Chapter Summaries

As the Pill God Ceremony’s main event began, Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and Medicine Emperor joined the gathering, drawing attention as representatives of the Flame Region. Their arrival made observers question whether Dan Hua could still secure the champion’s position.

• The Valley Master of Medicine King Valley and Copper Elder of Iron Monarch City arrived for the Upper Ceremony, followed by the Scarlet Lotus Daughter.
• Yao Wan explained to Xiao Yan that the Scarlet Lotus Daughter was a spirit medicine who had gained human form and cultivated independently.
• Xiao Yan took Yao Wan’s hand and told her he would never tire of looking at his wife, while Medicine Emperor teased them for flirting.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and Medicine Emperor flew into the gathering, and their presence sparked speculation about the Flame Region’s strength.
• The Scarlet Lotus Daughter sensed Yao Wan’s vitality and another unsettling aura, while Pill God Clan members wondered whether Dan Hua could retain the champion’s position.

The Pill God Ceremony began with Dan Hua and the other Earth Supreme pill refiners preparing their pills, while Xiao Yan and Yao Wan displayed a mysterious fusion of life and flames. The refining was interrupted when someone broke through to High Earth Supreme, drawing Dan Hua’s attention.

• The Pill God Clan elders discussed the Clan Leader’s high opinion of the newcomers, and Dan Hua approached amid the clan members’ cheers.
• The Earth Supreme pill refiners entered isolated spaces, and the presiding elder announced that the Pill God Ceremony had begun.
• Dan Hua used his Thousand Furnace Hundred Flames to extract the medicinal properties from his ingredients.
• Dan Hua noticed Xiao Yan and Yao Wan’s unified blend of life and flames and wondered about their origins.
• Dan Hua and the other pill refiners sensed someone breaking through to High Earth Supreme, and Dan Hua saw branches and flames intertwined between life and death.

During the Pill God Ceremony, the Scarlet Lotus Daughter used the energy from her breakthrough to refine medicine without suffering a backlash, while Dan Hua struggled to keep his own pill on track. Several competitors completed their pills, and the chapter ended with the Scarlet Lotus Daughter revealing that her Lotus Embryo Pill could preserve Divine Sense and rebuild its user’s body after death.

• Dan Hua watched the Scarlet Lotus Daughter harness breakthrough energy to refine her medicine and stabilize her realm, then refocused on completing his own pill.
• The Valley Master of Medicine King Valley completed a pill, and Copper Elder followed with a Dragon Blood Treasure Pill made from Ancient Dragon Remains.
• Several more Earth Supremes formed pills, but their results did not match those of the Valley Master or Copper Elder.
• The Scarlet Lotus Daughter completed her pill and explained that her Lotus Embryo Pill could carry away Divine Sense after death and restore the user’s body and cultivation.
• The Scarlet Lotus Daughter questioned whether her pill had much value for comparison with the other competitors’ pills.

Dan Hua and Xiao Yan completed their pills, but Xiao Yan’s Small Bodhi Pill stunned the Pill God Clan with its ability to greatly improve a Lower Earthly Sovereign’s chance of advancing. The final contestant’s pill had yet to form, leaving the ceremony’s result undecided.

• Dan Hua and Xiao Yan emerged from their spaces with completed pills, while the final contestant remained inside.
• Dan Hua presented his High Earth Supreme Shed Calamity Pill, which the Long-bearded Elder praised as excellent.
• Xiao Yan named his pill the Small Bodhi Pill and said it raised the chance of a Lower Earthly Sovereign advancing by about fifty percent.
• The Long-bearded Elder examined Xiao Yan’s pill and confirmed its effects were genuine, making it clear Dan Hua could no longer hold first place.
• Xiao Yan asked the Elders to wait for the final contestant, and everyone turned their attention to the still-unformed pill.

Yao Wan completed a perfect pill that could greatly increase a High Earth Supreme’s chance of reaching Earth Supreme Great Perfection, securing victory at the Pill God Ceremony. The Pill God Clan confirmed her win and awarded her the champion’s sacred object.

• Xiao Yan noticed a faint ripple in the final space and realized Yao Wan’s pill was about to form.
• Yao Wan formed a perfect pill, astounding the Pill God Clan and the assembled alchemists.
• Yao Wan presented her unnamed pill and explained its effect and the greater potency it gained from perfect formation.
• The Long-bearded Elder inspected the pill until the Clan Leader told him the result was settled.
• The Long-bearded Elder declared Yao Wan the Flame Region alchemist and champion of the Pill God Ceremony.
• The Long-bearded Elder confirmed that the champion’s sacred object belonged to Yao Wan.

After Yao Wan won the Pill God Ceremony, the Pill God Clan gave her the living Jianmu Divine Tree Remnant as the champion’s reward. The chapter ended with Yao Wan questioning why Medicine Emperor had held back his strength, and him evasively confirming her suspicion that he feared being discovered.

• Long-bearded Elder revealed that the Pill God Clan’s Sacred Object was a living branch of Jianmu, an ancient Divine Tree Remnant that could help cultivate Spirit Medicine.
• Medicine Emperor explained Jianmu’s nature and urged the Pill God Clan’s Clan Leader to let Yao Wan take it, arguing that the Great Thousand World needed new powers.
• Long-bearded Elder handed Jianmu to Yao Wan, warning that the Pill God Clan would not protect it from anyone who coveted it.
• Long-bearded Elder invited the alchemists to stay for a banquet, and Yao Wan and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Yao Wan accused Medicine Emperor of not seriously fighting because he feared being discovered, and his evasive response confirmed her suspicion.

After Xiao Yan won the Pill God Ceremony, Dan Qing warned him that Jianmu was a far greater prize than previous champions had received. The ceremony ended without conflict, and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan left for the Shang Continent still wondering why the Pill God Clan had let them keep it.

• The Medicine Emperor explained that Heaven Supreme alchemists were rare and discussed the origins of the Azure Firmament Divine Tree and Jianmu.
• Dan Qing congratulated Xiao Yan on defeating Dan Hua and becoming champion, then told him that past champions had received only a Quasi-Sacred Object.
• Xiao Yan accepted Jianmu and told Yao Wan about Dan Qing's warning; Yao Wan agreed with his decision.
• The Pill God Clan held a banquet to mark the ceremony's end, and the champion's name spread throughout the Great Thousand World.
• Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and the Medicine Emperor departed through a teleportation spiritual array, speculating that the Pill God Clan had spared its reputation by letting Jianmu circulate outside the clan.

The Medicine Emperor told Yao Wan and Xiao Yan that a senior of the Pill God Clan had once wanted to marry her, but she had refused. After returning to the Shang Continent, Xiao Yan learned the Crimson Dragon Clan was active in Azure Profound Continent and left with Yao Wan to deal with them.

• The Medicine Emperor explained that she had refused the Pill God Clan senior’s proposal because joining a bloodline-based family was unsuitable.
• Yao Wan, Xiao Yan, and the Medicine Emperor returned to the Shang Continent after traveling through space.
• Shang Jun welcomed them and said Yao Wan’s victory in the Pill God Ceremony had spread throughout the Great Thousand World.
• A Thousand Mountain Workshop manager reported repeated signs of activity by the Crimson Dragon Clan in Azure Profound Continent.
• Xiao Yan accepted Shang Jun’s help and departed with Yao Wan to handle the Crimson Dragon Clan’s activity.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan fought the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief while the Medicine Emperor held off the rest of the Crimson Dragon Clan. As the battle dragged on, Zi Yan emerged from seclusion and asked Xiao Yan to open the Heavenly Tomb Gate so she could take over.

• The Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief ordered Azure Profound Continent burned after his clan failed to find the Fire Domain, but Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned and confronted him.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan battled the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief while the Medicine Emperor agreed to stop the other Crimson Dragon Clan members.
• Shang Jun decided Shang Continent would not intervene, reasoning that the Fire Domain could hold out without its help.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan struggled to break through the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief's defenses and began to tire in the prolonged fight.
• Zi Yan announced that she had broken through and asked Xiao Yan to open the Heavenly Tomb Gate so she could fight the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief.

Xiao Yan opened the Heavenly Tomb Gate and brought Zi Yan onto the battlefield, where she faced the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief after advancing to the Earth Supreme Realm. As the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief unleashed his fire, Zi Yan met his attack with her Golden Lightning Spear.

• Xiao Yan opened the Heavenly Tomb Gate, and the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief was wounded when spatial distortion seized him.
• Zi Yan emerged from the gate, and the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief recognized her as a Dragon Phoenix who had likely reached the Earth Supreme Realm.
• Zi Yan summoned a Golden Lightning Spear and declared that she wanted the Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief dead.
• Xiao Yan offered to help, but Zi Yan told him to watch as she fought on her own.
• The Scarlet Dragon Clan Chief transformed into his true form and unleashed a sky-filling wave of Scarlet Dragon Fire, which Zi Yan cut through with her spear.

Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan defeated the Crimson Dragon Clan Chief, but his death revealed a possible connection between the Crimson Dragon Clan and the Fire Spirit Clan. The three considered investigating the Fire Spirit Clan for clues about the former Tou She Ancient God.

• A golden strike pierced the Crimson Dragon's flames and brought him crashing down, so Zi Yan flew with Xiao Yan and Yao Wan to confront him.
• The wounded Crimson Dragon Clan Chief threatened to self-destruct, but Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and Yao Wan shattered his Dragon Jade and meridians before he died.
• The Dragon Jade's remaining energy burst outward, leaving the three battered but unharmed.
• The group discussed the clues the Clan Chief had left and recalled his warning that the Fire Spirit Clan would not let them go.
• Xiao Yan connected the Fire Spirit Clan to a holy flame mentioned by the Luoshen Clan Chief, and Yao Wan suggested investigating them for clues to the former Tou She Ancient God.

Yao Wan, Xiao Yan, and Zi Yan discussed investigating the Crimson Dragon Clan’s connection to the Fire Spirit Clan and handling the aftermath of the battle. Xiao Yan left for Shang Continent to seek information, while Zi Yan and Yao Wan stayed to manage the scorched land and the Divine Tree Remnant.

• Yao Wan suggested asking Shang Continent’s information brokers for help investigating the Crimson Dragon Clan and Fire Spirit Clan.
• The Crimson Dragon Clan’s surviving members fled after their Clan Leader fell, ending the turmoil on Azure Profound Continent.
• Zi Yan and Xiao Yan discussed their companions’ cultivation and the possibility of reaching Earth Supreme soon.
• Zi Yan gathered Dragon Jade’s remaining fragments, and Xiao Yan detected a faint trace of Emperor Flame in them.
• Yao Wan stayed to handle the Divine Tree Remnant, Zi Yan began turning the scorched area into a half-plane, and Xiao Yan departed for Shang Continent.

Yao Wan connected the Jianmu remnant to Zi Yan’s half-plane and explained its link to the Azure Firmament Divine Tree. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan asked Shang Jun to investigate the connection between the Crimson Dragon Clan and the Fire Spirit Clan, and Shang Jun agreed to deliver the intelligence in seven days.

• Yao Wan showed Zi Yan the Jianmu remnant and explained its connection to her bloodline and the Azure Firmament Divine Tree.
• Yao Wan linked Jianmu’s roots to Zi Yan’s half-plane so the tree could draw energy to grow.
• Shang Jun learned that the Crimson Dragon Clan was no longer a threat to Xiao Yan’s Flame Region.
• Xiao Yan asked Shang Jun to investigate all information about the Crimson Dragon Clan’s connection to the Fire Spirit Clan.
• Xiao Yan offered pills and a Bodhi Pill, and Shang Jun agreed to deliver the intelligence to the Flame Region in seven days.

Xiao Yan returned to Azure Profound Continent and spoke with Yao Wan about his successful talks with Shang Continent and the cost of their cooperation. After discussing Jianmu’s restoration of the land and their plans to wait seven days, Yao Wan hesitated to ask Xiao Yan something and decided to tell him later.

• Xiao Yan returned to the Heavenly Tomb Gate, where Yao Wan told him the land had flourished overnight because Jianmu had converted the Crimson Dragon’s remaining energy into vitality.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Wan that negotiations with Shang Continent had gone smoothly and that they would know the result in seven days.
• Yao Wan learned that Xiao Yan had given Shang Continent the pill he refined at the Pill God Ceremony as well as discounts on other pills, and accepted his decision.
• Yao Wan explained that she had connected Jianmu’s roots to the Sub-Plane and planted precious Spirit Medicine to test whether it could support their resources.
• Yao Yan said Zi Yan had returned to the Heavenly Tomb with the Progenitor, and he and Yao Wan agreed they could wait until the negotiations’ result.
• Yao Wan began to ask Xiao Yan something but postponed the conversation, and Xiao Yan said he would wait.

Old Bei brought Xiao Yan and Yao Wan Shang Continent’s findings about the Crimson Dragon Clan’s connection to the Fire Spirit Clan’s Sacred Flame. After confirming the clues, Xiao Yan decided to go to the Fire Spirit Clan and take back the Sacred Flame.

• Old Bei met Xiao Yan and Yao Wan in the Heavenly Tomb and explained that Shang Continent had examined five hundred years of records about the Crimson Dragon Clan and the Fire Spirit Clan.
• Old Bei reported that the Crimson Dragon Clan had repeatedly made movements during the Fire Spirit Clan’s Holy Flame Ceremony, including once leaving its ancestral land vulnerable to a Nine-Headed Serpent Clan attack.
• Old Bei revealed that the Crimson Dragon Clan’s operation against the Flame Region was another possible major movement connected to the Fire Spirit Clan.
• Old Bei described a rumor that the Flame Spirit Holy Fire had changed into a naturally blended multicolored flame nearly nine thousand years earlier, resembling the flame Xiao Yan possessed.
• Xiao Yan asked Old Bei to thank Shang Jun for helping him, then told Yao Wan he would go to the Fire Spirit Clan and take back the Sacred Flame.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan discussed cultivation after the Azure Profound Continent returned to peace. In the Fire Spirit World, the Fire Spirit Clan Leader refused to intervene against the Flame Region and told his subordinate to leave its emerging figure alone.

• Xiao Yan reassured Yao Wan about facing a Heaven Supreme and urged her to cultivate toward a breakthrough.
• Yao Wan complained about having to cultivate and joked about inventing methods to raise cultivation without it.
• Great Elder Crimson Dragon appealed to the Fire Spirit Clan for help against the Flame Region, but a red-clothed man sent him away with an offer of resources.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader told the red-clothed man to support the Crimson Dragon Clan's recovery but not to send elders against the Flame Region.
• The Fire Spirit Clan Leader dismissed the Dragon Phoenix bloodline as no reason to interfere and ordered that the Flame Region's rising figure be left alone.

After years of prosperity, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan reached Earth Supreme Great Perfection and sought a path to Heaven Supreme. The Medicine Emperor pointed them toward the Buddha Sect’s ruins, and Master Pu Ku arrived to invite them to the Sumeru Realm.

• The Fire Domain grew powerful, and Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and their companions advanced in cultivation, with Qing Lin reaching Supreme and Xiao Yan and Yao Wan reaching Earth Supreme Great Perfection.
• Yao Wan worried about the Medicine Emperor’s slow recovery, and the Medicine Emperor suggested the Buddha Sect’s ruins might offer a chance to reach Heaven Supreme.
• The Medicine Emperor connected the opportunity to the Sumeru Realm and the upcoming Fire Spirit Clan Holy Flame Ceremony.
• Master Pu Ku visited Xiao Yan and Yao Wan, saying Great Spirit Mountain had obtained a matching seal and wanted them to join an expedition to an ancient ruin.
• Master Pu Ku confirmed that the ruin was the Buddha Sect’s Sumeru Realm, drifting in the Northernmost Land.

Pu Ku invited Yao Wan and Xiao Yan’s group to help Great Spirit Mountain explore the Sumeru Realm, a dangerous ancient relic linked to the Buddha Sect. Yao Wan set aside her unease and agreed to go, and the group prepared to leave the Heavenly Tomb.

• Pu Ku told Yao Wan that the Fire Domain would help Great Spirit Mountain and offered to discuss the Desire Seal or let Great Spirit Mountain buy it.
• Yao Wan admitted to Xiao Yan that Buddha Sect-related matters made her uneasy, and Xiao Yan shared that he did not mind fate if it benefited those he cared about.
• Yao Wan insisted she would accompany Xiao Yan to the Sumeru Realm despite its danger.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Wan returned to the Heavenly Tomb, where Yao Wan saw the waiting Medicine Emperor and went to prepare for departure.
• Yao Wan invited everyone to leave the Heavenly Tomb for a stroll and warned that the ancient Heaven Supreme relic might be dangerous, and everyone agreed to go.

Xiao Yan and Yao Wan led nearly ten Earth Supremes from the Fire Domain to Shang Continent, where they joined Pu Ku and Great Spirit Mountain’s monks on an expedition to the Northernmost Land. The group departed through a teleportation array, leaving Shang Jun concerned about the dangers ahead.

• The Fire Domain’s sudden departure with nearly ten Earth Supremes startled the forces watching it and caused a commotion upon their arrival in Shang Continent.
• Shang Jun greeted Xiao Yan, Yao Wan, and their companions, then agreed to open the teleportation gate as arranged with Pu Ku.
• Pu Ku led Great Spirit Mountain’s Earth Supreme monks and the Fire Domain group toward the Northernmost Land; the monks stared at Xiao Yan with unexplained surprise.
• Shang Jun warned the travelers that the array would take them only to the nearest teleportation point and that they would have to journey the rest of the way themselves.
• Xiao Yan and the others entered the teleportation array and vanished as Shang Jun reflected on the risks of traveling to the demon-infested frontier.

Xiao Yan and his companions reached the desolate frontier near the Sumeru Realm, where ominous aura and fading colors oppressed the ruined landscape. They stood outside the wreckage and prepared to enter so the Medicine Emperor could investigate what remained.

• Xiao Yan and his companions emerged from a receiving teleportation array and confirmed everyone had survived the journey.
• Yao Wan explained that the group still had to cross several continents to reach the Sumeru Realm ruins.
• After traveling over a hundred thousand li, the group reached a desolate mountain overlooking the shattered realm.
• Pu Ku mourned the destruction of the Buddha Sect and the Sumeru Realm during the ancient calamity.
• Yao Wan asked the Medicine Emperor whether she recognized anything, but the Medicine Emperor said she needed to enter the ruins to confirm what remained.
• Little Fairy Doctor sensed familiar ominous aura in the ruins as the group considered going inside.