Chapter Summaries

Old Medicine reunited with Qian Wu, Qin Fengxian, and Gu Santong and began gathering allies to overthrow Han Feng and reclaim the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower. As Han Feng ordered forces to respond to several simultaneous crises, she realized someone was deliberately targeting her and the Pill Tower.

• Old Medicine led Lin Fan, Xiao Ling'er, Yaya, and Long Aojiao through a secret passage into the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower and found Qian Wu, who revealed that he had long suspected Han Feng of wrongdoing.
• Old Medicine told Qian Wu how Han Feng had betrayed her, and Qian Wu pledged his support; Xiao Ling'er and the others joined the meeting.
• Qian Wu summoned Qin Fengxian and Gu Santong, who recognized Old Medicine and agreed to stand with her against Han Feng.
• Old Medicine ordered the allies to gather their people and purge Han Feng's supporters, while Han Feng learned of the rebellion and prepared to crush them.
• Han Feng sent elders to deal with an attack on the Liu Family's pill shop, then received reports of further emergencies and ordered her forces to hold on while she quelled the internal unrest.

Song Ru and the Hidden Soul Hall attacked the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower’s forces while Han Feng confronted Qian Wu, Qin Fengxian, and Gu Santong over the Tower’s leadership. Old Medicine revealed herself as Han Feng’s supposedly dead master, and Long Aojiao joined the ensuing battle as Old Medicine prepared to purge the sect.

• Song Ru attacked Elder Zhou with two Emperor Weapons, the Hidden Soul Hall raided Pill Tower shops, and a beast tide trapped Pill Tower prodigies while their Blood Elder protector remained captured.
• Han Feng gathered the Pill Tower’s forces to crush Qian Wu, Qin Fengxian, and Gu Santong’s uprising, but the Heavenly Dao oath suggested their cause was righteous.
• Qian Wu denounced Han Feng before the gathered disciples and outsiders, and Old Medicine revealed herself, shocking Han Feng and the Pill Tower.
• Han Feng called Old Medicine an impostor and ordered her forces to attack, while three reinforcements quietly entered the Pill Tower.
• Long Aojiao fought six founding elders at once and overwhelmed them with her powerful techniques.
• Old Medicine held her own against Han Feng and manifested her breakthrough phenomena as she prepared to purge the Pill Tower.

Old Medicine fought Han Feng while Lin Fan, Xiao Ling'er, and Yaya broke into the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower to seize the Demonic Heart Profound Fire. As Han Feng’s forces pressed Qian Wu and the others, Lin Fan intervened with his Barrett, turning the battle and leaving the Pill Tower’s disciples terrified.

• Old Medicine used techniques she had learned from Xiao Ling'er to suppress Han Feng, while Long Aojiao continued to hold off six founding elders.
• Xiao Ling'er broke through the top-floor restriction and began devouring the Demonic Heart Profound Fire with her six strange flames.
• Han Feng drove Old Medicine back and attacked Qian Wu’s group, but Yaya blocked her while Old Medicine went to aid the embattled allies.
• After Old Medicine confirmed that Qian Wu’s group would not betray her, Lin Fan fired his upgraded Barrett and killed an Eighth Realm elder, easing the pressure on them.
• Lin Fan pointed at another Pill Tower elder and called out “Bang,” badly burning him and killing nearby disciples, then frightened a disciple into wetting himself.

Han Feng's assault on the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower faltered as the Hai Family blocked the Hidden Soul Hall's reinforcements and the pill-seekers refused to commit. By the end, Han Feng had paid out pills to recruit help, but several experts fled with their reward, leaving her close to tears.

• Han Feng ordered the Pill Tower to counterattack, while Lin Fan's hidden Scarecrow clone supported Old Medicine and Qian Wu's side with long-range shots.
• Han Feng learned that Hai Family elders had detained her confidants, and the Ice Emperor Hai Dongpo intercepted Vice Hall Master Luo on his way to the Pill Tower.
• Han Feng realized Ji Haoyue might have leaked her alliance with the Hidden Soul Hall and feared the Bright Moon Sect would exploit the battle, so she asked the gathered pill-seekers to help.
• The pill-seekers hesitated, and Old Medicine offered them free pill-refining opportunities for staying out of the fight, persuading many to watch from the sidelines.
• Han Feng threw high-grade pills to the remaining wavering experts, but four seized their rewards and fled, leaving her furious and nearly in tears.

Hidden Soul Hall reinforcements arrived, but Wang Teng, Xu Fenglai, and Qin Yu ambushed them with powerful techniques, disrupting Han Feng’s plans. Xiao Ling’er emerged from seclusion, cured Yaya’s poison with her Heavenly Flames, and then yielded her confrontation with Han Feng to Old Medicine, who began using the Nine Transformations of Immortal Fire.

• Han Feng’s hired experts continued to hold back until black clouds announced the arrival of seventeen Hidden Soul Hall reinforcements, while Old Medicine revealed that she had prepared for their arrival.
• Wang Teng, Xu Fenglai, and Qin Yu launched a surprise attack on the Hidden Soul Hall experts, killing two and badly injuring the survivors; the pill seekers grew too frightened to join the fight.
• Han Feng poisoned Yaya with Pill Poison Devours the Heart, but Xiao Ling’er emerged from seclusion and used five Heavenly Flames to remove the toxin.
• Xiao Ling’er confronted Han Feng, revealed her mastery of multiple Heavenly Flames, then asked Old Medicine to face her former disciple instead.
• Old Medicine stepped forward to fight Han Feng and began the Nine Transformations of Immortal Fire, unleashing the ice spirit cold fire and earth core demonic fire.

Old Medicine used Xiao Ling’er’s seven heavenly flames and the Nine Transformations of Immortal Fire to defeat and kill Han Feng in a battle of relentless ultimate attacks. With Han Feng dead, Old Medicine and her allies turned the tide against the Pill Tower faction, while its survivors began surrendering and the Soul Hall guardians reported the defeat to Luo Ling.

• Xiao Ling’er lent Old Medicine her heavenly flames, allowing Old Medicine to stack the Nine Transformations of Immortal Fire and overwhelm Han Feng with Great Sun Burning Heaven.
• Old Medicine countered Han Feng’s soul and water-based attacks, then used a Burst Pill and her dao fire to reach the ninth level of the Eighth Realm temporarily.
• Han Feng unleashed Myriad Daos of Senluo, but Old Medicine’s lightning illusory bodies revealed a hundred and fifty Buddha’s Wrath Fire Lotuses, which exploded and killed Han Feng.
• The eight wavering cultivators pleaded with Old Medicine for mercy, and she let them leave before regrouping with Xiao Ling’er and turning the battle against Han Feng’s faction.
• Han Feng’s remaining followers began retreating or surrendering as Long Aojiao continued fighting the founding elders, while Yaya, Wang Teng, Qin Yu, and Xu Fenglai kept the Soul Hall guardians occupied.
• The Soul Hall guardians saw Han Feng’s defeat and Old Medicine’s counterattack, then sent Luo Ling a report on the battle.

After the Pill Emperor killed Han Feng, Luo Ling withdrew from the Northeast Region while Long Aojiao defeated the remaining Pill Tower enemies. Old Medicine reclaimed the Pill Tower, dealt with its surviving members, and prepared to rebuild, while Lin Fan and his disciples stayed to protect it and waited for her recovery.

• Luo Ling learned that Han Feng had died to the Pill Emperor's seven Heavenly Flames and that two of his guardians had fallen, so he ordered his forces to retreat and left the Northeast Region while Hai Dongpo followed him.
• Long Aojiao killed the four remaining opponents after two of the six she had fought were already dead, then offered to help Xiao Ling'er and the others.
• Old Medicine reclaimed the Pill Tower, gave its elders and disciples the choice to leave after surrendering their cultivation or stay and swear oaths, and ordered compensation for the families of fallen fighters.
• Old Medicine announced that the Mysterious Fire Pill Tower would return to being the Pill Tower, activated its defensive formation, and began arranging its restoration.
• Old Medicine offered the Moon Embracing Sect access to the Pill Tower's treasury, but Lin Fan refused the reward and said his group would stay until she recovered.
• Xiao Ling'er began refining pills for Long Aojiao, while Xu Fenglai stared at her and Lin Fan wondered whether the Ten-Year Tribulation would still occur.

Shi Hao returned to the Stone Clan and saved Qingfeng and Fu Bo from assassins, revealing his survival and his mastery of the Kirin Law. Shi Qi’s mother learned of Shi Hao’s return and devised a plan to incite a war between the Moon Embracing Sect and the Bright Moon Sect, leaving Shi Hao’s enemies preparing to act against him indirectly.

• Lin Fan considered whether resolving the Ten-Year Tribulation early would prompt the unseen mastermind to arrange another one, and urged his disciples to grow stronger.
• Black-clad assassins attacked Qingfeng and Fu Bo at the Second Ancestor Grounds, but Shi Hao arrived, healed Fu Bo with a Ninth Grade Rejuvenation Pill, and killed the attackers with his new cultivation and Kirin Law.
• Shi Hao reunited with Qingfeng and Fu Bo, explained how he had found them, and took them toward the Moon Embracing Sect so Qingfeng could be safe and begin cultivation.
• Shi Qi’s mother learned that Shi Hao was alive and had killed the assassins, then ordered the Second Elder and Third Elder to investigate his connections and eliminate him.
• The Third Elder traced the Kirin Law and Rejuvenation Pill to possible ties with the Moon Embracing Sect or Lu Ming, while Shi Qi’s mother concluded that either connection could be possible.
• Shi Qi’s mother devised a plan to provoke a war between the Moon Embracing Sect and the Bright Moon Sect, hoping their losses would make it easier to kill Shi Hao, and the Third Elder agreed to carry it out.

Xiao Ling'er killed Bright Moon Holy Son Lü Zhicai, several Sequence Disciples, and their guardian at the Azure Emperor's Tomb, prompting Ji Haoyue to mobilize the Bright Moon Sect for war against the Moon Embracing Sect. Lu Ming learned of the killings at the war council and was left baffled because he had no idea they had happened.

• A clan's Seventh Sister agreed to travel to the Southwest Region and impersonate a woman as part of the elders' scheme.
• Xiao Ling'er arrived at the Azure Emperor's Tomb, attacked the Bright Moon Sect's group, and killed Lü Zhicai, the other prodigies, and their guardian.
• Ji Haoyue learned of the deaths, activated the Bright Moon Sect's defenses, and ordered the sect to prepare for war.
• Ji Haoyue announced an all-out assault on the Moon Embracing Sect at a meeting attended by Lu Ming.
• Lu Ming questioned the timing of the war declaration, then learned Xiao Ling'er had killed the Bright Moon Sect's people and was stunned.

Lu Ming persuaded the Bright Moon Sect to delay war after evidence suggested someone had impersonated Xiao Ling'er to kill its Holy Son and provoke the sects. As both sides investigated, Xiao Ling'er agreed to serve as bait, and Long Aojiao arranged contact with the Bright Moon Sect; the chapter ended with news that Xiao Ling'er would visit the sect the next day.

• Ji Haoyue reported that an attacker using Xiao Ling'er's techniques had killed Lü Zhicai, Elder Cao, and other Bright Moon Sect disciples, prompting elders to demand war.
• Lu Ming contacted Long Aojiao, who confirmed Xiao Ling'er had remained at the Pill Tower and could not have committed the attack.
• Lu Ming raised doubts about the evidence and accused the Second Elder of being too eager for war, helping Ji Haoyue decide to investigate before taking action.
• Lin Fan and his disciples concluded that a stronger impostor was behind the killings, and Xiao Ling'er volunteered to act as bait for the culprit.
• Long Aojiao agreed to contact the Bright Moon Sect, while Lin Fan ordered the Moon Embracing Sect to prepare for an attack and protect its disciples.
• After the Bright Moon Sect did not attack, news spread that Xiao Ling'er would visit it the following day to resolve the misunderstanding.

Yu Keyue disguised herself as Ji Haoyue and attacked Xiao Ling'er in the Hundred Battles Wasteland, hoping to spark a war between the Bright Moon Sect and the Moon Embracing Sect. The real Ji Haoyue and the others exposed and subdued her, though she remained disguised when the chapter ended.

• Yu Keyue learned that Xiao Ling'er was traveling to the Bright Moon Sect and decided to kill her and use her heavenly flames to provoke a war.
• Xiao Ling'er left the Moon Embracing Sect, and Ji Haoyue publicly vowed to kill her, drawing attention across the Southwest Region.
• Disguised as Ji Haoyue, Yu Keyue attacked Xiao Ling'er in the Hundred Battles Wasteland while Lin Fan, Long Aojiao, and Fan Jianqiang watched and recognized the impostor.
• Xiao Ling'er revealed that she had acted as bait, and Yu Keyue tried to flee after launching a devastating sword strike.
• Lu Ming broke Yu Keyue's attack, and the real Ji Haoyue arrived and smashed through her defenses before Long Aojiao blocked her escape.
• Yu Keyue tried to kill herself, but Lin Fan's Artificial Sun Fist stopped her, and Ji Haoyue, Long Aojiao, and Lu Ming subdued her and sealed her cultivation.

Lin Fan and Ji Haoyue exposed Yu Keyue’s plot, but she implicated the Stone Clan before Long Aojiao killed her and Xiao Ling’er absorbed the strange flame hidden in her Storage Bag. The Stone Clan prepared Shi Qi to confront the two sects in the Illusory God Realm, while Lin Fan welcomed Qingfeng and Fu Bo into Moon Embracing Sect and warned Shi Hao that the Stone Clan might target him.

• Ji Haoyue and Lin Fan captured Yu Keyue, exposed her disguise, and threatened to send her to the Joyful Union Tower until she claimed she had come from the Stone Clan.
• Yu Keyue swore she had come from the Stone Clan, and Long Aojiao killed her before Ji Haoyue could finish questioning her; Ji Haoyue then realized the Moon Embracing Sect had taken the strange flame from her Storage Bag.
• Xiao Ling’er captured the strange flame when it escaped from the Storage Bag and sealed it inside herself, while Lin Fan and his sect returned home with the other treasures.
• The Stone Clan elders reported Yu Keyue’s death and the captured flame to Mother of Shi Qi, who urged Shi Qi to make his name in the expanding Illusory God Realm and prepare to face the two sects.
• Little Stone brought Fu Bo and Qingfeng to Moon Embracing Sect, where Lin Fan accepted them as Inner Sect Disciples and then told Little Stone that the Stone Clan had likely discovered his existence.

Lin Fan and Yaya found the Great Demon God in the Black Wind Forest and helped him escape a pursuing Pixiu, then invited him to Moon Embracing Sect to protect Shi Hao. After learning that Shi Hao had survived the loss of his Supreme Bone and was Lin Fan’s disciple, the Great Demon God arrived at the sect, where Lin Fan offered to help restore his severed arm.

• Lin Fan gave Yaya the story of Shi Hao’s hardships, and she accidentally warned Little Stone that he would suffer more than anyone and stand alone against the ages.
• After Qin Yu identified the Great Demon God as the Stone Clan’s Fifteenth Master, Lin Fan and Yaya tracked him to the Black Wind Forest, where an adult Pixiu was hunting him.
• Yaya fought the Pixiu while Lin Fan used scarecrows to mislead it, giving the Great Demon God time to escape the forest.
• The Great Demon God read Lin Fan’s message, learned that Shi Hao was alive and training at Moon Embracing Sect, and agreed to visit the sect.
• The Great Demon God arrived at Moon Embracing Sect, and Lin Fan asked Xiao Ling'er to examine his severed arm, though the Great Demon God warned that the Pixiu’s laws might prevent it from regenerating.

Lin Fan enlisted the Great Demon God to secretly protect Little Stone from the Poisonous Woman, the Stone Clan, and the Rain Clan, while offering him scriptures and techniques. Funingna used Light Magic to regrow the Great Demon God's arm, and Lin Fan saw Shi Qi preparing to defeat rivals in the coming Illusory God Realm.

• The Great Demon God explained that Pixiu's devouring laws had prevented his severed arm from regenerating, and Lin Fan asked him to protect Little Stone in secret.
• The Great Demon God agreed to guard Little Stone and urged Lin Fan to attack the Stone Clan and Rain Clan alongside him.
• Funingna restored the Great Demon God's arm with her Great Healing Technique, though the new arm had no cultivation power.
• Dianna told Lin Fan she preferred demonic cultivation, and he promised to find suitable methods for her.
• The Great Demon God chose the Kirin Law and an incomplete Xingzi Secret from the Scripture Repository, while Lin Fan observed Little Stone dominating a land of opportunity.
• Lin Fan saw Shi Qi promise his mother he would defeat every rival, and she gave him a box of tiny purple needles.

Lin Fan cursed Shi Qi’s mother and worked on a human-body formation while Long Aojiao recruited help to support the Qian Yuan Immortal Dynasty’s Seventh Princess. After the group defeated a hidden attacker and learned the Seventh Princess’s brothers had killed her unborn child, Long Aojiao vowed to destroy them.

• Lin Fan cursed Shi Qi’s mother after recognizing her as the source of the God Destroying Needle, while Tang Wu escaped to the Northeast Region and swore revenge on those who had framed him.
• Long Aojiao asked Lin Fan to send Yaya, Xiao Ling'er, Little Dragon Girl, Huo Yun'er, and Wu Xingyun with her to aid the Seventh Princess in the Qian Yuan Immortal Dynasty.
• Long Aojiao and the others discovered a shriveled elder following them in the Northern Region, and Long Aojiao killed him after he attacked.
• Wu Xingyun suspected the Seventh Princess’s location had been exposed and warned that she might have a traitor among her allies, so the group hurried to the dynasty without using teleportation arrays.
• The group met the badly injured Seventh Princess, who revealed that her imperial brothers had attacked her, killed her unborn child, and claimed a woman could not inherit the throne.
• Long Aojiao became enraged and vowed to kill the Seventh Princess’s brothers.

After learning that her child had been killed, Long Aojiao launched a bloody assault on the Qian Yuan princes, slaughtering the crown prince and several rivals. The remaining princes joined forces to attack her and besiege the Seventh Princess's Residence, where Xiao Ling'er and the others turned the fight around and Xiao Ling'er recognized the Xiao Family Ancestor among the attackers.

• Long Aojiao rejected the Seventh Princess's counsel to bide her time and stormed the East Palace, where she killed Crown Prince Qian Yuan Wenxin and destroyed his household despite his death-substitution treasure.
• The third, fourth, and eighth princes approached Long Aojiao with gifts, but she killed the eighth prince and then razed all three princes' residences, leaving four princes' heads hanging from her waist.
• The surviving princes realized Long Aojiao was avenging the Seventh Princess and resolved to join forces against her while attacking the Seventh Princess's Residence.
• Long Aojiao fought off the princes' forces as Xiao Ling'er, Wu Xingyun, Yaya, Little Dragon Girl, and the others routed the attackers at the residence.
• Xiao Ling'er recognized Xiao Zhengji, the Xiao Family Ancestor, among the enemies attacking the Seventh Princess's Residence.

Long Aojiao helped Qian Yuan Wenqing claim the Qian Yuan Immortal Dynasty’s throne, and Xiao Ling'er delivered the empress’s judgment that destroyed the Xiao Family. After visiting her parents’ grave, Xiao Ling'er set out with her companions, while the Black and White Academy’s Prefect prepared to counter resistance to expanding the Illusory God Realm.

• Xiao Ling'er killed Xiao Zhengji, and Long Aojiao defeated the princes’ forces before demanding that Qian Yuan Tuo abdicate.
• Long Aojiao fought Qian Yuan Tuo, who named Qian Yuan Wenqing the new empress before dying; three days later, Qian Yuan Wenqing ascended the throne and began a purge.
• Qian Yuan Wenqing offered Xiao Ling'er the choice of how to deal with the Xiao Family, and Xiao Ling'er ordered the main family and guilty branch families exterminated while sparing innocent branch lineages.
• Xiao Ling'er visited her parents’ cenotaph, told them about her life and the Xiao Family’s destruction, and left to pursue her path toward becoming the Flame Emperor.
• The Black and White Academy’s Prefect learned that factions opposed extending the Illusory God Realm and ordered a list of promising first-rate factions to be drawn up.

Black and White Academy chose Moon Embracing Sect to manage the Southwest Region’s Illusory God Realm work, and Lin Fan negotiated a favorable contract before planning to outsource the labor to other sects. Moon Embracing Sect’s public invitation drew interest from regional powers, forcing Bright Moon Sect to consider joining the project as Ji Haoyue asked Lu Ming for advice.

• Black and White Academy’s elders debated which regional forces to support, and the Prefecture Lord overruled their candidates by selecting Moon Embracing Sect.
• Old Six offered Lin Fan the work of setting up formations, refining Illusory God Realm tokens, and handling sales; Lin Fan negotiated a sixty-forty profit split in Moon Embracing Sect’s favor.
• Lin Fan decided to recruit Spirit Sword Sect, Beast Taming Sect, and Bright Moon Sect to do the work, reasoning that cooperation would spread the risks and leave his sect free to pursue other matters.
• Black and White Academy announced its regional partnerships, and Holy Mother Gu Xinglian dismissed her elders’ calls to retaliate over Moon Embracing Sect’s selection.
• Lin Fan invited Southwest Region sects to cooperate, prompting Five Elements Gate, Taihe Palace, and others to prepare to visit Moon Embracing Sect; Bright Moon Sect grew alarmed about being excluded.
• Ji Haoyue defended Moon Embracing Sect’s strength to Bright Moon Sect’s elders, and Lu Ming warned that its new alliances could make the sect harder to oppose before Ji Haoyue asked him what to do.

Lu Ming persuaded the Bright Moon Sect to seek cooperation with the Moon Embracing Sect and pursue the Black and White Academy assignment. At the Moon Embracing Sect, Old Six discovered Lin Fan’s arrangements, accepted two Eight Treasures Chicken chicks, and the visiting sects were led to the Spirit Beast Garden, where the Beast Taming Sect recognized a flock of hundreds of Eight Treasures Chickens.

• Lu Ming guided Ji Haoyue and the Bright Moon Sect elders into deciding to visit the Moon Embracing Sect and compete for the cooperation opportunity.
• Old Six learned that Lin Fan had invited other sects to help with the Illusory God Realm’s promotion, then went to the Moon Embracing Sect to investigate.
• Lin Fan gave Old Six two Eight Treasures Chicken chicks as an apology gift, and Old Six secretly kept them instead of releasing them.
• Murong Pipa led the visiting forces from the Beast Taming Sect, Five Elements Gate, Taihe Palace, and Spirit Sword Sect on a tour before bringing them to the Spirit Beast Garden.
• The Beast Taming Sect’s elders confronted Gao Guang after finding him feeding chickens, but their First Elder and Qu Shi Fei recognized the chicks as extraordinary.
• A Beast Taming Sect elder realized that the flock of several hundred chicks were all Eight Treasures Chickens.

The visiting sects toured Moon Embracing Sect’s astonishing spirit-beast and medicinal gardens before negotiating to cooperate on expanding the Illusory God Realm. When Ji Haoyue arrived to join the competition for a partnership, Rao Zhirou challenged his insistence that strength alone should decide who was chosen.

• The Beast Taming Sect elders confirmed that Moon Embracing Sect had vast numbers of artificially bred Eight Treasures Chickens, and Murong Pipa revealed that the sect also raised Eight Treasures Ducks.
• The visitors discovered that the garden’s towering plants were powerful spiritual medicines, and the Sword Son said they had grown dramatically in recent years.
• Lin Fan proposed an assembly-line partnership to expand the Illusory God Realm, with Moon Embracing Sect coordinating the work and splitting profits evenly with its partners.
• Lin Fan made four sects compete for three partnership slots by offering benefits or demonstrating strength, but Murong Pipa announced that Ji Haoyue had arrived to participate.
• Old Six urged Lin Fan to admit the Bright Moon Sect, and Ji Haoyue agreed that strength should decide the competition.
• Rao Zhirou argued that sincerity mattered alongside strength, making Ji Haoyue suspect she was setting a trap for him.