Recaps

After his system awakened, Xiao Tian used its gift to gain Dou Qi and the Sharingan, beginning to overcome his reputation as a weakling. He tested his new abilities and ended the chapter with two clones glaring at each other.

• Xiao Tian received a system gift pack containing three basic techniques, a Marrow-Cleansing Golden Pill, the Sharingan, and unlimited resurrection.
• Xiao Tian ignored the branch-family disciples' insults, punched them, and reminded them that he was a young master of the main lineage.
• Xiao Tian swallowed the pill, awakened Dou Qi, and washed the impurities from his body.
• Xiao Tian activated the Sharingan and saw spiritual energy, but found that his limited Dou Qi could not sustain it for long.
• Xiao Tian practiced the Three Basic Techniques, and his Clone Technique produced two clones that glared at each other.

Xiao Tian spent time with Xiao Xun'er, who noticed that he had changed, before Xiao Zhan summoned him and announced that Xiao Yan would take the position of young clan leader. Xiao Tian insisted on trying to awaken his Dou Qi the next day, then learned that his mother had arranged a marriage for him and wondered whether Yao Lao was inside Xiao Yan’s ring.

• Xiao Xun'er brought Xiao Tian pastries, and he led her to the garden while she remarked that he had changed.
• A guard summoned Xiao Tian to see Xiao Zhan, who said Xiao Yan would become young clan leader and told Xiao Tian to learn business instead.
• Xiao Yan entered to say their mother wanted to see Xiao Tian, and Xiao Tian insisted that he would try to awaken his Dou Qi the next day.
• Xiao Tian left with Xiao Yan, who revealed that their mother had arranged a marriage for him and asked what he planned to do about Xiao Xun'er.
• Xiao Tian noticed the ancient ring around Xiao Yan's neck and wondered whether Yao Lao was inside.

Xiao Tian warned Xiao Yan that a mysterious force might be draining his Dou Qi, while Yao Lao secretly heard him and delayed absorbing it. At the Xiao Clan’s annual test, Xiao Tian surprised the clan when the Testing Magic Stone Tablet lit up, revealing that he had awakened his Dou Qi.

• Xiao Tian gave Xiao Yan the Qi Gathering Powder and asked whether his Dou Qi cultivation had recently slowed.
• Xiao Tian told Xiao Yan about his recurring dream of a black taotie draining him, and Yao Lao heard the warning from inside Xiao Yan’s soul ring.
• Xiao Tian fled after his mother tried to arrange a fiancée for him.
• At the annual test, Xiao Mei reached the second stage, and Xiao Yan rebuked her for calling Xiao Tian trash.
• Xiao Tian pressed his hand to the Testing Magic Stone Tablet, which shone brightly and stunned the Xiao Clan members.

Xiao Tian stunned the Xiao Clan by testing at the fourth stage of Dou Qi, then defeated Xiao Teng after he challenged the result. Xiao Tian headed toward Xiao Xun'er while Xiao Yan quietly left after revealing that he had reached the fifth stage.

• Xiao Tian tested at the fourth stage of Dou Qi, high rank, leaving the Xiao Clan astonished.
• Xiao Teng accused Xiao Tian of lying about his cultivation and challenged him to a fight.
• Xiao Tian seized Xiao Teng by the throat and slammed him to the ground, defeating him instantly.
• Xiao Yan completed his test at the fifth stage of Dou Qi, high rank, and quietly left.
• Xiao Zhan accepted congratulations but worried about Xiao Tian’s interest in Xiao Xun'er and her powerful background.
• Xiao Mei watched Xiao Tian pass and insisted that Brother Xiao Yan was still the best.

Xiao Tian had spent four years becoming the Xiao Clan's hidden fighting champion while longing for a chance to fight beyond the clan. When Xiao Yan suspected his ring necklace was draining his Dou Qi, Xiao Tian agreed to take it to the back mountain, leaving Yao Lao trapped and furious inside it.

• Xiao Tian used the Immortal Heavenly Dao System to earn points by defeating opponents, becoming the Xiao Clan's King of Fights and exhausting the available targets within the clan.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Tian that his Dou Qi seemed to be disappearing, so Xiao Tian examined him and borrowed his ring necklace.
• After wearing the ring necklace, Xiao Yan's Dou Qi gathering tripled and he advanced to Dou Zhe, prompting him to suspect the ring was responsible.
• Xiao Tian agreed with Xiao Yan's plan to take the ring necklace to the back mountain and throw it away, while Yao Lao fumed inside, desperate to absorb more Dou Qi and teach the boys.

Xiao Tian kept the soul ring necklace despite Xiao Yan’s worries, allowing Yao Lao to absorb his pure Dou Qi and begin recovering. Later, Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan attended a gathering where Xiao Zhan welcomed Old Master Nalan and Nalan Yanran.

• Xiao Tian decided not to discard the necklace and planned to seal it away, but then wore it so Yao Lao could absorb his Dou Qi.
• Yao Lao discovered Xiao Tian’s Dou Qi was exceptionally pure and estimated that he could emerge from the soul ring and communicate in ten days.
• Xiao Tian went with Xiao Yan to the Xiao Clan’s main hall after Xiao Zhan said they would broaden their horizons.
• Xiao Tian teased Xun'er about teddy bears, and Xiao Yan privately thought of Annie and her teddy bear.
• Xiao Zhan welcomed Old Master Nalan, who asked to meet Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan so Nalan Yanran could get to know them.
• Nalan Yanran privately looked down on the Xiao Clan’s supposed geniuses and noted that she was already a One-Star Dou Zhe at nine.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan met Nalan Jie and Nalan Yanran when the Nalan family visited the Xiao Clan. While Nalan Yanran gravitated toward the aloof Xiao Yan, Xiao Tian kept close to Xun'er, and Yanran grew increasingly annoyed as the children gathered in the pavilion.

• Xiao Zhan introduced Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan to Nalan Jie, who praised the brothers' bone structure and talent.
• Nalan Yanran introduced herself, ignored Xiao Tian's friendly questions, and scrutinized the cold Xiao Yan.
• Nalan Jie left Nalan Yanran to play with the Xiao Clan children while he continued speaking with Xiao Zhan.
• Xiao Tian held Xun'er's hand and reassured her that she was prettier than Nalan Yanran, earning a promise of red bean cakes.
• Nalan Yanran grew annoyed by the noisy children and by Xiao Tian's conversation with Xun'er as she watched Xiao Yan gaze at the snow.

Nalan Yanran provoked Xiao Xun'er and challenged Xiao Tian, but Xiao Yan stepped in before Xiao Tian revealed that he was also a One-Star Dou Zhe. The confrontation ended with Xiao Tian claiming the challenge for himself.

• Nalan Yanran introduced herself as a One-Star Dou Zhe and belittled Xiao Xun'er for coming from a small clan.
• Xiao Tian challenged Nalan Yanran's pride in her clan and defended Xiao Xun'er, who said he and Xiao Yan would become powerful.
• Xiao Yan became disgusted with Nalan Yanran, and Xiao Tian took Xun'er away to get food with him.
• Nalan Yanran challenged Xiao Tian to a fight, but Xiao Yan offered to fight her instead and revealed he was a One-Star Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Tian stopped Xiao Yan and revealed his own One-Star Dou Zhe aura, insisting that he would fight Nalan Yanran.

Xiao Tian and Nalan Yanran prepared to duel after revealing that they were both One-Star Dou Zhe, while Old Master Nalan pressed Xiao Zhan to choose one of his sons as Yanran’s future husband. Xiao Tian’s charge was stopped when Yanran activated her inherited Spirit Illusion True Eyes, leaving him stunned by her eye technique.

• Nalan Yanran challenged Xiao Tian to fight, and Xun’er warned him not to underestimate her family’s techniques.
• Xiao Tian asked Xun’er for extra red bean cakes if he won, and she agreed.
• Old Master Nalan told Xiao Zhan he wanted Yanran betrothed to one of his sons and demanded that he choose which one.
• At the training grounds, Nalan Yanran offered Xiao Tian the first move, and he charged at her with startling speed.
• Nalan Yanran activated her Spirit Illusion True Eyes, a High Xuan Class technique inherited from her grandfather, and Xiao Tian stopped in surprise.

Xiao Tian revealed his Two-Tomoe Sharingan and used it to trap Nalan Yanran in an illusion, earning points that upgraded his Three Basic Techniques. The Xiao Clan’s young geniuses were left stunned, while Xiao Yan privately wondered how his brother had the Sharingan.

• Xiao Tian activated his Two-Tomoe Sharingan, shocking Nalan Yanran and leaving Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yan bewildered.
• Xiao Tian asked Nalan Yanran about eye techniques that could affect people’s minds, then used his Sharingan to put her in an illusion.
• Nalan Yanran cried out for her mother in terror, and the Xiao Clan’s young geniuses recoiled from Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian gained 20 points for defeating Nalan Yanran and spent them to raise his Three Basic Techniques to LV3.
• Xiao Tian concluded that only a powerful Da Dou Shi could see through his Substitution, Clone, or Transformation Techniques.

Xiao Zhan and Nalan Jie announced that Xiao Tian and Nalan Yanran would marry when they turned eighteen, but both refused. Nalan Jie then proposed a duel between Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan when they were adults, with marriage as the consequence of her losing.

• Xiao Tian ended his Genjutsu, and Nalan Yanran emerged terrified of him.
• Xiao Zhan announced that Xiao Tian and Nalan Yanran would marry when they turned eighteen.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Tian both rejected the marriage, while Xiao Xun'er and Xiao Yan also objected.
• Nalan Jie noticed a dragon-shaped golden flame in Xiao Xun'er's eyes and suggested betrothing Nalan Yanran to Xiao Yan instead.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan refused the new match, so Nalan Jie proposed they duel as adults and said Nalan Yanran would marry Xiao Yan if she lost.

Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran agreed to duel after coming of age, while Nalan Jie offered to help the Xiao Clan join the Misty Cloud Sect. That night, Xiao Tian discovered Jia Lie Family intruders plotting to poison the Xiao Clan’s water and saw Xiao Yu confront them.

• Nalan Jie told Xiao Yan he would not have to marry Nalan Yanran if he won their duel, and both children agreed to fight after coming of age.
• Nalan Jie offered to help qualified members of the Xiao Clan enter the Misty Cloud Sect, and Xiao Zhan gratefully accepted.
• Nalan Yanran glared at Xiao Tian before leaving, and Xiao Yan later told Xiao Tian he intended to win the duel.
• Xiao Tian followed two masked intruders and learned that Jia Lie Lan was to poison the Xiao Clan’s water while her companion distracted Xiao Yan’s household.
• Xiao Tian spotted Xiao Yu in the shadows, and she charged at the intruders and demanded to know what they were doing.

Xiao Yu killed an intruder while Xiao Tian secretly dealt with Jia Lie Lan, who had come to poison the Xiao Clan’s well. After the clan launched a search, Xiao Tian’s role remained hidden, while Yao Lao decided to teach him his techniques.

• Xiao Yu killed a male intruder who drew his sword, then went to find the clan’s experts and search for the remaining intruder.
• Xiao Tian concealed that he had already killed Jia Lie Lan and helped Xiao Yu summon the clan’s adults.
• Yao Lao recognized Xiao Tian’s Dou Shi strength and underhanded fighting style, then resolved to teach him his techniques.
• Jia Lie Lan approached a covered well with poison and planned to cause funerals for the Xiao Clan.
• Xiao Tian used his Sharingan to trap Jia Lie Lan in an illusion and killed her instantly.
• Xiao Tian transformed into a middle-aged guard, hid Jia Lie Lan’s corpse in a sack, and dumped it in a river outside the estate.

After the Jia Lie Clan’s intruder was identified, Xiao Yan asked Xiao Tian about his strange eyes and warned him to destroy the Xiao Clan if it faced annihilation. Xiao Tian later told Xiao Zhan and the elders that he had seen the intruder, leaving Xiao Yu angry with him.

• The Xiao Clan’s higher-ups learned that the male intruder came from the Jia Lie Clan, whose leaders realized their scheme had been exposed when Jia Lie Lan’s body was found in a river.
• Xiao Yan asked Xiao Tian how he had awakened his eyes, and Xiao Tian claimed they were Heavenly Illusion Divine Eyes awakened by his anger over Xiao Qiang’s death.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Tian to wipe out the Xiao Clan if it faced annihilation so that his Sharingan would evolve, and warned that he foresaw a great calamity.
• Xiao Tian told Xiao Zhan and the elders that he had seen someone dressed in black, explaining that his master had previously forbidden him from speaking.
• Xiao Yu followed Xiao Tian afterward with an icy expression, and he became nervous.

Xiao Tian escaped Xiao Yu’s pursuit and spent the next week enjoying life before Yao Lao emerged from his soul ring. Yao Lao introduced himself and offered to teach Xiao Tian alchemy, promising he could become a Pill Emperor if he survived.

• Xiao Tian outran Xiao Yu after she chased him and threatened to beat him for teasing her about marriage.
• Xiao Tian visited Xun'er for desserts and decided she was better company than Xiao Yu.
• Seven days later, Xiao Tian dreamed of an old man, woke to find Yao Lao floating above him, and tried to use his Sharingan Genjutsu without success.
• Yao Lao explained that he had lived in Xiao Tian’s soul ring and could emerge after absorbing Xiao Tian’s Dou Qi.
• Yao Lao dismissed the clan’s Second-Rank Alchemist and offered to teach Xiao Tian pill refinement, promising he could become a Pill Emperor.

Xiao Tian persuaded Yao Lao to teach him alchemy by accepting a bet to help the Xiao Clan’s pill business, then gathered money to buy ingredients for Qi Gathering Powder. He left Xun’er with her purple-gold card and enough funds to begin.

• Xiao Tian agreed to Yao Lao’s bet that he would help the Xiao Clan sweep through Wutan City’s pill market within three days.
• Yao Lao explained that Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan qualified to become alchemists and began teaching Xiao Tian to refine Qi Gathering Powder.
• Yao Lao listed the ingredients needed, and Xiao Tian realized he needed more money to buy them.
• Xiao Tian collected seven hundred gold coins from Xiao Yan as a joining fee.
• Xiao Tian asked Xun’er for a loan, and she offered him a purple-gold card with about a thousand gold coins.

Xiao Tian sneaked out of the Xiao Clan to buy ingredients for refining, then returned to watch Yao Lao demonstrate his technique. The chapter ended as Yao Lao summoned a ghastly white flame and Xiao Tian asked whether he was a ghost king.

• Xiao Tian disguised himself in a black robe and passed the Xiao Clan’s checkpoints to reach its marketplace.
• Xiao Tian bought Purple Leaf Orchid Grass and Bone-Washing Flowers, then found a stall selling a rank-one wood-attribute Magic Core.
• Xiao Tian recognized the beauty bidding against him as Ya Fei, but he refused to sell her the Magic Core and bought it after the stallholder lowered the price.
• Xiao Tian returned to the Xiao Clan through a secret rear entrance and asked Yao Lao to begin refining.
• Yao Lao ignited a ghastly white flame, and Xiao Tian asked whether he was a ghost king.

Yao Lao demonstrated his Bone Spirit Cold Flame and taught Xiao Tian how to refine Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid. Xiao Tian took the two bottles to the Mittel Auction House, where Ya Fei recognized the liquid as an unusual, potent concoction and asked whether he had refined it.

• Yao Lao revealed that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame was the eleventh-ranked Heavenly Flame and showed Xiao Tian how he used Soul Power to refine ingredients.
• Yao Lao refined two portions of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and gave them to Xiao Tian to sell and use the proceeds to buy more ingredients.
• Xiao Tian left the Xiao Clan grounds in disguise and went to the Mittel Auction House to auction the spirit liquid.
• Ya Fei met Xiao Tian in the VIP room and, after inspecting the bottle, asked whether he had refined the unusual liquid.

Xiao Tian had the T. M. Auction House appraise his Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and Grandmaster Gu Yue recognized it as a second-rank medicinal pill, revealing Xiao Tian's standing as at least a Second-Rank Alchemist. Xiao Tian left with a ten-thousand-gold-coin advance and planned to keep buying spiritual ingredients.

• Xiao Tian insisted that the T. M. Auction House's Grandmaster appraise the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid in front of him so it would not be swapped.
• Ya Fei brought Grandmaster Gu Yue to inspect the liquid, and he judged it a second-rank medicinal pill.
• Gu Yue concluded that Xiao Tian was at least a Second-Rank Alchemist, astonishing Ya Fei.
• Xiao Tian asked the auction house to auction the liquid soon and advance him ten thousand gold coins.
• Xiao Tian left the auction house with a gold card, and Yao Lao urged him to buy more spiritual ingredients.

Xiao Tian kept his secret outings from Xun'er and began learning alchemy from Yao Lao. He successfully refined ten bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and realized alchemy could earn him system points.

• Xiao Tian returned to his room with spiritual ingredients, where Xun'er confronted him about sneaking out and his unusual outfit.
• Xiao Tian told Xun'er he was working to become an alchemist and promised her the first batch of skin-whitening spirit liquid.
• After Xun'er left, Xiao Tian cultivated until evening, then followed Yao Lao's guidance and condensed spiritual flames on his first try.
• Xiao Tian refined Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid successfully on his first attempt, then produced ten bottles as the quality improved with practice.
• Xiao Tian saw that refining the spirit liquid had raised his system points to 200 and realized he could earn points through alchemy.

Xiao Tian accompanied his clan to the T. M. Auction House, where he discovered that the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid up for sale was the same product he had refined. He hoped Xiao Zhan would lose the bidding so he could profit from the Jia Lie Clan and the Ao Ba Family Clan, but the chapter ended with his father bidding 10,000 gold coins.

• Xun'er dragged Xiao Tian from bed and told him that Xiao Zhan and the elders were taking the younger generation to the T. M. Auction House.
• Xiao Tian and Xun'er joined Xiao Yan and the other clan youths, where Xiao Yan explained that the auction's Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid could help cultivators advance to Dou Zhe.
• Xiao Tian realized he had refined ten bottles of the spirit liquid himself and hoped Xiao Zhan would lose the bidding to the Jia Lie Clan and the Ao Ba Family Clan.
• Ya Fei opened the auction, and bidders competed fiercely for the first five items.
• Ya Fei presented the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, and Xiao Zhan immediately bid 10,000 gold coins.

Xiao Tian’s Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid sold for seventy thousand gold coins to Xiao Zhan, while Ya Fei regretted antagonizing the mysterious alchemist who made it. As the auction continued, Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan recognized an ancient staff as Sun Wukong’s Adamantine Staff and urgently asked their father for money to buy it.

• Xiao Tian watched his Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid’s bids rise to seventy thousand gold coins, and Xiao Zhan won the bottle.
• Jia Lie Bi and Ao Ma Pa criticized Xiao Zhan for spending so much, while he defended the purchase as an investment for the Xiao Clan.
• Ya Fei privately doubted that the Xiao Clan could reproduce the liquid and worried that its mysterious black-robed maker still held a grudge against her.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan both asked Xiao Zhan to lend them gold coins when the auction offered an ancient, weathered rod that could not conduct Dou Qi.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan recognized the rod as Sun Wukong’s Adamantine Staff and urged Xiao Zhan to help them buy it.

Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan tried to borrow money to bid on the Adamantine Staff, but Xiao Zhan refused them and Xun'er lent Xiao Tian the funds. Xiao Tian drove up the price, then let rival clans withdraw from the bidding, and left intending to buy the staff secretly.

• Xiao Zhan refused Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan's request to borrow gold coins, so they turned to Xun'er.
• Xun'er refused to lend Xiao Yan money but agreed to lend Xiao Tian some.
• Xiao Tian bid on the Adamantine Staff, provoking members of the Jia Lie Clan and Ao Ba Family Clan to raise the price.
• Xiao Tian stopped bidding, and the two rival clans withdrew after their clan heads apologized.
• Xiao Tian left the Xiao Clan in disguise and headed to the T. M. Auction House to buy the staff secretly.

Xiao Tian sold more Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, bought the Adamantine Staff, and learned about Yao Lao’s Flame Mantra. After the staff rejected his attempt to claim it, the system revealed that it was damaged, sealed, and required an ownership password.

• Xiao Tian sold another bottle of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and used part of the proceeds to buy a Storage Ring and the unsold Adamantine Staff.
• Yao Lao offered Xiao Tian the Flame Mantra, a cultivation method that could advance without limit by devouring Beast Flames or Heavenly Flames, and planned to teach him alchemy that night.
• Xiao Tian returned to the Xiao Clan grounds and told Yao Lao that the Adamantine Staff seemed to resonate with him.
• Yao Lao suspected the staff was a spiritual weapon that could choose its master, but Xiao Tian failed to claim it with his blood.
• The system analyzed the Adamantine Staff and declared it damaged and sealed, then demanded an ownership password.

Xiao Tian struggled to unlock the Adamantine Staff and discovered that threats about beating dogs advanced its ownership binding. When Xun'er told him the Jia Lie Clan and Ao Ba Family Clan were troubling Xiao Yan with a poetry contest, Xiao Tian headed over with the staff.

• Xiao Tian tried numerous phrases to claim the Adamantine Staff, but only advanced its ownership binding by threatening to use it to beat dogs.
• Xun'er told Xiao Tian that visitors from the Jia Lie Clan and Ao Ba Family Clan were bullying Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Tian learned that Jia Lie Ya had stunned Xiao Yan, Xiao Ning, and the others with poetry while Xiao Yan struggled to come up with more verses.
• Xiao Tian decided to take his staff and confront them rather than answer Jia Lie Ya's poetry.