Chapter Summaries

Su Yun fought off Yao Tian and the Yao Clan, while Great Elder Qiu Ling ordered Commander Luo to arrest them under Holy Pill City’s rules. After the clash, Su Yun found Hai Bodong’s condition had stabilized and prepared to take him back with Heavenly Flame Venerate.

• Yao Tian revealed his Four-Turn Dou Venerate cultivation and attacked Su Yun, but Su Yun evaded him and struck Yao Xingji with his flames.
• Yao Tian and the other Yao Clan members moved to attack Su Yun, so Great Elder Qiu Ling ordered Commander Luo to subdue and arrest them.
• Yao Tian threatened Su Yun as the city guards took the group away, and Su Yun silently resolved to kill them once they left Holy Pill City.
• Su Yun examined Hai Bodong and found medicinal power protecting his heart and circulating through his meridians, stabilizing his condition.
• Great Elder Qiu Ling explained the Pill Tower’s position, and Su Yun lifted Hai Bodong as Heavenly Flame Venerate rose and prepared to leave with him.

Su Yun learned that the Pill Tower would offer only limited protection against the Yao Clan, then discovered that Hai Bodong had triggered the Yin Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill’s Break and Establish Anew effect and might reach Dou Zun. After hearing how Yao Xingji attacked them to seize the Soul Nurturing Dust method, Su Yun vowed the feud would end in blood, while Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi refused Yao Tian’s attempt to keep the Pill Tower out of the conflict.

• Su Yun gave Great Elder Qiu Ling Soul Nurturing Dust and learned the Pill Tower would punish and expel the Yao Clan group but would protect him if they caused trouble in Holy Pill City.
• Su Yun helped Hai Bodong recover and explained that the Yin Yang Mysterious Dragon Pill had triggered Break and Establish Anew, potentially allowing Hai Bodong to break through to Dou Zun.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that Yao Xingji had tried to force him to hand over the Soul Nurturing Dust refining method, then attacked him and gravely injured Hai Bodong.
• Su Yun suppressed his anger after hearing the story and vowed the feud with the Yao Clan would end only when blood had run dry.
• Yao Tian demanded that Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi stay out of his clan’s conflict with Su Yun, but Xuan Yi upheld the Pill Tower’s rules and Tian Leizi said Yao Tian could not represent the entire Yao Clan.

After fifteen days of confinement, Yao Tian and the others were released and found that the Pill Tower had arranged for Holy Pill City to refuse them service. They confronted Su Yun, and Yao Tian proposed a wager over the refining method for Soul Nurturing Dust, promising an equivalent stake.

• Xuan Yi ordered Yao Tian and his four companions imprisoned for fifteen days for injuring people in Holy Pill City, and Su Yun told Heavenly Flame Venerate to stop selling Soul Nurturing Dust for the time being.
• After the Pill Tower released them, Yao Tian and the others cursed their treatment and found that every inn in Holy Pill City refused to take them in.
• Yao Tian led his companions to Su Yun's residence, where Su Yun met them at the gate after secretly following them.
• Yao Tian challenged Su Yun to wager over the refining method for Soul Nurturing Dust and said he would offer an equivalent stake.

Yao Tian proposed a wager to obtain Su Yun’s Soul Nurturing Dust refinement method, but Su Yun added humiliating terms. After Yao Tian backed down from his own condition under the threat of Commander Luo, they agreed to compete in alchemy, and news of the contest spread through Holy Pill City.

• Yao Tian offered a Heaven Tier cultivation method, two Heaven Tier Dou Techniques, and a Ninth Grade Treasure Pill formula for the Soul Nurturing Dust refinement method.
• Su Yun demanded that Yao Tian parade through Holy Pill City for three days calling himself and the Yao Clan trash if he lost.
• Yao Tian agreed to Su Yun’s condition, then tried to make Su Yun circle the city calling himself a dog if he lost.
• Yao Tian began to attack when Su Yun refused his condition, but he recognized Commander Luo’s aura and withdrew his Dou Qi.
• Yao Tian chose an alchemy contest, and Su Yun accepted.
• News spread through Holy Pill City that Su Yun and Yao Tian would compete in Alchemy Technique.

Su Yun faced Yao Tian in an alchemy contest in Holy Pill City, where the Ancient Clan prodigy intended to prove his clan’s superiority. The contest began with both men preparing to refine pills, and Yao Tian chose the Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill that had once won Su Yun the Pill Gathering.

• The people of Holy Pill City doubted Su Yun could defeat Yao Tian, while Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi discussed the limits of Su Yun’s cultivation and the strength of his opponent.
• Su Yun dismissed the public’s doubts and assured Heavenly Flame Venerate that he was confident he could win.
• Su Yun and Heavenly Flame Venerate arrived at the Pill Refining Square, where Commander Luo, Xuan Yi, Tian Leizi, and a large crowd had gathered.
• Yao Tian confronted Su Yun, declared that the Ancient Clan’s alchemy foundation would crush him, and set the contest rules: the higher-grade pill won, any methods were allowed, and each had one chance.
• Yao Tian and Su Yun summoned their flames and began preparing their pills; Yao Tian recognized that Su Yun’s flames intimidated his Turtle Spirit Earth Fire.
• Yao Tian chose the Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill, the pill Su Yun had used to win the Pill Gathering, and vowed to defeat him with it.

Su Yun faced Yao Tian in an alchemy contest, revealing a Heaven Realm Soul that unsettled his opponent and won the crowd’s support. After more than ten days, Su Yun finished refining the medicinal ingredients first while Yao Tian’s impatience left flaws in his work, and Su Yun paused to steady himself before continuing.

• Su Yun took out the ingredients for the Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill, matching the ingredients Yao Tian had chosen, and the crowd cheered him on.
• Yao Tian released his Spirit Realm Consummation Soul Power, but Su Yun’s Heaven Realm Soul overwhelmed it and shocked the spectators.
• Yao Tian lost his composure over Su Yun’s advantage, then hurried his pill refinement and left flaws in the process.
• After more than ten days, Su Yun finished refining the ingredients first and steadied his Dou Qi and Soul Power before beginning the next step.

Su Yun used Soul Nurturing Dust to apply an ancient Spirit Enhancement formula to his nearly completed pill, raising his chances of refining an Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Pill. The pill’s emergence summoned overwhelming lightning, while Yao Tian’s chances of matching Su Yun had dwindled.

• Su Yun began Pill Fusion as Yao Tian grew angry at being ignored and struggled to focus on his own refining.
• After more than a dozen days, spectators and the Pill Tower Three Giants judged Su Yun’s pill likely to become an Eighth Grade Nine-Colored Pill, while Yao Tian’s earlier mistakes had lowered his prospects.
• Su Yun added Soul Nurturing Dust to his flames, and Xuan Yi recognized that his process resembled the ancient Spirit Enhancement method associated with Yao Chen.
• Su Yun used the completed ancient formula he had reconstructed, expecting the Soul Nurturing Dust to secure the pill’s success and exceptional quality.
• A rich pill fragrance spread across the square, and Su Yun’s cauldron released a dazzling beam as dark clouds gathered overhead, signaling powerful Nine-Colored Pill Lightning.

Su Yun defeated Yao Tian in their alchemy contest after his pill triggered Nine-Colored Pill Lightning and Yao Tian’s cauldron exploded. Yao Tian refused to fulfill the humiliation portion of their bet by threatening Su Yun with the Yao Clan, and Su Yun left while secretly planning to kill him and his companions outside Holy Pill City.

• Su Yun’s pill lightning reached nine colors, and Yao Tian’s shaken focus caused his medicinal cauldron to explode.
• Yao Tian broke down after losing, then attacked Yao Xingji and left him severely injured.
• Su Yun used the Heavenly Demon Puppet to withstand the Nine-Colored Pill Lightning and claimed the pill beast produced by his Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill.
• Yao Tian handed Su Yun the promised scrolls but refused to circle Holy Pill City and insult the Yao Clan, threatening him with the clan’s retaliation.
• Su Yun departed without forcing Yao Tian to fulfill that part of the bet, while secretly deciding to kill Yao Tian and the others after they left Holy Pill City.

After defeating Yao Tian, Su Yun secretly tracked the Yao Clan group and prepared to strike once they left Holy Pill City. He left his clone and Heavenly Flame Venerate behind to make it appear that he was still in the city, then caught up to the group to wait for an opening.

• Su Yun returned to his residence with Heavenly Flame Venerate and revealed that he had placed a Soul Imprint on Yao Tian.
• Su Yun examined the scrolls he had won from Yao Tian and told Heavenly Flame Venerate to avoid deep seclusion while he recovered.
• Ten days later, the Yao Clan group left Holy Pill City, while Yao Tian and Yao Xingji exchanged false smiles and concealed their resentment.
• Su Yun summoned his Ice-Fire Clone and instructed it and Heavenly Flame Venerate to sell Soul Nurturing Dust in the city to hide his departure.
• Su Yun used his movement techniques to catch up with the five Yao Clan members and prepared to wait for a chance to attack.

Su Yun resumed selling Soul Nurturing Dust while waiting for Yao Tian’s group to travel far from Holy Pill City before striking. He ambushed the group, severed Yao Tian’s arm, and seized the Ring of Holding containing the Space Jade Slip, leaving Yao Tian pleading for his life.

• Su Yun reopened his Soul Nurturing Dust stall, and sales returned to their previous high prices after the initial day.
• Su Yun waited several days for Yao Tian’s group to move farther from Holy Pill City, wary of being exposed in a battle.
• Yao Tian warned his companions that members of the Yao, Spirit, and Stone Clans had been mysteriously attacked while traveling alone.
• Su Yun appeared and cut off Yao Tian’s arm, taking the Ring of Holding that contained the Space Jade Slip.
• Yao Tian realized Su Yun had taken away his clan’s means of summoning a Three-star Dou Sheng expert and begged Su Yun not to kill him.

Su Yun killed Yao Tian and the other Yao Clan members, then realized the Soul Clan was behind the ancient clans’ disappearances. Meanwhile, Hun Tiandi led the destruction of the Spirit Clan and used Nihility Devouring Flame to consume its members’ bloodline power.

• Su Yun rejected Yao Tian’s offer and killed all five Yao Clan members with the Ice Sun Emperor Sword, claiming the Nine Serene Wind Flame and Turtle Spirit Earth Fire.
• Su Yun restored the shattered space, connected the Soul Clan’s bloodline strength to Nihility Devouring Flame, and left to pursue greater power.
• In the Spirit Realm, Hun Tiandi revealed that he intended to absorb the Spirit Clan into the Soul Clan as its members were hunted down.
• Hun Tiandi killed the Spirit Clan chief, and Nihility Devouring Flame continued consuming the corpses to absorb their bloodline power.

Su Yun absorbed the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and Nine Serene Wind Flame during four months of seclusion, breaking through to Two-Revolutions Peak Dou Venerate. He then began fusing two Dou Techniques to strengthen his concealment before the Yao Clan could investigate the deaths of Yao Tian and his group.

• Su Yun told Heavenly Flame Venerate that the five targets were dead and asked him to continue selling Soul Nurturing Dust while he entered long-term seclusion.
• Su Yun suppressed and absorbed the Turtle Spirit Earth Fire and Nine Serene Wind Flame, while Yao Wanhuo discovered that his Soul Imprint on the Nine Serene Wind Flame had vanished.
• After four months, Su Yun broke through to Two-Revolutions Peak Dou Venerate and found that his cultivation could rise to Five-Turn Peak Dou Venerate using his techniques.
• Su Yun decided to strengthen Deceive Heaven Conceal World and ordered the System to fuse it with Sacred Flame Sword Qi using the first plan.

Su Yun completed a high-grade concealment technique and reunited with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin after their seclusion, finding that both had made major breakthroughs. Meanwhile, Xiao Yan emerged from seclusion as a Dou Venerate and learned there was news about Yao Chen’s whereabouts.

• Su Yun successfully fused a Ninth Tier Magic Core into a high-grade Tian class concealment Dou Technique and spent ten days mastering it.
• Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin came out of seclusion; Xiao Yi Xian had reached Half-Saint, while Qing Lin’s Soul Power had reached the middle Heavenly Realm.
• Su Yun considered targeting the Nine Netherworld Python Clan but decided to deal with the Ancient Ruin first and postpone the plan.
• Su Yun took Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin for a stroll through Holy Pill City.
• Xiao Yan emerged from months of seclusion after breaking through to Dou Venerate and resolved to rescue Yao Chen.
• Someone told Xiao Yan that there was news about Yao Chen’s whereabouts.

Xiao Yan learned that Venerable Yao was imprisoned in the Mountain Range of Departed Souls and received advice on finding allies to rescue him. Meanwhile, Su Yun was summoned to meet Yao Ling and a Yao Clan Dou Sheng elder over the deaths of five Yao Clan members, with the Pill Tower promising to support him.

• Fairy Qing told Xiao Yan where Soul Hall held Venerable Yao and suggested several of his old friends could help with a rescue.
• Fairy Qing informed Xiao Yan that Yao Tian had died after losing an alchemy contest to Su Yun and warned that the Yao Clan was investigating the deaths.
• Xiao Yan promised Fairy Qing he would leave the Flower Sect soon so the Yao Clan would not endanger it.
• Great Elder Qiu Ling escorted Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin to meet Yao Ling, who had been waiting in the Pill Tower with a Yao Clan Dou Sheng elder.
• Great Elder Qiu Ling assured Su Yun that the Pill Tower would stand by him, while Xiao Yi Xian condemned the Yao Clan's arrogance.

Su Yun met Old Monster Lin, a powerful Pill Tower elder, as the Pill Tower investigated whether he had killed Yao Tian and his group. After Su Yun denied involvement, Old Monster Lin promised to protect him, and the Yao Clan elder arrived to question him.

• Su Yun, Xiao Yi Xian, and Qing Lin met Old Monster Lin and the Pill Tower Three Giants in the great hall.
• Old Monster Lin learned that Qing Lin had Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils and a Mid Heaven Realm Soul.
• Old Monster Lin asked Su Yun whether he had killed Yao Tian and his group, explaining that the Yao Clan elder could expose lies with a Heaven Tier Middle Grade interrogation Dou Technique.
• Su Yun denied responsibility and said he had not left Holy Pill City, so Old Monster Lin promised the Pill Tower would protect him.
• Xuan Kongzi summoned Great Elder Qiu Ling, who soon brought Yao Ling and the Yao Clan elder into the hall.

Yao Ling and a Yao Clan elder confronted Su Yun over the deaths of the clan’s prodigies, but Su Yun denied involvement and agreed to the elder’s proposed lie test. Su Yun recognized the test as a scheme to frame him and prepared to counter it, while wondering why the Yao Clan wanted to blame him.

• Yao Ling accused Su Yun of killing her brother, and Su Yun traded insults with her and the Yao Clan elder.
• Su Yun and the Yao Clan elder clashed with their Soul Power until Old Monster Lin intervened and ordered them to stop causing trouble in the Pill Tower.
• The elder questioned Su Yun about the deaths of five Yao Clan prodigies, and Su Yun denied involvement, citing his seclusion in Holy Pill City.
• The Yao Clan elder challenged Su Yun to undergo a technique called Blood White Judgment, claiming it would reveal whether he was lying.
• Su Yun recognized that the elder could tamper with the test’s result and planned to use Deceive Heaven Conceal World to counter the scheme.

Su Yun used Deceive Heaven Conceal World to foil the Yao Clan elder’s attempt to frame him with a soul-light test. After the elder’s own loyalty test briefly exposed rebellious intent, he prepared a fresh test, and Su Yun agreed to undergo it only once more.

• Su Yun’s soul-light test showed no sign that he had killed Yao Tian and the other four, prompting the Yao Clan elder to claim Su Yun should still be taken for possessing the Soul Nurturing Dust refinement method.
• The Yao Clan elder secretly tried to turn the light red, but Su Yun concealed its aura, and Old Monster Lin defended him when the elder questioned the result.
• The Yao Clan elder tested his own loyalty while Su Yun lifted the concealment, causing the light to turn red and Yao Ling to realize the elder harbored rebellious intent.
• After the elder made a new light ball and tested his loyalty again, it stayed white, and he ordered Su Yun to repeat his test.
• Su Yun agreed to test again only once, with Old Monster Lin supporting his condition.

Su Yun fooled the Yao Clan elder’s repeated Blood White Judgment tests, and Old Monster Lin forced the Yao Clan to withdraw from Holy Pill City. Old Monster Lin offered Su Yun a place in the Pill Tower, then warned him that the Yao Clan might pursue him over the Soul Nurturing Dust refining method.

• Su Yun passed the Yao Clan elder’s second test, and the elder failed to prove that Su Yun was involved in Yao Tian’s death.
• Old Monster Lin threatened the Yao Clan elder, and the two Dou Shengs faced off before the elder agreed to leave Holy Pill City.
• The Yao Clan elder took Yao Ling away, and Yao Ling threatened Su Yun as she departed.
• Old Monster Lin offered Su Yun an elder seat and the Pill Tower’s resources, but Su Yun prepared to decline.
• Old Monster Lin warned Su Yun that the Yao Clan might continue pursuing the Soul Nurturing Dust method, then vanished.

Su Yun weighed the danger posed by the Yao Clan, then settled in Holy Pill City to cultivate with Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin. Elsewhere, Yao Ling pursued Xiao Yan, who prepared to rescue his teacher, while a dazzling green beam erupted over Misty Cloud Mountain.

• Su Yun decided to remain in Holy Pill City until the Ancient Ruin opened, and Xuan Kongzi warned him to be careful of the Yao Clan.
• Su Yun and Xiao Yi Xian returned to their residence, and after five days Su Yun began cultivating with pills while Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin also trained.
• Yao Ling persuaded the Yao Clan elder to help her investigate Xiao Yan at the Flower Sect before returning to the clan.
• Xiao Yan gathered several Dou Zun experts in the Mountain Range of Departed Souls and promised to repay them for helping rescue his teacher.
• A dazzling green beam erupted above Misty Cloud Mountain and drew the attention of people across the Jia Ma Empire.

After a year of seclusion, Su Yun reached Five-Turn Peak Dou Venerate and learned that Yao Ling and a Yao Clan elder had been killed. The Yao Clan suspected the Ancient Clan after the two victims attacked the Flower Sect while searching for Xiao Yan.

• Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran emerged from the Gate of Life and Death with greatly increased cultivation and decided to wait for it to close before traveling to the Central Plains.
• Su Yun cultivated for a year, advancing to Four-Turn Peak Dou Venerate, then swallowed the Heaven Profound Breaking Rotation Pill and reached Five-Turn Peak Dou Venerate.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate told Su Yun that Yao Ling and a Yao Clan elder had died, and the Yao Clan had again investigated Su Yun before the Pill Tower intervened.
• Heavenly Flame Venerate explained that the Yao Clan pair had attacked the Flower Sect after failing to find Xiao Yan, badly injuring the Qing Hua Two Immortals and threatening the sect.
• Su Yun inferred that Xiao Xun'er might have intervened and that the Ancient Clan had become the Yao Clan's leading suspect.