Recaps

Yang Zhen learned that his fame had spread across Donglin Island ahead of the Pill Appreciation Conference, while Shameless Cat hinted at a mysterious power Yang Zhen had begun to wield. Elder Yao then summoned Yang Zhen, warning that Hua Youyue was in trouble.

• Shameless Cat returned after being chased for eating and spitting noodles into a vendor’s pot, and Yang Zhen scolded it for spreading stories about him.
• Yang Zhen persuaded Shameless Cat to help with a scheme to make it more famous than him.
• For several days, Yang Zhen wore Thousand Faces and gathered information about his growing fame and the Living Spirit Pill promoted by Grandmaster Ma and the Donglin Pill Association.
• Shameless Cat said Yang Zhen had secretly grasped a trace of an unfamiliar power, and Yang Zhen realized it was the same savage force he had encountered in the Nine Realms Exquisite Pagoda and the Upper Gen Mirror World.
• Shameless Cat refused to explain what it knew about the power, saying it did not want to vanish like others had.
• Elder Yao told Yang Zhen that Hua Youyue was in trouble, and Yang Zhen grabbed Shameless Cat and went with him.

Yang Zhen learned that Hua Youyue had challenged Grandmaster Ma’s disciple to a Pill Evaluation after Grandmaster Ma and Elder Tie insulted her. He arrived at the Fan residence and confronted them, then challenged Yan Feng’s audacity in competing against Hua Youyue.

• Elder Yao explained that Hua Youyue had agreed to a Pill Evaluation after Grandmaster Ma and Elder Tie provoked her, and Yang Zhen claimed he excelled at evaluating pills.
• Yang Zhen, Elder Yao, and Shameless Cat arrived at the Fan residence, where Elder Tie mocked Hua Youyue and Yang Zhen answered with insults.
• Yang Zhen challenged Elder Tie to fight outside and defended his right to speak, while Fan Tong urged everyone to remain calm in his residence.
• Grandmaster Ma offered to return the Living Spirit Pill and stay out of Hua Youyue’s dispute with the Donglin Pill Association if she defeated Yan Feng in a Pill Evaluation.
• Yan Feng introduced himself as Grandmaster Ma’s disciple of three months and challenged Hua Youyue’s courage, prompting Yang Zhen to confront him and question why he would compete against her.

Yang Zhen challenged Grandmaster Ma to an alchemy debate over the Six-Star Life Pill and the Long Moon Pavilion’s claim to it. Hua Youyue wagered the pavilion’s future on Yang Zhen, and Yang Zhen sealed his own stakes with a heaven-shaking heart-demon oath.

• Yang Zhen challenged Grandmaster Ma to debate alchemy and slapped Yan Feng when he tried to interrupt.
• Hua Youyue declared Yang Zhen a dark-gold guest elder of the Long Moon Pavilion and said he could represent it.
• Hua Youyue wagered that the Long Moon Pavilion would leave Donglin Island if Yang Zhen lost, while Grandmaster Ma offered the pills and Pill Formula if he lost.
• Yang Zhen insisted the pills and Pill Formula already belonged to the Long Moon Pavilion and declared he would accept any punishment if he lost.
• Yang Zhen swore on his heart demon, triggering thunder and leaving the onlookers horrified.

Yang Zhen challenged Grandmaster Ma to a pill debate and raised the stakes with a heart demon oath, forcing him to risk his reputation and alchemy career. Grandmaster Ma accepted after Yang Zhen invoked Medicine Madman’s personal notes and Shameless Cat helped embarrass him, and the crowd awaited the debate.

• Yang Zhen demanded that Grandmaster Ma wager the Long Moon Pavilion’s Pill Formula and pills against a public apology, a heart demon oath to stop refining pills, and other humiliating terms.
• Yang Zhen offered Medicine Madman’s personal notes as an additional stake, shocking Grandmaster Ma and prompting the crowd to discuss the legendary alchemist and his disappearance into the Forbidden Zone of Life.
• When Grandmaster Ma demanded proof of the notes, Yang Zhen refused and threatened to spread rumors that he visited the Azure Moon Pavilion.
• Shameless Cat reinforced the rumor by pretending to recognize Grandmaster Ma as a secret visitor, and Grandmaster Ma angrily agreed to the bet.
• Grandmaster Ma proposed that Grandmaster Fan Tong choose the pills and witness the debate, while Yang Zhen wore a faint, peculiar smile.

Yang Zhen evaluated Grandmaster Ma’s rare Origin Splendor Pill and called it worthless, shocking everyone. He revealed that he had recognized the pill all along and challenged Grandmaster Ma to say how many days he had spent refining it.

• Yang Zhen let Grandmaster Ma provide a pill for the evaluation, and Grandmaster Ma presented a rare green pill that most people could not identify.
• Fan Tong praised Grandmaster Ma for refining the pill, while the crowd and Hua Youyue worried that Yang Zhen did not recognize it.
• Yang Zhen snatched the pill and angrily called it worthless, then said he would criticize Elder Chi too if he had refined it in that condition.
• Grandmaster Ma challenged Yang Zhen to explain his insult, and Yang Zhen asked how many days Grandmaster Ma had spent refining the Origin Splendor Pill.
• The crowd realized Yang Zhen had recognized the pill all along, and Shameless Cat praised his convincing act.

Yang Zhen challenged Grandmaster Ma’s claim that his Origin Splendor Pill was flawless, then agreed to refine one himself using a pressure cooker. After Yang Zhen produced the pill in half an hour amid dragon roars and righteous Qi, Grandmaster Ma accused him of playing a trick.

• Yang Zhen described the Origin Splendor Pill’s formula and proper forty-nine-day refining process, stunning Grandmaster Ma and the crowd.
• Grandmaster Ma demanded that Yang Zhen refine an identical pill to prove his criticism, and Yang Zhen accepted.
• Yang Zhen brought out a pressure cooker and made Grandmaster Ma provide the refining materials.
• Yang Zhen prepared the ingredients and refined them in the pressure cooker for half an hour.
• The pressure cooker released an orchid fragrance as dragon roars, righteous Qi, and celestial phenomena appeared, leaving Grandmaster Ma horrified and accusing Yang Zhen of a trick.

Yang Zhen’s unconventional pill refining was accused of being a sham, but the pressure cooker produced Pill Splendor, proving an Origin Splendor Pill was nearly complete. Grandmaster Ma remained unconvinced as Yang Zhen prepared to humiliate him, while Fan Tong sought an introduction to the young alchemist.

• Grandmaster Ma accused Yang Zhen of faking Dragon Roar Righteous Qi and claimed his method could not produce an Origin Splendor Pill, prompting Yan Feng to denounce him.
• Yang Zhen asked Fan Tong for guidance, but Grandmaster Ma insisted that the pill’s signs were false based on his own experience refining one.
• The pressure cooker released Pill Splendor, and Fan Tong declared that the pill was finished as Elder Yao moved to touch the phenomenon.
• Fan Tong stopped Elder Yao and asked him to introduce Yang Zhen, while Hua Youyue watched Yang Zhen with delight and the crowd reacted with envy.
• Grandmaster Ma demanded that Yang Zhen stop making everyone wait, and Yang Zhen asked whether he should slap Ma’s left cheek or right.
• Shameless Cat crept toward the pressure cooker, muttering that Yang Zhen should slap both sides and sniffing the fragrant vapor.

Yang Zhen refined a whole batch of Origin Splendor Pills in an hour, producing a startling celestial phenomenon and pill markings. After Shameless Cat swallowed the first pill, Fan Tong caught the rest, while Grandmaster Ma denied that any pills had markings and the crowd awaited proof.

• Yang Zhen opened the pressure cooker, and a dragon's cry and radiant pill images revealed that his Origin Splendor Pills had produced pill markings.
• Shameless Cat swallowed the first pill, and Grandmaster Ma claimed Yang Zhen could not prove he had succeeded unless he refined the pills again.
• Yang Zhen told Elder Yao to collect the pills, then beat Shameless Cat for sneaking one when the cooker still held more.
• More than a dozen pills shot from the pressure cooker, and Fan Tong caught them with his Great Cloud Grasping Hand.
• Hua Youyue thanked Yang Zhen, while Grandmaster Ma rejected the possibility of pill markings and the crowd wondered about the pills' quality.

Yang Zhen’s hundred Origin Splendor Pills were revealed to have seven dragon marks, overwhelming Grandmaster Ma and making him lose the Pill Evaluation. As Grandmaster Ma tried to leave, Yang Zhen stopped him and demanded his attention.

• Fan Tong stored Yang Zhen’s ninety-nine remaining pills and warned Grandmaster Ma that his obsession would prevent him from advancing in alchemy.
• Grandmaster Ma accused Fan Tong and Yang Zhen of conspiring against him, while Shameless Cat warned Yang Zhen that people with demonic obsessions could be dangerous.
• Fan Tong handed Grandmaster Ma a pill bottle, and Grandmaster Ma found a Seven Dragon Mark Origin Splendor Pill inside.
• Grandmaster Ma checked more bottles and found seven dragon marks on every pill, then spat blood when he examined the twentieth bottle.
• Fan Tong blocked Grandmaster Ma’s blood from reaching the pills, and Grandmaster Ma admitted defeat by silently walking away.
• Yang Zhen called out to Grandmaster Ma, who turned back with bloodshot eyes and asked what else he wanted.

Yang Zhen killed Grandmaster Ma after the alchemist attacked him, cementing his fame on Donglin Island. The Donglin Pill Association prepared to undercut the Long Moon Pavilion, while Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed a plan to make the cat even more famous.

• Yang Zhen demanded that Grandmaster Ma apologize, and Grandmaster Ma attacked him in a rage.
• Yang Zhen fought Grandmaster Ma and killed him with the Heavenly Demon Gang Fist despite Fan Tong’s pleas to show mercy.
• Yang Zhen claimed he had held back most of his strength, and Fan Tong ruled that Grandmaster Ma had attacked first as Yan Feng carried away his master’s body.
• An old woman at the Donglin Pill Association ordered a cultivator to learn which pills the Long Moon Pavilion would offer and to produce cheaper Living Spirit Pills.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed a plan that they hoped would make Shameless Cat more famous than Yang Zhen on Donglin Island.

As the Pill Appreciation Conference approached, Donglin Island buzzed over the arrival of disciples from the Heavenly Profound Grotto-Heaven and the rivalry between Long Moon Pavilion and the Donglin Pill Association. When the conference began, Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat slipped into the venue in disguise to carry out an advertising scheme.

• Elder Chi returned to Donglin Island with powerful young cultivators, and rumors of their arrival sent rare-pill prices soaring.
• Hua Youyue and Elder Yao prepared Long Moon Pavilion for the conference, discussed its disadvantage against the Donglin Pill Association, and hoped to win a partnership with the Heavenly Profound Grotto-Heaven.
• News confirmed that Fang Ling'er and other disciples of the Heavenly Profound Grotto-Heaven had arrived, while people wondered where Yang Zhen had gone.
• The Pill Appreciation Conference began, and Elder Chi and the grotto-heaven disciples drew a crowd as people compared Fang Ling'er with Hua Youyue.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sneaked into a corner of the venue and argued over the advertising slogan they were supposed to shout.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat caused a commotion at the Pill Appreciation Conference while the Donglin Pill Association unveiled a superior lineup that threatened the Long Moon Pavilion’s plans. As Hua Youyue was asked to present her pills, Shameless Cat shouted that the Donglin Island pill factory had gone bankrupt.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat wandered through the conference, traded insults, and Shameless Cat returned walking on his front legs after losing their bet.
• Elder Chi announced that Heavenly Profound Grotto-Heaven successors would place a year's worth of pill orders at the conference.
• The Donglin Pill Association presented large quantities of high-quality pills matching the Long Moon Pavilion’s preparations, alarming Hua Youyue and Elder Yao.
• A young man in white asked Hua Youyue to show the Long Moon Pavilion’s pills as the crowd watched.
• Yang Zhen coaxed Shameless Cat into loudly declaring that the Donglin Island pill factory had gone bankrupt.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat disrupted the Donglin Pill Association’s attempt to undercut the Long Moon Pavilion by announcing a huge stock of pills at bargain prices. The crowd turned toward their display, and Elder Chi agreed to inspect the pills as the furious association elder challenged their claims.

• Shameless Cat announced that the Donglin Island pill factory had closed and that its pills were being sold for thirty-six hundred crystals each.
• Hua Youyue realized Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat had prepared a counterattack, and she cried with relief after watching her hopes for the Long Moon Pavilion return.
• The Donglin Pill Association’s old woman angrily ordered guards to silence Shameless Cat and accused Yang Zhen of selling fake pills.
• The young man in white rejected the old woman’s objections and agreed with the young woman in purple and Elder Chi to inspect Yang Zhen’s pills.
• Shameless Cat continued shouting his sales pitch while Yang Zhen urged him on, even as they noticed Elder Chi approaching with the young visitors.

Yang Zhen reunited with Elder Chi on Donglin Island, surprising the crowd when Elder Chi welcomed him and he revealed the elder’s island token. Elder Chi asked to buy Yang Zhen’s pressure cooker, but Yang Zhen refused, and the chapter ended with customers rushing to buy his pills.

• Yang Zhen recognized Elder Chi after Shameless Cat resumed shouting, and Elder Chi greeted him warmly instead of taking offense.
• Yang Zhen showed Elder Chi’s island token, then tossed a token marked Gu to Shameless Cat after Elder Chi called it useless.
• Elder Chi told Yang Zhen to keep the token and asked why he was there, and Yang Zhen said he was selling pills wholesale.
• Elder Chi asked to buy Yang Zhen’s pressure cooker, but Yang Zhen refused and declared he would become the Pirate King.
• Customers crowded around to order Yang Zhen’s pills, and Yang Zhen shouted for everyone to line up.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat sold six hundred top-quality, seven-mark pills at a low price, stunning Elder Chi and attracting a crowd of buyers. Yang Zhen announced that the Long Moon Pavilion would keep selling pills at the same prices, leaving the Pavilion hopeful of challenging the Donglin Pill Association.

• Yang Zhen ordered the crowd to line up and threatened to blacklist anyone who tried to cut ahead.
• Elder Chi inspected a Great Completeness Pill and confirmed it was a seven-mark, six-star pill worth around ten thousand crystals.
• Shameless Cat claimed they had two pots of six hundred pills and that every pill had seven markings; Yang Zhen confirmed they were selling them for only 3,600.
• Yang Zhen blacklisted a cultivator for cutting in line, insisting that he made the rules on his turf.
• The crowd bought all the pills, and Yang Zhen directed future customers to the Long Moon Pavilion, where prices would remain the same.
• Hua Youyue and Elder Yao welcomed Yang Zhen's announcement, while the old woman from the Donglin Pill Association glared at him and her two Void Refinement Realm experts.

Yang Zhen helped secure the Long Moon Pavilion’s future on Donglin Island and learned that powerful figures were pursuing news of the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness. After Shameless Cat ran off, two men confronted Yang Zhen and prepared to kill him.

• The cultivators gathered around Hua Youyue and the Long Moon Pavilion after Yang Zhen’s display, while Elder Chi departed with Bai Xuan and the girl in the purple dress.
• Bai Xuan told Hua Youyue that he and his companions planned to act on news of the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness before the Eastern Wilderness Grand Gathering, and urged her to spend more time with Yang Zhen.
• Bai Xuan revealed that Yang Zhen possessed a remarkable power, then left with the girl in the purple dress while acknowledging Yang Zhen’s potential.
• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat discussed the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness and the ancient world’s vast size before Shameless Cat ran away from a proposed fight.
• Two men approached Yang Zhen, and the old man announced that they would kill him; Yang Zhen complained that the Donglin Pill Association had disappointed him.

Yang Zhen used a staged cry for help and Elder Chi’s island token to stop two Void Refinement Realm experts from the Donglin Pill Association from killing him. The patrol captain drove them off, while Yang Zhen left after hearing Elder Chi’s warning to conduct himself well.

• The two Void Refinement Realm experts attacked Yang Zhen, and he shouted that the Donglin Pill Association was trying to silence him.
• A patrol captain arrived and stopped the attack as Yang Zhen pretended to fall and revealed Elder Chi’s island token.
• Yang Zhen accused the experts of ignoring Elder Chi’s authority, and the gathered cultivators’ claims made the pair look guilty.
• The patrol captain threatened the experts, who fled, then passed along Elder Chi’s message for Yang Zhen to conduct himself well.
• Yang Zhen left, and the patrol captain remarked that the Donglin Pill Association had ruined its reputation.

Yang Zhen confronted the two Void Refinement Realm experts who had tried to kill him and defeated them with the power inside him. The power drained his True Essence and weakened his Nascent Soul, leaving him barely able to stand as Shameless Cat found him.

• The two Void Refinement Realm experts blamed Yang Zhen for making the Donglin Pill Association look like villains and decided they could not let the matter go.
• Yang Zhen appeared before the experts and challenged them, mocking the black tortoise image formed by their combined techniques.
• The experts attacked with the black tortoise, but Yang Zhen’s dragon and elephant phantoms merged into a beast that shattered it and killed both men.
• Yang Zhen’s mysterious power consumed his True Essence and nearly devoured his Nascent Soul, leaving him severely weakened.
• Shameless Cat found Yang Zhen, saw how weak he had become, and hurried to help him return.

After Yang Zhen discovered an Emperor Mark on his chest, Hua Youyue identified the unruly power inside him as Dao Rhyme, a rare trace of Dao Intent. Shameless Cat began explaining possible reasons for the mark, leaving Yang Zhen to hear the next possibility.

• Yang Zhen returned to his lodgings with an Emperor Mark over his heart and found that his Dantian’s True Essence had been replaced by uncontrollable power.
• Hua Youyue examined Yang Zhen and warned everyone to keep the mark secret before identifying his power as Dao Rhyme.
• Hua Youyue explained that Dao Rhyme could help Yang Zhen comprehend the Dao, while Yang Zhen said he had no interest in joining a sect.
• Elder Yao said the mark might connect Yang Zhen to the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness, and Shameless Cat proposed that Yang Zhen could be the emperor’s reincarnation.
• Yang Zhen rejected the reincarnation possibility, and Shameless Cat suggested the emperor might have placed a Dao Mark imprint on him long ago.

Yang Zhen discovered that his Emperor Mark might be connected to the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness and prepared to investigate it on Ten Thousand Flowers Island. After spending seven days recovering and breaking through to the Sixth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm, he learned that someone there had declared they would kill him.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat concluded that an item Yang Zhen possessed might have reacted with the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness's Emperor Mark.
• Yang Zhen decided to travel to Ten Thousand Flowers Island, and he gave Hua Youyue and Elder Yao a modified pressure cooker for refining pills.
• Hua Youyue warned Yang Zhen that the Emperor Mark would draw powerful figures' attention and said she would wait for him on the Spirit Road.
• Yang Zhen spent seven days cultivating, recovered his strength, and advanced to the Sixth Level of the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Hua Youyue told Yang Zhen that someone on Ten Thousand Flowers Island had declared they would kill him, and Shameless Cat suggested they stay on Donglin Island.

Yang Zhen traveled to Ten Thousand Flowers Island to investigate the strange markings on his body and their connection to the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness, despite Hua Youyue and Shameless Cat warning him of the danger. After arriving, he was escorted to the Ten Thousand Flowers Tower for a banquet arranged by an unknown host, while rumors spread that the powerful Lu Baichi might confront him.

• Hua Youyue told Yang Zhen that Lu Baichi of Flower Mountain Blessed Land had vowed to kill him if he came to Ten Thousand Flowers Island.
• Yang Zhen decided to visit the island to investigate the markings on his body and learn what had happened to the Emperor Realm experts.
• On Ten Thousand Flowers Island, a guard recognized Elder Gu's token and escorted Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat to the Ten Thousand Flowers Tower for a banquet.
• A woman in a dark red dress welcomed Yang Zhen at the restaurant, where patrons recognized him and discussed his rumored upcoming clash with Lu Baichi.
• Shameless Cat urged Yang Zhen to flee after hearing Lu Baichi had supposedly killed three Void Refinement Realm experts with one sword strike, but Yang Zhen continued upstairs to meet the unknown host.

Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat devoured a Ten Thousand Flowers Banquet before meeting a mysterious woman who wanted their help finding something connected to the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness and killing several people. Yang Zhen refused and left, while the woman expected him to return after causing trouble on Ten Thousand Flowers Island.

• Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat found a lavish Ten Thousand Flowers Banquet in an empty hall and ate nearly all of it.
• A robed woman arrived with a middle-aged man and a young girl, then asked Yang Zhen why he had come to Ten Thousand Flowers Island.
• Yang Zhen said he sought the Great Emperor of the Eastern Wilderness because he suspected they might be relatives.
• The robed woman revealed that she wanted Yang Zhen to help find something connected to the Great Emperor and possibly kill several people, but Yang Zhen refused and left.
• The woman told her companion that Yang Zhen would return after causing chaos, and learned that people had spotted a blood-colored light at Ten Thousand Blades Mountain that might be linked to the emperor mark.

Yang Zhen spent five days quietly learning blacksmithing on Ten Thousand Flowers Island, puzzling people who expected him to cause trouble. While hammering Star Iron, he sensed extraordinary energy in the master smith’s ordinary hammer, and a surge of vitality from his sapling swept through him and reached the old man.

• News of Yang Zhen’s arrival spread across Ten Thousand Flowers Island, where people expected him to clash with the heirs and Lu Baichi.
• Yang Zhen spent five days out of sight, quietly working as an apprentice blacksmith with an ordinary master smith.
• The master smith explained that Yang Zhen’s strength revealed he was a cultivator, while Yang Zhen insisted he was simply interested in smithing.
• Yang Zhen sensed pure energy within the master smith’s ordinary hammer and recognized that the old man was close to death.
• Yang Zhen’s sapling erupted with green light, sending a surge of vitality through his body and into the master smith as Shameless Cat watched in alarm.
• The master smith groaned in pain, and Yang Zhen and Shameless Cat hurriedly moved away to check on him.

Yang Zhen restored the master smith’s vitality with the life force from the awakened sapling in his mind, and the grateful smith offered to teach him smithing. As Yang Zhen tried the hammer himself, his sudden insight caused a thunderous phenomenon that startled Ten Thousand Flowers Island, including Lu Baichi.

• Yang Zhen restored the master smith’s vitality, and the smith offered to teach him everything he had learned about smithing.
• Yang Zhen recalled how wandering around Ten Thousand Flowers Island had led him to the smithy and to an insight that awakened the sapling in his mind.
• At Ten Thousand Flowers Tower, Lu Baichi said he wanted to trample Yang Zhen because the Water Moon Spirit Maiden had called him inferior to Yang Zhen.
• A thunderclap shook Ten Thousand Flowers Island, and Lu Baichi and the cultivator with him wondered whether someone had experienced sudden enlightenment.
• Yang Zhen struck the Star Iron with the master smith’s hammer, while the smith stared in amazement at how alive it seemed in Yang Zhen’s hands.

Yang Zhen forged star iron amid a terrifying thunder phenomenon and, through his hammering, created a powerful new hammer technique. The phenomenon ended with the star iron shattered, leaving the crowd outside unsure whether the crafting had succeeded.

• Cultivators on Ten Thousand Flowers Island gathered outside the smithy, believing a crafting master might be breaking through to grandmaster and deciding to guard the entrance.
• Lu Baichi and another cultivator resolved to meet the presumed grandmaster, while Wang Meiling and her companion waited outside to make the Wang Household's respect known.
• Inside the smithy, Shameless Cat recognized that Yang Zhen might be creating a Cultivation Method as he hammered, and the master smith marveled at Yang Zhen's technique.
• Yang Zhen's hammering grew faster and more powerful, unleashing violent winds and lightning that shook the smithy and forced Shameless Cat to pull the master smith away.
• Yang Zhen struck the anvil, shattered the star iron, and brought the phenomenon to an end; the crowd outside wondered whether he had failed.