Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xianqi, Lan Yuxin, and Fang Yiyun intervened to save Lin Bai from Li Jiuge, who gave him three months to surrender the Dragon Blood Crystal. After the others left, Lin Bai refused Fang Yiyun’s offer of shelter and chose to remain on Dragon Breeding Island with Lan Yuxin.

• Li Jiuge rejected Zhang Xianqi’s attempt to repay his debt to Lin Bai, but Zhang Xianqi vowed to protect Lin Bai.
• Lan Yuxin arrived and declared that she would protect Lin Bai, then challenged Li Jiuge when he questioned her motives.
• Fang Yiyun appeared, confronted Li Jiuge, and forced him to spare Lin Bai for the time being.
• Li Jiuge gave Lin Bai three months to send the Dragon Blood Crystal to Myriad Stars Island, then left with his followers.
• Zhang Xianqi thanked Lin Bai for the dragon scale, warned him about Li Jiuge, and departed with Zhang Quan.
• Fang Yiyun offered to take Lin Bai to Nine Heavens Island, but Lin Bai refused to leave Dragon Breeding Island.

After Li Jiug e destroyed Dragon Breeding Island and pursued the Dragon Blood Crystal, Lin Bai learned why the powerful Quasi-Holy Son wanted it. The chapter left Lin Bai determined to grow stronger over the next three months and kill Li Jiug e.

• Lin Bai walked through the ruins of Dragon Breeding Island despite his severe wounds, while Lan Yuxin urged him to move to Fang Yiyun’s Nine Heavens Island.
• Lan Yuxin explained that Li Jiug e was one of the Southern Courtyard’s five Quasi-Holy Sons and had powerful allies, exceptional talent, and a father who was an elder of the Order Divine Court.
• Lan Yuxin revealed that Li Jiug e wanted the Dragon Blood Crystal to complete the fourth transformation of the Nine Transformations of the Divine Dragon.
• Lin Bai declared that he would kill Li Jiug e and use the next three months to become strong enough to surprise him.

After Li Jiuge attacked Dragon Breeding Island over Lin Bai’s Dragon Blood Crystals, Lan Yuxin reported the incident to Lan Ling, who chose not to shelter Lin Bai and instead gave him the final six forms of the Dragon Slayer Swordplay. As Lin Bai prepared to leave the ruined island, he discovered a cave where his blood was drawn into a glowing red egg.

• Lan Yuxin thanked Lin Bai for his help, offered him the Lan Clan’s support, and left Dragon Breeding Island.
• Lan Yuxin told Lan Ling how Li Jiuge had attacked Lin Bai over the Dragon Blood Crystals and destroyed Dragon Breeding Island.
• Lan Ling refused to have the Lan Clan protect Lin Bai, calling Li Jiuge a whetstone, and sent Lan Yuxin with a Jade Slip containing the final six forms of the Dragon Slayer Swordplay.
• Lin Bai watched the sunset, restrained his murderous intent, and vowed to wait for Li Jiuge.
• Lin Bai found a newly exposed cave beneath the cliff and discovered that his blood was flowing into a glowing red egg beside several skeletons.
• A startled voice behind Lin Bai asked what the egg was.

Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin were trapped in a cave as a mysterious egg drained their blood, but Lin Bai’s Devouring Sword Soul stopped the suction. The egg hatched into a little red dragon who transformed into a child and called them “Daddy” and “Mommy.”

• Lan Yuxin returned to Dragon Breeding Island and found Lin Bai beside a glowing egg surrounded by bones.
• The egg began draining Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin’s blood, and Lan Yuxin sealed space and time to give Lin Bai a chance to escape.
• Lin Bai refused to leave Lan Yuxin behind and activated his Devouring Sword Soul, causing the egg’s suction to stop.
• The egg cracked open, revealing a little red dragon that flew around Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin before transforming into a little girl.
• The girl hugged Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin’s legs and called them “Daddy” and “Mommy,” leaving them stunned.

Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin discovered that the girl who called them Daddy and Mommy was a dragon named Bao'er, and they learned that her eggshell held her mother's life force. Lin Bai realized the eggshells could greatly strengthen his cultivation, while Bao'er stayed hungry and attached to Lan Yuxin.

• Bao'er clung to Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin, called them Daddy and Mommy, and asked for food.
• Lan Yuxin fed Bao'er pills and named her, while Lin Bai searched the skeletons' Storage Bags and found nothing useful.
• Lin Bai absorbed the power from a piece of eggshell with his Devouring Sword Soul and felt his cultivation advance considerably.
• When Bao'er complained of hunger, Lin Bai gave her eggshell to eat, but she spat it out and cried in Lan Yuxin's arms.
• Lin Bai explained that Bao'er's mother had likely sealed her inside the egg with her life force, leaving the eggshell to nourish her until she hatched.

Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin left the newly born Bao'er on Dragon Breeding Island, where Lin Bai studied the Dragon Slayer Swordplay and refined the eggshells until he broke through to the second stage of the Life Extinction Realm. He later found Bao'er hungry and crying by a pool, realizing he had neglected her need for food.

• Lin Bai and Lan Yuxin agreed to hide Bao'er on Dragon Breeding Island because her dragon heritage could attract dangerous attention.
• Lan Yuxin gave Lin Bai a Jade Slip containing the Dragon Slayer Swordplay formula before leaving to get Bao'er candy.
• Lin Bai healed his injuries, refined two-thirds of Bao'er's eggshells, and advanced to the second stage of the Life Extinction Realm.
• Lin Bai discovered Bao'er had disappeared from the palace and searched Dragon Breeding Island for her.
• Lin Bai found Bao'er by a pool, where she was hungry and crying because she wanted to eat the fish.

Lin Bai left Bao'er on Dragon Breeding Island with a large supply of pills after promising not to abandon her. Determined to repair the island and strengthen its defenses, he headed for the Heavenly Treasure Islands to buy what he needed to refine Cosmos Pills for Bao'er and himself.

• Bao'er ate Lin Bai's Qi Return Pills and told him she had grown hungry as the nourishment inside her egg ran out.
• Lin Bai reassured Bao'er that he would not abandon her, then left her in the palace with piles of pills and promised to bring her tasty candies.
• Lin Bai resolved to stay on Dragon Breeding Island and replace its broken protective formation with a stronger one.
• Lin Bai found a suitable ninth-grade Cosmos Pill in the Great Devil's pill-refining memories and memorized its ingredients and method.
• Lin Bai flew toward the Heavenly Treasure Islands to buy an Alchemy Furnace and spiritual medicines, hoping his remaining spiritual fluid would be enough.

Lin Bai visited the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion on the Heavenly Treasure Islands to find spiritual herbs and an Alchemy Furnace, but found that the furnaces were far beyond his budget. Ling Xiang directed him to the cheaper Blackrock Island black market and warned him that its goods might be stolen from slain owners.

• Lin Bai arrived at the Heavenly Treasure Islands and asked Ling Xiang to help him find spiritual herbs and an Alchemy Furnace.
• Ling Xiang showed Lin Bai the palace of Alchemy Furnaces and explained the qualities and prices of several furnaces.
• Lin Bai realized that the furnaces cost at least ten thousand catties of spirit liquid, far more than he could afford.
• Ling Xiang told Lin Bai that Blackrock Island had a cheaper black market but warned that its goods were often taken from dead martial artists and could bring trouble.
• Ling Xiang explained that alchemists on the Sea of Gods and Demons belonged to either the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion or the Eastern Continent Academy.

Lin Bai learned that uncertified Alchemists could only sell pills through the Black Market, so he went to Blackrock Island to find an Alchemy Furnace. Unable to afford one, he accepted the Black Market’s offer to provide a furnace and herbs in exchange for half the payment from a pill bounty.

• Ling Xiang explained that Alchemists needed certification to sell pills openly and told Lin Bai that the next assessment would take place on Pill Island in a month.
• Lin Bai and Ling Xiang traveled to Blackrock Island and disguised themselves before entering its underground Black Market.
• A Black Market trader told Lin Bai that the cheapest Alchemy Furnace cost eight thousand measures of spirit liquid, beyond his budget.
• The trader offered to supply Lin Bai with an Alchemy Furnace and spiritual herbs if he refined a pill listed on the Black Market’s bounty board, with the reward split evenly.
• Ling Xiang warned Lin Bai to pursue certification as a Heavenly Treasure Alchemist or Academy Alchemist, then left as Lin Bai followed the trader deeper into the Black Market.

Lin Bai entered Black Pill City under the alias Eastern and received an alchemy chamber from the Black Market. A martial artist brought him materials for a Demon Soul Pill, and Lin Bai offered to refine it in three hours.

• Lin Bai followed a black-clad martial artist through Blackrock Island’s passages to Black Pill City, where the man brought him in despite his lack of alchemist certification.
• Lin Bai chose the name Eastern and received a Pill Refining Chamber, a jade tablet, and a Jade Slip containing the Flame Control Art and a city map.
• Lin Bai studied the Jade Slip and mastered the Flame Control Art while waiting to begin refining pills.
• A black-clad martial artist asked Lin Bai to refine a Demon Soul Pill using supplied materials and offered ten thousand catties of spirit liquid.
• Lin Bai explained the pill’s dangerous effects, then promised to finish it in three hours instead of the ten days the customer expected.

Lin Bai began refining a Demon Soul Pill in the Black Market, aiming to produce a Supreme-Grade pill and build his reputation. Meanwhile, Senior Brother Zhang learned that the ungraded Eastern Alchemist was handling the costly ingredients and feared the batch would be ruined.

• Lin Bai used the spiritual herbs and a fifth-stage Life Extinction Realm demon soul to begin refining a Demon Soul Pill, intending to make a Supreme-Grade pill.
• Senior Brother Zhang told his two junior brothers that the Eastern Alchemist had promised to finish the pill in three hours.
• The junior brothers warned Senior Brother Zhang that even Luo Tian Alchemist needed at least seven days to refine a Demon Soul Pill.
• Senior Brother Zhang and his junior brothers asked the Black Market martial artist about Eastern Alchemist's qualifications.
• The Black Market martial artist revealed that Eastern Alchemist had no alchemist grade and had arrived that day, leaving Senior Brother Zhang and his junior brothers in despair.

Lin Bai completed a Demon Soul Pill in just over two hours, and the Black Market martial artist identified it as a Supreme-Grade pill. After Senior Brother Zhang and his companions backed down from their threats, the Black Market took the pill in exchange for three mid-grade Demon Soul Pills, while Lin Bai secured a foothold as an alchemist in the Black Market.

• Senior Brother Zhang and his two junior brothers tried to cancel the refinement and recover their spirit herbs, fearing Lin Bai would ruin them.
• Lin Bai opened the chamber door and told the three that the pill was already finished, then handed them a jade bottle.
• Senior Brother Zhang opened the bottle and revealed a Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pill, which impressed the Black Market martial artist and the three customers.
• Senior Brother Zhang apologized to Lin Bai and accepted the Black Market's offer of three mid-grade Demon Soul Pills in exchange for the supreme-grade pill.
• The Black Market martial artist praised Lin Bai and said his success would attract many customers, while Lin Bai invited future clients to seek him out before returning to his chamber.

Lin Bai, known as Alchemist Eastern, drew attention across the Heavenly Treasure Islands after news spread that he could refine Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pills. During three days in the Black Market, he refined nearly twenty batches, earned three hundred thousand spirit liquids, and agreed to take on more clients.

• News that a Black Market pill refiner could make Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pills spread across the Heavenly Treasure Islands.
• Sun De delivered Lin Bai five thousand spirit liquids and arranged clients after Lin Bai set his prices and said he would stay for three days.
• Lin Bai refined a Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pill for Sun De, then successfully fulfilled another client's request.
• Sun De brought more clients to Lin Bai, who refined nearly twenty batches of Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pills in three days and earned three hundred thousand spirit liquids.
• Lin Bai gave Sun De ten thousand spirit liquids as thanks, and Sun De brought three more martial artists seeking pills.
• Lin Bai agreed to receive the three new clients.

Luo Tian returned to Black Pill City expecting to attract pill seekers, but learned they had all gone to the Eastern Alchemist, who could refine Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pills cheaply. Angered by the threat to his livelihood, Luo Tian joined Fang Zheng and Qi Hua and planned to confront the Eastern Alchemist.

• Luo Tian arrived at Black Pill City and found that none of the waiting martial artists had come to seek his pills.
• A Black Market martial artist explained that the pill seekers preferred the Eastern Alchemist, whose Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pills surpassed Luo Tian’s high-grade pills.
• Luo Tian invited the waiting martial artists to visit his chamber, but they dismissed him and continued seeking the Eastern Alchemist.
• Fang Zheng and Qi Hua told Luo Tian that the Eastern Alchemist’s low prices had also driven customers away from them.
• Luo Tian proposed suppressing the Eastern Alchemist in front of everyone and set out with Fang Zheng and Qi Hua to meet him.

After three days of refining pills, Lin Bai had become Black Pill City’s most sought-after alchemist, but Luo Tian Alchemist confronted him with accusations of using Triangle Grass. Luo Tian challenged Lin Bai to a public pill-refining contest and offered three hundred thousand units of spirit liquid, which caught Lin Bai’s interest.

• Lin Bai ended three days of pill refining, gave Sun De the finished pills, and said he would rest before opening the furnace again.
• Sun De warned Lin Bai that Luo Tian, Qi Hua, and Fang Zheng had come to cause trouble.
• Luo Tian questioned whether Lin Bai had used Triangle Grass to make his Demon Soul Pills appear Supreme-Grade, and Lin Bai denied the accusation.
• Luo Tian challenged Lin Bai to refine pills publicly against him, Qi Hua, and Fang Zheng, but Lin Bai initially refused because he was tired.
• Qi Hua and Fang Zheng accused Lin Bai of relying on trickery, and Luo Tian offered three hundred thousand units of spirit liquid if Lin Bai defeated him; Lin Bai became interested.

Lin Bai agreed to a public pill-refining contest against Luo Tian, Qi Hua, and Fang Zheng, with each wagering three hundred thousand spirit liquids. The four alchemists began refining Demon Soul Pills before a crowd in the Black Market, and Lin Bai noticed something strange about the spiritual herbs he had been given.

• Luo Tian, Qi Hua, and Fang Zheng each wagered three hundred thousand spirit liquids, and Lin Bai matched their stakes.
• Sun De warned Lin Bai that Luo Tian was narrow-minded, but Lin Bai went with the others to the front hall.
• The four alchemists each chose a martial artist seeking a Demon Soul Pill and received the required materials.
• When Lin Bai lacked an Alchemy Furnace and spirit fire, Sun De arranged for him to borrow them from the Pill Refining Chamber.
• Luo Tian, Qi Hua, and Fang Zheng began refining their pills, while Lin Bai examined his herbs and paused after noticing something unusual.

Lin Bai discovered that the spirit medicines supplied for refining the Demon Soul Pill were too young, but proceeded with a different method as Luo Tian, Qi Hua, and Fang Zheng mocked him. After Qi Hua and Fang Zheng produced high-grade pills, thunderclouds gathered over Luo Tian’s furnace, signaling a pill tribulation.

• Lin Bai found that most of the supplied spirit medicines were younger than five hundred years and suspected Luo Tian and the others had arranged the sabotage.
• Lin Bai ignited the earthfire, placed all the medicines in the furnace at once, and sent flames inside while the other alchemists mocked him.
• After five days, Qi Hua and Fang Zheng each refined a high-grade Demon Soul Pill, surprising Sun De and the crowd.
• Thunderclouds gathered over Black Pill City as Luo Tian neared completion, and he boasted that his pill tribulation would disgrace Lin Bai.

Lin Bai completed a tribulation-grade Demon Soul Pill, and the gathered martial artists realized his pill had summoned the thunderclouds. As the pill tribulation prepared to strike, Luo Tian and his companions hoped it would destroy Lin Bai and cost him the contest.

• Luo Tian mistook the gathering thunderclouds for a tribulation caused by his pill and asked Qi Hua and Fang Zheng to protect him.
• Luo Tian completed his pill, but the thunderclouds continued gathering without releasing lightning, revealing that Lin Bai's pill had summoned them.
• Lin Bai completed a tribulation-grade Demon Soul Pill, stunning Luo Tian, Qi Hua, Fang Zheng, Sun De, and the other martial artists.
• The pill tribulation gathered strength, and Luo Tian, Fang Zheng, and Qi Hua claimed Lin Bai would lose if the lightning destroyed his pill.

Lin Bai successfully refined a Tribulation Demon Soul Pill and used the Devouring Sword Soul to swallow the pill tribulation’s lightning and drive away the thunderclouds. Luo Tian conceded the contest, and Lin Bai demanded the spirit liquid.

• Lin Bai used the Fire Refinement Technique to finish refining his pill, then extinguished the earthfire as the pill tribulation descended.
• Lin Bai released the Devouring Sword Soul, which swallowed the lightning bolt and frightened the thunderclouds into dispersing.
• Lin Bai revealed his Tribulation Demon Soul Pill, while the crowd recognized that it surpassed the superior-grade pills refined by Qi Hua, Fang Zheng, and Luo Tian.
• Luo Tian conceded the contest, and Lin Bai demanded that he hand over the spirit liquid.

Lin Bai defeated Luo Tian and collected spirit liquid from him and his two companions, while Luo Tian resolved to retaliate on Pill Island. After exposing a scheme involving tainted herbs, Lin Bai left the Black Market’s customers with a promise that Sun De would notify them of his next visit.

• Luo Tian admitted defeat and, along with Qi Hua and Fang Zheng, handed Lin Bai a total of nine hundred thousand units of spirit liquid.
• Luo Tian said he would ask his Eldest Senior Brother to deal with Lin Bai on Pill Island, and he and his companions guessed that Lin Bai was the new academy Alchemist Xie Changqing.
• The martial artists congratulated Lin Bai on refining a Tribulation Pill, but Lin Bai refused to give it to the black-clothed martial artist who had supplied under-aged herbs in what Lin Bai suspected was Luo Tian’s scheme.
• At Lin Bai’s request, Sun De gave the black-clothed martial artist a Supreme-Grade Demon Soul Pill and warned him to leave Blackrock Island.
• Sun De announced that Lin Bai was ending requests for pills for the day and that he would notify everyone when Lin Bai next visited the Black Market.