Chapter Summaries

Mister Liu Xi advanced his soul realm after seven days in seclusion, and Zi Yan, Cao Ying, and Xiong Zhan prepared to leave the Pill Realm before it closed. Xiong Zhan gave Mister Liu Xi a storage ring of medicinal herbs, and Mister Liu Xi promised to help him with pills in the future.

• Mister Liu Xi absorbed the Earth Core Soul Marrow and endured seven days of painful soul cultivation as spiritual energy gathered around Xiong Zhan's cave dwelling.
• Xiong Zhan ordered his people to keep everyone away while Cao Ying and Xiong Zhan sensed Mister Liu Xi's breakthrough and its overwhelming soul pressure.
• Mister Liu Xi emerged with an advanced soul realm, and Zi Yan told him that two days remained before the Pill Realm closed.
• Mister Liu Xi agreed to head for the Pill Realm exit with Zi Yan, while Cao Ying and Xiong Zhan joined them.
• Xiong Zhan gave Mister Liu Xi a storage ring of medicinal herbs, and Mister Liu Xi promised to provide him with pills if he ever needed them.

Liu Xi and Cao Ying reached the Pill Realm’s exit plaza, where the surviving alchemists gathered before the third round. After Cao Ying promised to keep Zi Yan’s presence secret, Song Qing tried to explain his escape, but Cao Ying ignored him and followed Liu Xi, leaving Song Qing consumed by jealousy.

• Liu Xi, Cao Ying, Zi Yan, and Xiong Zhan traveled toward the Pill Realm’s exit on a seventh-tier Azure Eagle.
• Before reaching the exit, Liu Xi asked Cao Ying to keep Zi Yan’s illegal entry and Xiong Zhan’s situation secret, and Cao Ying promised.
• Liu Xi and Cao Ying arrived at the plaza, where Dan Chen, Song Qing, and Mu Gu were among the gathered alchemists.
• Song Qing approached Liu Xi and Cao Ying, apologizing for fleeing and claiming he had drawn away the killers, but Liu Xi left without replying.
• Cao Ying told Song Qing that fleeing had been the right choice, then warmly followed Liu Xi, prompting Song Qing to resent Liu Xi for stealing his supposed beloved.

Liu Xi and the other alchemists passed the second round by submitting their gathered ingredients, then gathered in Sacred Pill City for the Alchemy Convention’s final round. Xuan Kongzi announced the rules, and Liu Xi took a platform as the contestants prepared to refine their pills.

• A Pill Tower elder opened a Space Passage and inspected the alchemists’ ingredients, sending those who tried to cheat away in shame.
• Cao Ying and Liu Xi submitted their ingredients and received approval to leave the Pill Realm.
• Liu Xi emerged in Sacred Pill City, where Xiao Yi Xian, Yao Tianhuo, Valley Master Luo, Valley Master Tang, Venerable Lei, and others watched and cheered; Cao Ying followed him.
• After the Space Passage closed, Xuan Kongzi congratulated the remaining alchemists and declared the unrestricted final round open.
• The contestants raced to claim stone platforms, while the alchemists cleared a path for Liu Xi, who chose a spot in the middle.

Liu Xi, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Mu Gu, and the other alchemists began the Alchemy Convention’s refining contest, while Xiao Yan appeared in disguise with the Bone Spirit Cold Flame. Liu Xi revealed his powerful Azure Flame, which dominated the other flames and drew the attention of the Pill Tower elders.

• Xuan Kongzi announced that the contestants’ time to choose platforms had ended, and the alchemists lit their flames as the refining contest began.
• Liu Xi watched Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Song Qing, and Mu Gu summon their flames, and Mu Gu’s black Fire Python disrupted nearby contestants’ refining.
• A disguised Xiao Yan summoned the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, shocking the arena and stirring Xuan Yi, Xuan Kongzi, and Tian Lei Zi with memories of Yao Chen.
• Liu Xi set down the Myriad Beasts Cauldron and summoned his Azure Flame, which made the black and bone-white Fire Pythons tremble and further unsettled Mu Gu.
• Xuan Kongzi praised Liu Xi’s Green Lotus as a Green Lotus Core Flame that seemed nearly as powerful as Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Liu Xi began refining a high-grade pill during the Alchemy Convention as contestants steadily dropped out and several others produced Rank 7 Pills. After five days, he successfully fused the medicinal liquids and began infusing the pill embryo with Spiritual Power.

• Liu Xi preheated the Myriad Beasts Cauldron with Azure Flame and began refining the ingredients for his pill.
• Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Mu Gu, and the other leading alchemists also started extracting their ingredients' essences.
• Over five days, alchemy failures and pill lightning reduced the contestants from over a thousand to forty-nine stone platforms.
• Liu Xi lost some ingredients while fusing the medicinal liquids but completed the fusion and formed a pill embryo.
• Liu Xi began Spirit Infusion, flooding the Myriad Beasts Cauldron with Spiritual Power to bring the pill embryo to life.

As the Pill Tower competition continued, Song Qing and Xiao Yan’s disguised identity refined powerful Seventh-grade pills, while Dan Chen broke through to produce an Eighth-grade Pill. The chapter ended with the crowd erupting at the appearance of a second Eighth-grade Alchemist.

• Song Qing refined a Peak Seventh-grade Pill but lamented that he had failed to attempt an Eighth-grade Pill, and he resolved to enter the top ten to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yan, disguised as a stern young alchemist, refined a Seventh-grade Advanced Pill comparable to Song Qing’s while thinking of Yao Chen and his plan to rescue him and his father.
• Twelve pill lightning clouds gathered over the competition as more alchemists completed Seventh-grade High-level Pills, making Song Qing resent the unknown rival.
• Dan Chen pushed herself to her limit, spat blood into her Medicine Cauldron, and refined an Eighth-grade Pill that formed a two-colored lightning cloud.
• The crowd erupted in astonishment at Dan Chen’s Eighth-grade Pill and the arrival of another Eighth-grade Alchemist.

Dan Chen and Cao Ying successively revealed Pill Lightning from their pills, while Old Monster Qing Hua surpassed Cao Ying with an even more complete display. The chapter left the crowd waiting to see what Liu Xi would produce as Xuan Yi recalled Old Monster Qing Hua’s history with Yao Chen and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

• Dan Chen summoned Two-colored Pill Lightning, prompting Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, and Xuan Yi to praise her potential and discuss training her.
• Xiao Yan felt overwhelmed by Dan Chen’s achievement and Liu Xi’s reputation, but renewed his determination to save his teacher and father, avenge his family, and reunite with Xun Er.
• Cao Ying unveiled Three-colored Pill Lightning and declared that she wanted to surpass Liu Xi, while Song Qing’s confidence collapsed.
• Old Monster Qing Hua revealed a stronger, more complete Three-colored Pill Lightning, erasing Cao Ying’s brief advantage.
• Cao Ying fixed her attention on Liu Xi as Xuan Kongzi identified Old Monster Qing Hua, and Xuan Yi recalled his past connection to Yao Chen and the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.

Mu Gu revealed his Soul Hall identity and drew Four-and-a-Half-Colored Pill Lightning, threatening to take the Alchemy Convention championship. Liu Xi then revealed his pill’s power and produced unprecedented Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, leaving the plaza stunned.

• Mu Gu released his pill, drew Four-and-a-Half-Colored Pill Lightning, and declared that the Soul Hall would win the championship.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi reacted grimly, while Cao Ying and Dan Chen turned their hopes toward Liu Xi.
• Liu Xi dismissed Mu Gu’s boast and released his pill from the Medicine Cauldron.
• Liu Xi’s Pill Lightning surpassed Mu Gu’s Four-and-a-Half-Colored display and reached complete Five-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Blue and green tribulation clouds formed above Liu Xi, completing unprecedented Seven-Colored Pill Lightning.

After Liu Xi won the Alchemy Convention with a pill that summoned Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, the crowd hailed him as the Medicine Lord. He summoned the Heavenly Demon Puppet to face the lightning, and it endured the first strike without damage.

• Xuan Kongzi and Tian Lei Zi praised Liu Xi’s achievement as the crowd erupted into chants of “Medicine Lord.”
• Cao Ying vowed to pursue Liu Xi as her lifelong goal, while Dan Chen admired his alchemy and Qinghua marveled at his talent.
• Mu Gu resented Liu Xi’s triumph and hoped the Seven-Colored Pill Lightning would destroy him and his pill.
• Liu Xi reflected on the inheritance, notes, and Soul Realm advancement that had helped him reach the Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, then warned Mu Gu that he had spared him in the Pill Realm to test his limits.
• Liu Xi summoned the Heavenly Demon Puppet to intercept the descending lightning, and it withstood the first strike as its golden body shone brighter.

Liu Xi’s Seven-Colored Pill Lightning swallowed the other alchemists’ tribulation clouds, but the Heavenly Demon Puppet endured the barrage and emerged strengthened. With the clouds dispersed and his Eighth-grade pill surviving, Liu Xi drew the plaza’s acclaim and resolved to kill Mu Gu if he got another chance.

• The Seven-Colored Tribulation Clouds pulled Mu Gu’s, Qinghua’s, Cao Ying’s, and Dan Chen’s clouds toward Liu Xi’s, then swallowed them all and doubled in size.
• The enlarged clouds unleashed hundreds of powerful lightning bolts, but Liu Xi’s Heavenly Demon Puppet withstood them and absorbed their power.
• The tribulation clouds exhausted themselves and dispersed, leaving a healing black hole and dark cracks in the sky.
• Liu Xi recalled the Heavenly Demon Puppet, found its body further strengthened, and judged its aura to be no weaker than a Six Star Dou Zun’s.
• Liu Xi glared at Mu Gu and vowed not to let him escape again, while the plaza cheered Liu Xi as the Medicine Lord.

After Liu Xi’s Eighth-grade pill overwhelmed the other contestants, Xuan Kongzi declared him champion of the Alchemist Tournament and awarded him an ancient soul cultivation method. The tournament ended with the top ten preparing to enter the Star Domain in two days and attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xuan Kongzi asked the contestants to present their pills, and Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Qinghua, Mu Gu, and Liu Xi revealed their living Eighth-grade Pills.
• Liu Xi’s holy white tiger subdued Mu Gu’s savage tiger, while Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Qinghua accepted that Liu Xi had surpassed them.
• Xuan Kongzi announced Liu Xi as champion and named him a candidate for Titan of the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi gave Liu Xi the promised ancient soul cultivation method, and Liu Xi thanked him publicly.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the top ten could enter the Star Domain in two days and each have a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

After recovering from the Alchemy Convention, Liu Xi welcomed influential allies who offered to help him deal with Mu Gu, but he insisted on killing Mu Gu himself. He then went to meet Xuan Kongzi to discuss subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Liu Xi slept for a day and a night after returning home, then woke refreshed to find Valley Master Luo, Valley Master Tang, Lei Zun, and their companions visiting him.
• Valley Master Luo, Valley Master Tang, and Lei Zun offered to capture Mu Gu so Liu Xi could take revenge, but Liu Xi said he had chosen Mu Gu's burial ground and would kill him with his own hands.
• Valley Master Luo, Valley Master Tang, and Lei Zun pledged their support to Liu Xi if he needed help confronting Mu Gu.
• An elder from the Pill Tower summoned Liu Xi to meet Xuan Kongzi and arrange the next steps in subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Liu Xi followed the elder to Xuan Kongzi's residence, noticing that Pill Tower members treated him with respect as the Alchemy Convention champion and heir to the Pill Tower Titan position.

Liu Xi met the Pill Tower’s three Titans and learned that Mu Gu might try to break the Star Domain’s seal on the Three Thousand Burning Flame. He asked Xuan Kongzi whether he could kill Mu Gu there to settle the score for two assassination attempts.

• Xuan Kongzi introduced Liu Xi to Tian Lei Zi and Xuan Yi, and Liu Xi exchanged greetings with them and Xiao Yan.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Yan that the Pill Tower would seek a way to deal with Yao Chen’s capture and urged him to learn from Liu Xi.
• Xuan Kongzi explained that Mu Gu would enter the Star Domain and might break the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal, threatening Sacred Pill City.
• Xuan Kongzi entrusted the younger alchemists with signal orbs and indicated that Liu Xi might be able to hold Mu Gu off until the Titans could intervene.
• Liu Xi asked Xuan Kongzi whether he could kill Mu Gu in the Star Domain to avenge two assassination attempts.

The Pill Tower leaders authorized Liu Xi to stop Mu Gu, while Xiao Yan and Song Qing dealt with their own ambitions and insecurities. Cao Ying teased Dan Chen about her feelings for Liu Xi, then confessed that she might have fallen for him.

• Xuan Kongzi justified killing Mu Gu as punishment for the Soul Hall's crimes and warned Liu Xi not to risk his future while confronting the veteran Dou Zun.
• Liu Xi and the others received signal beads and were dismissed ahead of the Star Domain opening, while Xuan Yi kept Xiao Yan behind.
• Song Qing watched Liu Xi leave with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, brooded over his gap from them, and vowed to claim the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Cao Ying tried to make Liu Xi guess that Xiao Yan's teacher was Yao Chen, but Dan Chen explained that the Soul Hall had captured him.
• Cao Ying teased Dan Chen about liking Liu Xi, causing the embarrassed Dan Chen to flee.
• Cao Ying followed Liu Xi and admitted she might have fallen for him and had been trying to screen out competition.

Liu Xi rejected Cao Ying’s pursuit, but she vowed to win him over by becoming a Pill Tower Titan. After Zi Yan returned, she revealed she had brought a Dragon Seal to help Liu Xi subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, though using it carried a risk.

• Liu Xi told Cao Ying to give up on pursuing him, and she declared she would prove her sincerity after surpassing him in alchemy and becoming a Pill Tower Titan.
• Xiao Yi Xian welcomed Liu Xi and Cao Ying back, then suggested Cao Ying’s ambition could help Liu Xi gain influence over the Pill Tower.
• Zi Yan rushed into Liu Xi’s embrace and explained that she had escaped the Pill Realm with Brother Xiong Zhan.
• Zi Yan revealed she had brought an imprint of a Dragon Seal, which her clan had left on the Three Thousand Burning Flame to make it easier to subdue.
• Zi Yan warned Liu Xi that using the Dragon Seal would be a contest of strength, but Liu Xi trusted her and let her prepare it.

The Pill Tower presidents opened the Star Domain and led the top ten Alchemy Convention contestants inside to tame the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Liu Xi and the others found the flame in the form of a colossal sleeping dragon, while Mu Gu remained under suspicion.

• Xuan Kongzi warned Mu Gu not to act rashly as the three Pill Tower presidents opened the Star Domain.
• Qiu Ling led Liu Xi, Mu Gu, and the other contestants through the dangerous Space Passage into the ruined Star Domain.
• Xuan Kongzi asked about the Pill Tower's defenses, and Tian Lei Zi confirmed experts were prepared in case the Soul Hall attacked.
• Liu Xi sensed the Three Thousand Burning Flame as he and Mu Gu endured the growing heat while following Qiu Ling deeper into the Star Domain.
• Qiu Ling stopped before the Three Thousand Burning Flame, revealing a giant dragon wreathed in purple-black flames and leaving Song Qing stunned.

Liu Xi secretly subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame while pretending to fail, then returned to the Star Domain and watched Mu Gu make his own attempt. Mu Gu also appeared to fail, and Qiu Ling called on Elder Qing Hua to try next.

• Liu Xi reached the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s unburned scale and entered its inner flame space.
• Liu Xi shattered the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s consciousness, took control of it, and secretly restored its consciousness so he could pretend the attempt had failed.
• Liu Xi returned to the Star Domain acting disappointed, and Qiu Ling warned Mu Gu not to act recklessly as Mu Gu went to try subduing the flame.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen comforted Liu Xi, who warned them that the source flame remained dangerous.
• Mu Gu returned looking grim, and Qiu Ling called on Elder Qing Hua to attempt subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

After failing to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, the Pill Tower’s candidates faced a Soul Hall attack led by Mu Gu, who summoned three Dou Zun experts and moved to destroy the seal. Liu Xi, Qiu Ling, and Qinghua fought to stop them, but the seal began to break and the Heavenly Flame awakened.

• The candidates, including Xiao Yan and Liu Xi, failed to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Qiu Ling called for them to leave.
• Mu Gu revealed his allegiance to the Soul Hall, summoned three Dou Zun experts through a spatial vortex, and rushed to destroy the seal.
• Liu Xi crushed his signal bead and struck down two alchemists who tried to stop the others from sending signals; Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Song Qing, and Xiao Yan then crushed theirs.
• Qiu Ling called on Liu Xi and Qinghua to fight the Soul Hall, and the three joined battle while the younger alchemists retreated.
• The Soul Hall Dou Zun experts struggled against Liu Xi, Qiu Ling, Qinghua, and Liu Xi’s Heavenly Demon Puppets as Mu Gu continued attacking the seal.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame burned away the Spiritual Power lines across its dragon body, and its scorching, violent aura awakened.

Mu Gu and the Soul Hall Dou Zuns broke Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal, but the awakened flame spirit rejected their bargain and attacked them. As the Soul Hall forces trapped it in the Myriad Souls Devouring Spirit Array, Liu Xi and the Pill Tower group remained outside the formation.

• Qiu Ling and Liu Xi’s group were forced back as the Soul Hall Dou Zuns retreated and Three Thousand Burning Flame began tearing open the damaged seal.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame broke free, and Mu Gu demanded that it honor their agreement to serve the Soul Hall for three years.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame refused, accused Mu Gu of trying to steal its Origin Fire, and attacked him with a blast of purple-black flame.
• Mu Gu ordered the other Soul Hall Dou Zuns to form the Myriad Souls Devouring Spirit Array around Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Qiu Ling condemned the Soul Hall, while Liu Xi recognized that the Soul Clan was the power behind it.

Mu Gu and three Soul Hall Dou Zuns used Soul Locks and their Natal Soul Locks to restrain Three Thousand Burning Flame and seize its Origin Fire. Three Thousand Burning Flame struck Mu Gu with its Origin Fire, allowing Liu Xi to kill him with Blazing Heaven Finger.

• Mu Gu and the other Soul Hall Dou Zuns replenished the soul-made chains after Three Thousand Burning Flame burned through their canopy and broke its restraints.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame freed itself with a vortex of fire, forcing the four Dou Zuns to use their Natal Soul Locks to restrain it again.
• Mu Gu approached Three Thousand Burning Flame's exposed Origin Fire while the other Dou Zuns struggled to hold it in place.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame released its compressed, jet-black Origin Fire, which struck Mu Gu and sent him flying.
• Liu Xi hit the injured Mu Gu with Blazing Heaven Finger, and the azure fire swallowed him.