Chapter Summaries

Su Chen, a reincarnated Pill Emperor, returned to the day he was framed for stealing pills and faced expulsion from the Orthodox Unity Sect. He challenged Elder Xing Yun and Lu Yuan, then claimed he could refine Qi-Gathering Pills himself, leaving the hall in uproar.

• Su Chen awakened to his past life as Dust Pill Emperor while the Orthodox Unity Sect prepared to cripple his dantian and expel him.
• Su Chen recognized Elder Xing Yun and Lu Yuan as the people who had framed him and resolved to prevent his dantian from being crippled.
• Su Chen accused Elder Xing Yun and Lu Yuan of plotting against him, but the disciples and elders dismissed his claims.
• Elder Xing Yun cited the ten Qi-Gathering Pills found in Su Chen’s residence as proof of theft.
• Su Chen claimed he could refine Qi-Gathering Pills with a flick of his hand, shocking the hall.

Su Chen proved that he could refine Qi-Gathering Pills by producing a furnace of superior-grade pills, undermining Elder Xing Yun and Lu Yuan’s accusations. Elder Xing Yun withdrew Su Chen’s punishment for theft but still sentenced him to a year as a menial disciple, forbidden to cultivate.

• Elder Xing Yun brought out a pill furnace and ingredients, challenging Su Chen to refine Qi-Gathering Pills in front of the disciples.
• Su Chen cleared the furnace, ignited its fire, and refined the ingredients into a batch of pills in less than two incense sticks.
• Su Chen collected the superior-grade Qi-Gathering Pills, and Elder Xing Yun confirmed that they were genuine.
• The disciples questioned Elder Xing Yun’s accusations as Su Chen challenged him over conspiring with Lu Yuan to frame him.
• Elder Xing Yun revoked Su Chen’s punishment for stealing pills but ordered him to serve as a menial disciple for one year without cultivating.

Su Chen withdrew from the Orthodox Unity Sect after Elder Xing Yun sentenced him to a year of menial work, then vowed to return in one year and kill Xing Yun and Lu Yuan. He traveled to Clear River City to stay with his aunt Xu Yin, who anxiously asked why he had left the sect.

• Elder Xing Yun ordered Su Chen to become a menial disciple for a year, but Su Chen withdrew from the Orthodox Unity Sect instead.
• Su Chen left a scroll promising to return in one year, flatten the sect, and kill Elder Xing Yun and Lu Yuan; Xing Yun and Lu Yuan dismissed the threat.
• Su Chen decided to rebuild his cultivation using the knowledge from his previous life and went to Clear River City rather than return to his parents.
• Su Chen reached the Jiang Family residence and reunited with his aunt Xu Yin, who asked whether the Orthodox Unity Sect had driven him out.

After leaving the Orthodox Unity Sect, Su Chen stayed with his aunt Xu Yin and began cultivating the Chaos Immortal Record, quickly advancing to the Eighth Layer of the Qi-Attraction Realm. He met his resentful cousin Jiang Tingyi, whom Xu Yin ordered to accompany him shopping.

• Su Chen assured Xu Yin that he had left the Orthodox Unity Sect by choice and asked her to keep it secret from his parents.
• Su Chen abandoned the True Yang Heart Formula and cultivated the Chaos Immortal Record, drawing in spiritual energy without waste.
• After one night of cultivation, Su Chen broke through to the Eighth Layer of the Qi-Attraction Realm and felt his strength increase.
• Xu Yin introduced Su Chen to Jiang Tingyi, who complained that he was freeloading and refused to enter his room.
• Xu Yin insisted that Jiang Tingyi accompany Su Chen to buy clothes and necessities, and Jiang Tingyi reluctantly went to get ready.

Xu Yin gave Su Chen her savings to support his cultivation, and he went with Jiang Tingyi to buy clothes before facing insults from Wang Bingyan and her companions. Jiang Tingyi planned to attend Ye Xuan’s welcome banquet, while Su Chen left for Five Treasures Hall.

• Xu Yin gave Su Chen ten thousand taels in silver notes, and he vowed to give her a better life in this life.
• Jiang Tingyi warned Su Chen not to cause trouble, then took him to Cloud-Brocade Tower to have clothes made.
• Wang Bingyan and her admirers mocked Jiang Tingyi and accused Su Chen of being expelled from the Orthodox Unity Sect for stealing pills.
• Jiang Tingyi rebuked Su Chen and accepted Wang Bingyan’s invitation to Ye Xuan’s welcome banquet, while Su Chen left without her.
• Su Chen headed to Five Treasures Hall to look for pills and medicinal herbs.

Su Chen went to Five Treasures Hall to buy a Century Sunlight Herb for his aunt, but the manager tried to give the shop’s only stalk to a noble young woman and her injured grandfather. Su Chen refused to yield it, warned that the herb would worsen the old man’s injuries, and was interrupted by someone from the rear hall.

• Su Chen asked for an Ice-Snow Cold Cicada and then offered a thousand-tael banknote to buy the shop’s only Century Sunlight Herb for his aunt.
• A young woman and her bandaged grandfather arrived and asked for the Century Sunlight Herb to treat injuries from an Ice-Scale Python bite.
• The manager took the herb from Su Chen’s clerk and tried to hand it to the newcomers, but Su Chen stopped him and insisted he had asked first.
• The young woman offered Su Chen compensation and explained that her grandfather needed the herb, but Su Chen refused to give it up.
• Su Chen warned that using Century Sunlight Herb would worsen the old man’s injuries, prompting the manager to call his claim nonsense.
• A voice from the rear hall demanded to know who was making wild claims in Five Treasures Hall.

Su Chen challenged Li Jun’s diagnosis of the old man’s snakebite and identified it as a Coldheart Python bite rather than an Ice-Scale Python bite. The young woman chose to let Su Chen treat her grandfather at Five Treasures Hall while Li Jun watched, expecting him to fail.

• Li Jun arrived at Five Treasures Hall and insisted that a Century Sunlight Herb could treat the old man’s supposed Ice-Scale Python injury.
• Su Chen offered to treat the old man using an ordinary Yang-Origin Stone if the young woman gave him the Century Sunlight Herb.
• Su Chen explained that the persistent bleeding showed the wound came from a Coldheart Python, whose venom prevented blood clotting and required different treatment.
• The young woman chose Su Chen’s treatment plan, and Li Jun stood aside, hoping to expose him as a fraud.

Su Chen healed an old man’s Coldheart Python wound with Yang-Origin Stone and Blood-Staunching Herb, then left the Five Treasures Hall after refusing the girl’s reward. Master Mo arrived too late to meet him and rebuked Li Jun for calling Su Chen a swindler.

• Su Chen ground Yang-Origin Stone and Blood-Staunching Herb into a paste and applied it to the old man’s wound, which began healing before the crowd.
• The girl thanked Su Chen and offered him the Century Sunlight Herb and a consultation fee, but Su Chen paid for the herb himself and departed.
• The girl asked Su Chen’s name, and he answered before continuing on his way; Li Jun accused the girl and old man of staging the cure.
• Master Mo hurried from the rear hall looking for Su Chen, but Li Jun told him the youth had already left.
• Li Jun called Su Chen a wandering swindler, and Master Mo angrily rebuked him.

Master Mo learned that Su Chen had cured a Coldheart Python bite with a formula his own teacher had never solved, and he punished Li Jun for slandering him. Su Chen accepted an invitation to Drunken Immortal Residence because his host knew where to find an Ice-Snow Cold Cicada, but Jiang Tingyi mistook his arrival for secretly following her to Ye Xuan’s banquet.

• Master Mo ordered a search for Su Chen, believing an expert behind the young man had discovered the correct proportions of Yang-Origin Stone and Blood-Staunching Herb.
• Master Mo stripped Li Jun of his Intermediate Apprentice Alchemist title for accusing Su Chen without evidence.
• A maid invited Su Chen to a banquet at Drunken Immortal Residence and offered information about an Ice-Snow Cold Cicada, so he agreed to attend.
• At Drunken Immortal Residence, Jiang Tingyi accused Su Chen of secretly following her to Ye Xuan’s welcome banquet.
• Wang Bingyan recognized Su Chen and taunted Jiang Tingyi by calling him her cousin and inviting him into the gathering.

Su Chen was dragged into Ye Xuan’s welcome banquet, where Jiang Tingyi’s companions mocked him for his disgraceful past. The chapter ended with Ye Xuan calming a brewing confrontation as Su Chen recognized the celebrated genius from his past life.

• Wang Bingyan taunted Jiang Tingyi and Su Chen, and Jiang Tingyi reluctantly pulled her cousin into the Human-Class Private Room.
• Wang Bingyan introduced Su Chen to the banquet guests, who ridiculed him for being expelled from the Orthodox Unity Sect.
• Wang Bingyan offered Su Chen Snow Mountain Tea, and Zhou Rong mocked him for refusing it.
• Su Chen pushed Zhou Rong aside and stood his ground when Zhou Rong confronted him.
• Ye Xuan defused the tension, and Su Chen recognized him as Clear River City’s leading young genius from his past life.

At a banquet in Clear River City, Su Chen faced Wang Teng’s taunts and a dangerous demand to drink Hundred-Day Drunkenness. He destroyed the wine pot with a thrown chopstick, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Su Chen ignored the banquet’s lavish food until Jiang Tingyi urged him to eat.
• Wang Teng mocked Su Chen over his expulsion from his sect and presented him with a pot of Hundred-Day Drunkenness.
• Ye Xuan backed Wang Teng’s demand, while Jiang Tingyi stood up and called for them to leave.
• Wang Teng pressed Su Chen to drink at least one cup, and Su Chen hurled a chopstick through the wine pot, shattering it.

Su Chen broke Wang Teng’s leg after Wang Teng attacked him, then refused Ye Xuan’s demand that he apologize and cripple himself. Above them, Princess Xiling waited for Su Chen, her benefactor, while Manager Qin went downstairs to handle the disturbance.

• Su Chen pierced Wang Teng’s wine flask with a chopstick and tried to leave, but Wang Teng kicked at him.
• Su Chen broke Wang Teng’s leg with a punch and threw him across the room.
• Ye Xuan ordered Su Chen to apologize and break one of his own legs, but Su Chen refused and challenged him to fight.
• Princess Xiling told Manager Qin that Su Chen had cured Elder Jiang of Coldheart Python venom and was the guest she had invited.
• After a waiter reported the fight downstairs, Princess Xiling sent Manager Qin to deal with it while she waited for Su Chen.

Manager Qin discovered that Su Chen was the benefactor who had treated an elderly man at Five Treasures Hall and escorted him to the Heaven-Class Private Room. Su Chen left the stunned guests behind, while Ye Xuan vowed to settle the matter with him later.

• Manager Qin entered the Human-Class Private Room and ordered his guards to approach Su Chen after hearing that he had injured Wang Teng.
• Manager Qin stopped the guards when he heard Su Chen’s name and confirmed that Su Chen had treated the man bitten by a Coldheart Python.
• Manager Qin bowed to Su Chen, called him an honored guest, and invited him to join the banquet waiting in the Heaven-Class Private Room.
• Su Chen left with Manager Qin as Wang Bingyan, Zhou Rong, Wang Teng, Jiang Tingyi, and the others watched in shock.
• Ye Xuan flung his wine cup away and blamed Su Chen for his humiliation, while Su Chen regretted losing his chance to deal with Ye Xuan.

Su Chen received Princess Xiling’s clue that the Ice-Snow Cold Cicada was held by the Anyang Commandery Prince’s Residence, though obtaining it depended on the unresolved contest for heir apparent. Xu Yin told him the Jiang Family clan assembly was three days away, and Su Chen agreed to attend, anticipating a chance to change the course of events from his previous life.

• Princess Xiling gave Su Chen an envelope with clues about the Ice-Snow Cold Cicada and left Manager Qin to entertain him.
• Su Chen recognized Princess Xiling and learned from her letter that the Ice-Snow Cold Cicada could be inherited only by the residence’s heir apparent.
• Su Chen returned home, noticed Jiang Tingyi avoiding him, and resolved to seek a pill furnace so he could treat Xu Yin’s cold poison.
• Xu Yin told Su Chen that the Jiang Family clan assembly would take place in three days and proposed introducing him to the family.
• Su Chen agreed to attend the assembly, remembering the humiliation and turning point it had been in his previous life.

Su Chen chose and cultivated the unusual sword skill Layered Wave Slash, mastering Sevenfold Waves of One Sword in three days. On the morning of the Jiang Family clan assembly, he went with Xu Yin and Jiang Tingyi while family members mocked him along the way.

• Su Chen recalled Layered Wave Slash, a special sword skill whose power increased with each successive wave, and began practicing it in the backyard.
• Su Chen quickly mastered three waves and suspected that the fusion of his two lifetimes had strengthened his martial talent.
• After three days of training, Su Chen struck the bluestone wall with seven waves and concluded he could now contend with opponents at the Ninth Layer of Qi-Attraction Realm.
• The next morning, Xu Yin and Jiang Tingyi came to take Su Chen to the Jiang Family clan assembly.
• As the three headed toward the council hall, Jiang Family members whispered insults about Su Chen and questioned his right to attend.

Xu Yin brought her nephew Su Chen to the Jiang Family Lineage meeting, where Jiang Shan and Jiang He challenged his place at the family table. The chapter ended with Xu Yin refusing to let Su Chen sit at a dusty, cluttered table in the corner, leaving the hall tense.

• Xu Yin and Su Chen arrived at the council hall, where Jiang He mocked their late arrival and Jiang Tingyi traded words with him and Jiang Shan.
• Su Chen recognized Jiang Shan and Jiang He as two of the Jiang Family's rulers, and Xu Yin explained the family’s divided leadership after Jiang Hai's disappearance.
• Xu Yin introduced Su Chen as her nephew from her maiden family, but Jiang Shan said he could not sit with the direct descendants.
• Jiang He pointed out a dusty table piled with clutter, and Xu Yin angrily refused to let Su Chen sit there.

At the Jiang Family clan assembly, Su Chen secured a seat after Jiang Feng gave up his place, while Jiang Shan and Jiang He tried to cut the second branch’s share of cultivation pills. Xu Yin angrily exposed their past unfairness and rejected their proposal to reduce her branch’s allotment to two pills.

• Jiang Feng offered Su Chen his seat and left the hall, allowing Su Chen to attend the clan assembly in his place.
• Jiang Shan announced the monthly distribution of Lesser Origin Pills, allocating ten to Xu Yin’s second branch and twenty each to the first and third branches.
• Jiang He objected to the second branch receiving ten pills and proposed reducing its share to two, claiming its members contributed too little to the family.
• Jiang Shan supported Jiang He’s proposal, arguing that the first and third branches needed the pills.
• Xu Yin denounced Jiang Shan and Jiang He for previously reducing her branch’s allotment and keeping the withheld pills for themselves, and refused to accept the new reduction.

At a Jiang Family meeting, Xu Yin challenged the decision to cut her branch’s resources, so Jiang Shan proposed a martial contest between Jiang Tingyi and Jiang Mingxuan. Jiang He then dragged Su Chen into a second match against Jiang Minghao, and Su Chen accepted, leaving the contest about to begin.

• Xu Yin argued that the Jiang Family should distribute resources according to martial talent and defended Jiang Tingyi’s abilities.
• Jiang Shan proposed that Jiang Tingyi and Jiang Mingxuan compete, with the Second Branch’s monthly Lesser Origin Pills depending on the outcome.
• Jiang He interrupted and insisted that Su Chen, seated with the direct line, should also fight Jiang Minghao.
• Jiang Minghao mocked Su Chen, but Su Chen’s gaze unnerved him before Su Chen challenged him to a match.
• Su Chen accepted Jiang He’s challenge despite Xu Yin’s concern, and he prepared to face Jiang Minghao.

Jiang Tingyi lost to Jiang Mingxuan after he revealed a Yellow Grade Middle Tier sword technique, leaving Xu Yin and her daughter facing a severe shortage of Lesser Origin Pills. Su Chen entered the arena to challenge Jiang Minghao and proposed a wager over the branches’ monthly allocations, leaving the terms on the table before their match.

• Jiang Mingxuan drew a sword and used Azure Wood Swordsmanship to defeat Jiang Tingyi, despite her mastery of a finger technique.
• Jiang Tingyi returned to Xu Yin in tears over losing the Lesser Origin Pills, and Su Chen reassured them that he would win the pills back.
• Su Chen entered the arena to face Jiang Minghao, who mocked him and challenged him to a bet.
• Su Chen rejected Jiang Minghao’s proposed kneeling wager and demanded that, if Jiang Minghao lost, the first and third branches’ monthly Lesser Origin Pills would go to the second branch.

Su Chen accepted Jiang Minghao’s sword challenge for a wager of five hundred Lesser Origin Pills, then revealed he had reached the Eighth Layer of Qi-Attraction Realm. He opened the duel with Layered Wave Slash and sent Jiang Minghao staggering backward, leaving the onlookers stunned.

• Jiang Shan stopped Jiang Minghao from wagering the households’ ongoing supply of Lesser Origin Pills, and Su Chen revised the stakes to a one-time payment of five hundred pills if he won.
• Jiang Minghao began the sparring match with his superior sword and Three Talents Swordsmanship, confident that his cultivation would overwhelm Su Chen.
• Su Chen stepped forward and revealed his cultivation had reached the Eighth Layer of Qi-Attraction Realm, surprising Jiang Shan, Jiang He, and Xu Yin.
• Jiang Minghao lunged at Su Chen, who waited until the sword was close before countering with Layered Wave Slash.
• Su Chen’s three surging waves of force broke through Jiang Minghao’s attack and drove him back more than a dozen steps.