Chapter Summaries

Yao Dan hosted the Medicine Ceremony as Shennong Elder arrived, followed by the uninvited Hun Xuzi. Yao Dan allowed Hun Xuzi to stay and compete for the title of Number One Alchemist of the Continent, while Hun Xuzi took a seat near Lin Ming and eyed him with interest.

• Yao Dan arrived at the Medicine Ceremony and exchanged greetings with Mang Tianchi and Lin Ming.
• Shennong Elder arrived on a medicinal cauldron, greeted Yao Dan, and expressed surprise at Lin Ming's unfathomable aura.
• Hun Xuzi appeared in black clouds and angered the Yao Clan elders by arriving without an invitation.
• Yao Wanhuo warned Hun Xuzi that his presence could provoke the Ancient Races, but Hun Xuzi claimed he came personally to pursue the title of Number One Alchemist of the Continent.
• Yao Dan allowed Hun Xuzi to remain as a guest under the Yao Clan's rules and threatened to capture him if he caused trouble.
• Hun Xuzi sat near Lin Ming, and the two briefly met each other's gaze as Hun Xuzi scrutinized Lin Ming.

The Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony began with a competition among its younger alchemists, and Yao Tian won after refining a pill that drew Nine-Colored Pill Lightning. As the crowd turned its attention to the senior alchemists, Lin Ming remained a far more accomplished outsider, and the ceremony’s main event was about to begin.

• Yao Dan announced the start of the Medicine Ceremony, and the Yao Clan’s young alchemists took the stage for the opening competition.
• Over several days, more than a hundred contestants refined pills while Lin Ming and the other Tier 9 alchemists watched without much interest.
• Lin Ming observed the young competitors and considered the Yao Clan’s strength, while noting that its Bloodline Power could eventually fade without another Dou Di.
• Yao Tian won the competition by refining a pill that drew Nine-Colored Pill Lightning, impressing the crowd and the Yao Clan elders.
• The Yao Clan elders compared Yao Tian’s achievement with Lin Ming’s rumored ability to refine Tier 9 pills and draw Black Demon Lightning, and the crowd turned its attention to the ceremony’s main event.

Yao Dan announced that the Medicine Ceremony’s final contest would decide the continent’s Number One Alchemist, with Hun Xuzi, Yao Wanhuo, Shennong Elder, and Lin Ming as the four contenders. Lin Ming confronted Hun Xuzi over his theft from the Pill Tower, and Hun Xuzi answered with cold killing intent.

• Mang Tianchi warned Lin Ming that Hun Xuzi, Yao Wanhuo, and Shennong Elder were formidable alchemists.
• Yao Dan announced the final contest and its prize: the title of Number One Alchemist of the Continent.
• Hun Xuzi, Yao Wanhuo, and Shennong Elder entered the arena and each asserted a claim to the contest.
• Lin Ming rose to join the three contenders, forming a four-way standoff in the sky.
• Lin Ming accused Hun Xuzi of stealing the Pill Tower’s knowledge and challenged him to accept guidance from a Pill Tower elder.
• Hun Xuzi’s smile froze, and he responded with a cold laugh and killing intent.

Hun Xuzi revealed his Nihility Devouring Flame and threatened to devour the Heavenly Flames of those present, but Lin Ming recognized it as a Child Flame and refused to be intimidated. Yao Wanhuo and Shennong Elder summoned their own Heavenly Flames, and Shennong Elder questioned Lin Ming about whether he had subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

• Hun Xuzi summoned a massive cauldron of Nihility Devouring Flame and declared that he wanted to devour the others' Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Ming identified Hun Xuzi's Nihility Devouring Flame as a Child Flame and challenged his arrogance.
• Yao Wanhuo summoned his Nine Nether Wind Flame and refused to be frightened by Hun Xuzi.
• Shennong Elder revealed his Life Flame, whose emerald fire spread vitality and rapidly grew medicinal materials.
• Shennong Elder asked Lin Ming whether he had truly subdued the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame.

Lin Ming revealed that he had subdued the multicolored Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, startling the peak experts gathered for the Medicine Ceremony. As the four contestants began refining pills, Shennong Elder demonstrated the Life Flame’s ability to rapidly grow medicinal herbs, while Lin Ming prepared thousands of rare ingredients around his enormous fire cauldron.

• Lin Ming displayed the multicolored Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Hun Xuzi noticed a trace of Lord Void's aura within it.
• Yao Dan announced that the four contestants should open their cauldrons and begin refining pills.
• Lin Ming transformed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame into a vast fire cauldron as the other contestants took up separate positions.
• Hun Xuzi released a vast collection of rare medicinal materials, while Yao Wanhuo activated his Nine Nether Wind Flame cauldron.
• Shennong Elder used the Life Flame to grow seeds into mature, increasingly potent medicinal herbs in moments.
• Lin Ming sent thousands of precious medicinal herbs to circle his fire cauldron.

Lin Ming and three legendary alchemists began refining Tier 9 Profound Pills, drawing enormous amounts of Heaven and Earth Energy into their cauldrons. Lin Ming revealed that his main ingredient was the essence of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan he had exterminated, and the four cauldrons struggled against one another amid a raging energy storm.

• Lin Ming swallowed thousands of medicinal materials into his Colorful Fire Cauldron and refined them into pure medicinal liquids and powders over the course of a day.
• Yao Tian and Yao Ling watched Lin Ming's skill with admiration and disbelief as the Yao Clan's younger generation recognized the gap between them and him.
• Hun Xuzi called upon the power of heaven and earth to refine a Tier 9 Profound Pill, and Yao Wanhuo and Shennong Elder followed his lead.
• Lin Ming revealed a colorful energy orb containing the essence of the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan as the main ingredient for his pill.
• Lin Ming added the Phoenix essence to his cauldron and joined the other three in drawing Heaven and Earth Energy, setting their cauldrons against one another in a violent storm.

Four alchemists drew immense amounts of Heaven and Earth Energy into their cauldrons while refining Tier 9 Profound Pills, alarming the Yao Clan and draining Medicine Mountain. After three days, the contest continued, and Yao Dan believed the lack of energy would make all four fail.

• Four enormous Energy Storms formed above Medicine Mountain as the alchemists absorbed energy for their pill refinement, causing onlookers’ Dou Qi to stir and forcing them to retreat.
• Yao Dan recognized that the four were competing and judged that Medicine Mountain lacked enough Heaven and Earth Energy for any of them to complete a Tier 9 Profound Pill.
• Spectators marveled at the rare pill-refining spectacle while discussing the legendary power and intelligence of Tier 9 Profound Pills.
• After three days, the storms continued to intensify as the surrounding energy thinned and the Yao Clan’s medicinal plants withered.
• Yao Clan elders sealed several precious Herb Gardens against the energy drain, but most of Medicine Mountain’s plants remained unprotected.

After four days of absorbing Heaven and Earth Energy, the four alchemists’ pill prototypes remained unfinished when the surrounding energy ran out. Hun Xuzi tried to steal energy from the other cauldrons, but Lin Ming revealed the complete Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, leaving Hun Xuzi startled.

• The four Energy Tornado Storms vanished, and Yao Dan realized the Heaven and Earth Energy around Medicine Mountain had been depleted.
• Yao Wanhuo and Shennong Elder saw that their pill prototypes were unfinished and lacked enough energy to continue refining them.
• Hun Xuzi created Black Vortexes with his Nihility Devouring Flame and began forcibly absorbing energy from the other three cauldrons.
• Yao Wanhuo and Shennong Elder attacked the Black Vortexes with their Heavenly Flames, but the Nihility Devouring Flame swallowed part of both attacks.
• Lin Ming revealed the complete Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame, and Hun Xuzi’s expression changed in alarm.

Lin Ming’s Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame countered Hun Xuzi’s Nihility Devouring Flame and purified the energy Hun Xuzi had tried to steal. The Flame Figure then snatched Hun Xuzi’s nearly completed pill, leaving Hun Xuzi enraged as the Yao Clan watched and laughed.

• Lin Ming’s Flame Figure purified Hun Xuzi’s Black Vortex and poured its energy into Lin Ming’s cauldron, advancing his Pill Prototype.
• Hun Xuzi redirected his devouring flames to drain energy from Shennong Elder’s and Yao Wanhuo’s cauldrons, strengthening his own pill.
• The Flame Figure knocked the lid off Hun Xuzi’s cauldron, grabbed his nearly formed Pill Prototype, and carried it away.
• Hun Xuzi roared at Lin Ming and threatened him, while Lin Ming remained calm and ignored him.
• Yao Dan and the Yao Clan elders reacted with disbelief, then laughed at Hun Xuzi’s humiliation.

Hun Xuzi attacked Lin Ming after Lin Ming stole his Embryonic Pill, while Shennong Elder and Yao Wanhuo intervened to hold him back. Lin Ming purified and refined the pill, but Hun Xuzi empowered his black fire dragon and broke through the elders’ defenses, charging toward him.

• Hun Xuzi unleashed a massive black fire dragon at Lin Ming in fury over the stolen Embryonic Pill.
• Shennong Elder restrained the dragon with a green Sea of Fire, and Yao Wanhuo struck it with the Nine Nether Wind Flame to protect Lin Ming.
• Lin Ming focused on the Embryonic Pill and used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to refine it into a powerful pill.
• Hun Xuzi sensed that Lin Ming had severed his connection to the pill, entered his black fire dragon, and greatly increased its strength.
• Hun Xuzi destroyed Shennong Elder’s and Yao Wanhuo’s flame attacks, then drove the dragon toward Lin Ming.

Lin Ming used the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame to hold off Hun Xuzi while accepting Shennong Elder and Yao Wanhuo’s embryonic pills, then began refining four Tier 9 Profound Pills at once. When the depleted local energy threatened to halt him, Yao Dan recognized Lin Ming’s Emperor Realm Soul, whose power drew Heaven and Earth Energy from far away.

• The Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame manifested and clashed with Hun Xuzi’s black-flame fire dragon, keeping him from Lin Ming.
• Shennong Elder gave Lin Ming his embryonic pill, and Yao Wanhuo soon offered his as well.
• Lin Ming put both pills into his cauldron alongside Hun Xuzi’s pill, causing three distinct light pillars to rise as he continued refining four Tier 9 Profound Pills.
• Shennong Elder and Yao Wanhuo realized Lin Ming was refining their disrupted embryonic pills rather than merely extracting their energy, and the plaza erupted in shock.
• The crowd worried that the lack of Heaven and Earth Energy would stop Lin Ming, until Yao Dan identified his Emperor Realm Soul.
• Lin Ming’s Emperor Realm Soul released immense pressure and drew distant Heaven and Earth Energy back toward the cauldron.

Lin Ming revealed his Emperor Realm Soul while refining the pill, exposing his likely connection to the Hun Clan’s destroyed Soul Halls and forcing Hun Xuzi into silence. As the pill began to condense, terrifying Pill Lightning gathered overhead, and the opened cauldron released a rain of colorful medicinal-fragrance beads.

• The Emperor Realm Soul drew Heaven and Earth Energy from across the Middle Continent into Lin Ming’s fire cauldron.
• Hun Xuzi realized Lin Ming had likely taken the Soul Origin from the destroyed Soul Halls and angrily accused him.
• Lin Ming’s Soul pressure injured Hun Xuzi and made him lower his head without another word.
• Tiny points of light formed in the three energy pillars, and dark clouds filled the sky as destructive Pill Lightning gathered.
• Lin Ming opened the cauldron, releasing dense Medicinal Fragrance that condensed into countless colorful beads and drifted down.

Lin Ming’s refinement produced three Tier 9 Profound Pills, whose Pill Rain stunned the Medicine Ceremony crowd. As the pills entered their lightning tribulation, the thunderclouds kept gathering power without striking, while everyone still awaited Lin Ming’s own pill.

• Pill Granules rained down as Lin Ming successfully refined the three embryonic pills belonging to Hun Xuzi, Shennong Elder, and Yao Wanhuo into Tier 9 Profound Pills.
• Yao Wanhuo and the assembled alchemists realized that Lin Ming’s own pill, refined with the Heaven Demon Phoenix Essence, had not yet emerged.
• The crowd watched the Pink Fire Cauldron as three light orbs formed inside the Light Pillars and the pillars pierced the thunderclouds.
• Yao Wangui explained to Yao Tian and the other youths that Tier 9 Profound Pills had to endure lightning themselves to become complete.
• Yao Dan sensed danger in the gathering thunderclouds, which continued building power but still did not strike the three pills.

Lin Ming revealed that he had been refining a Ninth Grade Golden Pill, using the three Tier 9 Profound Pills as sacrifices to give it spirit and forge its body. The phoenix-shaped pill swallowed the three pills as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning gathered overhead, poised to strike it.

• Lin Ming formed three seals and called forth the Ninth Grade Golden Pill, causing a phoenix cry and a colorful pillar of light to burst from the cauldron.
• Shennong Elder recognized the golden lightning as the Nine Profound Golden Lightning, and the onlookers realized Lin Ming was creating a Ninth Grade Golden Pill.
• A colorful Phoenix Egg emerged and enclosed the three Tier 9 Profound Pill embryonic eggs in its light.
• The Phoenix Egg drew in and swallowed all three Tier 9 Profound Pills, using them as nourishment.
• The black thunderclouds vanished as a thousand-zhang bolt of golden lightning gathered above the slowly rotating Phoenix Egg.

The phoenix egg formed from the essences of three Tier 9 Profound Pills hatched into a Divine Phoenix infused with Lin Ming’s Emperor Realm Soul. It defeated the Nine Profound Golden Lightning’s dragon form, leaving the newly born phoenix victorious above Medicine Mountain.

• The phoenix egg cracked open, and a multicolored Divine Phoenix emerged amid an overwhelming Life Aura.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning struck the Divine Phoenix twice, but its attacks left the phoenix unharmed.
• The Nine Profound Golden Lightning transformed into a thousand-zhang golden dragon and charged the Divine Phoenix.
• The Divine Phoenix fought the golden dragon in a fierce aerial battle, gradually gaining the advantage as cracks spread across the dragon’s body.
• The Divine Phoenix struck the golden dragon with its wings and shattered it, then hovered alone above Medicine Mountain as everyone watched in silence.

Lin Ming subdued the escaping Ninth Grade Golden Pill and sealed it in a Jade Bottle. Shennong Elder declared Lin Ming the alchemy world's Number One Alchemist, while Hun Xuzi was left to swallow his resentment.

• The Ninth Grade Golden Pill fled in the form of a Divine Phoenix, and Lin Ming's Emperor Realm Soul pressure deterred the crowd from pursuing it.
• Lin Ming intercepted the Divine Phoenix with a Yellow Springs Palm and placed a Soul Imprint on it, causing it to revert to a pill.
• Lin Ming sealed the Ninth Grade Golden Pill in a Jade Bottle and stored it in his Inner World.
• Lin Ming thanked Hun Xuzi, Shennong Elder, and Elder Wanhuo for the pill, drawing a furious reaction from Hun Xuzi.
• Shennong Elder praised Lin Ming's alchemy and named him the alchemy world's Number One Alchemist, and no one challenged the claim.

After Hun Xuzi declared war, Lin Ming returned to the Five Elements Sect and prepared to face the Hun Clan. With the Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit’s help, he swallowed the Ninth Grade Golden Pill to rapidly increase his strength.

• Hun Xuzi threatened Lin Ming and fled, leaving Lin Ming certain that the Hun Clan would soon attack.
• Lin Ming left the Yao Clan and returned to the Five Elements Sect, where he ordered the Sect Protecting Array activated and the sect placed on alert.
• Lin Ming told Ya Fei and the others to wait for him, then entered his secluded cultivation chamber.
• In his Inner World, Lin Ming asked the Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit to help him refine the Ninth Grade Golden Pill despite the risk to his foundation.
• The Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit agreed to provide vitality energy, and Lin Ming swallowed the Ninth Grade Golden Pill.

Lin Ming refined the Ninth Grade Golden Pill with help from the Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit and rapidly advanced to the late stage of Eight-Star Dou Saint. A month later, the Hun Clan attacked the Five Elements Sect while Lin Ming remained in seclusion.

• Lin Ming swallowed the Ninth Grade Golden Pill and used his Emperor Realm Soul and the Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit's Vitality Energy to control and refine its power.
• Lin Ming broke through to early-stage Eight-Star Dou Saint, then continued advancing as the Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit poured the tree's life essence into him.
• Lin Ming cultivated motionless inside a cocoon of multicolored light while the Bodhi Ancient Tree Spirit kept watch.
• Ya Fei and Xiao Yi Xian waited at the Five Elements Sect for Lin Ming to emerge, while the sect maintained its defenses against the Hun Clan.
• Hun Xuzi and several Dou Sheng-level experts appeared through cracks in the sky and confronted the Five Elements Sect.

Hun Xuzi destroyed the Five Elements Sect’s protective array and threatened Lin Ming, but Lin Ming emerged and exposed the Nihility Devouring Flame hiding nearby. The Nihility Devouring Flame revealed its true body and began draining the sect’s Dou Qi, while Lin Ming remained ready to face it.

• Hun Xuzi and the Hun Clan experts shattered the Five Elements Sect’s Sect Protecting Array, and Hun Xuzi threatened to destroy the sect and Lin Ming’s confidantes.
• Lin Ming emerged from the depths of the sect, sensed the Nihility Devouring Flame’s concealment, and challenged it to appear.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame spread black flames across the sky, draining the Dou Qi of the Five Elements Sect’s disciples and elders.
• The Nihility Devouring Flame formed its true body from the black flames, and Lin Ming recognized the supreme Heavenly Flame as it appeared.
• Lin Ming stood his ground against the Nihility Devouring Flame, showing no fear even though Hun Tiandi had not arrived.

Nihility Devouring Flame confronted Lin Ming, confident that his superior strength made him untouchable. Lin Ming revealed the Hun Clan’s plan to sacrifice the Middle Continent and made Nihility Devouring Flame suspect Hun Tiandi had betrayed him, before the Flame unleashed his full aura.

• Nihility Devouring Flame dismissed Lin Ming as too weak to threaten him and explained why he had come without Hun Tiandi.
• Lin Ming accused Nihility Devouring Flame and the Hun Clan of planning to sacrifice the Middle Continent to refine an Emperor Grade pill.
• Nihility Devouring Flame realized that only he and Hun Tiandi knew the full plan and suspected Hun Tiandi had exposed it after discovering his own schemes.
• Nihility Devouring Flame threatened to capture Lin Ming and erupted with the full pressure of an early-stage Nine-Star Dou Saint.
• Lin Ming remained unmoved by the aura and asked whether Nihility Devouring Flame had finally lost his patience.