Chapter Summaries

A purple-gold-red gourd arrived in the East Sea to investigate Yun Zimo, an anomaly cultivating inside the sea eye, and discovered that he had a connection to a Dao lineage from beyond the shadow worlds. After the Grand Pure Moral Heavenly Venerable bestowed the Tao Te Ching on Yun Zimo, he entered a deeper state of cultivation while the gourd departed.

• A young Daoist used the Heaven Gourd Art to travel underwater and slipped past the East Sea Dragon Palace defenses toward the sea eye.
• The Daoist transformed into a tiny gourd and found Yun Zimo cultivating inside the sea eye, where Yun Zimo absorbed runes with his devouring power.
• The gourd examined Yun Zimo's fate and asked about his sect and fortuitous encounters, then learned he was connected to the Origin Beginning method.
• The gourd explained that Yun Zimo's world was a shadow world and that Dao lineages beyond the heavens placed countless potential candidates within such worlds.
• Yun Zimo shared his wind-and-cloud method, and the Grand Pure Moral Heavenly Venerable instructed the gourd to give him the Tao Te Ching.
• Yun Zimo combined the methods and entered deeper cultivation as the gourd recorded his insights, then left the sea eye to explore the shadow world.

After emerging from a three-year seclusion beneath the sea, Yun Zimo assessed his transformed cultivation and learned about the Origin Beginning methods. Meanwhile, the war at Monster Valley ended with Li Zitong’s retreat, and the scattered characters continued their separate journeys across the continent.

• Yun Zimo left the sea eye, discovered he was on the southeastern coast of the Central Plains, and learned that three years had passed.
• Yun Zimo examined his qi, blood, soul, and cultivation before studying the Origin Beginning methods and their paths to immortality.
• The Third Mansion Master of Heavenly Snake Mansion visited the Jia Ma Empire while searching for Qing Lin, and the northern barbarians remained there for three years.
• After years of fighting at Monster Valley, Li Zitong withdrew his army as Ji Heng and Yun Yue’s allies held their ground.
• The chapter recounted how Yun Ming, Qing Lin, the Third Manor Lord, and others helped turn the war against Li Zitong, while Yun Yun sent Yun Zimo a message about traveling to the Central Plains.
• Xiao Yan continued to grow stronger while fleeing pursuers in the Central Plains, and Liu Qing and Lin Xiuya gained attention there.

Yun Zimo found Yao Lao investigating the East Sea Sea Eye and revealed that the treasure everyone had sought was the power released during his seclusion. After collecting some Sea Heart Origin and leaving the East Sea, Yun Zimo sensed something unusual in a blue sea beast but could not understand it.

• Yun Zimo overheard people discussing unrest in the East Sea after the rosy light around the Sea Eye vanished.
• Yun Zimo sensed Yao Lao near the Sea Eye and approached him, where Yao Lao was surprised by Yun Zimo’s body and soul realm.
• Yao Lao explained that he had come to find the Sea Eye and replenish the Sea Heart Flame’s origin, and Yun Zimo admitted that the supposed treasure had been caused by his seclusion.
• Yao Lao hid in Yun Zimo’s Storage Ring, and Yun Zimo gathered a small amount of Sea Heart Origin before they left the East Sea.
• Yun Zimo glimpsed a blue sea beast and sensed that something new might be forming within him, though he did not understand the feeling.

Yun Zimo reunited with Yao Lao in the East Sea Region, discussed their paths and Xiao Yan’s plans to secure better materials for Yao Lao’s revival, and proposed a new direction for the Three-Flower Fire-Gathering Technique. Yao Lao embraced the idea, and the two prepared to return to Starfall Pavilion.

• Yao Lao assured Yun Zimo that Xiao Yan could protect himself in the Central Plains and asked Yun Zimo to recount how he had reached the East Sea Region.
• Yun Zimo and Yao Lao discussed the Monster Clan, their ambitions, and Yun Zimo’s unusual cultivation path.
• Yao Lao explained that Xiao Yan had delayed his revival because he wanted a Dou Zun body, a higher-tier Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, and powerful magical beast essence blood.
• Yao Lao advised Yun Zimo to contact Xiao Yi Xian and bring her and the others to Starfall Pavilion to address her Woe Poison Body.
• Yun Zimo examined Yao Lao’s Three-Flower Fire-Gathering Technique and suggested fusing the fires of the body, Dou Qi, and soul into one flame.
• Yao Lao welcomed Yun Zimo’s insight and told him to prepare to return to Starfall Pavilion, then asked how Yun Zimo’s soul had nearly reached the Heavenly Realm.

Yun Zimo reunited with Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing in Tianhuang City and spent time catching up with his former students. After sharing a meal, he left through a spatial passage, while Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing resolved to grow strong enough to help him in the future.

• Yun Zimo emerged from a spatial wormhole and was greeted by Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing, who had been guarding it.
• Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing invited Yun Zimo to the Liu clan residence, where he learned they had risen to eight- and nine-star Dou Emperor and heard about Xiao Yan's visit to Burning Flame Valley.
• Yun Zimo and his former students reminisced, and he praised them for establishing their own paths in the Central Plains.
• Yun Zimo shared a meal with Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing, then departed through a spatial passage.
• Lin Xiuya told Liu Qing to break through to Dou Zong so they could continue helping Yun Zimo, and the two left together.

Yun Zimo and Yao Lao discussed Xiao Yan’s safety, Yun Zimo’s possible place in Starfall Pavilion, and the Dou Zun realm during their journey. They arrived at Starfall Pavilion, where a welcoming party awaited Yun Zimo.

• Yao Lao assured Yun Zimo that Xiao Yan would not suffer at Burning Flame Valley and suggested Yun Zimo could meet Feng Xian as a fellow Dou Zun.
• Yun Zimo considered settling in Starfall Pavilion as a guest elder, since he had no clear destination or plan for helping Xiao Yi Xian.
• Yun Zimo described his fearsome encounter with Protector Zhi, and Yao Lao explained that such strength belonged to the most powerful Dou Zun.
• Yao Lao praised Yun Zimo’s unusually solid foundation and predicted that rebuilding his Dou Qi could carry him into the Dou Zun realm.
• Yun Zimo and Yao Lao reached Starfall Pavilion, where a kindly old man and a crowd bearing starry-sky banners awaited them.

Yao Lao and Feng Xian learned that Xiao Yi Xian’s Woe Poison Body had appeared in the Central Region and that Ice River Valley was pursuing her. After Yun Zimo emerged from seclusion, Feng Xian gathered Starfall Pavilion’s forces to set out, leaving Yun Zimo poised to join the rescue.

• Feng Xian told Yao Lao that a spatial storm might have stranded Xiao Yi Xian and the others, and Yao Lao ordered searches across the other regions.
• Mu Qingluan delivered Feng Xian’s jade slip to Yao Lao, revealing that the Woe Poison Body had appeared in the Central Region and Ice River Valley was searching for it.
• Feng Xian organized Starfall Pavilion’s forces to head for the Central Region while Yao Lao agreed to accompany him.
• Yun Zimo emerged from seclusion with his strength suppressed to one-star Dou Zun and learned that Feng Xian and Yao Lao were waiting for him.
• Feng Xian sounded the horn to begin the expedition, and Yun Zimo thanked him.

Starfall Pavilion returned to the Central Region aboard its level-eight Space Warship as Yun Zimo and his companions prepared to find the Woeful Poison Maiden. After Mu Qingluan pressed local clan heads for information, Lin Xiuya suggested they ask the Pill Region’s Ye Clan.

• Feng Xian brought Starfall Pavilion’s group toward the Central Region, while Yun Zimo tried to comprehend the spatial passage and realized he could not use what he had learned.
• Liu Qing and Lin Xiuya welcomed the group in Tianhuang City, then joined Yun Zimo on his journey to find the Woeful Poison Maiden.
• At Ice River Valley’s encampment in God-Falling Ravine, an old man ordered his subordinates to find the Woeful Poison Maiden within three days and warned Gu Ling against interfering.
• Mu Qingluan asked local clan heads for the Woeful Poison Maiden’s location and warned them that others already knew the information.
• Lin Xiuya told Mu Qingluan that the Ye Clan in the Pill Region was a good place to seek information.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian faced Ice River Valley’s forces at God-Falling Ravine, where Elder Tian She attacked them to capture the Woeful Poison Maiden. Xiao Yi Xian was gravely wounded as Xiao Yan prepared to unleash a fire lotus, and a streak of blue-white light arrived between her and Tian She.

• Starfall Pavilion’s group reached Ye City and learned that Xiao Yan had already caused a disturbance while helping Ye Xinlan.
• At God-Falling Ravine, Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that her injuries had stabilized but warned him to leave if her Woe Poison Body erupted.
• Tian She led Ice River Valley’s attack, defeated Xiao Yan’s Earth Demon Puppets, and tried to capture Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan used the Heavenly Fire Three Mysterious Transformations and fought off the Ice River Valley elders while Tian She attacked Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian unsealed her Woe Poison Body and briefly suppressed Tian She, but her unstable condition let him strike her down.
• Xiao Yan began forming a three-colored fire lotus, but a streak of blue-white light appeared before Xiao Yi Xian.

Yun Zimo and Starfall Pavilion intervened to protect Xiao Yi Xian from Ice River Valley, and Yun Zimo defeated Bing He with help from Xiao Yi Xian and Yao Chen. Soul Hall's Venerable Elder Kumu rescued Bing He and escaped after Yao Chen warned the others not to expose his presence, leaving Starfall Pavilion to capture or kill Ice River Valley's remaining forces.

• Tian Shuangzi confronted the blue-white newcomer, but Venerable Feng arrived and declared that Xiao Yi Xian was the wife of a Starfall Pavilion elder.
• Bing He appeared, attacked Xiao Yi Xian, and summoned Ice River Valley's Ganlong Xuanming Formation to create a giant ice dragon.
• Yun Zimo fought Bing He, then used black-and-white sword auras to immobilize him as Yao Chen's Bone Chilling Flame and Xiao Yi Xian's poison struck Bing He.
• Venerable Elder Kumu emerged from a spatial crack to rescue Bing He, but he lost a hand and could not free Bing He from Yun Zimo's restraints.
• Yao Chen stopped Yun Zimo and Venerable Feng from attacking Kumu to avoid confirming his return to Soul Hall, and Kumu escaped through space.
• Venerable Feng captured several Ice River Valley elders while Starfall Pavilion's forces killed or captured the remaining disciples.

Yao Lao, Yun Zimo, and Xiao Yan used four Heavenly Flames, Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva, and Bing He's Woe Poison origin to help Xiao Yi Xian condense a poison pill and overcome her Woe Poison Body. The procedure succeeded, leaving Xiao Yi Xian restored and Yao Lao with a Bodhi Seed that could lead to the Bodhi Ancient Tree.

• After ten days of seclusion at the Ye Clan's Yang Fire Ancient Altar, Xiao Yi Xian had suppressed her injuries, and Yao Lao warned that the poison pill method would be dangerous.
• Xiao Yan emerged at five-star Dou Zong and supplied his Heavenly Flames so Yao Lao could oversee the procedure.
• Yao Lao used the four Heavenly Flames and Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva to drive out Xiao Yi Xian's deathly aura and prepare her to control the Woe Poison Origin.
• Yun Zimo transferred Bing He's Woe Poison origin into Xiao Yi Xian through his Yin-Yang Rotation Technique, while Xiao Yi Xian used the Scorpion Dragon energy to form her poison pill.
• Yao Lao discovered a Bodhi Seed inside the Bodhi Body-Transforming Saliva and kept it as Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian completed the procedure.
• After ten more days, Xiao Yi Xian awoke free of the poison gas, and Yun Zimo welcomed her back.

Xiao Yi Xian successfully controlled her Woe Poison Body by condensing its poison into a pill, while Yun Zimo learned that his companions had been scattered by a spatial storm. Determined to find them and build his standing, Yun Zimo prepared to visit the Flower Sect and discovered he could kindle the Three-Flower Fire for alchemy.

• Yao Lao confirmed that Xiao Yi Xian had successfully formed the Poison Pill and gained control over her Woe Poison Body, while Yun Zimo absorbed a trace of its origin.
• Yun Zimo gave Ye Zhong instructions for using the Yang Fire Ancient Altar as a defense, and Venerable Feng welcomed Yun Zimo as a disciple.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Yun Zimo that a spatial storm had scattered their group, leaving Yun Yun, Gouli, and Yun Yue's whereabouts unknown.
• Yun Zimo decided to seek out the Flower Sect, where he suspected Yun Yun had arrived, and considered using the Dan Clan connection to establish his reputation.
• Yun Zimo kindled the Three-Flower Fire: God and realized it was strong enough for refining pills.

Yao Lao and Venerable Feng arranged for Yun Zimo to lead Starfall Pavilion’s younger disciples to the Pill Gathering, using the news of his victory over Bing He to raise his fame and reveal the pavilion to the Central Plains. As Yun Zimo traveled with the team, Qing Hua saw in him the promise of his own youth and resolved to join the journey.

• Yao Lao warned Yun Zimo that ordinary medicinal cauldrons required fire and wood attributes, making it difficult for him to practice alchemy without a suitable strange cauldron.
• Yun Zimo explained that he wanted to join the Pill Gathering, and Yao Lao told him the event included contests beyond pill refinement where he could make a name for himself.
• Yao Lao and Venerable Feng decided to publicize Yun Zimo’s killing of Bing He and use the victory to build Starfall Pavilion’s reputation.
• Venerable Feng asked Yun Zimo to lead Starfall Pavilion’s team, including Qing Luan and the other younger disciples, to the Pill Gathering.
• As the team traveled through a spatial passage, Qing Hua reflected on Yun Zimo’s talent and said that joining him would fulfill a dream from his youth.

Yun Zimo and the Starfall Pavilion party traveled through Pill City on their way to the Pill Gathering, where Qiu Wuji provoked Yun Zimo and threatened to make him pay. The group reached Qingling City by battle array and headed toward Holy Pill City, as Yun Zimo considered the Pill Region’s competing clans and Xiao Yan’s role.

• Mu Qingluan explained that the Starfall Pavilion group had to travel from Pill City through Qingling City to reach Holy Pill City.
• Dan Yang greeted the group, praised Yun Zimo for killing Bing He, and received the Pill Tower invitation from Mu Qingluan.
• Qiu Wuji mocked Yun Zimo, but Yun Zimo ignored him; Qiu Wuji left, vowing to make Yun Zimo pay once they reached Holy Pill City.
• Venerable Qinghua described Qiu Wuji and his influential cousin Qiu Wu, while Venerable Qingmu named the leading young alchemists from the Pill Region’s clans.
• The Starfall Pavilion group arrived in Qingling City by battle array, drawing whispers from nearby onlookers about the faction’s four Dou Zun.

Starfall Pavilion arrived in Holy Pill City and was welcomed by the Dan Clan, while Yun Zimo’s group entered the inner region ahead of the Pill Gathering. Yun Zimo struck down Qiu Wuji with his soul power and noticed several dangerous figures in the city before asking about the Pill Forest.

• Mu Qingluan led Starfall Pavilion into the Dan Clan’s carriage, and Dan Hu welcomed the group to the Dan Clan residence.
• Dan Hu told Qing Hua and Qing Mu that the Dan Clan elder had entered seclusion to pursue the half-saint level and that the Ye Clan had gained outside help in securing a Pill Tower Elder Seat quota.
• Qiu Wuji insulted Yun Zimo in the inner region, and Yun Zimo struck him down with his Late Spirit Realm soul power.
• Qiu Wu apologized for Qiu Wuji, and Yun Zimo warned him not to let his younger brother bring trouble upon the Qiu Clan.
• Yun Zimo noticed a bewitching girl and a strange, seemingly weak girl in the crowd, then asked Dan Hu about the Pill Forest.

Yun Zimo and the Pill Tower drove off Mu Gu’s attempted abduction, and Xuan Kongzi learned that Yao Chen was alive. Xuan Yi then met Yun Zimo and Xiao Yan, heard about Yao Chen, and was introduced to Xiao Yan as Aunt Xuan.

• Mu Gu attacked Yun Zimo in the Ye Clan courtyard, but Yun Zimo, Venerable Qinghua, Venerable Qingmu, Xiao Yi Xian, and Xuan Kongzi countered him; Mu Gu escaped after Yun Zimo’s sword destroyed half his hand and wounded his soul.
• Yun Zimo saw a dragon-shaped apparition in the stars and told Xuan Kongzi that Xiao Yan was Master Chen’s disciple, then sent him Yao Chen’s message.
• Xuan Kongzi brought the news to Xuan Yi, who decided to visit the Pill Courtyard rather than expose Yao Chen by rushing to Starfall Pavilion.
• Xuan Yi visited Yun Zimo and Xiao Yi Xian, asked after Yao Chen, and invited Yun Zimo to accompany her.
• Xuan Yi and Yun Zimo arrived at Xiao Yan’s courtyard, where Yun Zimo introduced her as Aunt Xuan and Xiao Yan paid his respects.

Yun Yin entered the Pill Gathering under an assumed identity, comprehended the Phantom Demon Sky Mist array, and was ejected into the Pill World, where he encountered Yang Yun’s team. The chapter left Yun Yin considering an offer to join them and travel toward the spatial portal.

• Yun Zimo reassured Xiao Yi Xian that Yun Yin could enter the Pill Gathering as long as he stayed below Dou Zong cultivation, while secretly watching Mu Gu.
• Yun Yin studied the Phantom Demon Sky Mist and began comprehending its Dou Array, prompting Xuan Kongzi to remove his image from the ranking display and then kick him into the Pill World.
• Yun Yin arrived alone in the Pill World and returned to ask Yang Yun’s team for a map after learning he had entered without accepting a task.
• Yang Yun introduced himself as a seven-star Dou Zong from Water Cloud Pavilion and offered to let Yun Yin join his team for a sixty-forty split of their gains.

Yun Yin traveled with Yang Yun’s group through the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range, helping them gather medicinal herbs before parting ways with most of their resources. Following a glowing mark toward the range’s main peak, he spotted Black Robe being chased and then noticed Little Demoness watching a battle; he sensed Mu Gu nearby.

• Yun Yin agreed to team up with Yang Yun and impressed him and a tier-seven alchemist with his pharmacology, survival skills, combat ability, and illusion technique.
• Yun Yin led the group through the mountain range, helping them avoid danger and collect medicinal treasures.
• Yun Yin accepted sixty percent of the group’s resources and their copied map before parting ways with Yang Yun and the others.
• Yun Yin followed the map toward the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range’s main peak as a mark on his hand glowed purple-gold.
• Yun Yin watched Black Robe flee from pursuers, then saw Little Demoness watching a nearby battle with her companions.
• Yun Yin prepared to leave after thinking Little Yanzi would escape, but sensed Mu Gu and smiled coldly.

Yun Yin disrupted Mu Gu’s plan to trap and kill the alchemists in the Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain Range, then reunited with Zi Yan at the mountain’s main peak. Xiao Yan joined them there, where he and Yun Yin sorted Zi Yan’s pile of medicinal ingredients.

• Yun Yin watched Mu Gu prepare a soul barrier to trap the alchemists, then shouted to expose Mu Gu and provoke a beast tide.
• Mu Gu withdrew the barrier and fled as the beasts surged in, but the Beast King’s roar stopped the tide before it swept through the mountain range.
• Yun Yin reached the main peak and reunited with Zi Yan, who introduced him to Xiong Zhan, the Beast King.
• Zi Yan took Yun Yin into her stone hall, where he found her medicinal ingredients piled together and gave her pills to eat.
• Xiao Yan arrived, and he and Yun Yin sorted Zi Yan’s herbs so their medicinal properties would not clash.

Xiao Yan completed his seclusion and advanced into a late Spirit Realm, eighth-tier grandmaster alchemist before leaving the Pill World with Yun Yin. As the Pill Gathering participants gathered outside, the rivals and dangers surrounding the contest became clearer, and Mu Gu decided to settle matters during the final pill refinement.

• Xiao Yan found the Heavenly Hemp Fei Stone Essence and entered seclusion to elevate his soul's spirituality while Zi Yan told Yun Yin that Little Bird and Little Tiger had been sent to their clans and Little Xue remained in seclusion.
• Xiao Yan emerged with late Spirit Realm soul power and the rank of eighth-tier grandmaster alchemist, then joined Yun Yin, Zi Yan, and Xiong Zhan as they left the Pill World.
• Yun Yin and Xiao Yan reached the area near the Pill World's exit, where Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan departed using their void techniques.
• Xiao Yan recognized Cao Ying and Dan Chen as late Spirit Realm rivals, while Yun Yin passed the Pill Tower elder's checkpoint without receiving a task.
• Lin Xiuya and Liu Qing joined Xiao Yan and Yun Yin, and Lin Xiuya recounted how a mysterious person had saved them from a disguised Dou Zun.
• Mu Gu lamented that his plans in the Pill World had failed and resolved to settle things during the final pill refinement.