Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan used the illusion stage to investigate the Yao Clan, confirmed Yao Wangui was its only Path Protector, and cleared the first round. He reunited with Dan Ling at the next stage, where Yao Ling’s reaction to him provoked Yao Tian.

• Xuan Yi left the high platform, while Elder Yao departed after receiving her message.
• Lin Yuan used the Lightning Illusion Body and Nightmare Heavenly Mist to separate the Yao Clan members and draw information from them through illusions.
• Huo Yao warned Yao Wangui that Lin Yuan could help counterbalance the Hun Clan, but Yao Wangui secretly resolved to kill him for threatening the Yao Clan’s interests.
• Lin Yuan learned that Yao Wangui was the Yao Clan’s only Path Protector, used a Nightmare Breaking Talisman to dispel the illusions, and passed the first stage.
• Dan Ling welcomed Lin Yuan at the next stage and pledged the Dan Clan’s support; Lin Yuan credited Dan Chen’s progress to her own efforts.
• Yao Ling blushed when she saw Lin Yuan, and Yao Tian stepped between them and glared at Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan weighed how far he could go against the Yao Clan without provoking retaliation, then entered the Pill Realm for the Pill Convention’s second stage. He gathered his companions at the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and prepared them to use the ten-day assessment period to improve.

• Lin Yuan decided he needed to capture Yao Ling and eliminate Yao Wangui, while avoiding the deaths of the Yao Clan’s younger generation that could invite retaliation against the Dan Tower.
• After the first assessment ended, Lin Yuan entered the Pill Realm ahead of Dan Chen, Xin Lan, and Cao Ying as the second stage began.
• Lin Yuan considered repairing the deteriorating Pill Realm and making it his territory after the Pill Convention.
• Lin Yuan met Xiong Zhan at the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, rewarded him with an eighth-grade, seven-colored Venerate Pill, and told him he could later go to Ancient Dragon Island.
• Lin Yuan summoned Dan Chen, Xin Lan, Cao Ying, and Xiao Yan to the mountain range, where the assessment’s required medicinal ingredients had been gathered.
• Lin Yuan told the four to use the ten days to improve and gave Cao Ying a scroll containing his Lesser Spirit Ascension Method.

Lin Yuan helped Cao Ying, Xin Lan, Dan Chen, and Xiao Yan prepare for the Pill Convention’s second round, then left the Pill Realm with them as the assessment ended. The group emerged at Holy Pill City, where the final contest was about to begin and the space gate suddenly stirred.

• Lin Yuan sent Cao Ying, Xin Lan, and Dan Chen to gather ingredients and cultivate, while Xiao Yan entered seclusion to absorb an item and prepare for the assessment.
• Lin Yuan scattered the remaining medicinal ingredients across the Pill Realm so other examinees could find what they needed, then left to inspect the realm and deal with the Yao Clan.
• Eight days later, Lin Yuan escorted Xiong Zhan and the four contestants toward the exit on a Mystic Bird Beast, and Xiong Zhan agreed to serve Lin Yuan after leaving the Pill Realm.
• At the exit, Elder Wan Qing ended the assessment and opened a space tunnel; Lin Yuan and his companions left, followed by Xiao Yan and the other participants.
• Yao Ziyou spotted Xiao Yan and vowed to take his Heavenly Flames during the final contest.
• At Holy Pill Plaza, Mang Tianchi, Su Qian, Qing Lin, and the Jia Nan Academy students waited for the contestants as violent spatial fluctuations erupted from the gate.

The Pill Convention finals began as nearly a thousand alchemists took their places on the suspended stone platforms. Lin Yuan confronted Yao Tian and Yao Ling, while Xiao Yan accepted Yao Ziyou’s wager of the Wind Fury Dragon Flame against the Yao Clan’s ninth-grade alchemy art; the chapter ended as the contestants prepared to refine their pills.

• Great Elder Lin welcomed the finalists and announced that they would compete on the stone platforms suspended above the plaza.
• Lin Yuan claimed the central platforms and challenged Yao Tian and Yao Ling, whose combined auras clashed with his high-level Half-Saint aura.
• The Yao Clan and Pill Tower gathered their younger-generation alchemists on platforms facing each other, while Qinglin received a message from Gu Xun'er.
• Yao Ziyou taunted Xiao Yan and wagered the Yao Clan’s ninth-grade alchemy art against Xiao Yan’s Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Great Elder Lin rang the bell to begin the finals, and the contestants summoned their cauldrons, including six ranked on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

At the Pill Convention, alchemists revealed an array of powerful flames, including rare Heavenly Flames and synthesized flames that drew the attention of the Yan and Yao Clans. As Yao Tian and Yao Ling prepared to use pills and fresh blood to challenge Lin Yuan, he recognized the blood and reacted sharply.

• Nearly a thousand alchemists summoned their cauldrons and flames, while Lin Yuan, Cao Ying, Xiao Yan, and other leading competitors first settled their minds.
• Cao Ying revealed her Blood Fiend Flame, and Yao Tian, Yao Ling, Yao Xingji, and other Yao Clan members displayed powerful secret-technique flames; Xin Lan also summoned a black-and-white Transforming Fire.
• Yao Ziyou revealed the Yin Yang Twin Flames, but Xiao Yan's Wind Fury Dragon Flame frightened the Heavenly Flame back into Yao Ziyou's palm before both men began heating their cauldrons.
• Dan Chen briefly revealed a pale purple synthesized flame that surpassed the flames of Yao Ziyou and Xiao Yan, fueling Yao Wangui's and Huo Yao's desire to obtain Lin Yuan's flame-creation secret technique.
• Yao Tian warned Yao Ling that they needed to win and obtain Lin Yuan's secret technique, then both produced medicinal pills and bottles of fresh blood; Lin Yuan recognized the blood and reacted with concealed intensity.

Yao Tian and Yao Ling used pills and the Yao Clan’s secret techniques to boost their strength and souls, then began refining a pill together. Lin Yuan answered by preparing to refine a ninth-grade pill on his own, leaving the contest between their alchemy efforts underway.

• Yao Tian and Yao Ling took Eighth Grade Nine Colors pills, raising their cultivation from Intermediate Half-Saint to High-Level Half-Saint.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling used Blood Soul Spirit Attraction to raise their souls from newly entered Heaven Realm Middle Stage to Late Heaven Realm.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling combined the Nine Nether Wind Flame and Guiling Earthly Flame into a giant cauldron and began refining with over a thousand ingredients, while the Dan Tower accepted their approach after Yao Wangui opposed ruling it out.
• Great Elder Lin relied on Lin Yuan to challenge the Yao siblings, and Lin Yuan formed an ice-blue fire cauldron and prepared more than a thousand ingredients for a ninth-grade pill.
• Yao Tian faltered when he saw Lin Yuan’s preparations, but Yao Ling urged him to focus, and both sides continued refining as powerful energy gathered in their cauldrons.

Lin Yuan began refining a more ambitious pill than the Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill at the Pill Convention, while Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she and Qing Lin had been cultivating Yao Ling’s trust to bring her closer to Lin Yuan. After days of competition, the first Pill Lightning appeared, marking the emergence of a high-grade pill.

• Elder Yao and the Pill Tower elders realized Lin Yuan was using far more ingredients than the Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill, while Qing Lin remained confident in him.
• Medusa questioned Xiao Yi Xian about her role in Yao Ling’s growing interest in Lin Yuan, and Xiao Yi Xian explained that Lin Yuan had asked her and Qing Lin to gain Yao Ling’s trust.
• Xiao Yi Xian admitted she hoped Yao Ling might become Lin Yuan’s ally and help him reach an Emperor Realm Soul, and Medusa accepted the possibility despite teasing her about it.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling finished preparing their ingredients after two days and began fusing their medicinal strengths, while Lin Yuan had already started fusion.
• Over seven days, contestants suffered refining failures, including Lin Yuan, but some began forming pill embryos; another five days passed as pill fragrance filled the plaza.
• The first Pill Lightning of the convention resounded through the arena.

The Pill Convention advanced into its decisive stage as alchemists produced increasingly powerful pills and brilliant pill lightning, including eighth-grade results from Song Qing and Ye Xinlan. The Yao Clan then demonstrated its superiority with five- and six-colored pill lightning, prompting Cao Ying to challenge its arrogance.

• Gu He summoned the first pill lightning of the convention, and over the following days more competitors completed their pills, including Elder Huo with a seventh-grade advanced Sect Origin Pill.
• By the twentieth day, twenty-eight competitors remained; six went on to refine peak seventh-grade pills, while an old man failed just short of completing a pill capable of earning a place in the top twenty.
• Song Qing produced an eighth-grade pill with two-colored lightning, and another elder also summoned two-colored lightning.
• Ye Xinlan produced an eighth-grade pill with three-colored lightning, bringing Ye Zhong to tears as he celebrated the Ye Family's revival.
• A Yao Clan youth mocked the outside alchemists and produced five-colored pill lightning; Yao Xingji then summoned six-colored lightning, while other Yao Clan members produced four- and five-colored lightning.
• Cao Ying rose and praised the Yao Clan's alchemy while declaring its members arrogant for looking down on the world.

Cao Ying and Xiao Yan displayed their alchemy skills at the Pill Convention, with Xiao Yan refining a seven-colored eighth-grade pill and apparently winning the contest against the Yao Clan. Yao Ziyou refused to concede and revealed a strange blood-red and green radiance from his brow.

• Cao Ying used the Lesser Spirit Ascension Method and a blood sacrifice to refine an eighth-grade pill that summoned a six-colored thundercloud.
• Yao Chen recognized Lin Yuan as the one who had adapted his Spirit Ascension Method, while Yao Ziyou challenged Xiao Yan and accused him of relying on an outcast teacher.
• Xiao Yan used the Spirit Ascension Method to improve his pill from five-colored to six-colored lightning, then to unprecedented seven-colored pill lightning.
• Elder Yao praised Xiao Yan, who asked Yao Ziyou what he thought of his alchemy.
• Yao Ziyou praised Xiao Yan's ability, then revealed a strange blood-red and green radiance from the medicine gourd pattern between his eyebrows.

Yao Ziyou used the Yao Clan’s bloodline secret technique to overtake Xiao Yan in their pill-refining wager, but Dan Chen then revealed a superior seven-colored pill lightning. The competition’s attention shifted to Dan Chen and Lin Yuan as Lin Yuan told his disciple not to raise her pill’s grade further.

• Yao Ziyou activated the Imperial Blood Sacrifice Spirit, sacrificing cultivation and damaging his Eighth-Grade Bloodline to strengthen his pill.
• Yao Ziyou’s pill produced a seven-colored thundercloud with a larger green portion than Xiao Yan’s, deciding their wager in Yao Ziyou’s favor.
• Dan Chen opened her eyes and summoned an evenly distributed seven-colored thundercloud, revealing her pill as the peak of Eighth Grade Seven Colors.
• The spectators praised Dan Chen’s talent and turned their attention from Xiao Yan and Yao Ziyou to her and Lin Yuan.
• Dan Chen asked Lin Yuan whether she should use the Spirit Ascension Method, and Lin Yuan told her that her result was already sufficient.

At the Pill Convention, Yao Tian and Yao Ling refined a Ninth-Grade Medicinal Pill, drawing Black Demonic Lightning and believing they had secured victory. Lin Yuan revealed his own concealed pill through the Condensing Object Pill Concoction method, while Huo Yao prevented Yao Wangui from interfering; the contest remained unresolved.

• Dan Chen accepted Lin Yuan’s instruction not to reveal her full ability, while the Yao Clan geniuses pinned their hopes on Yao Tian and Yao Ling.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling used Imperial Blood Sacrifice Spirit to jointly refine a Ninth-Grade Medicinal Pill, summoning Black Demonic Lightning.
• Yao Tian declared that he had won, but Lin Yuan opened his eyes and destroyed his Ice Blue Fire Cauldron to reveal a massive Ice Blue Fire Lotus.
• Lin Yuan began the Vast Lotus Pill Concoction, and Yao Wangui realized he was using the Condensing Object Pill Concoction method.
• Yao Wangui tried to leave and interfere, but Huo Yao sealed the space and made him stay until the Pill Convention ended.

Lin Yuan completed his pill and faced an overwhelming storm of Black Demonic Lightning after Yao Tian used a forbidden technique to combine the competitors’ pill lightning. Lin Yuan revealed his Dou Saint cultivation, endured and refined the attacks, and remained unharmed as the storm cleared.

• Yao Wangui backed down from confronting Huo Yao but secretly resolved that Lin Yuan could not be allowed to live.
• The alchemy grandmasters recognized Lin Yuan’s skill with the Condensing Object Pill Concoction method, while Yao Tian and Yao Ling reacted to his imminent success.
• Lin Yuan summoned powerful Black Demonic Lightning and challenged Yao Tian and Yao Ling to admit defeat.
• Yao Tian sacrificed blood to merge the other pill lightning into Lin Yuan’s storm, then argued that Lin Yuan could not withstand it and claim victory.
• Lin Yuan revealed himself as a One-Star Dou Saint and punched away the first bolt of Black Demonic Lightning.
• Lin Yuan refined five more bolts with his Myriad Transformation Heavenly Flame Palm, then stood unharmed with a bead of condensed black lightning in his hand.

Lin Yuan completed the lightning tempering of his Divine Vein Foundation Pill, subdued the spirit-form pill, and revealed that it could greatly increase a Dou Saint’s cultivation. Great Elder Lin declared Lin Yuan the Pill Convention champion, leaving Yao Ling’s healing pill in second place.

• After the Black Demonic Lightning dispersed, Lin Yuan stored its thunder bead for Mang Tianchi and watched the lightning finish tempering his pill.
• The Ninth Grade Treasure Pill transformed into Lin Yuan’s likeness, fought him, and tried to bargain before Lin Yuan used the Pill-Attracting Art to return it to pill form.
• Great Elder Lin asked the finalists to present their pills, and Yao Ling introduced her Ninth Grade Treasure Pill, the Primordial Restoration Pill.
• Lin Yuan identified his pill as the Divine Vein Foundation Pill and explained its chances of raising a Dou Saint’s cultivation, startling the crowd and paling Yao Tian.
• Great Elder Lin judged Lin Yuan’s pill superior to Yao Ling’s and named Lin Yuan the Pill Convention champion.

Lin Yuan won the Pill Convention and received its rewards, including the Volcanic Rock Flame, which he gave to Fu Xuan. Great Elder Lin then asked him to take up the Dan Tower Master position, leaving Lin Yuan poised to lead Dan Tower toward restoring its former prominence.

• The Pill Convention ended with Lin Yuan acclaimed as champion, while Xiao Yan felt defeated and Yao Tian bitterly lamented his loss.
• Great Elder Lin awarded Lin Yuan the Volcanic Rock Flame, and Lin Yuan passed it to Fu Xuan to strengthen her origins.
• Great Elder Lin also gave Lin Yuan a Soul Cultivation Method and a Soul Dou Skill, both Earth Tier High Level.
• Great Elder Lin announced that Lin Yuan could become Dan Tower Master now that he had reached Ninth Grade Grandmaster and asked whether he would accept the responsibility.

Lin Yuan accepted the Dan Tower’s appointment and became its tower master, drawing cheers from the crowd and sharpening Yao Wangui’s hostility. As the ceremony ended, Lin Yuan prepared to announce the results of his work.

• The Three Greats of the Dan Tower supported Lin Yuan’s succession, while Mang Tianchi, Qing Lin, Medusa, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan celebrated his rise.
• Qing Lin gave Zi Yan plans for monitoring Yao Ling and Yao Wangui, and Xiao Yi Xian reported that Yao Ming had emerged from seclusion and was ready to help.
• Six powerful elders and other secluded Small Dan Tower experts arrived at Holy Pill Plaza to witness the succession.
• Lin Yuan accepted the responsibility, and Great Elder Lin proclaimed him the Dan Tower Master before the gathered crowd.
• Yao Wangui’s resentment and killing intent toward Lin Yuan grew, while Huo Yao considered Lin Yuan’s value to the Yan Clan.
• Lin Yuan looked over the expectant crowd and prepared to announce his results.

At Holy Pill Plaza, Lin Yuan announced Dan Tower’s Dou Qi Continent Strong Foundation Plan, which aimed to speed cultivation and strengthen the continent by sharing research and techniques for free. He explained its three components, leaving the crowd to consider the sweeping changes the plan could bring.

• At Xuan Kongzi’s urging, Lin Yuan announced that Dan Tower had a gift for the Dou Qi Continent: the Dou Qi Continent Strong Foundation Plan.
• Lin Yuan said the plan would shorten the time spent in the Dou Qi stage, help most people become Dou Zhe before fifteen, and raise the continent’s overall strength.
• The crowd erupted in cheers, while sect leaders saw an opportunity and ancient clan disciples worried that their advantage might diminish.
• Lin Yuan introduced the Path of Medicinal Cuisine, saying Dan Tower would freely share eighty-one affordable formulas and the tools for ordinary people to prepare them.
• Lin Yuan explained that Dan Tower would also publish the Three Revolutions Qi Gathering art, which greatly improved the chance of advancing to Dou Zhe without Qi Gathering Powder or backlash injuries.
• Lin Yuan described Production Methods for cultivating medicinal ingredients and conditioning Earth Qi, and said Dan Tower would make them public for free.

Lin Yuan announced the Dou Qi Continent Strong Foundation Plan and claimed the Yao Clan’s Golden Core Legacy after winning the Pill Convention wager. Yao Wangui secretly marked him with a soul technique and invited him to the Medicine Ceremony, challenging Yao Chen’s claim to be the Continent’s Foremost Alchemist.

• Lin Yuan explained that the Dan Tower would promote the Strong Foundation Plan, while the crowd debated its purpose and Yao Tian realized the Yao Clan had served as Lin Yuan’s stepping stone.
• Lin Yuan called on Yao Tian and Yao Ling to fulfill their wager, and Yao Wangui emerged from the void with the Golden Core Legacy.
• Yao Wangui handed Lin Yuan the legacy, then secretly attached his Soul Chasing Secret Technique to him while Lin Yuan inspected the jade slip.
• Yao Wangui gave Lin Yuan an invitation to the Medicine Ceremony and taunted Yao Chen over the title of Continent’s Foremost Alchemist.

Yao Wangui humiliated Elder Yao, seized Xiao Yan’s Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and departed as the Pill Convention ended. Lin Yuan set a plan in motion against the Yao Clan, while Gu Xun'er awakened in Ancient Saint City with vengeance against Yao Ziyou and Yao Wangui.

• Yao Wangui mocked Elder Yao over his title, and Lin Yuan accepted his invitation to the Medicine Ceremony while expressing interest in claiming the title himself.
• Yao Wangui appeared before Xiao Yan, extracted the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and handed it to Yao Ziyou.
• Elder Yao caught Xiao Yan, rejected Yao Wangui’s pill, treated his disciple, and left with him.
• Yao Wangui and the Yao Clan Ten Prodigies departed aboard their warship, while Lin Yuan instructed Qing Lin to tell Zi Yan to follow the plan and watch the clan’s people carrying Heavenly Flames.
• The Pill Tower awarded prizes to ten contestants who filled the vacated places, and Great Elder Lin declared the Pill Convention over.
• Gu Xun'er awoke in Ancient Saint City, remembered what she had witnessed, and vowed vengeance against Yao Ziyou and Yao Wangui.

Gu Xun'er wrestled with whether to advance toward Half-Saint or stay able to protect Xiao Yan when he pursued the Bodhi Opportunity, and she asked Yao Guang Star Lord to check on him. In Holy Pill City, Lin Yuan’s Dan Tower council approved his plans for the Pill Realm and the continent’s foundation, while Lin Yuan prepared to leave on an urgent mission.

• Gu Xun'er weighed the risks of reaching Half-Saint before her coming-of-age ceremony against losing the chance to accompany and protect Xiao Yan at the Bodhi Opportunity, then asked Yao Guang Star Lord to confirm Xiao Yan’s condition.
• As Holy Pill City celebrated the Pill Convention, Lin Yuan met with the Dan Tower’s Great Elder Council and proposed repairing the Pill Realm by seeking help from the Gu, Yan, or Lei Clans.
• Lin Yuan persuaded the council to approve the Pill Realm restoration and Dou Qi Continent Strong Foundation plans, while Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Heavenly Thunder Seed agreed to manage the tower during his cultivation.
• Lin Yuan declined a formal succession ceremony and agreed to visit the Heaven Pill Saint with Great Elder Lin in half a month.
• Lin Yuan noted that Zi Yan had returned at Great Perfection Heaven Realm and said he had matters to handle first, including putting on an act to kill someone.

Lin Yuan learned that Yao Wangui was waiting nearby with a tracking mark on him and planned to lure him into a trap while keeping his allies’ involvement concealed. After sending Qing Lin and his Lightning Illusion Body to meet Zi Yan, Lin Yuan studied the Yao Clan’s alchemy inheritance and gained new confidence in refining powerful pills.

• Qing Lin told Lin Yuan that Zi Yan had tracked Yao Wangui to the Tianyun Mountain Range, near Holy Pill City.
• Lin Yuan revealed that he knew Yao Wangui had placed a tracking mark on him and decided to arrange a private ambush rather than involve Zi Yan directly.
• Lin Yuan sent Qing Lin and his Lightning Illusion Body to meet Zi Yan, and gave Qing Lin a Divine Vein Foundation Pill for Xiyue.
• After Qing Lin departed, Lin Yuan absorbed the Yao Clan’s Profound Pill and Golden Core legacies from a jade slip through the night.
• Lin Yuan concluded that the inheritance had improved his alchemy knowledge and raised his confidence in refining a treasure pill close to a Profound Pill.