Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ce returned from the underground cavern with the Green Lotus Platform and Earth Fire Lotus Seeds, then used a seed to rapidly raise his cultivation while Xiao Yi Xian slept nearby. With the night still young, he decided to begin absorbing the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Xiao Ce took the Green Lotus Platform and seeds but left the lotus root stalk behind, then returned to the surface with the Mysterious Yellow Flame.
• Xiao Ce found Xiao Yi Xian waiting in a Dou Qi barrier; she fell asleep from exhaustion, so he settled her in a tent and guarded her.
• Xiao Ce tested the Green Lotus Platform and found that it increased his cultivation speed and helped temper his Dou Qi.
• Xiao Ce swallowed an Earth Fire Lotus Seed and refined its energy with the Spirit Refining Art and the devouring power of his emperor flame.
• After four hours, Xiao Ce advanced to Six-Star Dou Shi, and the Spirit Refining Art opened two new meridians.
• Seeing that there was still time before dawn, Xiao Ce decided to absorb the Green Lotus Core Flame.

After absorbing the green lotus core flame, Xiao Ce advanced to Eight-Star Dou Shi and strengthened the emperor flame before traveling with Xiao Yi Xian to Stone Desert City. There, he encountered a distressed girl being driven away from a vegetable stall.

• Xiao Ce absorbed the green lotus core flame, breaking through from Six-Star to Eight-Star Dou Shi and evolving the Spirit Refining Art to the Intermediate Xuan Tier.
• Xiao Ce found that the emperor flame had recovered to roughly the sixteenth place on the Heavenly Flame Ranking and planned to use the life spirit flame’s power to accelerate medicinal herb growth.
• Xiao Ce decided to aim to become a sixth-grade alchemist by the time of the Three-Year Agreement, then prepared to travel to Stone Desert City with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Ce and Xiao Yi Xian teleported to the outskirts of Stone Desert City, entered the city, and headed toward the Desert Iron Mercenary Group while sampling local snacks.
• Xiao Ce saw a girl in plain hemp clothes being insulted and chased away by a vegetable vendor, and she ran into him as she withdrew.

Xiao Ce reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li at the Desert Iron Mercenary Group and arranged to take Qing Lin as his personal maid. After entering seclusion, he broke through to One-Star Da Dou Shi and gained another deployment opportunity.

• Xiao Ce met Qing Lin, recognized her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and took her to the Desert Iron Mercenary Group, insisting she become his maid.
• Xiao Ce introduced himself to the mercenaries, who reported his arrival to Xiao Ding and Xiao Li.
• Xiao Ce reunited with Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, moved into their courtyard with Xiao Yi Xian, and proposed making Qing Lin his personal maid.
• Xiao Ce drank with his brothers, then announced he would enter seclusion to break through.
• Xiao Ce digested two earth fire lotus seeds and advanced from Eight-Star Dou Shi to Nine-Star Dou Shi and then One-Star Da Dou Shi, increasing his deployment count by one.

Xiao Ce comforted Qing Lin after she waited outside his room, then began a deployment as a farmer’s son one hundred thousand years in the past. The simulation left him facing a new setback after he reached Dou Zhe and discovered he lacked the Wood Qi needed to become an Alchemist.

• Xiao Ce found Qing Lin asleep at his doorway and told her to rest, explaining that he did not want her to be mistreated as he had been.
• Xiao Ce used the Fallen Heart Flame to temper his Dou Qi, then started a deployment as a farmer’s son in Yishan City.
• At age five, Xiao Ce revealed his cultivation-boosting medicinal formula to his parents, who ignored his warnings and began selling the medicinal liquid.
• After his parents divulged the formula and died, Xiao Ce left Yishan City with gold coins and resolved to avenge them.
• By age thirteen, Xiao Ce had reached the ninth stage of Dou Qi as the families selling his formula were successively wiped out.
• At age fourteen, Xiao Ce broke through to Dou Zhe and discovered that his fire attribute lacked Wood Qi, preventing him from becoming an Alchemist.

Unable to become an Alchemist, you built a career as an Artifact Refiner, using your earnings to fund medicinal liquids that helped you cultivate. After reaching the Central Plains and joining a sect as an Artifact Refining Elder, you befriended Xiao Huo and wondered if he might become the Xiao Clan's founding Dou Di.

• You apprenticed under Moxi in Bangshui City, became his personal disciple, and rose to become a second-grade Artifact Refiner.
• You sold artifacts to fund medicinal liquids, advanced to Dou Shi, then left Bangshui City to seek new markets and opportunities.
• You traveled across the Suiyun Empire, became a fourth-grade Artifact Refiner, and advanced to Dou Ling.
• You returned to Bangshui City to leave Moxi money, your artifact formulas, and your Fire Control Technique before heading to the Central Plains.
• You joined a sect as an Artifact Refining Elder, befriended Xiao Huo, and heard his ambition to become a Dou Di and establish his own Dou God Clan.

An artifact refiner cultivated slowly while Xiao Huo became a powerful Dou Zun, then the refiner acquired the Fire Cloud Water Flame and advanced his artifact-making career. The chapter ended with Xiao Huo introducing his newborn son, Xiao Yan.

• The refiner befriended Xiao Huo, but their relationship grew more distant as Xiao Huo's strength far outpaced his own.
• After his sect was destroyed, the refiner joined the Flame Flame Sect and invented the Charged Medicine Cauldron, earning wealth and contribution points.
• The refiner used pills to raise his cultivation to Nine-Star Dou Ling and traveled to the Northwest Continent to pursue a heavenly flame.
• The refiner hired Dou Wangs to distract a magical beast, took the Fire Cloud Water Flame, and survived its absorption while breaking through to Dou Wang.
• The refiner refined Sixth-Tier Artifacts and submitted a new Charged Medicine Cauldron formula to the Flame Flame Sect for resources.
• Xiao Huo introduced the refiner to his newborn son, whom he had named Xiao Yan.

The narrator raised Xiao Yan, who rapidly became a peerless cultivation genius, while the narrator advanced as an artifact refiner and cultivator. After Xiao Yan returned from years of adventures, the narrator wondered whether his friend Gu Yue'er might become the Gu Clan's first Dou Di.

• The narrator took in Xiao Yan and raised him, while Xiao Huo left resources and later made the narrator Xiao Yan's godfather.
• Xiao Yan advanced from cultivating Dou Qi to becoming a Dou Zhe at six, and the narrator taught him an Early Earth Tier fire-attribute cultivation method and the Fire Control Technique.
• Xiao Huo died after challenging a Dou Sheng, while Xiao Yan continued advancing under the narrator's care and eventually reached Dou Emperor and then Dou Zong.
• The narrator broke through to Spirit Realm soul power and became an eighth-tier artifact refiner, while Xiao Yan traveled out to temper himself.
• Xiao Yan returned as a Dou Zun, gave the narrator a high-grade spirit fruit, and recounted his adventures and his close bond with Gu Yue'er.
• The narrator suspected, without knowing why, that Gu Yue'er might become the Gu Clan's first Dou Di.

The narrator advanced as an equipment refiner, developed disposable equipment and the Heavenly Demon Puppet, and trained his grandson Xiao Yan in cultivation and alchemy. Xiao Yan eventually killed the Emperor Clan prodigy who had slain his father, but the clan's Dou Di killed Xiao Yan in return.

• The narrator developed disposable medicinal cauldrons that became popular across the continent and earned him the name Myriad-Forging Venerable.
• After Xiao Yan and Gu Yue'er left their son Xiao Yan in the narrator's care, the narrator accelerated his grandson's cultivation and taught him alchemy.
• The narrator refined a powerful Gathering Qi Futon and later created Heavenly Demon Puppets that could absorb pill lightning.
• Xiao Yan grew into a powerful alchemist and cultivated while planning to avenge his father, Xiao Huo.
• Xiao Yan killed the Emperor Clan prodigy who had slain Xiao Huo, but the clan's Dou Di killed Xiao Yan, leaving no corpse or bones.

After Xiao Yan’s death, the narrator and his son Xiao Yan devoted themselves to cultivation, forging, and alchemy to prepare for revenge. Years later, Xiao Yan’s cultivation suddenly surged to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng, and the chapter ended with the unexpected appearance of Xiao Yan and Hu Yue'er, including a Xiao Yan who had become a Dou Di.

• The narrator grieved Xiao Yan’s death and began relentlessly forging artifacts to gather resources for revenge, while Xiao Yan dedicated himself to cultivation and alchemy.
• The narrator and Xiao Yan grew stronger over the years, using rare pills, artifacts, and resources to advance their cultivation and alchemy skills.
• The narrator and Xiao Yan took a break from their punishing efforts, traveled the continent, and later traded their services to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan for resources.
• Xiao Yan became a ninth-grade Xuan Dan alchemist and refined three ninth-grade Xuan Dan for the narrator, who absorbed them and reached early-stage Seven-Star Dou Sheng.
• Xiao Yan entered seclusion with three ninth-grade Xuan Dan, then suddenly broke through to Early-Stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng.
• The narrator and Xiao Yan were astonished when Xiao Yan and Hu Yue'er appeared, and they realized that Xiao Yan was alive and had reached Dou Di cultivation.

After Xiao Yan revealed that he had survived and reached Dou Di, you abandoned your relentless pursuit of power and traveled across the continent, repaying old debts and refining artifacts. After becoming a Ninth-Grade Gold Artifact refiner, you founded the Artifact Refiner Alliance and left your legacy with both the Alliance and the Xiao Clan.

• Xiao Yan explained that he had escaped death by using a token to return to a Dou Di Secret Realm, and you chose to travel after learning he was alive.
• You left the Flame Flame Sect, visited Mo Xi in the Northwest Continent, and repaid him with pills, resources, and cultivation manuals.
• You rewarded kindhearted people while traveling and punished those who tried to exploit your apparent generosity, changing the atmosphere of the Northwest Continent.
• You traveled through the Beast Region and other remote places, refining artifacts from rare materials and sealing the nine nether wind flame in a ninth-grade artifact for your future self.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yan destroyed the Yuan Clan after Xiao Yan became a Dou Di, and you left the sealed flame artifact and your artifact-refining legacy with the Xiao Clan.
• After absorbing a Ninth Grade Golden Pill, you reached mid-stage Nine-Star Dou Sheng, refined a Ninth-Grade Gold Artifact, and established the Artifact Refiner Alliance.

Xiao Ce’s deployment ended after his avatar became a Dou Di, built the Artifact Refiner Alliance, and left the Dou Qi Continent with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yan. Reviewing the results, Xiao Ce chose artifact refining talent and a Gathering Qi Futon as his rewards.

• The avatar established the Artifact Refiner Alliance, left a binding legacy through the Soul Contract Stele, and appointed three magnates to lead the growing organization.
• The avatar became renowned as the Ancestor of Artifact Refiner and Master of the Heavenly Cauldrons, then preserved his true legacy inside the Falling Star Cauldron.
• After reaching Dou Di, the avatar created the Artifact Realm and later agreed to leave for a higher plane with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yan.
• The Deployment System ended the deployment when the avatar left the Dou Qi Continent and offered artifact refining talent, Fire Control Technique, and a Gathering Qi Futon as rewards.
• Xiao Ce chose artifact refining talent and the Gathering Qi Futon.

Xiao Ce received an artifact-refining talent and a vast inheritance of artifact-refining techniques from the Falling Star Cauldron, then learned that his Artifact Refiner Alliance had declined after losing a treasured inheritance. He planned to visit its branch in Stone Desert City and later return to the Xiao Clan to claim the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Emperor Jade if they had been passed down.

• Xiao Ce tested the Gathering Qi Futon and found that its energy-gathering effect stacked with the Green Lotus Seat, greatly increasing his confidence in raising his cultivation.
• Xiao Ce used his soul power to awaken ancient characters on the Falling Star Cauldron, and the Ninth Grade Golden Pill stopped blocking them so the artifact-refining inheritance could enter his mind.
• Qing Lin attended to Xiao Ce after he woke, while Xiao Yi Xian joined him for breakfast and suggested visiting the Artifact Refiner Alliance to buy special metals.
• Xiao Ce invited Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian to eat with him, then considered returning to the Xiao Clan to claim the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Emperor Jade.
• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill told Xiao Ce that mysterious experts had raided the Artifact Refiner Alliance several hundred years earlier, stolen its Soul Contract Stele, and left it with only one late Six-Star Dou Saint to defend its diminished standing.

Xiao Ce investigated the theft of the Artifact Refiner Alliance’s Soul Contract Stele, then demonstrated his skill by refining artifacts and pills for the Desert Iron Mercenary Group. After a month of training, he reached four-star Da Dou Shi and prepared to take pills that could greatly accelerate his cultivation.

• Xiao Ce and the Ninth Grade Golden Pill discussed who might have stolen the Soul Contract Stele, with Hun Tiandi emerging as the likeliest suspect although Xiao Ce still considered Gu Yuan possible.
• Xiao Ce successfully refined two third-grade Thousand-Layer Armors and gave them to Xiao Ding and Xiao Li, then offered to make more artifacts and pills for the Desert Iron Mercenary Group.
• Over the next month, Xiao Ce refined many pills and artifacts, including successful batches of superior-quality Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills and Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pills.
• Xiao Ce gained three stars of cultivation, advancing from one-star to four-star Da Dou Shi, and prepared to take two Purple Heart Barrier-Breaking Pills and one Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pill.