Chapter Summaries

Lin Shisan attended the Gu Household’s Dao of Alchemy gathering, where the elders recognized his Body Tempering Great Perfection and rewarded him with the household’s pill-refining insights. After drawing lot six, he refined a second-grade Spirit-Gathering Pill, while Gu Feiyu watched him with hostility.

• Feng Xian’er brought Lin Shisan to the Heavenly Star Pavilion, where Gu Canghai and the elders discovered he had reached Body Tempering Great Perfection.
• The elders questioned Lin Shisan about the Nine Yang Cauldron Spirit’s inheritance, and he admitted receiving alchemy insights but claimed he had understood little of them.
• Gu Canghai gave Lin Shisan the Gu Household’s pill-refining insights, and Lin accepted the gift after Feng Xian’er’s subtle approval.
• Gu Mengli explained that Gu Feiyu, her Second Uncle’s eldest legitimate son, seemed prejudiced against Lin Shisan.
• Lin drew lot six at the gathering and refined a second-grade Spirit-Gathering Pill with three pill marks.

After the Gu Household’s alchemy gathering, Lin Shisan’s refusal to answer Gu Feiyu’s taunts led Feng Xian’er to push him into a fight with Ling Lei. Lin Shisan defeated the Meridian Opening first-stage disciple with one punch, leaving the banquet stunned and revealing his extraordinary strength.

• Gu Feiyu refined a second-grade spirit pill with four marks, took first place, and Lin Shisan came second and received a Meridian Opening Pill.
• At the banquet, Gu Feiyu tried to provoke Lin Shisan, but Lin Shisan calmly admitted his alchemy was inferior.
• Ling Lei mocked Gu Feiyu and praised Lin Shisan, prompting Feng Xian’er to force Lin Shisan and Ling Lei to face each other.
• Lin Shisan struck Ling Lei with one punch, sending him through several trees and leaving him unconscious with severe injuries.
• The guests stared at Lin Shisan in fear and disbelief, while Gu Canghai, Gu Mengli, and Feng Xian’er each reacted to his demonstrated strength.

After returning from the Gu Household, Lin Shisan studied Gu Canghai’s alchemical insights and learned that a Meridian Condensing Pill could help him advance. Three days later, Long Yan’er arrived at Cold Moon Peak with a Long Household secret recipe that included the pill formula and news that Long Shuang’er might be forced into marriage.

• Feng Xian'er warned Lin Shisan that Gu Feiyu resented him over Gu Mengli and that Ling Lei’s older brother might seek revenge for his injured brother.
• Lin Shisan read Gu Canghai’s scroll, considered the Gu Household’s motives, and learned that a Meridian Condensing Pill could assist his breakthrough but required rare ingredients.
• Feng Xian'er summoned Lin Shisan to the mountain gate to receive Long Yan'er, who joyfully reunited with him.
• Long Yan'er gave Lin Shisan a secret Long Household alchemical recipe containing the Meridian Condensing Pill formula and naming nine-curve spirit lingzhi as a substitute ingredient.
• Long Yan'er told Lin Shisan that Long Shuang'er had sold most of the Long Household’s properties, planned to relocate with her brothers, and might be getting married.
• Lin Shisan brought Long Yan'er to Cold Moon Peak, where she was to become Feng Xian'er's nominal disciple and live near him.

Lin Shisan welcomed Long Yan'er as Feng Xian'er's nominal disciple, then considered refining a Meridian-Congealing Pill before meeting Gu Mengli at Little Mirror Lake. Gu Mengli asked him to pose as her dual-cultivation Dao Companion to fend off a forced marriage, and the chapter ended with her revealing she knew about the ghost flower he had hidden at Nine Yang Pavilion.

• Feng Xian'er accepted Long Yan'er as her nominal disciple and let her and Lin Shisan use their own forms of address.
• Lin Shisan studied the Meridian-Congealing Pill recipe Long Shuang'er had sent and decided to seek ingredients at the Sect's Spirit Medicine Pavilion.
• Gu Mengli summoned Lin Shisan to Little Mirror Lake and asked him to publicly acknowledge her as his dual-cultivation Dao Companion.
• Gu Mengli explained that Gu Feiyu was pestering her and her Second Uncle wanted to marry her into the Ling Household, while she promised the arrangement would be temporary.
• When Lin Shisan considered refusing, Gu Mengli said she knew he had hidden a ghost flower in his robes at Nine Yang Pavilion, prompting him to ready the Little Black Cauldron.

Gu Mengli pressured Lin Shisan into helping her reclaim her family’s power, revealing her knowledge of the Ghost Flower and offering a rare ingredient for Meridian-Congealing Pills. Lin Shisan agreed under strict conditions, while Gai Jiuyou’s projection revealed itself within Gu Mengli and teased her about her feelings for him.

• Gu Mengli threatened to expose Lin Shisan’s connection to the Ghost Flower and implicate Feng Xiangu and his new granddisciple unless he helped her.
• Gu Mengli explained that she wanted to restore her father’s rightful place as head of the Gu Household and needed Lin Shisan’s support against her Second Uncle and the Ling Household.
• Gu Mengli offered Lin Shisan a Nine-Curve Spirit Lingzhi, and Lin Shisan suspected she was not entirely herself because she knew about the ingredient for Meridian-Congealing Pills.
• Lin Shisan agreed to help if Feng Xiangu approved, Yan'er remained uninvolved, and Gu Mengli never threatened him again; they sealed the agreement with a clap of their palms.
• After Lin Shisan left, Gai Jiuyou’s projection emerged from Gu Mengli and teased her about blushing and joining Lin Shisan’s harem.

Ling Yun arranged to force Long Shuang'er into marriage with Ling Lei and use her to hurt Lin Shisan, while Lin Shisan traveled to collect ingredients for Meridian-Congealing Pills. At the chapter’s end, Lin Shisan entered the Spirit Medicine Pavilion and saw its vast collection of spirit medicines.

• Ling Lei demanded that Ling Yun kill Lin Shisan and the woman he called a slut, and Ling Yun soothed him before putting him to sleep.
• Ling Yun learned that Long Shuang'er and her two elder brothers would arrive at Soaring Sky Peak, but had Hong Tong pressure them into agreeing to her marriage to Ling Lei and demanding the Biluō Purple Cauldron.
• Lin Shisan received Feng Xian'er's Personal Disciple Command Token and agreed to collect a hundred-year-old inch-heart bitter lotus from Gu Mengli at the Heavenly Star Pavilion.
• Lin Shisan told Feng Xian'er that he would visit the Spirit Medicine Pavilion and then the Heavenly Star Pavilion, while keeping his Meridian-Congealing Pill plans secret from others.
• Lin Shisan and Qing'er arrived at the Spirit Medicine Pavilion, where deacon Zhou Wenqing verified Lin Shisan's Command Token and welcomed him inside.
• Lin Shisan entered the pavilion and was astonished by its enormous, formation-divided stores of spirit medicines.

Lin Shisan gathered herbs for Meridian-Congealing Pills and met Gu Mengli to collect a hundred-year-old inch-heart bitter lotus. He discovered that Gai Jiuyou had been inside Gu Mengli, and Gai Jiuyou ended the chapter by immobilizing them in each other’s arms and threatening to force them to dual cultivate.

• Lin Shisan ordered medicinal herbs from Zhou Wenqing, then collected the remaining available ingredients from the Spirit Medicine Pavilion.
• Lin Shisan traveled to the Heavenly Star Pavilion, where Gu Mengli gave him a hundred-year-old inch-heart bitter lotus she had obtained from Ling Yun.
• Lin Shisan questioned Gu Mengli after her manner abruptly changed, and Gu Mengli revealed that another woman had been inside her.
• Lin Shisan recognized the woman as Gai Jiuyou and offered her the Taiji Wheel if she would leave Gu Mengli unharmed.
• Gai Jiuyou emerged from Gu Mengli, teased Lin Shisan, and immobilized him and Gu Mengli in each other’s arms as she threatened to make them dual cultivate.

Lin Shisan agreed to help Gai Jiuyou steal Feng Xian'er's Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror in exchange for his father's killer's identity and alchemy instruction, with Gu Mengli held as leverage. After Gai Jiuyou taught him how to refine the Meridian-Congealing Pill, Lin Shisan received the last ingredient from Feng Xian'er and was left ready to attempt the pill.

• Lin Shisan activated the Little Black Cauldron's Seven-Colored Rosy Light, but Gai Jiuyou escaped into Gu Mengli and threatened her and Hu Niu to make him cooperate.
• Lin Shisan agreed to help Gai Jiuyou obtain the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror within a month, while asking her to reveal his father's killer and teach him alchemy.
• Gai Jiuyou gave Lin Shisan inherited memories detailing how to refine the Meridian-Congealing Pill, then withdrew from Gu Mengli.
• Gu Mengli woke without knowing about the deal, saw Lin Shisan off, and listened as Gai Jiuyou teased her about caring for him.
• Feng Xian'er gave Lin Shisan an upper third-tier Crimson Flame Python beast core, explaining that Gu Mengli had obtained it from Ling Yun.
• Lin Shisan realized he had gathered all the Meridian-Congealing Pill ingredients and wondered whether Gai Jiuyou's instruction would let him refine it.

Lin Shisan spent three days refining ten failed batches of Meridian-Congealing Pills before realizing the Biluō Purple Cauldron disrupted the balance of the ingredients. With only enough materials for one more attempt, he decided to risk using the Little Black Cauldron so he could break through to Meridian Opening.

• Lin Shisan prepared the spirit medicines and carefully refined the first batch of Meridian-Congealing Pills in the Biluō Purple Cauldron, but the cauldron erupted and left him with a burnt pill.
• Lin Shisan continued refining batches, but all ten attempts failed through explosions, spoiled ingredients, or pills with unstable medicinal properties.
• Lin Shisan reviewed each failure and concluded that the Biluō Purple Cauldron's gentle suppression clashed with the complex medicinal properties of the Meridian-Congealing Pill.
• Lin Shisan put away the Biluō Purple Cauldron and decided to use the Little Black Cauldron for his last attempt, despite fearing that he might expose its secret.

Lin Shisan activated the Little Black Cauldron and successfully refined a Meridian-Congealing Pill, then used the cauldron to evolve it and ten failed pills. He ended with eleven improved pills, enough to support his attempts to open his meridians.

• Long Shuang'er agreed to marry Ling Yun's younger brother to save Long Tianliang and recover the Biluō Purple Cauldron.
• Lin Shisan connected with the Little Black Cauldron through his Divine Sense on his eleventh attempt, revealing its ancient Runes and seven-colored flame.
• Lin Shisan used the Little Black Cauldron to refine a first-grade Meridian-Congealing Pill.
• Lin Shisan placed his new pill and ten failed pills inside the Little Black Cauldron and waited four days and nights for it to evolve them.
• The Little Black Cauldron produced eleven Meridian-Congealing Pills, all at least second-grade, with the best bearing four Pill Marks.

Ling Lei and Ling Yun brought Long Shuang'er and a group from the Ling Household to Cold Moon Peak to retrieve her niece and claim the Biluō Purple Cauldron as her dowry. After Long Shuang'er confirmed the claim under pressure, Lin Shisan agreed to return the cauldron.

• Qing'er told Lin Shisan that Ling Lei and others from the Ling Household had arrived at the mountain gate with Long Shuang'er.
• Lin Shisan met the group, where Ling Yun said he had come to settle two matters and Ling Lei asked Long Shuang'er to take Yan'er home.
• Long Shuang'er told Lin Shisan that she had married Ling Lei and had come to take Yan'er home.
• Ling Yun demanded the Biluō Purple Cauldron, arguing that it was Long Shuang'er's dowry and now belonged to the Ling Household.
• Lin Shisan asked Long Shuang'er whether she personally wanted the cauldron back, and she said that she did while Ling Lei squeezed her waist.
• Lin Shisan agreed to return the Biluō Purple Cauldron.

Lin Shisan returned the Biluō Purple Cauldron to Long Shuang'er, but Ling Yun and Ling Lei demanded fifty thousand Spirit Stones and threatened him. Feng Xian'er intervened, confirmed that Elder Long had given Lin Shisan the cauldron, and left Ling Yun exposed in his failed attempt to seize it.

• Lin Shisan handed the Biluō Purple Cauldron to Long Shuang'er, and Ling Lei took it before demanding compensation for the Ling Household.
• Ling Lei demanded fifty thousand Spirit Stones, while Long Shuang'er admitted that her father had given the cauldron to Lin Shisan but fell silent under Ling Yun's threat.
• Lin Shisan refused to pay, and Ling Yun attacked him as Gu Feiyu egged them on.
• Feng Xian'er emerged from the bamboo grove and stopped Ling Yun's hand inches from Lin Shisan.
• Feng Xian'er questioned Long Shuang'er, who confirmed that Elder Long had given the cauldron to Lin Shisan, then revealed that she had witnessed the gift herself.

Feng Xian'er forced Ling Yun to pay Lin Shisan fifty thousand Spirit Stones for taking the Biluō Purple Cauldron, then blocked the Ling Household's attempt to take Long Yan'er away. Long Yan'er chose to stay at Cold Moon Peak, and Gu Mengli defended her and Lin Shisan as Feng Xian'er ordered the Ling Household's group to leave.

• Feng Xian'er took the Biluō Purple Cauldron from Ling Yun and demanded fifty thousand Spirit Stones as compensation for his taking Lin Shisan's cauldron.
• Ling Yun and the three Deacons scraped together fifty thousand Spirit Stones, which Feng Xian'er gave to Lin Shisan.
• Ling Yun and Ling Lei insisted that Long Shuang'er take Long Yan'er home, but Lin Shisan brought Yan'er out and asked what she wanted.
• Long Yan'er ran to Lin Shisan and refused to leave with Long Shuang'er, saying she wanted to stay with her Master's Master.
• Gu Mengli joined Lin Shisan, declared Long Yan'er a Cold Moon Peak disciple, and kicked Ling Changxiong away when he threatened Lin Shisan.
• Feng Xian'er ordered Ling Yun's group and the Ling Household's hidden guardians to leave Cold Moon Peak.

Lin Shisan resisted Gai Jiuyou’s attempt to seduce him through Gu Mengli, while Ling Yun revealed that he had sabotaged the Meridian-Congealing Pills to kill Lin Shisan. The chapter ended with Ling Yun suddenly weakened as Ling Lei and Long Shuang'er entered his Study.

• Feng Xian'er advised Lin Shisan to enter seclusion and attempt to break through to the Meridian Opening Realm, suggesting dual cultivation with Gu Mengli.
• Gai Jiuyou possessed Gu Mengli and tried to seduce Lin Shisan, but he stopped her by insisting she respect Gu Mengli’s wishes.
• Ling Yun learned that Lin Shisan was attempting his breakthrough and revealed that he had arranged for the pills’ ingredients to cause a deadly medicinal conflict.
• Ling Yun grew suddenly weak while with a woman, and she opened the door to admit Ling Lei and Long Shuang'er.
• Ling Yun realized that the woman had been Ling Lei’s lover and feared what the two newcomers intended.

Long Shuang'er cooperated with Ning Jiuying to kill Ling Yun and make Ling Lei his puppet. Meanwhile, Lin Shisan’s attempt to break through to Meridian Opening went disastrously wrong, leaving his life hanging in the balance as he struggled to contain the pill’s violent power.

• Long Shuang'er and Ning Jiuying carried out their plan, and Ling Lei killed Ling Yun before Ning Jiuying used him to devour Ling Yun and the young woman.
• Lin Shisan began his Meridian Opening breakthrough by swallowing three Meridian-Congealing Pills and using the Taiji Wheel to refine their medicinal power.
• Lin Shisan opened his first meridian, but the pills’ power turned violent and began swelling his body toward bursting.
• Lin Shisan realized the Inch-Heart Bitter Lotus was three hundred years old and suspected Ling Yun had tampered with it to sabotage him.
• Lin Shisan summoned the Jiaolong True Spirit and used the Nine Heavens True Dragon Art to form the Heavenly Star Seal around his Dantian while the Taiji Wheel continued grinding down the violent power.

Feng Xian'er fought four black-clad intruders who tried to steal the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror while Lin Shisan broke through amid the battle. Lin Shisan opened his second meridian, reached the peak of Meridian Opening, and began forcing open the third as the Jiaolong True Spirit started to evolve.

• The Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror warned Feng Xian'er of danger, and a black-clad woman tried to seize it.
• Feng Xian'er drove back the intruders with the mirror, but the four attackers formed a demonic dragon and gradually overwhelmed her as her gu poison and depleted spiritual power weakened her.
• Feng Xian'er sensed a starlight vortex above Lin Shisan's hut and realized he might have broken through, but the fight concealed the phenomenon.
• Lin Shisan channeled the spiritual power of three Meridian-Congealing Pills through his meridians, opened his second meridian, and reached the peak of Meridian Opening before failing to break the third.
• The spiritual power within Lin Shisan stabilized, while the Heavenly Star Seal swayed and the Jiaolong True Spirit appeared to be advancing as a lump formed on its forehead.

Ning Jiuying used the Biluō Purple Cauldron key to suppress Feng Xian'er's Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror and attacked her with the black-clad figures. As Lin Shisan struggled to contain the power surging through him during the jiaolong true spirit's evolution, Feng Xian'er was hurled into the Bamboo Hut, where he caught her.

• Ning Jiuying used the Biluō Purple Cauldron key to suppress the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror and ordered the black-clad figures to capture Feng Xian'er.
• The three black-clad figures formed an array and sent a nightmare ghost after Feng Xian'er, while three others went to seize Lin Shisan.
• Feng Xian'er reflected the three attackers' blows through her protective barrier, killing them before they reached Lin Shisan's Bamboo Hut.
• Lin Shisan fed the jiaolong true spirit two Meridian-Congealing Pills, but the backlash stirred his dantian and left him unable to control the surging demon spirit.
• Lin Shisan tried to activate the Little Black Cauldron, then prepared to withdraw the Heavenly Star Seal as the jiaolong true spirit neared the end of its evolution.
• Feng Xian'er was hurled into the Bamboo Hut, and Lin Shisan sprang up to catch her.

Feng Xian'er fought Aunt Mei and Ning Jiuying to protect Lin Shisan and the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror, while Lin Shisan learned Aunt Mei was Hu Niu’s protector and was publicly branded a Demon Sect spy. Ning Jiuying’s attack severed the starry vortex, which swallowed Lin Shisan and the mirror as reinforcements and a powerful newcomer approached.

• Feng Xian'er threw the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror into Lin Shisan’s Bamboo Hut, where its barrier protected him, and Ning Jiuying was badly injured by the hut’s restriction.
• Aunt Mei struck Feng Xian'er and revealed that she was Mei Erni, then exposed Lin Shisan as a Demon Sect spy while Feng Xian'er trusted him.
• Feng Xian'er burned her life force to awaken her nine-phoenix inheritance and trap Aunt Mei’s group in flames while Danyang Sect elders fought to reach her.
• Gu Mengli sent a warning that a powerful figure was approaching, but Ning Jiuying refused to retreat and attacked Lin Shisan’s barrier with tentacles and a giant skull.
• Aunt Mei and Feng Xian'er both tried to stop Ning Jiuying, and their forces collided, severing the starry vortex and causing it to swallow Lin Shisan and the mirror.

Lin Shisan was pulled from the starry vortex and woke in a strange star-filled space with a miniature sprite, while Feng Xian'er mourned him at Cold Moon Peak. Bai Ziyin sealed Ning Jiuying’s key, restored Feng Xian’er through the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror, and began binding Ning Jiuying with his Seven Step Kill.

• Feng Xian'er plunged into the starry vortex after Lin Shisan as Aunt Mei pursued her, and their clash with the Black Demon Dragon caused a black-clad man to die and Cold Moon Peak to burn.
• A huge hand of energy pulled Lin Shisan from the vortex, and he later woke beneath a star-filled sky beside a miniature sprite who could not explain who she was or where they were.
• Bai Ziyin arrived at Cold Moon Peak and saved the badly weakened Feng Xian'er, who blamed herself for dragging Lin Shisan into danger and asked Bai Ziyin to kill Aunt Mei and Ning Jiuying.
• Bai Ziyin demanded the key from Ning Jiuying, sealed its demonic energy, and caused the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror to heal Feng Xian'er.
• Bai Ziyin used Seven Step Kill to bind Ning Jiuying with golden chains and ordered him to take his own life before the technique’s seven steps were complete.

Zhang Wujun arrived at Cold Moon Peak to stop Bai Ziyin from killing Ning Jiuying and offered three self-inflicted stabs as Nine Nether Mountain’s apology. After Bai Ziyin accepted a Jade Box as compensation, Zhang Wujun took Ning Jiuying away.

• Zhang Wujun appeared at Cold Moon Peak and stopped Bai Ziyin from bringing his foot down on Ning Jiuying.
• Zhang Wujun stabbed his own shoulders and chest three times to apologize for Nine Nether Mountain offending Fairy Feng, destroying Cold Moon Peak, and coveting the Heart-Exterminating Mirror.
• Bai Ziyin withdrew his foot but refused to release Ning Jiuying without further compensation, pointing his gaze toward Lin Shisan.
• Zhang Wujun gave Bai Ziyin a Jade Box, and Bai Ziyin accepted it and allowed him to take Ning Jiuying away.
• Zhang Wujun carried Ning Jiuying off with demonic energy, while Aunt Mei followed and the two other black-clad men fled.