Chapter Summaries

Yun Shenwei and the Extraordinary Romance System fought the Soul Clan’s forces while Yun Shenwei raced to the Stone Tower for the Heaven and Earth Flame. Yun Shenwei broke through the defenders and defeated Soul Destruction, leaving the Soul Clan leader pinned beneath the ground.

• The Extraordinary Romance System stayed behind to fight the Soul Clan experts while Yun Shenwei went to search for the flame.
• Lucia Dawn, Bianca Truth, Karenina, Sophia, and their companions fought to delay the thousands of Soul Clan members.
• Yun Shenwei attacked the hundreds of Soul Clan experts guarding the Stone Tower and broke through by reaching Dou Zun strength and wielding Black Sniper.
• Soul Destruction appeared and challenged Yun Shenwei, but his tracking darts failed to hit their target.
• Yun Shenwei kicked Soul Destruction in the face and pinned him beneath the ground.

After repelling the Soul Clan’s attack on the Stone Tower, Yun Shenwei entered the tower to seize the Fallen Heart Flame. He subdued the flame, but its mind-affecting power trapped him in an illusion as he began absorbing it.

• Yun Shenwei and his allies drove the Soul Clan experts away from the Stone Tower after defeating Soul Destruction.
• The Extraordinary Romance System warned Yun Shenwei that the intelligent Fallen Heart Flame might fight back and gave him support items.
• The Fallen Heart Flame tried to take Yun Shenwei’s body and recounted how Tou She Ancient God had defeated it in the past.
• Yun Shenwei used the system’s items to seal and weaken the Fallen Heart Flame until it shrank to the size of a finger.
• Lucia Dawn and Bianca fought Soul Clan creatures outside while the Soul Clan abandoned plans to send stronger reinforcements after other Ancient Races noticed their movements.
• Yun Shenwei began absorbing the Fallen Heart Flame, but its mental attack drew him into an illusion of his childhood.

Yun Shenwei endured another self’s painful childhood and adult life to complete the Fallen Heart Flame trial, then returned with the flame and promised to help Lucia Dawn gain Ice Attribute Power. As the first region’s mission ended, he resolved to stop the Soul Clan’s plans against the Jia Ma Empire.

• Yun Shenwei experienced his other self’s difficult life, from his parents’ divorce and neglectful upbringing to leaving home, marrying, and having children.
• Yun Shenwei passed the trial and returned with grayish-white light in his eyes, confirming that he had obtained the Fallen Heart Flame.
• The Extraordinary Romance System congratulated Yun Shenwei and explained that others had died trying to force their way through the dream trial.
• Yun Shenwei told Lucia Dawn that he had found a way to help her evolve and promised to serve as her Commander and support her.
• Lucia Dawn thanked Yun Shenwei and vowed to protect him after gaining Ice Attribute Power.
• Yun Shenwei concluded that the Soul Clan’s attack on the Jia Ma Empire revealed an early, dangerous plan, and vowed to stop them.

Yun Shenwei searched for his missing fiancée, Nalan Yanran, while the Soul Clan planned to obtain Blazing Flame at the upcoming Pill Refining Convention. After the system informed Yun Shenwei about the convention in Central State, he decided to go there, leaving Nalan Yanran imprisoned and suffering under the Soul Clan’s control.

• Yun Shenwei waited for the system to locate Nalan Yanran and resolved to find her, while Bianca Truth trained the academy’s students and Lucia Dawn pushed herself to improve.
• Nalan Yanran endured torture and poison in captivity, feared that she was losing control of herself, and told herself that Yun Shenwei should forget her.
• Hun Tiandi learned that his operation had failed and chose Blazing Flame as the Soul Clan’s next target, sending skilled young members to the Pill Refining Convention.
• Yun Shenwei learned that the convention would take place in Central State and decided to attend, hoping to obtain Blazing Flame.
• Lucia Dawn gained Ice Attribute Power and evolved into Lucia Raven Feather, while Bianca Truth continued exploring and training promising disciples.

Yun Shenwei and his companions arrived in Central State to pursue the Starry Sky Flame and learned that they needed to pass the Pill Tower assessment before entering the Pill Alliance Competition. They explored the city while preparing for the mission, leaving Yun Shenwei confident he would pass the assessment.

• Yun Shenwei gathered everyone and announced their journey to Central State, where they arrived by spaceship.
• The Extraordinary Romance System explained the Pill Tower assessment and warned Yun Shenwei to collect the Starry Sky Flame carefully because it held Dragon Clan power and the Soul Clan might interfere.
• Yun Shenwei confidently claimed he would pass the assessment, while Bianca Truth, Karenina, and Sophia were taken aback by his boast.
• The Extraordinary Romance System assigned tasks, and the group disguised themselves and explored Central State.
• Sophia and Pulse sampled the city's snacks as Karenina hurried after them, while Bianca Truth and the Extraordinary Romance System watched for threats and useful materials.

Yun Shenwei registered for the Alchemist Alliance tournament and learned that the Justice Alliance was recruiting ordinary alchemists to strengthen its numbers against disguised outsiders seeking the Stellar Flame. As the tournament began, he stepped into the arena for a trial of flame control and pill refining, while Bianca Truth, Karenina, and the others prepared for a possible Soul Clan attack.

• Yun Shenwei learned from the Extraordinary Romance System that the tournament’s early rounds rewarded the faction with more alchemists who passed.
• Yun Shenwei registered with ordinary-seeming talent, and officials assigned him and the other folk alchemists rooms in a large courtyard.
• A steward told Yun Shenwei and the other competitors in advance which pills they would refine so they could prepare.
• Bianca Truth and Karenina registered as spectators, while Yun Shenwei and his companions prepared for the Soul Clan’s suspected attempt to seize the Stellar Flame.
• Yun Shenwei stepped into the arena as the Alchemist Alliance tournament began with a trial of flame control and pill refining.

Yun Shenwei competed in the Alchemist Convention while keeping his abilities restrained, as an exceptionally talented contestant suspected of belonging to the Soul Clan drew the Alliance’s attention. After the contestant took first place in the opening round, the Extraordinary Romance System urged Yun Shenwei to compete for first so he could stop the suspected enemy from reaching the Sky Flame.

• Yun Shenwei used the system’s refining methods to compete calmly while other participants speculated about his looks and background.
• A talented contestant’s pill-refining technique attracted notice, and Alchemist Alliance experts suspected he was a Soul Clan member but allowed him to compete until the round ended.
• The first round concluded, and the talented contestant finished first with impressive speed and efficiency.
• The Extraordinary Romance System warned Yun Shenwei that the winner could qualify to approach the Sky Flame if he kept taking first place.
• Yun Shenwei accepted that he needed to stop hiding his ability and decided to give the upcoming assessments his all.

The second round of the Alchemist Convention began, requiring contestants to refine three kinds of pills under quality and quantity standards. Yun Shenwei and Soul Tyrant Tian both pursued first place, and their rapid refining drew attention as they appeared to compete head-to-head.

• An Alchemist Guild elder explained the second-round standards and announced that the top contestant would earn a victory point toward winning the convention.
• Yun Shenwei reviewed the Assessment Form and judged the pills easy, while contestants reacted differently to the challenge.
• Soul Tyrant Tian resolved to win first place to obtain the Starry Sky Flame, earn rewards, and strengthen his position within his clan.
• An Alchemist Alliance elder started the competition and provided each participant with five portions of ingredients.
• Explosions disrupted contestants as they prepared their pills, but Yun Shenwei blocked out the noise and refined increasingly quickly.
• Soul Tyrant Tian also refined at high speed, and spectators watched the two young competitors vie for attention.

Yun Shenwei finished refining his pill ahead of the other contestants, prompting the judges and Soul Tyrant Tian to question whether he had truly succeeded. The judges went to inspect his work while Yun Shenwei stood by, confident in his abilities.

• Soul Tyrant Tian smugly expected to win the competition and return home famous.
• Yun Shenwei accelerated his pill refinement and announced that he had finished, startling the spectators.
• Soul Tyrant Tian doubted Yun Shenwei’s claim because he had completed only about eighty percent of his own refinement.
• The judges approached Yun Shenwei and offered him another chance to continue if he had only claimed to be finished out of pride.
• Yun Shenwei refused to refine the pill again and told Soul Tyrant Tian to focus on completing his own work.
• Soul Tyrant Tian resented Yun Shenwei’s confidence and watched as the judges prepared to inspect the pill.

Yun Shenwei impressed the examiners by refining a high-quality pill in little time, then astonished the crowd when they discovered his furnace held nearly fifty pills. The chapter left the competition underway, with Soul Tyrant Tian still confident he could surpass him.

• Spectators debated Yun Shenwei's chances as smoke rose from his pill furnace, signaling that his refinement was progressing well.
• Soul Tyrant Tian watched Yun Shenwei refine while working on his own pills and challenged him to show his full ability.
• The examiners opened Yun Shenwei's furnace and praised the quality of the first pill, while warning that the final result depended on how many he had made.
• Soul Tyrant Tian dismissed Yun Shenwei's single pill and claimed he could produce at least five of similar quality.
• The examiners pulled out pill after pill and discovered that Yun Shenwei had refined nearly fifty, astonishing the crowd and drawing excited support from the girls watching.

Yun Shenwei won the pill-refining round against Soul Tyrant Tian after their pills were judged equal in number but Yun Shenwei’s were better in quality. Soul Tyrant Tian challenged the result and proposed testing the pills’ effects directly.

• Soul Tyrant Tian used his blood to draw in spiritual energy and finished refining his pills.
• The judges found that Soul Tyrant Tian had made the same number of pills as Yun Shenwei, but judged Yun Shenwei’s pills superior.
• Soul Tyrant Tian accused Yun Shenwei of relying on outside help and challenged him, but the judges threatened to disqualify anyone who fought.
• Soul Tyrant Tian proposed testing the pills by having people take them and comparing their effects.

Yun Shenwei and Soul Tyrant Tian agreed to test their pills on people with weak constitutions, and the chief director allowed the public comparison. After each selected fifty participants, the hundred swallowed the pills and began cultivating as the crowd waited to see the results.

• Yun Shenwei accepted Soul Tyrant Tian's challenge to compare their pills using people with poor physical constitutions.
• The chief director approved the test and called for weaker participants to volunteer.
• Yun Shenwei calmed the crowd and said he would carefully choose fifty people from those who came forward.
• Soul Tyrant Tian arrogantly announced that he would personally select fifty people, prompting some to refuse his pills rather than accept the insult.
• Yun Shenwei and Soul Tyrant Tian each selected fifty participants, who swallowed the pills and meditated while the crowd watched for their effects.

Yun Shenwei defeated Soul Tyrant Tian in the pill-refining vote, winning by more than forty votes. Enraged by the result, Soul Tyrant Tian challenged him to a fight, and Yun Shenwei attacked as the watching experts allowed the battle to begin.

• Soul Tyrant Tian disparaged Yun Shenwei and claimed his own pill was superior.
• People who sampled the pills praised their different effects, while the crowd prepared to vote.
• Yun Shenwei won the vote by more than forty votes.
• Soul Tyrant Tian accused Yun Shenwei of cheating and demanded a head-on duel.
• Soul Tyrant Tian taunted Yun Shenwei and threatened to stop him from competing in later rounds, then Yun Shenwei launched an attack.

Yun Shenwei defeated Soul Tyrant Tian after the arrogant pill refiner attacked him, then used leftover materials to make pills and give them to people in need. The chapter left Yun Shenwei continuing to help others while spectators admired his strength and generosity.

• Yun Shenwei criticized Soul Tyrant Tian for treating pill refinement as a contest of force and for relying on violence.
• Soul Tyrant Tian attacked Yun Shenwei, but Yun Shenwei overwhelmed him and shifted him onto the defensive.
• Spectators watched Yun Shenwei's skill and discussed how extraordinary the two young fighters were.
• Yun Shenwei defeated Soul Tyrant Tian and returned to the stage.
• Yun Shenwei refined more pills from leftover materials and gave them to people with insufficient strength, who thanked him.

After winning the competition, Yun Shenwei declared that he intended to claim the Starry Sky Flame. Warned that the Soul Clan might ambush him, he secured the Alchemist Alliance elders’ protection and began searching for the flame.

• Yun Shenwei won first place again, and the Alchemist Alliance elder announced him as the competition’s overall winner.
• Yun Shenwei thanked the audience and openly stated that he wanted to obtain the Starry Sky Flame.
• The Alchemist Alliance elders warned Yun Shenwei that previous winners had failed to claim the intelligent, hostile flame.
• The Extraordinary Romance System cautioned Yun Shenwei that the Soul Clan might attack him after he obtained the flame.
• Yun Shenwei asked the Alchemist Alliance elders to protect him, and they agreed to safeguard him and later search the plaza for infiltrators.
• Yun Shenwei thanked the elders and began searching for the Starry Sky Flame.

Yun Shenwei entered the Alchemist Alliance’s sealed region to observe the Starry Sky Flame while the Extraordinary Romance System analyzed it and advised him to stay calm. The flame grew increasingly impatient as Yun Shenwei ignored its attempts to provoke him.

• An Alchemist Alliance elder led Yun Shenwei into the region where the Starry Sky Flame resided, and the Extraordinary Romance System told him to observe the surroundings before acting.
• The Starry Sky Flame awoke and watched Yun Shenwei while the system analyzed its history and behavior.
• The system warned Yun Shenwei that the Starry Sky Flame was watching him and urged him to remain calm until its analysis was complete.
• The Starry Sky Flame taunted Yun Shenwei, but he stayed silent and continued observing the replica night sky.
• The Starry Sky Flame became anxious and described how it had drained the souls of past visitors, while the system told Yun Shenwei to keep ignoring it as it searched for a weakness.

Yun Shenwei resisted the Starry Sky Flame’s attempts to tempt and attack him while the Extraordinary Romance System searched for a weakness. The system revealed that the flame’s nine abilities each had a weakness, and Yun Shenwei exposed its arrogance, leaving him to continue confronting its remaining aspects.

• The Starry Sky Flame tried to bewitch Yun Shenwei, while he stayed silent and waited for the Extraordinary Romance System’s help.
• The Starry Sky Flame attacked Yun Shenwei with multicolored flames, but he endured the pressure and refused to give in.
• The Extraordinary Romance System explained that each of the flame’s nine abilities had a weakness and advised Yun Shenwei to provoke its arrogance.
• Yun Shenwei taunted the Starry Sky Flame, causing its power to falter when its arrogance was exposed.
• The Starry Sky Flame admitted Yun Shenwei had found its weakness and claimed that its eight other aspects remained, while Yun Shenwei prepared to proceed patiently.

Yun Shenwei fused Starry Sky Flame with his Dark Purple Flame, gained a powerful sky-blue flame, and celebrated his success with the Alchemist Alliance. Meanwhile, Soul Tyrant Tian entered seclusion after his defeat, and the Soul Clan sent Hun Dong to challenge Yun Shenwei and seize his flame.

• Yun Shenwei absorbed Starry Sky Flame and fused it with his Dark Purple Flame, creating a sky-blue flame that could separate into its two original forms or unleash their powers together.
• The Extraordinary Romance System congratulated Yun Shenwei and warned him to keep his success quiet because the Soul Clan had come for Starry Sky Flame.
• The Alchemist Alliance elders welcomed Yun Shenwei as a rare young talent and held a feast in his honor.
• Soul Tyrant Tian faced scorn after his failure and entered seclusion to grow stronger and erase his shame.
• The Soul Clan chose Hun Dong as its second challenger, gave him treasures, and ordered him to defeat Yun Shenwei and bring back the flame in his body.

Hun Dong mocked Soul Tyrant Tian and dismissed his warnings before setting out to fight Yun Shenwei. Left behind by former followers, Soul Tyrant Tian accepted his defeat and returned to solitary cultivation, hoping Yun Shenwei would overcome Hun Dong.

• Hun Dong visited Soul Tyrant Tian, mocked him for losing to Yun Shenwei, and ignored his warning that Yun Shenwei was far stronger than he seemed.
• Soul Tyrant Tian accused Hun Dong of acting out of a personal grudge, but Hun Dong boasted that he would return victorious and take revenge on him.
• Hun Dong left surrounded by young women and promised to make them his concubines after his triumph.
• Soul Tyrant Tian reflected on how people had abandoned him after his defeat and began cultivating alone beneath a cliff.
• Soul Tyrant Tian silently wished Yun Shenwei success against Hun Dong, acknowledging Yun Shenwei as a formidable opponent.

Hun Dong prepared to fight on behalf of his race while Yun Shenwei strengthened his soul with the Starry Sky Flame and sought a way to wield spiritual power. The Extraordinary Romance System found him a suitable cultivation method and gave him a Time Accelerator, which Yun Shenwei began using despite its risks.

• Hun Dong's elders told him to win quickly without provoking a large-scale battle, and he promised to defeat his opponent with a single move.
• Yun Shenwei used the Starry Sky Flame to confront painful memories and strengthen his soul for more than two hours.
• Yun Shenwei told the Extraordinary Romance System that he needed a method to control and attack with spiritual power, and the system promised to find one.
• The Extraordinary Romance System searched across time and star systems before giving Yun Shenwei a suitable spiritual cultivation method and a Time Accelerator.
• The Extraordinary Romance System warned Yun Shenwei that the accelerator would burden his body, but Yun Shenwei accepted it and began cultivating.