Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yan impressed Zhu Gan with his pill-refining skill and agreed to let him observe, earning the Han Family's greater respect. After giving Xiao Yi Xian her pills, Xiao Yan explained that he wanted to avoid needless conflict with the Wind Lightning Pavilion, while she left to treat patients.

• Han Yue explained that Xiao Yan did not want to trouble Zhu Gan, but Zhu Gan respectfully agreed to fulfill Xiao Yan's request and bring him medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan invited Zhu Gan to watch his pill refinement, and Han Chi resolved to use the Han Family's connections to help him.
• The next morning, Zhu Gan saw Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame and pill-refining technique, then promised to gather all the ingredients Xiao Yan needed.
• Xiao Yi Xian collected her pills, and Xiao Yan thanked her for secretly visiting while he refined them.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he wanted to avoid making an enemy of the Wind Lightning Pavilion, and she left to save people at the clinic.

Xiao Yan offered to remove Lin Yan’s lingering fire poison in exchange for seeing Lin Yan’s movement technique. After Lin Yan handed over the techniques, Xiao Yan began treating him with a fifth-tier pill and his Red Lotus Core Flame.

• Lin Yan visited Xiao Yan and asked to spar, but Xiao Yan noticed that fire poison had once affected Lin Yan’s condition.
• Lin Yan explained that the Fallen Heart Flame in Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Academy caused fire poison to build up, and that a Water Lotus Heart had removed most but not all of his.
• Xiao Yan offered to eradicate Lin Yan’s remaining fire poison in exchange for examining his Bat Duck Fire-Evasion Step.
• Lin Yan gave Xiao Yan scrolls for the mid-tier Earth-class Bat Duck Fire-Evasion Step and the low-tier Earth-class Fire Bat Art.
• Xiao Yan gave Lin Yan a fifth-tier medicinal pill and summoned his Red Lotus Core Flame to begin the treatment.

Xiao Yan used the Sea Heart Flame to remove the fire poison from Lin Yan, leaving Lin Yan’s body refreshed and closer to a breakthrough. After Lin Yan departed, Xiao Yan examined the Bat Duck Fire-Evasion Step and decided its accompanying cultivation art made it unsuitable for him.

• Xiao Yan guided the Sea Heart Flame through Lin Yan’s meridians and began burning away the fire poison.
• Xiao Yan spent the day searching Lin Yan’s body and refining the remaining fire poison until it was gone.
• Lin Yan thanked Xiao Yan, learned he needed to take cold-attributed pills for three more days, and left eager to spar.
• Xiao Yan examined the Bat Duck Fire-Evasion Step and found it less useful than his current movement skill because it required the Fire Bat Art.
• Xiao Yan put away the movement skill and considered selling it at an auction to someone who could use it.

Xiao Yi Xian became Tianbei City's celebrated Medical Fairy, bringing the Han Family greater business and influence as Xiao Yan stayed with them. Han Chi tried to secure their continued presence, but Han Yue warned him that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian were beyond the Han Family’s reach, so he focused on supporting them and finding the rare ingredients they needed.

• Xiao Yan found that Zhu Gan had gathered most of the supplementary ingredients for Xiao Yi Xian’s poison pill, while the two rare essential ingredients remained missing.
• Xiao Yi Xian’s free medical work made her famous as Tianbei City’s Medical Fairy and boosted the Han Family’s clinic, pill sales, and reputation.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Yan to prepare practical low-tier pills, but Zhu Gan and the Han Family offered to fulfill her requests instead.
• Han Yue rejected Han Chi’s hopes of keeping Xiao Yan with the Han Family and explained that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian were beyond their reach.
• Han Chi warned Han Lin not to offend Xiao Yan and made finding Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva and a seventh-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core the family’s top priority.

Xiao Yan refined pills and gave Zhu Gan guidance before wandering Tianbei City's markets alone. He recognized Xiao Yi Xian's Dou Qi on a person being dragged away by two men who had previously followed Hong Chen.

• Xiao Yan refined five pills overnight, then answered Zhu Gan's questions about alchemy and earned his deep respect.
• Xiao Yan left the Han Family estate unnoticed and explored Tianbei City's market district by himself.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the Central Plains' abundant resources and searched a map shop for a fragment of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame map, but found none.
• Xiao Yan bought several maps and paid the shop owner with a third-tier pill.
• Xiao Yan saw two men who had followed Hong Chen dragging someone through the street and sensed Xiao Yi Xian's Dou Qi from the captive.

Xiao Yan discovered that Hong Family members had planted a poisoned corpse to implicate Xiao Yi Xian, and he suspected the scheme was part of the family’s efforts to undermine the Han Family’s clinic. He confirmed the Hong Family was monitoring the clinic but left Xiao Yi Xian to continue treating patients, confident that her Dou Zun strength made her untouchable in Tianbei City.

• Xiao Yan followed two unmarked Hong Family members and saw them abandon a man’s corpse in a market alley.
• Xiao Yan examined the corpse and found that poison unlike Xiao Yi Xian’s had killed the man, leading him to suspect a Hong Family scheme.
• Xiao Yan left the body untouched and continued through the market, where he found nothing worth buying.
• Xiao Yan visited the Han Family clinic and noticed concealed auras watching it from several directions.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Xiao Yi Xian had likely noticed the Hong Family’s surveillance and remained unconcerned, then left as the waiting patients pressed forward.

Xiao Yan secretly returned to the Han Family and cured Lin Yan’s fire poison before watching him defeat Han Yue and Yan Zhi. Xiao Yan then sparred with Lin Yan, who used his sound-guided movement technique to evade his attacks as Xiao Yan prepared to demonstrate his speed.

• Xiao Yan gave Lin Yan a fifth-tier medicinal pill that permanently cured the fire poison in his body.
• Lin Yan defeated Han Yue in a spar and then beat Yan Zhi, a four-star Dou Emperor, with his evasive footwork.
• Lin Yan challenged Xiao Yan to a match, and Han Yue urged Xiao Yan to fight on her behalf.
• Xiao Yan suppressed his strength and attacked Lin Yan, who evaded his moves with the Bat Duck Fire-Evasion Step and countered from behind.
• Lin Yan insisted he would not lose to Xiao Yan in speed, and he heard faint thunder rumbling around Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to outpace Lin Yan in a movement-technique contest, forcing him off the platform. Afterward, Han Chi warned Xiao Yan that the Wind Lightning Pavilion guarded the technique closely and advised him to use it sparingly.

• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to attack Lin Yan, while Lin Yan relied on sound waves and evasive movement to avoid him.
• Xiao Yan's afterimages disrupted Lin Yan's attempts to locate him, and Lin Yan dodged until he fell from the fighting platform.
• Lin Yan accepted his loss, while Xiao Yan called their speed contest a draw because he had never touched him.
• Han Chi recognized Three Thousand Lightning Movement and warned Xiao Yan that the Wind Lightning Pavilion treated it as a secret art.
• Han Chi told Han Yue and Yan Zhi not to spread word of Xiao Yan's technique, and Xiao Yan thanked him for the warning.

Han Chi told Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Luan Clan possessed an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core, which Xiao Yan needed to refine Xiao Yi Xian’s poison pill. Xiao Yan chose to seek Mu Qingluan at Starfall Pavilion rather than wait for the Four Pavilions Conference, and agreed to settle the Han Family’s conflict with the Hong Family before leaving.

• Han Chi informed Xiao Yan that the Heavenly Luan Clan held an eighth-tier Sky Poison Scorpion Dragon Beast magic core, but the Han Family could not approach the clan.
• Han Chi explained that Mu Qingluan, a Heavenly Luan Clan member in Starfall Pavilion, would attend the Four Pavilions Conference in a little over three months.
• Xiao Yan decided he could not wait for the conference and would go to Starfall Pavilion to find Mu Qingluan.
• Xiao Yan assured Han Chi he would resolve the Han Family’s conflict with the Hong Family in return for the information.
• Xiao Yan ordered Han Chi to have the Hong Family remove its arrangements around the clinic and said he would confront the family before leaving the next day.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left the Han Family and went to the Hong Family to secure the Han Family’s safety. Xiao Yan agreed to spare Shen Yun only after making him face an attack for his role in the incident at the clinic.

• Xiao Yi Xian agreed to leave the Han Family, and Xiao Yan prepared pills for Lin Yan before they departed at dawn.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian visited the Hong Family, where Xiao Yan used his soul power to draw out Hong Tianxiao and Shen Yun.
• Hong Tianxiao agreed that the Hong Family would no longer make things difficult for the Han Family.
• Xiao Yan confronted Shen Yun for watching Xiao Yi Xian at the clinic and helping cause several deaths, then ordered Shen Yun to receive one attack from him.

Xiao Yan defeated Shen Yun with one punch and forced Hong Tianxiao to promise that the Hong Family would answer for its treatment of the Han Family. After leaving Tianbei City with Xiao Yi Xian, Xiao Yan set out for Starfall Pavilion to seek information about Zi Yan and Huo Zhi.

• Shen Yun raised a lightning shield and unleashed his full strength, but Xiao Yan shattered the defenses and knocked him unconscious with one controlled punch.
• Hong Tianxiao inspected Shen Yun, confirmed he was alive, and promised Xiao Yan that the Hong Family would handle the matter to his satisfaction.
• Xiao Yan decided he had repaid the Han Family's favor and left Tianbei City with Xiao Yi Xian.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian planned to travel to Starfall Pavilion through a spatial wormhole because the journey across the Central Plains was too long to make by spatial tearing.
• Xiao Yan worried that the Heavenly Luan Clan might demand too high a price for help from Mu Qingluan, and considered asking Xiao Yi Xian to intervene.

After Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left, the Hong Family decided to suspend its campaign against the Han Family after realizing Xiao Yan was likely a powerful alchemist. New information linked Xiao Yan to Three Thousand Lightning Movement and a theft at Wind Lightning East Pavilion, prompting Shen Yun to alert the Pavilion Master.

• Hong Tianxiao ordered the Hong Family to halt its actions against the Han Family, and Shen Yun recognized that Xiao Yan had defeated him using only soul power.
• Hong Chen objected to sparing the Han Family, but Hong Li rebuked him and allowed him to pursue the Han Family's physician only if he behaved properly.
• A messenger told Hong Li that an informant named Yan Zhi had identified the visitor as Xiao Yan, a young alchemist who had arrived at the Han Family by chance.
• Hong Li revealed that Xiao Yan knew Three Thousand Lightning Movement, leading Shen Yun and Hong Chen to suspect he had stolen from Wind Lightning East Pavilion's library.
• Shen Yun decided to notify the Pavilion Master and leave the matter for him to judge.

Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Nine Star City so Xiao Yan could update his alchemist rank at the Pill Tower before offering seventh-tier pills to the Heavenly Luan Clan. The chapter ended with Xiao Yan asking to be tested as a seventh-tier alchemist despite a warning about the examiner.

• Xiao Yan decided to seek seventh-tier alchemist certification so he could trade pills with the Heavenly Luan Clan and gain access to restricted medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian traveled to Nine Star City and found its busy Pill Tower branch.
• Xiao Yan reassured Xiao Yi Xian that her medical skills were already comparable to those of an ordinary fifth-tier alchemist.
• Xiao Yan bypassed the long testing queue and asked a Pill Tower elder about taking a faster rank test.
• The elder warned Xiao Yan that the seventh-tier examiner had a bad temper, but Xiao Yan insisted that he needed seventh-tier certification.

Xiao Yan sought certification as a Seventh-Grade Alchemist at the Pill Tower branch in Nine Star City, despite Huang Qi warning him about the examiner’s punishment for failed candidates. When the examiner tested him with soul pressure, Xiao Yan revealed power beyond her own and left her stunned.

• Huang Qi led Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian to the testing hall and warned Xiao Yan that failed candidates could be made to guard the Pill Tower entrance and serve as medicine attendants.
• Xiao Yan insisted that he needed Seventh-Grade Alchemist certification and reflected on his goal of becoming a Ninth-grade Alchemist for the Void Heavenly Emperor.
• A white-haired old woman entered the hall and tested Xiao Yan by steadily increasing her soul pressure.
• Xiao Yan remained unaffected as the old woman’s soul pressure rose to the advanced Sixth-Grade Alchemist level.
• Xiao Yan unleashed overwhelming soul pressure, crushed the old woman’s pressure, and left her pale and shocked.

Xiao Yan earned a Seventh-grade Intermediate Alchemist badge after testing at the Pill Tower, and Dan Qiu tried to recruit him into the Dan Clan. Though he refused to join a faction, he stopped when Dan Qiu offered to teach him precise soul-power control in exchange for a contest.

• Xiao Yan rebounded Dan Qiu's soul pressure and startled her with his strength.
• Dan Qiu learned Xiao Yan was twenty-three and tried to recruit him into the Dan Clan, even handing him a Rank 7 Intermediate Alchemist badge before the assessment.
• Xiao Yan completed the Pill Tower assessment and received the Seventh-grade Intermediate Alchemist rank.
• Xiao Yan refused to join the Dan Clan, but Dan Qiu caught his interest by offering a method for controlling soul power precisely.
• Dan Qiu said Xiao Yan could earn the method by defeating one of the Dan Clan's young Alchemists.

Xiao Yan refused to travel to the Pill Tower for an immediate alchemy contest because resolving Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body came first, but agreed to compete during the Pill Convention for a chance to win an eighth-rank pill. He left with Xiao Yi Xian carrying a Dan Clan token and a seventh-rank Transformation Pill, and planned to attend the convention for its Three Thousand Burning Flame prize.

• Dan Qiu offered to teach Xiao Yan a soul-control method and give him an eighth-rank medicinal pill if he defeated a young Dan Clan alchemist, while Huang Qi suggested that the opponent name the condition for Xiao Yan’s defeat.
• Xiao Yan declined to travel to the Pill Tower for the contest because the trip could delay his efforts to resolve Xiao Yi Xian’s Woeful Poison Body and cause him to miss the Four Pavilions Conference.
• Dan Qiu explained that the Pill Convention would take place in a little over a year and offer Three Thousand Burning Flame as a prize, prompting Xiao Yan to agree to participate and compete against Chen there.
• Dan Qiu gave Xiao Yan a Dan Clan identity token and promised him three free seventh-rank pills if he kept the appointment; Xiao Yan chose a Transformation Pill for his trade with the Heavenly Luan Clan.
• Xiao Yan left the Pill Tower branch with Xiao Yi Xian after officially certifying his seventh-rank alchemist status.

After refusing the Dan Clan’s invitation, Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian headed toward Dongli City to travel to the Southern Region, but Fei Tian and four Wind Lightning Pavilion elders ambushed them. Fei Tian accused Xiao Yan of possessing a stolen combat skill and demanded that he join the pavilion or submit to an investigation; Xiao Yan refused and challenged their authority.

• Dan Qiu gave Huang Qi a sixth-tier medicinal pill and told him to keep the meeting with Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian secret.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he had declined the Dan Clan’s offer because he could not be sure he would win and needed to find Huo Zhi and Zi Yan.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian hurried toward Dongli City, where they planned to use a spatial passage to the Southern Region.
• Fei Tian, master of the Wind Lightning North Pavilion, appeared with Shen Yun and three other elders and confronted Xiao Yan about the Three Thousand Lightning Movement.
• Fei Tian demanded that Xiao Yan either join the Wind Lightning Pavilion or return with him for an investigation, but Xiao Yan refused and declared that the pavilion could not force him to join.

Xiao Yan faced Fei Tian and the Wind Lightning North Pavilion elders, eager to test his strength against them. He overwhelmed the four elders and exchanged blows with Fei Tian, whose lightning Xiao Yan could absorb, leaving Fei Tian wary of his abilities.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian to stay back and confronted Fei Tian and the four Wind Lightning North Pavilion elders.
• Xiao Yan used Three Thousand Lightning Movement to evade the elders’ formation, then struck one with a punch while Crimson Lotus Karma Flame ignited Heart Fire within him.
• Xiao Yan sent purple fire serpents into the other three elders, injuring them and intensifying their Heart Fire.
• Xiao Yan attacked Shen Yun, but Fei Tian intervened with lightning; Xiao Yan absorbed the lightning with a black void in his palm.
• Xiao Yan traded a punch with Fei Tian and gained the upper hand through his greater physical strength, then devoured the lightning clinging to his body.

Xiao Yan tested his physical strength against Fei Tian, then countered Fei Tian’s lightning storm with the Red Lotus Core Flame. Fei Tian unleashed his strongest technique, the Thunder Tribulation Blood Finger, and its crimson attack pierced through Xiao Yan’s flaming dragon and streaked toward him.

• Xiao Yan used Fei Tian as a test opponent for his enhanced body and transplanted right arm, trading blows without immediately trying to defeat him.
• Fei Tian summoned a vast lightning storm that battered the mountain range and sent lightning toward Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan used the Red Lotus Core Flame to devour Fei Tian’s lightning and form a flaming dragon.
• Fei Tian decided Xiao Yan had to die, struck his chest, and unleashed the Thunder Tribulation Blood Finger.
• Xiao Yan sent the flaming dragon to swallow Fei Tian, but Fei Tian’s crimson attack pierced through it and flew toward Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan broke the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation and overwhelmed Fei Tian with his Heavenly Flame-powered Wild Desolation Ruler and physical strength. As Xiao Yan prepared to finish Fei Tian, Fei Tian revealed a second self attacking Xiao Yi Xian and threatened her to force Xiao Yan to comply.

• Xiao Yan rose to the peak of the nine-star Dou Zong level and battered Fei Tian with successive Wild Desolation Ruler techniques.
• Xiao Yan coated the Heavy Profound Ruler in Red Lotus Core Flame and shattered the Nine Heavens Thunder Prison Formation, leaving the Wind Lightning Pavilion experts badly injured.
• Fei Tian detonated the lightning shield's Dou Qi to slow Xiao Yan's Heavy Profound Ruler, then tried to make a final move.
• Xiao Yan struck Fei Tian and sent him flying, shattering nearly half the bones in both his arms.
• Fei Tian revealed a second self with six-star Dou Zong strength rushing toward Xiao Yi Xian and threatened Xiao Yan with her safety.