Recaps

Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying approached a gathering in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and found Song Qing urging the alchemists to work together against a powerful beast guarding their mission items. Cao Ying agreed with his plan, while Lu Yunxiao left his thoughts unstated as the chapter ended.

• Lu Yunxiao guessed that the gathered alchemists had suffered losses and were considering joining forces, and Cao Ying suggested they go see what was happening.
• Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying approached the crowd and recognized Song Qing speaking from atop a boulder.
• Song Qing warned that a peak seventh-tier savage beast, nearly an eighth-tier, commanded the Magical Beasts and guarded many of the mission items in its cave.
• Song Qing proposed that the alchemists temporarily unite to defeat the savage beast, and the crowd began to accept his reasoning.
• Cao Ying agreed that defeating the beast was the most direct solution, and Lu Yunxiao replied that she was absolutely right.

Lu Yunxiao warned Cao Ying that Song Qing’s alliance would likely fail because the Pill Realm beast was a true eighth-tier beast, far stronger than the assembled alchemists. Song Qing secured agreement on a pact against betrayal, then noticed Cao Ying and Lu Yunxiao and invited them to join.

• Lu Yunxiao told Cao Ying that the beast was a true eighth-tier beast and that Song Qing’s alliance lacked the strength to defeat it head-on.
• Cao Ying asked how Lu Yunxiao knew, but he teased her instead of explaining and said Song Qing’s plan was doomed to fail.
• Song Qing proposed an agreement forbidding members of the alliance from attacking one another before the beast was dealt with, and the crowd agreed.
• Song Qing spotted Cao Ying and Lu Yunxiao, concealed his jealousy, and called Cao Ying “Ying'er.”
• Cao Ying answered Song Qing coldly, and Song Qing invited her and Lu Yunxiao to join the alliance.

Lu Yunxiao rejected Song Qing’s alliance invitation, and Cao Ying firmly supported him, worsening Song Qing’s jealousy. As Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying prepared to leave, Chen Xian arrived and asked Song Qing what had happened.

• Lu Yunxiao refused Song Qing’s invitation to join forces against the vicious beast, and Song Qing accused him of risking Cao Ying’s mission qualification.
• Cao Ying said she trusted Lu Yunxiao and did not believe following him would cost her qualification, drawing attention to Song Qing’s feelings for her.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Cao Ying to leave with him, while Song Qing watched them go with rising jealousy and killing intent.
• Chen Xian, the Young Sect Master of the Profound Nether Sect, arrived with two guards and asked Song Qing why he seemed upset.
• Song Qing complained that someone had rejected his well-meant alliance invitation, and Chen Xian recognized Cao Ying beside the unfamiliar Lu Yunxiao.

Song Qing and Chen Xian underestimated Lu Yunxiao, and Chen Xian demanded that he apologize to Song Qing. The confrontation escalated when Chen Xian ordered his two nine-star Dou Zong guards to kill Lu Yunxiao, while Cao Ying angrily defended him.

• Song Qing dismissed Lu Yunxiao as an insignificant nobody, and Chen Xian considered befriending Song Qing by standing up for him.
• Chen Xian stopped Lu Yunxiao and demanded an apology for Song Qing, but Lu Yunxiao refused and mocked Chen Xian's support.
• Chen Xian's two nine-star Dou Zong guards stepped forward as onlookers moved away from the confrontation.
• Cao Ying rebuked Chen Xian for judging Lu Yunxiao, and Chen Xian ordered his guards to kill him.
• Song Qing secretly celebrated as the two guards unleashed their Dou Qi against Lu Yunxiao.

Lu Yunxiao effortlessly killed two nine-star Dou Zong who attacked him, shocking the onlookers. He then turned his attention to Chen Xian and threatened to destroy the Profound Nether Sect along with him.

• Lu Yunxiao told Cao Ying to stand behind him as the two old men charged to attack.
• The old men's strikes stopped before Lu Yunxiao when his Space Power blocked them.
• Lu Yunxiao struck the two old men and sent them crashing into a mountain, killing them instantly.
• The onlookers, Chen Xian, and Song Qing were shocked by Lu Yunxiao's overwhelming strength.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Chen Xian how he wanted to die, and Chen Xian invoked the Profound Nether Sect.
• Lu Yunxiao dismissed the sect and vowed to kill Chen Xian and send the entire Profound Nether Sect after him.

Lu Yunxiao killed Chen Xian after Chen Xian provoked him, then rejected Song Qing’s attempt to protect him and rally the alchemists against Lu Yunxiao. The crowd sided with Lu Yunxiao, and Song Qing was left facing his rebuke.

• Lu Yunxiao trapped Chen Xian in a spatial cage and prepared to kill him.
• Song Qing intervened, claiming Chen Xian belonged to his alliance, but Lu Yunxiao crushed Chen Xian into a cloud of blood before Song Qing could finish speaking.
• Song Qing accused Lu Yunxiao of weakening the alchemists’ chances in the selection, but the crowd rejected his appeal and supported Lu Yunxiao.
• Lu Yunxiao told Song Qing to fight him if he had objections, then ordered him to get out of his sight.

Lu Yunxiao openly humiliated Song Qing, rejected his excuses, and accepted his challenge to compete in alchemy at the Pill Gathering. After Song Qing cursed him, Lu Yunxiao struck him down and warned him to watch his mouth.

• Lu Yunxiao rebuked Song Qing for acting jealous of his closeness with Ying'er and declared them open enemies.
• Song Qing, unwilling to fight Lu Yunxiao, challenged him to settle their conflict through alchemy at the Pill Gathering.
• Lu Yunxiao accepted the challenge and mocked Song Qing's confidence in his alchemy.
• Song Qing cursed Lu Yunxiao after he mentioned Song Qing's teacher, and Lu Yunxiao slapped him, knocking him to the ground.
• Lu Yunxiao warned Song Qing not to insult him again as Song Qing lay battered and humiliated.

Lu Yunxiao beat Song Qing but spared his life after Cao Ying urged him to preserve his relationship with the Pill Tower. As they prepared to leave, Lu Yunxiao sensed the Soul Hall, whose Black-robed Man appeared and trapped everyone in a soul barrier.

• Lu Yunxiao struck Song Qing down and warned that he would not spare him again if he provoked him a second time.
• Cao Ying took Lu Yunxiao's hand and asked him to leave with her, explaining her concern about conflict between him and the Pill Tower.
• Lu Yunxiao agreed to leave for Cao Ying's sake but announced that Soul Hall members were hiding nearby.
• The Black-robed Man and other Soul Hall figures emerged from the mist and sealed the area with a soul barrier.
• The Black-robed Man said the Soul Hall intended to collect souls, alarming Cao Ying and the gathered contestants.

Soul Hall ambushed and slaughtered the alchemists in the Pill Realm, trapping the survivors under a Dou Zun’s spatial control. Lu Yunxiao initially refused to intervene, but agreed to help after Cao Ying asked him to.

• A Soul Hall Black-robed Man revealed that the alchemists would all be killed, and hidden attackers began massacring them.
• Lu Yunxiao killed Soul Hall attackers who approached him and Cao Ying, while the Black-robed Man blocked escape attempts and crushed alchemists with his control of space.
• Cao Ying realized the Black-robed Man was a Dou Zun as the survivors dwindled to fewer than forty.
• The Black-robed Man dismissed Lu Yunxiao’s strength and threatened Cao Ying, who trusted Lu Yunxiao to protect her.
• Cao Ying pleaded with Lu Yunxiao to save the alchemists, and the survivors joined her in begging for help.
• Lu Yunxiao said he did not care whether the strangers lived or died, but would act because Cao Ying had asked him.

Lu Yunxiao rescued the alchemists trapped by Old Man Mugu and effortlessly defeated the Soul Hall leader. After searching Old Man Mugu’s soul, he learned more Soul Hall experts were in the Pill Realm and resolved to hunt them down.

• Lu Yunxiao broke the Grey-robed Man’s spatial prison, wounded him with a glance, and shattered the soul barrier trapping the alchemists.
• Lu Yunxiao burned the pursuing black-clothed men to ash and demanded to know where the other Soul Hall members were.
• Lu Yunxiao seized the Grey-robed Man, searched his soul, and discovered that he was Old Man Mugu.
• Lu Yunxiao killed Old Man Mugu and learned that other powerful Soul Hall experts had entered the Pill Realm.
• Cao Ying praised Lu Yunxiao, and the two spoke comfortably after Old Man Mugu’s defeat.

Lu Yunxiao brought Cao Ying to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range before pursuing the Soul Hall, where he challenged the range’s leader, Xiong Zhan. Xiong Zhan revealed himself as an Ancient Dragon Bear and launched a powerful attack, while Lu Yunxiao remained composed.

• Lu Yunxiao told Cao Ying he would settle her somewhere safe before dealing with the Soul Hall’s forces.
• Lu Yunxiao brought Cao Ying into the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range to find its leading magical beast.
• Xiong Zhan confronted the pair and demanded that they leave the mountains.
• Lu Yunxiao refused, and Xiong Zhan attacked him with a punch that Lu Yunxiao blocked with a single palm strike.
• Xiong Zhan transformed into an Ancient Dragon Bear and unleashed a mountain-shaking blow at Lu Yunxiao.

Lu Yunxiao fought Xiong Zhan, an Ancient Dragon Bear with eight dragon markings, and overwhelmed him despite holding back. Xiong Zhan transformed into his true form and charged into another attack, while Lu Yunxiao remained calm.

• Xiong Zhan attacked Lu Yunxiao, who countered with a giant finger that blasted him into a crater and devastated much of the mountain forest.
• Xiong Zhan roared and climbed out of the crater, revealing his true form as a nearly hundred-meter-tall Ancient Dragon Bear.
• Cao Ying recognized Xiong Zhan’s eight dragon markings and realized he was close to the transformation into a Supreme Dragon Bear.
• Lu Yunxiao regarded Xiong Zhan’s battle spirit with approval, while Cao Ying wondered if he planned to subdue the bear.
• Xiong Zhan insisted he would not lose again and charged at Lu Yunxiao with another punch.

Lu Yunxiao tested Xiong Zhan in battle and decisively defeated him, then demanded that he submit. Xiong Zhan refused to yield despite acknowledging Lu Yunxiao’s strength, and Lu Yunxiao remained amused by his defiance.

• Xiong Zhan attacked Lu Yunxiao with his fists, fur spikes, and dragon tail, but Lu Yunxiao countered each strike with spatial barriers and Heavenly Flames.
• Lu Yunxiao summoned a giant energy handprint and crushed Xiong Zhan into a deep crater, injuring him while sparing his life.
• Lu Yunxiao asked Xiong Zhan to submit, and Xiong Zhan transformed back into human form and praised Lu Yunxiao’s strength.
• Xiong Zhan refused to yield, explaining that the Ancient Dragon Bear Clan would not submit to any race except the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• Lu Yunxiao asked whether Xiong Zhan feared death and appeared amused by his refusal.

Lu Yunxiao forced Xiong Zhan to acknowledge him as the Ancient Dragon Clan’s emissary by revealing the Dragon Emperor Token, then brought Cao Ying to the Stone Hall to gather medicinal ingredients for their trip to the Pill Realm. The chapter left them entering the hall’s inner square, where a powerful medicinal fragrance greeted them.

• Xiong Zhan refused to submit to Lu Yunxiao despite admitting defeat, so Lu Yunxiao revealed the Dragon Emperor Token and made him kneel.
• Recognizing the token, Xiong Zhan pledged loyalty to Lu Yunxiao as the Dragon Emperor Emissary and asked why he had not shown it earlier.
• Lu Yunxiao told Cao Ying she would learn about his background later, then ordered Xiong Zhan to lead them to the medicinal ingredients.
• Xiong Zhan drove off two seventh-rank Magical Beasts guarding the Stone Hall and led Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying through its corridors.
• Lu Yunxiao entered the hall’s spacious inner square and was met by an intense medicinal fragrance.

Lu Yunxiao agreed to take Xiong Zhan out of the Pill Realm in exchange for access to the rare herbs in the plaza, then left to deal with the Soul Hall party. Seven or eight days later, Cao Ying had gathered herbs for herself and Lu Yunxiao and discovered Gastrodia Jade Essence.

• Cao Ying was astonished by the rare medicinal herbs filling the plaza, while Lu Yunxiao remained calm.
• Xiong Zhan offered the herbs in exchange for Lu Yunxiao taking him out of the Pill Realm, and Lu Yunxiao agreed.
• Lu Yunxiao told Cao Ying to choose the herbs she needed and left to deal with the Soul Hall party.
• Cao Ying spent seven or eight days carefully selecting herbs, then found Gastrodia Jade Essence.

Lu Yunxiao returned to Cao Ying after nearly wiping out the Soul Hall group in the Pill Realm, then set out with her toward the realm’s exit before time ran out. They reached the plaza in time and waited among the other contestants as more arrived.

• Lu Yunxiao reunited with Cao Ying and said he had eliminated nearly all the Soul Hall members, though their leader had escaped.
• Cao Ying gave Lu Yunxiao the medicinal ingredients needed for his task, and Lu Yunxiao sent Xiong Zhan into his Inner World before leaving with Cao Ying.
• Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying hurried toward the Pill Realm’s northern exit and reached its plaza as the sky brightened the next day.
• Cao Ying spotted Dan Chen resting at the plaza, while Lu Yunxiao sensed that her unusual constitution absorbed souls.
• More contestants arrived at the plaza, and Lu Yunxiao noticed an old man in Pill Tower robes standing in the distorted space at its center.

Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying completed the Pill Realm trial and left through the Space Rift as the Pill Tower’s Fourth Elder approved their ingredients. At the venue, Yun Yun, Gu Xun'er, and the others awaited Lu Yunxiao’s return, and the contestants began emerging from the opened spatial gate.

• The Pill Tower’s Fourth Elder announced that the Pill Realm trial had ended and inspected contestants’ prescription lists and medicinal ingredients.
• Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying submitted their materials, and the Fourth Elder praised Lu Yunxiao for hunting Soul Hall members before letting them leave through the Space Rift.
• At the Pill Gathering venue, Yun Yun, Gu Xun'er, and the others watched the Pill Realm’s exit while Elder Tongxuan reassured them about Lu Yunxiao.
• The spatial gate opened, and contestants who had passed the trial began emerging to the crowd’s cheers.

Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying arrived at the Pill Gathering together, drawing attention from the crowd and the Pill Tower’s Three Giants. After the second selection ended, Xuan Kongzi announced the final competition, and the contestants took to the stone platforms to begin.

• Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying stepped through the spatial gate together, and Lu Yunxiao greeted Yun Yun and the other women in the arena.
• Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Leizi discussed Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying, with Xuan Kongzi hoping the pair would join together and bring Lu Yunxiao into the Pill Tower.
• The spatial gate closed, leaving more than a thousand alchemists who had passed the second selection.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the next round would determine the Pill Gathering champion and told contestants to refine the pills they were best at.
• The contestants shot up from the plaza and took their places on the stone platforms in the sky.

Lu Yunxiao took his place in the Pill Tower championship and decided to refine the Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill to claim victory with overwhelming force. As the contestants began preparing, he spotted a Soul Hall survivor and silently marked him as a target.

• Lu Yunxiao waited for the contestants to choose their stone platforms, then settled beside Cao Ying while Song Qing, Gu Ying, and a black-clad Soul Hall survivor also appeared among the participants.
• The black-clad man recognized Lu Yunxiao’s scrutiny and exchanged a cold smile with him, while Lu Yunxiao’s killing intent rose.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the start of pill refinement, and the contestants summoned their cauldrons and began preparing their flames.
• Lu Yunxiao chose to refine the Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill, a rare pill capable of helping a Half-Saint advance to Dou Saint, intending to win the championship decisively.
• Cao Ying summoned her cauldron and brought forth a vivid scarlet flame with a tiny figure moving within it.

During the Pill Gathering, Cao Ying displayed her powerful Blood Demon Flame, but a Soul Hall alchemist’s Wind-Lightning Raging Flame overwhelmed the nearby flames. Lu Yunxiao revealed a fused Heavenly Flame that drove it away, leaving the crowd and the high platform astonished by its strength.

• Cao Ying summoned her nearly lifelike Blood Demon Flame, and Lu Yunxiao praised it as a powerful flame.
• Song Qing and Dan Chen revealed eighth-tier beast flames.
• The black-robed Soul Hall alchemist summoned the Wind-Lightning Raging Flame, which caused nearby cauldron flames to explode and subdued the other alchemists’ flames.
• Lu Yunxiao raised an emerald flame that transformed into a fire dragon and forced the Wind-Lightning Raging Flame to flee back into its owner’s hand.
• Gu Ying and Xuan Kongzi wondered how Lu Yunxiao’s flame had changed from the Green Lotus Core Flame and speculated that it might rank among the top ten Heavenly Flames.

Lu Yunxiao revealed an unfamiliar, powerful Heavenly Flame and brought out the third-ranked Purple Abyss Cauldron as he prepared to refine a Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill. He offered Cao Ying another Heavenly Cauldron and astonished the spectators with more than a thousand medicinal ingredients, leaving Xuan Kongzi wondering what pill he intended to make.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi discussed Lu Yunxiao’s unfamiliar flame, which reminded them of the Green Lotus Core Flame and the Sea Heart Flame but matched neither.
• Lu Yunxiao brought out the Purple Abyss Cauldron and used his jade-colored flame to heat it as Cao Ying asked about his Heavenly Flame and recognized the cauldron’s ranking.
• Lu Yunxiao offered to give Cao Ying the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and Cao Ying asked when he would give it to her and promised a return gift.
• Lu Yunxiao summoned more than a thousand kinds of medicinal ingredients to prepare for refining the Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill, shocking the spectators and prompting Xuan Kongzi to question what he was making.

Lu Yunxiao began refining the Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill by processing more than a thousand ingredients at once in his enormous Purple Abyss Cauldron, astonishing the gathered alchemists. Over the following weeks, his work remained steady as the Pill Gathering drew closer to its climax, with no pill lightning yet summoned.

• Lu Yunxiao reviewed the Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill’s method, then sent over a thousand medicinal ingredients into the Purple Abyss Cauldron and enlarged it to a hundred zhang.
• Xuan Kongzi and Elder Tongxuan were shocked by Lu Yunxiao’s daring technique, while Gu Xun’er expressed confidence in him.
• Lu Yunxiao sealed the cauldron and began refining as the other contestants continued working on their own pills.
• Seven days passed without trouble for Lu Yunxiao, while a few contestants finished pills that left them out of contention.
• Another half month passed as more contestants completed their pills and medicinal fragrance filled the area, but none produced pill lightning.

Lu Yunxiao continued refining a mysterious, exceptionally high-grade pill while other contestants produced Tier 7 pills and pill lightning filled the sky. As the Pill Gathering narrowed to thirty-two contestants, Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi wondered whether Lu Yunxiao was using the rumored Cauldron Sealing Method.

• Lu Yunxiao remained focused on refining as the first contestant produced pill lightning and revealed a low Tier 7 Medicinal Pill.
• Over the following days, pill lightning appeared repeatedly, and fewer than fifty contestants still had pill flames rising from their platforms.
• A gray-haired man caught a bolt of pill lightning and celebrated refining a middle Tier 7 Medicinal Pill.
• Thirty-two contestants, including Lu Yunxiao, Cao Ying, Gu Ying, and Dan Chen, continued preparing their pills.
• Xuan Kongzi admitted he could not discern what Lu Yunxiao was refining, and Tian Leizi said Lu Yunxiao's technique resembled the rumored Cauldron Sealing Method.

Tian Leizi recognized that Lu Yunxiao’s technique resembled the lost Cauldron Sealing Method, raising expectations for the pill he was refining. Five days later, seventeen alchemists remained in the competition, and the thunder still rumbling above them came from their cauldrons rather than the sky.

• Tian Leizi said Lu Yunxiao’s technique resembled the Cauldron Sealing Method, and Xuan Kongzi agreed it could produce an extraordinary pill.
• Cao Ying continued refining an Eighth-Grade pill and wondered what Lu Yunxiao was making.
• Over the next five days, nine alchemists succeeded and six withdrew, leaving seventeen contestants on the stone platforms.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi discussed Venerable Qing Hua, Gu Ying, and the Soul Hall black-robed man as potential threats to Cao Ying.
• Tian Leizi said Lu Yunxiao had chased the black-robed man in the Pill Realm, and Xuan Kongzi welcomed the news.
• The thunder still echoing beneath the clear sky came from the alchemy cauldrons on the stone platforms.

Song Qing completed a Peak Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pill and boasted at Lu Yunxiao, while eight more pills of the same grade triggered pill lightning across the plaza. As the competition neared its climax, Dan Chen poured her blood into her pill, causing her cauldron to explode.

• Song Qing presented his Peak Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pill and looked to Lu Yunxiao for a reaction, but Lu Yunxiao ignored him.
• Cao Ying judged Song Qing’s pride foolish and returned her attention to her own cauldron.
• Eight more Peak Seventh-Grade Medicinal Pills appeared within minutes, filling the sky with pill lightning and exciting the crowd.
• Song Qing sneered that the other contestants’ pills were inferior, then hurriedly focused on surviving another strike of lightning.
• Dan Chen, pale from exhaustion, spat blood into her nearly finished pill, and the resulting energy burst shattered her cauldron.