Chapter Summaries

Xiao Tian, disguised as the black-robed Soul Jerk, fought Cao Ying and revealed his skill while secretly protecting her. After Cao Ying recognized him and called his name, he disappeared, then reappeared behind her, leaving her stunned and overjoyed.

• The black-robed Xiao Tian froze Cao Ying's Fire Phoenix attack and challenged her to keep fighting.
• Cao Ying attacked with her Blood Fiend Flame and Soul Power, gradually suspecting the black-robed man was Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian praised Cao Ying's abilities and began to leave, but paused when she called out his name.
• Cao Ying realized Xiao Tian had protected her and lamented that he had left without seeing her.
• Xiao Tian appeared behind Cao Ying beneath a tree and teased her for cursing him.

Cao Ying reunited with Xiao Tian and poured out her long-suppressed feelings as he comforted her. After they reconciled and Xiao Tian gave her the medicinal herbs she needed for her mission, Cao Ying kissed him.

• Cao Ying rushed into Xiao Tian's arms and cried as she told him she had searched for him for a very long time.
• Xiao Tian promised Cao Ying she would not have to search for him again, then teased and comforted her.
• Cao Ying explained that Xiao Tian had been in secluded cultivation when she tried to find him, and Xiao Tian said he had never been angry with her.
• Zi Yan counted the treasures she had taken from Storage Rings and wondered where Xiao Tian had gone.
• Xiao Tian gave Cao Ying the three medicinal herbs required for her mission, and Cao Ying kissed him.

Xiao Tian reunited with Zi Yan and introduced her to Cao Ying, who quickly won her over with medicinal herbs. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan confronted a Soul Clan youth who had been following him, and the man’s confidence faltered when Xiao Yan invoked Xiao Tian.

• Xiao Tian kissed Cao Ying, apologized for getting carried away, and took her with him through space.
• Zi Yan complained about Xiao Tian behind his back, then tried to deflect his teasing by accusing him of secretly picking up girls.
• Zi Yan called herself Xiao Tian’s officially appointed little wife, and Xiao Tian explained that her small appearance did not reflect her actual age.
• Cao Ying and Zi Yan quickly became friendly after Cao Ying offered her medicinal herbs.
• Xiong Zhan returned without catching Song Qing, who had somehow concealed his aura.
• Xiao Yan confronted a black-robed Five-Star Dou Zun from the Soul Clan, then taunted him by suggesting Xiao Tian could be called to deal with him.

Xiao Yan fought Hun Yuan, a Soul Clan youth, during the Pill Gathering after provoking him over his insults and reliance on Xiao Tian. Xiao Yan broke Hun Yuan’s Soul Burial Annihilation Art, leaving the battle poised to continue as onlookers gathered.

• Xiao Yan mocked Hun Yuan’s claims about the Xiao Clan and taunted him by threatening to summon Xiao Tian, driving Hun Yuan into a rage.
• Hun Yuan unleashed his Five-Star Dou Zun aura and attacked Xiao Yan with the Heaven Rank Soul Burial Annihilation Art.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Transformations to raise his strength to that of a Four-Star Dou Zun, then countered with the Great Heaven Creation Palm.
• Hun Yuan tried to disrupt Xiao Yan’s technique with a soul attack, but Xiao Yan blocked it with the Soul Shield and overwhelmed him in soul strength.
• As nearby Alchemists gathered to watch, Xiao Yan’s black ring of light tore apart Hun Yuan’s resentful-soul vortex.

Xiao Yan defeated Hun Yuan, who escaped with a Soul Clan technique, and later joined Xiao Tian and Cao Ying on their way to the Pill Realm exit. At the teleportation square, Cao Ying reunited with Song Qing and introduced Xiao Tian as her boyfriend, leaving Song Qing and her admirers dismayed.

• Xiao Yan broke Hun Yuan’s Dou Technique and wounded him, but Hun Yuan escaped using Blood Soul Escape.
• Xiao Yan left the battlefield, and eight days passed without Mu Gu Lao Ren attacking the Alchemists because Xiao Tian’s presence deterred him.
• Xiao Tian guided Cao Ying in alchemy, reunited with Xiao Yan, and gave him the medicinal herbs he needed.
• Xiao Tian took Xiao Yan and Cao Ying to the Pill Realm’s teleportation square, where contestants gathered before the assessment’s final stage.
• Song Qing approached Cao Ying and explained why he had fled during their earlier danger, but Cao Ying remained cold toward him.
• Cao Ying introduced Xiao Tian as the Free and Unfettered Hall Master, a Pill Tower Guest Elder, and her boyfriend, upsetting Song Qing and the other men at the square.

Xiao Tian, Xiao Yan, and Cao Ying prepared to enter the final Pill Gathering competition after completing the Pill Realm mission. When Hun Yuan provoked them and dared Xiao Tian to strike him, Xiao Tian slapped him across the square.

• Song Qing grew jealous of Xiao Tian and Cao Ying, then left rather than confront Xiao Tian.
• Xiao Tian recognized Hun Yuan as Hun Xu Zi's disciple and promised Cao Ying he would deal with him.
• Xiao Yan surveyed the competitors and resolved to reach the top ten and stand alongside Xiao Tian.
• A Pill Tower elder opened a Space Crack and sent participants who had completed the mission toward the final competition.
• Hun Yuan taunted Xiao Yan and Xiao Tian, insisting they could not strike him without risking disqualification.
• Xiao Tian slapped Hun Yuan, sending him crashing onto the ground with a swollen cheek.

Xiao Tian struck Hun Yuan after Hun Yuan provoked him, but the Pill Tower official let the matter go with a warning. Xiao Tian, Xiao Yan, and Cao Ying left the Pill Realm and appeared at the Pill Gathering arena, where Xiao Tian’s companions eagerly welcomed him.

• Xiao Tian slapped Hun Yuan after Hun Yuan challenged him, and the Pill Tower official warned both men that another disturbance would get them disqualified.
• Xiao Tian handed the official his mission items, then led Xiao Yan and Cao Ying through a Space Crack out of the Pill Realm.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Yun Yun, Qing Lin, and the other women waited in the arena’s VIP seats while spectators discussed their strength and the Pill Gathering contestants emerged.
• Xiao Tian, Xiao Yan, and Cao Ying stepped through the Pill Realm exit, drawing loud cheers, especially for Cao Ying.
• Qing Lin excitedly greeted Xiao Tian, while Xiao Huiying and Xuan Yi remarked on his appearance alongside Cao Ying.

Xuan Kongzi began the Pill Gathering’s final round, where the remaining alchemists would compete by refining their best pills. Xiao Tian claimed the central platform and, alongside Xiao Yan, revealed a rare Heaven Cauldron Ranking cauldron, leaving Hun Yuan overshadowed.

• Hun Yuan reacted with hatred when spectators mocked the handprint on his face, and he flinched when Xiao Tian raised a hand.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the final round would determine the champion and told contestants to refine their best medicinal pills.
• Xiao Tian took the central stone platform, with Xiao Yan and Cao Ying on nearby platforms, while Hun Yuan chose a distant spot.
• Hun Yuan brought out the Deep Sea Spirit Cauldron, ranked tenth on the Heaven Cauldron Ranking.
• Xiao Yan revealed the Black Demon Cauldron, and Xiao Tian revealed the Purple Abyss Cauldron, prompting spectators to marvel at the three rare cauldrons.
• Hun Yuan looked displeased at being outshone, while Xiao Ling proudly pointed out that she also had the Ten Thousand Beast Cauldron.

At the Pill Gathering, Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan revealed powerful flames that subdued the flames of Mu Gu Lao Ren and Hun Yuan, shocking the spectators. After the alchemists began preparing their cauldrons, Xiao Tian refined his supplementary herbs and opened a jade box containing one of his main ingredients.

• Cao Ying, Song Qing, Dan Chen, Mu Gu Lao Ren, and Hun Yuan summoned their flames as the alchemists prepared to compete.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan manifested their flame beasts, and their flames made the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Hun Yuan’s Nihility Devouring Flame Child Fire retreat in fear.
• Xiao Tian mocked Hun Yuan, who then calmed himself and began warming his Medicine Cauldron; Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan also returned their flames to their cauldrons.
• Xiao Tian and Xiao Yan preheated their Medicine Cauldrons and selected the medicinal herbs for their pills.
• Xiao Tian spent an hour refining his supplementary herbs, then opened one of five jade boxes containing his main ingredients.

Xiao Tian extracted and purified the rare ingredients for his pill, then spent six days carefully combining their essences during the Pill Gathering. He had reached the stage of fusing them into an embryonic pill, while the competition’s final day and champion were still ahead.

• Xiao Tian refined the Heavenly Phoenix Blood Ganoderma, Cold Ice Spirit Leaf, Dragon Scale Fruit, and Earth Spirit Jade Marrow into medicinal essences.
• Xiao Tian spent about a day overcoming the Nine-Orifice Dragon Heart Fruit’s resistance and extracting its golden essence.
• Hun Yuan finished extracting his ingredients, taunted Xiao Tian, and then resumed refining after Xiao Tian mocked the palm print on his face.
• Xiao Tian focused on combining the medicinal liquids and powders as the audience watched the competitors and waited for the final day.
• After six days, Xiao Tian had prepared five clusters of medicinal materials and was ready to fuse them into an embryonic pill.

Xiao Tian carefully continued refining his pill as contestants produced Pill Lightning across the square. Dan Chen pushed her pill to completion with her blood, but her Medicine Cauldron exploded as a vast green pillar of light rose into the sky.

• Xiao Tian used Soul Power to monitor the medicinal power merging inside his Purple Abyss Cauldron while half a month passed.
• Song Qing completed a peak Seventh Grade pill and began facing the Pill Lightning it summoned.
• Xuan Kongzi and Tianleizi discussed the seven contestants apparently refining Rank 8 Pills, including Hun Yuan, while Xuan Yi watched Xiao Tian.
• More than ten bolts of Pill Lightning appeared, and after the contestants weathered them, only seven people remained in the arena.
• Dan Chen spat blood into her Medicine Cauldron, which then exploded as a huge green pillar of light rose and formed a Thunder Cloud.

Cao Ying refined a pill that produced five-color Pill Lightning, surpassing Mu Gu Lao Ren and silencing his mockery. Xiao Tian protected her from Mu Gu Lao Ren’s anger, while Ya Fei and Xiao Meng traded jokes with the other women.

• Dan Chen produced a Rank 8 pill with Two-Color Pill Lightning, and Qinghua Old Monster followed with Three-Color Pill Lightning.
• Mu Gu Lao Ren produced a pill with Four-Color Pill Lightning and boasted that it would secure him a top-three place.
• Cao Ying refined a pill whose Pill Lightning began forming a fifth color, surpassing Mu Gu Lao Ren’s pill and leaving him ashen-faced.
• Cao Ying mocked Mu Gu Lao Ren and the Soul Hall, but Xiao Tian’s threatening gaze stopped him from retaliating.
• Cao Ying smiled proudly at Xiao Tian’s approval, while Ya Fei teased the other women and Xiao Meng earned her mother’s threat of double training.

Xiao Yan and Hun Yuan completed pills that drew Six-Colored Pill Lightning, while Xiao Tian continued refining his pill under pressure from Soul Hall’s taunts. The crowd waited for Xiao Tian’s result as Xiao Yan considered a decision.

• Cao Ying prepared to face the Pill Lightning, while Mu Gu Lao Ren swallowed his resentment and pinned his hopes on Hun Yuan.
• Xiao Yan completed a pill that drew a faint Six-Colored Pill Lightning, surprising the spectators.
• Hun Yuan revealed his own pill and claimed its vivid Six-Colored Pill Lightning proved his superiority over Xiao Yan and Xiao Tian.
• Mu Gu joined Hun Yuan in mocking the Pill Tower and predicting Soul Hall would win the championship.
• Xiao Yan ignored Hun Yuan and weighed his Storage Ring as if considering a decision, while Xiao Tian answered the taunts with a cold word.

Xiao Tian produced a pill that summoned Nine-Colored Heavenly Lightning, crushing Hun Yuan’s hopes of winning the Pill Gathering. As Xiao Yan began using Yao Chen’s Soul Elevation Method on his own pill, the chapter left its outcome uncertain.

• Xiao Tian released his pill, summoning Nine-Colored Heavenly Lightning over Saint Pill City and securing the Pill Gathering champion title.
• Hun Yuan spat blood in shock and anger as Xiao Tian mocked his inferior Six-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Tian said the Nine-Colored Heavenly Lightning posed no threat to him because he was a Half-Saint.
• Xiao Yan wrapped his pill in flame, drew out its spiritual energy, and added Spirit-Bearing Dust.
• Xiao Yan offered his blood to the flame and began the Soul Elevation Method with the words, “Blood sacrifice, spirit return!”

Xiao Yan restored his pill and raised its Pill Lightning from Six-Colored to Seven-Colored, defeating Hun Yuan and driving him and Mu Gu from the Pill Gathering. As Xiao Tian prepared to break apart the brewing Thunder Cloud, Xiao Huiying’s movement signaled that their hidden plan had begun.

• Xiao Yan used his Soul Power to restore his dried-up pill, causing his Thunder Cloud to change and its Pill Lightning to rise to Six-Colored.
• Xiao Yan roared and raised the pill’s Pill Lightning to Seven-Colored, while Hun Yuan realized he had lost.
• Xiao Yan taunted Hun Yuan and Mu Gu, and Mu Gu treated Hun Yuan before taking him away from the square.
• Xiao Tian told Xiao Yan that he had made arrangements against Soul Hall, while Xiao Yi Xian and Yun Yun confirmed Wen Yan had carried out their plan without leaving traces.
• Xiao Huiying’s body flickered, signaling the plan had begun, as Xiao Tian prepared to smash apart the brewing Thunder Cloud and stopped Xiao Yan from speaking.

Xiao Tian erased the Pill Thunder clouds with a single Thunder Flame attack, stunning the Pill Gathering crowd. With the tribulation over, Xuan Kongzi asked the remaining contestants to present their pills so the final results could be announced.

• Xiao Tian fused three Spirit Thunders with a trace of Heavenly Flame to create a Thunder Flame sphere and hurled it into the Thunder Cloud.
• The attack destroyed the Thunder Cloud and swept away the other contestants’ clouds, leaving the square and Xiao Yan’s companions stunned.
• Xiao Tian joked with Xiao Yan, while Xiao Ling and the other children praised him and talked about competing themselves.
• After the clouds vanished, sunlight returned, and some people broke through by One-Star Realm.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that the Pill Thunder had dispersed and asked the remaining contestants to bring out their Medicinal Pills.

Xiao Tian won the Pill Gathering after refining a Nine-Colored Heavenly Lightning Rank 8 Pill. Outside Saint Pill City, Mu Gu Lao Ren fought Chen Tian Nan, who blamed him for his son’s death, while Wen Yan and Xiao Huiying watched from hiding.

• Xuan Kongzi declared Xiao Tian the Pill Gathering champion, and the crowd cheered his victory.
• Mu Gu Lao Ren fled the city carrying the unconscious Hun Yuan and was confronted by Chen Tian Nan.
• Chen Tian Nan accused Mu Gu Lao Ren of causing Chen Xian’s death and attacked him.
• Mu Gu Lao Ren and Chen Tian Nan fought while Wen Yan and Xiao Huiying watched from a hidden space.
• Mu Gu Lao Ren wounded Chen Tian Nan with Heavenly Flames and prepared to finish him off.

Xiao Huiying manipulated Chen Tian Nan’s self-destruction to kill Hun Yuan and Mu Gu Lao Ren, steal the Wind Fury Dragon Flame, and frame the Heavenly Underworld Sect. A mysterious figure in the Soul Hall received the altered Child Fire, while Pill Tower experts arrived at the ruined valley to investigate.

• Chen Tian Nan self-destructed to avenge his son, and Xiao Huiying sent the powerless Hun Yuan into the explosion, killing him.
• Xiao Huiying altered Hun Yuan’s Child Fire and stole Mu Gu Lao Ren’s Heavenly Flame seed as Chen Tian Nan’s explosion overwhelmed and killed Mu Gu Lao Ren.
• Xiao Huiying and Wen Yan left the valley after discussing how the deaths could provoke conflict between Soul Hall and the Heavenly Underworld Sect.
• A black-flame-wreathed figure in the Soul Hall received Hun Yuan’s Child Fire, viewed its memories, and mocked the Soul Clan’s younger generation.
• Pill Tower experts arrived at the scorched valley, where a red-robed elder identified the traces of a deadly battle between at least two Dou Zun Experts.

The experts who fought over two Heavenly Flames lost them when the flames were swept into a closing space rift. A month later, Xiao Yan had absorbed the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and revived Yao Chen, while Xiao Tian brought Zi Yan to Jia Nan Academy’s underground Magma World to meet someone important.

• Experts arriving at the ruins recognized the mysterious black flame and Wind Fury Dragon Flame, then fought over who would claim them.
• The experts’ attacks pushed both Heavenly Flames into a space rift, which closed before anyone could retrieve them.
• Xiao Tian gave Xiao Yan the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and the Dragon Seal, and Xiao Yan absorbed the flame, reaching Two-Star Dou Zun Peak.
• Xiao Yan used the Dou Sheng Skeleton and Heaven-Melting Resurrection Pill to help Yao Chen rebuild his body, then joined the other Star Domain participants, while Xiao Tian and Cao Ying stayed behind.
• Xiao Tian brought Cao Ying to meet his companions in the Free and Unfettered World, where they took her sightseeing.
• Xiao Tian brought Zi Yan to the underground Magma World at Jia Nan Academy, and she wondered why he had taken her there.

Xiao Tian and Zi Yan descended through the magma toward the Graveyard of Gods, where they encountered the Flame Lizardmen. After Xiao Tian killed their two Half-Saint elders, Zi Yan attacked a lizardman who threatened them with the guardian.

• Xiao Tian wrapped himself and Zi Yan in the Qilin Burning Sky Sacred Fire and carried her down into the magma.
• After descending for about ten minutes, Xiao Tian exposed a hidden group of Flame Lizardmen, whose two Intermediate Half-Saint elders ordered him to leave.
• Xiao Tian killed both elders with five-colored Thunder, and the blast also evaporated nearby lizardmen.
• A Dou Zun-level lizardman threatened Xiao Tian with punishment by the guardian, so Zi Yan lunged at him with her Void Fist.