Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng arrived at the Lesser Pill Pagoda, where Elder Sikong introduced him to Elder Zhong and the other students. He reunited with Dan Chen and Cao Ying, then agreed to let Cao Ying show him to his room, drawing hostile looks from her admirers.

• Elder Sikong and Elder Shi brought Lin Feng through a spatial passage to the Lesser Pill Pagoda’s mountain of herb gardens.
• Elder Sikong took Lin Feng to the mountaintop, introduced him to Elder Zhong, and left him in the old man’s care.
• Lin Feng recognized Dan Chen and Cao Ying among the students, while a young man in black reacted to their interaction with hostility.
• Cao Ying offered Lin Feng the empty room beside hers and volunteered to take him there, prompting wary looks from Dan Chen and hostility from Cao Ying’s other admirers.

Lin Feng settled into his room in the Lesser Pill Pagoda and received three Metal Attribute Magic Cores from Dan Chen. He asked her about recent events and learned that a Lesser Pill Pagoda member had been attacked by a Soul Hall Dou Zun.

• Cao Ying showed Lin Feng to his room and teased him about visiting Dan Chen, while Lin Feng traded taunts with her.
• Lin Feng entered his room, wondered why Xiao Yan was absent, and began meditating.
• Dan Chen visited Lin Feng and delivered three Metal Attribute Magic Cores from her brother.
• Lin Feng asked Dan Chen about recent events in the Lesser Pill Pagoda, and she told him a member had been attacked outside the Pill Domain by a Soul Hall Dou Zun.

Lin Feng learned that Xiao Yan had been ambushed but rescued, and Dan Chen warned him about Soul Hall’s attacks on Pill Tower. After an embarrassing misunderstanding and Cao Ying’s teasing stirred up gossip among the students, Lin Feng tried to make amends with Dan Chen the next morning by inviting her to the teaching square.

• Dan Chen told Lin Feng that Xiao Yan had been ambushed on his way to Starfall Pavilion and rescued by President Xuan Yi, and warned him that Soul Hall had attacked Pill Tower branches.
• Lin Feng accidentally implied that he knew Dan Chen’s bathing schedule, prompting her to flee in embarrassment after he shouted that Cao Ying had told him.
• Cao Ying teased Lin Feng about Dan Chen and suggested making him special pills, while the other students inferred that Lin Feng and Cao Ying were involved.
• The next morning, Lin Feng greeted Dan Chen and apologized, then invited her to the teaching square to see how well she could refine pills.

Lin Feng grew closer to Dan Chen by offering to discuss alchemy, then watched her demonstrate her skills during Elder Zhong’s lesson. Her techniques reminded him of Dan Yitian’s, leading him to suspect that the Dan Family descended from the alchemist who had helped him; Dan Chen’s pill refinement drew a thundercloud overhead.

• Lin Feng persuaded Dan Chen to discuss alchemy with him, hoping to build ties with the Dan and Cao Families.
• Lin Feng and Dan Chen joined Elder Zhong and the other students at the plaza, where Lin Feng faced hostile stares from Cao Ying’s and Dan Chen’s admirers.
• Elder Zhong asked Dan Chen to demonstrate her recent progress, and she began refining a Peak Seventh-grade pill with her Eight-Rank Beast Flame.
• Lin Feng recognized similarities between Dan Chen’s techniques and Dan Yitian’s, and wondered whether the Dan Family were Dan Yitian’s descendants.
• After several days of refining, Dan Chen drew dense clouds and lightning over the plaza, and Elder Zhong praised her progress.

Dan Chen demonstrated Peak Seventh-grade alchemy before Lin Feng revealed his Green Lotus Core Flame and refined a peak Seventh Grade Pill. After Elder Zhong praised them and began his lesson, Dan Chen eagerly arranged to borrow Lin Feng’s Heavenly Flame after class.

• Dan Chen dispersed the Dan Thunder, presented her pill to Elder Zhong, and was praised as Cao Ying’s equal in alchemy despite her lower Dou Qi cultivation.
• Elder Zhong asked Lin Feng to refine a pill, and Lin Feng summoned his Green Lotus Core Flame, astonishing the students and Elder Zhong.
• Lin Feng spent several days refining a peak Seventh Grade Pill, which Elder Zhong praised as likely the best among the students’ pills.
• Dan Chen asked to borrow Lin Feng’s Heavenly Flame, and he agreed to explain its precautions and let her use it after class.
• Elder Zhong told Lin Feng and Dan Chen to stop talking and listen as he began teaching alchemy.

After class, Dan Chen brought Lin Feng to her room, where he lent her the Green Lotus Core Flame and taught her how to use it. Their conversation brought them closer, while Song Qing grew jealous of Lin Feng and resolved to treat him as a rival for Cao Ying.

• Dan Chen took Lin Feng to her room after class, leaving Cao Ying annoyed that she had missed a chance to borrow the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Song Qing and several male students invited Cao Ying to discuss alchemy, and she agreed while keeping her thoughts to herself.
• Song Qing watched Lin Feng leave with Dan Chen and secretly vowed to remove him as an obstacle to winning Cao Ying.
• Lin Feng handed Dan Chen the Green Lotus Core Flame and explained its characteristics and methods of use.
• Dan Chen listened eagerly, and their hour-long conversation deepened her affection and trust toward Lin Feng.

Lin Feng strengthened his physique by tempering it with medicinal liquid made from Eight-Rank magic cores, then attended Elder Zhong’s pill-refinement lessons with Dan Chen. After the course, he asked for leave to enter seclusion and attempt to break through to the Spirit Realm, claiming he was eighty percent confident.

• Lin Feng used the medicinal liquid to cultivate the Myriad Gang Body Tempering Art and gained the Thousand Gang Body, which he believed could help him fight a One-star Dou Zun.
• Dan Chen hurried Lin Feng to the plaza, where Elder Zhong reprimanded them for arriving late and began the lesson.
• During class, Lin Feng gave Dan Chen a jade bottle containing an Earth Core Lotus Seed and a note, delighting her and drawing Cao Ying’s attention.
• After the ten-day course ended, Lin Feng stopped Elder Zhong and requested time off to enter seclusion and pursue the Spirit Realm.
• Elder Zhong warned Lin Feng that reaching the Spirit Realm would be difficult, but Lin Feng said he had trump cards and was eighty percent confident of succeeding.

Lin Feng prepared to enter seclusion and use Wind Robber Venerable's soul and the Falling Heart Flame to break through to the Spirit Realm Soul. After trading Cao Ying a mysterious jade bottle for two Eight-Rank Metal Attribute Magic Cores, he entered a Pill Pagoda cultivation chamber and began heating a bottle containing a soul.

• Lin Feng gained Elder Zhong's approval to attempt his breakthrough, and Dan Chen encouraged him before he advised her to use the Earth Core Lotus Seed.
• Cao Ying asked Lin Feng to share what he had given Dan Chen in exchange for two Eight-Rank Metal Attribute Magic Cores, and Lin Feng agreed and handed her a jade bottle that stirred her Blood Demon Flame.
• Song Qing tried to pressure Lin Feng into giving Cao Ying the item, then grew angry when Lin Feng ignored him and left.
• Lin Feng entered an isolated Pill Pagoda cultivation chamber, locked the door, and heated a jade bottle wrapped in invisible flames.

Lin Feng used the Fallen Heart Flame to destroy Wind Robber Venerable’s soul and absorb its Soul Origin, then endured a dangerous surge in Soul Power as he tried to break through. He awakened with a vastly stronger soul and the signs of a Spirit Realm Soul.

• Lin Feng burned Wind Robber Venerable’s soul inside a fire net until only a pale-yellow Soul Origin remained.
• Lin Feng fused the Soul Origin into his mind, causing his Soul Power to grow rapidly and bringing him excruciating pain.
• Lin Feng’s consciousness collapsed under the strain, but his soul grew to more than five times its former strength without yet reaching the Spirit Realm.
• Lin Feng operated his Soul Cultivation Method to refine the spiritual energy rushing into his mind.
• Lin Feng’s soul gathered into a more vivid form, then released a powerful wave of Soul Power and briefly manifested above his body.
• Lin Feng opened his eyes as an invisible pressure spread from him, marking the apparent success of his breakthrough.

After breaking through to the Spirit Realm, Lin Feng returned to class and astonished Elder Zhong and the students with his soul strength. Elder Zhong agreed to guide him in refining Grade Eight Pills after class, while Lin Feng greeted Dan Chen and noticed Xiao Yan had returned stronger.

• Lin Feng assessed his greatly increased Soul Power and decided to seek Elder Zhong’s guidance on refining Grade Eight Pills.
• Lin Feng found his residence empty and flew to the plaza where Elder Zhong was teaching.
• Elder Zhong recognized that Lin Feng had reached the Spirit Realm, shocking the students, Cao Ying, Song Qing, and Xiao Yan.
• Lin Feng asked Elder Zhong for guidance, and Elder Zhong agreed to teach him after class.
• Lin Feng sat beside Dan Chen, who congratulated him, and he reassured her that she could reach the Spirit Realm within a year.

Lin Feng deepened his ties at the Lesser Pill Pagoda while Xiao Yan grew increasingly determined to kill him and seize his Green Lotus Core Flame. Lin Feng then struggled to control the unstable medicinal liquid in his attempt to refine a Grade Eight Pill.

• Dan Chen told Lin Feng that the Earth Core Lotus Seed had strengthened her Dou Qi and made controlling the Green Lotus Core Flame easier, and Lin Feng affectionately patted her head.
• After Elder Zhong ended the lesson, students gathered around Lin Feng to congratulate him, while Xiao Yan worried that Lin Feng's growing connections would make him harder to attack.
• Cao Ying gave Lin Feng two magic cores from Eight-Rank Magical Beasts in exchange for something he had, then vowed to catch up to him and defeat him.
• Xiao Yan decided he had to get rid of Lin Feng soon, since Lin Feng's ties to the Pill Tower limited his opportunities to act against him.
• Lin Feng continued refining a Grade Eight Pill, but after eight days the medicinal liquid in his cauldron grew unstable and increasingly difficult to control.

Lin Feng struggled for nearly a month to refine a Grade Eight Pill, surviving repeated cauldron explosions before finally forming one with Dan Chen nearby. The pill’s two-colored Dan Thunder confirmed his success, though it had yet to withstand the thunder.

• Lin Feng emerged from an exploding cauldron after another failed attempt, and Dan Chen flew over to check on him and wipe the soot from his face.
• Lin Feng sent Dan Chen away and began another attempt, using the Green Lotus Core Flame to refine hundreds of medicinal herbs.
• After nearly ten days, Lin Feng fused the ingredients into medicinal liquid and spent two more days forming and spiritually endowing the pill.
• The forming pill released a pillar of light and powerful energy ripples that drew the attention of nearby Lesser Pill Pagoda experts.
• A two-colored Lei Yun gathered above Lin Feng, and Dan Chen recognized its two-colored Dan Thunder as proof that he had succeeded.

Lin Feng refined a Grade Eight Pill that summoned three-color Dan Thunder, though its crimson third color remained weak. He sent his Sky Demon Puppet Digang to absorb the lightning, and it grew more imposing as the storm continued.

• Lesser Pill Pagoda experts speculated that Lin Feng had summoned the two-color thunderclouds, then watched a faint crimson streak appear beneath them.
• Lin Feng realized the crimson Dan Thunder lacked strength and accepted that his pill would not be a perfect Grade Eight Three-Color Pill.
• Lin Feng brought out Digang, a Sky Demon Puppet refined from the Digang Sect leader’s corpse and fitted with a Three-star Dou Zun-level Magic Core.
• Dan Chen shouted a warning as the three-color Dan Thunder struck, and Lin Feng sent Digang into the sky to meet it.
• The Lesser Pill Pagoda experts watched Digang withstand and absorb the lightning as the three-color storm continued to strike it.

Lin Feng used his three-colored Dan Thunder to strengthen the Sky Demon Puppet from a Two-star to a Three-star Dou Zun, then captured his newly refined Eight-grade Three-colored Jin Zun Pill when it tried to escape. He offered five puppets to the Lesser Pill Pagoda experts for pills and claimed they had come from a friend in the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

• Lightning struck the Sky Demon Puppet for about ten minutes, raising its strength from Two-star to Three-star Dou Zun.
• Dan Chen flew to Lin Feng and worriedly asked if he was all right, and he reassured her before greeting the Lesser Pill Pagoda experts.
• The Eight-grade Three-colored Jin Zun Pill fled in bird form, but Lin Feng pulled it back, sealed it in a jade bottle, and stored it away.
• A white-haired expert offered an Eight-grade Seven-colored Pill for each golden puppet, and the other experts showed interest in trading for puppets too.
• Lin Feng displayed five puppets and offered the two golden ones for Eight-grade Seven-colored Pills and the three silver ones for three Grade Eight Five-Color Pills each.
• When an expert asked about the puppets’ origin, Lin Feng said his friend came from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.

Lin Feng claimed his Sky Demon Puppets came from a royal-blooded friend in the Ancient Void Dragon Clan, using the story to attract the Lesser Pill Pagoda elders into trading for them. The elders sought to buy the puppets and asked Lin Feng to arrange more, and he agreed to speak with his supposed contact.

• Lin Feng told the elders that a friend with royal blood in the Ancient Void Dragon Clan had provided him with the puppets.
• An elder tried to buy both golden Dou Zun puppets, but the others objected and argued over who should get them.
• Lin Feng said the silver puppets could grow to around Seven-star or Eight-star Dou Zun strength and recover from damage if their cores and parts remained intact.
• The elders praised the puppets’ value as lasting, reusable protection for their families and considered the price reasonable.
• The elders asked Lin Feng to arrange more puppets at the same price, and Lin Feng agreed to approach his supposed contact.

Lin Feng sold three Earth Demon Puppets and two Sky Demon Puppets to Lesser Pill Pagoda experts for valuable Grade Eight pills, then returned to his residence with Dan Chen. Cao Ying was waiting there and teased them about their relationship.

• Three Lesser Pill Pagoda experts traded nine Grade Eight Five-Color Pills for Lin Feng's Earth Demon Puppets and bound the puppets to themselves with drops of blood.
• Two experts bought Lin Feng's Sky Demon Puppets with Grade Eight Seven-Color Pills, and Lin Feng said he would bring more puppets from the Ancient Void Dragon Clan.
• The buyers placed further orders, and Lin Feng agreed to obtain puppets for them if the Ancient Void Dragon Clan consented.
• Lin Feng took Dan Chen by the hand and flew back to their residence.
• Cao Ying saw them holding hands and teased them about disappearing together to make babies, while Dan Chen insisted they had only refined pills.

Lin Feng lent Cao Ying the Green Lotus Core Flame and taught her how to use it. He then gave Dan Chen the Lin Clan’s secret Flame Controlling Art, leaving her stunned when he said only family members and wives could know it.

• Cao Ying asked Lin Feng to lend her the Green Lotus Core Flame, and he agreed despite Dan Chen’s jealousy.
• Lin Feng gave Cao Ying the flame seed and transmitted techniques for using Heavenly Flames to her.
• Cao Ying teased Lin Feng and Dan Chen before leaving with the borrowed flame.
• Lin Feng gave Dan Chen the Flame Controlling Art, a technique for cultivating a Life Transformation Fire from unusual flames.
• Lin Feng told Dan Chen that only the Lin Clan’s direct bloodline and wives could know the secret art, and Dan Chen froze in surprise.

Lin Feng gave Dan Chen the Flame Controlling Art and reflected on the Dan Family’s origins and its connection to the Cao Family. After the Dan Family Ancestor emerged from seclusion and met Lin Feng, a Pill Pagoda elder told him that the Ye Family was looking for him because someone else had asked for him.

• Dan Chen misunderstood Lin Feng’s gift as a marriage proposal, and Lin Feng decided he should help the Dan Family further to repay Dan Yitian.
• Lin Feng recalled that the Dan Family’s missing ancestor had disappeared with a group of experts and that the Cao Family had received Dan Family alchemy inheritances.
• The Dan Family Ancestor emerged from seclusion, teased Dan Chen, and expressed surprise that Lin Feng had reached the Spirit Realm with his Soul Power.
• A Pill Pagoda elder told Lin Feng that the Ye Family was looking for him on behalf of someone else.
• Lin Feng decided to visit the Ye Family and told Dan Chen to cultivate the Flame Controlling Art while he was away.

Lin Feng left the Lesser Pill Pagoda after giving Dan Chen the Flame Controlling Art and learned that Feng Qing'er had come looking for him. He reunited with her at the Ye Courtyard, where her jealousy over Ye Xinlan led to a slap.

• Lin Feng gave Dan Chen the Flame Controlling Art, and the Dan Family Ancestor decided to discuss her marriage to him with the family.
• Lin Feng told Ye Zhong that he had reached the Spirit Realm Soul, astonishing the Seventh-grade Alchemist.
• Ye Zhong told Lin Feng that Feng Qing'er had urgently come to see him and was at the Ye Courtyard with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Lin Feng hurried to the Ye Courtyard and embraced Feng Qing'er after reuniting with her.
• Feng Qing'er accused Lin Feng of forgetting her while glancing at Ye Xinlan, and a slap rang through the room.

Lin Feng reunited with Feng Qing'er, who revealed that she had brought him three portions of Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire. Lin Feng welcomed the Heavenly Flame as a chance to advance his cultivation and Fen Jue, then promised to reward Feng Qing'er that night.

• Lin Feng teased Feng Qing'er and asked about her progress, and she said she had absorbed an Eight-Rank Ancient Heavenly Phoenix inheritance and reached Four-star Dou Zun.
• Feng Qing'er revealed that she had brought three portions of Bodhi Body Transformation Saliva and another surprise for Lin Feng.
• Feng Qing'er showed Lin Feng the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire, sealed inside a box by the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan's Space Power.
• Feng Qing'er explained that she had sent Ancient Phoenix Army soldiers to search the Beast Region and found the flame on an ancient battlefield where many high-rank magical beasts had died.
• Lin Feng took the Myriad Beast Spirit Fire and said its energy could help him reach the Dou Zun realm and evolve Fen Jue, then kissed Feng Qing'er and promised to reward her.