Chapter Summaries

Su Yun defeated Venerable Lei, subdued the Wind Lightning Pavilion, and took its treasures and Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body. He left for an inn to review his gains and prepare to fuse the Dou Technique into a powerful clone.

• Su Yun used a two-colored Heavenly Flame sword and his physical strength to defeat Venerable Lei, then knocked him unconscious and took his Ring of Holding.
• Su Yun used Heavenly Flame Condensation and Soul Power to make everyone at the Wind Lightning Pavilion faint.
• Su Yun scanned and recycled Venerable Lei's and Feng Qing'er's memories, collected the disciples' Rings of Holding, and emptied the pavilion's treasury.
• Su Yun changed his appearance at an inn and examined the Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body scroll, planning to fuse it into a clone.

Su Yun fused two Dou Techniques to create a flame avatar with cultivation matching his own, while Xiao Yan and Medicine Elder told Venerable Feng that Han Feng had died. The chapter ended with Su Yun preparing to search the Beast Region for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's encampment.

• Su Yun used four Sixth Tier Magic Cores to fuse Fire Palm and Three Thousand Lightning Illusionary Body into an avatar technique and a separate fire palm technique.
• Medicine Elder told Venerable Feng that Han Feng had ambushed him with Soul Hall, and Xiao Yan explained that Gui Li had killed Han Feng and taken the Bone Chilling Flame.
• Venerable Feng asked how strong Gui Li was, and Medicine Elder estimated that he had likely reached Dou Zun.
• Medicine Elder urged Xiao Yan to improve his Alchemy Technique so they could refine a body for him after Xiao Yan subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• After three days, Su Yun completed a flame avatar with cultivation matching his own and withdrew it into his body.
• Su Yun decided to search the Beast Region for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix's encampment and took out an egg with a strange demonic aura.

Su Yun traveled to the Beast Region and infiltrated the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan’s territory to prepare the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Egg for hatching. After secretly scanning the clan’s members, he took the egg to a remote cave, where the Young Phoenix hatched and swallowed its shell.

• Su Yun fed the Ancient Heavenly Phoenix Egg a drop of Heavenly Demon Phoenix Blood Essence, soothed it, and used Feng Qing'er's memories to locate the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan.
• Venerable Lei learned that Su Yun had emptied the Wind Lightning Pavilion’s treasury and stolen the elders’ and disciples’ Rings of Holding, then ordered the pavilion to demand an explanation from Starfall Pavilion.
• Su Yun reached the Phoenix Mountain Range, bypassed its Dou Sheng-created Space Barrier using the System Space, and secretly scanned the clan’s members before leaving.
• After putting distance between himself and the Phoenix Mountain Range, Su Yun took the egg out in a deserted cave and watched it hatch into a Young Phoenix.
• The Young Phoenix emerged excitedly, played with Su Yun, then swallowed the eggshell.

Su Yun bound the Young Phoenix to him with the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame and used Heavenly Demon Phoenix Magic Cores to raise it to the Seventh Tier. The Ancient Heavenly Phoenix transformed into a beautiful girl and excitedly called him “Daddy.”

• The Young Phoenix ate its eggshell and a First Tier Magic Core, then agreed to become Su Yun’s pet.
• Su Yun used the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame to bind the Young Phoenix’s body and soul to his control.
• Su Yun obtained Heavenly Demon Phoenix Magic Cores and learned the fusion plan needed to advance the Young Phoenix.
• After the Young Phoenix woke, Su Yun fused it with Magic Cores repeatedly until it reached the Seventh Tier.
• The Ancient Heavenly Phoenix transformed into a girl, embraced Su Yun, and called him “Daddy.”

Su Yun raised the newly born Ancient Heavenly Phoenix as Su Ruoxi for three months, then arranged for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan to take her in. After the clan recognized her bloodline and brought her inside the Phoenix Mountain Range, Su Yun headed for the Central Plains, where Venerable Feng defeated Venerable Lei.

• Su Yun dressed the newborn girl, named her Su Ruoxi, and taught her basic common sense and combat techniques over three months in the Beast Region.
• Su Yun told Su Ruoxi to use the name Feng Ruoxi at the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan and arranged for eight Seventh-Tier Magical Beasts to chase her toward the Phoenix Mountain Range.
• The Heavenly Demon Phoenix elders sensed Su Ruoxi's pure bloodline, recognized that she might be an Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, and brought her into their territory after killing her pursuers.
• Su Yun watched Su Ruoxi enter the Phoenix Mountain Range, then tore open space and set off for the Central Plains.
• At Starfall Pavilion, Venerable Feng blasted Venerable Lei into a mountain and told him that Starfall Pavilion had not attacked Wind Lightning Pavilion and that he was no match for him.

After Gui Li attacked the Wind Lightning Pavilion, Medicine Elder decided to take Xiao Yan to Holy Pill City for safety. Meanwhile, Su Yun encountered Old Ghost Picking Stars and ambushed the Soul Hall Venerate, leaving him badly injured.

• Venerable Feng returned to Starfall Pavilion after Venerable Lei and the Wind Lightning Pavilion fled.
• Medicine Elder, Xiao Yan, and Venerable Feng suspected Gui Li had targeted them and planned to draw Venerable Feng away before attacking.
• Medicine Elder decided to take Xiao Yan to Holy Pill City, where the Pill Tower's protection would shield them from Gui Li.
• Su Yun reached the border of the Central Plains and the Beast Region, sensed a Soul Hall Venerate nearby, and tracked him down.
• Su Yun identified the Venerate as Old Ghost Picking Stars and attacked him with a Five-Colored Fire Dragon, badly injuring him.

Su Yun defeated Old Ghost Picking Stars and captured his soul, then used an Eighth Tier fire-attribute Magic Core to upgrade Setting Sun. The sword awakened a weak intelligence and fully acknowledged Su Yun as its master, revealing its immense new power.

• Su Yun used the Fire Sun Emperor Sword to destroy Old Ghost Picking Stars's attack and burn his body to ash.
• Su Yun caught Old Ghost Picking Stars's fleeing soul, knocked it unconscious, sealed it in a Jade Bottle, and took his Ring of Holding.
• Su Yun found an Eighth Tier fire-attribute Magic Core and used the system to upgrade Setting Sun to an Eighth Tier One-Star Magic Core Longsword.
• Setting Sun developed a weak intelligence and asked to acknowledge Su Yun as its master.
• Su Yun combined his blood and Soul Imprint with Setting Sun's, completing their bond.
• Su Yun swung Setting Sun without using Heavenly Flames, and its flaming sword aura collapsed a mountain, astonishing him.

Su Yun returned to Holy Pill City after four months away and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, who told him that people were seeking him out as an Eighth Grade Alchemist. He also learned that Qing Lin’s soul had reached the Heaven Realm, and the chapter ended with Xiao Yi Xian playfully overwhelming him with an increased dose of aphrodisiac.

• Su Yun tested Setting Sun’s increased combat strength, then put the weapon away because he needed to save resources for Xiao Yi Xian’s cultivation.
• Su Yun returned to Holy Pill City, where Xiao Yi Xian reproached him for being away four months longer than promised before welcoming him home.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Su Yun that his identity had spread and that Cao Ying and Dan Chen visited monthly to ask whether he had emerged from seclusion.
• Qing Lin revealed that her soul had broken through to the Heaven Realm, while her cultivation had reached Seven-Star Dou Zong and Xiao Yi Xian had advanced to Eight-Star Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun hosted a meal with Heavenly Flame Venerate, Hai Bodong, and the others, then returned to his room with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian pinned Su Yun down, drank an increased dose of aphrodisiac, and transferred it into his mouth.

Su Yun reached Spirit Realm Consummation and considered plans to strengthen himself and Xiao Yi Xian, while Xiao Yan set out for the Pill Tower after the Soul Hall captured Medicine Elder. The chapter ended with Hai Bodong telling Su Yun that the Cao Clan and Dan Clan girls were waiting at the entrance.

• Xiao Yan woke in a cave with Venerable Feng and learned that the Soul Hall had captured Medicine Elder during their journey to Holy Pill City.
• Xiao Yan decided to go to the Pill Tower to improve his Alchemy Technique, and Venerable Feng agreed to take him there.
• Su Yun refined the souls in Old Ghost Picking Stars' Soul Restraining Bag and broke through to Spirit Realm Consummation.
• Su Yun considered seeking the Heavenly Cold Qi and an inheritance site to help Xiao Yi Xian advance her Poisonous Body of Misfortune.
• Hai Bodong told Su Yun that the girls from the Cao Clan and Dan Clan had come to the entrance again.

After hearing rumors that he was involved with Cao Ying and Dan Chen, Su Yun agreed to meet them at his residence. The two prodigies challenged him to another alchemy contest, but he refused because he planned to leave Holy Pill City soon.

• Hai Bodong told Su Yun that rumors in Holy Pill City claimed Cao Ying and Dan Chen were pursuing him together.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen arrived at Su Yun's residence with Song Qing and Dan Xuan, while Song Qing questioned the rumors and grew jealous.
• Su Yun invited the four visitors into his residence and asked Cao Ying and Dan Chen why they had come.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen asked Su Yun to compete with them in alchemy again.
• Su Yun rejected their request, saying he would soon leave Holy Pill City to handle other matters.

After turning Cao Ying and Dan Chen away, Su Yun sent Xiao Yi Xian to seek an inheritance for her Poisonous Body of Misfortune and traveled to the Central Plains Western Region to search for Heavenly Cold Qi. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan began training at the Pill Tower, and Burning Flame Valley stirred over Su Yun.

• Su Yun shut his gates on Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and their companions, so Cao Ying and Dan Chen returned to the Pill Tower for Xuan Kongzi's lecture.
• Xuan Kongzi introduced Xiao Yan as a new student, and Cao Ying and Dan Chen watched him fail to refine a low-tier seventh-grade pill.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yi Xian about the Poisonous Body of Misfortune inheritance and said its method could help her advance beyond Three-Turn Dou Venerate.
• After three days together, Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian left Holy Pill City; she went to pursue the inheritance while he headed west in search of Heavenly Cold Qi.
• Su Yun crossed the Central Plains Western Region using his Thousand Illusions Shadow Wings and spatial wormholes, then set course for the Ice Mountain Range.
• As Su Yun searched for Heavenly Cold Qi, Burning Flame Valley was thrown into an uproar because of him.

Tang Zhen argued with Burning Flame Valley’s elders over revealing the Fire Bodhi Pill formula to save Tang Huo'er, while Su Yun reached the Ice Mountain Range to seek the Heavenly Cold Qi. Su Yun unleashed a mastered Heaven Tier Dou Technique against Bing Xuan, and three other Eighth Tier Magical Beasts hurried toward the Ice Profound Pool.

• Tang Zhen demanded that Burning Flame Valley’s elders let him use the secret Fire Bodhi Pill formula to save Tang Huo'er from the backlash of the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Flame, but they resisted.
• Su Yun arrived at the Ice Mountain Range and searched for the Heavenly Cold Qi using Han Feng’s memories.
• Su Yun found Bing Xuan at the Ice Profound Pool and attacked him with the mastered Heaven Tier Dou Technique Heavenly Flame Severing Rainbow.
• Su Yun’s attack shattered the glacier and created a spatial black hole, while Bing Xuan faced the force of a Nine-Star Peak Dou Venerate-level strike.
• An Ice Blue Wolf and two other Eighth Tier Magical Beasts sensed the destruction and rushed toward the Ice Profound Pool, hoping to seize the Heavenly Cold Qi.

Su Yun caught up with the injured Bing Xuan and faced him alongside three other Eighth Tier Magical Beasts from the Ice Mountain Range. After Bing Xuan exposed Su Yun’s concealment, Su Yun summoned a Heavenly Demon Puppet and a strengthened clone as the battle began.

• Su Yun intercepted Bing Xuan, who had been badly injured after using his bloodline secret technique, and blasted off his arm with a punch.
• Su Yun attacked Bing Xuan with a Five-Colored Fire Dragon, but the Ice Blue Wolf, Ice Fox, and Ice Bird intervened and agreed to join forces with Bing Xuan.
• The four beasts struck what they believed was Su Yun, but he had used Illusory Shadow to leave an energy body behind and appear behind them.
• Bing Xuan unleashed Ice Dou Qi across the area, found Su Yun’s concealed position, and led the four beasts in attacking him.
• Su Yun summoned a Four-Star Peak Dou Venerate Heavenly Demon Puppet and created a clone strengthened with the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, then sent them into battle with him.

Su Yun defeated Ice Blue Wolf, Bing Xuan, Ice Fox, and Ice Bird, then recovered the Heavenly Cold Qi from the ruined Ice Profound Pool. He returned to Holy Pill City and found Xiao Yi Xian away; Qing Lin prepared a meal for him and invited him to eat together.

• Su Yun used the Three Thousand Flaming Sun Palms to break through the beasts’ ice wall, killing Bing Xuan and leaving Ice Blue Wolf gravely wounded.
• Su Yun killed Ice Blue Wolf, then joined his clone and Heavenly Demon Puppet to defeat the Ice Fox and Ice Bird.
• Su Yun stored the beasts’ corpses and the Heavenly Demon Puppet, recovered the Heavenly Cold Qi, and concealed the battle’s lingering auras before leaving.
• Su Yun returned to his residence in Holy Pill City two days later and learned Xiao Yi Xian was away condensing Poison Qi Runes.
• Qing Lin secretly watched Su Yun, prepared a meal while Xiao Yi Xian was gone, and invited him to eat together.

Su Yun comforted Su Ruoxi through Soul Communication and learned that the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan was raising her as its hope. Meanwhile, Feng Qing'er returned to the clan expecting to enter its inheritance Blood Pool, but found a Half-Saint elder waiting to receive her.

• Qing Lin served Su Yun food she had secretly altered, while wondering whether things would have changed if he had met her first.
• Su Yun assessed Qing Lin's rapid progress and decided to postpone targeting the Nine Netherworld Python clan until his allies could face its Dou Sheng experts.
• Su Ruoxi told Su Yun that Clan Chief Huang Tian had taken her as a disciple and that the clan's pressure to revive it made her uncomfortable.
• Su Yun reassured Su Ruoxi and ended their Soul Communication before the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan could notice anything unusual.
• Feng Qing'er returned to the Phoenix Mountain Range expecting to enter the inheritance Blood Pool and was surprised to find a Half-Saint elder waiting in the Deacon Hall.

Feng Qing'er learned that she had been summoned to accompany Feng Ruoxi and was promised second place in the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan's Blood Pool, which Ruoxi later drained. Su Yun heard from Ruoxi about her time with the clan, then agreed to meet Xiao Yan when he arrived to visit.

• A Half-Saint elder told Feng Qing'er that the clan's Ancient Heavenly Phoenix, Feng Ruoxi, needed a companion and assigned Qing'er to help her feel connected to the clan.
• The elder promised Feng Qing'er second entry into the Blood Pool after Feng Ruoxi, and seven days later Qing'er found the pool completely drained by Ruoxi.
• Su Ruoxi told Su Yun through Soul Communication that she had enjoyed the Blood Pool's blood essence and that a cold big sister had watched her nervously.
• Hai Bodong told Su Yun that Xiao Yan had come to visit, and Su Yun decided to receive him.
• Hai Bodong welcomed Xiao Yan into the hall and reflected on how accurately Su Yun had recognized Xiao Yan's potential back in the Northwest Continent.

Xiao Yan reunited with Su Yun in Holy Pill City and told him that the Soul Hall had captured Medicine Elder. Xiao Yan suspected Gui Li had joined the Soul Hall, and Su Yun considered using that suspicion to disguise Gui Li as one of its members.

• Hai Bodong brought Xiao Yan to meet Su Yun, and Xiao Yan recounted his journey to the Central Plains and Gui Li's attack on Wind Lightning Pavilion.
• Xiao Yan revealed that the Soul Hall had ambushed him on the way to Holy Pill City and captured Medicine Elder.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Gui Li had joined the Soul Hall, and Su Yun decided the idea could help turn Xiao Yan and the Soul Hall against each other.
• Xiao Yan described studying alchemy at the Pill Tower under Xuan Kongzi, alongside Cao Ying and Dan Chen.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yan that he had refined the Fallen Heart Flame, returned to his sect, and become a True Disciple.

Su Yun learned that Tang Zhen of Burning Flame Valley and the Ye Family had been seeking him while he was in seclusion. After emerging with his cultivation settled, he considered visiting the Ye Family for the Sun Fire Altar and its Earth Core Bead.

• Su Yun and Xiao Yan discussed the Pill Gathering, where they planned to compete for the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and Su Yun revealed that he cultivated the Flame Mantra.
• Su Yun entered seclusion for several months while visitors continued to seek him.
• Tang Zhen visited Su Yun's residence with a young girl in red and asked him to refine a pill, but Heavenly Flame Venerate told him Su Yun was in seclusion.
• Su Yun emerged from seclusion, and Hai Bodong told him Tang Zhen had repeatedly visited and that the Ye Family had also been seeking him.
• Su Yun considered visiting the Ye Family because the Sun Fire Altar held Yang Fire and an Earth Core Bead useful for refining Grade 8 Pills.

Su Yun planned to help Tang Zhen refine the Fire Bodhi Pill while secretly plotting to seize the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Flame. Tang Zhen sought Su Yun’s help for his daughter, but he refused to reveal Burning Flame Valley’s inherited pill formula.

• Su Yun decided to help refine the Fire Bodhi Pill so his original identity could use the complete Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes.
• Tang Zhen failed to find an alchemist willing to refine the Fire Bodhi Pill under Burning Flame Valley’s conditions, while Tang Huo'er’s illness continued to worsen.
• Hai Bodong told Tang Zhen that Su Yun had ended his seclusion and could receive him.
• Su Yun scanned Tang Zhen, noticed his High Earth Tier Cultivation Method, and privately planned to take his memories after attacking him as Gui Li.
• Tang Zhen asked Su Yun to refine the Fire Bodhi Pill, but refused to show him Burning Flame Valley’s inherited formula.

Su Yun agreed to help Tang Zhen refine the Fire Bodhi Pill in exchange for Burning Flame Valley’s Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes, provided Tang Zhen secured his elders’ approval. He then agreed to help Ye Zhong’s family pass the Pill Tower Five Great Clans Assessment in exchange for their Sun Fire Altar, though Ye Zhong warned that it had recently produced little sun fire.

• Su Yun challenged Tang Zhen’s offer of a generous reward and agreed to help refine the Fire Bodhi Pill if he received the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes for his own use.
• Su Yun told Tang Zhen to confirm the deal with Burning Flame Valley’s elders, and Tang Zhen left Holy Pill City to return to the valley.
• Su Yun met Ye Zhong and Ye Xinlan, learned that Ye Zhong wanted help with the Five Great Clans Assessment, and agreed in exchange for the Sun Fire Altar.
• Ye Zhong accepted Su Yun’s condition and cautioned him that the Sun Fire Altar had produced little sun fire in recent years.