Recaps

Fourth Heavenly Venerate ordered Xu Jinchuan to abandon his pursuit of Jiang Donghua and Mu Qingxian while Soul Hall prepared for a suspected Dou Sheng Relic. On the way to Sound Valley, Mu Qingxian revealed that the valley had secretly lost its Half Saint ancestor and was close to collapse, leaving Jiang Donghua to consider how he could use the crisis to his advantage.

• Fourth Heavenly Venerate rebuked Xu Jinchuan, set aside the matter of Sound Valley and Jiang Donghua, and ordered Soul Hall to prepare for the Dou Sheng Relic.
• Xu Jinchuan accepted the order but vowed to take revenge on Jiang Donghua and Mu Qingxian after recovering and gaining an opportunity in the relic.
• Mu Qingxian told Jiang Donghua that Sound Valley's only active powerful elder was herself, while its other elders were near death or sealed away.
• The Sect Master of Five Poisons questioned how Soul Hall could attack while Old Man Tianyin remained, and Mu Qingxian revealed that Ancestor Tianyin had died a century earlier.
• Mu Qingxian asked Jiang Donghua and the Sect Master of Five Poisons to keep the secret, and both agreed.
• Jiang Donghua considered Sound Valley's weakness a potential opportunity and resolved to gain enough strength to protect it from Soul Hall and other powers.

Mu Qingxian asked Jiang Donghua why he had saved Sound Valley, and he vaguely claimed a connection to one of its ancestors. After returning to Sound Valley, she introduced him as her savior and ordered the sect to treat the Soul Hall ambush as its highest secret.

• Mu Qingxian asked Jiang Donghua why he had rescued Sound Valley, and he said he had ties to one of its ancestors.
• The Sect Master of Five Poisons feared that Sound Valley was too weak to protect him from the Soul Hall, but he concealed his doubts from Jiang Donghua and Mu Qingxian.
• Mu Qingxian and her companions arrived in Sound Valley, where Mu Yu and Mu Yun initially suspected the Sect Master of Five Poisons of injuring their Valley Master.
• Mu Qingxian explained that Jiang Donghua had saved her from the Soul Hall and that the Sect Master of Five Poisons had helped restrain their enemy, prompting the two elders to apologize to Jiang Donghua.
• Mu Qingxian ordered Mu Yu and Mu Yun to prepare the Heavenly Sound Hall and classify the ambush as the sect's highest secret.

Jiang Donghua reassured the Sect Master of Five Poisons, then privately asked Mu Qingxian about Sound Valley’s Supreme Pills and revealed that he had inherited part of Venerate Huanhai’s legacy. Mu Qingxian realized his connection to Sound Valley’s lost patriarch and ended the chapter trusting him as the sect’s powerful protector.

• Jiang Donghua reassured the Sect Master of Five Poisons that he would honor his promise and told him to wait while he and Mu Qingxian went to the Heavenly Sound Hall.
• Mu Qingxian noticed Jiang Donghua seemed unusually familiar with Sound Valley’s hall and its ancient carvings.
• Jiang Donghua asked Mu Qingxian whether anyone in Sound Valley could still refine Supreme Pills and offered to make some if the sect gathered the herbs.
• Mu Qingxian asked how Jiang Donghua knew the secret pill formula, and he said he could refine Supreme Pills.
• Jiang Donghua told Mu Qingxian that he was half a disciple of Venerate Huanhai because he had received part of the vanished patriarch’s inheritance, and asked her to keep the matter secret.

Jiang Donghua proved his connection to Venerate Huanhai by awakening Sound Valley’s Heart-Questioning Stone, earning Mu Qingxian’s complete trust. In the Medicine Vault Secret Realm, Mu Qingxian revealed that Sound Valley lacked skilled alchemists to turn its immense medicinal stores into strength, and Jiang Donghua recognized an opportunity.

• Mu Qingxian brought Jiang Donghua to the Heart-Questioning Stone and asked him to prove his claim to Venerate Huanhai’s inheritance.
• Jiang Donghua sent Venerate Huanhai’s soul imprint into the stone, which erupted in blue light and confirmed the inheritance.
• Mu Qingxian welcomed Jiang Donghua as Sound Valley’s own and told him how difficult it was to protect the weakened sect.
• Mu Qingxian opened the Medicine Vault Secret Realm and showed Jiang Donghua its vast stores of rare medicinal herbs.
• Mu Qingxian explained that Sound Valley had too few high-rank alchemists to process its herbs, and Jiang Donghua decided the problem suited him.

Jiang Donghua chose the Greenwood King Cauldron from Sound Valley’s medicinal treasury and prepared to refine Grade 8 Supreme Pills for the valley. With Mu Qingxian providing the herbs and a secluded chamber, he began the challenging refinement.

• Jiang Donghua inspected Sound Valley’s Eighth-tier medicine cauldrons and selected the Greenwood King Cauldron.
• Mu Qingxian explained that the cauldron enhanced pills for healing, strengthening foundations, restoring vital essence, and aiding breakthroughs.
• Jiang Donghua asked Mu Qingxian to prepare herbs for the Supreme Pill and find him a secure, quiet room for refining.
• Mu Qingxian supplied three sets of Supreme Pill materials and led Jiang Donghua to the Quiet Heart Hall.
• Jiang Donghua expanded the Greenwood King Cauldron in the hall and began refining a Grade 8 Pill.

Jiang Donghua spent half a month refining a Supreme Pill in Quiet Heart Hall, overcoming the complex fusion process to produce a Grade 8 Three-Colored Supreme Pill. Sound Valley’s protective formation neutralized the pill lightning, and Jiang Donghua officially became an Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster.

• Jiang Donghua refined White Jade Stone and dozens of other rare ingredients in the Greenwood King Cauldron over several days.
• Jiang Donghua fused the medicinal essences and shaped them into a Supreme Pill as Mu Qingxian, Mu Yu, Mu Yun, and Sound Valley’s alchemist elder waited outside.
• The finished pill summoned Three-Colored Pill Lightning, alarming the disciples and spectators across Sound Valley.
• Sound Valley’s protective formation neutralized the pill lightning before it could damage Quiet Heart Hall.
• Jiang Donghua stored the Three-Colored Supreme Pill and officially entered the ranks of Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmasters.

Jiang Donghua successfully refined a sentient Three-Colored Supreme Pill and gave it to the Sect Master of Five Poisons as promised. He agreed to refine pills publicly at Sound Valley’s Heavenly Sound Platform, where he began another demonstration before the valley’s leaders and disciples.

• Jiang Donghua emerged from half a month of seclusion with the sealed Three-Colored Supreme Pill, and Mu Qingxian accepted it before returning it for him to deliver to Five Poisons.
• Jiang Donghua gave the pill to the Sect Master of Five Poisons, who thanked him and pledged his life in gratitude.
• Mu Qingxian asked Jiang Donghua to refine pills in an open area to display Sound Valley’s support, and he agreed to use the Heavenly Sound Platform.
• Several days later, Jiang Donghua began refining pills publicly at the platform as Sound Valley’s elders, alchemists, and core disciples watched.

Jiang Donghua refined a Grade 8 pill that summoned Four-Colored Pill Lightning, prompting nearby factions to believe Sound Valley had gained a Half Saint and a top-tier alchemist. After Jiang Donghua collected the pill and lightning, Mu Qingxian prepared to use the renewed prestige to strengthen Sound Valley’s position while concealing the truth.

• Jiang Donghua’s Four-Colored Pill Lightning spread across the region after Mu Qingxian and the elders activated Sound Valley’s sound-amplifying formation.
• Nearby powerful figures mistook the pill lightning for proof that Venerable Xuan Yin Mu Yunshan had emerged from seclusion as a Half Saint and an Eighth-grade Alchemist Grandmaster.
• Jiang Donghua opened a Space Rift to absorb the lightning, then restrained the newly formed four-colored fawn and sealed it into a jade bottle as a pill.
• Jiang Donghua gave the pill to Mu Qingxian and warned that surrounding factions would soon visit Sound Valley with gifts while probing for information.
• Mu Qingxian welcomed the expected visitors and vowed to reinforce Sound Valley’s standing without revealing anything they should not know.

After Jiang Donghua refined a pill that summoned Four-Colored Pill Lightning, Mu Qingxian used the spectacle to make Sound Valley appear to have an unknown, powerful alchemist grandmaster among its ranks. The surrounding Dou Zun factions accepted the rumor and increased their offerings, leaving Mu Qingxian pleased with Sound Valley’s renewed influence.

• Dou Zong family heads arrived at Sound Valley with gifts, assuming Venerable Xuan Yin had caused the Four-Colored Pill Lightning, but Sound Valley’s gate stewards hinted that another senior expert was responsible.
• Faction representatives confirmed that Elder Han Ye had not refined the pill, and rumors spread that Sound Valley concealed an unknown alchemist grandmaster.
• Dou Zun powers investigated and grew wary when Mu Qingxian referred to the mysterious expert as her Martial Uncle.
• Several Dou Zun leaders met through soul transmissions and agreed to avoid offending Sound Valley, increase their offerings, and seek an audience with the grandmaster.
• Dou Zun delegations arrived with more lavish gifts, and Mu Qingxian smiled as she heard that the factions had increased and expedited their offerings.

Jiang Donghua searched Sound Valley’s Cultivation Method Pavilion for a Fire-attribute Heaven Tier cultivation method and chose the Nine Revolutions Phoenix Cry Art. After quickly memorizing it, he made it his main cultivation method, leaving his idle gain at 27 points per hour.

• Jiang Donghua asked Mu Qingxian whether Sound Valley’s Scripture Depository held any Fire-attribute Heaven Tier cultivation methods, and she took him to the Cultivation Method Pavilion.
• Jiang Donghua examined several Low-grade Heaven Tier fire arts but found their specialized sound, venom, and other effects poorly suited to his needs.
• Mu Qingxian explained that Sound Valley’s collection reflected its founding tradition of sound and rhythm, and Jiang Donghua chose the Nine Revolutions Phoenix Cry Art.
• Jiang Donghua studied the jade slip in his quiet chamber and memorized the cultivation method in about the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• Jiang Donghua made the Nine Revolutions Phoenix Cry Art his main cultivation method, while his nine clones continued to generate 27 points per hour in total.

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.