Chapter Summaries

After Su Wan Yin reached Six Star Dou Venerate, she took Xiao Li toward Holy Pill City so he could earn an Alchemist Badge and enter the Pill Assembly. After settling matters with the Liu Family, Xiao Li arrived at the crowded city’s Outer Region with Su Wan Yin and Tian Chi, three days before the assembly began.

• Su Wan Yin completed her breakthrough, and Tang Zhen exchanged insights on Heavenly Flames and fire control with Xiao Li.
• Su Wan Yin offered to accompany Xiao Li to Holy Pill City, ordered Yin Valley’s residence prepared for him, and defended his importance as a future Eighth Grade Alchemist.
• Xiao Li delivered the pills he had promised to the Liu Family, including two Breaking Ancestor Pills that Liu Kunsheng planned to give Liu Tianlong and Liu Tianjiao.
• Xiao Li, Su Wan Yin, and Tian Chi traveled through a Spatial Wormhole and arrived at one of Holy Pill City’s eight Outer Region spatial grounds.
• Tian Chi told Xiao Li that the Pill Assembly would begin in three days, as Xiao Li marveled at the enormous crowds.

Xiao Li arrived in Holy Pill City to prepare for the one-time Pill Assembly, where he showed compassion toward a seemingly feeble old man. That night, the old man secretly guided Xiao Li into sensing Spiritual Qi, and Xiao Li woke with his soul realm advanced to Half-Step Spirit Realm.

• Su Wan Yin explained that each person could enter the Pill Assembly only once, and Xiao Li resolved to strive for a strong ranking.
• An old man bumped into Xiao Li, who helped him and defended treating weaker cultivators with respect when Mang Tian Chi questioned him.
• The old man returned after the group left and revealed that he was a powerful, mysterious figure who found Xiao Li's insight interesting.
• Su Wan Yin brought Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi to Yin Courtyard, where Xiao Li gazed at the stars and began a sudden soul breakthrough.
• The old man secretly taught Xiao Li a mnemonic for sensing Spiritual Qi, and Xiao Li absorbed a thread of it through the night.
• Xiao Li awakened refreshed with his soul realm at Half-Step Spirit Realm, leaving Mang Tian Chi astonished.

Xiao Li took Danta’s assessment in Holy Pill City and earned a Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist Badge, silencing the alchemists who had mocked him. He then searched the city’s trade area for treasures and considered what pill he could refine for the approaching Pill Assembly.

• Su Wan Yin brought Xiao Li to Danta’s Branch Tower, where Deacon Zhou asked what rank he wanted to test for.
• After other alchemists snickered at Xiao Li, he released his Mortal Realm Peak Soul Force and forced them to the floor.
• Deacon Zhou oversaw Xiao Li’s Rank 7 Intermediate assessment, which he passed and earned a Danta-certified badge for.
• Xiao Li left the tower with Su Wan Yin and Mang Tian Chi, while Deacon Zhou remarked that Xiao Li could have tested for a higher rank.
• Xiao Li searched Holy Pill City’s Trade Area, bought medicinal ingredients, and picked up an ancient disc he could not identify.
• Xiao Li worried that his Dou Qi would limit the pill he could refine for the Pill Assembly, despite his Six Star Dou Emperor cultivation and Rank 7 Alchemist ability.

Xiao Li explored the Alchemist Trade Fair during the Pill Assembly and bought a rare Profound Bodhi Fruit before reaching the Top Floor. There, he found Mang Tian Chi arguing with a vendor over the price of an item.

• Xiao Li, Su Wan Yin, Mang Tian Chi, and an Elder from Yin Valley entered the Alchemist Trade Fair.
• Xiao Li visited the second floor and bought a Profound Bodhi Fruit with two pills, receiving a Blood Python Branch as a gift.
• Xiao Li purchased two more medicinal herbs, then went up to the Top Floor with Su Wan Yin.
• Xiao Li found Mang Tian Chi arguing with an old man who demanded a Purple-Green Supreme Pill despite Mang Tian Chi's offer of four Rank 7 pills.

Xiao Li helped Mang Tian Chi settle a dispute with Danta Elder Chi Yizi over an ancient Copper Fragment, then traded two Pure Heart Pills for it. Meanwhile, Wang Ming, Xiao Ting, and Yun Shan prepared to explore a Secret Realm in the Northwest Continent.

• Mang Tian Chi argued with Chi Yizi over the Copper Fragment’s demand price of a Purple-Green Supreme Pill, and Xiao Li examined the relic.
• Mang Tian Chi dragged Chi Yizi into the sky to beat him until Xuan Kongzi intervened and settled the dispute.
• Xiao Li offered Chi Yizi two Pure Heart Pills for the Copper Fragment, and Chi Yizi accepted.
• Wang Ming sneezed while traveling with Xiao Ting and Yun Shan, who had recently broken through to Dou Zong.
• Wang Ming told Yun Shan they were heading to a Secret Realm and warned him to prepare for fights with Northwest Continent Dou Ancestor Experts.

Xiao Li and Mang Tian Chi uncovered twelve grains of Yunning Dust hidden inside the Copper Fragment, and Xiao Li used his share to cultivate his soul. As Xiao Li advanced toward the Spirit Realm in seclusion, the mysterious old Dou Zhe watched him and considered rewarding him if he refined an Eighth Grade Pill at the Pill Assembly.

• Xiao Li returned to Yin Courtyard, where Mang Tian Chi took him aside and revealed Yunning Dust hidden inside the Copper Fragment.
• Mang Tian Chi and Su Wan Yin recognized the treasure, divided its twelve grains among themselves and Xiao Li, and explained its benefits.
• Xiao Li weighed refining a Profound Bodhi Foundation Establishment Pill or a Primal Chaos Barrier Breaking Pill for the coming Pill Assembly.
• Xiao Li entered seclusion with four grains of Yunning Dust and absorbed one, enduring intense pain as it fused with his soul.
• Yunning Dust drew Spiritual Qi into Xiao Li, and he cultivated his Soul Force toward the Spirit Realm.
• An old Dou Zhe watched Xiao Li from the void and considered giving him a benefit if he refined an Eighth Grade Pill at the Pill Assembly.

Xiao Li prepared for the Central Region Pill Assembly, where Danta announced the trials and rewards before contestants entered the first stage. He flew into the Soul Illusion Realm, beginning his quest to advance through the competition.

• During the month before the Pill Assembly, Xiao Li reached Eight-Star Dou Emperor and touched the barrier of the Spirit Realm through cultivation and pill refinement.
• Mang Tian Chi and Su Wan Yin encouraged Xiao Li and reviewed the Pill Assembly stages, warning him about the dangers of the Pill Realm and possible Soul Hall infiltrators.
• Xiao Li arrived at the crowded venue in Holy Pill City with his companions and listened as Su Wan Yin explained the stone platforms and competition process.
• Xuan Kongzi appeared with Tian Leizi and Xuan Yi, announced the Pill Assembly's three stages, and revealed rewards for the champion and top ten contestants.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the Soul Illusion Realm, and Xiao Li spread his Dou Qi Wings and flew into the first stage.

Xiao Li cleared the Pill Assembly’s first stage, the Illusion Realm, and waited in the rest area before entering the Pill Realm. After a Dou Zong insulted him and claimed his spot, Xiao Li quietly marked him as a target for revenge as the competitors prepared to begin the next stage.

• Xuan Kongzi told Tian Leizi and Xuan Yi about the notable contestants, including Venerable Tianhe, Chixiaozi, and Xiao Li, whose soul was close to the Spirit Realm.
• Xiao Li resisted the Illusion Realm’s visions of people from his life and passed through a Black Hole into the rest area.
• A sharp-faced Dou Zong ordered Xiao Li to leave his spot, and Xiao Li moved aside while privately planning to settle the score later.
• Tianhe Lone Cultivator noticed Xiao Li’s unusually powerful soul and wondered why the Dou Zong had underestimated him.
• A Danta staff member explained the Pill Realm’s ingredient-collecting mission, map, Space Stone, and ten-day limit, then began distributing supplies.
• Xiao Li followed the arrogant Dou Zong toward the Pill Realm, suppressing a smile as he considered his target.

Xiao Li entered the Pill Realm, killed Huang Yan, and took his soul and the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine. While searching the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range for ingredients to raise his soul to the Spirit Realm, he killed two Yellow Earth Pythons and captured someone who had been hiding nearby.

• Xiao Li found Huang Yan in the Pill Realm and broke his legs in retaliation for the old man's earlier bullying.
• Xiao Li had the Earth Demon Puppet kill Huang Yan, captured his Remnant Soul in a Porcelain Bottle, and took the Ten Thousand Year Green Spirit Vine.
• Xiao Li examined a scroll listing ingredients for medicine that could raise his soul to the Spirit Realm, then flew toward the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range.
• Xiao Li spotted three Dou Emperors fighting a Yellow Earth Python and realized a second python was guarding nearby Yellow Earth Essence.
• Xiao Li and the Earth Demon Puppet killed both Yellow Earth Pythons, drove off the surviving Dou Emperors, and captured a hidden Dou Zong.

Xiao Li unearthed a Heart of the Earth Jade Mother that contained Earth Core Soul Marrow, then negotiated with Venerable Tianhe to share it in exchange for help refining the soul-enhancing Medicine Liquid. Venerable Tianhe agreed to help Xiao Li gather the ingredients he needed for his assessment and took him to search for them.

• Xiao Li studied the oversized Yellow Earth Essence and inferred that Earth Core Soul Marrow had nourished it.
• Xiao Li dug up a Heart of the Earth Jade Mother, and Venerable Tianhe revealed that it held Earth Core Soul Marrow.
• Venerable Tianhe offered to take half the treasure and help Xiao Li refine the Medicine Liquid, and Xiao Li agreed to share the formula.
• Xiao Li asked for Star Soul Ganoderma, Willow Wood Soul Marrow, and Pill Spirit Sap, and Venerable Tianhe agreed to help him find them.
• Venerable Tianhe asked which herbs Xiao Li needed for his assessment, and Xiao Li named Tianma Dragon Blood Essence and Sulfur Flame Spirit Saliva.

Xiao Li and Venerable Tianhe gathered ingredients in the Ten Thousand Medicines Mountain Range and refined the Spirit Ascension Liquid, which enhanced the soul. Xiao Li used it to break through to the Spirit Realm, while Elder Jiang reached the Middle Spirit Realm and watched over him as he completed his seclusion.

• Venerable Tianhe refined the Spirit Ascension Liquid from the medicinal ingredients and divided it evenly with Xiao Li.
• Xiao Li stored his share, then drank a portion and used the Yin Yang Heart Flame and his cultivation method to refine it.
• Xiao Li’s soul power surged, causing a phenomenon that drew nearby alchemists toward the cave.
• The Earth Demon Puppet guarded the cave, killing intruders and driving others away.
• After seven days, Elder Jiang had advanced to the Middle Spirit Realm and noticed his Dou Qi bottleneck had loosened.
• Xiao Li emerged with his soul in the Spirit Realm and addressed Venerable Tianhe as Elder Jiang.

Xiao Li left the Pill Realm after completing the second round’s trials, using his Earth Demon Puppet to kill a Dou Zong who tried to rob him. He reached the final Pill Assembly round, where Xuan Kongzi announced that the contestants would compete for the championship.

• Xiao Li asked Venerable Tianhe how much time remained, then left the Pill Realm while Venerable Tianhe stayed behind.
• A Dou Zong tried to rob Xiao Li at the plaza, and Xiao Li’s Earth Demon Puppet killed him with one punch.
• Xiao Li submitted his Medicine List and medicinal ingredients to a Danta Elder, who approved them and let him enter the Spatial Door.
• Xiao Li emerged from the Pill Realm with Spirit Realm soul strength, prompting Mang Tian Chi’s delight and Xuan Kongzi’s victory in a wager against Tian Leizi.
• After the Spatial Door closed, Xuan Kongzi welcomed the contestants to the final round and declared that the last Alchemist standing would become champion.

Xiao Li began the final round of the Pill Assembly, revealing his Yin Yang Twin Flames and drawing attention from the crowd and Danta’s leaders. He prepared to refine a Rank 7 Peak Primal Chaos Barrier Breaking Pill, while Venerable Tianhe began refining on the neighboring platform.

• Xuan Kongzi announced that the contestants could refine any pills they chose, and Xiao Li took a stone platform beside Venerable Tianhe.
• The contestants raised their cauldrons and summoned their flames, including a Cao Family alchemist’s Blood Demon Flame and Venerable Tianhe’s Tianhe Flame.
• Xiao Li revealed the Yin Yang Twin Flames, shocking the spectators and the Three Giants of Danta.
• Venerable Tianhe recognized Xiao Li as a serious rival and began refining his pill.
• Xiao Li selected the Primal Chaos Barrier Breaking Pill, gathered more than a hundred ingredients, and began refining them in his cauldron.

Xiao Li refined the ingredients for a Primal Chaos Barrier Breaking Pill, using the Yin Yang Twin Flames to harness the energy of its conflicting wind and lightning Magical Cores. As the other contestants began completing pills and summoning Pill Lightning, Xiao Li remained focused on condensing his pill.

• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi realized Xiao Li restrained the Yin Fire and used the Yang Fire within it to nourish the medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Li found that his Spirit Realm soul improved his pill-refining control and infused the refined ingredients with traces of Spiritual Qi.
• Xiao Li refined the wind and lightning Magical Cores, used the Xuantian Qingling Fruit to harmonize their energies, and combined the ingredients into multicolored Medicine Liquid.
• Xiao Li switched to the white Yang Fire to warm and nurture the Medicine Liquid as he began pill fusion.
• An elderly contestant summoned the first Pill Lightning, and several more Grade 7 pills followed while Xiao Li continued condensing his own pill.

At the Pill Assembly, Xiao Li used Yunning Dust and his own blood to enhance his nearly Grade 8 pill, surpassing Chixiaozi’s result. His pill summoned Four-Colored Pill Lightning, and Xiao Li collapsed from exhaustion after succeeding.

• A Cao Family alchemist refined a Rank 7 Advanced pill, then a Dan Family alchemist produced a Rank 7 Peak pill.
• Chixiaozi refined a Grade 8 pill with Two-Colored Pill Lightning, shocking the crowd.
• Chixiaozi noticed Xiao Li’s Spirit Realm soul and realized that the young Dou Emperor was also refining a Grade 8 pill.
• Xiao Li used Yunning Dust and his own blood to perform Spirit Ascension on his pill as Venerable Tianhe watched.
• Xiao Li’s Pill Lightning transformed into Four-Colored Pill Lightning, and he collapsed onto the stone platform after declaring success.

Xiao Li’s pill triggered Four-Colored Pill Lightning, but Venerable Tianhe produced a stronger Grade 8 pill with Five-Colored Pill Lightning and won the Pill Assembly. Xiao Li’s Earth Demon Puppet absorbed the gathered lightning and evolved into a Heavenly Demon Puppet, while Xiao Li finished as runner-up and drew attention from powerful factions.

• Venerable Tianhe added a Spirit Fruit to his pill and produced Five-Colored Pill Lightning, surpassing Xiao Li’s Four-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Chixiaozi warned Xiao Li that he still needed to withstand the Pill Lightning, and Xiao Li sent his Earth Demon Puppet to absorb it.
• The Earth Demon Puppet drew in multiple Pill Clouds and endured their combined lightning for half an hour, evolving into a golden Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Venerable Tianhe tested the Heavenly Demon Puppet’s defenses, and Xuan Kongzi called the finalists to present their pills.
• Xuan Kongzi declared Venerable Tianhe, Jiang Tianhe, the champion based on his pill’s superior spirituality, while Xiao Li took second place.
• An aged voice in the void praised Xiao Li for refining a Grade 8 pill with Four-Colored Pill Lightning at his age.

After winning the Pill Assembly, Venerable Tianhe received an ancient Soul Cultivation Method, while the top ten contestants gained the chance to subdue Danta’s Three Thousand Burning Flame. As Xiao Li prepared to visit the Star Domain, the Pill Tower Old Ancestor revealed that he knew Xiao Li’s true identity and warned him not to investigate the Xiao Tribe’s past before reaching Dou Sheng.

• Xuan Kongzi awarded Venerable Tianhe the championship and an ancient Soul Cultivation Method, then announced that the Pill Assembly’s top ten could attempt to claim the ownerless Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• The Pill Assembly ended, and factions investigated Wang Li, learning that he was a Jia Nan Academy student with ties to Yin Valley.
• Su Wan Yin invited Xiao Li to join Yin Valley, but Xiao Li declined for now and said he might return to the Northwest Continent before considering it.
• Xiao Li stayed at the Yin Courtyard and awaited the trip to the Star Domain, wondering whether his teacher had completed his Nirvana State.
• The Pill Tower Old Ancestor sealed the space, identified Xiao Li as a member of the Xiao Tribe, and warned him not to investigate its dangerous past until he reached Dou Sheng.

Pill Tower Old Ancestor gave Xiao Li a soul cultivation method and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, which produced a precious Bodhi Seed. Two days later, Xiao Li and Venerable Tianhe joined the other Pill Assembly top ten at Danta Headquarters to prepare for entering the Star Domain and facing the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Pill Tower Old Ancestor warned Xiao Li to hide his identity from the Hun Clan and gave him a Soul Cultivation Method and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Xiao Li swallowed the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva, obtained a pure Bodhi Seed, and kept it after Pill Tower Old Ancestor said it could help him reach Half Saint.
• Pill Tower Old Ancestor explained that Xiao Li’s earlier incantation was the opening of the Gathering Stars Soul Cultivation, then departed as Xiao Li began refining the saliva’s energy.
• Soul Hall learned that Danta would let the Pill Assembly’s top ten attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and the Deputy Hall Master ordered Mu Gu to prepare for the next assembly.
• Two days later, Xiao Li traveled with Mang Tian Chi toward Danta Headquarters, where he met Venerable Tianhe and discussed the Heavenly Flame.
• The Three Giants of Danta gathered the top ten and warned them that the intelligent Three Thousand Burning Flame was as strong as a Dou Zun and might attack them because it hated Danta.

Xiao Li entered the Star Domain with the Pill Assembly finalists and saw the Three Thousand Burning Flame, whose power made his own Heavenly Flame tremble. Elder Danxun brought him to the dragon’s head and told him to touch an uncovered Dragon Scale and send in his Soul Force, just as the Three Thousand Burning Flame opened its eyes.

• Xuan Kongzi opened a Space Gate, and Elder Danxun led the top ten Pill Assembly contestants into the Star Domain.
• Venerable Tianhe stayed close to Xiao Li and joked with Chixiaozi about competing in alchemy again.
• Xiao Li sensed the Three Thousand Burning Flame nearby, and the group saw it coiled in the void as a gigantic dragon wrapped in violet-black flames.
• Elder Danxun brought Xiao Li closer to the dragon, and the Three Thousand Burning Flame opened its eyes as they reached its head.
• Elder Danxun instructed Xiao Li to touch the uncovered Dragon Scale on the dragon’s forehead and send his Soul Force into it.

Xiao Li inspected Three Thousand Burning Flame during the Pill Assembly but made no attempt to subdue it, while his Yin Yang Heart Flame grew stronger in the Star Domain. After the contestants failed to claim the flame, Su Wan Yin brought Xiao Li back to Yin Valley and declared him its Saint Son.

• Xiao Li found a powerful seal covering Three Thousand Burning Flame and apologized after the flame angrily told him to stop touching its scales.
• The contestants tried and failed to subdue Three Thousand Burning Flame, while Xiao Li let his Yin Yang Heart Flame devour the surrounding energy.
• Chixiaozi invited the top ten contestants to eat, and Xiao Li got drunk and woke up the following day at noon.
• Mang Tian Chi left to explore the Demon Thunder Saint's ruins and told Xiao Li to stay in Yin Valley and cultivate.
• Su Wan Yin declared Xiao Li Yin Valley's Saint Son as punishment for revealing its inherited Soul Medicine Liquid, and said she would make the appointment legitimate after marrying his teacher.