Chapter Summaries

Chen Yang refined a pill to help Xiao Yan cultivate, and Xiao Yan advanced to Dou Wang after three months of intensive Alchemy training. The Xiao Family returned to the Imperial Capital, where Chen Yang welcomed Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yong to his courtyard.

• Xiao Yan shared the remaining Seven Illusory Azure Spirit Saliva and Star Grass with Chen Yang, who explained the Seven Star Soul Forging Pill and prepared to refine another pill.
• Chen Yang refined a Sixth-grade Peak Green Lotus Core Flame Pill and gave it to Xiao Yan, instructing him to use it while tempering his Dou Qi and to prepare for the Alchemist Conference.
• Chen Yang charged Xiao Yan seventy million Gold Coin for the pills and Pill Recipe, and Xiao Yan then devoted himself to studying Alchemy.
• After three months, Xiao Yan broke through to One-star Dou Wang and returned to Wutan City to oversee the Xiao Family's relocation.
• Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yong, and several core disciples arrived in the Imperial Capital, and Xiao Yan brought the two elders to Chen Yang's courtyard, where Chen Yang greeted Xiao Yong.

As the Alchemist Conference approached, Chen Yang met with the Xiao Family and then took Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Ya Fei to browse the Alchemist Guild for treasures. He failed to find the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes and returned home, where a System Prompt sounded during the night.

• Chen Yang assessed Xiao Yong and Xiao Zhan, praised the Xiao Family, and arranged for the Mittel Family to help them settle into the Imperial Capital.
• The Xiao Family received congratulatory gifts, while Xiao Yan concealed his Dou Wang strength and showed himself as a Five-star Dou Ling and Fourth-grade Alchemist.
• Chen Yang reviewed how his companions had grown stronger and decided to take Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin shopping before the Alchemist Conference.
• Ya Fei joined Chen Yang and the others, and Chen Yang donned Sixth-grade Alchemist Robes before entering the Alchemist Guild.
• Chen Yang searched the Guild for a jade slip containing the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes but did not find it, then agreed to meet alchemy guild presidents after the test.
• Chen Yang returned home with the women, and a System Prompt sounded while he was spending the night with Ya Fei.

Chen Yang received an optimized version of Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes, while Xiao Yan copied the original technique onto a scroll and gave it to him. At the Nalan Family gathering, Chen Yang asked Xiao Yan to help referee the alchemy event, leaving Xiao Yan disappointed that he would not get to show off.

• Chen Yang received an optimized Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes that let him use its full power without the Xiao Clan's Clan Mark.
• Xiao Yan copied the first transformation of Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes onto a scroll so he could give it to Chen Yang.
• Ya Fei told Chen Yang that the Mittel Family had assigned her to accompany him to the gathering at the Nalan Family.
• Nalan Yanran welcomed Chen Yang's group and led them inside after Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan arrived.
• Xiao Yan gave Chen Yang the copied scroll and told him he had successfully refined a Fifth-grade Pill.
• Chen Yang told Xiao Yan to help him referee the gathering's alchemy event, disappointing Xiao Yan, who had hoped to show off.

At a gathering before the Alchemist Conference, Chen Yang and Xiao Yan impressed the Empire’s leaders and accepted pill-refining orders. As the conference began, Chen Yang exposed Yan Li, a Chuyun Empire Alchemist using a Restoration Pill to disguise his age, and had him captured before forcing him to take a pill that would reveal his true appearance.

• Chen Yang told Fa Ma that Xiao Yan would not compete because he had already refined a Fifth-grade Pill, and the two agreed to serve as judges.
• At the rear-courtyard gathering, Chen Yang and Xiao Yan accepted pill-refining orders from the Empire’s major families and institutions.
• Nalan Yanran watched Xiao Yan join the leaders’ circle and defended him when Yao Ye teased her about still having feelings for him.
• At the conference, Chen Yang spotted Yan Li’s unusually powerful Spiritual Power and ordered Hai Bodong to capture him.
• Chen Yang identified Yan Li’s Restoration Pill disguise and made a fourth-grade pill to counter its effects, while Yan Li revealed his ties to the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and threatened Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang forced the pill into Yan Li’s mouth and waited for the disguise to change.

Chen Yang exposed and captured Yan Li, then learned that the Netherworld Poison Abyss lay within the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s forbidden ground. After the first two rounds of the Alchemist Conference ended, Chen Yang invited the alchemists to return the next day to watch him refine a Sixth Grade Huang Ji Pill.

• Yan Li transformed, tried to poison the gathered spectators, and attacked Xiao Yi Xian, but she broke his limbs and neutralized his poison.
• Chen Yang took Yan Li to a quiet room, where Yan Li identified the map location as the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect’s forbidden ground and named Xie Bi Yan as the Chuyun Empire’s strongest figure.
• Chen Yang killed Yan Li after receiving his answers, and Xiao Yan burned the body with Green Lotus Core Flame.
• The first two rounds of the Alchemist Conference ended with fewer than a hundred contestants qualifying for the final round.
• Chen Yang announced that he would refine a Sixth Grade Huang Ji Pill publicly the next day, and the alchemists thanked him.

Chen Yang demonstrated the refinement of a Huang Ji Pill before thousands of alchemists, while Liu Ling won the Alchemist Conference. Two days later, Chen Yang and Xiao Yan flew to Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Yan announced he had come to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement.

• Gu He arrived at the Alchemist Conference, recognized Chen Yang, and agreed to discipline his disciple Liu Ling more carefully.
• Liu Ling defeated Yao Yue in the final round and won the 7th Alchemist Conference.
• Chen Yang refined a Huang Ji Pill in two and a half hours while teaching the assembled alchemists, then gave the pill to Fa Ma.
• Two days later, Xiao Yan thanked Chen Yang for supporting him over the past three years, and they set out together for Misty Cloud Mountain.
• Chen Yang and Xiao Yan flew to Misty Cloud Sect, where Xiao Yan declared his name and challenged Nalan Yanran to fulfill the Three-Year Agreement.

Chen Yang gained Three-star Dou Zong strength and became a Seventh-grade Alchemist as Xiao Yan’s unexpected Dou King status stunned the Misty Cloud Sect gathering. When Yun Leng reappeared as Great Elder, Chen Yang sent Xiao Yan to stall him while he went to find Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan arranged a spar with Nalan Yanran.

• Chen Yang’s System raised his strength to Three-star Dou Zong and his alchemist rank to Seventh-grade, and granted him three Na Lings and three High-grade Storage Rings.
• The gathered leaders and disciples reacted with shock to Xiao Yan’s Dou King strength, while Nalan Jie regretted his past rejection of Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran felt the distance between them grow.
• Yun Leng appeared as Great Elder despite Yun Yun having removed him from the position, and Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran privately questioned his return.
• Chen Yang ordered Xiao Yan to keep Yun Leng occupied while he searched for Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan agreed to spar with Nalan Yanran after suppressing his cultivation to Two-star Dou Grandmaster.
• Medicine Elder told Xiao Yan that Chen Yang had already left and that Hai Bodong’s illusion remained behind, so Xiao Yan faced Nalan Yanran for their spar.

Chen Yang found Yun Yun imprisoned by Yun Shan and began breaking her seal while Xiao Yan kept Nalan Yanran occupied on the plaza. Yun Shan then revealed himself as a Dou Zong, and the chapter ended as he faced Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan sparred with Nalan Yanran while asking how she had learned that Yun Yun had delayed taking the Huang Ji Pill, and they suspected Yun Shan had forged the letter she received.
• Medicine Elder warned Xiao Yan that Yun Leng was a Four-star Dou Huang, while Chen Yang slipped away from the plaza and searched the Misty Cloud Mountain Back Peak for Yun Yun.
• Chen Yang found Yun Yun imprisoned in a cave and learned that Yun Shan and a Black Robed Man had sealed her cultivation after she advanced to Five-star Dou Huang.
• Chen Yang revealed that he had reached Three-star Dou Zong and began trying to remove Yun Yun's seal as she warned him to leave the sect.
• After Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran continued fighting to buy time, Yun Leng accused Xiao Yan and Chen Yang of crimes against the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Shan appeared above the plaza as a Dou Zong.

Three months after Yun Shan agreed to help Protector Wu capture Xiao Yan and Chen Yang, the Soul Hall’s scheme unfolded at Misty Cloud Mountain. As Yun Shan and Protector Wu pressured the defenders, Chen Yang arrived with Yun Yun, setting up a confrontation with the Soul Hall.

• Three months earlier, Protector Wu ordered Yun Shan to help capture Xiao Yan and Chen Yang, and Yun Shan reluctantly agreed.
• Xiao Yan and Jia Xing Tian defended Yun Yun’s actions against Yun Shan, but Yun Shan ordered Yun Leng to capture Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan fought Yun Leng while Yun Shan discovered that Chen Yang’s apparent presence had been an illusion and tried to reach Yun Yun.
• Hai Bodong and the Amethyst Winged Lion King blocked Yun Shan, and their battle ended with Protector Wu emerging to attack them.
• Protector Wu’s chains pursued Hai Bodong and the Amethyst Winged Lion King until crimson Sword Qi severed them, and Chen Yang arrived carrying Yun Yun.

Chen Yang fought Protector Wu while Xiao Yan killed Yun Leng, but Protector Wu devoured the souls of Misty Cloud Sect Elders and Yun Shan before retreating into black mist. As Chen Yang and Xiao Yan prepared to finish him, Queen Medusa appeared beside Chen Yang.

• Chen Yang gave Yun Shan one last chance to betray Protector Wu, then attacked them with eighteen Heavenly Flame dragons; Xiao Yan powered up with Medicine Elder’s help and killed Yun Leng with Flame Splitting—Wave Ruler.
• Chen Yang’s attack left Protector Wu near death and Yun Shan injured, but Protector Wu used Nine Forests Hundred Soul Devouring to consume the souls of about half the Misty Cloud Sect Elders and dragged Yun Shan into the flames.
• Chen Yang split the flames and recovered Yun Shan’s lifeless body, while Xiao Yan arrived and took the body to preserve it for Medicine Elder’s revival.
• Chen Yang sent Yun Yun to safety and told Xiao Yan that he planned to use Sky Burning Finger against Protector Wu, with Medicine Elder ready to intervene if needed.
• Queen Medusa appeared beside Chen Yang, alarming Hai Bodong, Fa Ma, and Jia Xing Tian as they wondered whether she had come to help.

Medusa emerged to help Chen Yang, who used a powerful fire technique to kill Protector Wu. After Qing Lin warned that the Xiao Family was in danger, Xiao Yan rushed to the Imperial Capital while Chen Yang headed toward Yun Yun.

• Medusa said the Sky Swallowing Python had begged her to help Chen Yang, and she agreed to kill Protector Wu before returning to the Snake-People Tribe.
• Protector Wu finished devouring the souls of the Misty Cloud Sect’s Elders and Yun Shan, then attacked Chen Yang at Five-star Dou Zong strength.
• Chen Yang used the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Changes and Sky Burning Finger to turn Protector Wu to ash.
• Qing Lin warned that the Xiao Family was in danger, and Chen Yang said the family had been moved to the Mittel Family while the Eight-winged Black Snake Emperor handled the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan flew toward the Imperial Capital, and Chen Yang flew toward Yun Yun.

After the Misty Cloud Sect’s defeat, Chen Yang supported Yun Yun as she took charge of the survivors, while Xiao Yan rushed to rescue the Xiao Family. White Fang defended them until Xiao Yan arrived and killed the Soul Hall attackers, leaving Xiao Yan grateful to Chen Yang and determined to grow stronger.

• Yun Yun mourned Yun Shan privately, then organized the surviving Misty Cloud Sect elders and disciples to clean up and identify the dead.
• Chen Yang reassured Xiao Yi Xian, Ya Fei, and Qing Lin, then teased Hai Bodong about Medusa before calming her.
• Xiao Yan learned the Xiao Family was in danger and hurried to the Imperial Capital with Medicine Elder possessing him.
• White Fang fought three Dou Emperor attackers while protecting the Xiao Family, and Chen Yang’s intervention killed their leader and trapped the other two.
• Xiao Yan killed the remaining Soul Hall Dou Emperors with Medicine Elder’s help and thanked Chen Yang for arranging the rescue.
• Xiao Yan asked Medicine Elder about body-cultivation techniques and promised they would eventually obtain Heaven Tier techniques and cultivation methods.

After the Three-Year Agreement, Chen Yang gathered the Jia Ma Empire’s major forces and established the Yang Alliance, with himself as its leader. He arranged benefits for the Snake-People Tribe and the Jia Ma Imperial Family, then sent Gu He and the Misty Cloud Sect to contribute their resources to the alliance.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran erected a cenotaph for Yun Shan, and Yun Yun comforted the surviving Misty Cloud Sect disciples.
• Chen Yang proposed an alliance among the empire’s major forces, and Yun Yun, Hai Bodong, the Nalan and Mu Families, the Alchemist Guild, and Jia Xing Tian agreed to join.
• Chen Yang offered the Snake-People Tribe land near the Monster Mountain Range and promised Jia Xing Tian a Sect Breaking Pill if the required materials could be gathered.
• The assembled forces named the alliance the Yang Alliance, appointed Chen Yang as Alliance Leader and Hai Bodong as Great Elder, and offered Gu He the Pill Hall.
• Chen Yang promised Gu He guidance from an Eighth-grade Alchemist in exchange for managing the Pill Hall and contributing his medicinal materials.
• Yun Yun agreed to send the Misty Cloud Sect’s stored collections to the Xiao Family, and Chen Yang accepted her plan to have Nalan Yanran meet a potential match.

After the Misty Cloud Sect disaster, Chen Yang spent three days with Yun Yun before visiting the Xiao Family and refining a Seventh-grade Ice Sect Pill. He left the story having revealed his new alchemy level to Xiao Yan and the Imperial Capital’s watching experts.

• Chen Yang and Yun Yun reunited, and Yun Yun chose to remain at the Misty Cloud Sect to care for it and watch over Chen Yang’s estate.
• After three days, Chen Yang left the sect and went to the Xiao Family, where Xiao Zhan gave him the medicinal materials collected by Gu He, the Mittel Family, and the royal family.
• Chen Yang discovered Mystic Ice Jade Essence and began refining an Ice Sect Pill, which could help Hai Bodong break through from Peak Dou Huang to Dou Zong.
• Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder realized Chen Yang was refining a mid-grade Seventh-grade Pill, while experts across the Imperial Capital gathered as Pill Lightning formed.
• Chen Yang used Long Rainbow Setting Sun to disperse the Pill Lightning, then showed Xiao Yan the finished pill and joked that reaching Seventh-grade Alchemist had been luck.

Chen Yang rewarded his allies and prepared to leave for Jia Nan Academy, then refined pills to help Hai Bodong advance and awaken the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s ancient bloodline. The Lion King took the Green Origin Profound Sun Pill, and the chapter ended as Chen Yang’s pill lightning cleared.

• Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, and the other leaders congratulated Chen Yang, who promised to deliver their pills and record their medicinal-material contributions for future alchemy favors.
• Chen Yang told the leaders he would soon leave for Jia Nan Academy but would return if the Yang Alliance needed him.
• Chen Yang gave Hai Bodong an Ice Sect Pill that could safely help him advance to Dou Zong, and Hai Bodong began closed-door cultivation.
• Chen Yang and Medicine Elder encouraged Xiao Yan by declaring they believed he could become a Dou Di, and Xiao Yan resolved to reach that level and beyond.
• Chen Yang explained that the Green Origin Profound Sun Pill could awaken the Amethyst Winged Lion King’s ancient bloodline, then refined one with Medicine Elder’s help.
• Chen Yang dispersed the pill lightning with a sword strike and fed the Green Origin Profound Sun Pill to the Amethyst Winged Lion King.

Chen Yang prepared to leave the Gama Empire with Xiao Yan while refining pills and helping Medusa fuse with the Sky Swallowing Python. The chapter ended with Medusa asleep during the fusion, still faintly aware of Chen Yang's teasing promise to conquer her.

• The Amethyst Winged Lion King formed a cocoon after taking a pill, and Chen Yang planned to take it to the Misty Cloud Sect when it was ready to face its lightning tribulation.
• Xiao Yan agreed to leave for Chuyun Empire with Chen Yang after seven days, and he made more Three-Pattern Green Spirit Pills to strengthen the Xiao Family.
• Xiao Yan rejected Nalan Yanran's hopes of rekindling their relationship, told her he loved Xun Er, and left Nalan Yanran crying in her father's arms.
• Chen Yang spent the following days refining pills and visiting Ya Fei as he prepared to leave the empire.
• Medusa returned to Chen Yang and accepted a Spirit Fusion Pill that would let her merge with the Sky Swallowing Python without erasing its soul; she gave Chen Yang the Snake-People Tribe's medicinal materials in exchange.
• Medusa took the pill and entered Chen Yang's sleeve in her true form, while the Sky Swallowing Python later emerged and happily stayed by his side; Medusa heard Chen Yang say he would conquer her.

Before leaving the Jia Ma Empire, Chen Yang arranged the Yang Alliance’s affairs and said farewell to his allies and family. He departed with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan, leaving Ya Fei, Yun Yun, and the others with resources and plans for the future.

• Chen Yang visited Ya Fei, entrusted her with guiding the Yang Alliance, and told her to reject new members for a year while its strength and leadership developed.
• Chen Yang summoned the alliance’s leaders, distributed promised Medicinal Pills, and urged them to cooperate and strengthen the Yang Alliance.
• At the Xiao Family estate, Chen Yang gave Xiao Yong the green cocoon of the Amethyst Winged Lion King, while Xiao Yan and Xiao Zhan exchanged farewells before Xiao Yan left with Chen Yang.
• Chen Yang visited Yun Yun, gave her Medicinal Pills and an Amethyst Winged Lion King to safeguard, and learned that Nalan Yanran had entered the Gate of Life and Death.
• Chen Yang bid farewell to Yun Yun and departed with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan.

Chen Yang led Xiao Yan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect to eliminate its leaders and a suspected Soul Hall Protector. After killing Xie Shan and overpowering Xie Bi Yan, Chen Yang watched as an eerie black mist pulled the sect’s ancestor away.

• Chen Yang explained that the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect was tied to the Soul Hall and led his companions to attack it the next day.
• Chen Yang killed Xie Shan with a single strike at the sect’s mountain gate.
• Xie Bi Yan appeared and attacked Chen Yang while ordering the sect’s disciples to kill his companions.
• Chen Yang’s golden sword light broke through Xie Bi Yan’s poison Dou Qi, and his Divine Dragon Nine Transformations sealed off the elder’s escape.
• An eerie black mist reached down and pulled Xie Bi Yan away from Chen Yang’s fiery Sword Qi dragons.

Chen Yang defeated Iron Protector while Medicine Elder and Xiao Yan killed Xie Bi Yan, who poisoned Xiao Yan with the Demonic Poisonous Pustule before dying. After Chen Yang temporarily controlled the poison, the group slaughtered the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and looted its stores, leaving Xiao Yan to sort through the spoils.

• Iron Protector attacked Chen Yang, while Medicine Elder took control of Xiao Yan and killed Xie Bi Yan with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler.
• Before dying, Xie Bi Yan infected Xiao Yan with the Demonic Poisonous Pustule, and Medicine Elder captured his soul for interrogation.
• Chen Yang killed Iron Protector with Sky Burning Finger and temporarily suppressed the poison in Xiao Yan’s body.
• Medicine Elder and the others agreed to seek a cure through Wind Venerable or Xiao Yi Xian’s Netherworld Poison Flame, then killed everyone in the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect.
• Xiao Yan looted more than two hundred Storage Rings and began sorting the sect’s treasures with Chen Yang, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin.

Chen Yang and his companions ventured into the poisonous depths behind the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect to find the Netherworld Poison Flame and prepare Xiao Yi Xian to absorb it. They discovered a vast flower sea and identified a purple butterfly as the flame’s transformed form, just as Medicine Elder moved to capture it.

• Medicine Elder and Xiao Yan warned Chen Yang and Xiao Yi Xian about the dangers of absorbing a Heavenly Flame, but Chen Yang revealed the pills and protections he had prepared.
• Chen Yang examined Xiao Yan’s Demonic Poisonous Pustule and promised to help manage it if Xiao Yi Xian could not suppress it after absorbing the Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Chen Yang, Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan, and Medicine Elder traveled through the thick poisonous fog to the back mountain of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect.
• The group emerged at a flower sea of one hundred plots beside a deep blue lake and searched for the Netherworld Poison Flame.
• Qing Lin spotted a purple butterfly, and Chen Yang and Medicine Elder recognized it as the Netherworld Poison Flame’s butterfly form.
• Chen Yang warned Medicine Elder that the flower plots held deadly poisonous plants, but Medicine Elder shielded himself with Bone Spirit Cold Flame and rushed to capture the butterfly.