Chapter Summaries

Hun Miesheng approved Soul Hall's plans to retaliate against Chen Mo while Chen Mo treated Cao Ying's poisoned wounds and she questioned his intentions toward her. After Elder Shi and Elder Peng departed, Chen Mo and Cao Ying searched for herbs, while Zi Yan used Xiong Zhan's authority to help find ingredients for Xin Lan.

• Hun Miesheng approved plans to attack Lingyan Pavilion, release the Three Thousand Burning Flame during the Pill Gathering, turn the Pillar Tower and other clans against Chen Mo, and sent Soul Gang to Holy Pill City.
• Chen Mo used Heavenly Flames to remove poison from Cao Ying's neck wounds and applied medicine to them.
• Cao Ying asked Chen Mo whether he truly wanted her as his woman, and he joked about the number of women he already had.
• Elder Shi and Elder Peng left the Pill Realm, and Cao Ying found Dragon Origin Nine-Leaf Grass after Chen Mo led her to it.
• Chen Mo and Cao Ying compared their ingredient lists, found several matching herbs, and continued searching before heading toward the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Zi Yan discovered that Xiong Zhan commanded the Magical Beasts of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, and Xiong Zhan promised to find herbs for Xin Lan.

Chen Mo and Cao Ying reached the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and found the cave of its powerful Beast King, where Zi Yan and her companions were gathering medicinal herbs. Chen Mo asked Xiong Zhan to collect ingredients from their lists, leaving Xiong Zhan to demand an exchange.

• Chen Mo and Cao Ying learned that a near-mid-stage eighth-tier Magical Beast guarded the mountain range’s rare herbs and went to find its cave.
• Zi Yan let Xin Lan and Zheng Tian choose herbs from the cave’s stores, while Xiong Zhan reluctantly agreed.
• Qi You sensed newcomers, and Chen Mo called for the Beast King to come out and speak with him.
• Zi Yan, Xin Lan, and Zheng Tian recognized Chen Mo and Cao Ying when they appeared outside the cave.
• Chen Mo asked Xiong Zhan to gather the ingredients on his and Cao Ying’s lists, and Xiong Zhan asked what he would offer in exchange.

Chen Mo promised Xiong Zhan an Eighth Grade Pill after the Pill Gathering and proved his alchemy level by revealing his powerful Soul Power. Xiong Zhan welcomed Chen Mo and Cao Ying into the cave dwelling, where they collected the medicinal ingredients they needed, while Zi Yan remained cool toward Chen Mo.

• Xiong Zhan asked Chen Mo for an Eighth Grade Pill that could raise his strength, and Chen Mo promised to refine one after the Pill Gathering.
• Chen Mo revealed that he had become an Eighth-grade Alchemist and demonstrated his immense Soul Power, convincing Xiong Zhan to welcome him.
• Chen Mo gave Xiong Zhan a Lingyan Pavilion Jade Token and promised to help him within his capabilities.
• Xin Lan and Zheng Tian left after bidding farewell to Zi Yan, and Chen Mo noted that Zheng Tian had insisted on going.
• Xiong Zhan led Chen Mo and Cao Ying into the medicinal-ingredient hall, where they gathered everything on their inventories.

Chen Mo and Cao Ying completed the Pill Realm's task in less than a day and returned to the exit, astonishing the crowd and drawing the Pill Tower elders' attention. The chapter ended with an elder asking whether they had completed the assessment.

• Chen Mo and Cao Ying gathered their chosen medicinal herbs, including Cao Ying's Crimson Origin Vermilion Fruit, and left the Pill Realm's grand hall.
• Xiong Zhan and the others collected the remaining herbs and departed, while Song Qing and the others later found the cave dwelling empty.
• Medusa, Yun Yun, and Tang Zhen wagered their valuables on Chen Mo winning the Pill Gathering.
• The Pill Realm's completion signal sounded, and a Pill Tower elder appeared to inspect the contestant who had finished the task.
• Chen Mo and Cao Ying emerged together, stunning the crowd and prompting the Three Great Elders to watch them.
• The elder asked Chen Mo and Cao Ying whether they had completed the Pill Realm's assessment.

Chen Mo and Cao Ying passed the Pill Realm ingredient-gathering task in less than a day, shocking the crowd and qualifying for the final Pill Gathering competition. Back at the inn, Chen Mo began cultivating the Myriad Domain Soul Locking Array, and eight days later he prepared to return as more contestants emerged from the Pill Realm.

• Chen Mo and Cao Ying submitted their ingredient lists and collected ingredients, and the cane-wielding elder confirmed that both had passed.
• Chen Mo and Cao Ying left the square while Medusa remarked that Cao Ying might become another of Chen Mo’s women; the others planned to return to the inn and come back near the Pill Realm’s closing.
• Medusa asked Chen Mo about his relationship with Cao Ying, and Chen Mo vaguely brushed aside the question while Yun Yun, Medusa, and Tang Zhen discussed their bets on him winning the championship.
• Chen Mo spent 110,000 Fortune Points to obtain the Heaven Tier High Grade Myriad Domain Soul Locking Array and began crafting its chessboard and refining Venerable Jian, Venerable Lei, and Venerable Feng as pieces.
• After eight days of cultivation, Chen Mo opened his eyes as more contestants emerged from the Pill Realm.

As the Pill Gathering’s final contest approached, Xuan Kongzi announced that the top ten contestants would qualify to enter the Star Domain and devour the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Cao Ying then told Song Qing that he had helped her find her lifelong belonging, and looked toward Chen Mo.

• Song Qing learned that Chen Mo and Cao Ying had completed the Pill Realm trial in less than a day and worried that Cao Ying had fallen for Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo noticed Xuanyi watching him with killing intent, while Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi urged her to remain calm until the Pill Gathering ended.
• Cao Ying ignored Song Qing and went to speak cheerfully with Chen Mo.
• After the Pill Realm closed, Xuan Kongzi announced that the top ten contestants would qualify to enter the Star Domain and devour the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Song Qing apologized to Cao Ying for leaving her behind in the Pill Realm, and Cao Ying said he had helped her find her lifelong belonging before looking at Chen Mo.

At the Pill Tower’s alchemy competition, Chen Mo revealed the Sacred Radiance Cauldron and a Heavenly Flame, drawing the crowd’s attention. He left Song Qing humiliated after his flame extinguished Song Qing’s Beast Flame.

• Cao Ying smiled at Chen Mo, while Song Qing watched him with killing intent and Dan Chen shyly met his gaze.
• Xuan Kongzi rang the bell to begin the competition, and Chen Mo chose the Sacred Radiance Cauldron, ranked seventh on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Cao Ying summoned her Blood Demon Flame, suppressing the flames in nearby cauldrons, and Song Qing prepared his own Beast Flame.
• Chen Mo summoned a crimson Heavenly Flame that made nearby cauldrons explode and weakened Song Qing’s flame.
• Chen Mo sent his fiery serpent over Song Qing’s head, where it roared at and extinguished Song Qing’s Beast Flame.

Chen Mo began refining the eighth-grade intermediate Venerate Extreme Pill at the Pill Gathering, impressing the crowd and unsettling Song Qing. Ten days passed, and the first pill lightning appeared above an unknown alchemist, signaling a likely seventh-grade pill.

• Chen Mo revealed more than five hundred ingredients and began refining the Venerate Extreme Pill, shocking the gathered alchemists with the scale of his preparation.
• Song Qing abandoned his original plan and began refining in earnest, while Chen Mo carefully advanced through the pill's initial tempering and fusion stage.
• Zi Yan praised Chen Mo to Xiong Zhan, and an old man in blue robes watched Chen Mo before silently vanishing.
• Chen Mo completed the first stage and entered the next, prompting Song Qing to hurry and the Pill Gathering judges to note his faltering composure.
• Seven days passed without any seventh- or eighth-grade pills appearing, while Yi Qingyao, Nalan Yanran, and the others visited Han Xue in Tianbei City and claimed her as their junior sister.
• Three more days passed before pill lightning appeared above an unknown middle-aged alchemist, signaling that he had refined a pill likely at the seventh-grade initial level.

As the Pill Gathering narrowed to its final seven alchemists, pill lightning destroyed one competitor’s pill and Song Qing became the first to form an eighth-grade pill. Just as Song Qing prepared to face its two-colored lightning, a fiery serpent escaped Chen Mo’s Sacred Radiance Cauldron and rushed toward him.

• Zheng Tian revealed pill-refining energy comparable to Song Qing, Cao Ying, and the other leading alchemists, raising the tension among the competitors.
• Pill lightning struck more and more platforms, and one exhausted alchemist lost both his pill and his place in the Pill Gathering when he could not protect it.
• Chen Mo slowed the formation of his pill while the remaining competitors dwindled to seven: Chen Mo, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Song Qing, Zheng Tian, Yao Jianyan, and Qing Hua.
• Song Qing formed the first eighth-grade pill of the gathering, drawing an enormous pool of two-colored pill lightning above his cauldron.
• As Song Qing prepared to withstand the lightning, flames escaped Chen Mo’s control and formed a fiery serpent that roared toward Song Qing.

Chen Mo disrupted Song Qing during the Pill Gathering, causing Song Qing's cauldron to explode and disqualifying him, then defended his actions as rule-abiding. The next day, Dan Chen and two other alchemists each triggered three-colored Pill Lightning, leaving several contenders vying for the championship.

• Chen Mo sent a hundred-zhang flame serpent toward Song Qing as Song Qing tried to seal away the two-colored Pill Lightning, disrupting his concentration.
• Song Qing's cauldron exploded, and he was thrown from the platform, disqualified from the Pill Gathering.
• Xuanyi warned Chen Mo, but he asked which rule he had broken, while Tang Zhen and Yun Yun worried about the consequences of opposing the Pillar Tower.
• The next day, Dan Chen triggered three-colored Pill Lightning while refining an Eighth Grade Pill.
• A gray-robed old man and then a red-robed young man also triggered three-colored Pill Lightning.

At the Pill Gathering, Cao Ying revealed an Eighth Grade Pill that summoned four-colored pill lightning, while Chen Mo continued refining and Zheng Tian’s pill produced even stronger lightning. The chapter ended as Zheng Tian’s pill lightning turned five-colored, leaving the contest’s outcome unresolved.

• Dan Chen, Qing Hua, and Yao Jianyan summoned three-colored pill lightning with their Eighth Grade Pills.
• Cao Ying challenged Dan Chen, then revealed four-colored pill lightning and an Eighth Grade Pill shaped like a phoenix.
• Chen Mo accelerated his refining as the Sacred Radiance Cauldron absorbed natural energy, drawing the attention of Xuan Kongzi and the others.
• Medusa warned Yun Yun that Cao Ying would be a difficult rival if she joined their group, and the two women began whispering together.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Yao Jianyan, and Qing Hua safely weathered their pill lightning and displayed their pills, with Cao Ying’s pill proving strongest.
• Zheng Tian summoned pill lightning that escalated to five colors, astonishing the crowd.

Chen Mo unveiled his pill after Zheng Tian produced five-colored Pill Lightning, and his pill summoned a far more terrifying heavenly anomaly. As the thunderclouds gathered six colors, the crowd waited in stunned silence for the black lightning to descend.

• Zheng Tian refined an initial-stage Eighth Grade Pill that summoned five-colored Pill Lightning, leaving the crowd convinced he had won the Pill Gathering.
• Chen Mo rose and released the pill he had finished refining days earlier, sending a towering black light pillar into the sky and bringing down rain.
• Chen Mo's thunderclouds formed a thunder pool, and the crowd counted as azure, crimson, silver, gold, and purple Pill Lightning appeared.
• The five colors vanished from the thunder pool, which churned again as Zheng Tian's Pill Lightning drew little attention.
• A bolt of destructive black lightning burst from the thunder pool, revealing six-colored Pill Lightning and leaving the crowd stunned.

Chen Mo won the Pill Gathering and absorbed the Six-Colored Pill Lightning, beginning a breakthrough. As black mist spread across the square, the Soul Hall appeared and threatened everyone.

• Chen Mo warned Yun Yun and the others of approaching danger, then had Tang Zhen take them away from the square.
• Chen Mo faced the Six-Colored Pill Lightning and absorbed its power into his body while protecting the Sacred Radiance Cauldron.
• Chen Mo endured an hour of lightning strikes, awakened another Giant Elephant Particle, and began to break through.
• The Soul Hall announced its arrival and ordered everyone who wanted to live to leave as black mist blotted out the sun.

The Soul Hall attacked Chen Mo at Pillar Tower, and its Vice Hall Master Soul Gang revealed himself as a Three Star Dou Saint. Soul Gang threatened anyone who helped Chen Mo, leaving Pillar Tower facing the prospect of war as the confrontation escalated.

• The Soul Hall launched three black chains at Chen Mo, but Xuan Kongzi and Tian Leizi were knocked away when they tried to stop them.
• Xuan Kongzi recognized the attacker as Soul Hall Vice Hall Master Soul Gang, while Chen Mo seized the chains and stored his completed Venerate Extreme Pill.
• Soul Gang summoned seven allies from the black mist, including Gu You, and Chen Mo challenged them before clashing with Soul Gang’s attack.
• Soul Gang declared that anyone helping Chen Mo would become an enemy of the Soul Hall and threatened Pillar Tower with war if it interfered.
• Qi You and Zi Yan left the square to avoid the coming Saint-level battle, while other spectators moved farther away to watch.

Soul Hall attacked Chen Mo at Pill Region, forcing Pillar Tower to watch as he fought Soul Gang and the Heavenly Venerates. Chen Mo struck Soul Gang with the force of an ancient colossal elephant, sending him flying, while two towering figures blocked attacks from Great Heavenly Venerate and Third Heavenly Venerate.

• Soul Gang ordered the Heavenly Venerates to attack Chen Mo together and sent a mass of black fog at him.
• Cao Ying tried to help Chen Mo, so Soul Gang ordered Gu You to capture her; Xuan Kongzi intervened and fought Gu You.
• Chen Mo used Three Thousand Lightning Movements to evade the attacks as Soul Gang and the Heavenly Venerates closed in on him.
• Chen Mo charged Soul Gang with crimson flames and unleashed the force of an ancient colossal elephant, crushing Soul Gang's chest and hurling him away.
• Two towering black-gold and purple-gold figures blocked Great Heavenly Venerate's and Third Heavenly Venerate's attacks on Chen Mo.

Chen Mo survived Soul Hall’s barrage and activated the Myriad Domain Soul Locking Array, suppressing the experts in the northern district as he struck back at Soul Gang. Yun Yun, Medusa, Tang Zhen, and Ye Yiren considered going to his aid.

• Soul Gang and the other Heavenly Venerates blasted Chen Mo into a crater, then attacked the crater with black skull and handprint techniques.
• Yun Yun tried to return to help Chen Mo, but Medusa stopped her; Tang Zhen and Ye Yiren offered to go and seek support.
• Chen Mo emerged unharmed, his Black Battle Armor repairing itself as he summoned the Underworld God's Spear and activated the array.
• The array suppressed everyone except Chen Mo and drained their soul power, while three summoned figures blocked Heavenly Venerates from reaching Soul Gang.
• Chen Mo charged Soul Gang and pierced his chest with the Black Spear.

Chen Mo attacked Soul Gang but was trapped by Soul Hall’s Lifesource Soul Locks. Just as Soul Gang moved to finish him, Hanyuan, the Pillar Tower’s Supreme Great Elder, appeared and challenged Soul Hall.

• Chen Mo pierced Soul Gang with the Underworld God's Spear and attacked him, but Soul Gang escaped into black mist and Chen Mo was struck by the Black and White Celestial Venerates and the Ninth Celestial Venerate.
• Soul Gang ordered the Soul Hall elders to summon their Lifesource Soul Locks, which formed a cage around Chen Mo after he failed to evade their tracking chains.
• Qi You explained to Zi Yan that the chains were tied to the Soul Hall elders’ souls and could injure them if damaged.
• Soul Gang sent another chain toward Chen Mo, but an invisible force knocked it aside.
• Hanyuan appeared from distorted space, and Xuanyi and Xuan Kongzi greeted him as the Pillar Tower’s Supreme Great Elder.
• Soul Gang asked Hanyuan whether he intended to oppose Soul Hall.

The Pillar Tower intervened to protect Chen Mo, but Soul Gang summoned the Soul Clan expert Soul Lock, turning the confrontation against them. Hanyuan called for help, but his scroll produced no Spatial Rift.

• Hanyuan declared that the Pillar Tower would protect Chen Mo, and three Half-Saint elders arrived to support him.
• Soul Gang ordered Gu You to summon Qinghai, then opened a Spatial Wormhole to bring in a four-star Dou Saint.
• Hanyuan and the three elders attacked the rift, but Soul Lock emerged and crushed their attacks with one hand.
• Soul Lock recognized that Chen Mo was imprisoned in the Lifesource Chains, while Chen Mo drew the Kun Yang Sword inside the cage.
• Xuan Kongzi identified Soul Lock as a member of the Soul Clan, and Soul Lock threatened Hanyuan over Xue Ming's death.
• Hanyuan crushed a blue-white scroll to summon help, but no Spatial Rift appeared.

Chen Mo broke free of the Soul Hall’s Lifesource Chains and intervened to save Hanyuan from Soul Lock, while the Pillar Tower’s forces fought the Soul Hall. The chapter ended with an explosion from the Star Domain signaling that Three Thousand Burning Flame was about to break free.

• Soul Lock sealed the space and fought Hanyuan and the Pillar Tower reinforcements, defeating them with a single attack.
• Chen Mo shattered the Lifesource Chains prison, cut through Soul Gang’s incoming chain, and left the Soul Hall’s three Heavenly Venerates struggling against Zero and One.
• Chen Mo blocked Soul Lock’s attack on Hanyuan and told Hanyuan and the elders to fight Soul Gang while he faced Soul Lock.
• Soul Lock revealed that the Soul Clan chief had asked for Chen Mo to be brought back, but Chen Mo chose to fight him.
• An explosion and an enraged dragon’s cry came from the Star Domain, and Soul Gang declared that Three Thousand Burning Flame was about to break free.

Three Thousand Burning Flame broke free of its seal with help from a green-robed Soul Hall man, while Pillar Tower’s elders rushed to stop it from absorbing stellar energy. Chen Mo fought Soul Lock, severed his arm with the Kun Yang Sword, and faced Soul Lock’s transformation into a giant.

• Three Thousand Burning Flame shattered Pillar Tower’s runes, then agreed to join Soul Hall for a year after destroying Pillar Tower.
• The green-robed man and two black-clad figures broke the Star Domain’s seal, freeing Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Hanyuan sent Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuanyi to the Star Domain as Soul Gang ordered Gu You and the others to delay them.
• Chen Mo blocked Soul Lock’s black hand with the Kun Yang Sword, but Soul Lock struck him and severely injured him.
• Chen Mo cut off Soul Lock’s right arm and charged again, but Soul Lock absorbed black mist, regenerated the limb, and grew into a giant over a hundred meters tall.