Recaps

Chen Guan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen went to the Magical Beast King’s hall to find rare herbs, where they reunited with Zi Yan and met Xiong Zhan, the Eighth Tier beast who had collected them. Zi Yan invited them to take what they needed, and Xiong Zhan reluctantly agreed.

• Chen Guan led Cao Ying and Dan Chen to the Magical Beast King’s hall after they found the rare herbs they needed had already been harvested.
• Chen Guan subdued the Seventh Tier guards with his Spiritual Power and called for the hall’s master to negotiate.
• A black-robed attacker charged Chen Guan, but he recognized Zi Yan and welcomed her after she revealed herself.
• Zi Yan explained that she had left her clan, found Xiong Zhan hoarding the mountain’s rare herbs, and moved into his hall.
• Zi Yan led Chen Guan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen inside, introduced Xiong Zhan, and offered them the herbs they needed.
• Xiong Zhan agreed to let them take herbs from his collection, claiming he had kept them only because they looked pleasing.

Chen Guan gathered rare ingredients from Xiong Zhan and sent Cao Ying and Dan Chen to leave the Pill Realm while he stayed with Zi Yan to protect the other participants. The chapter ended with an elite masked force gathering at the edge of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.

• Chen Guan accepted Xiong Zhan's offer to take a few medicinal ingredients and promised to refine pills for him after leaving the Pill Realm.
• Chen Guan found the ingredients he needed, collected Pill Spirit Paste and Gastrodia Jade Stone Essence, and realized they could help improve the soul realms of his companions.
• Chen Guan told Cao Ying and Dan Chen to leave for the Pill Realm's exit, while he stayed behind with Zi Yan to fulfill his duty to protect the participants from Soul Hall.
• Zi Yan told Xiong Zhan to wait for her in the Pill Realm, and she left with Chen Guan.
• More than a dozen masked subordinates, including Dou Zong Experts, gathered behind a cold middle-aged man in black and a sinister young man in white at the edge of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.

Chen Guan and Zi Yan interrupted Chen Xian’s Soul Hall-backed attack on Cao Dan and the alchemists, killing Chen Xian and his masked subordinates. Cao Dan’s remark made Chen Guan realize that he, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying might have been Soul Hall’s targets all along.

• Chen Xian led a group from the Heavenly Underworld Sect to attack alchemists inside a Soul Barrier while a Soul Hall man stayed behind.
• Chen Guan and Zi Yan arrived at the barrier, where Chen Guan saw Cao Dan and the alchemists surrounded by masked attackers.
• Chen Guan’s black-robed puppet killed the attackers, and Chen Guan punched Chen Xian before he could remove his mask or explain himself.
• Cao Dan thanked Chen Guan and said no Dou Venerate Experts had joined the attack, since the alchemists were not prominent enough targets.
• Cao Dan noted that Dou Venerate Experts would target popular Pill Gathering champions, prompting Chen Guan to suspect that Soul Hall was after him, Dan Chen, and Cao Ying.

Chen Guan rushed to rescue Cao Ying and Dan Chen from Old Man Mu Gu, a Soul Hall Dou Venerate who had trapped them near the Pill Realm exit. After Chen Guan arrived and the girls withdrew to safety, he prepared to fight Old Man Mu Gu, determined to destroy him.

• Chen Guan used his puppet and Spatial Wormholes to hurry toward the disturbance, while reflecting that he had underestimated how much events had changed.
• Cao Ying recognized Old Man Mu Gu as a Soul Hall elder and fought alongside Dan Chen, but their attacks failed to break his Soul Barrier.
• Cao Ying sent Dan Chen away and fled in the opposite direction, but Old Man Mu Gu pursued Cao Ying and gravely wounded her.
• Chen Guan struck Old Man Mu Gu from behind, rescued Cao Ying, and gave her a Return Life Pill while his puppet protected Dan Chen.
• Old Man Mu Gu identified Chen Guan and showed greed for his soul, Heavenly Flame, and puppet; Chen Guan vowed to annihilate him.

Chen Guan and his puppet fought Old Man Mu Gu inside the Soul Barrier, and Chen Guan used a hidden Spiritual Power attack to turn the battle around. The barrier collapsed after the puppet’s self-destruction, leaving Old Man Mu Gu fleeing in a ruined state and Chen Guan unconscious but alive.

• Cao Ying and Dan Chen left the Soul Barrier to alert the Pill Tower elders while Chen Guan faced Old Man Mu Gu with his puppet.
• Chen Guan used his five-flame formation against Old Man Mu Gu’s flaming arms, while the puppet battled the stronger black-flame attack.
• Chen Guan and the puppet pressed Old Man Mu Gu with saber strikes, fists, and flames, but Chen Guan suffered accumulating injuries.
• As the Pill Tower elders attacked the Soul Barrier from outside, Chen Guan struck Old Man Mu Gu with a Soul Great Mudra and then secretly unleashed powerful Soul Storms.
• Chen Guan ordered the puppet to self-destruct while Old Man Mu Gu was stunned, and the blast shattered the Soul Barrier and devastated the battlefield.
• Old Man Mu Gu escaped the crater badly burned, while Cao Ying dug out the unconscious Chen Guan and carried him away in a sack after handing over his assignment ingredients.

Dan Chen emerged from the Pill Realm first, followed by the captured Old Man Mu Gu and the injured Chen Guan, whose battle revealed that he had defeated a Dou Venerate and acquired a Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame. As Chen Guan refined the Black Flame in seclusion, the Pill Tower’s leaders discussed confronting Soul Hall, and two mysterious visitors entered its hidden dungeon.

• Dan Chen exited the Pill Realm, prompting the Pill Tower’s three giants to secure the area and prepare for Old Man Mu Gu’s emergence.
• The three giants captured Old Man Mu Gu, discovered something was wrong with him, and sent Tian Leizi to take him away for safekeeping.
• Cao Ying carried the injured Chen Guan out of the Pill Realm and told the crowd that he had fought Old Man Mu Gu; she then handed him over to Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun.
• Chen Guan used his three Heavenly Flames to suppress and refine the Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame inside his body while his companions concealed the disturbance and discussed Old Man Mu Gu’s condition.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen recounted what they knew to Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi, who agreed to use Old Man Mu Gu as bait for Soul Hall.
• Two visitors appeared in the Pill Tower’s hidden dungeon, with a cute girl urging her large companion to hurry.

Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan retrieved Mu Gu from the Pill Tower dungeon while Chen Guan refined the Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and reached six-star Dou Zong. As the final round of the Pill Gathering began, Chen Guan arrived with his companions and three concealed Dou Venerate Experts.

• Zi Yan dissolved the seals on Mu Gu’s cell, and she and Xiong Zhan carried his lifeless body away.
• After eight days of refining the Sub-Flame, Chen Guan reached six-star Dou Zong and resolved to reshape Mu Gu into an intelligent puppet and use him as an insider in the Soul Hall.
• Zi Yan told Chen Guan that she had visited a Great Elder’s home with Xiong Zhan, while Venerable Skyfire cautioned Chen Guan to consolidate his rapidly rising cultivation.
• At the Pill Gathering plaza, Xuan Kongzi and Cao Ying discussed Mu Gu, Song Qing, and Cao Ying’s feelings for Chen Guan as the contestants gathered for the final round.
• Chen Guan arrived at the plaza with Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and three companions whose Dou Venerate strength stunned the powerful observers.

Chen Guan returned from the Pill Realm and told the Great Elder how Song Qing had died, handing over the body so the Pill Tower could pursue those responsible. The Pill Tower announced the final round of the Pill Gathering, where the remaining alchemists would compete for the championship.

• The Song Clan patriarch and the Great Elder suspected Chen Guan of killing Song Qing, but the Great Elder stopped the patriarch from confronting him.
• Chen Guan arrived at the plaza with Xiao Yi Xian and his powerful guards, drawing attention from the gathered alchemists.
• The Great Elder asked Chen Guan whether he had seen Song Qing, and Chen Guan admitted that Song Qing's death was related to him.
• Chen Guan recounted what happened in the Pill Realm, gave the Great Elder Song Qing's corpse, and urged him to verify the story by pursuing the other culprit.
• The Great Elder accepted the body and left to handle the matter, while Chen Guan expected the culprit's faction to face retribution.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the final round would determine the Pill Gathering champion, igniting excitement among the alchemists.

Chen Guan and the other finalists began the unrestricted final round of the Pill Gathering, choosing secluded platforms and preparing to refine their pills. Cao Ying revealed her powerful Blood Demon Flame, then Chen Guan summoned a Heavenly Flame that made the other flames submit before beginning to warm his cauldron.

• Xuan Kongzi announced that the finalists could refine any pill without time limits or other restrictions, and the contestants claimed platforms in the sky.
• Chen Guan chose a quiet platform near the edge, while Cao Ying and Dan Chen settled at distant platforms nearby.
• At Xuan Kongzi’s signal, the alchemists summoned their cauldrons and ignited their flames as the crowd cheered.
• Cao Ying revealed her Blood Demon Flame, drawing attention from the alchemists and prompting Chen Guan to recognize its strength.
• Chen Guan released his Heavenly Flame, which made the other flames tremble and bend toward it before he sent it into the Myriad Beast Cauldron.
• Chen Guan warmed the cauldron and summoned more than a hundred Jade Boxes of ingredients to begin alchemy.

Chen Guan refined a high-grade pill through the Pill Gathering’s long final stages while other contestants finished their pills. As the contest neared its climax, an unidentified elderly Alchemy Master revealed a Grade 8 pill, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Chen Guan rapidly refined the medicinal ingredients for his pill and began the lengthy process of fusing their essences.
• A veiled woman and her mother arrived at the plaza, and the woman identified Chen Guan before offering to take her mother to Yun Yun and the others.
• Over seven days, contestants failed or completed their pills, while Chen Guan continued refining and eventually entered the crucial fusion stage.
• Cao Dan completed a high-level Grade 7 pill and rushed to suppress its pill lightning as many other contestants finished at nearly the same time.
• An unfamiliar gray-haired elder produced a Grade 8 pill, and the Three Greats of the Pill Tower wondered which old acquaintance had disguised himself to compete.

The Pill Gathering’s remaining contestants revealed their abilities as they dealt with their eighth-tier pills’ Pill Lightning. Chen Guan produced an unprecedented eight-colored result, leaving him the clear uncrowned champion as the gathering continued.

• Old Man Qing Hua used his Dou Venerate strength to send the eighth-tier Pill Lightning into Void Space, and the judges recognized his pursuit of the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Dan Chen protected her eighth-tier pill with a jade bowl and successfully endured Two-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Cao Ying revealed that her pill had produced Four-Colored Pill Lightning and destroyed its source with a Shuttle Image before it could strike.
• Chen Guan opened his cauldron after nurturing his pill for half a day, and the gathering clouds developed into eight colors of Pill Lightning.
• The crowd fell silent at Chen Guan’s unprecedented achievement, and everyone recognized him as the gathering’s uncrowned king.

Chen Guan overcame the pill tribulation with a puppet, captured his eighth-tier Fire Fox pill, and was named champion of the Alchemist Grand Meeting. As the gathering ended and Xuan Kongzi awarded him an ancient Soul Cultivation Method, a sinister voice demanded that Chen Guan reveal the pill’s name and effects.

• Chen Guan used a seemingly indestructible puppet to endure the Eight-Colored Pill Lightning until the tribulation clouds dispersed.
• Chen Guan caught the escaping crimson Fire Fox pill with his Spiritual Power, while Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Old Man Qing Hua revealed their own eighth-tier pills.
• Xuan Kongzi announced Chen Guan as the Alchemist Grand Meeting champion and named him a candidate to become one of Pill Tower's Three Giants.
• Xuan Kongzi gave Chen Guan the promised ancient Soul Cultivation Method and told the gathering to disperse, while the top competitors stayed behind for the Star Domain reward.
• A sinister voice from the distant void interrupted the ending and demanded that Chen Guan identify the pill that had triggered Eight-Colored Pill Lightning and explain its effects.

Soul Hall’s Third Heavenly Venerable arrived with four Heavenly Venerates and demanded Mu Gu, Chen Guan, and Chen Guan’s pill, forcing the Pill Tower to weigh resistance against the danger to Holy Pill City. The Third Heavenly Venerable left with Mu Gu after Tian Leizi blocked his attack on Chen Guan, and the Pill Gathering ended with the Pill Tower’s leaders wearing subtle smiles.

• The Third Heavenly Venerable arrived in Holy Pill City with Blood River, Demonic Rain, Imprisoned Earth, and another Dou Venerate, and demanded Mu Gu and Chen Guan.
• Yao Chen and Venerable Feng joined the Pill Tower’s side, but the Third Heavenly Venerable revealed that he was a Half-Saint and threatened the city and its gathered alchemists.
• Xuan Kongzi refused to hand over Chen Guan, and the Third Heavenly Venerable demanded Chen Guan’s pill instead.
• Chen Guan refused, and the Third Heavenly Venerable attacked him with Crimson Gale, but Tian Leizi intercepted the strike.
• Xuan Kongzi handed Mu Gu over to the Third Heavenly Venerable, who departed with Soul Hall’s group, and Xuan Kongzi declared the Pill Gathering over.

Chen Guan revealed the Heaven Mending Pill and explained how Mu Gu would become a weapon against Soul Hall. The gathering ended with the experts discussing Soul Hall’s growing strength and identifying Sound Valley as the likely source of the hidden Half-Saint who had helped them.

• Yao Chen summoned Xiao Yan to ask Chen Guan whether Mu Gu would really be handed back to Soul Hall, and Chen Guan said Mu Gu would instead become their weapon against it.
• Yao Chen explained that Demonic Rain and Imprisoned Earth had abandoned their blockade, while Xuan Kongzi recounted how they had anticipated Soul Hall’s interference at the Pill Gathering.
• Chen Guan described the Heaven Mending Pill, which he and his teacher had developed to improve aptitude and restore damaged cultivation, and said Yun Yun would test it.
• Yao Chen praised Chen Guan’s alchemy, and he and Xuan Kongzi traded playful remarks about their disciples.
• Tian Leizi warned that Soul Hall’s strength exceeded what they had expected and asked who had secretly blocked Third Heavenly Venerable’s attack.
• Yun Yun signaled Chen Guan, who realized that the hidden expert had come from Sound Valley.

Chen Guan and Yun Yun met Ran Qingchen and the Sound Valley Master, who warned Chen Guan about the Soul Hall and promised that Gu You would not attack him. Meanwhile, Old Man Mu Gu ordered an attack on Chen Guan’s associates, with the Soul Hall’s upper ranks tacitly allowing the plan to proceed.

• Chen Guan and Yun Yun passed through Cloud Inn’s barrier and reunited with Ran Qingchen and the Sound Valley Master.
• Chen Guan thanked the Sound Valley Master for helping them, and she invited him and Yun Yun to call her Aunt Ran.
• Aunt Ran warned Chen Guan about the Soul Hall, explained her history with Gu You, and urged him to keep cultivating.
• Aunt Ran declined Xuan Kongzi’s invitation to visit the Pill Tower because she needed to prepare Ran Qingchen’s baptism.
• Old Man Mu Gu ordered two Black-Robed Persons to go to Holy Pill City and assassinate people around Chen Guan.
• Two Soul Hall figures decided to let the attack proceed while Venerable Zhai Xing watched from the sidelines.

With the Star Domain opening the next day, Chen Guan prepared for his attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame and learned that Zi Yan’s clan had raised the flame long ago. Zi Yan gave him a powerful Dragon Seal to activate the mark hidden inside it, leaving Chen Guan set to fight the flame in a clash of consciousness.

• Xuan Kongzi warned Chen Guan, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Old Man Qing Hua about the dangers of entering the Star Domain and gave them Jade Beads to summon help.
• Chen Guan prepared for a potentially long absence, gave Xiong Zhan an Enlightened Venerate Pill in exchange for medicinal ingredients, and struck a deal with Yao Chen for a pill.
• Zi Yan arrived to offer help, then explained that an Ancient Void Dragon clan elder had left a Dragon Seal inside the Three Thousand Burning Flame when it was young.
• Zi Yan used her blood to place a stronger Dragon Seal on Chen Guan’s palm and explained that he would use it to trigger a contest between their consciousnesses.
• Chen Guan reassured Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun that he was confident he could defeat the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s consciousness.

Chen Guan and the other top Pill Gathering contestants entered the Star Domain to face the Three Thousand Burning Flame. The group found the Heavenly Flame in the form of an immense, fire-wreathed dragon, leaving even the experienced Dou Venerates wary.

• Xuan Kongzi opened the Star Domain and sent the top ten contestants inside under the Great Elder's guidance.
• The Great Elder thanked Chen Guan after learning Chen Guan had not been responsible for Song Qing's death and had treated the matter generously.
• The Great Elder explained that the Three Thousand Burning Flame absorbed starlight and was weakest around noon, warning the group not to provoke it.
• As the group traveled through the increasingly hot Star Domain, Chen Guan's Heavenly Flames stirred, while most of the others struggled to withstand the heat.
• The group reached the Three Thousand Burning Flame and saw it coiled as a gigantic purple-black dragon, stunning Cao Dan and the others.

Chen Guan attempted to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame and used the Dragon Seal to enter a reciprocal bond with it. When the flame challenged him in a spiritual space, Chen Guan settled in to withstand its attacks and contest it with his soul and will.

• The Great Elder warned Chen Guan to approach the sleeping Three Thousand Burning Flame gently and told him to touch the unburned scale on its head.
• Chen Guan's Dragon Seal activated as he approached, easing the flame's pressure, and he pressed his palm against the marked scale to send his Soul Power into it.
• Inside the flame's source, the Three Thousand Burning Flame rejected Chen Guan's offer and attacked him with Purple-Black Flame.
• Chen Guan endured the assault and pressed the Dragon Seal against the little dragon's forehead, forming a connection that the Three Thousand Burning Flame could also use to control him.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame drew Chen Guan into its Spiritual Space and unleashed a flood of flame, while Chen Guan calmly prepared to face it in a clash of souls.

Chen Guan used a soul battle to exhaust Three Thousand Burning Flame while cultivating his technique with Beast Flames and the Bone Chilling Flame Sub-Flame. He then dropped his barrier and launched a coordinated Spiritual Power attack against the fire dragon.

• Qing Hua explained that Chen Guan and Three Thousand Burning Flame were fighting with their souls, a dangerous contest that could make subduing the Heavenly Flame easier.
• Chen Guan protected himself behind layers of Heavenly Flame and Spiritual Power while recovering his Spiritual Power with Teacher Shu Tianhe's Soul Cultivation Technique.
• After waiting for Three Thousand Burning Flame to weaken from its repeated attacks, Chen Guan consumed dozens of Beast Flames and a Bone Chilling Flame Sub-Flame to improve his cultivation technique.
• Chen Guan removed the outer barrier and challenged Three Thousand Burning Flame to learn how Spiritual Power should be used.
• Chen Guan attacked the fire dragon with a Spiritual Power vine, a Soul Great Mudra, and Soul Storms that surrounded it from every direction.

Chen Guan erased Three Thousand Burning Flame’s intelligence and began refining its Origin Flame inside the Star Domain. As the refinement progressed, his strength steadily rose to nine-star Dou Zong, while the Three Giants anticipated the consequences of his breakthrough.

• Chen Guan defeated Three Thousand Burning Flame in their soul battle and shattered the Spiritual Space, erasing the flame’s intelligence.
• After fourteen days, Three Thousand Burning Flame’s flames withered, and Chen Guan told the Great Elder that he would now devour and refine it.
• The Great Elder and the others left the Star Domain, and Chen Guan extracted Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Origin Flame, swallowed it, and began refining it.
• The Great Elder assured Cao Ying that he would guard Chen Guan, while Xuan Kongzi and the other Three Giants discussed whether Chen Guan could reach Dou Zun and how the Little Pill Tower might respond to him.
• Chen Guan found that the Sub-Flame of Nihility Devouring Flame made the refinement easier than before, and his cultivation steadily advanced through the Dou Zong ranks to nine-star Dou Zong.

Chen Guan refined Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain, advancing to Dou Venerate and raising the Flame Mantra to the Heaven Tier, which triggered astonishing phenomena over Holy Pill City. He emerged from a spatial rift and announced himself to the city.

• Yun Yun broke through to Dou Zong in Chen Guan's courtyard, while the Three Giants observed the disturbance.
• A massive energy vortex formed above Holy Pill City, followed by Heaven and Earth Phenomena that led the Three Giants to suspect Chen Guan had created a Heaven Tier Cultivation Technique and Dou Technique.
• Venerable Skyfire and Old Monster You Du explained the breakthrough to Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, and the others as they waited for Chen Guan.
• Inside the Star Domain, Chen Guan refined Three Thousand Burning Flame, advanced to Dou Venerate, raised the Flame Mantra to the Heaven Tier, and strengthened his soul.
• Chen Guan tore open a spatial rift, emerged above Holy Pill City, and declared, "Pill Tower, Chen Guan!"

After emerging from the Star Domain as a Dou Venerate, Chen Guan reunited with his companions in Holy Pill City and decided to return to the Northwestern Region. The group prepared to leave the next day so he could reunite with Medusa before their child was born.

• Chen Guan revealed his Dou Venerate strength in Holy Pill City, and Xuan Kongzi gave him a teleportation scroll and urged him to stay cautious of Soul Hall.
• Chen Guan descended to the courtyard, where Zi Yan, Yun Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, Venerable Skyfire, Old Monster You Du, and Xiong Zhan welcomed him.
• Chen Guan decided it was time to return to the Northwestern Region, especially because Medusa's pregnancy was nearing its end.
• Zi Yan excitedly planned visits and gifts, while Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian shared their longing and unease about returning.
• Chen Guan reassured Yun Yun and Xiao Yi Xian, then announced that they would set out for the Northwestern Region the next day.

Chen Guan sent Old Monster You Du to eliminate the Lion Underworld Sect, which he considered a future threat to the Heavenly Alliance. You Du infiltrated the sect under the guise of a fruit seller, killed its Young Sect Master, and advanced on Lion Heart and the elders.

• Chen Guan explained that the Lion Underworld Sect was a hidden danger and ordered its destruction, and Old Monster You Du volunteered to handle it.
• Lion Heart and the elders discussed the Heavenly Alliance’s growth and decided to use the Soul Hall against it, hoping to exploit Queen Medusa’s pregnancy.
• A guard reported that the Young Sect Master had eaten two of an old fruit seller’s spirit fruits but paid for only one, and the seller had killed him with a casual wave.
• Lion Heart and the elders rushed outside, where they saw the disguised Old Monster You Du killing disciples while demanding payment for his fruit.
• The elders recognized that the old fruit seller was a Dou Venerate Expert.

Chen Guan and his allies destroyed the Lion Underworld Sect, killing its leaders and leaving Old Monster You Du to deal with the survivors. After returning to the inn, Chen Guan discovered that Old Monster You Du had brought back two children whose Spiritual Power had already reached the Mortal Realm Mid-Stage.

• Old Monster You Du revealed that he had attacked the Lion Underworld Sect to avenge his son, and summoned three more Dou Venerate allies.
• Venerable Skyfire, Old Monster You Du, Xiao Yi Xian, and Chen Guan overwhelmed Lion Heart and the elders, killing the Second Elder and defeating the sect.
• Chen Guan told Old Monster You Du to deal with the remaining enemies, while Zi Yan went to search the ruins for spoils of war.
• Chen Guan and his companions returned to the inn and heard people speculate about who had destroyed the Lion Underworld Sect.
• Old Monster You Du returned with a young brother and sister, and Chen Guan discovered that both children had Mortal Realm Mid-Stage Spiritual Power.

Chen Guan returned to the Jia Ma Empire with Tang Xi and Tang Zi, two children with exceptional Spiritual Power whom he hoped to teach Puppet Mastery. In Qingshan City, he learned how the Heavenly Alliance and the Two Races had prospered under Queen Medusa, who summoned him to come see her.

• Chen Guan learned that Tang Xi and Tang Zi lacked a Wood Attribute and could not become alchemists, so he invited them to join him and considered passing on Puppet Mastery.
• Chen Guan and his companions left the Lion Underworld Sect’s territory through a Spatial Wormhole, while Zi Yan learned why he had taken in the siblings.
• Chen Guan arrived in the Magical Beast Mountain Range and heard how Queen Medusa had strengthened the Heavenly Alliance and improved relations between humans and the Snake People Race.
• Chen Guan and his companions visited a Fire Fox shop in Qingshan City, where the shopkeeper recounted Chen Guan’s old connection to Xiao Yi Xian and the dish.
• Hua She'er told Queen Medusa that Chen Guan had returned, and Medusa ordered him to come see her.