Chapter Summaries

Yan Qingshan revealed his Heavenly Flame clone and exceptional talents to Old Ancestor Huoyun, who approved the clone receiving Blazing Flame Valley’s core inheritance. Yan Qingshan’s clone entered the inheritance ground, where a tremendous heavenly phenomenon signaled that it had obtained the highest-grade Heaven-tier inheritance.

• Old Ancestor Huoyun exposed Yan Qingshan’s Green Lotus Core Flame, Fallen Heart Flame, Yang Flame, and Heart Flame Clone, then praised his talent.
• Yan Qingshan proposed that his clone inherit Blazing Flame Valley’s core arts, and Old Ancestor Huoyun agreed after judging its Fire Attribute potential.
• Yan Qingshan revealed that he was a seventh-tier alchemist, a seven-star Dou Zong, and a Danta candidate, surprising Old Ancestor Huoyun.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun opened the Flame Curtain World, and Yan Qingshan’s Heart Flame Clone entered the inheritance ground.
• An hour later, dark clouds and fierce winds appeared, and Old Ancestor Huoyun realized Yan Qingshan’s clone had obtained the highest-grade Heaven-tier inheritance.

Yan Qingshan’s Heart Flame Clone gained a Heaven-tier cultivation method from Blazing Flame Valley’s inheritance, while he revealed much of his hidden past to Cao Ying and traveled with her and Tang Huo'er toward the Pill Region. In Holy Pill City, Xuan Kongzi reviewed Yan Qingshan’s record and summoned Heavenly Thunder Child and Xuan Yi, the other Pill Tower giants.

• Yan Qingshan’s Heart Flame Clone absorbed and refined surrounding energy with its new Heaven-tier cultivation method, nearing an eight-star Dou Zong breakthrough.
• Yan Qingshan told Cao Ying most of his secrets, and she took his disguise mask and Beauty Fan to keep them safe.
• Cao Ying and Tang Huo'er both accompanied Yan Qingshan toward the Pill Region, each holding one of his hands.
• Xuan Kongzi reviewed intelligence about Yan Qingshan’s origins, Blazing Flame Valley inheritance, and secret alchemy studies at the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi summoned Heavenly Thunder Child and Xuan Yi, bringing the three Pill Tower giants together.

The Pill Tower Three Giants agreed to accept Yan Qingshan’s concealed past if an investigation found no problems. In Holy Pill City, Yan Qingshan discovered Cao Ying had used his disguise to approach Dan Chen, and warned her that Dan Chen might have feelings for the persona.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Heavenly Thunder Child agreed that the Pill Tower would investigate Yan Qingshan’s background before entrusting him with important responsibilities.
• Yan Qingshan and Tang Huo'er spotted Cao Ying disguised as Zhang Wuji while she spoke with Dan Chen and her brother, Dan Xuan.
• Yan Qingshan introduced himself to Dan Xuan, then pulled Cao Ying away before she could arrange another meeting with Dan Chen.
• At Cao Ying’s building, she explained that Dan Chen shared her unusual constitution and was already a seventh-tier high-grade alchemist.
• Yan Qingshan told Cao Ying that Dan Chen seemed to like Zhang Wuji, leaving Cao Ying startled and disbelieving.

Yan Qingshan and Cao Ying dealt with the misunderstanding caused by his enchanted mask before the Five Great Clans' assessment began in Holy Pill City. When the declining Ye Clan arrived with Yan Qingshan and Ye Xinlan, Cao Ying learned he was Ye Xinlan's fiancé, and Cao Dan confronted him.

• Yan Qingshan explained that his mask's illusion technique had made Dan Chen take an unusual interest in him, and he told Cao Ying to approach her openly.
• Cao Ying revealed she had arranged to meet Dan Chen, so Yan Qingshan took the matter into his own hands while Tang Huo'er arrived at their room and quietly left.
• Cao Ying, Tang Huo'er, and Dan Chen met at the assessment hall, where they joked together as factions gathered for the Five Great Clans' assessment.
• The Ye Clan arrived amid speculation that it might lose its standing, and Cao Ying spotted Yan Qingshan beside Ye Xinlan.
• Tang Huo'er explained that Yan Qingshan had agreed to help the Ye Clan as Ye Xinlan's fiancé, and Cao Dan and Cao Xiu stepped forward to confront him.

Yan Qingshan joined the Ye Clan for the Five Great Clans assessment, drawing attention because of his ties to Cao Ying and other young alchemists. The assessment began as Elder Shengyao introduced its first part, a test of the contestants’ Soul Value.

• Cao Ying confronted Yan Qingshan over his secrecy and warned that the Ye Clan would struggle to pass the assessment.
• Dan Xuan questioned Yan Qingshan about his familiarity with Cao Ying, while Yan Qingshan and the Ye Clan took their seats.
• Cao Ying rebuked Cao Dan for criticizing Yan Qingshan and chose to represent the Cao Clan in the assessment.
• The Five Great Clans’ seating areas moved aside to reveal a central plaza, and Shengyao called the five representatives forward.
• Shengyao revealed a crystal-like stone tablet and explained that the first assessment would measure each contestant’s Soul Value.

The alchemists completed the Soul Value test, where Cao Ying scored 1314 and Yan Qingshan deliberately scored 1300, then began the Soul Manipulation test. Yan Qingshan collected beads with exceptional speed, but Cao Ying pushed herself to exceed his total, and he gave her a Soul Nourishing Pill.

• Qiu Ji, Bai Ying, and Dan Xuan tested their Soul Values, scoring 587, 655, and 802 respectively.
• Cao Ying unleashed a powerful soul storm and scored 1314, stunning everyone in the hall.
• Yan Qingshan scored exactly 1300 without displaying obvious soul fluctuations, then teased Cao Ying when she asked how he had controlled the result.
• Elder Sheng began the Soul Manipulation test, and Yan Qingshan used a vortex of soul power to gather one hundred Soul Measurement Beads quickly.
• Qiu Yun, Bai Ying, and Dan Xuan stopped before matching Yan Qingshan, while Cao Ying pushed herself to collect more than one hundred beads.
• Yan Qingshan put an arm around the exhausted Cao Ying and forced a Soul Nourishing Pill into her mouth.

Cao Ying proposed replacing the final soul-strength test with a pill-refining contest, and the examination shifted to a contest in which she and Yan Qingshan revealed powerful flames and rare cauldrons. As they began refining ambitious seventh-tier pills, the chapter left the outcome undecided.

• Cao Ying agreed to Elder Sheng’s second-round results, then proposed testing the contestants through pill refinement instead of another soul-strength contest.
• Elder Sheng accepted the change after Yan Qingshan and the other contestants raised no objections, and the five selected ingredients for their pills.
• Cao Ying brought out the Mountain Melt Cauldron, while Yan Qingshan revealed the likely Myriad Beast Cauldron and prepared to refine a Bone-Fusing Blood Pill for Venerable Tianhuo.
• Cao Ying revealed her Myriad Spirit Demonic Flame, and Yan Qingshan answered with his Transformed Yang Flame, which he said was condensed from the Ye Clan’s Sunflame.
• Cao Ying began refining what Xuan Kongzi identified as a Profound Bodhi Foundation Pill, while Yan Qingshan prepared to refine his high seventh-tier pill.

As the Pill Tower trial’s finalists completed their pills, Yan Qingshan used Core Soul Marrow during refinement and broke through to the Spirit Realm. Cao Ying completed a peak seventh-grade pill while Yan Qingshan’s puppet shielded her from Pill Lightning, and the chapter left the trial’s final outcome unresolved.

• Qiu Yun completed a low seventh-grade Instant Qi Pill, followed by Bai Ying, who lowered his Cold Yin Pill to low seventh-grade to prevent his cauldron from exploding.
• Dan Xuan withstood powerful Pill Lightning and completed a middle seventh-grade Pure Heart Pill.
• Cao Ying completed a peak seventh-grade Profound Bodhi Foundation Pill, while Yan Qingshan summoned a silver puppet to absorb the Pill Lightning for her.
• Yan Qingshan refined a dark-red pill in his Myriad Beast Cauldron and used Core Soul Marrow while maintaining the refinement.
• Yan Qingshan’s soul broke through to the Spirit Realm, shocking Elder Sheng and the Pill Tower Three Giants.

Yan Qingshan won the Five Great Clans assessment for the Ye Clan by refining an eighth-grade, three-colored spirit pill. He then left to begin Venerable Tianhuo’s rebirth in a body grown from his own skeletal remains, leaving the final fusion to Venerable Tianhuo.

• Yan Qingshan used three kinds of Heavenly Flame to refine the Bone-Fusing Blood Pill into an eighth-grade spirit pill that summoned three-colored Pill Lightning.
• The Earth Demonic Puppet withstood the Pill Lightning and began advancing toward the strength of a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Elder Sheng announced the Ye Clan as the assessment champion, and Yan Qingshan quickly departed after giving Cao Ying, Tang Huo'er, and the others a few instructions.
• Yan Qingshan showed Venerable Tianhuo the body he had cultivated from his jade-like bones and prepared it with the Bone-Fusing Blood Pill and eight-star Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast essence blood.
• Venerable Tianhuo entered the body as Yan Qingshan enveloped it in flames, beginning the rebirth process that Venerable Tianhuo would have to complete himself.

Yan Qingshan asked the Pill Tower’s three chairmen to support his nomination as a giant candidate, arguing that his political skills could help the Tower manage its many interests. The chairmen heard his case, but the chapter ended before they decided whether to back him.

• Venerable Tianhuo regained his physical body and full strength, then entered seclusion while Yan Qingshan went to handle Pill Tower matters.
• Yan Qingshan met Elder Sheng, who arranged an audience with Xuan Kongzi.
• Yan Qingshan recognized Heavenly Thunder Child and Xuan Yi, then discussed his reputation and the Yao Clan’s talented alchemist Yao Ling with the three chairmen.
• Yan Qingshan asked the three chairmen to support his nomination as a Pill Tower giant candidate and showed them endorsements from most of the Five Great Clans and the eight Grand Elders.
• Yan Qingshan explained how his background and political skills could benefit the Pill Tower as he analyzed its internal and external challenges.

Yan Qingshan informed the Pill Tower Three Giants that he planned to travel to the Northwestern Continent and presented them with his new body-refinement method. At the Pill Fragrance Hall, he confronted Song Qing, reconciled with Cao Ying, and left with her before his journey.

• Yan Qingshan persuaded Xuan Kongzi, Heavenly Thunder Child, and Xuan Yi that he could help manage the Pill Tower, then told them he planned to visit the Northwestern Continent and gave them his body-refinement research.
• The Three Giants examined Yan Qingshan's method and agreed that the Small Pill Tower's seniors would be interested in it.
• Yan Qingshan found Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Tang Huo'er, and Ye Xinlan at the Pill Fragrance Hall, where Song Qing was trying to court them.
• Yan Qingshan pulled Cao Ying into his embrace, warned Song Qing away from the women, and kissed Cao Ying in front of the onlookers.
• Cao Ying asked Yan Qingshan how long he would be gone, accepted his apology, and asked him to comfort her before he left.
• Yan Qingshan carried Cao Ying away with him, while Dan Chen, Tang Huo'er, and Ye Xinlan departed and Song Qing was left humiliated.

Yan Qingshan returned to Jia Nan Academy through a new Spatial Wormhole linking the Inner Academy to Holy Pill City. After learning that Xiao Yi Xian had secluded herself in the Endless Forest Sea, he went to find her, while Xiao Yan and Old Ya discussed the Fallen Heart Flame and the strange spatial fluctuations.

• Venerable Tianhuo opened a Spatial Wormhole from Holy Pill City toward the Black Corner Region, and Yan Qingshan left with him as Venerable Kuyi stayed behind to stabilize the passage.
• Yan Qingshan and Venerable Tianhuo arrived above Jia Nan Academy in a Spatial Ship, startling Grand Elder Su Qian, Hu Gan, Elder Qian, and Elder Bai.
• Yan Qingshan told Grand Elder Su Qian that he planned to connect the Inner Academy to Holy Pill City, and the Academy's elders were astonished to learn he had reached the Dou Zong realm.
• Yan Qingshan learned that Xiao Yi Xian had secluded herself in a swamp in the Endless Forest Sea and immediately left to find her.
• Xiao Yan and Old Ya noticed the powerful spatial fluctuations from the Inner Academy and discussed the Fallen Heart Flame beneath it, which could help Xiao Yan cultivate faster.

Yan Qingshan found Xiao Yi Xian in a poisonous marsh and captured the sentient Netherworld Poison Flame. Reunited with her, he promised to take her home so they could prepare to resolve her Poisonous Body of Misfortune.

• Xiao Yan lamented his slow cultivation to Old Ya and resented that Ling Quan had become a Dou Emperor.
• Xiao Yi Xian investigated strange activity in the poisonous marsh and discovered an emerald-flamed bird drawn to the depths of the swamp.
• Yan Qingshan arrived, recognized the bird as the Netherworld Poison Flame, and captured it with two Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Yan Qingshan, and they embraced before he soothed her to sleep.
• Yan Qingshan recalled that his alchemy and Transformed Yang Flame could meet the conditions for refining the Poison Pill, then carried Xiao Yi Xian home with the captured flame.

Yan Qingshan reunited with Xiao Yan and Old Ya, refused to trade away the Netherworld Poison Flame, and negotiated a different exchange that would help Old Ya prepare for resurrection and Xiao Yan improve his flame cultivation. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan accepting Yan Qingshan’s offerings while Old Ya handed over his scrolls and pill formulas.

• Yan Qingshan returned to Jia Nan Inner Academy with the Netherworld Poison Flame, drawing attention from Venerable Tianhuo and Xiao Yan.
• Yan Qingshan refused Xiao Yan’s request to trade for the Netherworld Poison Flame and criticized him for relying too heavily on Old Ya.
• Yan Qingshan offered Old Ya a seventh-tier beast’s blood essence, a Dou Zong corpse, and his insights into refining a body, in exchange for information about the Poisonous Body of Misfortune and the Nine Yin Yellow Spring Pill formula.
• Yan Qingshan offered a Modified Flame Manipulation Art and access to the flame lizards beneath the Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda to persuade Old Ya to accept the trade.
• Old Ya agreed to the exchange, Xiao Yan took Yan Qingshan’s offerings, and Old Ya left several scrolls and pill formulas behind.

Yan Qingshan helped Xiao Yi Xian unleash and control her Poisonous Body of Misfortune using the Netherworld Poison Flame, three fused Heavenly Flames, and Bodhi Transforming Saliva. Xiao Yi Xian began condensing the poison into a pill, while Yan Qingshan withdrew to wait for her to finish.

• Yan Qingshan prepared the Green Lotus Seat, the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast’s Magic Core, and Bodhi Transforming Saliva before Xiao Yi Xian began the dangerous treatment.
• Yan Qingshan destroyed the seal on Xiao Yi Xian’s Poisonous Body of Misfortune and used the Netherworld Poison Flame and fused Heavenly Flames to drive the spreading poison into her lower abdomen.
• Yan Qingshan placed the Magic Core within Xiao Yi Xian, refined the Bodhi Transforming Saliva into a Bodhi Seed, and used the remaining liquid to restore her vitality.
• Yan Qingshan urged Xiao Yi Xian to compress the poison and refine the Netherworld Poison Flame into a poison pill, and she began condensing the poison around the Magic Core.
• Yan Qingshan saw that Xiao Yi Xian’s aura had stabilized, withdrew his hands, and waited for her to emerge from seclusion.

Xiao Yi Xian emerged from seclusion after refining the Poison Pill, gaining control of her Poisonous Body of Misfortune and breaking through to three-star Dou Zun. As Yan Qingshan celebrated with her, he learned that Xuelan and the others had been managing the organizations he left behind, prompting him to reflect on their quiet devotion.

• The Heavenly Flame Refining Pagoda shook as Xiao Yi Xian’s jade-colored flames erupted and formed a vast firebird, revealing her breakthrough to Dou Zun.
• Yan Qingshan confirmed to Venerable Tianhuo that Xiao Yi Xian had succeeded, and she emerged to embrace him before the astonished academy crowd.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that the Poison Pill had brought her Poisonous Body of Misfortune under control and said she was probably a three-star Dou Zun.
• Yan Qingshan asked about Xuelan, and Xiao Yi Xian told him that Xuelan, Xiao Yu, Mentor Ruolin, and the others had been managing his organizations.
• Yan Qingshan reflected on how the women who had supported him, especially Xuelan, had devoted themselves to him while he failed to notice.

Yan Qingshan and Xiao Yi Xian visited Beast King Valley, where Xiao Yan encountered Lin Yan and felt humiliated by Yan Qingshan’s indifference. Yan Qingshan reunited with Xuelan and promised to visit the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to bring Qingling back.

• Yan Qingshan took Xiao Yi Xian to Beast King Valley’s monthly market, where Xiao Yan searched for herbs and found an Azure Wood Immortal Vine.
• Lin Yan confronted Xiao Yan over his plan to challenge for first place on the Strong Ranking, then greeted Yan Qingshan, who gave him Ice Spirit Calming Pills.
• Xiao Yan learned the pills were seventh-tier mid-grade and resented Yan Qingshan’s disregard for him.
• Yan Qingshan gave the Snow Demon Heavenly Ape an improved Demonic Transformation Pill and accepted its Earth Core Body Tempering Liquid.
• Yan Qingshan reunited with Xuelan, comforted her, and said they would visit the Heavenly Serpent Mansion to bring Qingling back.

Yan Qingshan arrived at the Heavenly Serpent Mansion with Venerable Tianhuo, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xuelan to fulfill a promise and take someone away. The Mansion Master confronted them, and Qingling learned that the visitors had come while she was in the garden.

• Yan Qingshan surveyed the Heavenly Serpent Mansion’s powerful terrain formation and relied on Venerable Tianhuo’s restored strength for their visit.
• Qingling told Lv Man she still believed Yan Qingshan would come for her, while Lv Man described the growing alliance among the four great empires.
• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion detected the visitors, and its Mansion Master led its experts into the sky to confront them.
• Venerable Tianhuo introduced himself and explained that Yan Qingshan had come to take someone away.
• The Mansion Master assessed Yan Qingshan and his companions, then asked whom Yan Qingshan had come to find.

Yan Qingshan confronted the Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master to reclaim Qingling, his former maidservant, and overcame the mansion’s resistance with his allies’ strength and his standing as an eighth-tier alchemist. He brought Qingling back with him, along with White Fang and Lv Man.

• Yan Qingshan revealed that he had come to fulfill his promise and bring Qingling home, but the Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master raised a barrier to keep her inside.
• Qingling recognized Yan Qingshan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xuelan, and Lv Man confirmed that they were her companions from the past.
• Xiao Yi Xian displayed her Poisonous Body of Misfortune, and Yan Qingshan presented his Danta eighth-tier alchemist badge and overwhelmed the mansion with his soul force.
• The Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master relented and released Qingling, who ran into Yan Qingshan’s arms.
• Yan Qingshan left with Qingling, White Fang, and Lv Man, while the Heavenly Serpent Mansion Master warned his son not to provoke him.

Yan Qingshan entered the Gate of Life and Death to investigate the secret treasure that might help him become a Dou Emperor. He found Nalan Yanran sheltering from a deadly energy storm, and the chapter ended with her asking what secret he had discovered.

• Yan Qingshan asked Yun Yun to let him enter the Gate of Life and Death, and she warned him that Yanran was cultivating inside.
• Yan Qingshan encountered the realm’s remnant souls, discovered that defeating them produced energy crystals, and ignored them as he searched for the secret ground’s core.
• Yan Qingshan sensed an approaching energy storm and flew toward a glowing refuge, where he found Nalan Yanran.
• Nalan Yanran explained that the glowing place could withstand the storm, and Yan Qingshan told her the realm concealed a secret unknown to the Misty Cloud Sect.