force Pill, and she offered 9,500 taels despite claiming the type normally sold for 11,000 taels.
• Lin Fan realized Granny Qian was trying to cheat him because she assumed he was a novice.

After rejecting Mother Qian’s low offer at the Myriad Treasures Hall, Lin Fan took his flawless pills to the Green Alchemical Hall, where its Steward offered fair premium prices. The chapter ended with Lin Fan and two guards loading his vast stock of pills into four freight carriages for transport to the hall.

• Lin Fan withdrew his pills and left the Myriad Treasures Hall after Mother Qian tried to buy them at a low price.
• Lin Fan went to the Green Alchemical Hall and showed its Steward samples of his flawless High-Grade Pills.
• The Steward inspected the pills, praised their quality, and offered fair premium market prices for the entire batch.
• Lin Fan agreed to the sale and hired four freight carriages, accompanied by two Green Alchemical Hall guards.
• Lin Fan led the carriages to his residence and joined the guards in loading the pill chests into them.

Lin Fan sold a huge batch of pills to Azure Elixir Hall for 11.2 million silver taels and secured a fair business connection. He then headed to the West City Medicinal Market to buy herbs for future pill refining.

• Lin Fan brought four carts of pills to Azure Elixir Hall, where the Steward and clerks unloaded and inspected the shipment.
• The Steward verified that all the pills were high-grade and paid Lin Fan 11.2 million silver taels in banknotes.
• Lin Fan signed the transaction contract, kept a copy, and left Azure Elixir Hall with his payment.
• Lin Fan decided to purchase medicinal herbs and learned that bulk herb trading took place at the West City Medicinal Market.
• Lin Fan arrived at the bustling West City Medicinal Market and walked among its herb merchants, carts, and warehouses.

Lin Fan visited Ten Thousand Prosperity Medicine Depot to arrange a bulk purchase of high-grade pill ingredients. Manager Zhou found most of the requested materials in stock and presented samples for Lin Fan to inspect, while three rare herbs remained short.

• Lin Fan decided to spend his Silver Taels on large quantities of high-grade medicinal ingredients for refining pills.
• Lin Fan entered Ten Thousand Prosperity Medicine Depot and asked for its head Steward to handle his bulk order.
• Lin Fan listed nearly a hundred ingredients and told Manager Zhou he would buy the shipment if the prices were fair.
• Manager Zhou checked the warehouses and reported that over ninety percent of the requested ingredients were available, with three rare herbs needing urgent procurement.
• Lin Fan examined the medicinal samples with his spiritual sense.

Lin Fan inspected and purchased a shipment of high-grade medicinal materials from the Ten Thousand Prosperity Medicine Depot, then signed a long-term supply contract. He headed back to his residence in the south of the city, ready to focus on cultivation and refining pills.

• Lin Fan inspected the herbs and materials and approved their quality for a purchase totaling 987,200 taels of silver.
• Lin Fan paid half the cost up front and arranged for the Ten Thousand Prosperity Medicine Depot to deliver the goods to his residence.
• Lin Fan and Steward Zhou signed a contract for the depot to deliver the same shipment every half month, with compensation for damaged or missing goods.
• Steward Zhou ordered the depot staff to prepare and dispatch the shipment with extra wagons and guards.
• Lin Fan left the medicinal market and returned toward his residence, carrying the contract and planning to cultivate and refine High-Grade Pills.

Lin Fan planned to earn silver by refining pills while using accelerated cultivation to keep advancing, and he returned home to reunite with Su Qingwei, Lin Ruoruo, and his children. He activated thirty-thousandfold Cultivation Acceleration, believing he could reach the Late Transforming Force Realm within six months.

• Lin Fan calculated that he could refine sixty High-Grade Pills daily, though such a large supply of top-quality pills could threaten other merchants and eventually provoke the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce.
• Lin Fan returned to his residence, reassured Su Qingwei that his day had gone smoothly, and promised Lin Ruoruo he would take her out once he had more time.
• Mao Mao appeared beside the family, and Lin Fan reflected that the Golden Rat had reached the Muscle Refinement Realm after eating pills and receiving Inner Qi.
• Lin Fan decided he needed accelerated cultivation to balance his Alchemy work and calculated that thirty-thousandfold acceleration could let him reach the Late Transforming Force Realm within six months.
• Lin Fan spent three hundred thousand taels of silver to activate thirty-thousandfold Cultivation Acceleration.