Chapter Summaries

Hun Xuzi broke into the Star Region and captured Xiao Yan, demanding Su Qingyun’s whereabouts before setting out to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame. As the Hall of Souls confronted the Pill Tower, Elder Shennong arrived, but an astonishing vision revealed that someone nearby was refining an immortal pill.

• Xuan Yi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Kongzi opened the Star Region early for Xiao Yan, but Hun Xuzi entered as Hall of Souls experts attacked the Pill Tower.
• Hun Xuzi trapped Xiao Yan, questioned him about Su Qingyun, and threatened the Xiao Clan, but Xiao Yan refused to betray his brother.
• Hun Xuzi used dragon blood to locate the Three Thousand Burning Flame and moved to claim it.
• The Hall of Souls surrounded the Pill Tower, while its experts and allied visitors prepared to resist them.
• Elder Shennong arrived to support the Pill Tower, then spotted an extraordinary pill-refining vision and asked who was refining an immortal pill.

Su Qingyun revealed himself while refining an Immortal Pill, stunning the Pill Tower with his immense immortal aura. Soul Miesheng realized the Soul Clan had finally found Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan, leaving the two of them exposed to the clan’s scheme.

• The alchemists recognized Yun Yan as Xiao Yan and inferred that Yun Qing was Su Qingyun.
• Soul Miesheng welcomed the chance to find Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan after the Soul Clan’s plan to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame brought them to the Pill Region.
• Su Qingyun’s immortal aura blasted open part of the Pill Tower as his pill finished refining.
• The crowd saw Su Qingyun’s disguise fall away and identified his creation as an eighth-tier Complete Grade Immortal Pill.
• After the Pill Tower fell silent in shock, someone exclaimed that Su Qingyun surpassed even a Banished Immortal.

Su Qingyun’s disguise vanished after his extraordinary Seventh Tier Complete Grade Pill shattered his formation, revealing his identity and drawing the attention of the Pill Region and Hall of Souls. Soul Miesheng invited him to join the Soul Clan, promising to spare the Xiao Clan and let Su Qingyun rule over the continent.

• Su Qingyun completed a powerful Seventh Tier Complete Grade Pill whose chaotic energies blasted apart his formation.
• The pill’s birth drew the attention of Elder Shennong and the Pill Tower alchemists as Su Qingyun’s true appearance was revealed.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Xin Lan recognized Su Qingyun and marveled at his appearance.
• Soul Miesheng greeted Su Qingyun, recalling their blood feud and praising him as a perfect candidate to become the Hall of Souls’ Dark Lord.
• Soul Miesheng invited Su Qingyun to join the Hall of Souls and Soul Clan, promising to spare the Xiao Clan and keep Su Qingyun alive.

The Pill Tower, Elder Shennong, and other alchemists stood against Soul Miesheng to protect Su Qingyun, while Old Ya warned his disciple to escape if a battle began. A blazing flame burst from the Star Region and charged straight toward Su Qingyun, pursued by three figures.

• The Pill Tower’s experts condemned Soul Miesheng and declared they would protect Su Qingyun and Yun Qing.
• Xuan Yi pledged to protect Su Qingyun, while Elder Shennong offered to take him as a disciple and vowed to keep Soul Miesheng from harming him.
• Old Ya transformed, flew to Su Qingyun’s side, and urged him to flee if the Hall of Souls attacked.
• The Star Region shook as silver fire descended and a magnificent flame escaped, followed by three figures.
• The flame circled the Star Region and then charged toward Su Qingyun.

The Three Thousand Burning Flame escaped the Star Region and chose Su Qingyun as its master, while the Pill Tower Ancestor rescued Xiao Yan from Hun Xuzi. Hun Xuzi ordered the Hall of Souls to capture Su Qingyun, and its members turned their attention toward him.

• The Three Thousand Burning Flame broke through the Star Region, coiled around Su Qingyun, and merged into his Immortal Qi Accumulation.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor appeared and forced Hun Xuzi down, saving Xiao Yan and allowing the Three Thousand Burning Flame to choose Su Qingyun.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor expressed admiration for Su Qingyun, though his will clashed with the will of the Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill within him.
• Hun Xuzi learned that Su Qingyun had appeared and ordered Soul Miesheng to capture him regardless of the cost.
• Soul Miesheng ordered the Hall of Souls members to capture Su Qingyun in exchange for promotion, and they fixed their attention on him.

As the Hall of Souls threatened Su Qingyun, the Pill Tower prepared to protect him, and Su Qingyun summoned a powerful legion of magical beasts through the Pill Region’s spatial entrance. The beasts attacked the Hall of Souls, while hidden Ancient Clan elders remained nearby to protect Su Qingyun’s group.

• The Pill Tower leaders chose to defend Su Qingyun and confront the Hall of Souls, while Su Qingyun looked for a chance to escape and break through to Dou Zun.
• Su Qingyun asked the Pill Tower Ancestor to open a spatial entrance so his reinforcements could arrive.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor opened the entrance, and Su Qingyun summoned a legion of powerful magical beasts, including several Ninth-tier beasts.
• The Flame Dragon burned a Hall of Souls Dou Zun expert to death, and the Earth Dragon blasted Soul Miesheng away.
• Several Ancient Clan Dou Sheng elders who had secretly entered the Pill Region felt reassured when Su Qingyun’s magical beast reinforcements appeared.

Su Qingyun revealed his Magical Beast Legion, then escaped through a Spatial Tunnel while the Pill Tower Ancestor, Elder Shennong, and the Ninth-tier Magical Beasts held off Hun Xuzi. Hun Xuzi lost a leg in the fight, but released a Mysterious Black Flame to pursue Su Qingyun and ordered his allies to capture him.

• Su Qingyun told the magical beast and Pill Tower seniors to handle the battle, sent Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, Old Ya, and the others a secret message to regroup in the Beast Region, and fled through a Spatial Tunnel.
• Hun Xuzi tried to pursue Su Qingyun, but the Pill Tower Ancestor and Elder Shennong struck him with their medicinal cauldrons.
• The Flame God Dragon and Rock Dragon King attacked Hun Xuzi, and one of the Ninth-tier Magical Beasts tore off his leg.
• Hun Xuzi released a Mysterious Black Flame to follow Su Qingyun's trail and ordered his allies to capture him alive.

Su Qingyun encountered a sub-flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame, but it chose to follow him instead of attacking. He used his Immortal Qi Accumulation to protect it and named it Little Void, leaving the other flames in his dantian arguing over their places on the Immortal Cloud Plate.

• Su Qingyun sensed a mass of black flame surrounding the mountain where he rested and recognized it as a sub-flame of the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The sub-flame ignored Hun Xuzi’s control, approached Su Qingyun, and bounced in his palm to show that it wanted to follow him.
• Su Qingyun realized his Immortal Qi Accumulation could sever the connection between the sub-flame and its main body, then named it Little Void.
• Su Qingyun covered Little Void in Immortal Qi Accumulation, and it rushed into his dantian.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame complained that Little Void had taken its place, while the Sea Heart Flame and other flames argued with it.

Su Qingyun broke through from Half-Step Dou Zun to Three-Star Dou Zun, creating a vast Blessed Land with his immortal aura. He escaped before Central Plains experts could reach him, leaving them to argue over the transformed mountain range.

• Su Qingyun broke through to Three-Star Dou Zun as immortal light transformed the surrounding hundred li into a Blessed Land.
• Su Qingyun used the Nihility Devouring Flame to burn away traces of his route and misleading Spatial Tunnels.
• Su Qingyun sensed that Central Plains experts were approaching and departed through space as the heavenly phenomenon faded.
• Experts from the Central Plains' First-rate Forces arrived after forcing their way through the formation, but Su Qingyun had already left.
• The experts regretted missing Su Qingyun and argued over who should claim the Blessed Land he had left behind.

Su Qingyun escaped after breaking through, but worried that the Soul Clan would take revenge on Xiao Yan and the Pill Tower experts. As Hun Feng attacked Xiao Yan during the battle in the Pill Region, a Sky-Suspended Sword suddenly beheaded him.

• Su Qingyun traveled several thousand li, hid his aura, and worried that Old Ya, Xiao Yan, and the Pill Tower experts had been caught in the Soul Clan’s attack.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor and Elder Shennong fought Soul Miesheng, Hun Xuzi, and Elder Soul Demon above the ruined Pill Region while others clashed below.
• Hun Feng and Hun Meng'er arrived to seek out Su Qingyun, but learned he had already fled.
• Hun Feng targeted Xiao Yan and swung his saw-sickle to sever his arm, while Old Ya and Xuan Yi could not reach him in time.
• A Sky-Suspended Sword stopped Hun Feng’s attack and chopped off his head.

Su Qingyun returned to the Pill Region and fought the Soul Clan to protect Xiao Yan, Old Ya, and the others. Elder Shennong then gifted him most of his Life Flame, the Heavenly Flame ranked fifth.

• Su Qingyun cut off Hun Feng’s head with a single sword strike, and Hun Meng'er ordered the Soul Clan to capture him alive.
• Old Ya and Xiao Yan urged Su Qingyun to flee, but he said he would not abandon his companions.
• Su Qingyun unleashed blood spears that killed or wounded the Soul Clan Dou Zuns surrounding Xiao Yan and Old Ya.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor and Elder Shennong chose to join the battle, and Shennong’s Life Flame healed the wounded.
• Elder Shennong separated most of his Life Flame from himself and gave it to Su Qingyun.

Su Qingyun gathered his Heavenly Flames, divine lightning, mystic water, and thousands of beast flames to form the World-Shaking Buddha Lotus. As the Pill Region’s alchemists and allies fled, the lotus exploded with the Soul Clan experts still too close to escape.

• Su Qingyun’s rare flames and treasures resonated, drawing thousands of beast flames from the alchemists across the Pill Region.
• Xiao Yan and Old Ya recognized the danger and shouted for everyone to evacuate, while Xuan Yi hesitated before following them.
• The Pill Tower’s Three Giants ordered the alchemists to leave, and Old Ya dragged Tian Leizi, Xuan Kongzi, and Zi Yan away.
• Hun Xuzi, Soul Miesheng, and Elder Soul Demon realized the World-Shaking Buddha Lotus had formed and tried to escape through space.
• The World-Shaking Buddha Lotus exploded before the Soul Clan experts could get away.

A Ten Thousand Flame Version Buddha’s Fury Fire Lotus destroyed the Pill Region and killed Hun Xuzi, Soul Miesheng, Elder Soul Demon, and the other Hall of Souls experts. The exhausted young man who unleashed it collapsed, and several figures rushed in to catch him.

• The fire lotus exploded in the Pill Region, sending destructive shockwaves through Central City and forcing alchemists to flee.
• Xuan Yi, the Pill Tower Three Giants, the Pill Tower Ancestor, and Elder Shennong saw the Pill Region in ruins and searched for Hun Xuzi, Soul Miesheng, and Elder Soul Demon.
• As the fiery cloud cleared, the experts found Hun Xuzi, Soul Miesheng, Elder Soul Demon, and the other Hall of Souls fighters reduced to charred forms.
• The young man who had gathered tens of thousands of Beast Flames and unleashed the lotus was revealed, protected from the blast by the Immortal Spirit Aura, Profound Water Divine Thunder, and the Power of Heaven and Earth.
• After sensing Xiao Yan and Old Ya were safe, the young man collapsed from exhaustion and injuries, and several figures rushed in to catch him.

After the Pill Region was destroyed, Su Qingyun was escorted out of Central City with Xiao Yan, Old Ya, Zi Yan, and the Pill Tower experts as they prepared for the Soul Clan’s retaliation. In a hidden Small Courtyard, Xuan Yi treated Su Qingyun’s grave injuries and decided to use her family’s secret art to help him recover.

• Central City’s gathered factions saw the ruined Pill Region and learned that Su Qingyun had survived the explosion.
• Ninth-tier Magical Beasts escorted Su Qingyun out of Central City alongside Xiao Yan, Old Ya, Zi Yan, and the Pill Tower experts.
• The group left because they feared the Soul Clan would send its strongest experts to the Central Plains.
• Xuan Yi found Su Qingyun’s meridians and soul badly damaged and estimated that he needed a month or two to recover.
• Xuan Yi decided to use the Xuan Family Boudoir Secret Art on Su Qingyun to help him heal.

Xiao Yan worried that Xuan Yi could not heal Qingyun’s severe injuries, but Old Ya explained that her unique physique and decades of stored power could restore him within one or two days. The Soul Clan still pursued them, while Xiao Yan learned he might soon break through to the Dou Zun Realm.

• Xiao Yan asked Old Ya whether Xuan Yi could heal Qingyun after his injuries from using the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.
• Old Ya said Xuan Yi’s Mysterious Supreme Dual Element Body let her release years of accumulated medicinal power and Dou Qi through dual cultivation with a gifted alchemist.
• Xiao Yan panicked at the mention of dual cultivation and worried Zi Yan might learn about it, but Old Ya said she had already left.
• Old Ya told Xiao Yan to rest and seek treatment from Elder Shennong, noting that Qingyun would likely recover in one or two days and Xiao Yan seemed close to a breakthrough.

Su Qingyun and Xuan Yi emerged from an intense encounter with Xuan Yi breaking through to four-star Dou Sheng and Su Qingyun reaching six-star Dou Zun. Su Qingyun hurried to leave before the Hall of Souls noticed the breakthrough, while Xuan Yi teased him about meeting again.

• Xuan Yi broke through from Dou Zun Peak to four-star Dou Sheng after absorbing Su Qingyun's Immortal Qi Accumulation and her accumulated medicinal power.
• Su Qingyun's damaged meridians were repaired, and he advanced to six-star Dou Zun with a stable realm.
• Xuan Yi tried to persuade Su Qingyun to stay for another round, but he warned that the Hall of Souls might detect their breakthrough.
• Su Qingyun dressed and fled the room as Xuan Yi told him to call her Yi Yi and promised to seek him out again.

Su Qingyun, Xuan Yi, Old Ya, and Xiao Yan regrouped after recovering and breaking through, while Xuan Yi claimed Su Qingyun as her man and insisted he call her Yi Yi. The group prepared to leave as the destroyed Pill Region and the Soul Clan’s looming attack made the situation urgent, but Xiao Yan provoked Old Ya by joking that he was incapable of handling Xuan Yi.

• Old Ya recovered from his injuries, broke through to Dou Zun, and joined Su Qingyun and the others in the Small Courtyard.
• Xuan Yi greeted Old Ya as Teacher and Su Qingyun as Junior Brother, then thanked Old Ya for bringing Su Qingyun to her.
• Xuan Yi stopped Old Ya from examining Su Qingyun and insisted that Su Qingyun call her Yi Yi instead of Senior Xuan Yi.
• Su Qingyun warned that they would soon have to leave because the Pill Region had been destroyed and the Soul Clan might soon act in full force.
• Xiao Yan teased Old Ya about rejecting Xuan Yi in the past and suggested that Old Ya could not handle her, prompting Old Ya to slap him and threaten to beat him.

After the Pill Region battle, Su Qingyun apologized to the Pill Tower and refused to hide with them, choosing instead to seek a way to grow stronger and rescue Xiao Zhan from the Soul Clan. Elder Shennong gave him the Shennong Sutra, and Su Qingyun set out with Xiao Yan to pursue their urgent matters.

• Elder Shennong and the Pill Tower experts welcomed Su Qingyun after he recovered from his injuries.
• Su Qingyun apologized for the Pill Region's destruction and promised to rebuild its Small World if he could.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor explained that the Hall of Souls had already planned to attack and warned that the Soul Clan would send stronger enemies after Su Qingyun.
• Su Qingyun said he could not go into hiding because the Soul Clan had captured Xiao Zhan and might use him to threaten Xiao Yan and the others.
• Elder Shennong gave Su Qingyun the Shennong Sutra to help him advance his cultivation.
• Su Qingyun thanked the seniors, called Xiao Yan to leave, and continued seeking a chance to grow stronger.

Su Qingyun and Xiao Yan left the Pill Tower region for the Medicine Clan Territory as the women they left behind reflected on their encounter with Su Qingyun. Xin Lan revealed that her admiration for him was unrequited and feared she might never see him again.

• Su Qingyun explained that the Soul Clan could not have surrounded the entire Central Plains and said he and Xiao Yan would head to the Medicine Clan Territory.
• Dan Chen and Cao Ying regretted not recognizing Su Qingyun sooner, while Xin Lan's brother was revealed to have died in the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus explosion.
• Xin Lan praised Su Qingyun and said he had always amazed people whenever he appeared.
• Dan Chen and Cao Ying questioned Xin Lan about her apparent history with Su Qingyun and teased her about secretly loving him.
• Xin Lan admitted that she and Su Qingyun had met only once and that her feelings for him were one-sided.

Su Qingyun brought Xiao Yan to the Medicine Clan to unite powerful alchemist factions against the Soul Clan and gather the Heavenly Flame origins they needed. They arrived at a town outside the Medicine Clan Space, while Su Qingyun hinted that Zi Yan was carrying out a separate mission.

• Su Qingyun shared several Heavenly Flame origins with Xiao Yan and helped him absorb them, while keeping half for himself.
• Su Qingyun acquired Three Thousand Weak Water, Wash Away Lead and Flourish, and the Heavy Phoenix Divine Wood from allies in the Pill Tower, trading Xuan Kongzi a Soul-Nourishing Divine Wood.
• Su Qingyun explained that he had asked the Pill Tower Ancestor to warn the Medicine Clan about the Soul Clan and to invite the Yan Clan and Burning Flame Valley to discuss sharing their Heavenly Flame origins.
• Su Qingyun told Xiao Yan that the remaining Heavenly Flames and the clans' keys to Tuoshe Ancient Emperor's Cave made cooperation urgent.
• Su Qingyun said Zi Yan had received a new task, then he and Xiao Yan traveled through a Wormhole Teleportation to a town outside the Medicine Clan Space.