Chapter Summaries

Hei Qing found Zi Yan and invited her back to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, where she could learn the truth about her parents. After an emotional farewell, Xiao Ling and his companions continued toward the Pill Region, arriving in the Central Region and planning to pass through Tianhuang City.

• Hei Qing, an Ancient Void Dragon, stopped Xiao Ling’s ship and revealed that Zi Yan was the clan’s princess, sent to bring her back to Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan asked why her parents had abandoned her, and Hei Qing said Elder Zhu Li would explain the complicated matter.
• Xiao Ling encouraged Zi Yan to return to her clan but said he and the others would join her later; Zi Yan agreed and left with Hei Qing after a tearful farewell.
• Xiao Ling realized Zi Yan had taken the Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python, but decided to let it remain with her and Medusa.
• A month later, Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin reached the Central Region and learned they still had several days to travel to the Pill Region.
• Xiao Ling noted that Tianhuang City lay on their route and had a Space Wormhole leading toward the Pill Region.

Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin reached Tianhuang City and visited Liu Qing, who had become head of the Liu Family. They agreed to wait three days for the Space Wormhole to reopen, and Liu Qing gave Xiao Ling a Yaoluo Fruit Seed in exchange for an Imperial Pill.

• Xiao Ling and his companions flew to Tianhuang City after learning that Liu Qing lived there.
• Xiao Ling introduced himself at the Liu Family estate, and Liu Qing warmly welcomed his former classmate and the two junior sisters.
• Liu Qing explained that the Space Wormhole was closed until the Liu and Cheng families held their management competition in three days.
• Xiao Ling agreed to stay in Tianhuang City and offered to refine an Imperial Pill for Liu Qing.
• Liu Qing gave Xiao Ling a Yaoluo Fruit Seed from the family treasure vault, and Xiao Ling said he would provide the Imperial Pill ingredients himself.

Xiao Ling stayed at the Liu Family estate, refined Liu Qing’s promised Imperial Pill, and cultivated a Life Transformation Flame from Beast Fires. He left his room the next morning after Qing Lin told him the Cheng Family match was taking place and that the Space Wormhole would be available afterward.

• Liu Qing welcomed Xiao Ling and his companions, hosted them for a meal, and arranged a quiet guest courtyard for their stay.
• Xiao Ling gave Xiao Yi Xian the Yaoluo Fruit Seed and Sky-Covering Bottle to cultivate while he prepared to refine Liu Qing’s Imperial Pill.
• Xiao Ling refined a top-quality Sixth-grade Imperial Pill and stored it in his Ring.
• Xiao Ling used three Seventh-grade Beast Fires to create a Life Transformation Flame, then nourished it with more than twenty additional Beast Fires.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Ling that the Cheng Family match was scheduled for that day and that they could use the Space Wormhole after it ended.

Xiao Ling and his companions watched the annual Liu Family–Cheng Family contest for the Space Wormhole, where Liu Qing gained the upper hand against Cheng Nan. Xiao Ling recognized Blazing Flame Valley’s Tang Huo’er and her connection to a child flame of the Nine Dragon Thunderclap Flame, while Xiao Yi Xian teased him about pursuing her to obtain the Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations.

• Xiao Ling gave Liu Qing the Imperial Pill he had promised, and the group headed to the competition grounds in Tianhuang City.
• Blazing Flame Valley’s delegation arrived through the Space Wormhole, and Elder Huo announced that Liu Qing and Cheng Nan would compete for the year’s management rights.
• Liu Qing and Cheng Nan began their Dou Huang duel, with Liu Qing steadily suppressing his opponent.
• Qing Lin sensed that Tang Huo’er was unusually powerful, and Xiao Ling identified her as Tang Zhen’s daughter, carrying a child flame of the Nine Dragon Thunderclap Flame.
• Xiao Ling discussed obtaining the complete Heavenly Fire Three Profound Transformations, and Xiao Yi Xian teased him about winning over Tang Huo’er.

Xiao Ling watched Liu Qing defeat Cheng Nan and accepted an invitation to the Liu Family banquet before traveling through Tianhuang City's Space Wormhole. Tang Huo'er later challenged Xiao Ling over their fire abilities, and he countered her Nine Dragon Thunderclap Flame with a giant tortoise formed from his own flame.

• Tang Huo'er noticed Xiao Ling's concealed strength, while Elder Huo failed to discern the depths of Xiao Ling and his companions.
• Liu Qing defeated Cheng Nan with his Intentional Bombing Fist, winning the Liu Family the next year's management rights to Tianhuang City's Space Wormhole.
• Xiao Ling accepted Liu Qing's invitation to the Liu Family banquet, choosing to delay their journey to the Pill Region.
• Heavenly Fire Venerate predicted that Tang Huo'er would seek Xiao Ling out, and she soon arrived with Elder Huo to challenge him to a fire contest.
• Tang Huo'er attacked Xiao Ling with the Nine Dragon Thunderclap Flame, and Xiao Ling's dark brown flame formed a giant tortoise that tore apart her silver Fire Dragon.

Xiao Ling defeated Tang Huo'er in a spar, prompting her to return to Blazing Flame Valley and attempt to subdue the complete Nine Dragon Thunderclap Flame early. He then traveled with his companions to Sacred Pill City, where Yao Chen urged him to seek an Alchemist badge at Danta.

• Xiao Ling used the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame to defeat Tang Huo'er's Nine Dragon Thunderclap Flame Child Flame, then showed mercy as Elder Huo treated her.
• Tang Huo'er resolved to return to Blazing Flame Valley and subdue the complete Nine Dragon Thunderclap Flame so she could defeat Xiao Ling next time.
• Xiao Ling and his companions attended a banquet, bid farewell to Liu Qing, and traveled through a Space Wormhole toward Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Ling, Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and Heavenly Fire Venerate arrived in Sacred Pill City, where Yao Chen declined to visit his old friends and suggested Xiao Ling take Danta's Alchemist examination.
• Xiao Ling agreed to seek an Alchemist badge and led the group toward the center of Sacred Pill City, where they saw Danta's towering headquarters.

After arriving in Sacred Pill City, Xiao Ling experienced a breakthrough in his Soul Realm and secretly explored the space sealing Three Thousand Burning Flame. The next morning, he headed to Pill Tower Headquarters to take the Alchemist badge assessment as Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin went sightseeing.

• Xiao Ling rented a courtyard at Dan Xin Pavilion for the group and spent a quiet evening with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Ling absorbed Spiritual Energy during meditation and advanced to the late Spirit Realm while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin cultivated nearby.
• Xiao Ling used his Soul Power to enter the space sealing Three Thousand Burning Flame, observed the Ancient Void Dragon-like flame, and withdrew without attracting Danta's Three Giants.
• Xiao Ling told Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin he was going to Pill Tower Headquarters for his Alchemist badge assessment, then entered Sacred Pill City's Inner Domain.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin went sightseeing under Heavenly Fire Venerate's protection as Xiao Ling continued toward Danta.

Xiao Ling arrived at Danta’s headquarters and sought an assessment for the Eighth-grade Alchemist rank, but the guards doubted his claim. Cao Ying recognized his reputation and escorted him inside to meet her Master, who could evaluate him.

• Xiao Ling reached Danta’s headquarters and told the guards he wanted to take the Eighth-grade Alchemist assessment.
• Xiao Ling showed a Seventh-grade Life-returning Pill, but the guard said it could not prove he had refined it himself.
• Cao Ying arrived, identified Xiao Ling as the famed young Eighth-grade Alchemist, and offered to arrange his assessment.
• Xiao Ling greeted Cao Ying and followed her into Danta to meet her Master.
• The crowd outside discussed Xiao Ling’s reputation and speculated about his future in Danta.

Xiao Ling met President Xuan Kong at Danta and chose to prove his Eighth-grade Alchemist rank by refining a Fuling Green Pill with ingredients supplied by Danta. As the Three Titans of Danta gathered to watch, Xiao Ling began preparing the pill in the Alchemy Hall.

• Cao Ying led Xiao Ling through Danta to President Xuan Kong's office, where Xuan Kong welcomed him and discussed his Eighth-grade Alchemist assessment.
• Xuan Kong offered Xiao Ling a choice between a standard assessment and refining an Eighth-grade Pill on the spot, and Xiao Ling chose to make a Fuling Green Pill.
• Xuan Kong provided Xiao Ling with three sets of Fuling Green Pill ingredients and asked Cao Ying to take him to Danta's Alchemy Hall.
• Xuan Kong, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi discussed Xiao Ling's background and considered inviting him to join Danta before going to observe his pill refinement.
• Cao Ying brought Xiao Ling to the Alchemy Hall, notified his companions, and joined the Three Titans as they arrived to watch.
• Xiao Ling summoned the Spirit Quenching Cauldron and hundreds of medicinal ingredients, then produced a cluster of golden flames to begin refining the pill.

Xiao Ling used the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame to refine an Eighth-grade Pill at Danta, drawing the attention of its Three Giants and many Alchemists. After seven days of work, he formed the pill and triggered Four-Colored Pill Lightning, while Cao Ying’s interest in him grew.

• Xuan Kongzi identified Xiao Ling’s golden flame as resembling the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, and Cao Ying watched Xiao Ling begin refining his pill.
• Xiao Ling used his Heavenly Flame and precise control to temper many medicinal ingredients at once as Danta’s Elders and disciples gathered to observe.
• After more than three days of extraction and nearly three days of fusion, Xiao Ling formed a Pill Prototype in the Medicine Cauldron.
• Xiao Ling refined the prototype into an Eighth-grade Pill, and its formation summoned a four-colored thundercloud above Danta.
• Danta’s First Elder praised Xiao Ling’s achievement, while Cao Ying watched him with growing interest and Song Qing looked on with envy.

Xiao Ling completed an Eighth-grade four-colored Fuling Green Pill and used the Sky Demon Puppet to withstand its Four-Colored Pill Lightning. After receiving Danta’s Eighth-grade Alchemist badge, he declined Xuan Yi’s offer to join Danta, saying he had unfinished matters to handle.

• Xiao Ling summoned the Sky Demon Puppet to absorb the Four-Colored Pill Lightning, which strengthened the puppet over more than twenty minutes.
• Xiao Ling captured the escaping Fuling Green Pill with his Soul Power and stored it in a cold-jade bottle.
• Xuan Kongzi awarded Xiao Ling an Eighth-grade Alchemist badge and two robes, then encouraged him to spend time with Cao Ying.
• Xuan Yi offered Xiao Ling full elder status and Danta’s resources, but Xiao Ling declined because he had his own plans and unfinished matters.
• Cao Ying urged Xiao Ling to reconsider and warned that Danta could protect him from Soul Hall, but Xiao Ling reassured her and maintained his refusal.

Xiao Ling declined Xuan Yi’s invitation to join Danta but accepted permission to visit its Treasure Vault with Cao Ying. As they gathered rare materials, Xiao Ling gave Cao Ying a millennium-old Ice Crystal Snow Lotus, leaving her convinced that he was romantically interested in her.

• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi noticed that Xiao Ling’s alchemy methods resembled Yao Chen’s, but Xuan Kongzi advised them not to question him yet.
• Xiao Ling and Cao Ying encountered Song Qing, who tried to invite Cao Ying to discuss alchemy, but she dismissed him and continued with Xiao Ling.
• Elder Mu welcomed Xiao Ling and Cao Ying into Danta’s Treasure Vault and gave Xiao Ling a Ring for the items he chose to exchange.
• Xiao Ling collected rare medicinal herbs, high-level Monster Cores, and poisonous substances while Cao Ying explained the treasures to him.
• Xiao Ling gave Cao Ying a millennium-old Ice Crystal Snow Lotus, and she accepted it while privately deciding that he must be attracted to her.

Xiao Ling exchanged rare ingredients in Danta’s Treasure Vault and acquired a poison-attributed Dou Technique for Xiao Yi Xian. After leaving Danta, he returned to his companions and took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin out to enjoy Sacred Pill City, where the crowds were already celebrating his fame.

• Xiao Ling exchanged duplicate medicinal ingredients for value points and obtained the materials he had selected from Danta’s Treasure Vault.
• Elder Mu traded Xiao Ling the Earth Grade Mid-tier Poisonous Soul Breaking Strike for two Ten-Thousand-Year Azure Spirit Vines, and Xiao Ling accepted.
• Cao Ying asked to visit Xiao Ling for alchemy discussions, and Xiao Ling agreed on the condition that they keep their exchanges focused on alchemy and medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Ling left Danta, returned to his courtyard, gave Heavenly Fire Venerate the Eighth-grade Fuling Green Pill, and took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin out around Sacred Pill City.
• Xiao Ling strolled through the crowded city with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin while passersby discussed his successful refinement of an Eighth-grade four-colored Pill without recognizing him.

In Sacred Pill City, Xiao Ling agreed to represent the declining Ye Family in Danta’s upcoming assessment in exchange for access to its Yang Fire Ancient Altar and alchemy records. As he trained his alchemy and his companions prepared for their own cultivation, pill lightning repeatedly struck his golden Demon Puppet.

• Xiao Ling joked with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin as they walked through Sacred Pill City.
• Ye Zhong and the Ye Family elders decided to seek Xiao Ling’s help to keep their family among Danta’s Five Great Families.
• Xiao Ling accepted Ye Zhong’s request to represent the Ye Family, asking to use its Yang Fire Ancient Altar and read its alchemy books and ancestral notes.
• Ye Zhong agreed to Xiao Ling’s conditions and asked him to accept Ye Xin Lan as a disciple, but Xiao Ling offered only to guide her when he could.
• Xiao Ling took pill-refinement requests and practiced alchemy, while Xiao Yi Xian prepared new poisons and Qing Lin focused on cultivation.
• Pill lightning repeatedly gathered near Danta and struck Xiao Ling’s golden Demon Puppet.

Xun Er learned that Xiao Ling had become a renowned young alchemist and decided to leave the Ancient Realm to see him again. In Sacred Pill City, Cao Ying successfully refined an Eighth-grade Pill with Xiao Ling’s help, and he caught her as she nearly collapsed from exhaustion.

• Xun Er cultivated in the Ancient Realm until Ling Ying arrived and told her about Xiao Ling’s recent achievements.
• Xun Er recalled Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, then ordered the clan to prepare for her departure from the Ancient Realm.
• Cao Ying refined a pill while Xiao Ling used his Soul Power to help it transform into an Eighth-grade Pill.
• The pill’s breakthrough summoned a thundercloud over Sacred Pill City, drawing residents’ attention to Xiao Ling’s pill refining.
• Cao Ying nearly collapsed from exhaustion, and Xiao Ling caught her as she celebrated refining an Eighth-grade Pill herself.

Cao Ying refined an Eighth-grade Pill with Xiao Ling’s help, while Heavenly Fire Venerate recovered and Xiao Yi Xian prepared to condense her Poison Pill. As Xiao Ling’s group reached Ye City, the Soul Hall dispatched two Venerable Elders to capture him.

• Cao Ying kissed Xiao Ling as a reward for helping her refine an Eighth-grade Pill, then left to report her breakthrough to her teacher.
• Heavenly Fire Venerate emerged from seclusion restored to the peak of Five-star Dou Venerate, and Xiao Ling planned to take the group to the Ye Family to help Xiao Yi Xian condense her Poison Pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian emerged from seclusion at Nine Star Dou Ancestor and joined Xiao Ling’s group as they traveled through a Space Wormhole toward Ye City.
• Star Picking Old Ghost ordered two Venerable Elders to bring Xiao Ling back to the Soul Hall, dead or alive.
• Xiao Ling and his group arrived near Ye City and flew toward it.

Xiao Ling visited the Ye Family to borrow the Yang Fire Ancient Altar and brought Xiao Yi Xian there to suppress her Calamity Poison Body. After the altar was activated, its intense yang energy began to fill the chamber, leaving Xiao Yi Xian in scorching heat.

• Xiao Ling and his companions arrived at the Ye Family estate, where the guards recognized him and escorted them to Ye Zhong.
• Xiao Ling asked Ye Zhong to let him use the Yang Fire Ancient Altar and arrange lodging for his companions, and Ye Zhong readily agreed.
• Ye Zhong explained that the Earth Core Fire Seedling no longer emerged regularly and that the altar could not produce Yang Fire as it once had.
• Xiao Ling asked Heavenly Fire Venerate to guard the plaza and told Qing Lin to remain with him while he took Xiao Yi Xian into the altar.
• Xiao Ling moved the black stone tablet to activate the altar, and gathered sunlight filled the chamber with extreme yang energy that left Xiao Yi Xian feeling intensely hot.

Xiao Ling began the Poison Pill Method to help Xiao Yi Xian control her Calamity Poison Body, using Heavenly Flames, a Nether Poison Dragon Scorpion Monster Core, and Bodhi Body Saliva. As the poison began condensing into a Poison Pill, Xiao Yi Xian remained stable, and Xiao Ling turned his attention to the altar’s Earth Eye.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to endure the Poison Pill Method, and Xiao Ling used Heavenly Flames to drive the poison gas in her body into her lower abdomen.
• Xiao Ling pressed the Nether Poison Dragon Scorpion Monster Core into Xiao Yi Xian’s poison vortex and refined the Bodhi Body Saliva, extracting a Bodhi Seed that he stored away.
• Xiao Ling applied the Bodhi Body Saliva to Xiao Yi Xian, restoring vitality to her body and helping suppress the poison gas.
• Xiao Yi Xian followed Xiao Ling’s instructions to circulate her Dou Qi and compress the poison gas around the Monster Core, beginning to form the Poison Pill.
• After confirming Xiao Yi Xian was stable, Xiao Ling explored the Yang Fire Ancient Altar and peered into its bottomless Earth Eye.

Xiao Ling extracted the Earth Core Bead from the Earth Eye and discovered that it could continuously produce Yang Fire under sunlight. After three days, Xiao Yi Xian awakened with the Calamity Poison Body fully under her control, reunited with Xiao Ling, and shared a kiss with him.

• Xiao Ling used his Soul Power to find and retrieve the Earth Core Bead from the Earth Eye, then sealed the opening with the black stone stele.
• Xiao Ling tested the Earth Core Bead in sunlight and confirmed that it produced Yang Fire while drawing nearby Fire Attribute energy toward him.
• Xiao Ling covered the unconscious Xiao Yi Xian with his robe and spent three days studying the Yang Fire as she absorbed the Calamity Poison Aura.
• Xiao Yi Xian awakened having completely mastered the Calamity Poison Body, and she told Xiao Ling that meeting him had been the greatest fortune of her life.
• Xiao Ling and Xiao Yi Xian embraced and kissed, then he gently told her to put her clothes on.

After Xiao Yi Xian condensed the Poison Pill and reached the peak of Four-star Dou Venerate, Xiao Ling left her to absorb the Nether Poison Flame. A group from the Soul Hall then arrived over Ye City and confronted Xiao Ling, demanding that he join them.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Ling that condensing the Poison Pill had raised her cultivation to the peak of Four-star Dou Venerate, and Xiao Ling gave her the Nether Poison Flame to absorb.
• Xiao Ling left Xiao Yi Xian in the Yang Fire Ancient Altar with pills and materials, then told Heavenly Fire Venerate and Yao Chen about her breakthrough.
• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yi Xian to seek the Poison Seal Method in the future, while Xiao Ling resolved to cultivate toward Dou Venerate after returning to Starfall Pavilion.
• A huge Space Rift opened above Ye City, and more than ten black-robed Soul Hall members emerged from it.
• The Soul Hall members spotted Xiao Ling and Heavenly Fire Venerate, then appeared above the Ye Family with black chains and demanded that Xiao Ling join the Soul Hall.