Chapter Summaries

Bai Xiaoran dominated the Soul Measuring Pearl test and defeated Cao Ying in the soul attack contest, capturing her after she tried to strike him from behind. Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi arrived as the hall watched, and Xuan Yi ordered Bai Xiaoran to release Cao Ying.

• Bai Ying accused Bai Xiaoran of cheating, but Elder Sheng and Cao Ying defended his result in the first test.
• Bai Xiaoran caught one hundred Soul Measuring Pearls with ease, setting a new record in the second test.
• Cao Ying substituted herself into the final test and challenged Bai Xiaoran to withstand three of her soul palm seals.
• Bai Xiaoran countered Cao Ying's crimson eagle with an ice dragon and matched her soul technique, then evaded her sneak attack with the Three Thousand Lightning Movement and captured her.
• Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi appeared, and Xuan Yi knocked Bai Xiaoran on the head and told him to let Cao Ying go.

After the rankings were announced, Cao Ying learned that rumors about her and Bai Xiaoran had spread throughout Sacred Pill City and challenged him to settle things at the Pill Gathering. Xuan Yi took Bai Xiaoran back to the Alchemy Room, where she had him massage her legs before leaving in a fluster.

• Xuan Yi chastised Bai Xiaoran for embarrassing Cao Ying in public, and Xuan Kongzi announced the Five Great Families' rankings.
• Xuan Kongzi told Cao Ying the rumors about her and Bai Xiaoran; embarrassed, she denied them and vowed to deal with him at the Pill Gathering.
• Xuan Yi took Bai Xiaoran through a spatial rift to the Alchemy Room to practice pill refinement.
• Xuan Yi asked Bai Xiaoran what he thought of Cao Ying, then told him to massage her legs while she rested.
• Bai Xiaoran massaged Xuan Yi's legs and feet, leaving her flushed and overwhelmed; she said she would teach him to refine a Seventh-grade Pill the next day and fled.

After Bai Xiaoran returned from the Five Great Families' assessment, Soul Hall experts Star Picking Old Ghost and Mu Gu Laoren ambushed him and Xiao Yi Xian. Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi helped defeat them, and Bai Xiaoran took Mu Gu Laoren's Sea Heart Flame as the Soul Hall enemies fled.

• Bai Xiaoran told Xiao Yi Xian that he had won the assessment, and she confronted him about rumors linking him to Cao Ying before they kissed.
• Star Picking Old Ghost and Mu Gu Laoren emerged from a blood-colored mist and attacked Bai Xiaoran and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yao Tianhuo shattered Star Picking Old Ghost's attack, but the two Soul Hall experts tried to escape when they sensed Xuan Yi approaching.
• Xuan Kongzi's phantom stopped the escape, and Xuan Yi arrived, checked Bai Xiaoran for injuries, and struck down Star Picking Old Ghost and Mu Gu Laoren.
• Xuan Yi demanded Mu Gu Laoren's Sea Heart Flame, and Bai Xiaoran extracted it before the two Soul Hall experts fled.
• Xiao Yi Xian kissed Bai Xiaoran, while Xuan Yi watched with jealousy and Xuan Kongzi asked whether she was Xiao Yi Xian.

Xuan Yi took Bai Xiaoran away from Xiao Yi Xian and had him absorb the Sea Heart Flame before preparing him for the Pill Gathering. In the Flower Sect, Yun Yun learned that Bai Xiaoran was in the Central Plains and planned to go see her husband, while Xuan Yi stayed close to her disciple and punished him for his past deception.

• Xuan Yi took Bai Xiaoran through a spatial rift, leaving Xiao Yi Xian to meet them again at the Pill Gathering.
• Xuan Yi brought Bai Xiaoran to a room in the Alchemy Tower and told him to absorb the Sea Heart Flame so he could improve before the Pill Gathering.
• Yun Yun told Hua Yu that she missed her husband, and Hua Yu asked a Flower Sect disciple about recent events in the Central Plains.
• The disciple reported that Xuan Yi had taken Bai Xiaoran as a disciple, and Yun Yun recognized him as her husband and decided to visit him.
• After absorbing the Sea Heart Flame, Bai Xiaoran reached Seven-Star Dou Zong, and Xuan Yi ordered him to refine two pills before punishing him for deceiving her.

Bai Xiaoran joined the Alchemy Tower’s Pill Gathering preparations as Xuan Kongzi warned him about the Soul Hall’s plans for Three Thousand Burning Flame. After Dan Chen took him aside to offer the Dan family’s support, she also shyly offered herself if Bai Xiaoran liked women.

• Xuan Yi teased Bai Xiaoran while he refined pills, then sent him to the Alchemy Tower after he produced pills that satisfied her.
• At the Soul Hall, Star Picking Old Ghost reported that his mission had failed and that Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi had taken the Sea Heart Flame, while Mu Gu Laoren confirmed his intent to pursue Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Elder Sheng escorted Bai Xiaoran to Xuan Kongzi, who asked about Yao Chen and approved of Bai Xiaoran marrying Cao Ying if he liked her.
• Cao Ying grew displeased when Bai Xiaoran teased her and Dan Chen greeted him warmly.
• Xuan Kongzi warned Bai Xiaoran, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Song Qing that the Soul Hall intended to seize Three Thousand Burning Flame and that they must keep Soul Hall members out of the Pill Gathering’s top ten.
• Dan Chen privately offered Bai Xiaoran the Dan family’s resources and, after he said he did not like men, blushed and offered to satisfy him herself if he liked women.

Bai Xiaoran teamed up with Cao Ying for the Pill Gathering and entered its trials, where he escaped an illusion of his desires and fears before searching for ingredients in the Pill Realm. He encountered Chen Xian and two Nine-Star Dou Zongs in the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountains.

• Dan Chen asked Bai Xiaoran to discuss alchemy with her, and he refused the Dan family's investment while agreeing to future discussions.
• Cao Ying invited Bai Xiaoran to join her during the Pill Gathering, and he accepted.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the Pill Gathering's three trials and its prize, then sent the participants into the Soul Illusion Realm.
• Bai Xiaoran broke free of an illusion involving Queen Medusa and Yun Yun, then entered the Pill Realm and set out for the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountains.
• Chen Xian confronted Bai Xiaoran, and two Nine-Star Dou Zongs struck Bai Xiaoran back when he attacked.

Bai Xiaoran defeated Chen Xian and his two elders, but Cao Ying used a pill to suppress his Dou Qi and took revenge on him. Elsewhere, Zi Yan indulged in medicinal ingredients, Xuan Kongzi revealed his role in Cao Ying’s plan, and Yun Shan checked in on Xiao Yi Xian.

• Bai Xiaoran used his clone, puppet, and lightning techniques to defeat Chen Xian and drive off the two elders, while Cao Ying arrived and advised them to save their injured young sect master.
• Cao Ying gave Bai Xiaoran a pill that suppressed his Dou Qi, restrained him, and began taking revenge for how he had treated her before.
• Zi Yan enjoyed being served medicinal ingredients while Xiong Zhan hoped she would take him to Dragon Island.
• Xuan Yi worried Mu Gu Laoren might target Bai Xiaoran, while Xuan Kongzi revealed he had given Cao Ying the pill to bring her and Bai Xiaoran closer.
• Yun Shan joined Xiao Yi Xian at the Ye Family seats to ask whether too many women were surrounding his disciple, Xiao Yan.
• In the Pill Realm, Cao Ying admitted she had used Xuan Kongzi’s pill as part of her revenge, while Bai Xiaoran called her shameless.

Bai Xiaoran collected Pill Spirit Syrup while Cao Ying went to investigate a disturbance and was trapped with Song Qing and the other alchemists by Mu Gu Laoren. Bai Xiaoran arrived in time to stop Mu Gu Laoren from killing Cao Ying and began fighting him as Cao Ying worked to break the barrier.

• Cao Ying teased Bai Xiaoran while he recovered from Xuan Kongzi's pill, then Bai Xiaoran sensed Pill Spirit Syrup and went to collect it from the lake.
• Bai Xiaoran knocked out the Water Tiger Flood Dragon and picked the Pill Spirit Syrup as violent fluctuations came from Song Qing's location.
• Mu Gu Laoren trapped Song Qing and the other alchemists in a barrier, then pulled Cao Ying inside when she arrived to investigate.
• Cao Ying told Song Qing and the others to hold Mu Gu Laoren off while she tried to break the barrier, but Mu Gu Laoren knocked them down and moved to kill her.
• Bai Xiaoran interrupted Mu Gu Laoren with Wind-Thunder Finger, summoned the Heavenly Demon Puppet, activated the third transformation of Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, and began delaying him.

Bai Xiaoran and Cao Ying fled Mu Gu Laoren, but he caught up and overwhelmed them until Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan intervened. After Mu Gu Laoren escaped, they gathered medicinal ingredients and left for the Pill Gathering, where Xuan Yi was still waiting for them.

• Cao Ying broke the soul barrier, and Bai Xiaoran carried her away as Mu Gu Laoren sent pursuers after the fleeing alchemists.
• Mu Gu Laoren caught Bai Xiaoran and Cao Ying, but Bai Xiaoran survived his first attack and countered with the Five Wheel Divine Flame Law.
• Cao Ying tried to shield Bai Xiaoran, but Xiong Zhan appeared and shattered Mu Gu Laoren's attack with one punch.
• Zi Yan checked on Bai Xiaoran and took him, Cao Ying, and Xiong Zhan to Xiong Zhan's lair to gather medicinal ingredients; Mu Gu Laoren fled after realizing he could not win.
• Cao Ying apologized to Bai Xiaoran and awkwardly placed his hand on her waist before leaving through a passage; Bai Xiaoran and Zi Yan followed, while Xuan Yi waited for their return.

Bai Xiaoran, Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen competed in the Pill Gathering, where their flames and pills drew the crowd’s attention. After Cao Ying refined a Three-colored Lightning Cloud pill, Xiao Yan opened his cauldron and revealed a powerful pill marked by Two-colored Lightning Cloud, leaving the Three Giants impressed.

• Cao Ying and the others emerged safely from the Pill Realm, with Xiong Zhan joining them at the Alchemy Tower.
• Xiao Yi Xian kissed Bai Xiaoran before he took his place in the Pill Gathering, while Xuan Yi watched and Yun Yun cheered for her husband from the stands.
• Bai Xiaoran’s azure fused flames overwhelmed Xiao Yan’s black flood dragon, and Yao Chen recognized the Green Lotus Core Flame, Falling Heart Flame, and Sea Heart Flame within them.
• The alchemists refined pills for twenty days, and Dan Chen produced an Eighth-grade Pill with Two-colored Lightning Cloud before Cao Ying refined one with Three-colored Lightning Cloud.
• Xiao Yan opened his cauldron and released a Two-colored Lightning Cloud pill, prompting the crowd and Xuan Kongzi to recognize Yao Chen’s disciple.

At the Pill Gathering, Bai Xiaoran modified the Spirit Ascension Method to raise his pill to six-colored lightning, matching and surpassing Mu Gu Laoren’s display. As the lightning dragon threatened the venue, Bai Xiaoran sent out a silver Earth Demon Puppet to face it.

• Xiao Yan used Yao Chen’s Spirit Ascension Method, but Mu Gu Laoren revealed himself and scattered Xiao Yan’s thunderclouds with his power.
• Mu Gu Laoren summoned four-colored Pill Lightning, and Bai Xiaoran released his pill and began competing with him.
• Bai Xiaoran used his soul force, three Heavenly Flames, and a modified Spirit Ascension Method to transform his pill and summon six-colored lightning.
• Mu Gu Laoren declared that Bai Xiaoran could not withstand the lightning, while Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, and the Three Giants watched anxiously.
• The six-colored clouds became a lightning dragon, and Bai Xiaoran sent a silver Earth Demon Puppet charging toward it.

Bai Xiaoran won the Pill Gathering, then fainted from exhaustion and was carried off by Yun Yun, who revealed herself as his wife. After waking, he reunited with Yun Yun, but their conversation was interrupted by a visitor asking for Miss Bai.

• The Earth Demon Puppet absorbed the lightning, and Xuan Kongzi declared Bai Xiaoran the Pill Gathering champion and gave him an ancient-souls cultivation method.
• Bai Xiaoran fainted, and Yun Yun arrived before Xuan Yi and Xiao Yi Xian, revealing that she was his wife from the Northwest Continent.
• Yun Yun told Xiao Yi Xian that she and Nalan Yanran had become guest elders of the Flower Sect after coming to the Central Plains.
• Bai Xiaoran woke beside Yun Yun, learned she had come to watch his competition, and explained that his Teacher knew his identity.
• A soft voice called from outside, asking whether Miss Bai was there, and Yun Yun wondered if another of Bai Xiaoran's confidantes had arrived.

Cao Ying and Dan Chen forced Bai Xiaoran to prove he was a man, then paid him with wagered medicinal ingredients. After leaving them, Bai Xiaoran worried about facing Yun Yun and explaining his wife to Teacher before he ran into Yao Chen and Xiao Yan.

• Cao Ying and Dan Chen summoned Bai Xiaoran to an Alchemy Room, where Cao Ying gave him a pill and restrained him so Dan Chen could confirm he was male.
• Dan Chen touched Bai Xiaoran and, after confirming the truth, grew flustered; Bai Xiaoran comforted her and rebuked Cao Ying for her scheme.
• Dan Chen handed over her wagered medicinal ingredients, and Cao Ying gave Bai Xiaoran half before Dan Chen left.
• Bai Xiaoran smacked Cao Ying's buttocks as he departed, leaving her confused by her physical reactions to him.
• Bai Xiaoran worried about facing Yun Yun and telling Teacher about his wife, then encountered Yao Chen and Xiao Yan.

After winning the Pill Gathering, Bai Xiaoran discussed his next steps with Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, who tried to recruit him for a journey to contact the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Xuan Yi intervened, confronted Bai Xiaoran about his wife, and left him flustered after making him massage her legs blindfolded.

• Yao Chen congratulated Bai Xiaoran on winning the Pill Gathering championship and encouraged him to travel with Xiao Yan and their companions.
• Bai Xiaoran told Xiao Yan he planned to contact the Three Thousand Burning Flame before leaving for the Ancient Clan to see Xun'er.
• Yao Chen tried to persuade Bai Xiaoran to join his group, but Xuan Yi arrived and accused him of trying to take her disciple away.
• Xuan Yi brought Bai Xiaoran to her room and reproached him for not telling her earlier that he had a wife on the Northwest Continent.
• Xuan Yi blindfolded Bai Xiaoran and had him massage her legs, then covered his eyes with her foot when he saw her flushed face.

Bai Xiaoran learned that the Soul Hall might try to break the seal on the Three Thousand Burning Flame, then prepared to help stop them and attempt to subdue it. Zi Yan revealed she had a miniature Three Thousand Burning Flame, leaving Yao Tianhuo astonished and wondering what race she belonged to.

• Xuan Yi fled through a spatial rift after Bai Xiaoran teased her about her flustered reaction during the foot massage.
• Bai Xiaoran joined Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, Dan Chen, Xiao Yan, and Cao Ying, and Xuan Kongzi warned them to stop the Soul Hall from breaking the Three Thousand Burning Flame's seal.
• Yao Chen emerged from Xiao Yan's Storage Ring, and Xuan Kongzi invited Bai Xiaoran to bring Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and the magical beast girl to stay at the Alchemy Tower.
• Bai Xiaoran returned home, agreed to accompany Yun Yun to meet Granny Hua, and spent the night with Yun Yun while Xiao Yi Xian listened from the next room.
• Bai Xiaoran brought Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Tianhuo, and Zi Yan to the Alchemy Tower, where Zi Yan showed them a miniature Three Thousand Burning Flame raised by one of her clan's seniors.
• Yao Tianhuo recognized the flame and pressed Zi Yan to reveal what race she belonged to.

Zi Yan gave Bai Xiaoran a Dragon Seal to improve his chances of subduing Three Thousand Burning Flame, though the attempt could also let the Heavenly Flame control him. When the Star Domain opened, Bai Xiaoran contacted Three Thousand Burning Flame, but it recognized his seal and drove him from its Spiritual Space.

• Zi Yan revealed that she was an Ancient Void Dragon and placed a Dragon Seal on Bai Xiaoran, explaining how it could help subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame and the danger if it failed.
• Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian objected to the risk, but Bai Xiaoran reassured them, and Xiao Yi Xian stopped arguing after he promised to spend the night with her.
• On the day the Star Domain opened, Mu Gu Laoren announced that the Soul Hall would take Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Xuan Kongzi suppressed him before the Three Giants opened the passage.
• Xuan Yi gave Bai Xiaoran a scroll for protection and kicked him into the Star Domain, where Qiu Ling cleared the clouds to reveal Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Bai Xiaoran touched Three Thousand Burning Flame and entered its Spiritual Space, where the flame recognized his Dragon Seal and ordered him to leave.
• Bai Xiaoran told Three Thousand Burning Flame that its former master had not abandoned it, but the flame rejected his claim and expelled him from its Spiritual Space.

Bai Xiaoran’s preparations exposed Mu Gu Laoren’s betrayal, but Three Thousand Burning Flame broke free and the Soul Hall’s four Venerable Elders attacked it. The fight left Three Thousand Burning Flame fleeing amid the battle, while Qiu Ling and the others tried to keep it from falling into the Soul Hall’s hands.

• Mu Gu Laoren struck the seal and interrupted Qiu Ling, but Bai Xiaoran and the Heavenly Demon Puppet killed Mu Gu Laoren’s two subordinates, allowing Qiu Ling to reinforce the formation.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame shattered the seal, and Xuan Kongzi and the other Three Giants summoned reinforcements to stabilize the Star Domain.
• Mu Gu Laoren revealed his agreement with Three Thousand Burning Flame, but the Flame refused to honor it, so he summoned three Soul Hall Venerable Elders.
• The four Soul Hall experts trapped Three Thousand Burning Flame with their formations and Natal Soul Locks, but it broke free and burned Mu Gu Laoren when he tried to take its Origin Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame destroyed one Venerable Elder and fled the others’ attacks, while Qiu Ling moved to hold Mu Gu Laoren back and Bai Xiaoran prepared to face the remaining two.

Bai Xiaoran entered Three Thousand Burning Flame’s soul world to subdue him, while Xuan Yi drove Mu Gu Laoren and the other Soul Hall elders away. Bai Xiaoran remained trapped in the Star Domain as the others waited anxiously for the outcome.

• Bai Xiaoran used the Dragon Blood Powder and her Dragon Seal to enter Three Thousand Burning Flame’s soul world and battle him.
• Mu Gu Laoren tried to seize Three Thousand Burning Flame while Bai Xiaoran fought, but Xuan Yi struck him and the other Venerable Elders as they escaped through a spatial passage.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame trapped Bai Xiaoran in flames and refused to submit, while a barrier prevented Xuan Yi and the others from intervening.
• Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Yao Chen withdrew from the Star Domain and explained the danger to Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun.
• The Three Giants reinforced the Star Domain’s seal as Xuan Yi waited outside, and Zi Yan urged everyone to believe Bai Xiaoran could succeed.

Bai Xiaoran subdued Three Thousand Burning Flame and refined it in the Star Domain, causing a dangerous disturbance over Sacred Pill City. He emerged safely with his cultivation greatly increased and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun.

• Bai Xiaoran endured Three Thousand Burning Flame's attack, then used his clone, Heavenly Demon Puppet, and Dragon Seal to defeat and subdue the Heavenly Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame accepted its defeat after Bai Xiaoran explained that its former master, the Ancient Void Dragon, had become lost in space.
• Bai Xiaoran began refining Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain, and his cultivation surged as the domain shook and storms gathered over Sacred Pill City.
• Xuan Kongzi ordered weaker cultivators to evacuate while the Three Giants and Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun worked to stabilize the Star Domain.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame burst out and threatened Xuan Kongzi, but Bai Xiaoran stopped it and emerged safely from the Star Domain.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun embraced Bai Xiaoran, who reassured them and told his teacher that he had subdued the flame.

After Bai Xiaoran subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, news of his Pill Gathering victory spread across the Central Plains, while he returned to the Alchemy Tower with his companions. Gu Xun'er learned that he had wives and ordered elders to seize him when he came to the Ancient Clan.

• Xuan Kongzi praised Bai Xiaoran for subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame and teased her about hiding that she was a woman.
• Zi Yan credited her Dragon Seal with helping Bai Xiaoran, and Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian took him away to rest after mentioning they had comprehended the Three Cultivation Method.
• Feng Qing'er learned that Bai Xiaoran had won the Pill Gathering and subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame, then asked Thunder Venerable for permission to visit him in Sacred Pill City.
• Ling Ying told Gu Xun'er that Bai Xiaoran had wives, and she summoned Elder Lin and Elder Yuan to arrange for him to be seized when he arrived at the Ancient Clan.
• At the Alchemy Tower, Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian blushed as they ate dinner prepared by Bai Xiaoran, while Zi Yan and Yao Tianhuo praised the food.