Chapter Summaries

After more than a year of pill refining transformed Sound Valley into a formidable power, Jiang Donghua completed a Seven-Colored Pill and set out alone for the Pill Gathering in Sacred Pill City. Mu Qingxian feared Soul Hall might target him, so she secretly followed him through the spatial void.

• Jiang Donghua's monthly Supreme Pill refining attracted Rogue Cultivator Dou Zuns to Sound Valley and restored its former strength.
• Jiang Donghua refined a Grade 8 pill that summoned Seven-Colored Pill Lightning, then swallowed the lightning with a Space Rift and sealed the pill away.
• Mu Qingxian reminded Jiang Donghua that the Pill Gathering would open the next day in Sacred Pill City, and he decided to travel there alone.
• Jiang Donghua rejected Mu Qingxian's offer to bring Guest Elders and departed through a Space Rift.
• Mu Qingxian sent instructions to trusted elders, opened her own Space Rift, and pursued Jiang Donghua through the void to watch for Soul Hall.

Jiang Donghua revealed that he was a Six-Revolution Peak Dou Zun, overwhelming Soul Hall’s Fifth Heavenly Venerate and leaving Xu Jinchuan terrified. Mu Qingxian witnessed the display and wondered whether Jiang Donghua had hidden his strength all along, while Xu Jinchuan broke into a hysterical denial.

• Jiang Donghua unveiled his Six-Revolution Peak aura, shocking Fifth Heavenly Venerate and Xu Jinchuan.
• Fifth Heavenly Venerate abandoned his plan to fight and tried to escape through a Space Rift.
• Jiang Donghua shattered Fifth Heavenly Venerate’s Ten Thousand Souls Shield with one punch and blasted him into the rift.
• Mu Qingxian arrived in time to witness Jiang Donghua defeat Fifth Heavenly Venerate and questioned how he had reached such strength.
• Xu Jinchuan, overwhelmed by fear, jealousy, and hatred, hysterically denied what he had seen.

Jiang Donghua killed Xu Jinchuan, captured his soul, and continued onward with Mu Qingxian. He then ambushed and killed the wounded Fifth Heavenly Venerable, sealing his soul as well.

• Jiang Donghua punched through Xu Jinchuan's chest, killed him, and sealed his soul in a jade bottle.
• Jiang Donghua told Mu Qingxian that the obstacles were cleared, and they vanished into the void.
• The wounded Fifth Heavenly Venerable returned to Xu Jinchuan's corpse, relieved to have survived and cursing the bad intelligence he had received.
• Jiang Donghua revealed he had been hiding nearby and killed the Fifth Heavenly Venerable with a strike to the back of the head.
• Jiang Donghua captured and sealed the Fifth Heavenly Venerable's soul, and Mu Qingxian flew over to him.

Jiang Donghua gave Mu Qingxian the Storage Rings taken from two Soul Hall Heavenly Venerables to comfort her and benefit Sound Valley. They arrived in Sacred Pill City, where Mu Qingxian was awed by its vast plaza and rich medicinal aura.

• Jiang Donghua searched the two Storage Rings and dismissed most of their contents as junk.
• Jiang Donghua gave both Storage Rings to Mu Qingxian for Sound Valley, and she vowed to repay his kindness.
• Jiang Donghua opened a spatial gateway after traveling through the void with Mu Qingxian.
• Jiang Donghua and Mu Qingxian stepped into Sacred Pill City and were overwhelmed by the medicinal fragrances.
• Mu Qingxian praised Sacred Pill City as the Battle Qi Continent's holy land for alchemists as they surveyed its crowded plaza.

Jiang Donghua and Mu Qingxian arrived at the Pill Tower in Sacred Pill City, where Jiang Donghua decided to seek formal alchemist certification. He entered the Sixth-grade Alchemist assessment and brought out his cauldron, ready to begin.

• Mu Qingxian asked Jiang Donghua whether he had ever received official alchemist certification, and he threatened to make her refine Sound Valley’s pills herself if she kept teasing him.
• Jiang Donghua looked toward the Pill Tower and accepted that he would have to reveal himself at the Pill Gathering.
• Jiang Donghua and Mu Qingxian bypassed the crowded Fifth-grade testing area and waited at the Sixth-grade assessment site.
• A Pill Tower deacon led the candidates into a testing room and instructed them to refine a Sixth-grade Pill using their own materials.
• Jiang Donghua summoned an ancient dark-cyan medicinal cauldron onto his stone platform.

As the Pill Gathering began in Sacred Pill City, Jiang Donghua learned about its three rounds and joined the contestants at the central plaza. The crowd fell silent at the Pill Tower's second bell, awaiting the opening ceremony.

• At dawn, the first bell drew alchemists and spectators from across the city to the central plaza.
• Mu Qingxian told Jiang Donghua that the competition had three rounds: an illusion trial, a search for herbs in the Pill Realm, and public pill refinement.
• Jiang Donghua decided to face the continent's alchemy geniuses and headed to the venue with Mu Qingxian.
• Jiang Donghua used his Sixth-grade Alchemist robe to enter the contestant area at the crowded plaza.
• A second bell rang from the Pill Tower, silencing the crowd as everyone looked toward the stone platform.

Jiang Donghua entered the Soul Illusion Realm for the first trial of the alchemist competition and used his Spiritual Realm Soul to overcome its darkness and suppressive illusions. He advanced through the realm with ease, startling other contestants who mistook his Soul Force for that of an Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster.

• Flame Venerable opened the Soul Illusion Realm and ordered contestants of fifth grade and above to enter the first trial.
• Jiang Donghua told Mu Qingxian to wait and watch as he entered the vortex using his Sixth-grade Alchemist badge.
• Jiang Donghua found himself surrounded by darkness and soul pressure inside the realm.
• Jiang Donghua unleashed his Spiritual Realm Soul, dispersing the darkness and resisting the realm's effects.
• Jiang Donghua perceived other contestants stumbling through illusions, and some fled when they sensed his powerful Soul Force.

Jiang Donghua entered the Pill Realm and set out to find three medicinal herbs required by the Pill Tower, despite already having them in his Storage Ring. He used a Space Rift to reach a Dragon Blood Lingzhi, where a seemingly mindless Seventh-tier Crimson Blood Red Wolf guarded it.

• Jiang Donghua arrived in the Pill Realm and read the jade slip’s instructions to find Dragon Blood Lingzhi, Nine-Heart Soul Infant Fruit, and Seven-Colored Moon Orchid.
• He realized he likely already had all three herbs in his Storage Ring but chose to search for them himself.
• Jiang Donghua studied the crude map and opened a Space Rift to travel to the nearest marked location.
• He emerged in a blazing valley, where he found Dragon Blood Lingzhi guarded by a Seventh-tier Crimson Blood Red Wolf.
• Jiang Donghua noticed the wolf lacked the reason expected of a Seventh-tier Demonic Beast and wondered why it seemed so berserk.

Jiang Donghua entered a frost-filled valley in search of the Seven-Colored Moon Orchid and was ambushed by four women and their hidden Eight-star Dou Zong elder. After killing the elder with a rebounding force and trapping the fleeing women with Space Lockdown, he left them unable to escape.

• Jiang Donghua sensed killing intent and concealed watchers as he searched the valley.
• Four women surrounded Jiang Donghua and demanded his herbs and Storage Ring while their Eight-star Dou Zong elder crept behind him with a poisoned dagger.
• The elder's dagger struck an invisible barrier, and the rebounding force killed him instantly.
• Jiang Donghua demanded to know the women's faction, but they fled in four directions.
• Jiang Donghua used Space Lockdown to stop the women from escaping.

Jiang Donghua killed the four women and looted their Storage Rings before finding the Seven-Colored Moon Orchid in a frozen valley. As he reached to pick it, the ice walls revealed themselves as the hide of a colossal magical beast, with the orchid growing atop its head.

• Jiang Donghua used the spatial lockdown to behead the four women, then searched the five corpses' Storage Rings and found little of value.
• Jiang Donghua searched the valley for several hours and found the Seven-Colored Moon Orchid in an ice-wall crevice.
• Jiang Donghua scanned and struck the surrounding ice to check for hidden spaces, then reached for the orchid.
• A colossal beast stirred beneath the ice, opened eight enormous yellow eyes, and revealed that the valley's ice walls were its hide.
• Jiang Donghua saw the Seven-Colored Moon Orchid growing like a crown atop the beast's head.

Jiang Donghua used his Dou Zun strength, spatial abilities, and Treasure Seeking Ruler to sweep through the Pill Realm for medicinal herbs and other treasures. As the ten-day limit approached, his Storage Ring held more than a thousand herbs, including rare ingredients for ninth-tier pills.

• Jiang Donghua quickly found the required Dragon Blood Lingzhi and Seven-Colored Moon Orchid, along with many other rare herbs, by teleporting across the Pill Realm.
• Jiang Donghua killed magical beasts that attacked him, while intelligent beasts fled from his presence; he did not rob other contestants.
• Jiang Donghua used the Treasure Seeking Ruler to locate more treasures and gathered anything valuable he found.
• Contestants spread rumors that an old Dou Zun was roaming the Pill Realm, causing others to flee whenever Jiang Donghua appeared.
• As the ten-day limit neared, Jiang Donghua counted more than a thousand herbs in his Storage Ring, including several rare ingredients for ninth-tier medicinal pills.

Jiang Donghua passed the Pill Realm inspection with three exceptionally potent herbs and entered the plaza for the final Pill Gathering competition. He reunited with Mu Qingxian’s gaze as the vast venue and its prepared alchemy platforms came into view.

• The Pill Tower elder inspected contestants’ task jade slips and herbs, expelling those who tried to cheat.
• Jiang Donghua submitted the Dragon Blood Lingzhi, Seven-Colored Moon Orchid, and Nine-Heart Soul Infant Fruit, and the elder approved his materials.
• The elder remarked that Jiang Donghua seemed to have found the Pill Realm interesting, then let him pass to the alchemy plaza.
• Jiang Donghua entered the crowded plaza and saw Mu Qingxian waiting in the VIP section; they exchanged reassuring looks.
• Jiang Donghua turned toward the more than a thousand stone platforms, each equipped with a standardized medicinal cauldron.

Jiang Donghua saw Venerable Shi Yu display the seventeenth-ranked Volcanic Rock Flame at the Pill Gathering finals, then began refining herbs in his Greenwood King Cauldron with his own blue flames. On the eighth day, dark clouds and rolling thunder gathered above the venue, bringing a powerful pressure from heaven and earth.

• Jiang Donghua recognized Venerable Shi Yu’s Volcanic Rock Flame and learned that the red-robed elder was an Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster from the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect.
• Spectators and rival alchemists reacted to Venerable Shi Yu’s Heavenly Flame and his apparent advantage in the championship contest.
• Jiang Donghua surveyed the other rare flames at the venue, then placed his Greenwood King Cauldron on his platform and began refining medicinal herbs with blue flames.
• The finals continued for eight days before dark clouds gathered overhead, thunder rolled, and a heavy pressure descended on the venue.

As the Pill Gathering finals dwindled to a handful of contestants, Jiang Donghua neared completion of his Grade 8 Pill, drawing the Pill Tower leaders’ suspicion about his origins. On the thirteenth day, his cauldron released immense medicinal energy and terrifying pill lightning gathered above the plaza, beginning with crimson red.

• The finals narrowed from more than a thousand contestants to about forty, most refining high-grade Grade 7 or Grade 8 Pills.
• Xuan Kongzi, Fairy Suxin, and Flame Venerable discussed Jiang Donghua’s unusual mastery and speculated that the Soul Hall might have secretly cultivated him.
• Jiang Donghua remained unaware of their suspicions and steadily continued the final fusion of medicinal energy in his cauldron.
• Two days later, on the thirteenth day of the finals, the Greenwood King Cauldron glowed as immense medicinal energy surged from within.
• Dark clouds gathered over the plaza, and spectators realized Jiang Donghua was about to finish his pill as the first crimson color of pill lightning appeared.

Jiang Donghua effortlessly banished the eight-colored pill lightning, revealing himself as a peak six-star Dou Zun and an Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster. The Pill Tower's leaders stopped suspecting him of serving the Soul Hall after Mu Qingxian announced that he was Sound Valley's Martial Uncle, though they remained eager to investigate his identity.

• Jiang Donghua tore open a Space Rift and sent the eight-colored pill lightning into the void.
• Flame Venerable, Xuan Kongzi, and Fairy Suxin realized Jiang Donghua was a peak six-star Dou Zun and suspected he was an agent of the Soul Hall.
• Mu Qingxian shouted that Jiang Donghua was her Martial Uncle and that he represented Sound Valley.
• Fairy Suxin ordered an elder to investigate Mu Qingxian and Sound Valley's recent movements.
• The Pill Tower's leaders reconsidered their suspicions, and Jiang Donghua heard Mu Qingxian's excited cry as he prepared to descend.

Jiang Donghua’s pill spirit emerged as an eight-colored dragon, confirming the overwhelming power of his pill. Xuan Kongzi declared him the Pill Gathering champion, and the victory sent waves of excitement through Sacred Pill City and the Central Plains.

• The remaining grandmasters completed their pills, with Venerable Shi Yu producing Four-Colored Pill Lightning and the others producing Three-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xuan Kongzi, Fairy Suxin, and Flame Venerable agreed that Jiang Donghua was the clear champion.
• Jiang Donghua’s jade bottle opened, and an eight-colored dragon-shaped pill spirit emerged before returning to the bottle.
• The other alchemists’ pills trembled and dimmed in the presence of Jiang Donghua’s pill spirit.
• Xuan Kongzi announced Jiang Donghua of Sound Valley as the Pill Gathering champion, prompting cheers across Sacred Pill City.

Hong Ling learned that Jiang Donghua had won the Pill Gathering and was searching for her, so she prepared to travel with their child to Sacred Pill City. The chapter then shifted to an old man refining pills in Mo City, without revealing his identity.

• Hong Ling learned from a jade slip that Jiang Donghua had become an Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster and offered a Grade 8 Supreme Pill for information about her and Mo Xuan.
• Hong Ling decided to leave her secluded home and travel north with her child to find Jiang Donghua.
• Hong Ling ordered her four maidservants to conceal their identities and erase any traces of their destination.
• In Mo City on the Southeast Continent, an old man in coarse linen refined pills while humming.

Jiang Donghua visited the Pill Tower’s Treasure Pavilion to claim his Pill Gathering championship rewards and selected a High-grade Heaven Tier fire cultivation method. After Flame Venerable welcomed him as an ally against Soul Hall, Jiang Donghua considered choosing Heaven Tier battle skills as well.

• Jiang Donghua entered the Pill Tower’s Treasure Pavilion and surveyed its vast collection of cultivation methods, battle skills, and pill formulas.
• Jiang Donghua chose the High-grade Heaven Tier fire-attribute Burning Heaven Fierce Sun Art.
• Flame Venerable praised Jiang Donghua’s choice and offered him the friendship and protection of the Pill Tower’s leaders.
• Flame Venerable explained that Jiang Donghua had earned the Pill Tower’s trust by handing over the soul bodies of Soul Hall’s Seventh Heavenly Venerate, Xu Jinchuan, and Fifth Heavenly Venerate after killing them.
• Flame Venerable advised Jiang Donghua to consider choosing Heaven Tier battle skills while warning him about their difficulty, and Jiang Donghua weighed the options.

After six months of refining pills in the Pill Tower, Jiang Donghua received two Storage Rings bearing a familiar Soul Force aura. Hong Ling had arrived at the tower and waited for him to recognize the tokens.

• Jiang Donghua spent six months refining high-tier pills while awaiting news of Mo Xuan and Hong Ling.
• Hong Ling approached the Pill Tower and asked the guards to deliver two Storage Rings to Jiang Donghua.
• A guard took the rings inside and reported Hong Ling's request to Jiang Donghua.
• Jiang Donghua sensed a Soul Force aura he could never forget on the rings and stiffened in shock.

Jiang Donghua reunited with his wife Hong Ling outside the Pill Tower after believing she had died, and took her away through a Space Rift. As they traveled, Hong Ling became anxious about the vast difference between their strengths and wondered whether she was still worthy of him.

• Jiang Donghua appeared before Hong Ling, recognized her, and embraced her as his wife.
• Jiang Donghua and Hong Ling kissed until the watching guards and passersby cheered, and he publicly declared that she was his properly married wife.
• Jiang Donghua took Hong Ling by the hand, opened a Space Rift, and carried her away from the crowd.
• Hong Ling realized Jiang Donghua was a powerful Dou Venerate and an Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster, while she was only a three-star Dou Emperor.
• Hong Ling clutched Jiang Donghua's robe and worried that their difference in strength meant she was no longer worthy of him.