Chapter Summaries

Lin Ming’s pill summoned Four-color Pill Lightning, surpassing Xiao Yan’s three-color result and leaving him fearing he would lose both the championship and his chance at Three Thousand Burning Flame. Rather than accept defeat, Xiao Yan reached into the fading energy pillar to attempt the dangerous Spirit Ascension method, while the final fusion inside Lin Ming’s cauldron remained unfinished.

• Lin Ming’s pill produced azure, silver, crimson, and golden Pill Lightning, stunning the crowd with its four colors.
• The pill’s energies were still fusing inside Lin Ming’s cauldron, so its final Pill Lightning might grow even more powerful.
• Xiao Yan lost confidence as he compared his three-color Pill Lightning with Lin Ming’s result, and his unstable state disturbed the pill in his cauldron.
• Xiao Yan regained his resolve and thrust his hand into the remaining energy pillar to attempt Spirit Ascension.
• Yao Chen recognized Xiao Yan’s plan and worried that the dangerous method could destroy the pill and injure Xiao Yan’s soul.

Xiao Yan attempted the dangerous Spirit Ascension method to improve the spirituality of his newly formed Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill. After extracting its original spiritual mist with heavenly flames, he fed it a precious Spiritual Light Cluster, leaving the final, perilous merger unfinished.

• Xiao Yan used the remaining world energy and pill lightning to stabilize and reveal the Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill’s manifested spirituality.
• Xiao Yan enveloped the pill in his fused white-green flames and forcibly extracted its spiritual mist, alarming the crowd and the alchemists on the platform.
• Xuan Yi recognized the method as Yao Chen’s Spirit Ascension technique, and Yao Chen confirmed that he had taught it to Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Spiritual Light Cluster Yao Chen had prepared to nourish the cracked pill after its original spirituality had been drawn out.
• Xiao Yan prepared to merge the new spirituality into the pill, with success or failure still uncertain.

Xiao Yan used Forced Spirit Ascension to restore and strengthen his pill, causing its Pill Lightning to transform from three colors into the legendary Five-Colored Pill Lightning. The championship remained undecided as the crowd waited to see whether Lin Ming could surpass him.

• Xiao Yan used his Soul Power and Natal Blood Essence to guide the Spirit Qi back into his damaged pill, restoring its surface and awakening stronger Spirituality.
• Xiao Yan's Three-colored Thundercloud resumed churning, alarming the crowd and reopening the contest against Lin Ming's Four-colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan's thundercloud gained a fourth color, matching Lin Ming's Four-colored Pill Lightning.
• A fifth, purple color appeared in Xiao Yan's thundercloud, creating legendary Five-Colored Pill Lightning and making him the crowd's focus.
• The spectators turned toward Lin Ming's stone platform, where violet-red flames still concealed the outcome of his pill.

Lin Ming completed his pill and produced Eight-and-a-Half-Colored Pill Lightning, surpassing the legendary limit of Tier 8 alchemy. Xiao Yan accepted that he could not compare himself to Lin Ming and let go of his need to surpass him.

• Xiao Yan celebrated his Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill’s Five-Colored Pill Lightning and thought he might finally surpass Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming awakened his cauldron’s medicinal energies and formed his Chaos Color Pill, triggering thunderclouds that expanded to eight colors.
• The spectators, the Three Pill Tower Heads, and Yao Chen reacted in shock as Lin Ming’s Eight-Colored Pill Lightning stunned the plaza.
• Lin Ming used his Soul Power to remove the pill’s final flaw, causing a transparent ninth color to appear and the lightning to reach Eight-and-a-Half Colors.
• Xiao Yan compared his Five-Colored pill with Lin Ming’s achievement, accepted his loss, and abandoned his desire to surpass him.

Lin Ming’s Ice Puppet faced the Eight-and-a-Half-Colored Pill Lightning, absorbing and enduring its attacks until it advanced from a Seven-Star to a Nine-Star Dou Venerate. The thundercloud dispersed, leaving the transformed puppet hovering over the plaza and the Pill Gathering Champion beyond doubt.

• As the Eight-and-a-Half-Colored Pill Lightning threatened the plaza, Lin Ming’s Ice Puppet charged into the sky to confront it.
• The lightning commanded the other Pill Lightning to attack the Ice Puppet, which absorbed the Three-colored strike and endured Xiao Yan’s Five-Colored Pill Lightning before advancing to Eight-Star Dou Venerate.
• The Eight-and-a-Half-Colored Pill Lightning gathered its full power and unleashed an ultimate strike at the Ice Puppet.
• The Ice Puppet met the strike with an ice-purple-gold beam, and the collision dispersed the thundercloud.
• The battered but transformed Ice Puppet reached Nine-Star Dou Venerate, and its power left the plaza silent as the Pill Gathering Champion became certain.

Lin Ming’s Ice Puppet absorbed the Pill Lightning and protected the other finalists’ pills. Xuan Kongzi then declared Lin Ming the Pill Gathering champion after the Bodhi Primordial Beginning Pill revealed Spirituality that overwhelmed every other pill.

• Lin Ming’s Ice Puppet devoured the Eight-and-a-Half Colors Pill Lightning, sparing the other contestants from its destructive force.
• The finalists presented their pills, revealing four Tier 8 pills with Spirituality alongside nine Tier 7 pills.
• Xiao Yan’s Bone-Growing Blood-Melding Pill formed a five-colored dragon, while the other Tier 8 pills manifested a fox, rabbit, and bear.
• Lin Ming’s Bodhi Primordial Beginning Pill revealed a human-shaped phantom with a dragon, phoenix, and spirit throne, suppressing the other pills’ Spirituality.
• Lin Ming explained that he had created the Bodhi Primordial Beginning Pill by improving a Five-Colored Tier 8 recipe.
• Xuan Kongzi named Lin Ming the Pill Gathering champion and hailed his pill as the strongest ever recorded at a Pill Gathering.

Lin Ming celebrated his Pill Gathering victory and received the ancient soul cultivation method promised to the champion. Xuan Kongzi announced that the top ten would enter the Star Domain in two days to attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, leaving Lin Ming eager to claim the Heavenly Flame.

• The crowd hailed Lin Ming as champion while Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Elder Yao, Xu Shilin, Xin Lan, Ye Zhong, Tang Zhen, and Tang Huo'er celebrated his victory.
• Song Qing watched Lin Ming's achievement with jealousy and felt unable to compete with him.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that Lin Ming would become a Future Pill Tower Giant Candidate.
• Xuan Kongzi gave Lin Ming an ancient soul cultivation method, which Lin Ming accepted and stored in his ring.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the Pill Gathering's top ten would enter the Star Domain in two days and try to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, exciting Lin Ming.

After winning the Pill Gathering, Lin Ming and Xiao Yan acknowledged each other as friendly rivals, and Lin Ming celebrated with his companions. Before dawn, Lin Ming broke through to Nine-Star Dou Zong and prepared to pursue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Xiao Yan challenged Lin Ming to surpass him in alchemy and strength, and Lin Ming accepted while teasing him as a younger brother.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, and Yao Chen praised the healthy rivalry between Lin Ming and Xiao Yan.
• Lin Ming celebrated his Pill Gathering victory with Elder Yao, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Xu Shilin, and the others.
• After the banquet, Lin Ming resumed cultivating and absorbed energy to break through the barrier between Peak Eight-Star Dou Ancestor and Nine-Star Dou Zong.
• Lin Ming reached Nine-Star Dou Zong, expanded his Inner World from eighty-nine zhang to ninety zhang, and declared he was coming for the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

The Pill Tower opened the Star Domain so the ten finalists could attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Lin Ming and the others entered under Qiu Ling’s supervision, and Lin Ming arrived in the ancient, scorching realm with his Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame resonating with the Heavenly Flame within.

• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, and Xuan Yi opened a spatial gate to the Star Domain before the gathered crowd.
• Qiu Ling warned Lin Ming and the other nine finalists to stay with him and follow the rules as they entered.
• Lin Ming, Xiao Yan, and the other finalists followed Qiu Ling through the gate while the Pill Tower Heads arranged safeguards outside.
• Lin Ming felt his Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame react to the Three Thousand Burning Flame after arriving in the Star Domain.
• Lin Ming surveyed the vast realm of darkness, starlight, scorching flame, and drifting star remnants.

Lin Ming, Xiao Yan, and the others crossed the dangerous Star Domain and reached the resting place of the Three Thousand Burning Flame. They discovered the Undying Fire’s true form was an immense flame-covered dragon, leaving Lin Ming eager for the challenge ahead.

• Elder Qiu Ling warned the group about the Star Domain’s unstable spatial rifts and led them through it.
• As the group flew deeper, rising heat forced most of them to protect themselves with Dou Qi, while Lin Ming and Xiao Yan endured it with their Exotic Fires.
• Lin Ming’s Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame and Elder Dragon Seal reacted to something ahead, and Xiao Yan’s Fused Exotic Fire also sensed their destination.
• A dazzling blaze appeared, and Elder Qiu Ling warned everyone not to act without permission or risk being executed.
• The group saw the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s true form: a colossal sleeping dragon covered in flowing Purple-Black Flame.
• Lin Ming recovered from his shock and regarded the enormous dragon as prey, while his Purple Extreme Annihilation Flame burned more fiercely.

At the Pill Tower, Lin Ming approached the sealed Three Thousand Burning Flame and entered its soul space to attempt to subdue it. He discovered its Origin Flame was only pretending to sleep, and the chapter ended as it attacked him and Lin Ming prepared to fight back.

• Qiu Ling announced that the Pill Gathering participants would try to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and sent Lin Ming first as the champion.
• Lin Ming endured the Flame's Dragon Might and examined the seals covering its body before placing his palm on an unburned scale and sending in his Soul Power.
• Lin Ming's Soul Power entered a purple-black soul space and found the Three Thousand Burning Flame's Origin Flame in the form of a sleeping miniature dragon.
• Lin Ming told the Mini Fire Dragon to stop pretending to sleep, and it awoke, demanded to know how he possessed a Dragon Seal, and attacked him with a torrent of flames.
• Protected by the Elder Dragon Seal, Lin Ming faced the attack without panic and prepared to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame through strength.

Lin Ming used the Elder Dragon Seal to battle the Three Thousand Burning Flame in a dangerous clash of souls while Qiu Ling and the others watched without interfering. As they retreated, two Pill Gathering finalists secretly summoned four black-robed figures through a Spatial Rift.

• Lin Ming unleashed the Elder Dragon Seal, weakening the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s attack and shocking the flame with the seal’s authority.
• Lin Ming wrapped the Mini Fire Dragon in soul threads and tried to establish a master-servant connection, but the Three Thousand Burning Flame retaliated fiercely.
• Qiu Ling recognized that Lin Ming was engaged in a soul battle and warned Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Xiao Yan, and the others not to interfere.
• Qiu Ling ordered everyone to retreat as the Giant Dragon’s sealed energy grew increasingly unstable.
• Two top-ten Pill Gathering finalists crushed silver Jade Tablets, opening a Spatial Rift from which four black-robed figures emerged.

Four Soul Hall Venerable Elders arrived in the Star Domain to capture the Three Thousand Burning Flame while Lin Ming was locked in a soul battle with it. Elder Qiu Ling and Old Monster Qing Hua tried to stop them, but the Soul Hall experts activated their formation and trapped them with Lin Ming and the flame.

• Two Soul Hall infiltrators used a Spatial Jade Slip to bring four Venerables, including Xue Mo, into the Star Domain.
• Xue Mo ordered the Venerables to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame before the Pill Tower elders could arrive.
• The Soul Hall Venerables surrounded the flame and began cutting it off from the Star Power while Lin Ming remained engaged in a soul battle with it.
• Elder Qiu Ling and Old Monster Qing Hua charged to disrupt the formation, while Xiao Yan and Cao Ying were ordered to capture the infiltrators.
• The four Venerables unleashed the Myriad Souls Devouring Spirit Formation, trapping Lin Ming, the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Qiu Ling, and Old Monster Qing Hua and blocking the flow of Star Power.

Xue Mo and the Soul Hall elders tried to seal and weaken Three Thousand Burning Flame while Lin Ming battled it in a soul space, but the Heavenly Flame fought back fiercely. The Soul Hall elders were driven back, and Xue Mo decided they had to use their final trump card before the Pill Tower experts could intervene.

• Xue Mo unleashed the Myriad Soul Heaven Lock, Spirit Binding Soul Devour, while Elder Qiu Ling and Old Monster Qing Hua shielded Lin Ming from the chains.
• The chains bound Three Thousand Burning Flame and began sealing it and draining its source Fire Energy, but the flame burned through some chains as it struggled.
• Xue Mo ordered the Soul Hall elders to use Soul Devour, sending countless enslaved souls to attack and weaken Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame's protective flames dimmed under the assaults, but it formed a massive firestorm that swallowed Black Mist and shattered its chains.
• The firestorm's backlash burned Xue Mo and the other three Soul Hall elders and forced them backward, prompting Xue Mo to prepare their final trump card.

Xue Mo and the other Soul Hall Venerables used their Lifebound Soul Locks to halt and bind Three Thousand Burning Flame, then Xue Mo moved in to extract its Lifebound Flame. Inside the Soul War Space, Lin Ming confronted the flame’s origin consciousness and explained why its power could not overcome him, leaving their struggle at a critical point.

• Xue Mo ordered the four Venerables to sacrifice their Lifebound Soul Locks as Three Thousand Burning Flame’s storm threatened to overwhelm them.
• The four Venerables summoned their Soul Locks and pierced and bound Three Thousand Burning Flame, forcing its spinning storm to stop.
• Qiu Ling explained the Soul Locks’ power and risks to Old Monster Qing Hua while Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and the others watched the flame being subdued.
• Xue Mo sent the other three Venerables to maintain the binding and rushed toward Three Thousand Burning Flame to take its Lifebound Flame.
• In the Soul War Space, Lin Ming told Three Thousand Burning Flame’s origin consciousness that his superior Soul Power, Elder Dragon Seal, and four fused Heavenly Flames would defeat its resistance.

Lin Ming persuaded Three Thousand Burning Flame to risk a mutual devouring, prompting it to compress and eject its Origin Flame to escape. Xue Mo was badly wounded, and as Xiao Yan and Old Monster Qing Hua moved to seize the exposed flame, Soul Hall’s Venerates attacked Qing Hua.

• Lin Ming urged Three Thousand Burning Flame to enter his body and attempt to devour his soul, origins, and Elder Dragon Seal in exchange for a chance at power and freedom.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame stopped struggling, compressed its Origin Flame into a black miniature dragon, and launched it at Xue Mo.
• The black Origin Flame dragon shattered Xue Mo’s defense and sent him crashing into a meteorite, while he shouted for the others to capture it.
• Xiao Yan spotted the exposed Origin Flame but held back, weighing the Soul Hall Venerates and Old Monster Qing Hua as threats.
• Old Monster Qing Hua rushed toward the Origin Flame and reached to seize it with a Dou Qi palm.
• Soul Hall’s Venerates attacked Qing Hua with Black Chains, forcing him to dodge and turn toward them in anger.

The weakened Three Thousand Burning Flame fought off two Soul Hall Venerates but was left near exhaustion. When Xuan Kongzi arrived and forced the Soul Hall attackers to retreat, the flame suddenly entered Lin Ming’s body, leaving everyone stunned.

• A Soul Hall Venerate restrained Old Monster Qing Hua while two companions moved to capture Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame broke through one Venerate’s chain attack, struck him with a devastating blow, and exhausted much of its remaining power.
• Xuan Kongzi appeared and blasted the two Venerates who were preparing to seize the flame, forcing the Soul Hall members to retreat.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame ignored the retreating Soul Hall members and flew into Lin Ming’s mouth, entering his body as the Star Domain fell silent.

As Three Thousand Burning Flame’s remaining body erupted into a destructive sea of fire, Lin Ming began refining its Origin Flame at the center of the Star Domain. Xuan Kongzi and the others escaped, leaving Lin Ming alone in the flames with a faint purple-red shield protecting him.

• The four wounded Soul Hall Venerable Elders crushed spatial Jade Slips to flee, but Xuan Kongzi struck them through space and left them gravely wounded.
• Three Thousand Burning Flame’s remaining shell began exploding, flooding the Star Domain with Purple-Black Flame that parted around Lin Ming.
• Xuan Kongzi ordered Qiu Ling to evacuate Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Song Qing, while Lin Ming remained in the flames as the Origin Flame refinement began.
• A purple-red shield appeared around Lin Ming, and Xuan Kongzi decided to leave him to his own means as Old Monster Qing Hua and the others escaped.
• Xuan Kongzi threw two fleeing Soul Hall infiltrators into the flames, where they were burned to ash, then exited the Star Domain and sealed its entrance behind him.

Lin Ming trapped the Three Thousand Burning Flame Source Dragon in his Five Elements World Prototype and used the Five Elements Roulette to erase its consciousness. The dragon’s resistance faded as the roulette enveloped it, leaving its power ready to merge with Lin Ming.

• After the Star Domain exit sealed, Lin Ming prepared to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame Source Dragon inside his body.
• Lin Ming’s World Prototype displaced the dragon into a ninety-zhang Inner World governed by his will and the Five Elements Origin.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame Source Dragon realized Lin Ming had lured it into a trap and cursed him, but Lin Ming calmly urged it to accept its fate.
• Lin Ming summoned a Five Elements Roulette that bound the dragon and began erasing its intelligence, memories, and independent consciousness.
• The roulette enveloped the Three Thousand Burning Flame Source Dragon, and its resistance and emotions fell into silence.

After the Three Thousand Burning Flame erupted and engulfed the Star Domain, Lin Ming remained inside while the Pill Tower sealed the entrance. Xiao Yi Xian learned that his life aura was stable through Zi Yan’s Dragon Seal, but vowed to force the Star Domain open if he had not returned within three days.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Lei Zi sealed the Star Domain after the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s eruption sent a devastating wave of fire against the entrance.
• Xuan Kongzi told Xuan Yi and Tian Lei Zi that Lin Ming remained inside because the flame’s origin had entered his body and removing him risked triggering an even worse explosion.
• Elder Qiu Ling told Xiao Yi Xian and Elder Yao that the Pill Tower leaders could not safely reenter the Star Domain and planned to search for Lin Ming after the flames settled.
• Zi Yan showed Xiao Yi Xian her intact, glowing Dragon Seal and said it confirmed Lin Ming’s life aura was stable.
• Xiao Yi Xian gave the Pill Tower leaders three days to bring Lin Ming back before she and Elder Yao would force their way into the Star Domain.