Chapter Summaries

Luo Zixi negotiated with Yao Chen for alchemy lessons in exchange for Soul Power, then gathered ingredients with Xiao Yan and Xun'er to refine pills. As Luo Zixi ate with Xun'er in the Market City, an unwelcome visitor approached them.

• Yao Chen demonstrated his Heavenly Flame to Xiao Yan, and Luo Zixi appeared, startling Yao Chen with his strength and ability to teleport.
• Luo Zixi offered Yao Chen Soul Power in exchange for alchemy lessons, and they bargained over the amount until Yao Chen agreed to teach him for one portion at the Two-Star Dou Shi level.
• Luo Zixi bought Purple Leaf Orchid Grass and Marrow Cleansing Flower in the Market City, then supplied Xiao Yan with Wood-Type Magic Cores for pill refining.
• Luo Zixi took Xun'er to eat while Xiao Yan followed behind them, and an unwelcome guest approached and greeted Miss Xun'er.

At the Xiao Family’s back mountain, Luo Zixi asked Yao Chen to demonstrate alchemy, then used his unusual talents and keen observation to learn and rapidly master the process. Yao Chen was left stunned and demoralized, while Xiao Yan marveled at how lucrative alchemy could be.

• Luo Zixi brought Yao Chen to a secluded cave and asked him to refine Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid as a demonstration.
• Yao Chen refined the liquid with Bone Spirit Cold Fire, then checked Luo Zixi’s Dou Qi and discovered his overwhelming innate flame and six elemental affinities.
• Luo Zixi copied Yao Chen’s method and made a flawed bottle of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid, which Xiao Yan caught and learned could still sell for a high price.
• Luo Zixi refined eight more bottles in quick succession until his work matched Yao Chen’s, leaving Yao Chen stunned by his speed.
• Luo Zixi asked Yao Chen to teach him other pills and explained that burning enemies’ corpses had helped him control heat.

Luo Zixi took Xun'er to the Mittel Auction House to sell pills and buy medicinal ingredients, where he reunited with Ya Fei. Ya Fei showed her jealousy and affection for Luo Zixi, leaving Xun'er embarrassed and resentful as she watched them embrace.

• Luo Zixi brought Xun'er to the Mittel Auction House and asked Gu Ni to appraise nine bottles of Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid and prepare the ingredients on his list.
• Gu Ni offered starting prices for the bottles, including higher prices for the flawless pills, and Luo Zixi accepted.
• Ya Fei arrived, teased Luo Zixi about Xun'er, kissed him, and left a lipstick mark on his neck.
• Xun'er wiped away Ya Fei's lipstick mark, then bit Luo Zixi's neck in jealousy before he comforted her.
• Ya Fei returned with the medicinal ingredients and a twenty percent discount, asked Xun'er to lend Luo Zixi to her, and embraced him while Xun'er watched.

Luo Zixi reached Nine-Star Dou Emperor and refined a peak seventh-grade Yin Yang Xuan Long Pill, using Silent Extinction Lightning to inscribe three Pill Patterns. Its medicinal fragrance nearly pushed Xiao Yan to Ninth Stage Dou Qi, but Luo Zixi and Yao Chen sealed the effect and warned him against weakening his foundation; Luo Zixi then gave him Qi Gathering Powder.

• The system advanced Luo Zixi by two levels to Nine-Star Dou Emperor, and he prepared to finish refining the Yin Yang Xuan Long Pill with materials Xun'er had provided.
• As pill tribulation clouds gathered over Wu Tan City, Luo Zixi drove them away with Silent Extinction Lightning and inscribed three Pill Patterns onto the pill.
• Luo Zixi collected the completed peak seventh-grade pill, whose medicinal fragrance caused Xiao Yan to break through from Seventh Stage to Eighth Stage Dou Qi.
• Luo Zixi and Yao Chen sealed Xiao Yan's cultivation and removed the fragrance from his body, then explained that pills could destabilize his foundation at this stage.
• After Xiao Yan complained, Luo Zixi gave him first-grade Qi Gathering Powder, and Xiao Yan questioned why it smelled stronger than the pill Luo Zixi had supposedly been refining.

Luo Zixi visited Xun'er and revealed that he had refined several powerful pills, including a peak seventh-tier Yin Yang Xuan Long Pill. He gave Ling Ying a Po Zong Pill in exchange for keeping his achievements and teacher secret.

• Xun'er welcomed Luo Zixi after he had neglected to visit her for three days, and he wiped her dusty feet before showing her his pills.
• Luo Zixi gave Xun'er a peak fourth-tier Three-Pattern Azure Spirit Pill and three peak sixth-tier pills, astonishing both her and Ling Ying.
• Luo Zixi revealed that his most prized creation was a peak seventh-tier Yin Yang Xuan Long Pill, and Ling Ying explained its history and connection to Yao Chen and Feng Xian.
• Luo Zixi reassured Xun'er that Yao Chen was a good teacher and gave Ling Ying a Po Zong Pill that could help him break through to Dou Zong, asking him to keep the matter secret.

At the Xiao Family coming-of-age ceremony, Xiao Yan revealed that he had reached eight stages of Dou Qi, while Xiao Mei and Xun'er impressed the crowd with their Dou Practitioner ranks. Xiao Yu reunited with Luo Zixi and took him to the back mountain, where their playful reunion turned intimate.

• Xiao Mei and Xun'er clung to Luo Zixi as Xiao Yan watched, feeling dejected about their closeness and their cultivation.
• Xiao Yu returned in her Canaan Academy uniform, and Luo Zixi reminded her of their earlier encounter, embarrassing her.
• Xiao Mei tested at one-star Dou Practitioner, and Xun'er tested at nine-star Dou Practitioner.
• Xiao Yan took the test and revealed eight stages of Dou Qi, leaving the gathered crowd stunned.
• Xiao Yu brought Luo Zixi to the back mountain, asked about his strength, and embraced him as they flirted.

A week after Xiao Yan advanced to the Fighter realm, Yao Chen offered Luo Zixi and Xiao Yan the Flame Mastery technique. Luo Zixi used it to refine the Origin Flame from his Fire Spirit Ancestral Body, raising Flame Mastery to Heaven Rank High Grade, while Xiao Yan chose to cultivate it too.

• Yao Chen called Luo Zixi and Xiao Yan to the Xiao Family back mountain and offered them Flame Mastery, hoping Luo Zixi would help him refine a body.
• Luo Zixi mastered Flame Mastery and explained that it could reach Heaven Rank High Grade, though refining a body required three Heavenly Flames.
• Luo Zixi told Yao Chen he would not take his Bone Spirit Cold Fire and sat down to refine his Origin Flame.
• Xiao Yan chose Flame Mastery over the Earth Rank Fire Discharging Skill after Yao Chen asked him to decide.
• Luo Zixi refined his Origin Flame, unleashing flames that scorched the surrounding ground and raised Flame Mastery to Heaven Rank High Grade.

Luo Zixi sold pills in Green Mountain Town to draw Xiao Yixian to him, then tested her aptitude for alchemy at Ten Thousand Medicines Hall. He discovered her Calamity Poison Body and planned to help her refine pills using a suitable vessel, leaving her to decide whether to cooperate.

• Luo Zixi sold out his pills in Green Mountain Town and told Xiao Yixian he would test her aptitude for alchemy.
• Xiao Yixian brought Luo Zixi to Ten Thousand Medicines Hall, where Mister Yao agreed to let him test her.
• Luo Zixi revealed his identity and used his life energy to examine Xiao Yixian, cleansing the toxins in her body and healing Mister Yao's hidden injuries.
• Luo Zixi realized Xiao Yixian lacked the attributes to refine pills and considered using an External Soul Bone to help her overcome the conflict with her Calamity Poison Body.
• Luo Zixi told Xiao Yixian that he had a way to help her refine pills, but she would need to cooperate with him.

Luo Zixi fused the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger's External Soul Bone with Xiao Yixian to control her Calamity Poison Body and help her cultivate, then began teaching her alchemy. The chapter ended with him discovering that Xiao Yixian had independently refined pills after watching him only once.

• Xiao Yixian agreed to leave with Luo Zixi if she could visit Uncle Yao every two years, and Mister Yao accepted Luo Zixi's offer to help her.
• Luo Zixi fused the External Soul Bone with Xiao Yixian and fed her the Highly Toxic Little Candy Pill, raising her strength to three-star Dou Practitioner.
• Xiao Yixian panicked at her new claws, wings, and hook, then learned how to manage the toxins in her body and accepted the Fire Spirit Seed and Wood Spirit Seed.
• Luo Zixi demonstrated alchemy at the Ten Thousand Medicines Hall while Xiao Yixian watched, and Mister Yao entrusted her to his care.
• The next morning, Luo Zixi found that Xiao Yixian had refined Spring Return Powder and Power Accumulation Pills after seeing each recipe only once.

Luo Zixi brought Xiao Yixian to meet Yao Chen while Xiao Yan struggled to learn pill refining, and Yao Chen questioned whether her Calamity Poison Body could make pills. Xiao Yixian demonstrated that she could refine pills after Luo Zixi had altered her constitution, leaving Yao Chen wary of how he had done it and Xiao Yan frightened by her changed appearance.

• Xiao Yan ruined another batch of medicinal ingredients, and Yao Chen scolded him for mishandling the heat and ingredients.
• Luo Zixi teleported Xiao Yixian from Green Mountain Town to the Xiao Family's back mountain, where Yao Chen doubted that her Calamity Poison Body could safely refine pills.
• A pill batch exploded and left Xiao Yan soot-covered and stunned, while Luo Zixi explained Yao Chen's ghostly appearance to Xiao Yixian.
• Luo Zixi asked Xiao Yixian to demonstrate pill refining, and she agreed after asking him to teach her more recipes.
• Xiao Yixian grew a scorpion tail and wings, drew pure fire and wood energy from her hands, and finished refining pills in under two minutes.
• Yao Chen recognized that Luo Zixi had somehow resolved Xiao Yixian's constitution and grew wary of him, while Xiao Yan recoiled from her transformed appearance.

Luo Zixi explained Xiao Yixian’s Soul Bones and helped her control her Calamity Poison Body, then brought her to meet Xun'er, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Yu. The girls welcomed Xiao Yixian while teasing Luo Zixi for bringing home another girl.

• Luo Zixi told Yao Chen that Xiao Yixian’s wings, Scorpion Tail Hook, and claws were Soul Bones, and Yao Chen praised her alchemy talent and the fit of her enhancements.
• Xiao Yan tried to approach Xiao Yixian, but she corroded the stone wall with her poison and warned him to stay away.
• Luo Zixi took Xiao Yixian to meet Xun'er, Xiao Mei, and Xiao Yu, while Yao Chen comforted the dejected Xiao Yan by telling him he ranked second in talent after Luo Zixi.
• Xun'er suspected Luo Zixi had gone to find another girl, then welcomed Xiao Yixian and led her away from him while teasing him as a fickle radish.

Xiao Yixian’s poison candies rapidly increased her strength, and she used them to poison Liu Xi after he tried to lure her away. Luo Zixi let Liu Xi and the Gale Family leave, then secretly recited a strange incantation that would make Liu Xi infamous in Wu Tan City.

• Xiao Yixian admitted she had eaten a week’s supply of poison candies in two days and reached nine-star Dou Practitioner, so Luo Zixi gave her a bottle and warned her to ration it.
• Liu Xi offered Xiao Yixian candy to lure her home, but she gave him one of her poisonous candies, which left him writhing in agony.
• Xiao Yixian ate more poison candies and advanced to one-star Dou Master before throwing herself into Luo Zixi’s arms.
• Gale Ao arrived with the Gale Family, recognized Luo Zixi, and begged him to spare Liu Xi and the girls.
• Luo Zixi let Gale Ao carry Liu Xi away and silently recited a strange incantation.

Luo Zixi and the others arrived at Canaan Academy’s admissions office, where he revealed that he had reached the peak of Nine-Star Dou Huang. Xiao Yan was devastated by the gap between them, then asked Luo Zixi to support him at the Yunlan Sect in three years.

• Luo Zixi told Yao Chen that he had burned all the attackers and suggested Xiao Yan should broaden his horizons.
• Xiao Yu led Luo Zixi, Xun'er, Xiao Yixian, and the others to the admissions office, where Ruo Lin praised Xun'er and Xiao Yixian's cultivation.
• Ruo Lin explained the strength requirements for Canaan Academy elders, while Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that Luo Zixi's talent was beyond comparison.
• Luo Zixi announced that he was a Nine-Star Dou Huang at his peak, shocking Xiao Yan, Xun'er, Xiao Yu, Xiao Mei, and Ruo Lin.
• Ruo Lin invited Luo Zixi to travel with the group to Canaan Academy, and Xiao Yan asked him to back him up at the Yunlan Sect in three years.

Luo Zixi rescued the injured Yun Yun in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and treated her while her cultivation remained sealed. After their clash over his seeing her unclothed, Yun Yun revealed her identity and learned that Luo Zixi was a three-star Dou Zong.

• Yun Yun woke in Luo Zixi’s cave and angrily confronted him after learning he had treated her wounds and washed her clothes.
• Yun Yun fled outside, but Luo Zixi rescued her from a magical beast and brought her back with food.
• Luo Zixi challenged Yun Yun’s false name, and she admitted she was Yun Yun, a three-star Dou Huang and the Yunlan Sect leader.
• Yun Yun’s favorability toward Luo Zixi rose as he fed her, and she asked him about his identity.
• Luo Zixi said he was a three-star Dou Zong, leaving Yun Yun shocked by his strength.

Luo Zixi reached the Tagor Desert and rescued Qing Lin, a Snake-People girl being bullied by children. He took her under his protection and brought her into the desert, where he located the Heavenly Flame beneath the lava.

• Yun Yun obtained the Purple Spirit Crystal with Luo Zixi’s help, then returned to the Yunlan Sect with pills he had given her.
• Yao Chen stopped Luo Zixi as he left the Magical Beast Mountain Range and asked whether he had found a Heavenly Flame.
• Luo Zixi arrived in the Tagor Desert and found children chasing and attacking Qing Lin in a dark alley.
• Luo Zixi rescued Qing Lin, cleaned her up, gave her new clothes, and promised that no one would bully her while she followed him.
• Luo Zixi took Qing Lin to the desert’s central region and used God's Vision to locate the Heavenly Flame beneath the lava.

Luo Zixi found the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame beneath the magma, absorbed it, and made more than two thousand explosive fire attacks. When he returned to Qing Lin, he found a snake woman bound in the cave.

• Luo Zixi gave Qing Lin a flame mark and captured a Two-Headed Fire Spirit Snake for her to tame with her Azure Serpent Three Flower Pupils.
• Luo Zixi protected Qing Lin with a barrier and descended into the magma to find the Azure Lotus Earth Core Flame.
• Luo Zixi absorbed the flame and condensed more than two thousand explosive attacks by making it clash with his Origin Flame.
• Luo Zixi returned to the cave and found a golden-haired snake woman restrained by Frost Thorns as Qing Lin complained about her foul language.

Luo Zixi imprisoned Snake-People elder Yue Mei in his Carefree World and forced her to take a pill that caused her intense distress. The next morning, he refused Qing Lin’s offer to help with his supposed internal fire, telling her to wait until she was an adult.

• Luo Zixi sealed Yue Mei’s cultivation, chained her above a pink prison, and threatened her while she refused to submit.
• Luo Zixi gave Yue Mei a Spring Saliva Pill and brought Ning Rongrong back to consciousness, after which she clung to him in fear.
• Half an hour later, Luo Zixi removed Yue Mei’s chains, and he slept until late the next morning.
• Qing Lin noticed Luo Zixi’s flushed face, and he blamed the Heavenly Flames he had absorbed for making his internal fire too strong.
• Qing Lin offered to help, but Luo Zixi stopped her and told her to wait until she was an adult.

Luo Zixi returned to Canaan Academy with Qing Lin, prompting Xun'er and the other girls to mistake their relationship. Bai Shan challenged Luo Zixi over Xun'er, but ended up kneeling beside another young man after both were beaten into submission.

• Xun'er and the other girls ignored Bai Shan's invitation and insulted him when he complained.
• Luo Zixi appeared with Qing Lin in his arms, and Xun'er took the girl from him while accusing him of bringing home another pretty loli.
• Qing Lin explained that Luo Zixi had picked her up from a small town near the Tagor Desert, and Xun'er offered to let her sleep with her that night.
• Bai Shan angrily questioned Luo Zixi about sleeping with Xun'er, and Luo Zixi recognized him from his character panel.
• Luo Zixi beat Bai Shan and another young man, leaving the two brothers kneeling together.

After learning that Nalan Jie was dying from Brand Toxin, Luo Zixi agreed to travel to the Nalan General's Mansion and treat him. He arrived the next morning, where a failed attempt by several alchemists scattered most of the waiting crowd, and someone mocked Luo Zixi for looking too young to be an alchemist.

• Xun'er asked Luo Zixi to help Nalan Jie, and Luo Zixi said removing the Brand Toxin would take at least a week before agreeing to treat him.
• Xun'er warned Luo Zixi not to return with another woman while he was away.
• Luo Zixi arranged cultivation for Xun'er, Xiao Yu, Xiao Yixian, Xiao Mei, and the others, then left for the Nalan General's Mansion.
• Several alchemists attempting to treat Nalan Jie were blasted backward, and most of the alchemists waiting outside fled.
• A mocking voice challenged Luo Zixi for pretending to be an alchemist at such a young age.

Luo Zixi arrived at the Nalan Residence to treat Nalan Jie, where he encountered Nalan Yanran and Pill King Gu He. Gu He entered the underground chamber to treat Nalan Jie after clashing with Luo Zixi, who left him on his kill list.

• Luo Zixi turned a mocking old alchemist to dust after the man insulted him.
• An explosion in the underground chamber killed seven alchemists, causing the others in line to flee.
• Nalan Yanran and Gu He arrived at the Nalan Residence on a Spirit Kite to treat Nalan Jie, and Nalan Yanran recognized Luo Zixi.
• Luo Zixi said he had come to treat Nalan Jie, but Gu He mocked his youth and ability, prompting Luo Zixi to insult Gu He's age and rank.
• Nalan Yanran tried to stop the argument, and Gu He entered the chamber after reminding her of her promise concerning her and her master.
• Luo Zixi told Nalan Yanran that Gu He was on his kill list because he was pursuing Yun Yun.