Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu reflected on his rapid cultivation after transmigrating into the Dou Qi Continent and decided to leave the courtyard where he had lived for three years. He stepped outside to begin taking part in the world around him.

• Xiao Yu recalled how he had been unable to cultivate before transmigrating, then discovered that his new soul had unlocked extraordinary talent.
• Xiao Yu reached the peak of a nine-star Dou Shi in three years without a cultivation method, pills, a teacher, or other assistance.
• Xiao Yu decided he had spent long enough in isolation and that his cultivation speed made further idling unnecessary.
• Xiao Yu opened the courtyard gate and stepped outside, determined to begin his life in the Dou Qi Continent.

Xiao Yu visited Xiao Zhan, who worried about his nephew’s future and coming-of-age ceremony, then joked about finding him a wife. After hearing Xiao Zhan lament that he had failed him, Xiao Yu resolved to cultivate so he could protect his uncle and pursue a way back to Earth.

• A servant summoned Xiao Yu to Xiao Zhan’s residence, and Xiao Yu walked there through the unfamiliar clan grounds.
• Xiao Zhan worried that Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan would soon face their coming-of-age ceremony and possible assignment to the clan’s businesses.
• Xiao Yu reassured Xiao Zhan that he could accept whatever came, and the two talked until their distance as uncle and nephew faded.
• Xiao Zhan abruptly suggested finding Xiao Yu a wife, and Xiao Yu protested that he was too young to marry.
• After Xiao Yu left, he heard Xiao Zhan mourn that he had let him down and resolved to cultivate to protect Xiao Zhan and find a way back to Earth.

Xiao Yu struggled to find a way to obtain the pills he needed to reach Dou Wang within three years, since he lacked money and could not refine pills without a wood attribute. After examining his divine lightning and source flames, he conceived a possible lightning-based method for refining pills.

• Xiao Yu concluded that he could not rely on the Xiao Clan or reveal his talent, and that pills were his best chance to advance quickly.
• Xiao Yu brooded over his lack of resources and his inability to refine pills with his lightning and fire attributes.
• Xiao Yu reviewed the powers of his two divine lightning bolts, Blue-Silver Cold Lightning and Returning-to-Truth Lightning, and his two source flames, Extreme Ice-Breaking Flame and Myriad Transformation Flame.
• Xiao Yu wondered whether lightning could replace wood qi in pill refining and began studying Blue-Silver Cold Lightning.
• Xiao Yu reasoned that lightning could destroy impurities while nurturing creation, and began devising ways to refine medicinal ingredients with it.

Xiao Yu tested whether lightning could replace wood energy in pill refining, using a makeshift cauldron and ordinary plants. He successfully fused their essences into a crude pill, demonstrating that lightning-fire refining was feasible.

• Xiao Yu gathered plants and built a makeshift cauldron from two iron woks because he could not afford proper ingredients or equipment.
• Xiao Yu repeatedly failed to extract plant essences before succeeding with a flower on his ninth attempt.
• Xiao Yu purified the extracted essences with lightning, then gradually increased its power to test whether it could fuse them.
• Xiao Yu used lightning at one-tenth power to merge the essences and form a crude pill.
• Xiao Yu celebrated his success in proving that lightning could replace wood energy in pill refining.

After perfecting the Lightning-Fire Pill Refining Method, Xiao Yu borrowed money from Xiao Zhan to begin pursuing pill refining and went looking for a medicine cauldron at the Mittel Auction House. Manager Liu took him to view the cauldrons, leaving Xiao Yu poised to choose one.

• Xiao Yu refined the flowers, grasses, and trees he had gathered into snack-like pills and decided he needed medicinal ingredients, formulas, and a medicine cauldron.
• Xiao Zhan gave Xiao Yu a crystal card containing twenty thousand gold coins that he had set aside as Xiao Yu’s marriage fund.
• Xiao Yu searched the Market District for cheap pill formulas but found nothing worthwhile.
• Xiao Yu went to the Mittel Auction House and asked an attendant about buying a medicine cauldron.
• Manager Liu introduced himself to Xiao Yu and led him to the room where the auction house kept its medicine cauldrons.

Xiao Yu studied a medicinal herb commentary and began developing pill formulas from the herbs he had purchased. His first attempt to refine a pill failed, so he recorded what went wrong and prepared to revise his formula.

• Xiao Yu bought a physician’s medicinal herb commentary after spending most of his money on a medicine cauldron, herbs, and magic cores.
• Xiao Yu spent seven days memorizing the commentary and sorting his herbs into thirty batches for cultivation, body tempering, and Dou Qi recovery.
• Xiao Yu chose to begin developing a pill that restored Dou Qi and extracted the essences of several herbs in his two-opening medicine cauldron.
• Xiao Yu’s medicinal essences resisted fusion, and the batch exploded before he added a magic core.
• Xiao Yu recorded how the ingredient ratios, lightning, and heat had caused the failure, then revised his formula before going to bed.

After a month of experiments, Xiao Yu successfully refined three pills and brought them to the Mittel Auction House to sell. He concealed his own alchemy skills by claiming his master had made them, and the chapter ended as Master Gu Ni arrived to appraise the pills.

• Xiao Yu refined his final batch of ingredients and added another pill to the two jade bottles he had prepared during the month.
• Xiao Yu organized his records, rested for twenty-four hours, and headed to the Mittel Auction House to sell his three pills.
• Manager Liu recognized Xiao Yu and summoned him after learning he had come to sell something.
• Xiao Yu claimed his master had refined the pills, and Manager Liu went to fetch Master Gu Ni to appraise them.
• Manager Liu returned with Master Gu Ni, a Second-Rank Alchemist, and Xiao Yu inspected the alchemist insignia on his robes.

Xiao Yu sold three exceptionally pure pills to the Mittel Auction House, where Gu Ni mistook their quality as proof that Xiao Yu had a powerful alchemist for a teacher. After arranging his purchases and giving him a Storage Ring, Gu Ni decided the auction house should befriend Xiao Yu and avoid offending the alchemist behind him.

• Xiao Yu presented his three pills to Gu Ni, who appraised them as second-rank pills of extraordinary purity.
• Gu Ni offered Xiao Yu forty thousand gold coins for each pill, and Xiao Yu accepted the total price of one hundred and twenty thousand.
• Xiao Yu asked the auction house for medicinal ingredients, pill formulas, and alchemy books, claiming his teacher required him to become a First-Rank Alchemist through self-study.
• Xiao Yu identified two pills as Qi-Nourishing Pills and the third as a Body-Tempering Pill while Gu Ni arranged his requests.
• Gu Ni gave Xiao Yu a low-grade Storage Ring as a gift and secured his promise to prioritize the Mittel Auction House when selling future pills.
• After Xiao Yu left, Gu Ni rejected Manager Liu's suggestion to investigate him and warned that they must befriend the alchemist they believed stood behind him.

Xiao Yu used Gu Ni’s gifts to study alchemy, adapt pill formulas to his Lightning-Fire Pill Refining Method, and improve his skills through weeks of practice. He ended with fifteen third-rank pills worth at least nine hundred thousand gold coins, while recognizing that advancing further would require greater control and soul strength.

• Xiao Yu inventoried the Storage Ring, ingredients, formulas, and books Gu Ni had given him, and resolved to repay Gu Ni’s favor.
• Xiao Yu cultivated after organizing his new supplies and began studying the three second-rank pill formulas the next day.
• Xiao Yu adapted the formulas for lightning-fire refinement and upgraded his Qi-Nourishing Pill and Body-Tempering Pill recipes through experimentation.
• Over more than twenty days, Xiao Yu refined pills daily and studied alchemy, making steady progress.
• Xiao Yu produced eight Spirit Ascension Pills, four Qi-Replenishing Pills, and three Spring-Rejuvenating Pills, which his method raised to the third rank.
• Xiao Yu valued his fifteen third-rank pills at a minimum of nine hundred thousand gold coins and realized his current abilities still limited him to second-rank refinement.

Xiao Yu disguised himself as a mysterious alchemist and visited the Mittel Auction House to sell pills and establish a connection with its staff. After Ya Fei joined the appraisal, Gu Ni recognized the disguised man as Xiao Yu’s alchemist teacher, and the chapter ended with Gu Ni accepting two pill formulas as a gift.

• Xiao Yu used the Myriad Transformation Flame to disguise his appearance and aura before heading to the Mittel Auction House.
• A maid stopped Xiao Yu at the entrance, but Manager Liu arrived and escorted him to the appraisal room after he said he wanted to sell pills.
• Manager Liu brought Gu Ni and Ya Fei to meet Xiao Yu, who gave Gu Ni three bottles containing Spirit Ascension Pills, Spirit-Replenishing Pills, and Spring-Rejuvenating Pills.
• Gu Ni identified a Spirit Ascension Pill as an exceptionally pure third-rank pill and deduced that Xiao Yu was the alchemist teacher behind Xiao Yu’s earlier dealings; Xiao Yu confirmed the connection.
• Xiao Yu thanked Gu Ni for looking after his disciple and gave him improved Qi-Nourishing Pill and Body-Tempering Pill formulas, which Gu Ni accepted.

Xiao Yu agreed to auction eleven third-tier pills at the Mittel Auction House, where Ya Fei hosted an auction that also featured the Wind Scroll Technique and Xiao Yan’s Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid. After the spirit liquid sold, Ya Fei introduced Xiao Yu’s Spirit Ascension Pills, leaving the crowd poised to bid on them.

• Ya Fei persuaded Xiao Yu to put his eleven third-tier pills up for auction, and he accepted her offer of a private room.
• Gu Ni left Xiao Yu’s room to attend to business in the appraisal room, and Xiao Yu suspected Xiao Yan had brought in Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.
• The auction began with Ya Fei as host, while Xiao Yu watched the bidders and spotted Xiao Yan in a black hooded robe.
• After Xiao Yan’s Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid was auctioned, Ya Fei presented Xiao Yu’s third-tier pills in eleven lots.
• Ya Fei began introducing the four bottles of Spirit Ascension Pills and their cultivation benefits to the auction crowd.

Xiao Yu’s pills were auctioned for hundreds of thousands of gold coins as Wutan City’s families competed for Spirit Ascension Pills. After the auction ended, Xiao Yu ignored the Wind Scroll Technique contest and focused on improving his pill-refining method.

• Ya Fei announced that four Spirit Ascension Pills would be auctioned individually, starting at fifty thousand gold coins each.
• Small-family bidders raised the first pill’s price before Jia Lie Bi and Oba Pa competed for it.
• Xiao Zhan won the first Spirit Ascension Pill for one hundred and five thousand gold coins, and Oba Pa mocked him afterward.
• The remaining pills were sold, with the Xiao Clan winning one Spirit Ascension Pill and the Jia Lie Family winning two; Oba Pa paid one hundred and twenty thousand for the last one.
• Xiao Yu’s eleven pills brought in more than eight hundred thousand gold coins, and he turned his attention to refining the Lightning-Fire Pill.

After earning 885,000 gold coins at the auction, Xiao Yu visited Xiao Zhan and met Xiao Yan for the first time. Their reunion ended in embarrassment when Xiao Zhan reminded them of a childhood incident in which Xiao Yu had watched a woman bathing with Xiao Yan, then confessed and got Xiao Yan punished.

• Xiao Yu collected 885,000 gold coins from Ya Fei and told her he would consider selling pills through the Mittel Auction House again.
• Xiao Yu planned to return 20,000 gold coins to Xiao Zhan but decided to reveal his cultivation and pill-making abilities gradually.
• Xiao Yu arrived at Xiao Zhan's residence and met Xiao Yan, who briefly mistook him for Xiao Zhan's illegitimate son.
• Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Yu as Xiao Yan's cousin and recalled that they had watched a woman bathing together as children.
• Xiao Yu remembered confessing to Xiao Zhan and blaming Xiao Yan, then tried to shift the blame back to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yu returned the twenty thousand gold coins to Xiao Zhan, then spent the following months cultivating and growing closer to Xiao Yan. As the Coming-of-Age Ceremony approached, Xiao Yu reached six-star Da Dou Shi and planned to leave Wutan City afterward, while Xiao Zhan worried about Xiao Yan’s low cultivation.

• Xiao Yu returned the twenty thousand gold coins to Xiao Zhan so he could help with the auction, and Xiao Yan escorted Xiao Yu out.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan spent time together over the following months, chatting and sharing meals as their relationship grew closer.
• Xiao Yu advanced from Peak Dou Master to six-star Da Dou Shi in just over half a year with the help of Spirit Ascension Pills.
• Xiao Yu planned to visit Mittel for pill formulas and leave Wutan City after the Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• As the ceremony approached, the Xiao Clan’s younger generation anticipated the test, while Xiao Zhan worried about Xiao Yan’s three-stage Dou Qi.

Xiao Yan attended the Xiao Clan preliminary assessment with Xiao Xun'er and told Xiao Yu that he had reached the Seventh Stage of Dou Qi. After learning the history behind Xiao Yu's inability to cultivate, Xiao Yan resolved to find a way to help his cousin.

• Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er arrived at the training ground and ignored the crowd's mockery of Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yu teased Xiao Yan and Xun'er, then asked Xiao Yan about his confidence in the assessment.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached the Seventh Stage of Dou Qi and hoped to make his father proud.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Lao whether a pill could help Xiao Yu cultivate, and Yao Lao said only a seventh-tier Great Nirvana Pill might do so.
• Xiao Yan recalled how Xiao Ping died protecting Xiao Zhan and the Xiao Clan, and how Xiao Zhan had raised Xiao Yu after his father's death.

During the Xiao Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yan surprised the clan with their cultivation results, while Xiao Yu revealed he planned to leave Wutan City after the ceremony. The chapter ended as Xiao Yu went up for his own test, leaving the crowd waiting to see his result.

• Xiao Yan resolved to someday avenge the masked men who had attacked the Xiao Clan and worried that he could not help Xiao Yu cultivate.
• Xiao Zhan explained the preliminary test rules, and the clan’s young members were tested one by one.
• Xiao Xun'er passed with the result of a One-Star Dou Zhe, astonishing the clan and delighting Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan he planned to leave Wutan City and venture into the world after the ceremony.
• Xiao Yan passed with seventh-stage dou qi, shocking the crowd and making Xiao Zhan celebrate.
• The examiner called Xiao Yu’s name, and Xiao Yu walked up to take his test.

At the Xiao Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Xiao Yu revealed himself as a Three-Star Dou Zhe, astonishing the clan after more than ten years of being believed unable to cultivate. Xiao Yan and Yao Lao recognized that Xiao Yu’s hidden strength and self-taught cultivation might make him an extraordinary prodigy.

• The Second Elder confronted Xiao Zhan for allowing Xiao Yu to take part in the ceremony, and the elders recalled Xiao Yu’s father’s death and his years of loneliness.
• Xiao Yu chose to display only Three-Star Dou Zhe strength and activated the testing stele.
• The Testing Officer announced Xiao Yu’s rank, leaving the clan members stunned and making Xiao Zhan laugh and weep with joy.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether Xiao Yu had concealed his ability to cultivate, while Xiao Xun’er was also confused by his result.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yu’s self-taught cultivation and hidden strength marked him as a remarkable genius.

After revealing himself as a Three-Star Dou Zhe at the preliminary test, Xiao Yu spent the day with Xiao Yan and Xun'er before speaking privately with Xiao Zhan. Xiao Zhan accepted Xiao Yu’s plan to leave and train after his coming-of-age ceremony.

• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that Xiao Yu was likely using a rare treasure to conceal his true cultivation, while Xiao Yu was puzzled that Xiao Yan did not look shocked.
• Xiao Yu invited Xiao Yan and Xun'er to stroll through the marketplace after the preliminary test, where Xiao Yan bought gifts for Xun'er and left Xiao Yu jealous.
• Xiao Zhan confronted Xiao Yu about hiding his cultivation for years, then revealed he had only been teasing him and praised his restraint.
• Xiao Zhan warned Xiao Yu to protect his greatest secrets and said his strength and temperament would serve him well beyond the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Yu told Xiao Zhan he wanted to travel and train after his coming-of-age ceremony, and Xiao Zhan agreed.

At the Xiao Clan's coming-of-age ceremony, Xiao Yu endured the rites and took the ceremonial retest. The Black Stone Stele revealed that he had reached Four-Star Dou Zhe, leaving the gathered guests stunned.

• Xiao Yan brought Xiao Yu to the crowded training grounds, where Xiao Yu fell asleep while they waited for the ceremony.
• Ya Fei and Gu Ni praised Xiao Zhan for the talents of Xiao Yan and Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu woke when his name was called and endured the hour-long coming-of-age rites.
• The Second Elder asked Xiao Yu to take the ceremonial retest, and the stele displayed that he was a Four-Star Dou Zhe.

At Xiao Yu’s coming-of-age ceremony, he impressed the crowd by advancing to four-star Dou Zhe, while Yao Lao secretly sensed that his concealed true strength was at least peak Dou Master. After the ceremony, Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xun'er to Ya Fei and Gu Ni, and Ya Fei invited the young men to visit the Mittel Auction House.

• Xiao Yu’s ceremonial retest showed he had advanced to four-star Dou Zhe, drawing astonishment and praise from the guests.
• Yao Lao told Xiao Yan that he had detected Xiao Yu’s concealed cultivation and believed it was at least peak Dou Master, possibly Da Dou Shi.
• Xiao Yu sensed Yao Lao’s probe and concealed his dantian, then completed his ceremony without anyone accepting his challenge.
• Xiao Yan tested at eighth stage Dou Qi and defeated Xiao Ning’s challenge, leaving him unable to get out of bed for over ten days.
• Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Yu, Xiao Yan, and Xiao Xun'er to Ya Fei and Gu Ni, and Ya Fei invited Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan to visit Mittel.