Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang and Xiao Yan explored the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon plaza before Chen Yang clashed with Yao Wan Gui and killed Yao Feng. Chen Yang overwhelmed the Yao Clan members with his strength, and two elders arrived to ask him to spare Yao Wan Gui.

• Chen Yang and Xiao Yan browsed the plaza, where Xiao Yan traded three Seventh-grade Pills for medicinal materials and Chen Yang exchanged an Eighth-grade Four-Colored Pill Lightning pill for a rare ingredient.
• Yao Wan Gui confronted Chen Yang for entering the Medicine Realm without an invitation, and Chen Yang insulted the Yao Clan and refused to apologize.
• Yao Feng threatened Chen Yang, who killed him with a glance, prompting Yao Wan Gui to attack in fury.
• Chen Yang summoned Bai Wan, who struck Yao Wan Gui down, while Chen Yang’s aura forced the other Yao Clan members to kneel.
• A white-haired elder and a red-haired elder arrived, and the white-haired elder asked Chen Yang to forgive Yao Wan Gui.

Chen Yang forced the Yao Clan to answer for Yao Wan Gui’s insult, then left him alive but sealed for five years so Medicine Elder could eventually take revenge. Chen Yang and Xiao Yan joined the Medicine Canon, where Chen Yang arranged for Xiao Yan to participate.

• Chen Yang rejected Yao Dan’s apology, and Yao Dan slapped Yao Wan Huo for speaking out of turn.
• Yao Dan offered compensation to spare Yao Wan Gui, and Chen Yang sealed his Dou Qi and spiritual power, leaving him five years to find a way to recover.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Yan followed Yao Dan to the Medicine Canon and arrived at the gathering on the mountaintop.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Yan that he had spared Yao Wan Gui so Medicine Elder could revive and kill him personally.
• Chen Yang asked Yao Dan to arrange for Xiao Yan to take part in the Yao Clan’s grand event, and Yao Dan agreed.

Chen Yang and Xiao Yan attended the Yao Clan’s Medicine Canon, where Yao Dan announced the Prelude’s prizes and welcomed Xiao Yan into the competition. With Chen Yang lending him two Heavenly Flames, Xiao Yan took his place among the young alchemists as the contest began.

• Chen Yang asked Yao Dan about the Yao Clan’s Medicinal Wine, and Yao Dan promised him bottles and barrels of several varieties after the Medicine Canon.
• Yao Tian resolved to prove himself in the Prelude, while Yao Ling sensed that Chen Yang’s Spiritual Power surpassed Yao Dan’s and felt an unexplained urge to approach him.
• Yao Dan opened the Medicine Canon, and Yao Wan Huo announced that participants would receive a pill one grade higher than the one they refined, with a Semi-finished Ninth-grade Treasure Pill as the top prize.
• Chen Yang encouraged Xiao Yan to compete and promised to help finish the Treasure Pill if Xiao Yan won first place.
• Xiao Yan borrowed Volcanic Stone Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Flame from Chen Yang, then joined Yao Ling and Yao Xingji at the alchemy stations as the Prelude began.

Xiao Yan entered the Medicine Canon Prelude and used his five Heavenly Flames and Medicine Elder’s Spirit Ascension Technique to improve his pill beyond its initial Four-Colored Pill Lightning. He surpassed Yao Tian by refining a Seven-Colored Pill Lightning pill, while Chen Yang prepared to compete with the Yao Clan’s Ninth-grade Alchemists later.

• Yao Tian dismissed Xiao Yan’s chances, but Xiao Yan revealed the Myriad Beasts Cauldron and his powerful Glazed Sea Green Flame, startling the Yao Clan.
• Chen Yang confirmed that Xiao Yan’s flame had been fused from three Heavenly Flames and hinted that he would compete in the Medicine Canon’s later Ninth-grade Alchemy contest.
• Yao Tian refined a pill with nearly seven colors of Pill Lightning, while Yao Ling produced a Four-Colored Pill Lightning pill and Yao Xingji barely entered the top ten.
• Xiao Yan refined the Marrow Cleansing Transformation Pill to Four-Colored Pill Lightning, then used five Heavenly Flames and the Medicine Realm’s spiritual energy to enhance it.
• Xiao Yan’s Pill Lightning reached Seven-Colored, surpassing Yao Tian as the gathered Yao Clan members watched.

Xiao Yan won first place in the Medicine Canon Prelude by refining an Eighth-grade Seven-Colored Pill Lightning Pill, while Yao Dan recognized his connection to Yao Chen and sought to improve the Yao Clan’s ties with Chen Yang. After the Prelude ended, Chen Yang, Yao Dan, Yao Wan Huo, and Mister Qin began the Medicine Canon Main Event.

• Xiao Yan used the Heng Ha Two Generals to withstand the Pill Lightning and complete his Eighth-grade Seven-Colored Pill Lightning Marrow Cleansing Transformation Pill, defeating Yao Tian in the Medicine Canon Prelude.
• Yao Dan asked Chen Yang whether Xiao Yan was connected to Yao Chen, and Chen Yang revealed that Medicine Elder was alive and would return within five years to take Yao Wan Gui’s head.
• Yao Tian congratulated Xiao Yan and invited him to exchange Alchemy insights after the Medicine Canon, while Xiao Yan deferred to Chen Yang’s arrangements.
• Yao Wan Huo announced Xiao Yan as the Prelude’s first-place winner and presented him with his reward; Xiao Yan then joined Chen Yang on the platform.
• Yao Dan announced that he, Yao Wan Huo, Mister Qin, and Chen Yang would take part in the Medicine Canon Main Event, and the event began.

Mister Qin and the Yao Clan displayed their Heavenly Flames and Medicine Cauldrons before the alchemy contest began, and Chen Yang revealed a flame powerful enough to rival the top three. As the alchemists started refining pills, Yao Ling realized Chen Yang was preparing a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, leaving the others unaware of what he was attempting.

• Mister Qin showed off the Yin Yang Twin Flames and the seventh-ranked Holy Radiance Cauldron, prompting Yao Wan Huo and Yao Dan to reveal the Yao Clan’s flames and cauldrons.
• Chen Yang summoned a purple Fire Dragon that appeared to be the Three Thousand Burning Flame, though it was actually Solar True Fire formed by fusing six Heavenly Flames.
• Chen Yang said even the fifth-ranked Dragon Phoenix Cauldron could not withstand the pill he intended to refine, making Yao Dan suspect he was a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist.
• The alchemists enlarged their cauldrons and began refining medicinal materials, while Chen Yang used fewer than a hundred ingredients and Yao Dan drew materials from Medicine Mountain.
• Yao Ling recognized that Chen Yang’s ingredients and Emperor Realm Spiritual Power could enable a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, and Chen Yang began forming seals to create one.

While Yao Dan and Yao Wan Huo refined Nine-Rank Profound Pills, Chen Yang secretly completed a Ninth-grade Golden Pill. The chapter ended as Nine Profound Golden Lightning covered the Medicine Realm, revealing Chen Yang’s achievement to everyone.

• Mister Qin refined a Ninth-grade Treasure Pill, then joined Xiao Yan and explained a point about alchemy to him.
• Yao Dan and Yao Wan Huo began refining Nine-Rank Profound Pills while Chen Yang continued his quiet refinement.
• Yao Ling recognized that Chen Yang was using pure Wood Attribute energy and believed he was refining a Ninth-grade Golden Pill.
• Yao Wan Huo gave his unfinished Mysterious Pill Nascent Pill to Yao Dan, who absorbed its energy and completed his own Nine-Rank Profound Pill.
• Yao Dan refined and captured his Nine-Rank Profound Pill, triggering Chen Yang’s system to grant him the Nine Revolutions Soul Returning Pill.
• Chen Yang activated his completed pill, and Nine Profound Golden Lightning spread across the Medicine Realm as Yao Dan realized Chen Yang had refined a Ninth-grade Golden Pill.

Chen Yang completed a Ninth-grade Golden Pill while Yao Ling, Xiao Yan, Yao Wan Huo, and Mister Qin watched in astonishment. After Bai Wan helped him withstand the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, Chen Yang captured the pill and accepted Yao Dan’s congratulatory gift.

• Yao Ling recognized the Nine Profound Golden Lightning and resolved to stay by Chen Yang’s side, even as an Alchemy Apprentice.
• Yao Wan Huo slapped himself to confirm he was awake, then wept upon realizing Chen Yang had refined a Ninth-grade Golden Pill, while Mister Qin marveled at the achievement.
• Xiao Yan grew furious that Chen Yang had become a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist and shouted at him as Chen Yang merged the Law of Life into the pill.
• Chen Yang sent Bai Wan to battle the Nine Profound Golden Lightning for two and a half hours until the final bolt was swallowed and the thundercloud dispersed.
• Chen Yang caught the pill after it transformed into a Green-clad Girl, returned it to pill form, and stored it in a Jade Bottle.
• Yao Dan offered Chen Yang a Nine-Rank Profound Pill to congratulate him on reaching the Ninth-grade Golden Pill realm.

After Chen Yang refined the first Ninth-grade Golden Pill in thousands of years, the Yao Clan and Medicine Realm celebrated his achievement. Yao Dan privately learned that Chen Yang came from another world, and the chapter ended with Yao Ling asking permission to follow him.

• Yao Dan offered Chen Yang a Ninth-Rank Profound Pill and congratulated him on refining a Ninth-grade Golden Pill.
• Chen Yang announced that he would explain the Golden Pill Great Path at Medicine Mountain Square in three days.
• Chen Yang told Yao Dan that he was not of this world and urged him to keep that secret and hold on to hope for the future.
• Chen Yang teased Xiao Yan for cursing him, then asked Yao Dan to arrange lodging and Medicinal Materials for him and his brother.
• Yao Ling followed Yao Dan and asked permission to follow Mr. Chen Yang.

Yao Ling joined Chen Yang as his Alchemy Apprentice, and he and Xiao Yan left the Medicine Realm after looting much of the Yao Clan’s Medicine Vault. Outside the Shennong Mountain Range, Chen Yang warned off a group of powerful observers before taking Xiao Yan and Yao Ling back to Starfall Pavilion.

• Yao Dan approved Yao Ling’s plan to follow Chen Yang and gave her the Yao Clan’s only Nine-Rank Profound Pill as a dowry.
• Chen Yang showed Xiao Yan the Life Creation Pill, revealing that it could revive the dead and that he intended it for Xiao Yan’s Teacher, then guided Xiao Yan in Alchemy for three days.
• Chen Yang lectured the Yao Clan’s Alchemists for three days, and Yao Ling asked to follow him; he accepted her as an Alchemy Apprentice and let her say goodbye to her family.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Yan raided the Yao Clan’s Medicine Vault, leaving with Yao Ling and a large haul of treasures.
• Chen Yang detected more than ten powerful auras near the Shennong Mountain Range, warned them not to target him, and returned to Starfall Pavilion with Xiao Yan and Yao Ling.

Chen Yang returned to Starfall Pavilion with Xiao Yan and Yao Ling, then arranged for Xiao Yan and Iron Sword Venerable to cultivate while he handled pavilion affairs. Medicine Elder emerged from seclusion with his Spiritual Power advanced to the Mid Heaven Realm, and he teased Chen Yang about Yao Ling’s interest in him.

• Chen Yang brought Xiao Yan and Yao Ling back to Starfall Pavilion, where Iron Sword Venerable reported that the pavilion had remained quiet during their absence.
• Xiao Yan entered seclusion to consolidate his Eighth-grade Alchemist advancement and improve his Spiritual Power before devouring the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Chen Yang told Iron Sword Venerable to refine the medicinal pill Xiao Yan had given him and promised to help him advance further.
• Medicine Elder emerged from seclusion with Mid Heaven Realm Spiritual Power, and Chen Yang introduced Yao Ling as his Alchemy Apprentice.
• Medicine Elder privately offered to teach Chen Yang formulas to help him pursue Yao Ling, and Chen Yang rebuked him.

Chen Yang revealed that he had refined a Ninth-grade Golden Pill for Medicine Elder and turned down the offer to lead Starfall Pavilion. The group welcomed Gu Lie and Xun Er, who had come to meet Chen Yang, and Xun Er reunited with Xiao Yan.

• Medicine Elder asked Chen Yang to become Starfall Pavilion's pavilion master, but Chen Yang refused and joked with him and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan revealed that Chen Yang had refined a Ninth-grade Golden Pill for Medicine Elder, who was deeply moved by the gift.
• Chen Yang disclosed that he was a Late Eight-star Dou Sheng and a Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist.
• Gu Lie announced that he and Xun Er had arrived at Starfall Pavilion to see Chen Yang.
• Xun Er entered the main hall and greeted Chen Yang, Medicine Elder, and Xiao Yan, then laughed at Xiao Yan's Soul Hall Elder disguise.

Chen Yang negotiated with Gu Lie for the Ancient Clan to provide a Ninth-grade Golden Pill in exchange for access to its resources and cooperation against the Soul Clan and Soul Hall. Gu Lie returned to consult Gu Yuan, leaving Xun Er at Starfall Pavilion with Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan removed his Soul Hall Elder disguise and greeted Gu Lie, who was startled by Xiao Yan's rapid rise to Two-star Dou Zun.
• Gu Lie explained that Gu Yuan had sent him to bring Xun Er to see Xiao Yan and to request a Ninth-grade Golden Pill from Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang agreed to refine a pill in exchange for the Ancient Clan's resources, the Ninth Order magical beast essence bloodline, intelligence on the Soul Clan and Soul Hall, and the ability to mobilize the Black Annihilation Army.
• Chen Yang refused the Seven-star Dou Sheng Corpse Bone, and Xiao Yan reassured Xun Er that they had set their sights on a more powerful corpse.
• Gu Lie agreed to the terms and left to discuss the pill with Gu Yuan, while Xun Er stayed at Starfall Pavilion.

Chen Yang negotiated with Gu Yuan and Gu Lie at Starfall Pavilion, agreeing to help Gu Lie advance and offering Gu Yuan a way to strengthen his body. After leaving Xun Er with Xiao Yan, Chen Yang and his companions reached Sacred Pill City with Medicine Elder, who was returning after sixty years.

• Chen Yang took Xiao Yan's medicinal materials and promised to prepare a formula to help Xiao Yan and Xun Er advance, while Xiao Yan revealed that he had won first place in the Yao Clan's Medicine Canon Prelude.
• Xiao Yan and Xun Er reunited in private, and Xun Er explained that spies among the Ancient Clans had spread news of their arrival and that the Soul Clan had sent an Eight-star Dou Sheng to the Yao Clan.
• Chen Yang explained the clans' spy networks to Yao Ling and began refining Xiao Yan's semi-finished Treasure Pill while advising her to learn how to handle people and worldly affairs.
• Gu Yuan and Gu Lie arrived at Starfall Pavilion, where Gu Yuan inferred that Chen Yang was not from the Dou Qi Continent and agreed to keep that knowledge private.
• Gu Yuan chose a Ninth-grade Golden Pill plan for Gu Lie, and Chen Yang offered Gu Yuan a formula to strengthen his physical body to Peak Nine-star Dou Sheng level.
• Chen Yang, Xiao Yan, Yao Ling, and Medicine Elder left for the Pill Tower and arrived in Sacred Pill City, where Medicine Elder said he had finally returned after sixty years.

Chen Yang, Xiao Yan, and Yao Ling arrived in Sacred Pill City, where Xiao Yan found a sealed Soul Weapon and learned that his diagram had let him sense it. At the Pill Tower, a mature woman came out, and Chen Yang told Xiao Yan to call her Medicine Elder’s wife.

• Medicine Elder recalled rejecting Xuan Yi for Han Feng, and Chen Yang revealed the old story to a shocked Xiao Yan.
• Chen Yang led Xiao Yan and Yao Ling through Sacred Pill City, where Xiao Yan sensed a broken sword at a stall.
• Chen Yang recognized the sword as a rare Soul Weapon and had Yao Ling trade an Eighth-grade Five-Colored Pill Lightning Recipe for it.
• Chen Yang explained that Xiao Yan’s diagram had let him detect the weapon’s seal, which had been placed by an Emperor Realm Spiritual Power expert.
• Xiao Yan, Chen Yang, and Yao Ling reached the Pill Tower, where Chen Yang identified the woman who came out as Medicine Elder’s wife and ordered Xiao Yan to address her that way.

Medicine Elder reunited with Xuan Yi and Xuan Kong Zi at the Pill Tower after they learned he had survived as a soul. The chapter left Medicine Elder proudly showing off Xiao Yan to Xuan Kong Zi while Chen Yang kept news of the reunion under wraps.

• Xiao Yan mistook Xuan Yi for Medicine Elder’s wife, and Medicine Elder emerged from the Bone Flame Ring to greet her.
• Xuan Yi scolded Medicine Elder for leaving the Pill Tower and trusting Han Feng, then learned that Xiao Yan was his new disciple.
• Xuan Yi invited the group into the Pill Tower and recognized Chen Yang as the alchemist who had refined a Ninth-grade Golden Pill at the Yao Clan Medicine Canon.
• Xuan Yi called Xuan Kong Zi, who reunited with Medicine Elder and heard how Han Feng and Mu Gu had betrayed him.
• Medicine Elder enthusiastically praised Xiao Yan’s accomplishments to Xuan Kong Zi, who reacted with a darkening expression.

Chen Yang and his companions visited the Pill Tower, where Xuan Kong Zi and Old Monster Lin welcomed Chen Yang and Xiao Yan and discussed alchemy with them. Medicine Elder learned that his Grandmaster Xiao Jinghou was near death after entering deadly closed-door cultivation, leaving him shaken.

• Xuan Kong Zi welcomed Xiao Yan, gave him his alchemy notes, and then respectfully greeted Chen Yang after Xuan Yi introduced him as the Ninth-grade Golden Pill Alchemist.
• Xuan Kong Zi led the group to the main hall, where his disciple Cao Ying met Yao Ling and felt the force of Yao Ling's Spiritual Power.
• Old Monster Lin joined the gathering, and Chen Yang's explanations of alchemy enlightened him and the Pill Tower members.
• Medicine Elder told Old Monster Lin that he expected to gather the materials for his resurrection within a year or two.
• Old Monster Lin revealed that Xiao Jinghou had entered deadly closed-door cultivation and now had very little life force, leaving Medicine Elder shocked.

Chen Yang revived Xiao Jinghou by restoring his soul with a Soul Infant Pill and helping Xiao Yan fashion him a new body from Yao Feng’s remains. After Xiao Jinghou emerged from seclusion as a Ban Sheng, Chen Yang told Old Monster Lin that their business concerning Medicine Elder was settled and raised one more request.

• Medicine Elder asked Chen Yang to save Xiao Jinghou, and Chen Yang agreed to examine him at the Little Pill Tower.
• Chen Yang determined that Xiao Jinghou’s soul and body were beyond repair and proposed restoring his soul and replacing his body; Old Monster Lin provided a Soul Infant Fruit for Chen Yang to refine into a Soul Infant Pill.
• Chen Yang extracted Xiao Jinghou’s soul and refined the pill before the Little Pill Tower’s elders, then used it to restore Xiao Jinghou’s soul.
• Xiao Jinghou woke and thanked Chen Yang, and Xiao Yan used Yao Feng’s Corpse Bone and the Pill Tower’s supplies to create him a new body.
• After three days of seclusion, Xiao Jinghou emerged as a Ban Sheng, and Chen Yang told Old Monster Lin he had one more request.

Chen Yang persuaded the Pill Tower to let Xiao Yan devour the Three Thousand Burning Flame, with Zhu Huo providing an Ancient Dragon Blood Essence Dragon Seal to help him. Xiao Yan captured the flame’s origin and began refining it, while Chen Yang stayed at the Pill Tower and taught Yao Ling and Cao Ying.

• Chen Yang asked Old Monster Lin to let Xiao Yan devour the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Old Monster Lin agreed after warning that an Ancient Void Dragon’s Dragon Seal made the flame dangerous.
• Zhu Huo arrived and gave Xiao Yan a Dragon Seal combined with a drop of Ancient Dragon Blood Essence, while Chen Yang supplied him with a Dragon Phoenix Glazed Pill for after the devouring.
• Old Monster Lin required Xiao Yan to enter the Pill Gathering four years later, win its championship, and join the Little Pill Tower Elder Council, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Xuan Kong Zi and Xiao Jinghou entered the Star Domain with Xiao Yan to weaken the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and three days later they reported that Xiao Yan had captured its origin and was devouring it.
• Chen Yang remained at the Pill Tower and instructed Yao Ling and Cao Ying in alchemy as three months passed; Wind Venerable awakened and returned to Starfall Pavilion, and the System Prompt then sounded while Chen Yang was teaching.

Chen Yang received the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire and considered impersonating Yan Jin for his next plan while Yao Ling and Cao Ying advanced their alchemy under his guidance. After Zi Yan arrived at the Pill Tower and spent time with Chen Yang, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion stronger and told Chen Yang he had not disappointed him.

• Chen Yang obtained the Nine Nether Golden Ancestor Fire after Xiao Yan was identified as the Pill Tower’s strongest possessor of a Heavenly Flame, and he planned to impersonate Yan Jin.
• Yao Ling and Cao Ying refined pills beyond their previous limits while Chen Yang coached them, impressing Xuan Kong Zi and drawing teasing from Medicine Elder.
• Zi Yan arrived at the Pill Tower, reunited with Chen Yang, and received pills, candied hawthorn, and a Storage Ring full of treats.
• Chen Yang gave Elder Zhuo Huo Grade 8 Pills for the Ancient Void Dragon Clan and a list of medicinal ingredients to collect.
• After two more months, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion in a flash of black-purple light and told Chen Yang he had not failed him.