Chapter Summaries

The Soul Hall Venerates held off the Pill Tower Three Giants while their companions entered the Star Domain to seize the Three Thousand Burning Flame. Su Yun secretly followed them into the Space Cage and watched as the Soul Hall’s attempted deal with the flame dragon turned into a fight.

• Xuan Kongzi led the Pill Tower Three Giants into battle against three Soul Hall Venerates who blocked their way to the Star Domain.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame’s disturbance caused three Soul Hall Venerates to enter the Space Cage, leaving Hun Fei to fight Xiao Yan, Great Elder Qiu Ling, and the others.
• Su Yun used the System Space and Deceive Heaven Conceal World to return to the Space Cage and follow the three Soul Hall Venerates.
• The Soul Hall leader revealed that the Three Thousand Burning Flame had agreed to a deal after mistaking them for enemies of the Pill Tower, but the Venerate tried to capture it instead of setting it free.
• The giant dragon realized the Soul Hall Venerates wanted its source fire and attacked, prompting the Four-Turn Dou Venerate to order the formation assembled.

Su Yun watched three Soul Hall Venerates use Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flames to empower their formation against the Three Thousand Burning Flame. The formation devoured the dragon’s desperate attack and began pulling it in, leaving the Heavenly Flame on the verge of capture.

• The Three Thousand Burning Flame attacked the Soul Hall Venerates’ formation with a sea of purple-black fire, but the formation remained intact.
• The three Soul Hall Venerates summoned wisps of Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flames, and Su Yun realized the flames were their means of subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• The Three Thousand Burning Flame gathered its energy into a massive fireball and launched it at the formation as the Venerates hurried to complete their seals.
• The Sub-Flames merged into the formation just before the fireball struck, and the formation silently devoured the attack.
• The Soul Hall Venerates activated the completed formation’s devouring force, leaving the Three Thousand Burning Flame unable to escape.

Su Yun emerged from the Space Cage after the Soul Hall Venerates captured the Three Thousand Burning Flame and revealed his hidden strength. He powered himself up to Nine-Star Peak Dou Venerate and prepared to fight the three Soul Hall Venerates.

• The three Soul Hall Venerates sealed the captured Three Thousand Burning Flame in a Black Flame Jar and prepared to leave the Star Domain.
• Su Yun appeared inside the Space Cage, thanked the Soul Hall Venerates for subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame, and revealed that he had survived.
• The Soul Hall Venerates recognized Su Yun and, believing he was only a One-Star Dou Venerate, ordered their Third Brother to attack him.
• Su Yun used the Heavenly Flame Three Mysterious Changes and Spirit Ice Three Mysterious Changes to raise his cultivation to Nine-Star Peak Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun summoned a blue-red longsword as his vast Dou Qi surged, ready to test his strength against the three Soul Hall Venerates.

Su Yun tested Frost Sun’s fused ice-and-fire power against three Soul Hall Venerates, then faced their combined Heaven Tier technique with Flaming Cold Severing Rainbow. His sword attack bore down on them before they could finish gathering their power.

• Su Yun’s Ice-Fire Sword Qi tore apart a Three-Star Early Stage Dou Venerate’s Sinister Fire Palm, and the Four-Turn Dou Venerate recognized that Su Yun’s strength nearly matched his own.
• The three Soul Hall Venerates joined forces and began using Black Flame World Slaughter, a Heaven Tier Low Grade Dou Technique.
• Su Yun drew on the Five-Colored Flames and Heavenly Cold Qi, gathered the energy of heaven and earth into Frost Sun, and prepared his own Heaven Tier technique.
• Su Yun unleashed Flaming Cold Severing Rainbow, whose speed shocked the Soul Hall Venerates and forced them to pour more Dou Qi into their attack.
• Su Yun grinned as his sword rainbow closed in on the three Venerates, taunting them not to die before they could complete their move.

Su Yun used concealment and a strengthened clone to launch a surprise attack on the three Soul Hall Venerates in the Star Domain. As two of them faced his Ice Fire Sword Rainbows, they chose to self-destruct and urged their eldest brother to return the Three Thousand Burning Flame to the clan.

• The three Soul Hall Venerates formed black flame in time to clash with Su Yun’s Ice Fire Sword Rainbow, and the blast shattered the Space Cage.
• Su Yun emerged unharmed inside an Ice Fire Bell and judged that the three Venerates had survived with most of their strength intact.
• Su Yun concealed himself with Deceive Heaven Conceal World and created a strengthened clone, then had them target the two weaker Soul Hall Venerates with separate Ice Fire Sword Rainbows.
• The Four-Star Early Stage Venerate realized Su Yun had targeted his two brothers, while they charged at the incoming attacks and began to self-destruct.
• The two Soul Hall Venerates urged their eldest brother to take the Three Thousand Burning Flame back to the clan as their explosion began.

Su Yun defeated the surviving Soul Hall Venerate, seized the Black Flame Jar containing Three Thousand Burning Flame, and sealed the Venerate’s Soul Body. After stabilizing the damaged Star Domain, Su Yun prepared to refine the flame while the battle outside continued.

• The surviving Soul Hall Venerate tried to escape through a Space Channel after his brothers died in the explosion.
• Su Yun caught up and killed the Venerate’s body with Frost Sun, then seized his Soul Body and Ring of Holding.
• Su Yun took the Black Flame Jar, sealed the Soul Body in a Jade Bottle, and destroyed the Space Channel.
• Su Yun used the Ancient Void Dragon’s Dragon Seal to stabilize the damaged Star Domain so he could refine Three Thousand Burning Flame there.
• Su Yun reflected that Soul Hall and the three great heads of the Pill Tower were likely still facing off outside.

Su Yun prepared to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame while Soul Hall’s Venerables distracted the Pill Tower Three Giants in Holy Pill City. After freeing the weakened dragon in the Star Domain, he revealed his Dragon Seal and faced its warning against taking its Origin Flame.

• The Pill Tower Three Giants battled three Soul Hall Venerables, who secretly stalled them while waiting for news from the Star Domain.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Su Yun that Soul Hall had sent Peak Dou Venerates and other forces to tie up the Pill Tower’s experts, and Su Yun reassured her that the Star Domain Venerables had been dealt with.
• Su Yun sealed off his location in the Star Domain with Space and Soul Barriers before preparing to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Su Yun used his knowledge of Soul Clan secret arts to release the Three Thousand Burning Flame from the black flame jar, then withdrew the three Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flames into the System Space.
• The weakened Three Thousand Burning Flame warned Su Yun that no one could take its Origin Flame, but Su Yun showed it the Dragon Seal, making its pupils shrink.

Su Yun used his superior Dragon Seal to take control of the Three Thousand Burning Flame and began refining it. In Holy Pill City, Soul Hall withdrew after learning its agents in the Star Domain had been killed, and Xuan Kongzi and the others rushed to investigate Su Yun's Soul Barrier.

• Su Yun evaded the giant dragon's attack and spent more than half a day using his Dragon Seal to control it.
• Su Yun made the Three Thousand Burning Flame collapse into a sea of fire, swallowed a medicinal pill, and began refining the Heavenly Flame.
• The Soul Hall Venerables learned that their agents in the Star Domain had been killed and withdrew from Holy Pill City.
• Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and the other Pill Tower Giant chose not to pursue Soul Hall and headed for the Star Domain.
• Xuan Kongzi recognized a Heaven Realm Soul Barrier and identified its aura as Su Yun's.

Su Yun refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the Star Domain, raising his cultivation to Eight-Star Peak Dou Venerate and gaining a sixth Heavenly Flame. After reuniting with Xiao Yi Xian, he learned about recent attacks on Xiao Yan and recognized the Yao Clan’s Yao Tian as a likely attacker.

• The Pill Tower giants sensed Su Yun’s Heaven Tier Soul Power and wondered whether he was refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• After half a year, Su Yun absorbed the Three Thousand Burning Flame and advanced to Eight-Star Peak Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun combined the Three Thousand Burning Flame with his five other Heavenly Flames, then left the Star Domain and met Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yi Xian told Su Yun that Soul Nurturing Dust had sold smoothly in Holy Pill City and that Old Monster Qing Hua had died protecting Xiao Yan during a Soul Hall attack.
• Xiao Yi Xian reported that Xiao Yan had later been attacked by someone wielding Turtle Spirit Earth Fire, and Su Yun identified Yao Tian of the Yao Clan as the likely attacker.

After subduing the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Su Yun informed the Pill Tower Three Giants and returned to his residence, where he reunited with his companions. He revealed his Eight-Star Peak Dou Venerate cultivation and gathered the group, while Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan had yet to return.

• Su Yun explained that Yao Tian likely targeted Xiao Yan to take his Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and warned himself that the Three Thousand Burning Flame could attract the Ancient Clans’ attention.
• Su Yun showed the Three Thousand Burning Flame to the Pill Tower Three Giants, and Xuan Kongzi said it now belonged to him.
• Su Yun learned that Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate had been selling Soul Nurturing Dust in Holy Pill City and asked Xiao Yi Xian to have them return.
• Su Yun returned home, reunited with Qing Lin, and asked her to call back Zi Yan, whose help had been crucial to subduing the flame.
• Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate returned, and Su Yun revealed that he had reached the Eight-Star Peak Dou Venerate level.
• Su Yun offered to refine pills to improve Heavenly Flame Venerate’s aptitude, while Zi Yan and Xiong Zhan remained away in the nearby mountain ranges.

Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian reunited with Zi Yan after returning from the Star Domain, then contacted their daughter Su Ruoxi after half a year apart. They learned that Nine Phoenix had been pursuing Ruoxi, and both parents warned her against trusting men.

• Su Yun asked Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate about Sound Valley, but neither had found useful information.
• Hai Bodong and Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that Soul Nurturing Dust was selling rapidly and that the Pill Tower's support had protected their business.
• Zi Yan returned with Xiong Zhan, greeted Su Yun, and eagerly ate the feast prepared by Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin.
• Xiao Yi Xian reminded Su Yun that they had not contacted Su Ruoxi for half a year, so they reached her through Soul Communication and apologized.
• Su Ruoxi told Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian that Nine Phoenix kept bringing her gifts and trying to befriend her, prompting them to warn her about men.

Su Yun learned about Nine Phoenix’s harassment of Su Ruoxi and resolved to deal with him himself, then cultivated in Holy Pill City until he reached Nine-Star Peak Dou Venerate and strengthened his swords. Elsewhere, Xiao Yan trained at the Flower Sect and vowed to avenge his grudge against Yao Tian.

• Su Yun told Xiao Yi Xian that Nine Phoenix was a powerful young Dou Venerate who specialized in pupil techniques, and decided to handle him because Su Ruoxi could not act freely.
• Xiao Yi Xian entered seclusion while the others pursued their own training and work; Su Yun decided to reserve one Dragon Phoenix Origin Fruit for Zi Yan and create another for Su Ruoxi.
• After settling the gains from refining the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Su Yun refined three wisps of Nihility Devouring Flame Sub-Flame and reached Nine-Star Peak Dou Venerate.
• Su Yun used Magic Cores to upgrade Frost Sun and Setting Sun into eighth-tier, nine-star Magic Core Weapons.
• At the Flower Sect’s back mountain, Xiao Yan trained with his Heavy Xuan Ruler and swore to avenge himself against Yao Tian.

Nihility Devouring Flame and the white-robed Soul Clan leader discussed the planned attack on the Spirit Clan and their concern over the surviving Xiao Clan, including Xiao Yan. In Holy Pill City, Su Yun checked the booming Soul Nurturing Dust business and learned that the Pill Tower was preparing to strike Soul Hall branch halls, before an unruly group arrived in the city.

• Yao Tian's insults and attack on Xiao Yan resurfaced in Xiao Yan's memory as he vowed to surpass him.
• Nihility Devouring Flame and the white-robed Soul Clan leader discussed targeting the Spirit Clan and eliminating the Xiao Clan remnants, while questioning Su Yun's role in the missing sub-flames.
• Su Yun watched alchemists bid fiercely for Soul Nurturing Dust and collected the resources Hai Bodong had earned from its sale.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that the Pill Tower was gathering experts to attack Soul Hall branch halls in retaliation for the Pill Gathering attack.
• Su Yun returned to his residence, while an unruly group appeared in Holy Pill City.

Yao Tian led a group of Yao Clan youths to the Pill Tower and challenged its younger alchemists to a contest, which Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi accepted for five days later. The next day, Heavenly Flame Venerate and Hai Bodong continued selling goods and encountered Great Elder Qiu Ling buying Soul Nurturing Dust for the Pill Tower.

• Yao Tian and the Yao Clan youths looked down on Holy Pill City and planned to challenge the Pill Tower after failing to obtain the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire.
• Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi personally received the Yao Clan group because Xuan Kongzi was in seclusion.
• Yao Tian said the group had come to exchange alchemy pointers, and Xuan Yi agreed to hold a contest in five days.
• Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi privately considered having Cao Ying and Dan Chen represent the Pill Tower, encouraged by their recent progress.
• The next day, Heavenly Flame Venerate and Hai Bodong set up their stall and spoke with Great Elder Qiu Ling, who was buying Soul Nurturing Dust for the Pill Tower.

Heavenly Flame Venerate questioned Great Elder Qiu Ling about the arrogant young people he had seen, and learned they were Yao Clan disciples who had come to challenge the Pill Tower in an Alchemy Technique contest. Qiu Ling left with ten grains of Soul Nurturing Dust gifted by Heavenly Flame Venerate, while the contest remained ahead.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate asked Great Elder Qiu Ling about the unusual young people he had seen heading to the Pill Tower.
• After hesitating, Great Elder Qiu Ling revealed that the group belonged to the Yao Clan and had come to compete against the Pill Tower in Alchemy Technique.
• Great Elder Qiu Ling said Cao Ying and Dan Chen might give the Pill Tower a chance to win, though Su Yun’s Eighth Grade Nine-Colored pill surpassed the younger Yao Clan’s known achievements.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate gave Great Elder Qiu Ling ten grains of Soul Nurturing Dust as he prepared to leave, and Qiu Ling questioned whether accepting them was appropriate.

Su Yun learned that Yao Tian and Yao Xingji had brought two Heavenly Flames to the Pill Tower and planned to seize them after the Yao Clan’s pill-refining contest. The contest began with the Yao Clan’s young alchemists facing the Pill Tower’s disciples, while Dan Chen admitted she had little confidence.

• Heavenly Flame Venerate gave Great Elder Qiu Ling ten grains of Soul Nurturing Dust, and Qiu Ling accepted the gift and invited him to visit.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that the Yao Clan had arrived in Holy Pill City to compete with the Pill Tower in pill refinement.
• Su Yun learned that Yao Tian and Yao Xingji were among the visitors and decided to target their Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and Nine Serene Wind Flame after the competition.
• Su Yun planned to investigate the Yao Clan’s strength and act under Gui Li’s identity, leaving clues that connected the alias to the Soul Clan.
• The pill-refining competition began at a Pill Tower square, where Dan Xuan asked Dan Chen whether she was confident, and she said she was not but would still try.

The Pill Tower and Yao Clan began an alchemy contest to determine which side had the strongest young alchemist. After more than ten days, several contestants had finished refining pills, and the Pill Tower had fallen behind.

• Cao Ying rejected Song Qing after recalling how he had shoved her toward the Soul Hall attackers in the Pill Realm, while Yao Tian and Yao Xingji discussed taking her as a concubine.
• The five Pill Tower disciples and five Yao Clan disciples began refining pills under Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi’s supervision.
• Cao Ying focused on refining an eighth-grade pill, drawing confidence from her improved Soul Power and resolve to restore the Pill Tower’s standing.
• Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi observed Yao Tian’s Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and Yao Xingji’s borrowed Nine Serene Wind Flame.
• After more than ten days, Dan Xuan and three Yao Clan disciples had refined eighth-grade one-color pills, while Song Qing and another Pill Tower disciple managed only seventh-grade peak pills.

The Pill Tower lost its alchemy contest with the Yao Clan when Yao Tian refined an Eighth Grade Seven-Colored Pill, despite Cao Ying and Dan Chen each making an Eighth Grade Four-Colored Pill. After the Yao Clan spread news of its victory around Holy Pill City, Yao Xingji emerged from the Pill Tower angrily complaining that Dan Chen had refused to become his concubine.

• Yao Xingji refined an Eighth Grade Three-Colored Pill, while Cao Ying and Dan Chen each completed an Eighth Grade Four-Colored Pill.
• Yao Tian refined an Eighth Grade Seven-Colored Pill, and Xuan Yi announced the Yao Clan as the contest’s victor.
• Cao Ying apologized to Xuan Yi, who comforted her, while Tian Leizi reassured the Pill Tower’s younger alchemists.
• Yao Tian told his group to spread news of their victory, and rumors soon swept through Holy Pill City.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate listened to the rumors while auctioning Soul Nurturing Dust.
• Yao Xingji left the Pill Tower guarded by two elders and angrily complained that Dan Chen had refused his proposal to become his concubine.

Yao Xingji was rejected by the Pill Tower, then bought Soul Nurturing Dust from Heavenly Flame Venerate and learned that the elder had sold it for more than half a year. After the Yao Clan targeted the refining method, Su Yun rushed to the shop, where the Pill Tower had sealed off the street and Hai Bodong lay near death.

• Yao Xingji was expelled from the Pill Tower after Dan Chen hid from his proposal to take her as his concubine and Dan Xuan challenged him.
• Yao Xingji found Heavenly Flame Venerate auctioning Soul Nurturing Dust and bought a portion with his wealth.
• Yao Xingji learned that Heavenly Flame Venerate had been selling Soul Nurturing Dust for more than half a year and began plotting to seize the refining method.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate sent Su Yun an emergency Soul Communication warning that the Yao Clan had targeted the refining method.
• Su Yun hurried to Heavenly Flame Venerate's shop and found the street sealed off by the Pill Tower, with Hai Bodong badly injured and near death.

After Yao Xingji injured Hai Bodong while trying to obtain the Soul Nurturing Dust refinement method, the Pill Tower confronted the Yao Clan in Holy Pill City. Su Yun arrived and attacked Yao Xingji, leaving the standoff on the verge of violence.

• Yao Tian scolded Yao Xingji for provoking the Pill Tower, then learned that Yao Xingji had tried to force Heavenly Flame Venerate to hand over the Soul Nurturing Dust refinement method.
• Great Elder Qiu Ling demanded that Yao Tian and the Yao Clan go to the Pill Tower to explain themselves, while Yao Tian tried to settle the dispute privately.
• Su Yun appeared and demanded to know who had hurt Hai Bodong, then fixed his attention on the Yao Clan.
• Yao Xingji admitted that he had injured Hai Bodong and offered compensation, but remained arrogant.
• Su Yun unleashed his killing intent and rushed toward Yao Xingji as Yao Tian circulated his Dou Qi to stop him.