Chapter Summaries

Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian spoke with Su Ruoxi, who was still confined to the Phoenix Mountain Range despite reaching Dou Zun. Three days later, Su Yun accompanied Ye Zhong and Ye Xinlan to the Five Great Clans Assessment in Holy Pill City to help the Ye Family.

• Su Ruoxi told Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan had changed its promise and required her to reach Half-Saint before she could leave.
• Su Yun explained that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan was powerful and united, and Xiao Yi Xian worried about how strong its Dou Sheng experts were.
• Ye Zhong arrived with Ye Xinlan and asked Su Yun to act for the Ye Family in the assessment; Su Yun agreed to honor their arrangement.
• Three days later, Su Yun, Ye Zhong, and Ye Xinlan headed to the assessment hall, where many spectators expected the Ye Family to fail again.

Su Yun represented the Ye Family in the Five Great Clans Assessment, defeating Cao Ying and Dan Chen before returning to wait for the Pill Gathering. A month later, Xiao Yan visited after being expelled from the Pill Tower and explained that a broken copper piece had led to his conflict with Song Qing and the Profound Nether Sect.

• Cao Ying and Dan Chen recognized Su Yun at the assessment hall, and Su Yun confirmed that he was competing for the Ye Family.
• Su Yun scanned Cao Ying and Dan Chen and discovered that both had reached the Spirit Realm Soul and become Eighth Grade Alchemists.
• Su Yun crushed Cao Ying and Dan Chen in the assessment, then left with Ye Zhong and Ye Xinlan as the two women remained stunned by their defeat.
• After another month, Xiao Yan visited Su Yun and said that the Pill Tower had expelled him.
• Xiao Yan explained that he had obtained a broken copper piece in Holy Pill City, provoking a dispute with the Profound Nether Sect and Song Qing before Song Qing discovered him cultivating the Pill Tower's Soul Art.

Xiao Yan told Su Yun how he had been expelled from the Pill Tower after secretly learning the Soul Art, then asked him to identify a Broken Copper Piece. Su Yun discovered that the copper rust on it contained Soul Nurturing Dust, a rare substance that could help Xiao Yan's soul enter the Spirit Realm.

• Xiao Yan explained that he had taken responsibility for secretly learning the Soul Art and had been expelled from the Pill Tower, but planned to focus on cultivation and rescue his Teacher.
• Xiao Yan gave Su Yun the Broken Copper Piece and explained that his intuition had led him to exchange a High Earth Tier Dou Technique for it.
• Su Yun burned away the copper rust with the Fallen Heart Flame, revealing pale yellow dust that absorbed spiritual energy.
• Su Yun identified the dust as Soul Nurturing Dust and explained that it could nurture spirituality and help an alchemist's soul reach the Spirit Realm.
• Su Yun considered using the system to obtain more Soul Nurturing Dust and trading it to alchemists for resources.

Su Yun gave Xiao Yi Xian Soul Nurturing Dust to help her reach the Spirit Realm and prepared for the Pill Gathering, where he discovered Soul Hall agents were gathering. As the event began, Xiao Yan faced scorn from other alchemists over secretly learning the Pill Tower's Soul Art.

• Xiao Yan warned Su Yun that Soul Hall might disrupt the Pill Gathering, and Su Yun agreed to stay alert.
• Su Yun gave Xiao Yi Xian Soul Nurturing Dust, and she entered seclusion while he cultivated until the Pill Gathering began.
• At the crowded gathering, Qing Lin sensed more than twenty Soul Hall auras nearby, including a Three-Star Dou Venerate with Spirit Realm Soul Power.
• Su Yun reassured Xiao Yi Xian that the Pill Realm posed little danger and resolved to thwart Soul Hall's plans.
• Alchemists around Xiao Yan whispered that he had secretly learned the Pill Tower's Soul Art and criticized him, while he stood apart from the crowd.

The Pill Gathering began, and Su Yun quickly passed the Soul Illusion Realm to become the first contestant to reach the next stage. Meanwhile, the Pill Tower Three Giants worried that the Soul Hall had infiltrated Holy Pill City, while Xiao Yan faced growing suspicion and danger over the Soul Art.

• Xiao Yan endured the crowd’s scorn and recognized that the Soul Art could draw pursuit once he left Holy Pill City.
• Xuan Kongzi explained the Pill Gathering’s three trials and opened the Soul Illusion Realm, where Su Yun received encouragement from Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin before entering.
• Xuan Kongzi told Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi that he suspected someone from the Soul Hall was among the contestants, but they could not investigate everyone without disrupting the competition.
• Su Yun used his powerful Soul Power to overcome the illusions and reached the end of the realm first.
• An elder of the Pill Tower recognized Su Yun as an Eighth Grade Seven-Colored Alchemist and greeted him respectfully.

Su Yun entered the Pill Realm for the Pill Gathering’s second round and headed for the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range to find Zi Yan. Zi Yan was eating medicinal ingredients there while waiting for him.

• Su Yun arrived at the Pill Tower’s staging ground before the other competitors, including Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen.
• Old Man Riding a Turtle explained that the contestants had ten days to gather ingredients from a mission list, and that crushing a Space Stone would remove them from the round.
• Su Yun collected his items, entered the Pill Realm, and flew toward the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range to find Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan gorged herself on medicinal ingredients while a burly man complained about the food she was consuming, and she told him Su Yun would arrive soon.

Su Yun reunited with Zi Yan in the Pill Realm, made pills for her, and learned that an Ancient Void Dragon expert had secretly watched over her. Meanwhile, Soul Hall’s group assembled elsewhere in the realm to prepare its operation.

• Su Yun stopped Zi Yan from chewing a precious herb and held her as she explained that she had escaped from her clan’s island.
• Zi Yan introduced Xiong Zhan, and Su Yun asked them both to gather the herbs listed for the Pill Gathering’s second-round test.
• Su Yun refined pills for Zi Yan, who ate them while complaining about the food her clan had given her.
• The hidden Ancient Void Dragon expert reflected on Zi Yan’s concern for Su Yun and how she had helped arrange his rescue from Ice River Valley.
• A Three-Star Dou Venerate leading Soul Hall’s operation asked his subordinates how many people had yet to take their positions.

Old Man Mugu’s Soul Hall forces slaughtered alchemists in the Pill Realm while searching for Su Yun and Old Monster Qing Hua. Su Yun left the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range with Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan, while Old Man Mugu confronted Old Monster Qing Hua and launched an attack.

• Old Man Mugu waited for Soul Hall members to gather, planning to use their formation to aid the hunt for Su Yun and Old Monster Qing Hua.
• Su Yun spent three days in the Myriad Medicine Mountain Range refining pills as Xiong Zhan’s underlings collected medicinal ingredients, then set out with Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan.
• Soul Hall members continued killing alchemists across the Pill Realm, but Old Man Mugu could not find Su Yun or Old Monster Qing Hua.
• Old Monster Qing Hua arrived at the scene of the slaughter, and Old Man Mugu revealed his identity and challenged him.
• Old Monster Qing Hua urged Old Man Mugu to stop before the Pill Tower punished him, but Old Man Mugu attacked.

Su Yun arrived in disguise to rescue the alchemists from Old Man Mugu and the Soul Hall in the Pill Realm. He killed the Soul Hall forces, captured Mugu’s remnant soul, and disappeared.

• Old Man Mugu overwhelmed Old Monster Qing Hua, while Cao Ying and the other surviving alchemists found their Space Stones useless against the sealed space.
• Su Yun appeared in a black robe and revealed power that Xiao Yan suspected belonged to his absent big brother.
• Old Man Mugu and the Soul Hall Dou Zong attacked Su Yun, but his Heaven Tier Cultivation Method revealed a strength equivalent to a Five-Star Peak Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun’s Space Barrier prevented Old Man Mugu from escaping, and his natural-energy attack killed the Soul Hall Dou Zong and left Mugu as a remnant soul.
• Su Yun sealed Old Man Mugu’s remnant soul in a jade bottle and vanished without addressing Qing Hua or the other alchemists.

Su Yun left the Pill Realm and joined the other contestants as the Pill Gathering’s final round began in Holy Pill City. Xiao Yan also emerged, where the crowd’s hostility toward him left him seething.

• Su Yun parted from Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan, then waited at the Pill Realm exit for the ten-day gathering period to end.
• Cao Ying, Xiao Yan, and the other contestants arrived at the exit, and the Pill Tower elders checked their herbs and mission lists before letting them leave.
• Su Yun emerged in Holy Pill City to cheers from the crowd and took the central stone platform after Xuan Kongzi invited him to sit.
• The crowd cursed Xiao Yan when he came out, and he struggled to contain his anger as the Pill Tower Three Giants watched in silence.
• The remaining contestants and the three Pill Tower elders exited the Pill Realm, and the elders acknowledged the Three Giants.

Su Yun began the Pill Gathering’s final contest by refining a Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill for Xiao Yi Xian, while the judges expected him to win and noticed Mu Gu was missing. After more than ten days, Zi Yan reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, leaving the Dragon experts watching from above.

• Xuan Kongzi opened the final contest and told the alchemists to refine the pills they were most proud of.
• Su Yun chose to refine the Peak Grade 8 Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill for Xiao Yi Xian and began processing its ingredients.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi predicted Su Yun would win and wondered why the black-robed Mu Gu had not emerged from the Pill Realm.
• More than ten days passed as the crowd watched the contest, and Zi Yan arrived with Xiong Zhan and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian, Qing Lin, and the others.
• Zi Yan said her clan had made her eat unpleasant things, while the Ancient Void Dragon experts listened from above.

Su Yun began fusing more than a hundred batches of medicinal liquid to attempt a peak Eighth Grade Pill, while Cao Ying and Dan Chen both successfully refined Eighth Grade Pills. The chapter left Su Yun’s Pill Fusion underway as the arena awaited the results of his attempt.

• Su Yun finished refining his ingredients and prepared to attempt Pill Fusion with the many batches of medicinal liquid in his cauldron.
• Cao Ying noticed the quantity of Su Yun’s medicinal liquid, while Xiao Yan focused on refining his own Eighth Grade Pill.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi speculated that Su Yun was attempting a peak Eighth Grade Pill, possibly to make a Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Su Yun began fusing the medicinal liquids, carefully suppressing the violent energy fluctuations with Soul Power.
• After ten more days, Cao Ying and Dan Chen both drew Pill Lightning and successfully refined Eighth Grade Two-Colored Pills.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen turned their attention to Su Yun’s cauldron, wondering what quality of pill he would produce.

Su Yun and Xiao Yan completed their pills during the Pill Gathering, while the Pill Tower leaders learned that the Soul Hall had been spotted in Holy Pill City. Xiao Yan used Yao Chen’s Spirit Enhancement technique to improve his pill, and the two alchemists’ Pill Lightning began to reveal their grades.

• Old Monster Qing Hua refined an Eighth Grade pill that summoned three-colored Pill Lightning.
• Su Yun and Xuan Kongzi learned that the Soul Hall had been spotted in Holy Pill City, and Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi left to patrol the city.
• Xiao Yan refined an Eighth Grade Three-Colored Pill and used Yao Chen’s Spirit Enhancement technique to raise its grade.
• Su Yun completed his Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill, and his pill’s beam of light appeared alongside Xiao Yan’s.
• Xiao Yan’s Pill Lightning gained a fourth color as the crowd watched the two thunderclouds.

Su Yun refined an Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Pill at the Pill Gathering, surpassing everyone’s expectations. As the alchemists prepared to face their Pill Lightning, Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen worried they could not withstand it, while Su Yun remained confident.

• Yao Chen’s pill produced Five-Colored Pill Lightning, and Xuan Kongzi acknowledged that Yao Chen had surpassed him again.
• Su Yun’s Pill Lightning climbed from seven colors to eight, leaving Cao Ying stunned by the gap between them.
• Su Yun’s thundercloud reached nine colors, confirming he had refined an Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Pill for Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan congratulated Su Yun on his achievement, while Su Yun praised Xiao Yan’s Eighth Grade Five-Colored Pill.
• Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen realized they might not be strong enough to withstand their Pill Lightning, and Xiao Yan asked Su Yun what to do.

Su Yun used his Heavenly Demon Puppet to absorb the Pill Lightning from the other contestants’ pills, helping Cao Ying and Dan Chen while greatly strengthening the puppet. After the tribulation ended, all five Grade 8 Pills formed animal shapes and tried to escape.

• Su Yun exchanged a Fifth Tier Magic Core for the Nine Dragon Lightning Gang Flame source and placed it inside the Heavenly Demon Puppet.
• As the Pill Lightning gathered, Su Yun sent the puppet into the sky while Cao Ying, Dan Chen, and Xiao Yan prepared to face the tribulation.
• The other contestants’ lightning bolts changed course and struck the puppet, raising its strength to that of an Eight-Star mid-stage Dou Venerate.
• After fifteen minutes, the Pill Tribulation ended, and the five Grade 8 Pills formed animal shapes and tried to flee.
• Su Yun used the puppet to stop his Pill Beast, while the other contestants captured theirs by their own methods.

Su Yun won the Pill Gathering and received a Soul Art scroll, then learned from Zi Yan that the Three Thousand Burning Flame was sealed with a Dragon Seal by an elder of her clan. He prepared to enter the Star Domain with the other top ten contestants, while Zi Yan warned that subduing the flame would be nearly impossible without a Dragon Seal.

• Xuan Kongzi announced Su Yun as the Pill Gathering champion and awarded him a Soul Art scroll.
• Xuan Kongzi named the top ten contestants and said they would travel to the Star Domain in two days to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Su Yun reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and the others, and Zi Yan complained about the food at home before asking about his upcoming attempt to subdue the flame.
• Zi Yan revealed her Dragon Emperor Bloodline and explained that an elder of her clan had subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame and left a Dragon Seal inside it.
• Zi Yan warned Su Yun that the Dragon Seal would make the flame extremely difficult to subdue unless he also possessed a Dragon Seal.

Zi Yan gave Su Yun a higher-level Dragon Seal to help him control the Three Thousand Burning Flame, while the Pill Tower investigated the Soul Hall’s attack and learned of its plans for the Star Domain. With the Star Domain opening two days away, Su Yun prepared Xiao Yi Xian for possible trouble and warned her not to rush to his aid.

• Zi Yan placed a Dragon Seal on Su Yun’s palm and warned him that the seal could also let the Three Thousand Burning Flame control him if their strength differed too greatly.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi questioned Cao Ying and Dan Chen about the Pill Realm, then learned of the Soul Hall’s actions and ordered tighter security.
• Soul Hall members in Holy Pill City confirmed their plan to hold back the Pill Tower’s Three Giants, seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and deal with Su Yun and Xiao Yan when the Star Domain opened in two days.
• Su Yun gave Xiao Yi Xian the Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill to take after her next breakthrough and warned her that the Soul Hall might attack Holy Pill City.
• Su Yun told Xiao Yi Xian that changes might occur while he was in the Star Domain and instructed her to use Qing Lin’s Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils to observe rather than act impulsively.

Su Yun gave Xiao Yi Xian a large supply of Soul Nurturing Dust and warned her to sell it carefully in Holy Pill City. Before the trip to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Cao Ying and Dan Chen questioned Su Yun about his past actions and showed him a piece of cloth with a pattern like his clothing.

• Su Yun gave Xiao Yi Xian a Ring of Holding filled with Soul Nurturing Dust and told her to conduct sales only in Holy Pill City and stay cautious.
• Two days later, Su Yun arrived at the Pill Tower headquarters to join the group heading to the Star Domain.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen thanked Su Yun for helping block their pill lightning, but he claimed his puppet had absorbed the thunder by chance.
• Cao Ying asked whether Su Yun had attacked the Soul Hall and rescued everyone in the Pill Realm, and he denied being the mysterious rescuer.
• Dan Chen showed Su Yun a torn piece of cloth she had found on the battlefield, bearing a pattern similar to his clothes.

Su Yun avoided Cao Ying and Dan Chen’s attempt to identify him as the Pill Realm’s mysterious rescuer, but Dan Chen’s constitution revealed that his Soul Realm had reached the Heavenly Realm. The group gathered in the hall as they prepared to travel to the Star Domain and refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

• Su Yun pretended not to recognize the torn cloth Dan Chen used to test whether he was the mysterious Pill Realm rescuer.
• When Su Yun returned the cloth, he accidentally touched Dan Chen, and her constitution detected that his Soul Power was a major realm above hers.
• Dan Chen told Cao Ying that Su Yun’s Soul Realm had reached the Heavenly Realm, shocking Cao Ying and making them reconsider his likely strength and connection to the Pill Realm rescue.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen stopped probing Su Yun, and the three waited for the others to arrive.
• Xiao Yan and Old Monster Qing Hua arrived, greeted Su Yun, and were followed by five Seventh Grade Peak alchemists.
• As noon approached, the gathered alchemists prepared to head to the Star Domain to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

Su Yun entered the Star Domain to attempt to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame, but Soul Hall Venerates ambushed the group and trapped him inside the flame’s Space Cage. Great Elder Qiu Ling and the others faced four powerful enemies, while the Pill Tower’s three Guild Leaders were prevented from coming to their aid.

• Great Elder Qiu Ling led Su Yun and the other nine Pill Gathering participants through a Space Gate into the Star Domain, where they approached the Three Thousand Burning Flame’s Space Cage.
• Qiu Ling opened the cage for Su Yun, the Pill Gathering’s first-place winner, to enter and attempt to subdue the flame.
• As Su Yun entered, a second Space Cage formed around the first, trapping him while Qiu Ling and the others reacted in alarm.
• Four Soul Hall Venerates appeared, and the leading Venerate revealed that they had come for the Three Thousand Burning Flame and intended to kill everyone present.
• Qiu Ling warned that the three Guild Leaders would arrive, but the leading Soul Hall Venerate said they had already been held up.