Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan defeated Cao Ying in a Soul Power duel after his Soul Spirit frightened her Phoenixes into fleeing. Xuan Kongzi invited Xiao Yan to the Pill Tower to discuss his teacher, and Yao Chen appeared before the Pill Tower leaders, greeting Xuan Yi.

• Xiao Yan and Cao Ying clashed with their Soul Power, and Cao Ying summoned a soul Phoenix with her Soul Profound Phoenix technique.
• Xiao Yan restrained Cao Ying’s Phoenixes with Dark Soul Lock, but Cao Ying broke the chains and sent all six Phoenixes at him.
• A woman’s presence in Xiao Yan’s darkness terrified the Phoenixes, which fled and refused Cao Ying’s commands, so Cao Ying admitted defeat.
• Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi praised the duel, then invited Xiao Yan to the Pill Tower to discuss the old friend behind him; Xiao Yan brought Feng Qing’er along.
• Xuan Kongzi sealed the inner hall and asked about Xiao Yan’s teacher, prompting Yao Chen to emerge from the ring and greet Xuan Yi.

Xuan Yi confronted Yao Chen over the hurt she had caused long ago, and Yao Chen sincerely accepted responsibility. Xuan Yi slapped her and appeared to forgive her, but Yao Chen’s teasing immediately reignited Xuan Yi’s anger.

• Xuan Yi flew into a rage when she saw Yao Chen, while Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi restrained her and Xiao Yan stood protectively before his teacher.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan to step aside, apologized to Xuan Yi, admitted she had toyed with Xuan Yi’s feelings, and offered to accept punishment.
• Xiao Yan tried to take the punishment in Yao Chen’s place, but Xuan Yi pushed him aside and slapped Yao Chen across the face.
• Xuan Yi said she had wanted to slap Yao Chen for a long time and warned her not to bring up the matter again, signaling that she had let the grudge pass.
• Yao Chen teased Xuan Yi about her hands, prompting Xuan Yi to approach her angrily while Yao Chen backed away in fear.

Xiao Yan reunited with Xuan Yi and the Pill Tower, asked them to search for Han Feng and Xiao Yu, and sought help for Xiao Yi Xian. After learning that the Pill Gathering finalists could enter the Star Region to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, Xiao Yan vowed to compete for the chance to gain strength.

• Xuan Yi scolded Yao Chen for the trouble she had caused Han Feng, then agreed to help search for Han Feng and Xiao Yu and care for Yao Chen's soul.
• Xuan Yi examined Xiao Yi Xian and explained that the Poison Pill Refining Method could stabilize her Calamitous Poison Body for only seven or eight years.
• Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi revealed that Three Thousand Burning Flame was sealed in the Star Region and that Pill Gathering finalists could try to subdue it.
• Xiao Yan recalled his helplessness when facing Phoenix in Star River City and vowed to give everything at the Pill Gathering for Xiao Yi Xian and the chance to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Yao Chen encouraged Xiao Yan and said she believed he would succeed.

Xiao Yan entered the Pill Gathering after confronting Mu Gu, who hinted that Han Feng’s disappearance was connected to the Soul Hall. The selection began in the Pill Realm, where Nalan Yanran emerged from seclusion as a Seven-star Dou Zong.

• Xiao Yan competed in his own name while Ye Xinlan represented the Ye Family, and he met Song Qing, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying.
• Mu Gu confronted Xiao Yan, and Yao Chen revealed herself; she deduced from Mu Gu’s taunts that Han Feng was likely alive but that his disappearance involved the Soul Hall.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the Pill Gathering and sent the contestants through a Spatial Teleportation Gate to the Pill Realm’s Myriad Medicine Mountain Range for the selection stage.
• In the mountain range, the wounded Xiong Zhan recalled fighting a human who kept recovering and growing stronger, then sensed her break through to Seven-star Dou Zong.
• Nalan Yanran walked out of the cave in good spirits after her breakthrough.

Nalan Yanran recalled how Xiong Zhan healed her and refused to learn her dangerous cultivation method. When a Soul Hall agent offered her a paid commission to hunt Pill Gathering contestants, she rejected him and attacked as he turned back toward her.

• Xiong Zhan recalled how he gave Nalan Yanran his Myriad Spirit Dragon Saliva Fruit to end their battle, healing her and restoring her reason.
• Nalan Yanran offered Xiong Zhan her Mad Blood Disease cultivation method, but he refused because it could turn its users into mindless monsters.
• Nalan Yanran and Xiong Zhan sensed Pill Gathering contestants entering the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, and Xiong Zhan explained the area was the Pill Tower's medicinal garden.
• A black-robed Soul Hall agent offered Nalan Yanran a generous reward to hunt the contestants, but she refused and threatened to fight him if he pressed her.
• The agent began to leave, then turned back after Nalan Yanran repeated the words Soul Hall; she struck at him with Heaven-Splitting.

Nalan Yanran killed a Soul Hall Protector who tried to recruit her, then set out to hunt the other Soul Hall members in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. Yun Ying sealed the area, summoned a much larger Soul Hall force, and began a wager with Yun Ling over whether Xiao Yan or Nalan Yanran would kill more of them.

• Nalan Yanran blamed the Soul Hall for the Jia Ma Empire incident and vowed to kill every Soul Hall member she encountered.
• Nalan Yanran dismembered the black-robed Protector, tore out his throat, and killed him with the Scarlet Sword before leaving to find the others.
• Xiong Zhan watched Nalan Yanran depart and predicted the Soul Hall members in the mountain range would suffer.
• Yun Ying and Yun Ling wagered on whether Xiao Yan or Nalan Yanran would kill more Soul Hall members, with Yun Ling choosing Nalan Yanran.
• Yun Ying sealed the Myriad Demon Mountain Range and opened Soul Hall Teleportation Gates, bringing in more than a hundred fighters, including five Dou Zuns.
• The Three-star Dou Zun leading the arrivals ordered them to kill all non-Soul Hall members, and Yun Ying announced that the game had begun.

Xiao Yan gathered medicinal herbs in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range before learning that the Soul Hall had sent forces to kill the Pill Gathering contestants. As Soul Hall hunters closed in on Ye Xinlan, Xiao Yan arrived in time to block an attack against her.

• Xiao Yan collected many task herbs and extra medicinal materials while worrying briefly about Ye Xinlan's safety.
• A Soul Emissary ambushed Xiao Yan, who overpowered and questioned him before learning that thirty or forty Soul Emissaries had been ordered to kill everyone outside the Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yan burned the Soul Emissary to ashes and realized he needed to stop gathering herbs and respond to the massacre.
• Ye Xinlan hid from the attackers after witnessing Yu Qian and other contestants being killed, and she concluded that the Space Stones could not return anyone to the Pill Tower.
• A Soul Hall hunter found Ye Xinlan and attacked her with a spiked chain, but Xiao Yan appeared and blocked the strike.

Xiao Yan discovered that Soul Hall had sealed the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and begun attacking the Pill Gathering contestants, so he broadcast a warning across the range. As contestants reacted and Soul Hall forces moved against them, Nalan Yanran was ambushed by Bai Gui but healed her severed arm and prepared to fight him.

• Xiao Yan saved Ye Xinlan from a Soul Hall attacker, learned that Space Stones could not overcome the spatial seal, and told her to stay beside him.
• Xiao Yan spread a flaming warning across the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, alerting Cao Ying and other contestants that Soul Hall was attacking.
• Cao Ying chose to flee toward the gathering point, while Mu Gu confronted Venerable Qing Hua, who prepared to fight rather than run.
• Nalan Yanran recognized Xiao Yan's warning and set out to join him, but Bai Gui ambushed her and severed her arm.
• Nalan Yanran reattached her arm, revealed her fierce fighting spirit, and challenged Bai Gui.

Xiao Yan gathered rescued contestants and led them in preparing to confront the Soul Hall attackers. As Yun Ying and Yun Ling watched, Bai Gui believed he had killed Nalan Yanran, but she reappeared in a blood-maddened state, leaving him fearing defeat.

• Xiao Yan rescued contestants while carrying Ye Xinlan, then urged the growing group to gather as he lured the Soul Hall attackers toward them.
• Xiao Yan offered to fight alone and asked the contestants to take Ye Xinlan away, but one contestant rallied the others to stay and fight alongside him.
• Ye Xinlan chose to remain with Xiao Yan, who burned away the surrounding cover with his Heavenly Flames as Soul Hall members gathered around them.
• Yun Ying praised Xiao Yan’s ability to inspire the contestants, while Yun Ling complained that Bai Gui had tied up Nalan Yanran and threatened him over their bet.
• Bai Gui blasted Nalan Yanran’s shattered body, but she reappeared behind him with blood-red eyes and wounded him, making him fear she could defeat him.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the Soul Emissaries until the Joyful Desire Venerables—Hun Yan, Hun Mei, and Hun Shu—arrived and revealed their dangerous charms. When the three moved to seize the other contestants, Xiao Yan raised a wall of Heavenly Flames to stop them.

• Xiao Yan slaughtered the Soul Emissaries, relying on the Black Prison Dark Soul Lock to sustain his Dou Qi.
• Hun Yan, Hun Mei, and Hun Shu appeared, and Xiao Yan warned the contestants not to look at them after their charm affected him.
• Hun Yan drained a Soul Emissary’s soul and Dou Qi with a kiss, then set her sights on Xiao Yan.
• Hun Yan threatened to take Xiao Yan despite his having a wife, while Hun Mei and Hun Shu planned to claim the other contestants.
• Hun Mei and Hun Shu charged at the contestants, but Xiao Yan blocked them with a wall of Heavenly Flames.

Xiao Yan used his secret techniques and a layered flame attack to strike Hun Mei, while the tremendous blast startled the fighters across the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. Nalan Yanran kept regenerating and attacking Bai Gui, leaving him terrified of her.

• Xiao Yan raised his strength to Seven-star Dou Zong with the Heavenly Flames Three Profound Transformations and the Xiao Clan Ancestral Mark, then attacked Hun Yan.
• Hun Mei charged at Xiao Yan, but his Leaving Fire Prison Robe scorched her arm and his Eight Layer Strength ruler strike unleashed a devastating blast.
• The blast distracted Old Mu Gu, allowing Qing Hua to strike him and send him flying before they resumed their fight.
• Nalan Yanran wounded Bai Gui with her sword and claws, repeatedly regenerating as her speed and strength increased.
• Bai Gui blasted away half of Nalan Yanran’s body, but she stabbed him in the chest and bit flesh and bone from his shoulder before recovering again.

Xiao Yan gravely injured Hun Mei, but Hun Yan and Hun Shu protected her and fed her the souls and Dou Qi of Soul Emissaries to help her recover. As Xiao Yan fought Hun Yan and the contestants challenged Hun Shu, Song Qing, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying arrived in time to save the contestants from her soul arrows.

• Xiao Yan nearly killed Hun Mei with a powerful flame attack, but Hun Yan knocked him back while Hun Shu carried the wounded Hun Mei to safety.
• Hun Shu controlled Soul Emissaries and sent their souls and Dou Qi into Hun Mei, while Hun Yan prevented Xiao Yan from interrupting the recovery.
• Xiao Yan attacked Hun Yan with his Leaving Fire techniques, breaking her Space Barrier and forcing her to fight cautiously.
• The contestants tried to stop Hun Shu from helping Hun Mei, but she repelled them and launched soul arrows that threatened to annihilate them.
• Song Qing, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying arrived and destroyed Hun Shu's soul arrows before they struck the contestants.

Cao Ying confronted her fear of death and chose to leave the safety of the mountain to help Xiao Yan and the other participants fight the Soul Hall. After she and her companions disrupted Hun Shu’s effort to restore Hun Mei, Hun Yan appeared and struck at Cao Ying.

• Cao Ying reflected on her excuses for staying safe, then followed Dan Chen and Song Qing toward the clearing to aid Xiao Yan.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Song Qing combined their Soul Power to destroy Hun Shu’s soul arrows and protect the participants.
• The three attacked Hun Shu as she restored Hun Mei, and Cao Ying circled around to unleash her Soul Profound Phoenix.
• Hun Shu called for Hun Yan, who vanished from her fight with Xiao Yan and shattered Cao Ying’s attack.
• Hun Yan thrust a hand blade toward Cao Ying as Song Qing and Dan Chen shouted her name.

Xiao Yan saved Cao Ying from Hun Yan’s attack but was badly injured by the strain of his technique. After Cao Ying evacuated the other contestants and Hun Yan’s group recovered and unleashed a powerful fusion technique, Xiao Yan revealed a flame lotus and threw it at them.

• Xiao Yan used Eight Extremes Collapse to protect Cao Ying, then struck Hun Yan with his ruler, but she escaped by severing her arm and using her Charm Power.
• Xiao Yan told Cao Ying to evacuate the contestants, and she gave him a Crimson Storage Ring filled with recovery pills before leaving with the others.
• Xiao Yan recovered while Hun Yan hesitated to attack, then refused her offer to join Soul Hall.
• Hun Mei recovered, Hun Shu restored Hun Yan’s arm, and the three formed the Bewildering Heaven Illusory Demon Fox.
• Xiao Yan revealed a flame lotus and hurled it at Hun Yan, Hun Mei, and Hun Shu.

Cao Ying led the contestants to the evacuation point as Xiao Yan’s enormous Sky-reaching Fire Pillars erupted across the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. Soul Hall’s forces retreated after suffering heavy losses, while Xiong Zhan rescued the unconscious Nalan Yanran from Night Demon’s attack.

• Cao Ying saw the Sky-reaching Fire Pillars and urged the contestants to evacuate rather than return to Xiao Yan.
• Mu Gu withdrew from his fight with Qing Hua after they witnessed the pillars, and Qing Hua hurried toward Xiao Yan.
• Nalan Yanran nearly killed Bai Gui, but Night Demon Venerable arrived and struck her with his Soul Black Hand.
• Xiong Zhan rescued the unconscious Nalan Yanran by shattering the Soul Black Hand, prompting Night Demon and Bai Gui to flee.
• Xiong Zhan carried Nalan Yanran away and decided to spend more medicinal ingredients treating her.

Xiao Yan survived his Fire Lotus attack against Hun Yan and the other Joyful Desire Venerables, then recovered at the Pill Tower with help from Elder Yao and Elder Xuan Yi. After learning that nearly half the Pill Gathering contestants had died, he and the Pill Tower’s leaders considered why the Soul Hall had attacked, while Yao Chen suspected Yun Ying had done it because she found it interesting.

• Xiao Yan and the three Joyful Desire Venerables crawled from the crater alive but gravely injured, and Xiao Yan collapsed from exhaustion.
• Xiao Yan woke at the Pill Tower after three days of treatment and learned that Venerable Qing Hua had found and rescued him.
• Cao Ying thanked Xiao Yan for saving the contestants and told him that only 110 of the 216 contestants had returned.
• Tian Lei Zi, Yao Chen, Venerable Qing Hua, Xuan Kongzi, and Xuan Yi discussed the Soul Hall attack and the Pill Tower’s losses.
• Yao Chen suspected Yun Ying had caused the attack simply because she found it interesting.

Xiao Yan recovered and refused Pill Tower’s rewards, insisting he would compete fairly for the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast core. Meanwhile, the three Soul Hall Venerables awoke in an inn and discovered that their rescuer, Yun Ying, was their Clan Leader.

• Xiao Yan apologized to Yao Chen for damaging the Black Xuan Heavy Ruler, and Yao Chen reassured him that she was glad it had saved his life.
• Xuan Yi and Xuan Kongzi thanked Xiao Yan, but he refused both a reward and the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast core, saying he would earn it fairly at the Pill Gathering.
• Xiao Yan learned that Hun Yan and the other two Soul Hall Dou Zuns had been alive when he lost consciousness, raising the possibility that someone had rescued them.
• Yao Chen set aside the mystery and promised to restore Xiao Yan’s soul injuries before the Pill Gathering resumed.
• Hun Yan, Hun Mei, and Hun Shu awoke fully healed in an inn and met Yun Ying, who said she had rescued them.
• Hun Mei grabbed Yun Ying and threatened to turn her into a statue, so Hun Yan forced Hun Mei to the floor and begged the Clan Leader to forgive her.

Yun Ying punished Hun Mei for disobeying her, then appointed the three sisters as her direct subordinates and gave them a powerful cultivation art and access to clan resources. After Hun Yan and her sisters turned Tianming City into a ghost city, Yun Ling burned Venerable Bai Gui to death and handed Yun Ying the Origin Child Fire, which Yun Ying said someone else could use.

• Hun Yan recognized Yun Ying as the Clan Leader, and Hun Yan and Hun Shu rose when Yun Ying ordered them to, but Hun Mei knelt again to take responsibility for her earlier disrespect.
• Yun Ying severed Hun Mei's legs for defying her order to sit, then praised Hun Yan's battle in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Yun Ying made Hun Yan, Hun Mei, and Hun Shu her direct subordinates, gave them the Cloud Ghost Art and a resource Token, and left the room.
• Hun Yan warned her sisters to obey Yun Ying without question, then the three sisters slaughtered the people of Tianming City and turned it into a ghost city.
• Yun Ling brought the broken Venerable Bai Gui to Yun Ying and burned him to ashes, then gave her the Origin Child Fire she had won in the bet.
• Yun Ying accepted the Origin Child Fire and said that someone else could use it.

The Pill Gathering’s final alchemy stage began after the Pill Tower settled the fallout from the attacks in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. A week later, Song Qing refined the first Eighth Grade Pill, but its pill lightning was about to determine whether his effort would succeed.

• Feng Qing'er bet thirty million on Xiao Yan to win the championship after seeing that no one had wagered on him.
• Xiao Yan and the other contestants began the final alchemy stage, while Ye Xinlan admitted she expected to lose and planned to cheer for him.
• After a week of refining, Ye Xinlan finished a middle-grade Sixth Grade Pill and left the platform, while most other contestants produced Seventh Grade Pills or failed to preserve their pills.
• Song Qing refined an Eighth Grade Plain Heart Pill, drawing the spectators’ attention to the storm gathering above him.
• A bolt of pill lightning struck toward Song Qing as the crowd watched to see whether he could withstand it.

Song Qing refined an Eighth Grade Pill but lost after a rare second wave of Pill Lightning forced Tian Lei Zi to save him, while Cao Ying and Dan Chen successfully refined higher-quality Eighth Grade Pills. As Qing Hua and Xiao Yan completed their pills, both summoned Four-Colored Pill Lightning, but Cao Ying realized Xiao Yan’s lightning was becoming five-colored.

• Song Qing withstood the first Pill Lightning, but Yao Chen identified a rare Dual Pill Lightning Phenomenon, and Tian Lei Zi blocked the second strike after Song Qing ran out of Dou Qi.
• Yao Chen reassured Song Qing that surviving the first wave proved his ability, and Song Qing thanked Tian Lei Zi before watching the competition continue.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen each refined an Eighth Grade Pill that drew Two-Colored Pill Lightning, and both endured it successfully.
• Xuan Yi asked whether Yao Chen feared Xiao Yan would lose to Qing Hua, and Yao Chen said she believed her disciple would win.
• Qing Hua and Xiao Yan each produced an Eighth Grade Pill that summoned Four-Colored Pill Lightning, but Cao Ying noticed Xiao Yan’s lightning had gained a fifth color.