Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yu emerged from the Pill Tower assessment as a Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist, astonishing Dan Xuan and impressing Elder Fan. Xuan Yi returned to the Small Pill Tower and spoke with Xuan Kongzi about Yao Chen before revealing that she had brought an alchemy genius back for the Pill Tower.

• Xiao Yu left the Heavenly Tier Testing Room with Elder Fan and Xuan Yi, displaying a badge that marked him as a Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist.
• Dan Xuan arrived to attempt his own advanced seventh-grade assessment and was shocked by Xiao Yu's rank; Elder Fan said only Cao Ying and Dan Chen might surpass Xiao Yu among the Five Great Families.
• Xuan Yi asked Dan Xuan about Dan Chen, learned she had emerged from two years of seclusion for the Pill Gathering, and then left with Xiao Yu.
• Xuan Yi settled Xiao Yu at her residence in Sacred Pill City, then went to the Small Pill Tower to meet Xuan Kongzi.
• Xuan Yi told Xuan Kongzi she still believed Yao Chen was alive, and Xuan Kongzi suspected the Soul Hall had sought Yao Chen's soul.
• Xuan Yi told Xuan Kongzi that she had brought an alchemy genius back for the Pill Tower.

Xuan Yi introduced Xiao Yu, a gifted young alchemist from the Northwest Continent, to Xuan Kongzi, who examined him and considered him for the Pill Tower. Xiao Yu then revealed that Yao Lao was alive and that his disciple, Xiao Yan, would come to the Pill Domain for the Pill Gathering.

• Xuan Yi told Xuan Kongzi that Xiao Yu was a Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist whose Soul Power might have reached the Spiritual Realm.
• Xuan Kongzi agreed to meet Xiao Yu, and Xuan Yi brought him to the Pill Tower the next day.
• Xuan Kongzi examined Xiao Yu with his Soul Power, confirmed there was no apparent problem with his identity, and released him.
• Xiao Yu told Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi that he knew where Yao Lao was and that Yao Lao had taken Xiao Yan as his disciple.
• Xiao Yu explained that Yao Lao had survived as a soul body but had fallen into slumber again, and said Xiao Yan would come to the Pill Domain for the Pill Gathering.

Xiao Yu prepared to travel to North Sky City, recovering his strength while helping Heavenly Flame Venerate regain his body. In North Sky City, Xiao Yan and the others searched for a way to find Xiao Yu and the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast, and Han Chi pointed them toward the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting.

• Xuan Kongzi learned that Xiao Yan was likely in North Sky City, and Xuan Yi decided to travel there with Xiao Yu.
• Xiao Yu refined a Crimson Soul Pill, scattered its pill-lightning clouds, and gave the pill to Heavenly Flame Venerate.
• After three days of recovery, Xiao Yu reached Three-star Dou Zun, while Heavenly Flame Venerate restored his strength to peak One-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yu, Xuan Yi, and Heavenly Flame Venerate set out through Sacred Pill City's Space Wormhole toward North Sky City.
• In North Sky City, Cai Lin offered to watch the Space Wormhole while Xiao Yan and Yun Yun discussed searching for Xiao Yi Xian's needed magic core.
• Han Chi said Venerable Wind would likely attend the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting, giving the group a possible way to seek his help.

Xiao Yan and the others considered going to the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting while staying with the Han Family, where Cai Lin resisted a growing urge to leave in search of an unexplained force. The Hong Family threatened the Han Family over its southern businesses, but Han Yue reminded Han Chi that they had powerful helpers.

• Xiao Yan connected the mysterious Starfall Pavilion to Yao Lao and agreed with Yun Yun to wait for Xiao Yu before setting out.
• Han Chi learned that Hong Li had arrived with Hong Lie and Hong Mu, and explained that Hong Chen’s place in the Wind Thunder Pavilion had strengthened the Hong Family.
• Cai Lin told Yun Yun that an invisible force was drawing her somewhere, but Yun Yun persuaded her not to leave alone.
• Hong Li demanded that the Han Family surrender southern businesses and threatened it with the Wind Thunder Pavilion’s support; Han Chi refused and vowed to resist.
• Hong Li said he would wait for Hong Chen and a Wind Thunder Pavilion elder to arrive, while Han Yue reminded Han Chi that the Han Family had helpers.

Cai Die emerged from seclusion in the Tagor Desert after absorbing the true blood her sister gave her and evolved into a Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python. She reclaimed her identity as queen and learned that Queen Medusa had gone to the Central Plains, leaving Cai Die free to choose whether to follow.

• A powerful aura erupted at the Snake People Clan's altar, and a nine-colored pillar of light burst through the sandstorm as the snake people and three elders felt compelled to kneel.
• The pillar shattered, revealing Cai Die as a colossal Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python before she transformed back into human form and summoned the elders to the royal hall.
• Cai Die addressed the elders and tribal leaders, confirmed she had absorbed her sister's true blood, and announced her breakthrough into the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python realm.
• The Second Elder told Cai Die that Queen Medusa had departed for the Central Plains and had left Cai Die to decide whether to stay or go.

Cai Die left the Snake People Clan for the Central Plains and boarded a spatial ship in Tianya City. Mistaking her for Cai Lin, Lin Guannan sabotaged the ship, leaving Cai Die and its passengers in danger as the vessel was drawn into a spatial rift and engulfed in flames.

• Cai Die gave the Snake People Clan's three elders jade slips that could protect them before departing for the Central Plains.
• Cai Die arrived in Tianya City and headed for the Space Wormhole while Lin Guannan secretly followed her, believing she was Cai Lin.
• Lin Guannan boarded the spatial ship and detonated a Blast Stone, damaging the spatial tunnel and creating a growing rift.
• A Luo Family elder struck Lin Guannan, who then burned to ashes when the Beast Flames in his jade bottles ignited.
• Cai Die appeared on deck as the spatial ship was pulled toward the rift and Beast Flames consumed much of it, leaving her unable to save the passengers.

Cai Die escaped the spatial ship through a spatial tunnel as the Hong Family launched a pill campaign to undermine the Han Family in North Sky City. Han Yue ended the chapter by telling her worried father that she knew where to find a Sixth Grade Alchemist.

• Cai Die left the spatial ship and sped through the spatial tunnel alone.
• The Hong Family announced that Hong Chen had become an inner pavilion disciple of the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion and began offering Sixth Grade Pills.
• Han Chi summoned Zhu Gan to discuss how the Han Family could counter the Hong Family’s campaign, and Zhu Gan agreed to refine pills if the Han Family supplied the ingredients.
• Hong Li revealed that the Hong Family would sell Dou Ling Pills, Imperial Pills, and Azure Nether Longevity Pills to establish its reputation.
• Han Yue told Han Chi not to worry because she knew where to find a Sixth Grade Alchemist.

Han Yue asked Xiao Yan to help the Han Family compete against the Hong Family, which had hired a Sixth Grade Alchemist and was selling pills in North Sky City. Xiao Yan agreed to refine pills without payment and began preparing for the contest, while Han Chi waited for the results as news spread about the Hong Family’s Sixth Grade Pills.

• Han Yue told Han Chi that Xiao Yan was a Sixth Grade Alchemist and volunteered to ask him for help against the Hong Family.
• Han Yue visited Xiao Yan and explained that the Hong Family’s pill sales had badly hurt the Han Family’s business.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help the Han Family without payment because of their ties to Jia Nan Academy and the Underworld.
• Han Chi brought Xiao Yan to the medicine storehouse, where Xiao Yan selected ingredients for three kinds of Sixth Grade Pills, including the Imperial Pill.
• Xiao Yan began refining while Zhu Gan prepared Fifth Grade Pills, and Han Chi waited as news spread that the Hong Family Marketplace was selling Sixth Grade Pills.

Xiao Yan’s successful refinement of Imperial Pills gave the Han Family a chance to challenge the Hong Family, while the Hong Family prepared to use the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion’s support against them. In the spatial tunnel, Xuan Yi learned about Yao Chen and Xiao Yan as Xiao Yu reflected on how the system had changed his path.

• Xiao Yan gave Han Chi several successfully refined Imperial Pills, and Zhu Gan recognized Xiao Yan as a Sixth Grade Alchemist and asked him to refine pills in exchange for three Fifth Grade Pills.
• Han Chi hurried to the Han Family’s market district, believing the Imperial Pills would let the family confront the Hong Family, while Hong Li ordered Hong Lie and Hong Mu to investigate the Han Family and Zhu Gan.
• Hong Li learned that his son had returned with Shen Yun, a Five-Star Dou Zong elder of the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion, and planned to use the pavilion’s influence to destroy the Han Family’s power in North Sky City.
• In the spatial tunnel, Xuan Yi asked Xiao Yu about Yao Chen and Xiao Yan, and Xiao Yu recounted their story and explained that his own teacher had taught him alchemy.
• Xiao Yu reflected that the Alchemy Canon and system had changed his life and set him on a different path from the one he might have taken without them.

Hong Chen returned to North Sky City as an inner pavilion disciple of the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion and joined Hong Li and Elder Shen Yun in pressuring the Han Family. He demanded to marry both Han sisters, and Han Chi refused as the confrontation began.

• The Hong Family halted its sale of Sixth Grade Pills as the rivalry with the Han Family intensified.
• Hong Chen returned with Elder Shen Yun and told Hong Li he intended to marry both Han sisters and claim the Han Family’s territory.
• Shen Yun urged Hong Li to use the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion’s influence to pressure the Han Family rather than seek Seventh-grade Pills.
• Hong Li, Hong Chen, and Shen Yun went to the Han Family, where Hong Li proposed that Hong Chen marry both sisters as a means of reconciliation.
• Han Lin denounced the proposal, and Han Chi angrily rejected it before Han Yue and Han Xue came out from the rear courtyard.

Xiao Yan entered the Han Family’s confrontation with the Hong Family and accepted Hong Chen’s challenge after Han Yue agreed to the terms. The duel was set for three days later, with the Han Family’s future at stake.

• Hong Chen boasted that he was North Sky City’s top genius and pressed the Han Family to consider a marriage alliance with the Hong Family.
• Nalan Yanran proposed that Xiao Yan help the Han Family, and Xiao Yan went to the main hall with the others.
• Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined the Sixth Grade Pills, prompting Hong Li and Shen Yun to realize he was the Han Family’s young alchemist.
• Hong Chen challenged Xiao Yan, wagering the Han Family’s interests and the Han sisters against an end to the Hong Family’s aggression if Xiao Yan won.
• Han Yue accepted the duel on the Han Family’s behalf, and Hong Chen set the match for three days later.

Xiao Yu and Xuan Yi arrived in Bone Melting City to buy maps for their journey through the Northern Region. After learning that the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool would open the following month, they bought a map of the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range and left for North Sky City.

• Xuan Yi piloted the space vessel through the wormhole to Bone Melting City, where Xiao Yu and Xuan Yi entered the city.
• Xiao Yu bought a detailed Northern Region map from the Map Pavilion for thirty thousand Gold Coins.
• The Map Pavilion’s old man offered Xiao Yu a Heavenly Eye Mountain Range map, and Xiao Yu negotiated its price down from forty thousand to twenty thousand Gold Coins.
• Xiao Yu and Xuan Yi discussed the upcoming opening of the Heavenly Mountain Blood Pool, which Xiao Yu said would be useful to others.
• Xiao Yu and Xuan Yi departed Bone Melting City and set out for North Sky City.

The Han and Hong Families gathered at the Heavenly Stone Platform for their pill-battle dispute, and Xiao Yan faced Hong Chen in combat. As Hong Chen unleashed his lightning power and iron hammer, Xiao Yan revealed the overwhelming aura of a Dou Zong.

• Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun discussed Hong Chen’s prospects at the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion while the Hong Family waited for the Han Family.
• Han Fei arrived with Han Chi, Han Lin, Xiao Yan, Han Yue, and Han Xue, and exchanged hostile words with Hong Tianxiao.
• Hong Chen challenged Xiao Yan, and both men stepped onto the Heavenly Stone Platform as Nalan Yanran watched from below.
• Xiao Yu and Xuan Yi arrived in North Sky City, learned of the battle, and went to the platform, where Xiao Yu recognized his third brother.
• Hong Chen released his lightning power and drew a black iron hammer, then Xiao Yan summoned his Mysterious Black Ruler and unleashed a powerful aura.

Xiao Yan fought Hong Chen on the Heavenly Stone Platform and revealed a powerful Heavenly Flame that disrupted Hong Chen’s lightning. He defeated Hong Chen with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, leaving the Han Family’s victory within reach.

• Hong Chen attacked Xiao Yan with his Thunder Hammer, but Xiao Yan’s pale blue Heavenly Flame weakened his lightning and made him wary.
• Shen Yun recognized that Xiao Yan’s flame was likely a Heavenly Flame and suspected he was the Sixth Grade Alchemist helping the Han Family.
• Xuan Yi inferred that Xiao Yan was Yao Chen’s disciple and had successfully cultivated the Fen Jue.
• Hong Chen used Thunder God Descent to strengthen himself, then charged at Xiao Yan with Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Xiao Yan recognized Hong Chen’s movement technique and struck him with Flame Splitting Wave Ruler, leaving Hong Chen charred and barely conscious in a crater.

Xiao Yan crippled Hong Chen in the arena, and the Hong Family and Wind Thunder Pavilion threatened him until Xuan Yi arrived and declared him her disciple. After driving them off, Xuan Yi gave Nalan Yanran a sword and revealed her connection to Yao Chen, while Han Fei invited her to the Han Family.

• Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun discovered that Xiao Yan had crippled Hong Chen, and Shen Yun and Hong Li threatened Xiao Yan and the Han Family.
• Xuan Yi arrived with Xiao Yu, claimed Xiao Yan as her disciple, and forced Shen Yun to back down with her Dou Zun aura.
• Xiao Yan mistakenly suggested Xuan Yi was Xiao Yu’s lover, and Xuan Yi yanked his ear before Nalan Yanran asked her to spare him.
• Xuan Yi gave Nalan Yanran an ice-blue longsword, and Xiao Yu told Xiao Yan to call her Aunt Xuan because she was connected to Yao Chen.
• Shen Yun and the Hong Family departed, and Han Fei invited Xuan Yi to visit the Han Family.

After Xiao Yan and his companions returned to the Han Family, Xuan Yi gave Yao Chen a Soul Nourishing Pill that awakened him. Yao Chen reunited with Xuan Yi, who insisted he go with her to the Pill Tower while Xiao Yan prepared to attend the Pill Gathering.

• Xiao Yu reunited with Yun Yun and the others, learned that Liu Qing and Lin Yan had gone to visit Liu Qing's family, and heard that Xiao Bai had left North Sky City to explore.
• Han Fei thanked Xiao Yan for helping the Han Family defeat the Hong Family, and Xiao Yan said his group would soon leave to attend the Four Pavilion Grand Meeting.
• Xuan Yi gave Xiao Yan a Soul Nourishing Pill, which restored Yao Chen's strength and awakened him from his deep sleep.
• Yao Chen turned around and recognized Xuan Yi, who tearfully reproached him for disappearing for so many years.
• Xuan Yi warned Yao Chen about the Soul Hall's influence and ordered him to accompany her to the Pill Tower, where Xiao Yan would later compete in the Pill Gathering.

Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan split from their allies, with Xiao Yu taking Cai Lin and Xiao Yi Xian to Falling God Stream to find a beast that could save Xiao Yi Xian. After the groups left North Sky City, the Hong Family plotted to enlist the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion against the Han Family.

• Xiao Yan suggested that Yao Chen go with Xuan Yi to the Pill Tower while he traveled to Starfall Pavilion later, and Yao Chen gave Xiao Yan a ring that would identify him to Venerable Wind.
• Xiao Yu found that Xiao Yi Xian's poison pill was failing and said he could seal some of her Poison Dou Qi for three months while they sought a Heavenly Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast at Falling God Stream.
• Xiao Yu, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian set out for Falling God Stream; Yun Yun led Qing Lin and five Di Fu Sect guards toward Bone Melting City, while Xiao Yan and the others planned to go to the Heavenly Eye Mountain Range.
• Xiao Yu and Xiao Yan said farewell to the Han Family and left North Sky City with their companions, while Han Xue joined Han Yue's group.
• Hong Tianxiao ordered Hong Mu and Hong Lie to ask the Wind Thunder Northern Pavilion for help killing Han Fei, claiming the Han Family's helpers were connected to the loss of Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Xiao Yu's group headed toward the Central Region, where Falling God Stream was located.

Xiao Yu, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian arrived in the Central Region and traveled to Tianhuang City, where Cai Lin sensed a mysterious pull connected to the Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python blood. At the city’s Space Wormhole, they were caught up in a dispute over its management rights as the Cheng Family claimed Fenyang Valley had granted it control for three years.

• Cai Lin told Xiao Yu that something in the Central Plains seemed to be drawing her in and that her Nine-Colored Sky Swallowing Python blood was reacting, prompting Xiao Yu to suspect a connection to the Nine-Colored Primordial Stone.
• Xiao Yu, Cai Lin, and Xiao Yi Xian flew to Tianhuang City, planning to visit Falling God Stream before going to the Liu Family.
• The three reached the city’s Space Wormhole, where Cheng Family guards detained the vessels and prevented them from leaving.
• Liu Qing arrived with Liu Fei and Lin Yan and challenged Cheng Yao’s takeover, saying the Liu Family held the Wormhole’s rights that year.
• Elder Chi Huo of Fenyang Valley appeared and confirmed that the takeover was Fenyang Valley’s latest order.

Xiao Yu intervened when the Liu Family was about to lose the Space Wormhole’s management rights to the Cheng Family. After revealing that he was a Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist, he secured the rights for the Liu Family and accompanied Elder Chi Huo to Fenyang Valley.

• Liu Qing suppressed his anger at Cheng Yao and prepared to leave after the Liu Family elders warned him not to fight the Cheng Family.
• Xiao Yu stopped Liu Qing and promised to settle the dispute for the Liu Family.
• Xiao Yu revealed his Pill Tower-certified badge, proving he was a Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist, and silenced Zeng Xiu and Cheng Yao.
• Elder Chi Huo awarded the Space Wormhole’s management rights to the Liu Family for the next three years.
• Xiao Yu’s companions went with Liu Qing and the others to the Liu Family, while Xiao Yu flew with Elder Chi Huo toward Fenyang Valley.

Xiao Yu traveled with Elder Chi Huo to Fenyang Valley, intending to secure the valley’s favor for the Underworld. He arrived at the valley’s inner grounds and met Tang Zhen, whose people were astonished by Xiao Yu’s rank as a Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist.

• Xiao Yu decided to help Fenyang Valley and planned to annex Wind Thunder Pavilion to expand the Underworld’s influence.
• Elder Chi Huo escorted Xiao Yu through the Blazing Volcano Range and explained its dangerous, fire-poisoned cultivation environment.
• Elder Chi Huo used a crimson jade plaque to open the spatial barrier and led Xiao Yu into Fenyang Valley’s lush inner grounds.
• Fenyang Valley disciples noticed Xiao Yu’s Seventh-grade Advanced Alchemist badge and mistook his youthful appearance for the result of beauty-preserving pills.
• Elder Chi Huo brought Xiao Yu to Tang Zhen and announced that the valley no longer needed to worry about pills.
• Tang Zhen and the alchemists in the hall stared in astonishment at Xiao Yu’s rank, and Tang Zhen realized he could not sense Xiao Yu’s aura.