Chapter Summaries

At Tianshan Platform, Feng Qing'er and Mu Qingluan acknowledged Ye Feng as their master and broke through to Dou Zun, while the crowd reacted to the strange power behind their advances. As the final trial for the Tianshan Blood Pool began, Xiao Yan prepared to face the Rat Tide Sonic Wave, and Ye Feng changed the weather to make his challenge harder.

• Feng Qing'er’s breakthrough to five-star Dou Zun astonished the crowd, and Jin Shi asked Ye Feng to become his master before Ye Feng politely refused.
• Jin Shi announced the Rat Tide Sonic Wave trial, and Tang Ying and Wang Chen climbed toward the summit while he offered to escort Ya Fei up the mountain.
• Mu Qingluan resisted her urge to acknowledge Ye Feng until his thoughts about her triggered it, and she prostrated herself to ask him to become her master.
• After Mu Qingluan completed the master-recognition ceremony, she broke through to four-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan, now a Dou Wang, stepped forward for the trial, and Ye Feng summoned dark clouds and brewing lightning over Tianshan Platform.

Xiao Yan failed to climb Tianshan Summit after a lightning storm struck him, and Ye Feng revealed that the storm was Divine Retribution for Xiao Yan destroying the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame’s tuber. After Xiao Yan left for the Pill Gathering, Ye Feng told Mu Qingluan that Wind Venerable had been Yao Chen’s test subject when he received the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill.

• Xiao Yan endured the Gold Devouring Rats’ sonic attack as he climbed toward Tianshan Summit, but lightning struck him and revealed his ability to devour energy.
• A lightning storm overwhelmed Xiao Yan’s devouring ability, forcing him to retreat to Tianshan Platform and abandon the test.
• Yao Chen suggested that heaven had punished Xiao Yan for taking the Green Lotus Earth Core Flame’s tuber, and Xiao Yan decided to head for the Pill Gathering in the Central Plains.
• Ye Feng told Mu Qingluan that the lightning storm had been Divine Retribution and explained that it was a form of punishment from heaven and earth.
• Ye Feng told Mu Qingluan that Yao Chen had given Wind Venerable the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill as an experiment, leaving Mu Qingluan stunned.

Ye Feng and his companions arrived in the Central Region, where they found Wind Venerable mortally wounded after a mysterious woman attacked him. Ye Feng healed him and exposed Bone Chilling Flame traces inside his body, suggesting Yao Chen had tampered with the pill he gave Wind Venerable.

• Ya Fei admired the Central Region's wormhole transit point and decided to build an auction house there, while the group heard that Starfall Pavilion was seeking information about Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• Han Feng and Su Qian fought Wind Venerable and a mysterious woman, who pierced Wind Venerable's chest before leaving him for dead.
• Xiao Yan brought Wind Venerable to a secluded alley, where Yao Chen appeared and admitted that he had given Wind Venerable the Yin-Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill without knowing its effects or side effects.
• Wind Venerable named Mu Qingluan as the source of what he had heard, and Ye Feng arrived with Mu Qingluan and the others, including the mysterious woman.
• Ye Feng used his Sixth Divine Skill, Embrace of the Life Goddess, to heal Wind Venerable, then extracted Pale White Silken Threads bearing traces of Bone Chilling Flame and accused Yao Chen of tampering with the pill.

Ye Feng exposed Yao Chen’s use of Pale White Silken Threads to tamper with pills, revealing that Yao Chen had schemed against Wind Venerable. After discovering Nalan Yanran had reached Dou Zun, Xiao Yan fled, while Feng Xian vowed to hunt Yao Chen and protect the Starfall Pavilion.

• Wind Venerable and Xiao Yan reacted with shock when Ye Feng revealed that someone had tampered with the pills, and Mu Qingluan asked whether the threads were Pale White Silken Threads.
• Nalan Yanran revealed herself to Xiao Yan, who learned that she had reached Dou Zun and swore to surpass her.
• Ye Feng demonstrated how the threads could control or kill someone and explained that they could be concealed in pills refined with Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to run as Wind Venerable realized Yao Chen had betrayed him, but Ye Feng stopped Wind Venerable’s rampaging Dou Qi.
• Ye Feng warned Wind Venerable that Yao Chen might also have tampered with pills given to the Starfall Pavilion’s elders, and Feng Xian vowed that he and Yao Chen could no longer coexist.

Ye Feng arrived at Ye City and intervened when the Ye Family tried to arrange Ye Xinlan’s marriage to Cao Dan. After killing Cao Dan and the Cao Family spies in the city, he exposed signs of Cao Dan’s influence among Ye Family members, leaving the Clan Chief confronting the Third Elder.

• Ye Xinlan returned to the Ye Family residence, where her father told her she was to marry Cao Dan as part of an alliance with the Cao Family.
• Ye Xinlan refused the marriage and said she had found someone who could save the Ye Family; Ye Feng stepped out of the carriage and offered to protect them.
• Cao Dan mocked Ye Feng, who crushed him with Space Power and used his blood to locate and kill more than a thousand Cao Family infiltrators in Ye City.
• Ye Feng summoned the Third Elder and forty-eight Ye Family clansmen, saying they bore recent traces of close contact with Cao Dan.
• Ye Xinlan’s father accused the Third Elder of betraying the family and demanded to know what the Cao Family had offered him.

Ye Feng gave Ye Xinlan’s family detailed pill recipes after refusing to take her as his disciple, while Starfall Pavilion’s elders discovered Yao Chen’s schemes. The Ye Family’s representatives arrived to discuss an important matter with Ye Feng, whom he suspected they wanted as a son-in-law.

• Ye Feng dismissed the Ye Family’s strength and learned that its Alchemy Pavilion had been looted, but declined to investigate the family’s old grudges.
• Ye Xinlan asked Ye Feng to accept her as his disciple, and he refused because he considered her talent too poor.
• Ye Feng sent Ye Xinlan recipes for medicinal pills of grade eight and below, including thirty-six eighth-grade recipes, and said he was helping her because she knew Zi Yan.
• Wind Venerable and Mu Qingluan brought Starfall Pavilion members to Ye Feng, who helped uncover and remove Yao Chen’s hidden tricks from several elders.
• Ye Xinlan told Ye Feng that members of her family wanted to meet him, and he suspected they intended to ask him to become the Ye Family’s son-in-law.

Ye Zhong asked Ye Feng to help the Ye Family keep its seat among Pill Tower's Five Great Families, explaining that the next assessment required a close relative to compete. Ye Feng refused to rely on the proposed marriage announcement and instead secured the Pill Tower Ancestor's token for the family.

• Ye Zhong explained that the Ye Family had failed two assessments and needed a top-three result to keep its elders' seat, then asked to announce Ye Feng as Ye Xinlan's husband so he could compete.
• Ye Feng allowed Ye Zhong to make the announcement but said he would use his own method to preserve the Ye Family's position and give a definite answer in two days.
• Ye Zhong publicly announced Ye Feng as the Ye Family's son-in-law, and the Cao Family and other forces suspended their plans against the Ye Family after learning its spies had been exposed.
• Two days later, Ye Feng summoned the Ye Family's upper echelon and called forth a Cowherd riding a yellow ox from the void.
• The Cowherd gave Ye Zhong the Old Ancestor Token, identifying himself as the Pill Tower Ancestor and assuring him that the Ye Family's elders' seat would not be revoked.

Ye Feng secured the Old Ancestor Token for the Ye Family after forcing the Pill Tower Ancestor to submit, then agreed to stay for a few days to sample the family’s Golden Brew. Seven days later, a maid led him toward Ye Xinlan’s residence, where she played a sorrowful zither piece, and he was left to decide whether to continue.

• Ye Feng dismissed the Pill Tower Ancestor, whom he revealed was a ninth-rank pill in human form, and Ya Fei considered auctioning him before deciding against it.
• Ye Zhong and the Ye Family elders kowtowed to Ye Feng for helping their family retain its seat among Pill Tower’s Elders and obtain the Old Ancestor Token.
• Ye Feng received 2326 distributable Attribute Points for overturning the original storyline by helping the Ye Family without relying on Xiao Yan.
• Ye Zhong persuaded Ye Feng to stay by offering Golden Brew and special dishes, and Ye Feng agreed to remain for a few days.
• Seven days later, a maid told Ye Feng that Ye Xinlan and Ye Zhong had instructed her to bring him to Ye Xinlan’s separate residence.
• Ye Feng heard Ye Xinlan play a sorrowful zither piece, and the maid asked whether he wished to continue, making clear that she would not force him.

Ye Feng spent the night with Ye Xinlan after she confessed her feelings, unaware that her father had arranged the seduction in hopes of securing a gifted heir for the Ye Family. The next morning, Ye Feng met Xiao Yu and set off for the Skeleton Mountain Range, promising Mu Qingluan she could serve as his mount this time.

• Ye Xinlan played Phoenix Seeking Phoenix and asked Ye Feng to stay the night, then offered herself to repay his kindness and confess her love.
• Outside Ye Xinlan's courtyard, Ye Zhong revealed that he had arranged the encounter and hoped Ye Xinlan would conceive Ye Feng's child.
• Ye Feng left Ye Xinlan's courtyard at dawn, and Ye Xinlan told Ye Zhong that she had acted willingly and hoped to keep the child.
• Su Qian brought Xiao Yu to the Ye Family, and Ye Feng questioned her about Xiao Yan before asking her to stay by his side for half a year.
• Ye Feng prepared to leave with Zi Yan, but Mu Qingluan complained that he never rode her, so he agreed to ride her to the Skeleton Mountain Range.

At the Pill Gathering in Holy Pill City, Ye Feng helped Little Fairy Doctor overcome her doubts about becoming an alchemist by teaching her poison-pill recipes and lending her the Netherworld Poison Flame and Chaos Saint Cauldron. Little Fairy Doctor kissed Ye Feng before heading to the Ye Family’s guest seating, leaving him stunned and wondering whether she liked him.

• Ye Feng spotted Xiao Yan among the Pill Gathering contestants and waited for the event to begin.
• Little Fairy Doctor regretted becoming a Poison Master, and Ye Feng encouraged her to enter the Pill Gathering.
• Ye Feng gave Little Fairy Doctor poison-pill recipes and explained that she could refine pills using a ready-made flame despite lacking Fire Attribute and Wood Attribute Spiritual Roots.
• Ye Feng lent Little Fairy Doctor the Netherworld Poison Flame and Chaos Saint Cauldron.
• Little Fairy Doctor kissed Ye Feng, took the borrowed items, and went to the Ye Family’s guest seating.
• Ye Feng watched her leave and wondered when she had started liking him.

Ye Feng learned that Zi Yan and Mu Qingluan were secretly in love with him, while Little Fairy Doctor advanced to the Pill Gathering’s final round. As the contestants began refining pills, Zi Yan sensed something calling to her from above Holy Pill City.

• Ya Fei told Ye Feng that Little Fairy Doctor liked him, and Ye Feng realized Zi Yan and Mu Qingluan also had feelings for him.
• Ye Feng explained the Pill Gathering’s two selection stages and reassured Ya Fei that Little Fairy Doctor was safe inside the Pill Realm, where she was gathering extra rare ingredients.
• Little Fairy Doctor passed the second stage and entered the final round of the Pill Gathering.
• Little Fairy Doctor summoned the Chaos Saint Cauldron and Netherworld Poison Flame, astonishing the other contestants.
• Mu Qingluan asked whether Little Fairy Doctor could subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Ye Feng noticed Zi Yan staring upward as she felt something calling to her.

The Pill Gathering advanced as alchemists refined pills that triggered increasingly powerful Pill Tribulations, while Little Fairy Doctor slept through most of the competition. Old Man Mu Gu appeared poised to win until Xiao Yan began using Spirit Ascension, and Little Fairy Doctor woke with half an hour remaining, confident she had enough time.

• Ye Feng identified Xiao Yan's Wind Fury Dragon Flame as the eighteenth-ranked Heavenly Flame and explained why Zi Yan sensed the bloodline call from Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Little Fairy Doctor displayed the Chaos Saint Cauldron and Netherworld Poison Flame, then fell asleep instead of refining a pill.
• Alchemists across the stone platforms refined pills, and Pill Tribulation Lightning repeatedly filled the sky as some competitors succeeded and others suffered explosions.
• Old Man Qing Hua refined an Eighth Grade Pill, and Cao Ying admitted defeat after her pill drew only Two-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning.
• Old Man Mu Gu revealed himself and drew Four-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, appearing set to take the championship.
• Xiao Yan began using Spirit Ascension to improve his Three-Colored pill, and Little Fairy Doctor woke and said half an hour was enough.

Little Fairy Doctor used Ye Feng’s alchemy secret technique and borrowed treasures to refine a low-grade Rank 9 Pill, winning the Pill Gathering over Xiao Yan. After returning Ye Feng’s cauldron and Netherworld Poison Flame, she joined him as he prepared to leave with Zi Yan.

• Little Fairy Doctor used the Netherworld Poison Flame and the Chaos Saint Cauldron to refine forty-nine medicinal ingredients with an ancient alchemy technique.
• Xiao Yan’s pill produced five-colored Pill Lightning, but Little Fairy Doctor’s pill summoned Black Demon Lightning, revealing it was a Rank 9 Pill.
• Ye Feng made the Black Demon Lightning vanish, while Ye Zhong explained that Little Fairy Doctor belonged to Young Master Ye.
• Little Fairy Doctor intercepted the black cat that emerged from the Chaos Saint Cauldron, and the system announced her victory over Xiao Yan.
• Little Fairy Doctor returned Ye Feng’s pill cauldron and Heavenly Flame, and Ye Feng called for Zi Yan to set off.

Ye Feng and Zi Yan flew toward the Star Region to find Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Ye Feng crushed Pill Tower’s Enforcement Team commander when he tried to stop them. The Pill Tower elders let them proceed after learning Ye Feng’s strength, and Ye Feng identified a flaw in the seal that was strengthening the Heavenly Flame.

• Ye Feng and Zi Yan flew above Holy Pill City, where Ye Feng sent the Enforcement Team flying and killed its commander with an invisible attack.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi considered stopping Ye Feng until Ye Tong identified him as the young man who had defeated the Ye Family’s ancestor.
• Tian Leizi revealed that Ye Feng had also eliminated the Cao Family’s spies in Ye City and possessed an Emperor Realm soul, convincing the elders not to confront him.
• Elder Cao warned that Three Thousand Burning Flame was sealed in the Star Region and could destroy Holy Pill City if it escaped, so the elders avoided provoking Ye Feng.
• Ye Feng explained the Star Region to Zi Yan, sensed the starlight leaking into it, and criticized the Pill Tower Three Giants for sealing a starlight-born flame where starlight would make it stronger.

Ye Feng exposed Three Thousand Burning Flame and subdued it after criticizing Pill Tower's Three Giants for sealing it in the sky. He bound the weakened flame to the earth and told Zi Yan to absorb its source flame, while Xiao Yan prepared to flee.

• Ye Feng explained to Zi Yan that Three Thousand Burning Flame should have been sealed underground or beneath an artificial mountain.
• Ye Feng opened a rift in space, revealing Three Thousand Burning Flame in the form of a giant dragon, which threatened to slaughter Holy Pill City.
• Ye Feng summoned his Xuanyuan Sword martial soul and used Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin to shrink and weaken the dragon.
• Ye Feng smashed the dragon to the ground and restrained it with five stone gates, then told Zi Yan to take a pill and absorb the source flame from its abdomen.
• Xiao Yan asked his teacher what to do, admitted he could not defeat Ye Feng, and was told to flee because Feng Xian and others were coming to kill them.

Xiao Yan persuaded Yao Chen to help trap Feng Xian and the others, while Ye Feng gained strength after Zi Yan absorbed Three Thousand Burning Flame. Ye Feng then claimed the ruins in the Skeleton Mountain Range and ordered the crowd to leave, threatening to kill anyone who remained.

• Xiao Yan convinced Yao Chen that they had to kill their pursuers and began planning a trap against Feng Xian and the others.
• Zi Yan absorbed Three Thousand Burning Flame with Ye Feng's guidance, and the system rewarded Ye Feng with Attribute Points that he used to strengthen his body.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi recognized that Ye Feng's power came from body cultivation, and Tian Leizi predicted Ye Feng might reach the Emperor Realm.
• Ye Feng, Ya Fei, and Mu Qingluan arrived at the Skeleton Mountain Range, where crowds had gathered to explore the ruins.
• Ye Feng demanded that everyone leave the ruins and gave them the time it took to burn an incense stick before threatening to kill anyone within twenty miles.

Ye Feng killed the cultivators who refused to leave Skeleton Mountain Range, then opened the Creation Saint's ruin for the women to explore. The system rewarded him for monopolizing the ruin, while he waited outside.

• A red-haired Dou Zong attacked Ye Feng and was killed by an incense stick, after which Ye Feng gave the crowd time to leave.
• When the crowd attacked, Ye Feng used Chaos God Light to reflect their techniques, killing many and injuring others.
• Ye Feng killed the remaining cultivators who had refused to leave with four punches that collapsed space and struck the ground.
• Ye Feng opened the spatial seal over Skeleton Mountain Range and revealed the crimson Great Hall, then told the women how to find the exit and sent them inside.
• The system rewarded Ye Feng with 2,199 distributable Attribute Points for monopolizing the Creation Saint's ruin.

Ye Feng guarded the Creation Saint’s relic, secretly removed its dangers, and let his companions and allied factions enter. After Ya Fei and the others emerged with the relic’s treasures, Ye Feng set out for the Ancient Clan to help Xiao Yu obtain an opportunity.

• Qing Lin reunited with Ye Feng, who let her enter the relic to join Ya Fei and the others.
• Ye Feng erased the lingering consciousness on the skeleton and the soul imprints on the puppets, then admitted several allied groups while rejecting others’ offers of allegiance.
• Ya Fei and the others emerged with the relic’s treasures, and Ye Feng told them the Heaven Rank Dou Technique was hidden in the skeleton.
• Feng Qing’er revealed that Zi Yan had given her the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and Ye Feng advised her to share its excess energy with Zi Yan.
• Ye Feng announced that they would go to the Ancient Clan to help Xiao Yu obtain an opportunity.

Ye Feng and his companions entered the Ancient World and were escorted by the Ancient Clan to the Ancient Palace for a private discussion with the Clan Chief. On the way, Ye Feng reassured Qing Lin about the rival clans and encouraged Mu Qingluan to take pride in her own lineage.

• Ya Fei and the others marveled at the Ancient World's dense natural energy before Ye Feng accepted the Ancient Clan's invitation to board its Golden Battleship.
• The Ancient Clan directed Pill Tower's Three Giants to ordinary black ships, while Ye Feng's companions boarded the Golden Battleship with him.
• Qing Lin reported that Zi Yan was refining Feng Qing'er's seal with Three Thousand Burning Flame as Void Ancient Dragon Clan elders headed toward the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan's territory.
• Ye Feng told Qing Lin that Zi Yan and Feng Qing'er could reconcile their clans as future leaders, then urged Mu Qingluan to value the Azure Luan identity rather than envy the Dragon Phoenix Supreme Bloodline.
• The Ancient Clan elder diverted Ye Feng's Golden Battleship to the Ancient Palace, where the Clan Chief planned to discuss an urgent matter with him alone.
• A woman watched the ship approach and asked Grandpa Ling Ying what her father wanted to discuss with Ye Feng, but he said he did not know.

Ye Feng met Gu Yuan, who tried to match him with Gu Xun'er and asked about his intentions toward the continent. After Gu Xun'er learned of the proposal, Ling Ying questioned whether Xiao Yan had approached her for wealth, but she refused to doubt or test him.

• Ye Feng met Gu Yuan in the Ancient Clan's rear mountains and brought their conversation back to the cliff so his companions could hear.
• Gu Yuan admitted he wanted Ye Feng to pursue Gu Xun'er, while Ye Feng refused and said he would not pursue her or seek control of the continent.
• Gu Yuan expressed concern about Xiao Yan's actions and Ye Feng's strength, then arranged an elegant residence for Ye Feng.
• Gu Xun'er asked Ling Ying whether Gu Yuan had tried to match her with Ye Feng and said she loved only Xiao Yan.
• Ling Ying suggested Xiao Yan might have helped Gu Xun'er as a child to gain her family's favor and advised her to test him by becoming poor.
• Gu Xun'er rejected the idea, defended Xiao Yan, and told Ling Ying not to test him or speak ill of him.