Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng refined a High-grade Seventh-Rank Pill and devoured its pill lightning with the Five Elements Annihilation Array, earning a steward position in the Pill Tower. Cao Ying led him to the Library Pavilion, where they began sorting and studying its immense collection of books.

• Lin Feng trapped and absorbed the pill lightning, then shattered the gathering clouds with his Five Elements Annihilation Array.
• Xuan Yi warned Lin Feng to beware the Soul Hall, and Xuan Kong Zi and Xuan Yi vouched for him to become a Pill Tower steward.
• Cao Ying took Lin Feng through a back entrance to the Library Pavilion and explained that the Pill Tower's buildings formed a powerful array created by its founder.
• Lin Feng discovered the Library Pavilion was filled with scattered books and chose to organize them to strengthen his alchemy knowledge.
• Cao Ying realized that studying the library could help her advance, so she joined Lin Feng in sorting and reading its books.

Lin Feng learned that Soul Hall’s assault had nearly destroyed the Xiao Clan and captured Xiao Zhan, prompting him to hasten his plans to reach Dou Zun. After sealing and ejecting Song Qing for trying to intimidate him, Lin Feng remained in the Library Pavilion with Cao Ying, while Xiao Yan prepared to travel to Middle Continent to find herbs and grow strong enough to rescue his father.

• Lin Feng continued studying the Library Pavilion with Cao Ying, traded pills through Old Man Mo, and used Han Fei’s information network to learn about the Northwest Continent.
• Lin Feng learned that Yun Shan had disbanded the Misty Cloud Sect and that Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran had traveled to Middle Continent.
• Lin Feng learned that Xiao Yan had destroyed Black Emperor Pavilion and Demon Flame Valley after Soul Hall nearly wiped out the Xiao Clan and captured Xiao Zhan.
• Lin Feng decided to accelerate his cultivation and refine more pills before entering secluded cultivation to break through to Dou Zun.
• Song Qing confronted Lin Feng over Cao Ying, but Lin Feng sealed him with the Five Elements Seal Technique and threw him out of the Library Pavilion.
• Cao Ying promised to support Lin Feng against Song Qing and the Grand Elder, while Xiao Yan resolved to travel to Middle Continent to seek Soul Origin-restoring herbs and grow strong enough to rescue Xiao Zhan.

After accumulating energy by refining High-grade Seventh-Rank Pills, Lin Feng faced the merged pill lightning created when he refined three pills at once. As he summoned the Five Elements Sacred Beasts to confront it, Ye Zhong resolved to seek his help in saving the Ye Family.

• After reaching the threshold for Dou Zun, Lin Feng delayed his breakthrough and refined ten sets of High-grade Seventh-Rank Pills to absorb their pill lightning.
• Lin Feng refined three High-grade Seventh-Rank Pills in one cauldron, causing their pill lightning to merge into a vast storm that drew the Pill Tower's leaders and nearby residents.
• Xuan Kong Zi and the other Pill Tower leaders watched without intervening, while residents discussed Lin Feng's talent and his prospects as an Eighth-rank Alchemist.
• Ye Zhong recognized Lin Feng as a possible savior for the struggling Ye Family and resolved to ask for his help.
• Lin Feng appeared beneath the thunderclouds and summoned the Five Elements Annihilation Array, calling forth the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and Kirin.

Lin Feng refined three Five Elements Foundation-Nourishing Pills, then used his Five Elements Sacred Beast formation to withstand the powerful pill lightning and shield Sacred Pill City. After learning more about the destroyed Five Elements Sect, he returned to his courtyard to enter Secluded Cultivation, while Ye Zhong arrived hoping to enlist his help with the Ye Family’s assessment.

• Lin Feng summoned the Five Elements Sacred Beast formation and defeated the pill lightning, containing the shockwaves before they could damage Sacred Pill City.
• Lin Feng showed Xuan Kong Zi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi the three pills he had refined and explained that he had created the Five Elements Foundation-Nourishing Pill using his own Five Elements Dou Qi.
• Tian Lei Zi revealed that the Five Elements Sect’s methods came from a ruin and said Soul Hall had exterminated the sect; Cao Ying asked whether any disciples had survived.
• Lin Feng told Cao Ying he would enter Secluded Cultivation to pursue a breakthrough, then returned to his courtyard and ordered that no one approach him.
• Ye Zhong went to Lin Feng’s courtyard seeking his help with the Ye Family’s assessment, but an old man stopped him and said Lin Feng was in Secluded Cultivation.

As Lin Feng remained in secluded cultivation, Sacred Pill City prepared for the Pill Tower’s Alchemist Competition and Hei Qing arrived to find a member of the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan. Zi Yan sensed her clansman approaching, but Han Fei stopped the visitors from seeing Lin Feng without the household’s approval.

• Song Qing remained confined by Qiu Ling, Cao Ying trained in sealed techniques, and Ye Zhong returned to the Ye Family residence.
• Old Man Mu Gu vowed to obtain the Three Thousand Burning Flame and warned that he would kill anyone who obstructed him.
• A powerful snake presence emerged from a spatial relic and declared that she was coming to meet Brother Lin Feng.
• Xuan Kong Zi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi confronted Hei Qing, who explained that he had come to bring a clansman home.
• Hei Qing used the Ancient Dragon Clan’s Profound Tool to locate Zi Yan, who sensed her clansmen approaching.
• Han Fei barred Hei Qing and the Pill Tower leaders from visiting Lin Feng until the ladies of the household approved.

Hei Qing discovered that Zi Yan possessed the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s imperial bloodline, but she refused to return to Dragon Island without Lin Feng. Xiao Yan’s past hardships and growing strength were recounted before a breakthrough in Sacred Pill City revealed a Calamity Poison Body empowered by the Netherworld Poison Flame and an unexpected surge of Dragon Might.

• The artifact recognized Zi Yan as the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan’s princess, and Hei Qing knelt before her and urged her to return to Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan refused to leave Lin Feng, Cai Lin, and Xian Er, so Hei Qing stayed by her side before returning to Dragon Island after Lin Feng remained in seclusion for half a month.
• At the Ye Family, Xiao Yan gave Ye Xinlan a pill and promised to return for the Five Great Families Assessment, then left while asking her to report news of Lin Feng.
• The story recounted how Xiao Yan found his clan nearly destroyed, his father missing, and Yao Chen’s soul depleted after a battle with Soul Hall Protectors, before he resumed training and reached the Ye Family.
• Months later, a massive grayish-purple energy pillar erupted over Sacred Pill City as a Calamity Poison Body broke through to Dou Zun, while the Netherworld Poison Flame suppressed its poison.
• Dragon Might suddenly surged beneath the pillar, driving it up to three hundred zhang and prompting a shocked cry from a nearby courtyard.

Xiao Yi Xian broke through to Three-star Dou Zun and gained permission to remain in Sacred Pill City after demonstrating control over her Calamity Poison Body. Lin Feng’s breakthrough then surged far beyond expectations, ending with his energy pillar reaching four hundred and six zhang and placing him at Four-star Dou Zun.

• Zi Yan told Zhu Li and Hei Qing that Dragon Emperor Zhu Kun was her father and remained trapped inside Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion, with the Tou She Ancient God Jade needed to open it.
• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from her breakthrough at Three-star Dou Zun, and Xuan Kong Zi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi allowed her to stay in Sacred Pill City after she confirmed she could control her Calamity Poison Body.
• Lin Feng began a breakthrough that raised a five-colored energy pillar, and the Pill Tower’s three giants predicted he would reach the Late Two-star Dou Zun stage.
• A purple-gold Dragon Shadow infused with Zhu Kun’s Dragon Might raised Lin Feng’s pillar to three hundred and fifty zhang, after which Lin Feng swallowed pill lightning and drew a storm into the sky.
• A lightning serpent absorbed the storm, grew to immense size, and raised Lin Feng’s pillar to four hundred and six zhang, marking his entry into Four-star Dou Zun before the pillar descended into the courtyard.

Lin Feng broke through to the Four-star Dou Zun realm, strengthened his body to the level of an Eighth-order Magical Beast, and awakened the spiritual aura needed to advance as an alchemist. As Lin Feng emerged from seclusion, Ice River Valley’s Bing He decided to enlist Soul Hall to capture Xiao Yi Xian, while Xiao Yan pursued the benefits of the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pond.

• Lin Feng swallowed his accumulated Dou Qi, broke through his physical barrier, and gained a body comparable to an Eighth-order Magical Beast before sensing a surge of Spiritual Energy.
• Xuan Kong Zi ordered Cao Ying and Dan Chen to improve their alchemy for half a year and then train in ruins for the Pill Tower Alchemist Convention.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pond and planned to remove the Gold Devouring Rat Clan’s Fire Poison to reach the benefits beneath it.
• After learning that Xiao Yi Xian had become a Three-star Dou Zun, Bing He resolved to join forces with Soul Hall to capture her despite Tian Shuang Zi’s warning.
• Ten days after Lin Feng’s breakthrough, his Soul Body emerged above his room, and he discovered the spiritual aura associated with the Eighth-rank Alchemist realm before coming out of seclusion.

Lin Feng agreed to refine pills in the Small Pill Tower ahead of the Pill Tower Gathering, while Ice River submitted to Soul Hall and sought help capturing the Calamity Poison Body. Xiao Yan cultivated in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pond, and Protector Tie learned that Soul Hall had ordered surveillance of Lin Feng’s group, giving him a chance to earn merit.

• Lin Feng accepted Xuan Kong Zi’s proposal to refine Eighth-grade Pills in a hidden place before the Pill Tower Gathering, which he suspected was the Small Pill Tower.
• Ice River offered Ice River Valley’s submission to Nine Heaven Venerate Mo Yu and asked Soul Hall to capture the Calamity Poison Body; Mo Yu marked Ice River’s Soul Origin and ordered him to wait until she left Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Yan arranged with Jin Shi to cultivate in the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pond for half a month in exchange for removing the Gold Devouring Rat Clan’s Fire Poison.
• Jin Gu praised Xiao Yan’s strength and said Xiao Yan’s Pill to Break Dou Zong had helped him break through to the Dou Zong realm.
• Protector Tie learned that Soul Hall had ordered close monitoring of the Calamity Poison Body’s group in Sacred Pill City and realized he could report on Lin Feng’s group.

Lin Feng entered the Small Pill Tower to improve his alchemy ahead of the Pill Tower’s grand gathering, while Xiao Yan broke through to the middle stage of Five-star Dou Zong at the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pond. Xuan Yi learned that Yao Chen’s soul had been exhausted and took Xiao Yan with her to seek a way to revive him, while Protector Tie set out for the Pill Tower.

• Xuan Kong Zi brought Lin Feng through a Space Wormhole to the Small Pill Tower, where its elder Old Monster Hou offered to take him as a disciple and gave him a meeting gift.
• Old Monster Hou learned Lin Feng was under thirty, but Xuan Kong Zi explained that Lin Feng had already refused Tian Lei Zi and was unlikely to accept another master.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Blood Pond’s energy after purifying its Fire Poison with his Heavenly Flames and reached the middle stage of Five-star Dou Zong.
• Xuan Yi met Xiao Yan, gave him an Eighth-grade Pill, and learned that Yao Chen had exhausted his Soul Force and now needed help to be revived.
• Xiao Yan refused to leave Yao Chen’s side, but followed Xuan Yi through a Space Rift toward the Pill Tower so they could seek spiritual objects to revive him.
• Protector Tie left the Soul Hall stronghold to find Yao Chen, while Bing He resented Mo Yu’s restriction and vowed to take revenge after obtaining the Calamity Poison Body.

As Lin Feng attempted to refine an Eighth-grade Pill for the third time, the Small Pill Tower elders wagered over how many colors it would reach. Lin Feng used Dragon Emperor's Essence Blood to raise the pill to four colors, and Old Monster Lin predicted that he could reach the ninth grade within two hundred years.

• Old Monster Hou wagered with Old Ghost Li and the other elders that Lin Feng would refine an Eighth-grade Four-Colored Pill, after Xuan Kong Zi privately assured him Lin Feng had a secret method.
• Old Monster Lin arrived and offered Lin Feng an Eighth-grade Nine-color Pill to study if he refined an Eighth-grade Five-Colored Pill.
• The elders saw green, silver, and red pill clouds form, and Old Monster Lin initially expected the pill to stop at three colors.
• Lin Feng drew out Dragon Emperor's Essence Blood and merged it into the pill, causing the red cloud to swell and a golden fourth color to appear.
• Old Monster Lin predicted Lin Feng could reach the ninth grade within two hundred years, astonishing the gathered elders.

Lin Feng used the Five Elements Annihilation Array, Spirit Nurturing Powder, and his own essence blood to refine a six-color pill, astonishing the Pill Tower elders. After absorbing the pill lightning, he caught the pill as it tried to escape and presented it to Xuan Kong Zi and the others.

• Lin Feng activated the Five Elements Annihilation Array and used Yao Chen’s Method of Spirit Ascension to strengthen the pill’s spirituality.
• Lin Feng sacrificed a drop of essence blood, causing the pill lightning to reach five colors, then added Spirit Nurturing Powder and continued refining.
• Lin Feng summoned the Five Elements Sacred Beasts into the medicine cauldron, and six-colored pill lightning appeared as the elders celebrated his achievement.
• Lin Feng entered the six-colored pill lightning and absorbed it, strengthening his body before the clouds cleared.
• Lin Feng caught the escaping divine dragon pill with a spatial rift and brought it to Xuan Kong Zi and the other elders.

After earning recognition and three powerful pills from the Pill Tower’s elders, Lin Feng learned that the Soul Hall planned to capture Xian Er through Ice River Valley. He summoned Elder Zhu Li to discuss striking the Soul Hall, hoping to seize Ice River’s cultivation technique and gather Soul Origins.

• Lin Feng refined an Eighth-Grade Six-Colored Pill, impressing Old Monster Lin, who gave him a Half-step Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, while Old Monster Hou and Xuan Kong Zi each gave him a Nine-color Pill.
• Protector Tie told Lin Feng that Venerable Mo Yu had placed Ice River under Soul Hall restrictions and taken control of Ice River Valley after Ice River offered its surrender in exchange for help capturing Xian Er.
• Lin Feng considered attacking the Soul Hall but decided instead to summon Elder Zhu Li, hoping to enlist the Ancient Dragon Clan against three Soul Hall branch halls and obtain their Soul Origins.
• Protector Tie identified a branch hall guarded by Venerable Star Picker in the Dying Soul Mountain Range, while Lin Feng focused on capturing Ice River to obtain his secret technique for Xian Er.
• Elder Zhu Li arrived and described how Zi Yan’s return and the signals she sent to Ancient Dragon seniors could help reunite the divided Dragon Islands.

Lin Feng secured Zhu Li’s help against three Soul Hall branches and strengthened Protector Tie so he could infiltrate Soul Hall and obtain their locations. Meanwhile, Xuan Yi restored Yao Chen enough for him to reappear, and Qing Lin traveled toward Middle Continent as Protector Tie set out for Sacred Pill City with the information he had gathered.

• Lin Feng persuaded Zhu Li to send an elite squad to eliminate a Soul Hall branch and revealed that his plan required Protector Tie’s help locating three branches.
• Lin Feng used a Five Elements Pill and formation to raise Protector Tie to Seven-star Dou Zong, then promised further advancement in exchange for his cooperation.
• Xiao Yan asked Xuan Yi how to restore Yao Chen, and she explained that the Soul Infant Fruit or Exquisite Heavenly Ganoderma could replenish his Soul Force.
• Xuan Yi transformed an Ice Lotus into a pill and guided its medicinal power into the Bone Nether Ring, allowing Yao Chen to appear and reunite with Xiao Yan and old friends in Sacred Pill City.
• Qing Lin traveled toward Middle Continent, longing to meet Lin Feng, while Protector Tie obtained information about a third Soul Hall branch and left for Sacred Pill City three days later.

Zi Yan and Zhu Li joined Lin Feng to coordinate an attack on three Soul Hall branch halls, while the Ancient Dragon Clan kept its return secret. The operation began with Hei Qing and Qi You sealing off their targets, and Zhu Li sealed Mo Yu’s Human Hall before Lin Feng called for the Black Wind Twin Fiends to attack.

• Zhu Li told Zi Yan and the Dragon Clan elders that Lin Feng wanted the clan to destroy three Soul Hall branch halls targeting Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body source.
• Qing Shan assigned Zhu Li, Hei Qing, and Qi You to lead Dragon Guards against the branches and arranged for Zhu Li to protect Zi Yan at the Pill Tower.
• Zi Yan traveled with Zhu Li to meet Lin Feng and Xuan Kong Zi, then joined Lin Feng’s planned attack on the Soul Hall.
• Hei Qing and Qi You sealed off their respective Soul Hall branch halls and sent Dragon Guards to attack them.
• Zhu Li used the Taixu Sky Imprisonment Technique to isolate Mo Yu’s Human Hall from the outside world.
• Lin Feng called on the Black Wind Twin Fiends to attack Mo Yu’s branch hall.

Lin Feng and Zhu Li’s group seized the Soul Hall’s Human Hall, forcing Ninth Heaven Venerate Mo Yu to surrender and reveal the branch’s Soul Origin store. Lin Feng prepared to collect the Soul Origin and took control of the hall’s members, while Mo Yu agreed to serve him.

• Zhu Li’s Dragon Guards broke the sealed space around the Human Hall, and Lin Feng’s group entered as Protector Li was burned to ashes.
• Ninth Heaven Venerate Mo Yu tried to send a message, but Zhu Li blocked him; Mo Yu then ordered the Soul Hall members to kneel and offered to surrender.
• Lin Feng revealed that he was an Eighth-Grade Six-Colored Alchemist and peak Four-star Dou Zun, prompting Mo Yu to offer the locations of Soul Hall branches in exchange for his life.
• Zhu Li used the Dragon Imprisonment Technique to control Mo Yu, while Lin Feng sealed the minds of the other Protectors and Venerates.
• Mo Yu led Lin Feng into the hall where the Soul Hall extracted Soul Origins from chained Soul Bodies, and Lin Feng ordered that the captives be released after the Soul Origin was taken.

Hun Miesheng’s Soul Hall struggled to identify the attackers who had destroyed three branch halls, while factions across Middle Continent reacted to the attack. Tang Zhen sought an alchemist to save his dying daughter, but the required reward was the Blazing Flame Valley’s inherited secret technique, Heavenly Flames Three Xuan Transformations.

• Hun Miesheng ordered the Soul Hall’s Heavenly Venerables to recover the stolen Soul Origins and threatened them with becoming tribute if they failed.
• The Soul Hall’s vice hall master ruled out the Pill Tower and suspected powerful clans or beings from the Beast Domain were behind the attacks.
• Xuan Kong Zi and Qiu Ling celebrated the attack and warned the Pill Tower to protect its younger members from the Soul Hall’s retaliation.
• Hua Jin proposed allying the Flower Sect with the Tian Ming Sect, but Mei Lan Ju and the other elders opposed her; the Tian Ming Sect’s ancestor later agreed to help Demon Flower Evil Lord force the alliance.
• Tang Zhen revealed that Huo’er had one year to live after fusing with the Nine Dragon Thunder Gang Fire, and the Second Elder agreed to offer the Blazing Flame Valley’s inherited secret technique to secure an alchemist’s help.

As Soul Hall’s attack unsettled factions across the continent, Lin Feng refined a cluster of Soul Origin while Qing Lin reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the others. With the Pill Conference approaching, alchemists gathered in Sacred Pill City, Old Man Mu Gu plotted to win, and Lin Feng toured the city with the women.

• Tian Shuang Zi sealed Ice River Valley and left for the Far Northern Lands to search for its Half-Saint ancestors.
• Gu Zhen ordered the Black Seal Army to prepare for a purge and announced that clan commandants and the young lady would soon arrive at Demon Suppression Abyss.
• Lin Feng purified and absorbed one cluster of Soul Origin, strengthening his soul, while storing the other two clusters in his sea of consciousness.
• Qing Lin arrived at Xiao Yi Xian’s courtyard, and the two reunited before Xiao Yi Xian introduced her to the others.
• Alchemists arrived in Sacred Pill City for Pill Tower’s upcoming Alchemist Competition as Old Man Mu Gu vowed to claim the championship and Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Lin Feng strolled through Sacred Pill City with Qing Lin, Cai Lin, and the other women as the Pill Conference drew near.

Lin Feng bought Cai Lin the Seven-Colored Origin Stone, then learned Xiao Yan needed rare treasures to restore Yao Chen’s Soul Origin and promised to investigate. He revealed possible news of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit to Zhu Li and Hei Qing, leaving the search for the fruit and the Alchemist Grand Meeting ahead.

• Cai Lin recognized a stall stone as the Seven-Colored Origin Stone, and Lin Feng bought it for her before giving Qing Lin and the others rare treasures.
• Lin Feng discovered Xiao Yan had reached Eight-star Dou Zong and confirmed to Yao Chen that his own Soul Force had reached Spirit Realm Perfection.
• Xiao Yan told Lin Feng that Yao Chen’s Soul Origin was nearly exhausted and that a Soul Infant Fruit and Spiritual Dragon Heavenly Ganoderma were needed to restore it.
• Lin Feng said he would investigate the herbs and told Xiao Yan to focus on the upcoming Alchemist Grand Meeting, where Lin Feng would not hold back.
• Lin Feng told Zhu Li and Hei Qing about possible news of the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit and gave Zhu Li a map so he could investigate its location.

Lin Feng entered the All-Continent Alchemist Grand Meeting and quickly cleared its first trial. While the contestants gathered for the next round, he discovered Old Man Mu Gu and Soul Hall’s hidden forces and warned Grand Elder Qiu Ling that they might have a Half-Saint supporting their plan to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Lin Feng spent the weeks before the competition studying cultivation methods and enjoying time with Cai Lin, Xian Er, Zi Yan, and Qing Lin.
• Xuan Kong Zi opened the All-Continent Alchemist Grand Meeting and announced its three stages, beginning with the Soul Illusion trial.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yan entered the trial, and Lin Feng crossed the Illusionary Space first before resting at the exit.
• Old Man Qing Hua and other contestants emerged as the first trial continued, while Lin Feng watched the arrivals with his Soul Force.
• Lin Feng detected Old Man Mu Gu and fifteen Heavenly-tier Protectors from Soul Hall, then privately warned Grand Elder Qiu Ling that Soul Hall might bring a Half-Saint to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Grand Elder Qiu Ling agreed that the Small Pill Tower should prepare without alerting the hidden Soul Hall members.