Chapter Summaries

Gu Chenfeng and Ding Si broke into the black-clad men’s underground mining base, where the four Source Sea Realm leaders ordered an attack and sealed the entrance. Gu Chenfeng fought through dozens of opponents with his powerful body, then assembled the Six Harmonies Great Spear and charged again as Ding Si battled the four leaders.

• Gu Chenfeng and Ding Si entered the cavern, where the black-clad leaders recognized Gu Chenfeng and realized their target had arrived.
• Ding Si offered to hold off the enemy while Gu Chenfeng escaped, but Gu Chenfeng refused and demanded that the men surrender.
• The four leaders ordered their men to capture Gu Chenfeng and kill Ding Si, while a formation master sealed the entrance.
• Ding Si fought all four Source Sea Realm leaders as Gu Chenfeng stormed through the black-clad men and defeated waves of Source Qi Realm martial artists.
• Gu Chenfeng drew the Six Harmonies Great Spear, assembled it, and charged the remaining opponents.

Gu Chenfeng overwhelmed the black-clad warriors in the mine with his spear and then revealed the battle axe strapped to his back, using it to slaughter the remaining attackers. The battle ended with every opponent dead, leaving Gu Chenfeng frustrated that he had not yet used his strongest moves.

• Gu Chenfeng killed a Source Qi Realm Eight-Star warrior with one spear strike, revealing that he had reached External Cultivation Perfection.
• Ding Si stopped holding back against the four Source Sea Realm experts after seeing Gu Chenfeng fight, and he drove them back with golden sword light.
• Two Source Qi Realm Nine-Star warriors ambushed Gu Chenfeng, but his concealed Black Gold Battle Axe blocked the strike aimed at his back.
• Gu Chenfeng connected the axe to his spear and swept through the black-clad men, cutting down groups of them with the massive weapon.
• Gu Chenfeng used Tiger Claw Rends the Sky to cleave one Nine-Star expert in two, then found that no opponents remained standing.

Gu Chenfeng and Su Wanyue joined forces against a masked swordsman who denied attacking her or arranging Gu Chenfeng’s assassination. The fight left the swordsman under pressure, while Gu Chenfeng discovered that his gray Source Qi could dispel the man’s freezing energy.

• Gu Chenfeng slaughtered the Source Qi Realm fighters in the mine, while Ding Si killed two Source Sea Realm opponents and chased the two who fled.
• A masked swordsman entered the mine, followed by Su Wanyue in disguise, who revealed that she had pursued him from the Imperial Capital as the man who attacked her.
• The swordsman denied attacking Su Wanyue’s people or sending assassins after Gu Chenfeng, but Su Wanyue attacked him anyway.
• Su Wanyue traded blows with the swordsman, using Gu insects to keep him on the defensive, and Gu Chenfeng joined the fight with his axe.
• The swordsman’s icy Source Qi began freezing Gu Chenfeng, but Gu Chenfeng’s gray Source Qi suppressed it, allowing him to return to the attack.

Su Wanyue and Gu Chenfeng joined forces against the Black-Clad Swordsman, whose powerful sword technique pushed them into a desperate clash. Gu Chenfeng’s last-ditch close-range attack exposed the swordsman as a woman when his hands caught her chest and tore her clothing.

• The Black-Clad Swordsman used a Movement Technique to evade Su Wanyue and Gu Chenfeng, but Su Wanyue blocked her escape and the pair renewed their assault.
• The Black-Clad Swordsman unleashed “Frostfreezing for a Hundred Miles,” and Su Wanyue met the storm of sword shadows with a bloody sigil.
• Gu Chenfeng struck with the Mountain-Piercing Form, helping Su Wanyue halt and then push back the Black-Clad Swordsman’s attack.
• As Gu Chenfeng’s energy ran low, the Black-Clad Swordsman regained the advantage, so Gu Chenfeng abandoned his axe and charged in with his fists.
• The Black-Clad Swordsman blocked Gu Chenfeng’s punches with a frost barrier and kicked at him, but Gu Chenfeng grabbed her chest, tearing her clothing and drawing a startled cry.

Gu Chenfeng discovered that the Black-Clad Swordsman was Shangguan Bingxin, and she and Su Wanyue realized their earlier clash had stemmed from a misunderstanding. After learning that both women were searching the Imperial Capital for a lost supreme treasure, Gu Chenfeng persuaded them to join him in opening the formation beneath his lineage’s mineral vein.

• Gu Chenfeng and Su Wanyue recognized the Black-Clad Swordsman as Shangguan Bingxin after their fight exposed her identity.
• Shangguan Bingxin explained that she had attacked Su Wanyue while investigating the same killings, and Su Wanyue learned that Shangguan belonged to the Azure Sky Sect while she herself was from the Gu God Sect.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue revealed that their sects were searching the Imperial Capital for a lost treasure and that they had both investigated the mineral vein’s mysterious formation.
• Gu Chenfeng proposed that they work together to open the formation, offering them a share of any treasure and hoping their sects would help protect his lineage’s mineral vein.
• Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin both agreed to join forces with Gu Chenfeng.

Gu Chenfeng reached an agreement with Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin to help break the mine’s formation, then brought them to the Four Directions Gate to recruit the people needed. The women disguised themselves before the group continued up the mountain.

• Gu Chenfeng agreed to take half the treasures from the mineral vein in exchange for helping Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin break its fourth-grade formation.
• Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin planned to use a fourth-grade water formation and asked Gu Chenfeng to provide the manpower.
• Ding Si returned to find Gu Chenfeng unharmed beside the two women, then reported that he had killed three of the four Source Sea Realm attackers and the last had fled badly injured.
• Gu Chenfeng ordered the survivors escorted to the Imperial Capital and the bodies cleared, then directed Ding Si to take the carriage to the Hidden Dragon Mountains.
• Gu Chenfeng left Ding Si at the foot of the Four Directions Gate and explained that Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin could recruit people there to help break the formation.
• Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin changed their appearances with veiled bamboo hats before continuing up the mountain with Gu Chenfeng.

Gu Chenfeng visited the Four Directions Gate with Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin to inspect its disciples’ training. When the second-in-command insulted the women, Shangguan Bingxin struck him down, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Yan Sihai assembled the Four Directions Gate members and disciples to demonstrate their training for Gu Chenfeng.
• Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue judged the disciples unsuitable and called them trash.
• The second-in-command heard the women’s comments and cursed at them, accusing them of climbing into their patron’s bed.
• Shangguan Bingxin demanded to know what he had said, but the second-in-command shouted back despite Yan Sihai’s warning.
• Shangguan Bingxin appeared before the second-in-command and struck him with her sleeve, sending him flying.

Gu Chenfeng arranged for Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin to train the Four Directions Gate's disciples while they prepared to break the formation at the mineral vein. After improving rapidly, he found his physique cultivation had stalled and went to the Myriad Treasures House seeking a higher-grade body-tempering pill recipe.

• Shangguan Bingxin struck the Four Directions Gate's second-in-command, and Su Wanyue's cold snort stunned the gathered disciples and shocked Yan Sihai with the women's strength.
• Gu Chenfeng persuaded Su Wanyue and Shangguan Bingxin to train the Four Directions Gate's people, while Yan Sihai agreed to cooperate and continue investigating the Huangfu Lineage's hunting party.
• Gu Chenfeng told Gu Hanshuang about the mineral vein and offered to have his people guard it; she agreed after hesitating.
• Over seven days, Gu Chenfeng advanced his Iron Elephant Art to perfection and his Source Qi cultivation to Eight-Star, but his physique progress stalled for lack of stronger arts or pills.
• Gu Chenfeng visited the Myriad Treasures House and asked Liu Fuyan for a body-tempering pill recipe above the first grade, and Liu Fuyan said they had one.

Gu Chenfeng became the Myriad Treasures House’s chief alchemist and received the Dragon-Elephant Bone Tempering Pill recipe. He still needed a hundred-year-old dragon saliva flower and learned that the Alliance Trade Fair’s auction might offer one.

• Gu Chenfeng asked Liu Fuyan whether the Myriad Treasures House had higher-grade body-tempering pill recipes, and she confirmed the branch held a third-grade recipe.
• Liu Fuyan offered Gu Chenfeng the chief alchemist position, a greater share of profits, equity, and access to third-grade recipes; he accepted and signed a new contract.
• Liu Fuyan gave Gu Chenfeng the Dragon-Elephant Bone Tempering Pill recipe, but explained that the Myriad Treasures House had no finished pills and could only help source some ingredients.
• Gu Chenfeng realized Big Bear had already given him a Source Sea Realm tiger demon’s heart, leaving a hundred-year-old dragon saliva flower as his missing main ingredient.
• Liu Fuyan told Gu Chenfeng that the Alliance Trade Fair and its nighttime auction would take place in a month, and invited him to attend with her.

Gu Chenfeng prepared for the Alliance Trade Fair by improving his alchemy and arranging help to search for Dragon Saliva Flowers, while Four Directions Gate grew stronger under Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue’s training. The chapter ended with Gu Yanshuang warning him about possible Barbarian Tribe spies and the Huangfu Lineage’s suspicious silence, as Gu Chenfeng focused on obtaining the flowers and strengthening himself.

• Gu Chenfeng became Myriad Treasures House’s chief alchemist, obtained the Dragon-Elephant Bone Tempering Pill recipe, and agreed to support Liu Fuyan at the Alliance Trade Fair.
• Gu Chenfeng refined second-grade pills and saw Shangguan Bingxin and Su Wanyue turn Four Directions Gate’s disciples into disciplined trainees, with several reaching the Source Qi Realm.
• Gu Chenfeng met Big Bear and Second Bear in Great Wilderness Ridge and asked them to search for Dragon Saliva Flowers and watch for the Huangfu Lineage’s hunting party.
• Gu Yanshuang told Gu Chenfeng that the Imperial Guard was hunting suspected Barbarian Tribe spies outside the Imperial Capital and gave him a Communication Talisman.
• Gu Chenfeng resolved to obtain Dragon Saliva Flowers at the trade fair, refine the Dragon-Elephant Bone Tempering Pill, and grow strong enough to eliminate the threat of the Huangfu Lineage.

Gu Chenfeng traveled with Liu Fuyan toward the Alliance Trade Fair and discussed the Myriad Treasures Sect, the Gu family, and rumors about himself. He showed Liu Fuyan his latest pills, including several supreme-quality second-grade varieties, before she inhaled an unidentified medicine from a pink bottle despite his warning.

• A convoy from the Myriad Treasures House left the Imperial Capital for Roosting Phoenix Mountain, where the Alliance Trade Fair would be held.
• Gu Chenfeng learned from Liu Fuyan that the Myriad Treasures House was a secular business of the Myriad Treasures Sect, which had submitted to Great Li after Gu Beiwu's campaign.
• Liu Fuyan praised Gu Beiwu and Gu Lingxiao, then described the Third Young Master of the Gu Family as clever, handsome, and gifted despite his reputation as a wastrel.
• Gu Chenfeng offered Liu Fuyan the pills he had refined during his seclusion, and she found bottles of superior-quality and supreme-quality second-grade pills.
• Liu Fuyan opened the pink jade bottle and sniffed its contents before Gu Chenfeng's warning could stop her.

Gu Chenfeng accidentally exposed Liu Fuyan to a potent aphrodisiac and hurried to give her an antidote. Zhang Qi opened the carriage door at the worst moment, mistook the scene for an intimate encounter, and ordered the convoy onward without telling anyone to disturb them.

• Liu Fuyan sniffed a potent aphrodisiac that Gu Chenfeng had accidentally packed with his pills, and its effects quickly overwhelmed her.
• Gu Chenfeng searched for an antidote as Liu Fuyan lost her balance during their struggle over her medicine chest.
• Gu Chenfeng found a potion and poured it into Liu Fuyan's mouth while she was kneeling in front of him.
• Zhang Qi opened the carriage door, saw the awkward scene, and hurriedly shut it without interrupting them.
• Zhang Qi told the guard captain to take the convoy up Roosting Phoenix Mountain and keep away because Liu Fuyan was discussing confidential trade fair matters with Mister Ge.
• Zhang Qi privately assumed Liu Fuyan had sacrificed greatly to secure Gu Chenfeng's help and felt embarrassed by what she had seen.

After accidentally poisoning Liu Fuyan in the carriage, Gu Chenfeng treated her, and the two arrived at the Alliance Trade Fair flustered but unharmed. As the fair opened, Gu Chenfeng returned to Myriad Treasures House’s booth and found Steward Chen of Exquisite Pavilion and former Chief Alchemist Huang confronting them.

• Gu Chenfeng apologized to Liu Fuyan for the experimental medicine, and she accepted his explanation while privately dwelling on what might have happened.
• Liu Fuyan asked Zhang Qi to keep the carriage incident secret and warned that she might call on Zhang Qi to help ease Gu Chenfeng’s pressure if rumors interfered with his work.
• Liu Fuyan oversaw Myriad Treasures House’s booth while Gu Chenfeng explored the crowded Alliance Trade Fair and looked forward to the evening auction.
• Gu Chenfeng returned to the booth and found Steward Chen and former Myriad Treasures House Chief Alchemist Huang, now Exquisite Pavilion’s Chief Alchemist, drawing a crowd.

Chen Xu and Huang Wei disrupted Myriad Treasures House’s booth at the Alliance Trade Fair by spreading a scandalous rumor about Liu Fuyan. As the crowd began to believe them and the two sides clashed, an unfamiliar young man arrived and greeted Huang Wei as an old acquaintance.

• Chen Xu and Huang Wei confronted Liu Fuyan at the Myriad Treasures House booth, and Huang Wei claimed she had once seduced him.
• Liu Fuyan denied Huang Wei’s accusations, while Zhang Qi defended her and Huang Wei offered to take her as a concubine.
• Liu Fuyan ordered Chen Xu and Huang Wei to leave, and the two groups’ guards shoved and grappled.
• Chen Xu and Huang Wei’s rumor spread through the crowd, making some onlookers begin to believe it.
• A young man in a blue robe approached Huang Wei, put an arm around him, and asked whether life with his concubines was still harmonious.

Gu Chenfeng exposed Alchemist Huang’s impotence and Chen Xu’s kidney deficiency, humiliating the Exquisite Pavilion men and clearing the rumors about Liu Fuyan. At the trade fair, Liu Fuyan then learned that Huang Wei’s connections and third-grade pills were drawing the major buyers to Exquisite Pavilion, threatening her branch’s assessment.

• Gu Chenfeng pretended to know Alchemist Huang and revealed the details of his impotence and snake-assisted dual cultivation, causing Huang to collapse in shame.
• Gu Chenfeng exposed Chen Xu’s kidney deficiency, and Chen Xu fled with the Exquisite Pavilion guards while the crowd mocked them.
• Gu Chenfeng explained that he had learned Huang’s secrets from the green snake, and Liu Fuyan thanked him for defending her reputation.
• The trade fair began, and Myriad Treasures House sold pills to individual buyers while Liu Fuyan worried that she had secured no large orders.
• Zhang Qi reported that Huang Wei had used his connections, third-grade pills, and discounts to attract major buyers to Exquisite Pavilion.
• Liu Fuyan realized Exquisite Pavilion might take the large orders her branch needed to meet the Myriad Treasures Sect’s assessment.

Alchemist Huang and Steward Chen celebrated the Exquisite Pavilion’s success while Huang plotted to ruin Ge Hong and seize Liu Fuyan. At the Myriad Treasures House booth, Gu Chenfeng announced free on-site pill refining with compensation for failures, leaving Liu Fuyan to trust him as a crowd gathered.

• Steward Chen and Alchemist Huang celebrated attracting major orders, and Huang vowed to defeat Ge Hong and use Liu Fuyan to restore his virility.
• Liu Fuyan and Zhang Qi struggled to secure contracts as faction representatives hesitated to trust the Myriad Treasures House without a Third-Grade Alchemist.
• Gu Chenfeng asked for a pill furnace, had it raised on a platform at the booth entrance, and advertised free pill refining with compensation for failed batches.
• A crowd gathered and questioned Gu Chenfeng’s promise, while Liu Fuyan stopped Zhang Qi from pulling him down and chose to trust him.

At the Myriad Treasures House booth, Gu Chenfeng used poor-quality ingredients to refine a medium-quality First-Grade Detoxification Pill for a desperate young man whose sister had been poisoned. The crimson-robed young man recognized that the pill had reached the very limit of medium quality as Gu Chenfeng apologized for not making it superior.

• A crimson-robed young man doubted Gu Chenfeng's promise to refine pills on the spot, while the red-dressed girl beside him praised the offer.
• A shabby young man asked Gu Chenfeng to make a First-Grade Detoxification Pill for his poisoned sister using his poor-quality ingredients.
• Gu Chenfeng said he could produce at most a medium-quality pill, and the young man accepted, desperate to save his sister.
• Gu Chenfeng rapidly purified the ingredients and condensed them over a blazing fire as the crowd watched in amazement.
• Gu Chenfeng produced a jade-green Detoxification Pill, and the crimson-robed young man identified it as the very limit of medium quality.
• Gu Chenfeng tossed the pill to the young man and apologized that he could not raise its quality to superior.

Gu Chenfeng’s public pill refining drew a huge crowd and brought the Myriad Treasures House a rush of sales and long-term contracts, while the Exquisite Pavilion lost customers. As Gu Chenfeng displayed a supreme-quality second-grade pill, Steward Chen and Alchemist Huang plotted to challenge him by demanding a third-grade pill.

• Gu Chenfeng refined medium-quality Detoxification Pills from inferior herbs, astonishing the crowd and convincing the Sword-Bearing Youth that his skill came from extraordinary talent.
• Liu Fuyan recognized that Gu Chenfeng’s public demonstration was attracting customers and orders, and she organized staff to handle the growing business.
• Gu Chenfeng continued refining popular pills, including high-quality second-grade pills, while Liu Fuyan signed supply contracts and imagined that they were running the business like a young married couple.
• A servant told Steward Chen and Alchemist Huang that Gu Chenfeng’s demonstration had drawn a crowd and power representatives away from the Exquisite Pavilion, prompting the two men to investigate.
• Gu Chenfeng produced a supreme-quality second-grade pill, drawing still more buyers and contract signings as Steward Chen and Alchemist Huang watched.
• Alchemist Huang rejected the idea that Gu Chenfeng was a Third-Grade Alchemist, then arranged with Steward Chen to have someone publicly challenge him to refine a third-grade pill.

Gu Chenfeng faced a public challenge to prove that he could refine a third-grade pill and turned the demand into a costly offer that would benefit Myriad Treasures House’s customers. The dark-faced man accepted the tenfold fee and ordered Gu Chenfeng to refine a Source Condensation Pill, warning him he would demand compensation if he failed.

• A dark-faced Source Qi Realm Nine-Star martial artist challenged Gu Chenfeng to refine a third-grade pill, claiming Myriad Treasures House could no longer do so after Alchemist Huang left.
• Gu Chenfeng praised Alchemist Huang as a master, then insulted his age and illness while claiming Myriad Treasures House had hired him as its new Chief Alchemist.
• Gu Chenfeng agreed he could refine the man’s Source Condensation Pill but said he would charge ten times the normal fee and give the money to customers as discounts.
• The dark-faced man accused Gu Chenfeng of making excuses, but Gu Chenfeng showed him the sign stating that third-grade pill refining cost ten times the normal fee.
• Steward Chen signaled the dark-faced man, who accepted the fee and demanded that Gu Chenfeng refine the pill immediately, threatening to seek tenfold compensation if the ingredients were wasted.

Gu Chenfeng publicly refined a third-grade Source Condensation Pill to help the Myriad Treasures House regain business, while Alchemist Huang and Steward Chen plotted to sabotage him. A red-clad girl and a sword-bearing young man stopped the plot, and Gu Chenfeng completed the pill.

• A dark-faced man from the Exquisite Pavilion paid ten times the fee and supplied ingredients for Gu Chenfeng to refine a Source Condensation Pill.
• Gu Chenfeng purified the ingredients and began forming the pill as a crowd gathered to watch.
• Alchemist Huang prepared a poisoned Shadowless Needle to disrupt the refinement and kill Gu Chenfeng, while Steward Chen urged him on.
• The red-clad girl and the sword-bearing young man knocked Alchemist Huang and Steward Chen unconscious before they could attack.
• Gu Chenfeng completed the Source Condensation Pill amid chimes and a powerful fragrance.