Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge’s group escaped the Heavenly Demon Phoenix elders and followed other treasure hunters to the Pill Hall in the ancient ruins. After searching its poisoned floors, they discovered a white, catlike beast that Xiao Yan recognized as a highly advanced pill nearing ninth grade.

• Bai Ge trapped and killed Elder Huang Xuan, collected the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, and led his group onward.
• Bai Ge’s group followed treasure hunters to the Pill Hall after detecting a strong pill fragrance.
• Little Fairy Doctor absorbed much of the second floor’s poisonous gas and broke through to seven-star Dou Zun.
• Bai Ge’s group searched the third-floor pill chambers and collected pill formulas and sealed pills.
• Xiao Yan realized that a plump white beast was actually a pill that had endured eight- or nine-colored Pill Lightning.

Bai Ge used Sixth Grade Pills to tame a Pill Beast and had Little Fairy Doctor conceal its pill fragrance before leading the group through the ruins to the Main Hall. There, powerful factions gathered around the sealed treasures and a Dou Sheng skeleton, and Xiao Yan recognized the arriving Soul Hall members.

• Bai Ge fed the Pill Beast Sixth Grade Pills until it trusted him, then used the Heavenly Essence Divine Pill as bait to draw it close.
• Little Fairy Doctor concealed the Pill Beast's fragrance with an energy net, and the group left the Pill Hall with it.
• Ning Rongrong led the group through the ruins using a map she had found, and they reached the Main Hall.
• Bai Ge and the others found ten sealed treasures and a Dou Sheng skeleton, while powerful factions waited for the seal to disappear.
• Soul Hall members arrived with a strange laugh, and Xiao Yan erupted with murderous intent.

The Heaven Rank Dou Skills were released, and the Main Hall erupted into a deadly scramble as Soul Hall forces and awakened Ancient Human Puppets joined the chaos. Bai Ge claimed a cyan scroll, while Xiao Yan fought his way toward a crimson scroll suited to his fire energy.

• The Soul Hall arrived with Star Plucking Old Ghost, who threatened Xiao Yan, but Bai Ge interrupted them when the ten seals vanished and the scrolls flew free.
• The stone puppets awakened and slaughtered the crowd; Sky Fire Venerable identified them as Ancient Human Puppets, and Qian Renxue destroyed one with her Sacred Angel Domain to protect Bai Ge and the others.
• Xiao Yan chose a crimson scroll, while Bai Ge seized a cyan scroll by relying on the Golden Saint Armor to withstand attacks from several experts.
• Xiao Yan repelled attackers with five pillars of purple-brown flame and charged through the crowd toward the crimson scroll.

Xiao Yan seized the crimson scroll with help from his companions, but the struggle turned toward the Dou Sheng Skeleton when Star Plucking Old Ghost's blood awakened it. After the skeleton's roar killed at least a hundred people, Star Plucking Old Ghost proposed that everyone join forces to suppress its lingering will.

• Xiao Yan wounded a One-Star Dou Zun and fought through the crowd to pursue the crimson scroll.
• Sky Fire Venerable, Little Fairy Doctor, Qing Lin, and the others shielded Xiao Yan as he trapped the scroll, but Chen Tiannan grabbed its other half before Yun Yun attacked him.
• Little Fairy Doctor noticed Star Plucking Old Ghost and the Soul Hall experts approaching the Dou Sheng Skeleton, and Xiao Yan spotted one of its fingers twitch.
• Bai Ge Teleported his group away as Star Plucking Old Ghost reached for the skeleton and his blood seeped into it.
• The awakened Dou Sheng Skeleton released a roar that killed at least a hundred people, including two Dou Zun experts, while Star Plucking Old Ghost escaped injured.
• Xiao Yan blamed Star Plucking Old Ghost for awakening the skeleton, and Star Plucking Old Ghost admitted his recklessness before urging the survivors to join forces.

A blood-red Dou Sheng Skeleton appeared and attacked the gathered experts, forcing them to unite against it. When the skeleton unleashed the Great Creation Palm, a spreading black ring began erasing the hall and everyone caught in its pull.

• Star Plucking Old Ghost warned that the hall’s consciousness would kill anyone who tried to flee, and the blood-red Dou Sheng Skeleton emerged from the mist.
• Bai Ge secretly gathered three more scrolls, bringing his group’s total to five, while Star Plucking Old Ghost agreed to lead the fight after Xiao Yan and Tang Zhen pressed him.
• Star Plucking Old Ghost engaged the skeleton, but six surviving human puppets joined the battle and forced the experts to help.
• Bai Ge told Xiao Yan and the others to withdraw, then joined Tang Zhen and the other experts in attacking the skeleton.
• As their combined attacks weakened the skeleton, Bai Ge recognized its final move and retreated while the others fled.
• The skeleton unleashed the Great Creation Palm, creating a black ring that erased the hall and swallowed fleeing experts.

Qian Renxue destroyed the Dou Sheng remnant soul’s Heaven Rank attack and secured the Dou Sheng Bone, while Xiao Yan fought Star Plucking Old Ghost. Xiao Yan used the battle to trigger his planned breakthrough and prepared a four-Heavenly-Flame fire lotus as Star Plucking Old Ghost sensed its terrifying power.

• Qian Renxue blocked the remnant soul’s attack with her Light Domain and stored the Dou Sheng Bone in her Storage Ring.
• Star Plucking Old Ghost attacked Xiao Yan in hopes of capturing him and recovering the ancient jade, while Bai Ge watched without intervening.
• Xiao Yan defended against Star Plucking Old Ghost’s strikes, then used a Buddha’s Angry Fire Lotus that left his opponent disheveled but alive.
• Star Plucking Old Ghost trapped Xiao Yan with Star Plucking Hand, but Xiao Yan escaped with Three Thousand Thunder Illusion Body and activated Reverse Yin Yang Art to reach Three Star Dou Zun strength.
• Xiao Yan fused the Sun True Fire, Azure Lotus Core Flame, Sea Heart Flame, and Fallen Heart Flame into a fire lotus that made Star Plucking Old Ghost uneasy.

Xiao Yan unleashed the Destruction Fire Lotus against Star Plucking Old Ghost, leaving both fighters gravely wounded before Bai Ge rescued Xiao Yan. The Void Ancient Dragon Hei Qing arrived to protect Zi Yan and claim the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, while Bai Ge prepared to return with the injured Xiao Yan.

• Star Plucking Old Ghost struck Xiao Yan with the Nine Nether Soul Hand as Xiao Yan launched his unstable Destruction Fire Lotus.
• The fire lotus exploded, gravely injuring Star Plucking Old Ghost and blasting Xiao Yan unconscious; Bai Ge rescued Xiao Yan and sent him to Sky Fire Venerable.
• Two Heavenly Demon Phoenix elders challenged Bai Ge for the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit, but Hei Qing arrived and knocked them down with a single spatially delivered slap.
• Zi Yan reunited with Bai Ge, learned Xiao Yan was injured, and received the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• Hei Qing opened a Space Crack to send Bai Ge and the others back so Xiao Yan could be treated.

Bai Ge kept Zi Yan with his group while Hei Qing returned to the Void Ancient Dragon Clan to find a safe way to handle the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit. At Starfall Pavilion, Bai Ge helped Old Yao revive using a Dou Sheng skeleton as Xiao Yan neared a breakthrough, and the chapter ended with both of them beginning to awaken.

• Hei Qing thanked Bai Ge for bringing Zi Yan back, but Zi Yan refused to return with him to the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.
• Bai Ge persuaded Hei Qing to take the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit back to consult the elders and leave Zi Yan in his care until they found a safe way to absorb it.
• Bai Ge returned with the group to Starfall Pavilion and began restoring Old Yao using a Dou Sheng skeleton and an Eighth Grade Soul-Reviving Blood Fusion Pill.
• Bai Ge tempered the skeleton with Heavenly Demon Phoenix blood essence and Heavenly Flames, then Old Yao swallowed the pill and entered the body as flesh and skin formed around the bones.
• Bai Ge checked on the still-sleeping Xiao Yan, whose life was protected by the Life Source Pearl and Yin Yang Xuan Dragon Pill.
• Starfall Peak shook as Old Yao began advancing into the Dou Sheng realm and Xiao Yan began advancing into the Dou Zun realm.

Bai Ge, Xiao Yan, and their companions arrived in Saint Pill City for the Pill Gathering and prepared to secure Pill Tower certifications before the Ye Clan assessment. During their first day in the city, Bai Ge encountered a strange young woman whose spiritual essence seemed to draw toward him, while the group found no major treasures at the markets.

• Bai Ge, Xiao Yan, Old Yao, Ye Xinlan, Zi Yan, and Little Fairy Doctor set out for the Pill Gathering, while Qian Renxue stayed behind to defend Starfall Pavilion.
• Ye Zhong met the group in Saint Pill City and explained that they needed Pill Tower rank badges before attempting the Ye Clan seat assessment.
• A carriage pulled by Void Pegasus Beasts arrived, and Ye Zhong identified its emblem as belonging to the Dan Family; Bai Ge told Xiao Yan that his lineage shared only a surname with the Bai Family.
• Ye Zhong led Bai Ge, Xiao Yan, and Xin Lan to a Pill Tower branch, where the three completed rank assessments after Bai Ge briefly suppressed his divine sense when it began flowing toward a petite, pale girl he had accidentally grabbed.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Yan searched Saint Pill City's markets without finding anything substantial, and Ye Zhong advised them to wait for the Alchemist Exchange Fair in two days.

Bai Ge and his companions visited the Alchemist Exchange Fair in Saint Pill City, where he traded Life Spirit Wine for a Mystic Jade Purple Ganoderma and searched the top floor for rare ingredients. He found a Ten Thousand Year Vermillion Fruit and recognized an inconspicuous copper fragment as Spirit Nurturing Dust.

• Bai Ge entered the Alchemist Exchange Fair with Xiao Yan and their companions, then went to the second floor.
• Bai Ge exchanged a cup of Life Spirit Wine for a Mystic Jade Purple Ganoderma.
• A yellow-robed elder escorted Bai Ge's group to the top floor, where Bai Ge asked about a Ten Thousand Year Vermillion Fruit and a Yin-Yang Profound Spirit Flower.
• The elder led Bai Ge to Old Yan's stall, where Bai Ge found the Ten Thousand Year Vermillion Fruit and negotiated its price.
• Bai Ge spotted a pale yellow copper fragment and recognized it as Spirit Nurturing Dust.

Bai Ge accompanied Xin Lan and the Ye Clan to the Five Great Clans assessment, where he reassured Ye Zhong that Xin Lan could contend with the other families’ alchemists. The Cao Family arrived with its celebrated genius Cao Ying, whose attention fixed on a timid young woman among the Dan Family.

• Bai Ge, Old Yao, and Xiao Yan accompanied Xin Lan to the Five Great Clans assessment with Ye Zhong, while factions gathered to watch the endangered Ye Clan compete for its place.
• Ye Zhong led the group into the assessment hall as onlookers whispered about the Ye Clan’s decline and hoped it would fail.
• Bai Ge recognized a young woman among the Dan Family and learned that Dan Xuan and Bai Ying would be formidable rivals; he told Ye Zhong that Xin Lan’s Soul Power could match a Seventh Grade intermediate alchemist.
• Ye Zhong described Cao Xiu and Cao Ying as the Cao Family’s leading talents, while Bai Ge said that Xin Lan’s training and Yao Chen’s status would help protect the Ye Clan.
• Cao Ying arrived to great attention, then focused on the timid young woman beside Dan Xuan before taking her place with the Cao Family.

The five great families began the Pill Tower assessment with a test of Soul Power, and Bai Ge secretly empowered Xin Lan before she took her turn. Xin Lan achieved an unprecedented Soul Value of 1,400, leaving the Ye Clan’s future looking secure.

• Cao Ying exchanged pointed remarks with Dan Chen, while Bai Ge silenced Cao Dan and Cao Xiu with his pressure as the families took their seats.
• Elder Sheng opened the assessment, introduced Xin Lan as Medicine Venerable’s disciple, and explained that contestants had to reach a Soul Value of 400 to pass.
• Qiu Ji scored 707, Bai Ying scored 785, Cao Xiu scored 846, and Dan Xuan scored 903 on the Soul Value test.
• Bai Ge secretly infused power into Xin Lan before she tested, and her Soul Power produced a vast storm that shocked the contestants and Elder Sheng.
• Xin Lan’s Soul Value reached 1,400, and Ye Zhong realized the Ye Clan’s position among the five great families was finally safe.

Ye Xinlan won all three trials, preserving the Ye Clan’s seat, and Bai Ge and Xiao Yan entered the Pill Tower to meet Xuan Kongzi. Xuan Kongzi warned them that the Soul Hall might try to claim or unleash Three Thousand Burning Flame during the coming Pill Gathering selection.

• Ye Xinlan caught seventy Soul Measuring Pearls, beating the other contestants and earning first place in the Soul Control test.
• Ye Xinlan defeated the other four in the Soul Power combat trial, taking first place in all three events and preserving the Ye Clan’s seat.
• Elder Sheng led Bai Ge and Xiao Yan into the Pill Tower and introduced them to Xuan Kongzi, who had been close to Yao Chen.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and a high-level Seventh Grade alchemist joined Bai Ge and Xiao Yan in Xuan Kongzi’s hall.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that the Pill Gathering selection would begin in a few days and warned that the Soul Hall might seize Three Thousand Burning Flame or break its seal to unleash it.

Bai Ge and Xiao Yan entered the Pill Gathering’s first selection trial after learning its rules and rewards. Bai Ge arrived in the Illusion Realm, where the obscuring mist posed little threat to his spiritual perception, though his poor sense of direction remained a problem.

• Ye Zhong explained that contestants had to pass the Illusion Realm Trial and gather listed ingredients in the Pill Realm before reaching the final competition.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other two heads of Pill Tower appeared, and Xuan Kongzi announced the Pill Gathering’s stages and the champion’s rewards.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the first trial, and Bai Ge wished Little Fairy Doctor luck before entering the distorted space.
• The Three Great Heads discussed the old alchemists drawn by Three Thousand Burning Flame and wondered how far Bai Ge and Xiao Yan would go.
• Bai Ge entered the Illusion Realm and found that his eighth-sense Spiritual Power could overcome its illusions, but his poor sense of direction could still hinder him.

Bai Ge entered the Pill Realm to gather rare medicinal ingredients and discovered that the marked regions might guide him to them. After a contestant unearthed thousand-year Di Huang Essence, Bai Ge killed him and uncovered Earth Core Jade Marrow beneath it.

• The tortoise-riding elder explained the Pill Realm’s ten-day task, issued maps and Space Stones, and warned the contestants about its deadly magical beasts.
• Bai Ge entered the Pill Realm, examined his ingredient list and map, and headed toward the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range to find Zi Yan.
• A burly contestant killed a Di Huang Python, claimed its thousand-year Di Huang Essence, and drove the other contestants away.
• Bai Ge snatched the Di Huang Essence and killed the burly contestant with Scorpio’s Golden Battle Skill, Scarlet Poison Needle.
• Bai Ge used Sword Qi to excavate beneath the pit and revealed a deposit of Earth Core Jade Marrow.

Bai Ge found Earth Core Soul Marrow, then entered the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range with Xiao Yan to seek Pill Spirit Paste. After exposing Song Qing’s plan to recruit others against the mountain’s beasts, Bai Ge discovered a Soul Hall attack trapping Cao Ying, Song Qing, and nearly a hundred alchemists behind a soul barrier.

• Bai Ge extracted a large Earth Core Jade Marrow, discovered Earth Core Soul Marrow inside it, and collected the rare liquid in a jade box.
• A seven-star Dou Zong demanded a share of Bai Ge’s treasure, and Bai Ge killed him before flying toward the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range.
• Bai Ge arrived at a gathering where Song Qing proposed that the contestants unite against the mountain’s vicious beast, but Bai Ge denounced him and left with Xiao Yan.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Yan entered the mountain range to search for Pill Spirit Paste, and Bai Ge spared a seventh-tier Magic Beast that was of no use to them.
• Bai Ge sensed Soul Hall energy and found Cao Ying, Song Qing, and nearly a hundred alchemists trapped inside a soul barrier with a black-clothed attacker who intended to kill them all.

Bai Ge and Xiao Yan witnessed Yuan Chenzi slaughter Pill Tower alchemists before Bai Ge drove him off. Bai Ge later found the Pill Spirit Paste, killed its Abyssal Tiger-Drake guardian, and collected the treasure before heading for the mission’s remaining ingredients.

• Yuan Chenzi and his hidden followers attacked the alchemists, killing most of them and trapping the survivors.
• Yuan Chenzi revealed his grudge against Yao Chen over Han Shanshan, but Bai Ge struck him with Galactic Explosion, killing his followers and forcing him to flee badly injured.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Yan searched the Waist-Bending Mountains and found Pill Spirit Paste guarded by a still-hidden Magical Beast.
• Bai Ge identified the guardian as a seventh-tier Abyssal Tiger-Drake and lured it out with a Water Cloud Fruit.
• Bai Ge killed the Abyssal Tiger-Drake with Wind's Extremity - Meteor Kill, collected its Magic Core, and stored the Pill Spirit Paste in a cold jade box.
• Bai Ge headed toward the location of the mission’s remaining medicinal ingredients.

Bai Ge and Xiao Yan found rare medicinal ingredients in Xiong Zhan’s cave and prepared Earth Core Soul Marrow, which greatly strengthened Xiao Yan’s soul. After seven days in seclusion, Xiao Yan condensed a Nascent Soul and crossed the threshold of Spirit Transformation.

• Zi Yan let Bai Ge and Xiao Yan take medicinal ingredients from Xiong Zhan’s collection, and Bai Ge purified Xiong Zhan’s bloodline with a drop of his Five-Clawed Golden Dragon blood.
• Bai Ge found Gastrodia Jade Stone Essence, the final ingredient needed to harmonize the Earth Core Soul Marrow.
• Bai Ge carefully prepared enough Earth Core Soul Marrow for the group, and Xiao Yan drank his share to strengthen his Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan’s soul grew beyond what he could endure, so Bai Ge urged him to circulate the Soul Cultivation Method while spiritual energy gathered at his brow.
• After seven days, Xiao Yan’s soul erupted from the stone chamber and condensed into an illusory human form, marking his entry into the Nascent Soul level of Spirit Transformation.

Bai Ge, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Xiong Zhan reached the Pill Realm exit with their mission items and passed into the Pill Gathering venue. As contestants emerged before the expectant crowd, Little Fairy Doctor and the others were relieved to see Bai Ge and Xiao Yan arrive safely.

• Bai Ge emerged from seclusion, and he, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Xiong Zhan rode a Mysterious Bird Beast toward the Pill Realm exit.
• Bai Ge and the others reached the exit plaza, where Cao Ying and Song Qing had already arrived, and Cao Ying quietly resented Song Qing for abandoning the group during their earlier danger.
• A Pill Tower elder checked contestants' mission items and opened a Space Crack for those who had completed the trial; Bai Ge handed over his items and left with Zi Yan.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Yan emerged from the Pill Realm into the Pill Gathering venue, where Little Fairy Doctor and the others welcomed them with relief.

The final round of the Pill Gathering began as more than a thousand alchemists claimed floating platforms and started refining pills. Bai Ge worked on an improved Origin Beginning Pill for the expected birth of his child with Medusa Queen, and after five days he was still refining its ingredients while Cao Ying and other leading contestants continued their work.

• Xuan Kongzi announced that the final round would determine the Pill Gathering champion and told the contestants to refine the pills they knew best.
• Bai Ge and Xiao Yan waited for most contestants to choose platforms, then settled on quieter platforms near the edge.
• Cao Ying revealed her Blood Demon Flame, while Song Qing and Dan Chen summoned Beast Fires and Bai Ge sent his crimson-gold, lightning-flashing flame into his cauldron.
• Bai Ge began refining the ingredients for an improved Origin Beginning Pill, including a Golden Jade Marrow Spirit Mushroom that took hours to become medicinal liquid.
• Five days passed as a few contestants finished low-grade pills and left the contest, while Bai Ge ruined some ingredients but continued refining.