Chapter Summaries

Chen Guan and his companions tried to leave Qingce Manor despite Old Monster You Du’s warning, and Chen Guan revealed that powerful allies had arrived to help them. The chapter ended with Xuan Yi, Feng Xian, and Hei Qing confronting Old Monster You Du at the valley entrance.

• Chen Guan reached the peak of the Dou Emperor realm, while Xiao Yi Xian said her Poison Body of Misfortune could be suppressed for another two or three months.
• Zi Yan admitted she had taken medicinal herbs from the manor’s storehouse, and Chen Guan warned her not to wander around recklessly.
• Chen Guan told She Zhi that he, Xiao Yi Xian, and Zi Yan were leaving, but she warned him that others who had tried to leave had died.
• Old Monster You Du appeared at the valley entrance and tried to order the group back, but Chen Guan refused to be intimidated.
• Xuan Yi and Feng Xian arrived to confront Old Monster You Du, and Hei Qing announced his presence from the void.

Hei Qing defeated Old Monster You Du and confirmed that Zi Yan belonged to the Ancient Void Dragon clan. Chen Guan chose to spare Old Monster You Du in exchange for his knowledge and secured a Dragon Seal that would let him track the man.

• Hei Qing appeared and brutally beat Old Monster You Du after the old man tried to evade him and deny responsibility for Lu Xiu's death.
• Hei Qing recognized Zi Yan's Ancient Void Dragon bloodline, and Zi Yan accepted him as her clansman and called him Uncle Hei.
• Chen Guan introduced himself and Xiao Yi Xian, while Zi Yan asked Hei Qing not to bully them and vouched for their friends.
• Hei Qing offered to kill Old Monster You Du, but the old man pleaded for his life by offering the Netherworld Poison Flame, Venerable Poison's legacy, and his knowledge of beast taming and the Thousand Mechanisms Art.
• After Xuan Yi warned Chen Guan that Old Monster You Du was skilled at escaping and changing identities, Hei Qing placed a tracking Dragon Seal on both men, and Chen Guan agreed to spare the old man.

Chen Guan and his companions settled Old Monster You Du’s punishment, arranged Zi Yan’s return to Dragon Island after a short delay, and traveled to Ye City with Hei Qing. They arrived at the Ye Clan estate, where Patriarch Ye Chong welcomed Hei Qing, Chen Guan, and Zi Yan.

• Hei Qing spared Old Monster You Du but imposed a two-year deadline and fifteen years on Dragon Island, while Chen Guan agreed to the arrangement.
• Zi Yan persuaded Hei Qing to wait until Chen Guan helped Xiao Yi Xian condense her Poison Pill, and Hei Qing agreed to give them ten days.
• Chen Guan told Venerable Feng that Yao Chen and Xiao Yan were likely at Jia Nan Academy, and Venerable Feng left to find them.
• Xuan Yi invited Chen Guan to seek Pill Tower certification, and Cao Ying met him and looked forward to competing with him at the Pill Refining Convention.
• Zi Yan took Old Monster You Du’s medicinal ingredients, and he later gave Chen Guan the sealed Netherworld Poison Flame and passed Venerable Poison’s legacy to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Chen Guan’s group reached Ye City, where Ye Chong greeted them and Zi Yan announced herself as legendary too.

Chen Guan brought Xiao Yi Xian to the Ye Clan to borrow its Ancient Sunfire Altar and promised to secure the clan’s Pill Tower elder seat through Xiao Yan or his own help. At the altar, Chen Guan began the final preparations to help Xiao Yi Xian resolve her Poison Body of Misfortune, while the concentrated yang energy drew poison mist from her body.

• Ye Chong agreed to lend the Ancient Sunfire Altar after Chen Guan promised to help the Ye Clan retain its Pill Tower elder seat.
• Chen Guan told Ye Chong that Xiao Yan would represent the Ye Clan in its next assessment, and that Chen Guan would do so himself if Xiao Yan could not.
• Ye Chong led Chen Guan, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Hei Qing, and Old Monster You Du to the altar and explained that its Core Flames had become scarce.
• Chen Guan realized a Core Bead might have formed beneath the altar and saw it as a potential aid to his own breakthrough.
• Chen Guan reminded Xiao Yi Xian of his promise to resolve her Poison Body of Misfortune, then moved the altar’s stone stele and enclosed them both within its walls.
• The altar gathered intense sunlight without producing flames, and the scorching yang energy caused gray-violet poison mist to seep from Xiao Yi Xian.

Chen Guan used the Poison Pill Method to help Xiao Yi Xian transform her Poison Body of Misfortune, and she absorbed the poison gas into a new poison pill. Six days later, she awakened and took the initiative to embrace and kiss him.

• Chen Guan used his Heavenly Flames to drive Xiao Yi Xian’s poison gas into a vortex in her lower abdomen, while she endured the pain and resisted the Poison Body’s backlash.
• He placed the Seventh Tier Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s magic core at the vortex’s center and refined the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, producing a Bodhi Seed.
• Chen Guan infused the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva into Xiao Yi Xian, restoring her vitality, then guided her as she compressed the poison gas into the magic core.
• The poison gas consumed the magic core’s energy and formed a gray poison pill that gradually absorbed the remaining poison.
• After six days, Xiao Yi Xian awakened with a powerful aura, embraced Chen Guan, and kissed him.

After Xiao Yi Xian resolved the Poison Body of Misfortune, she and Chen Guan left the altar and prepared to cultivate at the Ye Clan. Zi Yan returned to Dragon Island with Hei Qing, while Chen Guan obtained Venerable Poison’s remains and teachings from Old Monster You Du; days later, the Soul Hall received news of You Du.

• Chen Guan and Xiao Yi Xian emerged from the altar, and Hei Qing praised Xiao Yi Xian’s strength after she resolved the Poison Body of Misfortune.
• Hei Qing took Zi Yan through a spatial vortex toward Dragon Island after she said goodbye to Chen Guan and Xiao Yi Xian.
• Ye Chong invited Chen Guan’s group to cultivate at the Ye Clan, and Chen Guan agreed after learning that the Ancient Sunfire Altar had been restored.
• Chen Guan challenged Old Monster You Du to hand over Venerable Poison’s full legacy and skeleton, then received the remains and Jade Slips recording You Du’s knowledge.
• Old Monster You Du left to travel across the Dou Qi Continent, and several days later a subordinate reported news of him to Protector Cai in the Soul Hall.

Old Monster You Du escaped the Soul Hall’s pursuit into Holy Pill City, while Chen Guan and Xiao Yi Xian prepared for seclusion at the Ye Clan. Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the Netherworld Poison Flame with ease, and Chen Guan revealed that he had a lead on the remaining materials needed to revive Venerable Skyfire.

• Old Monster You Du tried to escape through a Spatial Wormhole, but Mu Gu shattered it and offered him forty years of service in exchange for pardon; You Du refused and fled toward Holy Pill City.
• Chen Guan sensed through the Dragon Seal that You Du had reached Holy Pill City, then took Xiao Yi Xian to the Ancient Sunfire Altar to begin cultivating.
• Xiao Yi Xian absorbed the Netherworld Poison Flame without difficulty, and her cultivation rose from peak seven-star Dou Zong toward nine-star Dou Zong.
• Chen Guan summoned Venerable Skyfire and showed him Venerable Poison’s corpse as a suitable body for his revival.
• Chen Guan and Venerable Skyfire agreed that the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill was preferable to the Yin Yang Life Soul Pill, and Chen Guan said he had a lead on the missing ingredients.

Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi watched Holy Pill City’s tensions grow as Old Monster You Du was driven out, while Venerable Skyfire searched the Alchemist Trading Fair for the Blood Essence Demonic Fruit. Chen Guan cultivated in seclusion for forty-five days, and his surging breakthrough aura interrupted Cao Ying and Old Monster You Du outside Ancient Altar Plaza.

• Xuan Yi told Xuan Kongzi that Chen Guan’s puppet could track Old Monster You Du, and Xuan Kongzi ordered the Pill Tower to keep the city safe.
• Xuan Yi suppressed a clash between Old Monster You Du and several enemies, then escorted them out of Holy Pill City.
• Venerable Skyfire entered the Alchemist Trading Fair, searched its first two floors for the Blood Essence Demonic Fruit, and set up a stall to wait for it.
• Chen Guan absorbed energy from the Earth Core Fire Pearl in seclusion, approaching the Dou Zong Barrier over forty-five days.
• Cao Ying visited the Ye Clan to find Chen Guan while Old Monster You Du waited nearby, and Chen Guan’s breakthrough energy suddenly surged through Ancient Altar Plaza.

Chen Guan broke through to the Dou Zong realm at the Ye Clan’s altar, then agreed to help Old Monster You Du contact Venerable Hei Qing in exchange for rare alchemy materials. He left Xiao Yi Xian under Old Monster You Du’s protection and traveled with Cao Ying to Holy Pill City to help revive Venerable Yao, where Cao Ying found in Chen Guan a kindred spirit for discussing alchemy.

• Chen Guan absorbed the energy gathered at the Ye Clan’s altar and emerged as a one-star Dou Zong, astonishing the Ye Clan, Cao Ying, and Old Monster You Du.
• Old Monster You Du offered Chen Guan a Snow Bone Ginseng, two Dragon Tongue Orchids, and a seventh-grade Mind Clarity Pill formula, and Chen Guan agreed to contact Venerable Hei Qing about arranging a trip to Dragon Island.
• Cao Ying told Chen Guan that Venerable Yao had returned and needed his help with revival, and Chen Guan agreed to go with her to the Pill Tower.
• Chen Guan asked Old Monster You Du to protect Xiao Yi Xian while he was away, then traveled with Cao Ying through a Spatial Wormhole to Holy Pill City.
• Cao Ying praised Chen Guan as the only peer who kept her eager to discuss alchemy, contrasting him with the timid Dan Chen.

Chen Guan arrived at the Pill Tower and agreed to help prepare for Yao Chen’s resurrection, then toured Holy Pill City with Cao Ying and Xiao Yan. After encouraging Xiao Yan through his doubts about the Central Plains, Chen Guan and Cao Ying entered the trading fair’s top floor.

• Chen Guan greeted Yao Chen and the Pill Tower seniors, agreed to help with Yao Chen’s resurrection, and accepted the chance to study the Pill Tower’s records and improve his alchemy.
• After Chen Guan and Xiao Yan left, Xuan Kongzi asked whether Chen Guan had a master, and Yao Chen encouraged him to consider taking Chen Guan as a disciple.
• Cao Ying guided Chen Guan and Xiao Yan through Holy Pill City, where Xiao Yan worried that he was too weak to become the Starfall Pavilion’s Young Pavilion Master.
• Chen Guan encouraged Xiao Yan to believe in his talent, and Xiao Yan felt a breakthrough coming and hurried off to cultivate.
• Cao Ying led Chen Guan into the trading fair’s top floor, where he observed the rare and valuable wares while she warned him not to reveal interest in anything.

Chen Guan traded with Elder Yan for a Snow Bone Ginseng and a copper piece that he recognized as containing Spirit Nourishing Dust, then told Cao Ying how to extract it. After failing to find a Blood Essence Demonic Fruit, he asked Venerable Skyfire to keep watch while he prepared to make the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, and arrived at Xiao Yan’s room with good news.

• Chen Guan negotiated with Elder Yan, trading Cao Ying’s seventh-grade middle-grade Pure Heart Pill for a Snow Bone Ginseng.
• Chen Guan exchanged a seventh-grade middle-grade Mind Clarity Pill formula for a pale yellow copper piece and told Cao Ying it contained Spirit Nourishing Dust, offering her half of what she extracted.
• Chen Guan completed his circuit of the top floor without finding a Blood Essence Demonic Fruit and asked Venerable Skyfire to continue watching for one.
• Chen Guan told Venerable Skyfire he would prepare the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, then headed to the Pill Tower with Cao Ying.
• Xiao Yan celebrated his progress toward Dou Wang, and Chen Guan called from outside with good news.

Chen Guan gave Xiao Yan a Snow Bone Ginseng and promised him Spirit Nourishing Dust, prompting Xiao Yan to help search for Chen Guan’s Blood Essence Demonic Fruit. After Cao Ying delivered the Spirit Nourishing Dust and a rare soul cultivation technique, Chen Guan went to take his seventh-tier alchemist assessment, which Cao Ying was overseeing.

• Chen Guan gave Xiao Yan a Snow Bone Ginseng and promised him his share of the Spirit Nourishing Dust, earning Xiao Yan’s gratitude.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen, Xuan Yi, and Venerable Feng about the gift and offered to help Chen Guan find a Blood Essence Demonic Fruit.
• Yao Chen agreed to seek the fruit from Old Monster Lin, while Xuan Yi mentioned another possible source in Bright Day City.
• After studying Pill Tower’s public records, Chen Guan met Cao Ying, who gave him three Spirit Nourishing Dust pellets and a recorded, incomplete soul cultivation technique.
• Cao Ying told Chen Guan she was in charge of his seventh-tier alchemist assessment, and he followed her to the examination room.

Chen Guan passed the Pill Tower’s seventh-tier alchemy examination by refining a Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill and using his puppet to block the pill lightning. Xuan Kongzi then took him as a disciple, making him Cao Ying’s junior brother, while Xiao Yan prepared to share good news.

• Chen Guan selected two freshly extracted monster cores and began refining a Yin-Yang Profound Dragon Pill in the examination courtyard as Cao Ying watched.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Pill Tower, learned Chen Guan had been refining for two and a half days, and waited in the hall while cultivating.
• After another ten days, Chen Guan completed the pill, and his puppet blocked every bolt of pill lightning before retrieving it.
• Chen Guan confirmed the pill’s identity to Cao Ying and swallowed it, then followed her out of the courtyard.
• Xuan Kongzi offered to take Chen Guan as his disciple, and Chen Guan accepted, becoming Cao Ying’s junior brother.
• Xiao Yan congratulated Chen Guan and said he had good news to tell him.

Yun Shan encouraged Yun Yun to leave the Misty Cloud Sect and pursue her own life, while Chen Guan accepted Xuan Kongzi as his teacher and secured help with two important pills. With Venerable Skyfire’s resurrection nearing and his urgent tasks mostly done, Chen Guan found a moment of calm and wondered about the people he had left behind.

• Yun Shan told Yun Yun that the Misty Cloud Sect would be safe without her and urged her to go to the Central Plains if she wished, then left for the Imperial Palace.
• Yun Yun flipped the gold coin to settle her decision, while Chen Guan saw Xiao Yan off with two portions of Spirit Nourishing Dust and stored the Blood Essence Demonic Fruit needed for the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill.
• Cao Ying brought Chen Guan to meet Xuan Kongzi, who gave him three Grade 8 pill formulas, a Seventh Grade Alchemist Badge, a Pill Tower Core Disciple Token, and his alchemy notebook.
• Chen Guan asked Xuan Kongzi to refine the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill and the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill, and Xuan Kongzi agreed to have them ready in one and a half months.
• Chen Guan retrieved Venerable Skyfire, wrote to the Ye Clan, and then looked at the stars while thinking of Queen Medusa, Sect Master Yun, Yaoye, Yaoyue, and Qing Lin.

After a month of study in the Pill Tower's Library Pavilion, Chen Guan received two pills from Xuan Kongzi and used one to restore Venerable Skyfire to a living body. Venerable Skyfire emerged as a peak Six-Star Dou Venerate and planned to repay Chen Guan by handling an important task.

• Xiao Yan reached the Spirit Realm and went looking for Chen Guan, but learned that Chen Guan was studying at the Library Pavilion.
• Chen Guan's recommendation led Xiao Yan to an opportunity to help the declining Ye Clan and gain experience.
• After more than a month in the Library Pavilion, Chen Guan answered Xuan Kongzi's summons and received the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill and Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, agreeing to refine two pills for his teacher within three months.
• Chen Guan used the Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, a powerful skeleton, and Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast essence blood to prepare a body for Venerable Skyfire.
• Venerable Skyfire entered the body and endured the Heavenly Flame's final trial, reviving as a peak Six-Star Dou Venerate.
• Venerable Skyfire thanked Chen Guan and said he would first do something for him, while Chen Guan understood that he meant delivering the Heavenly Soul Blood Fusion Pill.

Chen Guan advanced his cultivation, refined several high-tier pills, and successfully resurrected Yao Chen as a Six-Star Dou Venerate. He then went to meet the Sound Valley visitor who had sought him out and learned that she was Ran Qingchen.

• Chen Guan secluded himself to cultivate and refine pills, drawing attention with a peak seventh-tier pill and another high-tier pill as pill lightning repeatedly struck near his courtyard and Cao Ying's.
• After several months, Chen Guan broke through to Two-Star Dou Zong, and Cao Ying told him that Yao Chen's resurrection materials were ready.
• Xuan Kongzi led Chen Guan and the others to a secluded basin, where Chen Guan used Heavenly Flames to resurrect Yao Chen in a body that gave him Six-Star Dou Venerate strength.
• Chen Guan learned from Xuan Kongzi that a woman from Sound Valley was waiting for him at the Cloud Inn in Holy Pill City.
• At the inn, Chen Guan approached the veiled visitor, who introduced herself as Sound Valley's Ran Qingchen.

Chen Guan learned that Yun Yun was recovering in Sound Valley after fighting a puppet he had left in the Black Mist Mountain Range, then traveled there with Ran Qingchen. He found Yun Yun nearing a breakthrough in the Nine-Colored Spiritual Rainbow Pool, and Ran Qingchen ended the chapter by showing him a mysterious, freezing crystal.

• Ran Qingchen told Chen Guan that Yun Yun was safe in Sound Valley and explained that she had rescued her after she fought an out-of-control puppet.
• Chen Guan realized the puppet had been his own, agreed to travel to Sound Valley, and learned from Xuan Kongzi about the Nine-Colored Spiritual Rainbow Pool.
• Chen Guan and Ran Qingchen traveled for seven days before reaching Sound Valley, where Granny Lu briefly appeared and Ran Qingchen led him to Yun Yun.
• Chen Guan saw Yun Yun cultivating in the pool at peak Six-Star Dou Huang, close to breaking through to Seven-Star, and then accepted accommodations in the valley.
• Ran Qingchen hinted that she needed Chen Guan's help and revealed a jade box containing a crystal that radiated intense cold.

Chen Guan examined the Sound Valley Master, whose body was trapped by the Heavenly Cold Crystal Core and Cold Poison, and promised to find a way to save her. When Yun Yun broke through in the Nine-Colored Spiritual Rainbow Pool, Chen Guan hurried to reunite with her.

• Ran Qingchen explained that the Heavenly Cold Crystal Core had frozen her injured mother, the Half-Saint Sound Valley Master, and led Chen Guan to the forbidden Heavenly Sound Pavilion.
• Chen Guan melted the ice covering the Sound Valley Master and discovered that the Heavenly Cold Crystal Core and Cold Poison had spread throughout her body.
• Chen Guan said the two afflictions had to be resolved together and reassured Ran Qingchen that he had several ideas, though his limited strength would make the task difficult.
• Ran Qingchen and Chen Guan sensed World Energy gathering at the Nine-Colored Spiritual Rainbow Pool, where Yun Yun was breaking through.
• Yun Yun completed her breakthrough from a Five-Star Dou Huang to a Seven-Star Dou Huang, and Chen Guan flew to her and caught her as she rushed into his arms.

Chen Guan and Yun Yun reunited in Sound Valley, where she told him about the Heavenly Alliance and their friends in the Northwestern Region. He then proposed two ways to treat the Sound Valley Master's Cold Poison, and Ran Qingchen chose the safer first method.

• Yun Yun told Chen Guan that the Heavenly Alliance had absorbed three empires, Queen Medusa was nearing five-star Dou Zong, and several others had advanced in cultivation.
• Yun Yun said Queen Medusa's pregnancy would last at least two more years, and she and Chen Guan discussed his experiences in the Central Plains and his relationship with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Chen Guan and Yun Yun visited Ran Qingchen, and Chen Guan presented a medicinal-bath method to weaken the Sound Valley Master's Heavenly Cold Crystal Core and Cold Poison.
• Chen Guan described a riskier alternative in which Xiao Yi Xian could absorb the Cold Poison, but Ran Qingchen chose the first method and agreed to prepare the medicinal ingredients.

Chen Guan cultivated in the Nine-Colored Spiritual Rainbow Pool and advanced to Three Star Dou Zong before beginning treatment for the Sound Valley Master’s Cold Poison. He repeatedly melted the Heavenly Cold Crystal on her body and prepared a medicinal bath, leaving the treatment underway.

• Ran Qingchen invited Chen Guan to cultivate in the Nine-Colored Spiritual Rainbow Pool, where he absorbed its energy for seven days.
• Chen Guan broke through to Three Star Dou Zong, stopped before exhausting the pool’s energy, and investigated the sealed opening beneath it.
• Ran Qingchen delivered medicinal ingredients, and Chen Guan spent the night refining them into medicinal liquids.
• Chen Guan began treating the Sound Valley Master by repeatedly melting the Heavenly Cold Crystal with his Heavenly Flames.
• After the crystal had been melted several times, Chen Guan gave Ran Qingchen medicinal liquids for her mother’s bath and continued controlling the Heavenly Flames.