Chapter Summaries

Lin Yuan refused Elder Yao and Xiao Yan's request for an advance Synthesized Strange Flame, but offered to trade one for a Heavenly Flame, valuable clues, or other suitable items before the Ancient Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony. After discussing the Hall of Souls and the Soul-Reversing Alliance, Elder Yao and Xiao Yan left Holy Pill City, and Lin Yuan was told that Tang Zhen of Burning Flame Valley wanted to see him.

• Lin Yuan explained that synthesizing another Strange Flame would consume scarce sub-flames and weaken Fu Xuan, so he refused Elder Yao and Xiao Yan's request for credit.
• Lin Yuan offered to trade a Synthesized Strange Flame for another Heavenly Flame, accurate Heavenly Flame clues, or other valuable items, with the offer lasting until the Ancient Clan Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Elder Yao and Xiao Yan accepted Lin Yuan's terms and agreed to seek something suitable to exchange.
• Lin Yuan discussed the Hall of Souls and the Soul-Reversing Alliance with Elder Yao before Elder Yao and Xiao Yan departed for Starfall Pavilion.
• A messenger informed Lin Yuan that Tang Zhen, Valley Master of Burning Flame Valley, had requested an audience.

Lin Yuan agreed to treat Old Ancestor Huoyun’s origin injury with a ninth-grade Primordial Spirit Returning Pill and arranged for Burning Flame Valley to gather the ingredients. He then proposed exchanging Dan Chen’s stronger purple flame for the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire, and Tang Zhen reacted with excitement.

• Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er visited Lin Yuan to ask him to treat Old Ancestor Huoyun’s worsening injury.
• Tang Zhen explained that Huoyun’s damaged origin required a ninth-grade pill and offered Burning Flame Valley’s resources in return for Lin Yuan’s help.
• Lin Yuan said he could refine the Primordial Spirit Returning Pill with sixty percent confidence, gave Tang Zhen a list of ingredients, and promised to visit Burning Flame Valley within half a year.
• Lin Yuan asked whether Burning Flame Valley would trade the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire and presented Dan Chen’s pale purple flame as part of the exchange.
• Tang Zhen eagerly confirmed the proposed trade, and Lin Yuan said they could exchange the heavenly flames immediately.

Lin Yuan agreed to exchange Heavenly Flames with Tang Zhen after several months, gave Tang Zhen and Tang Huo'er valuable gifts, and planned to take his disciples to Dragon Island for cultivation. As Lin Yuan headed toward the Beast Region, Yao Wangui learned his location and set out to kill him.

• Tang Zhen agreed to exchange the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire with Lin Yuan after preparing to remove its blood soul marks, and Lin Yuan promised to visit Burning Flame Valley in several months.
• Lin Yuan gave Tang Zhen an eighth-grade nine-colored Thunder Tribulation Pill and Tang Huo'er a Flame Demon Pure Profound Pill beast with a medicinal bath formula.
• Tang Huo'er accepted Lin Yuan's gifts and left with Tang Zhen for Holy Pill City’s medicine market to gather ingredients.
• Lin Yuan told Dan Chen to visit her family before she, Xin Lan, and Cao Ying joined him for years of cultivation on Ancient Dragon Island.
• Lin Yuan departed for the Beast Region after arranging to meet Su Qian, Elder Huo, and Mang Tianchi and handle requests from ancient clans.
• Yao Wangui tracked Lin Yuan's movements, rejected Yao Ling's warning against attacking him, and set out toward the Beast Region to kill him.

Yao Ling secretly warned Lin Yuan that Yao Wangui was hunting him, while Qing Lin and Zi Yan prepared to act against the Yao Clan. Lin Yuan met Yao Wangui in the Ancient Azure Mountain Range, escaped his sealed Space Prison, and fled with Yao Wangui in pursuit.

• Yao Tian stopped Yao Ling from chasing Yao Wangui, but she secretly used the Tian Ji Token to warn Yao Guang Star Lord and Tian Xuan Star Lord about the threat to Lin Yuan.
• Qing Lin spread Nightmare Heavenly Mist toward the Yao Clan ship while Zi Yan left to track Yao Wangui and report to Lin Yuan; the Lightning Illusion Body concealed itself as Hall of Souls Yuan Tianzun.
• Lin Yuan received updates through the Sky Dome Network and arranged to meet Yao Wangui near the border of the Central Region.
• Yao Wangui trapped Lin Yuan in a vast Space Prison and attacked him, but Lin Yuan wounded Yao Wangui with the Dry Blue Ice Flame and escaped through the barrier using purple light and his Heavenly Phoenix Wings.
• Lin Yuan fled across the sky after mocking Yao Wangui, who pursued him in fury, while an unseen woman laughed at Lin Yuan's performance.

Lin Yuan lured Yao Wangui into the Beast Region, where Yao Ming and the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe forced the pursuer to retreat. After the rescue, Lin Yuan revealed that the chase was staged and ordered Qing Lin to provoke Yao Wangui into returning to the Central Region.

• Lin Yuan sped ahead of Yao Wangui, used Heavenly Phoenix Nine Steps to maintain his lead, and weakened his aura to make Yao Wangui believe he was exhausting himself.
• As they reached the Beast Region, Lin Yuan called for Yao Ming, who blocked Yao Wangui’s Withered Glory Palm with Yellow Springs Palm.
• Yao Ming summoned several hundred tribe members and formed the Coiled Serpent Great Formation, forcing Yao Wangui to withdraw.
• Yao Ming escorted Lin Yuan into the Nine Serene Deep Abyss, and Lin Yuan promised to help him advance to Four-Star Dou Saint.
• Lin Yuan reunited with Zi Yan and asked her to remove Yao Wangui’s soul imprint, then ordered Qing Lin to kill a Yao Clan Ten Prodigy and draw Yao Wangui back to the Central Region.

Yuan Tianzun and Qing Lin ambushed the Yao Clan party to capture Yao Ling, using a hidden soul technique to turn Yao Ziyou into Lin Ziyou. After the Yao Clan’s formation fell, Lin Ziyou sided with the attackers and revealed his plan to take control of the clan.

• Qing Lin clouded the Yao Clan’s senses while Yuan Tianzun shattered the warship’s defensive barrier and demanded that Yao Ling come with him.
• Yao Tian rallied the Yao Clan Ten Prodigies and guards to form an array, and Yuan Tianzun summoned the Myriad Soul Lock Heaven Python to fight their Black Fire Wind Eagle.
• Lin Yuan’s soul slicing activated inside Yao Ziyou, making him strike Yao Tian from behind while the Yao Clan members remained unaware of Qing Lin’s interference.
• Yuan Tianzun’s python crushed the Black Fire Wind Eagle, causing the formation to collapse and injuring the Yao Clan members.
• Yao Ling confronted Yao Ziyou, and the controlled Lin Ziyou declared that he sought power and the Young Clan Head position by helping the Soul Clan subdue the Yao Clan.

Lin Yuan defeated Yao Wangui with a Six-Colored Fire Lotus, captured his soul, and concealed the battle’s traces before heading to Dragon Island with Zi Yan. As news spread that Lin Yuan was safe under Yao Ming’s protection, the Dan Tower elders learned that the Soul Clan had attacked the Yao Clan and that Yao Ziyou had betrayed his peers.

• Lin Yuan detonated the Six-Colored Fire Lotus, defeated Yao Wangui, and sealed his soul after extracting it from his body.
• Lin Yuan told Zi Yan that Yao Wangui’s knowledge and the Yao Clan’s alchemy secrets could be valuable, then learned Qing Lin had captured Yao Ling and taken her to Dragon Island.
• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan erased the traces of the battle and traveled toward Dragon Island to see the Blood Soul Spirit Body.
• News spread that Lin Yuan had been pursued by Yao Wangui, escaped into the Beast Region, and was safe under Yao Ming’s protection.
• At the Small Dan Tower, Xuan Kongzi told Great Elder Lin that Yao Ziyou had betrayed the Yao Clan to the Soul Clan and that several Yao Clan members’ fates remained unknown.

Lin Yuan trapped Yao Wangui in Chaos Space and unleashed the Three Pills Secret Technique, raising his strength enough to fight the Yao Clan Punishment Elder. After staggering Yao Wangui with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath and crushing his defenses with Myriad Transformation Heavenly Flame Palm, Lin Yuan prepared a Six-Colored Fire Lotus as his third and final move.

• Yao Wangui checked the soul jade slip and confirmed that Yao Tian and Yao Ling were safe before blaming Lin Yuan for the conflict.
• Lin Yuan appeared in Chaos Space, revealed himself as the one behind the attack, and released his Two-Star Dou Saint aura.
• Lin Yuan used the Three Pills Secret Technique to raise his strength to Late Three-Star Dou Saint, then fought Yao Wangui to a standstill.
• Lin Yuan struck Yao Wangui with Yellow Springs Heavenly Wrath, stunning him, then blasted him away with Myriad Transformation Heavenly Flame Palm.
• Lin Yuan formed a Six-Colored Fire Lotus and told the wounded Yao Wangui that his third move would finish the fight.

Lin Yuan defeated and captured Yao Wangui with a Six-Colored Fire Lotus, then erased the traces of their battle and headed for Dragon Island with Zi Yan. News of the fight stirred the Central Plains, while the Dan Tower elders learned Lin Yuan was safe and heard that Yao Ziyou had betrayed the Yao Clan to the Hun Clan.

• Lin Yuan detonated his Six-Colored Fire Lotus, killed Yao Wangui, and sealed his soul for interrogation before rejoining Zi Yan.
• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan cleared away evidence of the battle, then left for Dragon Island after learning Qing Lin had secured Yao Ling.
• Reports spread that Yao Wangui had pursued Lin Yuan, while Yao Ming publicly promised to protect Lin Yuan and the Nine Serene Deepground Python Tribe.
• At the Small Dan Tower, Xuan Kongzi told Great Elder Lin that Lin Yuan was safe and would try to return within half a month.
• Xuan Kongzi reported that Yao Ziyou had betrayed the Yao Clan to the Hun Clan, and Great Elder Lin ordered the rescued Yao Clan members hidden and watched.

At a Yao Clan council, Yao Tian accused Yao Ziyou of betraying the clan, while the elders debated Yao Ling’s rescue, the Dan Tower, and Yao Wangui’s death. Seven days later, Lin Yuan left Ancient Dragon Island with Zi Yan to return to Holy Pill City and assess the Yao Clan’s response.

• Yao Tian and Yao Xingji testified that Yao Ziyou had colluded with the Hun Clan and betrayed them, but Elder Yao Li rejected their accusations.
• Yao Wanhuo assigned the clan to locate Yao Ling, retrieve the other Ten Elites from the Dan Tower, and investigate Yao Wangui’s death while concealing the news of his death.
• Seven days later, Lin Yuan emerged from seclusion on Ancient Dragon Island, where Fu Xuan had advanced to Three-Star Dou Saint after refining five Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Yuan learned that Yao Ling had safely refined her Heavenly Flame and begun making pills under Elder Qingshan’s supervision.
• Lin Yuan and Zi Yan set out for Holy Pill City so Lin Yuan could check on the Yao Clan’s response and meet the Heaven Pill Saint.

Lin Yuan returned to the Dan Tower after secretly gathering information on the Hun Clan’s Soul Devouring Life Extinguishing Array. He planned to avoid an immediate clash with the Yao Clan while strengthening the Dan Tower and preparing for future revenge.

• Lin Yuan promised the Soul Palace Vice Hall Master a Divine Vein Foundation Pill in exchange for three sets of ingredients, then asked him to help prevent Yao Wangui from targeting him again.
• After Lin Yuan ended the call, he and Zi Yan revealed that they had fooled the Vice Hall Master, who did not know Lin Yuan had already killed Yao Wangui.
• Lin Yuan recovered information gathered by his Lightning Illusion Body about the Soul Devouring Life Extinguishing Array beneath a Central Plains city.
• Lin Yuan returned to Holy Pill City, sent Zi Yan to assess the Pill Realm’s repair, and met with the Three Greats at the Dan Tower.
• Lin Yuan ordered the Dan Tower to release the imprisoned Yao Clan members in three batches, keep his return secret, and strengthen the organization while avoiding a direct confrontation.

Great Elder Lin reported the Pill Tower’s response to Yao Wangui’s attack and news about Old Man Shennong, then brought Lin Yuan back to the Heaven Pill Tablet. Heaven Pill Saint rewarded Great Elder Lin and privately confronted Lin Yuan, asking what he wanted to tell him.

• Great Elder Lin told Lin Yuan that Dan Tower Old Ancestor had secured the Yao Clan’s promise to punish Yao Wangui and revealed that Old Man Shennong was living in seclusion on the Eastern Continent.
• Great Elder Lin invited Lin Yuan to enter the Heaven Pill Tablet, and they agreed to go the next day.
• Zi Yan secretly traced the tunnel to the Heaven Pill Tablet’s realm and decided that she could break into it if necessary.
• Lin Yuan and Great Elder Lin entered the Heaven Pill Tablet and met Heaven Pill Saint, who praised Great Elder Lin’s progress and gave him a Ninth Grade Pill Recipe and a Soul Cultivation Secret Method.
• Heaven Pill Saint took Lin Yuan into a sealed room and asked what Lin Yuan wanted to tell him.

Lin Yuan spoke frankly with the Heaven Pill Saint about his Hall of Souls ties and Hun Clan soul restriction, earning the ancestor’s trust and authority to use the Dan Tower’s foundations. The Heaven Pill Saint asked him to complete a powerful array, gifted him medicinal herb gardens, and then prepared to pass on the Dan Tower’s highest alchemy legacies.

• Lin Yuan explained that the Heaven Pill Saint had noticed the Hun Clan restriction in his soul and argued that it could benefit the Dan Tower by making the Hun Clan careless.
• The Heaven Pill Saint accepted Lin Yuan’s explanation, agreed to prioritize the Dan Tower’s interests, and granted him access to its thousand-year foundation and part of the Pill Sect’s resources.
• The Heaven Pill Saint showed Lin Yuan the Thirty-Three Heavenly Dan Spirit Array, which could briefly wield Seven-Star Dou Saint power, and asked him to complete its missing medicinal pills.
• Lin Yuan agreed to refine the remaining Myriad Transformation Saint Pills within five years, and the Heaven Pill Saint gave him coordinates and a technique to enter three sealed medicinal herb gardens.
• The Heaven Pill Saint revealed that Lin Yuan could inherit the Profound Pill and Golden Core legacies, then led him outside and opened the soul space’s starry sky.

Lin Yuan received the Dan Tower’s Profound Pill and Golden Core legacies as Heaven Pill Saint tasked Great Elder Lin with supporting him and completing the Thirty-Three Heavenly Dan Spirit Array. In the Yao Realm, Yao Dan planned price cuts and a search for the missing Yao Ling, then sent Yao Chen a letter and treasure pill legacy slip to begin reconciliation.

• Heaven Pill Saint passed the Dan Tower Profound Pill and Golden Core legacies to Lin Yuan and ordered Great Elder Lin to support him and help complete the Thirty-Three Heavenly Dan Spirit Array within five years.
• Heaven Pill Saint decided to summon Great Elder Lin back later as a safeguard, while keeping Lin Yuan’s possible ties to the Hall of Souls and Ancient Dragon Tribe secret from him.
• Yao Wanhuo told Yao Dan that Heaven Pill Saint had defeated him and demanded that the Yao Clan stop bullying Lin Yuan and punish Yao Wan Gui.
• Yao Dan chose to lower the Yao Clan’s Ninth-Grade Medicinal Pill fee from five ingredient sets to four, while concealing the decline of the clan’s Dou Di bloodline.
• Yao Wanhuo reported that Hun Xu Zi claimed to hold Yao Ling and demanded five Ninth-Grade Profound Pills, but Yao Dan ordered a secret investigation before making any exchange.
• Yao Dan gave Yao Wanhuo a treasure pill legacy slip and letter for Yao Chen, hoping to reconcile with him and support the Four Pavilions in secret.

Lin Yuan finished receiving the Pill Tower’s legacies and asked the Heaven Pill Saint about Tang Fen’s rise, character, and death. He learned how Hun Tiandi had killed the Heaven Pill Saint and was warned to beware the Nihility Devouring Flame before he investigated Burning Flame Valley.

• Lin Yuan completed the Golden Core and Profound Pill legacies, and the Heaven Pill Saint advised him to make his own system the foundation of his alchemy.
• Lin Yuan asked about Tang Fen, and the Heaven Pill Saint explained that Tang Fen’s cultivation had advanced extraordinarily quickly from Seven-Star to Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• The Heaven Pill Saint said Tang Fen had ties to the Yan Clan, which had protected Burning Flame Valley after his fall, and suspected Hun Tiandi had killed him.
• The Heaven Pill Saint revealed that Hun Tiandi had lured him into refining the Nihility Devouring Flame, which backlashed as the Hun Clan attacked him with a killing formation.
• Lin Yuan promised to avenge the Heaven Pill Saint, who instead urged him to focus on the Pill Tower’s future and described Tang Fen as upright, loyal, and decisive.

Lin Yuan learned from Heaven Pill Saint why the imperial clans had not united against the Hun Clan and received unverified Ninth Grade Pill Recipes to test. After Heaven Pill Saint sent him out of the Heavenly Dan Tablet Space, Lin Yuan and Great Elder Lin left the Heavenly Dan Realm.

• Lin Yuan asked Heaven Pill Saint about Burning Flame Old Ancestor, and Heaven Pill Saint gave him a strand of soul aura to help build trust with Tang Fen's remnant spirit.
• Lin Yuan questioned why Xiao Xuan, Gu Yuan, and Burning Flame Old Ancestor had not joined forces against the Hun Clan, and Heaven Pill Saint explained the imperial clans' pact and their mutual wariness of Xiao Xuan's ambition.
• Heaven Pill Saint admitted that he had planned to use Xiao Xuan to stir up war among the imperial clans, then cautioned Lin Yuan to handle the clans carefully.
• Heaven Pill Saint gave Lin Yuan unverified Ninth Grade Pill Recipes and asked him to report the results of refining them to help perfect his pill-recipe simulation system.
• Lin Yuan and Heaven Pill Saint agreed to exchange insights on illusion-based training and alchemy, and Heaven Pill Saint sent Lin Yuan out of the Heavenly Dan Tablet Space.
• Great Elder Lin gave Lin Yuan the key to the Heavenly Dan Realm, and Lin Yuan opened a space tunnel for them to leave.

Lin Yuan returned to Heavenly Secluded Valley and prepared to study the legacies he had obtained, while Zi Yan learned about the three medicinal herb gardens and set out to explore them. He entered seclusion to improve his alchemy, leaving Zi Yan and his Lightning Illusion Body to investigate the gardens cautiously.

• Lin Yuan returned to Heavenly Secluded Valley, met Zi Yan, and told her about his experiences in the Heavenly Dan Tablet Space and the three medicinal herb gardens.
• Lin Yuan gave Zi Yan information about ingredients for two Ninth Grade Treasure Pills to aid her future breakthrough to Seven-Star Dou Saint, and she agreed to explore the gardens with his Lightning Illusion Body.
• Lin Yuan told Zi Yan not to repair the Pill Realm herself and explained that he would ask Dou Saints from the Gu, Yan, and Lei clans to help, deepening their ties through favors.
• Lin Yuan warned Zi Yan to have his Lightning Illusion Body scout dangerous secret realms before she entered; she then left with it to explore the medicinal herb gardens.
• Lin Yuan split off numerous clones and entered seclusion to comprehend the Yao Clan and Dan Tower legacies, rapidly advancing his alchemy.

Two months after becoming Dan Tower Master, Lin Yuan prepared to leave Holy Pill City with Cao Ying and the others, entrusting the Dan Tower’s affairs to its Three Greats. He gave Xuan Kongzi tools to pursue a breakthrough to Dou Saint, then departed aboard a Void Shuttle Boat bound for Burning Flame Valley.

• Lin Yuan told Xuan Kongzi that the Three Greats would oversee the Dan Tower while he traveled, and promised to train Cao Ying into an Eighth Grade Nine Colors Alchemist within ten years.
• Lin Yuan gave Xuan Kongzi the Fire Saint Origin Mirror and a Mysterious Spirit Saint Yuan Pill to help him advance to Dou Saint, and promised similar gifts to Xuan Yi and Heavenly Thunder Seed when they reached Half-Saint.
• Lin Yuan summoned a Void Shuttle Boat and left with Dan Chen, Xin Lan, and Cao Ying, heading toward Burning Flame Valley.
• After watching Lin Yuan depart, Heavenly Thunder Seed suggested that the Three Greats travel the continent together after stepping down from their posts, and Xuan Yi blushed before leaving for seclusion.

Lin Yuan returned to Burning Flame Valley with Dan Chen, Xin Lan, and Cao Ying after surviving Yao Wangui’s pursuit. Tang Huo'er welcomed them and said the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire was ready, leading them toward the passage to the Burning Realm.

• Lin Yuan taught Dan Chen, Xin Lan, and Cao Ying about alchemy aboard his warship as they traveled to Burning Flame Valley.
• Lin Yuan entered Burning Flame Valley with the three women after Tang Zhen opened the hidden space barrier and welcomed them.
• Tang Zhen told Lin Yuan that the valley had worried about him after hearing Yao Wangui was hunting him.
• Tang Huo'er arrived as a Dou Venerate, and Lin Yuan noticed she no longer carried the aura of a Heavenly Flame.
• Tang Huo'er said the old ancestor had asked her to take Lin Yuan to the Burning Realm, where the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire had been prepared.

Lin Yuan visited Burning Flame Valley to obtain the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire and offered to heal Old Ancestor Huoyun's origin injury. Old Ancestor Huoyun gave him the flame, and Lin Yuan presented Burning Flame Valley with a powerful substitute flame and its cultivation legacy.

• Cao Ying, Xin Lan, and the others entered Burning Flame Valley's separate space and saw the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire suppress their Soul Power and frighten their flames.
• Lin Yuan greeted Old Ancestor Huoyun, who recognized that Lin Yuan had become a Dou Saint and reflected on Tang Huo'er's feelings for him.
• Lin Yuan asked for the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire and offered to heal Old Ancestor Huoyun regardless of whether the trade succeeded, citing the favor of a spatial jade slip.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun gave Lin Yuan the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Fire after confirming its restrictions and Blood Soul Marks had been removed.
• Lin Yuan presented Old Ancestor Huoyun with the Purple Extreme Spirit Fire and a Legacy Crystal Ball containing its flame-controlling method and Heaven Tier Heavenly Flame Dou Skills, delighting Tang Zhen.