Chapter Summaries

Su Bai established Number Nine Pill Shop in Profound Pill Market and spent half a year developing powerful sword abilities while the Star Luo Pill Pavilion’s conflict was resolved. As Immortal Talent Reflection neared its recovery, he sent the damaged Soaring Dragon Sword to be upgraded.

• Su Bai opened Number Nine Pill Shop, arranged its rooms, and received True Man He's message that the major matter had been settled.
• Xiao Ding met Zhang Taiyin and Xun Huo, agreed to compensate them, and argued with Zhang before they departed.
• The Cultivators of Demon Star Sea accepted Profound Pill Market’s takeover of Alchemy Street, and True Man He and Su Bai gained status.
• Over more than half a year, Su Bai perfected Myriad Lightning Sword Prison and Lightning Instant Sword Escape, but the latter damaged his Soaring Dragon Sword.
• As Immortal Talent Reflection neared recovery, Su Bai sent the Soaring Dragon Sword to an artifact-refining master for tempering and advancement.

After improving his alchemy and bloodline, Su Bai collected his upgraded Soaring Dragon Sword and returned to Number Nine Pill Shop, where Xiao Shixi asked him to lead an alchemy exchange at Starlight Academy. Su Bai saw the proposed teaching post as a chance to meet talented disciples and agreed to consider helping.

• Su Bai collected his newly upgraded Top-grade Soaring Dragon Sword from Profound Iron Artifact Refining and confirmed that it suited his Lightning Attribute spells.
• Su Bai returned to Number Nine Pill Shop and met Xiao Shixi, who asked him to help organize an alchemy exchange with Starlight Academy.
• Xiao Shixi offered alchemists leisurely teaching positions and access to the Academy’s treasured pill formulas.
• Su Bai considered the post useful for meeting talented Academy disciples and copying their talents.

Xiao Shixi secured Su Bai and several prominent alchemists for an exchange event at Starlight Academy, hoping to help Ying Luo improve her alchemy. The three Golden Core Stage Alchemy Grandmasters declined, leaving Ying Luo disappointed but willing to reward Xiao Shixi with a drink.

• Su Bai agreed to attend the exchange event, helping Xiao Shixi persuade several distinguished alchemists to join.
• Xiao Shixi learned that the three Golden Core Stage Alchemy Grandmasters had declined and went to Starlight Academy to report to Ying Luo.
• Ying Luo revealed that she had arranged the event to seek guidance from the Grandmasters on the Ying Family's alchemy inheritance.
• Xiao Shixi promised to bring the Grandmasters to Ying Luo in the future, and she invited him to share Spirit Wine.

Su Bai visited his Master, True Man He, and copied his Alchemy Talent, gaining the coordinated talent Candle Heart Spirit Tracing. The chapter ended with Su Bai admiring his expanded talents and feeling more confident in his cultivation.

• Su Bai considered copying Tie Xiong's Artifact Forging Talent or Qin Lin's Wood Attribute Spell Talent, then chose to pursue his Master's Alchemy Talent.
• Su Bai entered the Pill Pavilion Secret Realm and waited while True Man He finished refining pills.
• Su Bai probed his Master and learned that his real name was He Ming and that he possessed the Yellow Tier Alchemy Talent Lingering Scent Spirit Tracing.
• Su Bai showed He Ming fragments of his failed experimental spirit pill, and their palms brushed as He Ming examined them.
• Su Bai copied and coordinated He Ming's talent with his own, creating the Alchemy Talent Candle Heart Spirit Tracing.

Su Bai used his newly acquired alchemy talent and True Man He's advice to improve his Lightning Attribute spirit pill formula. After more than ten days of failures, he successfully refined the Lightning Origin Pill, which greatly improved his own cultivation efficiency, and decided to sell it at a premium despite its limited market.

• Su Bai used Lingering Scent Spirit Tracing to study failed pills while True Man He explained how to improve the formula.
• True Man He warned Su Bai that Ying Luo was behind the Alchemy Exchange Conference and advised him to seek ancient pill formulas in return for sharing his skills.
• Su Bai returned to his alchemy chamber and refined pills for over five hours, producing many more formed failures as Candle Heart Spirit Tracing helped him analyze the process.
• After more than ten days of further experiments, Su Bai successfully refined a hundred Lightning Origin Pills and named the new pill.
• Su Bai tested a Lightning Origin Pill, found it especially effective for his Lightning Spirit Root, and decided to price it at fifteen hundred Spirit Stones per bottle.

Su Bai accepted Starlight Academy’s invitation to represent Profound Pill Market at its three-day exchange gathering and arrived as the alchemist ranked Number One. There, Instructor Ying Luo asked him to advise her on refining the difficult Yingning Pill, leaving Su Bai wary that she wanted his expertise for free.

• Xiao Shixi invited Su Bai to attend the exchange gathering’s opening ceremony and gave him a temporary Starlight Academy token numbered 001.
• Su Bai traveled from Number Nine Pill Shop to Starlight Academy the next morning and entered without obstruction using his token.
• A disciple escorted Su Bai to the venue, where he met Lan Yan and Instructor Ying Luo, the gathering’s leader.
• Ying Luo gave Su Bai the Yingning Pill formula and the problems she had encountered, asking him to offer advice.
• Su Bai suspected Ying Luo was trying to obtain his valuable third-tier pill-refining knowledge without payment.

Su Bai examined Ying Luo’s Yingning Pill recipe and claimed he could master it within three furnaces if he had Golden Core Stage cultivation. After the exchange meeting’s opening ceremony, Ying Luo offered him a way to test that claim by using a puppet to take control of her body.

• Su Bai studied Ying Luo’s records of sixteen failed attempts to refine the Yingning Pill and said he could succeed within three furnaces if he had Golden Core Stage cultivation.
• Ying Luo, Lan Yan, and the Star Luo Pill Pavilion directors reacted to Su Bai’s confidence before the exchange meeting’s opening ceremony began.
• Su Bai and Lan Yan attended the ceremony, where students cheered for Su Bai’s Number Nine Golden Marrow Pills.
• After the ceremony, Ying Luo brought Su Bai and the others to her alchemy room and challenged him to refine the Yingning Pill with three sets of ingredients.
• Ying Luo revealed a Mind-Body Calling Puppet Doll that could let Su Bai control her Golden Core Stage body while refining the pill.

Su Bai agreed to refine the Yingning Pill for Ying Luo in exchange for her family’s Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill formula. After taking control of Ying Luo’s Golden Core Stage body through the pink jade doll, he prepared to begin refining.

• Su Bai asked Ying Luo for a reward and requested the Ying Family’s Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill or its formula.
• Ying Luo agreed to give Su Bai the pill formula if he swore not to reveal it, and he accepted the terms.
• Ying Luo brought out the pink jade doll, an Alchemy Furnace, and three portions of Spirit Medicine Ingredients, then began the exchange meeting’s pill-refining demonstration.
• Su Bai used his Blood Essence and Spiritual Power to refine the doll and take control of Ying Luo’s body while she suppressed her own divine soul.
• Su Bai adjusted to Ying Luo’s Golden Core Stage body, and Ying Luo told him to begin refining the Yingning Pill.

Su Bai used Ying Luo's body to refine the Yingning Pill, and his first attempt failed but gave him insights for a new method. As he began the second attempt, Ying Luo was captivated by his consciousness, while Lan Yan admitted Su Bai's alchemy talent surpassed his own.

• Su Bai took control of Ying Luo's body and began refining the Yingning Pill, using Second-tier Spirit Medicines to prepare a medicinal liquid before adding the main ingredient.
• After several hours, Su Bai's first furnace failed, but his Yellow Tier Alchemy Talent helped him analyze the process and identify what he had missed.
• Ying Luo sensed Su Bai's vivid, insightful consciousness and felt drawn to it, regretting her earlier distrust of him.
• After resting, Su Bai began a second refinement using a new method: he opened tiny pores in the Fourth-tier Spirit Medicine, then infused it with refined Third-tier and Second-tier ingredients.
• Lan Yan struggled to understand Su Bai's new method, acknowledged that Su Bai's Alchemy Talent surpassed his own, and began recording the process on an Imprint Jade Slip.

Su Bai successfully refined a hundred Yingning Pills while controlling Ying Luo’s body, then received the Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill formula and accepted a special teaching position at Star Radiance Academy. Ying Luo invited Lan Yan and the other alchemists to join as teachers, but only two accepted.

• Su Bai refined a hundred Yingning Pills in two furnaces and recorded insights that would improve his future success rate and pill quality.
• After Su Bai returned to his own body, Ying Luo confirmed the pills were successfully refined and gave him a copy of the Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill formula in exchange for a Dao Heart Oath.
• Su Bai recorded his Yingning Pill refining insights on a Jade Slip and gave it to Ying Luo.
• Ying Luo offered Su Bai a Special Appointed Teacher position at Star Radiance Academy for ten thousand Spirit Stones a year, and he accepted with flexible teaching hours.
• Ying Luo invited Lan Yan and the other alchemists to teach at the academy; Lan Yan declined, while two stewards accepted.

Su Bai sought the rare Profound Dome Bamboo needed for the Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill and placed a bounty for it at the Black Market. He left the bounty active and arranged to receive messages if anyone found the Spirit Medicine.

• Su Bai visited the Star Luo Pill Pavilion and asked its director to gather the ingredients for the Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill.
• The director told Su Bai that Profound Dome Bamboo grew only in Gaosong Spirit Plain and suggested posting a bounty at the Black Market.
• Su Bai went to the Black Market and offered twice the market price for Fifth-tier Profound Dome Bamboo.
• Su Bai pinned the bounty prominently and left a message anchor so he could receive news of any discovery while away.
• Cultivators discussed the dangers and rewards of the bounty, and some departed to search Gaosong Spirit Plain.

Su Bai continued cultivating and teaching while seeking Profound Dome Bamboo, then bought a Thunderous Beast cub at the Black Market. He left with the beast after paying thirty-eight thousand Spirit Stones.

• Su Bai taught two alchemy classes at Starlight Academy and identified Han Zhenyuan, a Heavenly Spirit Root genius, as a potential replication target.
• Su Bai renewed his Black Market bounty for Profound Dome Bamboo but learned that no one had found it, leaving him concerned about the Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill formula.
• Su Bai encountered a vendor selling a Thunderous Beast cub said to carry Diting’s bloodline and gain a treasure-finding ability as an adult.
• Su Bai negotiated with the vendor, threatening to expose the beast’s costly upkeep to prospective buyers until the vendor agreed to sell it for thirty-eight thousand Spirit Stones.
• Su Bai covered the Thunderous Beast’s cage and left the Black Market with it.

Su Bai raised the Thunderous Beast cub with spirit pills until it began advancing, then went to Starlight Academy to teach. The chapter ended with him beginning a lecture on cultivation pills and offering to refine Primordial Chaos Pills for the disciples.

• Su Bai fed the Thunderous Beast cub spirit pills and asked Zhang Ying and her younger brother to care for it while he cultivated and refined pills.
• After half a month, the Thunderous Beast formed a spiritual cocoon and began advancing, which Su Bai explained was part of its growth toward adulthood.
• By mid-March, the Thunderous Beast had grown to the size of a golden retriever and become attached to Su Bai, who hoped to find a way for it to survive using its treasure-seeking ability.
• Su Bai traveled to Starlight Academy and used Instant Lightning Refraction to appear atop the lectern before several thousand disciples.
• Su Bai announced a lecture about common and special cultivation spirit pills, promised to explain Alchemist Lan Yan's Blue Origin Pill, and offered to refine Primordial Chaos Pills as gifts.

Su Bai taught an alchemy lesson at Starlight Academy, then agreed to develop a custom Cultivation Spirit Pill for Han Zhenyuan and visit his family. At the Han Family residence, Han Zhenyuan introduced Su Bai to the relatives who had raised and supported him.

• Su Bai used the classroom magic array to teach the Primordial Chaos Pill’s ingredients and refinement, and Ying Luo listened from the back of the classroom.
• After the lesson, Han Zhenyuan asked Su Bai to develop a custom Cultivation Spirit Pill and invited him to visit the Han Family.
• Su Bai accepted the invitation, and Han Zhenyuan led him from Starlight Academy to the Han Family residence.
• Han Zhenyuan introduced his eldest uncle, his third uncle, and the other Han Family members to Su Bai, emphasizing his third uncle’s role in supporting him after his father died.

Han Zhenyuan revealed how the Han Kingdom supported the Han Family and urged Su Bai to join him in building a power that would dominate the Heavenly Star Alliance. Su Bai put off a decision until they reached the Golden Core Stage, while privately planning to investigate Han Zhenyuan's talents.

• Han Zhenyuan explained that the Han Family had grown the Han Kingdom for more than three centuries, selecting citizens with outstanding Spirit Roots to join its direct lineage.
• Han Zhenyuan proposed that he and Su Bai combine the Han Kingdom's talents with the Han Family and Star Luo Pill Pavilion to become the Heavenly Star Alliance's foremost power.
• Han Zhenyuan declared his ambitions to lead the alliance, seize the Spirit Plain, and raise Human Race Cultivators above the Demon Race and Sea Tribe.
• Han Zhenyuan said Su Bai was the only Cultivator who made him feel wary and offered to swear a Dao Heart Oath to advance and retreat with him.
• Su Bai said they should revisit the proposal after reaching the Golden Core Stage and agreed to keep Han Zhenyuan's plans secret.

Su Bai consulted True Man He about the Han Family, the rare Profound Dome Bamboo needed for the Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill, and his Thunderous Beast’s treasure-seeking ability. After deciding to search the Southern Sea Cultivation World once the beast matured, Su Bai witnessed it emerge from its cocoon as an adult.

• Su Bai left the Han Family and sought True Man He's advice about the Han Family’s situation and Han Zhenyuan’s attempt to win him over.
• True Man He explained that the Han Family was short on resources, advised Su Bai to offer limited conveniences, and cautioned him against becoming too entangled with the family.
• Su Bai asked how to find Profound Dome Bamboo, and True Man He said the Thunderous Beast could seek it at the cost of its life and named the Southern Sea and Hongyun Cultivation Worlds as places where it might remain.
• Su Bai gave True Man He the Profound Sky Breakthrough Pill formula and decided to search the Southern Sea Cultivation World after the Thunderous Beast reached adulthood.
• In mid-May, Su Bai and the Zhang Ying siblings watched the spirit cocoon break open and an adult Thunderous Beast emerge.

Su Bai confirmed that his Thunderous Beast had a treasure-seeking divine ability and traveled from Demon Star Sea to the Southern Sea Cultivation World to search for Profound Dome Bamboo. After reaching Falling Feather Island, he passed an inspection and entered to learn about local cultivation materials and conditions.

• Su Bai showed the Thunderous Beast an image of Profound Dome Bamboo, but decided to wait before using its divine ability until they reached a place where the bamboo might still exist.
• Su Bai arranged for Zhang Ying to look after the shop, then paid two High-grade Spirit Stones to teleport from Heavenly Star City to the Southern Sea Cultivation World.
• At the remote teleportation outpost, a Heavenly Star Alliance fisherman told Su Bai to travel south toward the island groups where cultivation forces gathered.
• Su Bai flew south for several days, put on a Veiled Hat and Robe, and spotted Falling Feather Island as the surrounding spiritual energy grew stronger.
• Patrolling Cultivators challenged Su Bai at Falling Feather Island, and he introduced himself as Lu Jiu, removed his hat for inspection, and received permission to enter.

Su Bai learned that reaching the resource-rich Upper Nine Islands required an official identity, then faced Cultivators who accused him of stealing a Falling Feather Fruit. After Su Bai killed the attackers with sword qi, he prepared to leave Falling Feather Island.

• Su Bai learned about the Southern Sea islands and decided to seek an identity through an official cultivation force.
• A horse-faced Foundation Establishment Cultivator and three Qi Refinement Cultivators confronted Su Bai and demanded the Falling Feather Fruit.
• Su Bai denied knowing about the fruit, but the horse-faced Cultivator attacked him with a Top-grade Magic Sword.
• Su Bai destroyed the sword and killed all four Cultivators with sword qi.
• Su Bai summoned the Soaring Dragon Sword and prepared to leave Falling Feather Island.

Su Bai discovered that a black-robed cultivator had framed him on Falling Feather Island and tracked her down after she escaped using a water teleportation art. He captured her and demanded the jade slip for her aura-manipulation technique.

• Su Bai sensed that someone was tracking him, hid in the clouds, and ambushed the black-robed cultivator riding a Seven-Colored Centipede.
• The black-robed cultivator escaped his sword-qi attack with a water-based teleportation secret art, but Su Bai used his newly awakened Tidal Sound Pulse Hearing to follow her aura through the sea.
• Su Bai found the unconscious woman, sealed her dantian and Spiritual Power, and questioned her after briefly restoring her consciousness.
• The black-robed cultivator confessed that she had stolen the Falling Feather Fruit and grafted Su Bai's aura at the scene to frame him, hoping to use his combat strength as cover for future thefts.
• Su Bai ordered the black-robed cultivator to hand over the jade slip containing her aura-manipulation Divine Ability.

Su Bai seized the Thousand Faces Spirit Pivot Body divine ability and bound the black-robed female cultivator, Du Ling, with a Sea Tribe master-servant contract. With Du Ling now serving him, he asked her about Profound Dome Bamboo and how to reach the Upper Nine Islands.

• Su Bai took the Thousand Faces Spirit Pivot Body Jade Slip from the black-robed female cultivator and learned that it could imitate cultivators’ Spiritual Power Fluctuations by recording their Spirit Lines.
• Su Bai decided to keep the female cultivator alive and made her identify the Sea Tribe master-servant Contract Scroll in her Storage Bag.
• Su Bai and the female cultivator activated the contract, binding her to him and allowing him to sense her thoughts and control her life.
• Su Bai restored the female cultivator’s Spiritual Power, and she introduced herself as Du Ling before he returned her Storage Bags.
• Du Ling told Su Bai she did not know where to find Profound Dome Bamboo, but said they could enter the Upper Nine Islands by borrowing an identity.