Chapter Summaries

Bai Ge and the remaining elite contestants continued refining pills as the Pill Gathering entered its final stages, with Pill Lightning marking a succession of Grade Seven breakthroughs. Only seventeen contestants remained, including the mysterious Yuan Chenzi and the Eighth Grade Alchemy Grandmaster Old Man Qinghua, while Bai Ge’s Origin Beginning Pill continued to take shape.

• Bai Ge completed the fusion of the medicinal power from three thousand ingredients and began tempering the shrinking pill essence in his cauldron.
• The first contestant summoned Pill Lightning, and Grade Seven pills appeared more frequently as the Pill Gathering advanced.
• Bai Ge and thirty-five other top contestants continued refining while some competitors succeeded and others lost their pills to cauldron explosions or failed refinement.
• Nine contestants refined pills over five days, including an elderly man whose Seventh Grade High-Level Pill summoned Pill Lightning, while seven others failed and withdrew.
• Only seventeen contestants remained, including Old Man Qinghua, an Eighth Grade Alchemy Grandmaster, and the disguised Yuan Chenzi, whose identity Xuan Kongzi and the others discussed.

At the Pill Gathering, Song Qing’s peak Seventh Grade pill was overshadowed when Dan Chen and Cao Ying each refined an Eighth Grade Pill. Xiao Yan then revealed the immense power of his own pill, and the chapter ended as thunderclouds began forming above his platform.

• Song Qing completed a peak Seventh Grade pill and endured its pill lightning, but Xiao Yan and the other spectators paid him little attention.
• Nine more high-grade Seventh Grade pills appeared, filling the skies with pill lightning as the contestants continued refining.
• Dan Chen sacrificed blood to complete an Eighth Grade Pill, summoning two-colored pill lightning and astonishing the crowd.
• Cao Ying rose and revealed another Eighth Grade Pill, whose thunderclouds carried two colors and a faint trace of red.
• Xiao Yan opened the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron, releasing a powerful energy surge and a towering pillar of fire.
• Xuan Kongzi recognized that Xiao Yan had also refined an Eighth Grade Pill as thunderclouds began gathering above him.

Xiao Yan refined a pill that summoned Five-Colored Pill Lightning, but Yuan Chenzi revealed himself as a Soul Hall alchemist and appeared poised to win the Pill Gathering. Bai Ge then unveiled Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, surpassing Yuan Chenzi and leaving him coughing blood.

• Xiao Yan’s pill produced Five-Colored Pill Lightning, astonishing Song Qing, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and the Pill Tower leaders.
• Azure Flower Old Freak revealed his pill and produced Three-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Yuan Chenzi exposed his identity as a Soul Hall member and summoned Six-Colored Pill Lightning, prompting Xuan Kongzi to reluctantly let him continue competing.
• Yuan Chenzi celebrated his apparent victory as the crowd reacted to Soul Hall’s prospective Pill Gathering championship.
• Bai Ge opened his cauldron and produced Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, causing Yuan Chenzi’s laughter to stop and making him spit blood.

Xiao Yan used Yao Chen’s Spirit Enhancement method to improve his Limitless Pill, bringing its Pill Lightning to seven colors and matching Bai Ge’s result. The contest left Bai Ge and Xiao Yan apparently even, while Yuan Chenzi fell to third place.

• Xiao Yan refused to concede to Bai Ge and revealed his completed Limitless Pill, which he intended to enhance.
• Xiao Yan combined five flames, wrapped his pill in the resulting dark golden fire, and used Spirit Nurturing Dust to draw out and replenish its spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yan sacrificed his blood and used his Soul Strength to return the spiritual mist to the pill, restoring its surface and triggering renewed Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan’s Pill Lightning rose from three colors to six, matching Yuan Chenzi’s, then drew Cao Ying’s and Dan Chen’s thunderclouds into its own.
• Xiao Yan’s Pill Lightning reached seven colors, matching Bai Ge’s Origin Beginning Pill, while Yuan Chenzi dropped to third place.

Bai Ge and Xiao Yan tied as champions of the Pill Gathering after each refined an Eighth Grade Pill that drew Seven-Colored Pill Lightning. As they prepared to enter the Star Region and subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Xuan Kongzi warned that Soul Hall and the missing traitor Yuan Chenzi might try to break its seal.

• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Demon Puppet to endure his Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, while Bai Ge shattered his own tribulation clouds with Galaxy, Starburst.
• Xuan Kongzi judged the contestants' pills, and Xiao Yan and Bai Ge each argued that the other deserved to win.
• Yao Lao proposed declaring both disciples champions, and Xuan Kongzi announced that they had tied for first place.
• Xuan Kongzi introduced Guild Leader Profound Cloth and President Heavenly Thunder Child to Bai Ge and Xiao Yan at Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that the Three Thousand Burning Flame was sealed in the Star Region and warned that Soul Hall might try to release it, especially with Yuan Chenzi missing.

Bai Ge and Xiao Yan learned from Zi Yan that the Three Thousand Burning Flame bore a Dragon Mark left by the Void Ancient Dragon Tribe, and she gave them Ancient Dragon Blood to activate it. Two days later, the Pill Tower opened the Star Region for the top ten of the Pill Gathering to face the flame.

• Cao Ying walked with Bai Ge and showed interest in him, but Little Doctor Fairy greeted her, took Bai Ge into their room, and sent Cao Ying away.
• Zi Yan revealed that her tribe had raised the Three Thousand Burning Flame and that a Dragon Mark inside it could be activated with Ancient Dragon Blood.
• Zi Yan planted Dragon Marks on Bai Ge and Xiao Yan, warning that failure to control the flame could let it control them; Bai Ge reassured Xiao Yan that he would subdue it first.
• Two days later, crowds gathered outside the Pill Tower as Xuan Kongzi summoned the top ten Pill Gathering contestants, including Bai Ge and Xiao Yan, to enter the Star Region.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other two Pill Tower leaders opened a pale silver spatial gate while Yuan Chenzi watched among the contestants.

Xiao Yan and the others entered the Star Region under Qiu Ling’s supervision and found the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame. Xiao Yan approached its Source Fire and began trying to subdue it, while Yuan Chenzi watched with greed.

• Qiu Ling led Xiao Yan, Bai Ge, Yuan Chenzi, and the others through the spatial gate as Xuan Kongzi arranged for Pill Tower experts to guard Saint Pill City.
• Bai Ge sensed Star Power in the Star Region and considered how moonlight might improve his Cosmo’s quality.
• The group traveled through the searing Star Region and discovered Three Thousand Burning Flame, a colossal dragon wreathed in purple-black flames.
• Qiu Ling warned everyone not to awaken the sealed flame and asked Xiao Yan or Bai Ge to approach it first; Bai Ge let Xiao Yan go ahead.
• Xiao Yan placed his palm on an unburned scale and sent his Soul Strength into the seal, reaching the Source Fire and gently wrapping his soul around the sleeping little dragon.

Xiao Yan failed to communicate with Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Yuan Chenzi broke the seal on the Strange Fire while revealing the Soul Hall’s plan to seize it. As the Pill Tower’s experts struggled to contain the awakened dragon, Three Thousand Burning Flame unleashed a destructive black flame against its restraints.

• Three Thousand Burning Flame mocked Xiao Yan and vaporized his wisp of Soul Strength when he tried to offer it freedom.
• Yuan Chenzi and the other candidates failed to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Bai Ge concealed the Sky Spirit Li Fire Creation Plate’s ability.
• Yuan Chenzi shattered the dragon scale on Three Thousand Burning Flame’s forehead, awakening it and weakening the seal.
• Yuan Chenzi revealed the Soul Hall’s plan, and two Soul Hall contestants stopped Cao Ying and the others from sending for help, but Xiao Yan crushed his Jade Pearl.
• The three great heads reinforced the seal as Qiu Ling fought Yuan Chenzi, and Three Thousand Burning Flame burned through the runes with droplets of black flame.

Three Thousand Burning Flame broke free of its seal, then rejected Yuan Chenzi’s offer to join the Hall of Souls. Yuan Chenzi summoned three Venerable Elders, and the four began suppressing the flame dragon as Xiao Yan and the others watched.

• Three Thousand Burning Flame shattered the seal, alarming Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Song Qing, Xiao Yan, and Qiu Ling.
• Yuan Chenzi asked Three Thousand Burning Flame to honor their deal, but the dragon refused and said it would not trust humans.
• Yuan Chenzi summoned three Hall of Souls Venerable Elders with a Space Jade Slip as Qiu Ling and Xiao Yan’s group withdrew.
• Yuan Chenzi and the three elders used the Ten Thousand Souls Devouring Spirit Array to cut off Three Thousand Burning Flame’s access to Star Power.
• The four bound Three Thousand Burning Flame with the Ten Thousand Souls Heavenly Lock and sent swarms of souls to attack it, gradually weakening its flames.

Yuan Chenzi and the other Hall of Souls elders restrained Three Thousand Burning Flame with their Life-Bound Soul Chains and tried to seize its Source Fire. The flame escaped its body and fought back, but the chapter left it weakening under a swarm of explosive souls.

• Yuan Chenzi and three black-clothed men summoned their Life-Bound Soul Chains and bound Three Thousand Burning Flame, stopping its firestorm.
• Yuan Chenzi approached Three Thousand Burning Flame’s wounded forehead to take its Source Fire, but the flame burst out and struck him down.
• Azure Flower Old Freak tried to seize the Source Fire, but a black-clothed venerable elder attacked him while two others moved in to capture it.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame shattered one elder’s chain attack and badly injured him with a destructive strike, though the effort dimmed its flames.
• A second Hall of Souls venerable elder sent countless souls to explode around Three Thousand Burning Flame, forcing it to evade as its flames faded.

Bai Ge defeated the Soul Hall Venerables and fought Three Thousand Burning Flame, using a Dragon Mark to draw it into a Soul Battle. Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted with the flames it had stored, forcing the others to evacuate while Bai Ge remained inside the blaze.

• Bai Ge killed two Soul Hall Dou Zun and devoured Yuan Chenzi after Yuan Chenzi unleashed Star Power.
• Bai Ge battled the weakened Three Thousand Burning Flame, absorbed its fire pillar with the Sky Spirit Li Fire Creation Plate, and weakened it further with white liquid.
• Bai Ge used dark golden blood to activate the Dragon Mark on Three Thousand Burning Flame, linking their emotions and drawing them into the flame dragon's soul world.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame attempted to seize control of Bai Ge through the Dragon Mark, and Bai Ge met it in a Soul Battle.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted with its stored flames, so Xuan Kongzi ordered Qiu Ling to evacuate Cao Ying and the others.
• Bai Ge told Xuan Kongzi to leave the situation to him after the others had escaped.

Bai Ge subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Region, completed the Purple Star River cultivation method, and advanced to the Ninth Revolution Dou Zun. After three days, he gathered the remaining flames into a new Three Thousand Burning Flame seed.

• Xuan Kongzi sealed the Star Region after the Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted, while Xuan Yi, Heavenly Thunder Child, Yao Lao, Little Doctor Fairy, and Zi Yan learned Bai Ge remained inside.
• Bai Ge used the Heavenly Dance Treasure Wheel’s Sixth Sense—Deprivation to destroy the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s consciousness, then absorbed its Source Fire.
• Bai Ge refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame and its accumulated Star Power, completing the Purple Star River and triggering a heavenly phenomenon that the others recognized as the creation of a Heaven Rank cultivation method.
• Bai Ge’s strength surged to the Ninth Revolution Dou Zun as he remained inside the Star Region.
• Over three days, Bai Ge gathered the Star Region’s remaining purple-black flames with the Sky Spirit Li Fire Creation Plate and formed a new seed flame of the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Soul Hall launched a full-scale attack on Starfall Pavilion to capture Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, forcing Wind Venerable and Bai Ge to organize the defense. The grand array was opened, and the battle began with Star Plucking Old Ghost charging Xiao Yan.

• Hei Qing took Zi Yan back to the Void Ancient Dragon Tribe after its elders devised a plan for absorbing the Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit.
• The Great Heavenly Venerate ordered Soul Hall to destroy Starfall Pavilion, kill Bai Ge, capture Xiao Yan, and seize Yao Chen.
• Soul Hall surrounded Starfall Pavilion with nearly a hundred fighters, including Star Plucking Old Ghost and Black White Heavenly Venerate, and attacked its grand array.
• Wind Venerable rallied Starfall Pavilion’s elders and disciples, while Bai Ge assigned opponents to his allies and claimed he could handle four Heavenly Venerates.
• Wind Venerable lowered the grand array, and Star Plucking Old Ghost ordered Soul Hall to massacre Starfall Pavilion before charging Xiao Yan.
• Little Doctor Fairy and Medusa moved to fight Black White Heavenly Venerate as Soul Hall’s forces surged into the Star Realm.

Xiao Yan fought Star Plucking Old Ghost in the Star Realm while Starfall Pavilion battled the Hall of Souls. Xiao Yan unleashed the Great Heaven Creation Palm and trapped Star Plucking Old Ghost, but the Ninth Heavenly Venerate moved to intervene before a Golden Armored figure blocked him.

• Xiao Yan and Star Plucking Old Ghost clashed as their battle shook the mountains and the Star Realm filled with fighting.
• Xiao Yan saw Starfall Pavilion’s disciples taking losses and decided he had to defeat Star Plucking Old Ghost quickly.
• Star Plucking Old Ghost unleashed his Star Shattering Slash, but Xiao Yan countered with the Great Heaven Creation Palm, which swallowed the saber radiance and pursued him.
• Star Plucking Old Ghost’s attacks vanished into the black ring, and he cried out to the Ninth Heavenly Venerate for help.
• The Ninth Heavenly Venerate stepped from the void, but a Golden Armored figure blocked him and declared that he was his opponent.

Bai Ge faced four Hall of Souls Heavenly Venerates and overwhelmed their combined attack by using the ninth level of his cultivation technique, Blood Sky, to absorb its energy. The four Heavenly Venerates were left stunned as Bai Ge thanked them for the tonic.

• Moyu attacked Bai Ge with water-element battle qi, but Bai Ge shattered his defenses and sent him flying with a spatial palm strike.
• Bai Ge struck Black White Heavenly Venerate away from Queen Medusa, then challenged Xue He, Xue Ming, Qiu Di, and Moyu to attack him together.
• The four Heavenly Venerates combined rain, ice, and blood qi to create the massive Blood Rain Sky ice ball and hurled it at Bai Ge.
• Bai Ge stopped the ice ball with a word as it neared Yao Lao, then revealed that Blood Sky let him convert heaven-and-earth energy into life force and blood qi.
• Bai Ge absorbed the four Heavenly Venerates' attack before its energy storm could erupt and thanked them for the tonic.

Bai Ge defeated Moyu and the other three Ninth Heavenly Venerates while Qian Renxue fought the Soul Clan’s Grand Heavenly Venerate. Qian Renxue nearly killed him, but a mysterious black hand rescued him and the Second and Third Heavenly Venerates.

• Bai Ge struck Moyu and the other three Ninth Heavenly Venerates out of the sky with the Void Grand Hand Seal.
• Qian Renxue fought the Grand Heavenly Venerate, blocking his bone and soul attacks with her Angel Domain, defenses, and soul-protection ring.
• Qian Renxue summoned Angel Descent and clashed with the Grand Heavenly Venerate’s Bone Emperor Saber, then endured his rapid attacks after he fused with it.
• Qian Renxue used Angel - Judgment to blast the Grand Heavenly Venerate out of the saber and followed with Angel Light Slash, badly wounding him.
• As Qian Renxue prepared to finish the Grand Heavenly Venerate, a huge black hand seized him and also took away the Second and Third Heavenly Venerates from their battle with Yao Lao.

Bai Ge went to the Flower Sect on Yao Lao’s behalf to seek an alliance against Soul Hall, but found Hua Jin working with Demon Flower Evil Monarch while Senior Hua Yu was absent. After challenging the pair’s conduct, Bai Ge fought Demon Flower Evil Monarch and overwhelmed him with his Natural Enemy technique.

• Yao Lao sent Bai Ge to visit Hua Yu at the Flower Sect, while Xiao Yan and Feng Xian went to Burning Flame Valley and Yao Lao went to the Pill Tower.
• Bai Ge arrived at the Flower Sect with Yun Yun and Qing Lin and met the Great Elder, who said the sect’s master was secluded and the alliance needed consideration.
• Bai Ge accused Hua Jin of betraying Senior Hua Yu and objected to her companion, Demon Flower Evil Monarch, being involved in Flower Sect affairs.
• The Great Elder arranged a match between Bai Ge and Demon Flower Evil Monarch, and they moved to the plaza to fight.
• Bai Ge countered Demon Flower Evil Monarch’s Wind Blades and spatial attack, then used Natural Enemy to destroy his giant Dou Qi form and make him spit blood.

Bai Ge delivered Yao Chen’s Yin Yang Longevity Pill to Hua Yu, then destroyed You Mingzi after he escaped the seal beneath the Flower Sect. A month later, Xiao Yan and the others traveled to the Ancient Clan’s coming-of-age ceremony, and Xiao Yan approached Ancient Saint City determined to see Xun Er.

• Bai Ge drove Demon Flower Evil Monarch from the Flower Sect and gave Hua Yu a pill that could extend her life by eight hundred years.
• Bai Ge sensed the deathly aura beneath the seal, freed You Mingzi, and annihilated him with the Heavenly Dance Treasure Wheel.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the Ancient Clan’s invitation and warned him that Xun Er’s status and bloodline would make their relationship difficult.
• Bai Ge, Qian Renxue, Medusa, Yun Yun, Xiao Yan, and the others left Starfall Pavilion for the Ancient Clan, while Little Doctor Fairy went to an ancient tomb.
• After traveling through Space Wormholes, Xiao Yan’s group neared Ancient Saint City, and Xiao Yan thought of Xun Er.

Xiao Yan and Bai Ge arrived at Ancient Saint City, where Ling Quan tried to bar Xiao Yan from entering and was swiftly defeated. Xiao Yan entered the city with his invitation, while Xun Er learned of his arrival and heard that his strength had grown beyond Elder Ling’s ability to judge.

• Xiao Yan’s group flew to Ancient Saint City and approached its gates beneath the pressure of the city’s Dou Di barrier.
• Ling Quan challenged Xiao Yan’s right to enter, but Xiao Yan showed his Ancient Clan invitation and snatched it back from Ling Quan.
• Ling Quan attacked Xiao Yan and was kicked into the city wall, prompting the Ancient Clan’s Fifth Commander to intervene and allow Xiao Yan’s group inside.
• The Fifth Commander invited Xiao Yan to spar to see whether he was worthy of Xun Er, and Xiao Yan accepted before entering the manor with his companions.
• Elder Ling told Xun Er that Xiao Yan had defeated Ling Quan easily and was likely at least a four-star Dou Zun, while Xun Er said she had never doubted him.

After reaching the Ancient World, Xiao Yan traveled with Bai Ge’s group toward the Ancient Saint Mountain Range and reunited with Xun Er. Xun Er openly welcomed him, and Xiao Yan prepared to face the Ancient Clan despite the powerful gazes watching him.

• Yao Lao gave Bai Ge two portions of the Bone Spirit Cold Fire’s origin, and Bai Ge used the Sky Spirit Li Fire Creation Plate to make copies for himself and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan absorbed his copy and the Limitless Pill, raising his strength to Eight Star Dou Zun before the group entered the Ancient World through its newly opened spatial gate.
• The Ancient Clan transported the guests aboard Shuttle Sky Boats, where Xiao Yan met Huo Xuan and told him he had come to reclaim Ancestor Xiao Xuan’s inheritance in the Heavenly Tomb.
• As the warship reached the Ancient Saint Mountain Range, Xiao Yan spotted Xun Er on a distant peak, and she flew to greet him aboard the ship.
• Xun Er invited Xiao Yan to walk with her, and he leaped toward the mountain range as at least ten powerful gazes turned toward him.