Recaps

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.

After completing his outstanding alchemy commissions, Liu Bai returned to Gama Holy City with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to seek out Yao Chen and make contact with Xiao Yan. He found Yao Chen at the Mite'er Auction House and arrived to visit Hai Bodong, where his sudden appearance delighted the old friend.

• After refining pills for two months, Liu Bai finished his backlogged commissions and told Xiao Yi Xian they would return to the Northwest Continent to find Yao Chen.
• Xiao Yi Xian opened a spatial rift, and she, Liu Bai, and Qing Lin traveled to Gama Holy City.
• Liu Bai used his Spirit Realm Soul Power to search the city and sensed Yao Chen at the Mite'er Auction House, along with Xiao Yan's presence.
• Liu Bai decided to visit Hai Bodong and instantly brought Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin to the Mite'er Auction House.
• Hai Bodong recognized Liu Bai as he appeared in the hall and greeted him with surprise and joy.

Liu Bai returned to the Jia Ma Empire and told Hai Bodong and the others about his exploits in the Central Plains, including becoming a Tier 8 Alchemist. His powerful Soul Power then alerted Xiao Yan and Yao Chen, who feared that a formidable friend or enemy had found them.

• Liu Bai praised Hai Bodong's progress to Peak Dou Emperor and hinted that Jia Xingtian had also reached Dou Zong.
• Liu Bai recounted his Central Plains adventures, stunning Hai Bodong and the others with his account of refining a Tier 8 Pill.
• Liu Bai sensed Yao Chen inside the Mite'er Auction House and swept his Soul Power across the city.
• Yao Chen warned Xiao Yan that a Spirit Realm Soul Power had discovered them and could belong to a Dou Venerate or Tier 8 Alchemist.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen wondered whether the powerful figure had come to find Yao Chen, while Yao Chen vowed to protect Xiao Yan if necessary.

Liu Bai learned that the Alchemist Tournament was underway and decided to visit the Alchemist Association, where Fa Ma welcomed him enthusiastically. He also discovered that Xiao Yan had obtained another Heavenly Flame and wondered how far Xiao Yan could go without the Green Lotus Core Flame.

• Hai Bodong told Liu Bai that the Alchemist Tournament had reached a crucial stage, with Yao Yue, Liu Ling, and Yan Xiao among the favorites.
• Liu Bai recalled sensing a Heavenly Flame within Xiao Yan and suspected it was the Wind Fury Dragon Flame or another lower-ranked Heavenly Flame.
• Hai Bodong reminded Liu Bai that he was an honorary elder of the Alchemist Association, and Liu Bai agreed to visit it with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Hai Bodong arrived at the Association, where Fa Ma recognized Liu Bai and eagerly welcomed him inside.
• Fa Ma escorted Liu Bai, Xiao Yi Xian, and Hai Bodong to a reception room and served them tea and refreshments.

Liu Bai agreed to publicly refine a pill before the Jia Ma Empire Alchemist Tournament finals, and he arrived at the packed plaza as the celebrated guest. The crowd welcomed his return, while Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Yao Yue reacted with excitement and surprise.

• Fama saw Liu Bai's Tier 8 Unity Pill and asked him to serve as a model for the empire's young Alchemists.
• Liu Bai declined Fama's request to become his disciple but agreed to refine a pill before the tournament finals, choosing a Tier 7 Pill because his Tier 8 ingredients were scarce.
• Three days later, Fama announced to the crowd that a distinguished guest would demonstrate high-level alchemy before the finals.
• Fama revealed that the guest was Liu Bai, prompting Yun Yun, Nalan Yanran, and Yao Yue to react to his return.
• Liu Bai emerged with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, and the plaza erupted in welcome.

Liu Bai returned to the plaza and began refining a Tier 7 Pill before the gathered alchemists. After five hours, Pill Lightning formed above the plaza, confirming his success.

• Liu Bai greeted Yao Yue, Yun Yun, and Nalan Yanran before stepping onto the platform to begin his demonstration.
• Liu Bai summoned the Myriad Beast Cauldron, and Xiao Yan and Yao Lao recognized it as a treasure from the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Liu Bai revealed the Nether Prison Black Emperor Flame, making the Flames within the gathered alchemists tremble and startling Xiao Yan and Yao Lao.
• Liu Bai refined the pill with precise control over the ingredients and Flame while Fa Ma and the other alchemists watched in awe.
• Liu Bai finished refining after nearly five hours, and Pill Lightning gathered overhead as the crowd realized he had made a Tier 7 Pill.

Liu Bai completed a Tier 7 Qi-Smoothing Pill and used his golden Heavenly Demon Puppet to destroy the Pill Lightning and thunderclouds. He gifted the pill to Fa Ma for study, while Jia Xingtian wondered at the puppet’s power.

• Yao Yue praised Xiao Bai as Yao Ye watched, and Xiao Yan’s teacher identified Liu Bai as at least a high-tier Tier 7 Alchemist.
• Liu Bai named his golden Heavenly Demon Puppet Bing Hezi and sent it to destroy the descending Pill Lightning and shatter the thunderclouds.
• Liu Bai retrieved the completed Tier 7 Qi-Smoothing Pill from the Myriad Beast Cauldron as the crowd cheered.
• Liu Bai gave the pill to Fa Ma for study, and Fa Ma tearfully thanked him.
• Jia Xingtian congratulated Liu Bai and asked about the golden puppet’s rank, but Liu Bai did not answer.

The Alchemist Tournament’s final round began, requiring contestants to provide their own formulas and ingredients as Xiao Yan prepared to refine a Three-Pattern Spirit Pill. As the contest reached its late stages, Xiao Yan switched flames to attempt the pill’s second pattern.

• Fa Ma announced that contestants had to refine a pill using their own formulas and ingredients, and the final round began.
• Liu Bai secretly probed Xiao Yan and identified his Heavenly Flame as Wind Fury Dragon Flame before Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan that someone was investigating him.
• Yao Yue and Liu Ling brought out their fifth-tier medicinal cauldrons, while Xiao Yan began refining a Three-Pattern Spirit Pill in his old cauldron.
• After several hours, fewer than thirty contestants remained, with Yao Yue, Liu Ling, and Xiao Yan nearing the final stages of pill fusion.
• Xiao Yan swallowed a pale-purple pill, withdrew his azure flame, and sent purple flame into the cauldron to refine the Spirit Pill’s second pattern, prompting Fa Ma to recognize his aim.

Xiao Yan pushed his Green Spirit Pill refinement beyond a Two-Vein pill, using Yao Lao’s Bone Chilling Flame to attempt a third pattern. His cauldron appeared to explode, leaving the outcome unclear as Xiao Yan stared toward the clouds.

• Yao Yue and Liu Ling neared completion of their fourth-tier pills while Xiao Yan’s cauldron remained silent, worrying the audience and officials.
• Xiao Yan told Yao Lao that he needed a Three-Pattern Spirit Pill to secure victory, and Yao Lao agreed to lend him a wisp of the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Xiao Yan sent the white Flame into the sky and jolted his cracking cauldron upward, triggering a violent energy surge.
• Xiao Yan staggered back, exhausted, and watched the clouds as spectators assumed he had failed; Yan Li mocked him and returned to his own pill.

Xiao Yan revealed that he had refined a Three-Pattern Spirit Pill and won the Alchemist Tournament, despite his exhaustion. After receiving the award, he met Liu Bai, who hinted that he had noticed the mysterious white flame Xiao Yan used.

• Xiao Yan drew down the flame-fused pill and revealed a Three-Pattern Spirit Pill, stunning the audience and leaving Yan Li speechless.
• Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong celebrated Xiao Yan's success, while Liu Ling accepted his defeat and Yao Yue stared in disbelief.
• Fa Ma declared Yan Xiao the tournament champion, and Yan Li slipped away into the crowd.
• Fa Ma presented Xiao Yan with the tournament rewards, and Yao Yue and Liu Ling congratulated him as the crowd dispersed.
• Liu Bai approached Xiao Yan with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin, praised his pill-refining skill, and hinted that he had recognized the white flame.

Liu Bai invited Xiao Yan to meet him at the Jia Ma Imperial Palace, saying he might be able to help Yao Lao. Xiao Yan accepted and arrived that night, where he and Liu Bai began talking about pill refinement and the continent.

• Liu Bai asked Xiao Yan whether his teacher was surnamed Yao, and Yao Lao agreed to meet him after sensing Liu Bai’s formidable strength.
• Liu Bai invited Xiao Yan to the Jia Ma Imperial Palace the next day and remarked that Xiao Yan should avoid blowing up his cauldron when refining pills.
• Xiao Yan consulted Yao Lao, who judged Liu Bai’s intentions harmless and considered the meeting a possible opportunity.
• Xiao Yan arrived at the palace that night and was escorted to Liu Bai’s courtyard, where Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin were waiting.
• Liu Bai praised Xiao Yan’s Three-Pattern Spirit Pill, and the two began discussing pill refinement and the situation across the continent.