Chapter Summaries

Bu Wuchen told Xia Nuoyi he planned to personally destroy the Lin Lineage, and she impulsively kissed him before Zhou Wan'en interrupted them. Zhou Wan'en gave Bu Wuchen his specially sponsored student’s waist token, which granted access to the highest-grade secluded chamber in the academy’s Pill Hall.

• Xia Nuoyi pressed Bu Wuchen for details about his identity, but he brushed off her questions.
• Bu Wuchen revealed that he was thinking about how to wipe out the Lin Lineage and said he wanted revenge on Lin Yunba himself.
• Xia Nuoyi offered to help Bu Wuchen, then kissed his face impulsively as he declared his resolve.
• Zhou Wan'en arrived, pretended not to have seen the kiss, and gave Bu Wuchen his specially sponsored student’s waist token.

After Bu Wuchen defeated Lin Taoshu in an alchemy duel, Lin Liang proposed a plan to eliminate him, while Bu Wuchen thanked Xia Nuoyi and asked her for another favor. The chapter left Bu Wuchen unaware of the threat against him as he waited to explain his request to Xia Nuoyi.

• Dean Zhou left Xia Nuoyi and Bu Wuchen alone, and the two laughed and scuffled together.
• Lin Taoshu demanded revenge, but Lin Yunba warned that his defeat could become a heart demon and block his progress in alchemy.
• Lin Liang visited Lin Taoshu and Lin Yunba, proposed a plan to get rid of Bu Wuchen, and won their approval.
• Bu Wuchen reflected on his rapid rise and thanked Xia Nuoyi for her help and protection.
• Bu Wuchen offered to refine pills for Xia Nuoyi and asked her for another favor, promising to pay her.

Bu Wuchen asked Xia Nuoyi for high-grade, superior-quality mystic crystals of all eight attributes so he could restore his cultivation, but learned how costly they were. Xia Nuoyi gave him the three crystals she had and advised him to choose fire as his mystic power attribute, while their teasing left her flustered after he hurried away.

• Bu Wuchen asked Xia Nuoyi to sell him high-grade, superior-quality mystic crystals of all eight attributes, and she warned that his recent winnings would not cover them.
• Xia Nuoyi took out wind, lightning, and poison crystals and gave them to Bu Wuchen, who hid them in his sleeve pocket.
• Xia Nuoyi asked whether Bu Wuchen needed the crystals to refine Mystic-tier pills, and he explained that he was using them to restore his cultivation.
• Xia Nuoyi advised Bu Wuchen to choose fire when he reached the Qi Control Realm, since his cultivation technique and alchemy suited that attribute.
• Bu Wuchen teased Xia Nuoyi about falling for him and called himself her potential slave before fleeing, leaving her embarrassed and angry.

Bu Wuchen returned home and revealed his new status as a first-class specially funded Pill Hall student, promising to help A Chun and Wan Xiaoyao recover their cultivation. After dinner, a young woman Wan Xiaoyao called Bodyguard Sister brought four frightened advanced-class students to see him.

• Wan Xiaoyao told Bu Wuchen that the senior vice dean had explained his absence by saying he was refining pills at the Song Clan Pill Workshop.
• Bu Wuchen showed A Chun and Wan Xiaoyao his Pill Hall identity token and promised to refine pills that could repair their dantians and meridians.
• Bu Wuchen gave A Chun and Wan Xiaoyao gold to strengthen their bodies and prepare for future recovery pills.
• Bodyguard Sister brought four advanced-class students into Bu Wuchen's courtyard, binding their hands with threads of ice.
• Wan Xiaoyao explained that Bodyguard Sister had protected them from harassment and had not shared her name.

Bu Wuchen thanked the leather-clad woman for protecting his companions and considered a mission offered by four students. He agreed to let them negotiate with the patron after demanding five rare mystic crystals, then watched the woman disappear.

• Bu Wuchen offered the leather-clad woman several mortal rank upper grade mystic pills to thank her, but she refused them.
• A girl among four students pleaded with Bu Wuchen to help with their mission, and they promised the patron could pay half the reward in advance.
• Bu Wuchen agreed to consider the mission if the patron advanced five high-rank upper-grade mystic crystals, one for each of the five elements.
• The four students were stunned by Bu Wuchen's demand and privately worried that he had seen through their scheme.
• The students promised to negotiate with the patron and asked Bu Wuchen not to meet him directly, and Bu Wuchen agreed to wait.
• The leather-clad woman withdrew her ice threads, then vanished in a fragrant breeze.

Lin Liang ordered four advanced-class students to use five mystic crystals to recruit Bu Wuchen and then kill him. Bu Wuchen accepted their staged request and set off with them, unaware of their plan.

• The four students told Lin Liang that Bu Wuchen had demanded five high-tier, superior-grade mystic crystals, one for each attribute, and Lin Liang made them swear loyalty before promising rewards.
• Lin Liang supplied the five crystals and ordered the students to return Bu Wuchen's intact head after killing him.
• Bu Wuchen verified that the crystals were genuine and accepted the students' offer, claiming he would get food and change clothes before departing.
• The students pretended they faced a two-hour deadline and asked Bu Wuchen to help extract the medicinal spirit essence from a Nine-Fire Ice-Ring Grass.
• Moved by their supposed plight, Bu Wuchen agreed to set off with them immediately.

Bu Wuchen learned that his mission led to the deadly Night Forbidden Forest, where he hoped to find the rare Nine-Fire Ice-Ring Grass. He set out with the four adventurers, while his aloof bodyguard accompanied him on horseback and concealed her growing fondness for him.

• Bu Wuchen told the adventurers that his cultivation was at the Qi Observation Realm Seventh Layer, allowing him to enter the Night Forbidden Forest.
• Bu Wuchen's bodyguard explained that the forest was deadly at night and that the rare Nine-Fire Ice-Ring Grass had unknown effects, making the mission's large advance payment suspicious.
• Bu Wuchen decided to take the mission, confident he could use his mystic crystals and techniques to protect himself.
• Bu Wuchen's bodyguard joined him on his horse, saying she could keep him safe on the journey even though she could not enter the forest.
• Bu Wuchen offered to switch places after accidentally leaning against his bodyguard, but she urged the horse into a gallop, leaving the four adventurers to chase after them.

Bu Wuchen entered the Night Forbidden Forest with four academy students, while his bodyguard warned him that the mission seemed suspicious. After Feng Jieshuang offered him water inside the forest, he sensed a murderous threat and stopped before drinking.

• Bu Wuchen asked about Yao'er and A Chun, and his young bodyguard assured him others would protect them.
• The group reached the desolate entrance to the Night Forbidden Forest, where the bodyguard warned Bu Wuchen not to go more than eighteen li inside.
• Feng Jieshuang and Li Duanfeng urged Bu Wuchen to enter, and the five were pulled through a strange spatial gateway into a lush jungle.
• Feng Jieshuang offered Bu Wuchen water that she had poisoned, but he remembered the bodyguard's warning and hesitated.
• A sudden murderous menace rose beside Bu Wuchen as he held the waterskin.

Bu Wuchen discovered that the Lin Lineage had poisoned him and sent four Qi Observation Realm Ninth Layer Peak cultivators to kill him. He chose to counterkill them but fled through the Night Forbidden Forest, with his pursuers close behind as his poison and exertion threatened to wear him down.

• Feng Jieshuang, Li Duanfeng, Qiu Chaoyang, and Qian Dali surrounded Bu Wuchen and revealed that the Lin Lineage had poisoned him, weakening his cultivation.
• Bu Wuchen received three choices from the God-Level Choice System and chose to counterkill all four in order to earn a Battle Pet Token and an Invisibility Talisman.
• Feng Jieshuang warned the others not to underestimate Bu Wuchen and led the attack, so Bu Wuchen turned and ran rather than face all four in the open.
• Bu Wuchen used Instant Shadow-Piercing Steps and his Cheetah Gale Speed to keep ahead of the pursuers as they raced deeper into the Night Forbidden Forest.
• Bu Wuchen taunted the four pursuers, while they warned that the poison and his continued flight would soon exhaust his Mystic Power.

Bu Wuchen lured four pursuers into a line and killed three with One Finger Crosses the Yellow Springs, but Feng Jieshuang escaped his strike and fled. He pursued her despite his dwindling mystic Qi, then realized she was a Qi Control Realm cultivator.

• Bu Wuchen turned to face the four pursuers and pierced Li Duanfeng, Qiu Chaoyang, and Qian Dali with One Finger Crosses the Yellow Springs.
• Feng Jieshuang dodged the beam, begged Bu Wuchen for mercy, and tried to distract him with a poisoned dart before fleeing.
• Bu Wuchen dodged Feng Jieshuang’s dart and chased her, worried that he needed to kill all four to earn a system reward and that his mystic Qi was running low.
• Feng Jieshuang turned and attacked with Gang Qi, but Bu Wuchen used Instant Shadow-Piercing Steps to evade her strike.
• Bu Wuchen sensed that Feng Jieshuang had reached the Qi Control Realm.