Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing and the Bao Dan Sect enlisted the Four Alliances to ease the sect’s crisis and announced the Bao Dan Assembly, where the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill would be the prize. As the assembly began, Xu Qing remained confident he could compete against Patriarch Extremely Yang, the Bao Dan Sect’s chief rival in alchemy.

• Yu Fang learned that Du Gu Jiu Meng commanded the Four Alliances’ respect, then accepted Long Zhenfeng’s invitation to enter the sect.
• Xu Qing assured Ji Lingkong that the Four Alliances would support the Bao Dan Sect and agreed to exchange alchemy insights with its disciples.
• The Bao Dan Sect announced the Bao Dan Assembly and offered the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill as its prize, prompting the Heavenly Demon Sect and Blood Moon Sect to plan to win it through alchemy.
• Xu Qing, Ji Lingkong, Du Gu Jiu Meng, and Feng Dian discussed the threat posed by Patriarch Extremely Yang, while Xu Qing claimed he was confident in his own alchemy.
• Half a month later, thousands of alchemists and representatives from across the Eleventh Province gathered for the assembly as the Bao Dan Sect Master prepared to open the event.

At the Bao Dan Assembly, Xu Qing competed in the Herbal Identification round, relying on his mastery of the Nine Stars Pill Inquiry Art and Yin Yang Heaven Pill Technique. When time ran out, he was among the 923 contestants who remained, awaiting the judges' review.

• Sect Master Wang welcomed the guests and announced that the Bao Dan Assembly had begun.
• Senior Zhao of the Talismans and Arrays Sect explained the three elimination rounds and opened Herbal Identification.
• Xu Qing took his assigned seat and learned that contestants had to identify herbs and minerals using the jade slips.
• Xu Qing quickly recorded his answers using the herbal knowledge he had mastered from both pill-refining arts.
• As contestants left throughout the timed round, Xu Qing remained clear-headed until time was called.
• Ji Lingkong announced that 923 contestants remained, and the judges entered to review their results.

Xu Qing stunned the crowd by identifying the maximum number of herbs allowed in the first assessment and advanced among the top hundred. He began the Herbal Refinement competition, where his precise technique stood out as he refined materials with exceptional quality.

• The judges announced Number 5897's score of 99,999 varieties, and the arena fell silent.
• Senior Zhao announced the top hundred contestants, including Xu Qing, who advanced to the next assessment.
• Feng Dian Xianzi and Ming Dong Xianzi reacted to Xu Qing's talent, while Du Gu Jiu Meng warned the Four Alliances' allies to protect him from hidden enemies.
• Senior Zhao explained that the second assessment required contestants to refine one hundred herbs and minerals, with only the top ten advancing.
• Xu Qing began refining the materials with smooth, precise movements, producing exceptionally pure and fragrant results.

Xu Qing excelled in the second stage of the alchemy contest, refining ninety-eight materials of high grade and securing a place in the top ten. As the finalists prepared for the final pill-refining test, Ji Lingkong announced its rules and prize: the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill.

• Xu Qing carefully refined the rare Nine Nether Profound Underworld Grass before time ran out.
• The judges announced that Xu Qing had refined ninety-eight materials, all of them high grade, while the middle-aged cultivator, Extremely Yang Old Daoist, and Dan Chenzi also made the top ten.
• Ji Lingkong began the final pill-refining stage and gave the finalists an hour to rest while explaining the rules.
• Ji Lingkong said representatives of the four great superpowers would choose an ancient pill formula for everyone to refine, and the winner would receive the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill.

The final round of the pill-refinement competition began with Xu Qing and nine other refiners receiving the ancient Yin Yang Longevity Increasing Pill formula. While the others started studying or preparing their ingredients, Xu Qing remained still, and the chapter ended with the spectators being warned to keep quiet or leave.

• Ji Lingkong announced that the final round was beginning and introduced the Yin Yang Longevity Increasing Pill, which could extend a person's life by up to five hundred years with the supplied ingredients.
• Xu Qing examined the formula and ingredients but became distracted by the pill's potential uses instead of starting to refine it.
• The other pill refiners began preparing their ingredients, leaving Xu Qing as the only one who had not made a move.
• Chen Ying mocked Xu Qing and the Four Alliances, and Zhao Shengyang challenged him over his hostility toward them.
• A figure seated in the front row ordered the arguing spectators to watch quietly or leave.

As Xu Qing began refining a pill before the assembled cultivators, his display of the Bao Dan Sect’s advanced techniques astonished the spectators. The Bao Dan Sect’s elders learned he had acquired those techniques only recently, while Xu Qing pressed on into the dangerous fusion stage.

• Chen Ying and Zhao Shengyang fell silent after a representative of the Heaven Suppression Sect raised the dispute, prompting spectators to trade rumors about the deceased’s connection to the Demon Race and Bi Luo Sect.
• Ming Dong Xianzi told Feng Dian that Xu Qing might know more about the matter, then teased her about her interest in him.
• Xu Qing processed the medicinal ingredients with the Nine Stars Method and Yin Yang Dotting Technique, shocking the Bao Dan Sect’s Sect Master and Ji Lingkong.
• Xu Qing began the pill’s initial fusion, sending runes into the furnace as descending starlight replaced its flames.
• Bao Dan Sect Grand Elders praised Xu Qing’s skill and wondered if he was the Sect Master’s illegitimate son, then learned that he had received the sect’s techniques only recently.

Xu Qing stunned the alchemists at the Bao Dan Sect gathering by producing Five-Colored Danxia and refining with multiple furnaces at once. As rival sect representatives began competing to recruit him, he condensed a third furnace and continued refining.

• Xu Qing’s pill liquid rose from the furnace with Five-Colored Danxia, astonishing the spectators and eclipsing the Danxia produced by the other contestants.
• Xu Qing transferred the pill liquid into a phantom furnace and used the Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron technique to refine in a void furnace alongside his real furnace.
• The Bao Dan Sect Master and representatives of the Talismans and Arrays Sect, Blood Refinement Sect, Night Fiend Sect, and Heaven Suppression Sect discussed recruiting Xu Qing and agreed to compete for him.
• Xu Qing remained focused on refining as the nearby contestants watched, and Extremely Yang Old Daoist grew visibly displeased.
• Xu Qing produced three clusters of Five-Colored Danxia and condensed another void pill furnace, refining with three furnaces as one.

Xu Qing’s pill refinement reached its climax as he merged the contents of three furnaces and formed pills infused with Dao Rhyme. The pills received a Grand Dao Blessing, leaving the assembled experts stunned as their effects became apparent.

• Xu Qing’s alchemy produced Dao Rhyme, astonishing Ji Lingkong and the Bao Dan Sect Master.
• Xu Qing summoned three dragon-shaped manifestations that roared above the furnaces before plunging into them.
• Xu Qing merged the contents of the three furnaces into the Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron and began the final pill-formation stage.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist lost focus and disturbed his batch, realizing his pills could no longer be perfect.
• Xu Qing condensed his pills, and golden light and celestial figures appeared as the pills received a Grand Dao Blessing.

Xu Qing completed three Grand Dao Blessed pills after seven days of careful nourishment, establishing himself as a young Alchemy Dao Grandmaster. As Ji Lingkong verified his results, Extremely Yang Old Daoist used the life-threatening True Immortal Blood Refinement Method to raise his own pill’s quality, leaving the competition unresolved.

• Xu Qing’s pill received a Grand Dao Blessing, astonishing the crowd and disrupting three other alchemists’ attempts.
• Xu Qing spent seven days nourishing the three pills, then took them from the Heavenly Furnace Earth Cauldron as Ji Lingkong praised their extraordinary lifespan-extending power.
• Ji Lingkong began verifying the competition results while Extremely Yang Old Daoist grew increasingly resentful.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist spat blood onto his furnace and used the Ancient True Immortal Blood Refinement Method, sending a fire dragon carrying his pill into the sky.
• Xu Qing recognized the extreme method’s potential, while Extremely Yang Old Daoist declared that he was risking everything.

Extremely Yang Old Daoist used the Ancient True Immortal Blood Refinement Method to refine a pill that matched Xu Qing’s, leaving the judges to declare their contest a draw. To decide the winner, they began a Pill Battle, with Xu Qing receiving Ji Lingkong’s instruction before both alchemists analyzed pills supplied by the judges.

• Extremely Yang Old Daoist refined a pill with a Grand Dao Blessing, and Ji Lingkong judged its quality comparable to Xu Qing’s pill.
• The judges eliminated six contestants and declared Xu Qing and Extremely Yang Old Daoist’s pills equal, leaving their contest undecided.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist asked for a Pill Battle, and the judges set rules requiring both alchemists to analyze pills they provided.
• Ji Lingkong explained Pill Battle techniques to Xu Qing, who thanked him and prepared to compete.
• The judges handed pills to Xu Qing and Extremely Yang Old Daoist, and both began analyzing their ingredients and effects.

Xu Qing outperformed Extremely Yang Old Daoist in identifying a series of pills, prompting the humiliated elder to accuse him of cheating. As the accusation angered the judges and alarmed the Blood Moon and Heavenly Demon sect leaders, Xu Qing offered to prove his innocence by identifying more pills.

• Xu Qing analyzed the judges’ increasingly rare pills accurately and quickly, while Extremely Yang Old Daoist struggled to keep up.
• After the judges confirmed Xu Qing’s correct analysis of the thirty-sixth pill, Extremely Yang Old Daoist shouted that Xu Qing must have cheated.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist’s accusation angered the judges, and Blood Moon Zhenren and Heavenly Demon Sanren hurried to deny that he meant to insult the great sects.
• Xu Qing challenged Extremely Yang Old Daoist to bring out more pills so he could demonstrate his abilities and prove his innocence.

Xu Qing challenged Extremely Yang Old Daoist to an alchemy contest and set terms that would make a defeat benefit the sects and the alchemy community. He identified the ingredients and history of Extremely Yang Old Daoist’s rare pill, leaving his opponent stunned by its extraordinary origin and power.

• Xu Qing demanded that Extremely Yang Old Daoist apologize to the judges and representatives, have the Heavenly Demon Sect and Blood Moon Sect compensate the Bao Dan Sect, and lecture on alchemy for three days if he lost.
• Xu Qing offered to lecture for three days as well and invited other masters to share their knowledge, gaining the approval of the middle-aged woman and Dan Chenzi.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist presented his treasured pill, and Xu Qing used his panel to identify its ingredients and its connection to the ancient immortal Past Life Lord.
• Xu Qing recounted how Past Life Lord created the Rebirth Pills while seeking to revive his beloved, leaving the audience and Extremely Yang Old Daoist astonished.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist realized that the pill’s power and value exceeded even the newly refined Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill.

Xu Qing exposed the danger of Extremely Yang Old Daoist’s pill, won the pill dao convention, and secured apologies and compensation for the Bao Dan Sect. The chapter ended with Extremely Yang Old Daoist beginning his promised three-day pill lecture.

• Xu Qing revealed that the ancient pill had killed two people who tested it, and the judges declared it ruined and awarded it to him.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist accepted defeat and promised to apologize, compensate for the sects’ losses, and lecture on pills for three days; the Heavenly Demon Sect and Blood Moon Sect representatives also apologized to the Bao Dan Sect.
• Senior Zhao announced Xu Qing as the convention’s winner, and Ji Lingkong handed him the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill.
• Xu Qing gave the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pill to Du Gu Jiu Meng.
• Extremely Yang Old Daoist began lecturing on the Zi Yang Pill while Xu Qing and Ji Lingkong watched.

Xu Qing learned that Nether Abyss-linked attackers had stolen the Chaos Town Mountain Stone Qing Youzi had obtained for the Ancient Immortal Sect’s formation. He agreed to help investigate the attackers and prepared to join the gathering at Green Peak Mountain, while the Four Alliances’ experts readied to return.

• Qing Youzi visited Xu Qing and explained that an unknown force had seized a shipment containing the Chaos Town Mountain Stone near the Secluded Dark Forest.
• Qing Youzi and Fairy Feng Dian identified the force as possibly connected to Nether Abyss, a vanished sect of assassins, and Qing Youzi proposed joining forces with major sects to investigate.
• Xu Qing agreed to assist and planned to prepare healing and poison-resistant pills before meeting the others at Green Peak Mountain in three days.
• Xu Qing asked Fairy Feng Dian to stay behind and help Senior Ming Dong set up the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation, and she teased him before leaving.
• Xu Qing arrived at Blue Bamboo Residence and found Du Gu Jiu Meng and the other Four Alliances’ experts preparing to return.

Xu Qing joined Qing Youzi’s expedition to investigate the reappeared Nether Abyss, bringing pills to support the assembled sect experts. At the abyss’s outer perimeter, a steward warned that a powerful exotic beast might be lurking inside, but Qing Youzi remained confident.

• Xu Qing gave Du Gu Jiu Meng most of the Mountain Protecting Grand Formation materials and explained that he had decided to join Qing Youzi’s expedition to obtain the Chaotic Mountain-Suppressing Stone.
• Three days later, Xu Qing gathered with experts from major sects at Green Peak Mountain, where Qing Youzi and Li Yi rallied them to eradicate the Nether Abyss remnants and investigate the unknown force.
• Zong Fan, Li Yi, and other experts offered to protect Xu Qing, and Xu Qing distributed pills prepared to counter poison and heal injuries.
• After traveling for ten days, the expedition reached the Nether Abyss’s outer perimeter, where Qing Youzi’s steward reported that a powerful exotic beast had roared from within three days earlier.
• Qing Youzi dismissed the danger of a possible Town Immortal Realm beast and said it would still meet its end.

Xu Qing warned Li Yi that their easy progress into the Nether Abyss might be a trap, just as Qing Youzi’s team was ambushed by a growing force of Nether Abyss remnants. The chapter left Li Yi and Xu Qing rushing toward a red signal flare while Qing Youzi’s team held its array and called for reinforcements.

• Qing Youzi divided the group into teams and told Xu Qing to stay near Li Yi and support him with pills.
• Li Yi led his fifteen-person team through the Nether Abyss, while Xu Qing supplied Clear Spirit Yang Return Powder to disciples suffering from the heavy yin energy.
• After reaching a gorge in the deepest part of the Nether Abyss without meeting resistance, Xu Qing warned Li Yi that the smooth journey might be a trap and suggested the remnants were targeting their forces.
• A red signal flare appeared, and Li Yi ordered the team to regroup before rushing toward it; Xu Qing followed and cautioned him to watch for a trap.
• Qing Youzi’s team was ambushed by Nether Abyss remnants, lost three cultivators, and found itself surrounded by an increasing number of enemies.
• Qing Youzi called for reinforcements and ordered his team to form an array and hold their position.

Xu Qing and Li Yi arrived in time to rescue Qing Youzi's team from a deadly ambush, then regrouped the surviving cultivators after the attackers fled. When a mysterious blue light appeared in the Nether Abyss, Xu Qing organized a cautious advance toward it, taking the lead as the group set out to investigate.

• Xu Qing and Li Yi reached the devastated forest, where Li Yi engaged the silver-masked figure and Xu Qing used his clones to rescue three wounded cultivators.
• The black-clothed attackers withdrew, and Xu Qing treated the survivors while his clones recovered the eleven fallen cultivators' bodies.
• The regrouped teams counted fifteen casualties, then spotted a dark blue radiance rising from the depths of the Nether Abyss.
• Xu Qing urged the cultivators to scout for further ambushes before pursuing the attackers, and Li Yi supported his plan after crediting Xu Qing with noticing the danger first.
• Xu Qing assigned scouting and support roles, distributed healing pills and emergency treasures, and led the group toward the depths of the Nether Abyss.

Xu Qing led the sect cultivators through the Nether Abyss, defeating enemy squads before his force was trapped by a larger ambush. When a Dao Immortal Golden Mask Cultivator attacked Li Yi, Xu Qing intervened, raised his strength with the Mystic Phantom Dao Heart Sutra, and challenged the enemy.

• Xu Qing and Qing Youzi led a scouting team that ambushed and killed a Nether Abyss squad with help from Li Yi and the other cultivators.
• Xu Qing, Qing Youzi, and Li Yi divided their forces and advanced along the canyon fissure, driving back successive enemy attacks.
• A group of Nether Abyss cultivators revealed an ambush led by Silver Mask fighters and a Dao Immortal Golden Mask Cultivator, and the two sides began fighting.
• Xu Qing held back his strength while fighting, sensing a hidden phantom that the other cultivators could not detect.
• A second Golden Mask Cultivator attacked Li Yi from behind, but Xu Qing blocked the strike with his spear and took the Dao Immortal on himself.
• Xu Qing spent 160,000 Attribute Points to raise the Mystic Phantom Dao Heart Sutra to Peak Mastery, then attacked with three solid figures bearing different weapons.

Xu Qing killed a Golden Mask Cultivator in the Dao Immortal Realm, then led Li Yi and a group of cultivators into the Nether Abyss to pursue the fleeing Netherworld cultivators. Their search led them to a Dao Immortal Realm Netherworld Guardian Beast, and they faced a choice between killing it before it could call for help or sneaking past.

• Xu Qing's four avatars joined him in battle, and he killed the Golden Mask Cultivator with a spear strike aided by the South Sky Tower.
• The surviving Golden Mask Cultivator and the other Netherworld cultivators fled into the Nether Abyss, so Xu Qing and his allies chased them to the canyon.
• Xu Qing divided the party, leaving Qing Youzi above to provide support while he and Li Yi led nearly twenty Tribulation Immortal High-Rank cultivators into the abyss.
• Chen Yu tracked the fugitives east through an ancient ruin, and the group followed their low-altitude route across the canyon floor.
• The group encountered a Dao Immortal Realm defensive Netherworld Guardian Beast, and Xu Qing warned that they had to kill it quickly or sneak past before it alerted the others.

Xu Qing and Li Yi attacked Nether Abyss cultivators gathered at an ancient altar, while Xu Qing drew away the Netherworld Beasts so Li Yi could disrupt the ritual. Xu Qing used the beast horde to gain Attribute Points and advance his Mystic Phantom Dao Heart Sutra to Great Accomplishment, but a sword light then struck the horde.

• Xu Qing stored the group in the South Sky Tower, and he and Li Yi slipped past the Netherworld Guardian Beast to find the Nether Abyss cultivators at an altar.
• Xu Qing and Li Yi led an assault on the cultivators, and Li Yi moved to disrupt the altar as a Guardian Beast emerged from beneath it.
• Xu Qing killed the Guardian Beast, drew the arriving beast horde away, and left Li Yi to fight the remaining Golden Mask Cultivator and destroy the altar.
• Xu Qing realized that killing Netherworld Beasts reduced his Luck Value, but he chose to keep fighting them for Attribute Points.
• Xu Qing spent Attribute Points to bring his Mystic Phantom Dao Heart Sutra to Great Accomplishment and used his nine clones to slay thirteen Netherworld Beasts.
• Xu Qing dismissed his clones and concealed his strength just as a pale white sword light plunged into the beast horde.