Chapter Summaries

Lu Mu hosted a gambling wheel that won him eager participants, then faced a confrontation with a powerful young man from the Xuan Ming Sect. Meanwhile, Lin Qingyun and the three women explored an ancient mountain range and found the entrance to Medicine Immortal Valley.

• A middle-aged man and Old Freak Han tried Lu Mu’s wheel, and Old Freak Han won a Yin Yang Primordial Fruit.
• Other visitors tried the wheel, and one won a Yellow Tier Advanced soul technique scroll.
• A young man in white from the Xuan Ming Sect lost repeated spins, tried to reclaim his pills, and had his guards driven back by Lu Mu’s sword qi.
• The gray-robed Dou Zun intervened, and the young man in white left with his companions after Lu Mu mocked the Xuan Ming Sect.
• Lin Qingyun and Zi Yi with the other two women explored an ancient mountain range in the far west of the Central Plains.
• Lin Qingyun reached a mountain stream and found a huge stone gate marked Medicine Immortal Valley.

Lin Qingyun tracked down Medicine Immortal Valley and entered its secluded realm with Zi Yi, Murong Yanlan, and Hong Yi. After the Crimson Spirit Luan guided them to the valley’s mountain, they found the Valley Master waiting by a bamboo house.

• Lin Qingyun traced spatial fluctuations from the ruined Medicine Immortal Valley site and opened a passage toward the south.
• Lin Qingyun and his companions arrived at Cauldron City, where the Old Madman recognized that distinguished guests had arrived and went inside.
• Lin Qingyun found Medicine Immortal Valley’s self-contained realm and entered it with Zi Yi, Murong Yanlan, and Hong Yi.
• A Crimson Spirit Luan welcomed the group and carried them toward the valley’s medicinal fields and mountain halls.
• Lin Qingyun explained that the Crimson Spirit Luan depended on its master to compensate for its innate defects.
• The Crimson Spirit Luan landed near a bamboo house, where an old man awaited Lin Qingyun and his companions.

Lin Qingyun met the dying leader of Medicine Immortal Valley and proposed that the valley join Evergreen Gate. After Lin Qingyun revealed his overwhelming power and promised to restore the old man’s life, the old man was left considering the offer.

• Lin Qingyun erased the pressure from the old man, then sent Zi Yi and the other two disciples to explore Medicine Mountain.
• The old man asked how Lin Qingyun had found Medicine Immortal Valley, and Lin Qingyun said he had followed traces from the past.
• Lin Qingyun explained that he had come partly for his disciple Lu Mu, whose alchemist badge the old man had given him.
• Lin Qingyun told the old man that Medicine Immortal Valley was qualified to join Evergreen Gate, but the old man recalled the valley’s disastrous past after refusing to submit to another force.
• Lin Qingyun tore open the sky to reveal a vast world and promised the old man eternal life if Medicine Immortal Valley entered Evergreen Gate.
• The old man questioned whether eternal life was truly possible, and Lin Qingyun claimed he could restore him; the old man admitted the promise left him unable to refute it.

Lin Qingyun offered the old man protection and longevity in exchange for Medicine Immortal Valley, but the old man went to consult its people. As the Pill Gathering approached in Sacred Pill City, hidden alchemy prodigies emerged, and two young figures awakened on the eve of the event.

• Lin Qingyun offered to protect the old man and Medicine Immortal Valley, grant its people longevity and freedom, and asked to exchange those terms for the valley.
• The old man left to discuss Lin Qingyun’s proposal with the others, while Lin Qingyun explored Medicine Mountain and discovered its unusual treasures.
• Several hundred people from Medicine Immortal Valley gathered and became part of Evergreen Gate’s Pill Hall.
• As the Pill Gathering neared, Sacred Pill City filled with visitors and prodigies such as Mu Teng Zhen Er, Taishi Li, and Moqi Yirong drew attention.
• On the last day before the Pill Gathering, two young figures emerged from meditation and smiled confidently.

Lu Mu prepared for the Pill Gathering after improving his Soul Power and alchemy skills, then arrived in Sacred Pill City as contestants and spectators gathered. The opening ceremony began with the Pill Tower’s upper echelons appearing, and Lu Mu wondered whether his master would be among them.

• Lu Mu emerged from a period of secluded practice with greatly enhanced Soul Power and a successful simulation of a perfect five-colored pill, though he sensed a bottleneck.
• Lu Mu found encouragement notes from Murong Yanlan, Hong Yi, and Zi Yi, dressed in his Pill Tower robes, and set out for the Pill Gathering.
• Lu Mu arrived at the packed competition grounds, greeted Xiao Yan and the others, and surveyed the suspended platforms and the two selection trials: the soul-testing gray space and the Pill Realm.
• Lu Mu spotted powerful contestants from hidden factions, including Xue Mu, Xue Qing, Mu Teng Zhen Er, and Taishi Li, and anticipated competing against them.
• A bell silenced the crowd, seven-colored radiance formed a platform above the venue, and more than a dozen figures appeared as Lu Mu wondered whether his master would be there.

At the Pill Gathering, Lu Mu learned that the champion would receive a drop of ancient blood said to grant sainthood, then entered the first selection alongside Xiao Yan and the other contestants. As the competition began, a blood moon appeared over the Burial Saint Mountain Range, awakening an ancient tomb legend.

• Xuan Kongzi introduced the Pill Gathering selections and announced that the champion would receive an ancient soul cultivation method and a candidate spot as a Pill Tower giant, while the top ten could try the might of Heavenly Flames.
• Lin Qingyun revealed a drop of ancient blood as the champion's reward, and its power stirred intense desire among the alchemists and hidden Dou Zun experts.
• Xuan Kongzi opened the first selection, the Soul Illusion, and contestants surged into the twisted space; Xiao Yan challenged Lu Mu to a future contest, and Lu Mu followed into the trial.
• Zi Yi predicted that Lu Mu would place second at worst, while Lin Qingyun sensed a blood moon rising and wondered whether Wu Hao had awakened.
• In the extreme north, a blood moon appeared above the Burial Saint Mountain Range as scarlet blood surged from its abysses, and a Dou Zun led a crowd into the mountains to seek the legendary ancient tomb.

Li Mo and Hong Qi crossed the Blood Mist and found the Demon Eye, where they waited for the Demon Gate to emerge. In the palace beneath the dark space, a mysterious figure seized control of the blood array, and a voice warned that someone would descend to Yellow Springs.

• Li Mo and Hong Qi met in the Blood Mist and agreed to join forces as the blood shadows grew stronger.
• The two reached a Blood-colored Lake with a pitch-black vortex, which Li Mo identified as the Demon Eye where the Demon Gate was forming.
• Li Mo and Hong Qi waited with the other arrivals as bloodlight gathered inside the vortex.
• Within an ancient palace, one voice accused another of borrowing the Blood Pool and forcing this confrontation.
• A figure controlled the blood array, reversed the rivers of blood, and opened a gate as the other voice declared that the figure would descend to Yellow Springs.

Hong Qi and the other cultivators entered the Blood Moon Demon Saint’s tomb and discovered a living young man seated on a bone throne. When he opened his eyes, his killing intent stained the Burial Saint Mountain Range blood-red, and a child who traced its source saw a vision of the young man standing atop the corpses of Half-Saints and Dou Saints.

• Hong Qi and Li Mo entered the unexpectedly opened Demon Gate and followed the other cultivators into the tomb.
• The group found only an ancient hall and a blood lake, where a young man sat on a throne of bones.
• White-faced Ghost Scholar revealed that the young man was alive, and the cultivators attacked him to seize his soul.
• The young man opened his blood-red eyes and unleashed killing intent that turned the land across the Burial Saint Mountain Range blood-red.
• A child on Boundless Mountain traced the killing intent to the hall and saw the young man amid the corpses of Half-Saints and Dou Saints.

Wu Hao advanced from Dou Zong to Five Star Dou Zun while hunting down the Dou Zun gathered at the Burial Saint Mountain Range, then destroyed the enemy who had tried to seize his body. Afterward, he set off to support Lu Mu at the Pill Gathering.

• Wu Hao revealed his identity as a nominal disciple of Evergreen Gate and challenged the gathered Dou Zun to witness his breakthrough.
• Wu Hao pursued the fleeing Dou Zun into the void and killed the Blood Enchanting Sky Fox with a single sword strike, advancing to Dou Zun.
• Wu Hao caught and killed the pale-faced man who had first attacked him, then cut down the remaining Dou Zun until his realm reached Five Star Dou Zun.
• A Taoist boy on Boundless Mountain watched Wu Hao's rampage and sealed Ping Tian Dao Guan for ten years rather than provoke him.
• Wu Hao struck the gate at the blood lake and annihilated the Dou Saint who had tried to seize his body.
• Wu Hao heard that Lu Mu was at the Pill Gathering and headed there to cheer him on.

As the Pill Gathering entered its final stages, Lin Qingyun warned the Pill Tower leaders that hidden Half-Saints and Dou Saints had come, likely drawn by the essence blood he had revealed. Lu Mu continued nurturing his pill as the first Grade 7 pill produced pill lightning, while a blood-red presence approached.

• After nearly ten days of refining, the crowd focused on the leading alchemists as many competitors finished their pills or failed.
• Xuan Kongzi asked Lin Qingyun who would take first place, and Lin Qingyun predicted two winners while warning that Half-Saints and Dou Saints were nearby.
• Xuan Kongzi suspected the outsiders had come for Lin Qingyun's essence blood and ordered contact with the elders of the Small Pill Tower.
• Nearly another ten days passed, leaving fewer than a thousand alchemists still refining while pill fragrance filled the area.
• Lu Mu remained absorbed in forming his pill, while the first dark clouds and lightning signaled that a Grade 7 Pill had appeared.
• Lin Qingyun looked toward a distant blood-red smear approaching and praised the figure's future.

As the Pill Gathering narrowed to its strongest contestants, Dan Chen produced a Rank 8 Pill and Mu Teng Zhen Er approached the same level. Six mysterious Heavenly Prodigies then began refining pills together, summoning three-colored Pill Tribulation Lightning and escalating the contest.

• Pill Tribulation Lightning appeared nearly every day as the remaining contestants dwindled to fewer than a hundred.
• A gray-haired alchemist endured lightning and refined a Seventh Grade Advanced pill, while more than twenty others soon produced pills of the same grade.
• Xuan Kongzi and the other judges sensed several Rank 8 Pills forming and identified Dan Chen and Mu Teng Zhen Er among the rising contestants.
• Dan Chen used her blood to complete her pill, shattering her Medicine Cauldron and summoning a vast two-colored thundercloud.
• Another contestant produced a Rank 8 Pill with a faint trace of a third color as six mysterious Heavenly Prodigies began refining together and summoned three-colored Pill Tribulation Lightning.

The Pill Gathering reached its climax as Old Man Mu Gu revealed his strength and summoned Five-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning. Xiao Yan and Lu Mu then opened their cauldrons, and their pills also began producing five-colored tribulation lightning, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Six contestants produced Three-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, and Song Qing accepted that he had lost.
• Old Monster Qinghua revealed his identity and produced Four-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning.
• Old Man Mu Gu rose and produced Five-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning, declaring himself the Pill Gathering champion.
• Xuan Kongzi reacted angrily to Mu Gu's display, while Lin Qingyun told him not to worry before the final moment.
• Xiao Yan and Lu Mu stood and opened their cauldrons, and both produced Five-Colored Pill Tribulation Lightning as their cauldron fluctuations shook the square.

Lu Mu and Xiao Yan completed their pills, producing six-colored Pill Lightning, with Xiao Yan’s cloud showing a faint trace of a seventh color. Lu Mu treated the descending lightning as his breakthrough tribulation and charged into it, declaring that he would become a Venerable One.

• The spectators and the watching experts marveled at Lu Mu and Xiao Yan’s pill-refining achievements, while Mu Gu restrained his desire to kill them under the gaze of powerful onlookers.
• The two thunderclouds stabilized at six colors, and observers noted that Xiao Yan’s cloud had a faint, incomplete seventh color.
• Lu Mu acknowledged Xiao Yan’s greater talent in pill refining, and Xiao Yan said their result was a tie; Lu Mu then declared that they had won.
• As the Pill Lightning gathered, Lu Mu revealed that he was about to break through and called it his own tribulation, while Xiao Yan agreed to compete with him again.
• Lu Mu shattered the stone platform and pierced through the descending lightning dragon, then stood amid the storm as a colossal dragon of shifting-colored lightning opened its eyes.

Lu Mu and Xiao Yan were named joint champions of the Pill Gathering after Lu Mu broke through to Dou Zun and revealed that he had refined two pills from one furnace. As Lin Qingyun presented them with blood said to help one become a Saint, time abruptly stopped, the blood vanished, and dozens of powerful figures descended into Sacred Pill City.

• Lu Mu endured the pill lightning tribulation, broke through to Dou Zun, and emerged with two pills formed from one furnace.
• Xuan Kongzi declared Lu Mu and Xiao Yan joint champions and awarded each an ancient soul cultivation scroll as a candidate for future Pill Tower giant.
• Lin Qingyun presented Lu Mu and Xiao Yan with jade bottles containing Dou Saint blood and warned them not to absorb it without sufficient strength.
• Heaven and earth fell silent, the Saint blood disappeared, and dozens of figures emerged from the sky as their overwhelming power cracked Sacred Pill City.

Xue Wudi and the other Dou Shengs attacked the Pill Tower to seize the Dou Sheng Blood and the Pill Gathering champions, but Lu Mu’s Evergreen Gate allies intervened with overwhelming strength. As the intruders tried to flee, the linen-clothed youth struck at them, and a warning shout came from far away.

• Xue Wudi demanded the Dou Sheng Blood and the champions Xiao Yan and Lu Mu, while Cang Ming let the champions decide how to respond.
• Lu Mu mocked the attackers, and Xue Wudi, Feng Xian, and Great River Sword Saint launched their assault on Lu Mu and Cang Ming.
• Lu Mu’s identity token heated, and an old man in white robes and a linen-clothed youth arrived from Evergreen Gate to protect him.
• The newcomers suppressed Xue Wudi, who broke free and tried to flee with Feng Xian.
• The linen-clothed youth swung his sword at Xue Wudi and the others, as a shout demanding they stop rang across the Central Plains.

Evergreen Gate killed three Dou Sheng who attacked Sacred Pill City and demanded that six forces apologize, kneel, and kowtow. Xue Gan raised the Xue Clan’s War Heavenly Ark, and Sword Palace, Taiqing Palace, Taishi Clan, and other forces declared war, leaving the Central Plains facing a Saint War.

• The Heavenly Flame Saint and a linen-clothed youth killed Xue Wudi, Feng Xian, and the Great River Sword Saint after the Heavenly Flame Saint destroyed an attempt to save them.
• The linen-clothed youth demanded apologies from six forces for attacking an Evergreen Gate disciple, while the Heavenly Flame Saint exposed and wounded the Vice Hall Master of Souls.
• Lin Qingyun stopped the Heavenly Flame Saint from pursuing the Vice Hall Master of Souls, and the Evergreen Gate gave the six forces three days before coming to challenge them.
• Xue Gan summoned the Xue Clan’s War Heavenly Ark and declared that the Saint War had begun; an unseen Dou Sheng who invoked a ban on war was killed by an Evergreen Gate powerhouse.
• Sword Palace, Taiqing Palace, Taishi Clan, and other hidden forces revealed themselves and challenged the Evergreen Gate, while the Triple Gate prepared its response.

As six forces declared war on Evergreen Gate, the Central Plains braced for a Saint War and people fled Sacred Pill City. Lin Qingyun completed his check-in, received the Time Cultivation Pavilion, and summoned the time-worn treasure before Evergreen Gate, where Great Void Young Master recognized its power.

• Six forces joined together to declare war on Evergreen Gate, while Heavenly Flame Saint and his companion calmly left Cang Ming to handle the aftermath.
• Cang Ming warned the guests that the Central Plains would soon face disturbances, and people hurriedly evacuated Sacred Pill City and other cities.
• Lin Qingyun received the system’s eighth check-in reward, the Time Cultivation Pavilion and Refine Divine Weapon General Mountain, and learned that one year of lifespan bought a hundred years inside.
• Lin Qingyun appeared in a misty realm and summoned the Time Cultivation Pavilion, whose arrival shook the world and made people feel their ages changing.
• Great Void Young Master arrived and identified the pavilion as a Time Treasure.

Lin Qingyun awakened the Time Cultivation Pavilion and Refine Divine Weapon General Mountain, using their powers to accelerate cultivation and begin forging an army. As the Evergreen Gate grew stronger, the Xue Family and other hidden powers revealed massive forces across the world.

• Lin Qingyun showed Great Void Young Master and You the Time Cultivation Pavilion, which offered a hundredfold cultivation speed by burning lifespan.
• Lin Qingyun sent his true body into the pavilion and burned one hundred years of life to cultivate under accelerated time.
• The Refine Divine Weapon General Mountain descended, and Lin Qingyun fed it a Starry Purple Mountain to forge weapons and puppets for an Invincible Army.
• Lin Qingyun learned the forging would take at least three days and expected the Evergreen Gate to reach its peak by the fourth year.
• The Xue Family assembled an army of Flying Ships, Dou Zun, Half-Saints, and Dou Sheng led by Xue Gan.
• Taiqing Palace, Sword Palace, and the Taishi Clan revealed formidable forces, with the Taishi Clan commanding hundreds of Sky-Swallowing Crocodiles.

As six ancient forces converged on Evergreen Gate, Li Mu sounded the War Horn and revealed the gate’s hidden formations, vast puppet armies, fierce beasts, disciples, and a powerful spirit-bearing War Hammer. The seventh blast summoned an ancient world and its elders as the invading forces approached.

• An ancient Spirit Clan existence and other hidden powers reacted with alarm to the Taishi Clan’s army and questioned Evergreen Gate’s strength.
• Li Mu raised a blood-stained horn and activated a formation spanning nearly the entire Central Plains, powerful enough to kill a Fourth Stage Dou Sheng.
• Li Mu summoned four puppet armies of a million Dou Zong and another hundred-thousand-strong army of Dou Zun-level puppets.
• Li Mu released ten ancient fierce beasts comparable to Dou Sheng, including a living You Tian.
• Evergreen Gate’s disciples, stewards, and hall elders arrived, followed by a spirit-bearing War Hammer whose power rivaled a Fifth Stage Dou Sheng.
• Li Mu sounded the seventh blast, summoning an ancient world whose elders prepared to fight the approaching enemies.

Evergreen Gate revealed more of its formidable forces as the allied armies of six ancient powers began their assault. Its killing formation devastated the wasteland, and more than twenty Evergreen Gate Dou Sheng stepped forward to meet the invaders.

• Evergreen Gate's ancient figures, five young Dou Zun, and the sect master's wives arrived as the assembled onlookers marveled at the sect's strength.
• The honored madam gave the order to kill, and Evergreen Gate's puppet army, ancient vicious beings, and Immortal Artifacts joined the battle.
• Xue Gan led the six allied forces into the wasteland, where they deployed their own formations against Evergreen Gate's killing formation.
• Evergreen Gate's killing formation unleashed waves of light, thunder, fire, and ice that destroyed the wasteland and killed many attackers.
• More than twenty Evergreen Gate Dou Sheng advanced to fight the allied army as Xue Gan roared and led his forces forward.