Chapter Summaries

After defeating Tang Qiying, Xiao Yan learned that the real Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva had been taken away and rushed back to Xiao Yi Xian, whose life was fading as Qing Lin suppressed her poison. Xiao Yan collapsed after telling Qing Lin that they had to reach Senior Chen in the Northwest Region to save her.

• Mu Wei sensed that a stone plaque had shattered and sighed as he looked toward the horizon.
• Xiao Yan questioned Qin Shiyin about the real Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, then killed her when she confirmed Tang Qiying had taken it.
• Xiao Yan hurried toward Xiao Yi Xian, suffering from severe injuries and the backlash of using the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire three times.
• Mu Qingluan supported Xiao Yan into the cave, where Qing Lin was using the Nine Serene Deepground Python's cold to suppress Xiao Yi Xian's poison.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Lin to take them to the Northwest Region to find Senior Chen, then collapsed into a coma.

Xiao Yan awoke from his coma to find that Xiao Yi Xian had survived and gained control of her Woeful Poison Body. After thanking Jiang Yunyan for helping her, Xiao Yan learned that Jiang Yunyan had something to ask of him.

• Xiao Yan woke from a coma and called out for Xiao Yi Xian, whom he found caring for him.
• Xiao Yi Xian showed Xiao Yan that she could control the poison of her Woeful Poison Body and explained that the crisis had been resolved.
• Xiao Yan and Xiao Yi Xian left the cave and met Jiang Yunyan, Lei Jingxiao, Qing Lin, Mu Qingluan, and Lei Jingxiao's two elderly guards.
• Jiang Yunyan explained that she had provided Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva and that Elder Zhou had helped Xiao Yi Xian control her Woeful Poison Body.
• Xiao Yan thanked Jiang Yunyan, who then said that she and Lei Jingxiao needed his help with something.

Xiao Yan agreed to accompany Lei Jingxiao for a year at Jiang Yunyan’s request, though he remained unsure why the Thunder Clan elder had chosen him. Jiang Yunyan left Lei Jingxiao in Xiao Yan’s care so the young master could be tempered, and she accepted full responsibility for whatever happened.

• Xiao Yan promised Jiang Yunyan he would do his best to fulfill her request, and Xiao Yi Xian resolved to stay by his side.
• Jiang Yunyan asked Xiao Yan to let Lei Jingxiao travel with him for one year, and she rebuked Lei Jingxiao when he complained about Xiao Yan’s strength.
• Jiang Yunyan privately explained that Xiao Yan could choose their itinerary and did not need to teach Lei Jingxiao, and Xiao Yan accepted.
• Jiang Yunyan departed with the two elders after instructing Lei Jingxiao to follow Xiao Yan.
• Jiang Yunyan told the elders she had chosen Xiao Yan because his willingness to risk his life for loved ones could benefit Lei Jingxiao, and she would bear responsibility if anything happened to him.

After Jiang Yunyan left Lei Jingxiao with Xiao Yan’s group, Lei Jingxiao challenged Xiao Yan’s companions to prove his strength. Qing Lin defeated him in a spar, and Xiao Yi Xian then offered to fight him next.

• Lei Jingxiao asked Xiao Yan to take him to challenge Central Plains experts and promised to help if the group encountered trouble.
• After Xiao Yan provoked him, Lei Jingxiao challenged Qing Lin, and Xiao Yan gave her permission to spar with him.
• Qing Lin overwhelmed Lei Jingxiao and froze him into an ice sculpture after he briefly lost consciousness to her green-eyed ability.
• Lei Jingxiao broke free from the ice and asked Qing Lin whether she was descended from magical beasts, but she refused to answer.
• Xiao Yi Xian offered to spar with Lei Jingxiao next.

Xiao Yi Xian challenged Lei Jingxiao after recovering, and her careful use of poison secured her victory. Mu Qingluan struggled with feelings of inadequacy while Xiao Yan reassured her, and Lei Jingxiao agreed to follow Xiao Yan after the fight—until Xiao Yan challenged him to another match.

• Xiao Yi Xian challenged Lei Jingxiao, and Xiao Yan confirmed that her Woeful Poison Body had been fully resolved.
• Lei Jingxiao initially refused to fight, but Xiao Yi Xian provoked him into battling her in the sky.
• Mu Qingluan told Xiao Yan she felt useless beside the group's powerful fighters, and Xiao Yan urged her not to compare herself to them.
• Xiao Yi Xian defeated Lei Jingxiao by gradually poisoning him and carefully setting up her attack.
• After Xiao Yi Xian detoxified Lei Jingxiao, he agreed to listen to Xiao Yan, who challenged him to fight and offered to let him use his hidden Heaven-tier Dou Technique.

Xiao Yan challenged Lei Jingxiao to unleash his Heaven Class Dou Technique so he could test whether its lightning could cultivate Heavenly Lightning Soul Forging. Lei Jingxiao struck him with Mighty Thunder Summoning, and Xiao Yan began channeling the lightning through his body and soul.

• Xiao Yan offered to take Lei Jingxiao’s full-strength attack head-on, wagering that Lei Jingxiao would follow his command for a year if he endured it.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian that he wanted to use Lei Jingxiao’s lightning to cultivate Heavenly Lightning Soul Forging, and prepared his Three Thousand Lightning Phantom Body with the clay puppet.
• Xiao Yan and Lei Jingxiao agreed to settle their contest with one move, and Lei Jingxiao warned that he could not control the Heaven Class Dou Technique’s power.
• Lei Jingxiao unleashed the Heaven Class Dou Technique Mighty Thunder Summoning, engulfing Xiao Yan in heavenly lightning.
• Xiao Yan endured the pain and guided the lightning through the cultivation routes of Heavenly Lightning Soul Forging, drawing it into his body and soul origin.

Xiao Yan endured Lei Jingxiao’s Heaven Class Dou Technique and gained strength from tempering his body and soul with lightning. Back in Sound Valley, Qin Tan’s rise was interrupted when Fanyin confronted him about trading away the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva.

• Lei Jingxiao unleashed his Heaven Class Dou Technique, but Xiao Yan endured the lightning and secretly absorbed some of it.
• Xiao Yan cleared the remaining lightning from his body and discovered that his physical strength and soul power had improved considerably.
• Xiao Yan reminded Lei Jingxiao of their bet, and Lei Jingxiao agreed to follow his orders for a year.
• Qin Tan enjoyed the praise he received while helping rebuild Sound Valley after Qin Shiyin’s death.
• Fanyin confronted Qin Tan and asked whether he had traded away the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva.

Fanyin and Venerable Echo exposed Qin Tan’s scheme to steal the Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva, and Echo Valley returned the genuine substance and Xiao Yan’s materials. Xiao Yi Xian chose to let the matter rest, while Echo Valley underwent a major upheaval that led to Qin Tan and Qin Shiyin disappearing.

• Fanyin accused Qin Tan of arranging for fake Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva to be given to Xiao Yan and Qin Shiyin, and Venerable Echo explained how Qin Tan had planned to pit them against each other.
• A disciple found the genuine Bodhisattva Body Transformation Saliva hidden in the rear mountain, and Qin Tan confessed and begged Fanyin and Venerable Echo for forgiveness.
• Fanyin gave the genuine substance to a white-haired disciple and ordered him to deliver it to Xiao Yan, then said Venerable Echo could decide Qin Tan’s punishment.
• The Echo Valley disciple Nangong Yan returned Xiao Yan’s materials and the genuine substance, which Lei Jingxiao verified, and Xiao Yi Xian chose not to pursue the matter.
• Xiao Yan told Nangong Yan that Echo Valley and his group owed each other nothing, and Nangong Yan later became one of the Sound Valley Seven Stars trained by Fanyin.
• After Echo Valley’s upheaval, Qin Shiyin and Qin Tan disappeared, though some disciples later claimed they saw a mute man resembling Qin Tan running a small restaurant.

Xiao Yan learned that the Pill Convention had been postponed and expanded into the Hundred Realms Pill Convention, then prepared to travel to the Pill Region. He left Lin Xiuya with a warning about Sound Valley and departed with his group, while Hua Li’s grudge remained unresolved.

• Lin Xiuya told Xiao Yan that the Pill Convention had been postponed for a year and expanded to invite alchemists who had never competed before, with Three Thousand Burning Flame among the rewards.
• Lin Xiuya warned Xiao Yan that Hua Li was seeking him out and had ties to the Flower Sect and the Heavenly Nether Sect.
• Lei Jingxiao declared that Xiao Yan’s group could take on both sects, but Xiao Yan asked Lin Xiuya how to find Burning Flame Valley in the Pill Region.
• Lin Xiuya gave Xiao Yan a map showing where Burning Flame Valley’s people had gathered.
• Xiao Yan warned Lin Xiuya that Sound Valley had suffered a major upheaval that crippled its foundations, then left with his group.
• Xiao Yi Xian asked Xiao Yan why he had not recruited Lin Xiuya into Starfall Pavilion, and Xiao Yan said Lin Xiuya would not want to serve under someone else.

Xiao Yan and his companions arrived in Holy Pill City and saw the enormous crowds gathering for the Pill Convention. As they made their way through the congested landing area, the sudden arrival of Venerable Mingshui drew widespread attention.

• Xiao Yan's group emerged from a spatial wormhole into one of Holy Pill City's crowded outer districts.
• Lei Jingxiao explained that they were still far from the city's core, and Xiao Yan suggested heading to Burning Flame Valley's territory first.
• A massive sea-blue Space Ship forced other ships aside with its powerful soul force, disrupting the landing area's order.
• Xiao Yan told Qing Lin to move their Space Ship aside rather than provoke a conflict.
• The ship's occupants announced that Venerable Mingshui thanked everyone for yielding, prompting astonishment that the retired alchemist had come to the Pill Convention.

Xiao Yan's group arrived in Holy Pill City and learned that powerful alchemists had gathered for the postponed Pill Convention, increasing the pressure on Xiao Yan to improve his Soul Power. Aboard the spatial warship, the prodigy Wei Jiangyuan looked forward to competing against the city's geniuses.

• Lei Jingxiao grew angry when the spatial warship's Soul Power scanned their group, but Xiao Yan stopped him from retaliating.
• Xiao Yan reflected on the strong Spiritual State Soul experts coming to the Pill Convention and his need to win the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Qing Lin told Xiao Yan that Ming Mei had arranged the method for her Spiritual State Soul breakthrough, so she could not teach it to him.
• Mu Qingluan sensed that Starfall Pavilion disciples had arrived with news, and Xiao Yan agreed to meet them before heading to Burning Flame Valley.
• On the warship, Wei Jiangyuan and his junior brother discussed the unusual people they had sensed, and Wei Jiangyuan declared that he wanted to see whether anyone could defeat him.

Xiao Yan arrived at Starfall Pavilion’s residence in Holy Pill City and received a warning and a message token from the Heavenly Luan Clan’s Mu Yaoyin. With over a year before the Pill Convention, he planned to stay and improve his alchemy before visiting the Dan Clan and Burning Flame Valley.

• Xiao Yan restrained his urge to browse Holy Pill City’s shops and followed Mu Qingluan to Starfall Pavilion’s residence.
• Fei Tian welcomed Xiao Yan and delivered a jade token from Mu Yaoyin, who offered to come to his aid during the Pill Convention.
• Fei Tian warned Xiao Yan that the convention held both danger and opportunity, and Xiao Yan agreed to let him remain with the group.
• Xiao Yan and his companions settled into the residence, and Xiao Yan chose its dedicated alchemy room to prepare for the convention.
• Xiao Yan planned to improve his alchemy before honoring appointments at the Dan Clan and Burning Flame Valley.

Xiao Yan reviewed his pill formulas and chose the Poria Green Pill as his priority for preparing for the Pill Convention. He set aside the difficult Bodhisattva Enlightenment Pill formula and then headed toward Xiao Yi Xian’s room.

• Xiao Yan inspected the pill formulas he had collected and considered which pills could help him prepare for the Pill Convention.
• Xiao Yan decided to prioritize refining the Poria Green Pill, while reserving the Life-Merging Bone-Growing Pill for safer circumstances because it was crucial to Yao Lao’s resurrection.
• Xiao Yan discovered the ancient Bodhisattva Enlightenment Pill formula and recalled its demanding ingredients, high soul-force requirements, and uncertain effects.
• Xiao Yan returned the Bodhisattva Enlightenment Pill formula to his Storage Ring and left the alchemy room.
• Xiao Yan hesitated before walking toward Xiao Yi Xian’s room.

Xiao Yan visited Xiao Yi Xian and learned that she had resolved the Woeful Poison Body while retaining its abilities, but she stopped his advances because she was not ready. In Holy Pill City, Burning Flame Valley’s Ancestor awaited Xiao Yan, whose arrival prompted Tang Zhen to announce that he had come to honor an appointment.

• Xiao Yi Xian told Xiao Yan that her Woeful Poison Body was under control and that she had retained her ability to cultivate by consuming poison, though she was now a five-star Dou Zun.
• Xiao Yan told Xiao Yi Xian he would always need her and kissed her, but she pushed him away and sent him from her room, saying she was not ready.
• Burning Flame Valley’s Ancestor questioned Tang Zhen about Xiao Yan’s arrival and said he wanted to meet him because Xiao Yan’s surname was Xiao.
• A servant announced that someone had arrived to honor an appointment, and Tang Zhen told the Ancestor that Xiao Yan had arrived.

Xiao Yan agreed to use his Heavenly Flame to remove the dangerous Nine Dragon Thunder Fire energy from Tang Zhen’s daughter, Huo’er, and Tang Zhen promised him compensation at the rate for hiring an eighth-tier alchemist. As Xiao Yan waited for Kang Ning to arrive, Pill Tower President Xuan Yi appeared with him, surprising Tang Zhen.

• Tang Zhen explained that the flawed Fire Bodhi Pill had worsened the thunderflame energy threatening Huo’er’s life, and that only a Heavenly Flame could safely remove it.
• Xiao Yan agreed to help, and Tang Zhen offered compensation equal to the fee for hiring an eighth-tier alchemist.
• Tang Zhen said his friend Kang Ning would arrive from the Pill Tower, while Xiao Yan waited and sensed his soul power.
• An hour later, Tang Zhen went to greet Kang Ning and was surprised to find Pill Tower President Xuan Yi accompanying him.

Xiao Yan accidentally began an unsupported attempt to break through to the Spiritual State Soul while studying his soul power. Xuan Yi intervened with Soul-Awakening Powder, ending the attempt safely but leaving Xiao Yan’s soul power strengthened and better prepared for a future breakthrough.

• Xuan Yi and Kang Ning arrived with Tang Zhen and sensed Xiao Yan attempting to break through to the Spiritual State Soul inside the hall.
• Xuan Yi realized Xiao Yan’s soul power was losing momentum and blocked him from absorbing the spiritual energy in the air.
• Xuan Yi sent medicinal liquid toward Xiao Yan, but his flames and clenched teeth rejected it as his condition worsened.
• Tang Zhen suppressed his Nine Dragon Thunder Fire when Xiao Yan’s inner power began to pull at it.
• Xuan Yi used her precious Soul-Awakening Powder to stabilize Xiao Yan’s soul power and end his uncontrolled attempt.
• Xiao Yan regained control, realized he had not reached the Spiritual State Soul, and Xuan Yi reprimanded him for acting recklessly without guidance.

Xuan Yi reunited with Yao Lao’s disciple Xiao Yan, offered to help Tang Zhen’s daughter, and demonstrated her alchemy techniques while preparing to treat Tang Huo’er. The chapter left Xuan Yi and Xiao Yan ready to purge the stubborn thunderfire energy inside Tang Huo’er.

• Tang Zhen introduced Xuan Yi as one of the Pill Tower’s three leaders and a close friend of Yao Lao, and Xuan Yi asked Xiao Yan whether Yao Lao was well.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Yan to call her Aunt Xuan, then offered to treat Tang Zhen’s daughter, Tang Huo’er.
• Xuan Yi examined Tang Huo’er and determined that Heavenly Flames were needed to purge the stubborn thunderfire energy inside her.
• Tang Zhen and Kang Ning left the room to guard it while Xuan Yi explained that the treatment would destroy Tang Huo’er’s clothes.
• Xuan Yi demonstrated precise Soul Power control while manipulating medicinal herbs, and Xiao Yan studied her alchemy techniques.

Xuan Yi taught Xiao Yan alchemy and offered to take him as a personal disciple at the Pill Tower. She then helped Xiao Yan treat Tang Huo'er, but the trapped thunder-fire energy suddenly escaped and struck him.

• Xuan Yi finished demonstrating how to refine and merge the medicinal ingredients, then invited Xiao Yan to study under her at the Pill Tower.
• Xuan Yi stabilized Tang Huo'er's meridians and tasked Xiao Yan with removing every trace of thunder-fire energy.
• Xiao Yan used the Crimson Lotus Karma Flame to devour the remnants of the Nine Dragon Thunder Fire inside Tang Huo'er.
• The thunder-fire energy gathered into one mass, broke free of Tang Huo'er's body, and struck Xiao Yan before Xuan Yi could stop it.

Xiao Yan removed the Nine Dragon Thunder Fire from Tang Huo'er, and Xuan Yi completed her treatment before giving him guidance on reaching the Spiritual State Soul. Kang Ning explained that the Pill Convention had been postponed to counter the Spirit Clan’s growing influence and stop Ling Zhuo from securing a predetermined victory.

• Xiao Yan absorbed the thunderfire energy from Tang Huo'er and cleared it from her body.
• Xuan Yi finished treating Tang Huo'er, assured Tang Zhen that she would recover fully, and gave Xiao Yan a jade slip about the Spiritual State Soul.
• Xuan Yi told Xiao Yan to visit her at the Pill Tower after his breakthrough, then departed.
• Kang Ning told Xiao Yan and Tang Zhen that the Pill Tower postponed the convention because the Spirit Clan threatened to predetermine its champion.
• Kang Ning revealed that Ling Zhuo had helped the Ye Clan win the five-family competition and that the Ye Clan, Qiu Clan, Bai Clan, and Heavenly Nether Sect had drawn close to the Spirit Clan.

Xiao Yan received Earth Core Soul Marrow from Tang Zhen as a reward for helping Burning Flame Valley, but the strange reaction in his body to the gift revealed that Tang Zhen and the red-haired ancestor suspected something about him. After Xiao Yan left, the ancestor said the matter was serious enough that he needed to return to the valley immediately.

• Tang Zhen arranged for Xiao Yan to receive a reward after Kang Ning left Burning Flame Valley.
• When Xiao Yan accepted the jade bottle, a strange sensation stirred within him and the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire began circulating.
• Xiao Yan told Tang Zhen that he had learned the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire from the tower master of Splendid Flower Tower, and Tang Zhen accepted his explanation.
• Xiao Yan opened the bottle and found Earth Core Soul Marrow, a rare treasure that could temper his soul and help him reach the Spiritual State Soul.
• Xiao Yan left Burning Flame Valley after Tang Zhen invited him to return, and Tang Zhen asked the red-haired ancestor if his suspicion was true.
• The red-haired ancestor said the matter was important and that he had to return to the valley immediately.