Chapter Summaries

After returning to Starfall Pavilion, Wei Yang and Xiao Yan discussed letting their children leave the Star Realm to gain experience while guarded against the Soul Clan. Elder Yao agreed they should go, but said he would arrange it after the Yao Clan’s Pill Ceremony, which would begin in one month.

• Wei Yang and the others returned to Starfall Pavilion after nearly three years away and settled back into family life.
• Xiao Yan and Wei Yang watched their children play and noted that Wei Ye and Wei Shuo had become Dou Zongs at fourteen or fifteen.
• Xiao Yan said the three younger ones wanted to go out and gain experience, but he had refused because the Soul Clan might still threaten them.
• Wei Yang proposed letting the children travel with Medusa, Xian'er, and Qing Lin secretly guarding them, alongside the Northern King and Southern King puppets.
• Elder Yao agreed the children should gain experience, but postponed the arrangements until after the Yao Clan's Pill Ceremony and said he would protect them himself.
• Elder Yao told Wei Yang and Xiao Yan that the Yao Clan's Pill Ceremony would begin in one month.

Elder Yao returned to the Yao Clan with Wei Yang and Xiao Yan for its Pill Ceremony, hoping to fulfill his parents’ wish by having his name carved on the Ancestral Clan Monument. They reached the Shennong Mountain Range at dusk and descended toward the clan’s ancient stone archway.

• Elder Yao told Wei Yang and Xiao Yan that he wanted to return to the Yao Clan and fulfill his promise to his parents.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan assured Elder Yao that they would support him, even if they had to use force against the Yao Clan.
• A month later, Elder Yao, Wei Yang, and Xiao Yan departed the Star Realm for the Yao Clan’s Pill Ceremony, leaving the others to guard their base.
• The three traveled across the continent and arrived at the Shennong Mountain Range, where Xiao Yan praised its dense natural energy.
• Elder Yao explained that a Yao Clan ancestor had spent centuries cultivating the mountain range, then led Wei Yang and Xiao Yan down above an abyss facing a colossal stone archway.

Yao Chen, Wei Yang, and Xiao Yan entered the Yao Clan’s Small World for the Pill Ceremony, where Yao Chen was overwhelmed by memories of his former home. Their reunion with the clan was interrupted when Yao Wangu approached to taunt Yao Chen.

• Xiao Yan announced that Yao Chen had been invited to the Pill Ceremony and released his aura, prompting the guards to recognize the three master and disciples and admit them.
• A Yao Clan guide led Yao Chen, Wei Yang, and Xiao Yan onto a giant bird that carried them across the Small World to the clan’s mountain.
• The three master and disciples arrived at the plaza, where Yao Chen stood silently, overcome by nostalgia as Wei Yang and Xiao Yan stayed beside him.
• Yao Wangu approached and mocked Yao Chen for returning after being expelled from the clan, and Wei Yang murmured that he regretted letting Yao Wangu leave the Demonic Flame Space alive.

Wei Yang confronted Yao Wangu at the Yao Clan’s Pill Ceremony, overpowered him and his followers, and threatened to kill him for his insults. Yao Wangu summoned the Yao Guards to attack Wei Yang and his two disciples, escalating the clash into a conflict with the entire Yao Clan.

• Yao Wangu approached Wei Yang and his two disciples, but Wei Yang struck him back with an invisible force before he could continue insulting them.
• Wei Yang warned Yao Wangu that he would silence him for good if he spoke out of turn again.
• When Yao Wangu continued to challenge him, Wei Yang pressed him and the other Yao Clan members to the ground with an invisible force.
• Yao Wangu called the Yao Guards and ordered them to seize Wei Yang and his two disciples.
• The Yao Guards surrounded the three and attacked, alarming the onlookers as the dispute turned into a clash with the Yao Clan.

Xiao Yan and Wei Yang confronted Yao Wangu and the Yao Clan after the Yao Guards attacked them, and Xiao Yan revealed his Five Star Late-stage strength. Wei Yang demanded an explanation and threatened war between Starfall Pavilion and the Yao Clan, leaving the Pill Ceremony in jeopardy.

• Xiao Yan shattered the Yao Guards’ spears and defeated them without killing them.
• Xiao Yan revealed his Five Star Late-stage aura, shocking Yao Wangu and the onlookers.
• Yao Clan elders arrived, and Yao Wangu accused Yao Chen and his disciples of attacking clansmen and urged the elders to capture them.
• Wei Yang swept Yao Wangu and the defeated guards aside, then said they had come as invited guests and would not tolerate abuse.
• Xiao Yan rebuked Yao Wangu for speaking carelessly, and Wei Yang threatened that Starfall Pavilion would declare war unless the Yao Clan gave them an explanation.

Wei Yang demanded an apology from the Yao Clan after Yao Wangu’s offense, threatening to destroy the clan when its elders refused. Elder Wanhuo arrived and defused the conflict, but Wei Yang left the final response to Elder Yao.

• Wei Yang rejected the Yao Clan elders’ attempt to settle the dispute without an apology and declared that they could go to war.
• Wei Yang prepared to unleash Black Sun Calamity, but Elder Wanhuo arrived and offered to give him an explanation.
• Elder Wanhuo apologized to Wei Yang, withdrew his attack, and slapped Yao Wangu before ordering him to reflect in confinement.
• Elder Wanhuo rebuked the Yao Clan elders and apologized to the guests on the clan’s behalf to avoid a costly war.
• Wei Yang accepted Elder Wanhuo’s conciliatory gesture and looked to Elder Yao to decide how the matter would end.

Yao Chen accepted Elder Wanhuo’s offer to end the confrontation over Yao Wangu, and the Yao Clan punished the members who had insulted its guests. Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, and Elder Yao then followed the clan elders to the mountaintop for the Pill Ceremony, ready to challenge the Yao Clan’s alchemists.

• Elder Yao agreed to stop pursuing Yao Wangu, recognizing that the Yao Clan had offered the best possible resolution.
• Wei Yang warned Elder Wanhuo that Starfall Pavilion would not tolerate further humiliation, and Elder Wanhuo apologized and promised to treat them as honored guests.
• Elder Wanhuo ordered the Iron Guards to take away Yao Wangu’s followers and gave them ten-year demotions from Medicine Mountain and three years of silence.
• Elder Wanhuo invited Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, and Elder Yao to the mountaintop for the Pill Ceremony and challenged the two Young Pavilion Masters to prove their alchemy skills.
• Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, and Elder Yao accepted the challenge and flew after the Yao Clan elders.

Yao Chen, Wei Yang, and Xiao Yan arrived at the Yao Clan’s Pill Ceremony, where their presence drew attention and Yao Chen’s former clan elders avoided greeting him. The Yao Clan Chief, Yao Dan, appeared and regarded Wei Yang with surprise at his strength and youth.

• Wei Yang, Yao Chen, and Xiao Yan joined Elder Wanhuo on the floating plaza as onlookers whispered about Yao Chen’s expulsion from the Yao Clan.
• Elder Yao encouraged Wei Yang and Xiao Yan to compete for the top alchemist titles, and Xiao Yan said he would aim for second place behind Wei Yang.
• The Yao Clan members welcomed their Clan Chief, Yao Dan, who entered through the clouds.
• Elder Yao identified Yao Dan as a Seven Star Dou Sheng, and Yao Dan exchanged looks with Yao Chen, Xiao Yan, and Wei Yang.
• Yao Dan was surprised that Wei Yang, despite appearing younger than forty, possessed strength comparable to his own.

Elder Shen Nong and Soul Void arrived at the Yao Clan’s Pill Ceremony, where Soul Void’s presence exposed the hostility between the Soul Clan and the Yao Clan. Soul Void challenged the ceremony’s legitimacy and claimed he wanted to compete for the title of the continent’s top alchemist.

• Yao Dan took his place at the ceremony, and Elder Shen Nong arrived on his medicinal cauldron, greeting Yao Dan and praising Wei Yang.
• Soul Void appeared above the mountaintop, and Elder Yao told Xiao Yan that Soul Void had been a Little Pill Tower spy who betrayed and wounded his master.
• Wei Yang realized Soul Void had come to scout ahead of the Soul Clan’s planned move against the Yao Clan and resolved to surprise him later.
• Yao Clan elders condemned Soul Void’s uninvited arrival, while Yao Dan and Elder Wanhuo questioned his intentions.
• Soul Void said he wanted to compete for the title of the continent’s top alchemist and challenged the credibility of the Pill Ceremony, provoking angry rebukes from the Yao Clan elders.

Yao Dan allowed Soul Void to stay for the Pill Ceremony despite the Yao Clan elders’ concerns. Wei Yang challenged Soul Void to a duel, but Soul Void steered the confrontation toward an alchemy contest as the ceremony began.

• Yao Dan warned Soul Void to obey the Yao Clan’s rules or face death, then permitted him to remain as a guest.
• Soul Void took a seat near Wei Yang and taunted Elder Yao about his past and his disciples.
• Wei Yang challenged Soul Void to a one-on-one fight after the Pill Ceremony and revealed that he had reached Seven Star.
• Soul Void declined the duel and proposed that they compete in Alchemy Technique during the Pill Ceremony instead.
• Yao Dan announced that the Pill Ceremony had begun.

The Yao Clan’s Pill Ceremony prelude ended after several days, with Yao Tian winning through his Nine-Colored Pill Lightning. The main event was about to begin as the foremost alchemists prepared to take the stage.

• The Yao Clan’s younger generation competed in the Pill Ceremony prelude while Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, and the other prominent figures watched.
• Yao Tian won the prelude after refining a pill that attracted Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.
• The Yao Clan elders celebrated their young alchemists, then grew frustrated when they compared Yao Tian with Wei Yang and Xiao Yan.
• As the crowd awaited the main event, Elder Yao named Soul Void, Elder Shen Nong, and Elder Wanhuo as expected competitors alongside Wei Yang and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan asked whether Yao Dan would compete, and Elder Yao explained that the Yao Clan patriarch had enough pride to stay out of the contest.
• Wei Yang teased Elder Yao about competing, but Elder Yao joked that he would never give his disciples the chance to defeat him.

Yao Dan announced the five competitors in the Pill Ceremony, and Wei Yang and Xiao Yan joined Soul Void, Elder Wanhuo, and Elder Shen Nong in the arena. Soul Void summoned a cauldron of Nihility Devouring Flame, which Wei Yang identified as a sub-flame, before the chapter revealed it was the unusually powerful Earth Sub-Flame.

• Yao Dan announced that five alchemists would compete for the title of the continent's greatest alchemist.
• Soul Void, Elder Wanhuo, and Elder Shen Nong entered the arena and exchanged challenges over the title.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan joined the three elders in the air as the five contestants.
• Soul Void summoned the Nihility Devouring Flame and formed it into a vast black fire cauldron.
• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan recognized that Soul Void's flame was a sub-flame, and the narration revealed it was the powerful Earth Sub-Flame, bound to the Mother Flame by the world's laws.

At the gathering, Elder Wanhuo, Elder Shen Nong, Xiao Yan, and Wei Yang revealed their Heavenly Flames, while Soul Void watched with growing greed. The five flames drew the crowd’s awe, and Wei Yang’s Life-Extinguishing Flame left the others sensing its extraordinary destructive power.

• Elder Wanhuo summoned the Nine Nether Wind Flame, and Elder Shen Nong revealed the Life Spirit Flame, stirring Soul Void’s desire to seize it.
• Xiao Yan brought out Little Yi, confirming that he had obtained the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and provoking Soul Void’s resentment.
• Wei Yang revealed his Black Flame and named it the Life-Extinguishing Flame, whose dark golden lightning and destructive aura impressed the gathered experts.
• The crowd gazed in reverence at the five Heavenly Flames as the suspended plaza fell silent.

Wei Yang, Xiao Yan, and the other masters began refining pills at the ceremony, displaying extraordinary flames and techniques before the gathered alchemists. The chapter ended with Wei Yang and Xiao Yan refining thousands of ingredients at once, leaving the Yao Clan’s younger generation acutely aware of the gulf between them and ninth-grade alchemists.

• Yao Dan announced that the five participants could begin refining pills, and each formed a flame cauldron in the sky.
• Wei Yang created a vast Black Flame cauldron surrounded by lightning and nine fire dragons, while the five masters took positions around an empty center.
• Elder Shen Nong used the Life Spirit Flame to grow medicinal herbs from seeds in minutes, drawing admiration from the alchemists below.
• Wei Yang released thousands of medicinal ingredients into his cauldron and began refining them all at once, as Xiao Yan did the same.
• The Yao Clan’s young alchemists, including Yao Tian, recognized how far Wei Yang and Xiao Yan surpassed them in alchemy.

At the Yao Clan gathering, Wei Yang finished refining thousands of medicinal ingredients and began drawing in the power of heaven and earth to make a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill. Xiao Yan, Soul Void, Elder Wanhuo, and Elder Shen Nong followed suit, leaving five cauldrons competing to absorb energy as the crowd watched.

• Yao Ling admired Wei Yang and Xiao Yan, recognizing that their Soul Power surpassed hers and that Wei Yang's seemed unusual.
• Wei Yang completed the refinement of thousands of medicinal ingredients before the other alchemists and sent their essences into his cauldron.
• Wei Yang condensed the ingredients and summoned the power of heaven and earth, prompting Yao Dan and the other experts to realize he was refining a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.
• Xiao Yan urged Little Yi to help him match Wei Yang, then began drawing in the power of heaven and earth as well.
• Soul Void, Elder Wanhuo, and Elder Shen Nong each summoned heaven and earth's power, and all five cauldrons fought to absorb it.

Five alchemists, including Xiao Yan and Wei Yang, competed to refine Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills, draining the energy around Medicine Mountain for three days. Their cauldrons remained charged with immense energy after the storms stopped, leaving the outcome of their attempts unresolved.

• Yao Dan judged that five Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills could not be supported by the available energy and expected all five alchemists to fail.
• Elder Yao worried that Xiao Yan had joined Wei Yang, Elder Wanhuo, and Elder Shen Nong in attempting the pill, while Soul Void's sudden appearance added to the unexpected situation.
• The five alchemists drew energy into their cauldrons through enormous tornadoes, draining the area around Medicine Mountain and causing nearby herbs to wither.
• Yao Clan elders sealed precious Medicine Fields to protect some herbs as the energy throughout the clan grew thin over three days.
• The tornadoes dispersed, leaving five enormous cauldrons charged with immense energy, and Yao Dan said the Yao Clan's energy would take at least half a year to recover.

The ambient energy around Medicine Mountain ran out before Wei Yang and the other alchemists could finish refining their pills. Soul Void tried to steal energy from the others’ cauldrons, but Xiao Yan and Wei Yang repelled his attack and used the stolen energy to advance their own Pill Prototypes.

• Elder Yao and the other elders realized the energyless region left the five alchemists without enough ambient energy to complete their pills.
• Soul Void created four Black Holes that devoured energy from Wei Yang and the other four alchemists’ cauldrons.
• Elder Shen Nong and Elder Wanhuo attacked the Black Holes with their Heavenly Flames, but Soul Void’s Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed part of their flames.
• Xiao Yan’s Fire Infant purified the Black Hole above his cauldron, allowing Xiao Yan to pour its energy into his Pill Prototype.
• Wei Yang’s nine Black Fire Dragons swallowed Soul Void’s Black Hole, while Soul Void abandoned attempts to target Wei Yang and Xiao Yan and refocused on Elder Shen Nong and Elder Wanhuo.

Soul Void intensified his theft of energy from Elder Shen Nong's and Elder Wanhuo's pill prototypes, but Wei Yang negotiated with the two elders and had his fire dragons seize their pills instead. The dragons returned to Wei Yang with the pill embryos and stolen energy, swelling into enormous, immensely powerful dragons.

• Soul Void strengthened his Black Hole's devouring force and accelerated the formation of the pills in Elder Shen Nong's and Elder Wanhuo's cauldrons.
• Xiao Yan proposed stealing the pills, and Wei Yang agreed to handle the two elders while Xiao Yan dealt with Soul Void.
• Wei Yang offered Elder Shen Nong and Elder Wanhuo a chance to examine his pill formula in exchange for letting him take their pill prototypes, and both elders agreed rather than let Soul Void benefit.
• Wei Yang sent two fire dragons to swallow Soul Void's Black Holes, open the elders' cauldrons, and seize their pill prototypes with the elders' cooperation.
• Wei Yang's fire dragons returned with the embryos, released the stolen energy into his cauldron, and swallowed the embryos, growing into two thousand-zhang dragons as Soul Void erupted in anger.

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan disrupted the Pill Ceremony deadlock by taking the other contestants’ Pill Prototypes, aiming to refine two Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills. Soul Void attacked Xiao Yan in fury, but the Northern King puppet appeared to block him.

• The Black Fire Dragons gave their Pill Prototype energy to Wei Yang, who used it to strengthen the pill he was refining.
• Soul Void prepared to make up his lost energy, but Xiao Yan’s Fire Infant stole the Pill Prototype from his cauldron.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he and Wei Yang had planned to secure enough energy for two pills, and Soul Void erupted in anger.
• Soul Void dismissed his cauldron and sent a Black Fire Dragon at Xiao Yan, but the Northern King puppet struck it back.
• The crowd recognized the puppet as a Peak Six-star weapon, while Yao Dan reflected on Starfall Pavilion’s strength and his regret over Yao Chen.

Wei Yang and Xiao Yan used Elder Wanhuo's and Elder Shen Nong's nascent pills to supply energy for refining Ninth Grade Mysterious Pills. When Xiao Yan ran short, Wei Yang drew energy from across the Yao Realm, revealing that he possessed an Emperor Realm Soul and leaving the gathered experts astonished.

• Wei Yang and Xiao Yan began refining the two elders' nascent pills while the Northern King and Southern King fought Soul Void's Black Flame Fire Dragon.
• Soul Void sensed Xiao Yan refining his nascent pill, charged into the fire dragon, and was held back by the two Dou Saint puppets.
• Xiao Yan purified Soul Void's nascent pill and sent Wei Yang a request for more energy when it proved insufficient.
• Wei Yang drew a vast torrent of natural energy from across the Yao Realm into Xiao Yan's fire cauldron.
• Yao Dan and the other spectators realized Wei Yang possessed an Emperor Realm Soul, and Elder Wanhuo and Elder Shen Nong anticipated the birth of a Ninth Grade Mysterious Pill.