Chapter Summaries

Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin traveled through a Space Wormhole and arrived in the Central Plains. Liu Bai chose the Pill Tower’s Pill Region as their first destination, but they planned to visit a nearby city first to buy a map.

• Qing Lin summoned the Amethyst Winged Snake King, and Xiao Yi Xian protected the group as they entered the Space Wormhole.
• During the four-day journey, Liu Bai learned that precise spatial coordinates could let Xiao Yi Xian cross directly to a destination.
• The group emerged in the Central Plains, where Liu Bai observed its rich natural energy and powerful factions.
• Liu Bai decided to establish a foothold in the Pill Tower’s Pill Region and use his Tier 7 Alchemist status to gain resources and improve his alchemy.
• Xiao Yi Xian reminded Liu Bai that they needed a map, so Liu Bai proposed heading to the nearest city.

Liu Bai bought a full set of Central Plains maps in Empty Seal City and learned how to reach the Pill Region. He and Xiao Yi Xian brought Qing Lin to Holy Pill City, where they arrived before the bustling city gates.

• Liu Bai entered the World Map Pavilion with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin and asked for every map of the Central Plains.
• The clerk sold Liu Bai 137 maps and told him a spatial wormhole north of Empty Seal City led to Holy Pill City.
• Liu Bai chose to head for the Pill Region, and Xiao Yi Xian opened spatial wormholes to take the group there.
• Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin emerged before Holy Pill City, and Qing Lin marveled at its immense scale.

Liu Bai explored Holy Pill City and went to a Pill Tower branch to obtain a Central Plains Alchemist badge. After his Soul Power test made the crystal blaze with crimson-gold light, the gathered Alchemists reacted in shock.

• Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin settled into an inn and explored Holy Pill City the next day.
• Liu Bai decided to take the Pill Tower’s Alchemist assessment after seeing the city’s many certified Alchemists.
• Liu Bai hired a guide, who explained the city’s Inner and Outer Domains and led the group to a Pill Tower branch.
• Elder Han Li explained the preliminary Soul Power test and invited Liu Bai to follow him to the assessment counter.
• Liu Bai injected Soul Power into the testing crystal, which emitted dazzling crimson-gold light and stunned nearby Alchemists.

Liu Bai sought a seventh-grade alchemist examination at the Pill Tower, where the elders admitted him despite the scorn of the Bai Clan. He entered the Heaven-Grade Testing Room, leaving Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin waiting as his detractors mocked him outside.

• Han Li discovered Liu Bai had a peak Mortal Realm soul and arranged a seventh-grade examination for him.
• Elder Sheng allowed Liu Bai to test first, while the Bai Clan mocked his age and lack of a master.
• Liu Bai accepted the challenge and entered the Heaven-Grade Testing Room, which required him to pass three trials.
• As Liu Bai remained inside, the Bai Clan continued to taunt him, while Xiao Yi Xian stayed confident and Qing Lin grew angry.

Liu Bai emerged from the seventh-grade assessment without a badge, prompting the Bai Clan elders to mock him until Elder Sheng revealed that Liu Bai had passed and presented him with a seventh-grade Alchemist badge. As the Bai Clan prepared to leave, Liu Bai confronted the gray-clad old woman over her insults.

• Liu Bai emerged from the assessment room without a badge, and the gray-clad old woman and others assumed he had failed.
• Elder Sheng explained that Liu Bai had passed and had delayed issuing his badge while recommending that he seek certification at the Pill Tower headquarters.
• Elder Sheng presented Liu Bai with a dark golden seventh-grade Alchemist badge, stunning the gathered clans and embarrassing his mockers.
• The gray-clad old woman tried to dismiss Liu Bai's achievement as luck, then prepared to leave with the Bai Clan.
• Liu Bai stopped the old woman and asked whether she had called people cats and dogs, and she warned him not to cause trouble in the Pill Tower.

Liu Bai defeated a Bai Clan elder who had provoked him, then revealed his Seventh-Grade Alchemist badge and settled in Holy Pill City. He began accepting requests to refine Tier 7 Pills, and news of his services spread through the city.

• Liu Bai struck the gray-robed Bai Clan elder with one punch after she insulted him, then warned her not to provoke him again.
• Liu Bai introduced himself to the Bai Clan members and left with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin; Elder Sheng and Han Li praised his strength and alchemy, while the Qiu Clan elder ordered his companions to keep quiet about the incident.
• Liu Bai pinned on his Seventh-Grade Alchemist badge, drawing astonished and reverent looks as he and his companions walked through Holy Pill City.
• Liu Bai bought a courtyard and instructed a servant to announce that he would accept Tier 7 pill-refining requests from clients who supplied three portions of ingredients and the pill formula.
• The next morning, people across Holy Pill City discussed Liu Bai's pill-refining offer and his fight with the Bai Clan.

Liu Bai established himself in Holy Pill City by openly accepting pill-refining commissions, while Xiao Yi Xian sought rare poisonous substances to advance her cultivation. After a month of successful refining, dark clouds and lightning gathered over the city, signaling an extraordinary event.

• News spread through Holy Pill City that Liu Bai, a Seventh-Grade Alchemist, was accepting commissions, and factions debated whether to approach him.
• Liu Bai arranged for Qing Lin to register pill requests while he refined pills, and Xiao Yi Xian suggested establishing a faction around their group.
• Over the next half month, Qing Lin accepted Sixth- and Seventh-Grade pill commissions as Liu Bai's successful refinements drew more customers and they hired helpers.
• Xiao Yi Xian remained at Half-Saint because she lacked powerful poisonous substances, while Liu Bai planned to seek them once his reputation grew.
• A month later, dark clouds gathered over Holy Pill City, with lightning and thunder churning above the streets.

Liu Bai’s successful refinement of a Tier 7 Pill drew Pill Lightning, which Xiao Yi Xian destroyed effortlessly, convincing Holy Pill City’s alchemists of his skill and powerful backing. Afterward, Liu Bai arranged for Qing Lin to deliver the commissioned pills and announced that he would trade or refine pills in exchange for highly poisonous materials, seeking poisons for Xin'er.

• Pill Lightning formed above Liu Bai’s courtyard, and observers recognized it as proof that he had refined a Tier 7 Pill.
• Xiao Yi Xian stopped the lightning in midair and shattered it, leading the onlookers to conclude that she was a Dou Venerate and to trust Liu Bai’s abilities.
• Liu Bai emerged from the alchemy room, thanked Xiao Yi Xian, and told Qing Lin he would help her grow stronger by having Xiao Yi Xian find her a powerful snake-type magical beast.
• Liu Bai gave Qing Lin a Storage Ring of completed pills and instructed her to deliver them to the clients and collect the agreed payments.
• Liu Bai told Qing Lin to announce that he would exchange Tier 7 Pills or free alchemy services for poisonous herbs, venomous insects, Poison Cores, and other highly toxic treasures.

After months of pill refining in Holy Pill City, Liu Bai entered seclusion and broke through from the peak of Nine-Star Dou Emperor to Dou Zong, gaining control over spatial power. He reunited with Qing Lin and Xiao Yi Xian and decided they could begin acting immediately.

• Liu Bai's reputation and demand for pills grew as he refined dozens of Tier 7 Pills, while Qing Lin advanced to One-Star Dou Emperor and Xiao Yi Xian collected rare poisons.
• Liu Bai announced he would stop taking commissions and enter seclusion to break through to Dou Zong, with Xiao Yi Xian guarding him.
• Liu Bai remained in seclusion for more than half a year while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin waited in the courtyard.
• Liu Bai emerged after a spatial aura announced his successful breakthrough and demonstrated his new ability to freeze, ripple, and traverse space.
• Qing Lin greeted Liu Bai, who noticed her Dou Emperor cultivation and resolved to begin acting immediately; he then embraced Xiao Yi Xian and thanked her for guarding him.

Liu Bai learned that Ice Venerable was seeking Xiao Yi Xian’s innate Woe Poison Body and led her and Qing Lin to Ice River Valley. After Xiao Yi Xian overwhelmed the valley with her Half-Saint pressure, Liu Bai confronted Bing He, who pleaded for mercy.

• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian took Qing Lin out of Holy Pill City after Liu Bai confirmed that he had broken through to Dou Zong.
• Liu Bai and Xiao Yi Xian captured four seventh-tier snake-type magical beasts for Qing Lin to control.
• Liu Bai explained that Ice Venerable had transformed himself into a pseudo-Woe Poison Body and wanted Xiao Yi Xian’s innate body to perfect his own.
• Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin traveled to Ice River Valley, where Xiao Yi Xian’s Half-Saint pressure subdued its disciples and drew out Bing He and the elders.
• Bing He recognized Xiao Yi Xian as a Saint and offered Ice River Valley’s treasures, while wondering how Liu Bai had brought a Saint with him.

Liu Bai seized Ice Venerable’s body and soul for his Heavenly Demon Puppet, then challenged Ice River Valley’s Great Elder while Xiao Yi Xian contained the valley. After unleashing his divine skills and artifacts, Liu Bai raised his strength from one-star Dou Zong to beyond the Dou Venerate realm and faced the Great Elder.

• Liu Bai demanded Ice Venerable’s body and soul, and Xiao Yi Xian separated them and sealed them for Liu Bai.
• Liu Bai stored Ice Venerable’s body in his Storage Ring and placed his soul in a jade bottle for a future Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Liu Bai struck Ice River Valley’s Great Elder and collapsed the ice crystal hall, then asked Xiao Yi Xian to seal the area without pressuring the elder.
• Liu Bai promised to spare the Great Elder if he won, and the Great Elder unleashed his Dou Venerate aura and attacked.
• Liu Bai activated his Martial Soul Avatar, Divine Rings, Ice and Fire Emperor Body, and Burning Heaven Refining Sun Spear, raising his power until it surpassed the Great Elder’s.

Liu Bai defeated Ice River Valley's Great Elder despite the gap between their realms, then spared him and revealed his name. He reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, pleased that the battle would spread his fame across the continent.

• The Great Elder attacked Liu Bai with his Ice Soul Cold Ice Sword, but Liu Bai's Sacred Fire God Domain made his attacks unavoidable and strengthened Liu Bai.
• Liu Bai overwhelmed the Great Elder with Burning Heaven Strike and Ice and Fire Emperor Dragon Fist, leaving him gravely injured in the ruins.
• Liu Bai spared the defeated Great Elder, who reflected on Ice River Valley's destruction and the loss of Valley Master Bing He.
• Liu Bai told the Great Elder to remember the name Liu Bai and considered how fame and his future Tier 8 Alchemist status could help him obtain poisons.
• Liu Bai joined Xiao Yi Xian in the sky, and she congratulated him before he asked whether his punch had looked handsome.

After killing Ice Venerable and crippling Ice River Valley, Liu Bai returned to Holy Pill City and resumed refining pills to improve his soul control. His soul realm remained just short of the Spirit Realm, and he decided against risking a raid on Soul Hall for Soul Origin, ending the chapter resting peacefully with Xiao Yi Xian.

• Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin left the ruined Ice River Valley, and the Great Elder vowed to remember Liu Bai's name.
• Back in Holy Pill City, Liu Bai told Xiao Yi Xian he would resume pill refining to build control over his Soul Power and approach the Spirit Realm.
• Qing Lin announced Liu Bai's return to pill refining, drawing crowds and a long line of customers to his courtyard.
• Liu Bai refined pills for months, raising his reputation across Holy Pill City and attracting attention from prominent figures in the Pill Tower's Inner Domain.
• Liu Bai considered taking Soul Origin from Soul Hall to break through into the Spirit Realm but rejected the risk because of the Soul Clan's power.
• Liu Bai took a break and rested beside Xiao Yi Xian in the courtyard.

Liu Bai prepared for the Alchemist Trade Fair and entered with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, hoping to find items worth trading for. After searching the first-floor stalls without success, he went up to the second floor.

• Liu Bai decided to attend the Alchemist Trade Fair and spent a day and night refining items to trade.
• Liu Bai declined Ye Zhong's offer to go together and brought Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the fair.
• Liu Bai showed his Seventh-Grade Alchemist badge at the entrance and gained access for his companions.
• Liu Bai hired Han Lin to guide them and learned how the fair's three floors were divided by rank.
• After finding nothing worthwhile on the first floor, Liu Bai went with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the second floor.

Liu Bai traded a Break-Ancestor Pill for a mysterious copper shard carrying a trace of Soul-Nurturing Dust, then refused to sell it to a man from Wind Lightning Pavilion. On the third floor, he met the Seventh-Grade Alchemist Xuan Bingzi.

• Liu Bai spotted a copper shard whose faint fluctuation revealed traces of Soul-Nurturing Dust.
• The white-haired old man agreed to trade the shard for Liu Bai's Pill Tower-certified Break-Ancestor Pill.
• A middle-aged man from Wind Lightning Pavilion offered double the price for the shard, but Liu Bai refused and the man left without confronting him.
• Liu Bai continued to the third floor with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, where Xuan Bingzi greeted him and praised his reputation.

Liu Bai exchanged for rare treasures, confirmed that a copper fragment contained Soul-Nurturing Dust, and decided to refine a Heavenly Demon Puppet while postponing Venerable Skyfire’s resurrection. After two months, he completed a powerful puppet and planned to strengthen it further before confronting Tang San.

• Liu Bai traded Tier 7 Pills for a Ten-Thousand-Year Green Spirit Vine, a soul-cultivation technique, and other rare ingredients.
• Liu Bai sensed enough Soul-Nurturing Dust in the copper fragment to help him break through to the Spirit Realm.
• Liu Bai told Venerable Skyfire that he needed to find Yao Chen to obtain a resurrection secret technique, and Venerable Skyfire agreed to wait.
• Liu Bai entered seclusion with Xiao Yi Xian guarding him and spent two months refining Ice Venerable’s body into a Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• Liu Bai tested the puppet’s strength, found it had reached Peak Five-Star Dou Venerate power, and stored it away.
• Liu Bai resolved to temper the puppet with Pill Lightning before returning to confront Tang San, then took out the copper fragment.

Liu Bai discovered that refining the verdigris on a bronze shard revealed seven particles of Spirit-Conceiving Dust, a treasure that nurtured the soul. After absorbing four particles, he reached the Spirit Realm, with his surge of Soul Power contained by Xiao Yi Xian's restriction.

• Liu Bai asked Venerable Skyfire to inspect the bronze shard, and Skyfire found that its verdigris concealed something sealed within it.
• Liu Bai refined the verdigris with Heavenly Flames and uncovered seven particles of Spirit-Conceiving Dust.
• Venerable Skyfire explained that Spirit-Conceiving Dust strengthened the soul and could aid Alchemists in reaching the Spirit Realm.
• Liu Bai absorbed the first particle, enduring intense pain as he sensed and drew spiritual essence into his soul.
• Liu Bai absorbed three more particles, and his soul transformed as he entered the Spirit Realm.
• Liu Bai released a vast wave of Soul Power, but Xiao Yi Xian's restriction stopped it from alarming Holy Pill City.

Liu Bai reached the Spirit Realm after following a mysterious chant left by an illusory old man, allowing him to sense spiritual energy and prepare to refine Tier 8 Pills. He announced that he would trade Tier 7 Pills for rare ingredients, setting Holy Pill City abuzz as people rushed to help.

• Liu Bai saw a white-haired old man appear in his sea of consciousness and heard him repeat the chant, “Extreme Soul... Seal Heavenly Spirit... Absorb Spirit Forge Soul...”
• Liu Bai followed the chant and, after repeated attempts, sensed the spiritual energy around him without using Spirit-Conceiving Dust.
• Liu Bai recognized that his Spirit Realm soul made him capable of refining Tier 8 Pills, though he still needed rare ingredients and lacked the method for refining Soul-Nurturing Dust.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin congratulated Liu Bai after he emerged from the alchemy chamber, and he told them he would try refining a Tier 8 Pill.
• Liu Bai announced that he would exchange Tier 7 Pills for Tier 8 ingredients, prompting people across Holy Pill City to search for materials and seek his favor.

Liu Bai used Han Feng’s inheritance to choose a Tier 8 Unity Pill, then spent three months gathering ingredients and refining it. Three-Colored Pill Lightning formed over Holy Pill City, announcing his successful first attempt as the chapter ended.

• Liu Bai reviewed Han Feng’s inheritance and selected the Tier 8 Unity Pill to support his cultivation.
• Liu Bai gave Xiao Yi Xian a list of ingredients, and after three months of effort he gathered enough for two batches.
• Liu Bai began refining the Unity Pill in his alchemy chamber and continued working for three months.
• Dark clouds and cyan-red lightning gathered over Holy Pill City, revealing that Liu Bai was refining a Tier 8 Pill.
• Purple lightning joined the other colors, and Xiao Yi Xian realized Liu Bai had succeeded in producing Three-Colored Pill Lightning.

Liu Bai successfully refined a Tier 8 pill and used its Three-Colored Pill Lightning to strengthen the Heavenly Demon Puppet. After receiving congratulations from alchemists and Pill Tower elders, he prepared to return to the Jia Ma Empire and find Yao Chen.

• Liu Bai completed a Tier 8 pill, and the Heavenly Demon Puppet absorbed the Three-Colored Pill Lightning without being damaged.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin congratulated Liu Bai, who explained that the puppet would protect them.
• Liu Bai decided to find Yao Chen after completing the pill.
• Liu Bai opened the courtyard gate and was greeted by a crowd of alchemists and Pill Tower elders congratulating him on reaching Tier 8.