Chapter Summaries

Yang Chan and Lu Feng completed their Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pills during the pill fight, and both produced premium pills. Yang Chan’s display of talent under pressure left the observers convinced that he could surpass established pharmacists, while the final comparison of their pills remained pending.

• Yang Chan concealed his cultivation and managed the quality of his pills while refining under the spectators’ scrutiny.
• Qiu Feizhang and Yuwen Ze watched the final pill-forming process, each reflecting on what Yang Chan’s technique and progress revealed.
• Yang Chan and Lu Feng both formed premium pills, and pill aura drifted from their furnaces.
• Qiu Feizhang recognized Yang Chan as a true pharmacist prodigy and judged that the pill fight could accelerate Yang Chan’s rise.
• Yuwen Ze and Lu Feng felt the gap between Yang Chan and themselves, while Lu Feng held onto the hope that his pills might still be of higher quality.
• Yang Chan and Lu Feng waited for their furnaces to cool before removing the pills and determining the winner.

Yang Chan and Lu Feng’s pill duel ended with Yang Chan’s Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pill reaching perfect grade, decisively defeating Lu Feng’s pill. Lu Feng inspected the result and saw the vast gap between their abilities.

• Yang Chan and Lu Feng each presented a Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pill for the judges to assess.
• The assistants examined Lu Feng’s pill and rated its quality at eighty-five, praising his steady performance.
• An assistant inspected Yang Chan’s pill and discovered that its quality had reached ninety, the Pill Pavilion’s perfect-grade threshold.
• Shen Mingxiu announced Yang Chan as the victor, with his pill rated ninety and Lu Feng’s rated eighty-five.
• Lu Feng rushed to inspect Yang Chan’s pill and turned pale after recognizing the difference in quality.

Yang Chan won the pill duel by refining a perfect-grade Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pill, drawing attention from across the Pill Pavilion. After returning to Yuanqing Courtyard, he planned how to use his new reputation and resources while preparing defenses against possible rivals.

• Yang Chan's perfect-grade pill astonished Lu Feng, Qiu Feizhang, and Yuwen Ze, who recognized his exceptional alchemy skill.
• Xu Gaocen and others congratulated Yang Chan, and a crowd praised him after his victory.
• Yang Chan returned to the Spiritual Medicine Tower, where Han Bingyu helped receive visitors until they dispersed at night.
• Yang Chan planned to use his reputation to acquire Spiritual Materials and ancient books, advance his alchemy, and stockpile materials for Azure Marrow Cleansing Pills.
• Yang Chan decided to obtain a protective formation and have Han Bingyu watch Qiu Feizhang, Yuwen Ze, and other potential threats.

Yang Chan won his pill duel against Lu Feng by refining a perfect-grade Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pill, drawing the Tianxuan Saintess’s interest and unsettling Gongye Zhe. The Saintess moved to meet Yang Chan and curb Gongye Zhe’s harassment while weighing the danger of restoring the Bloodline Sacrifice Array.

• Yang Chan stayed up late reviewing the Alchemy Pavilion’s reactions and invested most of his refreshed Potential Points in his Pharmacist profession.
• Elder Xu Ling reported Yang Chan’s perfect-grade victory to the Tianxuan Saintess, who decided to meet him and tell him Gongye Zhe would stop troubling him.
• Liao Leng Hui reported that Baili Xi was seeking support to restore the Bloodline Sacrifice Array while Gongye Zhe opposed the plan by citing the danger posed by the Earth Demon aliens.
• The Tianxuan Saintess concluded that the Holy Land’s safety took priority and resolved to make her opposition to Baili Xi’s plan clear.
• Zhao Zizhen told Gongye Zhe that Lu Feng had lost to Yang Chan, and Gongye Zhe accepted that Lu Feng had not lost unjustly before Zhao asked whether they should keep targeting Yang Chan.

Gongye Zhe abandoned his immediate plans to target Yang Chan and instead moved against Baili Xi over the Bloodline Sacrifice Array. As conflict spread to Holy Lord Peak and drew in a Supreme Elder, Yang Chan prepared to meet the Tianxuan Saintess and learn more about the growing struggle.

• Gongye Zhe decided not to target Yang Chan further for now, but ordered Zhao Zizhen to keep gathering information about him.
• Gu An told Yang Chan that the Tianxuan Saintess wanted to meet him at the Saintess Pavilion the next morning, and assured him Gongye Zhe would not trouble him again.
• Han Bingyu told Yang Chan that Gongye Zhe had confronted Baili Xi over repairing the Bloodline Sacrifice Array in the Demon Cave ruins.
• Han Bingyu reported that the dispute had become serious enough for a Supreme Elder to appear and was unfolding on Holy Lord Peak.
• Yang Chan recognized that the array dispute was entangled with the Holy Land's succession struggle and decided he needed to learn more from the Tianxuan Saintess.

Yang Chan assessed the growing struggle over Tianxuan Holy Land’s leadership and resolved to rely on pill refinement and cultivation to protect himself. He and Gu An arrived at Saintess Pavilion to meet the Tianxuan Saintess, where they were told to wait while she attended to other matters.

• Han Bingyu told Yang Chan that the Supreme Elders had become involved in the Bloodline Sacrifice Array matter, but she had no news from Holy Lord Peak.
• Yang Chan considered how the conflict between the Tianxuan Holy Son, Baili Xi, and the Tianxuan Saintess could involve the whole holy land, and concluded that becoming a Top Alchemist was his best protection.
• Yang Chan set aside his worries and went to refine pills, aiming to improve his pill-refining ability and cultivation.
• Yang Chan and Gu An arrived at Saintess Pavilion, registered their information, and were assigned Xiao Yue to guide them inside.
• Steward Li told Yang Chan and Gu An that the Tianxuan Saintess was occupied and they would need to wait before meeting her.

Yang Chan and Gu An met with the Tianxuan Saintess, who reassured them that Martial Saint factions would fight away from Tongtian Wushang Mountain and rewarded Gu An. She praised Yang Chan’s growing alchemy skill and political judgment, leaving their relationship closer as she considered how much his actions had benefited her side.

• Gu An told Yang Chan that the factions’ first negotiations over the Bloodline Sacrifice Array had nearly turned violent, but Martial Saint conflicts could be settled inside the Xuanxu Grotto-heaven.
• A maid summoned Gu An and Yang Chan to meet the Tianxuan Saintess, who awarded Gu An five Internal Refinement-level spiritual pills for his work.
• Yang Chan credited his progress to Third-level Alchemist in part to entering the Zixu Secret Realm under the Saintess’s leadership.
• The Tianxuan Saintess praised Yang Chan for his handling of the Spiritual Medicine Tower and for delaying Gongye Zhe’s alchemy challenge until he could refine perfect-grade Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pills.
• The Tianxuan Saintess reflected on how Yang Chan had exceeded her expectations and strengthened her position within the Tianxuan Holy Land.

Yang Chan reassured himself about the Holy Lord Peak dispute, gathered intelligence from Han Bingyu, and strengthened his relationship with the Tianxuan Saintess. At Holy Lord Peak, Baili Xi and the Array Masters could only wait while the Supreme Elders decided whether to restore or destroy the incomplete Bloodline Sacrifice Array.

• The Tianxuan Saintess praised Yang Chan, gave him copied ancient alchemy texts, and hoped to rely on his pills in the future.
• Yang Chan learned that conflicts among Blood-Changing experts would be settled at the Sacred Cliff Battlefield, then returned to Yuanqing Courtyard and reviewed what he had learned.
• Han Bingyu delivered intelligence about Holy Lord Peak, and Yang Chan asked her to investigate the Sacred Cliff Battlefield while telling her not to overwork herself.
• Yang Chan reassured Han Bingyu that the Holy Lord Peak dispute would soon pass and asked her to prepare hot water for his bath.
• At Holy Lord Peak, Luo Hongguang and the other Array Masters urged Baili Xi not to abandon their study of the incomplete Bloodline Sacrifice Array.
• Baili Xi said only the Supreme Elders could decide the array’s fate, and he blamed Gongye Zhe for provoking the dispute.

Baili Xi used support for repairing the Bloodline Sacrifice Array to win over Supreme Elders and their Array Masters while directing opposition toward Gongye Zhe. At Yuanqing Courtyard, Yang Chan successfully refined his first Azure Marrow Cleansing Pill, bringing him closer to becoming a Top Alchemist, and celebrated with Princess Lanyue.

• Baili Xi explained how promoting the Bloodline Sacrifice Array repair could earn him the support of elderly Supreme Elders in the Tianxuan Holy Master succession struggle.
• Baili Xi blamed Gongye Zhe for opposing the repair and urged the Array Masters to keep studying the incomplete array; Luo Hongguang and the other Array Masters pledged their support.
• Yang Chan persisted through another attempt to refine an Azure Marrow Cleansing Pill while Princess Lanyue watched, and he successfully produced one of acceptable quality.
• Yang Chan said that refining a fine-quality Azure Marrow Cleansing Pill would bring him to the peak of Senior Alchemist, while Princess Lanyue praised his progress and helped him relax.
• Yang Chan and Princess Lanyue left the alchemy room together, and she stayed overnight with him.

The Tianxuan Holy Land’s Supreme Elders debated whether to destroy, restore, or study the incomplete Bloodline Sacrifice Array in the Demon Cave, weighing the danger of foreign intervention against the chance to investigate and eliminate the Earth Demons. The somewhat plump Supreme Elder proposed using the array as bait and keeping Array Masters there, but the council had not reached a decision by the chapter’s end.

• The somewhat plump Supreme Elder argued that the Bloodline Sacrifice Array was the Holy Land’s best chance to leave the Taiyu Divine Continent and urged the council not to abandon it.
• The lean Supreme Elder warned that restoring the array could let the Earth Demons summon powerful foreign experts and destroy the Tianxuan Holy Land, so he called for the array to be destroyed.
• Another Supreme Elder supported destroying the array, while a war faction member proposed using it to lure out the Earth Demons and wipe them out.
• Several Supreme Elders argued that the Holy Land should avoid a premature war and continue growing stronger before confronting the Earth Demons.
• The somewhat plump Supreme Elder proposed preserving the array as bait to investigate the Earth Demons and possibly eliminate them, while allowing Array Masters to study it.
• The lean Supreme Elder again warned that the Earth Demons might restore the array and summon stronger beings, but the war faction member backed using it to settle the threat once and for all.

Yang Chan learned that Tianxuan Holy Land would send its forces into the Demon Cave to eradicate the Earth Demon race, and he arranged support for Chiyu Peak while preparing to refine Recovery Spirit Pills. Gu An told him the expedition would test the Holy Son and Saintess candidates, then decided to enter the Demon Cave himself to support Tianxuan Saintess and advance his own prospects.

• Han Bingyu told Yang Chan that Tianxuan Holy Land was mobilizing its peaks for a major campaign against the Earth Demon race, with Pill Pavilion assigned to provide cultivation resources and pills.
• Yang Chan sent Han Bingyu to offer Chiyu Peak pills and went to find Gu An to learn about Tianxuan Saintess's arrangements.
• Gu An gave Yang Chan the formula for Recovery Spirit Pills and asked him to refine a batch of healing pills for the expedition.
• Gu An told Yang Chan that Tianxuan Saintess, Tianxuan Holy Son, and the other candidates would enter the Demon Cave, where their performance could affect the contest for Holy Master.
• Gu An said he planned to enter the Demon Cave and help Tianxuan Saintess so he could distinguish himself and secure further support for his Martial Cultivation.

Yang Chan began refining Recovery Spirit Pills to support Tianxuan Holy Land’s planned assault on the Earth Demon race in the Demon Cave. After failing once and reviewing his technique with Princess Lanyue, he succeeded on his third attempt and continued pursuing premium-grade pills for the Tianxuan Saintess.

• Yang Chan learned that Tianxuan Holy Land had begun preparing to attack the Earth Demon race and that Gu An had returned to Chiyu Peak to arrange the Medicine Hall before entering the Demon Cave.
• Yang Chan entered the pill refinement room, where Princess Lanyue explained what she remembered about refining Recovery Spirit Pills.
• Yang Chan studied pill-refining records and attempted the recipe, but his first batch failed after he underestimated the process.
• Princess Lanyue identified possible mistakes, and Yang Chan adjusted his technique and successfully refined acceptable-grade Recovery Spirit Pills on his third attempt.
• Yang Chan declined Princess Lanyue’s offer to refine pills and asked her to help identify problems as he worked toward producing premium-grade Recovery Spirit Pills for the Tianxuan Saintess.

Yang Chan refined fine-grade Recovery Spirit Pills for Tianxuan Holy Land’s campaign against the Earth Demons, while postponing his own pill research. As the first group prepared to enter the Demon Cave, he declined to send his people inside and discussed the Holy Land’s plans and array research with the Black Dragon.

• Gu An praised Yang Chan’s Recovery Spirit Pills and took the batch to the Tianxuan Saintess, noting that the first Demon Cave group would face extreme danger.
• Yang Chan reflected that refining Recovery Spirit Pills would delay his work on the Water Rhyme Marrow-Returning Pill and his progress toward becoming a Top Alchemist.
• Han Bingyu told Yang Chan that the first group would enter the Demon Cave the next day, and Yang Chan gave her pills to deliver to Peak Master Liu Xuan at Chiyu Peak.
• Han Bingyu asked whether Yang Chan wanted to send anyone into the Demon Cave for intelligence, but he refused and said delayed information would suffice.
• The Black Dragon admitted he was struggling to understand array knowledge, and Yang Chan encouraged him to keep studying and considered whether the Demon Cave might contain a complete Bloodline Sacrifice Array.

The Lord of Earth Demons ordered the Third Demon Army to investigate a damaged Bloodline Sacrifice Array in the upper Demon Cave, using the mission to punish the army for its past disobedience. Meanwhile, Yang Chan gave Gu An Recovery Spirit Pills for his coming journey into the Demon Cave.

• Xue Gui told the Lord of Earth Demons that humans had found a damaged Bloodline Sacrifice Array and asked whether the Earth Demons should reclaim it.
• The Lord of Earth Demons suspected a human trap but decided to send the Third Demon Army to test the situation and attempt to retrieve the array.
• The Lord of Earth Demons ordered Xue Gui to summon Si Mo and said he would give the commander a means to recover the array.
• After leaving the Devil Palace, Xue Gui was pleased that the Lord of Earth Demons had chosen the Third Demon Army as his target rather than himself.
• At Yuanqing Courtyard, Gu An inspected Yang Chan’s improved Recovery Spirit Pills, and Yang Chan gave him two bottles for his Demon Cave expedition.

At the newly discovered ruins in the Demon Cave, Tianxuan Holy Land disciples fought Earth Demons attempting to infiltrate, including Si Mo, commander of the Third Demon Army. Meanwhile, Yang Chan planned to expand his alchemy and cultivation, aiming to obtain the Demon Dragon Blood Transformation Art and complete his martial techniques.

• Tianxuan Holy Land disciples guarding the ruins charged to repel an Earth Demon attack.
• A Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster confronted Si Mo as Earth Demon experts tried to slip into the ruins.
• Yang Chan decided to build his stock of Azure Marrow Cleansing Pills and study the Water Rhyme Marrow-Returning Pill.
• Yang Chan planned to refine a third Marrow Cleansing pill, the White Jade Nether Marrow Pill, and become a Top Alchemist.
• Yang Chan resolved to obtain the Demon Dragon Blood Transformation Art, first through the Tianxuan Saintess if possible, or later by exchanging for it himself.

Yang Chan learned that the Demon Cave battle had escalated, with severe casualties and Gu An among those entering, while he continued preparing pills and waiting for his Pharmacist Profession to advance. After it reached Fifth Order: Outstanding at midnight, he gained extensive new knowledge and planned to test the advanced pill-refining techniques the next day.

• Han Bingyu told Yang Chan that more than half of the Holy Land’s first group had died in the Demon Cave and that Gu An would enter with the next group.
• Yang Chan decided to keep monitoring the Demon Cave and prepare more Recovery Spirit Pills while focusing on advancing his Pharmacist Profession.
• Black Dragon admitted that formation studies were beyond him, and Yang Chan sent him back into the Mysterious Yin Hanging Beads.
• At midnight, Yang Chan allocated his Potential Points and advanced Pharmacist from Fourth Order: Proficient to Fifth Order: Outstanding.
• Yang Chan received extensive knowledge of medicines, poisons, venomous insects, and pill-refining techniques, including guidance for refining the White Jade Nether Marrow Pill.
• Yang Chan decided to try the newly learned techniques the next day.

Yang Chan used a special alchemy secret method to refine a higher-quality pill and offered to teach it to Princess Lanyue once her spiritual power was sufficient. Meanwhile, the Tianxuan Saintess’s group withdrew from a demon cavern after discovering the Netherworld River, while the Sixth Demon Army commander faced the arrival of the Fifth Elder.

• Yang Chan refined a Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pill with quality 97 using a special alchemy secret method.
• Yang Chan explained that the method used spiritual power to remove impurities, and Princess Lanyue resolved to improve her cultivation so she could learn it.
• The Tianxuan Saintess sent Gu An into the demon cavern, where he found the Netherworld River and sensed danger growing stronger.
• Li Yuelai warned that Blood-Changing Earth Demon aliens could be near the river, so the Tianxuan Saintess ordered the group to withdraw.
• The Sixth Demon Army commander revealed that he had tried to lure the humans into an ambush, then told the arriving Fifth Elder that they had been too afraid to enter.

Yang Chan hurried to Chiyu Peak after learning that Gu An had returned gravely injured from the Demon Cave. Elder Hua tried acupuncture to wake Gu An, but it failed, leaving his survival uncertain as Yang Chan was expected to examine him next.

• Han Bingyu told Yang Chan that Gu An had returned unconscious and severely injured, so Yang Chan gathered healing pills and arranged for others to manage the Spiritual Medicine Tower.
• Yang Chan and Han Bingyu traveled to Chiyu Peak, where Liu Xuan and an Intermediate Alchemist explained that Gu An's internal injuries were worsening despite a premium-grade Recovery Spirit Pill sustaining him.
• Elder Hua examined Gu An and learned that a Marrow Cleansing Grandmaster Earth Demon had devastated him while he scouted ahead for the Tianxuan Saintess.
• Elder Hua used acupuncture in an attempt to awaken Gu An, but Gu An remained unconscious after a quarter of an hour.
• Elder Hua ordered the needles removed and concluded that Gu An could only wait for death unless Yang Chan found another way to help him.

Yang Chan used the Nine Needles of Miraculous Hands to awaken Gu An and save him from a fatal injury inflicted by Earth Demon aliens. After helping him recover, Yang Chan stayed focused on advancing his alchemy and supporting Tianxuan Holy Land’s campaign against the aliens with pills.

• Yang Chan stopped Elder Hua’s disciples from removing the needles and used healing pills to prepare Gu An for treatment.
• Yang Chan borrowed Elder Hua’s silver needles and used the Nine Needles of Miraculous Hands to awaken Gu An.
• Gu An regained consciousness, took healing pills, and circulated Jiaomo Strength to repair his internal injuries.
• Liu Xuan hosted a banquet to thank Yang Chan and the others, while Elder Hua asked Yang Chan about alchemy and healing.
• Yang Chan decided to keep pursuing the Top Alchemist assessment and avoid entering the Demon Cave, while supporting the campaign by supplying Recovery Spirit Pills.
• Han Bingyu delivered spirit herbs and Pharmacist books from Liu Xuan, and Yang Chan accepted them and arranged to send Recovery Spirit Pills to Chiyu Peak.

Yang Chan struggled to refine the White Jade Nether Marrow Pill, increased his daily Potential Points by making other pills, and arranged to gradually reveal his alchemy skills. In the Demon Cave, the previous Tianxuan Holy Master and the Supreme Elders trapped the wounded Lord of Earth Demons in a human array, and he began a desperate self-destruction attack.

• Yang Chan failed to refine the White Jade Nether Marrow Pill but raised his daily Potential Points to 48.8 by refining other second-stage marrow-cleansing pills.
• Yang Chan gave Han Bingyu Meridian Nourishing Marrow Cleansing Pills and a list of spiritual medicines to exchange for, planning to reveal his alchemy abilities gradually.
• Yang Chan learned that Tianxuan Holy Land and the Earth Demon races had suffered heavy losses in the Demon Cave, including the deaths of Blood-Changing Martial Saint experts.
• The previous Tianxuan Holy Master and several Supreme Elders cornered the wounded Lord of Earth Demons beside underground lava and dismissed his warning that his race's experts would come to the Taiyu Divine Continent.
• The previous Tianxuan Holy Master revealed that the group had used a mobile human array to trap the Lord of Earth Demons, who then unleashed Blood Demon Self-Destruction.