Chapter Summaries

Hun Cang earned Pill Pagoda certification but declined to test at the main tower, leaving Cao Ying and the Cao Family shocked by his strength. As Cao Ying resolved to improve and Cao Xiu prepared for the Pill Gathering, Hun Cang arranged for Yao Chen to refine pills to fund their plans for the upcoming auction.

• Han Li told Hun Cang that his strength was at least eighth grade and gave him a Pill Pagoda badge, but Hun Cang declined to test at the main tower.
• Cao Ying passed her test and became a Seventh-grade Alchemist, then told her father and Cao Xiu about Hun Cang.
• Cao Xiu agreed that Hun Cang might reveal his strength at the Pill Gathering and vowed to pursue first place for the Cao Family.
• Hun Cang visited the North District Market, bought medicinal ingredients, and prepared pill formulas and equipment for Yao Chen to use.
• Yao Chen reluctantly began refining pills after Hun Cang pointed out that they could sell them at the auction in three days.

Hun Cang attended an auction to obtain rare medicinal ingredients, trading pills for the Blood Essence Demonic Fruit and bidding against Bai Wen for the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine. He won the vine, angering Bai Wen, then put a Sect Breaking Pill up for auction to raise money.

• Yao Chen gave Hun Cang two Grade 7 Pills and four Grade 6 Pills that he had made during three days of nonstop work.
• Hun Cang entered the auction house using his Pill Pagoda certification and arranged for his pills to be appraised without putting them up for auction.
• Hun Cang traded two Divine Venerable Pills for the Blood Essence Demonic Fruit after the auctioneer clarified that the owner required two pills.
• Hun Cang outbid Bai Wen by one hundred thousand for the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine, and Bai Wen ordered Uncle Gao to have someone watch him.
• Hun Cang put up a Sect Breaking Pill for auction because he lacked enough money to pay for the vine.

Hun Cang sold pills at the auction, searched for Snow Bone Ginseng, and entered the Pill Gathering’s first trial in the Soul Illusion Realm. He joined the contestants as the major families arrived, while Bai Wen recognized him and targeted Ye Tian before the competition began.

• Hun Cang accepted medicinal ingredients and three million from the auction, then asked the auction manager to help locate Snow Bone Ginseng.
• Uncle Gao reported to Bai Wen that the alchemist he had followed was named Wang Cang and had earned a Pill Pagoda credential; Bai Wen expected to meet him at the Pill Gathering.
• Hun Cang searched Sacred Pill City for Snow Bone Ginseng, returned to his inn, and later took his place among the Pill Gathering contestants.
• The Ye, Bai, Cao, and Dan families arrived, and Hun Cang recognized Bai Wen, Cao Ying, Cao Xiu, and Dan Ningyu among the competitors.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the first round, the Soul Illusion Realm, and Hun Cang entered with the other contestants while concealing his full strength.

Hun Cang entered the Soul Illusion Realm and concealed himself near its exit while the Pill Pagoda's leaders discussed the competition and a familiar presence connected to Yao Chen. As Cao Xiu and Dan Ningyu approached the exit, Bai Wen called for Wang Cang, prompting Hun Cang to send the mist surging toward him.

• Hun Cang entered the Soul Illusion Realm and used his Heavenly Realm Soul Power to find the route through its mist.
• Xuan Kongzi, Dark Elder, and the beautiful woman in the qipao discussed the Pill Gathering's contenders and the familiar aura she connected to Yao Chen.
• Bai Wen searched the realm for Wang Cang, hoping he would survive the first round and enter the Pill Realm.
• Hun Cang hid near the exit and waited for Cao Xiu, Dan Ningyu, and other contestants to leave before making his own exit.
• Bai Wen called out for Wang Cang, and Hun Cang recognized the name as his own before stirring the mist toward Bai Wen.

Hun Cang disrupted the Soul Illusion Realm, then entered the Pill Realm and gathered medicinal ingredients while avoiding its strongest beasts. When Bai Wen confronted him for two rare ingredients, Hun Cang revealed his Dou Venerable strength, killed him, and took his Storage Ring.

• Hun Cang’s eruption of Soul Power triggered the Soul Illusion Realm’s defenses and altered the contestants’ routes, while the Pill Pagoda’s elders noticed his arrival.
• Cao Xiu and Dan Ningyu emerged before the first round ended, and Bai Wen rushed out at the last moment, blaming Hun Cang for his ordeal.
• Hun Cang entered the Pill Realm, collected ingredients with Yao Chen’s guidance, and declined to seek the Dou Saint’s inheritance before heading for the exit.
• Bai Wen confronted Hun Cang and demanded the Blood Essence Demonic Fruit and Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine, but Hun Cang killed him and took his Storage Ring.

Hun Cang’s sweeping harvest of medicinal ingredients left most Pill Gathering contestants unable to advance, prompting Xuan Kongzi to investigate the emptied Pill Realm. The competition continued, and Hun Cang began refining a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill while spotting two Heavenly Flames among the other alchemists.

• Hun Cang admitted to Yao Chen that he had collected nearly every mature high-grade medicinal ingredient outside the Pill Realm’s core region.
• After time expired, most contestants could not submit the required ingredients, while Hun Cang, Cao Xiu, and Dan Ningyu advanced to the floating platforms.
• Xuan Kongzi entered the Pill Realm, confirmed that its mature high-grade ingredients had been dug up, and ordered the competition to continue.
• Hun Cang prepared to refine a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill to help Yao Chen restore his body.
• Hun Cang recognized the Mysterious Yellow Flame and Wind Fury Dragon Flame among the contestants and wondered whether the Netherworld Poison Flame was present too.

Hun Cang refined an eighth-tier Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill while the other alchemists completed their pills and triggered increasingly powerful Pill Lightning. After the Wind Fury Dragon Flame user claimed the championship, Xuan Kongzi announced that Hun Cang’s pill was finally complete.

• The spectators discussed the two alchemists with Heavenly Flames, while Xuan Kongzi and the dark-skinned old man noticed Bai Wen was missing and suspected someone powerful had taken him out.
• The Bai Family head questioned the middle-aged man who had accompanied Bai Wen, who looked toward Hun Cang as he refined his pill.
• After seven days, Cao Xiu completed his pill and triggered Two-Colored Pill Lightning, but Dan Ningyu’s pill also withstood two bolts, leaving Cao Xiu disappointed.
• The Mysterious Yellow Flame user produced Three-Colored Pill Lightning, then the Wind Fury Dragon Flame user produced Four-Colored Pill Lightning and declared himself the champion.
• Hun Cang continued refining for another day as the other alchemists grew impatient, until the dark-skinned old man announced that his pill was complete.

Hun Cang won the Pill Gathering after refining a pill that summoned Six-Colored Pill Lightning, then entered the Star Domain to face Three Thousand Burning Flame. He and the other alchemists found the immense flame in the shape of a dragon, and Hun Cang urged the man who had boasted of his destiny to approach it.

• Hun Cang refined a pill with a near-ninth-tier Pill Spirit and Six-Colored Pill Lightning, and Dark Elder declared him the Pill Gathering's winner.
• Hun Cang received a Soul Power-enhancing Dou Technique as his prize and waited three days before entering the Star Domain.
• Yao Chen admitted that the qipao-clad woman who visited Hun Cang was an old romantic connection, but he declined to pursue a new body because he still wanted a Half-Saint body.
• Xuan Kongzi warned the five alchemists entering the Star Domain that Three Thousand Burning Flame had recently become disturbed, and Hun Cang confirmed he would go in.
• Hun Cang entered the Star Domain and followed the others toward the violet-black flame coiled on an enormous dragon-shaped body.
• Hun Cang found the alchemists trembling before Three Thousand Burning Flame and challenged the man who had claimed his destiny was blessed to go forward.

Hun Cang unsealed the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain, then used the Six Seals of Town Burning to suppress and capture it. He crushed a Jade Slip and vanished as Sacred Pill City faced the fallout of the awakening.

• The alchemists urged Hun Cang, champion of the Pill Gathering, to approach the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame first.
• Hun Cang touched the flame’s forehead, discovered its sleeping spirit, and burned away the runes sealing it.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame awakened and unleashed its flames, forcing Elder Qiu and the alchemists to flee while Sacred Pill City activated its protective formation.
• Hun Cang summoned six Fire Spirits to raise his strength to Seven-Star Dou Zun, then used the Six Seals of Town Burning to shrink and capture the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Hun Cang crushed a Jade Slip and disappeared in white light as Xuan Kongzi and the Pill Pagoda elders reacted to the crisis.

Hun Cang took Three Thousand Burning Flame and escaped the Pill Pagoda, while its elders linked him to the Hun Clan and suspected he had been involved in Yao Chen’s capture. He then seized Mysterious Yellow Flame and Wind Fury Dragon Flame before leaving Sacred Pill City.

• Xuan Kongzi, the Dark Elder, and the beautiful woman in a qipao found that Three Thousand Burning Flame had vanished from the sealed space, and the woman reasoned that Wang Cang had released it to escape.
• The Pill Pagoda’s ancestor identified the Hun Clan’s aura on the Spatial Jade Slip used to flee, prompting Xuan Kongzi to suspect the Hun Clan would avoid the Pill Pagoda and the beautiful woman to suspect Yao Chen had been captured.
• A thousand miles from Sacred Pill City, Hun Cang showed Yao Chen and Yao Tian Huo that he had taken Three Thousand Burning Flame, then refused to explain his method or refine Yao Tian Huo’s body yet.
• Hun Cang sensed the alchemist carrying Mysterious Yellow Flame leaving the city, confronted him, and took the flame.
• Hun Cang used a similar method to take Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then left Sacred Pill City.

Hun Cang prepared to devour three Heavenly Flames and wondered whether they could raise him to the Dou Saint realm. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan organized the Cang Alliance to attack Han Feng, but Han Feng revealed he had an ally waiting nearby as the battle began.

• Hun Cang inspected a secluded cave and took out three Heavenly Flames, planning to test how much they would strengthen him.
• Xiao Yan rallied the Cang Alliance by proposing an attack on Han Feng and planned to use himself as bait to draw him out.
• Han Feng learned that Jia Nan Academy students intended to attack the Black Alliance and prepared his forces, hoping to reclaim Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan entered a forest, confronted Han Feng, and led Jia Nan Academy fighters into battle against the Black Alliance.
• Xiao Yan drove Han Feng back, but Han Feng called out to Sect Master Fan for help.

Xiao Yan fought Han Feng and Fan Lao while the Cang Alliance struggled against the Black Alliance. After Fan Lao trapped him in a blood net, Xiao Yan unleashed a fused flame lotus that devastated the battlefield, leaving Xiao Yan unconscious and Han Feng and Fan Lao blasted away.

• Fan Lao joined Han Feng and attacked Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan used the Eight Extremes Collapse to send Fan Lao flying before Han Feng intervened.
• The Cang Alliance suffered mounting casualties against the Black Alliance, and Lin Fang warned Xiao Yan that the students could not hold on.
• Fan Lao trapped Xiao Yan in a blood net and attacked him with blood spears while Han Feng kept Lin Fang from helping.
• Xiao Yan fused several flames into a lotus and hurled it through the blood net, prompting Han Feng and Fan Lao to flee.
• The flame lotus exploded, blasting Xiao Yan, Han Feng, and Fan Lao away and leaving a huge crater; Lin Fang found Xiao Yan unconscious but alive.

Zi Yan drove off Fan Lao and Han Feng after they attacked Xiao Yan and Lin Fang, then claimed Xiao Yan as her pill-maker. Xiao Xun'er arranged the obligation to keep Xiao Yan occupied after he recovered, blaming Hun Cang for his recklessness.

• Zi Yan arrived and shattered Fan Lao's attack with a punch, forcing him and Han Feng to retreat.
• The academy elders brought the survivors back, and Xiao Yan woke to learn that three classmates had died and more than a dozen were injured.
• Xiao Xun'er rebuked Xiao Yan for leading classmates against the Black Alliance, then left after warning him to face the consequences of their deaths.
• Zi Yan demanded compensation for saving Xiao Yan, and he agreed to provide pills if she supplied the ingredients.
• Xiao Xun'er thanked Zi Yan for securing Xiao Yan's promise and privately hoped that pill-making would keep him from seeking trouble again.

After recovering from the battle with the Black Alliance, Xiao Yan resumed cultivating and refining pills while drawing closer to Zi Yan and considering her as an ally against Han Feng. Hun Cang learned that three empires had invaded the Jia Ma Empire under the protection of mysterious Dou Venerables, and rushed back as Hun Xiaoqiang fell into their hands.

• Xiao Yan apologized to the Cang Alliance members and urged them to cultivate before their next attempt to eliminate the Black Alliance.
• Zi Yan brought Xiao Yan a vast supply of medicinal ingredients, explaining that she had saved his life and his big brother’s, so Xiao Yan postponed the Alliance’s next operation for two months.
• Xiao Yan grew closer to Zi Yan, learned how powerful she was, and considered enlisting her to help him deal with Han Feng; Elder Lin also told Xiao Yan that Yao Chen had been renowned in alchemy.
• Hun Cang tested his Three Revolutions of Fire Spirits technique and found that Three Thousand Burning Flame could heal the injuries it caused, though he remained unable to break through to Dou Saint.
• Hun Xiaoqiang told Hun Cang that three neighboring empires were attacking the Jia Ma Empire, backed by unknown Dou Venerables who forbade Dou Huangs from joining the fighting, so Hun Cang agreed to return.
• After Hun Cang ended the call, three burly men revealed they had forced Hun Xiaoqiang to summon him, then knocked Hun Xiaoqiang unconscious and prepared to kill Hun Cang when he arrived.

Hun Cang returned to the Snake People Temple, reunited with Medusa and met their son, then learned the reported invasion of the Jia Ma Empire had not happened. Suspecting the Soul Hall was involved, he set off to investigate.

• Chen Feng and Chen Yun offered to hunt Hun Xiaoqiang, but their Patriarch warned them not to underestimate him and explained their clan needed to handle the matter for new territory.
• Unable to reach the Soul Hall branch near the Jia Ma Empire, Hun Cang used a Spatial Jade Slip to travel to the Snake People Temple.
• Hua She'er recognized Hun Cang and confirmed to the guards that he was the father of Medusa's son.
• Medusa confronted Hun Cang over his past treatment of her and Ya Fei, but stopped resisting when their child drew his attention.
• Hun Cang asked Medusa about the Jia Ma Empire; she and Hua She'er said they knew nothing of a three-nation invasion, so Hun Cang left for the Soul Hall.

Hun Cang reached the Jia Ma Empire Soul Hall, killed the three powerful men waiting to ambush him, and burned the branch hall after finding Hun Xiaoqiang dying. He left a warning for those behind the attack, while Elder Hun Chen returned to the Hun Clan and reported Hun Cang’s strength to Hun Yuansheng.

• Hun Cang detected two mid-level Dou Venerables and a peak Dou Venerable inside the silent Soul Hall, then killed Chen Feng with a single attack.
• Hun Cang used the Three Revolutions of Fire Spirits and Five-Wheel Divine Flame Method to defeat Chen Yun and the patriarch as they tried to escape.
• Nihility Devouring Flame secretly watched Hun Cang, wondered whether he had been noticed, and struggled to remember why the method of devouring Heavenly Flames seemed familiar.
• Hun Xiaoqiang died after apologizing to Hun Cang, who promised to avenge him and his family before burning him and the Jia Ma Empire Soul Hall.
• Elder Hun Chen returned to the Hun Clan and told Hun Yuansheng that Hun Cang had reached Eight-Star Dou Venerable and defeated all three attackers.
• Hun Yuansheng angrily rejected Hun Cang’s warning, while Elder Hun Chen stayed silent after being frightened by what he had witnessed.

Hun Tiandi learned that Hun Cang had defeated Hun Yuansheng’s attackers and ordered Nihility Devouring Flame to keep observing him while warning the clan not to provoke him. Hun Cang searched the destroyed Branch Hall, resolved to grow stronger, and headed back to the Snake People Tribe after considering how Xiao Yan might help him obtain more power.

• Hun Li stopped Hun Yuansheng from confronting Hun Cang and insisted he would take revenge himself; Hun Yuansheng gave him pills and ordered Elder Hun Chen to keep the matter secret.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Tiandi that Hun Cang had defeated a Nine-Star Dou Venerable and two mid-level Dou Venerables, and that Hun Cang might have sensed him; Hun Tiandi ordered him to continue watching Hun Cang.
• An elder delivered gifts from Hun Tiandi to Hun Linhua, signaling the clan chief’s support for Hun Cang and prompting Hun Yuansheng to abandon further action.
• Hun Cang searched the area around the destroyed Branch Hall, decided he needed to become stronger, and considered giving his three Heavenly Flames to Xiao Yan to trigger the system’s return.
• Hun Cang set aside his plans for the moment and headed to the Snake People Tribe to see the child.

Hun Cang returned to Medusa and their child, then traveled to a desert to restore Yao Tian Huo’s body. After promising to protect the Jia Ma Empire, Yao Tian Huo began rebuilding himself, while Hun Cang worried that Medusa might discover his lie about his other women.

• Hun Cang told Medusa he would stay and unify the Northwest Region, then spent the night with her while she cared for their child the next morning.
• Hun Cang went to a remote desert with Yao Tian Huo and Yao Chen to restore Yao Tian Huo’s body.
• Yao Tian Huo agreed to watch over the Jia Ma Empire while Hun Cang was away.
• Hun Cang used a magical beast’s essence blood, Yao Tian Huo’s bones, and a Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill to begin rebuilding his body.
• Yao Chen teased Hun Cang about Medusa and his other women, reminding him that Medusa might leave if she learned he had lied.

Hun Cang visited Ya Fei and the Xiao Family in the Jia Ma Empire, learning that Xiao Yan had formed the Cang Alliance and failed to defeat the Black Alliance. Xiao Yan then gathered allies for a new assault and reached Han Feng, who fled as soon as they met.

• Hun Cang left Yao Tian Huo in Yao Chen's care and traveled to the Jia Ma Empire's Imperial Capital to see Ya Fei.
• Hun Cang visited the Xiao Family, heard that Xiao Yan's Cang Alliance had failed to defeat the Black Alliance, and urged Xiao Zhan to keep his son working hard.
• Xiao Yan bargained with Zi Yan to recruit allies and obtain five hundred medicinal pills for his plan to kill Han Feng.
• Xiao Yan gathered Zi Yan, Liu Qing, Lin Xiuya, and other Strong Ranking experts, then sent Lin Fang and the Cang Alliance to attack the Black Alliance from the front.
• Xiao Yan broke through the Black Alliance's defenses while Liu Qing and the others held off its members, then confronted Han Feng, who immediately fled.

Xiao Yan killed Han Feng, took control of the Black Alliance’s stronghold, and planned to make it the Cang Alliance’s base outside Jia Nan Academy. Meanwhile, Hun Cang began consolidating the Northwest Region under the Jia Ma Empire and left Yao Chen with pills to refine.

• Xiao Yan defeated Han Feng with Eight Extremes Collapse, killed him, and announced his death to the Black Alliance members, who surrendered.
• Xiao Yan discussed turning the Black Alliance’s territory into the Cang Alliance’s base with Zi Yan, Liu Qing, and Lin Fang, then stayed behind to maintain order and refine pills.
• Hun Cang summoned Hai Bodong, Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, Fa Ma, and others, and instructed them to tell the neighboring empires and sects to join the Cang Alliance under Jia Ma Empire’s leadership.
• Hun Cang visited Yao Chen and left him an alchemy cauldron, ingredients, pill formulas, and a Fire Spirit so he could refine pills while Yao Tian Huo’s fusion finished.