Chapter Summaries

As the Yao Clan's Medicine Ceremony approached, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao prepared to compete and challenge the clan's dominance in alchemy. Yao Lao also planned to use his standing at the ceremony to have his deceased parents admitted to the Yao Clan's ancestral hall.

• The Yao Clan sent Yao Wanhuo to meet Xiao Yan's party, and he treated them without hostility.
• Yao Lao gave Xiao Yan the recipe for the pill he would refine at the Medicine Ceremony, and they resolved to show that ninth-grade alchemy did not belong solely to the Yao Clan.
• Yao Lao decided to prove his abilities at the ceremony so he could secure a place in the ancestral hall for his parents.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao made final preparations as Alchemists across the Medicine Realm refined pills and drew Pill Lightning.
• Yao Lao recognized that the growing Dou Qi and spiritual energy in the Medicine Realm signaled the imminent activation of the Yao Clan's formation.

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao encountered Yao Wangui, the Yao Clan elder who had framed Yao Lao and mocked them before the Medicine Ceremony. Xiao Yan used his War Puppet to defeat Yao Wangui’s guards and seize him, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The Yao Clan began the Medicine Ceremony with a rite of worship, then attendants led Xiao Yan and the others toward the venue.
• Yao Wangui confronted Xiao Yan and Yao Lao, insulting them and recalling Yao Lao’s expulsion from the clan.
• Yao Lao left for the ceremony after advising Xiao Yan to show the clan some respect.
• Yao Wangui ordered his elites to attack, but Xiao Yan summoned his War Puppet, which swiftly knocked them all down.
• Yao Wangui attacked Xiao Yan with ethereal gas, but Xiao Yan’s Eight Wastelands Star Lotus Flame destroyed it.
• The War Puppet seized Yao Wangui, shattered his shoulder bones, and held him as Xiao Yan stepped forward.

Xiao Yan humiliated Yao Wangui but spared his life before entering the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony plaza. He joined Yao Lao among the gathered alchemists as the ceremony’s powerful guests and clan leaders assembled.

• Xiao Yan slapped and kicked Yao Wangui, then withdrew his War Puppet and left him alive.
• Xiao Yan went to the Medicine Ceremony plaza and recognized Lei Qingyue, Yao Dan, and Shi Kai among the clan leaders.
• Xiao Yan found Yao Lao and sat beside him on a meditation cushion that heightened his perception of spiritual energy.
• Xiao Yan spotted Wei Jiangyuan sitting beside Old Man Shennong, and Wei Jiangyuan raised his brows at him.

At the Yao Clan’s Medicine Ceremony, Yao Dan welcomed the assembled alchemists and opened the clan’s grand formation to them for exchanging alchemical knowledge. The alchemists began displaying their treasured cauldrons, and Xiao Yan saw how many of the continent’s highest-ranked vessels were gathered before Yao Lao explained the Yao Clan’s role in establishing the ranking.

• Yao Dan welcomed the guests and announced that the Medicine Ceremony would be an open exchange with no rankings or rewards.
• A Yao Clan member called on the alchemists to display their cauldrons, following the custom of letting the finest cauldron’s owner begin refining first.
• Wei Jiangyuan displayed the Jade Mountain Cauldron, ranked ninth on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Other alchemists displayed the Hundred Refinements Cauldron, Ice Soul Cauldron, Myriad Beast Cauldron, and Black Demon Cauldron.
• Yao Ling brought out the Purple Abyss Cauldron, while two other young Yao Clan alchemists revealed the Radiant Cauldron and Nine Heavens Cauldron.
• Xiao Yan marveled at the number of ranked cauldrons, and Yao Lao told him that the Yao Clan had established the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.

Yao Dan surprised the Medicine Ceremony by entering with the Burning Sky Cauldron and beginning to refine a pill with the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame, likely aiming for a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill. The other Alchemists began their work, and Xiao Yan's Eight Wastelands Star Lotus Flame disrupted many of their flames.

• Elder Lin revealed the Dragon-Breaking Cauldron, and Huo Zhen showed the Origin Cauldron.
• Old Man Shennong presented his Life Cauldron, but Yao Dan descended with the Burning Sky Cauldron, ranked first on the Heavenly Cauldron Ranking.
• Yao Dan announced that his participation would not change the Medicine Ceremony, then began refining with the Turtle Spirit Earth Flame.
• The other Alchemists started refining pills, and Xiao Yan summoned his Eight Wastelands Star Lotus Flame, causing many flames to surge or retreat.
• Zi Yan savored the medicinal aromas and joked that she wished all the Alchemists belonged to Origin Return Manor, prompting Xun'er to tease her about eating her fill.

As the alchemists refined their pills at the Medicine Ceremony, Wei Jiangyuan confronted his doubts about his talent and successfully produced a ninth-grade pill. Its transformed pill lightning descended, and Lei Jingxiao rushed in to shield him.

• Zi Yan noticed the Yao Clan’s Spirit Bestowal gathering spiritual energy, and Xun Er explained the ability while expressing faith that Xiao Yan could still win.
• The Yao Clan’s alchemists drew in spiritual energy with growing ease as Xiao Yan focused on refining his first ninth-grade pill and briefly watched Yao Lao work.
• Wei Jiangyuan remembered Old Man Shennong’s support and his own struggles to catch up with Xiao Yan, then resolved to prove himself by refining a ninth-grade pill.
• Wei Jiangyuan opened the Jade Mountain Cauldron and released a flawless green pill that transformed pill lightning formed in the sky.
• Lei Jingxiao shot out from the audience and arrived above Wei Jiangyuan as the ninth-grade pill lightning struck.

Wei Jiangyuan became a Ninth-grade Alchemist after refining a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill, then gave the pill to Lei Jingxiao and promised him a place with Origin Return Manor. The Medicine Ceremony continued as Yao Tian failed to refine a Tier 9 pill, while Yao Ling and Yao Yu succeeded.

• Lei Jingxiao drew the Tier 9 Pill Lightning with his spear and endured it while Wei Jiangyuan subdued the transformed pill and stored it.
• Wei Jiangyuan celebrated becoming a Ninth-grade Alchemist at thirty-one and made peace with his past.
• Wei Jiangyuan gave his Tier 9 Precious Medicinal Pill to Lei Jingxiao and invited him to join Origin Return Manor.
• Yao Tian failed to refine a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill after losing control of his soul power and left the center of the Medicine Ceremony.
• Yao Ling and Yao Yu each successfully refined a Tier 9 Precious Medicinal Pill.

Yao Ling and several other alchemists completed ninth-grade pills, while Old Man Shennong produced a pill approaching the Mystic Pill level. Five days later, Yao Dan, Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan’s cauldrons reacted at once, and Yao Dan’s pill triggered a rain of lesser pills.

• Yao Ling refined a Tier 9 Medicinal Pill, and Yao Yu and other alchemists also completed ninth-grade pills.
• Huo Zhen’s pill displayed the strongest Pill Lightning and spirituality among the Yao Clan’s alchemists.
• Old Man Shennong completed a Tier 9 Precious Medicinal Pill with a trace of Mystic Pill characteristics.
• Yao Lao and Xiao Yan continued refining as spectators debated their chances against Old Man Shennong.
• Five days later, Yao Dan, Yao Lao, and Xiao Yan’s cauldrons stirred at the same time, and Yao Dan’s pill summoned seven-colored clouds and a rain of pills.

Yao Dan successfully refined a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill, while Lei Qingyue protected him from the Black Demon Lightning and captured it. Xiao Yan and Yao Lao then revealed that they had kept their own pills unfinished and began merging them with Heavenly Flames.

• Pill Rain from Yao Dan's Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill nourished the Medicine Realm before Black Demon Lightning gathered overhead.
• Lei Qingyue intervened to shield Yao Dan and the spectators, then used lightning and a bow to break apart and capture the Black Demon Lightning in a gourd.
• Yao Dan forced the pill, which had taken his likeness, into its true form and sealed the Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill in a jade bottle.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao struck their cauldrons together and revealed their unfinished, similar pills to the crowd.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao used Heavenly Flames to draw their pills together, and Xiao Yan called out, "Pill Spirit Ascension!"

Xiao Yan and Yao Lao used their synchronized refinement and Spirit-Raising Method to create a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill together. After the pill’s Pill Rain fell, Xiao Yan stepped forward to face its Black Demon Lightning and test his strength.

• Yao Lao handed Xiao Yan control of his unfinished pill so Xiao Yan could use his Heavenly Flame to complete their fusion method.
• Xiao Yan dissolved his pill into medicinal power, which Yao Lao’s pill absorbed as black clouds gathered overhead.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao completed the Clear Subtle Revival Pill, and a second Pill Rain descended.
• Xiao Yan entrusted the pill to Yao Lao and stepped out to face its Black Demon Lightning.
• Lei Qingyue warned Xiao Yan and offered to take the lightning for him, but Xiao Yan chose to test himself and asked Lei Qingyue to intervene only if he lost control.

Xiao Yan absorbed Black Demon Lightning to temper his soul, but its destructive energy ran wild inside him until Xun Er used her Golden Emperor Incinerating Heaven Flame to refine it. With the lightning under control, Xiao Yan resumed his cultivation while Xun Er stayed by his side.

• Xiao Yan summoned the War Puppet, activated his five clan markings, and prepared to draw in some of the Black Demon Lightning while the puppet handled the rest.
• Xiao Yan used the War Puppet and the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame to scatter the lightning, then absorbed a portion into his body to temper his soul.
• Xiao Yan struggled to refine the Black Demon Lightning as it ravaged his body, leaving him bleeding and his aura chaotic.
• Xun Er stopped the others from intervening and used her Golden Emperor Incinerating Heaven Flame to refine the lightning inside Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan guided the now-pure lightning toward his head to cultivate his soul, while Xun Er withdrew her flames and remained beside him.

Yao Dan accepted Yao Chen and Xiao Yan’s superior alchemical achievement at the Medicine Ceremony, easing the Yao Clan’s reluctance to recognize the exiled Yao Chen. Far away in the Soul Realm, Hun Xuzi refined a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill for Lord Void, who hinted at distrust toward Soul Heavenly Emperor and Gu Yuan.

• Yao Dan applauded Yao Chen and Xiao Yan’s refinement, prompting Lei Qingyue and Shi Kai to join him and breaking the Yao Clan’s silence.
• Yao Chen was moved by the praise and remembered his youthful dream of winning glory for the Yao Clan.
• In the Soul Realm, Hun Xuzi used the Life-Extracting Cauldron to refine a Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill as the Black Demon Lightning was swallowed by a dark vortex.
• Lord Void accepted Hun Xuzi’s pill, praised his work, and promised to record another merit for him.
• After Hun Xuzi withdrew, Lord Void said he did not believe Soul Heavenly Emperor and Gu Yuan’s claims about ten years.

After the Medicine Ceremony, Xiao Yan stabilized his soul power and reunited with Xun'er before giving Yao Lao the Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill. Yao Dan visited Yao Lao to apologize for the Yao Clan’s past treatment of him, leaving Yao Lao shaken but unable to forget the harm done.

• Xiao Yan finished absorbing the Black Demon Lightning, stabilized his Late Heavenly State Soul, and shared a tender reunion with Xun'er.
• Xiao Yan offered Yao Lao the Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill, but Yao Lao refused and urged him to keep it until the crises facing them were resolved.
• Lei Qingyue and Yao Dan arrived to see Yao Lao, and Yao Dan apologized for the Yao Clan’s past wrongs.
• Yao Lao helped Yao Dan straighten up and acknowledged that he could not blame the chief for every wrong, though the clan’s actions and his parents’ bitter deaths remained painful.

Yao Dan and Lei Qingyue tried to repair their clans’ relationships with Yao Lao and Xiao Yan, but both men refused to be drawn in. Xiao Yan vowed to settle Yao Lao’s old grievance with Yao Wangui while respecting their larger priorities, and the story moved to the start of a major trade fair in the Medicine Realm.

• Yao Dan told Yao Lao that he could return to the Yao Clan to visit his parents, but Yao Lao politely declined to rejoin the clan.
• Lei Qingyue apologized to Xiao Yan for the Thunder Clan’s past conduct and offered to return two Bodhi Seeds, but Xiao Yan refused them.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Lao discussed the clans’ attempts to win them over, and Xiao Yan vowed to make Yao Wangui answer for harming his teacher.
• Yao Lao warned Xiao Yan to act within limits and keep the struggle against the Soul Clan and Ancient Clan foremost.
• Seven days after the Medicine Ceremony, the continent’s high-level trade fair began in a pavilion in the Medicine Realm, where the Origin Return Manor group joined nearly a hundred powerful participants.

Xiao Yan infiltrated the Yao Clan and ambushed Yao Wangui, seeking revenge for Yao Lao and declaring that he intended to take the elder’s soul. He left Yao Wangui grievously injured and captured by the War Puppet.

• Yao Wangui prepared to attend the trade fair while resenting Yao Chen and Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan emerged from the shadows in Yao Wangui’s residence and said he had come to borrow Yao Wangui’s soul.
• Yao Wangui tried to retreat toward the door and call for help, but Xiao Yan used Soul-Sealing Consciousness Ban to cut off his senses.
• The War Puppet shattered Yao Wangui’s arms and legs while he was incapacitated, then seized him by the neck.
• Xiao Yan approached the helpless Yao Wangui and repeated that he wanted to borrow his soul.

Xiao Yan captured Yao Wangui’s soul before joining the Yao Clan trade fair with Zi Yan and Origin Return Manor. At the fair, Zi Yan sensed Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan members among the guests, and Xiao Yan planned to deal with them after the event.

• Xiao Yan burned Yao Wangui’s body and trapped his soul in a cage of Heavenly Flame while Zi Yan concealed the fight with her spatial power.
• Xiao Yan and Zi Yan arrived at the trade fair, where Xun Er asked Xiao Yan to praise her for helping devise the plan against Yao Wangui.
• Yao Dan opened the fair and announced that participants could barter freely but could not use coercion.
• Zi Yan sensed a Dou Sheng from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Xiao Yan said Origin Return Manor could confront the clan after the trade fair.
• The fair began with a trader exchanging a Moon-Holding Flower Fruit for a high-quality eighth-tier medicinal pill, followed by a man offering Spirit Essence Paste for a mid-tier Heaven-class movement technique.

At the trade fair, Xiao Yan watched bidders compete for a Heavenly Flame before a Dou Sheng presented a mysterious bottle of Hurricane Qi. The seller demanded two tier-nine treasure pills and a Heaven-tier cultivation method, leaving the trade unresolved.

• Xiao Yan, Elder Lin, and Master Huo Zhen acquired several high-quality medicinal herbs for their group.
• An old man offered the Mystic Yellow Flame in exchange for a tier-nine pill, and the Yao Clan won it by offering two tier-nine pills.
• A one-star Dou Sheng presented five items, including a sealed bottle that caught Xiao Yan's attention.
• The one-star Dou Sheng identified the bottle's contents as Hurricane Qi, which greatly increased the user's speed for two or three hours after inhalation.
• The one-star Dou Sheng refused to demonstrate the Hurricane Qi and asked for two tier-nine treasure pills and a Heaven-tier cultivation method.

Xiao Yan traded a tier-nine pill for the mysterious Hurricane Qi, preventing the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan from acquiring it. He then examined an ancient Heaven Demon Phoenix skeleton whose enormous wings still radiated powerful Dou Qi and a fearsome aura.

• After the one-star Dou Sheng's high asking price stalled the bidding, a Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan member offered to trade for the Hurricane Qi.
• Zi Yan urged Xiao Yan to keep the item from the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan, and Lei Jingxiao asked Xiao Yan to bid on his behalf.
• Xiao Yan offered one tier-nine pill, a Heaven-tier cultivation method, and a Heaven-tier Dou Technique, then negotiated a trade of the Hurricane Qi for one tier-nine pill.
• Xiao Yan borrowed a tier-nine pill from Huo Zhen, and the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan withdrew rather than challenge him.
• Nine Phoenix complained about Origin Return Manor, while his companion urged patience and revealed that their clan chief had devoured one South Dragon King and sought to swallow the Ancient Void Dragon Dragon Emperor.
• Xiao Yan inspected an incomplete Heaven Demon Phoenix skeleton and sensed a formidable aura still emanating from its enormous wings.

At the trade fair, Xiao Yan recognized the Heavenly Demon Phoenix remains and the powerful soul sealed inside them as ideal materials for another War Puppet. He joined Origin Return Manor in bidding against the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan, partly to drive up the price, and the contest left the remains at the center of a fierce auction.

• A Stone Clan Dou Sheng revealed that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix remains contained a powerful soul sealed inside them.
• Xiao Yan considered using the remains and soul to make a fast War Puppet, and Xun Er explained that the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan likely wanted the remains back.
• The Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan recognized the remains, and Nine Phoenix ordered his group to obtain them at any cost.
• Several factions bid fiercely for the remains until the main contest narrowed to Origin Return Manor and the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan.
• Origin Return Manor kept raising its bids to make the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Clan pay more.

Xiao Yan abandoned the bid for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix remains and prepared a plan involving the Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan. At the trade fair’s climax, he offered his ability to create new bodies for souls, then revealed a deceased Yao Clan elder as proof.

• Xiao Yan refused to offer his Ninth-Grade Mystic Pill, and Zi Yan agreed to stop bidding on the Heavenly Demon Phoenix remains.
• The Heaven Demon Phoenix Clan won the remains after spending nearly half its savings, and Xiao Yan whispered a plan to Wei Jiangyuan.
• Xiao Yan waited until the major clans had finished trading, then announced that he would trade his soul-rebirth ability rather than a pill.
• Xiao Yan claimed he could create new bodies for any number of souls that could exist independently, and he brought out Wang Yun to demonstrate.
• Xiao Yan revealed a soul awaiting resurrection, and the assembled experts recognized it as a Yao Clan elder.