Recaps

Xiao Yan prepared for the Pill Convention while learning about Yao Qingyu and promising to protect her. Inside the trial realm, he gathered rare herbs, completed the Shadow Piercing Needle, and was pursued by Mu Gu.

• Xiao Yan learned that Xiao Yi Xian was pregnant, while Wei Jiangyuan completed the Shadow Piercing Needle and Ling Zhuo prepared for the Pill Convention with the Dan Clan’s support.
• Xuan Yi revealed that Yao Qingyu was her daughter with Yao Chen and asked Xiao Yan to protect her during the convention, and Xiao Yan promised to help her and bring his teacher back.
• Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan refused a secret shortcut, then the Pill Convention began with a new second-round trial requiring contestants to find their own ingredients.
• Xiao Yan used his Spiritual State Soul to navigate the first trial, passed through the illusions, and entered the small world, where he discovered that the herbs bore traces of Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan obtained Earth Core Jade Mother and gathered ingredients in the mountains, while Wei Jiangyuan marked Hua Qingyu and Xiao Yan defeated Chen Xian and two seventh-tier alchemists at the summit.
• Xiao Yan retrieved nine rare herbs through a soul restriction, used its pressure to master the Shadow Piercing Needle, and chose another route when Chen Xian returned with reinforcements.
• Mu Gu hurried to the summit to kill Xiao Yan, lost track of him, and then saw Xiao Yan appear after a sudden change.

Xiao Yan defeated Mu Gu and absorbed the Black Flame, then joined Wei Jiangyuan to rescue Yao Qingyu from Ling Zhuo’s group. With Yao Qingyu’s life in danger, Xiao Yan gathered allies and set out to find the ingredients for her treatment.

• Mu Gu hunted Xiao Yan under orders from a mysterious black figure, but Xiao Yan used the Shadow Piercing Needle to destroy Mu Gu’s soul and kill him.
• Mu Gu returned in Black Flame form, but Xiao Yan’s Void Devours Heaven consumed him and the trapped souls, and the Black Flame then entered Xiao Yan’s arm and advanced him to a three-star Dou Zun.
• Ling Zhuo’s group attacked Yao Qingyu, but Wei Jiangyuan rescued her and helped her send Xiao Yan an emergency message.
• Xiao Yan reached Yao Qingyu as Ling Zhuo threatened her, and his Black Flame overwhelmed the fighters, forcing Ling Zhuo’s group to flee and devouring Ling Luo.
• Xiao Yan absorbed the Dou Qi from the Black Flame and obtained a tiny thread of its blood essence, while Yao Qingyu’s condition worsened from depleted Qi and blood.
• Xiao Yan and Wei Jiangyuan decided to treat Yao Qingyu with a Heart Bamboo Pill, and Xiao Yan recruited Lei Jingxiao to help find the ingredients.
• After Yao Qingyu approved the treatment plan, Xiao Yan, Wei Jiangyuan, Lei Jingxiao, and Yao Qingyu set out for the alchemists’ trading grounds.

Xiao Yan and his companions secured the ingredients for Yao Qingyu’s recovery and helped her resume the Pill Convention, while Xiao Yan advanced his soul and developed a new pill formula. The final round began with Ling Zhuo and others refining eighth-grade pills as Xiao Yan continued his own work under gathering Pill Lightning.

• Xiao Yan’s group found the Nine-Jointed Jade Bamboo Hearts on Mist Mountain, where Xiong Zhan let them gather herbs from his garden.
• Wei Jiangyuan failed twice to refine the Heart Bamboo Pill, then succeeded on his third attempt as Xiao Yan tempered his soul with Pill Lightning and reached the middle stage of the Spiritual State Soul.
• Yao Qingyu recovered with the Heart Bamboo Pill and Lei Jingxiao’s Nine-Link Wood Spirit Bracelet, while Xiao Yan’s group returned to Mist Mountain to collect remaining roots and stems.
• Xiao Yan showed Wei Jiangyuan and Yao Qingyu Cao Ying’s message about the Spirit Clan, while Ling Zhuo ordered his allies to prepare for the final Pill Convention and vowed revenge for Ling Luo.
• Xiao Yan, Wei Jiangyuan, Lei Jingxiao, and Yao Qingyu emerged from the Pill Realm, and Xuan Kongzi announced that the final round would be won by whoever remained standing.
• Ling Zhuo attacked Wei Jiangyuan and Lei Jingxiao over the platforms, but Xuan Kongzi and Xuan Leizi stopped their techniques and allowed them to remain in the competition.
• Xiao Yan and Ling Zhuo displayed their flames at the start of the pill refining, and Xiao Yan’s Red Lotus Core Flame overwhelmed Ling Zhuo’s Wind Fury Dragon Flame.
• Xiao Yan began refining his original pill formula as the other contestants worked, and Yi Xu produced an eighth-grade pill while Xiao Yan continued condensing his pill beneath gathering Pill Lightning.

Xiao Yan overcame Ling Zhuo’s five-colored pill lightning with a risky refinement that earned him the Pill Convention championship. Cao Ying and Dan Chen escaped the Spirit Clan’s influence, and Xiao Yan celebrated with his friends while awaiting the reforged Heavy Profound Ruler.

• Cao Ying and Dan Chen completed eighth-tier pills, while Ling Zhuo manipulated the arena’s flames until nearly every contestant’s refinement failed.
• Wei Jiangyuan disrupted Ling Zhuo’s control at the cost of his own pill and strength, but Ling Zhuo recovered and won the crowd’s acclaim with five-colored Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan used Wei Jiangyuan’s original formula and Living Flame-grown ingredients to refine a pill with three Heavenly Flames, combining the Fire Gathering Method and Wind-Driving Palm.
• When Xiao Yan’s pill initially reached only four-colored Pill Lightning, he invoked Yao Chen’s Spirit-Raising Method and raised it to quasi-six-colored lightning, winning the championship.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen took Xiao Yan’s pills, purged the Spirit Clan’s harmful bloodline influence, and returned to the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Kongzi announced Xiao Yan as champion and said the top ten alchemists would be guided to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame in three days.
• Cao Ying apologized to Xuan Kongzi, who forgave her and invited her to Xiao Yan’s celebration banquet with Dan Chen.
• Xiao Yan’s friends celebrated his victory, Tang Zhen left Tang Huo'er with the group, and Xiao Yan looked forward to seeing Haika’s reforged Heavy Profound Ruler.