Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ze prepared to host the Alchemist Exchange Meeting after breaking through to the end of the Dou Zong path. He arrived to find Old Monster Ling Yun challenging him, while the three presidents’ appearance showed their support for him.

• Xiao Ze finished cultivating and told Azure Scales he had reached the end of the Dou Zong path and would prepare to become a Venerable.
• Azure Scales reminded Xiao Ze about the Alchemist Exchange Meeting and helped him dress before they went to the Black Giant Tower.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen watched for Xiao Ze while Song Qing tried to talk with Cao Ying.
• Old Monster Ling Yun arrived and criticized Xiao Ze for keeping the elders waiting, but Liu Tian pointed out that the meeting had not started.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi appeared together, and Xiao Ze arrived and apologized to the elders.

Xiao Ze began the Alchemist Exchange Meeting by sharing his background and insights into Blood Qi Alchemy, earning the elders’ respect despite Old Monster Ling Yun’s criticism. He then introduced the Nine Mixed Origin Pills, a system of pills ranging from Grade 1 to Grade 9, leaving the audience eager to learn more.

• Xiao Ze greeted the three presidents, who showed their support by attending the exchange meeting.
• Xiao Ze revealed that he had studied alchemy for only a few years before becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster, astonishing Dan Chen, Cao Ying, Song Qing, and the other elders.
• Xiao Ze explained the merits of Blood Qi Alchemy, especially its precise handling of magical beast blood essence.
• Old Monster Ling Yun criticized Xiao Ze for presenting a Side-Gate Alchemy Technique, but Xiao Ze calmly defended sharing any technique that could benefit others.
• Xiao Ze announced his second set of insights: the Nine Mixed Origin Pills, which harmonized across grades and enhanced their medicinal effects.

Xiao Ze introduced the Nine Mixed Origin Pills and proposed using origin Soul Power as medicine to create similar System Pills. The exchange meeting ended with the elders impressed by the new alchemical path but concerned about its dangers and limitations.

• Xiao Ze explained that the Nine Mixed Origin Pills avoided diminishing effects by using the creator’s own blood essence as their primary ingredient.
• Xiao Ze said the pills’ effects could build with each grade, and that a Grade 8 pill had increased its magical beast creator’s physical strength by fifty percent.
• Old Monster Ling Yun questioned whether humans could provide enough blood essence, and Xiao Ze suggested using an alchemist’s origin Soul Power as medicine instead.
• Xiao Ze warned that System Pills were exclusive to the person who supplied the primary ingredient, leaving the elders to recognize both their promise and their severe limitation.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi worried that Xiao Ze’s soul-related research might lead him astray and speculated that the Spirit Transformation Pill had influenced him.

Xiao Ze presented Unified Alchemy as his third technique, proposing a way to collect and teach alchemical methods beyond the traditional master-disciple system. His demonstration provoked an elder whose private Melting Method Xiao Ze had shared, while Old Monster Ling Yun accused him of merely copying it.

• Tian Leizi, Xuan Kongzi, and Xuan Yi discussed Xiao Ze’s talent and the limitations of the Nine Mixed Origin Pills as they waited for his final presentation.
• Xiao Ze explained that he had studied many alchemy techniques without a teacher and introduced his idea of unifying them.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi realized that Unified Alchemy could transform how alchemical knowledge was taught and inherited.
• Xiao Ze began demonstrating Unified Alchemy with the Melting Method, prompting its creator to stand and shout for him to stop.
• Old Monster Ling Yun accused Xiao Ze of simply having copied the elder’s unique method.

Xiao Ze explained that Unified Alchemy would take generations to complete, but the three presidents warned him that sharing it could threaten powerful alchemists' interests. Xuan Kongzi revealed that Xiao Ze had already unified alchemy from Rank 1 through Rank 7 and advised him to wait until he reached Rank 9 before making it public.

• Xiao Ze defended Unified Alchemy as a foundation that future alchemists could improve, despite Old Monster Ling Yun's doubts.
• Xuan Kongzi ended the Alchemist Exchange Meeting early, and the elders departed without holding their usual session.
• The three presidents warned Xiao Ze that sharing techniques like the Melting Method could provoke powerful alchemists, and Tian Leizi cautioned him to treat the soul with reverence.
• Xiao Ze said his Unified Alchemy covered Rank 1 through Rank 7 High-Grade Pill, while he had only begun studying Rank 8.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that Xiao Ze had already completed Unified Alchemy for ranks 1 through 7 and urged him to wait until he reached Rank 9 before popularizing it.

Xiao Ze entered the Pill Realm with Azure Scales, subdued snake-type magical beasts for her, and found the Pill Tower Medicinal Pool. He left Azure Scales to cultivate outside and stepped into the pool’s sealed space, hoping to use its vast energy to strengthen the Tree of Origin.

• Azure Scales celebrated Xiao Ze’s achievement at the Alchemist Exchange Meeting, and Xiao Ze encouraged her to pursue the continent’s pinnacle by his side.
• After receiving Elder Liu Tian’s message, Xiao Ze and Azure Scales entered the Pill Realm through a black Stone Pagoda and learned about the Pill Tower Medicinal Pool.
• Xiao Ze used Boundless Sea Power to suppress a nest of magical beasts while Azure Scales subdued its snake-type beasts with her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
• Following the map to the former Alchemist Tower ruins, Xiao Ze found the medicinal pool’s sealed entrance and opened it with Elder Liu Tian’s key.
• Azure Scales said she could not withstand the pool’s violent energy, so Xiao Ze told her to cultivate outside and use his Soul Imprint if threatened before he entered the vortex.

Xiao Ze discovered that the Pill Tower Medicinal Pool had become a corrosive, energy-rich poison pool and began absorbing its energy while studying Zhu Yang’s alchemy experience. Outside, Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan followed the scent of treasures to the hall, where Azure Scales’s controlled snake-type magical beasts attacked them.

• Xiao Ze examined the formation around the medicinal pool and realized it had likely been used to cultivate something before becoming a place for failed pills.
• Xiao Ze tested the corrosive pool, then used more than a hundred Golden Tree Roots to absorb its energy into the Tree of Origin.
• Xiao Ze sat beside the pool and took out the Dragon-shaped Jade Token to study Zhu Yang’s alchemy experience while the energy was absorbed.
• Azure Scales summoned several subdued seventh-tier snake-type magical beasts to guard the hall, then began cultivating nearby.
• Zi Yan led Xiong Zhan toward the hall in search of treasures, and the controlled snake-type magical beasts charged at them.
• Zi Yan warned Xiong Zhan that the beasts seemed controlled, and he prepared to fight while she moved aside to watch.

Azure Scales and Zi Yan reunited after Xiong Zhan fought off Azure Scales' serpent-type magical beasts, and they returned to wait near Xiao Ze's medicinal pool. Xiao Ze received Xiao Yan's hundredfold alchemy reward, gaining the Condensing Venerate Pill formula, and continued cultivating as he planned to refine the pill after absorbing the pool's energy.

• Xiong Zhan fought Azure Scales' serpent-type magical beasts until Zi Yan sensed a familiar aura and ordered him to stop killing them.
• Azure Scales recognized Zi Yan, halted the beasts, and told her that Xiao Ze was cultivating in the Pill Tower Medicinal Pool.
• Zi Yan introduced Azure Scales to Xiong Zhan, the leader of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, and decided to wait for Xiao Ze near the medicinal pool.
• Xiao Ze received a hundredfold alchemy reward from Xiao Yan and obtained the Condensing Venerate Pill formula, which could improve the chance of breaking through to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Ze estimated that absorbing the medicinal pool's remaining energy would take two more days, then resumed reviewing Zhu Yang's alchemy experience.

After breaking through the Tree of Origin’s hundred-meter bottleneck, Xiao Ze developed the Illusionary Sea Domain, a powerful technique that could threaten Dou Zun experts. He reunited with Zi Yan and met Xiong Zhan, who welcomed him to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range for medicinal ingredients.

• Xiao Ze stopped fixating on the Tree of Origin’s growth, and it finally surpassed a diameter of one hundred meters.
• Xiao Ze experimented with his enhanced energy control and created the Illusionary Sea Domain, which he believed could help him kill a low-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Ze left the medicinal pool and reunited with Zi Yan, who remarked that his physique seemed more terrifying than hers.
• Xiao Ze gave Zi Yan pills, and she introduced him to Xiong Zhan, the boss of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Zi Yan told Xiong Zhan that Xiao Ze was an Eighth Grade Alchemist, and Xiong Zhan offered him any medicinal ingredients he wanted.

Xiao Ze traveled with Zi Yan, Xiong Zhan, and Azure Scales to the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range to gather ingredients for a Condensing Venerate Pill that could help Xiong Zhan break through to Dou Venerate. After securing the ingredients, Xiao Ze began refining the pill while the others waited outside his stone chamber.

• Zi Yan agreed to help Xiao Ze search the Pill Realm for treasures in exchange for pills, and Xiao Ze offered Xiong Zhan a Condensing Venerate Pill to aid his breakthrough.
• Xiong Zhan agreed to provide medicinal ingredients, and he led Xiao Ze, Zi Yan, and Azure Scales to his cave abode in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Xiong Zhan showed Xiao Ze a plaza filled with rare medicinal ingredients, and Xiao Ze gathered two sets of ingredients for the Condensing Venerate Pill.
• Xiao Ze entered a stone chamber to refine the pill and asked the others to keep anyone from disturbing him.
• Zi Yan ate pills while Azure Scales began cultivating outside the chamber.

Elder Liu Tian sensed Xiao Ze refining a Grade 8 pill in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and watched its Five-Colored Pill Thunder gather. Xiao Ze endured the thunder with his Heavenly Demon Phoenix Puppets and completed a golden pill, whose faint spirituality stirred his soul.

• Elder Liu Tian found Xiao Ze's aura in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and inferred that he was trading with the Ancient Dragon Bear for rare medicinal ingredients.
• Elder Liu Tian sensed Xiao Ze's pill aura and stayed to watch the Five-Colored Pill Thunder form, marveling at its brilliant purple color.
• Xiao Ze used the Spirit Nurturing Cauldron to strengthen the pill's spirituality as Five-Colored Pill Thunder gathered overhead.
• Xiao Ze sent two Heavenly Demon Phoenix Puppets to confront the lightning while Xiong Zhan worried outside and Zi Yan and Azure Scales trusted Xiao Ze to handle it.
• After the thunder subsided, Xiao Ze put away the puppets, retrieved the golden pill from the Spirit Nurturing Cauldron, and felt his soul stir as he examined it.

Xiao Ze advanced his Soul Power to the late Spirit Realm and gave Xiong Zhan the Condensing Venerate Pill, while helping Zi Yan receive her ancestor Zhu Yang’s remains and inherited treasures. Xiong Zhan later broke through to Dou Zun.

• Xiao Ze’s Soul Power broke through to the late Spirit Realm after he refined the Condensing Venerate Pill.
• Xiao Ze gave Xiong Zhan the pill, and Xiong Zhan entered a quiet stone chamber to attempt his breakthrough.
• Xiao Ze refined blood-red pills for Zi Yan, who ate one eagerly.
• Xiao Ze told Zi Yan about Zhu Yang’s remains and returned Zhu Yang’s body and ring to her.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Ze the ring back and took the Ancient Void Dragon clan’s inherited objects from it.
• Xiong Zhan released a powerful aura as he successfully entered the Dou Zun realm.

After helping Xiong Zhan become a Dou Zun, Xiao Ze used his gratitude to secure herbs and support while he refined Grade 8 Pills in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range. Elder Liu Tian noticed Xiao Ze’s extraordinary pace and chose to stay out of the matter as a powerful aura approached.

• Xiong Zhan thanked Xiao Ze for helping him reach Dou Zun, then agreed to accompany Zi Yan and Azure Scales to gather treasures and find high-tier snake-type magical beasts.
• Xiong Zhan let Xiao Ze use the herb plaza’s materials, and Xiao Ze headed there after subduing two seventh-tier beasts with the pressure of the Seven-Colored Sky-Devouring Python.
• Xiao Ze selected herbs, considered searching for the Ancient Ruin left by a Dou Saint, and returned to his stone chamber to refine Grade 8 Pills.
• Successive Pill Lightning from Xiao Ze’s pill refining alarmed nearby magical beasts and drew Elder Liu Tian’s attention.
• Elder Liu Tian concluded Xiao Ze’s alchemy might have surpassed his own, sensed a powerful aura approaching, and vanished rather than interfere.

Xiao Ze learned that Elder Liu Tian had been monitoring the Pill Realm while he focused on refining pills, so he returned to the shelter with Azure Scales. Xiong Zhan and Zi Yan left the Pill Realm, and Xiao Ze prepared a gift for Liu Tian before the elder arrived.

• Xiong Zhan sensed a powerful aura near the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, and Zi Yan and Azure Scales identified it as likely belonging to Elder Liu Tian.
• Xiao Ze admitted he had forgotten his duty to guard the Pill Realm and decided to return to the shelter.
• Xiong Zhan said he would leave the Pill Realm with Zi Yan, who marked Xiao Ze so she could find him later.
• Zi Yan gave Xiao Ze the treasures and medicinal ingredients she had collected, and Xiong Zhan departed with her through a rift.
• Xiao Ze and Azure Scales returned to the shelter, found Liu Tian away inspecting the Pill Realm, and Xiao Ze set aside medicinal ingredients as a gift for him.
• Liu Tian approached the shelter and greeted Xiao Ze after Xiao Ze and Azure Scales sensed his aura.

Xiao Ze apologized to Elder Liu Tian and gave him a Soul Heart Grass, then exchanged the Nine Mixed Origin Pill records for the Mysterious Clear Pill formula. Xiao Ze began studying the powerful Grade 8 pill formula, and the chapter ended with him considering exchanging formulas with the other Alchemist Tower Elders.

• Xiao Ze apologized to Elder Liu Tian for neglecting his guard duties and offered him treasures from the Pill Realm.
• Elder Liu Tian discovered the Soul Heart Grass and accepted it after Xiao Ze insisted he keep it.
• Elder Liu Tian offered Xiao Ze the Mysterious Clear Pill formula, and they agreed to exchange it for the Nine Mixed Origin Pill records.
• Elder Liu Tian examined the records in Xiao Ze’s Dragon-shaped Jade Token and praised their detailed notes on failed pill-making attempts.
• Elder Liu Tian explained that the Mysterious Clear Pill was a Three-Colored Pill Thunder Grade 8 pill that aided pill refinement and treated soul injuries.
• Xiao Ze and Elder Liu Tian studied their exchanged formulas, and Xiao Ze considered seeking the other Elders’ prized creations.

Xiao Ze ended his watch over the Pill Realm and met Elder Sheng and Elder Lei, who warned him about Soul Hall’s attacks on alchemists. He then went to the Elder Hall to exchange merits for the Profound Purity Soul Method, but learned that a President had to approve the matter.

• Xiao Ze returned from patrolling the Pill Realm with Azure Scales and met Elder Sheng and Elder Lei at the shelter.
• Elder Lei and Elder Sheng explained that Soul Hall preyed on alchemists to collect their powerful souls, and Elder Liu Tian advised Xiao Ze to travel with Alchemist Tower experts.
• Xiao Ze told the elders he was confident in facing low-star Dou Zuns, then left the Pill Realm with Azure Scales.
• Xiao Ze visited the Elder Hall to exchange merits and was directed to the Great Elder.
• The Great Elder said that only a President could handle Xiao Ze’s request to repay his merits for the Profound Purity Soul Method.

Xiao Ze exchanged the Grade 8 Pills he had refined for contribution points and asked to use the surplus to obtain Grade 8 pill formulas. After discovering the Alchemist Tower held fifteen formulas, he realized its reserves far exceeded his expectations and looked forward to advancing his alchemy there.

• Xiao Ze asked the Great Elder to contact President Xuanyi about restoring the contribution points he had spent on the Profound Purity Soul Method.
• President Xuanyi examined Xiao Ze's Soul Power and found that it had reached the late Spirit Realm without being damaged.
• Xuan Yi confirmed that Xiao Ze's Grade 8 Pills were excellent, adjusted his contribution points, and added the points he earned guarding the Pill Realm.
• The Great Elder gave Xiao Ze a jade token listing the Alchemist Tower's Grade 8 pill formulas.
• Xiao Ze found fifteen Grade 8 formulas in the Tower's collection and realized he could not afford to exchange for them all.

Xiao Ze exchanged for the Thunder Tribulation Pill recipe after discussing the rare Bodhi Pill with the Great Elder. Their conversation was interrupted when Song Qing and the disciples he led went missing, and Xiao Ze joined the Great Elder’s search.

• Xiao Ze considered exchanging for the Bodhi Pill recipe, and the Great Elder warned him that Bodhi Seeds were exceptionally rare.
• Xiao Ze chose the Thunder Tribulation Pill recipe, which the Great Elder approved and exchanged for his merit points.
• Xiao Ze studied the recipe and considered how future feedback might help him obtain a Grade 9 Pill Recipe.
• A woman reported that Song Qing’s Soul Tablet had dimmed after he led Alchemist Tower disciples to hunt magical beasts near Pill Ravine.
• The Great Elder hurried south to search for Song Qing, and Xiao Ze insisted on going with him.

The Soul Hall Venerate captured Song Qing while seeking Xiao Ze, then forced him to betray the Alchemist Tower and promise to provide intelligence. Song Qing left the mountain range under the Soul Hall’s leverage, and the Soul Hall Venerate reappeared with the Ghost Cry Mountain Range Sub-Hall’s Vice Hall Master.

• The Soul Hall Venerate defeated Song Qing and prepared to extract his Soul Body after failing to find Xiao Ze.
• Song Qing offered to inform the Soul Hall about Xiao Ze and revealed that he was the Alchemist Tower Great Elder’s disciple.
• The Soul Hall Venerate made Song Qing pledge to report when Xiao Ze left the Alchemist Tower, while the captured Alchemist Tower disciples’ Soul Bodies cursed him.
• The Soul Hall Venerate threatened to expose Song Qing’s betrayal through the Soul Bodies, then injured him and gave him a Space Jade Slip for contact.
• Song Qing took healing pills and flew away, and the Soul Hall Venerate reappeared beside the Ghost Cry Mountain Range Sub-Hall Vice Hall Master.

Two Soul Hall elders plotted to exploit Song Qing and capture the Alchemist Tower’s Great Elder, while Xiao Ze searched the mountain range with Azure Scales and another woman. After finding Alchemist Tower disciples killed by Soul Hall chains, Xiao Ze sensed that Soul Hall Venerates were nearby, and the Great Elder contacted him through his Elder Token.

• The purple-robed and red-robed elders discussed using Song Qing to target the Alchemist Tower’s Great Elder and considered asking a Heavenly Venerate for help.
• The elders recalled that Han Feng had betrayed Yao Chen, joined the Soul Hall, and possessed a Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Ze and the Great Elder reached a mountain range in the Pill Region and split up to search for Song Qing.
• Xiao Ze shielded the delicate woman from the Great Elder’s Soul Power, then sensed danger and rushed toward a valley.
• Xiao Ze blasted away and killed magical beasts that were devouring Alchemist Tower disciples’ corpses, then recognized Soul Hall traces on the bodies.
• Xiao Ze sensed two Soul Hall Venerate auras and worried that Heavenly Venerates might be nearby when the Great Elder contacted him through his Elder Token.