Chapter Summaries

Xiao Yun prepared for his upcoming alchemy while Holy Pill City filled with alchemists drawn by the Pill Conference and his planned attempt to reach the Ninth Tier. Xuan Kongzi opened the record-breaking competition, whose first trial began as participants entered the Soul Illusion Realm.

• Xiao Yun returned to his quarters in the Pill Tower and gathered Ninth-Tier pill formulas to prepare for refining.
• As the Pill Conference approached, alchemists and spectators flocked to Holy Pill City, eager to see Xiao Yun attempt to become a Ninth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster.
• Xuan Kongzi and the Pill Tower elders observed the unprecedented crowd and prepared to begin the conference.
• Xuan Kongzi announced the competition's three trials and offered the champion a chance to become a candidate for a Pill Tower giant, an ancient soul cultivation method, and guidance from Xiao Yun.
• Xuan Kongzi began the first trial, the Soul Illusion Realm, and countless participants rushed into the distorted space.
• Tian Leizi questioned Xuan Kongzi for promising Xiao Yun's guidance without asking him, and Xuan Kongzi admitted he expected Xiao Yun to be surprised.

Xiao Yun watched the Pill Conference contestants finish the trials and compete in the alchemy tournament, where Xiao Yan placed tenth and old Qinghua won first. With the conference concluded, Xiao Yun began his challenge to become a Ninth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster by forming a cauldron from his Heavenly Flame and preparing to refine a pill.

• Xiao Yun questioned Xuan Kongzi's plan to have him guide the Pill Conference champion, but agreed to provide guidance.
• The contestants emerged from the Pill Realm, and Xuan Kongzi announced the start of the alchemy tournament after Yao Lao assured Xiao Yun that the participants had been screened for Hall of Souls members.
• Xiao Yan refined a High Seventh Tier pill and placed tenth, while old Qinghua won first with an Eighth Tier pill that drew Four-Colored Pill Lightning.
• Xuan Kongzi announced Xiao Yun's challenge to become a Ninth-Tier Alchemy Grandmaster, and Xiao Yun chose to use the Heavenly Flame Cauldron Formation instead of a conventional cauldron.
• Xiao Yun silenced the crowd, shaped Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame into a giant black-flame cauldron, and began refining his pill.

Xiao Yun refined a Ninth-Tier pill before the Little Pill Tower elders and spectators, concealing its progress with his Heavenly Flame. As the pill neared completion, it absorbed the energy of heaven and earth, and the First Elder realized Xiao Yun was making a Ninth-Tier Profound Pill.

• Xiao Yun refined thousands of ingredients in his fire cauldron, suffered a failed fusion, then resumed and completed the extraction.
• Yao Lao rebuked Hou Old Freak when he mocked Xiao Yun’s unusual, seemingly motionless refinement.
• The First Elder explained that Xiao Yun’s Heavenly Flame concealed the pill’s fluctuations and revealed that the Ninth-Tier Treasure Pill had already succeeded.
• Xiao Yun summoned the energy of heaven and earth into the cauldron, alarming the crowd and provoking Hou Old Freak to criticize him again.
• The First Elder recognized that Xiao Yun was refining a Ninth-Tier Profound Pill, whose pill fluctuations were growing stronger as it absorbed the surrounding energy.

Xiao Yun completed a ninth-tier Treasure Pill that approached the level of a Profound Pill, drawing Black Demon Lightning and weathering it without injury. He captured the pill after it transformed into a flame dragon and presented it to the watching crowd.

• Xiao Yun used the Eight Desolations Annihilation Flame to refine the pill while absorbing the energy of heaven and earth, forming a fire dragon around its embryo.
• The pill summoned Black Demon Lightning, and Yao Lao and the alchemy grandmasters recognized that Xiao Yun had nearly reached the rank of a Profound Pill Grandmaster.
• Xiao Yun refused the First Elder's offer of help and endured the lightning strike, while the First Elder and the Pill Tower elders shielded the spectators from the resulting energy storm.
• After the storm passed, Xiao Yun recovered his strength by absorbing the Black Demon Lightning and remained unharmed.
• Xiao Yun stopped the ninth-tier Treasure Pill as it fled in the shape of a flame dragon, subdued it with the Heavenly Flame Palm, and showed the pill to the crowd.

Xiao Yun completed the refinement of a Ninth-Tier Treasure Pill and offered the Pill Tower his Star-Absorbing Art. After joining the Little Pill Tower, he traveled with the elders to its mountain sanctuary, where the alliance could be discussed.

• Xiao Yun revealed his Ninth-Tier Treasure Pill, and Xuan Kongzi ordered the crowd to leave the plaza.
• Xiao Yun identified the pill as the Burning Flame Clear Profound Pill and explained the Star-Absorbing Art to the Pill Tower elders.
• Xiao Yun offered to share the Star-Absorbing Art, and the First Elder accepted his gift on behalf of the Pill Tower.
• The First Elder invited Xiao Yun to join the Little Pill Tower, and Xiao Yun agreed.
• The First Elder opened a spatial passage, and Xiao Yun and the others arrived atop a towering azure peak.

Xiao Yun secured the Pill Tower’s support and helped establish an alliance against the Hall of Souls, then accompanied Yao Lao to the Yao Clan. They entered the clan’s homeland, where Yao Lao faced the place he had been exiled from as a child.

• Xiao Yun and Yao Lao won the Pill Tower elders’ approval to join their alliance against the Hall of Souls.
• Xiao Yun, Yao Lao, and the First Elder opened spatial passages, and the forces gathered in Holy Pill City to establish the Sky Alliance, also called the Heaven Alliance and later known as Cloud Palace.
• Xiao Yun checked that the Spirit and Stone Clans were safe before agreeing to accompany Yao Lao to the Yao Clan.
• Xiao Yun and Yao Lao traveled to the Shennong Mountain Range, where Yao Lao reflected on returning to the homeland he had left as a child.
• Xiao Yun drove back the Yao Clan guards and presented Yao Xingji’s invitation, after which he and Yao Lao entered the Yao Clan Space.

Xiao Yun and Yao Lao arrived in the Yao Clan Space, where Yao Xingji challenged their visit. After learning they were both Dou Shengs, Yao Xingji agreed to guide them to the Clan Monument so Yao Lao could carve his parents’ names there.

• Xiao Yun and Yao Lao entered the Yao Clan Space and waited for Yao Xingji to arrive.
• Yao Xingji confronted Xiao Yun, then discovered Yao Lao had returned with him to honor his parents.
• Yao Lao declared his intention to carve his parents’ names onto the Clan Monument, but Yao Xingji said he lacked permission.
• Xiao Yun revealed that he was a Three-Star Dou Sheng and that Yao Lao was a One-Star Dou Sheng, then demonstrated his power to Yao Xingji.
• Xiao Yun transmitted the Star-Absorbing Art to Yao Xingji, who agreed to take them to the clan territory while disclaiming responsibility for any trouble.
• Xiao Yun and Yao Lao boarded Yao Xingji’s eagle-headed magical beast, which flew toward the depths of the Yao Clan Space.

Xiao Yun and Yao Lao arrived at the Yao Clan’s Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain with Yao Xingji and headed for the Clan Monument. When Yao Tian challenged them, Xiao Yun seized and slapped him, provoking the Yao Clan elders to respond.

• Yao Xingji brought Xiao Yun and Yao Lao to Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain, where Yao Lao reflected on his return after a hundred years.
• As the three climbed toward the Clan Monument, they encountered Yao Tian and his followers celebrating the Treasure Pill bestowed on him.
• Yao Tian demanded to know why Yao Xingji had brought outsiders onto the mountain, and Xiao Yun challenged his authority.
• Yao Tian ordered Xiao Yun to die, so Xiao Yun trapped him with a spatial hand and slapped him twice.
• Xiao Yun blasted Yao Tian’s followers down the steps, and an elder roared from the summit, demanding to know who was causing trouble.

Xiao Yun confronted Yao Wangui after striking Yao Tian, while Yao Lao renewed his bitter dispute with the Yao Clan elder over his expulsion. Xiao Yun revealed Three-Star Dou Sheng strength and blocked Yao Wangui’s attack, leaving the pair surrounded by arriving Yao Clan experts.

• Yao Wangui arrived, healed Yao Tian, and demanded an explanation from Yao Xingji for bringing outsiders to Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain.
• Xiao Yun defended Yao Xingji and challenged Yao Wangui, prompting Yao Lao to step forward and accuse the elder of causing his expulsion from the Yao Clan.
• Yao Wangui ordered Xiao Yun and Yao Lao to the Punishment Hall and attacked them, but Xiao Yun blocked his Dou Qi strike with a fire dragon.
• Yao Wangui recognized Xiao Yun as the Heaven Alliance leader and learned that he was a Three-Star Dou Sheng, shocking Yao Tian and the other witnesses.
• The clash drew Yao Clan experts from across Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain, and they encircled Xiao Yun and Yao Lao while asking Yao Wangui whether they should capture them.

Xiao Yun confronted the Yao Clan elders over their attempt to take him and Yao Lao, forcing them to back down by revealing a dragon scale that held Zhukun’s overwhelming power. Clan Chief Yao Dan arrived and acknowledged that the Yao Clan had misjudged Yao Lao, leaving the clan’s past neglect exposed.

• Xiao Yun revealed Zhukun’s Purple-Gold Dragon Scale, terrifying Yao Wangui and the other elders into abandoning their threat to capture him.
• Yao Wanhuo rushed down from the summit and urged Xiao Yun to discuss the matter peacefully.
• Xiao Yun explained that the dragon scale could unleash a Nine-Star Peak Dou Sheng’s full-force strike and would activate if he were endangered, deterring the Yao Clan elders from using force.
• Yao Dan appeared and greeted Xiao Yun and Yao Lao, who both showed him respect.
• Yao Dan recognized Yao Lao and admitted that the Yao Clan had misjudged him when it failed to value his talent.

Xiao Yun intimidated the Yao Clan with the Purple-Gold Dragon Scale, then accepted Yao Dan’s apology and the punishment of those who had mistreated him and Yao Lao. Yao Dan agreed to let Yao Lao carve his parents’ names onto the Clan Monument, bringing Yao Lao’s long-held wish within reach.

• Xiao Yun summoned the Purple-Gold Dragon’s might, frightening the Yao Clan and forcing Yao Dan to seek a peaceful resolution.
• Yao Lao asked Xiao Yun to put away the Purple-Gold Dragon Scale, and Xiao Yun withdrew it after his warning had been understood.
• Xiao Yun reminded Yao Dan that Yao Lao was the Sky Alliance’s vice leader and demanded respect for his master.
• Yao Dan removed Yao Wangui from overseeing punishments and sent Yao Tian and the other offenders to Yao Abyss to reflect.
• Xiao Yun accepted Yao Dan’s apology, and Yao Dan invited him and Yao Lao to the Clan Monument, allowing Yao Lao to carve his parents’ names there.

At the Yao Clan’s Clan Monument, Yao Lao had his parents’ names engraved, while Xiao Yun witnessed the Medicine Emperor’s overwhelming remnant power. As Xiao Yun and Yao Lao prepared to leave, Hun Xuzi arrived and sealed Yao Clan Space, intent on taking Xiao Yun to the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yun saw the Medicine Emperor’s remnant before Yao Lao and Yao Dan engraved Yao Lao’s parents’ names on the Clan Monument.
• Yao Lao declined Yao Dan’s offer to stay and chose to return to the Central Plains with Xiao Yun.
• Hun Xuzi arrived at Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain, challenged Xiao Yun to an alchemy contest, and provoked Yao Lao over his past.
• Xiao Yun sensed danger and tried to escape with Yao Lao, but Hun Xuzi disrupted his spatial passage.
• Yao Dan tried to summon the Thunder and Flame Clan chiefs, but Hun Xuzi revealed that the Soul Clan had sealed Yao Clan Space and dismissed the Ancient Treaty.

Hun Xuzi demanded the Yao Clan’s Ancient Jade and submission, then revealed the Soul Clan’s attack was backed by Nihility Devouring Flame. As the Yao Clan’s formation began to fail, Xiao Yun offered a chance to strike back with the Purple-Gold Dragon Scale, and Yao Dan summoned the clan’s ancestor through a pill-powered formation.

• Yao Dan refused Hun Xuzi’s demands and ordered Yao Wanhuo to capture him, but Hun Xuzi revealed his Seven-Star Dou Sheng strength and defeated Yao Wanhuo.
• Nihility Devouring Flame arrived, sealed the Yao Clan’s space, and began devouring Dou Qi and burning Ten Thousand Medicine Mountain.
• Xiao Yun warned Yao Dan to activate the Heaven-Transforming Medicine Formation, which shielded the Yao Clan from the falling black flames.
• Nihility Devouring Flame attacked the formation until it began to fail, while Yao Dan rejected his offer of surrender.
• Yao Dan learned Xiao Yun could use the Purple-Gold Dragon Scale for a potentially devastating strike and agreed to help him catch Nihility Devouring Flame off guard.
• Yao Dan poured countless pills into the formation and invoked the Yao Clan’s ancestor to return.

The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul appeared to defend the Yao Clan, but Nihility Devouring Flame overwhelmed him and began sacrificing Yao descendants to strengthen his power. Xiao Yun summoned Zhukun through a dragon scale, leaving Nihility Devouring Flame facing a new threat as Zhukun and the Medicine Emperor agreed to join forces against him.

• Yao Dan used the clan formation and its stored energy to summon the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul, who formed a medicine cauldron to block Nihility Devouring Flame’s attacks.
• The Medicine Emperor’s energy dwindled under Nihility Devouring Flame’s assault, so Yao Dan and the Yao Clan members poured their Dou Qi into the formation to empower their ancestor.
• Nihility Devouring Flame activated a hidden formation that began turning a million Yao descendants into blood, and Xiao Yun pierced the formation with a Purple-Gold Dragon Scale.
• Zhukun emerged from the dragon scale and attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, whose blood sphere blocked the strike and released a rain of blood that the Medicine Emperor collected.
• Zhukun learned that Nihility Devouring Flame had forced Xiao Yun to use the dragon scale, and he agreed with the Medicine Emperor to join forces against him.

Xiao Yun and the Yao Clan faced Nihility Devouring Flame, who was driven back by Zhukun and the Medicine Emperor's remnant soul before Hun Tiandi arrived and threatened to take the Yao Clan's Ancient Jade. Gu Yuan appeared after Hun Tiandi left, and the chapter ended with the Yao Clan's crisis temporarily over and its protectors gathered.

• Zhukun and the Medicine Emperor's remnant soul attacked Nihility Devouring Flame, who devoured their blows and used Hun Xuzi's self-destruction to break free.
• Xiao Yun explained to Yao Lao that Zhukun's dragon scale had summoned the powerful phantom, and Yao Dan thanked Xiao Yun for protecting the Yao Clan.
• As Zhukun and the Medicine Emperor's remnant soul gained the upper hand, Nihility Devouring Flame tore open a black scroll and summoned Hun Tiandi.
• Hun Tiandi shattered their attacks, threatened to take the Yao Clan's Ancient Jade, and departed with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Gu Yuan arrived searching for Hun Tiandi, learned that he had already left, and joined Zhukun and the Medicine Emperor's remnant soul in acknowledging the Yao Clan's survival.

After the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan was repelled, Xiao Yun learned from the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul and Gu Yuan about the vanished Origin Qi and the Soul Clan’s campaign for the Ancient Jades. He left for the Pill Tower after warning Yao Dan to prepare for further attacks, receiving an Emperor-Grade pill formula before departing.

• Gu Yuan arrived and drove Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan forces away, while Zhukun’s borrowed form faded after his battle with Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul questioned Gu Yuan and learned that only seven Ancient Clans remained, that Origin Qi had vanished ten thousand years earlier, and that it came from the Upper Realm.
• Xiao Yun told the group that Tou She Ancient God’s cave mansion might offer a path to Dou Di, and Gu Yuan revealed that the Soul Clan had attacked the Spirit and Stone Clans and taken their Ancient Jades.
• Xiao Yun warned Yao Dan to disperse Yao Clan members and guard against spies before announcing that he had to return to the Pill Tower.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul gave Xiao Yun an Emperor-Grade pill formula as a reward for helping the Yao Clan.

Xiao Yun received the Medicine Emperor’s Emperor-Tier Pill Formula, while Gu Yuan and the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul discussed the Tou She Ancient God Jade and its connection to the Ancient Emperor’s inheritance. The chapter left them questioning why Tou She Ancient God had no known descendants or clan.

• Xiao Yun absorbed the Medicine Emperor’s Emperor-Tier Pill Formula, and Gu Yuan resolved to reconsider the Ancient Clan’s treatment of the Xiao Clan and explore a marriage alliance through Gu Xun’er and Xiao Yan.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul asked Gu Yuan about the Soul Clan’s attack on the Yao Clan, and Gu Yuan explained that the Soul Clan sought the Tou She Ancient God Jade, one of eight pieces needed to open the Ancient Emperor’s Cave Mansion.
• Gu Yuan showed the jade to the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul, who sensed that it contained information that might become clear when all eight pieces were combined.
• Yao Dan went to retrieve the Yao Clan’s piece of the jade after the Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul asked to examine it.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul asked about Tou She Ancient God’s descendants, and Gu Yuan said that no descendants, relatives, or ninth Ancient Clan were known.
• The Medicine Emperor’s remnant soul was stunned that Tou She Ancient God had left no Dou Emperor Bloodline, while people had long claimed the Ancient Emperor was a transformed pill or a being born from heaven and earth.

Gu Yuan and Medicine Emperor's remnant soul discussed how Tou She Ancient God may have originated as a treasure of heaven and earth rather than a pill. Medicine Emperor gave the Yao Clan's Ancient Jade to Gu Yuan to protect it from the Soul Clan, leaving Yao Dan reluctant but forced to accept.

• Medicine Emperor's remnant soul rejected Gu Yuan's idea that Tou She Ancient God had been formed from a pill and suggested he may have been born from a treasure of heaven and earth.
• Medicine Emperor's remnant soul recalled an ancient tree nearly as powerful as a Dou Di that the Medicine Emperor had once found.
• Yao Dan returned with the Yao Clan's Tou She Ancient God Jade, and Medicine Emperor's remnant soul examined it before handing it to Gu Yuan.
• Medicine Emperor's remnant soul rebuked Yao Dan for wanting to keep the jade and explained that the Yao Clan could not protect it from Hun Tiandi and the Soul Clan.
• Gu Yuan accepted the jade and promised to safeguard it and support the Yao Clan if the Soul Clan attacked again.
• Yao Dan reluctantly agreed to Medicine Emperor's decision to give the jade to the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yun absorbed the Emperor-Tier Pill Formula, learned the Heavenly Flame Furnace, and left the Yao Clan after helping secure its future under the Ancient Clan’s protection. In the Soul Realm, Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame discussed their losses and planned to resume killing the Spirit and Stone Clans while Nihility recovered and pursued the Emperor-Realm Soul.

• Xiao Yun finished absorbing the Emperor-Tier Pill Formula and gained the Heavenly Flame Furnace Dou Technique.
• Yao Dan told Xiao Yun that the Medicine Emperor had returned to the clan monument to recover after fighting Nihility Devouring Flame.
• Yao Dan agreed to place the Yao Clan’s Ancient Jade in Gu Yuan’s custody and send talented members to the Ancient Clan for protection.
• Xiao Yun warned Gu Yuan that the Soul Clan sought more than three Ancient Jades and said he might return to the Heavenly Tomb soon.
• Nihility Devouring Flame told Hun Tiandi that the Yao Clan battle had badly injured him and blamed Xiao Yun and Burning Flame Ancestor for his troubles.
• Hun Tiandi restrained Nihility Devouring Flame from attacking Burning Flame Valley, and Nihility ordered the Soul Clan to kill the sealed Spirit and Stone Clans while he recovered by devouring Soul Origin.

After receiving the Yao Clan’s Emperor-Tier Pill Formula, Xiao Yun left Yao Lao to return to the Pill Tower and traveled to Dragon Island to strengthen himself as the Soul Clan’s attacks escalated. He told Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon elders about the danger, and they asked whether he wanted Dragon Island to attack the Soul Clan.

• Xiao Yun told Yao Lao that the Medicine Emperor had given him the Yao Clan’s Emperor-Tier Pill Formula, and Yao Lao praised the knowledge it contained.
• Xiao Yun warned Yao Lao that the Soul Clan had attacked the Yao, Spirit, and Stone Clans, then asked him to alert the Pill Tower elders while he went to Dragon Island.
• Zi Yan sensed Xiao Yun’s approach through the Dragon Seal and rushed to greet him on Dragon Island.
• Xiao Yun explained to Zi Yan and the Ancient Void Dragon elders how the Soul Clan had attacked the Yao Clan and nearly killed him and Yao Lao.
• The elders asked Xiao Yun whether he planned to have Dragon Island attack the Soul Clan.