Chapter Summaries

Jiu Feng learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan’s five Supreme Elders had returned and joined the clan’s elite assembly. Xuan Feng rallied the experts with a plan to destroy the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, and the force departed through a spatial rift.

• Jiu Feng questioned Elder Huang Chi about the Supreme Elders’ absence and considered informing the clan chief.
• Xuan Feng summoned all Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members above Three-star Dou Zun to the main hall.
• Xuan Feng told the gathered elites that the North Dragon King had asked them to help crush the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, after which they would eliminate his faction too.
• Jiu Feng and the clan’s elites eagerly agreed to the campaign to annihilate the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Xuan Feng opened a massive spatial rift, and the assembled elites rushed through it.

Xuan Feng led nearly two hundred Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts through a spatial passage, where Crimson Phoenix and the other Grand Elders ambushed and subdued them. Jiu Feng suspected the Grand Elders were staging a coup, leaving him uncertain whether the clan chief could stop them.

• Xuan Feng opened a spatial rift and led the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts toward the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, while Jiu Feng secretly hoped their mission would help the clan seize an advantage.
• Xuan Feng brought the force through the passage to meet Crimson Phoenix, Phoenix, Kun Huang, and Ying Huang, whose auras had grown far more powerful.
• Crimson Phoenix and the other Grand Elders joined Xuan Feng to raise a spatial barrier around the gathered experts.
• Crimson Phoenix and the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes attacked their fellow clan members, quickly subduing and sealing the strength of more than forty.
• Jiu Feng wondered whether Crimson Phoenix planned to seize the clan chief's position and feared the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan could fall into internal strife.

Crimson Phoenix and the other Grand Elders sealed the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan elites, then revealed their allegiance to Gu He. Over half a day, Gu He turned every captive into a puppet, preparing to take them to the Nine-Colored Realm and give them Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits.

• Jiu Feng submitted to Kun Huang as Crimson Phoenix and the other Grand Elders subdued nearly two hundred Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts and sealed their cultivation.
• Gu He emerged from a Void Gate, and Crimson Phoenix, Xuan Feng, and the Heavenly Demon Three Phoenixes saluted him as their master.
• Despite the captives' protests, Gu He used the Ancient Puppet Seed Art to plant Puppet Seeds in ten experts at a time.
• The captives realized the ten transformed experts had become puppets, and Jiu Feng feared he would suffer the same fate.
• After half a day, Gu He had planted Puppet Seeds in all the experts Xuan Feng brought and planned to take them to the Nine-Colored Realm to distribute Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits.

Gu He brought nearly two hundred Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts to the Nine-Colored Realm and gave them Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits to refine. Xuan Feng reached the late stage of Five-star Battle Saint but failed to break through to Six-star, and Gu He gave her more fruits as the others continued refining.

• Gu He planted Puppet Seeds in every Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan expert Xuan Feng had brought and took them to the Nine-Colored Realm.
• Gu He distributed 197 Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits among the 200 experts, giving Xuan Feng two and one to each of the others.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan experts began refining their fruits while Gu He monitored their progress, focusing on Xuan Feng.
• Xuan Feng refined her first fruit and advanced to the middle stage of Five-star Battle Saint, nearing the late stage.
• Xuan Feng refined her second fruit and reached the late stage of Five-star Battle Saint but did not break through to Six-star Battle Saint.
• Gu He gave Xuan Feng two more Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruits as the other experts continued refining theirs.

Xiao Yan and Elder Yao entered Starfall Pavilion’s hidden headquarters, where Mu Qingluan recognized Elder Yao as the long-missing Pavilion Master. They learned that Venerable Wind had kept the position vacant and was due to return that day, and an elderly man in green appeared through a spatial gate.

• Elder Yao guided Xiao Yan through the Starfall Grand Formation and revealed the concealed Starfall Pavilion headquarters.
• Mu Qingluan arrived with other disciples and recognized Elder Yao from the Pavilion Master’s portrait.
• Mu Qingluan explained that Venerable Wind had searched for Elder Yao and kept the Pavilion Master position vacant.
• Mu Qingluan said Venerable Wind had gone out but was expected to return that day.
• A spatial gate opened behind Xiao Yan and Elder Yao, and an elderly man in green appeared.

Elder Yao reunited with Venerable Wind and explained how he had survived Han Feng’s betrayal and what happened in Ling City. He revealed that a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill could restore his body, and Venerable Wind announced Elder Yao’s return as Starfall Pavilion’s Pavilion Master.

• Venerable Wind reunited with Elder Yao and learned that Han Feng had betrayed him and that Mu Gu had colluded with the Soul Hall.
• Elder Yao told Venerable Wind about his encounter with Mu Gu in Ling City and explained that he could be resurrected with a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill and a body refined by the Pill Tower.
• Venerable Wind promised to secure the pill and praised Xiao Yan after Elder Yao described his disciple’s character and potential.
• Venerable Wind brought Elder Yao and Xiao Yan inside Starfall Pavilion, where the disciples and elders gathered to meet the returning Pavilion Master.
• Venerable Wind announced Elder Yao’s return as Pavilion Master, and Starfall Pavilion’s members gradually welcomed the news with excitement.

Elder Yao accepted the position of Starfall Pavilion master and prepared to travel to the Pill Tower to gather ingredients and refine the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill. Meanwhile, Liu Ling led a large Mercenary Guild delegation toward the Pill Region, and the group reached the Central Region after more than a month.

• Elder Yao agreed to become Starfall Pavilion's pavilion master, and Venerable Wind gathered most of the ingredients needed for the Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill.
• Elder Yao decided to travel to Sacred Pill City with Xiao Yan, seeking the Pill Tower's help with the missing ingredients, pill refinement, and body forging.
• Qing Lin reached Nine-star Dou Huang and asked Liu Ling to depart for the Pill Region early; Liu Ling agreed.
• Liu Ling organized a delegation of more than five hundred Mercenary Guild members, leaving Yue Mei and Xiao Jin at headquarters and taking Liu Rulong along.
• Liu Ling led the delegation through Space Wormholes and, after more than a month, brought them from the Northern Region into the Central Region.

Liu Ling led more than five hundred Mercenary Guild members from the Northern Region into the Central Region, where their arrival drew attention because of his reputation as a young Dou Venerate and Eighth-grade Alchemist. He ordered the group to travel to Ye City and rest there for two days before continuing toward the Pill Gathering.

• Liu Ling's group emerged from a massive Space Wormhole transfer platform in the Central Region and attracted attention from people who recognized the Mercenary Guild.
• Qing Lin remarked that many people knew Liu Ling, and he said he planned to make a name for himself across the continent.
• Liu Rulong reported that Ye City was the nearest large Space Wormhole destination, and Liu Ling ordered the group to travel there and rest for two days.
• Liu Ling's group crossed the Pill Region, stopping briefly in cities along the way, and reached the forest-surrounded Ye City after a day's journey.
• Liu Rulong identified Ye City as the territory of the once-prominent Ye Family, and Liu Ling led the group toward the city.

Ye Zhong told the Ye Family that Mercenary Guild president Liu Ling had arrived in Ye City with a powerful force, and the family planned to seek his help by offering Xin Lan. Liu Ling agreed to meet Ye Zhong, while Liu Rulong explained the Five Great Families’ standing in the Pill Region.

• Xin Lan refused to marry Cao Dan, but the Ye Family elders argued that the match could protect their declining family.
• Ye Zhong reported that Liu Ling, an Eighth-grade Alchemist, had arrived with over five hundred experts, including more than a hundred Dou Zong experts.
• Ye Zhong proposed that Xin Lan be promised to Liu Ling in exchange for his help, and the Grand Elder assigned him to pursue the plan.
• Liu Ling’s group settled into an inn in Ye City, and he agreed to receive a young visitor from the Ye Family.
• Liu Rulong told Liu Ling about the Five Great Families’ influence and their potential seats among the Pill Tower’s elders.

Ye Zhong asked Liu Ling to help the declining Ye Family keep its Pill Tower elder seat by passing the upcoming assessment. The assessment allowed a son-in-law to represent the family, and Ye Zhong hinted that Liu Ling could marry the Ye Family's most talented young woman.

• Liu Rulong explained the influence of the Pill Tower's five great families and the Ye Family's decline.
• Ye Zhong greeted Liu Ling and asked him to save the Ye Family from losing its place among the five great families.
• Ye Zhong explained that the Ye Family had failed the assessment twice and needed a top-three result this time, requiring a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.
• Liu Ling asked whether an outsider could assist, and Ye Zhong said a son-in-law could represent the Ye Family.
• Ye Zhong offered the hand of the family's best young alchemist, a woman under twenty who had reached Fifth-Grade Alchemist, if Liu Ling was willing.

Liu Ling rejected Ye Zhong’s attempt to make him the Ye Family’s nominal son-in-law, but Ye Zhong still offered the family’s support and guided the Mercenary Guild toward Sacred Pill City. After Liu Ling repaired Ye City’s Space Wormhole and revealed his Dou Zun strength, the group set off on a journey expected to take about a month.

• Liu Ling refused Ye Zhong’s proposal to join the Ye Family by marrying its talented young alchemist, while Ye Zhong pledged the family’s help with Pill Gathering information.
• After two days of rest, Ye Zhong led Liu Ling, Qing Lin, Liu Rulong, and more than five hundred Mercenary Guild members to the Space Wormhole in Ye City.
• Liu Ling repaired the neglected Space Wormhole, and Liu Rulong realized that Liu Ling had reached the Dou Zun class.
• Liu Ling’s group entered the wormhole with Ye Zhong and Ye Xinlan, then boarded Ye Zhong’s Space Ship in the spatial passage.
• Ye Zhong explained that they would travel through Qing Ling City before reaching Sacred Pill City, a journey expected to take about a month.

Liu Ling and his group traveled through Qing Ling City and a crowded Space Wormhole toward Sacred Pill City, eager for the Pill Gathering. They arrived at one of the city's vast outer spatial plazas, where countless alchemists were gathering.

• Liu Ling reassured Qing Lin during their journey, and she left to find old man Liu when he urged her to cultivate.
• Liu Ling's group reached Qing Ling City after half a month and saw the many alchemists traveling for the Pill Gathering.
• Liu Ling felt eager to compete at the Pill Gathering and hoped to bring honor to Gu He as his foremost disciple.
• Liu Ling's group entered the silver-ring exit of the Space Wormhole and arrived at an enormous crimson plaza packed with people.
• Ye Zhong explained that the plaza was one of eight spatial plazas in Sacred Pill City's outer region.

Liu Ling's group arrived in Sacred Pill City, where Ye Zhong explained its scale and Pill Tower's requirements for the Pill Gathering. As they prepared to rest and seek alchemist certifications, a Dan Family carriage appeared, drawing Ye Zhong's concern.

• Ye Zhong showed Liu Ling and the others one of Sacred Pill City's eight outer-region spatial plazas and explained that Pill Tower controlled both the outer and inner regions.
• Liu Ling considered his plan to establish four Mercenary Guild headquarters across the Central Plains.
• Ye Zhong told Liu Ling that participants in the Pill Gathering needed Pill Tower-certified alchemist rank badges, and Liu Ling agreed to take the test.
• A snow-white carriage pulled by rare Void Sky Pegasus Beasts appeared above the plaza.
• Ye Zhong identified the carriage's emblem as belonging to the Dan Family and said its passengers had likely come for the assessment or Pill Gathering.

Liu Ling and the Mercenary Guild arrived in Sacred Pill City, where Ye Zhong described the Pill Region’s great families and their gifted young alchemists. The group settled at the neglected Ye Courtyard, which Liu Ling made their temporary base before the Pill Tower assessment.

• Ye Zhong identified the Dan Family carriage and explained the relative standing of the five great families in the Pill Region.
• Ye Zhong described Cao Ying’s exceptional rise as an alchemist, and Liu Ling said she had likely reached the peak of the seventh grade.
• Ye Zhong explained that the Dan Family kept its strongest juniors out of the assessment, so its true talent would become clear at the Pill Gathering.
• Liu Ling and the Mercenary Guild group traveled to the south of Sacred Pill City and arrived at the abandoned Ye Courtyard.
• Liu Ling designated Ye Courtyard as the group’s base and told the more than five hundred members they could move about freely.

Liu Ling searched for the Three Thousand Burning Flame in Sacred Pill City and discovered it sealed within the Pill City Star Domain. The Pill Tower’s guardians learned of his powerful soul and discussed the danger posed by the Soul Hall, which was also pursuing the flame.

• Liu Ling concluded that the Three Thousand Burning Flame was likely hidden in Sacred Pill City’s inner starry domain and resolved to subdue it.
• Liu Ling sent his soul power into the starry sky and saw a gigantic sleeping dragon wrapped in purple-black flame.
• A guardian of the Pill City Star Domain struck at Liu Ling’s soul, but his defenses held, and he identified himself before withdrawing.
• The guardians discussed Liu Ling’s strength and feared the Soul Hall might use the Pill Gathering to claim the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• The guardians noted the flame’s growing power and resentment, then lamented the Soul Hall’s persecution of Yao Chen and its capture of alchemists’ souls.

Pill Tower experts discussed Yao Chen, the Soul Hall, and the coming Pill Gathering before Liu Ling set out with Qing Lin and the Ye family to obtain a certified alchemist rank. The chapter ended with Ye Zhong arranging access to a special testing room that was still occupied.

• Pill Tower experts recalled the Soul Hall's crimes against Yao Chen and decided to stay alert and keep the Three Thousand Burning Flame from falling into its hands.
• Liu Ling woke in Ye Courtyard and agreed to visit a Pill Tower branch to obtain a certified rank badge.
• Liu Ling brought Qing Lin along and toured the branch tower, where Ye Zhong described its trading area and an upcoming alchemist-only auction.
• Liu Ling and his companions reached the certification area, where Ye Zhong arranged for Liu Ling to use a special testing room despite the long queue.
• Ye Zhong told Liu Ling that the special room was occupied and asked whether he still wished to take the assessment that day.

Liu Ling went to take an assessment in the Pill Tower’s special testing room with Qing Lin, Ye Xinlan, and Ye Zhong, where Bai and Qiu Family members mocked the Ye Family. The confrontation escalated when Qing Lin stood up to the Bai Family, and the woman in white moved to attack her.

• Ye Zhong told Liu Ling that Bai and Qiu Family members were using the special testing room, but Liu Ling chose to enter anyway.
• Liu Ling’s group entered the room through a special passage and met the Bai Family, the Qiu Family, and Elder Han Li.
• The gray-clothed Bai Family elder mocked Ye Zhong and questioned Liu Ling and Qing Lin for lacking rank badges.
• The woman in white challenged Ye Zhong for bringing people who were not qualified to use the room, and he angrily defended Liu Ling as the President.
• The gray-clothed elder insulted Liu Ling, Qing Lin cursed at her, and the woman in white prepared to attack Qing Lin.

Liu Ling defended Qing Lin at the Pill Tower testing site, displayed power that led others to suspect he was a Dou Zun, and received a seventh-grade alchemist badge. He then promised that the Mercenary Guild would protect the Ye Family, allowing Ye Xinlan to leave without taking her assessment.

• Qing Lin insulted the Bai Family elder, and Liu Ling slapped the woman in white when she tried to attack her.
• Liu Ling sent the gray-clothed Bai Family elder flying with another slap, prompting her to apologize and the room to fear his strength.
• Liu Ling asked to test for an eighth-grade alchemist badge, but accepted a middle-tier seventh-grade badge when the branch could not test higher.
• When Ye Zhong said Ye Xinlan still needed to take her assessment, Liu Ling promised that the Mercenary Guild would protect the Ye Family.
• Liu Ling, Qing Lin, Ye Zhong, and Ye Xinlan left the testing room together.

After leaving the assessment, Liu Ling accompanied Qing Lin to Sacred Pill City’s renowned Alchemist Trading Fair as the Pill Gathering approached. Using his Seventh-Grade Alchemist badge, he brought Qing Lin, Ye Zhong, and Ye Xinlan inside, where Ye Zhong explained the fair’s ranked floors and their entry requirements.

• The people at the assessment speculated that Liu Ling was the President of the Mercenary Guild, and the white-haired old man resumed the alchemist testing.
• As the Pill Gathering drew closer, Liu Ling agreed to accompany the restless Qing Lin around Sacred Pill City.
• On the third day, Liu Ling took Qing Lin, Ye Zhong, and Ye Xinlan to the Alchemist Trading Fair.
• Liu Ling showed his Seventh-Grade Alchemist badge, and the guards let the group enter the crowded trading hall.
• Ye Zhong explained that the fair’s second floor required Sixth-Grade Alchemist status and its top floor required Seventh-Grade Alchemist status or Dou Zun strength; he said Liu Ling’s badge qualified him for the upper floor.

Liu Ling brought Qing Lin and their companions through the Alchemist Trading Fair’s restricted upper floors, where Qing Lin bargained for an ingredient before they reached the exclusive top floor. The group was left to explore as Qing Lin declined the yellow-robed elder’s offer to guide them.

• Qing Lin asked Ye Zhong whether Liu Ling could bring them to the upper floors, and Liu Ling led the group into the second floor using his Seventh-grade Intermediate Alchemist badge.
• Qing Lin bought a White Zhi Exquisite Fruit from a stall owner for one Sixth-Grade Pill after rejecting his initial price.
• Qing Lin found nothing else worth seeing and asked Liu Ling to take them to the top floor.
• The yellow-robed elder escorted Liu Ling’s group past concealed watchers and into the top floor, where the visitors noticed Liu Ling’s badge.
• Liu Ling told the yellow-robed elder to ask Qing Lin what she wanted, and Qing Lin declined his offer to introduce the top floor’s wares.