Chapter Summaries

Lü Zhongtian opened the auction and demonstrated the power of the dagger Edgeless, which sold for 470 Spirit Stones. As the bidding continued, Xiao Yan spotted a mysterious scaled red fruit that excited him.

• Lü Zhongtian appeared at the auction, warned attendees to obey the rules, and introduced the first item.
• Lü Zhongtian demonstrated that Edgeless pierced a defensive tier-three Formation Plate without being empowered by Dou Qi.
• Bidders competed for Edgeless, which sold for 470 Spirit Stones, and several more valuable items sold over the next two hours.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the strength and wealth of the factions gathered at the auction compared with the Four Great Sects.
• Lü Zhongtian revealed a blood-red fruit covered in mysterious scales, and Xiao Yan reacted with excitement.

Xiao Yan recognized the Long Lin Fruit at Lü Zhongtian’s auction and sought to buy it without spending the Spirit Stones he had reserved for his incarnation. The bidding stalled at six hundred Spirit Stones until Xiao Yan offered ten bottles of Ice Spirit Cold Liquid.

• Lü Zhongtian revealed the Long Lin Fruit and explained that it increased physical strength, exciting the experts who cultivated physical techniques.
• The bidding for the fruit rose from its two-hundred-Spirit-Stone starting price to five hundred.
• A bidder in a private room offered six hundred Spirit Stones, and the other factions fell silent.
• Xiao Yan asked Lü Zhongtian whether he could bid with items of equal value, and Lü Zhongtian agreed.
• Xiao Yan offered ten bottles of Ice Spirit Cold Liquid for the Long Lin Fruit.

Xiao Yan offered ten bottles of ice spirit cold liquid to win the Long Lin Fruit, shocking the auction hall and drawing Qin Yun’s suspicion about where he had obtained it. After Lü Zhongtian verified the bottles, no one bid higher, and Xiao Yan’s offer stood as the winning bid.

• Xiao Yan offered ten bottles of ice spirit cold liquid for the Long Lin Fruit, stunning the auction attendees.
• Qin Yun suspected Xiao Yan had obtained the liquid from a particular place and ordered Yan He to kill him and seize the bottles after the auction.
• Lü Zhongtian asked Xiao Yan to produce the liquid for inspection, and Xiao Yan sent ten jade bottles into the auction hall.
• Lü Zhongtian opened a bottle and confirmed that it contained genuine ice spirit cold liquid, then returned all ten bottles to Xiao Yan.
• Lü Zhongtian asked for higher bids, but no one responded, and he announced the auction result in Xiao Yan’s favor.

Xiao Yan waited through the auction, bought several rare medicinal herbs, and considered the Origin Return Mantra and his need to grow stronger before leaving the Western Region. As the auction introduced increasingly powerful Dou Techniques, Lü Zhongtian presented the Wasteland-Spanning Finger, a High Spirit Class technique.

• Lü Zhongtian continued the auction, but the factions in the private boxes held back their bids for higher-grade lots.
• Xiao Yan bought five rare medicinal herbs for fewer than a thousand Spirit Stones and resisted bidding on other tempting items.
• Xiao Yan found no Origin Return Mantra fragment at the auction and considered searching beyond the Western Region, including the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb.
• Xiao Yan resolved to become strong enough to rescue Xun'er from the Ghost Hall and its connection to the Hun Clan.
• A buyer purchased an Intermediate Spirit Class Dou Technique for nine hundred and eighty Spirit Stones, and Lü Zhongtian introduced the High Spirit Class Wasteland-Spanning Finger.

The auction for Wasteland-Spanning Finger ended when a private-room bidder offered a Low Intent Grade water-attribute Dou Technique, and Xiao Yan turned his attention to the Fusang Flower. After seven days of auctions, Lü Zhongtian secured the platform and revealed the flower for the next sale.

• Lü Zhongtian offered Wasteland-Spanning Finger in exchange for water-attribute Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan bid eight High Spirit Class Dou Techniques, but another bidder outbid him with ten.
• Qin Yun offered fifteen water-attribute Dou Techniques, then the man from whom Xiao Yan had taken the Long Lin Fruit submitted a Low Intent Grade water-attribute Dou Technique and won Wasteland-Spanning Finger.
• The auction continued for a week, and Lü Zhongtian activated the platform's formation to protect the auction stage.
• Lü Zhongtian revealed the Fusang Flower inside a crystal box.

Xiao Yan and the other factions learned that the Fusang Flower would be auctioned through private barter meetings with its owner. As bidders entered separate stone chambers, Qin Yun sent Yan He to intercept Xiao Yan if he left the auction hall first.

• Xiao Yan and Qin Yun tried to probe the crystal case with their Spiritual Strength, but an auction formation repelled them.
• Lü Zhongtian revealed the Fusang Flower, then quieted the hall with his imposing pressure.
• Lü Zhongtian announced that the flower’s owner would choose a new owner based on a barter offer, meeting bidders individually in stone chambers.
• The auction hall transformed its seating into stone chambers, and Lü Zhongtian allowed only one representative from each faction to participate.
• Qin Yun ordered Yan He to watch the exit and detain Xiao Yan if he came out before Qin Yun did.

Xiao Yan waited in a stone chamber as Lü Zhongtian announced that the auction house would not oversee the private exchanges for the Fusang Flower. In another chamber, Qin Yun traded his treasures for the flower, unaware of the black-robed seller’s suspicious haste as the seller moved on to another buyer.

• Xiao Yan searched his stone chamber with his soul power before a maid appeared and explained the exchange rules.
• Lü Zhongtian warned that the auction house would not interfere in the trades or take responsibility for their outcomes.
• Xiao Yan wondered whether Lü Zhongtian was avoiding involvement for a reason, then decided to wait until he met the Fusang Flower’s original owner.
• A black-robed figure showed Qin Yun the Fusang Flower, and Qin Yun offered several scrolls and jade bottles in exchange.
• The figure handed Qin Yun the crystal box, collected his treasures, and left as Qin Yun celebrated receiving the flower.
• The black-robed figure entered another stone chamber and began the same exchange again.

Xiao Yan saw through the black-robed man's Nightmare Flower trick and confronted him over the stolen Fusang Flower. After revealing the man's identity and striking him, Xiao Yan continued attacking while the old man mistook his strength for that of a Six-Star Dou Di.

• Xiao Yan noticed that the black-robed man's supposed Fusang Flower was actually a Nightmare Flower, but the Heavenly Flames kept its illusions from affecting him.
• The black-robed man tried to persuade Xiao Yan to exchange for the flower, and Xiao Yan identified him as a Late Seven Star Dou Di who had been swindling others.
• Xiao Yan attacked the black-robed man and demanded that he hand over the Fusang Flower.
• The old man's robe burst apart, revealing a lean, shifty-eyed man who tried to flee but was struck by Xiao Yan and slammed into a wall.
• The old man mistook Xiao Yan for a Six-Star Dou Di, and Xiao Yan attacked him again.

Xiao Yan confronted the wiry old man who had used the Nightmare Flower and defeated him in the stone chamber. After learning Xiao Yan’s identity, the old man surrendered the Fusang Flower and other spoils, and Xiao Yan left an avatar to keep him there for an hour before departing.

• The wiry old man attacked Xiao Yan with claw strikes, but Xiao Yan dodged every blow without being touched.
• The old man tried to flee through the stone door, but Xiao Yan pulled him back and struck him into the wall.
• Xiao Yan revealed his name, and the terrified old man recognized him as the fighter known across the Western Lin Region.
• Xiao Yan demanded the Fusang Flower, and the old man handed over his Storage Ring containing it and the other items he had taken.
• Xiao Yan ordered the old man to remain in the chamber for an hour, left an avatar to watch him, and exited through the stone door.

After securing the Fusang Flower at the auction, Xiao Yan prepared to leave Golden Radiance City, but Qin Yun and Yan He intercepted him and lured him toward an undisclosed destination. The chapter ended with Yan He positioning himself to stop Xiao Yan from escaping.

• Xiao Yan retrieved and inspected the auction items, then left the auction house intending to continue toward the Heavenly Severing Ancient Tomb.
• Xiao Yan noticed Qin Yun and Yan He waiting outside, and Qin Yun asked whether he had obtained the Fusang Flower.
• Xiao Yan pretended he had failed to acquire the flower, while Qin Yun implied he had obtained one himself.
• Qin Yun asked Xiao Yan about the Ice Spirit Cold Liquid, but Xiao Yan said he had already handed over all ten bottles as payment.
• Qin Yun led Xiao Yan toward a place where he claimed to have something surprising to show him, while Yan He fell behind to block a possible escape.

Qin Yun lured Xiao Yan above the plaza’s ancient city-protecting formation and revealed his hostile intentions, questioning him about the Ice Spirit Cold Liquid and Leng Bingshuang. Xiao Yan escaped Qin Yun’s first attack but was trapped by two hidden elders and forced to retreat toward the plaza.

• Qin Yun brought Xiao Yan to the black stone pillar in Golden Radiance City and revealed that he intended to give him the ancient city-protecting formation as a “grand gift.”
• Qin Yun asked whether Xiao Yan had obtained Ice Spirit Cold Liquid from the heart of the Xilin Mountain Range, then inferred that Leng Bingshuang was badly injured and connected her attacker to the power backing him.
• Qin Yun ordered an attack, and Yan He struck at Xiao Yan from behind as Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Severing Steps to reach for Qin Yun.
• Two hidden elders emerged from spatial ripples, seized Xiao Yan’s shoulders, and pinned him while Qin Yun escaped their reach.
• Xiao Yan summoned his Clan Mark and Heavenly Flames, broke free, and retreated downward as Yan He attacked again.
• Qin Yun descended toward the black stone pillar while the people below watched Xiao Yan and the three elders.

Xiao Yan struggled to survive a fight against three Nine-Star Dou Di experts while the Formation Master Association waited nearby. When the black stone pillar shattered and a column of light erupted, the association members blamed Xiao Yan, and he realized Qin Yun had brought him there to destroy the formation.

• A black-robed elder and Yan He attacked Xiao Yan, and he used his armor, Strength Elephant Art, and Heavenly Flames to withstand the three Nine-Star Dou Di experts.
• The three experts surrounded Xiao Yan and wounded him as he tried to escape, while the auction ended and his Clan Mark’s boost wore off.
• The black stone pillar cracked beneath Xiao Yan and began radiating golden light.
• The pillar collapsed, releasing a huge column of milky-white light, and the Formation Master Association members fixed their angry gazes on Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan understood that Qin Yun had come to destroy the strange formation and had approached him for that purpose.

Xiao Yan destroyed the Formation Master Association’s grand formation, and President Fan confronted Qin Yun, whom he suspected of arranging the attack. Qin Yun blamed Xiao Yan and claimed he had nearly been framed, leaving President Fan faced with conflicting accusations.

• Xiao Yan approached the stone pillar, and the Formation Master Association’s grand formation shattered before the gathered figures.
• Cheng Zhihui told President Fan that Xiao Yan had previously refined a fourth-tier pill and that Qin Yun had protected him.
• President Fan led the Formation Master Association members toward Xiao Yan and Qin Yun, while Han Dong watched from nearby and prepared to intervene if necessary.
• President Fan attacked Qin Yun with his presence, but Yan Hua blocked it and warned him against harming Qin Yun.
• Qin Yun denied orchestrating the destruction and claimed Xiao Yan had invited him there and tried to frame him.

President Fan and the vice presidents suspected Xiao Yan had destroyed the city-protecting grand formation as part of the Alchemist Alliance’s conflict with the Formation Master Association, but Qin Yun insisted the situation was not what it seemed. The chapter ended as Qin Yun warned that Xiao Yan was no ordinary Five-Star Dou Di.

• President Fan and the vice presidents concluded that Xiao Yan’s attack on the formation might be an Alchemist Alliance plot against the Formation Master Association.
• Qi Ming questioned how Xiao Yan, a Five-Star Dou Di, could have defeated Qin Yun’s three Nine-Star Dou Di guards, renewing President Fan’s suspicions of Qin Yun.
• Qin Yun told President Fan to ask the square’s witnesses, but the onlookers avoided answering.
• President Fan threatened to detain Qin Yun unless he explained what had happened, and Qin Yun ordered his guards to keep Xiao Yan from escaping.
• Qin Yun told President Fan that Xiao Yan was not an ordinary Five-Star Dou Di, leaving him to ask what Qin Yun meant.

Qin Yun manipulated Fan Siyuan into doubting Xiao Yan and arranged for Cheng Zhihui to test him, while secretly pursuing his own plan after obtaining the Fusang Flower and destroying Golden Radiance City's protective formation. The chapter ended as Cheng Zhihui struck at Xiao Yan, who opened his fiery eyes.

• Qin Yun argued that Xiao Yan had hidden strength and challenged Fan Siyuan to help capture him, while privately celebrating that his plan was working.
• Qi Ming wavered in his suspicions as Fan Siyuan prepared to act, but Cheng Zhihui volunteered to fight Xiao Yan instead.
• Fan Siyuan sent Cheng Zhihui, a Seven-Star Dou Di, to test and capture Xiao Yan, hoping to prove Qin Yun's claims false.
• Cheng Zhihui rushed toward Xiao Yan and threw a punch as Xiao Yan secretly recovered his Dou Qi and opened his eyes, firelight filling them.

Xiao Yan fought Cheng Zhihui in the square, revealing speed and strength that overwhelmed the Seven-Star Dou Di despite his own Five-Star cultivation. As Cheng Zhihui prepared another attack, his Underworld King Seal began to crack.

• Cheng Zhihui charged Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan's imposing presence drove him back without using Dou Qi.
• Cheng Zhihui attacked with his golden spear, and Xiao Yan dodged and kicked him through buildings into a boulder.
• Cheng Zhihui returned with Scattering Shadows, but Xiao Yan evaded or destroyed the spear attacks using his Spiritual Strength and precise movements.
• Cheng Zhihui used Flood Dragon Emerges from the Sea, but Xiao Yan seized and crushed the flood serpent, then held onto the spear.
• Cheng Zhihui abandoned his spear and formed the Underworld King Seal, but cracks spread across the energy handprint before he could launch it.

Xiao Yan shattered Cheng Zhihui’s Underworld King Seal and used the shock of his attack to flee Golden Radiance City. Fan Siyuan and the others pursued him, raising a weaker defensive formation to trap him as he searched for a way out.

• Xiao Yan broke Cheng Zhihui’s Underworld King Seal with a punch, leaving Cheng Zhihui severely injured and the onlookers shocked.
• Fan Siyiyuan decided Xiao Yan was too dangerous to leave alive, but Xiao Yan sped toward the edge of Golden Radiance City.
• Fan Siyiyuan, Qi Ming, and Huo Lie pursued Xiao Yan while Yan He and two others followed at Qin Yun’s signal.
• Qi Ming and Huo Lie activated a golden barrier around the city, and Yan He realized it was a weakened formation rather than the original Fifth-Tier Formation.
• Fan Siyiyuan exposed Xiao Yan’s hidden figure with his Spiritual Strength, and Xiao Yan recognized that the barrier was only a fourth-tier defensive formation.

Xiao Yan was trapped in Golden Radiance City after destroying its protective formation, with Qin Yun and several Nine-Star Dou Di attacking him. As the pressure mounted, Xiao Yan began preparing a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to repel his enemies and break through the Fourth-Tier Formation, while Fan Siyuan secretly gathered Dou Qi behind him.

• Fan Siyuan confronted Xiao Yan over destroying Golden Radiance City's Fifth-Tier protective formation, while Qin Yun claimed Xiao Yan had committed an outrage and ordered Yan He and two others to attack.
• Yan He and the other two attacked together, and Xiao Yan used Heavenly Severing Steps and Heavenly Flames but still took blows to his shoulder and back.
• After Xiao Yan knocked Yan He away and retreated, Qi Ming and Huo Lie charged in and unleashed their Dou Techniques against him.
• Xiao Yan gathered Spiritual Strength and Dou Qi as he considered forming a Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus to drive back the attackers and break through the Fourth-Tier Formation.
• Fan Siyuan quietly gathered powerful Dou Qi in his palm behind Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan fought Qi Ming and Huo Lie until Fan Siyuan attempted a sneak attack, but Han Dong intervened and revealed himself as the Alchemist Alliance’s vice president. Han Dong faced the surrounding enemies while Xiao Yan asked him to hold them off for ten minutes so they could escape.

• Xiao Yan clashed with Qi Ming and Huo Lie, suffered injuries, and learned that Fan Siyuan had vanished during the fight.
• Fan Siyuan appeared behind Xiao Yan and launched a vicious sneak attack as Yan He and two others charged from the front.
• Han Dong blocked Fan Siyuan’s claw with Spiritual Strength and appeared to protect Xiao Yan.
• Fan Siyuan, Qi Ming, Huo Lie, and the Formation Master Association’s experts surrounded Han Dong and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked Han Dong to hold off their opponents for ten minutes, and Han Dong agreed.

Han Dong and the Formation Master Association’s experts fought while Xiao Yan fused several Heavenly Flames into a Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus. As Yan He and two others pressed Xiao Yan, Qin Yun appeared behind him just as the lotus neared completion.

• Qin Yun held back and planned to let the Formation Master Association and Alchemist Alliance weaken each other before intervening.
• Fan Siyuan and Huo Lie attacked Han Dong and Xiao Yan, prompting Han Dong to shield Xiao Yan and fight the formation masters.
• Xiao Yan began merging several Heavenly Flames, alarming Qin Yun as the fire’s power continued to grow.
• Qin Yun ordered Yan He and two others to stop Xiao Yan, while Fan Siyuan and his companions pinned Han Dong down.
• Xiao Yan dodged Yan He and the others as he completed the Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus, and Qin Yun appeared behind him.