Chapter Summaries

Chen Feng investigated Shui Yue’s sobbing, only to learn she was crying over a storybook and using Mermen Pearls for skincare. He then encountered a terrifying eyeless woman and was rescued by Chen Changsheng, who explained that the apparition was an eerie presence and that the wall it came from needed repair.

• Chen Feng entered Shui Yue’s room and discovered that she was crying over a storybook, while the Mermen Pearls were being used for beauty care.
• After leaving the room, Chen Feng heard another woman crying and approached her to offer help.
• The eyeless woman tried to take Chen Feng’s eyes, and his sword passed through her as she immobilized him with an eerie force.
• Chen Changsheng arrived, freed Chen Feng, and suppressed the presence with a talisman drawn on the damaged wall.
• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that the Stupid Dog had dug into the wall and that repairing it required materials from the mountains three thousand li to the south.

Chen Feng learned that the Taoist Temple’s walls required Earth Dragon Stones, then struggled to haul the stones back from three thousand li away. He returned after three days, exhausted, while Guan Ping and Qian Ya discussed the stones and the bizarre creatures.

• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that bizarre creatures could be dealt with, warned him not to enter the Taoist Temple too deeply, and said he could ask about the creatures after repairing the wall.
• Bai Ze guarded the Taoist Temple’s perimeter as creatures slipped out, while Chen Changsheng worked inside to contain them.
• Chen Feng reached a distant mountain and found black Earth Dragon Stones that were too heavy to store or carry with his usual techniques, so he began hauling a fist-sized stone back on foot.
• Qian Ya explained to Guan Ping that Earth Dragon Stones were heavy stones formed where Dragon Veins converged and could suppress creatures that came out at night.
• After three days, Chen Feng returned to the Taoist Temple, flushed and struggling beneath the weight of the stone.

Chen Feng trained by carrying Earth Dragon Stone while Chen Changsheng tried to redeem the savage obsessions left by an epoch he had slaughtered. After Chen Feng finished gathering stones, he questioned Chen Changsheng about the Ferocious Weapons in the Taoist Temple and resolved to investigate anyone who had slaughtered innocents.

• Qian Ya told Chen Feng to carry a stone in each hand to strengthen his grip, and Guan Ping learned that Chen Feng understood the training was for his own good.
• Chen Changsheng confronted the phantoms of an epoch he had slaughtered, sealed them in a golden box, and reflected that his attempts to redeem them were failing.
• After a month and a half, Chen Feng gathered enough Earth Dragon Stone to repair the courtyard wall.
• Chen Changsheng urged Chen Feng to claim the Ferocious Weapon embedded in the wall, saying a firm Dao Heart mattered more than cultivation and that the weapon could help at the Pills Convention finals.
• Chen Feng asked where the Ferocious Weapons came from and said he would investigate anyone who had slaughtered innocents; Chen Changsheng asked whether Chen Feng thought he was such a person.

Chen Feng learned the World Cleansing Mantra from Bai Ze so he could earn the sword embedded in the wall, while Qian Ya suggested that Chen Changsheng had a hidden plan for Guan Ping’s fire training. The chapter left Chen Feng reciting the mantra and Guan Ping wondering if Chen Changsheng was creating a new kind of flame.

• Chen Changsheng warned Chen Feng to hone his swordsmanship before the Pills Convention and sent him to ask Bai Ze about the sword in the wall.
• Bai Ze taught Chen Feng a scripture and told him to recite it to the sword, while explaining that only the World Cleansing Mantra could wear away its killing intent.
• After Chen Feng returned to the Taoist Temple and chanted, the gloom there began to dissipate, and Qian Ya and Guan Ping stopped to listen.
• Qian Ya told Guan Ping that Chen Changsheng likely had a deeper purpose for making her practice the Fire Refining Method instead of seeking powerful flames.
• Guan Ping wondered whether Chen Changsheng was creating a new kind of flame, and Qian Ya said his recent expressions suggested the work was nearing results.

Guan Ping learned to light the fire herself while Chen Feng freed a sword from the courtyard wall after half a month of reciting scriptures. Chen Changsheng set out with Chen Feng, Guan Ping, Bai Ze, and the Silver Moon Wolf for the Pills Convention, where Chen Feng met the prodigies gathering for the journey to the Pill Domain.

• Qian Ya hinted at her extraordinary former status, and Guan Ping began successfully lighting the firewood on her own.
• After half a month of reciting scriptures, Chen Feng freed the rusted sword from the wall, and Chen Changsheng told him it was time to leave for the Pills Convention.
• Chen Changsheng cooked for the group, warned Guan Ping not to enter the Taoist Temple while he was away, and departed with Chen Feng, Guan Ping, Bai Ze, and the Silver Moon Wolf.
• At the Pill Domain Branch, Tower Master Si Hong activated the Super Teleportation Array for the top hundred pill-refinement prodigies.
• Chen Feng described Si Hong’s Immortal King strength and pill-refinement achievements, then agreed to give the Silver Moon Wolf a Crimson Gold Pill if he surpassed his master and Si Hong.

Chen Changsheng explained that the Pill Domain was not truly independent, but a refuge for talented “problem children” from great aristocratic families and remained tied to those clans through trade and resources. His explanation left Chen Feng and Guan Ping questioning what they thought they knew about the Pill Domain.

• Chen Feng recounted how nine alchemists founded the Pill Domain in the void with the support of powerful experts.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze that the Pill Domain’s scale and political complexity made it unlike the Sky Abyss World and not something he would want to establish.
• Chen Changsheng argued that the Pill Domain was a shelter for problem children from great families, and Guan Ping challenged his claim that it was not neutral.
• Chen Changsheng explained that people like Chen Feng and Cui Ling Shuang were sent to the Pill Domain because their talents made them difficult to discard, even when they resisted their families’ expectations.
• Chen Changsheng said the Pill Domain depended on aristocratic clans for supplies and pill distribution, citing the Green Mountains Chen family’s Hundred Spirit Grass trade and the connections that led to Chen Feng becoming his disciple.

Chen Changsheng discussed freedom with Chen Feng before leading everyone to watch a White-headed Eagle Clan prodigy refine Hun Yuan Pills. After predicting that the alchemist would add Black Water Grass and ruin the furnace, Chen Changsheng drew the young man’s attention, and the story left them facing one another.

• Chen Feng asked Chen Changsheng whether he had found true freedom, and Chen Changsheng said he had gained one kind of freedom but still sought another.
• Bai Ze and Guan Ping followed a fragrant pill scent, and Chen Changsheng led the group to a young man refining a Hun Yuan Pill with Azure Sky White Cloud Fire.
• Guan Ping and Chen Feng estimated how many medicinal herbs the alchemist would add, while Chen Changsheng predicted he would add 568 kinds, including Black Water Grass.
• The young man added Black Water Grass to the furnace, which exploded and produced three pills with five Pill Patterns.
• Guan Ping asked Chen Changsheng how he had known what the young man would add, and the young man turned to look at Bai Ze.

Chen Changsheng, Guan Ping, and Shui Yue saw how Bai Feng’s pill-refining skill overshadowed Guan Ping’s, leaving her discouraged by the competition in the Pill Domain. Guan Ping then analyzed Bai Feng’s formula, and Chen Changsheng explained how he had predicted the result of the pill refinement.

• Bai Feng invited Bai Ze to drink and gave him three Hun Yuan Pills, while Bai Ze warned Bai Feng that Chen Changsheng was full of tricks.
• After Bai Ze left with Bai Feng, Chen Changsheng departed with Guan Ping and Shui Yue when another visitor ignored them.
• Chen Changsheng explained that the Pill Domain was full of prodigies, and Guan Ping admitted she could not refine Bai Feng’s pills or gather their ingredients.
• Guan Ping inferred that Bai Feng added Black Water Grass to adapt the Hun Yuan Pill for the Beast Race.
• Chen Changsheng explained that Bai Feng altered the order of the first 729 herbs, allowing him to add up to 567 more and making the pill’s outcome predictable.

Chen Changsheng taught Guan Ping to think flexibly about pill formulas, then led her into a scheme to earn money by selling convincing fake pills. They attracted customers to their stall ahead of the competition, leaving Guan Ping uneasy about the fraud.

• Chen Changsheng explained how Bai Feng's actions outside the pill furnace revealed why he had added Black Water Grass to the Hun Yuan Pill.
• Guan Ping realized Black Wind Grass might replace Black Water Grass, and Chen Changsheng urged her to experiment with changing the pill's foundational herbs.
• Chen Changsheng agreed to teach Guan Ping how to make money and brought her to set up a stall in the Pill Domain.
• Chen Changsheng announced that he could treat difficult ailments, then told Guan Ping to make fake, expensive pills from cheap herbs for the upcoming competition.
• Guan Ping refined convincing fake pills with imitation Pill Patterns, and curious pedestrians gathered to inspect the stall.

Chen Changsheng and Guan Ping made a fortune selling weak, counterfeit pills, then changed their appearances and entered the Pills Convention as the fake-medicine scandal spread. As the competition began, Chen Changsheng removed their disguises and reassured Guan Ping that the convention would protect them if she became a Pill Domain disciple.

• Chen Changsheng persuaded suspicious buyers that his cheap Ginseng Power Pills were worth purchasing despite their weak medicinal effects, and he and Guan Ping earned one hundred thousand Source Pills in a day.
• Chen Changsheng warned Guan Ping that buyers would discover the deception and told her to change locations and keep selling before their reputation spread.
• Guan Ping explained that she had learned to cut corners with medicinal ingredients while refining pills, and Chen Changsheng praised her resourcefulness.
• Fake medicine spread across the Pill Domain, and reports and portraits of Chen Changsheng and Guan Ping circulated as the authorities learned of the scam.
• Chen Changsheng and Guan Ping changed their appearances and entered the Pills Convention; Chen Changsheng said the competition would shield them from angry buyers, then removed Guan Ping's disguise.

Chen Changsheng and Guan Ping entered the Pills Convention’s preliminary round, where Guan Ping faced the disadvantage of having few and poor-quality ingredients. Meanwhile, Alchemist Li and a young woman secretly investigated Chen Changsheng, and the chapter left him preparing to refine pills under their scrutiny.

• The crowd recognized Chen Changsheng and Guan Ping as counterfeit medicine sellers, and Chen Changsheng encouraged Guan Ping before telling her they would compete as opponents.
• The gong began the four-hour preliminary round, and Guan Ping found that her ingredients were only enough for two sets of Ninth Grade Pills.
• Alchemist Li and a young woman discussed watching Chen Changsheng because their disciples had encountered him and acquired unexplained changes after visiting Green Mountain World.
• Alchemist Li pointed out that a Mermen Clan girl had accompanied Chen Changsheng, prompting the young woman to wonder how he had reached the Kunpeng in Green Mountain World.
• Chen Changsheng observed the contestants, saw Guan Ping begin refining pills, and took out an Eighth Grade Pill Furnace with an orange-yellow flame in his palm.

Chen Changsheng challenged two master alchemists by refining a pill from conflicting herbs, while Guan Ping struggled against the competition’s superior resources and formulas. The distant contest continued as Li Alchemist and the young woman assessed Chen Changsheng’s exceptional skill.

• Chen Changsheng deliberately mixed disorderly medicinal herbs and used Yin Fire to refine a new pill, prompting Li Alchemist and the young woman to recognize his provocation.
• Li Alchemist and the young woman left the venue and began refining pills with matching herbs and methods, exchanging blows with Chen Changsheng from afar.
• Bai Ze sensed Chen Changsheng’s unusual formulas, judged Guan Ping’s current effort insufficient to win, and focused on refining its own pills.
• Guan Ping produced two seven-pattern Ninth Grade Healing Pills but, discouraged by her lack of formulas, herbs, and equipment, began another batch with renewed determination.
• Li Alchemist and the young woman analyzed Chen Changsheng’s work, noting his use of 1,781 herbs and 329 pill-refining techniques, and concluded that his fundamentals rivaled theirs.

Chen Changsheng outmatched Li Alchemist and the young woman in medicinal principles while Guan Ping regained her confidence and found a way to adapt her pill formulas. The contest continued as Chen Changsheng began condensing his pill and the two experts struggled to keep up with his solutions.

• The young woman and Li Alchemist divided their medicinal liquids into twenty-eight and nineteen portions, then challenged Chen Changsheng to find another solution.
• Chen Changsheng began processing his medicinal liquid and called out to Guan Ping, urging her to adapt her methods.
• Guan Ping discarded her eight-pattern Ninth Grade Pill, but Bai Ze secretly encouraged her to rely on what she had learned rather than external advantages.
• Guan Ping recalled Chen Changsheng's advice, recognized how her experience replacing herbs could help her, and resumed refining with confidence.
• Chen Changsheng gathered the seven remaining portions of medicinal liquid to condense a pill after eight deliberate failures.
• Li Alchemist and the young woman realized Chen Changsheng had continued producing new solutions even after they had found one hundred and twenty-seven methods.

After the pill contest, Chen Changsheng focused on obtaining the immortal pill formula while the Pill Tower judged the contestants’ creations. Guan Ping’s innovative sixth-grade pill earned her tenth place, and the judges turned their attention to Chen Changsheng’s pill as they examined his mysterious background.

• Outside the venue, Li Alchemist conceded defeat and asked the young woman to look after his disciple before leaving the Pill Domain.
• Chen Changsheng told Bai Ze he would not pursue the two alchemists because his goal was the immortal pill formula, and Bai Ze accused him of having planned around his intervention in Guan Ping’s breakthrough.
• Guan Ping nervously awaited the rankings as the Pill Tower’s nine judges evaluated more than thirty thousand pills.
• The judges debated Guan Ping’s seven-pattern sixth-grade pill, then awarded her tenth place for her talent, self-created formula, and innovative thinking.
• The Tower Master asked whether Chen Changsheng’s background had been investigated, and a report stated that he had appeared in Green Mountain World about three hundred years earlier and had defeated Li Huo and Immortal Guang Han in medicinal principles.

Chen Changsheng was ranked 999th by the Pill Tower after the Tower Master judged his conduct arrogant, and he admitted defeat in their medicinal-principles challenge while warning them he could win by other means. Meanwhile, Guan Ping faced public scorn for placing in the top ten, and Chen Changsheng told her to stay inside as the chapter ended.

• The Tower Master concluded that Chen Changsheng was a pharmacist with exceptional knowledge of medicinal principles, but ranked him 999th for provoking the Pill Domain.
• Chen Changsheng laughed at his rank, found the Tower Master's pill and challenge, and wrote his name to concede the medicinal-principles contest.
• Chen Changsheng mixed yellow soil into the pill and left it behind as a challenge to fight without pills, while Bai Ze told him the Beast Race's alchemists already disliked him.
• After the preliminary round reduced more than thirty thousand competitors to one thousand, many people blamed Guan Ping for placing in the top ten with a sixth-grade pill.
• Guan Ping asked Chen Changsheng why people were cursing her, and he warned her to remain inside because the crowd might attack her.

Chen Changsheng reassured Guan Ping after the crowd accused her of cheating, only to learn she was upset about losing access to the Silver Moon Wolf, Xiao Hei, which she wanted to bleed for its alchemy materials. Chen Feng joined them, and Chen Changsheng explained that the alchemists outside were using the accusations as an excuse to watch Guan Ping refine pills.

• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping she could withdraw from the competition if she could not bear the pressure of the accusations.
• Guan Ping revealed she wanted to keep seeing Chen Feng so she could try to bleed the Silver Moon Wolf, and Chen Changsheng told her Xiao Hei belonged to him.
• Chen Feng arrived over the roof, congratulated Chen Changsheng on reaching the semifinals, and agreed to go sightseeing with him and Guan Ping.
• Chen Changsheng teleported the three of them out of the courtyard, where hundreds of alchemists were shouting accusations at Guan Ping.
• Chen Feng asked why the alchemists were making a fuss, and Chen Changsheng explained they wanted Guan Ping to refine pills in public so they could observe her techniques.

Chen Changsheng advised Chen Feng about the hidden dangers of public gossip, then visited Guang Han Palace with Guan Ping and Chen Feng. There, Immortal Guang Han recognized that Chen Changsheng was concealing his identity, and he turned to face her after provoking her anger.

• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that Guan Ping should beware of silent opponents rather than noisy critics, and led the others away to explore.
• Guan Ping urged Chen Changsheng to return, but Cui Ling Shuang arrived and summoned them to meet her master, Immortal Guang Han.
• At Guang Han Palace, Chen Changsheng teased Chen Feng about rumors that Immortal Guang Han punished handsome men who touched her belongings.
• Immortal Guang Han sent Cui Ling Shuang away with Chen Feng and Guan Ping, then challenged Chen Changsheng to reveal his true face.
• When Immortal Guang Han placed a hand on his shoulder, Chen Changsheng kissed the back of her hand, provoking her fury before turning around and declaring his hidden cultivation and identity beyond her reach.

Chen Changsheng negotiated with Immortal Guang Han for access to her Scripture Pavilion in exchange for treating a difficult patient. After leaving, he tricked Cui Ling Shuang into believing Immortal Guang Han had violated him, and Cui Ling Shuang rushed to check on her master.

• Immortal Guang Han tried to probe Chen Changsheng’s identity, but he blocked her divine sense and knocked back her divine power with a short staff.
• Immortal Guang Han asked Chen Changsheng to examine a patient whom several Immortal Pill Refiners could not help, and he negotiated entry to her Scripture Pavilion if he cured the patient.
• Chen Changsheng left after asking Immortal Guang Han whether she detested handsome men, and she watched him go, unable to see through his strength.
• Chen Changsheng pretended to be distraught and told Cui Ling Shuang that Immortal Guang Han had violated him, prompting Cui Ling Shuang to hurry to the main hall.
• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng and Guan Ping that Immortal Guang Han had summoned them to observe the difficult patient, then admitted to himself that he had fooled them too.
• Cui Ling Shuang reached Immortal Guang Han and expressed concern, and her master realized that she had believed Chen Changsheng’s lie.

Chen Changsheng and his companions were punished by Immortal Guang Han, who gave Guan Ping a Golden Core pill formula and an opportunity to become her disciple. Guan Ping refused, reaffirming her loyalty to Bai Bingyang and explaining that she would not use Xiao Hei’s blood for pill refining because she considered it a friend.

• Immortal Guang Han restrained Cui Ling Shuang and struck her fifty times, then gave Chen Feng the same punishment and Guan Ping a hundred strikes after sensing her aura had vanished.
• Chen Changsheng teased the injured group and explained that Immortal Guang Han’s punishment had been a lesson; Guan Ping examined the Golden Core pill formula she had received.
• Chen Changsheng gave Guan Ping medicine for her injured hand and explained that the group’s visit to a patient would help the younger generation gain experience.
• Chen Changsheng told Guan Ping that Immortal Guang Han might accept her as a disciple, but Guan Ping refused to take another master and asked Cui Ling Shuang to return the pill formula.
• Guan Ping told Chen Changsheng she had replaced Xiao Hei’s blood with saliva in her pill formula because she could not bear to draw blood from her friend.

Chen Changsheng explained that Young Master Lu's long-standing illness and the Pill Domain's failure to cure it were entangled with rivalries among the Lu, Cui, and Li families. After Guan Ping and Cui Ling Shuang examined Young Master Lu without success, Chen Changsheng prepared to assess the strange illness himself.

• Chen Changsheng told Chen Feng that the Lu family's internal rivalries had hindered Young Master Lu's treatment, and that Cui Hao Yu had once forced the Pill Tower to help.
• Chen Feng suggested examining Young Master Lu, but Chen Changsheng explained that they had to wait for Guan Ping and Cui Ling Shuang to finish.
• A maid led Chen Changsheng and Chen Feng into Young Master Lu's chamber, where Bai Ze mocked Chen Changsheng as a seller of fake medicine.
• Guan Ping told Chen Changsheng that he had no idea how to treat Young Master Lu's strange illness, and Chen Changsheng welcomed the challenge.