Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng met Ye Zhong and the Ye Family elders, revealed that he had reached peak Seventh-grade alchemist, and agreed to represent the family in the Pill Tower's Five Great Families assessment. The Ye Family celebrated, hopeful that his help would keep them from being expelled and that his recommendation could open the way to the Lesser Pill Pagoda.

• Ye Xinlan introduced Lin Feng to the Ye Family elders, including her grandfather, First Elder Ye Zhong, and Lin Feng introduced Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Fire Venerable.
• The Ye Family elders were shocked to learn that Heavenly Fire Venerable was a Dou Venerable and invited Lin Feng's group into the estate.
• Lin Feng revealed his peak Seventh-grade alchemist strength, astonishing Ye Zhong, Ye Xinlan, and the other elders.
• Ye Zhong offered Lin Feng access to the Ye Family's Scripture Library and a recommendation to study alchemy in the Lesser Pill Pagoda if he represented the family in the assessment.
• Ye Zhong explained the Lesser Pill Pagoda's entry requirements, and Lin Feng agreed to represent the Ye Family.
• The Ye Family members rejoiced, believing Lin Feng's help would protect their place among the Pill Tower's Five Great Families.

Lin Feng asked Ye Zhong to search for Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and learned about the Ye Family’s Ancient Yang Fire Altar, which held a hidden Earth Core Bead. Ye Zhong agreed to take them there but warned that the altar had rarely produced Yang Fire in recent years, disappointing Xiao Yi Xian and Heavenly Fire Venerable.

• Lin Feng asked Ye Zhong to look for Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and gave him a Grade Eight Three-Color Pill to trade for it.
• Ye Zhong agreed to contact friendly factions and inquire at the Pill Pagoda on Lin Feng’s behalf.
• Lin Feng asked Ye Zhong for a quiet place to practice, and Ye Zhong described the Ancient Yang Fire Altar and its Yang Fire.
• Lin Feng recognized that an Earth Core Bead was hidden beneath the altar and asked Ye Zhong to lead them there.
• Ye Zhong warned that Earth Core Fire sparks had become rare, and Heavenly Fire Venerable decided not to go.

Heavenly Fire Venerable left to explore while Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian visited the Ye Family’s ancient altar to investigate its Yang Fire. Lin Feng drew a flame from the earth-core passage and discovered the altar’s Yang Fire, leaving him holding the mild but powerful flame.

• Heavenly Fire Venerable accepted two Grade Eight three-colored pills and agreed to look for news about the Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva before departing.
• Ye Zhong led Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian to the secluded altar and left Ye Xinlan nearby to assist them.
• Lin Feng opened the altar’s stone stele, revealing a passage to the earth’s core and triggering the surrounding walls to enclose the altar.
• When no Yang Fire appeared, Lin Feng drew a tiny crimson flame from the passage, which combined with gathered sunlight to form a white, blood-veined flame.
• Lin Feng picked up the Yang Fire and judged it mild but more powerful than ordinary Beast Fire.

Lin Feng retrieved an Earth Core Fire Bead from a dangerous earth vein and gave it to Xiao Yi Xian, whose Emperor Spirit Flame could grow by absorbing the Yang Fire it produced. After Xiao Yi Xian claimed she would reward him, she pushed Lin Feng down and climbed on top of him.

• Lin Feng gave Xiao Yi Xian a cluster of Yang Fire, and she absorbed it to strengthen her Emperor Spirit Flame.
• Lin Feng pulled several more clusters of Earth Core Fire from the earth vein before probing deeper with his soul power.
• Lin Feng seized the Earth Core Fire Bead from a mass of fire energy and escaped as a violent, fire-poisonous torrent pursued him.
• Lin Feng covered the earth vein with a black stone tablet and explained the danger to Xiao Yi Xian.
• Sunlight caused the Earth Core Fire Bead to produce dense Yang Fire, which Xiao Yi Xian said could raise her Emperor Spirit Flame to rival Lin Feng's Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Xiao Yi Xian put away the bead, pushed Lin Feng down, and climbed on top of him to reward him.

The Ancient Clan punished Gu Yao and Gu Xun'er after discovering their actions, then sent two experts to investigate the deaths of its Dou Zuns. The investigators learned that the killer had read the Imperial Seal Art, failed to find him, and returned with the next scroll.

• The Ancient Clan punished Gu Yao with three months kneeling and three years of confinement, and confined Gu Xun'er for one year while recalling the Dou Zuns she had dispatched.
• An Ancient Clan man and woman examined the forest where Lin Feng had killed two of their Dou Zuns and concluded the killer was a Peak Dou Zun familiar with the Seven Ancient Clans.
• The woman tracked the Imperial Seal Art scrolls, and the pair found a Storage Ring torn apart by a spatial storm but no trace of Lin Feng.
• The man discovered the Imperial Seal Art scroll's Soul Imprint had faded, realized the killer had read it, and angrily lamented the skill's exposure.
• The woman urged the man to retrieve the other scroll, and the two flew toward its location before heading back to the Ancient Clan's small world.

Nearly half a year after the blood-red energy receded, Lin Feng cultivated beneath the Ye Family’s Ancient Yang Fire Altar, improved his alchemy, and worked on a secret technique while Xiao Yi Xian trained at Falling God Ravine. The chapter left Lin Feng giving Ye Xinlan Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and high-grade pills, while their relationship had grown intimate during his bouts of Fire Poison.

• Lin Feng widened the passage to the Earth's core and cultivated below it, but had to emerge periodically to purge the Fire Poison.
• Xiao Yi Xian entered seclusion at Falling God Ravine, and her Emperor Spirit Flame advanced to a level not far below Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Lin Feng improved his cultivation and alchemy, upgraded his Earth Demon Puppets to Peak Dou Zong, and set aside work on the Digang Inverted Heaven Great Array.
• Ye Xinlan told Lin Feng that her success rate refining fifth-tier Dou Ling Pills had reached about sixty percent and gave him a Storage Ring containing supplies and Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva.
• Lin Feng gave Ye Xinlan used Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva to temper her body, along with two high-grade pills for her and the Ye Family.
• Ye Xinlan recalled that she had once helped Lin Feng purge his Fire Poison with her lips, which explained his absences to visit Xiao Yi Xian.

Lin Feng succeeded in using Dan Thunder to refine a Seventh Grade Pill after removing the Heaven and Earth Might that had caused his earlier attempts to fail. He named the new technique the Pill Tempering Method, giving himself a signature skill to use with other alchemists.

• Ye Xinlan offered to detoxify Lin Feng that night, but he declined because he had matters to handle.
• Lin Feng entered the altar and began refining a pill in the Myriad Beast Cauldron.
• After several days, Dan Thunder descended, and Lin Feng drew it toward himself and compressed it into a sphere.
• Lin Feng removed the Heaven and Earth Might from the Dan Thunder, then used the gentler lightning to temper the pill.
• Lin Feng inspected the successful Seventh Grade Pill and concluded that removing Heaven and Earth Might had solved the problem.
• Lin Feng decided to name his new Secret Technique the Pill Tempering Method.

Lin Feng tested the Digang Inverted Heaven Great Array on his puppets, then Xiao Yi Xian arrived and mistook traces of rouge on his lips for evidence that he had cheated. She attacked him before Ye Xinlan appeared and hurried to comfort him.

• Lin Feng inscribed the Digang Inverted Heaven Great Array into eighteen puppets and watched them combine their power in the tiger-shaped Sky Demon Puppet.
• Xiao Yi Xian arrived near Ye City, recognized the array's aura, and reunited with Lin Feng.
• Xiao Yi Xian noticed rouge on Lin Feng's lips, accused him of cheating, and struck him repeatedly as he tried to flee.
• Ye Xinlan arrived after hearing the fight, pulled Lin Feng into her arms, and asked whether he was all right.

After Xiao Yi Xian learned how Lin Feng and Ye Xinlan had become involved, she accepted Ye Xinlan as Lin Feng’s lesser wife, and the group prepared to travel to Sacred Pill City for the Pill Pagoda assessment. They entered the Ye Family’s Space Wormhole, with Ye Zhong piloting their Space Ship.

• Lin Feng explained how Ye Xinlan had helped him when Xiao Yi Xian missed their planned meeting, and Xiao Yi Xian regretted bringing them together before accepting Ye Xinlan as his lesser wife.
• Ye Xinlan told Lin Feng that the early assessment had been approved and would begin in a little over half a month, so they planned to go to Sacred Pill City.
• Lin Feng and Ye Xinlan joined Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Zhong in the main hall, then set off together after Xiao Yi Xian prepared the Ye Family’s Space Wormhole.
• At the Space Wormhole entrance, Ye Zhong entrusted the Ye Family’s affairs to two elders, and Xiao Yi Xian confirmed that the passage had been maintained.
• Lin Feng and the others entered the Space Wormhole and traveled by Space Ship, which Ye Zhong piloted.

Lin Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ye Zhong arrived in Sacred Pill City, the center of the Pill Domain, and prepared to rest before taking the Pill Tower’s alchemist-grade assessments. Their arrival was interrupted by the appearance of an extravagant carriage drawn by rare Void Sky-Steed Beasts.

• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian traveled through the Pill Domain and were astonished by the abundance and high quality of its alchemists.
• After several more days, Lin Feng and his companions reached Sacred Pill City through a spatial passage and arrived at one of its eight outer-district transit points.
• Xiao Yi Xian explained the city’s vast scale, and Ye Zhong proposed that they rest before taking the Pill Tower’s alchemist-grade assessments the next day.
• Lin Feng agreed to take the assessment, and Xiao Yi Xian eagerly agreed to take it as well.
• As Ye Zhong prepared to lead the group to an inn, a snow-white carriage pulled by several rare Void Sky-Steed Beasts appeared, drawing astonished attention from the crowd.

Lin Feng and the Ye Family arrived in Sacred Pill City and learned that the Dan Family had also come for the Pill Pagoda assessment. After spending the night at the dilapidated Ye Courtyard, they set out for the testing site so Lin Feng could obtain a certified grade badge.

• Ye Xinlan told Lin Feng that the carriage belonged to the Dan Family and explained that only the Dan and Cao Families still had ancestors in the Lesser Pill Pagoda.
• Ye Zhong worried about which alchemists the Dan Family would send, but Lin Feng reassured him that he could handle anyone below Grade Eight.
• Ye Zhong led Lin Feng, Ye Xinlan, and Xiao Yi Xian to the abandoned Ye Courtyard, where the group spent the night.
• The next morning, Ye Zhong took the group toward the Pill Pagoda's testing site, and Lin Feng asked him to call him by name instead of addressing him formally.
• Lin Feng and the others followed Ye Zhong to an ancient stone tower in Sacred Pill City's outer district.

Lin Feng, Ye Xinlan, and Xiao Yi Xian visited the Pill Tower branch in Sacred Pill City, where Ye Zhong tried to arrange a quicker alchemist-grade assessment. Cao Dan confronted Ye Xinlan over rejecting his family’s marriage proposal, and Lin Feng challenged him as tensions rose.

• Ye Zhong explained the stone tower’s trading area and led Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian to the alchemist-grade certification queue.
• Ye Zhong left to seek help with the long line and asked Ye Xinlan to take Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian to the resting area.
• Cao Dan blocked their way, taunted Ye Xinlan about rejecting the Cao Family’s marriage proposal, and challenged her closeness with Lin Feng.
• Ye Xinlan rebuked Cao Dan and warned Lin Feng about the Cao Family’s power, but Lin Feng mocked Cao Dan in return.
• Cao Dan grew furious, and Lin Feng released the aura of a half-step Dou Zun to press down on him.

Lin Feng and his companions drove Cao Dan and his guards away after Xiao Yi Xian revealed her superior Dou Zun strength. With the confrontation over, Ye Zhong told them they could apply for their Alchemist ranks, and they set off for the examination.

• Cao Dan called on Venerable Ku Yi and the two red-robed elders to stop Lin Feng, but Lin Feng refused to back down despite Cao Dan's threats.
• Xiao Yi Xian overwhelmed Cao Dan's group with her aura, and Venerable Ku Yi advised Cao Dan to retreat.
• Cao Dan left after threatening to return with stronger support, while Xiao Yi Xian told Lin Feng she had secretly afflicted his group with an itching condition.
• Ye Zhong arrived, confirmed they were safe, and said he had settled matters so they could apply for their Alchemist ranks.
• Lin Feng took Xiao Yi Xian and Xin Lan by the hands and asked Ye Zhong to lead them to the ranking application.

Lin Feng and Ye Zhong encountered the Bai Family while preparing for an Alchemist assessment at the Pill Tower. Lin Feng struck down the Bai Family elder and threatened the others, leaving their feud unresolved as the assessment was about to begin.

• Ye Zhong led Lin Feng and the two women through a special entrance into a quiet room at the Pill Tower, where the Bai Family was waiting.
• A gray-clothed Bai Family elder mocked Ye Zhong, and Lin Feng taunted the group over the Bai Family's stolen pills.
• The elder accused Lin Feng of being involved in the theft, but Ye Zhong defended him and pointed out that the case was widely known across the Central Continent.
• Han Li intervened to stop the argument, but the Bai Family elder mocked Lin Feng for lacking a rank badge.
• Lin Feng sent the Bai Family elder crashing into a wall with his Soul Power and threatened the Bai Family men, who backed down and decided to seek revenge later.

Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian took alchemist rank tests at the Pill Tower branch, while the Ye Family and Bai Family remained at odds. Lin Feng earned an Intermediate Seventh-grade badge, and the group left to face the assessment of the five great families.

• Han Li praised Lin Feng's powerful Soul Power and explained that the branch could test up to Intermediate Seventh-grade.
• Lin Feng requested the highest rank available, Xiao Yi Xian chose High-grade Sixth-rank, and Bai Ying also requested Intermediate Seventh-grade.
• Xiao Yi Xian passed her test and received her High-grade Sixth-rank Alchemist badge.
• Lin Feng emerged from the Heaven-grade room with an Intermediate Seventh-grade badge, and Han Li called Bai Ying in for his test.
• Lin Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, Ye Zhong, and Ye Xinlan left the branch to prepare for the five great families' assessment.

Lin Feng discovered that Ye Xinlan had been sent to him by Xiao Yi Xian, promised to marry her, and passed an Earth Tier Soul Cultivation Method to her. The next morning, he asked Ye Zhong for Ye Xinlan’s hand in marriage and presented several gifts.

• Lin Feng mistook Ye Xinlan for Xiao Yi Xian and slept with her, then promised to marry her when she asked.
• Ye Xinlan refused to reveal why Xiao Yi Xian had sent her, and Lin Feng gave her an Earth Tier Soul Cultivation Method.
• After spending the night with Ye Xinlan, Lin Feng found Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Zhong discussing alchemy the next morning.
• Lin Feng asked Ye Zhong to marry Ye Xinlan to him and presented three scrolls and two Jade Bottles.

Lin Feng gave Ye Zhong valuable cultivation resources as betrothal gifts, including the Spirit Gathering Art, and Ye Zhong accepted Lin Feng’s marriage to Ye Xinlan. Ye Zhong entered seclusion to study the Soul Cultivation Method, while Lin Feng carried the recovering Ye Xinlan outside.

• Lin Feng presented Ye Zhong with cultivation methods, Dou Skills, and two Grade 8 Two-Color Pills as betrothal gifts.
• Ye Zhong accepted Lin Feng’s marriage to Ye Xinlan and was astonished to discover the Spirit Gathering Art among the gifts.
• Lin Feng considered how an alliance with the Ye Family could help him gather information within the Pill Pagoda, including news about Xiao Yan.
• Ye Zhong announced that he would enter seclusion to study the Soul Cultivation Method and return before the Five Great Families’ assessment.
• Ye Xinlan emerged from Lin Feng’s room limping, and Lin Feng carried her toward a pavilion.

Lin Feng accompanied Ye Zhong and the two women to the Pill Tower's Five Great Families assessment, where the Ye Family's arrival drew attention because of Lin Feng's reputation. Inside, Lin Feng noticed a young Dan Family girl whose strange constitution appeared to devour souls, and suspected she was Dan Chen.

• Ye Zhong led Lin Feng and the two women to the crowded assessment hall, where onlookers discussed the Ye Family's chances and Lin Feng's rumored feats.
• The guard announced the Ye Family's arrival, and Ye Zhong led them to their seats while identifying the Dan, Bai, and Qiu Families.
• Lin Feng recognized Bai Ying among the Bai Family members and noticed a pale young girl with the Dan Family whose body seemed to draw in souls.
• Lin Feng suspected the girl was Dan Chen, and she blushed before hiding behind a man beside her.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Xinlan noticed Lin Feng staring at the girl and pinched him at the waist.

Cao Ying arrived at the Pill Pagoda assessment gathering, drawing attention from the assembled factions and wary interest from Dan Chen. After Cao Dan recognized Lin Feng and taunted him, a burly Cao Family man stopped him from making a scene.

• The Cao Family arrived, and the gathered factions welcomed the powerful family as Cao Ying entered the hall.
• Ye Zhong warned Lin Feng about Cao Ying's talent and standing, then led him and their group to the Ye Family seats.
• Cao Ying exchanged a brief greeting with Dan Chen before taking her seat, and she glanced at Lin Feng as she passed the Ye Family.
• Cao Dan noticed Lin Feng and smugly predicted his defeat, but a burly Cao Family man stopped him from causing a scene.

Lin Feng confronted Cao Xiu and Cao Dan before the Pill Pagoda assessment began, while Cao Ying learned about Lin Feng’s abilities and chose to represent the Cao Family herself. The five families’ representatives entered the arena, leaving Lin Feng and Cao Ying set to compete.

• Cao Xiu warned Lin Feng not to bully the Cao Family, and Lin Feng replied that the family’s backing would not intimidate him.
• Cao Ying learned Lin Feng’s soul power was at the Half-step Spirit Realm and heard that he came from the Black Corner Region.
• Elder Sheng opened the assessment arena and called for representatives from the five great families.
• Cao Ying stopped Cao Xiu from representing the Cao Family and stepped forward to compete against Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng, Cao Ying, and the representatives of the Dan, Bai, and Qiu Families entered the arena.