Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng faced the first part of the Five Great Families assessment, a test measuring Soul Value, after confronting Bai Ying and meeting Elder Sheng. Cao Ying and Lin Feng both scored 1,500, leaving the hall stunned as the assessment continued.

• Lin Feng intimidated Bai Ying after Bai Ying accused him of disrespecting the Bai Family, while Elder Sheng announced the assessment rules.
• Qiu Ji scored 630, Bai Ying scored 680, and Dan Xuan scored 815 on the Soul Value test.
• Cao Ying produced a soul storm and set a score of 1,500, surpassing her previous record of 976.
• Lin Feng released his Soul Power and also scored 1,500, prompting Ye Xinlan and Ye Zhong to sigh with relief.

Lin Feng and Cao Ying tied for first in the Soul Manipulation assessment after each caught one hundred Soul Testing Beads. Elder Sheng then announced the final test, a Soul Power battle, and Cao Ying challenged Lin Feng to show his true strength.

• Elder Sheng announced that Lin Feng and Cao Ying tied for first in the Soul Power test, with Dan Xuan in second place.
• Elder Sheng explained the Soul Manipulation assessment and set the five contestants to catch falling Soul Testing Beads using only Soul Power.
• Lin Feng and Cao Ying each caught one hundred beads, while Bai Ying, Qiu Ji, and Dan Xuan withdrew with lower totals.
• Elder Sheng announced Lin Feng and Cao Ying tied for first, then introduced a final contest in which the contestants would fight with Soul Power inside a circle.
• Cao Ying fixed her gaze on Lin Feng and challenged him to show his true strength.

Lin Feng accepted Cao Ying’s challenge during the Pill Tower examination, but the five contestants first fought to eliminate their other opponents. The chapter left Lin Feng and Cao Ying as the last two in the arena, facing off in a contest of Soul Power.

• Cao Ying challenged Lin Feng to a fight, and Lin Feng accepted while Xiao Yi Xian watched him with jealousy and killing intent.
• Elder Sheng began the Soul Power examination, and Lin Feng and Cao Ying simultaneously attacked Bai Ying and Qiu Ji, knocking them out of the arena.
• Bai Ying cursed Lin Feng inwardly before leaving, while Dan Xuan realized Lin Feng and Cao Ying had turned their attention to him.
• Lin Feng and Cao Ying attacked Dan Xuan together, and he surrendered and fled the arena.
• Dan Chen laughed at her brother’s predicament as Lin Feng and Cao Ying remained in the arena.

Lin Feng and Cao Ying clashed with their Soul Power and soul skills in the examination grounds. Lin Feng used a hidden follow-up attack to flick Cao Ying out of the red circle, leaving him the winner of their contest.

• Cao Ying and Lin Feng exchanged Soul Power attacks, and both retreated three steps after their first collision.
• Cao Ying proposed settling the contest with one move, and Lin Feng revealed his soul skill, Soul Severing Stab.
• Cao Ying launched Mysterious Soul Seal Palm, and the two soul skills collided, blasting Lin Feng and Cao Ying toward opposite edges of the grounds.
• Lin Feng's concealed invisible hand flicked Cao Ying's forehead, sending her beyond the red circle.

Lin Feng defeated Cao Ying in the Five Great Families assessment, securing the Ye Family’s place among the families. Cao Ying left after provoking jealousy between Lin Feng, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ye Xinlan, while Dan Chen watched Lin Feng with curiosity.

• Elder Sheng announced Lin Feng as the winner, and the Ye Family celebrated surviving the crisis.
• Cao Ying admitted Lin Feng’s skill, then teased him by suggesting a private meeting at night.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Xinlan glared at Lin Feng as Cao Ying left with the Cao Family.
• Other factions greeted Ye Zhong, recognizing Lin Feng’s talent and the Ye Family’s continued standing.
• Ye Xinlan asked Lin Feng if he was hurt, and Lin Feng noticed Dan Chen watching him curiously.

After the Ye Family won the assessment, Lin Feng soothed Xiao Yi Xian’s jealousy and told her he planned to visit the Pill Domain’s trading market before entering the Lesser Pill Pagoda. He reassured her that he could handle the danger there, but Xiao Yi Xian suspected he had a plan to control the Pill Pagoda.

• Dan Xuan introduced his shy younger sister, Dan Chen, then left with her after inviting Lin Feng to visit the Pill Academy.
• Lin Feng sent Ye Zhong and Ye Xinlan ahead, then coaxed the sulking Xiao Yi Xian into leaving with him.
• News of the Ye Family’s first-place finish and Lin Feng’s role spread throughout Sacred Pill City.
• At Ye Courtyard, Xiao Yi Xian punished Lin Feng, and he told her he planned to visit the inner trading market before entering the Lesser Pill Pagoda.
• Lin Feng promised to help Xiao Yi Xian strengthen her soul by refining powerful souls into Soul Origin, and he explained how his ties to the Ancient Void Dragon Clan could protect him in the Lesser Pill Pagoda.
• Xiao Yi Xian accepted his reassurance but asked why he seemed to have designs on controlling the Pill Pagoda.

Lin Feng told Xiao Yi Xian about the Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion and explained that he needed to unite powerful factions to compete for its inheritance. Xiao Yi Xian proposed that he win over Cao Ying and Dan Chen to help secure control of the Pill Pagoda, then flew into a jealous rage when Lin Feng agreed.

• Lin Feng sealed the room with Xiao Yi Xian and told her about the Dou Di cave mansion beneath Jia Nan Academy's Heavenly Flame Refining Qi Tower.
• Lin Feng explained that the Tou She Ancient God's cave mansion required eight keys held by the Eight Ancient Clans, and that the Soul Clan might gather them to open it.
• Xiao Yi Xian understood that Lin Feng wanted to unite powerful forces and control the Pill Pagoda to improve their chance of claiming the inheritance.
• Xiao Yi Xian suggested Lin Feng pursue Cao Ying and Dan Chen and win the next Pill Gathering to build influence in the Pill Pagoda.
• Lin Feng thanked Xiao Yi Xian and promised not to forget her if he gained the inheritance, prompting her to pounce on him in jealousy.

Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion after absorbing Soul Origins and reached High Seventh-grade Soul Power, then learned that Lin Feng had joined the Pill Tower and surpassed even Cao Ying. Xuan Yi warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall was hunting him, so he planned to focus on refining pills before traveling in search of a Heavenly Flame.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the Soul Origins around him and advanced his Soul Power to High Seventh-grade.
• An old man told Xiao Yan that Lin Feng had joined the Pill Tower as a Ye Family genius, was a Peak Seventh-grade Alchemist, and had defeated Cao Ying.
• Xiao Yan remembered a powerful Lin Feng from the Black Corner Region but doubted they were the same person.
• Xuan Yi warned Xiao Yan that the Soul Hall had retaliated against the Pill Tower and was searching for him after he helped hunt its Protectors.
• Xiao Yan agreed to stop hunting Soul Hall Protectors, refine High Seventh-grade pills, and later travel across other continents to seek a Heavenly Flame.

Lin Feng took Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Xinlan to the Pill Domain Trading Market to search for an Eight-Rank Magical Beast core and other useful items. After finding nothing worthwhile in the outer market, they entered the guarded central hall, where the chapter leaves them surveying its jade-platform stalls.

• Xiao Yan headed to the trading market north of the Pill Pagoda to gather herbs for refining a High Seventh-grade pill.
• Lin Feng brought Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Xinlan to the market while preparing for his assessment to enter the Lesser Pill Pagoda.
• Ye Xinlan advised Lin Feng to search the market’s center for an Eight-Rank Magical Beast core, but the group first browsed the outer stalls without finding anything they wanted.
• Ye Xinlan led Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian to the central market, where Lin Feng presented his Peak Seventh-grade Alchemist badge and Xiao Yi Xian released her aura to gain entry.
• Lin Feng and the two women entered the central hall and saw its rows of jade platforms and indifferent stall owners.

Lin Feng visited an alchemist trading hall with Ye Xinlan and Xiao Yi Xian, where he spotted an ancient bronze fragment resembling one he had found before. He also offered to trade four Peak Seventh-grade medicinal pills for a prescription related to Earth Core Soul Marrow, and the stall owner agreed.

• Ye Xinlan explained the hall’s trading customs, and Lin Feng promised to buy anything she or Xiao Yi Xian wanted.
• Lin Feng noticed an ancient-looking bronze fragment whose markings resembled those on his Bronze Scroll and suspected it held damaged information about a Soul Cultivation Method and Spirit Nurturing Powder.
• A disheveled High Seventh-grade alchemist argued with a customer over the price of a prescription that could maximize the effects of Earth Core Soul Marrow.
• Lin Feng offered four Peak Seventh-grade medicinal pills for the prescription, drawing attention from the crowd, who recognized him as the young alchemist who had defeated Cao Ying.
• The stall owner agreed to exchange the prescription for four Peak Seventh-grade medicinal pills.

Lin Feng traded for a High Seventh-grade Soul Marrow Powder recipe and exchanged a Plain Heart Pill recipe for an ancient copper piece that he believed concealed a valuable treasure. His and Xiao Yi Xian’s Heavenly Flames reacted to Xiao Yan’s presence, and the former enemies recognized each other at the trade market.

• Lin Feng exchanged four jade bottles for the Soul Marrow Powder recipe, then inspected the old copper piece on the seller’s platform.
• Lin Feng traded an Intermediate Seventh-grade Plain Heart Pill recipe for the copper piece, which had come from the same ancient ruin as the recipe.
• Lin Feng told Ye Xinlan that a similar item had once concealed a treasure worth as much as a Grade Eight Pill.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian sensed their Heavenly Flames stir and turned toward Xiao Yan, who also noticed them.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yan recognized each other, and Xiao Yi Xian realized that the young man was their enemy.

Lin Feng encountered Xiao Yan at the Pill Tower trading venue and reminded him that Xiao Yan’s past seizure of his Dou Skill had set him on the path to his present success. Lin Feng left without fighting, while Xiao Yan watched him warily and coveted the Heavenly Flames he sensed in Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian.

• Xiao Yan recognized Lin Feng as a Peak Seventh-grade Alchemist and considered taking the Green Lotus Core Flame he carried.
• Lin Feng approached Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yi Xian told Ye Xinlan about their old dispute over a Mysterious Tier Low-grade Dou Skill.
• Xiao Yan prepared for a fight, but Lin Feng said he had no intention of attacking him in public.
• Lin Feng revealed that Xiao Yan’s past purchase of his Dou Skill had left him without a Cultivation Method and led him to kill Liu Xi and rise to his current position.
• Xiao Yan realized Lin Feng had killed Liu Xi and regretted not eliminating him earlier, while nearby spectators discussed their confrontation.
• Lin Feng returned to Xiao Yi Xian and Ye Xinlan and left the hall with them as Xiao Yan watched warily.

Lin Feng rejected Xiao Yi Xian’s plan to poison Xiao Yan, then went shopping before finding a seller offering several Eight-Rank Magic Cores. As Lin Feng asked about buying them, he encountered Dan Xuan and Dan Chen again.

• Xiao Yi Xian suggested poisoning Xiao Yan, but Lin Feng refused because the people who would retaliate were too dangerous.
• Xiao Yan realized he could neither attack Lin Feng nor obtain his Heavenly Flames while they were in the Pill Tower’s territory, and he left dejectedly.
• Lin Feng shopped with Xiao Yi Xian and Xin Lan, buying Pill Recipes, Medicinal Herbs, and poisonous items.
• Lin Feng found a burly seller displaying several Eight-Rank Magic Cores and asked about buying one and several others.
• Dan Xuan and Dan Chen arrived with two elderly Dou Zun guards, and Lin Feng greeted them as Dan Chen wondered why her constitution could not absorb his Soul Power.

Lin Feng bought five Eight-Rank Magic Cores from Mad Bear Dou Zun with high-grade pills, drawing greedy attention from the crowd. As Lin Feng continued through the market with Dan Xuan and Dan Chen, he explained that he needed the cores for his cultivation and a Fighting Skill.

• Lin Feng selected five magic cores, including two Metal-attribute cores, and offered Mad Bear Dou Zun one Grade Eight Three-Color Pill and four Two-Color Pills.
• Mad Bear Dou Zun verified the pills and gave Lin Feng the magic cores, surprising the onlookers and stirring greed among them.
• Lin Feng invited Dan Xuan and Dan Chen to continue browsing with him, and they accepted.
• Dan Chen asked Lin Feng why he needed the magic cores, and he explained their connection to his body-tempering Cultivation Method and a Fighting Skill.

Lin Feng accepted Dan Xuan’s offer of Metal Attribute Magic Cores, while Xiao Yan was ambushed by a Soul Hall Dou Zun who wanted his Heavenly Flames and the Flame Mantra. Xiao Yan faced the powerful intruder alone, and the attacker revealed his personal claim to the cultivation method.

• Dan Xuan offered Lin Feng several Metal Attribute Magic Cores, and Lin Feng promised to help him in the future.
• Xiao Yan headed toward Starfall Pavilion with two High-tier Dou Zongs, but a spatial attack killed his guards and trapped him.
• A black-robed Soul Hall Dou Zun appeared and overwhelmed Xiao Yan with his Spirit Realm Soul.
• The black-robed man said he wanted Xiao Yan’s Fallen Heart Flame and the cultivation method that let him merge multiple Heavenly Flames.
• The attacker claimed Yao Chen had stolen the cultivation method from him, and Xiao Yan prepared to fight to protect his secret.

Xiao Yan escaped Elder Mu Gu’s attack when Xuan Yi intervened, while Lin Feng returned to the Ye Family and gave Ye Xinlan and the elders powerful puppets to protect and strengthen the family. The chapter ended with Ye Zhong and the elders marveling at the puppets’ ability to evolve by absorbing Dan Thunder.

• Xiao Yan crushed a Space Jade Slip to escape, but Elder Mu Gu’s Beast Fire spear nearly struck him before Xuan Yi shattered the soul barrier and drove Mu Gu away.
• Elder Mu Gu cursed Xuan Yi and threatened to return for Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flames and Cultivation Method as he fled from her attack.
• Lin Feng returned to the Ye Courtyard and gave Ye Xinlan puppets and instructions for a formation that could hold off a Six-star Dou Zun.
• Lin Feng told Ye Zhong and the Second and Third Elders that the puppets could block Dan Thunder and grow stronger by absorbing it.
• Ye Zhong and the other elders reacted with astonishment to the puppets’ ability to evolve.

Lin Feng proposed using his resurrection Secret Technique to strengthen the Ye Family, potentially raising one of its members to the Dou Zun realm. He explained the risks and requirements, then revealed that he had several Dou Zun bodies available as materials.

• Lin Feng told Ye Zhong and the two elders that his Secret Technique could restore a bodiless soul and might bring someone to the Dou Zun realm.
• Lin Feng proposed that a Ye Family Dou Zong commit suicide and be resurrected, and Ye Zhong worried that the technique might fail.
• Lin Feng reassured them by citing Heavenly Fire Venerable’s successful resurrection and explained the required materials and limits on a restored body.
• Lin Feng revealed that he possessed several Dou Zun bodies, leaving Ye Zhong and the elders stunned by their number and strength.

Lin Feng agreed to help the Ye Family resurrect its Third Elder in Dong Yan’s Eight-star Dou Zun body, though they decided to wait for improved materials. Later, Lin Feng cleaned an aged copper sheet and began refining the Green Copper Rust he had removed.

• The Third Elder volunteered to undergo Lin Feng’s resurrection secret method and chose Dong Yan’s corpse as his new body.
• Lin Feng offered to wait until he could make a Grade Eight Bone-Regenerating Blood-Melting Pill, and Ye Zhong urged the Third Elder to bid farewell to his family first.
• Lin Feng warned Ye Zhong and the elders to keep the secret method private, and they promised not to reveal it.
• After the others left, Ye Xinlan thanked Lin Feng, and he carried her to the bed.
• Several hours later, Lin Feng removed the Green Copper Rust from an aged copper sheet and refined the rust with dark-red flames until it began to melt.

Lin Feng collected five particles of Spirit Nurturing Powder and went with Ye Zhong to the Pill Pagoda headquarters for his examination. He met the three Pill Pagoda presidents and learned that, if he passed, he would enter the Lesser Pill Pagoda under strict rules.

• Lin Feng gathered the five particles of Spirit Nurturing Powder, explained their effects to Xin Lan, and stored them for future pill refinement.
• The next morning, Ye Zhong escorted Lin Feng to the Pill Pagoda headquarters and showed him to the examination hall.
• Lin Feng entered the hall and greeted Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, Tian Lei Zi, and two elders from the Lesser Pill Pagoda.
• Xuan Kongzi introduced the three presidents and explained that the Lesser Pill Pagoda elders would take Lin Feng there if he passed.
• Tian Lei Zi warned Lin Feng not to reveal the Lesser Pill Pagoda's secrets or betray the Pill Pagoda, and Lin Feng promised to honor his agreements.

Lin Feng passed the Lesser Pill Pagoda’s alchemy assessment by refining a Peak Seventh-grade Mysterious Bodhi Foundation Building Pill. He left to inform Ye Zhong before joining the elders and entering the Lesser Pill Pagoda to study alchemy.

• A Lesser Pill Pagoda elder told Lin Feng to refine an Intermediate Seventh-grade pill to pass the assessment.
• Lin Feng summoned his cauldron and Green Lotus Core Flame, then began refining a Peak Seventh-grade Mysterious Bodhi Foundation Building Pill.
• Xuan Yi regretted that Lin Feng had already absorbed the Green Lotus Core Flame, which she had hoped to obtain for Xiao Yan.
• An elder dispersed the pill’s Dan Thunder, and the five alchemists examined Lin Feng’s pill and approved it.
• Xuan Kongzi declared that Lin Feng had passed and could enter the Lesser Pill Pagoda with the elders.
• Lin Feng told Ye Zhong that he would leave for the Lesser Pill Pagoda instead of returning with him.