Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng flew into the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range in search of an Ancient Dragon Bear, but changed course after detecting Pill Spirit Paste, an ingredient for Earth Core Soul Marrow. He took it from a Mysterious Water Tiger Dragon and continued toward the mountain peak.

• Lin Feng reached the central peak of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range and sensed that a Seventh Tier Magical Beast was watching over it for an Ancient Dragon Bear.
• Lin Feng detected the scent of Pill Spirit Paste and flew to its source beside a stream.
• Lin Feng collected the Pill Spirit Paste from a boulder, drawing a Seven-star Dou Zong Mysterious Water Tiger Dragon out of the pool.
• Lin Feng intimidated the Mysterious Water Tiger Dragon with his Dou Zun aura and compensated it with a High Seventh-grade medicinal pill.
• The Mysterious Water Tiger Dragon accepted the pill and returned to its pool while Lin Feng flew toward the mountain peak.

Zi Yan, now a Dou Zun, ate Xiong Zhan’s precious medicinal herbs in the Pill Realm while promising to take him to Dragon Island. When Lin Feng arrived, Zi Yan recognized him and rushed into his arms.

• Zi Yan ate rare medicinal herbs while telling Xiong Zhan she would take him out of the Pill Realm to Dragon Island.
• A magical beast warned Xiong Zhan that a Dou Zun was approaching after intimidating the Mysterious Water Tiger Dragon.
• Zi Yan declared she would deal with the intruder, and Xiong Zhan went outside to confront him.
• Xiong Zhan challenged Lin Feng, but Zi Yan recognized Lin Feng and flew into his arms.
• Lin Feng recognized the grown Zi Yan and cried out in surprise.

Lin Feng reunited with Zi Yan in the Pill Realm and learned that she had advanced to Dou Zun. He recruited Xiong Zhan and his subordinates to help him target Xiao Yan’s group, while leaving their next move dependent on the outcome of a fight with Soul Hall.

• Zi Yan proudly revealed that she had reached Dou Zun after East Dragon Island helped her grow stronger.
• Lin Feng and Zi Yan teased each other, while Xiong Zhan watched in astonishment at how she acted around Lin Feng.
• Zi Yan introduced Xiong Zhan, the Dou Zun boss of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, to Lin Feng.
• Lin Feng explained that Xiao Yan had once tried to seize his Heavenly Flames and proposed letting Soul Hall fight Xiao Yan’s group before deciding whether to interfere.
• Lin Feng asked Xiong Zhan to have his subordinates keep other participants away during the fight and offered pills as compensation, which Xiong Zhan accepted.

Lin Feng sent Xiong Zhan’s magical beasts to search for Xiao Yan and was led by Zi Yan to Xiong Zhan’s vast collection of rare medicinal herbs. He gave Xiong Zhan three Grade Eight Five-Color Pills in exchange, and Xiong Zhan hurried away to check on the search.

• Lin Feng gave Xiong Zhan Xiao Yan’s direction and a portrait, and Xiong Zhan ordered three peak seventh-rank magical beasts to gather followers and search for him.
• Zi Yan led Lin Feng into Xiong Zhan’s stone hall and offered him the large collection of rare medicinal herbs.
• Lin Feng recognized that the herbs could refine mid- to high-grade Grade Eight Pills, and Xiong Zhan agreed to let him take them in exchange for pills.
• Lin Feng gave Xiong Zhan three Grade Eight Five-Color Pills, and Xiong Zhan caught one trying to escape its bottle.
• Xiong Zhan hid the pills from Zi Yan, told Lin Feng to take the herbs, and left to check whether his subordinates were searching for Xiao Yan.

Lin Feng exchanged three Grade Eight Five-Color Pills for a vast stock of medicinal herbs and gave Zi Yan pills before sorting through the haul. Outside the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, Song Qing proposed that the gathered contestants unite, while Cao Ying and the other women remained beside Lin Feng’s clone.

• Lin Feng traded three Grade Eight Five-Color Pills for nearly a thousand years’ worth of medicinal herbs from the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• Zi Yan demanded pills from Lin Feng, and he gave her more than a dozen Jade Bottles.
• Lin Feng contacted his clone and asked him to bring the four women to the medicinal-herb clearing, then began sorting the herbs.
• Contestants gathered outside the mountain range after dangerous Magical Beasts chased away or killed those who entered.
• Song Qing urged the contestants to form a large team strong enough to face the Eight-Rank Magical Beast and gather their mission herbs.
• Song Qing hoped to attract Cao Ying’s attention, but she ignored his proposal and stayed with Lin Feng’s clone.

Xiao Yi Xian and the other girls followed Lin Feng’s clone into the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, while Elder Mu Gu plotted to reclaim Fen Jue from Xiao Yan. After learning Xiao Yan had joined a group of contestants, Lin Feng asked Xiong Zhan to scatter them so Xiao Yan could not use them as cover when the Soul Hall attacked.

• Song Qing recruited contestants into an alliance to enter the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range, and Xiao Yi Xian’s group left with Lin Feng’s clone after he relayed the main body’s message.
• Xiao Yan suspected the girls had received information but chose not to follow them, while Song Qing led the alliance into the mountains and an ordinary-looking bird flew after them.
• Elder Mu Gu watched the group from a hill and vowed to take Fen Jue back from Xiao Yan in the Pill Realm.
• Xiong Zhan told Lin Feng that Xiao Yan had joined forces with many contestants, and Lin Feng asked him to send Magical Beasts to separate Xiao Yan from them.

Lin Feng arranged for Xiong Zhan’s magical beasts to scatter the Pill Gathering participants while welcoming Xiao Yi Xian, Ye Xinlan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen to his mountain hall. He showed them the vast collection of medicinal herbs he had obtained, leaving all four women astonished and inviting them to choose what they needed.

• Lin Feng promised Xiong Zhan’s subordinates pills for helping scatter the participants, and Xiong Zhan agreed to send them.
• Song Qing, Xiao Yan, and the other participants advanced through the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range together, unaware that a horde of magical beasts was gathering to drive them apart.
• Xiao Yi Xian, Ye Xinlan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen reached Lin Feng’s mountain hall, where Xiao Yi Xian said she and Dan Chen had refused Song Qing’s invitations.
• Lin Feng led the women into the hall and revealed a carefully sorted mountain of medicinal herbs, including hundreds suitable for Grade Eight Pills.
• After recovering from their astonishment, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ye Xinlan began choosing herbs for their needs.

A horde of Seventh Tier Magical Beasts scattered Xiao Yan and Song Qing’s contestant team, forcing the survivors to retreat. Elder Mu Gu seized the chance to pursue Xiao Yan, unaware that one of the Magical Beasts was reporting to the mountain summit.

• While Xiao Yi Xian and the others selected Medicinal Herbs, over a hundred Seventh Tier Magical Beasts attacked Xiao Yan, Song Qing, and their team.
• Most contestants fled or used spatial stones to escape, leaving only about twenty people with Xiao Yan and Song Qing.
• Xiao Yan urged the remaining contestants to retreat, and Song Qing led them toward the outskirts of the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range.
• After the team scattered, Elder Mu Gu appeared above the Magical Beasts and pursued Xiao Yan, crushing a jade pendant to summon his subordinates.
• A peak Seventh Tier Magical Beast flew toward the mountain summit while the other Magical Beasts dispersed to await their medicinal pills.

Lin Feng learned that Elder Mu Gu had pursued Xiao Yan and went with Xiao Yi Xian to investigate. Elder Mu Gu trapped Xiao Yan and the Pill Tower disciples in a Soul Barrier and forced them to choose between killing Xiao Yan and facing his attack.

• A Seventh Tier Magical Beast told Lin Feng that Xiao Yan had fled toward the outskirts and that a black-clothed Dou Zun was chasing him; Lin Feng recognized the pursuer as Elder Mu Gu.
• Lin Feng and Xiao Yi Xian left the stone hall to investigate while Cao Ying and the other women stayed behind.
• Elder Mu Gu trapped Xiao Yan and the group in a Soul Barrier, then revealed himself and refused Song Qing's plea to let them go.
• Elder Mu Gu demanded that the group hand over Xiao Yan, claiming a grudge against Xiao Yan's elder, and rejected Song Qing's offer to let them leave separately.
• Elder Mu Gu gave the group a ten-second ultimatum, and Song Qing and the others began weighing whether to attack Xiao Yan or fight the Dou Zun.

Xiao Yan was forced to fight Song Qing and the other alchemists, then used the Heavenly Flame Three Profound Transformations to reach Dou Zun strength. As the alchemists fled and Xiao Yan prepared to confront Elder Mu Gu, Mu Gu killed Song Qing and captured his soul.

• Song Qing and the other alchemists attacked Xiao Yan, who revealed he had reached Eight-star Dou Zong and tried to break through their encirclement.
• Xiao Yan summoned three Heavenly Flames and used all three transformations of his secret technique, temporarily advancing to Dou Zun and crushing several attackers with Space Power.
• The remaining alchemists swallowed pills to resist Xiao Yan, but some fled the Pill Realm by crushing their spatial stones.
• Xiao Yan turned his attention to Elder Mu Gu as his body struggled to withstand the secret technique, while Song Qing secretly prepared to escape.
• Elder Mu Gu attacked Xiao Yan with black-flame spears, then struck Song Qing with a separate spear, killed him, and sealed his extracted soul in a Soul Bag.

Xiao Yan recognized Elder Mu Gu as a Soul Hall elder who knew about Fen Jue, and the two clashed in the Pill Realm. Xiao Yan weakened Mu Gu’s soul barrier with Heavenly Flame, but his attempt to unleash the Heaven Annihilating Seal left him coughing blood as the seal began to collapse.

• Xiao Yan identified the black-clothed Dou Zun as Elder Mu Gu after Mu Gu demanded Fen Jue and his Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan struck Mu Gu’s soul barrier with his ruler, using the scattered Heavenly Flame to burn through more than half of it.
• Mu Gu retaliated with the Nether Demonic Flame Arm, while Xiao Yan formed the Ancient Clan’s Imperial Seal Art.
• Xiao Yan added the Heaven Annihilating Seal to his attack, but spat blood and watched the unstable seal begin to collapse.

Xiao Yan used the fourth seal of the Imperial Seal Art to overwhelm Elder Mu Gu, then escaped the damaged soul barrier despite his own severe injuries. Elder Mu Gu survived and planned to use Song Qing’s death to make Xiao Yan a suspect while he sought treatment before the Pill Gathering finals.

• Xiao Yan forced himself to unleash the fourth seal of the Imperial Seal Art against Elder Mu Gu’s Nether Demonic Flame Arm.
• The two techniques detonated in a devastating storm that broke Elder Mu Gu’s arm and left him badly wounded.
• Xiao Yan shattered the weakened soul barrier with the Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and fled toward the Pill Realm exit to treat his injuries.
• Elder Mu Gu realized Xiao Yan had escaped and vowed to kill him, while fearing the power of the Imperial Seal Art.
• Elder Mu Gu recalled that Song Qing had died unwitnessed and decided Xiao Yan could become the prime suspect in the murder.
• Elder Mu Gu left to treat his injuries before the Pill Gathering finals, where he needed to refine a Grade Eight Pill.

Lin Feng and his companions left the aftermath of Elder Mu Gu’s failed ambush and reached the Pill Realm exit, where Xiao Yan was recovering from severe injuries. The contestants noticed that nearly half the expected participants had not arrived, and Lin Feng suspected the Soul Hall had attacked them.

• Xiao Yi Xian cursed Elder Mu Gu for failing to kill Xiao Yan, and Lin Feng decided to leave with her as others approached the battle site.
• Lin Feng gave Xiong Zhan the promised pills, collected the Medicinal Herbs with his companions, and accepted a Mysterious Bird Beast to carry them to the Pill Realm exit.
• Lin Feng and the four women reached the exit plaza, where the contestants recognized them and Lin Feng spotted the badly injured Xiao Yan.
• Lin Feng assessed Xiao Yan’s severe internal injuries and noted that Elder Mu Gu had not yet reached the plaza.
• After a day of waiting, only a little over two thousand contestants had arrived, and Lin Feng suspected the Soul Hall had seized the missing Alchemists.

Lin Feng and the four women passed the second Pill Gathering trial and entered the venue for the final round. As the Pill Realm exit began to open, Ye Zhong worried about Xin Lan and anticipated the Pill Tower’s retaliation against Xiao Yan.

• Elder Mu Gu arrived at the plaza, and Xiao Yan regarded him as a dangerous threat while Lin Feng hoped their hostility would keep Mu Gu occupied.
• A Pill Tower elder opened a spatial rift and inspected contestants’ mission lists and medicinal herbs, rejecting those who tried to cheat.
• Lin Feng and the four women submitted their mission items successfully and entered the final-round venue.
• At the venue, Ye Zhong worried about Xin Lan, while Heavenly Fire Venerable reassured him and reflected on reports that Xiao Yan had attacked Pill Tower youths in the Pill Realm.
• The spatial gate began to fluctuate, and Feng Qing'er announced that the second trial had ended.

The contestants emerged from the Pill Realm, but Xiao Yan learned that survivors had blamed him for killing Pill Tower disciples, leaving him facing the Pill Tower’s fury. As Xuan Kongzi opened the final round of the Pill Gathering, the Pill Tower Three Giants also discussed a plan to have Lin Feng killed.

• Dan Chen, Cao Ying, Ye Xinlan, Lin Feng, and Xiao Yan emerged from the spatial gate as the crowd cheered.
• A long-bearded elder discovered Song Qing had not returned and threatened to make Xiao Yan pay for his disciple’s death.
• Xiao Yan heard that survivors had accused him of slaughtering Pill Tower disciples, realized he had killed more than a dozen during Elder Mu Gu’s plot, and feared he would not escape Sacred Pill City safely.
• Lin Feng celebrated Xiao Yan’s predicament, while Dan Chen and Cao Ying cautioned him and the Pill Tower Three Giants watched him from the high seats.
• Xuan Kongzi said the Three Giants had sought help from Fairy Qing and the Flower Sect to eliminate Lin Feng, while he and Xuan Yi worried that Pill Tower experts would attack Xiao Yan.
• Xuan Kongzi congratulated the contestants on passing the second selection and announced that the champion would be decided in the final round.

The final test of the Pill Gathering began, and Lin Feng chose a quiet platform to refine a Bodhi Pill while Xiao Yan and Elder Mu Gu privately planned against each other. As the contestants started refining, Lin Feng displayed an Earth Heart Jade Mother, distracting nearby alchemists and causing their herbs to burn.

• Xuan Kongzi told the contestants who passed the second round to refine the pills they knew best, and Lin Feng exchanged affectionate farewells with Ye Xinlan, Xiao Yi Xian, and Dan Chen before stealing a kiss from Cao Ying.
• Lin Feng chose an uncrowded platform at the edge so he could concentrate on refining a Bodhi Pill with a precious Bodhi Seed, while the women and Xiao Yan also settled on quieter platforms.
• Xiao Yan watched Elder Mu Gu and considered how to stop him from taking the Three Thousand Burning Flame, while secretly believing he could kill him with Elder Feng’s help.
• Elder Mu Gu recalled Ninth Heavenly Venerate Mo Yu’s offer to help kill Xiao Yan in the Star Realm and planned to take Xiao Yan’s Fen Jue and Heavenly Flames.
• Xuan Kongzi sounded the bell to begin the final test, and thousands of contestants summoned their cauldrons and lit their flames.
• Lin Feng brought out an Earth Heart Jade Mother, startling nearby contestants and causing several to lose control of their flames and burn their medicinal herbs to ash.

Lin Feng and the other competitors began refining pills at the Pill Gathering, displaying rare flames and treasured cauldrons that drew widespread astonishment. As Lin Feng brought out the Myriad Beast Cauldron and Green Lotus Core Flame, the Pill Tower Three Giants feared that his victory could give him the power to challenge their authority.

• Lin Feng prepared to refine a pill while Cao Ying and the other competitors summoned their cauldrons and flames.
• Cao Ying revealed her Blood Demon Flame, and Xiao Yan’s Heavenly Flame caused nearby competitors’ cauldrons to erupt and ruin their herbs.
• Dan Chen, Xiao Yi Xian, and Ye Xinlan began refining with their own flames, while Xiao Yan coveted the women’s flames and the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Lin Feng placed the Myriad Beast Cauldron on his platform and sent the Green Lotus Core Flame into it, shocking spectators and Pill Tower elders.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Lei Zi, and Xuan Yi worried that Lin Feng’s championship could let him become a Pill Pagoda Titan, while Tian Lei Zi regretted becoming his enemy.

Lin Feng refined hundreds of ingredients for an Eighth-grade Eight-colored Bodhi Pill while the Pill Tower Three Giants realized he might possess a Bodhi Seed. When he revealed the seed, the crowd erupted, leaving everyone focused on the rare treasure and its potential to help a Ninth-turn Dou Zun reach Half-Saint.

• Lin Feng used the Green Lotus Core Flame and his late Soul Realm Soul Power to refine successive batches of medicinal ingredients without losing focus.
• Xuan Yi, Tian Lei Zi, and Xuan Kongzi recognized that Lin Feng was preparing to refine a Bodhi Pill and wondered where he had obtained a Bodhi Seed.
• The Pill Tower Three Giants coveted the seed because it could aid their breakthrough to Half-Saint, but they knew they could not openly seize it from a contestant.
• After more than ten days, Lin Feng finished refining five to six hundred supplementary ingredients while the Earth Heart Jade Mother kept him vigorous.
• Lin Feng opened a cold jade box and revealed an emerald-green Bodhi Seed, prompting alchemists and spectators to recognize it and erupt in excitement.

Lin Feng extracted the Bodhi Seed’s essence and prepared to fuse it into the Bodhi Pill, while Ye Xinlan completed a Peak Seventh-grade pill at the Pill Gathering. The chapter left Lin Feng resting before the difficult fusion and Ye Xinlan facing the Dan Thunder above her.

• Lin Feng placed the Bodhi Seed in the Myriad Beast Cauldron and refined it for several days until it became emerald-green liquid.
• Lin Feng paused to recover his mental energy before attempting to fuse the medicinal ingredients for the Bodhi Pill.
• Ye Xinlan endured several failures over roughly half a month before forming a pill that summoned fierce Dan Thunder.
• Ye Zhong celebrated Ye Xinlan’s success, while Pill Tower elders praised her Peak Seventh-grade pill and wondered how she would withstand its Dan Thunder.

Ye Xinlan used an Earth Demon Puppet to face the Dan Thunder over her Peak Seventh-grade Pill while Lin Feng struggled to fuse ingredients for an Eighth-grade Bodhi Pill. Dan Chen completed a Grade Eight Pill with the Dan Family's Pill Embracing Art, summoning two-colored Dan Thunder and leaving the arena in an uproar.

• Ye Xinlan summoned an Earth Demon Puppet and sent it toward the Dan Thunder above her pill.
• Lin Feng combined the Bodhi Seed with hundreds of medicinal ingredients, but their violent repulsion shook his cauldron and scattered his Soul Power.
• Nine Peak Seventh-grade Pills emerged across the arena, filling the sky with dark clouds and silver lightning.
• Dan Chen endured the strain of refining her pill, spat blood into the cauldron, and used the Pill Embracing Art to fuse it.
• Dan Chen's cauldron exploded as a green pillar of light rose, and a two-colored thundercloud appeared above her Grade Eight Pill.
• The Pill Tower higher-ups praised Dan Chen, while the alchemists who had refined Peak Seventh-grade Pills put away their pills and left the arena.