Chapter Summaries

The final round of the Pill Convention began, with Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and other alchemists displaying powerful flames. Yan Qingshan stunned the spectators by revealing a Bodhi Seed, leaving them to wonder whether he had found the legendary Ten-Thousand-Year Bodhi Tree.

• The contestants chose platforms and began the final round, while Yan Qingshan claimed the central position for himself and his companions.
• Old Ya, Xuan Yi, and Venerable Feng watched the young alchemists and discussed Cao Ying's talent and opportunities.
• Dan Chen, Ye Xinlan, and other Danta alchemists displayed refined spirit flames, while Xiao Yan revealed a Heavenly Flame formed from the Sea Heart Flame and Profound Yellow Flame.
• Cao Ying summoned the Myriad Beast Demonic Flame, a newly created flame powerful enough to rival the top ten Heavenly Flames.
• Yan Qingshan ended his long preparation by revealing a Bodhi Seed, prompting the spectators to question whether he intended to refine a Bodhi Pill and had found the Ten-Thousand-Year Bodhi Tree.

Yan Qingshan began refining a Bodhi Pill at the Pill Convention, using his formidable soul power and Heavenly Flames to bring the ingredients together. As the final round continued, top alchemists produced increasingly powerful pills, while Yan Qingshan prepared to complete his own.

• Yan Qingshan used his three-colored Heavenly Flames and precise control to refine the Bodhi Pill’s auxiliary ingredients, impressing Heavenly Thunder Child, Xuan Yi, and Old Ya.
• After seven days, Yan Qingshan merged the Bodhi Seed into the refined spiritual liquid, leading the Pill Tower experts to predict that he was likely to take first place.
• Pill Lightning began appearing across the plaza as contestants refined sixth- and seventh-grade pills, while failures forced many alchemists to withdraw.
• Song Qing refined a seventh-grade peak pill approaching the level of an Eighth-Grade Spirit Pill, and Cao Xiu, Dan Xuan, and others soon completed high-tier pills as well.
• Ye Xinlan refined a seventh-grade peak pill whose Pill Lightning showed traces of azure, revealing that it had nearly reached the level of an eighth-grade pill.

At the Pill Convention, Dan Chen, Xiao Yan, Old Monster Qinghua, and Cao Ying produced pills that summoned increasingly impressive Pill Lightning. Yan Qingshan completed a Bodhi Pill with nine-colored Pill Lightning, which his Heavenly Demon Puppet endured, and the Convention ended with the pill in his hands.

• Dan Chen opened her cauldron and summoned three-colored Pill Lightning, followed by Xiao Yan and Old Monster Qinghua producing pills with the same phenomenon.
• Cao Ying refined a pill that summoned four-colored Pill Lightning, nearly reaching five colors.
• Yan Qingshan used the Object Condensation Pill Containment Technique to form a Nine-Tailed White Fox phantom around his pill, drawing seven-colored Pill Lightning that absorbed the others' lightning.
• Old Ya warned that Yan Qingshan might need help against the nine-colored Pill Lightning, while Heavenly Thunder Child prepared to intervene.
• Yan Qingshan summoned his purple-gold Heavenly Demon Puppet, which struck the nine-colored lightning and endured it until the thunderclouds dispersed.
• Yan Qingshan held a lifelike Nine-Tailed White Fox as the Pill Convention came to an end.

Yan Qingshan won the Pill Convention with his Nine-Colored Divine Pill, then learned of Soul Hall's plans before entering the Star Region with the top ten to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. As Cao Ying began the attempt, trouble erupted at the entrance and Yan Qingshan rushed to confront it.

• Heavenly Thunder Child named Yan Qingshan the Pill Convention champion after his pill manifested as a tangible Nine-Tailed White Fox.
• Yan Qingshan learned from Xiao Yi Xian that Old Man Mugu had revealed Soul Hall's plans and ordered Qingling to make him cooperate with Hun Miesheng's intentions.
• Elder Qiu Ling led the top ten into the Star Region, where they found the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame in the form of a massive dragon.
• Qiu Ling told Yan Qingshan to attempt subduing the flame first, but disturbances at the Star Region entrance prompted Yan Qingshan to leave and investigate.
• Cao Ying flew to the dragon's forehead and pressed the exposed scale to begin her attempt.

Yan Qingshan exposed the Soul Hall’s scheme at the Pill Tower and provoked its Heavenly Venerates into a confrontation. The Soul Hall’s forces attacked, and Xuan Yi and Heavenly Thunder Child began fighting Blood River and Third Heavenly Venerate.

• Third Heavenly Venerate confronted Heavenly Thunder Child over the Pill Tower’s detention of Old Man Mugu, and Yan Qingshan brought Mugu forward to confess to the Soul Hall’s plan.
• Third Heavenly Venerate struck at Mugu, who exploded into blood mist, allowing Yan Qingshan to accuse him of murder in public.
• Fourth Heavenly Venerate Blood River emerged and demanded an explanation for the destruction of sixteen Earth Fiend Branch Halls, while Yan Qingshan rejected the Soul Hall’s accusations.
• Six Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates gathered above Holy Pill City, and Heavenly Thunder Child and the Pill Tower refused to yield to their demands.
• Blood River attacked first, and Xuan Yi used blazing flames to suppress him as Heavenly Thunder Child charged at Third Heavenly Venerate.

Soul Hall attacked Holy Pill City and the Star Region, prompting Yan Qingshan and the Pill Tower’s forces to fight back. Yan Qingshan defeated and subdued Eighth Heavenly Venerate Qiudi, while the wider battle continued.

• Third Heavenly Venerate assigned Soul Hall’s forces to attack the Star Region and sent Fifth and Sixth Heavenly Venerates to help Fourth fight Xuan Yi.
• Yan Qingshan rallied Holy Pill City’s defenders and used twelve Heavenly Demon Puppets to trap the Soul Hall Heavenly Venerates.
• Xuan Yi and Heavenly Thunder Child teamed up against Third and Fourth Heavenly Venerates, while Yan Qingshan killed Soul Hall fighters across the city.
• Eighth Heavenly Venerate Qiudi escaped the puppet formation and attacked Yan Qingshan with powerful frost techniques that threatened Holy Pill City.
• Yan Qingshan countered Qiudi’s ice attacks with a forest of giant trees and vines, then subdued him and left him impaled on a vine.

Soul Hall Venerable Elders used spatial jade slips to enter the Star Region and attack Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Elder Qiu Ling and Old Monster Qinghua fought to stop them. The Black and White Heavenly Venerates began a soul array to bind the Heavenly Flame, and Venerate Qinghai threatened Song Qing as the battle escalated.

• Two infiltrators crushed spatial jade slips, allowing five Soul Hall Venerable Elders, including the Black and White Heavenly Venerates, to enter the Star Region.
• The Soul Hall elders formed the Myriad Soul Devouring Spirit Array and bound Three Thousand Burning Flame with the Myriad Soul Heavenly Lock, then sent swarms of controlled souls against it.
• Old Monster Qinghua struck the elder facing Elder Qiu Ling and joined the fight against the Soul Hall forces.
• The Black and White Heavenly Venerates called for the Life Soul Locks while Venerate Qinghai engaged Elder Qiu Ling and threatened Song Qing.
• Elder Qiu Ling rushed to protect Song Qing, and Old Monster Qinghua killed the two Soul Hall infiltrators.

Yan Qingshan revealed that he had already subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and used its power to destroy Soul Hall’s forces at the Star Region and Holy Pill City. After killing Eighth Heavenly Venerate Qiudi, he attacked Blood River Heavenly Venerate as the battle escalated.

• The awakened Purple Dragon Flame Spirit revealed Danta’s decoy plan and burned the four Soul Hall Venerable Elders and Venerate Qinghai to ashes.
• Elder Qiu Ling explained that the Ancient Void Dragon clan had helped Yan Qingshan subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and that he had won the right to claim it as Pill Convention champion.
• Yan Qingshan absorbed the flame outside the Star Region, raised his cultivation, and killed Eighth Heavenly Venerate Qiudi.
• Yan Qingshan joined Heavenly Thunder Child and Xuan Yi against Blood River Heavenly Venerate, whose blood arts failed to overcome Yan Qingshan’s Dragon-Phoenix Body and Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Blood River Heavenly Venerate devoured the blood of nearby Soul Hall fighters to strengthen himself, while Yan Qingshan’s clones helped kill the three Heavenly Venerates trapped in the puppet formation and their bodies were fed into the sea of blood.

Yan Qingshan defeated Fourth Heavenly Venerate, and Third Heavenly Venerate sacrificed Soul Hall’s remaining forces to break through to Half-Saint and attack Danta. Xuan Kongzi emerged as a stronger Half-Saint, drove Third Heavenly Venerate back, and left him vowing that Soul Hall’s conflict with Danta was not over.

• Fourth Heavenly Venerate used Blood Transformation Great Art and attacked Yan Qingshan with Blood Fiend Demonic Palm, but Yan Qingshan countered with the Five-Ring Blazing Fire Method and burned him severely.
• Fourth Heavenly Venerate turned into a river of blood and entered Third Heavenly Venerate, who absorbed his power as Heavenly Thunder Child and Xuan Yi watched.
• Third Heavenly Venerate used Myriad Souls Blood Devour to sacrifice the surviving Soul Hall experts and forcibly break through to Half-Saint.
• Third Heavenly Venerate attacked Xuan Yi and Heavenly Thunder Child, but Xuan Kongzi appeared and struck him down with a powerful blow.
• Third Heavenly Venerate retreated after realizing Xuan Kongzi’s strength and warned Danta that Soul Hall would seek revenge.

Yan Qingshan and the Pill Tower fought to keep Third Heavenly Venerate from escaping, but Soul Hall’s Half-Saint experts intervened. Qingling and two Dou Saint puppets joined Yan Qingshan, leaving the Soul Hall Great Heavenly Venerate facing overwhelming opposition.

• Yan Qingshan trapped Third Heavenly Venerate with the Pill Tower Three Giants and struck at him with Yellow Springs Finger, but Second Heavenly Venerate Gu You emerged and stopped the attack.
• Yan Qingshan ordered Qingling to fight Gu You, and her Nine-Headed Heavenly Serpent phantom shattered his Dark Skeleton King while Yan Qingshan killed Third Heavenly Venerate.
• A mysterious Soul Hall expert rescued Gu You from Qingling’s attack, then revealed himself as the Soul Hall Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Qingling summoned Yaoxiaotian and the Nine Serene Deep Ground Python tribe’s Grand Elder as one-star Dou Saint puppets, joining her against the Great Heavenly Venerate.
• Yan Qingshan explained that Yaoming had captured the two former tribe leaders and handed them over to him.

After Soul Hall’s failed assault on the Pill Tower, Yan Qingshan secured Starfall Pavilion’s support and prepared to succeed as a Pill Tower giant. News of his nine-colored Bodhi Pill and the Pill Tower’s strength spread across the continent, drawing powerful factions toward the succession ceremony a month later.

• The Small Pill Tower Grand Elder confronted Soul Hall Great Heavenly Venerate and Second Heavenly Venerate, forcing them to withdraw after Yan Qingshan challenged Hun Miesheng.
• Venerable Feng and Venerable Yao discussed Soul Hall’s losses and Yan Qingshan’s Dou Saint maid as Xiao Yan brooded over his disadvantage compared with Yan Qingshan.
• Yan Qingshan gave Xiao Yan soul cultivation techniques and skills, and gave Old Ya Third Heavenly Venerate’s corpse, magical beast blood essence, and a Bone-Fusing Blood Pill as compensation from the Pill Tower.
• Old Ya agreed that Starfall Pavilion would ally with the Pill Tower against Soul Hall, while Yan Qingshan announced that he would become a Pill Tower giant in one month.
• Reports of Soul Hall’s defeat, Qingling’s strength, and Yan Qingshan’s nine-colored Bodhi Pill spread across the continent, prompting powerful factions to take interest in the upcoming succession ceremony.

Yan Qingshan took office as the Pill Tower’s youngest Giant during a ceremony attended by the Small Pill Tower elders, ancient Imperial Clans, and factions from across the Central Plains. The gathered guests watched him closely, many hoping to obtain the Nine-Colored Bodhi Pill.

• Crowds and powerful guests filled Holy Pill City for the Pill Tower Giant succession ceremony, drawn in part by the Nine-Colored Bodhi Pill.
• The seven elders of the Small Pill Tower and other secluded alchemists arrived, and Xuan Kongzi’s voice announced the start of the ceremony.
• Xuan Kongzi formally relinquished his position and named Yan Qingshan as the next Pill Tower Giant.
• Yan Qingshan took the altar’s center and recognized representatives of the Yao, Stone, Spirit, Lei, Yan, and Gu Clans among the assembled guests.
• Yan Qingshan surveyed the expectant crowd, whose members had come seeking the Bodhi Pill, and prepared to address them.

Yan Qingshan took over as the Pill Tower’s youngest giant after revealing that Bodhi Transforming Saliva could yield Bodhi Seeds when refined with Heavenly Flames. As the faction delegations departed, he greeted Mang Qianchi and received a jade invitation from the Gu Clan.

• Yan Qingshan opened a jade box at the succession ceremony and explained the connection between Bodhi Transforming Saliva, Bodhi Trees, and the legendary Bodhi Heart.
• Yan Qingshan refined the Bodhi Transforming Saliva with Heavenly Flames, extracted a Bodhi Seed, and announced that the Pill Tower would purchase the substance long-term.
• The succession ceremony proceeded without interruption, Xuan Kongzi handed over his responsibilities, and Yan Qingshan became the youngest giant in Pill Tower history.
• Mang Qianchi recognized Yan Qingshan as a Jia Nan Academy student, praised his disclosure, and learned that the Pill Tower had already bought the Bodhi Transforming Saliva available on the market.
• A Gu Clan elder approached Yan Qingshan and handed him a black jade invitation.

Yan Qingshan explained that he intended to use Xiao Yan and Starfall Pavilion’s inevitable conflict with Soul Hall to divert pressure from Danta and draw the Hun Clan into a wider war among the ancient clans. Later, as Soul Hall and Starfall Pavilion went to war, he told Cao Ying to secretly support Starfall Pavilion if needed and continued investigating a way to adapt the Myriad Spirit Demonic Flame Refinement Method to other attributes.

• Yan Qingshan received an invitation from Ling Ying to attend the Gu Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony and said he would bring people from Danta.
• Yan Qingshan told Xiao Yi Xian that Xiao Yan carried the Xiao Clan’s piece of the Imperial Jade and that Starfall Pavilion’s conflict with Soul Hall could entangle the Hun Clan.
• Yan Qingshan explained that he hoped to use the conflict to draw the ancient Imperial Clans into war sooner.
• Cao Ying reported that Soul Hall and Starfall Pavilion had gone to war, and Yan Qingshan instructed her to help Starfall Pavilion secretly if Soul Hall gained the upper hand.
• Yan Qingshan told Cao Ying that he was studying whether the Myriad Spirit Demonic Flame Refinement Method could be adapted to attributes other than fire.

Yan Qingshan learned that Yun Yun’s position as Flower Sect Master was threatened by Hua Jin’s proposed alliance with the Heavenly Underworld Sect. He traveled to the Flower Sect with Nalan Yanran and reunited with Yun Yun, leaving the dispute unresolved for the moment.

• Cao Ying understood Yan Qingshan’s plan to develop methods for refining the Power of Origin from different attributes, and she flirted with him in Danta’s main hall.
• Nalan Yanran told Yan Qingshan that Hua Jin was seeking an alliance with the Heavenly Underworld Sect through the Demonic Flower Evil Lord, while Yun Yun hesitated to use her authority against Hua Jin.
• Yan Qingshan and Nalan Yanran traveled from Holy Pill City to the Flower Sect and crossed its flower-based protective formation.
• Yan Qingshan reunited with Yun Yun in the Flower Sect’s main hall, and she explained that she had tolerated Hua Jin until the threat of a coup became clear.
• Yan Qingshan promised to resolve the Flower Sect’s troubles, then took Yun Yun to her bedroom while Nalan Yanran tidied the main hall.

Yun Yun rejected Hua Jin’s proposed alliance with the Heavenly Underworld Sect and introduced Yan Qingshan as an envoy from the Danta Alliance. When the Demonic Flower Evil Lord challenged Yan Qingshan, Yan Qingshan effortlessly destroyed his attack and dou qi giant.

• Yun Yun gathered the Flower Sect elders and announced that she opposed an alliance with the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• Hua Jin and the Demonic Flower Evil Lord argued that the Flower Sect needed the alliance, while Yun Yun questioned Hua Jin’s motives and past concessions.
• Yun Yun introduced Yan Qingshan as an envoy from the Danta Alliance and proposed an alliance with it instead.
• The Demonic Flower Evil Lord demanded proof of Yan Qingshan’s identity and attacked him with spatial cracks.
• Yan Qingshan nullified the Demonic Flower Evil Lord’s attacks and used vines to engulf and disperse his dou qi giant.

Yan Qingshan revealed himself as a Danta Alliance giant and sought an alliance with the Flower Sect, whose elders weighed the risks of being drawn into conflict with the Soul Hall. The Flower Sect’s Grand Elders approved the alliance, while the Danta Alliance’s support for Starfall Pavilion’s war against the Soul Hall remained in place.

• Demonic Flower Evil Lord recognized Yan Qingshan’s strength, and Yan confirmed that he was a giant of the Danta Alliance.
• Yan explained that the Danta Alliance wanted to ally with the Flower Sect to strengthen their influence against the Soul Hall, and the Flower Sect’s Great Elder and two Grand Elders arrived.
• Fairy Hua ordered Hua Jin and Demonic Flower Evil Lord to leave the Flower Sect and warned the Heavenly Underworld Sect to abandon its schemes.
• Yan described the Danta Alliance’s secret support for Starfall Pavilion and argued that an alliance would deter the Soul Hall from attacking.
• Fairy Qing agreed to ally with the Danta Alliance, and Yan thanked the Flower Sect’s Grand Elders.

Yan Qingshan and Qingling traveled to Ancient Saint City for the Ancient Clan's Coming-of-Age Ceremony, where Yan Qingshan intended to stoke the conflict between the Ancient Clan and the Hun Clan. At the city gates, he confronted Ling Quan, who backed down after threatening to bar their way.

• Qingling told Yan Qingshan that Xiao Yi Xian was still collecting and refining poisons, so Yan Qingshan brought Qingling with him to the Ancient Clan's ceremony.
• Yan Qingshan and Qingling rode a Nine Serene Deep Ground Python from the Pill Region to the Eastern Region and continued on to Ancient Saint City.
• Qingling explained that the city was protected by a barrier containing Dou Emperor power and that visitors had to approach on foot.
• At the city gates, Ling Quan questioned why Danta had sent only Yan Qingshan and Qingling.
• Ling Quan ordered the Black Annihilation Army to aim their spears at the pair, but Yan Qingshan warned him of the consequences of attacking a Danta guest.
• Ling Quan reconsidered, and Yan Qingshan asked to enter the city after completing the proper procedures.

Yan Qingshan entered Ancient Saint City with Qingling and watched Yang Hao challenge Xiao Yan at a tavern. Xiao Yan defeated the stronger Black Annihilation Army commander with the Mountain Splitting Seal, leaving Yang Hao injured.

• Yan Qingshan persuaded Ling Quan to let him and Qingling enter Ancient Saint City, then they settled into the Gu Clan’s guest manor.
• Yan Qingshan and Qingling went to a tavern and saw Xiao Yan arrive with his group while Yang Hao and Ling Quan watched from above.
• Yang Hao announced a sparring match with Xiao Yan, who recognized the challenge as a setup but accepted it.
• Yang Hao attacked Xiao Yan with powerful Dou Skills, but Xiao Yan disrupted his hand seal and struck him off the stone platform with the Mountain Splitting Seal.

Xiao Yan defeated Yang Hao, and the guests entered the Ancient Realm for the Ancient Clan’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony. There, Gu Zhen warned Yan Qingshan that the clan might see him as a better match for Xun'er than Xiao Yan, but Yan Qingshan said he would not interfere with her feelings.

• Xiao Yan defeated Yang Hao with the Emperor Seal Art, and Yang Hao warned that the Ancient Clan’s Elder Council would object to him using the clan’s secret art.
• Yan Qingshan noticed the Yan Clan delegation and the veiled woman who possessed the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, then spotted three Hun Clan figures approaching the tavern.
• Yan Qingshan and Qingling entered the Ancient Realm with the gathered guests and boarded one of the Ancient Clan’s Space Shuttle Boats.
• Yan Qingshan met Gu Zhen aboard the ship, and Gu Zhen apologized for Ling Quan’s earlier rudeness.
• Gu Zhen told Yan Qingshan that Xun'er resisted the clan’s opposition to marrying Xiao Yan and suggested that Yan Qingshan could be a more suitable match for her.
• Yan Qingshan said he had feelings for Xun'er but knew she cared deeply for Xiao Yan and had already made his position clear at Jia Nan Academy.