Chapter Summaries

Xiao Mo helped Xiao Yan advance to Dou Zhe with a pill, and Xiao Yan overcame his resentment at receiving help. After earning a system reward and resuming their training, the brothers noticed Xiao Zhan hurrying away in a grave state over clan matters.

• Yao Lao watched Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan spar, then put away the pill he had prepared for Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan confronted Xiao Mo about using a pill to help him advance, and Xiao Mo explained that he had advanced the same way and wanted to share his resources.
• Xiao Mo pinned Xiao Yan during their spar and threatened to stop helping him, but Xiao Yan apologized and asked him not to leave.
• Xiao Mo received 20,000 shop points and 10 good brother points from the system for helping Xiao Yan break through to Dou Zhe, then urged him to resume cultivating.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo encountered Xiao Zhan, who dismissed their concerns and hurried away over clan matters.

Xiao Mo urged Yao Lao to begin teaching Xiao Yan alchemy, then considered buying a wood-type spiritual root pill so he could better assist with refining. Xiao Xun'er brought Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo to the Xiao Clan's Market, where the Jia Lie Family's cheap Rejuvenation Powder was driving away customers.

• Xiao Mo pulled Xiao Yan aside and summoned Yao Lao, asking him to teach Xiao Yan pill refining now that he had advanced to Dou Zhe.
• Yao Lao agreed to teach them that night after they bought an Alchemy Furnace, and suggested that a wood-type technique would help Xiao Mo support the refining process.
• Xiao Mo found a Wood-Type Spiritual Root Pill in the System Shop but gave up on buying it because it cost 100,000 points and he had only 30,000.
• Xiao Xun'er found Xiao Yan and warned that the Xiao Clan was about to face serious trouble, then led him and Xiao Mo to the Xiao Clan's Market.
• At the market, a customer complained that the Jia Lie Family's goods cost less than half as much and left without buying anything.

Xiao Mo learned that the Jia Lie Family's cheap rejuvenation powder was driving the Xiao Clan's shops toward collapse, and three system missions tasked him with helping Xiao Yan restore the clan's business. At the Jia Lie market, Xiao Yan confronted a shopkeeper who mocked the Xiao Clan after its disciples were caught buying cheaper medicine.

• Xiao Yan asked a shopkeeper about the Xiao Clan's struggling market, and the shopkeeper explained that more than half the shops had closed.
• Xiao Mo received a main mission to revive the Xiao Clan's shops and side missions involving pill refinement and the Jia Lie Family's market.
• Xiao Mo led Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er to the Jia Lie market, where they saw that its rejuvenation powder cost half as much as the Xiao Clan's.
• A shopkeeper shoved several Xiao Clan disciples from his shop and taunted Xiao Yan about the clan's inferior products.
• One of the disciples apologized to Xiao Yan and explained that they had bought cheaper medicine because they had limited money and wanted to cultivate faster.

Xiao Mo stopped Xiao Yan from escalating a confrontation at a medicine shop and turned the shopkeeper’s public accusations into doubts about the shop’s products. The crowd began questioning the medicine’s reliability, leaving the shopkeeper unable to find customers willing to vouch for its quality.

• The shopkeeper used an outer disciple’s purchase to advertise his Rejuvenation Powder, then accused the Xiao Clan of throwing its weight around when Xiao Yan grabbed him.
• Xiao Mo held Xiao Xun'er back and claimed the Xiao Clan had bought the medicine to test it after its effects proved inconsistent during a dangerous fight.
• Xiao Mo showed his wound as evidence and accused the shopkeeper of mistreating customers, while Xiao Yan realized Xiao Mo was shifting the blame onto the shop.
• The crowd grew concerned that the medicine might fail when they needed it, and a customer asked the shopkeeper whether it was unreliable.
• The shopkeeper demanded that the crowd defend his products, but no one spoke up.

Xiao Mo humiliated the Jia Lie Family Market’s shopkeeper and earned Shop Points, but acknowledged that the Xiao Clan needed a better rejuvenation powder to save its shops. Back at the clan, Xiao Zhan confronted the disciples who had bought the rival powder, and over a hundred stood up.

• Xiao Mo challenged the Jia Lie Family Market’s customers to defend its goods, then led Xiao Yan, Xiao Xun'er, and the outer disciples away as the shopkeeper cursed them.
• Xiao Mo received 5,000 Shop Points for completing a face-slapping task and told Xiao Yan he had stirred up trouble to divert attention from the disciples.
• Xiao Mo warned Xiao Yan that the Xiao Clan’s shops would decline unless they found a replacement for the Jia Lie Family Market’s cheaper goods, and Xiao Yan planned to tell Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Mo reviewed his quests, noting that one required helping Xiao Yan refine one hundred portions of rejuvenation powder and that he had nine face-slapping tasks left.
• Xiao Zhan gathered the clan’s disciples and demanded that anyone who had bought rejuvenation powder at the Jia Lie Family Market stand up, threatening demotion or expulsion.
• More than a hundred disciples stood, and Xiao Zhan kicked over his chair in fury.

Xiao Mo challenged Xiao Zhan’s attempt to stop disciples from buying Rejuvenation Powder from the Jia Lie Family’s market and proposed selling the Xiao Clan’s medicinal pills to disciples at cost. Xiao Zhan hesitated to accept the plan, leaving the clan’s failing shops and pricing crisis unresolved.

• Xiao Zhan reprimanded the disciples for buying Rejuvenation Powder from the Jia Lie Family’s market, but they protested that the Xiao Clan’s prices were too high and its elders ignored them.
• Xiao Zhan forbade disciples from buying medicinal pills outside the Xiao Clan, prompting nearly half the assembly to object to the expensive prices.
• Xiao Mo signaled to Xiao Yan, who whispered to Xiao Zhan and prompted him to silence the assembly by striking the wall.
• Xiao Mo suggested selling medicinal pills to inner disciples at cost, but the elders warned that lower prices would destroy the clan’s revenue.
• Xiao Mo argued that selling at half price would be better than letting the clan’s goods remain unsold, and Xiao Zhan said he would consider the proposal.

After the Xiao Clan banned its disciples from buying Rejuvenation Powder, Xiao Mo urged Xiao Yan to learn alchemy from Yao Lao and save the family market. Yao Lao agreed to teach them a more effective, lower-cost refining method, and Xiao Mo produced an Alchemy Furnace so they could begin at once.

• Xiao Zhan banned inner and outer disciples from buying Rejuvenation Powder from the Jia Lie Family Market and postponed deciding whether the Xiao Clan Shop would sell at cost.
• Xiao Mo told Xiao Yan that reviving the family market depended on learning to refine Rejuvenation Powder with Yao Lao.
• Xiao Yan agreed to find Yao Lao, and Xiao Mo summoned him in a secluded corner of the Back Mountain.
• Xiao Mo flattered Yao Lao until Yao Lao agreed that he could teach them to refine a cheaper Rejuvenation Powder with twice the healing effect.
• Xiao Mo produced an Alchemy Furnace to start the lesson, and Yao Lao snatched it up and asked where he had gotten it.

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan bought herbs and learned from Yao Lao how to refine Rejuvenation Powder with the Azure Purple Mystic Qi Furnace. They discovered Yao Lao’s method produced hundreds of exceptionally pure pills from inexpensive materials, and Yao Lao explained that low-level medicines mattered little to advanced cultivators.

• Xiao Mo showed Yao Lao the Azure Purple Mystic Qi Furnace, and Yao Lao praised it before sending Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan to buy materials for alchemy.
• Xiao Yan asked where Xiao Mo had gotten the furnace, so Xiao Mo revealed his Storage Ring and explained that it held a separate space for storing things.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan spent all their money on herbs at the Market Fair and returned to learn that Yao Lao’s method could produce a few hundred pills from them.
• Yao Lao demonstrated his refining method and quickly produced exceptionally pure Rejuvenation Powder, stunning Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan.
• Yao Lao said elementary medicines were only useful for low-ranked cultivators and that advanced alchemists had little reason to sell them.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo practiced pill refining under Yao Lao’s guidance, but their first attempts failed. With Xiao Mo helping Xiao Yan regulate the furnace’s heat, they finally produced pills that Yao Lao judged to be even better than his own.

• Yao Lao demonstrated pill refining, then told Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo to work together on a batch.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo ruined their first two batches, leaving Xiao Yan anxious about wasting their herbs.
• Xiao Mo calmed Xiao Yan and used ice energy to regulate the furnace’s temperature as they tried again.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo successfully formed pills with dark red and icy blue radiance.
• Yao Lao inspected their pills and praised them as pill-refining geniuses, saying their pills seemed a grade higher than his.

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan refined several successful batches of unusually pure Rejuvenation Powder and brought them to Xiao Zhan, who was astonished by their quality. When Xiao Zhan went to meet honored guests who might save the Xiao Clan’s markets, he brought the two boys along despite the first elder’s objections.

• Yao Lao praised Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan’s first batch of Rejuvenation Powder, and the two sampled its minty taste.
• At Yao Lao’s direction, Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan practiced through the night and refined three satisfactory batches of Rejuvenation Powder.
• Xiao Yan gave Xiao Zhan one of their pills, and Xiao Zhan was shocked by its purity and potency.
• The first elder urged Xiao Zhan to meet honored guests who could help revive the Xiao Clan’s Market, and Xiao Yan asked to go along.
• Xiao Zhan brought Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan with him despite the first elder’s protest, insisting that he had the final say as clan leader.

The Nalan Family offered the Xiao Clan a rejuvenation powder formula to rescue its struggling market, but demanded ten percent of the profits. Xiao Zhan rejected the condition and ordered them to leave.

• Xiao Zhan reassured Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo before bringing them to the main hall.
• Xiao Mo calmed Xiao Yan when Ge Ye's presence stirred his anger, and Xiao Yan regained his composure.
• Ge Ye said Nalan Jie had sent the rejuvenation powder formula as an apology for breaking off the engagement.
• Ge Ye demanded ten percent of the Xiao Clan's profits in exchange for the formula.
• Xiao Zhan denounced the demand and told the Nalan Family to take the formula and leave.

Xiao Mo kept Xiao Yan from attacking Ge Ye and helped Xiao Zhan answer the Nalan Family’s demands with insults and pointed questions. Ge Ye offered pills as proof of his deal, but Xiao Zhan found their taste and quality poor after sampling the Rejuvenation Powder Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo had made.

• Xiao Mo cooled Xiao Yan’s anger and urged him to let Xiao Zhan handle Ge Ye, noting that their Rejuvenation Powder was purer than the rival medicine.
• Xiao Zhan ordered the senior elders to stop interfering, then mocked Ge Ye by calling the tea suitable for shameless scoundrels.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan approached Ge Ye, and Xiao Mo said the proposed ten-percent profit share depended on seeing proof of the medicine’s quality.
• Xiao Zhan supported Xiao Mo when the senior elders tried to silence him, and Xiao Mo challenged Ge Ye to show the pills rather than rely on his claims.
• Ge Ye presented two pills and promised lower costs and greater purity than the Jia Lie Family Market’s medicine, but Xiao Zhan tasted one and spat it out in disgust.

Xiao Mo exposed Ge Ye’s Rejuvenation Powder offer by showing him a far superior pill, leaving Ge Ye stunned and eager to obtain it. Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan defended Xiao Mo when the elders threatened to expel him.

• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Mo, and Xiao Yan spat out Ge Ye’s Rejuvenation Powder, angering him and ending his proposed cooperation unless they apologized.
• Xiao Mo told Ge Ye that the Xiao Clan already had better pills, and Xiao Yan gave Ge Ye one to inspect.
• Ge Ye tasted the pill and was astonished by its quality and powerful effects, leaving him unable to criticize it.
• The three elders scolded Xiao Mo and threatened to expel him, but Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yan stood in his defense.
• Xiao Zhan gave one of the elders a pill and urged the elders to judge its quality for themselves.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo demonstrated their improved rejuvenation powder to Xiao Zhan, proving it could be made with fewer ingredients and yield purer pills. Xiao Mo asked Xiao Zhan to conceal their involvement to protect them until they were strong enough to defend themselves.

• The three elders tested the pill, while Ge Ye left in defeat after Xiao Zhan challenged him.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo refined a batch of pills before Xiao Zhan, who saw that they used fewer herbs and produced more, purer pills.
• Xiao Mo asked Xiao Zhan to keep their names secret and credit the formula to an alchemist he had invited.
• Xiao Zhan agreed to protect their identities and offered each boy ten percent of the profits from the rejuvenation powder.
• After Xiao Zhan left, Xiao Yan admitted he still had much to learn from Xiao Mo and was glad to have him as his senior brother.

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan set up a stall outside the Jia Lie Family Market to give away Xiao Clan rejuvenation powder and attract customers. After most passersby rejected the offer, an injured young woman approached, hoping to get medicine for her badly wounded brother.

• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan gave Xiao Zhan two sacks of rejuvenation powder after refining medicine on the Back Mountain.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan set up a free rejuvenation powder stall outside the Jia Lie Family Market, offering discounts to people who registered their information.
• Passersby distrusted the Xiao Clan medicine and refused to leave their information, while Xiao Mo turned away hoodlums who tried to give false details.
• Xiao Mo sent Xiao Yan to find Xiao Xun'er and ask her to help draw customers to the stall.
• A bloodstained young woman asked Xiao Mo whether the medicine was safe, then requested a free pill because her brother was badly injured and she could not afford medicine.

Xiao Mo exposed a scheme by the Jia Lie Family Market to discredit the Xiao Clan’s medicine by demonstrating its healing power. Xiao Xun'er confirmed the pill’s effectiveness, took another pill, and disappeared after leaving false information.

• Xiao Mo recognized that a woman and a heckler were trying to make him look bad, with a hidden watcher at the Jia Lie Family Market observing them.
• Xiao Mo cut his arm and used a pill to heal the wound in front of the crowd, proving the medicine worked.
• Xiao Xun'er arrived veiled and asked to test the medicine, while Xiao Yan rushed over and hesitated to cut her arm.
• Xiao Xun'er cut her own arm, took a pill from Xiao Mo, and healed without a scar, silencing the hecklers.
• Xiao Xun'er left false information, took another pill as her reward, and vanished into the crowd.

Xiao Mo offered the market crowd a final chance to test the Xiao Clan’s medicine and chose the Jia Lie Family shopkeeper as the tester. The shopkeeper secretly kept the pill in his hand and denounced the medicine, but Xiao Mo exposed his deception before the crowd.

• Xiao Mo urged the crowd to choose a respected tester and pointed to the Jia Lie Family shopkeeper as a rival whose judgment they could trust.
• The shopkeeper agreed to test the pill, cut his arm deeply, and accepted the medicine from Xiao Mo.
• The shopkeeper secretly decided to sabotage the test, then claimed the pill was ineffective as his wound continued to bleed.
• The shopkeeper insulted the Xiao Clan and the broken engagement, provoking Xiao Yan as the crowd began to believe the medicine had failed.
• Xiao Mo seized the shopkeeper’s hand and revealed the pill still in his palm, turning the crowd against the shopkeeper.

Xiao Mo exposed the Jia Lie Family Market shopkeeper’s scheme, and the shopkeeper wrecked their stall in anger. Xiao Yan demonstrated the Rejuvenation Powder’s healing power in front of the crowd, drawing customers to support their shop and further damaging the Market’s reputation.

• Xiao Mo tricked the shopkeeper into revealing the pill he had hidden, exposing his attempt to make the medicine look ineffective.
• The shopkeeper flipped over Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo’s stall, and Xiao Yan rescued their medicine bags.
• Xiao Mo received 5,000 Shop Points and a supreme-grade Alchemy Furnace for completing tasks against the Jia Lie Family Market.
• The shopkeeper threatened Xiao Yan and Xiao Mo and reached for his weapon while Xiao Mo warned the crowd to witness what happened.
• Xiao Yan blocked the shopkeeper’s dagger with an ice pillar and forced him to swallow Rejuvenation Powder, healing his wrist wound.
• The customers witnessed the healing and crowded around Xiao Yan, asking to buy the powder and promising to support his shop.

Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan distributed rejuvenation powder at the Market, then returned to the Back Mountain, where Yao Lao seized Xiao Mo’s High-Grade Alchemy Furnace. Xiao Mo negotiated with his master, offering the furnace in exchange for a High-Grade Alchemy Technique and the Flame Sword for Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan handed out rejuvenation powder at the Market while Xiao Mo defeated the Jia Lie Family shopkeeper and sent him away.
• Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan told customers to await news from the Xiao Family Market after their supply of rejuvenation powder ran out.
• Xiao Mo invoked the Xiao Clan Leader’s orders to silence disciples criticizing them, then took Xiao Yan to the Back Mountain.
• Xiao Mo summoned Yao Lao and showed him the High-Grade Alchemy Furnace, which Yao Lao immediately claimed for himself.
• Xiao Mo gave the Flame Sword to Xiao Yan and demanded the High-Grade Alchemy Technique as payment for the furnace.

Xiao Mo claimed his reward for helping Xiao Yan refine Rejuvenation Powder and brought him to see Xiao Zhan. When an elder accused them of stealing the pills, Xiao Zhan defended them, and Xiao Mo challenged the elder to say what he would do if they proved their innocence.

• Yao Lao took the Alchemy Furnace and alchemy manual before retreating into his ring, while Xiao Yan tested the Fire Sword Xiao Mo had given him.
• Xiao Mo claimed 10,000 Shop Points and one point of good brother affinity for completing the Rejuvenation Powder mission.
• Xiao Mo dragged Xiao Yan to the front hall, where a disciple said Xiao Zhan had summoned them.
• An elder accused Xiao Mo and Xiao Yan of stealing the Rejuvenation Powder, and Xiao Zhan defended them by threatening to stop supplying the elders.
• Xiao Mo asked the first elder what he would do if Xiao Mo proved they had not stolen the pills.