Recaps

Lu Yunxiao protected Cao Ying from the Soul Hall, subdued Xiong Zhan, and helped her gather rare herbs before they returned to the Pill Gathering. He began refining a Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill, while the contest narrowed to a handful of alchemists and Dan Chen’s cauldron shattered.

• Lu Yunxiao refused Song Qing’s alliance, killed Chen Xian and his guards after Chen Xian attacked him, and openly challenged Song Qing before the Soul Hall ambushed the alchemists.
• Lu Yunxiao broke the Soul Hall’s barrier, killed Old Man Mugu, and learned that other Soul Hall experts had entered the Pill Realm.
• Lu Yunxiao took Cao Ying to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, defeated Xiong Zhan, and secured his loyalty with the Dragon Emperor Token.
• Cao Ying gathered rare herbs in the Stone Hall while Lu Yunxiao hunted the Soul Hall forces, then they left the Pill Realm together with Xiong Zhan in Lu Yunxiao’s Inner World.
• At the Pill Gathering, Lu Yunxiao and Cao Ying entered the final pill-refining round, and Lu Yunxiao chose to make a Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill.
• Lu Yunxiao displayed a powerful jade-colored flame and began refining more than a thousand ingredients in the Purple Abyss Cauldron using a method that resembled the Cauldron Sealing Method.
• As contestants produced pills and withdrew, the field narrowed to seventeen, while Song Qing completed a Peak Seventh-Grade pill and Dan Chen’s nearly finished pill burst apart after she spat blood into it.

Lu Yunxiao won the Pill Gathering, then refused Soul Emperor’s demand to join the Soul Clan and led his allies into battle against its forces. The fighting devastated Holy Pill City, and the Pill Tower leaders vowed to demand an explanation from Lu Yunxiao.

• Dan Chen, Old Man Qinghua, and Cao Ying revealed their pills before Hun Du unveiled Eight-Colored Pill Lightning and challenged Lu Yunxiao.
• Lu Yunxiao refined a Nine-Revolutions Saint-Breaking Pill, withstood its Black Demonic Lightning using a puppet, and won the Pill Gathering with a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon pill spirit.
• Soul Emperor arrived to take Lu Yunxiao to the Soul Realm, but Gu Yuan and Lu Yunxiao’s assembled allies confronted him and the Soul Clan forces.
• Lu Yunxiao’s allies battled the Soul Clan above Holy Pill City while the Pill Tower opened the Pill Realm gates to evacuate its members and contestants.
• Lu Yunxiao received the Movement Character Secret and Lightning Ancestral Talisman, awakened his Lightning Element, and Qing Zhi joined the battle against the Soul Clan.
• Lu Yunxiao killed a Three-Star Dou Sheng with the Grass Character Sword Art, while Soul Emperor recognized him as a growing threat.
• The battle continued above Holy Pill City as stray attacks destroyed much of the city and killed many people, prompting Xuan Kongzi to vow to demand an explanation from Lu Yunxiao.

Lu Yunxiao’s allies shattered the Soul Clan’s assault on Holy Pill City, though Soul Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame escaped. After the alliance began hunting the Soul Hall and rebuilding, Lu Yunxiao entered the Star Domain to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Qing Zhi and Gu Duhang battered the Soul Clan’s fighters as Huang Ling’er overpowered Nihility Devouring Flame and destroyed the Soul Clan army’s Seal of Destruction.
• The Soul Clan’s four Founding Elders trapped Lu Yunxiao’s allies in the Realm of Death, but Lu Yunxiao summoned the Cult Master, who broke the formation and freed them.
• Lu Yunxiao’s forces renewed their attack, and Huang Ling’er, Lord of Devouring, and Sect Master of Moon Worship drove back Nihility Devouring Flame while Moon Worship overwhelmed Soul Emperor.
• Soul Emperor and Nihility Devouring Flame escaped amid the self-destruction of Soul Clan experts, leaving Holy Pill City in ruins except for the Pill Tower and its protected small world.
• Lu Yunxiao joined forces with Gu Yuan to eradicate the Soul Hall, reconciled with the Pill Tower elders, and reunited them with Yao Chen.
• The allied forces destroyed the Soul Hall’s branch halls, while Zi Yan placed a reciprocal Dragon Seal on Lu Yunxiao to help him subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Lu Yunxiao entered the Star Domain with Cao Ying and the other contestants, found the Three Thousand Burning Flame sealed in dragon form, and challenged it after it rejected his offer.
• Lu Yunxiao devoured the flame’s attack with his Heavenly Flames and used Ancient Void Dragon blood to place Zi Yan’s Dragon Seal on it, then faced it alone as the seal began to reveal its emotions.

Lu Yunxiao subdued Three Thousand Burning Flame, strengthened Cloud Gate, and made promises to Gu Xun’er and his other companions. After advancing his cultivation and arranging opportunities for his allies, he prepared to visit the Gu Clan but turned to meet Sound Valley’s delegation first.

• Lu Yunxiao broke Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Dragon Seal, defeated and subdued it, then returned to the Pill Tower with the flame safely in hand.
• Lu Yunxiao returned to Cloud Sect and told Gu Yuan that Gu Xun’er could inherit the Ancient Emperor’s Legacy, while promising to marry her after she became a Dou Sheng.
• Lu Yunxiao gave Gu Xun’er Three Thousand Burning Flame and the Movement Character Secret, then advanced to Initial Half-Saint and created the Emperor-tier sword strike Sword Divides the Universe.
• Lu Yunxiao returned to Cloud Gate, learned how much the sect had expanded, and gave Yun Yun and Queen Medusa the Movement Character Secret and Grass Character Sword Art.
• Lu Yunxiao refined the Soul Origin seized from Soul Hall, reached Heaven Realm Great Perfection, and formed a lifelike Soul Clone.
• Lu Yunxiao promised his other companions second weddings, then arranged for Xiao Yi Xian to seek the former Body of Demonic Poison’s inheritance and encouraged Qing Yanjing about her bloodline and the Ancient Futu Clan.
• Lu Yunxiao gave Huang Ling’er the Soul Origin to refine and told Xiao Yu to cultivate in his Inner World so she could reach Dou Zun within five months before accompanying him to the Gu Clan.
• After Yao Chen reported Sound Valley’s arrival, Lu Yunxiao sent Huang Ling’er and Xiao Yu away and went to meet its people.