Recaps

Xiao Yan refined a seventh-rank pill at the Misty Cloud Sect, drawing pill lightning that he used to temper his body. After the tribulation, Jia Xingtian met him and hoped to secure his help refining a Sect Breaking Pill.

• Dark clouds and a lightning tribulation formed over the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Shan sent Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to keep the disciples away from Xiao Yan's palace.
• Yun Shan revealed to Jia Xingtian that Mr. Xiao was Xiao Yan, Nalan Yanran's former fiancé and the leader of the Flame Alliance in the Black-Corner Region.
• Xiao Yan flew into the pill lightning and used the Ancient Saint Body Tempering Art to temper his body until the storm dispersed.
• Xiao Yan apologized to Yun Shan for the disturbance, then greeted Jia Xingtian, who hoped their cordial meeting might lead to a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Yun Shan led Xiao Yan and Jia Xingtian into the Misty Cloud Sect Main Hall, where Yao Ye watched Xiao Yan with curiosity.

Xiao Yan accepted Jia Xingtian’s request for Sect Breaking Pills and quickly refined three of them, then chose treasures from the Imperial Family Treasury. He left the Imperial City to search the Alchemist Association’s Black Market for the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations.

• Yun Shan treated Xiao Yan to Millennium Earth Core Brew, and Xiao Yan accepted one jar after Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran urged him to take more.
• Jia Xingtian asked Xiao Yan to refine a Sect Breaking Pill and offered three sets of ingredients and a choice of treasures; Xiao Yan agreed.
• Jia Xingtian repeatedly promoted his great-granddaughters Yao Ye and Yao Yue to Xiao Yan, while Nalan Yanran resented his matchmaking and Yao Ye blushed when Xiao Yan met her gaze.
• The next day, Xiao Yan refined three Sect Breaking Pills before Jia Xingtian could leave the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Xiao Yan chose a Seventh-tier Magic Core, two sixth-tier magic cores, and rare medicinal herbs from the Imperial Family Treasury, then declined Jia Xingtian’s invitation to stay and headed to the Black Market to search for the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations.

Xiao Yan searched the Alchemist Guild’s trading area for the incomplete Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and found it disguised as a broken jade fragment. After securing it, he spotted Yan Li, the Chu Yun Empire alchemist who had come to compete and undermine the Jia Ma Empire’s guild.

• Xiao Yan searched the trading stalls, bought several magic cores, and passed Xue Mei and Lin Fei without recognizing them.
• Xiao Yan found a broken black jade fragment carrying faint spiritual fluctuations and traded medicinal herbs and a Second-Grade Energy-Gathering Pill for it.
• Xiao Yan recognized the gray-robed Yan Li as the Chu Yun Empire Guild vice president who planned to enter the Alchemist Competition and damage the Jia Ma Empire’s reputation.
• Xiao Yan recalled that Yan Li had nearly won the competition in the original story before Xiao Yan defeated him with a Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.

Xiao Yan exposed Yan Li as a spy from the Chu Yun Empire and delivered him to the Jia Ma Empire's Alchemist Guild. Fa Ma recognized Xiao Yan as the Seventh-Rank Alchemist behind the spiritual pressure and invited him to support the guild.

• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that Yan Li's disguise concealed his age and identity, and Xiao Yan deduced that Yan Li was likely targeting the Alchemist Grand Competition for the Chu Yun Empire.
• Xiao Yan seized Yan Li with a blood-colored hand, announced that he was a Chu Yun Empire spy, and carried him away as the crowd watched.
• Fa Ma and other Alchemist Guild leaders felt Xiao Yan's spiritual pressure and linked it to the suspected Seventh-Rank Alchemist whose pill refining had caused a lightning tribulation.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the guild and dropped Yan Li at Fa Ma's feet, explaining that Yan Li was a high-ranking Alchemist from the Chu Yun Empire.
• Fa Ma thanked Xiao Yan for removing a hidden threat and invited him to lend his support to the Alchemist Guild.

Xiao Yan guided Fa Ma in alchemy, earning his gratitude after Fa Ma realized Yao Lao had once taught him. Later, Xiao Yan revealed the first transformation of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations from a jade fragment and began cultivating it, hoping his strong bloodline would bring an unexpected benefit.

• At Yao Lao's request, Xiao Yan gave Fa Ma pointers that helped him see a path toward becoming a sixth-grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan told Fa Ma that Yao Lao had once instructed him, and Fa Ma bowed in gratitude to his benefactor's disciple.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed Fa Ma's achievements in the luxurious quarters provided by the Alchemist Guild.
• Xiao Yan burned the broken jade fragment with the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame, revealing the first transformation of the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations.
• Yao Lao explained that the secret art increased strength through flames, and Xiao Yan began cultivating it, expecting his bloodline might react differently.

Xiao Yan mastered the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and discovered that it resonated with his Xiao Clan bloodline, briefly forming the Xiao Clan Mark. After the Alchemist Guild rewarded him with magic cores and rare materials, he shared his insights into the Pill Dao with its high-ranking alchemists.

• Xiao Yan mastered the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and sensed its connection to his Dou Di bloodline.
• At Yao Lao's suggestion, Xiao Yan used the first transformation and briefly formed the Xiao Clan Mark.
• Fa Ma and Chemir sensed Xiao Yan's powerful aura and decided to visit him and repay his help to the Alchemist Guild.
• Fa Ma gifted Xiao Yan two Seventh-tier Magic Cores, three sixth-tier magic cores, and rare materials from the Guild's treasury.
• Xiao Yan gathered the Guild's high-ranking alchemists and spent three days teaching them his insights into the Pill Dao.

Xiao Yan accepted tuition from the Alchemists who had listened to his Pill Dao lectures, then visited the Nalan Family. Nalan Jie recounted how the Xiao Clan had migrated to the Jia Ma Empire and gradually declined, leaving the clan vulnerable and forcing it to retreat to Wutan City.

• Xiao Yan finished three days of Pill Dao lectures, prompting Fa Ma to enter seclusion and the attending Alchemists to send him tuition through Chemir.
• Xiao Yan accepted the tuition fees Chemir brought him.
• Nalan Jie welcomed Xiao Yan to the Nalan Family, where Xiao Yan reunited with Nalan Yanran and Nalan Su.
• Nalan Jie explained that the Xiao Clan had migrated to the Jia Ma Empire after its Dou Emperor suffered lingering injuries and later died.
• Nalan Jie told Xiao Yan that Xiao Lin and Nalan Jie had become friends during a war with the Chu Yun Empire, leading Xiao Lin to arrange Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran's childhood betrothal.
• Nalan Jie explained that the Xiao Clan's decline had left it exposed to powerful factions, so it had retreated from the Imperial Capital to Wutan City.

Xiao Yan visited the Nalan and Mittel families, received a Black Jade tied to his Xiao Clan ancestry, and unlocked the legacy sealed inside it. The jade revealed the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger, opening a new path for Xiao Yan to recover the Xiao Clan’s inheritance.

• Nalan Yanran gave Xiao Yan treasures from the Nalan Family treasury, and Nalan Jie handed him a Black Jade that Xiao Lin had sent as a betrothal gift.
• Xiao Yan visited the Mittel Family, where Mittel Tengshan told him that Ya Fei managed the Imperial Capital auction house.
• Xiao Yan asked the Mittel Family elders to look after Ya Fei, unsettling Elder Leo’s faction because they had mistreated her.
• Xiao Yan sensed the Black Jade respond to his Xiao Clan bloodline and used the Beast King Transformation to activate his clan mark.
• Xiao Yan refined the Black Jade and learned that it contained the legacy called the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger.

Xiao Yan inherited the high heaven tier Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger from Xiao Xuan, then left the Imperial Capital for Wutan City after preparing pills and a Storage Ring for Ya Fei. He returned to the Xiao Clan estate, now greatly transformed and prosperous.

• Xiao Xuan appeared in Xiao Yan's consciousness, passed down the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger, and urged him to carry on the Xiao Clan's hopes.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao about Xiao Xuan's message and learned that the inherited Dou Technique was high heaven tier.
• Xiao Yan shared Millennium Earth Core Brew with Ya Fei, then refined pills to improve her aptitude and left them with a Storage Ring before departing.
• Ya Fei woke after Xiao Yan had left, found the untouched Storage Ring and its labeled pills, and smiled at his thoughtfulness.
• Xiao Yan reached Wutan City and returned to the transformed Xiao Clan estate, where the guards recognized him as the young clan leader.

Xiao Yan returned to the Xiao Clan and revealed that he could kill ordinary Dou Zong experts, reassuring his father and clan while discussing his Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran. As the agreement’s day arrived, the Nalan family and powerful spectators traveled to Wutan City for the duel.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan elders about his adventures and said he could kill ordinary Dou Zong experts, shocking them and easing his father's worries.
• Xiao Yan reminded the clan that he had returned to fulfill his Three-Year Agreement with Nalan Yanran, and revealed that she had reached Three-Star Dou Wang.
• Xiao Zhan asked Xiao Yan to preserve Nalan Yanran's dignity, and Xiao Yan explained that her strength made defeat honorable.
• Xiao Yan cultivated the Heavenly Flame Ancient Finger while turning away most visitors seeking to meet him.
• On the day of the agreement, Nalan Yanran traveled to Wutan City with Nalan Su and Nalan Jie, while Yun Shan, Yun Yun, and Jia Xingtian also headed there to watch.

Nalan Yanran returned to honor her agreement with Xiao Yan and challenged him to a spar, but her attacks could not harm him. The chapter ended as she unleashed her strongest strike, splitting the clouds, while Xiao Yan still held back.

• Xiao Yan sensed Nalan Yanran's arrival and flew out to meet her as she entered the Xiao Clan at Dou Wang strength.
• Nalan Yanran asked Xiao Yan not to hold back and began their spar with sword attacks that only sparked against him.
• Nalan Yanran summoned twelve sword phantoms with Wind Spirit Splitting Sword, but Xiao Yan broke them apart with two fingers.
• Nalan Yanran gathered the energy of heaven and earth and prepared her Earth-tier technique, Extreme Wind: Setting Sun Radiance.
• Yun Yun and Jia Xingtian watched from afar as Yun Shan remarked that Xiao Yan was deliberately giving Nalan Yanran leeway.
• Nalan Yanran declared her final strike and sent sword qi toward Xiao Yan, splitting the clouds above them.

Xiao Yan defeated Nalan Yanran with a casual finger thrust, then joined the others at a banquet where Jia Xingtian revealed that Mulan Valley might still hide a trove of Magical Beast blood essence and magic cores. Xiao Yan grew interested in searching the Mulan Ruins for clues.

• Xiao Yan destroyed Nalan Yanran's sword attack with one finger, and she admitted defeat.
• Xiao Yan praised Nalan Yanran's strength as the Xiao Clan and Nalan family watched, while Yun Yun comforted her.
• Xiao Yan congratulated Jia Xingtian on breaking through to Dou Zong and invited him and the others to the Xiao Clan residence.
• At the banquet, Jia Xingtian told Xiao Yan that Mulan Valley's hidden stores of blood essence and magic cores had never been found after the valley was destroyed.
• Xiao Yan suspected Jia Xingtian might be steering him toward an attack on Mulan Valley, but Jia Xingtian explained that his ancestor had found no such stores in the ruins.
• Xiao Yan became interested when Jia Xingtian suggested that he might uncover clues to the hidden hoard.

Xiao Yan led Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran into the Mulan Empire, killing a border commander who tried to stop them. At Mulan Valley, Xiao Yan searched for a hidden spatial realm while Yao Lao’s spiritual scan alerted the valley master, Mu Baisha.

• Xiao Yan and his companions crossed into the Mulan Empire, where a border commander challenged Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan.
• The commander swallowed a pill to strengthen himself, but Xiao Yan killed him with a single strike.
• Xiao Yan’s group reached Mulan Valley two days later, and Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan warned of its history and formidable defenders.
• Xiao Yan searched for the spatial realm he suspected held Mulan Valley’s treasures, while Yao Lao spread his spiritual power across the valley.
• Mu Baisha sensed Yao Lao’s spiritual scan and wondered whether the intruder was a master alchemist.

Xiao Yan learned from Yao Lao that a decaying Spatial Secret Realm was hidden in Mulan Valley and planned to expose it with a Dou Zun-level attack. Before he could act, Mulan Valley’s master Mu Baisha appeared, and the two sides prepared to fight.

• Yao Lao detected a concealed Spatial Secret Realm in Mulan Valley and explained that powerful external force could reveal it.
• Xiao Yan considered using his Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to expose the hidden space.
• Mu Baisha appeared and recognized Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan, but underestimated Xiao Yan and believed he held the advantage.
• Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan asked Xiao Yan to let them fight Mu Baisha, and Xiao Yan agreed.
• Mulan Valley’s disciples and the Mulan Three Elders rushed into the sky as Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan released their Dou Zong pressure.
• Mu Baisha ordered the Mulan Three Elders to capture Xiao Yan, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran while he dealt with Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan.

Xiao Yan faced Mulan Valley's elders while Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, and Mu Baisha fought elsewhere. He killed the attackers who charged him, leaving Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to fight their own opponents.

• Zhou Xinghu rushed Xiao Yan, who instantly killed him and challenged Mulan Valley to attack together.
• The Mulan Three Elders activated the Three-Beast Desolate Art, transforming their heads into beasts and raising their strength to that of Three-Star Dou Zong experts.
• Xiao Yan shattered the lion-headed elder's energy shield with one punch and injured all three elders through their linked formation.
• The other Mulan Valley elders tried to flee, but Xiao Yan's Beast King Lotus Heart Flame pierced their hearts and killed them all.

Xiao Yan annihilated the Mulan Three Elders and turned his attention to helping Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan against Mu Baisha. He revealed that he could split the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame into four Heavenly Flames and fuse them together, leaving the other fighters stunned.

• Mu Baisha was distracted by Xiao Yan’s display of strength, allowing Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan to launch their ultimate techniques against him.
• Xiao Yan shattered the Mulan Three Elders’ barrier, killed the lion-headed elder with Eight Extremes Collapse, then destroyed the tiger-headed and bear-headed elders with two palms.
• Xiao Yan saw Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan struggling against Mu Baisha, and Jia Xingtian asked him for help.
• Xiao Yan split the Beast King Lotus Heart Flame into four different Heavenly Flames, then fused them together as the others watched in shock.

Xiao Yan killed Mu Baisha with a Four-Colored Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus, and the explosion opened a massive spatial rift. As Nalan Yanran broke through to Four-Star Dou Wang, Xiao Yan focused on the newly emerged rift.

• Xiao Yan formed a Four-Colored Fire Lotus as Mu Baisha used a secret technique to raise his strength to Seven-Star Dou Zong and knock Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan away.
• Xiao Yan hurled the Fire Lotus at Mu Baisha, whose attempt to escape failed when the lotus froze the surrounding space and exploded.
• Xiao Yan stopped the blast’s shock waves from reaching Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, and Nalan Yanran killed her Seven-Star Dou Wang opponent.
• Nalan Yanran broke through to Four-Star Dou Wang while Xiao Yan watched a massive spatial rift emerge at the center of the explosion.

Xiao Yan uncovered Mulan Valley’s Spatial Secret Realm and explored its sea of Magical Beast blood, where he found a newly born myriad beast spirit flame. Yao Lao offered to take the flame in exchange for giving Xiao Yan the bone spirit cold flame.

• Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan arrived beside Xiao Yan and realized he had exposed Mulan Valley’s Spatial Secret Realm deliberately.
• Xiao Yan let Jia Xingtian and Yun Shan claim Mulan Valley’s assets, keeping only the magic cores and medicinal ingredients, and invited Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran to take anything they wanted.
• Xiao Yan entered the secret realm and found a vast sea of Magical Beast blood surrounding an ancient stone stele.
• Xiao Yan sensed a familiar fluctuation, plunged into the blood sea, and discovered a juvenile myriad beast spirit flame hovering above a giant skeleton.
• Yao Lao joked that Xiao Yan might have an innate heavenly flames saint body, then offered to exchange the bone spirit cold flame for the myriad beast spirit flame.
• Xiao Yan eagerly accepted Yao Lao’s offer, and Yao Lao chided him for pretending to be polite.

Xiao Yan seized the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and discovered Mulan Valley’s hoard of magic cores beneath a mysterious stele. When the remnant soul inside the stele revealed itself as the Heavenly Beast Saint, Xiao Yan suddenly attacked him.

• Xiao Yan escaped the sea of blood with the juvenile Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and reached the plaza with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan found a mountain of magic cores beneath the stele, including a ninth-tier core and eighteen eighth-tier cores, and stored them in his Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yan examined the stele, resisted its attempt to draw in his soul, and threatened to destroy it with four Heavenly Flames.
• The Heavenly Beast Saint emerged from the stele and identified himself as a remnant soul who had once been a Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao agreed to capture the Heavenly Beast Saint, and Xiao Yan launched a sudden attack that left the Saint alarmed.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao fought the Heavenly Beast Saint, who used techniques that revealed his connection to the Hall of Souls. Xiao Yan defeated him with a Three-Colored Fire Lotus and captured his weakened remnant soul, intending to interrogate him about his secrets, including one concerning a Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan punched through the Heavenly Beast Saint's soul-powered black dragon and recognized the Saint as a dangerous opponent.
• The Heavenly Beast Saint sent black chains after Yao Lao, who defended himself with bone spirit cold flame and revealed another Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan summoned three Heavenly Flames and formed a Three-Colored Fire Lotus while the Heavenly Beast Saint offered techniques and a secret about a Dou Di in exchange for his life.
• Xiao Yan rejected the offer and hurled the Three-Colored Fire Lotus, engulfing the Heavenly Beast Saint in flames.
• Xiao Yan flew into the flames and returned carrying the nearly dispersed Heavenly Beast Saint, ready to interrogate him.

Xiao Yan learned the secrets of Mulan Valley, obtained the True Blood Divine Refinement Art, and refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. He and Yao Lao then recovered material from the Heavenly Beast Saint’s bones, which could help Yao Lao rebuild his body and reach Dou Sheng.

• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao learned from Hun Qianshang that he had stolen Mulan Valley’s body-refining art and fought the Heavenly Beast Saint, whose remnant soul had been attached to the inheritance stone tablet.
• Xiao Yan obtained the Dou Di inheritance, the True Blood Divine Refinement Art, and decided to have the Lion King guard the blood sea.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, severing his connection to it, and Xiao Yan gave Yao Lao a Soul Restoration Pill.
• Xiao Yan refined the Bone Spirit Cold Flame in one day, advancing his dou qi to seven hundred and forty stages and evolving the Flame Mantra to Quasi-Heaven Tier.
• Yao Lao easily refined the juvenile myriad beast spirit flame while Xiao Yan stood guard.
• Xiao Yan melted down the inheritance stone tablet and recovered material from the Heavenly Beast Saint’s bones, which he and Yao Lao hoped could help Yao Lao reach Dou Sheng.

After Xiao Yan left the Spatial Secret Realm, Nalan Yanran took the initiative to become his lover, and he shared a Dou Di inheritance with her. They practiced the True Blood Divine Refinement Art in the sea of blood, where Nalan Yanran broke through to five-star Dou Wang and Xiao Yan warned her about its dangers.

• Xiao Yan emerged from the Spatial Secret Realm and asked Yun Yun to have the Flame Alliance take control of it, while she gave him Mulan Valley’s resources and copied techniques.
• Jia Xingtian returned to the Jia Ma Empire to lead an invasion of the weakened Mulan Empire, and Yun Shan urged Nalan Yanran to take the initiative with Xiao Yan.
• Nalan Yanran visited Xiao Yan that night and offered herself to him, and they spent the night together.
• Xiao Yan taught Nalan Yanran the True Blood Divine Refinement Art and took her to the secret realm’s sea of blood to temper their bodies.
• Nalan Yanran’s first tempering cleansed her sinews and marrow and raised her to five-star Dou Wang, and Xiao Yan warned her to practice only once a year to avoid the blood essence’s resentment.

Xiao Yan entrusted the Spatial Secret Realm to the Amethyst Winged Lion King, then returned to the Misty Cloud Sect with Nalan Yanran to enter the Gate of Life and Death. Inside, the trial space misjudged Xiao Yan as a Nine-Star Dou Ling, and he began clearing its increasingly strong phantom opponents with ease.

• Xiao Yan gave the Amethyst Winged Lion King the True Blood Divine Refinement Art and ordered him to restrict its cultivation to the Flame Alliance’s core members.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran returned to the Misty Cloud Sect, where Yun Yun welcomed them and suspected that their relationship had grown closer.
• Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran opened the Gate of Life and Death and were pulled into its isolated trial space.
• The trial space assessed Xiao Yan as a Nine-Star Dou Ling and summoned ten One-Star Great Dou Master phantoms, which Xiao Yan destroyed in one second.
• Xiao Yan received a surge of energy but no special reward, then defeated the next wave of ten Two-Star Great Dou Master phantoms just as quickly.

Xiao Yan rapidly advanced through the trial’s stages, using the energy rewards to increase his Dou Qi and break through to the Spirit Realm. He finished the stage-six battle with a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus and reached 3,400 stages of Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan destroyed successive phantom waves in stages two through four and gained enough energy to reach 1,000 stages of Dou Qi and break through to Dou Wang.
• Xiao Yan’s five senses expanded at the breakthrough, and his soul power advanced to the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Yan defeated phantoms through stage five and faced increasingly powerful Dou Zun phantoms in stage six, using the battles to adapt to his strength and hone his instincts.
• Xiao Yan relied on Cicada Senses Autumn Wind Before It Stirs to evade attacks and reach the seventh wave of stage six without using the Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan fused five Heavenly Flames into a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus and wiped out the phantoms, earning a fifteenfold stage-six reward and reaching 3,400 stages of Dou Qi.

After grinding through the Gate of Life and Death, Xiao Yan gained immense strength but was expelled for absorbing too much of its origin energy. He reunited with Yun Yun and Yun Shan, who recognized his astonishing growth, and left the Misty Cloud Sect with a promise to remember its kindness.

• Xiao Yan cleared the seventh stage of the trial, defeated ten first-revolution Dou Zun phantoms, and raised his Dou Qi to four thousand two hundred levels.
• The Gate of Life and Death angrily expelled Xiao Yan for absorbing too much of its origin energy and barred him from returning.
• Yun Yun and Yun Shan rushed to the Gate of Life and Death and found Xiao Yan after he crashed into a mountain.
• Xiao Yan told Yun Yun and Yun Shan that Dou Zuns were ants to him, and they were shocked by his immense progress.
• Xiao Yan thanked the Gate of Life and Death and promised to remember the Misty Cloud Sect's kindness, delighting Yun Shan and Yun Yun.
• Yao Lao heard Xiao Yan's account and wondered if he was the legendary Child of Fortune.