Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan attempted to refine a ninth-grade Thunder Tribulation Pill before the Ancient Dragon Tribe’s Dou Saints and succeeded on his third try. As the pill took shape and the Black Demonic Lightning was absorbed, Lin Yuan began using the refined energy to break through his cultivation, while a dark light shot toward him.

• The Ancient Dragon Tribe’s Dou Saints watched Lin Yuan prepare to refine a ninth-grade pill and debated his relationship with Her Majesty the Dragon Emperor.
• Lin Yuan formed an ice-blue fire cauldron and spent two days extracting and purifying lightning energy from nine Heavenly Thunder Beads.
• Lin Yuan’s first two refinement attempts failed, but he continued and completed a third attempt that lasted seventeen days.
• Lin Yuan condensed the pill into a fire lotus, and the appearance of Black Demonic Lightning convinced the watching Dou Saints that he had succeeded.
• Lin Yuan summoned Fu Xuan, whose purple-black flame vortex devoured the Black Demonic Lightning and sent its refined energy into the pill.
• Lin Yuan absorbed the energy to attempt a breakthrough, as a dark light burst from the collapsing fire lotus and shot toward him.

Lin Yuan completed his breakthrough to Intermediate Half-Saint after refining a Ninth-Grade Thunder Tribulation Pill, then gave the pill to Elder Qingshan to strengthen his support for Zi Yan. He visited Medusa at the Extreme Nether Profound Abyss, where she told him Little Cai had transformed into an Eight-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and asked him to take her out when he left.

• Elder Qingshan stopped the pill spirit that resembled Lin Yuan from attacking, and Lin Yuan's soul fluctuation restrained it while Fu Xuan helped fuel his breakthrough.
• After two days of gathering energy, Lin Yuan absorbed the vortex and successfully advanced to Intermediate Half-Saint.
• Lin Yuan condensed the pill spirit into the Thunder Tribulation Pill and gifted it to Elder Qingshan, encouraging the Ancient Dragon Tribe's leaders to support Zi Yan.
• Lin Yuan left the alchemy site and descended into Medusa's seclusion place in the Extreme Nether Profound Abyss.
• Medusa teased Lin Yuan about Feng Qing'er and Gu Xun'er, then told him Little Cai had become an Eight-Colored Sky Swallowing Python and should leave with him.

Lin Yuan gave Medusa a Nine-Colored Origin Stone and told her about a possible Sky Swallowing Python presence in the Nine Nether Yellow Springs, then left Dragon Island with Feng Qing'er and Little Cai. He sent Feng Qing'er back toward Wind Lightning Pavilion and continued on to Starfall Pavilion, where its growing strength impressed him.

• Lin Yuan gave Medusa a Nine-Colored Origin Stone and recommended the Nine Nether Yellow Springs for her secluded cultivation, warning her that he had sensed the Sky Swallowing Python there.
• Lin Yuan and Medusa spent three days together before he left the Extreme Nether Profound Abyss with Little Cai, then departed Dragon Island with Feng Qing'er.
• Lin Yuan praised Feng Qing'er's Peak Dou Sect cultivation and warned her to conceal her Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline from even her clansmen.
• Feng Qing'er set out for Wind Lightning Pavilion, planning to meet Lin Yuan at the Four Pavilions Assembly in a month.
• Lin Yuan took Little Cai to Starfall Pavilion and observed that Elder Yao's rise to Half-Saint had greatly strengthened the faction.

Lin Yuan visited Starfall Pavilion in disguise, where Elder Yao welcomed him and marveled at his Half-Saint cultivation. At the rear mountain, Lin Yuan gave Xiao Yan a letter from Ya Fei and assessed Xiao Yan’s rapid progress toward inheriting Xiao Xuan’s bloodline.

• Lin Yuan broke through Starfall Pavilion’s space barrier and restrained its Dou Venerate elders, prompting Elder Yao to appear and recognize him.
• Elder Yao took Lin Yuan to the Starfall Platform and explained how its star power sustained the Star Realm; the two discussed their cultivation and Lin Yuan’s help to Xiao Yan.
• Lin Yuan asked Elder Yao to summon Xiao Yan so he could deliver a letter from an old acquaintance, and Elder Yao brought him to the rear mountain.
• Xiao Yan recognized the letter as being from Ya Fei and eagerly began reading it.
• Lin Yuan learned that Xiao Yan had reached Peak Dou Sect after gaining five stars in half a year and suspected Elder Yao had increased his medicinal-pill support to prepare him for Xiao Xuan’s bloodline inheritance.

Lin Yuan asked Yao Chen to lead an anti-Soul Palace alliance, offering the Pill Tower’s support and explaining that the Soul Palace was vulnerable while its master pursued a breakthrough. Yao Chen accepted the proposal but asked Lin Yuan to help him refine a ninth-grade medicinal pill.

• Lin Yuan presented Yao Chen and Xiao Yan with intelligence and a plan for the Pill Tower to support Yao Chen as a banner against the Soul Palace.
• Yao Chen and Xiao Yan learned that the Soul Palace planned a campaign that could cause hundreds of millions of elite casualties and far greater losses among ordinary people.
• Lin Yuan explained that the Soul Palace Master was likely secluded to break through, making the next few years an opportunity to weaken the Soul Palace and cut off its influence in the borderlands.
• Lin Yuan offered intelligence, resources, medicinal pills, and discreet support from his fabricated identity, Saint Gu Yan, for a loose anti-Soul Palace alliance.
• Yao Chen accepted the Pill Tower’s proposal and asked Lin Yuan to cooperate with him in refining a ninth-grade medicinal pill.

Elder Yao invited Lin Yuan to help refine the ninth-grade Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill and offered a Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill recipe in exchange for a Heaven Tier Dou Skill. As Xiao Yan chose a skill, he instead proposed a risky deal with Lin Yuan, seeking all three skills and a Heaven Tier Cultivation Method in return for five times their value after he returned from the Heavenly Tomb.

• Elder Yao asked Lin Yuan to join him in refining the Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill, and Lin Yuan agreed.
• Elder Yao offered to obtain the Nine Yin Yellow Springs Pill recipe in exchange for a Heaven Tier Dou Skill, and Lin Yuan placed three skills on the table for him to choose from.
• Elder Yao encouraged Xiao Yan to select a Dou Skill, and Xiao Yan began reaching for the Astonishing Spirit Finger.
• Xiao Yan stopped and proposed a risky transaction to Lin Yuan, asking for all three Dou Skills and a Heaven Tier Cultivation Method in exchange for five times their value after the Heavenly Tomb.

Xiao Yan proposed a high-stakes deal with Lin Yuan: help him secure entry to the Heavenly Tomb in exchange for Xiao Xuan’s cooperation with Lin Yuan’s research. Lin Yuan agreed on the condition that his disciple Dan Chen enter as his agent, and the two sides began their cooperation by exchanging cultivation resources.

• Xiao Yan decided to use the promise of Xiao Clan legacies to persuade Lin Yuan to help him gain a Heavenly Tomb quota, and he revealed that Xiao Xuan awaited him there.
• Lin Yuan rejected Xiao Yan’s offer of Heaven Tier legacies and instead asked Xiao Yan to help him persuade Xiao Xuan to assist with research on the Heavenly Tomb.
• Lin Yuan explained that Dan Chen, not himself, would enter the Heavenly Tomb as his agent, and Xiao Yan agreed to help arrange their cooperation.
• Lin Yuan and Xiao Yan sealed the agreement with tea, and Lin Yuan gave Xiao Yan the Heavenly Flame Saint Art while advising him and Elder Yao on their cultivation methods.
• Xiao Yan passed the Heavenly Flame Saint Art and two Heaven Tier Dou Skills to Elder Yao, who was especially excited about the Myriad Transformation Heavenly Flame Palm.

Lin Yuan and Elder Yao began jointly refining the Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill in a secluded valley, keeping the work hidden from the Hall of Souls. After their first attempt failed, the second reached the crucial fusion stage, where Elder Yao struggled to control the medicinal strengths and activated the Spirit Burning Secret Technique to strengthen his Soul Power.

• Lin Yuan studied the Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill formula and prepared to assist Elder Yao with its difficult joint refinement.
• Elder Yao brought Lin Yuan to a secluded valley in the Beast Region, where Venerable Feng, Mu Qingluan, Old Monster Qinghua, and Xiao Yan had secured the area against intruders.
• Elder Yao and Lin Yuan started refining the pill together in the Black Demon Cauldron, but their first attempt failed on the third day and destroyed many medicinal ingredient essences.
• Elder Yao and Lin Yuan began a second attempt, refining faster with the experience they had gained from their failure.
• On the sixth day, Lin Yuan handed control of the fused medicinal liquid to Elder Yao, whose Soul Power faltered under the strain.
• Elder Yao swallowed a blood-colored pill and activated the Spirit Burning Secret Technique to restore his weakening Soul Power during the dangerous fusion.

Elder Yao’s second attempt to refine the Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill failed when the Black Demon Cauldron cracked, so Lin Yuan took the lead in a third attempt and successfully completed the pill. The group left through Starfall Pavilion’s Space Tunnel after Elder Yao secured the pill, which could help him break through to Dou Saint.

• Elder Yao nearly completed Pill Fusion, but the Black Demon Cauldron cracked and his distraction caused the second round of alchemy to fail.
• Lin Yuan gave Elder Yao restorative pills, announced that he would lead the next attempt, and formed an Ice Blue Fire Cauldron.
• Lin Yuan and Elder Yao completed Pill Fusion and nurtured the embryonic pill together over the following days.
• Black Demonic Lightning descended, and Lin Yuan struck it with a heaven-and-earth-powered punch while Elder Yao and the others shielded the Fire Cauldron.
• Lin Yuan stopped the finished Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill from escaping, and Elder Yao caught it and stored it in a jade bottle.
• The group erased the traces of the refinement and returned through Starfall Pavilion’s Space Tunnel.

Lin Yuan agreed to accompany Starfall Pavilion to the Four Pavilions Assembly and help secure its plan to merge the Four Pavilions, while Feng Qing'er prepared to leave Wind Lightning Pavilion and face Chen Yan. Seven days later, the assembly began at Wind Lightning Mountain, where Venerable Lei called for the arriving guests to reveal themselves.

• After Lin Yuan and his companions left the valley, powerful figures investigated the site and concluded that someone had refined a ninth-grade medicinal pill there; a sinister aura later appeared and recognized the smell of Black Demonic Lightning.
• Lin Yuan accepted two sets of medicinal ingredients from Elder Yao and told him he planned to attend the Four Pavilions Assembly to watch Feng Qing'er battle Chen Yan.
• Venerable Feng revealed that Starfall Pavilion planned to merge the Four Pavilions, and Lin Yuan agreed to travel as Saint Gu Yan and help while asking them to give Venerable Lei a dignified position.
• Feng Qing'er told Venerable Lei that she would give up the Young Pavilion Master position after the assembly and follow Lin Yuan, while Venerable Lei agreed to protect her from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Seven days later, crowds gathered at Wind Lightning Mountain for the Four Pavilions Assembly, and Venerable Lei appeared with several powerful figures before calling on his old friends to show themselves.

The Four Pavilions Assembly began as the leaders and contestants gathered at Lei Mountain, where Xiao Yan and Feng Qing’er prepared to face each other. In the void, Lin Yuan revealed Feng Qing’er’s Ancient Heavenly Phoenix evolution to Elder Yao and proposed a wager on the duel, which Elder Yao was still considering.

• Venerable Jian, Venerable Huang Quan, and Venerable Feng arrived at Lei Mountain with their disciples, and the Venerates exchanged greetings and taunts.
• Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan, while Xiao Yan and Mu Qingluan sensed Feng Qing’er’s unusually powerful bloodline.
• Venerable Lei announced the assembly’s eighty-eight contestants and began the chaotic battlefield preliminary, which would end when eight remained.
• Feng Qing’er and Xiao Yan entered the arena from opposite corners and waited, as the preliminary was not the place for a duel between Four Pavilions representatives.
• Lin Yuan told Elder Yao that he had helped Feng Qing’er evolve into the only Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and asked him to keep it secret.
• Lin Yuan offered to wager a ninth-grade pill recipe against Elder Yao’s forces prioritizing the collection of medicinal ingredients for five years if Feng Qing’er defeated Xiao Yan.

Lin Yuan wagered with Elder Yao over a Ninth Grade Pill Recipe and passed along Xuan Yi’s message about their relationship. At the Four Pavilions Assembly, Nalan Yanran fought Wang Chen until his secret techniques put her in mortal danger, and Chen Yan intervened to stop him.

• Elder Yao accepted Lin Yuan’s wager, and Lin Yuan teased him about his love life before relaying Xuan Yi’s message.
• Xiao Yan recognized his former fiancée Nalan Yanran at the assembly, while Wang Chen confronted her with a killing intent.
• Nalan Yanran gained the upper hand against Wang Chen, but he used the Yellow Springs Blood Art to raise his strength and drive her back.
• Wang Chen burned his blood essence and unleashed the Yellow Springs Corpse-Rotting Arm after Nalan Yanran shifted to defense.
• Chen Yan appeared between Wang Chen and Nalan Yanran, stopped his attack, and asked him to end the fight.

Xiao Yan saved Nalan Yanran from Wang Chen during the Four Pavilions Assembly preliminaries, then the eight survivors prepared to begin the main competition. Before the matches started, Yao Chen and Gu Yan arrived as Saints, and Gu Yan called the Assembly its final one.

• Xiao Yan revealed his identity to Nalan Yanran in secret, stopped Wang Chen's attack, and gave him an Origin-Replenishing Spirit Pill.
• Venerable Feng explained that Nalan Yanran was a core Flower Sect disciple, while the chaotic battle ended with eight contestants remaining.
• Venerable Lei announced that the main competition would use one-on-one matches and summoned the contestants to draw lots.
• Venerable Feng alerted the other Venerables to approaching guests, and a spatial cavity opened above Thunder Mountain.
• Yao Chen and Gu Yan emerged from the cavity, and the assembled Venerables and spectators bowed to them.
• Gu Yan called the Assembly its final one and urged Yao Chen to give it a dignified curtain call.

Lin Yuan and Elder Yao opened a chaos space for the Four Pavilions Assembly’s final battles, while using the event to establish Saint Gu Yan’s public identity and conceal Feng Qing’er’s transformed bloodline. As the matches began, the three rival pavilion masters agreed to merge their pavilions into the Anti-Hall of Souls Organization, and Lin Yuan advised Elder Yao to use Venerable Huang Quan as a possible source of false information.

• Lin Yuan and Elder Yao created a chaos space and summoned the main competition participants and Four Pavilions Venerables inside.
• The contestants entered separate battle spaces, where Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran faced each other as the assembly’s final matches began.
• Lin Yuan pressured Venerable Jian, Venerable Lei, and Venerable Huang Quan to decide whether their pavilions would merge, while Elder Yao urged them to choose freely.
• Venerable Lei agreed to the merger, and Venerable Jian and Venerable Huang Quan followed; Elder Yao promised fair resources and support for the merged pavilions.
• Lin Yuan told Elder Yao to investigate Venerable Huang Quan’s possible ties to the Hall of Souls and consider using him to pass false information.

Lin Yuan and Elder Yao planned the Four Pavilions’ resistance to the Soul Palace, naming their secret organization the Soul-Reversing Alliance and outlining its eventual merger into the Sky Mansion. After the first-round tournament battles, Feng Qing’er defeated Mu Qingluan in the semifinals while Xiao Yan faced Wang Chen in the other match.

• Lin Yuan proposed forming the Four Pavilions and a secret Soul-Reversing Alliance, then expanding the alliance’s campaign against Soul Palace branch halls in the borderlands before eventually creating the Sky Mansion.
• Lin Yuan gave Elder Yao intelligence on borderland branch halls, and Elder Yao agreed to organize strikes against them.
• The first-round battles ended with Feng Qing’er, Mu Qingluan, Wang Chen, and Xiao Yan victorious; Lin Yuan teased Elder Yao about Gu Xun’er seeing Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran speaking amicably.
• Elder Yao merged the battle spaces and arranged the semifinal matchups: Xiao Yan against Wang Chen and Mu Qingluan against Feng Qing’er.
• Feng Qing’er defeated Mu Qingluan with her Wind Kill Finger, and Mu Qingluan admitted defeat.
• Xiao Yan watched Feng Qing’er’s victory while Wang Chen lay unconscious nearby.

Xiao Yan defeated Wang Chen and faced Feng Qing'er in the decisive battle, where their enhanced Dou Qi and powerful techniques turned the match into a fierce contest. The chapter ended with them exchanging blows inside an energy storm, their fight still unresolved.

• Xiao Yan easily defeated Wang Chen, and the finalists were set as Feng Qing'er and Chen Yan of the Starfall Pavilion.
• Lin Yuan told Feng Qing'er to fight without holding back, and she and Xiao Yan began their duel.
• Feng Qing'er revealed wind lightning Dou Qi strengthened by nine-colored Pill Lightning, while Xiao Yan used Dou Qi mutated by the Flame Demon Pure Profound Pill.
• Feng Qing'er concealed a lethal Wind Lightning Finger attack behind her storm and colored-silk strikes, but Xiao Yan countered it with the Sun Radiance Seal.
• Their attacks shattered together, and Xiao Yan and Feng Qing'er continued fighting hand to hand inside the resulting energy storm; Elder Yao revealed Xiao Yan had mastered the Fire Element Golden Body.

Xiao Yan and Feng Qing'er escalated their duel with powerful techniques, but Feng Qing'er's Ancient Heavenly Phoenix bloodline and speed put Xiao Yan under heavy pressure. Xiao Yan used his Spirit Realm soul to create an opening and began preparing a decisive counterattack, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Elder Yao explained how Xiao Yan obtained the complete Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame from Burning Flame Valley, and Lin Yuan noted Elder Yao's progress in researching the Flame Mantra.
• Xiao Yan used the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Flame to break through to Dou Venerate, while Feng Qing'er activated Bloodline Spirit Devour and also reached Dou Venerate with an even stronger aura.
• Feng Qing'er overwhelmed Xiao Yan with her speed and strength, landing repeated blows and forcing him into a defensive struggle.
• Xiao Yan used his Spirit Realm soul to detect Feng Qing'er's approach and struck her with Soul Storm, briefly slowing her down.
• Xiao Yan bound Feng Qing'er with Heavenly Fire Binding Lock, retreated to build distance, and began forming the Sun Radiance Seal, Moon Essence Seal, and Starry Sky Seal for a decisive attack.

Xiao Yan and Feng Qing'er fought in Chaos Space, trading Earth Tier-limit techniques as they battled for victory. Feng Qing'er ultimately outmaneuvered Xiao Yan with a secret technique Lin Yuan had helped her prepare, leaving him unconscious and defeated.

• Xiao Yan formed the Three Luminaries Destroying God Seal as Feng Qing'er broke free of his chains and summoned her Heavenly Phoenix Saint Image.
• Feng Qing'er formed the Heavenly Phoenix Bell, and Xiao Yan's Three Luminaries seal collided with it in a destructive clash.
• Xiao Yan struck the bell with successive Soul Profound Seals, cracked it, and overwhelmed it with the Three Luminaries seal until it exploded.
• Xiao Yan used Soul Storm to disrupt Feng Qing'er's lightning clones, then struck the figure hidden in the explosion with the Three Seals Combined as One.
• Feng Qing'er revealed that she had swapped the auras of her lightning illusion body and true body, caught Xiao Yan off guard, and declared victory.
• Someone struck Xiao Yan unconscious and told him the defeat was meant to teach him not to be arrogant or rash.

Lin Yuan reflected on Xiao Yan’s defeat and continued preparing the Four Pavilions and Dan Tower for their upcoming plans. After returning to Holy Pill City, he presented the Three Greats of the Dan Tower with his plan to strengthen the Dou Qi Continent, leaving them astonished.

• Lin Yuan concluded that Xiao Yan’s defeat suggested his protagonist status was not absolute, while Feng Qing'er told him she could reach Dou Venerate within months and he promised to supply her cultivation resources.
• Elder Yao and Venerable Feng arranged the Wind Lightning Pavilion merger and Northern Region expansion, discussed Xiao Yan’s need to recover from defeat, and planned to bring Xiao Clan descendants from the Black Corner Region to the Central Plains.
• A Wind Lightning Pavilion elder reported that Nalan Yanran had come to see the Young Pavilion Master.
• Lin Yuan explained to Xuan Kongzi that the identity of Saint Gu Yan could be used by different Half-Saints to draw others into opposing the Hall of Souls, and agreed to teach both Cao Ying and Dan Chen before the Pill Convention.
• Lin Yuan gave Xuan Kongzi his handwritten Dou Qi Continent Strong Foundation Plan, and Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Heavenly Thunder Seed read it with astonishment.

Lin Yuan presented the Pill Tower with his plan to strengthen cultivation across the Dou Qi Continent, then returned to Heavenly Secluded Valley and tested a soul-seeding technique on Dan Chen. The test began to unleash an aura far beyond the Dou Sect level from her body.

• Lin Yuan outlined a plan to promote affordable medicinal cuisine and improve the Three Revolutions Qi Gathering method, with the Pill Tower helping verify and spread both.
• Lin Yuan kept his broader plans for raising productivity and eventually controlling and transforming the continent to himself.
• Xuan Kongzi, Heavenly Thunder Seed, and Xuan Yi agreed to support the plan and divided responsibility for guild integration, medicinal cuisine, and testing the gathering method.
• Lin Yuan returned to Heavenly Secluded Valley with Feng Qing'er and praised Xin Lan and Dan Chen for their cultivation progress.
• Lin Yuan inspected the soul seed in Dan Chen's sea of consciousness and merged his soul power into it, causing her aura to surge far beyond the Dou Sect level.