Recaps

Mu Yaoyin arrived with Mu Wei and broke the spatial sealing formation around Holy Pill City, freeing the trapped fighters and allowing reinforcements to enter. Fire Cloud Ancestor then descended from the heavens as Tang Huo'er watched Xiao Yan, prompting Tang Zhen to recognize her feelings for him.

• Mu Yaoyin and Mu Wei emerged from the spatial vortex, and Zi Yan told Mu Yaoyin that Xiao Yan was still trapped inside.
• Mu Yaoyin summoned the Heavenly Luan phantom and shattered the Spirit Clan's spatial sealing formation with a single strike.
• Burning Flame Valley's Fire Cloud Ancestor arrived through a spatial rift, and Tang Zhen welcomed the reinforcement.
• Tang Huo'er watched Xiao Yan and Huo Zhi retreat from Ling Fengzhui, and Tang Zhen teased her about worrying over Xiao Yan.

The Pill Tower Ancestor arrived in Holy Pill City as the Spirit Clan threatened to overwhelm the Pill Tower. His immense power shifted the balance, leaving the battle’s outcome dependent on him.

• Tang Zhen worried that his daughter Tang Huo'er would suffer competing for Xiao Yan's affection, while the arrival of two Dou Shengs eased the battlefield's tension.
• A third spatial vortex opened, and a child riding a green ox emerged with an aura that froze Douqi wherever he looked.
• Pill Tower members recognized the child as their elusive ancestor and cheered, believing he had come to save them.
• The Fire Cloud Ancestor and Mu Yaoyin greeted the Pill Tower Ancestor with respect, while the Fire Cloud Ancestor suspected he had reached six-star Dou Sheng strength.
• Elder Lin saw the Pill Tower Ancestor arrive and realized the Spirit Clan no longer controlled the fate of Holy Pill City.

Ling Haonan revealed his Six-Star Dou Saint strength and activated the Heaven-Sealing Saint-Locking Grand Formation beneath Holy Pill City, trapping the Pill Tower Ancestor, Mu Yaoyin, and the Fire Cloud Ancestor. The three experts fought back as Mu Yaoyin sent Mu Wei to help Xiao Yan.

• Ling Haonan unleashed his blood essence and revealed the power of a Six-Star Dou Saint, shocking Elder Lin and the gathered experts.
• Ling Haonan and Ling He awakened the vast Heaven-Sealing Saint-Locking Grand Formation beneath Holy Pill City, revealing that the pillars holding the Pill Tower's nine experts were only subsidiary nodes.
• The formation surged with liquid Dou Qi that became chains and attacked the Pill Tower Ancestor, Mu Yaoyin, and the Fire Cloud Ancestor.
• Mu Yaoyin used her Dou Qi to send Mu Wei away and ordered her to help the young master.
• The Fire Cloud Ancestor struck a vulnerable corner of the formation with condensed golden-red flames, while the green-robed child and his ox unleashed a combined attack that made the formation's light churn.

The Pill Tower Ancestor shattered Ling Haonan’s formation with the Dou Technique Sever Heaven, but Ling Haonan revealed that luring him there had been part of a hundred-year plan. Six Spirit Clan Dou Saints arrived and restored the formation, trapping the Pill Tower Ancestor and the other reinforcements as Ling Haonan’s victory appeared assured.

• The Pill Tower Ancestor gathered the medicinal energy of Holy Pill City and struck Ling Haonan’s dark-gold rune with Sever Heaven.
• Ling Haonan’s formation began to collapse, freeing the Pill Tower experts from the Spirit Clan blood essence’s influence.
• Ling Haonan revealed that his task had been to lure the Pill Tower Ancestor and that he had not yet lost.
• Six Spirit Clan Dou Saints appeared and poured their power into the formation, binding its broken parts together and trapping the Pill Tower Ancestor, Mu Yaoyin, and Fire Cloud Ancestor.
• Elder Lin recognized Ling Yuan, Ling Xuanmo, Ling Cang, and the other arriving Spirit Clan experts as the clan declared its victory.

Ling Haonan summoned Ling Yuan and Ling Xuanmo to discuss whether the Spirit Clan should seize the Pill Tower’s Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill. After Ling Yuan explained the risks, Ling Haonan asked if they still remembered the Xiao Clan.

• Ling Xuanmo replaced Ling Haonan’s untouched tea, but Ling Haonan said he had asked the servants to leave it.
• Ling Haonan raised the Pill Convention and criticized the Spirit Clan’s lack of unity and resolve.
• Ling Yuan warned that the plan could fail because of internal dissent, resistance from the Pill Tower, and intervention by other Imperial Clans.
• Ling Haonan praised Ling Yuan and Ling Xuanmo as sources of hope for the Spirit Clan.
• Ling Haonan asked Ling Yuan and Ling Xuanmo whether they remembered the Xiao Clan.

Ling Haonan urged Ling Yuan and Ling Xuanmo to risk the Spirit Clan’s remaining strength rather than let it decline, citing Xiao Xuan’s courage as an example. He revealed that his life was nearly over and insisted they must make one final gamble while he still had his strength.

• Ling Haonan explained that he admired Xiao Xuan for risking the Xiao Clan’s remaining power in a final stand, despite its defeat.
• Ling Yuan argued that the Xiao Clan’s gamble had destroyed its inheritance, while the Spirit Clan still had capable young people.
• Ling Haonan condemned the Spirit Clan’s weakness and warned that rival clans had surpassed it, leaving it vulnerable to eventual destruction.
• Ling Haonan revealed that the Soul-Calming Tea had stopped working and that he would not live much longer.
• Ling Haonan said he could no longer protect the Spirit Clan indefinitely and called for it to stake everything on one last gamble.

Ling Haonan, Ling Yuan, and Ling Xuanmo agreed on a plan to exploit the Pill Convention, weaken the Pill Tower, and seize its Mystic Pill to revive the Spirit Clan. They recognized that even success might leave them vulnerable to the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan.

• Ling Yuan and Ling Xuanmo overcame their doubts and joined Ling Haonan in risking their lives for the Spirit Clan's future.
• Ling Haonan outlined a plan to use Ling Zhuo and the Pill Convention to build the clan's influence and undermine the Pill Tower from within.
• Ling Haonan proposed trapping the Mystic Pill with a Space Imprisonment formation, refining it to strengthen Ling Yuan, and taking the Pill Tower's resources and Alchemists.
• Ling Xuanmo and Ling Yuan raised concerns about intervention from the other Imperial Clans and how the Spirit Clan would survive retaliation.
• Ling Haonan admitted that the Ancient Clan and Soul Clan might attack, but said their decision would depend on what they wanted, not on the Spirit Clan's actions.

Ling Haonan and the Spirit Clan leaders finalized a desperate plan to seize the Pill Tower’s Mystic Pill, accepting the danger of provoking stronger clans. He revealed that Ling Yuan would consume the pill while he used his remaining power to help him, leaving the clan’s future in Ling Yuan and Ling Xuanmo’s hands.

• Ling Fengzhui warned Ling Xuanmo and Ling Yuan that the Spirit Clan could not avoid destruction by submitting to the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan.
• Ling Haonan outlined how the Spirit Clan would organize its clansmen for an assault and retrieve the two girls held at the Pill Tower, while enforcing strict rules for bloodline transplantation.
• Ling Haonan insisted that the Mystic Pill was the clan’s foremost priority and rejected Ling Xuanmo’s suggestion that he take it to extend his life.
• Ling Haonan chose Ling Yuan as the pill’s recipient because his bloodline was at its peak and explained that the pill’s spiritual origin would be devoured first.
• Ling Haonan promised to ignite his remaining power to help Ling Yuan absorb the Mystic Pill, entrusting the Spirit Clan’s future to Ling Yuan and Ling Xuanmo.

Ling Haonan’s Spirit Clan trapped the Pill Tower Ancestor, Fire Cloud Ancestor, and Mu Yaoyin in the Mother-Child Rune Grand Formation, then sealed Holy Pill City with a spatial barrier. With the Pill Tower Ancestor’s escape looking increasingly unlikely, Ling Haonan focused on completing the plan as Xiao Yan remained an unresolved variable.

• Ling Xuanmo watched Ling Haonan burn himself away to power the Mother-Child Rune Grand Formation.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor, Fire Cloud Ancestor, and Mu Yaoyin failed to break free as six Spirit Clan Dou Shengs poured their Dou Qi into the formation.
• Ling Fengzhui ordered the Spirit Guards, Spirit Clan members, and Heavenly Nether Sect to seal Holy Pill City and prevent anyone from leaving.
• Ling He joined the formation outside the rune barrier and helped the Spirit Clan activate a dark-silver spatial prison around the city.
• Ling Haonan briefly regarded Xiao Yan but gave no order concerning him, then turned his attention back to the trapped Pill Tower Ancestor.

Ling Haonan used his life force to ignite the rune formation and began refining the Pill Tower Ancestor, while the trapped Pill Tower experts failed to free him. Xiao Yan and the others regrouped, injured and cut off from aid, and faced the dire prospect that they were the only ones who could stop the Spirit Clan.

• Ling Haonan burned his life force to activate the formation’s refining flames and bind the Pill Tower Ancestor.
• Fire Cloud Ancestor, Elder Lin in hemp robes, and Mu Yaoyin attacked the formation to free the Pill Tower Ancestor, but their efforts failed.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor weakened as Ling Haonan’s flames battered his human form and threatened to force him back into a pill.
• Xiao Yan’s group regrouped after the battle, and Yao Qingyu treated Wei Jiangyuan’s severe wound.
• Zi Yan asked what they should do as the Spirit Clan’s formations imprisoned the Pill Tower experts, sealed Holy Pill City, and left the Pill Tower Ancestor close to being refined.

Xiao Yan and the others faced the Spirit Clan’s grand formation with no way to escape, until Mu Wei identified a chance to weaken it. He proposed striking its vulnerable outer nodes together to help the trapped Ancestors break out.

• Venerable Mingshui explained that the group could neither break through the formation nor escape, and that Lei Jingxiao’s status would not protect them once the Spirit Clan achieved its goal.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian silently understood that neither wanted the other to face danger alone, while Lei Jingxiao vented his frustration by driving his spear into the ground.
• Mu Wei said the formation was nearly flawless but had not reached its intended optimal state because Xiao Yan’s actions forced the Spirit Clan to activate it ahead of schedule.
• Mu Wei revealed that the formation’s outer structure had relatively weak nodes and said the group could strike a foundation point together to help the Ancestors escape.
• Tang Zhen eagerly asked Mu Wei how they should arrange the attack.

With the Dou Sheng-level formation trapping Xuan Yi and Mu Yaoyin, Xiao Yan stepped forward with a plan to break it using a Destruction Fire Lotus fused from seven Heavenly Flames. The chapter ended as he considered whether the seven-flame lotus could overcome the formation.

• Mu Wei explained that breaking the formation required at least the power of a one-star Dou Sheng, leaving the group without a viable option.
• Qing Lin offered to try, but Xiao Yan stopped her because she was exhausted and the attempt was too dangerous.
• Xiao Yan declared that he would break the formation, despite his companions' concerns about his injuries and depleted strength.
• Xiao Yan recalled that a Five-Colored Fire Lotus had nearly killed a Half-Saint and realized he could attempt a seven-flame lotus with the Heavenly Flames gathered in Holy Pill City.

Xiao Yan prepared to merge a multicolored Fire Lotus to stop the Spirit Clan, gathering allies and safeguards for the perilous undertaking. With Zi Yan retrieving the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and the Three Thousand Burning Flame, Xiao Yan swallowed the Flame Forging Body Pill and announced that they would begin.

• Wei Jiangyuan reminded Xiao Yan that the Flame Forging Body Pill could protect him while he merged the Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the last earthen puppet Venerable Wind had sent him, while the others recovered their strength and prepared to defend him.
• The six Spirit Clan Dou Shengs continued refining the Pill Tower Ancestor as Ling Fengzhui monitored Holy Pill City for disturbances.
• Zi Yan returned with the Wind Fury Dragon Flame and the Three Thousand Burning Flame subdued in her hands.
• Xiao Yan confirmed Tang Zhen was ready, swallowed the Flame Forging Body Pill, and said they would begin.

Xiao Yan began fusing five Heavenly Flames while Huo Zhi supplied his Dou Qi and Tang Zhen and Zi Yan helped control the flames. As the Spirit Clan noticed the growing danger, Zi Yan and Lei Jingxiao distracted Ling He and evaded her attacks, leaving Xiao Yan to continue the fusion.

• Xiao Yan fused the Sea Heart Flame and Green Lotus Core Flame, then worked with Tang Zhen to calm Tang Zhen's Nine Dragon Thunder Fire.
• Xiao Yan pulled in Wind Fury Dragon Flame and Three Thousand Burning Flame, causing a violent blast as he began forcing all five flames to fuse.
• The Spirit Clan sensed Xiao Yan's growing Fire Lotus and feared he would use the Dou Technique again.
• Ling He tried to attack the Space Imprisonment formation, but Ling Fengzhui warned her that Lei Jingxiao was nearby, making her hesitate.
• Zi Yan and Lei Jingxiao shifted through spatial fissures to evade Ling He's soul lock and keep the Spirit Clan occupied.

Xiao Yan’s allies fought to protect him while he fused a devastating six-colored fire lotus against the Spirit Clan’s assault. The fusion advanced, but their defenses neared collapse as Ling Fengzhui ordered his forces to stop Xiao Yan before the technique took shape.

• Ling He wanted to leave the Space Imprisonment formation to pursue Lei Jingxiao, but Ling Fengzhui refused and instead led Tianming Old Demon and the Spirit Guards to attack Xiao Yan.
• Qing Lin, Mu Wei, Wei Jiangyuan, Venerable Mingshui, Xiao Yi Xian, Kang Ning, and Tang Zhen defended Xiao Yan as the attackers shattered Mu Wei’s formations.
• Xiao Yan completed the preliminary fusion of five flames and told Huo Zhi to protect the others; Huo Zhi joined the battle.
• Xiao Yan added the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame and began forming a six-colored fire lotus, whose power alarmed Ling Fengzhui.
• Ling Fengzhui ordered the Spirit Guards to unleash everything, while Qing Lin faced Tianming Old Demon and Xiao Yan’s defenses approached collapse.

Xiao Yan completed a Six-Colored Fire Lotus while the Spirit Clan drained the Pill Tower Ancestor, despite the Black Flame breaking free and disrupting his planned fusion. Mu Wei marked the node area for Xiao Yan, leaving him poised to unleash the fire lotus there.

• Pill Tower survivors, including Elder Su Huo, the Fire-Headed Owl, and Elder Haika, joined the battle to protect the Pill Tower Ancestor and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan saw the Spirit Clan use a rune formation and Ling Haonan's refining power to drain the Pill Tower Ancestor's origin.
• The Black Flame broke free of Xiao Yan's control and raced toward the Pill Tower Ancestor, preventing him from completing a Seven-Colored Fire Lotus.
• Xiao Yan fused the remaining flames into a Six-Colored Fire Lotus despite its dangerous, unstable power.
• Mu Wei sent a beam of Dou Qi to mark the node's general location for Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan’s six-colored fire lotus shattered the Spirit Clan’s Mother-Child Rune Grand Formation and helped free the Pill Tower’s Dou Shengs. As the flames threatened Holy Pill City and the battle descended into chaos, Ling Haonan remained isolated after his defeat.

• Ling Fengzhui tried to stop Xiao Yan’s fire lotus, but Huo Zhi blocked him while Ling He’s attacks were intercepted by Lei Jingxiao and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan detonated the six-colored fire lotus at a weakened node, and its blast cracked and destroyed the Mother-Child Rune Grand Formation.
• Elder Lin broke the Space Imprisonment Formation and raised a Dou Qi barrier to protect the people below from the descending flames.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor broke his light chains as the formation collapsed, while Black Flame stole some of the medicinal origin energy around him and returned to Xiao Yan.
• The Pill Tower Ancestor sent out a signal to draw the forces feared by the Spirit Clan, while Ling Haonan remained isolated after losing.

After Xiao Yan and his allies destroyed the Spirit Clan’s rune formation, Ling Haonan’s plan collapsed and the Spirit Clan was ordered to retreat. Before they could leave, Ling Xuanmo struck Xiao Yan down, sending his mangled body into a spatial storm, while Lei Jingxiao prepared a desperate counterattack.

• The destruction of the rune formation ruined Ling Haonan’s scheme, and the Supreme Elder ordered the Spirit Clan to return to their clan.
• Ling Xuanmo, enraged by the failure, attacked Xiao Yan and Ling He with a Dou Sheng-level palm strike.
• Xiao Yan’s defenses failed, and the strike shattered his body before a spatial fissure swallowed him.
• Xiao Yi Xian and the others cried out for Xiao Yan as Elder Lin in hemp robes struggled to find his fading presence.
• Lei Jingxiao, consumed by rage, focused his lightning-charged golden spear on Ling Xuanmo and prepared to risk his life.

After the Spirit Clan’s raid on Holy Pill City failed, Jiang Yunyan arrived and learned that Xiao Yan had been swept into spatial turbulence after taking a Dou Sheng’s attack. Unable to find any trace of him, she accepted his apparent death and challenged Ling Haonan to a final duel.

• Lei Jingxiao’s lightning attack failed to harm Ling Xuanmo, and Ling Yuan ordered the Spirit Clan to retreat through a spatial vortex.
• Jiang Yunyan arrived, treated Lei Jingxiao’s backlash, and learned that Xiao Yan had been swept into spatial turbulence.
• Jiang Yunyan searched Holy Pill City and its shattered space but found no trace of Xiao Yan.
• Ling Haonan declared that Xiao Yan could not have survived the four-star Dou Sheng’s attack, and Jiang Yunyan’s failed search seemed to confirm his death.
• Jiang Yunyan challenged Ling Haonan to fight her before his final departure, and he accepted.

Jiang Yunyan defeated Ling Haonan after the Spirit Clan’s failed attempt to seize the Pill Tower, then helped calm the unconscious Xiao Yi Xian. Xiao Yan’s companions refused to accept his death and searched the ruins for his remains or remnant soul.

• Jiang Yunyan killed Ling Haonan with the Mistcloud Sword, and Huo Yi and Huo Xuan arrived to find Huo Zhi safe.
• Jiang Yunyan told Huo Yi that the Spirit Clan had failed to seize the Pill Tower and had left, while the Ancient Clan had also appeared.
• Jiang Yunyan used Spirit-Nurturing Purple Glow Grass to soothe Xiao Yi Xian, who had fallen unconscious after witnessing Xiao Yan’s apparent death.
• Jiang Yunyan told Lei Jingxiao that Xiao Yan could not be saved after taking a Dou Sheng’s strike, but Lei Jingxiao and the others insisted he might still return.
• Lei Jingxiao, Qing Lin, the Pill Tower experts, and Xiao Yan’s companions searched for Xiao Yan or his remnant soul while Xuan Yi blamed herself for what had happened.

A mysterious black figure reconstructed Tang Qiying’s shattered soul in Sound Valley and offered him a new body in exchange for hunting Xiao Yan. Tang Qiying accepted, and the two set off to find a body for him.

• A black figure entered Sound Valley unseen and gathered the remnants of Tang Qiying’s soul.
• The figure restored Tang Qiying’s soul and offered to give him a powerful new body.
• Tang Qiying agreed to serve as a whetstone by fighting Xiao Yan, the man who had killed him.
• The black figure promised Tang Qiying freedom if he killed Xiao Yan and took him to hunt for the body of a top genius.

Jiang Yunyan pushed Lei Jingxiao to temper himself in the Azure Underworld Lightning Pool, provoking him into breaking through his four-star Dou Zun bottleneck and enduring the lightning without Dou Qi defenses. She rescued him unconscious when he reached his limit, leaving his refinement in her hands.

• Jiang Yunyan showed Lei Jingxiao the Azure Underworld Lightning Pool, formed above a Thunder Pattern Jade Vein, and told him to absorb it by jumping in without Dou Qi defenses.
• Lei Jingxiao hesitated, so Jiang Yunyan berated him for being weak and unable to protect Xiao Yan or the people he cared about.
• Jiang Yunyan restrained Lei Jingxiao and reminded him of Xiao Yan's death and the danger facing his companions if he remained weak.
• Lei Jingxiao's anger broke through the barrier suppressing him at four-star Dou Zun, and he shattered Jiang Yunyan's restraint before plunging into the pool.
• Jiang Yunyan watched Lei Jingxiao's life force weaken, then pulled his unconscious body from the lightning plasma when he could endure no more.

Lei Jingxiao survived the lightning pool and broke through, while Jiang Yunyan resolved to help him grow strong enough to defeat Lei Dong. At the Pill Tower, Wei Jiangyuan stayed behind to revive Venerable Yao and pursue becoming a tier-nine alchemist as the Tower considered how to respond to the Spirit Clan.

• Lei Jingxiao emerged from the lightning pool with Azure Underworld Lightning and broke through, and Jiang Yunyan healed him and promised to help him defeat Lei Dong.
• Wei Jiangyuan refused to return, and Venerable Mingshui left after failing to persuade him.
• Wei Jiangyuan reassured Yao Qingyu that Xiao Yan might still be alive and said he planned to revive Venerable Yao.
• Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Yi discussed the Pill Tower's response to the Spirit Clan and agreed Wei Jiangyuan should remain to pursue tier-nine alchemy.

Qing Lin traveled with Yao Huang to the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan, intending to claim its resources and power so she could grow stronger. Yao Huang promised that her royal blood would win the clan’s support as she prepared to challenge its rival factions and become its empress.

• Xuan Kongzi and Qiu Ling acknowledged Wei Jiangyuan’s importance to the Pill Tower and lamented that Xiao Yan’s great favor could never be repaid.
• Qing Lin asked Yao Huang how many members of the Nine Serene Deepground Python Clan would support her, and he predicted that at least eighty percent would do so once her identity was proven.
• Yao Huang explained that the clan revered bloodline, while Qing Lin recalled that Ming Mei had transferred Little Cold’s royal blood into her body.
• Qing Lin resolved to claim the clan’s resources and pursue strength, driven by her need to protect what she cared about and her hatred of the Spirit Clan.
• Qing Lin asked Yao Huang to guide her within the clan, and he eagerly promised that its members would obey her after she resolved its two major factions.

A caravan led by Wang Zhuang found a barely living, heavily charred person in the Flame Wasteland and took them aboard. The caravan continued toward safety, leaving the stranger’s identity unknown.

• Wang Zhuang warned the Qianhua Trading Company caravan that the Flame Wasteland’s underground fire veins had grown dangerous.
• Wang Linger spotted what looked like a person in a charred hollow and convinced Wang Zhuang to investigate.
• Old Wu and Old Han found a faint pulse beneath the stranger’s cracked shell of charcoal and carried them back to the caravan.
• Wang Zhuang ordered the caravan to move on quickly before nightfall and the next eruption of underground fire.