Recaps

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.

Jiang Donghua brought Hong Ling to confront Venerable Ming Gu and Ming Feng, the former Xuan Ming Sect leaders responsible for her family's destruction. Hong Ling killed them and slaughtered the sect's surviving prisoners, then found relief as Jiang Donghua comforted her.

• Jiang Donghua showed Hong Ling the chained Venerable Ming Gu and Ming Feng and asked how she wanted them punished.
• Venerable Ming Gu begged for mercy while Ming Feng blamed and attacked his father.
• Hong Ling rejected further torment and killed Venerable Ming Gu and Ming Feng with a lightning saber.
• Hong Ling slaughtered the more than three thousand Xuan Ming Sect remnants in the valley as Jiang Donghua watched over her.
• After the massacre, Hong Ling felt empty but relieved, and Jiang Donghua put an arm around her and told her it was over.

Jiang Donghua built a peaceful life with Hong Ling and their son while rising to the peak of the Dou Saint realm and overseeing Sound Valley. After more than a century without news of his master, Mo Xuan, Jiang Donghua learned that Mo Xuan had arrived at the valley and rushed to greet him.

• Jiang Donghua met his newborn son for the first time and vowed to protect him and Hong Ling.
• Jiang Donghua searched for Mo Xuan without success while studying alchemy and helping Sound Valley grow in prestige.
• Jiang Donghua heard that Yao Chen had won the Pill Assembly, then later learned that Yao Chen had died in a furnace explosion and Han Feng had disappeared.
• Jiang Donghua and Hong Ling led Sound Valley to become the Northwest Region's undisputed power while Jiang Donghua reached the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm.
• The chief steward elder reported that an old man named Mo Xuan was waiting outside Sound Valley and claimed to be Jiang Donghua's master.
• Jiang Donghua dropped his teacup and hurried toward the valley entrance to greet Mo Xuan.

After the Spirit Clan vanished overnight, Jiang Donghua believed the incident heralded a continent-wide upheaval and set out to seek the Origin Qi needed to reach the Dou Di realm. He quietly left Sound Valley for the area near the former Jia Nan Academy, while Hong Ling and Mu Qingxian stayed behind to protect the valley.

• The Spirit Clan and its clan grounds disappeared, and investigators sent to the Spirit Realm never returned.
• Jiang Donghua told Hong Ling, Mo Xuan, and Mu Qingxian that the Spirit Clan’s disappearance was the prelude to a greater upheaval.
• Jiang Donghua revealed that he had reached the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm but needed Origin Qi to break through to Dou Di.
• Jiang Donghua told Hong Ling he planned to seek an opportunity near the former Jia Nan Academy, and she and Mu Qingxian agreed to safeguard Sound Valley.
• Several days later, Jiang Donghua left Sound Valley quietly and headed toward the Black Corner Region without going directly to Jia Nan Academy.

Jiang Donghua accepted the snake Dou Zong’s medicinal herbs and treasures as compensation, then questioned her about the region. After hearing her limited information and rewarding her with pills, he sent her away and ordered her to stay clear of his valley.

• The snake Dou Zong returned to Jiang Donghua’s valley with her accumulated treasures and apologized for stealing his medicinal herbs.
• Jiang Donghua accepted the Storage Ring and asked which magical beast clan she belonged to, but she did not know what a clan was.
• Jiang Donghua asked about unusual events and powerful visitors in the mountain range, and the snake Dou Zong mentioned rumors of a conflict involving Jia Nan Academy near the Black Corner Region.
• Jiang Donghua gave the snake Dou Zong a bottle of Sixth-grade Pills for her information and ordered her not to approach the valley without being summoned.
• The snake Dou Zong thanked Jiang Donghua and withdrew.

Jiang Donghua concealed his strength while fighting a Soul Clan Venerable as the battle at Jia Nan Academy raged around him. When an ancient aura awakened from the magma abyss, the combatants stopped and the Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion began to emerge, signaling Zhu Kun’s imminent release.

• Jiang Donghua feigned difficulty against a Soul Clan three-star Peak Dou Zun while secretly judging the Venerable’s techniques.
• Hun Tiandi’s palm opened a ten-thousand-zhang magma abyss, from which an ancient, overwhelming aura began to spread.
• The aura halted the battlefield and forced Gu Yuan and Nihility Devouring Flame to pause their fight.
• Jiang Donghua recognized the aura as the emergence of the Tou She Ancient God’s Cave Mansion and retreated with the Yan Clan allied forces, expecting Zhu Kun to appear.
• A colossal boom erupted as the ancient aura reached its peak.