Recaps

Hun Ruoruo and Xiao Yan fought off the forces besieging Sound Valley, but Hun Ruoruo returned to the Soul Realm while Xiao Yan struggled to survive. There, she secured Hun Miesheng’s support, claimed the Sequence Heavenly Venerable Seal, and began consolidating her power ahead of the Pill Gathering.

• Hun Ruoruo and Xiao Yan faced the forces sealing off Sound Valley, and Xiao Yan used the Yin-Yang Twin Flames to strengthen his Fire Lotus Dou Technique.
• Hun Ruoruo left Sound Valley with Xiao Yan, then broke the enemy’s barrier and confronted the siege forces as the Soul Hall, Ice River Valley, and Yellow Springs Pavilion attacked.
• Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo battled Venerable Huangquan, Ice River, and Old Ghost Star-Picking until Hun Miesheng intervened and revealed Hun Ruoruo’s standing in the Soul Clan.
• Hun Ruoruo killed Old Ghost Star-Picking, protected the dying Xiao Yan, and departed, and she later revived him by drawing on the battlefield’s dead and sharing her emotions with him.
• Back in the Soul Realm, Hun Ruoruo accepted Hun Tiandi’s challenge to become Young Clan Leader and claimed a Sequence Heavenly Venerable Seal containing the Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Hun Ruoruo secured Hun Miesheng’s cooperation and obtained a portion of the Earth Child Flame, which she began refining to strengthen herself and resist the Nihility Devouring Flame’s control.
• Hun Ruoruo confronted Mo Yu, made him and the Black and White Heavenly Venerables submit, and purged Ninth Heavenly Venerable Hall, collecting its members’ Soul Tokens and living souls.
• Hun Ruoruo learned that the Pill Gathering was less than half a year away and that Yao Chen would attend, then offered Mo Yu the strength to contend with the other Sequence Heavenly Venerables.

Xiao Yan traveled through the places tied to his past, regained his resolve, and rescued Qing Lin, while Hun Ruoruo confronted the Ancient Assembly and reunited with Xun'er. As the Pill Gathering approached, Hun Ruoruo entered the competition under an alias and challenged the Five Great Families' alchemists.

• Hun Ruoruo tested Mo Yu with the Void Flame Seed as Soul Hall factions prepared for the Pill Gathering, while Xiao Yan withdrew from Starfall Pavilion in despair over his broken heart.
• Xiao Yan retraced his steps through the Northern Region, Jia Nan Academy, and the Jia Ma Empire, awakening his resolve and comprehending the Path of Reincarnation.
• Xiao Yan rescued Nalan Yanran's group from Heavenly Snake Mansion, then defeated the Heavenly Snake Venerable and his elders with his Path of Dao.
• Hun Ruoruo confronted the Ancient Assembly and reunited with Xun'er, who revealed Xiao Yan's feelings and challenged her over him.
• Hun Ruoruo defeated Xun'er but held back, then treated her injuries and urged her to choose her own path rather than let clan conflicts decide her life.
• Xiao Yan met Qing Lin as she escaped Heavenly Snake Mansion and took her toward Starfall Pavilion, while Hun Ruoruo prepared to move against the forces involved in the coming Pill Gathering.
• At Crimson Plaza, Hun Ruoruo drew in Dan Chen's Soul Force, introduced herself as a Soul Hall member, and questioned the Five Great Families' alchemists.
• Hun Ruoruo used the alias An Ruoruo to obtain an Alchemist Badge and challenged the Five Great Families' prodigies, prompting Dan Chen to follow her to the competition.

Hun Ruoruo entered the Five Great Families’ contest and secretly maneuvered events around Xiao Yan, while he returned to eighth-grade alchemy and challenged the Yao Clan at the Pill Gathering. The trials brought the Soul Hall and Mu Gu’s schemes into play, and the arc ended as Xiao Yan prepared for the championship round without seeing Hun Ruoruo.

• Hun Ruoruo joined the Dan Family as its representative, defeated the other families in the Soul Manipulation test, and outshone Cao Ying in an alchemy contest with a deceptive pill.
• Hun Ruoruo reunited with Xiao Yan and Old Man Yao, then encouraged Xiao Yan’s training as he refined eight pills beyond their grade and returned to eighth-grade alchemy.
• The Soul Hall entered Saint Pill City, and Xiao Yan confronted Yao Xing Ji after the Yao Clan insulted Yao Chen at the Pill Gathering.
• Hun Ruoruo entered the Soul Illusion, encountered Hun Tiandi, and emerged after striking him as the illusory space disappeared.
• Xiao Yan entered the Pill Realm and challenged Yao Xing Ji to compete in alchemy, while Hun Ruoruo watched Mu Gu and Hun Xuzi prepare a Pill Seizure scheme.
• Xiao Yan, Zi Yan, and Xiong Zhan prepared a trap using swapped medicinal ingredients, while Hun Ruoruo received Xiao Yan’s messages and admitted she missed him.
• Hun Ruoruo arranged for Cao Ying to refine a pill and discussed drawing the Ancient Assembly elders into conflict as Yao Xing Ji and Mu Gu advanced their plans.
• Xiao Yan passed the Pill Realm round, and Old Man Yao defended him against the Yao Clan elders before the championship round began with Hun Ruoruo missing from sight.

Xiao Yan won the Pill Gathering, then helped Yao Chen refine a Ninth-grade Pill as Hun Ruoruo confronted Mu Gu and Hun Xuzi. After the group entered the Star Domain to claim the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Soul Hall agents attacked and Mo Yu arrived, leaving Danta and the Ancient Assembly facing a new threat.

• Xiao Yan and Hun Ruoruo suppressed Yao Xing Ji’s Nine Nether Wind Flame, then Xiao Yan defeated Mu Gu’s Pill Seizure with Yao Chen’s Spirit Ascension Technique and won the Pill Gathering.
• Hun Ruoruo revealed that Pill Seizure had robbed Mu Gu and the others of their tribulations, then invited Yao Chen to reclaim his pill by refining it into a Ninth-grade Pill.
• Xiao Yan joined Yao Chen at the cauldron, while Hun Ruoruo drew power from Cao Ying and Dan Chen’s pills and confronted Hun Xuzi and Mu Gu.
• Hun Xuzi sacrificed his imprint to help Yao Chen complete the Ninth-grade Pill, and Hun Ruoruo captured the Black Demon Lightning before the group recovered from the destruction.
• After Xiao Yan woke, he confessed his love to Hun Ruoruo, and Xun'er walked in on them kissing.
• The top Pill Gathering candidates entered the Star Domain, where Hun Ruoruo awakened the Three Thousand Burning Flame and proposed that Xiao Yan refine it.
• Blood River and Qiu Di invaded the Star Domain, but the Three Thousand Burning Flame refused to join them, and Elder Lin arrived with the reinforcements’ heads.
• Blood River summoned Ninth Heavenly Venerable Mo Yu, who demanded greater payment from the Ancient Assembly before agreeing to kill his Soul Hall brothers.