Chapter Summaries

Liu Xi prepared the final medicinal bath to remove Valley Master Luo’s remaining Cold Poison and restored his Dou Qi before beginning the treatment. The bath was ready, and Valley Master Luo braced herself for the painful final cleansing.

• Luo Yinzhu brought Liu Xi the second batch of medicinal ingredients and asked him to treat her mother.
• Liu Xi entered the Yin Palace and spent three days refining the ingredients into a medicinal bath.
• Valley Master Luo entered the Blood Pool and felt its heat ease the chill within her body.
• Liu Xi awakened after restoring his Dou Qi and warned Valley Master Luo that the final poison removal would still be painful.
• Valley Master Luo closed her eyes and prepared to endure the treatment as Liu Xi began.

Liu Xi cured Valley Master Luo’s cold poison and left Yin Valley with the poison sealed in his Azure Flame. He refined it into pure Dou Qi and absorbed it, but the energy began overwhelming his control as he prepared to break through to Dou Zun.

• Liu Xi used Azure Flame and medicinal liquid to remove Valley Master Luo’s cold poison and restore her body.
• Valley Master Luo thanked Liu Xi, promised Yin Valley’s aid if he ever needed it, and offered to help him obtain high-grade pills.
• Liu Xi returned to Chaoshēng Pavilion and used the Myriad Beasts Cauldron to refine the cold poison into pure Dou Qi.
• Liu Xi absorbed the refined energy into his dantian, where it merged with the Dou Qi from his previous refinement.
• The combined energy battered the green lotus in Liu Xi’s dantian, so he swallowed a Qi Recovery Pill and planned to attempt his Dou Zun breakthrough once his Dou Qi recovered.

Liu Xi used the energy sealed in the Green Lotus to break through from Nine Star Dou Zong to One Star Dou Zun in a month. After Xiao Yi Xian and Yin Valley guarded his seclusion, Liu Xi emerged and prepared to head to Sacred Pill City for the Alchemy Convention.

• Liu Xi released the milky-white liquid sealed in his Green Lotus and absorbed its energy, breaking through the bottleneck to Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yi Xian sensed the disturbance and stood guard outside Liu Xi's room as Valley Master Luo and the Yin Valley elders arrived.
• Valley Master Luo ordered everyone to keep away from Liu Xi's pavilion while he cultivated.
• One month later, Liu Xi emerged as a One Star Dou Zun and told Xiao Yi Xian that Valley Master Luo's Cold Poison had helped him save time.
• Liu Xi said it was time to head for Sacred Pill City.

Liu Xi and Xiao Yi Xian left Yin Valley and headed for Ye City before the Alchemy Convention, as Liu Xi intended to honor his promise to the Ye Family. They arrived at the Ye Family Manor, where Ye Zhong and Elder Yao had been waiting for him.

• Liu Xi told Valley Master Luo, Luo Yinzhu, and the elders that he would surpass Venerable Yao rather than inherit his title before departing on the Black Feather Arrow Eagle with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Valley Master Luo teased Luo Yinzhu about Liu Xi, but Luo Yinzhu declined to pursue him because Xiao Yi Xian was already at his side.
• Liu Xi told Xiao Yi Xian they would visit Ye City to learn why the Ye Family had contacted him and to fulfill his promise to help them.
• Half a month later, Liu Xi and Xiao Yi Xian arrived at the Ye Family Manor, where the guards welcomed him and said Ye Zhong and Elder Yao had been waiting.
• Ye Zhong hurried toward Liu Xi and called out that he had finally returned.

Ye Zhong asked Liu Xi to help the Ye Family regain its place among the Pill Tower’s elder seats by entering the Five Great Families’ evaluation as their prospective son-in-law. Liu Xi hesitated over the personal implications, and Ye Xinlan arrived to plead for his help before Ye Zhong ordered her to withdraw.

• Ye Zhong welcomed Liu Xi and Xiao Yi Xian, then led them to the Ye Family council hall to explain the family’s predicament.
• Ye Zhong told Liu Xi that the Ye Family had failed two evaluations and would lose its standing among the Five Great Families if it failed again.
• Ye Zhong asked Liu Xi to represent the Ye Family in the evaluation as its prospective son-in-law, and Liu Xi said the arrangement put him in a difficult position.
• Ye Xinlan entered the council hall and begged Liu Xi to help the Ye Family, offering to repay him even as a servant or maid.
• Ye Zhong rebuked Ye Xinlan for interrupting the elders’ discussion and told her to withdraw.

Liu Xi agreed to help the Ye Family regain its Elder Seat and support its alchemists in exchange for their backing in the Pill Tower. He also accepted Ye Xinlan as his student and agreed to train her after Ye Zhong offered him the family’s Inheritance Storage Ring.

• Ye Xinlan offered to enter a pretend marriage with Liu Xi to help the Ye Family, and Ye Zhong explained that she had volunteered despite her limited alchemy skills.
• Xiao Yi Xian urged Liu Xi to help the Ye Family, and he agreed on the condition that they support him unconditionally in the Pill Tower after he pursued the Alchemy Convention championship.
• Ye Zhong promised the Ye Family’s connections and resources to Liu Xi, and the family prepared to leave for Sacred Pill City ahead of the convention.
• After the other elders left, Ye Zhong offered Liu Xi the Ye Family ancestor’s Inheritance Storage Ring and asked him to train Ye Xinlan.
• Liu Xi accepted the ring and agreed to teach Ye Xinlan, promising to return any inheritance he gained from it to her.

Liu Xi broke the soul seal on the Ye Family’s inheritance Storage Ring and discovered the vast collection of an Eighth-grade Alchemy Grandmaster. He found an Eighth-grade Replenishing Origin Pill recipe and the Soul Tempering Art among the inheritance’s treasures.

• Ye Zhong gave Liu Xi the Ye Family ancestor’s sealed Storage Ring after Liu Xi promised to let Ye Xinlan inherit part of its contents.
• Liu Xi used his Green Flame to burn through the ring’s Spirit Realm soul seal and opened it.
• Liu Xi discovered shelves of alchemy texts, Medicine Cauldrons, Eighth-grade Pill Recipes, soul cultivation methods, and soul skills.
• Liu Xi found the Replenishing Origin Pill recipe, which could alter aptitude and required a Human Origin Fruit.
• Liu Xi found the Mysterious Tier Intermediate Soul Tempering Art and soul skills, then told Xiao Yi Xian that the inheritance was an absolute bumper harvest.

Liu Xi cultivated the Soul Tempering Art to its sixth level overnight and gave Ye Xinlan the method from the Ye Family’s recovered inheritance. He joined Yao Tianhuo and Ye Zhong as they prepared to leave for Sacred Pill City and the internal assessment.

• Liu Xi cultivated the Soul Tempering Art through the night, enduring escalating pain as his soul improved.
• Xiao Yi Xian worried about Liu Xi’s pained expression, and the two shared a tender moment after he explained the method’s effects.
• Ye Xinlan told Liu Xi that Yao Tianhuo had emerged from seclusion and Ye Zhong was ready to leave for Sacred Pill City.
• Liu Xi gave Ye Xinlan the Soul Tempering Art and encouraged her to help restore the Ye Family’s former glory.
• Liu Xi met Yao Tianhuo and Ye Zhong in the council hall, where Yao Tianhuo sensed Liu Xi’s immense aura and remarked on his advancement to the Dou Zun realm.

Liu Xi agreed to accompany the Ye Family to Sacred Pill City for its internal assessment, giving Ye Zhong confidence that the family would retain its Elder Seat and rise again. Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Tianhuo, Ye Zhong, and Ye Xinlan departed through the Ye Family's Space Wormhole.

• Yao Tianhuo realized that Liu Xi had reached Dou Zun, then discovered Xiao Yi Xian had also advanced to Six Star Dou Zun.
• Ye Xinlan told Ye Zhong about the Soul Tempering Art, and Ye Zhong pledged that the Ye Family would follow Liu Xi as he helped restore its strength.
• Liu Xi agreed to leave for Sacred Pill City with the Ye Family and support it in its internal assessment.
• Ye Zhong told the gathered Ye Family members to study the Art of Alchemy and left the family in the care of the Second Elder and Third Elder.
• Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Tianhuo, Ye Zhong, and Ye Xinlan entered the Ye City's Space Wormhole to depart.

Liu Xi studied the Ye Family ancestor’s inheritance during the journey to Sacred Pill City, gaining new soul techniques and insights into Eighth-grade alchemy. After arriving in the crowded city, he left Ye Zhong to arrange lodging, testing, and Alchemy Convention registration.

• Ye Zhong explained that the group would travel through Qing Ling City before reaching Sacred Pill City, and Liu Xi and the others settled aboard the Space Ship.
• Liu Xi studied the soul cultivation methods, battle techniques, pill recipes, and alchemy manuscripts from the Ye Family ancestor’s inheritance during the journey.
• By the seventh day, Liu Xi had comprehended most of the inheritance and mastered the Flowing Wind Soul Body and Soul Hand Seal.
• Liu Xi said he looked forward to the Alchemy Convention and was confident he could defeat Mu Gu if he appeared.
• The Space Ship emerged at Sacred Pill City, where the approaching Alchemy Convention had drawn a large crowd of alchemists and powerful visitors.
• Liu Xi asked Ye Zhong to arrange their stay at the Ye Family residence and handle the convention’s testing and registration.

Liu Xi accompanied Ye Zhong to the Five Great Families’ internal assessment, where his presence drew attention and altered how the Ye Family was received. He entered the hall with the Ye Family as they prepared to take their seats and face the assessment.

• Liu Xi assured Ye Zhong that he would help the Ye Family and told him to gather supplementary medicinal ingredients before the Alchemy Convention.
• Liu Xi, Xiao Yi Xian, Ye Zhong, Ye Xinlan, and Yao Tianhuo arrived at the assessment venue, where onlookers mocked the Ye Family and questioned Liu Xi’s participation.
• The Pill Tower guards respectfully welcomed the Ye Family because Liu Xi was with them, and Ye Zhong resolved to restore his family’s reputation.
• Liu Xi entered the hall, where the gathered factions recognized him as the Number One Alchemist among the younger generation.
• Ye Zhong pointed out the seating areas for the Five Great Families, and Liu Xi agreed to go there.

Liu Xi arrived at the Ye Family’s seating area for the Alchemy Convention and drew attention from the Five Great Families. After Cao Ying introduced herself, Liu Xi openly declared that he intended to win the championship.

• Ye Zhong introduced Dan Xuan, Dan Chen, Bai Ying, and the Qiu Family’s alchemist to Liu Xi as potential competitors.
• Liu Xi surveyed the other families and privately judged that none of their alchemists seemed worthy of challenging him.
• Cao Ying entered the hall, drawing everyone’s attention before noticing Liu Xi and recognizing him as a source of pressure.
• Cao Ying approached Liu Xi at the Ye Family’s seating area and greeted him with flattering words.
• Liu Xi told Cao Ying that he wanted to claim the Alchemy Convention championship.

Liu Xi declared that he wanted to win the Alchemy Convention championship, prompting Cao Ying and Dan Chen to enter the Five Great Families assessment alongside him. The five contestants assembled in the hall’s central square as Elder Sheng Yao prepared to preside over the assessment.

• Liu Xi announced his championship ambition, and Cao Ying warned him that she and Dan Chen would be formidable rivals.
• Cao Ying returned to the Cao Family seats after Liu Xi told her not to cry if she lost.
• Elder Sheng Yao opened the assessment and called for one representative from each of the Five Great Families to enter the field.
• Liu Xi rose for the Ye Family, while Cao Ying took Cao Xiu’s place and Dan Chen volunteered instead of her brother, Dan Xuan.
• Bai Ying represented the White Family and Qiu Ji represented the Qiu Family as all five contestants gathered before Sheng Yao.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Bai Ying, and Qiu Ji greeted Sheng Yao; Liu Xi introduced himself as the Ye Family representative.

Liu Xi, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen joined the Pill Tower’s soul-value assessment, where Dan Chen surpassed Cao Ying’s old record with a score of 1536. Cao Ying then tested and raised the record to 1634, leaving Liu Xi as the final contestant to face the challenge.

• Elder Sheng explained that contestants needed a Soul Value above 400 to pass and that Cao Ying held the record of 976.
• Qiu Ji scored 739 and passed, followed by Bai Ying with 796.
• Dan Chen unleashed a soul storm and scored 1536, setting a new record.
• Cao Ying tested her soul and scored 1634, surpassing Dan Chen’s result.

Liu Xi overwhelmed the other contestants in the soul test, recording a Soul Value of 1868 and securing first place for the Ye Family. Elder Sheng then introduced the next assessment, soul control, and revealed a Soul Testing Bead.

• Cao Ying completed the soul test, prompting Elder Sheng to praise her result before Liu Xi took his turn.
• Liu Xi released a soul pressure that dwarfed Cao Ying and Dan Chen’s, leaving Bai Ying and Qiu Ji terrified and trembling.
• The stone monument displayed Liu Xi’s Soul Value of 1868, setting a new record and earning him first place for the Ye Family.
• Cao Ying struggled to accept Liu Xi’s superiority but continued to provoke him, while Dan Chen watched him with curiosity.
• Elder Sheng announced the start of the soul-control assessment and brought out a Soul Steel bead called a Soul Testing Bead.

Liu Xi dominated the soul control test, catching 149 Soul Testing Beads and setting a new record. Elder Sheng announced Liu Xi, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen as the top three before introducing the final round, a Spiritual Power battle in the plaza.

• Elder Sheng explained that contestants had to catch falling Soul Testing Beads using only Spiritual Power, and Cao Ying challenged Liu Xi to beat her record of eighty-nine.
• Liu Xi caught the beads with a giant spiritual hand while Cao Ying and Dan Chen gathered beads more gracefully, and Bai Ying and Qiu Ji struggled to keep up.
• Bai Ying and Qiu Ji withdrew with forty-three and forty-one beads, followed by Dan Chen with 124 and Cao Ying with 135.
• Liu Xi withdrew with 149 beads, breaking the record and taking first place ahead of Cao Ying and Dan Chen.
• Elder Sheng announced that the final round would have the five contestants fight with Spiritual Power inside a circle until only one remained.

Liu Xi, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen faced off in a Spiritual Power contest after Bai Ying and Qiu Ji were quickly forced from the arena. Liu Xi then summoned a Soul True Dragon to fight the two women's Soul Phoenixes, which it steadily overpowered.

• Elder Sheng began the Spiritual Power test, and the five contestants sent their power crashing together in the red circle.
• Liu Xi's initial clash threw Bai Ying and Qiu Ji out of the arena, leaving him to face Cao Ying and Dan Chen.
• Liu Xi warned the women that the serious contest was beginning, while Cao Ying asserted the Pill Tower's expertise in soul attacks.
• Liu Xi formed a Soul True Dragon, and Cao Ying and Dan Chen summoned a Soul Phoenix each.
• The two Soul Phoenixes attacked together, but Liu Xi's stronger, more intelligent dragon wounded them and drove them back.

Liu Xi overwhelmed Cao Ying and Dan Chen in a battle of Spiritual Power, but Cao Ying used the Soul Profound Seal Palm to counter his Soul True Dragon and insisted they were evenly matched. Liu Xi prepared to continue the fight as Cao Ying challenged him again.

• Liu Xi controlled the Soul True Dragon as it wounded Cao Ying and Dan Chen’s Soul Phoenixes, while the two women struggled to keep up.
• Cao Ying praised Liu Xi’s skill, then refused to surrender and demanded that he defeat her outright.
• Liu Xi intensified the Soul True Dragon’s attack, destroying both phoenixes and forcing Cao Ying and Dan Chen backward.
• Cao Ying formed the Soul Profound Seal Palm and collided with the Soul True Dragon, using the soul skill to withstand its power.
• Cao Ying declared that the soul skill had put her and Liu Xi on equal footing, while Liu Xi privately doubted she had learned her lesson.

Liu Xi overpowered Cao Ying’s Soul Hand Seals in the contest, and the collision devastated the plaza. After protecting Cao Ying and Dan Chen from the resulting storm, he asked whether they would keep fighting or admit defeat.

• Cao Ying and Liu Xi formed Soul Hand Seals, and Liu Xi matched her technique despite seeming unfamiliar with its hand signs.
• Cao Ying launched two powerful palm imprints at Liu Xi, who answered with a Soul Profound Palm Seal.
• Their attacks shattered the plaza and sent destructive aftershocks sweeping through the hall, forcing Elder Sheng and the spectators to retreat.
• Liu Xi carried Dan Chen and moved her beside Cao Ying, then shielded all three of them from the soul storm with his barrier.
• After the storm subsided, Liu Xi withdrew the barrier and asked Cao Ying and Dan Chen whether they would continue fighting or admit defeat.

Liu Xi won the Five Great Families assessment after Cao Ying and Dan Chen conceded, securing the Ye Family’s place among the families. As the participants thanked and challenged him, the chapter left Liu Xi preparing to pursue the Alchemy Convention championship while Cao Dan secretly resented him.

• Cao Ying and Dan Chen conceded to Liu Xi and thanked him for saving them.
• Elder Sheng announced Liu Xi in first place, Cao Ying in second, and Dan Chen in third, while the White Family and Qiu Family departed.
• Ye Zhong thanked Liu Xi for helping the Ye Family retain its place among the Five Great Families.
• Dan Xuan thanked Liu Xi for sparing Dan Chen, and Dan Chen shyly greeted Liu Xi.
• Cao Ying proposed that she and Liu Xi exchange insights on soul techniques and vowed to compete with him at the Alchemy Convention.
• Cao Dan hid his resentment and jealousy as Cao Ying spoke with Liu Xi.