Recaps

Wei Yang and his companions left the Pill Realm, where Xian'er had entered the Spirit Realm, and faced the final Pill Gathering competition. Wei Yang won with a Five-Colored Pill Lightning pill, then Xiao Yan matched his result, leaving Old Man Mu Gu furious as the story ended.

• Wei Yang subdued Xiong Zhan, gathered the rare medicinal ingredients with Xiao Yan and Xian'er, and refined Earth Core Soul Marrow that helped Xian'er enter the Spirit Realm.
• Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, Xian'er, and Ah Da left the Pill Realm and joined the final round, where Wei Yang recognized Old Man Mu Gu competing under a disguise.
• The contestants began refining their pills, and Wei Yang revealed his Black Sun Burning Heaven Flame before preparing a One Beginning Pill.
• As the competition narrowed, Dan Chen, Cao Ying, Xiao Yan, Xian'er, and Old Monster Qing Hua produced increasingly powerful pills, while Old Man Mu Gu drew Four-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Wei Yang released his pill and drew Five-Colored Pill Lightning, winning the championship over Old Man Mu Gu.
• Xiao Yan used Blood Sacrifice: Spirit Return to strengthen his pill and also drew Five-Colored Pill Lightning, matching Wei Yang.
• Old Man Mu Gu restrained his killing intent under the judges’ scrutiny, while Wei Yang and Xiao Yan taunted him until he spat blood and shouted in fury.

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan shared the Pill Gathering championship and entered the Star Domain to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After exposing and defeating Old Man Mu Gu’s Soul Hall plot, they joined forces against the dragon and left it weakened as Xiao Yan’s Dragon Seal worked.

• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan endured the Five-Colored Pill Lightning, reaching Dou Zun and evolving Xiao Yan’s Earth Demon Puppet into a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• The Three Giants declared Wei Yang and Xiao Yan joint champions of the Pill Gathering and named them candidates for future Pill Tower giants.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan prepared to enter the Star Domain, where Zi Yan gave Xiao Yan a Dragon Seal and ancient dragon blood to use on the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Wei Yang approached the sealed dragon but failed to subdue it, while Old Man Mu Gu and the other contestants also failed.
• Old Man Mu Gu tried to break the dragon’s seal, but Wei Yang destroyed his hidden seal and exposed his plot, triggering a battle with Soul Hall’s forces.
• Wei Yang captured Old Man Mu Gu and his Sub-Flame of Nihility Devouring Flame, then began a Soul Battle with the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xian'er and Xiao Yan helped defeat or drive off the Soul Hall attackers, and Xiao Yan used the Dragon Seal to enter the flame’s source space beside Wei Yang.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted across the Star Domain, but Wei Yang and Xiao Yan remained protected as Xiao Yan drew on the Dragon Seal and the flame’s source weakened.

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan subdued Three Thousand Burning Flame, grew stronger, and led a raid on a Soul Hall branch to rescue Elder Yao. The arc ended with Elder Yao reunited with them in Holy Pill City, where he began recovering while the group prepared to restore his body.

• Wei Yang cultivated in the Star Domain while Xiao Yan refined Three Thousand Burning Flame into Three Thousand Dragon Heart Flame and advanced to Peak One-star Dou Venerate.
• Xiao Yan compressed the remaining flames into Fire Thunder Orbs, and he and Wei Yang emerged from the Star Domain after Wei Yang made the fire sea retreat.
• The Alchemist Tower revealed that Soul Hall had hidden Elder Yao in a branch hall in the Mountain Range of the Departed Souls, and Wei Yang and Xiao Yan assembled allies for a rescue.
• Zi Yan captured a Stone Devouring Ant Queen that guided the group to the branch, where Wei Yang’s forces attacked while Xiao Yan searched for Elder Yao.
• Xiao Yan rescued Elder Yao as Wei Yang and Xian'er fought the Black and White Heavenly Venerates, then Wei Yang destroyed the valley and the arriving Soul Hall reinforcements with Ten Black Suns.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan reunited with Elder Yao in Holy Pill City, where Elder Yao met Wei Yang’s children and identified their physiques.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan discussed restoring Elder Yao’s body, with Magical Beast essence blood still needed and Elder Yao’s soul requiring further recovery.

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan entered the Ancient Ruins seeking the Soul Infant Fruit to restore Elder Yao and a Heaven Tier Dou Technique. They secured the fruit, uncovered a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and ancient remains, and ended up isolating a transformed pill in the Pill Hall.

• After refining the Life-Extinguishing Flame into his bloodline, Wei Yang returned with Xiao Yan to their families and learned that Elder Yao needed a rare Soul Infant Fruit or Spirit Dragon Sky Ganoderma to restore his Origin Soul Qi.
• Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, and their companions traveled to the Beast Region, survived the Space Storm at the Ancient Ruins, and entered the Dou Saint’s tomb through a deadly Fire Path.
• The group found a hidden medicinal forest, where Zi Yan subdued the guardian of the Soul Infant Fruit Tree and Wei Yang and Xiao Yan secured two fruits.
• Zi Yan led the group to a Beast Spirit Barrier, where she absorbed a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and asked Wei Yang to take her ancestor’s skeleton home.
• The remnant souls of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix emerged, and the dragon destroyed the phoenix’s remnant before Wei Yang sealed its fragments for Ah Da.
• Wei Yang destroyed the altar and crimson plain, while Ah Da drove off the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members who confronted him outside the barrier.
• Wei Yang’s group continued through the ruins to the Pill Hall, where they found a transformed pill close to Grade 9, and Ah Da shut the chamber door at Wei Yang’s signal.