Chapter Summaries

Ye Yan drew the trait "Husband Aura," which made Ye Zhong misinterpret his muttering as an interest in married women. After clearing up the misunderstanding, Ye Yan continued cultivating through the night, aiming to reach Dou Zhe and make use of his Azure Ice Flame trait.

• At midnight, Ye Yan offered incense and drew the "Husband Aura" trait, which gradually increased his charm and made women feel safe and familiar around him.
• Ye Yan complained that the trait was useless to him as an eight-year-old, and Ye Zhong overheard him and burst into the room, believing he had improper intentions toward married women.
• Ye Yan denied Ye Zhong's accusation, and Ye Zhong became more convinced after considering Ye Yan's looks and hearing his vague explanation.
• Ye Zhong noticed the incense, offered three sticks himself, then abandoned his reason for visiting and left after a few more words.
• Ye Yan decided to test the trait's effects the next day and resumed cultivating, hoping to reach Dou Zhe and use the Azure Ice Flame.

Cao Yuan considered the hidden potential of the Ye Family but chose to focus on Cao Ying and watch its rivals. Nearly a year later, Ye Yan prepared to break through from the peak of the ninth stage of Dou Qi while Ye Zhong and the elders guarded him.

• Cao Yuan discussed rumors of a concealed Ye Family genius with Cao Chun and the other Cao elders, then decided not to target Ye Yan and to help Cao Ying pursue a Pill Tower giant as her master.
• Ye Yan was mobbed by women in the Ye Family after drawing [Husband Aura], while Ye Zhong watched with amusement and hinted that Ye Yan would learn more after reaching the Dou Zhe realm.
• Ye Yan focused on cultivation as Ye Zhong made preparations, and nearly a year passed.
• Ye Yan entered seclusion after stabilizing at the peak of the ninth stage of Dou Qi and receiving Qi Gathering Powder refined by Ye Zhong.
• Ye Zhong and the three elders guarded the cultivation room as Third Elder asked whether Ye Yan was truly about to break through, and Ye Zhong insisted his pills would help him succeed.

Ye Yan used two Qi Gathering Powders to break through to Dou Zhe, condensing a crystalline Dou Qi vortex despite a difficult and unstable process. After confirming his breakthrough, the Ye Family elders resolved to spare no effort in nurturing him, and Ye Yan realized he would need a good cultivation technique.

• The Ye Family elders discussed Ye Yan's imminent breakthrough and agreed to keep important information about him secret amid rising pressure from rival forces.
• Ye Yan swallowed two Qi Gathering Powders as he expanded his Dou Qi, then compressed it into a solidifying vortex to reach the Dou Zhe realm.
• Ye Yan recovered and found that his Dou Qi vortex had a crystalline sheen, while the elders outside worried as his aura repeatedly rose and fell.
• Ye Zhong and the elders entered the training room, where Ye Zhong asked Ye Yan to explain his unstable breakthrough.
• After learning Ye Yan had taken two Qi Gathering Powders, Ye Zhong checked his condition and the elders resolved to devote the Ye Family's resources to nurturing him.

Ye Zhong urged Ye Yan to seek a connection with Xuan Yi at the Pill Tower, hoping he could become her disciple and strengthen the Ye Family’s position. As Ye Yan considered the trip and the family’s cultivation techniques, he nearly had his soul frozen while inspecting the Azure Ice Flame in his system’s Entry Space, but recovered with his soul seemingly strengthened.

• Ye Zhong told Ye Yan to seek Xuan Yi’s favor at Sacred Pill City, and Ye Yan agreed to try meeting her.
• Ye Yan asked about the Ye Family’s cultivation techniques, and Ye Zhong explained that Elder Sheng Yao could offer an earth-tier high-level fire-element technique if Ye Yan failed to become a Pill Tower disciple.
• Ye Yan examined the Azure Ice Flame in his Entry Space, and its chill nearly froze his soul.
• The Azure Ice Flame withdrew its cold, allowing Ye Yan to recover; he realized the ordeal seemed to have strengthened his soul.

Ye Yan revealed his Azure Ice Flame to Ye Zhong and explained that he hoped to obtain a Child Fire for the Ye Family. Ye Zhong agreed to support him with cold-attributed resources while urging him to keep the flame’s true nature secret.

• Ye Yan told Ye Zhong that he possessed a Heavenly Flame, then briefly opened the Entry Space to demonstrate its chilling power.
• Ye Zhong guessed that the flame was the Bone Spirit Cold Flame, but Ye Yan named it the Azure Ice Flame and claimed it was innate.
• Ye Zhong warned Ye Yan to present the flame as the Bone Spirit Cold Flame and keep its supposed innate origin secret from everyone.
• Ye Yan asked for ice-attributed beast cores and Beast Fire so the Azure Ice Flame might produce a Child Fire for the family.
• Ye Zhong offered the Beast Fire of a peak seventh-rank Mystic Ice Cold Bird and set out to gather the elders to seek more cold-attributed resources.

Black Nether ordered the Black Fire Sect to prepare to kill the Ye Family’s hidden genius despite the Soul Hall’s instructions to let gifted youths grow. Meanwhile, Ye Yan drew the Eat My Cauldron trait and gained the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art, easing his worries about obtaining a cultivation technique.

• Black Nether learned from Zhao Hei that the Ye Family had a peerless genius and ordered him to prepare to eliminate the threat.
• Zhao Hei warned that the Soul Hall had instructed the Black Fire Sect to record geniuses and let them grow, but Black Nether insisted the sect could not risk waiting.
• Black Nether told Zhao Hei not to make a commotion while the Soul Hall faction operated in the Pill Region and dismissed the inquiry into the Ye Family’s search for ice-attributed resources.
• Ye Yan performed his annual ritual and drew the Eat My Cauldron trait, which granted him the evolvable Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art and a Life-Bound Cauldron in his dantian.

Ye Yan began cultivating the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art by drawing the Ye Family’s Yang Fire into his dantian to form a Life Fire Seed. As the Yang Fire burned through his protective pills, he worked to stabilize the cauldron image needed to refine it.

• Ye Yan decided that Yang Fire from the Ye Family’s Sun Fire Ancient Altar would be suitable for nurturing his Life Fire Seed and selected medicinal herbs to provide Wood Qi.
• Ye Zhong prepared the altar, brought out the family’s collected ice-attribute resources and Mystic Ice Cold Bird Beast Fire, and agreed to stand guard while Ye Yan cultivated.
• Ye Yan circulated the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art and pushed aside the stone stele, activating the altar’s walls and drawing out a crimson-gold Yang Fire.
• Ye Yan swallowed the Blood Lotus Pill, formed a protective layer around his body, and tried to construct a bronze cauldron in his dantian.
• Ye Yan pulled the Yang Fire into his body, where its heat scorched his protection as he circulated the art to refine the flame with the unstable cauldron image.

While rumors of disappearing alchemists spread through Ye City, Zhao Hei ordered the Black Fire Sect disciples to investigate Ye Yan discreetly. Ye Yan extracted Wood Qi from Evergreen Flowers to stabilize the furnace in his dantian, mastered the process, and planned to use the Azure Ice Flame to create a Child Fire after resting.

• People in Ye City speculated that Soul Hall was making alchemists' souls disappear, while several Black Fire Sect disciples listened nearby.
• Zhao Hei told the Black Fire Sect disciples to investigate the Ye Family genius without attracting attention.
• Ye Yan formed an unstable furnace with his Dou Qi and used Evergreen Flowers and his own wood element to extract Wood Qi.
• After scorching ten Evergreen Flowers, Ye Yan learned how to control the furnace's heat and repeatedly extracted Wood Qi.
• Ye Yan absorbed the Wood Qi, stabilizing and solidifying the furnace in his dantian, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ye Yan told Ye Zhong that he would try to split off a Child Fire from the Azure Ice Flame after resting, and Ye Zhong showed anticipation.

Ye Yan coaxed the Azure Ice Flame into producing a Child Fire, while Zhao Hei considered infiltrating the Ye Family to investigate its hidden genius. The Child Fire was successfully formed, and Ye Zhong began nourishing it so he could absorb it later.

• Zhao Hei learned that his subordinates had uncovered little about the Ye Family’s hidden genius and decided to visit the family soon.
• Ye Yan discovered that a green-aura flame from the cauldron in his dantian could strengthen the Azure Ice Flame and deepen their connection.
• Ye Yan used medicinal herbs to extract Wood Qi, raising the chance of separating a Child Fire to at least fifty percent.
• Ye Yan successfully formed a mung bean-sized Azure Ice Flame Child Fire by dawn.
• Ye Zhong fed the Child Fire Beast Fire and ice-attributed resources while Ye Yan recovered, hoping to absorb it and increase his cultivation.

Ye Yan advanced his cultivation and refined a batch of low-tier medicines while Ye Zhong continued preparing to absorb the Azure Ice Flame's Child Fire. During a nighttime probe of the Ye Family, Zhao Hei discovered Ye Yan and attacked him, leaving Ye Yan facing an imminent blow.

• Ye Yan prepared to refine Rejuvenation Powder, while Ye Zhong fed the Azure Ice Flame's Child Fire and drew closer to absorbing it.
• Zhao Hei investigated the Ye Family but found no information about its hidden genius and chose not to attack the family openly.
• Ye Yan spent two days refining Rejuvenation Powder, stabilizing his two-star Dou Zhe realm as he worked.
• Ye Yan left his cultivation chamber at night to check on Ye Zhong and was ambushed on a secluded path.
• Zhao Hei recognized Ye Yan's talent, seized him, and struck toward his head.

Ye Yan survived Zhao Hei’s attack when the Azure Ice Flame burst from the Entry Space and held the Black Fire Sect elder at bay. The Ye Family elders arrived and fought Zhao Hei while Ye Yan urged them to eliminate the intruders, but an assassin’s needle showed that the danger to him remained.

• Ye Yan opened the Entry Space, and its frost mist and Azure Ice Flame froze Zhao Hei’s hand and weakened him as Ye Yan fell injured to the ground.
• Ye Zhong sensed the Child Fire reacting to Ye Yan’s danger, but suppressing it kept him from leaving, so the Second and Third Elders teleported to help.
• Ye Family guards reached Ye Yan, and the Second and Third Elders arrived as Zhao Hei struggled against the Azure Ice Flame.
• The Second Elder attacked Zhao Hei and recognized the Black Fire Sect’s flames, then continued exchanging blows with him.
• After the Third Elder treated Ye Yan’s injuries, Ye Yan urged him to help wipe out the Black Fire Sect; the Third Elder knocked away a needle aimed at Ye Yan.

Ye Yan and the Ye Family exposed the Black Fire Sect’s suspected ties to Soul Hall while fighting off Zhao Hei’s attack. As Zhao Hei fled, a powerful force emerged from within the Ye Family to pursue him.

• The Third Elder killed the hidden Black Fire Sect assassins and joined the Second Elder in fighting Zhao Hei while guards protected Ye Yan.
• Ye Yan urged the Ye Family guards and disciples to publicly accuse the Black Fire Sect of colluding with Soul Hall and targeting the Ye Family’s seventh-tier alchemist.
• The accusation distracted Zhao Hei, allowing the Second Elder to wound him and broadcast suspicions about Qin Mo’s role in Soul Hall’s operations.
• Zhao Hei broke free and fled, while Qiu Chuan and Cao Yuan watched the battle and questioned the source of the Azure Ice Flame and spatial rift.
• As Zhao Hei tried to escape, Ye Yan predicted he would be stopped, and an icy pressure surged from the Ye Family before an azure-blue streak shot after him.

Ye Zhong used the Azure Ice Flame to kill Zhao Hei and convinced the Cao Family and Qiu Clan that the Ye Family had backing from a powerful senior. With the Ye Family now exposed and vulnerable, Ye Yan agreed to leave for the Pill Tower after recovering.

• Ye Zhong broke through to Four-Star Dou Zong and used the dark-blue flame to kill Zhao Hei, who had recognized Ye Yan.
• Ye Zhong told Cao Chun and Qiu Chuan that an unknown senior had favored him, and the two left while reconsidering their families' relations with the Ye Family.
• Ye Zhong confirmed Ye Yan's injuries were not serious but warned that his Heavenly Flame had been exposed and urged him to seek refuge or experience outside the city.
• At a Ye Family council meeting, Ye Zhong reported that Cao Yuan wanted to cooperate, though the Cao Family knew his flame was a Child Fire.
• Ye Zhong announced that he had reached the peak of seventh-tier alchemy and could refine Foundation Building Spirit Liquid at ninety percent of its effect, but said Ye Yan should leave for the Pill Tower the next day.

Cao Yuan considered cooperation with the Ye Family and the possibility of securing a Heavenly Flame for Cao Ying, while Black Nether grew interested in the Ye Family’s rumored flame. In Sacred Pill City, Xuan Kongzi ordered Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi to investigate the Soul Hall and quietly strike some of its forces, as a mysterious dragon remained hidden in space.

• Cao Yuan and Cao Chun told Cao Ying that the Ye Family had an extraordinary genius, and Cao Ying vowed to defeat him when she grew up.
• Black Nether learned that rumors about the Ye Family and its deep-blue, ice-attributed Heavenly Flame were spreading, and he dismissed the possibility that the family had a Battle Saint backing it.
• Xuan Kongzi asked Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi to look into the Soul Hall’s activity in the Pill Region.
• Xuan Kongzi ordered Tian Leizi to wipe out several Soul Hall forces without causing too much disturbance, and Tian Leizi went to assemble a team.
• Xuan Kongzi sent Xuan Yi after Tian Leizi, then gazed toward a gigantic dragon wrapped in violet-black flames.

Ye Yan and Ye Jingheng arrived in Sacred Pill City in disguise and settled in the Outer Domain while avoiding the local Ye Family residence. Ye Yan became a first-tier alchemist and evolved his cultivation technique to Yellow Tier Intermediate before learning they could visit Elder Sheng Yao the next day.

• Ye Yan and Ye Jingheng reached Sacred Pill City disguised and rented a courtyard in the southern district of the Outer Domain.
• Ye Yan stayed behind to practice alchemy while Ye Jingheng went out to gather information.
• Ye Yan successfully refined a Rejuvenation Pill, then made three more and stored them in jade bottles.
• The Yang Fire in Ye Yan's dantian merged with his Dou Qi, evolving the Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art to Yellow Tier Intermediate and increasing his Dou Qi.
• Ye Jingheng returned and told Ye Yan that Elder Sheng Yao would be at his residence the next day.

Tian Leizi told Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi that the Bone Spirit Cold Flame had appeared in the Ye Family, prompting them to investigate the Black Fire Sect and question Ye Zhong. At Sheng Yao’s residence, Ye Yan and Ye Jingheng discussed Ye Yan’s prospects at the Pill Tower before Xuan Kongzi summoned them.

• Tian Leizi reported that a dark blue Heavenly Flame had appeared in the Ye Family after the Black Fire Sect attacked a Ye Family genius, and Xuan Yi wondered whether it was connected to Yao Chen.
• Tian Leizi said the Black Fire Sect might belong to the Soul Hall, and Xuan Kongzi told him to investigate the sect and bring Ye Zhong for questioning.
• Sheng Yao welcomed Ye Jingheng and Ye Yan, praised Ye Yan’s talent and composure, and explained that he could not yet become a disciple of one of the Three Great Heads.
• A messenger arrived at Sheng Yao’s residence and announced that Xuan Kongzi wanted to see Sheng Yao and his guests.

Ye Yan and Ye Jingheng entered the Pill Tower with Sheng Yao and explained that the Ye Family had obtained a deep-blue Heavenly Flame Child Fire from a powerful expert’s spatial realm. The chairmen questioned them about the flame, and Xuan Yi demanded that Ye Yan remove his disguise.

• Sheng Yao escorted Ye Yan and Ye Jingheng through the Pill Tower, where their lack of alchemist badges drew attention.
• Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi asked whether the Ye Family had obtained the Bone Spirit Cold Flame.
• Ye Jingheng said the Ye Family’s Heavenly Flame was deep blue and that Ye Zhong had refined a Child Fire from a powerful expert’s spatial realm.
• Xuan Kongzi and the others speculated that the expert might have been a Battle Saint and connected the account to Yao Chen.
• Ye Yan explained that he wanted to keep his disguise for the journey out, but Xuan Yi offered him a stronger disguise and ordered him to remove his current one.

Ye Yan revealed his true face at the Pill Tower and won Xuan Yi’s interest, who agreed to let him study under her despite the danger posed by the Ye Family’s supposed treasure. After the Pill Tower leaders discovered how unusually strong his foundation was, Tian Leizi set out to investigate the Black Fire Sect, while Xuan Yi took Ye Yan to give him a disguise item.

• Ye Yan removed the concealment methods, and Xuan Kongzi, Tian Leizi, and Xuan Yi praised his appearance.
• Ye Yan told the Pill Tower leaders he wanted to study alchemy and revealed he could refine first-tier Rejuvenation Pills.
• Xuan Yi initially said Ye Yan was too young to enter the Pill Tower, then offered to let him study under her because of a possible connection to the person behind the Ye Family.
• Xuan Yi examined Ye Yan and found his body, meridians, and Battle Qi Solidification comparable to a nine-star Dou Zhe despite his two-star Dou Zhe cultivation.
• Tian Leizi questioned Ye Yan about the Black Fire Sect, then left to investigate it himself.
• Xuan Yi led Ye Yan away to give him a disguise item.

Ye Yan returned to the Ye Family courtyard in Sacred Pill City with the Thousand Illusion Bead, while Tian Leizi arrived at Ye City to investigate the Black Fire Sect’s possible ties to the Soul Hall. Cao Yuan agreed to help the Ye Family investigate, and Tian Leizi noticed Cao Ying’s talent for alchemy.

• Xuan Yi gave Ye Yan the Thousand Illusion Bead, which concealed his aura and appearance, and Ye Yan returned to the courtyard where Ye Jingheng told him their business in Sacred Pill City was nearly finished.
• Cao Yuan brought Cao Chun and two-year-old Cao Ying to meet the Ye Family elders, and Cao Ying declared that she would become a tier-nine alchemist and defeat the Ye Family’s genius.
• Tian Leizi arrived at the Ye Family council hall through a spatial fissure and asked whether the Black Fire Sect had ties to the Soul Hall.
• Cao Yuan suggested sending people to investigate the Black Fire Sect, and Tian Leizi tasked the Cao Family with helping the Ye Family uncover its background.
• Tian Leizi examined Cao Ying and said she had great soul talent and was suited to alchemy.

Xuan Yi taught Ye Yan the fundamentals of pill refinement and identified weaknesses in his technique and cultivation method. After Xuan Kongzi spread rumors that Xuan Yi might accept a disciple, Ye Yan left the Pill Tower in disguise to avoid attention.

• Ye Yan entered Xuan Yi’s cultivation chamber through a spatial rift, and she criticized his pill-refining technique while refusing to formally make him her disciple yet.
• Xuan Yi demonstrated pill refinement and coached Ye Yan as he repeatedly practiced making Energy Storage Pills.
• Xuan Kongzi revealed that he had spread rumors about Xuan Yi accepting a disciple to put pressure on Ye Yan.
• After hours of instruction, Xuan Yi told Ye Yan to try refining second-tier pills over the next few days.
• Ye Yan disguised himself as an ordinary youth before leaving the Pill Tower, while Xuan Kongzi urged Xuan Yi to teach him well.