Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ling met Su Li, the Valley Master of Sound Valley, and learned that the Grand Elder needed a Spirit Origin Restoration Pill to treat grave injuries. Su Li explained that a Seventh-grade pill could only suppress the injuries temporarily, while an Eighth-grade Three-turn pill might help the Grand Elder recover.

• After Xiao Ling and the others left, Sound Valley’s female disciples gossiped about his youth, talent, and possible connection to Ning Yu Xi until an old woman sent them back to patrol.
• A Sound Valley disciple led Xiao Ling, Qing Lin, and their companions to the guarded hall where Su Li was playing the zither.
• Su Li welcomed Xiao Ling and explained that the injured Grand Elder urgently needed a Spirit Origin Restoration Pill, which required a Heavenly Flame to refine.
• Xiao Ling agreed to help and reassured Su Li that traveling to Sound Valley had caused him no inconvenience.
• Xiao Ling asked why the Grand Elder needed a Seventh-grade pill, and Su Li revealed that it could suppress his injuries for twenty years, while an Eighth-grade Three-turn pill might help him recover.

Xiao Ling examined Sound Valley’s prescription and agreed to refine the Three-pattern Spirit Origin Restoration Pill, which the Valley needed to save its Grand Elder. He began the lengthy refinement before Su Li, Qing Lin, and a few elders, while a veiled woman appeared beside Qing Lin.

• Su Li asked Xiao Ling to refine an eighth-grade Three-pattern Spirit Origin Restoration Pill and showed him the prescription; he judged the task difficult but said his success rate exceeded fifty percent.
• Su Li offered Sound Valley’s treasures and friendship as compensation, and Xiao Ling said he was most interested in medicinal ingredients, pill prescriptions, and possibly powerful Dou Techniques.
• Su Li took Xiao Ling and Qing Lin through Sound Valley on a cloud-mist Dou Technique and explained that Ning Yu Xi, her most outstanding disciple, was in seclusion.
• Xiao Ling began refining the pill in Sound Valley’s plaza, controlling the Five Spirits Blazing Heaven Flame and feeding thousands of ingredients into the cauldron.
• When elders worried about risking the scarce ingredients, Su Li defended her decision to trust Xiao Ling, and Qing Lin insisted that he would succeed.
• As the refinement continued for days, most onlookers left; Su Li, several elders, and Qing Lin remained, and a veiled woman appeared beside Qing Lin.

Xiao Ling completed an eighth-grade nine-colored pill for Sound Valley and helped the sect withstand its Nine-Colored Pill Lightning. He then followed Su Li to the Grand Elder’s residence to use the pill, while Qing Lin stayed behind with Ning Yu Xi.

• After seven days of refining, Xiao Ling revealed that he had upgraded an eighth-grade seven-colored pill into a nine-colored pill using Yao Chen’s Method of Ascending Spirit.
• Su Li ordered Sound Valley’s elders to activate the sect’s protective formation, and Xiao Ling’s Sky Demon Puppets absorbed some of the pill lightning as the formation withstood it.
• Xiao Ling captured the escaping pill, sealed it in a jade bottle, and agreed with Su Li that he would cooperate with the Grand Elder to use it.
• Xiao Ling entrusted Qing Lin to Ning Yu Xi and asked Rayquaza to stay with her before leaving with Su Li.
• Su Li led Xiao Ling through Sound Valley’s guarded depths to the Grand Elder’s palace and opened its massive doors with her token.

Xiao Ling met Sound Valley’s Grand Elder, Chu Wanqing, and proved he had refined an Eighth-grade nine-colored Spirit Origin Restoration Pill to treat her injuries. After they entered a secluded chamber, Chu Wanqing swallowed the pill, whose medicinal power began rampaging through her body as Xiao Ling prepared to use his Heavenly Flames.

• Su Li led Xiao Ling through Sound Valley to meet Grand Elder Chu Wanqing, who welcomed him warmly and asked about the pill.
• Su Li confirmed that Xiao Ling had refined an Eighth-grade nine-colored Three-pattern Spirit Origin Restoration Pill, and Chu Wanqing examined it and apologized for any earlier offense.
• Chu Wanqing agreed to let Xiao Ling treat her injuries, instructed Su Li to guard outside, and led him to a secluded chamber.
• Xiao Ling warned Chu Wanqing that his Heavenly Flames might burn away her clothes, and she accepted the risk and prepared for treatment.
• Chu Wanqing swallowed the pill, but its medicinal power surged uncontrollably through her body and put her under intense pressure.

Xiao Ling used the Fallen Heart Flame and an Eighth-grade nine-colored pill to heal Chu Wanqing and uncover the deadly poison source inside her. After drawing off a small amount of toxin to refine for his own cultivation, he focused on purifying the source itself, leaving Chu Wanqing’s recovery unfinished.

• Xiao Ling guided the Fallen Heart Flame into Chu Wanqing and discovered her damaged meridians and a powerful poison source in her lower abdomen.
• Xiao Ling sealed the poison source inside a fire net and used the pill’s purifying energy to heal Chu Wanqing and purge toxins from her body.
• Xiao Ling found that refining the toxins with the Fallen Heart Flame also restored his battle qi and slightly improved his cultivation.
• Xiao Ling opened a small gap in the fire net and drew limited amounts of toxin into himself to refine, while the pill’s energy weakened the poison source.
• Xiao Ling stopped taking in toxins and concentrated on guiding the purifying energy toward the poison source’s final eradication.

Xiao Ling helped Chu Wanqing purify the source of poison while refining the poison he had absorbed to improve his cultivation. A hidden consciousness then unleashed a lust poison that overcame Chu Wanqing, and the chapter ended with her kissing Xiao Ling as he struggled to resist.

• Xiao Ling sealed off the source of poison in Chu Wanqing and left the purifying energy to destroy it while he refined the poisons in his body.
• Chu Wanqing recovered enough to awaken and use her Dou Qi to assist the purification.
• The source of poison awakened a hidden consciousness, which released pink lust poison that the purifying energy could not dispel.
• Xiao Ling stopped cultivating and approached Chu Wanqing, who warned him to leave and summon Su Li.
• Xiao Ling inhaled some pink mist, suppressed its effects, and tried to leave, but Chu Wanqing's battle qi hurled him to the ground.
• Chu Wanqing embraced Xiao Ling and pressed her lips against his as he tried to resist.

Xiao Ling and Chu Wanqing lost control as pink energy and Xiao Ling’s toxins ravaged their bodies, while the Bone Spirit Cold Flame awakened and enveloped them. Four months later, a violent disturbance erupted from the sealed chamber as Qing Lin, Ning Yu Xi, and Su Li waited outside, and Su Li led them into the air to retreat.

• Chu Wanqing kissed Xiao Ling and poured pink energy into him, triggering his sealed toxins and overwhelming his reason.
• Xiao Ling’s toxins absorbed the pink energy and spread into Chu Wanqing as the pair remained unaware of the danger.
• The Bone Spirit Cold Flame manifested, enclosed Xiao Ling and Chu Wanqing in a sphere of pale fire, and lifted them into the air.
• Yao Chen sensed that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame was merging voluntarily and told Feng Xian that Xiao Ling’s strength would soon rival his.
• Four months passed with the chamber sealed, while Qing Lin, Ning Yu Xi, and Su Li waited outside and Rayquaza reassured Qing Lin that Xiao Ling was safe.
• A violent tremor and energy surge came from the chamber, and Su Li led Qing Lin and Ning Yu Xi into the sky to retreat.

Chu Wanqing emerged from the secret chamber after breaking through to the Dou Sheng Realm, while Xiao Ling’s own breakthrough or creation also triggered a heavenly phenomenon. The chapter ended with Su Li, Ning Yu Xi, and Qing Lin congratulating Chu Wanqing and greeting her.

• Chu Wanqing’s aura erupted from the secret chamber, and Sound Valley’s disciples and elders gathered as Qing Lin recognized the Saint-level presence and sensed that Xiao Ling was safe and stronger.
• Dark clouds formed over Sound Valley, and Su Li realized that Chu Wanqing had likely broken through to the Dou Sheng Realm.
• A Space Lock sealed the area around the secret chamber, keeping the approaching elders at a distance until Chu Wanqing appeared.
• Chu Wanqing realized that her breakthrough and Xiao Ling’s creation of a Heavenly Grade technique or cultivation method had caused two simultaneous heavenly phenomena, then dispersed the clouds with a wave of her sleeve.
• Chu Wanqing reflected on her new Dou Sheng power and her intimate encounter with Xiao Ling before Su Li, Ning Yu Xi, and Qing Lin arrived to congratulate and greet her.

After Chu Wanqing broke through to the Dou Sheng Realm, she left Sound Valley to settle old grievances while Xiao Ling remained in seclusion. Qing Lin waited near his chamber, and Xiao Ling reflected on how their crisis with Chu Wanqing had led to a major cultivation gain.

• Chu Wanqing thanked Su Li, Ning Yu Xi, and Qing Lin, then reassured Qing Lin that Xiao Ling was safe and still cultivating in the repaired, sealed chamber.
• Chu Wanqing left Sound Valley, instructing Su Li and Ning Yu Xi to manage its affairs and prepare Xiao Ling’s promised reward.
• Qing Lin sensed cold and lightning energies mingled with Xiao Ling’s scorching aura, chose a nearby room, and fell asleep from exhaustion while her small snake-like beasts covered her; Rayquaza rested after sharing senses with Xiao Ling.
• Xiao Ling awoke in the overheated chamber and planned to spend time with Qing Lin and deal with the Ancient Sky Serpent soul body after his seclusion.
• Xiao Ling recalled that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame had helped him and Chu Wanqing refine the escaped toxins and the pill’s medicinal power, turning them into energy that strengthened both of their cultivation.

Xiao Ling refined the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire after gaining the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, and Fen Jue advanced to a low-level Heaven Grade technique. At Starfall Pavilion, Mu Qingluan announced that she had broken through to Dou Zong, while Feng Qing’er remained a Half-step Dou Zong.

• Chu Wanqing absorbed most of the purified energy, recovered from her injuries, and broke through from Half-Saint to Dou Sheng, while Xiao Ling reached Four-Star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Ling found Chu Wanqing’s jade hairpin and recalled that she had left it as a token that could summon her help three times.
• Xiao Ling resolved to grow stronger and refuse to let Chu Wanqing sever their ties, then began refining the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire.
• As Xiao Ling refined the flame, Fen Jue absorbed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame’s essence and advanced into a low-level Heaven Grade technique.
• More than ten days later at Starfall Pavilion, Mu Qingluan told Feng Xian and Yao Chen that she had advanced to Dou Zong at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool.

Feng Xian and Yao Chen considered sending Xiao Ling to lead Starfall Pavilion's younger generation at the Four Directions Pavilion Tournament, while Xiao Ling returned to Sound Valley and reunited with Qing Lin. At Sound Valley's main hall, Su Li asked Xiao Ling what had happened during the Grand Elder's treatment and why she had left after breaking through to Dou Sheng.

• Feng Xian warned Mu Qingluan that Feng Qing'er would be a formidable rival at the tournament and urged her to prepare for it.
• Yao Chen suggested that Xiao Ling lead Starfall Pavilion's participants, and Feng Xian agreed to discuss the task with him when he returned.
• Xiao Ling arrived in the courtyard, reunited with Qing Lin, and learned that Su Li had asked him to collect his commission reward.
• Xiao Ling and Qing Lin went to Sound Valley's main hall, where Su Li and Ning Yu Xi were concerned about the absent Grand Elder.
• Su Li asked Xiao Ling what had happened while he treated the Grand Elder and why she had left Sound Valley after reaching Dou Sheng.

After healing Sound Valley’s Grand Elder, Xiao Ling accepted the promised chance to choose treasures from the valley’s treasury and entered it with Ning Yu Xi and Qing Lin. As he reached the vault’s gate, he summoned Little Sable for help, learning that the Pure Yuan Treasure was still far from finished.

• Xiao Ling told Su Li that he had refined the Grand Elder’s poison into energy that helped her break through, while admitting he did not know why she had left Sound Valley.
• Su Li sent Ning Yu Xi to guide Xiao Ling to the treasury, and she and the Great Elder discussed befriending him and possibly bringing him and Ning Yu Xi together.
• A woman in white secretly observed the discussion and objected to Su Li’s apparent willingness to marry Ning Yu Xi to Xiao Ling.
• Ning Yu Xi led Xiao Ling and Qing Lin to the guarded treasury entrance, where an elderly woman helped them unlock the passage with matching halves of a jade token.
• Ning Yu Xi explained the Spirit-Melding Stones lining the passage and opened the ancient gate to Sound Valley’s treasure vault.
• Xiao Ling summoned Little Sable and gave him an eighth-grade Spirit Fruit; Little Sable complained that refining the Pure Yuan Treasure with Yan was still a difficult, unfinished task.

Xiao Ling and Qing Lin explored Sound Valley’s treasure vault, where Qing Lin received a flute and both selected sound-wave Dou Skills. In the medicinal ingredient collection, Xiao Ling discovered a rare Reversing Fate Rebirth Lotus, and Ning Yu Xi explained its paired lotuses’ dangerous life-and-death properties.

• Ning Yu Xi welcomed Xiao Ling, Qing Lin, and Little Sable into Sound Valley’s treasure vault and explained how its members used instruments as weapons for sound-wave Dou Skills.
• Qing Lin chose the Frost Condensing Flute after Ning Yu Xi offered it to her as a gift.
• Xiao Ling selected the Heavenly Resonance Brahma Chant, while Qing Lin chose the Ethereal Flute Illusionary Dream Melody; Xiao Ling also learned the Xuan Tier Cloud Riding Heaven Transformation Art.
• Ning Yu Xi led Xiao Ling and Qing Lin to the medicinal ingredients, where Xiao Ling spotted the Reversing Fate Rebirth Lotus among the rare herbs.
• Ning Yu Xi explained that the Reversing Fate Rebirth Lotus produced a white lotus of healing and a deadly black lotus, and that removing either would destroy the other.

Xiao Ling took the Reversing Fate Rebirth Lotus from Sound Valley, hoping it would help him develop a pill to restore Little Sable's body, then left with Qing Lin for the Pill Gathering. After their departure, Chu Wanqing reprimanded Su Li and Ning Yu Xi for discussing a possible match between Ning Yu Xi and Xiao Ling, then vanished, leaving the two women to hurry back to Sound Valley.

• Xiao Ling opened the jade box and took the Reversing Fate Rebirth Lotus after Little Sable recognized its potential to balance Life and Death Energy and help restore its body.
• Ning Yu Xi guided Xiao Ling through the herb storage, where he collected several rare medicinal herbs before asking to leave Sound Valley.
• Xiao Ling invited Su Li and Ning Yu Xi to attend the upcoming Pill Gathering, declared he would claim its championship, and departed with Qing Lin on Rayquaza.
• After Xiao Ling left, Su Li teased Ning Yu Xi about being a match for him, and Ning Yu Xi admitted she would not oppose associating with him.
• Chu Wanqing appeared and sharply reprimanded Su Li and Ning Yu Xi for their conversation before disappearing, prompting them to hurry back to Sound Valley.

Xiao Ling and Qing Lin traveled toward Starfall Pavilion, while Zi Yan and Medusa prepared to meet them there after exploring the Sky Star Mountain Range. The chapter ended with Iron Sword Venerable training Starfall Pavilion disciples as a green-robed man greeted him.

• Xiao Ling told Qing Lin they would return to Starfall Pavilion before traveling to the Beast Region, where he planned to find treasures and a place important to her.
• Zi Yan beat the Blood Fiend Mad Lion into submission in the Sky Star Mountain Range, then reunited with Medusa after she reached the Eighth-tier.
• Medusa told Zi Yan that Xiao Ling's group would soon return to Starfall Pavilion, and Zi Yan agreed to go there with her.
• Zi Yan and Medusa rode the Void Shattering Dragon Eagle toward Starfall Pavilion, leaving the Blood Fiend Mad Lion behind.
• A green-robed man greeted Iron Sword Venerable at Starfall Pavilion's training square and remarked on his recent breakthrough to Three-Star Dou Zun.

Xiao Ling and Qing Lin returned to Starfall Pavilion after more than half a year away, and Yao Chen agreed to help develop a pill that could restore A Diao’s physical body. Xiao Ling then went to find Zi Yan and Queen Medusa, who were waiting at his residence.

• Xiao Ling and Qing Lin arrived at Starfall Pavilion aboard Rayquaza, where Feng Xian and the elders welcomed them.
• Xiao Ling told Yao Chen that he had absorbed the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and reached Four-Star Dou Zun, while Qing Lin had nearly reached High-level Dou Zong.
• Xiao Ling asked Yao Chen to help devise a pill to give A Diao a physical body, and Yao Chen agreed to study the Reversing Fate Rebirth Lotus and teach Xiao Ling alchemy.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Ling that Zi Yan and Queen Medusa had come to Starfall Pavilion to see him, so Xiao Ling and Qing Lin hurried to their residence.
• Zi Yan and Queen Medusa waited in Xiao Ling’s medicinal garden, where Zi Yan gleefully ate his spirit fruits and claimed he would not dare blame her.

Xiao Ling reunited with Zi Yan and Medusa at Starfall Pavilion, apologized to Medusa, and arranged for both women to become Guest Elders. After agreeing to accompany Mu Qingluan to the Four Directions Pavilion Conference, he returned to his room and used his remaining draws, obtaining an Immortal Yuan Ancient Seed, Tai Qing Roaming Heaven Steps, and an afterimage of Azure Dragon King Qing Zhi.

• Zi Yan excitedly rushed into Xiao Ling's arms when he returned with Qing Lin, and Xiao Ling praised her for escaping East Dragon Island.
• Medusa reproached Xiao Ling for leaving her behind, demanded twenty Form Transformation Pills as an apology, and accepted his promise to provide them.
• Xiao Ling toured Starfall Pavilion with Zi Yan and Medusa, introduced them to Feng Xian, and arranged for them to become Guest Elders.
• Feng Xian asked Xiao Ling to lead Mu Qingluan to the upcoming Four Directions Pavilion Conference, and Zi Yan agreed on Xiao Ling's behalf.
• Xiao Ling returned to his room and used his three remaining draws, receiving an Immortal Yuan Ancient Seed, Tai Qing Roaming Heaven Steps, and an afterimage of Azure Dragon King Qing Zhi.

Xiao Ling discussed the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art he hoped to obtain from Qing Zhi and checked on the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone’s work on a Pure Yuan Treasure and Destiny Talisman. With the Spirit’s help, he broke the cushion concealing the Heaven and Earth Ancient Formation, and a dazzling light shot into his body.

• Xiao Ling considered how the Spirit of the Ancestral Stone and Little Sable might help persuade Qing Zhi to teach him the Azure Heaven Dragon Transformation Art.
• The Spirit of the Ancestral Stone showed Xiao Ling an unfinished crimson shield and a Destiny Talisman bearing four Ancestral Talisman imprints, and said both projects needed another four or five months.
• The Spirit of the Ancestral Stone identified Xiao Ling’s cushion as the seal containing the Heaven and Earth Ancient Formation, while Little Sable recognized its importance.
• The Spirit of the Ancestral Stone told Xiao Ling to shatter the cushion and promised to help him subdue the formation.
• Xiao Ling struck the cushion with compressed battle qi, breaking it apart, and a dazzling light rushed into his body.

Xiao Ling subdued the Heaven and Earth Ancient Formation with the Ancestral Stone and tested its ability to fuse and disintegrate energy. The next morning, he surveyed Starfall Pavilion, exchanged greetings with Mu Qingluan, and was joined by Medusa.

• Xiao Ling followed the flow of his Dou Qi to locate the Heaven and Earth Ancient Formation's core, then used the Ancestral Stone to subdue it and establish a connection.
• Xiao Ling activated the formation and fused his Dou Qi with his Soul Power into a sphere of chaotic-colored energy.
• Xiao Ling reversed the formation's operation and disintegrated a jade bottle without harming the Sixth-grade Pills inside, while Little Sable avoided becoming a test subject.
• Xiao Ling returned the Ancestral Stone to the System Space, rested, and climbed to a mountaintop at Starfall Pavilion the next morning.
• Xiao Ling saw Mu Qingluan training below and waved back when she greeted him.
• Medusa approached Xiao Ling and asked whether he was admiring the scenery.

Xiao Ling discussed Medusa’s plans for the Snake People Clan and his own travels after the Pill Gathering, while Medusa quietly chose to accompany him. He then gave Yao Chen the Immortal Yuan Ancient Seed and received further alchemy instruction, leaving his trip to the Sky Heart Mountain Range for later.

• Xiao Ling promised to prepare twenty Form Transformation Pills for Medusa and learned she wanted them for the Snake People Clan.
• Xiao Ling outlined plans to visit the Beast Region and later return to the Northwest Continent with Zi Yan, and Medusa decided to travel with them.
• Zi Yan appeared, reunited with Xiao Ling, and reluctantly agreed to accompany him to the Beast Region.
• Xiao Ling told Zi Yan and Medusa he was heading into the Sky Star Mountain Range briefly, then went to meet Yao Chen and Feng Xian.
• Xiao Ling gave Yao Chen the Immortal Yuan Ancient Seed for cultivation, and Yao Chen led him away to study alchemy.