Chapter Summaries

Ice River Valley and its allies attacked the Ye Clan, while Skyfire Venerable tried to stall them and protect Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian as they refined the Poison Pill. Tianshuang Zi and Mu Gu reached the Ye Clan Ancient Altar, where Xiao Yan noticed their arrival but could not stop refining.

• Skyfire Venerable revealed an eighth-grade pill from Xiao Yan, and Ye Xinlan confirmed Xiao Yan's exceptional skill as an alchemist.
• Star Picking Old Ghost persuaded Ice River that Skyfire Venerable was stalling for Xiao Yan, so Ice River ordered Tianshuang Zi and Mu Gu to search the Ye Clan and kill Xiao Yan's group if they found them.
• Skyfire Venerable attacked Tianshuang Zi's group, but Ice River blocked him and the two began fighting.
• Ice River, Star Picking Old Ghost, and Venerable Lei surrounded Skyfire Venerable and prepared to injure him while Tianshuang Zi and Mu Gu entered the Ye Clan.
• Tianshuang Zi and Mu Gu headed for the Ye Clan Ancient Altar, and Xiao Yan sensed them while continuing to help Xiao Yixian refine the Poison Pill.

Mu Gu and Tianshuang Zi led their forces to the Sunfire Ancient Altar but found Xiao Yan’s invisible barrier blocking their way. After their attacks failed, they prepared to combine their strength with a Soul Hall secret technique to try to break it.

• Tianshuang Zi and Mu Gu found an invisible barrier outside the Sunfire Ancient Altar, and Mu Gu’s first strike failed to break it.
• Mu Gu used the Netherworld Demonflame Arm to attack the barrier, flattening the Ye Clan courtyard but leaving the barrier intact.
• Tianshuang Zi struck the barrier and was blasted back, after which he and Mu Gu led repeated attacks that failed to overcome its defenses.
• Xiao Yan watched as his Three Points Return to Origin Qi barrier absorbed energy and strengthened itself against the attackers.
• Mu Gu realized the barrier could only be broken with a single overwhelming blow and proposed using Soul Hall’s combined attack technique.
• Mu Gu arranged the group, taught them the secret technique, and led them in forming seals.

Xiao Yan rescued Skyfire Venerable after Mu Gu and Tianshuang Zi’s forces were devastated by golden dragons outside the Sunfire Ancient Altar. He then confronted the gathered Dou Zuns to settle the score for their attack on the Tianxia Guild.

• Mu Gu broke through the barrier, but golden dragons swept up his and Tianshuang Zi’s forces, killing many and leaving both men badly injured.
• Ice River and Star Picking Old Ghost questioned Mu Gu and Tianshuang Zi while Skyfire Venerable tried to slip away from them.
• Ice River tried to seize Skyfire Venerable as a hostage, but Xiao Yan’s barrier stopped him and Xiao Yan arrived with a healing pill for Skyfire.
• Skyfire Venerable left to guard Xiao Yixian and recover, while Xiao Yan faced Ice River, Star Picking Old Ghost, Mu Gu, Venerable Lei, and the others.
• Xiao Yan blamed the group for their attack on the Tianxia Guild and struck Venerable Lei with Three Points Return to Origin Qi.

Xiao Yan fought five Dou Zuns at once, killing Tianshuang Zi and severely injuring Ice River. The four surviving opponents launched their strongest attacks, and Xiao Yan protected himself with Three Points Return to Origin Qi as the clash shook Ye City.

• Star Picking Old Ghost urged the five Dou Zuns to attack Xiao Yan together, and Xiao Yan mocked them before launching Wind Sweeps the Tower.
• Xiao Yan exploited an opening in Tianshuang Zi’s defenses and killed him with Thunderous Swiftness.
• Xiao Yan repelled Ice River’s Ice Dragons with Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms, shattered his Ice Mirror, and injured him severely.
• Ice River, Star Picking Old Ghost, Venerable Lei, and Mu Gu unleashed their strongest attacks at Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan raised Three Points Return to Origin Qi as a defensive barrier, and the four attacks struck it amid a devastating shockwave.

Xiao Yan survived the four Dou Zuns’ combined attack and turned its power against them, forcing Ice River and Venerable Lei to use their sect formation while Star Picking Old Ghost raised his strength with a secret technique. Xiao Yan grew to giant size and began fighting Star Picking Old Ghost, with the battle still underway.

• Ice River, Star Picking Old Ghost, and Venerable Lei believed Xiao Yan had died, but Xiao Yan emerged unharmed.
• Xiao Yan used Three Points Return to Origin Qi to send the four absorbed attacks back at Ice River and the others, blasting them away.
• Ice River and Venerable Lei activated their combined attack formation and transformed into giants, while Xiao Yan used Law of Heaven and Earth to grow larger than them.
• Star Picking Old Ghost used a secret technique to approach Seven-Star Dou Zun strength and threatened to torture Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yan charged Star Picking Old Ghost and clashed his iron pillar against the ghost-headed saber before striking again.

Xiao Yan fought Star Picking Old Ghost, Venerable Lei, and Ice River in Ye City, using the Yin-Yang Twin Flame to withstand their attacks and drive them onto the defensive. After learning Mu Gu had gone to summon Soul Hall reinforcements, Xiao Yan tried to end the battle quickly, but the three opponents began preparing a combined ultimate move.

• Star Picking Old Ghost, Venerable Lei, and Ice River joined forces against Xiao Yan, who blocked their lightning and ice attacks with his iron rod and Heavenly Flame.
• Xiao Yan’s Yin-Yang Twin Flame burned Ice River and helped him recover from injuries, while the three attackers switched to defense as onlookers gathered in Ye City.
• Venerable Lei urged Star Picking Old Ghost to summon Soul Hall reinforcements, and Star Picking Old Ghost revealed that Mu Gu had already gone to fetch them.
• Xiao Yan intensified his assault, but Star Picking Old Ghost, Venerable Lei, and Ice River retreated and began forming energy weapons for a major attack.
• Star Picking Old Ghost, Venerable Lei, and Ice River struck their chests and spat heart’s blood onto their weapons, strengthening them for the attack.

Xiao Yan was struck by the combined attack of Ice River, Star Picking Old Ghost, and Venerable Lei, and Xiao Yixian fought them after believing he had died. The Black and White Venerables arrived, subdued Xiao Yixian, and left her preparing to self-destruct.

• Ice River froze Xiao Yan, allowing Star Picking Old Ghost and Venerable Lei to land their combined attacks and seemingly kill him.
• Xiao Yixian attacked the three with her Calamity Poison Body, while Skyfire Venerable joined her assault and helped incapacitate them.
• The Black and White Venerables appeared, stopped Xiao Yixian's poisonous claws, and ordered Star Picking Old Ghost to find Xiao Yan's corpse and recover what he carried.
• The Black and White Venerables attacked Xiao Yixian, while Star Picking Old Ghost, Ice River, and Venerable Lei held off Skyfire Venerable.
• After being badly wounded and unable to fight back, Xiao Yixian prepared to self-destruct and take her enemies with her.

Xiao Yan returned in time to stop Xiao Yi Xian from destroying herself, and the two suppressed the poison energy together. Their reunion was interrupted by Xun'er arriving through a Space Channel, followed by two Ancient Clan elders.

• The Black and White Venerables and the Star Picking Old Ghost fled when Xiao Yi Xian's Calamity Poison Body began to self-destruct.
• Xiao Yan appeared and suppressed Xiao Yi Xian's rampaging Dou Qi, then explained that the Yin-Yang Twin Flame had protected him in the Space Turbulence.
• Xiao Yi Xian contained the remaining Dou Qi in her Poison Pill, and Xiao Yan embraced her and warned her not to risk her life again.
• Xun'er emerged from a Space Channel and ran into Xiao Yan's arms, reuniting with him after years apart.
• Two gray-robed elders followed Xun'er through the channel, were shocked to see her embracing Xiao Yan, then noticed something nearby that made them exchange disbelieving looks.

The Ancient Clan elders arrived in Ye City and learned that Xiao Yan had defeated the forces of the Soul Hall, Ice River Valley, and Wind and Thunder Pavilion. When the Black and White Venerables returned with reinforcements, Xiao Yan challenged them and led everyone high above the city to test a new technique.

• The Ancient Clan elders questioned Skyfire Venerable, who recounted how Xiao Yan had defeated the allied factions.
• The Black and White Venerables arrived with Soul Hall, Ice River Valley, and Wind and Thunder Pavilion fighters, then demanded that Xiao Yan and Xiao Yixian be handed over.
• The Ancient Clan elders declared that they were protecting Xiao Yan, while Xun'er confronted the Soul Hall group over its attack on him.
• Xiao Yan stepped forward and challenged the Black and White Venerables after learning that they had injured Xiao Yixian.
• Xiao Yan flew tens of thousands of meters above Ye City and announced that he would test his new move on the Black and White Venerables.

Xiao Yan forced the black and white spheres of his Three Points Return to Origin Qi to merge and unleashed the Heaven Tier Dou Technique at the Black and White Venerables. The explosion killed Ling Quan and left Xiao Yan gravely injured in a crater.

• Xiao Yan compressed the black and white spheres together as their clashing energies froze space and trapped everyone nearby.
• The spheres fused into a colorless ball, allowing Xiao Yan to move; he threw it toward the Black and White Venerables and fled as space froze again.
• Ling Quan arrived with his armored troops and Four-Winged Unicorns, vowing to kill Xiao Yan.
• The sphere exploded with enough force to destroy Ling Quan and his group, flatten mountains, and shake cities as far away as Holy Pill City.
• Xiao Yan lay motionless in a crater, his back badly torn and his bones exposed.

After surviving the devastating backlash of his new Dou Technique, Xiao Yan reunited with Xun'er and Xiao Yixian and returned to the damaged Ye Clan. He promised to help the Ye Clan with its assessment and join the Alchemist Tournament, while two Ancient Clan elders anxiously worried about Xun'er being alone with him.

• Xiao Yan recovered from his injuries, and Xun'er, Xiao Yixian, Skyfire Venerable, and the two Ancient Clan elders emerged from a spatial passage, all battered but alive.
• Xiao Yan and his companions washed up and returned to Ye City, where the Ye Clan welcomed them among the ruins.
• Xiao Yan promised Ye Zhong that he would help the Ye Clan's assessment and participate in the Alchemist Tournament.
• Xiao Yan took Xun'er and Xiao Yixian by the hand and followed a maid to their rooms, impressing Ye Zhong and alarming the Ancient Clan elders.
• The two elders paced outside Xiao Yan's closed door, then urged Ye Xinlan to take fruit inside while pretending it was meant for them.

Xiao Yan’s group left Ye City for Holy Pill City, but Xiao Yan’s teasing and fights with jealous young men turned the journey into a profitable tour of the surrounding cities. The group continued toward the approaching Five Great Clans assessment after Xiao Yan gathered rare medicinal ingredients and inadvertently inspired his opponents to reform.

• Xiao Yan offered Ye Xinlan a chance to obtain treasures from the two Ancient Clan elders, and she chose a suitable item before bringing Xun'er out of his room unharmed.
• The two elders kept watch over Xun'er overnight, while Xiao Yixian stayed with her and Xiao Yan slept alone.
• Xiao Yan’s group left for Holy Pill City with Ye Zhong, and Xiao Yan teased the elders by acting intimately with Xun'er and Xiao Yixian along the way.
• Jealous young men attacked Xiao Yan and were beaten, prompting their clan elders and ancestors to apologize and offer compensation.
• Xiao Yan repeatedly provoked others into confronting him, extending the journey through nearby cities and collecting rare medicinal ingredients.
• The young men who had once harassed women returned to their clans and began training diligently, pleasing their elders.

Xiao Yan arrived in Holy Pill City with Xun'er, Xiao Yixian, and Ye Zhong, then set his sights on obtaining an alchemist badge and claiming Three Thousand Burning Flame. The chapter left him at a Pill Tower testing site, impatiently facing a long line of alchemists waiting to take their tests.

• Xiao Yan and his companions entered Holy Pill City's Outer Domain, where Ye Zhong explained the city’s plazas and proposed they obtain a Pill Tower alchemist badge.
• Ye Zhong brought the group to the neglected Ye Residence, where they rested for the night.
• Xiao Yan saw Three Thousand Burning Flame in the stars and resolved to obtain it, though he lacked the Dragon Seal needed to subdue it safely.
• The next day, Xiao Yan went with Ye Zhong to a Pill Tower branch testing site and frowned at the long line of alchemists waiting for their tests.

Xiao Yan waited for Ye Zhong to arrange his alchemist assessment and encountered a mysterious, frail girl whose touch carried a soul-devouring force. He then entered the testing room, where members of the White and Qiu Clans mocked the Ye Clan, and answered a White Clan elder’s insult with a sharp retort.

• Ye Zhong left to use his connections in the Pill Tower to arrange Xiao Yan’s assessment, while Xiao Yan decided to look around.
• A frail girl stumbled into Xiao Yan, and when he caught her hand, a terrifying suction force tried to devour his soul; he blocked it with Three Points Return to Origin Qi.
• Ye Zhong returned and warned Xiao Yan that the White and Qiu Clans were taking the test that day and often mocked the Ye Clan.
• Xiao Yan and Ye Zhong entered the assessment room, where a White Clan elder taunted Ye Zhong and Han Li greeted Xiao Yan warmly.
• The White Clan elder mocked Xiao Yan for lacking a rank badge, and Xiao Yan retorted by asking whether the Pill Tower kept dogs that bit everyone.

Xiao Yan humiliated the White Clan’s old woman and revealed overwhelming strength when she attacked him twice. He then asked to test for an intermediate seventh-tier badge so he could represent the Ye Clan in the assessment and attend the Alchemist Grand Ceremony.

• The White Clan’s old woman attacked Xiao Yan after he mocked her, but she broke her bones and crashed into a wall along with three young clan members.
• Xiao Yan accused the old woman of trying to frame him, and the people in the room began to suspect she had faked her injuries.
• The old woman attacked Xiao Yan again with all her strength, but he remained unharmed and sent her flying through a wall.
• Xiao Yan asked Han Li to begin his alchemist test, startling the room by implying his rank exceeded the local intermediate seventh-tier limit.
• Xiao Yan chose to test for an intermediate seventh-tier badge so he could represent the Ye Clan in the assessment and participate in the Alchemist Grand Ceremony.

Xiao Yan earned a seventh-grade intermediate alchemist badge and returned to the Ye Clan, then joined Ye Zhong at the Five Great Clans Examination, where the Ye Clan faced the threat of expulsion. The chapter left Xiao Yan surveying the rival clans as the examination was about to begin.

• Xiao Yan passed the alchemist assessment in the Heaven-Class Testing Room and received a seventh-grade intermediate badge, surprising the observers.
• Xiao Yan returned to the Ye Clan with Ye Zhong, then spent several days with Xun'er and Xiao Yixian buying rare medicinal ingredients.
• Xiao Yan and Ye Zhong arrived at the Five Great Clans Examination, where spectators watched the Ye Clan, which risked expulsion if it failed.
• Ye Zhong identified Bai Ying of the White Clan and Dan Xuan of the Dan Clan as seventh-grade intermediate alchemists competing in the examination.

Cao Ying arrived at the Ye Clan’s assessment and took an interest in Xiao Yan, who refused to shake her hand. After Cao Ying exposed Xiao Yan’s clash with the White Clan, she invited Dan Chen to compete, and the hall transformed into an open plaza for the assessment.

• Cao Ying entered the hall, noticed Xiao Yan’s disdainful expression, and approached him to introduce herself.
• Xiao Yan withdrew his hand when he saw Xun'er and Xiao Yixian watching, then told Cao Ying his name.
• Cao Ying publicly revealed that Xiao Yan had nearly beaten the White Clan’s Great Elder, turning the White Clan’s anger toward him.
• Xiao Yan followed Ye Zhong to the Ye Clan’s seats without reacting to the White Clan’s hostility, while Cao Ying grew more interested in him.
• Cao Ying invited Dan Chen to participate in the assessment, and Dan Chen agreed after looking toward Xiao Yan.
• The Five Great Clans’ seating areas moved back, revealing a spacious plaza in the hall.

The Five Great Clans began their Pill Tower assessment, and Xiao Yan drew attention after Elder Sheng Yao praised his strength and alchemy. Dan Chen recorded a startling Soul Value of 1566, and Cao Ying began her own test as the chapter ended.

• Elder Sheng Yao opened the assessment and introduced the soul test, explaining that a Soul Value above 400 passed.
• Xiao Yan greeted Sheng Yao as the Ye Clan's representative, and Sheng Yao praised his recent achievements against the Soul Hall.
• Qiu Ji scored 708 and Bai Ying scored 785 on the soul test.
• Xiao Yan invited Dan Chen to go before him, and her soul storm pushed back the onlookers while leaving Xiao Yan unmoved.
• Dan Chen's Soul Value reached 1566, astonishing the assembled candidates.
• Cao Ying began her test and released a soul storm as powerful as Dan Chen's.

Xiao Yan overwhelmed the soul test with a Soul Value of 1999, securing first place for the Ye Clan. Elder Sheng Yao then began the Soul Control assessment, where Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Bai Ying, and Qiu Ji competed to catch falling Soul-Measuring Pearls.

• Cao Ying secretly attacked Xiao Yan with her soul power, but the attack vanished and her test ended at 1011.
• Xiao Yan poured his soul power into the stele, creating a storm that blasted everyone back and produced a Soul Value of 1999.
• Elder Sheng Yao announced Xiao Yan as the soul test's top representative and introduced the Soul Control assessment with Soul-Measuring Pearls.
• Elder Sheng Yao explained that the contestants had to catch the falling beads with soul power, then started the test as beads poured from holes in the ceiling.
• Xiao Yan formed two enormous soul-power dragon claws to catch beads, while Cao Ying, Dan Chen, Bai Ying, and Qiu Ji also competed.
• Bai Ying and Qiu Ji reached their limits and stopped catching beads, while Xiao Yan, Cao Ying, and Dan Chen continued.

Xiao Yan surpassed the other contestants in the iron-ball assessment and advanced his soul after catching the 200th ball. He won the round with 288 balls, then faced attacks from Cao Ying and the others in the third assessment.

• Dan Chen withdrew after catching 125 iron balls, and Cao Ying withdrew at 136.
• Xiao Yan caught the 200th iron ball, crossed the threshold for an eighth-tier high-grade alchemist, and his soul advanced.
• Xiao Yan caught 288 iron balls, securing first place in the second assessment and impressing the hall.
• Cao Ying and Dan Chen resolved to return to their families and work harder after seeing Xiao Yan's skill.
• In the third assessment, Cao Ying and the other three targeted Xiao Yan, who protected himself with Three Points Return to Origin Qi and studied their soul techniques.