Chapter Summaries

After strengthening the Thunder Clan through seclusion, Lei Qi set out for the Pill Domain to enter the Mainland Alchemist Grand Meeting and help the Ye Clan, while the Ancient Clan began watching the Thunder Clan. Lei Qi noticed Gu Qing's surveillance but ordered Lei Yi not to interfere.

• Lei Jin, Lei Qing, and Lei Mo accepted pills and entered secluded cultivation, after which Lei Qi went into seclusion as well.
• Gu Yuan questioned Gu Qing about the Thunder Clan's movements and ordered Gu Qing to monitor the clan while Gu Chenxin continued watching the Soul Clan.
• Lei Qi emerged at age twenty-six with early-stage Nine-Star Dou Venerate cultivation and prepared to join the Pill Tower's alchemist meeting alongside Cao Ying.
• Lei Qi traveled to the Pill Domain with Qing Lin, Xiao Yi Xian, Zi Yan, Ye Xinlan, Cao Ying, Elder Lei Li, and Elder Lei Tu, backed by the North Dragon Puppet.
• Lei Yi warned Lei Qi that Gu Qing was secretly watching them, but Lei Qi told him to leave Gu Qing alone for now.

Lei Qi claimed rewards after discovering that six women, including Cao Ying and Ye Xinlan, were pregnant, then traveled to Pill Saint City for the Pill Convention. He arranged for his companions to pursue their own tasks and joined Cao Ying at the Cao Clan residence, where he promised that the convention’s champion would come from the Cao Clan.

• Lei Qi discovered pregnancy prompts for Yao Ye, Xiao Yu, Liu Fei, Huo Yue, Ye Xinlan, and Cao Ying, and claimed the rewards.
• After five days of travel, Lei Qi and his group arrived at Pill Saint City, crowded with visitors for the Pill Convention.
• Lei Qi sent Zi Yan and Qing Lin to find Xiong Zhan, and sent Ye Xinlan and Lei Tu to the Ye Clan to bring people over.
• A carriage carrying the Dan Clan’s genius Dan Chen drew attention as Lei Qi’s group headed to the Cao Clan residence.
• Cao Chen and the Cao Clan elders welcomed Lei Qi, and he promised that the convention’s champion would be from their clan.

Lei Qi accompanied the declining Ye Clan to the Pill Tower’s Five Great Clans examination, where he reunited with the pregnant Cao Ying and persuaded her to keep their child. The examination began with Lei Qi concealing much of his alchemy talent, which still impressed the crowd.

• Ye Zhong thanked Lei Qi for agreeing to help the Ye Clan, and Lei Qi passed the initial assessment with ease.
• At the examination hall, the crowd mocked the struggling Ye Clan before the Cao Clan arrived with Cao Ying.
• Cao Ying confronted Lei Qi about being pregnant again, and he persuaded her to postpone any decision and keep the child.
• The white-haired elder opened the central arena and called the Five Great Clans’ candidates to compete.
• Lei Qi completed both rounds effortlessly while holding back, impressing Cao Yan and drawing Cao Ying’s proud praise.

The Pill Convention began in Pill Saint City, where Lei Qi and Cao Ying entered its first stage, the Soul Illusion Realm, and passed easily. As the contestants gathered at the next resting point, Cao Ying revealed that she was pregnant again.

• After the assessment, the Ye Clan regained its place among the Five Great Clans, and Lei Qi and Ye Xinlan returned to the Cao Clan.
• As the Pill Convention began, Lei Qi eyed Xuan Yi, one of the Pill Tower's three giants, while Cao Ying scolded him for staring at her.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the convention's stages and rewards, including a chance to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame and an ancient soul cultivation method.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the first stage, the Soul Illusion Realm, and Lei Qi and Cao Ying passed through it with ease.
• At the resting point beyond the realm, Cao Ying clung to Lei Qi and said she was pregnant again and needed more rest.

Lei Qi instructed Yao Chen to lure Xuan Yi away when the Hall of Souls attacked and gave him a Bodhi Pill to aid his breakthrough. After the Pill Realm’s resources were looted and the second round ended, the Pill Convention’s final competition began, where Lei Qi and Cao Ying revealed their Fallen Heart Flames.

• Lei Qi met Yao Chen and tasked him with drawing Xuan Yi outside the Pill Realm during the Hall of Souls’ attack while keeping his identity hidden.
• Lei Qi gave Yao Chen a Bodhi Pill and told him he would intervene if a Soul Clan Dou Sheng became involved.
• Lei Qi instructed Lei Li to capture Xuan Yi and return her to the Thunder Clan, then went back to wait for the contestants to return.
• After ten days, just over three hundred contestants returned from the Pill Realm, and the Pill Tower elders began the final round on floating stone platforms.
• Xuan Kongzi announced that contestants could refine their strongest medicinal pills without restrictions, and the competitors took their places.
• Lei Qi and Cao Ying summoned their Fallen Heart Flames, causing the other flames to show fear and shocking the spectators.

The alchemists continued the Pill Convention, with contestants gradually completing their pills and summoning increasingly powerful pill lightning. Cao Ying endured Five-Colored Pill Lightning to win the championship, while the effort to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame was postponed.

• After nearly half a month of refining, contestants began summoning pill lightning, and Xiao Yan and Song Qing completed Seventh-Rank Pills.
• Dan Chen completed the first Eighth-Rank Pill, summoning Two-Colored Pill Lightning despite her frail condition.
• Elder Qinghua and Elder Mu Gu summoned Three-Colored and Four-Colored Pill Lightning, and Lei Qi also produced a pill with Four-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Cao Ying refined a pill that summoned Five-Colored Pill Lightning and withstood its strike, winning the Pill Convention.
• Xuan Kongzi gave Cao Ying her reward, and the alchemists were allowed to rest before dealing with the Three Thousand Burning Flame.

After the Pill Convention, Lei Qi entered the Star Region with the top ten and subdued the Three Thousand Burning Flame. The Hall of Souls’ attack on the Pill Domain was repelled, but Xuan Yi had disappeared, and the Pill Tower did not know what had happened to her.

• Cao Ying’s cultivation rose to the Mid Two-Star Dou Venerate realm after she refined the pill Lei Qi had given her, while Lei Qi arranged for Lei Tu and Zi Yan to infiltrate the Star Region.
• Lei Qi and the other top-ten contestants entered the Star Region to subdue the Three Thousand Burning Flame.
• Lei Qi broke the seal, killed Elder Mu Gu when he attacked, and used a formation containing four Heavenly Flames to refine the Three Thousand Burning Flame into a source flame, which he absorbed.
• Xuan Kongzi congratulated Lei Qi and invited him to join the Pill Tower, but Lei Qi declined; Cao Ying also refused to join.
• The group returned to the Cao Clan residence while the Pill Tower fought off the Hall of Souls’ attack, and Xuan Yi was found to have vanished during the chaos.

Lei Qi returned to the Thunder Clan, captured Xuan Yi, and refined several Heavenly Flames while the Pill Tower, Hall of Souls, and Falling Star Pavilion became embroiled in conflict. As turmoil spread across the Central Plains, Hun Tiandi summoned the Soul Clan for a rare assembly and appeared before them.

• Lei Qi brought Xuan Yi to the Thunder Clan, dismissed her threats about the Pill Tower, and left her waiting for a rescue that might never come.
• Lei Qi refined the Three Thousand Burning Flame, fused it with the Green Lotus Core Flame, and spent the next half year combining more Heavenly Flames.
• The Pill Tower blamed the Hall of Souls for Xuan Yi's disappearance and fought them for three months, while Falling Star Pavilion attacked a branch hall and began expanding its war against the Hall of Souls under Yao Chen.
• Hun Tiandi called a clan-wide assembly of the Soul Clan, where Hun Xuzi and Hun Tu speculated about his purpose.
• Hun Tiandi appeared before the assembled Soul Clan, silencing the hall and drawing everyone's respect.

Hun Tiandi convened the Soul Clan’s experts, ordered Hun Miesheng to prioritize collecting souls and attack the Xiao Clan faction, and warned everyone not to disrupt the clan’s thousand-year plan. He planned to wait for Nihility Devouring Flame to reach the Emperor Realm before targeting another clan and ordered the Emperor-Slaying Formation deployed across the Central Plains.

• Hun Tiandi asked Hun Miesheng about the Hall of Souls’ conflict with the Pill Tower, and Hun Miesheng explained that the Pill Tower blamed them for Xuan Yi’s disappearance while Yao Chen sheltered the Xiao Clan descendants.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Miesheng to mobilize the Hall of Souls against the Xiao Clan faction, avoid provoking the Pill Tower, and continue gathering souls.
• Hun Tiandi warned the assembled Soul Clan experts that anyone who obstructed the clan’s thousand-year plan would face clan rules, then dismissed the lower-ranking Dou Shengs.
• Hun Tiandi encouraged Hun Gu to cultivate and told Nihility Devouring Flame to refine the Spirit Clan descendants’ bloodline power as the clan awaited the advancement of Nihility’s soul.
• Hun Tiandi ordered Hun Qianmo and Soul Demon Elder to remain at the Hall of Souls and capture the Pill Tower’s Medicinal Pill if it appeared, then directed the others to hasten deployment of the Emperor-Slaying Formation.

After three months of seclusion, Lei Qi emerged as a Three-Revolution Dou Venerate and claimed rewards for the births of his children. He assessed his family’s progress, then left the Thunder Realm with Mang Tianchi, Yang Ji, and Zhang Yi to visit the Central Plains as the conflict between the Pill Tower and the Hall of Souls escalated.

• Lei Qi reached the Three-Revolution Dou Venerate realm and claimed rewards triggered by the births of his children, including a Xiao Clan bloodline and Heaven-tier cultivation techniques.
• Lei Qi summoned Yang Ji and Zhang Yi, who reported that the Pill Tower and the Hall of Souls were at war and that the Hall of Souls was preparing to attack the Falling Star Pavilion.
• Lei Qi assessed his wives’ cultivation, noting Qing Lin’s Five-Revolution realm and that several others needed to strengthen their foundations through the Rainbow Sacred Lotus.
• Lei Qi visited his eleven children and assessed their talents, including Lei Xiao, who had inherited his and Cai Lin’s bloodline power.
• Lei Qi left the Thunder Realm with Mang Tianchi, Yang Ji, and Zhang Yi, accompanied by the North Dragon Puppet, to visit the Central Plains.

The Hall of Souls attacked Falling Star Pavilion after reaching a truce with the Pill Tower, bringing overwhelming forces to seize Yao Chen and destroy the pavilion. Yao Chen fought Gu You and the Third Heavenly Venerable while Falling Star Pavilion’s defenders held a barrier against the assault, but the arrival of more powerful Heavenly Venerables left them in grave danger.

• The Hall of Souls arrived at Falling Star Pavilion under Gu You’s command, and Gu You demanded that Yao Chen come with him.
• Yao Chen charged Gu You and the Third Heavenly Venerable, and the three Half-Saints began a destructive battle.
• Gu You ordered the Hall of Souls army to leave no one alive while the Black and White Heavenly Venerables attacked Falling Star Pavilion’s barrier.
• Feng Xian rallied the pavilion’s elders and disciples to reinforce the formation, which held against the Black and White Heavenly Venerables.
• Mo Yu, Qiu Di, and Blood River appeared, further overwhelming Falling Star Pavilion’s defenders and alarming Xiao Yan.

Blood River and the Hall of Souls shattered the Falling Star Pavilion’s defenses and began slaughtering its people, but Xun’er arrived with the Ancient Clan and turned the battle around. The Hall of Souls retreated, and Xiao Yan chose not to pursue them.

• Blood River destroyed the Falling Star Pavilion’s formation, allowing the Hall of Souls to attack and kill or injure many disciples.
• The Black and White Heavenly Venerables moved to capture Xiao Yan, but an Ancient Clan Half-Saint intervened as Xun’er arrived.
• Xun’er summoned the Black Annihilation Army and Ancient Clan Dou Venerates, who overwhelmed the Hall of Souls forces and rescued the Falling Star Pavilion.
• The Ancient Clan’s High Half-Saints forced Gu You and the Third Heavenly Venerable back, and Gu You ordered the Hall of Souls to retreat.
• Lei Qi wanted the Hall of Souls’ upper ranks eliminated, but Xiao Yan asked Xun’er not to pursue them.

Lei Qi and Mang Tianchi defeated the Hall of Souls forces and delivered their heads to Yao Chen, then confronted Gu Xun'er and the Ancient Clan after Gu Xin attacked Lei Qi. Xiao Yan pledged Falling Star Pavilion's support for Lei Qi, while Lei Qi accused the Ancient Clan of profiting from the Xiao Clan's decline, leaving Gu Xun'er shaken and unable to deny the claims.

• Lei Qi ordered Mang Tianchi to kill the Hall of Souls' Eighth and Ninth Heavenly Venerables and the Black and White Heavenly Venerables, and Mang Tianchi swiftly killed them.
• Lei Qi returned to Falling Star Pavilion and gave Yao Chen the Hall of Souls experts' heads to help strengthen the pavilion.
• Gu Xin attacked Lei Qi, but Mang Tianchi suppressed and injured him, prompting the Ancient Clan forces to prepare for conflict.
• Xiao Yan declared that Falling Star Pavilion would side with Lei Qi if the Ancient Clan went to war against the Thunder Clan.
• Lei Qi accused the Ancient Clan of taking the Xiao Clan's foundation, and Gu Xun'er admitted she did not know whether the accusations were true.

After Lei Qi took Xiao Yan back to the Thunder Clan, Xiao Yan learned that the Ancient Clan had caused the Xiao Clan's decline, while Gu Yuan and the Ancient Clan elders prepared to confront the Thunder Clan over Gu Xin's injuries. Xun'er remained unsettled by Xiao Yan's changed attitude and sought to learn what Lei Qi had done.

• Gu Xun'er tried to explain the misunderstanding to Xiao Yan, but the Ancient Clan elders took her away, and Gu Xin warned that the Ancient Clan would not let the matter rest.
• Lei Qi told Xiao Yan what he knew about the Xiao Clan's decline and offered to take him to the Thunder Clan for training; he also advised Yao Chen to expand the Falling Star Pavilion.
• Gu Yuan told Xun'er the truth about the Xiao Clan and warned her that Xiao Yan was unworthy of her; Xun'er then questioned Ling Ying about Lei Qi's contact with Xiao Yan.
• The Ancient Clan elders demanded retaliation for Gu Xin's injuries, but Gu Yuan sent Gu Yi to question the Thunder Clan and Gu Li to speak with the Flame Clan.
• Gu Yuan ordered the remaining elders to muster troops and prepare for war.

After Gu Yi demanded an explanation from the Thunder Clan, Lei Ying refused and declared that the clan would fight if the Ancient Clan wanted war. Lei Qi prepared the Thunder Clan for conflict while seeking to learn whether the Flame Clan would support them or remain neutral.

• Gu Yi confronted Lei Ying over Mang Tianchi injuring Gu Xin, but Lei Ying rejected his demand and told the Ancient Clan to declare war if it wished.
• Lei Qi advised the Thunder Clan that it could show its strength if the Ancient Clan remained firm, while warning that the Flame Clan's response could determine their security.
• Lei Qi sent Lei Wusha to ask Yan Jin about the Flame Clan's position and gave Low Saint Pills to Lei Tianli, Lei Ziluo, and Lei Bing.
• Lei Qi ordered the Thunder Clan's elders above Five-Star Dou Sheng to prepare for battle, and Lei Ying placed the clan's forces under his command while leaving Lei Niu to guard the Ancient Jade.
• Yan Jin told the Flame Clan that the Ancient Clan offered Medicinal Materials for a Nine-Grade Treasure Pill in exchange for neutrality, while Lei Wusha had asked for no reward; Yan Ting warned that abandoning the Thunder Clan could bring future risks.

The Flame Clan chose to support the Thunder Clan against the Ancient Clan, and their forces won a three-month war that cost the Ancient Clan a city and a Dou Sheng expert. After Gu Xin admitted that his actions had sparked the conflict, Gu Yuan set out to confront the opposing clans personally.

• Yan Bin weighed the consequences of the Flame Clan’s choices, and Yan Jin ordered the clan to fight alongside the Thunder Clan.
• Ten days later, the Flame and Thunder Clans assembled against Gu Nanhai’s Ancient Clan force, and war broke out on the first day.
• The war lasted three months, during which the Thunder Clan repeatedly pushed the Ancient Clan back, killed a One-Star Dou Sheng, and occupied Wind Nether City.
• Gu Yuan heard that the Flame and Thunder Clans had killed an Ancient Clan Dou Sheng, while Gu Qing urged him to avenge the dead and Gu Chenxin warned that the Thunder Clan had sent many fighters.
• Gu Dao ordered Gu Xin to recount the incident with Lei Qi, and Gu Xin admitted that he had targeted the Thunder Clan’s Young Patriarch after giving conflicting accounts.
• Gu Yuan struck Gu Xin, then decided to go personally to learn what the Thunder and Flame Clans wanted.

Gu Yuan confronted Lei Ying over the Ancient Clan’s attack on the Thunder Clan’s young patriarch, but Lei Ying refused to back down after revealing the Thunder Clan’s newly strengthened experts. The standoff erupted into a major battle, with Lei Qi witnessing the overwhelming power of a Nine Star Peak Dou Sheng.

• Gu Yuan summoned Lei Ying, then discovered that Lei Ying had reached Mid Nine Star Dou Sheng and several other Thunder Clan members had advanced in cultivation.
• Lei Ying accused the Ancient Clan of attacking the Thunder Clan’s young patriarch and demanded an explanation, while Yan Jin and Yan Ting discussed siding with the Thunder Clan and seeking its breakthrough secret.
• Gu Lie, Gu Dao, and Gu Xian joined Gu Yuan, while Yan Jin arrived to support the Thunder Clan and warned that the Soul Clan would benefit if the clans fought to the death.
• Lei Ying rejected Gu Yuan’s warning and threatened to fight to the end, following Lei Qi’s instruction to make the Thunder Clan appear uncompromising.
• Gu Yuan charged Lei Ying, and Lei Ying, Lei Jin, and Lei Qing fought him as the others watched; their clashes darkened the Eastern Region’s sky and forced nearby forces to retreat.
• Lei Qi witnessed that Lei Ying, Lei Jin, and Lei Qing still could not gain an advantage against Gu Yuan’s Nine Star Peak Dou Sheng strength.

Gu Yuan withdrew after Lei Ying, Lei Mo, and the other Thunder Clan fighters pressured him, while Yan Jin held back the Ancient Clan’s reinforcements. Lei Ying offered to help Yan Jin reach Nine Star Dou Sheng in exchange for rare pill materials and the marriage of Huo Zhi and Lei Qi, leaving Yan Jin to consider the proposal.

• Lei Mo joined Lei Ying and the other Thunder Clan fighters against Gu Yuan, while Yan Jin blocked Gu Lie and the Ancient Clan’s other fighters from helping.
• Gu Yuan withdrew with the other two of the Three Immortals of the Ancient Clan and Gu Lie after signs of defeat appeared.
• The allied Thunder and Flame Clan forces resumed their advance into Ancient Clan territory, and Lei Ying and Yan Jin discussed the danger of continuing the war.
• Lei Ying told Yan Jin that reaching Nine Star Dou Sheng required materials for a Xuan Dan-level pill and conditioned his help on Huo Zhi and Lei Qi marrying.
• Yan Jin left to consider the proposal, and Lei Qi explained to Lei Jin that Gu Yuan’s strength and the Soul Clan’s threat made strengthening the Flame Clan necessary.

After the Ancient Clan accepted the Thunder Clan’s terms, the Thunder and Flame Clans withdrew from the fighting. Yan Jin then brought Huo Zhi to the Thunder Realm to marry Lei Ying in exchange for a promised path to Nine Star Dou Sheng.

• Gu Yuan discussed the Ancient Clan’s losses and agreed to give the Thunder Clan the Xiao Clan’s two Heavenly Tomb slots and materials for a Nine-Grade Treasure Pill, while placing Gu Xin in confinement.
• The Thunder and Flame Clans withdrew after the Ancient Clan delivered the resources and promised to confine Gu Xin.
• Lei Qi returned to the Thunder Realm, reassured Cai Lin and the others, and rested with Cai Lin.
• Three days later, Yan Jin arrived with Huo Zhi and Flame Clan elders, bringing the requested materials and agreeing to Huo Zhi’s marriage to Lei Ying.
• Lei Ying assured Yan Jin that the Thunder Clan would provide what he wanted within half a year.

Yan Jin left the Thunder Clan after learning Lei Ying’s breakthrough method had a guaranteed success rate, while Lei Qi prepared to marry Huo Zhi and promised to help her improve her bloodline power. Huo Zhi met Cai Lin in Lei Qi’s residence and, displeased by her presence, shut Lei Qi out of her chamber.

• Yan Jin asked Lei Ying about the odds of his breakthrough method and left after hearing they were one hundred percent.
• Lei Ying asked Lei Qi when he planned to hold the wedding, and Lei Qi said it would be soon.
• Lei Qi reassured Huo Zhi that joining the Thunder Clan would help her grow and gave her an Aptitude Pill and a Bloodline Enhancement Pill.
• Huo Zhi entered Lei Qi’s residence and met Cai Lin, who told Yue Mei to keep Xiaoxiao from disturbing them.
• Huo Zhi went into the main chamber and shut Lei Qi outside, so Lei Qi left the residence.