Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Li in Desert City and learned about the mysterious black box his brother had found beneath the desert. When Xiao Yan opened it, a lingering soul imprint appeared and identified itself as Giant Sun Venerable.

• Xiao Yan arrived at the City Lord's Mansion and joyfully reunited with Xiao Li, his surviving brother.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Li about his journey and their father Xiao Zhan's death, while Xiao Li recounted how Xun Er's guard had reassured him that Xiao Yan was alive.
• Xiao Li led Xiao Yan through a quicksand passage to an underground sea of magma and revealed a black box he had been unable to open.
• Xiao Yan's Dou Qi made the black box split open, and a powerful force drew his consciousness into a special space.
• A soul imprint suppressed Xiao Yan's Myriad Spirit Beast Fire, then explained that it meant him no harm and named itself Giant Sun Venerable.

Xiao Yan negotiated with Giant Sun Venerable, who was actually a portion of Lin Ran’s soul, to help repair his soul in exchange for protection and a future favor. After Yun Yun reported the Jia Ma Imperial Family’s withdrawal, Lin Ran told Yao Yue she would meet Yao Ye again and revealed he was a guest elder of Jia Nan Academy, where Yao Yue planned to study.

• Giant Sun Venerable offered Xiao Yan his inheritance and power in exchange for help repairing his damaged soul.
• Xiao Yan refused to abandon Yao Lao as his teacher, but agreed to help Giant Sun Venerable if he would act on his behalf once.
• Giant Sun Venerable merged into Xiao Yan and left a Sun Imprint on his hand as Xiao Yan vowed to settle his debts with Soul Hall.
• Lin Ran revealed that Giant Sun Venerable was a portion of his soul and that he was using Xiao Yan’s extraordinary fortune to find resources for repairing his own soul.
• Yun Yun told Lin Ran that the Jia Ma Imperial Family had withdrawn, and she chose not to hunt down its remaining members.
• Yao Yue decided to go to Jia Nan Academy, and Lin Ran revealed he was a guest elder there and summoned her to greet him.

Lin Ran reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then prepared to leave for the Central Continent after checking on the Sacred Sect. He returned to Jia Nan Academy and began refining the seventh-tier Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill, leaving the Inner Academy gathered to watch.

• Lin Ran enrolled Yao Yue at Jia Nan Academy and gave her a Sacred Sect token, telling her to seek help from Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin if she needed it.
• Lin Ran reunited with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian, shared a meal with them, and promised to visit every month while he traveled to the Central Continent.
• Lin Ran inspected the Sacred Sect, took medicinal ingredients from its stores, and returned to Jia Nan Academy.
• Su Qian let Lin Ran use the Inner Academy's high stone platform to refine a seventh-tier pill as students and experts watched.
• Lin Ran brought out the Sunfire Cauldron and the ingredients for the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill.

Lin Ran refined an Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill at Jia Nan Academy, using the process to hone his alchemy and break through to the eighth rank. The two-colored pill lightning confirmed his success, while students and elders watched in astonishment.

• Lin Ran began refining the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill, extracting its many ingredients and tempering them with his Spirit Realm soul power.
• Lin Ran carefully refined the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine and fused it with the other ingredients, completing the pill’s preliminary mixture.
• After three days, Lin Ran began the final fusion and poured his Dou Qi, Heavenly Flame, and soul power into the pill.
• The Sunfire Cauldron erupted with energy, so Elder Qian Bai sealed the space around the platform as a golden pillar pierced the sky.
• A two-colored pill tribulation formed, and Elder Qian Bai recognized that Lin Ran had refined an eighth-rank pill and become an Eighth-Rank Alchemist.
• A young woman in the Outer Academy stared at the sky in disbelief as she realized an Eighth-Rank Alchemist was in the academy.

Lin Ran completed an Eighth-Rank Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill at Jia Nan Academy, drawing astonished attention from Xun Er, the academy elders, and the Saint Rain Sect. He used Yao Chen’s Spirit Ascension technique to improve the pill’s spirituality and then revealed three Heavenly Flames as he prepared to continue refining it.

• Xun Er and Elder Lin recognized that Lin Ran had refined an Eighth-Rank Pill, and Xun Er left after privately condemning him as a lecher.
• Su Qian and Elder Qian Bai assessed the powerful pill lightning as at least Dou Zun level while people across the Black Corner Region sensed the tribulation.
• Yao Chen and Han Feng arrived at Jia Nan Academy, recognized Lin Ran as their Sect Master, and watched him refine the pill.
• Lin Ran judged the pill’s spirituality insufficient, inserted his hand into the pillar of light, and used Spirit Ascension to elevate the golden pill’s quality.
• Lin Ran summoned the Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame and split it into three Heavenly Flames, stunning the onlookers.

Lin Ran fused three Heavenly Flames and used the Spirit Ascension technique, his soul power, and essence blood to elevate the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill into an intermediate Eighth-Rank pill with Six-Colored Pill Lightning. As the Pill Lightning gathered, Lin Ran faced it himself and prepared to strike with the Great Sun Holy Yang Palm.

• Yao Chen identified Lin Ran’s three flames as the Green Lotus Core Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, and Golden Emperor Heavenly Burning Flame, while Su Qian and Elder Qian Bai confirmed the academy’s Fallen Heart Flame was still inside the tower.
• Lin Ran fused the three Heavenly Flames into the Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame and used it to draw spiritual energy from the pill before pouring in his soul power and essence blood.
• The pill’s surface healed, and its Pill Lightning grew from two colors to six, raising the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill to intermediate Eighth-Rank status.
• Su Qian ordered the academy’s disciples and elders to leave the Inner Academy, but Lin Ran told him there was no need and faced the Pill Lightning.
• Lin Ran gathered golden radiance in his palm and began the Great Sun Holy Yang Palm.

Lin Ran shattered the Six-Colored Pill Lightning, swallowed the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill, and endured four days of cultivation to reach Two-Star Dou Zun by strengthening his body. He stopped before absorbing the pill’s remaining power when Gu Yuan’s force brought him to Xun Er for her monthly meridian nourishment.

• Lin Ran destroyed the six-colored thunderclouds with three Holy Yang Palm strikes and revealed the spiritually living Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill.
• Lin Ran swallowed the pill, traveled to the Black Domain Great Plain, and devoted its medicinal power to strengthening his Pure Yang Physique instead of forcing a cultivation breakthrough.
• After four days, Lin Ran absorbed enough energy to reach Two-Star Dou Zun, while most of the pill’s power remained in his body.
• Gu Yuan’s force transported Lin Ran to Xun Er, and Lin Ran began nourishing her meridians with his Pure Yang Dou Qi while teasing her.

Ye Xinlan asked Lin Ran to help save the Ye Family from losing its place among the Pill Tower’s five great families, but Lin Ran said she had come too late to train for the assessment. The chapter ended with Ye Xinlan clinging to his leg and insisting there was still a way.

• Ye Xinlan begged Su Qian to introduce her to Lin Ran so he could help the Ye Family, and Su Qian warned her about Lin Ran’s power and ruthlessness.
• Hu Gan summoned Su Qian to the Outer Academy after Lin Ran sparred with Xun Er’s guards, then left delighted when Lin Ran promised him a Sect Breaking Pill.
• Su Qian brought Lin Ran to meet Ye Xinlan, and Lin Ran quickly recognized that she wanted help with the Ye Family’s crisis.
• Ye Xinlan explained that the Ye Family had failed two assessments and needed to place in the top three in its final attempt to retain its Pill Tower seat.
• Lin Ran said Ye Xinlan had come too late for him to train her before the assessment, but Ye Xinlan clung to his leg and pleaded that there was still a way.

Ye Xinlan sought Lin Ran’s help to protect the Ye Family, and he offered to let the family join the Saint Rain Sect instead. After leaving the council hall, Lin Ran returned to Maple City and asked Han Feng and Yao Chen whether they would accompany him to the Central Continent.

• Ye Xinlan proposed that Lin Ran join the Ye Family, but he refused and offered the Golden Token as a way for the Ye Family to join the Saint Rain Sect.
• Ye Xinlan accepted the token for the family head to consider and asked to travel with Lin Ran to the Central Continent; Lin Ran agreed to take her when he departed.
• Su Qian told Ye Xinlan that Lin Ran could be a suitable protector, and she explained that the Ye Family needed protection if it lost its place among the five great families.
• Lin Ran returned to Maple City, where Han Feng reported the Pill Hall’s growing ranks of alchemists.
• Lin Ran asked Han Feng and Yao Chen to accompany him to the Central Continent, but Han Feng declined and cited his duties and Yao Chen’s lack of a body.

Lin Ran returned to Black Seal City and killed a Silver Token elder who proposed seizing territory from the Snake-People Tribe, then reprimanded the sect for ignoring its Sacred Token hierarchy. He ordered more Saint Flame Body Refining Rooms to be built and urged Green Yi to strengthen ties with the Yunlan Empire and Cai Lin’s Snake People Empire.

• Yao Chen declined to return with Lin Ran, and Lin Ran promised to forge him a physical body after returning from the Central Continent.
• In Black Seal City, a black-robed Silver Token elder urged the Sacred Sect to take resources from the Snake-People Tribe’s conquest of the Mulan Empire, but Green Yi rebuked him.
• Lin Ran appeared in the City Lord’s Mansion and killed the elder, then explained that higher-ranked Sacred Tokens held absolute authority over lower-ranked ones.
• Lin Ran discovered the elder lacked the Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame’s influence and questioned the gathered Silver Token holders about completing the Saint Flame Body Refining Room assessment.
• Lin Ran told Green Yi to enforce the sect’s standards and announced plans for beginner, intermediate, and advanced Saint Flame Body Refining Rooms that would offer monthly pills to members who stayed longer.
• Lin Ran told Green Yi to maintain close contact with Yun’er’s Yunlan Empire and Cai Lin’s Snake People Empire so they could support one another.

Lin Ran opened the Saint Flame Body Refining Rooms, drawing crowds of Sacred Sect disciples eager to cultivate. Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing encountered Medusa and her snake people commanders, then learned that Yun Yun was soon to arrive, leaving them wondering what Lin Ran planned for the rulers of two empires.

• Lin Ran built and opened the Saint Flame Body Refining Rooms, whose effects rivaled Jia Nan Academy's Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing returned from the front lines, cultivated in the rooms, and discussed using their contribution points to obtain pills and Earth Tier Dou Techniques.
• Mo Bass ambushed Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing to test them, but Medusa ordered him to stop and explained the rules for distributing Sacred Tokens.
• Cai Lin revealed her Saint Jade Token, and Lin Ran arrived and told Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing to show the snake people around the city.
• Lin Ran told Cai Lin that Yun Yun would soon arrive, prompting Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing to realize that the rulers of two empires were gathering.

Lin Ran brought Yun Yun and Cai Lin together with Green Yi to plan closer ties between their new empires and the Saint Rain Sect. Before leaving for the Central Continent, he strengthened their Jade Tokens with protective flames, then sealed the room as the women reacted to their imminent parting.

• Cai Lin arrived at the City Lord's Mansion and learned the Saint Rain Sect had several Dou Zong experts and a Dou Zun puppet.
• Yun Yun reported that the Misty Cloud Sect had taken over the Jia Ma Empire smoothly, though the Mittel Family was secretly plotting for influence.
• Lin Ran asked Yun Yun, Cai Lin, and Green Yi to coordinate their nations and establish Sacred Sect branches, Contribution Hall branches, and Saint Flame Body Refining Rooms in both empires.
• Yun Yun and Green Yi raised the possibility of competing in the Sect Convention, while Lin Ran urged the new empires to consolidate and support one another.
• Before traveling to the Central Continent, Lin Ran infused three wisps of Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame origin subsidiary flame into each woman's Jade Token and warned them to use the power to escape danger.
• Green Yi left the meeting hall, and Lin Ran sealed the room as Yun Yun and Cai Lin protested.

Xiao Yan entered the Alchemist Grand Meeting in Golden Eagle City, where his Blood-Colored Flame revealed that he possessed a Heavenly Flame. Meanwhile, Lin Ran left the Black Corner Region and arrived at Tianya City to travel back to the Central Continent.

• Xiao Yan joined the Alchemist Grand Meeting using a worn medicine cauldron after Great Sun Will warned him not to reveal the Black Demon Cauldron in hostile territory.
• Several contestants displayed unusual flames, and Xiao Yan summoned his Blood-Colored Flame, causing the other flames to bow toward it.
• Xiao Yan began extracting medicinal ingredients for his pill as Great Sun Will watched over his training.
• Lin Ran left the Saint Rain Sect after leaving jade slips for Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then set out for the Central Continent.
• Lin Ran used Void Walk to reach Tianya City in half a day and spotted the city in the Tianqing Mountain Range.

Lin Ran entered Tianya City to use its Space Wormhole but killed the unruly Luo Xiaoyao after she attacked him, then revealed his Dou Zun power to the Luo Family ancestor. Luo Cheng recognized Lin Ran and placated him by offering hospitality and asking for guidance on the Luo Family's Magic Core trade.

• Lin Ran arrived in Tianya City and considered building spatial passages between the Snake People Empire, the Yunlan Empire, and the Saint Rain Sect.
• Luo Xiaoyao rode her horse through the crowded street and attacked Lin Ran with her whip when he refused to move.
• Lin Ran turned the whip back on Luo Xiaoyao, then killed her when she threatened him; his pressure pinned her two Dou Huang elders to the ground.
• Luo Cheng arrived to confront Lin Ran, but Lin Ran's aura forced him and everyone nearby to their knees.
• Luo Cheng recognized Lin Ran as Young Sect Master Lin and begged forgiveness, then offered to host him and sought his guidance on the Luo Family's Magic Core trade.

Lin Ran returned from Tianya City to Central Continent through a Space Wormhole, then went back to the Cloud Rain Sect. He revealed his improved cultivation and Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame to Heavenly Scorpion, who recognized the unusual power in his disciple.

• Luo Cheng gave Lin Ran a seventh-tier Space Ark and let the Luo Family keep control of Tianya City's Space Wormhole.
• Lin Ran traveled through the Space Wormhole and spent the journey cultivating aboard the Space Ark.
• After about a week, Lin Ran reached Central Continent and returned to the Cloud Rain Sect, where the disciples welcomed him.
• Lin Ran met Heavenly Scorpion and confirmed that he had advanced to two-star Dou Zun after refining the Heavenly Spirit Dragon Blood Pill and an Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill.
• Lin Ran showed Heavenly Scorpion the Saint Gold Fallen Heart Flame, and Heavenly Scorpion reacted with surprise.

Lin Ran returned to the Cloud Rain Sect and accepted Heavenly Scorpion’s request to visit the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, where he could use the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool to absorb the medicinal power stored in his body and announce the sect’s return. He arranged to enter the Blood Pool’s contest under the rules, then used the Power of Space to merge the three entrances as the mountain opened.

• Lin Ran presented Heavenly Scorpion with an eighth-tier Fire Spirit Clear Profound Pill, and Heavenly Scorpion advised him to use the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool to absorb the medicinal power accumulated in his body.
• Heavenly Scorpion told Lin Ran to spread the Cloud Rain Sect’s name at the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range, especially among the Flower Sect, and Lin Ran greeted his other two masters before setting out.
• Lin Ran traveled to the Northern Region and found the Four Directions Pavilions among the crowds gathered at the mountain’s entrances, but the Flower Sect was absent.
• Lin Ran asked the Gold Devouring Rat Clan’s two Dou Zong experts to let him enter at peak Dou Huang strength, then requested that the three entrances be reduced to one; they agreed.
• When the mountain’s energy tide surged and the crowd charged toward the entrances, Lin Ran unleashed the Power of Space and caused all three entrances to twist together.

The Gold Devouring Rat Clan warned that the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range had become unusually dangerous, but the cultivators rushed inside anyway after Feng Qing'er urged them to seek opportunity through hardship. Inside, Feng Qing'er encountered Lin Ran, whose pressure had immobilized the crowd, and realized he had reached a level beyond the Dou Zong realm.

• Jin Shi and Jin Gu announced that the mountain range had only one entrance and urged everyone to return in three years, but many cultivators accused their clan of trying to monopolize the Blood Pond slots.
• The cultivators and Four Directions Pavilion disciples entered the mountain range despite the warning, encouraged by Fei Yang and then Feng Qing'er.
• Feng Qing'er entered on her Seven-Colored Spirit Crane and found the crowd immobilized by a powerful pressure inside the mountain range.
• Feng Qing'er recognized Lin Ran seated on a boulder and challenged him about having broken through to Dou Zong long ago.
• Lin Ran called Feng Qing'er a little chick and hinted that he had advanced beyond the seven-star Dou Zong realm, leaving her stunned.

Lin Ran revealed himself as the Cloud Rain Sect’s Young Sect Master and tested the Heavenly Eye Blood Pond candidates by forcing them to endure his pressure. Feng Qing'er alone kept resisting, but Lin Ran broke her defenses and left her calling him “Master.”

• Feng Qing'er questioned how Lin Ran had reached Dou Zun, and he reminded her that he had always believed nothing was impossible for him.
• Lin Ran identified himself as the Cloud Rain Sect’s Young Sect Master and set a new trial: candidates had to endure his pressure for the time it took an incense stick to burn.
• Lin Ran crushed a Yellow Springs Pavilion disciple who objected, then eliminated nearly all the candidates with his pressure until only Feng Qing'er remained.
• Feng Qing'er summoned the Demon Phoenix Sacred Image and attacked Lin Ran, then formed the Sacred Image Demon Phoenix Bell to withstand his pressure.
• Lin Ran shattered the Demon Phoenix Bell and sealed away the eliminated candidates; when Feng Qing'er asked him to send her away, he forced her to address him as “Master.”

Lin Ran reunited with Feng Qing'er at the Heavenly Eye Blood Pond after their first encounter years earlier, when his cultivation crisis led to her becoming bound to him. He gave her a Saint Jade Token and promised to retrieve her Blood Pond Blood Crystal, then watched the Blood Pond begin to open.

• Lin Ran recalled how he had met Feng Qing'er three years earlier while dealing with his unstable yin and yang energies, and how she had eventually accepted him as her master in exchange for his Pure Yang blood essence.
• Feng Qing'er asked Lin Ran about his absence, and he showed her the Saint Jade Token containing information about the Saint Rain Sect and its allied forces.
• Lin Ran told Feng Qing'er to call him Master and suggested she might one day lead the Sky Demon Phoenix Clan, while she considered how his blood essence could strengthen her bloodline.
• Feng Qing'er explained that she had come to the Heavenly Eye Blood Pond to obtain a Blood Pond Blood Crystal for a clan elder, and Lin Ran said he would retrieve it for her.
• Lin Ran and Feng Qing'er arrived at the crater, where Jin Shi and Jin Gu were waiting, and Lin Ran told Feng Qing'er to wait while he got the Blood Crystal.
• A thunderclap sounded as a multicolored vortex formed above the crater, gathering the energy that signaled the Blood Pond's opening.

Lin Ran entered the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool to absorb its energy and test whether it could help him digest the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill. At the sealed depths, the Blood Pool’s vitality stimulated the pill’s medicinal effect, leaving Lin Ran confident he could absorb most of it during his stay.

• A five-colored energy vortex formed the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, and Lin Ran sealed the area before entering it.
• Lin Ran descended through the crimson liquid, collected dark-red blood crystals, and gave one to Feng Qing'er, warning her against absorbing its fire poison.
• Feng Qing'er asked whether Lin Ran would attend the Four Pavilion Grand Assembly at Starfall Pavilion, and he said he might go if the timing worked out.
• After Feng Qing'er left, Lin Ran broke through the spatial barrier at the bottom of the Blood Pool and began cultivating amid the concentrated fire poison.
• Lin Ran drew in the Pool’s blood-colored energy, which stimulated the medicinal effect of the Adamantine Dragon Bone Pill and began turning its golden radiance blood-gold.