Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yi Xian defeated and killed Bing He, then eliminated Tian Shuangzi and Tian She before heading to the Ice River Valley to claim its reserves. Meanwhile, Qing Lin continued refining Tian She's remains, and Cai'er was in the Beast Domain near Ten Thousand Snake City.

• Bing He tried to strike Xiao Yi Xian's Poison Origin with a desperate attack, but the purple rune between her brows devoured it.
• Xiao Yi Xian used Heaven-Eroding Rain to corrode Bing He, then crushed him with Heavenly Yin Poison Hand: Fracture and consumed his Acquired Calamity Poison Body.
• Xiao Yi Xian killed Tian Shuangzi and Tian She with poison mist, then collected Bing He's Storage Ring.
• Xiao Yi Xian said she was a Five-Star Peak Dou Venerate and headed to the Ice River Valley to take its reserves, hoping Brother Xuan Jin would praise her.
• Qing Lin continued refining Tian She's remains, while Cai'er was in the Beast Domain near Ten Thousand Snake City.

Cai'er bought a drop of blood essence from an Eighth Rank peak Ancient Primordial Giant Python, hoping to use it to break through to the Dou Venerate Realm. After swallowing it in a cave, she began refining its violent energy as her breakthrough bottleneck loosened.

• Cai'er entered a Beast Domain black market, frustrated that Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin had grown stronger while she remained at the Dou Zong level.
• Cai'er sensed powerful snake-type blood essence at a stall and bought it from a shriveled old man for three high-grade Seventh-Grade pills.
• After Cai'er left, the old man revealed that he had lured her into a trap and told his accomplices to notify the young master.
• Cai'er secured a remote cave with Dou Qi restrictions and Spirit-Concealing Jade, then prepared to refine the blood essence.
• Cai'er swallowed the blood essence, endured its violent energy, and began breaking through as her bottleneck loosened.
• A sudden change occurred just as Cai'er was about to attack the barrier.

Cai'er was poisoned and trapped by five peak Nine Star Dou Ancestors from the Snake Bone Sect, who planned to capture her for her Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python bloodline. Though the Yin Yang Xuan Dragon Pill helped her resist the poison, she was wounded and detonated Xuan Jin’s Flame Lotus Shield against her attackers.

• Cai'er swallowed the supposed Ancient Primordial Giant Python essence blood, which released three poisonous soul imprints that sealed her energy vortex and acupoints.
• The Snake Bone Sect leader and four peak Nine Star Dou Ancestors entered the cave, revealed that the essence blood had been bait, and trapped Cai'er in the Snake Evil Trapping Formation.
• The Yin Yang Xuan Dragon Pill protected Cai'er's heart meridian, allowing her to rally and attack the sect members with her Seven-Colored Poison Mist.
• The masked leader wounded Cai'er with his Snake Bone Soul-Devouring Claw, but she survived and drew Xuan Jin's Flame Lotus Shield.
• Cai'er poured Dou Qi into the Flame Lotus Shield and hurled it at an attacking black-clad man, causing it to explode on impact.

Cai'er fought off the Snake Bone Sect assassins until the masked man struck her down, then used her last strength to shatter Xuan Jin’s Soul Jade Slip. As the Yin Yang Xuan Dragon Pill triggered her rebirth and pushed her toward Dou Venerate, Xuan Jin appeared through a spatial rift to confront her attackers.

• Cai'er killed one Snake Bone Sect assassin and forced Third Brother to flee, leaving the formation open.
• The masked man struck Cai'er down and approached to cripple her, but she shattered the Soul Jade Slip Xuan Jin had given her.
• The Yin Yang Xuan Dragon Pill erupted, refining the poison and Primordial Giant Python Essence Blood while healing Cai'er and driving her breakthrough to Dou Venerate.
• Xuan Jin tore open a spatial rift and reached toward the three remaining assassins, demanding to know who had dared touch Cai'er.

Xuan Jin arrived in time to save Cai'er, killing three Nine Star Dou Ancestors who attacked her while she underwent a breakthrough. Cai'er awakened as a One-Star Dou Venerate, and Xuan Jin warned her that the Snake Bone Sect's young master was approaching with the main force.

• Xuan Jin emerged from a spatial rift and trapped three black-clothed Nine Star Dou Ancestors in the Eight Extremes Flame Prison.
• Xuan Jin killed the three attackers with Crimson Annihilation Divine Light and carried Cai'er away from the danger.
• Xuan Jin treated Cai'er, stabilized the cave with Three Essence Seal Fire Mark, and guarded her while her wounds healed.
• Cai'er completed her breakthrough to One-Star Dou Venerate and woke in Xuan Jin's arms.
• Xuan Jin gave Cai'er clean clothes and told her the Snake Bone Sect's young master was leading the main force toward them.

Cai'er and Xuan Jin emerged from Soul-Severing Cliff and destroyed the Snake Bone Sect forces that had gathered to capture them. After killing She Xiu and thwarting his self-destruction, they headed to the sect’s lair as a Nine-Star Dou Venerate approached.

• Cai'er chose to take revenge on the Snake Bone Sect, and she and Xuan Jin left the cave together.
• She Xiu and the Snake Bone Sect disciples surrounded Soul-Severing Cliff, but Cai'er broke out as a One-Star Dou Venerate.
• Cai'er defeated She Xiu while Xuan Jin burned the elders and refined the fleeing Third Brother into an energy pill bead.
• She Xiu summoned his father and tried to self-destruct, but Cai'er sealed the blast and Xuan Jin destroyed him with a Fire Lotus.
• Xuan Jin and Cai'er set out for the Snake Bone Sect’s lair as a Nine-Star Dou Venerate rapidly approached.

Xuan Jin and Cai'er arrived at the Snake Bone Sect to avenge Xiu'er and seek the treasure drawing on Cai'er's bloodline. Cai'er crushed the sect's defenses with her Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python bloodline, while Xuan Jin melted its mountain gate with a flaming palm.

• Xuan Jin and Cai'er sensed a powerful attraction within the Snake Bone Sect as they flew toward Yin Mountain, and Xuan Jin detected the sect master's Nine-Star Dou Venerate aura.
• She Cang gathered the Snake Bone Sect's disciples and elders to defend the mountain and formed the Ten Thousand Snake Soul-Devouring Array against the arriving pair.
• Xuan Jin taunted She Cang over Xiu'er's death, prompting She Cang and four elders to prepare to attack him.
• Cai'er released the pressure of her pure Seven-Colored Heavenly Swallowing Python bloodline, causing disciples to collapse and shattering the formation's venomous python phantom.
• Xuan Jin struck the Ten Thousand Year Snake Bone Mountain Gate with his Hundred Veins Burning City Palm, melting it into magma.

Xuan Jin overwhelmed the Snake Bone Sect’s defenders and defeated She Cang after slaughtering four elders. She Cang lay gravely wounded in a crater as Xuan Jin descended toward him.

• Xuan Jin destroyed the mountain gate’s defenses and sent Cai'er to hunt the disciples while he faced the elders.
• She Cang summoned help and the four elders trapped Xuan Jin in the Four Directions Snake Evil Formation, but Xuan Jin melted it with the Eight Extremes Flame Prison.
• Xuan Jin killed an Eight-Star Dou Venerate and three other elders within three breaths.
• She Cang sacrificed his soul power and attacked with the Myriad Poison World-Destroying Claw, but Xuan Jin used the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Changes and Earth Crushing Seal to shatter it.
• Xuan Jin’s strike wounded She Cang and left him lying in a crater as Xuan Jin descended toward him.

Xuan Jin destroyed the Snake Bone Sect’s leaders and remaining forces while Cai'er cleared its back mountain and discovered a stone that responded to her bloodline. After Cai'er dripped blood on the stone, an eighth and then a ninth colored marking appeared.

• Xuan Jin killed She Cang with a Fire Lotus, eliminated the fleeing stewards, and crippled the remaining Snake Bone Sect fighters.
• Cai'er defeated the Snake Bone Sect disciples in the back mountain and followed the pull of her bloodline to an ancient stone chamber.
• Cai'er broke the Nether Snake Gate restriction and found a seven-colored stone inside a black box.
• Xuan Jin identified the stone as a possible Nine-Colored Primal Stone and suggested that Cai'er drip blood on it.
• The stone absorbed Cai'er's blood and developed an eighth and then a ninth colored marking.

Xuan Jin gave Cai'er a Nine-Colored Primal Stone that could help her evolve toward the legendary Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, but warned that reaching its inheritance tomb required at least Dou Saint strength. After they left the destroyed Snake Bone Sect behind, Xuan Jin took Cai'er toward Bone Erosion Mountain and teased her along the way.

• Cai'er learned that the Mu Jin was a Nine-Colored Primal Stone and could help her reach the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python bloodline.
• Xuan Jin told Cai'er that the inheritance lay in the Ancient Tomb of the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python, but they needed at least Dou Saint strength to enter safely.
• Xuan Jin and Cai'er left the Mu Jin chamber after he warned that the Snake Bone Sect's destruction would attract scavengers.
• The Black Scale Tribe arrived at the Snake Bone Sect's ruins, recognized the lingering Heavenly Flame aura, and fled in fear.
• Xuan Jin took Cai'er toward Bone Erosion Mountain, where she happily nourished the Mu Jin until his teasing made her flustered.

Xuan Jin and Cai'er returned to Bone Erosion Mountain, where Qing Lin was still refining the violent Ancient Heavenly Snake Bone Essence. When Xuan Jin discovered Thousand Snake Cave members hiding nearby, he killed them before they could disturb her.

• Xuan Jin and Cai'er found Qing Lin refining the Bone Essence inside a crimson energy barrier, and Xuan Jin judged that the Ancient Heavenly Snake's Remnant Soul was making its final resistance.
• Xuan Jin detected concealed auras in a forest near Bone Erosion Mountain and told Cai'er to protect Qing Lin while he confronted the intruders.
• Xuan Jin forced the Thousand Snake Cave group out of hiding with a pillar of flame, killing most of them before they could escape.
• The Three-Star Dou Venerate leader invoked the Nine Serenity Deep Earth Python clan, but Xuan Jin trapped him and the two surviving One-Star Dou Venerates in the Eight Extremes Flame Prison and killed them.
• Xuan Jin collected the three Monster Cores and blood essence, then returned to the cave.

Xiao Yi Xian mastered her Calamity Poison Body, destroyed Ice River Valley, and plundered its treasure vault before learning Xuan Jin had gone to the Beast Domain. At Bone Erosion Mountain, Qing Lin absorbed the Bone Essence and reached the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zong.

• Xuan Jin reinforced the cave’s barriers and stood guard while Cai'er stabilized her new Dou Venerate realm and Qing Lin continued cultivating.
• Xiao Yi Xian wiped out Ice River Valley, broke into its treasure vault, and took its valuable supplies for herself and The Alliance.
• Scouts spread news that Xiao Yi Xian had destroyed Ice River Valley and killed Ice River Venerable, and she flew to the Pill Tower to find Xuan Jin.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Yi Xian that Xuan Jin had gone with Qing Lin to the Beast Domain, so Xiao Yi Xian decided to wait at the Pill Tower.
• At Bone Erosion Mountain, Qing Lin suppressed the Ancient Heavenly Snake’s Remnant Soul, absorbed the Bone Essence, and surged to the peak of Nine-Star Dou Zong.

Qing Lin and Cai'er returned with Xuan Jin to Zhongzhou, where they learned that Xiao Yi Xian had destroyed Ice River Valley and killed Bing He. They headed for the Pill Tower to reunite with Xiao Yi Xian, and the chapter left them approaching Xuan Yi's courtyard, where two beautiful women were waiting beneath an old locust tree.

• Qing Lin recovered after suppressing the ancient vicious soul and reached Nine Star Dou Ancestor, while Cai'er stabilized her breakthrough to One-Star Dou Venerate.
• Xuan Jin, Cai'er, and Qing Lin traveled toward Saint Pill City and stopped at Drunken Immortal Tower in Wind Walk City.
• Tavern patrons reported that Xiao Yi Xian had destroyed Ice River Valley and killed Bing He with her Calamity Poison Body.
• Xuan Jin decided to head to the Pill Tower, expecting Xiao Yi Xian to be waiting there for praise.
• Xuan Jin, Cai'er, and Qing Lin arrived at Saint Pill City's Inner Domain, where two beautiful women sat beneath the old locust tree in Xuan Yi's courtyard.

Xiao Yi Xian and Cao Ying discussed their recent accomplishments before Xuan Jin returned to Saint Pill City with Zi Yan and Qing Lin. The chapter left the reunited group together in the courtyard as Cao Ying teased Xuan Jin for being away for half a month.

• Xiao Yi Xian showed Cao Ying an old pill recipe she had found in Ice River Valley after destroying the faction.
• Cao Ying revealed that she had reached Four-star Dou Ancestor and could refine eighth-grade pills with two-colored pill lightning.
• Cao Ying and Xiao Yi Xian talked about Xuan Jin and anticipated his return.
• Xuan Jin arrived in the courtyard with Zi Yan and Qing Lin, and Cao Ying greeted him by complaining about his long absence.

Xiao Yi Xian returned from destroying Ice River Valley with its treasury and an inheritance that transformed her Calamity Poison Body, leaving Xuan Jin thrilled at her newfound power and freedom from its dangers.

• Xuan Jin reunited with Cao Ying, praised her rapid cultivation and alchemy progress, and reassured her that she was an important partner to him.
• Cai'er interrupted Xuan Jin and Cao Ying's embrace, and Xuan Jin then praised Xiao Yi Xian for uprooting Ice River Valley and promised to deal with any trouble from Soul Hall.
• Xiao Yi Xian revealed that she had taken Ice River Valley's treasures and found the burial site of the previous Calamity Poison Body owner.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained that she inherited Poison-to-Rune Transformation, which sealed her poison in a rune and converted it into Poison Dou Qi.
• Xuan Jin examined Xiao Yi Xian's transformed body and celebrated her breakthrough, while she revealed she could fight ordinary Five-star Dou Venerates and reach Seven-star Dou Venerate strength by unleashing her poison body.

Cai'er and Qing Lin revealed the powerful gains they had made, leaving Cao Ying stunned before Xuan Yi announced a new grand prize for the Pill Gathering. The chapter ended with the Pill Tower offering a Peak Tier 8 Pill Beast to the champion.

• Cai'er revealed that the Nine-Colored Primal Stone could help her evolve into a supreme magical beast bloodline, and Xuan Jin explained its significance.
• Qing Lin said she had absorbed an Ancient Heavenly Snake's Remnant Soul and much of its bones, then showed off a Four-Star Dou Venerate she had captured to absorb later.
• Cao Ying felt discouraged by Cai'er and Qing Lin's extraordinary prospects, but Xuan Jin encouraged her to compete at the Pill Gathering.
• Xuan Yi arrived from a meeting of the Three Great Heads and said the Pill Gathering would take place in two years as alchemists headed for Saint Pill City.
• Xuan Yi announced that the Pill Tower would award the champion a Peak Tier 8 Pill Beast from the ancient ruins.

Xuan Jin and the others discussed the Pill Gathering’s Peak Tier 8 Pill Beast prize and the threat posed by Dan Chen and Soul Hall. The chapter ended as Dan Yangzi addressed Dan Chen and Dan Xuan about the gathering’s rewards.

• Xuan Yi warned Cao Ying that Dan Chen and Soul Hall could be formidable opponents for the Pill Gathering.
• Cao Ying described Dan Chen’s frail health and reserved nature, while Xuan Yi said her alchemy talent and constitution could let her reach Eighth Rank.
• Xuan Jin declared that he would claim the Pill Beast and soul cultivation technique for the Pill Tower, then told the others to return to cultivation.
• Xuan Jin said he and the women would meet Dan Chen later, while he worried about Soul Hall’s next move.
• At the Dan Clan Residence, Dan Yangzi gathered Dan Xuan and Dan Chen and began discussing the Pill Gathering’s rewards.

Dan Yangzi committed the Dan Clan’s resources to training Dan Chen for the upcoming alchemy competition, while warning that Xuan Jin and Cao Ying would be formidable rivals. In Saint Pill City, Xuan Jin planned to train Cao Ying and Cai’er over the next two years, then took Cao Ying to begin her special guidance.

• Dan Yangzi told Dan Xuan that Dan Chen was the Dan Clan’s best hope and promised to open the Clan Forbidden Ground to strengthen her.
• Dan Chen expressed doubts about competing against Cao Ying and Xuan Jin, and Dan Yangzi warned that Xuan Jin controlled at least five or six Heavenly Flames.
• Dan Yangzi sent Dan Xuan and Dan Chen to the Medicine Vault so Dan Chen could take whatever ingredients she needed.
• Xuan Jin promised to temper Cao Ying’s soul near the Star Domain and help stabilize Cai’er’s cultivation, while Xiao Yi Xian urged everyone to remain cautious.
• Cao Ying embraced Xuan Jin and invited him inside for the special guidance he had promised, and he took her to the side chamber.

Xiao Yan agreed to help Ye Xinlan's declining Ye Clan in the Pill Tower assessment in Zhongzhou, hoping the journey would also lead him to Xuan Jin and news of Xun Er. As Ye Xinlan described the rival clans' alchemists, Xiao Yan learned that Cao Ying and Dan Chen were approaching the Eighth Rank.

• Xiao Yan refined an azure pill, reviewed Xuan Jin's alchemy notebook, and received supply lists from Xuanhuang Fortress.
• Ye Xinlan asked Xiao Yan to help the Ye Clan avoid losing its place among the Pill Tower's Five Great Clans.
• Xiao Yan agreed to represent the Ye Clan, seeing a chance to visit the Pill Tower and seek information about Xuan Jin and Xun Er.
• Ye Xinlan explained that the Cao Clan's Cao Ying and the Dan Clan's Dan Chen were exceptionally gifted alchemists, with Cao Ying attempting to reach the Eighth Rank.

Xiao Yan left Jia Nan Academy for Zhongzhou to help the Ye Clan survive its upcoming family assessment, while Xuan Jin prepared for the Pill Gathering and brought his companions together to cultivate. Xiao Yan approached Saint Pill City as Xuan Jin resolved to claim the Pill Gathering championship and protect those around him.

• Ye Xinlan told Xiao Yan that the Ye Clan had to place in the top three at the family assessment during the next Pill Gathering to survive, and Xiao Yan agreed to help.
• Xiao Yan said goodbye to Great Elder Su Qian and left Jia Nan Academy with Ye Xinlan, heading for Zhongzhou.
• Months later, Xiao Yan traveled through Zhongzhou and studied the alchemy techniques in Xuan Jin's notes as he made his way toward Saint Pill City.
• In Saint Pill City, Xuan Jin discussed the coming Pill Gathering with Cai'er and declared that he would win the championship to honor his teacher.
• Cao Ying announced that Xuan Kongzi had allowed her to cultivate in the Star Domain, and Xuan Jin agreed to take Cai'er, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian with them.