Chapter Summaries

Xia Mo and Xiao Yan attended Sacred Pill City's Alchemist Exchange Meet to seek rare ingredients for their pills. On the top floor, they found several desired herbs and acquired two mysterious ancient pieces, though the Black Jade Piece's purpose remained unknown.

• Han Li revealed that Xia Mo and Xiao Yan had passed the Seventh-grade Intermediate test and gave them their badges, impressing the Ye Family.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan prepared trade goods, then joined Ye Zhong and their companions at the Alchemist Exchange Meet.
• After finding little of interest on the first floor, the group moved upstairs, where Xia Mo found a Heaven Heart Fruit and Xiao Yan found a Blood Spirit Demonic Fruit, but the seller demanded excessive prices.
• On the top floor, Xia Mo learned that a Snow Bone Ginseng and Spirit God Flower were available, while he and Xiao Yan also noticed a Black Jade Piece and Pale Yellow Copper Piece that drew warnings from their companions.
• Xia Mo agreed to trade three Seventh-grade Intermediate pills and one Seventh-grade Low-grade pill for the Black Jade Piece.

Xia Mo and Xiao Yan traded for ancient objects at the Alchemist Trade Fair, then discovered that the bronze fragment contained Spirit Nurturing Dust and Xiao Yi Xian’s Black Jade Piece held a Heaven-class poison cultivation method. After Xia Mo tested one grain of the dust and heard a fragmentary soul mnemonic, the group prepared for the Five Great Clans assessment.

• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan traded a Soul Stabilizing Pill and a low-grade pill for the bronze fragment and two Snow Bone Ginseng, then Xia Mo drove off Chen Xian and the Profound Nether Sect elders and took their Storage Rings.
• Xiao Yan traded Pure Heart Pills for the red-robed old man’s Heaven Heart Fruit and Blood Spirit Demonic Fruit before the group returned to Ye Academy.
• Heavenly Fire Venerable removed the patina from the bronze fragment, and Xiao Yan refined it with Heavenly Flames to reveal five grains of Spirit Nurturing Dust.
• Xiao Yi Xian used her Woeful Poison on the Black Jade Piece, triggering its inheritance and learning the mid-tier Heaven-class Heavenly Nether Poison Transmission cultivation method and its matching Dou Techniques.
• Xiao Yan gave Xia Mo two grains of Spirit Nurturing Dust, and Xia Mo absorbed one to draw spiritual energy into his soul before hearing an incomplete ancient mnemonic about the soul, Heavenly Spirit, and Flame Receptacle.

Xia Mo and Xiao Yi Xian forced the Bai Family to apologize and agree to compensate him before heading to the Five Great Families assessment, where Xiao Yan’s outstanding performance preserved the Ye Family’s place. After the assessment, Elder Sheng approached Xia Mo and Xiao Yan and asked about Xiao Yan’s teacher, Yao Chen.

• Xia Mo and Xiao Yi Xian confronted Bai Feng’s party, but accepted the Bai Family’s apology and agreed to settle the dispute in exchange for an Eighth-rank Alchemical Formula and promised medicinal herbs.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yi Xian joined the Ye Family at the assessment hall, where Xiao Yan scored 1395 in the soul-strength test and controlled ninety-three Soul Testing Beads in the second test.
• Cao Ying replaced the Cao Family’s contestant for the final soul-combat round, and Xiao Yan defeated the other competitors to secure the Ye Family’s standing among the Five Great Families.
• Xia Mo copied Cao Ying’s Soul Skill hand seals as Xiao Yan defeated her and won the assessment, prompting factions to renew their ties with the Ye Family.
• Elder Sheng congratulated Ye Zhong and asked Xiao Yan whether Yao Chen was his teacher, then asked Xia Mo his name.

Elder Sheng brought Xia Mo and Xiao Yan to the Pill Tower after Old Mu Gu attacked them and fled, and Xuan Kongzi welcomed Yao Chen’s disciples. The Pill Tower asked them to help protect Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Xia Mo and Xiao Yan received the Soul Hand Seal and set aside their plans against the Profound Nether Sect for now.

• Elder Sheng invited Xia Mo and Xiao Yan to visit the Pill Tower, while news of Xiao Yan’s performance at the Ye Family assessment spread through Sacred Pill City.
• Old Mu Gu ambushed Xia Mo and Xiao Yan in their courtyard, seeking Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames and cultivation method, but Xia Mo broke his attack and Xuan Kongzi’s intervention forced him to retreat.
• Xuan Kongzi warned them that the Profound Nether Sect had leaked their information to Old Mu Gu, and Medusa proposed dealing with the sect in return.
• Ye Zhong identified Chen Xian and the Profound Venerable as leaders of the Profound Nether Sect group, but Elder Sheng asked Xia Mo and Xiao Yan to postpone retaliation until the Pill Gathering was over.
• Xuan Kongzi welcomed Xia Mo and Xiao Yan, promised to help search for Yao Chen, and explained the threat the Soul Hall posed to Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Kongzi gave Xia Mo the Soul Hand Seal scroll for him and Xiao Yan to study, then privately remarked that Xia Mo’s talent could win Yao Chen their old wager.

Xia Mo mastered the Soul Hand Seal, prepared for the Pill Gathering, and entered its trials alongside Xiao Yan. After passing through the Illusionary Realm Trial, he reached the Pill Realm entrance first, where he and Xiao Yan confronted Chen Xian before entering the dangerous herb-gathering round.

• Xia Mo learned all three seals of the Soul Hand Seal and practiced until he could perform them seamlessly.
• Xia Mo refined medicinal pills and Heavenly Demon Puppets during the month before the Pill Gathering began.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan entered the Illusionary Realm Trial, and Xia Mo resisted its illusions of his parents and companions before reaching the Pill Realm passage first.
• The old man riding the turtle explained that contestants had ten days to collect their assigned herbs in the Pill Realm, where powerful magical beasts posed a danger.
• Chen Xian threatened Xiao Yan, who accepted Xia Mo's offer to leave him to Xiao Yan if they met inside the Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yan and Xia Mo collected their mission supplies and entered the Pill Realm, while the old man riding the turtle remarked on Xia Mo's unusual identity.

Xia Mo entered the Pill Realm, gathered task herbs, and followed Song Qing’s group into the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, where Old Mu Gu and Soul Hall agents attacked the Alchemists. After Xiao Yan broke the soul barrier, Xia Mo pursued the Profound Nether Elders and confronted a Soul Hall formation as the chapter ended with its Ghost Soul Giant Blade summoned.

• Xia Mo entered the Pill Realm, found Wind Speed Grass and a Dragon Blood Fruit, and subdued the Fire Flood Dragon King with his purple-gold Dragon Phoenix bloodline.
• Xia Mo reached the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, disguised himself among the gathered contestants, and listened as Song Qing organized them to confront the mountain’s powerful beast.
• Old Mu Gu attacked the Alchemists in a basin, while hidden Soul Hall agents slaughtered the group; Xia Mo concealed his presence as the survivors fought back.
• Old Mu Gu dragged Xiao Yan into the soul barrier, and Cao Ying unleashed her Soul Power while Xia Mo helped hold off the attackers.
• When Xiao Yan broke the soul barrier, Xia Mo pursued the Profound Nether Elders, then confronted Soul Hall agents who formed the Thousand Hundred Ghost Devouring Array and summoned a massive Ghost Soul Giant Blade.

Xia Mo defeated the Soul Hall attackers and the Profound Nether Elders, while Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan protected Xiao Yan from Old Mu Gu. Old Mu Gu eventually withdrew, and Xia Mo reunited with Xiao Yan and met Xiong Zhan.

• Xia Mo destroyed the Ghost Soul Giant Blade, killed the Soul Hall captain and the Profound Nether Elders, and collected their Storage Rings.
• Old Mu Gu attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiong Zhan intervened, and Zi Yan arrived to help protect Xiao Yan.
• Xiong Zhan fought Old Mu Gu in his transformed form until Old Mu Gu withdrew rather than risk exhausting himself before the Pill Gathering.
• Xia Mo arrived after Old Mu Gu escaped, reunited with Zi Yan and Xiao Yan, and asked why they had not stopped him.
• Zi Yan introduced Xia Mo and Xiao Yan to Xiong Zhan, who was surprised to learn that Xia Mo was both a magical beast and an Eighth-grade Alchemist.

Xia Mo gathered rare medicinal herbs with Xiao Yan in the Pill Realm, then spent nearly eight days comprehending sunrise and sunset and created the techniques Prison Devour and Shatter Prison, advancing to three-star Dou Zun. He and Xiao Yan reached the Pill Gathering’s final stage, where the contestants took their platforms and began refining pills.

• Zi Yan led Xia Mo and Xiao Yan to a hall filled with rare medicinal herbs, and Xiong Zhan allowed them to take what they needed under Zi Yan’s Ancestral Dragon Pressure.
• Xia Mo watched the sunrise and sunset for nearly eight days, comprehended their cycle, created Prison Devour and Shatter Prison, and broke through to three-star Dou Zun.
• Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Xiong Zhan rode a Mysterious Bird Beast to the Pill Realm exit, where Xia Mo and Xiao Yan submitted their required herbs and left.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, Ye Zhong, and the others outside the Pill Realm before the Pill Tower announced the final Pill Gathering competition.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the final competition, and Xia Mo chose a quiet platform near the edge as the contestants prepared to refine their pills.
• Xuan Kongzi rang the bell and ordered the contestants to raise their cauldrons and begin refining pills.

Xia Mo began refining a Heavenly Soul Pill at the Pill Gathering, carefully preparing its ingredients and slowly advancing through the difficult fusion and nurturing stages. As elite alchemists produced increasingly powerful pills, Dan Chen’s pill shattered her cauldron and summoned unprecedented two-colored pill lightning.

• Xia Mo prepared to refine the Heavenly Soul Pill while Cao Ying revealed her Blood Fiend Flame, Old Mu Gu displayed the Myriad Beasts Spirit Flame, and Xiao Yan’s blue-green Heavenly Flame forced it to retreat.
• Xia Mo used the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to refine the Heavenly Soul Pill’s many ingredients, gradually processing its essential White Jade Spirit Vine and fusing the medicinal substances over many days.
• As contestants succeeded or failed and pill lightning filled the sky, Song Qing produced a peak seventh-tier pill, followed by a sudden burst of nine more high-tier pills and lightning waves.
• Dan Chen, weakened by the long refinement, spat blood into her pill; its energy shattered her cauldron and sent up a green pillar that drove back the lightning.
• Dan Chen’s pill formed a huge green-and-silver thundercloud, prompting the crowd to erupt at the unprecedented two-colored pill lightning.

Dan Chen and Cao Ying revealed Eighth-grade Pills, but Xiao Yan and Xia Mo surpassed them and Old Mu Gu with increasingly powerful pill lightning. Xia Mo’s pill reached seven-colored lightning after he used the Spirit Ascension Method, securing the Pill Gathering’s outcome while Old Mu Gu suppressed his murderous intent under Xuan Kongzi’s watch.

• Dan Chen and Cao Ying each refined an Eighth-grade Pill that summoned two-colored pill lightning, and Xiao Yan then produced three-colored lightning.
• Qinghua Old Monster refined a pill with three-colored lightning, while Old Mu Gu revealed a four-colored pill and declared that the Soul Hall would win the championship.
• Xiao Yan used the Spirit Ascension Method to improve his pill from three-colored to five-colored lightning, surpassing Old Mu Gu.
• Xia Mo revealed a pill with six-colored lightning, then used Spirit Nurturing Dust and the Spirit Ascension Method to raise it to seven-colored lightning.
• Old Mu Gu glared at Xia Mo and Xiao Yan with killing intent, but Xuan Kongzi’s icy stare made him restrain himself.

Xia Mo won the Pill Gathering after his puppet absorbed the combined Pill Lightning, and the Pill Tower named him a candidate for a future giant. Two days later, he and the other top contestants entered the Star Region to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan mocked Old Mu Gu, then used lightning-absorbing puppets to withstand their Pill Lightning and the storm formed when the thunderclouds combined.
• Xuan Kongzi declared Xia Mo the Pill Gathering champion after his seven-colored Heavenly Soul Pill suppressed the other pills, and awarded him an ancient soul cultivation method.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the top ten would enter the Star Region to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and told Xia Mo he was a candidate for a future Pill Tower giant.
• Xia Mo and Xiao Yan met the Pill Tower’s three presidents, learned that they would need to guard against the Soul Hall, and waited two days for the Star Region expedition.
• Qiu Ling led Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, Old Mu Gu, and the other contestants through a spatial gate into the Star Region, where the Three Thousand Burning Flame stirred their Heavenly Flames.

Xia Mo secretly branded Three Thousand Burning Flame with a Dragon Seal, then watched as Old Mu Gu broke the dragon’s seal and summoned Soul Hall reinforcements. Three Thousand Burning Flame refused to serve the Soul Hall, and Old Mu Gu and the other Soul Hall Dou Zuns trapped it in the Ten Thousand Souls Spirit-Devouring Formation.

• Qiu Ling led Xia Mo, Xiao Yan, and the others through the Star Region to the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Xia Mo was chosen to try subduing it first.
• Xia Mo entered the dragon’s inner world, used Dragon Phoenix pressure to awaken its attention, and secretly placed a Dragon Seal on it before pretending to fail.
• Xiao Yan and the other candidates failed to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Old Mu Gu shattered the scale on its forehead to break the seal and awaken it.
• Old Mu Gu summoned three Soul Hall Dou Zuns, while Xia Mo, Qiu Ling, and Old Qing Hua fought them as Three Thousand Burning Flame broke free.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame rejected Old Mu Gu’s proposed alliance and attacked him, so Old Mu Gu and the three Soul Hall Dou Zuns formed the Ten Thousand Souls Spirit-Devouring Formation and bound the dragon with chains.

Xia Mo helped Three Thousand Burning Flame defeat the Soul Hall invaders, killing Old Mu Gu and two more Dou Zuns before the last one self-destructed. Xiao Yan began a soul battle with the source flame to subdue it, leaving him trapped inside the Star Region as Three Thousand Burning Flame unleashed a sea of fire.

• Three Thousand Burning Flame broke free of the Soul Hall’s chains, and Old Mu Gu and the other three Venerables used their Life-Bound Soul Locks to bind it.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame struck Old Mu Gu with its source flame, and Xia Mo killed him with Prison Devour before collecting his belongings.
• Old Qing Hua and the Soul Hall Venerables fought over the source flame; Xia Mo used the Heavenly Demon Puppets and Three Thousand Burning Flame to kill two more Venerables.
• The last Soul Hall Venerable self-destructed, and Xia Mo gave Xiao Yan ancient dragon blood and a Dragon Seal to help him subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan began a soul battle with Three Thousand Burning Flame, which erupted and filled the Star Region with flames; Xuan Kongzi and the others escaped and sealed the region, leaving Xiao Yan inside.

Xia Mo secretly led Zi Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, Queen Medusa, and Xiong Zhan to the Skeletal Mountain Range and opened a hidden Dou Sheng ruin. After navigating its traps and collecting treasures, Zi Yan sensed the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit deeper in the ancient forest, the key to helping her grow up.

• Xia Mo secretly departed the Pill Region with his companions and searched the Skeletal Mountain Range for the hidden ruins.
• Xia Mo found the spatial restriction, tore open a gap, and brought the group inside before the ruin emerged to the world.
• Xia Mo led the group through the flame passage, took control of ten Earth Demon Puppets, and opened the stone door to the ruin's grand hall.
• Xia Mo and his companions found an ancient medicinal forest, where Zi Yan gathered herbs and Xia Mo collected rare plants and Soul Infant Fruits.
• Zi Yan subdued a Sky-Piercing Flood Dragon with her Primordial Void Dragon aura, and Xia Mo promised to take it with them after it consumed a Shaping Pill.
• Zi Yan sensed a call from deeper in the forest, and Xia Mo said the source was their target, the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit that could help her grow up.

Xia Mo and Zi Yan discovered a Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit in a hidden Beast Spirit Barrier and refined its power over nearly two years. Zi Yan emerged as the Dragon Emperor and Xia Mo broke through to one-star Dou Sheng, but the awakening remnants of an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and an Ancient Void Dragon then prepared to clash.

• Zi Yan opened the Beast Spirit Barrier with her blood, and the group found the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit growing on an altar between the skeletons of an Ancient Void Dragon and an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix.
• Xia Mo had Zi Yan swallow the fruit and used the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to refine its energy, while Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and Xiong Zhan waited outside the altar.
• After the fruit's energy transformed Zi Yan into a mature Dragon Emperor, Xia Mo remained in a cocoon and refined the remaining energy for nearly two years.
• Xia Mo emerged as a one-star Dou Sheng, while Zi Yan revealed that she had reached early-stage three-star Dou Sheng; they decided to postpone returning to Ancient Dragon Island.
• When Xia Mo began collecting the ancient remains, the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix's residual power and the Ancient Void Dragon's ancestor soul awakened, and the two beasts faced each other in the sky.

Xia Mo and Zi Yan defeated the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix and brought the Ancient Void Dragon’s final remnant into Zi Yan’s Dragon Seal, while the group gathered treasures throughout the ruin. In the hidden chamber beneath the main hall, Xia Mo discovered the true tomb of the Creation Saint and read the final inscription promising his legacy.

• The Ancient Void Dragon crushed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, then entered Zi Yan’s Dragon Seal and passed on its insights into the Dou Sheng realm and its combat experience.
• Xia Mo and Zi Yan emerged after two years and learned that Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, Xiong Zhan, and A'da had explored the ancient forest and collected its medicinal herbs.
• Xia Mo’s group swept through the ruin, found and tamed a powerful Pill Beast in the Pill Hall, and collected pills and other treasures.
• In the main hall, Xia Mo seized the inheritance scrolls, took control of the Dou Zun puppets, destroyed a remnant soul, and discovered a hidden passage beneath a Dou Sheng skeleton.
• The group entered a concealed chamber and found the true tomb of the Creation Saint; Xia Mo read the expert’s life story and the inscription promising Heaven-tier cultivation methods and Dou Techniques to a fortunate descendant.

Xia Mo obtained the Creation Saint’s inheritance, reunited with Xiao Yan, and drove Venerable Thunder’s forces from the mountain. He recognized Qing Lin, agreed to protect and cure her, and began treating her poison while Xiao Yan entered the newly opened ruins with Xiong Zhan and Heavenly Fire Venerable.

• The Dou Sheng skeleton chose Xia Mo to receive the Creation Saint’s inheritance, and Xia Mo led his group out after erasing the spatial node.
• Xia Mo appeared at the mountain conflict and helped Xiao Yan force Venerable Thunder and his allies to retreat; later, Xiao Yan told him about the past two years and confirmed that the Soul Infant Fruit could save Old Yao.
• Zi Yan restrained Qing Lin after she attacked Cai Xi, and Xia Mo recognized her as the girl he had once known in the Jia Ma Empire.
• Qing Lin explained that she had fled the Heavenly Snake Mansion and contracted the Emperor Python Heart-Eating Poison; Xia Mo invited her to stay with them and began researching a cure.
• After preparing a medicinal bath with the Pill Beast’s blood, Xia Mo began treating Qing Lin, while Xiao Yi Xian noticed a mysterious nine-headed serpent tattoo on Qing Lin’s back.
• The ancient ruin’s spatial barrier collapsed, and Xiao Yan entered with Xiong Zhan and Heavenly Fire Venerable as the crowds rushed inside.

Xia Mo and his companions returned to Starfall Pavilion after Qing Lin’s poison was cured, and Xia Mo sealed the Ancient Heavenly Serpent soul within her. Xiao Yan gave Old Yao the Golden Soul Infant Fruit to restore his soul and prepare a new body, while Xia Mo supplied part of a Dou Sheng skeleton to aid the process.

• Xiao Yi Xian treated Qing Lin for seven days, and the Ancient Heavenly Serpent soul emerged before Xia Mo subdued it with a seal.
• Qing Lin explained that she had summoned the Ancient Heavenly Serpent’s soul from its skeleton using her Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils, and Xia Mo helped her suppress it.
• Xia Mo and his companions rejoined Xiao Yan and Hei Qing, then traveled through a spatial passage to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan and Xia Mo reunited with Old Yao and presented him with a Golden Soul Infant Fruit, restoring his origin soul aura and revealing that Xiao Zhan was imprisoned in Soul Hall’s Soul Realm.
• Xiao Yan, Xia Mo, and Venerable Wind gathered materials to refine Old Yao a body, and Xia Mo offered part of a Dou Sheng skeleton for the process.
• Xia Mo tore off an arm and snapped three marked ribs from the Dou Sheng skeleton for Old Yao to use.

Xia Mo gave Xiao Yan the Great Heaven Creation Palm, then guarded Xiao Yan as he refined a new body for Yao Chen. While Yao Chen’s final fusion remained unfinished, Soul Hall attacked Starfall Pavilion, and Xiao Yan and the others prepared to defend it.

• Xia Mo gave Xiao Yan the rib bones containing the Great Heaven Creation Palm, a low-level Heaven-tier Dou Technique.
• Xiao Yan used the Azure Wolf King’s blood, Heavenly Flames, and a Dou Sheng arm to refine a body for Yao Chen, who entered it to begin the final fusion.
• Xia Mo extracted Dou Sheng marrow from a skeleton, refined some of it to reach the middle stage of one-star Dou Sheng, and gave Xiao Yan three marrow pellets.
• Soul Hall’s Star-Picking Old Ghost and two other Heavenly Venerables led an attack on Starfall Pavilion, demanding Xiao Yan and Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion and assigned defenders to face the attackers as Venerable Wind opened the Starfall Grand Array.
• Star-Picking Old Ghost ordered Soul Hall’s forces to slaughter Starfall Pavilion, and the battle began.

Starfall Pavilion fought off Soul Hall’s assault as Xiao Yi Xian and Cai Xi killed Black Heavenly Venerable and White Heavenly Venerable, while Xiao Yan battled Star-Picking Old Ghost. A hidden Ninth Heavenly Venerable intervened, but Xiao Yan’s Great Heaven Creation Palm killed Star-Picking Old Ghost before the chapter ended.

• Xiao Yi Xian used her Poison Body of Calamity to defeat Black Heavenly Venerable and brought his corpse back to Xia Mo.
• Qing Lin helped Starfall Pavilion’s fighters while Cai Xi transformed into her Eight-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python form and killed White Heavenly Venerable.
• Xiao Yan clashed with Star-Picking Old Ghost as Starfall Pavilion held its own against Soul Hall’s forces.
• Xiao Yan unleashed the Great Heaven Creation Palm, forcing a hidden Ninth Heavenly Venerable to intervene and rescue Star-Picking Old Ghost.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerable tried to retreat with Star-Picking Old Ghost, but Xiao Yan’s black ring caught up and devoured Star-Picking Old Ghost.