Chapter Summaries

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan traveled through a spatial wormhole toward the Central Plains, with Zi Yan piloting their Space Ship. Xu Haoyu refined the Heaven Demon Phoenix’s Cyan Crimson Blood during the journey and broke through to 8-Star Dou Huang.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan arrived in Tianya City, bought a sixth-tier Space Ship, and entered the Luo Family’s spatial wormhole.
• Zi Yan judged the wormhole’s spatial structure to be crude and warned that it would develop problems within ten years.
• Zi Yan piloted the Space Ship while Xu Haoyu began refining a drop of Cyan Crimson Blood from a peak seventh-tier Heaven Demon Phoenix.
• Xu Haoyu’s Heavenly Flames refined the blood’s energy, strengthening his Bone Wings and pushing his cultivation toward a breakthrough.
• After three days, Xu Haoyu consumed the remaining drop of Cyan Crimson Blood and broke through from 7-Star Dou Huang to 8-Star Dou Huang.

After refining the Cyan Crimson Blood, Xu Haoyu reached the peak of 8-Star Dou Huang and took Zi Yan to Central State, where they traveled south in search of treasures and her clansmen. In a city, they learned that the Tianshan Blood Pool would open soon, and Xu Haoyu decided they would go there next.

• Xu Haoyu finished refining the two drops of Cyan Crimson Blood, strengthening his Dou Qi, Bone Wings, and body.
• Xu Haoyu took over piloting the Space Ship from Zi Yan, accelerated past other ships, and shortened their journey to Central State to half a month.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan left the space-tunnel platform and planned to travel south, visit the Pill Tower, and find Zi Yan's clansmen in the Beast Region.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan bought maps and gathered natural treasures as they traveled through the Central State Northern Region.
• At an inn, Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan heard that the Tianshan Blood Pool would open in less than a month, and Xu Haoyu proposed going there.

Xu Haoyu used a Huang Ji Pill to advance to Nine Star Dou Huang, then traveled with Zi Yan to the Tianmu Mountain Range for the opening of the Tianshan Blood Pool. When the energy tide appeared, they entered the mountains with the crowd, following Zi Yan’s treasure-hunting ability toward Tianshan Platform.

• Xu Haoyu consumed a Huang Ji Pill and broke through from 8-Star Dou Huang to Nine Star Dou Huang overnight.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan left the inn and spent more than twenty days fighting magical beasts to gather medicinal herbs on their way to the Tianmu Mountain Range.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan arrived at the mountain range and waited among the gathered experts for the energy tide to appear.
• A five-colored energy tide surged from the mountains, and the crowd rushed inside.
• Xu Haoyu asked Zi Yan to use her treasure-hunting ability to guide them toward Tianshan Platform, and they followed her into the mountains.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan raced through Tianmu Mountain Range and became the first to reach Tianshan Platform, where they encountered the Gold Devouring Rat Clan. Jin Shi recognized Zi Yan’s powerful bloodline and treated the pair with deference, while hinting that he knew something about her origins.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan sped ahead of the other competitors, and Jin Gu sensed danger from Xu Haoyu and bloodline suppression from Zi Yan as they entered the dense fog.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan crossed the fog maze and found the Gold Devouring Rats gathered along the mountain path.
• Zi Yan frightened the rats into fleeing, and she and Xu Haoyu continued upward to Tianshan Platform.
• Jin Shi questioned Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan about their names, faction, and treatment of the rats.
• Zi Yan revealed her magical-beast nature, causing Jin Shi and the two Rank Six rats to feel their bloodlines suppressed.
• Jin Shi apologized, congratulated Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan for arriving first, and asked Zi Yan to pass his regards to her family’s elders.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan passed the Gold Devouring Rat Clan’s trial and reached the Tianshan Blood Pool, where Xu Haoyu planned to search its bottom for ancient energy deposits. Six outside geniuses qualified outright, so Jin Shi selected two more from the failed candidates to fill the eight outside slots.

• Jin Shi began the trial for eight outside slots in the Tianshan Blood Pool by unleashing the Rat Tide Sonic Wave Formation.
• Zi Yan used her Dragon’s Roar to suppress the Gold Devouring Rats and reached the mountaintop.
• Xu Haoyu resisted the rats’ sonic waves with his Dou Qi and joined Zi Yan by the Blood Pool.
• Xu Haoyu told Zi Yan they should explore the bottom of the Blood Pool, where energy had accumulated over hundreds or thousands of years.
• Four other geniuses passed the trial, and Jin Shi chose the two failed candidates who had advanced the farthest to complete the eight outside slots.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan cultivated deep inside the Tianshan Blood Pool, where Xu Haoyu tempered his soul into the Early Spirit Realm and both absorbed immense energy. After two months, Xu Haoyu broke through to Dou Zong while Zi Yan reached the peak of Dou Emperor, one step from her next breakthrough.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan passed through a spatial barrier at the bottom of the Tianshan Blood Pool, and Xu Haoyu used Heart Flame to protect Zi Yan from the fire poison.
• Xu Haoyu absorbed the pool’s energy with his soul and used the Perception Chapter to shape his expanding Soul Strength into an Early Spirit Realm soul.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan cultivated in the pool for two months while the other visitors left, and Jin Shi noticed the pool’s water diminishing.
• A pillar of energy descended into the Tianshan Blood Pool, and Xu Haoyu emerged as a Dou Zong while Zi Yan reached the peak of Dou Emperor.

After leaving the Gold Devouring Rat Clan, Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan traveled to Pill City, where Xu Haoyu learned about the upcoming Pill Assessment Conference. He planned to use the conference to establish his credentials as a Rank 7 Alchemist.

• Xu Haoyu revealed that he and Zi Yan had found the spatial barrier beneath the Tianshan Blood Pool, and Jin Shi and Jin Gu recognized Zi Yan as a Void Ancient Dragon.
• Xu Haoyu gave Jin Shi a fourth-tier Ice Spirit Pill recipe and pills in exchange for the Gold Devouring Rat Clan keeping their identities secret; Jin Shi promised the clan would aid them in the future.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan left the Tianmu Mountain Range, discussed finding the Void Ancient Dragon Clan in the Beast Region, and traveled south while gathering medicinal ingredients.
• Xu Haoyu collected the ingredients for a Bone Growing Blood Fusion Pill, and he and Zi Yan reached Pill City after two months of travel.
• Xu Haoyu learned that the Pill Tower's Pill Assessment Conference would begin in a few days and decided to attend rather than immediately test his alchemist rank.

Xu Haoyu registered for the Pill Assessment Conference and stunned the Pill Tower officials with his Rank 7 Alchemist badge, Spiritual Realm soul, and age of fifteen. After preparing to refine a Rank 7 low-grade Instant Qi Pill, he and Zi Yan headed to the Southwest venue for the preliminary round.

• Xu Haoyu showed his Rank 7 Alchemist badge and Spiritual Realm soul to the registration officials, who registered him as a fifteen-year-old contestant.
• The officials assigned Xu Haoyu to the Southwest Arena, where the preliminary round's theme was pills that rapidly restored Dou Qi.
• Xu Haoyu chose the Rank 7 low-grade Instant Qi Pill and obtained its recipe from a scroll he had received from Yao Chen.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan gathered ingredients for three sets of Instant Qi Pills, and Xu Haoyu reviewed the refining process through the night.
• At daybreak, Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan joined the crowds heading to the Southwest venue for the preliminary round.

Xu Haoyu entered the Southwest Arena for the Pill Assessment Conference and prepared to refine an Instant Qi Pill in the preliminary round. When he revealed his Heavenly Flame, the other alchemists’ flames bowed toward it, drawing shocked and covetous attention.

• Xu Haoyu used his Spiritual Realm Soul Strength to lift all thirty-six Soul Testing Beads and gained the guards’ permission to enter with Zi Yan.
• Xu Haoyu waited with Zi Yan until staff summoned the contestants, and she cheered him on as he headed to the arena.
• Dan Yang introduced the preliminary round’s Dou Qi recovery pill theme and announced that the judges would select the top fifty contestants for the finals.
• Xu Haoyu placed the Yin Yang Cauldron on his platform and prepared the ingredients for an Instant Qi Pill.
• Xu Haoyu summoned his blue Heavenly Flame, causing the other alchemists’ flames to tremble and tilt toward it as spectators reacted with shock and greed.

Xu Haoyu used his Heavenly Flame to refine a low-grade Seventh-Rank Instant Qi Pill, impressing the judges and spectators before advancing from the preliminaries. He left considering whether to reveal his Spiritual Realm soul and become a Rank 8 Alchemist at the Finals.

• Xu Haoyu refined the pill’s ingredients with his blue Heavenly Flame while spectators recognized his skill and guessed he was making a Seventh-Rank Instant Qi Pill.
• Xu Haoyu fused the medicinal essences, completed the pill, and endured its lightning tribulation by absorbing the lightning with his Five Elements Divine Light.
• Xu Haoyu caught the escaping Instant Qi Pill and presented it to the judges, who confirmed its top quality.
• Elder Dan Yang announced that Xu Haoyu had advanced and would likely take first place in the Southwest Region, then explained that the Finals date would be announced after all regional preliminaries ended.
• Xu Haoyu left the arena and considered becoming a Rank 8 Alchemist at the Finals to trade pill refinement for Earth-rank-or-higher techniques and combat skills.

Xu Haoyu prepared for the Pill Assessment Conference Finals, where Xuan Kongzi presided and the champion could choose a Soul Skill scroll. As the alchemists began refining their chosen pills, Xu Haoyu summoned his Heavenly Flames and drew the crowd’s attention.

• After his Seventh-Rank alchemy skills became known, Xu Haoyu turned away factions seeking to recruit him and focused on preparing for the Finals.
• The Pill Tower announced that the Finals would take place at the Northern Arena, with Xuan Kongzi presiding and the champion receiving a choice of Soul Skill scroll.
• Xu Haoyu practiced refining the Bone Growing Blood Fusion Pill, intending to infuse it with spiritual energy and produce a Rank 8 Pill.
• At the Northern Arena, Cao Ying vowed to defeat Xu Haoyu after he drew attention she had hoped to win for herself.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the Finals and explained that rankings would depend on each pill’s grade, quality, and appearance.
• Xu Haoyu summoned his Heavenly Flames as the alchemists began refining, astonishing the participants and spectators.

Xu Haoyu refined a Rank 8 Pill during the Pill Assessment Conference, stunning the spectators and defeating Cao Ying’s attempt to surpass him. The pill summoned 2.5-Colored Pill Lightning, leaving Xuan Kongzi astonished by Xu Haoyu’s achievement at fifteen.

• Xu Haoyu spent five days refining the ingredients for his pill, carefully processing the three main ingredients with his Spirit Realm soul.
• Cao Ying successfully refined a Seventh-Rank Pill and used a jade tube’s barrier to withstand its pill lightning.
• Xu Haoyu fused the medicinal essences and infused them with spiritual energy from his soul, forming a Rank 8 pill embryo.
• Xu Haoyu’s finished pill summoned 2.5-Colored Pill Lightning, revealing it as a genuine Rank 8 Pill.
• Cao Ying was left feeling defeated, while Xuan Kongzi marveled that Xu Haoyu had become a Rank 8 Alchemist at fifteen.

Xu Haoyu endured the Pill Lightning summoned by his Rank 8 Bone Growing Blood Fusion Pill, using it to break through to two-star Dou Zong before claiming the pill and winning the Pill Assessment Conference. He advertised his pill-refining services in exchange for Earth-rank techniques or skills and learned that the champion’s reward was a Soul Skill scroll.

• Xu Haoyu met the Rank 8 Pill’s 2.5-Colored Pill Lightning with his Five Elements Divine Light and endured the bolts that struck his body.
• Xu Haoyu refined the lightning energy into Dou Qi and broke through from one-star Dou Zong to two-star Dou Zong as the Pill Lightning dispersed.
• Xu Haoyu caught the sentient Bone Growing Blood Fusion Pill, sealed it in a Jade Bottle, and offered to refine Rank 8 pills in exchange for Earth-rank cultivation techniques or Dou Skills.
• Xuan Kongzi declared Xu Haoyu the undisputed champion and offered him a Soul Skill scroll from the Pill Tower.
• Xu Haoyu thanked Xuan Kongzi but regretted that the reward was not a complete soul cultivation technique.

After winning the Pill Assessment Conference, Xu Haoyu accepted Xuan Kongzi’s offer to join the Pill Tower as an Honorary Elder. He chose the Aura Concealment Technique and selected the Taiyi Soul Mantra as his soul cultivation technique.

• Xu Haoyu visited Xuan Kongzi to collect his reward after winning the Pill Assessment Conference.
• Xuan Kongzi offered Xu Haoyu membership in the Pill Tower and promised him a soul cultivation technique.
• Xu Haoyu agreed to join as an Honorary Elder while retaining the freedom to travel.
• Xuan Kongzi led Xu Haoyu to the treasure vault, where Xu Haoyu chose the Aura Concealment Technique.
• Xu Haoyu selected the Taiyi Soul Mantra from the vault.

After joining the Pill Tower, Xu Haoyu learned two soul techniques and traded Rank 8 pill refinement for cultivation methods and Dou Techniques. Thunder Venerable Lei Wanshan then offered him two Wind and Thunder Pavilion techniques in exchange for a Thunder King Pill, and Xu Haoyu agreed.

• The Pill Tower announced that Xu Haoyu had become an Honorary Elder and sent him elder robes and a token.
• Xu Haoyu learned the Aura Concealment Technique and Taiyi Soul Mantra, then began practicing both.
• Xu Haoyu refined Rank 8 Pills for clients in exchange for Earth Rank cultivation methods and Dou Techniques.
• The Earth Immortal Sect gave Xu Haoyu the Earth Spirit Gathering Essence Skill and Earth Binding Spirit Restraint Art for refining an Ageless Longevity Pill.
• Thunder Venerable Lei Wanshan asked Xu Haoyu to refine a Thunder King Pill and offered Three Thousand Lightning Movements and Three Thousand Thunder Illusory Body; Xu Haoyu accepted the deal.

Xu Haoyu left Pill City with Zi Yan and traveled to the Beast Region to find the Void Ancient Dragon Clan and investigate her origins. On Eastern Dragon Island, the royal bloodline reappeared, and Hei Qing was sent to retrieve the person who carried it.

• Xu Haoyu refined the Thunder King Pill, gave it to Lei Wanshan, and received copied scrolls of Three Thousand Lightning Movements and the Three Thousand Thunder Illusory Body.
• Xu Haoyu told Zi Yan they would leave for the Beast Region, then formally said farewell to Xuan Kongzi, who had accepted Cao Ying as his disciple.
• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan entered the Beast Region, where Zi Yan sensed a summons and followed it deeper into the wilderness.
• On Eastern Dragon Island, the stone monument glowed with purple light as a voice announced that the royal bloodline had reappeared.
• Hei Qing left Dragon Island for the Dragon Soul Mountain Range, ordered to bring the person carrying the royal bloodline back.

Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan met Hei Qing in the Dragon Soul Mountain Range, and he confirmed Zi Yan was a Void Ancient Dragon with the Royal Bloodline before taking them toward Eastern Dragon Island. During the journey, Hei Qing explained how the Old Dragon Emperor’s disappearance had led three False Kings to split the clan, and he hoped Zi Yan’s return would help reunite it.

• Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan hid from a void storm in the Dragon Soul Mountain Range as Hei Qing emerged from a Space Crack searching for a Royal Bloodline.
• Zi Yan and Xu Haoyu approached Hei Qing, who identified himself as an elder from Eastern Dragon Island and recognized Zi Yan’s Royal Bloodline.
• Zi Yan agreed to travel with Hei Qing after Xu Haoyu encouraged her, and Hei Qing carried them through a Space Channel toward Eastern Dragon Island.
• Xu Haoyu asked Hei Qing about the Void Ancient Dragon Clan’s history while Zi Yan listened during the journey.
• Hei Qing explained that the Old Dragon Emperor had vanished about a thousand years earlier, after which the North Dragon King, West Dragon King, and South Dragon King split the clan and founded three islands.
• Hei Qing said he believed Zi Yan’s return would restore Eastern Dragon Island’s strength and help reunite the Void Ancient Dragon Clan.

Zi Yan returned to Eastern Dragon Island, where Zhuo Li welcomed her as the Old Dragon Emperor’s descendant and promised the island’s support in reclaiming the Void Ancient Dragon Clan. While Zi Yan began consuming the island’s resources to grow stronger, Xu Haoyu refined Pills for her and then started studying Three Thousand Lightning Movements.

• Hei Qing brought Xu Haoyu and Zi Yan through a void passage to Eastern Dragon Island and introduced them to Zhuo Li, its Third Elder.
• Zhuo Li welcomed Zi Yan home and said Eastern Dragon Island would help her reunify the clan, but warned that the three False Kings were Dou Saints.
• Zhuo Li promised to devote the island’s vast resources to Zi Yan, who settled there with Xu Haoyu.
• Zhuo Li supplied rare medicinal ingredients, and Xu Haoyu refined them into Pills for Zi Yan; the elders learned he was a Rank 8 Alchemist.
• Xu Haoyu began cultivating Three Thousand Lightning Movements, studying the technique from a scroll in his cave abode.

Xu Haoyu began cultivating Three Thousand Lightning Movements in the Void Lightning Pool, where he challenged the powerful lightning to improve his speed. He also released the Sky Demon Puppet to absorb lightning and grow.

• Xu Haoyu learned the basics of Three Thousand Lightning Movements and tested its speed inside his cave dwelling.
• Xu Haoyu asked Zhuo Li where he could find a place with concentrated lightning, and Zhuo Li told him about the dangerous Void Lightning Pool.
• Zhuo Li sent Hei Qing to escort Xu Haoyu to the pool and ensure his safety.
• Hei Qing brought Xu Haoyu to the pool’s outer boundary, where Xu Haoyu charged into the lightning to cultivate his movement technique.
• Xu Haoyu released the Sky Demon Puppet, which absorbed the lightning and grew stronger as Xu Haoyu continued training.

Xu Haoyu spent three months cultivating Three Thousand Lightning Movements in the Void Lightning Pool, then learned the Three Thousand Thunder Illusory Body and created an external incarnation. He placed his Heavenly Flame source inside it to help it grow, hoping it might eventually become a powerful Fire Spirit.

• Xu Haoyu repeatedly cultivated in the Void Lightning Pool, retreating to restore his Dou Qi while Hei Qing stayed nearby and cultivated.
• After three months, Xu Haoyu’s Sky Demon Puppet reached the high-tier Dou Zun level but cracked from absorbing too much lightning.
• Xu Haoyu completed the Three Thousand Lightning stage, studied the Three Thousand Thunder Illusory Body, and created an incarnation from an afterimage infused with his Soul Strength.
• Xu Haoyu tempered the incarnation for three days and three nights until it became solid, though its strength was only around Dou Ling.
• Xu Haoyu placed his Heavenly Flame source into the incarnation, hoping to strengthen it and give it the potential to become a Fire Spirit.