Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yuan took a thousand-year Earth Huang Jing from a ruthless alchemist and uncovered Earth Core Jade Marrow containing Earth Core Soul Marrow beneath it. After discovering the treasures could help his cultivation and soul, he faced a hidden seven-star Dou Zong who tried to claim a share, and their fight began.

• A burly alchemist smashed a giant python and drove off the other contestants before taking its thousand-year Earth Huang Jing.
• Xiao Yuan seized the Earth Huang Jing, froze the burly man in an ice coffin, and left him crippled after he escaped with a Space Stone.
• Xiao Yuan dug beneath the pit and found a large piece of Earth Core Jade Marrow containing Earth Core Soul Marrow, treasures that could aid his cultivation and temper his soul.
• After hiding the pit and preparing to leave, Xiao Yuan confronted a yellow-robed seven-star Dou Zong who demanded a share of his findings.
• Xiao Yuan attacked the old man with a giant hand of frost, and the man recognized the Ice Venerable Strength.

Xiao Yuan killed a yellow-robed Seven Star Dou Zong with his Mystic Ice techniques, then traveled to the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range to seek rare herbs and task items. There, he found Song Qing, Cao Ying, Xiao Yan, and a gathered group of contestants preparing to face the mountain’s powerful magical beasts, including an Ancient Dragon Bear with Dragon Bloodline.

• Xiao Yuan trapped the yellow-robed elder in a Mystic Ice Cage and shattered him with Nine Dragons Imprisonment Kill.
• Xiao Yuan studied his map, chose the nearest marked destination, and set out for the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range to search for rare herbs and treasures.
• Xiao Yuan crossed the Pill World, avoided other contestants, and collected two Seventh Rank Magic Cores from attacking magical beasts.
• Xiao Yuan reached the mountain range and found more than a hundred contestants gathered outside it.
• Song Qing explained that a powerful beast commanded the mountain’s magical beasts and had gathered many task items in its cave.
• Xiao Yuan recognized that the beast was actually an eighth-rank Ancient Dragon Bear with Dragon Bloodline.

Xiao Yuan entered the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range to find Zi Yan and discovered her in the heart of the range, eating rare medicinal ingredients. The chapter ended with Zi Yan recognizing him and teasingly calling him her dear big sister.

• Song Qing proposed that the alchemists unite against the ferocious beast, but Xiao Yan rejected the plan and left with Cao Ying and Wang Yuan Dan.
• Xiao Yuan sensed the strongest aura in the range and suspected Zi Yan was near it, then secretly traveled toward the central mountain.
• Xiao Yuan discovered the heart of the range was guarded by an Eighth Rank Magical Beast and several Seventh Rank Magical Beasts.
• Xiao Yuan smelled rare Dan Spirit Paste but continued toward the summit to find Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yuan found Zi Yan eating medicinal ingredients in a hall, and she recognized him and called him her dear big sister.

Xiao Yuan reunited with Zi Yan in the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range and traded a pill with Xiong Zhan for medicinal herbs. After collecting his mission ingredients and finding Tianma Jade Stone Essence, he sensed an unfamiliar powerful Soul Strength in the Pill World.

• Xiao Yuan found Zi Yan, gave her pills, and learned that Xiong Zhan, an Ancient Dragon Bear, had been accompanying her.
• Xiao Yuan revealed his identity as an Eighth Grade Alchemist and offered Xiong Zhan a Nirvana Body Pill in exchange for medicinal herbs.
• Xiao Yuan collected the Nine Flames Dragon Saliva Grass, Spirit Nectar Fruit, and Immortal Crane Grass for his mission.
• Xiao Yuan searched the plaza and found the Tianma Jade Stone Essence among ordinary-looking rocks.
• Xiao Yuan prepared to ask Zi Yan for a Secret Chamber but sensed an unfamiliar, powerful Soul Strength in the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range.

Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and the other alchemists were ambushed in the Pill World by a Soul Hall Dou Zun and his hidden fighters. After Wang Yuan Dan broke the soul barrier, Xiao Yan confronted the Dou Zun, and the fight was interrupted by a white-clad figure descending with black snow.

• A black-clad Dou Zun trapped nearly a hundred alchemists inside a soul barrier while his hidden Dou Zong fighters slaughtered them.
• Xiao Yan protected Cao Ying and fought back as the black-clad man crushed escape attempts and reduced the survivors to fewer than ten.
• The black-clad man revealed he had come specifically for Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yan warned Cao Ying that Wang Yuan Dan was outside the barrier.
• Wang Yuan Dan shattered the soul barrier and appeared beside Xiao Yan, but the black-clad man’s three-star Dou Zun Peak aura overwhelmed the group.
• Xiao Yan identified the attacker as a Soul Hall member, activated the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations, and exchanged powerful blows with him.
• As Xiao Yan prepared to unleash his Flame Lotus, black snow began falling and a white-clad figure descended into the basin.

Xiao Yan and his companions fled from Old Man Mu Gu, who pursued them and tried to seize Cao Ying and Xiao Yan. Just as Old Man Mu Gu threatened Xiao Yan for his Heavenly Flames, a violet-gold figure appeared and struck down his crystal claw, leaving Xiao Yan stunned by Third Brother’s dramatic entrance.

• Xiao Yuan used the Ice River Formation and an Ice Phantom Body to delay the black-clad Dou Zun while Xiao Yan and the others escaped.
• Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, Wang Yuan Dan, and Song Qing raced through the forest toward the mountain summit, but the black-clad Dou Zun caught up and injured Wang Yuan Dan.
• The black-clad Dou Zun trapped Cao Ying in Solidified Space, and Xiao Yan rescued her with Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations and Flame Splitting Tsunami Ruler.
• Old Man Mu Gu cornered Xiao Yan and Cao Ying, revealed he was Xiao Yan’s Martial Uncle, and threatened to take Xiao Yan’s soul and Heavenly Flames.
• A violet-gold figure emerged and shattered Old Man Mu Gu’s crystal claw, while the white-clad woman appeared behind him.

Xiao Yuan arrived to rescue Xiao Yan and Cao Ying, then fought Old Man Mu Gu after the Soul Hall infiltrator was exposed. Xiao Yuan defeated Mu Gu, and Xiao Yan trapped Mu Gu’s fleeing soul, leaving the brothers in control of the battle.

• A white-skirted woman handed Xiao Yuan the Medicinal Herbs and escaped through a Space Channel after bringing him to the sealed mountain.
• Xiao Yuan raised his strength to that of a three-star Dou Zun, overpowered Old Man Mu Gu, and injured him with the Sky Annihilation Seal.
• Xiao Yuan revealed that evidence of Mu Gu slaughtering alchemists had been recorded, declared the Soul Hall infiltrators disqualified, and attacked Mu Gu with Heavenly Flames.
• Xiao Yuan trapped Mu Gu inside the Five Round Fire Separation Array and crushed him into the earth, but Mu Gu’s soul escaped underground.
• Cao Ying warned Xiao Yan about Mu Gu’s approaching soul, and Xiao Yan used the Fallen Heart Flame to capture it before Xiao Yuan joined him.

Xiao Yuan captured Old Man Mu Gu, exposed the Hall of Souls’ interference, and helped the Pill Gathering continue. After the contestants emerged from the Pill World, the final pill-refining round began, with Xiao Yan preparing to refine a Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill.

• Xiao Yuan subdued Old Man Mu Gu with the Fallen Heart Flame, then returned to the Pill Tower and reported that Hall of Souls members had been executed.
• Xiao Yuan publicly condemned the Hall of Souls and announced that the Pill Gathering would continue.
• After ten days, Cao Ying, Xiao Yan, Wang Yuan Dan, and the other surviving contestants emerged from the Pill World.
• Xiao Yuan announced the final round, and more than a thousand alchemists took to the floating platforms to refine pills.
• Xiao Yan chose a quiet platform and prepared to refine the Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill, while Cao Ying revealed her Blood Demon Flame.

Xiao Yan began refining the Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill for Yao Lao while the Pill Gathering’s other contestants gradually completed their pills. As the competition neared its climax, Xiao Yan continued nurturing his pill embryo and prepared to attempt something he considered insane, while Xiao Yuan vanished again.

• Xiao Yan summoned his Azure Blue Flame, unsettling the other contestants’ flames, and began refining the many ingredients for the Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill.
• Xiao Yuan watched Xiao Yan work and worried that refining the pill at full strength could endanger Xiao Yan when he later tried to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame; Xiao Yuan then disappeared again.
• Over the following half month, contestants began finishing pills, and the first Grade 7 Pill Tribulation Lightning appeared above a contestant’s platform.
• More contestants summoned Pill Tribulation Lightning, and fewer than fifty platforms remained occupied as the Pill Gathering approached its decisive stage.
• After ten days of refining, Xiao Yan had formed a pill embryo in his cauldron and sensed that Cao Ying and the other leading contestants were refining powerful pills.

As the alchemy contest narrowed to its strongest contestants, Song Qing refined a peak Grade 7 pill, but Dan Chen surpassed him by completing a Rank 8 Pill that summoned a Two-Colored Thundercloud. The chapter ended as Cao Ying rose to challenge Dan Chen, with her own refinement still to be revealed.

• After more contestants failed or withdrew, only seventeen remained, including the concealed Rank 8 Alchemic Grandmaster Old Man Qinghua.
• Song Qing refined a peak Grade 7 pill and endured its fierce pill lightning, but Xiao Yan dismissed him as a contender for the championship.
• Nine other high-tier Grade 7 pills emerged within minutes, filling the sky with pill lightning as the contestants continued their refinements.
• Dan Chen spat blood into her pill, shattered her cauldron, and produced a Rank 8 Pill that summoned an unprecedented Two-Colored Thundercloud.
• Cao Ying rose and told Dan Chen that she would not admit defeat easily.

Xiao Yan revealed his strength at the Pill Gathering by refining a Rank 8 Pill that summoned Five-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, surpassing Cao Ying’s display. As Qinghua Old Freak showed his own pill, Xiao Yuan revealed that Xiao Yan had also refined a Great Soul Return Pill to protect him from the consequences of his soul-burning technique.

• Cao Ying released a Rank 8 Pill that summoned Two-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, and Song Qing feared Xiao Yan would soon reveal his own result.
• Xiao Yan opened the Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron and released a Rank 8 Pill that summoned Five-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, stunning the plaza and earning Cao Ying’s admiration.
• Qinghua Old Freak revealed a pill with Three-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning and privately acknowledged Xiao Yan as Yao Chen’s disciple.
• Xiao Yan retrieved his dark-red pill and enveloped it in Azure Heavenly Flames, alarming the onlookers who thought he was destroying it.
• Xiao Yuan explained that Xiao Yan had refined the Great Soul Return Pill to counter the harm caused by burning his soul, and that the pill could preserve a remnant soul.

Xiao Yan used a Spirit Elevation Ring and Spirit Nurturing Powder to raise his pill’s quality, producing Nine-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning and establishing himself as an Alchemic Grandmaster. Exhausted by the effort, he took a restorative pill from Xiao Yuan as Xiao Yuan prepared to handle the tribulation lightning for him and the other contestants.

• Xiao Yan burned his soul to form a Spirit Elevation Ring, then used blood sacrifice to draw spiritual mist back into the pill and restore its surface.
• The pill’s tribulation lightning gained orange and white colors, shocking the crowd with the appearance of Seven-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning.
• A faint ninth, jade-green color appeared in the clouds, confirming Xiao Yan had refined a peak Rank 8 pill and astonished the arena.
• Xiao Yan weakened by the soul-burning method, accepted a Jade Bottle from Third Brother, and swallowed its restorative pill.
• Xiao Yuan announced that he would handle Xiao Yan’s and the other contestants’ tribulation lightning, then flew into the clouds with the aura of a Five Star Dou Zun.

Xiao Yuan absorbed the Nine-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, evolving his Di Yao Kui into Tian Yao Kui, while Xiao Yan won the Pill Gathering by refining the strongest Rank 8 Pill. The chapter ended with the top ten preparing to enter the Star Region in two days to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xiao Yuan and his Di Yao Kui absorbed the Nine-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, which evolved the Di Yao Kui into Tian Yao Kui and further strengthened Xiao Yuan.
• Xiao Yan’s Bone Growing Blood Melting Pill suppressed the other Rank 8 Pills, and Xiao Yuan announced Xiao Yan as the Pill Gathering champion.
• Xiao Yuan named Xiao Yan a candidate to become a future giant of the Pill Tower and awarded him an ancient Soul Cultivation Method.
• Xiao Yuan announced that the top ten contestants would enter the Star Region in two days for a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xiao Yuan believed Xiao Yan would subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, despite its strength and the Three Giants’ past failures.

After recovering from the Pill Gathering, Xiao Yan learned that he and three other candidates would enter the Star Region to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Xiao Yuan discussed backup plans with the Pill Tower’s Three Giants, while Cao Ying joined Xiao Yan as he left, and the group prepared for the trial in two days.

• Xiao Yan recovered from the Pill Gathering and reunited with Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan at the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi told Xiao Yan and the other candidates that the Star Region would open in two days and gave them jade pearls to summon help if needed.
• Cao Ying rebuffed Song Qing for abandoning the others during a crisis, then insisted on walking with Xiao Yan.
• Xuan Yi asked Xiao Yuan whether his Seven Star Dou Zun friend could help if Xiao Yan failed to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Kongzi said the Pill Tower would seal the Heavenly Flame if necessary, and Xiao Yuan offered to trade a pill formula for their help extracting its source flame.
• Xiao Yuan left the hall to prepare further for Xiao Yan’s attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Xiao Yan and the other Pill Gathering finalists entered the Star Region to attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. After seeing the sealed Heavenly Flame in its enormous dragon form, Xiao Yan tried to reach it with his Soul Strength but failed when it vaporized his soul probe.

• Xuan Kongzi opened a spatial gate and sent the top ten finalists, Qiu Ling, and Xiao Yuan into the Star Region.
• Qiu Ling led the group through the scorching Star Region and warned them to stay together and follow the rules.
• Xiao Yuan and Xiao Yan sensed the Three Thousand Burning Flame as they neared its blazing presence.
• The group found the Three Thousand Burning Flame sealed in the form of an enormous violet-black dragon, and Qiu Ling ordered the finalists to try gentle methods of subduing it.
• Xiao Yan touched the uncovered dragon scale and sent in his Soul Strength, but the Three Thousand Burning Flame vaporized it, so he withdrew and admitted defeat.

A Hall of Souls infiltrator shattered Three Thousand Burning Flame’s seal, and the awakened dragon broke free after burning away the runes. As the dragon attacked Demon Flame Tian Zun, Xiao Yuan reappeared and sealed off the space, trapping two Hall of Souls Elders.

• After failing to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, the alchemist who had been struck earlier revealed himself as a Hall of Souls Dou Zun and shattered the dragon’s forehead scale.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame awakened and struggled against the seal while Qiu Ling attacked the Hall of Souls Tian Zun; other Hall of Souls members knocked away most of the Jade Pearls before Xiao Yan crushed his and sent word.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame used dark flames to melt the runes, broke free of the seal, and rejected the Hall of Souls Tian Zun’s demand to honor their arrangement.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked Demon Flame Tian Zun, who crushed a jade tablet to summon help, but the Space Power failed to work.
• Xiao Yuan reappeared, sealed off the space, and trapped two Hall of Souls Elders in pitch-black ice coffins.

Xiao Yuan defeated Demon Flame Tian Zun in the Star Region, then helped Xiao Yan capture the elder’s weakened soul. The brothers claimed the spoils while Three Thousand Burning Flame remained nearby.

• Xiao Yuan appeared beside Xiao Yan, sealed the space around the Hall of Souls fighters, and crushed two trapped Dou Zun experts with Space Power.
• Xiao Yuan fought Demon Flame Tian Zun alone, breaking his chains and Life Soul Lock with the Four Imprint Stacked Emperor Imprint Skill.
• Xiao Yuan used Primal Chaos Qi Transformation to drain Demon Flame Tian Zun’s life force and Dou Qi, preventing him from self-destructing.
• Xiao Yuan found Demon Flame Tian Zun’s hidden soul and sent it to Xiao Yan, who trapped it in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yuan turned toward the spoils as a black shadow suddenly descended from above with terrifying force.

Xiao Yuan used Zi Yan’s bloodline pressure and an enhanced freezing array to suppress Three Thousand Burning Flame and sever its source flame from its true body. Three Thousand Burning Flame fought back desperately as Xiao Yuan, nearly drained, took pills and battled it with a Black Demon Lightning spear.

• Xiao Yuan summoned a lightning illusionary body and activated an enhanced Ice Venerable Freezing Sky Array infused with Zi Yan’s blood to weaken Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame unleashed a flame storm, but Xiao Yuan trapped its true body with nine ice dragons and attacked the source flame inside its forehead.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame released its source flame in the form of a small dragon and destroyed Xiao Yuan’s ice palm, but Xiao Yuan evaded the strike with an Ice Phantom Body.
• Xiao Yuan’s two illusionary figures froze Three Thousand Burning Flame’s true body with Extreme Freeze, severing its connection to the source flame.
• Xiao Yuan took three recovery pills, formed a Black Demon Lightning spear, and fought the source flame to prevent it from returning to its true body.

Xiao Yan fought Three Thousand Burning Flame after Xiao Yuan weakened it, then used a Dragon Mark to draw it into a clash of souls. As the contest began, Xiao Yuan secretly reinforced Xiao Yan with Primal Chaos Seals, leaving Three Thousand Burning Flame at a growing disadvantage.

• Xiao Yuan drove Three Thousand Burning Flame toward exhaustion, then let Xiao Yan take over while Great Elder Qiu Ling stopped Song Qing and Qinghua Old Freak from interfering.
• Xiao Yan battled Three Thousand Burning Flame, blocked its flames, and used cold liquid to weaken it before striking it with a drop of dark golden blood.
• A Dragon Mark appeared on Three Thousand Burning Flame, and it pulled Xiao Yan into its soul world to fight for control of the mark.
• Xiao Yan shielded himself with azure flames as Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked, beginning their contest of soul power and will.
• Xiao Yuan formed two Primal Chaos Seals, using one to protect Xiao Yan and another to weaken Three Thousand Burning Flame's small fire-dragon form.

Xiao Yan fought Three Thousand Burning Flame in a dangerous soul battle as the Heavenly Flame erupted and engulfed the Star Region. After Xiao Yuan assured the others that Xiao Yan would survive, Yao Lao asked Xiao Yuan to prepare a Little Creation Pill and deliver it to the gravely injured Hua Yu at the Flower Sect.

• Xiao Yan and Three Thousand Burning Flame entered a motionless soul battle while Xiao Yuan used a technique to restrain the dragon.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted, releasing its accumulated flames across the Star Region, and Xiao Yuan was injured by the backlash.
• Xuan Kongzi ordered Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Song Qing, and the others to leave, while Xiao Yuan assured him that Xiao Yan was safe beneath a Heavenly Flame barrier.
• Xuan Kongzi and the others sealed the Star Region after escaping, while Xiao Yuan explained that Xiao Yan was trying to refine Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Xuan Yi treated Xiao Yuan's exhaustion, and Yao Lao spoke to him through a Storage Ring about his plans.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yuan a pill formula and asked him to visit the Flower Sect to deliver a Little Creation Pill to Hua Yu, whose severe injuries threatened her life.