Chapter Summaries

Ye Sheng forced Xu Yingyue to accept the Ye Family’s entry into the pill market, announcing a sale of twelve kinds of pills in three days. At the Xu Family council hall, the family chose to yield for now, while Xu Yingyue asked Xu Yingxue whether the Demon Prison Army could help them.

• Ye Sheng challenged the Xu Family’s pill monopoly, claiming the Ye Family could sell higher-quality pills and that the Zhou and Wang Families supported changing the market rules.
• Xu Yingyue demanded that Ye Sheng prove his claims by putting the Ye Family’s pills on the market, and he announced a twenty-percent-off sale of twelve kinds of pills in three days.
• Bai Yu watched the confrontation and then went to visit the Xu Family residence with the Black Feather King.
• The white-haired elder told the Xu Family members to yield the pill market, explaining that the Holy Heaven Dynasty and the other families had turned against them.
• Xu Yingyue asked Xu Yingxue whether the Xu Family could seek support from the Demon Prison Army.

Xu Chen decided the Xu Family would respond to losing its pill business by recruiting a Great Apothecary, and Xu Yingxue proposed searching in Fallen River. Bai Yu arrived at the Xu residence, where he learned the family was in trouble and asked who dared bully someone from his Heavenly Demon Army.

• Xu Yingxue admitted that she could not count on the Demon Prison Army to intervene in the Xu Family's conflict.
• Xu Chen proposed recruiting a Great Apothecary and shifting the Xu Family into the great medicine trade.
• Xu Yingxue suggested seeking a Great Apothecary in Fallen River, though she hesitated to explain that she knew one.
• A visitor from the Demon Prison Army arrived, and Xu Yingxue recognized Bai Yu and introduced him as her superior and a Commander.
• Bai Yu joked that he had been exiled to Midstream, then asked who had bullied the Xu Family.

Xu Yingxue explained how the Ye Family, the Holy Heaven Imperial Household, and the Wang and Zhou Families had joined forces to suppress the Xu Family and demand its daughters as consorts. Bai Yu called the Holy Heaven Dynasty rebellious and revealed to Xu Yingxue that he planned to seize its territory as a base for the coming King Conferral Ceremony.

• Xu Yingxue told Bai Yu that the Ye Family’s rise and alliance with the Wang and Zhou Families had led to the Xu Family losing businesses and facing pressure from the imperial household.
• Xu Yingxue explained that the imperial household had demanded Xu Yingyue and other talented Xu family members as consorts, while the Demon Prison Army had been reluctant to intervene because of the dynasty’s ties to the three princes.
• Bai Yu declared that the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s actions were tantamount to rebellion because they weakened the Demon Prison Army’s morale.
• Bai Yu told Xu Yingxue he intended to claim the Holy Heaven Dynasty as territory for his plans, offering the Xu Family a chance to become its leading family.

Bai Yu promised the Xu family that the Demon Prison Army would help investigate the Holy Heaven Dynasty and offered to support the family’s pill business with great medicines. He summoned Jiang Yan to refine a Great Medicine, beginning a demonstration before the assembled family.

• Bai Yu told the Xu family that he would gather evidence against the Holy Heaven Dynasty and lead the Demon Prison Army against it if rebellion was confirmed.
• Xu Chen questioned whether Bai Yu could provide alchemists to help the Xu family compete with the Ye family, while Xu Yingxue urged her family to trust Bai Yu.
• Bai Yu explained that he could not refine pills for now but could help with a great medicine, and Xu Yingxue revealed that he was a Seventh-Grade Great Apothecary.
• Bai Yu summoned Jiang Yan and asked her to refine a Great Medicine before the Xu family.
• Jiang Yan set out a crimson medicine cauldron and requested more soul-black flesh and Sparrow Dragon Grass to refine the sixth-grade Earthfiend Soulfall Pill.

Jiang Yan demonstrated her unprecedented Three Talents Yin Flame and refined a high-grade sixth-rank Earth Fiend Fallen God Pill with Bai Yu’s guidance. Impressed by Bai Yu’s power and resources, Xu Chen pledged the Xu Family’s cooperation with his actions against the Holy Heaven Dynasty.

• Jiang Yan used the Three Talents Yin Flame, which she had created by refining Yang fires taken from hundreds of thousands of monsters in the Fallen River.
• Bai Yu advised Jiang Yan during the refinement, helping her recognize and recover medicinal power she had been overlooking.
• After two hours, Jiang Yan refined a high-grade sixth-rank Earth Fiend Fallen God Pill that could affect the soul and cause the spirit to mutate.
• Xu Chen shielded the hall from the pill’s powerful soul force, then agreed that the Xu Family would fully cooperate with Bai Yu.
• Xu Yingyue asked Xu Yingxue whether all Demon Prison Army commandants were as formidable as Bai Yu and Jiang Yan, and Xu Yingxue explained that Bai Yu could refine seventh-grade Great Medicine and had multiple attendants.

Bai Yu prepared to enter the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s Great Medicine market with the Xu Family, while planning to eventually seize the dynasty’s resources. After several days of refinement, the chapter ended with Yu Linglong revealing a courtyard packed with jade bottles of Great Medicine, ready for opening day.

• Bai Yu told Xu Chen to open a Great Medicine shop alongside the Ye Family’s business and arranged for the Xu Family to receive supplies from Marshal Qi.
• Bai Yu studied a map of Holy Heaven City and discussed the strength of the Four Great Families and the royal family while planning to take control of the Holy Heaven Dynasty.
• Bai Yu and Jiang Yan began refining Great Medicine, using materials from the cave abode before incorporating resources gathered by the Xu Family and provisions from the Demon Prison Army.
• Xu Yingxue and Xu Yingyue concealed the strange phenomena caused by the refining as they prepared for the market’s opening ceremony.
• Yu Linglong announced that the Great Medicine was ready, and the Xu Yingxue sisters saw the courtyard filled with jade bottles.

The Ye Family opened Compassion Heart Pavilion with a twenty-percent discount, intending to challenge the Xu Family’s pill business and strengthen Ye Nian-ci’s claim to be the family heir. The Xu Family arrived with its own new pavilion, and the two sides prepared to begin their public contest.

• Star Moon Market filled with merchants and cultivators drawn by the Ye Family’s discounted pills and rumors about Ye Nian-ci.
• Ye Nian-ci watched the Xu Family prepare its opposing platform, confident that defeating them would secure his future in the Ye Family.
• Xu Chen arrived with the Xu Family, prompting spectators to speculate about how they would answer the Ye Family’s challenge.
• Xu Yingxue identified Ye Xiao, Ye Nian-ci, and the Ye Family’s elders for Bai Yu, who asked whether the family had any Tribulation Transcendence experts.
• Ye Xiao raised the Compassion Heart Pavilion banner and declared that the contest would begin.

At the opening of Compassion Heart Pavilion, Ye Nian-ci unveiled a rare Infant-Breaking Pill and Ye Xiao revealed plans to use royal and family support to take over the Xu Family’s pill business. Bai Yu dismissed the Ye Family’s pills as trash and helped the Xu sisters launch Fallen Pill Pavilion with an astonishing display of high-grade ferocious beast Great Medicines.

• Ye Nian-ci introduced Compassion Heart Pavilion’s pills and announced that it would sell only three Infant-Breaking Pills each month.
• Ye Xiao promised the Chief Steward three Infant-Breaking Pills and said the Ye Family would share profits with the royal family, the Wang Family, and the Zhou Family.
• Bai Yu appeared with the Xu sisters, called the Ye Family’s alchemists and pills trash, and urged the Xu Family to begin its presentation.
• The Xu sisters unveiled Fallen Pill Pavilion and displayed fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade Great Medicines.
• The Xu sisters summoned the spirits of two seventh-grade ferocious beasts and merged them into the Great Medicines.

Xu Yingxue announced that Fallen Pill Pavilion would sell large quantities of graded Great Medicines at discounted prices, revealing the Xu Family’s backing from Bai Yu. Ye Nian-ci, facing defeat, sought his master’s help and challenged Bai Yu to a one-on-one pill duel.

• Xu Yingxue displayed two seventh-grade Great Medicines and announced Fallen Pill Pavilion’s stock, grades, and twenty-percent discount.
• Ye Nian-ci realized Bai Yu was a seventh-grade Great Apothecary and accused the Xu Family of relying on him.
• Bai Yu rebuffed Ye Nian-ci’s objections, while Ye Nian-ci feared that the Xu Family’s success would ruin his plan to raise his branch’s standing.
• Ye Nian-ci pleaded with his master, who offered him a fifty-percent chance of beating an entry-level seventh-grade Great Apothecary at the cost of being unable to help afterward.
• Ye Nian-ci accepted his master’s aid and challenged Bai Yu to a one-on-one battle of pills.

Ye Nian-ci challenged Bai Yu to a life-or-death pill contest, and Bai Yu accepted after the crowd agreed to hold the Ye Family to the wager. When Ye Nian-ci revealed that another soul possessed his body, Bai Yu summoned Red Lotus Karmic Fire, which could threaten the soul controlling him.

• Ye Nian-ci provoked Bai Yu into a pill contest, while Ye Xiao tried to stop him.
• Bai Yu made the contest a life-or-death wager, and the crowd backed the agreement as Xu Chen prevented Ye Xiao from intervening.
• Ye Nian-ci summoned his jade cauldron and transformed as a ghostly blue flame appeared, revealing the secret art that had won him earlier contests.
• Bai Yu used his Delusion-Breaking Golden Eyes to see that another soul possessed Ye Nian-ci's body.
• Bai Yu summoned Red Lotus Karmic Fire, and Ye Nian-ci reacted with shock when he recognized it as a threat to the possessing soul.

Bai Yu and Ye Nian-ci’s alchemy duel reached its climax as both contestants finished refining their ingredients and began condensing their pills. Di Xian’er revealed a connection to Bai Yu’s Earthly Fiend Seventy-Two Seals, while Ye Nian-ci’s pill took shape amid heavenly lightning and a seven-colored pillar of light.

• Di Xian’er summoned the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and began refining a great medicine as Bai Yu used the flame to refine herbs in midair.
• Bai Yu formed a transparent hand seal, startling Di Xian’er so much that one of her herbs turned to ash before he jolted her back to concentration with the fire.
• Bai Yu and Di Xian’er finished refining their herbs after a day, and the crowd debated the rank of their medicines and Ye Nian-ci’s alchemy skill.
• Bai Yu closed his eyes and used his divine soul to control his medicine’s condensation as Di Xian’er continued despite her unsteady body.
• Ye Nian-ci’s silver hair faded as he declared his karmic debt repaid, and a blue pill formed amid heavenly lightning and seven-colored light.

Ye Nian-ci refined a peak seventh-grade Tribulation-Breaking Pill by relying on Di Xian'er, whose soul began to dissipate, while Bai Yu used her reminder to raise his own Great Medicine to eighth grade. Bai Yu seized Di Xian'er from Ye Nian-ci, but a red-robed Ye Family ancestor appeared to challenge him.

• Ye Nian-ci pleaded with Di Xian'er as her soul began to vanish after helping him refine the Tribulation-Breaking Pill.
• Bai Yu refined a peak seventh-grade Great Medicine and, following Di Xian'er's advice about combining Heavenly Dipper Seals, elevated it to eighth grade.
• The Black Feather King seized Ye Nian-ci, severed his connection to Di Xian'er, and took her under his protection.
• After Zhao Yun absorbed the nine layers of heavenly lightning and secured Bai Yu's Great Medicine, Bai Yu declared Ye Nian-ci his to dispose of under the contest agreement.
• Bai Yu threatened the Ye Family when Ye Xiao demanded Di Xian'er back, but a red-robed ancestor appeared and invoked Ye Nian-ci's ties to the Ye Family and Grand Void Sect.

Bai Yu accused the Ye Family of colluding with the Grand Void Sect and ordered the Demon Prison Army to arrest them, using the Black Feather King's overwhelming power to suppress resistance. As the Xu Family joined the attack, Ye Xiao tried to help Ye Nian-ci escape and charged at their pursuers.

• Bai Yu declared that Ye Nian-ci's connection to the Grand Void Sect was grounds to suspect the Ye Family of collusion and ordered the Demon Prison Army to take them into custody.
• Black Feather King seized Ye Yun by the throat and suppressed the Ye Family, while Bai Yu threatened to kill anyone who resisted.
• Xu Yingxue ordered the Xu Family to assist the Demon Prison Army, and Xu Chen led them into the attack.
• Ye Yun shouted for his family to run, and Ye Xiao grabbed Ye Nian-ci and the Tribulation-Breaking Pill before fleeing.
• Jiang Yan and Nangong Xuansu attacked Ye Xiao, who hurled Ye Nian-ci away and charged at them.

Bai Yu seized the Ye Family’s assets in Holy Heaven City and had its members imprisoned while waiting for Ye Nian-ci to return with reinforcements. At a gathering of the city’s powerful families and royals, Murong Qingyu proposed allying with Ye Nian-ci, whom she said was already under her protection.

• Bai Yu let Ye Nian-ci escape so he could use the Ye Family’s response to expose its crimes, then ordered Xu Yingxue to lead the Heavenly Demon Army into the city and seize Ye Family industries.
• Bai Yu’s forces captured Ye Yun and the other Ye Family members present, subdued Ye Xiao, and sent the Blood Corpse Legion through the city while he offered customers a discount at the Fallen Pill Pavilion.
• Within a day and a night, the Heavenly Demon Army had taken control of the Ye Family’s Holy Heaven City industries and residence, and Bai Yu’s actions unsettled the city’s other powers.
• Murong Qingyu reported that Ye Xiao had been crippled and that outside factions were moving to seize Ye Family assets, while Murong Jie said they should wait for word from higher authorities.
• Murong Qingyu urged the gathering to prepare on two fronts and proposed making Ye Nian-ci an ally, revealing that he was already under her protection.

Murong Qingyu urged the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s nobles to consider killing Bai Yu, while warning that the Heavenly Demon Army and the Grand Void Sect could decide the conflict. At the Ye Residence, Bai Yu discovered the hidden Mystic Lightning Eye and planned to refine it into a Gu.

• Murong Qingyu argued that the Holy Heaven Dynasty should seek the Grand Void Sect’s help and consider killing Bai Yu, while Murong Jie and Zhou Hunsheng doubted they could defeat him.
• Murong Qingyu reminded the nobles that the dynasty’s Holy King, the Tribulation-Breaking Pill, and the Holy Tribulation Spear could help them challenge Bai Yu’s peak Tribulation Transcendence protector.
• Xu Yingxue brought Bai Yu to a secret chamber beneath the Ye Residence, where they found a lightning altar built over a severed earth vein.
• Black Feather King tried to seize the altar but was struck back by its golden lightning, then identified it as the undeveloped Mystic Lightning Eye connected to the dynasty’s earth veins.
• Black Feather King identified the lightning as Mystic Dragon Lightning and warned that breaking the restriction would expose the treasure.
• Bai Yu rejected using the lightning only for body tempering and decided to refine the Mystic Lightning Eye into a Gu.

Bai Yu began refining the Mystic Dragon Lightning into a Gu, using Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor to buffer its power while he entered the Mystic Lightning Eye to confront the dragon soul. As he struggled to subdue it, Black Feather King discovered that Zhao Yun's Blood Corpse had transformed through the lightning.

• Bai Yu explained his plan to refine the Mystic Dragon Lightning into a Gu, and Black Feather King reacted with disbelief.
• Bai Yu had Black Feather King open the restriction and release the lightning, while Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor absorbed its force as buffers.
• Bai Yu used his Blood River Body Tempering Art and natal Gu to absorb the lightning's energy, then sent his soul into the Mystic Lightning Eye.
• Bai Yu found a colossal golden dragon soul and began pressing Gu seals onto its forehead, but it resisted and fought him in a war of attrition.
• Black Feather King guarded Bai Yu and saw Zhao Yun awaken with golden skin as her yin and yang energies reached a balance.

Bai Yu refined the Mystic Dragon soul into the Blood Dragon Thunder Gu by consuming the Thunder Marsh’s lightning. After the new Gu emerged, he tested its power and found that it could form a potent blood dragon claw without conflicting with his other natal Gu.

• Bai Yu used the Creation Yin-Yang Mystic Dragon Gu and Gu marks to subdue and refine the Mystic Dragon soul, while its desperate struggle threatened to destroy the Thunder Marsh.
• Bai Yu transformed the refined Mystic Dragon into a blood-red sphere that devoured the Thunder Marsh’s lightning as he returned to his physical body.
• Bai Yu observed Zhao Yun and the Red Emperor growing stronger from the lightning while Black Feather King explained why she would not change her cultivation path.
• The Eye of Mystic Lightning shattered, and the sphere transformed into the Blood Dragon Thunder Gu, carrying the Mystic Dragon’s resentment and lightning power.
• Bai Yu took the Blood Dragon Thunder Gu into his hand, formed a blood dragon claw, and blasted apart the altar with its blood lightning.

After draining the Thunder Marsh, Bai Yu planned to use the Ye and Xu Families to gain influence in Holy Heaven City while waiting for the Holy Heaven Dynasty to make a mistake. Meanwhile, Murong Qingyu negotiated with Huang Ling and prepared to meet Young Master Pei, who had arrived in Holy Heaven City.

• Bai Yu discovered that the Blood Dragon Thunder Gu, Zhao Yun, and the Red Emperor had divided the Thunder Marsh’s power, and his cultivation had reached the ninth level of the Nascent Soul realm.
• Bai Yu decided to use the Ye Family and Xu Family to carve up Holy Heaven City and sent thirty percent of the Ye Family’s gains to the National Preceptor’s Residence.
• Murong Qingyu offered Huang Ling the Demonic Dragon Mystic Fire Ginseng and the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s help in exchange for support in taking the throne, but demanded that a peak Tribulation Transcendence expert come negotiate.
• Murong Qingyu told Huang Ling to convey that she intended to become empress and seize the army in Bai Yu’s hands, then sent him away without giving him the ginseng.
• A woman in black told Murong Qingyu that Young Master Pei of the Grand Void Sect had arrived and wanted to meet Ye Nian-ci, so Murong Qingyu arranged a meeting at Phoenix Clear Pool and ordered her attendant to change clothes.

Bai Yu learned that Murong Qingyu had been frequenting Mist Cloud House to conceal people and exchange intelligence, and suspected an outside force was backing her. He accepted an invitation to the princess’s gathering, where he encountered Mo Qingwu, who said she had come only to repay a favor.

• Xu Yingxue reported that the Zhou and Wang Families and the royal family had stayed quiet, while Murong Qingyu had repeatedly visited Mist Cloud House.
• Bai Yu explained that brothels in the cultivation world served as intelligence networks and places to hide outsiders, and suspected Murong Qingyu was preparing to act with outside backing.
• Xu Yingyue brought Bai Yu an invitation to a gathering at the princess’s residence to discuss the Ye Family matter on behalf of the royal family.
• Bai Yu accepted the invitation, told Xu Yingxue to focus on taking over the Ye Family’s properties, and asked her to spread news praising Marshal Qi.
• At the gathering, Bai Yu met Mo Qingwu, who denied being involved in the dynasty’s internal affairs and said she had only come to repay someone a favor.

Bai Yu attended a banquet hosted by Murong Qingyu, where she introduced him to the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s elders and Pei Ji of the Grand Void Sect. Bai Yu declared he intended to establish himself in Holy Heaven City through the Ye Family’s businesses, and Pei Ji asked him to grant him a favor.

• Murong Qingyu invited Bai Yu into the banquet while Mo Qingwu declined to join the gathering.
• Murong Qingyu introduced Bai Yu to Zhou Hunsheng, Wang Rulong, and Pei Ji, the Holy Son of Misty Peak.
• Pei Ji praised Bai Yu’s deeds at the Supreme Great Wall and invited him to stay in the Blood Prison Dynasty, but Bai Yu answered with a pointed reminder that Pei Ji was a guest there.
• Murong Qingyu offered Bai Yu assistance and mentioned the Holy Heaven Dynasty’s ties to the First Prince.
• Bai Yu said he would put down roots in Holy Heaven City and make friends, prompting the merchants to realize he planned to build from the Ye Family’s businesses.
• Pei Ji congratulated Bai Yu and asked whether he would give him some face regarding a prior matter.