Chapter Summaries

Man in Black failed to trace the person who killed Gray Fox and stole the valuable resources. Half a month later, Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun emerged from their alchemy rooms looking filthy and disheveled, while Little White joined them before they went to wash up.

• Man in Black investigated factions for several days but found no trace of the token or Gray Fox's killer.
• Man in Black reflected on the stolen Saint Medicine Seedlings and Divine Materials, which could help his organization cultivate dozens of Saint-level experts.
• Half a month later, Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun left their alchemy rooms and teased each other about their messy appearances.
• Little White emerged in human form, and Taishu Yun asked Taishu Jing what he had done with her while they studied formations.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun summoned Steward Du and decided to wash up, while Steward Du laughed at their soot-covered faces.

Taishu Jing showed Steward Du the seventh-turn Five Elements Sky Wheel Formation he had inscribed and offered to sell it at half price. After Steward Du tested it, the formation revealed enough power to make him fear it could kill him.

• Steward Du arranged rooms for Taishu Yun and Taishu Jing, then asked how their work had gone.
• Taishu Jing offered Steward Du a formation at half price, and Steward Du insisted it had to be above the fifth turn.
• Taishu Jing revealed his seventh-turn Five Elements Sky Wheel Formation, shocking Steward Du and impressing Taishu Yun.
• Steward Du agreed to buy the formation after inspecting its power.
• Taishu Jing activated the formation, which formed a five-colored world and gathered Five Elements Power into a massive, law-infused Sky Wheel.
• Steward Du recognized the wheel’s Five Elements Laws and realized its descent would surely kill him.

Taishu Jing demonstrated the Five Elements Sky Wheel to Steward Du, then Taishu Yun revealed ten Seven-Mark Pills and offered six to Treasure Exchange Pavilion at half price. Taishu Jing sampled two of the pills, leaving Steward Du astonished by his casual appetite for them.

• Taishu Jing showed Steward Du the Five Elements Sky Wheel’s power, then deactivated the formation and handed Steward Du its formation stone.
• Steward Du insisted on paying the agreed half price for the formation stone, despite Taishu Jing’s offer to let him choose the price.
• Taishu Yun opened a jade box containing ten genuine Seven-Mark Pills and offered six to Treasure Exchange Pavilion at half price.
• Taishu Yun gave two pills each to Taishu Jing and Little White.
• Taishu Jing ate both of his pills as snacks, and Steward Du stared in shock at how casually he consumed them.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun arranged to trade pills and a formation for medicinal ingredients, then went out into Cloud City. Taishu Jing wondered about the Yama token and looked forward to fighting a Saint, while Taishu Yun remained wary of the danger.

• Taishu Jing swallowed two Seven-Mark Pills with ease, astonishing Steward Du, and Taishu Yun arranged to exchange six more pills for ingredients to refine additional pills.
• Taishu Jing offered his Seventh-turn Formation in exchange for medicinal ingredients for Taishu Yun, and Steward Du agreed.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun went out for a stroll and noticed that Cloud City had grown more crowded during the Alchemy Master Competition.
• Taishu Jing remembered the Yama token and wondered why no one connected to Gray Fox had come after them.
• Taishu Jing said he wanted to see Saint's Blood, and Taishu Yun warned him about Saints' strength.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun discussed waiting to gain insight into the Saint Realm before pursuing their plans, while their Saint Medicine Seedlings neared their First Transformation. After sensing a hostile pursuer, they lured the Man in Black into an alley, where he revealed his Eighth Realm cultivation and demanded an unknown item.

• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun agreed to wait for their Saint Medicine Seedlings to transform and to learn about the Saint Realm before taking further risks.
• Taishu Jing offered to buy Little White clothes or accessories, but she declined and he told her not to repeat his insulting phrase about women.
• Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun sensed a hostile Divine Sense and went to a quiet alley to confront its owner.
• The Man in Black appeared, identified Gray Fox as having been killed, and demanded that Taishu Jing hand over an item.
• The Man in Black unleashed his Eighth Realm aura, crushing the willow branches as he threatened Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun confronted a Man in Black from the Yama organization, who trapped them in his Ghost Small World and attacked them with souls of ordinary people refined into ghosts. Taishu Jing began freeing the souls while Taishu Yun hunted the hidden enemy, leaving their fight underway.

• The Man in Black revealed a Yama token bearing an Impermanence and explained that the tokens had led him to Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun.
• Taishu Yun suspected Yama was connected to hell, while Taishu Jing mocked the Man in Black by calling him evil.
• The Man in Black opened his Ghost Small World and summoned countless ghostly souls to attack the brothers.
• Taishu Jing recognized the ghosts as ordinary people's souls refined into spirits, and Taishu Yun told him to send them into reincarnation while he dealt with the Man in Black.
• Taishu Yun used Divine Step to locate the hidden Man in Black and struck toward the void with the Power of Laws.

Taishu Yun defeated the Man in Black in the Ghost Small World and imprisoned his true spirit, while Taishu Jing sent the ghosts into human reincarnation. The Man in Black was left helpless as Taishu Yun ordered Jing to extract his secrets and send him into the Animal Path.

• Taishu Yun struck the Man in Black, disfiguring him and revealing his face.
• The Man in Black used Ghost Law to attack from within the Small World, but Taishu Yun countered with Space Law and shattered his law dagger.
• Taishu Yun crushed the Man in Black's Dao Bones and destroyed the Soul Palace in his Divine Court, imprisoning his true spirit.
• Taishu Jing opened a Human Path vortex that cleansed the ghosts and sent them into reincarnation as humans.
• Taishu Jing joined Taishu Yun, who told him to extract the Man in Black's secrets and send him into the Animal Path.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun extracted what they could from the Man in Black, killed him, and took control of his Law Small World. After learning that his tokens were made of Heart-Connecting Iron, they understood how he had tracked them down.

• Taishu Jing used the Path of Reincarnation to search the Man in Black’s memories, and Taishu Yun learned that crucial details had been erased by someone powerful.
• Taishu Jing sent the Man in Black’s true spirit into the Animal Path, leaving his physical body an empty shell that Taishu Yun destroyed.
• Taishu Jing kept the Impermanence token and other loot, while Taishu Yun decided to turn the Law Small World into a family secret realm protected by Taishu Jing’s formation.
• The brothers returned to the Treasure Exchange Pavilion and showed Steward Du two tokens.
• Steward Du identified the tokens as Heart-Connecting Iron, whose resonance could locate one token from the other unless blocked by the Power of Laws.

Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun prepared to forge a Law Small World, while Taishu Jing designed a formation to protect it and provide resources for the clan. After days of work, he completed a formation combining his Dao arts and demonstrated its devastating power to Little White.

• Taishu Jing told Steward Du that he had picked up the Yaksha and Impermanence tokens, and Steward Du dropped the matter and directed the brothers to the prepared medicinal ingredients.
• Taishu Jing considered formations for the Law Small World, including a gathering formation and defenses powerful enough to trap and kill Saints.
• Little White reminded Taishu Jing that Dao had Affinity, and he spent several days experimenting before completing his formation.
• Taishu Jing summoned seven Law-infused formation seals and activated a starry formation that brought forth multiple Daos and terrifying killing intent.
• Little White asked how Taishu Jing had made the different Dao arts coexist, and he proudly said his genius had solved the problem.

Taishu Jing watched his Saint Medicine Seedlings complete their first transformation and gained a clearer understanding of the Nine Revolutions Saint Realm. He then used his Five Elements Formation Seal to protect Little White as she began breaking through to the Sixth Realm.

• Taishu Jing's Saint Medicine Seedlings shed their withered outer skins and became First Turn Saint Medicines with stronger medicinal potency and emerging intelligence.
• Taishu Jing concluded that the Nine Revolutions Saint Realm required the true spirit and physique to undergo nine transformations, with each turn greatly increasing a Saint's strength.
• Taishu Jing offered to stand guard while Little White advanced from the Fifth Realm, and she began her breakthrough.
• Taishu Jing set a Five Elements Formation Seal above Little White to gather spiritual energy and form a protective barrier around her.

Little White opened her Dantian Inner World and reached the Sixth Realm, then transformed her appearance into a female version of Taishu Jing. She left the alchemy room with Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun to celebrate, while Taishu Jing fretted that her disguise would ruin his reputation.

• Little White absorbed spiritual energy beneath the five-colored barrier, opened her Dantian Inner World, and reached the Sixth Realm.
• Taishu Jing removed the barrier and learned that Little White only needed time to consolidate her cultivation before completing the Sixth Realm.
• Taishu Yun suggested that the three of them go out to celebrate, and Little White agreed after transforming to hide her identity.
• Little White chose an appearance identical to Taishu Jing's, prompting Taishu Yun to joke that Jing could take the blame for her misdeeds.
• Taishu Yun, Taishu Jing, and Little White left the Treasure Exchange Pavilion, and Taishu Jing begged Little White to change her face before his reputation suffered further.

Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White celebrated at Ju Xiang Lou, where Taishu Jing treated Little White to a lavish meal that Taishu Yun mostly ate. As they left the restaurant together, they encountered an acquaintance.

• Taishu Yun and Little White teased Taishu Jing about supporting him, but Little White refused to change her appearance.
• Taishu Jing ordered nearly all the restaurant’s most expensive dishes and paid the attendant with ten stalks of Spirit Tier Treasure Medicine.
• Taishu Jing urged Little White to enjoy the celebration meal while Taishu Yun ate most of the dishes and bantered with his brother.
• Taishu Jing and Little White agreed to head back, and Taishu Yun joined them as they left Ju Xiang Lou.
• The three encountered an acquaintance near the restaurant’s entrance.

At Ju Xiang Lou, Taishu Jing confronted Cheng Ming of Black Moon Fortress and knocked him unconscious with one move. Taishu Jing, Taishu Yun, and Little White left for the imperial palace, while Taishu Yun warned that they should avoid causing trouble in Cloud City before the Alchemy Master Competition.

• Cheng Ming recognized Taishu Jing and confronted him over their previous encounter at Wind Moon Tower.
• Taishu Yun told Taishu Jing to beat Cheng Ming half to death, and Taishu Jing slammed Cheng Ming's head into the stone floor, knocking him unconscious.
• Taishu Jing warned Cheng Ming's subordinates that their master was alive, then left Ju Xiang Lou with Taishu Yun and Little White.
• On the way to the imperial palace, Taishu Jing and Taishu Yun joked about killing anyone who provoked them after they left Yun Country.
• Taishu Yun cautioned Taishu Jing against making trouble in Cloud City before the Alchemy Master Competition, and Little White listened to the brothers' exchange.

Taishu Yun presented his maternal grandparents with pills he had refined, including Six-Mark and Seven-Mark Pills, revealing that he was a Seven-pattern Alchemist. Venerable Mo came to examine the Seven-Mark Pill and was introduced to the remarkably young Taishu Yun.

• Taishu Yun gave Murong Po and the others pills he had refined, and Murong Jingyu discovered Six-Mark and Seven-Mark Pills among them.
• Murong An asked whether Taishu Yun was a Seven-pattern Alchemist, and Taishu Yun confirmed it.
• Taishu Yun revealed that Taishu Jing was a seven-circle formation master, astonishing Murong Po, Murong Clan, and Murong An.
• Murong Jingyu brought Venerable Mo to meet the family, and he verified that the pill was a genuine Seven-Mark Pill.
• Murong Clan introduced Taishu Yun to Venerable Mo as the young Seven-pattern Alchemist who had refined the pills.

Taishu Yun discussed alchemy with Venerable Mo, then explained that he planned to compete in the Alchemy Master Competition to register as an Affiliated Alchemist of the Alchemy Master Guild. He left the group preparing for the competition, seeking easier and cheaper access to pill-refining materials.

• Taishu Jing teased Murong Jingyu about Little White and refused her requests to see Little White's true appearance.
• Taishu Yun reminded Taishu Jing to stop teasing Murong Jingyu, and Venerable Mo thanked Taishu Yun for his alchemy guidance before leaving.
• Taishu Yun told Murong Jingyu that Venerable Mo might soon advance from a Five-pattern Alchemist to a Six-pattern Alchemist.
• Murong Jingyu asked why Taishu Yun planned to enter the Alchemy Master Competition, and Taishu Yun said he wanted first place and registration with the Alchemy Master Guild.
• Taishu Yun explained that Guild registration would make it easier and cheaper for him to obtain pill-refining materials.

The Alchemy Master Competition began in Cloud City, and Taishu Yun advanced through the first two rounds with ease. The third round started with the remaining alchemists tasked with refining the Three-pattern Spirit Burst Pill.

• Sovereign Murong Po, the Empress, and representatives of Yun Country and other powers attended the competition.
• Host Alchemist Fu Yuan opened the competition, and Taishu Yun entered among roughly fifty or sixty alchemists.
• Taishu Jing judged the field unimpressive and expected Taishu Yun, a hidden Seven-pattern Alchemist, to dominate.
• The first round tested alchemists on refining the One-pattern Spirit Replenishing Pill, eliminating around twenty contestants while Taishu Yun advanced.
• The second round eliminated another large group, leaving about a dozen alchemists, including Taishu Yun.
• Fu Yuan began the third round, requiring the remaining alchemists to refine the Three-pattern Spirit Burst Pill.

Taishu Yun and two other alchemists advanced to the fourth round of the Alchemy Master Competition, prompting interest and suspicion among the spectators. As the finalists rested, Taishu Yun waited without needing to recover his Divine Sense, and the competition had yet to resume.

• Taishu Yun, an alchemist from Black Moon Fortress, and a woman from Wind Moon Tower were the only contestants to finish the Spirit Burst Pill in time and advance.
• Alchemist Fu Yuan gave the finalists half an hour to rest before the fourth round, which required refining a Four-pattern Pill.
• The Azure King took an interest in Taishu Yun, while Cheng Ming recognized him as a companion of the powerful person who had previously knocked him unconscious and decided to keep quiet.
• Murong Po and Murong Jingyu defended Taishu Yun's lack of deference to Alchemist Fu Yuan, and Murong Jingyu stopped Taishu Jing from speaking disrespectfully about the host.
• The Black Moon Fortress alchemist and the Wind Moon Tower woman recovered their Divine Sense while Taishu Yun waited, since refining lower-pattern pills barely depleted his reserves.

Taishu Yun and Cheng Jie reached the final appraisal round of the Alchemy Master Competition after the Wind Moon Tower alchemist failed to complete her Spirit Calming Pill. Alchemist Fu Yuan began judging their pills, and Cheng Jie received six points before Taishu Yun’s result was announced.

• Taishu Yun refined his Spirit Calming Pill with ease while the Wind Moon Tower alchemist struggled and Cheng Jie continued steadily.
• The Wind Moon Tower alchemist exhausted her Divine Sense and failed to form her pill, leaving Taishu Yun and Cheng Jie as the final two contestants.
• Taishu Yun finished refining first, followed by Cheng Jie, and both agreed to have Alchemist Fu Yuan appraise their pills instead of proceeding to a fifth round.
• Alchemist Fu Yuan appraised Cheng Jie’s pill and awarded it six points, earning praise from Murong Po and Murong Clan.

Taishu Yun won the Alchemy Master Competition and declined Alchemist Fu Yuan’s invitation to join the Alchemy Master Guild, choosing instead to register his name with it. Alchemist Fu Yuan accepted but added a condition, leaving Taishu Yun surprised.

• Alchemist Fu Yuan gave Taishu Yun’s Spirit Calming Pill nine points, beating Cheng Jie’s six and declaring Taishu Yun the winner.
• Cheng Jie congratulated Taishu Yun, and Alchemist Fu Yuan invited both young alchemists to join the Alchemy Master Guild.
• Cheng Jie accepted the invitation, but Taishu Yun refused, explaining that alchemy was only an interest and his aspirations lay elsewhere.
• Taishu Yun agreed to register his name with the Guild for convenience, and Alchemist Fu Yuan accepted with one condition.
• Taishu Yun was confused when Alchemist Fu Yuan introduced the condition, since he had expected to register without any additional terms.

Taishu Yun accepted Alchemist Fu Yuan’s invitation to attend the continent-wide Alchemy Master Grand Gathering in five years and received a six-pattern Pill Token as an Affiliated Alchemist of the Alchemy Master Guild. After the competition ended, Alchemist Fu Yuan learned that Taishu Yun was Sovereign Murong’s grandson.

• Alchemist Fu Yuan invited Taishu Yun to the Alchemy Master Grand Gathering at the Center of the Continent, and Taishu Yun agreed to attend in five years.
• Cheng Jie challenged Taishu Yun to compete again at the gathering, and Taishu Yun accepted.
• Alchemist Fu Yuan made Taishu Yun an Affiliated Alchemist of the Alchemy Master Guild and gave him a six-pattern Pill Token.
• The competition results confirmed Taishu Yun in first place, Cheng Jie in second, and the woman from Wind Moon Tower in third, and the gathering ended.
• On the way to the imperial palace, Alchemist Fu Yuan asked Murong Po whether he was related to Taishu Yun, and Murong Po revealed that Taishu Yun was his grandson.